Dolce far Niente. When the violets are blowing In the lea, And the blooms are lightly snowing From the tree! When the bronklets all meander, And sly Reynard scoops the gander, While he seems to raise her dander Awlal-lee Then I like to In a boat Over the lake Beside the shore, And list in the brake usis And eat the can which 1 Vi PY p avai} ¢ 3 With a great deal of gusto and goatly relish mg of the Reaper, was rigl 2 ¥ v ¢ &ana aaa MY FRIEND HARRIS. “There, Emily, I had nearly ten it!” I exclaimed, as the breakfast-tabl =] an old friend to dine with u ing. Let us have those duc sent here onokie's best style. “ George, vou are the me siderate man!” returned my wife, with a rebuking smile and shake of the head. * Where my heart lowed,” 1 replied, “You've got both; I've myself Im would y the his was the of g, and that jn e were [tL In Las gone n i reseating i a AU golf gol S140 since Say i 3 Week aver her i t 3 s roopin 3 a » Our wedding « yoursel beside r away from me, } fact “You are m You i Lal o » was inde I can't X I have told you of my dear old friend, whom 1 . » vears. I know I was in a great 1 him @ near 1 » 3 - 1y or % hnrre S11 passing 1 Fomily me h a kiss, a8 was her won’, but At Jit Hy { my side superintent ons in the kitchen, and after change of my a 1 enteréd my parle 4 tire wr, where I soon became interested in the pages of a new book. 1 was ronsed therefrom by of the front door bell I rushed one friend. Despite my novel dign householder I had no thought ing upon any ceremony with 1 Clasping both his hands fairly dragged him into the then thrust him into my es “Yon must pardon my so soon yesterday. Ihadan engazement when I saw you wan! how bald you have become ? This final exclamation occasioned by my visitor's removing hat, for which he had hsd no previous opportunity. ‘Care, dull care,” returned my friend, ia a melancholy tone, and I then was nearly guilty of a surprised remark on the seediness of his attire. His linen, which he had concealed as far as pos- sible, was ragged and even dirty Had Harris run through the large fortune which he had inherited ? Some mischance had evidently befallen him. Mingled with my desire to offer him sympathy were saddened reflections upon the impression he was likely to make upon my wife, an impression so different from that 1 had pictured to myself. I hastily strove to turn the current of my thoughts by the remark: “Well, I believe baldness improves yon—you have a portentously intel- lectnal aspect because of it. I have another reason for being pleased with it, I see more of you. But—come, tell me about yourself.” “ Not just now, please. Lear you talk of yourself.” I proceeded to oblige him, but was | constantly disturbed in my narrative by | singularities and even wulgarities of manner on his part. How Harris had | changed. Poverty and presumable low associ- | ations had evidently demoralized him. | at al ‘ arior, ¥ 4 fst as, 1 had rather decent excuse for ridden myself of him. | 1 did not wish to present him to my wife. But before I could excogitate a plan Emily came in. I rose hastily, and stammered as I in- troduced him. “1 have heard so much of you, Mr. Harris,” said she. #1 can return the compliment, mad- am,” he replied, seating himself upon the edge of his chair. ‘Fine weather we're having 1” My wife glanced surprisedly at me, and my friend, affecting ease, threw himself back, so that his body and legs made a straight line at an angle with the floor. ment I had lauded! Harris was un- dounbtedly under the influence of some lrug. : “tall minute of silence succeeded, and our guest again spoke, as to our re- lief he assumed a more becoming posi- tion. : «T's a very long time since your hus- band and myself were together,” he FRED KURTZ, Editor and VOLUME XI1V. C > A ENTI HALL, CENTRE CQ. . PA, ’ THURSDAY, JUNE a wht) 23, 1881. in Advance. NUMBER 24. FOR THE LADIES, Dressing the Haly, that should give tl SEALY BULITE ms property Be ov EIRUIY sv i D vy after 1 1 we tuke vou five minutes” > 3 fer 3 impossible ! ity justice. me,” I demand- . do such bi at 3 sketch passed 1 allway with these fir words. I followed to give farewell ! Fashion Fancles. him a ed mull searfs are much worn. { hand, and then watched imping gait until he passed ou 1 he wrasols are striking noveltic , shake of | fashionable parasol Isvery large, There i BLOW . tan-colored ly beside me. said she. hen saw Emi oor fellow I” / : have judged such a| ibe ODelsk a novelty in { ‘ange po i * 1 answered, | SITAW nat: “ Wonld vou believe hat man was All once the ligh ial circle, a | gloves very wit, the glass of fashion—almost onr Red abe Admirable Crichton ?” ! and bonne not, indeed,” $ nds in summer dresses, 1 she replied, nd shirred corsage Box-g laited ¢ in popul The Srown 8 grow returned to lighted a ceeded to the mantelpiece to ide me a h-rece usually stood there, where is it?’ she soon Cors asked, with a startled look. “Where's what? Cousin present? Oh, upstairs, I suppose replied. “It was certainly on the mantelpiece when we went to dinner,” she returned, and then advanced to the center-table | 4) edge of the brim beside which I was sitting, | nets is revived. Afier a rapid glance thereon she com- | menced turning over the books and | other articles it held. “ And where is my gold card-case, oe ‘ she now exclaimed. | There isa revival of black and white “ Emily, you are too suspicions,” said | striped silks for parts of costumes and I, more in response to her expression of | for underskirts. face than of words. | Faney bracelets and necklaces and But the two presents were still miss- | ping, mounted with insects and odd de ing, when a week after I encounteredan | signs, are much worn. old chum of both Harris and myself. “ Poor Harris I” I exclaimed. “How | he is changed! Have you seen him lately 7” “Been him? No! He's in Paris, lucky as ever. He informs | me of his approaching marriage with | New serap bags are shaped like a | the only daughter of his father’s former | great vase, and trimmed with acorns, | business partner, a young lady whose | bows, and alls of many colois | debut in society recently made a sensa- | Pale rose, blue, and cream white sa | tion, and she is as amiable as accom- | side zephyr clo'hs will bs ag.in us d plished, and as accomplished as beauti- | for inexpensive | ful. What do you mean by poor Har- | resses. ris? Why, he’s about to secure another | CO air stripes, sofa pillows, mantel 4 1 y ‘ag ig | . 2 fle : . Jortung equal to his own. Here's his | lambrequins, and tidies of blue satin, | letter. | worked in bright colors in silk and wool, I stared at it and read with wonder, | suit anv kind of furniture. but was wholly unable to respond to my Lie . | friend's query Decorative needlework designs on wr : : int | scarfs, piano covers, curtains, val- | There was another in my mind which | table scarfs, pia 1 vers, curtains, val | 1 propound to the reader: “ Who was | ances, tidies and mats is the favorit » | my friend Harris?” | fancy wo:k of women of leisure for the | y | summer, Pretty and easy fancy work for sum- the parlor, and 1 imily at once pro place be- iver which has a tall, a wide brim. : tapering Cl{Iar, . i and Plain black grenadine black laces, will be much silver a “George, LO bouquet § flowers are the fancy of nt. There is a decided skirts fuller and their bouflant. The wearing of a he passing Tom's I Inom« ” ¥ LO make draperies endency t more lace around and bon frill of 1 of hats Obelisk hats are trimmed profusely around the crown with long, rich, heavy | ostrich plumes, ” Pale tinted mull muslins are as much worn as white and and make | more dressy toilets. A 91 "hite jonanils a: 8 + Je ily VE How could I?} White jonquils and stock gillyfl wers I had a | are worn for corsage bouquets by ladies in second or half mourni: g cream, and garden-party The Toronto Globe truthfully asserts that “4gnorance is not the mother of all crime, nor is education a remedy fo all.” doylies, or linen or momie cloth strips and squares, in outline designs, stitched AN EMIGRANTS ROMANCE, Paths With us i Some of the Persons Feund in New Yerk A Girl Ueenn te Marry Her sitvden, whe Urassed the Lovey «Victuersque Uestumes, and ¢ perhaps for called } SevYoral days, 8 mont le pal 18 Attimes, wi 3 11 v day, thers sand ¢ I Igranls bag Indian’s Tussle With Hot Soup, ent, but tl Ins ey took 1 i | 1d. 1 believe they conl iw where to go women aor on back Or Was the woman who di wot wear the na 1H | tional gear. Nor was she clad in m= 1 slose-fitting, coarse homespun like the d Her head covered wit] ain black bi her sack skirt looked as t bean P irehased here, bu her hands hea with bord al lets, quilted in diamonds t r f mmilted ors raat. Was i and might have Hor | was she was wet Pp 108, and appearance, y ini hongh they y : : } | wantle-hanging WOO ¢ in utilizing lace and velvet ose of decorating a fireplace wh i 1s of tatting in Macrame thread, fi Rha'e tena RI iy large j aid one of the a from Hussaby, her family's her friends, and We wouldn't let aint P WOINIs Over near v of with her, but he needn't y Crimes 1 ¢ 1 me 0 Nn As the irl heard her tioned she looked up throug Among the new designs for em nantel lambrequins, i satin with wild rose ish in laisies and golden wheat ; a bronze h mod lace. | ot the speaker. Her features were very Spangles enter very largely into the | finely chiseled, and her blue eyes were decoration of table co and lambre | shadowed by the light curls that clus quins, They are generally introduced | 4. 4 aver her forehead. at the end of the long stitches in point | «gpa without her family, becouse run embroidery, where they are caught | ran away from them. She'd ask down with amber, crimson or steel them again and again to let her follow beads. | Ralf Christiansen, but they wouldn't Instead of ivory and pearl inlaid |. per We left Hussaby a few desks, rosewood or ebony boxes, there |. xq a0 y, and the first thing wo knew are rich satin and plush or velvet arti- | oy on tho steamer was under way Arne eles, either ornamented with embossed popped up Among ns, She and Ralf fignres, such birds, had been children together, and when palms and animals, or with satin e grew up he wanted to marry her. bossed subjects that are very effective. But old Biornsen is well-to-do as things for halls are the go with us, and as Ralf hadn't a farm of faience imitating Japanese lacquer | ji, wp Bjorngen wouldn't listen to his and bronze. They a of a rich brown, proposal. So about two vears ago Ralf like the metal, and ornament d with came out here to seek his fortune, He's colored subjects of great minuteness | writing to Arne that he's been and always Asiatic. The shades of | getting on nicely, and has been wanting floral decoration are rich and soft, being | he rv to ont and marry him, and blended from dark grounds to bright | she's answered all his letters, He sent brick, salmon, and sombre moss tints, her the pretty clothes she’s got on now, : . | She tells us that when we all began olive cloth d point water lilie name men h her tears satin covered with rn Vers 1 i 1 she @ gO, a8 metal neects, mn h ne Decorations 0 new as Ass, re come He and she eat in the parlor. had been s tting there He was happy. After a silence of some minutes he | that he would be here in New York asked if he might sing. She said he | waiting for her. But we've been here might. Then he lifted up his voice | gince yesterday and he hasn't come, and and began ‘‘Ever of thee I'm fondly | that's why poor Arne's crying so. I dreaming,” and she forgetfully re-|think the place where he lives is called marked to herself, ** Why don’t he wake | Towa. We came over because we heard ‘up and go home.” He heard it. He | he was getting along well. All the land waked up. Hewent home. Hedid not | in our neighborhood is owned by a few return. She now sits up seven nights | rich peasants, and we have to do day's We heard Who | that Ralf hadn't been here half a year five mortal | wrote to him and told him she was | Possibly it is better thus. | knows ?— Steubenville Herald. might as well come over, go to Towa, and fel a farm, too,” “Were von the your village ¥ the only ones only ones fo leave reporter asked from Hussaby,” he but a greal many people are neighboring places, There's As many as five o left there this year, They He wa, 1 hey t paid well, they get letters from over here saying that they are nicely, getting land and they don't see why they low them and get along as brought up to work, and wealthy and strong. Why should at 1 and be poor all ows lives when we have a chance to get rich ' Then, too “The rey lied; © leaving Ljundy, for hundred hay have the dan't fet friends aoming i stance, i BANC Trensons On we stay 10Mme , the military laws ure strict, and we want to es { Lose uy The Wis report g to r had turned away, and one of the officials when announces the names of friends are “me and the nd Ler friends were hur- toward Arne's curls d, 2116 TR SO quickly. Behind i neg faikin the elerk who the whom called vent the emigrants for out mi later the door. 3 1 r, while she sol! arge, » reporter was Garden, he and Arne in from a Bw dish heir way toward They all the best spirits, and the me old Bj rasen hears from Arne ill be the wife of Ralf Christiansen, if all of with the over his 3 called to a dozen or more 0 were just entering. The her to carry thé women their hi ads, bundle, her back. nd her the babe reporter's talk Carden was O p carried a tied to sash aroun ash i183 arms were 's neck. When he burden on and the 48 Won i sacks and tle be l lac Kk iH babe 1a br and into i G8 i PASSE i } * A ders, wd the en ral | their wooden shoes clat Like the Swedish their heads with iefs. The men had » op trimmed with 1 tall, ry sis Pp. IVEeTe d § 3 gercn Deacon, ii ri ans hata us al very man advances, ’ 3 4% od Yas that DRACO Laer i i Bi sign 3 ) chests and { down on ang ing to his chil. . The i be boug YOArs fine Ince as t in Catharineberg. But manufactories of lace machine-made lace be- Of course he and his He had heard he became poorer he fannly 3 h i an nk 80 started and 5 ANG ma suppose me over ke did 1 AC rl hi re. me of the trunks and i the reporter some very delicate vork., * It's very easy to get rich vt i? he asked. * When y heard people talk of America said sO, i hope soon to be a to Bolimen. I'ii buik vin Catharineberg.” When asked if he or any of his family lied: “Why no! pian here ¥' and surprised when he johemian was not a ani He and his relatives 1 no hurry to get away from Cas- tle Garden, had not thought g to any particular place. They from Europe expecting to make rtm wherever the steamship them. They had been very much surprised when coming up the bay ind that New York looked larger than Catharineberg, “Most of the Bohemians that come over here,” { the officials said, “ haven't any idea about the country. They have been making lace, blowing glass, or working in woolen nills, They come over here because they expect to get rich without having to "work. Most of them lie around the city a couple of months and then they come here and apply for a pass Rae home.” Bat the most bes found in a party ¢ first who have come to this country. Their costumes wore curious that even the officials stopped to look at them. The men wore hats that looked like beavers with half the crown cut off. Tight fitting sacks, with flat brass bht. fons, re ached down to the middle of the chest, where they were met by close-fit- ting breeches, with yellow stripes run- ning down the sides. The striped skirts of the women were shorter even than those worn by the Bohemians, and the long stockings were of bright red, mixed with blue. Their shoes were of leather, but had heavy wooden soles. Each wore a stiff black bodice. Above it and running half way down the arms was a white shirt, open at the neck and with puffed sleeves. The costume was decorated with ribbons of various colors. They looked around in amazement. They told the reporter that they were very much surprised not to have seen any black people or Indians. They had supposed that most of the inhabitants were colored, and that the Indians roamed through the streets of New York. They came to America because they had read about it, and had a vague idea that they could live better here than in Fin- land, They came from the northern part of the country, and had been in Castle Garden for two days. They had | been surprised when it became dark. | They said that at this time of the year | the sun was always above the horizon | in Finland; in December it disappeared, Loris opened ble ia 3 3 DACK nuch and they HE 4 10 one « ighted persons were f Fipns, almost the OQ BO of January, They seemed delighted wight” here their minds where to settle, but said kind of work to make a living, wanted, however, to get where New York Sun, They it is cool, i ——— Senstors and Congressmen, There are seventy-six members of the United Btates Benate, fifty-nine of whom are practicing lawyers. Of the 2093 mem 219 are lawyers. The President and Vice-President of the United States are both lawyers, and nearly all the govern. ment departments, from highest to lowest, are headed and directed by the profe In the Benaie, es pecially among Senators themselves, each member's ability is guaged by his rank as a lawyer. When the status of an incoming Benator is under discussion the remark is frequently heard: * He is a fine lawyer, and will make a good Naenator,” the general supposition being that because a man is a legal light he must, therefore, be “trimmed and burning” for a first-class statesman. W hy the people of this model republic give such marked preference to the one particular profession selecting their legislators and rulers is a. conundrum not yet satisfactorily answered--unless it i persons bred to the law naturally become expert Wire-y ullers, nak frew HOW 0 Dep thoinclves, same RiOnN, 1 i i“ 8 } eoausa physician; in the House only four. To bring the Nenate down to a fine point, statistically, there are in that august body eight merchants, two planters, two farmers, one banker, one mine operator, one editor, one doctor, one with no busi. ness whatever, and all the rest are limbs of the law, Senator Hamlin is the oldest member of the Benate, both as to vears and in iting from his first elect Anthony has been longer in continuous service than any other, He first took his seat in 1858, snd has béen regularly re elected at the end of each term. Mr. Hamlin, who is now about seventy-one years of age, first the Senate in 184K but he subse juently resigned when elected governor of Maine. He was, however, re-elected to the Senate immediately after being inaugurated as governor, and afterwsrd again resigned to become Vice President of the United States. Blanche R. Brace, of Mississippi, whose time has just expired, was the youngest senator, being yet under forty. Ho was 1¢ last of his race in Congress, but is | sonsoled by havi been called to the t as register of £ 3¥ i point of service, oon a n. Senator came nto ng aug resent administration of 1@ treasury, Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, isby nany supposed to be the oldest Senator yy reason of his appearance, but in fact here are but few younger than he. He is vet fifty-two, but his stoopis posture and his hair and beard of sil- very make him look much older than he is, Senator Thorman, so lately deposed, was ranked with Ed- nds as the best lawyer in the body politic, and in their respective parties are usually accepted as authority upon questions of management and policy. Jesides the 219 lawy ers in the house, there are twenty-five merchants, five bankers, five capitalists, two inventors, five manufacturers, two teachers, twelve farmers, four physicians, one architect builder, four editors, two ministers, » stone-cutter, one Insurance agent, millers and three owners and opera of transportation lines. It will be soen by this showing that the pulpit is scantily represented than the the reason, no doubt, that poor and ministers too wach in polities, ber of the House is etic seventy ann jer nnectiont, X 1 { not ir os 3 whiteness, he youngest is Mr. Louis, who is twenty iit. we Jate Fernando Wood was a nber of the House longer than any 1is associates, and the next in poin lengthy service is Judge Kelley, o mnsylvania. Alexander Stephens, o {ex-vice president of the Con- federacy j 18 generally spoken of ag the eldest member, but Mr. Waite was ushered into this vale of tears about one year ahead of him.— New York News, ii x t : i i Ts ‘ i Georgia, A Nevada Snake Story. Probably there is no animal on earth so intelligent rattlesnake. A girl, four years old, belonging to a farmer, was ran away with in the mountains the other day while her father got out of the wagon to get a drink—at the spring. As she was one of twelve daughters he hated to spoil the set, aod so pushed on after her, but with little hopes of overtaking the frightened animal. Presently he found the horse right on the edge of a precipice unable to move an inch. One end of a strap had canght around his fet . the other end around a tree, and held him tight. When the farmer went to pull on the strap he jumped about ten feet, for a rattlesnake was holding the horse. It had wound his tail around the horse's leg, its ncek was turned three times around a sapling and its teeth were fast in the wood, It was feet long, for the farmer measured it. A few pounds more strain would have snapped the snake clear in two, snake wasn't over five feet long really, for when the farmer took the strain off it came right back to its natural size, for a snake 1s a very elastic animal. The child wasn't frightened in the least. This story must be true, be- cause the farmer was there and saw it all, and says it is true. He wanted four copies of the paper- the Carson Appeal if it published the item, to send to his relatives in the East. We take the liberty of extending the information to his acquaintances in the other parts of the country. Those who know him best and admire him most will be glad to hear that he is dcing so well out in Novada.— Detroit Free Press, i itd} Alig a $d 100K, {welve "wm ina Does Pleasure Pay! With the words an English society journal opens an article on the current habits of good society in search of pleasure. Tt NNDECESSATY to say that pleasure, if it can be taken only as many fashionable people take it, is not worth the time and money that it costs, No one enjovs this world’s diversions 20 little as those who pay most for their fun and devote most time to it. At the theater and opera the people who ap- pear most pleased are those who sit in the cheapest seats and wear the poorest clothes, and elsewhere the rule is the same. All else being equal, the man who has the most money to spend ean secure the most enjoyment in this { world : but one thing that thousands of people seem to forget is that with all | things with pleasing possibilities a com- mon rule of the table holds good—it is of no use to eat unless youn have an ap- petite. The most forlorn diner-out in New York is the man who eats several dinners daily, and the most unhappy man at the theater—the man who finds fault with everything and enjoys noth- | ing —is he who goes to tha theater every | night. Pleasure is like dessert—very | good to take after something substan- | tial, but the most unsatisfactory of all | things when taken as a steady diet above 18 ee e— Out of season—An empty spice-box.— i PROGRESS, New luventions and Discoveries, The present age may properly be characterized as the golden age of in- ventors and discoverers. So fully eon- vineed is the commercial world of the utility and value of scientific research, that the investigator or inventor has not long to wait for a golden harvest if he has anything to offer which is new and adapted to supply a want, The rapidi- ty with which new devices are adopted in business and domestic life is wonder, ful. Five years ago not a single tele phonie cirenit existed in the world which eonld be used for practical or business purposes ; now there are 165,. 000 instruments in use in the United States alone, and there are only six or eight eities of 10,000 inhabitants which are without a telephone exchange, Prob- ably more than five millions of people in this country make daily use of the telephone for business orvther purposes. Thousands are hourly holding conversa. tions between distant points, over single wires, and by means and appliances whelly unknown to science at the close of General Grant's last term of office. not a single investigator in the depart- ment of electric lighting had carried its results beyond the stage of experiment, No actual practical business test had been made, no effective dynamo-machine had been constructed, or form of lamp ed. Now, one inventor. dfs in practical TErOwas byl lamps; distribu- ted in part as follows: lights in rolling mills ; 1,340 in cotton and other ete; 300 lights in parks, docks, ete; : you retired I “Yes, paps,” I said, with » yawn : Behind my fan, * for the horrid man Hejust talked onsnd on. The more | hinted the more he stayed; 1 know yon were wakeful, too, And 1 told him so; but he would not go And what could a poor girl do?” * Ie was very late when you retired “Yeu, papa 1” 1 frankly said, “For the man, you ses, jusi talked to me, Thongh I yawned til my eyes were rod | Ax to count the strokes all through; But—the stopid L-he just wouldn't see And what could a poor girl dot» “It was worse than late when you retired 1 “Wh I tell you, pa!” I cried, “11 1 hinted onee to the tiresome dunce, “Twas a hundred times beside | Why, I even said you'd been in bed For at least five hours [ knew; Bat he tipped his chair, and still asst there Bo what could a poor girl do 1” “Why, paps!” 1 humbly plead, “Don't thunder so ! there's a man below; And he's sent you his card, and said That the reason why be stayed all night Was, that he wanted to sec you, too, That he might ask for the band I gave For what could & poor girl do 7? HUMOR OF THE DAY, The retired theater star is always an ex-acting creature. Boston eript, “Love lightens labor,” ss the man said when saw his wife doing his work for him, When a man applies for a situation as a policeman it is supposed he has a taste for a club life, : Ona ehild i fold that he zusb hs TO a habit, replied, “Papa, hadn't I better be mended 7” Sore financial distress When you | haven't got to buy oint- ment fora w New York News, A canal differs from most things in one resp t-it is vs filled before it | is opened.—Syracws: Fr Herald. planters, Jones ult | Bpeaking of corn | he has a pair of new boots that he i | put against the world. —Lookport Unde, | Gate posts should be set out firmly. | A great deal may hinge upon them as lar, parks are the mines ; ng. There are other devices, of per- far béyond the ability of manufacturers to supply. Twenty vears ago the only available was gunpowder, and excavators, ¢ the precious metals or in eniting through | nountains for railroad transit, felt the need of some more effective and power- | ful agents to tear the rock masses asun- | on shipboard startled the world by the | terrific nature of the explosions that it was known that chemists had discovered nitro-glveerine, an agent possessing a force ten times greater than gunpowder, | This substance has now almost entirely displaced gunpowder in all great min- g aud engineering works the world | over, and it would be difficult to dis- | pense with it as an article of every-day use for many purposes. | Nickel is a metal long known to chem- ists and metallurgists, but it was re. garded as exceedingly unpromising in | its industrial applications, and treatad | with neglect. It is less than a score of | vears since one of its salts, the double | sulphate, was prepared, and from its solution the bath which made sible | the deposition of the metal by the elec- tric battery. This despised metal is now of inestimable value, as it affords a surface more beautiful and enduring | than silver on implements and utensils of the widest range. The discovery by Bessemer of a cheap, guick method of making steel is quite recent, and yet we know that it has re- volutionized track construction on rail- | roads. No road with any considerable | amcunt of trafic can aflord to use iron rails; and, indeed, so important is this discovery that it wonld be impossible to pay dividends on most roads without an | increase of traffic rates, if iron alone was used, Steel, by the Bessemer method, can be made as cheap as iron, and the | difference in price is now inconsidera- ble. un agriculture the discovery of the mineral food of plants led to the dis- covery of vast beds of phosphatic rocks in the ancient sea basins of Charles- ton, 8. C,, and an industry was de- veloped which is of great magnitude and importance. We could greatly ex- tend the list of important discoveries and inventions which have been made within the memory of most persons of | adult age, all of which have given for thnes to the parties interested in orig- inating and developing them. The slow appreciation of new discoveries in a former age has passed away, and no longer do the many decades of years elapse before they are turned to practi- cal account. Henry discovered the electro-magnet in 1819, and it was not until 1544 that it was utilized in the construction of the telegraph. Faraday discovered electro- magnetic induction in 1831, but it was | not until 1851 that a practical’ dynamo- machine was made of small dimensions. | Since 1850 the world has progressed with giant strides in the practical Appl cation of the results of scientific dis- covery, and it is probable that no di. munition of interest will be experienced in the course of the centuries which are to come.— Boston Jowrnal of Chemistry. i in in C—O 5:54 American Children, Children in America are regarded as apt to act upon their own wall rather than upon the will of their parents. It did not appear to be so in any of the | families Rich I had. opportunities of observing; on the contrary, there was manifest affectionate and intelligent | obedience. At the same time it was | apparent that young people were more | sel{-acting than they are in England, where we have a somewhat unwise do- mestic paternalism, which encourages a costly dependence. The result is that many parents have to keep their chil- dren at a period of life when children should be prepared to keep their par | ents, if need be. The American habit of training their children to indepen- | dence, which they interpret as meaning | self-dependence, has much to be said in | its favor, : We have the Scriptural maxim: | “Train up a child in the way it should | go.” Young people in England among | the middle class have quite reversed | this. Their reading of the text is: “Train up the parents in the way they should go, that when they are old they | shall not depart from it.” Hence it is | that we have so many young men whose politics are conservative conceit, who | despise the principles under which their | fathers were enabled to achieve pros-! perity, and who think their mission in this world is to live upon the earnings | of their relatives, making no honest! exertions on their own behalf.— Co-op- | erative Neus Plain Dress, Giaudy ornamentation and a profusion of jewelry are out of place on a lady. | She should be more ashamed of false | jewelry than a plain, cheap dress. A lady of maturer years, in a well-fitting dark silk, real jewelry or none, and her own hair—all the better if it is white— is also dressed for a ball. True woman- hood includes all the delicate refine- ments that overflow in the perfect glove, the well-fitting shoe, the pretty stocking, the neat frills, the becoming | bonnet, The American woman, to do | her only justice, is a neat creature by | instinet, and, if she occasionally gives too much thought to dress, she is still to be admired and commended for her | daintiness, “When yesterday I asked you, love, one little word to say, your brother in- terrupted us; so please say yes ter day.” nested her husband not a certain man who “Why,” he exclaimed, riend.” A woman to associate wi & hard drinker, An Irishman, who was found guilty of stealing coffee, was asked by the mag- istrate what he did with it. “Made tay with it,” was the Hibernian's reply. An exchange says that “the coming girl is to be prettier than the kind we now have.” Impossible ; there can be Bo improvement upon the original arti- * “My watch is a perfect treasure,” said A the other day. *‘It never varies a sec~ ond.” “It must be like my thermome- ter,” returned B. “That never varies a particle.” Wasn't it rough on Ella, just as she ethereal her appetite was, to have the cook bawl out: “Say, will ye have pork and beans now, or wait till yer fel- er's gone?” “Which side of the street do you live “Oh, either If you go one way, it's on the right side ; if you go the other way, it's cross-examining a witness, A fashion exchange says that “small ostrich tips trim the new hats.” That's The best runs for poultry are where can be had, but they must be large if fowls have constant access to them or the grass will soon cease to grow. A lawyer's brief is very And Mr, White is 0 A man is dry when he is green, And when he's tight he's slack. A fire is hot when it is coaled, A lamp is heavy, though it's light ; A shoe is bonght when it is 80 A man ean soe when out of sight. A London servant girl is represented as saying : “Hard weather, indeed, sir. 1 wish the Lord would take the weather in his own hands again, instead of trust- ing it to them Yankee probability men. We might then get something fit to live in" A school teacher, discharged for using the rod too freely, applied for employ- ment in a dressmaker's establishment. “Have you bad any experience in sew- ing ?” asked the dressmaker. “No,” was the reply, “but I have ath knowl- edge of basting." —Somerville Journal, A woman in the fourth ward has just completed a bedquilt whieh illustrates how fine a point economy may be car ried to. It is made from the linen facings composed entirely of the backs of A sleeper is one who sleeps; a sleeper is also a place where a sleeper can sleep; and a sleeper is, too, a thing over which runs the sleeper in which the sleeper ; so that the sleeper in the sleeper sleeps while the sleeper runs on as well as sometimes leaps off the track.— Wit There are poople who claim that a husband that stays out late at night has no respect for the feelings of his wife. Evidently there are people in the worid who never saw said husband climbing the rear stairs at 1:30 A. w. with his boots in his hand and his heart in his » The teacher had grown eloguent in picturing to his little pupils the bean- e finally asked : A lively little fourteen-year-old boy with kicking boots, flourished his fist, “Well, you may answer, ” said the teacher. “Dead ones,” the little fellow shouted Neo Experiment, : yey Hon 3 died a aa : youn ife an i , on Thich the widow raved like a maniac and exelaimed to the doctor who stood by the bedside of the deceased: “Oh, I'll not believe that my dear is dead ; he could not die and leave me ! No, no! he's alive—I'm sure he's alive ! Tell ue, d , don’t you think so?’ “Madam,” replied the medical man, with sch gravity, “I confess that it is apply the galvanic battery.” “Oh, no, I-et him rest in peace.” ———————————————— About the Alphabet. The Sandwich Islands &lphabet has twelve letters; the Burmese, nineteen; the Italian, twenty; the Bengalese, twenty-one; the Hebrew, Syrian, Chal- ee and Samaritan, twenty-two each; the French, twenty-three; the twenty-four; the Latin, twenty-five; the German, Dutch and English, twenty- six each; the Spanish and Seclavonie, twenty-seven each; the Arabic, twenty- eight; the Persian and Cop'ie, thirty- two; the Georgian, thirty-five; the Ar- wenian, thirty-eight; the Russian, forty. one; the Muscovite, forty-three, the Sanserit and Japanese, 384 the Ethi- opie and Tartarian, 202 . Small balls of cut loosely strung- are set between the Sieh luce floun- ices of walking- iresces meant for water nature. | $n places.
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