riic Printer aud bis Types.
Perhaps there is no departmout of
enterprise whose details are less under
stood, by intelligent people, than the
, " art preservative," the achievements of
the types.
Every day, their life long, people are
accustomed to read the newspaper and
find fault with its statements; its ar
rangements ; its looks ; to plume them
selves upon the discovery of some
roguish acrobatic type that gets intc> a
frolic and stands upon its head ; or ot
some waste letter or two in it; but ot
the process by which the newspaper is
made or the myriads of mills and the
thousands of pieces necessary to its oom
poeition, they know little and generally
think less.
They imagine they disoourse of a
wonder ihdeed, when they speak of the
fair white carpet, woven for thought to
walk on the rags that fluttered on the
back of the beggar yesterday.
But there ia something more wonder
ful still. When we look at the hundred
and fifty-two little boxes, somewhat
shaded with the tonch of inky fingers,
that compose the printer's "case,"
noiseless, except the click of the types,
as one by one tbey take their places in
the growing line—we think we have
found the marvel of art,
. We think how many fancies in frag
-4 moots there are in boxes; how many
atoms of poetry and eloquence the printer
can make here and there, if he had only
a little chart to work by; bow many
facts in a small "handful;" how much
truth in chaos.
How he picks up the scattered ele
ments, until he holds in his hand a
stanza of " Gray's Elegy," or monody
upon Grimes, "Ail Buttoned Up Be
fore." Now sets "Puppy Missing,"
and now " Paradise Lost;" ho arrays a
bride in " small cape," and a sonnet in
nonpareil; he announces the languish
ing " live " in one sentence—transposes
the work and deplores the days that are
few and " evil" in the next.
A poor jest ticks its way slowly into
the printer's hand, like the clock just
running down, and its strains of elo
quence marches into line letter by letter.
We fancy we can tell the difference by
bearing by the ear, but perhaps not.
The typea that told a wedding yester
day announces a burial to-morrow—per
haps the same letters.
They are the elements to make a world
4 of. Those types are a world with some
thing in it as beantiful as spring, as
rammer, and as imperishable as autumn
flowers frost oanuot wilt—fruit that shall
ripen for all time.
Polseaens Paints and Wall-Paper.
Dr. H. 0. Bartlett, in a paper read as
the Cheltenham (Eng.) congress of the
social scienoe association said: " Until
the autumn of last year I was unable to
form any accurate idea of the frequency
of oases of severe illness occasioned by
poisonous {mints and wall-papers. I
had, it ia true, within my own profea
sional experience, known of several fear
ful outbreaks of lead-poisoning among
the work-people employed in white lead
works, and among painters and others
working in an atmosphere heavily laden
with the saturnine vapors given off in
the process of applying sneh paint or
during its drying. I had also been oon
snlted in a great many instances respect
ing wall-papers which were suspected
of being oolored with arsenic, in oonae
qneoee of illness of the type recognised
as arising from these sources. Bat
when I was requested by Mr. Jsbes
Hogg, the well-known surgeon and mi
croecopiat, to furnish some particulars
of the more striking csaei I bad investi
gated, to be laid before the government,
I was astonished to find that during the
last eleven years I have traoed back no
leaa than 128 oases of illness attributable
either to the diffusion of oarbonate of
lead (oommon white paint) or to araeni
oal or antimonial coloring matters in
paint or on wall-papers. Others have
been working in the same field of ob
servation, and ot those who have wit
nessed the danger of permitting the use
of poisonous pigments and wall-papers,
I oould mention the testimony of emi
nent medical men, analytical chemists,
and other* who have recently protected
against the employment of such dele
herons substanoee.
Caralveress PlasU.
Mr. Pater Henderson, wall known to
florienltoriats, la not a believer in ear
nivoron* pleats, u listed by the Dar
win*. He Med sa experiment recently
of planting in two boxes, s hundred
plants in each, of DUmaa Muac4pata
(Carolina fly-trap). One box he oovered
with fine wire netting, end the other he
left open in order that he might feed
the plants with flies and other toothsome
insects. It was impoeeible at the end
of three months to dieeover the slightest
difference in the ipleudid growth attain
ed by the plants in the two boxes. The
perimeot failed to corroborate the
eory of ,Mr. Darwin. Mr. W. A. Smith,
of the Botanic gardens at Washington,
, who is a believer in the oarnivoroas
plant doctrine, discovered by the nse of
a magnifying glass a minnte specie* of
shell mails in one bos of these plants,
£ and very naturally be thought that na
® tare had made thiswise provision for
the food of these plants, but Mr. Heo
derson watched the result, and in the
course of six weeks the snail* not only
•creesed wonderfully in else, but they
had eaten the fly-traps almost complete
ly op. There most be something in tee
snails or the climate of the United
States which produces different results
than those which Mr. Darwin speaks of
ss the result of hie observation.— Bos
ton Journal.
Item* ot Intereat
For root—A patch.
Foot notes—Organ pedal*.
It an array team—An eloping couple.
Polite literature—Books of etiquette.
Suspending business—The hangman's
The best ehest-protector—A paten
look.
Absolutely false—A set of artificial
teeth.
A smashing business—Shooting glass
ballß.
Musicians should have sound judg
ment.
" Happy to meat yon," said a polite
butcher.
A reformed rake—One that has been
mended.
A ca,-alr charge is only sometimes a
slay-ride.
A man with whom it is all up—The
balloonist.
A match safe—When the minister has
tied the knot.
The sickle that cuts down the green
things—lcicle.
The first newspaper advertisement ap
peared in 1652.
A philosopher fell sick, and was order
ed to drink sage toa.
The olose of the day is too light a gar
ment for oold weather.
As fits the holy Christmas birth.
Be this, good friends, onr enrol still-
Be peace on earth', be peace on earth.
To men of gentle will.— Tharkeray.
Of the 2,000,000,000, of cigars now
annually consumed in the United States,
about ninety per cent, are of home
manufacture.
Somebody says that large ears denote
brood, comprehensive views and modce
of thought." What magnificent ideas a
jackass must have I
The bells—the bells—the Christmas bells,
How merrily tbey ring !
As if tbey felt the joy they tell
To every human thing.
A Michigan farmer supplied himself
with six dogs to keep the place clear of
tramps, and then found that the dogs
ate as much as ten tramps.
A man in Calcutta who keeps poison- 1
ous snakes for sale has a standing notice
to the effect that strangers are not
allowed to handle the goods.
Miss X was asked recently which
■he preferred of the two brothers L .
She responded : " When I am with
either of them I prefer the other."
Bat tbs pearly mistletoe,
And the bolly berries glow,
Are not even by the boested roee outvied
For the bsppy hearth • beneath
The groan end rural wreath
Love the garlands that are twined at Christmas
Udo.
-ZUtnOook.
At the principal scat of the tack
manufacture in England, it is not an un
common feat for the workmen to forge
1,200 tacks so snurtl as to be contained in
the barrel of an ordinary goose-quill,
their weight being only about twenty
four grains.
" Boys," said the man, holding an in
verted match iu one hand and a dark ;
cigar in the other, " never acquire the
pernicious hsbit of smoking; I am a
slave to it now, and yet I hate it; I
never see a cigar that I do not want to
barn it np." And then, with extreme
satisfaction, be bnrned np the one in
his baud.
CHRISTMAS ova.
Boms say that, svar 'gainst the season oomsa
Wherein oar Savior's birth is oaiebrsted.
This bird of dawning singeth all night long .
And then, tbey say, no spirit dsrse to nth
abroad;
The nights era wholesome. then no planets
strike.
So fairy takes, nor witch bath power to charm,
Ho haDow'd and so graoioas is the time.
—(Outlet, pear* in •• llatnltC
Teat was a Wlck-ed Bey.
Tom was a bad boy. Hhall I tell you
what Tom did t Tea, I will. Tom went
on an errand for his mother. He saw a
big boy teasing a poor dog. The big
boy was beating the dog. Now what
did Tom do f If Tom had been a good
boy he would have seen that the other
boy was a big boy. He would have
gone home to his moth-er. When he
told his moth-era-bent the bad boy, she
would have pat-ted him on his head, and
looked into his eyes. Then she would
have cried, and said; " Thom-as, my
•on, yon are a great oom-fort to your
moth er." And she would have gam
to the cup-board and got a nice oakt\
And when she gave it to him she would
have said: "Take this, Thomas, for
be-ing a good boy. But the boy lam
telling you about was not a good boy.
He was a bad boy. No-body ev-er call
ed him Thom-as. Hs was al ways called
Tom. When Tom saw the big boy teas
ing the poor dog, he re-mon-strat-ed
with him. That is s long word, is it
not? I will tsll yon what I mean by it.
Ha Mid bad words to the big boy. Then
be atrook the big boy in the fee*. Than
he kicked the big boy. Let as see
whet Tom did that wae bad. He said
bed words. Ha struck and he kicked
He made the big boy ery. He stopped
the fan of the big boy. Now don't yon
think Tom was a rer-y bad boy f 1 think
yon will be glad whan I tell yon that
Tom's moth-er did not give him a nice
oake when he oame home. No; ahe
whipped him when the found oat whet
he had done. When his fa-ther earns
home he whipped him, si -so. and said to
him: "Tom, don't let ma hear of yon
flght-ing a-gain.- Primer Jtend, Bat
ten Trantoript. •
The Western Cliff-Dwcllrin.
Of late, blown over the plains, come
stories of strange, newly-discovered
cities of the far aonth-west; piotnrneque
pilea of masonry, of an age unknown to
tradition. These rnina mark an era
among antiquarians. The mysterious
mound-builders fade into comparative
insignificance before the grander and
more ancient cliff-dwellers, whose cas
tles lift their towers amid the san< * of
Ariaona and' crown the terraced slopes
of the Bio Manoos and the Hovenweep
(pronounced Hov-en-weep).
A ruin, accidently discovered by A.
D. Wilson,of the Haydeu survey, sever
al years ago, while he was pursuing bis
labors as chief of the topographical
oorpa in southern Colorado, is described
to me by Mr. Wilson as a stone build
ing, about the size of the patent offioe.
It stood upon the bank of the Animas,
in the Han Juan country, and contained
perhaps five hundred rooms. The roof
and portions of the walls had fallen,
but the part standing indicated a height
of four stories. A number of the rooms
were fairly preserved, had small loop
hole windows, but no outer doors. The
building had doubtless been entered
originally by means of ladders resting
on niches, and drawn in after the occu
pants. The floors were of cedar, each
log as large around as a man's bead,
the spaces filled neatly by smaller poles
and twigs, covered by a carpet of oedar
bark. The ends of the timber were
bruised and frayed,a* if severed by a dull
instrument ; in the vicinity were stone
hatchets, and saws made of sand-stone
slivers about two feet long, worn to a
smooth edge. A few hundred yards
from the mammoth building was a
second large house in ruins, and be
tween the two strongholds rows of small
dwellings, built of cobble-stones laid in
adobe, and arranged along street*, after
the style of the village of to-day. The
smaller houses were in a more advanocd
state of ruin, on account of the round
stone* being more readily disintegrated 1
by the elements than the heavy mason
ry. The streets and bouses of this de
serted town are overgrown by juniper
and pinon—the latter a dwarf wide
spreading pine which bears beneath the
scales of its cones delicious and nutri
tious nuts. From the size of the dead,
as well as the living, trees, and from
their position on the heaps of crumbling
stone, Mr. Wilson conclude* that a
great period of time has elapsed since
the buildings fell. How many hundred
years they stood after desertion before
yielding to the inroads of time cannot
be certainly known.
The presence of sound wood in the
houses doe* not set aside their an
tiquity. In the dry, pure air of south
ern Colorado, wood fairly protected will
last for centuries. In Asi* oc<lar wood
has been kept a thousand years, and in
Egypt oedar is known to have been in
perfect preservation two thousand years
after it left the forest. The cedars
throughout the territories of the south
west do not rot, even in the grove*.
They die, and stand eree*, solid and
sapless. The winds and whirlwind
sand* carve the dead trees into form* of
fantastic beauty, drill bole* through
the trunks, and play at hide-and-go-seek
in the perforated limb* until, after age*
of resistance, they literally blow away
in atoms of fine, clean dust
On tbe Rio San Juan, about twenty
five mile* distant from the city of the
Animas, Mr. Wilson discovered the fol
lowing evening a similar pile, looming
solemnly in the twilight near their
camping-place. Tbe scene as described
was weird in tbe extreme. As the moon
arose, the shadows of the phantom
buildings were thrown darkly serosa tbe
silverly plain. The blase of camp-fire*,
the tiny tents, the negro oook, the men
in buckskin hunting garb,and the picket
ed mules, made a strange picture of tbe
summer's night, with background of
moonlit desert and crumbling ruins, on
whose rampart* towered dead, gaunt
cedars, lifting their bleached skeletons
like sheeted ghosts within the silen
watch-towers of tbe murky past.
Prepened War ea Snakes la India.
Mr. A. Bettington has submitted some
recommendations to the Indian govern
ment with a view to redueiog the mor
tality from snake bites. Among them
are the following : " Priest* should in
duce the people to wear boots ; volun
teer* for snake-killing operations should
be invited from the army, the police,
etc. ; poisonous gaeea and chemicals
should be driven into snake-holes ; rent
free lands should be given to tbe heirw
of people who die in th* operations
against snakes ; prisoners should be rent
out to kill snakes, being allowed meet
and tobeoeo and promised remission of
two day's imprisonment for every day
•pent against snake*; Are and water
should be applied to snakes; a blower
with a portable metal funnel should be
used for forcing poisonous gaeea into
snake-holes ; ravines where snake* oon
gregete should be specially treaded,
chemicals being burnt without attnt, so
that the gaaea may penetrate the auake
hole* and cause asphyxiation to the
■makes; parties of trained make-killer*
should operate in tbe Deeean alone;
blowing horns, flag* and sentries should
be used to keep people and bird* and
harmless animals away from place*
where snake* are being treated chemi
cally by the ageney of Are; land on tbe
banks of rivers should be terraced, and
water pumped out of the rivers on to the
terraces, so to drown tbe anskee at to
cause them to come out to their de
struction.
An Enterprising Fair.
Before leaving the oourta, writes
"Caspar," tbe New York correspondent
of th* Detroit Free Prext, I may note a
curious statement made the other day,
when a woman of forty, and a youth of
twenty were on trial for stealiog any
thing they oould lay hands on in hotels.
The woman, who is a widow, sought to
throw all the blame on her youthful
companion. Home years ago, ere her
husband had joined that innumerable
caravan, etc., she had plenty of money,
lived in good style, and enjoyed the
sweet privilege of moving (every first of
May, perhaps) in the choicest social
circles of Gotham. But when the good
man died, the shadows of troubles be
gan'to darken the chamber* of her life.
He hail left her some means, and for a
while she erjoyed such comfort as a
desolate, lone, lorn woman can find.
Moreover, she thought that by doing
some good dcod she might greatly please
the dear departed if he had any mean*
of keeping the run of things in the world
he had left While revolving this
thought in her mind, she met, by the
merest chanoe, a youth whose gentle
and sad demeanor interested her. Hhe
mado some inquiries about him, ques
tioned him about his past, satisfied her
self that he was a victim of untoward
fortune, and wound tip by offering him
a home. He accepted and became an
inmate of her house, where in many
ways he rendered her such service as
compensated for his t>oard and clothiug.
This went on for some time, but a
length the money left by the dear de
parted was all spent, and then it l>ecame
a problem bow the widow should make
both ends meet. Hhe pondered and
worried, but oould see no way to keep
up decent appearances, and it was while
in the gloomy state of mind consequent
upon this optical failure that she fell
into the anare aet for hor by tbe wicked
youth. "I can ahow yon how to get
money," he aaid, and without more ado
he laid before her a scheme to smass
wealth as easy as winking. They should
go forth as mother and son, put np at
the hotels, one after another, and pay
their way by stealing whatsoever they
conld lay hand* on. Tbe voice of the
tempter prevailed, and the acbeme it
proposed was put into immediate prac
tice. Tne pair went into husine*H as
hotel sncak-thicve* at once, and drove a
prosperous trade for some time, the wo
man doing most of the stealiug and the
youth converting hur plunder into cash
at the pawn-shops. He also aided the
joint exchequer occasionally by forging
a check or two, which the respectable
pair passed without much difficulty on
unsuspecting tradesmen. Bnt it is *
long turn that has no laoc, or words to
tbateffect, and the enterprising partner*
were trijq**! up at last and hauled into
court, where the sobbing widow related
this talc nf how she had been led into
crime by th* youth whom she had
sought to hnng np in the way (bat
youths ought to go. Aod what, think
you, did the youth himself have to aay T
Ah, the baseness of man t Why, with a
scornful smile upon his barely edoles
cent lips, be aaid that the piteous tale
of the woman was all a lie, he had not
led her into evil waya at all, bnt she had
led bim. He was innocent and good
until she pern*dl him to join her in
systematic raids on the hotels. Hhe
was tbe tempter and he the victim, and
she had tenght him all he knew about
crime. Now, which do you believe— th*
desolate widow of forty or the ruelan
choly youth of twenty ?
A Had Htry ef City Life.
As Officer Cunningham, of the fifteenth
precinct, ws* approaching the corner of
Broadway and Third afreet, New York,
on a recent Friday night, he aaw a yonng
man stsmding under the lamp-poet hold
ing in one hand a large atone. When
the officer waa near the corner theyonng
man threw the atone at the light and
ah altered the glean. The officer darted
forward to oatch him, bnt there waa lit
tle need of hia doing eo, aa the man fold
ed hia arm■ and waited qnietly to be ar
reated. At the station he said hia name
waa John Fisher. Four years ago, be
aaid, he waa convicted of a crime ami
sent to State prison. His family waa
respectable, and every member of it and
all hia friends deserted him when they
learned of hia conviction. Hia mother
alone took hia part, and wrote to him
regularly and prayed for him while he
wae in prison, and he had promised her
that be would never commit another dis
honest act. She told him that he wae
young and con Id get back his good name,
and that ahe would stand by him to the
end. In October he was released, and
then became almost orasy when ha found
that hia mother had died in Angus'.
He intended to keep the promise be had
made her. Since October he had triad
to got work and everywhere waa rejected.
He waa destitute, sad that evening had
applied at one of the police stations for
a night's lodging. The station house
waa full sod ha waa asat away. He
would not break hia promise by stealing
or doing anything dishonest, and to
broke the lamp to get arrested. Ha waa
taken before Justice Otterboorg in the
Jefferson market police court, and waa
■ant to the care of the oom mission era dt
charities and correction.
The most unnappy of all man is the
man who eannot tall what ha ia going to
do, that has got no work cut oat for him
in the work), am) does not go into any.
For work is the grand sure of all mala
dies and miseries that ever beast man
dried honest work which you intend
muMlshA Jjr).
RVlllFfg OOM,
Didn't Want te Waste It.
An old sea captain, well-known in tbe
days of Havre packets, who " sailed the
seas over " for fifty yean: and more, used
to tell that in the early part of his voy
age as captain, when ho had bnt Just
turned twenty-one, hi* oabin-boy com
plained of a lame back. Tbero was a
medicine-chest aboard, whose content*
it was tbo captaiu's doty to dispense ac
cording to the beat of his knowledge
and ability. In a shallow drawer at the
bottom of the che*t were three or four
Hpanish-fly plasters ready spread on
kid, and oneof these the captain decided
to apply to the boy's back. It waa
done, and the little fellow sent to bed.
In tbe morning he was on hand bright
and early, but the oaptain's usual cup of
coffee was missing.
" Oook i*n't np, air," was the boy's
explanation.
" Why not ?" asked the captain.
"Hays he can't get up, sir. "
"Why not?"
"Bays bia back hurts him, sir."
" Back I what's the matter with his
liack T"
" The plaster, sir."
•' What do you mean ?" exclaimed
the oaptain; " I didn't pat the piaster
on his back."
" No, sir; but I did," whimpered tbe
boy.
" You did, you yonng rascal," bowled
the captain, jumping from hia berth,
" what on earth did yon do that for ?"
" Well, air," answered tbe boy, get
ting well ont of the range of any stray
bootjack or other missile that might
chance to be within the captain's reach,
" when I woke np in tbe night it hnrt
mo so I had to take it off. Tbe oook
was in the next bunk asleep, and I
juri dapped it on his back. I didn't
want to waste the plaster, air."
And he didn't. It worked to perfec
tion, keeping the poor oook in bed with
a sore back for over a week; and in the
next bank, keeping him company, was
the boy, also with a sore back, but it
wasn't the plaster that made it so. A
rope's end was a favorite prescription in
those days. Koxton Trannrript.
Lack.
An old effigy in tbe bark Supersti
tion, drifting through tbe muddy water*
of *hal!ow brains. Yes, image though
it be, there arc natives dwelling on tbe
shore of common sense who Tenerate it
equal to the poor Chinese with their
heathen gods. Home vain astronomers
(who think they are Heracbel'a brothers)
viewing it through their dim telescope
of thought, pronounce it to be two fixed
stars, good lack and bad lack. Hilly
philosophers have decided it to be a
gem of untold value. Miserable fatalist*
regard it as an immovable rock either of
danger or of protection. Laxy mortals
call it an angel in diaguiae about to
minister to their wants as they idly stroll
along the beach of life. The ignorant
are certain it's s land fertiliser, to be
spread over the ground of event* from
which may spring every plant qf occur
rence. Others vow it to be a faitHnl
dog, that will come and go, wagging its
tail at every angle of circumstance.
And now what is it, this luck, chanoe or
fate ? It is no bird to fly in and ont of
homes. No guilty creature, if it baa
been cursed at. It is only s poor scare
crow for the fields of the mind, to
frighten and chest as silly creatures ont
of the land of faith and promise, or bet
ter still a will-o'-tbe-wiap, which gives
light and hope to tbe benighted traveler
only to lure him farther from the beaten
track of reason.— Carrie Kami rex.
Frsg* that Warbled.
Daniel Denton, in 1670, wrote a " De-
I scription of New York " which almoat
i rivals that of tbe auctioneer who found
| one flaw in a splendid country place be
| was selliug—thst the scent of the roses
overpowered you, and the nightingales
sometimes kept you awake o' night*:
" In May yon shall see the woods and
flclda so curiously bedecked with rosea
and an innumerable multitude of delight
i fal flowers that you may behold nature
| contending with art, and trying to eqnal
if not exceed, many garden* in F.egland.
Diver* aorta of ringing birds, whose
I chirping note* salute the eara of travel
; era with an harmonious discord, and
|in every pond and brook, green,
1 gilded frogs, who, wartding forth
their untuned tunes, strive to bear
part in this music. Hare you need
not trouble tbe shamble* for meat, DOT
baaer%nor brewers for beer and bread,
nor run to a linen draper for a supply
of cloth. If there be any terrestrial
J Canaan 'ti* surely here."
It hardly needs to be aaid that Dan
ton'a " Description of New York " waa
"published with a view of attracting
emigration to that provinoe."
Tee Sack Appetite.
" And did you ever aaa tbe like* of
it r she called out aa aha ran around the
corner after • policeman.
" What's the trouble now f be
asked.
" Why, first the home caught fire;
then our boy William broke hie leg ;
then our boy Tboma* got in jail, and
theu my busbaud began to tail in
health."]!
" Anything more—is he dead f
[ " Not dead, Mr, bat he might aa wall
be. The doctor waa around yesterday
aod gave him something to brighten hia
appetite, tod he i this minute smash
ing the oook stove because he'i ee
hungry aa a bear aod w* haven't even
cold potato* in th* hour* | I'd like to
have d"gttn* aucnt<d, sir I"— Detroit
Firm Ptmx. ||B§ '
Attacked | l} „ Wulf.
Not long since W. W. Cain, a fwm
ti-mmpn, residing in the western pert
of Oornauelia county, T tui, while ut
ting in Lis bumble Lome, reading, m
suddenly aroused by a great commotion
among his doga in tbe yard. They ap
peared to be in a fieroe and deadly eens
bit with soma other animal. Oaia
seized bis gun and rnsbed out. Ha
found the assailant of bis dogs to be a
large brown wolf, known in Texas as lbs
timber-wolf, because be generally makes
bis habitation in the woods. Tire fron
tiersman was not alow in drawing a bead
on the intruder. He fired, but missed.
This seemed but still further to enrage
tbe animal, who now " held up "oe tba
canines and turned on Gain himself.
Tbe latter saw that all retreat to Uke
house u impossible, and a fight with
bis wolfshfp inevitable. Tbe wolf sprang
at bim, showing his white teeth in a
most threatening manner, and making
several passes at Cain's throat The
latter, however, clubbed bis gun and
went into tbe " scrimmage." Tbe ani
mal was in the act of making another
spring at hia throat, when Cain, at ths
first blow, broke tbe stock over th
wolf's bead. This, though, only stunned
him, and he was coming at him again,
when the latter delivered a final and
telling " lick " over the animal'a era
uinm with the barrel. It fell over dead.
Cain cannot aoconnt for tbe wolf attach
ing his dogs, nnleaa impelled to desper
ation by hnnger, which is sometimes
the case with this animal in tbe
plains of the Bonthweat, as well as ths
frozen steppea of northern Asia.
flwltzerlaad in a Ward.
He is to be pitied, is the common
place tonriat; be loses so much. Whan
he oomes home, hia descriptions
are somewhat like those given to a
friend of mine, when be waa a little boy,
by a newly-returned traveler.
" And did yon see Switzerland, and
what waa it like }" asked the boy breath
leaaly.
"Switzerland, boy ? Tea, boy, Switx
erland ia jast gay.'"
Appalled by this incongruous adjec
tive, tbe boy tried again, in tbe Lope d
obtaining more explicit information :
" Tea; and did you see the AlpsT sad
how did they look ?"
"The Alps, boy? Tea, boy, I saw
! the Alps; and now I tell yon, boy, the
Alps are just oar!"
There waa an increased emphasis in
the enunciation of this second "gay,*
which promised well; ao the boy priek
| ed up hia ears, and made a final trial:
" And tell me, air, did you—did you
see Mount Blanc; and bow did it look V*
"Mount Blanc, boy f Tea, boy, I
|. paw Mount Blanc; and now, boy, I tall
ye n what it is, bov, Monnt Blanc u jent
GAT!"
There was a whole oollection of ava
lauchea and thunders and lightnings ia
this last "gay," but it did not aalwtfy
j tbe child, who retired discomfited from
i these futile attempts to draw diwcrip
tious of Switzerland from hia restorer
friend— Edward King, In Boutin Jour
nal.
Ike Modem Iroquoi*
Ntarly 6,000 of the descendants of toe
old ix nations id Central New Tork are
iat > rrestville, Wis., cn a government
| rem 1 va'-iou, The United State* agwt
j In charge of this reservation reports
I that nearly 2,000 of these 6,000 can
I read and write ; that they have twenty
nine day and two manual labor schools,
and that they cultivate their land aa
diligently that they pay all the ex
penses of their living. They are re
ported aa advancing in church discipline,
growing in temperance and making
! rapid progress toward a complete ctvdl
! zatkm. Tby are not the old Iroquois
' in spirit or courage or adventure ; bet
I they may yet play a part in avilizatmn
j quite as worthy of their lineage ar ttaat
I of tbe warriors who bunted and ravaged
| np and down tbe Mohawk valley during
| tbe revolution. One popular delusion
I respecting them—that they are rapidly
. dying out—has been quite thoroughly
i rredlcsted from tbe public mind. If la
| those of the six nations who are on thia
I reservation we add the Oaeadian de
j scendanta of the famous confederacy, we
have a number nearly if not quite m
large aa tbe total census of tbe lroqecia
at the time when they were the mast—
and tbe conquerors of the continent
Kerosene as tftphtheria Cere.
A gentleman writes to the Prattsbn*
Republican of a family there named
Light, who recently moved thence tram
this city: "Mrs. Light said to soma of
the neigh bore that previous to moving
here she had an attack of diphtheria ami
cured beraelf by tbe use of kerosene oS
an a gargle; che also swallowed so—;
but tbe remedy was ao simple that onr
ottkaeus didut think aay thfc* of It and
five of Joseph JeU*y's children were
taken down with the diphtheria. IMb
throats bream# swollen and eankerni
terribly. Mrs. Jellcy tout after bar
neighbor,{Mrs. XilMt, who had lately
lost a ecu by the disease, to nmrtcbi
whether it waa really diphtheria or not
Mrs. MilUette pronounced U diphtheria
la a very dangerous form. Mr*. Jalhf
•aid she would was Mrs. Light* remedy
-kerosene oil—which Mm #"• bm
children aa a gargle; aloe had than
•wallow MM. Tbe children recovered
rapidly, and in a few days were oaten
the street, * Four other crew were in
like manner raaoeesfuliy trailed.
Genuine German silver ia 40} parts
capper. 811 parts nickel, *5 parts rina
,e,le .