Country Life.
Not what wo would, but what wo must,
Miikn up the imm of living;
Heaven in both more and lone limn Jnnt
In taking and in giving.
Mwnnl* cloavc to haadn that sought tho plow
And laurt-ln mis* tho Holdior'a brow.
Hoar country home ! Can I forgot
Hi.' leant of thy sweet triiliw ?
Tho window vines, whioh clamber yet,
Whom' blooms tho bee still rilles ?
Tlio roadaido blackberries, growing ri|>o.
And in tho woods tho Indian-pipe?
Happy tho man*who till* tho Hold,
Content with mstio lalmr;
Karth dooa to him hor fullness yiold,
Hap w hat may to his noighimr.
Woll days, sound nigh to Oh, can there t>o
A life more rational nnd free ?
%
lioar country lifo of child and man !
For loth tho best, tho strongest,
Tliat with tho oar 1 loot race 10-gan
And has ontlivod tho longest.
Their cities perished long ago;
Who tho brut fanner* woro wo know.
% Porhapsonr Babels, too, will fall,
if ao, no lamentation*.
For Mother Karth will shelter all
And food tho unborn nation*;
Ten, and tho sword* that monaoo now
Will then ho boston by tho plow.
ll. 11. StnthUiril.
MY MIDNIGHT PERIL
Tho night of the seventeenth of Octo
ber—shall I ever forget its pitchy dnrk
neti,*, tho roar of tho antnmnal wind
through tho lonely forest and tlio in
cessant downjionr of the rain ?
" Thia comes of short cute," I mut
tered petulantly to myself, as I plodded
along, keeping cloae to the trunks of
the trees to avoid the ravine throngh
which I could hear the roar of tlio tur
bulent stream forty or fifty feet below.
My blood ran cold as I thought what
might be the possible consequence of
a misstep or a move in the wrong direc
tion. Why had I not been content to
keep in the right road ?
Hold on ! was that a light, or my eyes
playing me false?
I stopped, holding on to the low res
inons boughs of a hemlock that grew on
the edge of the bank, for it actually
seemed that the wind would seize mo
bodily and hurl mo down the precipi
tous descent.
It was a light—thank providence—it
was a light, and no iffnis fu/uus to lead
me on to destruction and death.
" Hallo-o-o-o!"
My voice rang through the woods like
a clarion. I plunged on through tang
ed vinos, dense briers and rocky banks,
until, gradually nearing, I could per
ceive a figure wrapped in au oil cloth
cape, or cloak, carrying a lantern.
As the dim light fell upon his face I
almost recoiled. Would not solitude in
tho woods be preferable to the compan
ionship of this withered, wrinkled old
man? Bnt it was too late to recede
now.
" What's wanting !" he snarled, with
a peculiar motion of the lips that seem
ed to leave his yellow teeth all l>are.
" I am lost in the woods ; can yon
direct me to R- station 7'
" Yes, R— station is twelve miles
from here."
" Twelve miles !"
I stood aghast.
"Could you tell mo any shelter I
could obtain for the night?"
" No."
""Where are yon going?"
"To Drew's, down by the maple
swamp."
" Is it a tavern V
"No."
" Would thoy take me for the night ?
I could pay them woll."
His eyes gleamed ; the yellow stomps
stood revealed once more.
" I guess so; folks don't stop there."
"Is it far from here 7' •
i' Not very ; al>out half a mile."
"Then make haste and let us reach
it. lam drenched to the skin."
We plodded on, my com j>anion more
than keeping pace with me. Presently
we left the edge of the ravine, entering
what seemed a trackless wood, and
keeping straight on nntil lights gleamed
fitfully throngh the wet foliage.
It was a ruinous old place, with win
dows all drawn to one side, as if the
foundation had settled, and the pillars
of a rode porch nearly rotted away.
A woman answered my fellow trav
eler's knock. My companion whispered
a word or two to her, and she turned to
me with smooth, voluble words of wel
eoM>
Hbe regretted the poverty of their ac
commodations; bnt I was Welcome to
them such at tbey were.
"Where Is Isaac 7' demanded my
„ guide.
"He has not oome in yet."
ir I sat down on a wooden bench beside
the fire, and ate a few mouthful* of
bread.
" I should like to retire as soon as
possible," I said, for my weariness was
excessive.
"Certainly." The woman started up
with alacrity.
" Where are yon going to put him T
asked my guide.
" Up chamber."
iks' i
" Put hint in Isaac's room."
"No."
" It's the most comfortable."
" I tell yon no."
Ilut here I interrupted the whispered
colloquy.
"I am not particular—l don't care
j where you put me, only make haste."
Ho I was conducted up u steep bidder
thnt stood in the corner of the room
into an apartment coiled with sloping
beams and ventilated by one muall win
dow, where a cot bedstead crowded
close against the board partition, and a
pine table with two or three chairs
formed the sole attempts at furniture.
The woman sat the light—an old oil
lamp—on the table.
" I hope yon will sleep well, sir.
When shall I eall yon ?"
"At 1 o'elock in the morning, if you
! please. I must walk over to 11 sta
tion in time for the 7 o'clock express."
" I'll be sure to eall you, sir."
•She withdrew, leaving me alone in
the gloomy little apartment. I sat down
nnd looked around me with no very
agreeable sensation.
" I will sit down and write to Alice,"
I thought; " that will soothe my nerves
and quiet me, perhaps."
' I descended the ladder; the tire still
glowed redly in the hearth beneath; my
companion nnd the woman sat beside it
talking in a low tone, and a third person
' sat at the table eating a short, stout,
i villainous-looking man, in a red tlannel
I shirt and muddy trousers.
I asked for writing materials and re
turned to my room to write to my wife.
" My darling Alice—"
I paused and laid down my pen as I
concluded the words, half smiling to
think what she would say eon Id she
know of my strange quarters.
Not till both sheets were covered did
I lay aside my pen and prepare for
slumber. As I folded my paper I hap- i
pened to glance toward the conch.
Was it the gleam of a human eye ob
serving me throngh the board partition,
or was it my own fancy? There was a
crack there, but only blank dark new*
beyond, yet 1 could have sworn that
something had sparkled balefnllv at
me.
I took out my watch—lt was 1 o'clock
It was scarcely worth while for me to
undress for three hours' sleep. I would
lio down in my clothes and snatch what
Nltimlier I could. Ho placing my valise
at the head of iny bed and barricading
the look less door with two chairs, I ex
tinguished the light and laid down.
At first I was very wakeful, but grad
ually a soft drowsiness seemed to -teal
over me like a misty mantle, until
all of a sudden a startling, electric
thrill coursed through my veins, and 1
sat up excited and trembling.
A luminous softness seemed to glow
throngh the room- no light of the
moon or stars was ever so jienet rating
and by the little window I saw Alice,
my wife, dressed in floating garments
of white, with her long golden hair
knotted back with a bine riblmn. Ap
parently she was coming to me with
ontstretched hands, and eyes full of I
wild, anxious tenderness.
I sprang to my feet and rushed to
ward her, but as I reached the window j
the fair ap|>arition wemrd to vanish into
the stormy darkness, and I was left
alone. At the self same instant the
sharp rejiort of a pistol sounded—l
could see the jagged stream of tiro above
the pillow, straight to the very spot
where ten minutes liefore my head had
lain.
With an instantaneous realization of
my danger I swung myself over the
edges of the window, jumping some ten
feet into the tangled bushes In-low, and
as I crouched there, recovering myself,
I hoard the tramp of footsteps into mv
room.
" Is he dead 7' cried a voice up the i
ladder—the smooth, deoeitfnl voice of
the woman with the half-closed eyes.
"Of course he is," growled a voice
lmck; "that charge would have killed
ton men certain." •
A cold, agonizing shudder ran through
me. What a den of midnight murder- j
era I hail fallen into! And how fearfully j
narrow was my esca|>e I
With the sjecd that only mortal ter- j
ror and deadly peril can give, I rushed
through the woods, now illnmined by a
faint glimmer of starlight. 1 know not
what impulse gnided my footsteiw —I
never shall know how many times I
crossed my own track, or how close
I stood to the deadly ravine—bnt a
merciful Providence encompassed me
with a guiding ami protecting care, for
when the morning dawned with faint
red bars of orient light against the
stormy eastern sky, I was close to the
high road, some seven miles from
B—.
Once at the town I told my story to
the police, and a detachment was sent
with me to the spot.
After much searching and many false
alarms we succeeded in finding the
ruinous old house ; hut it was empty—
the birds had flown ; nor did I discover
my vilise, and watch and chain, which
latter I bad left under my pillow.
" It's Drew's gang," said the leader of
tho police, "and they've troubled us
for two yean. I don't think, though,
they'll come back here just at present."
Nor did they.
lint the utrangost part of my story in
yet to coma.
Some three weeks afterward I re
ceived a letter from my sister, who wan
with Alice iu her English home—a let
ter that filled me with surprise.
" I mnnt toll you something very
singular," wrote she, " that happened
on the night of the seventeenth of
October. Alice had not been well for
some time—in fact she had been con
fined to her bed for nearly a week—and
I was sitting beside her reading, it
was late the clock had just struck one
—when all at once she seemed to faint
away, growing whito and rigid as a
corpse. I hastened to call assistance
but all our efforts to restore animation
were in vain. I was just about sending
for the doctor when her senses returned
as suddenly as thev had left her, and
she sat up in bed, pushing back her
Lair and looking wildly around her.
"Alice," I exclaimed, " bow you have
terrified us all' Arc yon ill now?"
"Not ill," she answered, "but I foci
so strange. < truce, I have been with
my husband I"
"And all our reasoning failed to con
vince her of tlie impossibility of her
assertion. Hho persists to thin moment
that sin- saw you and was with yon on
the morning of the eighteenth of Octo
ber. Where and bow she cannot tell, but
we think it must have boon a dream. She
is better now. and I wish yon couhl nee
how fast sue is improving."
This is my plain, unvarnished tale. I
do not pretend to explain or account
for its mysteries. I simply relate facts.
I am not sujierstitions, neither do I
lielicvein ghosts, wraiths or upparit ions ;
but this thing I do know : that, although
my wife was in England in Ikmlv on the
morning of the eightoonth of October
liro spirit surely stood liefore me in New
York in the moment of deadly peril
that menaced me. It may be that to
the subtle instinct and strength of a
wife's holy love all things are possible,
but Alice surely saved my life.
The Return from Mecca.
While at Damascus I was fortunate
j enough to witness the return of the pil
grims from Mecca. The whole city was
in the streets, a bright sun lighting up
; the brilliant variety of dresses and cos
tumes which jostled ono against the
other. Now and then a dervish would
' force his way through the erow.l ask
: ing alms, or a confectioner would pass
I along with his tray balanced marvel
ously anil immovable on the top of his
head. The procession of the pilgrims
was heralded by the sound of a trumpet;
then marched the troops, travel stained
and "shabby," who hail formed their
escort on the way; after these came
about lon of the garrison, mounted on
horses, with swords drawn, and a few
cannon, and the )>asha'n palanquin in
their midst. Next followed the sacred
copy of the Koran beneath its canopy
of green and gold, under the folds of
which, as it swayed uneasily to and
fro on the camel's back, a liov's head
and shoulder* appenred. Behind was a
second camel bearing tho green and
gold banner of the prophet, and ac
companied by the three sheiks in white
turban* banded with gold. Tho first
was envelo|>ed in a robe of purple and
gold; the last in one of green and gold,
mnrking his descent from the family of
Mohammed. After the sheiks came the
pilgrims and their families on camels,
all equally ragged and dirty. These
wcro foliowe<l by tho band of the gar
rison, And a company of foot soldiers
brought up the rear. Tho procession
was not, jierhaps, a very striking one in
itself, but the crowd which hail flocked
to witness it, filling the streets and
shops, | leering ont of the windows, and
lining the fiat roofs of tho houses, was
a sight well worth traveling a long dis
tanrc to see.— Alfusntrutn,
Esc of the Eyes
The man who avoids excesses of everv
description ha* a fair chance of retain
ing his eyesight nntil old age sets in. A
time comes to every one when the phy
sical |mwers liegin to decay, and then
unless the brain has been kept active
and recipient by exercise, there is noth
ing left to live and the man perishes.
We say that he dies of gont, or over-eat
ing, or of heart disease, or of the failnre
of tho particular organ which was the
first to exhibit symptoms of the ap
proaching end. In reality he has died
of stupidity, artificially produced by
neglect of the talents with which he was
endowed. That which is true of the or
ganism a* a whole is true also of its
parts; and the eyes, among others, are
liest treated by an amonnt of systematic
use which preserve* the tone of their
muscles and the regularity of their blood
supply. Acnteness of sight i* aided by
the attention bestowed njion objects
within the range of vision. In people
who cannot read, the aight is far from
acute. I have even hail reason to think that
the wives of vh men are indebted to
their household needlework for tho main
tenance of a higher standard of vision
than that of their husbands; and I have
no donbt that idleness of the eyes, if I
msy use such an expression, is in every
way hnrtfni to them, and that proper
and varied employment is eminently
conducive to their preservation in lieauty
and efficiency.
SCIENTIFIC SCKAI'S.
Mica is being applied to a new and
most valuable use, that of boing placed
into middle holch of boots niul shoes.
Water and air are thus excluded, keep
ing the feet dryer than l>y any other
means heretofore used.
A paper on the presence of alcohol in
the earth, in water and in the air was
read reeently before tho French
Academy of Hciences. The author, M.
Muntz, has developed tho method de
pending as the ehange of alcohol into
iodoform, so that one-millionth of alco
liol in water can lie detected. Alcohol
is found in all natural waters except
pure spring-water, and in greater quan
tity in snow. Rain-water and the water
of tho Heine contain uls.ut one gramme
jht cubic meter. Alcohol no doubt also
exists as vapor in the atmosphere. In
soils, especially those which are very
rich in organic matter, there is a con
siderable quantity. The wide diffusion
of ulcohol in natnre is due to the do
struct ion of organic matter by various
agents of fermentation.
•Stammering, according to M. A. t'hor
vin, generally originates in a sudden
nervous shock which the victim of tho
affection has received in i-hililliood ;
sometimes it is a habit which has been
acquired by the practice of imitating
other persons who stammer, or by con
stant association with stammering mem
bers of tho family. I'rofeasor Chen in
| resorts to singing, or tho use of the
i cadence for preventing stammering and
| has lieen very successful. Whipping
| has sometimes been resorted to.
Perhaps the l-st linguists in the
world are the Dunes. They are also near) v
i its exjicrt telegraphists as the operators
of the Western I'nion, and that is
saving a great ileal. Of these two im
| jsirtaiit fie ts the Chinese government
j have become aware, and have, conse
quently, and very late ly, signed a con-
I tract with the Great Northern Telegraph
I company of Copenhagen fur the cstab
i lishment of n telegraph line IhHwi-i n
I Shanghai and Tientsin, u distance of
I aliont a thousand miles. There are
■lifiiculti) •-. in the way of accurutclv
transmitting messages in the Chinese
language which even the telephone fails
, to surmount.
Rr. Canudly ha-, recently lieen muk
ing some exjicrimentM upon hot ice,
which have excited a great di al of inter
est in scientific circles. Reclaims to have
shown that, in a vacuum, ice m*v In
heated far above the boiling |oiiit of
water without melting. Of course, the
ice evaporates rapidly at its surface,
without passing into the liquid state,
j just as camphor does in the air, and so
far there is nothing new; but it has
leen hitherto supposed that the ab
sorption of In at by tbis surface evapo
ration would prevent the ten)|>eraturc
of the ice from nsing materially, and
this appears to lie a mistake. A ther
mometer, having its bulb inclosed in a
lump of ice, frozen upon it by a process
analogous to that nd in the Hansen
calorimeter, has lieen made to mark a
temperature as high as :Js<i v F. The
ice was in a glass bulb, connected with
a vessel which wa* exhausted of air ami
J kept at a temperature Ihlow zero bv a
freezing mixture around it.
tjulnee Seed Curl*.
Every one knows that the little loops
and cnrl* of hair which lie flatly down
against the forehead of the girl of onr
specie*do not thus maintain themselves
naturally, and nearly every one who has
hail tho curiosity to ask them aliont it
knows now that the gum of the quince
seed is employed to make fliese curls
"star put." The quince seed gum has
peculiar properties which make it suit
able aliove every other artiele for this
purpose. It wnnld even hold smoothly
down theqnill* upon the fretful porcu
pine. An ounce of quince seed contains
albuminous gum enough for innumer
able bangs. Three years or more ago,
liefore the Imng hail assumed its sway,
an ounce of qnince seeds could be
lmnght for five cents, or a pound, which
would supply the reqnimment* of a
large family of girls for a year or more,
could lie hail for forty-five cents. Five
pounds wns the ordinary stock which a
dealer in drugs kept on hand, and there
wns almost no demand at all for the
seeds. They are imported chiefly from
Russia, and not over 500 pounds in a
▼ear were in those happy days brought
to this country. As the present whim
in hair-dressing liecame more popnlar
the demand for qninee seed quickly
improved, nntil at present the stock in i
the market is almost exhausted, prob
ably not over 100 pounds being distrib
uted among the drug dealers of New '
York. Now nearly 10,000 pounds are
' imported in a year, and the price is j
to #4.00 a pound. A whole j
sale dealer said yesterday:
" We eonld sell all we could get of it 1
if it was to be had at all. We have not
over ten ponnds in stock now, and can't
get more. The agents in F.nmpe have
aronred the market and got alsmt all the
seed there is to get, I think."
Bandoline, which contains gum traga
eanth and glycerine, is much need be
cause of Its greater cheapness, but'
quince seed mucilage is considered bet
ter for bang*.—AW ForkS*".
Iluw ami Where lilnlim are Made.
It is a fact not known, perhaps, by
many readers that Troy is one of the
largest and best producers of school and
library globes in the country. The
manufacture was begun in tin's city in
1H52. At first only a bull five inches
in diameter was made, but a 10-inch
terrestrial globe was soon added. The
list of sizes wits rapidly increased. The
balls are made in Hoston, but the ap
pendages are supplied and the globes
mounted and shipped in this eity,
where are owned the plates from which
the maps are printed. Globe making is
a skillful and delicate process. The
maps are printed in small sections on
English drawing paper, and these seg
ments must be so nicely put upon the
hollow ball of papier macho that there
shall not be the slightest break in the
alignment of letters or the continuity of
lines when tie- smooth and painted stir"
face is complete. Three months arc re
quired to construct one of these worlds
in miniature from the time that the
ball is begun until it rests in its frame
or sits aloft upon a brass, bronze or
nickel standard And it must be so
rimmed and mounted that it wdl have
no disinclination to change its inclina
tion in the frame and will hang so truly
in space that it will halt in its revolu
tion at any time when so commanded
and remain motionless, as if its center
of gravity were in truth equally distant
from all points jupon the circumfer
ence. If the globe refuse to rest with
any other country than America on top,
the maker will lie deemed more juitri
otic than skillful. The sizes manufac
tured range from three to thirty
inches in diameter, ami from x-i.no to
#22.'l in price, anil are mounted in forts
different styles. The increasing dc.
tuaml for the portable orbs ih shown by
the fact that the shipments from this
city last year wi re fifty per cent, larger
than during the preceding year. 7V-/
Time*.
An Areldent til A r oil ml.
A most ridiculous scene occurred at a
< bnrrh in Newcastle. A policeman was
passing the church as a gentleman came
out The man jokingly accosted the
policeman and said he was wanted in
side, meaning that the minister would
be glad to have him turn from the error
of his ways and seek the truth and en
joy a jMswe that pa<-*cth all understand
ing. The st npid jKilicornan thought
tie re was some trouble in thechnr. h. i
he went in. The sexton, *i*-ing apo
liciman, an .ion* to give him a favor
able *--at, hii lie iai.l: "t'oroo right in
here," and he took him to a pew and
waved his hand, a* milch a* to sav.
"Help >irar*elf." There wa* another
man in the jm-w, a deacon with a smi*tei
expression a* the policeman thought,
and he snpjioaed that was the man the-,
wanted arrested, so h<- tapped the ib a
eon on the arm and told him to come
along. The deacon turned pale and
edged along as though to get away, when
the ||olieeman took him by the collar
and jerked him out into the ai*l<> The
deacon struggled, thinking the police
man was crazy, and tried to get away,
but be wa* dragged abng. Many of the
congregation thought the dcac-.n hail
ticcn doing something wrong, and some
of them got behind the deacon and
helped the officer put him out. Arriving
at the lock-up. the policeman saw the
man who told him he was wanted in the
church and asked him what the charge
was against tho deacon, and lie didn't
know, so the sexton was appealed to,
and lie didn't know, and finally the pris
oner was asked what it wa* all aliont,
and he didn't know. The policeman
was asked what he arrestisl the man for,
and he didn't know, and after awhile the
matter wa* explained, and the jiolioo
man. who hail to aire*! somebody, took
the man into enstody who told him he
was wanted in the chnrch, and lie wo*
fined Jt.'i and costs, lfe says he will
never try to convert a policeman again,
and the jmliecman say* he will never go
to church again if they get to knocking
each other down with hymn-hooks.
/Vi A'H .S'mi.
How to tiet Along.
Never stop to tell stories in business
hours.
If yon have a place of Vinsiness lie
found there when wanted.
No man can get rich sitting around
stores and saloons.
Never " fool" in business matters.
Have order, system, regularity, and
also promptness.
Do box meddle with business yon
know nothing sliout.
I)o not kick evory one in your psth.
More miles ran lie made in a day
by going steadily than stopping.
Fay as yon go.
A man of honor respects his word as
he does his bond.
Help others when you can, but never
give when you cannot afford to, simply
because it is fashionable.
I earn to say no No nseessity of
snapping it out dog fashion, but aay it
firmly and respectfully.
Use your own brains rather than those
of others.
Learn to think and act for yourself.
Advertise yonr business. Don't be
afraid of a liberal use of printer's ink.
•
THK FA*ILY DOCTOR.
To Iti.MovK I>awi>hi;kk.~ Thin is ,i
natural m-oration but become* a cutn
neou* complaint ly neglect. Take n
ounce of pnw<|crc<l borax, a piece of un
slacked Jimo the siase ,f a chestnut. arid
it tablesjroonful of spirits of ammonia ;
put them in a quart tattle and fill if up
with tailed or pump water. Aft- r
twelve hour* apply this wash to the
walp. Indies can apply it tat with a
fine Kponge. Itinso with tepid water. *
After a few applications the wale* will
diuap|M-ar, the hair la-come .ft ami <
brilliant, anil the joung hair will be
m-cu to start out. LHmdrnff should
cured gradually, so an not to produce
sick headache or dir/.inif h by it- -nd-h n
HtippresHion.
A Crni: hui Fama-iik. There i<
hardly any actio to which ckildri n are
subject HO bad to lar arid iliflienlt to
cure an the earache. Uut tlnr< is a
remedy never known to fail. Tak< a
bit of cotton batting, put on it a pi rich
of black f* pja r, gather it up and tie
it, dip it in sweet oil and insert it in th
ear. Put a flannel bandage over th l. .id
to keep it warm. It will give imnie-li
ate r< lief.
( i 'UK koii Hi< i*ii on. A medical jnnr
mil given the following safe ami simple
mean* of relieving thin troublesome
disorder "Inflate the lungs as ftillv u
|H>Ksihle, and thilH press firmly on the
agitated diaphragm. In a f.-w second*
the spasmodic action of the mnscle will
cease." This may ta true of ordinary
hiccough: but this symptom occurring
in a<lvaiici-d mm of disease accom
]mni<s) with great prostration is almost
invariably un indication thut death is
very near. '
hiLiciui Ann kok pi. Hris<*.
Although salicylic a-id, from having
b-en too highly extolled, has fallen
somewhat into disfavor, there can !■
no doubt that it is useful in the '-a*, of
Ih-< stings. , An Austrian paper recom
mend* the following treatment First,
to remove the sting as quickly as }-,■:
bio with a forceps or by scratching
with a fing- r, but never between the
thumb and forefinger, tacatuw tins
H-piee/cH more of the poison into the
wound. Kcst squr-c/e the Wound until
a drop of blood comes out, and rub the
place as large as a dollar with an
aqueous or dilute alcoholic solution of
•iilicvlic acid, The effect is --till tail- r
by injerting the salicylic acid into the
wound with the byjmdermir syringe.
After this the Hjmt is ]iainted with -ol
lodion to k'-ep out the air. A sting
treated thus cause* little or no pain,
slight inflamniation and swelling, an-i is
not followed by nettle-fever or l&m
n< ss in the most sensitive and nervous
individuals.
I'EARI.S dF Tlltll t.HT.
If you wofild not have affliction* x ivt
yon twice, listen at onoe to that it
teaches.
Quarrels Would l>o short-lived if the
wr-mg were only on one side.
Good temper is like a sunny day ■ it
sheds a brightness over everything ; it
is the sweetener of toil and the soother
of disquietude.
Affectation in any part of our i&rriage
is lighting up a candle to our defects,
and never fail* to make us to l>e taken
notice of, cither as wanting sense or
wanting sincerity.
Stories first heard at a mother's knee
arc never wholly forgotten, a little
spring that never dries up on your jour
ney through scorching years.
A sail truth, half of our foreboding
aliout our neighbor* are but our own
wishes, which wc are ashamed to utter
in any other form.
The worthiest men are most injured
by slanders: as wo usually find that to
bo the best fruit which the birds have
been picking at.
Sincerity i* like traveling in a plain
beaten road, which commonly bring* a
man sooner to hi* journey'* cnl tha?'
byway*, in which men often lose them
*elve*.
I/ot u* not forget that every Matron
in life is necessary: that each deserve*
onr respect: tliat not the station itself,
but the worthy fulfillment of its duties
does honor to man.
A jwnipbiet on the Mississippi river
and its tributaries gives the following
interesting statement of the mileage of
the navigable ]>rtion of each of the fol
lowing named rivers atmvc its month :
Missouri. 3,121 ; Mississippi, 2,161 ;
Ohio, 1,021 ; lied, SUsti; Arkansas. fW ;
White, 771*; Tennessee, 7HI; Camber
land, 000; Yellowstone, 474 ; Ouachita,
:W4 ; Wabash, .1(15 ; Alleghany, 325;
Osage. MKi ; Minnesota, 215; Sunflower,
271; Illinois, 270; Yaaoo, 38*; Black
(Ark.), US) Oreen. 200 ; Bt. Francis,
1H0; Tallahatchie, 175; Wisconsin, 1(10;
Deer ('reek, 110; Tensas, 112: Monon
galiela, 110; Kentucky. 105; Bartholo
mew, 100; Kanawa, 04 ; Muskingguni.
04; (Tiippewa, 00; lowa, HO; Big
Hatehie, 75 ; HI- Ooix, 65 ; Bock. 65 ;
Black (La.), 61; Macon, 60; Ibenf, 55 ;
Big Horn, 50; Clinton, 50 ; little Bed.
04 ; Big CJjrpneaa and lake, 44; Big
Black, 15; Dauchitte, H. Total num
ber of rivers, 11; total number of milea
of navigation at present, 15,710.