“ Stop Thief.
A wolf into the wilderness one day
Bore off a stolen sheep, and on the prey
Fed to the full. Then, finding he could not
Devour it to the bone npon the spot,
Resolved till supper time the rest to keap,
Beside it laid him down and went to sleep.
Meanwhile the smell allured a neighboring
mouse
To creep with caution from his tiny house.
A particle of meat he slyly stole,
Then swiftly sped him back into his hole,
Yet, spite of all his care, the wolt awoke,
And into ories and lamentations broke:
“ Hello, there! Murder! Robbery! Will none
Fetch the police? I'm ruined and undone.
Confound these misereant mice! Oh, shame
and grief,
That any four-legged thing should be a thief?
= University Magazine.
Ns
My Loss,
Day after day, while at my window sitting,
I see the children at their play near by;
Like butterflies in summer gardens flitting,
They hover round beneath my watohtul eye.
The little girls, with flushed and merry faces,
Glance at me shyly tor my answering smile,
And tempt me with their most alluring goes
To put sad thoughts away while they be-
guile,
Blonde bair and brown in soft confusion blend-
ng,
Black eyes and Live upturned to meet my
gare,
Roses both white and pink their contrast
lending,
To add new beauty to the "wildering maze.
But when they one by one, tired out with
playing,
Steal slowly homeward through the sunset
light,
Memory goes back beyond the dark years,
straying
Among the days of yore that seem so bright.
I turn my head, & radiant, golden splenddn
Shines from the west across the pictured
wall,
And glorifies & face divinely tender,
With bronge-brown hair waved round it
fall on fall;
With violet eyes s0 winsome in their sweet.
ness,
That mine grow smiling spite of griel and
pain,
With curved lips, the seal of love's complete
ness ;
Oh, Heaven' could I but press them once
again.
In vain I watch and wait, she will come only
When night has cast ber spell on sea and
shore;
Then when I sleep and dream, no longer
lonely,
She comes to feed my hungry heart once
more.
Tis then and only then that I behold her;
Her dear voice floats around me soft and
low;
‘Tis then, and only then, my arms enfold her,
The little girl 1 lost so long ago.
— Boston Transcripl
ALMOST TOO LATE.
“Iam going now, Helen."
Charles Archer stood at the door of
the one room high up in a noisy tene
ment-house in New York, which he
called ** home.” It "was not the wedded
home he had dreamed of twelve vears
before, when he uttered the ** Valedie-
tory” at Yale. when Helen Gordon
blushed and smiled at the applause that
reeted his appearance on the stage.
Nor was that crouching figure beside the
window, in the untidy print dress, with
the pretty sullen face, and the uncombed
golden hair, much like the graceful belle,
of whose company he had been so proud,
so happy to monopolize, upon that
golden day.
His wife looked up and caught the ex-
pression of pitying regret apon his dark
and hanasome face. Her heart was full
of angry rebellion against her fate,
against herself, against him — almost
inst God!
a Why do you lock at me like that?”
she said, peevishly. * 1 know that the
room has not been swept, and that 1
have not made my toilet for the day.
My toilet,” she laughed bitterly. “When
shall 1 make a toilet again, | wonder?
I once set the fashion in New Haven!
Whe would believe it now! And, oh,
to think—enly to think what my life
might have been, if I had been wise.”
Her husband's face darkened all over.
“1 understand!” he exclaimed.
“You mean if you had married Paul
Hayden instead of me.”
* How can I help such thoughts? |
saw his wife early yesterday morning
when I “was out. She was driving to
the railway station on her way to their
country house for the summer. [ heard
the footman say so to some one when he
went to buy the tickets for ner. And,
oh, what a difference there was be.
tween us two! No wonder she has kept
her beauty. No wonder 1 have lost
mine! Beauty and health, and youth
and happiness, they are all going away
from me, because we are so poor!”
“Better days may be coming, love,’
said the husband, after a pause. “]
have heard of a gooa situation this
titne, you know. If I get it, it will be
a stepping-stone to other things of more
consequence. And when I am rich,
you know well, my darling, that I shall
refuse you nothing.”
“You have thought so many times
that better days were close at hand.
And every time you have been disap-
inted, and we have lived on the same
Rorrible life,” was the discouraging re-
ply.
“1 know, my dearest; but this is
really good news, I trust ard hope. If
you will only kiss me and wish me
good luck, I have faith that it will
come.”
He bent down, his dark eyes wistfully
searching hers for one glance of love,
such as he had so often seen there in the
happy days of courtship. Bat love, so
far as she was concerned, he sometimes
feared, had flown out of the window of
this home when poverty entered. The
heat, the dust, the discordant street-
cries without, the shabby, disordered
room within, the general sense of her
own untidiness, and the galling memory
of the fresitly beautiful summer costume
worn by the wife of Paul Hayden, as
she lounged in her carriage on the pre-
vious day—all these things combined to
banish the affectionate glance for which
the husband's heart so vainly hungered,
and to make the wife's parting kiss so
cold and formal that it lingered like ice
upon the young man’s lips as he turned
away,
He said nothing. But the deep sigh,
that seemed to come from the very
depths of a tried and overladen heart,
silently reproached her.
She caught a last glimpse of his face
as he closed the door. It wore a look
of repressed sorrow that would haunt
her to her dying day. What evil spirit
had tempted her to try him so?
Was it his fault that, by the sudden
failure of a bank in the great * panic.”
the savings of years of steady toil Lad
been lost in a moment? Had he not
labored faithfully ever since for her
support? For her ungrateful sake, had
he not stooped even to menial toil, when
no other employment could be procured.
And now she sent him from her,
uncheered by a look or word of fondness.
What if some accident should happen to
the train by which he was to travel?
What if he should never return?
.
aralyzed by the shock of that idea.
Fhen she sprang from her chair and
rushed to the door. She would call him
back, and ask him to forgive that care-
Jess, cruel parting.
She was too late. He was already in
the street. A moment later she heard
the shrill whistle of the train.
into her mind to unsettle and reprove
her. They bore their fruit.
In less than an hour after Charles
Archer's departure his home wore a
very different aspect. By nightfall the
one room was trim and clean as willing
hands could make it. Before the clean
windows a pair of snowy muslin cur-
tains weredrawn. The stoveshone like
a mirror, and from its open front a
bright welcome to the absent master
flashed out, flooding the very walls
with warmth and lizht.
And summer eve:
though it was,
both light and warmt
were needed.
VOLUME XIII.
Hditor and Propr
1otor.
A.
FEBRUARY
=
thy
1880,
NUMBER 5.
of its own mind, and veered sharply
round continually from south to east
Amid the wailing wind and dropping
rain Helen Archer worked steadily on.
At nine o'clock the train which was
to bring her husband home was due.
Her last task was finished, when she
dished up his favorite viands and set
them, covered over with a basin, upon
the hearth to keep warm.
She leaned from the window, looking
out, through wind and rain, for some
sign of his home-coming. She wore the
dress he liked hest. Her hair was ar
ranged in his favorite fashion of braids
and curls, She had kissed him coldly
as he left her, but now, with her heart
upon her lips, she waited to welcome
him back, even if he returned as unsue
cessfulas he went. What did that mat
ter, she thought, as she glanced at the
window of her opposite neighbor, who
had been left a widow only one short
month ago.
“Only let him return to me safely,
and I will make amends for all,” she
half thoaght, hall praved, as memory
recalled the countless times in which
she had grieved him during the past
half year.
Nine o'clock came and passed, yet she
did not hear the usual whistle of the in-
coming train. Half-past nine and yet
no footstep on the stairs!
Her heart lay like a leaden weight in
her bosom. { from her
i}
i
y
}
0"
i
The color faded
lips and cheeks, and her blue eyes grew
wild with silent dread. At tem 0 lock
she could bear the suspense no longer,
She left her room and ran down the
stairs, with a half-formed purpose in
her mind of inquiring at the neighbor-
ina station about the laggard train.
Dimly, in the darkness, she saw a
crowd of people gathered at the outer
door of the tenement-house, They were
all talking confusedly, but now and
then some words broke plainly through
the medley of sound.
“His poor wife!" said one voion,
“ how is she going to bear it, I wonder,
It is well for her that she has no littie
ones to look after. She is nothing more
than a child herself, anyway.”
*“* Make way there!” said
outside. * We must carry the body up-
stairs. Which room is it! And some
woman ought to go up befoce us and
tell the wife.”
The erowd surged and parted.
tween the ranks, six men came
onward, following a policeman.
knew him well, and when he looked up
the staircase, and saw the slight figure
bending forward and the pale face fall
of a fixed and settled horror, he turned
again to the crowd, and called out:
“One cf you women come up here
to break the news. And take her away,”
he added, in a lower It Is
sight for her."
Good -natured Bridget McCarthy came
forward, and ran up the stairs to where
Helen stood.
“You'll come back into your room
wid me, my darlint,"” she said, putting
her strong arms around Helen's sk p
waist. * Sure it'll destroy you intirely
to look on at the likes of 4 bi
“ Bridget, is he dead?” asked t
lips, pititully.
“Sorry I am to say that he is! It was
the train, my dear. Ol the track, they
say, and ten strong men killed out
beside him that brin
from below,
Helen fell
woman's feet.
Halfian hour iater she struggled slowly
back to life and loneliness again. She
opened her eyesto find | [ lying on
her own bed, with the kind old d
of the neighborhood
with rather an anxiot
“We shall do ;
making a warnin
the background.
Helen gave a great sig
hand.
“Oh, why did you bring me back,
doctor? 1 have driven my husband
away to his death, and 1 hoped 1 could
die. too. [ blamed him because we
were so poor, doctor, and I would
scarcely kiss him when he went away
this morning to look for another place.
Oh, 1 have been so cruel to him! And
now, just when I was sorry for it, and
when 1 had resolved to try
ter wite, God has taken him away from
me, and he wiil never know how bit-
terly I repented.”
* How do you know that he is d
my dear?" asked the doctor.
* Oh, I saw them bringing him up the
stairs. And I heard them talking about
me."
** Not about you, my dear, but about
poor little Mrs. Gray. who lives in the
room at the back. + Her husband was
badly burt on the train when it ran off
the track this evening. We thought he
was dead at first. But since then he has
revived, and 1 feel sure that, by God's
mercy, he will recover before long.”
“But where is my husband, then?
cried Helen, starting up.
* Gad has been very good to you, too,
my dear,” said the old physician.
“JIshealive? Where is he? Oh, tell
me!” her every gesture struggling be-
tween hope and fear,
“Hare!”
The doctor stepped back. From a
dark corner of the room a tall figure
rushed forward and clasped the wonder-
ing, weeping wife in a close embrace.
“Is it you? Oh, is it really you?”
she exclaimed, bursting into tears.
“Oh, Charles, 1 have been so miserable
since jou went away! How could 1
treat you so? You never, never can
forgiveme or love me again!”
“As il I could help loving you as long
as I live, Helen! And you shall be so
happy after this. I have found a good
place, I shall have a good salary, and
to-morrow, if you are well enough, we
will take a trip into the country to-
gether and find some pretty little cot.
tage, where you can amuse yourself all
through this beautiful summer among
the birds and flowers.”
“1 den’t want a cottage. I want
nothing butyou, Charles, and now God
has given you back to me, that will be
enough io make me happy,” said his
wife, giving him the tera kiss which
she had tefused him that morning.
Nevertheless the cottage was taken,
and the summer was as happy a time
as mortals may ever hope to enjoy this
side of Paradise.
Once, on their journey thither, after a
{ shopping excursion in the city, they
chanced to be overtaken by the magnifi-
some one
0
iv
ston
steadily
Helen
voice; ° no
he pale
t
rio
ging
Iris)
el oar
Wify are
§
+
senseless the
at
1erse if
GCLOr
nicely now,” he said,
g gesture to some one in
hor
Lvl
1 a8 he took
10 he a bet
ead '
aire. Mis. Hayden, resplendent in
{ toilet freth from the atelier of Worth,
set therdn. She was brown-eyed and
pink-chetked and very handsome. Yet
| her face looked worn and wearied. It
| lacked the look of true and perfect hap-
| piness that Helen's wore.
Helen caught the somewhat anxious
look that her husband turned upon her,
as the gregt lady drove slowly by.
She smiled. Under cover of
pletty silken shawl her hand stole into
18.
| thanking God that it had been given,
| although it came “ Almost too Late.”
i _~
Steam Power of the World.
The aggregate steam power of the
| employed in stationary engines, and
| 10,000,000 horse power in
| engines. This force is maintained with-
| out the consumption of animal food, ex
| cept by the miners who dig the coal.
{and the force maintained in their mus-
| ples is to the force generated by the pro-
| duct of their labor, about one to 1,080.
| This steam power is equal to the work-
| ing force of 25,000,000 horses, and one
{ horse consumes three times as much
Imod as ong man. The steam power,
| snerefore, if equal to the saving of 75,-
| 00,000 human beings.
i
Choeolate,
The
attaining its growth as the orange tree;
the seed, but does not reach
bearing period until at the age of seven
or eight, It a tender plant daring
th
the frst stages of iis growth, and, like
is
leavedfplant like the plantain or banana,
which, of quicker gpowth, are set out
near the seed at time 81 planting,
existence, but one without the other
proves fatal to its growth
in {ife with an acre or so of cacao trees,
the negro asks for nothing more; his
and he enjoys an idle existence,
frait of the cacao resembles somewhat
an overripe cucumber about six inches
in length, oval and pointed. Many of
the pods grow right out of the trunk o
the tree, hanging by short stems, and
remind ore of taiiless rats. Some are
green, some yellow, crimson or purple,
colors
longitudinal cells, containing a sweetish,
agreeable pulp, in which are enveloped
the seeds, from twenty to thirty in
number—a white, pulpy substance, in a
thin shell. When the fruit is mature it
is gathered, and the seeds removed and
dried. Sometimes they are buried in
sand or dry earth, for the purpose of
absorbing the moisture and pulp, Great
care is necessary in curing them, as
they mold easily, and the planters gen-
erally provide large platforms on wheels
on which the seeds are spread,
they run out from under a shelter on
sunshiny days. * * * The native
method of preparing chocolate from the
seeds is to roast them and grind finely
on a warm smooth stone. When well
kneaded it forms a tenacious
which, with the addition a little
sugar, is made into small rolls or sticks.
~ Camps in the Caribbees.
of
The African Honey-Bird,
The honey-bird is about as large as a
gray mooking-bird, and is of similar
color. It endeavors to attract the atten
tion of travelers and to induce them 1
follow it. When it succeeds th
most invariably leads the person whe
fellows to a nest of While
on the route it keeps up an incessan
wittering, as if to assure its follower of
suocess, and often alights on the ground
or a bush and looks back to see if the
person is still in pur
I'he native Africans, when conducted
by the bird, frequently answer its twit
tering with a whistle as they proceed,
for the purpose of signifying to then
contluctor that they are still following.
When the bird arrives at the hollow
tree or otner place where the honey is
deposited, it hovers over the
points at the deposit with its bill,
and perches on a neighboring bush om
tree to await its share of the plunder
[his is the usual termination of the ad
venure. But sometimes the honey.
bird seems to be actuated by a love of
mischief, and then instead of leading
the traveler to a bee's nest, it conaucts
him to the lair of some wild beast, and
then flies away with a twittering which
sounds something like lagghter. Gor-
don Cumming, *‘the lion killer," once
followed a hopey-bird which conducted
him to the retreat of a huge crocodile:
wid hoes,
suit
spot,
this august présence, the little feathered
joker took a hasty leave, evidently much
delighted with the success of his trick.
I
Who Takes Care of the Sultan.
The revelations of M Abdul-tdakk, a
writer in the Nouvelle Review, resemble
the stories of “Thousand and One|
Nights,” and might be easily
tempted to disbelieve the existence of i
sucha affairs at the
European civilization if the details fur.
nished by the writer were not sup- |
ported by the undeniable proofs of truth-
fulness. He tells us that the sultan is
surrounded by hundreds of young
women ; he employs for what the writer
terms his “famiiv service” a body of
forty young women, selected carefully
from among the handsomest in the pal.
The duties they have to perform
are to dressand undress him, to accom-
pany him to the bath, to keep his hair
and finger nails in order and lull him to
sleep. He keeps a ballet of fifty girls,
who perform seversl dances every eve-
ning after supper while his highness is
resting on adivan. He also has a band
of thirty female musicians ani about
sixty others who take charge of his
apartments, clean his narghiles andeh i-
bougques, and perform other similar au-
ties. In short, the whole service in the
palace is done Ly female slaves, chosen
from among the most attractive ones in
his dominions, and it may well be said |
that Turkey, which does not recognize |
the social existence of a woman, sub-
mits to being practically governed by
women.
one
state of doors of
ate,
IR ————
The Danger of Winter Sports.
Allen T. Foster, of Big Shanty, Pa., |
had his leg shattered by his ritie ball, |
and dragged himself four miles to his |
home,
Celebrating his birthday on the ice
with skates, Arthur Hyland, aged
twenty-one, of Winamae, Ind., went
into the lake and was drgwned.
Chariie Herndon, of Richmond, Ky., |
got his rabbit, but his gun barrel left the
stock, and Charlie
his left hand. ’
Joseph Gendron and his sweetheart, |
Amelia Cloutier, of Penetanquishene, |
Ont., skated under the ice together and
were drowied,
While driving a pheasant out of a |
bush for his son to shoot, Job Monroe,
of Bluffton, Ind., caught the full charge
of ghot in his face.
While Harold Wallace, a six-year-old |
son of Dr. Wallace, of Helveton, N. Y.,
was coasting, he ran into a team and
wns kicked to death.
Orson Stone left
lost the thumb of |
his fingers in the |
us he walked through the woods,
Three friends, 8:evens, Robinson and
Moore, of St. Paul, Minn., came upon a
deer. Moore's head came in front of
- EE
The Workings of Lord
Odd Nose.
. When I was a young man, my avoeca-
tions led me frequently to Lincoln's inn.
I would drop occasionally in at the
chancery court, and have a look at
Lord Brougham as he sat leaning hack-
ward, with his eyes closed, listening to
Brougham’s
she lawyers’ mouthing, or rather mum-
bling their interminable pleas. At first
sight his lordship appeared to be asleep,
but a close inspection would show you
that the muscles at the tip of his nose
were in a state of rapid and continuous
agitation. There was no motion of the
nostrils, not the least, but an unceasing
ating the organ, reminding me strongly
Having once remarked it, I
| when his lordship was visibly occupied
with the business before him, either
uestioning counsel or witnesses or ad-
ressing the court. Of course he was
not asleep us he lay back with closed
eyes; indeed, it was well known that at
such times he was wide-awake, and
thoroughly mastered the business in
{ hand. Though his lordship’s accom-
| plishment, if it was one, is by no means
{ common, it is not so rare as might be
| supposed, and I believe that many per-
{ sons possess and exercise it without, so
al as one can judge from observation
d
alone, being conscious of it.— Leisure
Hour.
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
sr som—
Of the 3,000 Episcopal ministers in the
ad 55 are unemployed.
Bishop Gilbert Haven's funeral was
attended by nearly every
minister in New England.
Canada has a Roman Catholic popu.
{ lation of 1,546,800, with 23 bishops, 1,500
priests, and 1,617 churches.
Max Miller classifies the world’s reli
| gions as missionary and non-missionary,
Christianity being the only former.
I'he Methodist missionary society is
{ about to send out nine young men to
prepare for missionary werk in India.
A new Russian church temple is to be
{ dedicated at Moscow in August next.
| #13, 000,000,
Six descendants of one of the forty-one
| families who came over in the May-
{flower are members of Plymouth
{ church, Rochester,
During the sixty-one years of exist.
ence the Methodist Episcopal society
has expended about $15,000,000 for home
and foreign missions,
Mrs. Cornelia Nutter, of Waterloo,
Iowa, has given $30,000 to endow a
chair of practical theology in Garrett
Biblical Institute (Methodist), at Evans.
| ton, Il.
Petersburg, Va., has 1,170 Episco-
palians, 926 Baptists, 1,786 Methodists,
| 630 Presbyterians, 600 Catholies, 20
Hebrews, besides 5,977 members
colored churches,
i The North Carolina Presbyles tan says:
| Grassy Creek is the oldest church in
| Orange Presbytery. It was organized in
the Year 1753.
the building still stands.
In the State of New York the esti.
mated value of chur bh property in 1850
was 821,000,000; in 1560, £35,000,000; in
| 1875, $118,000,000, and at the present
{ time nearly $40,000,000,
{ The first bishop of the Episcopal
{ church in America was Rev. Samuel
| Seabury, DD. D., who was consecrated
Bishop of Connecticut by three Scotch
bishops, at Aberdeen, in 1784,
The Rev. B. F. Balcom and the Rey
(yeorge Balcom, wlio were hrothers and
Baptist ministers, died on the 20th of
December, the former in Corning, N. Y.,
and the latter in Cawker City, Kan,
The * Week of Prayer ™ had its origin
at the annual meeting of the Lodiana
| mission, India, in 1858, when the mis.
sionaries spent three days in devotion.
Its observance was not general until
1860,
The order in which the different re.
ing, is said by Prof. Legge, of Oxford
| University, to be: Confucianism
f Llanity,
and then Buddhism.
Methodist Episcopal Church South re.
ports 61,153 members, an increase of
3,063 during the vear. It Las 650
{ churches, which paid $84,434 for the
support of their pastors.
Matriculation Gay at Kenyon college,
in Gambier, Ohio, iast week, brought
together seven bishops of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. Bishop Coxe, of
Western New York, delivered an ad.
dress on “ Christian Manliness,”
Mr. Gladstone is of the opinion that
an effective cultivation of the great
fice of preaching is perhaps the most
“
Oi
and voeal expressions and articulation
{are an important and essential part of
*"
I'he Baptists were the pioneer mis.
gries in Liberia, Afri ‘ing in the
field eleven years before the Methodists.
They organiged their first church in
1821. Now their association has twenty-
two churches, with 1,600 communi-
is
canis.
sion
The mission schools in India receive
considerable help from the government,
which pays for certain results in secular
education, though it does not appoint
teachers nor regulate the teaching.
payments are made sccording to a cer.
tain standard of proficiency.
The missionaries at Oroomiah, Per.
sin, maken urgent appeal to American
Christians for means to relieve the suf-
ferers from famine in that country.
They represent that from the failure of
tute feondition, and a great calamity is
impending,
The Samoan islands have been on.
Out of a popula-
of about 40,000, some 35000, or
seven-eighths, are connected with Chris.
society reports 20.403; the Wesleyans,
4.791: the Roman Catholics, 2,852, and
the Mormons, 126.
A circular has been issued by the
Leipsic, Ger-
of an Episcopal church for English and
American residents in that eity. The
the land necessary for the enterprise as
soon as its accomplishment is assured.
I'he sum asked for is £7,000,
The Rev. Mr. Scott, of the ‘mission o
retarn to his field in Asia Minor frem
this country, put a small steamer on
Lake Van, the first ever seen in that part
The natives watched its
motions with astonishment and delight,
expressed the belief that the Prot-
estants were wiser than Solomon.
A OSI —
Sad Result of a Practical Joke.
Brooks Gould was perhaps the most
i (yen-
the same disposition, set Gould down as
ther a great deal When they entered
day afternoon not long ago, Gould, who
had about him the dash and sparkle of
had been robbed. The joke was carried
Valuables were removed, the hed
overturned and things put topsy turvy a
{la burglar, the wags retiring to the
Joe reached the door and stood
aghast. With mouth agape and eyes
| wide open he scrutinized in one look the
innermost corners and then straightway
walked to the door ot the bathroom.
This he found locked from within. He
put his ear to the keyhole. Faint sounds
of breathing reached him. He pulled
out a revolver and instantly emptied
Levery chamber into the paneis of the
| door. General Waite felt his young
| friend's body quiver at the first shot and
{ threw his arms around him,
owed instantly.
-~ 0 —
Words of Wisdom.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any
100k.
Conscience is the voice of the soul;
the passions are the voice of the body.
All other knowledge is hurtful to
him who has not honesty and good
nature,
Hatred is so durable and obstinate
that reconciliation on a sick bed isa sign
of death.
A merry heart doeth good like a
medicine; but a broken spirit drieth
the bones.
Circumstances form the character;
but, like petrifying matters, they har-
den while they form.
When one has no design but to speak
plain truth, he may say a great deal in
a Very narrow compass.
The universe is but one great city,
full of beloved ones, divine and human,
by nature endeared to each other.
The beloved of the Almighty are the
rich who have the humilty of the poor
and the poorwho have the magnanim-
ity of the rich.
| Aneedotes of a Great Business Man,
| The New York Mercantile Journal
Prine a sketeh of the lite of David
{age of cighty-nine years. We quote
| from the article
The deceased was a prominent and
| esteemed merchant and banker, and had
| been intimately identified with the busi-
| ness interests of this city and Brooklyn
| for more than three-score years. Many
| of our most flourishing mercantile and
| financial institutions were either founded
{by him er are largely indebted to his
{active aid apd timely counsels for their
| present prosperity. He was the founder,
{and for many years president, of the
{ Brooklyn White Lead Company, one of
i the oldest and most extensive establish.
ments of the kind in this country.
{| Mr, Leavitt was born at
| Litchfield county, Conn., August 20,
{ 1791, and came to this city in the year
| 1813. He was employed as a clerk in a
| produce and commission house for sev-
| eral years, when, on obtaining his share
| of his father's estate, amounting to about
| $10,000, he began business on his own
| account, At the outset of his career
{ John Jaeob Astor imported a cargo of
{ ton, and Mr. Leavitt bought the entire
lot. During the progress of the nego-
| tiations Mr. Astor asked his customer in
| broken English how he proposed to pay
{for it. Mr. Leavitt coolly drew trom
| his pocket the required amount in notes
{drawn by Mr. Astor, which young
| Leavitt had bought up on the street. An
instance of the pluck and energy which
made Mr. Leavitt a successful merchant
was shown before he was twenty-five
| years old, when the Colombian govern.
ment, being engaged in a local war,
i authorized its agents in this country to
| build a vessel, which was also to be pro.
i vided with its armament and equipment
in this country. The agents were un-
willing to fulfill the commission, and
sought aid from other sources, Young
Leavitt heard of the matter, and under.
| took the enterprise. He built the vessel
i and induced the United States govern.
ment to assist him in its armament, and
{ then assumed command of the ship. He
sailed for the destined port. and erriving
safely, received $100,000 in the currency
of the Colombian government and &
draft on the city of London for $100,000
more, a clear profit of $100,600 ns his
recompense. Realizing that Spanish
doubloons would he more easily nego-
tiated in this city than Colombian cur-
| reney, he stopped at Havana and made
the exchange. His sagacity was duly
rewarded, for on arriving at this port he
on Spanish doubloons, which netted
him a considerable addition to his profits
in the transsotion.
ten —————
Remarkable Trees,
The last treaty with the Cherokee In-
linns was signed beneath a giant white
onk that still stands near the Cherokee
corner, Oglethorpe, Ga.
At Wyoming, in Western New York,
{is an elm that measures thirty-four feet
around the trunk. 1s branches are
thirty-four feet from the ground,
A curious freak of nature can be seen
near Eurekn, Cal, Tt is in the shape of
a tree, seventy-five feet high, one p ation
of which is pine and the other fir,
Many oaks in England are 800 to 1,000
years old. The Newland oak is forty-
seven feet six inches in girth. The
Cowthorp, now more than 100 years in
Process ay, still has a girth of
sixty feet,
A peach tree in the garden of Mrs,
Caleb Crow, of Hartford, Ky., is bearing
a full grown pumpkin, The News says:
“This tree bore none of its natural fruit
this season: but nevertheless there
hangs the healthy growing pumpkin,
just as it had grown from the blossom to
its present size, which is much larger
than a man's head.”
Not a rivalet can be found on the
island of Fierro, one of the largest of the
Canaries, yet there is a species of tree,
the { which are narrow and
Q QOL
leaves of
long, and continue green through the
entire year. These trees are continually
surrounded by a cloud which is con.
cisterns placed under them constantly
rll.
The trunk of an old tree that resembles
a block of plaster or cement may he
seen on the grounds of the Jardin des
Plantes, Paris. An inscription at tie
root of the branches announces that the
tree is the doacia Virgwensis spinosa of
North America, It
France in 1601 by Jean Robin, and was
planted in the place it now occupies by
Vespasian Robin, gardener to Louis
X111., in 1638, This tree, which is now
278 years old, formerly reached a great
height, but its topmost branches with
ered and had to be cut off to obtain new
shoots,
iron and carefully stopped with a com-
position so that water eannot infiltrate
| into the trunk of the tree, as that woud
cause its death.
Heart Disease.
The cases of heart disease are far less
common than is generally supposed,
the heart being one of the toughest
organs in the body. Still there are
many cases, and they are of different
kinds. There way be a paralysis of the
nerves of the heart. When this occurs
death is instantaneous. Angina pectoris
not unfrequently terminates in this way,
for excruciating pains exhaust nervous
force as greatly as does excessive
pieasure.
There may be what is called a fatty
degeneracy of the heart, in which fat
takes the place of the fibrous tissue, and
sooner or later gives way under some
slight excitement.
Sometimes the walls of tho heart be.
come quite thin at some point, and this,
in connection with the general enlarge.
ment of the organ, renders it subject to
more violent action, and it may
denly burst on the quickening of that
action. Such
produced by violent and protracted ex.
ertions, as in boat-racing.
Or there may be a dilatation of a por-
tion of an artery leading out from the
heart; such dilatations are called
aneurisms, and are attended with a loss
ning of the wails of the vessel,
as to prevent the outflow of the blood
{ to the brain.
ever acts upon the heart—knows from
his own experience. In all diseases of
the heart absolute self-control at
timea is of the most urgent necessity.
Companion
EE ————
ment, Youth's
Estivation.
is curious that some creatures
PI
| torpid, not by cold, but by heat, and
| will eall mstivation for want of a bet.
| ter word. These creatures are called by
the
| FARM, GARDEN
Artificial Hay«Making.
In Great Briwin, rainy, foggy
weather prevalls te a far greater extent
than in this country, rendering the har-
vesting of their hay sand grain crops
matters of greal uncertainty. Hence an
artificial fre maker has long been
sought for by inventiveminds. Recently
an Englishman has invented what is
cinimed as a really practicable process,
which is thus described:
Streams of hot air from the mouth of
a hot blast fan, connected with a port-
able engine, are directed upon masses of
wel bay or grain laid in open troughs,
and brought in turn, by occasional Hift-
ing of forks, uncer the direct action of
the air, By increasing the temperature
of the blast it was found that thedrying
process could be proportionately expe.
dited,
fected by bringing the hot-blast fan to
bear upon a shed divided into two com-
partments by an iron partition, and hav.
ing & space between the iron oor and
the ground. Hot air, supplied from the
hot-blast fan by means of a duct from
an underground furnace, communicates
with thirty-two conical perforated tubes
on the floor, on which are spiked the
wet grain-sheaves. These tubes of
course are used only for grain. The
crowning success of the whole process
is an atmospheric hoisi, worked by the
same engine as the hot blast, which ele.
vates and sends up to the top of a stack,
twenty-two feet high, as many as 060
sheaves per hour,
Lhe past season, being unprecedent-
edly wet, has brought this invention to
the front, and practical men have not
been slow in recognizing its value, In
a recent letter to un exchange the in-
ventor states: “I lent one of my hay-
driers to Mr. Ashcombe, of Seward.
stone, a practical farmer of long experi-
ence and large * holding. He started it
at 9A MM, and in ten hours had dried
and stacked the produce of ten
acres, estimated at one and one.
half loads per acre. The to-
tel ocest was $27.50 for the
ten acres, rather less than it would
have cost to make the hay in the field,
had that been possible. The hay was
wade from unripe, rank, weedy grass
which had been perpetually rained
upon; Mr. Ashcombe and his men were
inexperienced in the useof the machine,
and had no help from we; the hay-drier
was wholly uncovered and showers fell
on the hay while it was being dried. In
spite of these unfavorable conditions,
however, the result was a complete suc-
Cas,
Whileit is not probable that individual
farmers in this country could afford an
investment in such a machine, vet with
that comprehensive system of OOO per-
ation among farmers, which in the fu-
ture may include the ownership in com-
mon of steam engines, threshers, horse.
powers, stump-pullers and the like, the
artificial hay-dryer may also find its
piace as a valuable agent in the saving
of crops jeopardized by long-continued
wet weather. At least the principle de.
tailed above may suggest a thought to
practical men that will lead to simple
contrivances for accomplishing the
SAE purpose.
Health Hints.
Thoroughly wetting the hair once or
salt water will prevent it falling out.
becoming sore,
water is a good preventive. A gentle
drug store, is good.
Uhe Scientific American says: * Vari-
ous instances have been recorded of the
discovery in hens’ eggs of minute speci-
mens of the distoma ovatum. They ap.
pear like a small speck, the size of a
millet seed or a pin's head. It is believed
by helminthologists that they will de.
velop into one of the varieties of ape
worm, and it is wise, therefore, to take
exgs hard boiled or otherwise wel
cooked,
where these parasitic bodies have been
found.”
In eases of ordinary sore throat, says
an exchange, the simplestand best treat.
ment is the wet pack, using a linen cloth
wrung from cold water, and over this a
knit of crocheted yarn band four feet
long and four inches wide. Apply this
two or three nights in succession, unless
it is a very serious ease, when the pack
should be kept daring the day. If taken
off in the morning, wash the throat in
very cold water and rub dry with a
coarse towel and with the hand. This
will prevent taking more cold. The
more friction used the better. Let it be
a sort of squeezing of the parts so as to
affect the deep-seated tissues. Sore
throat may be prevented by these means
from becoming chronfe.
| An exchange says: At this season
of the year, when coughs and colds are
the order of the day, and scarce a fatnily
is to be found, some of whose members
are not afllicted with them, the follow.
| ingremedy, communicated by a Russian,
| as the usual mode of getting rid of those
complaints in that part of Russia from
whence he came, is simple, and we can,
from experience, also vouch for its
efficacy. It is no other than a stron
| tes ny elder flowers, sweetened with
| honey, either fresh or dried. A basin
of this tea is to be drank as hot as possi-
ble, after the person Is warm in bed; it
produces a strong perspiration, and a
slight cold or cough yields to it imme.
diately, but the most stubborn requires
two or three repetition.
i Recipes.
| JELLY TARTLETS. —Make the paste the
{ sume as for mince pies; line small patty
| pang, pricking the paste in the bottom
to keep it rom pufiing too high; bake
in a quick over and fill with jelly or
jam.
ON10N Sour.—Take six onions, let
them brown slightly in a casserole with
a tablespoonful of butter; add three
| potatoes sliced, pepper and salt, not too
| much, and let it all cook in two pints ot
water for an hour and a half; must cook
slowly.
Wrrep Porarors.—Whip boiled
potatoes to creamy lightness with a
tork; beat in butter, milk, pepper and
sat; at last the frothed white of an egg:
| toss irregularly upon a dish, set in the
| oven two minutes to reheat, but do not
let it color,
Prune Pie. — Two cups French
| prunes steeped in water over night,
one cup sugar, one teaspoonful extract
lemon, tablespoontul vinegar, one-third
| cupful water; wet the edges of the paste
with milk; hake twenty-five minutes in
{ rather hot oven
| Meat Caxes.—Take any cold meat,
| game of poultry (if undone all the bet.
| ter), mince it fine with a little fat ham
or bacon; season with pepper and salt
| and a little savory spice. Mix well and
| make into small cakes; fry these a nice
| brown and serve them with a good
| gravy, or put into a mold and boil or
|
New Suet Pupping.—Four eggs, half
rivers, the Gambia being the best
known.
| equatorial summer the waters are dried
by the sun, and the mud baked into a
rens, which live chiefly on fish, would
| die for the want of food.
But as soon as the summer heats be-
| into a state of lethargy exactly parallel
to that of hibernating animals. As in
| hibernation, they require neithér to
| breathe nor to eat, and remain in their
| cells safe from all foes until the rainy
{ season returns and converts their brick-
| liké homes into mud. TI have had many
i specimens of restivated lepidosirens, and
have always found them in the same
| position, not coiled but doubled up,
i with the tail partly over the head.—
"Rev. J. G. Wood. :
| quart milk, half teaspoonful each of cin-
namon and nutmeg, two tablespoonfuls
{ of flour; chop the suet very line and
{ beat the egg thoroughly; heat the milk
scalding hot and pour it over the
crumbs; mix the suet, cinnamon, nut-
| meg and flour (the latter wet a little to
| prevent lumps), and beat all together;
add eggs; sweeten to taste; add salt
and brown in oven half an hour.
According to the Boston Journal of
i Commerce the first manufacture of
| small arms in this country dates back
| to 1748, in Bridgewater, Muss., by Hugh
| Orr, an Scotchman, from Renferwshire.
| He made 500 stands of arms for the
| province of Massachusetts bay, which
1 . ~ iy
| were stored in Castle William, Boston
| harbor, and were carried off by the
{ British when they evacuated the town.
| All of Orr's work was done by hand.
#0
»
TIMELY TOPICS,
mp—
! show that 175 589
| 18M, of whom 75.347 were aliens. Ger.
| many sent the largest number of emi.
{grants in 1879, the totul being 33.874;
| then England, with 21,665. France or,
| sent 2,331,
¥
The labor bureau found em-
11,010 males and 5.517
The Cuban planters evidently do not
think they will Jose their slaves for some
| time to come,
{ confidence has sprung up among them
mand $500 in gold. It is whispered
pretensions in Spain and his possible
| success, They believe that his govern.
| ment would earnestly oppose any eman-
| cipation of their slaves.
to loresee is the revival of Den Carlos’
i
{
average weight of American cotton. Of
are produced in
| crop of the world could be raised oun
section of Texas less than one-twelfth
of its area, or could be divided between
any two of the other principal cotton
their good lands; or it could all be
raised on less than one-half the Indian
Territory that is not yet occupied st all,
Within the last few months the news-
papers have been printing the statement
that a man in Paris offers $4,000 to any-
one who will draw the annexed figure
with a pen without lifting the pen from
the paper:
Henry L. Cariton, a teamster of Stock-
ten, Nev,, saw this puzzie and tried to
unravelit, He worked at the thing for
four months until at last he became vio-
leptly inssne, Dr. McMecan, of Stock-
ton, decided that Cariton was clean daft,
and upon a certificate issued hy him
Cariton has been confined in the Esmer-
aida county asylum,
An application of electricity to the
i mouths of unruly horses promises to
{ be*more successful than even Rarey's
method. A metallic conducting wire
runs from a Clark magnet on the seat
of the wagon or carriage, through
{the reins to the horses’ hits. By
| turning the crank of the magnet a
-urrent of electricity is induced and sent
o the animal's mouth. No violent
| shock is given to benumb or alarm the
| horse, but the slight pricking sensation,
| peculiar to electrical influence, surprises
{ and subdues him. It was invented by
{ M. Depuy, but the superintendent of the
| Paris omnibus company brought it wo
| public notice. An electric whip, to pre.
| vent rearing or turning suddenly, is an-
| other ingenious invention. We seem to
| be just learning the application of the
| life, nithough it has so long been tamed
| VO BETVE US 1S u IDEessenger,
————
Now and then a notorious case of ost
people fail to wondering how it is pos-
| sthle, since telegraphs, newspapers and
| detectives have come into existence,
{ that these
Hn oocur.
| however, says the Philadelphia Times,
{ that
{ than one & day,
| live headquarters sione, during the past
| year, more than three hundred cases
| have been reported of men and bovs
| who have disappeared and of whom no
trace whatever has been found. The
majority of these lost ones belonged in
thus making the average estimated rate
of one disappearance a day in the whole
country, an estimate very much within
bounds. While these figures seem
rather startling, there really is ground
for surprise that they are not greater
When we consider the dangers of great
cities, the possibiity of dying unknown
while upon a journey, and above all, the
temptation that besets so many men to
lost,
Can a Man Marry His Aunt?
Orson L.. Crampton is a jeading phasi-
cian of the city of Mobile, Ala. His
aunt, Nancy V. Campbell, also resided
there until 1877. She issome years older
than her nephew, The two were thrown
much together, and a feeling greater than
friendship sprang up between them.
fact they
This was in
ie married his aunt the marriage would
be void, and that he would become lia-
ble to arrest and imprisonment.
vised him that such was the fact, and he
told this to his aunt.
moved to Michigan. In 1878
a visit, ¢
on the complaint of Miss Campbell for
in a civil suit begun in the supreme
court of this State. Mr.
ot the United States for the northern
district of New York. The case was
brought up for trial at the October ses.
sion of that court in Albany, before
Judge Wallace and a jury, and the
judge then said that he would allow the
the argument upon the question of law
or four days for that purpose, and he
would be raised.
The jury brought in a verdict for the
plaintiff for $10,000. The decision of
the court not allowing arguments af
"here are many intricate and interesting
questions arising out of this case whieh
will undoubtedly be settled by the de-
cision of it. The question of domicile;
the question whether a nephew can
marry his aunt; the question of how far
the laws of England govern the law of
this country; the happiness, and safety
of many married poole hang somewhat
upon the decision of this case, as it
affects all marriages made in the Leviti-
cal degree—for instance, the marriage of
aman to his brother's wife; the mar-
riage of the first cousins; the marriage
of nephew and aunt, and other forbidden
degrees.— Syracuse (N. Y.) Herald.
Alphabet of Precious Stones,
With this siphebet any English word
can be spelled out »ith precious and
semi-precious stones. The list com:
prises just the letters of our alphabet:
A—Amethyst; B-~Beryl; C—Cat's-Eye;
D—Diamond ; E—Emerald ; F—Felspar;
G—Garnet; H--Hyacinthe; I-Ido-
crase; J--Jasper; K—Kyanite; L—
Lapis-lazuli; M—Malachite; N-—Nat-
rolite; O-=Opal or Onyx; P—Porphyry;
Q—Quartz Agate; R—Ruby: S—Sap-
hire; T—Turquoise; U—Ultramarine:
/—Verd-Antique; W—W aterSapphire i
X-—~Xanahite; Z—Zircon.
Youth will never live to age unless
they keep themselves in breath with ex
ercise and in health with joyfulmess.
A YEAR'S BUSINESS FAILURES,
Some Interesting Figures Concerning the
Faillurves fu 1879 and Previous Years,
From the figures presented in the
| annual circular of the mercantile
agency of Messrs, R. G,. Dyn & Co, it
| appears that the mercantile failures for
[ 1579 were 6,658 in number, compared
with 10,478 in 1878, a decrease of 3.820,
| But it is in the amount of liabilities that
| the decrease is most marked. In 1878
| the indebtedness due by parities wi
| failed was $234,000.000, while in 1
| the liabilities were only $98,000,000, In
| order to show that the reduction last
| year is not only great as compared with
1878, but Sonar most favorably with
other years, the following table is given,
by which the failures and liabilities
| ince 1872 are shown:
Amount of
Liabilities.
$121,056,000
228 490.90
155,239,600
201,000,0
191,117,000
190 669,936
234,383,182
Year, Failures,
1818 .... .coninns
LAB. cr nnnns
1 1B .....on0 rasa
1878...........
{1878
| 1877
1818... ..
1879 ..
9,092
8,882
10,478
The agency says in relation to the fig-
| ures for the year just closed:
“The phenomenal character of the
year 1878 has, in nothing else, a more
complete illustration than is furnished
{ by the figures of failures herewith sub-
| mitted, The year has been remarkable
| for the extent and rapidity of its profits,
| resulting trom the advance in values
| and an increased volume of trade.
| has been equally remarkable for its de-
‘ crease in Pee from bad debts. The
| loss, or lock up, by failures, which in
| 1878 amounted to
| the entire year. [tis probable that the
| greater in the aggregate than this sum;
| who suffer most by mercantile failures,
{ the profits reaiized from merchandise
'sold in the year have hardly been as
| great as the lessened loss made hy debts
|in 1879, as compared with 1875. Not
| only, therefore, have large actual profits
{ been made upon sales, but the decrease
‘in the extent of losses incurred is so
| accurately measured by the figures here.
| with presented, that thei. testimony to
| cant.
i A table is
3
ven showing the geo-
graphical distribution of the failures and
| the peroentages in eacli locality, which
| contains some very suggestive com-
| parisons. In the Western States,
instance, the figures for 1879 show that
only one trader in every 159 failed, as
against one in every 100 in the Middle
| States: one in every ninety-three in the
| Southern States; and one in every eigh-
| ty-five in the Eastern States; while in the
| Pacific States the failures have equaled
jone in every forty-five. Comparing
these figures with those of 1878, the
| table clearly illustrates the uniformity
lot the improvement in the Eastern,
i Middle and Southern States, but by a
| gain so marked in the Western States as
to indicate a great stride in commercial
| solidity :
i i 1879,
iNo. inl No. | Per- |
; Basi. Fail- centage Amount of
| ness. ures. of Fail. Liabilities.
i ures, |
Eastern ... | 83 330 01 in S5i§10,017 080
Middle .... 1230.53712,290 1 m 106] 35,534,181
Southern . (100.5674/1,076!1 in 83 15876703
Western, .. (256,583 1 60811 in 1590 21,207,519
Pacific and i i i
fer.... Tidjlin 45 8933358
i
i
| Total...... | : | i
tor U. S.. [702,157 6.65811 in 1031§98,149,058
a, is on—
Oanada.... | 55.964/1.902/1in 20] 260.347.9837
The foregoing table, the revors says,
conveys a better idea than any other of
the real decrease in the number of fais.
| ures, spart from the amount of indebt-
| edness. The difference in the aggregute
between 6,658 in number in 1879, as com-
pared with 10,478 in 1878 seems much
| greater when it is realized that, in 1879,
| only one trader in every 105 failed, as
|ing the comparison back over some
| years, these are the results: Ia 1576
| 1877 every seventy-third: in 1878 every
| sixty-fourth; while for 1879 it was only
| every one hundred and fifth trader who
! laid down his load.
The Australian Forest,
Morning and evening the Australian
ys hir ministers
000 » and
a year,
ins
J s a exchange.
Fria makers This same abagt
of the largest Sunday-schools in
the world is the * Union Bethel” at
(Cincinnati. The sttendance was 4,950
| A poet in one of be-
| weils the Joss of = kiss. The short.
| brained driveler, it seems, does not know
i Bough to go and get another. — Rochester
Large tities of American torkeys,
other fow seiged
ov oi erpool, because
v :
in in and rendered
had set
them unfit for food.
The average housewife will take more
pains to earry a sickly fifteen-cent plant
through four months of winterthan she
will to keep butter on the jce during
thies iontha of hot weather. .— Defroul
.
i
1 sing thee praise of the cobbler bold,
A merry old sole is be,
Hed away heat and eold,
Awiwaya os as merry can be.
Cincinnati Commercial.
What is the difference between the
Ea
-stuffed
Norrisiown
| Herald
| According to the law
' a Western
has as much
2 horse has.
‘ing plenty of room, deli .
' to turn out, sa the road be 10
him and his and yon. Hi The
| man who was injured took ordinary pre-
caution, but the driver, who was a
| farmer in good circumstances and a dea-
| con in the church, insisted that the man
ght to be run down. The judge
| thought differently.
A German journsl publishes a curious
| list of the decorations u
| Prince Bismarck, forty-seven in number.
pronounced b
og pens A
manders of the House
of Hohenzollern, with brilliants; the
eros of the Kniglts of St John; the
| order of Fidelity of the Grand Duchy of
' Baden, with brilliants and a chain of
| gold; the grand cross of the Hanoverian
‘order of Guelphs: the grand cross,
| with brilliants, of the Austrian order of
| St. Efienne; the order of the Annuncia-
tion of Italy; the grand cross of the
! Legion of Honor: the order of the Sera-
phins of Sweden: the Lion and the Sen
| of Persia; the White Elephant of Siam;
the Osmanie, with brilliants, and the
- Toison 4'Or.
! Last spring the
Corbin, ot Colo 3
money enough to pay for an organ if
their father wouid buy one. The bar-
gain was made, and, as a capital, three
dozen chickens and an acresof arable
land were given to them.: The
was planted with onions, and
the remarkable crop of three
which $145 was re ceived. TI
ceipts from the chickens was $55, ms
the total receipts $300. Tie organ
: $118, leaving a balance of $82 still
| the children's treasury. The childre
‘are from six to fifteen years of ange,
wo. ked throughout: the season with
great energy and perseverance,
hense deserved their sucoess.
The wisdom of the German postal
telegraph authorities in determining to
connect Berlin with the chief cities of
the empire bY eas of a 5
erground telegraph wires, has been
er ie fs
w er recent 4 i
Violent storms Of wind and snow ha
yie
| stant stoppages in the
} uniention Jet rfeeh 2
verground wires, the traffic betw
Sw connected by subterranean lines
Fatgpmtingiinsrion i 4 tise worst weather
without the least. in or in-
EE a BT
ew nd
‘upon as probable both in Germany and
| other contineatal countries.
| between the morning hours and those
| at midday. In the former the very
| ence. Myrinds of such, larger and
| more brilliant than those under English
i skies, Joad the air with the sweetest
scents; magnificent uvee-ferns wave
their fronds or branches in the light
breeze; on old stumps of irees
green and yellow lizards lie wat®hing
tor their prey; the magpie throws her
voice from the wattles, and possibly the
lyre-bird in the denserscrub: and in the
tall gums numberiess paroquets,
| rots, rosellas, cockatoos, butcher-birds,
love-birds, ete., are screaming and dart.
ing to and fro. But by-and-bye thein-
tense heat will silence all these, and
nothing will be heard but the "chirp
of the grasshopper ard the shrill sound
of some unseen insect. At twilight
again there is a revival ot life, but not
11 80 cheerful a description. The cicadas
shriek by myriads their deafening
| * perer=rorer;’ drowsy opossumssnarling
their gum-boles ; and flocks of cockatoo
soream as some great gray kangaroo
hounds past them like a belated ghost.
If there is marshy ground near, the dep
boom of the bittern, the wail of the cur-
.
| iow, and the harsh er
i mingling possibly with those of a return-
| ing or passing flock of black swans, will
| add tothe concert. Ina momentofsilence
one may be startled by the mocking
| inugh of the jackass, or the melanchol
| “mo-poke” (or “more pork”) of the bi
| ofthat name. The dead of right is not
so still as the universal hush or the
burning noon.— Chamber's Journal.
eetem————————
Procrastination.
| Mrs. Whitney says, in one of her
| hooks, that *‘the things which are
| crowded out of a life are the test of that
| life,” and we believe that the saying is
| true in its widest sense. Examine our
| lives closely, and we shall find that we
| constantly delude ourseives with the
| idea that we would accomplish certain
things if we had time when, in truth,
we have no real desire for those things.
One person wiil say that reading is out
of the question, another will bewail the
impossibility of maintaining social re-
lations, a third will avow that charit-
able or benevolent enterprises would de-
light her if she might engage in them;
and all the time these g people are
comforting themselves with a failacy.
The things for which they do find time
are the things they prefer. The things
which are crowded out are the things
they would not choose if life lay unem-
ployed before them.
Scores otf wives and mothers are
busied constantly with their family cares
but not one in every score loves music
enough to steal time for practice. Hun-
dreds of young men are forced by stress
of circumstances to work hard for daily
subsistence, but only one in a thousand,
i perhaps, conquers the difficulty of his
osition, and makes a name for himself,
his one might not have found his way
easier or its up steps less tiresome,
but he wanted to succeed, and so want-
ing let nothing needful be crowded out
Virginia has 6756 colored schools,
taught by 415 colored teachers. The
male teacher's salary averages »0 a
month, the female's $24.
|
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i
Anecdote of Alexandre Dumas.
| The following anecdote of the cele-
; brated French author is told by a Paris
years ago a merchant
returning from Paris to
‘ his natal uty. I the same compart-
{ment with him sata tall fel, lively,
| talkative and fuli of ; but
| on the whole the best and most amusing
| traveling companion one could wish for.
| On alighting at Lyons the merchant,
| charmed by the talking manner and by
the gaiety of his neighbor, exclaimed:
“By
: paper: Some
‘of Lyons was
»
Jove, aif, =n lad to have made
| your acqusintance ou are a good
ow a ering fellow! Can't you
{ talk, though! Come, let us make a trade,
will you?
| "5 Well. what kind of a trad e?
about it. I have
you come?” .
“Very well—but I will pay my share.
I insist upon it.” :
** As you please; what an amazing
fellow he is! Ah, but [like you!"
Accordingly they took dinner to-
ther, Juring which the merchant of-
red the fellow a position as com-
mercial traveler for his ; that was
his idea.
“You have just the qualities re-
quired,” said he; ** you will make your
WAY.
) But, my dear sir—"
“ Come, now. how do Jou live?
“Pooh! on very little! .
“ Well, how much do you make ayear
in your branch?” iu '
‘From $4,000 to $6,000." :
“ Googuéts & pn jive! Dae what do
ou do?" as e , disappointed,
y “ Oh, I scribble on sheets of paper
with a pen!” 3 :
** Ah, bah—you are "joking a you
rogue! But what is your name
* Alexandre Dumas!
Tableau. :
essert we will speak
3
:
The Make Up of the Body.
Suppose your age to be 15 or there-
abouts, Aire you taadot. You
bave 160 bones and 500 muscies; your
blood weighs 52 pounds; heart is
five inches in length and Pow inches in
i Mutat; it beats Ton ue mise,
4,200 times per hour qasy,
and 36,792,000 per year. At hop beat a
little over two ounces of blood is thro
out of it, and each day it
Gischarges about se
wonderful fluid.
tain a gallon of i
24 lons