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An Indians Fight With Bears.

An Indian known as "Peavine Tom "
has had hand-to-hand encounter with
some bears on the mountain above
Bucks rancho which must have been n
terrible battle. He was hunting in the
locality spoken of and found a bear
wallow" in u little valley and suddenly
came upon five bears. He says hat he
shot one, killing it, when another at
tackled him. His only dependence was
in his butchers knife, and with this he
managed to kill the second one. About
this time another attacked him, and the
conflict must have been fearful. Part
of the Indians scalp was torn from his
head, his face was badly lacerated and
his arm, side and one thigh were fairly
.'eatcn up" No bones were broken.
however, and he managed To stagger and
crawl to the road, where he was found
and taken to Bucks rancho. Mr.. Wag-
ner dressed his wounds and 1T last &C
counts he was improving and in q fair
way to recover. lie says that he would
have been killed but that he kept his
face down most of the time and let the
bears bite his back. A.1Tty went out
to the scene Of the fight and found the
three bears dead and the Indians knife
sticking in one of them. He must nave
been "game to the backbone" and de-
serves the title of the 9 ''boss bear
hunter. r."-Patlnas { Cal.) National.
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Comfort.


II there should come time, as well thert
may,
When sudden tribulation smites thine
heart,
And thou dost come to me tor help, and stay
And comtort-how shall I perform lny
part? -r -
How shall make my heart resting place,
A shelter safe for thee when terrors smite!
How shall bring the sunshine to thy face,
And dry thy tears in bitter woes despite
How shall I win the strength to keep my
voice
Steady and hr1n, although hear thy sobs
How shall bid thy iainting soul rejoice,
Nor mar the counsel of mine own heart
throbs?
Love, my love teaches me certain way,
So, if thy dark hour come, I am thy stay.
I must live higher, nearer to the reach
OF angels in their blessed trusttulness,
Learn their unselfshness, ere can teach
Content to thee, whom would greatly
bless.
Ah! what woe were mine if thou shouldst
come,
Troubled, but trusting, unto me for aid,
And I should meet thee powerless and dumb,
Willing to help thee, but confused, afraid!
1t shall not happen thus, for will rise,
God helping me, to higher life, and gain
Courage and strength to give thee counsel
wise,
And deeper love to bless thee in thy pain.
Fear not, dear love, thy trial hour shall be
The dearest bond between my heart and thee.
-.dH the Year Round.
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Words of Wisdom.

The world is governed by three
things-wisdom, authority and appear
ances. Wisdom is tor thoughtful peo-
pie, authority for rough people, and
appearances for the great mass Of super
fetal people who can look only at the
outside.
Seek not to please the world. but your
own conscience. The man who has a
feeling within him that he has done his
duty upon every occasion is happier
than he who hangs upon the smiles OF
the great or the still more tickle favors
Of the multitude.
Flatterers are the worst kind of trait
ors, for they will strengthen your i'm
perfections, encourage you in all evils,
correct you in nothing, but so shadow
and paint your follies and vices as you
shall never. by their will, discover good
from evil, or vice from virtue.
Imaginary evils soon become real
ones by indulging our reflections on
them; as he, who in a melancholy fancy
sees something like face on the wall or
wainscot, can, by two or three touches
with laed pencil, make it look visi lie,
and agreeing with what he fancied.
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sAll Mine ="

An Oregon correspondent, writingthe
the Country Gentleman, tells this story
of the civilizing influence of horticui-
ture. Uncle Billy Rector went to Ore
gon in le46, bringing seeds. CRAFTS and
tools, and took up square mile of fine
land in the Willamette valley. In the
scrub. growth, along the edge of the
prairie, were some crab-apple trees
which he grated.
The Indians were jealous of his intru-
sion, though peaceable. By-and-bye n
chief and his band of braves and squaws,
with his ponies and pappooses, camped
near at hand on a fishing expedition.
The red man, he said, claimed all the
valley-and in proof Of this claim said
they came every year to gather the ap-
Piles. Then sweeping his arm in a circle,
he exclaimed, "All minem
The savage thought his argument con-
vincing, and demanded beads and fish
hooks rs tribute.
Rector got rid of him by yielding, and
for two or three years saw no more of
the noble red man. Then the chief and
his string of horses, squaws and dogs
again sought the spot, now vastly
changed by Rector's improvements. He
pretended to be very angry. perhaps to
scare the white man out of beads, fire.
water and fish-hooks. Standing erect,
and sweeping the circle of the horizon
with outstretched arm, he exclaimed,
Gall miner
Then Rector said, "All mine, toor'
and beckoned the Indian with him to
the apple tree. where his gratis were
bearing large red apples.
ae looked and wondered. The power
of the white mans medicine to change
the fruit of the tree was too much for his
philosophy, and when Uncle Billy once
more asserted, "It is all mine!" lie gave
u erunt of assent. The next morning
the cavalcade disappeared and never re.
turned.
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The Tunnel Under the Hudson.

Work on the proposed tunnel unaer
the North river between Jersey City
and New York is now In progress.
About forty men are ut work 6uiialns
the perpendicular shalt, which Iescenus
bv grayitation rs fast rs the soil hcneatti
is removed. When this mass o! orlrk
masonry has been sunk about ,slSty
feet. the archway puilt into one side ana
tcmporily bricked up will be opened, SO
that the horizontal shaft, or tunnel
proper. can be pushed forward beneath
thc rivers bed. On this latter part OF
the work IN lair lock will be- intro
duceG. consisting of an iron cylinder
IGx6 feet, $50 arranged by means OF
hinged door that laborers can pass
through it into the compressed alr-
chamber and 90 on with the excavation.
The outward pressure of the alr IS TX,
ncctcd to assist in excluding water anG
upholdirg the roof of earth. Colohe'
Haskin expressed himself to our le.
porter with enthusiasm. confident t!!aC
in the end he will succeed IN one OF tnt
most remarkable engineering icats o.
modern times. The expectation IS tl,a1
the Erie and Pennsylvania TIL roads
the New Jersey Central, Delaware.
Lncklwanna and Western, and o'hcr
Important lines which are now depen,,
dcnce on river transportation, Will Scha
their trains through the tunnel, wiIlch
will have capacity for 400 trains every
twenty.four hours: ,,
The tunnel will be about one mt!e
under the river. with approaches
at either end--l2, 600 fee: a'tngeth"f.
It will be circular in form. 2GH2i fcrt.
fitted with double track railway
Total estimated cost, Slo,ol0,@o--
american SHIP.
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Rread SuperstitiOns,

Among the many superstitions of
which loaf of bread has been the
basis, one of the strangest is that which,
in more than one European country. at-
taches special ill-lusk to the turning of
the loaf upside down. In Scotland this
is accounted for by legend that Sir
Walter Menteith, the betrayer of Wal
lace to the English. made this action
signal of attack, whence the reversing of
q loas in presence Of Menteith was con.
sidered SO deadly an insult as to cause
more than one fatal duel in the old fight
ing days. The same belief in Germany
is explained by the story of Bohemian
king, who, happening to reverse his loaf,
was warned by soothsayer that it pre-
saged the overthrow of his kingdom,
which speedily came to pass. The Rus
slams hold this superstition so firmly
that you have only to turn a loaf upside
down in any native village TO see the
whole company dash at it and reverse
it, explaining that when the fiat side it
exposed the devil comes and seats him
self upon it, and is not to be dislodged
without victim of some kind.
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The Cabbage.

Just speak to a fine lady about cab
bages and she will think you have men-
toned one of the lowest things on earth.
Madame, you are wrong; it is one OF the
most useful articles Of food. Those an
cient nations did not know food science,
but they knew the value of good and
nourishing things and they gave them
the place Of honor which they deserved.
Cabbages were thought of highly by
ancient nations, and the Egyptians gave
the cabbage the honor of letting it pre-
cede all other dishes; they called it a
divine dish. The Greeks and Romans
had a great affection for cabbage and
conceived the idea, which I have my
self, that the use of cabbage keeps peo--
ple from drunkenness. I am persuaded
the constant eating of certain vegetables
kills the desire for alcoholic beverages.
The Greek doctors ascribed all kinds of
virtues to the cabbage. 1t was thought
to cure even paralysis. The Romans
thought even more of the cabbage than
did the Greeks. They ascribed to it the
fact that they could for 900 years do
without doctors, and Cato actually
maintained that cabbage cured all dis
eases. The ancients knew several kinds
of cabbage-the long-leafed green cab
bage, the hard White. 80 much used in
Germany tor "sauer kraut,'" or ferment-
ed cabbage, the curly and the red: This
last seems to have held the place of
honor, and was at first introduced by
the Romans into Gaul or France and
then brought to Great Britain. Later
the green.leafed cabbage was introduced.
The Greeks were fond of aromatic sea-
sonings-of oil, raisin wine and almonds.
They boiled or stewed the cabbage and
seasoned it with cummin, coriander
seeds, with oil, wine or gravy, making
rich dishes of a vegetable which we now
boil in water and reckon among the
plainest food. Something like aremem-
brance of cooking cabbage among the
old Greeks has come down to the nod
ern Greeks, for they stuff cabbage leaves
with dainty mince-meats and then stew
them with gravy.-Food and Health
LeGUeS.
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The Boy.

In some families, where the daughter
is attended with every care and solicl-
tude, the boy is often turned off to seek
his own companions and his own amuse-
ments, to run all manner of hair breadth
escapes, moral no less than physical; to
ride on wild engines, to Chamber among
the shipping aJ the wharves. to dodge
loose horses and mad dogs. To be sure,
he learns reliance upon himself and his
resources by this means, while his sister
sits tamely and securely at home, afraid
of her own shadow. While he is diving
off the end of the wharf, struggling with
cramp in the surf, padding his own
canoe amidst rocks or rapids, breaking
through air.holes in the skating-pond,
running with the tire-engines, accumu-
lating strength and knowledge OF the
worlds ways, she, perhaps, is learning
crochet or lace stitch, or to daub with
water-colors. Left to his ow devices
thus, his judgment is cultivated daily IN
his game of stick-knife, in his trade OF
old nails for new coppers with the junk
man, in his wrestling match with unex-
pected dangers and his intercourse with
the bully of the neighborhood. In short,
the boy is only half appreciated. not
withstanding the lack of masculine ele-
ment in the community. A hungry boy
does not awaken the sympathies as read
ily as a hungry girl. One teels that an
orphan boy can shift for himself, but
girl must be provided with proper guild
ance. We have small concern for the
blisters on his hands, for his bare bruised
feet, the shabbiness of his clothes. 1t it
matter OF course that he should rough
it; it is the process that fits him for the
rub and tumble in the great world, and
no one wastes sigh over the affair.
But if there is an errand to run. kitten
to dispose of, caterpillar's nest in the
fruit tree to destroy, a horse to catch, or
any disagreeable thing to do, the boy IS
called into requisition. In the mean
time, while his discomforts are considered
of no consequence, or at least such as
every boy must expect to 90 through on
the way to becoming man, as passport
to that dignity, he grows to disregard
them himself and to reckon it of little
account whether his clothes are wet or
his ears tingle with frost, as that rude
specimen of his kind bore witness who,
being asked if his feet were cold, an
swered: Il dunno; feel of 'em." No
doubt this lack of cosseting and consld-
Grafton hardens him, so that he may
endure the shocks of misfortune with
greater eauanimity on reaching man.
hood and think of other things than Of
his own sensations.-Ha7per's Bazar.
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Why Some Birds Never Forage in
FlOcks.

Mr.. Wilson Flags explains in the A.
lanatic Monthly why certnin birds. like
chickadees and robins, never forage in
compact hocks, as do the sparrows and
other grain-eating birds. Their food
consists of insects, and hence they are
compelled to scatter. Their natural
gregariousness, however, causes them to
sound a note every now and then, in
order to keep within hearing: Wood
peckers do not call to each other while
feeding, because their hammering is
sufficient. Mr.. Flagg notices singular
fact in the association together, yet not
in the same troop, of the downy wood
peckers and the chickadec. There
seems to be n sort of affinity. he says,
between the small woodpeckers, the
creepers and the chickadee. They do
not Join company, but keep within hear
ing of one smother from q sociable feel
ing. When birds are grain-eaters, they
20 in large, close flocks, like the red
Winged blackbirds. because thei1 food is
abundant.
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How Mushrooms Grow.

Mr.. Julius A. Palmer, Jr.. writes to
the Boston Transcript: A few years
ago the banks of the lot opposite the
Brunswick Hotel, this city, were sodded
and the land leveled to its present
grade. As the pick of the work
man broke up the soil, a white
substance ran through every piece:
Starting with large branches, 1t
divided and subdivided like the veins
on the back of the hapd. The smell was
very strong, quickly noticed on the op'
posite side Of LIE way. This subter-
ranean white vein-for it had that ap-
pearance-was nothing but the hidden
part of tile Corpriaus consatus, q mush-
room freely eaten now, although twenty
years ago thought to be poisonous. The
common name Of this substance is
spawn" Just as cutting of the grape
vine placed in conditions favorable to
growth will shootup, put forth branches
and bear fruit, SO part of this C0TpT7n4s
vine transplanted will continue to
ramify and in time show the result in
the form of mushrooms. The whole
earth beneath your feet, on country
walk, is alive with vegetation to great
depth. This vegetation is just rs real,
and the various vines-or, in other
words, thathousand varieties of mush-
room spawn-are just as distinct as the
hopvine and the woodvine, the ivy and
the virgins bower that twine their
tendrils above your head. Just where
grew this year peculiar kind OF toad
stool, there, next year and so on for sue
cessive harvests, will you find the same
plant. There is no more mystery about
its appearance than in the growth ofthe
chestnut on the tree that shades it:
Rapidity ofgrowth IS not near as general
as it is thought to be. The common
mushroom and many others form for
days Just below the soil. A heavy dew
or m evening shower straightens the
stem of the fungas and expands its top.
1t breaks the earth in the night, and the
gatherer is able to find in the mording
the white buttons where he could see
nothing the night before. So, popular
error has made mushroom growth pro-
verbal for superficiality which by the
fungi at least is undeserved. Further,
the various varieties Of toadstools sue
ceed each other in rotation just as the
bloodroot and anemones Of spring are
followed by the roses of summer and
the cardinal or gentian of fall: These
are not theories that are here advanced; !;
they are the results of several years
careful watching Of the growth OF this
order of plants. On the very spot where.
in 1874, I gathered mushrooms, there; in
1879, I find the identical variety, 30 that
the lover OF fungus may have his regular
harvest with all the certainty OF the
farmer who looks for the return OF his
wheat crop or the results ofhis cranberry
culture. With just that degree OF GER
tainty, no more and no less, for, as Ger r
tain years are favorable for the produc'
ton of certain fruits, as the potato crop
sometimes fails and the apple orchard is
barren, 50 the mushroom spawn, usu;
ally producing abundantly its expected
variety, may pass year, or even under IN
difficulties become extinct. The blight
which may visit all life, animal or vege'
table, does not fail to fall ut times upon
my humble friends.
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Hay Fever.

A new view of this disease has come
to be entertained, the result of a more
careful study of it. It is found to be
nervous in its origin; to come not from
without, hut from Within. though it
may have numerous exciting causes.
DR.. Beard, of New York, who has led in
the more recent Investigations, says
that those who thoroughly understand
the nerve-theory of hay fever are pre-
pared for the discovery of almost any
conceivable manifestation of this won
derful malady.
Though he has seen or studied. over
eight hundred cases, every season brings
to his attention novel, unexpected, and
unimaginable caprices in its history and
symptoms. He adds: " In the family
of neuroses" (nerve diseases), ito
which hay fever belongs, nothing, can
surprise, nothing is anomalous, nothing
is Inconsistent With the evolution oi
the modern constitution, new shapes
and type of symptoms are every year
coming under observation.
While eminent physicians have looked
upon running Of the nose, sneeZlng
cough. asthma and aversion to lig Int rs
essential to the disease, DR.. Beard has
known case in which the only symp'
tom was inflammation of one eye, com
ing on suddenly every summer. Another
was characterized only by an eczematous
eruption of the face, coming on yeal
after year, between the twentieth and
twenty-tiftll of August. If the eruption
was suppressed by treatment, an attack
of asthma followed.
In another Use the only symptom was
spasm of the Gsophagus; in another
loss of voice; iE another, the attack was
preceded for two or three days by pro
found mental depression, during which
immense quantities Of alcohol could be
taken without any apparent effect.
Like all the nerve-maladies of the
family to which it belongs, hay fever is
by far the most common in the North,
and it regularly decreases in frequency
Us we 60 South. "-Youth's Companion.
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How n Horse Killed n Dog.

One evening not long ago there WAS a
curious fight between dog and horse
on North G street, in Virginia City,
New. The horse was running loose in
the street, when q bulldog, belonging to
Henry Matthews, rushed out and began
to worry it. Matthews encouraged the
dog, which made several attempts to
fasten itself on the horse, but at the
same time fought shy of the spirited
animals heels. Finally the dog came
in front of the horse and sprang straight
for it's throat. The horse struck the
dog on the shoulder with its right fore
foot, and the dog, bowling with pain,
rolled convulsively upon the ground.
The horse then trampled savagely upon
it and killed it.
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There has been great deal of advice
running through the press lately AS 10
the best and most comfortable way to
peel onions. One says, put lump Of
bread on the end Of kniie;" another,
"do it under water" The first would
seem u little risky and the second rather
inconvenient. A good way to peel an
onion is to use knife about mile
long; but the very best way is to stand
off ten or fifteen miles with good tele-
scope and see somebody else do it.-Ho-
tel Gazette.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

An important movement, looking to
the placing of American horses before
the public, was inaugurated in New
York recently. The object is to organ
ize company for the establishment of
grand central and international horse
agency and repository for the sale of
horses and carriages in that city.
Leonard Jerome, J. R. Keene and others
propose taking part in the enterprise. Of
the proposed capital stock of SlO0, ZOO,
over 1886, 900 was subscribed at the first
meeting.
Of the war waged between man and
beast in India the yearly statistics are
once more published, and it would seem
that during 1877 the slaughter was ter
rible. Nineteen thousand six hundred
and ninety-fve people were killed
forty-six by elephants, 8l9 by tigers,
200 by leopards, eighty-five by bears, 564
by wolves, twenty-four by hyenas. 1,lsO
by other wild animals, and 1871 by
snakes. Fifty-three thousand cattle,
moreover, succumbed in the fight. On
the other side, under stimulus of a re-
ward amounting to more than flO,00O
92,s5l wild beasts and 1925 snakes
have been killed; large total in itself,
but small when the losses man and do
mestic animals have sustained are taken
into consideration.
A correspondent in Mexico, who took
with him from the United States large
quantity Of agricultural implements,
writes home that he is more than ever
convinced of the grand opening that
country offers for American trade; and
one of the most enterprising natives of
the country writes that he is introduc-
ing the late inventions on his own es-
tates. Reapers and threshing machines
prove highly successful; also corn plant
ers and cultivators. Many other ma
chimes, such as portable mills, corn
shelters, straw cutters, etc., have lately
been put to use, and from the short ex-
perience had of them, the writer feels
confident that farmers in Mexico will
have to adopt them, and will economize
much time, labor and expense.
Tie Indian troubles" in Colorado
and elsewhere represent pretty fairly
the'normal state of things in Algeria
forty years ago, and in some parts Of
Central Asia at the present day; but it
must be owned that in point of humanity
the record of both France and Russia is
a very dark one, even as compared with
Ameriac. One of Marshal Pelissier's
African exploits, to take only one in
stance out of many, was 20 maintain q
huge fire at the entrance of a cavern filled
with Arab tugitives, including women
and children, till every soul within was
suffocated-a tale which one may still
hear told with muttered curses by some
gray-haired Kabyle on the border of
the Sahara. St. Arnaud destroyed an
equal number even more barbarously:
Accidentally discovering that crowd
of natives had fed into subterranean
passage, he ordered his unsuspecting
soldiers to block up the only aperture
leading to the outer air, and thus to
make the lair of the brigands their
tomb" as he theatrically phrased it.
Years later, when telling the story to an
English traveller, he added, with ex-
treme complacency, II am naturally the
kindest-hearted man living, but there
are times when a little severity is use
full"
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The world is looking-glass. and
gives back to every man the reflection of
his own face. Frown at it. and it wi il
turn and look surly upon you: laugh
at it and with it, and it is z pleasant.
kind companion.