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snail Cnlture in Franco

Frogs. horses, aud snRils-the first
are an odd but toothsOme dainty, which
epicures, in this country as well as else
where, dearly prize; but horses, and
especially snails-these are articles Of
diet which the enlightened American re-
public has yet to be educated to relish.
HippOphagy, we have repeatedly eX-
planned. Is as common Ia Paris or
nearly so, as the eating of beef and
the vermont steed finds his way to the
abattoir as readily as the miikless COW
or stall-fed OK. Hence, as a mere
boane JOuche he has pRlled on the
Gallo taste, educated by Swollen geese
slivers or decayed salmon poes-; a new
dainty has been sought for, found, and
the basis of the industry which the
production has developed is snaiis.
There is nothing peculiar about the
imonOuse It Is the everyday slimy
/ little object of which one finds thou
sands In gardens, vineyards, and the
woods. Switzerland and the provinces
of Burgundy and Provence are the
! places. of its cultivation Throngs Of
women and children scOuF the country,
collecting the snails in immense num-
I bera, and depOsiting them in little
/ tracts of land, inciosed with simply a
/ trail of sawdust. This last the snail
despises; he cannot cross it, and avoids
its vicinity as matter of preference
/ Therefore, for his confinement it is as
/ good IS a stone wall After incarcesa-
! fion for bg0 OF three days, he Is per
mitted to starve, ane then the plot is
/ laid out IN patches OF turf intersected
/ by paths of saud Above boards, are
II hung to serve al shelter for the sDails,
/ which insfinctiyely gather in large
/ grcups. The food provided consists IN
aromatic plants, such As mint, or let
tuce and fragments Of vegetables.
This is fed 70 them three times q day
in enormous quantities. At the end oi
eight days, the snails become quite
j obese, and besides have attained q vsr5
sfiecuient favor. Then comes another
period OF starvation- for several days
faster which tsaiIsnai ission tolnl.rzet fol
/ lows
fGourmands, Il is said, prefer IN
snail when taken Wild, 90 lopg IS 3ill
Feapthfe Is rzade at q fartiDalar paEiod
After the eggs are laid in May, tn
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easy q method as any of getting rid of
a very disagreeable customer, and both
his constituents and the go7ernnent
party in the British parliament may
congratulate themselves upon it.
AMONG the measures which were left
pending in congress are the steamboat
bill the bill proposing amendments to
the constitution changing the manner
of electing the president and vice
president; Col. Scott's Texas Pacific
railroad bill, and several other railroad
relief bills. % - -ssts55s -
AEATIoNAL butter and egg conven-
tioL has been in session at Chicago for
the past three days. Strange as it may
appear, the butter production of the
United States is actually OF greater
value than either the wheat or provision
crop
TaE appropriation for the opening of
the south pass of the Mississippi by
the Eads' system is s., $50. .OO0. ponaof
themoney to be paid till the work shall
have been approved by United States
engineers. There is but little chance
for a job in that arrangement. 7 =
The house election, or force bill, the
emanation OF, the house republican cau-
Gus, was read first and second time in
the senate. Beyond this, the senate
took no action. 1t. therefore, failed.
The house o.. rep res entatives adopt-
ed a.resolution declaring tha. the gov
ernment of Arkansas ought not to be
interfered with by any department of
the federal government. 2ae
WISCONSIN has at. last modified her
system of railroad regulation, by mate
rally advancing the rates allowed un-
der the Potter law. It seems TO have
been disastrous experiment fer all
concerned. svs tshAt5
Mr.. THoRNE, a member Of the North
Carolina legislature, has been expelled
from that body because he did not be-
lieve in "the God of their state consti-
tutiop,7 though he believed in su-
preme being.
A 2coNyENTIoN OF citizens OF upper
Michigan, is called to meet at Ishpen-
ming, with a view to petitioning the
Legislature and congress to allow the
upper peninsula to lapse into territory
entitled '' ''Snperior." .y
Ex- Gov. Moses, of South Carolina,
has fled a petition in bankruptcy,
placing hig liabilities at $92, 451, and
his assets at 81, 200 in personal property
with some mortgaged real estate.
C6Pr. Eugene Morris, an old steam
boatman, recently secret ry of the
Good Intent towboat company, of New
Orleans, is dead.
GEORGIA has $3.50 negroes who own
property. They nave 323, 769 acres of
land, and their property is valued at
S6,OOO,OOO.
VIcE-PREsIDEsT WILSON coutemplates
trip to the south. and viii probably
leave Washington for that purpose next
week.
The Arkansas house of representa-
tives hes passed bill apl ropriating
/ 5000 for tho centennial exhibition at
Philadelphia. -
The president has signed the civil
rights bill, and that measure is now a
| law. ya-.rse- r- e
ADvICEs from the prospecting party
who went to the Black Hills report that
gold was " struck in every instance.
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The Vesper Bell.

To The traveller in Spanish America,
the striking of the vesper bells exer.
cises a potent charm. As the usage re-
quires everyone to halt, no matter were
he may be, at the first stroke OF the
bell, to interrupt his conversation, how
ever important, and listen without stir
ring until the econelusion of the chime,
the singularity of a whole population
surprised in a moment, as it comes and
goes, held in a state of petrifcation,
and paralyzed as if by an encounter.
may be imagined. On every side you
see gestures interrupted, mouths half
opened fer the arrested remark, smiles
lingering or passing into an expression
of prayer you would fancy them a
nation of statues A town in South
America at the tinkIe of the Angelus
resembles the city in the "Arabiin
Nights" whose inhabitants are turned
into stones. The magician here IS the
bell ringer; but hardly has the vibra-
tion ceased when a universal murmar
arises from these thousands of oppress
ed lungs. Hands meet hands, ques
tions seek answers, conversations re-
sumo their course; horses feel the loOs-
ened bride and paw the ground; dogs
bark, babies cry, the fathers sing, the
mothers chatter. The accidental turns
thus given to conversation are many.
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Farming in the Northwest..-

Some Of our people think 70 others
see as hard times as they do; ard il
may do them good to learn how fami-
les live under ground with. fuel tea or
twenty miles distant. a correspondent
of an exchanges paper, writing from
Pope county, Minnesota, says
20 Last week ] was south of here thir.
ty-five miles, aud drove my team the
whole way without seeing a tree or abnsh
of any kind. The land mere. along the
line Of the st. Paul and Pacific railroad,
is mostly settled up bS Norwe gians and
Swedes. who are accustem ID. to a cold
climate. Most of them olga square
hole IN the ground, put some timbers
over the top. and cover them with dirt
and sods. All you can see is a stove.
pipe sticking out of the ground. Wher
you dTive up to the house and call,
they c3me out like so many bees. They
are good citizens and very industrious.
g We have farmed it here until we
are sick of il, and stood the furious
snow storms aud cold of winter, wind
storms, thunder and lightning, aud
hard times, until We have had enough.
All we have to buy is clear up high ;
what We have to sell is tclesr down
low" Oar wheat this year only went
ten bushels to the acre, and we are
obliged to cart it twenty miles to sell it
for 55 cents per bushel. We hRd7116
acres. and the more the worse. This is
the 18th of November, yet We have had
snow for three weeks. We get five and
a half months of bare ground to six and
a half mOuths of solid winter. There
was much cold weather before the snow
began to fall This is rather Iongh
place for white man even the buffalo
have. crossed the Missouri liver to sgo
West We shalt start next spring, aud
quiIea number of families with as. -
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Snakes and Frogs.

A correspondent of nature having re-
marked tnat frogs when seized by
snakes utter cry 80 like newborn
babe" q gentleman in India writes to
copficm the singular statement. He
saws: "The1e could not be a better
way of conveying. sound which fTe-
quently gTeets ones ears IN the conn
trv iu Bengal during the rains than that
which your correspondent makes use
of, the cry of a newborn infant. Few
residents in the country here, we take
il, who have lived anywhere near jungle
will have failed to hear, and that toier-
ably frequent. the unspsakable plain.
tive wall which indicates that the re-
mOrseless ophidian has seized its prey,
and that deglutition has commenced.
If oue be tolerably quick he may, as
have freq aently done guide himself to
the very spot by the sound of the frog,
and the snake will then IN his alarm
and anxiety to escape frequently let the
frog, though he as often slides of with
it protruding from his mouth. We
have the batraehians IN great force
here. and Of all sizes and noises, from
the great wamp frog which, as soon as
the lands are drenched in the heavy
rain-storms OF May. commences its
nocturnal believing, down to the bronze
tree frog With gilt eyebrows that keeps
up its metallic tink. The frog IS con-
necied with some of the religions cere-
monies of tlle country; and one may
see here, as we'll as in Assam, the Gu
ri0us custom of bathing the frogs in
a cage This is done intime of drought
to propitiate the rain god. Grain is
sometimes put out on a mat to sun, and
to prevent the crows from making away
with 1t a fLog is tied by the leg to a
stake : his constant hopping about acts
as a deterrent to the crow. Hence the
native proverb denotiDg vicarious and
unnerited suffering. Ihe-cEoW .steals
the grain, and .thet ttting is. round the
leg of the frog. EH
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Partisan Balls,

In Paris, when the sun goes dowr
aud honest people get to bed, quees
things take place. When the gas is
lighted, and the places OF amusementn
open in full blast, eurioas, sights are to
be seen. A correspondent, who has
evidently been doing his dutV eonscien-
iiously, skirmishing around the dark
corners of the city, has found seme re-
markable dancing halls, where Terpsi-
chore evidently delegates some of her
distant relations to preside over the
festivities. $ wpe OF the most extraor-
dinaTy of these balls, be writes. q is
that held IN 8 blind alley, and opposite
the ahed where the guilloEne is
housed the hGbitItes are mostly the
Rraye-diggers belonging TO Pere st.
RsgRoul, PeEe La Chaise cemetery, the
tombstone men, and the undertakers
assistants. The proprietor of the place
is a SpaniaTd, and ms ability consists
in initiating tie weeping of meurners,
and the orations delivered at civil inter
ments. There is a bah that charges no
admission fee. but al who participate
in scofitre daRse' have to pay two
sous each the proprietor, on the con-
clusion of the dance, encircles the
dancers with a cord, and who pay the
fee to be liberated, and which also
serves as a moose to drag out recalci-
trants. Polkas, waltzes and mazurkas
are gratis, and short. The Monsters
also have their balls in the Rue des
Flandres; it is here where infant prod
igies and all human phenomena meet /;
dancing is as general as quarfeling, and
jealousy OF each others fmperfection
is the badge of ali the tribe. The
/ Skeleton Man inaulges in a can-can 7;
/ q man with tcupal0 head waltzes with
a wei man bearded like the pard; in q
quadfille dwarf has for vis.a-vIs the
woman with fish scales inst ad Of skin;
kind of Milly- Christine united mula-
tresses dTowns or drown care ia q polka,
the fCaoutcAouc Man, has the power Of
developing q dromedary hump. as he
enjoys a mazurka with 3 Newfoundland
dog. a Cyelop, with his diamond eye,
acts as master Of the ceremonies"
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Cattle, horses, swine, have their re-
spective places in the. farm economy.
How many of each to keep is a ques-
ton that locality. character of markets,
adaptation Of s0il, predispositien, taste
and skill of the hasbaudman must de-
eide. Bat one thing ought not to be
fsrgotten, that the more stock a man
keeps on his farm the more grass and
i ought to, and. if properly managed,
will grow. The rates OF increase
viii correspond with tue business tact,
technical ard practical knowledge, ind
skill of the husbandmap. Netg York
World --~-
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a SER Ban From the skv.

4 Between ten and eleven O'Clock Friday
evening Col. sAthelton, Rock island
train dispatcher received telegram
from the operator at Brooklyn deserip-
tive of a large meteor which had Just
iailen abOut three miles west OF West
Liberty. He, of the Brooklyn wires,
expatiated largely on the grandeur of
the scene and the exeitementi it caused.
For fully minute the heavens were
lighted by the fiercs glare of the swift
ly-descendipg fre-ball, and when it
stluek, the earth shook as from an earth
quake for miles around, and the noise
of the conclusion was heard by the
people of GrinDell, ninety five miles
away. -.a -. .,
The fiery ball struck terra frma in a
large open field, frightening residents
in the VI sinity half out of their wits.
It sank fifteen feet into the ground, and
left hole of that depth and ten feet in
diameter. For hours it continued to
fspit forth flames, cEdckle. sputter aud
smoke, and occasionally discharge can
lnon-like reports, 10 the infinite terror
of the people in the vicinity. None
dared approach while this miniature
volcano continued in action, but with
the cessation of life hundreds gathered
round TO investigate the wonder. Par
ticulsrs of the meteoric display have
already been telegraphed to scientific
men, who are expected to visit the scene
and investigate at once. -s e-- g.
President Thatcher, of the State
University of Iowa City, has also taken
steps to examine this wobderfnl phe-
nomenon.-DeS MoiQeS (IOIOG) Leader.
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! AIsRAHGIssc FLOwERs AREIsTICALLY.--
Where tuIips, hYscinths or crocus ars
planted in quantities. it is good plan
TO have some regard for color IN their
arrangement A small round bed Of
croeus, for instance, might have the
purple variety in the center, the yellow
round that next place the striped kind,
and finally the white: or this order may
be reversed with equally good effect.
The same arrangement might be OBJ
served in border planting by having
the colors in separate rows. Com
menee the first row by planting about
two feet of white erocus, followed with
two feet OF purple. then two feet more
of yellow, and finally two feet of the
striped variety now plant the second
row. beginning with purple, then yell
low, striped and white the third com
mencinR with yellow, and the fourth
with striped crocu-. Such bed is very
handsome indeed. OF course other
devices may be followed, such as stars,
crowns and the ike, not only with
crocus, but also with tulips and hya
cinths.
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A 1T1 -IaT1T-T
NUMBER Il.

molluscs conceal themselves under
stones to avoid the autumn frosts.
There they become perfectly free from
excretions, and. drawing themselves
into their shells, close mp. for the win
Ter. It is When they are collected IN
this state that their flavor IS said to be
lxauA
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Sheep on a Farm.

Sheep are undeTvslued by the mass
land d-holdeIs as a means OF keeping up
the fertility ef the soil aud putting
money into The pcekt IS of farniere.
The moment one Begins to talk of
sheep busbandry, the listener or reader
begins TO look for wool quotations, as
If WOof was ALI that yields profit from
sheep. One might IS we'll look for
wheat quotations alone when there is
talk a5ou the profit q fsrmiEg.
Sheep on farm yield both wool and
mutton They multiply with grest
rapIdIty. They are the best Of farm
scave ngers, cleaning n field" as no
other class of animals viii They give
-baek-to the-fsEm m0Eesin p10poEtgon to
what they tslze fromlit tbaIf-anys other
animal, and distribute it better with a
view to the future fertility of TIE soil
Prove tins 2. ThtFe is no need OF proof
/ to those who have kept sheep, ard
know TIER haE3ts tale the profits they
Weld. TO prove it to those who have
not the experience, it Is necessary they
should tTythe experiment or accept the
1 testimony OF All experienced shepherd.
/ But the live stock of farm chou
J not necessarily, be sheep, exclusively.
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MAUsk LoA.-The volcano Of Mauna
Lsos, In Hawaii, made brilliant display
on the morning OF the 10th Of January
before dayligbt. The action began in the
summit crater Of MokuaWeOWeo. 'fThe
heavens are aglow at night, and a grand
Bilisr % cumnlous clouds eoronate the
mountain by day" writes an eye wit
ness. The summit chimney or crater
Of MokuaWeoweo had been closed fog
about eight weeks. during the latter
part Of which time the earthquake
shocks had been increasing in strength
aud frequency. This new opening oi
the voleano wiIf serve as a safety-valye,
and as long as it lasts tbore viii DOT
probably be any more severe shocks
! nor any other sraptiOns on HaRaii,
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TIE SEA SERPENT. a recent meet
ing of the society of natural history in
Boston, DIR. Samuel Kneeland read a
paper, illustrated by diagrams and
specimens, on the evidsncs for and
against the so-called sea-serpent. He
thought a careful weighing Of the evi-
dence showed that such an animal is not
a geological absurdity, and that from
palseontology Gf we discard the testi-
mony Of many credible witnesses) We
may even conclude that it is Possibil-
ity-aDd, he believed, a probability
that some form, intermediate between
themaeine+ sauFians OF the secondary
and the eiongated ceiaceans of the. ter
tiary, has come down TO the present
epoch, aud will eventually come under
tue notice of natnralists, and prove, in
this-as inmaBy- other cases, that widely
spread popular beliefs in natural his
tory, especially when protesting to ress
upon credible testimony, have generally
for their foundation some portion Of
scientific Truth. Be believed there
wereat least two species OF the creature
(Which he styled EremOtherium). one
in the Northern and another IN tle
Southern ocean
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OhafIes Warren Stoddard writes 10
the San Francisco Chronicle from Ven
ice t'-1The lottery is a great pat' 'onal
institution the government feeds upon
the profits thereof. The people, who
are always buying tickets, can invest
two cents and draw something If they
happen 10 hit upOn the lueky numb ers.,
There aro separate drawings every Sat
urdav in Rome Venice, Naples, Flor
ence. Genoa, Milan, Turin, and some
other cities. You can invest in any one
or all of these if you choose, aud the
lucky numbers will be tslegraphed as
soon IS they transpire snd appear IN
various journals throughout the king
dom. There is not village, however
small, but has it's bank where tickets
are on sale, and not bank but drives
thriving business. Five numbers are
published every week, five numbers
ringing from one to ninety, inclusive.
You can put yopr two sous, or any sum
you please, or any one OF these tive
numbers or all five, if you dare risk 1t
Three numbers ere. usually chosen, and
if you Dut a fTauc on three numbers,
wagering that all will be drawn, and
your three numbers appear among the
five on the following Saturday you
have one FIVE thousand francs. II one
number only appears you WIN nothing !;
if two numbers appear you get nothing,
unless you bet on both cening out and
have it so stated on your ticket lend If
ont of your three numbers two appear,
they bring you less money, IN conse-
ouenceqof your double chance for win
ming. The selection of numbers Is
quite an art. Some people dream them
and don't get anything most people
nave the little dictionary of numbers to
which they reHgiously refer. The
Book of Luck for Venice contains a
list of ninety popular churches (there
are a couple of hundred or so in town,
in which San Marco is set down as No.
43. The parishes, the months of the
wear. the days of the week, the names
of the favorite saipts, the Cbri stan
names of men and women. every posi-
bic misfortune or good fortune, most
common nouns, and d thousand other
things are numbered"
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Facts About Corn.

Hon. Thomas P. James, commits
sioner of aRrieultare in Georgia, re-
ports that 1 927, ,646 acres planted in
corn IL. 1873, produced 1G,023, ,O1S
bushels This IS only frsction over
I've bushels to the acre on an average
through the state. More acres were
planted in 1874, and the crop IS ESTE
mated at II ,35S, AT bushels. Georgia
is one of the old thirteen states that
struck foFSindependeDees s-aad corn and
cotton Gu lture by negro 1abor has done
two things worthy of note :: One is to
make some three acres of old, turned
ont fields to one under cultivation of
any kind and the other is, TO reduce
the average weld of com so low IS @
give no profit 70 the farmer, and lead
Gov Smith to say, in a public address,
that twenty thousand more people emil
rated IN one year ont of the state than
came into - 60 set le and become eiti-
J zsps.
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What Are the Net Earnings of Rail
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What Are the Net Earnings of Rail
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li The president of the Onion Pacific
railroad cites in connection with the
compromise proposed to the United
States treasury a decision lately given
by Judge Swayne, of the supreme court,
which IS novel and interesting. The
main effect of this decision is to assert
that the net earnings of II railroad are
not merely the balance between income
and operating expenses. but that inter
est on it's bonded debt is also to be in
cIuded in expenses; that the charges on
its debt as well as the ordinary expense
of conducting the business and main
taining the property ara to be debited
! to income, III calculating net earnings.
The relation of this rule to the COM
promise proposed is very important, as
It's effect is to deduct the interest due
the government, and all other bend5
holders, from the sum from which FIVE
per cent. Is to Ie taken IN estinnatiBg the
annual debt due the treasury. 1t viii
be remembered that five per cent. OF
the net earnings is reserved 10 the
treasury, with certain offsets, but it has
been maintained by the officials hereto
fore that net earnings are calculated by
deducting operating expenses from the
total income and Il is estimated that
the supreme coart Interpretation of the
term vii save the Union Pacific up
wards of two hundred Thousand collars
psr annum. The United States gov.
/ ernment is consequently mulcted IL
proportion to its hberality in granting
! the Union Pacific rs enoTmoas sub
4 sidies.