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AFRICAN GRAPpLE-PLASr.-In

AFRICAN GRAPPLE-PLANT.-In the
southern parts of Africa there is a curious
plant known by the name of hook thorn.
or grapple-plant, which Is said to bear
some resemblance to the cultle-fislI. The
large flowers of this truly horrible plant
are Il lovely purple hue. They spread
themselves over the ground, or hang in
masses from the trees and shrubs. The
long branches have sharp, barbed thorns
set in pairs throughout their length. When
the petals fall of and the seed vessels are
developed and fully ripe, the two sides
separate widely from each other, and form
an array of sharp curved books. Woe be
to the traveller who ventures near at such a
timel The English soldiers in the last
Kamr wars suffered terribly from this
plant. While the Kanir, unclothed md
oily, escaped harmless, the European was
certain to be made and held prisoner. I'm
agine one hooked thorn catching a coat
sleeve. The first movement at escape bends
the long slender branches, aud hook AFTER
hook ixesi its point into the clothing. Strug-
Cling on trebles the number of thorned
enemies, and there is no way of escape ex-
cept TO stand still, cut OF the clinging seed
vessels, and remove them one by one.
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N.u. - ,n,l -
~ "N"' ~ '"
GIG "No' as ne was o'i.cu, u.e" III Albany
. Coy, =, ~ 'eoo'
i"' "''''S u
uero''o" " me on'ou' o"o urc'y hilht
~ 'If.e"i"0'' io'', WHY COMPANY itne
hlhth vermont Infantry was on picket du-
ty in a pine swamp near Newberl, n. c.,
Uncle .Jako came info the lines at the risl,
orhis uro 10 IAN Aha, L. - Y.-
VI "'' ~ W gu '""' " '"Iso iorce Vi repoIs
would gobble them up that night. On this
information the company was deployed as
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PBRSIsTR.N'CB OF I.ysIOI..

There are many ~paradOXcs in science,
and one of them is, that we see things after
they are out of sight or, to state it in a
less familiar way, the impression made by
light on the retina of the eye does not cease
when the light is removed, but continues
for about the eighth of a second afterwards.
That is a very brief time, to be sure, but it
is long enough to give rise to many pecu-
liar effects. We all know that if a stick
with a spark of fire on the end of it be
whirled round rapidly, we see q circle of
light. The end of the stick appears to be at
every point of the circle at once, which of
course ii cannot be. "Seeing is believing,'
we say but in this case, as in many 9th
ers, the ancient "saw" fails us. The lu-
mlnous impressions made by the spark at
different points succeed one another so rap
idly that they appear continuous.
We know also that when a wheel is turn
ing very fast, we cannot distinguish the
spokes. In this instance the successive i'm
pressions, being made on the same part of
the %retina, obliterate one another, so that
instead of seeing more than actually exist
(as with the lighted stick, we see less than
we are looking at. 1t will seem to be an
o'her PARADOX wheh we assert that II we
oouiu iooh Al. inc "liri"s "neei 'or ohiy
the thousandth part OF a second instead of
I" ~ u VI "io'e' s"o"iu . eN-
~ " ""'
"""y oP''a, .oys ""'o ecu
uepo"u "po" 'n'' 'n" Vi '''o'"'
m"'ope " wv Vi IL ei"p'e'' VI '"o
wv pi0'uie' y Pu. On ,ho oppos"o sue
y" p'eoe ar which III
-"p,a'9 " ."oss 's"''sS ~ ~
-" n.
NO. ~, "n -,
mn, on ono sido or, r. card ana oaao on
The other. and we ace the bird In the cage
when the card is twirled. So n man ON one
side and a horse on the other NAV unite tc
form an equestrian groupe. You can gel
an idea of the effect by making a distinct
horizontal line with ink ON one side Of 8
card. and an upright line ON the other
which will form a cross if Won twirl IN,
card.
Tho roef,ope Is another ingenious and
amusing contrivance. the effects of which
are due TO the same cause. 1t is a cylin
drical box, open at the top, turning upot
an upright axis. Around the upper mar
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-09-13

A BIG APPLE CRoP.-A journey through
the six New England States and a portion
of New York, reveals the fact that the an
pie crop is equally abundant in all quar-
tiers. The trees everywhere are loaded
with this staple fruit. Along the Hudson,
from Troy to ~Poughkeepsie, II is nearly the
same as in Connecticut the apple trees are
loaded. In some of the towns about Hart
ford the trees are kept from breaking down
by props and stays. "Golden sweets" sell
TO dealers at 81 per barrel, and purchasers
are scarce even at that rate. Many farmers
are feeding them out to their stock. In
Maine it Is the same. A large dealer i'm
Hartford refused, last week. to take Rhode
Island greetings, deliverable in October.
at any price above 81 a barrel. 1t Is a great
year for apples.-Hartford Times.
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OWE sPECIEs or E.,,S.f.vrTr.

Did you ever see a woman who was pos
sessed by the house cleaning hend? Not
periodically but at all times. Who would
go about drawing her finger over every
lounge, and table, and chair, peering into
cracks and crannies for crooked pins and
lint holding tumblers up to the light for
finger marks in short so utterly absorbed
in the pursuit of dirt, that every other pur-
suit was nothing in comparison.
Now, being New England born, | know
what neatness Is, aud value it as only a
New Highlander can; but when II takes
such shape as this, and robs life Of all its
charms, / turn my back upon IL with right
eous disgust. Who thanks these jealous
iuries for their ~self-imposed laborsY Ger
tainly not their husbands, who flee into
corners from dust pans and dust-brushes,
and weary of the recital of their prowoss
day by day. Certainly not their children,
who have nc place to stow away their little
sacred property in the shape Of bright bits
of silk or paper, or broken cups which are
dear and precious to them, and should al
ways be held in respect within proper in
nocent limits.
Oh, we careful and troubled Marthas OF
the household, stop and take breath. Place
a flower on the mantle that you and your
household may, perhaps, have some in
your lives. While you stop to rest, read.
So shall the cobwebs be brushed from your
neglected brain, and you shall learn that
something else besides cleanliness is nee
essary to make hons really home for those
dependent on your care.
Throw your broom out Of doors take
your children by the hand, and let the
fresh wind touch your wtinkied forehead.
If you house is wound up To such an i'm
maculate pitch of cleanliness, it can run on
a few hours without your care. Laugh and
talk with them, or, better still, listen to
their foolish-wise talk. Bring home a bit
of gingerbread for each of them, and play
some simple game with them. Put on the
fresh dress you have, and ask your hus-
band, when he comes in, if lie recognizes
his wife.
az wish my mother looked ms pretty as
you," said Il little girl once 10 her neigh
Dor.
"But your mamma is much prettier than
j. replied the i%eighbur. The truth was
that the child's mother was always in a
wrapper unless company was expected,
The rest Of the time she was under the do
minion of the housc-cieaning fiend, and
the children fled from such o joylcss, utili.
tartan home, where no flower of beauty
could ever get time TO take root and bios.
som.
There is little need 10 misinicrpret my
meaning. Many a ruined life has come OF
a joyless home. Your children take to the
sunlight as naturally as do the flowers.
Shut it out of your houses, and they will
go abroad in search Of it, you may be sHre
of that. Isn't this worth thinking about,
Oh, We mothers? Careful and troubled
about other things, and yet so blind to your
first and greatest duty !LFdnny Fern.
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noticed for more than forty years that al
ways, whom" etc., it may he quietly as
sumed that he has noticed no such thing.
He has heard some one say thus or so he
has a vague idea that once or twice he has
seen the sign come true, but the dozens of
times when II utterly failed, he paid no re-
gard TO.
1t Is a common saying that the will
come a change of tho weather with the
change of the moon. Now, as the moon
changes once a week, u change of weather
must come somewhere near n change of tho
moon. But take n long series of observa-
tons, such rs those made by the agents for
the Smithsonian Institute-observations
which give the state of the thermometer,
the direction of the wind, character of the
clouds and fall Of rain in a particular place
noted three times a day for years, and by
comparing the changes of the moon, we
find that there is no traceable connection
between the two-that sometimes the
weather changes with the moon and just as
often does not.
The moon changes on the same day all
over the earth. A change of weather moves
more slowly than the moon, so that ii the
moon and weather run together on the AT
lantic coast, they would not be on the
Rocky Mountains or on the Pacific coast.
Again, when the weather Is very wet on
the Atlantic slope, 1t may be very dry in
the Mississippi Valley. If 1t changes from
wet to dry in one place, it should change
from dry to wet in the other. People for
get tina the moon changes elsewhere than
in their own township.
Says someold farmer, at will turn warm
next week, Tuesday, for there is a change
of the moon" ''Turn warm where3" wt
ask him. "Why, turn warm here" Blu
the moon will change up in Alaska-wil
II turn warm there? And It has already
turned warm down in Texas-has thu
moon already changed Thereon does no
Texas weather go by the moonP
Says some old observer, al have noticed
for more than forty years that the first fros
in the Fall comes at the time of the full o
the MOON" But the first frost does nc
come at the same time in Montreal, Phila
delphia, and Savannah and If the frs
frost in Montreal comes on a half-moon
the first in New York could not be befor'
the first fuIl moon. and Richmond woult
have IN wait till another moon before |
could have n frost and the first fros
would not come in Cuba before the mex
July.
uRea,s sbouId Ina n,anted In tbo now q
the moon" saws some old fellow who Ina,
had 'experience." But beans should no
be PLANTED in Missouri ot the same time n,
in Arkansas or Ionisian. and If oocb lati
tpde must woi, for a now moon for be,,
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u, U,.r01rU.y.rrE OPTICr.sN.

Twas gentle little Lucy Gray
whose optics were 30 bright,
They saved the need Of sun by day
And kerosene by might.
There was a you'h-John Smith by name,
30 smitton by her eyes,
That he, although not large, became
A man Of wondrous signs.
This fact his friends could plainly sec;
And Smith could not deny
The bright pair Of her eyes to be
The apple Of his eye.
But cruel Lucy, understand,
by Johnny was not smitten,
SO when he asked her for her hand,
He only got the mitten.
For marriage, though he pleaded long,
She couldn't see 1t quite,
She said for them II would be ,Crong
To undergo that rite.
Though he on her had built his hopes,
He now could understand,
Since she was harder than a rock,
His hopes were built on sand.
SO he began to realize
The reason Of his woes,
He saw he could not have her eyes
Because he had her noes. d.
So slowly rising to depart,
He said, with anguished quiyer,
"5ince l, alas, have lost my heart,
Ill no more be n liner.
my life has lost it's colors bright,
And 1 shall have to die
In life I've always told the truth,
In death l now shall He."
This time he told the truth, and 30
The turf above him lies,
He hlls a ak foot grave, although
He could not I'LL her eyes.
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Iy.R.STHRR SIGJrS.

Every man has some way of telling the
changes Of the weather, or rather no way
of telling what the weather will be. He
fixes on some rule and agrees with him
self that he will believe the weather to be
thus or thus, according as his rule de-
mands.
These signs do not generally receive
from those who follow them a very critical
investigation. When a man says, ~ have
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Utilization Of Grrharn.

see that correspondent OF one of the city
papers suggests as means OF disposiRg OF gsrb-
age the reducing of it 10 ashes IN large kilns out
side of the city, the sshes TO be used in feT,i-
LIKING the lands, or in dlling up low places. This
Is a citizens view of the question, and one that
points forwards improvement. TIE a country
contains a very large amount of fertiliEing ma
teriai-2shes, leather, straw. vegetables N attOT
bones and al o. ali kinds. To resolve this into
ashes involves loss of ali the organic substance
and most OF the acids, besides creating by the
stencil arising from the burning leather, bones
etc. a nuisance as great the garbage itself.
Why net establish couple Of yards, one on ea CHI
side of the river, near but not on public road,
plant trees thickiy around il, for the dOub c
purpose or screening 1t from view and absorb iu 2
what DSXlous gases may arise, and let thes
Yards he the receptacles of the city garbage
grass, or anything available or cheaplv pro-
durable. Let dry earth be used II any o63rs are
6re perceptible, and water pumped upon the
mass occasionally TO aid its Gecom position.
In TINS way large amount of fertilizers could
be produced az a less expense than is incurred
IN the present system, and which could be dis
posed OF at low price and cover the whole cost
OF production. a plan might be devised for
usihZing sewage IN con JUNCTION with the garb-
age, which would greatly increase the value @
the production. BY such a system unhealthy
malaria from lots filed in by the city garbage.
or from a river burdeTed with flth, would he
avoided, and the health or the city benefited
thereby. Instead OF thousands Of doila-s being
annually thrown away, the sum could be greatly
augmented and applied to the interests OF the
agrieultLrists. The city treasury would be 80
much richer, the farmers and gardeners more
prosperous, ana their acres more productive.
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