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How Gun Barrels are Made.

st. Nicholas.-The beautiful waved
lines and curious flower like figures that
appear upon the surface of the barrels
afe really the lines Of welding, showing
that two different kinds of metals, iron
and steel, are Intimately blendedin max.
ing the finest and strongest barrels. The
process of thus welding and blending
steel and iron is q very interesting one.
Flat bars, or ribbons, of steel and iron
are a~lternatiyely arranged together and
then twisted into a cable.
Seyaral of the cables are then welded
together, and shaped into a long fiat bar
which is next spirally coiled around a
hollow cylinder, called q mandrel; after
which the edges Of these spiral bars are
heated and firmly welded. The spiral
coil is now put upon what is called q
welding mandrel, is again heated and
carefully hammered into the shape
of q gun barrel. Next comes the
cold hammering, by which the pores
are securely closed. The last or finish
ing operation is to turn the barrel on q
lathe to exactly its shape and size. By
all the twistings and weddings and ham
merings, the metals are SO blended that
the mass has somewhat the consistency
and toughness of woven steel and iron.
A. barrel thus made is very hard to
burst. But the finishing of the inside Of
the barrel is IN operation requiring very
great care and skill. What is called q
cylinder bored barrel is where the bore
or hole through the barrel is made Of
uniform size from end to end. A choke
bore is one that is q little smaller at
the muzzle end than it is at the breach
end. There are various ways of "chok-
ing" gun-barrels, but the object OF all.
methods is to make the gun throw its
shot close together with even and regu-
lar distribution and with great force,
There are several kinds Of metallic
combinations that ~gun-makers use, the
principal of which are called Damascus.
Bernard and laminated steel. The
Damascus barrels are generally con-
sidered the best.
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Kindness as an Investment.

From the American Poultry Yard.
There is nothing worse for domestic
animals than to scare them half to
death. Fright uses up the vital forces
more than work, more than the growth
of flesh or fat, more than anything else,
unlessit is persistent starvation.
Wehaye had two men working for
us, with teams, on the same farm ct the
same time. One would take his horses
from the stable when they had been
refreshed by a few days rest, and were
feeling well, and because they were
feeling pretty frisky while they were
being harnessed up. and the off horse
did not keep the furrow we'll at the
first send-off, would get out of patience
and yell at his team till finally they
would break into a trot, when he would
throw the pillow to the full depth into
the first hummuck he could find, bring
the team to q full stop, and BY this
time they would be well in a Gather"
and quivering with excitement. After
he had yelled for a few minutes, and
the horses had become fully frightened,
they had used up strength enough to
owe the pillow for an hour.
The other man knew better. When
he observed, while "llitching up" that
the horses heads were carried high, and
that they We're feeling first rate, he
would say to himself: "There is a
good head of steam on to-day, and I
shall be able to get a good days work
out of these fellows if 1 save it all to
be used to the best advantage" There
fore he would speak in as quiet q tone
as possible, would move gently about,
and aim to get his team afield without
the risk of and rumpus or excitement,
and would bear with a few IRREGULAR
tiss, such as getting out of the furrow
and pulling by fits and starts a few
times. The consequence would be
that when they were warmed up to
their work, they would move on
smoothly and at the same time quickly,
and at the end of an hour there would
be a row of nice fresh burrows to show
as an equivalent for tie "steam" the
other mar had used up in mere fret
andfume and worry and passion.
As it is with large animals, so it is
true Of fowls, if you at all times exer-
else kindness toward them, they will
doubly repay you for all your care and
kind attention.
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Bees on the Farm.

We have often heard people say, 81
mean to have some bees, and 1 meant
to have had them long before this.
Yet these persons live year after year
without them, while their fruit bloom
is poorly fortified, and the nectar Sc
creted in the fora of their fields and
hedges is left to waste its sweetness.
Bees seem especially designed, in the
economy Of nature, to gather up the
remnants THAT nothing be lost This
was forcibly illustrated the past season,
by the reports coming in from different
parts Of the country of the large yields
of honey gathered from wheat stubble.
When the wheat was cut, before the
straw was fully ripened, a sweet Juice
ooZed out of the straw where it was cut;
in some instances the juice was so plen-
tiful that a clear drop of juice ran out
of every stubble, and some filed the
upper joints and ran down the stubble.
It is q very rare season indeed
that bees cannot secure enough
honey from some source to sup
port themselves. We have many times
been Respondent, thinking that we
would get no surplus and have to feed
our bees their winter stores, when, all
at once there would come a flood ofnec-
tar from some unlocked for source. A
cool wet spring and summer will pro-
duce nc honey, although the bloom
may be abundant, and yet may be Just
the condition suitable to produce many
honey-yielding fall flowers. During
the last autumn, a lal ge amount of sur
plus honey was gathered from the diff
ferent varieties of smartweed (poaygu-
NOM. This honey was beautifully
white, and Of o fine minty favor. These
plants flourish on overlands and damp
lands generally, although they are
found abundantly in this locality grow
ing in cornfields, and where early pota-
toes have been raised. Sweet corn is
growing in favor as a honey plant. A
sweet syrup is secreted in the axis OF
the leaves, near the stock, and bees
gather pollen from the tassel. Iii III
prising that farmers will go to town
and buy miserable glucose syrup, when
o heaven-born sweet syrup can be had
at their door, not for the asking but for
the taking.
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How the sworddsh are Caught

There are lively times now at sword
fishing off No Mans Land and Block
Island, says the Hartford Times. This,
however, is not a sport in which q now
ice can take part. Great experience
and skill are required. Your true
swordtishman can't afford to have his
luck spoiled by the bungling antics of
ambitious and over confident amateurs.
Everything must proceed just right.
The %swordfish, a huge fellow, does not
show himself, like o porpoise, by jump
ing II OF the water, nor by Blowing
like q whale. He goes, however, near
the surface, and to a sharp and educated
eye he shows one sharp-pointed An
something like a shark's-iust breaking
the surface of the water. 1t is a very
i~nconsplcuous object, and would be oy-
erlooked by any but an experienced eye
But the Lookout who is stationed aloft on
the mast will see it at an incredible dis
lance sometimes. Then the vess ell il
turned that way, the harpooner goes out
on the bowsprit, aud, firmly graspine
his weapon. silently waits the moment
of fate. When, with a lightning-like
movement, he throws that iron, it is
most likely to penetrate deeply, if not
fatally, into the monsters vitals.
! Then. when the wounded fish goes
rushing off, the line, all fast to q cask
that cannot be sunk, is thrown over
board, cask and NIL, and the vessel goes
off for a fresh victim, knowing that the
boating cask can be followed and the
tired swordfish pulled in, and, if neces-
sary, lanced to detth ut any hour. 1t
is said forty OF fifty of these fish are
brought into Newport every day. They
measure in some parts of the world,
from ten to sixteen feet in length, hui
on the New England coast they seldom
exceed seven or eight feet (not meosur-
ing the sword, and weigh from 300 to
500pounds. This sword, a curious bony
extension of the upper jaw, is three OF
four feet long, and is avery formidable
weapon. With it the fish successfully
attacks the largest whales and ever
thrusts it through several thicknesses OF
plank in a ships bottom. A swordfish
last summer attacked a man who was
bathing in the Gulf of California, and
came very near killing him before he
couldget ashore, where he fell, wounded
and bleeding. Vessels from the Vine.
yard Sound bring these fish to New
London by the cargo. The flesh is solid
like old mess pork, and excellent when
fried, but rather dry. But 1t is the
sport and excitement Of capturing the
fish that make swordfshing the most
captivating Of all fishing, though it is
actually participated in by comparative
ly few but trained hands.
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The sexton Of q Roman Catholic
church in one Of the small towns In the
Province Of Quebec had . grudge
against . fellow-church member, and
and proceeded to crafty il by not put
ting the collectionFplate within his reach
on Sunday morning. The aggrieyed
man thereupon brought su,t against the
sexton for depriving him Of the privil.
ege Of letting his light shine before
men TO the extent Of his customary
charitable ten-cent piece, and the court
awarded him damages to the extent 81
five dollars. This decision creates much
remark in the United States, where IN
individual omitted by the sexton, 81
those who passtbe Hcorn-popper, would
be apt to consider that he had . lucky
escape, especially II his neighbors had
not observed the omission. The obi.
CATION to give has considerable force
among good people, bnt giving is NOT
usually esteemed apriyilege to be earn
estly cortended for in conrts Of law.
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40 Rounds. u. 81

On the return of the 18th corps from
the relief of Knoxville, after having
marched all the way from Memphis
and back to Chattanooga, d soldier of
the 9Th Missouri-one of Sherman's
bummers. an Irishman who had been a
roustabout on the levees of st. Louis
came struggling along behind the
column on a cold, drearv day for that
section; his knapsack slung on one
shoulder, his blanket over the other;
across his breast and tied at his left
hip, a greasy, but empty haversack;
his pants worn and rent in many places
and ia others sewed up with cord; no
peak to his cap, his musket at reversed
arms" and altogether presenting the
appearance of general disgust and de-
moralization. OFF from the road he
was attractedby headquarters tent and
sentinel in a neat and comfortable uni
form, whom he approached and accost-
ed, wien the following dialogue ensued:
Il say, s%intinil, could ye tell me
where MI regiment is?"
What regiment do you belong to-"
Eighth Misshoay, sure"
"What diyision?"
Morgan HILL SHIFTS, av coorse."
What brigade?"
"Phwat brigade? Faith, an don't We
know its Giles Smit'-the Sucund brig
ade of Morgan IlPs division"
what corps is it,"
aPhwat coor is it. All, then, We
blackguard, DOESN'T everybody know
that its the Fifteenth coor?"
"How could / tell what corps you be-
long to when you have no corps badge 2"
"Nca baage, is it? Coor badge!
Now, thin, phwat's a coor badger"
"Do you see that crescent on my
partners hat? Well, that's the badge
of his corps-the Eleventh; and this
badge on my cap is the badge of my
corps-the Twelfth"
"Ho, no! I see. Trims the lights
yez Potomac byes have to show home
d lark nights. Yes, takes the moon and
shtars along wild yez."
Laughing at the witty remark, the
sentinel responded: well, what's the
badge of your corpse"
Hesitating q moment to gather a
thought, then making q left face. and
slapping his right hand on his cartridge
box, the Irishman replied: "D,ye see
that?" [Then a moments pause. Forty
rounds in my cartridge-box and twenty
in my pocket-that's the badge Of Lo-
gan's 18th coor, do yez mind that! that
KEN all the way from Vicksburg to help
yez Potomac fellers foight at Chatta-
noogy."
The incident having been related to
General Logan the anne evening by an
officer who overheard it, the cartridge
box bearing the legend 40 Rounds,
u. ST." was at once adopted by Cen
eral Logan as the corps badge, and a
general order to that effect issued the
next day.
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A medical authority Of Paris says
that corrosive sublimate is the best
d~isinfectant in drains and closets; for
apartments he recommends phenic
acid. and advises any body suffering from
diarrhea to take immediately ten drops
of laudanum in aglass Of water. "When
the cholera has once declared itself, I" he
continues. sit should be treated with
opium. Since absorption is difficult,
and sometimes impossible to cholera
patients, alkaloids should be employed,
Of which morphine is the most power
full" He thinks that morphine will be
the great remedy should there be an
epidemic of cholera. 8
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whales Aukes as she struck. How lon,

whales fukes as she struck. How long
l was under water I know not, but /
remember that all looked dark above
me and / tried very hard to shove my
head through, in order to breathe. At
last | succeeded, but what a sight was
that on which I gazed when Ifcund
myself on the surface of the water
About a rode from me was the whale
that we We're fast to, thrashing the vat
er into a foam with his hukes, the ocean
red with blood, and the crimson streams
flowing from the wounds made by har-
poems. In another direction I could see
pieces of the boat floating around. At
the distance of two or three miles l
could occasionally get a glimpse of the
ship as l rode on the top of a swell,
and not a human being in sight. Most
forcibly did the words of the poet apply
to my situation at this moment:
I "Oh, Solitude, where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face.
Better dwell in the midst of alarms
Than reign in this horrible place"
So thought l, as I struck out for a
piece OF Il once beautiful boat, q few
rods distant. The crew came up, one
after another, catching at anything
they could see to keep them afioat.
One poor fellow came padding along
with two or three oars under him, cry
ing out that his back was broken. An
other of the crew and myself got him
on she piece of n boat that he had hold
of. His thigh was broken, and lie
could not move his legs at all. The
second mate soon after picked us up
with his boat, and so much had we been
engaged in looking out for ourselves
that we did not perceive that one of our
number was missing. But, alas! it was
too o o found out. He was a young
man about seventeen years old, and did
not belong to the boat, but went in the
place OF the midship oarsman, who was
sick at the time. The whale fell di-
rectly on him and probably killed him
i'll a moment. With what feelings we
pulled round and round the spot where
the boat was steven, unwilling to be-
lleve even after we knew there was no
hope, that our shipmate was gone never
more to return. And how silently we
lglided alongside the ship and hoisted
in our poor shipmate now famed for
life.
oh, that some of these people who
look upon sailors as little better than
brutes, and who know little or nothing
of the kind feelings and growing atfec.
tons concealed under their rough exteri-
ors. could have seer what 1 saw on
board that ship, eve their hearts would
melt, and they would find thatit is not
always the polished and educated, the
smooth-faced and handsome man that
has the warmest heart or the most gen
erous feelings.--J. w. H.
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An old-Tims Game Of Draw.

From the Chicago Herald. &
DE good Lawd bless my soult Why,
ole Massa Smith, what EN- you doin,
way up Norf here? Don't you know
me, old Nassau 1t was the porter
speaking to q southern delegate en- route
for Chicago. The delegate was an ell
DERBY man, who kept his SLOUGH hat On
his head even in the sleeping car, and
pronounced the word "heren as il il was
aay" and two sylables in it. He failed
to recognize the porter, when the lat
ter made himself known. Twenty-Five
years ago they were master and slave,
Their greeting was as cordial as that be-
tween brothers. Sight Of an old time
face seemed to cause the porter,s pro-
nnnciation to relapse to the style Of the
plantation. DO you remember the
time I went long with you to the 8
vention at Ahleans, Massa Smith, back
befo' de wah, when / was nothinBut q
young buck niggah? Don't you mem
bah dat time? You kin les, bet I do
right we'll. You an Massa Jenkins was
rival as'prunts TO- q nomanashun and
you sot down in your room at de hotel
to talk n crate bout 10 clock in de
mawnin. Massa Jenkins looked a shine
to me an wanted to buy me, but You
wouldn't sell. Fin1y Massa Jenkins
made you an offah Of the nomination
70 me, an YOU took him up quick.
Don't We rec1ect it now? Then 0 u give
me the wink, nm when you got to play
in pokah TO beg stakes, 1 pass the bot
tie. an while he was drinkin' handed
you TO duces out o thah deck. Don't
you membah it NOW? Yoa' held de 10
duces till a jackpot come round, wher
20, give Massa Jenkins a pot full, an he
put me in de pot an you scoopedm mo
back. Sartinly you reck Ieck now; but
this niggah lows you won't play no po-
kah fo' de nomination up't Chicago, with
q culled boy in de pot, hey, Massa
Smith? Pr
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FOR ME ONLY.

I was climbing after o rosebud
That grew a litt1c too high,
Though l stood on tiptoe to reach il,
When l heard him passing by.
He hold in his hand a lilly,
H. stopped and gave it ONE,
But I thought of the rosebud hanging
High up on the trellis-tree.
So I only took it a moment,
And pressed its petals apart,
1nhaling one breath of the fragrance
That lay in its golden heart.
Then I gave it back again, SAYING,
Look, there where my neighbor stands,
Waiting. for just such a plaything
To hold in her dainty hands"
He turned and went from me slowly,
Like II who silently grieves, r.
And all the green path behind him
Was strewn with white lilly-leaves.
London Society.
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A Little Circus at Home.

Oil City Blizzard.-The following
true story is going the rounds: "Thera
is a child in the oil region two and one
half years old that is rather queer.
Every effort to have it use its legs was
made by his parents but it had no in
clination that way. 1t will raise itself
on its hands and move rapidly across
the floor, aud when it has picked np the
object it seeks places it between its feet
and again TO- away on its hands.
The chlld's mother says she attended a
circus about three years ago, at which
the atrobatic feats made a strong impress
sion on her mind. She remembered
continually dreaming about the men
walking on their hands,
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TO rH1rz own SELF ne rsur.

E..--Hk rZFnHH EE..Ntze" IIHLN
By thine own souls law learn to live,
And il mon thwart thee take no heed,
II if men hate thee nave no care;
Sing thou thy song and do thy deed,
Hope thou thy hope and pray thy prayer,
And claim no crown they will not give,
Nor bays they grudge thee for thy hair.
Keep thou thy sonl-sworn steadfast oath,
And to thy heart be true thy heart;
What thy soul teaches learn to know,
And play out thine appointed part;
And thou shalt reap AZ thou shalt SOW,
Nor helped nor hindered in thy growth,
To thy full stature thou shalt grow.
Fix on the futuro's goal thy face,
And let thy feet be lnred to stray
Nowhither, but be swift to run,
And nowhere tarry by the way,
Until at last the end is won,
And thou may'st look back from thy place
And see thy long days journey done.
-fakenham Beatty, in Spectator
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The British Foreign Office spends
e10,o00 q year fol messengers, dis
patching 4 weekly service to Constan-
tinople and a fortnightly to Berlin and
St. Petersburg Mr.. Labouchere tried
to get it reduced the other day in the
Commons, hut that body never cuts
down NJ appropriation. He said that
when lie was in the diplomatic service
at Copstantinople it cost over GOO to
send Sir Henry Bnlwer a box of pills
from Great Britain.
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A continental journal computes the
mortality Of the whole globe at the fol.
lowing figures: ~si1ty-seven per min.
ute, 1880 per diem, and 35,639, 1876
per annum; whereas the births are &c..
792, 600 per annum, 100, 900 per diem,
and 10 per minute.
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RICE CRoouErTEs.-Wash and boil
one pound Of rice until soft, sweeten.
with white sugar and flavor with nut
meg; when cold form in long rolls. dip
them in beaten egg, roll in cracker dust
lay them in boiling butter and fry
brown. Serve hot.
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Pillow Covers.

A pretty compromise between white
pillows and colored satin pillow-shams
so liked by many, SC scorned by others,
is effected by covering the pillows with
satin first, and her drawing over them
a white linen or lawn slip several inches
shorter than the pillow. A band of
Hamburg work with deep, sharply ac-
centuated points, headed by a band of
inserting, is stitched upon the slit.
When drawn over the pillow, each
point, barely meeting its opposite point,
is fastened to it by tiny button and
loop. The satin which shows between
the diamond-shaped openings, will look
much handsomer if it is gathered into
a large, loose puff, and the other portion
of the pillow may be covered with silesia
or cambria the color of the satin.
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Things Good TO Eat.

RICE RTrrERs.-Two eggs, one pint Of
milk, half-pint of boiled rice. two table