SCIENTIFIC SCUM'S.
Three pounds of muriate of lime and
one pound of snow in tlio ooldest mix
ture knowu to science.
In examining the heart in a number
of the" dying, Ronohat found the, longest
interval between the pulsations was six
seconds.
At one thousand yards the rifled gun
is eleven times, and at two thousand
thirteen times, more accurate than the
smooth bore.
A man may go into u temperature of
three hundred degrees of heat without
having the heat of his body raised more
than two or three degrees.
A diamond can easily be consumed by
being placed in a cavity of charcoal and
urging upon it the (lame of a spirit
lamp by means of a stream of oxygen.
Waves of sound go only 377 yards in
a second. The earth itself travels I S
miles. Light, In,ooo times faster than
that; electricity, half as fast again as
light.
The common camphor of the shops is
obtained from the camphor laurel by
the process of refining. The unrefined
camphor much resembles light-brown
sngar.
In experiments to ascertain the depths
beneath the surface of tho sea sight
conld penetrate, it was found that twen
ty-five fathoms was the maximum of
visibility. And when the temperature
of tho water was highest the water was
clearest.
Naphtha, or fluid petroleum, is,
according to tho opinion of many chem
ists, formed by the action of heat on
bituminous matter; but others maintain
that it is generated by the action of
water. Large iinantities of naphtha
are obtained from the distillation of
coal.
Mr. C. Sltaler Smith, who has had
much experience in testing the violence
of wind-storms, donbts whether the
pressure of a direct wind or gale ever
exceeds thirty pounds per square foot.
The only exception to this maximum
was an unusually violent storm at Mast
St. Louis in 1871, when the wind blew
over a locomotive. In this instance the
pressure must have been ninety-three
pounds per square toot.
How the President's Room Is Cooled.
Tho machine by which President
Garfield's room is cooled was furnished
by Mr. Jennings, of Raltimore. It con
sists of a cast-iron chamber, about ton
feet long and three feet.wide and three
high, filled with vertical iron frames
covered with cotton terry or Turkish
toweling. These screens are placed
half an inch apart, and represent some
three thonsand feet of cooling surface.
Immediately over these vertical screens
is placed a coil of inch iron pipe, the
lower side of which is filled with fine
perforations. Into n galvanized iron
tank, holding 1,000 gallons of water, is
pnt finely granulated or shaved ice.
This water Is sprayed upon the sheets
in tho lower tank constantly. In each
end of the iron chamber are openings
thirteen inches sqnare. To tho onter
end of this chamber is a pipe connect
ing with an ontdoor air conductor. To
the opposite end is connected a similar
pipe leading into an ice chamber at its !
top, and from the bottom of the same a i
pipe leads to a small exhanst fan, and j
from the fan the now cold and dry air '
is forced direct into the President's >
room through a fine some twenty feet in
lengtli. Air received at ninety-nine de
grees temperature is supplied at the
r..to of 2 1,000 cubic feet per hour at the
regi- b>r in the President's room at
fifty-four degrees, and with the windows
and doors open the temperature at tho
President's bed (twenty-five feet away)
ia maintained steadily at seventy-five
' grees day and night.
The Era of Advertising.
Froperly regarded the advertising
columns of a newspaper are among the
most important, for no man really tie
comes acquainted even with the news of
the day nntil he has thornghly pe
rused the advertisements. They are tho
pnlse of business and universal activity.
They contain not only rare specimens of |
human idiosyncrasies, but afford a view
of life in every possible phase. They
aid the arts and sciences, and stimulate
trade by supplying an exchange in
which buyers and sellers constantly and
conveniently meet. They speak of
change, sometimes exciting a smile,
sometimes a tear. To the sick man
they convey a promise of health; to the
poor man they hold out a hope of
wealth; the pleasure seeker is posted in
amusements; the hook buyer learns the
title and price of the new hooks as they
appear; tho house hunter reads of a de
* sirable and eligible tenement and the
honse owner secures a tenant; the
traveler is informed of the great supe
riority of every route over every other
route, the nneroploy d of employment
in the various branches of industry; in
fine, every imaginable want is snppo
sitionsly supplied l>y the advertising
department of a newspaper.—Philadnl
phia Tranter i] 4.
Boys will ultimately learn that it k
beat to let u bumblebee.
TOPICS OF TIIK WAY.
Ono of tho puzzles of pauperism is
now awaiting solution in London, where,
in spite of tho fact that, a much larger
volume of trado is transacted than a
year ago, tho number of paupers was
considerably increased. Tho (HO/MBays:
It is a noteworthy circumstance that |
during tho time of acnto trade depres- I
sion London compared very favorably i
with other divisions in tho matter of j
pauperism, and tho theory was started !
that this comparative immunity resulted j
from the very multifarious nature of the j
M
n
anx other division, with tho exception I
of tho York and tho West Midland.
An epidemic disease of a peculiarly !
deadly nature, which carries off horses
and cattle by the thousand, and claims i
also its human victims yeorly among the
population of the capital, has made its
appearance in more than one district of
St. Petersburg and Novgorod, and i H
spreading with alarming rapidity.
Horses, which, after land, are the most
valued property of the peasants, are dy
ing by the score, and many cases of ill
ness have occurred among the popnla- •
tion of the infected x*illages. The local
authorities are helpless, owing partly to
the want of efficient doctors and vcter
inary surgeons, and partly to tho fatal
istic tendencies of tho peasants, who,
trusting all to Providence, refuse j>ro
cantion, and sell in tho neight>oring
villages the skins of tho beasts that have
died of the disease.
According to the recently published
report of the mine inspectors of the !
anthracite region, the number of
persons killed by accidents in tho coal
mines of Penn --ivania during tho year
IKBQ is 202, while *l7l were severely in
jured. Many of the latter have died of
their injuries since tho report was made,
and others are crippled for life. In the 1
rtish and hurry of the market very little ;
heed is given to thoso who fall in the I
grim struggle for bread, yet their sud
den removal from the rnnks of toil
swells tho long list of widows and or
phans and scatters want through many
a hamlet. Most of these who fall vie- i
tims to tho perils tif mining aro stricken
down without a moment's warning, and .
their blackened and mangled forms i
are carried back from their work to the 1
homes which they loft a few honrs IK?- I
fore so full of life and hope.
A scene both lndierons and ghastly
was presented in a recent ease of at- j 1
tempted suicido in Columbus, Ohio. | '
Tho woman who wished to end her life 1
hired a little boy, ten years old, to '
assist her in tho donperato deed. Hhe i '
succeeded in breaking, not her neck,
hut her nose, and at tho subsequent I '
judicial investigation that was male. ' '
the boy testified as follows "Hhe got 1
on tho box, and I asked her for tho ten
cents heforo she pnt her head in the '
rope. Hhe wouldn't give mo the ten '
cents, and I let hor go, and she didn't 1
put her head in. Hhe IK llerod and fell '
down, and then yon men came running 1
and I got out of tho way." < >no cannot I
help wondering how the friends of the
little fellow, and indeed he himself,
after he had grown older, would have (
felt had tho woman succeeded in her s
design; and also the probable effect of |
the affair npon tho child's moral sensi- \
hilitios. The case is probably unique * i
in tho annals of crime. I
An indignant head-clerk in the Balti. ]
more postofflce wants tho newspajiers to ]
convey to the pnblic his emphatic pro- j <
test against tho latest |>opnlar ma"ia— <
confined as yet to sentimental writers I
of billet donx—namely, the sticking of i
postage stamps npon nnnsnal and ont- ; i
of-the-way parts of envelopes. There 1 I
is, it seems, a " postage-stamp code" of (
flirtation, and each position of a stamp ]
expresses some particular sentiment, i
Now, tho law allows tho stamp to be j i
put anywhere on tho envelope the 1
sender may please, lint its position in i
a matter of importance to tho canceling '
clerls. "As long," says the Baltimorc
official, "as the stamps are in the ortho
dox place—the nppor right-hand corner I
—they can work away like bees and get ]
through qnickly, because the motion i
from the ink-pad to the stamp's a con- ; i
tinuons one; but just as soon as they ;
have to hunt around over tho letter to i
find where tho stamp is wafered, why, i
they can't get along near so fast. Please
hint throngh your paper that every let- '
ter that comes here not stamped with a
single stamp in the right-hand upper
corner wo use to make paper chickens
out of."
The Washington World and Cit Urn
Soiditr says that there lieing now pond
ing in the war department great num
bers of volunteer pension claims which
cannot l>e satisfactorily verified for
want of information, which missing
records of discontinued volunteer com
mands wonld afford, and it having trans
pired in many instances that officers of
he late volunteer forces have still ia
their possession or under their control
$' • il .
i books and othor rccordH jiortaining to
their corps, divisions, brigades, regi
ments and companies, Adjutant-General
Drum has issued a circular calling at
tention to the fact that all such books
and records should ho deposited in tho
militant-general's ollice, and earnestly
requesting that they bo forwarded with
out delay to tho adjutant-general at
Washington. No exponHe, othor than
postngo or proper express charges (when
the packages exceed four pounds, tho
limit for mail parcels), can he paid by
the government. In tho interest of tho
great number of widows,, orphans and
fisuldod soldiers whose claims uro in
olvcd, the newspapers of tho country
ro requested to give tho substance of
his circular tho greatest publicity.
A Chinese Newspaper.
Ihero are two Chinese newspapers in
this city, both weekly. In company
with Interpreter Howe a visit was re
cently made to both ..Aires, The Ori
'■tihtl (117ih /{>•<•) was lirst visited. The
Kt establishment was found in
charge of its proprietor, publisher, edi
tor, pressman, compositor, bookkeeper,
reporter and ofllco boy, Veo Jenn, who
was discovered seated at a table in his
sanctum busily c:. . 1 in forming
characters on a slip of pap. A small,
tine brush, not much larger than an
ordinary penholder, was dipped in a
peculiar black ink, and the writing, or
printing, performed with great dexter
ity and accuracy.
In answer to questions Yee .lean
stated to tho interpreter that he was
tlfty years old; that he had Wen in tho
country about seven years and that he
first began publishing the ItaA AT*
nearly six years ago. Ho had had no
previous exjierience as a journalist, and
prior to beginning his newspaper bad in
operation a job printing oftico, which h<-
yet maintained. <>f tho So,ooo charac
ters in the Chinese language he eonld
make aliotit 8,000, As ho had never
been able to import type from China, all
the characters in bis paper were formed
by hand. The H7iA AV- had 1,000 sub
scribers, some circulation in China and
was issued at ton rents jier copy or five
dollars per year. He got much of his
matter from exchanges. What ap
|>eared in local English papers of inter
est to his readers was translated by an
English-knowing Chinese friend. Al
though seven years in the country Yee
Jenn had no knowledge of tho lan
guage; and he said that but about 200
of Chinese residing in this city were
able to read and understand English.
The latest numWr of the HViA A'.v
was presented to tho writer hy Yee Jenn.
It was a f<>ur-pgo sheet and hail five
columns to a page, the lirst page, ex
cepting the publisher's announcements,
being occupied by advert is-menta,
mainly double-columned. The news
matter of the H'.iA AT**, commencing at
the right hand colnron of tho fourth
page, was four columns of local items,
succeeded by a column of "ad's.;" then
a department containing news from
I'eking, followed hy another containing
news from Canton; next an editorial
against the use of opium, and then a
presentation of the news from various
countries, after whieh come advertise
ments.— San f'rsscuco /'ml.
Printing the Great Cltillser.
Until printing was very generally
spread civilization advanced by slow
and languid steps. Mince the art lias
lieoonie cheap it* advances have become
unparalleled, and its rate of progress
vastly accelerated. It has leon stated
by some that the civilization of the
Western world has resulted from it*
Wing the seat of the Christian religion.
However much the mild tenor of its
doctrines is calculated to assist in pro
ducing such an effect, that religion can
but lie injured by an unfounded state
ment. It is by the easy and cheap
methods of communicating thought
from man to man, whieh enable tho
country to sift, as it were, its wholo
people, anil to produce, in its sciences,
its literature and it* nit, not the bright
est effort* of a limited class, but the
highest effort of the most powerful mind
among a whole community. It in this
whieh has given birth to the wide-spread
ing eivili/atiou of the present day, and
which promises a future yet more pro
lific. Whoever is ocqnaintcd with the
present state of science and tho mechani
cal arts, and looks back over tho inven
tions and the civilization which the
fourteen centuries subsequent to Chris
tianity have produced, and compares
them with the succeeding four centuries
following the invention of printing, will
have no doubt as to the effective cause.
It is during those last three or four cen
turies tliat man, considered as a species,
has commenced the development of his
intellectual faculties; that he has
emerged from a position in which he
was almost the creature of instinct to a
state in which every step in advance
facilitates the progress of his successors.
In the first period arts wore discovered
by individuals and lost to the race; in
the lattor the diffusion of ideas enabled
the researches of one claas to unite with
tho observations of another, and the
most advanced point of one generation
Wcamo the starting-point of the next. -
Printer*' Circular.
\ _
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.
fiiii-iiir.
Never forsake a friend. When ene
mies gather around—when sickness falls
on tho heart - when the world is dark
unil cheerless—is the time to try true
friendship. Tin y who turn from the
scene of distress betray their hypocrisy,
and prove that interest only moves
them. If you have a friend who loves
you who has studied your interest and
happiness—be sure to sustain him in
adversity. Let him fee) that his former
kindness is appreciated, and that his
love was not thrown away. Heal fidelity
may bo rare, but it exists in the heart.
They only deny its worth and power
who have never loved a friend or
labored to make one happy. The good
and tho kind, the affectionate and the
virtuous, see and feel the heavenly
principle.
ICrlliflou* Ni'Wn mid >ods.
There are **7 Episcopal churches in
London,
Reverend Dr. Daniel Mted, a promi
nent minister of the Lutheran church,
died at Gettysburg recently.
There are .'124 Haptist churches with
about 20,000 members in Florida, con
neeted with which are (100 Sabbath
schools.
The Mormon missionaries who have
11 n laboring to make converts in Ger
many arc about to be expelled from the
country.
In thirty-seven years the Church of
England has erected 2,5*1 churches,
and expended on church buildings
$200,000,000.
Bishop Mhanulian, of Hurrisbiirg, a
few Sundays ago in Philadelphia con
firmed 1,620 persons, mostly children,
who attend five of theCatholie churches
in that city.
Tho synod of the Reformed Presby
terian church (Old Hide; has l>ecn held
in Pittsburg, the Rev. T. P. Stevenson
being chosen moderator. The receipt*
for foreign missions were reported at
$12,209.
The Methodist Episcopal church,
South, reports 3,073 traveling preach
ers, a gain of 1 13, and *37, *3l members,
a gain of 15,11.7.7. Of these momWrs
I,o*l are colored and 4,0*1 are Indians.
The collection for missions amounted to
$152,762, an increase of 823,04*. The
largest conference is the Yirginia,
which has 57,06* members, I*o travel
ing, 13 superannuated, and 173 local
preachers.
The twelfth annual rojiort of the
Tolugu mission of tho American Bap
tist union state* that in connection with
the Ongole station there arc thirty
three ordained preachers, thirtx unor
dained, five colporteurs and eight Bible
women. Daring the year twenty-six new
churches have leen establish'*! in a*
many different village*. The present
number of church mcmWrs i* 15,632.
Nearly 3,000 were baptized during the
year.
The statistical report of the United
Presbyterian church for the past year
snows that there are 704 ministers and
*ll eongregations. Eleven eongrega
tions were organized and five dissolved.
Mission stations are eighty-two, with
twenty-six new ones during the year.
The total membership is *2,337, a net
gain of *l*. Wholo number of Sab
bath schools, 76*, a gain of eight. Num
ber of scholars, 72,010, a loss of 1,116.
Tho total contributions to all purposes
is $*53,541, an increase of nearly
$27,000; the average per moroWr is
810.74, an increase of thirty one cents.
An Alpine Accident.
A tourist who recently made the as
cent of the Ostler Mpitze, one of the
loftiest of the Austrian Alps, deserilies
an accidentof which he was tho witness.
The party, comprising two tonrists and
two guides, were descending, when, the
writer says, I heard a shriek of terror
from Dangl (one of the guides) which
almost unmanned me. Turning my
head I beheld Dangl and hi* tourist fly.
ing with almot lightning rapidity over
s lofty precipice, having been carried
off their feet by an avalanche. This
falling mass of snow had become de
tached above onr heads, and carried
the two men liehind ns down an abyss
fully 500 feet in depth. It had Wen
quite impossible for them to avoid the
avalanche, and as they were connected
by ropes both were hurled below, ap
parently to certain death. Keinatadlor
(the other guide) and I made all pos
aiblo haste down. We found Dangl
lying motionleas and insensible in the
snow. He had received a terrible wound
on the bead. The tourist escaped with
a few bruises and contusions. Rein
stadlor and I carried Dangl to the Payer
chalet. After a time he was brought to
his cottage. His condition is serious,
but thbre is ground, I hope, that he
may recover.
Some Tram ago a bankrupt Michijan
editor offered bia creditor* a warrant
for 120 aoroa of land in aaliafaction of
tbeir claim*, and they refuaod it, pre
ferring to take other property rained at
$250. Tho deapieod 120 acrea now yield
the former bankrupt editor an annual
income of fOO.Otft) or more from mi nee.
TilK FAMILY DOCTOR.
Hi.ekl'. —Although sound slccn in con
sidered a thing to be desired, ret no
sleep in healthy from which we are not
easily roused.
PIUITKCTION A'MINHT Kl NHTIK'KR. A
piece of silk, which is u non-conductor,
worn us n lining of hat or bonnet, is a
safe protection nguinst sunstroke.
Hot Watch ron thk Hbaut. —ln a
letter to the Lanes/ Dr. A. I'nggi r> -
cords the following observation: lie
states that in Paris ho saw a ease in
which, under the inhalation of chloro
form, tho heart ceased to beat, and artj
llcial respiration for ten minutes failed
to restore circulation, when Dr. Labbe
(lipped a large cloth in boiling water
and applied it to the region of the
heart, with the result of immediately
restoring the action of that organ.
How to Maki a Poi i/rn k. Dr.
lirunton, in Hrain , the new London
perioilieal, gives the following useful
hints on this subject: 'J'lie common
practice of making poultices hy mixing
linseed meal with hot water and apply
ing it directly to the skin is quite
wrong, because if we do not wish to
burn the patient wo must wait until a
great portion of tho heat has been lost.
The proper method is to take a flannel
bag, the size of the poultice required,
to till this with the linseed poultice, as
hot as it can possibly be made, and to
put between this and tho skin a second
flannel, so there shall be at least two
thicknesses of flannel 1 Kit ween the skin
and the poultice itself. Above tho
poultice should be placed more flannel,
or a piece of cotton wool, to prevent it
from getting cold. JJy this method we
are able to apply the linseed meal boil
ing hot, without burning the patient,
and the heat gradually diffusing through
the flannel affords a grateful sense of
relief, which cannot be obtained bv
other meanH. There are few ways in
which such marked relief is given to
abdominal pain as by the application of
a poultice in this manner.
A Stage Coach Robbery in Colorado.
One of the passengers on a stage roach
which Was halted by a footpad n<-ar Del
Norte, Col., t< lis the story of the rob
bery as follows:
There were eight men and one
woman inside the coach, and four men
beside* the driver on top. I was among
the latter, sitting beside the driver. It
was about midnight, I should think,
and about twenty miles from Del Norte,
when we were halted. It was very dark,
and we were just turning a l>end in the
road when the word came to halt. There
was only one man visible, to the left and
al>out ten feet ahead of the coach. The
robber was standing behind a piece of
canvas stretched alongside the road,
and had a revolver pointed directly at
myself and the driver. He told us
calmly to deliver ourselves and he
rm ns, but that if we made
would shoot. I was on
tho to the robber, ami I im
mediately got down from my scat, fol
lowed by the driver. After we got
down, the robber came from behind the
canvas and places! over our heads a
cloth cap, which came down to our
shoulders and completely blinded us
He then ordered ns to stand still, and
himself went to the stage door and or
dered the occupants to come ont, one at
a time, and take their positions in line
alongside the driver and myself.
He told the passengers not to make
any unnecessary movements, as they
were all covered hy the guns of his men
in concealment, and their lives were in
jeopardy. After the passengers were all
in line, ho put caps similar to mine over
their faces, tied their hands behind
their bocks, and then proceeded to
rifle their pocket*. He took nothing
but money. Everything else he would
replace just where he got it from. Ido
not know how much money he got.
From me he got about 8140, which he
took from my pockotbook, replacing
tho porketbook after taking tho money
out. He hod a light burning in front
of the canvas, liehind which was a re
flector, which shed the rays directly in
onr faces. He occupied about fifteen
minutes in the search. He then ordered
as to kneel, which wo did, all in a row,
and then he proceeded to rifle the mail
bags. The woman, at his bidding, held
tho light for him while he did this. He
opened only two sacks, I believe. He
kept us kneeling al>out half an hoar.
He kept talking a)l the time, using good
language. In fact, during the whole
time of the robbery he or as very gentle
manly.
He had a soft, mellow voice. He
was not nervous or quick, l>nt did the
work in m businesslike manner. He was
a man nearly six feet in height, smooth
face, had a heavy, light mustache, and
wonld weigh perhaps 165 ponnda. He
had on a dark hat and coat, and was not
disguised in any way. After he had
robbod the mail he skipped off into the
darkness. When we found he had left
we removed our caps, untied each
others' hands, picked np the remnants
of the mail bags and the mail, and pro
ceeded on to Alamosa. It is my opinion
now that lie did the work alone, and
that his comrades being in the boshes
was all a hoax.
FOR THE CERIODH.
It in said that white <*t with blue
'7' i are always deaf.
According to I>r. Gnnther there are
<,OOO h]iwi W of flab now known to men
of science.
According to Aristotle. large cars are
an indication of imlMw-ility, while small
ones announce madm-sit.
Among the Indiana near the Amanon
there are are no worda for number*,
and a similar want of arithmetical
jtower.
The Greeka considered jnry>l<- and
white flowera moat acceptable to their
dead. Jtibbona and lock aof liair were
alao <leitoaited in the aepalchroß.
Aiihtralian savage* poison their sjsum
Ity dipping the blade* in the mortified
dead bodies of their enemies. AH
wounds from them are certain death.
The Hottentot* have a amaller,
hbortor and loss arched bony [talate
than other race*, an<l tiieir prononcia
tion ia singularly like the ' lucking of a
turkey.
Lticiliua, the Iloinan aatiriat, says
oysters fatten during lunar augmenta
tion, and that onion* throw out bud* in
the decrease <<f the moon and wither at
it* increase.
The ancient* greatly esteemed <am
el* and dromedaries flesh, e*]<ecially
their lieel*. Donkey flesh was in higii
repute, and pig* were slaughtered with
rod-hot spit* that the blood might not
l>o lost.
A fabulous story of the manufacture
of glass is that the I*raelites set fire to
a forest, and the heat, becoming in
tense, made the nitre and sand
melt and flow along the mountain side,
where it cooled a* glass.
The influence of a change of food on
animals i* shown in the case of amphid
irorous flies, that are larvic for eight or
ten <Lays, purple for a fortnight, and
perfect insect* in about the name length
of time, living *ix week* in all. A pupa
deprived of food underwent no change
and remained ku months in the same
state.
Farm Training.
The farm i* the best place in the
world to raise boy*. Most of the suc
cessful business men of cities were farm
l>oys. The habit* formed of early
rising, constant employment of body or
mind in a useful way, economy, truth
fulness, honesty and virtue, are just
wliat are needed to make sterling, go
ahead, successful men in all deport
ments of life.
A gentleman sent the following letter
to one hundred men, standing at the
head of financial, oommerc.al. profes
sional ami educational interests of an
]lastcrn city:
Mr I)kak Hih I desire to find out,
for the benefit of the boys, how the
leading men of this city spent their
boyhood. Will yon be kind enough to
tell me:
1. Whether your home for the first
fifteen years of your life was on a farm,
in a village or in a city, and
2. Whether yon were accustomed
during any part of that period to en
gage in any kind of work when not in
school ?
I should bo glad, of eonrse, to have
yon go into particulars as fully as yon
are disposed to do; but I do not wish to
tax your patience, and I should lie
greatly obliged for a simple answer to
these two questions :
Eighty-eight replied. Of these
eighty-eight men twelve spent the first
fifteen years of their life in the city,
twelve in villages and sixty-fonr were
farmers' boys. But of the twenty-four
who lived in villages and cities one
fourth were practically fanners' bov*,
for they lived in the vicinity and did
the work of farmers' boy*. One of
these village boys said: " I learned to
hoe, dig and mow, and to work whether
I liked it or not. 1 went to school in
winter, and wrought nights and morn
ings for my board." Another said. *• 1
used to work away from home on s
farm in the summer and fall. In the
winter, when going to school, we three
boys used to work up the Vood for win
ter use." This was the story of others.
So that seventy out of eighty-eight—
four-fifths—had farm-life training.
Did the few boys on the city list have
an easy time T One studied law when
ont of school. He had not mnch play.
The others were poor boya, children
of the working classes, in needy circum
stances, accustomed to hard work from
their earliest years.
One said be was " generally em
ployed in summer months and dnring
vacations in doing any work that of
fered." Ponr were newsboys. One
said " the last of connection with the
press he earned one hundred dollars be
fore breakfast." Another, that "be
paid his own way siaee eight years of
age, without any assistance except
board from my eighth to my eleventh
year."
Where are the boya to-day who wer*
at the same time going to school and
amusing themselves t Where are they ?
We know who the ninety-six per rent,
of successful business men were—farm
ers' boys, or poor and hard-working
town boya