IS i ' i V t F. MHWHEK, n cohkctk) tHi cmo5-jua m BxratanavT or rai laws. Editor aod Prey VOL. XXX. MEFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. JUNE 14, 1876. NO. 24. II I II I I I MX I II III ' Hi 1 i LITTLE FHT. Id cestle lull or cottage homee, Wbererer guileless childhood mm, Oh. there is nothing half so sweet A boa; trad of little feet. The sighing breeze, the ocean' roar. The purling rill, the organ's power. All etir the soul bat none ao deep As tiny tread of little feet When forth we go at early morn. To meet the world and brave ha acorn, A down the garden walk ao neat We eee the prints of little feet. At eve when homeward we repair. With aching limb and brow of care. The voices sing oat clear and sweet. Then comes the ruth of little feet. The knives are lost, the dishes stray. The tools are spirited away. And when we go the lost to seek. We take the trail of little feet. But when the angel Death hath come. And calls these flowerets from our home. Oppressive silence reigne complete ; We miss the sound of little feet Then tools are safe, no dishes stray. No doors go slamming all the day ; But, oh! twould give na pleaanr sweet To hear again those noisy feet Soft night has come, all are asleep ; Yes. all bat me, I vigil keep ; Hash, hash, my heart, and cease to best! Was that the step of little feet ? Yea, mother, 'twas the softened tread Of him yon miss and mourn as dead. ' And often in your sweetest sleep. VouTl dream of hearing little feet And when this pilgrimage is o'er. And you approach that blissful shore. The first to ran your soul to greet Will be your darling'e little feet . Won Again. CHAPTER I. A verr cosy sitting room it was that Frank Merwin entered as he returned from a long and wearisome day In the law office. A soft plow was diffused from a fire of sea coal in the grate ; the eat lay dozing on the rug, and the fitful gleam of the firelight flashed on a book case well tilled with elegantly bound volumes, on a blooming camellia par tially veiled by the heavy lace window curtains, on choice pictures suspended from the walls, on handsome stuffed easy chairs, and every now and then disclosed, resting in shadow, a child's shoe, that lay in one corner on the Brussels carpet. Near the grate was drawn up the lounge, with Frank's dressing gown thrown over it and his embroidered slippers just peeping from beneath. "This looks like comfort," said Frank as he put on the gown, thrust his feet into the slippers, and threw himself on the lounge in a restless attitude: "J wonder where Mary is?" At this moment Mrs. Merwin entered, with the lamp in her hand, and found Frank enjoying the quiet firelight. "Why, Frank," sheexclaimed, "when id you come in? I didn't hear you," and placing the lamp on the table she sat down beside him. "Only a moment ago," he said, "but its so pleasant to get home and rest. Is dinner ready? I'm very hungry." Just then the tinkling bell announced dinner, and they were presently seated at the table, Minnie, the little two-years-old, was already in her high chair, and no sooner did her mother appear than she began "Tato, tato, bread, milk, butter." A shade passed over Frank's face, but he said nothing as he helped Mrs. Mer win, and Mollie, and Henry, and Willie to the roast before him. For a minute or two at a time Minnie was still, but as soon as her eye rested on any dish she had not seen "before she began, "Cake, a-uke raisins. u?ar " and nothing else could be heard. Mrs. Merwin, intent on stopping her clamor, gave no atten tion to any one else at tne taoie. r rana drew a long breath, and said, in an un dertone, as if to himself: "I do wish she could eat before we do, and be asleep when I come home." In response to this, Mrs. Merwin said, in a petting tone, to Minnie, "Ittle darling doesn't want to eat all alone, and go to bed 'fore papa comes, doea she?" The other childYen were all over four vears old. and had been trained In table manners by their father so well that their presence was no annoyance; but this little Minnie he couldn't manage, and cunning and pretty though she was, she was a real torment to her ather when he came nome worn ana tired with the business of the day. At last the dinner was over, and the babv put to bed to Frank's great relief. "Sow I can talk with Mary," said he to himself, "and forget the fatigues and cares of the day;" and he went to his overcoat and drew from its pocket the last new magazine to show her when she came in. Entering with work basket in her hand. Mrs. Merwin began, "Such a time. Frank, as I've had to-day: I wouldn't tell you before, you looked so tired ; but Bridget went off this morn ing to see a sick cousin, ana aiu not get back until dinner was ready, so that I had everything to do, and Minnie to take care of beside. She has got a dou ble tooth coming aad is awful cross. Right in the midst of my work Mrs. Kingfisher called, and I had to leave everything and dress to see her, and she staid so long that my kitchen fire got low, and I thought 1 never should get dinner in time; then Henry came home from school with the earache, and I thought 1 never should get him quiet, but I did at last. Oh, dear, such a day as I've had." "I've brought home the new maga zine, Mary," was Frank's only respouse to this long catalogue of ills; but his mind ran back over the toils the day had brought to him, heavy business anxieties, annoyances that pierce to the uick, disappointments that involved more than he cared to compute, and be looked on his pleasant surroundings with a wistful air, and half wondered why tbey brought him so little pleasure. If he bad not taken off his coat and boots, he would have made an errand into the street, and dropped Into his club, where he was sure of meeting half a dozen jolly fellows, ana nearing oniy cheerful and pleasant tilings. But only that night, as he walked through the gathering twilight, the days of his courtship and early married life, the long evenings he and Mary had spent in reading Milton and Homer and Scott and Plato and Bacon and Thackeray and Dickens; how he had dreamed that she would always be his chosen intel lectual companion, no less than the partner of bis life; but now she seemed settling into a mere nursery maid, a humdrum housekeeper, a good seam stress, with no other thought than to provide for the physical well-being of her household. What could he do about it? He would buy the new magazine and read aloud to her, and see if they couldn't have a taste of the old, sweet wine of their early comDanionshiD. . So, as she took up a new embroidered tack she was making for the baby, he 1 opened to a story, and asked her If she would not like to hear iu Why, yes, she'd be very glad to; she got so little time to read now, there was so much sewing to do, and so many things to see to, anu so many interruptions, that she never had time to open a book, hardly. Frank was soon in the-midst of the story, but when he read a gorgeous de- w-npiiou oi ine uouuoir oi tne Heroine, Marv interrupted him : "That makes me think, Frank, that we must have a new carpet for our best cnamner; mat's Deen on the floor ever since we were married, and it's all faded ; it will do very well for one of the other bedrooms, but I think we must have a new carpet for that room ana curtains to match ; you know car pets are cheap now. I saw an elegant ingrain at .Moan s, last week, lust the . 1 . T . 1 .. . . . tuing, anu ii wouiun i cost over sou this room isn't very large." "Ton shall have it," said Frank, as he went on with his reading. Presently he looked up inquiringly to Mary, and said "Doesn't this spirited fellow re mind you of lorn Bowling, my old col lege cmim your cousin Tom. vou know !" seeing that Mary looked a little UOUDtlUl. "Why. yes. I guess he does." said Mary, who had been thinking, not of tne story, Dut bow she would arrange the new curtains and embroider a toilet set to match the carpet. It was easy enough to see that the reading would be a failure, and when the story was completed, Frank reclined on the lounge and read to himself. "It's no use," he thought, "I can t get her interested in anything but trifles, and l ll go Daca to my club. "So on the plea of business, Frank absented himself more and more from home, until he rarely spent an evening with Mary, unless visitors were present. And she, absorbed In her domestic cares, careful for his physical comfort, uncon scious that they were so rapidly grow ing apart, gave herself more and more to her household duties and the constant oversight of her children, Handsome children they were,- and Mrs. Merwin must see that in dress and manners they were no whit behind their neighbors'. Though she had a sewing machine, her needle was constantly in use while her husband was at home. embroidering or finishing the garments she had prepared in his absence. In case there was nothing else, the crochet or tatting needle filled up all intervals, Abominable crochet borrid tat ting," Frank would say to himself, until all the paraphernalia of tidies and lampmate, wall-baskets and sofa-pillows became inexpressibly odious to bim. If Mary would only knit upthe raveled sleeve of care which I bring home daily. with Kind personal attentions it she would give me herself, and let me rest my weary head on her heart. Xo doubt she loves me, but that love doesn't sat isfy me. I want sympathy; I want her to go with me above these low-hung skies of care and petty ambition into the clear light or those early, happy days, when we read and talked so much together." CHAPTER II. A year or two after the ojiening of our story, Mrs. Merwin. worn with con stant confinement, accepted the Invita tion of an old schoolmate, and taking Minnie, went to Vermont to pass the warm days of Summer. The other chil dren remained at home, with a tried housekeeper, who would be sure to look after them carefully. Frank had his club, and would occasionally come to Vermont and pass the Sabbath during Mrs. iler win's stay, tie bad Known Mr. Banks, the husband of his wife's friend in former days, and had profes sional interchanges of courtesy and business with him as they were both lawyers, but hitherto there bad been no visiting between the families. On her arrival at her friend's house, Mrs. Merwin was most cordially re ceived, and made to feel quite at home. The years that had separated them since they left school dwindled Into nothing, and tbey soon were Interchanging thought and feeling as long years be fore, when they walked arm in arm about the playground of the old academy or rambled in the park adjoining it. Both had children whom they loved and were proud of; bolt, had indulgent and intellectual husbanJs; both had beauti ful homes. But Mrs. Merwin was not slow to perceive, as they sat together sewing, in the cool mornings, that her friend was far above her in sweep of thought and grasp of intellect. She was mortified that of many subjects that came up naturally in the course of con versation she was quite ignorant, and though she could talk fluently in regard to carpets and curtains, embroideries and dress the latest discoveries of sci ence, the latest achievements of art, the last new books she knew absolutely nothing about, and was dumb when they were mentioned. How did Mrs. Banks manage to keep up with the age, and she so far behind it? Their chil dren were nearly the same in number, their household cares not widely differ ent, their husbands in the same profes sion. Here was a mystery, and she watched for its solution. She noticed that at night the young children were put to bed early, before Mr. Banks came home, so the house was quiet; for though men who have worked with their muscles all day may love to frolic with their little ones when coming home at nlght,men whose brains have been taxed during all the busi ness hours of the day enjoy the most perfect stillness and require it. She noticed, too, that the sewing machine, the work basket, even the knitting work was invisible after nlgbtfall,and bow ever awry or difficult the household ar rangements had been during the day, nothing but serenity and cheerfulness shone in the evening parlors. While those of the children who were per mitted to appear at the table amused themselves in the dining room or read quietly in the parlor, Mr. and Mrs. Banks gave themselves wholly to them selves and their guest. The news of the day was discussed, the last new book reviewed, or some Important discovery rehearsed, while at intervals the con versation dropped into that pleasant small talk which makes up so much of social interchange. Occasionally tbey passed the evening at a concert or prayer meeting, but Mr. Banks was never at the ctub, rarely away from home after nightfall. Many sad misgivings had Mrs. Mer win as she contrasted the perfect mu tual Interchange between the husband and wife whose guest she was, and her life with her husband ; and as she re viewed the years, little by little, light dawned upon her mind. She saw how gradually she had allowed unnecessary industries to encroach on time that might so much better have been devoted to intellectual culture. What availed It now that Mollie and Henry and Wil lie had been so elaborately dressed In their babyhood? . If they had worn plain attire, instead of that on which she had spent so much time and thought, how many hours she might have given to reading and keeping up with her husband ! To be sure her parlors were exquisitely ornamented with a variety of fancy work wrought by her bands; but when she listened to the utterances of her friends, rich as they were with the varied accumulations of those Intel lectual treasures, the law of whose ex istence is increment, she felt poor in deed in all the resources most earnestly to be desired. Was it not possible that she and Frank might be all to each other What these two friends were? At any rate she would talk with Mrs. Banks and find out, if she could, just how she bad so perfectly won and kept her hus band's heart, and bow with all the cares or a growing family, she had managed to Keep ner mind bright ana full. So, one day as they sat together, she introduced the subject cautiously, lest Mrs. is an kg might suspect that she and Frank were not so near to each other as they might be. "I don't see where yon get so much ume to read and nnd out everything, said Mrs. Merwin ; "you seem to be as fresh as if you had just left school, while i nave i or gotten almost everything 1 knew, and yet I don't see but that you uave aa many cares as i nave." "I neglect a good many things," sid Mrs. Banks; "my tidies are all bought, while I dare say you knit yours your self; my children's clothes are perfectly plain, and so are my own. I've often wanted to ask you where you got so mucu time to make all the pretty clothes Minnie wears." "Oh. I make them at night, after the children are quiet; Frank is away at tne cmn, and 1 have ail the evening to sew." "Mr. Banks doesn't like to have me sew or knit when he is at home ; he says it doesn't seem as though I was enter taining him when I am intent on the needle, and so I've never done it except when compelled to by stress of circum stances. And you always devote yourself to mm as you have done since 1 have been here?" Yes. always: I talk to him or bet him till he's rested, and then he talks to me, tells me all the news and every thing that has happened during the day; sometimes talks over his rases with me. I often find on the envelones of his letters a memorandum of items to 'tell her;' and I half feel as though I have been wherever he has been during ie uay. ii ne sees a new picture he describes it so vividly to me that It's really better than seeing it with my own eyes; if he reads a new book he goes over the points of it with me. and it has been this way ever since we were married, so that I do feel that my mind has grown almost as much as his, though I have been so full of household and family cares." Mrs. Merwin sighed audibly, and then came up in memory many a day when Frank had come home weary. and evidently longing for just this in- tercnange ot sympathy with his wire. How had it been met ? Was there not something better than this laborious superfluity of ornamentation? Could not the tongue and the eye have knitted finer and more valuable fabrics than the busy fingers bad done? It was not too late to hope that even now she could win him back again and enjoy the pure content that made her friend's life so blessed. Now was indeed the golden opportunity, and how diligently she Improved it. Laying aside tbeembroid- eries on which she bad Intended to spend so much time, she spent all her leisure time in reading the choice volumes which were discusseed in the evening conversations, to renewing ner ae on; intance with the classics she and t rank bad read together, and to writing mm long letters, iuii oi wueiy sympa thy in his labors and successes, of com ment on the books which occupied her thought, and of anticipations of the happy associations they would have when she got home again. To Mr. Merwin the occasional Sab baths he spent with Mary in Vermont seemed like oases in the desert, to gether, as in the days of their courtship and early marriage, with little to Inter rupt, they slipped back into the old easy interchange of thought and feeling which clothed those bright days with sunshine and joy. Mary could not rest until she had told her husband all her heart, and how she longed to be to him all that a wife could be, keeping step with him in his intellectual growth, as well as shining In the honors which it brought him. lo you remember, she said, "the letter in which you asked me to be your wife ? 1 committed it to memory at the time, and since I have been here It has all come back to me, especially the pas sage, 'you would be a companion for me. We could spend our evenings in beautiful readings, in mutual commun ings with the master spirits of the world.' Vt e will spend them so when we get home, won't we?" And they did. Whatever annoyances came to Mrs. Merwin in the manage ment of her household, or to Mr. Mer win in the conduct of his business dur ing the day, was not permitted to mar the cheerfulness of their evening re unions. ben be came borne, ex hausted by unusual labors, the quick eye of bis wife read In his face and manner the need of his spirit, and by reason of her perfect sympathy with him, she knew just how to soothe and restore him. Or, if he found her de pressed and weary on his return, he, too extended the hand of ready sympa thy, gentle forbearance and cheery words. The club was forgotten lor tne fireside; the crochet and embroidery needle were forgotten, and yet the children grew as fast, were as rosy and gay as when their loving mother ar rayed them in garments covered with choice needlework. Though silver be gan to mingle with Mrs. Merwin's chestnut tresses, and crow-feet traced' themselves on a race no longer young, Mr. Merwin declared that every year but added to her personal charms, and made her a thousand fold more dear to him than . ever. And thus, like the asympsote lines, ever approaching, never to meet, tbey are going band in hand to where, though there may be a brief parting, they shall live and love forevermore. Phrenological Journal. Datjr. It is so hard to do right always I So hard to walk with bare bruised feet over the ragged pathway! While, all the while, vou hear the song of birds. catch the flash of brilliant plumage, the fragrance of flowers on the other side, and know that only a little way off lies a smooth, green sward, whose dewy freshness would be so grateful to your weary wanderings i sometimes you catch your breath at some new burst of melody, and are almost tempted to turn aside ; but the voices in the Invisi ble beyond plead with you, and you stumble on In pain and weariness, over the first road, unto the end. But you look back, oftentimes through tears, over a life of battles and skirmishes, and you find the scars of many a wound on your nerveless body, and you almost ask : "Is it worth the while ?" Ave. but when the goal is reached. and the crown won, when standing on the summit and looking back from the farther shore we shall be able to say, "I did what 1 could," then will ail the luster have faded from the brilliant en ticement of pleasure, then will we for get the weariness and pain, the strug gles and temptations of the siren, and the rugged pathway will look so smooth and even, that we will wonder that ever we could have thought it hard to walk. Let ns have courage then and tread on In the path of duty to the end. The Boston Journal ofChnuintry says So much has been written about the relations of candy to health, and par ticularly to diseased teeth, that it would seem'presumpiuous to add even a word. But supposing the question cannot be settled at once, there are some facts about candy, or sugar ra ther, which I have not seen mentioned. As a food it is a failure.- The chemist tells that cane sugar contains three ele ments. The human body has some fourteen elements. How ran three ele ments make fourteen T Dogs fed on sugar died in forty days. 1 heir eyes Ulcerated and came out. Uogs.led on nothing lived just as long. The system nas a natural loathing tor food con- taming nothing but sugar. We then to the occasional nse of sugar. Doea it affect the condition of the or- Eans of the body T Several years ago r. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia. proved that he could produce cataract of both eyes in half an hour by simply injecting a leaspoonitu oi a saturated solution of sugar between the skin of a frog or guinea pig. Dr. B. V. Rich ardson, of London, has confirmed this. and these results are received by the medical profession as satisfactory. Now if a teasDoonf ul of sugar solution will make a frog or guinea pig totally blind in half an hour, can sugar be re garded as an innocent substance for young and growing persons, especially wnen tney diet so largely noon white flour, which is chiefly comDosed of starch, whose chemical formula is identical with that of sugar. Accord ing to Dr. C. R. Agnew. of New York, out of 1,000 children under 18 years of age in a large school in his vicinity, 703 were found with defective organs of vision when examined with the oph thalmoscope. Have we a right to infer tnat sugar and starch diet have any thing to do with this large percentage of deficient eyesT The experiments quoted show that sugar does act promptly, quickly, and terribly npon the substance of the crystalline lens of lower animals. Can we!deny the pro bability of its action npon the ryes of human beings. Mark, we do not say it does thus act. We simply raise the Suestion. We wish the State Board of ealth would have it investigated, as it is a matter germane to their invalu able department of labor. Now for candy and diseased teeth Lime and phosphorus form the chief mineral ingredients of teeth. The or ganic matter (l. e. that like sugar) amounts roughly to about 20 ner cent. of the whole tooth. The mineral mat ter and water make the remaining 80 per cent. In other words, sugar gives the teeth nnder the most favorable construction, HO per cent of its food on ly, when it is used as an aliment. But sugar cannot be used as an exclusive aliment as death would ensue. Lsed occasionally when the other food has its normal amount of mineral ingredi ents. candy, when pure, probably does not barm the teeth, But used fre quently, in connection with flour diet, there is no doubt that it will promote the decay of teeth. When organized substances are fed. tbey must receive all the elements that enter into their composition, i ailing to receive these. their vitality is impaired, and decay re sults. Teeth fed with candy do not re ceive any mineral elements. No phos phorus and no lime are found in candy, but they constitute the main part of teeth. Hence we see that candy and teeth are not interchaugable things, and that candy-eatero munt not be sur prised if their teeth fail. Bella-leas Establlskaseata. Certain figures published in the Inde pendence Beige show for what amounts some fifty religious establishments In Paris are insured their buildings and furniture alone. The Sisters of St. Vin cent de Paul, Rue de Bac, value their bouse and property at 2,890,000 francs; the Sisters of the Visitation, Rue d'En- fer, at 1,000,000 francs; the Convent des Oieeaux, Rue de Sevres, 902,000fr.; the Carmelite Sisters, Avenue de Saxe, 695,000 francs ; the Sisters of the Sacres Coeurs de Jesus et de Marie, 508,000 francs. Religious houses of men are equally rich. The Lazarists, Rue de sevres, assumed Tor 2,J40,uou rrancs; the Benedictines duTemple.Kue de Mon sieur, for 617,000 francs; the Petit Sem- inaire du Paris, Kue .Notre Dame des Champs, for 737,600 francs; the Jesuits of the College de Vangirard. for 727, 450 francs; of the Rue de Lafayette, for 641,000 francs. These amounts are taken from the list of fifty establishments, which altogether insure for 18,570,000 francs 750,000. Their lands must be worth a great deal more. The Corres pondent of the Independence Beige has obtained sights of the business done at one Insurance company only. By of ficial returns there are at present li Paris 223 religious establishments viz. : Twenty-seven male communities, seventy-six female, fifty-four establish ments de tttenfattance, thirty-seven in stitutions and pensionnaU, thirty divers and nine prisons. It seems, therefore, that rather less than one quarter of them possess gear and goods to the com fortable amount named. The Insurance company has twenty-two churches on Its books, and one is struck with the contrast displayed. Notre Dame, itself treasure bouse, is insured for less than 20.000 building, relics, plate, museum, and all. SU Sulpice goes. for 23.500: the Madeleiue, admiration of English visitors, for !2,bjO. London Standard. Hew Quirk la Thought. In order to express an idea of exceed ing rapidity we say "as quick as thought.' It seems evident, however, since thought cannot be spontaneous, but must arise from some cause, the lat ter preceding the former, that there must be some appreciable duration of time elapsing between the two, which might be called "the period f succes sion." It Is quite amusing to recall the fact that, iu 1795, at the Greenwich Ob servatory, an irate astronomer summar ily dismissed an assistant because he al ways made an apparent blunder in not ing the passage of a star, which showed an error or five to eighth-tenths of a second. A quarter of a century after wards the astronomer Bessel found er rors of a similar kind, made by two Il lustrious assistants who were working with him, Argelander and Starve, and Instead of soundly rating them for their apparent blunders, commenced studying the subject, and was the first to present what is called the problem of the personal equation." 1 he personal equation is, then, a certain fixed human error, that difference between the time when something actually does take place, and when the appreciation of it reaches our brain. M. Wolf of the Paris Observatory, has devoted a great deal of Lime u uiesiuuy ui mis curious suujeci, and has invented some ingenious mech anism for the determination of it. A luminous point an artificial star as it were is passed before the field of the glass, and Its exact time being calcula ted, by means or a most accurate chro nometer, between the actual time it does appear, and that noted by an ob server, may be called one of the limits of the visual personal equation. This equation, of course, cannot be constant. it may vary as to the Kind or impres sion, and may differ with individuals. Between Bessel and Argelander, when the two would note the time of a flash of lightning, there would be a difference of twenty-two one-hundredths of a sec ond. The errors of both these obser vers between actual visual occurences and the precise time when the passage of a star was noted, were as much as a quarter. of a second. Summing -up these errors, the period when we are conscious of receiving an Impression shows ns to be as much out of the way as from the fifth to the tenth of a sec ond. Again ; the effect of the impres sion or its distinguishing character. acts on us differently. Another term is employed for this personal equation, which is called physiological time. Now this time varies with the various sense. and whether the effects are single or double. The physiological time for a single sound Is 158-1000 of a second, but when two sounds are received it is 203- 1000 of a second. Of course it is evi dent that, when there is the expectancy oi any Known enect, such as or light, sound, or touch, the mind being pre pared for some impression, the physio logical time is very much lessened. One very curious portion of this study would be that or discovering whether modin cation In the human brain, brought on by medicines or disease, did not cause differences in this physiological time, Do the Insane have quicker or slower physiological time? When DeQuincy asserted that u live a thousand years in a single night was quite possible by simply increasing his dose of opium, he inadvertently touched on the problem ot physiological nme. As af Ik rrrmaaMa. 'As old as the pyramids," is the say ing or everybody, but just bow old these pyramids are is a question which has puzzled the wise heads or all times and defied solution. Modern Investigation, however, stops at nothing, and at last the studious application of mind prom ises to record the year, the day, and even the hour and minute when the capstones were laid upon old Cheops and the minor pyramids at Ghizeh. It is Known that the Egyptians were won derful astronomers, and that all their important events were recorded I n hiero glyphics, as occurring while some star was occupying a certain place in the heavens. These records were made on stone, the hieroglyphics of the Egypt ians covering nearly every standing monument of their architectural skill. These records are the riddles which are destined, not only to tell the age of the pyramids, the sphinx and the Egyptian tombs, but to reveal the national history of that ancient people. so lateaa April 7 there was a meeting of the French Academy of Inscriptions in raris, when one M. de Lauly treated of this subject of astronomical inscrip tions, by reading a paper in relation to discovery by the scholastic r rench- man, M. Chabas. The essay stated that Chabas recently unraveled an inscrip tion upon the famous Ebers papyrus. which proved to bethenameorrharaoh Menkeres, the builder of the smallest pyramid. Under this name was also found an astronomical date. Taking this date to an eminent as tronomer, it was ascertained, to the de- gbtof the Egyptologist, that It marked a point in the motion of the star Sirius which must have been in the year 3,010 V. Other astronomers corroborate the fact, and hence was gained the first date of absolute certainty established back of the year 1300 B. C. By this discovery the age of one pyra mid, the third and smallest is definitely established at 4,880 years. This is a great point for the scholars of the age to galu, and will doubtless be the key to the establishment of other important data in the history of the many curious relics of fcgypt. made In an age and by a people existing in a far Long Ago of the world. A Car few Strike. This is the war between labor and capital : Capital continually withdraw ing itself from healthful work because it is at raid or losing its price, continu ally at difference with its one frieud, without whom It must perish ; Labor striking, demanding shorter time, more wages, dictating imperious rules about piece-work and apprentices, quarreling with Its one friend, without whom it must die or seek the poor-bouse. To adjust these differences is the problem of the day. . One way out of the difficulty is to make the laborer a capitalist. The sav ings bank Is the chief aid In this direc tion. Let the worker put a part of his earnings in a bank, and be becomes a capitalist in a small way. He learns to view the subject of interest and divi dends with the eyes of a lender, and he Is straightway jealous or his capital and its rights. He joins the other party, and. belonging to both, he the more readily sees that it Is for the interest of both to work together. Education is of fered as another solution. Give a work ingman a business education, and he learns to tee and understand the laws that govern the movements of wages and interest. Finally, comes the Idea of co-operation the giving the laborer share in the guidance and proflts of of the worK, the union of capital and labor In any particular undertaking. Co-operation is, in theory, the most sensible and the most Just solution to this question that has been offered. In practice, it has been attended with every imaginable degree of success and failure. It has been repeatedly tried In every branch of business, both here and in Europe. In a certain way, it is al ready in active operation through the agency of savings banks, loan, friendly, and building associations, and insurance companies. But, as these are usually managed, they are not wholly co-oper ative in a commercial sense, in the case of savings banks, the laborers con tribute to the capital and have no con trol over it, while capitalists manage the fuDds for a salary, or an extra divi dend, or other consideration, over and above the Interest paid to the real own ers of the money. Seribner for Mag. Tke Oarstoaa tltiSM. The groves of rose-trees and the flower-farms of Morocco are said by a recent traveler to exceed In extent those of Damascus, or even those of the val ley of Mexico. The general climate of the country is very favorable to this kind of culture. Swept alternately by the breezes of the Atlantic and Mediter ranean, and tempered by the snow of th Atlas ranges, the degree of beat in Morocco is much lower than in Algeria, while the soil Is excedlngly fertile. To the date palm, and to orange and lemon trees, the climate appears to be especi ally suited, the dates of Tallfat having been famous even from Roman times. The orange plantations are of very great extent in various parts of the country, while olives and almonds are also staples exported in large quanti ties. Seeing that this fertile land, with in five days steam of London, produces so much vegetable wealth under the most barbarous cultivation, it appears extraordinary that European enterprise does not in such a climate, seek profita ble employment for its over-abundant capital in its application to the develop ment of such vast resources so closest hand, instead of going to so distant a field as Australia or America. When a Florida alligator is seen wrlgglingvaround in the mud, the folks down there say he is trying to imitate Spinner's autograph. A lysMrisai Blrel Cl I witnessed the other day one of the celebrated sights of Paris, of which I had often heard before, but never before had seen. Crossing the Tulleries gar den, my attention was attracted by an Intense commotion among the sparrows wnicn abound in that locality. Tbey were chattering and flying to and fro, and finally collected in swarms at a single point. There I saw the cause of meir agiutuun, me wen-mown Dim charmer of the Tulleries garden. She Is a person about thirty years of age, pale, with very black hair, dressed in the deepest mourning, and wearing no bonnet. She was surrounded by birds mat nopped and perched right at her ieec, or new circling round her bead, apparently without the slightest fear, She would hold out a bit of bread, and instantly three or four would hover around It with rapid whirling wings, iiae numming oirus around a flower, some perching on her fingers, while others would peck at the coveted morsel on the wing. Then she would throw crumbs into the air. which would adroitly caught by the swiftet-winged birds before they reached the ground. A shower of crumbs brought the little creatures to their feet like chickens, nor did the presence of the bystanders that soon collected in great numbers appear to terrify her proteges in the least. They seemed to feel perfectly secure while in the presence of their benefac tress, she walked slowly on, followed by hundreds or the eager, fluttering, chattering birds, and I lost sight of ber in a distant walk. I am told that she sometimes sits down, and that the spar rows will then perch all over her, and will get into her lap to eat bread from ber apron. No one knows who she is: she never speaks to any one, and pays no attention to anybody or anything ex cept to ber beloved birds, which she feeds daily throughout the winter. Aw Old Daw ilk War Valley. About two and one-half miles from Botley, on the bank of the Hamble, which runs out of the Southampton Water, there lie exposed at low spring tides two tiers of old piles covered with mud and seaweed, which have long oeen a iavorite naunt or tne cormorant and other seabirds. The piles extend from the water's edge for some distance into the bank of the river in the direc tion of Swanwick, and according to tradition they formed part of the wreck of a Danish war galley burnt and sunk at the time of the Danish invasion of England in the year 870. Within the last few days a gentleman who has lately taken a residence in the neigh borhood conceived the idea of raising tne presumed wrecx. and employed i number of men in making explorations, When at a depth of some eight feet or ten feet in the mud, planks were found attached to the piles, and the shape of the vessel was traced. These planks wore attached to the timbers in three thicknesses, each planed to a bevel and bent to the shape of the ship. The thickness of the planks was from four inches to six Inches, and the timbers fourteen Inches by ten inches. The re searches were continued to the keel, the measurement of which was found to be one hundred and thirty feet in length. A quantity of cement was eaa bedded between the keel and timbers, ana the planks were caulked with moss, The timber appeared to be of oak, but, the color being changed, it resembled coal, and was extremely bard; other wise It was perfectly sound, and even saw marks were distinguishable in places, the Instruments used being of a much thicker make than those or the present day. It Is hoped that these examinations will be continued and further information obtained respecting in is remarkable relic or past ages. Am VabeallhyOeeanIIa. At the last census in Wales and Eng land of persons engaged in manufactur ing pottery, the number of people so oc cupied was found to be about 45,122 ; of or these 29,169 were males, and 16,953 females. Among the males the mortal ity was no less than thirty-eight per cent, higher than the average death rate for the males of the whole commu nity above the age of fifteen years, and this increase principally showed itself in carrying off men in the prime of life say thirty-five years of age. The cli mate being good, the wages fair, and the workmen fairly temperate and cleanly, nevertheless the potters were poor in physique. Now, repeated chem ical analysis of the human lungs have shown that silica is absent as a normal constituent of these organs. Prof. Church, having, however, incinerated the lungs of a potter, found that there existed In the ash left the amazing amount of forty-eight per cent of silica, eighteen per cent of alumina, and five per cent, of oxide of iron. This showed to what an enormous extent finely di vided clay was being constantly breathed by the potters, and was evidently the cause of the premature deaths. ESTeetef Llcbt. Doctor Moore, the metaphysician, thus speaks of the effect of light upon body and mind : "A tadpole confined in darkness would never become a frog, and an infant deprived of Ueavenas free light will only grow Into a shape less idiot, instead of a beautiful and reasonable being. Hence, in the deep, dark gorges and ravines of the Swiss Valals, where the direct sunshine never reaches, the hideous prevalency of Idi ocy startles the traveler. It is a very strange and melancholy Idiocy. Many persons are incapable of articulate speech ; some are deaf, some blind, some labor under all these privations, and are mis-shapen in almost every part of tho body. 1 believe there is a marked dif ference in the healthiness of houses, ac cording to their aspect in regard to the sun, and those are decidedly the health iest in which all the rooms are, during some part of the day. fully exposed to the direct light. Epidemics attack in habitants living on the shady side of the street, and totally exempt those on the other side ; and even in epidemic's such as ague, the morbid influence is often thus partial.' Past HarteBB Kales; tea. An old clergyman, who was particu larly happy on funeral occasions, hap pened to get very far from home, when bis old "one-horse chaise" was recog nized, and he was importuned to take part in some funeral services where the circumstances were peculiar. On in quiry, he found two sisters, having lived in the same house more thau eighteen years, had died within a few hours of each other, and that theirs was the fu neral In question. The old man was un usually eloquent, and, of course, quoted the Hues, "They were lovely In their lives, and in their deaths tbey were not divided." After the services he was told that the sisters had led a most quar relsome existence, so much so that they had put up a board partition between their apartments twenty years before. Papmlauaa af It is estimated by the Registrar Gen eral of Great Britain that, by the middle of this year, the population of London, as limited to the metropolitan and city police districts, will exceed 4,250,000. Last year 30,000 persons were added to the permanent residents of the British metropolis from outside places. CESTEXSIAI. HOTES. The cataract In Machinery Hall an nex will be in operation daily, until lurtner notice, from 2 coir. M. A periodical Is to be printed at the CentennialWkounds to be called the H'eeilj Hot!. Not a very strengthy name. Foreigners wopder that the Indian does not make his appearance in some shape. They say they can see sewed shoes and painted crockery on Regent street, but an Indian camp they cannot see. The following alteration and addi tion have been made to the list of spe cial displays already announced : Early grass butter and cheese. June 26 to July 6, instead of June 13 to 17; graper, Oc- tooer iu 14. The list of special prizes offered un der the auspices of the Bureau of Agri culture is constantly increasing, and promises to add much to the spirit of competition already rife in the Agrl cultural Department. "Ye heathen gods! how men do guzzle !" ejaculated Olive Logan, after contemplating the Centennial side shows. She might have cast a back- action glance at herself and added, "Ye beat hen gods: how women do bustle." A business man who understands the value of advertising, occupies an entire page of a recent number of the Londou News In setting forth the ex cellence of the goods exhibited by him at tne centennial. His advertisement Is in sixty-four different languages A party of Turks have opened a ba zaar not far from the unfinished Turk ish coffee-house for the sale of paper Knives, little boxes In the form or books, strings of beads, and many other tri fles, ail made or olive wood from the mount of Olives so the turbaned mer chants say. The California building will be open at about the middle ot June, when all the State exhibits, neglected in the Main Bunding, win re displayed there. 1 be opening day Is to be commemorated by a banquet to the press, at which Mark Twain, as a representative of Pa cific coast journalism, will officiate as master or ceremonies. At neither of the four restaurants on the grounds kept by native or natu ralized Americans is there any adequate representation of American wines on the bills of fare. In a whole page cov ered with the names of foreign drinks one finds three r four kinds only of native wines, and those, as a rule, of the most ordinary quality. What remains of Commodore Per ry's flagship Lawrence will shortly be placed upon exhibition at Philadelphia. it nas Deen taken irom tne harbor or Erie and will be shipped piecemeal. At the close it will be cut up and sold for canes, chairs, Ac. The hull of the Law rence has laid for sixty years in Misery Bay, where it was sunk after the battle. One of the features of the women's pavilion is a large collection of stuffed animals and birds killed by Mrs. Max well, Known as the California huntress. A buffalo, a Rocky mountain lion, and grizzly bear are Included In the col lection, viewiua? which the stern sex cannot but admit that woman has some qualiflcations for the exercise of the right of suffrage. Governor Bedle.of New Jersey. m ill be the orator at the unveiling of the n itherspoon statue In the Park, notifi cation of his acceptance of the invita tion extended to bim by the subcom mittee or the ueneral Assembly or the Presbyterian Church having been re ceived yesterday. The unveiling, which as to have taken place June 3. has been postponed for several weeks. The Centennial year has brought old people, especially women, into great popularity, and there is not a town tyi New England that cannot show an an cient dame who danced with Washing ton; remembers reading the Declara tion of Independence the week after it was issued; has cut and made her own dresses for ninety years, and now jumps rope as a dally recreation, and reads diamond print without the of glasses. The Boston Ft remarks: If the Centennial authorities should see fit to offer a prize for the pink of politeness is questionable whether American exhibitors at Philadelphia could stand any chance by the side of their foreign brethern. Take, for instance, the man ner adopted by the different exhibitors in giving notice that their goods are 1 not to be handled. The blunt Yankee hands off." printed In bold letters and fastened in half a dozen places on every case, looks brusque beside the courteous please not handle" of the English ex hibitors, and the still more polite "vis itors wilt confer a favor," etc., etc.. hich Is the way the request is worded by the French, Egyptians and others. The French phrase, "Einbarrat de richetM," Is the one that applies to the difficulty that confronts visitors on their entrance within the Centennial. It has, therefore, been thought worth while to plan out a tour or route that will ena ble a person to see the most within a visit of one day. Enter the Main Buil ding at the east door of the grand cen tral aisie. uo at once up stairs to tne Massachusetts Educational Department, which Is In the gallery overhead of the entrance, from this gallery a grand vista is obtained of the Main Hall. Pass down the main isle to the middle of the building, where the central transept crosses, and the visitor will have gone through the end devoted to the United States. Then pasa out the right-hand door and through Memorial Hall, and thence to the art annex. Retrace the course and come back again to tbe Main Building, walk up to the top or one or the towers of the Main Hall, and there can be had a general view of the geog raphy or tbe grounds, uomlng down again proceed to the end of the Main Hall, passing during this walk, along the displays made by foreign countries. Pass now to Machinery llall and walk to the centre to the Corliss engine ; then to the large tank, and returning again to the long lines of Machinery Hall pro ceed to the end of it and go out the west door. Go up by the Catholie Fountain to the Japanese Building and pass to the English cottages. If the visitor has State building inquire for it, and visit the State agent. Then go to the United States Government Building, thence to tbe Women's Building, thence to the Horticultural Building. A stroll through the grounds towards the Main Building Ul show many structures devoted to specialties or built by foreign govern ments, visitors arriving oy reunsyi- vanla Railroad will do best to enter at the Belmont gate aud enter the west end of tbe Main Hall and go eastward the central transept, through Mem orial Hall into the art annex-back to the main hall of the tower; then to the east end ; then back again to the west end and take np the route indicated above. Gov. Tilden's appointment of Mrs. Charles Russell Lowell as a state com missioner of charities brings out tbe fact that Pennsylvania has had a woman state official since 1867, at a salary of iiuw per annum ana ail expenses paid, Mrs. . E. Hutter of Philadelphia hav ing been female Inspector of the soldiers' orphan schools lor that period. RWS D BRUT. Counterfeit dimes of the coinage of 1876 are already in circulation. Augusta, Ua., has a painting of St. Jerome said to be 400 years old. The Brooklyn church choirs cost $270,000 a year, exclusive of the Beecher music Tbe snow-drifts are ten feet deep near me craw lord House iu a Hampshire. A woman teacher of Grotou. Con rows from her house to the school house. two miles and back, daily. Since the war Pennsylvania has spent eight millions of dollars in edu cating the orphans of soldiers. A thirty-eight pound sweet potato as sold in Key West. Fla.. recently. Also jew-flsh weighing 0 pounds. A majority of the Massachusetts Legislature Is not In favor of ail iou ru ing until some time in the next cen tury. Judge Davis is having 1778 whita oak trees set out around his residence, at Bloomington, 111., all on account of the Centennial. The young shad placed in Lake Ontario last season are dying. Those caught this year are no larger than those or last year. Charles Fechter is said to he 1 San Francisco. Unless Charles breaks a leg once a month or two, we are apt to lose sight of him. The sultan of Turkey pavs 148.000 for music In the harem. One might think that the 1200 women there would make music enough. Capt, Cook, of the Tale Navv. ex presses himself as well satisfied with the progress and efficiency of the crew he now has In training. It is thirtv-tix years since Fannie Elssler made her first appearance In the United States. She still lives in the en joyment of excellent health. A large lake recently discovered about forty miles from Laramie, W. T. has a thick deposit of sulphate of mag nesia in almost a pure state. A Maine sea-captain has iust retired. after having followed the sea for fifty- seven years. He made 117 voyages to the West Indies, and never lost a man. For tbe first time since 1SC2. there is a diminution in the number of de positors in the New York savings banks as compared with the previous year. The historic landmarks on Bunker Hill have been relocated and marked. so that future generations will have no chance of quarreling over doubtful lo calities. The "Six Nations" Senecas. Onon- dagas, Cayugas, Oneidas, Mohawks and Tuscaroras Irom the Cattaraugus res ervation, are to be represented iu the Buffalo Fourth of July procession. We hear that the Insanity of Fox. the clown, has become violent, and that the unfortunate man has been placed iu a padded cell. He remains at the Mc Lean Asylum in Soinerville, Mass. Prof. Haldeman Is reported to have discovered a cave or rock shelter In Lancaster County, Pa., and under a foot of debris upon its floor stone Im plements of great variety and beauty. ' Col. Thomas A. Scott, during his examination before the committee in vestigating the charges against Mr. Blaine, stated that he was now the president of fifteen different corpora tions. Prof. Henry A. Beers of Yale Col-, lege has adopted the plan of making at tendance ou his lectures voluntary. The same plan was tried by three pro- lessors iai year, and it is said to have worked admirably. Railroad building is experiencing a revival. Thus far the present year there have been built, according to re port, 532 miles as against 2-f) miles for the same period in 1875, 375 miles iu 1874 and 654 in 1873. A Pennsylvanian has bought a small steamer and will loa I it at Buffalo. about July 1st, with 30,000 pounds of nitro-glyceruie for delivery at diflerent localities on Lake Suerior. We com mend the excursion to our enemy. -The Albany Argus savs statistics show that Oneida and Madison counties raise fully one-third of the hops grown in the Uuited States. From eleven towns that have reported thus far, 3 1,1 96 bales have been produced ou 7,893 acres of land. The seventeenth regiment. Ken tucky volunteers, United States army the regiment Bristow was lieutenant colonel of proposes holding a reunion at Hartford, Ohio county, iu September. Confederate soldiers will be present and oin in the good cheer. The town of Indianola.Tex.. which was almost destroyed by the gale of l:tat autumn, has of late been infested with a gang of tramps, who have made a number of attempts to burn what re mains of the place, but in every case the fires have beeu discovered In time to save the town. About 1200 planters are engaged In rice culture at the South. The annual crop Is valued at $3,000,000, developing general business, including banking, to (he amount of t:o,COO,000 ; 20.000 labor ers are employed ; a large are of South ern lands is suitable for no other pur pose than rice culture. The "heathen Chinee" has Intro- treduced a new industry in San Fran ciscothe manufacture of the genuine Chinese firecrackers. Two factories. with a capital of $15,000 invested turned out last year the value of $30,000; using s ,ouu worm or raw material, aud pay ing out $5,00u for labor. The Boston Journal of Commerce thinks it a fact worthy of consideration that while we manufacture $200,000,000 worth of boots and shoes in 1875. we only exported to the value of $519,200. ll is estimated that at least ten million dollars worth of boots and shoes were manufactured more thau was required for local trade. The annual convention of the Amer ican Book Trade Association, which was to have been held at Niagara Falls about the 11th of July, will take place at Philadelphia. Instructions have therefore been given for the cancella tion of whatever arrangements may have been made for holding the meet ing at Niagra Falls. A boy, 12 years of age. has been lying in jail at Salt Lake City for a year. Having recently been brought into court, it was found that he had stolen $2 to save himself from starvation. On account of his having been heavily chained, the court sentenced him to a six months' confinement in the hospital that he might secure needed medical treatment. Since 1362, the Income of Harvard university has increased from $173,567 to $473,304; the property has increased from $1,591,779. representing 83 separ ate funds or endowments, to $3,139, 217, representing 162 separate funds or endowments; the buildings used in the work of the university have in creased from 13 to 26 in number, and the real estate occupied In Cambridge has nearly doubled in area. lli'i Mil lr r t. ' i k . . 1 I I ir 1. 5 , :' k 4
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