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Walter Savage Lander.

James T. Fields writes: 1t was at
a breakfast in Kenyon's house that l
first met Walter Savage Landor. As
entered the room with Proctor, Lam
dor was in the midst of an eloquent
harangue on the high art of portrait
ure Proctor had been lately sitting
to a daguerreotypist for a picture, and
Mrs. Jameson, who was very fond of
the poet, had arranged the camera for
that occasion. Landor was holding the
picture in his hand, declaring that it
had never been surpassed as Il specimen
of that particular art. The grand
looking author of ''Pcriclcs of Aspa-
STA" was standing in the middle of the
room when we entered, and his voice
sounded like an explosion of first-elass
artillery. Seeing Proctor enter, he
Immediately began to address him i'll
high-sounding Latin compliments.
Poor modest Proctor pretended to stop
his ears that he might not listen to
Landor's eulogistic phrases. Kenyon
came to the rescue by declaring the
breakfast had been waiting for half an
HOUR. w Ilt1 WE tiIC
Landor asked Proctor to join him on
an expedition into Spain which he was
then contemplating. 'sNo," said Proc
ter, "for cannot even walk Spanish,
and having never crossed the Channel,
| do not intend to begin now" ''Never
crossed, the Channel" roared Landor;
"never saw Napoleon Bonaparte!" He
then began to tell lis how the young
Corsican looked when he first saw him:
saying that he had the olive complexion
and rouIdness of face OF a Greek girl,
that the Consurs voice was deep and
melodious, but untruthtul in tone.
While we were eating breakfast he
went on to describe his Italian travels
in early youth, telling us that he once
saw Shelley and Byron meet in the
doorway of hotel in Pisa. Landor
had lived in Italy many years, for he
detested the climate of his native coun-
try, and used to say, Gone could only
live comfortably in England who was
rich enough 10 have il solar system of
his own" * x / Proctor told me
that when Landor got into Il passion
his rage was sometimes uncomfortable.
The fiery spirit knew his weakness, but
his anger quite overmastercd him in
spite OF himself. keep your temper,
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The Little People of The Sea.

The latest investigations into deep
sea life show that the vast area lying
beneath the ocean is covered with a
simple animal life, boundless in extent
and infinite in variety. Under condi-
tons too rigid and severe to permit
the growth of the humblest sea-weed,
these creatures live, and multiply,
and die. Far beyond the reach of
light, in a glacial temperature and I'M
der enormous pressure, exists this
wonderful fauna. AS we strip the
mystery of vitality, of garment after
garment, as its conditions become
fewer and its mode. of existence less
complex, the wonder, instead of be-
coming less, constantly grows upon
the mind. The human intellect longs
to find commensurate physical cause
for the effect which we call life.
When, as in the higher organic beings,
the conditions are many and the pro-
cesses are complicated, the phenomenon
of vitality does not seem so puzzling !;
antecedent seems to bear some sort of
proportion to consequent. The mind
rarely troubles itself to make nice dis
tinctions between complicated ma
chinery and motive power. A liberal
display of wheel-work adequate to ac-
count for results without any. reference
to the initial force. But as we contem-
plate the life of the protozoa, which
reign supreme i'll the oceans depths,
we see the awful and mysterious pro-
blem presented in its simplest terms
forms of existence which are formless,
organisms possessing no organs, life
contradicting the very definitions of
life and yet performing all its essential
functions. The conditions, complex
and multitudinous, under which we
live, are here reduced to two or three;
the elements, many and bewildering,
which enter into the ordinary state
ment of the problem, are here eli
minated, and yet we are forced to re-
cognize the same vital principle giving
functional activity to mass of struc-
tureless jelly which mimates tine
highest organic beings. s-..-t.
When we see this formless life gov
erned by laws, each in itself.as inexor-
able as that winch guides the rolling
planets, and all in their various COM
binations as fexile as those which con-
troll our human existence, we feel the
sense of awe which whisper from the
unseen world might send thrilling
through our nerves. We are standing
face to face with life stripped of its
familiar conditions. 1t looks us in
the eyes as the disembodied ghost of
the life now SO familiar to us.-S. b.
He,7ick; iSc,ibaer for Nopen,ber.
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Good Breeding and Good Feeding.

Now, in the animal kingdom, what
are fortunate circumstances? In the
first place, Let me tell you what. unfor-
tunate circumstances are. A hay-mow
full of meadow hay is one unfortunate
circumstance. You may tell me that
you cannot breed .in-andLin.. :, Well,
you cannot breed out-and-out on
meadow hay! You, may have the
best cattle in the world, if you give
them meadow hay to. eat, and nothing
to warm them up, they will fail Ar
other unfortunate circumstance is the
entire absence of roOtcrops On a farm
Ifyou are going to breed carefully and
vel, and breed in-and-in, as you should
to breed successfully and arrive at a
given object, youwant few rootcrops
to keep the health of your animals
where it should be. You cannot feed
animals upon hay and meal, year in
and year out, without roots, or without
grass, without having them suffer.
They. must suffer, they do suffer, and
they will suffer. Every man in this
room who has had experience with
cattle knows that by twelve. months
heavy feeding with dry hay and corn
meal, you can destroy the health of
the best yoke of oxen in New Hamp-
shire. Every man knows that it is
done continually. And SO a shrewd
farmer, who would take good care of
his cattle, and turn them to advantage,
never thinks of keeping hard-worked
yoke of cattle up to the point at which
he wants to-keeP- than, lover twelve
months, without a proper supply of
roots, if he expects to make anything
out of them.
You want, also, comfortable stalls
for your cattle. IF they are well bred
and well fed, they want comfort in ad-
dition. If you will, fed them judi
ciously, with good feed and little
change of feed occasionally to keep up
their health, you need never fear if
you start from a high point, that you
will not be able to maintain that point,
if you will observe the best rules of in
and-in breeding. Geo. b. Lonirg.
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The Petrified Forest in Nevada.

From David Rideout, who has been
engaged in preparing a section of a
petrified tree for the Centennial Elk
hibition, we learn the following rela-
tive to the petrified forest in the des-
ert of northwestern Humboldt. On
the plain, about thirty miles west of
the Blackjack range of mountains,
stands one of the greatest natural Gu
riosities ever discovered in Nevada.
1t is petrifed forest, in which the
stumps of many of the. trees, now
changed into solid rock. are still stand
ing. There are no living trees or veg
citation of any kind other than sturted
sagebrush in the vicinity. Some of
these ancient giants of theforest, which
flourished perhaps thousands Of years
ago, when the climate of-Nevada was
undoubtedly more favorable for the
growth of luxuriant vegetation than
at present, rival in size the big trees of
California. Stumps. transformed into
solid rock, stand in an upright posi-
ton with their roots imbedded in the
soil, as when growing, measuring from
fifteen to twenty-six feet in circumfer-
ence; the ground in the vicinity is
strewn with the trunks and limbs,
which retain their natural shape and
size. Mr.. Rideout, determined to Sc
cure a section of one of these trees for
the Centennial Exhibition, with two
other men spent twelve days in cutting
it from the stump. This was accom-
plished by drilling all around the tree
and separating.it with wedges. The
specimen is three feet high and
eighteen feet in circumference, and its
estimated weight is three tons. 1t
stands on the stump from which it was
severed, ready to be loaded on a wagon.
Mr.. Rideout does not feel able to incur
the expense of bringing it to the rail
road, though he had once made ar
rangements to do so. He is anxious
to call the attention of the Centennial
to the matter, and see
if they will not furnish the means to
get it to the railroad. The country in |
which it is situated is an inviting field
for geologists.- Wn,nemucca Nev.) ST.
peT State ,--
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American Race Horses.

The complete list of American race
horses that won prizes of one hundred
dollars or over in the season of 1878
which we published yesterday, con
tains much information of great in
.terest to the lovers of the turf. We
learn from the figures that there were
two hundred and seventy-three win.
ming horses, excluding from the list all
of impure blood or unknown pedigree.
The aggregate of their winnings was
1872, 583, which gives an average to
each horse of 81, 1868 and a fraction.
Of course, the highest winners are not
always the fastest horses, as the nature
of the field determines the question OF
profit, and the best speed does not al
ways have the heaviest. purse to con-
tend for. But it is worth noticing the
eleven highest winners of the season
Just closed. Mr.. McGrath's chestnut
colt Aristides, by bennington, dam
Sarong, won SIC, 700. Then came Mr..
Chamberlin's colt Tom Ochiltree, by
Lexington, dam Katona, winning
S11 900. The third was Mr.. Bel
mont's chestnut FLY Olitipa, by Lean
ington, dam Oliata, whose gains were
SO, $50. The fourth was Mr.. Nc
Grath's bay colt Calvin, by Tipperary,
dam Lucy Fowler, SO, $50. The fifth,
Mr.. McGrath's bay colt Aaron Pen
nington, by Tipperary, dam Lucy
Fowler, full brother to Calvin, So
$50. The sixth: was J. w. Harneys
brown colt Ozark, by Pat Malloy, dam
Sunny South, $3.50. The seventh,
w. Jennings brown colt Ballenkeel,
by Asteroid, dam Schottische, 81, 800.
The eighth, NJ. A. Little's bay horse
Wildidle, by Australian, dam Idlewild,
$1,000. The ninth, Mr.. Baldwin's
bay colt Grinstead, by Gilroy, dam
sister to Ruric, 1880. The tenth,
bay gelding Diavolo, by .Jonesboro,
dam Ninette, So, 435. The eleventh,
George: Longstaff's bay filly Countess,
by Kentucky, dam Lady Blessington,
$3.50.
Altogether this is a creditable ex-
hibition for American owners and
American horses. The figures show
the interest taken in this amusement,
whose popularity is increasing With
enormous strides y The English, with
whom racing is an ancient institution,
antedating the American turf by gene
rations, every year train about three
thousand horses. In the United States
about four hundred are annually
trained, but we should not be sur
prised if next year this number should
be increased one-third or one-half.
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Emmett L. Ross & Co., Proprietor
1sOh, Krescenz, you are i'll Are you

y '
going to die?"
"No, dear, 1 shall not die. Fetc
me some water and tell nobody"
Max obeyed, and while thes re,
light paled on the Moselle, and purpI
mingled with the crimsan and olive o
its banks, the girls wMte-fiace lay o,
the moss, gazing blanNyupward witt
fixed eyes. The tears trickled owe
Max's innocent cheeks as he nestled a
her side and kissed her lips, her hands
and her hair ~ - 90 sra q
"Oh, Krescenz ;smay I net call some
one to come aud helpNou homer
Ne, dear, 70, 'sad sc young girl
any more. We are going away some
where else, you and l together. "
"What, away from Trier?"
Eyes, I am tired of Trier.s
II thought you said You would never
leave Trier; and what will Karl say to
y0% 'oh, Max, D., Mak IL I'll [
"Where shall yssSleep Tonight, i
we keep walking on u this fate7
eve shall rest on the road, and to.
morrow we shall travel further There
are other towns besides Trier, where
industrious people can get work tede."
"Oh, Krescenz! l am afraid you
have gone mad. Those people behind
the trees must have been the wicked
spirits we read about, and they have
harnied you.onE @sS ~ g s-f
ssDo you know who, they were, Max?
Karl and Luise. Gretchen was right,
after ALL" s*-g
s'But they did not say they were
going to be married." said the boy.
'Oh, don't groan, Krescenz, and will
try and ask no more questions"
"Dear Max, there is nothing more
for me at Trier. That is why we are
going together out into the world"
ooh, that l could grow big and go
back and kill him?"
"Hush! you must not talk such nom
sense. You must takecare of me now,
rs l have nobody else"
"That will indeed but oh, Kres-
cenz, my canary" 7 rf Gas
Somebody will take care Of it, my
lear. We can gel. another
"And your pretty little shrine ?"
Somebody else will kneel at it. l
can pray to God anywhere you know"
Deepening shadows dropped on the
Moselle, and the two young figures hur-
RED OH through the purple twilight
away from Trier.
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Funny Incidents.

Speaking of his western trip, Mr..
Barnum said, 81 met with two Incl
dents on my trip. While going to
Kansas City was busy part of the
time making some notes on lecture
and arranging the heads of the dis
course. By and by a gentleman near
me asked me if l was an editor. l
said no, but that did little literary
work sometimes. Are you from
Chicago?' he asked. No. [ said,
"but 1 understand my name was in
the Chicago papers the other day.
What is your name?' asked the
stranger. 'P. L. Barnum.' He was
quite surprised, very glad to meet me
and all that, and we talked a good
part of the day. He was a well in
| formed and gentlemanly man. AT
length 1 asked him his business. He
said he lectured some, and preached,
too. Where I saked. In Chi
cago,' and what's your ilameg David
Swing Well, was taken aback, to
think / had been travelling nearly two
days with David Swing and didn't
know him. when l came back to
Chicago continued Mr.. Barnum, /
lectured there, and as Istartcd for the
house one of the committee asked me
to call at hotel and get Mr.. Millet
who had Iectured for them the week
before and wanted to hear me. /
called and asked for Mr.. Millet. A
gentleman came to me and said his
name was Miller and that he thought
he was the right man. Coming back
from the lecture he said to me MIR.
Barnum, I have to thank you for an
evening of great pleasure. l didn't
used To like you a bit, but since |
have known more of you, | like you
better" Well, | didn't care for his
praise, and [ asked him what he did
for living. He said he lectured a
little. i'On what?' ! asked. Gov
ernment,' he replied, I've given Grant
two or three 'slaps.' After little talk
the, man got out. As ewere riding
away asked the gentleman how this
man spelled his name He answered,
Joaq3 The old Harry | shouted,
you don't mean to say that was
Joaquin Miller, the poet?' Why I
wouldn't have missed knowing that for
q thousand dollars.
TIE POETS CHIRoGRAPHY.
81 sat right down and wrote to
him rs soon as | could, telling him |
felt worse than a polecat, begging his
pardon, and the like. He has
answered me, but | can't read what he
says, but it's all right. Here you are
ut the depot just in time. Good by"
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no, just about multuous enough to CON-
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WE live in land that is fragrant with
flowers, ff III
In world that is fair to behold,
With its starry blue sky and its green shady
.i q bowers, f,f-.- 80 r.. - --.l..-
And its riches more precious than gold;
But the people are very peculiar indeed,s
And oft to extremes they will run,
With appetites sharp and no bounds TO their
- greed, .erf usy-t fat - -
They must have whole hog or none,
The whole hog or none, Ehfil-'''i'
, ~ The whole hog or none, -.als s
They must have the whole hog or none.
- WHERE SHE WAs.-In a Baker
street car yesterday some men were
talking about the.-nervc- William
Tell in shooting an apple off his. sons
head. TO vex an-eld lady who was
one of the men said:
= ssThat was Mr.. Tell but what did
his wife amount to-why doesn't his
tory mention herr" ~ .,..9-r
"Pll bet hundred dollars!" called
the old lady in an excited voice, "Pll
bet a hundred dollars that she sat up
half the night before patching that
boys trousers so he'd look decent to
20 out !."'-DetroitsF Free Press. 49,
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To PREVENT SPLITTING OF HAN
DLEs.-All carpenters know how soon
the butt ends of chisels split when daily
exposed to the blows of the mallet or
hammers. A remedy suggested by a
Brooklyn man COZ sists simply in saving
or cutting off the round end of the
handle, so as to make it fiat, and at
taching by few small nails on the top
of it two round discs of leather, so that
the end becomes similar to the heel of ii
boot. The two thicknesses of leather
will prevent all further splitting, and if
in the course of time they expand and
overlap the wood of the handle, they
are simply trimmed off all round.
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CONWAY ON GENIUS. has
a new definition of genius. He says
there is nothing like genius in the COM
mon acceptation of the term. 1t is
simply mind polished until it shines; ;
polished until it catches every color in
the air; polished until it catches up
and keeps on its rays of light even in
the darkness, like marble sphere in
the NIGHT.
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ANSWERING LETTERS. great
many persons in this country are
shamefully negligent about answering
letters. Nothing is more annoying.
In European countries it is regarded
as the height of ill-breeding to allow a
letter, which needs a reply, to 90 I'M
answered, and so it ought to be con-
sidered here. This lisa point on which
parents should lay great stress to their
children. They should be taught to
consider it as rude not to reply to a
letter which needs attention, as to hand
a fork with the prong end. The bust
est people are generally those who are
the most exact in this. respect. The
late Duke of Wellington, who, it will
be admitted, had good deal on his
hands at different times of his life, re-
piled to every letter, no matter from
how humble source. Once q clergy
man, who lived in a distant part of the
kingdom, wrote his Grace, on whom
neither he nor his parish had shadow
of claim, to beg for a subscription to
rebuild a church. BY return of mail
came back letter from the Duke to
the effect that he should not have been
applied to for such an object; but the
parson sold the letter as an autograph,
for e5, and put the Duke down for
hat amount among the subscribers.
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BIRDS IN THE WINTER.-Birds in
far greater numbers than now would
stay through the winter if the food
question could be arranged. 1t is not
cold that expels them, but the hiding
of seeds and insects. They go to open
fields for food. Yet, in thickets, and
among evergrecns, many linger to mid
winter, and if the season be mild
one, all through the winter. This was
well shown the past winter around my
neighbor Dayton's house. This good
man has heart of kindness for man
and beast. His horses are undrIvably
fat. His dogs grow rotund and waddle
in excess of flesh. Happy Is every
creature under his care! When the
spring comes, bringing nestsful of birds,
and lets them loose around his house,
he gathers up the cats and sends them
off to visit their relations, nor are they
suffered to return until all, the young
robins are old enough to go to school.
Last winter was severe, not so much
by intense Cold as by long continuance
of the ice covering which bound the
surface of the ground for two months
without thaw. Birds berett of food
came sadly about his house. He opened
Il dry soup-house. A barrel Of corn
meal was opened, and every day they
were fed. The news spread; the hun
CRY beauties came flying to their bcne-
factor. On some days three or four
hundred collected under the windows;
II
wood thrushes, the hermit thrush, blue
jays, tomtits, nuthatches, woodpeckers,
finches: great flock that had little
in common except hunger; and that
laid aside their pugnacious dispositions
and had open communion in the in
ternal amity!
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CRAZE CATsUP.---To five pounds oi
grapes, boiled and passed through &
colander, add two and IL half pounds
of sugar, half a pint of vinegar, one
heaping teaspoonful each of cinnamon,
cloves, allspice and pepper, and half a
tablespoonful of salt.
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You are the prettiest and loveliest
girl in the town, sister Krescepz
"But am not rosy ike Gretchen,
nor are my eyes SO big and bright as
I,ouise's nor ,7gsST sSs,s y y
"No Natter persisted Max. sNot
one of them can smile the way you
do.
After that I must say something
nice to you, Max. Sit down here on
the grass, and let me tell you the kind
of life we shall have over in our little
house yonder. We shall have four
rooms of our own, and there are vines
growing round all the windows. We
shall have a pretty garden, with bees
and bowers, and field with COW in
it. I shall do my sewing sitting under
tree. looking down on the Moselle.
You will go to work with Karl, and in
the evening you will both come home,
and we shall have supper, in the gar
den."
al wish we had some now, Kres-
cenz."
al wish we had, my boy; and think
it is time to go and look for some coffee
and bread:"- - -
The sister and brother turned their
steps toward a pleasant summer-heuse
of refreshments, built among trees,
upon the high overhanging bank of the
river, where the people of Trier love to
drink coffee in the cool of the evening.
As the girl and child took, their simple
meal in nook of the projecting ter
race, the blue Moselle rushed under
their feet, and Trier lay bathed in
ruddy glory in the distance before their
eyes, with its strange contrasting out
lines softened into magnificent harmo-
ny, and the fierce black Roman gates
making frown on the very front of
lie sunny Landscape. 1 E
%ssHow splendid it Iooks,.th dear old
town." cried Krescenz edo you know
Max, cannot understand why people
ever leave their homes to go out into
ttheworld.p, -, y
al should Ike to go out and see the
world" said Max, S., --.....
"You mustn't say so, Max. Moth
! ing. would ever Induce me. to leave
FFrfer. - x 49, -
They were rambling among the trees
on the hillside, stopping now and then
| to lean forward and take fresh.peep
at the beauty of the river and the ex-
quisite gfeams of the distance on either
side.
"Oh, Krescenz, krescenzl l have
found a pair of lovers" -,-.s..-
4" No! Have you, MAXI said Kres-
cenz, with interest.
Behind that large tree, in such a
pretty nook: Just peep around, and
you can see."
Hide, then, while peep so care
fully" = Ist. -
Max retired while Krescenz leaned
forward with smile of mischievous
delight, and peered from behind a
screen of leaves. herself unseen by the
objects of her interest. When the boy
thought he had waited long enough he
came forth again and plucked her by
the skirt.
She turned to him slowly, and put
her finger on her lip.
"Krescenz Krescenzp whispered
the child, "what makes your face so
dreadful? Are they ghosts?7
"Hush, Max / cannot see, take
me by the hand and get me into some
quiet place, where nobody will find W.