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For in the mountains of South America, as Well as in the volcanic regions of the Old World, it has been observed that it vio- lent earthquake is generally either accom- panied or followed by a volcanic eruption. It would almost seem as if the fissures con- necting the craters of active volcanoes with the restless fires of the nether world were now and then liable to obstructions, oblig- ing the pent-up vapors to force their 11p- wm‘d way with a Violence that shakes the surrounding mountains as the force of ex- panding steam shakes a vessel of boiling water, till the cover of that Vessel yields to the everâ€"increasing pressure. During the storms thth have now and then visited the islands of the tropics, trees, which an ELK could not fell in less than 8 day, have more than once hucn Run from their roots and overthrown with 3 Violence that hurled their branches in (every direc- tion; and witnesses of such (levustations might well suppose that u hurricsz is the mightiest of all manifestations of the 010- mental fOI‘COEI. And yet it has been calculated that the power of (LII earthquake exceeds that of the most violents storm at least 9. thousand times, or about as much as the explosion of a powder-mill exceeds the propulsive force of an nibguu. Not all earthquakes are of destructive violence ; but their concussions, whether light or heavy, are always irresist< ihle. An earthquake shock may upheave the ground only a quarter of an inch, but the most massive building and the grandest mountain range will he uphem‘ed as surely as a light frame cottage. In a destructive earthquake the weight of a. building adds nothing whatever to its security. Houses, built of the heavith umsonry, and which no storm could as much :13 shake, have been shot from their foundations by an earth- quake shock and their walls hurled about as a. pile of loose pebbles would be scattered by a, hammer stroke. About three hundred years ago the Spun» iards founded the City of Caracas in the coast-hills of Venezuela, and had to rebuild it several times on account of the frequent clrthquukea to which that part of SouthAm- crica seemed especially exposed. Experi» once at last taught the citizens that high and narrow buildings had no chance to re- sist these visitationfl, and they began to build their houses after a plan which they hoped would insure their permanent safety. \‘Vith the exception of a. few churches and watch-towers all buildings were limited to one story, resting on deep foundutions and covered with a flat roof without turrets and projecting chimney-stacks. The four comers were re-enforced by but- tresses, and a rim of terraces generally ran all around the base of the walls. Higher ufp girders of iron joined stone to stone, and 0 ton house to house, sometimes inclosing a whole block with a hand of riveted bars. Yet on the 10th of June, 1812, seven thou- sand of those houses were demolished in less than a quarter of a. minute. A single earth- guake shock turned the city into a. heap of ebris, and'more than twelve thousand of the inhabitants were crushed under the walls of the buildings they supposed to be earth- quake-proof. [The following farm lyric wusl writ-tcn yams ago by Abby Sage Richardson. Few of our readers have probably ever seen iL[ Foui‘teen years later the same city was again destroyed hy an earthquake that up- heaved the coast of South America from Buenos Ayres to the Isthmus, but spent its main force in the ‘Vest Indian Islands. The island of Hnyti was rocked like a. ship in a storm, and on the north-west coast of Jamaica. a. massive mountain range was lit- erally born into pieces, the beach in many places having been covered with mountain- ous heaps of rock avalanches. 0n the island of Sumbuws in 1772 a broad promontory was torn from the connecting mountains and turned into a. senâ€"gilt rock. The natives have a tradition thth their island once form- ed a part of J ava, till a violent earthquake tore a chasm across an isthmus now inter- sected by the strait of Lombok ; and there is reason to believe that by a similar catn- itrophe Java itself was 1mm from the south coast of Sumatra. From Sumatra m Timer Laut some eighteen or twenty islands form a most remarkahlochain, resembling a shoal of fish swimming in a straight line, with the largest ahead and three or four of the small- est bringing up the roar. A mountain chain, forming what might be called the backbone of each island, runs from western Sumatra to the east cape of Timer Laut, all along ex- hibiting the same geological characteristics and maintaining the same general direction and even the same average height of 6,500 I- A L Yet an earthquake that could tear a chasm across a mountain runge of that elevation would shake our planet; as the bursting of a boiler would shake an engineAhouse, and might account for the eruption of such vol- canoes as the now extinct crater that inun- dated southern Oregon with u lava-bed near- ly 2,000 feet thick and covering an area of 24,000 miles. feet. That process “7(qu nio account for the curious smoke-like haze which has frequent- Iy been observed on the evenf an earthquake. Before uplifting a mountain range the im- prisoned vapors must now and then suc- ceed in forcing an outlet through the sub- terranean fissures of such mountains, or His roguish eves are tightly shut, His dimple we all at rent, 1 The (hubby and turned under his head By one rosy check is pressed. EARTHQUAKES AND WCDL- CANOES. Wakon him? No I Let down the burs, And gather the truamt met-p ; Open the. barnyard, and drive in the cows, But m the little lmg' «up, For your after year we can shear the fleece, And mm can always be sown ; But the sleep that visits littlt‘ Boy Blue, Will not come when yours liL‘ flown. Sheep in the meadows are “running wild Where poisonous herbage grows ; Leaving white tufts of down)“ Home, On the thorns of the sweet. wild ms But no loud blast on the shining horn, Calls hack the straying Hhccp ; And the cows may wander, in may and com, While their keeper lies asleep, Out in the fields. where the silken mm, Its plumed head nods and bows ; Where golden pumpkins ripen below, Trumplc the white-faced vows. Under the hay-stack little Boy Blue, Sleeps with his head 011 hi arm ; While voicca of men, and voices of maids, Arc calling him over the farm. BY FELIX L. ()S\\'ALD. “ Little Boy-Blue.” There zn'c soine other signs that have now and then unurhlod the inhabitants of YUICZHP ic, districts to predict an earthquake 01' a Violent eruption. The sudden outbreak of a. hotvspz‘ing is u. symptom of that sort. le- fm'c the earthquake of Lisbon new springs nf scaldinghot water are said to have burst from the rocks in the Portugnew provinccof Algm‘vc. The eruption of Mount Cotopaxi in 1831 was preceded by the outbreak of torrents of hot water that clouded tho vallcyof Rio Rumba with vast, vulumcs of steam and cov~ cred the fields with dead fish of that pc- culiur kind found only in subterranean Strange subterranean rumblings were. heard near Charleston a few minutes before the catastrophe ; but it, would he a Iniet' he to suppose that every Volcanic outbreak is pi eeeded by such noises. Several of the most destructive eartlupmkes on record came as suddenlyas a flash from a clear sky, while in other eases the subter ~anean thun- ders continued for so in: ny days that the inhabitants of the disturbed distriete had ceased to dread the possible significance of the phenomenon, when the long-delayed outbreak surprised them after all. In 1759 the plains of of Miehoaean in southâ€"western Mexico were agitated for nearly a week, when the ground at last burst, and the swaying hills gave birth to a new mountain, the Volcano of Jorullo, whieh has ever since continued to explode showers of ashes and flaming einders. On the island of Java. too, the dreadful convulsion which in 1772 engulfed the mountain range of Papanda- yang, was preceded by subterranean thunâ€" ders that were heard all over the archipel- ago of the Sunda Islands, and so frightened the mountain-cattle of the Java colonists that hundreds of them perished in the eliifs and ravines in their despe ~ate attempts to reach the open plain hy the shortest out 0. even though the interstices of apparently solid rocks, and thus cloud the atmosphere of large districts, often for weeks, as before the great; earthquake of 1812, when the Atâ€" lantic coast of our continent seemed to be veich as the haze of an foreut-firo. A few days before the destruction of Charleston that szune haze was observed all through the southern Alleghanien, and he- eume so remnrkahle on the afternoon of the last day that in many counties of northern Georgia the mountaineers congregated on the cross-roads to diseuss the possible cause of the curious phenomenon. Did any one ever imagine that a mouse could stop a. railway train ? It seems to be impossible ; nevertheless it 'st (lone re- cently at the town of C‘srpi, near Modena, in Italy. On the Italian railroads an electrical ap- pa ‘atus, upon the departure of a train from any station, rings six strokes upon a gong in the next station. The stution-nmster at Cm‘pi, hwring his gong ring three strokes Where they should be six, immediately came to the conclusion that there was something wrong on the line, and ordered up the elee~ tric signals of warning. 'l‘he instinct; of domestic animras has more than once given their masters timely warningof similardangers. Afew days before the most destructive earthquake on record the pigeons of Antioch are said to have left their nests in the city walls and taken re- fuge in the suburban groves. rl'he philoso- pher Dion Damaseius warned his fellow-citi- zens to follow the example of the winged re- fugees, but failed to inspire them with his presentiments of peril, and on the third day came an earthquake which cost the lives of 250,000 human beings, and shook the very mountains all over Syria and Asia Minor. ()n the afternoon of the 5th of Oct- ober, 1746, the barber Perez, a citizen of Lima in Peru, was attending to a customer, whose (log suddenly began to betray signs of uneasiness by standing in the open door of the shop and breaking forth repeatedly into a peculiar howl, then listening for a second or two and breaking out into that ominous wail again. Several of the visitors lnul started to their feet, but stood silent, looking at each other in vague alarm, when the owner of the shop made a spring for the door, as if under the impulse of a sudden in- spiration, and rushing out into the street, shrieked out a warnier> : Guided, 'necinos’Lâ€" “ Look out, neighbors I” he shouted, “ there is trouble coming and almost as an echo of his words a rumbling noise and the sound of distant seruuns approached from the direction of the sea, and in the next minute the crash of falling houses re- sounded on all sides. An earth-wave had struck the town, and swamped the neigh» boring sea-port of Cellao with a flood that swept away all but forty of its five thouâ€" sand inhabitants. In On the other hand, certain ammals have been known to lilaintain a strange indifi'er- ence in the very catastrophe of such convul- sions. Horses have been seen grazing with perfect unconcern, while the hills were shaken by the roar of a volcano or the shock of n ’all-hreaking earthquake. But the explanation of that indifference is per- haps the circumstance that in an open plain animals have no special reason to dread a voloanic disturbance. During a violent storm a bomb»proof building would be a haven of refuge from the dan rers of falling trees and drenching showers, int an earth- quake that might make such a building the tomhof its inhabitants would spare the chil- dren of the wilderness, exceptperhaps on the slopes of steep mountain ranges, where deâ€" struction may come in the form of a. rock avalanche. Thevtmin, which I); this time was under full hemfimy, came tO_ a dqnd gtop. » A Then began a transfer of telegraphic mesâ€" sages. The passengers were anxious to know what was the matter. They waited while the messa. es went back and forth. The enquiry esta lished the fact that every- thing was right; on the line, and the train was ordered forward after considerable delay. The station-master, about this time, thought it might be well to look into his gong, and there he found, stuck fast between the cogs of the electrical apparatus, a, poor little mouse. The unhappy animal had happened to be in the interior of the clock when it “ struck one,” and down he attempted to run, but was caught between the murderous wheels. His little body was big enough to stop the whole apparatus, and consequently the train as well. On a first glimpse at the sea. “ Astonish ing ! Who would have thought there could be as much water as that ‘2” “True; and remember you only see what’s on top.” Train Stopped by a Mouse. A few su 'gestim a on the subject of changing but»: ier’s muxt may not be out of place. Good b0:f' when fvesh has a fine grain 1nd is of n. vermillion color, with u slight tint of purple (m the L115 surface. It is firm but tender to the tl null, and is so elastic that no 1113le is left after 1m ssure from the. finger. Tin: fat is yellowish whine like fresh butter, and firm. Sometimes the lean is slightly \‘cincd with fut. but it must have no flzwor of snet. The surface must be quite dry when cut, seurely mnirstening the finger. If a clean knife he pushed up to the hznulle into the ruw meat the resistilnee will be uniform if it l)(: fresh. hut if some parts are, softer than others it has begun to down”- When beef is lezm, course, and sin- looking it is old. and tough. Mutton avnd 111.1111).s‘110111diiifvmi fine gz-uii ; the lean should be bright and cvuiiy tinted, and the fat perfectly white. In mutton the loan is pale red. In hanging mutton, if it be hung with the out part up inatqu l'f down, as 11511111, the juices will be butter preserved. Veal should have firm, white felt. and UK lean have u pinkish tinge. If the hmhu ~ ism Of bleedingr has been practiced, the ‘10, i will be quite White. Veal should he 8.x or eight weeks old before it is killed, else it is unwhelesmne. Tm) 501mg \‘eul 1 my he dev teeied by a hhiish tint. 'l‘he Vigilance of meat inspectors, however, prevents the i111- mature veal from entering the market. hi choosingr mutton 01' Veal from the eurezlss the quality may he (let/Jrininetl from the fat inside the thigh. If there he plenty of clear ill'lll fut there, the mutt i< good. Pork when fresh and young is smooth and firm and the rind is thin. The lean must be of a uniform color, and the fat white and not at all streaked. Salted (tern- fed pork has pinkish fut. A good test of ham its to run a knife under the lrone : if it comes out clean and smells pleasantly the hum is good. In choosing fish see that the gills are bright pink, the fins stiff, and the eyes clear and full ; the scales and skin must be bright. Allow a teaspoonful of good starch to each shirt and collar. Usc just enough cold water to wet the starch, mush it frcc from lumps, add a little mm'c, and stir it well ; add for each shirt 2: little sperm or white wax as big as a pcamul a quarter of a spoon- ful of salt to three spoonfuls of stiu‘ull, pour on boiling water: stirring slowly all thc time; boil hard for fifteen minutes without scm‘ollâ€" ing, skim and strain while hot. This can be done only by dipping the strainer in cold water, while the starch is in the bug, and squeeze it immediately before it hecomcs hot. \‘l’et bosoms and collars in hot water, wring very dry, and starch while (lamp; rul) the starch well in and wring in a dry towel and remove all starch left on the outside ; 5 read out evenly, rul) down with {L dry 0 0th, and roll tightly together; let it lie two or three hours and then iron, and you will have a. gloss on your shirts anal collars equal in appearance and perhaps better in quality than if it had been done at a Chinese lau 11- dry. BLVEBERRY PICKLES.7FOX‘ blueberry pickles old jams which have lost their covers or whose edges have been broken so the covers will not fit tightly serve am excellent purpose, as these pickles must not be kept airtight. Pick over your berries, using only For this costume the “ lrminie ” jacket and “ Ramona ” skirt are used in combin- ation. Each possesses special features which the other serves to enhzmee when they are used together. The materials em- ployed for the costume are brown serge with a very broad twill, and striped plush with the pile in different lengths and a frise weave in the narrow stripes. The plush is in two shades of brown with a slight mixture of red and ecru. This is used for the 1m- der-skirt, where it shows at the right side, How TO CHOOSE B/IEATS IIOFSEIIOLD. CHOICE RECIPES. STAHCHING, sound ones ; fill your jars 01' widemonthed bottles to within 2m inch of the top, then {our in nio‘wses enough to settle down into all the Spite s ; this cannot be done in a mo- ment, as molar-7505 does not run very freely. Only lazy people will feel obliged to sttmd by 11nd wane-h its progress. As it Settles, pour in in )1‘0 until the berries are covered. Then tie over the trip a. piece of cotton eloth ta keep the flies and other insects out. and set away in the preserve closet. Cheap nio- lussv s i: 30ml enough, and your pickles will soon be “ sharp.” Tu B settlinflOne-lnlf cup butter, two cups ugar two pints llour, two teuspoonfuls huliiné pow 1e , one teaspoonnt extract nut» mug. rift the flour, sugar, and powder to- gether ; rnh in the butter eohl and mid enough :weet milk to make a soft dough ; add the extract last ; roll out half an inch thick and cut out with a. biscuit cutter ; TORONTO (100mm. â€"'I‘ukc one cup sugar and mm cup butter, heat together to a froth than (:110-1"11f cup milk, to this add enough fl'mz' to st 11, int: which 11le been put one twwpoonfu] baking powder. Roll out, cut into Sll‘l})(', dusil‘ed. Bake. about ten min- utes in 21, quick oven. «ash LVJI' with milk and bake twenty min 11th. VIENXA RnLLs.â€"<ift two or three times out quart of ilour with two humping tea- spuonfnln' of baking p()\v(lc1‘;ruh in lmttor the, size uf am and half a tuzispuonful of salt; stir all to a dough with cool, sweet mill; ; take small pieces of dough, i‘ull them into small lumps, cut them across slightly szch way once. with a sharp knife, set them in tins nut touching each other, ln‘nsh them over with milk 01‘ butter melted in milk. and bake. An English v'sitor to Persia a‘zn‘cllcd post through that metry with a native servant whose duties included the preparing of his master’s meals at every haltingâ€"111M}. The puhlic houses of the country furnish shelter only, with not so much as a chair or (L table. Even 2L brick floor is a luxury. HOW the servant in (:niliml his office under such cir- cumstances is told in u, ludicrous way : \Vc carpeted down there on a di 'an of brick, and Ali kindled a fire. It was a foul plaice indeed. But Ali x 'st never to be daunt- cd ; his little fire was soon burning at my feet, the water hailing, the canteen opened and ready ; and then, in his swaggel'ing way out he comes with, “ Now, 2111', what you like take? you like take you have I" But his words were more bombast : it was only an Eastern man’s opening. However, sometimes I steadily rcplicd.,-- - “ Like rostt hoof, Ali, got ‘2” “ Ah, roast beef no got this :(lay I” he would say. “ “"011, like mutton, Ali, got Y” 3‘ “ Ah, mutton no got this day 1': “ Like chicken, Ali, got?” " V7” “ Ah, chicken no got this day !” and so it would (and, “ (hit eggs.” This was his usual way, and nothing that I ever said would break him of it, but, with a sobn‘cl‘ 1001;, each time he would begin: “ Now, zur, what you like take ‘2” as before, as though he had really every delicacy of Persia. at connnzmd. In this instance, how- ever, it was not even “ Got eggs !” An exchange says salt is a remarkable re- medial agent. So itls, indeedfllt‘has been known to cure even a ham. You Cannot expect a girl of the period to stand fl] c because she is accustomed to face powder. It is an open question whetherTJona‘h was the first bccrciary of the navy, 0110f the in» trrinr. the revers on the drapery, and the vest, lining for the fronts, cuffs, and collar of the jacket; and the remainder of the costume is of the serge. The vest is illustrated turned back to disclose it chemisette and eollurnf white pique. The hat is of fine brown plush, placed smoothly on the frame, the brim faced with lighter brown faille, and the trimming cumposed of brown faillle ribbon and shaded brown plumes. Tan» colored Suede gloves. Price of jacket patterns twentyiive cents each. Skirt pattern, thirtyeetns. Keeping up Appearances. \lezxt l w-vâ€"«mMa-am _____._ J.._... Another dreadful tragedy in which a lovesick boy and a young girl still in short dresses lost their lives, has just oe ‘ rred at Chalfiu Bridge, Ill. Eddie ('lark was sevenâ€" teen years of age and imagined that he loved Melissa Fultz, aged fifteen. The little. girl had a good deal of sense and refused to talk love with her youthful admirer. telling him that she was too young and that her mother did not approve of her having a lover. After receiving this information the young boy procured a revolver and the following day when going home from school with Melissa, shot her dead Without a moment’s warning, and then followed the act up by killin himself. The two children were buried side by side, their funerals being held the same day. It is a pity that the young girl could not have been spared to what, with her mature good sense, must h; ve been a very useful and honorable life. It is a pity also that the soft headed young sprig could not have been soundly spanked and sent to bed the first time he expressed his So-ealled love for his playmate. There comes a time in all young lives when a strong preference exists for some number of the opposite sex, and this critical period is the one whieh all parents and friends shoul pay great attention to. The first so- ealled love ease, safely over, the afllicted one generally settles down to be something steady and is not at all likely to suffer a. severe recurring attaek until the passions are well under control and the person is possessed of sufficient judgment to avoid more than the usual serious outcome of love affairs whether followed by marriage or not. The young must be carefully trained and closely watched by some responsible friend to guard against sueh distressing affairs as this article has to deal with. There are many older persons, also, who need a good deal of watching and advice which they don’t get. But with all the care and endeavors of sensible, wellâ€"balanced people there is always a 'ast amount of business accumulating for the fool-killer to dispose of. It is stated that fuuemls cost three times as much as they did fm" y years apt. Heroin is 50011 new proof of him unwisumn of pro» crastiimtion. Think, inlpi'm‘idcnt reader, how much you might have szu‘ml had you mortelled 011' your cui‘lcd shriil for Ly years ago ! A word to Voters-MA few rings on your hand is not; objectionable, but what is re» quired of you is that you get your hand on the rings. “Speckled beauties ”~zm great many of the young Indies who have returned from their summer vacation with sun-spots on their faces. There is one consolation for the Charles- ton sufl’crers : they do not have to li ‘cn to all the entertainmch that are given for their relief. Teacherâ€"4‘ Hana, name three beasts of prey.” Hmm.â€"“ Two lions and a; tlger.” Some things are more valuable when they are upsidu «10wa A figln‘csix, for instance. 7‘Thatisnothing,”ca.methereply. “There is a young fellow clerking in (L dry goods store there who has been trying to get her for the last three years, and he has not suc ceeded yet. Do not; get discouraged.” The local paper interests all classes, and is rend by all classes. The business man ex- amines it because, besides the general and local news, it contains the legal notices, tax, sheriff Mid auction sales. And all classes read it, because it describes the home-life of the people in all their pursuits of business or pleasure, records the iliarriuges, births, and deaths, and faithfully reports their opin ions, feelings, sympathies, and hopes, in joy and sorrow, in health and in sickness, in life and in death. It is the best and tru- est type of the people who haveimade this country great, and by whose toil great cities live. ‘ Both “'antetl 1101'. A telegraph operator was one day trying to call up an office in a. small town in the interior of the Province where'thejnstrumm 11 was presided over by a woman. He was about giving up in despair, whon the opera,- tor in another small town a few miles from the first, ticked out the query : “ VthLt in heaven’s name do you want ‘2” “ I want M iss Brown, at Bnrgville,” re- plied the telegraph man. “ I have been try- ing to get her for the last half hour.” An advertisement in the home paper chal- lenges attention with a force it could not have in a foreign paper. It is a delicate compliment to thu town in which it is pub- lished and to the people in itrâ€"â€"a, public tes- timonial that the town and its business are worth cultivating. And they return the compllmcnt. I have heard with interest that the. thim- bio of plain sewing was invented in the year 1684 by a gallant young Dutch goldsmith of Amsterdam, who devised the “ thumb bell ” Hfor this was its original numewin order to protect his sweetheurt‘s thumb tops when she was engaged with a. needle and cotton. There are thumb thimbles still, and sailors, I believe, always wear them. The “ thumb bell ” has, as a rule, however, become a ” finger bell ;” hut in shape only little change has taken place in it since the loving Hans placed the first thimble on the thumb of his lady love. A Hightstown farmer’s horse had an exâ€" perience the other day that it will not care to repeat. Driven to the city and left standing in front of a grocery store it took Occasion to poke its head into a basket in the back of a delivery wagon and t0 ab- stract therefrom three or four compressed yeast cakes and the best part of a sack of Pillsbury flour. The result of this amateur breadmaking was not made apparent until the animal was driven home, when the yeast proved to be as good as ever, and the horse began to experience sensations com- monly known to breafl pans. 'l‘he veteri- narian who worked over the horse for 12 hours avers that it was at least eight feet in circumference for some time previous to obtaining relief, and is quite sure that if it is an intelligent beast it will hereafter take its staff of life unleavened. Self-possession is nine points of the law. A Horse: as an Amateur Bread- Maker. A Tragedy and iis L1 The Inventor of a Thimble. The Locak Paper. FALL FOLLIES.