A LOOK ROUND IN THE COUNTRY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8006, 27 October 1887, Page 3

A LOOK ROUND IN THE COUNTRY.

[from a correspondent.] After a loner, cold spring, which has thrown vegelation at least a month behind, a change has come at lust of a very agreeable character. For the first time this month I have been able to do a littlo agreeable loafing in the garden, and delight my eyes with the tender green foliage of tho oak, and the wealth of flowers displayed by the apple, pear, nnd quince trees. The boes are buoy among the flowers, and they seem to fill the air with their glad hum, which is very grateful to the ears of a casual loafer. There is nothing so delightful as the quiet contemplation of contented industry. The bees are contented and never unemployed ; they cheerfully work for the astute individual who provides a humble dwelling for them. What a pattern for the discontented. If tho fates ward off cold, frosty nights there will be a fair supply of fruit this year. There ig great virtue in on "if." Tho flowers having come later this year, may escape the usually cold nights which occur in spriog when the frnit is setting, and which prove sorely destructive to plums and pears. There is a good sprinkling of plums, and pears are very abundant so far. I have not seen figs so nnmerous for years. Lnst year we had no walnuts, the late frosts having killed tho young fruit, but there is a good show this year. The frondß of the large fern tree are now thrusting out their pale green arms, with their curled hairy ends gradually unrolling into featherly leaves. The frosts played havoc with the old leaves, having killed them quite, and they hung for months brown nnd clingy. Theso Tuis have again travelled to the edge of the bubh and pipe out tiieir familiar notes from the tops of the toreat tiees, and below the white odorous clusters of the wnrangi breathe ttnir fragrance all around. The cumelia is just pussing away after a glorious burst of flowers; so has the sweet-scented laurel; hut the buy tree is still in bloom. The sycamore is covered with its fancy clusters of etnbrjo flowers, and the leaves are gradually unfolding their irregular brown silky membranes. The primroses are just getting past their prime, and the steepleliko poplar is clothing its naked limbs with rustling leaves, thrown into relief by a background of sombre Californian pines. The willows now hang their plumes of vivid gveen and adorn the river's bank. In the pasture the sweet vernal sends up its spearlike sad stalk in countless myriads, and the rib grass also nods its heavy head to the passing breeze. The common fern has sent np its bare stalk, and is just thinking of making leaves, but the cautious mulberry tree is very backward in coming forward, the leaves are only here and there bursting from the buds as if afraid even with all its ciution that a cold frost will come and catch it unprepared at last. How beautiful the cock pheasant looks amidst the tall grass in the garden, where he knows he is free from danger; and even the swamp quail shows up occasionally as it runs rat-like from cover to cover. The grass in the shelter of the bush is now overtaking the Btock.

The priest of the village of Canicatti preached a sermon upon the terrors of the Inferno, and in the midst of. his discourse he suddenly stopped and exclaimed, in tragical tones, " Ecco il diavolo /" And there, sure enough, was seen standing near the pulpit a very fierce-looking deoion, all black, with two great horns on his head and a long tail trailing upon the floor. In an instant there was a panic among the superstitions congregation, and in the struggle to reach the doors many women were injured, while others became ill from sheer fright. The judicial inquiry which at once followed plucked the heart out of the mystery. The priest, thinking to give " actuality " to his sennoa, had got up one of his acolytes in the semblance of the devil of tradition. The father cannot be very well satisfied with the success of his experiment, one result of which is that he is likely to be sent to prison. The Civil Servants have already had a slight foretaste of the pleasure of economy (says a Wellington correspondent of a contemporary). "Ab they were about to leave their offices last Saturday to enjoy what Grosvenor so feelingly called " the usual half-holiday," an Imperial rescript was hurriedly issued, ordering them all to stay in, after the fashion oE naughty schoolboys. They accordingly stayed, expecting to undergo a thorough overhauling in the way of being put to the question by new Ministers burning for information. I understand, however, that they went through no Euch process, bui after kicking their heels about till 4 p.m., were dismissed with the satisfaction o£ knowing they had wasted their afternoon, with no reward except that of feeling that they had had a virtuous Cabinet to keep them company. Ministers, it is true, did give up their own half holiday. Whether that waß why ths servants had to do likewise I cannot say." Towle's Pennyeoyal and Steel Pills for Females quickly correct all irregularities, and relieve the distressing symptoms so prevalent with the sex. Boxes Is Hd and 2s 9d, of all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors. Prepared only by The Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Co., Lincoln, England. Beware of Imitations. h th — One Box of Clabke's B 41 Pills is warranted to cure all discharges froui the Urinary Organs, in eitht-r &ex (acquired or constitutional), GravsJ, and Pains in the Back. Guaranteed free from Mercury. Sold in boxes, 4b 6d each, by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors/ Sole Proprietors, The Lincoln and Midland COUNTIES Bbdg CJo., Lincoln, England. h th — NO MORE IIAP.D TIMES. — If you will stop spending so much on fine clolhee, rich food and Btyle, but buy, good, healthy food, cheaper and better clothing ; get more real and substantial things of life every way, and specially stop the foolish habit of employing expensive quack doctors or using so much of the vile humbug medicine that does you only harm, but put your trust in that simple, pure remedy, Dr. Soule's American Hop bitters ; that cures alwajs at a trifling cost, and you will sec pood times and have good health. " Chrouiclo." t th s 0c29 Hollow ay's Pills and Ointment Kbeumutism and Neuralgia — Though the former disease rfinorefcleßHiynttackß persons of all ages, and the hit»er ruthlessly selects its victims from the weak and delicate, the persevering use of theso lemedies will infallibly cure both complaints. After the affected parts have been diligently fomented with hot brine, and the skin thoroughly dried, Uolloway'o Ointment must he rubbed in firmly ancJ evenly for a few minutes twice a day, and his Pills taken according to the printed directions wrapped round each box of his medicine. Both Ointment and Pills aro accompanied by instructions designed for the public at large, and no invalid, who attentively reads them, can now be at any loss how to doctor himself successfully, hb oc 29 ( For continuation of news see 4th page./