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r .1 : i?rr SAID TO UrREARf. Boiwi,)pr child," ray father said, Knvl has fust thousand a war: 4nl rrnu arc to pay and market to make And bow will you m-sa ojy oarr And I MM U my heart: 1iat'a true; But love and a thousand will do." Vv mother aifrbed in bor stately wavi " Ilti family are poor and pavin: ho friend, no wealthy ooswellons; Tou awv noUiins; at ail U flu." Bat I Mid to my heart: "It's Fred, And nobody else, 1 wed." Mt friend (Voile was drpadfiiNy shocked, " why, Hesnlel what. marry red Ore 1 . The Riau km t in aodoty : Vou are Uirowinit yourwlf away." I Put I Mid to ray heart: "llo'U do: i He to kivinc and tender and trtfc. And even my kindly brother Jack O'boutrht "Fred, at a desk, very well: But drmdfnlly alow, witbont any 'go,' Pit only to buy and to aril." , But I said to my heart: -Never mind, 1U ia clever and honest and kind." And my heart said: "Marry the man you lore A inounutia a year win au. And be isn't slow and he plenty of 'go," And he's ttyliea enough tor you. Tou know very well when all is told. Trua lore is better than style or fold." I married my lore and a thousand a year, And we're happy and rich to-day; To his Dirtiest aim (he man I knre Has nllanllT foutbt blawar. - If hearts have love, and are brave . od true, Tfaay'U tml a thousand a year will do. -LUiu L. liatr, (a X. Y. Ledger. SENTENCED TO SIBERIA. A Nlhlllat'a Experience. Bet we Ills Arrest la KleflT and Ills Kaeape la) Irkauk. At midnight on February 11, 1879, in the citv of Kieff. Mrs. Kossarovakv'i house, then ocenpied by the Nihilist brothers Ivicbevitch, was regularly be sieged and captured by the gendarmes t the point ol bayonet. . .'iney fought d(!Meratcly on both sides. The gendarme wero ordered to take the conspirators' headquarters at any cost, and the Nihilists were determined to def y id themselves to the last shot. One door after another was broken in but not before each was turned into a sieve bv the shots tired from both sides. Captain Sudcikin and his men wore suits t chain mail, yet a gendarme was killed on the spot, and several were wounded. N. lirnntner and an other friend were seriously wounded. Tbe conspirators were overpowered arrested, and brought to the police beadqtinrters. On the same night in another house was arrested and brought to the same police building. In what a plight beheld my comrades there! l. 1'osen and li. Stcblin-Hamenskv vero stand ing with their arras tightly bound be hind their backs and lie Id by tren darmes. In a corner of the same room were sitting Miss Armfcld, Miss Pat alitzin and P. Sarandovitch, i ll bound and helpless. The room was filled with policemen and armed gendarmes. Amid a roar of voices there suddenly appeared the gigantic figure of our brave comrade, Known under the as sumed name of Antonoff. He was dragging behind him two. policemen who tried to hold him by his arms. .Never can 1 forget bis apiwaranoe Falo was his lace, sparkling his eves, disordered his black curly hrir, and trembling his frame from head to foot "What is that?" ho thundered, point ing at Fosen and Kameusky. "Arms lied? Away with the ropes!" "Please calm vourself," said the police Captain," " e will untie them.' Instantly the ropes were taken away. Water! 1 want a drink!" roared Antonoff. "Bring water at once," commanded the Captain. Presently a Colonel of gendarmes appeared and ordered that each of us should be taken to a separate cell. "Use your own sword and bayonets in case of need," said the Colonel to the gendarmes. On the next day we were transferred to the fortress where scores of onr friends had been pining for years, wall ntr fur tlio miiIkV anil Inar trial !" wbichhas been solemnly promised by the Czar Alexandria. Of course we were subjects! to solitary confinement. However, we kept up a lively corre spondence, w e telegraphed to one an other by rapping on tho wall. Occa sionally wo shouted to each other in our cypher: The fortress authorities tried in vain to htudur us from talking in ono way or another. In April we were tried by the military court As we wero not allowed, though we had the right by law, to choose our own counsel, we decided not to tako any part whatsoever in the siiam trial. Throe of our party of fifteen Anto noff, lirnntner and Ossinsky were con demned to death, and the rest to bard labor in the Siberian mines for fourteen years and ten months. When the sen tence of death was pronounced a lady prisoner swooned. The spectators who packed the hall were greatly excited; cariosity prompted some to stand up on toe bencbes. "What do you stare at?" thundered Antonoff with his eyes flaming. "For shame, to make a spectacle of this thing! ' i lio people tell back and turned to tho exit After tbo trial we condemned prison ers those who were to die and those destined for Siberia were allowed to rass a part of every day together. It is impossible to describe our feelings. On the eve of the execution of our three friends we bade them the last good-bye. 1 must say that on that mo mentous evening the three who were about to dio tried their best to cheer the rest of us. Antonoff was anxious about only one thing that bis proper name should not be discovered, lie loved his mother dearly, and wished that she might remain ignorant of his fate. It is hardly necessary to say that the three died bravely. Soon after that we were sent to East- tern Liberia. The two of us who did not belong to the nobility were sent on foot like the rest of ?tbe unprivileged crimininals. Their beads were half shaved, and heavy chains were put on their feet According to the law, the noblemen do not loee their privileges ontil they reach their destination in Si beria, and so some of us drove in ruds wagons. Our heads were not slaved, and we were free from chain. . All, however, were dressed alike. We bad caftans of a coarse, gray cloth, with two diamond-shaped yellow patches on our backs to signify that we were sentenced i i i 'fi l 1 : i : : 1 10 nam laoor. 1 ids oiuennu cum proper wore onlv an aee of diamonds. From KeifT we went by railroad in a special prison car, accompanied by gendarmes. Thus we passed Orel, Mos cow, and reached Nijni-Novgorod. Then we were placed In a barge, which was towed bv a steamer to Perm. Then as-ain we went bv railway un to Ecater iatnirg. After that there was before us the fumous Siberian robd. It is a com moo port route, with three telegraph wires stretched on one side. These wires lead to tho very shore of the Pacl tic Each of us noblemen had a troika. and each was accompanied by two armed gendarmes. From Kieth to Eca terinburg we bad no chance to look upon the world except through iron bars and nets, but now we could enjoy me view with no obstacle before our eyes. What a Joy it was for me! I felt as if freedom was returning to roe. True, since the first day of my arrest the idea of attempting to escape never left my mind. But now that I looked upon the free wide world the thought turned into a fuming desire which controlled all my actions, vsnce in urn mui, wuuc the gendarmes were asleep at my side, 1 took the cap from one of then, and tried to pull out bis pistol. It 1 had succeeded in getting that pistol I would have tried my legs, but the gendarme awoke, and I parted for the time with my happy dream. We made two hundred miles and reachel Tiumen. From that town up J orosk we were taken along with bun dreds of common criminals in a oarge. We ran up the Ob. The prisoners called our barge a poultry house, be cause it was covered with a solid iron nt The prisoners were packed in the barge like herrings in a box. We, the political prisoners were aiioweu w wait occasionally on the deck. In this man ner we iourneved two thousand seven hundred vensts. From Tomsk to Kras- noiarsk we traveled .five hundred versts on the troikas, and from there to Irkutsk we had to go by the etape sys tem. One thousand versts were thus journeyed in two months. In our party there were one hundred and seventy persons, fhere were robust men, hearty women, babies and the aged The etane s vstem is arranced in -this way: All the prisoners were put into two lines. I hen followed wagons With the women and children and the prison ers' luggage. Then followed two troikas of the noble exiles, and three troikas of the political criminals closed , the pro cession. An officer and thirty soldiers formed a kind of chain around our party. Fifteen miles was a regular da 's tramp. Then all stopped in the prison for the night After two days of walking a day was allowed lor rest The houses are divided in four unequal parts, to-wit: a large hall for male prisoners, a family room, a room for noblemen, and the iruards' room. Of cleanliness and comfort in any of the rooms there was absolutely none. Besides the officer and the soldiers two men plav an important role in the prisoner's life. Each group of prison ers elecu from among themselves ine elder, who serves in the common inter est, rcprescntingthe others before the authorities, andkeeping the prisoners' funds. That elder is a kind of a guard ian angel to the prisoners. But then there is an angel of quite a different character. This is the tradesman who keens a store and a club for the oris oners. He is a prisoner who outbids his competitors for nis privilege. He keeps lor sale tea, sugar, tobacco, candles, cards, etc. Each prisoner receives ten copecks, or five cents each day. The ofliccr turns the money over to the elder, who distributes it among the prisoners. On entering the etap nouse and being counted over the prisoners are let free. hereupon they make a lively rush, each one scrambling for a good place. He who gets a bod of plain boards is deemed lucky, and whoover secures a place under such a bed is also contented, ibe remainder sleep on the Moor. Before bedtime the prisoners make fires in tho yard and prepare their por ridge and tea. This forms a unique scene. Njores of wood-piles burn briirhtly in rhe yard, and around each the prisoners swarm, adjusting their iron tea kettles and 6timng porridge. Here and there men are tAking off their worn-out boott, unwrapping their feet, and examining thcirchains, which often causes ld sores. Some of the prison ers deftly remove their irons altogether andothers assisted by specialists, try to smoothen the leg rings or even to stretch them so much that the foot will easily pass through. Here are two men ready to tijrut. and there is a group cautiously wiuspeTiug, discussing some conspiracy. Presently a sodt. "Down the Mother V olga, ' iS' heard. A young prisoner . . . . possessing a melodious and strong voice pours his very soul into that favorite Russian ballad. Ibe prisoners camp is hushed at once. Everybody drinks In that melody, and happy reminis cences of the past, of wives, sisters. sweethearts, mothers, companion and children, chase ono another through these saddened minds, ixuno of the men though rough looking, show tear- dampened eyes. It is a sacred moment Even the guard sent to order the pris oners to bed, stops as if petrified, hi heart melted by the familiar air. Many of them do not care to sleep. Here and there they light their candles and play cards. But the tradesman's corner is me liveliest spou x acre pues - r. . M . ol coppers constantly appear on the table and as rapidly disappear. The prisoners play for cash, and occasion ally the tradosmaa advances a few copecks, tinder the guarantee that he will get the prisoner t share next day. Sometimes the play is for the "Govern ment things," that is to aay, the prison clothes are pawned, and the wretched man sacrifices his necessities to his pas sion, lne ruruer we went into Moena the harder it was to move on. The men grew tired, and many fell sick. Bread waa dear, and the "hunger typhus" was spreading In our party. As the etap hospitals were far apart, we were cumpcLed to carry our sick and dying patients. Now there were stranger scenes in the resting places. In one corner men gambled, in another a story teller provoked paroxysms of lanrrtitAr tur waa V.earff a merrv atintr. aodthore came forth the last groans of J dying man. But it was only tl.o world on a minute sen o. On tlw route we olten met with run aways. The guards did not Itorhcr with them. Sometimes conversations were held between the runaways and the prisoners. "Hullo, Ivan, you are again in the regulars! a runaway would remark. "Halloo, Semen, are jou not satisfied with free board?" a prisoner retorts. "I saw Semon. vou are a irood run. ning horse," puts in a jester, "yet )on will not escape bis Majesty s stables. The condition of the political prison era was far better than that of the capi tal criminals. The political prisoners cot fifteen eonecks per day, rode in wagons and had a separate room for themselves. It was the Uovernment order that the political prisoners should be kept ouite apart from the others. But on the journsy that order could not al ways be executed, tvery evening In the houses the prisoners of all grades anie together. It is a com mon practice for tbe prisoners to exchange sentences. A man condemned to settlement as sumes for some payment tbe name and fate of his follow suntenoodtobard labor for a long period. I engaged an exile. a robber, to assume my role for a pair of hunter s boots, flannel shirt, and eight roubles (four dollars). I am told that in our D&rtv twentv-eiirht exchanges took place. Vet the guards and the authorities knew nothing about it As a rulcthe prisoners do not betray one another. My new role and that of my substitute was bothersome. 1 was a medical sui dent a political criminal and a noble mau; and he was a peasant, hardly able to sign his name. But if I could drag his irons, he too, could support my rep utation. Once our ofliccr was taken ill, and as he knew that one of the prison ers in his command had studied rnedi cine, he called upon me, that Is, upon my substitute, to treat him. My sub stitute did it well. Toward the end of October we reached the city of Irkutsk, where the prisoners are usually classified. Those con demned to settlement are sent to their new home, and those condemned to hartl labor are distributed among vari ous mines. My substitute and I pas -ted the final examination, and each went his own way, never to meet again. On the second day we exiles, or set tiers, were turned over to the village authorities. e were practically free. My compauions went to a liquor shop to celebrate the happy event I resolved to make tho best possiblo use of my freedom by running away from Siberia. I had sold some of my things and real ized about seventy-five cenU,wh!uh mon ey I determined must support me during a week. I had to travel one handred and forty miles to reach the residence of a trusted friend. Profiting by the lessons of the old runaways, I made my way successfully, though the gendarmes were after me. It was in Aovember. bnovr covered the ground. Whenever I hid my self in any bushes I reached them by walking backward into them, and thus. perhaps, I misled my' persecutors. My friend secreted me in his country place for two months. On the etapt road I made the acquaint ance of many old runaways, who gave me the knowledge needed for becoming a successful tramp. In Siberia there are about thirty thousand runaways tramping, as tbe sun does,. westward to Russia. The villagers treat them well so long as they do not injure prop erty or otherwise misbehave. Other wise they hhnt them like wild beasts, Yet, if a runaway is badly handled by villagers without just cause, the run aways pledge themselves to have re venge. Incendiarism is meted out for the whole village and death for tht indi viduals. I am told that in the Irkutsk province there was a native who made it his business to hunt fugitives. "If you kill a squirrel," he used to say. "vou earn onlv fifteen conccks. but kill a runaway and you are sure of earning titty copecks at least for bis dress costs that sum." J hat brute- was in turn killed by runaways. A professional runaway, Beloff, who for twenty-five years has tramped Sibe ria eastward and westward, from the Ural Mountains to the island of Sagha- lien, told me that for many years it was impossible to escape from Saghalien, because the Guilaks, the natives, used to kill every fugitive they saw. At last a party of runaways, thirty strong and well armed, bandod together for their freedom and revenge. They ransacked several duiJak settlements and killed everybody in them. After that the Guilaks ceased to hunt runaways. When my health was restored I started back to Kussia In the most dig nified manner. L wer' by the official post road, changing ojv troika after an other. My pass was all right except that it belonged to a retired officer re cently dead, in May, 1SS1, 1 reached Geneva. A. 1, bun. The Siege of Saragcss "Every convent every house holds out like a citadel, am every one has to be besieged by itselt. the whole is dis puted foot by foot from the cellar to the oft, and it is not until everyone is kill ed with bavonet thruU or thrown out of the window, that wo call ourselves masters of a bouse. As soon as we have conquered one there come upon ut from the next house, through hole made for tbe purpose, grenades, shells, and a rain of musketry. It is necessary to raise barricades and cover ourselves verT speedily till measures are taken for attacking this fresh fort and that can only be done by piercing tho walls, for traversing the streets is impossible; the whole army would perish in them in a couple of hours. It was not enough to make war in tbe bouses, it is carried on beneath the earth. An art no doubt in vented by devils leads the miners be neath the building held by the enemy. A large quantity of powder is laid there, tired at a given signal, and the rrretches fly into the air or are buried beneath tbe ruins. The explosion makes the enemy evacuate the neighboring houses in fear of the same fata. We are posted very near and rush into them as quick as we can. This is how we make our way is? this wretched city." Memoir of Marshal Bugeaud, Count IL tTllevCU. Governor Waller, of Connecticut was once a printer's apprentice in New Tork City. A Wonderful Substance. Among the most interesting develop ment which bavo followed in the wake of the discovery of petroleum is the immense trade which has sprung up in ozokerite, or ozocerite, as Webster has it No fairer substance ever sprang from meat unpromising parentage than tbo snowy, pure, tasteless, opalescent wax which is evolved from the loud smelling, pitchy dregs of the petroleum still The Mni$ keview thus sums up the many uses to which this remarkable substance ia applied: This comely, im pressionable article, with all its smooth, soft beauty, defies agents which can destroy the preetous metals and eat np the hardest steel as water dissolves sugar. Sulphurlo and other potent acids have no more effect on ozokerite than spring water. It is alike impervi ous to acid and to moisture. Its advent seems to have been a special dispensa tion in this are of electricity. Every overhead electrie light cable or underground conduit, or slender wire, cunningky wrapped with cotton thread; all these owe their fitness for conducting tbe subtle fluid to the pres ence of this wax. And in still more familiar forms let us outline the utility of this substance. Every gushing school girl who sinks her white teeth into chewing gum chews this parafline wax. Every caramel she eats contains this wax, and is wrapped in paper sat urated with the same substance. The gloss seen upon hundreds of varieties of xnfe .tionery is due to the presence of this ingredient of petroleum, used to give the articles a certain consistency, as tbe laundress uses starch. So that a product taken from the dirtiest, worst smelling of tars finds its way to the millionaire's mansion, an honored serv itor. It aids to make possible the electric radiance that floods his rooms; or, in the form of wax candles, sheds softer luster over the scene. It polishes the floor .'or the feet of his guosti, and it melts in their mouths in the costliest candies. For the insulation of electric wire, paralfine wax has to-day no suc cessful rival, and tho growth of the de mand for this purpose keeps pace with the marvelous growth of the electric lighting system. A single Chicago firm buys parafline wax by the car load. Its price is but half that of beeswax, and yet the older wax yields readily to sulpnurio or other ac d, this being a test for the presence of beeswax in par afline. The demand for paraffino for candies as yet heads the list - Then comes the needs of the paper consumers. In 1877 a single firm in New York handled 14,000 reams of waxed paper. Not only for wrapping candy Is this paper Valuable, but fine cutbry, hardware, etc., incased in waxed paper is safe from the encroach ment of rust or dampness. Fish and butter and a score of other articles are also thus wrapped, and there seems literally no end to the uses found for the paper saturated with this pure hy drocarbon. In the chemist's laboratory it is invaluable as a coating for artlclos exposed to all manner of powerful dis solvents; brewers find it a capital thing for coating the interior of barrels, and the maker of wax flowers simulates nature in sheets of paraffine. And yet, until Drake drilled bis oil well in 18o9, the existence in this country of this boon to civilisation was unsuspected. and it lay in the depths of Pennsylva nia rocks, where thousands, possibly millions, of years ago it was stored by the hand of an all-wise Creator. Sci- cntific American. 4 a Acupuncture toT tliolera in China, s The employment of acupuncture and cauterization by Chinese doctors forms tbe subject or an article in one of the last numbers of the North China Herald. A native public writer not long since claimed that a skillful physician in this department of medicine could cure such diseases as imbecility, fits, cholera etc The principle of cauterization is simply that of counter-irritation, and tho English writer bears personal testimony to its efficacy in the case of a slight sun stroke, although the operator was a sim ple Manchu peasant and tbe instmmont a couple of copper coins. Very extra ordinary cures are attributed to acu puncture by the Chinese. It is first performed in the hollow of the elbow of each arm. If the puncture draws blood there is no danger, but if no blood appears tbe case is regarded as very grave. But beforo abandoning the suflerer puncture of the abdomen is tr'.cd. Seizing a handful of flesh, the operator drives the necdlo right through it and then draws it backward and forward a few limes. If the patient manifests any sense of pain, or if any blood is drawn," a poultice of egg and buckwheat flour is applied over the puncture, and recovery is regarded as almost certain; but if no pain ia felt and no blood flows the case is declared hopeless, and the sufferer is left to die. The case is then quoted of a young Chinese, educated abroad, who was attacked with cholera: his extremities became cold, and cramp set in. in a somewhat alarming ma'nner. The barber surgeon who was called in, commenced by running a needle into the pit of the patient's stomach, a -'et of very dark blood following; he then punctured I tie can. the two breasts, and the fore head of the sufferer, freeing a certain quantity of blood at each prick. The relief is said to have been instantaneous, and in two days recovery was complete. The Chinese explanation of this treat ment is that when the blood is in tbe poisoned condition which induces the choleraic symptoms it becomes thick, and accumulates in certain portions of the body. A clever surgeon knows exactly bow to put his fingers on the particular spots, and by skillfully "opening the mouth of the heart," as the operat on is called, sets free the poisoned fluid which causes all the mischief. It is noteworthy that faith in the efficacy of this mode of treat ment is not confined to the masses, but ia shared by C linese who have been abroad and have had ample experience of Western medical practice. Xature. On a back street in Saratoga is a little meeting-house for Free Sletho- dists, who a m to bo extremely primi tive, a:.d who have undertaken to re form tho frivolities of fashion as dis played by the summer residents. Ev ery afternoon a small company of women, plainly clad, kneel solemnly in prayer for their sisters who delight in more elaborate clothes. There is thus far no perceptible effect Trty lmu. Domestic and Industrial Life in Cuba. It was one sunny afternoon in Feb ruary when we started, three of us, for a little tour of discovery up one of the small rivers which drain the beautiful island of Cuba. We left the vessel in our dory, the only small boat we had, and rowed r art a Spanish gun-boat and through a swarm of fruiulight-rs to the wharf, by the side of which thu riverfnters the harbor. As we wont tip by the wharf, tbe two guards who are always on watch t ere, came to tbe side and looked nto our boat to use that we smuggled nothing ashore, but being sa-icfiod of our iieaoeabte intention ', they tuvwlered back to a. crowd of loungers, while we passed on. We first pass the fru:t-honscs of the different shipping firms, where we see coacoanuts piled up, as we here are ac customed to see coal in the e eds, and then past a battery of back doors which open right on to tbe river. Here we have a grand chance to study the do mestic life of the Cubans, and in some instances tho sights that we saw were very amusing. One thing that we no ticed which struck us as being rather pe culiar, was that all the ladies smoked, not tht) dainty little tigarsttes which some of our American girls have been known to iniulge in, but real long, strong cigars, "caadoras" as 1hey call them. It was like listening to music to hear them talk, for such a melodious language I never before heard. The next object of interest that we pass ia the eooaanut mill where all broken or bad nuts, and in fact every thing that would otherwise be wasted are ground up to make cocoa or palm oil. This is on the outskirts of the town, and soon after leaving it we pass a narrow, deep t hannel in the river, whh a banina grove on one side and a tangled mas of Wild grape on the other. Here the sea breeze is broken and tbe stream is still as a pond. There is no sound exc -pt the plash of our oars or the occasional whist:e of a bird, aud as we float lazily onward it seems hard to believe that it is not all a dream. Still more unnatural does it seem as we corao to an open ng and see ahead of us a grove of tall, stately palm trees, and it is no wonder that to our unaccustomed eyes the scene is one of delight and surnr.se. Just beyond tlie palm-grove is a ford in the river whore we expected to be olliged to drag our boat, but we pass it all right and here a novel sight pre sents itself to our view. All along both sides of the river, standing in the water are women andchildren, mostly black, washing clothes. Their manner of washing is very different from what we had seen anywhere else, and is ocrtain ly one of the most peculiar features of the people. They stand in the river and rinse their clothes, and then pound them en the smooth, flat rocks which line the edge of the water, and hang them to dry on the bushes all around. We kept on through the files of wash ers who pa d no part cular attention to us, so that we had to good chance to watch their operations. We noticed that almost all of them after washing their clothes took a ducking them selves, which is quite an advantage they have over the American washer woman. Cor. Portland Transcript. California's Apples, A visitor to the fruit markets of Cal ifornia is usually astonished beyond ex pression by tbe beauty and variety of lue appies lucru uisjJiayi-u. it is liter ally "apples till apples come again." Barrels are never used for packing, but boxes holding about fifty pounds. Tbe lids are removed, the top layers of apples are nicely polished, and there they stand in long rows, a finer dis play, so far as sue,-color and shapeli ness go, than any other American mar ket can offer. There are few Kussetts, but Greenings, Baldwins. Pippins, Kings, Ben Davises, Nickajacks, ioine Beauties, and dozens of other varities, in fact bear all known to Western, Eastern and Southern growers, can be found in the San' Francisco markets in season. Tbe range of climate over which they are grown id very great Apples from Washington Territory, grown near the British Columbia bor der, may be seen side by side with ap ples whose blossoms mingled with those of San Diejo orange trees. Ap ples come from so far up smong the nioanta ns that the summer is ns brief and warm as that of Maine, and' the fruit as crisp and well flavored. Ap ples come also from the lowlands that slope fairly to the sands and rocks of the Pacific. One district is sending lied Astrakhan and early apples, while another district is gathering Graven steins and o her autumn varieties. But when the visitor from the East be gins to sample all th's fruit he experi ences a reaction of feeling. The size and color have misled him; the expect ed flavor Ls not tbe e, and he thinks of apples much smaller in appearance, but .infinitely better to eat; apples from the orchards of .New England and New York, the valleys of Pennsylvania and the river-side slopes of Maryland. The old Californian, however, protests that this is not a fair decision; that tbe fruit growers of the Pacific States know their market and their market demands size and color i hie.1v, flavor being a second ary matter. Some of the apples that are prime Eastern favorites fail to retain their flavor on the Pacific coast; others that hold no rank whatever in New York markets are the pride of many private California ga-dens. That wonder ul apple the yellow Newton lippin, is, however at tho ncad of the list in all parts of California and Oregon. Skin ner's Seedling, an autumn apple origi nated in an Jrse. has taken high rank. The small red Bomanite apple is of the highest quality. Esopus Sp.tzenbe gi and Northe n Spys suit the mountains, but fail in most of the lowland region. There is no reason to doubt that in a few years the accusation of lack of flavor brought against California ap ples wJl cease to have any point For eight or ten years la-ge fhipments of apples have gone to Australia from San Franc sco, immense quantics are dried and canned, and the appla.crop o' the Pacifio coast is becoming one of the la gest items in its horticultural produc tion. r. Sun. New Tork City want Gover nor's Island for a park. .T. T. Hun. SCIENCE AND INDCSTBY. Experiments in England show; that gaslight has greater penetrating! power in a fog than electric light of the' same intensity. An Australian has devised a scheme for bringing down rain to order. Uo has a balloon charged with dynamite -underneath it which is fired off by wire connecting with the earth when the balloon reaches the clouds. lido Camsdoll, the editor of an Atlanta (Ga.) journal, has discovered a process in photo-lithography, which, according to Mr. Howell, of the Atlan ta Constitution, "will introduce into the art of printing possibilities never yet dreamed of." , In skinning calves the French mode is to make a hole, insert the noz zle of a bellows, and blow the skin from the flesh. For this reason alone, it is said, French calf -skin is superior -to that made in this country, where knives are used in tbe skinning process. Every one has beard of condensed milk, but condensed, or rather, solid ified drinks of a more potent nature are a novelty. An ingenious French chem ist has discovered a method by whi h 1 -any wine, spirit or malt liquor can be solidified into a cake, like chocolate, and so conveniently carried about in the pockets of tbe thirsty. A merchant of Sandy Hill, N. Y., has completed a curious ten-stringed musical instrument' said to have been constructed after the model of one found in the ruins of Pompeii. The frame is made from wood of a chair owned by General Philip Schuyler, a century ago, and a piece of cherry two hundred years old. N. Y. Times. Bry pocket-glue is made of twelve parts of good glue and five parts of sugar. The gl ne is boiled until it is en tirely dissolved, the sugar is then pot into the glue, and the mass is evapor ated until it hardens on cooling. Luke warm water melts it very readily, and it is excellent for use in causing paper to adhere firmly, cleanly, and without' producing any disagreeable odor. Exchange. An improved fishhook has been in vented by a Southern sportsman. About midway "up the shaft of the hook be places a small crossbar, which serves three purposes. First it prevents the fish from swallowing the hook; second, it increases the chances of capture, for the reason that when a fish strikes its nose against the projection it involun tarily close i its mouth, and so is secure ly caught; and third, it prevents the bait from slipping up the hook. That the small coins of all nations may be a most potent factor in dissem inating disease is a discovery due to the researches of Dr. lteinch. Taking specimens of coin which had been long in circulation, he scraped off the thin organic incrustations, which he then divided into Email pieces and dissolved in distilled water. Microscopic inspec tion of tbe solution disclosed abund ance of bacteria and vegetable fungi, After this there is ample reason for caution in handling money made of metal; of the danger of filthy paper eunency the public has long been aware. i PITH AND PODT. The cheaper the cigar the more per sistently does the cheap smoker puff it in the "faces of h s fellow travelers. Lovt'.i Courkr. A writer in a health publication ad vises people to "live in the sun." But how under the sun are people going to doit Boson Transcript. The census proves that the number of persons in a family in this country is a small fraction over five. . In some families the husband is the small fras ton over. Boston Transcript. "The Pies My Mother Made" is a new song, it is said, but it is not Every young husband has sung it for the last two centuries. I'hiladclphia VulL Some one has discovered that the high-heeled shoes worn by women pro duce softening of the brain. It was not generally known that the brains of women who wear such shoes was lo cated so low; but it seems plausible enough ATorristJwn Herald. A tree in Milford, Ma s., to which George Washington tied his horse ia about 1 CO, was re.-ently cut down and w.ll be converted into mementoes. Al though not a very large tree, it is es timated that it will produce about 750,- 000 canes, several hundred arm chairs, about the same number of lounges, four score of bedsteads, and l.OuO plane stools. The r.-st will be converted inte toothpicks and umbrella handles. Js chanje. A would-be society beau, whose grandfather had been a successful shoe maker, impertinently remarked upon Miss Aurelia II 's feet, and said they were very psetty. Miss H met the young braggart soon after at a party, and taking occasion to be heard by the bystanders, 6he said : "I hear that yoa have been, making remarks about the fit of my boots. If you intend open ing a shoe shop I shall be delighted te continue the patronage which was begun by our family when your grand father was a shoemaker. 'Harper's Ba:a: He was seated across the room. "George," she said, "if a fire were sud denly to breakout iu the house, what wculd be vour first impulse, do yon think":" "Well, my brst thought would be of you, of course. 1 would get you to a place of safety, and thea do what I could to extinguish the t am ." That would be v-ry nice of you, Geo'ge. to think of mo first; but if a fcre were to break out now for in stance, wouldn't you lose valuable time reaching me from way across the room?" "I don t know but 1 would," said George, a) he changed his seat. Do yoa see that man walking along there ?' said Jones to a New Yorker, as a nice-looking party went by on Fourth street la t Tuesday. "Yes, rt v. as the reply. " A'cll, sir, thit man has killed men, women and chil dren in his timi." "Heavens! Why don't they hang him?" "Can't doit H in"ing's p'aved out in this country. " "Wasn't he ever arrested:" "Not that 1 know of." "No wonder you have riots in Cincinnati." "He doesn't look like he was so bloo 1-thirsty. Who is he? ' ' A doctor." "Oh -fh -he re's a teuty-fivc-nt cigar." Mere ani T. u tr. A ImitiUtnit'T f-T K-Utr. ' rlv3l-'I'lf tiiHrr w i ..r.v.T'.ivL ' I . ..t i ... i K Fi '. At' 'v. r r5Tt.t'KTT0,J."
