Largest CWMII In the World.
Of the preat mechanical workshops
sow in existenoe there ore two whioh
■tend pre-eminent and whose names are
familiar throughout the cmlired world.
We of oonrse refer to the works of
, v Krnpp, in Prussia, and the Oreuzot
/ works of Franoe. We give here a few
Crtioulars of the latter oonoern, the
gest in the world. These great works
comprise within themselves collieries,
blast furnaces, forges, rolling mills,
steel works and extensive mechanical
workshops, besides an extensive system
of railways connecting the various de
partments. In addition to the works at
Oreuaot, there are ooal and iron mines,
bridge and ship building works, and
also ship worka at other places owned
f by tho same firm and forming one
establishment. Altogether the land
oocupied at Oreuaot and dependencies
amounts to more than 1,000 acres, be
sides 1,800 acres of agricultural lands
owned by Messrs. Schneider A Go., the
sole owners of the works. In connection
with the concern there are 190 miles of
private railway, worked by twenty-seven
locomotives and over 1,500 wagons. On
the Ist of May the staff included 15,252
Cireous, as follows : In the oollieries,
960 ; iron mines, 1,921; blsst f urn seen,
734 ; steel works, 793 ; forges and rolling
mills, 2,637 ; mechanical abops, 2,708 ;
railways and miscellaneous, 1,499. To
tal, 15,252.
The products of these worka last year
amounted to 549,000 tons of coal, 165,-
000 tons of pig iron, of whioh 126,000
tons were made into iron and ateel,
while 25,000 tons of engines and ma
■ 4 chines were turned out of the mechanics
workshops. The raw material used in
the same year was: of ooal, 572,000 tons;
coke, 165,000 tons; minerals, 100,000
tons ; water, 770,000,000 gallons ; gas,
77,680,000 feet. The full capacity of
the works is estimated at 700,000 tons of
ooal, 160,000 tons of wrought iron aud
steel and 30,000 tons of engines and ma
chinery . la it any cause for surprise to
our readers that a work of the above
magnitude finds itself requiring a steam
hammer that weighs 1,282 tons and
costing (500,000 ? The anvil of the
hammer alone weighs 782 tons. Just
contrast the difference between a blow
from this hammer and that from the
aturdy arm of a village blacksmith. Is
it any wonder that such a tool should
require a crane capable of handling a
weight of 160 tons or that the workshop
in which the hammer works cost $1,600,-
000 ? One of the rolling mills st these
works covers s space 1.247 feet by 328.
Add to this the fact that hundreds of
powerful steam engines are constantly
at work, and we have some understand
ing of the largest concern in the world
and a sample of the magnitude of what
the present age can accomplish; for
while these works were commenced
nearly a century since, it is principally
within a single generation that they
have grown to their present magnitude.
-Boxton Journal.
Would Rather Die than Write.
Literary composition, in truth compo
sition of any kind, says a New York
newspaper, exercises a most depressing
influence on the mind of the writer, in
dependent of any effect it may have on
the reader. Writing in, as everybody
knows, unnstnral, purely artificial; and
it is not strange, therefore, thst it should,
in many cases, produce melancholy even
by anticipation. A few days since, a
ut girl of twelve or thirteen, attending
school in a town in northern Illinois,
became so distressed becsnse she had
to write a composition that she attempt
ed to drown herself in a cistern, and
nearly succeeded. A medical student
of Baltimore, having a thesis to prepare
not long sinoe, grew so morbid that be
swallowed an ounce of laudanum, de
claring be would rather die than do the
hateful work. A book-binder of Rouen,
who was sent to the Paris exposition,
his expenses having been paid out of a
lottery fund, found on his return home
that he was expected to draw up a re
port of what he had seen. This render
ed him wretched .and though his friends
tried to comfort him, and offered to do
the writing for him, the thing so weigh-,
ed upon his mind that he waxen gloomy
and morose, disappeared from his borne,
and his body was soon discovered in the
Seine. Authors are often discontented,
irritable, sullen, saturnine when en
gaged in composition, and many of them
nave doubtless become dissipated and
gone to the bad generally, on account ol
their calling. The mere process of com
position brings the nerves to the sur
face, nndnly excites the sensibilities,
and, habitually followed, has a tendency
to cause morbidity end certain mental
disorder. To be perfectly healthy in
body and mind, a man should turn his
thoughts outward,be much out of doors,
and feed on the sunshine.
Wsrds ef Wisdom.
4 He who runs after a shadow baa a
wearisome race.
Children have more need of models
than of critics.
It is better to look round on prosperi
ty than back on glory.
What we have to do in this world is
not to make otur conditions, but to make
the beet of them.
A man's own observation, what be
finds good of and what he finds hurt of,
is the nest physio to preserve health.
Pretense has often despoiled a natur
ally gifted man of the respect his talents
would have commanded had they been
eeoeibly adapted to circumstances.
It is immaterial bow the world judges
of your actions as long as your mind is
feasy, and your personal expenses less
than your legitimate income.
When you doubt between words, use
the plainest, the commonest, the most
idiomatio. Eachew fine words as you
would rouge, love simple ones as you
would native roses on your cheek.
After friendship and love come benev
olence and that oompassion which unites
the soul to the unfortunate. It is well
known that this it particularly the share
of women. Everything disposes them
to tenderness and pity.
40 Words are nothing to paint a mother's
love, a mother's consolations. A baby's
rails contains the dtviaeet essence of
all earthly aolaosmaut; s child's love
soothes without weakening; it demands
so much thst In blessing it one is bless
ed by It unawares.
. NIAGARA FALLM IN WINTER.
Am' Kaitrx Ice BrtSas Mpualaa lha WMtb
•r lha Ktrar Jul Balaw lha Cataract.
The Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier of a re
cent date says:
For some days a large amount of
snow-covered ice from Luke Erie has
been passing over the fells. At eight
o'olock on Sunday morning the aooumn
lated mass of ioe oamo to a standstill
beneath the Suspension bridge, and the
watohenh began to hope that txiere would
be a bridge with a smooth surface. But
the huge dam of ioe suddeuly began to
heave, grind, and break up into frag
ments with s loud noise. At ten o'olock
there was a second standstill, and it
seemed certain that the bridge had been
formed, but at two in the afternoon
there was s third snd more severe dis
turbance.
Groat hummooks, weighing hnndreds
of tons, were pnshed into the air and
remained there as monuments of the
fearful battle. Large bowlders were
torn from the shore and Rwept into the
stream, and the solitary fir which was
wont to mark the landing-place of the
ferry became a victim te the warring
elements, thongh ordinarily it stands
three feet above high water. The slow,
awfnl strength of the infuriated waters
was so apparent that it seemed as if
they must rend the great gorge in
twain and esaape from their thralldom
by some new road; but there was only
one gateway for them, and, as they
could not break the mile-wide dam in
two, they lifted it np bodily and swept
away beneath. Having thus succumbed,
the water allowed the ioe to rest above
it, aooepting the yoke whioh it oould not
break, despite its boasted strength.
And now tue victor rests quietly, torn
sml rsgged it is true, but invincible; I
snd so it will remain until the beams of
the spring sun deprive it of its strength,
and onoe more restore Niagara to its
accustomed freedom. The bridge is
nearly s mile in length, extending from
a line drawn perpendicularly to Point
Lookout, in the American park, half
way to the railroad bridge, and filling
the gorge from shore to shore.
The first view of the falls brings the
heart no into the month with a shock
that is almost psinfnl in its suddenness
and foroe. Everything is so changed,
so transflgnred. Ice everywhere ! loe
upon the rocks, upon the trees, en
croaching upon the cataract itself and
deadening its rosr, even stealing away a
large portion of its power, to all seem
ing. As the spectator stands upon this
point the wind blows the spray into his
face, and soon oovers him ell ovor with
jewels; but what cares he for the spray
in the enthusiasm of the glorions view I
In the park the ioe has been as destruc
tive as it is beautiful, and though it has
robed the trees and buildings in snowy
beauty, it has torn down huge limbs by
its overpowering weight. Looking over
to the Canadian shore, the observer can
see hnge icicles of many tons' weight
hanging like the ropey locks on the
foreheads of giants in the story books.
Rut these sights are nothing when com
pared to the broad sheet of wrinkled
snow-ice which lies st his feet There
it is—the conqueror of Niagara- spark
ling in the sunlight calmly and peace
fully.
Beside the rotunds which stsnus at
the base of the Amerioan fall a moon
tain of snowy spray ioe towers np eighty
feet high, and is each day climbing
higher and higher toward the summit.
The dome of the rotunds bears an ioe
crown of exceeding beauty, and along
the roof of the dressing shed are curious
ioe formations which nothing lea* than
photographic camera can adequately
picture. Giant icicles hang from the
cliffs, aud every once in a while s hags
fragment comes tumbling down. The
ioe is perfectly white, and seemingly
?|uite porous, but exoesaively hard
rozen. Its appearance is exactly that
of spun glass. It is said that the spray
which formed this ioe was perfectly
pure, aud that if a ton of it were melted
it would produce no appreciable quan
tity of sediment. The ice mountain ia
still in comparative infancy, but if the
wind and the mercury are favorable it
will soon he in a condition to form a
coasting hill for the people as it did
during the winter of 1875.
The great ioe bridge itself is s coun
terpart in miniature of an Alpine glerier.
Yon hsve the rough broken surface, the
hummocks reaching ten, fifteen, twenty
feet into the air, the startling flssnres
gaping perhaps with s depth of thirty
feet in the solid iee; and von have the
pnre snow ioe itself in s million strange
and inexplicable shapes; but there is an
association of terror in this place which
doss not belong to the genuine glacier,
and which may come from the muffled
roar of the waterfall; pe reliance the
thought of 200 feet of water seething
and boiling beneath your feet Many
of our readers hsve stood on the bank
beside the whirlpool rapkla and seen the
wrsthfnl waters monnd upward toward
the sky in s thousand contending cur
rents as they bettle to escape from their
prisoning walls. Imagine this agitated
surface suddenly becoming petrified,
snd every broken wave baiting just
where it was, and this will give you an
idea of the magnitude of this structure.
In thickness it is probably about sixty
feet, while the surface of the iee is st
least half that distance from the surface
of the water. There are crevasses twen
ty-five or thirty feet in depth, and yet
they show no signs of water.
" Pith sad Pel at."
Many people ere joet like the globe
they inhabit—alightly flat at the poll*.
" No man oan lounge into auoceea "
intimatea a shrewd writer. Hofa aa onr
observation baa gone, he is entirely cor
rect.
When a flab is out of water he is very
soon out of breath.— Nov/ Hawm Rr
gUUr. Weighed in hie own scales and
found wanting.
We relented last evening and raised a
nickel for the tramp that solemnly as
severated there had been a time when
life was a perennial oeeia to him, bnt
since the war he had lost everything
except his appetite.
Miss Beatrice Hkiddy, so young and
so giddy, fell in love with a middy, bnt
whatever he did, he— didn't reciprocate,
because bis Conain Kate had long been
his " all in all." The oontionation of
thia absorbing story of passion and pre
ference can be foond in the left hand
breast pocket of Algernon Fits-Fangle'a
■pouted snrtout.—JVew York Nmt*.
Texas Bill's Last Bcar-Huot,
And now I will tell yon about Texas
Bill's last bear-hunt. One evening last
fall we were sitting out on the piaaaa
about nine o'clock, when neighbor Ford
rode np and wanted me to go over to
Book creek, abont three miles, and help
kill a bear. He said hia wife a mother
and a boy about twelve i ears old had
t>een down on the creek that day look
ing for some bees, and they saw a hear
run into the rocks. Bo I saddled np,
took my dogs, and with Charley and
Ford started for the bear. Wliea we
got nearly to the creek we found anoth
er man by the name of Russian waiting
for ns. When we got to the creek we
went down abont a half a mile and
hitched onr homes and began to climb
np the bank among the rooks and trees,
and after fifteen minutes' hard labor we
got to where the woman and boy saw
the bear go in. It was a wild-looking
place in a small ravine, with rooks on
both sides piled np one above the other,
and big bowlders scattered all about.
The plaoe where the bear wont in was
large enough for a man to get in easy,
and about thirty feet back of where he
went in was a large hole that went
down, and not the one that went straight
in. All the time while we wero bund
ing a fire we oonld hear a noise in the
bole like a hoarse aissing or grunting,
and thought perhaps Mr. Bear did not
like his oompany. After we got a (Ire
we oonld not look into the hole bnt a
little way, and F. went abont a mile
and got a lamp abont aa good as a light
ning-bug. Russian proposed to stay all
night and have daylight to work in, bnt
I did not want to stay till I found out
what I was staying for. While we
were talking F. took the lamp aud went
to the upper hole and got down to look
in.
" Ha I" aays he, " I can see him."
" Well," said I, " what is it!"
"Itis a bear ! Come and take the
lamp and see for youraelf."
I took the lamp and got down and
peeked in, and there he was. But I
could not see very plain, so I crawled in
a little farther. Charley wanted me to
oome back for fear he wonld make a dive
at me, but I ventured carefully in a lit
tle more aud then oonld see his head
and shoulders a little plainer, but I
could not make out what the deuce it
was. Its head seemed to be Vhite and
snont black, and what I oonld see of his
shoulders were black. Finally F. says :
" What do yon make it f"
" Well, I think it is a—hog, and if
you will band rae a gun I will try to
put his eye out"
They got my gun, and I ventured in a
little more to get a good chance to shoot,
but 1 got a little too near, and it moved
and hissed ami grunted fearfully; but
when it moved h oonld see it plain and
tell what it was, and what do yon think
I saw ? A couple of young buuards 1
Tliey stood side by side, their necks aud
wings white, their backs, tails, bead*
and bills black, and in the dim light
and the position they were in, looked
like the head of some large animal.
It. MII, •• Why don't yon shoot V
I mid nothing bnt crawled ont, and
F. MTI, " What are yon going to do !
now ?'
" Well, I think the heat thing we nan
do in to go homo."
R, mya, "Why the draw don't yon
tell ui what it ia down there in the
mcka ?"
I bothered them for a few rninntea
and then told them it wan buaxarda, '
and I don't belieTe yon ever heard anch |
a shout from a few moot hi an went np
through the treen from aronnd that
" lear " hole. We blew ont our lamp,
got into rnddlea, and went home, cer
tainly wiahr if not M happy oa when we
went out; and that ia the lout hnnt I
ave had after beam. Firrest and
Stream.
Scarlet Perer.
Every mother !IM a peculiar dread of
thia well-known disease, and there ia
aoaroely any malady of those oommonly
known to the people that ahe would
not prefer to aee in the house. There ia
hardly a family in which there ia not
aome fatal atory of iti ravage*, and the
chronicle of two or three or more chil
dren dead on the mme day ia not an tin
common on*. Some doctor* report that
in thia, aa in other diaeaeea, they " never
loee a cose. ' Perhapa they are in the
position <4 the doctor whom an over
eenaitive father called for hia flint-born.
He wanted a doctor who aaved hia
patient*, and he obtained aoroewbere or
other a magical mirror, in which be
could aee, a* he atood on each doctor'*
door-atep, the list of that doctor's vic
tim* in their ohrond*. Amused at the
procession* he aw in hi* glass as he
stood at the door* of the moat famous
doctor*, he went from honae to bonne in
the hope of better results. He stood at
last at the door of a doctor at whose
name there appeared only two tender
little victim*. He called thia physician,
lost hia child, and found that by subse
quent investigation that when be called
him that doctor had been in practice
two days and had had just two patient*.
If theae two bad not the scarlet fever be
had not, up to that time, lost a ease of
that disease.— Sew York Herald.
Merle* of Deg Stealer*.
Sir Edwin Londseer used to tell a
story of a dog stealer of hia acquaintance
who once restored to a friend of Bir Ed
win a valuable spaniel two weeka after
the time agreed upon when the matter
was negotiated. Bir Edwin upbraiding
the man for hia delay, the latter finally
said : " Well, the truth ia, Bir Edwin
-—you aee, I had to steal him back from
an old lady to whom I sold him for
j twenty guinea*. She never higgled
about the price, and ahe was so fond of
the dog I didn't think it would be Chris
tian not to let her have a few days'
pleasure of him." This beautiful tale
is quite paralleled by one which London
Truth now tells us of one Mr. Page, a
gentleman whose recent condemnation
to imprisonment for dog *l-r*Hng in
Lomktfi elicited much sympathy in dog
steel Jg circles : " When be was being
led from the dock, a friend of hi* toadi
ed Mr. Montague Williams, who had
defended him, on the shoulder." "We
have prepared tor you a little surprise,"
be said: " you lost a valuable dog a
little while ago ; we have brought him
back, and he bi in a honae e'ose by,"
Mr. Williams could not go to tbe bouse,
bat gave the address to which he wished
the dog to be taken, end on going home
in tbe evening he fonnd it there.
TIIELY TOPICS.
An advertisement ia a window through
which -all the world may look into your
shop and see just what you wish it to
see—no more, no less.
A oompany in London his started a
new the taking of portraits by
elootrio light instead of by sunlight, the
ordinary photographic proc ass.
The valuation of property at Newport,
R. 1., ia about 825,260,000, and neaily
one-half of this is owned by summer
residents. New Yorkers paying taxes on
abont 810,000,000.
The 860,000,000 paid for taxes on
spirits in the United Htates, the last
fiscal year, makes an average of more
than a dollar for every man, waman
and child in the country.
The king of Hweden averted a finan
cial panic in Btockholm by opening a
heavy private aooonnt with one of the
nrinci|ial banks, concerning whose sta
bility disquieting rumors were current.
The king's act restored confidence and
probably prevented very disastrous
consequences.
Miss Cunningham went to a ball in
Banker Hill, Ind., wearing a dress of
many and particularly bright oolors,
George Daniels made fnn of the con
spicuous garment. Miaa Cunningham's
brother Dan called Qeorge out of the
hall and began to whip him, bnt George
drew a revolver and killed Dan inatantly.
A remarkable case of defective vision
ia tbat of the three children of James
Howard, a seafaring man, whose family
lived on Ocracoke island, N. C. Tbey
beooma totally blind each day immedi
ately after tho ann goes down. If by
chanoe they happen to be in the yard
playing when the ann sets, their play
things are instantly laid aside, and
efforts made to reach the house, when
they soon after retire and sleep soundly
untit sunrise, after which their sight ia
described as being restored, and, to all
appearance, perfectly unimpaired. The
yonngest ia three and the eldest ten
years old—two boys and one girl, all of
light complexion. Their eyes are light
blue, and there is nothing abont them
tbat appear* at all *trangn.
Nowhere else tbau in America, with its
vast stretches of railway* through
nupeopled wilderness, oonld the an
no.ncomcut be made that a road kept
in readiness a dining car, well supplied
with provisions, to send out with
the regular passenger train "at
the slightest indication of a snow
storm, thus assuring passengers some
thing to eat if the train shonld
become blocked far away from any
station." This is stated of the Kansas
Pacific road, hut the arrangement would
he equally appropriate on several other
gnat lines penetrating the solitudes.
The picture of a tram snowed upon the
" great Armrican desert " far from hu
man habitation is not an inviting one
It M-ldom occurs, lint it might happen
many times.
Kat Merles.
A lady who onoe watched a rat lead
bis blind brother across a plank over the
water by a straw which each held in hia
mouth, ever liter felt a new respect for
this animal which ia so little esteemed.
The rat has a kindly side which good
treatment will bring nut, and people
have l>ceu fonnd who took the nain* to
make friends with them. Generally they
were people who had plenty of time to
invest ID such pursuits. A* for instance,
a convict in a penitentiary, who late'
trained a 1 t to come at hia whistle ar
follow him abont like a dog. A more
faithful little follower he could not bare,
and both seemed very fond of each
other. All day he stays by hia master's
side and goea back at niglt to hia cell.
He ia not afraid of the other prisoners,
bnt hides quickly when unv one come*
near not clad in the striped jacket He
evidently consider* him as not belong
ing to "this set" For all be knows,
poor little follow, the striped clothes are
a badge of honor. He (lines on prison
fare, and whatever elae be can industri
ously pick np in hia travels.
Rats as well aa mice have been known
to oome from their hole* st the sound of
music and liaten with apparent delight
The people of a certain dwelling in a
Western town were snrpriaed cvevy niglit
to bear a guitar sound in the parlor,
though no one was in the room. There
was a great deal of speculation over the
mystery, and some foolish people oalled
it " spirit" work. One night a gentle
man kept watch and aaw when the
honse was still, a great rat glide ont and
go at once to the corner and scratch the
guitar strings. He dispatched him with
a cane and missed hia chanoe of making
a fortune ont of his musical rat. -AM
thf rn Of)trrvrr.
Tke Pewer of Faafelen.
It is now considered the height of
fashionable flummery in this city to be
among the late arrivals at a social party
given at a private residence. Last even
ing there was a party of that description
on North B street which didn't
oome off. A lady who desired to give a
little entertainment made the nsnal pre
parations and invited a number of
guests. Bhe illuminated the parlors
and left the blinds open that the glare
id the gaa might the weary traveler
on the street This was her grand mis
take. About nine o'clock a couple came
np to the house, and the young lady
looking in the window and seeing the
parlors amply insisted on returning
home, ss she would not for all the
world do such a vulgar thing aa to en
ter a house where there was not a big
room full of people to look at her. The
two aooordingly returned home. In a few
minutes another couple reoonnoitered
the situation from across the street and
retired. One after another the guests
came up, viewed the empty parlors and
melted back into the darkness. There
waa no party, and the lady who pre
pared the entertainment didn't know
what to make of such shabby treatment.
This idea of trying to be the last one at
an evening party is growing to be ap
common on the Oamatock that the time
will oome when an invitation to a Fri
day evening's entertainment will mean
coma aa early aa possible Sunday morn
ing.— PlrpMa (free.) Chronicle.
BardeUe*s Baggage.
The Burlington Hawkvj i bnmoriat,
R. J. Burdette, who ia ont on a lectur
ing, tonr, lets loose his feelings, ia re
gard to a New York baggageman, in
the following style; The baggageman
who was on dnty at the New York, New
Haven and Hartford baggage room at
eight o'clock in the morning will deceive
passengers. He lied to me.
I aaw my baggage re-eheoked, and
got the chocks in my hand. Then I said:
' You'll get it on this 8.05 train ?"
" No," the baggageman said, " I
can't."
*"lhen," I wailed, "give it to me: I
can carry it, and I must have it on this
train." For it was only heavy hand
baggage.
Rat the baggageman wonld not. He
only said incredulously:
"No; if you can get on that train,
your baggage will be on before yon
are."
"Sure?" I asked anxiously; for I had
my misgivings.
"Yea," he insisted, "I can get the
baggage on before you get on."
"All right," I shouted, "don't fail
me, now,"
I got on the train and sat down. I
got up and went ont on the platform
and looked for the baggageman. Over
all the wide expanse of platform he was
not visible. 1 thought he was either
terribly slow or bad been marveloualy
rapid. The train pulled out.
That baggageman, after 1 had left
him, sat down and played a oouple of
games of chequers on a trunk. Then
he went to sleep. Then, I believe,
be awoke, nibbed his eyes, looked at
my valises, kicked them to see if there
was anything in them that wonld break,
and said, dreamily and Richard Grant
Whitely:
"There's that feller's baggage that
wanted 'em to go to Providence on the
8.05."
Measureless liar I by hia wicked de
ceit he sent me to North Attieboro' with
just abont as mnch of a wardrobe aa a
tramp. And I never got my baggage
till the Monday morning following.
Why did he lie to me ? Why didn't he
give me my baggage when be knew in
his virions, depraved, prevaricating
heart that he wasn't going to try to get
my baggage on that train V We do these
things I>etter in the Weat. Why, on
the old Chicago, Burlington A Quincy
railroad, from the time the first spike
was driven, there never was a piece of
baggage lost or left, there was never
a passenger misled or deceived, there
never was a train reached a station off
ached ale time bnt one, and it came in
ten seconds ahead; and sinoe Potter has
)>een superintendent, a man's baggsge
always gels to the hotel thirty minutes
ahead of him and spreads out bis clean
linen to air for him.
A Hands; la Parts.
A Sunday in Paris, aays an American
correspondent, ia as thoronghly unlike a
Sunday ill Una Cuulitry as it is possible
to be. Work goes on there the same as
on a week day ; the shops are almost all
open ; the wagons laden with good*
go about the atreets ; people attend to
nearly all their voaationa, and until
noon they work jnst the same aa if it
were a week day. After midday, every
thing closes except the cafes and news
paper offices—(or the evening papers all
oome out on Hunday with their raciest
editions—-and the city takes a holiday.
I suppose some of the Parisians go to
church on Bnndsy, but it really seems
as if church-going was the least matter
thought of by most people. Tbey have
their horseraces and their elections on
Hunday, their theater* and opera* give
the best performances in the evening,
and the exposition on Hunday drew its
largest crowds. In fact, the day ia
treated as a day for extraordinary merry
making. and as • holiday which is to be
made the most of for the public amuse
ment Tbi* ia the French idea of Bun
day, and assuredly it as entirely unlike
our idea aa two dissimilar thing* can
possibly be. All the great French fes
tivals are celebrated on Bunday ; and it
is the day when the largest crowds can
be attracted, and when the public, by
turning out in large numbers, make
those great displays for wbieh Paris is
famous.
k Bsc tor ea Blet.
I)r. K. C. Heguin lectured on " Diet "
IWore the Wrkinirmen's Lyceum, in
New York. Fie said in hie opening
remark* that to get mnrh ont of the
body or mind a man must adequate) t
supply nonnahing food. Even a man •
morality will depend in a large meaanre
upon the food that he put* into his body,
lie qnoted two sententious maxima:
First. "Tell me what yoti eat, and I
will tell yon what yon are;" secondly,
" A good beaat eata well." The natnre
of tlie food make* the difference between
the bold, enterprising, beef eating Brit
ish and the indolent, effeminate, rice
oonanming Hindoo.
The lecturer stated that it waa the
medical and economic aspect* of the
diet question that he proposed to con
aider on that occasion. All foods he
red nerd into animal food, regetable
food, raits, condiment* and beverages.
The beet and moat profitable food be
pronounced to be that which best nour
ishes the tissue* of the body and gives
the digestive organs the least amount of
work to do. Meats, roasted—for be
strongly *'enounced boiled and fried
meats—he pronounced to be emphatic
ally the best food, although milk con
tsined all the elements necessary for the
indefinite support of life. Much de
pended also, upon the mode of cooking.
The following law ami law N, Mien
from the records of the Mew Haven
colony in 1660 ere strange reeding in
three time*. The atetnte saye : " Who
ever ah all inveigle or drew the affection a
of any maide or matdeservant, either
for himaelf or other*, with oat 6rat gain
ing the connect of her parents, ahal]
Eto the plantation for the Brat of
m, 40a.; for the aeoood, £4; fee the
third, shall be imprisoned or oorpotally
punished.** Under this law, at a court
held in Mar, 1600, Jfaooheth Marline
and Sarah TntUe were prosecuted for
" setting down on e cheat* together,
his arme abo at her waistesad her ami
npon his ahonlder or about his neck,
and continuing in that amfnl posture
about half an hour, in which tune he
kyaeed her and she kyssed him, or they
kyaeed one ano'ber, as ye witnesses
teetified."
Items ef latmrt.
A grate want—Coal.
Alwayi awake—A Teasel's track.
•Alaska ODvers M9,029,00 sores.
A snitable dower for a widow—A
widower.
Prussia has 25,724,104 inhabitants
and 8,228 physicians.
Cauliflower by any other name
it would smell as sweet.
Ninety-six murderers were banned is
the United Htates last year.
A handsome pair of slippers—Two
pretty girls sliding on the ice.
The nose in red, the lips are bine; the
weather is oold, and so are you.
Eight tons of paper are used daily in
the manufacture of paper collars,
A schooner's crew resemble ihe bakers
of ship bread, when they make a hard
Lack.
Garlic is said to be a sorareign reme
dy for gout. There is no remedy for
garlic.
Let a man overcome anger by lore,
evil by good, the greedyby liberality,
the liar by truth.
Happiness can be bnilt on virion
alone, and most of necessity have truth
for its foundation.
The nails of ancient Egypt were usu
ally of bronze. Iron nails have mostly
perished with rust.
With all the fluctuations in pig iron
and axle grease, ohewmggnm stillkeeps
np at the old figure.
The British postoffloe has in its em
ploy about 45,000 persona, including
the telegraph department.
More timber is naad under ground is
the (lomstock mine than has been em
ployed in the construction of Han Fran
cisco.
Every person has two ednoatioM—
one which he reoeives from others, and
one more important, which he gives
himself.
The disease of men is neglecting to
weed their cwn fields and burring
themselves with weeding the fiekla of
other people.
A friendship that makes the least noise
is very often the most useful ; for which
re iaon I should prefer a prudent friend
to a zealous one.
Home one says that nothing is healthy
that is fried. This is probably sc.
Even Fri'day is unheal thy—for eon
victed murderers.
A clock is being exhibited at Pans
which fires a shot every hour. Home
body says that its great" practical utili
ty is '• to kill time."
When a pair of skates gets to going
faster than the lad who wears them, the
boy will almost invariaby sit down in s
very spiteful manner.
" Pants for $5 ?" said s seedy-looking
j man, reading a sign in the window of a
rlothiog store he was passing. "Ho do
11. I never panted so for 15 in all mv
j life." -
An Idaho editor proposes to nail
another editor's " vulnerable hide to
the wall, and make it look like a wood
chuck-skin on a country barndoor in
heao time."
A country lad says his Uncle I Leu
made s scarecrow so (rightful that one
of the black-feathered thieves went and
brought back all the corn be bad stolen
during the six previous days.
Lady : " How much is this s yard t**
Clerk : Three dollars and a half. It m
an elegant material—donble : it can be
worn both sides. If von tenr one side
you've only to torn it on the other side.
In Belgium, if a candidate dies be
ts ecu the day of his nomination and the
day of the election, his nsme still re
mains on the list and mast be voted for.
At Hte. Mary, Luxembourg, a dead man
has thus been elected to the communal
council.
An exchange says that a party was
lately visited by the following persons;
Two Miss Understandings, three M.s*
Takes, Miss Management, Mis* B.
Havior, Mine Fortune and Mr. Philip
Boater. It most have been a happy
gathering.
We do not ask any dead sunt to leave
ns (50,000, bnt we should like to have
some of the dead men about town drop
in with a little advertising. When a
dead man begins to advertise it is a
sure sign be is approaching the resur
rection. StiUwrfrr Lumberman.
Hpolling matches are very demorslit
ing. Jones had been to one the might
before. Hia wife is awakened during
the early morning by some noise below
stairs. "John I John I burglars," she
called, shaking him. "Kumars
b-u-r-g-l-a-r-s burglars," said be, and
rolled over to sleep again.
fus grtddleoskMon* days have sgas,
Wbou proud M*llnd*;passes
Her little pitisM beck fur mors.
Sod sops wn si Lb molasses.
Melluda. proud MeUnds Jase.
bsrtst for merry's asks '
Bias, pUing to tkoss griddle sskes.
Tnall (stibe stomach oska
Aad then, Belinda, loaded down
With gnddle cake*, you'd ase
That viands doughnut esas ths eoel-
Bow waffle that would bo!
—AtaSi IWJfsssal.
By some accident the headings of the
Marysville (Ky.) Banner 0 / Frmdom
got tmnspousd. sod the next day the
nuptials of old Mr. Pennvbseker, who
bad married u young lady of sixteen,
appeared under the caption of " Oold-
Rlooded and Terrific Deed 1 " while e
report of the murder of a Mr. Botta was
announced as "A Most Delightful
Affair." Ever since that issue Mr. P.
has been sitting on the carriage-step la
front of the Banner offloe with a shot
gun, waiting for the editor to eome
out, while Butt's brother-in-law is pa
trolling the back alley, wr'ting te
heed ofl the journalist with a elub.
On® of tbe mnet magnificent fetes ever
wi tea—ail st Hi. Okmd, wsa gina by
Napoleon 1., ia bettor of tbe christening
of tho kinft of Boat®, la tbe slbt I
the festivities a terribte'storm earns m ;
sad tbe emperor, who was at the BOIMBI
Mending at the door of tb- palsee, telb
ton to the mayor of Lynn*, said to that
feiotkmary. "lam going to do year
mitiinfaotoriee a ffrxx) tarn." His ma
jesty remained la tbe doorway, and ia
spite of the palting rata no oae pretest
ed to eater. It was with great dimeolty
that Ptiaea btdoboraadi asacaged to
prooara aa oasbrelia for tbe empress
Marie Loatea. Hie value of the silk
and stia dresses spoiled amounted to
miUions of franca.