Show ENGLISH literature literature LiTERA ture TUBE A liard iut luf UPON sensational WRITERS AND renny PENNY A LIN nin ba english literature at the present day Is like ilke a plot of ground which once onee was a lovely garden but which is now all overrun with weeds and in this rank jungle lies in ill wait the penny a liner whose chose calling it is to fall upon every fresh fact and to tell it ill in the tha most diffuse and rambling lingway way like a thug lie he chokes the life out dut of a sentence by a long coil of words in general this assassin of the mother tongue has very vague notions of spelling he could poo pot nol not write irrelevant or veterinary ar or even separate correctly from dictation when a frost comes though he revels at the prospect of accidents on the ice ills his notions of zero are plex ing sometimes he lie will tell you that zero rose to freezing point during the past night but that as tile the sun rose zero fell suddenly and a thaw set in sometimes lie seems to think the centigrade thermometer is a malignant monster a water god that lurks among the weeds of the serpentino ill in defiance den def lance lauce of mr cowper and the park keepers for he be has been known to warn his readers oil on no account to venture oil on the ice so long as the centigrade is below zero but to wait till they see their old friend fahrenheit below the freezing point so that to him these two scales are the or muad and of skaters and sliders the good and evil principles of frost instead of two different scales expressing cx to exactly the very same thing with him all accidents aro are awful brt hut but ho he much prefers catastrophe to accident bo so too a fire is invariably i a conflagration and not only a conflagration but an alarming one as if it were likely to be anything else ff jf ile he describe describes sa a shop it is an extensive es though the owner maybe merely a cobbler at a launch he is in great glory is lie he satisfied till he has described how the noble 1 atrium triumph ril pil of marine architectural construction a periphrasis for ship which would delight the heart of an all anglo saxon maker has glided like lightning into its native element elemen tl a most alin aling c assertion seeing that the native elein clein elemont nt of no part of a ship is water either salt or fresh he makes his way everywhere and we find him even in the very last a st queens speech in which he makes her most gracious majesty talk of a friendly reconciliation between contending powers as if a reconciliation could ever be anything else than friendly Bome sometimes times lie goes up in a balloon at least lie he says lie he does thou though 11 wo we hardly believe him were we there biere on the spot endowed like nero with absolute power and sure that he was the only one of this wretched class alive we would without a moments remorse take taku sueh such steps that the balloon and lie he in it should never come down to the moon he might rise and s t write a long description of earth to the man in that planet but earth should be rid of him and ills his twaddle but alas he goes up and comes down an and d talks of the veteran aeronaut dero tero and of zero rising and falling up there in his distracting way but we leave him where we found him the last man in possession of the english language abiding in that stately palace will wili which ch our forefathers foret athers have reared and rendering it hideous by his utter ignorance of regimen or syntax of mood or of tense of person or of gender standing there in in tile the very forefront of our language and literature read by millions every morning in the newspapers ers his power for incalculable harm is incalculable to this complexion pl exion after an existence of eighteen centuries have we come at last north british review 4 I 1 suggestion TO TREE PLANTERS those about to set out young trees or frullo bearing earin or ornamental shrubs should remember gnat the great leading object is to obtain a thrifty growth on the start reject therefore all large trees for it is nearly impossible to take them up without leaving at least nine tenths of the roots in the ground in eluding nearly all the small such mutilated trees grow but little for several years and then slowly recover recover from the effects of the removal when a small email thrifty tree taken up with plenty of roots starts off at once grows rapidly and not only overtakes the jar larger g er one but makes a handsomer and nd healthier tree and bears boari larger and cro uso beur berr beu flavored fruit J another point equally important but very often neglected is cutting back young trees vines ac when they are set out take a grape vine or a prairie rose for instance and place it in the hands of a novice and it willbe nearly impossible to persuade him liim to cut long handsome thrifty vine five or six feefe feet in length leaving only a few inches next the root yet if this operation is not performed the tile plant w will ill lil remain nearly stationary the first season eason s while otherwise it would grow freely and perhaps double or triple its ita former size for the same reason rasp berries gooseberries goose berries ae c should be cut back freely when wilen transplanted the heads of young apple and pear treesia tre tree sif esir i shortened back in the same way may be made to preserve their original form or any new shape maybe may be given them without any loss but a great gain in their growth peach trees pos possessing possession a strong reproductive power may be 0 cut back most freely of any fruit tree next apples and pears then plums and lastly cherries the latter may have half of each yearling shoots removed but it is of the utmost importance that this cutting back be done before there is any swelling or expanding of the bud buds 3 otherwise the fhe growth will be checked by the operation instead of or accelerated this tills is especially the case with clie elle cherries riles and plums which start more feebly than peaches and grapes A main reason why cutting back has failed with some is doing the work after the buds have swollen or leaves expanded country gentleman tim THE ANCIENT SAXONS an english Engli sll sli paler paper says that mr john brent has finished lini ilni shed his excavations in the saxon cemetery at sarr in thanet for the present year sear his have been most moat successful not only has he laid open nearly three hundred graves but lie he has been so fortunate as to find some of especial interest which supply novel materials to the student of anglo saxon antiquities As an example of the rich contents of some of these graves it may be mentioned that one contained four fibular fibulas two circular and two cruciform five gold pendants pennants pend ants which with the fibula are elaborately ornamented a very large crystal ba ball bali 1 set ina in lna a silver glit frame or suspension a silver glit perforated spoon set with garnets an ele eie elegant k ant footless glass cup a silver ring beads and other objects such arbuck as buckles shears and keys this is the grave gravo of a woman no doubt a lady of rank although it was at first supposed to have belonged to a man from the fact that with the objects enumerated above was a sword or knife one of the anti qu quarles aries however considers that although it be sword shaped it is no weapon of war not one instance has occurred of cremation all the graves denoted burial of the body entire neither has air brent discovered any urns with burnt bones as are often found in the cemeteries in juxtaposition with skeletons CAPTURED FLAGS the war department has in its possession flags captured from the reb elsin battle this of course does not include all that have fallen into the tile hands of the union troops a short time ago the rebels claimed that they had of our flags TELEGRAPH the rhe one and a half inch submarine telegraph cable from fort point to lime point the longest in america was laid feb 17 by the llie california state telegraph company THE LATEST WRINKLE A lucifer match is naw in market that differs from anything hitherto in existence U upon 0 n the side of each box is a chemically ay prepared piece of friction pa paper per when struck upon anything else whatever it obstinately refuses to flame you may lay it upon a red hot stove and the wood of the tile match will calcine before the end of it ignites friction upon anything else than this prepared pasteboard has no effect upon it the invention is an english one and by special act of parliament the use of other matches than this is not permitted ill in any public buildings the discovery is is a curious one there is not a particle of sulphur in the composition of the lucifero lu cifers in question philadelphia north american to PROTECT PLANTS FROM FROST E esworth aldsworth Al of peterboro Peter boro new york has accidentally discovered how i t to protect plants in frosty nights helas he was in the thel habit of using boxes casks pails pan sand cloths claths one very cold night ho he covered one plant with a basket in the morn morning ln on examination every everything thin 9 was lg killed or nearly so except the tile plant under the basket now it is a well known fact that on the ali all approach of a frosty night if the breeze keeps on blowing there is no frost to do much madli injury outly but if tho the breeze goes down with the sun and is succeeded by i a calm then woe woo to the young flowers and garden plants but any covering open oil on the sides or ends will create a draft in the stillest night and this was the case with wi th the basket ever since that time aldsworth Al esworth has simply placed boxes act at intervals and laid boards on the tile top of them leaving both sides wide open it seems like no cove covering rin g at all but put it is all that is needed and he li e never loses a plant the tile people 0 P are greatly troubled by frosts in in t that ha t high region in early june and e even V en in july it is not an uncommon thine thing for tile tiie them to put their flowers act to bed and tuck them up blankets sheets and cloth with boxes pails pans pang act are all brought into requisition and even with those the plants are often destroyed but the gentleman above named always saves liis his plants by covering them in the method described A LARGE 31 MAGNET AGNET among the philosophical apparatus belonging to the tilo the free academy in this city is an electro magnet weighing gao gag pounds which has held seven men suspended at ane one time and how much more weight it would support nobody knows tins magnet was made by charles T J N chester of center street in in this city it is formed of two round bars of the tile softest iron each 4 inches in diameter and 2 23 gow inches in length which are secured at one end by massive screws td a cross piece to forni forai a U magnet the bars are wound with pounds of no 1 12 0 copper wire insulated with cotton and shellac ana and laid on in eight equal lengths making the finished bar about eight inches in diameter the armature is a bar of soft iron of 80 pounds A neat wa onis employed for moving this magnet about the room or it may be suspended from the ceiling by means of a block and taek tack tackie tackle ae scientific american mc rican denationalization OF POLAND st petersburg journals publish of official documents which show that the russian government has been for some time back engaged in the preparation of measures intended for the denationalization of poland all ail of any importance are to be filled lien llen henceforth ee by russians R russian assian peas peasant ant colonies are to be established the polish catholic clergy are to be 1 placed laced under the strictest surveillance and an active propaganda is to beset be set going on behalf of tile the orthodox church A letter jetter from general addressed to the government recommends tile the gradual removal of the minor nobility from poland and suggests their d deportation aport to siberia as colonists journal of commerce dast CAST CAST A LINE FOR YOUR youn YOURSELF A young man stood listlessly watching some anglers on a bridge he was las poor and dejected at length approaching 3 a q basket well filled with wholesome me looking fish he sighed if now I 1 flad fiad these I 1 would be happy I 1 could sell them at a fair price and buy me food and lodging 1 I will give you just as good fish 11 said the owner who chanced to overhear overhear his words if you will do me a trifling favor and what is that asked the boy ca eagerly werly gerly only to tend this line till I 1 come comeback back baek I 1 wish to sto go on a short errand 11 the proposal was gladly accepted the old fisherman was gone so long that the young man began to be impatient meanwhile however the hungry fish snapped greedily at the baited hook and the young man lost lok his depression le in pulling them inand in and when the owner of the line returned lie he had caught a large number counting out from frony them as many as were in the basket and presenting them to the A young 0 u 1 g man the old fisherman said 1 I fulfill U i nii nil 1 my promise from the tile fish you have caught to teach you that whenever you see others earning what you need to waste notime notice in fruitless wishing but ut to cast a line for yourself OIL ON THE BRAIN if you want to be bored come to this oil region heres tile tiie place where you bore and get bored its nothing but oil from morning till night oil on paper boiled oil people talk write sleep and snore oil ask a man inan how liow far it is to charlestown Charles town twenty six miles from Slab sides 0 oil I 1 spring what time does the steamer leave for wheeling just as S soon eoon 0 on ils as slocums oil is loaded 11 what was that fight about y yesterday estabr oil I 1 jenkins married an oil well yesterday or just as good married miss mies anif kins whose father i truck tle tie no ile a few pw days ngo ago 1 11 time to go to his cifes wiles funeral last tuesday rr his ille llo lio ile would run over n preachers preach a about t oil b being in poured upon the troubled waters vaters ein eia a and say that tilt s is the very ery cry spot chero the tho oil for that occasion comes ironi irons I 1 slept on four barrels of oil last night every hotel full the entire country looks greasy people have havo oily tongues anci and your oil factory nerves are strongly impressed with the terrible stench everybody dy has territory for sale and there thero are plenty of fools and their money who anticipate the realization of baron stories that ai ar afloat E every very veny sharper has a map of th region and can tell a stranger exactly where the nicest spot is lie he has been there knows the tiie place but is short of funds has lias no personal interest in tho the matter not lie he indeed but in mere mero matter of friendship advises you to buy there and then do what lie he is doing bore and oil must como come men seem crazy victims are plenty seeking to become suddenly rich many a tolerably well to do but over sa sanguine individual goes his pile and I 1 loses 0 all ho be has and sneaks on onn a few strike ile and become million aries but not one in fix a hundred but get their fingers lingers terribly burned can in commercial AIR LINE TO NEW YORK A party of engineers have been surveying and running out a route through the tile lower townships of york county pa for the railroad between new now york and washington as nearly on an airline air line as tho surface of the country will admit the tha route enters york county at wrights ville and proceeds in a southerly direction passing through windsor Wilid sor york and iop lovewell lop flop ewell townships immediately T through Winter town ill iq hopewell thence through township to the villages of new market and now new freedom tivi tive VALUE OF oy liim LIFE LOCALLY corf COX sider KD the report of the polio police commissioners 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