Trip Lightly. Trip lightly over troubls Trip lightly over wrong, Wo only make grief double By dwelling on It long. Wiy clasp Woe's hand so tightly ? Why sigh o'er bloaaoma dead 1 Why cling to tonus unsightly ? Why not seek Joy instead ? Trip lightly over sorrow, Though all tho days bo dark, Tho sun may ahino to-morrow And gavly sing the lark; Fair hope has not departed. Though roses may have flod; Then novor be down-htartod But look for joy iustead. Trip lißhtly over sadness, Btand not to rail at aoom; We've pearls to string of gladnsea On this side of tho tomb. Whilst stars are nightly shining, And heaven is overhead. Encourage not repining, But look for joy iuatoaiL —A son. The Broken Engagement When Maiy Clarimont's engagement was proclaimed to the world there ensued a general expression of sur prise. People generally arc surprised at mat rimonial engagements. There is always acme cogent reason why things should have been adjusted otherwise—why John should have mairied Joan and Peter should prefer Betsey. Nobody ever yet was married to suit every body. But in Mary Clarimont's case it did really teem as if the course of true love had interfered seriously with the cur rent of common sense and prudence. Miss Olarimont was only one-and twenty, a tall, imperial beanty, with dewy black eyes, a skin as fresh as damask roses, and dark-brown hair, ceiled in shining bands at the back of her bead. Moreover, Miss Olarimont had a "career" before her. Hhe had just graduated from Mt il field Medical university and taken out her diploma as an M. D. "And only to think of it," "aid Annt Jo, bursting into tears of vexation and disappointment, " that she must needs go and rnin all her prospects by getting engaged to Darrv Marlow, down in New York 1" "It doesseem strange, Annt Jo, when I sit down and think of it," said Doctor Mary, laughing and hlnshing. "Six months ago my profession was all the world to me. I neither wished nor cared for anything outside its limits. The future was ail mapped out liefore me, without let or hindrance; and now—" "Bcmphl" growled Aunt Jo. "Any brainless idiot can get married and keep • man's house and mend his shirts t n r him, but y< u were made for tu rru thing higher and more dignified, Mary." Mary's dew bright eyes sparkled. "Ei3ter, Aunt Jo?" said she. "More dignifhd? There you are mistaken. There is no higher or mere dignified lot in life than that of the true wife of noble hnsband." " hid< lesticka 1" said Annt Jo. "As U every poor fool who was dazzled by the glitter of a wedding ring didn't say the same thing I You've disappointed me, Mary Clarimont, and I'm ashamed of you, and that is the long and the abort of it." Mary smiled. "Dear Annt Jo," said she, "I shall cot let my sword and shield rust, be lieve me. Barry has only bis own tal ents to advance liim in the world, and it will le at least a year liefore we shall he ready to marry. In the meantime I shall ac<) • wo bad made their for tunes lived comfortably in roomy old houses, surrounded by velvet lawua and terraced gardens, and an "east end," where people (ought desperately and not always successfully to keep soul and body together on the merest pit tance. And a little way out of the villaue the almshouses, built and endowed by a certain smuggling sea captain, whose conscience b.td pricked him during his latter das, raised their gray-stone ga bles to the sky, and made a picturosqne background to the landscape. Doctor Mary Clarimont made some thing of a sensation at Aldcubury. Up to this time all the resident M. D.'s had licen snuffy old gontlemen with wigs or pert young ones with eye glasses. A beautiful young lady who wrote prescriptions and compounded pills and potions, was a novelty'in the town, and by no means a disagreeable one. People raiher liked the idea, onoo they had convinced themselves that the lady doctor thoroughly understood herself and her patients. And the poor old people at the alms house grew to love Doctor Mary and listen with eager oars fur the sound of her carriage wheels over the blue gravel drive which led np to the portico. It was a brilliant December day when t he young physician stood in the neatly carpeted reception-room, drawing on her fur gloves previous to entering her neat phaeton once again, while she reit erated to the white-capped maid some directions respecting old Ann Miulgett's rheumatism, when the matron hur ried in. " Oh, I beg yonr pardon, Doctor Clarimont," said she, " but I clean for got the new old woman I " " The new old woman," repxvated Docior Mary, with a smile. "That is," explained Mrs. Cunning ham, "she only came last night—a qniet old sonl, half blind and qnitebad with the asthma. I'erhaps yon'd better jnst see her before yon go. Bho brought a card of admission from Doc tor Merton, the New York clergyman, wliojis one of onr directors, you know. And she seems a decent body enongh." Ho Doctor Mary went cheerfully into the little briek-praved room, with its white pallet-bed, cushioned rocking- and neatly-drmpred casement, where sat a pmor, little *briveled-op woman, wrap>ped in a faded shawl. Hhe looked timidly np, as Doctor Mary came in, from nnder the borders of her cap. "I'm a ptoor body, miss," ssid she, "and I'm sensible I'm making a deal of tronble in the world. Bnt the Lord dr n't always take ns, miss, when we'd like to go." "This is the doctor," ssid Mrs. Cnn ningbam. The little woman wonld have risen np to make a feeble conrtesy, bnt Doc tor Mary motioned her to keep her seat. ' What is yonr name?" said she, pleasantly. "Louise Marlow, miss." ' Merle w? That is an nnnsnal name, isn't it?" said Mary Olarimont, ooloring in spite of herself. " We're English, miss," said the old woman, struggling bravely with her asthma. "1 here ain't many of nsin this conLtry. I've a son, miss, in the law hnsinrss, as any mother might be prond of." " A son !" echoed Mrs. Cunningham ; "and you in the almshouse I" " Not that it's his fanlt, ma'am," the old cirsture made haste to explain. " My son is to he married to a flue, proud young lady, as is fit for any I'lincp in all the laud, tnd of course he can't l>e expected to bnrden himself with s helphsa old woman like me. He says I'm to write and let him know how I get along, and if I'm sick or any thing he'll try to see me. I sewed car pets nntil tho asthma got hold of me, and supported myself comfort ably. But of course I couldn't lay up anything for a rainy day—who could? And Henry couldn't help roc, for he's getting readj to be msrnt d, poor lad I Ho I went to Doctor Merton and asked him did he know of suy diceut place where an old woman like me could end her days in peace. And he save me a card to come here and some money to p>ay my traveling expivnrce—God bless him I and here I am !" Mary Clarimont had listened quietly to the garrulous tale, hut the color had varied in her cheek more than once as ahe stood there, " Is yonr scn'sname Harry MarlowT she raid, slowly and thoughtfully. " Y'ts, miss, at your service," said the eld woman, with a duck of her white rapipid head, which was meant to do duty in p lace of the imp>oaaibl court esy " la he like this?" ssid Doctor Msry, takingmpo aaking too much, miHH, wonld you pleaae write to my son, and tell where 1 am ?—for I'm no acholar myaelf, and I'm hia mother, after all." " I will write to him," aaid Doctor Mary, quietly; and no ahe went away. " I never aee a lady doctor afo*e," aaid old Mia. Marlow, with a long nigh. " But ahe'a a pretty creetur, aud it aeema good to havo her around. I hope ahe'll come again aoon." " You may be very euro of that," aaid the matron, brusquely. " Doctor Glari mont ain't one to neglect poor people becauao they are poor." That evening .Aunt Jo, frying crull era over the kitchen lire, was surprised by a viait from her niece, who came in, all wrapped in fnra, with her chocks crimsoned with the frosty winter air. " Bless me I this ain't never you7" said Aunt Jo. |ieering over the riniH of her spectacles. " I drove over to see you, Aunt Jo," said Mary, "to tell yon that you were right. The metal was counterfeit." "Eh?" said Aunt Jo, mechanically ladling out the brown, curly crullers, although she did not look at what she was doing. " I have written to Harry Marlow, canceling onr engagement," said Doctor Mary, calmly, albeit her voice faltered a little. "The man who will heartlessly let his old mother go into an almshouse, sooner than take the trouble to main tain her, can be no fit husband fur any woman!" And then site sat down by the tiro and told Auut Jo everything; for crabbed, crnsty old Aunt Joe bad been like a mother to her, aud the girl's heart was full to overflowing. When she had ceased speaking Aunt Jo nodded her head. " You have done well and wisely," said she. Old Mrs. Marlow died that winter, in Aldenbnry almsbonse, with her head on Doctor Mary Claiimont's arm, and never knew that her garrulous con fessions had deprived her son of bis promised wife. And Msry rays quietly and resolutely that her profession must be husband and home to her henceforward. " Jnst what it ought to lie," says Aunt Jo. "No woman every yet succeeded in doing two things at once." Expensive Horses. The advance in the luxury and ex travagance of the age is shown by the purchase of ffib.ooo pictures, 815,0<1Q sets of diamonds, as well as in houses that cost a quarter of a million. Why should not the same overweening wealth lie displayed in a f30,000 horse? These luxuries are all of a class, and theircost in each instance is a mere trifle to a man who can at any moment issue his check for a million. If the reader inquire how large a rinmUr is included in this cl ass, 1 reply enough to keep up the market to its present fanciful quotation. Conversing with a leading man in this a |eo ally, I asked him the highest value set npon any horse in this oountry. " Fifty thousand dollars," was the reply. My infotmsnt then added that lie re ferred to St. Jnlien, which at present is the property of Ilickok k Morrow. Santa ( lane, owned by William Cole, is valnid at |25,000. Foster Dewey, who was at one time private aecretary of the notorious ring, values his Rich ard a* 810.(H0 Maud H., the property of William H Vanderhilt, is valued by its owner at 850,000, and, reader, should yen Under your check for that amount yon might be disappointed hy refusal. Maud S. is at present kept at Cincin nati, being still under training. Her time is 2:10 1 4, which may he men tioned as the heat made on the Ameri can turf. The enormous value of such animals is found on the race course, where immense sums are won by some and lost by others. Daniel Mace, who has a training stable in Twenty-ninth street, is a very snccessfui trainer, and has also driven in some important trials of speed. To drito successfully on a race course requires gr*at nerve, and at least three vears' practice The fee is sometimes SOOO, to which is occasional ly added ten per cent, on the winnings, Hnch are some facts in connection with racing—a custom whioh has been on the increase for several years, notwithstand ing its demoralizing tendency.—Neto York LctUr. ('oanshlp With a Vengeance. Be—May I call you Revenge? Bbe-Why? Ha— Became " Revenge la aweet." Hhe—Certainly you may ; provided, though, you let me call you Vengeance. He - And why would you call me Vengeance? Hhe— Because " Vengeance is mine?" t'LIPPIHUM KUK THK t'UKIUUM. When young lions mew like a oat. One ostrich egg makes a meal for three persons. The Egyptian physcians of old were paid by the state. The invention of keys is ascribed to Theodore of Hamos, 733 B. C. Pliny says that four-wheeled carriages were invented by the Phyrgians. The main facts of blood circulation havo ouly been known 250 years. Embalming was in nse among the Egyptians at least 3,000 years ago. It is said a mole can travel, when frightened, as fast as a horse trots. Emperor Justinian introduced into Europe the silk worm from China. Drowning was a military punishment mentioned in the charter of Richard I. only. The oldest canal in England, from the Trent to the Withan, is said to have been dag in 1131. When a crocodile is sore pressed with hnnger he swallows stones to relieve the uneasy sensation. Marggra', an eminent Prussian chemist, first drew the attention of the public to t>eet-root sugar in 1747. The African negro is remarkable for his length of arm and leg ; the Aymura Indian of Peru for his shortness. A Canada town boasts two brothers who are practicing law in spite of.the fact that they are both deaf mutes. It was once believed that the halter that hung a criminal was a remedy for headache when tied around the head. The fashion of carrying fans was brought from Italy in the time of Henry VIIL, and young men used them in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The parliament which mot in Febru ary, 1426, was exiled the |>arliament of bats, since the members, being ordered to wear no swords, attended armed with clnlis or hats. At a boo and houey show in Man chester, Eugand, they tied s white wooly cotton thread around the waists of the queen*, for the spectators to ob serve them and watch their movements, as they wondered among the com munity. March was the first month of the year among the early Romans, and it con tinued to be so in several countries till a comparatively late pcricd, the legal year lieginning, even in England, on the 26ih of March, until the cbang of style in 1752. It was Henry VIII. who confirmed the charter of the ©ollogo of surgeons. Up to this time s copartnership existed iet ween harliers and surgeons. At the time of the charter there were only ten surgeons who confined themselves en tirely to the practice of surgery. Ilow Canadians Fish Through the Ice. Win'er fishing deserves a brief no tice. As it is carried on only through the icn it is almost confined to the frr **n inlets of the aonth shore of the Geor gian bay to Burlington bay and the Bar of Qiinte. In winter a passenger by the Great Western railway will no tice en the ice near Oakville and on Bur lington bay a large number of small wooden houses', about four feet square and jnst high enough to allow of a man standing upright. These houses have no windows. Under each of these square boxes is a hole through the ice. This hole the fisherman sits and watches with all the eagerness displayed by a polar liear watching a seal-hole. It is a cold operation, but sometimes a pot auprndrd atiove the ice and containing a fire sflTordsa little warmth. The fish ing through this hole'is done either with ho ika >r fork-like spears. On the Georgian bay inlets Indians and half breeds are the fishermen —not white men. The mode is primitive. The little houses ate not used, but the In dian, crouching down on tba ice, cov ers bis had and the hole with a blan ket, so as to exclnle as much as possible any light excepting that which comes through the ice. Tho amusement is a grim one, and brings but little return to " poor Lo." Sometimes, however, a small wigwam is pitched over the hole, and a little more comfort is enjoyed by the lonely fisherman,—Tortmijjiiobc. A We-dern Yarn. A certain lady in (his county set a hen upon thirteen eggs. A few days afterward, looking into the nest, she was surprised to find the hen missing and the eggs gone and in their stead a huge rattlesnake comfortably coiled up. Noticing the swelled condition of his snakeship she procured a spade and pinned his bead to the ground. Then, with a rake, the tail was drawn out and fatened down to prevent wiggling. A pen-knife soon split the reptile from head to and the eggs taken out. Being OMfuby washed they wereplaced under Uie same hen and eveoually every one hatched out and the ohickena grew and thrived. We regret that a strict regard for truth compels us to way that the hen was uot swallowed nor were the chinks marked with * snake. —SL Paul Pijtuxtr. TOPIC* OF THE DAI. The highest inhabited place of the world is Osiers, a railway station in Peru, which is feet above the sew. Near it a tunnel 3,817 feet long ia being bored through the peak of the mountain, (VK) feet above the perpetual snow Hue. A writer in a London [taper aaya that the lowest percentage of insanity is among men and women engaged as anthors, editors, journalists, reporters, translators, and in other literary work. Of 140,000 such persons twelve only are returned as Innatiov They see so much of it ouside their business that they continue to keep out of it them selves. Hen nillard, of Washington county, (la., is perhaps the great esi sufferer in the world. He has been thirty-three ▼ears in his bed, enduring the most ex cruciating agony from rheumatism, unable to move any part of his bfdy except his lower jaw and to slightly shrng his shoulders. For all those long years of suffering his joints have Iwen as stiff as if grown together solid. Of the nearly five thousand represen tatives who have been honored with elections to the II iuse of Representa tives from the organization of the United States government to March 3, 1881, hut eight of the whole nnmlrer have served twenty successive years and upward, as follows : Thomas Newton, Charles F. Mercer an l Williams Mc- Coy, of Virginia, Louis Williams and Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolinta, Joshua H. (lidding*, of Ohio, John Itoad and John Qaincy Adams, of Mas sachusetts, and Jotin W. Taylor, of New York. There is said to be on Broadway, New York, an old-fashioned dwelling at which any one can stop, knock, enter, ask for cakes and ale and be serve. 1 with t hem gratuitously. The property was willed mauy year* ago by an eccentric man to his daughter on condition of ner furnishing cakes and ale to any one that should ask for them. The heirs have kept strict watch to see if this should ever be refused, but doubtless grew tired of it, as for the la-t five years no one has called. What a procession of dea 1-besta there would le if the faet should become generally known I When he earned a miserable living in R osita, Oolora do, by doing errands for a *tblmn. be w* callel Old Man Ilassick, and his wife and daughter worked at the wnditub. O-io day he 'ound ore in a mountain near by, and within the year lias become a half mil lionaire. Now be is respectfully men tioned as Mr. Bassiek. There are those, however, who sneer at the family's ignorance, as the frJloaing anecdote shows : Mrs. llas-irk was at Canon. It was noticed that she frequently walked ont upon the hotel porch as if looking for some one. "Do yon expect friends?*' asked the ob-<us boniface. "No, indeedy," she replied, "I'm expecting my phantom." Her pretty phaeton, for which she ha I paid 13,000, after ward rolled around the corner. The vivi*o-tion of living animal* b,T scientific men ha* not rot attracted the attention of an ariti-viviectiou society here a* it haa in England, although atop* have Ixon taken in thia direction ; hut it i* practiced in the United State* on a scale easily paralh lo I hnt not ex ceeded ahroatl. A single scientific work, D>otcr Wormier'# "Micro-Cbeuj istry of Poison*," ia aaid to hare cost the lire* of 3,000 cats, who died under different poiaon*, their loaa breeding— no unmixed loaa a genuine eat famine in the learned author'* home, Colom bo*, O. An inreatigation, only recent ly closed, conducted by the national board of health into the drinking water* of varion* cities, haa needed the services of aome 1,200 rabbits who were inoculated with preanma'o y gertu-iaden water*, and a ahare of whom died of fever iu the cause of aoionoc. Tle'o ar certain facta which may aeem dry to the unskillful but which are really full of interest and infrac tion to the judiciona. The foreign ootumoree of thia country during the la-t flacal year waa larger than that of any prerioua year in our history. It amounted to the immense sum of $1,675,024,218, Tbete figure* represent a vast industry on both sides of the ocean. They would represent, for in stance, the wage* of 1,675 0.10 men at SI,OOO a y-wr. They rally represent much more than that, but ereu that ap proximate illustration will suffice to give an idea of this great trade. To other countries daring this year we sold $902,377,346 worth of our prod ucts, and we brought from them $642,- 064,628 worth of their products. Ho they had to pay ua, or will have to pay na wb*n the accounts omn to be set tled, the very hsndaome sum of $259,- ! 712,618. Smallpox is prevalent in maryoom muoit as and may be expected to be oome epidemic wherever, having ap peared, prompt and efficient step* IN not Uk'-n to soamp it ont. Boston has lately furnished the country an excel- a lent example of the way in which the V sconrge should be confronted. It bad 1 gained considerable headway at the 1 Month End, and at one time was ap parently on the verge of booorning epi demic. The neighborhood where it had main its appearance was thoroughly inspected by a household visitation, all cases discovered were at once removed to the hospital, the infected places were fumigated, general vaccination was dered, and all persons suspected of hav ing l***.u ex [nosed to the disease were placed under strict surveillance. The result of these precautionary measures is that the threatened epidemic in the infected locality has been completely stamped ont, and no farther trouble ia anticipated. Charles Heukle, an aged German how bad been afflicted with leprosy for several years, died recently in the charitr hospital in New York city. He had in former year* visit* 1 different parts of the worll, inclu ling India and the West Indies, and it is probable that the disease was incurred in the course of these travels. This is one of a num ber of sporadic CHUM of leprosy that have been report >-d from time to time in this country. We lieve there have been more in Hun Francisco than in any other city. Leprosy is a most foul and loathsoui" disease, contagious from contact and in itsalvancol -tage well-nigh it not absolutely incurable In oountric< where it is most prevalent the mode of treatment embraces complete isolation of the suffereu from the rest of the community. InChina hospitals are provided that stand snrroun lei by large areas of ground, and no communication with the outside world is permitted. In the Handwich islands one oi the gronp, widely separated from other i island*, is set apart for the residence | of leprous patients, wan, onoc removed thither, are never permitted to leave. This testifies to the fear inspired by the dread complaint. The origin of the occasional cases occurring in the United States can undoubtedly be traced to foreign source*. The gov ernment should exercise it* unquestion able right to strictly prohibit the laud ing on the sh ires of this country of any one affected in the least degree by leprosy. Ancient Mining. The methods in vogue tmong the ancients for'the development of mines were in DIDT respects far different from those in n at the present time. In the country to the sonth of us the descent and ascent of shafts were made by means of notched leg*. These were from twenty to thirty feet long, extend ing from level to level. The logs or lad ders wore cliru'tsd by the sure-footed miners, the Aztecs and more recently by the Indians, who were engaged in the dislodgment of the precious mineral. The ore wa* placed in rawhide bags containing about half a bushel, this name being rented upon the back while it was held in jwtsition by strain ex ten ling acrot-s the shoulders, united in front and fastened through itaown weight upon the forehead. If s mine were overflowing with ' water the troublesome fluid was re moved in those bags in the same man ner as the ore, by the m tiers, who todi- A ou-ly cliiuls-1 the not hed pole*, and flj whose notches answered the place of w wider stops. The ore wa* removed in a manner aim >*t a* tedious. Fire* were built again't the walls of the mine, and a their suriace hctm<- calcined the incinerated porti >ns were di*lo.lg -d by atone hammers. The melting was | equal!v as cumbersome, bo ng effected with charcoal and bellows. Yet minuig was profitable under these cru Je meth od*. It is not surprising, thereforv thst wonderful reports continue to reach us of the richne*s of the aban doned old mine* of Sinora, which, with the introduction of modern machinery, worked by energetic and experience 1 Americans, will toon ast mish the worl l with their rich production*. In the early days of the Oo in stock we have seen these notched pole* in use in the Mexican mine in this city; also the rawhide sacks. However, they used picks and shovels and Masted out the ore instead of burning it cut. The ore was worked in arastraa and by the patio process —indeed the patio process was in use hero for come yearn, and o