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T H E PUBLISHED EVERT WEDNESDAY. O . O. W i r a S i s i ^ B ~ & SO I f, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. T E R M S ! Hates of Advertising: One square, one week ............................... 00 One square, two weeks ............... . ........ . 1 50 O n e square, th r e e w eeks ................ . ......... . 2 00 O qo siiu. 3 *r 65 one moBtli .... . ... ........ 3 00 One sqiuare, two months .............. . 4 0!) One square, three months ........................ 3 OO One square, s is months ............................ 7 00 One square, one y e a r .................................. 12 00 (TWELVE LINES MAKE A SQUARE.) JSS'A liberal discount will be madetothosi who advertise by the year, for any greatei amount than a square. Book and Joh Printing. Book and Jo b P r in tin g , in all jxeeutcd with neatness and desp y m a il, from responsible parties, rompt attention. BASED .BEAKS. Oh! how n y heart sl^hs for my own native land, IVhere potatoes, and squashes, and cucumbers cheer custai Where ch|er? and good welcome are always at beans. Her turtle, and oysters, and terrapin stews, And sort crabs, high-zested with brandy and Ahl neimer my heart from my native land weans When smokes tm. the table the pot of baked beans. The pot of baked beans, wlCh what pleasure I Well seasoned, weU perked, by some rosy faced dame; And when from the glowing hot oven she’d draw Well crisped and woR browned to the table it : give mi . _ .he d a r k _____ ^ _____ „ _ beans. The V o ^ t baked beans! A h ! the muse Is too Its taste to descant on, its -virtues to tell. But look at the sons of New England so hale, And her^aughters so rosy, ’twill teach thee Like me. It will teach thee to sigh for the means Of health, and—or rapture l—the pot of baked beans. —Baltimore Weekly Magazine.— BABY SIHGEBS, poking your eyes out and 'pulling your hi Soothing and patting with velvet-Uke touch, Then digging your cheek with a mischievous clutch; *' ^avlng Keep^l^ess, as now, through the world’s evil A»d bless with fond care our last weariful days. —Mrs. E . a . White in N. T. Evening Post, WEATHER SIHNS. Many o f our farmer friends have cer tain signs by whicli they claim that they can foretell the character of the coining winter. Among these are the character of the corn husks, thin ones indicating a mild winter and thick ones the reverse. A plentiful supply of acorns and other nuts indicating a hard winter and a ehoi’t AN INCIDENT ON AN OCEAN SXEAMEE.’ — vvucu till uuuu» xir vuo ouuxix had retared, not to sleep, but to watch for daylight, the ship gave an unusually heavy lurch to starboard, and for the a. 0 . WITHERSTINE &.SON, Proprietors. * Tlie Union aijjci tho Ooristitution. TERM S :-$1.50 A YEAR IK ADVANCE. YOLTJIE IXIYII. HERKIIER, ¥EDIESDAY DECEMBER 19, 1877. ffUMBES 19. THE LAST ROSS OF SUMMER. “ You ought to be ashamed of your self; Kate.” Kate answered only by a sauoy toss of her head. such a irth having tl hopes, millionaires though they i brave and talented, and yet with big, big heart—” “ What do I care about his heart, or any body’s heart, for that matter ?” an swered Kate, interrupting; “ I wish' they’d let me alone.” “ That coquei won’t do, Kate—at Jeast, with I sometimes think you are a horn itte. At any rate, you take good it let alone. There’s poor An unusual the fall taken as harbingers of a mild wii and their absence the reverse. On the irop a light, open one. An unu lumber of spiders during the fall are larbingers of a mild winter, O bUU WU bUO other hand, an immense supply of cater pillars indicate a hai-d and severe winter. When squirrels are idle and listless it be tokens a mild winter, but much business on their hands indicates a hard winter. If the breastbone of a goose is white, we will have a mild winter, but if it is dark, look out for deep snows and cold weath er. If the ground hog goes into winter quarters early it is to be considered as a token of a severe winter; and we might extend the list much further. In look ing over the many country papers which pass through our hands we have kept a record of these weather prognosticators, and give as a result from the reports made to said papers that in Greene county they will have a mild winter, be cause the husks are very thin; in Wash ington the winter is to be mild, because spiders are p lenty; near by in Alleghe - ny, they are to have it very severe, be cause the breastbone of a goose was very dark ; in Lancaster it will be severe, be- —xtise the squirrels are busy, but in the ipining county o f York, it will be mild, thehe woodchucksoodchucks have already ad3< because t w gone into winter quarters county, the husks are thick, WlUbOA ^ JUi X/ 5ounty, the husks are thic and winter may b e looked for, but in •ora • in ■ Delaware it will b e light, because forest nuts are scarce; in Salem county, N. X , cater pillars are plenty and'indicate a hard winter: but across Castle com very mild nuts. And ; _____ the river in New county, Del., they may expect a ild winter from the absence of And y et ai I positive proof en proven' The trouble usually is that persona ob- furpish posit has been proven correct man; any one of these can p that his theory B cases in which these or other signs prove correct, but fail to note the cases in which it feSls,—FM ladel^M a Times. T he P rophet ’ s G rave .— On the 29th day o f August last Brigham Young died. He was buried in a wdled grave, built ag to his direction, of granite, liron in connection with the rest. The slab is said to weigh, several tons, and was put in place, as was all the rock, with a large derrick. It was, no doubt, the deter mination of the prophet to sleep the long sleep of death tin disturbed by his en emies. In addition to this, watchers day and nigUt, living a t first in tents al most over the grave, have been in. con stant attendance, and now a house has been completed, and these custodians of the prophet’s ashes occupy it, and, never leave the spot. What danger there can possibly be in leaving this grave, wh no ten men could open ox desecrate it possibly be in leaving this grave^ wh< a day’s time, it is hard to divine.— Salt L a k e Correspondence o f the In tet- Ocean, C o -O perative S tores .-— Speaking of co-operative stores, the Chicago Tnbu'/ie sa y s : Of the vast number of co-operative stores and agencies started in this State, we are unable to call to mind one which has survived. It is true that there are so called co-operative stores, but they are virtually in the hands of three or bur men, and they sell goods on time, mdnd aree ass exactingxacting in their demands for a ar a e m profits as any middlei sameame statetate of f afiairsfairs i s s o at exists in lowft, fl- the foUowiug extiact from a Grange paper mdicates: Granger eo-operaii-i stores in Iowa have iment. Thelotes' iment. The latest to fail is the Musca tine County Co-opieative Factory for making agricultural implements. It has been, in operation three or four years, ■with the result now announced of the utter wiping out of the ^20,050 cash capital, and the forced sale of aU \fhs property. It is the last Grange factory ----------- •*- tauhope'^Rjw.” “ Well, what o f Stan] “ Why, this. Yi ' mid be 1 f with sui le ?” 'W you 3 lappy with such a man. li.^ u are too good for him.” “ Kow don’t be cross, dear. I ’m y oldest and best friend;riend; and i ‘ f am speak the truth, who can? Youareyoui worst, enemy. You pretend to b e only a fashionable butterfly, but you are some thing far better; and Harry Talbot thinks so too; for Hariy is not the man to wish to marry a mere frivolous girl. You should not trifle with him any long- •, if,^ n s I suspect, you really like “ NTo-w this is Kate, ger. “ I have never ^ven you, or any Mrs. one, the right to talk in this way.” “ Well, well, dear,” replied Thurston, “ go your own way. Only I hope you won’t have to repent it, for Harry is not one to be trifled with .be yond a certain point; he has one oi those deep and strong which. y -but patient na tures that will bear a great deal,, but which, once offended, is ( I alienated for- deep and i that will I 1 , once offei Kate and Mrs. Thurston had been at school together, and the friendship formed then had continued ever since. Mrs, Thurston was the eldest by a cou ple of years, and had been married for more than a twelvemonth, so that she had, as she correctly thought, some lit tle right, a t least, to speak to Kate as she had done. It was a gay party that had assembled at Beechcroft, the oonntry-seat of Kate’s father, Among the mah were prei ' count of „reat Talbot. The latter was not -withont f was no millionaire; Among th e male guests two jominent—^Mr.-«Stanh6ne on ao- : his g wealth, and Harry The latter was not -withont for tune, though he but h e was handsome, talented, i, gay-spirited and brave. For it time in bis life he was serious ly in love, and it was with Kate. Kate, to do her justice, hardly knew her own mind. She was the belle of her set, and fond of admiration—so fond of it that she just escaped being a flirt. But she had sterling C[ualities, and real ly liked Harry more than she supposed. On their first acquaintance she had been very gracious to him ; but as Harry i, she drew back earne it she 1: an unconscious timidity, which we lei our fair readers to explain; concealed this >d him less; it was srM(- xplain; liditjity under^ the I. She coquetted Mr. S t o - fair readers to acealed this timi guise of gay indifierence. with others, especially with As for Harry, he was puzzled. He let things go on in this way for a week or so, answering her mere raillery with a wit not less keen than her o w n ; but he grew tired at last o f this-state of doubt, and resolved to know h is fate. H e chose the very morning on which Mrs. Thurs ton had been taking K a te. to task. It was, perhaps, unfortunate for him that he did, for Kate was a good deal annoy ed by the conversation, and Harry was made to suffer by it. “ I saw you turn into the garden here,” cried Harry, overtaking Kate, just after she had parted with her friends, “and I took the liberty of fol lowing you. We are all jealous of your roses you know, you give thepa so much of your time.” “ You mustadmit,” she answered, gay- ly, “ that they repay it.- A little kind ness in the way of pruning and watering, and, lo 1 • how they, bloom and smile back at you.” “ And don’t you think others would smile back ?” said Harry, ventm-ing on dangerous ground. “ I never cared to make them,” coolly answered Kate, snipping off some dead wood. “ One may ifita flowers, and not care for —\ “ For what?” said Harry, his heart beating fast. “ Well, bears, lei us say. Leading a bear about is quite different, for exam ple, from tendiug a rose-garden.” There was a saucy look in her which gave point to her remarks. Harry was disconcerted for a moment, but for. oment only. It isn’t every bear that would be stittdiiy. It waajiow Kate’s heart that beat fast. For some reason Haincy was terribly in earnest this moroing. She lost courage, and turne^ the conversation. “ W e go to the Linden Woods, don’t we, after lunch? I must hurry, or I shall not be in time.” “ And. I believe I am to have the Kon- or of driving you.” How this was the fact. But B3ate. was half angry at Harry’s sturdy speech. Her saucy remark had brought o u t a re tort she Ktfcle expected. To be reveng ed she determined to ignore her prom- “ To drive with you I Surely you must be mistaken.” face, “ 1 am going 1 Stanhope.” Harry bowed again, and w go. But he turned on his h< a sudden impnlse, and said. about to ^em a sudden impnlse, and said, Aiy mem ory is faulty, I fear, in more than one particular. I forgot, until this Very mo ment, that I was goingto town this after noon. So I had best make my adieus. This was a home-thrust. But Kat€ was equal to the occasion. I think worn- ^nerally a r e ; a t leaE men.en. Kateate they are- that she iingit,ii more so than m K felt tlial had lost Harry forever, and in feel realized fully, for the first time, much she had lost. She would have given worlds to recall the last five min utes. In fact, she would have done any thing,'except saorifice her pride. But she met the crisis bravely. Going 1 DS they’ll all be, esp< le 1 how dally Fanny.” 6 contri ___ himself, and said, oalmlY, “ I thought that I asked you yeateiday, and that you accepted.” Kate buried her face for a second in-a cluster iff roses. On that moment’s hes itation hung her future life. She had a dim presentiment o f this, but i t was too late to go back; she was jn a mood to sacrifice ereiy thing rather than beat a retreat. • “ People think a great many things sometimes,” she answered, “ in which, they are mistaken,” Harry drew himself up to his full h e ight aud then made a low bow. \ A gentleman, at any rate, Miss Mur ray, nevei^thinks his memory is right wnen a lady says it is wrong,” Kate had never admired him so much as at that moment. Even then it would not have been too late if she had retreat ed from, her position. But Somfitbing, to insane impulse which our fair readers '' may comprehend, drove her to go even •* — --------- - - ummer,’ i f . please. Only pray don’t give it to Fan ny. She has no notion of being left to ‘pine on the stem.’ That’s\ the phrase, isn’t it?” “ I promise you,” said Harry, also equal to the occasion, “ that I ’ll nojb give it to Fanny. I ’ll keep it to remind me of you. ‘The Last Kose of Summer I’ You have chosen your name capitally. Good-by, Miss Murray.” The cutting tone, the mock courte^ with which this was said, the low bow, -vyere all inimitable. On the whole, I think Harry had the best of it. Hovertheless, he was in no gentle mOod ns he took the train that afternoon, and was whirled off to London. He anathematized, I have no doubt, the whole sex; we men generally do it in similar circumstances. H e remained a few days in London, but this mood did nptimprove. Now and then an insane notion would seize Mm, as it has done others like him, that Kate would repent; and the postman never, came round that Hairy did not half expect a scented three-cornered billet, the counterpart of three or Your others which he had re ceived from her at different times, and hioh ha sacredly treasured. But no AttI - - - ----------- which ha sacredly treasure billet came. At the end of as he oaiue out of his club, he met an acquaintance, who had just leffe Beeoh- “ We missed you there, dreadfi after you left,” said Charley Howt “ Fanny was quite cross for a c tw o ; none of ns fellows coul< ■dfroniher. we were S ' Id g e t a But, in spite of this, ire sorry you went, all of us, ex cept, perhaps Stanhope. Yes, I must except Stanhope. H e ’s been making his innings ever since with Miss Murray, The talk is they’re engaged, and I sup pose it’s true. A brave fellow is Stan hope ; for, between you and me; Kate is too much of a spirit for most men.’’ Charley had no idea of the pain he inflicting—rattle-brains like him -------isoque^— ng—ratt ever have. Bui Harry, h that chance meeting, Meantime the summer months passed, and Beechcroft, which had been crowd ed until September, began to empty. Kate was now left comparatively alone, At first she had flirted desperately with Stanhope, and had almost made up her mind to marry him. If he had asked her, the night after Harry had departed for Franco, perhaps she would (ted him—^pique will do mu( laes. She was spared a foil] ould have regretted all her ] luoh in such that she It was to no purpose after all, to 3 1 ;fe. Stan- fortunes never had Kate Lug that summer. Kate was too no- marry a man she did love. A word would have done i t ; but she would have died rather than write that last word; and we suppose every woman, would have acted like her. • So the summer went, and autumn came. Now and then, at first, she was also insane enough to think Harry would i t s ; but this delusion soon passed ray; she realized, as-Mrs. Thurston ;d told her, that H lost forever. 1 Harry, once lost, -was October had come. The leaves were leginning to flutter to the ground, cold 1 to blow, even the latest roses to The summer guests had all de- I, even Mrs. Thurston—and Kate fc was such a relief to her.. Of late it i been as much as she conld do to keep up appearances. Pride had died lUt long ago. I could keep bucA w e Koars. c called the last conversation between her and her lover. Ah I what earnestnGss andad passionassion hadad underlainnderlain Harry’sarry’s half-alf- To hai ■een p h u H h jesting tone. To have b loved in that way, and yet to have flung it con- ' jtuqusly a side! iddenly she stopped. A solitary eftughther eye, the only one she (n that day—^tl “ >Tls the last roseol summer, Lett blooming alone.” She wM quite unconscious of what she as doing. Leaning her head pensively on her hand, she regarded that solitary rose, her thoughts meantime far away. All at once from the other side of the irden wall, a manly voice began to sing, luoily: She started, coloring violently. Was it possible ? She knew that voice! Who uuld date but Harry ? And would even Shame, embarrassment, anger, love, gitated her at once. A few months otfld have triumphet alli „ b e f o r e t h e ; How it was the shame. She turned to escape. But, bewilder ed, ignorant where was going, she only fan into the arms o f Harry, as he entered the garden gate. What did she do, that proud Kate, but burst into tears, and then strUgglS to get away. But Harry held her tigbt, even dre-w her head to his shoulder, and as he could not get at her lipS to kiss her, for she resolutely turned her face -way, kissed her hair. “ Darling,” be whispered, soothingly, “ forgive and forget. Don’t you love me, after aU| Kate ? Heaven knows i love you 1” Kata made no reply, but Bbe ceased ioccupiet gently raised ind fair on the it, and kissec full and fair on the iipS. he smiled at him for an ragh her tears. Then she blushed r red. Theu instant She smiled at through her tears, rosy red. Tbe she sprang away from his arms like a young leopardess, “ You horrid, horrid w r etch!” she ioil “ Don’t think I mean it. You doesn’t know latone cried, “ Don’t think ] took one so by surprise, oned' what one did.” So, do i t again, knowinj Kate blusl ire, suppose you hat you do ?” ished rosier than ever, and looked at him rqbelliously : but, seeing he was in dead earnest, put up her lips nn meekly as a lamb. “ I only permit it to save you the cost (ther trip to Paris,” she said, sauci- course, answered Harry, took another kiss, not-withstaudh )lam how Han of and ly, howei “ Of course, answered Harry, But ho took another kiss, not-withstauding. How to explain how Harry came there. He had been as unhappy as Kate. Even foreign travel had had no charms for him. He struggled through the summm’, and, ___________ , istead- of being married to Stanhope, as he had expected, was still single; and at all the clubs it -was said that the millionaire liad been contumeliously rejected. On hear ing this, Harry had taken the next train to Beechcroft; had been told, on arriv ing, that Kate was in the garden; and had sought her there—^with what results we have seen. “ :hink Khte I think Khtehte and Harry a piest couple I know. Ferhs cause they had their quarrel out before they were married, though I cannot, say I recommend any body torimitate them ; the best way, I fancy, is not to quarrel at all. They still rally each, other, how ever, as saucily as ever. “ You are not going off to Paris in a huff again, though I did talk to the French ambassador all dinner-time, yes terday,” said Kate, one day, goingto the door with her husband after breakfast, “-So -we may as ivell settle where we ^ a l l s p p d the summer—at papa’s, or at ^‘At Eyde. I ’ll not go to Paris; it might make you sentimental again.” “ You’re a real old ugly bear!” said Kate; affecting to pout. “ Better a bear,” answered H a n y , funning down the steps and looking mis chievously back, “ than a ‘last rose of summer’— eh, Kate ?” K and Harr; ; K a iple I kl had •heir the hap- mow. Perhaps it is be- t quarrel on DIDHT WAHI TO BE DISSECTED. (ast the Junction, For several or what is Diamond, ml years past the Junction better kuowu as Vaughan’s has been regarded by the colored people as the theatre of all no turual anatomical experiments. Noi seusical sensational reports, gotten u iulty, who have their headqnari it building, have spread and become ■ intonto truthn among the dark- Idmg, I laggerated i t 8. The capture B tiers in becom< I among th e ihe police of irirying a sack up stairs, and -which was published in the papers at the time, ad ded proof to a vulgar superstition. Now, since the accidental death of a negro man by having an artery cut a few weeks ago, there is a fever of excitement among the colored people. Two men were standing near the Junction, just at the steps leading to the medical dissect ing room. One was a policeman, the other a man full of fun and eager for a joke, A negro who is quite active in political campaigns, and one who is sup posed to know sornething more than or- nary, came along and shopped to talk ' \Vaughan’s Dia- Ing^ con- (olitical ied to know sornething more lO along an at the ix’on railings at “ Vaughan’ mend.” They heard the followin; veraation: “ That’s the fellow we want.” “ Which one?” “ The biggest one ; be is worth $50; the doetors will give that for him.” “ Why not take the other ?” “ Oh, he ain’t wanted y e t ; wait till he feeds up a little. Let’s take this one. Yon halt him; you’re a. policeman. Stop him while I put the pflaster on his month.” tionin o f f jn s i The negroes, who heard this informa- intended for them, started to i carry him. The other was invited to go up stairs and s He refused. He was im] a°friend. iportuned ) tne iignc d Sl> ^10* go up stairs, t Then, when an attempt was made to take him bodily up stairs, he took flight up Kiath street, and went yelling for help at every leap. The same negro now wears wool as gray as a young merino, and no money can induce him or any of his friends to pass by the Junction after people have gone to bed . —Kansas City Times, HOW LONG OUB TOBESTS WILL LAST* Generally summing up the statistics of the lumber products of the United States, we reach a known sum of about 5,000,000,000 feet yearly. Add to this the lumber of which no account is taken ’■— I estimate, and it is prob- 10 United States is j, we real ,000,000 i ably safe feet. These fij prehended amount of lumber woi 50,000 vessels, each carrying 200’,000 feet, which is an average cargo for lake vessels; or 1,428,571 railroad cars, each averaging 7,000 feefc—ah average car load. Thm would make a train 8,500 miles in leiigth, or about oue-thirdaround the globe. Under such- the question, 3 long vdll our forests hold e inquby”as to'what we are to do building material when this magnificent wood—^pine—^isood—p3 exhnhsted. One author- w ity after another has entered formally upon its solution, with satisfactory re sults in local instances, but very vague ones as to the field a t large. At the rate we are cutting to-day, from thirty to fifty years seem to be agreed upon as about the liipit. Twenty years ago there was apparently no limit, for the consump tion was not only less, but the means for its manufacture were primitive, and accompliahed muchr smaller results than now. It seems as if it were impossible to further improve the 3qaachinery of mm ills;ills; butut thehe nearear futuriuture saw- b t n f may, for all that, see sawing machinery in com parison to which, that o f the present will be coutemptible. So, although twenty years ago there was no foreseeing end of the timber, now, with the modi HOW OYSTERS ARE RAISED. The oyster farmer’s work falls natural ly into two parts. During the cooler months he is chiefly engaged in harvest ing his crop and preparing it for market. As warm weather approaches he begins the more specific work of making ready for the spawning season. As the oyster requu jpawniug requires from three to five years to ma ture, it is evident that the grounds of any extensive grower will present beds of oysters in various stages of develop ment, with other areas from which the M y unii 'ould be a profitless task to try to take the oysters from a field; and there is rally an abundance left after een gathered to supply any int of spawn, in. case the ground bed be'of S i sr a crop jr desired amount of spawn, in . case the ground should be wanted for breeding purposes. As the work of gathering for market __ thiss operation thee c !7inte3 of slime, and loosely scattered upon tlfo surface. At the same time the larger clusters are removed and broken up for slanting to thinner befds; the pred- As the w< slackens in May, to “ comb” the bads oysterman begins that contain his growing stock, by means of coarae-mei od dredges. In thi operation th oys ters which have settled into the mud “ forgive and forget. me, afteraU| Kate? KMQ made no reply, but Bbe ceased ^ to the time when th© “ Wooden Ago’^ ed, the seeais.commonfy brongh prpDjg %o escape, She waa only t»ai w ifl be a XiODJ? ifelaud SoUfldk!r^Scn*&fi61‘’4 ;he timber, row , lills and myriads of them, we are be- gmniug to calculate with dii'6 cerfaiuty as to the time when th e “ WoodRii The I differem rarm ir y beds receive a very b. On these there will s left for seed, or se- jed there as a resting places for the coming crop. In assorting the oysters sold the previous season he has accumulated a considera ble pile of refuse shells, dead star-fish, •whelks, gravel, etc., wMch by sunshine and shower has been freed from mud and animal matter, and otherwise fitted for the reception of spat. If the prom ise of an abundant spawning is good he will supplement this pile of stools with some hundreds, perhaps thousands of bushels of clean shells of oysters, dams, ), and the like, and many sloe The depositing of the stersshi Is, or froi to six tons of gravel, coarse and are required for each acre of breeding- ground, the shells and gravel being east upon the water by the shovelful as the boat drifts with the tide, A marked ad vantage is gained b y using stools of im- equal s i z e s / apparently not so muoli for the greater range of choice presented to the young spat, as for the mechanical action o f the unequal stuff upon the bot tom currents. The floating spat doubt- 'ce refuge in the little eddies crea the irregular bottom, and remaia f gravel. from ^ v e ted by the irregular bottom, and remain until ready to strike, when otherwise they might be swept away and lost, any rate, it has been repeatedly o] abundance of spat stools have failed. It is not e ------ ' lodging-placeE tom in readiness for i lat; they must b e in that these needed le scattered over the bo< ! for the home-seeking spat; they must b e in proper condition to welcome their expected tenant,—that itirely free from slime. And this slime quickly covers every .object under water it is clear that hap-hazard work at such a time will not answer. Besides, the precise moment of spawning is determined not by the almanac, but by the general character of the season, the position and nature of the ground, the depth of the water, and so on, and may July and some! iter, and letweon the first or of August. Again it happens that the spawning is aborted; the ova fail to be e d ; in which water, a my-.time betwee the last o ' it requires no small degri special intelligence a n l practical skill to determine when, the p^-TOer moment for stool-planting occurs: for the lack of which many liave thrown away their stools and their labor, and jumped to the eonclusibn that oyster breeding is more a matter of luck than of science. The infant oysters begin to be plainly visible in about a fortnight after they strike; under specially favorable oon- ley have been discernible in . Foror thehe firstirst threeree or fourour eight days. F t f th or f months their growth is slow, after that they increase in size very rapidly. Next summer the spawn of the season just passed, grown by that time to the size of a nickel coin, will be combed and the clusters removed for making up de- flciencies on other grounds; by ^the same operation the loose “ seed ” will be lifted out of the mud and the ground prepared for another falling of spat. The second year the combing and thin- xng will b e repeated lest the crop be- ome too crowded; and if aU goes^weU, further thinning out will be required transferenci where a nee to the fattening-grounds, lother year’s development will fit them for market as fancy Saddle Bocks.— SGriiner*8 M agazine. V7HEBE GOOD OYSTERS m O lY - As for comparative merit, that is a mat ter which rivals the oyster itself in deli cacy. In Washington or Baltimore, the oyster dealer will generously admit that it is quite possible to find good oysters lide of ChesapeakeIhesapeake B a y ; but fc ] “ perfect ” oyster, he will tell you that is useless to look to any other locali! ■Philadelphian is equ! h ty. v ^ y S The Fliiladelphian is equally sure the estuary of the Delaware is the feet oyster’s only home,—a local ^ dice which the oyster-eater o f New attributes to a deplorable ignorance of a first rate oyster really is. Doctors ___ ?; and the unprejudiced can only rejoice that anywhere between the paral lels of 36 ® and 40 ° north, one may find was not a distinct variety that gave the name its fame, but only an exceptionally thrifty chance-sown bed o f the coj natives,—^a grade of oyster that art culture easily and constantly Next in rank may be mentioned the Points, coming chiefly from Great Soul common :tifieial rivals, t Blue Lth conditions, and so differing some-w flavor. The products of Shrewsbury Eiver, N. J., probably come next j these ■ware formerly transplanted natives of ,rk Bay, improved by development 5 favorable -waters of the Sfirewa- ; but morfl recently, we are inform' seed i e commonly brought from, CAMEORHIA SLANDERED, Vaxantulas Big: as BuUcts’ E g g s— Otker In terestin g N a tive Productions. Yes, it is a wonderful country—won derful—wonderful 1 Tarantulas big as pullei _____ _______ i l l ^ ______________ „ „ pullets’ eggs, black, hairy—^legs all around them, to ora'll over you at night. XUree BlenXaUitis. B W At an early hour one morning week Wm. Paxton, City Marshal, had just retired, was aroused by a y Big trees—enormous—centipedes, every 5 rolling in mad frenzy. He was armed leg a sting, stinging while they era'll * ''tith a revolver, and said that a party of over you—fifty legs—make five thousand | four men and two women had driven to stings while 'they crawl over yonr leg. | h is house in a wagon and had attempted Enormous crops of grain—when they to ^oh him, and that in self-defense he get ’em—once in two or three years, killed one of the men, when the others Wind in San Francisco ? Blows a gale ; tumbled the dead body into the* wagon in San Francisco every summer day from. , rapidly drove a-syay. His object the morning until four in the aftsr- Sand and desert? No. Grit, el, and pebblestones; and, as for grave], ui sand aloi feel )ver the pavements (S; and, as fi —it drifts foi ( p and covers Semite ? iime, and half a dollar i (ds. Battlesnakes ? L( lamp-posts. Yo blime, and half Grand, su- toll every forty rods. Battlesnakes ? Long ones in 1 mountains, short ones on the plaifli short and thick—look like Bologna sj anywhert cool half the timi every day, thick, damp, feels like the- —no grass- i of door® San Francisao? Yes ; too* no for comfort—and fog irniug and night—fog, isty, and clammy. Scor- luntry—Sting w ith th e ir i^ard of red-J :s—feels li a ya needle run thri :ough ; into your boots at night, and start ym out of thempn the double quick in thi ■hot knit- t—they get ;art you _ Yes, delightful country; . much that is new to see, feel, and think about all the time—especially feel. There’s the yello-\v jacket, a cross be tween the wasp and the bumble bee— settles on the table -when yo'u’ra eating— bores holes in the beefsteak, and oai’ries off half an ounce at a load, and stings like fury if interrupted. Stocks—min ing stocks ? Yes, people are frequently bitten by them a-wfully—^half the eases are fata!. Such a variety of the works of nature iu California. \Mosqnitoea? Yes. Going by river to Stockton or Sacramento, clouds on clouds of them: Yerdnre iu the country ? Yes. Pois( oak—touch it and your head swells the size of a peck meas and the itch. head swells iasure, -with pimples Great country for p u ling’ lead on you, you know. Californian ? Old ^^Old ian? Old miner and 'iVer ? Grand, noble, generous, large- hearted Western man? Yes. Always drinks when asked—lives much of tho drinks whi iime in saloons—trousers tied about tho waiat with ten years oh es in a cabin hard by, 9x18, salt pork and flour—gray shirt, never ■washed—can talk of nothing else but tho “ ounce a day he made ija the winter of ’50”—splendid type of manhood, and.’ smells like a distillery. Wonderful country--garden of the earth—every body calling out for Eastern capital to come and develop our mines. Dust on road? Yes, much fine dust, red, like pulverized brickbats. Land of gold and everybody ready to take your green- badlaj. Live there ? Yes—when I can’t live anywhere else—good place to send men when they die, to punish them for teuraiiiffl .—S a lt Lake H erald. A DISSATISEIED WITNESS. the wagon. jedless to say les lor the lii discovered that the u in the mental storm full torments of that diseases, the delirium tremens, £ pacify him went with him to the scene of the conflict to see the tracks left by It is almost neei in the 3 or-racked man, and the City h them. Paxton th( soon the man hac and went careering d( shouting “ Murder !” iit every leap, and rushed into Bill James’ meat market in tal his heels, ing she fear, ■with an unseen foe close eing the erazed conditio] lob Handy, who man, very coolly and properly armed him to prevent him doing hi The little cabin whi id “dk- ire this man lived, and whence he emerged in his delirium, had contained two others, also ia the agonies of mania-a-potu. The last seen of one of these h e was running do'wn the valle;;/ road, bare-footed and hair on end, the night pre-vious, yelling like a demon, — - - - - - - - by flicted one, who requested to be allowed the privilege of grasping the horse’s tail, saying that he could not travel fast the pur- sayinL enough to get out of the way of suing fiends. He is no doubt lyii _ somewhere down the valley, if he did not find a watery grave in the Boise. Whilst hell was thus holding back its lurid curtain to give its two fitful glimpses of its horrid ponorama, the third and last remaining man in the house, too weak to give its two fitful luorama, the loape the ble couch ; and as the candle flickered out in its socket at about six o’clock yes- She was a farmer’s wife, and, as took the witness stand in a case bel Justice Brown, she had her hands about thi's case,” 1 She moved aroi (ressed, and the mce that she was ■on know the jury TThat yor B,” said the lawyer. moved around a little, looked the jury square in the face, and getting a good hold of the witness box, she be- ° “ i was exit to the bayn to ask my hus band if he thought it was going to rain and he said he guessed uot and I said I guess not -when threeiree orr fourour menen in., T1 o f m came jawingawing and swearing Ihey were j an and it almost made my blood run—” “ Never mind all that,” interrupted the lawyer. “ Did you sea any one strike a blow ?” “ I guess I did see some one strike a blow, and thi this man they call Robinson was the one who struck first and I ’m almost sure of it and if I ’d been a man I ’d have—” “ Do you swear that Robinson struck the first-blow?” “ Yea, sir. I swear that I think Bob- inson struck the first blow, though I may be mistaken, of course, and of course I don’t want to swear to a lie for no one and I was excited and I don’t know but some one may have hit him with an ear of corn and —” , “ That will do,” said the lawyer. “ Why—why, I haven’t hardly com menced yet,” she protested. ’Well, I ’ve got all I -won’t of such testimony. >wn, over road and then not let into exclaimed 1 •ring mo ov ’leveu miles of mud larl” she 1 she ste]lepped.dowu. “ 1 'mjust as good as some other :s out my way, and I guess I ’ve got just as good an education for swearing in court, even if we haven’t got upholstered chairs in the house !”—JDetvoii Press. LONDON ANDNEW YORK. ger than any 0 The Groton w£ London ie The mortalii,.------------------— — ereas in New York it is c Yet London is five times as large as New York, •with only one-third more park room. “ Central Park,” con taining seven hundred and seventy-six 3t double the size of Hyde (oast of England. Leaving fie Pari, tho Central Park is lar- otber two parks in London, vater is the purest supplied to any large city in the world. Yet- with the purest airaga and the finest wa ter, more persons d ^ ^ v ery year in New York than in any tHlIr large city on the surface of the globe, whose statistics are known. What is the cause ? I t is found in our dwellings. Too many people live in the sanfe house. Too many sleep in small, dismal, ill-ventilated rooms, at tics, cellars, and the middle one of three deep. And London streets are B, both from mud and heaps of and other putrifying matter. Qg but the grossest negligence on the'part of its ofSeials oould reduce New York { ' tithe of the natural advantag< York, in a sanatory point o f y jrooms deep, kept clean, bol gargage and I of New 0Fi E nglish ia the court language of Ger- latiy. The Cincinnati Com-on^ezal ■matiy. The Cincinnati Com r says it is a proud moment when a Briton or American, -risiting the palace, is sa luted with “ Dot vas a pooty goliplontit restled the night he died—died a victim to an uncontrollable appetite for alcohol. And he died a most horrible death. Meeting him in the street ten days since, we ask ed him how long, should he persist in his present course, he expected to live. He replied that it mattered not when the end came, that he had no desire to live. We whispered words of cheer and h o pe; but he was lost, utterly lest, in the depths of black despair; lest beyond reformation on this earth. Thus per ished one of the warmest and most gei erous hearts, and who, but for the IS a useful and respected n avy lurch to starboard, an hundredth time shipped a heavy sea. :ond followed a crash that shook her stern and sounded like a It -was made up of three glass and the pouring of a large stream of water into the cabin. It vras a deafening, ter rifying sound. I bounded into the sa loon and beheld a 3 Beside my door sat a h ;he startled face of one of the at the door on my side of town the companion--way, s the vessel rolled to port, poured a uge torrent of water. Li a moment -wo led to starboard, the stream stopped U’ing in and dashedfuriou~’“ tables and ] stant above tl to the ceiling. Half a minute later everybody was in the saloon—^no one had apparently undressed and gone to bed—and for a little while ■wo ivere busy in picking up our luggage from tlie floors of the cabins, into which the Traier at once penetrated. The unhappy stew ards rushed to and fro, bailing out and mopping up the water, and iu half an hour the wet carpets were taken up and the water dried from the floor, the brok- windows, through which the ■ater* )me, nailed u w and closed, and it did lights of anxiety :en on board,” said one f the officers to me, “ a hundred seas 3 bad as that on that day alone, bat ]hey struck us fair,” This \one came ae the wind began to fall a little, ou the starboard quarter. It struck the right ond of the bridge and carried aivay the ivass covering, broke in and ruined (Second boat, lifted the third boat ; of the davite and hmled it into a msand pieces on top of the skylight over the engines; twisted the fourth boat out of the davits (breaking one of the latter, a piece of hammered iron four and a half .inches thick, like a pipo- :uiust the '■ing tw-a besides damaging two tore the last one on iter, and, other life-rafts, itarboard side tore the last one on the starboard side out of its place and laid it snugly over the skylight ou the saloon. -Philadvl-' skylig] pM a Times. THE ALEtTROHSXER. methods used in :ves to measure the ;en in flour by : °^tha for thing, was ber of Booi( useful and respectec y.—Idaho City Wos mem- ■ty World. MODERN nrVENTIONS. Now there was Sim Bussell. He fool- und gunpo^wder one day -with 3 top of his head blown off.\ He was en- ;ed to a lady, but -when he presented ......................................... (Uld not be indui contract. 3d to abide prefei flelity she could 3 by the original (d a -whole man, was determined not to accept a re the contract called for a whole nant when the contrai ______ chen delivered. So Sim gave her :dd wentent aboutbout an unfinishednfinished pieceiece matt wh( np, an w a an u p of humanity, and a piteous spectacle of blighted love, until finally h e was inter- ■viewed by a -wooden-leg agent, -who in duced him to take a leg on trial. He was charmed with it, for he found it was not subject to changes of theI weathi like his other leg, nightight iff thehe beded hs n i t b happened to be crowded. He could unbuckle it and stand it in the weather, was SO .handy at led to b( and stai ider the corner, or shove it under the way. He wasn’t obliged to (selfself from-hisrom-his wooden-le|ooden-leg, him f w but simply did it to humor the whims of people who had a delicacy about sleeping with a wooden-leg. As if a wooden-leg could hurt anybody! After he had taken the leg, a dentist strolled around -with some samples of shape. Bat after the mouth got used to the teeth, and the teeth got used to the mouth, they worked like a charm together. And after he became recoasiled-to the ooden-leg and false teeth, a glass-eye jent turned up unexpectedly, with a Q6 assortment of eyes. As Jim -was then looking upon the face of beautiful nature -with one eye blind, it I’equired but little persuasion on the agent’s part to induce him to try a mate for the eye he had, parfcieularly lonesome. rly as it was. getting wever,ever, (Other It was not long after, how when 3 assortment of wigs. Bim ivinced by the burning elo- ie wig man that of all things 3ded a wig most. One day, when Sim had become thoroughly familiar with his artificial attractions, he buckled on his -wooden- leg, adjusted h is glass < his wig, and after arran.i, suit him, he sauntered fori the lady who refused him. He ioted with -warmth and treated m invei Sim would be now wanderii dilapidated wreck anda-victi wa id ed Section. Now when the bosom of his famil;] about, a of blight- ho retires in lily at night, ho 'ashstand drawer, ___ ,, „ [, p d after plac ing his glass eye in a basin of water and shoving h is leg under the bed, sleeps tho sleep o f imiooenee and contentment. L constantly employ- 'n models of is a machinist in Cart Nav., who has been constantly ei ed for twenty years i making mo( contrivances to prod,uce “ perpetual motion,” He professes to beHeve that he can make a successful machine, and has been shrewd enough to interest eap- italisis in various parts of the country, one after another, so that ha has acoii- tni'e. \Wheat for d.epen<ia o: elastic quality of the g lu t e n ; flour 1 macaroni is ciiiefly -valued for the duct ity of the gluten, and the aleurometer is thus chiefly useful in the hands of bakers and dealers in flours designed for domestic consumption. The instr-ament consists of a brass tube 3 centimeters in diameter, and about 12.7 centimeters (5 inches) long. This is provided with a cap that may bo screwed to the bottom and that also serves for a base, and an other cap is permanently fixed to the top. Inside the tu’oe is a piston, fitted accurately, and provided with a piston- rod that extends upward through an opening in the top of the tube. The whole length of the tube is divided into • fifty division-s, and the piston-rod is graduated from twenty-five to fifty of the same division. In use, 80 grammes (about 1 oz.) of flour is selected and made into a paste, with 15 grammes of water. After kneading, this is -washed in a stream of water to remove the starch, and is then compressed to drive out the surplus water. A sample of this gluten is 1 L is then compressed to drive atqr. A sample of thi; is then weighed, and 7 grammes are taken out and rolled in crude gluten : he length the space below tho piste rest and leaving the pist< the roll of gluh itter, and rted so as the tube or v'hea it is at piston pressing on tne rou ot gluten. Tho instrument' is then placed in an oven, kept at tho usual baiting temperature. Under the heat, the gluten will expand and raisa the piston, thus showing its degree of elas tic expansion by the maiks on the piston- rod that projects above the instrument. Good flour is said to give gluten that ex- pamlsjQfty per cent, beyond its original bulk. Bad gluten does not s-well at all, and remains viscid and eticks to the tube, besides giving odor. Good flour gives the sweet smell dealers who have no facilities for baking, the aleurometer is arranged with an oil- ( heated by a lamp or gas jet, and in bath the gluten may be raised to desired temperature,' and to l I, a thermometsr is apparatus,— Scribner^ s. desired temperature, and to regulate Letsr is attached to the THE WRONG KAN. its own a, vji New York, int. Oa Wed- is not tnat Jmo-wmg •infant. (Ja Wed- uesday, in that city, Morris Goldberg gave orders to have his cellar cleaued — j. rm ----------- _ - u - j : j found a 3ofa under the only half clad, :ed with vermin. The men who did the job found a dead man lying on a sofa under the stairs. The body w was very dirty and covered with An investigation by tho Coroner con- Lcial that the man had made the cellar the previous night, and the post-mortem examination revealed the fact that he had died of starvation and exhaustion. On Thurs day afternoon Louis Samuels called at On Thurs- the dead house and identified the body that of his father, Isaac Samuels, a nkrupt merchant, whose mind had en deranged by bis losses. He had mpleted the iden- It was evident that he had about the city, insane, and iect. \\ iertaker told not to limit th< for Lonis Samuels is wealthy and a\good son. Friday n ight he had some business down town connected with the funeral, and -while hurrying along the street WttS surprised to see an elderly man come up to him, grasp him by the hand and throw bis arms around his neck and call him his dear boy. Young Samuels was med, but soon became aware that her was aKve and that he stood before him. The Samuels family has recovered its head, the saved for future use poor tramp, dead ho-^e. has been _______________ Jody of the has ^een sent back to tlie daytime were held as a marked atten tion, She was told that “rime was worth fifty dollars a ml-mitA ” ond tho hold as a visits made
