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The Hebrew Maid.

/ always liked the Hebrew maid. Her
nose made no difference to me. It is
rather in her favor that she eats no pork
it always was bad habit anybody
who has seen q hog of fourteen hundred
pounds lying in a mud-hole can appre-
ciate the Hebrew maiden's prejudice.
But she has eyes, hair, complexion,
and heft that please me well. As far as
l am aware, there are no authorizations
necessary to the full acceptance in the
faith. A perfect woman, nobly planned,
with many shackles in her hand. She
fattens up handsomely. Who ever saw
a lean Jewish maid or matron? If it
isn't written in the Koran it ought to be,
that the presiding Allah, when he saw
how piously Judith, Miriam, Hagar,
and the rest of them gave up their pork
and beans, ham and eggs, sausage,
scrapel and spare rib, he said "Bis-
hallah Mashaliah or any other Allah;
since my handmade has put aside the
swine she shall inherit his heft." The
domestic virtues of Israel are seen here
in their perfection. The men smoke ;
the women dress two Hebrew lovers
are fond to see; they appear to be con-
Quoting a most civilized bargain. No
simpering schoolgirl is that broad
shouldered, broad beamed young crea-
ture whose ancestors ministered in the
temple and passed two thousand years
of bondage IN the perpetual acquisition
OF art and property. She marries with
her eyes wide open and an invisible pair
of scales between them. She weighs
him by carats. She tests his property
and his faith. When she yields to his
suit he has married faithful wife, a
fruitful mother, and woman of bust
ness. Her appetites grow with her
years and progeny. Business sons grow
from this Jessica. She grows old as
iron rusts, merely oxidizing in her strong
rich tresses, and their hoary theocracy,
that is still the only grand and poetical
religion, descends about their cave of
Macpelah, where in the primitive rock
of law and creation they are gathered
to their fathers. The Jews are by
nature a convivial people, and therefore
they prefer our watering places more
and more every year. Most of them
come to us through German stock.
They are always in contact with other
races, yet do only touch their voyage
down the ages, through the races, is an
odyssey such as the phantom ship
achieved-that craft of sailors fears
which bears upon the doomed human
vessel, strikes her without a shock, then
opens and sails away. Her prov is ever
the Roman beak, the Hebrew mob
Geo. Alfred Townsend.
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Indian Pigmies,

The general report of the operations
of the Great Trigonometrical Society of
India during 1873 IA contains an &C
count of an interview which Mr.. B md,
one of the staff, had with a couple of
the wild folks who live in the hill
jungles of the western Ghasts, to the
southwest of the Palanei hills. A
strange, dwarfsh people had often been
heard of as frequenting the iupgles
near the station of Pemalei, in the
northwest corner of the Tinnevelly dis
trict, but until Mr.. Bond caught these
two specimens no traces of them had
been seen by the members of the sur
vey. These two people, man and a
woman, believed themselves to be 100
years old, but Mr.. Bond believes the
man to be about 25, and the woman Is
years of age. "The man." Mr.. Bond
states, SIS 4 feet 81 inches in height,
26I inches round the chest, and 49,
inches horizontally round the head over
the eyebrows. He has a round head,
coarse, black, woOlly hair, and dark
brown skin. The forehead is low and
slightly retreatipg, the lower part of the
face projects like the muzzle of mon
key, and the mouth, which is small and
oval, with thick lips, prOtrudes about
an inch beyond his nose; he has short
handy legs, a comparatively long body,
and arms that extend almost to his
knees, the back just above the buttock
is concGve, making the stern appear
to be much protruded. The hands and
fingers are duE;py and always con-
tracted, 50 that they cannot be made o
stretch out quite straight and flat. The
palms and fingers are covered with
thick skin (more particularly so the
lips of the fngers), and the neck is
small and imperfect the feet are broad
and thick-skinned all over; the hairs
of his mOustache are of erayish white,
scanty and coarse like bristles, and he
has no beard. The woman is four feet
six and half inches In height, twenty
seven inches around the chest (abOve
the breast), and nineteen and a half
inches horizontally around the head
above the brows the color of the skin
is sallow, or of nearly yellow tint !;
the hair is black, long, and straight,
and the features we'll formed. There is
no difference between her appearance
and that of the common woman of that
part of the country. She is pleasant
to look at, well developed, and modest.
Their only dress is a loose cloth, and
they eat flesh, but feed chiefly on roots
and honey. They have no fixed dwell
ing places, but sleep on any convenient
spot, generally between two rocks or i'll
caves near which they happen to be
benighted. They make q fire and cook
what they have collected during the
day, and keep the fire burning all night
for warmth and to keep away wild
animals. They worship certain local
divinities of the forest Rakas or Ra-
kerr, and Pc (after whom the hill is
namad, Pemalei.) The women cooks
for and waits on the man, eating only
after he is satisfied.-LOndOp Medical
RscOrI
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Shakespeare and the Sea.

Swinburne opens his papers, entitled
"The Three Stages of Shakespeare,
with the subioined fine passage
The first of living poets had drawn a
parallel of elaborate eloquence between
Shakespeare and the sea and the like
ness holds good in many points of less
significance than those which have been
set down by the master-hand. For two
hundred years at least have students of
every kind put forth in every sort of
boat on a longer or shorter voyage of
research across the waters of that IN
sounded sea. From the paltryest fish
ing craft to such majestic ealleys as
were steered by Coleridge and by
Goethe, each division of the fleet has
done or has essayed its turn of work /;
come busted in dredging along shore,
some taking surveys of this or that gulf
or headland, some putting forth through
shine and shadow into the darkness of
the great deep. Nor does it seem as if
there would sooner be an end to mems
labor on this than on the other sea.
But here a difference is perceptible.
The material ocean has been so far mas
tered by the wisdom and the heroism of
man that we may look for time to come
when the mystery shall be manifest of
its farthest north and south, and men
resolve the secret of the uttermost parts
of the sea; the poles, also, may find
their Columbus. But the limits of that
other ocean, the laws of its tides, the
motive of It's forces, the mystery of its
unity, and the secret of its change, mo sea-
farer of us all may ever think thoroughly
to know. No wind gauge will help us
to the science of its storms, no lead-line
sound for us the depth of its divine and
terrible serenity.
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Important Points in Draft Horses.

We start out with the proposition
which we have before discussed, that
great size is not necessarily a point in
favor of draft horse, and is often an
objection. Next we state that a draft
horse is not to be judged by his ability
to trot fast. Fine action, in the sense
in which the words are applied to road
sters, is not to be expected of horses
designed for heavy work. Again, an
unusual disposition to lay on flesh or
signed for food, is not especially to be
commended in an animal designed for
labor.
Especially for use in America, sound
ness is very important point in any
horse, and as much so among draft
horses as among those for other pur-
poses. There should beno predisposition
to disease of any kind. Thereshould be
such a constitution that reasonable exer-
ton to which a working horse is subject
shall not produce sickness nor unsound
ness of any kind. Perhaps the point in
which there is the greatest lack among
most draft horses is the feet. Among
the first things at which we should look
if about purchasing draft stallion,
would be his feet. 1t is to be hoped
that importers and breeders of draft
horses may pay especial attention to this
matter.
Good eyes are another essential. It
is q not uncommon fault with many
draft horses, that their eyes are small,
dnIl, sunken, or vicious looking. Good
temper is especially to be desired. A
dull, stolid brute, without any nantes
tation of energy or spirit is to be avoid
ed on the one hand, as is a bad-temper-
ed, vicious brute on the other hand.
Among the faults of lesser conse-
quence, but one we think worthy of no.
tice, and one we think in which breed
of horses with very many excellencies,
the Clydesdale, could be improved, is
in having long hair on the legs. We
see no good in this hair; it certainly
adds nothing to the beauty of the ami
NAL, and it holds mud, wet snow, ice,
ETC., to an unpleasant amount. If this
trait were bred out we think a gain
would be made Western Rural.
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A Sad Picture.

Olive Logan writes from Long Branch
to the Baltimore American. "Laugh
while you may. Such fit of the hor-
rors as we've had this last week would
freeze the fun out of Touchstone him
self. One of our brightest belles-ugh /!
1t gives one a shiver to write the words
has gone insane, and for three DAYS
she, who ten days ago was as much
admired as any young woman here, has
been making night hideous with her
maniac howls, jumping out of windows,
clutching passers by the throat, and
refusing food in the fear of being poi
soned. Unrequited love is said to be
the cause, though in one of her sane
moments the poor girl said 8 / think /
must have eaten too much lobster salad
one night last week Could anything
be more indicative of the frightful ex-
tremes of tragedy and farce that are
sometimes seen In the undivine comedy
OF life than an episode like this And
last evening, while the music was sound
ing and careless feet were dancing in
the parlor, the wretched girl, barri-
caded IN remote room, where physi-
clans were wrangling as to the proprietv
and possibility of bleeding her, was
baying like a wolf against the moon.
Her relatives were driven almost mad
themselves with the excitement and hor-
ror of this fearful calamity, but the
others danced on.
For some must laugh and some must weep
So runs the world away"
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boy, footsore and bruised by frequent
falls on the hard, rough mine moor, hur-
ried on in the subterranean labyrinth.
Suddenly, in turning the angle of one
of the corridors a light again flashed
upon his sight and then another and
another. A voice shouted prolonged
call {:
"J-a-m-e-s Gallagher HelLo-o,
Jimmy p
The inevitable echoes had scarcely
taken up the cry when the boy returned
the call with all his soul in his voice
Here 1 am Come this way !"
His answer was heard, and in few
moments sturdy miners had found the
boy. But he did not know that he was
rescued. He had fallen to the ground
unconscious, his strength having gone
out with his last wild cry. He was soon
taken out into the pure air, where his
frantic mother and the most of the
villagers had assembled to await the
result of the search. The people were
wild when It was announced that the
boy was found, and his brave rescuers
were borne aloft by the crowd. It was
long time before young Gallagher was
restored to consciousness, and then il
was only at intervals that he was in his
right mind. In these sane intervals he
related the story of his fearful suffer
ings, and learned that he had been
nearly two days and one long night
wandering among the horrors of the
mine. His lucid spells lasted but a
short time, when he would be seized
with frantic rawlings, in which he would
plaintively beg of Barrett not to hurt
him, and then shrek
'The rats are eating me upl Drive
them away! Drive them away !"
The moments in which he was sane
became less frequent and, finally, days
passed without one CLEAN of reason
lighting up the darkness of his mind.
The surgeons found it necessary to am
putate one hand and three toes that Lad
been gnawed by the rats, and to per
form other painful operations to save
the boys life. One day last week, his
physical condition being such as to per
nit it, they decided he must be takeI
to an asylum for mental treatment, and
expressed grave doubts of his permanent
recovery. The brute Barrett, when the
result of his cruelty became known, was
compelled to flee the place in the night
to escape the fury of the exasperated
populace, and personal effects left by
him were burned as an expression OF
the indignation of the people against
him.-Datnn1Ore, Pa. Cor. ". y
Herald.
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When to cut Hungarian Grass.

Cut the grass as soon as il is fairly
out of blossom, certainly before the
seed forms to any considerable degree.
Hungarian hay, when ripe or nearly
so, is popularity supposed to be injurious
to horses. We believe there are good
grounds for so believing. If cut at the
time we have designated you need have
no fear in feeding it, and if properly
cured you will find it superior to
timothy hay in it's nutritious qualities.
Hungarian grass when heavy, say
three or more tons per acre, is difficult
to cure without turning. If you have a
hay tedder you will have no difficulty in
curing in two to four days. The usual
way is to let it lie until dry enough for
raking and then get it up in the usual
way. This, however, bleaches the
leaves-the most valuable part-more
or less and detracts seriously from the
value of the hay. If you cut the grass
down in the morning turn this in the
swath just before night. What you
cut in the latter part of the day may be
turned next day, so the green part will
take the dew. Then it may be raked at
the proper time according to the ap.
pearance of the weather. If too green
to be hauled put ii into compact cocks
to sweat and turn rain, and it will come
out all right.
Hungarian we think does not bear
stacking quite so green as clean timothy,
since it becomes more compact in the
stack or NOW. But we have had it
show strong heat after being put in
the NOV and had it come out all right.
Indeed, English farmers do not mind if
their hay heats to very considerable
Journal.
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LATE TO CHURCH.

Along the road, on either eide,
lie elder boughs are budding,
The meadow land 4 rosy tide
OF clover bloom is flooding:
The sunny landscape is so fair,
80 sweet the blossom-scented air,
That when I went to church to-day
could but choose the longest way.
Loud sang the bobolinks and round
The milk-weed flowers the bees were hummiog
sauntered on, but soon I found
Behind me there was some ons coming,
did not turn my head to see,
And Yet knew who followed me
Before Tom called me" K title stay,
And let me share with you the way :"
We did not mind our steps grew slow,
Or NJ ticed when the bell stopped ringing,
Or think Of being late. but 10
When we Rad reached the church the singing
Was over and the prayer was done,
The sermon fairly was b .punl
Should we 90 in, should we stay cut,
Press boldly on, or turn ab0ut2
Tom led the way, and up the aisle
IfOllowed-all around were staring
Ard here and there caught q smile
trie1 to think was not caring:
And yet blUshed, I know, and showed
face that like poHpy glowed,
For every one seemed saying, " Kate
We all know why you are so late :"
Another Sunday, come what will.
mean TO be at church in season.
But to reFret this morning still,
trust never shall have reason
For should wear a wedding dress
year from now, perhaps you'll guess
What Tom sad TO me when, to-day,
We walked to church the longest way
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HAMLET. answer to Jrrespon-
dent, the Monde Illustre gives the follow
ing particulars of the Danish prince !:
The historian SAKE examinations, who
lived in the twelfth century, states that
Hamlet was the son of king of Jutland,
named Horvendil, and that his mother
was the Qaeen Gerutha. Fenge, the
brother OF Horvendil, having assassi-
mated Hamlet's father to seize the
throne and marry his widow, Hamlet
feigned madness, and in the meantime
prepared to take vengeance on his guilty
uncle. King Fenge suspected the SIMS
ter designs of his nephew, and sent HIM
to England for the purpose of having
him assassinated. Hamlet, however,
succeeded in gaining the friendship OF
the English king, and returned the fol
lowing year to Denmark. There he
slew, with his own hand, the assassin of
his father, was proclaimed king, and fell
some time afterwards in battle against
King Vigilet, who was offended because
Hamlet had assumed the style of
royalty.
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pluck, begged an introduction. The
captain Is now President of France and
the brave girl Madame MacMahon.
An Operation by Physicians Who do
not Advertise,

Since the Academy of Medicine at
Evansville expelled veteran physician
for regularly advertising, the Journal,
at that place, tries to carry out the
rule in spirit by excluding the irregular
advertising in reporting a case as fol.
lows:
DIFFICULT OPERATION.
There was an operation performed in
the city the other day-a surgical opers
ation-and if we did not have a whole
some dread of the "Drake Academy of
Medicine before our eyes, we would re-
port the case in full. It was an ampu-
tation of the leg-the lower part-about
half way between where the shoe stops
and the garter begins. The patient
was weak, and couldn't afford to lose
any blood ; she needed all she had to
begin business of living again, so the
doctors (members of the Drake Medical
Academy, consequently cannot be
named), agreed solemnly that she
should not lose any at all. DR.
1--WE are writing according to the ''code"
now, so we can't name him), produced
a sort of rubber strap, which looked
like the doctors suspenders, sewed end
to end. Dr.-Ea member of Drake
Medical Academy, so we can not men
ton names), held the leg up while DIR.
1--WE don't mean to be personal, but
it was neither of the other doctors),
strapped the rubber on. This done,
Dr.-(who, being a member of the
Drake Medical Academy, cannot allow
the use of his name,) put something
else on, while Dr.-(who is nameless
because a member of Drake Medical
Academy took the rubber strap off. A
physician was present belonging to
Drake Medical Academy, we withhold
his name, armed with knife, and be-
gan to cut. He was ably assisted by a
medical gentleman of this city Iunmen-
tionable here, as he holds a member
ship in Drake Medical Academy. The
arteries were taken up by DR.
(who belongs to Drake Medical Acad-
envy, and is thereby "nameless here
forevermore), in most skillful man
ner. When our reporter left the patient
was doing we'll. The whole operation
was very creditable to the doctors (who,
being members of the Drake Acdeamy
of Medicine, cannot have their names in
print),
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A WISE CHILD.-While we are in the
dining room we must not forget little
miss of five or six summers, who I'M
consciously perpetrated one of the best
jokes of the season. Wine was being
passed around, and she was invited to
take some but declined.
"Why do you not take wine with
your dinner, Minnie ?" asked a gentle
man who sat near her.
"Tause / doesn't like it.
But take little then, my child, for
your stomach's sake, " he urged.
81 amt dot no tommik's ache !" in
dignantly responded the little miss in
the most emphatic manner. As both
question and answer were distinctly
heard by those around, everyone burst
into laughter, which so frightened the
little maid that she cried.
The same little miss upon being one
day bantered because she was girl,
and having represented to her that boys
were much more useful creatures in the
world, although they were usually more
trouble, was asked if she did not wish
she were a boy. "No indeed" she
quietly replied Else worse now than
most boys. IN. Y. Mail.
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MFsMERIzING A RoosTER.-An exper-
iment which it may amuse the boys to
repeat has been described by several
correspondents to a popular science
journal. Place a cock upon a table or
board, and, holding his wings close
down his sides, let second person bend
down his head until his beak touches
the board on which he lies, and draw a
line of white chalk straight out from
the point of his beak. This done the
bird may be released from all restraint,
and he will not stir so much as fea-
ther. "Nay, further" writes one,
"you may clap your hands or shout
close to him, without arousing him from
his lethargy, from which, however, he
will ultimately recover" Another ex-
perimenter writes 81 have seen a
row of fowls rendered quite sonseless
by drawing chalk-line beginning at
the top of the beak) slowly a~ross a
table, and have, myself, successfully
performed the experiment. The birds
are simply mesmerized,
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WORTH TEsTING.-Save the tea leaves
for few days. then steep them in d tin
pail or pan for half an hour, strain
through sieve, and use the liquid to
wash all the vanished paint. 1t re-
quires very little "elbow polish" as
the tea acts as a strong detergent,
cleansing the paint from all impurities,
and making the varnish equal to new.
II cleans window-sashes and oil-cloths
indeed, any varnish surface is improved
by its application. It washes window
panes and mirrors much better than
water, and is excellent for cleansing
black walnut picture and looking-glass
frames. 1t will not do to wash unvar-
nished paint with it.
A CALIFORNIA hunter who went ten
miles to where game was plenty, and
then found that he had brought a box
of pills instead of percussion caps, re-
turned home in disgust.
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THE simple faith of Virginia Chris
was asked if he thought Stonewall Jack
son was in heaven. oval" said the
gentleman, "I reckon he is, if he
started for that place. He always man.
aged to get round in time"
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AT this season of the year cramps and
pains in the stomach and bowels, dysentery,
diarrhea, &C, are quite common, and should
be checked at once. Johnson's Anodyne Lini-
ment is the best article that can be used in all
such cases. and should be keptin every family.