A Modem Jaroli. The Philadelphia Tcleyraph'B Paris etUrsnys: 1 was recently told by a young French gentleman (the son of the prefect of La Rochelle) one of the strangest romances of real life that over came to my knowledge. Some four yeajß ngo a peasant boy who lived on a farm near the town of Clermont- Ferrand saw and fell in love with the beautiful daughter of a gentleman of good fortune and position, he being at tliat time seventeen yenrs of age and the young lady was just sixteen. The new ' Claude Melnotte" was so madly in love that he went straight to the house of the young girl's parents and de-, manded her hand in marriage. The father treated the preposterous proposi tion with good-natured scorn. " Come back when you have an incomeof $40,- 000 ( 200.000 trancs)." was his answer, "and then we will see about it." The infatuated youth took him at his word, and forthwith set to work. Now one af the peculiarities of the town of Cler mont-Ferrand is a scarcity of water. There is no river near it, so it relies for its supply on springs and wells. Under these circumstances a spring is a valuable piece of property and com mands a relatively high price. So the young peasant lover set on for an ad jacent mountain, there to search for uidden springs. My informant said that he had honey-combed the whole side of the mountain with his works, construct ing at one point a tunnel over two miles in length. All this was executed with his own hands. He worked from dawn to dark, lives upon potatoes of his own planting, and never spends so much as a sou upon a mug. of beer. Every Sunday lie goes to church in the town, after which he proceeds to the house of his lady-love, to*ask if she is married or likely to be. On receiving a response in the negative he plods con tentedly homeward, and starts out afresh to his toil on the morrow. This life has continued now for full four years. Up to the present time he has discovered three important springs, each of which he so.d for $5,000, but, though now possessed of what a man in liis condition of life is wealth, he abates none of the hardships of his ex i-tence. He has one idea, namely, to become the possessor of a fortune suffi cient to enable him to claim the hand of the object of liis blind passion. Yet no one who knows the parties ever imagines that the young lady will ever consent to riarry him". She is now twenty yeai iof age, and is pretty, re fined and accomplished, while he is coarse and unlettered, without even physical comeliness, as he is short and thick-set. with a broad, stolid counten ance. What will be the end of this dream, I wonder? Will lie go mad or break his heart the day lie finds his be loved either married or betrothed ? Or will he die some day of privation and overwork, with a vision of success be fore his eyes. Seasickness. Theories about seasickness arc as in numerable as remedies for it. Some persons, especially women, never get accustom- d to the sea. and all efforts to prevent or cure the afflictive nausea are unavailing. One of the latest prescrip tions is to take five-drop doses of nitrate of amy 1, which has been known to exer cise, it is said, a most fuvorable intlu ence on hundreds of sufferers. But much depends, of course, on certain conditions of the system, a savingclause for ail boasted forms of relief. One of the favorite theories about seasickness ascribes it to the tossing about of food in the stomach, which disturbs it and the d'aphragm. nausea and vomiting be ing the inevitable consequence. Another theory is that the stomach has no such relation to the ailment, whose real cause is a congestion of the brain, acting re flexly on the stomach. Still another and indeed a more rea sonable theory is that most cases are due in some degree to each of the sourcts mentioned, and that, with a full stom ach and congested liver, little can he expected from nmyl. In oases mainly nervous, as with women, nitrate of amy I is usually found very beneficial, nnd de serves more varied and extensive trial than it lias hitherto received. Nearly everybody has a remedy for seasickness, and wiioever has experienced relief from any form of treatment naturally has en tire faith in that form. Hundreds of so-called infallible cures might be enum erated, and yet some people have tried any number of them without the least advantage. The probability is that sea sickness comes from different causes with different individuals. With some it arises from the stomach; with some from the nerves; with others from the brain; with others again lrom the imagination. No exact diagnosis can !•> nmdeof seasickness. Of forty or fifty sufferers each may he sick in a different way; and when the sickness reenrs it may be a marked variation from the first sickness. The disorder depends more or less on the individual, and any att"inpt to generalise upon it is pretty certain to be misleading as well as tile Words of Wisdom. AII honest man take delight in doing gon-1. Youth looks at the possible, agent the probable. He who declare all men knaves, con victs at least one The rarest gems often lie hidden in kennels of impurity. Words are the daughters of the mind, but actions sre the sons of the soul. Wit looses its respect with the good when seen in company with malice. fI" only is independent who can maintain himself by his own exertions A < a bird wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. Return equity and justice for evil done to you, and pay goodness by good ness Find earth were grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows. Poetry is Die art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing. The faith which looks forward is far richer than tlu experience which looks backward. There are occasions when ceremony may not be easily dispensed with, kind ness never. Uove. undying, solid iove, whose root is virtue, can no more die than virtue itself. Many people are busy in the world gathering together a handful of thorns to sit upon. How can we look with confidence to a heaven above, when we do so little to make a heaven below, around and about us t Miss Flyun and Her Lorer. Miss Marv Flynn was studying medi cine and being courted at the same time. Mr. William Budd was attend ing to the latter part of the business. One evening while they were sitting to gether in tlie front parlor, Mr. Budd was thinking how he should manage to propose. Miss Flynn was explaining certain physiological facts to him. "Do you know," she said,"that thous ands of persons are actually ignorant that they smell with their olfactory peduncle?" "Millions of'em," replied Mr. Budd. " And Aunt Mary wouldn't believe me when I told her she couldn't wink without a sphincter muscle!" " How unreasonable.'' " Why, a person cannot kiss without sphincter! " Indeed!" " I know it is so!" " May I try if I can?" " Oh, Mr. Budd, it is too had for you to make light of such a subject." Mr. Budd seized her hand and kissed it. She permitted it to remain in his grasp, " I didn't notice," he said, " whether a—a —what do you call it?—e sphincter helped me then or not. Let me try again. 1 ' Then he tried again, and while he held her hand she explained to him about the muscles of that portion of the hu man body. "It is remarkable how much you know about such things," said Mr. Budd —" really wonderful. Now, for example, what is the bone at the hack of the head called?" " Why, the occipital bono of course." "And what arc the names of the mus cles of the arm?" "The spiralis and the infra-spiralis. among others." "Well, now letuie show you what I mean. When I put my infriv-spiralis around your waist, so, is it your occipi tal bane that rests upon my shoulder blade, in this way?" "My back hair primarily, but the oc cipital bone of course, afterward. But oh, Mr. Budd, suppose pa should come in and see us?" "liet him come: Who cares?" sai<. Mr. Budd, boldly. " I think I'll exer cise a sphincter again and tnkc a kiss." "Mr. Budd. how can you?" said Miss Flynn, after he had performed the feat. " Don't call mo Mr. Budd; call me Willie." he said, drawing her closer. "You accept me, don't you? I know you do, darling." " Willie," whispered Miss Flynn, faintly " What, darling?" " I can hear your heart heat." " It heats only for you, my angel." "And it sounds to me out of order. The ventricular contraction is not uni orm." "Small wonder for that when it's bursting for joy." " You must put yourself under treatment for it. I will give you some medicine." "It's your own property, darling; do what you please with it. But somehow the sphincter operation is the one flint strikes me most favorably. Let us see how it works again?" But why proceed ? The old, old story was told again, and the old, old per formance of the muscles of Mr. Budd's mouth enacted again. And, about eight Sears later. Mr. Budd was wishing that lary would catch some fatal disease among her patients, and Mary was thinking that the best pissi >lc use Willie could be put to would be as a subject for the dissecting table. — Max Adder. The Chinese Armv and Navy. Some of the Russian newspapers, in view of the contingency of a war with China, give some particulars of the mili tary and naval forces of that country. The chief portion of the Chinese army consist of "the First Army Corps," composed of eight Mantchou, eight Tar tar and eight Chinese corps, and the garrison of Pokin. The soldiers of "the First Army Corps" are seldom drilled, rnd are mostly armed with old swords, bows, spears and other anti quated weapons. Being badly paid, they earn their living by working at all sorts of trades, and are of hut little us. as soldiers. Their total strength, exe elusive of officers is about 105.000 men, The garrison of Pekin, also had ly arnied conslsts of 17,500 men. Besides those there are two corps lH.SOOstrong, which form the emperor's body-guard, and a division of infantry of 20,000 men, whose duty it is to keep order in the capital and its suburbs. There is also a third army, which during the present ocntury has been almost exclusively employed in time of war. This is the so-called " Green-banner Army," which is composed ol eighteen army corps, in correspondence with the eighteen pro vinces of ttie empire. Each army corps has five divisions, nnd each division five camps. A general commnnds each division, nnd trie civil governors are the commanders-in-chief of the troops stationed in their respective districts. The total strength of the "Green-ban ner Army" on pnper is about 851,000 men, with 7,oooofficers, hut it is prob able thnt more than one-half of this force couid be brought into the field. Barely 50.0(H) of them are armed witli European weapons and drilled accord ing to the principles of European taction; the remainder still carry spears, match locks, and short swords. Finally, there is a kind of irregular volunteer corps, which is called in when the regular anny lias proved incapable of suppress ing an insurrection or putting down brigandage. This corps is even worse armed than the others, possesses but little training, and is harnly amenable to discipline. As tor the Chinese navy, its ships are, for the most part, badly constructed ar.d insufficiently manned. There are a few European officers, but the majority of the naval officers are Chinese, who are very ignorant and in efficient.— Pall Mall Gazette. Mere Sunshine. - The world wants more sunshine in its disposition, in its business, in Its chari ties, in its theology. For ten thousand of the aches and pains,and irritations of men and women, we recommend sun shine. It soothes better than morphine. It stimulates better than champagne. It is the best plaster for a wound. The go< d Samaritan poured out into the fallen traveler's gash more of this than of oil. Florence Nightingale used it on the Crimean battle-fields. Take it into all the alleys, on board all the ships, by sP the sieg beds Not a phial fall, cot a cop full, lut a soul full. It is good for tplecn, for liver complaint, for neu ralgia, for rheumatism, for failing for tunes or melancholy.— faith and Worke. Street Lights. In the reign of Louis XIV., one of the most magnificent spectacles was sup posed to he the general lighting of the streets of Paris. The world was invited to witness the novel scene. It was be lieved to be the highest achievement of modern civilization —neither the Greeks nor the Romans seem to have thought of the wonderful invention. Yet the lights of the great city consisted only of dim lanterns and torches, dispersed at distant intervals, and, compared with the bright glare of modern gas, would have seemed only a dusky gloom. \V hether the Greeks and Romans lighted their cities at night is still in doubt. It is -probable that Rome, except in rare instances of festive illuminations, was left in darkness. Its people, when they went out at nigiit, carried lantoflks or torches, or else wandeied, in moonless nights, exposed to robbers and stum bling over obstacles. Antioch, in the fourtli century the splendid capital of the East, seems to have set the example of suspending lamps through its princi pal streets, or around its public build ings. Constantino ordered Constanti nople to be illuminated on every Easter eve with lamps and wax candles. All Egypt was lighted up with tapers float ing on vessels of oil at the feast of Isis; and Rome received Cicero, after the flight of Catiline, witli a display of lan terns and torches. Yet the practice of lighting up a whole city at night seems in fact, a modern invention. Paris and Ixmdon dispute the priority of the useful custom. At the opening of the sixteenth century, when the streets of Paris were often infested witli rob bers and incendiaries, the inhabitants were ordered to keep lights burning, af ter nine in the evening, before tlie win dows of their houses; in 1558, vases filled with pitch and other combustible matter were kept blazing at distant in tervals through the streets. A short time aherward, lanterns were provided at the public cost. Tiiev were at first only employed during the winter months, and were soon kept constantly burning. Reverberating lamps were next invented, and were usually surrounded by throngs ol curi ous Parisians. In I'm, the load between Paris and Versailles, for nearly nine miles in length, was lighted ; and in the present century, the French metropolis has steadily improved its street lamps, until the introduction ot gas made the streets of Paris as bril liant by night as by day. Its light was never quenched until, in its recent humiliation, its glittering boulevards and sparkling parks were hidden in unwonted gloom. London claims to have lighted it, streets with lanterns as early :ia 1414. but the tradition seems doubtful. About 1608 the citizens were ordered to place lamps in front of their houses every nigtit during the winter; but as late as 1736 the rule was imperfectly obeyed. Robbers filled its narrow streets, and life and property were never secure in the darkness. Gas lamps were next introduced, at the public expense: the number was rapidly Increased, and toward the close of the last century the citizens of I/>ndon were acustomeed to boast of tneir magnificent system ol street-lamps, which far surpassed that ol Paris. Hie road* running from tie 1 city for seven or eight miles v ere lined with crystal lamps. At the crossing ol several of them the effect was thought magnificent; and wiiat would now be a dim and dismal arraybf smoking lights, seemed then one of the wonders ol the time. Novelists and poets celebrated the nightly illumination of the over grown capital. Vienna, Berlin, and other European cities followed the ex ample of Paris or fxmdon. and New York and Philadelphia early adopted the eustom. Rome alone, still clinging to the usages of the middle ages, re fused to light its streets; the popes steadily opposed the heretical inven tion, And preferred darkness to light. At length came a wonderful advance. For three centuries civilization had prided itself upon its lamps or lanterns; It was now to shine in novel brilliancy. The Chinese, who seem to have origl - without perfecting most modern inventions, had long leen accustomed to sink tubes into beds of coal, and carry its natural gas into their houses, and even their streets, for the purpose of illumination. They also used it for manufactures and cooking. But they had never discovered the aitof making ({as. In 1792, Mr. William Murdoch hrst used gas for lighting his offices and house in Redruth, Cornwall. The Birmingham manufacturers at once adopted the invention. Tiie unparal leled splendor of the light at once at tracted public attention. The peace of IHO9, transitory ns a sudden illumin ation. was celebrated by the lighting of the factory of Watts and Boulton, at Bir mingham, with a llamq that seemed to rival the brightness ot the stars. The invention spread over the world. Lon don, ashamed of its once lioasted array of endless lamps, now glittered with hundreds of miles of gaslights. Paris again called the whole world to witness its tasteful illumination. The cities of the new world lighted up every corner of their busy streets. EVcn Rome' yielded to the useful invention. Plsli L'nltare. Norway leads the world in her fisheries, with an annual production valued at ♦13,600,600, and yet we have opportunities for expanding to a limit even surpassing these enormous figures. The artificial propagation of fish has been attended with encouraging results, first in Germany, then in France, and latterly in tne United States, having be come one of our most important in dustries. The United States fish com missioners say: " Norway Is the only European nation that lias a scientific commission occupied officially in the supervision of the fisheries and in de vising methods by which they may be carried on and extended with the least possible waste. To the labors and observation of such men as Dr. Boeck, Professor Bars and others, is due much ol the present efficiency of the Nor wegian fisheries " In 1867 we imported about as much fish as we exported. If we devoted sufficient energy to the business we could export one hundred times as much, and need import none at all. Fish culture is in its infancy. Its resources are immessurable. It may approximate and even rival agriculture in importance. Its development will give employment to large numbers of men and bring food within the means of the poor as well as of the rieh. The propriety and utility of international exhibitions, like that now in contem plation at Beriin, where the represent atives ot our nation can learn the nature of the products of tho others, as well as show its own in a universal market, can no longer be questioned— Hoimt ijtc American Condensed History of .Music. Music iu n science mny be said to have bcei: cradled with the Christian era, for while have sun# with the birds from timo immemorial, and played on rude instruments as far back as any his tory takes us. just as David did, when he said: "I will sing unto the Lord a new song, and praise him upon psaltery and harp." 1 was amused at an arrangement gotten up lust year by a Chicago party ostensibly to make music simple, ignor ing notes, laws and all of our musical characters except the bare letters for each sound, and claimed in this way to be teaching thorough-baas. He simply retrograded to the time ol St. Ambrose, 1500 years aeo. Any skilled musician will seethe ludierousness of trying to ex press thorough-bass, which is the science of figured harmony, by any letter. In ohe sixth century, 501, St. Gregory did the next active work, but regarded from our standpoint he did little ol value more than write the Gregorian chants, some of which are in use to-day by the Cutholio churches, with many changes. He introduced one line, where we now have live, around which to arrange the musical characters. Singers had to do some tall guessing in those days. There was no harmony, or no time thought of, as yet. In the tenth century liuupald began to evolve some valuable thoughts on harmony, which, though very faulty, was a splendid step in the right direc tion. In looking over a transcript of his work I found it lull of errors that no modern composer would dare to make, such as the doubled thirds, consecutive lift lis. and consecutive octaves, etc., all of which, the good monk says, were very pleasing to the ear. In the eleventh century an Italian monk named (luido invented our pres ent syllables, which are invaluable for vocal music. These were the first sylla bles of some old Italian verses. He also improved largely on notation. In the thirteenth ccntuiy Franco deCo logno conceived the first "time" the idea of expressing time by the shape or form ol the notes. On this we have since made no special improvement. In the sixteenth century, 1502, one Petruci invented the casting of metal music type. This was sixty years after the art of printing books, etc., was dis covered (1442) and twenty years after the first Bible was printed, in 1478. There has born a magnificent progress in all musical instruments. Mentally I am taken back to the rude tom-tom of long ago—a round hoop, with a eaupel of gut strings, making about as musieas a salt box would. Some of the savages cling to this tom-tom yet. They have a legend like this: An angei in heaven was sitting on the clouds playing on the tom-tom, and so entranced was he witli its music, that lie torgot himself and dropped it—l think I should have dropped it myself if I had to play it— when a savage found it, and has used the heavenly pattern ever since. In the fourteenth century our orgnns began to assume valuable shape. The pianoforte was invented about 1650. In about 1717, at London, a great crowd went to a concert to hear a wonderful instrument called the pianoforte, so says n clipping which I rnme across a short time since. We get some splendid conceptions of musical advancement when we contrast the tom-tom with our matchless jtrnnd piano* of to-dny, or with our mighty pipe organs, whose magnetic and powerful voices cause us involuntarily to remove our hats and bow our heads, lifting us bytheir influ ence almost into the presence of the in- I finite.— Prof. 8. Q. Rice. Bits of Information. In the manufacture of tobacco, mo lasses, licorice, pasts a decoction of figs and glycerine are usou to impart a sweet taste. Common salt and other salts are used for flavoring, and nitrate of potash or soda is added to increase its combus tibility. Anise and other arorustics are IIOUHEIIOLIL >"at and Ltin fork. Home of our readers may think this a contradiction, but it is quite possible to grow pork witli that happy medium of fnt and lean so much relisfied. The greatest obstacle to it is the general method adopted In feeding pigs. They are fed on food merely adapted to lay on fat, and with a scant proportion of albuminoids to grow the muscles oi lcan meat. Figs have thus been grown and fattened lor so long a time that they seem to have taken on only lean meat enough to hold the body together. Except when on grass, the pig is plied almost wholly with corn, which is ex cessively j-it-Ii in starch and fat. Some | breeds have become so constituted that they will fat on grass. The pig, in its natural state, does not get excessively fat, but is nearly as lean as a beef ani mal. 11 young pigs are fed on nitrogen ous food, such as skimmed milk and grass, they will Ist found to grow rapidly—extend the frame and muscu lar system, having only fat enough to | round out the body to comely shape. Pigs should always he full fed ; but this j does not necessarily mean cramming ! with corn, which merely piles on the f:t till the young pig becomes diseased. It is this mode ol feeding for so many hun dred generations that has transformed our swine into lumps of fat with a few stringsof muscle to tie the ball together. To reverse this work of improper fecd i ing will take some time, but it can and ' must be done. Witness the great j change from those overgrown fat hogs which were bragged of years ago, but are now seldom seen, be i cause the market does not call for i them. We do not undervalue corn which is the best fattening food the American Ja mer possesses; but we should be glad to have them avoid its free use in feeding pigs, and sub stitute a more nitrogenous food, such as oats, peas, wheat, bran or middlings, a little oil meal, decorticated cotton-seed meal, rye, bran or barley—anv of these. Corn may be fed sparingly with clover or skimmed milk. Our Canadian neigh bors can raise fat and lean pork with grass, peas, barley and corn. We must have a grass diet for pig* generally, and with this grain may be fed. Farmers sometimes forget that the pig is a grass eating animal as much as the horse, and needs fibrous food to keep him healthy. Nicely cured clover is relished by pigs in winter, especially when raised on grass. If you want fat and lean pork, a strictly corn diet must be reserved to the last stage of feeding, simply to harden the pork ; yet a little corn may be fed all through the life of the pig, only giving these other nitrogenous foods with it. Pork grown in this way is relished by most people, and will al ways find a ready local market. No more important question than the aliove has ever been discussed in our columns. At one time lard was the most valuable of all the hog product: hut it has ceased to possess exceptional value, and now the aesideratum in pork production is to bring al>out a good de velopmcnt ot flesh.—7/omc Weekly. Ilcitat hold it III*. New linen may be embroidered more easily by rubbing it over witli fine white soap; it prevents the thread frou cracking. To remove grease from wall-paper lay several folds of blotting-paper on the spot and hold a hot iron near it until the grease is absorbed. To clean brass, immerse or wash it several times in sour milk or whey. This will brighten it without scouring. It ay then he scoured with a woolen cloth dipped in ashes. To take ink out of linen, dip the ink spot in pure melted tallow, then wash out the tallow and the ink will come out with it This is said to be unfail ing. If brooms are wet in boiling suds once a week they will become very tough, will not cut a carpet, will last much longer and always sweep like a new broom. To remove rust from a stove-pipe, rub it with linseed oil (a little goes a good way); build a slow fire at first till it is dry. Oil in the spring to prevent it from rusting. CaUry and l< Cultivation. No vegetable improves more on ac quaintance than celery. Farmers ob ject to its cultivation on the ground that there is too much labor about it, and this was a serious objection when the fashion was to cultivate it in trenches: but it is found that a plow makes all the tretich requisite for the dwarf and medium varieties, which are really more crisp, solid, and better flavored than the giant. " Boston market celery " can be grown with littie more laitor than a crop of cabbages, and as it adorns the table, tickles the palate, and tones the stomach, it deserves a wider cultivation by farmers than it has secured. The Great English Landholders. The thirty-five largest landed pro prietors in Great Britain hold each the following amount of land out of the 74.- 000.000 (teres which makeup the United Kingdom: Aoree. Duke ol Argyll 176,114 Baillie of DocMnar 165,648 ilorridge of Ulilden, Oalway 170,517 Karl ol Bmtdall-ane 438,368 The Dttkeol Bucclrmch 469,103 Marquis also as hard and durable as severs, other strong and more costly materials. i No one will hesitate to employ paper in : stead of iron in any construction pro vided that the former can be shown to be sufficiently strong, for its light and cheapness are most important c on siderations in its favor. The range and rautabi lily of paper ir< remarkab.e. The same material that forms the delicate valentine enters mt i the comj>osition of the wart wheel that sustains the weight of ton* i and endures constant friction a- it glid'i I along the iron rails. According as paper may be prepared, it ranks among the most fragile or the stoutest subxtar. Harder than wood and impervious : . 1 water. Just tliink of it. H"w peop.e fifty years ago would have been xur prised at such accomplishment*. Bu: being establishes' facts, they ar< fraught with great significance. They hare take tlie place of many sub stances that will lx> found inferior to it. while its application in nun. reus U vekiped ways, wlierein notfiing else car. I be used, may confidently be expe ted.— j Paper World. " Strong Jamie." The Berwickshire journals in IM4 ; gave much information concerning this | remarkable man. Though short of stature,he possessed prodigious strength. ' which earned tor him the familiar cog | nomcn of " Jamie Strang." or " Stront Jamie." A writer in the Berwick M vtriiner said: "We have beard state that tne greatest weight he ever lifted from the ground was U