Sw er, There amme a Woh the wind-blown That stirred in music tnderneath the eaves, And Autsering breeze and fluttering folinge To walt my thoughts to dreamin { nd as | Of summer, There came a flood ofl ight, a flush of bloom, And roses soattered petals of perfume; And wings of birds and echoes of their song Bare every thought in cadence sweet along To summer. There flamed in splendor flerce a fervent sun, And sweet May paled and sighed, “My lle in | So aoa done. : I'o you, oh, sister June, be all 1 lose Aud all I fain would gain, it I might choose For summer '" SE ES RP. Work in the Time Now. Ihe world is strong with a mighty hope Of a good time yet to be, VOLUME XIII. Kditor A S————— ER. a Year. in Advance. NUMBER 19. And carefully casts the horoscope lill-humor, and offering his arm to his NM her futve destiny; r y i \ vouthfal hostess with a low bow, ao And poet and prophet, and priest and sage, Are To see the light of that promised age Oa the waiting world arise. watching with anxious eyes, a merry half dozen or so of young people were holding a laughing dispute. * We are considering the propriety of the gentlemen entirely withdrawing from the field, and in view of the fact that leap year comes so seldom, giving Indies the exclusive privilege making a cholce. What do you think, asked Kate Ormsby, a bright brunette, as her black eyes flashed, with the spirit of coquetry which was as natural as her breath, intensified by the somewhat disapproving glance of a blonde gentleman opposite. Doctor Elwell, not at all averse to making some one else suffer a tithe of the pangs which rent his own spirit, with a sudden intuitive recognition of the fact that he might avenge himselt And the duties to be done; on the said unoffending gentleman, re "Tis enough tor the earliest soul to see plied, with animation and empressment: There is work to be done, ond how, “1 quite agree with you, Miss Crrmishy; during this year the right of selection and proposal belongs to the Oh, weary and long seems that time to some Who under lites burdens bow, For while thay wait tor that time to come ° the They forget "tis a good time now, doctor?" Yes, a good time now-—{or we cannot say What the morrow will bring to view; But we're always sure of the time to-day And the course we must pursue; And no better time is ever sought By a brave hoart under the sun Than the present hour, thou ht, with ita noblest For he knows that the good time yet to be Depends on the good time now, so daring as to infringe upon right should be made to pay a forfeit, consist. ing of nothing less than a love of a bon. net or a Parisian fan” “Oh! and that reminds me." cried Kate, * vou know it is an old custom, handed down from our forefather’s time, and as a relic of antiquity, to be solemnly respected and rigidly enforced, that any While the need of the work appears. gentleman who has the hardihood to You must earn the bread of your liberty refuse, must pay a forfeit of nothing less : : than a silk dress.” “A provision which destroys all the romance,” said Edith. “ Rather hard on some poor fellow who couldn't raise a silk dress,” re. marked Mr. Wheelsr, the blonde, who, by the way, was a very well-to-do dry goods merchant of proverbiaily generous habits. Dr first turned faint at the thought ¢ silk dress, himself a fool and coxcomb, and finally flushed crimson at Mr. Wheeler's re- mark, which he considered a direct af- front. **As if any one covld not buy a silk exclaimed Kate, indignantly, *“ but then you must know, sir, that no lady will propose to a gentleman until sne knows his state of mind. “That is what we men think with re- gard to asking a lady the momentous question; but we generally find our. selves completely in the dark as to their feelings for us.” “Ah! but you gentlemen displav your feelings more than indies do,” said saucy Kate. “There! they are form- ing a quadrille in the next room. Let me see: have I a partner for this dance? n—no, I have not," and Dr. Elwell im- mediately begged the honor, and pro- ceeded to the spacious apartment which was devoted to the service of Terpsich- ore, with littie brunetie on his arm. My. Wheeler pulled his blonde mustache in vexation, and for a few moments seemed to have changed places with the disciple oJ Galen, - . » » There is never a broken link in the chain, And never a careless flaw, For cause and effect, and loss and gain, Are true to a changeless law, Now is the time to sow the seed For the harvest of future years; Now is the time for a noble deed, By the toil and sweat of your brow, And hasten the good time yet to be By improving the good time now. "Tis ss bright a sun that shines to-day As will shine in the coming time; And truth has as weighty a word 10 say Through her amcles sublime. There are voices in earth, and air and sky, That tell of the good time here, And visions that come to fith's clear ove, The weary in heart to cheer. The glorious fruit on lite's goodly tree 48 ripening on every bough, Elwell the dress!" And the wise in spirit rejoice to see The light of the good time now. Then up ! nor wait for the promised hour, For the good time now is the Jest, And the soul that uses its gift of power Shall be in the present blest. Whatever the future may have in store, With a will there is ever a way; And none need burden the soul with more Than the duties of to-day. Then up ! with a spirit brave and tree, And put the hand to the plow, Nor wait tor the good time yet to be, Bat work in the good time now. the th “1 “ What a charming man Dr. Elwell is,” remarked Kate Ormsby, who was to remain a day or two with Edith, as . : the girls were talking cver the events “No place for me!” muttered Dr. | of the evening in the latter's chamber Elwell. oo. In a betfen, plodding ex- | before retiring. Edith colored a little istence like mine there is no room for | and bent to unbutton her boots as she even a glimpse of such gay butterfly life answered : as this.” ** Do you find him so? You seemed The young man stood in a corner with | to get on very well with him, though folded arms and forbidding aspect, he is so grave | have hardly known WAKING himselt unnecessarily miser- | how to approach him. He is wrapped able. Unnecessarily, because he ought, | up in his profession, I suppose. } with his good looks, good health and | thinks his throat has greatly improved youth, to biave been able to cast aside | since he began his treatment.” the cares of his daily life, and take Edith did not see the laugh Kate whatever of pleasure or happiness came | stiffled at this measured speech, ana the in his way. To bo sure, he had some iatter went on gleefully: excuse for thinking that he was singled =X I ind him very interesting, out to be different from otoer men. and | but not entirely free from the weaknesses that his twenty-five years shou.d carry that mortal man befall. How con- the wisdom and soberness of fifty; for | ceited these men are! I declare, I am Kate's Leap-Year Party: OR US, she was a widow.” Morover, that the first of Aprilis near at band.” motber had been left poor and with three little gir.e to bring up and educate —the eldest of them many years the junior of their brother whom Hy idol- 1zed. Y i Eiwell was a hero entertainments, one of the chiefof which i. Yes, William to four loving hearts that watched his | escorted self-made career as he worked himselt through college, teaching and doing all the weather permitted, making rare the young gentlemen one term, in order that he might spend toward earning a little for those who | stated to his inner consciousness that he loved him, working with eager haste was the most incomprehensible idiot in and desperate energy, the sooner to existence, and that the special festivity as finish the course. He had finished at | time should be the Iast last with honors; but honors are empty | gaiety to count him as its victim. and usremunerative. He had found a For cne most aggravating fact re- country village where—marvel to relate! | mained—although young ladies in and cians than patients, had established ' showed him honor, for which he should himself there in the plainest manner | have been grateful, though bright eyes newly-fledged M. D., and—waited. And all through the self-denial and A which eontinualily haunted him that he hardship, through the uncertainty and | was ye a young physician, struggling waiting, he had carried a light heart, a | for a place in life—one damsel, for sunny temper and a firm trust in Provi- dence. At last his waiting mother and | longing which no reason could subdue, had wealthiest man in H——. The old civility that was maddening physician was away on a professiopal | no one but Kate knew what existed be- visit to the country. Squire Burleigh | neath the calm exterior, and if she sus- was attacked with a severe cold which | pected, no one was the wiser. avated his chronic bronehitis, he, a » . . . “Dr. Elwell,” was called, was lucky, gave tlie old gentleman the advantage of | very last. To-morrow I will write to some of his advanced views, and, thank | mother and girls—how I have neglected heaven! he had placed himself under | them !—and I will throw aside this folly, treatipent and ta en the young doctor | and endeavor to keep my mind upon up im » wonderful friendly style. | my duties more than it has been of And just at this point, when his for- | late.” tune seemed to be made, immediately | A virtuous resolution, truly! and, if after his rejoicing and trinmphant letter | virtue brings its own reward Dr. Elwell to the dear ones at home, he had sud- | ought to have feit content; but the mel- denly becon e morose and sullen, his | ancholy smile which crossed his coun- letters were gloomy and misanthropic | tenance rather belied his efforts as he and his views of life ¢ nical and bitter. | gave a last survey of his neat, but not How to account for this change was a | altogether stylish toilet, sighed over the mystery. His loving mother feared that | Jast letter from home, which he put her boy was ill; but this he stoutly de- | carefully away, and then, unfolding a nied; and truly, his firm, elastic step, | dainty note, re-read the conditions of clear eye and ruddy; complexion gave | the invitation. in the graceful chirog- no indications of jaundice or dyspepsia. | raphy of Kate Ormsby: As for new acquaintances, perhaps they set the doctor down as rather too stern for so young a man; but they were | obliged to wait for further developments | at wil do the same, taking cocasion we | The Residence of Squire Busieigh, No. 59 Main observe the different personages at this | "8 aieht oelock. B brilliant gathering in to urleigh'’s | April 1, 1876, sight o'clock, ». . parlors, while Dr. Elwell chews the cud of bitter meditation in his corner. The squire, a genial gentieman of fifty, was making himself agreeable to young and old—for this was a * family party "— and his daught r, the brown-eyed and olden-haired Miss Edith, distributed er smiles and attentions with charming NECK-TIE PARTY. Under auspices of the Y. L. L. Y. Club, Gentlemen will enter immediately upon the | opening of the doors, and each will select, as his partner for the evening, the lady who wears ribbons corresponding to the color of | the mneck-tie accompanying this invitation, which he is to wear. The two who shall be { last in performing this duty, are, asa forfeit | for their tardiness, to be responsible for the : Fg . | evening's entertainment, instituting games, impartiality, drawing together those of | dances, ete., and in all respects taking the similar tastes, finding partners for less | part of Master of Ceremonies and Floor Man- attractive giris, making bashful youths | ager. feel at home, exchanging sparkling gal- | Squire Burleigh, Umpire. Elderly ladies lies with gentlemen of a witty turn, and | and gentlemen, chaperones, eto., per order of singing an old-fashioned song, to the the committe. KATe ORMSBY, Secretary. great delight of a group of oid ladies | Dr. Elwell repaired to the apartment and gentlemen who jointly and severally | of Mr. Wheeler, where the other young claimea her as their special property. men were assembled, among them two, Only one person held aloof from all | who, having come down from the city the warmth and brightness, and even | on business a few days before, were duly he relaxed a little as the squire drew | Jionized by one-half of the youth of the him for a few moments into conversa- | community. Those worthies glancing tion, listening to his remarks with such | over the simple little sheet which had deference, in spite of the difference in | cost more anxiety and study, then thev their years, that the young man was | imagined, smiled indvlgently at the flattered and elated. But for a short | transparent crudity of the whole affair, tim, however; the squire could not | and then one of them remarked: stop loug with one, and as he moved | ‘Now, see here, boys, the young la- away the solitar malcontent muttered: | dies are putting up a job on us, don't “All very well; he's a kind-hearted | you see? Why not circumvent them, man and means well when he brings | and turn their little game upon them- me here; but she takes care to show me | selves?” that I am out of place. Ah! she is| ‘“Buthow?” queried oneor two, while ing to condescend I” savagely, as Miss | the others listened eagerly. urleigh approached and said, with a | “Simply by changing neckties,” said scarcely concealed hesitation which was | the first speaker. *‘ You perceive that not noticeable in her manner toward | with the inherent love of harmony that others: | . : belongs to the sex—an unquestionable “We are discussing a question of | veneration for the eternal fitness of vital importance, Doctor Elwell, and | things, as it were—the fair ones have we want your opinion. Ch _ | sent me a brilliant flame-color, or cardi- The doctor, of course, banishing his | nal, I believe they call it, in deference somewhat strikingly here, with his florid complexion and vivid locks, which emphatically pro. ct SQ to speak oried Mr. Jackson, who had probably hair before, * Don't interrupt, Tommy. ored with a lovely pale-blue, ‘just too sweol fgg any use!’ nstance, that we trade; would shock the senses too severely flame-cotor necktie and cardinal hair, coftee-colored aki and pale-blue, Dread. ful, shocking,” a. d the gentleman shud- dered with atfected horror The others came to his rescue, how- fected. was adorned with the cardinal tie, hair and skin peetty well. Dr, Elwell assumed the pale-b.ue, which made him look rather darker than usual; the city gentleman donned the violet and crim. respectively, and the others made an equally suitable exchange for “All ready? asked Mr. Wheeler, “ time's up.” “* Get your colors by heart, " boys, The moment arrived. The gentlemen, in the back parlor, awaiting the open. ing of the double doors, which separated room. * Remember your colors, boys,” whis- pered Mr. Smythe, as if determined to confuse the rest. “* Shut up,” was the elegant rejoinder + "wy “ Already!” cried the gemial Squire Burleigh, and the doors flew open. There was a grand rush, a oly or two of suspense, much laughter, and, in the midst of it, Dr. Elwell felt his brain whirl and his senses forsake him, as his eye rested upon Miss Burleigh, in the loveliest of creamy silks, with sashes, bows, streamers and trimmings ad lihitwem, of pale blue. He managed to collect himself sufficiently to take his place by her side, feeling, as he did so, that he was one of the unlucky last ones, but, as he looked up, he caught standing in the middle of the room, looking about with something less than ties with the violet and crimson deco- rations. The truth dawned slowly. Merry Kate, in & coquettish black dress, cov- ered with cardinal bows, had a certain surprise of her own to meditatel over, and so had all the Iadies, there ore it was left to the gentlemen to cry ** April Fool!” which they did, all at once, as the fact burst upon them that there were being minus partners for the evening. These latter gentlemen were, however, equal to the emergency, and neverin the so much merriment and good feeling. no trace remained of the surly temperin which he had of late indulged. In the light of Edith's sunny smile he forgot his discomforts, and, at the end of a delightful waltz, he drew her toward the conservatory in a very happy frame of mind. As they went they heard subdued voices, snd presently met Mr. Wheeler expression of beatitude upon his counte- nance, and the latter sparkling and drop glistened in her silky black lashes ** We have missed you from the rooms you been doing?” questioned Edith, and Kate replied: “Oh, I've been in the conservatory saucy suggestion the little spirit danced away, leaving her escort to follow. Now Kate's taking advantage of leap- a more satisfactory answer than had re J That was avery different matter from making ad- friendly intimacy. It was inconsider- se'f, as she bent over a rose bush, with burning cheeks and brimming eyes. At the sight of her distress. what he was poor and she an heiress. What his peace of mind, that the fature would be a blank to him without the sunshine strive to become more worthy of the There is no need, of course, to recount nor what the good squire said the next kind a patron and a friend. Enough that, at the double wedding, six months later, Messrs. Jackson and Smythe came down from the city to act as groomsmen, greatly distinguishing themselves in that capacity. to the secret admiration o' Dr. Elwell's pretty sis- his friend Wheeler, and that Squire Bur- between Kate's black-eyed boy, and little golden-haired Edith Elwell. a ———————————————————— Professional Rivalry. A man who had his coat on his arm and his hat in his hand, yesterday, en- tered a butcher slop on Woodward avenue and began: ** Say, sir, one of your blamed carts knocked me down on Park street halt an hour ago. and I'm going to have satisfaction!” “One of my carts? Wil- linm! William!" William made his appearance from the back room and the butcher said : “ William, this man accuses you of running him down with the cart this morning on Park street.” “I don’t think it,” was the reply. “Well, I know it!” shouted the man, I guess not. ** Whereabouts on Park?” ** At the corner of High!" “Ah! then, it couldn't have been,” said the driver. ** Here is the route I first went up Woodward ner of Alfred street, Then I went down Down at the corner of Cass [ run down a boy and a velocipede. I came down Cass to Sproat, and out again to Woodward, where I expect I ran over two women and a horse, and then came “Then who was it?” “Indeed, I couldn't say, sir; but a has three carts. If it was him he'll ¢ a record of the killed and wounded to show off the rest of us. 8. Salt and Its Value. All our readers know the | which enters so largely into our daily ¥ i noe | were kept from the use of salt; but this | deprivation produced such terrible dis- | eases that this practice was abolished, { The Mexicans, in old times, in oases of i death. Ibis mineral is frequently mentioned in the Bihle, Thesacrifices of the Jews TIMELY TOPIUS, Tho sun's radiation is not without its influence on the comfort of the occupants { a house, and the influence may be very differently felt, according to the ex- in a building nu- heat daily entering the different sides, He obtained the surprising result that more heat enters a building through'the { of a covenantof salt. Salt was procured A considerably quantity of heat is received by fof the Dead sea, which overflow the both abundant and good. at present among the Arabs and other Oriental people. In some eastern coun- tries, if a guest has tasted salt with his { although the person receiving the salt may have committed an injury against { his entertainer himself, Scotland, a new house, or one which a new tenant was about to enter, was al- ways sprinkled with salt, by way of in- ducing *‘good luck." Another custom of a curious nature once prevailed in England and other countries in reference to salt. Men of rank formerly dined at {the same table with their dependents and servants. The master of A! where the floor was a little raised. The | person of greatest consequence sat next, and all along down the sides, toward the bottom of the table; the servants were placed accerding to their situa- tions. At a certain part of the table was placed a large salt vat, which di- | vided the superior trom the inferior { classes. Sitting above the salt was the i mark of a gentleman or man of good connections, while to sit beneath it { showed a humble station in society. Salt is found in greater or less quanti. ties in almost every substance on earth, but the waters of the sea appear to have heen its first great magazine, It is found there dissolved in certain proportions, and two purposes are thus served, | namely, the preservation of that vast | body of waters, which otherwise, from the innumerable ohjects of animal and { vegetable life within it, would become an insupportable mass of corruption, and the supplying of a large proportion { of the salt we require in our food, and for other purposes. The quantity of salt best authorities) amounts to tour hun- dred thousand billion cubic feet, whieh, if piled up, would form a mass one hun. disposed, would cover the whole. of {| Europe, islands, seas and all, to the i height of the summét of Mount Blane, i which is about sixteen thousand feet | in height. Ii salt, however, were only to be ob- tained from the sea, the people who live on immense continents would have | great diffienity in supplying themselves with it. Nature has provided that the sea, on leaving those continents, all of which were once overspread with it, i should deposit vasi quantities of salt, sufficient to provide for the necessities of the inhabitants of those parts. In some places the salt is exposed on the surface of the ground in a glittering crust several inches thick; in others, thicker layers have been covered over with other substances, so that salt now i other mineral. Sait is found in this world : though in the vast empire of China it is so soarce that it is smug gled into that country in iarge quantities. Wild Fruit in the Black Hills, | A correspondent, writing from the Biack Hills country to the Chicago Western Rural, savs : We will begin with the strawberry, by saying that they are found here in liberal abundance, the quality being a little above the common | wild strawberry in the Western States. | Then the grape comes in about the same | proportions. They are of the same va- riety as those of the West, with a | noticeable prolific vigor a little in ad- | vance of those of the States. The wild lum is very common in the foothills, {and of several varieties. The Oregon | grape is very abundant in the mountains and some pisces in the foothills, Itisa { small plant or shrub not much larger | than a strawberry plant, the roots heing ‘much larger than the top. It holds its { leaves in winter the same as evergreens. | It is not prized so highly for its fruits as | for its medicinal qualities. The roots, | when steeped in water, yield a tonic | which, though very bitter, ispowertully | invigorating. The June-berry is quite common though notabundant. It grows on a shrub from one to four inches high, is black when fully ripe and very palat- able. We have two kind of currants, | the black and the clove currant. These I believe are only found in the valleys | among the foothills. The gooseberry is | very common, embracing three varie. | ties, the leading one being exactly the | same as was introduced throughout the Western States twenty years ago for cul. tivation and which proved a success. The only disparagement that 1 know as | to growing tame fruits here is that | the apple is not represented in its wild | state (that is the crab apple.) | There are several other varieties of | fruits in a small way that I shall not | mention now, but the crowning fruits of this region is the raspberry and buffalo- berry. The raspberry is very abundant | and of the finest quality, superior to any- { thing of its kind that I have ever seen { under cultivation. The vine is a moder. | ately fair grower, the berry red, of fine | flavor and uncommonly large. Although | they are pleanteous and free for all, yet | we have known pickers earning from | three to four dollars per day gathering | them for the market. Then comes the | buffaloberry., Perhaps you think he is pest describe it by saying itis in size, shape, color and appearance (when gathered) nearly exactly the same as the common red currant. It grows on a bush or shrub, is in size and appearance very much like the crab apple, which begins to bear at three years old, and re mains in bearing for many years. The and excel the red currant for table use. They are a very prolific bearer. A bush ‘not larger than an ordinary wild erab apple bush will yield from two to six quarts of these berries, em——— Odd Names, In examples of curious Christian names (says a correspondent of Noles and Queries) there is probably no dis- trict richer than the West Riding of Yorkshire. Every out-of-the-way Scripture name is to be found. Levi and Moses are great favorites, Marquis, Duke, Earl, Lord and Squire are com- mon. Tenter, Little Scribbler, ete, from the branch of the woolen manufacture carried on by their parents. met with a boy named Washington Nicknames common, Tom, Ben, Bill, Jerry being conferred at baptism in- stead of the full name. In some of the rougher villages I should add that surnames are stil) dispensed with or un- known. Tom’s Bill mean’s Tom's son Bill. Tom o' Bills is the same, while Tom's Bill o’ Jack’s means that Bill is theson of Tom, the son of Jack. mI —— selor (from Isaiah ix. 6). are quite A New York man has invented paste- board window blinds which make a cow shed look like an Italian villa.— Detroit Free Fress. Two new kinds of tea having very pe- Une of the monastries on Mount Omi. An infusion of it tasted like strong congou The other tea grew spontaneously at heights of more than The beverage produced is a strongly colored but weak tea, having a patural milky or rather buttery flavor. The lady who fills the chair of profes- sor of domestic science in the lilinois Industrial university has been giving sensible ** Advice to Girls" in a lecture at St. Louis. She called women the form in women's education was the housekeepers and enlightened mothers beginning to be appreciated. Women were not instinctively good needed. It wassaid that common sense alone was unnecessary, but common sense and proper sinse differed. Despite their general unpreparedness she said still persist in getting married, an—— thie United States in Louisiana, led an xpedition against Jean Lafitte, the hiel of Barataria Island , attacked even small vessels which were drawn up in miniature battle array. It has fitte wns a freehooter and pirate, many sensational stories of his adven. The Pica- has dircovered the yune AONE of the naval and military forces of the Lafitte made his captures under the Car tion with Carthagenia. Suits at law are brought nowadays tor habitants are often of a very litigious disposition. Recently a resident Crete, Neb, was arrested for non-pay- ment of a bill long due for groceries, in her father's parlor. bail, and when he sppeared in court to defend himself, the judge promptly dis- charged him, declaring that he had been arrested without adequate cause, He has, in consequence, brought suitagainst his creditors, who had the legal process damages. He had, he alleges, good financial reputation, which is now by his arrest in the parior ot his sweet heart, injured socially and morally, and on account of what fiad happened concerned, forever blighted. He thinks that $25,000 would bea moderate sum harm to his good xame, and avers that he will have justioe, if there be justice in the land. It is possible that his arrest may have saved him from an unhappy marriage, but he flatly refuses to look st that side of the question. 35 The Northeast Passage, A very interesting account of the Northeast passage by the steamer Vega, which has brought su bh renown to Pro- fessor Nordenskjold, is given ina recent number of Blackwood's Magazine by Lieutenant Palander, who commanded the Vega. There is no doubt the Vega would have made her entrance into Behring strait the same season in which she started on her voyage, but for the exceptionally unfavorable condition of Sije had passed the real points of difficulty and danger, and was within 120 miles of Behring strait on the twenty-eight of September, 1878, when the ice closed in upon her, and she was the following July. known to explorers and whalers, many of whom have passed through the same as the first of November. Now that the passage has been shown interest. If vessels can get through in says they may, if no unanticipated ob. question of an open passage is one that That open his mind. The difficulties to bd met with at and around the northermost get through That a passage is to be found there once doubt, but it may occur so late that Palander says: “The Northeast Passage can on from the westward to the Obi and open to Siberia's three world.” mn 153550 with his len an artery. edical after the wound was made. A Menagerie Lion's Dinner, One of the most attractive places out the main entrance, One of the one meal un day only. * Poor fellows!" remembered that in their native wilds these flesh-eating beasts go without food It is a very interesting Ax filled. Of course the animals know that dinner-time is approaching. They pace up and down their cages with uneasy steps, the lions roar and the tigers growl, showing very plainly that they are han- gry. Every now and then a little boy will go close up to the lion's eage, bu will leap away again in an instant, for shake frightens Johnny out of his shoes, When the keeper appears with a bucket full of meat ** Commodore Lawrence,” the biggest of the panthers, bounds around the sides of his cage like a eat, for, as his cage is nearest the provision- house door, he gets the first food. Hav- ing received his big * hunk,” as the keeper calls it, the commodore eats away with great relish. The tigers are al- most wild with delight eages are reached. Perhaps the most interesting part of the sport, however, is the feeding of the male lion. Noble fellow that he is! Here comes the keeper ; now look close and see what the lion is doing! ‘There he stands, on his haunches, with his head toward the great crowd. His mane stands out like the shaggy whiskers on Uncle Sam's His eyes, Instened upon the Now, his face, making his beard twitch and his ears point forward? It looks very much like it anyhow, and if that isn'ta lion's sruile, then no lion ever did smile. He is not as impatient as the other ani- mals, though he shows that he is hun- gry. He has anative dignity about him that every one must admire. See, the keeper approaches with a piece of beef—~horse beef — weighing fifteen wounds, on the end of a pole. The Po holds the beel up over head and close to the cage. most delightful moment. * Just look!" “How nice!” * Dear old boy!" may be beard on every side, and the crowd surges up againstthe iron rail. Stillthe head. The lion looks up at it witha nlease-do-drop-in-my-mouth ” expres- sion. His paws are crossed and his elevated, Suddenly the keeper thrusts the beef be‘ween the bars, the lion seizes it and with a ** thank you" A Treasury Clerk's Long Service, John Laub, the oldest clerk in the He was ing the entire forty-three yeas of his vacation of thirty days each year. No % those of John Laub and his father. Mr. any person, not even the secretary himself, to examine his books; but it there was ever an in- bimself, plain round hand. He loved his books as it they were human, carefully in oll-cloth, when not in use, but when compelled to take them He became machine, and had hie been transferred to any other duty would have been ut- terly u-eless. He ppeured at his desk at the same hour every morning, and went through the same routine every day. He walked to the department from his house and returned aiways by the same route, and his appearance at the same jocality at During his last illness he suffered much pain and anxiety because his work was neglected, and for fear some other per- son would touch his books, and relief was given him only by an order from the First Comptroller that they should not be disturbed. A Search for Thirty Years, Light has at last been thrown on & mystery that has been inexplicable for over thirty years, The developments are of a startling nature and concern a man named Griffith, sexton of the First Presbyterian church, Allegheny, Penn., who disappeared about that tinge. He was addicted to habits of intemperance, and it was supposed had run away from his family and gone to parts un- known. After these many years it has heen revealed that he was murdered. The strange story, which comes from what is considered a reliable source, is as follows. Two butchers, when goin to Pittsburg with their meat in the dea hour of tha night,in Posing on old grave- yard on Point of Hil. in Al egheny, saw a dim light in it. Ahey approached and saw Griffith in the act of out of a grave which he One of them took in his of board and struck him a him on the head, e fell dead on the Being alarmed at what they had done, they concluded to fill up the grave on the two, hoiding that the murder would never be known. In course of time one of the butchers left for some other parts and there died. The other became dissipated, and once while under the influence of liquor stated these facts to some friends, who con- eluded to keep the matter secret, as the occurrence took place many years ago, and nothing but trouble could be made out of it at this late date. This man died a few yesrs ago, the friends keeping the secret until the present time. - IS Trained to Dance. In foreign countries there are many country ave unacquainted. In Italy, for example, there are schools in which boys and girls are trained, from early childhood, as dancers for the stage. These are said to be the hardest and severest schools in the world. The children begin to prepare for en- trance into them at the age of six years. At eight years a large number apply for admittance, and submit to acom- petitive trial of their skill. Out of two or three hundred applicants, the royal agademy of Italy selects every year twelve boys and forty-four girls for ad. mission. The training in this school lasts eight years, during which the pupils receive small salaries from the government. They are kept practicing from seven in the morning until noon, and they are required to perform many painful and extremely difficult exercises. The training is so severe that the legs of the pupils are apt to grow large and clumsy. Some of them ran to leg in the most extraordinary manner, so that they are spoiled forthe stage. Occasion- ally, during their eight years’ schooi- ing, they are required to perform in the public theater. After all this expensive and laborious and worse than useless training, a really beautiful dancer, like Taglione, is very rarely produced.— Youth's Companion. Laws That Are Net Enforced. “H.H." (Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson) has made a little collection of the laws relating to the Indians which are not enforoed, and embodies it in one of her letters to the New York Tribune on “The Indian Problem.” Thefollowing is the list as she gives it: 1. Any citizen or resident of the United States atetihg any territory secured by treaty to the Indians for the of hunting or grazing theron ae within $100 and impsisonment within six months. 2. Entering the terri secured to the Indians south of the Olio river, for any purpose whatever, without a pass port from the proper authority ~ half the above ity, 3. Entering the Indian Territory with a Juoatile intention snd committing ay offense against person or property o any friendly Indian which I E be punishable {f committed upon a citizen within our jurisdiction — fine within $100 and imprisonment within one } if property be taken or destroyel, re- | munerative in double value: snd if : | murder be committed, death. (Suppose placed end to end, one issue would ex- | this law was earried out in _regara to tend 70,648 255 feet (13,380 miles): for | the murderers of the chief Big Snake one year (,274,618,106 feet (1, 374 last autumn, al Reno, in Indian Ter miles), or over forty-seven times around | ritory, how many men would be hung es the soldier who fire: tie first from the earth to the moon, In athou- | ghat?) sand ems of type there are nearly 2000 | 4 Sgryeying or settling upon any land different pieces, and in an average four- | helonging to Indians, or attempting to pase cight-column paper, set in solid | 4 so—fine within $1,000 and imprison. yrevier type there are 148,000 ems (about | ynent within one year. 450 pounds), or 206,000 types in one | 5 Attempting to trade among the lu disus as 8 trader, without license from the government—{fine within $100; im. prisonment within thirty days | feiture of merchandise. | #. Purchasing from Indians any uten- y t k- | gi] for hunting or cooking or any article lies and monthlies for one vear would | ke 724,796, and to print them ooca- a Slothing exon siFing or Ag muKe /=3, 540, | within , and imprisonment wit sions the handling of 2,173,490,549,606, - irty days. 000 types. These averages are mini- un anohasing & horse from an Indian mum rather than maximum. There is | without a license—fine within $180; im- er aa {cms uta aire dg ad quently, for this purpose alone, there | § An Indian agent being concerned must be 10,000,000 pounds in use, the | jn any trade with Indians on his own value of which is about $5,000,000, | account—fine within $1,000, and impris- —- —_— onment within one year. Grain Production at the West, 0 8. Frosting ve [udinns for Je puts hase o thout suthori The Columbus (Ohio) Bate Journal the government--same 1. ublishes the following interesting ex- 10. A foreigner going into the Indian Bibit of the production of corn snd Territory without a passport—ssime pun- wheat in the United States for the year | ishment. 16879, prepared by Dr. James Williams: | 11, Any Indian or other com- mitting within the Indian Terri an offense which would be punishabie if committed within places of exelusive 185 000 000 | Federal jurisdiction—the same punish- 142,000,000 i ment as is there provided for. 135,000,000 | — 105,700,000 | 000 | Domesticated Quail, | Several summers ago 8. 8. Gibble, of | Mount Joy, this county, found the pest 10. Pennsylvania Xa D : Sail, Sontaining iseen no * are a es 'e v | Determined to make an to 11. Wisconsin, 000 | domesticate these birds he took them : | home an them er & - 1.928,600,000 | Ho made his first mistake at the very Bushels, | Outset by putting them under a Brahma +4 900,000 | 1° incubate. The size of the eggs and 43.700.000 | of the hen was of course altogether dis- 36 600.000 | proportionate. Still she was fortunate 35,000,000 | enough to break none of them, and in 33.787 000 | due time a family of fifteen of these at- 31 887 000 | tractive and lively birds made their ap- £8,500. 000 | pearance. A grassy plot was selected "S00. 000 a nursery, and a pen sixteen Some Interesting Caleulations. From H. P. Hubbard's ** Newspaper Directory of the World," we extract the following interesting and instrue- tive facts and figures in regard to news papers: There are 10,131 American (United States and Canada) newspapers — 598 dailies, 8,498 weeklies, tri-weeklies and semi-weeklies, 504 monthlies and semi-monthlies. The total circulation of u single issue of each of these papers (omitting 1,920 not given) reaches the enormous aggregate of 90 267.588 copies, divided as follows: Dailies, 3,540,156; wecklies, tri-weekiies and semi-weeklies, 13,511,424; monthlies and senii-monthlies, 3.685.508 This is an average of 2,041 to each paper for a single issue, and taking all issues of the whole for one year, a grand total of 1,836,473,502 copies, Taking ordinary forty-pound news. paper al its average measure of 4,000 sheets (solid) to the foot, one issue of all these plied up would measure 5,17 feet (nearly a mile) in height, or for a whole year 450,118 feet (over eighty-seven miles) high. Counting them all at the average size of 27x41 inches, and To print one issue of the total 10,131 apers of this average size there must be | Pandled nearly 5,000,000 pounds of type, | pes. The total num Bushels. 308,000,000 Rank, 1. Hiinois. . 2. Towa... 3 3. Missouri..... 4. Indiana. ..... 5. Ohio. .. : 6, Kansas ...... 7. Kentucky - 8. Nebraska 9. Tennessee Rank. 1. Illinois. . .. , Indiana 3. Ohio. ... . California. . 5 lowa........ . Minnesota... ..... . Michigan Fe.a00 | for hh J msoury . - 000 |. uare was made. This was made per- Penussivenia 2.300.000 | LAC Joht wt the ground and for some . X 00BSIA. | height above it, rendering escape im- | possible, at least until they acquifed the | use of their wings. But the mistake of | selecting & heavy bien to bring up these birds soon became manifest. One after another of the pretty things had its life tramped out by the heavy feet of its 00,000 341LAT4,000 The whole country produced 1,545, 000.000 bushels of corn, of which eleven States produced 1,238.600,000, while twenty-seven States and eight Terri- | foster mother, until only four of them tories produced 316,400,000. Of wheat | remained. These grew until they at- the whole country produced 449,000,000 | tained the full stature of adult Bob bushels—341,500.000 in eleven States, | Whites. They were released, and ran and 107.500 in all the other States and | with chickens, flying here and there, Territories. The eleven States enumer- but never leaving 3 premises for a ated above produced seventy-six per | oreater distance than the chickens oentum of the entire wheat crop, and | themselves. ninety-nine per centum of the corn crop. | One day the house something of an epicure, t she would try quail; so she appropriated one of them, leaving the once numerous family reduced to three. These re- mained around the house, with the chickens on the most fraternal terms, carrying the intimacy so far as to roost close by them in an old apple tree near the house. Unfortunately, how- ever, the cold weather of winter ht a covey of wild birds to the barn, and these, coming into friendly relations with the trio of tame ones, had such a seductive power upon them that, when the strangers went away in the spring they carried with them two out of the three remaining birds, This left but a single one on the premises. This one continued to eat with the hens in the barnyard and roost with them in the | trees until June, when, no doubt, the | promptings of nature so wrought upon the companioniess Hird that it was im- pelled to leave the hospitable home where neariy a year of its life Was spent, and seek the companionship of its in the fields. So ended the experiment Lancaster ( Pa.) New Era. who was A Brave Baby. A woman who lives in Ashville, Ala, writes to the gis of that place of the miraculous rescue of Ler littie three: year-old boy from drowning. The child foil down a well, the depth of wich was thirty feet. The mother saw him go down. Shesays: . On reaching the well I was just in water. I was alone, suve three other little children whom I sent for help. I had, amid all the anguish of ny soul, sresence of mind enough to let the Pr ker down and tell him to take hold of it, which he did. After some min- utes he let joose from weakness, sank again, except his little head. I lowered the bucket lower, telling him to take hold of the rope. He ran his band through a ring tied on for the purpose of sinking the bucket, and canght the ail, and there he held on for one and a Pai ours, begging me all the time in his baby talk to come down and help him out. I would yw *“ Hold on, Bobbie.” “1 will,” he would reply. At length a lady came to m assistance, ss and we took s rope and made a DOose on the end of it, To letting it down, told Yillage Improvement Societies. him what to do. He put his foot| In his report, lately issued, Colone through the noose and drew it up | Wright, chief of the bureau of statistics around his knee. I asked him it he | of labor, gives some interesting state- could hold on. He said he could hoid | ments concerning the work ot village on to the bucket: ** Daw me out.” He | improvement societies in Massachusetts, holding the bucket, the rope around his | of which the Laurel Hill association, leg, I telling him not to let go, we drew | located at Stockbridge, is the par-nt. him up until I could reach his little | The object of this society, as set forth in shivering hands. Thus I saved my | their by-laws, is to improve and orna. little baby from drowning. Safe to ment the streets and public grounds of my breast I clasped his lit 5 shivering Stockbridge, by Blaskingand Sukivatins od God for His mercies. | trees, cleaning ; body, and, praise : walks, and doing such other nots as shall - tend to beauty and improve said streets and grounds. Its work has been the subject of many newspaper articles, and ts example has been the incentive for the formation of many similar associa- tions in different parts of the country. During its existence it has expended $4,000 in carrying forward its work, lanted more than 1,600 trees and Redges. and built miles of sidewalks, foot-bridges, ete. From the returns made to Colonel Wright's bureau, it appears that 216 of the 325 towns in Massachusetts re the existence of twenty-eight village improvement societies, hav ng a mem- bership of 495. Instances of some of the work performed by these societies are given, to show in what direciions their efforts have been employed: In Williamstown a hundred streets bave been put in order, trees planted. and the village lighted. In Danvers the village common has been fenced and many trees planted. The society in Sholburn has made sidewalks. planted trees, anc lighted the streets. In Long- meadow, tree culture has been encour- ed, borders ut and trimmed, and alewalks repaired. In Westfield a street six rods wide and over three miles long, has been laid out and lined with trees. In Carlisle the ceme has been beautified. The * Field Garden club,” of Lexington, has fenced many vacant lots. In Stow 180 maple trees have been planted. In Pepperell trees have been planted, lights put up, and courses of lectures have been de- livered. The or tion of these societies is a very simple affair, as the less ma- chinery and formality to them, the easier they are organized and the better they do their work.—N. E. Farmer. — Paper Clay. In view of the rapid rise in the price of paper, and the complaints of the paper makers with d w the scarcity and increasing costliness of all sorts of paper stock, itis gratifying to sce that one source of such raw ma- terial is not likely soon to fail us. What- ever may happen to rags, wood pulp and the thousand other sorts of fibrous material supposed to enter into the composition of paper, the olay bank romises to be inexhaustible. True, the majority of people who pay a high price for paper may have a prejudice against that material, but evidently the owners of the clay banks have not; for in a prominent journal devoted to the paper trade, they boldly print a large cut of their “clay works,” showing a long stretch of snowy bluff out of which a huge section has been out, resumably to supply. the needs of * all first-class mills, East and West.” to whose owners they refer for evidence of the excellence of their clay.— Scientific American. Whence Come the Birds? Along in cherry-time one wonders to gee so many robins in the orchard and over by the hedgerows; to the thorns of which droop hranches deeply beaded with the bits of red ripeness. Where do the birds come from in such flocks? A dozen in one tree, a score in another, and even a hundred cutting the air around like arrows that are all throat. How do they discoyer the Shery trees? And isn't it surprising they should come long leagues after them?f, But where grow the cherries the birds do flock, and this remembered it is not strange, that 13,000 emigrants, mainly from the famine-stricken districts of Silesia and Hungary, should have landed in New York during the last three weeks. With bread scarce and bayonets plenty, the Jower class Europeans turn to the New World. They know there is a strong re- vival in our prosperity—that America's cherries are once more ripe—and twice as many of them are coming this year A clergyman recently said that man a man woile apparently singing with all his might the lines, ** Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were a pres- ent far too smal,” was diligently en- gaged with one hand in his et in scraping the edge of a three-cent piece as came last— Philadelphia Times. to make sure that it was not a dime. © A Falling Star, At dend of night dont atnl Like a gem in a menarch's srown Shone clear and bright With a pale, cold light Then darting soross the heavens aiar Lighting with fire and rapid filight To the earth came ialling down. 1t seemed to glide Throhgh the upper alr On the swiltest wings of light, And at my side As is flickered and died » There ssemed 10 come a spirit fale, And the soft, sweet voice of an ange! cried # 1 will lead thy steps aright.” James Clarence Harvey. ———————————————— ITEMS OF INTEREST, Maine has sold about $4,000,000 worth of ice this season. Some writers shine best when they are hiacking their shoes, Half of the writing paper made in America is manufactured in Holyoke, John Paywe Collier is the oldest lit- : { the present century. He is ninoty-one. * Senator Ingalls is the thinnest man ia , and wears abig red hand- kerchief around his neck. : A Minnesota farmer raised Jatt Year #00 bushels of clover seed. and sold it this year at $5.00 per bushel. One or more Western. seilronds ire reported to be pow ’'using none than paper car wheels on their moun- Mal den lating two of mer, when at wo A fuer, Kington Bo he : ing wild oats,” was the reply. mons sre taking u Tenttory, They are ng possession of all the water courses and BRE POS sible, and are trying to exclude all other settlers. OF theslgity ght solid business men of Springfield, Mass., sixty-four were brought up on farts and wise ed sons, tweive were brought up in vilinges, and of these six were accustomed to do farm work. Seth Green advocates frog cullure. He says that many ‘armers Lave for- tunes in frog ponds, and that a little Sa nd ; ity on i pe folly 0 y use, after supplying the market. Five thousand strips of whalebone tipped with cobbler’s wax were found not long ago at the of a band of French thieves who have long been making s successful specialty of robbing the poor boxes in th rth The total number of Turkish prisoa- ers who feil into the hands of the Rus- sians during the war amounted, accord- ing to a statement lately printed in the St. Petersburg Golos, to 94,433 officers and men of «fms and branches of the servise. A Philadelphia commercial editor, who was once a small with a mother who katy the ¥alus 6 a Les in cases of emergency, cannot to this write about “a movement in eather” without hitching uneasily in his chair.-- We have rarely seen s more touching little incident than this told by a New Haven paper: A widow's child re- ceived a reward of merit in school and ran eagerly home to her mother, saying, as she entered her humble dwelling, “{ held it up to the sky all the way home, mAmMMES, EO papa might see what a good girl [ am.” The New York Tribune says that within the last two or three years man Californians have r - ness interests from the West to New York. More recentiy—within the last six months especinily—there has been an infux of capitalists, mining vers and fortunate travelers. A diligence proceed- ing trom Toluca to the city of was stopped neac Ei Llano de Salazir by a troop of fifty bandits mounted armed to the teeth. The fact thst the rorbers molested none of the passengers save Je who wage ng oy large sums of money, shows were of the character and quality of ify y wr] a ae . Pp town of Huejotzingo, killing many of the inbabi- A similar was recent y of Amsjse, i DEO ehty males, A ing surprise, after the ashion TR Ra tt not ya yrian “The ie fell ol Po. miing. to av pg which they soon discovered to be quite hollow. Being half deeayed it speedily came to the ground th a . Even he knee, were almost per. wder horn, a a silver watch came above Bo OWE. n poroee w on which was engraved the name, ** H. von Arackowitz, 1812." The teeth were perfect. It would seem to be the skeleton of a man between thirty and forty years of age. It is conjectured that, while engaged in hunung, he climbed the tree for some purpose, and slipsed incautiously into the hollow trunk, from which Was no re and, he probably died of starvation. —————————— Peruvian Temples of the Sum, Ot the eariy history of the Peruvians Tittle knowledge, owing to that barbarian policy exercised by the follewears of Dontes and stroying ev tribes he conquered. Mexicans, the Peruvians had ad in art, science and learning, under the administration of successive wise rulers, and their state archives contained his- tories of their country, from the dawn of civilization among them, to the period of the conquest. But the superstitious Spaniards committed these works to the flames, because of their heathen origin, and we are obliged to depend almost ex- clusively on the truth of tradition for the knowledge we possess of the history of this people during the Inca dynasty. The most magnificent of all the Peru- vian temples was that ot the sun at Cuzzo. The mode of worship in this temple was simi.ar to that ot Heliopolis in t, where this great luminary was . His golden image oceu- pied a portion of one side of the in- terior of the temple, and before this worshi prostrated themselves with rich offerings in their hands, which were received by the attendant priests. [wo orthree virgins, selected from the frst families in their kingdom, were in ronstant attendance, whose duty it was to make oblations of wine to the deity, and chant hymns of praise to the great Father of Light. Like other aborig- ines of this continent, the Peruvians were nomadic tribes and gained a sub- sistence by hunting and fishine. Super- stitious in the extréme, their objects of worship were as numerous as those of the Egyptians. Causes of Fatigue in Reading. An4mportant study has been made of this subject by Dr. Javal, director of the Laboratory of Ophthalmology of the Sorbonne, published in ihe Snniies d' Oculistique. e fatigue of the eyes which is so often lon od of by liter- ary men he believes due to a permanent tension of accommodation; reading re- quires constant, steady strain of the eyes, while many other occupsticns de- man close, do not need constant, sight. His researches extend to the uestion of economical importance: ve a surface of paper and a number ot words to print upon it, what rule will secure the maximum legibility? The answer i i Uther things being equal, the legibility of a p pa °8 NO pe on He height of ther letters, but on their breadth. This fact is of special importance in the preparation of school books, and Dr. Javal's siggeitiots should receive the attention of publish- ers, type founders and school boards.—
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