Only Joking, She led him on with smiles and wiles Till hand and heart he offered, And then she thought she'd rather not Accept the treasure proffered. “No, no,” My love is not entangled ; But till life's eve I'll deeply grieve O'er your heart torn and mangled.” “Hold on fair maid,” the lover said, His voice emotion choking ; “ Don't feel so blue, 1 swear to you That I was only joking." Woman's Trust, know we've lost the h And what we'll do with horse and kye ismore than I can say; While like as not, with storm and A rain, we'll lose both corn and wheat.” She looked ap with a pleasant face, and an swered low and sweet: “There is & Heart, there is a Hand, we feel, ay: bat cannot see; We've always been provided for, and we shall always bel” He turned around with sudden gloom. She said: “Love, be at rest, You ont the gx did your very best, That was your work; you've naught to with wind and rain, And do not doubt bat you will reap rich flalds of golden gra For there's a Hea fel, but oat We've always been prov idod for, and weshall rass, worked soon and late, you do n ad there's a Hand, we OL 206 always bel” “That's like a woman's reasoning-—we must beoanse wo must.” She softly said: “I reason not} only work am the day-—keep heart whate'er hatide: Whenon : door shuts I've always seen another open wide. There is a Haart, but ony ot We've always been provided for, and we shall there is 8 Hand, we feel, OO: > -. always be. » calm and trathful face; He kissed the gone was h restless pain. m with a chaariui step gO whist. She heard h ling down And went apn glad © Singing t she went: “There is a Heart, there is a Hand, wo feel, ane: hold tasks full of a hoasal Old o time r busy hands as to and fro but eanno We've ale alwa) s i sys been provided for, and we shall go—'twas Christmas tide, t fire burned * Dear ADDY year; wife, it's been a the surplus corn has ', yor know.” She hi g face and said: “I For the: re's a ‘s a Hand, we ANDROL §ee, rovided for, and we shall We've always be always bel” Record. — Musical Simeon Pingree's Chance. A of men was gathered Elij: shi Wiswell's store, which was the postoffice. A Sehate was in pre ress, ant 1, as usual, Simeon Pir gre eh had th He 8 floor. He Was a long 148 oT ap also vit, and huge f a way of uneasily Sim had the trade of a she ago decided that it was not “intellectooal” the inhospit his neighbors wher by Land k meals with th congenial Pp un “set the pot inherit 1-3 AUER rT, but had long th LAH yKeT sufh Uee asionally spirit manifested 1 i was for him. able to passits to take hi m, drove him to the ur long end ugh to To keep it boi ing was not > the line of Sim's ambi- tions; after a day or two of effort he fell back into his old ways with an air of supererogatory merit. His neighbors, who did not appre ciate his “intellectooal” views, regarded him as lazy and “shiftless,” and openly pointed to him the poorhouse as his in- evitable destination. As good-for- nothing as Sim Pingree,” was the height of invidious comparison in the village. But though he was of sosmall practical worth Sim had a “flow of language” which caused his society to be much sought, and won for him a certain kind of respect. It was generally conceded that if he had been possessed “sprawl” (the common synonym for energy in Greenhollow), and a little more * book-learnin’,” Sim migh* have been a schoolmaster; and there were a few who even went so far as to think he could get the better of the minister in a theol gical dis- cussion whichever side he might take; but this opinion was generally thought sacrilegious, and those who held it were looked upon with mournful suspicion as being inclined to infidelity. The discussion had begun with theol- ogy to-day, and gradually wandered down to luck and chance—subjects upon which Sim was always sure to “run of an idee.” “There was a man that I come acrost up to Gorham more'n twelve year ago that give me some idees that I hain’t never forgot,” said Sim, his hands buried deep in his trousers pock- ets and his feet shuffling an accom- paniment to his words. The more éx- cited Sim grew the more energetic be- came his shuffling; on the rare occa- sions when he preserved silence the motion was feeble and monotonous, “He was an all-fired smart feller. The lightnin’ calkerlater, nor the furs feller that was here with the show last summer wan't a circumstance to him He was in the show business, too; fact is most of the tarlent nowadays is a-travelin’onthe road. I'vesometimes had an idee of turnin’ my own tarlents to account that way, but the chance hain’t never seemed to come along. And I'm one o’ them that believes in a man’s bein’ sure of his chance. time or 'nother it's bound to come. That's the doctrine that this feller preached. Hazlitt—Eph Hazlitt—his name was; and smart? He'd swaller snakes as quick as lock at 'em; a boy- constrictor wa'n't no more'n a com- f’table mouthful for him! Edicated? He wouldn't have thought nothin’ of makin’ a dictionary or an almernick if he had ’a felt so inclined. Kind of a slim, pigeon-breasted feller, too, but terrible hearty to his vic- tuals. He was a master- teries, and such kind of resky business, and it alwers turned out well; seemed w i i ™ Some out his hand and haul in the mone Made me think of a king that I'd read of somewhere in furrin parts, that ev- erything he took holt of turned to gold. is mostly deceivin’—and it didn’t seem to stand to reason, but when Isee Eph Hazlitt I begun to think mebbe 'twan’t so big a lie after all. Bays I to Eph, says I, ‘Cur’us what a run of luck you have, ain’tit? ‘No,’ says Eph, says he, ‘it ain’t cur’us at all. It’s in the nater of things. I've been failin’ for a long time, and it was time that my luck come. It had ougit to’a come last year, accordin’ to the law o’ probabili- ties ; it wag bound to come this year, as sure as two and two make four’ Well, I kind of laughed it off as a joke, ora fgger ot speach as you might say, VOLUME XV. Kditor HALL, CENTRE 00., PA. TERMS: $2.00 28, 1882, I TE SR AA aT. HE NUMBER 39. A% ( lear as day light h ood me Ul "twas jest You see there's jest about so mue luck and s hi ill luek goin’, and one bound to get ough with a man ave its turn some time gh he'd re like t the able, but I never had no But I had wit that what he sald was principles.” O 1 is or ‘mothe Arey ou KOs, L true “ How you * to account bad luck that their lives ¥" a de Zachariah everybody, HT in alit) ‘ fallen from the proud position of stage. driver, lower and lower by degrees, until he had { & permanent guest in the low, straggli vy building which gave sh ter he town poor. “ A man has got to have wit enough to see when his chance come along; groin for the folks i said, in med Avery, octed, wiz \ ae MEN ome get terrible poor luck ant of any ything even if it i d better fd LUHAS a ter- in's and Keeps chases” “ A Provi twiddle vour lead to the Wiswell, the s who w in the man, ergy “I never see n Al mat them logis § for nin bbe the re iP Fa nl Murmur LACK, t ed Sim's theory and anda i who with looking back chance,” ! evidently accept pr rofound faith, and i track adil along the his enter rprise S to discover traces of »¢chance he had lost. ont waitin manehi ine and never Jim ) “ He'd found ago that as wrastlin’ with ound to hance has an’ Ignoring he was 1 and yd 1 sr 5 oul HE Jes fate was a time eves to it the wi intel- ‘tooal nile Li man, hard w And he ight of w it now can't desstandin’ too much by sti don’t darst to works, for fe not if le ave "em, into the poorhouse, chance comes along and yanks ‘em by the hair of the head. But, la! yo can't expect evervbody to be | too al; it ain't in the nater of th “Well, you won't forget us poor lows Ne n your chance slong, will you, Sita?” said Jim Durgin The arrived at that ment and ere a diversion. “] home and set my dinner pot . Said Sim, “hut 1 guess, as lor e mail's got in, I may as well wi 306 | any le tter for me.” The men all laughed at this, standing joke, had never been known to have a letter; but Urele laughter was soon exchanged to excel mations of astonishment, for the on . master called, “ Here is a letter for you, Sim, as 8 as you're born.” And he came out from behind the partition which shut the postoffice in sacred | pri- vacy from the ot re, in a state of gre at excitement, Sorting the remaining contents of the mailbag was not to be thought of until curiosity concerning Sim's letter was gratified. Every feature of tended with astonishment. the letter tenderly between his thumb and forefinger and looked at it in si- lence, at the superscription and the postmark alternately, There was no doubt about it: the address was, “Sim- eon Pingree, Esq., Greenhollow, Maine.” The postmark was almost il- legible, The crowd waited in respect- ful silence while Sim struggled to de- cipher it. “ Californy !" he exclaimed at last, bringing his hand down upon his side with a resounding thump. *“Cur'us if my chance had come along now, wouldn't it?” “ Some advertisin’ stock or somethin’. that you are a capital want to get you to invest,” Durgin. “Or mebbe they lents for president of a minin’ pany,” suggested Elijah Wiswell, “ Mebbe it's from your 1" said But his jest was im- down, for Sim's Jane Reynolds, and married his gittin’ COTnes mailbag mo- ated was calkerlatin’ to go k= bili n 1 a8 th it and if there's Sim's for he nr ure Sim's face dis- He took sirkler — minin’ ve found out Sim, and said Jim want a man of tar- Hi frowned Cynthy him medi: EW hed d ely wrt, rted Sim proceeded to open the letter slowly and cautiously, Ie read it 1 picking his way laboriously along, while his audience listened in breathless silence. “ FRIEND SIMEON" (it ran), “this that I am enjoyin’ the same blessin’. And likewise have had a run of luck, after I'd begun to think twa'n’t never comin’. I've struck a vein of silver it pans out anything at all as I calker- late now, and I want an honest man from these sharpers that are as furce a8 wolves after it. 1 write to you fust | of anybody because 1 good turn you done schoolmaster and taking when 1 had the fever, and nobody else nigh me. 1 send a check that will pay your expenses gettin’ here and 1 hope you'll let me know pooty quick whether you're a-comin’, “ Yours to command, “Cyrus Bapaen,” You can be sure there wan't nothin’ like it for a chance to a fortin.” the ne ekin' of me J Cire cote “PN. never make was a chorus of excl: here na fans, ‘Wel S SOI the sro 2, after all” ing the n, I begin to b'lieve in yom 5 rin i Ww Elilah w J and knew that were often del pressed him, “Well, 1 iswell Wn brill but tl ant usive, 1¢ cheek fm naver no head for ERErs, mebbe t's the reason m t he bottom of the heap,” sald de Z “ Gsran'ther i] v yt Uncle Zach, } lnek lay in his 1 10 alwavs sald a man's J ps I never licked took care a feller grumbled Jim Dur- “ But I'm glad of iy xd the hand, hifel LAUSD tn rece rips of im that seemed His pe rspira- brow “was on the overcome hy ngular fr ine trembls 1 SW od in drops upon |} ‘I'm obles zed to ye all” he sa a some wh at bate iide red way, * nd of tux ¥ Surprise, ner'n 1 WI i en a little of never one that eral to, i folks thin nt thei r tir n Kes to have him, and pin begrudge h th ough i anger l of y to im ain't it has been som mite hard. For there ain't none but what's got feelin's, And now 1 80 Kind of upsot. \ all round once mx A nd Sim a mea =F) a-gol nin aor y little chance col pected I be hands hen I'l oo home.” bv) w oh the crowd lingered, I rtunity to talk over his ith iu wut the embarrassme 3 ARG his presence, Asghe drew 1 saw that a gro neighbors ered Had the his good fortune reached tl ear his own Sim » at [ gale p ol t. was news of u ii rath 1 gathe around i 1 SO sOGn with him ? sympathy, buat "just nov lus! his joy was and had enn { Sim liked ntil the first ome to rejoice h of i rather into that he wot and he avy eyest y hls, ¢ * Hi ne to you. been tryin’ her sad : ‘ veryth ing ses It you'll take n we sha'n't e last a great but 1 can work some; you know I used to stiteh shoes.” HOG me wt Yo { while. much, wld tremu- “You can’t never in thislivin® we Jane?’ said Sim, es, | It's no wonder that sidd the woman, ‘Tused to ba so bh loomin’, and pow I'm nothin’ but a sl hadder ‘I do know you, Cynthy Jane. I know your volee and your eves, but 1 kind of didn't want to believe ‘twas you lookin’ so pindlin’."” . He smoothed back the children's hair from their foreheads and scrutin- ized their faces gravely, Then he marshaled the little group before him intothe It was a dreary and sparsely fur- nished little place, The emptiness and dreariness struck Sim as never before, but a vine nodded at the window, and it was cool and quiet. The woman sank down on the hard little lounge vith a long sigh of relief, but the children eried out, in their pathetic that they were hungry. Sim was filled with shame and dis- tress. A very few dry crusts were all that his larder afforded. Dan Win- gate had been fishing, and he had in- tended to drop in upon Dan upon some errand that would serve excuse at fry would he likely to be done turn. He had made no preparations whatever to “set his own pot a-bilin’ " that day. He was rubbing his fore- head with his bandana in direst per- plexity, when, moved, as it seemed to Sim, by some indirect interposition of Providence, Mrs. Timberly, the wife of the well-to-do blacksmith who lived next door, appeared, bearing a dish of soup, from which was wafted an appe- tizing odor, and a loaf of bread of goodly size, And following in her wake came other neighbors bringing eatables, until Sim's table groaned under such a burden as it had never known before, “You thought you not be prepared for company, single man,” explained Mrs. Timber- ley, “and, besides, we felt as if we wanted to do something to welcome Cynthy Jane back.” sim was glad and thankful that his guests were provided with food, but every mouthfui that he tried to eat seemed tochoke him, He remembered that yesterday he could have eaten his neigh food without shame; but then Cynthy Jane was not there to see, “It's the last meal they shall ever have by the charity of if steppin’ round anything to pass,” self. And eaten an, sadly nouse, voices, [86 Wa might being a hors’ lively can fetch said Sim as soon as the dinner was he went down to Sam Ellis’ shop. Sam Ellis was the shoemaker, and he always had more work than he could do. He had offered Sim a great many jobs, which he had declined. eagerness, for a job, Sam Ellis looked amazed. “ Why, they've been tellin’ that your chance had come along, that you was goin’ to Californy to make your for- tune,” he said. Sim turned away his head and looked out of the window, With the beckon- ing finger of his chance lifted above the “stiddy days’ works” which he saw stretching before him in a dreary monotony which his soul abhorred, | luring him to change of scene and ad- 3 and to fortune which should HKe manna from always dreamed it trange that for a twaverad? Hit he and drop into his hand HT Ws ho Wi was {it moment sin’ turned ghten had dav ell % 3 Hal, sir almost erlate 1 Folks seem to think foray $0 oid : ’ that comes along A man of in ernates.” and the return of pt persistently te o the predict town, and was his aco the al fey A aie % ntiv, “Them minin’ and downs manner of it. “Seems your chan hain't ever PTT in Greenh handed joss in the hance.” ‘Well, tl I've always terleck to tell wh iri seamed to be wren interleck rir Riil, said Jim Dur that chubby taced youngster of yourn, mebbe he'll git your chance and hisn too, Couldn't hat happen accordin’ to your theory asked Uncle Zach, who had never ceased to puzzle over Sim's theory of chances, “ Well, now, to tell vou the he gets as good a : as 1 have | won't ask any better for him,” said Sim still looking a little but hold ing his head very st And Sim's content was as great as it seemed, in spite of the * stiddy days’ works,” though once in a while he did have an attack of laziness, when they became intolerable. But then he went fishing with Dan Wingate, and brought home a great quantity of fish. And Cynthy Jane never scolded. — Ha there's chance sheepish, i "ig 3 4 ralgnt. rper's Needle Making, At Boreette, which is the most im manufactur the conversion of the steel rough needles requires twenty operations, the principal of which are the measurement of wire, the scouring, the winding in Europe, wire into off, to two needles, Th with two grindstones, By a copper finger-stall the holds fifty wires at a time, which heated to redness by the friction, dust and powdered steel formerly pro- the are after a few vears, but hy the ventilators this evil has heen overcome, After the sharpening boys cut the wire in two, flatten the head, anneal and punch'the eves, The tems pering and annealing require nine operations, but they are done in piles of fifteen kilogrammes (33.69 pounds), containing more than 300,000 needles One million needles are polished at one time, There are five operations, which are cach repeated seven or eight times, The needles are put in hollow rollers with small hard stones and colza oil. The stones are gradually pulverized, and the friction of th powder gives the principal polish, For aid of entirely used, The sorting of the after the burnishing they are put into es The First American © Cirous, The first circus in the United States started out of Putnam county, N. Y,, in 1827 or 1828, It had eight or ten performers, as many horses, neither tent nor seats, and advertised only by marching through the village invested, with a man ahead calling out the place of exhibition, ete. The programme included feats of strength, leaping, ete, and riding without saddle, and the ring | was pitched in yards wherever conve. nient. After a time an elephant was | added, and from this grew the menagerie addition, In 18352 the first | tent was used in New York city. FACTS AND COMME NTS be year on Ist of January, sand miles of new road United corresponding had be Wis rog This will building the railroad Already, nearly six have heen During period last vear nstructed, and greed alost record, gince the thot Sates the 3.450 mils that rade The fr his ten « nette are iron coflins New Yorl felt, 10ws to what use | ny wT \ Brig! itled tos ny several millio \ ir tithes in a variety wind that not en ist pay them, or trothle i id and y have paid ot out of del to They must contribute upon to the erection [ or do anything priesthood may le “ Better starve your body tha soul,” and away goes the las of corn, or the last sheep, are twenty-one railway in the United States having each a capital above $25,000 000, and gross earnings from $4,044,576 on the incomplete Northern Pacific to §75,- 182,973 on the Pennsylvania Central, as follows: There Cor porations Roads. Northern Paci New a Cape. Erie .. Pennsylvania Atel son an 1 : G0, 40% 00 Wi, N00 fi (XX) 5 000,000 SEELIRK) 3, (00 PAREN) IRK) hie io and Northw Lx) Chicago and Milw Reading . Missouri Pacifico. . Hlinois Central ake an ‘kee, 3 0.000.000 ARKIN; i Ls and C hie WO Totals, Edwin H. Flood, : hil hi is engage t building . he pet ition ever it is tl houses upon all Seventeenth and Diamond comprising in all All the woodwork be prepared and and planing mill most extensive HO OTor- dght hundred tween tion of vacant land Iu York streets, ACTOS, in the buildings will fitted at a large saw ble of making 50,000 bricks a day All the clay in the manufacture of bricks pro- cured from the excavations for the cel- lars of the new buildings, The lumber is purchased by the million feet at a All the hardware used in the buildings is bought in quantities at a time sufficient to cover the entire building operation. The paints, glass and other necessaries entering into the construction are also secured in large quantities, There is now under way the first installment of 104 houses, They are all ten-room houses, and alike in finish. The fronts are of the Queen Anne style, and are of Philadelphia pressed brick, ornamented with black and buff ecve brick, Over the window and door heads runs a Tennessee marble and a paneled base of the same material reaches to the window-sill, The floor of the used is coted with the same material, is one of the continues to have Sheap houses, The story of the poisoning of 100 | Hungarian husbands is one of the | most extraordinary on record, Thekla | but surely, and in its imitating the symptoms disease. This poison she sold by the bottle to those women whose husbands obstinately 1 to die to sult their spouse's plans, For two plied her trade, selling her » rate of $205 to $50 a bottle, VO months » however, a effects rel nse years she poison at About rich irc re HE play } were when the suddenly by asant.died und His 1 sLANCCR, Wil h led Ww Ugly rumors rinent of foul ag le JRC i ¥ Bf s 4 1 ina ji COM and wife of mn Hes saw the the hus- ther what weraed id her nu mother son her Af aly aid quentl juentiy ler about gre deter. ps) she $ i “1G I und exam- ities of Forest Fires, Fi CIMETE BS if it may be so ¢ juited an by rap id forward mo- was sucked forward actually preceding the it evident that this intense heat, possii bly us Pabrenh eit, at Ii oxygen and « That badly of luminous vapor exi at ancen- is was of din) as degrees whic arson uni from the fire, is asserted | a dist ano ©, An a v tl i under it but who GSC dd fron fact that it passed sbove their The idea is further by the fact that the fire jumped whole patches « of inflammable and alighted beyond, lifting gin its forward motion like ching the carth. Fences tof broad fields burst into ns if by explosion, and others the fire A man in ghting the fire took off his trousers, ng they would cateh fire and burn up, and left them in a furrow in of a field, remote from any mstible material, When he went to them he found them burned, and six irter-dollars that were in the pocket ited together, A set of spoons were the same way at another place, Mrs, Lock and five children were bus to ashes, othing bones remaining in rw middle of the road, 100 feet from any heavy timber Green timber was dried and burned, and perhaps the evi- i who saw it from wore the me Who laces, stained wy nearer © aped, ie middie Com wie or wm served " wl nea most conclusive appearance of fire in stumps and fences when no sparks were falling. These blazes appeared of white light and indicated a chemi bon and oxygen, feature is the fact that the fire peared to move forward in parallel of varying width, and that in these lines everything was burned, and frequently to At the edge of the track a fence would be burned sijuare off, just as though it had been cut or sawed perpendicularly; a house would be taken and the barn wagon and a fanning mill were within five feet of each other, and the wagon was burned to ashes and the fanning mill not chi ged. It would be impos. und ordinary stances, to din A W agon out piling combustible over it: but this, nothing iron was left. Finally, the disappeared simultaneously; y, the fire was dependent upon or secondary to it-—that it lines ashes, with- of fire 8 to the storm, HEALTH HINTS, LAY A Fainting PEREON DOWN ~~ It is surprising how everybody rushes at a fainting person and strives to raise him up, and espec ially to keep his head erect. There must be an ins stinctive appre hension that if a per- son seized with a fainting or other fit fall into the recumbent position death is more imminent, I must have driven a mile to-day while a lay fainting was held upright, I found her pulseless, white and "ppare ntly dying, and I be- lieve that if 1 had delayed ten minutes longer she would re ly have died, 1 laid her head down on a lower level than her body, and immediately color returned to her and cheeks, and she became conscious, To the excited group of friends I said: Always re- member this fact—namely;: fainting is caused by want of blood in the brain; the heart ceases to act with suflicient foree to send the usual amount of blood to the brain and hence the person loses nsciousness because the function of the brain ceases, Restore the blood to the brain and instantly the person re covers, Now, though the blood is pro- pelled to all parts of the body by the action of the heart, yet it js still un- der the influence of the laws of gravi- tation. In the erect position the blood ascends to the head against gravita- tion, and the supply to the brain is di- minished, as compared with the re nbent position, the heart's pulsation If, then, you place a per- whose heart has nearly to beat, his brain will fail to re- ceive blood, while if you lay him down, with the head lower than the heart, blood will run into the brain by the mere force ravity; and, in faint- in suffice quantity to restore usness, Indeed, nature teaches the fainting per- sons, for they fall, and free quently at once restored by the re cumbent position into which they are thrown. Medical Journal, VAarvasrLe LiNiMENT.—* Scarcely a week passes,” says a physician, “that there is not a report of some one who has died of tetanus, commonly lockjaw, brought on by some sharp instrument being stuck in the body—-usually a nail in the foot, Such wounds will generally prove harmless if the following liniment be properly appl Two ounees alcohol, two ounces oil of origanum, one-half ounce tincture of camp shor, I was once called to see a boy twenty-four hours after he had stuck a rusty nail in his foot. He appearad to be in in- tense agony, and his foot was considerably swollen, 1 opened the wound so that serum flowed a little from it, and then folded a piece of soft cotton cloth, eight-ply, and thoroughly saturated it with the liniment and bound it on the wound, giving instruc- tions to renew the application every two hours until relief be given. In six hours 1 called to see the boy; and he was out in the yard playing, and suffered no more from the wound, The liniment good for any fresh wound on man or beast and every family ought to keep a bottle of it, 1 do not affirm that in every case it will prevent lockjaw, but I do believe that, if properly used, lock jaw wonld seldom occur, lips £40 oul being equal, sitting son ceased i ing, CORsSC is how to manage always are called jel: is ———— WS Finding Fault---A Fable, One day a Giraffe met an Asson the banks of a river rand called out: “Say, my friend, why can't you kee p that infernal bray r OT still for half an hour at a time. I no sooner fall into a doze than off goes your gee-haw! until my nerves are all unstrung.” At that moment a Monkey came * “ Mr, Giraffe, I wish you would keep your nose at home, It isn't very pleas- ant to have you come poking it into the tree-tops just as the family are And why through the forest is afraid the Con- stable may attach his neck for debts ¥” “ And I desire to remark,” began the Parrot, as he settled down on a limb “that if I was a Monkey I'd have some respect for other people's rights. You do nothing but chatter like a beast who a growing suspicion in these woods >arrot than In track from or from burning sideways, dicating that the rapid combustion prime cause of the was in the storm which had passed, and which passing, perhaps, carried in its wake a con- dition of atmosphere opposed to com- bustion. This hypothesis explains pretty much all fhe phenomena except the balls of fire, which exactly corre- pends with what is known as * ball lightning,” but which is a form of electricity wholly disputed by some, but nized by Professor I'he statements of Ballentine are confirmatory ball-lightning idea and dictory olf the idea that thes lights arose from the intense heat, o1 they themselves could not have sur vived it. Other statements are to the effect that this ball of fire fell on the ground and exploded, running in al directions. This is explained by some who were not present, who say that it was but the resinous cones of the pine ignited, carried by the wind, falling, scattering the burning pitch about them: but it should be remembered that those people who saw this phe- are men who have lived amid forest fires all their lives have seen all the ordinary phenomena, and are not of a class exactly vision- ary or imaginative. Itis fair to Loomis, and Ka- of this contra reco bocke As nomena incidental to this tire storm, both from the fact that it was a gre commotion in the elements cause it differed from a storm the facts of tiie absence of presence of fire, nc —— valte of agricultural at and be- only rain and The imple- States has increased ton-fold sinee 1858. be $6, 800 000. Now | $68,000,000, Eh ———————— a EE England derived last vear $2,760,000 it is more than “ And what are you talking about!” the Hare, as he crept through the grass, “As for chatter, I'd like to hear some one equal you, your squawks and squeals are enough to drive a Hare crazy. You are of so little account that even a hungry Hunts: nan won't waste pow. der to kill you!” “1 wish the whole crowd of you would clear out!” exclaimed the Wolf, came forward and licked his with self-satisfaction. * Fact an hbuest, industrious Wolf can scarcely - keep his head above water Whe n compelled to exist among } you," « And I would like to add,” observed chops is, bank, than the member from Arkansas who has just sat down I'll present him with a medal!’ « And it was only yesterday that this Alligator devoured one of my kids!” shiowted the Goat, as he came down he path, “And you have often torn down my houses for the mere fun of the thing! charged the Ant as she came out of her abode, MORAIL “ Ladies and gentlemen,” remarked the Rhinosceros, as he hove in sight, “let this eonvinee you that we all have our faults, and that we are expected to bear with each other's, While the Ass may bray, the Parrot chatter, the Wolf howl and the Alligator rake in the pot, they allow the rest of us to go our wi Ws and do as we like. He who with the Ass will the whole world is wrong. Let us now shut up and look for breakfast.,”—De- trott Free Press. A recent visitor to Winnipeg, on the Tied river, discovered the ruins of the fort which belonged to a colony founded in 1811 hy Scotch philanthropist, He with eighty families and years they prospered, but the destrue- tion of a wheat erop by made them poor again. Selkirk jo Nes neyed to Prairie du Chien in the dea of winter to get seed for the next At this time there were 1,000 to 1,500 persons in the col- ony. Conflicts as to the ownership of the Hudson Bay company, and in 1825, bankrupt and disheartened, he | accompanyin | tering throughout Canada. TR PIAS SU NDAY READING, Prayer. An article found among the wnpub- lished papers of the late Dr. J. A. Al exander, on *Circumlocution in Prayer,” closes with the Tullowlng “ practical suggestions to Joung men who are forming their habi ea spect to prayer. They are Te able to all who Poy in public, aud especially to those who pray in the Sunday-schools, 1. Let your prayer be composed of thanksgiving, praise, confession and petition, without any argument or ex- hortation addressed to those who are supposed to be praying with you, 2. Adopt no fixed forms of pees sion, ex xeept such as you obtain bBeripture, 3. Express your desires in the brief- cution. Avoid the use of compound terms in place of the imperfect tense, 5. Hallow God's name by avoiding its unnecessary repetition. Adopt the simple devotional phrase of Scripture; but avoid the free use of its figures, and all quaint and doubtful application of its terms to foreign subjects, 7. Pray to God and not to man, Religious News and Notes. Ocean Grove, the famous eam meeting ground, was unknown teen years ago. The Northern Presbyterian church has 572,128 communicants and the Southern church 124,806, A writer in the Independent ex- presses the opinion that the Mahom- medan power is sick unto death. There are five Methodist church in Engind, and their aggregate increase in member ship last year was 22,713, The richest colored con the country is said to be that of ~ Augustine's Roman Catholic chureh, Washington. The best church music at the Capital is alleged to be that of it# choir, Professor James D. Dana, of Yale college, who has received higher honors from European scientific societies than any geologist now living in the Dsited States, says of the first chapter of Genesis: “Exmmining it as a geologist, I find it to be in perfect accord with known science: therefore, as a Christian, I assert that the Bible narrative must be inspired.” It is related of Rev. William Ar- thur, the President's father, that while presiding over the Baptist church in West Troy his choir drawled out the hymn with variations, which did not please him, so he took his text and reached two hours and forty minutes, His head deacon grew impatient and consulted his watch, “Keep your wateh in your pocket, Deacon Jones,” said he. “You had a long sing, and now I am going to preach till I get through.” Rev, Vivian Dodgson was lately en- gaged in preaching to a crowd of idlers upon the beach at Lowestoft, land, when suddenly loud cries for help were heard coming from the sea. Mr. Dodgson leaped from a barrel on which he was standing and ran to the water's edge. There he saw that a boat had upset in the sez and that five persons were st ruggling for their lives, Without a moment's pause he rushed into the water and swam out to the struggling creatures. One woman he brought safely to land, two were res cued by others, and a child was saved by a man in the overturned boat that could swim. It is presumed that the Royal Humane society will confer a medal upon Mr. Dodgson. Rev, Frederick D. Power, who en- the House of Representatives, writes the Christian Union concerning the “Christian” or * Disciple” church: The religious people known as « Christians,” or * Disciples of Christ” simply, had their origin in the early half of the present century in Ken- tucky, parts of Ohio and West Vir- ginia. Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, W. Va, was a prominent teacher of the views held by them, and after him they are sometimes called, but avithout their consent, *Cam bellites.” Since Mr. Campbell's death, which occurred in 1866, they have made their mightiest strides. Though the youngest of the religious bodies, they have advanced from the foot of the list to the fifth rank, and are in- creasing at a rate of not less than 50,000 yearly. They now number 678,000 communicants in this country, and have churches in England, Aus- tralia, France, Denmark, Turkey and in the United States is chiefly in the West and Southwest, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio having the largest bodies. They support some forty colleges and sixty religious periodicals, WISE WORDS, Hope is a fatigue ending in decep tion, Flattery is effective only with a weak man. Man pardons and forgets; weman pardons only. To wait and ‘trust, is often the latest {esson we learn in life. ‘ There is little in the world but that nas cost some one deeply. One forgives everything to him who forgives himself nothing. To be faithful without loving is to nave the patriotism of virtue. Choose that which is best and cus- tom will make it most agreeable, We should believe only in works; works are sold for nothing everywhere, Love comes when we expect it the feast and when we dread it the most. You can get the respect of honest men in one way only—by deserving it. ifate enters sometimes into souls; envy comes only from little minds. Gold is, in its last analysis, the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave. What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor among What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be be- Only those faults which we encoun. in others, Generosity is the accompaniment of attendants, The path of genius is not less ob jerks, into the box. She then peeps a it went through. . don’t you?" — Boston A man in Jowa has invented a new had broken his nail trying to crowd it into a new button hole, he things of voluntary listeners. In the instance the truth the listener useful. : = J. M. Reid, socrtary of the ary a good story tive to himself, Once, sehen diior, he was invited to preach in Chicago. was taken to the church by a good brother, who landed him there ear and, no one being present but € in the church alone ke gn for the evening s mon. It was just at dusk, and he had not been seated long before he heard persons engaged in a prayer service an ining room RET a loud, zeal «0 Lord, bless him whois tos to us this evening; he is a poor, man, but make him a power. If death by drowning be in as in a shipwreck, the easiest die would be to suck water into lungs by a powerful inspir Soul 4 oe Went beneath: the structed with disappointment than that of ambition,
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