Year: 1874

closed three days session on Jan. Sth,
at Harrisburgh, after appointing depu-
ties to establish subordinate Oranges.
The next annual meeting will be held
in Williamsport, Pa.


Mourning in the South Pacific is
carried on in a manner which to US
would seem very curious. A widow
will lay aside her bonnet and wear the
hat of her late husband sometimes
widower will go about in loose gown
of his departed wife, worn over his own
proper dress Instead of shawl,
mother will place on her back a pair of
trousers belonging to little boy just
laid in his grave


"A woman eighty years old, living
in Esdil! Co.. KY, wears a beautiful
shawl made Of the fur of rabbits which
sh, caught last winter The hair was
cut off, spun, and then woven into CLOTH


"A gentleman in the cab line on the
arrival of a party Of Quakers at the ter
minus spotted them, and thought to do
neat and tactful thing, so he said to
the eldest broadbrim, will thee have
carriage?" OF course the delighted
party hired the cab HAS thou thou's
luggage ?" he next inquired They all
got out again.


The English colony at Pitcairn's
Island, the descendants Of the mutineers
of the Bounty, now consists of seventy
six persons, who are very poor and lack
many requisites Of civilized life. Re-
Gently they have received supplies of
food from San Francisco, upon repre-
sentation of a captain in the merchant
marine, who reported the pressing ne
cessity Of the people and made public
appeal in their behalf: The people


maintain school and are very reli-
gious.


Life is made up Of little things.


The greater misfortune troubles us


least A man will generally show more


of his evil nature at the absence Of a


button off his shirt-bosom, than at the


loss Of his finest horse, and will probably


endure it less manfully The field Of


experience is broad, and covers the


world, but the most severe tests greet


us first, and happy is he who can achieve
| the mastery over the things which are


small, for he then is sure Of the mastery
over himself:


Cows should be we'll cared for and
kindly treated both summer and win
ter. They should have plenty of pure


water in the yard


The Worcester Press exhorts men,
bers Of Congress to so behave as that


the country shall not with one voice pro-


nounce them lot of q dead-beats."
, -" Killed by visitation of Provi-
, dence through the medium Of horse -
was the Coroner's verdict in the case of


a Georgia man who was kicked to death.
, Recent statistics show that the
) value Of the books sold in the German
Empire amounts to only about one-halt
: Of the tax upon the consumption Of
, brandy.


A BEE raiser in New England is said
y to have patented an invention for the
protection of bees from the attacks o1


the honey moth, which enters the hives
y at night and rifles the stores The idea
{ arose out of his familiarity with the


daily routine not Of bees only, but Of
hens. Hens, he observed, retire to rest


early; bees seek repose earlier still :; nc
sooner are they sunk in slumber than the
moth steals into their abode and devour<
: the produce of their toll. He has now
u built stand Of hives with hen house


above it. The bees first betake them.
Q selves to their dwelling and settle them.
i selves for the night. The hens then
q come to roost on their perch, and as they
4 take their place upon it, their weight sets
: some simple mechanism to work, which
It at once shuts down the doors of the


hive. When the day dawns, however,
a the hens leave their roost, and the re-
}, moval of their weight from the perch
b raises the hive doors and gives egress tt
8 the bees in time for their morning s work
u WHY don't the Cincinnati CONNER
}. cia1 send \ man to report the beautiful
e weather We are having? If it was
It half as extensively commented upon as
e was one great storm Of last winter, Red
l. River valley would attract the greatest
j. immipration evAr known tn anv norton