WINTERS HOPE. . I be Autumn dy* ere gone —ell flown ; The yellowing leeree from off lbs tree* Are shed. with *d end doleful moao Of whisthmt wind end mournful hreeo The cumWrwl earth hear* fer end neer Those saddening tigus of Autumn'* deUi And lewdest forest*. motet end drrer Oppress ue with their chilly breeth Itnt let tM look eiound once more - I* there no beam to cheer our sight •* No nit in there dark clouds Ah ' sure, We ere not left without eome light ? No . "tie not eo' KVu while we gene. See from von htl" the red eun Hue. Illuming with lui chn nnjt ray* The eerth thet ell eo darkly lies. And It) deeorted hedgerow springs The hawthorn berry, brave and bright; While patched atop the rwh.ii sing* 111* clear, eweet song with ell hie might. Our life will dome to Autumn hour*. And ell may chill end dreary eeetu. Itnt even then we'll And eome flower*. And even then eome joyous beam. Repine not. therefore, tbet thv youth And manhood's prune eo swiftly flee ; Lo! with advance of year* come trutli. New light, new boj>. calm Joy* for Ihee. —Chamber*' Amrwwt. A Night of Alarm. My sister Julia was very courageous. Incur youth the country was wilder than now; hut It might he said ot' her that she was not brought up in the woods to lie scared by an owl. She would traverse the tuod unfrequented paths, wondering at tut timidity. Tnere was nothing masculine, how ever in Julia's appearsikv; she was simply a sweet, jovous child, with an absence of fear In lier character and a consequent clearness of perception la all cases oi snpjavsed or actual danger. Wliou i vu sixteen. and Julia was eighteen. my father hired a lalswor named Han- Schmidt, a who had been in the British service, and who, at the i-lose of the war, had de serted from his regiment. He was a powerful man,with a hearr, hnbruted countenance, aud l>oth Julli and myself were struck, at the very first, with an intuitive dread of him. The feeling in Julia hardly took the character of fear, hut was one rather of the most intense loathing. One evening she read of a horrible murder v that thrilled our blood, and upon turning her eye* from the pa|-r, they eocounterad tiaarof Hans Schmidt. There was something terrible iu that glance. and, from tnat moment she re solved that the viilain should is* turned awav. A< her wishes and opinions were al ways of much weight with father, he took her advice, ami gave Hans his dis charge. Son a after this Julia and 1 were left alone in the house, both father and. mother being absent upon a visit until the follow ing day, and we hap|>eiied to lie without a servant at the time v for we kept more than one.) At night we went up to bed and hail partly disrobed when Julia turned hastily to ttie window. "1 declare," she said, "the evening is so pleasant that it is a pity to remain in-door*. I don't feel a bit "sleepy; let's go down on the lawn." We descended the stairs. How little I Imagined what was in Julia's heart! Harry Irving came up just as we reached the lawn. He was only casually j>ass ing the house. Julia engaged him in conversation and he joined us. My sister was more than usually lively. "Where are Tom, and Edgar and Will?" she asked. "Ob," replied Harry, "they are over t my uncle's. They will be coming back soon." The three young men oon appeared upon the road; and, to my surprise, Julia arose at their approach and called ns aside from the door. "Now, Mary, you need not be ner vous." she said. "Keep quiet aud do not speak above your breath. There is a man under our bed—there. Uiert!" and she clasped her hand over my month—"a man under our heal, aud the young Irving* are going to secure hiin." They all provided themselves with heavy sticks, and then, guided by Julia, ascended the stairs. As to myself, 1 could not follow- them. Hut remained trembling and leaned upon the doorstep*. Never did 1 expe rience a greater sense of relief than when the assailing party descended, looking partly ashamed and partly amused, having touud nothing to jue tifv their sudden armament. Julia was iu an agony of mortiflra tiou and wept piteously; for. although lull half convinced that her apprehen -iou* had been groundless, the kieathat she, who had never till now feared any thing, had placed herself so ludicrously In the eye* of those men was insup portable. The man, she said, must have taken the alarm and fled out the back doof; for she could not have been so deceived. Our young friends, more in pity for her mortification than from any belief in the reality of the night intruder, offered to remain in the vicinity till morning; hut she would not listen to the proposition and they took their de parture. I was sorry to see litem go, and watched their forms till they were put of sight, for the aflair of the eveuing had almost frightened me into hysterics. Julia, however, at once rushed to the chamber, and flinging herself on die bed, continued bitterly weeping. Sin had exhibited herself in a character which she despised; and her man under the bed would 1* the talk of the neigh borhood. i followed Iter, but neither of us could sleep. The clock on the mantle piece struck eleven; and then "rick, tick, tick," it went on for the next dreary hour. Julia at length ceased weeping, ami lay iu thought, only an occasional tigli betray ing her wakefulness. Again the clock atruck.but it had not reached the final stroke when Julia, leaping out of bed. flung herself uj*>n an immense chest at the further end of the room. "Oh, Mary!" site cried, "uuick! quick! He b here.' I cannot hold the lid —lie will get out!" There was indeed some living thing inside the chest; for, in spite of Julia's weight, the lid was lifted, and then, as the instinct of self-preservation over came my terror, 1 sprang quickly toiler assistance. Whom or what liad we caught? Im agine yourself holding down the lid of a showman's box, with a boa-constrictor writhing beneath; or keeping a cage top in its place by your own weight alone, with a hyena struggling to tear his way out and devour you. But we were not long in suspense. Horrid execrations, half German, half English, chilled our very hearts, aud we knew that there, in the midnight, only the lid of an old chest was between ourselves and Hans Schmidt! At rimes It started up, and once or twice his Angers were caught in the opening. Then, finding our combined weight too much for ids strength, it would become evident that he was en deavoring to force out an end of the chest. But he could not work to ad vantage. Cramped within such limits, his giant power of muscle was not w holly available; he could neither kick nor strike with full force; and hence his chief hope rested upon his ability to lift us up, lid aud all. Even then, in the absolute terror tliat might have been supposed to jg>*ses* her, a oueerfeelingofexultation -prang up in Julia's heart. "I was right, Mary," she cried. "They won't think me a fool now. will they ? I shan't be ashamed to see Harrv Irving!" Poor Julia! under the circumstance the idea was really ludicrous; but na ture will everywhere assert itself, and Julia hated a coward. Thump! thump! thump? Lid. and side, aud end, alter nately felt the cramped, powerful blows. Then came the lift—the steady, strain ing lift, aud Julia cheered me wheu the cover shook, and rose, and trembled. "He can't get out, Mary! We are safe; only just keep your full weight on the lid, and don't be nervous, either; it is almost morning." She Jjnew It was not one o'clock. But one o'clock came, Howl wished |c was five! Aud two o'clock catue, FRED. KUIM'Z, Editor nnd Proprietor VOL IX. i and throe and tour; and we ho|cd that j our prisoner had yielded to liis fate, ; w iiich must now ap|Mvu to liiiu inevita ble. j A small aperture at one end of the chest, w here there w a* a fracture in the wood, supplied him with air, and hence 1 we could not ho|w that he would become weak through sutlivation. lie was evi | dentlv resting from Ihe very necessity of the ease, for his exertions had been | prodigious. There was a faint streak I of morning in the sky ; and there. ii|heircd our (HYsktion that I uttered a scream, audi is I do not think I ever at any other i time could have had Che power to iut j itate. To get off the lid in order to defeat the movement through the ehest end would have iiistaollv oeen our destruc tion ; therefore, still bearing our weight on the chest we caught at the projecting feet, lu doing this, however, we par tially lost our balance, and a sudden bracing up of ihc muscular shape below >o forced open the ltd that the head, arms ami shoulders of liana Schmidt were thrust forth, and with a fearial clutch he seiiod Julia by the throat. Just then a heavy crash was heard at the door below, the foot tramps spring ing toward us as If some person were tearing up the staircase with the full couviction thai this was an hour of need. The dim daybreak hardly revealed hi* Identity, hut i had a faint perception that young llarrv Irving had come to us io our hour of peril. >oue time during the morning 1 found myself in bed with Julia, and several of the neighbors standing about me. Julia clasped me in her arms and cried. — "We are safe, Mary! Harry Irving was near the house ail night. He re turned alter seeming to go houie. The least scream he would have heard as he at last heard yours; hut 1 am glad you did not scream before, for now we have had an experience and know what we can do." Hans Schmidt had decides! upon the chest as a safer hiding-place than that in which Julia had Brat discovered him. I'pon the very morning on which Harry Irving •tunned and secured the ruffian in onr room, the officers of Jus tice were sirolling for the old Hessian scoundrel as the .tippo-spd murderer, and he was soon convicted and hung. Julia became the wifeof Harry Irving and a most excellent wife she was. Magnanimous ami unrevengeful. she wa- perhajw the only person who felt no gratification at the late of old Hans Schmidt, but rather pity for the ig norance which had so Its) him into crime. ___________ T tie * peed of Ball way Train*. Trains are now ran at about the rate of forty miles an hour, somenm. .* much taster.'and generally somew hat slower. The (asiest ttaius m Kugland run at sixty miles an hour. To ran at this iatc, the piston or driving rod of the locomotive must travel at the speed of 800 feet per minute, or so rapufly that it cannot be seen to move at all. t.corge Stephenson, the first to claim that the locomotive could run at twelve miles au hour, was called insane until be proved it. It was but a few years af ter this that prominent engineers said that railway trains could be regularly ran at the title of 100 mile* an hour: aud Stephenson wa* again called insane because he said that .VO miles an hour wa* asfa*tas trains could he regularly and safely run. But it is now dis covered that he was nearly right, and locomotire-makersare no longer build ing engines to ran faster than at this rate. But they are trying, instead, to save the time lost in taking coal and water for supplying the engines. Oil some lines a long open trough, forty feet long, is laid between the rails. This is tilled with water. As the loco motive passes at the speed of fifty miles an hour, a nipe or scoop is low ered from it into this t tough ; the water is thus dipped up and placed in the water box for use by the engine. Auother invention i* a huge (MIX taised above the road and tilled with null. As the locomotive pa*se*, it touches a spring, tin-ttoi turus instantly upside down, and the coal drops into the ten der, which runs behind the locomotive. The time which is thus saved ml!, of coarse, make the the trips shorter, without calling for au increase of speed. It may le that when you are grown, rait way trains will not be run any faster than they are now ; bnt, in spite of what George Stephenson has prophesied, I suspect some future Amer ican engiueer, who is now a loy, will find mean* of running them twice as fast as they are now run. and I hope with greater safety to the passengers. —St. \ifhnlan for Detembrr. Tall-Tale l.lpi. I have observed that lips become more or less contracted In the course of year* In proportion a* they are accustomed to expr—* good humor and generosity, or peevishness ami a contracted mind. Remark the effect which a moment ol ill-temper and grudgiugness has upon the lip*, and judge what may be expected from an habitual series of such move ments. Remark the reverse, ami make a similar judgment. The mouth Is the frankest part of the face; it can't con ceal iu the least its sensation*. We can neither hide ill-temper with it nor good ; ; we may aflect w hat we please, but affec tation will not help u*. In a wrong cause it w ill only make our observer* resent the endeavor to Impose on them. The mouth is the seat of one cl* of emotion, a* the eyes are of another; or rather, it expres*e- the *ame emotion*, but in greater detail, and with a more Irrepressible tendency to he in motion. It Is the region of smiles, and of tremb ling tenderness; of a sharp sorrow, or a full, breathing joy ; of candor, of re serve, of auxiou- care, or liberal sym paihv. The mouth, out of Its many "-inabilities, may lie fancied throwing up one great expression into the eye—a* many light* iu a city reflect a broad lu-tre into the heavens.— Leigh Hunt. I rrark (osrlahip In France the parents of the inter ested one* first consider the matter of their marriage. "Is-ok, Monsieur," says Ma'ma, "here is my daughter, and all her graces and accomplishments, and ber good heart; and here, is the dower I will give with her." "And here, Madame," nay* Monsieur, who is very likely her neighbor or friend, "here f my son and ids probable inheritance; his education has been what you know ; his profession and talent, what yon know, also; as to his amiability you shall judge, for I'll give yon every opfiortuiiity of observing; and more over, when he marries, I will give the boy—so and so." The youngsters meet and, unless they are verv difficult to suit, are obliging enough to further their parents' plan. And, on my word, i believe them more dutiful In the Old World than in the New. Ax oi D OENTI.KMAN, who wa- always boasting how folks used to work in Ids young days, one day challenged his two sons to pitch on a load of hay as fast as he could load it. The challenge was accepted, the hay wagon driven round, and the trial commenced. For some time the old man held his own very ereditably, calling out, "More hay! more hay!" At length, struggling t keep on the top of the disordered and ill-arranged heap, it began first to roll, then to slide, aud at last oil' it went from the wagon, and the old man with It. "What are you doing down here?" cried the boys. "I caine down after hay," aoswered the old man, stoutly. THE CENTRE REPORTER, I The % <- n.tr rihnl nn.l tsgla Skull*. Among the thus tar discovered bit * i mnn remains referable to the lar dis taut epoch under notice, the Neandei '' i ili.il skull, already mentioned, and '' j that ot the Kugl* caveiu liavechleHy excited interest in the learned, and '' cauaeil much "peculation concerning the physical and intellectual otialllie* > ol the ptittiev si inhabitants of Kutope. i 1 I'he tirst named skull, or rather skull * fragment tor tt consist* only of (he upper portion of the cranium l>eloiig tng to a skeleton wtiicli was (nmTi I ISA? ui a small grotio in the Ncander . thai, or N. amlei Valley, not far from i Ousaeldorf. Ivtienish I'ruaeia. Quarry , ing operation* led to the cleariog of tlie grotto, situated about amy foot strove tlie lw-d Ot the *mail river Ihl . ! sel, which tlows through the valley. It ! coutaiucd a hortcoutal layer ot liartl loam intermixed with rolled gravel, a ( drill Ueironit identical with that occur ing in all eavea of the I Round \ alley, ' ami ill which twines ot extinct quadru peels are sotueliuica touud iinbeddrd. in tin* grav. ll> loam of lite Neauder 1 thai gtotto the workmen found, two ! f.el tielow tlie suit ace. a huiuau skele " i ton, which they threw out lu an uucon -1 ) scums way, and which would have : tierti lH>t to science hut for the inter - t ere nee ot I'rotesaor Fuhlutt, of F.ller t'eld, who lescued froui total destruc tion the Upper part of the skull, the . ihigti aud aim t>our*, a collar hour, a part of the pelvis, a shoulder blade, I | and sevetal fragment* of the rib*. j These lem.itu* ate uii.loilltledly of the 1 I highest antiquity, possessing the same , q ialittes which clintaclrriie the bone* . j ot the uiHtuiuoih, cave-bear, etc., oe I i curing iu the neighboring district*, aud inclosed tu tlie same kind .>f loam that j contained the skeleton. i'rotesaor* ; Fuhlrott, \ ogt. and other authrupoto gists tlierefote conclude that tlie Ncan i derltial man lived together with the . mammoth and other txtinrt animals iot the drift period. The lardy proba bly had lie*u washed into the gtotto duriug the high waier. I'he skull was 1 tirst de*rt!cd aliatouiically by Protes tor Schaatl'liauaen, of Uoun. lie poin ted out its enormous ridge* alrove the * oi bits of the eyes, liehtnd winch the froutal bone t* considerably depressed. ■ its elongated, elliptical shape, uarrow i and low forehead and unusual thirk- Ut-*s. Tin- other bones of the skeleton . t corresponded in length to those of a | European of middle stature, but thev i were much stouter, aud exhibited a gieater development of the muscular ' ridgea. On ttie w hole, I'rofessor Schaaff- j hau>eti come* to the eonelusion that tlie individual to whom the Neander thal skull belonged must have lieeu distinguished by slight development ; ot brain auil uncommon strength ot bodily frame. According to Profe*sor Huxley, the skull iu question i* the ' if most ape-like of the human crania yet j discovered, aud Professor V ogt ex pre#- 1 ses hinisell to the same effect oy stating tiiat it has more of the simian or won- I key type than any otlirr known race skull. Vet Huxley is far from regard ing the Neanderthal bone* a* the re mains uf u bring intermediate between man and ape*. At most, he sars, thev demou*trate the existence ola man whose skull may lie said to revert some- : what to the pithecoid or ape type. Both Huxley and \ ogt detect in the Neanderthal skull au approximation to the crauial formation of the Aus tralian. The Kngis skui), likewis> fragmen- , tary, but more complete thau the ooe inst described, wis found, a* we have stated, five feet deep imbedded in a breccia, in juxtaposition with tlie re main- ol (tie ilmiocerp*. reindeer and horse. This skull indicates a bighertype tlian that of the Neanderthal. Accord- ! to Huxlev, "tliere is no mark of deirrn dation. about any part of its strticture. i It is. in fact, a fair average human skull, which nnght have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained i the thoughtless brain of a savage " Harper * J/ I'iie former are permitted to be eaten and the latter are forbidden. There arc ■ also laid down certain rules fur dla- j tlngulshing generally those that are I clean from those that are unclean. Fir-t. with regard toquauru|M-d*. All beasts that hare their feet completely cloven, above aa well as below, ami at the same time ruminate or chew their cud, are clean. Those which have neither, or are one or the other, are u nrlean. 2. The systematic distinction of Ashe* i especially clear ami -imple. All those having tin* and scale* are clean; all other* unclean. 3. With regard to bird* no particular charac critic* are given for dividing clean or unclean, but judging from those which are specified it must la- noticeable that bird* of prey a* a general rule are prohibited, that i* those with crooked Ix-aksaud sttoug talon* with which to prey on lc*aer fowls or animals or on fish are prohibit—!, while those which cat vegetables are permitted to be eaten. 4. With n'-|*-ct t<> *cr|ent* and Insect* it 1* declared that all Creature* that creep going upon four, and whatsoever goetii upon the belly, and whatever has more than four feet among the living things, are an abomination. Beside* the general distinction already noticed auother ia made, relating to whatsoever goeth upon the paws among all manner ol beast* that go upon feet, being therefore pronounced unclean. The literal translation of the Hebrew would lie "(minis or hands," and there fore thia probably refers to those ani mal* w hose feet resemble human being*, such a* a|H-, monkeys, etc., ami all creature* of that genus, together w itli Ix-ars, lion*, cats, dogs, frogs, etc. The Talmud draw* verv closely the line twixt cb-an and unclean animals. There have Ix-en written varlofls e**ay* upon thedietary law s, which show much raw-arch and investigation. There are strict rule* laid down how animals should lw- killed; the knife must tie •harp and smooth; the killing must la done at once, and not gradually, and without any interruption. Beside* no animal must be killed for food on which there is the least blemish. Then it i decennary that the animal thii* slaught ered must l*.- strictly examined by a comjM-tent |*-rso!.. w ho Is well versed In the laws which the Rabbi* have laid down a* a test to pronounce the meat tit for use. Every cruelty to nniinal* should have been avoided, which Is In conformity to the laws of nature and civilized society. A very learned commentator says: "Miat of the creature* which are pro nounced unclean were in high e*teem and -acred among the heathen, as the swine was to Venus, the owl to Minerva, the haw k to Ajwdlo, the eagle to Jupiter; therefore It was decided that all those would Is- unclean, which w ere esteemed by the Egyptian* aud other nation* to lie the instrument* of distinction, aud those to IK- clean which were not so est- em - . j On this account they ara leruicl clesn, which la explalne.l as |>ecullarl w hole i -ouie aud ut for use. Tlie animal* : w hloli do not rumluate do not digest itieir itsNt so well and hence they Abound Willi gums and aiiiiuai Juices, ! which yield a comparatively unwhole some nutriment u> the human -vMeui. Kreu the uuiinal* which have biti.l his'l*, i but do not chew llielr cud, such a* llie swine, and those who chew their cud, but are not bllld, such a* the hare and I rabbit, air forbidden, ts-.*au*.- .xui|sira ' lively Inuutrillve. It 1* well known the tnewi of the swine ha* been con ' slderiHi bj oianv for many centuries a* w hole-ome, and yet of late then- ha* ! been dl*x>vered a hidden disease lu it* rtesh, whicii deiuonstralea beyou.l die* ' (>uie that the old Jewish law, not to eat I he meat uf the swine, is tug out ol dale and still useful. Ou the same ground the wise law giver has forbidden all flsti i that have not both Bu* aud seal.-*, ; because they * a rule abound in grow 1 Juice* and fat which toil few are aide U> digest. Muse* fortwde the use of p>ik, of the hare, etc., of fish without scales, and tins, and all kind* of heavy meals, a* the fat of the bullock, etc., an Inhibition supremely wise In a oouutrv where the rxceasive heat, relaxing tile llbcr* of the atoiuarh. rendered digestion |*scu liarly slow and difficult. "Hie tle*b of the eel and tome other lLh.*ay* Ijtrcher, thickened the blood, and by checking the perspiratiou excited all tiio-e mila dies couiiected with leprosy. From ttiese and similar view* of the dietetic character of the Mosaic distinction 'f auimals into clean aud uucleaii. It 1* evident that the fo.*l allowed to the Hebrew jieople a* a nation were the gentler sort of creatures and ol most c-omtuon use. such a* were bred about their house* and in their field* and were, iu a sort, duuieaUc. 'lliey were creatures of the cleanest feeding, and w htch gave the most wholesome nourish ment, and were of a L'tter taste, and might tsr bad In greater pieuty and per fection by a proper care of their breed ing and feeding. They seemed there fore to be naturally dt to lr chosen a a better kind of fond. It surely cannot is* a matter of indifference w hat a j*er son eats and drinks, to develop a true religious character. Bt prohibiting the eating of those animal* which by their grow and unabolrsiiur nature a- food would Induce or increase any vlclou* pro|M-n*llina, by symtsdiiiug the distswi lion# and conduct to be encouraged aud cultivte,l.or to L-abhorred and avoided, wa* Israel to become a holr nation. t*lss*al Ststa* *t lb* l#S SMk lw Indie Some mile* from ('alliaua He* au an cient seal of Jain* dominion, Karkul, at present a considerable town, with througed bazaar street*; and a few follower* of the vanquished religion tlll reside near the moiiiimenia of their de parted greatness. I'pnn th< outakirt* of the town rl*e* a rocky hill of gener ally rounded form, like a basin reverted, approaching 30 feet In height, It* l>ae rough and buhy, the npjer slope* smooth and strep. I**>klng up at the hill from a diatame, the enchanted castle* of fairy tale* come hack to mind, for on the top l wen a caatle-like wall pierced with a wide-arched entrance, and a dark gigantic form towering over it m aUt-high Thl* I* one of three cob**- #al *tatue that are found In thl* |url of the country —statue* truly Egyptian lti aire, and unrivaled throughout India a tletached work*, tin the hill-top a crenellated quadrangular wall lne|o*e* a *ioue platform tire feet high, on which ri*r* the atu|tendno# image, forty five feet In height. Nude, cut from a single ma*- of granite, darkened by the m<-n --soon* of centurie*, the vast statue *tand* upright, with arm* hanging *traight lnit not aw kw ardly. dew n the side*, lu a |**ture of runewhat *tlff hut *iinple dignity. The torm and lineament* are evidently the Mine with those which, from Ceylon to China arid utmost Tar tary, have handed down with unvarying tradition the habit a* he live*! of that ■a t wondrou* of mortal* that ever worefle*h, Iluddha Gautama; forasstir e*llv no other mere man ever *pread *o widely, and maintained so long, a su preme Influence over *o tnnnv successive itu 11 lon iof soul*. Remarkable It 1, too, that though born in India, the feature* show nothing distinctively Hindoo. The hair grow* In clo*e, cri*p curl*; the hroad, flesh) cheek might tnake the face seem heavy, were It not for the marked and dignified expresnion roll fern*! by the calm forward-gasing eyes, and aqui line nose, Homewhat pointed at the tip. The forebear! I* of average size, the lip* very full and thick, the upper one long almost to iigllnea*. throwing the chin, though full and prominent, into the shade. The arm*, which touch the body only at the hip*, are remarkably long, the large, w ell-formed hand* and finger* reaching to the knee*; the exigencies of the (mature and material have caused the shoulder*, where the arm* join, lo be rather diapro|>orliniiately broad and massive. The feet, each four feet nine tnchea long, ret on a stand wrought from the same rock, that seems amall for the Immense sire and weight (eighty ton*) of the statue; a lotus stem spring ing at each foot Is carried up In low re lief twice round each leg aud arm. A brief inscription at the aide below tell* that the Image was erected by King Virapamlya In 14112 to liiihiihalin, sou of Vrisnaba, the First Tlrthaukara, of giant race, himself a giant, ami there tore ao represented, hut still In the *ha|>e of the founder of that faith whence the Jalna heresy diverged. A low- cloister rutiß round the Inner side of the Inclos ing wall, and a ina-sive stone rail of three horizontal bar*surround the plat form. Once In sixty years the scattered Jalna gather from all quarters, and bathe the colossus with cocoa-nut milk. Ilnw Alcohol enters the Wjslein. Again, when taken in by the more ordinary channel, the Lnmarh. it Ami* It* way by two route* Into the circula tion. A certain portion of it the greater jiortlon of it—in absorbed direct by the vein* of the alimentary surface, find* It* way straight Into the larger veins, which lead tip to the heart, and onward with the course of the blood. Another portion is picked up by small structures proceeding from below the mucous surface of the etoma*h, and from which originate a series of tine lubes that reach at last the lower por tion of a common tube, termed the thoracic duct—a tulie which ascends in front of the spinal column, and termin ates at the junction of two large veins on the left side of the laxly, at a jiolnt w here the venous hlood, returning from the left arm, joins with lite returning blood from the left side of the head on its way to the heart. It is so greedy for water that it w ill pick It up from all the watery textures of the ixxly, ami de prlve them of it, until, hy Its saturation, it can take up no more, its jsiwer of re ception being exhausted; Hfter which it diffuse* Itself into the current of cir culating fluid. When we dilute alcohol with water before drinking It, we quicken its absorption: and, if we do not dilute It sufllclently, it is diluted in the stomach by the transudation of water in the stomach, until the required reduction for Us absorption 1* effected. —P'sj'vhir (kit ncc Monthly, KIKhT SNOW llefor* all Lavas *r* shad VVbila ysl Iha guld and rvt llilgWau* lias Im>u*li A auddaii flurrv aliskaa Aud wtutar aauds til* flskn* llsfttr* Ihr |dowr Nu are our day* aia *| l While yet lte while aud re t I'lUtg to the chaeka Time flutter* with hi* win** Vltd whtleiiu.l feather* fllUi* Aa reel ho seek* Hr.lil* lurllr* Ami Ita.llr Mutter One of tlie mo*t abundant aud useful animaL ot tiojucal Noulli America i* the turtle, winch vields to the uativt-a a Ltge supply of ttsxl in it* th-nh and it* etitt*. So eagerly and tuceaaantly lias the animal Im-cii hunted for many years that, Hleat as ale lie liuiiilk in il the piesetil time, they haveauaceptiblvr dimunalo-tt it bio a quite leceut peri.Hl, and the day aeems not tai distant when It mav IN- altogether cxlel initialed. According to Mr. Fianr Keller, theiv ate five nfa-cles of turtles living on (he Amazon aud It* affluents, tlie laigest and moat valuable ot which Is called the lartai tig a. The market price of ibis specie# ha# doubled during (he la*t haltdo/eu years, sliowiug that tt is growiug giadusliy mote scarce. It is hunted at all aeasons, and the annual slaughter in i noiuious. lu the mouth of September the tur tles visit the sandy shoals ot the rivet* to dr|M>sit their eggs, and ale then as sembled in increUible uituiL-r#. Jo blind ale they to all danger white eu gaged in pioviding ioi the peipetua lion of iheir spec tea, that the) easily L-coiue a prey io the hunter, who has otilv to turn as mauv ou (heir l>a< ks as he iias a tulud to, aud alter wards dis patch thetu at bis leisuie. At a single jsiint, i'raia de I'smuiida. ou the )la deira Kiver, 3.0U0 to 4,00i> turtles are te gularly caught in each layiDg-weasou. heaides thiMw. amounting to many hun dreds, tiiat are taken by passing caium tor immediate consuuiptiou, or to lw kept as live stock. The turtle wnil wonderful rapidity, digs a large hole in tile sand, a tout and a bait deep, wherein it lay# tram If to 3tlU egg*. So great is the throng of builders iuteut upon the same work and eager tor au opportunity, dial the nest* already made are of leu biokrn up and their ronteut* wrattried about. 1 it (he depredatious that the turtle* unwittingly practice ujion each other are as nothing compared wuh those whirti they suffer fnui mankind. The havoc nude of their nest* by the egg hunu-rs is almost Iwyond couiputatlou Oh the Madeira alone, adoul t.i'000 eggs are annually sacritice.l tu the mauntacture of butter. This milMinncr u chiefly ul for lamp-oil, yet in the ranfiae of the nt llvrs It la "of ton employed 111 rooking. It in a villainous compound, brtug made with a magnificent disregard of pnritv aud rleauliuraa. both m the ma terial* ami in ibr pt *•-* ot matitifac turr. The eggs *rr dug out of the umi, aud thrown—whether fireb or addioi—into tlir rauor of the buutrr. The shell* are broken by treading upon tlietn, and the fat yolk* mingled in a thick yellow fluid. Exposed to the ray* of the *uu, the oil rtae* to the sur face, I* skimmed off into jar*, and l* then read* for uae "The decomi>o*i tioo of niaiiifold impurities," aav* Mr. Keller, "and the cm umstanrr that of ten aorue of the egg* have been already half-hatched by the *un. give# it an aitominahlr tlavor. recalling Lo mind ItuMia-ieather aud taowrir*." The tartaruga aud other turtle* are hunted with the bow and arrow, out of the lay uig neaooii. A louir. tine ntrip of pinrapple fibie 1* attached to the ar row-bead and wound about the aliaft. Tbi* unroll* a* the stricken animal dive*, and the loosened shaft, tloatinir on the water, *how* lite iMUltluti of the victim. 1 lie tinherman ha* then but to haul in hi* I'tey, and, a* noon a* it rea rbe* the nuifaee. finish it with a heavy blow. Itptrli *1 *|.c-rnlloB la I rra*r liars. It i* the element of chance the gambling fibre of tire trader -winch lend to financial nprculatrons au invin cible attraction. In the middle ago* it was unnecessary to aten ln leaving the harhot of I'oataiitinople or Trebi z.ond, llie argosis had not very far to travel to Venice, tienoa. or Maraeillea; hut the vessels were crazy, the M*i uera ot the true MeditU'rauesu b.rcd and the sea wa* Uiica wiui pirate* > all sorts snd ustioualiuea. lu the IsuU journey across the I omiueut almost equal uangeia weteeucouuU-ted. Lui iw tttr* and Kings, Rultva sua I'riuesw taxed aud tollesl without mercy, ami lesaer iMiteutate* eked out Uieir mote aleiidet right* by the strong hand, aim either pltimleied luercrisut* outright or levied heavy black-mall tin Uieiu. Added to UNA*' IOIM EN danger* weie the ehatics-a ot war hieaklug out *ud deuly anil atopptug opeiMitou* aao gvtliei : of the luiyaisitiuu i eiuoatgoe* to pievrut the maiclty ot cs-italu coui iniMiitie*, ami the plunder ot aiitlnolMtl aud unaiitliidired pvisohn. Taking all these link* together lite wondei is not 'hat rotumeice Was i elite ted, but thai auy existed at ail ; aud the tact that (Mies of aweet altuotms, tuu* ot Hot ■ leatix wine, and silks Irmu the Ini Kaat readied thta country, r fleets ttu tueuse ctedit ll pou the euuipiiM-ot ihe comuieicia! woild ot thai day. The juolii* of ib,. oidcu tluie mu*t hae oeen enormous to cover the link, aud probably the wide margin of profit ex plain* ihe iiuiueuse loiuues realized by Jacques Coeur, tile Fuggel*, aud Ule gieal lamtlles ot \ enlce and tienoa. A voyage waa, as it Was Called, a "veli tuie,' which would make "either meu or mice" of the adiciiiurvr*, Dm lug llie spec II lat ue and exclllug times, the lu venuou ot (till* ot exchange and Ule ealabitahiueiil ol the two gieat batiks —that ot St. iieorge, at liriiM, and the Kauk ol Aiusu-tdaiu—had, lo a oeitalii degree, spoiled bi igaudsge a* a regulai pioiaaniou, uy reudeiiiig Ute frequent tiaiinler of hard cash lean necessary, but, by tbe introduction of paper mo ney, pio\ ided a gloat opportunity lot the oaring *pn its ut the luture. The great banks of tienoa and Amsterdam were toumled on the coufidenre ol uierehuuta iu each other, aud then oread ut other uieiulieia ol the commu nity. The hanks ot Kuglaud and ot I ranee were called into existence by the want* of the Government, and in the latter case supplied an extraordi nary medium for speculation. All Ihr I'etir Hound. The Venetian Slaty In the sixteenth ocntnry Venice kept in |K>rmaiient employment nlxml sixteen thousand men. The pay of these was exceptionally good, and their privileges were great; their sons, at an early age, were entered In the workshops, and in structed in some one of the many trades carried on in them; they themselves, when old, were pensioned or admitted Into a hospital established estieclally lor the navy. On the other hand their work was severe. They w ere not only workmen, but soldiers, trained to the use of arms and the strictest discipline; their leading men, foremen ami over seers being in turn their sergeants, lieutenants and captains. The govern ment, in ail working details, was In the hands of practical men, chosen from (lie workmen themselves, the highest of whom, with the title of Grand Admiral, exercised superintendence over the whole. Hilt the supreme command was vested in the Provedltor General, a noble of high rank ami distinguished service, either as coinmamler H float or as statesman ashore. It was a marked peculiarity of the Venetian Constitution that untried men could not hold any liii|>ortaiit office; itieir public men hut n> sci ve a long and laborious apprentice ship 111 #lltmld|tta(e |Mcdtioii* ls-fore they were considered qilllllied to lake any prominent part in (tie nffnlr* of the Slate ; allil ailihlkt a |wsipie on |meollarlv nautical few could inouiil I tie several •lep* of a long career witliout otMaliiing i an iuoiglit Int.. the emiduct of naval tuisine**. At (tie end of tlie fifteenth | century tlie isuitrol of tills enornuKi* ewialilLliment u touud to tie beyond (tie |M>wcr of one mall, and two as*tstauta were ip|M>lnte.t, one a* Provetlltor of j the aiseiial, who liad tuore especial i charge ot the armory; the oilier as I'rovedltor of artillery, whose title eg. j plain* lt'lf. Contrary to Venetian j usage, wtdch limited the duration of public office to sixteen month*, these three were apjMtiutcd for a term of three I years, one going out each year ta rota tion, so thai the luajoritv of the three were at all time, thoroughly conversant with the detail, ol the aduiinlstralion, t hsrsrirr lslsll*r*|ih) At a recent meeting of the l'vchologi ! -al H.H-tety of Isuidon, the \'(<>e-l*rel dent, Mr. upon the lullnite diversities of hand . writing, the author proceeded to poi u out liir |wculiarilie* of the latter which dLplsy tin- distinctive qualitie* of tlie writer. Hi* theory was Illustrated by ! die exhibition of a number of original ■autograph*. Including those of Na|>olroii 1., Wellington, Nelson, Brougham. Horn Tis.ke, Souiliey.Cow |ier,Sheritlau, I'ohL-tt, Bulwer I.ytton, and Charles Iffckeua, tlie contrast Itetween the writing of the last two being *|eciaily dwelt upon. A lively discussion, we are told, followed ttie reading of the (taper. There is no gain*aylug the fact that character may t>e read from hand writing, but not by any mean* from all liaudw riling. In the tirst plate, there mut he character In the writer, aud among the million* of mankind who use the jeii there *rt lamentably few marked and distinctive Individualities Ttie multitude of people have no aim but to be copies of each other, to do and to be in every event of life Just like their fellow*. It is impossible to expect from ttiese baud writing that will show any thing *ive an atisoiice of character. Ileuce it is that the idea universally prevails that mere caligraphy mean* nothing. Nevertheless It does convey a great deal of meaning. The old saw that • •Straws show which way the wind blows,** find* • ju*t application in ibis as in many other thing*, and masterful trait* a*rrt them*elve# in the penstruke* a* in every other act of a human being. Wbeu you see a notably prominent, vigorous, reekles# style of caligraphy, you may be pretty #ure that the writer U a pcraou of a bold, dashiug, indei.ru |ct disposition, that overrides all bar riers aud thrust* a-lde all ImiMwlirneitts. A penmanship full of flourishes lndl c-.tr* a character fond of ornament aud addfclad to vanity, t ramped writing and crowded lines proclaim that econ omy, perhap* (tar.imonv, I* a strong at tribute of the w riler. A distinguished American M-ieutist whose passion L study with the inicrosco(ie form* such inintiic letter* when writing that there la almo-t a necessity for using a tnagni fying-glas* to deri|her Uimo. h there nothing mora than a fanciful aignl fleam* in the ixtnncctioti hrtwran this man'* writing and hi* dominant ]*• •inn ? it requires training to interpret hand writing, aud scry seldom i* *>> atten tion whatever given to the *uhje**t. Yet, when once the mind has lcen lod to it, there I* opened up an Interesting and prolific source of entertainment. Noth ing 1* nmre delightful, and it might be added more novel, than to meet with a consistent, complete, and harmonious character that express*- in all Its opera tion* the symmetry and wholeness of It* nature. The chirograph)' of such a character will l>e a dear, certain com mentary. telling It* story a* plainly a* a js-rfect picture or* piece of sculpture. Spsralallaa* OerlveO from • Mkall. Hv a singular coincidence, the casual finding of the mutilated aknll ot a ru minant helped to evolve.independently, from the mind* of (ioethe and of Okrn, full and distinct conceptions of a new theory of the bony lramework of tbr head. Kadi of theae thinkers conceived the idea that the skull, instead of being la* had been nuivrraally supposed] an altogether pecnliar atrurtnre, waa in reality similar in composition to the bsckloue, or spinal ctilninn. The harkboue i# roarle of a series of ring* of hone mutually adjusted, called ver tebrae. Goethe "and <>krn conceived that the skull waa alao made up of a series of vertebra' -much alteted, how ever. aa to aire and shape, from those which form the spinal column. This idea, once emitted, was rapidly taken up by Oken's countrymen (as at later periods thev have vehemeutly taken up tire ideas of Schwann and of Dar win;] and Spix, Bojanti*. and C. li. Una further develojied and modified the original idea. Nor did Oken'a coun trymen by any nieana stand alone, for l>e lilainville and (i-oflivv St. ililaire in Frauce. and Goodair, Madiae. and Gwen in the Itritiah Islea, more or leas accepted and modified, ia diflerent ways, the hypothesis propounded. Oken, indeed at once pushed his spec ulation to extremes; expecting, on a priori grounda, to find the w hob- trunk, with its ap|M ndages, represented in the head. He was by no means content ith assimilating the sknll to the back bone. hut iuaiated on finding the arm* and legs, the hands and feet, even the fingers aud toes, of the head ; imagining that the last-mentioned members Din gers and toes] were represented by the teeth! Such a conception may be taken as a good example of those fanciful notions liefore referred to, which, not lieing sustained by objective facta, are surely destined, aa was this, to die out and to disappear.— Tht Contemporary h'ceirtc. The lllsheai Bsastals Islhr Wsrld - Sal la Asia, Hal aa Islaad Waadrr. For many years past Mount Everest, in that portion of the great Himalaya range which occupies the western part of the strange kingdom of Nenaul Im mediately north of India, has been re garded a the highest mounlu'n In the world. It Is known to the XepaulOM a* Oaurlsankar, hut the English named It Everest, In honor of a distinguished officer of the British Indian topographi cal survey. It-* snow-capped summit Is 29,002 feet, or nearly five mile* and a half, above the level of the sea. Of course no one lias ever ascended It to this height, but Its altitude, like that of the other lofty peaks of the lllmslaya, was awertaliied by triangiilntlon. and until the present time It ha* not been *up|tosed that any higher land existed on the earth. It the news lie true, however, which ha lately come to us from the more distant east, there Is a loftier peak titan Mount Everest in the great Island of Papua or New Guinea. Thl" Ta-t re gion. extensive enough to form six states as large a New York, Is as yet almost wholly unexplored, except along its coasts. Ly 1"K close to the equator, where the Indian ocean and the l'acflc meet, it is the home of the cassowary and the bird of paradise, a country grand in its scenery, rich in its vegeta tion, and abounding in curious ami beautiful forms of animal life —the veritable wonderland ot the globe. An attempt to explore the unknown inte rior of the island was made from Torres Strait, which separates it from Aus tralia, by (apt. .1. A. IiHWHon, in the year 1872, and If we may believe his published narrative of the journey, which lias just appeared in London, lie advanced several hundred mile* Inland, and about midway between the north and south coasts discovered a mountain Terms: $2 a Year, in Advance. I-' 7H,1 feet liigii, whicii tie uainest Mount Hercules. Tit* height ol the inounlain—ver *lx mile*—L not the only remarkable thing about It. Its apparent elevation i* but little less than lu actual rlttvalinu; fur, iu-tead of rising from a lofty Laid* laud like the plateau of I'eutral Ada, It stand* In a compilative!) low plain ouly about two Uiousaud feet above tlie ocean, aud this gives a clear riaeot autre than 3n,(po Oet aLivelhesurruundlngrountrv. The traveler staudlng at iu luu*e oaild look up and see its snowy peak towering i,uun feet skyward from where he flood. I'nder such circuiu-laDi-ew the altitude of a mountain i appreciahxl. t 'apuiu tall* u* tbat be uti- I dert.uk the aacwnt, fortnldahir a* If ap l*-arel. He did nd reach the top. but we believe the achievement which he 1 relates is unparalleled In the ramrd* of mouataineerlug. Acomnanted by one servant, he set out ftviu the (nut at four o'clock lu the morn lug. Tbyy paasad through dense forests In the lirsl tiro ihouatMl I eel of js-rpendluuLr progrtva* lotind ti.e limit of tree growth at eleven thousand feet, and by nine o'clock had rear hed a point fourteeu thousand lect above the aea level—almost a* high a* the famous Matterhorn. A thousand feet higher w a* the *now line, and they liegmti to suffer from Ute cold. Aa limy pressed on, tirow*inea began to over cuttle them. "Nothiug was visible but n.w of tlie moat daacliiig w Idleness. Kvery peak and crag was uarmd whir It, and It hung over ths udge* of tb cliffs in long ti.-.. y maasa*. I'ttelr aye* were affected by Ibe glare, and ihey felt theuiaelvex growing more and more leihargii . "At leugtti blood began to flow frntn our nam and ear*,' aaya t'apt. I.BWM.n, "and tnv head ached iu a distracting manner. 1 aaw that our only chance of preaervlng Ufa wa* to retreat without delay; for we were fa a pitiful plight. Our Ilpa aud gam* and the ikiu of our hand* and fa* were badly cracked and bleeding, aud our eve* were bloodshot aud wo I leu to an alarming extent. The thermometer bad •unk U> twenty-two degrees below freeling |s>lut, and the air wa* *o r*ri fled Hist we were gasp lug, ra titer than breathing. (Air •laves lej] frutu our grasp, and we could aot pick them un again, so benumbed were our arm* and hands. It was now one uYl.*-k, and tlie greataat elevation we had attained was 23,314 feat. They then turned bnek, .leseended to the limit of the snow In three hour*, and arrived at thefr camp at Ute base of the mountain about half paat seven In the evening, Ttiu*, in flftceti hour* aud a half, thev had aaoeuued an abso lute height of 23,000 feet, to au eleva tion which we believe L greater titan any ever before attained by man upon the surface of the earth, although ha], looniata have oocaaionalty gone higher. Tk Issai LsS; *1 Lass aa* Ipeklng of high life ITS England In the last centurv, a writer ways: The young lasly, no longer under the ttrlct guardianship of the lady chatelaine, I* ' lateen by her mother from the country a* too dull an abode, to shine at court In I (he metropolis. At sixteen bet figure j i* imprisoned in stiff Iron wtay*, and her ; bead delivered over to the nuuiagetnent of a halr-dreser. Her deportment, next to drea*, is her f!r*t eon-ldcratlon ; ! ahe learns to walk in high-heeled shoes J tud U> manage gratefully her hoop aud her train. The dancing-master In struct* her in the stately minuet antf' ' gavotte, and ahe has Isnwan* fhsn an- ! ■ >lher prtdensot in lire management ol i i her fan—liow to handle, flutter, and j furl Uii* necessary adjunct to the toilet. 1 She trouble* little about the antiquated 1 ! occupations ol her predecessor*, of ! ■ gathering herh* and cna|oiihdiitg my*- i Iterkm* drinks for ailing old women or sickly hat*--. Stie give* no thought u the quaint rookery mdpes CWfefully 1 I treasured up in the crata|d hand *f perhaps a great-grand mother. lie* only j "-are i to compose w ashes to increase , ' the falmes* of her skin, paste lo w hltcn her hand*, and Isflom to counteract the effect* of tight-laring aud late hour*. I The groat study of her giddy bead i* I how ahe can neat adorn her person. , (irswseaa e.otly Mechlin or Bni**H* pln ; ner* and ruffioa. and rnstle in hrt lo I lalßsatt'kfaa Plw** i Suae interesting tcsulta were given , by Mr. 11. M. Taylor, Fellow and Tutor , of Trinity t'ollcge, ( ambrldgc, in a p- j t>er "On the Relative Values of the \ lleces of Chens," read before the Rrit- i ish Asaoelatlon at Bristol. He found ( by a mathematical process thai if a I knight and a king of different colors j t w ere placed on a chess Inwrdu random j the islds against the king being in chock w ere 11 to 1; If a bishop and king, .11 to 6; if a rook and a king, 7 to 2, and if a queen and a king 23 to 13. if how- ; ever, we consider only safe check {I. e , , cheek In w htch the icing Is nnahle to ' take the piece) the odds are rrapectlrely | 1 II to 1, 131. to 13, R to 1, 10? to 37- From these numbers we can obtain a j' fair theoretical measure of the relative '' value* of the pieces. Thus, If we take j : as our measure the chance of safe oheefc, I llie value* of trie knight, bishop rook, i' and queen are in the ratio 12, 13. 24, 37 i 1 while the value of these pieces ih Lhe ! same onler, as given by Thvinnton, are 3.oft 8.80. R. 48, and the value of the pawn being taken as unity. Mr. Taylor remark* tliat the v.-tliieafapawn 1 dc|iends so much on the fact that it 1* , ' possible to convert It Into a queen that ! j the method doo* not appear applicable 1 to It. TUe first Printed Bonk The llrat printed l>ook on record Is "The Hook of Psalms," by John Faust and IVter Seine fl'er, in 1457—precise author* adding the date August 14th, probably meaning that it was flnjsheu on that dav. The work which most signalized Faust, ami his art, wis the Bible, which lie begun in 1450, and 11 n islied in 1400. Comes of tills Bible he carried to Paris, w here he offered them for sale as manuscripts, and had the niisfortuur to l>c imprisoned under the suspicion of dealing with the Evil One, for the French could not understand how so many books should so exactly agrec in every letter and point; nor could the unfortunate printer obtain his release till be had divulged the method hy which his books were produced.— Ttu SUrtoUi^fr, so. . torrwr oouax. /stv Win* /am#.— "Mother, the bir •lm all love father," said a littHe boy of five years as be stood with bis mo ther watch in* the robins enjoy iog their morning meal of cherries from the old tree that overhung the boner. "Doe# anybody else love father, ('bailie f" "Oh yea—T love him. and you love bun ; but we know more than the birds.' "What do you think is Um reason the birdie* love voor father f" Charlie did not seem to hear this qnestioti. lie was absorbed in deep thouiriiie **Mother." at last he said, "all the rreatoitw love father. Mv dog iaal tuost as glad to eee him aa be ia me. I'uHsy, you knew, always eomes to bin, sod stows to know exactly what be is saying. Even the old row follows him all round the meadow, and ihe other day 1 eaw her licking bis hand lost a* a dtg would. I think it is becaua father loves them, mother. Yon know be will often get up to give pussy some thing to aat- and he polls carrots far the cow, and pats her, and talks to her; iid>imt-ho I think bis voice never sounds so pleasant as when be talks to the ereatnrn*." , "1 think his voice sound* pleasant when he la talking to his little boy." Charlie smiled. "Father loves me," be said, "and i , low luiu dearly. lie lores the bitda i 100, I am sot*, lie wbietlea to them every morning when thrv art eating cherries, and they are not • bit afraid ,of him. though be ia almost near enough to catch them. Mother, I wish all things loved me as well as they do lather. "Do as father dose, Charlie, and they will, lxtve all tiring things, aod be kind to them. Do not speak roughly Ito the dog. DoaT putt pussy's tail nor chase tie lira*, nor try to tlighten the row. Never throw suwes at the birds. Never hurt or tease anything, hpoak gently and lovingly to them. Feed them and eeek their comfort, and they will , love you. and everhody that knows yon will love you too." "And wouldn't that be sweet V said j Charlie, the smiles breaking all ever I his fare- "How 1 would like to have all the dear little birds coming about me, and not bejug a bit afraid' I'll try to be lost like father." The Story of a Little I'Hmeem*. —Quern Victoria's (iaugbtore have si! bono very carefully educated indeed ; and ae for Qoern \ irtorts herself, why. when she •as a little girl there seems to have l**ea no end to the things that went expected of her little ladyship. It was not until ah# was twelve year* old that she uuderswed that she might come to be queen. Being only a neico of the reigning monarch. William IV., who had no children, her wise mother did not want Vietoria'e head elated with dreams ofncrownsbv might sever wear. However, she ooe day discovered It by what we may call aa artauged ane dent, for n genealogical table was ahp- Sd into ber history and there little i*t found it. She took it op, no her old govern una# told Hie story, and read ing it said: "I see that I am nearer the throne (hat) I thought, i never saw that bo i hue." "IT was never thought necessary that vou should. I'iincess replied the gov "Now." said the child, after some momenta of thonght. "many a child would hoasi. but they don't know the , difficulty. There is much splendor, : bat there is more roMpoaaibihiy-" The princes* lifted np the forrfiogar of ber right bund aa die spoke, and than pnl i ung ber little hand into her taacher'a *aid. "1 will be good. I understand now why yoo uiged me aomnebto Irani l.stio. My cousin Augusta and Mary never did. but yon told me latto is the foundation of Fughah grammar, •md all the elegpnt expressions, and I learned it, as you wished it, but I un derstand it bettor new. I will he good." T%e Xossil Hmrer*.— The buds make great fan of human music. Do yoo know why 1 Because it has law*! Now. their music has laws, too. bat the dear little thing* don't know it. A robin ' friend of mine, sitting on a window-sill lately, beard a mnwic-mnwter giving a Utile gvrl her mnatr lesson. He thinks it the tmutual thing in the world. Mid owrw me, on the authority of the ma sk-roaster, that human music is made entirely by Hule hobgoblins, wba cany ibe sound* up and down the mntical scale or ladder, slowly or rapidly, acv xirding to order*. Mr. Semi breve, be way*, is the slowest of them all. Next roams Mr. Minim, who ia only half aa alow a Semi breve ; the* Mr. Crotchet, who is half as alow as Minim; then lit tle Quaver. who Is half a# slow a* Croc cbet: then Semi-Quaver, half aa alow a*Weaver, and finally Demi-Memi-Qoa vir, (be livelier little chap of them all. who can run up and down the whole flight, while slow old Semibreve is rol ling to the nett *tep.—AY. Meholm. Finger-y<*3* SU Tnchut Aoag.—At first I couldn't and wouldn't believe it, Uat when 1 beanl the little fellow any that be rend the statement in tfoverndr Seward's book, I gave in, fur of coarse a governor is expected to tell the exact truth on all occasions. What wast f 0. did n't I -. ell you T Why the little chap said that rich Chinese mandarins wear long linger-nails, sometimes aa long ae six or eight inches, aa a sign that they do not have to work. When nails are aa long as this, they are pro tected by oaaae ot bamboe or of sold. The nails are polished and attuned like i tortoise-shell. This is good news for lary boys. All they hare to do is to work their way to China, make their fortune there, and let their nails grow.—& ,V Mo*. The ll'tal Of TBee.—You never beard of sucti a thingt Why I'll warrant yon 've alluded to it often and often, without knowing it. Didn't you ever pcak of such ot such a matter coming, going, or happening in "the nick of time f" Very well. The little School ma'am says that nick cornea from the Herman word Xirltn, to nod or wink. So the nick ot time, ia the wink of time, or my name is not Jack.— St. .Yiisslg, Bmallftil W •men. Writing i>f a performance at an amphi theatre in V crona, a correspondent says: Kvery one of the spectators at Verona would be recognised as Italian, aad there were among theiu eyes as blue as opal, and hair as light a* the most bleached Saxon locks. Still, the Italian charac ter was plainly marked in such faces; there was a childlike twinkle about the eye, a careless, tmprovident look that mark* the common people almost uni versally, and every movement of the features betrayed the Impulsiveness of the Italian nature. Corneller faces than those of the Verona gtrls are rarely seen, files of powdered hair adorn the head, ami a black veil daintily adjusted give* grace to every pom; nor do they scorn to plentifully besprinkle the rich skin of their face* with a coarse white powder, which heightens by contrast rather than suhtiucs by supination the rich, glow ing, yellow complexion. Onitlimi. fhe Terrible Plwa At a recent meeting of the Academy. 11. St. i'tair Heville, a distinguished French chemist. offered to the gentle men present a light vial containing about tU'lecu pounds of omnium, the mostdeadly poison known. In a short explanation, At. IVville said that twenty pound* of that inctal would he sufficient t<> poison the entire population of the world One-thousandth part of a grain of osraic aeid, act free in a volume of air of 100 cuhic yard*, would posses* such a deadly influence that all the persona respiring this air would be nearly killed. Osmlc acid is so much more dangerous that no counter poison is known against it. XIWS IX BRUT. —The annual sale of Florida curiosi ties Is said to amount to SIOO,OOO. —One hundred and eighty well* ar now going down in the oil region*. —The late William B. Aster had $1,000,000 invested in Mansnrhuaotta hoods. —Harry Mclggs, the Callfornlan and Mouth American railroad king, la dying of softening of the brain. -Thrrs arc 2d inorr seniors at Har vard than at Yale, To more juniors, .Hi more sophomore-, and *5 more fresh men. —Professor Procter Is lu his thirty tilutli year, has * rlUen twenty-three I took*, aod has a wife ami eleven chil dren. —Mrs, Ida Greeley Mmllh and her husband hare settled down in the old house at home on the model farm at < happaqua. —The Ohio Penitentiary has now within Its walls 1,213 convicts, being the largest nmuUr In the history f that institution. —Tire receipts at the White Mountain hotels lest summer were:—At IheCraw ford and Twin Mountain, $106,300; at the Fabyao, $60,000. —Pennsylvania lias eighty-six town* that end In "burg." This shows what profile can accomplish when they brace their nerves and set shout a tiling. —Acollcctioe will he taken up in the (>ublk school* of Virginia, on January •, the birthday of General It. K. Dro, for the brnegt of the ler Metiuinent Fund. —The late Amarn Walker was quite suowMfui aa a practical financier, what ever may be thought of his theories, ae be left property aruountlog In value to $72,200. —West Ctiester. Pa., having recently decided upon starting a public zoologi cal garden, some generous citizen has already made a contribution by sending In a est. —Deer are tiousualh plenty in llie wilds of Kamllten county, X. Y., ami are in very flue condition owing to the great abundance of beech nute in the lores** lSeas. —The New York Produce Exchange has adopted die rule that a seller of property has a right te demand payment for that property on delivery of the title to the buyer. —Governor Kemper, of Virginia, re commend* the exemption from taxation for a limited ttme. of the property of immigrant- and of capital invested in : manufacturing. —Mr. Chauncey Rose, a millionaire llvhta in Ten* Haute, lud., has during the last twetty-fh<- year* given awav nearly $2, and we# one of the largest coal shipi# r* la the world. —A theater box-office keeper In ban Francisco, has been elected to the Stat* Legislature. He jwwuoaui to move hi* friends to tiers by hla eloquence, and make hla opponents take back seats. —in the tecent elections In Nebraska. Mrs. Mary H. Le CJarq we* the success ful oandklatc for superintendent