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*min for 6iris.
JUST WHAT YOU MAKE IT.
"I am sick of this cant and twaddle, for
I can call it by no better name. It is all
nonsense—no girl need throw herself away.
Couldn't support herself! And so she
married that man with no moral stamina,
no more fit for her to mate with, than an
eagle is to mate with a crow !"
"Why, what could she do ? She couldn't
teach—she had no gift in the way of busi
uet.s. She had to marry."
"Do," said I, "why she could do house
work 1"
"Do housework !" My companion lifted
her hands in horror and amp cement. "Do
housework ! Who would recognize her,
and then *he is not able to do housework."
"Is there caste in this land ? I would
recognize her none the less because she
made my bread anti washed my dishes.—
Not able to do housework ! What has she
taken upon her but housework Will
not the vows, of wi'ehood and the care she
has assumed be housework ? Working
out, as you term it, would be nothing to
the responsibility she has taken."
"Oh, well, the world does not look at it
in this light."
"Does that m:.-e the work any easier ?
I fail to see the point."
"You always do put things so queerly.
I for one would do just as Emma Haze
did. if I were situated in r- same manner"
Wouid you, reader ? The circumstances
are these :
Emma Haze was an orphan. She bad
a home at an uncle's, if such a pla..,a can
he called home. She was tolerated there
because she was a brother's hild. She
worked for her board and was grudingly
allowed the clothes she needed. Although
her education was good, she had no tact
for toaelsing She bad no taste for busi
ness, as has been already said. Her forte
was doing ' sework, but rather olan
support herself in that way—fo: fear of
what Mrs. Grund and her trr*.n of felowers
would say—she ruar...!d a man who had
no mind, no principle, no education, but a
little money.
Would you have done it ? I t' e
question to each one who readF this--would
you have done it? If you wculd, then
you are—must I say it? a coward.
And now I want to pt3ach a sermon to
every girl in this land. perhaps there
will be nothing beautiful n it, nor any
poetry in it, but it will have the : merit,
there will be truth in it. This is the text :
"Girls, your life will be just what you
make it."
Nothing is lowering to your dignity, it'
you do nut let it lower your dignity. Keep
in the path of I t.tue aLI you are in the
right. It is no worse for you to go into
the kitchen of another and do '`le work
and be paid twenty shillings a reek for it,
than it is to marry and do the same work,
and get nothing for it but wha; you eat
and the clothes you wear.
I went in search of a Bervan_ girl last
summer. For seven long weeks I searched
sorrowing. One pretty looking girl told
me that if I only lived in town instead of
the country she would help me, but she
was afraid she would spoil her complexion.
Yet her father was a drunkard, and her
mother earned their daily bread by going
out at day' . )rk, scrubbing, washing and
the like. rind there the daughte' was
content to sit with folded hands, waiting,
hoping that some one would come and
marry her.
"But," says one, "I don't want to think
that I must work out all my life for a
living."
You need not, but you will need courage,
perseverence and a will to do. Let ire
tell you a story. Mary Barnum and her
brother were left orphans. She was six
teen, he fourteen. The father had been a
shiftless, inefficient sort of a man, and had
laid up nothing for the future, so they
were obliged to support themselves. For
tunately for her, she knew how to do
housework, and any one who secured Mary
secured a treasure. So she went to work.
She sent her brother to school. At the
age ef sixteen he meant to learn a trade.
Soon after she came to me.
"I am tired of doing housework, tired
of scouring knives and cooking dinners,
and now I am going to school," sbe said.
'Going to school ! What are you going
to live upon ?"
"I'll earn my living."
And she did. She worked at one place
fur a year. She earned twenty shillings
per week. She spent fifty cents a week,
so that at the end of the year she bad
$lO4. Now she was ready to start for
school. She selected the best school in
the State— the State Normal. She rented
a room for fifty cents a week. The school
term for tke year is forty weeks. Twenty
dollar:, of her money was gone. Some few
friends, seeing that she was determined to
go to school, furnished her room very
plainly and cheaply.
She then resolved to live on one dollar
a week ; t. is necessitated the strictest
economy. Thus sixty dollars of her money
were spent. That left her bat forty-four
dollars with which to pay her tuition, buy
her books and get the needfuls.
To be sure, she was not noted for the
number of her dresses, nor was her hair
frizzled and puffed in just the latest style,
nor did she appear at every social ; but one
thing she was noted for, perfect lessons.—
She gave attention to her studies so that
at the end of the year her scholarship was
such that she received a training certifi
cate, ertitling her to teaoh without a public
examination. Whatever she undertook
she did well. Her motto was : What
ever is worth doing at all is worth doing
well."
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The next two years she taught, receiving
$4OO per year. At the end of two years
she managed ‘o save $4OO, to send her
to school the remaining two years. With
the utmost economy, it served her purpose.
She had so little left that she bad not
enough money to buy a new dress in
which to graduate.
But when the boquet was thrown her at
the close of reading her essay, I hardly
think she thought if her dress was new or
not. Afterward I heard the Governor and
the State Superintendent congratulating
her.
The next year she was offered an ex
cellent situation in one of our Union
schools. But, her health having suffered
during the last term she was in school,
she went out doing housework, instead of
accepting the position. Did it degrade
her any ? No; she did her work just as
faithfully as if it were the chosen business
or her life.
At the end of six months, her health
being established, she commenced teach
ing. She was a successful teacher.
Where is she to day ? The wife of an
eminent professor in one of our Western
colleges.
I know another lady who borrowed the
money to take her through school, and
paid it after she commenced teaching.—
To-day she is one of our most successful
writers.
Another who had no means of her own,
had a brother who was a farmer. He had
not much ready cash, but he gave her
enough provisions for herself and a little
girl boarder. For the board of the little
girl she received live dollars per week.—
The five dollars per week carried her
through school. After graduating she
taught. Iler health failed, and the physi
cian advised her to give up teaching and
fro to doing housework. Fortunately for
her, she knew how.
She had a piano, and was very fond of
music. So her next thonght was, could
she not find some place where she could
earn her board and a little more, and take
music lessons ? She went here and there
to find such a place. She succeeded at
last, and was offered one dollar a week.—
She accepted the situation, and did her
work so faithfully and well, that the lady
paid her two dollars instead of one. She
toed her she earned it. Was not that bet
ter than to have sat down and folded her
hands and bemoaned her fate ?
At the end of the year her health was
established, and to her other attainments
she had added that of music. Do you
think she lost one womanly ~r ace during
the year she did housework Far from
it. She had gained in many things that
which makes the true woman, and to day
few are her equals. •
Girls, you need not say, "mother was
to I,latue; she lover taught me to work."
Put your mind to it, and your heart in it,
and in a year's time you will be mistress
of 'iousework.
Mary Mead was left penniless ; she was
then seventeen. A few days after the
death of her parents she came to me.
"What shall I do ?" she said, "T abso
lutely know nothing which will enable me
to take cat of myself."
And it was so. E..7.1e could sing a little,
play a little, and paint a little. Her
mother had done all the work just as a
good many other mothers are now doing,
and left Mary to romp and play, and have
a good time generally.
"What shall I do ?" she said, bursting
into sobs. "If I knew any one will would
teach me housework, I would work one
year for my board."
I told her I would find such a place,
and did so, and so thoroughly and well
did she learn, that at the close of the year,
the lady of the house was glad to keep her
and pay her wages. She stayed six years.
At the end of that time the son, a noble
young man, who had just entered into
business with his father, astonished his
mother one morning by saying :
"I am going to ask Mary Mead to be
my wife. Mother," said he, "not a word.
Do not say anything you will wish unsaid.
If I mistake not Mary will be just as
astonished as you are."
And Mary was. But why should she
have been ? She had a good deal of
leisure, and she had improved that leisure.
Sometimes she read, sometimes she played,
sometimes she painted. The lady of the
house had seen that she was lady-like and
reserved, and had given her access to the
/ library and piano at proper times—privi
leges which are not usually given to ser
vants ; nor do they usually deserve them.
She never intruded, but made the most of
her privileges. She had saved her money,
and when they were married—for married
they were—she had enough to plainly
furnish their home, and over it she pre
sided with grace and dignity.
Now, I would not have you girls to go
out doing housework for the sake of get
ting a house, for you might fail if that
were your intention, but I would have you
all remember your life will be jest what
,you make it.—Signs of the Times.
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*elect PisaJiang.
His Secret Devotion.
It was in Boston
A low, musical sound came up from the
closet under the stairs, and the mother
listened.
It was her little son softly singing to
himself :
"I reed thee every hour."
"How glad I am that I took my little
boy to hear that sermon on 'Closet Devo
tions' at the Tabernacle last evening," said
she.
Then she could not forbear stepping
quietly to the closet door to catch a glance
at the "dear child," the "precious lamb"
—"bless h heart !"
So she did.
And she saw him—saw him devoutly
engaged in humming that revival hymc
and also—running his fingers around in
the preserve jar !
and there the devotion was broke up—
broke up amid groans of repentance for
sin found out.—Pack.
Two CHINAMEN were arrested the other
day in Hartford for assault on each other.
They were held until Friday morning and
discharged, as it was impossible to under
stand them or make theta understand
English. One said, "We all like MeHaan
man, shortee hair, dressee, bootee, get
drunk, make noise, much fns."
A MINISTXR having walked through a
village churchyard, and observed the in
discriminate praises bestowed upon the
dead, wrote on the gate post the following
line : "Here lie the dead, and here the
living lie !"
A report has been made that the cross
ing of the Danube is necessary on account of the
health of the army.
Dr. Hammond on "Sleep."
Dr. Wm. Hammond lectured at Chick
ering Hall on Monday evening for the
benefit of the Metropolitan throat hospital.
New York, upon the subject of "sleep."
Dr. Hammond began his lecture by com
paring the periods of rest enjoyed by the
different vital organs of the human body,
saying that the heart, aggregating the mo
ments between its beats, rested six hours
out of the twenty-four, and that the liver,
the stomach, etc., enjoyed each its period
of inactivity and recuperation, but that the
brain had no rest save in the moments of
sleep—sometimes not then. The lecturer
then sketched briefly the principles of the
wear and tear of the human organism and
of its building up. The waste of the vital
tissues was repaired almost as soon as it
was made, but the change was constant.
The hair of yesterday was not the hair of
to-day and the muscle for extending the
arm was not identically the same muscle
after the arm had been extended. The re
freshment and restorative of the brain was
sleep.
15r. Hammond narrated several anec
dotes illustrating the necessity of sleep and
the inability to resist it after long wake
fulness, even when the subject is laboring
under severe physical discomfort or pain.
Soldiers frequently, the doctor said, had
been known to sleep soundly in the saddle,
and he had often slept himself in this man
ner. He also told of a soldier who walked
a distance of 200 yards while in a sound
sleep, and he would have doubtless walked
further if he had not been awakened by
striking his foot sharply against a stone.
There was a recorded instance of a China
man, convicted of the murder of his wife,
having been compelled to die through the
deprivation of sleep. Guards were posted
with him constantly whose duty it was to
keep him always awake. On the eighth
day the wretch fell upon his knees and
begged for the blessed privilege of being
strangled or performing hari-kari. The
amount of sleep necessary to health varies,
the doctor said, with age. In infancy the
constructive process is exceptionally lively
and the child needs, accordingly, a great
deal of sleep; and again, in old people, de
cay predominates over construction and
more sleep is needed. Dr. Hammond did
not think that the necessary amount of
sleep which a man required depended ab
solutely upon the size of the brain. He
instanced the case of a celebrated French
surgeon who Vas said under the excite
ment of a certain research, in which he
was engaged, to have gone without sleep
for a period of six weeks, and of a general
whom report made to have gone a whole
year sleeping but one hour out of every
tweniy-four. Dr. Hammand thought, how
ever, that these figures are to be taken
cum grano sails. Men whose work was
mental needed more sleep than men whose
work was physical. More than this, per
haps, there was no positive law to be set
down. The necessity varied with the in
dividual. One human machine seemed
pretty well oiled and ran so as not to need
much repair, another grated and needed
mending constantly. _ . .
There was a difference of opinion among
medical men, Dr. Hammond said, as to
the physical motive of sleep, but he did
not see why there should be. The condi
tion of the brain during sleep, he thought,
was only a greater measure of the condi
tion provoking sleep. Sleep was produced
by a diminution of blood in the brain du
ring sleep more than during wakefulness.
One, reported by a French surgeon, was of a
young man who fell and cut a fissure in
his skull. The bone never grew together,
but the scalp grew over the wound and
lay directly upon the brain, and when the
young man slept the scalp over the fissure
sunk down to a considerable extent, but
when he was awake the scalp remained
even and at times bulged out. Dr. Ham
mond also explained a series of experi
ments which he had himself made with
dogs, and in which he had determined the
amount of blood in the brain more accu
rately by a graduated instrument, whicl_
he had inserted through the skull upon
the serface of the brain. As the brain
enlarged or diminished the fluctuations
were registered, and there was found to
be a great difference in the size of
the brain during sleep and wakefulness.
"And nothing had altered the size of the
brain but the blood there was in it," the
doctor said, "so we have it irrefutably es
tablished that during sleep there is less
blood in the brain than during wakeful
ness."
Dr. Hammond also considered heat and
cold as influence to sleep, and discussed
how to make eeple sleep who through
nervousnese, or some other extraneous
causes were not so disposed. He advised
the to think of some disagreeable thing,
ar a had known of a man who was invaria
bly able to get to sleep by the simple de
vice of allowing water to fall drop by drop
into a tin pan. The lecturer questioned
also the accuracy of the eommon stories of
extraordinary thinking during sleep. With
Coleridge and DeQuincy he thought there
was opium mixed with it. Concerning
dreams, Dr. Hammond thought they were
no original impressions but were founded
upon some former experience ; and yet
they were sometimes sufficiently eccentric.
Delicate women, the doctor said, deliber
ately entered upon a career of crime in
their dreams, and wakefully honest men
were vilely wicked without so much as a
blush. The lecturer concluded his lecture
with a story of a dream of his own. He
was on the Mississippi in a steamboat and
was attracted by a very thin person in a
big cloak. After a while he took out his
watch to see what time it was, when the
stranger approached him and enteeed into
, conversation, "That is a very nice watch
of yours," he said. "Would you be kind
enough to let me see it ?" Dr. Hammond
handed it to the stranger. He looked at
it, held it to his ear, and then threw open
his cloak. As he performed this action
Dr. Hammond remarked that he was a
skeleton. "I am not very well," he re
marked, noticing the surprise of the doc
tor, "and if it's all the same to you I'll
keep this watch for a heart, for you see I
haven't got any. But tell you some
thing for your courtesy. I'm going to blow
up this boat directly. When you hear
the whistle blow just you jump off and
you'll be all right." The stranger went
off with the doctor's watch after this and
the doctor tried to tell the passengers, but
he couldn't speak. Just then the whistle
blew, he jumped—and woke up. A fac
tory whistle in the neighborhood was blow
ing. Within the space of a few seconds he
had dreamed what had seemed to occupy
him for hours.
Gov. Emery of Utah, in a private letter
to a friend in Chicago, lays: "Perhaps you see a
good deal about the !Isere° Legion. There is
nothing in it but sensation."
The President of the Paris Municipal
Council will be prosecuted for "insulting" the
President.
The Sea Serpent of History Caught.
A most extraordinary event has occur
red at Oban, which I give in detail, hav
ing been an eye-witness to the affair. I
allude to the stranding and capture of the
veritable sea serpent in front of the Cale
donian hotel, George street, Oban. About
four, o'clock yesterday an animal or fish,
evidently of gigantic size, was seen sport
ing in the bay near Heather island. Its
appearance evidently perplexed a large
number of spectators assembled on the
pier, and several telescopes were directed
toward it. A careful look satisfied us that
it was of the serpent species, carrying its
head fully twenty-five feet above the water.
A number of boats were soon launched,
and proceeded to the bay, the crew armed
with such weapons as could be got handy.
Under the direction of Malcolm Nicholson,
our boatman, they headed the monster,
and some of the boats were i ithin thirty
yards of it when it suddenly sprang half
length out of the water and made for the
opening. A random fire from several vol
unteers with rifles seemed to have no ef
fect upon it. Under Mr. Nicholson's or
ders the boats ranged across the entrance
of the hay, and by their meatus and
shouts turned the monster's course, and it
headed directly for the breast wall of the
Great Western hotel. One boat contain
ing Mr Campbell, the Fiscal, had a most
narrow escape, the animal actually rubbing
against it. Mr. Campbell and brother
jumped overboard, and were picked up
unhurt by Mr. John D. Hardie, saddler,
in his small yacht, the Flying Scud. The
animal seemed thoroughly frightened, and
as the boats closed in the volunteers were
unable to fire, owing to the crowd assem
bled on shore. At a little past six the
monster took the ground on the beach in
front of the Caledonian hotel, in George
street, and his propoe , ions were now fully
visible. In his frantic exertions,
with his
tail sweeping the beach, no one dared ap
proach. The atones were flying in all di
rections; oae seriously injured a man call
ed Barney Barrow, and another broke the
window of the Commercial bank. A party
of volunteers under Lieutenant David
Menzie now assembled and fired volley af
ter volley into the neck, according to the
directions of Dr. Campbell, who did not
wish, for scientific reasons, that the con
figuration of the head should be damaged.
As there was a bright moon, this continu
ed till nearly ten o'clock, when Mr. Stev
ens of the Commercial bank, waded in and
fixed a strong rope to the animal's head,
and by the exertion of some seventy folks
it was securely dragged above high water
mark. Its exact appearance as it lies on
the beach is as follows : The extreme
length is 101 feet and the thickest part is
about 25 feet from the head, which is 11
feet in circumference. At this part is fixed
a pair of fins, which are 4 feet long by
nearly 7 feet across the sides. Further
back is a long dorsal fin, extending fbr at
least 12 or 13 feet, and 5 feet high in
front, tapering to 1 foot. The tail is more
of a flattened termination to the body than
anything else. The eyes are very small in
proportion and elongated, and gills of the
length of 24 feet behind. There are no
external ears, and as Dr. Campbell did not
wish the animal handled until he commu
nicated with some eminent scientific gen
tlemen, we could not ascertain if there
were teeth or not. Great excitement is
created, and the country people are flock
ing in to view it. This morning, Mr. Dun
can Clark, writer, took possession of the
monster, in the rights of Mr. McFee, of
Appin, and Mr. James Nicol, writer, in the
name of the crown.—Glasgow Hews.
To Tell a Perscn's Age.
There is sometimes a delicacy among la
dies and gentlemen to reveal their ages. If
you give them the following table of fig
ures and tell them to mention the columns
on which they find their ages recorded, the
secret can easy be koown :
Ist. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. sth. 6th
1 2 4 8 16 32
3 3 5 9 17 33
5 6 6 10 18 34
7 7 7 11 19 35
9 10 12 12 20 36
11 11 13 13 21 37
13 14 14 14 22 38
15 15 15 15 23 39
17 18 •20 24 24 40
19 19 21 23 25 41
21 22 '22 26 26 42
23 23 23 27 27 43
25 26 28 29 28 44
27 27 29 29 29 45
29 30 30 30 30 46
31 31 31 31 31 47
33 34 36 40 48 48
35 35 37 41 49 41),
37 38 38 42 50 50
39 39 39 43 51 51
41 42 44 44 52 52
43 43 45 45 53 53
45 46 46 46 54 54
47 47 47 47 55 55
49 50 52 56 56 56
51 51 53 57 57 57
53 54 54 58 58 58
55 55 55 59 59 • -59
57 58 60 60 60 60
59 59
KEY.-If the columns in which the age
of the person are found are added up, and
the total is the age of the person. Sup
pose you are 31 ; you will find that num
ber in columns No. Ist, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and
sth. Then add up the figures at the top
of columns-16, 8,4, 2, and 1, which
makes 31 ; so on in the same manner up
to 60.
team about the Pulse,
Every intelligent person should know
how to ascertain the state of the pulse in
health ; then by comparing it with what
it is when he is ailing, he may have some
idea of the urgency of his case. Parents
should know the healthy pulse of each
child—as now and then a person is born
with a peculiarly slow or fast pulse, and
the very ease in hand may be of that
peculiarity.
An infant's pulse is 140; a child of
seven, about 30, and from twenty to sixty
years it is 70 beats a minute ; there may
be good health down to sixty ; but if the
pulse always exceeds 70 there is a disease ;
the machine is working itself out, there is
a fever or inflammation somewhere, and
the body is feeding on itself; as in con
sumption, when the pulse is quick, that
is, over 70, gradually increasing with de
creased chances of cure, until it reaches
110 or 120, when death comes before many
days. When the pulse is over 70 for
months, and there is a slight cough, the
lungs are affected.
IT may be news to our readers to learn
that the Russians are advancing on Kwg
risoepitiggrovitchski, and are likely to
capture the place.
Miss Milly De Granville.
THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS LADY WITH
THE IRON JAW AS TOLD BY HERSELF.
From the World.]
"My name in MiDy De Granville. I'm
twenty-three years old, and lean lift 450
pounds dead weight with my teeth," said
the young lady with the iron jaw, as she
came forth smiling, after the performance
at Barnum's yesterday afternoon to meet a
reporter of the World.
'Fifteen minutes before the latter had
sat in mute astonishment while this young
woman, clad in perfectly fitting and be
coming tights, waved a kitchen chair in
her teeth, or by the tip end of its back
held it at right angels to her comely figure,
while all the multitude applauded. Now
he stood alone in the presence of a fash
ionable young lady, with pretty dimpled
cheeks and large gray eyes, that twinkled
good-naturedly beneath a perfect garden of
flowers in the shape of a spring hat, and
which looked honestly at the reporter as
the above startling announcement was
made. Transition from Greek statuary to
Parisian vitality was too sudden ; the re
porter stood speechless.
"What ! you don't believe me ? See ?"
And the spring bonnet bent down grace
fully, while with an incisive click a set
of beautifully white and even teeth came
together on the back of a mahogany chair,
which straightway was tossed high up over
the young lady's head held their a moment,
triumphantly returned to its legs, and then
complacently sat down upon by Miss De
Granville.
"Well, will you," said the reporter, cu
riosity overcoming finer instincts, "allow
me to inspect those remarkable teeth."
"Of course," said Miss De Granville, a
beaming smile at the same time supplying
the opportunity. never"—with diffi
culty articulating through a widely opened
mouth—"called upon a dentist in all my
life and never had a moment's toothache."
Accurately described, and without any
poetical reference to pearls, Miss De Gran
ville's teeth are perfect, which, consider
ing the fact that for the last six years she
has put them to such uncommon uses as
lifting of water casks and Shetland ponies,
is somewhat remarkable.
"Yes," mused the young lady as the re
porter expressed his opinion. "My teeth
are pretty good, but it's not in them that
my strength mainly lies; it's here (touch
ing th- back of her neck), and here
(dropping her hand lower on the spinal
colume) that I get the muscle. I tell you
I'm awfully strong." Here Miss De
Granville paused, blushed, and nervously
patted the carpet with a little foot and
swung a fragile parasol in her jeweled
fingers. Sne didn't look like Samson.
"Do tell me how you ever came to start
in this remarkable line of business" said
the reporter.
"Oh, yes. Well, you see, my mother
had—has still—a wonderful set or teeth.
Why, to this day she can bite a hickory
nut same as you would a peanut. My
father never had the toothache neither, to
the day ho died. When I was a little girl
I used to go round the house lifting things.
That was in Canada ; I was born in Toron
to. After a while we moved to Pennsyl
vania. Then ma got married again, and
I went to Chicago to earn my own living.
I ain't a bit ashamed of it tie. I used to
be a dining-room girl in Barnum's Hotel
in Chicago. Well, you see, the other girls
used to know how strong I was, and I used
to lift the chairs in my teeth just to amuse
them. One day the manager of the Al
hambra came to dine at the hotel, and
caught me lifting one of the dinning-room
chairs. "Why, little girl," says he "you
ought to go into the theatre." So I asked
him to take me, and he took .me, and I
went, and I've blessed him ever since."
"Then you've been very successful ?"
"Successful ? Why, I should.say so.
You see D'Atalie, the man with the iron
jaw, used to have it all to himself; but, of
course, when a woman could do the same
things it was a bigger card, and I can lift
more than D'Atalie, could. He was only
a little fellow, you know. But D'Atalie
is dead now ; so we won't say anything
about him, and, besides his wife—the
woman who used to fire off a cannon on
her shoulders, you know—is a friend of
mine, though she will never come to see
me act. It makes her think too much of
poor D'Atalie, she says. Yes," continued
the young lady showing her teeth, halt
sadly. And then she unaffectedly narrated
her eventful life since the time she lifted
the dining-room chairs in Chicago to the
present moment, dwelling upon the aston
ishment of the South Americans at a re
cent visit she nas paid that country.
In concluding the interview, Miss Do
Granville said that she has always enjoyed
most excellent health but has been lately
informed by a doctor that a pain occasion•
ally felt in her eyes is the result of contin
ued pressing upon the nerves of her eye
teeth, and that she will eventually have to
abandon heavy lifting.
How far a Greenback Will Go.
From the Laramie Sentinel.]
Mr. Brown kept boarders. Around his
table sat Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown,
Mrs.
Andrews, the village milliner; Mr. Black,
the baker; Mr. Jordan, a carpenter, and
Mr. Hadley, a flour, feed and lumber men
chant.
Mr. Brown took out of his pocket-book
a ten dollar note, and handed it to Mrs.
Brown, sayin ,, :
"Here, m;dear, are ten dollars toward
the twenty I promised you."
Mrs. Brown handed it to Mrs. Andrews,
the milliner, saying :
"That pays fur my'new bonnet."
Mrs. Andrews said to Mr. Jordan, as
she handed him the note :
"That will pay for your work on my
counter."
Mr. Jordan handed it to Mr. Hadley :
the flour, feed and lumber merchant re
questing his lumber bill.
Mr. Hadley gave the note back to Mr.
Brown, saying:
"That pays ten dollars on board."
Mr. Brown passed it to his wife, with
the remark that that paid her the twenty
dollars he had promised. She in turn
paid it to Mr. Black to settle her bread
and pastry account, who handed it to Mr.
Hadley, wishing credit for the amount on
his flour bill, he again returned it to Mr.
Brown, with the remark that it settled for
that month's board. Whereupon Mr.
Brown put it back into his pocket book,
exclaiming "that he never thought a ten
dollar bill would go so far."
Thus a ten dollar greenback was made
to pay ninety dollars indebtedness Wad
of five minutes, Who says greenbaoks aro
worthless ?
AN lowa paper gives a thrillingamunt
of the effort of a young man to take home
a widow and three swarms of bees at the
same time in a vfagon.
The Last Man.
WHAT IS TO !BECOME OF HIM, ACCORD
ING TO THE scarnmo SPECULATORS.
From the Scientific Ameriosn.]
What will become of the last man ? Va
rious theories that have been seriously
maintained by scientific men are described
and we summarize :
I. The surface of the earth is steadily
diminishing, elevated regions are being
lowered, and the seas are filling up. The
land will at last be all submerged, and the
last man will be starved or drowned.
2. The ice is gradually aucumulating at
the North Pole, the consequence of which
will be an awful catastrophy when the
earth's center of gravity suddenly changes.
The last man will then be drowned by the
rush of waters.
3 The earth cannot always escape a
come' and when the disaster C 1 3 ,1169 there
will b•:, a mingling of air and cometzry gas,
causing an explosion. if the last man :3
not suffocated he will be blown up.
4. There is a retarding medium in space,
causing a gradual loss •f velocity in the
planet -4, avid the earth, obeying the law of
gravitation, will get closer and closer to
the sun. The last man will be sun-struck.
5. The amount of water on the earth is
slowly diminishing, and simultaneously
the air is losing in quantity and quality.
Finally the earth will be an arid waste,
like the moon. The last man will he suffo
cated
6. Other suns have disappeirod, and
ours must, so.)ner or later, blaze up and
then disappear. The intense heat or the
conflagration will kill every living thing
on earth. The last man will be burned.
7. The sun's firs will gradually burn
out, and the temperature will cool. ThG
earth's glacial tones will enlarge, driving
our race toward the equator, until the
habitable space will lessen to nothing. The
last man will be frozen to death.
8. A gradual cooling of the earth will
produce enotmous fissures, like those in
the moon. The surface will become ex
tremely unstable, until the remnant of hu
manity wilt take refuge in caves The
last man will be crushed in his subterrane
an retreat
_9. The earth will at last separate into
small fragments, leaving the people with
out say foothold. The last man will have
a dreadful fall through space.
10. The tenth theory, providing that
there will be no last man at all, is thus ex
pressed : "Evolution does not necessari
ly imply progress, and possibly the race
may have retrograded until the human
being posse-ses the nature of the plant
louse, such being the case, this single in
habitant will spontaneously produce pos
terity of both sexes."
Spring Ailments,
The remedy for spring diseases, says
Hall's Journal of Health, by whatever
name, is : Eat less. We do not mean that
you shall starve yourself, or that you shall
deny yourself whatever you like best, for,
as a general rule, what you like best is best
for you ; you need not abandon the use of
tea or coffee, or meat, or anything
else you like, but simply eat less of them.
Eat all you did in winter, if you like, but
take less in amount. Do not starve your
self, do not reduce the quantity of food to
an amount which would scarcely keep a
chicken alive, but make a beginning by
not going to the table at all nnless you feel
hungry; for if you once get there, you will
begin to taste this and that and the ether,
by virtue of vinegar, or mustard, or syrup,
or cake, or something nice; thus a fled
,tious appetite is waked up, and before yon
"know it you have eaten a hearty meal, to
your own surprise, and perhaps that, or
something else, of those at table with you.
The second step towards the effeetnal
prevention of all spring diseases, summer
complaints, and the like, is : Diminish the
amount of food consumed at each meal
by one-fourth of each article, and to
practical it is necessary to be specific ; if
you have taken two cups of coffee, or tea,
at a meal, take a cup and a half; if you
have taken two biscuits, or slices of bread,
take one and a half; if you have taken
two spoonsful of rice, or hominy, or crack
ed wheat, or grits, or farina, take one and
a half; if yon have taken a certain or un
certain quantity of meat, diminish it by a
quarter, and keep on diminishing in pro
portion as the weather becomes warmer,
until you arrive at the points of safety and
health, and they are two : 1. Until you
have no unpleasant feeling of any kind
after your meals. 2. Until you have not
eaten so much at one meal, but that, when
the next comes, you shall feel decidedly
hungry.
Supplies being thus effectually cut off,
that is, the cause being first removed,
Nature next proceeds to work off the sur
plus, as the engineer does unwanted steam,
and as soon as this surplus is got rid of,
we begin to improve; the appetite, the
strength, the health return by slow and
safe degrees, and we at length declare we
are as well as ever.
Moral Character.
There is nothing which adds so much
to the beauty and power of man, as good,
moral character. It is his wealth—his
influence—his life. It dignifies him, in
every station, exalts him in every position,
and glorifies hint at every period of life.—
Such a character is. more to be desired
than any thing else on earth. It makes a
man free and independent. No servile
tool, croaking sycophant—no treacherous
honor-seeker ever bore such a character.
The pure joys of truth and rig'nteousuess
never spring in such a person. If young
men but knew how much a good character
would dignify and exalt them, how glorious
it would make their prospects, even in this
life; never shall we find them yielding to
the grovelling and baseborn purposes of
human nature.
A WRITER. in Scribner has an article on
the subjeet, "How to keep the boys on the
farm." He evidently means well, but be
doesn't touch the point. To keep the boys
an the farm the farm should be well pa
ved, and lighted with gas, and have a band
stand, and billiard tables, and its cwn bar
sad race course. We hope our farmer' are
just as anxious as they appear to keep
their boys on the farm, but they don't
seem to take any definite action.—Danbury
News.
"Bur I pan," said a minister in the
West End yesterday, in dismissing one
theme of his subject to take up another.
"Then I make it spades !" yelled a man
from the gallery, who was dreaming the
happy hours away in an imaginary game of
euchre. It is needless to say that he went
out on the next deal, being assisted by one
of the deacons with a full hand of trumps.
A Wetter* eettlar—The sertuits et el
sia4hootor.
NO. 24.