Two Sides of Life.
There is a shady side of life,
And a sunny side as well,
And "tis for any one to say
On which he'd ghoose to dwell;
For every one unte himsell
Commits a grievous sin
Who bars the blessed sunshine out
And shuts the shadows in.
The clouds may wear their saddest robee
The sun refuse to smile,
And sorrow with her troop of ills,
May threaten us the while;
But still the cheerful hes +t has power,
A sunbeam to provide;
And only those whose souls are dark
Dwell on [he's shady side.
Along the Way.
Though mangled hard life's knot may be,
And wearily we rue it,
The silent touch of tather time
Some day will sure undue it.
Then, darling, wait;
Nothing is late
In the light that shines forever,
Wo taint at heart, a friend is gone;
We chate at the world’s harsh drilling;
We tremble al sorrows on every side,
At the myriad ways of killing.
Yet, |y we all,
Ii a sparrow tall,
The Lord keepeth count forever
He keepeth count We tome, we go,
We speculate, toil and alter;
But the measure to each # weal or woe,
God only can give or aler,
He sendeth
He sendeth night
light
And change goes on forever
Why not tke lite with clmariul trust
With faith in the strengh of weakness?
Ihe slenderest daisy ream its head
With courage, yet with neekness
A suany face
Hath holy grace,
To woo the sun forever.
Forever and ever, my daring, ves
Goodness and love are wdying;
Only the troubles and cares of earth
Are winged trom the fivg for flying
Our way we plow
In the furrow
But after the tilling and groving, the sheaf—
Soil
now;
for the root, but the sn for the leat
And God keepeth watch brever.
Mary apes Dodpe.
JUST IN TIME.
Dinner was oyer at st, and Mr.
Walter Currie, English @mmissioner
at the up-country station offlutta-Bagh,
in Northern Indias, had gme out upon
the veranda with his wiféand his two
guests—ihe colonel and pajor of the
~th light infantry—to enjof the cool of
the evening.
On three sides the hou was sur-
rounded by its compound, a large in-
closed space, serving the gurpose of a
courtyand; but the fourtl was only
separated by a small pated of garden
irom the public road, alogz which a
number of native women were passing
with their little pitchers on their heads.
The sight of them natumily turned
the conversation uron a faverite subject
with all Anglo-Indians, viz, the char-
acter of the natives, and the bsst method
of dealing with them.
“There's only one way,” said the
colonel, emphatically. * Tell'em what
they're to do,make ‘em do it, snd thrash
‘em wellif they don't. That'smy way.”
“Well I venture to differ from you
there, colonel,” said Mr. Currie, quietly.
* I've had to do some thrashisg once or
twice, I own, but most of my native
servants seem to get along wry wel,
without it, and they serve me excel-
lently, [assure you.”
“I wish you'd been in
mtorted the colonel; “you'd
have changed your opinion, I war.
rant. Why, the year before lait, when
1 had charge of two battalion of the
rascals own at Sutteepoor, because
there wasn't another queens officer
within reach—just like my cosbunded
Juck! There was no getting sything
done unis I did it myself. Bg Jove!
sir! I had to be everything atonce—
my own gaartermaster, my own sergeant -
msjor., mf own caterer, and—"
“* And your own trumpeter, folonel
Anneslevi” asked Mrs. Currie, with an
arch smill.
The cdonel's broad face reddened
ominously, and an explosion gemed
imniinent when a sudden eclasor of
angry voies from the road belowdrew
them all # the front of the veranda.
The case of the disturbance was
visible at§ glance. Two haif-dinken
English sfdier:, swaggering alog the
road, had'eome into violent c@tact
with a mtive boy who was r@ning
past; andgne of them, enraged # the
collision, Id felled the poor lad § the
ground, sd was unclasping hisown
helt with Sic evident intention of beat-
ing him umnercifully.
“Serve the young whelp right,”
shouted thécolonel rubbing his hands:
“that's jul what they all want.”
The oth@oflicer, Major Armstr@g—
popularly @lled Major Strongarm swas
a liuge, bragny, silent man, whoseprie
lay in actisg rather than in talking
During #ie whole discussion hehad
sat like a gat bronze statue, neve ut-
tering a wad ; but at the sight ofthis
man Hue this child, he woke up
rather star@ngly. *
To leap tthe ground twelve feet be-
low, to dasiacross the garden, to wit
over the hig stockade beyond. wasthe
work of a Boment for the athleticma-
jor; and # another imstant he fad
raised the fllen boy tenderly from the
ound, w saying to the formost il-
ier, in thelow, compressed tone of a
man who mins what hesays:
“Be off wh you!”
“And whethe deuce are you, showy’
yer nose in ¥here you ain't wanted”
roared the ifuriated ruffian, to whe
eves the gor plain evening dmss
bore no to of his being an office; |
“jist you—" :
The sente
At the som
Armstrong’
way altoget
hand which
my place,
was never finished.
of that insolent defiang
rely-tried patience gage
, and the powerful righ
nent’s face, |
a if he had fen bi i
ola - !
Heli
shouted M
“You deser
e.” :
At that fomidable name, the soldier
took to his hells at once; and Armstrong, |
without eve looking at his prostrats
antagonist, Epceeded to examine the!
hurts of the lgy, i
The latter yas sorely bruised in many
places, and the blood was trickling
freely over swarthy face; but the
little here did his best to stand
erect, and to p down every sign of
ihe was enduring.
ve lad, and you'li make
day,” said the major to
\ind@gstance. ‘‘ Come with
me, and I'll s§that no one molests you
Major Armstrong
. Currier from abows,
your name, and no mis
the huge brown hand
ded him so bravely,
the deepest reverence;
ed away together,
which had
and kissed it
and the two
8ix monthslgve come and gone. and
Mr. Currie’s lgpitable house presents
oy spociiicle. The pretty
arden is trampled i st and mire.
Be the bo mod iui du
lying thick amg
half destroye
All the w
blocked up, an
walls peer th
showing how
rison stands a
enemies, wh
littering wes
walf-ruined b
round.
¢ the fragments of the
k
dark , fierce faces and
hs are visible amid the
¢ and matted thickets
ny of 1857 is blazin
Northern India, an
is blockaded in Hut-
ertainty of a hideous
and every man of the
] true to him, unless
tee-Bagh, wit
death for himsé
few who are
8 hrenking, when two
fered counsel in one of
the upper room
VOLUME XIII.
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Ary
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1880,
NUMBER 3.
said Major Armstrong; ** but even upon
davs more."
* And then we'll just go right at
them, and cut our way through or die
grim smile on his iron face, for, with all
iis harshness and injustice, Colonel
Annesiey was “grit” to the backbone.
“We mustn't say snything to them
about it, though.” added he, with a
in the further corner, was anxiousiy
watching the thin, worn face of his
sleeping wife,
At that moment a loud cheer from be.
low startied them both, and the next
moment Ismail (the * major’s boy," as
every one now called him) burst into
the room, with a glow of unwonted ex.
citement on his dark face.
Sahib," eried he, “ there is hope for
us yet! A detachment of Ingleex ( Eng-
lish) are i
as they pass, we are saved!”
“How do you know?”
major, eagerly.
asked the
“1 heard the Sepoys say so, while 1
| was lying hid among the bushes yon-
der" answered the lad.
{ the colonel, facing around
b in the midst
** Have you
of those cut-
to what they
{ said? Whatever did you do that for?"
t “Idid itfor Sahib Armstrong's sake,”
replied the boy, proudly, * because he
was good to me.”
The colonel turned hastily away to
aoen
that overspread his hard face: and
him mutter:
as they're painted afterall.
joined the group. “They may not pass
near enough to hear the firing, and we
have no means of sending them word.”
* Fear nothing for that, mem-sahib”
(madam) said the Hindoo Loy, quie tiy;
* I will carry them word myself!” =
* Bat how can you possibly do it?
cried Mr. Currie, thunderstruck by the
confident tone in which this mere ahild
spoke of a task from which the hardiest
veteran might well have shrunk.
** Listen, sahib,” answered Ismail
“I will slip out of the house, and make
a dash into the enemy's lines, as if I
were deserting from vou to them; and
you can tell your people to fire a shot or
two after me with blank cartridge, as |
go. Then the Sepoys will receive me
Kindly, and I'll tell them that you're
all dying of thirst, and that they need
only wait one day more to be sure of
you, so that they won't care to make
another attack. Then, when they have
no suspicion, and think I'm quite one
of themselves, I'll steal away, and slip
across the river.”
‘But are you quite sure the Sepoys
will believe you?" asked Major Arm-
strong, doubtiully.
plied the boy, deliberately making a
i h in his bare shoulder. and
aecp gas
1s he glided from the room, followed hy
Armstrong. :
The plan was soon explained to the
men below, and a moment later Ismail's
dark figure was seen darting like an
arrow across the open space in front of
the building, followed by a quick dis-
charge of blank cartridges trom the
marksmen at the loopholes. The sound
of firing drew the attention of the
Sepoys, several of whom ran forward to
meet him.
In another instant
midst of them.
I can scarcely see for those bushes,”
said Colonel Annesiey: *‘ but he seems
to be showing them the wound on his
shoulder, and telling them it was our
doing Hy
At that moment an exulting yell from
the enemy came pealing through the
still air.
* That's the story of our being short
of water, for a guinea!” said the major;
“it was a very good thought of his.
it only delays their attack two days
longer, there may be time for help to
arrive yet.
Slowly and wearily the long hours of
that fearful day wore on. The heat was
he was in the
of the garrison could barely hold their
own against it, and the handful of Eng-
lishmen were almost helpless. Had the
Sepoys attacked then, all would have
been over at one blow; but hour passed
after hour, and there was no sign of an
assauit.
As length, as afternoon gave place to
evening, a movement began to show it-
¢elf in the enemy's lines. Their curlsof
that the evening meal was in prepara-
tion; and several figures, with pitchers
keen eye soon detected Ismail.
“By George!” cried the old soldier,
slapping his knee exultingly, ** that lad’s
worth his weight in gold!
way down to the river right open to him
without the least chance of suspicion!
Why, he's a born general—nothing
less!"
fearing to see at any moment some
movement which would show that the
trick was detected. How did Ismail
mean to accomplish his purpose? Would
say.
his light wooden dipper into the water,
floating away down the stream.
poys, and then the boy was seen running
in vain to clutch the vessel as it floated
sas 1
, completely mystified.
“1 see!” cried Major Armstrong, tri-
umphantly, “there's a boat yonder
among the reeds, and he's making right
for it. Well done, my brave boy!”
But at that moment a yell of rage
the colonel
discovered,
their
the alarm instantly brought up a crowd
of their armed comrades, whose bullets
fell like hail around the boat and its
gallant littie pilot.
“Let us fire a volley and make a show
of sallying out,” said the colonel; * it'll
fake their attention from him.”
But in this he was mistaken.
The first rattle of musketry from the
mail’s assailants, but at least a dozen
Were left who kept up an unceasing fire,
Lriking the boat again and again.
All at once the coionel dashed his
glass to the floor with a frightful oath.
Between two gusts of smoke he had
#en the boat turn suddenly over, and
whirling away down the dark river,
1 upward.
“There's an end of the poor lad,”
tered the veteran, brokenly. * God
him for a brave little fellow.
And now, old friend, we must just die
hay, for there's no hope left.’
a * * * » » »
The first few hours of the night passed
qUigtly, and the exhausted defenders,
utterly worn out, slept as if drugged
with opium. But a little after mid-
h the quick ears of the two veteran
offigers—the only watchers in the whole
£aligon, except the sentries themselves
—@yght a faint stirring in the surround-
ing thickets, which seemed to argue
sol movement on the part of the
« Usiening intently for a few moments
they felt certain that they were right,
i and lost no time in arousing their men.
The soanty stores of food were opened
once more, and, eouching together in
the darkness, the doomed men took
what they fully hkelieved to be their last
meal on earth, “
“They're coming’ said Major Arm.
strong, straining his eyes into the gloom
{through a loophoi®. “1 hear them
ereeping forwand, though 1 can't see
| them .®
“What the deuce was that? o
claimed the oglonel, suddenly.
| looked like a fiery ATTOW flying past.”
i “It's worse than that" said the
major, in a low wite. ** The rascals are
shooting lighted ehips of bamboo on to
the roof to set it on Send the
| women up with buckets to flood the
{ thatch there's got 8 moment to "
X=
It
Five
alt
! lose,”
i I go and gee to it myself!" oried
| Mrs. Currie, hasiening out he room.
But the power of His ne Ww weapon had
already become fatally manifest. The
house was an old ae, and dry as tinder
| from the prolonged heat, and as fast as
the flames were quenched in one piace
{ they broke out in another,
When day dawned, the fire had al-
ready got a firm Bold of one corner of
the building, and & crushing discharge
was poured upol all who attempted to
extinguish it, while the trinmphant
yells of the human tigers below told
that they felt sare of their prey,
“It's all over with us, old fellow,"
said the colonel, grasping his old com.
rade's hand; “but, al least, we shall
have done our duty."
“ Give me one of your pistols," whis.
pered Mrs, Curgie to her husband, in a
| voice that was 808 her own. *' | must
not fall into their hands alive."
At that moment Major Armstrong
{ was seen to start and bend forward, as
{if listening intently: for he thought—
| although he could sCarcely believe his
ears--that he had suddenly caught a
faint sound of distant firing
In another instant he heard it again,
and this time here could be no more
doubt, for seveml of the had
| caught it likewise, and a gleam of hope
| once more lighted up their haggard faces
{ and bloodshot €yes.
Louder and nearer came the welcome
sound, while the sudden terror and
confusion visible among the enemy
i showed that they, too, were at no loss
to guess its meaning.
Then high above all the dine rose the
well-known “ Harrah!" and through the
smoke-clonds Broke a charging iine of
glittering bayon#ts and ruddy English
faces, sweeping away the cow ardly
murderers as the sun chases the morn-
ing mist.
i
oft
others
* . - - - -
“That boy werth his weight in
i," said Colonel Annesley, as, a tew
hours later, he listened to Ismail's ac.
count of how be had dived under the
boat and kept it between himself and
the Sepoys, that they might think him
drowned. *“ He's the pluckiest Nttie
fellow I've ever seen, and, although he
belongs to the major, I'm going to take
1
my share of helping him on, by Jove!
FOIL
Brutal Fight Between Man and Dog.
The fight between ** Patsy Brennan,”
the prize-fighter, nu the Siberian blood-
hound, in St. Louis, was of the
| most degrading spectacles ever wit-
The dog was of the very largest
breed, resembling more a
than a dog, and its muscles were as hard
a8 iron. It semed to be nothing but
muscle. Its bead and face were the
most repuisivethat were ever carried by
a dog. The Bght took place in an old
stable, and among the spectators were
an ex-poiice eommissioner, ex-judge,
three membersaf the house of delegates,
a very prominent physician and several
business men. Brennan stripped to the
waist. ‘The owner of the dog had
much diffieulty in holding the Siberian
| until time was ealled, and then with a
vicious * Sick him, Tige,” the blood-
hound was relmsed and leaped straight
for the throat of the prize-tighter, who
sprang to oneéside and caught the dog a
terrible body blow as he went by
turning him completely in the air and
making Tige come down heavily upon
his bask. The next second he was in
his trainer's Bands, and the betting
became furious. Tiger, made more cau-
tious by his first rude rebuff, circled
i round and round his human antagonist,
| snarling horribly and apparently gulp-
ing down hif rage. He made several
feints, but Brennan was watching him
too closely tobe thrown off his guard.
sis Sime the crowd in the barn were
one
nessed.
enif in size
All thi
almost feantie with excitement, yelling
at their favorites and encouraging hound
and man hgevery expedient the y could
think of. last the dog got within
{ three feet of Patsy and made his spring.
He was met by a terrible blow straight
from the shoulder of his human antago
nist, and borme backward by the weight,
| Brennan sank slowly to the floor, his
| face drawn sad white with pain, but
{ with a scowl on his brow that meant
| mischief. The blood gushed from his
| mangled shoglder, and almost as soon
ns he was fairly on the ground he got
{ both his hands into Tiger's mouth and
| tugged at theelosing jaws. He had to
| take a second grip, choosing the long
lips of his enemy this time and tearing
{ them badly before the hound released
his hold, amd both the fighters were
| taken from each other by their friends.
| The man was badly injured.
The collar-bone wasaiready bare and
the lnceratiog of the shoulder was sim-
ply horrible, The dog was compara-
| tivelyas badly injured. One of his long
{ lip8 was so badly torn tliet it hung sev-
been broken by the blow he got in the
tace. He was just as plucky asthe man,
however, and when he was loosed again
| came forward readily. This time Bren-
nan was sueesssful. He caught the dog
by the neck snd kicked the life out of
| him. As soon as he was declared victor
Brennan faigted from the pain in his
shoulder and gjde., and medical assist-
| ance was atone got for him.
| A Woman's Impressions of Salt Lake,
A letter fram (tah, written by a lady,
| says: There are hordes of women in
| shaker or slg sun-bonnets and calico
| dresses—scamt in length, breadth and
| thickness; whole tribes of half-grown
{ boys and gills, hoodlums with hardly
| an exceptiof; young men sullen and
| vicious-looklg: young women, care-
worn and degraded; every woman with
{a baby at fe breast and two or three
| hanging on ker skirts: more halt, blind
and lame thi I ever saw in all my life.
But the gras of Brigham is dilapidated
| to the last degree. Not a wife has
| planted a grub or seemingly shed a
| tear. A cogmonp.ace, flat little granite
{ slab marks the spot where the great
prophet res, His grave is distingnished
{ trom the otfers by being adorned with
the decaying and odorous remains of a
| very dead qt and some broken pieces of
{old dishes, These may strike you as
I guess, of the whole, they are good
enough for old Brigham. One ot the
numerous Mrs. Young lives near us.
She is a refict of the departed prophet.
It gems vary strange to hear that this
Mr. So-and-So he has three wives and
this is the home of So-and-So; his last
wile lives here. I notice, too, that the
last and best-looking and youngest wife
reperally lives in the best house and the
fet style. The first wife has to go to
the Endowment house and give her hus-
basd away every time he is married.
Bu for all that, the poor creatures al-
ways let you know with an air of some
importance when they do happen to be
the Orst wives. Imagine a state of
sodety where it is no cause of comment
to having a married man paying atten-
tion to a young girl. Think of the bit-
temess and heartache of it. There were
aout 7,000 people in the congregation
tht day we were there. 1 had a very
stIONg impression that the whole 7,000
nerded a bath of good strong soap suds,
but doubtless that was the idea of a very
canal mind,
The Diamonds of Nature and of Art,
Professor Tyndall is a
ability and Mr. Maskelyne of the British
museum is clever in more ways than
one; but something further than their
alleged testimony that certain stones in
spected by them are diamonds will be
| needed to persuade the world that the
seoret has really been discovered of
making by artificial means the most
precious of gems, The potion at first
sight is captivating. The ladies
pecially will be charmed to think that
every household, through this dazzling
invention, may have its own Goleonda
in the backyard ; but a little reflection
will make this bright prospect very
dark indeed ; for the glory of diamonds
i8 their rarity, and the Kobh-i-nohr
would become of no more worth than
a spiash of Dutch metal in ** Stalacter's
grot " inthe * Black Crook" if it could
be had as cheaply,
The tale as it comes to us is briefly
this: Mr. James Maclear, of the St.
Rollox chemical works, has told the
Glasgow philosophical sooiety, that
after experimenting for thirteen vears
he bas suoceeded in getting orystallized
forms of carbon. He has furnished the
society with specimens of his manufac
ture, and the eminent physicists we
have named declare that the stones so
supplied by Mr. Maclear are no doubt
diamonds. Stories of this kind are al.
ways coming up, and always have done
$0 since the Inpidaries discovered the
of cutting diamonds in or about the
fifteenth century. Man has vearned to
tind the art
U8
art «
phier's stone, for perpetual motion and
tor the fountain of perpetual vouths
Bat if we are rightly instructed the firs.
achievement, uniike the two others, it
not scientifically impossible. The dia-
mond is simply orystailized carben,
Theve is always carbon enough at hand ;
what is wanted is to learn how to crys.
it in the right way. The sclen-
sny that this is practicable but
would be very costly, In other words,
that it would be far more expensive to
make diamonds in such a way than to
dig them in the Brazilian mines,
Now it is, perhaps, not sok unlikely
that Mr. Maclear has found out how to
make disnmonds as it is that he has found
out how to make them so cheaply us to
make it worth while to make them at
all. If, on the other hand, he
if he can actua
diamonds to wenty biack-
and at little outiay, we are
brought face to face with another re suit,
which is that in such
would want the shining
Imi ant then, and even
i announcement at first appears,
consequences, even if the
'8 true. ikelv to
e [ess momentous than might b# sup-
But without impugning the
with of either Mr. Maclear or his wit-
e he story ikelvy to be merely
ical. Over over again has
same story i, and over and
f turned out to be
g like diamonds has
heen repeatedly produced ; sud hi, for « X=
ample, product of the volatiliza-
tion of carbon between two carbon
by an electric | But
further investigation has led to unitorm
results. What has has been
found to be very like diamonds, but not
diamonds themselves
On the whole, the fal who
vready possess the glittering treasures
have no cause to , or their
fortunate sisters who have
rejoice I'he oh aichemists
of 300 years have failed to do what is
now said to have been done, and the
chances are that all the erucibles of the
future will bring forth no other result, -—
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** Then you consider
electric light finished?
“ Practically done, though I am still
experimenting with a view of reducing
its cost.”
“* What does it cost now?"
questions,
Gi8On Nims
of the officers of the company in New
York »
“How many lights, each equal to
a gas jet, do you get te one-horse
POW re?” = .
“*My lights are on a ratio of ten gas
per horse power per hour.”
* What is the power of your engine ®”
* Eighty-horse power.”
“ What does it cost to run your eighty-
horse power engine one hour?"
+
“Seventy-five cents.”
jots pe
their power without injury!”
“Twenty-three were burning continu-
ously from Friday Inst to Wednesday,
and thirty-three from Wednesday to ten
o'clock on Thursday night. During this
time the engine was stopped for an hour
to take water. Not a light was injured,
all were regulated at the central sta-
tion
“Three lights have been burning that
time one-fifth of a mile away."
“Were the twenty-three all
nected with one main wire?"
**And more could have been put on
the same main wire without increasing
the power of the engine or diminishing
the light or chese twenty-three?”
“Yes, five hundred.”
A Destructive Fire-Ship.
In overhauling a lot of traps left over
from the Fourth of July celebration,
several young men, and some old ones,
| too, last Sunday came across a paper
balloon, which they thought, as it was
a still, quiet day, should be sent adrift.
Suiting the actior. to the word they re-
tired to the bank of the river, inflated
the airy craft by attaching a handful of
burning excelsior saturated with tur-
pentine to the basket, cut the rope and
| let her rip.” Gracefully it rose from
the ground and sailed away toward
heaven's ethereal vault, followed by the
admiring gaze of those few devout
spectators, still standing on the banks
of the placid Poudre, whose bhenisons
were being rapidly and proudly wafted
toward the pearly gates, Waiting until
their messenger had disappeared in the
blue depths of the atmosphere, they re
tired to their peaceful oy feeling
that it was good to have been there.
Soon, ah! too soon, was the happiness
of the favored few turned into bitterness
and gall. That balloon, instead of keep-
ing on its course, returned to earth to
torment ite former enthusiastic friends,
Dropping into Alex. Barry's meadow,
it set fire to about twenty-five tons of
hay in the stack, and before the fire
could be extinguished the whole was
destroyed. Fortunately, by the utmost
exertion and constant watching through
the following night, two other and much
larger stacks close by were saved. The
{ hay destroyed was worth hetween $400
and £500. Of course the parties engaged
{ in ballooning that day are so much out.
bSixty dollars each is about what it wiil
| = them. Fort Collins (Col.) Courier.
con.
AI.
A Precocious Boy.
Robert Harris, a little five-year old
boy, whose parents lived near Senatobia,
| Mississippi, lias given evidence of re-
i markable intellectual powers. He can
read and converse fluently, using choice
words and in a pat way. Before he
had reached his third year he had read
the second and third readers, and had
made some progress in arithmetic,
showing a remarkable aptitude during
the time in spelling and other branches
of knowledge. While in his fourth
year he read the fourth and fifth
' readers, learned a good part of the mul-
‘ tiplication table and spelled from Web-
ster’s common school dictionary almost
any word given him, He reads news-
papers, and has considerable knowledge
in general information and current
events.
| TIMELY TOPICS,
An American physician who has
ism, sald in the course of an address re
cently delivered before a learned
clety: “There are constantly crowd
ing into our insane asylums
fifty to eighty vears of age, who in early
80
liquors, but who had reformed, and for
ten, twenty or thirty years have never
touched a drop. The injury which the
liquor did to their bodies seemed to have
when their natural force began
crease, then the conceal mischief
showed itself in insanity, clearly demon.
strating that the injury to their bodies
was of a permanent character,”
| Gen. Tom Harrison's Texas brigade,
{ composed of two Texas, one Tennessee
and one Arkansas regiment, was
bly the last brigade under fire during the
war, as it was engaged with Northern
N. C., just above Chapel Hill, on April
declared. The flag crrried on that day
by one of the Texan regiments (the
the possession of John Halford, of Deni.
son, Texas, who was a member of that
it and brought it home with him in the
back of his jacket. This is probably the
inst Southern flag fired at by United
States troops, It is a small, silk Con.
fi derate flag, and stillin good condition,
there being only one small tear in it, and
that was done the last day it was under
fire,
When Mir. Gladstone was making his
great speeches mm the British parlia.
ment on thc eign policy of the gov-
*
cent merriment to the members about
like a pomatum-pot, the contents of
hich he from time to time absorbed
ght after he brought
| crockery with him, formally
it from Lis coat-tail pocket, and } need
it within reach on the table. Then
evervone knew that he was going to
make a great speech, Alter much dis.
cussion and an agony of curiosity, one
of his pariiameniry brothers ventured
to ask what the mysterious mixture
might be, Mr. Gladstone very frankly
told him that it was simply an
beaten up in a glass of sherry, though
why it should have been carried about
in a pomatum-pot remains unexplained
to this day.
night
tow
i
i
ir
=
There has come up a discussion in the
press the world over, on the syslem of
bridging large spaces of water in a simi-
lar manner to the Frith of Tay, in Scot-
land, the scene of the dreadful railroad
disaster, and no doult most learned
opinions will expressed on the sub.
} The bridge where the
cidest happened is built on a preeisely
ansiogous phan to the Victoria bridge
across the St, Lawrence aud the bridge
across the Menal straits, running be-
tween Wales and the Isle of Man.
These bridges have stood Many years,
whereas the Tay bridge is only two
3
ne
ject.
we must not forget that the Sixth Ave.
i nue elevated road is merely an elongated
Tay bridge, built on the same plan and
made of iron as that was, lf any part
of that structure gave way we should
have another just such an accident. The
only difference is that in place of f
into the water the unfortunate victims
{ would fallon land. We cannot contem-
plate without a shudder the possibility
of such an accident at such a spot as
{110th street and Eighth avenue, where
i the road curves at the height of 100feet
{ from the ground, that is to say twenty
feet higher than the bridge over the
Tay. We trust a calamity of this sort
may not happen, but the fearful experi.
ence in Scotiand spould prove a lesson
to the directors of the Metropolitan
Not a day should be allowed to
pass without testing the entire track
| from one end to the other.
road,
nA 55
He Was There.
Among a number of oil paintings by
McClellan, displayed yesterday in front
of the auction store of J. C. Currie &
Co., was one representing the Mountain
Meadows massacre. The teams and
wagans of the emigrants are seen wind-
{ing down into the valiey in which the
| horrible tragedy is soon to be enacted,
| while behind rocks and trees in the fore-
| ground are visible the eronching In-
{ dians and Mormons, all in feathers and
war paint
{the picture commenting upon it and
| talking of the horrible butchery it rep-
{ res nted, among the rest an Enlerprise
i reporter.
Observing a stalwart Plute brave
standing on the street at the distance of
| whites present:
* Hole
{ with the scene.’
low, tattooed on the point of the chin
and cheek bones, was soon brought in
front of the picture. °
The reporter pointed out the horses
and wagons, the men, women and chil-
dren, all unsuspiciously flitting down
into the valley, and armed and painted
Indians, with ‘blood in their eyes,”
peering out from their hiding places.
‘You see the white men, the horses
and the wagons?’ said the reporter.
‘ Yash, me see um,’ said the Indian.
* You see the Injuns behind the rocks
and behind the trees?
‘Yash, me see um.’
* You see the Injuns have all got guns?
‘Yash, me see um gun.’
‘ Now, pretty soon Injun shoot all the
sabe?’
‘Yash, me sabe.’
‘You sabe?
‘Yash, heap sabe,’ said the Indian,
earnestly, his eyes glistening.
The reporter was somewhat disap-
pointed, as he had expected the Indian’s
feelings would be somewhat worked
upon by the picture of wholesale slaugh-
ter he had drawn, particularly when it
came to cutting the throats of the chil
dren. However, the untutored child of
the desert gamed innocently in his face
with a look which seedied to say:
* Well, proceed with the lesson.’
The red man seemed utterly free from
guile, and willing to test him further
the reporter said:
‘WwW ow all men dead, all women dead,
and all children dead, Injun take all
horses, all blanket, all money-—all every.
thing in wagon-—-you sabe?
‘* Yash, me sabe.’
Turning to the reporter the guileless
and untutored fellow pointed out a par-
ticularly fierce-looking Indian peering
out from behind a i I
‘You see um him?
‘Yes, said the reporter, ‘1 see him.’
‘You see um gun?’
‘1 see the gun.”
‘You see um feather on him head?
‘I see his feathers’
* Good boy, you heap sabe. That In-
un by rock, that Injun with gun, that
Injun feather on head, that one mean
Injun—heap shoot—that Injus me!
drawing himself up to his full height
and slapping rll lon his resonant
chest with his broad right hand. Vir-
ginta City (Nev.) Entervrise.
“Do animals have fun?” asks some
unobserving individual. Of course they
do. When a cow switches her tail
across the face of a man who is milking
her, steps along just two yards and
turns to see him pick up his stool and
fo.low, she has the most amused expres-
gion on her face possible, and if she can
kick over the milkpail she grows posi-
tively hilarious.— New Haven Regioter.
| my .
| A WHIPPING MATCH,
| A Verovious "Amusement ' in Brittany.
There must be a strain of tiger, says
| Magazine. in a population which could
amuse itself as Inte.y na 1847 in cutting
long, swelling at alittle distance from
{ the handle to the thickness of a man's
{ arm, from whence
[twisted and strongly knotted end,
{ made more like a knife by the help of a
mixture of glue! This plaything Waa
fixed upon a strong, stiff stick, and of-
| ten not only cut a man into steaks, but
{| sometimes cut the lile out of him ata
|single stroke, Yet a local historian
| gives an account of a fete which he at-
| tended in 1847, at which the chief at.
traction was a contest between twelve
| aen, six on a side, with those deadly
| weapons, The smack of these whips
made, he says, much more noise than a
gunshot; they could be heard at a dis-
tance of two and a half miles, and when
several smack their whips in concert
one another at a distance almost cer-
responding to the length of the lashes
| of their whips. They stood up, having
| for protection in the shape of dress only
short felt breeches, and shirts made of
stout saileloth, Like all Breton peas-
was cut straight across the forehead af-
the fashion of Gainsborough’
They wore no hats or
head covering, The left arm was naked,
but the right arm, which held the whip,
by an armlet or shield of thick leather,
The sides were distinguished by the
color of the tuft of their whips, the one
being white the other red
These men thus standing face to face
were there to be wounded almost to
tiie prise, which consisted of half a
dozen striped pocket handkerchiefs and
a pound of tohaceo.
by an old peasant, the combatants pu.
themselves into the attitude of defiance,
the whip raised, while the lash was
left hand. ** Strike."
the same voice, and the twelve cables
were let loose in an instant, hut no
smack was heard as they met, twisted
Those most renowned quickly disen.
their antagonists, opening up long
seams of livid or bleeding flesh; on the
we, e seamed and flowing with blood,
These two were the leaders—one tall,
the other short; one heavy, the other
light; one all flesh, the other, although
ews. An outsider would have backed
the giant, but the boys of Pipriac knew
too well the prowess of the dwarf to
risk their money against him.
The combat now maged with fury;
eager to strike
a volley of musketry. The lashes soften
into tow, but harden again and glae
themselves together with blood.
hangs down in front, bathed in perspira-
tion and biood. But not one blow has
fallen on either champion. They have
reserved themselves; they have guarded
the issue of the fight dia
But now the tall man has hit home
depend
A
there spurts blood, twists round the
left arm of the little Joseph, and makes
him stagger with pain. He recovers
himself; launches his whip at his foe,
its deadly point and the face of Joseph
Animated by his first sue-
cess, Kaer stepped forward and bent his
whole strength to the blow which he
aimed at Josille. The little man never
were; while, without effort,
threw out his lash softly.
Any
drew back his lash the whole face of
opened up the very hones. These two
made a truce and were engaged in at-
Kaer, blinded by the shock, put his
leather before his face and
mused, Josille, so far from profiting
p the occasion and pressing his advan-
kerchief and loudly blew his nose, to the
great amusement of his backers, who
thought it an excellent joke. The
f his sang froid,.and made him wild. He
“Don’t
give in!” cried some voices still: but the
Josille, ap-
arently incapable of pity, like a true
Jreton peasant, again blew his nose, and
coup-de-grace.,
A shiver ran through the crowd: but
Josille was better than he seemed, for
instead of cutting the poor fAesh,
dexXterousiy drew the whip out of the
hands of the victim, and folded his arms
nid his burning head upon the sand.
The whites were proclaimed the vie-
tors. Each subaltern had a pocket-
handkerchief worth sixpence, and Jo-
I know not
| whether any of these scenes are enacted
as I find him.
Origin of Plants,
Madder came from the East. Celery
The chestny
came from Italy. The onlon originated
in Egypt. Tobacco is a native of Vir
ginia. The nettle is a native of Europe
The citron is a native of Greece. Thi
pine is a native of America. The popp
originated in the East. Oats originate
in North Africa. Rye came originally
from Siberia. Barley was found in the
mountains of Himalaya. Wheat is sup
posed to have come and to have grows
simultaneous'y in Tartary, north ot the
Himalaya mountains. Parsley was firg
known in Sardinia. Sunflower ws
brought from Peru. The parsnip isa
native of Arabia. The potato is a natie
of Peru. Cabbage grows wild in 8
beria. Buckwheat came from Siberi,
Millet was first known in India. Tle
apple and pear are from Europe. Sp -
ach was first cultivated in Arabi,
The muiberry tree originated in Persh,
The horse-chestnut is a native of Thibs,
The cucumber came from the East ly
dies. The quince came from the islaad
of Crete, The radish is a native of
China and Japan. Peas are supposed
to be of Egyptian origin. The garden
cress is from Egypt and the Est,
Horse radish came from the south of
Europe. ‘the Zealand flax shows its
origin by its name. The coriander
rows wild near the Mediterran@an,
he Jerusalem artichoke is a Brazilian
production. Hemp is a native of Pefsia
and the East Indies. The tomato ofigi-
nated in South America, but wus knewn
in England as early as 1687. Dodomns,
an Holland agriculturist, mentions the
tomato in 1583 as *‘ a vegetable to he
eaten with pepper, salt and oil.” The
bean is a native of Persia, The beet
originated in Africa and Asia. The
cabbage came from England Cayinne
pepper came from the tropics; the best
varieties from the West Indies. The
sweet potato came from tropical Amiriea
and was early introduced into Eurgpe.
ASS
It is a remarkable circumstang 5
the larger number ot the world's
noes are either on islands or dire | 8 mn
the sea-coast, showing a relati
Spurgeon has not missed a Sunday
sermon in 1,500 consecutive Sundays,
Mr. Moody, the evangelist, has rented
Louis, Mo., for six
}
| RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES,
i
i
ia house in St
| months.
A Chigese hoy in Pekin has rocited the
| whole of the New Testament in his na-
tive langage,
{ Four stuuents of the Richmond Insti.
tute in Virginia desire to become mis-
| #lonaries in Arica.
| Revivals have occurred in North
{ Carolina in the co-operation meeting:
{ of Friends and Methodists.
The Rev Thomas Cooper,of Peru
Ind., has accepted a callto a Congrega-
| tional choreh at Tiverton, England,
A Vermont church annually puts up
at auction the post of sexton. The man
who offers to do'the work for the least
money is the successful bidder,
Miss Mary Travis, of Cottingham,
{ Yorkshire, a Quakeress, three weoks
| after celebrating her hundredth birth-
| day, has just been baptized a member of
| the Epissopalian church.
The New York Observer offers u prize
| of $100 for the best essay of from two to
{ three columns in length, designed to
| counteract any one of 5 many forms of
| assault gpon Christianity by modern in-
| fidelity.
| A room under the (Bil de Beeuf, the
| palace of Louis XIV , at Versailles, is
| used as a place of worship by Protestants
junti! a church ean be erected,
| Jules Favre, French minister of
| instruction, who has married a
| tant wile, attends the services,
| According to statistics, up to Jul
| last, the Methodist Episcopal church
| had nisety-six annual conferences, 11,-
{453 itinerant preachers, and 1.696 837
| members and probationers. Since the
| organisation of the church 444 presiding
[ elders and 634,967 members have died.
! TheBoston Y. M.C. Union has re-
| ceived from Joseph B. Eaton, Esq., the
{ sum of $80,000, promised it by him if it
would raise the 820,000 more which
WAS necessary to remove all its obliga-
| tions, and it now rejoices in entire tree-
dom fiom debt,
TheMethodist chureh, of Canada, has
| forty-four wissions among the ludians
| of the Northwest Territory, with thirty
| missionaries and tom assistants, and
3,115 members. There are also six
| Methodist missionaries between Puget
{sound and Alaska, and a number of
teachers among the Indians.
The missionary society ef the Protest-
ant Episcopal church employs twelve
white and eleven native missionaries
among the Indians, with twenty-seven
{ helps «nd catechists. In the home
ublie
roles.
workers, inciuding ten bishops: abroad
it has 230 workers, including five bish-
Ops,
A tompilation of the nu.aber of exist-
ing sects in England has begn made,
Th» correct number, it is sta‘ed, is 164,
from which deductions must furiber be
i mad for eight or nine toreign congre-
gatisns and such duplications as “Primi-
tiveMsthodists " and * Renters.” Tak-
ing the Protestant churches, there are
deckred to be 25,163 Episcopal ministers
{in Great Britain (including the Mor-
{avigs), 5,246 Congregational (including
| Baptists), 4,851 Presbyterian and 3,060
| Methodist.
| Prof. James Legge, Chinese professor
fat Oxford, says in = late Academy that
{ the number of Buddhists in China is
grostly over-estimated. Rhys Davids,
{in Bis ** Buddhism," estimates the num-
| begat 445,000,000 in China and Japan.
Sams Prof, Legge: “If we lop off 400,.
Of all
| religious systems, Confucianism, per.
{ hase, has the greatest following: then
{ Clristianity, then Hinduism, then Mo-
{ hwnmedanism, and we would place
{ befoiug injustice to Buddhism.
———————
Prices Paid for Furs and Skins,
| market prices paid for furs and skins
i { otxtions are for prime skins only) as
i meg
| Baar, Northern black, socording
| «87 00489 00
Baar, Southern and Northern
ontiings........c 000 nna
Hmver, Northern, per skin 70a 4
Haver, Western sad Southern... 50a 3
ee 76a 1 00
20a 40
40a &0
00
50
00
00a 6
Gt, wild. ..
Deer, summer EO
Beher, Northern and Eastern,
BBOI co uvinnnssanansirnaar snes 10089
Esher, Southern and Wesern. .. § 0a 8
Box, SHYOr.c..o coin sens esse. 10 00a3D
fox, cross, Northern and Eastern. 3 (0a 4
fox. red, Northern and Eastara.. 1 40a 1
fox, red, Southern Pennsylvania,
New Jurseyand Northern Ohlo,
Fox, red, Southern and Western.
Tox gray, Northern and Eastern,
cased 80a
Pox, giay, Southern and Western. 40a
BE, Risk vas inainins hase Me
Loat, Amerioan, 1b... ...coooin inns 10a
Lynx, each «sss 1 O02
Marten, States, dark ............ 1 8a
Marten, do., pale. . 00a
Mink, New York and New Eng.
60
00
00
00
50
1 Na 1
80a 1
20
00
5
60
50
18
00
50
gL
-
00a 1 80
nesota Eh asses anus
Mink, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Ohio
ink, Maryland, Virginia, Ken.
tacky, Indiana, Wisconsin and
%..
'M
. sean
Mink, Missouri and Southern ....
tall and winter
Muskrat, Western Pennsylvama
and Ohio, fall and winter... ..
Muskrat, Southern, fall and win.
4
Ctter, Northern and Eastern .... §
Otter, Ponnsylvanin, New Jersey
ANG WORSEN + cove sia ararses §
Otter, Sonth Carolina and Georgia 4
Opossum, Northern, cased.
Opossum, Southern and open
Raccoon, New York and Eastern
States and Northern Peunsyl.
vanin
Raccoon, New Jersey, Southern
Peunsylvania, Indiana, Mis.
souri, Nebraska and Kansas . .
Raccoon, Georgia, Arkansas,
Florida and Alabama. . ........ 40
Skunks, prime black, No. 1, cased. 10
Skunks, prime bisck, No. 1, opan. 00
Skunks, half striped 60
Skunks, striped 30
Skunks, white 15
Wolt skins, mountain, large ..... 1 00
Wolf skins, prairie, prime... ... . 60
Words of Wisdom.
Common sense makes no parade,
No wise man ever wished to be
younger.
Self reliance is quite distinct from self-
assertion.
What maintains one vice would bring
up two children.
It is a good thing to learn caution by
the misfortune of others.
Nothing is more dangerous than a
friend without discretion
We hand folks over to God's mercy,
but show none ourselves.
There are calumnies against which
even innocence loses courage.
Better be upright and want,
wicked and have superabundance.
It is the nature of the human disposi-
tion to hate him whom you have in-
(ured.
The key to every man is his thought.
Casual thoughts are sometimes of great
value.
Those days are lost in which we do
no good; those worse than lost in which
we do evil.
People seldom improve when they
10a
50a 2
60a
than
i :
The mind of youth cannot remain
empty; if you do not put into it that
tween them and the sea.
which is good, it will gather elsewhere
hat whieh is evil.
- A SIND
Horrors of a Chinese Prison.
very pretty from the water, but the
| vision is dispelled on landing. The
| streets are in some places not more than
{#ix or seven feet wide, and the houses
{ overtung, so that they nearly touck over.
| head, utter! shuking out the sunlight;
| and, in addition to being narrow, are
{recking with filth, The sedan chairs
{are the only means of conveyance used
j here, They are carried by two men,
{ who, whenever they lave a customer,
i siart off on a run, chanting in a sort of
[sing-song tone: * Heavy luger! Heavy
{luger! Oh. ga! heavy luger!’ In some
| of the principal thoroughfares I saw a
| constant stream of sedan chairs, the
| bearers chanting all in time and keeping
cession it was,
| Shanghai old town is complete]
| walled in, and the gates are just as
| with the breeze,
{this
| are decorated in the same manner.
| headed
| them.
| an execution.
| native sword, ard stood on a small
| form in the centre of the square. After
hind, had been taken upon the stage |
the executioner took one of the pirates
| the platform, hit him a sharp rap with |
| his hand on the head, which caused the |
| poor fellow to bow his head, and then |
| the exeéutioner's sword went up, was |
| poised in the air a full half minute, and |
| with a sweep the glittering blade de- |
| scended, and the poor criminal’s head |
| went flying off in one direction, and the |
! body in another. One byone theothers |
{ met their fate in the same way, the Tar- |
i tar making a very short, business-like |
| job of it, merely turning to receive the |
plaudits of the crowd after each head |
rolled off, and responding by a grin |
| which showed every one of his bh. |
| But the stolidity of the poor wretches |
| was beyond description. Not a muscle
| quivered, and even when waiting for the |
biade of the executicaer to fall | could |
| not detect u sign of emotion. The crowd |
{seemed to enjoy the sight immensely, |
and set up a yell of delight at each cut |
of the Tartar's sword. | am told that |
| executions are common here, i
| Sickened with the sight, 1 went down |
| one of the roads, and coming to a prison, |
went in. Of all places in this world, I
| believe there is not one where so much |
| abject wretchedness can be seenasina |
Chinese prison. TYe eriminals serving |
out sentences get but one meal a week |
from the authorities; the rest of the
| time they are fed hy their friends, if they |
have any, or by the contributions of |
visitors, or they starve. 1 had notmuch
| money with me on going in, but came
out pepniless, the poor creatures so
work.d on my feelings. Some of the |
Jisoners had lost a hand, others were |
heavily ironed, and all wore the same
pinched, starved look. saw three |
women in process of execution for mur-
the neck in a kind of wooden stocks, so
arranged that their feet could just touch
the ground, and were left in this condition
til dead. Sometimes death ensues very |
soon, but oftener a day or two wil] pass |
| before the poor wretch dies, as there is
no pressure on the neck. I was glad to
| get away from this place, too. But the
piteous tones of the poor prisoners beg-
ging for ** cumshaw ” (a present) ring in
{IY ers vet.
«
New York paper says:
son Alexander, went fox-hunting a few |
{days ago in the woods along the New |
Jersey bauk of the Delaware river. |
While passing through the woods, the |
hunters separated. Wilhelmus accom. |
panied by a hound, kept close along the |
river. Having gone a short distance,
the dog was heard barking fiercely. |
' Wilhelmus thought he had come upona |
fox track. and was in close pursuit. He |
i went in the direction of the barking, |
and soon came upon the dog, which was |
‘engaged in a fierce encounter with a |
monster wild eat. He took his rifle
| from his shoulder, and, taking deliver. |
| nte aim, pulled the trigger. Theoapex- |
ploded, but the gun fal
ed to discharge. |
Ie placed another cap on the tube, and |
| again pulled the trigger, with the same |
| result; the gun would not go of. By!
‘this time the dog was badly whipped, |
ard, whining and limping, it made its |
[escape from its antagonist into the
thicket. The eat then sneaked slowly |
through the bushes toward the river. |
Wilhelmus wes determined to capture |
the animal, and thought he could con- |
quer it by beating out its brains with |
the butt of his gun. He started in pur-
suit, and soon overtook the animal,
which stopped when the hunter liad ap-
proachea within a fow feet of it. The
plucky hunter cautiously took che ste
atter another, when suddenly, and wit
eyes glaring like balls of fire, the animal
turned, and made a spring, landing upon
the shoulders of the hunter, and soon
succeeded in inflicting several ghastly
His body was
also lacerated in a terrible manner, and
his clothes were torn into shreds. After
3
in loosening the cat's hold, when his son,
who had heard his father's cries, ar-
rived. Seeing that his father was in
| great danger of Leing killed by the ani-
mal, Alexander took deliberate aim, and
{ discharged the rifle. The ball had the
desired effect, for the animal gave an up-
ward spring and fell to the und dead.
| The ball pierced the animal's heart, and
missed the wounded hunter by only a
(few inches. The animal measured
{nearly six feet in length and weighed
{ fifty pounds. It was the only one that
| had been killed in this region for several
| years.
i
| A Fatal Shirt-Button.
Dr. Sander, a physician, of Elberfield,
| Germany, died recently from the effects
| of a singular accident, which conveysits
own lesson: One morning in 1874, while
dressing, he contrived in some way to
t a shirt-button between his teeth.
Inconsciously, while laughing, the but-
ton slipped into the back of his mouth,
and thence into the larynx. All the ex-
ertions of his surgical friends to remove
it were vain, It was ascertained that it
sank into the right lung, which soon
became irritated. Spitting blood en-
sued, and he was himself looking for-
ward to his death as not very remote,
He removed to a villa he had near
Frankfort-on-the-Main to pass his last
days in quiet. Here he was surprised by
a it of coughing. accompanied by spit-
ting of blood, in a paroxysm of which
the button was eected His health
rapidly improved, and in a few months,
regarding himself as quite cured, he re.
sumed his professional work, and
endeavored to gather up the threads of
his former practice. But last year un-
mistakable symptoms manifested them-
selves that the lung had not fully re-
covered from the presence in its sub-
| stance of a foreign body for several
{ months, He spent the winter in the
south of Europe, but returned almost
{worse than he went. He
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
SE eet mr
There is a distinction with a differ.
ence between attic rooms and rheu-
The United States need Sharing
1878 $36,900,000 in gold and
ver
The deepest mine on the Pacific slope
or in Amerion is the Belcher, which has
attained a vertical depth of 3,000 feet.
watch and
transfers it to a confederate, he does so
| merely to pass away time. ~New York
| News. :
The exports from the United States to
Great Britain for the Jast Year expend
thods of the previous year by over .
Durin the 121 cot
mitted rielda im Now Y eity. Forty.
| three were drowned and 1,015 et shelr
| death by violence,
“1 think the turkey has the advan.
tage of you," said landlady to the
inexpert boarder who wis carving.
“ Guess it has, mum~—in age.”
Hens will set on a nest of eggs for days
and not murmur, but iet a man set on a
basicot of ofitn but for a second and he
will use fow! language enough
“If you marry Grace,” exclaimed an
irate father to hisson, “I will cut you
off without a cent, snd you won't have
80 much fin.3 plete of meat Jo oilin
Rud ‘a é eo
ree hs aS aA
mediately went in search of » minister,
~ Saturday Night.
*
| wasted d sank a fi Ghually
w AWAY, An a few days ago.
| — London Tomes. Rae
sod Nelly were walking
rough the meadow, one bright sammer
day;
merrily langhing and talking,
some toadetools they saw by the way,
“Po the toads really use these to sit on?”
Said Nelly now don’t make s pun, Gua,
It you do, like the sobjeet we've hit on,
I'll deem it the meanest of fon-Gas”
= Boston Journal of Commerce,
The vital statistics of New York city
for IRTY present some instroetive results,
The mortality of the city keeps
with, if it does not sdvance faster
than one-half the entire pumber of
from tenement
bouses. While more than Lall the
peopie of the city are of American birth,
the marriage records of the yesr show
only 3,872 native grooms out of a total
of 8,402, though the native-born brides
turn the scale on the other side with the
number of 473. According to the
State census of 1875, the German em-
pire furnished sixteen per cent. of the
inhabitants of the cit; according to
German birth represent twenty-five per
cent. of those married during the past
year. The Irish, though representing
nineteen per cont. of the city population,
furnished only nine and one-half per
cent. of the men and ten per cent. of the
women who got married, An analysis
of the birth record would, a local paper
Shlinks, tend go Sophie. the facts
which point tothe : eutonizi
of New York. 3
He came up a litt! late, ste in
without ringing. and. riding softly into
the parior dropped into an easy-chair
with the careless grace of a young man
who is sccustomed to the programme,
“By Jove,” he said to the fizure sitting
in the dim obscurity of the sola. * By
Jove, 1 thought I was never going to
see you sione again. Your mother
never goes away from the house nowa-
days, does she, Minnie?” Well, 1.0t
amazingly frequently,” cheerfully re-
plied the old iady from the sofa. * Min.
nie’s away so much of the time now |
have to say in.” In the old hickory at
the end of the house the moping owl
compiained te the moon much in its
usual style, the katydids never
more clearly and the plaintive ery
the whip-poor-wl~ * led the night with
poetry, but he didn't hear any of it all
the same. “ And, by George,” he said
to a friend §ifteen minutes later, “it I
dudn't leave my hat on the piano and my
cane in the hall, I'm a Think of
‘em? Forget 'em? Strike me Lilind if]
knew I had any clothes on st all. What
I wanted was fresh air, and | wanted
about thirty acres of jt and mighty
quick too.”
A page of the Czar's diary. if we may
believe the San Francisce News Lefler,
runs as follows: “Got up at 7 a4. NM.
and ordered my bath. Found four gal-
jons of vitro! in it, and did not take it.
Went to breakfast. The Nibilists had
inced two torpedoes on the stairs, but
did not step on them. The coffee
ly of prussic acid that I
was afraid to drink it. Found a scorpion
in my left slipper, but luckily shook it
out before putting it on. Just before
stepping into the carriage to go for my
morning drive, it was blown into the
air, kil the coschman and the horses
instantly. I did not drive. Took = light
canned They ct fool me
there. Found’. poison: lagger in my
favorite chair with the point sticking
out. Did not sift down on it. Had din-
ner at 8 p. ¥., and made Baron Laischou-
eared away. Con-
sumed some Baltimore oysters and some
London stout that 1 have had locked u
for five years. Went to the theater, an
was shot at three times in the fit act.
Had the entire audience Went
home to bed, and slept all on the
roof of the palace.”
—_
The Postal Card, a new paper in New
York, asked Mr. Beecher: “What is
your opinion as to the desirability of the
marriage of young people?” Mr, Beecher
i gp people ought
, of course, you pie ©
to arg sit is intended that they should
according to nature. But love always
must he tempered with prudence, and
it is all the better—and very much bet.
ter—if both love and prudence were
tinctured with religion. Do I think
that a man ought to have a fortuse be-
fore he marries? No. prevalent
tortune before he marries, that his wife
shail have no share or sympathy with
him in the work or le to gain a
footing, and in the t of it {and in
deal of the pleasure
consist) is absurd.
Then. too, itis thought necessary that a
young marti e should set out
with so la an establishment as is en-
joyed by older people whom they seek
to showily equal. who have perha
beca married for twenty years, andin
that time have built up commercial sues
cess and social respect. The ideathat a
man must be wealthy before he weds
fills the community with fortune-seek-
ing bachelors and unhappy spinsters; it
end virtue, destroys true economy
and design, and the beneficient inten-
tions of the home. It promotes vice,
idleness, inefficiency and imbecility
amongst females, who seem from an un-
sympathetic outset thenceforward to ex-
pect to be taken wp by fortune and pas-
sively sustained, and without any con-
cern on their part. It is thus that a
man finds it difficult to obtai a help-
meet.
How an Owl's Head Revolves.
A centributor to the dmersaan Nulur-
alist, who had read a funny story about
an owl's wringing his own nick by
looking at a man who was walking
around him, tested the matter, by ex-
periment. He obtained a fine specimen
and placed him on top of a post. “It
was not difficult,” says the writer, “to
secur» his attention, for he never di-
verted his gaze from me while I was in
his presence. I began walking rapidly
around the post a few feet from it. keep-
ing my eyes fixed upon him all the
while. His body remained motionless,
but his head turned exactly with my
movements. When I wes fw
round his head was directly behind.
Three-quarters of a circle were com-
pleted and still the same twist of the
neck and the same stare followed me.
One circle and no change. On I went,
twice round, and still that watchful
stare and steady turn of the head. On
I went, three times round, snd | began
really to wonder why the head did mot
drop off, when all at onee I discovered
what 1 failed to notice before. When [
reached half way round from he front,
which was as as he co rn
head to follow my Hovelanis with
he whisked it through
A TE
me in suc
precision that failed to detect the
movement, although I was looking in-
tantly all’ the tine 1 repeated the