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The average yield of wheat per acre in this country is not quite twalve and one-half bushels per acre. The average quantity of seed sewn is very nearly six peeks per acre; 1 hence, the wheat increases less than nine fold. It is no uncommon thing for a steel to contain fifteen culms. each bearing an ear containing an average of forty grains ; hence, the grain producing this plant has increased six hundred fold. Wheat has been made to increase twelve hundred fold. It is evident that much of the wheat sown must fall to mature. The severities of fall drouth and winter framing destroy many plants, yet the greatest cause why many do not reach maturity is because they have not room for growth. We sew too much seed. In going ‘ through a wheat field one may find isolated ‘ stools. The plants for some inches round l about have died. It is significant that these i steels are always large ones. If the root formation of one of these stools be carefully uncovered, it will be found to occupy quite closely all the ground for a space twolve to fifteen Inches in diameter. This much sell is certainly not too much for a vigorous wheat plant to have fer feeding ground. The feeding roots of the wheat plant rarely go deeper than four inches 3 hence, if there are fifteen calms in the tool, and it has a space of ground twelve inches in diameter, each culm will have only thirty cubic inches of soil to feed fromâ€"say a mass four inches in depth, three in length, and two and one‘ half in width. Measure out such a mass of earth and see how small it is. But if you sow six peeks of seed to the acre, each plant will have less soil than this. As the seed cannot be distributed with perfect uniform- ity, some must have much less than even a surface two inches square. There can be but one resultâ€"death from starvation. Those plants which “ get the start" by rea- en of germinating nearer the surface, or of greater natural vigor, will smother the others out. The " struggle for existence" is well illustrated. Some of the plants may not be smothered out befOro winter ends ; for a time they struggle; but they are so weak that the frost removes them. Even the strongest plants are injured, for the struggle must weaken them. With less seed there would be more plants in the spring ; surely more culms and ears at harvest time. Making liberal allow- ances for drouth, frosts, insects, etc., three peeks yet seems too much seed for an acre of land. This quantity is new town by some of our most successful wheat growers. We sow practically as much seed as our fathers did fifty years ago, yet at lea s': twice as much seed then as now was the proper quantity. The land was more productive, hence the plants might be closer together. It was impossible, with the implements then at command, to prepare the seed-bed as we do new. The condition of the ground was not near so favorable to germination and growth, hence it was necessary to sow more seed. But what, more than anything also, made more seed necessary, was the imperâ€" fect manner of distributing the seed. It was impossible to so cast the seed that some would not fall more thickly than others, while some were not covered at all, and some were buried as deep as the harrow- teeth penetrated. Now the seed is distri- buted very uniformly, and on a well-prepar- ed seed-bed the drill covers each grain at practically the same depth ; we have the ridges to protect the plants and hold the snow over them during the winter. Late sowing is to be commended where there is a probability of attacks from the Pies-ion Fly, or other insect enemies. Ii sowing is delayed until October 1st, the files will have deposited their eggs before thewheat plants become large enough to re- ceive them, and there will be no III-we to suck the life out of the wheat later on. Very often the ground is so dry in early September that if the seed germinates the plant will not thrive and may wither be- yond recovery, If sowing is delayed until the fall rains have moistened the ground, the plants will he as far along until winter steps their growth, and there will he more of them. It is now possible, and certainly profitable, so to prepare the seed-bed and apply fertilizers that the plants. though started quite late, will reach sufficient size and have a root-growth strong enough to withstand the water. It is not necessary to sew so early as half a. century ago. Better implements for preparing the ground and sewing the seed, and better methods for fertilizing, with under-draining, have so changed conditions that the rules relating to wheat and other crops, found good for the conditions of 1836, must new be varied somewhat. Aocnshom yourselves to’ overcome and master things of difficulty ;‘, for if you ob- serve, bheleft hand, for want: of practice, is insigificenb and not adapted to general business, yet it) holds the bridle bebber than the right with constant use.â€"Pliny. Life’s evening brings lbs lamp with it.â€" Jouberh. The very gods rejoice when the wife is honored ; when the wife is injured, the whole family decay; whenithe confirm-st the case it Markhamâ€"Menu. It in a wonderful advantage to a men, in every pursuit for nvocabionb to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In wo- man there is ab once a aubtiie delicacy of tagtv, {a plain soundness of fjudgment, wfiioh are rarely combined to an equal degree in mamâ€"Bulwer. We have certain work to do for our head, and that: is to be done strenuously: other work to do for our deiighb, and that is to be done heartily; neither [a to be done by halves or shifts but with a will, and what is not worth this effort: is nob to be done at ali.â€"-Ruskln. It is plenanher to give than to bequeath. â€"-Pope. There 13 no greater unhappiness than to remember happiness in mlsery.â€"Danhe The choicest: blessings of life lie within the ring of moderation.â€"Tuppor. We over-eauoate the memory, while the temper and the feelings are neglected, forgetting that the future will be govern- ed much more by the affection: than by the understandingâ€"Landon. It is easier b03blame than to imitate. â€"Apollodorus. DIAMONDS 0F THOUGHT. THIN AND LATE SOWING or anu. FARM. The wife of John Boylo O'Reilly. the Irlih exile, h travelling through the Emer- ald 1518 new and meeting everywhere with a moat haunt; welcome. Min Harriet E. Golfer, noensln of the late Schuyler Cdfax, is, and has been for the lam twenty-five years. keeper ef the llghtheuse at Michigan city. Mn. Cleveland but received as e prelent from a. firm at Ihoemakers in Wehnm, Mesa. , a. pair 9! French kid slippers, hand made. The Hz: is three and a half. A Bu will“ jourml give! an account of a grant recepflan given to Ptlnon Leupold at the White House In Washington, on J arm 15, “ at which Prince Cleveland was pre- aont. ” Prefirlo Diez. President of Mexico, I: said to be a trifle brigandleh in appearance and with something of the air of a. lucky ad- venturer. His career has been full of re- mantlo adventure. Neal Dow le crowding the eighty-third anniversary of his birth. Sully Prudhemme, the wealthy French pcefi, thinks twelve line. of poetry at good aay'i work. Charles Monokey, inventor of the Mono» key wrench (lgnerenfly called the menkey wrench). in “flag in pevarty In Brooklyn. He sold the patent for 82000. and now mil- lion: are made annually out of the inven- tlen. Mlse Winnie Devil, youngeet daughter of J efl'ereen DAVIS, is In Rtehmand, Va. Mien Davie wan born in the Confederate exeentlve menelen, at Richmend, not long before the clone of the war, and for that roman her father call: her “ The daughter of the Gen- federeoy." Mex Adeler, the grim humorist, has no- oepted the- Prohibition neminetlen for the Legislature In Montgomery County. He will probably be able to write a. book on the fun that he will get out of the campaign. But, he believes ln ependlng money In poll- tloe. â€"â€" The puzzled juagel Itai'ed it each other, as though they half believed they had been alleep Iinoe the prevlonl day. Mrs. Adeline Roblnlen, of Knox, M0,, who Is 77 years (:16, recently went into a. well twenty feet deep md cleaned it out. She was enlisted by her daughter. The ladder telng too short they attached a rope and lowered it, Mn. Reblnaen olemberlng down by rocks till she reached the ladder. A barrister, noticing the the eeurh had gone to sleep, stopped short in the middle at his speech. The sudden silence awoke thejudges, and the lawyer gravely resum- ed : “ As I remerlred yesterday, guy lords” When Bismarck goes to Gsstein he always stays on the upper fleet of an old hsber- dasher'e shop adjoining the Badeeehlesl. They made him oomfertable there when he wt! poor, and comfort is all he wants. When it came: to style Bismarck is a hope- less, lamentable, disheartening failure. Him with some the light of reason went out suddenly, beoeuse of the nerrowness of the groove they moved In, when with just a caress er a smile, a tardy appreciation even, 9. life would have blossomed new; and how she, who knew no gulls until he came. was made to understand the hollow- ness thereof, and made “ te stand without, as the Perl at Paradise longing fer that she may never have.” Ah, the bitterness of slowly finding out, when hope is dead and despair and reckless care troop in and hold sway. God pity the wrecks ef the “ might have been " because of the “ old, old story." The queen of Portugal wearl the Paris llie aaver’l medal, In 1874 she wee bathing with her two lane, Charles and Alphonse, aged 11 and 9 years, at the watering place of Oaacael. A big wave carried cfi the two childrenl and the Queen boldly Iwam out to their relief. The sea running high, and the lady and her bay: were neerly lost in the eurf, when the lighthouse-keeper, seeing their danger, cached into the water and succeeded in bringing all three to shore in safety. Her Majesty wear: her medal proudly althe reward of her bravery :but there in no record at any medal or any other reward having been given to the lightheuae man. flew the loft, -llttle hand, had grown seamed and callous and «weary of battling alone, the cleudn so dark and lowering that the erst while beautiful eyes, now dull and heavy with mulled tents, could net pierce the_ gloom. In a. French paper there is s matrimonial advertisement from a widow with 200.000 francs, who seeks a husband in one who must, at least, have alike sum of money, with other equally pleasant recommends- tiers. Her postscript is emphatic. She says, if a negro, he must have double the sum else requisite. The Rev. Chew J u Tlen, the first Butl- dhist priest who ever visited New York, is now leoated in Mott street, looking after the theological Interests of that locality. Be is a learned man, speaking and writing San-hit. and reading with ease several of the medern languages at Europe, though he speaks none of the latter. alts in soother of the gallery on the Min- isterial side, where Mrs. Glad-tone was eften seen in former times. Her phetegraph and that at her husband are now seen in Landon more he quent‘y than those of any- body else. To find, and to see. that It wan all for naught, that the bright hopes were what!- ward strewn, that the love, Io‘ great, and faith and trust, had been more thm the aching heart could bear, meetlng no return, end no it had broken. , That hew love and hope and trust, like the Dead Sea. fruit, htd turned to ashes upon _the_ white hpl: Lady Rzndelph Church!!! gees to the ladlel' gallery at the Home of Gammon: almost every day since her husbnnd has be- came Chancellorfiq thefixohoquay. _§_he What a depth of paths: there II In those words. How an in a mirage shifting scenes float before us of happy homes, and hearts once page glad, new: desolate._ 0f desk eyes that brightened in the glow, of the love that burned at the pure heart’s altar, of sweet lips that smiled and from which tone: Issued forth, like the chime of Illver bells, [9 full of truat vgere they. Of the soft white hand laid Io cenfidingly in the apparently strong and firm one, with a perfect faith that knew no change ; that " whither thou guest I‘will go. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." “ The 01d, 01d Story” MEN AND wow. The Landon Athens 1111 I: authority for the statement that the pigment known as " mummy ” is nathing more or lets then your ancient Egyptian, his bones, his band- ages, bitumen, and ail, greund up in oil. It resembles Mphnitum in its general quali- fies, except that probably owing to the sd~ mixture of linen fibre, the mineral oil of the ancient bitumen has diaappeared, no that mummy in net quite so llabie to crack or move on the canvas. A reward at £100 hsl been efiared in England for the proof at a one of drunken- nell that has been cured without total ab- atlnenoa. The yacht Sapphe, once queen of the New Yerk fleet, has been broken up and meld for firewood at Cowel, Isle of nght. A boring made by the Prussian Govern- ment at Sohladebaoh In much of coal In said to be the deepest in the world. The depth is 4.500 feet, ltl breadth at the bot- tom two inches and at the top eleven inches. The temperature at the bottom is 118 ° . Mr. Gladstone received $5,000 {rem hi- publilhen for his pamphlet on the Irish questlon. There are 3. number of Mormon mleeien- arlea In Turkey, but they are not mnklng many oonverbe. The Turk deal not need to become a Mormon in order to have all the wives that he wants. At a depth of ten meter: below the anci- ent ground of the Parthenon. iragmentl of a. large gxoup ef figures have been discover- ed, representing, It is conjectured, the labor of Hercules. Ameng the remains Isa lion’s head, with part of a bull in life size, the head being a. splendid preduction of the sculptor’e art. “ Did you ever ask any one else to be your wife!" she queried, In much doubt. “ Ne, darling.” he answered, taudefly ; “I unsure you this I: my mtlden efiart.” Fonr ancient monuments of Landon are now slowly turning to dust with no one to do them honor. A statue of the Duke of Cumberland, lereoted In 1770 by Gan. Strand; Holbein’s Gate, which stood on the edge of the rays] grounds, on the read between Chm-lug Grass and Westminster ; the parties and oolonnade that used to stand before Burlington House ; and Tem- ple Bar. Three of them still exist and could be rebuilt; the Holbeln Gate, with its medallion head: ls supposed to be under a. certain grassy meund In Windsor Park. In Lima. there is a constant shaking of the ground. The houses are uniformly three storey: in height. The first storey ie of brick or atone, the well: being fully three feet thick. The upper two storeys are made of bamboo lashed together. It taken a pretty severe earthquake to destroy one of these buildings. The peculiar thing about a shake to that the fire: time you get one you are apt to take it coolly. The next time you are afraid, and over after that you are demeraiized. Earttquakee are some- thing that no man can become accustomed The celebration of the tenth anniversary ef'the accession of the reigning sultan, Ab- dul Hamid. was observed with a patriotic devotion that showed no flagging. The 20th of May is the let of July for Turkey, and the thunder of cannon, the goyety of the decorations, the brilliancy of the fire- works in all the large centers were hardly inferior to the patriotic displays in other lands. There ll, however. a certain sobri- ety in oriental festivities which is indicative of good sense. One centralt was especially noticeable: there was no drunkenness. The police reports of Beyreut for the 20th of May would not probably contain a single case of arrest ior disorderly conduct caused by wine or liquor. In fact, thevMehamme- dan world is a teetetal world, and wine- drlnking among the Moslems is extremely rare, and when practiced has to be shrouded with all the secrecy of the back cellar of a grog-shop. Beyrent has a lsrge Eu- ropean population as well as many native Christlans who use wine, and a number of Wine depots are licensed. Yet I have never yet seen a person under the influence oi li- quor in the east. Before the advent of En- ropeans there was but little wine-drinking ii any in Beyreut. Things are changed for the worse in that particular. ‘ The Mos- lem religion. however, is a. vast teetetai so- ciety, and its benefits/ant infl lence will al- ways keep a. check upon the customs of the country. Lord Henry Lanntx, who has just died, was a. singular Instance of s. person having been by accident born a. man, when nature intended him for a woman. He was by no means wanting in cleverness, he was amus- ing and he was a decidedly good debater, but these advantages were marred by a we- melish pettiness which ruined his political career. In comparatively early life he be- came the medium of communication: be- tween Mr. Disraeli and the Cmservotivos, But he came to the conclusion that Lord Boacensfield had not done enough for him ; and after hie enforced resignation, on the ground that he had been qualified as a direc- tor to boards of companies on which he set, he never took an active part in politics. In this matter he was, I think, hardly used considering the number of M. Ps. who had done precisely the some thing. I rather liked him and I am sorry that he has left this planet. The unpleasantness between Gen. Ban- langer and the Baron Lareluty reminds Le Martin (by contrast, probably) of a peculiar- ly sensational duel fought in Paris in 1815‘ between the Bmapartist Col. Barbier-Dniai and a young Captain of the Royal Guard. The two adversaries were put. into a coach and bound together in such wise that only the right arm of each was left free, and in each hand was placed a. long, keen dagger. Then the doors of the coacn were closedK and before being opened again it was, ac- cording to the terms of the duel, driven deo liberately three times around the Place Oar- ronsel. The seconds set on the box. in the cosohman’s place. When the doors were opened the young Captair was found dead, pierced by many deep wounds. 091. anai was in little better plight. having received three terrible thrusts in the breast, and his whole left cheek having been torn off by the teeth of his adversary. Nevertheless, the tough old Go]. get well, and even before he was quite cured. fought two more duels, one with Col. do Saint Marys, and the other with Gen. Montlegier, in each case gravely wounding his man and himself escaping un- harmed. LATE FOREIGN NEWS. Moslem Teetotalism. The recent calamity to one of our sister cities naturally recalls the stary of similar disasters in the past, and it is worthy of netice howseldom cities have suffered severe- ly from earthquakes. London has frequent- ly been shaken by them, but has never known any serious consequences. Its earthquake of February, 1751, is the meat startling it has ever known. It was prese- ded in January by a. remarkable aurora. At night an intense red light spread ever the northeastern shy, and men fancied a great fire must be raging over the land. In February a fearful. storm with peals ei thunder, flushes of lightning, a tempest of wind, and blinding hall and rain terrified the whole island. At last on the 8 'h of February the earthquake came. Between twelve and one o’clock in the' afternoon the city was shaken to its centre. Houses trem- bled, furniture moved on the fleers, the bells rang of their ewn accord, china and pewter rattled on the shelves, and a deep sound was heard like that of the fall of some heavy object. The shock was felt only in the city and its environs. The terrified people were soon reassured. But a month afterward, between five and six o’clock in the morning. a still more violent shook aroused them. It was ushered in by flash: ofllghtning and a low rumbling noise like that " ef a carriage rolling over a hollow pavement.” Again furniture rocked, hells were rung, houses shoek to their found» tions, and the terrified people rushed item their beds half-clad lute the streets. But this was all. No life was lost ; ne houses fell. A mad prophet foretold a still greater shack that in a month would destroy Lon- den and Westminieter, and all was conster- nation. ’l‘heusanda left the city. On the 83h of April, the day foretold, people fled from their houses and gathered at night in the parks and fields. But no new shook came. The terror passed, and London has neger since felt the destroyer's power. Rome has quivered at times on its inun- dation: ever since its first settlement, All its neighborhood is volcanic. The Curtien pit that opened in the Forum was no doubt produced by an earthquake. Since then for twenty centuries the city has never ceased at times to tremble. Yet it has sufi‘ered no serious disasters. The grsoeiul dome of St. Peter's, hung high on Its lofty columns. would seem to invite the first efforts of the destroyer. It hes escaped them all. “ Its greatest height.” said Stendhal, “ makes one tremble when one thinks that Italy is constantly agitated by earthquakes, that the sell of Rome is volcanic, and that in a mo. ment we might be deprived of the fairest monument that exists.” He tells of two monks who were in the ball of St. Peter's during the earthquake shock of 1730, It produced such intense terror that one of them died on the spot, Naples, apparently still more exposed than Rome to this danger, has never suffered any serious evils. Oiten its great population have been driven from their homes by terror when Vesuvius has been active, or the earth has trembled around them, but Naples has remained al- most unharmed. It has sesn its sister cities Pompeii and Heronlaneum disappear, and Messina and Oatanla lie crushed in ruins. It is seated in the midst of volcanic lakes and geysers, under the shadow of [Ema and Vesuvius. llowlhe Phenomenon A flecu GrmCentrcs. N 9 event ever more startled Europe than the destruction of Lisbon in 1755. It seem- ed incredible. Dr. J ehnsten retused for some time to believe it. “ Why," men asked, “ was Lisbon, of all other cities, se- lected for this dreadful chastisement 2” For Lisbon had never known any serious dila1tcr from earthquakes, and had seemed more se- cure than Home or Florence, yet the city was almost levelled to the ground. A tidal wave swept over it. Thirty thousand of its inhabitants perished In that awful moment. The shock was felt across the Atlantic. Chimneys fell in Boston, and Charleston trembled. But when the terror passed away, Lisbon was rebuilt; it rose from its ruins. and for more than a century has lived on unharmed and more than ever pros- perous. The Sicilian cities Menina, Paler- mo, and Syracuse have been the favorite victims of the earthquake. The Spanish cities Malaga and Granada, and even Ma- drid, sufl'ered last year from fatal and in- cessant shocks. The Greek islands, Isohla (near Naples), and recently all interior Greece, have been ravaged and shaken. It would seem that an earthquake track lies amidst the fairer regions of the earth. In ancient history the meet memorable earthquake was that ei the reign of Tiberius. The fairest at the Greek cities along the Ionian shere fell before it. Touched by the common sorrows of humanity, even the Em- perer sent lavish old to the euflerinq people. Ephesus end its sister cities arose in new splendor enly to be stricken again and again by the unseen destroyer. In J ustlnisn's reign all the known world was desolated by a constant succession of earthquakes. The globe itself seemed cenvulsed by some in- ternal struggle. Yet it is remarkable that amidst these long series of disasters, reach- ing ever a thousand years, the finer works of men has survived them all. The Acre- pelis and the Parthenon lived until they were wrecked by Turk and Venetian. The Remsn reeds still bound them together. Roman _ equeducts and bridges covered France and S pain. The column of Trejeh still stands unharmed at Reine. The Pan- theon still liits its graceful dome, unteuched by the storms and earthquakes of nineteen centuries. Eighty million pin: are lost every day. What are you golng to do abaut It I It In these lrremadlable sorrow: that taaoh u: we are men ; they awaken the lnltlnot of oommunul love. Husband : What were you and old Mrs. Saith talklpg so egrnqstly abpuf? Wife : O‘flno’shing in flax-stoning simply an: thjng _and Enamel-1“ Hunbafid : I see. She talked abeut one thing and you talked abeut another. Ker-Chew. Sneeze on Monday, sneeze fer danger ; Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger ; Sneeze on Wednesday, for n letter ; Sneeze on Thursday. semethlng better ; Sneeze on Frldey. sneeze fer sorrow 3 Sneeze on Saturday, jay te-morrew ; Sneeze on Sunday, your safety seek ; Fer Sit“! wlll chase you the rest of the week. An Interesting Conversation. EART EQUAKES IN CITIES. A writer says that “ dress is a weman'n greatent‘oonundrum " But It [I hoped she will never be campelled “ as give it up." Tne habit of abbmvlatlng everything one write: la 5 bad one. Tue other day a contemporary spoke of a lady agpaaring at the theatre “ in eve costume." A man may read law and becoms a. law- yer ; he may study medicine and be called a doctor; but if he wants to be a black» smith he must work at his trade. A scientist says the earth's surface it slowly changing, and whs’: is a Valley 160-» day may be a mountain a million yours» hence. A man who centempiates creating a residence in the Wiley: nhouid remember this and he prepared to find his house on the top of a. high mountain in the year 1,031, 886. “ What a beautiful form i” exclaimea Mme Thelma, the first time she saw an eel ; " such a lang, thin waist you knew." A clergym m was belllng a. marvailou story, when his little girl ssld : “ Naw, P1, is that true, or is It only preaching 2" The feliowlng words, er forward, are the same man." A soldier, on foreign servica, recently wrote the follewing terse, but pithy epistle. to his wife : “ Dem- Maryâ€" I balm: hered from you far so long that I hev forget you and got married to a Eguptian woman. Trustin’ this wen't make no dlfl‘arents In our relanhunuhip when I come: back. I ham your afl'ekahunate huaband. J â€" Wâ€""' Young hopeful (fleeing a negro baby for the 6m fime)â€"-“ Mamma, Is that a spoiled. child 2" Wonder If the sea. serpent could swallow all the stories that are told abent him 2 In one of our Western exchangaa the fol- lowing advertisement recently appeared : " My wife Jennie ran away, or was tak me away, from men. week age. The first per» son who returns her I will shoot an the.- spet." Now, there In a. men who probjbly known when he I: in iuek and in band that ‘ no unforeseen circumstance shall upset hh apple-cut. “ There‘s nae sorrow there. J oh 1. There’s naither cmld nor cue, John. The day is aye fair In the land 0' the 169.1." ~ _ When the late Dc. Diokaan, a. godly clergyman ef Edinburgh, lost a. must little. girl, he sang “ The Lmd o’ the L931" at family worship. Se real was it to him, that he laid, “ It's a. pity but what that W»- ameng the paraphrase: 1 Since I’ve thought more of ‘ our bonnie bairn’a being there,’ 1* must say that I cannot sing I0 heartily, " ‘ And oh! we grudged her Emir To the land 0' the 16211 ;' “ for she is safe and happy in the land of ‘nne aortow,’ in the land of the true-heart- ed.” The continued nheckn of earthquake at Charlelten. any: a. Beaten Herald, bring to mini the fact that at the tune of the great earthquake at New Madrid, Mo . In 1812; earthquake: were alas felt In Sauth Care- llna “ Was your husband an the stand yester- day I" asked a. lawyer at a womsm, In a case In which husband and wife were wit- nesaea. " No,” she answered. with a. snap, " he wasn’t on the stand. He was on the not, That's the klnd at a. man he in, when- ever there Is anything to set an, iron a satin. sofa to the top rail of a warm fence.” Tale New Madrid earthquake was one ef- the moat remarkable example! of continue!“ shocks of this kind on recerd. Humbeldt refers ta it: I! one at the few Instance: in: which there was incessant quaklng of the ground for several successive months, far from anyAvolcnno. There are expreualena in Szatc‘m bangs as nuggestive at: a sermon, Lady Ndrnn “Land 9’ the Lam! ” la nab enly a picture of the land ef the living that lies beyond the land of the dying, but a. s Lumen 9f consola- tion to thoae whe ham bean parted from friends thug have {acme before. "Len" in the Scotch fer loyal, and the song lifts up the tearful eye to the land of the loyal, where Thle phenomenen was extensive In in: ohangea wrought in the eurlaoe of the earth to an appalling ex zent. kae and Island: were created by It. Lake: twenty miles In extent, were formed in an hour. while etlgere were drepmq elmgfit Bf! repiily. The river-bank of the Mlseiuifipi for fif- teen miles sunk as much as eight feet. The forest trees were turned and twisted in every direction, and the people in the coun- try about were In the habit at climbing them to escape being swallowed, es the premoni- tory symptoms 9! the shocks were per- ceived. The shock: of the famous earthquake of the Czracoal continued iihree years. But after Ihooka have not usually xenultsd In; great damage or lass of life. A Man I’omlts a Reptile diver Eighteen Inches long. Three years ago John Longwell of Charles- tewn. Tioga county, Pa... began experienc- ing strange sensations in his stomach, as if some living thing was thero'n. A year ago, by means of a. violent emetic he vomited two! living snakes, aseh over a foot in length. Two months later he felt a recurrence of they crawling sensation in his stomach, and was taken with fits. accompanied with horrible convulsions. Three weeks a. 9 he experienc- ed an exceptionally severe t which nearly cost him his life. The other afternoon dur- ing another fit Mr. Longwell vomited up a garter snake eighteen end s half inches long: and half an inch in diameter. His wife states that when the snake protruded four inches from the suflerer’s mouth it stuck: fat, but the snake was finally ej acted, though not before ngwell, in his agonizing convulsions, had bitten it almost through in‘ three pieces. Neighbors corroborate the account. It is supposed that in drinking from a pool three years ago, Langwell sucked into his stomach the eggs from which the reptiles grew. In Europe there are 100 people to every}. square mile. A GREAT SNAKE STORY. Protracted Earthquakes. "Land 0’ The Leal.” FALL FOLLIES. if spelt backward : “ Nuns no one‘