The New Tear. "The king is dead I long lire tho king I" How oft thorn words renowned Conic back to mo when joy bolls ring With swcot and cheering wound I Those bolls that say, " A year is dead 1 Another's king to-day I" Aye, king ero yet the echoing chime Of midnight dies away. Aad though the wintry winds oft sing The dead king's fnneral song, Wi> know that rouud tho nuw-liorn king Hpring flowers will bloom ere long. Thou lie thy sorrows what they may, Lot hope dispel each fear. When all who meet thee, smiling, say, " A happy, bright Now Year 1" PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Shocking disaster—An earthquake. Tho phrenologist is a man who can not do his work well unless ho feels right. Tho worst motto a dentist can have is "Try, try again"—the worst for the other fellow. Naturalist: Can a wolf Isvomo fond of a man ? H<> can, and wonld j st as soon have him raw as cooked. Every family is said to have a skel eton in the closet, but Hanlan and gen tlemen of his craft aro said to prefer a scull. Tho world will never progress far enough to believe that a man's block eye was caused by anything else than somebody's fist. Trained dogs exhihit*so rnnch intelli gence that it probably won't be long before there will be sausage in the mar ket that can talk. Don't throw away yonr old bar .vis. They aro nsefal. It has been found that an ordinary flour barrel will hold 078,- 000 silver dollars. Parlor matches are like fashionable engagements. Thero is too much fuss and noise about them for tho money.— New York Commercial. A funny man at Jackson, Mich., put a cast-iron bullfrog on a log in the river, and the lioys threw stones at it all day without discovt ring why it didn't plunge. The gentleman who caught a severe oold from pressing his lips to a maiden's snowy brow, recovered quite rapidly wkilo looking in tho Runny smiles of ■■other fair damsel. The ire cream day Has passed away; Whal will onr darlings try ? They one and all Mow quickly call, "Give me an oyster fry." The best sermon in the world never yet reconciled the prond man, trying to etAhifl feet out of sight under the pew, to the painfully obtrusive and evident fact that the wife of his bosom had used his blacking brnsh to polish the kitchon stove. A million dollars in gold weighs 3,685 pounds avoirdupois. It took us some time to learn this interesting fact, and if any persons hink we have made a mistake they can call at the office and Wn will show them the weights and also the scales. A young lady who has an objection to the revision of the New Testament, writes to a London paper to say that Iho phrase "purple and flue linen" con veys no idea of luxury to her mind, and riie suggests as an improvement, "seal akin and black velvet." Where is the usn in puzzling one's brains over sueh intricate problems as the origin of man and the whithornee* of his futnre, when one cannot tell so mmpl<> a thing as how the small boy in rubber boot" gets his feet wet going twenty rods over frozen ground ? srifrou<'At.t.r connuov. The fair Enph"ni Brown is I, And qniekly 2 the church she hies. Wi 3 eon for the hasty art Be 4 her anient lover'e eyre; 'lf 5 to meet your irate pa, I fear 'twill make me 6," said be "UnloM this 7 ly plan of onra Should cnlrnin R suspiciously. Ob, Fate, be hnt in this b 9, 10 nothing more from thee I" In a small German town an innkeep er, to get rid of a book peddler's im portunities, bonght an almanac from him, and putting it in his pocket left the inn, his wife just then coming in to Uke his place. The woman was then persuaded to bqy an almanac, not know ing that her husltand had one already. The husband shortly returning and disocvering tho trick sent his porter to the railway station after the peddler, with a message that he wished to see the latter on business. "Oh, yea," ■aid the peddler, "I know; he wants one of my almanacs, bat I really can't miss my train for that. Ton can give me a quarter and take the almanac to him." The porter paid the money and earned the third almanac to the inn keeper. Tableau I There are in the Canadian provinoes ninety-one Congregational churches having fifty-one pastors with twenty eight assemblies not churches, and eighty four preaching stations. The total average attendance at the Sunday aervioee was 13,210. Horseshoes are now being made of cork. It will be a lucky day for the human race when the hind shoes of a mule are made of the same malarial. PEARL* OF THOVUHT. Industry need not wish. Truth is tho basis of every virtue. Avarice ia tho mother of many vices. The path of truth is a plain and safe path. Old injuries are seldom canceled by new benefits. He that cannot live well to-day can not to-morrow. The fountain of content spring up in tho mind. Falsehood sinks us into contempt with God and man. The road to home and happinoss lies over small stepping stones, less demonstrative when desorted, and remains longer inconsolable. The touchstone by which men try us is most often their own vanity. Tboro is a long and wearisomo step between admiration and imitation. A man explodes with indignation when a woman ceases to lovo him, yot he soon finds consolation ; a woman is It is hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom nature will always bo endeavor ing to return, and will peep out and betray itself one time or another. Ho understands liberty right who makes his own depend upon that of others. Truo liberty does not permit the enfranchisement of one's self through the enslavement of some one else. Recent Change* In the Earth's Surface. According to Lombardini, the Po now transport* nearly three times as much sediment as formerly, tho in crease being chiefly due to tho destruc tion of tho forosts and tho consequent increased denudation of the Alps. French engineers estimate that the delta of the Rhone has advanced at a rate far greater than it did previous to the cultivation of its valley. In tho Eastern United States,wherever a m "un - tain slope has been stripped, incipient ravines quickly form and enlarge with such rapidity as to excite the attention of geologists. This is especially tho ease with the sandy soils of Maryland, Georgia and Alabama, previously covered with pine forests. The black earth of Rossis, one of the chief sources of the agricultural wealth of the empire, is quickly cut up into huge ravines, and the finest soil in Eu rope is l>eing rapidly carried away to increase the deltas of the Volga and the Don, and to slit up the sea of Azof. Dnring the great floods of lflfifi an<l 1868 in France and Switzerland, tho wooded soils alone escaped from being washed away. Tho immunity of the provinces of Brescia and Bergamo from damage by the great floods of 1872 was chiefly duo to forost improvements. During ten years the department of the Lower Alps lost 111,000 acres of culti vated soil from the effects of torrents; and the clearing of the forests of Ar deche has resulted in the oovering up of 70,000 acres of good land with barren sand and gravel. It is thought by many that vegetation elevates tho surface as much as water depresses it. This, however, can only be tho case when natural vegetation is suffered to decay on tho ground in which it grew. In the case of cultiva ted crops, which only partly return to tho soil, this elevation of the surface oannot take place, and its compensa ting effect being lost, denudation is relatively greater from this cause alone. Hence, it appears that one effect of man's lnfluenoe, by laying bare largo tracts of land for cultivation, has been to largely increase the orosion of the surface. In some instances, however, the action of man has Wen to check the natural transport of sediment. This especially has been done in the case of shifting sand-dunes and encroachments of the sea. Along that part of the French coast whioh extends from the Girondo to the Adonr, the sea throws up annually 1,245,000 cubic meters of aand, which the wind heaps up into bills and carries inland, overwhelming villages and convrrting streams Into marshy pools. The annual progress of these sand hills was so great that in many parts of Bretagno the tops of chimneys above a sea of sand alone marked the site of buried villages. The amount of duneland in Western Europe alone has l>een estimated to cover more than 1,000,000 acres, and still larger deposits exist in parts of Asia, Africa and Amer ica. Tho destruction caused by these shifting sands has, from an early date, attracted the attention of governments; and tho result has been to check their ravages by careful planting. Thua has man's ingenuity boen anooeaafnlly op posed to the action of the agencies j which have oaused those endless wastes of drifting sands in Poland, Peru and the United Btatos; and to the devastation which bas resulted in the formation of the landr* of Gascony, Sologne and Brenne, and the Campino sands of Bel gium.— Chantbtr*' Journal. Silver dollars with holes in them are painfully numerous, but they are not half so painfully numerous to holes without any silver dollars around them MORAL AND RILItiIOCM. MUalonarlra la InSln. There are 681) foreign missionaries in India. One hundred and seventeen of these are American ; and so far as is known they are from the following States : Ohio, 18; New York, 16; Penn sylvania, 12; Massachusetts, 7; Con necticut, 5; Indiana, 5; Illinois, 4; Ken tucky, 8; Maine, 2; Vermont, 2; Now Hampshire, 2; Virginia, 2; Tenncsso, 1; Michigan, 1; Wisconsin, 1; lowa, 1; un known, 29. Ohio is the banner State for missionaries as well as for presidents. One missionary in India has been in the field flfty-flvo years ; 16 have labored upward of forty years, 83 from thirty to forty years; 100 from twenty to thirty years ; 179 from ten to twenty years; and 300 under ten years. What a record of labor this is I There are 389 native missionaries in India, 340,623 communicants, and probably as many more adhorents, to say nt thing of tho hundreds of thousands of children under instruction; and tho schools on these mission fieldH arc not under cold hearted state government, but the warm, genial impulses of a Christian heart are spread over tho minds and hearts of theso children, so that heart-culture goes hand in hand with the develop ment of mind and body. This makes civilization and Christianity indivisible. Miiiionary Visitor. ■trlldaua Mrwasnd >nixa. 11l the Indian Territory there are ninety Baptist churches, with about 6,000 members. A Christian church has been built with stones from the rnins from a heathen temple by the native converts connected with the Madura mission of tho Ameri can board. The National Christian association, which wants the name of Deity inserted in the Constitution of the United Htatea and is opposed to all secret societies held a national convention in Oales bnrg, 111., December 1 and 2. Tho grand total of Lutherans, accord ing to the Lutberiche kalender for 1882, is 1,299 ministers, 5,865 congregations and 7.18,302 communicants ; an increase daring the past year of 125 ministers, 182 congregations and 17,884 communi cants. The Protestant Episcopal diocese of Tennessee reporti the following statis tics : Clergy, thirty-five; parishes, thirty-two , baptisms, 194, of which eightj-threo were adults, confirms tions, 281 ; .Sunday school scholars, 12,- 140; parish-school scholars. 208; com municants, 2,718. Contributions for all purposes, $11,681.14. When tho news of the massacre of twelve native missionaries in New Guinea arrived in tho other islands of the Pacific, and request was made in the island of Tahiti that threo men should be sent to sup ply the place of tboae who had fallen, all the students in the college volun teered, so that they had actually to cast lots who should be the threo to go. Similar to finltean's Case. The cue of QnHeau ia doubtless one of the rao*t peculiar in the annals of criminal jurisprudence, tint it ia not wholly exceptional in some of ita as pect*. Many yeara ago, in Maine, a man of previous respectability received as he claimed, an order from the Lord to go some twenty mile* tip the Handy river and kill a person whom he won d And chopping wood on the lianka of the river. He performed the mission and was arrested for the act. At the trial in AtignstA ho ploaded guilty and said that ho deserved and expected to be hnng, althongh he bad only obeyed the voice of heaven. The court, after con sideration, let the plea tie entered on the records, but did not pass sentence of death on the prisoner. The case WM c fined for judgment and the prisoner ws remande*to jail. For something like twenty yeais the case earon np at every session of the oonrt for sentence, and was always continued for judgment, tho prisoner all the time protesting against thia eonrse and insisting on hie constitutional right of being hnng. He finally died in jail.— Adecr tiinr. A (>rcat I'lnr# for Tobacco and Npongcs. The population of Key West, Fla., inside end ontside of the corporation boundaries, is variously estimated from twelve to ajxtoeu thousand. It is as serted by persons well aoqnainted with the place that it does not contain half a dozen fs mil inn from the Soother States of tho Union, and not twenty families from the Northern States, snd that of the whole population, exclusive of tho garrison and the United States officials, there are not twenty-five nnacclimated adults. About one-half of the popula tion are supported directly or indi rectly by the trade in tobacco and the manufacture of segars; and the other half are dependent npon fishing and sponging, ine tobaooo is brought from the West Indies and most of it from Cnba. The cigars manufactured from it are shipped almost exclusively to New York, either directly by ocean steamers or through Cedar Key and Fernaniina. THE PA MILT DOCTOR. Hr*iti,ATnA.—A member of tho Massachusetts Medical society sends to the Tromncrijyl the following remedy for this nmoh dreaded disease: It seems very important that attention should be often called to the pruphvlatic virtues of belladonna. Many eminent physi cians have published their opinions in its favor, and there exists any amount ol evidence, abundantly sufficient to es tablish its efficacy. Moreover, the remedy is cheap, safoand comparatively harmless. Nothing more is requisite than a tumbler of water, containing four or five drops of belladonna tincture, if attainable, if not, about two grains of the extract, perfectly dissolved. Of this an adult may take a teaspoonful; a child a half or a quarter as much, according to age—repeating the dose every four or five ilayH during the time epidemic is in the neighborhood, or every day if there bo any known exposure to it. Tho quantity taken should be less, if it should cause dilated pupils, irascibility and disturbed sleep. It is a mistake to suppose that this use of belladonna will always prevent scarlatina; it only mcdi lies it, its a general rule, and destroys its malignancy. It has been tried in two or three hundred cases, and I never knew one prove fatal where they take it. BCBWS AI SODA. —We must again, says V<Atth'i Companion , call the atten tion of our readers to tho power of bi carbonate of soda— tho common cooking soda to relievo the pain of burns. This power is truly wonderful, and the fact that soda is always at hand makes it im portant for every mother fully to undor* stand that she has in her cupboard a sure ind inexpensive remedy for the sufferings of her burnt child. A friend of ours, oao morning not long since, burned and blistered his wrist. The length of the blister was at least two inches, and the width half an inch. Moistening tho wound and spread ing dry soda thickly over it and than drooping just enough water upon the soda to make it a sort of paste, ho was instantly relieved, nor did ho hare an unpleasant sensation from the burn afterward. A writer in a St. Petersburg medical journal, speaking of sixteen persons who were severely burned in efforts to save their property from a fire, all of whom were treated exclusively with soda, says "he considers himself justi fied iu pronouncing this remedy the best and most efficient in burns of all kinds and degrees." In one case the burns covered half tho body of tho sufferer. Tli" whole face was stripped of the epidrmi scarf skin). The front of the neck, chest and abdomen and part of the foot presented hams of the second degree. Barns of the third degree were found on the right mammary gland, and on the right fcrearn,, all the muscles of which were exposed, as if prepared by dissection. Bod a was used and it relieved the pain, and a cure was effected in fonr seeks, excepting that the healing of the breast and arm required arother mouth. The rears were insignificant. In burns of the first degree—the slighter—powdered soda will do. In hums of the second degree cover with linen rags and keep them moist with a solution of ao<]a. In bums of the third degree, the rags will need frequent changing to wash off the pus which ac cumulates beneath. Country Origin of Wall Street Kings. Looking npon the personal history of the present stock capitalists, ssys s New York letter, it is a poculis* fact that they are all of rural origin. Kufus Hatch is from Maine Cyrns W. Field came from Stcckbrldge. B. D. Mor gan.was bred on a Connecticut farm. Hnosell Sage is from Hens* l%ir county. Wilhstn H. Vsnderbilt is a native of HUtcn Island, ami Jay (kwld came from Delaware county, where bis father was a laborious fanner. Other names might be mentioned to illustrate this fact. The financial tsbnt of Wall street is drawn from all |i*rts of the oonntry, but is developed here nnder the exigencies of the occasion. It is circumstances that make men great, simply because they bring out latent faculties, and generally surprise the possessor* of the latter as much as they do the rest of the world. How little, iodoed, contd Cyras W. Field have imagined when be kept a rag shop in Bnrling slip (whero I first saw his name) that be wonld ever reach his present distinction. He then bought the daily product of the street rag picker, which WM shipped to the paper mills of his native State, and he did well to clear $l,OOO a year, bat at pres ent he clears double that snm daily. How little also oonld Jay Gonld have dreamed when he peddled his maps through Delaware county that the time wonld oome when he wonld make every year more than the entire valuation of M|Mity I Here, however, we see |dßg done, and it seems to be ae- Rkhed in a very faoil* manner. tr, what an age we live in I Will the "coming man" shut the door after him ? He will in this office, er the going will go out of the window. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. The assertion that iron and platinum, when raised to incandescence, are transparent to light, has been proved false by a series of experiment*. The impression that flowers are never found double in a wild state is an in correct one, tho fact being that this is frequently one of nature's variations. Some engineers of Dundee, Scotland, have tried with success a new gun f r throwing a lino to a wrecked vessel. The gun is abont two feet in length. It is recommended that, as tho com mon ailanthns Iree is dioecious, only tho female trees should be propagated for shade in towns, the male having the dis agreeable odor. Insects are often attracted from a dis tance by artificial flowers, but they never light on them, leading us to be lieve that they are guided by some other sense than that of sight. The latitude of England is the same as that of Labrador, and the former country is only saved from the coldness and desolation of tho latter by the warmth of the gulf stream, M. H. F. lilanford reports that ho has observed white ants in the act of emit ting ryhthmioal sounds. Another ob server, Mr. F. P. Psscoe, has heard a peculiar tound, in fields of Southern Europe, which was found to be the song of s small lizard. It is generally be lieved that these creatures have no power of producing vocal sounds. Ilcrr Hansen has found that the blue color in milk is due to the presence of peculiar microscopical organisms— known as bacteria—which multiply very rapidly, and in so doing produce a blue ! matter r. scmbhng aniline. These or ganisms render the milk unfit for food, especially for persons of weak digestive power. A Myitis Monkey. " Birds and insects are not the only animals that fly," a veteran New York taxidermist said. " Hare's a collection I'm making that shown all the animals j known that move through the air with out wings; not many, to be sure, but interesting enough when you come to think about it. Now, if any one should tell you that he'd seen an 1 shot a monkey sailing through the air one hundred feet from the ground, you'd thins per haps he was overloading you with facts; hut hero's the very creature, a regular firing monkey. He ain't much at it now, on account of being a little too net np," with a cough of apology for the professional joke. " Its cams is the oolngo or flying lemur. They arc found in the islands of the Indian archills go. You see, the limbs are connected by this wide membrane that looks ex actly like a grest hairy cloak that, if the animal f Mod its arms, would com pletely cover it up. It is a night ani mal, like the bat, and lives on very much the same kind of food, and spends its time in the trees. Wnen it is crawl ing a limb the membrane hangs closely j to the body, and you would never sua , pect it of flying; but let anything dis turb it, and it's good-bye legs. It rnsh<* ,to tbo top of tho tron, out on the end of a branch, and dashes off into the air. The four logs are stretched out at full length, and tho skin between them liellies out like a parachute, and it moves away, floating down and swing ing from side, and after passing perhaps two or throe hundred feet downward sweeps up twenty-five or thirty, fastens to a limb, and, in less timo than you can tell it, is at the top of the tree and has flnng itself off again. It travels so fast in this wsy that a man told mo he couldn't keep up with one by running along below; and in one case where one jumped from a tree nearly one hundred feet high it came down about fifty feet with a rush and by the force of its swoop rose nearly the same distance again. They carry their young, generally two, through the air with them." The ( hnmpUn Kol fatchrr. Samuel Caddis, who lives at the Kmithtown look, Pa., on tho Bncka county aide of tho Delaware river, claim* to be the champion eel catcher. He bring* home every morning from <5OO to 1,030 eel*, canght daring the night. The only instrument he em ploys ia a large basket, which he made himself. It haa a wieker cover, with a spring that fastens the oover whenever it is shot down. He says he oan tell, oven in the dark, where the eel* are awimming, and know* all their habits. ' When they move oat from some ditch I in the river bank, or sqairm ap from a mad patch, they start np and down the river in crowds. Gaddia opens his | yawning basket and dive* with it into ( the thickest of the ran. It takes only ( a seoond to fill the basket, and then r down goes the lid. The basket will I take in forty eels at a time. Bale, Oad , dia says, are quiet in the daytime, and do most if their traveling at night. They move all night, so that he ia sure of a haul. Every time his basket is fnll he empties it into ths bottom of a > big oart which be keeps near the river, , and there tho eels remain until mora . ing when he sells them A ftaurt lrl. The smartest girl I've met In lowa, writes a correspondent, I met yesterday at Nevada, Story county, Northwestern lowa—Mian Belle Clinton. Mi MM (Lin ton is a brigbt-eyd f rosy-cheeked girl of abont twenty, an fall of fan and health and vigor an a good girl can be. Two yearn ago Mis* Clinton waa a school teacher. Having np by her baching alxjnt 8160, she last spring liorrowed a span of horses from her father, rigged np a "prairie schooner," and taking her little brother, started for Dakota. In the wagon were a nioe, soft bather bod and a mattress, bags of floor, coffee, bams, canned milk and small groceries. Miss Clinton says laughingly to day, speaking of her trip: " Why I nev.-r lived so nicely ia my life, and I n<-vor had such an appetite; and such courbsy I rooeived every where ! Itongh, rode men wonld come to onr camp, and, after 1 had talked with them awhile, offer to baild my fire, and actually bring water to me. How was the scenery? Oh, it was gorgeons! We rode throngh prairies carpeted with flowers and m* I odious with the songs of birds." " What did yon do when you got to Dakota?" I asked, entranced by her story. " But let me tell you first how we went. We went up through the Bpirit Lake country in lowa, crossing the Milwaukee and Bt. Paul road at Bpenoer. Then we drove northwest across the lowa border into the northwest corner cf Minnesota. Then we went west, crossing the Big Bioux and a dozen little rivers, and finally came to James river. This is the Dakota wheat coun try which they call the Jim river coun try. It is about *ono hundred miles • ast from the Missouri at Fort Sally. ! Here in Beadle, Bond, Spink and Faulk ' counties we came on to the finest wheat I prairies in the West. " Now, you ask me what I did. Well, I homesteaded 160 acres of land. Then I took up a timber claim of 110 acres more." " What is a timber claim V " Why. I hired a man, and we set out tan acres of trees. This, I say, gave me 100 acres more. So I have 2*o acres now. But I must tell you about those trees. Tbey were young locust apple and black walnut sprouts. • I sowed s peck of locust leans, a pint of apple seels and two bushels of black walnuts in our garden in lowa a year ago. These sprouts wore little fellows, and we could set them out fast—just go i along and stick them in the ground, ; Bat they are just as good. I believe my 3,000 little black walnut sprouts will be worth 815 apiece in tan years, and 820 apiece in fifteen. My locust trees will sometime fence the whole county." "Then what did Ton do?" "We built a shanty and broke up five acres of land, and this fall we came back to lowa to spend the winter and here we ar<'and Miss Clinton, laugh ingly, made a courtesy, and tipped her hand like the dancing fairy in the opera. "And what will yon do in the future ?" "In the spring Til go back with more black walnut and locust sprouta, and take up 160 acres more. The trees are just what I want to plant, anyway, and they'll pay better than any wheat crop that could be raised, only I've got to wait for them ten or twelve yean ; but I can wait," and her eyes g/owed with hope and happiness as she looked into the future. Some Xonttcr- of the Forest. Near Stockton, On]., ia i tree that is I "25 feet high, and two in Tiotoria, | Australia, are estimated to be 4 lit and 450 foot high. A great elm tree that had been blown down near London, with a large ball of earth at the roots, aettled beak into ita original place after the branehea had been cot off. A cypress tree felled by N. B. Jordan, of High Hill creek, 8. 0., measured twenty-fire feet in cirenmfersooa at the butt. It took two axmen fire hours to out it down. A black walnut grove that was planted by a Wisconsin farmer about twenty years ago on some waste land was re cently sold tcr 927,000. The trees are now from sixteen to twenty inches through. A tree that was eight hundred fast in length, ninety-six in ctrcumfereaos at the base, and sound to the very heart, was felled in California recently. Five men were twenty-two days in do'ng the work. After it had been completely severed by anger bolaa it still stood unmoved, and required blocks, pulleys end tackling to bring its proud baud to earth. " Do let mo have your photograph," said a dashing belle to a gentleman who bad been annoying her with hfc attentions. The gentleman was de lighted, and in a short time the lady iw celvod tho picture. She gave it to her servant with the question, "Would yoa know the original if ha should sail f The servant replied in the affirmative. "Well, when he oomea, toll him I am
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