en —— - WHY NOT SAVE MOTHER. The farmer sat in his easy chair Between the fi.o aud the lamp ight's glare, Hi- face was ruddy and fu 1 and fair; His three smu 1 boys in the chimney nook Conned the lin s of a picturc<b.ok Bak ed the biscuit and made the tart, Laid & 1e table and steeped 1he ten— Dattiy, swiftly silently ; Tired and weary weak and faint, She bore her trials without complaint, Like many another household saint Content all selfish bliss above In the patient ministry of love At last between the clouds of smoke That wreathed his lips. the furmer epoke | “There's taxes to raise and inter'st to pay, And if there should come a rainey day Twould be mighty handy, I'm bound tosay T' have something put by. For folks must die: An’ there's funeral bills, snd grave-stones te buy Enough to swamp a man. purty nigh Besides, there's Edward Dick an’ Jos To be provided fur when we So. if I were you, 11 wel you what 1'd du I'd be avin’ of wood as ever | could Extra fires don't do any good I'd be savin’ of soap an’ savin of ile, And run up same candles once in a while I'd rather be savin’ of coffee and tea, For sugar is high An «ll to buy And eider is good enough drink for me I'd be kind o' careful about my cloves And look out sharp how the money goes Gewgaws is useless. nater knows Extra trimmin’ 'S the bine of women. I'd sell the best ot my cheese an’ honey, An egesis as good, nigh bout, ns th’ money An’ us tu the carpet you wanted new — I guess we can make the old vne du; And as for th’ wash. ran’ sewin’ machine, moan You'd better got rid of ‘em slick an’ clean What do they know women's work Do they calkilste women was io shirk 7° Dick and Edward and little Joe Sat in the corner ina row They saw the patient motl Un ceasel They saw that her form Her temples gray her cl They saw the quiver of ij And then, with a wrath smother QOutspoke the younges frail *You talk of avin An tea an sugsr all the ; But vou NEVER talk of y eds errend- to ana -- Economies of Science. The fact that an aniline black can be formed with vanadium bas provoked production of that metal for commerce, M. M. Osmond and GG. Witz have found a considerable source of foundry of which coutain two per cent. acid. The SCOrias Creuzyt, of vanadi scorias have only to used directly in dyeing. ional oives ti journal gives the A following foreign techinal method for of concentrated detecting . } esSence lead in tinfol Sen No ; i + acetic acid is let fall upon the suspected leaf, and a drop of i wiih fy SY soiution of potassiuin If there is lead present t in two spot of lead iodide. the minutes Dr. 5 s 3 taasgd ! EXAININea Will or three eat to be . H g mains white, but if lead aci the tin is is a black spot. Works are projected in Vis obtaining a great quantity of el power by of the Danube. The electricity in ** accumulators,” means walter is to iw i sions. which would be delive tomers for use either for electric Ii ing or for motive power. Besides being to be conducted through underground wires, ed in several parts of the town, from which the manufacturers, receive the required current, The of the which ashore in New York Har- bor just at the lower end of Blackwell's Island, suggests the plan proposed some ele. cane went nels of New York Harbor by a number of submerged incandescent “ Even in a fog," says Mechanics, * channel would probably be sufficiently visible to enable a stemmboal to feel her way in and out with comparatively little danger. The wrecks of a single establishment of the system, and the cont nued saving in wreckage would more than pay tor the cost of maimten- ance.” The Textile Record says that a new departure in cotton mills will be found in Augusta, Ga., viz., The Riverside Mills—a cotton mill whose source of raw material is the waste that is gath- ered from other mills, and from this waste is turned out a product in threads and twines that are fully equal to those made by mills using cott n as it comes from the gin. Every par. of the waste is in some way utilized here, even to burning the trash and seed husks; and even the old bagging is sewed together and put on the market again in rolls like as first, before it was used at all, This mill has the very finest machinery, all moved by a 300 horse-power Corliss en sine. an individual after a night's rest, meas- ured before rising from the bed, is two inches greater than it isin the evening, measured stand ng. There 5a gradual diminution in height, caused by the yielding of the plantar arches and of the intervertebral disks, and a sudden diminution, when the individual rises, The sinking at the one-twelfth to one-eighth inch ; at the two-fifths inch, The shortening of the cartilages. Algiers is said to abound in deposits of lead, zine, and especially iron, and one of the principal minea is reported to vield 1800 Materials for copper, © silver-bearing tons of iron-ore per day. construction, building stones marble, salt is found The number of men employed in the various mines already The euitiv.tion of tobacco has increased largely within the past years, but the greatest future expectations. are based abundant, and areat ete., are also ina exeeeds extent of land devoted to vines is about Public works also have and there are now 552% miles of highway of importance, about ROO miles railroad Philadelphia Medical 1% found some choice reading in a small neg has TANIA 1s i children of 11 on vears old in the schools of Manchester, England. In « of them the author explains scientifically the Youths of of what jump me common life, | ignorant i tells them ted (1 ' the muscles of 1r ¥ ig mn PE rrr tai Ye 1 jumping or is by ti 1 5 s { heels are suddenly i fF +h I off the taneous 1erkes this on the two moven movement Should this be for babes 7 » MANISCEH, TH § Professor | delivered, gave the results es regarding the manne I. He ined with the micros Of { searcl { coal had been forme 279X sections of I the conclusion that | formed by the al Fanart land pant microscopic rotopias : iN Ome siances, He b | the i wat alga he ination CHAreOns disappeared on accoun mation of carbonic aci coss of carbonization. | A Wonderful Party at Windsor Castle. The following good story comes from a quarter where we are assured “its Many Ceres | correctness can be vouched for. years ago, at the time of a great mony, Windsor Castle was honored with After | breakfast the three potentates walked and talked on the celebrated *‘Slopes.” and were of course, Im “mufti.”’ They were delighted with the grounds, and { presently the presence of three sovereigns, entered into eonversation with a gardener, who evidently took then for a party of “gentleman's gen- tletuen'’ out for a stroll, After some | little affable talk he could not resist the fguery ©: “Now what may genis be?’ “Well,” said the spokesman, “this gentliman here happens to be the King of Prussia ; that one standing by { your side is the Emperor of Austiia; and as for myself, | am the Emperor of Russia.'" This was carrying the joke | too far, thought the gardener. “I've | so0a a lot of queer furrin gents here lately, but this beats me’ so he burst out in a rather rude guffaw, “Well, my friend,” said the Emperor Nicholas, ‘you seem amused ; perhaps you will tell us who you are.”’ ‘Oh, certainly ;* #80 taking up the skirt of his coat with the action of a great eagle spreading his wings, and spinning round on his heels, { he said : “If you are all what you say | you are—achy, I an the Great Mogul IV | The three majesties roared with laugh- | ter, mud, returning to the castle told the story at the luncheon-table to the immense amusement of the Qu sen += | Prince Albert, $ Yo wi The academy ot of sciences decides that In prescribing it tures destroy the eggs of the many para- sites which often infest meats of all kinds, For Our Youth, To Young Men. { disappointed, with the task given up. But not so! A short time afterwards | the testmony : both larger and what that bit of ribbon costs before rind, which he at once picked up, the two with : in a word, be economical, be ac- | | curate and know what you are doing ; We may well be astonished at the sagacity of the little mouse who so cley- { you have or acquire thus belongs to you by every rule of rigl t, and you may i put it to any good use you pease, is not parsim' nv to be ec nomiecal, It Lis not t» know t e price of the | article vou are about to purchase, or to What { if you do meet Bill Pride bedecked out than the | price of which he has not vet learned small | remember a little debt you owe, better suit in a much VOUS, { from the tailor who laughs at said to himself, as he gave up his task, “1 am too little too carry it, but I know one who is older and bigger than I am, feteh Then own and therefore stronger, so | he his friend (perhaps his nicate his wishes, to pursuade to en- | counter danger and come with him + perhaps he had said that they were kind { of honesty and right—vyour day will Lome, her to the spot. There was much for a { panion of kings, Poor Billy. remarkable of ca | | nine experiences was Among the most Ot a . i i i } on & spuriing excursion in South Cen- tral Africa ] 3 row, aeep Was alone pn nar- stream down | the water { erocodile turned with the dog, | belly seemed to be just under the | Le T. | his hold, the hunter fired both the crocodile bower’ log leg. 4 barrels, three Dal whic marked his who had *‘escaped by the skin of A Knowing Mouse. Have al You ever how nals and insects carry on their conversations with one another ? I have frequently ; and perhaps when we see little dogs, as we do so often, standing at the corners of the streets, wagging heads and knocking their noses together, they are communicating some grand piece of intelligence that would be well worth our hearing, and their wise would interest us very much, if we could only understand them, When ants want to warn their neigh. bors «f approaching danger, they knock their heads against one another; and surely the little bees must have a very wonderful way of making themselves understood, to be able to form, and carry ont, all their little business ments as cleverly as they do, But we seldom hear, or think any. thing about mouse conversation, and perhaps it is a very good thing for the little mice that we do not overhear their plans ; put I connot help thinking these pretty little ereatures—and surely they are very pretty—have also a good deal to say to one another, and that they, too, plan and arrange things in a very clever manner, as the little true story, that 1 am now going to tell you, will show, A little mouse, living somewhere in the vicinity of a dining-room chimney, showed his fondness for cheese by com- ing down the chimney every evening when part of the meal consisted of that commodity, He was encouraged to do #0 by having little bits regularly thrown to him which he quickly picked up, and with which he hurried back to his home, One day a large piece of rind was thrown to him, so large, that although the little visitor ran at it greedily, fe could hardly lift it at all. The perse- vering little fellow, however, managed to take it a very short distance, but he gould not anyhow succeed in getting it up the chi . He tried so often to do so, that those who watched bis anx: | fous little efforts were quite sorry [ir him ; and then at last he disappeared, Arranges i as we see, he succeeded, and then, no w ? friends gladly and distributed their nice supper, for 1 be- shared Surely there seems to be something How wonderful i8 the instinet of a I read a beantiful defini- 3 + 4 ¥ + : » 3 5 t tion of instinct in a book one dav, ¥ } PRCA fl (JH rip- LIONS Carrese pond le hie works ne of the lv with t ckades for Used i twelve or thirteen large were used for the i the i ¢ %. { Tandy an } rn I This was 1 Arkansas ane of these he followers, it fax It mounds was upon the that De uttered his reproach against found which 4 WO stood when his out the having dissatisfaction and revolt had This was after he fiver, he becams arisen among them had passed the Mississippi and the couraged about time when dis- in his fruitless expedition. The narrative shows that these nent earthworks versally with promi- unis Sometimes were associated village life il the dwelling of the cacique would be on the high mound, which served a= a for. tress, the only ascent to it ladders. At other made of the fact that from the summit of these mounds extensive pros cf eonld b: had, and many native villages could be brought to view. The villages are described as seated “ina plain, between two streams: as nearly encircled bya deep moat, 50 paces in breadth, and where the moat did pot extend was defended by a strong wall of timber,” “near a wide and rapid river, the largest t! ey discovered in Florida’ this was the Mississippi. “On a high artificial mound on one side of the village stood the dwelling of the ecacique, which served as a fortress.” Thus, through- out this whole region, from the seacoast at Tampa Bay, in the States of Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, these ancient villages appeared, occupied by the various tribes, such as Creeks, Cataw- bas, Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Quapaws, Kansas, and, possibly, Shaw- nees, They were situated on alk the larger streams in the more favorable localities, and the sites of many of them can be identified at the present time, being by times mention is Vio sc A — In 1776 Sarah Goddard printed a paper in Newport, Rhode Island, ably conducting it, afterward associating with hee John Carter. The firm was announced Sarah Goddard & Co., she taking the partnership precedence, as was proper aud right, Selected Humor. “In choosing a wife,” says an ex- change, ‘be governed by her chin.” The worst of it is that, after choosing a wife, one is apl to keep on leing governed in the same way, A single Pennsylvania establishment sent out last year $60,000 worth of It is not likelv that cent's worth of these will be eaten, frogs. “a however. Not because epicures don’t like frogs’ legs, but because these particular frogs had no legs, and were intended for rail- way tracks, help “Can you ramp, 1 A atid a poking his ry shop. “Why d self 777 said “Thank jrit ked head into a coun an UL you help vour- 10 ti proprietor grily I w ThE id an YOu, said the [ited Ml na § Yy Lrainp, as lh up 4 wand two loaves of like half-a-dozen lump Hire disappeared a lightning streak, followed by Of Coal. A preacher, raising his desk in tin paralyzed HAs raion to pelting with wor hi th 00x amazement rud aliery e hearers in th He good man f. the i, jut, while the of young hopeful cried out: to them awake," chest nuts, Was preparing a frown repro ‘Yon tend your preaching I'l keep ANECDOTES OF LAWYERS, — Erskine or observed, dav, that on Mr r. had his ankle Conn int court one dalfour, a brother bar- £1 iit ; but you may proceed Ireland's Native Language. The inabilit Engli of tl RIK ¥ i toy us seems Lo The FAY FEC 33 5 8 ia A438 3 of persons returned 1871 was 103,- 552. while in 1881 the number so re- turned was 64,167, or 39,305 in 1871 5 and that of persons who spoke Irish and Englis was 714.313, while in 188] it or 171.452 than differences are, however, The Jess in : 160. in mole These more apparent than real, decrease In language was seldom spoken were re- turned on the family forms as speaking Irish, a cirenlar was issued to the enum eration of the to which the person persons resided, asKing whether the return was correct in this respect. The jargest number of people speaking Irish only live, as might be expected, in Connaught, where there are over 33,000 so described, In lLein- ster the number whose speech is con- fined the native dialect is only 50, in Munster over 18,000, and in Ulster over 12,000, district wi AM I'll Not Trust Ye. Two centuries ago, in the Highlands of Scotland, to ask for a receipt or prom. issory note was thought an insult. If parties had business matters to transact, they stepped into the air, fixed their eyes upon the heavens, and each repeat. ed his obligation without mortal witness, A mark was then carved on some rock or tree near by as a remembrance of the compact. Such a thing as a breach of contract was rarely met with, so highly did the people regard their honor. When the march of improvement brought the new wmode of doing business, they were often pained by those in. novations, An anecdote is related of a farmer Soe —————————————— ~~ learned worldly wisdom. On returning to his native parish he had need of a sm ll sum of money, and made bold to ask a loan from a gentleman of means named Stuart. This was kindly grant- ed and Mr, Stuart countid out the gold. This done, the farmer wrote a receipt and handed it to Mr, Stuart. "What cried Stuart, opening the slip of paper. “Hi give ye back the gold at the right time,” replied Sandy, is this, man?” Mr. EF 15 a receipt, sir, binding me Weel, vouirse lf 64a 1 % Binding ve 7 man, i I'l ns Yi I'm sure [iC Lrust s LL And gathering it put it HIS (OR Lured sir, | COLCA, did Lie Key ond ‘Put, High b reviled a. Hp al ri erie ingly Pies 2 dead fa “They f this is the i neither FANE © 5 parish ¢ Ladldl ia o“ pragucr a neighbor's word 2 fear oo God. NEWEDADeT tab Ti theth Mallet, in Lon- ears » said she had {he the é # I'si newspaper. (1s An tiers i oy h- thelr servants na Franklin dau. 8 (id the riwo prin Pian worked the print: HOT ET0E iv published i a paper in Charleston, South After the Annie Timothy became its editor, and was ap- i Carolina Revolution, pointed State Printer, which position held seventeen vean Mary Crouch Charleston about the same time, in special opposition © the Stamp afterwards re moved her Salvin, Massachu- 3 Mit , i published a paper in act, She paper 1o continued it i setts, and there for years afte How to Shake Hands. There are three | now living who can successfully shake hands, There i shaking done through the conatry, but fomly a small per cent, the shakers and shakees know how todo it so as te only two or POO “ great deal of hand- 8 get the entire amount of exhilaration oul of it. Some hand of an adversary in a quick, nervous manner that scares the victim nearly to death, while others slide the cold and clammy paw at you so that vou feel the same as when vou draw a cold oyster with vine- gar on it down your back, If you are shaking hands with a lady incline the head slightly with a soft and graceful yet half timid movement, Look gently in her eves with a kind of plea ing smile. beam on her features a hright and winsome beam, say soinething you have heard some one else on similar oceasions and in the meantime shake ber hand in a sulxloed vet vigorous way, sot as though you were trying te make a mash by pulverizing her fingers nor in too conservative a manner, allowing ber haud to fall with a sickening thud when vou let go. Care should be taken got to hang on the land more than half an hour in public, as bystanders might wake remarks, An Minos court has decided woman's lie about her age doesn’t viti- ate her insurance poliey. grab the
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