The Christmas Tree.
While the winter mown ere dressing
All the tree* in epotleae white,
And the twilight end the ftre-li(ht
I ton nd my ingle
Blend end mingle,
And the night
Craepeth on apeee, there towera
On my hearth a tree whoee flower*
Bore are born In eliln bower*
Far removed from mortal light.
Tie the king of all the oedara,
And it* brancher, green and fair,
With their weight of golden fruitage
Bend and'gllaten ;
And 1 Ueten,
While the air
Beema with beniaoo* replete.
Which my Up* and heart repeat.
Borne on inoenee weird and sweet—
Inoenee iweet beyond oompare.
Myriad* of dainty bauble*
Neetied In it* branche* are ;
Rank* of shining, tinted taper*,
Flaahing, gleaming,
Each one seeming
Like the star
Which through all the toU and danger
Led the magU to the manger
Where was born the Royal Stranger
From the heavenly oourt afar.
A* the taper*, slowly burning,
Set in darkness, one by ooa,
And the troops of rosy children
Round my ingle
Throng and mingle ;
While the fun
And the look of glad surprise
Fade from out their sated eye* ;
" Tell us now," my princess cries,
'• Of the Blessed Virgin's Son."
Little Princess Golden-Lock*,
Throned upon my knee again.
Waits to hear the old. old story,
New forever,
Which hath never
Ended been :
How the Eastern sags* bring
Treasure* to the Peasant Ring,
And the hosts of heaven sing
*' Peace on earth, good-will to man.
Christmas in Anderson Court.
It u not a palace—it waa only one
dingy little room where Maggie Barton
lived. It waa one of the twenty o(
thirty very humble homes in Anderson
court, not far from a bony, bright street
in a great city.
It was the day before Christ mas that
Maggie sat in this forlorn room tending
baby and trying to keep her two brothers
■till "so she oonld think," as she aaid.
Maggie waa only ten years old, bat
she bad to be mother to these boys and
to the baby from morning till night,
almost every day in the week, for very
hard times had come to this family, and
Mrs. Barton had, for several months,
been obliged to leave her little ones and
"go oat washing." It had not always
been quite so bad—bat Maggie oonld
never remember when they were not
poor, though she remembered they
osed to have a neat room and plenty to
sat and wear. Before the strike, Mr.
Barton got very fair wages, and as Mrs.
Barton was a very good manager, and
they all bad been well, they got along
very comfortably. Bat now for four
months the men bad been on a strike at
the mills, and Mr. Barton had earned
nothing sinoe, exoept what he would
get now and then for little jobs of work,
so that Mrs. Barton had to go oat wash
ing to get food for the children.
Maggie was tingiog to the worrying
baby in her arms, and the boys were
playing horae terrifically, when she ex
claimed impatiently:
" Now, boys, I wish yon would keep
still, so I can think."
" What do yon want to think about ?"
said Johnny, pushing his brother over,
and coming to Maggie's aide.
"I'm trying to think abont Christ
mas and use handsome things in the
store-windows, and I'm trying to think
how nice it would be to be a lady, with
lots of money of buy dresses and dolls,
and toys and candy. ,r
" Candy 1" exclaimed Georgia, pick
ing himself up from the floor and
stopping his crying; "I wish I had
soma candy I Can't we get some, Mag
gie?"
" No, Georgia, we osn't hsve one bit
Mother says if we can get bread wa may
be glad. Ido wish we eon Id have some
thing nice to-night: and I do wish
mother would come, I'm so tired."
" Maggie, do yon think wall ever
have money enough to boy nice things?"
asked Johnny, bis round eyes growing
S large end thoughtful, and nia chin
ng on his dirty band.
" I'm sore I don't know, Johnny ; I
gaeas not—unless the mills begin again,
and I don't think then are oonld ever
have a carpet, or good clothes, or a big
looking-glass like they have one place
where mother washes.
" Where do some men gat so mnoh
money ?** Johnny asked : " beoanae I'm
going to get s lot when I m big—if loan
find oat where it comes from.
" I'm sore I don't know," said Msg
gia ; " I new they find it. '
When Mrs. Bnrton came home, weary
and worn, Georgia ran to her, polling
bar drees and tearing, "Mamma, did
yon twins me a horse for Christmas?"
" I've brought jon soma bread. That
ia all the Christina* gift yon children
will get this year," and aba cut some
large pieces from a loaf, which the little
boys grasped with their dirty hands sad
eta voraciously.
"Now, Maggie," she said, "lay the
baby down, and ran ont with the boys
and see the handsome stores and the
happy people. Tou'va bean a good girl,
dear. I eonld not gat along without
RPoke the fire a little, for father*!!
oaring aooa, and it ia getting vary
sold."
Maggie, with a faded shawl over bar
head sod aragged urchin by each hand,
want down the gayly-lightad streets,
where people in crowds wan harrying
mby, carrying boodles of presents to
■gladden the morrow—where the win
rwwa, lighter than day, were brilliant
' burners erf woadarfnl things.
Maggie and here brother* looked in at
the windows of a candy store, and talked
about old anow-oorered Santa Glaus and
his pretty reindeer, and the candy ani
mals, and the popped -oorn baby, and
the pretty things for Cbristmastrees.
Then they ran an to a toy store whose
windows were a wonder-world of beauty.
•• Oh, I wish I had that doll with the
red silk dress on," said Maggie,
" I'd like that drum, and that fanny
men that keeps his head going, and that
donkey, and them steam cars, and that
fiddle, rattled Johnny.
" Oh, there's the flng I want—that
wooden horse," aaidOeorgie. "Maggie,
can't I have that horse t—it won't cost
more'n two cents."
" No, Oeorgie, it eosta awlnl mnoh, I
know, and we're so poor," groaned
Maggie.
" What makes us poor ? Is it because
we're bad?" asked Oeorgie.
" No, I don't think father is bad ; he
doesn't drink a drop. I guess Ood
made us poor, or else we wouldn't be
so."
Jnst then a big boy with a alod in his
hand and a great package on his
shoulder passed. Hwingiug the sled
oarelessly, it hit George and threw him
upon the walk. He screamed frightfully.
M ggie and Johnny rushed to help him.
"Is he much hurt?" aaked a lady
who had a few moments before alighted
from a carriage, and who had lingered
to bear the curious talk of the children.
" Ob, I hope not," said Maggie, trying
to lift her screaming brother, "for
we're ao poor. Twould kill mother if
his leg ia broken, and we would all
starve, I know."
Bhe suoeeeded at last in getting him
on his feet, and rubbed hi* leg and oom
forted him.
When Maggie fonnd he oonld stand,
and was beginning to atop crying, ahe
turned to look at the lady, who still
stood by them.
Bhe saw a beantifnl girl, ao lovely
and so riehlv dressed it seemed to Mag
gie it most be a fairy ; for to tell the
troth, Maggie had always been expect
' ing to meet a fairy.
Her grandmother had told her ahont
the wind folk, till she believed some
thing might happen to her as well as to
i Cinderella. The lady stood looking at
the beantifnl golden hair from which
the faded ahawl had slipped, and scan
ning the ragged little boys, and trying
to recall their strange words about be
ing poor.
"Don't yon have any nice Christmas
at yonr house ?" she asked,
"No, indeed ; we're too poor," said
Maggie.
" And yon cams ont to see the pretty
j toys yon cannot buy," said the lady.
And Maggie, still half believing it
might be a fairy or a magic god-mother,
or some such creature, told her all about
their hard times—about her sad father
and her weary mother, and the strike,
' and bow hungry they sometimes were,
i and how she tended the baby all clay,
ami kept jnst a little bit of fire because
they couldn't afford to be very warm.
People passing turned to see the enri
ons group, and many smiled because
the grand, prond yonng lady bad ao for
gotten herself aa to talk to a set of dirty
children in the open street, where every
body could see her.
Bnt the prond yonng lady cared very
little for the opinion of the world jnst
then. Bhe was not even conscious of
the people who were passing. After a
few momenta ahe turned back to her
carriage and drove away.
Maggie thought how happy ahe mnst
be, she was an beantifnl and ao rich; but
if Maggie oonld have seen the torn and
tortured heart beneath the velvet robe,
she would have felt more pity than ad
miration.
The children lingered till they knew
everything in the window by heart, and
then, helping on the limping Oeorgie,
they went on to others, till they bad
seen, Maggie said, " all the pretty thing*
in the world." "It's fnn to look at
them, if we can't have them," she mid,
aa they turned down the dark street and
into Anderaon oourt to their deaolate
home.
And very deaolate did it seem to Mag
gie that night Bhe wanted to cry, but
would not, because it wonld make her
father and mother feel badly. There
waa jnst a little Are in the grate, for the
coal was almost gone. Her mother waa
walking with the crying bsbv and bad
not even a smile for the children when
they came in; and when they told her of
Georgia's accident ahe only said: "I'm
glad it waa not worse."
Mr. Barton waa seated on a low
bench, his elbows on his knee*, and hia
face buried in hia bands. Oeorgie went
to bis father's side and said, "Papa, a
big haj hnrt me, and a pnrty lady came
and mid ahe waa sorry; and I saw the
Fnrtieat horse and everyflng; and can't
■have the horse for Christmas "
"Go sway, boy," said Mr. Barton
surlily. " there ain't any money to bay
toy* with. We hain't got any money to
buy food for to-morrow."
"Father, something good will turn
up soon, I'm sore," ahe said tenderly,
and then took her brothers by the hand
and led them to a dusky corner of the
room, where they talked low for a long
Mine. Then she undressed Oeorgie, and
the three curled dewn on a bed which
you, my reader, would have called a
pile of rags.
" There ain't any etockinge hnng up
in this house to-night,"raid Johnny.
Christmas morning the bells rang ont'
on the frosty air, filling thousand* of
hearts with Joy; but there waa no glad- j
nera in the sound to this dejected family, i
The bells said to thousands of hearts, ;
" Peace on earth, good-will to men," !
but Mr. Barton shook hia head sadly
and hia wan face wore no smile. He
•aid it was not " peace on earth " when
the rich lived in luxury and the pcor
starved. When the children awakened,
there were no "Merry Christmas"
wishes exchanged in that dismal home.
Mr. Barton bad no words for hia chil
dren, he felt so gloomv and dejected.
The mother spoke low end sadly—it
seemed to her It wonld be a mockery to
ray merry words when they had hardly
elotbee enough to keep them warm, sad
hardly bread enough for the day, raid
the future looked ao hopelessly blank
and ugly. They had just taken their
aeaaty breakfast whan a load knock at
the door startled them.
"Dora Mr. Burton live here?"
" Tea," Mrs. Barton said.
"I have soma packages for this
bonse," the man said.
"Itis a mistake." growled Mr. Bur
ton, "there wasn't anything to come
hero. 11 m
"This istheplaoe," said the man,
with a smile, ana he placed on the floor
a box which Mrs. Burton began to ex
amine.
" Oh, there's my horsey I" screamed
Georgia," "I knowed rd have that
bone."
" And there ia the doll with the red
dreea," exclaimed Maggie.
" And a dram I" screamed Johnny,
grasping the article and giving it a few
sonnda rape with hia fist, which made
them all start.
"There's beeu some mistake," said
Mr. Barton, bnt nobody heeded him.
The baby squeezed the rubber doll to
make it oiy, Johnny had found the atioka
and was drumming with all his might,
while Mrs. Burton kept taking thiugs
out of the box, and baby helping her.
Mr. Barton stood looking on, very sour
and suspicious, when another knock at
the door aroused him.
"Mr. Bnrton live here?"
" Yes."
" I have some flour for him, and some
other articles."
In came a barrel of flonr and a tnrkey,
and half a dozen other things whioh
taste good on Christmas.
This time they all began to langh.
Mrs. Barton leagued more than she had
in fonr months, and Mr. Burton smiled
and said "he'd like to know who had
dared to send them these things," and
somehow the words aame into his mind,
"Good-will to men," " Peace on earth."
" There's some good-will in the world
after all."
When the third man knocked and said
he brought a load of ooal, there was such
laughing, and talking, and bopping
aronndof ehildren it won Id have blessed
yonr heart to have heard them.
" I knew that lady was a fairy, or a
princess, or something," said Maggie.
" Hhe hzs sent these things, for she ask
ed where we lived, and said, ' Dear
heart,' when I told her abont yon all,
and that we hadn't only enough coal to
last a few days, and how hungry we
got"
Mr. Barton went to get the coal in,
and said he never was so glad of work in
hia Ufa; and Johnny filled the grate and
made snoh a fire as they had not seen
since the winter before. *
" I wonder wbat'll oome next," said
Maggie, clanping her bands and jump
ing np and down in her gladness.
"My child, don't expect anything
| more. I'm afraid all this will prove
only a dream," said Mrs. Burton.
Bnt something more did oome, and
this time it was the princess herself.
Hhe shrank back a moment when she
saw the dirty floor, the ragged bedstead,
and thought of six people crowded in
this one little room. Her daintiness and
elegance had never before oome face to
face with snch squalor, bnt she had
, been passing throngh great experiences
■of late, and she was brave enough to
I meet this.
" And this is the little girl who told
| so tonchiugly her sad story last even
ing ?" she said, stroking Maggie's golden
(locks.
"And this is yonr mother, and this
▼our father," she said, shaking their
hands and smiling so sweetly that Mr.
Burton said afterward it was just like an
angel right from heaven.
";1 thought I would drop in and wiah
I yon a merry Christmas," she said.
I .""Mr. Barton wiped the tears on his
. sleeve and began thanking the lady.
"The good Lord has sent us help ia
our distress," he said.
" If He has shown me bow I can be
i good for something, I am glad." ahe
said with a smile. " Yonr little girl |
tells me yon are in tronble and I have
come to aee if I can help yon out of it."
Now I need not tell yon, my reader, ,
bow they talked till Mr. Burton said
" all the trouble seemed lifted off their
hearts ;" and how, after oho went away,
they aet the turkey roasting bafore the
fire ; and how they were so hnngry they
only waited for one side to get done, and
sliced it off and ate it while the other
aide waa cooking ; and bow the children
ate nuts and candy till tbey couldn't Mi
any more, and carried some to all the
children in the oourt; and how Mr. Bar
ton said he never aaw snob a blessed
day in all his life; and bow be tended
the baby, and kissed Maggie half a
dozen timea, when she put ber arms
; * round hia neck and bugged him so
hard, he ooaldn't help it; and bow the
! children in Anderson oourt came in to
see the beautiful doll in the rad silk
dreea ; and how they squeeced the rub
ber doll till it buret; and bow the boya
wanted to beat Johnny's dram "jest two
timesand bow they stood and gaped
at Johnny aa if be had been a hero, and
not a poor ragged little boy like them
selves—you can imagine all that, but I
am going to tell yon a little abont the
! princess herself.
Hhe waa the only ebild of vary wmlthy
parents. Hhe bad been petted and
pretty nearly spoiled by too mnch hap
piness.
Miaa Princess bad oome to fancy her
self the special favorite of Provi-lenee,
not dreaming that God and all sensible
people saw that her life waa poor and
mean.
Bat oar prinoeoa had ben baring and
trouble# of late. I will not tell about
them for it von Id take a whole atorr
book to tell it all, bat they had been
working a great and excellent change
in the character of oar Prineoea.
Trouble ia good for ae all if we are
atroag enough not to be eraahed by it
Her father anxioaa to cheer hie
child, and believing aomething beaati
fal to wear woe the beet oomfort, had
given her a great deal of money and
told her to aeleot for hereelf a Hqrfe mi(
et of jewelry for a Ohriatmoa preeent.
Hhe felt it wn aboard to eootfae her no re
heart with Jewel a, eo the did not aeleot
them till ber father urged her again and
again, and the afternoon before Ohriat
moa aha had driven out to parohoae
them.
And iuat aa ahe otepped from her oar
riage Maggie and her brother* were
there—to atop into her life a*<d aavebar.
Their atrange warda about their poverty
naught her ear. and aomething urged
her to watch them. She would onoe
have diadoiued to notice auoh wretched
children, but now their very rag* drew
her to them.
It aeerned to her it would be aweet to
deny hereelf the jewela ahe bed come to
purcboee, and to help thin familv hi
their dark hoar*. So the Mopped into
her carriage and drove away to parohoae
provtaioua ins teed of peorte, and toya lor
nnblesaed little children instead of
trinketH for herself.
And if yon will believe It, this prond
princess, who had soorned the bamble
end feneied herself better end more
blessed then others, bed e happier hesrt
on tbet Christmas then ever in ber life
before. I tbink ber beert was happier
then even those which she blessed.
That Ohristmes night, when she lay
npon her oonoh, she sew e new end bet
ter life opening before her ; end with en
exaltation of soul she bed never known
before, she said, " Deer Lord, it is in
deed more blessed to give then to re
ceive I"
Hearts Overworked.
No organ in the body is so liable to
be overworked as the heart. When
every other part of the body sleeps, it
keeps on its perpetual motion. Every
increased effort or action demands from
the heart more force. A man runs to
catch a train, and his heart bests audi
bly. He drinks wine, and the blood
rashes throngh its reservoir faster than
ever was intended by nature. His pulse
rises after each course at dinner. A
telegram arrives, and his heart knocks at
his side. And when any one of these
"excitements" is over, he is oonsoions
of a corresponding depression—a sinking
or emptiness as it is called. The
healthy action of all the members of onr
frame depends upon the snpply of blood
received from the central fountain.
When the heart's eation is arrested, the
stomach, which reqnires from it a large
snpply of blood, beoomes enfeebled.
The brain, also waiting for the blood, is
inactive. The heart is a very willing
member, bnt if it be made to fetch and
carry incessantly, if it be "pnt upon,"
as the nnselfish mem tier of s family
often is, it undergoes a disorganization
which is equivalent to its rapture. And
this disorganization begins too often
nowadays in the hearts of very yonng
children. Parents know that if their
sons are to succeed at asy of thoae com
petitive examinations which have now
become so exigent, high preaanre is
employed. Heuoe yonng persons are
stimulated to overwork by rewarda and
punishments. The sight of a clever boy
who is being trained for competition is
truly a sad one. The precocious, ooacbed
up children are never welL Their mental
excitement keepe up a flush, which, like
the excitement caused by strong drink
in older children, looks like health, bnt
has no relation to it; in a word, the in
temperance of eduaation is overstraining
and breaking their young hearts. If in
I the school-room some hearts are broken
; from mental strain, in the play-gronud
and in the gymnasium others saocnmb
ito physical strain. "Itis no object of
t mine," says Dr. Richardson, "to under
rate the advantage* of physical exercise
for the young ; bnt I con scarcely over
rate the danger of those fierce competi
tive exercises which the world in general
seems determined to applaad. I bad
the opportunity once in my life of living
near a rower. He was a patient of mine,
suffering from the very form of induced
heart disease of which I am now speak
ing, and he gave me ample means of
studying the conditions of many of those
whom he trained both for running and
rowing. I fonnd occasion, certainly, to
admire the pbjsiqne to which his trained
meu were brought ; the strength of
muscle they attained ; the fore* of their
heart; bnt the admiration was qualified
by the stem fact of the results." Bnt,
indeed, it is not by overwork so much as
by worry and anxiety that onr hearts
are disorganized. " Laborious mental
exercise is healthy, unless it be made
anxious by necessary or unnecessary
difficulties." Regular mental labor is
beat carried on by introducing into it
some variety." Business and profes
sional men wear out their hearts by ao
quiriug habits of expreaa-traiu haste,
which a little attention to method would
render unnecessary. Chamber's Jour
nal.
Htery ef a Yagraat Palatlag.
A London paper says ; " Many in
stances of the large sums realised by
chance purchases of old paintings have
been given ; but none can well be more
{ curious than the well-authenticated case
| which has been supplied by the survi
ving parties to it In 1858, a well-known
! picture restorer, who was at that time
| engaged in cleaning the paintings at
I Guildhall, was proceeding down the
i London road toward Black friars bridge,
when be noticed a work in cm an, with
I his wife and child, walking by the aide
i of a van in which goods were being re
j moved. The man was careleaaly carry
i ing under his arm a small, dirty look
| ing painting. The practiced eye of the
picture restorer, detecting something
genuine about the picture, asked the
man what be would take for it, to which
he replied, * half a-crown ;* hut, hit
wife interposing, the price was raised to
five shillings, at which sum the bargain
was struck, and the party, including the
driver of the van, adjourned to a neigh
: boring public Louse, where the money
I was duly paid down. The picture oe
i tiring cleaned, proved to be a genuine
Tenierv; the subject a village with
I figure and landscape, at the corner of
which was inscribed, ' David Tenters,
Junr., fecit, 1666.' The picture, which
was sixteen by thirteen inches, was soon
afterward sold to Mr. H. Good for
8825.
Largest Qaa la the World.
The largest gun in the world is a 100-
ton gun, made in England by Sir
William Armstrong for the Italian gov
ernment. At the trial at Bpenia, Italy,
with a projectile of nearly 2,000 pounds,
and charges of powder of 299 to 878
pounds, the pressure at bottom of lama
ranged from 16 to 20 tons per square
inch. The velocity of shot obtained
was 1,887 to 1,664 feat per second. The
targets used consisted of various metal
plaice of 218 inches thickness, backed
np by sufficient wooden snpporto to
make a total of 51 inobaa. A steel plate,
from the Oreuaot foundry (coding
14,000), was also used, and Although
the shot failed to penetrate the plate, it
dwelt to* target such a fearful blow as
to folly destroy it, and then to no iron
olad now afloat capable of resisting the
shot of this gnu. The length at toot to
from 4 fed to 4 feet 4 fochea, by 19.20
inches in diameter. I, ngth of bore of
gna to 20 diameters; diameter over all
nearly 86 inches.—CMooffa Mter Ocean
..
41 < < i
NECROLOGY.
Prsnlsanl PrrtrauH Whs (lavs 01*4
. Dart as I SIS.
JANUARY.—6. General La Marnora,
distinguished Italian soldier end states
men; Florence, Italy; 74... .6. Richard
Momford Pierson, chief jnstioe of North
Carolina; Winston, N. 0.; 78... .7. Mrs.
Mary Mapes, who had aeon every Presi
dent of the United Htates; Baltimore,
Md-; 99 8. Francis Vinoent Respeil,
well-known French chemist and poli
tician; Paris: 88... .9. Victor Emanuel.
King of Italy; Rome; 58 General
John O'Neill, Fenian leader; Omaha;
Neb 11. Demetrius Bulgaria,
prominent Greek politician; Greece; 77
Brazilian poet and dramatist; Rio Jan
eiro; 48 ...15. Bir William Sterling
Maxwell, English author; Venice; 60
....16. Samuel Howies, editor Spring
field Republican; Springfield, Mass.; 52
... .22. Edward K. Collins, founder of
first American line of steamships; New
York; 76....23. Major-General August
Willich, Federal officer; St. Maxy'a,
Ohio; 68.. .26. Alexander J. Johnson,
United States circuit judge; Nassau,
West Indies.... 27. John B. Kerr, ex-
Congressman; Washington; 69....28.
Sir Edward S. Creasy, English historian;
London; 66.
FEBRUARY. 8 Major-General
Charles Thomas, United States army;
Washington; 80 6. Pius IX., bead of
Catholic church; Rome; 86. . .11. Gideon
Welles, ex-secretary United Slates navy;
; Hartford, Conn.; 76 . Charles M. Oon
; rad, ex-secretary of war; New Orleans;
174....9. Tbeo uore Roosevelt, eminent
New York citizen; New York city; 47
... .26. General Dnplessis, prominent
French officer; Paris, France .11. W.
, Taylor, first comptroller of the currency,
United Slates treasury, Washington
26. Father AngeloSeochi, famons Italian
astronomer; Rome, Italy; 60.
MARCH.—2. Benjamin F Wade, ex-
Senator United States; Jefferson, Ohio;
78 7. Judge Ass Briggs once United
States Senator; Norfolk, Vs.; 68 8.
Count Bclopis, Ita'isn statesman and
president Geneva board of arbitration
on Alabama claims; Turin, Italy; 80
Archduke Francis, emperor of Austria's
j father; Vienna; 76 ...15. John E.
Leonard, Representative to Congress
, from Louisiana and special commissioner
Ito Cutis; Havana;... .17. Commodore
John Hodgson Graham, of United
Htates navy; Newburg, N. Y.; 74 ...
22. James Roes Hnowdon, prominent
Pennsylvania politician ; Hulmeville,
Pa.; 68... .23. John Allison, register of
the United Htates treasury; Washing
ton; 66 ...Mnley Hassan, snltan of
Morocco; Moroooo; 47 J. Clancy
Jones, ex-Congressman and at one time
| United Htates minister to Russia; Read
ing, Ps ; 64....27. Hir George Gilbert
Hoott, distinguished English architect;
London; 67.
APRIL.— 2. Earl of Leitrim, county
Derry, Ireland ; 76 .. .General Thomas
C. Devon, United Htates army; New
York 6. Cardinal Gniaeppe Beranu;
Rome; 68 .. Dr. Francis Gurney
Hmith, prominent physician and medi
cal writer ; Philadelphia ; 61 10.
Prinee Napoleon Lucien Charles Marat,
son of Genera] Marat; London; 75....
11. William M. Tweed, head of the no
torious New York " ring ;" New York;
66 ... 19. George W Blunt, New York
pilot commissioner; New York; 76
Major-Geoeral John J. Peck, veteran of
Mexican war; Hyracnse, N. Y.; 68
22 William Orion, president Western
Union Telegraph company* New York;
MAY.—I. John Morrieeey, New York
BUt senator ; Ha rat- *a, N. Y.;47
7. Oinaeppe Tegliabue, inventor ; Mount
Vernoo, N. Y.; <56. .. Charles Morgan,
New York, millionaire : New York city ;
53.. .10. Ex-Jodge Ham net A. Foot,
wall-known jurist; Geneva, N. Y.; 88
... 12. Catherine E. Beeeber, sister of
Henry Wanl Beeohar ; Elmira, N, Y.:
18 18. Major General Thomas 8.
Dakio, hero of international rifle match
'ame; Brooklyn; 47 20. Hamnel M.
Isaacs, oldest rabbi in the United
States; New York; 75....Mr5. Leon
Lewis, well known novelist; Rochester,
N. T.; 87 28. Lord John Russell,
twice England's prime minister; Rich
mood, England ; 86.
JUNE.—I. M. Frederick Arnowd,
eminent French senator; Paris ;69
8. W. F. Allen, judge New York oourt
ol appeals ; Oswego, N. Y.; 70 Ma
jor William J. McDonald, chief clerk
United Btaies Senate ; Washington ; 66
....6. Count Achilla Baregne d' Hill
tors, marshal of Fraaoe; France; 83
.... Her. Nathaniel Benton, D.D., Nee
Hampshire historian : Concord, N. H.;
79 Don Manuel Freyre, Peruvian
minister to United States ; Washington;
63 ... 10. John A. MaoGahan, celebrat
ed war correspondent; Constantinople ;
82... Thomas Winana, well known lo
comotive builder; Newport, R. L; 89
...11. Oeorge V, ex-king of Hanover;
Paris; 69 General B. L. E. Bonne
ville, oldest retired United States offloer;
Little Rock, Ark.; 88 ...12. William
Onllen Bryant, distinguished poet and
editor ; New York ; 84 16. Samuel
Williams, oldest printer in New York
AUto; Ronndout, N. Y.; 89 ...18.
Hon. Terence J. Qainn: member of
Congress; Albany, N. Y.; 42 ...28.
Oeorge *P. Kane, mayor of Baltimore,
Md ; Baltimore .. 24. Charles Ma
ths arm, celebrated English comedian ;
Manchester, England ; 75....26. Mer
cedes, Queen of Bpain : Madrid; 18.
JULY.—B. Dr. James O. Ayer, well
known advertiser of patent medicines ;
Winchendon, Maaa.; 60 . . 8. George
W. Appleton, publisher: Riverdale,
N. Y.; 57.... 12. Harvey 8 Eastman,
mayor of Pboghkeewaie, N. Y.; Denver,
OoL; 46 ~lw. John A, Lotlex judge
New York court of appeals; Flat hush,
N. Y.; 74... .Minnie Warren, famous
dwarf; Middleboro, Maaa.; 27 28
Abigail H. Smith, lead tug woman suffra
gist, Glastonbury, Coon.; 82 ...25.
Major Oensral-Oharlsa W. Band ford, for
thirty! years oommsoder first division
New York Btate national guard ; Avon
Springs, N. Y.;82 .. 81. (Winai Fran
fin, pontificate secretary of stale;
AUGUST.—2. General A. L, Room,
fort, United States offloer, and ex-mayor
Harriebarg;Pa, ;92.. .11. HenryJ.Mon
tagne, well known actor: San Frenci#-..,
OaL: :...18. Evart A. Duyekinek,
American author; New York city; 62
...18 Dr. Benjamin R. Robaon, old
est doctor hi New York sad veteran war
of 1812: New York; 93 21, Henry
Araitt Brown, prominent Philadelphia
lawyer; Philadelphia;B2....Maria Chris
tiana, former queen < o wager of Hpain;
Praooe; 72 22. Hamae] B. Crocker,
fonnJer Literary World; Boaton,
MUM. ; 41... .26. Beth Padelford.ex gov
ernor 1 Rhode Inland; 71.
HEPTEMBEB—6. General John J.
Bpragne, United Btatea Army: New
York; 68. ..Mehemit All Pacha, re
nowned Turkish general; Yaor.na; 60
| 20. Colonel T. B. Thorp, well
known literary man; New York city; 68
.... 24. Addiaon H. L*6in, ex-member
of Congrean; Pittafield, Mima. 66;
J amen A Hamilton, eon of Alexander
Hamilton; Irvington, N. Y.; 90 27.
Dr. August Heinticb Petermann, distin
guished German geographer; Gotha,
Germany; 66.
OCTOBER.— 2. Oyrille Dion,leading
billiard player; Montreal; 82... Meng
don-Meng, king of Bnrm&b ...6. Sir
Francia Grant, English painter; Melton-
Mo wbrsy England, 76 8. General
Gideon J. Pillow, ex-Confederate gen
eral; Arkanaaa; 72 12. Felix A. P.
Dapanlonp, bishop of Orleana and
French aenator; Pane; 76 ... 14. En
gene A. Cronin, Oregon elector in laat
procidentia! election: Portland, Or; 86
....19. Benjamin H. Latrobe, distin
swished civil engineer; Baltimore, Md:
71 Hon. J. B. Carlisle, former United
Btatea Senator; Clarkabnrg, W. Va; 61
... 20. Rear-Admiral Hiram Paulding,
otdeat officer in United States navy;
Huntington, N. Y . . .24 Cardinal.Panl
Onllen, head of Catholic church in De
land; Dublin; 76 ... General James B.
Whitney, well-knoan Maaaacbusetta
politician; Boeton; 67 27. Cbriato
pber R. R ilx-rt, onoe leading New York
merchant and founder Robert college,
Constantinople; Paris, France; 77 ...
28. Colonel Richard Realf, peet and
journalist; Ban Franciaoo, Cal; 58
81. Louis Antoine Garnier Pages,
French statesman and historian; Pari*;
75.
NOVEMBER.—6. Alexander Hmitb,
CoDpmMcoaa elect; Yonkera, N. Y.; 00
. . 7. Aarou Htmonenn. veteran war of
1812; Tottenville, N. Y.; 83 ...9. Rev.
Henry Jone*, prominent Congregational
iat clergyman; Bridgeport, Conn.; 77
1L HOD. Norman B. Judd, ex United
Htatea minister to Germany; Chicago,
HI.; 68 14. John 8. Bleeper, author
and editor; Boston; 84... .Thomas 8.
Powers, American chemist; Philadel-
.. 21. George Dawson Rowley,
ramons ornithologist; Brighton, Eng
land; 67 .. 23. Robert Wallia, cele
brated English engraver; England; 84
... 24. Hon. D. J. Baldwin, United
H la tee district attorney in Texas; Hous
ton, Texas; CO 27. Robert Heller,
noted magician; Philadelphia, Pa.; 45
... 29. Commodore William P. Hpioer,
United States navy; Boston, Mass ...
Major General Robert 0. Buchanan, re
tired list United Btatea army; Washing
ton ... Louis A. Godey, publisher Lcviy
Rook; Philadelphia; 76 .. .Lyman Tre
main, ex-member Congress and leading
lawyer; New York city; 69.
DECEMBER L George Henry
Lewes, eminent English philosophical
writer; England; 61 . 2. Justin E Ool
burn United States oonsnl-geoeral to
Mexico; Mexico; 33 1 Professor Rich
ard Smith, member of British parlia
ment; Belfast, Ireland; 62 8. Fred
erick Oye, English operatic mana
ger, England 1L Henry Wells,
founder Wells, Fargo k Oat express
oompeny; Glasgow, Scotland; 78 M.
Gostave Rouland, French senator;
France; 73. .13. General Joseph
Henry Liehcnaa, erf New York national
guard; New York... .14. Princeaa Alice,
second daughter of Queen Victoria and
grand dncbeaa of Heaae-Darmatadt;
Darmstadt, Germany; 85....17. Kief
Ferdinand Gutakow, German dramatic
poet; Frankfort-00-tbe-Main, German T:
87 ... 19. Bayard Taylor,emrnent Amer
ican author and United Btatea minister
to Germany. Berlin, Oermany, 58 21
AlpbeuaS Williams, member of Con
gress, of Michigan, Washington.
Rales far Heme Edecattea.
L From your ehildreu'a earliest in
famy, inculcate the necessity of instant
obedience.
2. Unite flrmnesa with gentlenea*.
Let your children always understand
that you mean what you aay.
8. Never promise them anything un
less you are quite sure you can give
them what you aay.
4. II you tell a little child to do some
thing, show him bow to do it, and aea
that it ia done.
5. Always punish your children for
wilfully disobeying you, but never pun
ish them in anger.
6. Never let them perceive that they
vex you, or make yea lose your self
command.
7. If they give way to petulance or ill
temper, wait till they are calm, and then
gently reason with them on the impro
priety of their conduct.
8. Remember that a little present
punishment when the occasion arises ia
much more effectual than the threaten
ing of a greater punishment should the
fault be renewed.
9. Never give your children anything
because they cry for it
10. On no account allow them to do
at one time what you have forbidden,
under the same circumstances, at an
other.
1L Teach them that the only sure and
easy way to appear good ia to he good.
12. Accustom them to make their lit
tle recitals with perfect truth.
IS. Never allow of tale-bearing.
14 Teach them setf-dseial, not self
indulgence of an angry and resentful
spirit Home, lUustrattxL
Man sometimes reaches an exalted po
aition. Sometimes pride lifts him up
so high that be will scarcely reoognixe
or commune with others even on his
own level; riches may gain for him
honors and the admiration of his fallow
meo; be may court the mueee and wm
everlasting fame; he may cultivate the
■oienoaa and win mown by rrm% dis
covery either hi the blue ethereal
haaveoa or in the dark eaves of earth ;
he may beooma the moat noted of mas,
■od thus be freed from asennieHng with
thoeeof common day; but, neverthsleee,
be cannot help unroneciouely keeping
step with the tune of a braes band that
passes him on the atraat,—Stttm R*m-
IMNN I
The Uiea Oheerver truthfully re
marks, when a printer acta on a poem it
f->inil to be prtotud, but when an
m * '* OMB 14 wU ' never be