THE FARM AND GARDEN. 



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Fn^sip Signs Ofi tOmiiEi^. 



Nature combs the rooster's head, but man has 

 to comb hi? own. 



Why is the sun like a good loaf? Because it 

 is light when it rises. 



" Dress does not malce the man," but it makes 

 the women — supremely liappy. 



"I tell you it's blistering in the wood-shed," 

 said Johnny as he emerged with his father, and 

 he didn't refer to the weather, either. 



" Will you have salt on your eggs ? " asked the 

 the hotel waiter of the guest. " Oh, no, thanks, 

 they are not at all fresli." Tlien the waiter went 

 out to consult tlie landlord to see if the hotel had 

 been insulted. 



"What do you think of iTiy moustache?" asked 

 a young man of his girl. " Oh ! it reminds me of 

 a Western frontier city," was the answer. " In 

 what re.speet, pray ? " " Because the survey is 

 large enough, but the settlers are stragglmg." 



" Is the earth round or flat? " asked a member 

 of a school committee of an ai)plicant for tlie posi- 

 tion of teacher. " Well, I'm not particular al)out 

 that," replied the candidate. "Some likes it 

 round, and some likes it flat. I teach it both 

 ways." 



A tramp stopped at a house and asked for some- 

 thing to eat. "Which do you like best?" asked 

 the hired girl — "steak or cliop?" The tramp 

 meditated and replied, " cliojj." " Step right 

 this way," said the girl ; " here's the axe, and 

 there's the wood-pile." 



Without malice toward the lightning-rod man, 

 we must still recite the fact tliai, a New Enghuul 

 insurance company that has made millions an<l 

 is doing a. great business, will not insure a house 

 with rod of any kind on it. When tlieir policy 

 goes on the rod comes off. 



A little daughter of a minister, after silently 

 watching her fatlier write his sermon, asked : — 

 '"Papa, does G"d tell you what to write in a 

 Bermon?'' With some little hesitation the cleri- 

 cal gentleman replied in the affirmative. " Then, 

 papa, why do you scratch it out again ? " 



A cookery book says: — "Always smell a salt 

 codfish before buying it." We always do, and 

 after buying it, too — for three or four days after. 

 The fact is, you can smell a salted codfish witli- 

 out buying it at all it you get within ten rods of 

 where it is. The odor of a salted codfish is like 

 the darkness that once settled on Egypt; it is 

 something that can be felt. 



MARRY ME, DARLINT, TO-NIGHT. 



Me.darlint, it's a.\in' they are 



Ttiat I goes to tlie wars to be kilt, 

 An' come back wid an iiligant Bkbar, 



An' a sabre liuiig on to a hilt. 

 They oiTers proniolion to those 



Who die in detiuse of the right, 

 I'll be otTin the mornin'— supiiose 



Ye marry me, darlint, to-iiigbt? 

 There's notliin' so raisna a man, 



In the eyescilthi- uiirrl.l us to fall 

 Ferninst tlie uiMU tla^, in the van, 



Pierced Ihruugli wid a i)it of a ball. 

 An' whin I am kilt ye can wear 



Some iUigaiil crape on yir bonnet, 

 Jisl think how tlie wonitn will shtare 



Wid invy whiniver ye don it! 

 Oh, fwhat a proud widd.v ye'Il be 



Whin they bring my carpsehome, — ' 

 not toniiiilion 

 The fact we can live (don't ye see ?) 



All the rest of our lives on me piusion ! 



—2'he Century 



BILL NYE AND THE COMMISSIONER OP 

 AGBIOOLTUBE. 



I saw William G. Le Due the other day at 

 Hasting, Minn. He used to be at tlie head of 

 the Agricultui'al Department, and I used to off'er 

 him suggestions al)out raising iced tea by grafting 

 an old-fashioned tea pot on some hardy kiud of 

 refrigerator. Mr. Le Due claimed to be ignorant 

 of my glowing career. I pitied him, and asked 

 him where he'd been all summer. I said, 

 "William, you are not so well ■informed as I 

 have been led to suppose. I knew that you had 

 almost foudered your teeming brain trying to de- 

 vise a mean.s by wliich you could imiireed tlic 

 milkweed with the common Irisli jiotato in 

 such a way as to produce peeled potato witli 

 milk gravy nu it, but I didn't think you had 

 been in public life so long without knowing one 

 who has done so much to bring the literature of 

 the present day up to a lofty standard and rescue 

 it I'rom the hungry maw of olilivion. You may 

 know how to lower tlie rceonl of the shirt-stud, 

 or at what season we should shear the hydraulic 

 ram, bnt I'd advise you, before you go any fiirther 

 with your agricultural experiments, to read up 

 on the eminent men of the age in which you 

 live. 



SKETCHES OF CHINA AND JAPAN. 



CHAPTER IV. 



In 1867, Dr. Boyer attended a trial of forty-one 

 Chinese coolies, wlio were engaged in what was 

 kniiwn as the " Cayolti Mystery." The investi- 

 gatiiin took place at Hakodadi, and resulted as 

 follows : — 



October, 18(37, forty-one coolies were taken on 

 board a ship called the "Providence," a coolie 

 vessel, at Macao, with some three hundred others. 

 They were conveyed to Callao, where about 

 thirty-eight were transferred to the "Cayolti," 

 the remaining two or three being put on board at 

 Callao. They cleared from that port on the 16th 

 of July, 1868, for Pascamayo and Cherepe, on 

 the coast of Peru, they being intended for tlie 

 sugar plantations near these ports. They were 

 all [lUt into the main hold, and kept there. 

 Food was thrown to them by a Cliiiiese cook. 



On the morning of the thinl day they arose, 

 threw oif the hatches, and ass:uilted the men on 

 watch (four in number), with hatchets, spades, 

 and other weapons. The mate was cut on the 

 left shoulder with an a.-se, he having attempterl 

 to shoot one of the coolies, Ijut missed fire. lie 

 then mortally wouniled two of them with a knife, 

 when the crowd ruslied in on him, and he was 

 forced to jump overlioard. Another European 

 rushed through a stern port into the water. 

 Just above tliis port was tlie mark of a bloixly 

 hand, from which it was conjectured that lie was 

 Wounded. It was stated that the other two men 

 wlio were on deck, also jumped overboard, and 

 that the coolies lowered a boat and dispatched 

 tliem with knives, while struggling in the water. 

 On returning to the sliip they hoisted tlie l-iont, 

 and an aneiior was trot up and bi-ought to the 

 gangway. The other four men were during tliis 

 time confined in the forecastle, and wlien the 

 boat returned were fastened to the anchor and 

 thrown overboard. The Chinese cook interceded 

 for tile captain, who was then told that as he was 

 a very good man, they would spare his life, if he 

 would take them to China, to whicli he consen- 

 ted. One Chinaman fell from aloft and was 

 killed, and eight others were killed in tlie fight. 



After tliis they had severe weather, and when 

 about four months out, they came to an island 

 surrounded by ice, where the inhabitants were 

 dressed in furs, and rode on sleds drawn bv dogs. 

 Here they lost their anchor during a gale, and 

 were driven before the wind. They remained 

 here three or four weeks. The captain went on 

 shore, in company with the Chinese cook, in 

 search of some provisions, but neither the cap- 

 tain nor the cook ever returned. 



After loosing their anchor, and being driven 

 out to sea, tliey made their way to Volcano Bay, 

 north of Hakodadi, where they waited two 

 weeks, when thev got two Japanese pilots to 

 take them to tfakodadi, where they arrived 

 some time in August of the same year. 



In Dr. Boyer's diary, under date of December 

 8, 1868, at Shanghai, China, he writes: 



"To-day we heard that Aidzu, the great General 

 of the Northern Army of Japan, was compelled 

 to surrender, after having been besieged for 

 a long time, with his forces, (a small party), 

 in a castle, until starvation compelled them to 

 surrender. When seventeen of his officers, with 

 a flag of truce, came to the Southern General, he 

 asked them what guarantee they could give tliat 

 he, Aidza, really intended to surrender, and was 

 not laying a trap for them, they answered: " by 

 yielding up our lives." Whereupon sixteen of 

 them performed hara-kari; killed themselves 

 then and there upon the spot. The remaining 

 one then conducted them into the presence of 

 Aidzu. 



" Upon appearing before Aidzu, that official 

 offered up his swords. The Southern General 

 lianded them back again to him, and said he re- 

 spected his bravery. 



" It is .said that the conquerors were moved to 

 tears at the sight they beheld, for the garrison 

 held out until they were mere skeletons. Aidztt 

 was taken to Yeddo, or, as it is now called, 

 according to the Mikado's proclamation, Tonkei, 

 or the Eastern Capital, as a prisoner of war, audi 

 thus ended the rebellion in Japan." 



The Chinese are a great people. One of the 

 first objects you behold, when you land in a 

 Chinese town, that will attract your attention, is 

 the style of dress, etc. The men wear petticoats, 

 and the women pantaloons. The soldiers, or 

 Mandarins, mount the horses on the right side ; 

 the old men with gray beards and large goggle 

 spectacles can be seen delightfully employed in 

 flying paper kites, while a group of boys are 

 gravely looking on, and regarding these innocent- 

 occupations with the most serious and gratified- 

 attention. Other old men are chirping and 

 chuckling to singing birds, which they carry in 

 bamboo cages, or perched on sticks, whilst others 

 are catching flies to feed the birds. Their books- 

 commence where ours end. They write from top 

 to bottom, and from right to left. Their locks 

 are made by turning the keys from left to right. 

 White is the color of their mourning dress. 

 They seat a guest on tlieir left, which is the seat 

 of honor. The stomach is considered the seat of 

 understanding. When friends meet, they shake 

 their own hands, instead of shaking each other 

 by the hand ; and so on, from Alpha to Omega, 

 everything is contrary to our style. 



OUR BULB OFFERS. 



That nv tiiiij/ii nffer liberal prcmiumif 

 to our suhsrrihers, ire have imported di 

 reetfrom the r/roircrs in Europe and the 

 Jiennudas, the finest lot of bulbs we have 

 ever seen. These we have decided to offer 

 to our friends in the following liberal'- 

 collections : — 



Our 60-cent Collection, 



Sent free hfj mail, and including one 

 yearns suhyrription to The I*arni. and 

 Garden, will contain One fine Dutch Hy- 

 acinth, Two Grape Hyacinths, Two Tulips, 

 Five Crocus (each of a different color), 

 One Scilla Sibericn, One Single Karcissus 

 Poeticus, making in all, n'hm (jnalitg is 

 considered, as fine a collrcfian nf winter- 

 blooming bulbs as could be usually bought 

 for $1.00. 



For. $1.00 



We will send one fine bulb oj Lilium Har- 

 rissii {see cut on page 1), imported by us 

 from growers in Bermuda, One Dutch 

 Hyacinth, Five Tulips, Six Crocus (four 

 colors). Three Spanish Iris, Three Snow- 

 drops ; included with, this is a year's sub~ 

 scription to The Farm and Garden. 



For S2.00 



We will send Two bulbs of Lilium Har- 

 rissii. One Scilla Siherica, Four Spanish 

 Iris, Two Ixias, One Snowdrop, Three 

 Oxalis, Seven Single Narcisstis Poeticus, 

 One Jonquil, One tulip. Five Crocus 

 (different colors). One Feather Hyacinth. 

 With these u'C will include a year's sub- 

 scription to The Farm and Garden. 



