A Summer Hay. Tiinpioisr-broastcO birds have sung the spring away; W Pink arbutus leaves Imve blushed farewell to May ; There's a soft, sweet presence hovering on high There's the lnlo of sum liter in the summer | sky. When the daylight tlutters from their swinging nests, Iliso enraptured welcomes from enraptured breasts ; W hen the clouds of sunset stream like burning , p, lights. There's the taint, low warbling "I their soft' good-nights. .There are rivers murmuring us they onward go, ® l'liat the pale spring loosened into fuller flow ; Now a witler glory in their sparkling hides Thorn's a summer's passion in their throbbing tides ; Thin wings, sunshine-dusted, through the noon tides go— Butterflies in silence fluttering to and fro ; There's the whole ripe sweetness of the spring . gone by— There's the whole of summer in the summer sky ! .Vrs. /.. HViifon, in Well Airnke. I'L'S(JEM PARAGRAPHS. A great hardship—An iron clad. Men who arc born equal—Twins. The coin for perfumers—A cent, A ltimber yard—A three-foot board. A lawyer's trial is when ho has none. Always goes around with a long face —An alligator. Does a fly that goes into the butter become a butterfly. Can a boy who runs away with a circus be arrested for larceny? We suppose a clap of thunder may be called a " weather report." Protested notes—Those emanating from your neighbor's violin. The red flag is a signal of danger. If you doubt it, wave one in the faco of a mad bull. Why is a much-admired youug lady like the hub of a wheel ? Because she is always surrounded by fellows. No woman ever looks at a tine large newspaper withont thinking what a beautiful polonaise pattern it would make. The time to dance is just after stirring up a den of yellow-jacks. Parties attending picnics will do well toremem * btr this. A Phila lelphia man has bought 4,000,- 000 acres of Florida land, and yet all this vast tract isn't near as big as a boy feels in his first pair of high boots. There is a boy in town who will buy no more New Testaments. He says, witli an air of disapointment, that " there's not an Ingtin story in it." "Scissors and lightning !" shouted an irate subscriber who could find nothing but miscellany and telegraphic news in his paper.— Keok uk Gale City. Young gentlemen of slender means will be pleased to learn that poison hav ing been found in ice cream at Atlanta, (la, that vegetable has been declared a dangerous compound. Jnst because a man goes through the rain without an umbrella, it doesn't prove that he is a philosopher. It only shows that somelmdy has appro priated his water shed. Have yon read "The Testament?" asked a Western girl of her bosom friend ; "it is perfectly splendid, ami thpy say it is revised, too, but of course this is the first time the story has ever l>een published in this country." "There are lots of men in this coun try who onght to be in the same condi tion that this gate is in," said the h farmer, vs he r.hnt it behind a lightning rod peddler. " How is tliat?" "Well bung," said the farmer, as he resumed agricultural pursuits. A Rochester photographer lias got matters down tine. For a [>oint for the subject to look at while the picture is b"ing taken, instead of the usnal faded Envelope or old photograph on the wall, be has the ominions words neatly framed, " Terms Cash." A school teacher, discharged for using the roil too freely, applied for employ ment in a dressmaker's establishment. " Have you had any experience in sew ing?" asked the dressmaker. "No," was the reply, " bat I have a thorough knowledge of basting." A man is usually very deaf at (i o'clock in the morning when his wife calls him to get np and light the fire, but when sbo gets ap, murmurs that the poor * man is tired ont, and goes downstairs, he can hear the gentlest call up two pair of stairs, " Breakfast is ready." The new telephone has an induction coil with a resistance of five thousand ohms. How littlo onr ancestors thought of such things. Alas! they lived in an ago when ohms were undreamed of. If they had met an ohm in broad daylight B they never would have recognized it. Hon, never get excited. If it's some thing you can prevent, go in and stop it; if it's something you can't help* what good will it do to lose yonr head and rage around and act ridiculous? This rule, however, may lie and is here by suspended during presidential elec tions, at the horse race, and when a one legged man sets his spike- [minted crutch I'UbJuuw.* \ MORAL AMI RELIGIOUS. A I'lrnannt Picture. " There in a man," said a village car penter, " who has churches and 40,087 members. There were 3,101 baptisms last year. There were 127,786 confirmations in the.Church of England in I**o. The largest number confirmed in any one diocese was in London, 1.,539. The Old Swede's church, at Wilming ton, Del., recently celebrated its lh.'td anniversary, 1 lie chalice and paten used in the service are 16.4 years old. The sum of o 200,000 has been secured toward the endowment fund for the benefit of the Southern Baptist theological s.-minarv, at Louisville, Ky. During the fifty-seven years of its ex istence the American Sunday-school union has distributed £7,250,tm0 worth of publications and organized 7o,ntni Sunday schools with teachers and 0,000,000 scholars. The Itev. Joseph C'ook recently de livered his last lectu re in London in the Metropolitan Tabernacle. His theme was "Certainties in Religion." During his visits to England Mr. Cook has preached and lectured 130 times. He will visit Germany, India and Australia Iwforc his return to the United States. The Methodist Episcopal church, South, has 3,(>73 traveling preachers, a gain of 113 in the past Tear, and H. 37,- H3l members, a gain of 15,3(15. Of these members l.oyi are negroes and 4,'.isl are Indians. The Virginia conference is the l.\rgest, having 57,(M>H members, and IH!> traveling, 19 superannnated and 173 local preachers. It Li stated that while the Presbyte rians have twice as many members as the Episcopalians, three times as many infants are baptized by the latter as by the former. For the last six years the number of infants baptized by the Pres byterians has at no time reached 20,(UK), while the Episcopalians have baptized from 30.U00 to 32,000 annually. The general assembly of the United Presbyterians which recently closed its sessions at Pittsburg, Pa., empowered a commission to consummate a union le --tween it and the Associate Reformed church of the Houth, with the under standing that neither church change its standard. The assembly refused to rule instrumental music in the churches. I he ninetv-sevonth annual convention of tho Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania presents tho following diocesan statistics: Thero are 117 par ishes in union with the convention and five out of it. Tho sittings in the churches and chapels number 0(1,(510 ; the communicants, 25,2(53, and the scholars 28,158. There aro fifty eight Sunday-school buildings, fifty-six par sonages ami forty-six cemeteries, and tho entire value of church property is placed at 96,000,000. They Didn't Tackle. Ho was rather a rough and nnconth looking specimen, anil he was striding along as though he were trying to make time on the homo stretch, when he passed some callous youths who evi dently imagined that "clothes make the man,' and one of them aang ont in a taunting voice: " Say, mister, where did yon get that gait ?" Ho |>an*ed abrnptly, and turning on tho party qnickly, said: " I got it ont on the perrnrie where I was tending to my own business, and ef you want to hang on to it you'll find it ez full of spikes ez a hedgehog's got quills. Don't all speak at once ef yon want to nnhinge it. Which ono wants to tackle it 7" lint they seemed deeply interested in something else, and tho man from " the perrarie" remarked as he moved away, that he guessed he "wasn't the msn they were lookin' for after all.— Wit ami Wintiom. THE FAMILY DOCTOR. Scalp grafting is the latest remedy for baldness. Perhaps it may prove as efficacious as the transplanting of teeth. In l'otasi the most violent headaches, so very common there, are cured by put ting the feet in hot water. To children and frugiorons animals our picklus and pepper sauees are more offensive than meat, and probably more injurious. On tho uppor Rhino tlioy have sani tarios where the people are fed almost exclusively on ripe grapes in order to purify their blood. Grapes are tho must healthful of all fruits. Tho only safe and immediate remedy within tho reach of a non-professional, in case of poisoning with prussic acid, is to pour a stream of cold water from an elevation upon the head and spine of the patient, A writer on health says : livery now and then there appears an item to the effect that tomatoes contain an acid in jnrioUH to tho teeth, or that rhubarb owes its acidity to oxalic acid, and is consequently poisonous. Ho far as rhubarb goes the use of it as a welcome substitute for fruits is yearly increasing. The sourness of rhubarb stalks is duo to malic acid (the acid of apples) and to citric acid (found in leni >ns), both of which are as healthful as they are agree able. Tho French commissioners on tho hygicno of infancy, in awarding the prize in a compi tition of essayists, ro jKirt that the conclusion generally arrived at leads to tho following recorn mendations: No child should lie reared on artificial food when the mother can suckle it, but Htieh fool is preferable to placing the child with a wet nurse, poorly remunerated and living at her own home. For successfully bringing up an infant by band tho best milk is that of a co w which has recently calved, or similarly of a goat, to -.ditch should be added during the fi st Week a half part of water,andconse piently a fourth or lor- , according to the dig-stive JMlW ers of tho child. Glassware or earthen ware alone should bo used ; no vulcan ized india rubier mouthpiece or vessels containing lead ought to be used. Helplessly Drifting Half a tear. A recent issue of the San Francisco I'hrvnicl* says: The Hteatuship (*ity of Peking, seventeen days from Yokohama, arrived in this port yesterday. The fol lowing particulars of the fortunate res cue of a party of sailors who were lost on the ocean are related by one of the passengers: The [second day out from \ okohoma it was onr good fortune to | rescue ntne men from a dimaated. help less Japanese vessel which had been blown off the roast of Japan from the entrance to the Hay of Yeddo during a typhoon. Their account of the disaster is that the storm occurred on tho, ninth of December last. They lost their masts and rudder and had been drifting at the mercy of tho winds, they knew not where. After their own provisions were exhausted they subsisted on their cargo, mostly liean* and dried flsh, and such rainwater as they could catch during tho six months which had claimed since tho typhoon occurred. They had burned most of tho small woodwork, doors, Ixirths, windows, etc., of their vessel for fuel, and were on short rations, forty lieaus per day for each man being tho allowance. Their fire, when put ont from time to time, they had rekindled by rubbing two pieces of wood together. They had given up all hope of ever seeing land or anything human again, when, on Satur day, the twenty-eighth of May, about :WH) miles from the Hay of Yeddo and Yokohama, they sighted the Peking on the wide waste of water. Captain Perry, in answer to their signals of distress, bore down and sent one of the lioats off with an ofllcer and tho doctor to exani ino into their sanitary condition, and tho poor souls were soon landed on our dock. One of their nnndier had died tho day previous from exposure, hunger and anxiety. The passengers, aided by i Captain Berry, gave a concert on Imard | for Uie benefit of tho destitute ones, which netted a purse of 5143. Dally Habits of the Japanese Emperor, It is said that from the first of next month his majesty tno emperor's daily habit will l>o to rise at 5 o'clock r/ery morning ; worship before tho shrino of tho sacred insignia at 5:80 ; breakfast at (I; study from 7 to U o'clock ;at 10 at tend tho privy council's meeting until 2 i'. St., and engage in various military studies from 3 till 5 o'clock. This is a very different programme from that pur sued lxsfore tho reformation, when the child part of his majesty's time was do voted to the |Krformanco of religious ceremonies. FoWeim i (Juptin) Mail RIDCTO IS Alt AIT.ru>AD CAR.— Husband —"You are quite comfortable, dearT Wlfw—"ltw, love." "The cushions are easy and soft, l nckyT "Yea, darling.' "You don't feel any jolta, pet 7" "No, sweoteet." "And there ia uo draught on my lamb, is there, angal V "No. my owned own." "Then change seats with me." ( PEARLS OF THOUGHT. A joyful evening may follow a sor rowful morning. I'raiso undeserved is satire indisguise. \te put up with folly more patiently tlmu wo do with justice. Tlioro is a mode of presenting that gives value to everything. The in out delicate, the moat sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. True glory atrikea root and even ox tenda itself; hut fulac pretcnaiona fell OH do flowers, nor cun anything feigned he laating. Politieal iiatred ia like a pair of spec taeloa. One aeea everybody, every opin ion or every sentiment only through one'a own glasses. Let na learn that everything in nature even motes and feathers, go bylaw, and not by luck, and what we sow we are invariably aure to reap. Good nature ia of daily use; but courage ia at beat but a kind of holiday virtue, to bo seldom exercised and never but in cases of necessity. Whoever is an imitator by nature, choice or necessity, has nothing stable; the flexibility which affords this apti tude is inconsistent with strength. Brotherhood is the term in common use to imply the spirit wo should cher ish and the conduct we should practice toward our fellow men, showing how strong is the sense of what the relation ought to involve. The Ever-Present Newspaper. In the course of his address before the New York State Press association, at I 'ties. Hon. George William Curtis said : Not n public event can occur, not a new loan be proposed, nor a plan of refunding ; not a measure for sweeping the streets of the great city be intro duced in the State legislature ; not an important nomination can be made by the President, but the newspaper is at once a whists-ring gallery, murmuring from sea to sea with the views of cmi- nctit men everywhere upon the subject. Even politicians find themselves com ix-lied to have atxmt them the m- st in convenient commodity. n opinion, and to give it up nt the demand of the newspaper. An impulsive man. an gered at tlje invasion of his privacy, may ki< k the newspaper down- tair* ; imt the nimtde paper lias its revenge. Dickens has left behind him many a keen disciple upon the daily preM ; and if the information sought is not to lx* found, the fury and wrath with which it is refused, made ridiculous with pun gent humor, are equally served to a laughing continent, with the coffee and the rolls. The victim may retaliate with the horsewhip, hut the newspaper, soundly thrashed in the person of its representative, has heen known in stantly to issue an extra with graphic ami clalrorate details of tho thrashing In a (piarrel with a newspaper the laugh is against the private citizen. The press asserts for the public the right of eminent domain over individval affairs. If your daughter is to lx> mar ried the iiews|ajer calls to count the towels, and seethe |ttern of the aprons. If the emp>ror of Crim Tar'ary. or the king of the Cannilml islands arrives, the newspaper takes an inventory of his )x-dchaml>er, and informs ns that he likes his beef rare. It reports its con versation with the statesmen of Europe at the congress of Herlin npon the com plications of continental politics, and with the servants of statesmen about their master's coats and Iroots. Like the air and the light, the press is a charters d lilrortine, and such is the uni versal and jealous public regard for its lilx-rty, Irecause of the instinctive con • vietion that aoabuse of a free press ran lx so great as the evil of its suppres sion, that a ittit against a news]>a|xT for defamation is almost hopeless. Ilnw Iliad,guards IMaj llaccarat. At Baccarat nothing is more easy than to cheat, provided that the Isuiker has a confn frequently practiced at Ostend and other continental watering-place*. The hanker taken the six jwck* that are uaed and proceed* to aim file with the laat card exposed to the players. We will suppose that the last rard is a three Thi* ho puts, with two cards above it, ft t tho top of the pack. No sooner doe* the confederate see at tho liottom of tho |>ack either a sis or a five than he makes a sign. The ttankcr then puts the card with tho two above it at the top of tho |>ark. Thisgoeson until ho hasnrranged a dozen conps in hi* favor. Having done so, ho puts tho arranged conps at about tho middlo of tha pack, but takes oare to know whore they are by means of a slight |irojection. Ho then asks some ono to cut. If tho confederate cuts ho does so at tho exact commencement of tho coups; if another cuts nothing is more easy than for tho dealer to slip cards so as to make tho out come at the required place. How this is done is si* most impossible to explain ; but I can myself do it in a bungling sort of fashion, and with a little practice I am sure I oould do it without being perceived. CLIPPINGS HHt THE CUKfOUK. The Amazon river colors the sea fifty miles from its mouth. The cost of remitting the great Koh inoor diamond was 81,600. ~ -•*•*■ There are about 17,000 locomotives running on the railroads of the United States und 500,000 ears of all kinds. Silk waste, which a few years ago was sold for old rags, is now manufactured in New York into a variety of line cloths. M. St. Piere once saw a vast number of ants overcome a centipede. They seized it by all its legs and bore it along as workmen would a piece of timber. (Specimens of fossil woods and lignite are reported to have been brought to the surface from a depth of 191 feet, while boring an artesian well at Galveston, Texas. Goal became staple fuel in the time of William Iff. The prejudice against it was strong as well as unaccountable, and in I.'JOO Commons petitioned the Crown to prohibit burning the "nox ious article." I'arsces around the "Towers of Silence" whither the corpses of Par sees at Bombay, India, are taken imme diately after death to be devoured by vultures- will often wait and watch until every atom of the flesh of those thev love have hcen consumed by the birds. When Texas wan annexed to the United States the nation assumed its debt of seven and a half million dol lars. This scenic Ito many people an j exorbitant sum to pay for a doubtful advantage, and it was often said that Texas was only "taxes," with the let ters differently arranged. When it wa discussed 1J;. what official name the president should bo called, Washington was in favor of the words "High Mightiness," the words used to describe the Stadt hollers of Holland. This phrase was. however, rejected, and the more moderate one of "Lxeelh ncy " was substituted. The sea-lion business has become quite :n industry. They are distributed am< ng zoological collections in all parts of the world. They are caught by lasso when sunning tlii-ui -elvi -- on the rocks. It is ri k;- work. The high price paid t and the fact that few die while being transmit ted to distant destinations, make ri-k and trouble worth taking. Fact* About hahara. Dr. Lx nz, in a recent lecture at l'aiis on hi* journey from Morocco to Tim bnctoo, has lxx-n correcting some of the generally-received notions as to the condition of the Sahara. It really forms a great plateau, alwiut 1,100 feet alxrvi- the level of the- Atlantic. In no part of this plaN-au is there to Ix> found that depressing Wlow the level of the ocean which is shown on the maps of certain geographers, and which has led to wild schemes of converting the Sa hara into a great inland sea. More over, tho Sahara is not one dead sandy level, but really varied in its aspect. Hocks arc succeeded by sandy plains, here and there are oases covered with alfa grass and tagnaiit shallow sheets of water. The fresh water fossils, which are met with in many jarts show that the Sahara is not the lxittom of a dricd up sen. Again, the tem|x-ratnrc is not nearly so hot as might l>o expected. In short, the Sahara is not so bad as it has been called ; wild beasts arc rare, and the most formidable enemies to lo met with are the Tonraeg trilies, who, ac cording to the report, recently massa cred the French Trans-Sahara expedi tion. As to Titnbuetoo, Dr. Lenz found he had to traverse a great space covered with ruins Insfore he could roach the inhabited part. There are now only 20,000 inhabitants, but many schools and rich libraries.— Xmr York iS'vs. Too I'oor fo Take a Paper. Moore, of the Rural .Veto Yuri or, was sitting in his office ono afternoon when a farmer friend of his came in. "Mr. Monro, I like your paper, but tho times are so hard 1 cannot pay for it." "Is that so, friend Jones? I'm very sorry to learn that yon are so hard run. I will give yon my paper." "Oil, no! I can't take it as a gift." " Well, then, let me see how we can fix it. You raise chickens, I believe ? ' " Yes, a few; but they don't bring anything hardly." " Don't they I Neither does my paper cost anything hardly. Now, I have a proposition to make to you. I will con tinue your pa|>er, and when you go home yon may select from your lot one chicken end call iier mine. Take good care of her and bring me the proceeds, whether in eggs or in chickens, and 1 will call it spure." "All right, Brother Moore," and the farmer chuckled as he went out at what he thought a clever Iwrgmin. He kept the contract strictly, and at the end of the year found that he had paid about four prices for his paper. He often tells the joke on himself, and says be has never had the cheek to say that be was too poor to take a paper since. M IKMIHO HCftAPM. Gold nan bo beaten to nuch a degree of thinness an to beoone partially trann parent. Nitric acid will entirely dissolve flesh and bone, both disappearing wit hoot any odor. Thunder can scarcely ever be heard more than twenty or thirty mile* from the Hadi that produced it. The process of germination of seeds generally occupied from twelve to fifteen dayn. A glann globe fall of cold water, or even a lump of ice, will in the nun n rayn act its a burning lens. Oleander leaven contain an active poison, a pale yellow liquid, soluble in alcohol, watt r, ether, chloroform, furil j oil and olive oil. Home gasoH can be absorbs! and con - denned within the poren of charcoal in a npoce several hundred times nmaller tlian they occupied Is?fore. It in calculated that the temperature of the (ireat Geyser of Iceland nowhere i reaches the boiling point, which should be nearly twenty degree higher. One of the chronometers supplied to the Grinnell Arctic exploration was HO exquisitely adjusted that after Iwing subjected to the severest tout of i polar winter it showed a change daring a year and a half of only an lH,oooth part of a second. A very useful system has, it in saul, boon inaugurated in Belgium, by which subscribers to the telephone excliango can be awakened at any desired hour in the morning by mean* of a powerful alarm. The frescoes of Pompeii represent a considerable number of plants, and taking advantage of the discoveries made during the recent excavation* on the ©cession of the centenary of the eruption, Dr. Comes has identified no fewer than fifty different plant species in frescoes. In this manner he lias shown, among other thing*, that the ancient l'omans possessed or knew plants foreign to Italy. The governor of C\ prus has sent to England one of the oldest pieces of ordnance in existence. It is of cast iron, and weighs &"> hundredweight. Its form is that of a cup or goblet, liav ing the mouth wide and deep to receive a large stone shot, while the ped-sta! has a much narrower chamber for the powder. This chamber is 7 inches in diameter, extends 30 inches l>etiind the mortar, and terminates in a vent at light angles fully an inch in diameter. It is probably of Venetian manufacture. Cure for Seasickness, Three New York doctors were recently interviewed u]*>n the subject of sea sicknesH. The Brooklyn Kaack ward and in rail way cars, is the same as seasickness. But another doctor, Dr. George M. Ikard, says that within a year there is no disease about which so much has been learned, and which is so perlectly cura ble. It i a disease of the nervous sy tcm, mainly of the brain and spinal cord, comes from a series of mild con cussions, and p rutin cos, by sympathy, disorder of the stomach. Tiie remedy is brouiide of sodium, taken three tim< * a day a lew days oeiore eniimrking, and kept up at sea until the daugcr is I It renders the system lees susceptible to the disturbances cmused by tlie move ments of the ship. The drug must be taken intelligently and on consultation with a physician. Dr. Hammond says that tu his own case he has found ten ior fifteen drops of chlorolorm on lump sugar and the use of bromide of |>otas sium beneficial. Ail Uiree doctors agreed that there is no benefit to be | derived from seasickness except for those who arc in the halut ot eating too much. And if people are "the butter ! for it," it is because the sea makes them twitter in spite of seasickness. "No more benefit can be derived from it than from an attack of typhoid fever," say* Dr. BearxL If, therefore, it can lw> prevented without causing any other or any greater harm to the system, |>eo. pie are entitled to the full benefit of remedies that are really such. He Expected To. " Caught anything yet f inquired en anxioua fisherman of a small boy who was intently watching a cork bob. " No, but 1 expect to when I get home. Ded said he'd skin me alive if I went flshin' egin. But my sfwrits ain't easy crushed. Who-o-p"— snd with a yank ho threw a half-pound bullhead on the Iwuik. " You can bare it mister. 1 dassent carry it home." And the boy jingled the quarter in bis pocket and sung to himself aa be remembered that waa the third "city cove" he'd atruek since morning.—Afew //* Hmgittw. Nature has written a letter of twodit some men's faoes which is honored wherever it is presented.