Two Lights,
The distant city’s glaring lights
Loamed up before his boyish eyes
Ae from his village home he went.
Like golden hints of Paradise.
He filled his purse with treasured gold,
He gained the doubtful praise of men ;
Then, pausing from his toil, he tarned
His eyes upon his home again,
He saw what he had sacrificed ;
He wept to think of lost delights,
And o'er the eity’s glare ho saw
The beauty of the village lights.
The Priceless Things.
stones for crowns of kings;
While the precious and the peeri-as aren:
priced symbolic things,
Common debts are scored and canceled,
weighed and measured out for gold;
But the debts from men to ages, their account
is mover told,
Always see, the noblest nations keep their high-
ost prize unknown;
Chearonea’s marble lion fronned above unlet-
tered stone,
Marsthon and Balaklava- who shall mete the
worth of these ?
Shall we huckster with our lifeboats that defy
the leaping scas ¥
Ah. the Greeks knew! Came
honored from the sacred games,
Under arches red with roses, flushed to hear
their shouted names;
See their native cities take thom, breach the
wall to make a gate !
What supreme reward is thei s who bring such
honors to their State ?
In the forum stand they proudly, take their
prizes from the priest;
Little wreaths of pine and p
naked temples pressed!
ey on their
We in later days are lower? Ay! s manful
stroke is made,
And we raise & purse to pay it— making maanli-
ness § trade.
Sacrifice itself grows venal-- surely Midas will
subscribe;
And the shallow souls are satisfied when worth
accepts the bribe!
But e'n here, amid the markels, there are
things they dare prize;
Dollars hide their sordid faces when they meet
anointed eves,
Lovers do not seek with jewels; flowers alone
can plead for them;
And ome fragrant memory cherished is fa¥
dearer than a gem.
Statesmen steer the nation safely; artists pass
the buining test,
And their country pays them proudly with a
ribbon at the breast.
When the soldier saves the battle, wraps the
flag around bis heart,
Who shall desecrate his honor with the values
of the mari ?
From his guns of bronze we hew a piece, and
CAIVe it a8 & cross;
For the gain he gave was priceless, as unpriced
would be the loss,
When the poet sings the love song, and the
song of life and death,
Making millions cease their weary toil and
wait with wondering breath;
When he gilda the mill and mine, inspires the
slave to rise and dare;
Lights with love the hopeless garret, tells the
tyrant to beware;
When he steals the pang from poverty, with
meanings new and clear,
Reconciling pain and pesce, and bringing
blessed visions near;
His reward? Nor cross nor ribbon, but all
others high above,
They may wear their splendid symbols —he has
earned the people's love!
—J ohn Boyle OReilly.
Mrs. Symington's Bargain.
All women we are told have their
weaknesses, and Mrs. Stanhope Sym-
ington was a china manise, as are most
pecple to some degree in this smsthetic
nineteenth century of the world. Bat
Mrs. Symington excelled in the matter.
She would prowl in second-hand stores,
penetrate into the cavernous recesses of
tenement-houses, drive long distances
into the country to cld homesteads
where she had heard vague rumors con-
cerning “flaring blue,” *old green
glaze,” ‘butterfly yellow” and *‘genuine
old India wares.” She would remorse-
lessly turn the choicest pieces of mod-
ern brie-a-brae from her tables to make
way for spoutless tea-pots, cracked
bowls and noseless jngs. She crowded
her drawing-room with brackets, shelves
and cabinets for the accommodation of
ancient plates, which she called
“plaques,” and pitchers, which she re-
christened ‘‘vases.”
Mr. Symington, a meek little man
with limp yellow-white hair, a flat nose
and colorless eyes like dim glass mar-
bles, begun to find it no slight task to
make his way through his own house
without breakage or misfortune.
“I wish there was not such a thing as
old china in the world,” he lamented
upon one particular occasion, after he
had knocked a handleless eup from a
{ripod draped in olive velvet,
* Stanhope,” reproved his wife, not
without severity, * would you retard
the progress of modern civilization?
This cup, fragile as it may seem, repre-
sents an era in decorative history.”
“Well, it won't represent it much
longer,” observed Mr. Symington, as
he gathered up the fragments with
something very lite vindictiveness in
his faded eyes.
* But, Stanhope,” cried his wife,
‘‘ what are you going to do with those
i
“ Throw ’em into the ash barrel, of
course,” said Mr. Stanhope, spiritlessly.
But Mrs, Symington rescued them
from his grasp with a shriek of appre.
hension,
“ Are you mad, my dear?’ she ejacu-
lated. “I can mend them with a little
cement and a great deal of time; and
even then I wouldn't take twenty dol-
lars for this exquisite cup, And I have
been thinking, Stanhope—"
“Well, my dear,” said the luckless
iconoclast, looking dolefully at his
finger which had been cut with one of
the pieces of broken crockery, ‘‘ what
have you been thinking ?”
“ That Ishould like to go up into
Maine next week,” said the lady, in-
sinuatingly.
“Into Maine? In midwinter?”
ech”cd her amazed spouse, openiug the
dim eyes very wide indeed.
“To see Aunt Grizzel,” explained
Mrs, Symington—‘my Aunt Grizzel
Crumpton, you know, at Wild River.”
‘“ Humph!” remarked Mr, Syming-
ten, bandaging his finger with his
pceket handkerchief. “I didn’t know
that you cared so very particularly
about your Aunt Grizzel.”
“My dear,” said Mrs. Symington,
merging her speech into a mysterious
whisper, “I've just remembered, all of
a sudden as it were, that she has a set
of very old flaring blue china. She
must have. It belonged to her mother
before her; and how I've forgotten it all
these years I'm sure I can’t imagine.
Even now I shouldn't have recalled it
to my memory, I suppose, if I hadn't
chanced to see, at Mrs. Hepburn's
afternoon tea yesterday, the darlingist
little egg-shell cups, with bridges and
pagodas and willow trees all over ’em,
used to have. Then it came to melike
a flash of lightning—Aunt Grizzel's
china!”
* Probably it's all broken by this
time,’ gloomily suggested her hus-
« Nonsense!” said Mrs. Symington
briskly. “Aunt Grizzy never broke
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| ness itself; and vp there in Maine, you
| know, they don’t have clumsy waitresses
{to fling things about, No, no; you
| may depend that she has it all safe and
| sound in one of those odd little three.
| cornered cupboards of hers. A treasure,
| Stanhope, a perfect treasure. Money
{ wouldn't buy such a set as that; a
| handred years old, if it's a day. So, if
| you won't mind, my dear, I'll just run
{ up to Maine, and see about it.”
| “Do as you please, Arabella,” said
{ Mr, Symington, resiguedly. He knew
{ that Mrs. Symington generally did as
| she pleased, and he saw no especial ad
| vantage in debating the question,
| “Thanks, dear; so kind of youl!
| uttered Mrs. Symington. “And of
{ course I can't go to the polar regions
| entirely unprotected, so I'll order
{one of those comfortable seal dol.
mans that everybody is wearing now,
and a new plush hat with a cluster of
ostrich tips. One must go dressed like
other people; and if you can give me
twenty-five or thirty'dollars 1 dare say
Aunt Grizzy will let me have the set
for that (she don't know the value of
ney won't be more than thirty dollars
both ways, if I go by sea, including a
stateroom."
“It appears to me,” said Mr. Syming-
ton, discouragingly, *‘that this is a
good deal of a wild goose chase, going
daneing up to the northern boundaries
of Maine at this time of year for an old
set of trumpery china which probably
didn’t cost ten dollars to start with.”
“Qh, Stanhope, it did I" eried the
lady, indignantly. “It was real India
ware, imported, without paying a dollar
of duty, by an old sea captain in the
India trade, expressly for my grand-
mother Grumpton. And besides you
are so groveling and prosaic in your
ideas. As if the original cost of a thing
of this nature signifies! It s the sesthetio
value that we look at, don't you see?”
“ Ah I" said Mr. Symington, * Well, |
if yon must go, you must go, I suppose;
and of course I shall have to give you a
check for what money you are likely to
want,”
And Mr. Symington sighed deeply |
and went upstairs to get a piece of
court-plaster for his cut finger.
Mrs. Symington went to Wild River, |
in the northern boundaries of Maine, |
where the pine forests were thatched
with snow, and the icicles tinkled in
the woods of a moonlight night like =o
many castanets gone mad. Bhe made
the greater part of the voyage by sea, |
and was consequently very seasick, for
the water was rough and the gale tem- |
pestous.
“ I will come back by land,” she said |
at Portland, and viewed her green and
yellow complexion with a shudder.
* Money wouldn't induce me to risk my
life again in that horrid steamer, where
one is buffeted and seesawed about on |
waves that are as high as a house. The
palace-car fare will be something of an
extra expense, and Ishall lose my re-
turn ticket by steamer, but I'm sure Mr.
Symington won't grudge it to me when
he hears how I've been pitched and
tumbled about on the ocean in peril of |
my life.”
And she put on her black brocaded
silk, her new plumed hat, and the seal
dolman, and took the northward-bound
train, resolved to present an imposing
appearance to Aunt Grizzy Grump-
ton when she shonld reach Wild River |
station.
It was very cold—adull, bitter leaden |
cold —with the ground frozen like a!
rock, the streams bound in ice, the
sky gray and bitter, with an incffable
gloom. Aunt Guizzel Grumpton lived
in a little one-storied house on the top|
of an uncompromising hill, where a
solitary cedar tree was twisted around
like a corkscrew with the force of the
east wind, and the few lean sheep!
huddled behind the rocks in shivering
groups, picturesque, but far from com- |
fortable. And even after they had
come in sight of the old building whose |
one coat of red paint had long ago been
worn away by the suns and rains of
well-nigh a century, Mrs. Symington |
had serious doubts whether the one-
horse sleigh in which she was jerked |
and jolted up the incline would not be
blown sheer away by the rush of the |
tempest before they could reach their |
destination.
However, it waen't. And once in
Aunt Grizzy's cottage things were very |
comfortable. There was no wide- |
throated chimney, filled with moss- |
fringed logs, such as the fancy of city |
dwellers is apt to depict in the solitary |
farmhouse. People in Maine know |
better than that, But there was an im-
mense cook stove, which heated the
room to an atmosphere of eighty odd |
degrees; the cracks in the window |
sashes were pasted over with brown |
paper, and sand bags were laid on the
top ledges, while a double rag carpet
covered the floor, and a wood-box, |
heaped to the very top, stood in the |
angle of the chimney piece. Annt
Grizzy’s dress was of blue homespun |
flannel, and she wore a worsted hood
pulled over her ears, and a little plaid
shawl folded over her breast, and she |
was addicted to the use of snuff, and |
said ‘‘ Hey?’ whenever any one ad-
dressed her.
“My cheeny ?” said Aunt Grizzy. |
‘Well, I'm free to own that I think a |
deal of that cheeny., But I don't know, |
Niece Arabella, how you came to hearof |
it.
“It is an heirloom in our family, |
Aunt Grizzel,” said Mrs. Bymington,
exerting herself to speak loudly.
“ Hey ?” said Annt Grizzy, with her |
hand placed sounding-board fashion
behind her ear.
“ Every one must have heard of it,” |
sald Mrs. Symington, at the risk of |
breaking a blood-vessel in her throat. |
Aunt Grizzy’s wrinkled face fairly |
beamed. * Well, I calculate it ain't |
absolutely ugly,” said she, * But still, |
if you've really set your heart on it,
Niece Arabella— But it ain’t unpacked. 1
always putit away this time o’ year when
there ain't no tea parties given.”
“ Oh, never mind that,” said Mrs.
Symington, her heart leaping within her
at this easy conquest of the fort, * It
will be all the more convenient for me
to carry it. People always keep such
treasures put away in secret places.”
*‘ Hey ?” said Aunt Grizzy, and Mrs.
Symington repeated her words.
Oh, thereain't no secret about it!”
said Aunt Grizzy,as she turned the hiss-
ing sausages in the pan. * Only I hain’t
had time to overhaul it since you've
been here.”
“Naturally ?” interrupted Mrs. Sym.
ington. “But I suppose it is all in
good condition ?”
*Sartinly, sartinly,” said Aunt
Grizzy. “You can look at it yourself
if you like, Niece Arabella.”
“Oh, that is not at all necessary,”
said Mrs Symington. ‘But now as to
the price, Anut Grizzy ?”’
«J ain’t one to haggle with my rela-
tions,” said Aunt Grizzy, giving the fry-
ing pan a shake over the blazing sticks.
“Set your own price, Arabella, and if I
don't like it I'll make bold to say so.”
“Do you think, Aunt Grizzy,” hesi-
tated the city lady, ‘that twenty-five
dollars wonld be & reasonable compen-
sation for it ?”
“Well, yes,” said Aunt Grizzy, “It
posed Mrs. Symington, and she pro-
duced the twenty-five dollars, all in
gold half eagles, with the exultant feel
ing of one who has picked a precious
diamond out of the dust, But 1
should wish you to feel that I had dealt
fairly with vou in a matter like this.”
“Well, 1 bain't no reason to com
plain,” said Aunt Grizsy. “ Some folks
fancies cheeny. I don't. A plate’s a
plate to me, and a oup's a cup, and
you're kindly welcome to my set if
you've took a notion to it,”
Mrs. Symington went home the next
day, through a whirlwind of snow, hav-
ing been fed upon pork and sausages,
sausages and pork, at every meal since
her arrival, and retaining a very vivid
recollection of the Maine winds and
tampeosts,
“1 don't think I'd go back
again, even for a set of old china,” said
Mrs. Symington, as she seated herself
on the velvet eushions of the palace-car
and shrank shiveringly inside of her
seal dolman and fleece lined fur gloves.
“ Aunt Grizzel will never die a natural
death; she'll be blown away, like
Mother Hubbard."
But all these petty tribulations were
forgotten as a thing ont of mind on the
brilliant January morning on which, in
frout of the sea-coal fire in her own
cozy drawing-room, she unpacked the
coarse wooden box wherein were con
cealed the priceless treasures of Aunt
Grizay Grumpton's china.
“Don't tonch them, Stanhope," said
she, with a small shriek of dismay,
“‘ Men are so dreadful careless. Oh,
here they are on the top, all wrapped
in separate pieces of paper.”
“ Bh? said Mr. Symington, stand
ing by with a hammer and screw-driver
brandished in either hand. * Are these
—antiques
“ Good gracious me!”
Symington.
mean
For the china which she unwrapped
from its coverings of coarse brown pa
per was a cheap and common style,
such as is associated in the mind with
tea chromos, gaudy lithographs and
salesmen of the Hebraic persuasion
white, with a band of imitation gold
i“
gasped Mrs
“ What can this possibly
sprawling below, as if it had been laid
on with a miniature whitewash brush.
“This is never my Grandmother
Grumpton's old china," said Mrs,
Symington, bursting into tears, and
pushing the hideous atrocities away
with a force which eracked two plates.
“1'll write to Aunt Grizzy at once, and
this misunderstanding shall be cleared
up."
In the course of lime an answer came
ink, and conveying in its tout ensemble
the gen+ral impression that Aunt Grizzy
had wrestled with it as if it had been a
fit of the Asiatic cholera.
“Dear Nmwoe” (it said),—* With
Love and duty I take up my Pen to in-
form You that the China 1s all right
Bo't from SBnefly & Pipkin, in Boston,
last November, at Eight (88) the Set,
to be transported at my own Dammage.
As for my Mother's old Bet, witch
Captain Babeock bro't from Calcutta in
the Year 1796, I Gave it to his Neios
of Gold Spectackles and a Fur Muff,
being so Cracked and Old-fashioned
that it wasn't worth nomore. Bat lam
told that she puts it on Ebbony Shelves
in her Best Parlor. But Helen never
Set witch you took home with yon is
worth a Deal the most Monney. So
With love,
I remain, Your Aunt to Command,
“ Grrzzen Groarrox.”
“AL!” said Mr. Symington, who had
been listening intently to the contents
of this much blotted and besmeared
piece of manuscript, sealed with Aunt
QGrizzy’s thimble top, and still retaining
a subtle odor of fried sausages and grid-
dle cakes. ‘*A seal dolman at three
a pair of fifteen-dollar fur gloves, a
fifty-dollar journey and a twenty-five
which you can buy anywhere on the
Bowery or Grand street for ten dollars!
How does that look, my dear, as viewed
And Mrs, Symington answered only
by her tears.
“There, there, Bella, don't fret,” said
go for what it is worth, Forget it."
“ Bat1 can't help {-I fretting,” sobbed
Mrs. Symington. *‘One thing is quite
certain, however—I never will be such
a fool again. I will not spend another
cent for ceramics until I have econo-
“ Gently, my dear, gently,” said her
husband. ** Now you are going too far,
Aunt Grizzel was honest enough. Yon
“ But I didn't mean this china,” said
Mrs. Symington.
“ How was she to kno
meant?”
w what you
said Mr. Symington. * China
Aud Mrs, Symington was too broken
down and spiritless even to argue the
Cloves,
thirty feet high, having a handsome
large, glossy and evergreen. It is a
native of Malacea, but is now grown in
crop
coming from Amboyna, in the island of
Ternate.
this spice and to confine its growth to
this island; they, therefore, destroyed
but the high prices which they de-
manded gradually led to its cultivation
in territory outside of their jurisdiction,
and they afterward abandoned that
policy. 8till, most of the cloves now
produced are grown in Datch territory,
and the high prices which have pre-
vailed during the last year or two have
been attributed partly to a failure in
the crop at Ternate and partly to the
Acheen war, which has considerably
interfered with the supply usually
derived from Sumatra. The cloves
of commerce are not, as many suppose,
the fruit of the clove tree, but are the
flower buds. The ripe fruit in shape
resembles a small olive; it is of a dark
red color, with one or two cells contain:
ing as many seeds, and it is also aro-
matic to a certain extent, and some-
times appears in commerce ina dried
state under the curious name o
“ mother of olives.” It is not nearly
g0 pungent, however, as the flower
bark and wood—seems to be impregna-
ted in some degree with the strong, dis-
tinetive clove flavor; but the flower
buds are the principal commercial prod-
uct of the tree. When first gathered
they are of a reddish color, but in the
drying process, which is generally
partly done by wood fires and partly in
the sun, they turn a deep brown color,
as they are when they reach us in
America, Although the tree grows
wild to some extent, it is regularly cul-
tivated in plantations, the plants being
never cost me that, because—"
fully pruned and cared for.
ANIMALS AND THE LAW,
Dogs, Cats, Bulls and Hees that Have Hoon
Brought Before the Ceurts Here nnd in
Purepe.
Dogs and oats and other animals
figure very extensively in the legal
literature of Anglo-Saxon ocountries,
though they are no longer cited to the bar
in their proper persons and puton trial
as they were in medimval days. And it
must be said that, like the nobler ani
mals, men and women, they have at
times to complain of contradictory de
oisions, Thus an English jury refused
to give damages to a man who was an
noyed by the yelping and barking of
his neighbor's canine pets, but in
America it has been decided that one
may lawfully kill another person's dog
if it in the habit of haunting his
| house and barking and howling by day
and night to the disturbance of his
family, if he cannot otherwise prevent
the animal from annoying him. Plato
and the Roman legislators held that,
as it was in the nature of dogs to do
mischief when unrestrained, their
owner was under such eiroum.
stances liable for damage done by
them, but from a very early time the
English common law has assumed that
to make the owner responsible it must
be shown that he aware of
the animal's particular tendency to such
mischievous acts The presumption
that the animal is tame was carried in
Great Britain to the extent of relieving
the owner from responsibility in a
sheep-killing case where it was held
that every dog was entitled to at least
one worry, Every dog has his bite as
well as his day. In the case of Rolfe
last year an English jury applied the
same theory to the Mr. Rolfe's
bull was alleged to have charged two
women and knocked them into a diteh
I'he husband of one of them brought
his action, and it became necessary for
him to show that Mr. Rolfe knew his
bull to be Testimony to the
opposite effect was fortheoming in the
shape of a statement that the beast
was accustomed to graze on a ericket-
ground, and that he rather liked being
hit by a oricket-ball than otherwise.
To the contrary effect there was posi
tively no evidence except an unlucky
remark attributed to the defend.
ant. Mr. Banks, the plaintiff, swore
that when he called on Mr. Rolfe the
next morning to complain, the latter
observed: ‘That's my old bull again."
The judge held that the use of the
word “‘again’™ precluded him from
taking the case out of the hands of the
jury. This really seemed hard on Mr,
Rolfe. For if had simply said,
“That's my old bull,” he might have
seemed to be expressing a brutal sym.
in
Las been
bull
BAVA.
he
{fair to add. however, that he demed
| having said anything of the sort, and
that the jury, not being satisfied that
{ he knew his bull was accustomed to
| assault mankind, gave him a verdict.
| Provocation, of course, reduces the
{are not in accord as to the precise
amcunt of provocation a dog must
stand. In Illinois if he is kicked and
bites back he is within his rights, Be-
tween keeping a ferocious dog and
keeping a pet lion, as a lady does up in
Boston, ora tiger, there is a distinction;
for in the case of the latteranimal knowl-
edge of its ferocity will be presumed
from its nature. A pointin dog law was
raised in Cincinnati recently, when the
bloodhounds and donkeys employed by
a manager in representing ** Uncle
Tom's Cabin” were seized for debt as
his personal property, and in October
last the question of the ownership of a
| kitten came up under peculiar ciream-
stances, where the owner of the mother
claimed it and the other party refused
to deliver it. The plaintiff claimed
ownership from the mother cat being
his property, while the defendant
claimed that the kitten was born on his
premises and also that only a qualified
title can be had in an animal belonging
to a class known as semi-domestioated.
{ to which class the cat belonged. There.
| fore the right of property was not ab.
solute. A cat is the property of a per.
{son only so long as it remains per.
| manently under his care and control,
The progeny of a cat is not recognized
yy law as the property of the owner
of its parents. After mature delibera-
{ tion by the jury a verdict was returned
of “No cause for action.” In the
cently, a case was heard where a shop-
keeper sued the owner of a flock of
{ sheep for the cost of his shop window.
The sheep were being driven along the
street, when the leader took a flying
leap through the glass, six others fol
| lowing it with the implicit faith charac.
| teristic of the ovine kind The defense
{ was that there was no negligence, but
| arise,
{ the moment they left the roadway, and
| defendant was held responsible for all
the damage they subsequently caused.
| At Paris last summer the judicial
tribunals gave judgment against an
| right alongside of a sugar refinery,
| with the natural result
| raided on the sugar and syrup instead
| of going afield in search of sweets,
Tallow Growing on Trees,
Mr. O. N. Denny,
| tion throughout the State, a package of
| seeds of the ** tallow tree,” which he
lowing interesting description of the
| for use :
and are gathered in November, When
ripe the capsule divides and discloses |
nsnually about three kernels, covered |
with pure, hard, white tallow.
| paring the tallow the ripe nuts are put
{into a wooden cylinder with perforated
| bottom, and after ten or fifteen minutes’
| with mallets.
| sieves, but, of course, it is discolored
it perfectly pure and white itis poured
into a cylinder made up of rings of
| tallow is squeezed through in a pure
state. From 133 pounds of seed 1s ob-
| tained from forty to fifty pounds of tal-
| low, besides the oil obtained subse-
| quently from the albumen by grinding,
| steaming and pressing it. The tallow
| is used for a variety of purposes by the
| Chinese, but more particularly for mak-
, ing candles, which are burned in Bud-
| dhist worship.
Pluck,
Thomas Carroll, a Wisconsin farmer,
| finding his leg decaying from a fever
| sore, grasped his foot with one hsnd
and pressed hard with the other upon
the decayed part and Lroke it asunder,
He then called for a razor, which was
| handed him, and with it he deliberate-
‘ly cut off the entire limb, He then,
| without the assistance of any one, tied
{ up the arteries, made the necessary lap
(of flesh around the bone, and sewed
and bandaged the same without help
from any one and is in a fair way of re-
covery,
Matches, Mice and Fire,
The enormous amount of property
destroyed annually by the fire that
accounted for way well exoite, says
an exchange, an inquiry in reference to
the most probable origin of these de.
structive fires. The watchman may be
in the lower part of the house, and be.
fore he is aware of it the flames burst
out in some upper room, and a general
conflagration follows
Now the public would be startled to
hear it stated tha’ a mouse set the manu.
facturing establishment or store on fire ;
yet this is, as we have good reason to
believe, often the case.
It is now very common for clerks in
stores, and men and boys employed in
ordinary labor, to smoke cigars, and as
a matter of convenience they often
carry parlor matches in their pockets,
and it is quite likely that some may be
aecidentally dropped on the floor or left
standing where a mouse will find them.
parlor match, so sure will it set off the
match by putting its sharp teeth into
it. The parlor match contains a sub-
stance for which the mouse has a
fondness, and as soon as the teeth enter
the mateh it will ignite. If there
is loose paper or other combustible
material near the flame will soon
spread. Let any one who wishes to
satisfy himself of this fact take a par-
lor match and serateh it with a pin or
or stick it quickly into the
match resembling as near as possible
the action of a mouse's teeth, and he
will soon have a blaze The common
sulphur match will not be touched by
a mouse, neither will it ignite in a
similar way. If insurance companies
would consider their interests they
would make the non-use of parlor
matches a condition of insurance.
If they are in doubt on this subject
they can make an experiment on some
outbuilding shed where mice oan
needle,
ar
the floor, anl leave =a
m stehes scattered or standing in a box,
and they will soon witness a conflagra-
tion. Millions of dollars’ worth of
property have been destroyed in the
way above referred to, and where the
remedy is so easy it should be applied
without delay. Let those who wish to
protect their property demand of their
employes that they shall not carry par
lor matches in their pockts, conse
quently none will be carelessly dropped
on the floor, and the danger from this
gource will be avoided.
C—O —— 55
The Library of Congress,
A short paper in the y on
“The Proposed National Library
Buildlag,” gives the following ao
count of the contents of the
Having
risen from the ashes of two conflagra-
tions, the last of which, in 1851, spared
only twenty thousand volumes, the
government library has grown with
rapid strides until it counts, in 188],
upward of 400,000 we lames, besides
150,000 pamphlets and several hundred
thousand copyright publications and
other books. In the history of this pro-
gress, which bas raised the collection in
thirty Yours from 20 000 books to 400,000,
the marked sources increase have
been fourfold :—first, a liberal appro
priation by Congress in 1802 of $85,000
1a one sum for the purchase of books
to repair losses by fire; second, the ao
quisition of the Smithsonian scientific
library in 1866, with all its annual ae.
cessions since; third, the purchase
of the Force historical library in
1867: and fourth, the ensctment
of the copyright law in 1870, ma-
king this library the national record
office for copyrights, and the depository
of all publications to which exclasive
Cenlury
of
The law of growth of this already
large collection, aside from the very
modest appropriations for purchase
(varying from five thousand dollars to
fifteen thousand dollars per annum, for
the last thirty years), is such as to give
emphasis to the fact that it requires
most ample provision of space for its
orderly arrangement and preservation.
This library not only presents itself as
the great conservatory of American let-
ters, but there is added, by careful and
the best literature of other lands and
languages. It is, besides, the assidu-
ous gatherer of books, periodicals, doo-
uments and maps relating to America.
Its collection of newspaper files ex-
tends to over seven thousand volumes,
embracing the London Gasetie,
1665 to 1881 ; the Zimes from 1796 to
Allgemeine Zeitung,
complete, from the close of the last
century ; full sets of the Monitewr Uni-
versel and of the Jowrnal des Debats,
from their origin in 1780 ; the New York
Eeoning Post from the first issue in
1801 ; with complete sets of every im.
portant English and American review
or magazine, and an extensive collection
of periodicals, scientifie, literary, ete,
of other countries,
w— ER
A Country Girl's Romance,
A lady correspondent at Center White
Oreck, Washington county, N. Y., sends
to the Troy Times the following ro-
It concerns a native
of Washington county. She says:
Five years ago a poor and modest
country girl of twenty-one summers,
brothers to a far-off heathen
likewise miserable lovers ; one a lad of
low condition, the other a regular patri.
cian, But the heathen have souls to
be saved, and for four years our self.
calling she had chosen. Early in May,
her own home and harbor. An English
nobleman who chanced to be among
the passengers became
in the poor American, and
the good ship anchored at Liverpool
more. The bride of the future con-
sean, and was soon welcomed in New
York by a host of admiring relatives and
the forgotten lovers, Preparations
were commenced for the reception of
the noble, and the dieappointed lovers
sighed for the things *‘ which might
have been.” But alas! the nobleman
met with a financial misfortune. Ten-
derly did he break the news to the dis-
tant fair one, nobly releasing her from
yromises which might become irksome.
The humble and faithful suitor (who
chanced to be nearest) soon became
dearest, and the weary heart, taken on
the rebound, surrendered gracefully,
and Thursday evening last they were
united in the holy bonds of matrimony
at the residence of the bride's parents.
‘I'he many invited guests tendered their
congratulations to the happy couple,
who left on the evening train for tne
South, there to remain indefinitely.
The United States is fast becoming a
vaccine nation.—DBoston Transuript.
HEALTH HINTS,
for use, then rub it en the face ocon-
sionally,
Never stand still in cold weather,
degree of exerciee; and always avoid
standing upon the ice or snow or where
the person is exposed to a cold wind.~
Dr. Foote's Health Monthly,
The curative qualities of common salt
are not as freely impressed upon the
public mind as is expedient. Inflam-
mation ean be rapidly reduced by a
solution of salt, a for a weak or dis-
eased membrane local applications of
salt tnd water set as magico. In cases
of sore throat, sore eyes or catarrhal
application. The chief virtue of min
eral waters is salt, which forms a cun-
tions in all springs recommended for
healing. The unmistakable benefits
derived from sea bathing and sea air
medium —common salt. A goblet of
well iced salt and water is not a dis.
agreeable beverage before breakfast,
and is highly beneficial as an aperient.
If * galt should lose its savor” a most
would be destroyed.
Concerning the treatment for diph
theria, the Food and Health says:
To us it appears that fresh air is the
first necessity; we should allow a diph-
therial patient to be near an open’ win-
dow. Next, we should use hot malt
vinegar for flannel wraps round the
throat, gargles of the same dilnted
with water, and the most tonic diet pos-
sible. Neither quinine nor mineral
tonics, but hot, strong wines, yolks of
eggs beaten up in strong beef tea;
flannel wraps soaked in hot vinegar
around the stomach. The juice pressed
from raw beef, heated in a farina boiler
snd given constantly, but, above sll,
hot red wine.
of vinegar with open mouth and pencil
ings of the same within the mouth. The
use of lemons is also to be recommend-
ed. Diphtheria is a preventable disease,
and when we know more of the condi-
tions under which the health of human
life can exist and are inclined to listen
to it and act sccordingly to it, we
shall bave fewer epidemics such as
those of diphtheria
Great Salt Lake,
The lake from which this town,
writes a correspondent, takes its name
the full name is the * City of the
Great Salt Lake "—is a very curiousand
interesting body of water. It is about
100 miles long, from north to south,
from east to west, is more than 4,000
feet above the sea level, and has no
outlet. Its greatest depth is sixty feet,
but it is generally very shallow, being
three feet deep. At one time it must
have been vastly larger than it is'now,
spreading, an inland sea, for hundreds
of miles. The water is transparently
clear, but so salt—it contains twenty-
two per cent, of chloride of sodinm—as
to form one of the most concentrated of
It was long thonght that it contained
po living thing, but recently a kind of
shrimp and several species of insects
have been found in it. Large flocks of
gulls, ducks, geese and swans {requent
its borders and islands, one of the lat
tea— Antelope island being eighteen
miles long. It is so buoyant that a man
may float ip it atfull length, his head
and neck, his legs to the knees and
arms to the elbow being entirely out of
water. In a sitting posture, with arms
the surface. But swimming is hard, as
the legs can hardly be kept under
water, and the brine is so strong as to
nearly strangle him who swallows it,
the «ves. Nevertheless, a bath in the
lake is refreshing, although fresh water
from the body.
The lake was first made known to
the white race nearly two hundred
years ago, through Baron Ia Hontan,
who had learned of its existence
through some Western Indians. It
was formerly named Timpanagos; was
supposed to be much bigger than it is,
and to have an outlet into the Pacific.
its waters, and he described it in 1843.
mons to settle here, associating
ing them to name the strait connecting
Salt and Utah lakes the River Jordan
They have copied various features of
ancient Israel, and claim to believe
that thay, like the old Jews, are under
——
Fishing In Japan.
Fishing in the rivers and streams of
the main island is not considered as a
sport by the Japanese but as a means
!
land of the rising sun. Salmon trout,
fly.
found scarcely worth the candle on the
mainland, but capital sport with the
fly.
masses of fish is out of the question,
small, will be seen, the latter bei
serve many uses. The hilts of all the
old swords are covered with white
shark's skin,— The London Field.
A gentleman of this village hasa fame
ily of three or four little girls. Not
long since the children were talking
about a pair of twins. One of them, an
elder one, turned to her father and
said: * Papa, what do they call it when
three babies come at once?’ A little
one, who was much interested in the
conversation, and who had heard talk
about the smallpox, at once interrupted
and said, with much animation: “I
know, papa.” ‘* Well, what do they
oall it ?” said the father. ‘An epi-
demic,” said the little one, proudly dis-
playing her knowledge. Port Jervis
Union,
SUNDAY READING,
“Live for Something,” :
Thousands of men breathe, move and |
live, pass off the stage of life, and are |
heard of no more. Why? They did
not a partiele of good in the world, and
none were blessed by them; none
could point to them as the instruments |
of their redemption; not a line thay
wrote, not a word they spoke could be
reoalled, and so they perished--their |
light went out in darkness, and they |
were not remembered more than the in- |
sects of yesterday. Will you thus live |
and die? Live for something. Do!
good, and leave behind yon a monu-|
ment of virtue that the storms of time |
Write your name by kindness, love |
and mercy on the hearts of the thou. |
sands yon come in contact with year by |
year, and you will never be forgotten
legible on the heart you leave behind |
as the stars on the brow of evening. |
Good deeds will shine as bright on the |
earth as the stars of heaven. — Chalmers, |
Heliglous News and Notes,
Moody and Sankey have had great
success in Edinburgh.
There sre 26,000 regular Baptist |
churches in the United States,
There are 05,856 Roman
churches in the United States.
The number of churches in Chicago |
|
Catholic |
218,
Rev. Dr. Manning, of the famous old |
South church of Boston, has been voted
for the rest of his life an annual pension |
of $4,000, work or no work.
The Reformed Presbyterian church |
(Covenanters) has in the United States
107 ministers, 122 congregations, eighty-
three pastors. Of the congregations
thirty-four are without regular pastors.
The number of churches in Chicago
has increased in ten years from ‘1566 to
218, The Methodists have gained sev.
epteen churches, The Presbyterians
and Congregationalists each lost one
church by consolidation and other
changes.
The Rev. William H. Ryder, D. D.,
probably the ablest Universalist
preacher in the United States, has re
sigued his parish in Chicago, and will
withdraw from the ministry to study
lsw, He is said to he wealthy and able
to live a restful life if he desires
Philadelphia is strong in the number
of its churches and their membership,
thore being in the aggregate 150,000
church members in the city, divided
into BOO congregations, The strength
of the Protestant denominations is
nearly equally divided among the
different sects, there being 103 Meth-
odist churches, with £7,600 communi.
cants; nimety-three Episcopal churches,
with 23,3058 communicants; eighty-three
Presbyterian churches, with 26,346
communicants, and sixty-five Baptist
churches, with 14,263 communicants.
Popular Weather Prophets,
The so-called * Bauern-regeln,” as
rules for farmers, which ocoupy a
prominent place in the indispensable
+ Kalender” of every German and
Swiss household, have not been abol-
ished by the process of meteorology
and the publication of official weather
forecasts. We find them printed as
usual in the countless German alma-
nacs for 1882. Many of them are in
rhyme, too pithy to lend themselves
easily to translation, and are doubtless
of considerable antiquity. They may
tion over a particular season to a par
ticular saint, doubtless a survival
of paganism; and those which
express the collective results of
the actual observance. of the
weather by those'who were dependent
experiences were handed on from
generation to generation. * When it
snows small and fine” (klein und fein),
says a pessant’s rule of frequent oo-
currence, “the cold will hold out a
long time; when it snows wool end
“ When you can make 8 SNOw-
ball easily, the cold will be moderate.”
Again, * Little snow, grea! water;
great snow, little water.” Observation
has proved all these rules to be true.
Fine and small-flaked snow lies long on
loose-
is usually an indication of an approach-
ing thaw.
So, too, a ‘little snow,” small in
flake, lies long on the ground, more is
added to it, and when the spring comes
there is a great mass of water; whereas
great snow, big in flake, quickly Haap-
pears, instead of heaping up until the
definitive arrival of spring.” “A mild
January brings a cold spring and a cold
summer.” “A snow year is a rich
year,” ‘As much mist and fog in
days after March,” and similar rales
printed year after year in almost every
guess or venture, such as a Zadkiel may
compile, but the results of actual ob-
servation. The popular rule that “ Au-
tumn without mist (nebelfrei) brings
winter without cold,” seemes to have
been verified in the year 1881, — London
(lobe.
A Great Naphtha Fire.
Although the existence of the naph-
Baku, Russia, has been known for cen-
years that measures have been taken for
realizing their production, by using it
for lighting purposes. From one of the
chief wells the liquid shoots up as from
a fountain, and has formed a lake four
miles long and one and a quarter wide.
that in very hot summers it is nearly
dried up.
This enormous surface of inflammable
liquid recently became ignited and pre-
sented an imposing spectacle, the thick
black clouds of smoke being lighted up
by the lurid glare of the central column
The smoke and heat were such as to ren-
der a nearer approach than one thousand
yards distance impracticable. Suitable
means for extinguishing the fire were
conflagration would spread underground
in such a manner as to cause an explo-
sion. 'Thissupposition led many inbab-
move to a safer distance. The quantity
of naphtha on fire was estimated at four
and a half million eubie feet. The trees
and buildings within three miles dis-
tance were covered with thick soo*, and
this unpleasant deposit appeared on
persons’ clothes and even on the food in
the adjacent houses.
Not only was the naphtha itself burn-
ing, but the earth which was saturated
with it was also on fire, and ten large
establishments, founded at great ex-
pense for the development of the trade
in the article, were destroyed. The fire
ceased of itself unexpectedly, and thus
the fears of a total destruction of the
local naphtha industry have been al-
layed, |
SCIENTIFIC NOTES,
Bix comets have been discovered in
ne United Btates since May 1, 1881,
The milky juice of the tree
senses a digestive power, and when m
with animal tissue preserves it from de-
cuy a long time,
upon tin, so that fruit preserved in tin
cans often ¢ontains tin in solution, and
is consequently poisonous,
Physicians of Rio Janeiro recommend
the oil of ands, » Brazilian tree, as a
substitute for castor oil. It 18 pleas.
anter to take and the dose is ,
A large hospital at Madras is venti-
lated by means of a system of fans -
sted by steam power. The aad
fans present an area of 2,050 feet, and
suspended by steel wire swing fo-
A French government vessel has ve.
cently succeeded in Srodying in the
Bay of Biscay at a depth of 17,000 feet
or three and one-fifth miles. The ani
mals found at that distance beneath the
size,
A novel applieation of the electric
light is intended to diminish the risk of
collision at sea. The light, with a re-
such ition a8 to move with the rud-
its beam the course
vessel,
An iron chess-board 4 with
magnetic chessmen is a
the
figures cause them to adhere to the
on railway trains,
Herr Kepner, at Salzburg, in the
Tyrol, has observed that heating earths
and rocks causes them to become mag-
netic. With warious imens of
baked and unbaked bricks he has tested
the accuracy of the observation, which
is still farther confirmed by experi-
ments with several minerals by two
other scientists, The magnetism of
newly heated rocks appears to diminish
somewhat in time, but some
of slag, perhaps thousands of years old,
were found to be still magnetic.
Utah Legislature,
The following instructive statement
of the composition of the territorial
legislature of Utah has been
) only by
the veto of the governor:
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (TWELVE MEMEERS. )
1. Erastus Snow, one of the * twelve
apostles” of the Mormon church, a
polygamist with six wives.
2. Lorenzo Snow, another of the
twelve aposties, with five wives.
3. Moses Thatcher, another apostle,
with two ve & tat apentlle
4. Jose . Bmith, another a
with five pr One, his first, .
ated from him on account of his polyg-
amy.
5. John R. Murdock, president of
“ gtake” (the territory of Utah, for the
purpose of chareh rale, is divided into
twenty districts called * stakes”), a
polygamist with three wives.
6. 0. A. Bmoot, president of “stake,”
with four wives,
7. George Teasdale, president of
“stake,” two wives,
8. H. D. Wells, counselor to the
twelve apostles, six wives,
9. Peter Barton, bishop and poly-
gamist,
10. A, K. Thurber, counselor, two
wives,
11. W. W. Clufl, president of “stake,”
not a polygamist.
12. John T. Calne, Mormon elder, but
not a polygamist.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (TWENTY-FOUR
MEMBERS).
1. John Smith, one of the twelve
apostles and a polygamist.
2. F. M. Lyman, another apostle, with
three wives.
8. C. G. Snow, president of * stake,”
polygamist.
4 Lowin Farr, Mormon elder, five
wives.
5. W. B. Preston, president of
“stake,” two wives.
6. W. H. Lee, Mormon bishop and
polygamist.
7. John Jaques, Mormon elder, two
wives.
‘8. 0. W. Penrose, Mormon elder,
three wives.
9. Samuel Francis, Mormon counsel-
or, polygamist,
10. Canute Peterson, Mormon bishop,
polygamist.
11. Henry Beal, Mormon counselor,
polygamist.
12 8. F. Atwood, Mormon bishop,
two wives,
13. Edward Partridge, Mormon coun-
selor, two wives.
14. W. D. Johnson, Mormon bishop,
polygamist.
15. Hosea Stout, classed as one of
the “* blood atoners,” a polygamist, with
two wives.
16. E. H. Blackburn, Mormon bishop,
three wives.
17. Edward Dalton, Mormon elder
and polygamist,
18. Abram Hatch, president of
“ stake,” but not a polygamist as far as
known.
19. D. H. Peery, president of
“ gtake,” also reported not a polygamist.
20. J. E. Booth, bishop, but not a
polygamist.
21. James Sharp, Mormon, but not a
polygamist,
22. W. H. Duzenbarry, Mormon, but
not a polygamist,
23, J. 8. Page Mormon, not a polyga-
mist,
24. 8. R. Thurman, Mormon, not a
polygamist,
How Webster Looked.
Daniel Webster was born 100 years
ago on the eighteenth of January, 1782.
Nobody who once saw him ever forgot
him, Of all Americans he was prob-
ably the most imposing in his appear-
ance. Others have had a finer, loftier,
more refined, more spiritual aspect, as
there have been Americans of a far higher
essential greatness. But there wasa
certain grandeur in Webster's look
which was incomparable. His Olym-
pian presence gave an air of significance
and dignity to whatever he said. We
have heard him deliver the most aston.
ishing commonplace in such a way that
the audience seemed to be listening to a
new revelation of great truths. He had
the instinct which assured him that the
prosperity of the uration is in the eye
and ear of the hearer, Of the singular
charm of his private intercourse
are scores of published records. Bat
the private circle of friends seemed to
be always a little oppressed by the con-
sciousness of his greatness. His man-
ners were those of what is called the old
His dress npon great oceasions
was that of the English whigs, blue and
buff—a yellow waistcoat and a blue
Qsaacunh with brass buttons.—Harper's
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comparatively barren lands to these
bile. southern fields, hardly any
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thor ‘orchnien who, however use
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make themselves 0
ground than the battlefield,
of labor is still wofully
the demand. ’ ;
stand in the prisoners doek
her trial for the murder of }
to whom she has always p
most profound attachment.
tieman was an admirer and
firearms. One evenir
showed a friend a rev