Ta the Desponding. Take thie for granted, once for all There is neither chance nor fate; And to sit and wait for the sky to fall, Is $0 wait as the foolish wait, The laurel longed for, you must earn {t is not of the things men lend; And though the lesson be hard to learn, The sooner the better, my friend. Is a judgment all untrue, And to drag this man or the other down, "Will not in the least raise you' ~ Mice Cary. On the Rifts. Where the river trom the shadow Of the waving spruces creeps, And then hurried through the meadow Where the oasoade broadly sweeps, Vapors lift trom the rift Where the trout his vigil keeps Oh, what music, as we listen To the river's splash and roar; How the broken waters glisten As they dash against the shore, And the trees in the brecze Heaven's muosie outward pour, Mossy boulders rising yonder With a beard of snowy foam, Where the maddenad waters thunder Q'er the river monarchs home, Where in pride he doth hide Where an angler dares to come, Where the silver eddy sleeping, Just beside the roaring flood, Mark you jeweled beauty leaping From the tide in sportive mood, And the rash sportive plash Gives a start to laggard blood, But 1 waste the time in thinking, Morning eloads begin to Lift, At the tount of nature drinking, 1 forget the joyous rift. Drop the ereel, spring the reel Throw the fly with motion swt. On the leaves of recollection { have painted many scenes, And I turn them with affection When lite's work.day intervenes. When the brain throbs with pain, Then their sweets my fancy gleans, Then, oh heart, in rapture kneeling, Lay this picture up in store, Rilver rift and sunshine stealing, Sighing trees and river's roar; Make it fast, that it last Till earth's ache and pain be o'er. wd. T. Worden, in Rochester Express. A GAY WIDOW. The first time I ever saw her was from the window of my room in the hotel. § platean, and raised her fine ¢yes just as she passed. something not exactly bold, but coun- us and intrepid, about it, and a very high color. Her step was quick and firm, and her figure perfection. seizing my hat, ran down the steps an followed her, straight to the spring where | and my fellow-guests were in the habit of drinking those horrid waters every morning. he widow- intuition told me she was a widow, and drank several giasses of the wretched stuff, looking at one another without exchanging a word, and so in a few minutes again. For the two or three following morn. ings it was the same, and we always met at meals, and in the evening on the veranda or in the parlors, On these waggish, knowing look, designed to vex her, and so it did; for she invari- abiy stared haughtily back in return, ————————— ASE VOLUME XIIL THU 27, - MAY 1880, friend "he seized my shaking haud I he shut me outsido. At tury, and, there being through. at the bottom of a river, entrapped, and still no prospect of re- lief or of the storm ceasing. In despair, that there was another beneath, and in a moment I had let myself down by my hands and secured a footing thero, The parently untenanted, and 1 stepped in. | Searcely had I done so when there was | began screaming * Robbers!" and ridor, and so at last my own chamber. | Sulphuras rapidly as steam could carry me. - - » *. . Six months had passed away: the {events of the summer were growing {dim upon my memory, and 1 was in | New York. We were endeavoring to | get up a charitable concert for the bene- | tit of sufferers by flood somewhere, and I was the most active agent in the enter. prise, { Iam, believe, a first-rate amateur | tenor, and you have, perhaps, seen my | name pretty freely in the newspapers in connection with semi-public concerts. Our programme was all arranged and | a capital one, except that we needed a solo cornetist, or something of the (kind. 1 recollected my old friend { Birdseye—not a cornetist, but the very | best flute-player in the State. He had { his own private and particular flute, { mounted in silver and gold, and pre. { sented to him by some musical soclety | —worth at least a thousand dollars; i and it was well-known that the public | would come to see that flute as well as { to hear it. { Birdseye, according to report, had lately retired from public flute-playing, {and positively declined to engage in | any musical enterprise whatever. I de- termined to see him personally, and, if | possible, alter his resolution. I called, { and was informed that he was not at t home; but, if my business was very | important, I might see his wife. i The doorswings open—enter Mrs. Pow- ‘ der! bind the table, horribly frightened. * I wished to see Mr. Birdseye" “1 am Mrs. Birdseye,” she returned, able flute, * and have been 80 for several months. Mr. Birdseye is out of town at present; his health is very delicate, and he is in the country.” the late lamented General Powder, whe lost his Jegs and life leading an Alabama regiment at Maivern Hill. So I was told by the colored waiters. Well, the little romance proceeded, and in a few days whenever I saw the tured upon a faint smile, which, how- ever, I am bound to say, she invariably rebuked. Several of my friends asked me who she was, and I told them & very 7 widow from Selma—*' very gay,” added, with rakish character. And thus it got about,and thus [ deliberately and idioti- i of condnet—"" turned, advancing upon me. I stepped from the table to a large TAN — “No gentleman, sir in my direction; and believing that a inevitable, I plunged vio- For, two days afterward, while enjoy- concluding that the flies were about as ever visited, [ received this note: I have heard of the manner in which you havespoken of me among the people summering at this hotel. I donotknow what you have seen in my conduct to Justify the interpretation you appear to assure you that those surmises are quite wrong. Although alone in the world, I am a woman perfectly capable of taking care of herself in every way, and at the very first opportunity I intend to make you understand the fact. “ Bessie SOUTHGATE POWDER.” I now saw clearly what a fool I had been. The lady had not given my im- pertinence the least encouragement, and my whole conduct had been that of a coxcomb and very impudent fellow. I was frightened—the letter was thor- oughly characteristic, and expressed no was, in fact, a painfully strong sugges- tion of horsewhip about it. I own frankly that I never was more frightened in my life. A duel I should not have cared so much about; but the other thing—a public chastisement at the hands of a woman, at so public a was indeed appalling to contemplate. I satdown and wrote Mrs. Powder a + terms, and, whi moving likearmies preparing for battle. There was a thunder-storm coming up —dismal omen. I whistled and drummed nervousiy on the ledge of the window, awaiting to hear the returning footstep of the darkey; and atlast I did hear it. He brought back my letter unopened —the lady had declined to read it, he said, with a grin. suppose he thought t was a proposal. What was to be done? I walked the floor in agony long after darkness had fallen and the sounding of the gong for tea. I was, in fact, afraid to go down to tea. Suddenly a thought occurred to me— I would go upstairs and confide the whole thing to old Governor Aydslott, of Georgia, who was a lawyer, and might get me out of the difficulty if any man could. And so very quietly I stole away to his room on the floor above, and fortunately found him alone, He was sitting in one of the tall win- dows leading upon a short balcony out- side, watching the approach of the thun- der-storm, now almost ready to burst. At every few seconds a frightful gleam of lightning tore open the heavens, fol- lowed by a burst of thunder that seemed tojshake the world. “ Hullo! Come in—come in!" said the governor, cheerily, tottering goutily to- ward me and placing a chair. 1 hope we shall have a little cooler weather after this,” indicating the storm. Ina few minutes I had placed him in possession of my case. He looked very ravely at me indeed, and pursed up his ips into alittle round O. * Young man, that lady intends to cowhide vou, sir. George Powder’s widow! By Jove! sir, I'd rather face a battery of artillery any d There was a knock at the vant appeared. *t Governor, Mrs. Powder’s compli- ments. She ig out here in the hall, sir, and would like to have a short private conversation with you, sir.” He was a knowing servant, and smiled darkly, I fancied, in my direc- tion: and no wonder, for I was as pale as death. “ Tell Mrs. Powder that I shall be at her service in one moment,” said the governor; and the man retreated. * My a ” ot a ser- and closed it behind me. At the same moment I felt her hand all my strength, I held the barrier fast, locked it and fled. I felt now that I should not be in a condition of safety while I remained in New York. That woman might pounce upon me at any time. As for appearing at the concert, it was out of the ques- tivn, and, pleading illness, 1 packed up About a month afterward, living in Washington, I had a letter with the that he desired to see me immediately. I left that night for Richmond, and in two weeks another letter was forwarded by the secretary of my club in New York, with es flute monogramed on it. The handwriting was bold and aggressive, but of a strictly feminine character, and a tremulous examination revealed the authoress—Mrs. Birdseye, Again it was the peremptory message from Birdseye, that he desired to see me without delay. The morning saw me on my way to South Carolina. By this time I had become a sort of monomaniac, but one fully aware of his own lunacy and unable to correct it Waking and sleeping, I could think of nothing but Mrs. Birdseye. I felt that implacable woman intended to follow me to the grave, and several times in Charleston 1 walked down to the water and examined it critically. The most trifling things threw me into intense agi- tation—the mention of the article pow- der, or any reference to the feathered creation, or the sight of a flute in the window of a music-store. And one day player, George Birdseye, from consump- tion; poor George had blown all his his His widow was | free to pursue her life-dream of ven- EANCe. 1 started for Florida. Here, among the oranges and alliga- tors, peas and strawberries in winter and other attractions. I began, little by little, to, not exactly forget, but to cease to remember with such distinet acute- ness the complications of the past. The mind becomes enfeebled in Florida, and the emotions subside to a state of apathy. I was in this condition of languor when, oné day, entering the hotel, I carelessly glanced at the register. “Mrs. George Birdseye” stared me in the face! “ How long has this lady been here?’ asked. “ Just arrived, sir,” said the clerk. I went directly to the elevator and got in. Up we started and had got half- way, when, with a hideous wrench, the machine stopped between two floors. “Oh!” cried a voice near me, in alarm, “we have met with an acci- dent.” I become conscious, for the first time, of a companion. It was a lady, and she lifted her vail. It was Mrs. Birdseye, and I felt that I was alone in a cage with ar furiated tigress. “I always hated these elevators,” she said, with a frightened anxiety; *‘1I wish I had gone to my room by the stairs! Do you think we are in danger of being preeipitated to the bottom sir?” I shoo my head. A ventriloquial controversy began up and down the shaft between the ser- vants and the elevator boy. “The thing has caught,” shouted the hoy, ** Give it a shake.” rs. Birdseye sprang up. “Oh, for mercy's sake! don’t shake it, or we may be kilied.” She seized my arm. *‘ Command them not toshake it, sir. Threaten them with damages, sir, manner! Will youspeak, sir, or are you deaf and dumb?” think, madam,” said I. know precisely how to manage it.” She recognized me. “Mr, Blue m I prepared to defend myselt, ‘* No violence, ma'am. Act calmly and reasonably." * 1 have come to Florida expressly to | It followed vour trail like a detective, “J-] state unhesitatingly that 1 w oompelled to defend myself, She looked at me for a minute a lit ¢ quite forgotten it—although, of course I re I really was and pr I breathed a deep sign of relief.” “But why have you been so long in | ¥ . : BN “ Well, George, you know, is dead, | et ic For Know~ | And in consideration of this Mr. Blueberry, by his will—what do you think? his gold and silver flute!” [ shook hands with her silently, and wiped the corner of my eye with my handkerchief. * It shall be done,” [ murmured, in a | and plump hand. “Iam gad to hear you promise me that, for I thought you would refuse me. how eccentric you are, Mr rence in our parlor—the day you locked | me in—I positively considered you in- | sane. hours, unable to get out, sir, and finally | I was shut in there four or five | was obliged to call assistance from the | street.” i “It was pre-occupation, Mrs. Birds- | eye. foond literary projects, and I scarce; knew what 1 was about. tracing the missing link between the oyster and the clam, to the exclusion of | all other subjects whatsoever. You | I pressed her hand, be- | My mind Was ahsorbed in pro- | y 1 was then | “ Certainly. But really, this is rather | a curious situation, isn't it? How much longer are we to be imprisoned here? Please ask the boy." “How long. oh, Catiline, wilt thou | “ A man has gone for the carpenter, | sir,” came back the reply, Either the man or the carpenter made his haste very deliberately, tor Mrs. Birdseye and myself remained in close But it wasa short hour—indeed, a de- When we were released boy a banknote, to his great bewildcr- ment. » . - * » I am now engaged upon the memoirs assistance of his widow valuable. TINELY TOPICS, Professor George L.. Vose, of Bowdoin Maine, who is regarded as an GO Lege, over 200 railroad bridges have fallen these **acoldents” either to the selec. tion of bad materia, faulty construc. tion, and imperfect supervision, or all of these causes combined. It is said that, when completed, the Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore will be the most complete and best en- word, will be twenty-eight buildings in the dollars, Adam Wagoner was about the most popular old man in Gallipolis, Olio, but he was a confirmed swearer, tor his Philip, his language, but liked him kindly heart. His nephew, age of his failing to injure him, When. had him years, At before whom the inflict another Philip was maddened by the fail. length the justice cases came refused to By an official return remting to Eng- Desolation of Palestine. The Rev, W. J, | tion of the Holy Land which he has re. cently visited, He says: Nothing ean well exceed the deso- lateness of much of it, twenty or thirty miles together, forests | which did exist thirty on Mount Carmel and Mount Tabor) fast garden soil asking to be cultivated, at best but scratched up a few inches deep Miss Flynn and Her Lover, Miss Mary Flynn was studying medi- gine and being courted at the same Mr. William Budd was attend- to- gether in the front parlor, Mr. Budd was thinking how he should manage to propose, Miss Flynn was explaining “Do vou know," she said, "that thous. ands of persons are actually ignorant clothing enough for decency, plowed field, the rest, at best, likesheep { { i i i far the most part like the dry bed of the most rocky river, where, amid blocks ! nothing upon wheels, not so much as a barrow, to be met with in a ride of over 300 miles. Evervthing is taxed; every | i i i every cow or horse, eto. every vege- Every eighth egg is not taxed but taken the government. Nothing like a i near. 1ithere were, the owner is liable off. On the other hand, the number of steamers has augmented from 99 in 1860, to 3,580 last year, and the tonnage at his expense. The towns are filthy in the extreme. levied from every house for lighting and cleaning the streets ankie or a splash into a hole of blackest ! Nothing is done for the good of improvement of the land by the government ¥ peduncle ’ “* Millions of 'em," replied Mr. Budd. “And Aunt Mary wouldn't believe me when I told her she couldn't wink without a sphincter muscle!” * How unreasonable.” “ Why, a person cannot kiss without sphincter!" ** Indeed I" “1 know it is so!" “May I try if I can? “ Oh, Mr, Budd, it is too bad for you to make light of such a subject.” Mr. Budd seized her hand and kissed She permitted it to remain in his ETRSP, " I didn’t notice,” he said, ** whether aw hat do you eall itP—e sphincter elped me then or not. Let me try ain, Then he tried again, and while he held her hand she explained to him about the muscles of that portion of the hu- man body, “It is remarkable how much you know anhout such things,” said Mr. Budd" really wonderful. Now, for example, what is the bone at the back of the head called P" ** Why, the occipital bone of course.” “And what are the names of the mus. private individuals, or by companies, is be first given to the authorities. In Zurich, Switserland, the use of ‘a portable water power, so to speak, is being extensively used for househoid purposes. Firewood, for example, isto lengths for A smal! sawing machine on front of a house, the water flows to the machine; the saw dances, and cuts up the wood with has also been invented, and employed but there this abundant in Zurich; Where it is any object to might be During a recent performance in the Wilda Pigeons in Michigan. A correspondent writes about the | wild pigeons that every two years comes | to Michigan in immense numbers on North. This year they came to the) county. at the time of their arrival, * they came It As a local publication stated | was concentrated at this point. The out of sight, and still they came, mil- | lions upon millions more.” They spread | over an area of more than fifteen miles in length and six to eight miles wide, | and the prospect for a time was that the nesting wouid be the most extensive ever known in the State. The news speedily reached all parts of the State, and it is said that in a fortnight's time 3,000 hunters—professionals, amateurs, greenhorns—had invaded the country from all directions, surrounding and penetrating the nesting-grounds. It was noticed, however, by old hun. ters that the birds did not settle down to domestic life as quickly as usual. The roosting birds--that is, those who had not yet mated—outnumbered the nesting birds a hundred to one. Some of the more zealous and inconsiderate sportsmen entered the nesting woods and commenced popping away at the nests themselves.a snow-storm followed, high winds prevailed, and many of the roosting birds, disgusted, postponed their anticipated housekeeping and scattered. The nesting consequently fell far short in magnitude of what was first expected, though still large in area and containing millions of birds. Jt scattered along the banks of the Platte river, in the townships of Almira, Zee- land, and Homestead. The distance from one end to the other was over ten miles, and the width yaried from a few rods to three or four miles. There were, however, numerous long distances be- tween the two extremes where no nests were to be found, and the birds ocea- sionally changed their ground, so that: many of the hunters themselves were very uncertain as to the exact where- abouts of the birds, One nesting is about the same as an- other, and the first nest you come to like the million others in the country. When these migratory birds have mated, de- cided where to settle, and have staked off their claim, they proceed at once to construct about the slightest nest that will hold an egg and a bird. * Three sticks and a feather” constitute about the material, according to a recent visi- tor there. The feather is often wanting, but a few more sticks are generall added. The nest is placed in the crotch of a tree, on two forked branches, or anywhere else in the tree where suitable support can be found. Cedar trees along the river bottoms seem to be preferred, but when the nestings are large, beech and other trees are occupied. From half a dozen to fifty or sixty nests are built in a tree, and only one egg is laid in each nest. : How to Write for the Papers. The Boston Post hits the nail on the head when it says: Communications should be brief, and there are several reasons for this. In the first place, newspaper space is valuable. The modern newspaper is never troubled with the old-time complaint of needing ‘* something to fill up.” The editor's scalpel is constantly reeking from the slaughter of live news matter and inter- esting miscellany. Short communica~ tions are much more likely to find readers than long ones are, and unless they are to be read it is much better not to publish them. More contributions can be represented where the articles are short than when they are Jong, and one man has as strong a claim upon the columns as another, provided he fur- nishes as interesting matter. A short article is usually more pithy and pointed than a long one. A subject should have many ramifications to demand more than halfa column in a newspaper, while all that can be saved even from that limit up to a certain point is apt to be an improvement. That prince of journalists, the: late Samuel Bowles, once apologized for a iong editorial, and gave as his excuse lack of time to write ashort one. He expressed an im- portant truth in his usual epigrammatic way. where, brandishing his weapon furi- tied audience as the "Avenger of Man- All attempts to remove him fair usage and good government? ruiers. Palestine is worthless to the Turkish government. The whole reve. nue is stated to amount only to $600,000 or $1,000,000 per annum. four millions of money. If it were six, of Palestine? A sum sure to be repaid a thousand-fold in a few years time. And what would not $50,000,000 in hard cash be to the Turkish government at this moment? Seasickness, Theories about seasickness are as in- accustomed to the sea, and all efforts wo unavailing. One of the latest prescrip. tions is to take five-drop doses of nitrate of amyl, which has been known to exers cise, it is said, a most favorable influ- suflerers, momentarily increasing, a detachment to load with pall and fire upon him. A minute inter the wretched man iay a corpse through his head; and, this sensational dramatic episode having been thus brought to a close, the passed which they bad fled in terror when the madman made his first and last appear- performances were resumed at the point “ Mankind’s Avenger." IO ‘+ Made of Paper.” relation to the ailment, whose real cause is a congestion of the brain, noting re. flexly on the stomach, Still another and indeed a more rea. | sonable theory is that most cases are | due in some degree to each of the sources | mentioned, and that, with a full stom- ach and congested liver, little can be In cases mainly nervous, as with women, nitrate of amy! | is usually found very beneficial, and de- serves more varied and extensive trial an it has hitherto received. Nearly sites, papér, immediately lost favor in our out tie fact was often attributable to the use, by the unscrupulous maker, of inside layers of durable leather, and this is only n single illustrat on among many that might be given to show to wha has been put. The daily tearing of also done much to impress us with the fragility of the frequently handled ma- terial. It was natural that we had come to regard paper as a cheap and unreli- able substance. As a consequence, we cannot readily conceive of the successful application of paper where great strength, tenacity to withstand powerful strains and dur- ability are required of it. But the one process of compression, enormous in its power, gives all these highly desirable constituents to a solid, compact sub- stance, which, although harder than wood and taking to some extent the place of iron, is formed of the same ma- terial that makes the fragile newspaper sheet. Paper car wheels are successfully manufactured and used, paper bricks are becoming desirable as a building mate- rial. Professor Green, ofthe Troy Poly- technic institution, has erected a great revolving dome whose light trame work is covered with hard, enduring papier- mache only one-sixth of an inch thick. Paper has been successfully employed as an anti-fouling sheathing for an iron vessel and in other things almost as un- expected, It must he observed in connection with paper, however employed, that it possesses two very manifest advantages —lightness and cheapness—and when compressed into a solid substance it is also as hard and durable as several other strong and more costly materials, No one will hesitate to employ paper in- stead of iron in any construction pro- vided that the former can be shown to in that form. Hundreds of so-called infallible cures might be enum. erated, and yet gome people have tried The probability is that sea. sickness comes from different causes with different individuals. With some from the nerves; with others from the with others again trom the imagination. No exact diagnosis can be made of seasickness, Of forty or fifty may be a marked variation from the The disorder depends nore or less on the individual, and any attempt to generalize upon it is pretty certain to be misleading as well as tiie. The Chinese Army and Navy. Some of the Russian newspapers, in view of the contingency of a war with China, give some particulars of the mili- tary and naval forces of that country. The chief portion of the Chinese arm consist of ‘‘the First Army Corps,” composed of eight Mantchou, eight Tar- tar and eight Chinese corps, and the garrison of Pekin. The soldiers of “the First Army Corps” are seldom drilled, and are mostly armed with old swords, bows, spears and other anti- quated weapons. Being badly paid, they earn their living by working at all sorts of trades, and are of but little us. as soldiers, Their total strength, exe clusive of officers is about 105.000 men, The garrison of Pekin, also badly armed- consists of 17,600 men. Besides these there are two corps 16,500 strong, which form the emperor's body-guard, and a division of infantry of 20,000 men, whose duty it is to keep order in the capital and its suburbs. There is also a third army, which during the present century has been almost exclusively employed in time of war. This is the so-called * Green-hanner Army,” which is composed of eighteen army corps, in correspondence with the eighteen pro- vinces of the empire. Each army corps has five divisions, and each division five camps. A general commands each division, and the eivil governors are the commanders-in-chief of the troops stationed in their respective districts. The total strength of the ‘* Green-ban- ner Army" on paper is about 651,000 men, with 7,000 officers, but it is prob- { able that more than one-half of this foree couid be brought into the field. siderations in its favor. The range and mutability of paper are remarkable, The same material that forms the delicate valentine enters into the composition of the stalwart ear wheel that sustains the weight of tons and endures constant friction ns it glides along the iron rails. According as paper may be prepared, it ranks among the most fragile or the stoutest substances. Harder than wood and impervious to water. Just think of it. How people fifty years ago would have been sur- syrised at such accomplishments. But Ping established facts, they are fraught with great significance, They have en- larged the possibilities of paper wonder fully. They have opened a wide field for experiment and invention. Paperis destined to take the place of many sub- stances that will be found inferior to it, while its application in numerous unde- veloped ways, wherein nothing else car be used, ay confidently be expected.— Paper World, | European weapons and drilled accord. ing to the principles of European tactics; the remainder still carry spears, matoh- locks, and short swords. Finally, there is a kind of irregular volunteer corps, which is called in when the regular army has proved incapable of suppress- ing an insurrection or putting down brigandage. This corps is even worse armed than the others, possesses but little training, and is hardly amenable to discipline. Astor the Chinese navy, its ships are, for the most part, badly constructed and insufficiently manned. There are a few European officers, but the majority of the naval officers are Chinese, who are very ignorant and in- efficient,—Pall Mall Gazelle. tn II An ant, three-eighths of an inch long, carrying a burden of one-sixth of a grain, moves at the rate of one mile in eleven hours. The weight (a small one compsred with that they can carry) is eighteen times their own. “The spiralis and the infra-spiralis, “Well, now let me show you what I mean. When I put my infraspiralis tal bone that rests upon my shoulder- blade, in this way?" : “My back hair primarily, but jhe Ot. ut in and see us?” “Jet him come! Who cares?” said Mr. Budd, boldly. * I think I'll exer. cise a sphincter again and take a kiss." ‘Mr. Budd, how can you" said Miss Flynn, after he had performed the “ Don't call me Mr. Budd; call me Willie,” he said, drawing her closer. “You accept me,'don’t you? I know you do, darling.” “* Willie," Miss faintly. “What, darling? ** I can hear your heart beat." ** It bests only for you, my angel.” “And it sounds to me out of order. whispered Flynn, form." “*Nmall wonder for that when it's yourself under * You | give you some must put I wil “It's your own properly, darling; do Lot us see But why proceed? The old, old story was told again, and the old, old per- mouth enacted again. And, about eight vears ater, Mr. Budd was wishing that disease put to would be as a subject for the dissecting table. Maz Giving and Taking Advice. Giving advice is certainly one of the the speaker and the person spoken to. It is the property of a few to be abie to say just the right thing, in the best way and at the proper time; and still fewer are able to receive advice precisely as to profit by it to the fullest. Butit is is really needed, and which is decently given, Inlis of its good elect because the receivers of it do not properly dis- tinguish between true advice, and im. diing. “A great deal of the outory against meddling,” says an English re- viewer, * comes from persons who most need some interference with the swing of their course of action. How vio- lently indignant are young people when engaged in a course of excitement or dissipation, or any career of passion or self~will, at a word or hint of interfer. ence; how jealous of the mere suspicion o'it; how insolent in thought, and often in word and act, against the offender! In all headlong doings of any kind, and at any age, there is the same resentment at any sense of external check.” Itis hard to be advised aright, especially when one’s own conscience approves of the wisdom of the counsel; for none are go bold in selt-nssertion as those who know they are in the wrong. But that person, old or young, is wise, who weighs advice for what it is worth, and is at least as ready to accept and profit by it,ns to spurn it and follow a con- trary course of action. The chances are, when a person really takes courage to advise you on any matter, that there is something worth looking at in what he says. —Sunday School Times. A Frolicsome Duke, Speaking of the Duke of Hamilton, no man for years past has left a reputation for greater eccentricity at Oxford than his grace. The following anecdote, however, will prove that the frolics were none of them malicious, but merely the results of the hot blood of youth. One evening the duke went to Standen’s and bought the best hat he could find, Ornamented with this brand new head covering, he lounged into a grocer's shop at St. Aldate’s, and quietly re- marked to the astonished assistant, * 1 want some treacle —about a big jug full, and I will take it with me!” The man, recognizing his customer and remem- bering the well-known eccentricity of the duke, contented himself with paling; “Does your grace wantit in a pitcher?" “No,” replied the duke, carelessly, ** I don’t care to be ‘seen walking about with a pitcher; put it in my hat!” and with this he laid his new purchase on the counter. The man gravely filled the Lincoln and Bennett with treacle, and, when it was nearly brim full, the duke told him to stop. * How much do I owe you?' inquired the premier duke of Scotland. The man mentioned the price: the duke threw a five-pound note on the table, and, as the shopman was stooping over his drawer looking for change, clapped the hat, treacle and all, on the man's head, and left the Shop with his boon companions, who all heartily enjoyed the joke, and thought the man well paid tor his discomfiture and temporary annoyance by the pres- ent of a new hat only partially damaged and a fiver. If the shopkeepers of Ox- ford are to-day as they were then, I think any would willingly undergo a similar ordeal for the sake of a similar reward. — Whitehall Review. “Well I declare,” said a stranger the other day, as he looked at a Roman's boots, ‘when they were Sealing out feet they were pretty liberal with you, weren't they?” *‘ Yes,” replied the Roman, ‘they seem to have been more liberal with me in that particular than they were with you when dealing out brains.” The stranger turned red in the face and walked off. He has not been seen since, and it is presumed he has hidden himself away to meditate privately on physiological extremities and the anatomy of cute remarks. — I ——————. Georgia intends to grow one million fifty-pound watermelons this year. A Prodigy and Monster, Nature often gives such curious twists to her productions which afford hope of being rare and valuable pieces of hu- man clay, that she only provokes by tantilizing us with her hints of what, if the had chosen, she might have done, She turns out a child, whe, ifshe will finish as carefully as she begins him, romises to be a Shakespeare, a SHU - ay, or a Webster; but suddenly, as if impatient of workmanship, or us if gov- erned by a mere oaprice, she warps and pavers him, and throws him away wmttered and useless, Thirteen years ago a boy was bornin Paterson, New Jersey, whose head on the day of lus birth attracted attention, ageof four, had grown so large as to make other people shake theirs and pre. dicta fatal and speedy ending of his life, But he lived on until he wore a hat of seven and a half size, while his body ceased to grow after the age of five, His intelligence was marvelous. He eeuld learn anything by heart; had wonder- fully, quick preception, great logical faculties, mathematical talents, and a love of music and poetry. He could re. cite Milton and Shakespeare and render some of fhe passages after the manner of the best sotors he had seen. He be. came the wonder ol the city, and even attracted scientific and other prominent men Lo read this enigma of juvenile genius, With all the amusement and pleasure he found in life he had moments of pro- found sadness, in which he would speak of his early death in terms and tones that touched his friends and hearers to tears. His father died before the boy had stisined celebrity, and his mother earned a living by working in the mills, jeaving him during the day to the care of his chance friends and acquaintances. His gifts proved his ruin. He fell in with those who began to pervert his wonderful mind. They taught him slang phases, profanity and obscenity. A mere midget, he became as famous in vicious ranks for his vileness and pre- ecocious Yilgatie} of speech as he had | been previously for his cultured and re- | fined intellect, He became sell-willed | and incorrigible. The doors of respec- {table people were closed against him, | He learned to smoke, chew, curse and ! swear, and spent his time in dancing {jigs and singing ribald songs. Belore | he was eight years of age he was in the | habit of coming home at night intoxi- | ented, or not coming home at all. He ! was shunned by those who once courted | and flattered him. Ladies who Lad pet- | ted him passed by him in fear of an in- isuit. His temper became ungovernable, | his Insolence intolerable. He would | stop strangers in the street, demanding {a chew of tobacco, and wouid return | either an acquiescence or a denial with | blood curdling profanity. that he was so vile and | uncommon, but the sight of the crea- | ture, with his big head and baby frame, | conducting himself like a candidate for | State prison, made him a monstrous | and repulsive curiosity. | His py tried in vain to reform | him, but her daily occupation prevented | her from watching over him or exercis- | ing much influence of any sort. She | finally asked that he be sent to the re- | torm school, and thither he has been \fuken. Perhaps he may be saved for | somethirg great and useful yet, but, after { a career of dissipation at his age, the robabilities are against his surviving icng, or, it he does, of undergoing a thorough reform.—Detroit Free Press. The Eyesight in Adults. In adult age the eyesight may be ‘and often is, injured by causes whic can be avoided by the exercise of a moderate amount of thought and care. tive or excessive iliumination, exoes- | sive application, uncleaa or impure air, exposure to cold, and want of misuse of spectacies. Of course, the best light is the natural or white light, which ‘comes from the sun, and which is as i congenial and neocssary to the eye as | food to the digestive organs. But by thoughtlessners and carelessness the light of day may become the means of destroying or seriously impairing the eyesight, Thus, the power of vision is often enfeebled and sometimes ruined by sudden exposure of the eyes to a much stronger light than that to which they have been accustomed. A person may suffer irreparable injury, even to blindness, by going abruptly from dark- @ess to light, by looking at the sun or other dazaling light, by reflection of the solar rays into the eye from a mirror or other polished or white surface. Harm may come from opening the eyesin a bright sunlight on awakening in the morning, and hence, as Dr. Carter, an English physician who has made the eyes a study, points out, it is not wellto sleep in a bed facing the morning sun, when the windows of the room are in- sufficiently covered by curtains, or when the strong light is suddenly ad- mitted by a servant in the morning. The habit of sleeping with a night- light burning in the room is ohjection- able, since darkness is conducive to sound and refreshing sleep. But it per- scns will do it, the light should be so screened as to prevent the rays from falling direc:ly on the eyes. In dwell- ings, as in schoolrooms, architecture ne furniture have an important in- fluence on the proper use and preserva tion of the eyesight. Not only the smount of light in the room, but the di- rection from which it is admitted, are matters of importance. The eyes are naturally much protected against light coming from above, but they are com- paratively defenseless against that which comes from below. “On this account,” says Dr. Carter, “very low windows are rather to be avoided, or, if used, they should be fitted with blinds made to draw up rather than down; and the floors should not be covered with very bright-eolored materials, or with any which possess reflecting sur- faces. The blinds, too, by which the admitted light is tempered, should be of a suitable color, neither white nor white striped with red, but of a blue or gray tint, and of sufficient thickness to be really effectual for the purpose for which they are designed.” es ——————— An Old Dutch Funeral. Until within a few wecks past, one man, John Van Vechten, of Catskill, was living, who remembered the funeral of Domine Schuncman. The ceremony was in accordance with the customs which the Dutch, a hundred and sev- enty years before, had brought with them from the mothercountry. A man, especially deputed for the purpose, met each male-comer at the door, and offered him a glass of rum from a flask. A woman waited in a like manner upon each female-comer. The relatives of the dead sat together around the corpse; the friends and acquaintances took their seats in another part of the room, or in an adjoining chamber. When the services were over—these were in Dutch—they who chose went up to the coffin to take their last look at the de- ceased. The coflin was then closed, put upon a bier, and taken from the house to the grave, the relatives following, and after them all comers. When the coffin had been laid in the ground, the procession returned to the house, but in inverse order—the relatives and the empty bier and its bearers coming last. One room in the house was assigned to the bearers, another to the assembled people. In each room a table had been set, with bottlesof rum, a jar of tobacco, and long clay pipes. All the men drank and smoked, talking in the meanwhile of the character and virtues of their dead pastor, of their horses, of the spring Planting, and of the weather. One or two of the lower sort got tipsy, and amused themselves by singing fu- neral ditties out-of-doors.— Harpers | Evils of Neglecting Cold In the Head. | In a paper read by Dr. D. B. St | John Roosa, of New York city, at the | recent meeting of the Medieal of | the State of New York, he stated | the most frequent origin of chronic dis- | eases of the lachryma of the | sonjunctiva, and of the middle ear, is in a neglected roold in the head,” It | generally com no person i i as liealth, except under extraordin- ary circumsiance, takes cold, and yet | the majority of mankind have, at some | time, suffered from cold in the head, The popular idea that a cold in the head is an insignificant/affair is founded {on the fact that most le recover 0 | such an extent that they are able to go about afterward and in their or- | dinary avocations wi special no- | tice, atthe time, of the uences of | the disease, which may even then be set- | tiled upon them. He believed that | many of the maladies which {men and women from | allotted ' period of threescore and ten | have their origin in these colds ; and that | many serious affections which set as an | impediment to the success of 1 vie- tim are dated from a cold in the head, Hedescribed the suffering incident to | an acute attack of cold in the head, and {of the impossibility of having repeated attacks without producing serious local | changes—-not only change, but a pera. ment impairment of nutrition. To cor- rect all this, special attention must be | paid to individual hygiene, gnd if the { evil consequences of lected cold in i ihe head were to be abo he abo- | lition must come through a public sen- timent properly educated this as | upon all other sanitary q family physician must warn the people | everywhere, as opportunity of | the ae in this / oe iy Sls: the | means by whieh it is to be avoided. The [first great precaution to be taken by Leach individual is to keep himself ina general condition, and to do that that tends | he must studiously avoid all {all the organs of the y. Chil must be clothed in flannel all the year | round, and must be made to know that | the staples of diet are milk, bread, meat, | vegetables and fruit. and that tes, coffee, | and pastry of all kinds are to be used ‘only as the greatest of luxuries, and | therefore in #mall quantities and at long | intervals, The community can only be- Pe he Sepa secosacy | healthy, an DECESSATY ‘to ie Memphis and Grenada places | in whish yellow fever never comes may | be adopted ; but if the control cannot be | obtained of the bodies of, and the modes (of living of the individuais in those and all other places, evils not so suddenly | fatal, but none the Jess in the end gerous, and all the time | their well being, will ce iy exist. Prayers in Congress. | A letter from Washington | Cleveland Herald says: The ing ‘a Congressional session is always or- | dered st noon precisely. When the | clock hand touches twelve the floor has | been cleared of all visitors, and perhaps | five or six Senators are in their seats, | and twenty-five or thirty Congressmen {in their hall. The comes out | exactly on the minute, steps up to his | dais, strikes a smart rap upon the sound- | ing board, and the minister who follows | him walks up to the presiding officer's { chair and prays, usually Sh oo | easionally grows somewhat . The {same ceremony at the same moment | transpires in the Senate. Both the | Speaker and Vice-Presidentstand below | their desks with bowed heads while the | chaplains officiate. The prayers over, | the business of the day at once begins | by the mechanical reading of the jou | which usually occupies from to | tweaty minutes the members mean- while steadily filing in from the com- | mittee rooms and elsewhere, so a | bare quorum is generally on and when | the motion is made by the presiding officer that the record be approved. In the Senate those men i figure so prominently before the country—these { men ae GORSpicuONS during the jo ments o yer by their absence. e e oF ines in their busy Sena torial lives seems to beso great the ten or fifteen minutes which belong to the opening moments of the daily ses- sion cannot be spared for their presence there. Those Senators who are distin- guished by their promptuess and pe ence during the opening prayer of the day might be mentioned here, because it has not as yet been done. On the Democratic side Mol , of Kentucky, used to be thestandby. He was always there. No one ever was as regular, or is to day. The present pillars are Coke, of Texas, and Slater, of The former is a man of an immense frame, with a good nead. Slater is a very quiet man, and listens to ing that transpires in the Senate; the most attentive Senator, perhaps, in the whole thrée or four Senators who are uni- formly regujar in attendance at prayers —Blair, of New Hampshire; ers, of Nebraska: Cameron, of 3 McMillan, of Minnesota, and Rizk wood, of Towa. Dawes. of usetts, is retty regular. These seven or eight enators are the gentiemen who open the daily sessions; were it not for them there would be sad confusion in the regular order. The Great English Landholders. The thirty-five largest landed pro- prietors in Great Britain hold each the following amount of land out of the 74,- 000,000 acres which make up the United Kingdom: : Duke of Argyll. ... coves Baillie of Doom our. .covcvarssansnes Borridge of Clilden, Galway....... Earl of Breadall'aoe.... c.oovusen The Duke of Buccleuoh........... Marquis of Bate........... Cameron of Lochiel.... cov ieee The Chisholm. .......coo00 ik aaee Marquis of Conyngham...... Earl of Dalhousie. .... Duke of Devonshire..co canvas x Marguis of Downshire * Farquharson of Invereauld..... ..«. aman nE ns Acres. 175,114 165,048 se sans Gordon of Cluny Dake of Hamilton Eail of Home 3 Karl of Kenmare... ....... “eases Marquis of Lansdowne......... at Earl of Leconfleld.......... asaiavs The Mackintosh... ....... Tho Macloof csv aves rrvstonsssssn Matheson of Ardross. ....cvvvasnav es Matheson of Stornoway Dukeof Northumberland. .... ...... Duke of Portland... .c.. oun. Sir John Ramsden. .... whan dens Sir Charles Ross... 09,835 132,419 124,181 141,679 220, 424,560 186,397 162,235 150,048 356.500 “en seen Sass as Rann 305,930 114,831 ceree HB 270 ++ 1,368 Me 145,77 Marquis of SHEO....cvvvvinnns Bark of Stair... cosccsnnn iran Duke of Sutherland inte d SirW. W.Wynan...oacavaarnsns ean More Sunshine. The world wants more sunshine in its disposition, in its business, in its chari- ties, in its theology. For ten thousand ot the aches and pains,and irritations of men and women, we recommend shine. It soothes better than morphine. It stimulates better than ehabpagee. It is the best plaster for a wound. d Samaritan poured out into the allen traveler's gash more of this than of oil. Florence Nightingale used it on the Crimean battle-fieids. Take it into all the alleys, on board all the ships, by all the sick beds. Not a phial full, not a cup full, but a soul full. Itis for spleen, for liver Solu ralgia, for rheumatism, for failing for- tunes or melancholy. — Fath and Works. It is reported that in the Azores the entrance of smoke inte conservatories has been found to hasten the flow of certain plants. Thy white-rose sisters gleam Like stars in a darkening sky; To the kiss of the night dewes, soft and sul, When the warm south wind floats by. And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer, As it tragranos fills the night. Bat oh! my red, red rose! My ross with the crimson lips! So bright thou wert in the sunny mon, Yet now thou art hiding all forlorn, And thy soul is in drear eclipse! . Dost thon morn thy lover dead Thy lover, the lordly sun? Didst thou see him sink in the golden we With pomp of banners sbove his rest? He shall rise again, sweet one! He shall rise with his eye of fire; And thy radisnt blashes burn With the joy of mpture alter At the coming of his feet! Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr. - 3 thed i torpid, the excretions are diminished, while, in some in- stances, the of fat accumulates foam inordinate extent. The memory is impaired, pops BE eas tha kin e, ch 3 ° functions of the intellect are not suffi. ciently exerted when is too pro- otten sd To sleep much is not necessarily to bea good sleeper. Generally they are the poorest sleepers who longest in — i. e., they awaken jess refreshed than if the time of arising were earlier by an hour or two, Whi Je Ta urgotim Shi dren . more sleep than Doar cidere, yet it bout be the care of parents that over-ind be not permitted. Where the for children is to lie in bed until eight or nine o'clock in the m 1g, the last two hours at least, do not . dreamless sleep where the hour for re- tiring is 8 or 9 o'clock r. M., but are spent in dosing, and, rte} cannot Ail insure § results deseri he au Iazinéss among dren is in very cases disease, and is largely doe fo this as well as the other causes mentioned that the foundations of heaitn, — e. : How Gibralter was Captared. a a an BO A om rG as ¥. a combined fleet of and Dutch ships, inactive off dash at the t - fortress the opposite side of the straits Reposts. which proved well founded, that Gibralter was but weakly » and that its defenses were wholly in- adequate to protect it from a vi might wrest it therefore from Spanish hands. “Accordingly, upon the of August, 1704, the fleet appeared in the bay, and summoned the place to sur- render. A certain Don Diegode Salinas was its governor, and he-haa at his dis- posal just eighty regular soldiers, to ich, by great e British blue-jackets and at three points—at the moles, and at a bastion now known as Jumper's from the naval captain of that name who here led the assaunit—earried all before them. As a last resource the wed by a children Y de fe. futerpos} the hands o vine in of th is time ‘made present, nd pain. But it was the was hoisted, and which, | to wave over the rock { that day to this.
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