SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. raining ! as it never does rain but in the vicinity j n of mercantile shipping on tho first day' of the week. The docks lioasted a lit- i tie church or bethel, which hoisted tho nnion jack every Hnnday morning in : I token that service would be held there, j chiefly for sailors. The clergyman who j officiated weekly at the bethel was rather later than usual on tho Hnnday morning in question, owing to tho difficulty he had in getting a cab, the rain having I caused those vehicles to l>e in great de mand. Ho arrived, however, a few min- ! Utes l>eforo eleven, and hurriedly bid ding the driver wait for him til! service shonld l>o over, he entered the sacred ! w edifice—to find himself alone there. 1 Possibly seafaring people are not more prone to ehnrch-going in wet weather than their fellow-sinners who live ashore; anyhow, every seat was vacant. The clergyman was a zealous man, so he resolved to wait a quarter of an hour, on the chance of some waif or stray turn- I ing up. His patience was not unre warded; for after the lapse of a few minntes one very wet man came slowly in, and seated himself with some hesi tation on one of the back benches. Even he, probably, had only put into that haven nnder stress of bad weather outside, all the public houses and other congenial places of shelter being closed . Now, onr parson was not only a zealous \ bnt a conscientious man—not always the rk same thing—and he resolved that had ho I bnt one solitary nuit instead of a con gregation, he would pursue the service in foil to the bitter end for that nnit's benefit—at least, as long as the nnit would bear it— and he proceeded to do so, and accomplished it. At the end of the liturgy, touched probably by tho patient endurance of his auditor, he condescended to address him personally, telling him that sinco the inclemency of the weather -wo are not in receipt of information on that point, bnt wc feel < sure be said inclemency—had prevented the usnal attendance at the chnrch he would forego the sermon he had pre / pared, and would content himself with making a "few remarks." This, however, his hearer begged him not to do, and expressed a great desire to hear the ser mon; ao, pleased with this evideneo of intelligence among tho lower orders, and gratified by the effect his eloquence was producing, he took the victim at his word, and let him have it. The text duly chosen, blossomed into firstly, secondly, thirdly, fourthly and lastly. "Hi conclusion" was followed by "one word more," and still the nnit sat on B undismayed. After it was all over the preacher I g came down and shook bands with him, thanking him warmly for his attention, his gratification being somewhat dimin ished when he discovered the enrap tured listener to be his cabman, the sum total of whose "half a crown an hour (or waiting" had lieen materially augmented by the length of the worthy divine's discourse.— Chambtnf Journal The good tilings of not to be had singly, but cooks-do us wi ha mix ture ; like a nehoplboy> Holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of tt I'EAItbM OF THOUGHT. They talk most who havo tho least to say. No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Noxt to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of tho human heart. A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience. Sometimes a noble failure serves the world ns faithfully as a distinguished success. So long as wc stand boggling at ini aginary evils let us never blame a horse for starting at a shadow. A man must reap as he sows. In a broken natural law thero is, as Shakes peare suggests, " no more mercy than there is milk in a malo tiger." Wo do not like our friends the worse becauso they somotimes give us an oj>- portunity to rail at thorn heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues. ' You have probably observed that the most difficult persons to got along with are those who are always perfectly sure that they are in tho right and equally sure that you are in the wrong particularly, asisofton the case, when yon know you are in the right. Let no one suppose that by acting u good part through life lie will escape j scandal. There will be those even who will hate them for the very qualities j that ought to procure esteem. There j are folks in tho world who aro not J willing that others should bo better j than themselves. What greater thing is thoro for two human souls than to feel that they aro i joined in life—to strengthen each other ! in all labor, to rest on each other in nil sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, I unspeakable m- morics at the last part- i ing. When yon have learned how to live ! well, you will know bow to die well. Be not sorry if men do not know yon, i but be sorry if you are ignorant of men. Not to correct our faults is to commit new ones. Banishment by the Cangue in China. This cangne is the main prop of the Mongolian order—the stocks, pillorv j and penitential cell of Kathav. It is merely a cage of crossbars, which are 1 sometimes of iron, sometimes of heavy j timber. The prisoner's body is inclosed in this cige, which reaches from his ; knees to his neck; his head and limbs are alone free, his bands being-trapped j to a bar. Now it is manifest that a criminal thus occontered must be a prop and support of bis own portable jail. A captive of Atlas, he carries abont bis own dungeon, and he cannot lie down to rest, bnt must pass whole days and nights on his feet, the poles attached to the cangne preventing him from lying down, while to the framework is fixed a placard inscribed with tho wretch's name, offense and sentence. A cangne may weigh HX) ponnds, or only twenty, bnt in any case it is a dreadful punish ment, kept on as it is for periods vary ing from six hours to six weeks. Imag ine days and nights of cramps and sleeplessness, the haraas-ng stings of mosqnitoes and other f -rmenting in sects worrying tho nal d skin, and no hand to hrnsh them away; the scorch ing sun, and no screen; the chilly night, and no covering; weariness, dizzy brains, limbs nuked for dire fatigue, fever, delirium, the pressure of the hard yoke on the galled shoulders, the ' strangling collar, tho agony of long want of sleep, the thirst, the shame! Men often go mad in tho canguo, it is said; they fall asleep on their feet, like horses, from sheer exhaustion; they perish, and are fonnd dead in their cages, liko so many neglected wild beasts in captivity. But tho canguo is a favorite pnnishment among tho judges. All lli* Koir Rwintt. Fillnl Love, There is not on earth a more lovely j sight than tho unwearied care and at | tention of children to their parents, | Where filial love is found in tho heart i we will answer for all tho other virtnes. j No jonng man or woman will turn out | basely, wo sincerely believe, who has patents respected and beloved. A | child, affectionate and dntifnl, will never bring the gray hairs of its parents to the grave. The wreto/who breaks forth from wholesome ret iraint, and disregards the laws of his conntry, must i have first disoliered his parents, show , ing neither lovo nor respect for them. ' It is seldom the ease that a dutiful son I is fonnd in the ranks of vice among the wretched and degraded. Filial love will ' keep men from sin and crime. There , never will come a time while jonr parents live when yon will not lie under i obligations to them. The older they grow the more need will there be for l yonr assiduous care and attention to their wants. The venerable brow and frosty hair speak loudly to the love and comi>asflion of the child. If sickness and infirmity make them at times fret ful, bear with them patiently, not for getting that time ere long may bring you to noed the same attention. Filial love will never go unrewarded.—Ami ihyU. tSikrlHif*' 4 ' A MONNTKK OF THE HFA. Harass Ores lures ihst Ida* irom the Hoi 10m oflbeHcs Onl> when The* urn Slullln iril— Inlerrsllns lufuriimllon About Tb>-ui, A Gloucester (Moss.) fisherman said to a Now York reporter while examining a squid at a ltockaway museum : "I'vo boon round tho world, seen sharks, whales nnd big snakes, hut a big squid when lio's cornered is übont tho worst-looking creatnro you want to sen. Generally their body is about ten feet long, lookH like a gruyish-whito hag, with a tail like a big arrowhead. Tho head is small, bnt tho eyes are about as big as a largo saucor or plate, and black and staring. When you catch a glimpso of thom eyeing you out from among their arms, I tell you it makes a man wish 110 hadn't conic. Tho arms, ten of them, branch from tho head, eight short ones about lifteon feet, and two long ones from thirty to forty, depending, of course, upon tho size of the squid. Light of them are lined with suckers, each ono ranging in size from a ten cent piece up to a half-dollar. They aro like so many air pumps. In each ono is a ring of bono with edges like a saw. These are pressed into you, and the air is sucked out, which, of course, forces the tooth of the saw in, und you can imagine the offe •: f 1 nndrods ol ' these flying around und sml -ng nu all sides. The long arms only have their suckers confined to the ends, which are i flattened out. Between nil these arms \ is the month, which has two beaks just like a parrot's, only larger, and tho upper ono sets into the under so they can nip ! a piece out of au oar blad" as out* u*< to say the word. "Do they swim? Yen, and backward, ! too, draggi' c the arms after them and going like lightning. Homctimes they jump right out of water r.ud come down as slick an s flying fish. Tho first ono I I over tackled was just alsive Trinity bay, Newfoundland. Wesa v something in near shore, and a couple of us jumped jnto a dory and pulled ov. rto it. When we got near a big wa o teased us right on tjp of it, ami the first thing I knew I g>t a shot of water and ink (yon i know they spurt ink troni an ink bag; fair in the face, and by the time I wipes 1 it off tho squid was half aboard us. It thing five of its arms over, and one struck my mate on his bare arm and nearly hauled him over. I grabbed the ax and managed to cut two of the arms, when another got round my leg, and hauled mo off my feet; down I went into the boat, ari l I believe that's the only thing that saved us, as my hand landed on a big boat book. I lay on my back, tho boat half full of water, j and jammed that hook right through the ugly creature's eyes, and, as my mate had put an oar through it, it slipped into the water. All this time, mind yon, it was fuming and spurting water and ink; hut it was only about half a fathom of water, and I stuck the boat hook in it again. After we had hailed out the boat we made the squid fast by the painter, towed it a)>oard and cut it up for bait, after we had meas ured it. From the tip of tho long arms to tho end of the tail the line gave fifty-one and a half feet. We packed it in a tub that was mad" to hold ex actly 900 pounds of coil, and it filled it. I wouldn't tackle one again like it for tho proceeds of a whole season. " Why, everywhere a sucker had struck my mate's arm it looked a? though a red-hot iron had l>een pressed on and sunk in, and whom they had been torn away tho flesh had gone, too. He was laid up a month. I had a heavy pair of boots on, and the leather showed the marks, as if they had been cut with a penknife. " Yes" (in answer to a question) "most all the Gloucester men can tell big stories about squids. Captain Col lins, now one of the United States fish commission, used to run the schooner Howard, and they caught five in one day, averaging from thirty-five to forty- j j live feet on nti estimate, and weighing abont a thousand pounds apiece. Home , difference l>ctwecn them and this men- j I stor, that we are money out on." ; This account was not exaggerated, as uny one may prove by paying a visit to : the zoological museum of Y'ale college, ' whero Professor Verrill has the finest ; collection of theso creatures in this or any country, A few years ago they were not believed in, and the Strang." tales of Hugo were the only hints of their existence; hut ono was washed ashore on tho Newfoundland coast, and fortunately fell into tho hands of tho Hov. Dr. Harvey, who sent part of it to the Hmithsonian institute, and thus their existence became assured and credited by many who some years l>aok classed them with the sea-serpent. At certain seasons they are mere fre quent than oll'crs, and as they Jam only found or seen when mutilated, living at ; other times in the deep sea, it is sup posed that they become injured in the breeding season; or perhaps at certain times paraitic animals are more fre quent. 1H75 was a season extremely notable in this respect, and were seen floating on tho surface, food for birds, or partly dead and mutilated. Others were found along tho coast washed among tho breakers, where they swung, hanging by their two long ten tacles, which wera fastened to the rocks, answering the purpose of cables to the living ship on a lea shore. A famous place for them seems to be tho Flemish (lap, a bank to tho north cast of the Grand Hanks. Portions of those monsters have been found in wholes, that indicated animals nearly one hundred feet long and twenty-live hundred pounds in weight. These ani mals are not new to the geologist. Their fossil beaks and ink bags are fre quently found in tho strata of the recent formations, tho ink being so well pre served that it was formerly used as the sopia of commerce, and a writer has penned u history of living squids with tho ink of one that perished tens of thousands of years in the past. F.arlicr forms of tho squid appeared in shells, and those fossil coverings are frequently found almost as large as a cart wheel, while some of the straight shelled vari eties reached a length of fifteen feet and, according to some authorities, thirty feet. Imagine a shell thirty feet in length propelled like a battering rarn through the water, waving its snake like arms; a fitting forefather of the gifht squid of to-day, the architenthis of the scientific world. A Trip Around the World. Cyrus W. Field gives the outline map of his journey around the world: New port to Han Francisco; to Yokohama, <>B,ooo inhabitants; 2* miles by rail to I okio, 1,000,000 inhabitants; back to Yokohama; 400 miles by steamer to Kobe, *,o inhabitants; 22 miles by rail to Osaka, 500,000 inhabitants, and by the most beautiful inland sea to Na gasika, 70,000 inhabitants. Then leav ing Japan by steamer, across the Yellow sea to Shanghai, 250,000 inhabitants; by steamer on tho China sea to Hong Kong, 125,000 inhabitants, and bv river 7*> miles to Cant >n. Then leaving China by steamer on the China sea to Saigor, HO,OOO inhabitant-, to Cochin China. Then by steamer on the same sea to Singapore, 100,000 inhabitants, and by steamer tlirongh the Straits of Malacca to Penang, 00,000 inhabitants, both cities of the Malar peninsula. Then up the May of Bengal to Maui main, 55,000 inhabitants, by the same bay to Uancoon, >*o,ooo inhabitants. Then leaving British Murmah by steamer across the May of Bengal to In dia, landing at Calcutta, Wo,ooo inhab itants. Then "'.O miles by rail to Be nares. 175,00(1 inhabitants, by rail 350 mil's to Agra, 150,000 inhabitants; by rail 115 miles to Delhi, 155,000 inhab itants; by rail *OO miles to Allahabad, 105,000 inhabitants, and by rail 000 miles to Botnlmy, 050,000 inhabitants. Then across the Arabian sea, l,*ou miles to Arabia, landing at Aden, 5,000 inhabitants. Then 1,600 miles through the lied sea to l'.gjpt, landing at Suez, 15,000 inhabitants; by rail *f miles to Cairo, ,'150,000 inhabitants, and by rail 112 miles to Alexandria, 100,000 inhab itants. From Alexandria to Italy, sail ing about 1,500 miles aeross the terranean to Naples, 450,000 inhabi tants; then to Marseilles, 520,000 in habitants; then along the French coast by rail 20 miles lieyond Nice to Men tone, famous as a sanitary resort From Men tone to Paris, to Ijondon, to Liver pool, down the Irish channel to (Queens town, and then to New York, having gene zigzag enough to make a journey of nearly 50,000 statnto miles. Noblemen as Walters. A story is afloat to the effect that a foreign authoress who went to Del monico's uptown restaurant to dine found that ' he waiter who came forward to wait on her was her brother. The item was shown to the manager at Dol monico's, and he was asked if there was any truth in it. He shook his head and smiled. " Kvery now and then," he said, " some story of the kind is set afloat. Generally, however, it is about a waiter who is a nobleman." "Is it not a fact that occasionally yon have a nobleman among you?" "It is not at all unlikely. There are plenty of noblemen abroad who are very poor, and are sometimes hard put to it for a good meal. In such cases they often drop their titles. If they come to this country why should they not work at waiting as well as any other business? Then there are fast young noblemen who run tbrongh their means and emigrate. They have not been brought up to any business ; they are unacquainted with the ways of Aroer '• can life, but they know abont table service, and a job as waiter is the thing they are best qualified for. Noblemen 1 are not scarce in the old world. In olreyed. Ham mi I looked upon this in novation ax a direct blow at liis au thority, and when the train left I'ier inont he cut the stick loose. At Tur ner's he told Captain Ayres that he pro posed to run the train himself, without interference* from any conductor. The next day the captain rigged up his string and stick of wood again. "Abe," said lie, "this thing's got to t>c settled one way or the other to-day. If that stick of wood is not on the end of this cord when we get to Turner's you've got to lick me or I'll lick you." The stick was not on the string when the train reached Turner's. The cap tain pulled off his coat, and told Uammil to get off his engine. Hsmmil declined to get off. Captain Ayrea climlied to the engineer's place. Hammil started to jump off on the opposite side. The conductor hit him under the ear, and aaved him the trouble of jumping. That settled forever the question of authority on railroad trains. Hammil abdicated as autocrat of the pioneer Erie train, and the twine and stick of wood manip ulated by the conductor, controlled its management. Tuat was the origin of the belt rope, now one of the most Im lortant attachments of railroad trains. The idea was quickly adopted by the few roads then in operation, and the liell or gong in time took the place of the stick of wood to signal the engineer. Captain Ayres continued a conductor on this road under its differ ent managers until he w\x superannu ated and retired on a pension a year ago. He died a few months ago iu Y , at the age of seventy-eight years. The Te "lible Tragedy. The thick thunder threatened torrents; 1 the tempest tossed the trees, throwing their trembling trunkleta topsy-turvy. Tripping toward the town, Theresa thought: "To-night Theodore treads the tiresome thoroughfare, thinking • things that—" Thud! The terrified truant turns to trace the threatening turmoil. There, toward the j toll-gate, tramped Theodore, trying to throttle two thieves. "Take to the timber, The -e.se!" thundered Theodore. "Tell that to timid things," thought Theresa, treading tiger-like, tip-toe toward the trio. Then, telling Theo dore to throw the taller Ihief, Theresa, taking' t'other'* toga, tied through the thickness the thief* throat. Thus terminated the terrible trouble that threatened the twain. They turned j triumphantly to town, there to tell the 1 tale. To morrow ties them together The Bean's Thanks. Some accidents seem to have hap i pened on purpose, so pat are they. For I instance : A certain Dean of Ely was once at ! a dinner, when just as the cloth was re moved, the subject of discourse hap pened to le that of extraordinary mor tality among lawyers. "We have lost," said a gentle man, " not leva than seven eminent barristers in as many months.'' The dean, who was very deaf, rose just at the conclu sion of these remarks and gave the company grace: "For this and every other mercy, make ns devoutly thankful.