i roppfcg.
t'opptao in the garden,
Ah, Che eplendidahowt
Paarly, crimson banners
In the sunehine's glow,
Haughty lonle and ladies
Of the garden bed,
Bare and lofty petiole,
And a gorgeous head.
Blow, poppies, blow I
Only thero for show.
Poppies by the aero,
Growing tbero for trade |
Prom the pearly banners
Subtle poison made.
Growing there for markot,
Growing to be sold,
Mot for scent or beauty—
No, indeed I—for gold.
Poppies, blow or fade,
You are but for trade.
Poppies in the wheat field,
Now I see a graoe;
Bee and beauty blended
Maki a pleasant place.
80 with daily labor
Blend some pleasure sweet;
As the idle poppies
Grow among the wheat.
Toppies at our feet
Grow among the wheat.
—Harper's Weekly.
THE QUEEN OF THE HAMLET.
A PATHHTIU BTOBY TOLD DX A TRAVELER.
"A bill of hillocks, flowory and kept green,
Bound erosees raised for hope,
With many tinted sunsets where the elope
Vaoes the lingering western sheen."
" Thero you have au exact picture of
% litfle village cemetery in the Baden
Palatinate where I heard one of the
most romantic stories 1 have ever met
in the forty years of my life."
The speaker was a gentleman residing
en West Bprnoe street, Philadelphia,
who had been on a lengthened tour in
Europe, and was laden with anecdotes
md stories of people and adventures.
Sitting in his oozy smoking-room, he
tontinued:
"In the Palatinate it is a customary
ihing with tourists to take long walks,
ometimes for days together. There is
p much to be seen, so many ruined
feudal strongholds and bewitching
ulleys and romantio waterfalls, which
an only be approaohed on foot lam
bnd of walking, and with a knapsack
containing a few necessities strapped
o my baok, and a good stout oaken
tiek in my hand, I have tramped many
. Herman mile—one of theirs equaling
bree of ours—through some of the
aost beautiful scenery in the world,
fou do not trouble yourself much about
lotels. If you cannot find a roadside
an, you are safe to oome across a
armhouse or a hunter's lodge, and a
tospitable welcome is a matter of
outse. One evening I arrived at the
[uaint little village of Rohrback, a
lamlet eighteen miles from Heidelberg,
testling at tli9 foot of a gentle de
iivity which slopes down to the banks
if the Neck or river. On the summit of
he hill were the remains of a baronial
ironghold, whioh I carefully investi
(uted from tower to dungeon.
"Then I wandered down the foot
•aths to the viilage and entered the
uatio church, and soon found myself
aeditating over the brass-sontoheoned
ombs of the robber lords who were
>nee, perhaps, the terror of the dis
rict. What a quantity of high, well-
K>rn mightiness, to translate the old
fforman and Latin inscriptions, was
covered by those broken monuments,
vhioh at once disfigured and adorned
he narrow chancel of the long church,
ind what strange scenes were evoked by
<he contemplation of the tattered ban
ters and rust-eaten casques suspended
kom the rafters above the tombs, I
lingered awhile with my thoughts, and
■hen tempted by the perfume-laden
oreeees which floated through the open
foor, I wandered into the churohyard
where the village elders sleep their last
deep of all amid their dead kindred,
rhe graves were all alike; grassy
nounds and wooden orosses inscribed
with the simple words, ' Pray for the
IOUI of Jobann or Litohen.' One
grave, however, attracted my curious
attention. It stood but a little apart
from the rest and was deftly fenced
around with dwarf shrubs. In the
center of the inolosure, above the green
oaound, wan a small white marble cross.
Tinning its branches around wan a
beautiful white rose tree, covered with
flowers. On the cross was insoribed
• Boeslein,' and beneath the name the
versa:
Ooms onto me all who labor with sorrow and
care overburdened,
And rest I will givs you and pardon, for sake
of toy Bon interceding.
"While musing as to who 'Little
Roso'might have been, I heard a foot-
behind me, and there was the ven
( arable priest of the hamlet, who, see
ing I was a stranger, cordially invited
me to enter an adjacent cottage—his
parsonage—and partake of his evening
meal. The fresh milk and fruit and
the home-made bread were done fullest
Justice to by me, and we sat smoking
together, for the good priest gladly ac
cepted a cigar from me, until a tinkling
bell summoned him to evening service.
Previously be had insisted on my pass
ing the night under hie roof, so, hav
ing rid myself of my knapsack and
waahed off the dust of my journey, I'
followed the pastor to church and
listened with reverence while he sheeted
the benediction to a few dozen simple
looking rostios, whose attention was
hardly restrained by the solemnity of
the rftual from concentrating itself
npon the stranger.
" At the close of the service the priest
and I walked slowly homeward through
the churchyard, but we halted a few
minutes in front of the rose-hidden
marble cross, where the priest knelt a
while in prayer. Later, when sitting in
the porch of the parsonage—the moon
light throwing silver radiance on the
trees, the air fragrant with the scent of
a thousand dowers, the nightingale
singing its love serenade to the evening
wind—l was told Rosslein's sad story.
" 'She was tho pride of the whole vil
lage,' was the faltering exolamation of
the clergyman, as he stifled the emotion
caused by remembrance. 'She was so
beautiful, it seemed as if a sunbeam had
mated with a rose and She their off
spring. We all loved her, for she be
longed to us all. One Christmas eve,
twenty-two years ago, I was standing at
the foot of the altar giving the message
of mercy to my flock :
Como unto me all who labor, with sorrow and
care overburdened,
And rest I will give you and pardon, for sako
of my Son interceding)
when the blacksmith entered, bearing
something in his arms. Ee had been
for a walk of some distance to the postal
town, and I thought when 1 missed
him in his accnstomed seat he had
probably been impeded by tho snow,
whioh was falling heavily. He walked
to where his wife was kneeling and
plaoed the bundle in ber arms. It gave
forth a child's cry, and the woman be
gan to soothe what was evidently an in
fant. At the close of the servioe I
questioned the blacksmith. He told
me that he had found the child lying in
jjfche snow by the roadside within a mile
of the village, warmly wrapped in a
blanket. Half an honr before finding
the infant a closed carraiage had passed
him, driving very qniokly. The baby
proved to be a little girl of a few weeks
old. She was dressed in costly gar
ments, and 500 florins in notes were
found in the folds of her dress. My
housekeeper took charge of the tiny
flower, and meanwhile I made every
kind of inquiry my limited means
would allow, but I could disoover noth
ing about her parentage, and to this day
it still remains a mystery. Howeveri
we willingly adopted her among us, and
all the village became her foster parents
and she their queen.
" 'She grew up sweet and beautiful as
an angel. At every wedding she was
bridemaid and dressed the bride.
When a ohild was born Roeslein gave it
its first kißs—a fairy gift 1' any one
died Roeslein placed the white flowors
over the dead. As for the young men
of the village, why, thoy adored her.
She did not show any preference, how
ever; they were all her brothers, noth
ing more. I used to think that Qod
intended her for Himself, and sooner or
later I hoped she would take the vows
of an order.
" •Oa Rceilein's eighteenth birthday
we had a village festival, and a young
Englishman took part in the games.
He was an artist, and had been Btajing
a few days at the Qolden Lion, the inn
yonder. He had oalled npon me and
told me he intended to make sketches
of the ruins and the churoh. Nobody
interfered with him or took any partic
ular notice of him. We were aocus
tomed to foreign artists wandering our
way, and this one seemed a quiet,
gentlemanly young fellow. At the fes
tival he danced two or three times with
Roeilein, but we thought nothing of
that. On the morning following the
artist got np early and departed before
Hans Eberle, who was host in those
days, was out of bed. The amount of
his bill was found on the dressing
table, so no remark was made until
some honrs later, when Roeilein was
suddenly fonnd to be missing. Bearoh
was instituted everywhere, and then it
began to be whispered that Rcedein
had often sat in the chnrchyard with
the artist watching him paint. Finally
our fears were confirmed. The miller
anived in the evening from the postal
town eight miles distant. He had seen
Rcoilein and the artist together, and
the latter had engaged a carriage,
which had driven off toward the Uni
versity city. I hastened to Heidelberg
in a distracted frame of mind. I made
every inquiry to find out if any priest
had married them; but from no one
ooold I obtain any information. I re
turned to my flock with my sorrowful
news. The whole village was in monrn.
ing; all felt they had lost an adored
child, a'beloved sister.
" 'Time that soothes, bat does not
heal, rolled onward, and Christmas eve
had returned for the second time since
Roealein had left ns. What a night it
was I The snow was over a foot deep
on the ground. My people had assem
bled for the watch service, and I ad
dressed my flock and exhorted those
who had not laid their last sins at the
feet df the Savior to do so without delay.
Ooms unto me ail who labor, with sorrow <n a
care overburdened.
And rest I Will give you and comfort, for sake
of mj Sen interceding.
" 'Just as His sweat message was out
" of my lips there approaohed down the
venter able toward the altar a woman
pale, drenched ud tattered, bearing a
ohild in ber arms. Tottering to where
I WM standing on the stops of the sanc
tuary, she laid the ohild at my feet and
then fell forward on the floor. Two or
three quiokly raised ber—she was dead ;
but in the pinched, frozen lineaments
we recognized one long lost—Eoeslein I
Tenderly, reverently, we laid her at the
foot of the altar. She had brought her
harden unto Him, and it had been
aooepted. I knew that her soal had
risen heavenward, and was sure of
loving mercy and forgiveness. We
baried her where yoa saw to-day. Last
year an anonymous writer sent me a
thousand florins for my poor, on condi
tion I erected a marble cross over
Rcoilein'a grave. So I bad one put up
beside the white rose tree the villagers
had already planted above the grass*
mound.
" ' And the ohild ?' I questioned.
"•God returned it to her. It died
within a few days of it mother, and lies
beside her. The betrayer was never
seen by any of ue again.'
" The priest's story affected me very
much," remarked the lately arrived
traveler as he concluded his narrative.
"I sketched the grave before I left the
next morning. I will show it to you
when I have unpacked my things."
Henrj Ward Beeclier'g Early Married
Lire*
The Pall Mall Gazette, of London,
says: The wife of Mr. Henry Ward
Beecher has recently been communi.
oating some interesting details of her
early housekeeping experiences to an
inquisitive reporter. When she married
Mr. Beecher was the minister of a small
ohuroh out West, with a stipend of
seventy-five dollars per annum. As the
congregation consisted of twenty-four
women and one solitary man, who was
excommunicated, the only wonder is
that they were able to raise so muoh.
They began housekeeping in two small
rooms over a store; and this is the way
in whioh they furnished them:
| )"My brother gave us a piece of carpet,
and other members of the family gave
us a cooking stove and two lamps. A
classmate of Mr. Beecher gave him a
set of knives and forks, and a friend
gave a set of orockery. When we got
home we asked permission to paint the
dirty floor. The proprietor denied our
request, because he was afraid "it
would rot the wood." Mr. Beecher
threw off his ooat, rolled up his sleeves,
and helped me to scrub the rooms with
soap, water and sand. It was some
days before the stains were got out We
were given a table and a double bed,
and I made mattresses of cheap material
and filled them with husks. Then Mr.
Beecher wanted a book-case. I saw
a dilapidated old wash-stand lying in
the yard. It was very far gone, but
Mr. Beeoher fastened it together, put
some shelves on it and it answered
nicely for a bookcase. On a piece of
wire stretohed across one oorner of the
room I hung a curtain of fourpenny
calico and kept behind it my washtub,
flour barrel and oooking utensils. On
a stick across the top Mr. Beecher hung
his saddle. I fastened some sticks to
the legs of the single bedstoad and
made it a high fourposter. I hung a
canopy about it, and on a pieoe of tape
inside we hung our clothes. When we
had company we took the canopy down."'
They had a hard struggle in making
both ends meet, but Mrs. Beecher
agrees with her husband in regarding
these early days as the happiest in their
life.
Weighing the Earth.
One would scarcely think that the
world oonld be weighed in soales like a
package of merchandise, but Her yon
Jolly, of Mnnioh, has done so, and finds
it is 5,792 times as heavy as a body of
water of the same size, or about half as
heavy as if it was of solid lead. He
plaoed his balance in the top of a high
tower, and from each of the scales sus
pended, bv means of a wire, a seoond
ecale at the foot of the towur. Two
bodies which would balance in the
upper sealos were out of balanoe when
one was removed to the lower soale,
because the latter was nearer the center
of the earth. By comparing this differ
ence with the difference caused by a
large ball of lead in olose proximity to
the lower soale, he obtained an equa
tion which, with the known size of the
earth, gave the density of the latter as
above stated.
A Mansolenm to Cost $40,000.
The Seligman family of bankers, of
Now York, are about having built a
splendid mausoleum in Cypress Hills
oemetory, and the plans have boon
chosen. It will be composed of gran
ite, hexagon in form, and with a dome
on whioh will be a bronze figure.
There will be a vault containing ten
cells on eaoh side. This will be lighted
by uindows in the dome. The entranoe
will be through a sort of portico, with
granite columns and gates of the same
for the interior. The exterior gates
will be of wrought bronze. Stained
glass windows will shed their oheering
light. The whole will coat abont
$40,000
EGIPTIAI PECULIARITIES..
The Pfww-Lnlnr Peeplo ef Upper Frrpt-
Tho Uadire—A Romance ef the Period.
The following is from an artiole on
the tronble in Egypt whioh appeared in
the Hew York Herald: The action o'
the governor of Minieh, 136 miles np
the Nile from Cairo, was a perfectly
natural proceeding for that official, when
he refused to permit any iuterfereuoe
with the administration of the railways.
The provinoe, of whioh Minioh ie the
oapital, is agriculturally one of the
richest in Egypt, and the governor con
siders himself an important factor in
the governmental machinery along the
Nile. When travelers stop there ho
generally provides an elaborate Turkish
dinner, the inevitable ohibooks and
coffee, and gayly-oaparisoned asses and
donkeys on whioh to monnt to visit the
points of interest lying beyond the
town. Then follows the fantiaser,
with the Egyptian dancing girls;
the grahosec, whioh holds the
party far beyond midnight to the
sonnd of revelry and the rude native
music. Few of the largo towns along
the river have ever had a heartier or
more hospitable mudir than Minieh.
The town is simply a mnd oi'.y of some
15,000 souls, dwelling near the bank of
the river in all of the squalor pecnliar
to the Egyptian habitations. In these
settlements, and as saoh they are far
ther to southward, the entire popula
tion—men, women and children—are
made to work. The mndir holds his
appointment from the khedive or
through the minister of the interior,
who managee the entire local admin
istration. The mndir has supreme
charge of the taxation in his province ;
in faot, is king of the domains over
which his jurisdiction extends. He
must, however, be aarefnl to see that
every intermediate official between bim
sclf and the khedive receives handsome
preeents, and neither mast they be in
significant in point of valne, usually
consisting of a handsomo bag of
British sovereigns with proffers
of eternal gratitude. At least
annually the mndir makes a visit
to Cairo, and there he is expected to
signalize his advent in the capital by
substantial testimonials to the khedive.
These generally take the form not only
of money, bat also of the handsomest
Egyptian maidens whom ho can find in
the province. Nor is their social qnal
ity respected. There have been in
years gone by terrible reprisals on ao
oonnt of the ruthless desecration of tho
household. Among the more spirited
Bedonin Arabs, when their daughters
and sisters have been seized for the
harem of the mndir or the khedive, the
scheme of blood revenge has been de
veloped, and retribution has followed
until whole families have bten swept
away. It thus appears that the mndir
is bat a slave of the rnling power in
Cairo, making the better governor when
he can exoel in pandering to his imme
diate snperior, the minister, and then
to the khedive.
It is not always safo for a governor of
a province to reside among the people
whom he has plundered and oppressed.
It also not infrequently happens that
the governors are nothing bnt common
assassins, who are called upon to exe
cute the summary or secret vengeanoe
of some minister or favorite at oonrt of
ali cm they may stand in awe. A case
that occurred while the llerald corre
spondent was in the upper oountry was
directly to the point. A Turkish official
of high rank—he was a bey—had long
been a favorite of the khedive at Cairo,
for they had been educated together in
Franoe. This official wbr, therefore, a
great deal around the palace, and it oc
curred to the kliedive's mother that she
would like to marry off a favorite child
of the harem to a gallant officer in re.
oeipt of large pay. The bey was sum
moned by the khedive and told that
his mother had found him a
wife—a wondrous creature. O'
oonrse in the East such an intima
tion to a subordinate is simply a com
mand; yet whilo the hey submitted he
seoretly chafed at what he considered a
gross imposition upon a friend, a Turk
ish aristocrat, and an officer accus
tomed to European liberties and ens
toms. The marriage took place and
was a grand fete, costing many thon
sand dollais. Of oonrse the bey had
never looked upon her faco nntil after
the nuptial knot was tied, and when he
did neither the oonntenanoe nor the
owner thereof was to his liking. Two
years went by and the khedive's mother
perceived that the yonng wife was
slowly pining away. At last persistent
inquiry made the girl disclose that from
the very honr of the oeremony the bey
had defined to treat her as his wife.
The khedive's mother— a perfect tigress--
hastened to his highness and demanded
that the bey should be put to deat h
instautly. n-3 oonld not refuse. The
bey was immediately seised, oonveyed
by a guard 1,800 miles to the
Sondan, and upon his arrival the gov
ernor-general was ordered to strangle
him; bat the governor-general hap
pened to be the life-long friend of the
condemned man and allowed bim to
live. Six different orders were sent to
hit; him, bnt not one of them was
| obeyed. The Herald correspondent
WM the guest of this gentleman in the
Soudan tor over two months, and these
facts oame from his own lips. A better
eduoated man one seldom finds in the
world's travel. His books were Miohe
let, Victor Hugo, Abont, Schiller,
Goethe, Heine, Irving, Ds Tocqueville
and others. He finally joined caravans
with the Herald correspondent on a
journey of 1,500 miles to Cairo, and
returned to Hhartoum to beoome gov
ernor general in the very oapital where
he had been sent to be put to death.
He has sinoe been minister of publio
instruction in the servioe of the present
khedive.
Qucsr Happenings.
A olond, seen in Gnatemala for eight
oonseentive days, was fonnd to oonsist
of seeds floating in the air.
An Ontario farmer, Nathan Briscoe,
died in fifteen minutes from the effects
of a bee sting on the forehead.
A Hawkinsville, Ga., man weighs 225
pounds, his wife 220 pounds, and their
fifteen living ohildren are all he*.
weights.
While plowing in a field near Ope
lousas, La., a negro strnok a jar contain
ing SIO,OOO in Bpanish silver coins of
the date of 1779.
Louisville was darkened recently by
a flight of black flies whioh ooverodthe
street lamps so that their light was al
most entirely obsonred.
A dog belonging to the Monongahela
house, Pittsburg, had its leg broken.
After meditating,' apparently, for a
time, it ran to the river, and, deliber
ately diving undor water, was drowned.
A. B. Camp, a miner at San Benite,
had just kissed his wife who had come
to visit him after many years of separa
tion, and, as they were leaving the
tnnnel, he a little in advanoe, the roof
fell in and she was killed.
While sinking a shaft in the gold
mine of Gary Oox, in Oherokee county,
Ga., many feet below the snrfaoe the
workmen came upon two human heads
carved out of marble. They were not
finished, bnt had evidently been oat
with good tools, and lay upon a bed of
slate.
As Charles Siloway, engineer, of Me
chaniosvillo, was entering a cut with
his train he saw the embankment
giving way, and, knowing he oonld not
stop his train in time to avert an
acoident, he polled the throttle wide
open. The train sped with lightning
like rapidity, and had barely oleared
the eat when the earth fell, covering
the track ten feet deep for a distance
of 200 feet.
Tho farm of Goorge Smith, in Faulk
ner county, Arkansas, has been undea
cultivation for more than half a etm
tnry, yet, as he was plowing a field
rcoently, he turned np some ancient
relics ; and in a ravino, reoently swept
by an overflow, ho found a large number
of human skeletons, with earthen
bowls, shells and arrows. The eknlls
were all encased in vessels made of
olay, and one, with handsomely en
graved ornaments, scorned to denote
that the sknll belonged to an important
personage.
Tangled tyiostlons for Scientists.
There is a family in the neighbor
hood of Lewistown, this ooanty, of
whioh the following marveloas history
has jnst been related to us by a re
sponsible physician, well acquainted
with the facts. Some fifteen or twenty
years ago the father and mother had a
quarrel, and for a year the former never
spoke to the latter. A child was born
abont eight months after the quarrel,
and he has never spoke a word to his
father. They work together days at a
time, and the father talks to his son,
bnt he never answers. The yonng man
has been questioned ia regard to the
matter, and he says that £e is never
prompted to speak to his father, that he
has never had an impulse to speak, and
that it seems to him that there has never
been any ocoasion for him to speak to
his father ; that he bears his father no
ill will, and wonld speak to him shonld
he ever be prompted so to do, —Mc~
chunks tovrn (Afd.) Clarion.
A Sand Storm.
A remarkable sand storm, acoompan
ied by an intensely nold temperature, Is
mentioned in Icelandic journals as hav
ing raged on that island for two weeks
during the past spring. The air WM
filled with dry, fine sand to saoh a
degree that it WM impotsible to sea
for more than a short distance, and tha
sun was rarely visible, though the sky
was clear of olands. Nobody ventured
out of his house exoept upon matters of
the most urgent neoessity, and many
who were exposed to the storm wen
frozen. The sand penetrated into the
houses through the minutest orevtees.
It was found mixed with ariiolee of food
and drink, and every breath drew it into
the longs. Thousands of sheep and
horses died.
Discretion Is more necessary to woman
i ban eloquence, because they have less
trouble to speak well than to apeak
little.
*Tfre FAMILY DOCTOR.
Women drew so that when oo* at
doors they only half fill the lungs with
air, oonseqnently the flash is flabby,
nerves are weak, brains unmagnetiot
and their mental efforts superflciaT'
oompared with what they might be.
Those who live in a malarious climate
should not go out before breakfast nor
after sundown, neither should they,
sleep on the ground floor. Fruit and
grains are the best food for malarious
people; meats and greasy substances
ought to be avoided.
A sick person who is curable can't
die, provided he is put under righ con
ditions, by and with his own consent,
and keeps there. Thousands die be
cause they are not brought under the
obstructed operations of the laws which
God has ordained for them to live by.
Providence would appear to be con
spiring or eo operating with those who
have so long labored to reduce meat
eating within reasonable limits, and to
substitute a milder and more healthful
diet—and if it produce such results the
present scarcity of oattle will be any
thing but a crying evil, however loud
may be the complaints of those who
sell, and those, who, from the nature of
their business have to purchase meat
for their guests.
A physician writes from Peru to make
known the result of his observation of
malarial or intermittent fevers and
their cause. He believes more in sur
faoe chilling as a cause than in germs.
In places of high altitude, where there
was no chance, as he thinks, for ma
larial germs to thrive, he has seen typ
ical and extreme attaoks of intermittent
fever from exposure daring the 000 l of
evening in the same clothing which was
worn in the tropical heat of the day.
To properly proteot oneself by remain
ing indoors daring the evening, or by
wearing an overcoat when going out,
was quite sufficient, in his experience,
to prevent or avoid so called malarial
troubles.— Dr. Foote'i Health Monthly.
Celery.
I have known many men and women,
too, who, from various causes, had be
come so much affected with nervous
ness, that when they stretched ont their
hands they shook like aspen leavee on
windy days—and by a daily moderate
use of the blanched foot stalks of celery
leaves as a salad they became as strong
and steady in limbs as other people.
I have known others so very nervous
that the least annoyance put them in a
state of agitation, and they were almost
in constant perplexity and fear, who
were also effectually oured by a daily
moderate use of blanched celery as a
salad at meal times. I have known
others cured by using eelery for palpita
tion of the heart. Everybody engaged
in labor weakening to the nerves shonld
nse celery daily incite season irndf
onions in its stead when not in season.—
Christian at TPcHb.
Subjugating Vicious Horses.
The Vienna AUeffemeinc ZciUtng tells
of an English horse trainer who has
been giving proofs of his skill in tire
presenoe of the Austrian emperor, "the
most unmanageable stallion in the
royal stable was brought out and turned
over to him. He speedily had the ani
mal under control, and, having opened
its month, found a small abscess in the
jaw that was caused by the sharp and
jagged edge of a tooth. Th'is he re
lieved at onoe by a little filing, to
which the animal submitted patiently.
Then he removed the bit and halter,
leaving the animal entirely free, and
lying down upon the ground, placed
one of the stallion's hind feet on liis
breast to show how completely tamed
he was. His exhibitions of skill were
altogether highly satisfactory to the
emperor, who gave him some valuable
presents and commissioned him to in
spect the other horses in the imperial
stud.
The Language of the Eyes.
Bound-eyed persons see mnoh, live
me oh in the senses, bnt think lest.
Narrow eyed persons, on the other
hand, see lees, bat think more end feel
more intensely. It will be observed
that the eyes of ohildren are open and
ronnd. Their whole life is to reoehre
impressions. It is only when childhood
is maturing toward manhood or woman
hood that thought comes, if it oomes at
aIL Bat what is it that most leads to
reflection ? Experience. Oar errors,
oar shortcomings, oar fail ares—these
teach as to think before we not, to
consider each step, to weigh every mo
tive. When, therefore, the upper eye
lid—for it is that which has the greatest
amount of mobility—droops over the
eye, it indicates not merely reflection,
bnt something painful to reflect about.
Henoe the length or drooping of Ac
upper eyelid betokens oonfession and
penitence. — P\rexoi-yical Magazine.
Fin engines of very rude con
struction were in use in Holland as
early as 161S, but it was not until 100
years later that they were snfflciraitiy
perfected to be of any practical value,
Paris first had a fire engine in 1609,