MORAL ANI) RELIGIOUS. Health nnri II it i> pin (>•. The two things whicli conduce most to health ami happiness are labor and abstinence. Spartan severities are not recommended; nor could they bo con ducive either to health or happiness; but that degree of labor which may he had without Wing oppressive, and that quantity of food which suffices to Kup port nature without loading thestomach- But labor and abstinence are two t hingx which mankind take most pains to avoid. Yet what can exercise a inoro healthy influence both upon the mind and body than these. And not only should a man be temperate in food l ut moderate in all things. Moderation of disposition teaches us to restrain all the evil work ings of the mind—to repress jealousies, envy, anger, malice, hatred, revenge j and all those baneful passions'which have rained the health and peace of I thousands. It directs us. too, to eulti- I vat© all the benevolent feelings of our ' nature, to moderate our desires, and above all, to do nnto others as wo would they should do unto us. By this means wo shall insnro peace and tranquility of mind, which are absolutely requisite to | the full enjoyment of health - that is j that free, eiwy and peaceful enjoyment of all tho faculties of the mind, and tlint thorough performance of all tho animal ; functions of the body without any itn- j l>edimeni, pain or molestation. The > mind thus disengaged from tumultuous passions, and tho body free from dis orders, render existence a happiness to us, and life an object of desire. While the loss of these blessings implies the loss of everything pleasant and delect able. "To enjoy good health," said ; St. Kvreraond, a celebrated French philosopher, "is better than to com mand tho whole world. Health is the fountain of every blessing; for, without this, wo could not re'-ish the most ex quisite pleasures or enjoy tho most de sirable objects." Without health, we can neither he happy in ourselves, nor useful—at least not in a considerable ( degree—to our friends, or to society. Much, undoubtedly, depends on original vigor of constitution. But, by a ju- i ilicions attention to sundry particulars, health in many cases may Is* preserved, where it would otherwise la- lost. Itrli(l> !(rw nod Noir. < lem ral Sherman's only son, Thomas, has Wen admitted to the Catholic priest hood by Archbishop (Jibbons, of Balti more. Tho Boston Journal lately re|>orted the following : Protestants and < Catholics of Hepkinston united in giving a silver tea service to a Methodist preacher who is aWnt to leave for Boston. Th> pres entation was made in the town hall, by the Catholic priest. The Preebyterian Church of Kngland consists of 27.T congregations, and the membership for 1880 was .Vi.l'.f.i, as coni- I jared with 64,260 in 18711. The Sunday school teachers number fi,UV.t and the scholars 61,782. A Welsh Baptist church of twnty six memlters has lieen organized in Pat agonia. They have sent to Wales for a pastor. Baptists now have four churches in South America. The Oerman Evangelical .Synod of North America, which represents tho State church of Prussia, lias 268 con gregations, 402 pastors and .11,000 schol ars in Sunday-schools. Ancient Nazareth is now the site of an orphanage under the supervision of the Kducational society of Kngland. It has Wen opened four years, and there are in it now thirty-six girls of ages varying from four to fifteen. The mental health of Dr. Cnmniings, once a well known Protestant conver sialist and writer of prophecy, is sneh that while physically well, he is practi cally dead to the win id. The Rev. Orinilall Reynolds, of .!>., a well known Presbyterian minister, died recently at Media, Pa., aged sixty-flvo. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1831, and studied the ology in Princeton and Andover sem inaries. The Rev. William Taylor has sent Mime forty missionsries to ttonth Amer ica since 1878. The missionaries both preach and teach, and draw their sup port from the people among whra tbey labor. The only expense involved is their outfit and {wage-money, which is defrayed by voluntary contributions. The whole nnmber of Second Ad ventiste in this country is estimated at 86,000, who eSlet principally in four divisions—the Second Advent Chris tians, the Evangelical Adventists, the Seventh Day Adventista and the Life and Advent Union. The latter holds to tho non-resurrection of tho tricked dead, the first to the annihilation of those who die impenitent, and tho sec ond named to the conscious state of the dead and the eternal conscious suffering of the wicked. LADIES' DEPARTMENT. Wmnin'a Trmprr. No trait of character is more valuable in a female than the possession of a sweet temper. Homo can never bo made happy without it. It is like the flowers that spring up in our pathway, reviving and cheering u. Let a man go home at night, wearied and worn out ly the toils of the day, and how sooth ing is a word dictated by a good dis position! It is sunshino falling upon his heart. Ho is happy, and the. cares ; of lito are forgotten. A sweet temper I has a soothing influence over tho minds of a whole family. Where it is found in a wife and mother you observe kind ness and love predominate over the bad findings of a natural heart. BiniloH, kind words and looks characterize the children, and peaeo and love have their | dwelling there. Study, then, to acquire i and retain a sweet temper. It is more valuable than gold; it captivates more than beauty, and to tho close of life it retains all iU freshness and power. Ilow (bo WuMirnlhtn Hnnnra >lnr ry. Mr. Howitt's account of tho Knriisi j people, just north of Bass' straits, intro j duces us to a new set of marriage ens- | turns. Hero the rule is elopement. The lad anil girl make lovo to one another without the knowledge of her parents, and run away together. The bride's family, furious, go in quest of her; and j if caught and brought back she will be severely punished. Iler mother and brother will heat her, and her father even spear her through the legs. As for the husband, whenever he returns he has to tight his wife's male relatives. The pair may have to elope two or three times, with new pursuit and fighting, till at last her family grow tired of ob jecting, and the mother will say: '• Oh ! it's all right; better let him have her." The wonderful thing is that this is not exceptional, hut tho regular marriage rite of tho tribe. The anger is not real, and when the jwople are charged with being cruel tlmy answer that it i not intended as cruelty, but simply to fol low an ancestral custom. The conse qneneeof this Knrnai custom is a change toward civilized ideas of marriage; ft is no longer a shifting union between one group or tribe and another, but a real pairing by mutual choice of man and wife, and to some extent male descent comes in with it. The Kurtial elopement marrrage shows another interesting feature- Though it is condoned at last by the wife's family, the man is never allowed to look at, socak to, or live in the same camp with hi* wife's mother. This is the lwst fact yet produced in favor of the explanation of the custom of avoid ing parents-in-law, as meaning that the act of taking their daughter, though practically allowed, cannot be openly agreed to by their acknowledging him. So deeply rooted is this custom in Aus tralia that it retain* it* hold on natives under missionary influence. A Brabrolung, who is a member of the Church of Kngland, was one day talking to me. His wife's mother was passing at some little distance and I called to her. Suffering at tho time from cohl, I eoul 1 not make her hear, and said to the Brubolnng "Call Mary, I want to s|>eak to her." He timk no no tice whatever, but looked vacantly on the ground. I spoke to him again, sharply, but still without his responding. I then said; " What do you mean by taking no notice of me?" Ho therenjam called out to his wife's brother, who was at a little distance: " Tell Mary Mr. Ilowitt wants her," and turning to me, continued, reproachfully. •' Yon know very well I could not do that yoti know I cannot speak to that old woman."— bunion Acnlxmy. fashion fanrlso. Daik greens are evidentlv verv jiopn lor. Dresses and suit* continue to Is- tight fitting. .The hems of flounces arc tnrnod up on the right side. White organdie dresses are trimmed with Spanish lore. The new ginghams are colored and plaided with rare taste. Short skirts have the hack breadths rather fuller than formerly. Tho newest nun's veiling has it* edge wrought in open-work design. A jiocket for the handkerchief is sewn to the outside of the newest tans. The new purple is not heliotrope hut iris, and is taken from the flenr-de-lys. Dress skirts for street wear will prob ably tie exceedingly simple this sum mer. There is more satin manufactured at present than any other goods made of silk. Small checked trimmings will be much used with plain stuffs this sum mer. Carmelite, or old silver, is a favorite color with English girls for spring drosses. Shirring is the capital feature of all dresses at present Dressmakers seem to have shining on the brain. The handles of soma of the new sun shades nro very elegant and entitled to be classed among works of art. The skirts of ull short dresses, though very narrow, are much more elaborately trimmed than last season. Double-breasted basques aro often ornamented with cords of steel or gilt, couneetiug the alternate pairs of buttons on the waist. Chenille is substituted for bead work in the open shoulder-pieces that one sees on some mantles, but the bead work is still used. Basques of mull gowns aro lined throughout with white or colored mull so as to preserve uniformity of color throughout the cost nine. Home of the narrow pokes projecting very far above the face, worn by little girls, give demure children an old-fash ioned look which is both comical and winning. The button of lhHl is in no way ex travagant either in size or shape. It is of modest proportions nnd a simple circle, the ovals, squares and hexagons having been quite discarded. The new black grenadines are of the most modest nrmuro patterns, or else with square meshes, or perhaps the smooth faced sewing-silk grenadines, but are made up over rod, olive or green satin, or perhaps black, and are trimmed with .Spanish lace, and with the gayest striped satin surah. " If I Was President." " Now, if I was President," began Mr. Buttcrhy, of Prospect at re, t, the other morning,, as lie passed his cup over for a Hccond cup of coffee "if I was Presi dent of the I'liited states " " Which you aren't, yon know," broke in Mr-. J., in an urgumeubil and confi dential tone. "And not lik.lv to be," added Mrs. Ik's mother, with a contemptuous t.ss of her head. " No," assented Mr. If, plcasantlv, "but I was just supposing the ease " " Then suppose something in reason," retorted Mrs. Ik, snappishly; "von might as well suppose you was the man in the moon, or the man in the iron mask, or—" "So I might, my dear, so I might," assented Mr If , still plea antly smiling, "but that has nothing to d<> with it. I was merely going to say that if 4 was President of the United States I'd " " My!" burst in Miss Gertrude, ag< d eighteen, "wouldn't it l>c splendid if you was, js! .fust to think how those Wlioedlctop girls would change their tune when i met them, instead of throw ing out their insinuations alsmt (ample who consider it Christian-lik* to turn their last season's ailk so that they rnay have more to give to charity ! But they might turn green with envy before I'd ever—" "Yes, and wouldn't I warm it to Sammy Ditgan, just," chirped in Master Thomas aged twelve; "I'd go up to him an' smock him on the nose with a brick 'fore ho knowed where he was an' he dassent hit nic Imck then 'cos it 'tnl le treason, an' they'd hang him; an' I'd slide on the sidewalk, an' shy snow balls at the p'leecemen, nil' aass Miss Ferule, an' (day hookev every day when it didn't rain, an' an' I'd—" " Yes," cliimet 1 in Mrs. Ik, catching the infection from her enthusiastic progeny, " and then I'd be the lirst Indy in the land, let the next lie who she would; and tho senators' and governors' wives would lcg to be introduced to me, and I'd have India twice a week and ban quota every day, an—" "And I'd have the management of the White House, and run things," re marked Mrs. B.'a mother, her eyes sparkling with the prosjieot. "Not much yon wouldn't"—from Miss Gertrude—" not if I kept my health and knew myself, you wouldn't; not ue long as I was the President's daughter and—" "Yah!" ejaculated Master Tom, " I guess the President's son would lie the biggest plum in that dish! Wouldn't I lie the Prince of Whales then say? What 'ud yon know 'bout—" "Hhnt up all of you!" eommanded Mrs. B. " I reckon the President's wife is highest authority in the land! Anyhow, there'll lie a dnsty old time if anybody questioned it, and I liet when the exereiaes were finished the survivors wouldn't ask for any ele-toral commis sion to decide it over again. My! I'd like to see anyliody—bnt, by the way, Mr. Jtntterliy, what was it von was going to say yon would do if you was President of the United HUtos ?" " lteeign as soon as the Lord would let me," said Mr. Butterhy. calmly hut determinedly. And then a meditative silence fell upon the family and remained there until the meeting arose.— Krr/vimf*. A New Haven firm sends thousands of the red American fox skins to Ilusaia every year. These skins, which are usisl in the Muscovite country to lino costly gsrments, are contributed to a considerable extent by Maine, Ver mont and New Hampshire. That Amer ica should send furs to Hnsaia is as odd as that wo should send wince to France; and yet both of these things are done. TIIK i:\itrii(H tki: is s< to. Mrcni- of lit soluiluii mot llerrur—A litis llem t-lpilan ol tliv ('alnially Mem tram ike It ulmil Island. A few days after the recent earthquake on the island of Seio, by which about (i,O(K) persons lost their liven, a cor respondent of the London Nnm sent that paper the following vivid account of the awful visitation: The temperature on the .'ld was heavy and oppressive, and the horizon wart broken by broad (lashes of light that seemed to denote a coming storm. In all this atmospheric disturbance, however, the inhabitants saw nothing extraordinary, and were fur from being ukrmed by abut they fancied would re sult iu a thunder storm. At ten minutes to 2 o'clock in the afternoon a terrific shock was felt, bringing three-fourths of the houses in town to the ground like so many packs of cards, and bury big 1,000 persons under the falling ruins. Then commenced a fearful scene of horror. The ground rocked and danced, kneading therein already form ed into an nnrecognizable mass of atone. Ths survivors ran hither and thither, not knowing where to flee to escape the horrible fate that menaced them, and were tossed and thing about by the heaving earth like feathers in a breeze. On every side the sinister rumblings of the earth, the noise of falling buildings, the touring asunder of the walls of houses anil the shrieks of the wounded lent a fearful horror to the scene. All sought to leave tlio town and get into the plains in order to avoid being tmrirt, and entire buildings crumbled in fragments to tle ground. In many cas, s whole sheets disappeared, and it was hard to say where the different well-known buildings had stood. No one knew where to look for family or friends. The ground still ln aved and tossed, bring rig fresh buildings to the ground at •vr ry moment, and hurrying innumerable victims to destruction. The people seeking to escape were caught in the staircases of their house. by falling walls, or were crushed by the entire house falling in on tlicm as they crossed the threshold. It is irn)>ossih]c to say what the numl>er of victims would have l>eeu if a second shock had not displaced the ruins formed by the lirst, nnd thus }>ermittcd thousands of sufferers to • scajs- or to be rescued by others from the horrible imprisonment to which they had been condemned. In the town the victims have lteen very numerous. The quarter* roost damaged are the citadel, the Atrikioa quarter, and the industrial quartet. Beneath the ruins of the citadel alone 500 victims at least must he buried. Among others there are forty Turkish women who were engaged in pmrer in an oratory situated in the conrt of the castle. The govern ment palace And buildings, the tele graph office and the mosques, are little better than tottering ruins. Hardly a minaret in the town remains upright. The Frank '|tiarter may be said to have suffered the least of any, but e\en here there is not a house the walls of which do not exhibit one or more ominous looking crovicea. All the fissures and crevices run from east to west. In the industrial quarter hardly a house re mains standing, and hliole families of from ten to fifteen persons have per ished, or must jerish, lion rath the ruins. In the country tlie effect# of the hor rible upheaval hare licn more terrible than in the town. Here the victim* may be counted by thousand* instead of by hundred*. The monastery of Neomoui ia completely ra/.ed to the ground, and sixty monk* lie buried beneath ita wall*. Tlie site of the village of Nenita proeent* the appearance of adianaed atone quarry. Not a trace of a building remain*. The inhabitant* have di*api*carod. It ia thought that the number of victim* in three village* (Galimasnia, Thimian* and Neoobori) i* over 3,000. The total pop ulation of the three district# ia tietween 0,000 and 7,000. I have jnat visited Cardamala, Pythioe and Qhycnona,which are entirely doatroyed. The number of victim* i* unknown, but in very consid erable. At Tohc*m* 1,000 house*, half of the town, have been destroyed. Five dead and fifty wounded have lieen dis covered at Kato Panaya. Every house, and then* are tKMhi# in ruins. Twenty - throe dead and Ifft Wounded hare been found hitherto. The aspect of the plain of Vounaki ia heartrending. Between 40,000 am] 60,000 j> oth sexes are camped there, on tho open ground, and there nro an yet but few tents to shelter them, ami the old and young, nick and well, and dead even in *OlllO pla.cs, are scattered iudia criminatcly about the plain. Parents wander from group to group in the crowd *.< king tlioir children, and endeavoring to persuade themselves that their darlings will Ik- found among the living. Not a single baking-house in the whole island is left standing, and the entire population was without food until aid could arrive from the exterior. At one moment an entire village, built in the form of an amphitheater on the side of a hill, broke bodily away from the parent rock, and rushed crashing down into the plain. The shocks are now diminishing. In allwe have counted 260 since the first three awful upheavals which have destroyed the greater part of the island. Of these 250 shock at least forty were capable of overthrowing a solidly built house. The work of exca vation has lieen commenced, but bow few of the buried victims Hhall we li able to extricate from theirliving tombs? The scene is sickening. Here a hand makes feeble signs through a crevice, while the unfortunate wretch to whom it IM longs is buried beneath thousands of tons of masonry. Here, again, a.voice calls for uid from underground. A daughter, sobbing, endeavors to encour age her father, who is imprisoned deep Is-low the surface ; and at every turn of the s]ode or pick some horrible muti lated corpse is brought to light. Num bers of dead are unburns], IUI 1 in isola ted places the dogs are disputing the I K>ss< ssion of their inunirlcd corpses. An Pi let lon Scene in Ireland. A Now York llembl cable disjtatch dc srrilies a scene at I Minroariway, county < ork, a few dayt ago, '"when Ibimis Ijeary, hit wife, six children and aged mother win evicted tinder circumstan ce* of unurual brutality. L<-ary held a farm on the c*tato lwionging to Mr. riionta* (iilh iian, of Clonakilty. The rent wa* >ji.Vl, ai.d the valuation exactly half that Mini. It teeniH tliat it deter raine.l remittance wax offered by the two women to the action of the bailiffs, who liad to he at fitted by the Jtolice. The head constable aimed bit rifle at I>-ary'n wife to intimidate her, but she resisted deft)*rately, and when the whole affair wot over the was lying on the roadside in such an exhausted condition that the police dcemeen hurled against those minor clauses which proposo to foster emigration. The tide of emigration has already fetched alarming figures. The dispatches from New York stating the enormous num bers arriving constantly at Castle Gar den ap|>cnr to stimulate mthor than to depress the d< sire to leave the country. The Irish peasant seems to argue that where cveryltody is going there must be prosperity ami plenty, and he favors the United Htates as the main refuge from the evils of rackrentand eviction. The enormous receipts of the land league executive committee from America are attracting increased attention. At the last meeting it was announces! that the unprecedented sum of $.100,000 was re ceived the week previous, principally from America. Concurrently with the increased contribntions, however, the snms from leical branches in Ireland have fallen almost to nothing." Lost Ills Temper tint Found a Fortune. A few years a o a voting man named John Peck secured a situation as con ductor on the Metropolitan railway, Boston, and it chanced that during the first days of his service his car was sev eral times thrown from the track by rails becoming misplaced. One day the end of the rail flew np and beams fast in the ear truck. He lifted ami pushes], and lost hia temper in the effort to get the car on the track and the rail in place again, and at night was so disgusted with his work that he threw np his situ ation. Ilut his experience set him to thinking, and in a few days he called on an officer of the road and said that he could make a "chair" that wonld hold the rails firmly together at the joints.* The officer laughed at his confident as sertions, and told him that he had heard similar stories do/ens of times. Bnt the ei-oondnctor exhibited his model and drawings, which appeared so promising that he was told to go ahead and make the trial. The result was a complete success. To-day John rock's patent railway chair, for which lie secured his fliwt patent in 1872, his second in 1878, am) his third in 1881, is used by all the street railways in Boston and by many of the great steam railways of the Uni ted States.—/tatfo* Pa*. Why doc# yonr wife's new lionnet resemble a snipe f Yon are silent. We will ftht you. Tia nearly all bill. CoM Water. i'nthl water it* Dm drink (iv uif, Odd water, frtira and bright anil frw ! It H|rk|i-H mi llji' gri-cn hillside, In ymxl'T iii'-iuliiw a< it glide. HI tak. my little rtip ami dip, Am! lit tin g„, K J, water h||<; Ami WIM-II I an, A wotnsil iff own 111 ilnnk cold wati r that alone. "I will W'v r hurt my ln*rt or brain. Nor make mo gite toother |o I act a though I was killed in the war ?" A youngster was sent by his parent to take a letter to the poatothee and pav tlic jswtage on it. The loy returned highly elated, and said: "Father, I seed a Jot of men putting letter* in a little place; and when no one was look ing, I slipjwd yours in for nothing." " How to train tomatoes " is the sub ject of an agricultural disquisition. It is easy enough. All yon have to do if a tomato misbehaves itself in company is to " mash the stuflln' out of it." It may look a little aeedv for a while after, hut this course of training will bring it to its pulp in a hurry. The Karth's (treat Arc. In a recent lectnre at San Francisco Profmsor \\ illiam Denton gave several striking illustrations of the earth's age. First, he said, we had evidence of the i arth'sgreat age in the tiny particle* of soil In-neath our feet. The great trees of California, with from 1,350 to '2,350 annual rings of vegetable growth, reveal the fact that these monarchs of the vegetable world were saplings when Nebuchadnezzar was lorn. The great /' fallen monarch of the forest been estimated to liave been 4,000 years old, and grew from seed propagated by older parent trees, ami these in turn from grand |*rents, whose crumbled dust forms a rich vegetable mold to nourish ' their younger progeny. How many such generations occurred no one can \ tell. Bnt older than all thane are the gla | rial IXHIS. When those plowed their way over the surface of North America ami Scandinavia they planed out mighty ledn and ground and polished down the uneven surface of a former age. In thin remote age the coast of New England was like Greenland at the pre* ent day. Few geologists will place the glacial period at lean then 100,11*! yearn ago. But we could go hack still fur ther. In the tertiary strata of California has been found what are railed the earliest human remains ever discovered. These existed many, many thousand years ago, when one-half of New Jersey, one-third of Virginia, all of Florida, pari of Texas and Great Britain were under water. The Medi terranean sea wan then double its pres ent siee. and the Gulf of Mexico • xtend ed to Ohio. A Urge |>art of tVxliloraia was under the bed of the Pacific ocean, and water then extended hack to the foothills of th Rierra Nevada moun* tains. But older than this period and forma tion was the underlying stratification of chalk; still older was the Triaesie. and older yet the now ml sandstone. Older yet was the carboniferous formation • Then farther hack waa the old red sand atone. such as cornea to the nnrfaee in parts of Root land. Again, still lower, the older Silurian, then the older Lan rvnthian, seeu at the surface in W eatern Canada, and older yet than all these the granite or great underlying rook, the parent that thrnata itself up as tbo backbone of continents, cutting through all others to show us on the surface what I is below. What an infinity of time must hare passed away in the encoeaaire forma tion of these rocky layers!