-= NIGHT AND MORNING. —— i The evening songs of thé birds are still. The twilight steals o'er the field and hill, The darkness falls on the sesand sod The world is hushed in the hand of God. The rain fell fast through the livelong day, Such days are sad, we are won tosay | But 1 hold those days are sadder still, Though suns do shine, when we work an ill. The fire-fly's glow now is fitful seen, The pale stars soft through the darkness gleam; The night ow! wild to her mate shrill cries The rose in the night wind drodps and dies The damp dews fall on the clover's bead; The wild wind wails in grief o'er the dead; The stars fade slow from the murmuring deaps; The poet over his page now sleeps. > - Our Young Folks. m—— The Serenade. euth went out to serenade he lady he loved best, And passed beneath the mansion’s shade Where erst her chamber used to rest. He warbled till the morning light Oame dancing o'er the hill-top’s rim, But no fair maiden blessed his sigh And all seemed dark and drear to A im. ‘With heart aglow and eyes ablaze He drew much nearer than before; ‘When, to kis horror and amaze He saw "To Let’ upon the door. Country boys at the age of fifteen average about one inch taller and seven pounds heavier than city boys of the same age. CAT AND CHICK ENS. —A correspond- ent, writing from Decorah, lowa, vouches for the truthfulness of the following narrative, he having been an eyewit- ness of the singular facts which it exhibits : * An old gentleman and his wife, who resided in the suburbs of 2 western city, take great delight in raising chickens, Last spring, as the “getting’’ season came round, he pro- cured a dozen eggs laid: by heus of a valuable breed, to put under his favor- ite “Plymouth.” She sat on them for two weeks, hatched the chicks, brought them off, and then died of chicken chal- era. The chicks were placed in a basket by the kitchen fire, where, one afternoon when the family was away visiting, they were found by ‘Tem,’ the large black cat, a pet of the household. One by one, Tom lifted each chick out of the basket and placed it on his own bed in the kitchen corner, When the old folks returned what was their sur- prise to see their pet cat curled up and surrounded by the contented orphin brood. Tom was allowed fo care for them, and when they were large enough to run in the yard, they would follow him wherever he went, In doe Shoe the breod was ready for the gridiron, The head of a killed chicken was one of Tom’s perquisites; but when he was offered the head of one of lis décapita- ted chicks, he took it, carried it to his bed, lay down near it, and howled. That was his lament over the deatli of his adopted children. SPANKING A Phoresson.—Trie as the proverb is which asserts that “A good beginning reakes a good ending,” yet it does not deny that, in exceptional gases, there may be a good endin that which began badly. which occurred im agwestern epliepe illustrates thé possible existence of these exceptional cases : A tall and muscular young student, named Healy, entered the sophomore class without taking the freshman course, and was therefore un- acquainted with the college professors, He measured six feet and five Inches in his stockings, and soon became a terror to the unlucky freshmen who happened to encounter him. One Wilier morning, as the sophomores were winding their way to recitation along a narrow path shoveled in the snow, they met a party of freshmen. At once there begamg a tussle as to who should Have the right of way. In the amusing fray Henly became prominent, picking up the fresh- men with either hand and tessing thems into the snow banks. “The last man of the line of freshmen was a dapper little exquisite in a plug hat. Henly laughing- ly picked him up,and laying him over his knee, spanked him soundly, and then put him into the snow, hat first. What was his dismay, as he entered the recitation room. to learn that the little extjuisite was Mr, Taylor, the Greek professor ! He sought counsel from his intimate friends, and they determined to go with him to the professor and beg pardon for the offense. At the close of the recita- tion they went to the professor's room, and Henly n to speak, when the ludicrousness of the affair overcame him, and in spite of his fear of the pro- fessor and his desire for pardon, he lavghed till he cried. With just indig- nation, Prof. Taylor demanded an ex- planation, But, little Jnan’s wrath only increased 8 vl and at last the student bad. to retire, with the apology unmade, As soon as he had red h ‘hé was thoroughl Taylor to explain his conduct. To his surprise, the professor not only forgave him, but became his friend. It was said by the members of Henly's class, when he took Greek, Ass orottugior though the mest impartial of teachers, had one favorite. The fellows also fotind it rather dangerous to speak disparag- ingly of Prof. Taylor in Henly’s, pres nee, a hy) a # by 22 wa g to % 1 a An incident From Demorest. About Water. A curious fact about water is that it is the rust of the metal known as hydrogenium. When oxygen combines with iron it forms a reddish rust, and the metal becomes in time disintegrated. In this condition it is said to be oxidized. Now, water is simply oxidized hydro- genium. This metal is present in the stn and all the placets in enormous quantities. Indeed it is said that the human body is composed of 54 pails of water, mingled with some lime, iron and certain salts, Chemistry has re- vealed to us many marvels, but none greater than the cemposition of com- Ho !l for the North Pole. Lieut. Greeley, who, with his party proposed to work their way from Smith’s Sound to the North Pole, bas not been heard of for two years. An expedition was sent to his relief last year, but it failed to reach him. Two vessels, the Proteus and the Yantic, are pow on their way to relieve Lieut. Greeley and his party. Even if he cannot be reached, provisions can be left at a place he can fall back upon if he should wish to do so. He is so well eared for in the way of supplies that he ean live several years without hearing from home. Though beaten thus far, the human race will never give up the effort to solve the problem of the Pole, RBooner or later we will know all about the planet we inhabit, The Highest of Waterfalls. Some years ago Niagara was supjosed to be the most magnificent waterfall in the world, but recent African explorers discovered that the falls on the river Zawbesi, known as the Victoria, are even more wonderful than the famous Ameri- can waterfall, And now comes the news that in. Washington Territory there exists what is, in some respects, the most marvelous cataract in the world. It'is on the Cowlitz river, and the fall is fully 1500 feet high. It has not yet been fully explored. There is also a waterfall in Wyoming Territory " 475 feet high, which is said to be a very wonderful catamct of its kind. The remarkable newness of our country is shown by the fact that these great natural curiosities have not as yet been thoroughly examined by white men. Anenf the Mormons. The legislation of the last Congress to check the growth of Mormonism has been ineffectual. The commissioners appointed to carry out the law went to work zealously, but polygamy and other unpopular practices still flourish iw #pite of the ban put upon them by the Federal Government. This, indeed, wal to have been expected, The genius of our government is opposed to any interference with private practices which claim to be based upon religious sanctions. Inthe meantime the Mormon In addition 0 It power is growing. mataral increase, nearly 40,000 new con- verts from the old and new world will HN have joined them before the beginning year. They hold the "bal- jJance of power in Wyoming Territory, Half the members of the Idaho Legis- lature were Mormorns, and in Celorado and Arizona thay have thriving setile- ments. A Laramieeditor declares that the Mormons ‘“‘are spreading so rapidly over the Northwestern States and Ter- ritories that béfore 16ng that entire sec- tion will be practically under their control.” Itis clear that the problem of Row fe deal with these peculiar people has not yet been'Solved, and it may be the next century will see a terrible conflict between the military Jeadets of this false religion and the general government of the United States, of the new What our Colleges Lack. A ‘giadaate of Harvard declares that his Alma Mater is not the ideal univer- sity, becanse enthusinsm is considered among the students as **bad form.’”* It seems the whole tone of that seat of learning is averse to anything like gen- erous emotion. The. tendency, there- fore, is to indifferentism and the mak- ing of literary dudes, The graduate becomes self-sufficient and supercilious, The only pursuit that is followed with ardor is athletics, especially boating. It is a mistake to suppose that the chief wants of colleges are money and able professors, The leading Scotch coats of learning have always been very poof 3 but the stullents were recruited {from the common people, and as they had their fortunes and careers to make hey were assiduous in their studies. As & eotisequience, the graduates of the world many of its most brilliant lights, As compared with Oxford and Cam- bridge, where only rich students ean matriculate, the advantage has been with the Scoteh universities with their poor endowments and poorer students, Oar own West Point gives an admirable training to its cadets, They are und r ject is known down to the roots. Yet West Point costs the nation but a trifling sum compared with the splen- 1id results and the kind of officers it develops. ‘What our colleges need is, not more money but higher aims, more thoroughness, and, above all, enthusi. asm among the students. w———————n fA —— Jottings. «The fourth son of the more than millionaire young George Vanderbilt is ambitious of journalistic resown, —(ierman wine-growers are begin- ning to dread the competition from California, —Hay fever is increasing year by year in this country, according to the Medical News. — It is said now that oleomargerine constitutes a prominent element in ice eream, —ol, Fred. Grant has taken a house at Morristown, N. J., he and his family will live there in future, —The Mormon Church has recently gent a hundred missionaries to the South to make converts, ~It i8 claimed that the climate of Colorado is changing so far as its aver- age moisture is concerned. It rains frequently where a few years ago rain was considered a novelty. now —The papers speak of a Shetland pony foaled in Pennsylvania only 19 inches high and weighing 15 pounds, —olonel Casey, of the Engineer Corps, snd Acting Secretary of State Davis, went to Westmoreland county, Va., last week, and visited the old ‘Washington homestead there for the purpose of selecting a site for the monument authorized by act of Cou- gress to be erected at the birth-place of General Washington. The site they selected is about 300 yards from the house in which Washington was born, and is at the base of a bluff on a spot particularly well adapted for the erec- tion of a monument, AGRI os. ASS Two Leading Tobacco Markets of Virginia. A correspondent of a journal writing from Lynchburg thus speaks of its To- bacco market in eomparison with that of Danville : Lynchburg is recognized as one fo the leading Tobacco marts, with Dan- ville in close proximity, and its rival Each pretends to leadership, and ac- cording to the revenue returns Dan- ville appears to lead Lynchburg. Both cities return about $15,000 weekly into Unelé Samuels treasury Danville averaging about a thousand dollars over Lynchburg ; but this is said to be somewhat fictitious so far as judgment of sales is concerned, The speculative spirit of Danville, it is said, causes con- siderable of the Tobacco brought the farmers to be resold, thus account ing for thelr alleged larger sales ; but at Lynchburg this is never the case, The revenue show how much in by returns, of course, only f Tobacco is manufact- ured at the two places—not that sold and Danville in this takes the lead, hav. ing fully many manufactories ig as snchburg, and more warehouses, as The Tobacco sales are conducted by auction. Large quantities are brought in by the farmers—Jots of from 25 to 2500 pounds, or even more ; and these are ranged in the auction warehouse side-by-side, not in samples, but th whole lot—large or small. The lots are numbered, and the buyer goes from pile to pile, with the auctioneer, bid- ding. He has, or conrse, previously looked the Tobacco over, and knows what to offer, The Lynchburg Tobac co is very dark, and sells on an average for about seven cents per pound. Dan- ville enjoys a monopoly on what is call- ed the ** Yellow Leaf,’ a much finer grade than that sold at Lynchburg, and this averages about twelve cents per pound, The. Leaf, manufactured, brings from eighty cents to one dollar per pound, For the present season Lynchburg ex- pects her sales to amount to 30,000,000 pounds, and Danville to 36,000,000 pounds. Western Tobacco Journal, AAA Claims. The elaims of tobacco dealers which are payable in money, cannot be settled before an appropriation of Congress is obtained. The manufacturers are reap ing the harvest first, Their claims are paid in stamps, and as soon as a claim is passed a requisition is given for stamps upon the Collector in the dis trict where the manufacturer resides, Recently the Catlin Tobacco Company, of St. Louis, received a requisition for $24,000 worth of stamps on Collectot Sturgeon, the amount of their rebate ‘claim. Other requisitions of larger claims of manufacturers have followed, 1t is expected that the rebate claims of manufacturers will all be settled and paid for in stamps within two months from date. The dealers perforce must ‘walt for the action of the next Cone Hints on Aviculture. In a mixed aviary there should bea mixed supply of food, comprising every kind of nourishment given to birds in confinement, They can then pick and choose for themselves, taking only what best suits their taste and their stomachs, Besides which, to have enough for all, there should always be a little too much, in order that the weak may find something after the stronger have had their fill. In con- sequence of access to this stock of diverse provisions a sick bird from a caze where there is little variety of food will often recover its health after a short sojourn in an aviary, True, the greater liberty and opportunitiés for exercise may bave something to do with it. I have even taken pity on ailing cage-birds in a dealer's shop, and bought them cheap asa speculation ; and, on submitting them to a course of aviary regime, have had the pleasure of seeing them regain strength and spirits, Failures, however, must be confessed to, if the patients’ weakness is too far advanced or their Jungs attacked, And their little lives often hang on so slender a thread ! In addition, threfore, to the seeds usually given to birds--wheat, oats, barley, canary, hemp, rape, millet—I would recommend, in an aviary, to set before the bread soaked water or milk—this is indispensable for robins, hedge-sparrows, warblers, and the like, and wi other birds not usually counted among the soft-billed——cooked carrots, inmates II be enjoyed by pota- rich man’s table, besides scraps, vegeta- ble and animal, not good enough for the servants: buckwheat, groundsel, chickweed, plantain: a fresh green grass turf, frequently renewed, of which the birds will not only bite and suck the blades but will thereto search the for ill earth adherent When the heart of a broccoli, a cabbage or letty grains of gravel and stone, is cut sut in the garden it will w afforded by stump be seen what delight is throwing down to them the rooted with the outer leaves attached, and it for hours, their amusement twenty-four Several baths, too, there should be in different parts of for the privile $i 9 whe . the aviary, 1o | of first revent quarrels ge bathing ; i Ares the COner. besides which q his strength and his joy, in j splashes out nearly all the water I bath, tide for second plant laaving i, eRving HOW Only A avian i81tor, in the a few ordinary dog-roses, sloe bushes, but not with an their growing or even The bullfinch for disbudding fruit expectation of living. has a bad name trees ; but nt. Your will not have been planted an hou he is gliruis comparatively innece - 1 ¥ 1.4 fore you will see your goldfinches mitting still worse havoc by the bark from every tender Vos : 4 - # 3 4 5 bad for th &, but good and al any 1 ¥ = & shrul ale Agreeabie pa ¥ tie ¢ Or costly Wo — —— wn Wanted to be Certain. “What that mayor of an « whuder or not “Don’t you know that you tinier tting youl are you bu 7 asked “Ter sah are not “It's sortgr doubtful, sah. I found a quarter jes now, an’ I wanster see whuder or not 'sedreamin’,’’ and he wall | id negro. I'se against or tes asleep, asleep ¥"° “I'se been fooled dis way too often, under a rock, I sot down an’ counted it an’ turned it in my YJoyment. Dar it was, all silver. I was dreamin’, but I beard a bird a gingin® in a tree, an’ saw de leaves tremblin’ in de air. Den I knowed 1 was awake an’ I rej'iced wid a loud mouf. 1 went up townto de man what owns my cabin an’ bought it ob him, an’ it down in de big book, ober I was mighty cabbage. 1 come home an’ was 'grat- ulatin’ myse'f when all ob a sudden ment my wife yells out : ‘Yer's a ole lar, fur yer ain't bot dis cabin. Yer'd better get out’n dat bed an’ chop some wood, or yer won't get no breakfas’ heah to-day I’ I got out’n bed mighty sheepish, kase I'd been talking in my sleep. Now, wid dis quarter I'se a gwinter satisfy myse'f dat 1 ain't a dreamin’ before I 'gratulates myse’f,"’ and he again jammed his head against the wall. ——— BLEACHING AGENTS are ususily good disinfectants ; that which can so dis turb an organic compound as to destroy its color is capable of either arresting or completing the decomposition that pro- duce vile odors and are produced by or ganic germs or ferments, ————— Look not mournfully into the past, it cannot come back again ; wisely ime prove the present, it is thine ; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart, — Low fellow, Home Economies, J an Grove Powper.-—The glove pow- der so generally used to prevent injury from perspiration is of value ; but com- mon corn starch rubbed thoroughly over the hands before putting on the gloves, will snswer this purpose, To MAKE A GLOSS UPON SHIRTS, — To secure a gloss when ironing shirts, take of raw starch one ounce; gum arabic, one drachin ; white of an egg or albumen, half an ounce; soluble glass, quarter of an ounce; water, q. #8, Make the starch into a fine creain, dissolve the gum in a little hot water, cool and mix it with the albumen, and beat up the mixture with the starch liquid ; then add the water-glass (solu- tion) and shake together. Moisten the starched linen with a cloth dipped in this liquid, and use a polishing iron to develop the gloss, The craze for Japanese fans with which to decorate the home still exists, and many pretty things are made with them. They are also much used as a foundation for framing cabinet photo- graphs, One side of the fan should be pasted over with some rich shade of satin, such as Napoleon blue, cardinal, peacock green or old gold. The color should contrast with the photograph, which should be placed in a slightly is suspended on the wall somewhat i | i ft). turn in the edges neatly and trim them with a small gold cord ; put inthe photograph, and sew it with blind stiches § ivy Liki the sides of the fan paint on the BLK the finished silesia to match with long ends at the bottom of the fan where the sticks join, and also a bow at it with which to hang it up. A couple bow and ends of satin ribbon, and placed over a large paint. ing or engraving with very good effect, Damned net is coming into fashion 11 rir diiii It is very effective as trim Ig for dresses or a8 bordering for fine cloths It can be worked in vari- ifferent or cushions, ous ways with « materials, fine lace thread, colored purse silks, or with les either white, is is Brussels lace, and and flose upon colored, or black nets, Darned net carried to great perfection in what | known as imitation a very great variety of stitches can be formed of guipure d'art, and modern point lace stitches are taken as guides. When used as trimming to ball-dresses is usually selected for a n, and the embroidery worked ored filoselles g for damming are ¢ those that tch being the s : ALSO used, atin atital ek Lael DVALAS im pink side uppermost paper 1, the lace needle upon and thread a long $4 coy y 1 ALR he flowers by darning the silks in and out : 3 the embreidery o or silk. | Fill in all the centres of { leaves or | of the honeycombs, and work spots all Thread the needle with another colored silk and double it, and over the net, | round the outer edge of the leaves and with it. The double thread is run in | and out of the net as in plain darning. i { | side of the net, the right side of the | work being underneath. Unpick and | turn the work and finish the edge of the | lace with a series of scallops made to | buttonhole stitch. i Warming His Ears. Late one evening an omnibus was | rambling down 5th avenue, New York. A handsome young lady, modestly at- tired, sat near the door. As the vehicle passed the Hotel Brunswick, a man with a white bat, diamond studs and gray side whiskers, caught sight of the pretty face. He entered the omnibus and sat down at the side of the yeuung lady, After paying his fare he hummed “Sweet Violets,”' and tried to attract her attention, Wrapt in her own eon- templations she gazed at the stately residences on the avenue, unmindful of her surroundings. Suddenly she felt the tips of gray whiskers on her cheek, “Are you not eold, Miss?’ their owner said, “Oh, no,” was the modest reply. “Are your ears cold ?*’ “Certainly not,” the man replied. “But why do you ask ?¥*’ “Because you evidently want them warmed ?* The only other tocupant of the stage laughed Gutright at the cutting retort. The bearded man flushed and polled the ste He got out in some and the stage rumbled onward, while the young lady resumed her cons templations, — Herald, Thd Field of Science. sss Nearly all the myths as to the origin of fire represent it as stolen from the gods, sometimes by a bird, sometimes by an animal, sometimes by a man. In several of these legends the stolen fire is hidden in wood, whence it may Le brought out by rubbing, A French investigator, who has = taste for the curious in science, has re- cently made a series of experiments to test the strength of insects as compared with the strength of other creatures He finds that, in proportion to its size, a bee can pull thirty times as much as 2 horse, The staining of bricks is effected by melting one ounce of glue in a gallon of water, then adding a piece of alum as large as an egg, one-half pound of Venetian red and one pound of Spanish brown ; redness or darknéss is increased by using more red or brown. For coloring black, heat the bricks and dip in fluid asphaltum or in a hot mixture of linseed oil and asphalt, DEPTHS OF THE ATLANTIC.—AD other French expedition has started, in the steamer Talisman, to explore the depths of the Atlantic. It will begin with the coast of Morocco and the vi- cinity of the Canary islands, and will go thence to the Cape Verd island, the red-coral fisheries of Ban Jago, and the desert islands of Braco and Rava, which are frequented by saurians that are found nowhere else, and will pay par ticular attention to the Sargasso ses and ts fauna. OIL OX THE TROUBLED WATER. — The efficiency of oil to temper the rage of the waves in a storm at sea now generally recognized, and it is becom- ing the practice for vessels to take oil with them to be used in cases of ex- tremity. The ship Glamorganshire was recently saved in a tempest by the timely of while a powerful steamer, the Navarre, neglecting it, was is i nil : swept by the waves and went down in the North sea, on the 6th day of March, with those on board. The oil operates by preventing the waves around the vessel fromm breaking, and con ordi Yee mverting them into a heavy swell WoxNDERS oF THE BUN, —The sun is one of those innumerable and mundane spheres which God has placed above us, and presuming the light of the sun only as much as the light of dog small star away from us, is little that this 35,000,000,000 nfiles as far as we can learn, but yet the sun is 862 000 miles in dia meter, equal to thousands of earths. How exact this measure is we have no the star, we must consider is 1. way of proving, more than by telling the exact distance of it from the earth. hich § £3" which is said to be 85,000,000 miles, Now I have dwelt too long, perhaps, bt expianation, 118 introduction, but it is one which The the does, t deal o "Un ix . 3 SUI 18 0 Conirol s i which 1 ves at the velocity ity i PM motion of y earth, of 68, - 000 miles per hour, which is 1.000 miles if ti were {o tion upon the earth more does, what a J Or. ie sun | avert > 3 | exert an attrac ¢ t than It now ference it | would make again, suppose the | sun should be taken away and neve: | shine on this sarth, can you imagine what it would be? Nothing but one blackened space, where day would never come, where we would never have the sun to shine upon the broad land. and 80 nothinsg could grow. If the sun should cease to shine for three days the earth would not last near this long, for it would be one long, blackened, dreary space ; we would soon grow so cold that we would all suffer, so much that death would soon ensue. As far back as the year 1611 spots have been seen upon the sun, and just as soon as this was announced it excited such a stream of opposition between the churches and the people that many on looking through the large telescope would not be lieve otherwise than that it was some- thing on the glass or in their eves. These spots upon the su; sowetithes appear to be black, and again they seem of a brown color, and are of very kind of shape, some round, some oval, and others long and apparently flat. The sun cannot be eclipred, it is the earth that must be eclipred, and so when we peak of the eclipee of the sun we mean the eclipse of the earth, Malaria. The worst forms of malaria are found in our close bedrooms, our filthy back yards, stables, sinks, drains, ete. We make the worst climate known in ordi. nary society, Our habits produce more disease than the old-fashioned malaria. SAA W———siipisilains. Sorrow seems sent for our instruc. tion, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing, — Richter, An exchange says clergymen would Eee na pi use 1. ve a deal coupling. goed -