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Challenging a Consul.

The following case is of peculiar in
terest to the consuls Of the United
States in Europe, and the action of the
Wurtemberg government has furnished
a valuable precedent. A furniture
dealer of Stuttgart, feeling himself
aggrieved by remark said to have
been made by Mrs. Catlin, the wife of
the United States consul at that capt.
tai (but which she denied, demanded
written apology from Consul Catlin,
and failing that, challenged him to
fight duel, naming pistols as his IA
vorite weapon. Mr.. Catlin declined to
accept the invitation, declaring that
he had been sent abroad by his gov
eminent to respect and uphold the
laws of the country to which he had
been accredited, and not TO violate
them by dueling. Thereupon the fur
niture dealer sent him a grossly in
sulting communication, which the
consul forwarded to the foreign office
of the Wurtemberg government. The
authorities at once caused the offender
to be prosecuted. aad he was brought
up for trial, found guilty and sentenced
to fine of eighty marks and to pay
the full costs of the proceedings
Paris Continental Gazette.
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The Lon gstOne.

In the parish of st. Maybn, in East
Cornwall, England, and on the high
road from BCdmin to Camelford, is a
group of houses Zone of them a smiths
shop known by the name of Long
stone. The curious traveller passing
by inquiries the raison d etre of such
name, for there is no tall monolith,
such as are not uncommon in Corn
wall, to be seen near it. The reason is
given by Notes and Q,teries
In lack of records l may say in the
days of King Arthur there lived in
Cornwall" a smith. The smith was a
Keen fellow, who made and mended the
plows and harrows, and shod the
horses of his neighbors, and was gen.
orally serviceable. He had also great
skill in farriery and in the general
management and cure of sick cattle.
lie could also extract the stubbornest
tooth, even if the jaw resisted and
some gyrations around the anvil were
required.
There seems ever to have been ill
blood between devil and smith, teste
Dunstan and others, and so it was be-
dentist of st. Maybn. AT night there
were many and fierce disputes between
them in the smithy. The smith, as
the rustics til, always got the advan-
tage of his adversary, and gave him
better than he brought. This success,
however, only fretted old Nick and
spurred him on to further encounter.
What the exact matter of controversy
on this particular occasion was is not
remembered, but it was agreed to set
tie it by some wager, some trial of
strength and skill. A two-acre field
was near, and the smith challenged the
devil to the leaping of each his acre in
the shortest time. The match came off,
and the devil was beaten, for the
smith had beforehand st althily stuck
here and there over his opponents acre
some harrow tines, or teeth.
The two started well, but soon the
strong swing ofthe fiend's scythe was
being brought up frequently by some
obstruction, and as frequently required
the milestone. The dexterous and
acre, and was soon Enthusiastically gain
ing. The devil, enraged at his certain
discontinue, hurled his milestone at
his rival and flew off. The milestone,
thrown with great violence, after sun
dry whirls into the air, fell upright
into the soil to great depth, and
there remained witness against the
evil one for many ages. The devil
avoided the neighborhood while it stood.
In an evil hour the farmer at Treble
thick set his heart upon the Longstone,
Tor there were gate posts and door
posts to be had out of it, and he threw
it down. That night the enemy re-
turned. and has haunted the neighbor
hood ever since.
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Culfivatinr Apples.

A writer in Virginia paper de-
voted to farming interests says: How
much improv, ment has cen made
upon the appl, Tor tn last forty years ?
l think ain SAT- in say ny IS than
in any Other departm mt either of ag-
rlculture or horticulture; in fact, the
lead : apple to-day was tn, leading
apple then, only craving poorer as it
g5tS farther from the Iarent stock.
Having had consid ra l. expl rience in
grating, L have oil served the farther
you get from the original stock the
poorer the quality as to keeping, size
and taste. In fact | can show speci-
mems of different kinGs become very
near in kind to the last stock grated
on, and why should they not, grated
in the haphazard way it is done? For
instance, take two small scions of Il
delicate, sw ct var, ETY., and graft them
into a nearly sour stock, and you
might as well expect p rfect stock bred
from scrags and thorough reds. In
many cases L find the CIR, ening an |
Baldwin poor keepers, and not near up
to the original specimen in size. beauty
or favor; but the causes, l think, are
easily remed ell.
In the first place, do not take trees
from a rich garden soil that have a
large, tender growth and expect them
to do well on some poor, WORKOUT side
hill; rather give your money to the
poor, when you may not be disap-
pointed. The only true way | ca1 e
for Improvement is to get trees, if pos
sible, grown on soil like that on which
they are to stand, and grow them thick
enough so that when they get sutl-
cient growth to commence bearing
you can select out the different kinds
and graft the sweet into stock of the
same kind and sour the sour, keeping
in view size. quality, etc. Graft the
late or keeping qualities on the same
kind and early on the early. In this
way the stock can be improved; you
can have an orchard in bearing sooner;
your trees will grow up adapted to the
soil and climate, and give better salts
faction n every way.
To verify my statements, l will take
the Pound Sweeting. | can show on
two trees standing near together, the
scions taken from the same tree, one
very sweet and the other a decidt d
sour. Again, can show the same
apple that rots before it falls from the
tree, and others that will keep until
next June; and trees that bear large
and fair specimens, while others poor
and small.
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One.Sided.

When at school we made the &C
quaintance of young Frenchman,
who was nervously anxious to learn
the idioms of our language. He used
excellent English in conversation, and
was greatly pleased when he heard a
new expression. which he was sure to
treasure up and give as his own at the
earliest opportunity.
He one day heard friend character
ize another person as two-faced."
After inquirlng what the meaning of
the expression was, he stored the cpl
tibet away for future use. He fire.
quently took part in our society de-
bates, and always spoke with spirit
and not little pathos. At a meeting
of the society not long after, in the
midst of a speech he found an oppor-
tunity to use the new compound word.
But in the excitement of the debate
his memory did not stand by him as it
would if he had been less nervous.
This is what he said:
eff there ees anything detest, sir,
it ees a two-Sided man And l fer
vently hope, sir, may continue one
sided to the end of my days p
The laugh of his associates revealed
to him the fact that he had blundered.
and IN explanation did not relieve his
modification, YoRthS Companion.
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One Way OF Getting Married.

When a man in decent rank of life
in India wishes to marry, and can
prove he possesses the means of main
tanning wife, it is customary for him
to apply to the mistress of the Byculla
school, state his wishes and qualifica-
tions, and inquire into the number and
character of the marriageable girls.
An investigation Immediately follows
as to his eligibility, and if all promises
satisfactorily, he is forthwith invited
to take tea with the schoOlmistress
upon an appointed evening, to give
him an opportunity of making his Sc
lection. The elder girls are then in
formed of his intended visit, and Of
its purport, and those who desire to
enter the matrimonial lists come for
ward and signify their wish to join the
party. Frequently four or five COM
petitors make their appearance on these
occasions in the mistress room. The
gentleman, while doing his best to
make himself agreeable. yet contrives
in the course of the evening to mark
his preference for one particular lady.
Should these symptoms of budding af-
lection be favorably received, he ten
ders his proposal in due form on the
following morning. But it often Oc-
ours the selected lady does not partici-
pate in the inamOratas sudden flame,
in which case she is at perfect liberty
to decline the honor Of his alliance,
and reserve herself for the next tea
party exhibition.
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There is possibly no more repulsve
sight than dirty cow stable, and one
in which dairy cattle are housed is es-
pecially offensive. 1t has been demon
strated that cows neglected in this re-
spect fail to yield perfect flow of
milk, and it is reasonable to suppose
that such is the case. The richest of
food may be given to them, but if
their condition in the stall be neglected
they will not thrive. The foul odor
OF filthy stable must necessarily per-
meale rot only the animals hide, but
it has been proven that the meat of
stalled steers fattened under these
circumstances is unwholesome; more
over, the milk, even during the period
OF milking, is liable to absorb the filthy
carnations from such stables and to
become absolutely poisonous. 1t would
seem, therefore, reasonable that owners
and dealers in cattle and mix should
appr ciate the Importance of cleanli.
ness and its relation to health, even as
a source of proiit.-1He Sunitarian.
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SONG OF THE COUNTRY.
Away from the roar and the rattle,


The dust and din of the town,
Where to live is to brawl and to battle,
Till the strong treads the weak man down
Away to the bonnie green hills,
Where the sunshine sleeps on the brae,
And the heart of the greenwood thrills
To the hymn of the bird on the spray.
Away from the smoke and the smother,
The vale of the dun and the brown,
The push and the plash and the pother
The wear and waste of the town!
Away where the sky shines clear,
And the light breeze wanders at will,
And the dark pine wood mods near
To the light plumed birch ON the hill.
Away from the whirling and wheeling,
And steaming above and below.
Where the heart has no leisure for feeling,
And the thought has no quiet to grow.
Away where the clear brook purls,
And the hyacinth droops in the shade.
And the plume of the fern uncurls
Its grace in the depth of the glade.
Away to the cottage, so sweetly
Embowered meath the fringe of the wood
Where the wife of my bosom shall meet mt
With thoughts ever kindly and good.
More dear than the worth of the world
Fond mother with bairnies three.
And the plump-armed babe that has curled
Its lips sweetly pouting for me.
j. Stuart Bldckie.
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Street Life in Naples.

The horrors of the poorest quarters
of Naples have often been descanted
on by philanthropists, and by none
more eloquently than by a learned and
benevolent Italian professor, who de-
scribed his experiences in the writer's
presence. Amid the accumulated mise
ries he witnessed, his compassion was
especially aroused by one case-that of
a widow, who, with two children, a
boy and girl, slept in damp and
nosome cellar, so infested by rats that
large stone had to be kept in reach at
night to repel their approaches. The
principal sustenance of the family con-
sisted of water in which chestnuts had
been boiled, with some miscellaneous
scraps; their clothing matched their
food and lodging. From this state of
wretchedness they were rescued by the
professor, by whose exertions, after
having been washed and decently clad,
they were placed in school, where the
children were taught, and the mother
employed as a charwoman. AT the end
of two months she threw up her situa-
tiCn, to go back, with her children, to
her old den. They were irreclaimable,
and could not bear the restraints of
civilization. But in mitigation of the
misery of Neapolitan rookeries, it must
be said that they are mere lairs, resort
ed to for sleep alone, while the remain
ing business of his life is carried on
out of doors in the most equally benign
climate in the world. The back streets
and blind alleys of Naples are the
scenes of perpetual picnic, recalling
the al-fresco housekeeping of gypsy
lamp. Fire is rarely lit within doors,
and culinary operations are carried on
in the street, over circular braziers in
the shape of warming pan, the char
coal in which is famed to glowing heat
with disk of plated straw, the invari-
able substitute for bellows. These
movable hearths in winter become
centers of attraction to the passersby,
and the groups of loungers gathered
round them form conspicuous feature
Of Neapolitan outdoor life The street
which has served as kitchen is trans
formed into banquet hall, where,
about noon, the inhabitants may be
seen seated in front of their houses
eating boiled chestnuts or slabs
of yellow meal polenta, macaroni,
since the introduction of the grist tax,
having become rather an article of
festive luxury than of daily diet. In
the streets, too, are performed all save
the most elementary operations of the
toilet, and Embarrassing in all it's
phases invites the attention of the
public, who are gratified with the
sight of the long black tresses in every
stage of dishevelment. The lava
pavement in front Of the doors is fur
nished in the afternoon as a salon
with due allowance of rush bottomed
chairs, whose weight-carrying power
would seem to be of high order,
judging from the ponderous rotundi-
ties they occasionally sustain. These
bulky matrons are generally engaged,
like so many Parcae, plying distatf
and spindle, while the girls seated be-
side them are more frequently intent
on their hemming and stitching. The
Neapolitan street urchin is the most
gamin of all gaming, surprising even
his Partisan prototype in his own walk.
Temple Bar.
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Farm and Garden Notes.

See to it if you would have healthy
hogs that they are never without salt
and charcoal.
Beans will ripen sooner if planted
rather thickly; out an inch apart in
the row is the proper distance.
a farmer who makes great deal
of butter asks what shall be done with
the sour milk. Feed it to turkeys,
chickens and pigs, or if you keep none
of these, make it into cottage cheese.
Cabbage and other plants intended
for the garden should be transplanted
once and their leaves shortened before
being finally set out. This makes them
stocky. a second removal does not
injure them.
Oats and barley should be rolled
when they are three or four inches
high, especially if the weather is very
warm and dry. The roller checks the
too rapid growth caused by the warm
weather and promotes tillering at the
roots.
Hoe;ng, and Il e frequent stirring of
the surface of the soil, are important
in dry weather. Those parts of the
garden that are most constantly cult
waited show the best results. Corn
will stand almost any drought if the
sol around the hills be frequently
stirred.
Cut worms are often destructive t.
young cabbage plants. A paper
wrapped around the stem, extending
two inches above the surface. will pre-
va1t Their work. Better still, if prac-
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Household Hints.

To clean raisins, wipe them with a
dry towel. Never wash them, for it
will make cakes or puddings heavy.
Corn husks. raided, make service
able and handsome mats. The braids
to he sewed with sack-needle and
Irvine.
A flannel cloth dipped in warm soap
snds, then into whiting. and applied
to paint, will instantly remove all
grease.
Cabbage is made digestible by first
Icing, and then putting in boiling
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water, with pinch of soda and some
salt, and DO ling just fifteen minutes.
A porcelain-lined kettle that will no
longer serve for fruit is just the thing
for the corn loaf. A three or four
quart fruit can answers well the same
purpose.
To take ink spots out of linen, dip
the ink spot in pure melted tallow,
then wash out the tallow and the ink
VIII come out with it. This is said to
be unfailing.
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ticable, plant the cabbage patch in
| some place not infected lv these nests

ticable, plant the cabbage patch in
some place not infected by these pests.
To secure hens, for profitable laying,
cross a large and q small breej to-
| gether. 1t is better if the male be of
the small bree |. If breeding is con-
tinued from the same fowls a subse.
/ quent year. it is then desirable to get
the male from a large breed, and thus
alternate each year.
Professor Shelton. of the Kansas
State agricultural college, holds that
the cultivation of such crop, as broom
corn, hemp, flax, and per laps castor
leans, which furnish but little if any
stock fed, will ultimately lead to Sc
r Gus consequences in the loss of fer
tility sustained by the lands so cult
waited.
A great many fields, espe tally those
long and narrow, are always plowed
the zane way. Simply changing the
direction of working will often make q
great increase in productiveness. The
furrow cut across the old lines of
burrows is not stopped by the same
stones, While new soil is opened to the
growth of plant roots.
AS soon as the early crop OF potatoes
has been harvested you may plant sun
flowers. Put the seeds in twelve
inches apart each way, and when they
are foot high earth them up and they
will need no further care. If you keep
bees the Blossoms will be valuable,
while the seeds are excellent for poul-
try and are in demand for making
toilet soap.
Experiments recently made in Eu-
rope with view to ascertaining the
best method of preserving manure
show that manure allowed to accumu-
late under cattle three months or more
In specially constructed deep stalls.
was found in every case, as compared
with that of ordinary manure heaps,
in a more workable condition to keep
the ammoniacal salts better pres erved
and the useful ingredients in greater
proportions.
One of the most satisfactory meth
DDS of growing young vegetable or
flower plants is to plant one seed in a
half egg-shell or in followed piece of
turnip or beet filled with little earth
The plants can be transplanted by
simply breaking the shell, or if in tur-
nips, the receptacle will rot away, sup
plying uutriment to the plant This
practice is followed to a considerable
extent among small gard ners. Plants
grown in this manner are sure to live
when transplanted.
A noted horticulturist once said that
if he could have but one way Of apply
ing water to pants he should prefer to
apply it to the leaves. 1t is frequently
observed that plants endure dry
weather better if water is applied
freely to the foliage, than they do if
watered entirely through the ground.
The explanation of this fact Is obvious.
Transportation or evaporation takes
place through the leaves. This evap-
Grafton is checked by the application
of water to the leaves, causing the
plant to make greater US of the mois-
ture it obtains from the soil
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SOUP WITH POACHED EGGs.-Poach
some eggs-One for each person, and
one ov.r-in sailed water, with little
vinegar, some peppercorns, and few
leaves of parsley in shallow pan, just
long enough to set the yolks slightly;
take out each egg with slice, brush
it clean with paste brush, and cut it
with a round, fiuted paste cutter, about
two inches in diameter, so as to get all
the eggs in uniform shape, and leaving
neither too much nor too little white
around them. Turn the egg over care
fully, brush it clean. and lay it in the
soup-tureen, ready filled with boiling
hot, clear jelly broth. The water in
which the eggs are poached should be
kept at boiling point, but never boil.
BREADCRUMB PUDDING. - Make
breadcrumbs by rubbing the crumbs of
a stale loaf through line wire sieve
put apint of milk and an ounce of fresh
Dutter into IA saucepan on the fire. with
sugar to taste, and the thin rind of a
mon. cut, if possible, in one piece !;
when the milk boils strew breadcrumbs
into it until thick porridge is OBJ
tanned turn it out into a BASIN. When
cold remove the lemon rind, and stir in
one by one the yolks of four eggs,
mix well, then stir in the whites of
two eggs beaten up to stiff froth, and
small quantity of candied citron peel
cut very thin. Have a Ilain mold
buttered and predetermined very care
fully all over, pour the composition
into it, and bake it about half an hour.
Serve cold with compete Of any fruit
round it.
GRAPE JELLY.-Cut the grapes be-
fore they are too ripe. as they become
watery then, but they must be ripe
enough to have a good favor, or the
jelly will be very acid; pick each grape
from the stem, and do not use gre en-
or wilted ones; put them over the fire
in porcelain-lined kettle, not brass
one, and let them boil up, MASKING
them well; then strain the juice and
measure it, putting it back on the fire,
and let it boil thirty or forty minutes;
to each pint of juice allow a pound of
crushed sugar, which put in the upper
oven of the range to warm; when the
Juice has boiled the time mentioned
add the heated sugar, and stir until all
is dissolved; then boil ten minutes and
test it; if it drops from the spoon thick
1t Is done. 1t Is very uncertain as to
time, therefore difficult to give an exact
rule, but should not be boiled more
than twenty-five minutes or it loses its
color and flavor.
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Winged Three OF Them.

A Dakota schoolmistress sued three
young men for breach of promise.
Counsel for one of the defendants
moved for nonsuit on the ground
that she was too pr )miscuous. The
court seemed disposed to grant the
motion, whereupon the plaintiff
asked:
"Judge, did you ever go duck shoot
ing?"
His honor's eye lighted up with the
pride of a sportsman as he answered
"Well, should say so; and manys
the time that I've brought down a doz-
en- at shot"
al knew it," eagerly added the fair
plaintiff that's just the case with
me. judge. These fellows besieged me
and l winged three of them" The
motion for a nonsuit was denied.
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before 1 married you, Donald, and |
was happier in those old days than |
have ever been since learned to hate
the things that cost me so much, and
to envy the poorest woman happy in
her husbands love-"
lie turned the sweet, tear-wet face
to the freight, and bent down and
looked into her eyes. And then he took
Der close in his arms.
"My darlington, my darling!" he
said, softly.
And in their hearts there was glad
ness that all the treasures of the world
colud not buy.
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French policemen in Paris are paid
rewards of from 81 to IS for making
arrests and capturing offenders.
Decorah-posten., 1883-03-28
Jpholstrv Department.

Ti nil iGge no belle Dor geboIonns af GuIuteppe. Torbuo. Ieoter
Gardner mb Sibebsr, Sen9tGoesStpf Os &uiplnser; Bet SeIe taost aue
Sarr unber bette Oepatemsut til Snbtsbspus mob 6mtant. Nsr nj onto.
ger 6ore9neGe our Sarebeboloninsen er BEN beone So at tiebe biuiot
Decorah-posten., 1883-03-28

vi bar hs9ense pa pr Dit 500 Wanos= 90 Quite. 1ra ater
iom nj oil iase no til guier berefer. Nogle iaa Sperratter e tlbaoe, o
De laBs leroeles bu8t; tom o9 fob en-. &crrcssrtificr. @aoj9ffe
&mferter % 8eiie= seffer til lape grfr for at iaa sebOlcniuoer
uoidst.