- ONE VIEW OF MARRIAGE. T must give up my billiards, my beer and cigars— Never think about matinees, races or bars. And make jy small income in some man: ner « Oo, To furnish food, elothing, et cetra, for two. The girl may be pretty and loving. I grant— Perhaps the can eook, but more likely she : can't; She may play the piano for worth, But as for her washing—why, heayens and earth! No marrisge for me, it's too much ofa sham : I think I am far better off as I am. ANOTHER VIEW I'm weary of bachelor's life. I declare, Of a little hall bedroom and boarding-house fare; No pleasant companionship, nothing at at all} 1 jong for a home, be it ever so small For & home and a wife who is cheerful and bright, if ‘union is strength,’ right. My wages are small, but I think they will LO, With a little economy, nicely for two. {ve my eyes on a girl, and I'll ask her that's flat. So off with my shppers, and ho! for my hat! MS Beauty and Extravagance. Do women look prettier for all this increased expenditure? Oldish men say, ‘‘Ah, there are no pretty girls now, such as there were when I was a young fellow.” Young men say, ‘‘What guys women made of themselves before the present style of dress came in.” The truth is, probably, that a pretty woman charms in any dress, not because of it, but frequently in spite of it ; while a plain woman is often enough stylish in her get-up, taking especial trouble to be perfectly correct in details since she «cannot hope successfully to compete in point of looks. Extravagance, then, is by no means necessary to the setting off of beauty, and as for the common ex- cuse, that lavish expenditure is good for trade. it furnishes a knife that cutsboth Ways. If expenses increase in one direetion they must necessarily be limited in another ; and if one "86 of" tradesmen get the Benjamin portion of a man’s income (through hiswife and daughters), some other sets obtain less than they otherwise would) “There of course, extravagant women in the days of crinoline and back chair, but their very extravagance would now almost be considered as economy. As compar- ed with the powers of spending money of a woman of to-day, it was*® light unto sunlight and as water unto wine.”? With all these blue, yellow and scarlet ribbons for temperance in drink, will no one start a white ribbon for temperance in costume ? It might be at first difficult to ebtain recruits, but there certainly are a few women of England who have been secretly hoping for a backward tide in the flow of pres- ent extravagance, and who would gladly hail the initiation of far different state of things—a reaction in favor of simplicity and a purer taste. Of Charlotte ex-Empress of Mexico an exchange says : “Her splendid black hair has whitened, but her health is good, and she has recovered from the attack of madness which followed her being told of the execution of Maximi- lian. She is very fond of music, spend- ing many hours in playing duets with one of her ladies of honor, and also shows much interest in her garden, When the weather is tine she walks a great deal in the park surrounding her Chateau de Vouchant, and plays with a dog which the Queen of the Belgians one day rescued from some boys who were tormenting it, and gave it to her sister-in-law.” s—————— lp —— Religious Sentiment, “all that it's why, my notions are were ‘as moon- “When there is alarm lest the foun- dations will be shaken, because old traditional views are proved incorrect, it is wise to listen to the words of those who have earned a right to speak. “To me,” says Prof. James D. Dana, ‘the first chapter of Genesis is greatly illumined by the revelations which eci- ence has made. 1 see nothing in mod- ern developments to shake my faith in its inspired announcement rightly in- terpreted, or in any of the essential truths taught in the Bible.—Golden Rule. “1 aM WroNo."--Let any one try it, and he will find that so say in earn- est, “1 am wrong,” is ‘the most diffi- cult speech he can make. And yet, it is the noblest of all. Very often, in- deed, it is true that any one of us, and t always shows that we know our- elves. It is the only possible road to take to produce an amendment of life. No man can reform while under the conviction that his deeds were virtu- «ous rather than vicious. It is only a cons¢lous sinner that ‘can become a pens {tent one. The proofs around us and within us that we €rr, are as manifold a8 the variety of ways that proof cin be made. To acknowledge is the first and most necessary step; to amend by mutual aggravation, has perhaps terminated in bloodshed, might have been checked in its commencement by a well timed and judicions silence! Those persons only who have expe- rienced it are aware of the beneficial effects of that forbearance which to the exasperating threat, the malicious sneer, or the unjustly imputed culpa- bility, shall answer never a word. And there are not wanting instances were the reputation, the fortune, the happi- ness, nay, the life of a fellow-creature might be preserved by a charitable si- lence either by the suppression of some condemning circumstances, or by re- fusing to unite in the defamatory alle- gations. In silence, too, there is safety always, COMFORT IN SICKNESS, — A minister in Dublin, some years ago, made a call on one of his flock, a lady, who was fee- ble and rather desponding. When asked very tenderly about herself, her reply was, ‘ Weak—oh, 50 very weak!” And then she added, that she had been that day much troubled in mind because she had found it impossible to govern her thoughts in meditation and prayer, so much so, that *‘She had kept going over and over the same thing again and agein,”’ “My dear friend,”’ replied the pastor, “there is provision in the gospel for you here, . Our Lord Jesus Christ, when his soul was exceedingly sorrowful, three times prayed, and spoke the same words.” In a moment her face was lightened up. Her trouble was gone, In similar circumstances, Dr. Stough- ton, of London, entered the room of one sinking under pulmonary disease. ‘How are you feeling to day ?’ **Weak—oh, so very weak!” He looked at her pale, sad face, and with half a smile on his own face, repeated the first two lines of a hymn well-known to ker: “When Grace ield, and Christ my song I am weak, then I am strong is my sh The effect was remarkable, Her countenace changed, lighted up with a | gladness that never left it, but from it even in death. “1 am useless now- -quite laid aside,’ said a devoted Christian man in a time of sickness to a friend who came hoping to speak a word The sick man was calm and patient, The words of his friend, however, him in no way, till, said with true feeling, lie there useless ; to-day, i ill Season. seemed to aid in going away, he “You think you but the sight of vou, has taught me what will send me on my way with stronger faith and confidence.” The idea of Laving helped another at once touched a chord in the heart of the sick believer who was left in his chamber with his cup brimming over, A sss——— After Two Centuries and a Half, Few more unlikely repositories of a | love token, or tender pledge of the af- would say, to even the most inquisi- tive collector of such relics than, let us say, a chimney cowl, or the foundation stone of an Asylum for Incurable Tri- cyclists. Yet a lock of hair once be- stowed by some generous maid upon a too-secretive lover has recently been discovered in a locality far more wildly improbable than either of those indicat- ed above. A few weeks ago, upon the farm of cne Siam Evans, near Bethel, Oregon, (Eng.),an oak tree, three feet six inches in diameter, was felled, and sawn up into planks. One of these in due course found its way to a carpenter's shop, where it attracted attention by an odd-looking branch-like knot trav- ersing its substance. This knet, ex- cised from the plank out of sheer cu- riosity by one of the workmen, proved to be a hollow peg or yew, containing a lock of bright red hair, to whieh, as the objects *‘ in amber *’ referred to by Pope in his epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, were pecularly applicable, the lines: “ The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, but wonder how the devil they got there!” Further investigation demonstrated that a hole had been bor- ed into the trunk of the oak tree with an inch auger, and that the plug of yew freighted with love's gift, had been driven into the aperture thus prepared for its reception. In the course of time the wound inflicted upon the tree had healed over the plug so effectually that the portion of the trunk under which the ruddy lock lay concealed exhibited no fewer than two hundred and fifty “ rings,” each one representing a year's growth of the brave old oak, chosen A. D. 1632 by some careful swain as the hiding-place of his mistress’s ring- let. The difficulty of keeping a secret forever has seldom been more quaintly illustrated than by the accident that this heart of oak has been compelled to # ] ’ Pa 4 SEE : Monstrosities. Authenticated Cases Which Make the Siamese Twins Appear Normal. ‘“‘He is a very devil in royal skin,” was a remark made of Henry VIII when he procured a divvoree from Anne Boleyn, but the najcrity of readers of English history are unaware of the fact that, although considered the most beautiful woman of her day, she had congenial deformities, There were six toes on each foot, and she had three breasts in a straight line across her chest, and with these deformities her royal spouse became disgusted to such her. There are numerous cases of this deformity recorded, One, three, four, five and even more breasts have been reported as belonging to one individual, These supernumeraries are sometimes in a straight line with the normal ones— again, under the arm or on the hips, Several cases where they were on the back, and in one or two cases they are reported as forming diamond and tri angular shapes. There is one case re corded where the female had eight breasts—four on each side. Many of the numerous cases of defor- mity reported surpass belief. There was a monster at the Court of St, James, who was 28 years of age at the time the observation was taken. He was per- fect in every way but one. He pos- sessed two heads—one of which was very smart and the other very stupid ; the stupid one kept him in so much trou- ble that all his time was spent in allow- ing his smart one to get him out of the scrapes his other head had caused, His stupid head died a short time after this report, and the whole man lived for ten days after, until, the dead head had al- most separated from the body by decomposition. Valentine and Horne relate the of a child in Bengal who wus sessor of two he the heads were case unlucky In placed one on top of the the POE ads, this case joined very closely together. in formation. Sometimes one of the heads would be asleep and the other awake, If the hau of ene head were pulled, the other head would ery ; if one mouth were fed, the other mouth water evident signs of satiation. strusity lived for four in the best of health at the death, which was a viper, would and show The and mon. Years, was time of ils caused by the bite of Winston tells of an Italian child 8 years of age who carried a little head under its right arm, which little head peeped out, giving one the im- pression that the body of the little head was buried in the somewhat larger body of its bearer. The little head christened Mathew and the larger one was christened If little Matthew's ear pinched James roared, but at all times little Matthew was under the impression that he was in reality the only protection that James had, The last report of this double boy says he in perfect health. A story is told of a Moor in Tunis, 30 years of age, whose head was so large that a crowd always followed him on the street. His mouth was so capacious that he could place a muskmelon in it as easily as the small boy of to-day could a cherry. He was four feet four inches in height, and the distance from his chin to the top of his head was twenty-three inches—over one-third his height. Benventi saw a lad well pro- portiened as to his head. At the age of 7 the head began to grow rapidly, so that when he was 27 years old his face and his head were fifteen inches long and thirty-eight inches in circum- ference. The number of double chil dren presenting far more astonishing features than the well-known Siamese twins is large. Buffon relates the history of two girls who were joined at their abdomens. At 6 years the little blonde, Helena, became paralyzed, The taller brunette, Judith, then carried her around for sixteen years, They had small-pox and measles in common. Other diseases they had independently of each other. At 22 Helena died of fever, and Juditha few minutes after. A post-mortem ex- amination revealed the fact that they could not have been separated, Judith, who was a very beautiful girl, had a lover when she was 18, who tried for a long time to persuade her to marry him in spite of the load she was doomed to carry through life. ‘‘Every lassie has her laddie,’’ but there is no mention of a lover for poor Helena, Munster tells of two girls attached at the forehead. At the age of 11 one died, and the operation for separation killed ‘the other, Cases of pairs joined at the back of the head, at the back, and in conceivable ™ may be found ; double-heaedd child of Oxford, England, attracted con- #iderable attention. It lived for some rune, { ~The sulin Jontust was that Was J ames, was Was other authority, tells of a case in which a child had a natural body and lower ex- tremities, but possessed seven heads and seven arms, and lived about a week, An odd story is told of the old surgeon Znli- omtius, who had performed the operation of making an artificial nose for a man, The material used was procured from a hog. The operation was a success, A child born to him about one year after had an unmistakable hog’s nose, and a short time after the old hog was killed, when both the old man’s nose and that of his child rotted away, This apocryphal story is told, no doubt, to illustrate an old superstition. There i8 an odd case reported of a man in the prime of life who surprised the physician he consnlt- ed by telling him he had never been sick, had never taken medi¢ine, and had called out of curiosity, because he felt a little out of sorts. This man had a large cup-shaped piece of clothing made of some solid substance, which he said he wore to proteet a part that was very tender. On examination it proved to be his hea t, which was literally on the outside of his body, He had protected it instinctively, and had caused him no trouble. A case mentioned in one of the late medical works is that of a wood-chopper who met with an accident that laid open his stomach. He was fed threugh this hole, the food being simply placed in the stomach, where the process of digestion could be watched at ease, He was of wonderful assistance to phy- siology undoubtedly, and his general health did not seem to be impaired by this unnatuarl manner of feeding, The half-crazy quarrymas who had a crow- bar driven through his head recovered. and became a Justice of the Peace, One of the most wonderful authenticat- ed cases of artifieial deformity is that of a Frenchman, who had the entire skull cap removed for the He recovered and adopted the profession of a beggar. His stock vers to physiological experiments by The fee which cup was the top some disease of brain. in trade was allowing gi produce pressun 3 on his brain. his cup Was « own skull, -——— — Home Economies. Copperas mixed with whitewash upon the cellar walls keeps vermin away, Drain pipes and all places that be copperas water or carbolic are SOUr or impure walter, Nay cleansed with lime acid. (rood fires should be kept up during house cleaning time, though the doors and windows be kept open. even Excellent shampoo is made of salts of tartar, white castle soap, bay lukewarm walter, all dandruff, the hair and clean rum and The salts will remove soap will soften the it thoroughly, and the bay rum will prevent taking cold. The reason why cabbage emits such a disagreeable smell when boiling is because the process dissolves the essen- tial oil The water should be changed when the cabbage is half cooked, and it will thus acquire greater sweetness, To extract ink from cotton, silk or woolen goods, dip the spots in spirits of turpentine and let remain for several hours; then rub thoroughly between the hands, and it will all disappear without changing either the color or texture of the fabric. A bottle of aqua ammonia is invalu- able to the housekeeper. A spoonful put in the iron pans and kettles in which meat and vegetables have been cooked will remove all grease, sand make the cleansing of these a very easy opera- tion. One of the best washing fluids is made by mixing equal parts of turpen- tine and ammonia. This fluid makes rubbing almost unnecesrary, while it whitens the clothes without rotting them. House plants are very much stimulated by giving them water which contains a small quantity of ammonia, Two spoonfuls to a quart of water are sufficient. AA SAPD Women. —— A Boston lady takes thirty babies and their mothers to a seaside hotel every summer for one month, The empress Eugenie in her palmy days ate an onion at six o'clock every morning to preserve her complexion. When Queen Elizabeth died twenty- seven fans were found in her wardrobe. One of them was valued at £400 ; the handle was covered with diamonds, In New Orleans lives a woman who went through the civil war on the con- federate side, and was promoted to a lieutenancy before she was discovered, “1 would like scalloped oysters,” she remarked. He answered, meaning to be funny, “I don’t know how to scallop oysters.” ‘‘Then bias some,” said she, In the east lives a girl who is learn. ing the blackemith trade. She says it may come in good some day, and she tame occupations, A Rockford, Alabama, girl gets up in her sleep, and goes out into the beck- How Marbles are Made, Marbles are known from the Latin word ‘“*marmor;’’ by which similar playthings were known to the boys of Rome two thousand vears ago, Some marbles are made of potters’ elay, and baked in an oven just like earthenware is baked but most of them are made of a hard kind of stone found in Saxony, Germany, Marbles are manufactured in great numbers, and sent to all parts of the world, and even to China, for the use of the Chinese children. The stone is broken up with a hammer inte little square pieces, which are then ground round in a mill, The mill has a fixed slab of stone, with its surface full of grooves or furrows. Above this a flat block of oak wood, of the same size as the stone is made to turn rapidly around, and while turning, little streams of water run in the grooves and keep the mill from getting too hot, About one hundred of the pieces of stone are put into the grooves at once, and in a few minutes are made round and polished by the wooden block. China and white marbles also are used to make the round rollers which have delighted the hearts of the boys of all nations for hundreds of years. Mar- bles thus made are known to the boys 48 “Chinas” or **alleys.’’ Heal chinas are made of porcelain clay, and baked like chinaware or other pottery. Some of them have a pearly glaze, and some of them are painted in various colors that will not rub off, because they are baked in, just as the pictures on plates and other tableware, (lass marbles are known as “agates,’’ They are both made of clear and colored glass. The former are made by taking up a little melted glass upon the end of an iron rod, and making it round by dropping it into an iron mould, which shapes it, or by whirling it around the head until the glass is made into a little Sometimes the figure of a dog or or a Kitten, is placed on the end of the rod, and when it is dipped in the the glass flows all around square ball. a squirrel or some other ob- ject, melted glass it, and when can be Colored glass mar- the marble is done the animal seen shut up in it bles are made glass rods in the then the inte a ball or presses them in a mould, by bolding a bunch of fire until melt, workman twists them round they #0 that when done the marble is marked with bands or ribbons of color, agates, which are the bles, leal nicest of all war- are made in Germany, out of the stone called agate. The workmen chip the pieces of agate nearly round with hammers, and then grind them round and smooth on grindstones. — sl A is Scientific. A Sure REMEDY FOR A FELON, Take a pint of common soft soap, and stir in air<lacked lime till it is of the consistency of glazier's putty. Make n leather thimble, fill it with this compo- sition and insert the finger therein, and a cure is certain. IMPROVED MORTAR. —Sawdust it is said by some one to be better than hair in protecting rough cast from peeling and scaling under the influences of frost and weather. The sawdust should be first dried and then thoroughly sifted, in order to remove the coarser particles. A mixture is then made of two parts sawdust, five parts sharp sand, and one part cement, which should be thor- oughly stirred together and then in- corporated with two parts of lime. A paste of equal parts of sifted ashes, clay and salt and a little water cements cracks in stoves and ovens, In the opinion of the Scientific Amer- iran there is a possibility that the won- derful comet of 1812 may make its re- appearance before the year closes. More than twelve mouths ago a per- petual clock was started at Brussels An up draught is obtained in a tube or shaft by exposing it to the sun; this draught tums a fan, which winds up the weight of the clock until it reaches the top, when it actuates a brake that stops the fan, but leaves it free to start again after the weight has gone down a little. This clock was keeping good time in June, after running continu- ously for nine months, How the HUMAN OreANisM Pro- reers ITsELy,.—The organism of the human body is a self-regulating appar- ratus, Every interruption of its nor- mal functions excites a reaction against the disturbing cause. If a grain of caustic potash irritates the nerves of the palate, the salivary glands try to remove it by an increased secretion. The eye would wash it off by an imme- ate flow of tears. A larger quantity of the same substance could be swal- lowed only under the protest of the faces, and the digestive organs would soon find means to eject ft. The bron. chial tubes react against the obtrusion of foreign substances, The sting of an insect causes an involuntary twitching of the epidermis. If a thorn or splinter fastens itself under the dug prepares the way for its "If the stomach is . — These automatic agencies of the or- ganism generally suffice to counteract the disturbing cause, and the sensory symptoms accompanying the process of reconstruction constitute merely a plea for non-interference. The suppurating tissues push the thorn outward, and re- sent only a pressure in the opposite direc- tion. The eye volunteers to rid itself of sand dust, but remonstrutes agaist friction. The rum-soaked system of the toper undertakes to eliminate the poison, and only asks that the conse. quences of the outrage be not aggravat- ed by its repetition, But if that piea remains unheeded, it finally takes the form of the emphatic protest called dis ease. For, even in its urgent manifes- tations, the reaction against a violation of nature’s health-laws, it is a cry for peace rather than a petition for active assistance in the form of medication, “ Accustom yourself in all your little pains and aches,” says Dr. Jennings, “*and also in your grave and more dis- tressing affections, to regard the move- ment concerned in them in a friendly aspect—designed for and tending to the removal of a difficulty of whose exis- tence you were before unaware, and which, if suffered to remain and ac- cummaulate, might prove the destruec- tion of the house you live in—and that instead of its needing to be ‘cured.’ it is itself a curative operation ; and that what should be called disease lies back of the symptoms which, in fact, are made for the express purpose of remov- ing the real disorder or difficulty.” —————————— — Snakes as Family Pets. The following interesting observation on the intelligence of snakes shows, not only that these animals are well able to distinguish persons, but also that they possess an intensity of amiable emotion scarcely to be expected in this class, A writer to the London Tins thus dew ior of some pet snakes by a gentleman and a lady of his acquaintance “Mr. M Titel a lttie th scribes the behay kept | Jafter we had talked for asked if 1 had any fear of and after a timid ‘No, not very,’ from me, he produced out of a cupboard boa~constrictor, a phython and which at once ne, snakes : a large several snakes, made themselves home on the writ- ing table, among pens, ink and books, I was at first a good deal startled, especi- ally when the two large snakes coiled round and round my friend, and began to notice me with their bright eves and fork- ed tongues ; but finding how tame they werell ceased to feel frightened. After a short thie Mr. M expressed a wish to call Mrs, we and left me with the boa deposited on an arm chair, I felt alittle queer when the animal began gradually to come near, but theentrance of my host and hostess, followed by two charming little children, put me at my ease again, After the first interchange of civilities, she and the children went at once to the boa, and, calling it by the most en- dearing names, allowed it to twine itself most gracefully round about them. I sat for a long time, lost in wonder at the picture before me. Two beautiful girls and their charming mother sat before me with a boa-censtrictor (as thick as a small tree) twining playfully round the lady's waist and neck, and forming a kind eof turban round her head, expecting to be petted and made much of like a kitten. The children, over and over again, took its head in their hands and kissed its mouth, pushing aside its forked tongue in doing 80. The animal seemed much pleased, but kept turning its head continually toward me with a curious gaze, until I allowed it to nestle its head a moment, up my sleeve. Nothing could be prettier than to see this splendid serpent coiled all around Mrs, M—— while she moved about the room and when she stood to pour out our coffee, He seemed to adjust his weight so nicely, and every coil with its beautiful marking was relieved by the black velvet dress of the lady. It was long before 1 could make up my mind to end the visit. small al - AA Mp —— Idleness. me. Jane Rice was a very idle girl ; she liked to spend all her time at play. One day, as she went to school, she saw a little bee among the flowers, “Pretty bee,” said she, ‘‘come and play with me.” “No,” said the bee “I have no time to play with you, I must haste away to get honey for my hive. Soon the win. ter will come, and the flowers be gone, #0 1 must work while the sun shines Then Jane saw a dog in the fleld, and tried to get him to play with her ; but he only wagged his tail and ran off, as he had to mind the sheep, Ail tip Jane saw some birds in a tree, tried to get them to with Bets Yat ther bl aa Haan to pik. with were busy picking up straws to make their nest, so had no time to waste, “Well, well I” sald Jane Rice, “it seems I am the only one idle, so I will
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