Two Discarded Poen a by Lsagfellow.
" Jecknym" was Mr. Iswtgfellow's rendering
of (he name of a mountain in New Hampshire,
now written "Otoconia." The poem, tliongh
he did net care to gather it iulo hie rollootod
works, in worth reprinting:
sauaoiva.
(The Indian chief, Jockoyva, m tradition
a_ve, perished alono on tho mountain which
now bears hie name. Night overtook him
whilst hunting among the cliffs, ami ho wse
not heard of till after a long time, when his
half-decayed norpee wse found at tho fool of a
high rock, over which ho must hare fallen.
Mount Jeekorva is near tho Whitn IliUs.)
They made the warrior's grave beside
The dashing of his native tide ;
And thorn was mourning in tho glon
The strong wail of a thousand men
O'er him thna fallen in his pride,
Ere mist of ago, or blight or Mast
Had o'er hi* mighty spirit passed
They made the warrior's graro lxinnalh
Tho bending of the wild elm's wreath,
Whero the dark hunter's piercing eye
Hail found that mountain rest ou high.
Whore, scattered by tho sharp wind's breath,
Beneath the ragged cliff wcro thrown
The strong btlt and tho moldcricg bone.
Where was the warrior's foot when first
The roil snn 011 the mountain hurst 7
Where, when Iho sultry noon-time came
On the green vales with scorching tlame.
And made the woodlands faint with third 7
Twaa whero the wind is keen and loud.
Anil the gray oaglo breasts the cloud.
Where was the warrior's foot when night
Voilod in thick cloud tho mountain height 7
None heard the loud and sullen crash
Nouo saw the fallen warrior dash
Down tho baie rock so high anil white
Hut ho that drooped not in tho chase
Made on the hills his burial-place.
They found him there, when the long day
Of cold desertion passed sway,
And tracos on that barren cleft
Of struggling hard with death were left
Deep marks and footprints in the clay I
And they have laid his feathery helm
lly the dark river and green elm.
The following "Song" was T/ingfoltow'a last
contribution to tho l.ilrrary (}aiHlt. It was
published in the number for April 1, 1826,
not long before he sailed for Europe, and has
not been reprinted.
SOB a.
Where, from the eve i>l day.
The dark and silent river
Pnnines through tangled woods away
o*rr which tho tall trees quiver;
The silver mist, that breaks
Prom out that woodland cover.
Betrays the hidden path it takes
And bangs the current over 1
So oft the thongh'a that burst
Prom hidden springs of foeling.
lake silent streams, unseen si first.
From oar oold hearts are stealing.
bnt soon the clouds that veil
The eye of Love, when glowing,
betray the long nnwhispered talo
Of thoughts in darkness flowing I
Carrying Off the Prize.
" Nobody goes to chnrch on Eutn
dmy witboat an entirely now anit in the
very latest fashion 1" aaid Mrs. Do No
vel le.
"Certainly not!" mid Alicia, her
eldest daughter. " Mrs. Pelham has
written to Paris for a new bonnot, to
my certain knowledge."
"And, of coarse," added Kraily, tho :
ronngest scion of the honse of De
Nordics, "as yon are spending the
winter with ns, Madeline, yon will be
expected not to disgrmoo us."
Madeline Moray looked from one to
the other of the speakers with a trou
bled expression of countenance.
" Bat, Annt De Novellas," said she,
"mamma writes mo that onr old
Consin Zaphaniah and his wife bare
eome from Maine, very poor, and that
we mast economize as much as poesiblo
in order to keep them ofT the town.
They are very old, and they noed a
great many little lnxnries, and—"
Mrs. D N ore lies' face darkened
visibly.
" Madeline," aaid she, " will you
never forge* that yon belong to a (
fanner's family down-East? Tour I
Cousin Zephaniaha are nothing to me. ,
Of coarse, while yon are my guest, 1
ahall expect yon to drees as becomes ,
jonr station as my niece."
Madeline knitted her pretty brows
in sore perplexity after Annt De
Novel lee had rustled oat, leaving a
strong odor of patchouli benind her.
Hhe had admired the devotion of her
annt and the girle in attending the
church services so regularly during
Lent; site, too, had aat in the dim, re
ligions light of the perfumed church
trying to recall her wandering thoughts
to the words whieh she uttered, and
had come to the cone! o< ion that she
wae not half so good as her aunt, and
EmiJy, and Alicia. And now, Annt De
Novel lea felt no charity for poor old
Oonsin Zephaniah, and wanted her to
spend all her little money for drees and
fashion to make an outside show.
She bed a fifty-dollar bill yet left
of tho small store which they had
scraped together at home when they
sent her to spend a winter in Boston
with Annt De Rovslks, sad she took it
from her purse wad smoothed it out
upon her desk, fifty dollars f Hhe
had hoped to save it all for Cooin
Zephaniah.
Her pretty shot silk, with the
tlamaase front, was very freah and
pretty still —she hud only worn it some
half dozen times aad her neat little
split-strew hat would look very a ice, if
■he bought new ribbon for it end re
arranged tho flowers. At least that was
the mental conolnaion at which she had
arrived, when Mra. Do Novellas issued
her commands, binding AS an imperial
ukase, that a new Easter suit was
among tho necessities.
Madolino knew vory woll that Hho
was pretty. She nover looked into tho
glass without perceiving the difference
between her fresh, apple-blossom of a
faco, and tho enameled and rouged
complexions of her oity cousins. She
knew that her long hair war like bur
nishod cods of gold, her long-lashed
eyes liko stars ; and she would have
liked a new Easter suit as well as any
one—and the bonnetß in Madame Prin
tcmp's window looked infinitely beauti
ful in her eyas, with their French roses
and perfectly simulated violets ; but
there was the old man and his enfeebled
wife to remomber—the ancient relics of
a bygone generation who had outlived
tho sympathy of almost all tho world.
"No," said Madelino to herself, "1
must not spend this money, Easter suit
or no Faster suit."
80 she sat hersolf down ia tho rainy
March afternoon to rip up tho shot silk
dress and alter it so that even Alicia
and Emily should not know it fcr the
same.
But with all her skill in amatour
dressmaking tho folds would not hang
stylishly, tho old creases would obtrude
themselves on tho eye, and tho costumo
proclaimed in its every glisten and puff,
"Mado over, made over, made over !"
Emily Do Novelles shook her head.
"Madeline," said she, "it's of no use.
Yoti never can wear that dross ! Aud
your hat, too A plain split straw, with
out so much as a French flower."
Madelino burst into tears.
" Very well, Emily," she said. " Then
I will remain at home. You need not
foar that 1 will disgrace the congrega
tion of 8t Etheldroda on Easter Hun
day."
And this pledgo evidently relieved
the mind of Miss Da Novelles.
" For," as sho afterward told her sis
ter Alicia, "theso half civilized country
girls are capable of anything."
And the two elegant sisters did not
take the trouble, when Captain Braba
zan dropped in to 5 o'clock tea, to send
up word to Madelino that thero was
company in the parlor.
" I suppose sho don't care to see me!'*
the captain thought, with a sinking
heart, when at last he went away, after
having lingered as long as politenosa
wonld admit.
" I supposed he never asked for me !'•
Madeline Mid to herself, as, from her
window, she saw hie retreating figure
naunter slowly down the street. " Well,
it matters less than ever now abont the
Easter suit. Nobody will know whether
I have one or not."
Hot when Easter eve came, and
Madeline was crying softly in her own
roorj, to think of the radiant spring
snnset that was flooding all the world
at home, the oolored waiter came grin
ning np to the door.
" Please, Miss Maddy." ho Mid,
"hyar's a basket o' laylocks. Heal
springy-smellin', Ido declare! Wid
de eappen's card—Cappen Brahaxan.
mi sa P
Madeline nttered an exclamation of
delight
Ob, the lovely, purple things ! Clus
ters of lilac fragrance I Delicious re
minders of the springtide at home.
Ob, how kind it was of Captain Braba
7.1 n to remember that she was a country
girl, exiled here among brick walls!
Madame Cressonde's young woman
Mt np until 12 o'clock that night
to finish the three elegant costumes
which Mrs. DeNovollss and her daugh
ters had ordered. The threo bonnets
did not oomo homo nntil Sunday morn
ing.
But Madeline watched them Mil forth
to church, to tho gii tor of golden sun
beams and the clanging of melodious
bells, like three fashion-plates.
And then she put on her plain
little "mtde-ovor dres," and, taking
a fresh cluster of lilacs from the vase
of water, pin tie 1 it across the split
straw hat.
"Therel" aho thought, as she tied
the strings under her chin, "no Paris
exotic ever looked half so sweet as that!
And I am sure that heaven will inoline
its ear no less favorably to my praysrs
than if I went to St. Etheldreda sin
Worth'a newest design."
And she crept to the little oh n rob in
the adjoining street, whish had long
gone ont of fsahion, and whore the
spectacled old olergyman practiced all
tLe austerities of the early fathers,
through dire necessity.
She eat there listening to the as.
theme and thinking 'of the dear once
at home, and wondering if Oonsin
Zephaniah and his poor old pnrblind
wife sronld ever know that ahe (little
Madeline Moray) had jaat her mite to
relieve their tore necessities, and re
calling Tagualy the poor widow whose
offering bed onoe been so precious to
the Holiest of eyes. Hers was not
much now, bnt aha also had givan it
from a freo and willing heart.
As ahe moved quietly and srith rever
ent, downcast eyes ont of the oh arch,
•erne one stepped to her aide.
" You have dropped something, Miss
Moray," said OapUin Brabaean.
And ho held up tho cluster of lilacs,
drooping now, and a little faded.
Hho put her hand up to nor bonnet,
with a scarlet blush.
"Your lilacs, Captain Brabazan I" sho
said.
Ilia face brightened.
" I am proud that you doomed them
worthy of wearing," said he. "Yonr
oonsin told me that yon wero snch an
anchorite that yon did not care for
flowers or books or society—that you
wero not evon going to church on
Easter day."
"I ? 'cried Madeline. "Oh, Captain
Brabazan, 1 like all thrco 1 I cried over
your flowers whon they came lost night.
They seemed to mo liko doar friends
from homo. And I wore them in my
bonnet becanso— becauso I could not
affcrd artificial blossoms. There I now
you know jnst how poor I am I"
And she laughed evon while tho rose
ate tinge suffused her cheek.
" I do not know whether you ore poor
or not," said ho; "bnt I do know that I
think you aro the nearest perfection of
any girl whom I ever saw !"
"May I tell you all about it?" she
asked, hurriedly; "for I do not want
yon to think me avaricious or secui bar
barian, as my cousins sometimes pro
nonnce mo. And then you shall tell mo
whether yon think I am right or
wrong."
They walked slowly homo from
church in the soft, bland sunlight of
that Easter day, and when they reached
the brown stone mansion on Hilverston
street, Captain Brabazan went in and
formally asked Mrs. D 3 Nevelles' per
mission to address her niece with a
view to marriage.
That was Madolino Moray's Easb-r
gift. A man's trno and loyal heart
the dawn of a great happiness over a
life which, up to this hour, had been
but chill and solitary.
Thero was no denying that Mrs. Do
Novclloswas mnch disappointed. Emily
and Alicia had been in society tbree
seasons now without having received
any eligible offer; and it did seem
strange that this pale, qtiito littlo girl
from tho backwoods, as Mrs. De No
velles contemptuously expressed it,
should have carried off such a glitter
ing priza as Captain Brabazan—for it
never occurred to them that Madeline's
sweet unselfishness and quiet self de
nial could possibly Lave anything to do
with the matter.
And as long as old ConMn Zephaniah
and his wife L<ved, Captain Brabazan
made them an annual allowance, which
was ample for their simple wants.
A Rroad-and-Wster Unci.
Immense credit in duo to the second*
in an encounter recently fought be
t ween two y -ting Hungarian noblemen
at Grooswardein for introducing a
peculiarly happy innovation into the
sanguinary and senseless prwctice of the
dnello. These fiery youth* had ex
changed the description of inanlt that
could only, from their point of view, l>e
washed out by blood, and accordingly,
as the phrase goes in such oases,
" placed themselves in the hands of
their friends." The friends met in
solemn conclave, and after care
fully discussing the merits of the qusr
rel raferrod to them for settlement,
came to tho conclusion that the fol
lowing method of combat would exact
ly meet the exigencies of the situation.
Two tiny spheres, one white the other
black, wero placed in a wineglass, and
tho "principals," having been blind
folded, were asked to "draw." Both
the would be combatants, it should be
observed, had ple/g-d their honor to
observe tho conditions of strife pre
scribed by their seconds in common.
He to whose lot the black ball fell
fonnd himself, to his infinite surprise
and discomfiture, compelled to fast
upon bread and water for a whole fort
night, under the supervision of his ad
versary's "friends." According to the
Ma-jvar Potgar, be fulfilled bis pledge
with a good grace, to the full satisfac
tion of his wounded honor, if not of
bis healthy appetite. —Londm Telegraph.
Auroral Display*.
The recent anroral display on a Son
day night extended all over tho country,
and waa the moat brilliant display of
the kind ainee 1860. Professor Henry
Draper, the astronomer, said to a New
York reporter that he viewed it through
the spectrum with a great deal of in
terest. "It was not so well defined in
its colors as the display in 1860, M he re
marked. "We know more abont the
anrora boreal is now than we did then,
bat there is still mnoh to be learned. It
Is of coarse an electrical display, and
is abont 100 miles above the earth.
Yonng, who is good anthority on the
subject, oonnects it with spots on the
son, and there is a gooa deal of evi
dence bearing on the point. Bbcnld any
new spots be discovered on the snn that
wonld be farther proof. There is almost
a vacuum where this display takes pi so*.
We can prodnee something tike it in a
vacuum tube. The red lines are caused
by vapor in the atmosphere, bat what
aanses the greet lines is not known."
ttOUDM OP WIHDOM.
Htrivo and encourage a mind[and will
of your own.
Littlo things console us because little
things allliot us.
Never be penmaJod contrary to your
better judgment.
Want of care does uh more damage
than want of knowledge.
" Wishing" is the stumbling block of
progress and reform. " Doing " is the
lever that moves the world.
1 never had a man come to mo for ad
vice, but before ho got through ho had
more advice to offer than to ask for.
One of tho most fatal temptations to
the weak is a slight deviation from tho
truth, for tho sake of apparent good.
Tho moon, liko some men, is tho
brightest when it is full; but, like them
again, it HOOU begins to lose its luster.
1 don't want to know people that look
ngly and disagreeable, any more than 1
want to taste dishes that look disagreo
able.
If you will follow this rule you will
save yourself many a heart ache: " Never
bite till you And out whether it is broad
or stone."
One may be betrayed into doing
things by n combination of other cir
cnmstances which one may never have
done otherwise.
If yon can trust yonr neighbor yon
i may possibly be a credulon* man, bnt
if yon can bonostly trust yourself you
mttßt bo a good one.
Love, hatred, jealousy, destiny are
blind; tho eyes of justice are blind
folded; and one must then quit life in
: order to l>o able to see in it.
The Hire* of Head*.
The controversy over the question of
whelhtr men's hcadsj are smaller now
than they were a hundred years ago
suggests to a Now York paper another,
the inquiry whether there is any note
worthy difference in the sine of heads at
the present time in this city among the
representatives of various races, nation
alities and social conditions. Careful
inquiry among the hatters fails to de
velop the existence of any iuch differ
ence, to such an extent or with such
regularity of application that it can
bo formulated or stated as even ap
proximating to a fact A celebrated
uptown hatter said, when questioned
on the subject: " With the excep
tion of Spanish Americans, who seem to
have generally small heads, I know of
no people whose heads do not average,
in point of sue, just about the same as
any other people's heads. Cuban and
Bonth American heads are frequently as
small as 6} and seldom run over 7j.
IS ill then it moat be remembered that
they aro generally rather undersized
people, with small, bony structures.
Where you come across a big one
among them his head ia likely to be, in
proportion, equally as exceptional as
his body. The Bcotch are, as a rule,
big-boned people, and they bavo big
heads, running very generally from
7\ up to 71, and in some instances as
high as 8. But the latter number ia
rare, even among the Hootch. Leave
->nt these nationalities of extreme* and
all the rent aro just about equal.
An Elephant's Revenge.
There is no creatnro in tho world so
cunning as the elephant, and no crea
ture, moreover, so full of duplicity.
The elep ant in the Jardin dea Plantes,
in Paris, never forgave his keeper for
having made him ridiculous before the
crowd assembled to witness his per
formance on a penny trumpet, which
tho poor man had been at the greatest
pains to teach him. A note camo out
in "J'ai du bon tabao" with a shrill
squeak, when it should have l>een deep
contralto. The creatnre was vain of its
artlstio skill, as all artists are, and,
flinging down tho trumpet, made a
charge against the iron bars of its cage,
which sent the crowd flying right and
left in the utmost terror, while the
keeper, who fortunately had time to
creep through the opening left at the
bottom of the cage for the purpose of
escape in time of danger, ran out of
sijht immediately. He never dared
enter the cage again, for he knew by
the expression of the creature's eye that
the grudge sras owing still. The new
keeper wiaely withdrew the penny
trumpet, and "J'ai du bon tabao" sras
beard no more. To wound the vanity
of the greatest of beasts is as dangeroas
as to trifle with that of the greatest of
moo arc hs.
Hounded to His Grave.
Frank Armstrong, who committed
suicide recently In San Franciaoo, waa
persecuted to his death. Ha once
served a brief tarn in tha Oregon pen
iteutlary for stealing an ovarooat while
drank Being afterward restored to
honeet employment in Portland, a very
ex-convict who knew him blackmailed
bim in snms ranging from fifty ©cut*
to 910, and kept bim in eonatant fear
of loaing hie plsee. Ha oonld stand
the psraisteot calls for money no longer,
and got on n apree and than resigned,
going to San Franciaoo,
TOPICS OF Til K BAY.
It is believed that not fewer than
40,000 Americans will visit Europe this
year, which Is a largor number than
ever before, and that the emigration
hither will rise to 450,000. This jus
tifies the most extremo .vigilance con
cerning the vehicles which are to trans
port so large a number of souls.
Armies are used for difforetApur.
poses in different countries. In Russia
the military and civil authorities are
kept busy looking for dynamite mines
laid for the purpose of annihilating the
sacred person of tho czar. I t's a bad
duy for the searching party when he
fails to discover a Nihilist contrivance
of this kind. If bo doos fail the knout
or a somewhat protracted sojourn in
Siberia awaits him.
During the past year 2'>2 fatal acci
dents occurred in the streets of Lon
don, being tho largest number ever re
ported. Tho figures arc surprisingly
large, and yet it was only one out of
every 10,000 inhabitants, tho great me
tropolis now having a population of
over 4,700,000. Of tho 252 fatal acci
dents, 140 were caused by vans, wagons,
drays and cars, forty-four by omnibuses
and street cars, thirty-one by cabs and
fourteen by carriages, while thirteen
persons were killed by horses.
Oarihaldi showed, on his recent visit
to Sicily to attend tho celebration of
tho Vespers, how weak and infirm he
has become. 110 was placed in a car
riage to be taken to tho villa prepared
foi his reception, and rode doubled up,
with uh; head on the knees of his wife,
who sat opposite, Thero were 00,000
people in the crowd gathered to wol
como him, but in *;inpatby with bis
sufferings they stood in silence with
uncovered heads, as their illustrious
guest passed among them.
English missionaries have begun to
work in the peninsula of Cores—a land
from which almost all Europeans have
heretofore been jealously excluded. The
aria of Corea ia 90,000 square miles and
the population about 10,000,000 souls
The language ia qnito unlike both
Chinese and Japanese, and much diffi
culty has been experienced iu learning
it. Some progress haa, however, been
mode in this direction, and the transla
tion of the New Testament has been be
gun by a Presbyterian missionary named
Ikw.
The bureau of statistics at Wash
ington has furnished figures giving the
exports ot oleomargarine to Europe
during the last six fi'cal years, snd the
value thereof. Iu 1875 there were
1,098,401 pounds exported, valued at
870,483. in 1881, 25,327,876 pounds,
worth $381,566, were exported. In each
cise the figures are for the fiscal year
ending June 30 of the year named. The
quantity of dairy butler exported iu the
year ending Jnnc 30, 1881, was 31,560,-
600 poauda, valued at 86,257,024. At
thia rate in about two yoara more the
quantity of oleomargarine and butter
ine exported will equal the exportation
of the real article.
It has been calculated by a recent
writer on vital statistics thst, of ten
children born in Norway, s little over
seven reach their twentieth year; that
iu England and the United Slates of
America somewhat loss thsn seven reach
that stage; that in France only five
reach it, and in Ireland less thsn five.
He tells us thst iu Norway, out of 10,000
born, rather more than one out of threo
reach the age of seventy; in Enr.lsnd
one out of font, in the United Htates,
if both sexes bo computed, less than
one out of four; in Frsnoe leas than one
oat of eight, aud in Ireland less than
ouo out of eleven, and he adds these
figures aro significant even based on
what may be called the commercial riew
of the vital qnestion.
An exchange has this to say on the
subject of elephant acclimatisation :
The fact already demonstrated that
elephants can be bred in this country
would seem to indicate thst the species
might be naturalised and acclimated.
Being of a t.uybl disposition, a few
generations wmld domesticate them as
thoroughly as horses and cows have
been. The climate of the Southern
States wonld be friendly to them, and
for large operations in farming and the
mechanic arts they oould be mads as
useful as they are in India. As milk
prodnoers, they surpass the cow in point
of richness, if not of economy. Pro
fessor Doremua, the ohemist, has an
alysed that from the mother ot Bar
naul's baby elephant, and prononnoea
it in flavor and odor superior to that of
many animals.
An American Jady who bee spent
some time ia Hungary, writes enthusi
astically about the beauty of the peo
ple. The men are simply gorgeous
creatures— Um handsomest in tbe.vrorld.
The first of them she saw, the captain
of a Danube steamer, was "a very god
in physique," and aha aooo found that
ha was oaly a fair specimen of the
vase. These grand fellows drees with
taMe and magniScenes. In describing
one of than who visited her, aha My
".lie came in iobei an uplendid aa tba
robes in an Eastern tale. lie vore tba
costliest of velvets, the richest of
satin* and the meat of fare. He wora
a girdle of precious stones, and bis sn
perb mantle was fastened across bis
breast by large rosettes composed of
jewels. lam willing to confess that I
was impressed. Never bars I seen a
man so splendidly arrayed and so
woriliy of it. You can fancy bow im
posing a eompany of these nobles are
on state occasions. I attended requiem
inas at which the nobles were all
present in this magnificence, and they
were simply dazzling. Costly jewels
are sometimes worn at the knee or
a dom the tops of the high boots, which
are always worn outside of the trou
sers." The women are pronounced
nearly a match to the men.
fine of the mott singular of all avo
cations is dotenbed by an English
journal in away to indicate that
it Las an established ex isle no :n Lon
don. It is nothing more nor less
than the bringing off of prize- fights,
ami the business gives employ
ment to a number of middlemen.
The middleman has his regular be at
and calls on regular customers. He
also has bis pairs of gladiators always
at call. Happening that n set of men
wish to see a genuine combat, they
aimplv subscribe twenty or thirty or
fifty pounds, and place the money in
the middleman's hands. A £2O " mill"
is not a very sanguinary affair
but £SO will buy a good deal of blood
fhed. When the money is deposited
the agent picka out " two lads that
would like to have a turn." The " lada"
are mostly Lazy louts who do not love
work. They train for a week on money
supplied by the " merchant" who
arranges the meeting. When tbey are
finally placed in the ring they really do
hnrt each other, and the sj>ectators
Lave the pleasure of battle and con
spiracy simultaneously. There are
half an hour of heavy hitting, a few
spirited rallies on the cords, a large
amonnt of bad language., and then on*
man gives in. The middleman pockets
half the money, and the rest is divided
between the battered ruffians who afford
the entertainment.
CLII'I'IMiS FOR THE Cl'RIOl'S.
ID 1H75 sixty ton* of human hair
•were exported from Chin* to Europe.
AD ostrich egg in considered equiva
lent to twenty-lour eggs of the domes
tic ben.
In Jsvs sn inferior must walk with
his bsnds on heels till his superior is
out of sight.
Paper mule from strong fibers can
now l>o compressed in a substance so
hard that nothing but a diamond can
scratch it.
A French statistician has estimated
that the total length of all telegraph
wires at present tail is sufficient vo ex
tend forty-six times around the globe.
Bpiders nave been seen as small as a
grain of sand, and these spin a thread
so fine that it takes four thuuvand of
them put together to equal in site a
single hair.
Pumioe dust, ejected from volcanoes,
sometimes floats out upon the occaa
and makes so thick an accumulation
that boats find it difficult to force their
wsy through it.
Horning kerosene oil can be extin
guished by throwing milk npon It. A
person s first impulse is to throw water,
but the oil rises and tho only result is
to make the fire spread.
A man weighs about forty times as
much as tho new-born infant. The
caterpillar of the silkworm, when fully
developed, is seventy thousand times
heavier than when it came from the
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Noah's ark was 81.662 tons burden.
This (quels the tonnage of about eighty
one first rate ahipa of war. It was 647
feet long, eighty-one feet broad and
fifty-four feet high, making 2,730,782
solid feet.
Two twins born in Kentucky only
four minutes apart will date their
birthdays in different years. One was
born at two minutes to 12. December
31, 1881, and the other two minutes
after 12. Jannary 1, 1882.
In some parts of Germany a curious
custom exists. The peasantry who
posaeas a bit of land, however email,
never enter a church without having
a nosegay in their band. They thus
show that they claim the consideration
due those who possess some property
in the pariah.
The megapod of the Bast Indies
builds an artificial mold in which its
eggs are deposited to be hatched. The
mounds are sometimes fourteen feet
high, with n circumference of 160 feet,
and the decay of the vegetable matter
of which they an composed produces
an artificial warmth sufficient to hatch
the eggs.
In Germany, during the slippery see
son, temporary calks am used for horse
shoes. Two sharp pointed studs sn
inch long are sore wed into boles left in
the shoe, and when the horn sn ten the
•table they am taken out and a button
eerewed into their plaaa, thereby pre
venting ail damage to the home and
keeping the screw holes from filling.