tpm—
IF IT BE TRUE.
If it be true, and who shall dare deny,
The universal voice of prophecy ?
If it be true. that just beyond the river
Which we call Death, the soul shall live
forever
In a fair country bathed in morning light,—
If we are soon to range that realm of bliss,
Should my proud soul be wedded unto this?
If it be true that we are children all
Of one kind Father, at whose grogiout eall
‘We come to live in peace with one another,
That every child of sorrow is my brother—
If it be true that virtue hath no guise
Nor gold the power to purchase paradise—
If the dear Father loves the weak and
OT,
Nor a aside from any humble door.—
If he would seek his children's happiness,
‘Why in my labor should I venture less?
If soon beneath the very turf I tread
This mortal form shall slumber with the
dead, : :
And resting on its cold and crumbling pil-
Ow
Shall no more foel the toss of passion’s bil
low;
If head and hand no more have power to
move,
To thoughts of mercy or to deeds of love,
Should | this lingering moment consecrate
To thoughts unkind, or deeds of scorn or
hate 2
If it be true—and this I surely know,
That I shall reap the very kind I sow
That I must stand alone—no: for another,
And answer for myself-not for my
brother;
Then should I waste my life in fruitful
care,
For what another's conscience has to bear
Save. if I may, to bear some humble part
To lift the burden from an aching heart?
ct ee
Alleged Humor.
“I'm married now,’ was the excuse
a Chicago youth gave a florist for not
buving as many bonquetsas in former
years,
Never accuse a political opponent of
a purpose to elect himself by the use of
money. All who want money will rally
around his flag,
A local Mrs. Malaprop rushingly says
that she “‘does so love to sit at the piano
in the gloaming and impoverizh.’” This
Malapropism is nottmprovised.
An exchange contains an article on
“Young Women Who Die Early.”
This frequently occurs, but the cases of
old women who die early are very few
indeed.
A voung man in a train was making
fun of a young lady’s hat to an elderly
gentleman in the seat with him: “Yes,”
said his seat-mate, ‘‘that’s my
and I told her if she wore that
some fool would make fun of it."
wife ;
bonnet
When he called the meeting to order
Brother Gardener arose and said:
'emen, if it wasn't for de wheels on a
wagon the wagon wouldn't move. When
““(ren-
de whells is on, den what?’ “Grease!”
solemnly exclaimed an old man,
rect!" the
rubbing his hands together.
whispered president, softly
de wagon an’ de wheels. We will now
pass de hat aroun’ for de grease.”
is brave
De
Doan’ think dat
he wants ter fight yer.
ean walk
boldest.
aman
man
away irom an
“How can I leave you,
tenderness, as he observed both hands
of the clock approach a perpendicu
on the dial, “Well,
John. * responded
ean take your choice, If you go through
the hall you will be liable
father, and if you leave hy way
back shed you'll be likely to wake up
the dog.”
to wake up
of the
Aisi Austin young lady, who has en-
joyed the advantages of a classical edu-
cation at a northern female college,
happened to be at home when her aged
grandmother was stricken down with a
fatal illness, The entire family gath-
ered around the death-bed of the old
lady, who, in a feeble voice, said:
“Good-bye to you all, I'm gwine ter
peg out.” ‘*Grandmother!” exclaimed
the young lady, in a tragic ton of voice,
“please don’t say that. Don’t say you
are gwine to peg out. Nay you are go-
ing to expire or that you contemplate
approaching dissolution. It sounds so
much better.’
It was not very late when we went
home a few nights ago, and as we were
in good humor with all the world, we
thought we would surprise the “old
‘oman’ in a pleasant manner, so that
she wouldn't be angry with os about
late hours, ete. So stepping up to the
window--tiptoeing to be high enough...
that opened on the room whete she was
‘sawing gourds’’ like forty, we turned
our voice to its most captivating pitch
and in operatic style we sang :
A Cleveland inventor has sent to the
life-saving service at Washington plans
and a printed description of a ** vacuum
gun,’ to be used for throwing a small
iron boat, containing a man, with lines
and other apparatus, over the surf in
‘rder to reach any vessel that may be in
ad. ress off the coast. The plan is a
novel one, but no great confidence in its
success is expressed by experts,
* Wake, Sallie, wake; my gay galloot,
Rise up. fair Indy, while l fot my lute”
The window flew up, “band-box, two
pairs of shoes and a foot tub slapped us
in the face, while the lady in white
said, on & high keynote: “Come into
the house, you little gump ; to-morrow
you'll be grunting around with your
Jiver and wanting to make your will
again, A pretty time of night for you
to be cavorting areund, and bleating
like a dying calf, when you should have
been at home rocking the cradle.”
It is said that at some point in every
man’s life he will do something to sur-
prise his friends, but a chap in Detroit,
says the Free Press, did more than that
the other day, He was a comparative
stranger, who made his headquarters
in a Michigan avenue saloon, He was
old and ragged, and it was not always
that he hid a nickel about him. He
brought in ‘he fuel for the stove, helped
to serub out. and was tolerated on
account of his good nature, Everybody
played him for a half-wit, and no one
dreamed that he had it in him to create
a surprise, unless it was by refusing a
drink. Two or three evenings since, a
boy 12 vears old, ragged, barefooted,
bareheaded, and with the stains of
tears on his cheeks entered the saloon
and softly asked one of the dozen men
in there for a penny to buy bread with,
He was roughly refused, when up spoke
the old tramp and said : “Gentlemen,
here is a poor orphan boy who has asked
for
fused.
money
I am only a poor old
I've got a
st
stand that.
whole for that poor boy !
That first surprise. For a
minute no one spoke. Then eight or ten
“So have 117
minutes before a
can’t
quarter
was the
chorus:
five
voices cried in
it wasn't
purse of $3.20 was made up for the
forlorn and hungry lad. The
rose seventy-five per cent, inthe estima-
tion the
boy cried some more and went out with
and
old man
of those who krdew him, and
the money. —Two minutes later he and
the boy divided the proceeds under the
gaslight the It wasn't
exactly a whac |, for the old chap took
$3 and left the boy twenty
When it was known in the saloon
on corner,
cents,
fours
teen determined men rushed out and
cantered up and down, and declaimed
by the great horn spoon, but they didn’t
find the big-hearted old tramp whose
heart had been touched, He had gone
to refresh himself with an oyster stew,
-- -
Useful Suggestions.
ed
inthe North American
Professor Hall, discussing
our
» ,
Review, suggests physical weakness
is often dangerously near 10 wickedness,
and that, if we would preserve the moral
forces in society, we must look well
of the young.
Poor TeA.--There enters into the
tea to this country
10718 of
rge unt of adulterated, exhausted,
ain
h law strict] 1
¥)
ts the int
{ suet nto
hiea i Brit
than 44,000 packages,
rohi
to Grreat
1. more
were exported,
united States,
Among these bogus teas are those that
al £
been already steeped and used, and
worked over for a second use,
18 a matter of great interest to all
tea drinkers, a legion among the farm-
ers, and they will approve the legisla-
tion proposed in Congress to exclude
those abominable combinations.
Hor MILE As A Restorer. —The
Prenological Journal says: Milk that is
heated to much above one hundred de-
grees Fahrenheit loses for the time a
degree of its sweetness and its density ;
but ro one fatigued by over exertion of
body and mind, who has ever experien-
ced the reviving influence of a tumbler
of this beverage, heated as hot as it can
be sipped, will willingly forego a resort
to it because of it having been render-
ed somewhat less acceptable to the
palate. The promptness with which its
cordial influence is felt is indeed sur.
prising. Some portions of it seem to
be digested and appropriated almost
immediately; and many who fancy they
need alcoholic stimulants when exhaust
ed by labor of brain or body will find in
this simple draught equivalent shat shall
be abundantly satisfying and more en-
during in its effects,
SULPHUR AS A DISINFHCTANT, —M.
d’Abanie recently read a paper before
the Paris Academy of medicine on
‘marsh fevers,” in the course of which
he made a strong plea for the properties
of this rather neglected disinféctant.
He cited many illustrations in favor of
his argument; among others that in
the dangerous regions of African river
mouths immunity from such fever is
often secured by sulphur fumigations
on the naked body, Also that the
Sicilian workers in low ground sulphur
mines suffer much less than the rest of
the surrounding population from inter.
mittent fevers. M. Foque has shown
that Zephyria (on the velcanie island of
Milo or Melos, the most westerly of the
Cyclades), which had a population of
40,000 when it was the centre of sul
phur mining operations, become nearly
depopulated by marsh fever when he
sulphur mining was moved farther east,
and the emanations prevented by a
mountain from reaching the town, A
simple way to ure this article ia to drop
a quanity of flowers of sulphur on a red-
hot stove, :
}
i
i a AO
Sanitary.
The female half of the human race
as a whole, is quite as healthy as the
male half, Smal muscles, pale faces,
and nervousness are confined to those
people whose women dress like ours,
The corset contributes more to this bad
health than any other error in woman's
dress, Next to this come the long,
heavy skirts, which drag down the body
and fetter the legs. Another serious
fault in woman's dress is ugequal dis-
tribution. While the chest and hips
may be overloaded, the legsare exposed,
The feet and legs are in the coldest
stratum of air in our houses and need,
on this account, extra clothing.
small size of the legs, as compared with
the trunk, exposes them to loss of heat.
Their great distance from the lungs in-
creases the difficulty. Then the legs
among our girls and women have very
little clothing. The
high beels of their boots check the cir-
culation and increase the coldness of the
When the
is impeded, the
narrow soles and
circula
tion in the feet
blood from the chest passing down into
The
blood not passing freely through the con-
tracted vessels of the feet,
Warm
the arteries of the legs, is checked.
is arrested in
ts motion down the legs, and so fails to
bear its freight of warmth to the
and feet,
legs
of this lack of
circulation in the legs and feet is
If the
blood cannot get down the legs and feet,
The inevitable esult
CO
gestion of the head and trunk.
it must go elsewhere, and, hence, accum-
ulates in the head, chest and abdomen.
Girls and women suffer from headache,
short breath, palpitation, congestion of
the liver, which shows itself in a chage
of complexion and, more common still,
heat, soreness, fulness, and pain in the
lower part of the abdomen, all produced
by congestion,
To try to supply the needed clothing
by skirts which hang about the legs,
and often some distance
not very bright, The garments, woolen,
should fit the legs. If you ask
much ? I answer that you should treat
from them, is
your legs just as you treat your sholders,
If one thickness is not sufficient
Each
Wit
ELA
, ge two
or three, woman must determine
herself, such dress of the legs
thick woolen hose, broad-soled, strong
How a Dog Pulled a Baby out of
the Fire.
Dog stories are without number and
| are always interesting ; and in the great
family of dogs that race that came ori-
ginally from Newfoundland boasts more
| real heroes than any other, There are
pathetic stories of dogs told in connec~
tion with every breed, and they have
been duly immortalized by Sir Edwin
Mr. Briton Riviere,
they win the medals and Victoria Gross-
es of dog fairs. Hitherto they have con-
If a child tumbled
1a
and rivers,
# pier at the sea-side or escapes from
the river
Newfoundland
nurse's arms into
| hearted
SOME great
dog
be at hand to offer his valuableservie
in
imprudent mother in
It seems are as handy a
case of fire,
Paris left her infant alone in a re
with an unprotected fire while she wert
OT
out on an errand,
the
alling head first und
was away, slipped on
y * ¥
hatone, f
up
heart
grate, T
to do und
e¢ natural thing for
howl, whicl
attracted {
was dozing
The d
the child
thing
SLAs,
and, seein
unable
lous posiiion,
fi
itv of the
Cire 05 Lit
the
om the
room, and was found b
ne izhibors licking the face and littl
rms of its friend, who had luckily
interv-
when
wa
could she
moti
er
happened
Mo
part of your sufferings
of the bead, irrita-
tion of the throat, short breath, palpita-
wadache, fulness
tion, pain in the sides and
shoulder biades, discoloration of skin,
pain ad fulness, soreness,
heat,
and pain in tl
abdomen will all be relieved by a
circulation in $ and feet,
4
ihies are
What
quickly relieved by
the hot foot bath
gol dress will
manentiy,
In this connection I must mention the
v i ¥s ¥ % ‘ 3 . 3
Cold, sow Tool Daath, iti
best features of hydropathy and
treatment for cold feel,
Systems of medical treatment
and go, but generally leave bel
something good. A system or school
which fills the land to-day may be passing
away ten years hence ; but it will leave
some valaable truth or method, Hydro-
pathy has given the
foot bath. It is invaluable.
lowing is a good method :
shallow
The fol-
Into a small
wooden tub or keeler pour cold water till
it is one-quarter of an inch deep, Just
before retiring at night, place the bot-
toms of the feet inthe cold water and
let them remain five minutes, Now,
soap the bottoms thoroughly ; wipe dry
with rough towels, which, if convenient,
should be heated ; slap and rub the feet
with your paked bands; and finally,
stand on the carpet and twist your feel
slightly from side to side. You would
think me extravagant if | were to dis.
cribe the result sure to come from this
change in the dresa of your legs and
feet. It is too bad, when relief from so
many grievous sufferings may be found
n suah a simple expedienta, that so fe
find it, — Dio Lewis.
He cold,
The Gratuities of War.
Gratuity of the Troops Engaged In
Egypt.
A special War Office circular has just
been issued in England, announcing
thet a gratuily will be issued to every
officer, warrant officer, non-commission-
ed officer and private in the European
troops who landed in Egypt between
July 16th and Sept, 14th, 1882 (both
dates inclusive.) The gratuity will be
issued according to the rank or relative
rank of the recipient. On the staff the
gratuities range from £1000 to generals,
to £15 to staff lieutenants, The regi
mental gratuities to officers range from
£34 to £15; warrant and non-com-
missioned officers will receive gratuities
ranging from £8 to £3; and lance core
porals, privates, boys, drummers, ete,,
and artificers not holding higher rank,
£2,
The Providence Transcript asserts
that Western cats commit suicide,
Let's import the breed.
A
FR. and Uhio now
papers instead of 602, he
remarkable char
63, and the
Dakota being
have from 43 to
weeklies from 160 to 243
the clef area of activity.
grown
“a.
The Worst Actor.
Jester Wallack for an engagement for
himself and wife, stating that his lady
was capable of playing all the first lines
of business, but, as for himself, he was
“ the worst actor in the world."’s They
were engaged to support Wallack, and
the lady answered to the character which
ker husband had given ber. The gen
tleman having the part of a waking
gentleman set him for his first appear.
ance, he asked Lester indignantly how
he could put him in such a paltry part,
“See, said the smiling Wallack,
“here is your letter, stating that you
were the worst actor in the world."
“True,” replied the observing actor,
Swhen I wrote that letter 1 had not yet
seen you act.” He was cast a little
higher—from the tip: of the irate Les
ter's boot. Cincinnati Inguiver,
- i. -
The notion that dogs and cats contract
hydrophobin because they are confined,
chained, or muzzled does not appear t
| be well sustained by fact, At any rate,
rabies, according to Professor Xauvier
Landerer, is very common among the
wild dogs, cats and jackals of the
East,
enn
A politician of Maryland is named
Skipwith Wilmer, He should be the
; hero of an elopement if there is any-
| thing in a name,
The Broad Field of Science.
Distilled water in the daylight is of a
deep blue color. By gaslight the color
is green,
Btars scintillate more during the au-
roras than at other times, according to
a Belgian astronomer,
Bronze torpedoes are being introduced
into the German and the British naval
service. They are said to be very for-
midable,
An Antarctic expedition to Cape
Horn is being fitted out by the French
it will be furnished for
eighteen months.
Crural neuralgia is said to be some-
what frequent among dentists, owing to
the position they have to assume during
A mixture of ninety-eight parts of
nickel is found to
iron,
Practical men say that wool well filled
with grease and potash does not need
in washing as pulled
. 4a x 1 3 Yi 1
WOOL Or a4 Wool thal has a smaller pro-
( Aaroons, accin
Drunkenness has
Professor Verga, of
Women given oo intoxication
" .
10 Kleptoma
strange Lo say, seldom given
A woman is less apt to
liquor than a man, but when she
She
but
can hardly be reelaimed.
Fae shameless and abominable
Ones
dangerous. Cold went ler
+
to cause m
+ Sane
he w
10 be Dull
Hie
Elgin,
practical
A novel if not a very way
dead, so that the
not tend to imperil the
existence of the living, has been brought
forward by Dr. A. Mayer. He advises
the adoption of solid glass coffins, which
after the introduction of the corpse are
to be closed air-tight with cement. Two
boles are in the coffin. Through one of
them carbonic acid is forced and by the
the atmospheric air escapes.
When the ordinary air is supposed to
be all driven out, Lhe holes are closed.
The combustibility of iron thas
demonstrated by Professor Magnut:
The pole of a good sized magnet is ap-
proached to a mass of iron fillings, a
tmnech of which readily attached itself
thereto. In this condition being not
in a highly comminuted state but carry-
ing a large quantity of air mechanically
entangled in the loosely aguregated
mass, the iron is in so favorable a con-
dition for combustion that the approach
of ar ordinary spirit lamp is sufficient
to inflame it—in fact, it burns readily
and continuoosly, like any ordinary
combustible,
is
A Freneh pharmaceutist says that
the vexatious operations of pulverizing
musk may be easily accomplished. Take
musk, one part: alevhol at 959, four
parts ; syrup, thirty parts; and distilled
water, 100 parts. Triturate the musk
with the aleohol in a marble ortar
into an impalpable powder, which is
done in two or three minutes, and add
the water gradually, and then the
gyrup. A mixture is thus produced
like all those holding med cinal powders
in suspension, such as bismuth, ete,
but musk, owing to its slight density,
is much more easily held in suspension
than these bodies and does nol require
the addition of gum ns they do. A
slight shaking diffuses the musk whieh
requires several hours to get to the bot-
tom of the bottle again,
Anecdote of Kaiser Wil-
helm.
——
An old soldier tells an interesting
story in which the present Emperor ef
Germany plays a prominent part, “On
August 3, 1830-1 bad been in the
Gardes du Corps for five months—we
all rode to Krossen for the maneuvers,
and were informed, to our intense dis
appointment, that we did not ride well
enough to take an active part in the
sham battle and must keep aside out of
ull danger in a quiet part of the valley,
We were 80 out of sorts that we ceased
talking altogether, and had sat for some
time in silence when we saw uniforms
at great recognized
Prince William, the commander of the
enemy’s forces, with two aides-de-camp,
no distance, 1
who was passing by our hiding place at
I conceived an idea, and had
no sooner whispered it to my comrade
mounted
surrounded the Prince,
10
He eried
ne,
horses and
BU me
as a
ignantly : “Don’t
$ But I
was the Command-
my
than we all our
suddenly
himsel
give up
Lies ok TTR ¥ "
You EKINow Yl CLIUOWSE 1
ly replied ths
of
I knew that he was too u
at om
we made
on at he
ing Genera the and
1
enemy
ich
ke, and so
orse and escorted him
My Colonel
was furious
QUATIErs
first,
humoredly
but when he saw how ZOO.
the Prince helped to carry
out the joke he commanded
deliver the prisoner to the highest come
King Frederick William I]
in his turn ordered us to give him
mander,
who
The
cried :
Elizabeth,
eutngint
(Queen,
Princess laughed and
“What a shame to be taken prisoner I?
A few weeks jater I was advanced 10 a
b-lieutenant for my cheeky behaviour
during the maneuvers.”
—
How They Got Their Money's
Worth.
Of all the determined efforts made by
men , that
which w wmde by two Boston artists
ost ong-
were visiting
to get their mu
ney’s worth
last summer was among the
| and ingenious, Th
uebwe, and
ey
were seized one day with
x idea of going to a town
some twenty
niles away which offered many attrac
¥ wre by €ouw o xy ¥ 3%
to searchers for the picluresqguc,
he and
i Clas
f
ner Lthereol to
the
ranged they
i wt
and started,
execrable,
4
(ISlal Cf Was
i t Avelers were sore
ana grinaix
npg
ul and walked, leaving
be dragped siowly along
(ES ANd unex-
artists stood this for
ft “Look
03
, Gin L we give that driver 38
The
em said ;
s labor of taking
Why,
ing along there beside the
: #1 vail
us on His Pid-
gritnage ? then, is he comforia-
Livy walk
By
make him nde ! |
¥ 19
PO
Jove, let's get and walk and
don’t propose to pay
This
opinion prevailed, and the artiste, dis-
him and do all the work myself.”
mounting, forced the unhappy driver to
get into the carriage and nde the re-
mainder of the way while they them-
selves proceeded on foot, to their great
contentment and satisfaction.
—
Changed the Subject.
“Always,” said papa, as he drenk
his coffee, and enjoved his moming
beefsteak, “‘always, children, change
the subject when anything unpleasant
has been said, It is wise and polite.”
That evening on his return from his
business he found his carmmation bed des-
poiled and the tiny imprint of slipperd
feet silently bearing witness to the
small thief,
“Mabel, dil you pick my earnation
pinks ¥" he demanded,
“Papa, did you see a monkey
town 7° was the reply. :
“Never mind that. Did you
my flowers,
“What did gran’ ma send me °°
“Mabel! What do you mean? Did
yon pick my flowers or not? Answer
me, ves or no.’
“Yes, paps, I did, but I fout 1'd try
and change the subject.”
in
pick
Gun Cotton.
Onur Government recently sent Prof.
J. Fleming W hite, elemist at the Tore
pedo Station, Newport, R. 1, aid the
engineer, A. Augstrom, to England,
to inquire into the way in which gun
cotton is made for the English Govern
ment. They were given full access to
the royal gun eottoh manufactory st
Waltham Abley, and skilled workmen
were detailed to take the machinery
apart for the benefit of Mr. Augsirom,
who is a graduate of the Nava! Insti-
tute at Cherbourg, Prance. Professor
White is a Harvard man.