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THE SONQ OF THE JOKE. With hair H tumbled and tossod, With bralu Uip heavy with fun, A funny man tat in hn dingy dun, Tr Jiir to inuknii pun. Write! write I wrIUil Half hid In tobacco amokn! And still with voice of dolorous pitch He lang 'The Song of the Joke. ' Jokol Jnkel joke! While the printer rolls, "Cop-eel" And dike Joko Joke, With never s smile of glee; And It's, (), to be a olaiti In tne rentful mud to lurk, Whore American humor never cornel. If this be Christian work. .St. Lnuil Qlob$. AN ELEPHANT HUNT. How to Surely Bring the Monarch Down. Aa American Traveler's Story of the First One He Killed Manner of Trapping the lleast for Hhowmen Nagaol ty of Elephants In Labor. i 'The day I shot my first elephant," said an old British Indian, "will always be a red letter day In ray sporting cnlon dar. It was in the Inland of Ceylon that pearl of the Indian Ocean, lying at the foot of the great peninsula of Hin dostan, the Lanka of the ancients and the Serendib of the day of Solomon tho Wlso, and sacred in the eyes of all good Buddhists, for is it not there where the tooth of tho great god lies upon the golden lotos leaf? Ceylon is tho paradise of sportsmen, the beau ideal of a perfect hunting country. All li.iixl.-t of game abound in the low conn try ami tho vast forests of tho interior of the island, from tho lowly and wary flying snipe to tho lordly elephant , True, there are no' tigers as in India, but they have an equivalent In tho stealthy and fierce cheetah, which, in strength and cunning very nearly, if it .1 . i : -- I. . i . i, . lines not ipuie, approaca mo 'uoyai uengni.' "On the day in question I had started In company with a friend, from Triii comalee, the British naval station of tho island and perhaps the finest har bor in the world, and after drivinr some forty miles into (lie interior wo left tin; 'bandy' and made tracks into the jungle. Wo were both armed with express rilles, which in my opinion are by far the best weapons for elephant shooting, and wo were in hopes that cro long we would count on the trail of the 'urn, nor wero we disappointed for shortly our attention was drawn bv the native guides to the young bamboos on the side of tho path, which bore un mistakable signs that an elephant had been feeding there. Soon wo came on further evidence of his presence, and on wo went, our eves on the ground, lolling through the jungle alter the ele- pliant. And, oh, the heat! And, oh, mo mirst,: i-.very now ami then wo had to halt mid wipo the perspiration irom our brows, anil send a native 'shinning up a eoeoanut treo for 0110 of tho young nuts, from which wo eagerly drank tho milk. Wo were hours toiling after ' that brute and thought we would never come up to him. At last the trail led right into a son 01 minis of tint nil. or crriius lutul In .1. . till a , , i . vim milium oi wnieu mere was an island of jungle. The trail went straight into this, so wo were suro that we had Sir Jumbo at last. My friend Jack 1. went round to ono side while I remained on the other, and then we sent beaters in at eaeli end to drive the elephant out. Suddenly I heard a crackling of brushwood, then a louu trumpet, unit Jack s voice shouting that the elephant had turned and was coming my way. I remember well wishing devoutly that he had irono . in any other direction, but I had not much' time for thinking, as in a minute or so out came tho huge brute. He was a 'rogue' and a big ono to boot. A rogue is an elephant that has been amen rrom the herd for some miscon duct or other, and ho is generally 'mad,' wandering about the country alone and doing nil tho duniajro he can'. His hand is against every man and every man's hand is against him. A 'rogue elephant Is the only kind you can shoot, as the elephants in herds urn very strictly preserved Iv tho t evlon (iovcrnment. Well, when this gentle man came out of tho jungle ho gaed about him for a second or two, and then, catching sight of mo, raised his trunk and gave u trumpet that would have made the angel (iabricl green with .envy, and then charged right at lue. Now comes tho difficult imrt of elephant shooting. There is only one vulnerable spot on a Ceylon elephant, nnd thai Is ft small 'oval spot, in ni.o only a few Indies, just above tho trunk. You might liro a battery of gatlings at any other spot and fail to bring him down, and oneo I counted eighteen bullet marks in an elephant's skull we killed, nnd not one of which bad probably given hint more than a -K..I., I ll-l i i . fiiiiv in dn.n iu'. ,i urn nil uiepnaut charges he raises his trunk so that it protects this vital spot, and trumpets shrilly, hoping by this means, no doubt, to scare the hunter. When ho is with in ten paces he lowers his trunk, and at tho same time brings his head down, after the manner of a bull when charg ing. Now is tho time to tire. It is all anxious moment, and for ono who was but a 'liritUn' at tho gamo it wits any thing but pleasant. There was no friemllv tree near, and there was but little chance of escape through tho jun gle if 1 missed, as it would require a knife for mo to cut through the thick undergrowth, while tho elephant could go through it liko pack-thread. On came the elephant, the ground almost shaking beuoAth his ponderous trend. Would ho never lower that trunk? I stood with my rillo at tho 'present' as motionless as a statue, and, just as he seemed to bo right on mo, down went tho trunk. Crack! went my rillo, and 1 had to spring back a pace" or two to prevent the huge beast from coming t right on ton of nte as he fell stone dead nt my feet, Tho reaction was great, my highly strung nerves giving way when tho elephant came down as if cut with a knife, nnd the rille fell from my shaking hands. J have learned better manners since. Soon Jack came up and we had a regu lar war danco round tho carcass. The ' 'nigger' was sent up tho nearest cocoa- nut and we quaffed a beaker to the pleasant passage of Jumbo's soul to the elephants' heaven. Shooting an ele phant in a herd and shooting a rogue elephant are two very different things. In the first place, as I have said, you are not allowed to shoot an elonhant in a herd under a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars, the Government using all they can catch for the Public Works Department. This is as it should bo, for, beforo tho law was established, there was wholesale slaughter among the noblo beasts, ft was nothing but 'pot' hunting, as the hunter would lie in wait where the hord went to water and then pick them off at his leisure., and, as Ceylon elephants have no tusks it was dono in more wantonness. Major Rogers, of the Ceylon Rifles, was a famous elephant shot in his day, and he was credited with having slain with his own gun over twelve hundred elephants. This I believe to bo a well authenticated fact. Ho once made a bet that ho would kill two elephants with one shot. The way ho did it was to shoot the mother when tho young elephant was suckling her, and the mother falling on her young one crushed it to death. "Elephants are caught in what are known as kraals. They aro caught either for use in the Public Works De partment, for service in the native temples, or for salo to somo European menagerie. When a kraal is to be formed word is sent to tho native head man of tho village near where the kraal is to bo built, and ho, in his turn, sends out hundreds of beaters. When tho herd to be operated on is located the beaters form asemi-circlo and begin driving tho animal slowly toward tho kraal. At night they build watch fires, and between them the native patrol, armed with white wands, which arc quite suflicient to keen the elephants irom breaking through. I hey grndu nlly work them up toward the Tcraal which is an open spaco in tho jungle with sonio stout trees growing within it. Jt Is surrounded by a strong stock' ado and has only a narrow entrance. Into this tho herd is driven. Tho herd is generally led by an old bull elephant. and beforo any attempt to capture an elephant is niado this old gentleman must bo shot. When tho Duke of Edin burgh visited tho island a kraal was gotten up for his especial benefit, and H. R. II. entered the kraal to shoot the bull, but ho missed and tho bull very nearly did away with young liiiclph in laet ho was right on him when timely shot, fired by a nativo silting up a tree nnd armed, with an old flint musket, brought tho bull's career to an end. The bull got rid of, tho next thing to do is to send in two tamo elephants, with their mahouts, who single out the elephant to be capt ured. The tamo ones then scuddlo' up, one on each side, nnd profess great u ieiiusiiiji ior inoir wuu companion, gradually pressing him or her closer and closer until they have him fast. Then a nativo slips in underneath and quickly uiuivrg iiifirs nisi 10 II1U Willi UI1U 3 leS, and ho Is dragged by the tamo ele phants to tho nearest treo, where, aftor being thrown to the ground, ho is se curely bound and left there to starve for two or three days, lie is then quite tame, and when ho rises up ho i) no longer monarch of tho forest but elO' pliant No. II'J!) of tho Public Works Do partment, or tho great Jumbo of a trav eling circus. "Tho sagacity of elephants is pro verbial, but tow who have not person ally witnessed it can imagine how use , i-.i . . mi nicy are to man m such places as Ceylon. Without their aid it would have been impossible for the Govern ment to have covered tho island, as it has done, with a splendid network of roiuis and railways. In some places it would havo been impossible to have transported machinery, and without hoisting machinery the great blocks of stone used in tho foundations and but tresses of bridges could not havo been moveu nut here mo elephant camo into play, and I have seen tho noble beast at work on the roads, moving a great block of stone into position nnd standim? back and eveing it, and then giving it a gentle push, now on one side and now on the other, until tlie stone was cor rectly placed. An ollicer of tho de partment told me tlinl the most sa gacious tiling he ever knew an ele phant to do was on one occasion when the y were unloading some steel piping from a railway truck. The elephant's task was to carry the piping from be side the truck to a little farther up the track. This ho did bv seizing the piping with his trunk, hut it so' hap pened that tho piping had been oiled in order to prevent it rusting, so that when tho elephant caught hold it slipped from his grasp. Ho thought for a mo ment, ami then his elephantine mind solved the problem. Near tho track was a heap of sand; the animal kicked the piping over to this with his foot, and then rolled tho piping backward ami forward in the sand. The oil made tho sand adhere, after which tho pliant took the piping up and marc ele hod triumphantly oil with it. Could a human being reason better? No won- ler the Government oluects to such an intelligent animal being indiscriminate ly slaughtered. Elephants aro also in great demand in Cevlon for service in tho lluddhist temples. Every temple has at least half a dozen attached to it. and in some of tho larger temples, such as tho ono in Kandv, where tho sacred tooth of Uuddlia is deposited, they havens many as fifty. Tho largest uuniler of ele phants I ever saw together was when the Prince of Wales visited Kandv to view Buddha's tooth. They had a grand procession, or IVrahora. in which over four hundred elephants took part. It was a weird sight. It took place at night and tho rain camo down in tor rents. Every elephant had an accom- lanying guard of about a dozen devil- lancers, hideously painted, w ho danced round waving torches nnd giving utter ance to the most unearthly shrieks, while tho Prince, arrayed in a gorgeous uniform and surrounded by a brilliant staff, stood on a balcony of tho old alaeo of the Kings of Kandv and watched tlie antics of his mother's 'chil- Iren. tViiVdiJo Herald. There is one c!as of people noon whom whisky seems to have little or no off.'ct those who let it alone Dansville tiixce. A QUAKER RELIC. The Famous Ilowne IIoum at Flushing, N. T., Uullt la 1001. ti.. !,...... rt...i.i.. J.UO iJUWila uuuno 111 S lURIllllf which is probably the oldest landmark on Long Island, abounding in historic al interest, is to be sold under the hammer at the Real Estate Exchange in New York. It is ono of the heir looms of the Parsons family. ' The bouse was built in 1661, and remains unaltered to this day, though much patched. Ten generations of the same family have lived in it. John liowno, who built it, bad a farm of two hundred and fifty acres, most of which is now built upon and comprises a large part of the village of Flushing. Bowne was born in Derbyshire, England, March 9, 1627. Ho came to this country with his brother Thomas and Sister Dorothy, and landed at Boston in 1649. John Bowue's first visit to Flushing was made in 1651, and he concluded to settle there. In May, 1G56, he mar ried Hannah Field. As a farmer he prospered abundantly, and, as stated, built the Bowno house in 1661. His houso at once became a meeting-place for the Society of Friends, though he was not then ono of them. Mrs. Bowne joined tho sect first, and her husband did not long delay becoming a proselyte, which earned for him the enmity of Governor Stuvvesant. in September, ibbz, liowne was in dicted i'for the high crime of being a (junker, and thereby an enemy of 'tod, and the Mate. lie was lined twenty five pounds and banished. In January, 1663, he was ironed and transported in the ship, The Fox. He put ashore on the Irish coast under parole to appear for trial in Holland. He was a man of his word, and in due time appeared in Amsterdam and laid his case before a committeo of tho West India Com pany, the result being that Stuyvesant was severely rebuked, and tho next year 1604 he was succeeded by Gov ernor Nicolls. In tho sjiring of 1665 Bowno was back in Hushing and in possession of his house. His wife, who had followed him to England, died in London in 1665, and while he was pleading his case in Holland his father died in Flushing. Tho Bowne houso became more than ever a resort for Quakers. In 1672 Georgo Fox preached there under two great white oaks, one of which was blown down September 25, 1841, tlie other, called Iho "Fox oak," standing until 186--'. Bowne died October 20, lG'Jj, at the eighty-six. Ho married a second time, nnd had thirteen children. William L'stick, tho grandfather of Bishop Ondertlonk, became tho owner of lifly acres of the Bowne farm. One of the Bowno girls, Mary, married Samuel Parsons in 1784, nnd their sons live on tho place. The house is packed full of curiosities and furniture and china of great antiquity. There is an auto graph letter of Georgo Fox, 1675, in troducing Mrs. Bowno to "Friends be yond tho sea." It is written in a sprawling hand, contains many pious expressions, and refers to Mrs." Bowno as an "'onest woman." The house and contents are to be sold together. Not far from it stands the Quaker meeting-house, built in 16110, without a change since tho day it was opened for the lirst service. In the little graveyard back of it time blackened stones point out tho graves of those who composed the eol ony of Friends, tho Bownes, Law rences, Willetses, Cocks, Hopkinscs, Leggetts, Faringtons and Parsons. In 16H1 John Bowne and Nathaniel Pear- sall were sent as delegates to tho first general assembly, but they refused to take tho oath and wero turned out. Bowno' s descendants were less techni cal. Walter Bowne. a merchant of New lork City, was a Senator from 1817 to ltej, and from 1828 to 18iU was mayor of New ork. Brooklyn Eagle. SOCIAL COURAGE. A WimhliiKlon Koclxty I.adv'n ltnliuka to Si'viTl l'Mslilonuhle Cnllnrs. All aro not ladies who wear a wo man s dress. hen the old beau In Sheridan's comedy said, as he bowed himself out of the parlor, "Ladies, I leave my character in your hands!" he knew his dear friends would tear it to tatters, before the sound of tho closing hall door announced his departure. Sir Charles Grandison and Sir Roger do Coverly may have been a little stiff, not to say pompous, and their old-school manners would be too de liberate for this fast age. But neither they, nor their wives and daughters. ever found fault with host or hostess, nor would they havo listened for a mo ment to any one censuring the person whoso hospitality they were accepting. Ono of the (losoendents of these courtly old gentlemen still lives. She is a lady, and resides in Washington. Iho other day she astounded a irroim of female visitors by her courageous rebuke of their bad breeding. Anion tho callers on her reception dav were several ladies who, on tho previous evening, had attended a largo party given by a millionaire and his wife. Tho party was criticised by these call ers, nnd its hostess picked to pieces. in n urn oi ine conversation, thev turned to the lady on whom they were calling, and appealed to her to confirm their criticisms, in such a direct way that she was forced to speak. "n ell, ladies, she answered, with that repose of manner and calmness of tone which are such i',...n,.nt things in women, "I havo never pnt.-n of her bread and salt, and, of course, know nothing of her as a hostess. But if 1 had accepted of her hospitality, I should know nothing unkind nf'hor either as a hostess or as a woman." Hie courage of tho ladv. though magnificent, did not cause the visitors to prolong their call. YoutVt Com panion. 1 m A farmer of Ithaca. N. Y.. n.,1 tn .lefer the completion of some imimrt. ant legal papers tho other dav because, after trying for twenty minutes in bis lawyers oibco to recollect th. full name of his wife, he failed to do so. -The new torpedo adopted Vnr ti,. Government has a speed nf miles an hour, a char-re of tw, i,n. drvd pounds of dynamite, and weighs three thousand Mven hundred pound. FISHING FOR SUCKERS. How an Honest rnnsylvanlan Make s Comfortable Living. "Neversaw a nataral gas well?" In quired a talkative passenger, as the train sped along In the darkness and through the oil country; "you never saw a gas well? You ought to see ono, especially ono on Are. Beats all tho fire works ever got up. Something fun ny about theso gas wells, too. All of a sudden they'll start up in a flamo, flare two or throe times way up to tho sky, and then stop as quick as they started. That is the effect of spontaneous combustion. Guess I know more about the natural gas-well business than any other man in the country. I've studied 'cm.sir.fi r many months, and have 'em down lino. Let me seo, it's now 9:38 o'clock. At 9:40 a spouter is duo over in tho valley there, and if you'll keep youreye poeledin that direction mebbo you'll see it on fire." Atonco all the passengers seated themselves on tho side of the car next to tho valley and looked intently for the promised display. The gas-well export sat down across tho islo, took out his pipe and filled it as he remarked: "I study these gas wells as astrono mers study tho heavenly bodies, and I can toll to a minute when they're going to burst Look out now sho's a-coining!" And sure enough, way down in tho valley, seemingly two or three miles away, there was a burst of flamo, quick ly followed by two or three nioro, and then all was darkness again. "Wonderful, wonderful," exclaimed one of tho astonished passengers; "the grandest sight I ever saw," echoed an other; "marvelous, simply marvelous," chimed in a third. "Oh, that's nothing," said tho expert, "wait till yon seo ono of these wells that take fire and Hare out in two or throe directions, as if the flames wanted to lick a clean spot off the face of the earth. They're worth looking at, I tell von. Lemmo seo, whore's my note book? Oh, here it is. Only 10 o'clock say, friends, if you'll wait "eleven min utes you'll seo a horizontal flarer a little farther up tho road. Sho's due at 10:16 o'clock. I figured her all out to-day." Of courso tho passengers were willing to wait, and they began to look down into the dark valley, anxious to seo the great flarer. Soon a word of warning from across the aislo caused every eye to open wido with expectation, a d ex pressions of amazement came from a dozen lips as two dozen eyes beheld a shoot of flamo which sprang up out of tho darkness, darted this way and that three or four times, and then disap peared with a blink. "Didn't I toll you I had it down line?" exclaimed tho man with tho pipe. "They can't any of 'em get away with mo on gas-well business. I've studied 'em through and through. But say, friends, I get off at tho next station. I'm a poor man, and my family at homo is hungry. Can't you do something for me?" Tho hat was passed around and filled full of quarters, half dollars, cigars and whisky Dottles, more or less empty, and the whole dumped into tho lap of the grateful expert. "Thanks, gentlemen, thanks," said he, "just tell your folks at home you've seen tho great horizontal tlarer m the oil regions, and that Bill Coop er, tho great astronomer and geologist of tho gasrwell country, showed it to you. uood night After Ins departure the passengers began telling of tho great mystery they had seen, and to wonder how Bill Coop er could so correctly calculate tho ap pearanco of tho flames of tiro. "1 11 show how tho trick is dono, said a drummer who had been seated in the rear part of tho car, and who had not as yet taken any interest in the pro ceedings. "I u show you how tho trick is dono. Has anybody got a match?" A match was produced. The drum mer seated himself on the opposite side of tho car, took out a pocket mirror, held it up against the window, and told the passengers to look out in the valley if they wanted to soo another flarer Tho match was struck and held before tho mirror, and lo and behold, there was another flaming gas-well in view of tho beholders. "To make a horizontal flarer," said the drummer, striking another match, "all I have to do is to blow gently on tho flame of the match and there you havo it. I travel over this road every week and have seen Bill Cooper before. Jio, there's no use asking the conductor to back the train up to tho last station. He won't do it, nnd if ho did you wouldn't catch Bill. He's down in'the valley by this time, fishing for more suckers. Chicago Herald. m m A SMART BOY. He Writes an Essay on Columbna Which Ouajht to Have Hern Framed. Tho following story comes from a school in tho midlands. Tho master told tho boys of the third class to write a short essay on Columbus. The follow ing was sent up by an ambitious essay ist: "Clumbus was a man who could make an egg stand on end without breaking it. Tho King of Spain said to Clumbus: 'Can you discover America?' 'Yes," said Clumbus, 'if you will give me a ship.' So he had a ship and sail ed over the sea in the direction where ho thought America ought to bo found. Tho sailors quarreled and said they be lieved there was no such place. But nfter many days the pilot came to him and said: 'Clumbus, I seo land,' 'Then that is America,' said Clumbus. When the ship got near tho land was full of black men. Clumbus said: 'Is this America?' 'Yes, it is,' said thoy. Then he said: 'I suppose you are the nig gers?" 'Yes. they said, 'we are.' The chief said, 'I suppose you are Clumbus?' 'You are right said he. Then the chief turned to his men and said: 'There is no help for it; wo are discovered al last.'" London Standard. Dr. Holmes' reminiscences of lift at Phillips' Academy, Andover, and tin school recollections of others which have been evoked by them, comlirn. the general , opinion that bovs wen whipped too much in the good olr times. However, as it is incontrovortk b!e that they are not whipped enougi nowadays, the thing has been pretty well evened up.2Jufalo Courier. A FINE MUMMY. An Aecount of How ths Best-Preserved Egyptian Mummy Came to America. There have been so many different accounts touching the ancient Egyp tian whose mortal remains repose on the shelves of the Tennessee Historical Society that the Union has endeavored to inquire into their respective authen ticity. Whon Prof. Huxley, the distinguished scientist, visited Nashville a few years ago, he took a groat interest in exam ining this relio of antiquity, and de clared it to be the bost specimen of the kind ho had ever seen; and well may it bo so considered, for it was seloctod from millions of tho kind In the cata combs on the banks of tho Nilo especial ly for our Historical Society, and was stripped of iU thick coverings and bandages beforo It was taken away to ascertain its perfect condition. It was obtained by our fellow-citizen, Pay-Director J. Georgo Harris, of the navy, who has been a lifo-long member of the society, as appears by an in scription on the casket that contains it. While Mr. Harris was attached to the frigate Wabash as fleet pay-master of our Moditerroanean squadron in the year 1838-59, and when the ship was about to leave Alexandria, in Egypt, a fentleman for whom as a friend he had ono somo service asked if there was any favor ho could render in return, to which Mr. II. jocularly replied that he could think of nothing unless it was to send him to the headquarters of the lleot on tho shore of Italy a lirst-class specimen of an -Egyptian mummy for the Tennessee Historical Society. Tho ship sailed on a cruise, and he thought nothing more of it for months. One bright morning in May, as tho flag-ship Wabash was lazily swinging at her anchors in tho beautiful bay of Naples, tho frigato Macedonian, ono of tho squadron, came booming in under full sail from Alexandria, and he was soon informed that it had on board a mummy in a box to his address, at which intelligence ho was not a little annoyed, for he had intended his re mark to his Alexandria friend merely as a joke, for ho knew there was a law in Egypt forbidding tho exportation of such relics. When, on opening tho box, ho beheld a nude figure where ho ex pected for tho moment to find a hand somely ornamented sarcophagus cov ered artistically with hieroglyphics, he was somewhat disappointed until ho re flected that ho had in a jolly way ex pressly requested that it should bo stripped and carefully examined beforo being sent that ho might obtain a per fect .specimen for historical purposes. So it camo to pass that tiie mummy was brought homo in tho Wabash and for warded without delay to Mr. Patterson, then president of tho Tennessee Histor ical Society at Nashville, who hand somely acknowledged its receipt "in good order and well-conditioned. It was placed in a glass case by the secretary, which soon became some what dilapidated, and tho atmosphere probably occasioned somo littlo crumb ling of tho extremities, but a few years ago Judge John M. Lea, tho president, presented it with a beautiful rosewood case, which is not only useful but orna mental. Tho historical and scientific value of this specimen consists in its entire nu dity, which shows tho extent of its preservation. Many museums in the country have mummies on exhibition as curiosities, with closely-wrapped and ornamented coverings where the face only is to be seen, but tho object of this specimen is to show how perfectly nfter death was preserved "the human form divine" thousands of years ago by the lost art of embalming. Xashville Union. COLOR EXERCISES. Why They Should He Made a Part of the rulilio-Srhool Curriculum Dr. Worms, medical officer to the Chcmin do Fer du Nord, has recently published a report, and presented it to the Jtrench Academy of Medicine. Among 1,173 railway officials whom ho examined, in 224 tho visnnl nn-r for colors was imperfect, independent of -.i. i . . , ... . . any oiner lesion; no nesuateu in dis tinguishing tho different colors; 44 dis tinguished red easily, but eonfoiimlnd green, blue nnd gray; 4 were perfectly coior-unnu; o.i coniounucu red, green nnd grav. Those who m-esentiwl mi alteration of chromatic power suflicient 10 prevent clear distinction of signals were not intrusted with tho care of a train. The examination nf rnihvnv servants beforo thev are employed by tho company excludes men with n,if. tonisni from being employed in runnine .1. i.. .:.. . , n. V . . . " uie trains, vr. w onus states that tho proportion of color-blind subjects was five per cent Manv nthnrs. Ii did not distinguish co'lors clearly. Theso officials had been submitted to an ex amination previous to that made by Dr. Worms, who suggests thiit color exer cises should bo included in public in struction. x. r. Post. Treatment of a Felon. Take some salt, roast it nn n W stove until all the chlorine gas is thrown off, or it is all dry as you can mako it. Take a teaspoonful, and also a tea spoonful of Venice turpentine; mix them well into a poultice and apply to a felon. Ii you have ten felons at once, make as many poultices. Renew the POllltice twice a ibw. Ill four n fi.r days your felon will, if not opened be fore your poultice is first put on, present a hole down tothn bonnn lmi-a tl, up matter was beforo brought it out. If the felon li:is In. on Cut open, or nnenod it..lf ;., i . l .u, vi ia uuuilt to take otj the finger to the first joint, no Illnttpr. nnf I.: A. -n 7 I--- ..urn Eunice, h will stop it right there, and in time your r' fcci. wen, even 11 one of the first bones is gone. Of course it will not restore the lost hnn ,in 11 ... "iiv it niu ra well soon. cslcrn Plowman. . 't i mi: Aiiuiua -vvsnruiion pvos hy request the bill of fare of a runt 1 .ml 1: . - . "... ..iiim'u uiiiner, ana includes among the beverages buttermilk, "York State tea sage tea, black tea, catnip tea and boneset It would be interest mg to know where this intelligent :eorg.an got his ideas concerning a lankte dmuer. X. i Sun. 0 OFF." A Performance Wi,i.,h r- In Num.rou. Fm,rV I he hearts of many parent addnnod by having their chu.'5. Btinately refuse to "show 0j?j mental attainments in the w visitors. It is always a parent slon that this display of J0, , Sally's accomplishments can Jl' a sourco of infinite joy to all bojj whereas tho victimized visitor Ii 1 cniiunng in oniorced silence the J forced upon him. Jenkins it,! iiiuiu, Him 11 mm unit venrg y posed by tho Jenkins family t0 h, H fant prodigy, a future President .!i that. Tho friends of the Jor.n-.r1'! have different sentiments, which I I not here exnoso becnniu 'l for Jenkins. I called at Jcnkin,'' the other evening, when the ph., ' non of the family was fairly ovetfl! " with smartness. He came into room with a whoop nnd a veil ' with a hop-step-and-iump mW" maipiungeu mm neauiong into rot where ho lay burrowing his hJl my Hioiiiuuii nun dcrenming Iranlio. "Thero, thorn," said iirs. j"? "you didn't hurt yourself much, Stop crying and speak your new't for tho gentleman." '' "I won't!" "Why, Johnnie, is that the , x n a nil "M taiK to niaiiuuar "Ya-a-asl" "No, it isn't. If you'll sjioak piece 1 11 give yvu uiiio canily." "I want it first." . "No, dear; speak your piece fir? "I shan't!" "Tho gentleman wants to hoar to Tho "tri.iitlmiinn" Hliln't ...' c ....... nu,n . th'ng of the kind, but he said h,f T.l 1- 11 anu iioiiunio unaiiy condescend! stand up in a corner, give his ha jerk, and begin: "Terwlnklo, terwlnkle little tir Jlow I wnndnr whut you are, ' I'p above thin " Here Johnnie suddenly breaks of. goes racing and tearing around room, upsetting chairs, snad'hint table-cloths and shouting liko a to' Indian. "Don't," says Mrs. Jenkins, -J isn t hall 01 your piece. " "It's all I'm going to say," and. mad race is resumed. "Johnnie! Johnnie!" interposes kins, Sr. The infant Jenkins is now stand on his ln'iul in a corner, kicking 0111 heels and laughing. This interest pastime is soon abandoned for the is exhilerating one of prancing aro: tho room on his hands and feet and it lating tho "woof, woof of a bear. "You're too noisy," says Mrs. J kins. "Ain't!" briefly retorts Johnnie. "You are," says Jenkins, Sr. "I n-a-n-in't!" shrieks Johnnie. "You, John Henry Jenkins!" Iro is in tho father's face and vo: but Johnnie doesn't care for ire on: thing else. Tho result is a sort of a pitched h tie, in which tho combined forces of and Ma Jenkins aro sufficient to d: Johnnie out by tho heels. His mot returns, red and mortified. "Children never will show off wi yon want them to," she savs, sailJk ' It seems to mo that 3omve li "showed off" to perfection. Free Press. PRACTICAL POETRY. Advice to Airrlriilturliits From Imf low's Song of Hiawatha. It is seldom that poets havo any c rect ideas of real practical life. T: aro too etherial and sentimental. IV aro, however, worthy exceptions,!! as Whittier, Longfellow, ltryant, smith and others, whoso 'divine afihtc was always guided by such realities 1 are necessary for as practical a wor as this. In the spring of the year, wt- we nil begin to think of the true prod by which tho earth, tho nurturingnio'' er of us all, is to be aided ami prepu- bv man to bring forth her richest pr ucts in the greatest abundance, practbf agriculture is worthy of- poet, pniio liner mm statesman. A:iv farmer, -h has read Hiawatha, by Longfellow, e but admire tlie true agricultural taw edge which that poet had. The allf"1' of the origin of corn, in which maw is mado to fast, and to pray, te'-' "Master of Life" (tho Snpreme'li for some blessing to tho Nation, in t swer to which tho "Master ot w sent Mondamin. There is a con! between Hiawatha and Monilau in which, after a threw days' wrestle,!! former slavs the latter, 'but before V death ho informs his slaver lw wanted to be buried, nnd informed i' how ho would be resurrected, and pit' a great blessing to tho nations. A: the beauty of tho allegory is the a knowledge which Longfellow had 0! way in which corn should be pl:" ami cultivated to produce the ' abundant crop. Hiawatha wasto p tho body of Mondamin, which wJ sprout and produce a crop of corn thus be a blessing for which Ilia had earnestly prayed. This is the ' in his expiring hour, Mondamin is nu by Longfellow to talk to Hiawatha: "Make a bed for mc to lie In, Wliere the rain may lull udoii me, Where the sun may come anil im D Lay me hi the soft eiirth, and mako Soft and loose and lljtlit above. Let no hand disturb my slumber, Let no weed nor worm" molest me. Let not heliirnliKee, the raven, Come to haunt or molest mo. Only come yourself to watch ine. Till I wake, and stand and quicken, Till I leap Into the sunshine. ' This is iust as rood a sruide no ' for the P; ilnnti'nn nf tin lii-ct ctnllr nf corn. we commend it to our ngrieulmH fnends. Dcs Moines Register. A Snnri.il ilnminin after rela""? ' his scholars tho story of Ananias Snnnliirn osl-nd thnm "whv God fu". strike everybody dead wlio toM After 11 loii(r Kilnnpe. ono little lc"v got to his fc.t and exclaimed: 'P''IT. sir, there wadna bo onybod) Exchange. A Maine bibliographer hascoll the titles of three thousand ' pamphlets printed in Mr.ine or by men, and is still collecting. "SHOWED