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■•bbbbbbb^ « xr j • 4.:. _ ^ | , And dreaming and nighing And waiting Ui© tide! 4 In life's earneat battle, 1 They only pvwrafi ] Who daily march onward, { And never aay tail. t '' With an oyo ever open, A tongue tl nit's nog dumb, 1 And a heart that wili never To sorrow succumb. You'll l>attlr and conquer. Though thouaanda aaaail : How strong and how mighty, Who never aay fail. Ahead, then, keep pushing, Add elbow your way. Unheeding tin* envious. , . All u^ea that bray, All obtiUivlea vanish, Alt endnote* qnallt In the might of their wisdom Who never aay fail ! In life's roar morning, In man hood*, lair pride, - Le#th!s be yonr motto, ' * Your fpotatcpa to juiiie: In stonn or in sunshine, Whatever aas&il. We'll onwird and conquer, And never say fail I NOTES OF A WALKER th* tree toad. We can boast a greater assortment of toads and froga in this country than can any other land. What a chorus goes up from our ponds and marshes in spring I The like of it cannot be hhard anywhere else under the sun. Jn Europe it would certainty have made an impression upon the literature. An attentive ear will detect first one variety, then another, each occupying the stage from three or four days to & week . The Utter part of April, when the Utile peeping frogs— htlodes— are in full chorus, one cornea upon places in hfe dvUra* or walks late fo the dayr where the air fairly palpitate* with sound ; from every little marshy hollow and spring run there rises up an impenetrable m&se or cloud of shrill musical voices. The most interesting and the most shy and withdrawn of all our frogs and toads is the tree toad — the creature that, from the old apple or cherry-tree, or red cedar, announces the approach of rain, and baffles your every effort to sae or discover him. It ha* not (as some people imagine) exact* ly the powA*- of the chamelepn to render ^ V ~

the object it ptuwee *|> — , *"f • fgfrgy ^ very close and still, and it* mottled back, of different shade* of aslien gray, blends it perfectly with the bark of near- 1 ly even,' tree. The only change in it* color 1 have ever noticed Is that It is lighter on a light colored tree, and dark- { er on the apple, or cedar, or pine. Then 1 it is usually hidden in some cavity or hollow of the tree, when Its voice ap [»ear» to come from the outside. Most of my observation upon the habits of this creature run counter to the authorities I have been able to oonsult on the subject. In the first place, the tree toad is noc tumal in its habit*, like the common toad. By day H remains motionless and concealed, by night it is as alert and ac tive as an owl, feeding and moving about from tree to tree. I have never known one to change its position by day, and never knew one to fail to do so by night . Tost summer one was discovered sitting against a window upon a climbing rosebush* The house had not been occupied for some day*, and when the curtain wa* drawn, the toad was discovered and closely observed. His light gray oolor harmonised perfectly with the unpainted wood workaf the house. During the day he never moved a muscle, but next morning he was gone. A friend of mine caught one, ahd placed it under a tumbler on his labia at night, leaving the edge of the glass raised about the eighth of an inch to admit the air. During the night he wa* awakoned by a strange sound In his room. Tat, pat-, pat. went aovfie oltfeot, now hero, now there, among the frimiture, or upon tha walls and doors. On Invoatigmting the matter, he found that by some means his tree toad had escaped from under the glass and wa* leaping in a wan live ly manner about the room, producing the sound be had hoard whbn ft alighted upon the door, or wall, or other parpendioular surface. The home of the tree toad. I am eon vinoed, is usually a hollow limb or other cavity i»:tho trco i beae ha mokes his headilflfoftefs, 1 4t fa*** bio« of the day. For two yean a |*air of them fre-

au*"u>a ** «ia appl**t* +■ " ' j_j, Lj,. »),c v 1 1 hi-. I f O/i one mi. i J ■mfcl . 0l9r.it . .a. . . early May, I heard the voice of a tree I toad but few yards from me. Cautious ly following up the sound, 1 deckled, idler some delay, that it proceeded from tha trunk p( a small soft maple i the tree was hollow, the entrance to the interior kjeing a few feet from the ground. 1 could not discover the toad, but was so convinced that it was couoaalad in the tree, that I stopped up the hole, deter mined to return with an ax^when I had time, and cut the trunk open. A week elapsed before I again went to the woods, when, on cutting into the cavity of the tree, I found a pair of tree toads, male and female, and a large shelless snail. Whether the presence of the snail wat accidental, or whether these creature* associated together for some purpose, 1 do not know. The male toad was easily distinguished from the female, by its large head, and more thin, slender, and angular body. The female was much the more beautiful both in form and color. The cavity, which was long and irrqralar, was evidently their home ; it had been nicely cleaned out, and was a snug, safe apartment. The finding of the two sexes together under such circumstances and at that time of the year, suggests the inquiry whether they do not breed awsy from the water, as others of our toads are known at times to do, and thus skip the tadpole state. I have several rimes seen the ground, after a J une shower, swarming with minute toads, out to wet their jackets. Souie of them were no larger than cricket*. They were a long distance from the water, and hod evidently been hatched on the land and had never been polliwigs. Whether the tree toad breeds in trees or on the land, yet remains to be determined. this creature, not set down in the book*, is that they pass the winter in a torpid state in the ground, or in stumps and hollow trees, instead of in the mud of pond* and marshes, like true frogs, a* we have been taught. The pair in the old apjde-tree above referred to, I heard on a warm, moist day late in November, and again early m April. On the latter occasion, 1 reached ray hand down into the cavity ot the tree and took out one of the toad*. It was the first I bad 4 'need H *",J|

mas* ot rotten wooo that partially Uiied the cavity. It had a fresh, delicate tint, as if it hail not before seen the light that spring. The president of a Western college write* in "Science News" that two of his students found one in the winter in an old stump which they demolished, and a person whose voracity 1 hrfve no reason to doubt sen<l* me a specimen that he dmg out of the ground in December, while hunting for Indian relics. The plaoe was on the top of a hill, un der a pine tree. The ground was froien on the surface, and the toad, of course, torpid. During the present season, I obtained additional proof of the fact that the toad hibernates on dryland. The 12th of November was a warm, spring-like doy ; wind south-west, with slight rain in -the afternoon— just the day to bring thing* out of their winter retreats. As I was about to enter my door at dusk, my ey© fell uj>on what prooved to be the large tree toad in question, sitting on tome low stone-work at the feot of a terraee a few feet from the house. 1 paused to obaerve his movements. Presently, h© started on his travels arrow the yard toward the lawn in front. He leaped about three fret at a time, with long pause* between each leap. For fear of loaing him as it grew darker, 1 captured him, and kept him under the coal sieve till morning. He was vary active at night trying to escape. In the morning. I omnned myself with him far some time in the kitchen. 1 found he could ad here to a window-pane, but could not ascend It \ gradually his hold redded, till be sprang off on the casing 1 observed that In sitting upon the fioor or upon the ground, he avoided bringing his lose in contact with the surfree, a* if they were too tender or delicate for such coarse use*, but sat upon the hind pait of his foot. Said toes hail a very bungling, awkward appearance at such times; they looked like hands, encased in gray, woolen gloves npich too large far them. Their round, flattened ends, especially when not in use, have a cow ieally kelpie** look. %

■■I e • __ bank, began to prepare for winter. U was curious proceeding He went into the ground backward, elbowing himself through the turf with the sharp joint# of his hind legs, and going down in a spiral manner. His program art* very alowj at night I oould see him by lifting the grass, and as the weather changed agair to a-orm with southerly winds befort morning, heatopod digging entirely. Th© next day I took him oat, and put him into safer quarters, where I expect him , to paw the winter. The little ar looks or peeping frogs lead a sort of arborial life, too, a part of the season, but they are quite cOfferant from the true tree toads, the avu tub colo*, above described. They appear to leave the marshes in Hay, and to take to the woods or bushes. I have never boen them on trees, but upon low shrubs. They do not seem to be climbers, but percher*. I caught one in May, in some low bushes a few rods from tlx* swamp. It perched upon the small j twigs like a bird, and would leap about among them, sure of its hold every time. I I was first attracted by D* piping. T | brought It home, and it piped for one j twilight in a bush in my yard and then was gone. I do not think they pipe much after leaving the water. I have found them, early In April upon the ground in the woods, and again late in the fall. • Hie present November, the warm, moist weather brought them out in numbers. They were hopping about everywhere, upon the fiiTUu leaves. Within fc small space 1 captured six. Some of them were the hue of the tancolored leaves, probably Puxerixg's xtlodks, and some were darfter, according to the locality. Of course they do not ■ • . . a «t would not wait so late in the season. 1 examined the ponds and marshes, and found bull-frogs buried in the mud, but no (leepers. tdk spk1xc birds. We never know the ]>reciae time the birds leave us in the fall ; they do not *go suddenly ; their de]«rture is like that of an army of occupation in no hurry to go off; they koep going and going, and we hardly know when the last straggler is gone. Not so their return in the ;♦ in RW — ar***y of inva-

uie urn ovmUVv Appto. . . . is a — «». — * i able event. Indeed, it is always a sur prise to me, and one of the compensations of our abrupt and changeable di j mate — Ullt ma wHti wtrtrSt U»l> j birds come in spring, in fori, with which Spring itself ooraes, alighting, may be, to tarry only a day or two, but real and j genuine, foe all that. When March ar rives, wc do not know what a day may tiring forth. It is like the turning over a leaf, anew chapter of startling inci dents lying just on the other side. A few days ago. winter had not perceptibly relaxed his hold ; then suddenly he be gun to soften a little, and a warm has© to creep up from the south, but not a solidary bird, save the winter resident*, wa* to be seen or hoard. Next day the hud seemed to have drawn immensely nearer } hi* beam* were full of power : and we said, "BehobV the first ipring morning I And, a* if to make the prophcey complete, there is the not© of a blue-bird, and it is not yet nine o'clock.' Then other* and still others were heard. How did they know it wo* going to be a suitable day fbr them to put in an appearanofe It seemed a* if they must have been waiting somewhere ekiee by for the first warm day, like actors l»ehind the soenes — the moment the curtain wa* lifted, they were ready and rushed u|»on the stage. The third warm day, ami he hold, nil the i»rincq«al performer* come rushing in. 8ong**pBrow%^oow -blockbird*, grackle*. the meadow -lax*, cedar bird*, the phoebe-bird, and liark t what bird laughter was that? the robins, hue rah I the robins t Not two of three, but j a score or two of them ; they are follow ing the river vklley north, and they stop ! in the tree® from time to time, ami give I vent to their gladness It is like a sum I mer juontc of school childorn suddenly let loose in a wood; they sing, shout. Whistle, squeal, call, etc., in the meet blithesome strains. The worm wave Has brought the birds u|*on its chest ; or 1 some barrier has given way, the lew ^f > winter hi* btxdcon, and spring come* like an inundation. No doubt, the snow and tbv host wilUtop the orovamt again,

•* • a _ « f ki/finf /lays ItrUQU TltiT* u... su a fAiwrit lee . now the sky is ftdf efTidtim we discover what mwc there is in the VArtW H w* thev *pi ra and ekaMer troops or fifty or a hundred, filling the , joyous and cfaiki iikt u<tiew,' *yfc*w," uckew,w k very exproseve Ttmrngh this medley of finer songs and e*B» there is shot, from time to time the dear, strong note of the meadow dark. Use reason why the birds always appear first in the morning, and ne* in the afternoon, is thai in migrating they travel by night, and Bop, and feed, mad by the owl train, and an here before wo ore up in the morning. j pulled from the water, A boy, after hearing Wendell Phflhne lecture, asked his father >— "Bo, why don't they give him ex office— he sew* to know all about everything f® father, alwent-minasdiy. Tbh was Che youth's first lemon in patriotism. v Could conjugal affection be wee strictly displayed than H is to the subjoined? "And so, doe*or, yon think my wife will get well r "I am sure of ! it, if you can pemuade her to take this dose. Doctor, take It she shaft. If I have to break every bone in her body." Another pteoe, weajghxn^ jgouno^ [ This piece Ml in a along Whtefc the time, was Ml of wetsrTlnrt is now dried up. li was found about three miles northwest of the ITU-pound piece, and about four miles north of west of the main body, which weighed 417 poon*. A voung architect reoently created a reputation by building for a newiy mar ritd couple a house in which the parlor , had two fire place* close together, ec d< signed that Uie husband and orife crwrtd each build a fire in an indmrtnil manner without quarreling^ and then | ♦ * ^s» 1 w mo* . Jsc*' ik ► •**

The Providence .lsruii ujjtitijS inst.. tli v" curvcnc>' being about tbemme as ours : — "tialt, "01 : bsaad. tC : is War, •04 ; ice, OS ; soup. (Juvenile, very good,* •06 ; one woodoock. cooked with green peso, *24 ; potatoes (Lyconaw), -06 ; ws| kin, Ol : waiter (rather a Mnrc fori, "frf t total, "48 ; whole thmg woB cookeu. and nicely served ; wine, all I could drink for nothing." The ravages of what is common ly known as "mk* or "bene are as--umiug most appalling pi ©portions m the midland ami western count** of ^igland, hi consequence, it is generally suj«|*oeed. of the excessive and long continued wet wxwther ls*l year. Ten? of thousands of sheep, nrinctpaUy ewes, are dead and dying In some parish©* in Gloucester, Oxon, and Wmrwirk tho->-arr. comraratirelv speaking, very few nheep Km. and m Somerset there are only M6 6 left in one diatricj, winch r usually winters 50.000, Hundrcsi*, it not thousands. Of sheep have been wW off in the Brritol district at from 8a. 6d. to lib. a head. The very latest story ©f aboent-mind edweo* has for its hero a Mawachiwtt* clergyman, who one day droW ©T to a blacksmith sbofv and asked how long it would take to shoe his hotoe. "An hour," mid the smith. <tV«qr well ; 1 U leave him and ©all for him.' ami un hitching the animal and leading him into the shop, the parson climbed book into hi* carnage. Jacked up the w«a which had been left on the dajJiboard, and there sat until h» horse wa? shod, and he wo* aroused from hi* brown study by a shout from the blacksmith. The bar orott county, Iowa, had its little jcke on the Dtstnot Attorney and the IHslrict Jnfige A burrtar was »a trial, and tln» Uwyoso. who had natiaad that the foreman of the Grand Jftty had omit**! to sign th# indfrtuMb w sidr<Hl to tfdhM the defense and annco v the pmertitiOii till the District Attorney filmed and the Judge wvarteil from ► laying down the law. When the thiol wo* convicted at last tb ay ffiW ** ^e juiillMWIli and |Woeured hi^ dischonie For a fitting termination of the joke to© late Keoorder Hsrkett should hav.- tee aguved to admkiiiHi jhwtioti to culfirita , and lawyers in Iowa..