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0 ': ' i ' c 1 T! A A VOL. II. ST. HELENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, JULY 7, 1SS2. NO. 48. . . y a.-'" J ; .i ! i CO ' ' ' I I JUNE KOSE8. .May brought gcldu sunshine, Mny brought silver rains, P.uttercn and dai-dei In the w.H .is and Iaues; Lily WW lilse, Apple bb.Knis like snow?, Pink; und purple pansies lint June hri'Ught the rose ! I? oses dved in snnvt, Full of amber litrht; Rtws ded at o.awnins. As the dawning white; Roses pink lit sunrise, Heal ing love's devi.-e; Iled-iippel crimson r-es. Full cf hidden sp.ee. Weave them in n caykind, ' And while woa viiiif sing. ' ' riic-. art irnwed sun-hino, V'ui &".d a Ma ef rrf:i: Ali the bliss of May time. Sweet south 4. -ind that b!nv, Melw.lc and pcrf'ime. Made into a rose" Wave a crown in aniumn From the broad deat'ed vine; Wl.-en tin I'M y'iir diotii, Uay an ! laurel twin: Ihit whiio the o!f.r:ning sj-ring tun? In o summer go .. Weave the year's first garland, Kverv 'ilower a rose ' Gray and ieo e )ld the twilight had darkened over the Stone Tower, until the rudely glow of the lire became insuffi cient to dispel the creeping shadows, and Nannie brought in the lump. It was a great, low-coiled room, with an antique carved cornice and a wainscot otl oak which reached above Nannie's shoulder a room where the faded crim son hangings shut out the dying day light, and thr? pattern of the carpet had. lung Ik: come -ii. distinguishable. And the throe blooming, bright-eyed young giris ib this ancient room seemed 'as much oat of Umir oleuu'iit as a clus ter of rosebud would have been lying on an larvptsan rarconi hagu; 'Del y Bat ColoiiVl liked seclusion and antiquity. Moreover, he liked econ oiiiv. An l when he brought his three motherless d nihters down to the Stone Tower, he grimly gave thorn to under stand that they too must teach them selves to iilie these three aspects of life. "There's one thing,'' Colonel Copely, who was a man-hater, added to himself, "they'll get no beaux here! No girl ought to dream of a beau until she is twenty-live years old, at the very least.'' Which was rather hard on Amy and Nannie, who. were nineteen and seven teen, and had their pretty heuis full of vague visions of love and lovers. And even little Polly, the youngest, who had .barely turned lifteea. had an imaginary ideal in her brain, with dark, melancholy eyes and a brow like ivory, which she hoped cue day might be realized in a suitor. And upon this windy March night, when Colonel Uopely was in the city, and Miss Baird. the governess, was coulined to her room with an allack of inflamma tory rheumatism. Amy and Nannie were going to a surreptitious party. "Of course papa wouldn't let us go if he were at home," said Amy. "And we couldn't manage it if Miss Baird wasn't laid up, either," sagely ad ded Nannie. ''But everything happens for the best," said Amy. "Do look at this lovely, gold-colored silk, Nan. Wasn't it good of Mary Sinclair to lend me the three dresses to choose from? I think I'll wear the gold-colored silk, with this black lace mantle." "And I,"' said Nannie, who -was pink and plump, witti ciuna-iune eye.s anil radiant, bronze-brown hair, "shall wear the white, all brocaded over with pink rose-buds, and the rose colored satin slippers. Oh, Amy, darling" pouncing upon her sister with a littl., ecstatic kiss "we shan't know ourselves!" "Couln't I go, too?" pleaded Polly, whose gypsy beauty gleamed in between the apple bloom faces of her sisters like a Jacqueminot rost among white moss pinks. "Couldn't I wear the pretty garnet snk that you ve neitner chosen?" . 1 you , "Nonsense!"' cried Aim 'you're only a child!" "I shall be sixteen urged Polly. "And in nine months," I'm almost as tall as you and Nannie. And I never was at a grown up paity in my life!" "Polly," said Nannie, with autocratic severity, "hold your tongue? It's quite out of the question. You are to stay here with Miss Baird " "Bat Miss Baird is always asleep in the evenings!" wldmpered Pollv. So much the better liouced Nannie. "Aud t for yon," pro- look after the house." "The honse won't run away," pouted Polly, still rebellious. "That isn't the question under discus sion!'' said Amy. "Oet the work basket now, like a darling, and help us tuck up these dresses a little, for Mary Sinclair is at least half a head taller than we' are. And there is no time to lose!" Polly drew a deep sigh and obeyed. -jiyisiir sue argued wnnm l;er self, "that she must always be put tlown, and snubbed, aud kept in the background, because she was the young est, and wore short f rooks and hair braid ed in two Chinese tails down her back? If ever she was a grown upjyouug latly, she'd show them!" But Polly got a little better nature-el when she was allowed to make waillas her own self for tea, in tho absence of Mary Eliza, their sole domestic, whose brother had bethought himself to fall ill of fever, half a mile or so np the moun tain, at this auspicious time, of all others, ami to select a jar of raspberry jam, by wa3' of accompaniment. For Polly, tall though she was. had riot outgrown tho age of teasets and de- light at playing housekeeping. And she arrangoel the tea rosebuds in her sisters' hair, and gave the last dainty touch to their dresses Polly was a born lady's maid, the giris declared, laughing and and looked regretfully after them, as; with their splendor all shrouded in black serge cloaks, they hurried down the fro zen road, two merry, fleeting shadows. "Oh, dear; oh, dear!" said Tolly, aloud, "Low I wish that 1 was going too." As she winked the tears down, and ran back into the oak-wainscoated room where the lamp still glowed, and the logs blazed and snapped on the hearth, so hurriedly that she never once remem bered Amy's farewell caution as to the locking and double locking of the outer door. .. .. Miss Baird was aeieep, after her sup per and her medicine. There was no use going to lier for companionship; for she snored and slept with her mouth open, and was not in the least an ideal slumberer. And the kitchen was very lonesome without Mary Eliza, and even the cat was too drowsy to purr or frolic with a ball of knitting yarn. "What shall I do?" said Polly. "Oh, I kuow! I'll try on the garnet silk dress, aud fancv I'm a grown-up young ladv to a ball!" She was walking up and down the lloor, trying to see herself in the odd Venetian mirror that hung above the tall, wooden mantle, when the creaking of a board in the hall startled her. Fly ing to the door, garnet silk, train and all, she came face to face with a man. 'I beg your pardon !' he said, axolo fielieallv; "but vou did not hear the Uijock, and' What do in you want, sir?" cried a panic. ''Go away, at Polly, all once! "1 called to see if theyemng ladies " Polly waited to hear no more. Vague ideas of. peddlers, tramps, burglars and midnight assassins floated through her brain. "Yes," said she, with assured calm ness, "the3" are at home. Please to walk in." And opening the nearest door she mo tioned him to enter. As it was dark therein, how was he to know that it was the coal cellar, or that the next minute the door would bo shut aud bolted upon him. "There!" cried Polly, exultantly, her dark eyes shining like balls of fire, her cheeks turneet from deadly pale to glow ing red. "But stop a minute!" pleaded a stifled voice from the other side of the door. "There's a mistake. I" "Yes," said Polly, "there's a mistake! You are mistaken in supposing that I am to be imposed upon. , Now, stay there until I call the coachman and Iwo stablo hands, and unloose the dog!" (Which four last, bo it understood, were entirely a fiction of Miss Polly's imagination!) She stood a second or so to eonsider. Miss Baird must not be excited or dis turbed at least, so the doctor said. Besides, of what use could Miss Baird possibly be? , "I'll go for the girls." said Polly. "I'll be at the ball, after all! " And folding a shawl about her pretty taper shoulders, away she shot like an arrow, quite heedless of the lace-lined train of the garnet silk dress. Hazel Hill, where the ball was being held, was not more than a quarter of a mile from Stone Tower, and, lighted from garret to cellar, it presented a very pretty sight to Polly's wondering eyes. She posted herself on the verandah just where a casement had been opened to cool the perfumed atmosphere of the dancing-room, and there, with hi?, sparkling eyes, and cherry cheeks, half hidden by the shawl drawn over her head and ears, she watched to catch a glimpse of Amy or Nannie. There they were, dancing. Polly would scarcely have known them, so ra eliant the3r seemed their exquisite bor rowed dresses set off by the lights, their lace's flashed by happy excitement and at last Amy sat down by this very open casement, smiling and fanning herself, while her partner hurried to bring her a glass of iced ced champagne. All of a sudden a cold little hanel fell on her round, dimpled shoulder. She started and looked around. "Polly! Goodness me! it can't be possible!" she exclaimed. "What' on earth has brought you here? Is Mios Baird dead9 Has papa come home?" "No," answered Polly, sepulchrally. "But I've caught a burglar! Call Nan nie; and come home at once, because, may be, he'll break loose." And so Amy never got the iced cham pagne, and Nannie didn't finish her waltz with a whiskered young gentle man from Montreal. And Harry Sin clair, the In-other of tho hostess, ac companied them back to the Tower, with the tallest of the waiters, two re volvers, and a black-thorn stick which would have done creelit to llory O'More himself. Thus backed up, Polly drew the bolt, unlocked the door, and called, in stern accents, to the sequestered victim: "Come out, you villain come at once! And a tall, rather pleasant-lookiug young fellow emerged j shivering with the cold, ami having the traces of coal dust on his white shirt collar and light kid gloves. "Who are yon?" savagely demanded Sinclair. j The gentleman presented his card. "My "name is Satford," said he. "Col onel Copely requested mo to call here and bring his daughters back to New York. with me. Hero is a letter from him. lie has taken a furnished house in Forty-seventh street, anel " "Goodness me!" gasped Polly, clasp ing her hands over her eyes. "And I shut him in the coal cellar!" For cnie dread second there was silence, and then all; burst into a peal of contagi ous laughter, winch broke up all cere mony at once and rendered them all ex cellent mends. Mr. Sinclair, with tho tall waiter and the blackthorn stick, departed; and Polly, with a little of Nannie's amateur assistance, served up an impromptu sup per ot bread; ana toasted cheese, which was pronounced a success. Mary Eliza returned in a little while, and all wa well. The next c for removal, in the Htone ay commenced the packing Mary lidiza was to remain lower until Miss Baird 's convalescence, and the Ihree girls return- eu to iew AprK wuu xur. csaiiord. Aud Mr. afford, strange to say, ap peared to have no malice against his fab little jailer, j "On the contrary," said the shrewd Amy, as thojscasou advanced, I do be lieve he likes Polly the best of us all. or ho would do so if she wasn't such a child." "But she'si crrowinsr older everv dav " said Nannie.! "And prettier," added Amy, with a laugh. So that, as' the two sisters agreed, there was no telling what might happen one of these days, j But if they venture to ques tion Polly .uerseli, she only laughs and blushes, and; hides her face. "Because, iyou know, I'm not a grown woman jet,") says Polly. Hints to Farmers j - Lawn is the best dressing seed. I for grass If you would fatten your neighbor's hen crop spare not tho seed: Pinch back your geranium shoots if the frost has not already pinched them. Plant yourj beets deep; if tho bipedal variety, the deeper the better. ' Bean-poles are hardy and ne danger of late frosts ueed now be appreheneloel. Plant in rowj, and thin out later. NoW set your tomato plants. I By the time they come into bearing the fruit will b cheaper at the markot; There fore, if youH do not ripen perfectly, you will be as we'll off as ativ of your neigh- t bors. It is time your potatoes wore started. The Colorado bt?etle is anxiously wait the appearance of the vines, and unless you push things, the poor creature will be short oil for provisions. As to beans, you kuow them. Soak before planting, mulch with salt perk, and keep in d warm place. Cabbages elo best in hot water. Pick out good-sized plants, well headed, and dress with salt and pepper. When trimming j our raspberries " elo not throw away the stout canes. You mav find a use for them when "vonr ap ple trees are full of green fruit anel small boys. Now is the time to trim hoe handles. Care should be taken, however.that they do not gei snnburnt. Keep them" under cover wrhen the mercury rises above oO degrees. If you want to have your wheelbar rows thrive ke?p tho soil about them con stantly stirred and mulch with larel or tallow. Oleomargerine does best on fat lands. It is better adapted than butter for this climate, as it jdoes not droop so readily eluring the warm days that soon may be expected. j A good corn crop may be secured by wearing close-fitting boots. A double crop may be obtained by judicious par ing. s No farmer need be without a crop of squash bugs, ji Five cents Worth of seeel will raise 47,GS3 to each squash. By all means keep fowls. Farmers who own hens invariably find that their seeds come up ejuiekcr than those who do not. ! Farmers eld not find the milk" well profitable. A good pump is much bet ter and surer.! Strawberries, to be profitable, shoulel be planted in shallow boxes. Plant your pitchforks under the Ishade i ot your cnerry trees, point up. Should your neighbor's boy fall from the tree they might prevent him from striking tho ground. ; Cover your j cucumber beds with con crete. It may kill the vines, but that is the only way; of killing the stripped bugs. i Dados and other wall-flowers must be trained with care. If they are not regu larly watered they soon whither. f Bos ton Transcript. Don't . Wiiixe. Don't be whining about having a fair chance. Throw a sensible man out of a window ami he'll fall on his feet, and ask the nearest way to his work. The more you have to be gin with the less you will have in the end. Money you earn yourself is much brighter than any you get out of dead men's bags, j A scant breakfast in tho morning of life whets the appetite for a feast later in the elay. He who has tast ed a sour apple will have tho more rel ish for a sweet one. Your present want will make tho future prosperity all the sweeter. Eighteen pense has set many a peddler up in business, and he ha3 turn ed it over until he has kept his carriage. As for the place you are cast in, don't find faulf with that; you need not be a horse because you were born in a stable. If a bull tossed a man of metal sky high he would drop down into a gooel place. A hard-working young man with his wits about him, will make money while others will do notliiug but lose it. Bather a lazy fellow went into the 8 3rvice of a farmer in Camck. He brought a very high character from his late master. His new master meeting his old one, askeel him how he could give his last servant so good a character. "Deed," said the other, "the fact is he needed il a." Miot (jjims. A lew years ago, at ono of tho most charming of the historic universities of the Fatherland, the Priuco of Hesse went through the form of filling his head. His first business was to join, with great parade, the swell corps, tho "Borussia," or "White Caps," into which all nbblo- born youths are drawn on matriculatinar. His fellow-students soon took his meas ure, anei his life, like the policeman, was not altogether a happy one. Delight ful pranks were played upon him. One little "lode," as the Western youth called it, who put it in practice, drove the young Tnnee out of the University for a Season. In common with certain of his comraeles, the Prince amused him self of; an afternoon lounging along the streets, staring females out of counten ance. It was a regular practice for groupes of these young reprobates to station themselves on the narrow way in front of the bank where all foreigners come once a day, at least, for letters, and with them they brought enormous dogs, without exaggeration the size of young calves. One memorable day, however, a young Boston girl tripped into the bank as the dogs anel their masters came up from their rendezvous. The Prince's hounel was ! restrained by a long string, and as the ladv came out of the door the elog was at one side and tho Prine:e at the other. Beforo she could retreat the dog returnee! to his master, anel her ankles were encircled bv the cord. She trippeel anel fell. The com pan v rushed forward to help her to her feet, but the Prince, as she stooped over, received a ringing cnfT on tho right ear, that sent htm whirling against the door. The frightened girl screamed, and tho dog made as if te lace rate her. The hand that had hustled the Prince aside seized the cord, pulled the log away from the victim, and then and there choked tho beast until he lay ex piring. Then, knowing the code of a university town, he flung his card in the Prince's face. The scene passed with such rapadity that the clerks in the bank lad harelly time to get out. The noble companions were helpless until the card fell on the sidewalk. An hour later the next friend of the Prince came to the American quartets anel laid the challenge beforo him. The young man was from Missouri, an in veterate practical joker, and ho gravely accepted the proffer. He said he would notify to the Prince the weapons anel the hour so soon as he had consulted a friend. Tho frienel was a merry blade of the same sort. He solemnly visited the Prince's man, naming ! five o'clock the next morning in a neighboring val ley, " weapons, elouble-barrelleel guns, mnzzlo to muzzle. "But," exclaimed the imperturable German, that would bo murder! "Exactly," rejoined the other, imper turably; "niy. frienel is eletermined to have the Prince's life for his insult to Miss ." "But we dare not fight that wav in the principality." j "WeJI, that s the way we light in America, and if the Prince don't fight he must apologize or take a thrashing. The same day tho I'rince eirovo up in state to the American's lodgings. He was received by that jovial warrior in his shirtsleeves, with a long briarwood pipe, smoking placidly. "Iam come," said the stammering youth, to acknowleelgo that I was in the wrong, anel to own that you were in the right." "les," said the other, grimly, "that's good as far it goes, but you must write it out and send a copy to tho ladv." "But that isn't usual " "In our country it is usual, and you must elo it or fetch on your shot-guns. The wretcheel Prince winced and re- treateel helplessly. The apologies were sent. Philadelphia Press, j I What. Sniofctrs Smoke. Fifteen factories in New York employ chemist to "flavor" cigars. They can not elo much with the wrapper, but they can "heighten and elevelop" the fillings. It is a relief to know that opium is not used, although it used to be formerly in England, but stringent laws broke tho practice. The substances used to flavor tobacco are numerous. Vanilia is the most common. This is employed in the form of an alcoholic tincture to flavor fillings. It is said thatT few cigars are free from vanilla, j Its effects are not harmful if not used to excess. The tonka bean and balsam fir are used in tho same way for the same purpose. Cedar oil is also introduced. I The best imitator of the tobacco flavor is vale rian. Valerian and vanilla aro the most valuable chemicals now in use by tobac conists. ; By their use the poorest stems may be converted into fair tobacco. Into cigarettes enter not only valerian anel vanilla, but cascarilla barki To make cigars burn, ammonia is used, and they are soakeel in saltpetre. The latter is in jurious, and makes young men old with disjmtch. The objee;t of its use is to cause the cigar to burn freely, It has been noticed by some smokers that an intoxicating effect has been pro duced by some cigars. This is producoel by dipping tho filiings in a solution of sulphuric ether and bromide of potas sium. When it is knwn that rum is used with vanilla and valerian it is noth ing to wonder at that tho cigars so treat ed produce intoxication. To make to bacco or aid in its aetulteration, such other things as potatoo leaves, sugar, potash, tamarinds, aniseed, gum and various oils not heretofore- mentioned, aro used to a greater or less extent. In New York alono 82Gf0'Gt,000 cigars are made annually besides 229,800,000 cigar ettes, anel 25,000 persons are employeel. A Virginia man owns a hen that sings. One simple lay a day is her average. The Unconscious la Education. 1 1 ! When a child is born we may imagine that it tries to conceive m what kind of a world it is about to enter. Myriads of kinds of worlel are possible or conceiva bio. , But which is to be the kind that it is to enter? Tho child's nerve-particles are in a perfect chaos, wita not a nerve process or an idea formeel, but on a gen eral disposition of its nerve-particles, which is to modify the nerve-processes and the ideas that it is to acquire, and to thus give it a distinct inelividuality m addition to the individuality that tho peculiarity of its experience will furn ish. With this inelifference to start from the chilel receives impressions frorn the outer world with every sensation it feels. Every glance shows it a multitude of things which might have been diS'erent for all it knows, but which, being as they are, and the child having no different ex periences to compare them with, make impressions upon its mind that are, for the most part, received unconsciously and without surprise. If the child had any remembrance of any other kind of world with which to compare this, it would see much to wonder at and woulel be conscious of every new ad strange experience. But, as it is, nothing is new or strance to the child; everything makes its impression on tho mind; anel, because there are few contrasts, few ideas reach consciousness. It is said that a child learns much more in its first year than in any other year of its life, anel almost all that it then learns must be acquired unconsciously. These rather than any other impressions, are formed in the mind, and the mind re ceives them without challenge or com parison, because it has none other to compare them with., In this unconscious way the child learns the fundamental laws of the world and of life; it gets the idea of this particular world rather than of any other; it only becomes con scious where it sees contrasts and makes comparisons. And tins unconscious ac quisition continues all through life. I learn to think this rather than that, but never thought that there co "that;" when I became con mid be any conscious ot a "that"! become conscious of my thought of "this. Thus most of my uncon scious knowledge is a negative rather than a positive gain; by it I am prevent ed from going in any one of an infinite number of ways except this one. My unconscious knowledge furnishes me with bounels within which I move which prevent my wandering. John Bascom, in Eeiucation. What a Dollar Will Do. Ouo dollar will buy a prime steak. A family of four persons will get away with the best of this steak at a single meal. anel with all of it in some form or other in two meals. That's the fate of the elollar number one. Another dollar will buy as follows: A shoulder of good mutton at six cents per pound, weighing between four and five pounds, twenty- eight cents; a small measure of pota toes, thirteen cents; six carrots, sixcents; a quart of onions, ten cents; one cabbage, fifteen cents; two loaves of bread, twenty e-ents; anu tne six remaining cents may be spent for vermicelli. The shoulder, well cut up and allowed to simmer for three hours, is quite a9 gooel eating as the leg off the hind quarter, for the nearer the bone the sweeter the meat, besiele making one or two gallons of mutton broth. It will furnish meat for two dinners, a boiled dish with the vege tables, or in the guise of stews. The broth, properly seasoned with vegetables is an excellent standby, and will last two days at least. Out of this dollar s worth of provisions a scientific cook can get tho mainstays of life for one family of four for three days. And the dishes com pounded or it may be last as good as a great deal one gets at the high-priced restaurants if there be in the family a culiuarv brain equal to the occasion and the fore shoulder. Cut this out, paste it insiele your hat, ponder over it at odd intervals, and then decide that it's worth a dozen ordinary receipts for fancy elishes, which will cost throe times the money, six times the trouble, aud not give one-twentieth part the nourishment. Hold lour Tongue Tho world is nearly talked dead. Te keep silence is one of the lost arts with no one even hunting for it. Though a rattling tougue, like a rattling wagon, is eyidence only of emptiuess, we rattle away. jFious slander, sorrowiui tale bearing and long faced gossip are a trio going hand in hanel the world over, fresh from the tomb, the devil s small change passing on sight. How few can keep silence without any sins but their own. From mouth to mouth goes the slander ous tale, always a sweet morsel to the vicious, anel only needing to be sugar- coated among the good with "I'm sorry." "1 m sorry is a kind of atonement for circulating what we know should not be mentioned a struggle for seif-respect while seif-condemmed for being in very mean company, and engaged in very elis reputablo business. It is itself a lie. True sorrow uever seeks a public high way for parade of anything. Tale-bearing is elelightful. It has a back action. To be able to uncover the pit into which our neighbor has fallen is proof positive that we aro not in tho pit ourselves; and in mo coneiemnation or a great sin we can ofteu betray another into the hands of justice, while justice is seeking for us and we shoulel bo hangeel. Our neigh bor's moral shadow helps the dimness ef our own spiritual light by contrast, aud "None are so ekquent in the praise of virtue as those who do not xossess it." 1 , The strawberry crop is a failure in many parts of Mississippi, owing to the raina washing the pollen out of the blossom. j - 'CUKI0178 TREES. The India rubber tree is a native of India and Sonth America. The guava tree, from the fruit of which the delicioua guava jelly is maele, is a , native of the Indies. In Malabar a tree called the tallow, tree grows. From the seeds of it when boiled, Js procured a firm tallow which makes excellent candles. There; is a tree iu Jamaica calleel the "life tree," whos9 leaves grow,oven when severod from the plant. It is impossi ble to kill it, save by fire. The butter tree was discovered by Park in the central part of Africa; from its korn?l is produceel a nice butter which will keep a year. The Bunyau trt;o is a native of India, and is I an obioct of Great veneration among the Hindoos and Bramins, who loejk upon it as an emblem of the Deity. The manna tree grows in Sicily and Calabria. In August the tree is tapped. and the sap llows out, after which it hardens by evaporation, and the manna is left, w'hich is of a sweet and .nauseat ing iast. A tree called the "traveler's tree" of Madagascar, yields a copious supply of fresh water from its leaves, very grateful , to the traveler. It grows in the most aril countries, and is another proof of the tender care of our Heavenly Father in supplying all His creature's wants. Tho Sorrowful Tree is found in the Island of Goa, near Bombay. It is so called because it flourishes in the night. At sunset no llowers are to be seen, but soon after it ia covered with them, which close up lor fall off as tho finn rises. It has a fragrant odor, and blossoms at night tho year round. Tho milk tree is a native of South America.) Its fruit is about tho size of a small apple, but the milk is the greatest wonder, which is procurod by making notches through the bark. At first when it runs out it is as thick as cream. It has the same properties as glue. The camphor tree grows in Japan and in some of tho islands of the Pacific. The camphorj is extracted from the wood of tho tree, where it is formed in concrete lumps, some of which are as large as a man's arm, though this is rare. Tho tree has to bo. sacrificed to procure the cam phor. The cow tree, or pota ele vaca, grows on rocks! in Venezuela, South America. It has elry and leathery leaves, and by making incisions in its trunk a kinel of milk cozes out, which is tolerably thick, and of an agreeable, balmy smell. At sunrise the natives may be seen hasten ing from; all quarters, furnished with large howls to receive the milk. frESSE AD ISO.XSESSE. -j 'f Men like to call women lfttle probablv because it's about the only way they can retort for fancied slights. Mr. Loubat is said to I have fought three duels already. He can prove it by the men ho fought with. fN. Y. Com. Adv. The Detroit Free Pres3 thinks it's too long between bull fights to be very pleasant 'for Minister Hamlin at Mad rid. Has Alexander H. Stephens also joined the broom brigade that his friends should cjaim that he State." i' rr sweep the There aro plenty of recipes for making lobster salad, but we don't know of any for iireventiug it from giving you the night-mare. In ono lot there aro four calves and in another two young men with their hair parted in tho center, how many calves in all? i "Lend me five dollars, Joe?" "Can't no it; in iact, x am just going over to try t , - m . -w- to borrow five from the doctor." "Well, then, you might as well make it ten and I'll take five of it. It will make it easier to pay, you know, if it is elivided up be tween us." Male prisoners between 13 and CO in English jails, if in sound health, sleep on a plank on entering a prison until they have attained 240 marks, after winch they have a mattress five nights in each week until they have earned 480 marks, then for six nights until thev have earned 720, and then a mattress every night. A woman rofuseel to pay a Boston photographer for a dozen pictures of her self on the grounel that they die! not do justice to her face. Ho sued, and in the trial the woman anel tho photographs were submitted to the jury. She was dressed carefully, her hair was arranged in the most becoming manner, and she put on her pleasantest expression; yet the verdict was that tho portraits wer accurate. Tho island of Fierro, one of the largest cf the Canaries, is so tlry that not even a rivulet can be found, but by a wonderful provision of Providence, there is a species of tree, tho leaves of which are narrow and long, anel continue green throughout the entire year; there is also a e-onstant cloud sarrouneling the tree, which is condensed, and falling in elrops, keeps the cisterns placed under them constantly full. The dato treo is a palm tree, and leaves cut from the elate treo, unelor the name of palms, are used in the ceremo nies of Palm Sunday, which' is the Sun day before Easter, when the multitude cut down palm treos, and strewed them in the xjath of onr Lord. Almost every part of this tree is valuable. It is valu able for its fruit and for the palrn wine drawn from its trunk. Its leaves are made into hats anel baskets, and the fibres of the stem of the leaves are made into cords anel twine.
