Advice, What'er you have to say, my friend, Whether witty, or grave or gay, Condense as mach as ever you oan, Ard say in the readiest way; And whether you speak of rural affairs, Or particular things in town, Just a word of friendly advice Boil vour MS, down. For if you go spluttering over a page When a couple of lines will do, Your butter is spread so much, you see, That the bread shows plainly through; So that, when you have a story to tell, And would like a little renown, To make quite sure of your wish, my friend, Bail your MS, down, Daniel Gray. BE, J. HOLLAND'S BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF 8 FATHER, I¥ 1 shall ever win the home in heaven, For whose sweet rest 1 humbly hope and pray, In the great company of the forgiven I shall figure to find old Daniel Gray I knew him well; in better ; For my young eves oft And saw how meekly from the orvstal letter He drank the life of his beloved Lond, trath, few Knew Vid Danial Gray was not a man who lifted On ready words his freight of gratitude ; Nor was he called among the gifted In the prayer meetings of his neighborhood. He had a few old-fashioned words and phrases, Linked in with sacred text and Sunday rhymes; And I suppose that in his prayers and graces, I've heard them all at least a thousand times an wal 1 see him now--his form, his face, his motions, His homespun habit and his silver hair - And hear the language of his trite devotions ohair, 1 can remember how the sentence sounded, * Help ux oh, Lond to pray, and aot to faint I” And how the rounded The loftier as) “oongquering and to conguer rations of the saint. He had some notions that did not him ; He never kissed his children- And finest scene him Loss than a horseshoe improve 80 thoy say 2 or rarest flowers would move wipk % rickad up in the way. He had a hearty hatred of oppression, And righteous word for sin of every kind ; Alas, that the transgressor and transgression Were linked so closely in his honest mind ! He could see nanght but vanity in beauty, And naught but weakness in a fond caress, And pitied men whose views of Christian duty Allowed indulgence in such foolishness. 3 Xot there were k 3 Aud I am old that wh Not nature's him From his fond v gils at th worn LOTS WE need nor le Charley, hair, And on his breast a rosabu And guessed, i there, 1 gat d gat hered early, i fearini m of falling, id Daniel was always in his place, A practi reamear ; ¢, unlooked-for the nd in lieaven, great Re- realth sone golden day. pationt eye alled him long garnered up for ladeemer ¢ to inherit And his | The he him. aven of } heaven, ¥ hope and pray, von VOLUME XV, HKditor and PA., 2.00 in Advance. 26, 1882, NUMBER 4. [to the actualities of the present by a sweet voice at his elbow inquiring difti dently, *‘ Is this seat engaged ¥ Turning sharply, he saw a dignitied | but youthful lady, with a face like that jof one of Raphael's Madonnas, His impressible heart paid her homage at { once, and he was about to spring to his { feet with spontaneous politencss, when | the pleasurable emotion was checked by {one of dismay. She held in her arms a baby—well dressed, neat, chubby, | bright, and, to a parental eve, a cherub {of a child; to Mr, J. Templeton Ward, | his pet aversion andepeculiar horror, He looked at the child with an ex | pression of intense disapprobation. “| { think you will be more comfortable at | the other end of the car,” he remarked, | slowly raising his eveglasses and sur | veying the perspective of crowded | seats, “ I will try another car,” replied the | lady, with quiet dignity. { Mr. Templeton Ward's good breed. | { ing asserted itself. “Indeed, madam, ! ; I had not observed that there were no Pray do not imagine me | so egregiously selfish ;" and the little { lady was quickly seated at his vis-a-vis, { For some time the baby condneted | itsalf in an exemplary manner, drum- | ming on the window-pane and watoh- | ing the rapidly whirling landscape, and | { Mr. Templeton Ward had time to ob | serve that the lady was dressed in that | ! alleviated mourning ®hich allows cer- | | tain concessions to fashion and becom- | { ingness in the toleration of white at | | the throat and wrists, and solitaire | pearls in either ear, { “You have a fine little boy, madam.” | The lady smiled. “She is a very | | good baby.” | Mr. Ward was momentarily confused. { “Your little danghter resembles yon | strikingly,” he remarked. Again the rarely sweet smile flickered | | across the lady's lips. | “You could not compliment me in a | more gratifying manner,” she replied. { He turned to the baby and endeav {ored to interest it in an exhibition of { his watch and seals. *What is her name?” he asked, hoping that the reply might involve that of the mother. “We call her Dimple. Don't you! think a baby the most delicions thing | in the whole world ?’ { “Well, no, it had never cccarred to me in that light before, bunt you know quaintance with Miss Dimple.” “You could not help liking her. She never cries; she is absolutely angelic.” | Mr. Ward was on the point of re- warking, “I said she resembled von,” but he checked himself, they were not sufficiently intimate vet for flattery, The conversation became impersonal, and drifted through a wide range of sub- jects, Mr. Templeton Ward becoming | more and more in erested in his travel- | ing companion, and quite ignoring the presence of the baby. This young per- | son at last became fidgety and even Cross, “The precious infant!” “wt mi Y.: . exc. aimed 1 Gray. the lady. ‘How forgetful I am! She A LOST BABY. | Mr. Jonathen T. Ward, or as his card mc ra mcdernly expressed it, “J. | Templeton Ward, Jr,” looked like a man supremely satisfied with his for- tune and himself, He had just rceoived a partienlarly gratiiving letter from his sister in New York, calling him to the city on a flat- tering <rrapd, and as he entered the cars this pleasant October morning the univir:e seemed irradiated with his own private sense of happiness, He dropped nis hand bsg, cane and light overcoat carelessly in the vacant corners, and thus comforiably extended’ he found himself able to contemplate his ple- beian and more crowded neighbors with vrbane condescension. Alter a few moments his fingers in- stinctively sought an inner pocket, and be re-read the letter which had so con- tributed to his self-gratulation. It was from his favorite sister Rose, who had married Henry Molineux, a wealthy broker, snd whose happy martied life had caused no diminution in her home affeciion. The Molineux were, in their way, vey grand people, grander than the Waras, for they counted larger store of shekels and lands and antique heir- looms, and Rose's alliance had been fully approved by her brother. Rose herself was a bit of a match-maker, and had long cherished a dream of a double connection between the two families by the marriage of her brother with her husband's sister, Miss Winifred Moli- nenx. Unfortunately for her plans, shortly after her own wedding her hus- band’s family had sailed for Europa, re- maining abroad four years, and the ob- jects of Lier romantic rchemes had never met, Very deftly, however, Miss Rose Molineux had managed her cards, keep- ing up Miss Winifred’s interest in the unknown paragon by means of shrewd allusions and items of interest, but never waxing sufficiently enthusiastic to alarm the shy girl with apprehensions of a matrimonial pitfall arranged for her unsuspecting feet. With her brother Mrs. Molin.ux’s maneavers hed been less strategic and delicate. The mat- ter had been frankly discussed between them, and Mr. J, Templeton Ward sac- knowledged himself prepared to become Miss Winifred's willing slave at first sight. Indeed, he nearly persuaded himself that he was alreadyjin love with her, and he brooded over his sister's letter with all the benign serenity of an accepted lover, “Dear Templeton ” (wrote Mrs. Moli. neux),“ Henry's father and mother have at length returned from Europe, and have agreed to let me have Winifred for the winter. I want you to drop everything else and devote yourself to us, to escort Winifred to all the ex- hibitions, symphony rehearsals, recep- tions, ete., of the season. She is look- ing remarkably well, and, what is better, has returned heart free. I was afraid some French marquis would be at- tracted by her dot and snatch her up. I know that you are very sensitive on such matters, and will not thank me for telling you, but by the death of her Uncle Robert in Pernambuco she has come into possession of thirty thousand doll:rs, which, in addition to her ex- pectations from Papa Molineux, makes her a very pretty heiress. As What's- hig-name says, ‘A crisis comes once in the life of every man.’” There is a trite old saying in regard to cup and lip which 1 forbear quoting, remarking only that it is a mistake to confide delicate porcelain to baby fin- gers. Mr. Ward's cup would probably never have slipped had it not been for a baby of whose influence upon his fate he was us yet blissfully unconscious, It was a sorry day for him when the three weird sisters converted Mr. Templeton Ward's cup of happiness—which had hitherto been as carefully guarded as though it had been a veritable bit of blossomed Dresden or fragile specimen of Sevres in Pompadour rose—into a laything for a ruthless and irresponsi- e baby. ¥ A basket was producad, and a little bottle. * Dear! dear!” murmured the baby's guardian; ‘here is tho buttle, How stupid in Maggie to forget it!” The baby at the sight of the bottle at first chirruped with gleefnl excitement, then became franticaliv impatient, and finally burst into a roar of anger as | the train paused a! an ount-of-the-vay conntry station. “I see farmhouses and cows grazing | in the pastures,” suggested Mr, Ward; “Perhaps I can obtain some milk for | you." “Oh, no, no; pray do yourself,” replied the lady; “if you will kindly watch the baby I can get it" And before he had time to insist she was out of the car and ranning toward one of the farmhouses. Mr. Ward ex plained the situation to the eonduetor, who agreed to wait two minutes beyond the usual timo for her return. Two minutes, threes minutes, four minutes | passed, and still she came not. The engineer sounded the whistle, | the conductor shonted : “All aboard! | I can’t wait any longer. She's bad plenty of time. I must reach the next station before the up-train,” he ex- | plained, and the train moved on. Mr. J. Templeton Ward gazed in astupefied | manner from the window; the baby | howled. ‘Come, this will never do,” | he said, as he endeavored simultaneously | to realize the situation and to quiet the | distracting baby, his thoughts and words keeping up a running fugne some- | what in this manner: | Thought: * What can have detained | her ?” Alond: so—" Thought: “ Where did she disappear | to, anyway ?” Aloud: “—it was. pretiy watch.” Thought: be" Aloud: “ Angelic little cherab !” Thought: *‘~ a case of desartion?” Aloud: * Never cries —no, never.” Thought: * Of course not. She was | a perfect lady; impossible.” | Aloud: * Shut up this riinute, or| rn—" | Thought: “ What shall I do with the consumed — Aloud: “—speak to you like a father. Thought: *—thing when I get to the | city 7” Aloud (to old lady who offersa pep: | perment): ‘‘ Thank you, ma'am. (To | baby): “There, choke your blessed | throat!” Thought: * What a figure I'll cat at | the depot 1” i Alond (attempting to sing): “Oh, | where i i i net tronble 1 “ Precions little Dimple, | +3 Shall have the | “Great Cmsar! Can it | i i be found? Byelo, | byelo” (shaking child violently) * go to | sleepy.” Thought: * Suppose Rose should be at the station with Winifred to meet me?” Aloud: ‘Darling popsy-wopsy, chicka- biddy chum! See how funny it looks in big man's bat!” (Extingnishes it in light-colored high hat.) Thought: “She said a baby was the most deligatful thing in the whole world. Any woman who can lie like that is capable of deserting her unpro- tected offspring.” Aloud (removing the hat): ‘Good gracious! It's black in the face; its going into convulsions !” Thought: “I'd like fo know what everybody is laughing at. If I had a pistol I'd shoot somebody.” Aloud : * Look'here, now, Miss Dimp- sy Impsy. Come, let us reason to- gether. This thing has got to be stopped. Be calm—I say be calm.” Thought: “I'll leave it in the seat, take my baggage and put for the smok- ing-car.” (Suits the action to the idea. Settles himself comfortably. News boy appears almost immediately with the baby, still screaming.) Newsboy : *‘ Please, sir, you left part of your baggage.” (Train comes toa stop in New York depot.) hought : * There's a policeman, I'll hand the wretch over to him, and get him to carry it to the station -house or shall rest Mr. Ward had drifted into a day- the foundling hospital,” A few minutes later und Me, J, Tom 1 loton Wand gavly mounted the =» ops of his brothe rein-law's brownstone man A great incubus had been rw moved from his mind, and he row felt disposed to treat the adventure with hilarity, His sister met him most eors dially, and, throwing himself upen the sofa by her related the decorated with consid. rable maging tive embroidery, “ Think, Rose,” h “ what a tremendd ! There victim. Why, I aotual for a respectable and f ei g little widow, and was flirting with ber in the most confiding ner.’ “ Do you really think she meant to baby did asked Mrs, Me li sion ile, he BLOYY, o said, solemnly; iS gscape was a complete Iv took her tir Avil fas o man desert the neux. “Oh, without doubt. She had got herself up nicely on purpose to deceive and to think that I did not suspect her designs when she asked me if I did not think that exeorable baby deli: olous ™ ‘ Was the baby pretty, Templeton ?" “" Pretty ! 1 should think not 1 wish yon could have seen it. It bore the marks of depravity stamped upon its brow, When it howled, it glared at me with demoniae eves, and fisted like a prize-fighter. Iam morally certain that its father is one of the champions of the ring.” “ And what did youn say you did with it, de ar 7 “ got rid of it as quickly as possible, I assure you. I handed it to a police. I had the satisfaction, however, of pinching it well before I saw the last of it.” “Do you suppose the man thought “ Of course not. He has carried it ofl to the Home of the Friendless, or the Asvium for Little Wanderers, or some institution of that sort, I suppose Bu let's drop the baby, Where's Wini- ’ “I expeet her every moment. There's the door-bell now. Let me see.” Mrs. Molinenx motioned servant and herself opened the hall back the face to face with her husband, who wore an anxions expression. Mr. Ward, who sat just within the parlor, heard their conversation distinctly. Rose. “Why, Henry, what's the matter?" Mr. M. “Nothing. Don't be alarmed, only a telegram from Winifred. She was left and will the next train.” Rose, come on “Oh! is that all? Then she ought to be here now; the train runs every hour.” Mr. M. “ Winifred's all right, but I don't won't to alarm youn. Be calm— Rose. * The baby | " Mr.M. “Don i I» i8 not sick. " : ' \ # 18 846 BRICK 7 excited, rr The » ¢ ged baby ‘i Is she dead You always imag- ant can happen, She Rose (desperately.) Mr. M = No, no. is only lost.” A piercing shriek followed and Mer. to the hall just in tin to see his sister faint in the arms of her They carried her parlor, and she was at once surrounded by frightened In fusion that followed Winifred Molineux arrived. There was no time for intro- ductious, and indeed none were needed, for Mr. Ward to his ntter dismay recog- 18 into the wy dso | . domestic 3. tae con- supposed mother of the baby, “I was bringing Dimple home from to her grandmother,” she ex- plained, and added: ‘Is it possible that you are Mr, J. Templeton Ward ? Then the baby is safe.” Mrs, Molineux opened hor eves, and “Winifred,” she de- did ‘ } attitude. Dimple? “I left her to get some milk,” Wini i ia passage, The woman reach the station until the train “Jonathan Templeton Ward,” she ex- claimed, *‘what have you done "with your sister's child ?” “How was I to know it was voury? “I had for- gotten that Miss Winifred would be in mourning for her uncle, and I though “ You thought!” interrnpted his sis- ter, ‘“The least said about that the He sent his nieces to the found- ling hospital; he insulted Winifred and all of us in a manner not to be repeated. Ob, my precious Dimple, my lovely He told the pcliceman to drop her into the East river, 1s not worthy of your slightest thought. in that idiotic manner, Jonathan? I disown you; you are not worthy to be uncle of that chernb darling.” He darted ont of the door, seeking the policeman with frantic returned to the bosom of her family. His sister, however, refused to see him, Miss Winifred Molineux to an officer in the United States navy that Mr, J. Templeton Ward finally made his peace with his outraged relatives. Something for Nothing, newspapers without cost to themselves, It is pitiable to see the shabby means they take to attain the end they have in view. Men who would feel insulted if they were called dead-beats, will with bland effrontery ask a publisher to ‘“ please mention so and 80” (an adver- tisement), or, handing in what is really a little item that will help yon to fill up with.” Men who do this—and there are some in every town— call themselves honorable and would not think of ask- ing a real estate owner to let them use one of his honses a few months for nothing; nor would they ack him to let them cultivate and use a part of his farm, without expecting to have to pay rent for it, The advertising columns of his paper is to the publisher what the house or farm is to the real estate owner—his source of income, Why any one should expect the newspaper publisher to be more generous in squandering his sub. stance than other business men is something that cannot be accounted for, except on the supposition that some people have an idiotic idea that printers set up type for the love of the work, and that ink and type and printing presses are gifts from heaven to sinful men, who publish newspapers merely for the purpose of smoothing the path- way of their fellow men on the rugged road to fortune, and who hope not for reward this side of the grave.—Teras Siftings. SINGULAR SUICIDES, Tmpelllag te Selfi=De. Odd Methods Kms some Odd Matives situction and Some played, A glance at the files of a New York vowspaper during 1881 discloses many interesting worth no from peculiarities of mode motive. Dr. MeCreery, of Louisville, killed himself becanss ba believed his newly acquired appetite for liquor was incurable; John McPherson, of Toledo, because he had promised his wife on her deathbed not to drink again, and after a three days’ struggle he fouud that he must break his vow die; the Rev. Jacob Mallord, of Greenville, N. J.. because afer re forming and laboring successfully for some months as a temperance advocate he fell into temptation and lost his church. Professor Louis Walter, a pryrotechunist of St. Louis, put a nitro glycerine cartridge on his breast and blew himself to pieces becanse he feared the shooting of President Gar. fleld would spoil the Fourth of July E. Jost, of the same oity, read an account of a suicide, laid down the paper, drew his pistol and himself. Philad ] cases of suicide feng or business ; John shot A elphian, on being slapped in the face by his wife, tarned white with rage, and, after standing a moment irresolute, walked into the next room, took down his shotgun and killed him- salf, At Stepney, London, 8 girl drowned herself because hergrand- mother would not let her wear her new clothes, and at the funeral the Spartan | ancestress was mobbed and almost killed. At Manchester a boy of thir teen hanged himself from remorse at playing truant, and at Newport, Canada, Ferdinand Pitcher, aged ten, went and did likewise when told to set the table for tea. William S. Pimer, of Willi mantic, Conn., committed his wedding day from chagrin at not receiving a promised remittance to defray his expenses, Bruce Cooper, a young lawyer of Moorehead, Ry. eld ped with Mollie De Hart, a girl of thirteen, whose parents had forbidden her to marry him, and after going a few miles advised her to return home, and shot himself, William Ben nett, of Denton, Ala, was threatened with being disinherited in case he mar. ried a servant glrl with whom he was ia love: she refused him and he killed him- self. At Newark, O., a rejected suitor made a final appeal to his obdurate sweetheart as they were driving to gether, and when she declared she never would consent to marry him took the cheok-rein from the horse, went into the woods and banged himself. At Dallas, Tex., Mrs. C. I. Burke, of Little Rock, having followed and overtaken her eloping husband, put her two little children to sleep and poisoned herself with landapum. At Louisville Murs. Jennie Dorsey, when her husband, after six weeks of hapoiness, took to drinking and gambling and left her with a board bill of $25/unpaid, peisoned herself and died just a few minutes before a letter came protesting his love in earnest terms, and announcing that he was coming to take ber away to a new home. At Melun, in France, Jales Roy and Clemence Wagner tied themselves tightly together and dropped into the river, ng a request to the girl's father that they might be buried in the same grave. A young lady in South Carolina hanged bersell bocause her father was defeated for the legislature, At Bechooleraft, Mich, Dr. Barnum, who had long been suffering from a painful diseases, laid himself on his dis- | secting table and shot himself through the heart, David Crimmins, of Toron- to, jumped over Niagara Falls, leaving a lotter declaring that he had been forced to the act by his wife and their clergyman. Dr. G, T. B. Read, su geon on the bark Veronica, drowned Suicide on | lea vi iCAvl r brain was ungettled from the effects of an overdose of bromide, taken to re. lieve sea-sickness. At Buntiongford, land, a servant girl of seven. named Miles, having been accused taking rome belonging her mistress, A ng of to in running herself to and werself | Hohemolsen, in race to the end” into the river. At a curtain Hugh Brandt, of Cohoes, having 118 of water, A negro saw in full operation, and had his head split through instantly, A woman in ing her face in a basin of water, and a tied the mouth of the sack closely round | his neck and jumped intoapond AtSan Saber, Tex , Li, B. Chapman, fearing a ro- | a prisoner in the jail, choked himself by Mrs. J. 8. Boyd | Captain Fritz, of San Francisco, | and his wrists handcuffed, but his wife | explained that she had frequently resist the temptation to go out and | spend the night with political workers, 3efore shooting herself, Josie Lange. | let, of St. Louis, pnt on an elabo- | rately embroidered wrapper, arranged | her hair becomingly and seated her | self in a graceful position on a lounge. Before hanging himself Leoni- das Robertson, of Madison, Ind., put | on his wife's clothes and sunbonnet. George Wiggins, of Port Washington, fastened it to a fence, tied strings to | the triggers and walked backward till he was about ten yards away, when with a sharp pull he brought both charges into his head and body, rid- dling himself from the waist upward. | M. Anderwert, president of the Swiss confederation, shot himself on the promenade at Geneva on Christmas day, 1880, General Uchatius, the Austrian | inventor of the *‘Uchatins gun-metal,” | being nettled at the failure of one of his guns, blew out his brains, A Hindoo priest at Ahmedabad, who | for twelve years had made a prac- tice of praying two hours daily at noon, gazing intently at the sun all the while, paid off’ his debts, composed and sang a hymn of praise and then as- cended a pyre of his own building and setting fire to it burned himself to death, William Newkim, a Chinese theological student at Marietta, O., poisoned himself with chloroform through being worried over his love af- fairs. At Fishkill Landing Mr. Saun- der's old horse drowned himself in the Hudson, in shallow water, after having been once brought in when heattempted to swim out into the river with mani- fest suicidal intentions. Fables from Bret Harte's New Book, THE KIND-HEARTED SHE ELEPHANT, A kind-hearted Bhe-Elephant, while walking through the jungle where the apiey breezes blow soft o'er ylon's whieh she erushed to death within a fow inches of the nest containing its callow brood “Poor little things ™ said the generous Mammoth, “I have been a mother myself, and my affection sball atone for the fatal consequences of my neglect,” So saying, sat down upon the orphaned birds, Moral, ~The above teaches us what home is without a mother ; also, that it ia not every person who should be in trusted with the care of an orphan asylum, she THE PRUDENT TIGER, A prudent Tiger having observed a procession bearing the remains of a sainted Brahmin to the tomb, communi. cated the intelligence to his wile, who said, “My dear, wo are almost out of meat, and thongh the deceased, from the austerities of his pious life, was in poor condition, I make no doubt that among his surviving friends we may en counter others more succulent.” “Miserable Tigress,” exclaimed her lord, * cannot you see that if we permit the deceased to be ecannonised, pil- grimages will be instituted to his tomb, and the producer and consumer will be bronght together in accordance with the true principles of political econo. my? Rather let us, then, offer a chro. mo for each new pilgrim.” This advice being followed the Iiger enjoyed a free breakfast table to the end of his days, Moral, ~ Beware of breaking the egg that hatches the golden goose. THE LAME, A Wolf one day, drinking from a ran ping stream, observed a lamb also drinking from the same stream, at some distance from him, #1 have yet to learn,” addressing the Lamb serverity, ‘‘what right muddy the stresm fro drinking.” “Your premises are incorrect,” re plied the Lamb, with bland politeness, “for if you will take the trouble to ex- amice the current critically, you will observe that it flows from you to me, and that my distorbance of sediment here would be, so far as you are oon- cerned, entirely local “Possibly you are right," returned the Wolf: ** but, if 1 am not mistaken, you are the person who, two Years ago, used some influence against me at the University." “Impossible,” replied the Hiwo years ago I was not born.” “Ah, well” added the Wolf, com- posedly, “I am wrong again; but it must WOLF AND THE said the Woll, with dignified yon have to which I am m Lamb ; EF i has listened to this conversation that I am altogether insane, and consequently not responsible for my Actions.” With this remark he at once dis- patched the Lamb, and was trium- phantly Acquitted. Monar.—This fable teaches us how erroneous may be the popular impres- sion in regard to the distribution of alluvinm, and the formation of river deltas, c———— How Comets Affect the Earth, The following extract is from the prize essay on comets, won by Professer Boss, of Albany: The inflnence ol comets npon the earth is in all proba bility insignificant. They may, like the sun, affect the earth's magnetic condition, and thus Boma extent, possibly, its meteorology. No such effect has ever been perceived. In spite of some chance coincidences be- tween the apparitions of great comets and remarkable public events, no well informed person now believes that there is avy real connection between them. }v & liberal and credulous interpreta- tion of any frequently ocenrring oeles- tial phenomenon, similar coincidences conld be shown. to teoric bodies, which impinge upon the earth's atmosphere, there is some dircet though probably minute effect. Bome have thonght that a sensible portion of the heat when the earth receives it is generated in this way; but the weight of eeientific opinion seems to be against that hypothesis. The impact of the meteors upon our atmosphere must add some maiter fo it, and this is probably This must be the origin of the so called cosmic dust, which has been collected at sea in re cent times. The flcer particles of it may have some influence on clond for mations, and other meteorological phe- {ure, A more remote effect may be sought in the possible fall of meteors and com ets npon the surface of the sun. Owing upon the sun's heat is quite insignifi- It is now generally admitted that we mast look for the origin of the sun's heat in a constant, though to us, imperceptible shrinkage of his vast bulk, Some connection between the quency of sun spots and comets has been rather vaguely suspected Were equal persistence for a whetner comets cause the tends in some way to render comets proposition. Finally, it may be said, with all due respect to scientific decorum, that the appearance of a great comet of mankind and directs their thoughts to the more particular contemplation of the glorious universe which surrounds them. —————— 55 Where the Money Went, housewife, considered that the straw bedtick would be about as safe a hiding place as she could find for the wealth. Accordingly she placed the roll of bills among the straw. The money not being needed for any purpose it was forgotten until several weeks after the house had been cleaned, when Mr, Sands inquired of his wife if she had that money. The thought came to her at once that she had emptied the straw-bed in the orchard, and of course the roll of bills had been dumped out too, A visit to the orchard showed that the swine and poultry had been very industrious there, and ten and twenty-dollar bills were found scattered by the wind and torn by the aforesaid farm stock. Oare- ful search brought back about £230, leaving seventy dollars as the price of the carelessness. Mr. Sands does not put his money in straw-ticks any more. Women are not eruel by nature. We never heard of one thoughtless enough o step on a mouse, i WISE WORDS, people should be good-natured. A man who sits down on the road to success and waits for a free ride is sure to get left, ence of your work by the trouble it has cost you. To do good to our enemies is to re semble the incense whose aroma per- fumes the fire by which it is consumed, A head properly constituted ean ac. commodate it-« { © whatever pillows the vieissitndes of fortune may place under it, When bad men combine the good must associate, else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a con- temptible struggle. To succeed in any of life's endeavors, quire perseverance, decision and tense- ity of will to reach the full measure of | He who is always in want of some thing cannot be very rich. He is ai poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others, Every one in this world has his or her | share of troubles and trials. Let us! then try as much as we are able not to increase the burden of any by as much as the weight of a straw. Socially, politically and religiously the civilized world is in a terribly un- settled condition, Everything appears to be in a state of unrest. There seems ———————— Country Life in Italy. A lady living in a country village in Italy writes, in the Cornhill Magazine, of her neighbors and their habits, She It is amazing how smart the very poorest lady who has any pretentious to being such will turn out on occa- however dilapidated her home attire, Two young ladies belonging to an old but utterly ruined family, whosa parents were too poor to keepa servant, would dress themselves for their even. ing walk in the most fashionable hats and costumes, with their fans, smelling bottles, lace handkerchiefs and gloves, all complete. Ia order to obtain these dresses the young ladies had to con- descend so far as to work for the veas- ants, who paid them for the manufacture of the smart stays and chemises they wear on days. The attempts :t being Iv fashionable, combined with an en- tire ignorance of the ways of the fashionable world, produce sometimee he strangest incongruities, The lacs veil is now almost confined to the class called * artisti"—that is, shopkeepers and skilled workpeople; but a few of the old-fashioned ladies still keep to it, Curious specimens of decayed nobility are to be found in these remote villages — people bearing grand names and re- taining considerable pride in their an. cient lineage, whom generations of idle- | ness and unthriftiness have reduced to extrema poverty. They are not edneated for any profession, and when starvation stares them inv faco they have no resource but to earn their bread by manual labor. One noble count of my sequaintance is a carpenter ; another a bricklayer. 1 have seen the granddaughters of a With manners deteri- foast high- their fortunes, their pride remains to distinguish them from the peasants between whose class and theirs so great a gulf was once fixed, I remember nothing more melancholy than the assemblage of these poverty- stricken nobles 1 once met at the house of the rich man of a village. We were at supper; and as one! ragged and diriy old man after another came shambling in, each in turn was, fo my great sur prise, introduced as the descendant ef f —opduto”—added my host, with a The old man | would then bow his head in melan- choly acquiescence, and casting a rneful glance at his shabby cloak with the faded green lining, would slink into a chair at the far end of the table. One bouse-painting, we thought it only | charitable to employ for the decoration of our ceiling. I was prepared to feel un- en- ; but dirty, and to be his artistic genius uncommonly nobleman, was 80 from those of a peasant, that actly come up to my ideal, although it was ambitions enough. A basket of flowers soon sdorned each corner of our amid a rather In the middie of the work the artist, and whose feelings wera sensitive, took offense {as wo supposed) at some unintentional leg and Poor Cupid ! _-..e° LA Pots and Pans, Utensils for boiling purposes have undergone little moditication in shape The reason for this is not far to | Water heated in a round with upright sides would | boil over, whereas when treated in a pot whose sides incline inward toward the top, the bubbling day. vessel | themselves in conflict with each other. | Thus (the ealdron, kettle and saucepan | have in all ages and in all nations much | | similarity in form. With regard to | material, no doubt the earliest pots and pans consisted of such natural objects as adapted themselves to the require ments of cooking, as the gourd, pipkin, cocoanut shell, ete, and among savage tribes these are still employed for the | | purpose. In course of time vessels of | olay came into service, and afterward | metal was brought into requisition. | The old Egyptians had pots precisely | like the modern saucepan, and their | larger utensils were furnished with ho | well-known ears and feet which may even yet be seen in some of the home- steads of our country. Shakespeare makes the * secret, black and midnight hags ” in Macbeth use acaldron of this description, and it will be remembered that thesavory mess with which the more respectable Meg Merrilles appeased the hunger of worthy Dominie Samp- son was dished from a like vessel. That these articles were common in China in dim antiquity, snd that the Chinese had a superior method of mending them, can surprise no one, and is what we have expected to find in a people who'seem to have forestalled nearly every invention, great and small, that was ordinarily sup- posed tu have first seen the light in other lands than theirs.— Tomas J. Bowduwiteh, ! ! i i i FOR THE LADIES, Homely Weddings, I have attended all sorts of weddings | in my time the wedding of a king and | queen: of aprinesand princess; of lords | and ladies; of Hebrews, with their quaint | ceremonies; of gypsies in the fields; of | borderers in the far West, when | held | one end of the broomstick; of negroes | down Bouth; of Tom Thumb and tiny Miss Warren, weddings in cathedrals, | churches, chapels, meeting houses; | weddings before the mayor, justices of the peace and aldermen; weddings by | cardinals, divines, priests and presch- ers—but to me the most impressive ceremony is the family wedding in the front parlor of the family homestead, when the father and the mother of the bride are present to give her away, and the father and mother of the groom to receive her into her new relationship, | and the little room is overcrowded with | ether, and everybody kisses the bride, erying—beoomes gemeral, and even such an outsider as myself comes in for a share of the sweetest things in the! por —I do not mean the bride cake, | "or others the march down the aisle, | the massive music of the organ, the | long train of bridemaids, the dress pa- | vice. It is only a matter of taste, but | I prefer the homely wedding that gives | promise of a loving and lovely home thereafter. New York Star, Ante-Nuptinl Dinners, Among the latest of society customs, says the American Queen, which bid fair to secure a permsnent stronghold among us is that of the ante-nuptial bachelor dinner, given by an expectant | bridegroom to his ushers and intimate | friends as a farewell to his bachelor | life. The young lady is generally con- | termine beforehand, a thing never! known certainly before theintroduoction of this custom, whether the house of the aforesaid friend will be a closed or open one to them after his marriage, or if they be not invited the almost sure presumption is that they have not found favor in the lady's eves. The! dinner is generally appointed for the week preceding the marriage. If the gentleman be not blessed with the sbundant means without which the fashionable caterers are only a delusion and a snare, it is permissible for him to give his farewell dinner in his own house, and in this case the number of guests is generally somewhat smaller, sometimes only comprising the best’ man and groomsmen, These are usually five in all, although in large weddings there sometimes are ac many as seven or nine, Twenty is considered a good | number of guests, and this quota at- tended the farewell dinners of George | Merritt and Dr. Beward Webb this | BOason., Fashion Fancles, Peacock fans are 1n high favor. Chenille [ringes are mnch worn. Jerseys are revived on the other side, Watered wilk grows more and more fashionable. Fashionable dancing dresses, all, have | short skirts. Esthetic dress grows more and more | in favor in England. Plush is more fashionable as a lining | for wraps than for tho outside. Jinck remains the choice color for the | costliest and most elegant wraps, ! Pale rose and cream white are the | favorite colors for fine wool evening | dresses, Fringes of silver and pearl beads mixed are used for trimming evening | dresses. Artificial flower garnitures are de rigner with all gauzy and semi-diapha- nous ball toilets. Tan-colored Jong gloves with loose | wrists are worn on all sorts of occasions | and with any kind of a dress. | Black lace and fine jet ave the ap- | yroved trimmings for the handsomest | Pluck satin dresses for evening wear. | White, or pale bine, or rose-tinted Chudda shawls make lovely evening! wraps when furlined ones are not needed. The newest and most striking mate- | rial in Paris for whole costumes is watered silk with a floristed damask | pattern, Detachable trains fastening below the | short bounffant back draperies come | with some of the handsomest late im- | portations. | Court trains of great length, detach. able and fastening on at the shoulders, come with the richest and costliest evening robes, Silver gray silk trimmed with silver moire and steel and silver bead em- | broideries, is a much admired combina- tion for light mourning. Among fashionable shades are nas- | turtium, dead leaf, old green, all dark copied from the inside of a ripe melon. | Tinted Roman pearls are much worn | with full evening dress. Greek neck- laces are also worn, made of s.veral rows of pearls linked together at inter- vals by small diamond clasps. Satin boots, with velvet tops, Span- ish insteps snd Chinese toes, and fastened with tiny jeweled buttons, are worn with handsome dinner or evening | toilets of satin and velvet. Sn 5. A Remarkable Gun, In the late war between Chili and | Peru a curious accident befell an eight. inch Armstrong gun on board the Chil- ian warship Angamos, The last time | it was fired, the gun which was on | deck slipped ont of the trunnion ring, flow backward across the ship and leaped into the sea. This was the singu- lar ond of a rather remarkable history. | The gun was supplied to the Chilians | before the war by Sir William Arm- The Angamos was pre- | viously an Irish pig-boat, and was ac- | quired by Chili for the purpose of car- | eying this one gun, which, standing off | at long ranges of 10,000 yards or so, | she could do with impunity. The Peru. | vians at length sent out their fleet of | gunboats to destroy this waspish an- tagonist, when the other Chilian ships, with their short rangers, came into action and drew off the guuboats, all | but one, which was sent to engage the Angamos at close quarters. The Arm- strong gun, however, sent a shower of Shrapnel bullets on to her decks and the gunboat retreated. As she was nearing port, a pot shot from the eight- inch gun, fired at long range and high elevation, managed to hit and sink her. The gun therefore did plenty of hard work and valuable service beiore it finally gave way and was lost in the sea. Thirteen female physicians are prac- ticing in Clayton, la. and at a recent fire there were not well men enough in the town to run the engine ont. [t is one grand incorporated hospital. ATS HU SUNDAY READING, The Mote and the Beam, . We notice in an exchange a short an, eodote with a point to it. A lady, on one occasion, upon examining a room whieh had not long before been put in order, complained to the servant that it was dusty. The latter said, respect. fully, “The dust is on your glasses,” and sure enough, when they had been removed aud carefully , the room put on quite another aspect How very made of such an anecdote, and vet it is We see it in our Lord's Objects change sccording to there are many like them —takes its hue from the tree it happens to be on. The often but the fly upon the glass of the telescope, There is much wisdom in the exhortation to be slow to speak and “ What's done we partly may com But not be eB pant L. pln, Religious Intelligence, It is proposed to establish at Little Rock, Ark., a college for young men and women under the control of the Metho- One of the Jewish congregations in New York city has decided that here- | after men shall remove their hats in In Boston, with a population of 108,- 16,803 attended in the morning and 18,634 in the evening, The Rev. 8. W. Hasti Rose, of Michigan, has been elcoted thworth lecturer on Congregationalism st An- dover Theological seminary for the en- suing three years, The Presbytery of Oregon contained at the close of the church year twenty- then three new churches have been | organized, with 1,120 members. The papal eollege of cardinals now has thirty-six Italians, seven Austrians, six French, five Spanish, three Euglish, Belgian, one American, one Armenian, The stipend of Protestant ministers | in Germany is so small that they are obliged to raise additional sums by charging fees for baptisms and mar. | riages whenever celebrated at a private | house or with special ceremony. The Missouri Baptist convention re- | ports in that Slate: Beventy associs- tions, of which four are colored 1,445 churches, including 149 colored; 920 ministers, of whom seventy-nine are colored, and 89,915 members, whereof The Lutherische Kalendar for 1882 for 1880 of 87,884 The synodical conference has 206,587, the general 124.734, the general synod the general council 226,606. There are, besides, ten inde- pendent synods, with 111,862 commu- | Acocrding to the most recent statis ties the Roman Catholics have in Chins 664 Earopean and 559 native priests, thirty-four colleges, convents, and 1002818 Catholie population. The whole num- | about one-fiftieth of the Catholic popu- lation, and the number of European riests is twice as large as that of the rotestant ordained missionaries, Stories About Blind Men. Three men, two of them blind, were drinking together one night in the And as is too often the result of such convivial meetings, one of the blind men guar- eled and came to blows with the man who conld see. Here was likely to be a battle not by any means on equal terms. But the other blind man was equal to the occasion. That the man who could see should have no undue advautage over his less fortunate oppo- pent, up jumped the blind friend and turned off the gas, and so they pum- meled each other in a harmless way fora time. We have given an illustra- offset we could give many illustrations of that gentler passion, love, for the blind are eminent disciples of Cupid As a rule a res le blind man has no difficulty in obtainin a seeing wife, and very often with gocc looks to boot. And when we consider of the blind the latter isnot to be won- Blind men, however, do not always marry wives who sce. We know of many instances in which both hue- band and wife are blind and have managed to raise families without the occurenca of any serious mishap either the cases are rare in which the latter are defective in sight. Only lstely the marriage took place of a blind she being his second wife, and he, her third blind husband. The marriage was not wanting in the elements of romance, for in their young days they had courted and parted, blind in a double sense, We will conclude with a courtship, but in this case will not vouch for its truth. A blind man on several oecasions met a widow, who was not, however, like himself, blind, and latterly concluded that she would make Accordingly, one evening found him at the widow's house for Bat so elated was he wi his success that, on leaving her door, he forgot he was up a flight of stairs, The staircase window being very low. and happening to be open, he felt the on his heated brow, stepped out without thinking where he was, and so fell into the court below. The greatly » larmed. but was ally reassured that nc boues were Lrok.n by his re- mark: © Maggie, ye hae a big step to your door!" — Chambers’ Journal. Strength of the Egyptian Moth, You are sitting at dinner with all your doors open, and suddenly yon hear a familiar sound, and a beetle is wheeling ** his droning flight” around the room. Flop! he falls on the table half stunned. You seize him &nd are amazed at the strength of his struggles, ard still farther at the squeak he utters, showing that he must have vocal organs —like the death's-head moth, which squeaks loudly when touched. Exam- ine him, and you will find that he is the Egyptian scarab, varying in size from half an inch to an inch and a balf long, and relatively, I believe, the most werful animal in the world. Take an nch specimen and place him on the tablecloth under a full quart bottle of wine or beer. Present] you will see the bottle move, and if unchecked it will slide mysteriously across the table, pushed by the gaint beneath in its efforts to escape.— Chambers’ Journal, It i i EY i th = fil g it il 2 RB 88 iif if E £ i ie 4 i ix | E th g EB 23 5 £5 B i i ® inher. Tie Boos sels for tom Sftaen A ne vertisament for a man to fill uragemen in fighting lifes . aged man is defeated in advance. carries failure about with him; he when he needs most to be falters where decision is most he halts where he ought to ward; he cannot stand up strain and burden of the hard that it should be so—bharder that so little real discouragement. need such a man, and has for him; and so he falls into r of the while he of hope, who is yet new in the stru who has not supped the bitter disappointment and found out is vanity and vexation, strides where the tried man i contagious in a t, getic spirit, which carries come in contact with it away, and & cess ia as often the result of this si animal force as of perseverance tinued effort. All the experience in tk aworld will not carry the man of dee iscouragement successfully through s enterprise. - Esteems. Many persons who earnestly for apyroval are forever ) take of hiumng. that they ong take © i oug have what they intensely desire. N ing is ever gained im this way. No ever grew rich or or su in any act or schievement; so n ever goived fhe esteem of ha men mere wishing - ever o tly, He must acg right to be esteemed before reasonably hope to be so. | cultivate q orthy © ation; he must forma shall command respect; he a asa -reipecting. e to the Fein of those whose worth having The direct e weak-minded persons make
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