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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
|
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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.