A Son* for the Ulrl I Lore.
A HOUR for the trl I lovo
(1m1 lovo hor 1
A nons for tho ryot of louder sliino,
Ami the frsgrimt mouth that melts on mitio,
Tho aimmrriDß trossos iiniHinlrollrd
That olasp hor nook with tendril gold ;
Tito bloaaom month and the dainty chin
And tho little dimples out and in
The Rirl 1 love,
llod lore her I
A HOUR for the Rirl 1 loved
tlod lovo her !
A HOUR for tho ryes of faded lißht,
Anil thorhoch whoso rod rose wano<l to white 1
Tho quirt hrinv with its shadow and Rloam,
>nd tho dark hair drooped in a long, deep ,
droatn ;
Tho small hands crossed for tboir churchyard
rest.
And tho lilies dead on her sweet dead breast.
Tho girl 1 loved
(It*! lovo h*r !
#
MARY'S MISTAKE.
"No news of him yet! Oh, Herbert,
are you really lost to me ?"
Thus often murmured Mary Weldoti,
a beautiful girl of twentv, as she vainly
scanned the "shipping news" in the,
paper for tidings of her absent sailor
lover.
Three long years had now passed
since he left her—for nearly three
venre she had heard nothing either of ,
him or his vessel—tho Hero, a survey- j
ing craft, of which he was the captain, j
He had told Mary before lie sailed
that ho thought tho voyage would not
occupy more than twendy-eight months;
that at the end of that time ho would
probably come home, and that he
would then make her his wife. Hut, as
yet, she had received but ono letter
from him—four months after he went j
away—while now thirty-two moro had j
passed without her getting a line.
Her father thought that the craft !
must have lieen lost, ami so did many
other people; but Mary kept hoping on.
She had loved tho young naval cap
tain deeply, and she could not bring i
herself to think ho was dead, in spite
o' his silence and his long absence.
Both her parents, believing that he hail
either died or that he was false to her,
endeavored to tarn her mind in another
direction.
There was a certain skipjier named j
John Thomas, a good-looking, worthy
yonng man. who nnml>ered thirty years
in age, and 8.100 in savings. Mr. Wei
don now wanted his daughter to ocour- j
age this person; but although she liked
and respected him for his excellent die- !
position, she had never thought of ao- j
cepting him for a husband.
One day it chanced that Thomas
bought from a news stand a copy of a
Bonth American jiaper, the latest num- \
ber, and evidently the only one which
had reached Bristol.
From tho right hand lower corner of
one of the pages a piece of the paper
had accidentally come off and was
missing.
Attracted toward that sj>ot, the cap
tain's gaze was rivetted on a little notice ,
near this part of the journal. The head
ing of this paper having been partially
torn off with the missing piece of the
paper, it stood thus, with the other lines j
undisturbed beneath:
"MAR
"On June 2flth, Herbert Weyman,
late captain of the brig Hero, to Fanny i
Major, of Costa Rica."
For a moment the young man's brain
seemed to spin round like a top.
" Married ! Ho he is married !" he i
mnrmnred to himself. " Then, indeed,
all is over between him and Mary Wei
don. How scnrvily ho has trested her! :
I have always heard good reports of
him, and would not believe this did 1
not see the marriage notice here l>eforo
mv very eves in this paper, pnblislted
in Costa Itica, where the wedding took
place!"
Again he looked at tho notice.
" Ay, I have made no mistake. Here
it is, plain enough, under that heading
of 1 Married,' or ' Marriages'—which
ever it was before the letters coming
after m-a-r were torn off! And now
what shall I do? I don't like to l>e the
l>earer of this terrible news to poor
Mary. Heaven help her!"
Finally he concluded to take the pa
per to her mother; hut not until the
next morning after she had received it
could Mr*. Weldon master courage to
show the notice to Mary.
The young girl became very pale;
even her lips turned white, while great
blue rings ap|>eared under ber lieautiful
eyes; and for a moment she staggered
as if about to swoon.
My dear child," cried her anxious
mother, winding an arm about her neck,
** let your pride help you. Ho false a
person is not worth a thought!'
• No, no; h cannot have been false,
mamma. There must be some mistake !"
" Would that it were so. But these
lines tell the story." Again Mary read
these terrible worda
i Mav not some foolish person have
pnt it in for a joke T she said.
•• No; don't try to deceive youraeU,
Mary. Marriage notices are never put
in for jokes at least, not in that way
From this moment Mary Itegan to
droop Hh strove o call pride to her
aid, but in vain. Her nature was of
that intense, loving kind that clings
forever to tho object of its affectionate
regard.
Now hor parents strove harder than
ever to persuade her to receive tho at
tentions of Captain Thomas.
At last, to please them, she consented
to see him occasionally. Hut her ab
sent manner convinced the young man
that ho could hojxj nothing from this
concession.
Ho was a manly fellow, whom tho
sorrows of women, but especially those
of the one he loved, affected deeply;
and Mary, who had always rather liked
him, at once noticed and appreciated
his sympathy.
"Marry him and forgot that other
worthless fellow," her father ventured
to say to her, at last.
" I could never like Mr. Thomas well
enough for that, papa, and I doubt not
he knows it."
" Yes, but it was only the other day
that he told your mother that ho would
willingly run tho risk of your loving him
ivftor marriage, if you would have him."
But Mary sadly shook hor head.
"Ho you persist in thinking of that
false-hearted rascal —"
" Oh, papa, say nothing against him," |
sho interrupted. " Homehow I still
feel as if there must be some mistake.
Yes," she added, starting up; "you
shall take me awav off to Costa Rica,
and we will search the marriage regis
ter there!"
This was not the llrst time she hod
male that proposal, and now her father
replied: "Mr. Thomas sails on a
trading voyage next week to Costa Rica,
and as I have business to transact there,
where I intend to establish an agency
for shipping stores, you and I can ac
company him."
They sailed at the appointed time, anil
finally arrived at Costa I'.iea.
There inquiries were made, but the i
marriage register could not l>e examined, J
as the building in which it had ls>en j
kept had lately burned down and the ,
book was lost.
It was ascertained, however, that the '
chaplain of a British frigate, which had j
been in the hart>or ahont a year before, j
bnt had now sailed away, hail married a '
young naval otlieer and a lady. The j
names of tho wedded twain could not i
IH> learner], but there existed no doubt, I
even in tho mind of Mary \V,-lilon, that j
they were Herbert Weyman "and the !
Fanny Major mentioned in the notice.
Mr. Weldon now hardly gave his
daughter a moment's rest with rei>oct
|to Captain Thomas. He believed that, j
if sho married that person, she would !
: be a happy woman, in time.
At last lie said: " Promise me oue !
thing, Mary—that you will at least have ;
him when we return home, which will
' bo in al>out eight months from now!"
" Yes, if I am alive, and if I learn (
nothing in the meanwhile to show that
we have l>een mistaken abont Herbert! " j
Hhe only marie this promise to please j
her father. Hhe felt qnite snre it would j
never be fulfilled—that she would die '
I before she arrived home, and IM* buried |
in tho deep sea.
At last the time came when the vessel
sailed.
Mars - had continued to droop. Her
j cheek was sunken, her voice waa hollow ;
j she had kconio thin and worn. But
her strong constitution kept her up,
ami when finally within a day's sail of
home, she concluded that she was likely
j to live on for years.
Ho then, after all, her promise would
have to be fulfilled—she wonld have to
marry Thomas —for she would not break
her word even though it broke her heart
to keep it.
"Yea, I have allowed myself, by
papa's importunity, to be drawn into
making that unfortunate promise, and
I mnst keep my word even though it
kill me!"
As she spoke, she sprang upon a bench
near the rail, tho lietter to receive upon
her hot, fevered brow the full force of
the fresh morning wind, which was
blowing hard.
Not a quarter of a mile astern of the
ship was another vessel—a lieautiful
topsail schooner, which had l>een sight
ed that morning, and was evidently also
bonnd for Bristol.
In her agitation Mary hardly noticed
l it. Her hrain was reeling, and she felt
dizzy. A andden roll of the ship pre
cipitated her over the rail into tho sea.
All the officers and men being intent
npon some work forward—the yonng
girl's father being below—no person,
not even the man at the wheel, whoae
back was toward her, and who was a
little deaf, saw or heard her fall over
i board.
Hhe did not know how to swim, and
when site came to the surface tho salt
water, which had poured into her
| mouth, drowned her gurgling criea.
As she struggled there in the seeth
ing waters she saw the ship flying on,
its occupants still nnconsciona of the
accident.
Hhe went down for the aeoond time,
and even at that dreadful moment, aa
the thunder of the water* fell upon her
; confused brain, aha waa eonaciona of
thinking that at least she would escape
i a marriage with the man she did not
■ love.
But when she again roae to the sur
face she heard voices and dimly saw a
boat from tho othor vessel—the topsail
schooner—coming swiftly toward her.
She would lo saved after all, wiut lior
thought, and the sacrifice would have to
be mndo.
She was half bewildered, in u semi
conscious state, when a few moments
later she was pulled into the boat, and it
was some minutes before she could fully
realize lier situation.
Some jH'rson hud an arm round her,
and while he bathed her temples uml
forehead, he was eagerly calling her by
name.
When she was fully restored to sight
and sense she uttered a wild cry of sur
prise on recognizing, in the handsome
young officer who held her, none othor
than Herbert Weymon, her long-absent
lover!
" Let mo go," she sobbed, disen
gaging herself from liirn. " Take me
back to my father, who is in that ship
in the distance, and then return to
your wife, for I suppose she is aboard
that schooner."
" My wife?"
'• Yes; your bride, Fanny Major."
YVeyman looked puzzled, until from
a little ornamental rubber case taken
from her pocket Mary drew forth and
showed to him the notice Hhe had cut
out from the Costa Rica journal. She
had preserved it carefully, and us the
case was almost air-tight, the paper had
Ix-en but little more than dampened
during her recent immersion in the
water.
"Well," said Weymon, as his face
cleared, " here is the schooner close to
us! Take a good look at her, and you
will see my bride."
"Oh, Herbert, I see no woman !"
" True; but yon see a beautiful
schooner. There is her name, in red
letters, on the quarter."
Mary read the name.
It was " Fanny Major."
"That is the name which is in the
notice!" cried the young girl, in sur
prise.
"Yes," lie answered ; " but it means
the schooner nothing more ! "
"Why, surely the paragraph is a
marriage notice!"
"No; hail not the heading been partly
torn off, leaving only M ar, which I
perceive was the sole cause of your mis
take, it would have been ' Marine Trans
fer,' not ' Marnagi-s,' as you supposed!"
As soon as lie hail assistisl the over
joyed girl aluard the schooner he
showed her, in a |<orfi>ct state, the same
utimWr of the p*l>er as that from which
she hail cut the notice. The heading
was " Marine Transfer," and the mean
ing of the notice was thus made appar
ent. Merman hail been transferred to
the Fanny Major ; that is, to the vessel
of that name.
Further explanations followed. Her
bert's long silence hail been caused by
ins Iteing sent to cruise in the lonely
Arctic ocean, where be had lieon shut in
by the ice for one whole winter.
With the greatest difficulty lie had,
after many months of Isul w eathcr,
brought his shattered craft, in the fol
lowing summer, to (Vista Rica.
There he w* transferred to tho Fanny
Major, and was sent for a cruise off the
coast of Ki!x*ria. Before going lie wrote
to Mary, intrusting his letter to a friend
of his, a naval officer, who hail just l>een
married to a lady in Costa Rica, by the
chaplain of the frigate, and who, with
his bride, was going to sail for home on
leave of alsence, aboard a merchant
ship. T1 ic ship was lost, as he subse
quently learned, and with it the letter.
Oil his return to <V>*t* Rica from
Hilioria he found orders left for him to
sail for home with the Fanny Major.
He must have arrived only a day or
so after Thomas got nnder way, and
thus have just missed a meeting there
with Mary.
As to his overtaking the craft, which
must have sailed a week liefore he wa
ready to start, this was prolmbly owing
to his having hail lietter weather than
Captain Thomas hail encountered.
And so, now, Mary was happier than
words can express. A few hours later
she was restored to her father's arms,
and to Mr. Weldon the necessary e*-
planation* were made.
A month later his danghter was united
in marriage to Herbert Weymon.
Captain Thomas, for a long time dis
consolate, event uaby married a rosy
Heart >o rough girl, who proved to he an
excellent wife.
A Natural Bridge or Snow.
The Down ievi lie (Col.) .Voenper
describes an interesting spectacle to lie
seen on the East fork of the Yulie river,
about five mile* aliove DownievUle. It
is an immense snow-slide, which com
pletely covers the river for a distance of
several hundred feet. This slide formed
s year ago this winter, and was then
jicrhsps seventy-Ave feet deep. The
summer sun of last year failed to molt
it. and it is now, with some of the win
ter's snow, st least forty feet in depth*
the old snow being as hard as ice almost.
The river has worn its way through and
the arch is as regular as though formed
of human hands. jCktre will donhtless
be plenty of snow Aire all summer, aa
it Ilea in a gorge where the sun strikes
it only a few hours in the day.
TOI'ICH OP THE HAY.
Everywhere in Now York city the
electric light is making its way, and
although it may become just as great a
monopoly in the end as gas is now, it
may, in the meantime, servo to bring
the gas companies to reasonable terms.
Almost all the largo new private houses
now building will liuve it as well as
offices, theaters, banks, etc.
laborers are in great demand for rail
way building in the Southwest. The
Denver and Rio Grande ruilroad offi
cials want 10,000 men, to be employed
one year and perhaps two. The Atchi
son, Tojteka, and Santa Fc wants a
large number. Jay Oouhl has some
25,000 laborers engaged in constructing
bis new lilies. It is estimated that a I
million men are wanted west of the
Mississippi this year.
There is not much comfort in the re
jiort, says a New York jiaper, that the in
ternal revenue receipts for the year
ending June 30 will exceed those of the
previous year by marly 810,0*>0,000
owing chiefly to the collections on cigar
ettes; for this increase marks the
spread of an injurious habit among
growing bovs. No one who keeps his
eyes open as he walks about ttie street*
can have failed to observe that half the
small boys he meets are smoking cigar
ettes. It is not necessary to condemn
the use of tobacco by men before ven
turing to protest against its use by
babies. Furthermore, there is, unhap
pily, no doubt that women and girls I
make every y<-ar a Larger contribution j
to the revenue derived from cigarettes. |
The Princess Ilolgorouki, wife of the
late czar of Russia, is investing a veiv
large proportion of the millions left her
by provident care of her late husband,
in United States securities. Under
the new regime the princess' lite in
Russia is not a happy one by any means.
The present czar never admired her as
a stepmother, and he does not make
any secret of his desire to rid Russia of
her and her children. Porhapj she con
templates establishing herself in this I
free country, when' she could enjoy
jieace, security and quiet, and expend
her wealth just as she should see fit. To
have a real live princess reside in the
United Htate* would Im* a great boon to
that class of our i>eople who delight in
worshiping the nobility. There is a
part of the princess' record, however,
which might not commend her to all
classes.
Professor Chandler, president of the
lward of health, gave a very interesting
address—" Sanitary Thoughts for the
Times"—at the meeting of the Congre
gational club, of New York city, re
cently. lie thinks that the danger of
pestilence in that city is exaggerated,
and that the iucreose of disease* in I**l
over IHM) is dne largely to the severe
winter or to other *{>ecial eaus<-s rather
than to the unhealthy condition of the
street*. He claimed that the health
statistics of other American cities were
very imperfectly kept, and that the
larger apjarent death rate in New York
city is duo largely to the exceptional
accuracy of it* health statistics. Com
paring New Y'ork with foreign citie*, lie
said that Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin,
Manchester, Paris Brealau, Vienna, St.
Petersburg and Stockholm all show
worse weeks since January than New
York city.
Three years ago the Philadelphia
Medical society appointed a committee
to investigate the condition of the eyes
of the children in the city school*. The
nqiort of the committee was read by the
chairman, Dr. Hisley, at a recent meet
ing of the society. The committee hail
examined alsmt 2,(10(1 pairs of eyes.
The condition of those examined, I)r.
Rialey said, had provod 1 sitter than had
I wen expected by the committee. The
cose* of impaired sight ranged from
twenty-five per cent among the smaller
ehildren to forty per cent, among the
older scholars. The average of dis eased
eyes ranged corresjxindingly from thirty
to sixty per cent. The instances where
any blame attached to the Ixmrd of ed
ucation or their sectional board* for
want of care for the eyes of the children
were only two, one of which was the
rase of the primary practicing class in
the norma] school. The room is light
ed by one Urge western window, which,
owing to the position of the dek* and
the master's table, the children are
obliged to face.
A newly married conple recently ar
rived at the Cleveland (Ohio) railroad
station, and amused the passenger*. It
was evident, say* a local reporter, that
they were slowly consuming by a terri
ble burning of the unquenchable flame
of young love. They wandered to and
fro along the entire length of the sta
tion, the one arm of the swain encir
cling the waist of Mrs. Bwaui, and the
other hearing their baggage, a three
pound Saratoga. After having exercised
sufficiently they repaimctyto the waiting
room, and there whiled away the re
maining time before the arrival of the
train by billing, eooing, coreaaing and
kissing, even until the clerk in the fruit
tan<l |f wan politely toM
by tin* man with the wif thut ho was
locking sense. Hcveral others, wlio
• liiln't know what love in, wore alio tin
ahlo to suppress their merriment. Ah
excess of feeling, no matter of what
kind, will turn on the faucet to the
fountain of tears, thia voting couple
finally became no happy that they wept
copioualy. At last the train arrived and
the loving pair dejmrted. No doubt the
jHHi ngerH on the train received their
money's worth of amusement during
the ride.
Some idea of what the United States
has to pay for the Indian service may be
ha<l by the following proposals, bids for
which were received by the commis
sioners of Indian affairs at Nos. 05 and
(17 Water street, New York. They were
for about HOO.OOO pounds of bacon, 40,-
000,000 pounds of beef on the hoof,
liiH.ooo ]H/unds beans, 70,000 pounds
baking powder, 2,300,000 pounds corn.
750,000 pounds coffee, H,300,000 pounds
flour, 212,000 ponnda feed, 300,000
|K>nnds hard bread, 75,000 pounds hom
iny, !t,OOU ]s>unds lard. 1,(150 barrels
mesa {M>rk, 230,000 pounds rice. 11,200
pounds tea, 72,000 pounds tobacco,
206,000 pounds salt, 200,(*5) pounds
soaj, M.Otsi pound* soda. l,25O,O0()
]>ounds sugar and K3o,o<>o pound* wheat.
Also blankets, woolen and cotton goods,
consisting in part of ticking. 3<J,000
yanls; standard calico, 300,000 yards;
drilling. 25,000 yard* ; duck, free from
all sizing. 175.000 yards; denims, 17,-
000 yards; gingham. 50, (Ski yards;
Kentucky jeans, 2(!.0oo yards ; satinet,
4,500 yards; brown sheeting, 213,000
yards; bleached aheeting, 11,0*10 yarils ;
hickorf shirting, 12.0C0 yards ; calico
shirting, 5.000 yards; winsey, 2,000
! yarils; clothing, groceries, notions,
hardware, medical supplies and a long
list of miscellaneous urtjcles, sueh as
harness, plows, rakes, forks, etc., and
! for 475 wagons, required for the service
in Arizona, Colorado. Dakota, Idaho,
Indian Territory, Minnesota, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada and Wisconsin, to be
delivensl at Chicago, Kansas City and
and Sioux City.
Another wonder of electricity is re
ported, this time from Enrope. An ex
periment has just been made with an
improved telephone, by which con
versation was carried on across the Eng
lish channel lietWeen Dover, in England,
and Calais, in France. The experiment
is said to have l>een wholly suceessful
and satisfactory, wonla whispered into
the apparatus at one end of the cahlc
)>eing so distinctly beard at the other
that the mere tones of the voice of the
person s|s-aking were distinguishable.
At the same time the human voice was
licing transmitted through'one of'the
wires of the cable, the other wires were
used for ordinary telegraph messages,
and this, too, during the busiest part of
the day, when the wire* were in un
ceasing requisition. A numlrer of emi
nent scientific gentlemen were present
at the testing of the now invention,
which is called the electrophone, anil
were enthusiastic over its success. The
correspondent who reporta the facta
predicts moat important results from
the invention, saying: " There Vat be
no longer any doubt that it in perfectly
practicable to converge acroaa or rather
under the sea by meana of any sub
marine cable, and the enceoaa of the
experiment ojcnsiip viataa of the possi
bilities of rapid communication that a
few yearn ago would have lwlongcd to
the realm l * of dreamland alone. The
inventor maintaina that it ia juat aa eaay
to talk acroaa the Atlantic aa from one
room to another, and he haa aticceeded
ao well in the first practical illuatration
of hia apparatna that one ia scarcely
justified in doubting hia aaaertion that
he haa found out a system by which
word a ipohen from the other aide of the
ocean can lie fixeal on their arrival here
and treaanred up for further use."
Mountain Mahogany.
In Neva*la there ia a wonderful wood
known aa '* mountain mahogany." The
troea do not grow large. A tree with a
trunk a foot in diameter ia much alwve
the average. When dry the wood ia
al>out aa hard aa boxwood, and l>cing of
a very fine grain might, no doubt. le
lined for the aame purpose. It ia a rich,
red color, and very heaTj. When well
seasoned it wonld be a Ane material for
the wood carver. In the early days it
was used in making boxen for ahafting.
and in a few inatancea for alidea and
dies in a quartz battery. Used as a fuel
it creates intense heat. It burns with a
blase as long as ordinary wood wonld
last, and it is then found (almost un
changed in form) converted to a char
coal that lasts aliout twice as long as
ordinary wood. For fuel it sella much
higher than any kind of wood—indeed,
a cord of it always brings the same price
as a ton of coal. The only objection to
it as a fuel ia that it creates such intense
beat aa to burn out stoves more rapidly
than any kind of coal, however bed.
An international exhibition for print
ers and paper makers will be held, as
announced, in Leipcic, Germany, dur
ing the summer of 1882.
The White Mountain*.
The Indians, it in known, inhabited
these mountain* long liefore the settle
ment of uny portion of New England by
white*. Hut their village* were chiefly
situated upon the skirts, where the
hunting and fishing were good, and the
ground favorable to their primitive
mode of cultivating it. ilia infallible
eye for the bent site* is sufficiently evi
dent, aince we find the Indian'* uncouth
wigwam invariably auccoeded by the *
moat important aettlement* of the Eng
li*h. 1
Otherwiae, the mountain* were for the
American Indian, a* for the natural
man in all age*, a sealed book. He re
garded them not only a* an image, but
a* the actual dwelling-place of Omnipo
tence. Hi* dreaded Maniton, whose
voice wan the thunder, whose anger the
lightning, and on whose face no mortal
could look and live, was the counter
part of the terrible Thor, the Icelandic
god, throned in a )>alac<- <,f ice, among
frozen and inaccessible ]*-ak*. So far
then a* he was concerned the mountain
remained inviolate, inviolable, a* a kind
of hell filled with the despairing shriek*
| of those who in an evil hour trans
gressed the limit* aacred hi immortal*.
The first mention I have met with
of the Indian name for these mountains
i* in the narrative of Captain John
title*, printed in Boston in 11-'A). saying
that "the White Hill*, called the Ted
don (Ratahdin), at the head of the
Penobscot river, are by the Indian* said
to be much higher than those called
Agiockochook, above Haco." The prob
able signification of this Indian word i*,
according to the le*t living authority,
" the mountain* on that Hide," or "over \
yonder," to distinguish them from the
mountains of the Penobscot.
It is not precisely known when or
how these granite peak* first took the
name of White Mountain*. We find
them so designated in 1*62 by Josselyn,
who himself performed the feat of as
cending the highest sumrn't, of which a
brief record i* found in hi* " New Eng
land's 1 tan tie*. One cannot help say
ing of this look that either the author
was a liar of the first magnitude, or else
we have to regret the degeneracy of
nature, exhausted by her long travail ;
for this writer gravely tells us of frogs
that were as liig as a child a year old,
and of poisonous serpents which the
Indian* caught with their lare hands,
and ate alive with great gusto. These
ar<- rarities indeed !
The name is traced, not, a* in the case
of Mount Plane, to the fact that their
]>cak* are covered with perpetual snows,
for this is true of only half the year, but
from the circumstance that the bare
granite of which the highest are com
posed transmit* a white light when ob
served from a distance. Mariners ap
i preaching from the oj>en sea described
what seemed a cloud-bank rising from
the landward horizon when twenty
leagues from the nearest coast, and be
i fore any other land was visible.—
//<rj*r' Mnyaztne.
7he Magic of \umberm
Number* are supjosed to !*• of majjic
import, anil have been used from time
immemorial for purpose* of divination.
Different nation* act different iitore on
number*. The Bedui of Java regard
the number one with auperatition. One
da_v, for inatanee, i* appropriated for
earning home the grain, and what
cannot be carried home on that day ia
left to waste in the field.
Several nation* regard three a* the
moat important number. According to
the Brahmin* then' are three anpreme
power*, a mating, a preserving and a
destroying. Among the ancient Greek*
three was a magic number ; Jnpitor had
hi* triform symbol, or three-forked
lightning, Neptune, the trident, and
Pluto, the dog Corbcru* with three
head*. Theßosiemcians taught that there
were three order* of angel*, the Tere
pliim, the Seraphim, and the Chembin.
The Magi presented three gift a, gold,
myrrh and frankincense, which C'hryoe
tom *ay* signified that Christ was man,
king and God.
The Pythagorean* held fonr to be
sacred, and swore by that number.
The rabbinical writer* thonght that si*
wa* the important number. They say
that the world wa* created in six day*,
a servant had to serve six years, the soil
was tilled six years, and Job bail aix
tribulations. In Borne six was ominous
of evil.
Seven is regarded as a number of
strong import. Naaman wa* told to
wash in Jordan seven times. Klijah
sent his servant seven times to look for
rain, Jericho was encompassed seven
times, and Jacob served seven years for
each of hia wires. It is believed that
the constitution changes every seven
year* and that trouble ends after seven g
years. The seventh son of the seventh
son is a born physician, and can some
time* heal by the power of touch; and
tbs seventh daughter of the seventh
daughter sets up her claims as a score**.
There are said to be in Mew York city
ten large establishments engaged in the
manufacture of paper patterns which
employ over 650 hands, end which it ie
estimated use several hundred tons of
thin tissue paper.