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About Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1875)
J'?" jJffM'WywBi,1 t I'VffvP TT- -" ?" prr-- - r " jwsdcww i"Hflf J' t- s WILLAMETTE FARMER. M Be IE MP t. 1 Scottish Poetry. The following true story, so graphically de scriptive of a poor mother compelled to earn her bread upon the harvest field, is from the pen of an uneducated Scottish peasant, whose life-story soemed to be one long straggle with poverty and desp dr. It may prove of interest to those of oar renders capable of understanding the pithy Doric in which it is written. It has not, to our knowledge, been previously pub lished, though written some forty years ago: I law, upon th harvest Seld, A mother and her child; The mother looked disconsolate, Ilia bilrnle never smiled. tt did not laugh, as It was wont, It neither stirred nor played. Bat by the ilook's warm sunny aide Lay still where It was laid. The mother kissed It tenderly, And wrapped It In her plaid, And tlapptt It, and dantft It, And stroked Its curly head; Then looked upon It mournfully, And tears fell on Its face, Aa she fondled It and folded It, In a farewell embrace. But when she went. Its faint complaint, Her ear with anguish strook, And back stao turned, and came again, To take a last fond look. And closer yet she laid the sheaves To shltld it from the breeze, And kneeled once moie to comfort It Upon her trembling knees. And gladly 'he bad watched It there, But the hour of rest expired: And she was called again to toll, And slowly she retired. Her children's bread depended on The labors of her arm, And there ahe left that child alone, And hoped it safe from harm. But every handful which she laid Behind her In the sheaf, She cast on her sick Infant's couch A stealthy look of grief; And when the lone and weary rig To the uttermost was snorn, She hurried back, before the rest, To soothe her latest born. But when she came where It was laid Bhe started back in fear, To see Its altered countenance, And then again came near. Its large, black eyes were firmly closed, Its wee, whlto hands were chill, And deep solemnity repoho.l On Its face so pale and still. It nelthor answered to hor voice, Nor raised its'drooplng head, sighed: Nor breathed, nor smiled, nor sobbed, nor Alas 1 the child was dead. Ita lying struggle waa unseen, Ita infant soul had fled, While Its poor mother struggled hard To earn her dally broad. And those fond mothers who have seen The greenest, loveliest leaf Of their life's summer withering. Will know that mcthur's grief. Talk to Farmers. From Paclflo Rural Press. When man was created and placed on the earth he was not set down in the. midst of a city, with an office, or storo to attend to, but was put out of doors, in a large garden, farm or ranch, whatever you chose to call it; and there was no one, with him but his wife,. Ood could as easily have created a hundred thou Baud poople at once, and placed them in a city, inhousos with all tho modern improvements, if it so pleased him; it would havo been no greater display of pow or. Hut he placed man in a garden because that was hi best and hap piest position. lie was there surrounded ouly by beautiful nature, with an occupation suited to his constitution and tomperament, and no one to quarrel with him on political subjects or invite him into drinking saloons; and thero were no other women to plague Evo with neighborhood gossip, or drossrnakors or mil liners to bother her. 01 Blades of Paradu-e! "What fools our first parents were to be onticod into upsettiug such a blissful state of things! When I was a unall girl, in a farmhouse away the other side of the Kooky Mountains I often in the last of winter, would comfort my. self by looking at u almauao. Outside every thing might bo coverrd with enow, tho wind driviug it into great drifts and shutting me into tho house effictually; but I would consult the almanac and say to myself, "only a few moro days of winter uud then thero will be all the spring and summer and fall before I will be shut up again." Now-a-days, whenever I find mysolf impris oned in Ban Francisco it gives mo a coitain amount of comfort to look at n map. On the map Ban Francisco is represouted as a more dot about as big as a grain of sand, and the Stato of California rovers considerable (.pace. The city is only a speck In comparison with tho large extent of grecu fields, suuuy hill sides, "murmuring brooks," and grand old forests. Only a dot of crowded disagreeable noes, and all that extent of freedom, frosh air and nature! How thankful I am thut God cre ated the world Himself, instead of leaving it in the hands of some human beings who would Lave made an awtul blunder of it I There are tome farmers who are discontented with their lot, perhaps with reason. If the lo cality is unhealthy, the soil poor and climate unfavorable, a farmer may well bo discon tented, and had better at 11 out as soon as pos sible; but don't go to the city to live; buy an other ranoh in auothor pluco and try it agaiu, for in this wondorful country there are plenty of localities where nature has done her best in many ways, and where laud, too, can be pur chased at almost any price. Hut there are farmers' wives and daughter who are discon tented without having any very good reason for it, and I would like to talk with them a lit tle ou the subject. In the first place, if you have a home bo thankful for that, if it is only a redwood cabiu on five acres of sa.o brush. You aro Aery much better off thro than you would bo in a city without any home a all. Some farmers' wives complain of want of so ciety, Well, a fanner's wife always baa hor husband. Bhe u him three times a day, at least, and overy v.niug, aud she had uo bust nea to marry hiui unless she had loved him well enough to prater his society to that of any body else, While her husbaud is away, engaged in nil ont-do'T duties, she has, or ought to hare, usually enough to do about home to keep her from being lonesome. There, I think I have, disposed of that question, but perhaps I haven't. If you are so unfortunate as not to be satis fied with yonr husband's society, that shows von to be in the wrong twice; first, as I said before, in marrying him, and second, in not frying- to like him, and thereby making the best of a bad bargain. There is some good in every man if yon only look for it. If your husband is croBs, let him do all the scolding and have the last word every time, and see how that works; but at the same time try yourself to make everything as pleasant and comfortable as possible in the house; have his meals al ways on times and something nice, that you know he likes, for every meal. This method if faithfully carried out will, in course of time, tame even a bear, and Borne bears are quite nice after they are tamed. Perhaps the husband is indifferent or un reasonable, or too close with regard to money matters. I have beard of such cases, and I have heard also of a woman spending too much money on dress and trinkets, but this last is not usually the case in the country. Whatever the wrongs are, it don't help the matter one bit to bluster about women's rights and talk bo loudly that the neighbors can hear a quarter of a mile away; and of all indiscreet things a wife can do, the mostfoolfeh is, to tell her husband's faults to other people, for such a course only lowers the wife in the opinion of her listeners, and may do any amount of mischief. If a woman wishes to disgUBt her husband effectually and make her case as bad as pos sible, let him find her sulking or crying every time he comes into the house. Let her go about with her hair twisted np in some hideous unbeoomiogfashion, and wear the worst looking old gown Bho has cot, all day long, without any collar or frills, in fact make a perfect fright of herself, and then sigh and wonder why her bus band does not love her as much as he did when they were first married. Then there are complaints of overwork and poor health, which I suppose are nnfortunately too well founded in many families. The farmer himself is often to blamo for allowing his wife and daughters to overwork themselves, and he needs a lecture on the subject. I hops somebody will give it to him; but I believe most women conld avoid at least half their ill health by letting medicine alone and exercis ing a little common sense in its place. For example, in the onse of diet, many people drink tea and coffee, and eat pastry, white bread, and cake every day; and wonder why it is they are always having sick heaj-aches, colds, sore throat, neuralgia and perhaps a multitude of other pains and aches and weak nesses; but then their mothers and grand mothers lived in this way and bo do nearly all ineir neignoors, ana very lew people nave suf ficient originality to do otherwise than follow tho multitude. Loraine. Women in War. Those who imagine, says the Pall Mall Ga zette, tbat women are only capable of distin guishing themselves in the arts of peace, and that, while displacing men in mediciuo and ut the bar, ihey will be obliged to leave military pursuits to tho coarser sex, should roid the account cf women who have served in the Fiench army, published in a recent number of the Revue llluslree ties Deux Mbndes. The most remarkable of those heioine was The reto Sutter, who, diBtingui-hed not more for bravery than for her freedom of speech, re ceived from the FirBt Consul tbofUlteiing nick name of "Bans-gene." The volubility and emphasis with which she "apostrophized" Na poleon at the fiege of Toulon made such an impression on tho great chief that he reminrfod her of it years afterward, when he was Em peror and she still a dragoon. Indeed, the ready command of invective for which The rese Sutter was famous throughout her career would seem to suggest that nature had intended her to woar the robe of the advocate rather than the uniform of the soldier. But she was as skillful in the use of the sword as in that of her own sharp tongue; for which rea son, when tho Committee of Public Safety published a deoree banishing women from the armio3 of the Republic, a special exception was made in favor of Thereso. After five years' service she retired from Hie army with a pen sion of two hundred francs; but the monotony of a peaceful existence told severely upon her. She becniue once more a dragoon, and from 1805 to 1810 served with hor regiment in Spain. In 1810 sho was taken prisoner by guerrillas and tout to Lisbon, whence she made her way back, through England to France, She was present at Waterloo, and did not retire for good until after the restoration. Ciunok of Literary Loves. Young people ouigrow weir nrst literary loves as tney out grow their love for broid aud butter and sweet meats, or tliolr youthful fancies for Ellen on oiio side and Charley ou the other. The fun which was bo raoy to the undeveloped humorist of seventeen, is coarse, or poor, or both, to the accomplished writer of seven-and-thirty. The pathos that made young hearts swell, and dimmed bright eyes with tears, seems to the mature mind insufferably silly, mawkish and uuuatural. The sensationalism that filled youthful phantasy with horrid shapes, that un strung youthful nerves, and frightened youth ful heroes and heroines for d tys and nights after it was read, makes the man or woman ro curriug to tho old pages laugh at their tin-kettle clatter and ghostly lanterns shining through scooped-out pumpkins. The literary pops of the young is seldom the master of maturity; and indeed, were it not so, minds would neitner grow nor change, whioh would bo a bad lookout for the progress of hu manity. As it is, even where the arquiiing faculty is dead, the critical is still living, and the power to winnow the grain from the chaff, the power of appraising a literary achievement at its real valuo, is one that is made perfect by practice, and is not to he attained in youth. Celestial Sympathy. As a Chinaman was passing the residence of a well-known oitizen. of Napa lately he noticed the lady of the house planting corn in the garden with her own fair hands. Overcoming a timidity of language natural to his race, he spoko as follows: "You telly good loydi; you muchee workee. Hus. baud uo countee. Down town allee time. Sokabbee!" and shaklug his head till his cue assumed the same elevation as that acquired by tho tail of the last oalf impounded by the City Marshal, he departed, musing on the mu tability of eveuts that had granted his barbario vision a glance, into the workings of American civilization, A Great Mistake. The grand mistake that young men make during the first ten years of their professional and business career is iu idly waiting for their ohauce. They seem to for get, or they do not kuow, that during those ten years they enjoy the only leisure they will ever have, AfUr ten years, in the natural course of things, they will be absorbingly busy. There will then be no time for reading, culture, or study. Lady Bubdett Codtts certifies from per sonal kuowledge tbat one Parisian milliner uses 10,000 bumming birds every season, and sho thinks that at such a rate the species will soon be extinct. Blackmailing. Some years ago, when novel reading formed a portion of our pastime, we remember to have read a novel by Reynolds, in which his principle villain Ned Canton, was made to re mark that a man was a fool to violate the law, when disposed to act the scoundrel, because he could be so much meaner and keep within the law. There is something noble about the high wayman, or the burglar, or even the petty pick pocket, when compared to that species of vil lain that floats in respectable society and keeps the law on his side. The lowest down of these is the blackmailer, and the lowest specimen of the blackmailer is the flaw-hunter the man who examines your title papers, and finds that the property you have bought and paid for may by a technicality be wrested from yon. It is not his; it never costs him a cent; but seeing that you have overlooked something, or that, perchance, the clerk has failed to record your deed in time, he seeks to buy this "flaw" for a mere nothing, in order to make you buy your own property of him. Human law can take no cog nizance of such creatures, but if the devil don't oatch them, he and his dominions may as well be abolished. We would trust the pickpocket a hundredfold quicker than one of this class that is, where the law is silent, for some thieves, even, have a repugnance to a breach of trust but the other class never do, except in cases where the law, or Mrs. Grundy, would notice it. These fellows attend church regularly, wear long faces, pay the highest price for pews, (al ways provided the price is to be published in the morning papers,) and have no charity for the thief who steals a loaf of bread, after a fast of three or four dys, or for the girl whom want has driven into a life of Bhame they smile contemptuously at all excuses for the vio lation of the law. If ever we have felt the de sire to dip our hands in the blood of beings, created in the human form, it has been when orossed by this the perfection of the devil's handiwork, the blackmailer; the fellow who attempts to get that whioh he knows right- tuny nelongs to another, through a technicality, or be "bought off." The Wrongs of American Boys. The Chicago Tribune Bays: The wrongs of women and negroes nave monopolized publio attention for many years. Serious as some of them are, or have been, the wrong of boys are as bad, if not worse. For a series of years the boys of America have been shut out, more and more completely with each year's advance, from the chance of learning a trade. The trade unions, with almost incredible blindne-s, have adopted rules which prevent the employment of any except a very limited number of ap prentices, xnese rules torma a master to em ploy an apprentice unless hi employs, a certain number of journeymen. In some trades, the proportion is one boy to twenty men. The few places left vacant by apprentices becoming journeymen are soon filled. Tens of thousands of boys are thus deprived of the opportunity to became reputable and self supporting artisans. When they le-ive school and try to do some thing for themselves, they find the doors shut in their faces. Instead of becoming black smiths, silversmiths, carpenters compositors, uHuiuetuitiKurs, cuaouxuaaers, nailers, macnin ists, bakers, tanners, tinners, tailors, masons, shoemakers, stonecutters, plasterers, bricklay ers, weavers, they have to become bootblacks, newsooys, errand boys, beggars, loafers, dead beats, paupers, thieves, etc. No one of the occupations open to them offers any education, except in a sort of cunning which is often a curse. If the members of the so-called liberal professions, the journalists, lawyers, teaoliers. doctors and ministers, should successfully combine to prevent the education of boys and young men in any of their specialties, there would be a univiral howl of complaint. A far greater wrong is committed, however, when trade education is prevented. Many more bays areuffecttd, forone thing, andmostof tbemmust go to work at once and labor constantly in order to live. If they do not do this and do not steal, they must starve. Science and Faith. Probably the purest and strongest forms of the religious sentiment are now to be found among tbose who have long since been content to let science have her way, and who have ac cepted all theological expressions us merely temporal descriptions of that which the mind could dimly see and the heart could feel with out comprehending. Such persons urn content to look upward, assured by their iutelloct that the realities are above, aud not below; assured by the heart that its satisfactions, although in definable, are still pure, and tend to better liv ing, bettor thinking, and richer discovery. Such religion will show itself in tender and bravo cere ot humanity, iu sympathy with all that is best in humanity, in serenity under bur dens of labor, care and sorrow, and above all, in a quiet and strong confidence that the mys tery which bioods over lite holds within itself wisdom and love which will shape the destinies of human souls to highest ends. Whatever form of science shall be arrayed against such mauiftstitions of faith will have its labor for its pains. Thero cannot by any po-sibility bo any discovery which will disprove the claims of religion, but there ar6 infinite possi bilities of discovery in the other direction. Ages bofore science was born, or any perfect statement of theism was possible, or Christian ity was born, there were poets and prophets who pierced the heart of the secret and drew thence inspirations which have glorified human life for centuries. Such faith in God as came to expression in the life of Jesus will coutinue to work in human life, whether in one form or another, to beautify, to strengthen and conduot humanity to its destination. Liberal Christian. Business Know-nothinos. The man who groans over his poverty without taking a step toward bettering bis condition, is justly re garded as a good-for-nothing dunce. Had he sense, tho more desperate his fortunes the r T'8eliowT0?1ib.e...1luJaIe-mPt?,.!?,J'?; prove them. What is true of Individuals is true of classes. Business may be dull just now, but the laws of demand and supply exist, as they always havo done. They may be op erating somewhat peculiarly at present, but the luu'ucnucu WCII.U.UI ut wauuinviuict wit, study how they may be turnod to his benefit, instead of croaking about actual difficulties and imagining others worse to come. Exchange. Didn't Cars fob Apfearances. The beau month of Syracuse, New York, were surprised recently at Beeing a riibly dressed young lady wheeling a wheelbarrow, in which was n bun dle of clothing, through the streets. On in quiry, the reason for such a queer occurrence was ascertained. The young lady, on being hectored by her uncle regarding the pride of the belles of the present day, agreed to wheel a bundle of clothing around Fayette park if he would give her a silk dress. The offer was ac cepted, and the young lady now has a silk dres, aud has since received several proposals. Ordkb is heaven's first law, and it has never been repealed. Dom't half-starved horses have the hay fever? May a Woman Practice Law ? This question has been before the Philadel phia Court of Common Pleas in a very tangible form, and although a decision was lately ren dered, the matter is by no means settled. In December. 1874. Miss Carrie S. Burnham, law student in the offlre of Damon Y. Kilgore of Philadelphia, presented herself before the Board of Legal Examiners as a candidate for admission to the bar, bnt on examination was refused on the ground that there was no pre cedent for the admission of a woman. In the following month a petition was presented by her counsel to the Court of Common Pleas, setting forth that the refusal of the Board in jured tier in her rights as a citizen, preventing her from earning a livelinooa in ner cnosen nrofession. denvins her the Drivilece of defend ing life and liberty, etc, and praying for a rule on the Board of Examiners to show cause why they should not examine her as other students of law are examined. There annears to have been considerable de lay in the case until Mr. Kilgore finally pub lished a letter to the judges with the apparent effect of hastening their action, and the result was reached, as already stated. J udges Allison and Biddte denied the motion for a rale, and Judge Pierce dissented from the denial. To test the question further, Mr. Kilgore has broucrht a suit on behalf of Miss Burnham against the Board of Examiners for $200,000 damages, which bids fair to be carried up to the Supreme Court of the United States. An Amusino) Experiment. The English Me chanic says: "Cut (if you dare) four small white feather-points from your wife's best bon net, and insert them into two small pith-balls, in imitation of wings. Fasten these butterflies to two fibres of raw silk of about a foot in length, and suspend the whole from the ceiling by means of another fibre. Eicite the chimney of a moderator lamp with a silk bankerchief, give the glass to one of your young friends, and request him to persuade the butterflies to en ter the tube. His ineffectual attempts to cap ture the butterflies will create much merriment. Breathe momentary into the tube, or remove the electricity by Borne other unobserved method, and of course the feat is easily accom plished, while the astonishment of the beholders is intensified." Old Newspapers. Many people take news papers, but few preserve them; yet the most interesting reading imaginable is an old file of newspapers. It brings up the very age, with all its great bustle and every-day affurs, and marks its genius and its spirit more than the most labored description of the historian. Who can take a paper dated half a century ago, without the thought that almost every name there printed is now cut upon a tomb stone at the head of an epitaph? It is easy to preserve newspapers and they will well repay tne trouDie; lor, like wine, their value increases with their years. Something to Thine op. There is food for thought in the story that is told of a lad, who for the first time aonompmied his father to a publio dinner. The waiter asked him: What will you take to drink?" Hesitating for a moment, he replied: "I'll take what father takes." Tho answer reached his father's ear, and instantly the full responsibility of his fiosiiion flatbed upon him. Quicker than ightning various thoughts passed through his mind, and in a moment his decision was made; and in tones tremulous with emotion, and to the astonishment of those who were acquainted with him he suid: "Waiter, I'll take water." You Can't Always Tell, It was a hand some looking oottage, aud the passer-by would have said to himself that the angel of bliss and the dove of peace swung on the door knobs and turned handsprings through every room. And yet yesterday noon a man's voice was heard calling out, "Jane, oh I Jane tbem pertaters hez biled dry I Come in here, blast ye, come in!" And she waR heard re plying, "Git up'n take the kettle off, you old noodle-head, and don't blast me, or I'll break another rib for yel" Detroit Free Press. Subterranean Talk. A Reese river miner temporarily residiug in one of our San Fran cisco hotels, recently wrote: "Phrouah the center of the house a shaft is sunk, and it con tains a cage in which the guests ascend to and from the different levels. I live on the first level and Senator Farrell lives on the third level; bnt you have to go through several drifts and cross-cuts to get from the Bhaft to his slope, and he is talking of sinking a shaft down to my level. Maria has got 'stuck.'or as tbey say here, 'struck' after the cage, and em ploys the principal portion of her time in riding .up and down the shaft." "What's your business?" aBked o judge of n prisoner at the bar. "Well, I s'pose you might call me a locksmith." "When did you last work at your trade?" "Last night; when I heard a call for the perlice, I made a bolt for the front door. " "A Parthian Shaft." Cook " Now I'm a leavin' of yer, mum, I may as well tell yer an mo jsey o luu jtucaen aoor nis your store' room!" 1 New Method op Preserving Meat. A method for the preservation of meat, by keep ing it in a cool, dry chamber, has been commu nicated to the French Academy by M. Tellior, well known as the inventor of very efficient ice-producing machinery. His new device oonsists in the employment of methylio ether, a substance that is gaseous at ordinary temper atures and atmospherio pressuro, but which can be reduced to a fluid by a pressure of eight atmospheres. The methyhc ether is condensed aud then allowed to expand in oontact with metal computments containing a solution of chloride oi caicium, wmen it reduces to a low tempera, ture. Air is blown through this apparatus, in s . . il. Pass.? s B d'y a u .. to uiuiBiutu is ueiusneu as noar irost the tne chamber in which the meat is placed. It is found that the flavor of the meat is not injured by retention in tbis'situation for forty to forty five days, although it is said to acquire a greasy taste after that period. To Bender Paper Opaque and Again TniNaPAIIVVT Tt la ivrivtt. bnn..n IL.I fi . . . .. .,, suuwiug iuav u une volume of castor oil be dissolved in two or three volumes of spirits of wine it will render paper transparent, and, the spirit rapidly evaporating, the paper, in a few minutes, be comes fit for use. A drawing in pencil or in ludian ink can thus be made, and if the paper is placed in spirits of wine, the oil U dissolved out, restoring the paper to its original condi tion. This is the discovery of Herr Fuscher. nEcirE fob a Cement fob Mendixo Steam Boileb8. Mix two parts of finely powdered litharge with one part of very fine sand, and one part of quicklime which has been allowed to slack spontaneously by exposure to the air. This mixture may be kept for any length of time without injuring. In using it a portion is mixed into paste with linseed oil or, still better, boiled linseed oil. In this state it must be quickly applied, as it soon becomes hard. Yodflq Folks' Col dp ft. " Little Bo-Peep " and the Dying Child. I remember when I was nursing in a hospi tal once, tbore was a poor lit'.le boy about six years old dying of rhenmatio fever. I was night nurse in the ward; and regularly, when the attack of pain came on, he used to scream out for me: "Nursey, sing. It hurts me. Sing the hurt away." So then I'd prop him upon my arm an' sing one song after another, from " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" to "Black-Eyed Susan," tsll the paroxysm of pain was over, an' bed' quiet down agiio. I always knew when that was by hi joinin' his nice in, too such a weak pipe of a voice, poor lamb) but I was better glad to hear it than any music, for it tolled me the pain was gone for a while, an I could lie him down to sleep again. Poor little mite! I was singing "Little Bo Peep" the night he died. I bad bim in my arms. He'd been sinking all day. I knew he couldn't last out another; an' though he tried to join in as usual, his voice went into a gasp an' broke. I'd been sometimes used to call the children in the ward my little sheep, an' when I came to the end of the verse Little Bo-Peep, she lost her sheep. An' doesn't know where to find em; Let them alone an' they'll coma home, An' bring their tails behind 'em He looked up in my face with a bit of a smile on his poor little drawn white mouth, and said: "Nursey 'II know where to find her liokle sheep when he goes home. Will I be long going home now, nursey?" Long! Ah, poor Utile lamb! ten minutes later an' he'd gone home. Casiell's Magaiine. Little Folks' Dictionary. A writer i& the School-Day Magazine has gathered together the following dioiionary words as defined by certain small people here and there. Backbiter A flea. Bed-time Shut-eye time. Dust Mud, with the juice squeezed out. Fan A thing to brush warm off with. Fins A fish swings. Ice Water that stayed out in the cold and went to sleep. Monkey A very little boy with a tail. Nest-egg The egg that the old hen measures by to make new ones. Pig A hog's little boy. Silt What makes your potato taste bad when you don't put any on. Snoring Letting off sleep. Snow Bain all popped out white. Stars The moon's eggs. Tiunk (of an elephant) His front tail. Wakefulness Eyes all the time coming on buttoned. A small catechism Kittenchism. How a Youno Mouse wa Helped bt its Father. We find the following in the Beese Biver Reveille of recent date: A poor little mouse, wbose home is under the floor of the Reveille office, came out this morning to for age for his breikfuet. Seeing some prin'ing ink which had been spilled on the floor, he thought that would make a very good moil, and he went for it. After nibbling a little while, he became frightened at a noise made by those watching him, and started to run back to his hole; but the ink being of a sticky nature, he fouud his feet held fist to the floor and him self unable t) move, whereupon he set up a doleful squeak. In a few moments along came a larger mouEo, probably his father, who seemed to take in the situation at a glance, and at once commenced an attempt to release his diminu tive relative. He stepped gingerly over tho ink until he came to the little mouse, and lay ing hold of the back of its neck with his teeth, tugged away till he released it. The affair was witnessed by several persons, who were so in terested in the novel sight that they offered no molestation to the animals. A Little Girl's Answer. A lecturer, wish ing to explain to a little girl the manner in which a lobster oasts his shell when he has out grown'it, said: "What do you do when you have out-grown your clothes? You throw them aside, don't you ? " "Oh, no! " replied the Ut ile one, "we let out the tucks." The lecturer confessed she had the advantage of him there. Green Bronze on Iro.v. A process for pro ducing a green bronze on iron, devised by Paul Weiskopf, is given by Dlngler's Journal as follows: One part of sylvate of silver is dis solved in twenty parts of oil of lavender, form iug a sott of varnish, which imparts a beauti ful and permanent green bronze appearance to cast and wrought iron, sheet iron and wire. The surface to be bronzed is cleansed and dried, but need not b) polished. The varnish is thinly applied with a camel's hair brush, and the otject heated quickly to 300 Fabr. The proper temperature is indicated when the article shows a bright green color which is even all over it. To produce a bronze drawing, Venetian turpentine or oolophonium solution is substituted for part of the lavender oil. It is better to rub up the dry sylvate of silver with resin in a mortar or on a palette, and iucu uuu enouga mvenaer oil to make It as thin as ordinary paint. Article? of iron bronzed in this way can afterward bs electro plated. Treatment of Wounds. A wound produced by a sharp cutting instrument will heal without iroub'e when the edges are nicely brought to gether and then kept so, and left without putting on any salve, proviied the access of air is not shut off and the individual possesses a constitution not undermined by the exoesslve use of drink or the results of other vices. If the wound is produced by a rusty nail or a similar cause, so as to be jigged, it will soon become very inflamed, and in such a case it is recommended to smoke the wound with burning wool or woolen cloth. It is said that twenty minutes in the Bmoke of wool will take the pain out of the worst wound, and that repeated once or twice it will allay the worst case of inflamma tion arising from a wound. It is claimed to have saved many lives and relieved much pain, and atsuredly it is worth trying. New Electro Pbooess. A very ingenious application of electro-metallurgy has recently been brought before the notice of the 8ooiety of Arts. It consists in the application of a coat of silver, by means of electro-deposition, on natural leaves and flowers. By this means very delicate ornament! are produced, since the precise form and texture of the nitural leaf is preserved under the thin silver film. The special process by which these result) are attained is the invention of a Mr. Denton. Mamno Brittle Gold Strono. Gold is sometimes so brittle that the jeweler cannot well work it; this is probablydue to phosphor us whioh, being no metal, is of course not de tected in the assay. 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