The Love Tluil Lasts. " I liked a slcighritlc, io," she unfit, Doar Grandmother, whoso face in fair. Though five mil seventy yearn have spread Their silvery snow-shower* oil licr hair, " I liked a slcighridc, too," naid she. " And there was one 1 used to know Who liked full well to ride with me." "But that wan long ago," 1 aaid. • Yo a; that wan long ago." ' And I was fond of moonlight walks. We'd pare the village through and through, And have eueh friendly, pleaaant talks, Much friendly, pleasant ipiarrelM, too. My eyee were bine ami hia were brown; My tongue wan quick anil hia wna alow; 1 alway* laughed hia logic down." " But that waa long ago," 1 aaid. "Yes; long ami long ago." " My hooka were few, in those old timea; But eacti a word of sweet delight! And I remember writing rhyme*. And thinking I wa* l>om to write. The fooliah verae* ! Yea, 'tia true, They tloweil aa fountains upward tlow, i'ree a* the wind- aa empty too." " But that waa long ago," I aaid. •' \h ! long, long ago." "Yet, first and last ami Wat of all, 1 loved great nature's royal grace; The atar.n that glow, the atorma that tall Aeroa* the beauty of her face; The ripened fruit, the whirling enow, The fresh graaa springing by the way." " But that," 1 aaid, " wa* long ago." " Nay, that wa* yesterday," Bhe said, "To-day and yesterday." .Viiri/ Aingf Ik- fire. LOVE ON THE OCEAN. "Now," aaid tho captain, "wenhati't woe any more land for a week, and yon young ladios'll have nothing to do bnt let some of thoao young follows fall in lovo with von." " Fall in lovo," criod Hetty, her tip tiltod noso curling with incredulity and disgust. Who eonld fall in lovo at son, I'd like to know ?" " Wlto could ?" ftskisl tho captain ; in innocent surprise. " Why, everybody does. Why not 7' Hetty smiled in evident nnWliof, but glanced furtively across tho dock toward tho handsome young oftioor where lie leans on the rail blowing rings of smoke into the deep bine sky. Mi* hievous Doll and tho quirk-sighted captain detect both, and laugh unmerci fully. Hetty blushes, and tho first officer uncompromisingly turns hialtack and a deaf oar to tho captain's guffaws. It is evening on ship Ward, dinner is over, tho day's work is done, and all are assembled on dock. Tho sun which has hung all day like a copper gong tipon a brass coiling, is now mercifully disappearing. The nionntains of Lower California shine in ■ his fast fading rays like " tho golden hills of heaven," whilo one little hum mock of an island, long ami -high and narrow, ri'-rs ont of the sea like the grave mound of sorao ocean god. For once the water is smooth ; noth. ing breaks its stillness but tho steamer's trail, and tho sea-gulls now and then brushing its surface. Far, far away— far as tho eye can reach is nothing but tho same expanse of deep blue waters, broken only by thoso yellow hills, now fast vanishing into distance and night. Overhead, only another and wider ex panse, still "deeply, darkly, beautifully bine," and behind a cloud the new moon jnst beginning to look forth upon the ,;erons world below. Frigsby, from London, explains to a gaping audience how tho scenery now before them suffers from comparison with that of tho Ithinc. Sam Boland, of Han F raticisco, carelessly replies to an inquirer that he is going prospecting for gold in Guatemala, acknowledges it to be a " pretty risky badness," admits tho conntry to bo fnll of road agents and bushwackors, "but reckons he'll pull through." Meantime Hetty and Dell, seeing tbo captain had a story in reserve, settled themselves to hear it. " Didn't 1 tell you how my first officer got married ! No? Well, nobody could * been sicker'n his wife when he courted Iter. I'll jnst tell you all nliotit it, if you like, " Well, you see, I haven't always been I captain of a first-class steamer no, ire! I ran away to sea when I was twelve years old, and I've worked my way up from the bottom of tho ladder. Well, when I was thirty I was captain of a largo sailing vessel that was in the j Booth American trade. " I sailed from the )>ort of Caliao, Han Francisco being my destination. My weeond officer was an Knglishman, lint j my first was an American, only two or throe years vrmiigor than I as good looking a yonng fellow as ev. r I saw; , tall and'straight and handsome, with eyes like blno china. He was a right #©od fellow, too, brave and honntt, but frisky as a kitten and up to all sorts of larks. • Well, wo crept up the coast, stop ping at every ninth door, as our orders obliged us to do, taking in all sorts of things, I looked for San Francisco. Finally we came to Han Jose do Guate mala—that lies ninety miles inland— \ and there we hove to, and waited for a eh an co to go nshoro. "Did you ever hear of the surf on that coast, ladies? No? Well, it often rolls fifteen to twenty feet high, and n good part of the time no boat oau live in it. Horry wo are not going to stoji this trip, or you might seo it. You sco, there is really no harbor nothing bnt an open roadstead and, except in tho Bay of Fundy, this plaee shows the highest nnd lowest tide in tho world. The people there tried to build a break water out beyond the surf, but it breaks over it half the time, and when it doesn't it knocks it to pieces. Sometimes ves sels have to ride ut anchor for a week before they can put a boat ashore. " We'd only just hove to when I no ticed that a ship at anchor not far tiff was making signals of distress, and that a boat was putting off in our direction. Of course we were anchored fur out be yond the surf, and it was comparatively easy for the boat to reach us ; so it was soon alongside, and one of the men canto tip tho ship's side and told me ! what was wanted. " It appears that the ship was a coffee ship front Han Francisco, and hade com to Han Jose for a cargo. It wa; only j half loaded when one of the boats cup- I sized in tlit* surf, drowning the captain I and first officer. The second officer was j very low with a fever, and thoy had ] nobody to navigate the vessel ;so | they'd had to wait in port till some other ship came along and could lend 'em an ; officer or somebody who understood navigation. " Well, I called tip my first officer and ; put hint alsiard the coffee ship, and in a day or two wc both sailed. We were ' going over jnst the same ground—or sea, rather and as the two vessel*were equally fast we kept each other in sight most of the time. We'd boon ont about ten days, and were in American waters again, when all of a sudden the ship hove to, and signaled us to stop. We ray as close to them as we could, and then we hove to, and presently, through the gloss, I saw a boat being lowered, and there was a woman in it. '"I was surprised, as you may imag ine, for I did not know there were any passengers h, ladies, lie wa.' a beauty! ]'. > like tie tars ;n the i! •!', and the sw.-cti t little fa -e —kisses just sticking out all over it ' But wasn't she the sieke . little mortal that ever '• t fo-c on <1 h ? I tell von she was all green and yellow, and looked hiflf-siarv. 1. 1 do not b- ie-ve slo-'d kept down a quarter of a dinner for a j month past. * " ' Hull- . Jack !' aid I. 'what' the matter?' And 1 gave the huly u scat on the lounge in my cabin. The |w>or lit tle thing couldn't ,t up straight, so I just hoi ted her frcLnp and made hr comfortable among the pillow " 4 Captain,' said he, 'I want yon to marry me to this yonng lady.' " ' Marry you !' said f. 'What do yon mean? She's too sick to be marriisl, man! Site can't stand tip If yon and she want to lie married, why don't you wait till yon get ashore? " Yon see, Indies, wc talked right out free before her, for she couldn't under stand a word of Fnglish. "'lf yon wait till then,* said he, 'you and I'll be going to her funeral instead of her wedding. We've got to be married, and right away, and von have got to marry us.' " You see again, ladies, we w re very great friends outside the ship, and wi;< n we were alone together wc dropped all ceremony. " ' What in thunderaro yon in such a hurry for?* said I. " Why can't yttu wait until yon're ashore? Where are the lady's friends?' " ' Her stepfather's aboard mv ship,' he said. " ' I thought so;' said I; "nnd I won't have anything to do with it.' " He jnst turned nnd winked at me out of the tail of his eve,' and I then remembered, in a moment of misplaced confidence, I Intd told him some little circa instance* in regard to nty own marriage. "'Hem!' said ho, grinning like a; I monkey. 'I think they're sometimes justifiable. Now, jnst look here. Cap ; | listen, and I'll tell yon all ahont it. That little girl hits no relations -noth ing but n stepfather, and she's dopend ent on him for support. Well, the old ■toot's a doctor, and crazy at that, or if he isn't he's the meanest cuss on earth, j He's taken it into his addled old head to discover a sure euro for seasickness, ' and because just the name of a ship sets j poor little Dolores to casting tip ac j counts, he's Wen taking her on all aorta | of long voyages, and trying hia various decoctions on her. Ho I want to marry ( her to get her ont of his way. (if course Fin in love with her and all that,' said he, lo king kind of foolish, ' bnt if that was all, I'd wait till we got ashore. Of course I can't make him let tier alone un less she's my wife, and if he has control of her much longer she'll never see port again.' " ' Do you mean to say," said I, star ing at him in surprise, ' that he tries ex periments on her—give's her things that aint medicine F a "' I do,' naitl nl"; ' and I mean to nay Unit tint hint thing ho gave her wax i a bottle of bug poitton, and it most i killed her.' a By the Plying Dutchman !' sniil I; it ' 1 should think it would! Where's the i old ooot now V i, "' Tn irons. I told him I wouldn't t have any such doing aboartl my ship, u and ho slapped my face. Ho I put him rt in irons and came off to you.' "Well, ladies, I just went over to the . sofa where the little girl was rolling her a big black eyes at us, and wondering t, what in thunder we were saying. " 'How old are you, my dear?' I asked c in Spanish. " You see, I'd beeli married inoro'n two years, and I thought I'd a sorter j- right to be paternal, t "'Eighteen, Honor Captain,' said she, in tint softest voice in the world. "Haiti I: 'Do you love this young ~,111011 and want to marry him? Yon , I needn't if you don't, because I'll see to ( I it that your stepfather doesn't bother > ] you any more.' , " I didn't dare look round at .luck, ft.r ! 1 know he'tl In- looking blacker'n thun tler at me just then. Ami, imb ed, lie took step toward us; but I made liiiu keep off till she eonbl have answered for herself. ' I " Well, she blushed very prettily, olid > ! hesitattsl for a H(>eond, then miHwered I very sweetly that, if the Helen- Captain i didn't miml the trouble, she should • j marry the Senor First Ofliei r. That the Seiior First tUlieer had been her only I friend; that although she had taken ! many voyages and seen many people, ; 1 she had never before found uny one who , ! dared to interfere in her behalf; that she ' felt von grateful to the Honor First ■ ' t iflict*, and had now I woo me attached to hie:, and with the Honor Captain's jwr mission, would gladly become his wife. "As she said this. Jack got out of sight liehind the door, put his thumb to his nose, and twirled his lingers at me - in the most disrespectful manner. 1 hail a great mind to put liitn in irons for mutiny—but no matter. "Of course there was nothing to ls> done except marry them; she was over eight, en, ami at sea the captain's on good as a |tarsou, you know. "Hoi called Up the jiassi-ngers and the officers; and the ladies dr- - . 1 her up in their own tlm ry, and we had a wedding in very short order. After that the • -hip's surgeon pn scribed an antcoi .on. "The -is-ami oflicer went ov, r and took command of the cofi'-e ship in •link's place, and ntbm-k Doloters' trunk and < lotliing. At first I thought we couldn't ;-ct along without him, for Jack wa.. deeply in love with his little •Ifk girl I till) igllt he'll be of no manner of use. But we had good west her most of the time, ami Jack did his duty like a man. " But it was teal touehin rto • e him go to his wife's cabin every day and bring her on deck and_tix ber comfort ably on a be 1 the steward made for her under an awning. And there he'd nurse Imr and care for h<-r just as if he'd bi-en a sistciwof charity. Y'on might have men then. Mi s lietty, how a sailor eon love a woman. " Well, she soon got liettcr and stronger. Jack and tin* doctor fixed her up between them, and a healthier, livi licr, happi-r little woman never *et foot in Han I r.incise-i. Jack took Imr right to his married sister's, and there she stayed Wtwcen voyages till she had a lot of children, ami her husband bought Imr a house of her own. " What about the coflee ship? Oh, that made port a day before us, and the old doctor hail us all arrested the min ute we toadied land. Ho we were all hauled up iii court, and Jack had it out with his stepfuther-in law. " 1 think that the court was ratlmr against us first, but the bug poison ami the slap in the face did the business, and turned everything in our favor. He was afterward decided to In* a lunatic, and turned over to bis brother's keeping. " What's lieeome of Jock? Why, lie sailed with me for several years as first officer; now he's captain of the enm panion steamer to this. That good looking yotutg fellow that's been making eyes at von, Miss Hetty, is his son, and I dare say that he agrees with his father ' that seasickness makes precious little difference when a man's in love." The moon is quite up now flooding the sea with silver. Between us and the shining mirror interpose* the heod of young Jack, in fine, clear cut silhouette. What wonder that Hetty has to put severe straint upon her eyes that they shall not wander in that di rection ? The captain saunters away to do the* agreeable to other |>a*sengcr* while Dell strays down to the deck to tisten. fit a little closer quarters, to the tinkle of a guitar, and to a soft voice humming a Hjninish love song. As she strolls back she finds a mascu line form usurping her ploee, and |>eep ing tinder Hetty's downcast litis are a pair of earnest sailor eyes, whose dawn ng love and ho|>os cannot frighten or quell. The widow of Judge Crocker (Cali fornia's Cni'sns) has built a largo green house for the lieneflt of the jioor, who are allowed to help themselves to the flowers. " Indian ('duration in Virginia, • The effort lias been for a natural, all -1 round growth rather tlinu a rapid one. Books, of course, are for a long time of • no avail, and object-teaching, picture/. 1 and blackboards take their place, with every other device that ingenuity is equal to, often on the spur of the mo • j nmnt, to keep up the interest anil ntten " i tion of the umliseipled uiinds that, with I the best intentions ami strong desire to ' , know English, have small putience for r preliminary steps. A peripatetic class | was thus devised to relieve the tedium I | of the school-room, and hud, to speak literally and figuratively, quite a run. It usually began with leap-frog, and then went gnyly on to find its "books in the | running brooks, sermons in stones," etc. Geography is taught with molding saml ! and iron raised dissecting maps ; aritli r | met it- ut first with blocks. Tim Indians ( are particularly fond of each, and the advanced class is quite expert in adding up columns of figures as long as a ledger i page, and equal to practjcul problem! of I every-day trade ami simple business ac | counts. Nothing, however, can equal the i-hsrm of the printed page. Jt hits llm ' olil*iiiv-t.-ry of " the papt r that talks." I "If I cannot read when I go home," ; i -aid a voting brave, "my people will j laugh at tne." The gratitude of the Ht. , Augu-tini .over their tirat text book in 1 geography was touching. Beading, writiugand pi lling are taught together v by the word method and charts, loiter, , attractive little priiuaries have been very useful, and unbound numlx'rs of , eliildreii's liiugit/.inns, sueh as are used . in the schools. Most of the t Dakota* can now read at sight as simple j English as is found in these, and are . beginning to take pleasure in reading , or in listening to easy versions f of our childhood classics of Hob , inson Crusoe, ard Oiristopbcr ("olum , bus, and George Washington with his I little hatchet. One of their teachers r who tried the hatchet story on them in preparation for the li'-id of February says: "Such attentive listeners 1 never r ■ saw before, Thi v v. ere |s-rfeetlv en- I raptured. They understood everything, j even to the moral. A few dr.vs ufter I this I was annoyed by talking in the i slmb. Wbt n 1 dki 1 who di 1 it, Cray , one blame 1 bis m iglil* r. I said: ' V w, Imys don't t. II a lie. Who will be a . (Jcnr ■" Washing! n ' Two b. at one. it > .I up and said * We did it.' ' j Another ti-aele was b > -ncc< *f.;l ( with Imr moral, in trying to explain a . hymn they had learne Ito recite : , " Vtald list I . U-i!>|Sti in. r. r jrir J bug Iho n* ' day one of the girls came to i her, exclaiming, triumphantly: "I vie , tory' Ivi - ory' E mi.i Bulih< .1 g. t • mal with me. H'o* big temptation, I fight lor. I ri. t<.rv"' // , IF. /- / • ■ ' Bnnr After Seal. On one < ,i.n J fin,] capitnl - portunity of observing tjm movements of a b a* whi).- en -.*. • <1 in ati attempt ' t" pr -tire him- if a meal. Bruin was first -. i n on tlm ice. about I.OflO * n I* from us, stealthly advancing toward a that was lying apparently a-h-. p I about &0d yard* off. AN ialiing to observe his motions, we made the lioat fa-t to the ice and concealed ourselves st the 1 >ot U>m. The Ix-ar enjit up verv oaution-ly toward his would-ls* pri r. ', ocra.ion;, 11 breakin • through tin* thin rotten iee and swimming for some di tailed, irneliini - altogether under water. Having apjirooelusl to within about twenty or thirty yards of hi* victim, he nmde a rapid, headlong rush toward it, but only to meet with disap pointment, for quick a* had !x*en In motions, thoae of the > al win* more rapid still, and In* vanished down his ■ blow-hole heforo his a -gressor had covered half the distance thai Mcpanticd thiyn when lie mule his final elinrge. Tim l*nr, however, follow* d into the water, where he rvinaim 1 diving and searching abou' fur some little time ls*fore In emerged, snapping his jaw* j viciously, exidently much enraged at hi* failure, and behaving altogether in u very ravage manner. At this juncture tlm harpootier who was with me imitated the cry of n walrus, ami with sueh sne ei si a - entirely to dr-ctfvc the liear, who. pricking up bis cars, quickly advnncad toward us, but only to meet his death from a bullet out of my rifle.—Cajihim H'trl/iam, oi (Si -ni H'nrrfa. Mlemfopic Wrlling. On a postcard on Tiewat an exbihition in Germanr there had l>eeti written in a < Human system of shorthand the large linnilierof "-1,000 words. Hubsoquentlv Mr. Hurst, of Hheificld, inKuglond, the publisher of the a short hand magazine, offered prizes for minia tun* shorthand. The writing was to lie legible to the naked eye, and Ut 1m on one side of an English jiostcard, which i* considerably smaller than a German card, *.£i,stcanl contained 89,888 wonls, including ,the whole of Goldsmith's "HhttHtoojsti Conquer," an essay on John Mor lev, and half of Holcroft's " Itoml to Ruin." HpoopcmljkeN Adventure with a Bog. " Ijook here, my dear," said Mr. . SjMiopiuidyke, as h led it huge and f shaggy dog into his wife's room, "I've got a dog a frieml of minn gave ine. 1 What do you think of him ?" "Good gracious I" exclaimed Mr*. ' Hpcopondyke mounting a chair in dis may. "Is ho mad ?" 1 " No, Mrs. Hpoojiendykc," retortml 1 her bustnind, " lie not only is not mail, but lie isn't 11 stepladder either, or a 1 bird's-eye view. He's a dog, and if yon , don't get down off that chair, he'll probably bite your legs off." Mrs. Hpoopemlvke sat down 011 her foot and eyeil the brute with some trejii -1 (hit ion. • " Maybe he's got the hydrophobia," he suggested byway of u hearty we|- ' ; come. 1 1 "P'raps ho lias," agreed Air. Hpoop emlyke, " but if lie has lie' got it in his pocket. Cotno In re, doggim, iloggee, r i doggee !" and Mr. SpoojM-ndyke Kiiap jh-iI his fingers persuasively. " Why don't he coine when you call hiin ?" ttskeil Sirs. Spoopemlyki-, ■]■ eidv interested in the proceeding . , " Bccsu -- you make *ueh adod g.i* , ted noi-'i yon scare him," exclaimed , Bpoopondyke. "Gome, dogge.-, ih>g gee !" " i don't quite like (ho Way his tongue hang, out,"objis-tcd Mrs.'Sp'sqi. endykc. "It don't look natural." " Maybe you don't like the way hi tail bangs out, either. I r raps you think that's artificial, too. With your I information about dogs you only need a slat bottom and a brok< 11 hinge to lx n dog jxiuml. Keep quiet, now, wliile I tench him i-onn- trick-. Come here, doggee ! Hit up, sir!" 'I lie dog stretched out his forelegs, opened !5 month like a folding IsMlsteud and gr<>wl-il. "What nuikes him do tlmt, Mr. Kjxxq endykc. " Who do you s'|xise made him do it ? Thinks he works on a wire? Got a notion he goes by steam? He don't. I tell ye, he's alive, and lie ibx-s it lx . atl-i* that's the bent of his measly nit d. AN hat an* ye sitting up there for? Can't ye see he d -n't like itf Now you -g -till. Here. •! . ih'gg. e, I- id doggee, jt Hp Ilx • and Mr. Hjioopcndyko held up an admonitory finger. "II- I - • .1 Mr. Hp--0J < i.dy !.e v-ith ativt! !lian i. -.- ng ,la , <-. "lie' h .-ri -* y," -i ■ -!•• 1 Mr-• Hpoop • udyki-. "D ■ -> d-> not like tint wln-n the;, want to be la)., , down in the var-I and fed." "(f e- :r( • u knw," gruinbled Mr. B]Ki|xtnlvkc. "All you want is JH rfert jgi oroin eon the part of the po lice )■ t a ft r him b <-. it "Til- i--'s ■-ui.<- eoi-1 oy-.ter t< iv arnl a piece of cu-tar-1 pie " "That's i'!" rarad Mr S| peudykw. " i 111•' i what the matter with the dog. He want- pit ! Aon'v.* -it it. bill "nil • In - miT.iitti ■ and ali ht ox i r the proceed* to be a bench show. AYliere" till iV'tirs? Hain't ye got une e !<1 i he? (iivc him a lem-yi to star hi stomach!" and Mr. Hjxi-qicn dyke jttmjxcd strsi-tht up into tlm air and l.n i 1 on tlm dog. The dog made for tlm op-*n air with a le-wl. and Mr. Hpoop- i dyk- f-a'lo r--1 up Iw.-It.- En - ket* of him i-lf and lo k-- l after hi prize. " Never mind, dear," sn*il Mr*. Hpoop. . .lyk--. S 'dlnnglv, "he'll come lck." " If he doe* I'll kill him," shouted Mr. HjvKip ndyke. " Hi-<* w hat you've done ? A iri've made me ln-e mr dog and torn my trousers. Anything more about dogi yon don't know? Got any tnor intellitfpne- to impart about do -*? All you want i* a bucket of brandv around Totir imck and a anow-stonn to be a monk of Ht. Bernard," with which logi- al conclusion Mr. Kpoopcndyke le --gan exploring hia outlying districts for possible bites, while hi* wife -jx*cu lated upon the snlxation of tie* cold nyst. ,-n and tie custard pie bv the sud den and eminently satisfactory disaf fection of tlm dog.—HrfuJcfyn . AN bite House Fxpen-e* It rany bo news to some jx rons to know that the President's salary of s.*■o,ooo a year is not one-half the ex penses of the White House and it* oceu pan!* to th" government. Wo give the . items of the pa*t year a* an illustration: ( VMnpcaxoti-n of Pmi-tiat jy^nw of tYivate Nccri-tary. ;; 2Vi do of Assi-l-nt K-st-!rx 2, VVI to of l*o lb.. • itire llms at *(.■< 4.0*1 do of Kt"feoara|*(ii-r.. l.*i*t do of Niewatd i,*i*i do l Mossenaor ainl t sbi-r do of l'arnaei'-keeix r wa do of me* Niiftif Wslcbmau KM do ..f one NiVit t'sber |JM do of two tinOl'abera a 11. |i- do ' of ism t'-bcr at Mivn Vary'a duo* I,*lo do of two Ip(.rlp(.r at si.KOI 2 l'< ilo of onef'lrrk 1.-i*' do ofofipCterk !.4* do of i xi* Icrk I 200 do of om* Trlcgrapb 0|- rator.. 1.100 do f.r four Mi-s-h-hu* !* (to wait i I hi- tlx- tlirro Clerks and Tr!i-g(S|d fVjwiastor* nominallv. hut r-all* c-r --x-an'c) tU ll.it*' 4.000 Tarn hotv.w for Mcs-cagrrw, to tw* for uislnst by Hecrcbiry of War. nomi nallv for il*. of kiwntlrra, l*t really for Hc-ri tao '* earriaK* not given—new iti-ml —— CfNilingnnt • x|*cnw-s fi,o(w fironnds aontli of Kxrsnltvc Mansion.. R, OIKI ItefnrniatilnK, Kspaira and Onrcnhmiai*. S.V.nno Total #120,210 AII Extraordinary •. i Ami Hit extraordinary natural aoci ,j dnt, un child s ailim-nt was not discovered until e the following morning, when in giving „ it n bath the mother discovered some , thing black protruding through the skin of the child's thigh. Hho caught t hold of it, and was frightened when she • fonrd tli thing of a resisting substance. , She, however, used a little force, and soon extra--tedinm failed. A bucket ful f tepid water will do for ordinary purposes; daily shower baths in winter lime are c prep. .-.tenons as hot drinks in the .fog days, lins-ian baths and ice water cur. owe thoirropute to the same popular delusion that avriW* miracu lous virtues to nauseating drug, the mi-trust of our natural instincts culmi nating in the idea that all natural things must lie injurious to man, and that the efficacy *>f a rem. ly den.l* on the degree of its repulsiveneaa. Ninety nine boy in a hundred would rather fake the bitterest medicine than n cold lf injurious consequences; but in winter time even wild tx-nsts avoid imm.-rsion with an instinctive dread. A Canadian War will make a wide circuit, or pick his way over the floe* rather than swim a hike in cold weather. Itaptist mission aries do not report'many revivals Wfore .hum. Warm springs,on the other hand, attract all the bird* and Wast* that stay with us in winter-time; the hot spas of Hock port, Arkansas, are visited ly nightly by raccoons and foxes in spite of all torchlight hunts; and Hax than sen tells ti* that in hard winters the tlieren:. of Pactigorsk, in the eastern Caucasus, attract deer and wild lioga from the distant Terek valley. I know the claims of the livdro]int.liic SCIHM.I, and the arguments pro and con, but the main points of controversy still hinge upon the iasue Wtwcen nature's testimony and lr. PrieasntU'a.— P-pnl-ir Science- A Wall'for Win*. An Jowa paper cla ms that the sup ply of marriageable girls there is not equal to the demand, as there are two men to one woman in that State. Tho paper send* the following wail to other States: " Send along your sister*, and your cousins, and your aunt*. KemcinWr we want none'of your scrawny, wasp wanted. squint eyed, coeroetio-waahed, freckled laced kind, but healthy, hand some, wide-awake, go-ahead girls, who have been pr emitted to grow up as the Lonl made them."