-
Conguer Thyself,
"Tis a good thing sometimes to be alone,
Bit calmly down and look self in the face,
Ransack the heart, search every secret place;
Prayful uproot the baneful seeds there sown,
Pluck out the weeds ere the full erop is grown,
Gird up the loins afresh, to run the race,
Foster all noble thoughts, cast out the base
Thrust forth the bad and make the good thine
own.
Who has the courage thus to look within ?
|
The foe may harass, but can ne'er surprise
Or over him ignoble conquest win,
Oh, doubt it not if thou wonidst wear the erown,
Self, baer self, must first be trampled
John
down
{shha
The Old Farmer's Elegy.
On a green, grassy knoll, by the banks of
brook,
thu
FRIED
Ix
VOLUME XIV.
That so long and so often has watered his flock,
The old farmer rests in } X
long and last sleep,
While the waters a low, lapsing lullaby keg
No morn shall awake him to labor again,
!
Yon tree, that with fragrance 1s Alling the aly, |
So rich with its blossom
By his own hand was planted; and well did he |
na so thrifty §
BAY, i
would live when
AWAY,
He has plowed his bs
last grain;
No morn shall awake hin
3 hack
3 lantar ha
Hs plantar nad
i
It
There's the well that he dug,
cold,
ith its wel, dripping bucket,
old,
No more from
drawn,
For the * pitcher is broken,
gone,
He has plowed fs last farroy
last grain;
No mor
n shall awake him to lal
"Twas a gloamy-giving day when the okd farmer
The stout-hearted mourned,
cried
And th
BRN,
For they 0
He has plowed his
fast grain:
No morn shall
f
}
i
A NARROW ESCAPE.
I<ditor and Proprietor,
CENTRE
PA.,
-
MAY 3
3
A SSW
Es
” a .
Year, in Advance.
1881. NUMBER 17.
Alexia, “but I don't think she saw
She's decidedly eccentric, 1 wager.”
“So are all talented people,”
“Tell Israel to get the
1 do RQ long ti
look into her deep, intellectual
“I think you'll be disappointed in
sald Alexia.
“I never can be disappointed
fires
me
said
Imogen, boat
eves,’
in the
said Im )
“Emily Eglantin
Why the very name is a pass-Key
f ¥
i
heart of hearts!”
And she went to put
lark )
rx iu Ron ith
she, to her
pull the stro
“I'd like
ol, wistfully
5 %
& 8 JIVE AN
“No I" said Miss Poyntz, with author
“We are better by ourselves.” And
n, as Israel went dejectedly back tothe
“That
to go me too,” said Is
“up fared
I've always wanted to
oress
¥
fellow is
“1 think he's very nice,” said Alexia,
‘And his father owns the largest farm
the beach. And they ‘ve been offered
the Salt
Assogation ”
1s differ,” said Imogen, drily,
ulled out into deep water. ‘Oh,
re she is, pacing thought
eves fixed on the shi K
Oh,
i an authoress!”
' whispered Alexia. “She
Pall a little nearer
ho 3. 3 OY ut
Oh, do Listen | dlies
it 1s to be
5.3
a
ng.
X . rr 3 w—
: OF id the . \
' Good-morning said the stout voung
with the
umbrella.
“Good-morning I"
oung
poke bonnet and the
the two sisters an
accent of
tenderest respect and admiration in
ir voices,
“Going out demanded the
inspired one. “I'd like to go, too!”
Imogen cast a glance
pressed delight and triumph at her sis
3 an
Salling o
§ ¥ le
of scarceliv-re
It was dreadfully dull at Elderbush |
Farm.
for six months.
“Tf my girls are so bewitched after the
seaside,” said he, “and the country, I'll |
market at a low rate, and Mr. Poyntz |
engaged it, ready-furnished, with a gard
ener, a cow, and the pony phaeton, with |
a blind pony thrown mn.
Mrs. Poyntz and the girls, however
such is the perversity of human nature |
of the bargain which had been driven.
“But, pa,” said Miss Imogen, “we |
didn't mean a one-storied house in a |
swamp of salt marshes! We meant Cape |
May, or Atlantic City, or else that dear,
picturesque Delaware Water Gap I”
“There's no society here,
girl just out of boarding-school.
“Nothing going on,” said Mrs. Poyntz,
a stout matron, who did a great deal of
i
dozen “leagues,” “societies” and “com-
“We should only be too proud,” said
ng haste to draw her boat up
gside the sandy beach.
ung person stepped in, rather
must be owned, for 1@ who
Alexia pulled off, and Imogen made
an effort at conversation.
“I amone of vournnknown admirers,”
“Eh 7” said the poetess.
“I am so delighted for an opportunity
knowing you personally,” added Miss
“Every syllable of ‘Eglant
ay’ is impressed upon my memory.”
The stout young woman stared. Imo-
avorably.
Tt
f
“Py rhaps,” it, “she’s a little
1y and sensi it her own produc
ns. I'll try another topic.” And she
I hope you like the coun-
ty
3
8
But the stout voung person seemed
-she was
3
ner mter-
else
“Youn can make butter and cheese,” |
said Mr. Poyntz, who had discovered the
remains of an ancient barrel-churn in the
cellar. *“‘And there is the ocean view, |
nd the pony, and the new row of board-
ing-houses just around the Point.”
“It's all very well for papa,” said Imo-
gen. “He can goup to town every day.
But we shall be bored to death down in |
this wilderness!” |
Unfortunately, however, there was no
sweetly
“Would you
“(Get out of this!” said the young per-
umbreila-
“Come,
both o
Alexia
wer in blank
water-colors, walking, and boating in a |
venerable skiff which they found at the
back of the barn, while their mother en-
deavored to modernize the house with
Eastlake chintzes, muslin draperies and
home-made lambrequins.
One day, Israel, the hired man, came |
in.
“Heard the news #" said Israel, who
was one of those free-and-equal sons of |
the republic who never dream of the
wide social gulf that exists between em-
ployer and employe.
“No,” said Miss Alexia, who was re- |
duced by cirenmstances to be glad even
of a gossip with a “hired man.” “What
pews? 1 didn’t know they ever had
any news in this benighted region.”
“Once in awhile,” said Israel, with a
”
er—a poetess, from Philadelfy. P'raps
you've heard of her—Miss Emily Eglan- |
tine ?” |
Alexia and Imogen clasped their hands
enthusiastically. They were both in-
clined to be literary.
“‘Heard of her 7” cried they. “Why
we know all her delicions poems by
heart. We've read them in the Trans- |
cendental Weekly ever since we can re-
member. ! It has been
£
Miss Eglantine!
the dream of our lifetimes to see her.”
Israel chewed a straw, reflectively,
“I read some pretty verses once that |
self 1”
with
“hut
“I'm a deposed queen,” said she:
mn 8 aepOse queen, Bad He
Imogen, dropping her own oar with a
t rescue, and a
which the frail
en
3
ne
Lr
Not one of them could swim; but, |
Mr. Parker pulled out
“Well,” said Mr. Parker, scratching
iis head, when he had got the stout
with the two Misses
“it's a good thing she hadn't
She's as mad as a Mareh
It's my wile's sister,
As we thought, sea air and plenty of
But if these are the
sapers you are going to cent ap, Adeliza
mek again,
of
I thought it was Miss Eglantine,
it's quite an art to sling rhymes together.
I never could do it, I know.”
“But what is she like ?” impatiently |
cried Alexia.
owy, with—"
“I only seen her trunks,” said Israel
—*two on 'em—marked ‘E. E.’—with
canvas covers on ; big enough for smoke- |
houses. I guess Mis’ Parker had a jol- |
ly old time, gettin’ "em up the crooked
staircase. Pete Hawley, the express- |
man, he told me abont it.” i
And he went out to harness the old |
pony, to bring Mr. Poyntz from the sta- |
tion.
Imogen and Alexia looked at each |
other. |
“How shall we contrive to get ac-
guainted with her ?” said they.
|
{
said Mr. Par
here, but she
“Bless you, miss, no,”
ker. “The trunks are
While Alexia, sitting under the same
rug with Israel Peck, had not a word to
And they all went
home to hot tea, bottles of boiling water
and well-warmed blankets,
Adeliza Mary Stubbs went back to
the asylum. Miss Eglantine came down
the next week, an elderly lady, in blue
spectacles and a cap, whom Imogen
Poyntz pronounced “decidedly stupid,”
and Alexia became engaged to Israel,
“He saved my life,” said she, “when
we were out in that horrid little boat
good and substantial—worth a dozen
ted Alexia.
“Of course,” said Imogen. “Wher- |
ever she goes, she is tormented to death |
with people, begging introductions.” |
“No,” said Alexia; “the matter must |
be quite spontaneous. An acquaintance |
of this sort must be formed accidental- |
ly, or not at all.” |
“There will be plenty of chances,” ob- |
served Imogen. “She must be here for
the benefit of the sea-air, and she’ll walk
a deal on the beach. You and I will go
boating, Lex, and so it will be the most
patural thing in the world that we should
. Dear me! to think that Emily
tine should be as good as our
Joor neighbor! How I should de-
0 have her autograph in my al-
b next morning Alexia, who had
broad early to secure fresh eggs
pmelettes, in which her father’s
Ral soul delighted, returned with
bws that Mrs. Parker's new board-
as out walking on the beach.
‘What is she like ?” cried eager Imo-
gen.
“Short and stout,” Alexia answered, in
accents which denoted a slight degree
of disappointment. ‘And she wears a
poke-bonnet, and thick boots, and
stamps up and down the sands, with an
umbrella under her arm, and talks to
herself.”
«That is genius,” cried the delighted
Imogen. “I dare say the mood of in-
sniration was upon her. Oh, Lex, how
I should like to see her !”
And Imogen's enthusiasm about au-
thors and authoresses is considerably
lessened.
Why It Pays to Read?
One's physical frame—his body, his
muscles, his feet, his hands—is only a
living machine, It is his mind, controll-
ing and directing that machine, that gives
it power and efficacy. The successful
use of the body depends wholly upon
the mind —npon its ability to direct the
will, If one ties his arm in a sling it
becomes weak and finally powerless.
Keep it in active exercise, and it ac-
quires vigor and strength, and it is dis-
ciplined to use this strength as de-
sired, just as one’s mind, by active ex-
ercise in thinking, reasoning, studying
observing, acquires vigor, strength,
mainly uses his muscles.
the effort to combat the errors.
combat invigorates his mind.
hard toil.
BEARDED BEAUTIES, Newfoundland Indians,
head of the tribe was old Abra
a fine of his race,
ht 1 ling about
lin i Esils
The
ham Joe,
i
GIrls Whe Ave Blessed wiih Hirsute Adora.
ments, specimen ni
active, nprig
feet
(AI, 8 Bix
, and
broad and strong in proportion He has
spent nearly all his life Newfound
land, and knew the interior of the island
] He was a
good hunter, trapper and guide, but he
had well, he is dead, and 1 will put in
mildly-—he had the bump of acquisitive
Hess highly de veloped. They had, 1
should imagine, a very pleasant life,
these Indians; and if one ean judge by
tae independence of the me fn, and the
nature and quality of the clothing worn
by the girls, they must have been very
well off in this world’s goods. They had
comfortable little cabins in whieh the y
spent the winter in idl
OSH, The
the
"sand the profe AROT, when asked
of
in considerable
such eases, two inches in
number of
s0 aftlieted, I'he trouble usually
in women who are of
and more frequently in middle
in youth. When
n with large, bushy eyebrows,
grow together, you may be
hat she impe
, if she will only take the necessary
pains. Hirsute adornments are not so
| frequent in young women, although they
§ 4 A girl 0
rowth of down upon the upper
It annoys her,
frequency
in
dark com
better than any man hiving
YOU S6¢ A
Call FTOW all
ft
on Oo ften has Hh
lip or the chin. and she
keeps feeling it and pulling it constantly,
Perhaps she endeavors to elip it with a
SOme to shave it
suit is a heavier growth
next time, which becomes so prom
removed, The
where the hal
appearance is on the upper lip
, although it sometimes ap-
ig side of the face and even on
As a general thing I be.
ieve that those bearded women which
are advertised by shows are frauds, but
in the course of my practice I have seen
} Ole woman who could raise 0
heavy beard if she only wished to enlti.
vate it."
comparative
little or
single exception to this ru
of old Abraham Joe's SONS,
who carried the mail during the winter
and spring months between St. John's
1880S CASES CRITIINY nothing
AWRY » Pe } Was 11
Cine of Olt
and the copper mines at the entrance of
the bay He was well paid, and desery
edly so, for his was an arduous
Traveling Oli SHOW shox » ba kward and
forward over a disnce of some hun
dreds of long, WEary, desolate, monoto
nous miles, over bare wind-swept bar
rens, through dense pine forests and
thick alder swamps, without a mark to
guide or a hut to shelter
tramping on alone with
to cheer one on the lonely way, without
the chance even of seeing a human be
ing from one end of the journey to the
other ; strugeling along from dawn to
dark of the short, wintry days against
or in the bitter
cold of hard frosty weather ; l
g nights by
tast
LIBR
more ti
the traveler;
“Po many women shave
“Why, ves, a great many
is generally supposed. The
traces that the shaving with
heavy powder and plaster,
never you see a lady, especially if
» middle-aged, and more especial
be dark-featured, wearing a
of lily-white, one of the
that she
no companion
than
the
more
3 hide
leay 08
doses of
snow, storm, or sleet,
crouching
through the long Y
fire with a few bushes stuck in
for shelter ;
sudden thaw, when the softened snow
! clogs and sticks in the netting of the
| snowshoes, and progress almost im
possible exposed to mal de
snow blindness, and all the ol
a forest life-—such an occupati i on
that fully deserves to be pa
However, the activity of this particul
“Joe” was abnormal ; the
family spent their winters
| about the beach, making perhaps a
coating
has been shav-
xh it is not the only infer
thing is certain, a lady who
ust use powder in large quan
and there are manv ladies who
shave.” :
“ Is this superfluous facial decoration
easily removed ¥”
‘No, ft. All the books recom-
nend depilatories, b are usual
They are composed
{ quicklime and orpient, which
8 & preparation of arsenic, and the only
sffect 1s to cut off the hair to the surface
leaving the root intact, to
There is another
f treatment, bu YW
nful, and requires the aid of so
an operator, that it is seldom
In this latter, which is known as
rie method, the patient sits in a
1g in her right hand a sponge
whieh nnected with the negative
pole of an electnoe battery. The oper.
ator holds a needle or fine wire which
is connected with the positive pole, and
this he thrusts with a quick motion
down each cell or follicle, thus
destrov the Each time the
hes the skin a severe shock
is caused, which will cause a nervous
patient to scream out with pain, and
if the operator is a bungler, or if his
nerve is not very steady, he will miss
his mar} more intense agony.
Not more than one, or at two
d one
sitting
thoug
Uni
caught perhaps in
pd 11
it 18 ne Well
at these
rvice.
few
mast hoops, butter tubs, or fish barrels,
or sitting by the stove indoors, smoki
their pipes and doing nothing
stimmer they fished a little, and
autumn the whole community
Indian brook and spent tl
the interior or the island,
trapping beavers and otters,
pretty plentiful
man could make a good income out of a
couple of months’ hard work, furring in
the fall.
tertain, to a limited extent, co
tic principles, while partially
mg at the same time the r ht of private
he 3
ownership in land
3 3
use each olin boats, CRIOeS,
would
without hesitat but
them nevertheless as be longing
individual member of
wandered about the island ]
rently haphamard, aimless, happy
Incky way, and some member or otl
{
up at
1
BRIN,
rain als
ile Ais
Of £ It 18 SO si
and pai
skillful
in those day
is €O
m " 3
These “Joes appeared to en
) nuns
recom
into
ftivin
root. HAA
tO
vO1
\ 1
needle ig
ete ’
Rime?
i .
in Anh aj
most
attended to
indeed, very few patients can
sit for one-fourth of the last number
and hence vou will see that the
tion is extremely painful. Sowetimes
women a t to operate upon them.
selves They heat needles and endeay-
or to introduce them into the capillary
The usual result is that the
carbon which acenmulates in the needle
during heating is imbedded in the epi-
underskin, and a first-class
case of tattooing is the result. Then,
again, many ladies acid for .the | Svuciance, : :
purpose, and permanently scar their 8nd after consuming enough good foo
Others the hair with | for three men and swallowing
, quarts of tea, would say, “Well, |
pose I shall be going now. Adieu, g
tleman, adien. Yes, I guess I was
ty hungry ; most starved, 1
Lord Dunraven,
WISE WORDS,
at
nl
of the family was always turning
odd times in unexpected places,
times we wonld meet a Joe striding
opera. | Some barren or i
canoe ; ocoasionally
mito our camp, m
where, unprovided with
provisions or baggage of any
furnished only with a pipe, t
rusty gun and some powder an
He would sit down quietly In
and chat a little and smoke ¢
after a while accept, with
an mvitation to eat and «
zen hairs, can
Crossing a
a Joe
8 AWAY
i
item
Cells,
' :
dermis, or
appar
use
remove
Washington
iously mentioned, uses the
His prices are high
being charged for
uprooting one poor little silky mustache,
He has a great many patients at this
rate, however, and thriving
business, In view of the above facts,
it wonld be wise for the young men
who are meditating matrimony, and
who anxious to marry natural
uriosities, to get on kissing terms with
heir girl as soon as possible and to
avail themselves of this right on every
Pay particular
» the feel of the upper lip at
test, for that is the place where
the trouble is likely to occur. If the
lady does not shave very often, this test
will be sure to detect the pressure of this ol The box RK {o be read.” savs Dr. Me
unpleasant addition to the femaie conn- | Cosh, * is not the one which thinks for
tenance.—St Louis Post. you, but the which
think."
Any one may do a casual act of good
nature, but a continuation of them
shows in part the temperament of the
individual,
Conceit and confidence are both of
practitioner on
OX DHE
as much as 8§300
does a Help somebody worse off than :
self, and yon are better off than you
fancied.
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar
with fine sense is like attempting to hew
blocks with a razor.
are not
{ - : 5 lo : .
The sublimity of wisdom is to do
those things living which are desired to
be when dying.
possible occasion,
attention t«
Let him who regards the loss of time
make proper that which is to
come in the future.
every
use ol
one makes you
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Althh mgh Le had examined over one
hundred hearts of children and grown.
up people, Dr. Tangier discovered J !
blood-vessels in the heart valves in them cheats; the first always 1M Poses
only one case, that of a woman of sixty, on itself, the second frequently deceives
in whom they were evidently the result others too.
of a pathological process, If men knew all that women think,
Geologists av that the immense delta | they would be twenty times more anda
of the Mississippi was manufactured by | cious. If women know what men think,
an ancient river of prodigiods magni- | they would be twenty times more co
tude, which ran from Lake Michigan to quettish.
the Gulf of Mexico, and flowed about Like dogs in the wheel, birds in the
three hundred feet below the present cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious
land level. men still ekmb, and climb, with great
About 5.000 stars are visible to the | labor, and incessant anxiety, but never
naked eve. There are 18,000,000 stars | reach the top.
in the Milky Way. Even the stars that Three things too much and three
we call fixed are in constant motion. | things too little are pernicious to man
Areturus moves through space three to spend much and have little ; to pre-
times as fast us the earth, but it takes a sume much and be worth little ; to talk
hundred years to move the eighth part | much and know little.
of the apparent diameter of the moon. Memnon's image imparted not
As the result of his personal observa. mysterions strains except at the touch
tions, M. Carlet states that the walking | of the sunbeams, nor will manner yield
of insects may be represented by that! its true witchery from any inspiration
of three men in Indian file, the fore- | but that of the soul.
most and hindmost of whom keep step Taking Comfort in Lite.
with each other, while the middle one : : :
J : ry Sooner or later, friends, the time for
walks in the alternate step. The walk hand rill come s all
ing of arachnids can be represented by folded npds will come So us a,
: ia + | Whether or not we cease from hurry and
four men in file, the even numbered | °° a lay shut o
ones walking in one step, while the odd | WOITY Now, we shall one day shut our
numbered ones walk in the alternate |p. boo it, and lie still untroubled by
step. the stir and fret of things show
ou,
: ica] . Why not take comfort as we go?
South Africa has lately derived a very prond mother of a beautiful, active boy,
considerable revenue from ostrich farm- | of what use will it be to you to remem:
ing, but the gain from this industry has ber how exquisitely fine was his raiment,
very recently been greatly diminished how daintily spread his bed and how
| by a sort of deadly disease which pre- costly and profuse his toys ? What the
vails among the young birds. Mr. | Jhild needs is mothering, brooding,
Arthur Douglas found that the mor- | {onder resting on vour heart, snd he
tality was due to new species of worms | ,.ads it every step of the way from baby-
which subsisted on the coats of the | 150d to manhood. Take the comfort of
ostriches’ stomachs, and Dr. Spencer | your opportunities. Never mind though
Cobold has named them Strongylus the dress be coarse, and the food plain,
douglasii. The cause of the production | 4,1 the playthings few, but answer the
of these parasites is unknown, nor has questions, tell the stories, spare the half-
any means been thus far discovered ford jour at bed-time and be merry and gay,
| destroying them. , :
its
confidential and sympathetic with your
A novel stenographic machine for | boy. And you, whose graceful young
The machine is | fair womanliness, do not be so occupied
Why are
shorthand, ave | her friends, her interests, and her en-
The signs registered | Why does she visit here and there, and
| machine can be successfully used by a | and you scarcely know the people by
| person unacquainted even with the lan- | sight? You are losing precious hours
guage spoken. They are being used in | and the comfort you ought to take is
| the Italian chamber of deputies, and | flying fast away on those wings of time
| are rapidly superseding shorthand re- | that are never overtaken. — Golden
| porters in all ce. Censor.
HEALTH HINTS,
Lotion
dram; cologne
Muriate
water,
"RECKLE AMMonia,
one two drams;
distilled water, seven ounces; mix
use as a wash, It contains nothing in
Juriou ty
Take two drams
of borax, one dram of Roman alum, one
dram of camphor, half ugar
wy and one pound of ox-gall; mix
and stir well for ten minutes or 80, and
repeat this stirring three or four
a day for a fortmight, until it appears
clear and tran parent; sirain through
blotting paper and bottle up for use
Wasu ror SUNBURN
an ounce of »
CRI
tines
AN EXxceriext DRINK POR THE SICK.
Toast ripe Indian corn quite brown, or
even a little black, and put it into hot
water Lo steep; drink when cold. This
makes one of the best drinks for the
sick, and will often SLOP Bld kness at the
stomach when all other remedies fail
Lay There is
deal of 1 in the following advice
Never use anything but light blankets
he sick. The he avy, lmper
vious counterpane is bad, for the reason
that it keeps the exhalations from the
of the sick while the
blanket allows them to ass through
Weak persons are invariably distressed
by a great weight of bedelothes, which
often prevent their sound
sled pw hatever
Braxxprs a good
BOING
tO cover
pores person,
getting
ge ¥ any
Reser vou Heapacues.—Dr. Day says,
in a late lecture: Whatever be the
plan of treatment decided upon, rest is
the first pring iple to inenleate In eve ry
Rest, which the busy
¥ 1 *
1 and anxious mother
; overs hie wdache,
cannot obtain
1g as they manage to keep
of
about,
for every
never coasa to
I'he n when efoited as
niet and repose as a frac
inflamed eve: it is ob
of shortening the
pain will de
pend on our power to have this carried
allv. It is
to keep s AULIY IN Vid
first
remedies
ache » and we id
the
ral
nd arresting the
out eflectn a practical lesson
w, in that
le headache
magnitude
onary if quietnde
there
f simj
vy kor y
nENown
a point
treatment of
the head
pillow hard,
into it
some
§ i
elevated at nigl
for if it be soft the sinks
3
with
Oe an attack
in the morning, if sl n long
and Leavy,
How Indians Retorn Calls,
A party of Sioux Indians were guests
ing Milwanl
indies had a great
at i i
Bi 0 ona
with them, studwn Hs,
[hat 1 except one lady
1 he ladie # called upon the Indians and
$43
raed the calls al
18, thev all di
most he
ne
the SAVALZeSs rein
fore the ladies
lady L alle od On 8 « hile
d tired
a knock ath
3
gol 10 thelr rooms.
f and then went to
pretly
r door
Her room an BOON
We WAS
f ¥y 1 3
found that
him to come in them
it was th
dine in i iH
in walked Mr. Indian, She
and pulled the bed
y were those
shade stocking
hh for his feeble int
up by the
The lady tremble
He
Hi
and sad,
d and wished
cemed to take
r the hair on
the L
1% elect
he would FO away,
great delight in exan
the |
much as to ws
tile trix
and taken
arean, and uly as
has made
LY
rung
it as thougl
and pretty soon th
vited the Indian to go downstairs and
take a drink. The Indy locked that door
O00 quick, and So will never leave it
open again when there are Indians in
town. She says her har bn
rean—fairly turned gray from fright
Milwaskee { Wis.) Sun.
the Name
Ward”
There has been not a little specula
tion as to how Brown came by his
fe pl , “ Artemus Ward.” Dr. Shat.
avs, that having some confidential
business with Him during one of his
last visits 40 Waterford, he took the oe
casion to inguire in particular about it.
Brown said it was in this wise: While
engaged at the Plain-Dealer office, in
Oleveland, Ohio, he made the ac
gquaintance of an eccentric old gentle
man whose actual name was Arlemus
Ward, though assuming some more pre
tentious titles, This man was in the
show business, having a few ‘wax
flegers,” birds, “enaix,” and a kanga
While waiting on the printers for
his bills he amused Brown by telling
an endless number of anecdotes, all of
which were duly treasured np. Among
these were some of the incidents in
Brown's article entitled “Edwin For
rest as Othello,” He referred to the
following as one of the contributions of
the original Artemus Ward:
“1d was actin’ at Niblo's garding,
but let that pars, I sot down in the
pit, took out my spectacles and com-
menced peroosin’ the evenin's bill,
* * % As I was peroosin’ the bill, a
grave young man who sot near me axed
me if I'd ever seen Forrest dance the
‘ Essence of Old Virginny.'
“i He's immense in that sed
voung man. ‘He also does a fair
champion jig,’ the young man con-
tinued, ‘but his big thing is the ‘ Es
sense of Old Virginny.'
“Bez 1:
“Fair youth, do yon know what I'd
do with you if you was my sun?’
“i No,’ sez he.
“Wall!
I Cathe al
(3) the
The Origin of * Artemus
OO,
the
soz I, ‘I'd appint your
funeral to-morrow arternoon, and the
korps should be ready! You're too
smart to-live on this yearth.'”
The old man elanimed himself to be
the hero of this story. Brown, however,
wanted the eredit of correcting the
spelling and of dressing the stories up
in good literary style. Pleased with
tlie name, he attached it to several of
his comic productions, and finding that
it took with the public, adopted “A
Ward” as his own, — Scribner, .
It was their first night aboard the
steamer, ** At last,” he said, tenderly,
“we are all alone out upon the deep
waters of the dark bine sea, and your
heart will always beat for me as it has
| beat in the past?’ ‘My heart's all
| my stomach feels awful.”
SUNDAY READING,
Each Others Burdens,
Life teems with unnecessary
Foi living soul there is work to
do, effort to make, sorrow to alleviate,
Hear
eyory
should pass without an effort, however
feeble, to lessen the load of suffering
pressing so unequally on the lives of
those around us, All ean do some little,
and if each soul that has suffered would
take a share in removing or lessening
the burden of another, life would be
other than it is, An old writer beauti-
fully says: “All ean give a smile”
How few can value a smile as they
should who does not know the
brightuess which some faces bring
wheneve: they Appear ? The smile of
lindly recognition, the scknowledg-
nent of existing suffering, the
nasonry of endurance, all are conveyed
by a glance, and none can tell how
often the effort to be cheerful has helped
weaker sufferer to endure
News.
vel
Social
Heligious Notes,
The general synod of the Evangelical
Latheran church in the United States
will be held at Altoona, Penn., June 5,
There were over 700 preachers re-
ceived into the itinerant ministry of the
AM. E. chiarch during the year 1880, an
aversge of about two each day for the
year.
There are, it appears, in the United
States no less than fifteen distinct Meth-
odist denominations, of which the
Methodist Episcopal and Methodist
Epiecopal South charches are by far the
largest. Of the fifteen churches, eight
are Episcopal and seven Presbyterian
and Independent. The total of com-
municants is 6,521,000, which is esti.
mated to represent a Methodist popu.
lation of 14,086,400,
The { complains that
since 1873 there have been appointed
for the United States pavy seven chap-
lains, of whom six were Episcopalians
and one a Baptist. Of the last nine
appointed eight have been Episcopalians,
Two vacancies have occured recently,
Congregalionaig
and one by the retirement of a Presby-
terian, and both have heen filled by
Episcopalians. There are now twenty-four
chaplains as follows : Ten Episcopalians,
Methodists, five Baptists, one
Presbyterian and one Congregationalist
The
was what
seven
first Bible printed in America
known Eliot's Indian
Bible, which was printed in Cambridge,
Mass., in 1661, by the “Commissioners
of the United Colonies in New England,
with the consent of
the corporation in England, for the pro-
pagation of the Gospel among the In.
dians of New England.” It was printed
in the dialect of the Natick Indians,
and th translation was the work of
John Eliot, a missionary and pastor at
Roxbury, Mass,
The Nunday Sol
HOB l for choir
and not
among singers to magnify
is nas
at the charge and
Times has this bit
There is a
nnnatural tendency
the mechani-
cal part of the song at the expense of
the inner spirit and real purpose; and
this te: most injurious when
s yooal exercise is the
nusic can be devoted
the worship of God. Oftentimes there
i prety and devotional up
z of the soul in a poorly sung hymn
of the most artistically ren
d, simply because the object of the
ym 8 ever } in the one case,
i really forgotten in the other. If
best singers would but remember to
hom thou rich gift 15 0 be offered,
to what influential work it may be
uy God's will, their BONS would
the fervent spirit of that great Old
l'estament musician who exclaimed
‘ Let everything that hath breath praise
the Lord!” We know of some musicians
whi a practice to say a brief
vraver before taking their part in sacred
and the is ono which
ought 1» be far more general than it is,
singers
Of
constant
dency is
thie Purpose « { ti
hest to which
MAR
1 Ong
resent
gliare
3
» MIAKO
FOTVIOOK, custom
A ——
CURIOUS FACTS,
The numbor of bones in the human
body is 240, The average number of
teeth is thirty-two.
The velooity electro waves
through the Atlantic cables is from 7,000
to 8,000 miles per second,
of the
A magnet weighing two ounces sus.
weight of three pounds two
twenty-five own
tains A
OGUNCes, times its
weight.
There is a species of the crow in Flor
ida that gives vent to a series of haw!
haws! in exact imitation of the human
vole,
A wild elephant may generally be
tamed s0 as to be conducted from place
to place unfettered, in about six months,
If the crab often interrupted he
will, hike the apide K, pretend to be dead,
and will watch an opportunity to sink
himself into the sand, keeping only his
CYOR above
Jay an has 4,337 postoflices, and the
aggregate length of its mail routes in
operation is 42,208 miles. The money-
order system is employed to the publie
satisfaction,
or
The tiger does not naturally possess,
but easily acquires, a love of human
flosh, When he bas ence tasted it, the
spell of man's supremacy is broken, and
ever after that, it is said, he prefers it to
any other,
if the earth could be suddenly
stopped in her orbit, and allowed to fall
unobstructed toward the sun, under the
accelerating influence of his attraction,
she would reach the central fire in about
four months,
of her orbit that, to make its cirenit in
a vear, she has to move nearly nineteen
miles a second, or more than fifty times
faster than the swiftest rifle ball, and,
moving twenty miles, her path deviates
from perfect straightness by less than
one-eighth of an inch.
ie —
Fretful Words,
Why be so severe in dealing with the
faults of those at home while we excuse
anvthing friends or acquaintances may
do? The laws of politeness should be
binding at home as well as abroad, We
enjoy seeing our husbands and wives
polite to our neighbors, only let us be
sure to practice our good manners at
home, There are husbands who would
hasten to assure a neighbor's wife, who
that they “greatly enjoyed them when
they were so nice and brown,” who
would never think their own wives
needed the same consideration. No man
can be a gentleman, though ever so
genial abroad, who is a tyrant or habit.
ual fanlt-finder at home ; and no woman
is a real lady who is not a lady at home
in her morning wrapper, as well as in
gilk in her neighbor's parlop, One mem-
ber of a family who begins the day with
frotful words and harsh tones, is gener-
ally enough to spoil the happiness and
temper of the whole for the day. Not
guffer in silence ; but every such word
| makes somebody's heart ache ; and, asa
| rule, it is somebody whom we love and
would do anything for, except to keep
| back the ankind, sarcastic word, Then
do not let us make ourselves and others
| miserable by being fretful at home.
FUN AT WEDDINGS,
The Humorous Side of Matrimony as Obs
By the way, there Las not for ten | Marri assed by Serer ie b
years been a time when the women of | wt he Hage ii G hi sto
New York left the coloring of their hair | hr i, an 1s generally snoountered
ow ring FAME | with fear and trepidation, It and death
#0 much to nature as they do this! i
J ; | constitute the dread nnknowns, This
spring. Bleached blondes are mighty | element of uncertainty, joined with the
scarce, and when found are bad, Even | solemnity of the occasion, seems to
gray hair is not concealed, and the only | oi 06 evoke ludicrous incidents at
hirsute falsification at all fashionable is | Nii and there is not a minister in
the turning of auburn and brown to | the land who has not a or more of
red. Hair-dressing has not yet settled | 3 0 0 Gis a minora As’ illus
down into any recognized style for | : i id
1881, and it ia ho oben : ta irating the nervousnens incident Dah
else that the lo bandoned buneh of | | ot : he
Eig hat | 1 " a Joma} | napes of nee ay the us narrated below.
; ls {| A few years since a young gentleman
our necks, — Nae York Letter, from the interior of the State came to
tha ity for the purpose of meeting here
and marr i
Mrs. Mary Macutchen, of Lawrence, | jaf poy Jing aung lady who, ing
Kan., is, according to popular report, | found a home with an sunt, who was de-
the best farmer of the neighborhood. | sidedly opposed to the match. The
Ten years ago she was left a widow with | ian was for the gentleman to come to
a few acres of land and four children. | Dotroit on an early train, make the
She went to work, literally putting her | eo oumury arrangements and mast her at
hand to the plow. Boon she added to ghe depot at 7 o'clock in the evening.
her property by purchase and improve: | Assompanied by a friend, a parson was
ment. In 1874 she contracted for an | found who consented to the ceremony
unimproved farm for $1,800, which she being performed in his own parlors,
gave to one of her boys. Bhe has since | 4.4 al) preparations com , the
paid for the land from the surplus prod- | gentleman repaired to a hotel for » uiet
ucts of her own farm of 120 meres. | suoke before the train should arrive.
Last year she bought a farm of 150 | While so engaged the intended bride
acres at the price of $2000, one- | groom bethought him of the financial
fourth of which she has already paid, | nhyse of the transsetion and inquired
and will pay over the other fourth from | of his friend what was the eusto
the crops of this year. She works her | foo ond how and when it was to be pai
farm with the aid of her two sons and | ynglogetically adding, with a Bite
without much hired help. This is a! vous lsugh, “You see, my boy, I
good example of what has been done in | | vor was married before” : ”
the midst of hard times in Kansas by 8! The desired information was given,
widow with a family of children and 10 | {},e soon-to-be Benedict withdrew to
Tesourees, a side table, procured paper and an
envelope, and indited a note to the
Thousands of mothers slave, grow: elergyiman has ing in dor in & nd
prematurely old, forget and negleot | © 0" Ca at the same ri wishing he
their own accomplishments, abd drag | ooo hie to give more. The reverend
Shomitelbas ubout as mere aphends ges, gentleman declares that he wished the
something belween a nurse and a house- | R a h hd
keeper to a daughter too young to realize sume; fon the envelope did not contain
or appreciate the sacrifices made for Di equally common is the experi-
her. It is every person's business to! nee of oer those who 30 Expary
make morally, mentally, physically, all | 31 Jove of schemes to evade pay-
of themselves that is possible, and this | + 4 well-known clergyman nar-
settling down at thirty-five and forty | rates an instant in point. 2s was then
into an old woman and taking a back | preaching at Dexter, when an appar
seat that the daughters may shine is & | L010 vordant couple iD over to his
mistake, and defeats the very end’ 4° from the hotel. They had come
sought. There's often altogether too |, oon on purpose to be united by this
much done for children, and the chief clergyman, they ssid and were going on
result is that of making them helpless, | . «iower” The ceremony over. the
dependent creatures. Mothers to-day groom thrust his hands deep into one
are saving: “1 don't care for myself pocket after another, and then with well-
now, so that Effie or Nettie get their | io 1.003 annovance ejsculsted: *1
full quota of accomplishments,” when, declare Jane, have left my BRE in
if that mother went on building herself | 3 | trunk overat the hotel 1* Hawo
up on the basis of her own matured ex- | go right over and get it, and be back in
perience and ceased to sink and absorb | © Soe. The clergyman, however.
rerself so completely in Effie and |}.3 heen bitten before, snd blandly
Nettie, the world with which she came sug rested that inasmuch as he was com-
in contact might be profited. Society ack so soon the bride could wait
needs matured women as live, potent | Co vrtil his return. This arrange
factors, and the shining should not be | port seemed to be satisfactory and the
left entirely to fladgelings. Were there | groom started for the hotel.” He soon
time and space a word would be said | “i003 and said: “Jane, I can't nn-
here in this matter for the old man, too, | Jock that pesky trunk of veur'n: You
though he is more apt to take care of | will have to come over and do it.”
himself. | Evidently the trank resisted their com-
| bined efforts, for Hn clergyman never
! saw them afterward.
The silvered or steel lace bonnets are | In one instance the clergyman upon
much lighter and more dressy than | going to a residence to perform the
those of steel beaded net in embroidery | marriage ceremony found the contract
designs worn during the winter. These | ing parties and their guests all seated in
silver bonnets need the stylish salmon, | the parlors unmistakably awaiting his
pink coral, or dark red shades in feathers | arrival. In a low tone he requested
or in flowers to give them tone and make | them to rise, but the groom was nervous,
them vouthful-looking. Some of the | the bride absiraciad, and neither heard
most elegant of the black Spanish lace | the request. He repeated it in a some-
haunts are Shit os Suge being ade | what louder tone ef Yoice, but fhe N
of a wide scarf of the lace, or else of two | suit was the same. en one of the
rows of lace that is six inches wide, | spectators reached forward and, givieg
with the straight edges sewed together, the grooma poke in the back, whispered,
Forthese, flaring front frames of medinm | Joud enough to be heard all over the
size are chosen, the middle of the scarl | room, “Git up, Gil, git up!”
is on top, falling back on thecrown and | Onedayasan old white-haired minister
ending in wide strings. The lace is | was wriling in his study, a domestic
Igid in plaits on the edge of the front, | came in with the announcement that a
and each plait is held by a cut steel but | couple were outside who wished to be
ton that is faceted like precious stones. | married. He told her to admit them,
Half-wreaths of dark red carnationsare | and in they came, three pairs of them,
crushed in the lace across the top, Id i and all arm in arm. 1t was impossible
some flowers are further back on the | to decide which was the pair, but select
crown; inside the front a row of silver | ing the most confused-looking couple,
lace is laid pr pais, with scallops | he commenced the ceremony. All went
coming close to the edge. {| merrily until it came to the charge, “Ii
Pink coral with bright vellow is one | there be any one among you We
of the favorite contrasts of colors, and | of any reason why this couple should
when these two Spanish colors are used | not be joined in wedlock, let him now
with Spanish lace, the effect is excellent, | speak, or forever after hold his peace.”
and is found to be as becoming to blondes | Here the usual brief pause was made,
as to brunettes. Pink bonnets are also | hut was quickly termivated by the
given character by the use of very dark | groom ejaculating, in a suppressed voice,
red trimmings, either of flowers, feathers | «« Go on, parson, goon! There ain't no
or soft satin.— Harper's Bazar, | reason I"
Ra One of Detroit's oldest clergymen
Fashion Motes, | tes an incident that occ S00D
The granite ribbons have come into | Spr he located here, when he knew
use again to match steel trimmings. but little of the people and nothing
Little morning caps are made of plush | whatever of the localities. He ww
or damask with deep frills of lace. | waited upon by a not very prepossess-
The ribbon knots worn on the left | ing-looking man, who wished him to
shoulder are fastened by a steel butterfly, | come down to Franklin street to “marry
Pongee for overdresses is wrought in lin and Liste re othe minisel; Prag
dark brown as well as in bright colors. Bt BC |
Only those persons who. hav long, | N0uI4 Washington ses, but headmt
slander rms chouid try to wear sleeves he followed his guide into the house
shirred into two puis. | and found he was in a saloon. How-
A border of flowers and a center pie, aaloon-keepers must be married as
powdered with butterflies, is the design | wel] as other people was his thought,
for a lawn tennis apron. and he followed on through the room,
Sashes of sheer white muslin, em- | up a flight of stairs and into a sitting-
hroidered in gay silks, are made up to room. Then the guide, who ved to
wear with summer gowns, be a groom as well, stepped into the
Feather flowers and leaves have been | hall and shouted, “Come on, Lige!
imperted in small quantities, but are | Come on, girls; the parson's come!
not likely to be much worn. and into the room trooped a crowd that
More Canton crape has been imported showed him that he had got among the
this season than has been brought into | slums. ‘The opportunity was too
Xo to be lost, and under the guise of that
the country for many year, marriage ceremony he preached such a
The flutings of lace worn at the neck | LO upon the en of morality as
any wrists are almost invariably double | . ‘0 present had pr. bably never before
M8 sepson. | listened to. That his address had been
Neapolitan bonnets are simply | of no avail, however, he was convinced
trimmed with wreaths of flowers and | hy the forcible and expressive remark
lace or satin strings. | of the groom, as, smiting his fists to-
The Cramm gingham is a new | gether, he trinmphantly shouted
material which has wide stripes of pale | * There, Lize, I'd like to see that fellow
| get you now I"— Detroit Free Press.
About two yards and a half of the wide | ee e——
satin ribbon is required to trim a me- | Cotton and Silk,
dium-sized bonnet. The census reports contain many in-
The berries which the milliners have | teresting facts as to the manufacture of
introduced this season are used for loop- | cotton and silk in this country. Of the
ing white dresses. | 5,000,000 bales of cotton produced at
Open embroidery executed on the ma- the . South, 1,686,481 bales —consider-
: . nad wi ably more than one-fourth bf the whale
terial of the gown and lined witha color, .
is a new dress trimming. produst He mannjectured a Donor
Some of the elegant directoire cloaks | ri 4 OF aus Paw thirte-sis per
| *ent. are made in Massachusetts and
.. | twenty-four per cent. in the otherZNew
Brocade and satin wronght with | @ngland States, making together sixty
FOR THE LADIES,
Vashious ju Halr,
i
A Woman Farmer,
The Mistake of Mothers,
Silver, Steel and Spanish Lace Bonnets,
the front of brocade satin,
{ results have attended the ventures in
The Princess of Wales introdnced the | cotton manufacturing at the South. Old
fashion of wearing vellow gloves in the | mills have been extended and many new
evening. | mills are being constructed. Mr, Walker,
As only the narrowest plaiting of | Superintendent of the census, thinks
surah shows below the little dresses of | that the figures of 1890 will show a won-
Jace now worn by children, the slips ar. | derfnl development of the business at
often made of sateen, | the South, particularly mn Gegnein: al
Plain silk grenadine is now used to | Present a om ye
States. Silk manufacture is of com:
paratively recent date in his gountey,
| vet t} op
The sateens with patterns repre- | a ee of ote 899,"
They are br 1 | 300, and preducing gnnually $34,410,-
ney are trimmed | 414 of silk goods. The total wages
mixed with gold. | 4iq was $9,107,835. These two indns-
The Florentine grenadines are like | tries make, according to the superin-.
basket-woven silk, but are very thin. |tendent of the census, very gratifying
T ey are wrought with jet and are yetmns and show a good healthy
| cut up for waistcoats and trimmings. | growth. SO
ted and bordered with white silk.
| of plain sateens,
| with cotton fringe
Close to the ground til they grow big
Are coming in May, little aby
Tomes and bees aud a big yellow moon
Coming together in beantiful June,
In lovely midsummer, my baby.
Pretty rod éherrios, and bright little flies,
Twinkling and turning the fields into skies,
Will come in July, listle baby,
Peathery clouds and Jong, still
HSearoe a leaf stirring, snd birdies’ soft eroons
Are coming in August, my aby,
Glimpses of Line through the poppies and wheat,
And one little birthday on fast flying feet,
Will come in September, my baby, ©
- Lavra Ledyard, in Harper's Young People.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A robber's cave—A burglar’ confes-
When things go to D K LhowCD
they B come. :
The material for good soldiers must
be planted in drills.— Picayune,
Decisions in law suits are rendered
the same ss lard is rendered —by
ing. — Lowell Courier, : ;
Why is a fellow with a bad cold
the head like Niagara Falls? Beem
Les a catarrh-racked.— New York
A Philadelphian has resolved to s
himself to death. He will engage
at a
A vewsboy went into a cigar store o
Galveston avenue and asked for a §
Someta
the nickel. “I know it, but I'll smoke
it, anyhow,” responded the newsboy.—
Galveston News,
Rhode Island sre telling a
Pm So ang
who visited an insane asylum was
attacked by s maniac, but who broke
into a song and sang it so sweetly and
clearly that the lunatic was calmed. A
Chicago man recently visited the Cook
county insane asylum, and while there
sang a song. Several of the inmates
were 50 touchéd that they tried to es-
cape.— Chicago Tribune.
He was an entire stranger to the
present, and the boys were he oils
would not introduce him. He finally
plucked up sommage anid ing up to
a young Jady requested 88
of her company for the next dance,
She looked at him in surprise, and in-
formed Lim that she had not the
ure of his scquaintance. * Well,” re.
marked be, “ you dont take sny more
chances than I do.”
“Deacon,” said a widow, ss she
heaved a long drawn sigh, and softly
raised two tear-bejeweled eves to his,
““ don’t you sometimes have a yearning
for the sweet compani of a
SOITOW
Shiough all the varied Atenet 8 of life”
“TN . 3 ow,” sighed deacon,
in reply, “I've kinder had a yearning
all the evenin’, but I thought maybe
it was them cold beans leat forsupper.”
It was the merry, merry house-clean-
ing time, and when he airily
out of bed in the morning be tried to
bold both feet in the air at the same
time, while he leaped from place to
place and made yemarks t were en-
tirely inappropriate fo any occasion.
“ Practicing for the circus? asked the
wife, from her place among the downy
pillows, with illy-conceived sarcasm.
“Oh, ves,” he replied, “I'm just re-
bearsing my famous carpet tacked.”
And then his low, convulsive sobbing
died away in muffled strains, like the
last throbs of a heart breaking under
the bedelothes,—Haokeye.
“You win't ne an
woman's love, eh 7" ** No,”
despondently, “it's all flummery.”
“Very strange,” added his friend.
“You didn't use to talk that .
“ I'erhaps not,” he replied, “but I
been married nearly two years,
pair of tronsers
up in my closet waiting to be
and not a stitch taken in them yet”
She raised a paper rale to strike her
husband, and, as it , the rear
end of it grazed her chin and drew
blood, whereupon she tumbled allina
b in the middle of the floor and
ons piteously. But he only remarked
with the utmost composure: “My love,
it's a poor rule that won't both
Ways.
stock ia
answered,
1 he Goat.
The goat is a native of the vacant
lots about the city, and there ave lots of
them.
The goat is omnivorous. He will
goat anything that he sees, and he will
seize anything that he may goat.
Hs plincipal food, however, is play-
bill. He is very fond of letters.
Let us honor him for his love of bill
tion, got i ai Bil
e eman goat is 3
but he fu Billy that no policeman can
handle,
The lady goat is called a kid. Kids
are on hand the year round. sit. Ha
The goat is generous toa t.
presents a couple of horus to every
body he sees.
In the matter of mere ca<h, the Cash-
mere goat is the most famous.
ee op sts gat
i cities; also -skirts,
“The goat wears a beard. It is called
a goatee, though not confined to a goat.
The goat is noted for Lis bunting,
but he never flags.
The goat is one of the si of the
zodiac, signifying that he a pro-
pensity to knock things sky-high.
Shakespeare understood the spontan-
eity of the goat when he said: ** Siand
not upon the order of your going, but
goatat once.” :
The goat is a wide-awake animal. He
is never caught napping, notwithstand-
ing the many cases of kid-naping you
may read about.
or many years the g8at was the only
known.
Guats love to get on a high rock and
sun themselves. Give them a chance
wd they will always seek a sunny
climb.
the god Pan was a sort of half goat.
All goats do not pan out as well as he
id.
d B-a-a-a !—DBeston Tramseript,
er —————
The Sun and the Color of the Skin,
Climate, as affecting complexion, pre-
sents some singular diversities, and the
physiologist is puzzled with such facets
in this direction as that, at the same
distance from the equator is found the
fair Englishman, th» yellow Mongol,
and the copper-colo Indias; north
of the white Russian and Fiun live the
swarthy Lapp and Samoyed; north of
the Caucases are the dark-skinned Tar-
tars, south of it fair -complexioned Cit-
cassians. Again, the aborigines cf
America vary less in color than the na-
tives of the old world—neone of them
are as fair as'the Sv ed, none as black
as the negro of Corgo, and those living
in Brazil, on the equator, are not the
darkest.” Tn Australia and New Guineas,
ton, there are blacker men than in Bor-
néo and Sumatra, though these’ islands
are on the equa‘or and those are not.
— I —— .
The oxygen of the air aids and faeili-
tates the ination of plants, :
seeds buried so Seerly in the ground
to be out of reach of the action
atmospheric air will exhibit no'tigns o
life.