MORAL AM) RKMRIOUS. A Alolhrr's Nona. Homo years ago a company of Indians were captured on the Western frontier. Among them were a nnmber of stolen children. They had been with the sav ages for years. Word was sent through out the region, inviting all who had lost children to come and see if among the little captives thoy conld recognize their own. A long way otT was a woman who had been robbed of her darlings— a boy and a girl. With mingled hopo and fear shocame; with throbbing ln-art she approached the group. They were strange to her. She came nearer and, with eyes tilled with mother-love and earnestness peered into their facca ono after another; bnt there was nothing in any that she could claim. Nor was there anything in her to light up their cold faces. With the dull pain of de spair at her heart she was turning away, when she paused, choked back the tears, and in soR, clear notes began a simple song she used to sing to her lit tle ones of Jesus and heaven. Not a line was completed when a boy and girl sprang from the group, exclaiming; " Mamma! mamma !" and she folded her lost ones to her bosom. Ho lives a mother's early influence in the hearts of her children. Kflliflonti Xrwi it ml Sotvn. The Lutherans have only twelve com municants colored people of the Houth. Messrs. Moody and Sankey are hard at work at their second campaign in Great Britain. The membership of colored churches in the United States is between 1,000,- 000 and 1,500,000. It is reported that the Universalists of New England have now 170 less churches than in 1850. The denomination known as Christian has GSO congregations in the State of Illinois, with a membership of 50,000. The Baptist Foreign Mission conven tion of the United States (colored) will send throe missionaries to Africa on their own account. Some 200 Chinamen are said to attend tue Sunday-schools of Brooklyn. They are fond of their schools, and soon show attachment to tueir teachers. The entire Bible has been translated into the language of the New Hebrides group of islands in the Pacific ocean, and the natives have paid the whole expense of printing it Missionary work has been done by the American board on such a large scale that the reported receipts of 8450,- (XX) are not enough for the estimated demands of the work. Efforts are now to be made for the collection of at least 8650,000 for the coming fiscal year. The largest increase of Baptists since 1870 has been in the fifteen Southern States, where the gain is 761,418, mostly among the colored people. In the six Eastern States the increase is 16,700; in the Middle Slates, 34,904; in the thirteen Western States, 64,776, and in the Territories, 6,060. The Kev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D., a superintendent of the Presbyterian home missions, has just completed his third tour of Alaska. He has estab lished two new missions, stationed three new missionaries, made improve ments in the missionary buildings, and traveled 500 miles in canoes. Tho journal of the second annual non vocation of the Episcopal diocese of New Mexico and Arizona, presents the following statistics; Clergy, including the bishop, 4; lay readers, 5; missions, 7; baptisms, 13, of which 1 was adult; communicants, 162; Sunday-school scholars, 70; offerings, <1,639.63; value of church property, <8,250. Til*' tarrying Trade of the World. From a recent comparative statement it appears, omitting vessels of less than liftv tons measurement, Europe pos sesses forty-two tons to everyone thous and inhabitants, America forty, and Aus tralia seventy-nine, while Asia and Af rica have only two tons per thousand. Liverpool ranks an the most important port in the world, with a tonnage of 2,647,373 ; this is succeeded try London, with 2,330,683, and Glasgow with 1,153,- 676 tona. The Rine landing porta of Great Britain have a tonnage of 8,724,- 123, while the first fonr porta of the United Htatea have only 1,976,040. 8b Johns, New Brnnawiok, is in this respect aa important as Boston or Charleston and more ao than Philadelphia. Great Britain and Ireland possess a gross ton nage of nearly twelve millions sailing vessel tons, and with the tonnage other colonies the British Dag covers fourteen millions tonnage out of the total world's existing tonnage of twenty-seven mil lions. The United Btatea, twenty years ago, carried sixty-six per cent of their foreign trade in their own bottoms, whereas now they carry something leu than eighteen per cent. A Honthem journal tays this year's rice crop in the Oulf Htates will reach one hundred and fifty million bushels. It is predicted that the rice industry will soon rival that of sugar growing in Louisiana. BFLKNTIFIC WRAPS. A well-fed frog is more susceptible to poison than one which has been fasted for weeks. Corals often permanently ebang color, when subjected to different con ditions of living. The Japanese bronze brass by boiling it in a solution of snlphuto of copper, alum and verdigris, A concentrated beam of electric light carried seven miles has furnished suffi cient light to read by. The solar atmosphere contains sodium, iron, calcium, magnesium, nickel, barium, copper and zinc. According to Ehrenberg a cubic inch of water may contain more than 800,-' 000,000,1X10 of animalculic. Platinum when alloyed with silver becomes soluble in nitric acid, which does not affect it while unalloyed. Pig iron contains from ninoty-tlve to ninety-seven parts of pure iron, and three to live of carbon, with small quan tities of sulphur, phosphorus and sili. con. Hay, like most vegetable products, contains much material which is soluble in water. On this material its nntritivo value depends, and its removal by damp ness seriously injures tho crop. The floods and droughts of the pres ent time will probably lead farmers and others to a careful reconsideration of tho question regarding tho proportion which wooded onght to bear to cleared land. From surveys taken in the provinoe of Ufa, Russia, it appears that tho former forest area of 17,577,000 acres has now been diminished by more than 3,500,000 acres, and yet the population is only threo to the square mile. Last year the German wire mills sup plied England with 30,000 tons of wire, and Russia with 40,000 tons. France received from Germany from 12,0 X) to 15,000 tons of steel wire for sofa springs, and America not leas than 3 >,Oans; and farther down, in tho veranda of the rich man's boase, is a jeweler working rupees and gold mohrs into fair jewelry, gold and silver earrings, and ronnd tires liko the moon, bracelets and tab lets and nose rings, and tinkling ornaments for the feet, taking his designs from tho fruits and flowers around him, or from the traditional forms represented in the painting* and carvings of the great temple, which rises over the grove of mangoes and palms at the end of the street, stove the lotos-covered village tank. At 3:30 or 4 o'clock in the after noon the whole street is lighted up by the moving robes of the women going down to draw water from the tank, each with two or three water jars on her head ; and no, while tbey are going and returning in single file, the scene glows like Titian's canvas and moves like the stately procession of the Panathenaic frieze. Later the men drive in the mild, gray kine from the moaning plain, the loom* are folded np, the coppersmiths are silent, the elders gather in the gate, tho lights begin to glimmer in the fast-falling dark ness, tbe feasting and the music are heard on every aide, and late into the night tho songs are sung from the flamayana or Mahabbarata. The next morning, with sunrise, after the simple ablations and adorations performed in •he open air before the bonses, the | same day begins again. This is the i daily life going on all over western India in the village communities of the Dakhan, among a people happy in their simple manners and frugal way of life, and in tbe oultnre derived from the grand epics of a religion in which they live and move and have their daily toing, and in which tbe highest expres- I sion of their literature, art and civiliza tion has been stereotyped for 3,000 years. Buffaloes I>cl*) a Train. A train on the Northern Pacific was twice obstructed by buffaloes a short time ago noar the border lino between Montana and Dakota, and was forced to come almost to a standstill. There were a number of soldiers aboard armed with repeating rifles, and nearly every passenger had one or more revolvers. They all joined in a brisk fire *t the buffaloes, which numbered sixteen tbe first time and twenty to thirty the acoond; but the animals seemed wholly indifferent to the bnlletai None of them fell or even showed signs of being wounded, and the Lain was nr able to proceed nntil they saw fit to turn tail and scamper off. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. When a friend corrects a fault in you, ho does you the greatest act of friend ship. Next to silence cornea brevity- the wise man's strength and the fool's refuge. Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is also exc.nr sive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. Tho best kind of revmge is that which is taken by him who is ao gener ous that he refuses to take any revenge at all. Is there one who has not to repent some slight, thoughtless omission of duty or kindness toward those whom thoy love? Never fear to bring the snblimest motive to the smallest duty and the mo*t infinite comfort to tho smallest trouble. Be what nature intended you for, and yon will succeed; lie anything else and yon will lie ten thousand times worse than nothing. Let men call you m<-an, if yon know you are just; hypocritical, if you are honestly religious; pusillanimous, if you feel tliat yon are firm. The will of self-control does not di minish, but constantly increases in strength, and there is scarcely any limit to its attainments. Whoever is nn imitator by nature, choice or necessity, has nothing stable; the lb xibility which affords this apti tude is inconsistent with strength. Sincerity is to speak as wo think, to do as we pretend and profess, to j>er form and make good what we promise, and really to tie what we would seem an d appear to tie. It is beautifully romarked that a man's mother Is the representative of bis Maker. Misfortune and mere crime sot no barriers between her and her son. While his mother lives a man has ono friend on earth who will not deaert him when he is ne-dy. Her affection flows from a pur- fountain and ccasc* only at the ocean of eternity. What Mutilated Coin* Arc Worth. Many poople want to know exactly what mutilated coins arc worth. They arc only worth their bnliion ralne, and that, even when these coins are intact, is something less than the (ace valne. The United State* government, in purchasing silver to l>e made into coins, bases the valne of silver upon the price in London, taking into consideration the rate of exchange between New York and that city, bat generally pays s trifle lees 'from 1-10 to 1-2 cent per onnce) than the equivalent of the Lon don rate. At present a Troy onnce of pare silver is worth 81.12*43. At thin price of silver the exact valne of the silver coina if sold to the government wonld be: Trsde dollar fO.HSH Kilrer dollar 0.57.3 Half dollar 0.40.H quarter