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FiiETüiiRK IlAitrF.it was wortli $750. 000. He who talks to au oyster will nevcr grow wise. The Venotians sed to wear red fo mourniug. Mexico hns had twenty rcvolution since 1821. California rejjorts a woman 14 years old. San Frak&SCO worrics aloug with G2' lawyers. Artificial eyes for liorscs are a reeen invention. Thbuk are tweuty-cight strands in spider's single thread. Fancy runs most furiously when guilty conacieuce drives it. The dogs of New York city have paii $20,000 for licenses this year. The Suez canal doesn't pay Egypt '. per cent. interest on the iuvestment. At present prices, asparagus yield $200 to $300 per acre, and is moderatel profitable to the producer. New Yokk city claims as a regula resident Mr. Horace Wliite, formerl; editor of the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Beecher works for the Chrintia Union at $5,000 per year. He com menced with a salary of $10,000. Texas, whieh had a population of onl; 818,000 in 1870, now claims 2,000,00( The immigration has certainly been im niense. Jefff.rson Davis, by a recent dec: sion, has secured the title to a Missinsip pi plantation formerly owned by lii brother. Capt. Botton was taken for a soa lately in the Ithone, and flred at by som peasants. He promptly hoisted his fla and oscaped. Farmers in the rural distriots of New York make complaint Uiat the tramp steal the hats and coivts off the scare crows they place in their flelds. A righteoto Louisiana Jndge, in liorse case, ruled out both plaintiff anc defendant, and decided that the auima belonged to one of the witnesses. Mus. A. T. Stewart has donatec ftinds to the umonnt of about $700,001 for the ereetion of a grand Episcopa Cathedral at Gordon City, Long islam: The highest legal tribunal in Pennsy! vania has decklod that church bells ma be rung for live minutes, beginni'jg hal a:i hour bcfore the time of holding ser vice on Sunday, and agaiu for flve niiii ules immetliiitoly prec3'.';ng service-time At allother times the ringing of churc bells, or at least of church bells in fash ionablequaioers of the city, is adjudgec' illegal. Vomaire died at Pails, in the house of Marqnise de VilMte, on Beaun street and Quay. In conformity with clause iu the will of the Marquise, th windows of the ehamber have neve been opened sinee the denth of Voltaire They are to remain closed until the hun dreuth auniversarj of his death, whir occurs next year. The injunctions c hie will have been faithfully observad even during the Revolution. An Advent prencher in Missouri, namoc Harris, sbaved his liead so as to acquir the venerable aspect that baldneBs im parte. The trick was deteited by mem bers of his congregation, and he was ex pelled on a charge of decep.ion. H urged that to shave the head was no more an offense than to ent the hair, to trim the beard, or in any other way to improve one's personal appearanee; bn there was a majority vote against him. Continuet) experimente in Califomi thow that no matter how dry the seasoi is a good erop of wheat can be grow ü there if the land lies fallow every othe summer, and is plow?d and sown durini the oft'--ummer, or a full year or more beforc liarvest time. Land so treatei will yield crops of from twenty-fivo to thirty bushels of whent to the acr this yoar, thoughonly about eightiiiche of ïain have fallen npon it. FIREFI-IES. I eaw, onc Bultry night, almvc n pwamp, The dArknoKK tbrobbing witli thcir golden pouip And long my dazzlod Kiht did tlicy entnmee With the bright chaos of thoir dizzy dance. Q'iickcr thnn yrllow leavea, wlion gairB deapoil, Qnivorcd ,hf l)ri'lianee of their unie turmoil, Withia who. o llght w 'ntricately blcnt Pci-petual ri-c, perpetua' dcBcent. A thogh their ucintji'aiit fliekerinffs had met In the vague nicshes of eome alry oct ! And now mVKterionply I Fenued fo kuk, V irle waurhing thcr tiniultuous iovelines, hat fer or of deep pMsion BtraDftdy thrivew In the warm rlChtlCM oí" these tropie 'fvcit, Vliowe nitigK can nover tremble bilt they show The hfarl "f llviüg lire ülat beat belowt -Edgat Fmci'ctt, in Atlantic or Juli. The Johannisbrod, a black liread usei so largely by the Eussian aimy for food is made with a qunniity of sorne k;nd o grease, wliich forms n substituto for but tor. It an be eaten dry; but tho ltus sian soldier prefers, when he can get it to break the liread into small jjieces Tliese he puts iuto a bowl and pours ho water over tbem. The grease tlicn de velops iato .1 gravy, and the whole forms a simple kind of soup. LE ROÍ LE VEDT. HoUl up that flower vhat is thy fnco, Frenh, fair and fregvant. im'i miné, And bleue me wHh lía tender graoc, Dearcr llntn tha inunortil winc Whlch Hebe, cup-bearer to -Jove. Held np with two rjffe-tonchra hands - Kweet bo ''''l "f the eweeter love Tliat willeed her ft-et at liis tiotÓXMtiúM ! lint let lhcn batldB, PO ïtil1 i i-h;irniK, Hold up to uie no otln-r hoon Uut juut theiiifeh e ■ ; and let these arnm Wreathe round me Bpfi ftnd I w It andeoon ! Ho!d up Ihat flower tbat is thy fa 'e, Itrt HweetneHK conrecrate to me. Wliat was Jove8 tLrone : d t h;gh placf To this ra-e right I ho'd iu thee, Hinee I UKiy ca'l tliy fate my fiower. And l.now nn moutli its hr.nev-lH'e? .