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An Immense Plant.

A submarine plant growing in the
North Pacific Ocean, one of the Mela-
nosperms, and known to botanists as
the Macrocistis Pyritera, is said to
dwarf all vegetable products yet known
by its prodigious proportions. Itgrows
sometimes to such size as to cover
vast areas of sea bed, one specimen
having been discovered that occupied
by measurement three square miles,
while the stem was eight feet thick. 1t
is difficult to conceive Of such a plant,
and to understand how any adequate
system of nourishment can be main
tanned through so extended channels.
The macrocistis leaves the famous big
trees of California immeasurably be-
hind, making them seem, indeed, like
small reeds. 1t has an infinite variety,
some specimens being so small as to be
visible only under powerful micro
scope. The much-talked-of wonders of
nature are more wonderful than has
ever been conjectured, as research and
science are daily teaching us. And still
it is fair to presume that we have not
yet crossed the threshold of the temple
of discovery, within which are hidden
marvels that the most active and ex-
uberant Imagination is unable TO con-
ceive. The realm of poetry is beautiful
and inspiring; but the world of fact ex-
ceeds it in every way, illustrating con-
stantly the old idea that truth is stranger
than fiction. Indeed, fiction seems,
even when most exaggerated, to be lit
tie more than the pale shadow OF truth.
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a deeper meaning in them now. They
have taken INTO their depths. the reflec-
tons of -a-faee- younger than mothers,
and life begins to look real to. them. "a
The world is full Of homes where
these pictures will be recognized and
hung up as family portraits-homes
where there are no sounds OF young
voices now. They grow away into the
great world SO soon, and we put away
the nameless feeling of desolation as
we do the cast-eff toys of their child
hood, and when the evening OF life ap-
proaches the heart goes back along the
track of time and is once more with the
children in the dear old long ago.-Cta-
ci,asaati .Satatrday Night. Y - Il =
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apartment about him, it is said -.
hung up, torn, soiled and eoyerea S wsss
lime and dust that had gathered on them bn
at the time Of the disaster, the idanf .
cal garments worm By him, smids Il. i
ruins and debris of that doomed citv
I Having, many years after the event.
Just recorded, revisited England ~
business, Sir Henry died suddeniv y. y
Bath, January IL, 1853. Lady Franz
land continued to reside at Hopk into.
until the breaking out Of hosfij;tias 4 .
connection with tha. American Pow. =
ton. Though Marblehead eirl ~.
self, yet as the wife of an English NO
bleman, she not uRnaturally So ;nous
red the, suspicious Of the sturdy mar;
IT'S that her situation early became AZ
a. remedy embarrassing, net to ssv - !
d. H. ,rous one. Removal to Ros'soa
ho;I Instructed, she sought the 0 ~"
ts,.t;en a. the Provincial Congress
of Mas.., husetts, and reeev
committees iI to proS eed with her effects
to the town. No. outstanding this
sanction of high authorh V,exelteEsntyet
among the inhabitants OF 'ne neighbor-
hood ran 90 high armed !. srtles even
assuming 10 arrest her journe, ana %
detain her person and effects nat It
was not until the power Of the proyin. ld
Congress actually interposed to liberal,
the same from captivity, that she sue
ceeded in effecting her escape. After
many delays, and after having BEEN
subjected to a multitude Of needless an.
noyances, Lady FARMLAND finally sailed
for England-bidding a last adieu to.
her native land, and her forest horne at.
Hopkinton.. Tradition says that she
was afterward married to aMajor Drew
of the royal army; and that she finally
died suddenly in the very act Of dressing
for ball. While adjusting her hair
before q mirror, she was seized with
mortal sickness, and fell; and in q few
moments, and with the gay attire Of the
ballroom, as it were, for her winding
sheet, expired. .t.
Thus ended the romantic career Of
fair Agnes-the chamber.maid of Mar
blehead.
Some brief letters, is is said, Of Lady
FARMLAND, are still preserved in the
archives of the provincial Congress, re-
marketable for the beauty and grace Of
their chirography, though betraying
in occasional errors of spelling the de-
fects of her early education.
For many generation the old Frank
land mansion at Hopkinton was still
standing. Reduced from its primitive
aristoeratic proportions to those Of re-
publican simplicity, it yet long retained,
in its fine old hall, as also in its rich
tapestry hangings, significant, memen-
toes of its original and superlative mag
niicence.LSpri,sgfeld Republican,.
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History of an Ant Community.

Like Sir John Lubbock, the eminent
French chemist Berthelot devotes much
of his leisure time to studying the ways
of ants. He has for years closely OBJ
served an ant-hill, which at first pre-
scented the form of little conical hillock,
peopled by thousands of inhabitants.
The history of this community, as re-
corded by Berthelot, has a striking re-
semblance to human history-the same
arts Of peace and of war, the same dis
tinctions of classes, the same huctus-
tons of fortune. The ants excel -
hunters, as marauders; they have
among them skilled architects, thrifty
housewives. Division of labor is en-
forced. There are civilized ants and
barbarians. The warriors despise the
toll and drudgery of civil life, and they
delight in making set raids, taking num-
bers of prisoners, and reducing them to
servitude. While their. betters are tax
ing their walks abroad, or carrying on
their wars, the slaves care for the young,
and attend to the household affairs and
economies. 1t is interesting to observe
them while engaged in building. There
are superintendent of. work, and there
are simple workers. Sometimes the lat
ter make mistakes; for instance, sup
pose they have to build an arch, they
make an error in determining the prop.
er curve. But when the superintendent
comes he notices the mistake, pulls
down the faulty piece of masonry, ana
corrects the error. -tiH
When M. Berthelot first saw this ant
city it had already been in existence for
some years, and was in the high toe Oh
prosperity. Ten years later it sent OUT
colony, which settled at the foot OF q
young oak, distant few meters from
the mother-city. This colony, at nrs1
weak and occupying but little ground.
increased year by year. The war OF
1870 for a while interrupted the course
of M. Berthelot's researches, but on the
return of peace there was new sur
prise. The mother-city was now In
state of decline, but the colony, was
thriving wonderfully. In the old nome
there were but few births and few fruit
full unions; the number of inhabitants
had grown less, and the survivors weio
careless of their dwellings. The colony
has now become the principa! city;
has sent out sub colony which IS IN !.
fiourishing condition. The old cry y
compared by M. Berthelot TO Babylon.
with its thriving neighbor cities 20 =
Seleucia and Ctesiphon.-PopuIar o~
| ence Montlsly.
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A YOUNG lady at Richmond, S. c.,
exhibited at the fair salt of clothes of
her own make. She sheared the wool,
spun the yarn, wove and dyed the cloth
cut and fitted the clothes to tit her brotht
er, and sewed them with a needle-no,
with a base, mechanic sewing -machine),
making IS handsome an outfit as the
back of man could desire.
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THE formal announcement Is nov
made by NJ. Marc ;Delafontalne Ipa s,. ~
has discovered new metal, Yellow
like terbia, but Of a lower equlvaisn:...
He has named it Philippium (fP;) ~
honor of Philippe Plantamour Of a .s:.,s
va, the friend and pupil OF beIzeii w.
He had been led to belief IN tne sa
istence of the new metal by ms ~,
searches on the gadolinite metals som y
time ago. but he was unable to estaoi =
the fact, owing to the destruction o. LIZ
laboratory in the Chicsgo ire.
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YOUNG girl at Lyons, France, = las W..
died of hydrophobia, caused W r
hitting pet dog to lick her iace'
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land to pursue this aimless, profigate
career or to withhold from his fair asso-
.ciate in sin the dover Of wifehood,.
which was her due. An event is at
hand which is effectually to sober him
and, by impressing permanently upon
his mind o sense of the, instability of
human affairs, to direct his mind to
higher things, and having been appoint
ed Consul General to Portugal, it so
happened that he was residing at Lis
bon at the time of the great earthquake,
November /, 1853. Saved, as it were,
by miracle from that most appalling
and almost unprecedented ruin, this
hitherto gay Lothario suddenly "came
to himself"-was so profoundlyafected
by his narrow escape from instant death
that, Immediately upon his deliverance,
he made haste to do justice to his long
suffering companion by ,espousing her
in due form and SO making her at last
his lawful wife. -,+a-,
The two subsequently, returned to
America; and every year thereafter, as
long as he lived, on the anniversary OF
his memorable deliverance, Sir Henry
was accustomed to retire to certain
room in his house In Hopkinton, and
there, having secluded himself from
every visitor, keep solemn fast. In the
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-16

tackled the rural rooster, who impa-
tiently answered that he had no use for
him. This waiter gently propelled the
sugar-bowl to the wall, and bounced
away about his business. By this time
the couhtryman was thoroughly arous-
ed. Taking hold of the offending bowl
he savagely drew it to the front, but
had no sooner done SO than he was ap-
preached by youth wearing an apron,
who carried him q bill of fare, and
stood waiting for instructions. SEQ
to the devil!" blurtered the farmer.
You're almighty, alfred willin' to
get me something to eat since you
found out that amt a beggar. One
feller is enough to git what want, and
he's done gone for it." ....
The waiter took hold of the sugar
bowl to place it where it belonged once
more, but the farmer wouldn't have it.
Fetching the young man a stroke
across the jaw, he sang out:
Let that ere thing alone, dog
you! Yer fearful 'fraid that I'll eat a
half cents worth of yer blasted old
sugar. I'll pay for all the stuff swal-
Ter in this shebang, and don't want
nobody comm around me showing
dishes outen my reach. Now you just
clare out o hyar." ....-.. r..
By this time the boys tumbled to the
old mans innocence, and allowed him
TO MUNICH his sugar in peace until his
dinner arrived. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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NUMBER 4.

for him to Chamber down and follow
them, taking, however, somewhat
different route, so as not to fall into
their hands if any of them should linger
on the way.
When he came to the clearing, q quar-
ter of mile from his own house, he
hid himself and waited for scircum-
stances to develop his part in the fray.
He had not long to wait. just as it
became light enough to sight gun, a
musket shot and then several together
broke on the silence, but with such a
smothered sound that his practiced ear
knew that they were fred from within
q house and, hence, were the guns OF
the white men. At the same instant
several war-whoops burst on the air,
but in tone indicating surprise and
alarm. HgH
These sounds explained the ambus-
cade to Mr.. Page, and knowing the In
dian habit of retreating singly and not
in company from defeat, he kept
sharp watch from his hiding-place and,
in a few moments, saw q warrior
running toward the woods to
escape. With unerring aim he sent q
bullet after the fugitive. Hardly had
he reloaded when another similar tar
get appeared, and met the same fate.
Other shots were heard in the direction
of the house, and soon third savage,
hurrying toward the forest, passed
within range of our hunters rifle and
was stopped forever.
At length a general silence prevailed
and Mr.. Page, leaving his hiding place,
crept slyly toward the scene of the
principal fight. Ere long he met some
of the neighbors, and together they
continued to search for the savages.
But it was found that they had fed
from the clearing, all except the slain,
eleven in number. Not q white person
was injured.
In the afternoon burial trench was
dug on little knoll on the Page farm,
and the bodies of the red men selemnly
laid therein; then a log fence was built
about it, and the little enclosure, still
is known to this day as
"The Indian graveyard" 2 @
Jimmy died in the autumn of 1870, q
white-haired patriarch. and
at his own request was buried in the
same enclosure. l. L. Bend7s, in
WIde-Asoake for October. zt#
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A Farmer Who Couldn't Get the Hand
OF Restaurants Sugar.BOwl
Business.

Upon each of the tables ranging
along the walls in Hunts dining-room
there sits a sugar-bowl. 1t is placed
upon the end of the table remotest from
the wall, and when q waiter takes an
order he shoves the bowl across the
table to the other end. This signifies
that customer occupying seat at
that particular table has given his or
der, and by this simple plan the other
walters are kept informed as to who is
waited upon and who is not. One day
an honest farmer, who was innocent of
the tricks of city restaurants, entered
the place, took a seat, and, pulling the
sugar-bowl on his table back toward the
wall. proceeded to help himself to q
pinch. He was not noticed by any of
the busy walters who were hurrying
back and forth filling orders and clear
ing away dishes. The old fellow re-
manned in his seat for fifteen minutes,
patiently expecting some one to offer
to take his order; but, no one appear
ing to see him, he got mad at the ap-
parent neglect and tried to hail three
or four passing walters, who failed to
grasp the situation. After half dozen
Sights, as he thought, the honest farmer
stretched forth his mighty paw and
gathered a waiter by the nape of the
neck. Squarely imprisoning the startled
hash collector, the yeoman addressed
him thus. .-. .-... ..-..
"See hyar, young feller, you needn't
think cos don't put on style and wear
store clothes when / come to town, that
1 amt just as able to pay for what
chuck eat as any dressed-up galoot in
this country. Why, I'll buy yer burned
old shop and burn it down. Now l
want you to fetch me a great big four
cornered meal-the best in the place,
and lots of it, dye hear meP"
The young man, as soon as released,
started to fill the commission of the
muscular Granger, and the customer
took his seat once more, but this time
further away from the wall. Reaching
back he pulled the sugar-bowl to the
outer end of the table and dug out an
other handful to stay his hunger until
the big meal should arrive. The sugar.
bowl was now on the end of the table
which signified that the old farmer was
not waited upon, and in an instant
young fellow stepped up to him and
asked what he would have.
81 sent feller after my grub" re-
piled the man from the country.
The waiter pushed the sugar-bowl to
the rear and walked off. The farmer
again pulled the bowl out and went ex-
ploring it. Another waiter, spying the
bowl on the outer end of the table,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-16
Milk Injections In the Veins OF Mori.
bund Persons. :H

As long ago as 1859, in story enti-
tied the Lifted zeal, George Elliot tells
of q wicked woman whose agency in q
mysterious murder was exposed by
transfusing blood into the heart of the
just-deceased victim, who revives for q
few minutes under the experiment and
denounces the murderer. A simple
way of effecting this purpose has been
revealed by some recent experiments
of Prof. Thomas of this city, whose OBJ
servations on the intra-venous injection
of milk have attracted the general at
tention of the medical profession. In
one of Prof. Thomas cases, the patient
was moribund when the first Injection
of warm milk into her veins was made,
and the unanimous opinion of the as
sembled physicians was that death was
inevitable. Life was prolonged six
days by means of five injections, vary
ing in quantity from eight to fifteen
ounces. From this and other cases,
DR.. Thomas concludes that the injec-
ton of milk into the circulation in place
of blood is perfectly safe and feasible
operation, easier to perform than trans
fusion of blood, and of equal efficiency
in case of exhaustion from profuse and
repeated hemorrhages. These expert
ments are in curious agreement with
those of DIR. Wulfsberg performed on
rabbits and dogs in the laboratory of
Professor Marine at Gottingen. After
bleeding the animals until all move
ments Of respiration and circulation
had ceased, DR.. Wulfsberg injected
milk into their veins. The operation
was instantaneously followed by ryth-
mical contractions of the heart, and
finally by re-establishment of respira-
tory movements, and, what is more
singular still, upon their cessation, after
the stimulant had spent its force, life
movements were excited again by re-
peating the injection. Some of the
moribund dogs even barked under the
influence of the milk. The microscop-
ic relations of this subject would be of
no interest to the general reader, but
the fact that life movements, whether
by excitation of the nervous centers or
by direct irritation of the heart, can be
restored after they have ceased, in a
manner at once so simple and SO read
lily applied, is of the utmost practical
importance.
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TIE LITTLE OLD CHURCH.

went to the little church to-day
Over the brook beyond the hill:
Green.yarded y % and white-paied white ed. still. a'
| was a youth when 1 crossed the sea
| , To wander in foreign lands; and lol
Now there is gray in my beard. All me!
| Can 1t be SO long ago?
There used to be in those far back years
A little girl with q happy face,
And sweet. strange fashion of smiles and tears
And q young fawn's agile grace, -.f'~-
Who sat each Sunday serenely there -.
In that little church. where the sunlight fell
Through the windows over her yellow hair,
And over face-ah welli
All well; and Lob, that little maid;
loved her truly. Each Sabbath day
I'd 60 there and watch how the sunshine played
In her hair, ere went away;
Ere went away; that was long year, back.
And now / am middle aged forsooth;
It IS hard that |. brave, strong lad, good lackI
Must give up his brave. strong youth.
While little church for years can seem
That they sang long ago-it was like a dream
OF my dead youth come again.
I sat in dim. back-corner pew
Til thoughts of the past and the present grew
Into solemn mysteries.
dreamed that was young aeain.that there,
In the seat three paces in front Of me.~ezs
The sunshine WAS dancing yellow hair
And Thought; " Can this thing be?
" went to her grave meath thechurch-yard tree
TIE q shS. IN
I'LL felt on my face q tear;
And now to think il opened my eyes
shall see her kneel in that pew and pray
With . soul that Is ready for raradise,
As she did ere l went away!"
I opened my eyes and looked: but loI
The pew was empty; the sunlight strayed
Up and down on the cushioned seat, though
1t sought for the little maid.
butterfly drifted in and few ~
. For moment about, then out again;
" Into my life she came like you,
And went" faltered in pain.
And the preacher read: Ever as water spilled
Are the children of mem" and the sad words
filed - -
My soul with a sadder pain.
When loI the butterfly fiuttered in
Once more; and the preachers lips then read,
As little children are. free from sim,
She is gathered to God" l said. II
shall see her again in the Year, to be- <
In the years to ber-and my sad heart burned
By the wayside there, in me.
a church of Christ as did to-day;
I'LL this morning my eyes had not known tears
Since the time when went away.
:, I'LL they carry me out to the graveyard tree,
For the sake of that dear girls sweet young face,
Sunday AJrersooa.
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A Penguin ROOkery.

In penguin rookeries the grass COW
ers wide tracts with dense growth,
like that of field of standing corn,
but denser and higher, the grass reach
ing high over ones head.
Most of the droves of penguins made
for one landing place, where the beach
surface was covered with a coating of
dirt from their feet, forming broad
track leading to lane in the tall grass
about a yard wide at the bottom. and
quite bare with smoothly beaten road
way; this was the entrance to the main
street of this art of the ''rookery."
Various lateral streets lead off on
each side from the main road. and are
often at their mouths as big as it; more
over, the road sometimes divides for a
little and joins again; hence it is the
easiest thing in the world to lose ones
way. 1t is impossible to con-
ceive the discomfort of making ones
way through a big rookery. haphazard,
or ''across country" as one may say.
You plunge into one of the lanes in the
tall grass, which at once shuts out the
surroundings from your view. You
tread on q Shiny, black, damp soil
composed of the birds dung. The
stencil is overpowering, the yelling of
the birds perfectly terrifying; I can call
it nothing else. You lose the path, or
perhaps are bent from the first in max
ing direct for some spot on the other
side of the roOkery. Now you
are, the instant you leave the road, on
the actual breeding-grounds. The
nests are placed so thickly that you can
not help treading on eggs and young
birds at almost every step. A parent
bird sits on each nest, with its sharp
beak erect and open ready to bite, yell
ing, savagely, .Caa, caa, urr, urr," its
red eye cleaning and its plumes at
and quivering with rage. No
sooner are your legs within reach than
they are furiously bitten, often by two
or three at once-that is if you have not
got on strong leather CATERS, as on the
first occasion of visiting rookery you
probably have not. At flrst you try to
avoid the nests, but soon find that i'm
then, maddened almost by the
pain, stencil and noise, you have re-
goes your stick, and at each blow down
goes bird. Thud, thud, you hear
from the men behind. as they kick the
birds off the nests, and SO you go on for
q bit, thump and smash, whack, thud,
"caa, caa, urr, urr," and the path be-
hind you is strewed with the dead, dy-
ing and bleeding. But you
make miserable slow progress, and,
worried to death, at last resort to the
expedient of stampeding as far as your
breath will carry you. You put down
your head and make q rush through
the grass treading on old and young
and rushing on before they
have time to bite,-MOselu.
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0ur Aan,tg &aMs.
AUTUMN.

Out of their prickly burns awaking,
The nuts are ripe for the squirrels taking,
And the witch-hazel lights its fame;
The maple-leaves are turning to gold;
And the sumach's tassels are all unrolled,
Year after year the same.
The barberry hangs its corals out;
The wild grapes perfume floats about;
And the purple asters jostle:
But every nest has lost its brood;
And woods and fields are q solitude,
Without song of robin or throstle.
Nary ". Prescott, In the nursery.
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York Commercial Advertiser who says:
"Young men take thinks generally as
they find them. When parents dress a
mere girl of sixteen as a woman-long
dresses, etc.-they as much as say:
This is woman, though one would
suppose that a full-grown woman would
resent the reflection implied, !. E.. that
it takes but little TO make a woman.
Let parents cease this idiotic manner
of dressing those who are only just en-
tering big girlhood. and wait until a
woman is there in fact before the dress
of one is allowed to be worn. We shall
then have very much less of child wives
and female Juveniles. infiamed with
deas five to six years beyond their
age"