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and de chill’n miss de poo’ fellow! Eberybody 
miss de poo* fellow! Goddemighty, bress us 
all!” 
After gently patting his dead friend for the last 
time, and throwing some leaves and grass over 
him, he looked steadfastly at the most ignoble 
Festus, and pointed at the blood-stained grass, 
but never a word said he. Festus only laughed, 
which stirred up the hot blood of the tamed sav¬ 
age, and ended in a passage of arms, or rather 
heads, or more correctly, butt and counterbutt. 
Quick as thought, Bogus ran his head butt into 
the stomach of Festus, and sent him sprawling in 
the grass, who, on gaining his feet, returned the 
compliment, and staggered Bogus. Then step¬ 
ping in between, as seconds are supposed to, Long 
John supported Bogus, while Soger did the like 
service for Festus; when it was decided, according 
to the code duello, their wounded honors had been 
redressed in a chivalric and noble manner, be- 
State, New Jersey, she remembers when a girl, 
in the neighborhood of Mount Holly, seeing 
quantities of the Garland Crab Apple. So it is 
probably nearer Philadelphia than you are 
aware. 
EDITORIAL NOTES . 
Waterproof Packing Paper.— Dissolve 1.82 
lbs. white soap in 1 quart water. In another 
quart water dissolve 1.82 ozs. troy of gum arabic 
and 5.5 ozs. glue. Mix the two solutions, warm 
them, and soak the paper in the liquid, and pass 
it between rollers, or simply hang it up to drip.— 
Scientific American. 
Beecroft’s Wheel Hoe.— Man is a pretty smart 
sort of a creature, and has managed in various 
ways to evade the primeval curse with tolerable 
success. The old-fashioned hoe we have, how- 
coming to gentlemanly combatants, they shook j 
hands, feeling assured their fair fame was untar-, 
nished. 1 
After all, it was a more sensible manner of de- 
ciding nothing than white fools usually take, i 
when they run a muck at each with knives or j 
swords, or try to shoot bullets or buckshot into 
each other’s hides. 
The raccoons had stampeded, as might be ex¬ 
pected, while “the moon with her sober counte¬ 
nance ” placidly looked down at the scene where 
the jasmines and crab apples bloomed profusely. 
In conclusion, it only remains for me to say 
that my better half informs me that in her native ■ 
ever, regarded as just about the same as it was in 
the days of Adam, and we have an absolute 
surety that when he went out to fight the thorns, 
thistles, and noxious weeds with one of these 
back-achers, he must, more than at any other 
time, have felt that his rank disobedience, or 
giving way to feminine persuasion, which ever it 
was, did not pay at all. 
We have watched continually for some good 
thing to supersede this abominable implement, 
and have from time to time given sketches of 
wheel hoes of various kinds. The present one 
[ (see illustration) is certainly the best of all we 
! have seen. It indeed reduces hoeing to an amuse- 
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