) Forty.
& the hiyrtay of my yeart, when I thought the
world KM young,
And believed that I was old-at the very
gstee of Life-
It Beamed in every song the birds of heaven
sung
H>at i heard the sweet ID j unction : "Go and
get to ihee a wife I"
And within the breast of youth woke a secret
desire;
For Love spoke in that carol his first mys
terious word,
That to-day through ashen years kindles mem
ory into fire,
Though the l>irds are dead that sang it, and
the heart is old that heard.
I have watched my youth's blue heavens flush
to angry, brooding red,
And again the crimson palsied in a dull un
pregnant gkom;
lam older than some Borrows; I have watched
by Pleasure dead ;
1 have seen Hope grow immortal at the
threshold of the tomb.
Through the years by turns that gave me now
curses, now careeses,
I have fought a fight with Fortune wherein
Love hath had no part;
To-day, when peaoe hard-conquered riper years
and weary bleesos,
Will nay fortieth summer pardon twenty win
ters to my heart ?
When the epriug-tide verdnre darkens to the
smtnmer's deeper glories,
And in the thickening foliage doth the year
a lifs renew,
Will to me the forests whisper once more their
wind-learnt etoiies?
Will the birds their message bring mo from
out the heaven of blue ?
Will the wakened world for me sing the old en
chanted etng —
Touoh the underflow of Jove that, through
all the toil and strife,
Has only grown the stronger as the years
passed lone and loDg ?
Shall I learn the will of Heaven is to get for
me a wifef
The boy's heart yearns for freedom, he walks
hand in hand with pleasure ;
Hade bright with wino and kisses he sees the
face of Life ;
He would make the word a pleasure for a love
that knows not measure ;
But the man seeks Heaven, and finds it in
the bosom of his wife.
ll. C. Hunntr, in Scribner'i.
MRS. RAYNOR'S SYSTEM.
Mrs. Raynor's neatness was a proverb
in the locality in which she lived; her
brother called her " painfally neat,"
and sometimes thought, when driven
almost desperate by her system, that he
wonld buy a farm for himself, and
never again take any of his brother-in
law's land on shares. But once when
he spoke abont it while haying ia the
field, Aaron seemed to feel so badly
that ha promised not to make the
oontemplated change for some time,
anyhow.
"Poor Aaron 1" thought Jack, when
he saw how troubled was his brother
in-law's faoe; "he is worried at the
bare idea that I might go off and leave
him to that rigorous system of Emma's.
For his sake I'll wait awhile; I owe
him some consideration, for if it hadn't
been for me he wonld never have met
Emma."
Aaron Raynor was a very qoiet man,
and never had much to say on any sub
ject ; it was seldom, indeed, that he
gave vent to hia views cn anything bnt
the farm work, but be thought a great
deal, and if Emma had only been able
to read hia thoughts she would have
been saddened, perhaps, by their de
sponding and regretful tendency. He
was, however, a faithful, kind hut-band,
who did all in his power to lighten hia
wife's burdens, and, had he not lived in
an atmosphere of fault-finding, would
have been both genial and affectionate.
The unhappiness and regret which
pervaded the atmosphere of the Raynor
home had its rise in the system, that
terrible system which was the one law
which governed Emma's life. She ate,
drank end slept by it, and never
guessed that ahe made the lives of her
husband and brother unhappy by her
strict adherence to it.
Every Monday morning the washing
was done, rain or shine, and frequently
on a rainy day Jack and Aaron coming
into the big kitohen, wet and tired, and
longing for seats by the Are, fonnd the
stove surrounded by chairs, all filled
with the damp clothes, from which a
steam rose slowly, while across the
room were stretched ropes on whioh
hung the small pieces. It wasn't very
cheering, certainly; bnt Aaron never
complained, because it wasn't his way
to oomplain about anything; and Emma
never took any notioe when Jack found
fault.
On Tuesday the ironing was done,
and well done, too. Every towel, no
matter how old and worn, was faithfully
smoothed and folded evenly; the shirts
were ironed on both sides, and the
neighbors often remarked that the linen
worn by Jack and Aaron would have
done credit to a Chinese laundry.
On Wednesday the baking and churn
ing were done ; on Thursday the home
was thoroughly swept sud cleaned from
garret to oellar ; on Friday the mending
and little jobs were scrupulously at
tended to, and Saturday was devoted to
baking and cleaning generally. Deli
cictua bread, oake and pies came forth
from the oapaoions oven to be
stored away on the pantry shelves, and
the kitohen and hali floors were made
marveloiisly white and clean bj vigor
ous rooming.
No matter what happened, the system
went on as usual—nothing whatever
Was allowed to interfere with that.
Aaron never thought of suoh a thing
as coming into the house without first
removing his boots in the little entry
by the kitchen door and putting on
his slippers which were always in
readiness in a neat bag ; and ho sub
mitted to his wife's rale of retiring
preoisely at 9 o'clock without a single
word of rebellion.
If Jack, in his careless indifference,
sometimes crossed the white kitchen
floor in his muddy boots, his sister,
much to his annoyanoe, followed close
behind him with a oloth in her hand
end carefully wiped up his traoks, with
an expression upon her face which
spoke volumes, and distressed him
more than a good round soolding would
have done.
Emma was unaware that her system
was rapidly destroying her good looks.
She had been a pretty, pleasant girl in
the days when Aaron had courted her ;
a little prim and precise perhaps, but
not given to lectures on neitnees and
order. She lived with two maiden
aunts, who had t:tken pains with her
bringing up, and thoroughly imbued
her with their system of housekeeping.
Mrs. Raynor would not have a ser
vant, for servants were so "slack and
disorderly," and she preferred to see
after her household affairs herself, un
conscious that her voioe was from much
fault-finding beooming a fretful, queru
lous whine ; that lines were marring the
beauty of her white forehead, and
crow's feet gathering around her eyes ;
that her energy and elasticity were less
with every day, and that she was dete
riorating both physically and intellect
ually.
"If I ever marry," said Jcck, one
evening, suddenly dropping on the
floor the newspaper he had been read
ing by the center table, " I shall insist
upon my wife's keeping a stout girl to
help her. You don't seem to be aware
of it, Emma, but you are working your.
self into the grave."
Mrs. Raynor rose from her seat to
pick up the newspaper, folded it neatly
and laid it on the table. Then she took
up her mending again, saying as she did
so:
" I could not endure a hired girl in
the house, Jack. They are all, so
slovenly and neglectful. Mary never
could remember to rub off the kettle in
the morning when she filled it; Bridget
always forgot to hang up the broom,
and Hannah used to upset things over
the stove. I tried all three thoroughly,
and decided never to have another
girl."
"Well, those are only minor evils
when compared to you becoming a fret
ful invalid or dying of overwork.
Brooms are cheap, and what did it mat
ter even if the kettle did happen to be
a trifle dusty occasionally?"
"Jack?" Emma's tone was one of
horrified disapproval. "It's the prin
ciple of the thing more than all else. I
never could find a girl with any system
about her."
Jack smiled grimly.
" And I will say this in my own
praise," pursued Emma, " nobody could
gather a teacpoonfnl of dust in my
house after I had swept it, if they
searched from garret to cellar."
" True; it would be a waste of time
to try," said Jack.
Emma paid no attention to her broth
er's saroastic tone, but said:
" If you ever do marry, I hope your
wife will be orderly and neat. You
have no system about yon, and if she is
no better I pity the house you live in—
it will alwayß be at sixes and sevens."
" I woul rather it should look like a
pig-sty tbau that Fan—my wife—should
overwork herself as you do in keeping
it clean and neat. Aaron, you really
ought to put a stop to Emma's perpetu
ally trifling with her health and
strength."
Jack had expected only a smile and a
sigh from his brother-in-law, but to his
great surprise, Aaron spoke.
"I've talked to her about it often,"
be said; "but it will be neoessary for
her to have a severe lesson before she
will learn oommon sense. I made up
my mind a year ago that I would say no
more to her on the subject."
"Common sense!" said Emma; "I
don't understand you. Would you have
me sit with my hands in my lap and see
the dirt rot the floors through and the
stove go to pieces with rust ?"
"No, but I would have you rest
whe never you are tired. I would not
have you polishthestovoevery Wednes
day and Saturday, no matter how much
else there ia to at'end to; and mop the
kitchen and hall fl >ors at regular inter
vals, even if suffering under a severe
cold, which is liable'to be inoreased by
any imprudence."
" Why, Aaron, I never had a severe
illness in my life I'
" There is no surety that you never
will have one, Emma."
"No, bat I'm well enough always. I've
often felt under the weather, of oourae,
but I have always managed to work it
off. There isn't a lazy bone in my
body."
"If you were taken siok the house
would ba handed over to the tender
mercies of a servant. That fact, if no
other, should make yon prudent and
careful of your health," said Jack.
"And another thing; when we oome in
at night you are tired out, and de
pressed, and often fretful. Now, if you
saved your strength you would feel
bright and cheerful in the evening.
WomeD who work as you do wear oui
before they reach middle ago, or else go
insane. And it makes such a difference
to a man whether his wife is glum and
cross or—"
"It seems to me,"interrupted Emma,
"that Jack has a great deal to say late
ly abont wives. I hope he won't bring
home one of those Hopson girls and ask
me to weloome her."
" And why not ?" asked Jack, with a
sudden rush of blood to his face.
" Tour eyes ought to tell why not,"
answered Emma. "Their house is
forever littered up with all sorts of
trash. Books, newspapers, birds and
plants scattered all around the best
parlor, ami no attempt to systematizs
the work."
" The family is large," said Jack,
" and of course the girls can't keep
things in such order as you do. But
they are all amiable and full of fun—
it's a treat to go there."
" Less fun and more work would be
better for the house," said Emma. "I
don't mean to say that I ever saw soiled
enrtainn there or rusty knives, but there
seems to be no system about the work.
Now, I should have eaoh girl perform
certain duties on certain days—"
"In short make herself into a patent
machine to go by regular windings,"
interrupted Jack. "Perhaps, Emma, it
is as well to tell you now as any time
that I am engaged to Fannie Hopson,
and we are to be married in May."
"Jack 1"
It was all Emma could say, so shooked
was she at this piece of news.
"Of course you pity me from the
bottom of your heart," said Jack, "but
no machine woman for met I have
enough of systems, and I should hate
Fannie if she followed me around to
wipe up the tracks I made on the
kitohen floor, or made a point of wash
ing the windows at a certain hour on
certain days of the week."
With this parting shot Jack walked
out of the room slamming the door
behind him.
The first thing Emma did when the
door closed, was to set Jaok's chair in
its own particular plaoe against the
wall, the next to remark to her husband
that she hoped Providenoe would inter
pose to save Jack from the certain
misery which would be the result of a
marriage with a girl who had no system
about her work.
One Monday morning Aaron rose as
usual at daybreak and went out to at
tend to the chores. He left his wife
asleep, as he supposed, and was glad
that she she uld have the rest, for she
had complained of a severe headache
the night before. He expected, how
ever, to find her at work iu the kitoheu
when he came in with the milk; but
she was not there and no preparation
had been made for breakfast Surprised
and alarmed he went upstairs to the
bedroom.
"Are you sick, Emma?" he asked,
going to the bedside.
She turned restlessly on her pillow,
an anxious expression on her face.
1 -Don't throw away those soapsuds,"
she said. " I want them to mop the
floor when I get these olothes out."
Even in her delirium she knew the
day of the week, and washed as usual.
But the washings were done without
her for many weeks to oome. It was
Fannie Hopson who took charge of the
house, claiming it as her privilege to
do so, and Jaok and Aaron were very
glad to have her instead of an ignorant
domestio. It is to be feared that the
stove was not polished quite so often as
it had been under Emma's reign, and
the kitchen floor was not quite so white,
but Jack and Aarcn were made thor
onghly comfortable every way.
At last Mrs. Baynor was pronounoed
out of danger, but it was long before
she was well. There had to be months
of weary convalescence more trying
than her dangerous illness had been ;
days when she could not hear a door
closed without pain, and hour upon
hour when she wept over the slightest
jar to her quiet She had ample time
to review her past, and recall to mind
its mistakes and follies; more time than
she needed to become convinced that
she had acted without wisdom or dis
cretion ; time to think of the wreck she
had beoome through carrying out the
system she had so thoroughly believed
in; time to resolve to be a different
woman and a better wife should she
ever regain her health.
She learned to love Fannie, who in
May had quietly married Jaok, and con
tinued her duties a if nothing hid oc
curred, and bad long talks with her
young sister in-law to whom she con
fl led her most secret thoughts.
In midsummer Jaok and Fannie moved
to a home of their own, and again
Emm t took in her hands the reigns of
honsehold government. But she had
at last learned a lesson. Her long and
expensive illness had taught her that
■he could not trifle with her health M
she had done, and muob thought during
her convalescence had oonvinoed her
that she had no right to trifle with her
husband's happiness either. Many
things were now neglected, the per
formance of which had onoe been con
sidered a sacred duty, and the servant,
whom Aaron had hired to holp in the
onse was not dismissed for allowing
the dnst to gather occasionally on the
kitchen mantel, or scolded for inatten
tion to the rain marks on the window
panes.
In short (ho on the farm became
truly a home to Aaron, and happiness
reigned where onoe discontent had been
king. No further lectures were needed
from Jack, for Mrs. Raynor's system had
taken wings to itself and flown away.
Sardines.
Sardines are little fishes preserved in
oil. So mnch everybody knows, but
few of the multitude who eat them
know even whence they oome. The
sardine is a little fellow of the herring
family, taking his name from the island
of Sardinia in the Mediterranean. The
best preserved specimens of him come
from the French coast, not in the Medi
terranean, bnt north from Spain to the
English channel. Abont April 1 the
old-fashioned smacks, manned by fonr
men and a boy, begin work, and after
May 1 the flsh move northward,
increasing in size and giving
its torn to eaoh station along the west
coast. The process of putting up the
fish is simple. After sorting they are
put in baskets of twined wire and oooked
in oaldrons of boiling oil; then they are
packed " as tight as a sardine" in their
little boxes, hot oil is poured over them,
and the sealing, after oarefnl expulsion
of air, oompietee the work. The near
ness of the faotory to the plaoe where
the "oatch" is, and the quality
of the oil used, determine the
quality of the flsh. If they must
be oarried far before boiling, packing
in salt is necessary, which toughens the
flesh and gives tho tiny bones more con
sistency and resistance than is agreeable
to the eater. If the oil used is good
olive, all very well; but if a cheap trade
is catered for, or if the packer is greedy,
he may use "arachidi" or peanut oil, or
the cil expressed from ootten-seed, this
disagreeable stuff being more or less
sold as linseed-oil for pain's, and
being largely used as a substitute
for, or adulterator of, the much
dearer olive. The eity of Bordeaux
has a dozen large firms in the sar
dine trade, and these support the great
factories. In 1879, a year of remark
able abundance for thi i fishery, a single
boat not uncommonly brought in
25,000 to 80,000 sardines in a day, at
from thirty to forty oents per 1,000 ; iu
that year 600.000 cases, containing 100
" quarter-boxes," were produced, an l a
part of this is still held in stock, being
deemed of better quality than that of
subsequent years. In 1880 and 1881
the packing was 450,000 and 350,000
cases of 100 qnarter-bnxes respectively,
estimated as worth S3 per case. A savor e
winter is always followed by a poor sea
son, and a good season is therefore ex
pected to follow the mild winter lately
ended. Packers are thought to have
been losing money of late years, the
ost of the flsh having been high,
although the market prioes of the oured
flsh have deolined, in consequence, it is
said of the superior quality of canned
lobster and salmon from this country i
which is becoming a favorite food ia
Europe. In 1881 Bourdeaux sent to
the United States sardines to the value
of 8489,429, against 8676.356 in 1880.
"1 nmUm ral Logan's Daughter."
Mrs. Paymaster Tucker, nee Logan,
was in the members 1 gallery one day,
viewing the Senate proceedings, while
directly in front of her sat two ladies,
one evidently a Washingtonian and the
other a stranger. The native was tak
ing nnnsaal pains to make herself agree
able, and as Mrs. Tucker was about to
sit down said to her friend:
"There, yon see that large man sit
ting in the oenter of the chamber, with
the jet black hair and large mustaoher"
" Yes."
" Well that is General Logan, of Illi
nois. It isn't generally known, but he
is half Indian."
At this point Mrs. Tuoker oontd con
tain herself no longer. So gently tap
ping the lady on the shoulder, she said:
" Excuse me, madame, bat you are
mistaken when you say that Senator
Logan is half Indian.''
" Well, I guess I ought to know,"
warmly responded the stranger; " I
have lived in Washington all iny life,
and the fact of his Indian blood has
never been questioned before."
" I think I ought to know something
about the matter, too," quietly answered
Mr 4. Tuoker. "I am General Logan's
daughter." As Dundreary says, " The
conversation is ended;" and with a let
go-my-hair look at Mrs. Tuoker the
stranger and her companion flounced
oat of the gallery.— WaeMn/to* Letter
The marine faaua ui tbe coral region
of South Florida ia said to be a West
Indian colony, engrafted on the North
Amerioau fanna of the eaat and wet)
ooasta of the peninanla.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
There are in use in the United State*
alone 200,000 telephones and transmit
ters. New York, including Brooklyn,
Jersey City and suburbs, has some 4 000
subscribers; Chicago and suburbs, 8,600;
Cincinnati, 8,500; Philadelphia, 1,800;
Albany, 1,200; Buffalo, 1,150; Balti
more, 1,000; Louisville, 1,000; Milwau
kee, 700; Lowell, 734; Springfield and
Holyoke, 850. Portland, Me., has more
subscribers as to population than any
other oity in the world, having a tele
phone to every fifty-cne persons;
Springfield comes next, with one to
each sixty-two person. The principa
ci'ias of Europe have exohanges, and
its progress has been retarded by the
government teles raph monopoly. Lon
don has bat 1,600.
From the gaps left by the two masses
of rook which last year fell from the
Ruikopf upon the Swiss village of Elm
it is estimated that they formed only a
hundredth part of the whole mass of
the impending earth slip. A Geneva
correspondent writes that the final ca
tastrophe oannoi be long delayed, bnt
that neither the preoise timo nor the
direotion of the inevitable fall can be
foretold. Much depends npon the
weather during the next few months.
Meanwhile, although the people of Elm
watoh the mountain with extreme solio
itude and are always ready for tempo
rary flight, they show no disposition to
leave their homes permanently. A new
oourse has been made for the Sernf,
into which so muoh rubbish fell last
year, and roads have been opened over
the debris to the meadows and moun
tain pastures that lie beyond it. Snow
plows have been brought into requisi
tion to push the rubbish aside—where
it is not too deep—and lay bare the cul
tivated ground underneath; and new
barns and shippens are being built to
replaoe those that were destroyed.
Some idea of the rapid growth of
the coffee trade of the world may be
obtained from the fact that the total
prodaotion, which was 675,000,000
poinds in 1859, has now risen to 1,300,-
000,000 pounds, or nearly doubled. In
Europe alone the consumption of
coffee is said to hare increased 240,-
00,000 pounds in the single year of
1879. As for the producing oountries,
it seems that Brazil now holds the first
place with a total of 560 000,000 pounds
against 330,000,000 in 1870. The eman
cipation of the slaves is, however,
expected to lead to a falling off in the
crop, unless the Ohinamen and coolies
imported from Asia shonld prove un
expectedly well suited for the work of
cultivation Next on the list oome the
Dutoh Indan possessions, which export
about 15),000,000 pounds, the British
East Indies, now exporting over 140,.
000,000, and Venezuela, producing
about 100,000,000. On the other hand
the Antilles Islands have long been
declining in the scale. Jamaica does
not supply half as much coffee as in
1805. Martinique has fallen still more
entirely out of the raoe, and the Re'
union coffee, which was onoe highly
esteemed, and is si ill declared to be of
exaellent quality, finds no longer any
market iu Europe owing to the unfash
ionable bitterness of its taste.
In an artiole on the comparative
growth of nations, the New York Tri
bune remarks: About 800,000 inhabi
tants have been added to the population
of this oonntry during the past year by
emigration, and 1,470,000 sinoe the last
oensns was taken. During the last de
cade the increase was 2 812.190 by emi
gration, leaving 8 785,222 for the in
crease by excess of births over deaths.
More than half as many emigrants as
were received during the whole of that
decade have arrived within the two fis
cal years whioh ended last Friday, and
the popnlation of tbe United States
mast now be about 53,800,000. Recent
enumerations of popnlatioa in Great
Britain, France and Italy enable us to
contrast the growth of this with
other nations. In ten years Great
Brit ain has gained in popnlation 3,400,
000; in two years ihe United States has
gained aboat 3 700,000. In ten years
France gained 1.200,000, having lost tc
Germany a population of about 1,600,-
000, or about 2,600,000 from other
causes, so that tbe joint inoreasu of both
Gjrmany and France, with 77,000,<>0C
of ouople tei. years ago, has been less
than one ha I ■ greater in ten years than
that of the United States has been in
the two v.-ars just ended. Austria
gained from 1869 to 1880 only one
1,981,000 inhabitants, and Italy from
1871 to 1881 only 1,651,000, so that
their joint inorease in ten years was
less than that if the Uoited States has
been in two years. Europe has been
disturbed by wars, it is true. Bat this
oonntry was also retarded in growth by
a great oivii war daring the previoa# de
cade. Looking book three decades
whioh inolnde two of general peace and
prosperity for each country, we find thai
the United Statee has more than doubled
in popnlation, while not one of the
European nations baa inoreaaed as
mnoh as thirty per eent in thirty
years.
Boee Leaf.
Lsaf, Bos* lsaf, ROM Leaf, w* saZM
Tor aha was, oh t so dainly-awMt sad bins
som-ltke and fair I
The flash of morning In her faeo, and la hsV
eyes the evening;
The red of roses In ber lips, Uw rammer |fl|
her hair.
Boss Leaf I Boss Leaf I Oar teoderest swv
resses '
Were never half so tender ae her touches la
reply;
The fondlings of the fairy palate and pinky
velvet fingers.
The clinging of the dimpled arms, the
illumined eye I
(tone Leaf I Rose Leaf I The very aire at
heaven,
i. They loved her, and earns down to her, sad
caught her in delight,
And far away, aoroas a day of wailing antoma
weather,
She glimmered, wavered, swooned away, aafl
drifted out of eight.
—Jamts VT. Itiify, <* ffarpw't Bluer.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
When a doctor oures you for nothing
he is one of nature's no-bill-men.
Tho circus performer is the aesthete
of the period now, for he is in tenia
most of the time.
The jokes of the eireue elown ritual
be made np of kind words. For, yon
know, "kind words never din"
Even if a woman is afraid of a Jane
bug, and oan't throw a stone as straight
as a man, she oan pack more things in
a trunk and chase a han farther than
any man in existenoe.
"Louise, dear, don't let the men octree
too near you when yon ere courting."
"Oh, no, mamma; when Charles is hem
we have a chair between as all the
time." Mamma thinks the answer wn
rather ambiguous.
"Dm't you think I have a good faee
for the stage 7" asked a young lady with
histrionio aspirations, "I don't know
about the stage," replied her gallant
companion, "but yon have a lovely faee
for a 'bus."
"Won't yon please play ua some*
thing, Miss HammerandbangF' asked
Fogg. "I should like to, ever ae
mnoh," she said, looking at her watoh*
"but really I have no time." "So I
have heard," said Fogg, "but we will
overlook that, yon know."
The prize in-every-package tea stores
are at present the snbjeot of a general
crusade. When a man buys a fifty oenl
package of tea expecting to get a five
dollar prize, and takes it to the wife wl
his bosom who opens it and finds therein
a pewter spoon, he feels a yearning de
sire to go ont under the silent stars, bj
the each fenoe, and kick Limself.
GOADED TO DWFEmATIO*.
When fells the soulful mooalisew,
Upon the back-yard fence,
And tuneful feline chorister*
Their serenade commence,
The suffering esthetic,
Bis uttornese forgot,
Hurle madly through the midnight ak
His too-too sunflower pot.
"A youth to fortune and to fame un
known" sent Damas the mannseript of *
a new play, asking the great dramatist
to become his eolaborer. Damas wag
for a moment petrified, then seiaed his
pen and replied: " How dare yon, air,
propose to yoke together a hone and ng
ass?" The author, by return of post:
" How dare yon. sir, call me a horse V
Damas, by next mail: "Bend me yon!
play, my yonng friend,"
It was a youth ot modest purse
Baid soft unto a maid:
"Which would you rather taekl# nexh
loe cream or lemonade V
Ac rose tne mat ten's rosy cheek
Fast flits a winning smile;
" I'll order some of both," ahe said.
Heaven help the young man'e pile.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CUKRIOCS.
The thread which forms ttfe ooooon of
ihe silk-worm is eleven miles long.
Crabs possess oomponnd eyes born*
at the extremities of highly movable
stalks.
The mean elevation of Colorado is
higher than that of any other State ot
Territory.
A oatalpa tree large enough for font
railroad ties can bo grown from seed in
twenty years.
A Japan etc fish, the ohaetodon, shoots
flies wi'h unerring aim by meana of •
drop of water blown from its beak.
From the recent census in China it is
estimated that the population of that
oonntry is not maoh over 230,000,000. ,
Cases have been known where ail kit
one of a starfish's arms have been re
moved, and all the destroyed parts grew
again.
Assuming the average length of man--
kind to be a little under four feet, th
bodies of all mankind, living and dead,
placed end to end, would jut make*
bridge from the earth to the snn.
An ingenious S'.rasburg dentist lately
extracted a molar, and finding it sound
with the exoeption of the joints of th*
roots, he sawed them off. filled the
cavity wi'h gold, an<l replaced it. It
has re established itself.
A piece of coral five inches in height
and six iaohes in diameter was taken
from a submarine cable near Australia,
As the cable had been laid only foac
ye ITS. the coral mast hare attained its
growth in that time.