MORAL AND RKLICIOUS. Swrn lleiur. When two young people love each filler and marry, they restore thj pic ture of tho apostolic church. Tbev arc of one heart and of one soul. Neither do they say that anything they possess is their own, but thoy have all things in common. Their mutual trust in each other, their entire contldonco in each other, drawn out all that Is best in both. Love is tho angel who rolls away the stono from the grave in which wo bury our better nature, and it comes forth. Love makes all things now; makes a now heaven and a new earth ; makes all cares light, all pain easy. It i 3 the ono en chantment of human life which realizes Fortunio's purse and Aladdin's pnlaco, and turns the "Arabian Nights" into mere prose by comparison. Before reel society can come, true homes must come. As in a sheltered nook in tho midst of a great sea of ice, which rolls down from the summit of Mount Blanc is found a little green spot full cf ten der flowers, so in the shelter of home, in the warm atmosphere of household love, spring up the pure affootions of parent and child; father, mother, son, daughter; of brothers and sisters. Whatever makes this insecure, and divorce frequent, makes of marriage not a union for life, but an experiment which may be tried as often as we choose, and abandoned when wo like. And this cuts up by the roots all the dear affections of home ; loaves ehil- j dren orphaned, destroys fatherly and motherly love, and is a virtual dissolu tion of society. I know the great difli- j culties of this question, and how much wisdom is required to solve it. But whatever weakens the permanence of marriage, tends to dissolve society; for permanent homes are to tho social state what the little cells are to the hotly. They are the commencement of organic life, the centers from which all organi zation proceed".- Jam** Freeman Clark". ■ ItflllUfl* Npws and No(*. The Society of Friends have formed a small congregation at Constantinople, having at times twenty-five members. Sunilay, October 10, and Monday, tho 17th, were set apart as days of prayer for Sunday-schools in the Church of England. Tho Presbyterian Church (Northern) has 16,501 elders and 4,596 deacons. The numbers of these officers have never been reported beforo this year. The Congregational churches of Con necticut, according to tho statistics at tho State conference, contains 65,202 members. There were 391 ministers and fifty-two licentiates at work during the year. The annual report of tho Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, for 18.n0, gives its receipt* as $691,410. It main tains 588 missionaries, distributed as follows: Asia, 157; Africa, 121; Aus. tralia and the Pacific, 51; America and ♦he West Indies, 253; Europe, I. The number of catechista and lay teachers, mostly natives, in its employ, is 1,212. Three young Barman Baptists Lavo recently mode a missionary journey among the pcopio of Hiam, and havo been well received and made to promise to go back. The Barman Baptist con vention, n native organization, P pre paring to establish a permanent mis sion in this region. Twenty-one missionaries of tho Amer ican board, fifteen of whom go out for the first time, were given a farewell at Boston recently. Five of them go to Japan, ten to Tnrkcy, six to Afric a, and one to the Dakota mission. Nine mis sionaries, seven of whom are new ones, have gono out from tho United Presby terian church to Egypt and India. The recent meeting of the Methodist conference at East Portland, Oregon, was attended by ministers from the north line of Washington Territory and the soath lino of Oregon, 500 miles apart, and from the month of the Col umbia river and from Wood lake, in Eastern Idaho, 700 miles apart. The intervening regions are traversed by the itinerants of two conferences. Saved 111* Farm. A native of Flint River township went limping and groaning to the office of the new doctor with the bine and gold sign and the Latin diploma and the new bnggy and the cheetnnt horse with a blaze face. " It's the rheumatiz, doc," groaned the patient. "My whole Imck is jest gone with it. I'm one ache from the back of my neek clean down to the hipe. I'm a sufferiu' the torments of the condemned." •' Lei mo see your tongue,'' said the new doctor. " Ah, yes, I see, I see. That will do. Take this prescription, get it filled and use as directed. Four dollars." " By hokey," said the afflicted one, sa he hobbled away, "ef I ain't the luck iest man in Flint River. Fonr dollars for looking at my tongue ! An' I was jest on the bare point of aakin' him to look at my whole back!" And he breathed bard aa he thought by what a narrow escape he had saved his farm.— Surtington Hawkeyt. LADIES' DEPARTMENT. t'oilr for Moalrni Woiiint. By order of tho saltan and in accord ance with tho request of tho Hhcik-ul fhliim tho ministry of police have pro mulgated a code of rules for tho dross and deportment of Moslem ladies in Constantinople. They may wear tho " teharshaf," a narrow veil, in unfre quented streets and when paying visits, but in public places and crowded streets thoy must not appear without a more secure protection for the face. Tho police havo strict orders to report any infringement of this regulation to the minister of police, with tho name of tho offender. Mussulman ladies are also forbidden to drive or walk round tho places of Bayazid, Hhahznde-Baslii and Aserni. Nor will they in future be allowed to promenade in tho Great Bazar, or to sit down in shops. If thoso rules are infringed tho drivers of the carriages they have used and the ladies themselves will be proceeded against under article 204 of tho penal code. The police have also received orders on no account to permit ladies to gather together in groups in public places; and ladies thus transgressing will bo directed to "move on." When a police cfficer finds it necessary to in terfere in this way he is to address tho oldest lady in the group, or the servants in attendance, at hi# discretion. Tho regulations further prescribe the de meanor to bo observed by men toward ladies in public. Any man who speaks to u woman, 6r makes signs to her, will be punished under ar'.;i!c 102 of the criminal code. A \\ rddlnu A t,rr All. The Cleveland Leader reports a com cdv in real life which look place in Erie, Penn. The heroine was a bnxom young woman, whoso husband died a year ago. When she had worn her weeds six months the wonhl-le hero of the play came a-wooing, and his atten tions not being distasteful to the widow sho consented to marry him in twelve months and a day from the date of her first husband's death. The happy day come at last, and the ceremony was to take place at the bride's house. A mag nificent wedding feast was prepared, and about sixty guests were invited. The hour apivointod for tho marriage was C P. M. In tho forenoon the bridegroom elect went off to invite a few friends in the country, who had been forgotten. The afternoon mail brought a postal card from him, stating that he had con scientious scruples about marrying a woman >o recently widowed. lie wonld make it a matter of prayer, and would abide tho reanlt of his feeling* when through. She was not to take this as a positive declination to marry, but if he did not arrive at 6 o'clock p. m, she might consider the marriage "off." The widow did not faint, nor go into hyster ica, bat donned her wedding attire and welcomed her guests with a smiling face. At 6 o'clock all tho guests were there, and with them, of course, the minister; bnt no bridegroom had ap peared. With unruffled countenance the expectant bride "called the meeting to order," and read aloud the recreant lover's card. When the storm of sur prise and denunciation had snlmhled sho added " Bat that noedn't spoil the din ner," and thereupon the guests fell to banqnetinj, none more heartily than the mistress of the house herself. When the tablo was cleared dancing t>egan, and an elderly twchelor led tho German with the disappointed (?) bride. He bo came so enamored of her that within an hour ho proposed; ho ands and agrafes are displayed, which are to form one of tho richt t dress trimmings to l>e worn dnring the fall and winter. Hacks for little girls are almoat invariably made in tho shirred Mother Qnbbard style, which gives children the appearance of the old fashioned Kate Oreenaway pirturcs. Tho material is nsttaily of cashmere, vigogne, camel's hair, or French flan nel, but strips are also coming into favor with thin style of garment. No lining ia necessary except under the yoke to stay the shirring, and tho bot tom of the sack is never trimmed in any way, but bas the hem turned up from three to four inches. Too llot. A writer in the Portland Trantrripl gives the following laughable descrip tion of the trouble a toad got himself into by not taking caro what he ate. He -wallowed a wasp thinking no donbt that it was a large hut defense less fly. The realization of his mistako came when the wasp began pricking his in ternal organs, as a guilty conscience pricks a sinner. The toad stood on his hind legs and reached frantically down his throat after that wasp. Failing to dislodge it ho turned three somersaults in a manner that would have rivaled the boss tum bler in a circus. Then he stood up and exclaimed " Woo-oodnc I Woo-oodno I" which was supposed to b© c call for a stomach pump or a quick emetic. He then made several efforts to stand on bis head, but was unsuccessful. Next he puffod out his sides until he looked like a baseball with legs to it. Inflation didn't hit the cate, and was soon abandoned. Again he reached down his throat, but bis arm was too short to reach the spot where the wasp was operating. His head began to swim, and he whspped over on his back and clawed the air like a man overboard. The wasp was evidently unable to oontinne his infliction of punishment, and the toad began to feel better. He got npon his feet and with a fore foot examined hia ribs npon either aide. Finding tbem all in place, he stretched himself to his utmost height two or three times to see if bis legs were in working order, and then hopped a hop or two to make assurance sure. Being satisfied that he was all there, he gave a croak of relief and hopped under the tomato vines. " "If yon grasp a rattlesnake firmly abont the neck hs cannot hurt yon," says a Western paper. Keeping about a block ahead of the snake is also s good scheme. Tin: FAMILY IHXTOIt. As a cure for a nail run into tho foot, take froth beet, thoroughly pounded, and apply to tlu part frequently. To cure toothache put a piece of cot ton dipped in collodion, into tho tooth. When hardened it will odhero strongly and stop tho pain. Tho following is said to bo a valuable remedy for rheumatism: Pool off tho outside hark of the alder, scrape off tho green bark that is under it, and stow in lard until it is crisp. This is a most valuable salve in cases of burnH, sores, etc. A felon can be cured by putting on a blister of Spanish flies, as large as a five cent piece. This will draw the felon to the surface. Then prick with u needle, and then poultice with bread and milk for three hours; afterward dross with castor oil. It is seldom that bleeding at the nose is serious, but cases occur in which it continues so long as to cause anxictv aud render it desirable that something should bo done. Instead of bending forward and lowering the head, as per sons with nose-bleed are so apt to do, an upright position should be assumed, with the head thrown back and the bands raised above the head. Ice may be applied to tho nose and to the back of tho nock, and if tho bleeding still persists, ice water or a solution ofalnm may be thrown into tho nose with a syringe. If further measures prove necessary, they shonld be le ft to tne physician. Incidents of the .Michigan Hres. Tho heat withered the leaves of stand ing trees two miles away from the fire, and seven miles off the Ix-ech at For rester sailors found the heat uncomfort able. When Charles Hempstead saw his nt (nod wife's house in flames, he sug gested a homo of his own at once for her, and with her consent they sought the bouse of a preacher !>etwccn Huron and Grindstone citi--*, where they were soon made man and wife. A man leaped from a bluff into the lake and found h:ms?lf close behind a large bear. They remained in company under the bank nearly alj night, and the bear seemed as bumble as a dog. Deer sought t)i conj]*anion*hipof cattle and horse*, and paid no attention to persons rushing past them. Near liad Axe a family had a cmr.y son. When the smoke began to darken the country be got excited, and on the dark day two hours before the Hood came lie mounted a horse and galbus-d up and down the country crying out that the judgment day had como. Later he was seen rus >ing headlong into the flames. Twenty-eight people spent a night and a day in a corn field above Itich mondvillo. To windward of them was a lie d of peas, and when the flames got into this tho jmrty were pelted for hours with hot peas, which were shelled by the fire. Wet ulankets, constant vigilance and the standing corn saved the peoplo; but in other localities where persona sought the same refnge they were smothered and burned. A seven-mile ride for life under OKm Per sia. If the originator of Mother Hhipton's prophecy Lad only been content with anything short of tho destruction of the world in IKMI and had confined himself (or herself) to the prediction of extra ordinary events, as does the former part of the rhyme, he might still be en joying great honor and glory for his powers as a seer. Three comets, the as sassination of one rnb-r and the at tempted murder of another, destructive winds, floods and fires all over the world, volcanic i rapt ions and earth quakes, extraordinary alternations of rain and drought, the detection of a man with fifteen wives at least, and other natural and social phcucrac oa of all sorts—all these tilings show the year to be most remarkable, atid <• bare yet a small slice liefore us. An extraordinary *nioide in reported from the city of Bruno, Germany. Franz Waldek, a young man who served an secretary to a physician, agreed to light a duel with a nobleman in what they denominated "the American stylo of dueling," according to which they were to draw lota to see which of the two should blow his brain* out. Wal dek drew the black hall. He had until the flfteemh of May to shoot himself, but ha sdßagoni-t extended the time i tf o laontjhs to enable him to arrange When this time hearkcd when it is twenty-six JNM old, and it is then harked every eight year*. The qnality of the bark improve*) with the increasing age of the tree, Dr. K, von Fritach, of Halle, nays that the cause of earthquakes does not exist farther down from the surface of the c?arth than ten or fourteen miles. After citing a number of instance* to show bow far the shock of a steam hammer or that prodnced by an explosive may be felt, he appears convinced that rather feeble forces produce earthquakes which make themselves vcrv sensibly apparent at great distances from the active cen ter. He says that earthquakes might be and must be produced by the increase and decrease of volume of rocks under the influence of physical and cbcmieal forces, and by concussion by the open ing of creviceH in rocks, and by the sub sidence of masses of rock due to thesu agencies. Many schists are subjected to extension stress, and when crevices occur the schists must enter into oscil lations like those produced in tuning, plates. A patent has recently been taken out for a means of steering a ship by elec tricity. The apparatus is the invention of Mr. W. F. King, an Kdinbnrgh elec trician, and was recently triod on boatd a steamer sailing between Glasgow and London. Its object is to dispense with a helmsman and make the mpaaa itself steer the ship. For this purpose the compass card is fitted with an in dex which is set to the true course, and one degree on either aide of the true course two metal contact pin* arc ad justed ; each pin is connected to a single Daniel cell, and when the ship deviates as much as a degree from her course to one side or the ether the in dex comes into contact with one or other metal pin. The result is that a positive or negative current lows and actuates a hydraulic apparatus which works the helm. A very remarkable discovery, aays the Enjintving, was lately made of fossil remains of the iguanodon in the coal mine of Bernisart, not far from Peru wclz and Conde, near the Belgian- French frontier. Messrs. Dupont, Oosselet andiron Dechen state that the coal measures there are 101 meters be low the surface of the earth, and under a cover of cretaceous strata belonging to the Turanian section. These coal measures, instead of having an equal surface, are furrowed out by valleys of unknown depth, mid of a width of 200 meters. In oneftf these valleys, 322 meters from tbumrface, the iguanodon remains were jfund. There seems to be abundanUsridr-ncc that the valley was only M, branch of the Hainaut, which wa#slowly filling np during the cretaceotP period—that it was once traversed by a stream filled with abun dance ot flsli. and which afforded an ample supply of food for these huge ssnrUas that were from thirty to forty feet in length. It is not to be inferred ho"ver, that thoe iguanodons were liwing at th> same time as the coal wart formed. M. Dupont ap* •pears to be connived that it is simply owing to the exceptional configuration of these coal measures of Herniaart that the remains of the reptiles were seen side by side with the seams of coal. The real period of the animals was that of the Wealden clay. Ihr l ocal Paper. 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