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When I say “ good eating,” I don’t mean all these fancy dishes, with Bub-dubs and French names. and grease and oil and richness and heaviness. but nice, wholesome, toothsome food, which goes straight to the right place and makes glad the pathway leading thereto. There are a. great many eople who never know what good eating is. hey may have plenty of money with which to buy the raw material, but the women of the household don’t known good thing when they see it, and the iemlt is a great deal of style and fine silver and table ware, and a. mixture of stufi‘ that would incite a rebel- lion in the stomach and palate of a. wooden Indian. I have dined at the table of the rich and of the poor, (comfortable poor, I mean,) and I have learned that money c m- not furnish taste. There must be exquisite delicacy in the preparation of even the coarsest food, for a little old grease, or a little too close contiguity to the cooking vessel, will ruin a dish of cabbage quite as readily as it will a diamond~back tzrrapin and the housewife who doesn’t know them tine points does incalculable damage. She destroys the gastronomical sensibility of her immediate family, destroys the plemure of her guest. and, worse than all, bequeaths her ignorance to her children to inflict generations yet unborn. There is 3 won- derful degrm of comfort in good eating, and there is eCOuOmy in it, too, for it doesn’t cost any more to prepare a dollar's worth of meat and vegetables properly than it does improperly, and when the food is good ‘, theylfck the platter clean," and the bete notr of “ warmed over victuals " is driven At a recent poultry show in Birmingham England, prizes were awarded for the best dozen of preserved eggs. They were sent in two months before the date of the show, I short time to test any preserving process thoroughly. The eggs were tested by being boiled both soft and hard (that is, for a minute and a. half, and for ten minutes.) and then tasted by the judges. Those that gained the first prize had been simply packed in common salt. They had not lost sensibly Ly evaporation, had good consistent albumen, and were of the best flavor when boiled. Those that received the second prize were but slightly inferior to the best ; and the process of preserving is thus de- scribed : Melt one part of white wax to two parts of spermaceti. boil and mix thoroughly; or two [arts clarified suet to one of wax. and two of spermaceti. Take new laid eggs, rub with antiseptic salt or fine rice starch. \Vrap each egg in fine tissue paper, putting the broad end downward; screw the paper tightly at the top, leaving an inch to hold it by. Dip each egg rapidly into the fat heated to 100 deerets. Withdraw, and leave to cool. Pack, broad end down ward, in dry, white sand or sawdust. The London Agricultural Gazcte adds: The eggs so preserved were admirable. and probably, had the contest been for a. longer time, would have stood first But it is ex ceedingly useful to know that eggs may be preserved admirably for two months with no more trouble than putting them in conr mon salt. The other plan was superior in one respect; on stripping 013‘ the waxed paper, the shell was i 5 pure and clean as when first laid; in fact the eggs might huge sold as being fresh, if not as new- lai . Fortunately neither the Hessian fly nor the Midge he done much damage of late years, and the tendency amoung our best wheat-growers is towards earlier sowing. After the first of September it is thought desirable to sow as soon as the soil can be got sufficiently mviat ard mellow. It is just here where promptnees, gocd judgment, and science are all requisite. Rain will help us, but it will help us will more it We go to work as though no rain were v xpected. As we said hefore,tbe7e is water enough in the soil, but it is not near enough to the surface to cause the seed to germinate. What we have to do is to bury all the weeds, stubble, and growing plants, and keep the surface soil fine by the frequent use of the cultivator, barrow, and the roller. We know this is easier said than doneâ€"tut (11 our strong wheat [and it is the g neral experience that much of our success will depend on our ability to get the wheat well starkd in the early autumn. Where the Hessian fly is troubles: me, we haveto avoid early sowing in theautumn. The fly lays ite eggs in the y(ung wheat plants in autumn, and late sowing is one of the remedies. 01: the other band, when wheat is liable to injury from the Midge, we have to avoid late sowing. The Midge flies lay their eggs in the ears of wheat when it is in blossom, and an early crop of wheat is far more liable t‘o injufe than a late cropL In the winter wheat section cf VVeatern New York we sow our wheat from the lét to the 20th of September. It is 1'( ady to cut from the first week in July to the first of August, varying :greatly in this respect according to the season. As we go South wheat is sown latter in the autumn, and is ready to harve§t earlier in the summer. In four years out of five, the principal difficulty in sowing winter wheat in proptr aeaeonis to get tle soil moist enough to cause the wheat to germinate vigorousxy and evenly. We must recollect that the soil, even during a severe drouth, contains in the first two or three a. great many thousand gallons of water per acre, and still more at a greater depth. This water is C(n- stantly rising towards the surface. Any growing plant pumps it up out of the soil, and evaporates it into the atmoayhere. The amount of water thus evaporated is enormous. The hareeoil evaporates water from the surface as long as there is any to evaporate, but the loss of water from a. bare soil is nothing in comparism with the Ions on [and upcn which plants are growing. lf winter wheat is to he sown after (arly oats, peas, beans, caily potatoes, or corn- fodder, the moment the cop is 03 the ground, stick in the plow, or gang, cr culti- vator. Do not wait for rain. The weds and stubble will pump up more water from the toil than any ordinary rainfall at this season will be likely to furnish, If your plow, or in anywise woxk the land, it will not only destroy the weeds and chPck the rapid evaporation of water, but should We have a. shower, the rain will penetrate deeper into the worked soil, and render it soft and fmellow. We have evreything to gain and nothing to lose by piomptness in plowmg immediately after the previous crop has been harvested. Getting Ready to Sow Winter Wheat Methods of Preserving Eggs. About Good Eating. AGRICULTURAL- -_ _.J -â€"vv _uu month before; I had time to protect. You see, she had mistaken me for her brother, but the result was that I fell in love with her kisses, andâ€"â€"” "I think,”imerrupfiad the lady, “that you and your friend had better go into the making car if you want to talk such nonsence.” And so another little to- mance of the rail ended in smoke. The familiar and kiss emphasized “Good- bye; now write as soon as you get there!" mug out on the morning air at a. small sta» tion, when a gentlemm remarked, “D; you know, I never see any one kissing good-bye at a railway station, but I think of how I first nut my wife?" "Now, don’t tell that “l'y thin; "gain," interrupted his ife coin panion, as she unwind a. little and suddenly became interested in the scenery. But the unheeding husband continuedzâ€"“It was at Indianapolis. In the Union depot there, one night, she was bidding her brother good‘bye just as he was starting on a long trip to the West. He stood on the car steps and she on the depot platform for their last kiss; but just as he turned and went into the car, I stepped down to the platform. Immediately I felt a. pair of arms around my neck, and a pair of soft lips mined kisses on my face and .n.“_u. L r Kissing Good-Bye at :1 Railway Station Holloway’s pills were as popular in the Soudan as in London; and the sportsman found that the more liberal he was with theée powerful cathartics, the more willing were the negroee to serve him. Whenevur he opened his medicine chest, the natives respected him as a great “ medicine man." the more he phveicked them, the better they liked it. But willingly as they Were to be doctored internally, not one of them Woull bubmit to an operatmn wntn the knife. But the médicine must be strong and rapd in its efi'c'cts. For the savage is too impatient, to wait several hours for the medicine to operate, and too much influ- enced by his sight; and taste to be satisfied Witha small dose. He is never so happy as when he has taken a good dose of crown- oil and colocynth, or four or five grains of arm: emetic. Big Doses. The Southern negro does not take kindly to the pellets of the homeopathiut. He believes in the largest doses of me oldschool pr.rctice, and Wlll toss off a tumblerful of L'asior oil with a smack of the lips. Even a glass of salts and senna will be swallowed With gusto, while a. bolus is taken without a. moment’s hesitation. An Englishman, who hunted in the Soudan says that nothing gives an African savage greater pleasare than a. good dose of medicine. He found his medicine-chest more useful in making the negroes friendly than his revolver and breech-loading rifle. A root crop is very humble, but as a. foundation fora judicious rotation it will aupiort the symmetrical superstructure of profitable mixed farming.â€"Ame1icanAg1i- cultun'st. Superior pork made from freshly fallen woxmy apples is very cleansing to an insect infested orchard. Amid all the toil of midsummer, do not forget to do a. little careful work for the coming county fair. ’l he possibi'ities of a. farm are measured by the quantity and quality of brains which run it. A clean, cool, ventilated stable free from flies, is a. unstable lodging for the tired work horse. A farmer's bank account may grow at the expense of his manure heap and grain CrcpE. Neglected fence rows are like a. leaden weight upon the neck of clean field culture. Fall {allowing cleans the land and brings 1!; into fine condition for spring crops. A drain to be a. profitable investment must be a. permanent improvement. Let the bumble bee live and thus increase the yield of clover seed. The general purpose animal is superior only in its versatility. “reeds when they go to seed curse the land that grew them. Build temporary pasture shelter in airy part? of the fields. Clean, oil, and store all the implements no longer in use. Get out the year’s supply of muck while the bxds are dry. Help our the dried up pastures with green fodder. Thinning the root crops means more tons to the a.( re. Roll the ground before and not after seeding. Good seed and good soil are a'good‘be- ginning. Farm animals well Hammered are half Wintered. Success is largely a. matter of small de- taals. Wash the horses feet and} legs every night. Think. Consult. Experiment. Make repairs. Carry a. note book. Watch the markets. Favor the seed-com hills. Manure the back fields 1 Keep up the flow of milk. Make repairs in spare hours. Superior work pays us the best. Above all things avoid foul seed. Gas lime should not be used fresh. Idle land is the Weeds' opportunity. Fowls profit by a. run in the stubble. Wheat alter oats is a. faulty practice. Whitewash will cleanse and sweeten. August pigs make holiday small pork. Do not let your insurance policy expire. The damages by rats exceed those by fire. Sow white turnip seed for fine white fodder. Farm and Garden Work for August Act. from the house. The annn is the boss of the good eating dopartment of a house, and many a. man who Wis brought up rights, has became a heietEC, because the boss didn’t know how 10 make his heart and his gizmrd haxmon'za. r»<->»‘ To regulate all these parts so as to attain a. fair degree 0: equality is the right step to- ward securing what may be ellled balance in charazter. Few persons are ossessed of a. perfectly balanced nature. Xmiabllity is apt to be al- lied with weakness; a vigorous, pushing char. o‘er l5 often impulsive, harsh and un- Jusn. A uflective mind 15 slow to act; ; a. prompt mindis often wrong. So through all the elements of character. All the qualities that go to make up a per feel: more! nature rarely appear in one per- son. The physical and intellectual do not precisely conform ; the mental and moral are not evenly balanced. There are those possessed of stronger moral than mental na- tures. They constitute the spasmodic, im- pulsive element in society. There areochers whose inbtllocts so absoluter control their moral natures, that nothing is admitted that cannot be reasoned out satisfactarily. There are persons Whose strong animal natures dominate all else, and both mind and spirit are subservient. quiukwt onrk I ever did."â€"New NYér/c-é Another time, when Blair was guarding atreaaure box in the western part of the Slate, he had some fun with the agents. It was evident that they were not expecting him, or else they were green hands at the business. They had made the most elabor- ate preparations, howover, and apparently had no idea of failing In t eir enterprise, "Th:y had selected a. mighty mean place,” said Blair, “ and if they had had the nerve they might have made us trouble. They had formed a sort of barricade on the edge of the road, which at that point ran along the side of the mountain. Back of them there was a slope of half a mile, rough with rocks and fallen timber. We were jogging along at a comfortable gait when I spied a movement back of the shrubbery on the side of the road, and seized my gun.‘ ‘ Halt I Throw up your hands, there !' yell~ ed two or three in chorus. I answered instantly with a volley from both barrels. We heard nothing more. The crash of the‘ gun was terrific. When the smoke cleared away a little We saw those fellows going end down the mountain side. I never knew what became of them or how badly they were hurt We foun 1 their guns, and took tneui away with us. Tuat was about the A few yr ars ago \Vells, Fargo (it C). re- ceived notification that a. large sum of money at Eureka New, awaited transpor- tatiou to Tyl)o. where it was wanted to pay ofl miners with. The stage road was lonely, and it lad long been infested with robbers. Appreciating the risk of the undertaking, the company ordered Blair to Eureka, and sent another messenger, named James Brown, to accompany him. At the time the trip was to have been made there were in Eureka half a dozen ex convicts who had just served out long sentences in the p nitentiary for stage robbery, and they were particularly bitter against Blair for the part he had taken in securing their con- viction. They learned of the intended shipme nt, and all but one of them proceeded dowa the road to the Willows station, in- tending to await the arrival of the stage at that pomt. The one who was left behind wax to learn how many messengers acoom- panned the stage and let his companions know. The vehicle started from Eureka late in the afternoon, and arrived at the Willows station at about 9 p. m. The robber who had remained behind found that Blair had a companion, and, in accordance with this agreement, he rode rapidly to a mountain about trn miles out and built two good-sized fires to warn his asscciares of the coming of the two shotguns. \Vnen the robhu‘s down the road saw the fins they immediately seized the station, binding and gagging the two men employed there, and then drew themselves up in a. line and awaited the arrival of the coach. In about an hour it halted in front of the barn dcor, when a voice from the side of the road sang out: “ Eugene Blair, surrender I” It was pitch dark, and, as no one was in sight, Blair jumped from the stage with his gun in his hand. Just then two shots were fired, and he answered one of them with one barrel of his gun, shooting where he had seen the flash. A moment later three men were upon him. He found it was im- possible to use his gun, and, dropping it, he whirled one of the robbers around in front of the stage, where one of the side lights shone upon his back. The mark was a good one, and at that instant Jimmy Brown, from his seat on the stage, discharg~ ed one barrel, hitting the robot between the hips. This man being out of the way, Brown and Blair assisted by the driver. soon had the others in custody, though not until most of them had been hit by one or more buokshot. dd"mmm~_.â€"An ra-r-x \ E terrors for him. 'Hls gun was discharged instantly. He invariably rode outside with the driver. and caxried a. short double barrelled shotgun. loaded heavfly with buckabot. Besides this Weapon, which (x. perienca proved was very fcrmidable, he wore in his belt two large revolve”. He depended upon his shotgun. however. in almost every emergency. If the robbers were numerous and he could locate them he would give thim both barrels at once, which was usually about all they wanted. The Exciting Adventures of 3 Wells, Fargo and Co. Messenger. Eugene Blair, the “shotgun messengt-r” iu the service of Wells, Fargo & Co” has 11131: died of consumption in an Francisco. He was not yet 40 years of age, but he was one of the most experienced and daring messmgcrs ever in the employ of the com- pany. Blair’s life was full cf adventure and exciiement, and it is probable that the strain upon him hastened the disease which terminated in his death. His duties called him rapidly from one point to another, 3'} the way from C:1ifornia. to Nebra. k2. “A shotgun messenger ” is atrusted employi oi the express company, who is sent to ac company a stage bearing big tiea- ure box-3:4 or heavy remittances of currency. In the Territories itis all but impossible for the stage officials to prevent public in foimmtion as to the approximate value or. treasure and mail shi ments. A large numl of money, ora. well- lied treasure box, i.~‘ reasonably certain to tempt somebody The average driver is tempted whin held up to make peace at any price. Blair never surrendered, and the result was that rob- bers who happened to run acrots him soon left the earth for good, or went limping away toa. hospital or prison. He was a hair-trigger sort of a fellow. The worl ‘ Halt l’ or o volley from an ambush had no Balance in Character. A SHOTGUN MESSENGER. Sum A Dakota. clergyman, after a long pl riol of intense iuebriety, preached a. sermon of corresponding deep contrition. Several pas- sages of the remarkable discourse wrre de» voted to vivid descriptions of delirium tremens. Mr. Falve} haawexplicit instruction; to open negotiations with the trustees of the property in England, that justice may be done the widow, it being Well known to Ful- vey that there is property forthcoming. In- deed through his endeavors Brown or Robert- son has been allowed £5 a. week 10: some time past. “ If it “was a disgrace that I married a. good and virtuous lady when I might have done otherwise, than I am guilty, If poverty is a. disgvace- than I am doubly oisgraced ; and if loving and cherishing my second wifeâ€"poor, innjcent, kind-hearted, loving girl as she isâ€"is anozher disgvace, once mare I [land guilty.” Brown was the yonngest child of the late George Robertson, Esq. of Eiinburgh, keeper of the records of Scotland. and nephew of the late Gen. Sir George Brown, G. C. B., K. H, He was eduzated at Rug- by. Tnough intended for the ministry. he entered the army as a commissioned ofiicer in the Thirteenth Light Dragoane in 1848 After serving two and one-half years he was transferred to the Life Guards, Where he remained until 1855. In 1854 he was married privately to an English actress, for which his allowance was taken fron him. but it was afterwards returned to him on condition of his selling out and coming to America. Since that time, Scpteniber, 1855 he never saw any of his family. In 1864 his wife and daughter died in Paris, after having travelled nearly all over the world. Then he drifted back to England He was sent by the Liberal party to Taunton, Eng , to run a small newspaper during the general election, and he says: “I was the direct means of Henry James. Q C. (now the famous Sir Henry James. Gladstoae’s Attorney General) getting into Parliament, :1. service which he has more than once sub. stantially acknowledged." He came again to this conntrs in August. 1869, washed 3. while for J. C, Ayer, of Lonll, afterward accompanied Jay Cooke’s [may at the open- ing of the Lake Superioc ani Mississippi Railroad as the rrpl-eieutative cf the New York Times. and finally drifted to B>ston destitute. He walked from there to thin city, because it bore the same name as the place in England where he did so well, an} here he married again. Tne story of his wanderings closes thus : In 1870 there came to Taunton, Man. a man who described himself as Frank Charteris Brown, and who has since lived here. He had great intellectual ability, but ill-fortune seemed to follow him, and when he died recently the people were not surprised. The myetzry which always seemed to surround him has been penetrJ‘ ed, through the papers Whieh were left in trusted to Deputy Sheriff Thomas O. Fal- vey, from which the following paxtjoulars wire gathered ; vie-.. «vwâ€"uliv‘ toward him until within reach of the 1m”. pooner, who throw his iron with all his strength. The throw, as 3 ml), is suc. oessful if made by a trained fisherma s The barb, whsn driven into the fish, in automatically (IL-timed from the handle or the harpcon, but is still held by a long rep». The wounded fish darts forward, and the line is “ paid out ” a: fast a4 he requires it by one men, while the captain hastens to set his vessel away in another direction as rapidly as possible, for this is a case in which distance lends enchantment to tne View especially those who know the strength of the sword with which the maddened fish is armed. When he has been given rope enough. the end of the line is attached to a small empty cask. which is thrown overboard to amuse the fish which is now becoming frantic with the ain, but slightly felt at first; while the shermen increase their distance frOm him as rapidly a possible. Now the fish begins to strug- gle in earnest, in the hope of getting free irom the barb and rope. He skims along the surface and alias of foam marks the course of the cask, which does not stop him but does soon greatly increase his pain, for he is harnessed to it by a sharp point of steel which is all the while tearing his flesh. He changes his direction again and again, but all in vain. Next he seeks the depths of the ocean, and all goes well until the end of the rope is reached and the remorse- less cask is drawn under water. The buoyancy of the air now gives great resist- ance to the cask, and if, for a moment, the fish yields, he is drawn to the surface. The struggle continues, and he swallows water, and inhales, too ; and in time. paradoxical as it may seem, he is drowned, really drowned, by the element to which he has been accustomed since, his birth but in which he can live only by breathing air alone. When his struggles are over the cask becomes motionless, when he is hoisted on board. Woe to the boat that croases his path during the death agony. He will sometimes dart against it with terrible force, driving his sword through heavy planks. bickwatd just under his anfis. atands at tne masthead above, and when a. fish is seen, Fhe .boatis sa'ileg direptly A,#._ u I 2, is rendered s-ecure from falling by resting against the nemi-(rcular iron, which curve; Spearing Sword Fish. One of the chief attractions at Block Island, R‘ 1., is the fishing, which is Simp- Iy fair for mackerel and blntfish, but almost or quite the best for sword fish. 0m steamer carried away sixty of these huge creatures Monday, and forty more the next morning. Thev weighed {run 100 to 400 pounds each. Unless one can Witness the capture ofa Whale, no fishing is mare ex~ citing than the pursuit of this formidable monuuer, and there is withal 3 Spice 0‘ danger in the game which gives an added zest. and nhro ws imo stronger relief the skin of the fisherman Wh») battleg with such uni form success against an adwrsaly win is conquered hv strategem rither t'ian hv snrwgth brief. as DEATH SOLVES A MYSTERY.. A Romantic story. uy suavegem “Mar than I‘ne method 0! capture is kind enough to deplore such evils, but he doesn't give them the names the Bible des- ignntes. Nor wauld it be wise to do so, since usage, and usage is law, does not sanc- tion it. Moralist-s may find weakness and increase of im'nomlity in it, but all the same, if the people of to-day recognize it as Iiwhl and proper, and political and mural economy teaches that the thing to do is what the most want done. That is to say, its precepts are a) translated. Again, it is a. duty we owe to our fellowman to be char- iiable, and charity covereth a multitude of sins. It cover: them with a name as well as with something of a more substantial texture, and I believe that charity is right, although at times it would appear just, be. fore it is generous. Coiling things by their right names! I don’t believe in it. A lie may be a. lie ; undoubtedly it is a lie, but if we go about t :lling everybo ly so we would not only get our heads knorkad in, but would be thor- oughly disliked. Good people would be as strongly opposed to such business as bad perle, for their intarests would be affected, though it might not touch them directly and in theory they would like the plan. You see, about all morality is based on personal interest. « r personal feeling anyway, and when t u: devil can get: a man through that; door he is pretty sure of getting solid with him for all time. The old serpent was well aware of this when he took Ojl'iflll to the top o f the mountain and made him a square ofler of all the personal and real property in eight for his support. A merchant may sell sand in his sugar. a 1'1 call it sugar, and though there is stealing and lying in it, he would, no doubt, team: it vigorously if he were told so, and on Sunday his minister is ._..V e...» v. rum... LVIUIBSB, uuwever, 1163115 in s‘milar one which occurre'l in this county, and which finally resulted as it is feared the O‘iio laly’e will A young girl, who afterward became the wife of 001. George S nith, the first represenhtive of Livingston county in the Assembly, was bitten in the ankle by a rattlesnake in 1803. Her life W38 saved, but on the recurrence, year after year, of the day on which she was bitten, her ankle and leg would become swollen as they l’lhl when the poison was first injicced, and she would sufier all the tortures that fol'ow- ed the passing of the virus into her blood. This would last several hours and then grad- ually pass away, to return with unvarying regularity the next year. The violence of the paroxyeml atttnding these recurring symptoms of the snake poisoning increased annually, but Mrs. Smith bore up under them for thirty-two years. 0.x the next re- turn, howevere, she WAS unable to bear through the period of the paroxysms. and died in great agony. Tns cxse of Miss Run- age is exactly the sama, and it is feared that she will not be able to survive the dreaded ordeal now approaching. Victims of Snake Poisoning Tortured by Its Recurring Symptoms. The strange case of the daughter of the Hon. A. C. Ramage of Bellaire, O , who having been bitten on Aug. 19, 1875, by a copper headel sn zke, and, her life having been saved, has had a return of the symp- tcns of the poisoning on the nineteenth of August of every year since. has Mtracted wide attention in the medical profession, the statement being made that the case is un- precedentnl in toxicological phenomena. The caée of Miss Ramage, Ahowever, recalls Animals, also, bore their full part of per- secution during the witchcraft delusion. Pigs sufiered most in this repeat, and were assumsd to be peculiarly attractive to devils and therefore particularly liable to diabolic- al possession, as is evident from the legion that went out of the tomb-haunting man and. were permitted, at their own request, to en- ter into the Gadarene herd of swrne. indeed the greatest theological authority of the middle ages. Thomas Aquinas, maintained that beasts are but embodiments of evil spirits. Chassenee quotes this opinion, and adds that in excommuniciting animals the anathema “is aimed inferentially at the devil,'who uses irrational creatures to our detriment.” Still more recently, a. French Jesuit, Pere Bongeant, set forth the same view in a philmophical treatise. tive 3111 effective ingredient of witch oint- ment. When hatched by a. serpent or by the sun, it brought forth a. cockatrice, which would hide in the roof of a house, and, with its haneful breath and "death-darting eye,” destroy all the inmates. Naturalists believ- ed in this fable as late as the eighteenth cen- tury; and in 1710 the French savaut Lapey- ronie read apaper before the Academie des Ssiences to prove that the eggs attributed to cocks owe their peculiar form to a disease of the hen. ' But although pigs appear to have been the principal culpri:s, other quadrupeds were frzquently called in ‘LuiW’tr (or their crimes. The judiciary of the Ciitericinn abbey of Baaupre, inl499, sent a. bull to the gallows for having “kllied with furiosiI-y a. lad of 14 or 15 years of age,” and in 1389 the Carth- usiaus of Dijon cause! a horse to be con- demned to d'at'x, for homicide. The magis- trate of Bile in 1479 sentenced a ccck to be burned at; the stake for the heinous and un- natural crime of laying an egg. The oeuf coquatri was supposed to be the product of a. very old cock and to furnish the mnt ao- that evidence he forthcbming to prove their complicity in their mother’s crime.” About n. mont‘1 later, “on theFriduy aftvr th‘: feast of the Purificmion of the Virgin,” the suck- liugs were againbroug‘ut hr-fnre the court; and as their owner. Jehan B Lilly, declined to be anawemhle for their go m1 conduct, they Were declared forfeice'i to the noble damsel. Katherine du Burnaulh. dey of Szwgny. Sometimesa fine waaimposed up- on the owner 0-c the n{funding beast, as was Some of the Oddities of Medlaeval J ustloo. On the 10 of January, 1457, 8 HOW was convicted of murder, committal on .per- «on of an infant named Jahan M nrzm, of Swignv, and seuunmd t) he hanged. Her six aacklings Wo'r: also included in the m- dlc7ment as acconpli‘ es; but “m default of anv podtive proof that they had assisted in mmzfling the deceased, they were restored (.0 their owner, on condition that he should 41'Ve bail for them annearmce ahnulrl fur. ther evidenca be complicity in th 2|. month later, ‘ of the Purificatil TRYING ANIMA LS FOR MURDER ANNIVERSARIES OF AGONY. Calling a. Spade a Spade. rker 10 or January, 1457, 8. HOW was of murder, committal on per- infauc named J‘2han M nrzm, of rid sentuned t) he hanged. Her ings Wo'r: also included in the m- zs accO'ani‘es; but “m default of ve proof that they had assisted in the deceased, they were restored vncr, on conditim that he should for them appeanuce should fur-