February, 1879.
THE WEST SHORE.
5'
CHAFF.
An agricultural paper asserts that milk onmM
through inheritance. Mebbe it doee, but aomo
of it looka as if it had come through a thunder
ahower with the lida of the oana open.
A bare-footed darkey while hoeing cotton
one day, aaw hia big toe under a olod, and
thinking it a mole'a head hit it and hurt him
aelf. After working with it for a while he got
tired, aet hit foot on a stump and aaid : "Well,
jea pain away now ; I doean t care, you hurta
yeaelf wuain ye do me."
It was a rioh old widow who wondered that
the handsome young man had fallen in lovo
with her. "Yea it ia wonderful," aaid Mr.
Sprnceup, "but I do love you to diatraotiou.
Why, I even love the ground you walk on."
"I thought ao," observed the widow, "but I am
not in want of a landlord at present."
A GENTLEMAN who had the misfortune to loae
his noae waa followed by a beggar, who kept
exclaiming, "Heaven preserve your honor'a
eyeaight! The gentleman waa at laat irritated
by hia importunity, and aaid: "Why do you
wish my eyeaight to lie proaerved Nothing
ails my eyeaight, nor ia likely to." "No, your
honor," aaid the beggar, "but it will be a aad
thing if it doea, for you will have nothing to
rest, your spectacles upon."
A late commander-in-chief at l'ortainouth
alwaya expressed a higher opinion of the intel
ligence of the Japaneae. Tho ground on which
he rested hia opinion ia supposed to be aa fol
low! : Some yoare ago, arrayed in all the pomp
of full uniform, ho waa ahowing tho firat Japan
eae Embassy round the dockyard, and finally
came to the chapel, whioh ia not an impoaing
ediHoe. When its nae waa explained to the
intelligent foreigner!, they held up their handa
in wonder, "la tt possible, oh, bravo Admiral,"
aaid they, "that auch a great man aa you can
aay your prayers in a little plaoe like thia ?"
The Admiral always spoke of them afterwards as
'1.1- t r...j aa.
a reniarKaoiv eenaiDio aet 01 men. .owo r.j
nminer.
A flom, I iff eTI. . . ., , ,
good deeds, the good memories of these who
nave MM the salt and tho huht of the earth tie
not periah with their depart ut o thev live on
still; and those who have wrought them live in
thorn. Tho weary traveler in tho south of
Spain, who, after passing manv an arid nlaiu
and many a bare hill, Hilda himaulf at nightfall
unuer uie mgiiia 01 (iranada, will hoar, splash
ing and rippling under tho ahado of epreading
trees, ami alongaiile of the dusty road, the
f grateful murmur of running watera, uf stream
ota whoso sweet music mingles with his dreams
IW nil Bleeps, .mil meets Ills oar as the lust . ca- , i , .... 1..11 ... 1 . 1 .i
. . ... 111,11111 i" 11111 Aim nMnoiing wiwam vie' miiwr;
What ia it? It ia the aound of tho irrigating
rivulota called into existence by tho Moorish
occupants el tiruiiaila live centuries ago, which,
amidst all the changes of race and religion,
have never ceased to How, Their empire
haa fallen, their creed has barn suppressed by
tiro and sword, their nation haa lieen driven
from the ehorea of .Spain, and their wlaces
rumble into ruin; hut this traeo ol their Ihiio.
limit civilization still continues, and in this
continuity that which was good ami wise ami
generous in that gifted but unhappy race, still
Uvea on to cheer aim to re I rush their enemies
and their conqueror. Kven so it ia with the
The Ice Briikie at Niagara. Niagara river
below the falls ia spanned by a bridge of ice one
mile long and 60 feet wide. The river haa been
spanned in thia way before, but aeldom, if ever,
so aarlv aa now. The other day the ice
"iaminnd" lieneath the miner euiueiisiiiii budge
Haya the Buffalo Vourirr: A vaat quantity ol
water bwl accumulated behind the ice and made
a desperate effort to get free. The enonnoua
body of anow and ioe waa raised up by the
water and tossed about in all directions. Urge
blocka. weighing hundreds of tona were lifted
into the air. Bouldera were torn from the ahore
.! ;..!., ,1... itMim ml a solitarv lir
tree, which ordinarily atanda three feet above
high water, waa earned away. The ponderoua
atrangth of the enraged watera waa ao apparent
that it teemed aa if they would rend the great
gorge in twain, and in that way eacape from
their imprisonment. Aa they could not break
the in ile. wide dam in two. thev lifted it Isslily
into the air and rnabad away beneath it, leaving
a a pan of ioa above and behind them, in
formation of the ioa in thia bridge ia not th
am. . ... Wk M f the river. On the A men
ran i.le it ia chiefly comDoaed of anow formed
into rounded boulder shapes, and looka like
white ooral. Aa one approaches me center 01
the river the ice frsKincnt become larger, am
near the Canadian ahore huge cakea of water ice
, a -,.li. I mm. In some olacea
there are crevicee 25 or 30 feet in depth, but
water ia not aeon through them.
A FAtt.IttAimxu Ktfio. It ia aaid there ia
certain point oo a ridge high up on Kearsargr
mountain where can be heard the ramble of
,,.,. ,, ik. Senihern Pacific railroad aa they
croas the ran ire to the weat of Mohave, 140
railee distant There ia a regular daily train
.t in.wi nVluck. and UDoo reaching the
plaoe at thia boor the noiaa ol tba train is heard
Uur illust ration ia that of a brilliant, popular
and hardy annual, with large aalvar-ahaied
tliiwera; purple, crimson, yellow, while, striped,
everything in the way o( colors except black.
Perfectly hanly, and delights in a warm situs
tiun and sandy soil. There are few low-growing
planta that can lie coniared to thia for bril
liancy of color and abundance id hluasoius.
It ia excellent for a hod on the lawn, whioh
sow the aeed at once in open ground, lieing per
feetly hanly.
Tho Hieinua, which makua a part ejl our dim
trationa, ia simplv another and the botanical
name for that well known plant producing the
castor oil beau; an. I I bough often times grow II
by tho acre fur the pi eduction o' oil, it la, never
theless, a plant uf very ornamental foliage and
showy fruit; it is stately ill growth amfquiln
tropical in apHaraiie, which make it an at
tractive feature of the lawn, iartioularly when
grown singly,
.lames Viek, the celebrated iioohoatsr lloriet,
roiTDUOaV
good deeds of those who have gone before Ms.
Whatever there haa lieen ol grateful eoiisuier
lion, of kimllv lioaiiiUlitv. of lei r-a. lung gen
eroaity, of gracioua charity, ol high numb d ju
tioe, of unaeltiah devotion, of saintly devotion
theae atill feed the atream of moral fertilisation
whioh will run on when their place knows M
no more, when even their names have perished."
Mia StttnUy.
A MaiiIC Calt-Mr. Blackluirn, of 14 Vic
toria I lead, Kensington, haa invented a remark
able vehicle, which require no horse to draw It
The body ia in the form of a dog oart, and the
arrangement of wheela like a tnoycl. Mie
motive power, concealed in the body of the
vehicle, ia obtained by the comliustion of lien
inline, a email jet of whioh ia admitted into a
burner about the aiae of an ordinary chimney
pot hat The steam paaeee into the cylinders f
a small torpedo eagine, which rotate a liori
aontal abaft There la no steam given off, for it
i. i and mmm mi a Im Hi Mnm
boiler. The weight of the tteem power la about
180 Dsl On lighting the lwnaofin tba ateam
require no attention frm the driver during a
ride of many boors. Tba driver, by applying
hia foot to a pedal, can regulate the awswl and
.-..r ,.f .Irak It travels at the ret of alxnil
eight mile an boor, and is eaaxly directed m iu
IlKINDH.
k.n.loaas nil 1 possession of these
illuatratioiia, swaks of th lliclnus aa an orna
mental leaved plant, which (or out door dooor
stioii for ordinal) use Is iiloplslled
diva Vn;a i.iii a Ciiaki a If one has
uever taught her little daughter to dree her
n dolls, as well as to make qiiilto, heeta.
pillows ami shams, she can have but little idea
of the benelit ol such instruollim. little girl.
I mie to have their dolls dreaaasl neatly aa wall
as faahmnably, and if they are shown how to
make tie- garments, and tarnished with suitable
material, they will do it themselves at an early
age. I knew a little girl Whooiien astonished
her mother with a new, stylish Hal lor her Uoii,
which she hail made from scrape hr mother
had given lo r. In tins way aha iaaraed to lit
and make the wardrobe for her ddl, awl wlwu
her doll waa I an I by aba began making her own
. lotlirs, ao that at the age of four year eh mM
make heraelf a suit throughout. When I aa
mothers eit Bp half the night to dreea doll, for
their little girls, I eaaaot bat thins, what a
pity mothers will not U wise and teach lliMi
to do It thaineelree! Tbeehlldrea wuold really
enjoy it better, aa It makes their lulls fingers
skillful, and they feat seek aa later set la hav
ing each doll look aa neat a thuaw owned by
their playmate. I know thia te be the eaae.
Will not aome oo try it ami report for th
hniH of otlwr mother and daughter? Hurut
Snt Xorktt.
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