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Curious Optical DeIusiO ms.

Some new optical delusions have been
described by DR.. S. P. Thompson. Those
connected with the railroad may serve to
relieve the tedium of travel by affording
agreeable exercise to the mind in en-
deavoring to explain them: When a
landscape is observed from a moving
train, all objects to the remote horizon
appear to be passing in the contrary di-
rection, those nearest having the great
est velocity. Consequently if the atten-
ton be fixed upon any object at some
distance from the line, all objects beyond
will relatively appear to be moving for
ward with the train, while objects near
er appear to be moving backward. The
combined effect is to make the landscape
appear to be revolving centrally round
whatever point we fix our attention up
ON. Rain seen from moving train
always seems to fall obliquely Except in
a very strong gale in the direction Of the
trains motion) in direction opposite to
that of the motion of the train. But if
another train happens to pass in an Op-
posite direction, and we look out at this
and follow it with our eyes, raindrops
falling between the two trains will seem
to be living forward with ourselves. If
we stand upon the platform of station
and watch train approach, the end of
the engine appears to enlarge or swell
as it approaches and occupies larger area
of the field of vision. Conversely, the
end of the last car of a retreating train
appears to shrink down and contract as
it diminishes in apparent magnitude.
An observer at some slight elevation
above railroad, seeing two trains pass
along the lines simultaneously in oppO-
site directions, will receive the impress
sion of one long train moving round a
circle.
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One Eye Potato Planting.

There are so many advantages in cut
ing potatoes to one eye, before planting
that we are surprised that it is not al
ways done. There is, first, great saw
ing in seed. There is usually twice as
much seed used in planting potatoes as
should be. If more than one eye to
every foot in the row be planted there
will be too many vines, and the result
will be small, inferior potatoes.
If one desires quantity rather than
quality of potatoes, he may plant two
eyes every fifteen inches. He will have
great many more small potatoes, but
his crop will not bring so much in the
market When potatoes sell from fifty
cents to one dollar per bushel, it makes a
great difference whether one plants five
bushels or ten to each acre.
After trying the various methods of
planting in hills or in drills, of planting
large potatoes or small, whole or cut to
one or two eyes, we have found our best
success in the following treatment of
seed:
Two or three weeks before time to
plant we select well matured potatoes
of even shape. Are not careful to have
the largest or the smallest. We prefer
medium potatoes, well matured. These
we cut to one eye, and spread out on
boards in a dry cellar to dry. We
sprinkle them with air-slaked lime and
await until the cuts have calloused and
the eye shown signs of life. Occasion
ally We find an eye that seems shriveled
and weak. Such we throw out and do
not plant. After the cuts have dried
and the eye started, we plant them as
soon as possible, not waiting for the
moon to get right. If the ground is
| right and the seed in condition, we ex-
pect every eye to grow. To insure COM
ing up We are careful to cover to an
even depth, say four or five inches. If
we run a roller over them after plant
ing, we find they are more Likely to
start promptly and come to sight at the
same time.
When planted in this way the potato
is not so likely to rot in the ground,
and will come up more evenly and sew
eral days in advance of freshly cut pO-
tatoes. The fresh cut must heal and cal
lous before the eye will start vigorously,
and if the ground is wet and cold many
rot, and the stand will be uneven. The
smaller piece potato will not be as liable
to rot as the large one.
When we have one plant every fifteen
inches we have vigorous, healthy ones.
If two or more sprout, some of them are
weak, and produce but few small pota-
toes. Because potatoes will grow al
most any way, farmers have generally
given little thought to the best meth
ods; and as seed is generally plenty,
they think it is well to put in plenty of
seed. There is not the same care I'M Sc
lecting good seed, and putting in just
the right amount, as in planting corn.
1t is so easy to overdo the business in
corn raising that men have learned to
be sure of the quantity of their seed, and
do not plant more grains than stalks
desired
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The Sea of GaIiIee.
Professor Bartlett. ]


Riding by the foot of Hattin, over the
place where, 700 years ago, Saladin ami
hilated the Crusaders rover in Pales-
tine, we at length reached a ridge where
we looked out on the distant hills of
Bashan, and down far below us upon a
dark blue pear or harp shaped sheet of
water, lying snugly in deep inclosure
of high brown hills. Though less than
thirteen miles long and seven miles
broad, yet measured by the events it has
witnessed, it is kind of Pacific Ocean.
1t was the Sea of Galilee. AS we moved
over the long way downward to its
level-650 feet below the Mediterranean
Sea-we had time to grasp and fix its
whole aspects and surroundings. 1t lacks
boldness of outline, for its hills slope
gradually back from the shore, or leave
a narrow plain, as at GenneSaret and
Butiha. But the lights and shadows lie
sweetly on the hill-Sides at night and
morning; the northern end is broken
into pleasant little bays, and Hermen
looms grandly up beyond, far off, yet
seemingly near. The whole aspect of
the one that suggests the thought and
the lack of beautiful homes. 1t was still
long ride to the lake. The region we
were passing, once brimful of life and
activity, was forsaken now. The entire
lake lay spread before us, and nearly the
whole Of its coast line, along or near
which once lay the cities Tarichea. Ii
beriaS, Hippo, Gamala, Gergesa, Beth
saida, ChoraZin, Capernaum, Magdala,
and Beth Arbel. OF these cities Tiberias
once had its Senate of 600; Gamala was
able to resist and defeat Vespasian at
the head of three legions, and when cap
tured by Vespasian and Titus it lost
1000 in the fight, and 5000 who hurled
themselves or were pushed down the
precipices; while Tarichea, according to
Josephus, was able at one time to fur
nish 16,500 for slaughter in a sea-fight
with the ERomans, 1900 slain In cold
blood in the stadium, 5000 captive youth
to dig for Nero in the isthmus, and
30,400 to be sold into slavery. The only
existing visible representatives of all
this strength and activity were the
wretched little cluster of huts called
Mejdel (Magadala), and the shrunken Ii
barias, with its two thousand inhabit-
ants. From our path not a vestige of
the other places could be discerned. 1t
was near sunset when we entered Ti-
berias. We followed the road through
the gate, but could easily have passed
through the rents in the walls. The now
squalid city, mentioned but once in the
New Testament, has been chief home
of Jewish learning since the destruction
of Jerusalem. Here the Jerusalem Tai
mud was completed, and here is now
what may be called the present theolog-
ical school of the Jews.
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NEWS BRIEFS.


The Northern Pacific Railroad has Sc
cured loan of $2,000,000 for extending
the road 200 miles, 4rom Bismarck to
Yellow Stone.
| All the owners, venders and attaches
of the Missouri State Lottery in St.Lou-
is, some sixty in number, have been in
dieted.
The Missouri Legislature has rejected
the proposition to impeach State Treas
urer Gates.
Louis Gillespie, aged eight, was car
ried over the falls of Fall creek, Will
Transport, Ind, sixty feet, and instantly
killed, last week.
Dorr Cruykendall's little daughter was
fatally injured Wednesday by getting
caught in mill shafting at Frederick
town, Ohio.
Mr.. Daniel F. Beatty, the piano manu-
facturer, has been elected Mayor of
Washington, N. j., by an overwhelming
majority.
A furious hail storm visited northern
Texas, Wednesday of last week, killing
live stock, and injuring number of per-
sons.
The salary of Whitelaw Reid, of the
Tribune, is $4,000. Hulburt, of the
World, receives $4,000 a year. Charles
A. Dana, of the Sun, gets salary of
$4,000.
John Bryant, a colored man, living in
Pender county, N. c., carried home
quantity of wild honey from a bee tree
he had cut down. His family eat freely
of it, and were all taken sick. George,
his son, grown man, died in a few
minutes, but the others will recover.
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Cream and High Winds.

A butter-maker of large experience
has been noticing the influence of atmos-
pheric changes on the rising cream, and
as the quality of butter is affected there
by, it is matter of interest. 1t however
is akin to the general impression that
the condition of the atmosphere at the
time of thunder-storms cause milk to
sour quickly.
When the wind is northwest or north.
the most cream rises, and it is in the
best condition for butter. The next best
condition of the atmosphere is when the
wind is in the west. The third best con-
ditiOn is when the wind is in the east,
the fourth when it is in the south, and
the worst of all when it is southeast.
The above conclusions have been reached
when milk was kept at 60 degs. Fahren-
heit.
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POETRY.
BEN AzISs's CREED.


In an old city under Eastern skies
rhere lived ben Aim, whom men called the
Wise.
And all sweet youths on noble deeds intent
For golden counsel to Ben Azim went.
Thus in the silver silence Of the night
The sage beheld Brahmin, strong and bright,
And voung as Neptune when his lover hand
Caught hack the waves from the enamOred
land,
Standing within the tent. Master. he said,
srhe way is long to seek the wiser dead;
Therefore come here Tell me, pray,
W hat best sufficeth for life's fitful day5
sWhat dreams are whitest when the day is
spent,
And memory and moonlight fill the tent?
Then rpre Ben Aim, loving wider brow
And broader gaze than puny spirits know,
Made answer-'COme, o Prince: the moon is
high;
Beneath its sl,ining thou shalt reply.
He led him onward where glistening pile
OF marble makes the solemn moonshine smile,
And willing winds may draw the curtains
fold,
And fair and ravishing the scene they hold.
Beneath a hundred prisoned moons swung
low
In alabasler vases, glow on glow,
One lay in silken ease, and smiled to see
The happy dancers in their graceful glee,
And signed little with the signing Tyre,
Whose luliing seems diviner than desi-e:
And smiled again because his Nourmahal
Answered with lifted, lighted eyes his call.
No tumult save the viols enters here,
Where cyclamen and musk are atmosphere
sNo schemes make discord N that charmed air,
Where to be careless is the only care.
And age shall wIther and the dead leaves fall,
And still some amorous, ,fawn-eyed NOurmahal
sWill feed his heart. Roses and maidens die,
But love and bloom and fragrance are for aye.
The Brahmin faced the teacher, with surprise
And swift reproachcs in his eager eyes.
IF this be life, comprehend he said,
The smile upon the faces of the dead
Ben Azim's glance grew fond. 4 do not say
Brahma hath left us no more royal way;
sBut they who choose it walk with unshod
feet,
As one know wslks yonder stricken street,
Where dying children, feeling his caress,
Take it for their dead mothers tenderness;
'And men the plague had crushed are men
again,
His courage being stronger than their pair.
Poorer than lean parians, none may leave
A gift 'twould make him richer to receive.
Because the treasures of the gods are theirs
Whose empty hands fall free Of selfish cares;
'Aud be who only prays for other men
Is nearest Him who gives nor asks again;
"A ruler in world which has no sway
Of lives so rich they give themselves away.
The choice is thine, o Prince; this purple
state,
Or that high loneliness; the night grows late.
yet stay, my master, said the proud young
voice;
'Liie is too lavish for this narrow choice.
She gives her poets bay, her conquerors palm,
And power to princes, and to sages calm.
SIS there no boon of all she holds more ra:r?'
1t was a sage who heard and answered there
Pleasure will feed the tody, love, the soul,
Nor flesh nor spirit crave meaner dole.
'Cresus has all of earth, the pure have given;
Is there midland unto mortals given?'
FANNIE R. ROBINSON, in Harper's Magazine
for May.
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shakspeare's Early Married Life.

The Hathaways had lived in Shottery
for forty yearsprior to Shakspeare's mar
riage. The poet, then wholly undistin-
guished, had just turned eighteen, while
his bride was nearly twenty-six, and it is
often said now that she did very wrong
to wed this boy-lover. They were mar
ried in November, 1882, and their first
child, Susanna, came in the following
May. Anne Hathaway must have been
a wonderfully fascinating woman, or
Shakespeare would not so have loved her
and she must have loved him dearly-as
what woman, indeed, could help it?-
or she would not thus have yielded to
his passion. There is direct testimony
to the beauty of his person; and in the
light afforded by his writings it requires
no extraordinary penetration to conjec-
ture that his brilliant mind, sparkling
humor, tender fancy, and impetuous
spirit must have made him in his youth
the very paragon of enchanters. 1t is
not known where they they lived during
the first year after their marriage Per-
haps with Hamnet and Judith Sadler,
for whom their twins, born in 1885, were
named Hamnet and Judith, Her fathers
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COclxrOacIl Poison

With the advent of warm weather this
pest of the housekeeper will make its ap-
pearance, and the question of its disposal
is an annoying one. The Scientific Ameri.
can recommends the following to its
readers, and says: "As to the best
means of Kidding houses of cockroaches,
we may state that equal parts of pow
dered borax, Persian insect powder, and
powdered colocynth, well mixed togeth-
er, and thrown about such spots as are
infested with these troublesome insects,
will prove an effectual means of getting
rid of the scourge. This powder, in all
cases where its use has been persistent,
has by long experience been found an
infallible remedy"
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Tree Planting.

Mr.. Thomas Mechan, in his "Seasona-
BILE Hints" for April in the Gardeners s
Monthly, gives the following hints upon
tree planting:
'Soil loosened two feet dries out less
in summer than soil one foot deep. Rich
soil grows tree larger in one year than
poor soil will in three. Underdrained
soil is cooler in summer than soil not
under-drained. The feeding roofs of
trees come near the surface; therefore
plant no deeper than necessary to keep
the tree in the soil. If there be danger
of it blowing over, stake it, but don't
plant deep. One stoke set at an angle, is
as good as two set perpendicular. Straw
or mat set round the tree keeps the bark
from rubbing. Large stones placed
around transplanted tree are often
better than stake. They keep the soil
moist, admit the air and encourage sur
face roots. Shorten the roots at trans
planting. This induces growth, and
growth produces roots; and with new
roots your tree is safe for another sea-
son. Unpruned trees produce leaves,
but little growth and less new roots.
Place brOad-leaved evergreens where
they will get no sun in winter, yet away
from where the roots of trees will make
the ground dry in summer. Deep soil,
but shallow planting, is all important
for them. In transplanting take care of
the roots. Good roots are of more i'm
portance than the balls Balls of earth
are useful in keeping fibers moist; but
don't sacrifice the best fibers five OF six
rect from the tree, for the new fibers in
the ball at the base. When roots are
rather dry, after filling portion of soil,
pour in water freely. After all has set
tied away, fill in lightly the balance of
the soil, and let it rest for few days.
This is remedy, not as a rule; for wa
tering this way cools the soil, ultimately
hardens it, and in other respects works
to the injury of the transplanted tree"
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A State colored Convention was held
in Little Rock, Arkansas, recently. They
appointed delegates to the conference at
Nashville, May 6, favored Senator Win.
dom's resolutions, resolved themselves
into an auxiliary State Emigration Aid
Society, and having expressed a general
desire to leave Arkansas for some State
where they can enjoy the elective fran
chise untrammelled, adjourned.
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The remains of BENZ. Singerly, who
died at Pittsburgh two years ago, were
recently disinterred for the purpose of
removal to Philadelphia, where his pa
rents are buried. He was very heavy
man, weighing over $50 pounds, but on
attempting to raise the casket from the
grave it was found it could not be done,
owing to the great weight. On opening
the casket the body was found to be a
complete petrifaction, presenting all the
appearance of mass of yellow marble,
and weighed $50 pounds.
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The towboat Whale stranded the mod
ell barge Eugene on the rocks at Shade
river, near Syracuse, Ohio, Monday of
last week. losing most of her cargo. The
barge was freighted with 5000 kegs of
nails from the Wheeling mills, which
were insured for $4,000. About 2,1O0
kegs of nails were saved.
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MEXICAN
Mustang Liniment,
FOR MAN AND BEAST.

This1lniment very naturally originated in AInsri
ca, where Nature provides In her laboratory such
surprising antidotes for the maladies Of her chill
drer- Its fame has been spreading for IS years,
until now It encircles the habitable globe.
The Mexican Mustang Liniment Is q matchlsss
remedy for all external ailments Of man and beast
To stock owners and farmers It Is invaluable.
A single bottle often saves . human life or re-
stores the usefulness Of an excellent horse. or.
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1t cures foot-rot, hoof-ail heIiow horn, grub.
screw-worna, shouldsr-rot, mango. the bites and
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such drawback to stock breeding and bush nfs.
It cures every external trouble Of horses. sueA
rs lameness, scratches, Swinny. sFrains. foun6er.
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III Mexican Mustang LiniHent Is the quickest
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It l. the cheapest remedy In the world. for y
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Mexican Mustang Liniment Il put up In three
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Telegraph Lines.
THE WESTERN UNION BEFORE THE sRN-
ATE COMMITTEE ON RAILROADS.,

THE WESTERN UNION BEFORE THE sRN-
ATE COMMITTEE ON RAILROADS.
WARRINGTON, Feb. 13.-The West
err Union Telegraph Company present.
ed it.ef IN force to-day before the Senate
COMMITTEES on Railroads to prevent if
possible the passage of an act authorizing
railroad companies to own and operate
telegraph lines. The particular subject
under onsideration as the bill of ST ma
tor Jones, Of Florida. 1t contains the
same id. a embodied in the amendment
which General Butl>r had attached to
he post office Appropriation bill in the
House, but goes little further and au-
thorizes railroad companies to Connect
their lines and the Government to use
them for pos militia y and other phr-
poses. The days session was devoted ia
hearing President Green of the Western
Union Company, at whose instance the
hearing had been called and who desu ed
to make s atemrnt. lie claimed TIA,
Congress was acting without sufficient
knowledge ofthe subject and that the b,ll
would not accomplish what was desired
These two points were the burden of hi,
argument, and their object was evidentl,
| to secure delay. He claimed that tn,
Western Union was not monopoly, an,
then went on to prove that it was by
serting that il owned nineteen ont of ey
cry telegraph lines along railroads. an,
| had contracts with these roads which en-
abl"d the telegr ph company to success
fully restrain the railroads from openn.
up lines that we've in direct opposition