The Farmer's Seventy Tears.
Ah, there he is, lad, at the plow;
He beata the txiya for work,
And whatsoe'er the task ni<Kbt tm
None ever saw him shirk.
And he can laugh, too, till his eyea
linn o'er with mirthful tears,
And sing full many an old-time song
tn spite of seventy years.
" Good morning, friends I 'tis twelve o'clock;
Time for a half hour's rest."
And farmer John took out his In nob
And ate it with a rest.
" A harder task, it is," he aaiil,
" Than following up thiwe ulcere.
Or mending fences, far, for mo
To feci my aeventy years.
" Von ask me why I fool so young,
I'm euro, friends, I can't toll,
But think it is my good wife's fault
Who's kept mo up so well;
For women such as she are m-aree
In this poor vale of tears;
She's given mo lovo and hope and strength
For more than forty years.
" And then my boys have all done well.
As far as they have gone,
And that thing warms an old man's blood,
And helps him on and on.
Mr girls have never caused a pang.
Or raised up anxious fears.
Then wonder not that I feel young
And halo at seventy years.
" Why don't my good boys do my work.
And let me ait and rent ?
Ah ! friends, that wouldn't do for me;
I liko my own way best.
They have their duty; I have mine.
And, till the end appears,
I mean to smell the soil, ray friends,"
Said the man of seventy years.
A RASH ENGAGEMENT;
OR,
How a Hale Trifler Was NerveJ.
" Now, Gerard, I shall count on von!"
"My dear annt," said Gerard Far,
taking her hand and looking in her
sparkling face with intense gravity, "do
nothing of the sort. I protest against
it. You inveigled mo to your country
■eat with perfumed billets and honeyed
flatteries. I yield ; for who but a mad
man could struggle against destiny in
such a shape ? But encroach no further.
I consent to bo ornamental—to odorn
your saloons—to occupy tho fourth seat
in yonr baronche—to accompany you to
church and stare down the loungers
around the door, hut I utterly and en
tirely refuse to be useful. I will not
fan plethoric dowagers ; I will not waltz
boarding-school misses, nor sing
duets, nor bring shawls, nor clasp brace
lets, nor—by Jove I who's that ?"
Mrs L'Aymar smiled mischievouslv.
" NeUie Parker, the clergyman's
daughter. Shall I introduce yon V -
"By no means ! It's a lovely, high
bred face, though clearly cut as a
cameo, and those soft, unfathomable
eyes! Do you rememl>er Dominie Che
no's Hybil T
" Welcome to Maplowood," said a gay
voice behind him.
Gerard started and bit his lips.
" Why did you not tell mo Kato Ir
win was here !" he said, in a vexed un
dertone to his annt; lmt Mrs. L'Aymar
had glided away, and Gerard had noth
ing for it but to seat himself resignedly
by the lady—a dashing brunette, bocom
ingly arrayed in a muslin dress and
garden hat, who was watching Mr. Fay
with a somewhat amused smile.
"Again I say, welcome tx Maple
wood," she repeated. "It was vastly
kind of Mrs. L'Aymar to send for you.
VThe country is such a bore, and per
you can amuse me; you did not
use to be quite so stupid as the rest in
town."
"Cool, that!" thought Gerard. Then
aloud: " I should be most happy to be
amusing to Miss Irwin had I not en
tered a solemn protest against anything
of the sort. I came hero to be enter
tained. 80, to commence, who's here?"
" Why do yon ask, since the villa is
the inevitable rechanffoe of tho town
boose. Mrs. Poplin is here with Des
demona, Araminta and Amanda. You
should see how they tako to innoeonee,
white muslin and new-laid eggs. Des
demona, who was a young lady when I
was in short clothes, sits on a low stool
and wears baby waists, and Amanda has
got a kitten and puts up her hair in
curl papers regularly. Then there's
Ada Golbe :k, the blue; and Cobham,
who waltxes so divinely; and that fasci
nating little Mrs. Temple Htowe; and
Captain Gresbam, whom everybody is
crazy about, and yonr humble servant.
That's all, I believe."
"Who is that young lady?" asked
Oerard, pointing to Mies Parker, who
•till oat at the window.
"T really don't know," coldly an
swered Miss Irwin; "but she looks
stupid enough, however, to bo the
daughter of some country magnate
whom your polite aunt conceives it her
duty to propitiate. There's the dress
ing-bell I"
"Thank heaven I" ejaculated Oerard.
aloud, as Miss Irwin swept from the
room. •• Now that the womankind are
refe at least an hour, I may get a nap.
What a bore this gallantry is, to be
sure ! Why couldn't I havo said to that
eonaummate ooquette: ' I'm coufuund
•dly sleepy ! If you'll permit me, I'll
go and dream of your eye*.' " All the
whilo ho ww leisurely extending him
self on a light scttoo that ho had drawn
op before ono of the deep bow windows,
every now and then making a Holly at
an impertinent mosquito, who hummed
and boozed in luh ear with irritating
persistency.
Through the waving curtains ho could
dimly seo tho level, Hloping lawn, tho
trees motionless in tho noon heat, tho
cowh standing in the pond beneath their
shade, the low sploHh of tho water; tho
shrill song of tho grasshoppers grow
fainter and fainter on his ear, his oyes
closed—" buz," " hum thoro was that
mosquito again!
"Confound the rascal!" he exclaimod,
jumping op in a rogo, " if ho hasn't bit
ton my noso! Ho is a greater torment
than a woman, and that's—"
He stopped short in disomy, for from
the recess of the window issued a peal
of clear ringing laughter, and before
him stood tho young lady who had
already attracted his notice.
" Don't bo alarmod, sir," she said,
still langhing. "It is only tho last of
tho 1 womankind,' whom you accident
ally made u prisoner, and who promised
not to betray all tho treason you have
uttered against her sex, if yon will per
mit her to retire."
" Not till I hare convinced von that
in no way could my remarks apply to
yon," answered Gerard, " since I was
not talking of the angels."
"Bpareyour compliments," returned
Nolly, with a curling lip, "or reservo
them for Miss Irwin or the Misses Pop
lin. lam a simple country girl, incap
able of appreciating them."
" Ah ! I see you aro revengeful."
" On tho contrary, I forgive you."
" Proof is—"
"How?"
" By permitting mo to act as your es
cort to dinner."
Nelly seemed in danger of another lit
of laughter. Hho, who conld have set
tho table, cooked the dinner nnd eaten
a good share of it afterward, escorted
to the table like cne of thoso languish
ing city ladies, who screamed at the
sight of a cow, and didn't know corn
from asparagus, except when it was
cooked! What would father, and
mother, and Bob say to that ? Con
trolling her mirth as well as she was
able, sho signified her assent; and
when Miss Irwin sailed into the dining
room it was to find the elegant, fas
tidious Gerard playing assiduous court
to the little country girl, who received
it as a matter of course. Still, that was
not the least provoking part of tho
affair.
Poor Cobham, whoso evil genius had
decreed that on that day ho should act
as cavalier servantoto tho angry belle,
Kate's angry glances chilled his very
marrow, and scared all tho small talk
out of him.
Mrs. L'Aymar looked on in silent con
sternation.
Miss Irwin was not only a belle, but
eligible to tho extent of 8100,000; and
who knows what schemes had licen run
ning in tho little lady's politic head
when she invited Kato to spend tho
summer with her.
" At any rate," as she observed to her
husband afterward, " I couldn't sit
there, you know, nnd seo Gerard mak
ing himself ridiculous, nnd tho Poplins
and Mrs. Temple Stowo looking on—
who, of course, would tell of it all over
town."
80, after a side glance at the bronze
timepiece, Mrs. L'Aymar said, in her
softest tones:
"My dear little Nelly, I am sorry to
lose you, but I promised your father
that yon should return tho moment tbe
clock struck ' three,' and you know how
exact he is!"
Nellie flushed to her very templea,
for she had been invited to spend tho
day, and well understood the r< ason
of tho sudden changes in Mrs. L'Ay
mar.
"John shall drive yon home," said
the lady, fearing, pcrha]>H, sho had gone
too far, "and I shall try to persuade
your father "
"To be a little less exact," broke
in Gerard, with scornful emphasis;
"but John need not take tho trouble
to harness his horses, for mine, if my
ordors havo boon obeyed, are already at
tho door, and I shall bo only too happy
to drive Miss Parker home."
And he did take her home, spite of
tho ill-concoalod wrath of Mrs. L'Aymar
and tho fascinating Miss Irwin; and
when he reached the old farmhonse,
invit.d himself to go in (Nellie would
never have had the courage), and
claimed acquaintance with hor father
on tho strength of a boxed ear once re
ceived from the dominie when a boy
end at home during the vacation, and
complimented brother Bob on his farm
ing and Mrs. Parker on her house
wifery, and stayed to tea, and talked
politics and theology, and everything
but love, for which ho contented him
self with looking at Miss Nellie.
Day after day saw his stylish turn
out dashing down the green, shady lane
that led to the dominie's; and it was a
standing joke of his groom that " Maa'r
was going for the consolations of ro
ligion." The very dogs round the
place came to know him, while no
damask rose ever glowed as did Nellie's
cheek when she heard tho music of his
horses' hoofs gnlloping on tho road.
Mrs. L'Aymr's indignation knew no
bounds.
" Tho way Gerard gooH on with that
girl is ridiculous," she said to Kate Ir
win, "and I consider it my duty to in
terfere."
" Thon ho will assuredly marry L r,"
responded tho lady, coolly. "Can yon
not see ho is only amusing himself?
Oppose him and he is capable of any
folly. Leave him alone and ho will
soon tiro of his new-found toy."
Reasoning on widely different prin
ciple?, Mrs. Barker had arrived at tho
sanio conclusion, and sadly and anx
iously sho watched tho gradual change
in Nelly's demeanor.
" Old Martha tells mo yon never visit
her lately," she said to her daughter
one afternoon.
A bright flush crimsoned Nelly'H
cheek.
"Ho she has been complaining, has
she? Tiresome old woman!"
" And Miss Goodwin has mentioned
to me," continned her mother, without
appearing to notice Nelly's tone, " that
yon are seldom or never at the Thurs
day prayer-meetings."
" I don't believe," returned Nelly,
"that we ought to bo always singing and
praying and visiting old women. I am
young, and I want to enjoy life."
" Who gave you life V" answered Mrs.
Barker, "and how long is it since you
found it wearisomo to praise and serve
God? Ah! Nelly, Nelly, sinco Mr.
Fay—"
"There it is again,"J interrupted
Nolly; "always Mr. Fay! Everything is
his fault. What lias ho done, I should
like to know, that you all hate him so?"
"Hate him! Ah! Nelly, how blind
you are ! You love that man !"
" Well, I do," retorted Nelly, " did
yon never love? Am I the first one in
the family who has boon in love?"
" Nelly, has Mr. Fay ever asked yon
to marry him ?"
Nelly was silent.
"Has he ever even told you that he
loved you ?"
" I don't care if he hasn't," answered
Nelly, sobhiag. " 1 know he does, and
I don't see why you want to make mo
so miserable; and I wish I was dead—l
do."
At this interesting juncture arrived
Mr. Gerard Fay. Mrs. Barker, not feel
ing desirous to meet him, vanished
through a side door, and Nellie, unable
to regain her composure, or dissimulate
without intending to do so, allowed
Gerard to guess the secret of her dis
tress; and he, feeling unusually mag
nanimous after an extra bottle of cham
l"Ugne. and moved by the sight of lieantv
in tears, forthwith offered himself, and
was accepted.
"There, I told you so," said Mrs.
L'Aymar, furiously, to Kate.
" Keep cool," wa the rejoinder, "and
let us go ami call on tho bride-elect.
Frank Kashleigh will lie down next
week, and then we shall see what we
shall see."
And Mrs. L'Aymar, having no small
confldenco in her eool-head<'d friend,
waited patiently nntil Mr. Bashleigh,
Gerard's intimate friend, should arrive.
When that irn)>ortant personage made
his ap|>earanee, it is to lie presumed that
the ladies enlisted him at onoe—as
shortly after his arrival he took occasion
to remark to Gerard:
"That's rather a pretty girl (pointing
to Nelly). I'ity she's snrh a dowdy
flguie, ami dresses in such a Sandwich
island style."
Gerard said nothing—Wing abso
lutely dumb with astonishment. Nelly
dowdy, and badly dnvised ? Was that
the judgment of Frank Itashleigh, who
was a well-known connoisseur in female
beauty—on his pearl —his lily of
maidens, as ho had fondly termed her?
Was he indeed so blind ?
Itashleigh saw the shot had taken
effect, and wisely forbore further com
ments at that time. He then turned his
attention to Miss Irwin, whom he pro
nounced "a perfectly elegant woman,
and faultlessly beautiful."
" MayW so," dryly answered Gerard,
but I prefer the half-opened rosebud
to the tulip."
Hpitc of which, ere long, lie virtually
transferred himself and his attentions
to Mies Irwin, who concealed her de
light nnder an affectation ot cold dig
nity.
Sometimes Nelly's paling cheeks
after an unnsually protracted absence
smote him with a keen sense of self
reproach—" lint she onght to have un
derstood me from tho first," he argtied.
" Reason shonld have shown her onr
entire incompatibility."
Singularly enough reason had en
tirely failod to |erf irm her duly in tho
first stage of Nelly's lore; but she had
stepped in now, and suggested that a
man who had liehaved like Gerard Fay
must be alike devoid of principle, char
acter or common good feeling, and could
not, therefore, be considered a very se
rious loss by any aonsible girl.
Wh jreupon Nelly took heart, grew
prettier and moro blooming than ever.
One day as she was walking leisurely
along the little path that wound through
the hesutiful woods from whence the
village derived its name, aho auddenly
fonnd herself face to face with Gerard
Fay.
Her first impulse was to turn back.
Her second, to bow stiffly. Her third, to
Hpoak in tho most cordial manner im
aginable, which she accordingly did.
Gerard's salutation was by no means
so uncmbarraHHcd, but instead of pass
ing on, aH be might liavo easily done,
ho continued to walk by her side, dis
coursing of the weather, tho scenery,
tho lad new novel, and growing more
and moro dosjieruto at Nelly's unmis
takable indifference—till, at last, ho
frankly told Nelly the story of his short
comings with regard to her, taking caro
to color it slightly, and practicing a
little arithmetic on it, in tho way of ad
ditions and substructions, winding up
by asking Nelly to take him this time
for better or worse.
Whereupon Nelly, who listened to
the whole with a perfect immobile
countenance, quietly asked : " Have
you finished, Mr. Fay?"
"Yes," replied the gentleman, some
what doubtfully.
" Very well, sir. I have only to say
that I cannot marry a man 1 do not love
—could not marry a inan I did not re
sjieot, and could qot rcfqieot the man who
ba<l not the principle to refrain from
entering into rash engagements, tho
honor to keep them, the sense to refrain
from the attempt to patch them np when
broken. Good-morning, Mr. Fay."
And so ended Gerard's eampaining
for 1 HMO,
I.itini; Without Food or Brink.
A letter from Battle Cr k, Mich.,
savs: Mention has heen made in tho
newspapers at various times of the caso
of Mrs. Nellie Ingram, who, since last
Octolwr, has been in bed, unable to
take food or water. Mrs. Ingram is
now thirty-six years old, and has l>ecn
taiee married, her present husband be
ing Henry Ingram, a teamster. In girl
hood, as Miss Nellie Dunn, she was
hearty and robust, a specimen of bloom
ing health, and had a more than ordi
nary fine constitution, which she re
tained as she advanced in years. On
Octolier 11, IKMO, she stepped into a
Dr. N. Mcrntt's ofli o to have atooth ex
tracted. Hhe was then in the most jwr
feet health, and weighed not far from
IKO pounds. The tooth ass a double
one, far back in tho jaw, firm and fast
and very troublesome from a cavitv.
Undoubtedly the pain and annoyance
she had experienced from it had excited
her nervous system to that degree that
it took but little to produce a decided
shock. T1 e tooth was extracted with
much difficulty, and produced intense
|in. Mrs. Ingram 1-oeamc greatly ex
cited, which culminated in a nervous
shock. A hsck was called, and she was
taken to her homo in s prostrated con
dition, and Wiks itum< diately afterward
seized with a severe pain in tho bowels,
which has continued night ami day ever
since, arcnm|>auicd by sickness and
nausea Hhe repeatedly attempted to
eat food to sustain life, but it only pro
duced a loathing and deathly sickness,
and was at length given up. These
spasms occur, however, whether she is
given food or not.
As soon as it became certain to her
physician that all attempts to keep her
alive by introducing food into her stom
ach were useless, he liegan giving her
injections, thereby sustaining life by a
process of absorption by the walls of
tho intestines. Life has also lecn sus
tained by !<aths of beef tea, milk, snd
snch highly nutritious liquids, with an
occasional bath of alcohol to keep the
joresopen. Hhe has lived for the past
eight months in this way, not a morsel
of food having paused he.r lips. Her
weight has been reduced from 180 to
eighty pounds; but although her lsxly
is so much reduced, her face still pro
servos a quite healthy appearance, and
wonld not strike one as belonging to a
peraon who has Wen obliged to go
without food, and who has suffered such
excruciating jsxins. Her nerves are at
auch a high tension that she ia unable
to sleep more than two hours in twenty
four. This short rest is generally taken
toward morning, when the vitality in
her body is very low. With returning
activity of the aenses aho Wgina tin
retching", which spasmodic efforts of
nature continue through tho day until
her system is completely exhausted and
she falls into the unsatisfactory sleep
descriWd. Within tho last few days,
owing to the strain on her throat by
the frequent contortions of the muscles
during retching, alio lias substantially
lost her voice and ia unable to speak
at Hive a low whisper. A constant fever
attends her, acc<>ra{*nied by an inordi
nate thirst, but she cannot drink any
more than eat.
Tho case has excited tincommon in
terest in the medical fraternity through
out the State, and many have come to
see her. It is curious to see hunger
ap|>ceaed and thirat quenched by out
ward applications.
Never were there so many contracts
or new vensels held by the shipbuild
ers ol Milford, Delaware. They aggro
gate about a down, and as many more
could be obtained, a number ha? lug
been refused.
LADIEH' DEPARTMENT.
An Kn^rtu 1 Mumnnrr,
There is a bit of romance yet in the
Austrian empress' heart, though she is
credited witii lieing such an Amazon.
Hho cherishes in a beautiful jeweled
box, not a stone of grrat price, but a
little faded nosegay of edelweiss, that
monntain flower, white and delicate
as a snowflako, which Austrian peasants
attach to their buttonholes an a sign of
love. The little nosegay was given the
empress by her husband the time they
were betrothed.
Twrlvr llrldnnnlda' Dresses.
The twelve lockets worn by Ijady
Brooke's (Miss Maynard's) bridemaids
at the great wedding at Westminster
Abbey, are described as exceptionally
beautiful, being very costly works of
art. Each was formed of diamonds and
jxarls, worked with the greatest skill
into the most exquisite representation
of the form and petals of a daisy—ap
propriate emblems of the youth and in
nocence of the bride and her bride
maids, as well as souvenirs of herself,
the pet name bv which she has been
known to her family and friends since
her birth being Daisy.
A Htiiiplr I lulUMir ,
A number of gentlemen at a party the
other evening were wondering why all
young ladies did not dress in the plain,
simple style of a young belle pres
ent, whose toilet they greatly admired.
The dress was certainly very beautiful,
as was the young lady- which had a
great ileal to do with the effect of the
dress, which deserves description. The
underskirt was of plain white surah,
covered with tiny rnflles of the earn<-
goods. The overdress was of nun's
veiling of an exquisitely fine texture,
adorned with frills and cascades of
cream white lace, and caught up with
clusters of white snowdrops covered
with crystals. Upon lior hea l of golden
hair was a delicate wreath of snowdrops
glittering with white jets. She wore
not a jewel, but carried in her hand a
large antique fan of white' feathers
spangled with crystals. After the party
was over the wearer of the dress, who
had heard of and enjoyed the compli
ment, laughingly informed one of her
admirers a doting uncle that this
"simple" dress, at an exceedingly mod
erate computation, not including "Mad
am's" bill for making, had cost 91 GO, all
the undo did was quietly to hand
the young lady of the "simple"
dress his new spring hat, with
a Im>w of acknowledgment and a ware
of the hand whi h expressed more than
wordsconld have done, his unqualified
admission of the utter incaimcity of the
masculine mind to comprehend the
magnitude or to gue s the price of n
woman's dress, even though that dress
simulate "simplicity" to jwrfection.—
.Nor York /vroti>/ Punt.
Pnahlen N|r.
Plaids are much worn.
Tucks arc again fashionable.
Skirts are made longer and fuller.
Low shoes in fanciful forms grow in
favor.
The favorite waist is the box-plaited
blouse.
The white pocket handkerchief is
moribund.
Coaching lmnquets are very large and
brilliant.
Belted short basques are worn by
young ladies.
Cuffs are not worn when long-wristed
kid gloves are.
Full-gathered bodices are worn under
peasant waists.
Corsage bouquets are <lr ri<jur with
the simplest toilets.
The rage for red and yellows is al
ready on the decline.
All fashionable handkerchiefs are en
riched in some way with color.
Olive green and pale brown are the
favorite colors fcr coaching costumes.
Olive green, condor brown and Rus
sian blue are favorite colon for coach
ing suits.
Puffs of mull for the neck and throat
are more fashionable than ruches, frills
or braids.
The Mascotte, a cunning little
Frenchified turban, is the favorite walk
ing hat for street wear.
The newest th ng in collars lias one
end longer than the other, lapped over
on the front of the dress.
Osy lnmlered pocket handkerchiefs
are worn with all sorts of costumes, and
even in full evening dress.
Diadem combs encircling the chignon
are enriched with real or imitation
jewels or balls of gold, silver, jet, steel
or amber. ,
Hursh, Bengaline or Victoria and
Louise silks in delicate evening shades
and white take the lead for summer
festival dresses.
Cascades of laee are worn fastened by
a low of ribbon on one side altont half
way between the throat and waist, with
the ends carried over on the other side
and fastened in the belt.
Wide soft belts of Hursh or say o mail
able fabric are folded mid placed around
the Waist, with cuds falling almost to 1
I)
the bottom of the skirt either in the
back or on one Hide.
Evening drew* are ent in V shape*
bar k and front and edged with lace.
IJlack and white checked nilk hand
kerchiefs are worn with traveling unit*.
Drosses for the monntaiu or seashore
are made of dark garnet wool as heavy
as flanne].
Embroidered muslin gowns are made
up with underskirts and peasant waist*
of bright silks.
Trctty toilets of white wool have
Spanish hue plaitirjgs and draperies of
satin snrah in stripes.
Kpanish lace j<oints, long hut not verv
deeply pointed in the back, are worn a
la fichu, tied around the shoulders.
It is a popular fanev this season to
make the skirts of dresses of black and
white striped silk, rather than the
flounces.
Ihe standard choice for summer
dresses is black grenadine, plain sewing
silk grenadines with smooth surface
having the preference over all others.
The Prevention of Sunstroke,
The following hints for the preven
tion of sunstroke are given by l>r.
Edwin C. Mann, of New York city, in
an article upon this subject in one of
the medical journals: To avoid sun
stroke, exercise, in excessively hot
weather should be very moderate ; the
clothing should be thin and loose, and
an abundance of cold water should bo
drank. Workmen and soldiers should
understand that as soon a-, they cease
to perspire, while working or marching
in the hot sun, they are in danger of
sunstroke, and they should immediately
drink water freely and copiously t-o
i fiord matter for cutaneous transpire
tion, and also keep the akin and cloth
ing wet with water. Impending sun
stroke may often be warded off by thesa
simple measures. Ik-side* the cessa
tion of perspiration, the pupils are apt
to l>e contracted, and there is a fre
quencyof mictniition. If there ismarked
exhaustion, with a weak pulse, resulting
from the cold water application, wo
should administer stimulants. Thn
free use of water, however, both ex
ternally and internally, by those ex
posed to the direct rays of the sun, is
the best prophylactic against sunstroke,
and laborers or soldiers, and others
who adopt this measure, washirg their
hands and laces, as well as drinking
copiously of water every time they come
within reach of it, w ill gene rally enjoy
perfect immunity from sunstroke.
Straw lasts should be w-orn, ventilisted
at the top, and the crown of the hat
filled with green leaves or wet sponge.
It is l>etter to wear thin flannel shir's
in order not to check perspiration. We
may expose ourselves for a long time in
the hot sun and work or sleep in s
heated room and enjoy perfect im
munity from sunstroke if we keep our
skin and clothing wet with water.
Had New* for Water Printer*.
The age of the earth is placed by some
at fiTe hundred millions of years; and
still others, of later time, among them
the Duke of Argyll, place it at ten mil
lion years. None place it lower than
ten millions, knowing what processes
have lieen gone through Other planets
go through the same process. The rea
son that other planets differ so much
from the earth is that they are in s so
much earlier or later stage of existence.
The earth must become old. Newton
surmised, although be could give no
reason for it, that the earth would at
one time lose all its water and liec too
perfectly dry. Since then it has been
found that Newton was correct.
As the earth keeps cooling it will be
come poron* and great cavities will be
formed in the interior, which will take
in tlie water. It ia estimated that this
process is now in progress, so far that
the water diminishes at alxint the rate
of the thickness of a sheet of writing pa
per each year At this rate in G,000.000
years the water will have stink a mile,
anl in 15,000,000 years every trace of
water will have disappeared from the
face of the glolie. The nitrogen and
oxygen in the atmosphere are also di
minishing all the time. It is in an in
*ppreeiable degree, but the time will
come when the air will lie so thin that
no creature we know could breathe it
and live; the time will come when the
world cannot support life. That will be
the period of old age and then will come
death lYnchw.
Klx ng t'p.
" Yes," said he, •• Tve been fixing up
a little. The old woman postered me
to death about the garden, and so I
slicked it up a little, and fixed about
the house, and it looked so nice I went
at the farm fence* and the brush and
saved more manure, and kept killing
the weeds, and the crops got I letter, and
ao I kept going on, and things do look '
pretty good now. Wife takes a paper
and I take one, and I get time to read it
too, and I need to think that 1 hadn't
time for anything." And so he ran on,
seemingly well pleased with what h
had done, and hi* life and hi* home
without doubt the Jiaj pier tf f Ex
amples of a like kind be jfeund all
over the country. *
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