f *a*.'. HOUSE AND FAliiW quantity of land, which may be cultivated The St. Gothard Tunnel. Wit and Humor, The Jew And The Merchant. by irrigation. West f thai, in the *ob" Tnere are men living to-day in Swit Getting leftThe summer resorts. immense aiid belt extending from the Abraham the Jew and the Merchant zeriand and Italy whose life-dream has Rt cky mountains into Eastern California 't- A cold in the head is apt to lead to The Old Home. Theodote, printed by Combe&Nius from only two per cf*nt of the land can be cultivated, been a tunnel under tbe Alps. Mac* blows. O little house lost IU the heart of the lindens a manuscript, is in the National library and this, much has already been Won at Last"The shoemaker's schemes have been investigated, and What would I not ^ive to behold jouonee at Pans. An ther copy exists in the pre-empted. more' many schemes have failed. -4&i money. Ubtary at Turin. It is a curious composition, To inhale once again the sweet breath of your These mighty barriers of mountains The value of small proprietorships, in Remuiber Lot's wife, and avoid letting rosee, properly not a novel, but a sermon, have for agrs divided people that but And the ttarry clematis that climbed round iucreasing the firtihty the soil is strik anything turn your head. pleached on OrthodDxy Sunday in jour dooi tor the mmigh thave been of one language, ingly illustrated in the village of Wtrder the Church of the St. Sophia, at Constantinople, Would you refer to the religion ot the one interest, alike in laws and customs near Potsdam. The area ot thip pansn in the tenth century. It is not To 3ee the neat -windows thrown wide to the printer's "devil" as imp piety? For five hundred years there was but a which ha^ a population of 3,000, id 2 300 sunshme a novel, but a sermon, because it actually stony path across the Hi lvetic Alp, where ac es, of wmch 975 acres are devoted to The poich wheie "ns sat at the close of the Why is a woodpecker like a tramp? was delivered before a congregation the St. Gothard post yard was afterwaid day, frnt culture. These 975 acres are dis Answer. Because he bores for his grub a chureh but we might add that, according Where the wetry foot ton tier was welcome built ai*d it is but a century since triouted among no less tL an 550 owners, to every received idea of what a to rest him. Dean Stanley astonished some Bostonlans the first vehicle oa wheels was dragged so that p'ach cultivator holds on an average sermon is, or ever was, this is not a sermon, And the beg^er was never sent empty away by telling them he had never cx- over the pas", at an expense of several 13 4 acres ot land. The natural sou but a story of some length, worked J1-0.-J \*-ca hundred oollars. Till that time the traf ot the districts tor the most part exceedingly The waisleoted walla, and the low raftered out dramatically. It supposed to be fie between two nations was borne on the ceilu & poor, but by the s'rill of the occupiers About 367 newspapers will remark thAt founded on facts, bat like most historical To hear the loud tkk of the clock on the backs of mules and men, who struggled, the land under cultivation is now the Afghanistan trouble is ameer trifle. romances, it treats historical fa'ta stair, at the risk of death, along narrow stony remprkable ritsfirtilit7, and very heavy Philadelphia Bulletin. with easy liberty. The story is shortly And to kiss the dear face bending over the ways, winding around glaciers, high cropa ot the finest quality are annually Bible, this: In the reign of Herachus there Said thp young man's ear to the young The crops as a matter of motnlam peaks, and yawning gulfs: 16, produced., That ahv ays was laid by my grandfather's k,Muts I give lived in Byzantium a merchant named man, (quoth Brutus): chair! 000 persons and 9,000 horses climbed over course, vtfry according to the sea-on, but Theodore, a good man and a just, who way and room to your rash collar?" these dizzy heights annually. in 1875 no less than 2,500,000 gallons ot met with shipwreck and rum, and then O bright little garden beide the plantation Counsel to witness* "You're a nice sort There were scarcely fewer dangers to fruit *er sent to Berliu alone. Where the tall iiours-de lis their blue ban went begging of his friends a loan for of fellow, you arel" Witness: "I'd say be encountered by the bold trader even ners uiifu,rled, treurnting a new vessel. The Maine farmer is jubilant over the And the Ian was alive with, the thrushes and the same to you, sir, on'y I'm on my forty or titty years agosudden storms, The friends in the usual way bow him agricultural results and prospects in that b'ackbnds, oath!" almost eternal snows, avalanches, falling The dry weather has in out, shut the door in his face, or drive I would you were all I had known of the state, saying: rocks, dangerous and unbridled torrents, world! The washer-woman's motto is "soap on, him from their houses. As a last resource some sections been severely feit, and will and even roooers. Natuie and man con soap ever."Boston Post Sometimes it he goes to a worthy Jew named show itself in a light potato crop, but My sweet pink pea-clusters! My rare honeysuckle! sp.red to make the path of the St. Gothard is "slop on, slrp over."N. H. Reg. Abraham, and asks him to advance the in others the yield will be abundant. Ot one of awful risk and dangers. It winds money. The Jew consents to do so on My prim polyanthuses all of a row! apples there will be a tairly avarage crop Joint-dcbat: The one held between among granite pyramids and peaks nine condition that the merchant can get In a garden of dreams I snil pass and caress greater than in any year for the past the heads of the house on whether this to ten thou*nd feet in height, and the some one to stand surety to him for the five or six Our cheese factories and piece of stove pipe will fit that.Chicago road itself xeaches an elevation of nearl But )onr beautiful selves are forever laid repayment of the ioan should Theodore butter dairies are doing excellently well Journal. seven thousand feet. Even now the snows IOW die. The merchant asrain goes to his and will make a most prosperous season. on the pass are so deep and the dangers There is a HeU street in Faris. It is friends, and is again refused with coldness For your walls, little house, long ago have In brief, the year has been a most tavor. are so great that commerce and travel paved in the usual way.Keokuk Constitution. been leviled or insult. He passes despair "hie one for the farmers of Maine, and te over th: St. Gothard cease for half the Alien feet jour smooth borders, O garden, With good indentions?New through the copper market before the ingathering of the haivest will find them have trod year entirely, the mails being carried Haven Register. imperial palace, when his eye is an\ sted with an abundant yield of all the richest And those whom I lovv dare at rest from their over by messengers. Such are apart only by the great Christ set up by Constantino Queen Victoria asked the king of Siam labors, products ol our fruitful soil. The acreage of the disadvantages arising to some sixty over the portico, glittering in the morning Reposing in peace on the bosom of God! if he would like to oe decorated, and the ot corn and wheat last spring was or seventy millions of people from this sun. In a moment of inspiration tne old fellow said, "Yes, if you'll take me double that ot ten years ago and the mighty mountain wall between Switzerland rejected man spreads his arms to the ju&t as Siam."Boston Post. A&meultural aiotag. State of Maine was never in so good and Italy. Christ and entreats him to stand surety condition, and never so near supplying Tea raised in South Carolina and pre When an artist climbs over a fence to The buildimr of the Mont Cenis Tunnel for him. Then he brings the Jew to the the breadstuff's which its people need, pared in Baltimore was lately exhibited get a nearer view of a handsome buldog, through the Savoy Alps to France, and market-place and points him out the grown from its owri soil, as it is at the an Washington to dealers, who were unable he must take the chances ot his sketching the Brenner Road to Austria, have made surety he has chosen. After some hesitation present time. to distinguish it irom similar varieties the dog, or the dog's ketchin him. it absolutely necessary foi Germany and and a gentle protest, the Jew, who of Chinese and Japanese growth. Switzerland to choose between losing the trusts the honor of Theodore, but has no An Albany clergyman was recently How iollajelo k *ive i lit. So thoroughly established is the excellence commerce and travel of the South, and confidence the image, agrees to give telling a marvelous story, when his little A writer in the Southern Farmer says of the desert horse as compared building a mountain railroad, and a series him the money The merchant is again girl said: "Now, pop say, is that really that bis cow gives all the milk that is with the more domesticated kinds of the of tunnels tnat shall eclipse any thing of wrecked and loses all. A beautiful description true, or is it just preaching?" wanted in a family of e-"gbt, and that the kind in the world. The world knows Arab horse, that, in selecting Arabs for follows of the poor fellow's from it, after taking all that is required Some clothing was stolen recentlv how they have chosen. turf purposes, it is thought among the shame and distress, of the kindness of for other purposes, 260 pounds of butter from the office of the New London Telegram. wepe made this year. This is in part his the Jew, who seeks him out, comforts first essentials to pick one that ha3 been The enterprise was too enormous for The editor must bave been, taking him, and promises to lend him the money all his lite in the desert. private undertaking or tor private capital. treatment of the cow: a bath at that time.Danielsonville again. The character t the Jew is admirably In 1871, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland "It you desire to get a large yield of A company with a capital stock of $2,- Sentinel. diawn a mixture ot generous voted large subventions for the building 000 000 has been organized in California rich milk, give your cow every day water trust and yet of mtious meanness, very An old soldier who prided himself upon of a road, to be commenced at once, running for the purpose of making watermelon slightly salted, in which bran has been ttue to life. He bargains that should his bravery, said he had fought in the from the Lake of Lucerne, in Switz Bugar and oil, claiming that ten per cent, stirred at the rate ol one quart to two Theodore remain away duung the winter battle of Bull"Run. When asked if he erlaad, to Lake Maggiore, in Italy, a distance of sugar can be obtained fiom the juice, gallons of water. You will find, if you he should send him me,b a safe hand, had retreated and made good hie escape, of 108 miles. Twenty-one per cent., and twenty-five per cent, of oil "from the have not tried this daily practice, that half his pronts. This the merchant as others did on that famous occasion, he or nearly 120.000 feet,ot all this distance, seed, suitable for table use. your cow will give twenty-five per cent, promises to do. Then Theodore sails for replied, "Be jabers. those that didn't run was to lie tunnelled through mountains more milk immeaiately under the eftect A sheep's trout toeth the first year are Spain, passes the pillar? of Hercules, are tuere yit!"JV Y. Mail. of granite. of it, and she will become so attached t^ eight in number appearing all of a size. comes to Britain,and lades his vessel with A Minnesota preacher is discoursing The total length of the main tunnel, the diet as to refuse to drink clear water Second year two middle ones are shed tin, after havirjg sold well the merchandise on, "who is the Dt-vil. Where is the which enters the Alps at Goeschenen. ID unless very thirsty. But this mess she out and retraced by two much larger he had brought from instantmople. Devil and How the Devil can be Over- Switzerland, and emerges at Airolo, in will drink almost any time, and ask for than the others. Third year two very He returns to che Mediterranean, and come." and the Detroit Free Press calls Italy, is 48 9d6 feet. A number ot small moie. The amount of this drink necessary small ones appearoae on either side ot winters either in Spain Or Sicily. the attention of the Chicago Times to this er tunnels, bringing the road up to the is an ordinary water pailful at a the eight. At the end of the fourth year His promise troubles him. He has the personal assault. The old, old. Storey. proper level in the Alps,exceed 7,000 feet time, morning, noon and night." there aie six large teeth. Six years all money but rinds no ne to whom he can Give a man a bad dog and hang him. On the Lake of Lucerne, too, there will begin to show wearnot till then. confide it. as all the ships have sailed before N. Y. Com. Adv. be important tunnels and galleries cut J*oaltry Notrs. the equinoctial storms burst over Mutton is the favorite mea* of theEngish alongside of or under the celebrated The small breeds of fowls are the most Feathers will be universally worn this the sea. Ttien, full of faith, resolved, to people ot all clashes, to a much greater profitable layers. Axenstrasse, high above the waters of the 4te winter.Fashion Item.If the American keep his word, he places in a stout box extent than in this country, yet with lake. Teach your hens to break eggs and eat people are going to take to feathers universally, some money and a letter: "In the name us the consumption is gradually increasing them by throwing shells to them whenever they will be a tar-nation sight At the tivre the international treaty for of my heir and God, my Lord and Savi and perhaps tully as fast as the increase opportunity offers. This is a good worse stuck up than ever.Philadelphia this great undertaking was signed it was our Jesus Chrht, who is my surety for a and improvement of the fine breeds way to do it. Bulletin.Pitch in, old boy. We shall believed that the work could be done for large sum of money, I, Theodore,humbly of sheep. Gcod mutton is one of the stick to this country, leather or no.Cminnati the sum of 187.000,000 francs ot stock, in A poultry fancier has found that lice will address my master Abraham, who, with most wholesome as well as the most easily Saturday Night. 20 shares, and 68,000 000 francs of not venture near a sitting hen in whoss nest God, is my benefactor, and creditor, I digested ot all meat kind. mortgage bonds. Italy presented the two or three tobacco leaves haye been "Tim," said the parson severely, "suppose vould have thee known, Master Abraham, undertaking with 45,000,000 francs. placed. Franklin county, Vermont, a live that the Lord should call you just that we all, by the mercy of God, are in Germany and Switzerland each gave 20,- county consitiug of fourteen towns, averaging as an oath was on your lips?" "I shouldn't A writer in the Poultry World argues good health. God has verily prospered 000,000 francs. The work, however, was six miles square, only seventeen go," said Tim. "Ah? my friend," rejoined that there is no foundation for the theory us well, and brought our merchandise to not more than fairly under way when it years aqo could not boast of a single t&e preacher, "you could not escape. that one breed ot domestic fowl Is more a good market, and now, see I I send was discovered, to the astonishment of thoroughbied cow. Now she has about We must all submit to His will tender and juicy than another any fowl thee 50 pounds of gold, which I commit every body, that an awful mistake had 4 000 thoroughbred cows, with nearly all We cannot escape the laws of nature." badly fed or cared for is necessarily poor, to the caie of my surety, and he will convey been made in estimating the costs, and good grades ibi the balance. This is a "Then, parson," said Tim, "what made "stingy" and UDpatable, but," other the money safely to thy hands Receive that,instead of 187,000 000 francs, 289, good record, when we consider that three you put up those lightning rods?" things equal, no difference can be discovered it from me and do not forget us. 000,000 would be required to complete quarters of the cows in the State are either in the taste of the flesh of the variours Farwell." Then, having fastened up the A secptic, who was badgering a simple the work as at first proposeda blunder natives or grades. breeds. box and pitched it well, he flings it into minded old man about a miracle au3 in estimates ol 102.000.COO francs. the sea. The story passes to Abraham In speaking of the necessity of land Balaam's ass, finally said: 'How is it An old turkey-raiser gives the following Mjchi says: "The want ct This blundering calculation threatened waikmg by the waters of the sea of Mar drainage,Mi. possible for an ass to talk lik* a man?" experiment: Four turkeys were confined all sorts of bad results. The stock of the mora with his o'd stewatd, conversing on a hole in the great agricultural plant-pot "Well,' replied an honest old believer, in a pen, and fed on meal, boiled company ran down to a minimum, and his prospects the old Jew sits down on durmg the last wet winter has caused with meaning emphasis: "I don't see why potatoes and oats. Four others, of the hundreds ot families were neany ruined n't as easy for an ass to talk like a .he shile and washes his feet, when ho many an agricultural purse to be oniy it a same brood, were also at the same time by the collapse. The bonds shared in the notices something dancing on the wavelets, halt fil ed. How strange it is that no man, as it is for a man to talk like an confined in another pen, and tea daily crash, and even the most ardent frier ds draws it out, and discovers the box farmer would have a plant-pot in his ass." on the same articles, but with one pint of the enterprise feared that the money with the gold and letter from the faithful greenhr use or home without a hole of veiy finely pulverized charcoal mixed "People who go into business bv the which had been so lavishly given was Theodore. On the return of the the bottom, while the same individual with their foodmixed meal and boiled side of men who have large business buried under the mountains forever. It merchant next spring, Abiaham, to prove often does not consider one to be necessary potatoes. They had also a plentiful supply built up in constant advertising, and became a serious question whether the the faith of the Christian, denies having the big plant pot outside." of brokan charcoal in their pen. The never advertise a dollar, but depend upon works would not have to be completely received the gold. The wavering of the eight were killed on the same day, and the drippings from the neighboring sane aoandoned There certainly was no choice, The English propose to nave a great merchant's mind is well desfrioed. His. there was a difference of one and a half tuary, are like boys who go out to a pig- except to lose all that had been done, or agncultural fa*r in 1879, at an expense ol faith in Christ is very strong, so, also pounds each in favor of the fowls which eoD shoot, ana try to get enough birds for to add many millions more to the subventions. $350,000. It is said that agriculture is is his confidence in the integrity ha I been supplied with charcoal, they a mess from those that get away from tbe The times were hard, financial declining in Great Britain. The number Abraham. He cannot believe that his. being much the fattest and the meat regular sportsmen. Such is life, and the crises were imminent every where, and war ofcattle, the wheat acreage and other surety has not delivered the box, and yet greatly superior in po nt of tenderness pot hunters often go hungry.Milwaukee was raging on the Continent. Everybody crops are increasing, and very nearly onefa he cannot doubt his creditor. Then, in and flavor. Sun. was discouraged. Some of the little cantons ilf the population of the United Kingdom perplexity, he bids the Jew come with of Switzerland, which would receive is now dependent for sustenance on him to the copper market and take oath Ued-Jtugs aniiAnii. We heard of a case the other day where tne most benefit from the cmpletion of iaipoited food. The people hope that an before the brazen Christ on the tetrastyle. A lady writes to an exchange as follows: a young man applied to his employer for the tunnel, refused to lift a hand or to exhibition as propost will help to revive The final scene is very beautifully told. "Think perhaps I might add a a short leave of absence. The employer, spend a dollar. In the face of all opposition, a drooping business Theodore, with outspread hands, poursforth mite that would be of benefit to some of having his own views of his business, however, the money has, at this a noble prayer and the Jew, struck the many readers of this department, and suggested, for a reason, that the young The character of Welsh butter is ex3llent, writing, been almost raised The three to the heart by the glorious faith that wishing for a receipe which would be of man delay his vacation for a few days. but it Is principally consumed in countries, parties to the treaty, have added shines forth in the humble merchant, great help to me, I have, tor the first 'I would replied, the young man, "but tbe Welsh mining districts, as also in prosfrate,weeping,and asks to believe largely to their subsides, and the leading falls time, taken up my pen to tell what I the fact is I am going* to get married, Birmingham and other manufacturing Swiss railways and cities have each voted with bis friend in Christ the great Surety- know. To those that are troubled with the day appointed, and I want to be there towns in the midland counties. Large sums proportioned to the advantages they bed-bugs: Remove all your furniture when it eomes off." He was there on time. quantities oi good butter are made in hope to reap. The work goes onin acr, from the rooms, after cleaning it of all Boston Transcript. Yorkshire, in the North of England, and has never stopped. The asphaltum pavements, which were bugs and,nits then place a pan oi coals in Scotland, which chiefly go to supply An item on its way around states that being extensively laid in London six The contract for this enormous work is in the room and poUr a good supply of provincial towns in the localities in Dr. Babcock, the inventor of the chemical years ago, have been mostly taken up in, most interesting. It was granted to Mr. brimstone on it then close the room tight which such butter is made, or at the engine, is a druken outcast in Oakland, the business sections, and wood pavements Louis Pavre, of Geneva. By its terms Mr. and let it smoke do not open until the nearest market for the commodity. Cat. It seems that this statement is substituted. The greater portion ot the Favre promises to deliver the works of smoke has all gone out through th crevices slightly inc irrect in several trifling particulars: England's wheat crop is below her Strand is now laid in wood, and it is bemg the tunnel, completed, by the 1st of October, then take a wet cloth and wipe off 1. Babcock is not a doctor usual average in Frarcs only moderately laid at various points of Cheapside, 1880. For each day the work may tbe woo Iwork, and, before placing your 2. He never was in California. 3. He is good in Italy not abundant in Bulgaria Fleet street, up towards the bank be done before that time the company furniture back, anoint all the*cracks with professor of chemistery in a Boston Medical the best ever knowi, but the inhabitants et England. Some of the suburban agrees to pay him $1,000. On the other Hnguentum- I have tried this way twice, college- 4. He don't drink. 5. have been unable to gather it in the streets are also paved with wood. A bed band, however, the contractor is bound to and have been very successful. AI90, a Southern part of R-issia the crop is very but these facts are sufficient to of asphaltum is at first laid, and allowed pay handsomely for all deiavs. For every good way to get rid ol those little red abundant in Austria it is good in Germany throw a tinge of suspicion on the item to harden, and on this the blocks are sicsle day in arrear of contract he forfeits ants that are so troublesome to some. though the yield is fair the grain is from California. laid. They are of hard seasoned wood, $1,000. If delay continue six months, the Watch them, and when you find out light in weight. No nation on earth is and are first kyanized. After being laid, forfeit is $2,000 per day and should he where they travel to, just turn kerosene He wfs going down the street, and blessed with such an abundant wheat coal-tar is poured in all the crevices and be one year in an ear with his work, he oil into their nests, and do not be afraid when he turned his head to look at a dog crop this year as the United States. when opened for travel it presents a very surrenders the contract and forfeits $1,- to nse it. I think you .will soon fight, he ran slap bang into a fashionable solid *vnd enduring appearance. It has 600,000, which he, and his friends for be rid of them. I got rid of female, whe was wondering how her fj Powell is preparing for Congress been use for a couple of years in the him, have deposited with the company as them in that way, in a house where I trail looked in a large plate glass window a Summational, but, it is claimed, accurate neighborhood of Charing Cross, and it is security. could not keep anything out of their she was passing. The man seemed as report on the corr paritively small amount solid and perfect as when first laid. The reach, up-staird and down they never embarrassed as a lecturer feeling his On January 1,1877, the headings, or a of arable land iu the union now owned asphaltum caused great injury to horses troubled me afteiward. knite slide down his pantaloon l"g sort of advanced galleryeight feet square by the Government. In the humid or as it becomes very slippery in wet weath through a hole in his pocket white he was pushed forward at the toplof the tunnel, arabie belt east of a line from the eastern er. and for this reason was removed and standing on his tip toes and shaking were half way in. Whether the gigantic Lady (giving au apple to a little boy): point of Lake Superior to the Gulf, he abandoned both hands at, and trying to pierce the work can really be completed within the says the United States owns no lands not "Give this apple to tbe one of us three roof with his flashing eye. The woman time specified is a grave question for Mr taken up. In the sub-arid division, three here whom you think tbe handsomest." i As wall paper comes down in the price was as mad as a hamstrung mule. 'There Favre. Opinions differ, and even engineers hundred and fifty miles wide, to the west The boy looked for a moment at all three they go up on the walls. were no arrests."Wheeling Leader. can do little more than guess. the United States owns a considerable adies, took the apple, andate it. i ti \S" *r &~Z&3SteJ<fs! _^i^