PIRET VOIOR.
Die Mu mit 20 gross and fat,
flesh a great, nnwieldy mass;
I would I were as lean as that ’
Thin fellow over there, alas’
SRCOND VOIOR.
Oh, what a skeleton am
ith scarcely skin to bide my bones!
No wonder that I moan, and sigh
To be as fat as neighbor Jones!
IN UNISON,
Oh, what a wretohed lot is mine,
And what a hideous thing to view!
No wonder at my state I pine!
Ob, would 1 wore wg mt}. you!
lean
=~ Boston Transcript.
Vale!
On, the swilt yours
Pleasure, dismayed, beholds them harry on;
And love, strong love, looks back throngh
passionate tears;
Like the bright metcor that scarce appears,
Soom aro they gone,
Ch, the fleet honrs !
Why, what is man *—their puppet and their
slave;
At first his fotters wreathing with fair towers
Then galled and worn and robbed of all his
powers,
Gaining a grave.
Vale ! weery,
Watching in youth the sweet June roses tall;
They bloom again—small matter it they die
Ah! yes, they bloom; but om worms will
hie,
Doubt not, in all.
Vale ! The word
Later has smitten us with mortal pain;
Rung out the death-knell of dear hope, or
stirred
ihe lips whose earthly voices may be heard
Never sanin.
Then does it wake
Sad recollections. haunting thoughts that
grieve;
We know the cruel wound some Bmrewells
make,
We loarn to dread the nothingness, the break
Parting may leave,
So the years run !
Vale ! we soon must bid this briel estate;
Bat for that heritage which shall be won
When the (reed soul with time itself has dove
Trusting, we wait.
~The Argosy.
HIS REWARD.
“You are most unjust, Charlies, and
I know the Lord will one day sting
your conscience for your cruelty, and |
your heartiesspess toward that dear
child.”
The speaker was a comely lady of |
about fifty, tall slim, and upright, and
neatly clad in widow's weeds. Charles
Pemberton, her eldest son, a handsome,
stalwart young man of eight-and.
twenty. whom she addressed, answered
impatiently:
“ Confound the boy, I wish he was
dead.”
He did not mean that; for he loved
his little brother, and delighted to make
him happy. But his mother had a fatal
facility of tongue, aud for the last three
hours she had been attacking him on
the subject with ageressive meekness,
And now, out of his grief and his impa-
tience, he flung forth those bitter words,
angry with himself as he did so, and
rose to leave the room, lest his over.
wrought temper should betray him
farther. His mother fSurgs parting
shaft after him,
“You may have vour wish sooner
than you expect, Charles, and more than |
that. He will probably not trouble you
many years, for he is very delicate; and
1 shall pot outlive him very long
Then I suppose you will be happy.”
Charles Pemberton saw the cambric
prepared for the shower, and shudder.
ing fled; whereupon Mrs. Pemberton
retired to her bedroom to pray that her
son's hard heart might be sciler ed.
And then, from a curt.ined recess at
one cod of the room, there came a little |
boy of twelve, with blanched, serious
face, balf-parted lips, and wide dark
eyes. Towara the close of Mrs Pem-
berton's lecture he had entered the room,
by an open window, unperceived, and,
finding that he was the subject of the
discourse, he had concealed himself.
He had heard onlv the concuding |
words, and they chilled his very life-
blood. He stood now with one hand
clatehing the curtain
“80 Charles wishes | was dead, does |
he ? And mother thinks I am going to
die to pierse him. Bat won't.
wonder what makes mother think I am
going to die. Per. aps she only said it
to aggravate Charles. Why should he
wish | was dead ? I thought he was
fond of wwe;” and here he was nearly |
choked with a rising sob, which he
gulped down with aifficuity. * I won.
der why—1I'll ask him.”
The next morning, after breakfast,
his brother, who bad forgotten the inci- |
dent of the previous day, taking a ball, |
called out: * Get your bat, Teady, and |
let’s have half an bour’s practice.”
As they were walking down to the |
field Edward suddenly startled his
brother by asking: |
“Would it be any good to you if I |
was dead, Charles *" {
“Good to me' Why, Teddy, what |
are 3 thinking of!” i
“ Well, ye.terday you said you wished
I was dead; and you wouldn't wish that |
if it would be no good to you, would |
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NUMBER 4.
oniy a lifeinterest in a moderate prop-
i guardian of the boy, she had made
some efforts to win over Charles to her
views; but his honest, healthy nature,
was absolutely impervious to these nar
row notions; he was, according to the
argon of her seot, ** given up to a re.
probate mind,” and day by day the icy
orust of reserve in whioh she lived be.
came thicker and denser; and it was
rendered more hard by the feeling of
bitterness inspired by the provisions of
{ her husband's will, Charles felt ail thus
acutely, He tried to be, and he was, a
good son, but all attempts at filial con
fidence were repulsed. The kind of
fataiism which she had accepted made
i her bow with resignation to the will
which had decreed the eternal perdi.
tion of her elder son. in common with
that of the overwhelming majority of
the human race; bat with something of
inconsistency she prayed with passion
ate earnestness that ber vounger son
might be given to her, and might be
gathered into the fold of the elect.
The boy throve at school, His health,
now tha he was freed from maternal
coddling, improved rapidly. As was to
be expected he did full justice to his
brother's diligent coaching in athletics,
and what no one had expected, Lie devel.
oped 8s wonderful faculty for mathe.
matics. Nothing could be more satis.
factory than the reports of his conduct
and progress; and nothing brighter and
more beautiful than the ind's healthy
confidences with his brother in his
happy holidays, when he described his
schoo! life and the young hopes and am-
bitions kindling within him.
When the term of Teddy's school
was drawing to a close the head master
of the schoo! strongly urged that he
should go to Cambridge; and the iad
himself, pleased with the idea, was en-
couraged in his desire by the fact that
the dearest of his school friends had just
entered there.
But this was an extension of tL
educational course which had not beer
conterapiated. By the will of his father,
only a very moderate sum had been
assigned for the boy's education, and
this had airesdy been doubled by
Charles out of Lis own limited means
in order that he might have the advan-
tages of a superior school. lf he went
to the university, the funds must come
entirely from his elder brother, whe
wouid have to deny himseit in many
ways to arrange matters, And it was
especially hard to do at this time, for
the opportunity had just occurred of
purchasing on advantageous terms some
fields on which he had long looked with
an eye of rational aesire,
Mrs. Pemberton bad been looking
forward with hungry desire to the clos-
ing of the chapter of Teddy's school
experience. He was still young and
impreasible, and she would have op-
portunities daily and hourly of guiding
bis thoughts in the only direction in
which, according to her views, they
could be profitably employed. Her na-
ture, which hardened more and m
to ail the rest of the world,
concentrated all its tenderness and af-
fection on this boy: and her dearest
hope on this side of the grave was, that
it might be through her instrumental
ity that be sbould separate himself
from the world, even as she had done.
When, therefore, Charles ani ovneed to
her his intention of sending the boy
Cambridge, it was to her a croel and a
bitter blow.
For a few moments she sat in silence,
the gloom deepening on her face, and
her heart growing icier than ever within
her. :
“It will not be with my will or with
my consent,” she said at length, ** that |
he goes. But, I know my will and my
wish have no weight with you, and that
you delight 10 thwart them.”
“Nay, mother,” said he, mildly, “1
am thinking only of Teddy's good. It
would be far pleasant r for me to have
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has remarkable abilities, and that he
ought t go. The boy himself is eager
to go; and I know he will distinguish
himself, if honest work can bring him
distinetion.™
“and what good,” she flashed out,
“will his distinetion do him? *Knowl-
away. lhere is but one thing needful
to know, and of that he is likely to learn
You
are willing to gratify your own small and
whose homes are all of this world.
boy's only true interest
“Mother.” he pleaded, ‘I wish you
would be a little more reasonable"
**Ay, ‘resson!'’" she broke in.
“Reason is the will-o’-the-wisp that
leads you astray, not only to your own
undoing, but that of others. You think
yourself wise; and you may be wise in
said, “I = ill destroy the wisdom of the
wise, I will bring to nothing the under-
itanding of the prudent.’”
She was ready with quotations at |
every turn to justify herseir, and to con-
bliss? He was barely thirty-seven in
years. and he was younger in that he had
never been hackneyed in the ways of
ove, and his heart had never bowed to
a meaner passion. When he descended
next morning, there was the light
hope and love in his foe
uy Why, Charlie,” exclaimed Teddy,
"how young you look! if you grow
backward at this rate while you are at
Wilncore Court, mother will hardly
know which is whieh.”
He watched Teddy and Lilian in frank
and happy Intercourse, and thought
with delight that they were already as
brother and sister, Her manner to him
confidential, almost afte tionate
He was sure of his ground; more and
more sure each day until the very last,
on the eve of which he sat in his bed
room, musing much, for he had deter.
mined that ne would know his fate on
the morrow,
There was a tap at the door.
“Come in,” he cried, and, turning,
Saw brother, with a brilliant fiush
p Lis face and a strance fire in his
eves
“Charlie,” said he, in
quivered with some deep feeling
want to tell you something."
‘Yes," said be, kindiy, and scarcely
noticing these signs of unusual emotion.
Wns
his
voice that
“i
"
you. What is your news?"
Teddy walked tw the window, and
stood there, looking out for a few seo.
onds before he asked, speaking abruptly,
and without! turning:
** Charlie, what do you think of Lilian
Jermyn?
Had the boy then discovered his
secret, and was he coming to urge him
to the step on which he had already de-
termined? His agitation was so great
that be could soarcely find ords to
speak, but he began to answor siowly,
in low tones:
**1 should, perhaps,
you earlier, Teddy
The young man turned to him impul-
sively.
* AL!" Ie exclaimed, * you have seen
itall. Imight have known that, dear
oid brother. Charlie, bless me, con-
gratulate me. make mueh of me; she
has promised to be my wife.”
He had thrown his arms round his
elder brother's neck in the old childish
way, and was for a moment or so inco-
herent in his joy; be did not observe,
ar, if he did observe, attributed to un
wrong cause his brother's emotion,
though he felt in every fiber of his
frame a thrill of grateful recognition as
his brother kissed his forehead and
said: “God bless you, Teddy, ane
make you worthy of such a treasure.”
An hour iater, as Teddy was leaving
him, he said: * Oh, Charlie, there was
something you were going to tell me.
What was it!”
“On, that was a small matter, we
will not mix it with your joy to-night.”
A AS TA.
have spoken to
"
Jamie's Good-Night,
Ata late hour the other night & poor
oid man, weak with hunger and stiff
with cold, entered the Central station to
ask for lodgings. While he sat by the
stove to get warm they heard him groan
like one in distress, and tie captain
asked:
e Are
hart?”
“It is here," answered the old man, as
he touched his breast. “It all came
back to me an hour ago as] passed a
window and saw a bit of a boy in his
night gown. would to God that I
were dead I”
“* What is it!" asked the captain as he
you sick, or have you been
“It is the heart-ache—it is remorse,”
the old man answered. *' I have wanted
to die—1 have prayed for death-——but life
still clings to this poor old frame. I
am old snd friendless and worn out,
He wiped his eyes on his ragged sleeve
made a great effort to control his feel-
ings, and went on:
** Forly years ago I had plenty. A wife
sang in my home, and a young boy rode
on my kne and filled the house with his
shouts and Isughter. I sought to bea
called me such. One night Icame home
vexed. I found my boy ailing and that
ailed me to act so that night, but it
seemed as if everything went wrong.
night since he had been able to speak,
he had called to me before closing his
eyes in siecep, ‘good night, my pa!’ Oh,
sir, and I hear those words sounding in
my ears every day and every hour, and
they wring my old heart until I am
faint.”
For a moment he sobbed like a child,
“
God forgive me, but I was cross to
the boy that night. When Le called to
me good-night, I would not reply.
‘ Goodnight, my pa? he kept cailing,
and fiend that I was, I would make no
TRANCE TENTS,
Strange Actions of Persons While in a
Bate of Mesmerio Trance,
Dr, Beard, an well-known New York
soientist, delivered an interesting lec.
performed a number of curiou experi
ments with several subjects. In open.
Ling, Dr, Beard stated at some length the
theories regarding trance which he has
{ forméd from his experiments. Hisdefi.
nition of trance was that it ia a concen-
tration ol nervous activity in some one
direction with a corresponding suspen.
sion of nervous saotivity in all other
directions, Dr. Beard described briefly
the following forms of trance : Catalepsy,
ecstacy, intellectual trance, epileptie
trance, alcoholic trance, somnambulism,
sellinduced trance, spontansons trance,
mesmerio trance, or so-called™ hypno-
tism,” or * animal magnetism," neither
of which terms, Dr. Beard said, ex-
pressed the condition as well as the
term ‘trance or *‘ mesmeric trance.”
In speaking of the sponianeous trance,
Dy. Beard said there was po doubt that
reat actors like Balvinl or omtors like
jeecher gointo this sort of trance while
before an audience, and have no idea of
| what they are doing or saying. Mes
{ meric trance was of permanent value to
the medical science, because those capa-
bie of going into it could be handled
| easily, and thus the phenomena might be
carefuily stutied. Aher taking issue
| with the positions of many of the Euro
pean scholars in regard to trance, Dr,
Beard entered into a series of very ip.
teresting, and in some cases quite new,
experiments. A small piace on one side
ot the face of a subject was anmsthis-
ed so that, although a needle was push.
{ed into the flesh until it reached the
{ cheek bone, there was no evidence of
pain on the part of the trance subject,
| Dr. Post came out of the audience, and
| satisfied himselt of the genuineness of
i test Another subject was!
rendered stone deaf, A pistol
was discharged within an inch
of his ear, and every one in the
audience started, but the trance subject
remained firm as a statue. Another
person tasted cayenne pepper and called
it sugar while in the trance state. A
slightiy-buiit, pale young man next sub-
mitted himself to the test of actual
cautery. With a red-hot iron his hand
was burned unti: the flesh smoked, and
gave to the leoture-room the odor of a
biscksmith shop, but the subject did not
wince, On regaining consciousness Le
suffered aoute pain for a long time, but
bore it bravely, having given his cons mt
to the experiment. Six trance subjects
were set declaiming in unison, and
made a deafening din. Dr. Beard then,
by touching the hack of the neck of
each person, gave his audience the
amusing exhibition of six living asto-
mata. They threw their hands about,
their lips moved, their eyes flashed,
but no sound csme forth. A slight
fillip on the cheek in any case brought
back the power of s~eech instantly.
Both aphasia, the loss of think.
tog power, and aphonin, loss of power
to speak aloud, were produced, the
one condition in one subject, the other in
a second subject, at will of the op-
erator. A boy was set while in a trance
10 write his name. When he wasin the
middle ol iret name Dr. Beard
touched his neck. His pen halted nme-
diately, For fully five minutes Le sat
looking intentiy at the unfinished name
with rigid fingers. Then with a touch
onthe chieek he went on to complete his
name. After experiments showing that
trance subjects could ve converted tem
porarily into * Maine jumpers,” so that
they woud spring up wildly si sa smart
stroke of the hand, Dr. Beard said tht
there was one of his subjects who had
teeth that needed drawing, snd he had
consented to have Dr. Kings .ey extract
them at one.
Some of the ladies shuddered and ex.
presse! their dread of the operation.
The young man sat down fearlessly,
however, and in few minutes the
dentist had extracted three teeth with.
out apparently giving the young man
the slightest pain. Dr. Kingsley said
that in thirty vears' experience he never
saw any one who could sit without
wincing to have one tooth out unless
with the use of an anssthetic.
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A Dector’s Mistake,
At some of the more primitive Ger-
man and Bohemian watering places a
quaint old custom prevails, in virtoe of
which the resident medical or bath
doctors take up their stations every
morning at a fixed hour, under particu.
lar trees, on the leading promenade of
their respective Bade-Ort, so that their
patients may make sure of finding them
for consultation or advice at u particular
time and in & particular place. A good
memory for faces is a sine qua non to
these sons of Esculapius, who in the
height of the season frequently interview
trom fifty to sixty invalids apiece during
these receptions. Mistakes as to identity,
however, will occur, and sometimes re-
The Traflo in Dried Fruits,
| The perishable nature of all kinds of
{fruit has led to the employment of
wany methods for its preservation, the
| most primitive of which is probably
that of drying. Although recent im
| created an increased demand for canned
[ fruits, the market for the dried artiele
i# brisk every year, Many commercial
[firms in New York deal almost exclu
sively in dried fruits,or make this article
a leading specialty, Besides the demand
for dried fruits in that market, there is
every year a large demand for export to
foreign countries, Dealers also do a
‘arge trade with the Western States and
Territories In many of these, es.
pecially the [ater settled distriots, farm-
ers have not had time to grow orchards
as yot, and so must buy their fruit, both
fresh and preserved. Dried fruit is also
much used in the mining regions, being
often take his choice between dried
apr @ pie or none at all,
Dried pesches, berries, plums and
chervies, find a good market in the
Western States, and are made into pies,
puddings sand sauee. Few of these
smaller fruits are exported, the foreign
demand being chiefly for apples. Of
these there were exported in October of
inst year 1 853 044 pounds, and in the
first ten months of the year, 4.498, 156
pounds, The export trade has ine
creased largely, of late, as will be seen
by the record of 1874, when only
1,902.792 pounds were exported. In
1876 the exports rose to 6,600,535 pounds,
and last year when the apple crop was
were exported 5 805 256 poonds. France,
Germany, Belgium and England are all
using more dried apples this year than
Usa.
failure of the apple crop in those coun.
tries, and also of the unusually low |
prices in this country. * Evaporated |
fruit, which sold iast year from thirteen
to sixteen cents a pound, now sells at |
from six to eight eenls. Common
fruit, which last year brought from
seven to pine cents, now brings only
trom four and one-half to five and one-
half cents. i
On sceount of the general failure of |
the grape crop as well as the apple erop |
in France, the distillers in that country |
are using large quantities of dried ap- |
ples for the manufacture of brandy. The i
common grades of apples are preferred |
for this purpose, especially Southern |
fruit, which is said to yield ten per cent, |
more nleobol than ordioary fruit. An
import duty of one-half cent a pound |
was to be levied on cried apples in |
France after January 1. Previously, |
dried apples have been on the free list in |
that country.
THE CENSUS,
So s—
Fopuiation of States and Clttes
the following ns the relative popula
ciuding 1860;
Census,
State 1880
Alabama . » 1. 963,344
Arkansas..... S02 564
Unllloraia Rod 686
Colorado 174 640
Connesticut, ., 621 683
Deawasie 148 6464
Florida , 268 566
Georgia. 1.688 983
linods....... 3.078 8358
Indo 1.9/8 3568
WH vee 1,004 463
K snsas P05 346
Kontueky.... 1.048 500
Louisiana 949,263
Maine... 648 045
Maryland . 935 139
Massachusetts 1,783 086
Michigan .....1.6%4 008
| Minnesota 180 BO?
| Mississippi. ...1,181 805
| Missoun 2,168,071
| Nebraska 452.433
| Nevada ... 62,265
| No# Hamp.
shire, 347,784
| New Jersey. ..1,130 202
| Now York... 5088 173
! North Carolina 1,400 1 00
{ Oalo 8,197.794
{ Oregon. 174,767
| Pemnsylvania. 4,252 738
| Rhode lslaad. 276.4628
{ South Caroling 985 708
| Tennessee .... 1,542 463
lexas. . 1,687 308
Vermont. ... 433 hd
Virginia .......1 512.903
618,183
«++ 1,815 386
Census,
1860
Census,
1870,
986,003
484 471
b60, 247
35 864
537 454
135 018
187.745
1184.08
2.630 891
1,689 637
1,104 020
364 300
1.521.011
746 818
626 916
780 B04
1.457.861
1,184 0569
4307 6
827 933
1,721 206
22 953
42.481
379,004
1.711.851
1,851. 428
674 913
1.155 684
78.03
528.274
687,049
1,281 08g
749,113
173 45438
701,308
1,182,012
98 841
6,867
S18,8300
S06 098
4.382.750
1,071.36)
2.265 268
84,923
8,621,846}
217.363
T86W
1,268 625
KiK 519
334,651
1,225,163
442.014
1,064,670
326,078
672 G36
3.880.785
2.580.011
bd 465
2.906.216
ud 748
1.108 Bol
604 215
1,606,318
| Wisconsin 775 881
Bome very remarkable changes will
In 1800 Virginia was the
leading State in population; now she is
New York came to the
position ever since. Pennsylvania be-
gun as second in 1800, then dropped to
1830, and there she remains, Ohio be
came third in 1840, and has not increased
in rank. Illinois is fourth, which posi.
tion she reached in 1860, but is not
likely to keep it more than one more
deoade. The New England States show
a tendency to retrograde reistively
while Michigan, lowa, Minnesota, Kan.
sas and Texas are advancing. It must
be said of Virginia that a large part of
Lier joss was occasioned by the setting
off or West Virginia,
Returns of the population of sixty-
WINTER INCIDENTS.
A Thrilling Adventare-Only Ons Man
Saved How a Herder's Cattle Were
Last,
Representative Beymour, of the Mich.
igan legislature, Collector Casadler, of
the port o« Sanit Ste. Marie, and three
French woodchoppers recently found
themselves on the Ignace side of the
str its of Mackinae, waiting an oppor-
tunity to cross. Being anxious to reach
the Slate capital, Mr, Beymour urged
fils companions to attempt the passage
at once, though a severe storm was
driving the snow in great clouds down
the fields of ice. Three guides, Louis
Ryerse, Jack lasley and Simpson
de Forest, voiunteered to lead the voy-
agers over the straits, and so about noon
the peril us undertaking was began.
When more than half way over
the squn.ls became terrific and the ice
was felt undulating under the feet
of the skaters like the low, long roll
of waves at sea, Mr. Seymour was
thoroughly alarmed. Ryerie, the bold
est ad most intelligent of the guides
refused to give any further satislaction
than to utter reneatediy: *“ A first-class
eakeofi e." What Bras meant was
understood fifteen minutes later, when,
| on approaching the shore, Mr, Seymour
{ saw that the field of iee upon which the
| party stood was sweeping down the
| straits at a speed not less than five miles
ian hour. Between the party and the
{ shore was R00 feet of open water. The
situation was alarming. To return was
| impossible, and there was nothing to do
bat stand still and await developments.
eastward just below, and the voyagers
saw that the head of their icefieid was
| being driven by the wind against the
I shore. The force of the collision was so
| great that small eakes of ioe were thrown
| twenty feet into the air, and great
| masses were ground to powder, Going
[through this line of iee surf was no
| child's play, but every man of the party
| at last succeeded in reaching the shore.
| They had been three hours making the
| passage, and had traveled fifteen miles.
| Daring one of the recent snow storms
{ on Lake Ontario the Canadian schoon-
ers Zealand and Norway went down
| with all on board, and of the crew of
{ the schooner Belle Sheridan only one
i man, James MeSherry, was saved,
| McSherry gave a Toronto reporter s
{ graphic recital of the wreck and Lis
| miraculous escape. The Belle was ten
miles from the Canadian shore, just
| abreast of Thirty Mile point, at eight
| o'clock in the evening, when the storm
| enme howling up from the West. Cap-
{tain McSherry, the survivor's father,
{ put the Belle belore the wind, and she
firm, and dealers are generally confident
of good prices. The English market |
will take little except evuporsted apples, |
and it is only within a few years that
any have been shipped there; but the
demand vow is steadily increasing. For
the German market fruit dried in quar.
ters is preferred. ‘Sun dried © spples
are about the only kind shipped to Con-
tinental Europe.
The “evaporated” apples are dried
very quickly, by artiticial heat, in a
carefuiiy-constructed apparatus, After
being peeled, cored and sliced trans.
versely into shin rings the fruit is sub.
jeeted to the fumes of sulphur, which
causes the white color to be retainet in
drying. So effectually does this fumi- |
gation arrest decay that quantities of
the apples may be left several davs be- |
fore drying without injury. *‘' Evapo-
rated’ apples are generally packed in
wooden boxes containing about fifty
pounds The common grades are |
packed in barrels.
All of the older States send more or |
leas dried apples to this market. New |
York State takes the lead. and Ohio and
Indians comes next. Tennessee and
other States in the Southwest also send |
large quanties, Dried peaches an |
bh sckberrie: come in large part from |
North Carolina. Peaches nrealso dried
hy the evaporation process, and there is
market. Aithough there was a very |
inrge yield of applies last year, dealers |
say that there was not a correspondingly |
large amount dried. The reasons given |
are, that driers generally anticipated !
that large quantities would bedried and
that prices in consequence would be
low; accordingly they were afraid to |
engage in the business very largely. It!
i= also stated that the cold weather |
coming so early in the season destroyed
many apples that otherwise would have |
been dried.—New York Tribune. i
|
The Banana. |
The Cuba correspondent of the Bos- |
ton Commercial Bulletin writes: The |
manner in which the fruit is developed |
is quite interesting. From the midst of |
the leaves and at the top appears a large, |
smooth, purple cone hanging down |
gracefully at the end of a sialk. The |
flowers are all wrapped up in this cone, |
i
results, as compared with 1870 and 1860:
1880, 1874,
vw 1,306,580 943,291
. B46 954 674022
Hub, 689 396 009
, B03 3 4 208.977
Boston .« S02 A385 250 826
St. Louis...... 350 622 310 564
Baltimore , 352 190 267.354
Cincinnati. .... 265.708 216 4
San Fracciseo. J53 v6 148.473
Now Orlane... 216 140 191 418
160, 143 ¥i 819
« 156.381 86,076
165 137 17.714
« 147 307 100 199
« 186.400 106 056
123 646 100 7563
Jersey City... 130.728 83.546
Daroit....... 116 342 9.677
Mitwaukee.... 115.878 71 4%)
Providence. ... 104 850 ER]
Albany 00.83 69.432
Rochester. ... 89 363 61.380
Allegheny, Pa. 75 681 53 180
16.074 45 244
63 83 81,038
Gl 882 § 840
59 485 40 98
68 29H 41 10d
56,747 46 465
B56 X13 32 260
52.740 39 634
51,791 43.051
1580.
New York 8 § 651
Philadelpuin
266 661
109 260
177 812
160,773
311.418
161.044
56 8nd
168 676
43.417
48 217
81.129
61,132
71.814
68 033
0.226
Chioaa.
Pittsburg
Baffslo ....
Newark....
Loven]
18 611
87.910
39,267
36.827
24 960
Richmond. ....
New Haven.
Lowell...
Tro
Kansas City...
Camb'ge, Mass,
Syracase
Columbus
’
a0. «uu .
51 665
50.887
50.143
49.909
49.06
46 887
45.850
43 461
43 280
42 563
42,490
41,658
41,498
38,178
38.677
38.284
35 630
34.566
34 398
33 913
33.810
33,683
81.974
33,679
31,684
48 956
26 766
13,066
3582
25.865
33.930
a7 .180
30,841
20.045
20 030
28 921
30 478
28.233
4768
10,500
21.789
28.8.4
31.413
40,226
18,604
19 586
13,786
$0,578
14,006
5.822
9.213
16. O88
Toledo .
Charleston. ...
Fall River....
Minneapolis. ..
Seranton
Nastiville....
Reading. ...
Hartiord ....
2568
Camden
St. Paul ....
Lawrence Mass
Dayton ....
Lynn
Denver ....
Oakland, Cal
Atlanta
Ution
Portland, Me.
Memphis... ..
Springfeld,
10,401
17
20,081
19.083
9,664
21 539
26,341
23.643
33,5480 26,708 15,109
Mauchester, N
H
St. Joseph, Mo,
Grand Rapids,
Moh
32,630
32,484
23,5636
19,6656
20.47
8.082
32,0156
16,607 8,08
Ling. The intense cold and ssvage in.
| yrusion of the waves prostrated the
whole crew. At three o'clock in the
morning Edward and Thomas Me.
Sherry, brothers of James, dragged
| themoelves into the Istter's arms and
| there died. Captain McSherry shortly
iafterward was swept away bya wave
{that cleared the deck, and at six in
| the morning tue msainmast, to which
four of the crew had lashed themselves,
fellnmong the billows. James clung to
| noon. when some people on shore res
ipoble effort.
Stockpen on the Missouri river, near
| Benton, Montana, have been puszied
| this winter at the disappearance of so
many of their cattle. A few davs ago
| one of! the herders who was stationed
i at a point on the river bank where the
cattie have been in the habit of drinking,
soived the pussle. At that point ice
i had formed while the river was high,
| and after the water had receded there
| was a long slope of ice—~an ice-chule~
which ended in an air-hiole in the chian-
Mel of the river. The herder saw sev-
i hel
I'he leaders of the herd stopped at the
‘head of the chute, but they were
| crowded forward from behind, started
{ down the chute, Jost their feet and dis
| appeared in the air-hoie. Before the
| herder co.ld interfere nine of the herd
| had been sent into the river.
| Should a Baby be Fat!
| While there is a measure of truth in
{ the assertion that al babies are no
| necessarily healthy, the following much
quoted extract from a physician's letter
to a Boston paper is likely to do mischiet
| by its extravagant condemnation of iat.
| Speaking of fatty degeneration the phy-
| sicians says:
{ “Most infants do become thus dis-
| eased before they are three months old.
{ This stops the growth and leaves the
| poor deceived parents nothing but in-
crease in weight to boast of; and when
the poor little victim to his own greed
and his parents’ folly gets to the end of
his tether he melts away like butter in
a hot oven, and then it is sean how x
(in flesh) he has been all the time. Few
comprehend the broad flerence
between flesh and fat. The first
i
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
The Protestant Episcopal church is
asked to contribute $158 000 to foreign
missions this year.
The Bishop of Peterboreugh recen
declared that the English agricu
depression was a divine punishment for
national unfaithfainess,
A floating church on Hemlock lake,
Ontario county. N. Y., is to
be towed from one group ol to
another on successive Sundays,
The Wesleyan Methodist for
188] gives a summary of charch mem-
bers, 98 527, with 10585 on trial. The
Wesleyan body sustains 519 missionaries,
and raised for this purpose last
shout $500 000, including $180,000
the Thanksgiving fand.
Bishop E. O. Haven (Methodist)
Las removed to San Franciseo, where
he is to reside, and Bishop Hurst to Des
Moines, lows,
A curious and interesting tablet has
been found in Sheusi Province, China,
whose inscriptions shows that Cliriste
anity was introduced into China A.D.
636, and sanctioned by imperial decree
In the Jour 639. The tablet was erectnd
There are fifty six churches in Rich-
i mond, Va., of which thirty are Baptist
| (eleven colored Baptist.) ten Methodist,
| ten Episcopal, four Presbyterian and five
Catholic. Tue nomber of members is
31.7.8, of whom 18.390 are white and
Solar Baptista. Tue later number
14,118.
The Protestants of Germany are be.
| ginning to prepare to celebrate the four
| hundredth suoniversary of the birth of
| Luther, which occurs November 10,
1883, The principal celebration will be
| held nt Warthurg, where Lather com-
pleted his transition of the Bible. A
general committee has been formed, of
which Dr. Kuster, burgomaster of
Eisenach, is chairman.
The meeting of the Methodist
in London next September is now fully
provided for. There will be about 200
delegates from America, the Methodist
Episcopal churel; béir g entitled to about
eighty, half of whom will be la
The bishops are iutrusted with the
power of naming them.
The Year-Book for 1881 of the New
York Sunday-schoo! association gives
{ the number of Sundav-schools in that
[oily ns 415, with 115.826 scholars and
| 10,550 (eachers and officers, and =n
average attendance of 82.461, Of these
schools seventy-five are iscopal,
ssyenty Presbyterian, fifty-seven Metho-
dist, fifty-four Roman Catholic, forty-
four Baptist, twenty Reformed, fifteen
Lutheran, six Congregational, five
Friends, five Hebrew, two Moravian,
ten Universalist and Unitarian, twenty-
six Union and twenty-fivem SOUS.
The sssociation, by its various classes
institutes, social meetings, snd its
library and reading.room is doing an
important and efficient work.
Pt onside tists
Words of Wisdom.
No man is wise or safe but he that is
honest,
| Without earnestness ons cannot even
jest to effect,
Even the weakest man
enough to enforce Lis convictions.
Do what good thou canst unknown;
and be not vain of whist ought rather to
be felt than seen.
It is not only arrogant, but is profli-
gate for a man to disregard the world's
opinion of himself.
In certain souls, more
tender,
euphemism of contempt.
Look on sianderers as direct enemies
to civil society; as persons without
hovor, Lonesty or humanity.
The law can never make a man hon-
est; it can only make hin very uncom-
fortable when he is dishonest,
The essence of true nobility is neglect
of self. Let the thought of self pass in,
and the beauty of great action is gone,
the bioum from a soiled flower.
If men would spend in doing good to
others a quarter of the time and money
they spend in doing harm to themselves
misery would vanish from the earth.
To protect one's seif against the storms
of life marriage with a woman isa
harbor in the tempest; but with a bad
Roma it proves a tempest in the har
.
{ The Member from Macomb.”
Half an hour before the train left for
Lansing Sestertay morhing, a battered-
looking man about forty years oid
whose breath gave away his drink
and whose face was anything but pretty,
appeared at the Union depot snd intro-
duced himself to one of the officials of
the Central road with:
“Sir, my name is Jones. I am the
member from Macomb. I gotleft here,
have been robbed, and I want to reach
You will find in blade and blossow.,
Now| kaow bow dear she was,” —
EE —————————
True to One's Self,
Speak thou the truth, let others fence
And trim their words for pay; Z
In pleasant sunshine of preteuse,
Guard thou the fact, the’ clouds of night]
We were not made to sit and dream,
how thou the light If conscience gleam
Set not the bushel down,
The smallest spark may send abesm
er hamlet, tower, and town,
Woe snto him, on safety bent,
Who ereeps from age to youth,
Failing to grasp his life's intent
Deoause he lears the roth.
Be true to every inmnst thought,
And ss thy thoughts, thy speech,
What thou hast not by striving bought,
Presume not thou to teach.
Then each wild gust the mist shall clear
We now ses darkly
And justified at last sopesr
The true in Him that's true.
%
&
Ap gentleman
out on the piatiorm of an elevated rail-
road car in New York the other mors
uiitiinlisg the rest air,
observed to the brakeman:
his. jnvigorating 7" “No, sir; it is
Harlem." said the conscientious em.
player. The pleasant- looking g ntieman
“Do you love me for
asked, as she gaved through
the isingi~ss windows of the “
Glory ™ : 4
face. * 1 do,
hands |
ane
“ Ah! ing 0
heart," she m .
"T'was Sunday eve and the small boy stood
With bis eve 10 the keyhole pressed,
And he saw his sister bead
Oa Absalom vest.
a ee
¢ ser :
“ There ain't no harm in a vest; slide out,”
Bat the! © | refused to slide i
# There am { Do harm in the vest. I know,’
.
| demn ler son. He would gladly have |8tswer. He must have thought me | however, wi Fd pC
| avoided giving her pam, had he known | asleep, for he finally cuddled down with | Suit in singularly comical compiications
| how to do so, but having made up his | 8 80b in his throat. I wanted to get up | Recently one of the moet popular phy-
| mind as to what was best for the lad he and kiss him, but I kept waiting and | Heians or 3 Stowdea o Bade po yas
i | did not shrink from carrying it out; and | Waiting, and finally I tell asleep.” | visited under Lis tree by an American
Aud «ver since [ have been wondering | a8 he walked the fields alone, month at. | ** Well?” queried the captain, as the fentlethan, A Tove RIYIVS!, ho SO
"n, {ter month, he was oppressed bv a du'] | Silence grew long. pained Lia the wars (augec AiR sol
Charles Peuiber ton flung away the bat | scrton ia he I tobear | ' When I awoke it was day. It was | terrible headaches that~ be thought he |
th re AIT YIDE: and clasped | i; uiter solitude, for to ro living soul | 8 shriek in my ears which broke my | had better drop them and depart to
the } fr ® pia, issing him, and | ould he complain of his mot er. His | Slumbers, and as I started up my poor | Other climes. The doctor unwilling
hugging him, like a girl with a new wife called: *Oh! Richard! Richard! | thus promptly to lose his patient, looked
! which consists of a large number of | Wheel
closely packed spathes. By-and-bye the | © 28° 0K»
| uppermost of these spatlies disengages | ,, + o8F “%
itself from the rest, curls up ang Gis | Hobokas,....
closes a row of three or four long blos: | yerrigharg ...
| soms, with the young fruit of each be- | syvannah.
| ginning to form. | Omaba
While this row of fruit is tender the |
spathe remains hanging oyer it like a |
roof, but when the fruit has acquired
i some size and strength the protecting |
i shield drops off and the next in order |
Charles stopped abruptly, and said,
with sternness: * Who told you that?”
“Nobody. 1 justeame into the room
as you said it, and you didn’t see me.
lansinra enter upon my duties as a
legislator. Wishing won't do much for
The official looked up from his wri
but made no reply, and after a Joing in the world. Ther are a
ence the man said: A
“ Suppose I should ask you how I am
toenth Lansing, what would be your
re
"a tell you to walk,” was the quie
Answer.
“Can't I get a pass?
“ No, sir.”
is Jemn meat—muscle—thé result of
growth; while fat—I don’t
care how hard and solid it may be—is
the product or scoumuiation of unex.
cretial excess. This is why no one bets
a dollar on a {at horse or a fat man-—
they are ‘soft’ and ‘osn'tstay. It is
every whit as true of a fat baby. The
only wonder is that any infant lives
sixty days from birth. Fed before birth
but three times a cay, he is after birth
31.966
31 206
30 099
30,762
30 681
30.518
Totals....8,234,030 6,030,184 4,177,323
The above, nas will be observed, are
all cities of over 30,000 inhabitants. 1f
i the smaller cities were included it
18,270
32.034
20,207
23,104
48,236
16,083
14,083
20,268
9,962
13 405
22,202
1,883
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doll. | only consolation was, that in his college a . hi £1 air iver $e
. . | our Jamie is deac in his bed! It was | Over him hastily and, perceiving that he
Oh, Teddy, Teddy, Teddy,” he said: | 80. ile was dead and cold "There were | Wore a fat sombrero, told him it wai
** 1 wish my tongue had been torn out | )
| career Teddy fully justified every expec-
by the roots before 1 had said such a |
thing; butldidn’t mean it, Teddy. You
never thought I meant it, did you?
Why, Teddy, I wouldn't lose you for all
the world, my little playfellow, my
brother. It isn’t right for me to com-
pinin to you of mother and when I have
justtold you how it happened that I
said those cruel words—tuat [ didn't
mean, didn't ever mean, you know for
woment, Teddy—then you must forget
all about it. I had t 1d mother that 1
wanted to make a man of you, and that
it was time you went to school, and
learned to stick up for yourself: and
then she said 1 was cruel to you, and
that I didn’t care for you, and “Jectured
and scolded me all the afternoon, and
then I forgot myseif—which I ought not
to bave done, for I know it is only her
love that makes he over-anxious—and
I said those hateful words, that I never,
never, ncver meant, Teddy.”
‘1 thought you never could mean it,
Charles,” said the little fellow. He had
borne up with wonderful stoicism till
now, but the overwhelming sense of re-
lief was too much for him, and he began
to weep and sob convulsively. Shortly,
he sprang up and :lasped his brother's
neck. saying:
_ “I'll go to school, Charlie, and I'll do
just as you like, #nd you'll see it I won't
be a man, and I'il win the Greek and
Latin prizes, too, if I can; but you
know I'm not etever, Charlie, so you
mustn't be disappointed if I don’t do
that all at once, will you?”
* I'll trust you, Teddy, my boy, to do
the best you can, and none of us can do
more than that. I shall missson sorely,
Teddy, but there'll be jolly long holi-
days, you know, and we shall have
pleasant times together then. And now
come on avd let's see how you'il guard
your wickes. If you don’t do me credit
as wericketer, I'll git on you.”
The lady's heart was very sore
when her poy had gone, and she felt
herselt alone, and many and dread were
the misgivings that darkened her mind.
And Charles, too, felt himself alone.
Mrs. Pemcberton’s married life had
been outwardly calm and uneventtul;
but she was out of sympathy with her
hus a man of easy, jovial tempera-
ment, who scarcely noticed her cold-
ness, and never troubied himself abou:
t; and she had sought conso.tion in
religion. She had fallen under the in-
fluence of certain meek persons, who
held that “the world,” and thi 0
the world, were forbidden to
When her
tation that had been formed of him
His last lone vacation had come, nad |
hie was to spend it with his old school
chum, who had been his dearest friend
also at college, but had left the univer-
gity in the previous year Turenne Jer-
myn was a young man whose friendship |
was worth having, clear-headed, sound-
hearted, ot exuberant vit.lity. He had
often heard from Teddy of “dear old
Charlie,” and in arranging for this long |
vacation an earnest invitation had been |
given that he should join them. It |
offered a tempting break in a dull, |
monotonous life, and was accepted. i
Sir Frederick Jermyn's seat iayon the |
slope of a lovely Berkshire hill, shut |
round by woods, butoveriooking a wide |
and charming landscape.
Pemberton passed the lodge gates, and |
saw on either side the evidences of |
wealth and social station, he began to |
regret his acceptance. feeling that he
would scarcely be at his ease amid sur-
roundings so much above his own
homelier state. The cordiality of his
welcome, however, soon chased away
these misgivings, and he had not been
many hours at Wilmore Court before a
new set of feelings took possession of
his mind.
He had exchanged greetings with Sir
Frederick, Turenne, and his brother, was
reading, with their assistance, the noble
view from the window, when he was
suddenly conscious of another presence
in the room, and turning beheld Misy
Jermyn, concerning whom, curiously,
Teddy in his letters had said nothing,
but whose presence, as he thought, made
of the hall a temple. Not that she was
a beauty. A falr-haired girl, with large
gray eyes and rather blunt features,
there was nothing of classic grace about
her; but in every line of her fair face
there shone the light of a beavtiful soul.
There was a faint flush on her face, snd
two good little dimples marked her
pleasant smile, as, looking straight into
is face, with frank, clear eyes, she held
out her hand to greet him, and made a
captive of him forever.
** Your brother,” she gaid, “is already
one of the family, and he has made you
80 well known to usthat [ 1eel as though
1 were welcoming an old friend.”
hip you very much,” said he, “I
hope I may yet be privileged to give you
batter reason for regarding me as such ”
That night, as he sat in his room,lon
after the household was asleep, Le cou
but ask. him elf, with a beating heart,
whether it were possible that there was
in store for him a com tion for
much weariness in his life hitherto, so
shed when he had ealled: ‘ Good night,
my pa!’ and 1 had refused to
answer! I was dumb. Then remorse
came and [ was frantic. [did not know
when they buried him, for 1 was un-
der restraint as a lunatic. For five long
{oars life was a dark midnight to me.
hen reason returned and I went
forth into the worid my wife slept be-
side Jamie, my home was gone, my
friends had forgotten me, and 1 had no
mission in life but to suffer remorse.
cannot forget it. It was almost a life
time ago, but through the mist of years,
across the valley of the past, from the
little grave thousands of wiles away,
night: * jood-night, my pal’ Send me
to prison, to the poorhouse, anywhere
that I may halt long enough to die! 1
am an « ld wreck, and 1 care not how
goon death drags me down.”
He was tendered food, but he could not
eat. He rorked his body to and fro and
sleep came to him, they heard him whis
per:
* Good-night, my boy
my Jamie!"—Detrott Free
rg s—————
Yan Amburg’s Eye.
A good story is told of Van Amburg,
the great lion-tamer, now dead. On one
occasion, while in a barroom-—for he
drank so much that, to use his own ex-
ression, ** If you cut me open the whis-
y will run out,” although he was rare-
ly drunk—he was asked how he got his
wonderful power over animals. He
said: ** 1t is by showing them that I am
not in the least afraid of them,
and by keeping my eye steadily on
theirs.” He had a good deal
aboard, and said: “I'll give you
nn example of the power of my eye.”
Pointing to a loutish fel ow who was
sitting near by, he said: ** You see vhat
fellow? Hes a regular clown. I'l]
make him come across the room to me,
anc I won't say a word to him.” Sit
ting down, he fixed his k en, steady
eye on the man, Presently the fellow
straightened himself gradually, got up
and came slowly across tothe lion-
, good night,
Press.
drew back his arm and struck Van Ame.
burg a tremendous blow under the
ehin, knocking him clean over the chair,
with the remark, “ You'll stare at me
like that again, won't you?”
I ——
The latest thing in shoes adopted b
iashionable ‘women is the og >
bly rich ns the lov
not the waters that made his head |
ache, but his unconscionably heavy
| hat.” Swiftly the American betook
! him to the nearest hatter, of whom he |
| purchased a straw fabric so light as to |
{ be all but impondersble, and went on |
i diinking the waters ns before. His |
| headaches, however, growing "worse in- |
| stead of leaving him, he again called |
{upon the medica: adviser a few days
| later, and told him that his head was
| still so bad that Le really must try some
| other cure. The doctor, within the |
| meantime had forgotten all about his
| previous prescriptions, and was as re-
| luctant as ever to let patient depart, |
| again cast a comprehensive glance at |
him, and espying the straw hat, ex.
| claimed :
| ‘You cannot expect to be free from
| headache if you wear such preposter-
| ously light head-covering.
A man of
your sage, nearly bald,
in ¢his hot
weather, must protect Lis head from the
sun's rays, by a stout, solid hat!”
The American gazed at his interlocu-
| tor for a few seconds in blank astonish-
ment, then, after bowing profoundly,
| he sardonically replied:
“Thank you, coctor; I am off to the
railroad station!” turned on his heel
and departed
i
BE
Pet Names.
Bishop Elder, of Cincinnati, has been
giving parents some advice, which is an
improvement upon some previous sug
estions snd worthy of general attention
Fie advises parents togive their children
tall Chrisvian names, and not abbrevia-
tions or pet names. If they please to
make use of these familiarly in the
family, it is well enough. But when a
young girl is growing up it is not well
to allow every young man that speaks
to her to use a pet name as if he were
as intimate as her brother. Although
this is only a little matter in itself, it
contributes its share toward lessening
the maidenly reserve which is so beau-
titul and so serviceable an ornament. It
likewise detracts from the Christian
dignity of womanhood for one to be all
her life addressed as if she were a pet
child, instead of a lacy owning a
Christinn name and entitled to the
respect of having io used.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
now completed, or under construction,
about 1,000 miles of its main line.
Ahout 1 400 miles additional require to
be constructed to complete the system,
which will require the expenditure of
rises up with a similer row ol young
fruit over which it stands in the same
watchful attitude till it also drops off,
to be succeeded by another.
When one circle of fruit is completed
another is commenced below, and in
due time another, while the common
stem around which the fruit is disposed
grows constantly longer, and the cone
of spathes diminishes in size, till it is
all unfolded, and a monstroas bunch of
bananas is finished, which seldom
weighs less than twenty or thirty and
sometimes as much as seventy or eighty
pounds. Of all kinds of vegetable nutri-
ment the banana is perhaps the most
productive, and most easily raised.
After a plant has produced its bunch
of fruit the stem is either cut or is suf-
fered to wither and fall on the spot. In
the former case it is good fodder for
cattle; in the latter it torms good man-
ure for the young shoots which have
been springing from the root, and which
are soon ready to bear fruit in sheir
turn. From these shoots or sprouts the
plant is propagated.
The Sand Blast,
Among the wonderful and useful in.
ventions of the times is the common
sand blast. Suppose you desire a piece
of marble for a grave-stone, you cover
the stone with a sheet «f wax no thicker
than a wafer; then you cut in the wax
the name, date, ete., leaving the marble
exposed. Now pass it under the blast
and the sand will cut it away. Remove
the wax and you have the raised letters,
Take a piece of French plate glass, say
two by six feet, cover it with fine lace
and pass it under the blast, and not a
thread of the lace will beinjured, but the
sand will cut deep into the glass wher.
ever it is not covered by the ince. Now
remove the lace and Jou have every
delicate and Leauiiful figure raised
upon the glass. In this way beautiful
figures of all kinds are cut in glass and
at a small expense. The workmen can
hold their hands under the blast with-
out harm, even when it is rapidly
cutting away tLe hardest glass, iron or
stone, but they must look ous for finger
nails, for they will be whittled off right
hastily. It they put on steel thimbles
to protect the nails it will do little good,
for the sand will soon whittle them
away; but if they wrap a piece of soit
cotiton around them they are safe. You
will at once see the philosophy of it.
Tne sana whittles away and destroys
any hard subsStancé—even g but
does not affect substances that are sort
was urban.
5
How Our Cities are Growing.
We have now the returns of the popu-
ation of all our cities which contain
ten thousand inhabitants and over.
There are 245 such cities, and their
total population in 18580 was 11 106.201.
In 1870 we had 184 cities with a popu-
lation of ten thousand and over, and
their aggregate population was 7,672,933
These cities have therefore increased in
number sixty-one within the ten years,
and they contain 3,497,968 more inhabit-
ants.
Our total gain in vopulation since
1870 has heen 11,694,188, and pearly a
third of this increase has been in the
cities. If we included all the munici-
palities, those of between eight and ten
thousand inhabitants as weil as those of
greater size, we should probably find
that our total urban population in 1880
was over eleven and a half millions, and
toward three ind three-quarter millions
more than in 1870. This would make
the increase in the cities fully one-third
of the whole increase of population in
the Un'on.
The cities contained about 8.000,000
in 1870, to 11,500,000 in 1880. They there-
tore have been increasing in inhabitants
far mote rapidly than the rest of the
country. hile the general gain has
been only about twent: five per cent.,
that in the cities has been forty- .ve per
cent.
And this growth of the cities at the
expense of the country generally Las
been becoming more marked during the
whole of the last fifty years. In 1830
our total urban population was only
about one-sixteenth of the whole. In
1850 it had grown to be one-eighth, In
1870 it was one-fifth; and in 1880, out
of about 50,000,000 of inhabitants, more
than 11,500,000 lived in the cities.
1f the cities go on increasing during
the next ten years at the same ratio
which the last ten years have sho n,
and the country, as a whole, advances
in population at the same rate, we shall
find more than sixteen millions in the
cities, to about forty-eight or forty-nine
millions in the rest ot the country.
A like tendency to buiid up the towns
at the expense of the country appears in
the figures we are obtaining of the Ger-
man census taken late last year. Itisa
modern tendency, and shall we not cali
it a modern evil likely to have vorten-
low fiat
about $40,000,000.
and yielding, like wax, cotton, or fine
lace, or even the human hand.
tous consequences P— New York
subjected to ten or twenty meals in the
twenty-four hours. Before birth he grows
{ at the rate of about ten pounds per year,
after birth he is permitted to fat at
the rate of filty pounds per year until
chronic dyspepsia or some acute
disease interferes. Feel of a kit.
ten, calf, coit or a young robin
—they are apd remain while grow-
ing but little more than skin and bones
and fur or jeathers, because unable to
get enough to fatten them, and they
never die—rarely have any sort of djs-
ease Children are never fairly ‘out of
the woods’ until they reach the lean
age and have pipe-stem legs and arms,
with no rolls of fatty tissue anywhere
about them. Could they be kept so
from birth and not permitted to over-
indulge, so that their appetites would
always be reliable for piain food, they
would have no infantile diseases to
enrich our pockets.”
Why should the kitten, the colt, or
the young robin be taken as a model of
infantile fo rather than the puppy,
the hear cub, the pig, or the young
pigeon
t is the nature of some young ani-
mals to be lean and healthy; of others
to be fat and healthy: and there is as
marked a difference 1n the natural ten.
dency of young children. Infants of the
same parentage and fed at the same
breast wil differ in this respect, and
both be heaithe. Fat laid off al the
rate of ** fifty pounds a year,” is quite
another matter, and one not liable, we
take it, to be a common cause of anxiety,
Injudicious feeding is more apt to show
self in Inck of fat, and lack of popular
muscular tissue as well. That sort of
leanness is much too common in young
humanity. Scientific American.
Just in from the klats,
A disgusted-looking man with a
double-barreled shotgun came wearily
up the avenue. * Well, vones,” said &
friend, “just in from the Flats?” “Yes,”
said Jones, dro~ping the butt of his gun
heavily on the pavement. *‘ I'm in from
the flats. Six of us have been sittin in
the rain in a wet boat for two days,
looking for ducks. Not seeing any sport
in this, I left. [he other five are there
yet, and I am of your opinion that
they're flats. Yes, sir." shouldering the
Shoteun again, *‘ I'm jnst in from the
als.
According to Kolb's * Universal Statis-
tics,” the average length of life g
those in comfortable circums 8 is
fifty, among the poor thirty, among
min s sixty-five years.
** Let me inform you that the member
from Macomb is a man of few words,’
said the applicant, as he drew a long
ureath. “1 will charter a locomotive
and proceed to Lansing. I wili at once
go to the State house. As soon as | am
in my seat I will introduce a resolution
to repeal the charter of your biamed old
road and sell the rails for scrap iron.”
The impostor did not wait to be coax-
ed not to do so, but walked out as stiff as
a poker, made for asaloon over the way,
and placing a bogus nickel on the bar
commanded :
* Gimmesunthin® to brace up." — De-
troit Free Pres:.
Nautical Terms.
An “oid tar " has recently prepared a
hand-book of nautical terms the use
of persons who intend to follow the sea.
In order to correct popular belief our
author Jaye asserts that the berths
on board ship do not necessarily add to
the census. The hatchways are not
hens’ nests. The weigh of the ship is
not the extent of her avoirdupois.
boatswain does not pipe all hands with
a meerschaum. The ship does not have
a wake over a dead calm. The swell of
u ship's side is not c.used by dropsy,
nor is the taper of a bowsprit a tallow
candle. The hold is not the vessel's
grip. The trough of the ship is not dug
out of the ship's log. The crest of a
wave is no indication of its rank. The
buoy is not the captain's son. Themen
are not beat to quarters with a club.
Ships are never boarded at botels. The
bow of a ship is no evidence of polite-
ness. A saor’s stockings sre never
manufactured from a arn of his own
spinning. Ihe sails of a ship are not
made by an auctioneer, nor are the stays
constructed by a milliner.~San Fran-
cisco News Leiter.
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Egyptian Obelisks.
There are thirty of them at the present
time scattered over Europe. Rome has
eleven, four of which are higher than
our New York obelisk. The highest of
the Roman obelisks, which is also the
highest in Europe, stands before the
Churen of St. John Lateran. The
obelisk in the piazza of St. reter'sis
eighty-two feet nive inches high. Both.
obelisk is forty-four feet h
obelisk is a lessthan
ity fo
of these were mounted on high pedestals.
the entire height of i
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making the whole heignt
maine feet two inches.
The pedes al of the St. John Lateran
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like an express train, it :
This boy's ;
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shed tears, and say: ‘Oh, how | wish
that castle were once more mine!” No,
he didn't do that, because Lie knew tears
of regret would not he'p him in the
his pleasant dreams
least. He Pp : .
as 1 have told you, but he set
H over his
himself to work. brooded 5
vision, and it gave h to bis brain.
his will, his hand. He knew that i
thing depended on himse t, a
self he relied.