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Kiss me Good Night, Mamma.
Dear mamma, I've put all my playthings away,
Fee been such a good little darling to day ;
know that you love me, for often you've said
That I was your angel, now put me to bed.
The stars have come out, and, mamma, you
told me
They were windows through which all angels
could see ;
And now while there smiling on u4with delight,
Oh ! kiss me, dear matnr.:a, come kiss we good
night.
Angels watch over me, thy vigils keep,
Guard and protect me when 1 am asleep ;
Oh I bring me a message in dreams from papa,
Waiting in heaven for me and mamma.
Dear mamma, you kissed me and told me to
day
That if I'd kneel down you'd teach me to pray.
I heard you last night—won't you teach me
the same ?
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in one book,
And papa can read them while God holds the
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and me,
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good night.
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LEFT OUT IN TiiE COLD.
It was a winter evening and the snow
fell dreamily outside, down, down, over the
earth like a white mantle of charity.
One of those soft, midwinter nights.
when to stand at the window and look out
is a luxury—all seems so white and peace
ful—when to put out the hand and feel
the cold snowflakes touch it and melt
thrills one with a refreshing sense of life
and vigor. but to be obliged to go out,
alone and on foot, is not so delightful a
prospect.
And inside, on this night, were warmth
and light, the odor of fluwers, and the ele
gant appointments which betoken wealth
and taste—inside this pleasant home-man
sion on W. avenue, Chicago.
A young girl stood at the window of her
boudoir, and throwing back the shutters
leaned out a little way into the night and
down-falling snow.
She raised her face, beautiful as a day
lily, and the snowflakes kissed it lovingly
—the face, the brown, braided hair, and
the richly embroidered sack.
It was a beautiful picture she made from
the outside darkness, standing there in the
half open window, light and beauty gleam.
ing behind her, and snowdrops like a
feathery veil falling between her and the
chilly night.
So thought the little, dark robed girl
opposite, tripping along through the snow,
on the side street, and looking up at the
picture, framed in the dusk and shadow of
the evening.
The little girl's name was Bernice Floyd,
and her grandmamma, among the old New
England hills, had been wont to call her
Brownie, and she was certainly brown
enough, with her dark, curling hair, great
brown eyes, and rounded brown face, with
a flush of red at the lips and cheeks, like
autumn stains on forest leaves.
They bad lived in Boston in those farmer
days, and bad been wealthy, and Brownie's
mamma had dressed her always in soft rai
ment, warm colors, that brought forth the
beauty and brightness of the dark face ;
then came other days, when misfortune
stopped at the door, and they had conic
west to the great city, and prospered well;
but the darkest days of all came with the
fire of '7l, which swept nearly all they
had away, and Mr. Floyd bad contracted
a cold from which he never fully recovered.
He had never been able to do much, but
had obtained a small clerkship, and they
had lived in a very unpretentious way—
almost shabby—compared to the old life
Mr. Floyd had one friend—James Rus
sell—who lived in Boston, and who had
come to them once since their trouble,
when Bernice was fourteen years old, and
bad been pleased with her dark beauty and
bright, youthful vivacity.
He bad wished to help his friends, but
Floyd was proud and would not allow it,
and indeed they seemed to be getting oi;
better then, but at last be had prevailed
upon him to accept as a gift to his little
daughter, the price of her musical instruc
tion for one more year, and a beautiful
piano.
Then he bad gone abroad, and they had
scarcely heard from hie; since, n )t, even
when Mrs Floyd wrote to him of the death
of her husband. And so. in those long
dull days Bernice had her music to con
so!e her,
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It was her especial delight. and she
studied it with application and ardor. So
when her father died and left them with
but little, to battle against a world of
poverty, hunger and cidd, she had taken
the burden upon her little, strong shoulders
and taught music to a small class of pupils,
while her motLer did braiding and em
broidery for Madame L. 's establishment.
They had got on quite comfortably in
their small way, and lived "in rooms," but
they were bright and homey, with the
piano, a few flowers and a bird in the south
window, which was white—draped by deft
fingers.
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Bernice often ran errands for Madame
L., for even her lessons and practice did
not occupy all her time, and she liked to
do it, for it was a change for her, with a
glimpse of the old life, which seemed to
her now like a dream of the dead past,
never to be hers any more, and she ac
cepted her fate hopefully, and spent no
time of her busy life in useless regrets or
bitter envyings of those girls whose days
Were gladder, or whose future seemed more
rosy than hers. She was naturally active,
and her sort of life suited the energetic
pulsings of the brave little heart.
Madame L , was an impulsive French
woman, superficial like her race, brilliant
and a trifle grasping, but there was color,
brightness and a certain majestic presence
to the little Brownie, that reminded her of
her own early youth, and it refreshed her
and made her glad to have the young lady
about her.
Then she was an attractive feature to
the establishment, was swift and trusty,
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never made any mistakes in delivering the
dainty parcels of needlework, and always
remembered what, alterations were needed,
if any, for all of which Madame paid her
well.
It makes any girl happy to know she is
pretty and admired, and Brownie never
went into the stre3t without meeting ad
miring glances from almost every one she
saw.
Old ladies and gentlemen smiled to see
such a bit of sunshine pass them ; passe
beauties envied her, young men wondered
who she was, and even grave business men,
perplexed with the cares of the day, turned
to look again at the sunny face, with its
tiny rings of brown hair, clear, laughing
eyes and red cheeks. And to crown all
this, Brownie had a lover.
How could it have been otherwise ? And
this is how it came about :
In her music class was one Mollie Eaton,
who grew passionately fund of Bernice,
and always had her own way in the house,
so when she invited the music teacher to
dinner, as she often did, no one objected,
and it became quite the usual thing for her
to stay an hour or so after lessons, as this
was the last place en her round of instruc
tion. And when Mollie's brother Charli , i
came home, it had been as natural as could
be for Bernice to play waltzes and polkas
for the two to dance after. Then, short
days of winter, it came dark almost before
they knew it, and Charlie would walk with
h..r to the street car and once, one gala
tii7ht, when the car was crowded, he had
walked home with her, to those bright
little r.Kmis, where the monthly r..se and
the mignonette blossomed in the window,
and he held her hand just for an instant
at the door.
Of course it was not at all the thing fir
him to do, considering the difference in
their social standing, but somehow he
couldn't exactly help it.
This had been the year befire, but
during the summer n►ontl►s she had not
seen him at all, and later they had again
met, and in some way, life looked rosier.
perhaps because Mollie had once said :
"Charlie thinks the world of you, Miss
Floyd. He's forever holding you up as ,►
model of behavior; says you have a certain
style about you that would take you any
where."
Perhaps it was because last night they
had such a lively evening all together,
singing and dancing, with a merry • little
dinner all to theweelves.
Perhaps it was because of the compli
ments he had paid her ; telling her she had
cheeks like roses and eyes like stars; and
had snatched the little, jewelless hand from
off the piano, in a moment when Mollie's
back was turned, and kissed it, laughing
at her blushes and petulant rebuke.
But I rather think it was because he
had taken her home, with his shining bays,
and driven up toward the armory building,
to give her a longer sleigh ride and bent
his handsome head down toward the bright,
uplifted face and said, 'Brownie, I love
you."
You know girls are just foolish enough
to allow such things to add something to
their lives.
Then Bernice had not answered that she
loved him too, but had smiled back to him
in her glad childish way, for she was so
small and swift and fairy of motion, that
she seemed only a child, although she was
eighteen years old, which seemed very an
cient to the little girl who had ro long
borne the burden of life.
And this night of which we write she
was carrying home from Madame L.'s to
the house on W. avenue a beautiful dress
fur its fair young mistress, Alice Herrick,
she who had stood at the window and
watched the snowflakes falling, and whom
Bernice had looked up to and admired as
a beautiful picture.
Alice had stood but a moment and then
turned back into the soft lighted, luxurious
room, to wait for the dress she was to wear
that night, and which had been sent back
for a slight alteration, making it a trifle
late.
Bernice had been there before, but Miss
Alice had not happened to see her.
It was getting late, the hairdresser bad
been there and she was all ready to don
the dress when it should come, and was
getting impatient when little Brownie was
admitted.
Miss Herrick gave one swift, startled
glance at the brown face, bright with out
door air and the constant kissing of the
snowdrops "Whom am I to thank for
bringing my robe ?" she asked, after a mo
ment's silence, in which she had not looked
at the dress, but straight into the face or
the girl before her.
It was as Charlie Eaton had said. Ber •
nice had a ceitain style about her whleh
would take her anywhere. and Miss Her
rick, who was used to think of Nladame's
girls as at least very iirdinary, could only
speak to her as one lady speaks to another,
but her ._ - gitation had not orignated entire
ly in surprise at the beauty of Bernice
Floyd. It was this—she had seen her face
before. Yes, scarcely a moment since she
had this girl's picture in her hand and
had been studying it for a day or two.
"My name is Bernice Floyd. Ido er
rands sometimes for Madame L. when I
have leisure. Will you look at the dress,
please? I fear it is getting late."
"Oh ! pardon me, yes; only your face
looks familiar—like that of—of some one
I once knew. lam sure the dress will
suit now," as she glanced hastily over the
heavy silk; "but won't you sit down ?
You must be tired.
Bernice smiled in her careless way, and
said she was not tired, and bidding the
lady good evening, turned to go
But Miss Herrick called to her, and
laying her white hands on the little girl's
shoulder, looked down at her searchingly,
and said, "Do your friends sometimes call
you 'Brownie ?'" In surprise, Bernice
answered yes
Then the other added, hurriedly, "I
have not time to talk with you now, but
can you not come to me, soon ? I want to
speak with you."
Stupefied by wonder, Brownie promised
to come on Wednesday, and went away
trying to conjecture what this lovely girl
could want of her.
"How strange she acted," she solilo
quized. "Perhaps I remind her of some
one who was dear to her, and is now dead,
but how did she know they called me
Brownie !"
Then, in thoughts of her lover, she for
got the fair Miss Herrick and her words.
Alice Herrick was engaged to a man she
deemed worthy a lifetime of affection.
She had known him a long time, and a
few evenings before this, he had been
showing her some photographs, and ac
cidentally left his pocket case at the house,
and in the morning she found it in the
parlor, and not dreaming there were any
he would care to conceal from her, she had
looked at them again, and among them
discovered one he had not shown her, the
face of this little beauty from Madame
DAY FEBRUARY 21, 1879.
L.'s, and rm the back, in her future hus
band's writing, were the words, "My Own
Little Brownie "
Her betrothed was Charles Eaton.
He was a good enough fellow, in the
main. but nre eminently weak.
He had been pleased with Alice Her.
rick. She belonged to his set, sang, played
and danced well, besides being an only
child of a father worth something more
than two hundred thousand.
Compared with Bernice Floyd, she was
like pate dawn to noonday, in splendor,
and the more he saw of this flash of sun
shine, the less he admired his affiance.
lle had not really meant to make love
to the music teacher in the stereotyped way,
but her wit, beauty and lively good humor
won him quite away from himself, and
after that night, when he told her he loved
her, he had serious intentions of asking a
release from the other entanglements, and
marrying her.
' Yes, for fully two days he carried about
with him this decision, to give up Miss
Herrick's money and position, and "marry
Brownie for love," tor that was the name
by which he designated the sentiment with
which he honored Miss Floyd. .
Afier that he became Inore rational,
laughed at his folly, cursed his fate and
comforted himself remembering he had not
really committed himself to Bernice.
On Wednesday Miss Herrick and Ber
nice were together a long time They
parted firm friends and have retnainLd
ever since.
What passed betweeu them, only thew
sehes ever knew.
Charlie Eaton received from Alice a
note releising him from the engagement.,
and the diainond she had worn to remind
her of his true and lasting love. _ _
She would not even see him when he
called for an explanation.
'She was a woman of principle and her
idol was Eaten.
When Eaton again saw Bernice ; she was
the same as of wily her blushes did
not come quite so quickly at his bidding,
but she laughed and chatted with him.
was just as witty, bright ar,d beautiful as
before; but whet' he took, her, one starlit
night, for another slei,.ll ride, out to the
Boulevard, and bent again the handsome
head to the starry-eyed face beside him.
and said in his lowest, sweetest tones :
"Bernice, I love you Will you be my
wife ?" she answers him, "No."
And the "sweet bells jingled" emmusi
cally in the ears of a man who had been
twice rejected in one week, and once by a
music teacher. too.
It' he has any conceit left, I'm sure it
isn't the fault of circumstance.
One night, soon after, be saw both these
girls at the opera, and together, accom
panied by a distinguished looking gentle
man. For the first time, he wondered if
he haan't been "awfully given away," as
he expressed it.
The gentleman was James Russell,
who had come from abroad, and being
for a couple of weeks in Chicago, had be
thought him of the little girl for whose
musical instruction he had provided four
years ago, and sought her out.
He was more pleased than ever with her
fresh, bright beauty and freedom from af
fectation and the usual "isms" of young
ladies, and she was always grateful to him
for his kindness to her father's daughter,
and in all those years she rarely touched
the piano, that she had not breathed bless
ings on the giver. _ _
Before he went home he asked for the
hand of little Bernice, but she was strange
ly intuitional (f suppose the life of self
reliance had made her so), and she seemed
to feel that for some reason he was not
just what she required in a husband, and
he had gone back alone.
What strange fate led him, a year later,
to marry Alice Herrick ?
But he did on New Year's night, and
she sometimes says to her best friend, Miss
Floyd, "You stole a lover from me, and
gave me a husband a thousand times more
worthy," for she knows of Russel's former
penchant for Brownie.
Madame L took Bernice to Paris last
summer, and it is said she is going to
marry a prominent and wealthy physician
of Baltimore soon, but she is in no burry.
She has so long tasted independence that
the diet is sweet to her.
Meanwhile Charlie Eaton finds himself
left out in the cold.
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Years Ago.
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transcription fr.rn the b, poke, of a firm at
Providence, in Rhode Island, give precis
ion and reality to the changes in the cost
of supplying a household:
WHOLESALE PRICES,
1 barrel flour.
1 barrel sugar, 200 pounds 42.00 17.50
1 bai rel p0rk.._....48 00 10.50
1 barrel kerosene oil, 40 gals 35.20 3.70
1 bag salt
1 barrel lard, 204) p0und5........62 00 12.50
1 chest lea, 25 pounds 22 50 6.00
1 barrel beans
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1 hogshead molasses, 120 gals
1 tub butter, 100 pounds 47.00 . 20.00
1 barrel hams, 200 pounds
1 dozen brooms 6.00 2.'_5
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100 pounds corn meal 2.60 88
10 pounds pepper 4.00 1.40
10 pounds coffee 6.00 2.60
100 pounds codfish 7.50 3.00
100 pounds cheese., 21.00 9 50
100 pounds tapioca 22.00 7.00
100 pounds soda
10 boa,. raisin•
100 pounds soap 14.50 5.50
For reduced dividends, low rates of in
terest for new investments and reduced
wages in all kinds of industry, men will
find in the prices above quoted some com
pensation•—New York Evening Post.
The Noise of' the Finger.
In the current number of the Medical
Record Dr. Hammond says that when you
poke the end of your finger in your ear
the roaring noise you hear is the sound of
the circulation in your finger. Which is
a fact, as any one can demonstrate for him
self, by first putting his fingers in his ears,
and then stopping them up with other
substance Try it, and think what a won
der of a machine your body is, that even
the points of our fingers are such busy
workshops that they roar like a small Nia
gara. The roaring is probably more than
the noise of the circulation of the blood.
It is the voice of all the vital processes
together—the tearing down and building
up processes that are always going for
ward in every living body, from concep
tion to death.
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2 you, sweet K T J,
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this chance to write.
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Or 40tude divine.
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A section bread of land.
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You're virtuous and your Y's;
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All others in his I's.
This S A, until U I C,
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My quaint and wayward muse.
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How the Tyrolese Love and Fight.
There is a pretty Alpine hut inhabited
in the summer by the subject of his affec
tions. Tee solitary life is one that could
only be made endurable by , habit, iron
nerves and absolute indifference to danger.
The girl lives alone among her cattle. She
seldom sees a single soul, except her fellow
servant who brings her the fortnightly sup
plies, or seine surly keeper who is sure to
suspect her of being in league with his ene
mien, the poachers. "She has to tackle the
vicious bull single handed ; she has to tame
the cow—no longer the docile creature that
would come when she called her name,
since her calf had been taken away from
her." She has to protect herself and her
frail habitation and her charges against
snow storms, thunder storms, hurricanes
and swollen torrents. One can fancy how
she looks forward to a pleasant visit of any
kind, above all the visit of a lover. Yet
it is significant of Tyrolese welt-restraint
under any circumstances that the pair to
all appearance are absolutely unden►onstra
Live, unless for what may be read in their
eyes. She does nut even offer her Lida' rer
her hand, nor does he seem to expect it.
Yet should there be rival suitors, and if' the
young WOULIII is a flirt, it will be seen that
his feelings are the fiercer for being sup
pressed, and affairs are unlikely to be set
tled without bloodshed. The very indoor
amusements of the Tyrolese are rough and
even savage, though they seldom bear ma
lice for anything that may happen. A
writer and traveler tells of a friendly
struggle in an inn parlor, where a couple
of companions at a drinking-bout inter
locked the middle fingers of their right
hands, resting the elbows on the table, and
struggled to drag each other over. A runs
cle gave way under the strain and one of
them was hopelessly maimed for life; yet,
when the first sharp burst of pain was dead
cued and his finer was dressed, the suffer
er gave his hand to the winner, and they
ended the evening amicably as they had
begun it. So at the rifle matches, they
show the same inflexible firmness of nerve
and body. We took a friend to one of them
who was inclined to depreciate these per
formances. The cynically dispsed specta
tor changed his opinion altogether when
he saw the marksmen at work. He re
marked afterward, that "had he not seen
it with his own eyes he would never have
believed that human muscle and nerves
could remain so rigid and apparently mo
tionless. And the shooting is more admir
able that the weapons are clumsy and an
tiquated. The usual range is one hundred
and fifty yards, and he has counted five
consecutive shots in which "five marks
men, taken at haphazard, firing one after
another, hit each a mark the size of a six
pence " Such feats are the more astonish
ing if we consider that the marksman has
no rest either for his body or the unwieldy
rifle.
The temperance men of England are im
proving the present condition of economi
cal distress. Lord Aberdere said in a
speech the other day that if the immense
amount of money hich had been an
nually wast,d in drink had been put into
the savings bank by the working classes,
or spent in building cottages, or in laying
in stocks of clothing, there would have
been nothing like "the universal dismay,
the extent of evil, the widespread suffer
ing." And yet Lord Aberdere is not a
total abstainer. He doesn't see why he.
or his family should nct taste a glass of
beer because John Jones or William Thom
as makes a beast of himself. Ile added,
what has been said before, that excess in
drinking had almost disappeared from the
upper classes and the upper lower classes.
It exists still more strongly among the ig
norant population, and it is upon them
that the influence of enlightened persua
sion must be.exerted.
18(4 and 1865. 1879.
$ 16 50 $ 6.00
Death Caused by a Match.
6626.17 $188.03
A young Frenchman died in Lyons two
weeks ago from the effects of lighting a
match. He scratched it with his thumb
nail, and a piece of the incandescent phos
phorus penetrated under the nail and made
a slight burn, to which he paid no atten
tion. But, after an hour, the pain became
very great, the thumb swelled, then the
head, and next the forearm. He was oblig
ed to alight at the first station and send
for a medical man, who declared that in
stant amputation of the arm was necessary.
The patient insisted on postponing the
operation for a few hours until the arrival
of his father, for whom he had telegraph
ed. But before the latter could reach the
spot it was too late ; the poisonous matter
had passed into the arm and shoulder, and
an operation was impossible. He died
twenty seven hours after the burn, in hor
rible suffering.
A YOUNGSTER, while warming his hands
over the kitchen fire, was remonstrated
with by his father, who said : "Go 'way
from the stove, the weather is not cold "
The little fellow, looking up demurely at
his stern parent, replied : "I ain't heatin'
the weather, I am warming my hands."
A Printer's Poem.
The Uses of Adversity.
Automata.
For many ages automatic figures have
been a source of wonder and lelif , ht to all
surfs of people, from the monarch on his
throne to the humblest of his subjects. As
far back as four hundred years before the
Christian era an ingenious mechanic in
vented a wooden pigeon which was capa
ble of flying a long distance. In the thir
teenth century Albert us Magnus and Roger
Bacon are said to have made the figure of
a porter which would open a door, and
also a wooden head which would speak,
while another ingenious mechanic succeed
ed in imparting a life like motion to a fly.
In the beginning of the eighteenth cen
tury an ingenious Frenchman made a pan
tomine in five aces, which was moved by
machinery; and M. Cadmus constructed,
for the amusement of Louis XIV, an an
tomati , . carriage, which is said to have
been nearly perfect.
In 1738 M. Vaucanson constructed and
placed on public exhibition a flute-player,
which pressed the instrument to its lips
and produced the notes with its fingers,
precisely like a living human being. Three
years later the same ingenious mechanic
made a flageolet player, which played a
variety of tunes on that instrument, with
the accompaniment of a tambourine, which
he beat with the left hand. In the same
year M. Vaucanson produced a duck which
ate, swam, pressed its plumage, and actu
ally digested its food. This famous auto
waton was repaired by Robert Houdin.
the Pari,ian conjuror, who found the trick
to be as simple as it was interesting.
Jacques Vaucanson, the maker of these
automata, was a native of Grenoble, where
he was born in 1709. When a mere boy
he made a clock, and also several curious
toys which were moved by machinery.
Among the wonderful automata invent
ed during the present century is the wri
ring boy of the older and the piano forte
player of the younger Droz, the latter of
which, when perf mming. followed its hands
with its eyes, and, at the conclusion of the
piece, bowed gracefully to the audience.
Druz's writing boy was publicly exhibited
in Germany about thirty years ago. The
machinery of this automaton was so campli
cated that no one was able to detipher its
manner of action. Some doubts of its nat
ural origin being entertained, the boy and
its constructor were suspected of the black
art and were, fur a time, confined in the
Spanish Inquisition, from which they ob
tained their freedom with great difficulty.
Another wonderful automaton was a boy,
invented by M. Maillardet, which wrote and
drew with a pencil while kneeling on one
knee. Maillardet also constructed many
other ingenious automata, including a steel
spider, a caterpillar, a lizard and a mouse,
all of which moved as naturally as living
animals.
In 1842 the famous Maelzel exhibited
an automaton trumpeter of his own con
struction. This ingenious figure would
play sevpral popular marelie , , accompanied
by a fall orchestra The sound of the trum
pet was said to be very fine, and even more
agreeable than that produced by the ablest
musician.
In 1843 a speaking machine was ex
hibited before the American Philosophical
Society. This machine was invented by a
Mr Reale, who labored sixteen years in
bringing it to perfection and afterward de
stroyed it in a frenzy.
One of the latest adepts in automatic
art is Robert Houdin, a native of Blois,
and the son' of a watchmaker. In 1844 he
exhibited an automaton writer, which at
tracted the notice of Louis Philippi and
his family. This figure drew as well as
wrote answers to questions. Houdin after
ward constructed a nightingale, which sang
and flapped its wings like a living bird.
One of the most marvellous contrivances
ever produced was doubtless the automaton
chess player, which at various periods as
tonished and delighted the world. It was
constructed in 1769 by M. de Kempelen,
of Presburg, in Hungary. M. de Kempelen
died in 1804, and two years afterward the
chess player was exibited by a new owner.
On one occasion of its exhibition the Em
peror Napoleon entered the lists as a play
er, and was badly beaten. In the year
1845 it was exhibited by Maelael in the
principal cities of the United States, in -
eluding Boston.
In the memoirs of Robert Houdin the
secret of the performance of the chess play
er are fully revealed. A Polish dwat f'
named Wourousky, both of whose thighs
were shattered by cannon ball while fight
ing in a revolt at Riga, was concealed in
this image, which represented a Turk of
the natural size, wearing the costumes of
his country, and seated behind a box chap
ed like a chest of drawers. The chess play
er was seated immediately under the chess
board of the automaton, and frem every
one of the sixty four squares was suspend
ed by silk a tiny metal is ball, and as each
of the chessmen had a magnet inside.
when it was placed on a square it drew up
a ball beneath, while the balls beneath the
other squares remained suspended. By
turning the handle attached to the arm of
the figure and moving the finger springs,
the concealed player caused it to take up
the piece to be played, which was indica
ted by the falling ball, and when it was
plac:d upon a square, the ball was drawn
up. The mutilated Pole once had the au
dacity to visit St. Petersburg in his clock
work case, and play a game with the Em
press Cathariue, against whom he had re
volted
The famous astronomical cluck in the
Cathedral of Strasburg, which was con
structed by Isaac Habrecht, is justly con
sidered oue of the most ingenious works of
the kind in exigence. It indicates the
days of the months, the phases of the sun
and moon, and the other celestial phenom
ena, and, in addition to all these, contains
a group of figures representing our Sa
viour and the twelve apostles. At the
striking of the hour the ap , stles move
through an archway to the front of the
clock, where, one by one, they pay homage
to the Saviour, who is seated in the bal
cony of the temple. Several working mod
els of this clock have recently been ex
hibited in the United States, where they
excited much interest.
Quite as ingenious as any of the above
automata is the one known as "Little 114,m
-my, the Japanese Oracle " Thus far the
secret of its wonderful performances has
baffled the curiosity of hundreds of intelli
gent obs.rvers, including many noted sci
eutific and literary gentlemen. Little Tom
my is a Japanese figure, less than three
feet in height, seated in a chair, which
rests upon a small table. His mode of ex
pression is by movements of the head, by
which he responds and gives prompt and
correct answers to an endless variety of
questions He will give the correct time
of day. even to a minute, and tell the
number of persons in a room. This ingen
ious automaton was invented and construct
ed by a gentleman of Boston, whose name
has not yet been given to the public.
The Hebrews.
No race of men upon the earth are a more
int.-resting study thin the Jews. With an
Ltuoeqtry dating back to the very aswn of
history, their life, biography and religion
have heen woven into and become a part
of the records of the past. Along the banks
of the Euphrates, the Nile, and the Jor
dan, from Ur of the Chaldees and Pales
tine, two thousand years before the com
ing of Christ, we gather the connected and
well authenticazed history of the Jews,
and the world in which they moved, and
which but for them would have been a
blank ; or the records left at least in great
doubt. They were known as Hebrews for
over a thousand years after the emigration
or Abraham. The name of Jew was ap
plied after the dispersion of the ten tribes,
and the House of Judah became the royal
representation of the people, separating,
as they did, from their brethren who gave
themselves to idolatry. it is not our purpose
to enter into the past history of this pecu
liar people, but only to call attention to
some current facts of interest. As we
glance at the history of the persecutions,
bitter, malignant and unrelenting, which
followed this people in almost every land
and every age, we are struck with amaze
ment that they exist at all. But this won.
der increases when we see them closely al
lied with every tongue and every nation,
driving in the marts of trade and shaping
the policy that rules, yet, at the same time
slinging to the characteristics that mark
them as unerringly to-day as when they
took possession of Palestine, thousands of
years ago. But half a century has elapee3
since they began their emigration to Amer
ica ; now they are in every State and every
city. For years they did ni4 buy real es
tate, but kept all their wealth in money ;
but during the war they became parches.
ers of a large amount of realty, and in
every city are now to be found some of
the most solid business firms among the
Jews. Their churches, or synagogues,
have rapidly multiplied—notibly so in New
York, which has the largest Jewish popu
lation of any American city In that city,
we believe, they have fourteen synagogues
and temples, a Jewish hospital, an orphan
asylum and a home for the indigent. A
recent writer remarks that there are more
Jews in the city of New York than remain
in the whole land of Palestine." The lar
gest Jewish population in the world- is in
Russia, and the neat in Austria. "Accord
ing to the census, the Cia Lothian provin
ces contain 821.000 Jews, and Tras-Lethian
nearly 600,000_," In 1575, according to
the records of the Austrian army, there
were enrolled in all Palestine, including
Jerusalem, there are only about 25,000.
As an instance of the toleration abroad
in the world, the King of Holland has is
sued orders to allow all Jews serving in
his army the privilege of keeping all fast
ileys and Jewish holidays. During, the last
menth shere have been two very notable
gatherings of Jews, one in our neighboring
I cily of Milwankee and the other in Paris.
IThat in Nliiwctukee was intended to look
into questions pertaining to Jewish inter
ests in America; that in Paris was to give
aid eel advice to the war-stricken districts
which contain so large a proportion of the
Jewish people. Since the destruction of
the temple, the Jews have had no regular
order of priesthood. The chief rabbis of
the various communities are the rulers,
and different sections often materially differ
in belief and government. Many of the
leading Jews have desired to break np the
Congregational custom and establish some
authorative power. It is also a well known
fact that a large number of Jews have of
late years shown a desire to break over
some of the ancient landmarks that have
separated them from Christian denomina
tions. We have heard the charge that this
change was in the direction of infidelity,
while others have classed it as only a "lib
eral Christianity." Whatever may be its
direction, there is no doubt a spirit of
change abroad among the Jews in America,
which is marked by liberality and advan
ced intelligence. The societies which have
established in Chicago the Young Men's
Hebrew Associations, which have for their
aims the helping of young men to employ.
ment, and introducing them into society
and winning them from vice, are most
praiseworthy and beneficial. These asso
ciations in Chicago are, many of them,
prosperous; have gond libraries and read
ing rooms, and every winter have lectures
and amusements attractive to the young
people
The Jews have recently started a paper
in Chicago which promises success, the
Jewish Advance. Thus far in the United
States Jews have taken but small part in
politic:; in other countries it has been dif
ferent, and from the days of Queen Esther
and Mordecai, they have filled important
and influential public positions. Whatever
influence they do exert in this country, is,
fur the main part, on the side of law and
order and good government. While the
Jew loves wealth, ana will drive a sharp
bargain, he seldom transgresses against
the statute law, and but seldom is aJew
arraigned before a criminal court. Be he
ever so strict in his religion, he makes no
public parade of nor does he, in any
manner attempt to interfere with the cus
toms or enjoyment of others. Lovingand
tender in the home circle, kind and ready
to . lend a helping hand to the poor of his
race or.a stranger, it is a truth that many
who make louder professions might learn
profitable and practical lessons from this
peculiar people, this Bible nation, who
t'orto a living relic of the dead past.—lnter
Ocean.
Facts About the Human Body.
The skin contains more than two mil
lion openings, which are the outlets of
an equal number of sweat glands. The
hutoan skeleton conrists of more than two
hundred distinct bones An amount of
blood equal to the whole quantity in the
body passes through the heart once every
minute. The full capacity of the lungs is
about three hundred and twenty cubic
inches. About two-thirds of a pint of air
is inhaled at each breath in ordinary res
piration The stomach daily paoduees nine
pounds of gastric juice for digestion of
1:,od ; its capacity is about five pints There
are more than fik e hundred separate mus
cles in the body, with an equal number of
nerves and blood vessels. The weight of
the heart is from eight to twelve ounces.
It beats one hundred thousand times in
two-nth four hours. Each perspiratory duct
is one fourth of an inch in length, which
will make the aggregate length of the
whole shout nine miles. The average man
takes five and one halt pounds of food and
drink each da,, which amounts to one ton
of solid and liquid nourishment annually.
A man breathes eighteen times a minute,
and three thousand cubic feet, or about
three hundred and seventy-five hogsheads
of air per hour. •
NO 8.