MORAL AND KELIUtOUH. The Two Moo Inutile. An olil Indian onco askod a white man to give him some tolwcco for his pipe, The mau gave him a loose hand ful from his pocket. The next day he came back and asked for the whito man. " For," said he, " I found a quarter of a dollar among the tobacco." " Why don't you keep it?" asked a bystander. " I've got a good mau and a bad man here," said the Indian, pointing to his breast, " and the good man say, ' It is not mine; givo it back to tho owner. The bad man say, ' Never mind, you got it, and it is your own now.' Tho good man say, ' No, no; you must not keep it' Ho I don't kuow what to do, and I think to go to sleep, but the good aud tho bad meu koep bilking all night and trouble me, and now I bring tho money back I feelgood." Like the old Indian we havo all a good and a bad man within. Tho bad man is Temptation; the good man is Conscience, and they koep talking for and against many things that we do every day. Who wins? Htand up for duty; down with sin. Wrestle with temptation man fully. Never, never give up tho war till YOU win. . KrUnion■ Nrw nnd Nolo. There aro iu the Canadian provinces ninety-one Congregational ohtirche#, with fifty-one pastors and mem bers. Mr. Cyrus MeCormiek has added $50,000 to his former gifts of 8150,000 to the Presbyterian Theological semi nary, Chicago. The Associate Reformed Presbyterian church of the United States proposes to celebrate the centennial of its or ganization in 1882. Electric lights aro >*ing introduced into some of the churches, The Mount Vernon Place Methodist church in Baltimore, Rev. Thomas Guard, pastor, has adopted the use of them. The' Dutch Reformed church in Yo kohama is the finest Christian building in Japau. The first 31,000 toward it was contributed by the Sandwich Islands Missionary society twenty years ago. The Reformed Presbyterian oh arch (Covenanters) has in the United States 107 ministers, 122 congregations and eighty-three pastors. Of the congre gations thirty-four arc without regular pastors. The Rev. Stephen Foreman, a Chero-, kee Presbyterian preacher, is dead. He was very highly esteemed, and occu pied various high and res;>onsib!e posi" tions in his nation. He was a missionary for many years of the Southern Presby terian church. Rev. John Seely Stone, D. D., a well known theologian of the Protestant Episcopal church, died in Cambridge, Mass., recently, at the age of eighty seven years. He held for a numlnsr of years the rectorship of several promi nent churches; a scholar and a deep thinker, and the author of several in teresting ecclesiastical works Vhich aro still held in high esteem. The Ikam Ituntal. In natural history, and one which has commanded marked attention from ichthyologists and scientists, is the ikam hnnlal (Tetrocdon solandri), or bouncing fish. It is nnmerons on the coast of Borneo, and common to the waters in Harawak. It is very poisonous and its bite is fatal. The appearance of one of these strango fish on the beach will put to flight a great body of natives. It is a repulsive ooking object, its body l>eing flaccid, and covered with short, flexible spines, which stand erect when the fish is an gered. It has brilliant, restloss, snake like eyes, and sharp, formidable, saw like teeth, When irritated, it will in flate itself to prodigions size, and emit a loud, whistling sound, similar to tho whip-poor-will. # It goes bouncing about on the ground like an indian rubber ball,and ran float at case upon the surface of the water. It makes a vigorous resistance when at tacked, and the lond whistling will at tract others, who will come to the as sistance of their neighbor. Homo years ago thirteen persona were fatally poisoned after eating of tho roe of this singular flsb. The tongue was white and mottled in those who died, and the month exhibited a strange blneish tint. Death resulted in twenty minutes after eating of the fish. There is a superstition that the Ma lays and Dyaks can eat thia dangerous and curious marine " death-shadow," as the sailors call it, with impnnity, by cooking it with a certain kind of plant, which absorbs and neutralizes the poison, and thereby counteracts its deadly effects upon the syatem. In the beginning of the last century it waa suggested to the mind of a Frenchman to nse wood for the manu facture of paper, by observing that the nests of wwtps were made of this material. * Tewflk, the yoong ruler of Egypt, is particularly fond of poets and theolo gians, and keeps his court fall of them. He is weak, timid and pious, and in clined to religions mystioism. SCIENTIFIC SUHAC*. Earth worms have no eyes, but are quickly affected by a strong light. Tho luminosity of tlje sun is MOO,OOO times that of tho brightest light of a full moon. Man has a million mure red cor jthscles in a cubic milloniotcr of blood thuu Woman. In ordinary rainfalls the rain comes down at tho rate of from two to four inches a day, A Philadelphia engineer claims to have invented a machine by which tho power of tho tides can be utilized. Excessively fine blue clouds, bluer' oven than tho Hir, may be produced when tho suu's light is ullowed to de compose certain curbon compounds. Two Leipsio chemists havo devised u process for obtaiuing sugar in a permanently liquid form. This result is said to bo effected by adding to a purified sugar solution a small quantity of citric acid, which combines with the sugar and deprives it of its tendency to crystallize. An exhibition of the arts and in dustries of liavaria will be held at Nuremberg next year, and.vigorous pre parations are being made in the way of building. Already contributors to the number of 1,702 havo promised to as sist, and the whole affair is to be on the grandest scale. In seeking for a substance which would destroy tho microscopic animals in water without injuring it fo- drink ing purposes, Dr. Langfelt found that citric acid (one-half gramme to every litro of the water) killed all the living organisms, except cyelops and those with thick epidermis, within two niin ntes. The Scit n/ijk American says that tho prejudice against American hemlock tanned leather has disappeared, and English tanners now appreciate its ex cellent qualities. Its eajsibilities for resisting water and withstanding wll or senate-oha mber, and In the open air to the very outskirts of a vast crowd.— Atlantic Monthly. A Til KILLING NARRATIVE. The Hiory Told lir 11 Hhlpwrta-lted Mnllur— Drilling In tllil Of en n In un Open limit lor TMrtv-lhrcc llara-Almml Drives lo t'an ii I lui 1 1-in by lliiager iiuil Thirst. William .(onea, u aailor, gave a Now York reporter a thrilling account of the loan of hia ahip iu mid-ocean by fire and of hia aubaeqnent adventurea in an open boat. When the tiro waa discov ered the ahip waa headed for land, but after Railing three daya the flames burnt through tho hatchway* and the crew took to tho boat*. From thin point tho sailor's story continues aa follows: When daylight came and no ship wan to lie aoen in any direction, tho captain gave orders for the mate and second mate to follow him with their boats. Then ho headed toward win re the land lay, and we followed in his wake. We kept close in sight of the captain's boat all that day and all the next uiglit. Wo did this until the third night afti r th ship anus. Then it came on to blow early in the morning. We kept in sight of the other boats /or a while, bnt after u bit w- couldn't make either of them out, so we hallooed to them, but tic ri wasn't any answer. We felt pretty blue as W" lay on onr oars and waited for tho morning to come. At daybreak we looked all around for the other two boats, but nothing of them was to le sfien, We had no chart or compass, and wo had nothing to tell us whereabouts the nearest land was. We knew that our ouly chance lay in being picked up by some vessel. Our food and water wore both running short, and there was no signs of any rain, and nothing like fish had been secu in tho water aronnd the boat. Onr chances looked pretfy bad on the afternoon of the twenty-second day wo pass< 1 in that small boat. We bad been on short allowance for some time, but that after noon we drank the last drop of water and cut the last crumb of provisions that wo had on board. • We hadn't seen a tingle Kail since , tho ship was burned, and the men 1 almost despaired of any help coming to f uh. We didn't care to sleep tho night after the provision* gave ont, and as soon at the light W-gan to break next 1 morning we looked around for a sail. The second mate had a Bible, which he read ut a bit during the day, and at no ship was to be fen we thought we'd put our trust in tho Lord. The next morning nothing was in tight, and our sufferings from hung' rauome one | proposed that wo should draw lota on j the third day if the provisions gave j out. Tho ono that got stuck was to be j killed, and the rest of n* was to drink hit bloo l and pick hit bones. But the second mate says no; that no cannibal , business would be allowed on that boat. I told him wo was going to have a: ie | thing to eat lie said it wasn't going to ; ; bo human fleah. dust then my eyes rested on tho loaded gun in tho bottom of the boat I picked up the gun and , cocked it and then aimed it at the tee ond tnate. He didn't move, hut just sat and looked at me. 1 was crazy from thirst anil hunger, to I pulled the trigger. It wouldn't go off, though I tried to fire jt again. The powder mutt havo got damp, and I laid the gun down for a moment. Just then some one seized it and flung it over board. In a few minntea i was cooler, i and we talked the matter over. We j concluded that we wonldn't bo canniWls i for a whilo longer at least. Every I morning the tun rote hot like a ball of fire, and, after blazing down on us all day, it would set again without show -1 ing us any sail. Several times I jaiu|x>d overboard and tried to drown myself, lint somehow I would swing back to the boat and (Tawl on board and take my place among the rest. Twoorthree timet 1 got overboard and swam along ; the liottom of the boat under water, and tried to find tome bar nacles to eat, but none had I grown there. I couldn't sleep at all nights, but I laid awake and tried to think the noise of the waves was made by fountains of fresh water. A dozen people couldn't have held me back from 1 drink of water then. We ; were all getting hollow-eyed, and a few days more of that torture would havo made crazy skeletons of us. On the j morning of the eleventh d.iy after the water and provisions gave out no sail could be seen anywhere on the horizon. Then we made up onr crazy minds to kill some one"that day. 'Long in the afternoon we started to take bold of a poor devil to bntcher him. He crawled aft and elnng to the second mate's legs and begged us for pity. We was just going to seize him when one of the men cried nut and pointed down to windward. We looked in that direction, and, snre enough, we saw a trail of amoks over the horizon. Pretty soon we saw two spars and thou tint Lnll of a steamship that was heading along itrourdircction. Hho might pass us, so wet toro off our rags and tied them Tin tho ends of the oars and waved thorn liko wad. Finally they saw ua, and tho ateamer handed right toward ua. We felt eaay then especially the fellow we waa jnat going to kill. They took ua poor akeletona on hoard the ateamer, hut thov wouldn't only give ua a few apoonfula of beef tea at ilrat. Hut how the beef-tea tuated! I ahull never forget that. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Thin world lielongs to tho energetic. Try yonr skill iu gilt first, then in gold. What has been unjustly gained can not bo justly kept. Those are the most honorable who am the most useful. The man who never excites envy never excites admiration. Bow good services; sweet remem brances will grow from them. Timo once passed never returns, the moment which is lost is lost forever. The man who steps out of bis way to injure another deserves, and will surely meet, with reprisal. Wilt novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known and lovod because it is known? Hnocoss soon palls. The joyous time is when the breezs first strikes your Rails, and tho waters rustle under vour bows. Wo all feel able to accustom our selves to the possession of wealth, but to get used to jioverty we have never learned. The obscurest saying* of the truly great arc often those which contain the germ of tho profoundest and most use ful truths. The science of life may be thus epitomized: To know well the price of time, the value of things aud the worth of people. If it ia your jiur|>OHe in life to make your face your rttine you must look w< 11 to it or it will turn out to be your misfortune. They say that money doe* not bring happiness. This is an experiment, however, which ev* ry one wishes to try for himself. Hill Jonco' < atapult.' Our fellow citizen, 8.1 l Jones -so called—was one among the large crowd that attended the Coup circus a few weeks ago in this city. The feature that attracted Mr. .Tones' attention more than anything else was the wonderful catapult—the flying machine—and tho daring Lu Ln. The catapult is a wonder ful machine, an 1 is so constructed that ly the agency of a large number of rub bor eords, it will throw a man a gieat ways in the air. giving him several evo lutions before alighting. Tliia trick excited the imitativi ne-s of Mr. Jones, and he told Johnny Doe and IHrk Boe in confidence that he e ml 1 fli up a ma chine that would fling Lira as f*ra the catapult did Ln Lu, and a small wager was put up to stimulate Jones in the nndertaking. a Now, bo it known, Mr. Jones is the man who has liecn run over bra freight train, and a 2.13 tiott.r in full tilt knocked him within an acre of the farther hank of the dark liver, and the hard side of a brick on another occa sion came n. ar taking the half of his head ofT, yet, l>eing ncl%flled, he built s catapult of bis own devising. The machine was easily constructed, lieing made of two good sized hickory sap lings, bent down and cut ofT about fif teen feet from the earth Across these a plank was fasteued*. upon which the would-be Ln Ln was to lay himself. At about the distance he imagined he would fall a large lot of loose hay war placed, so a* to make the descent easy. Evervthing being put in circua-likc order, Jobnny Doe and Dick 800 and the boys in the neighborhood wore notified to lie on hand. The catapault was sprung by means of a windlass and a strong rope. " Now," said Jones, putting himself in position in away that would hare excited the etvy of I.n Ln, the original," when I aay.ready cut the cord and turn It loose." Ererv thing was arranged and the command given. Dick clipped the cord, and .Tonea went np aa if he had been shot from a 200-pound; gun, and Johnny Doe aays he went up as high as the weather cock on the court-house steeple. He passed forty feet lieyond the hay pile, and fell | in cloae proximity to a big atnmp. The only injury received by Mr. Jones was fire broken riba, nose dislocated, knocked breathless, and one arm a little ont of aocket. His physicians say he | will recover.— Orijf ln (On) S Tina BUsabonriU* Uirald eajra : "Two employe* of the Dalle* (Texan) po*t ofHoe, on returning from a hnnt in the country, cnt down 'a telegraph pole, mistaking it for a bee tree. The hum ming of the wire deluded them." The aort of "wire" that "deluded" them is sold by the pint in Dallas, and a coil of it is strong enorgh to make a man take an ax and try to split. rail* off the end of an artesian well* " TOPICS OF THE DAY. Nevada used to send out w< ulth ; now it is taking it in. All the mines in the Htutu yielded during IHHI about $4,500,- 000 less than enough to pay the cost of operating them. Upon the basis of a German statis tician's estimate that the service of every man that leaves his country is worth SI,OOO, the emigration from the fatherland last year added 8000,000,- 000 to the wealth of tho United Htates, Mr. W. It. Winaus, of Bultimore, who is making Englnnd his home, has built a monster "cigar ship** on the Clyde at u cost of about 81,000,000. He thinks she will be able to cross the ! Atlantic in five days Mr. Winans' res idence is one of tho finest private pa • aces in London, An outbreak of tho Hindoos against British rule iu Nopaul, a small State in tho northeastern part of nindoostan and just south of the Himalaya moun tains, has just been put down in a sum mary manner. Twenty-one military officers of native troops were summarily executed, and a largo nnmlier of the most influential Nepaulose were at once arrested. The vineyards of the Pacific slope are 1 icing more and more employed for tho manufacture of raisins instead of wine. The IlivrtmU Pr> or, of Han Bernard ino connty, California, is authority for tho statement that the raisin crop of that State this year will aggregate more than 150,000 boxes. This new indus try has grown in three years to an an nual production of a half million dol lars' worth, and is rapidlv increasing. i Revised reports of the destruction at Warsaw, Russia, through the riot which began on Christmas, chow that 2.011 famili' *, numbering about 10,000 persona, Wi-ro ruined. They include Jib liqnor dealer*. 2*l tobacconists and other retail shop keepers, 4'.H eating house keepers and other furnishers of refreshments, '■ I * workmen and 434 em ployer*. Luring the riot there were demolished 202 li juor-saloons, 003 eat ing houses, warehouses and synagogues, and private house*, all the property of Jews. From a circular just issued by the secretary of the Miners' National I'nion it appear* that 31,000 persons have been killed in various ways during the past thirty-one year* in English mine*. "Our modernized mode of working mines," writes the secretary, "is ren dering catastrophes of this kind of a huge m 11: itt di Something nesds to lie done, and if it be done it mas'. be by legislative enactments. To do thi there must be an active trade organiza tion, aeeking and trying to enforce necessary changes in the law." William H. Taft, the son cf ex-Judge Tatt, who ha* Wen appointed collector of revenue at Cincinnati, is only tweu tf four years of age. He was graduated at Yalo iu 137 ft, where he wa* the l>e*t boxer, the Wat " rn*hor" and the moat popular man in his class, as well as the class orator and salutatorian. He was graduated from the Cincinnati law school in 1880, standing first. He then Wgan the practice of his profession, snd was appointed assistant prosecu ting attorney of Hamilton county. He was aJao the law reporter of tho Cincin nati Timf'Jot atout a year. He weighs 223 pounds, snd is abont five feet, eleven inches in height. Homo idc.a of the size of the match trade may be gained by a glance at the figures paid for stamps. The gov ernment exacts a revenue of one cent per 100 on matches manufactured. Daring the year ending May, 1381, one company paid for stamps $4, 500,000 Tliis year the amount paid will bs in creased $30,000. There are 200 matches in a box. The tax is two cents; they are sold to the grocer for throe cents and retailed at fire. Four million fire hundred thousand dollars represent 430,000,000 one cent stamps. As each stamp represents 100 matches, the grand total manufactured is 45,500,- 000,000 matches, or 2 77,500.000 fire cent boxes. i Underwood's CoutUrrfeit JWtc'or an nounces the appearanc of a photo graphic counterfeit silver certificate of the denomination of twenty dollars, re ported from Missouri No. 675,114. The ccunterfrit la much paler than the genuine. The Defector aaya: We warn our subscribers to examine all silver certificates with great care, aa the pho tographic process now having Wen adopted in the prodnotion of counter feits on tbem, no doubt msny counter feits will be put into circnlstion. Tho arrest of a man in Memphis, Tennessee, with S3OO in counterfeit silver certifi cates of the denomination of ten and twenty dollars in hU possession, has bfen reported at the secret service of fice in Washington. No donbt a Florida orange grore is a good thing to hare, but how shall a Uiun support himself while the tree* Are growing? A person of experience an swers the question AK follows through A correspondent of the Atlanta (Oa.) (W "tituiifm: Plant vegetables, plant cas sava, plant arrowroot, raise melons, aplit rails *t 81 per hundred, build cabin A for your neighbor* at 81.50 per day, raise chickens, catch hah and eat them, make fertilizer*, shoot alligator* in Lake Kissimmoc and sell their hides, hire out to your neighbor* at 800 per month and work your own place at night, sell land, swap horses, work on Homo one of the railroad*, put up saw millH, cut and haul post* and stakes, plant nursery trees, flowers, i te. You can't starve. Fish are for the taking, and sweet potatoes are indigenous to the soil. We have 8,000 j*>opl in OraDge county and only three paupers, and we have never seen a beggar in the county. Professor Morse, whose entertaining lectures upon Japan have drawn large audiences to the Boston Institute of Technology, believes that the ingenuity of tin Japanese and the remarkable readiness with which they comprehend mechanical contrivances are due to the fact that the little children are carried around upon the backs of persons in charge of lLem, and thus aee every thing that Is 'going on. •• Workshops and houses," says Professor Morse, "are open to the view of passers-by, ' and everywhere you will see knots of | children with babies on their Lacks, j watching artisans of all kinds at their work. Tiie advantage to health is also undeniable, so 1 approve o 1 this Japan-, ese way of bringing up children. It is astonishing to see the number of children with babies on their backs Little fellows not large enough to be intrusted with the care of a live brother or sister will bo equipped with a rag baby secured in the same msn- I ner." The Farallone islands are about thirty milts from the month of San Francisco bay, and they are the Lome of innnmer able N-a fowls. When Rn Francisco ! 'irtt began to be a city, it* constant cry was for egg*. To supply the lack of cgg, the project of stealing those of the | gull* and the manr* of the Farrallone i islands was undertaken, and it proved successful and has ever since been maintained. The birds arc too plenti ful to count or to estimate, ax may be ! inferred from the fact that the egg gatherers bring in oflen or used to ! gather 500 dozm in a day ; and a great ■ many of the neats re inaccessible, while a great many others are devastated iby the rivalry of the birds. The egg season is from May to August, and, if | even 400 dozen is the rale, the har j vest would be pretty near 500,000 eggs. ! The quarreling between the gulls and the runhrx causes the loss of a good many umbra' eggs, which the gulls at every chance destroy. Tlio egg buxineas is , conducted by a company, which has the light. It pays egg gatherer* live cents a dozen, and sells them l in Kan Francisco at a considerable advance. Hibernating Animal*. W bat we understand by the bHiernat. ing of animals ought not, strictly sj>ek- I ing, to be called hibernation, unco it is precisely analogous to that which is common in tropical countries during seasons of intense heat The Germans | rail one " winter sleep," and the other " summer sleep," There seems to be no essential difference between the two states; nor is there, in the opinion of i roost authorities, any difference between the ordinary sleep of an animal and its 1 long winter sleep, except that the latter is more profound. It ia a popular mis take to suppose that the winter sleep of animals is due to ex trrme cold, since* as a matter ol fact, almost all hil*cr | nating creatures go to aleep before ! the extreme cold of winter seta in. 1 Besides, as has been said, a precisely | similar phenomenon is met with in the : torrid regions of the earth. Mr. Dar win, in his journal, SSTS: " When we first arrived at ber 7, wo thought nature had granted ii-arcely a Using creature to this sandy and dry country. By digging in the ground, however, several ierects, large spiders and lixards wero found in a half torpid state. On the 15th a few animals began to appear, and by the 18th, three days from the equinox, every* thing announced the commencement of spring. The birds began to ley their eggs, numerous insect* were crawling about, while the liaard tribe, the con stant inhabitant* of a randy noil, darted in every [direction." "It ia srell known," add* the rame writer, "that within the tropic* the hibernation, or, more properly, activation of animals ta governed by the time of drought." A Philadelphia surmdk cured the bu rat band of a man by Bin grafting, the akin being taken from a Chicago drummer'* cheek. Tlie experiment srra not wholly a success, however, a* the man's knuckles now have a color and hardnem ao much reaembling brass that he gets arrested every time he goes out,— PhiladtipkiQ Xtwt.