Worship In the Woods. ,Wuw rich the embroidered est-]** sprawl Ota cither side the common way; Mimn snd purple, (fold mid rod, fn— t. and white, and green and gray, With shades between, Woven with tight in looms unseen. Tb dandelion's disk of gold With luster decks the meadows green, had multiplied a million fold The daisy lights the verdant scene; The blue mint's pinnies hints the bees to their perfume*. A wrinkled rihlion seems the road, Ohspooled from silent hills afar; Bed. like an angel, lifts the load And in my |<ath lets down the bar. And here it brings A tease of life on healing wings. A summer leisure of the cloud That wanders with its trumi>etcr. The wind, is mine; no wrangling crowd Ajmoys the humble worshiper In the white tent Bsnmtli a listening firmament. O|-lloatiiig on the nnihient air Rwwi songs of sacred music rise. And now a voice distinct in prayer like the lark's hymn, reaches the skies. And the "Amen" Vedtoed from the hills and glen. "IV- wood a vast cathedral seems, its dome the overarching sky; Tbe light through trembling branches streams Kroui open windows lifted high; Under the firs Soft dun lows shield the worshiper*. —Gtvrgr It". Hunyay, in Our ConJinmL A GOOD SWORD-STROKE; —OH— Raw Colour! I>e Malet Mot Hi* Match. Tin •re was a high frolic going on hi small town of Southern France one Sbc summer morning toward the end •f the last century. The groat looal fair, which only came once in six ■untlis. was in full swing, and the little market-place of the town, witli its old-fashioned fountain in the middle, and its tall dark houses all round, was crowded to overflowing. Hero was a juggler eating lire, or pull ing ribbons out of his mouth by the yard, amid a ring of wondering peas ants. There an acrobat was turning head over heels, and then walking <>■ his bands with his feet up in the air- A little further on a show of dancing dogs had gathered a large crowd; and efcise by a sly-looking fellow in a stripiil frock. leaning over the front of a wagon, was recommending a eertain run- ffr toothache, which, however, judging from the wry fasts of those who ventured to try it, must have hern almost as had as the complaint itself. The chief attraction of the fair, how ever, seemed to !*• a tall, gaunt man, with an iinmistakahly Italian ; fare, who was standing on a low plat form beside the fountain. He h;wl j borrn exhibiting some wonderful feats •f awonlmanship, such as throwing an, apple in the air and cutting it in two as d fnll, turning up his sword and catch-j iag it by the hilt, striking an egg with it aoligtitly ;is not to break the shell, and •(hem equally marvelous. At length, I having collected a great throng around him, he stepped forward, and chal lenged any one present > try a sword hoot with him, on the condition that, whichever was first disarmed should forfeit to the other half a livre (ton rents). Several troopers who were swagger ing alsiut, the market-place, for there was a cavalry regiment quartered in the tow n, came up one after another j to try their livid ujwin him. Hut to, the great delight of the crowd they all got the worst of it; and one might have guessed from the eagerness with which the poor Italian snatched up the ■amey, as well as from his pale face; and hollow cheeks, that he did not often earn so much in one day. Suddenly the crowd parted to right and left as a handsome young man, in j a ftne gold-laced coat and plumed hat, with a silver-hilted sword by his side, j forced his way through the press, and confronted the successful swordsman. "You handle your blade so well, my friend," cried he, •• that I should like to try a lout with you myself, for I am thought to IK? something of a swords man. But la-fore we login, take these two livres and yourself some food at the French Lily yonder, for you look tired and hungry, and it's no fair aotch be twee* a fasting man and a fan one." " Now may Heaven Ideas you, my had, wlmever you may lie!" said the man, fervently; " for you're the first who has given me a kindly won! this many a day. I ean hardly expect to ha a match for you, but if you will be pleased to wait hut ten minutes, I'll 0*11) do my liest." Tbe fencer was as good as Ids word, and the moment he was seen to re mnant the platform the lookera-on crowded eagerly aiound it, expecting a well-fought bout; for they had all ■ma wliat lie could do, and they now aaooguiml his new opponent as the Jtnang Marquis do Mulct, who had the name of being the best swordsman in Ma whole district. Their expectations were not <UHU)>- pointed. For the lirst minute or so the watching eyes coiilil hartlly follow the swords, which flickered to and fro like (lashes of lightning, feinting, warding, parrying, till they seemed to Ist everywhere at nnee. i)e Malet at. Ilrst pressed his man vigorously, hut finding him more skillful than he had expected, he hegan to light more cau tiously, and to aim at tiring him out. This artful plan seemed likely to suc ceed, for the Italian at length lowered his weapon for a moment, as if his hand was growing wearied. Hut as Do Malet made a rapid stroke at him, the other suddenly changed the sword from the right to the left hand, and catching the Mar<piis' Made in reverse, sent it dying among the crowd helow. "Well done!" <ri>sl the young man admiringly. " I thought 1 knew most tricks of fence, hut I never saw one like that before." " I could teach it to your lordship in a .week," said the Italian. "For a man of your skill nothing is mssltsl hut practice." "Say you so?" cried I)e Malet. "Then the sooner we begin the better. Come home with me, and stay till you've taught me all you know. One doesn't meet a man like you every day." And so for a month to conic Anto nio Spalatro was the gm-st of Henri de Malet; and the young Marquis learned to perform the feat which had excited his wonder quite as dextrously as the Italian himself. White lay the snow upon the Ileitis outside the blazing sity of Moscow. The Russians had tired thdr own capi tal. The veteran ham Is of Napoleon were fleeing from tire to perish amid iee and snow. "Down with the French dog!" " Cut him to pieces!" " Send a bullet through him!" A dozen arms were raised at once against the solitary man who, with his hack against the wall, and one foot on (lie Ikxlv of his horse, sternly confronted them. Henri tic Malet (now Colonel tie Malet of the French Cuirassiers) was still the same dxshing fellow as ever, though twenty-three years had passed since he took his first lesson in fencing from Spalatro, the Italian, of whom lie hail never heard a word all this while. Hut if Spalatro was gone, his 1- aching was not, ami I>e Maid's sword seellied to be everywhere at once, keeping the sw arming Russians at bay, as tie had done many a time already during the terrible retreat which was now approaching its end. " Leave him to me," eritsl n deep voire from liehiml: "he'sa man worth lighting, this fellow!" "Ay, leave him to the colonel," ehorusscd the Russians. "He'll soon settle his fencing tricks." A tall dark man, who.se close-cropped black hair was just beginning to turn gray, stepjwd forward and crossed swords with De Malet. who, feeling at once that he had met his match, stood warily <m the defensive. The Russian grenadiers watehed eagerly as the swords flashed and fell and rose again, while the combatants, brent liing bard, and setting their teeth, struck, (tarried, advanced and retreated by turns. At length I)P Malet, finding himself bard pressed, tried the blow taught him by Kpalatro; but the stranger met it with aw hirling back stroke that whisked the sword clean out of bis band. Instead of cutting him flown, however, the Russian seized him by tbe hand with a cry of joy. " There's but one man in the Frenrh army who knows that stroke," orbs! he, " ami I'm glad to see you remember so well what I taught you. Now at last Spiilatro the officer ran repay the kind ness shown to Spalatro the vagaUmd. When I came over here with the Rus sian prince to whom you so kindly re coinmmded me. they soon found out that I could handle soldiers as well as swords, and gave me a commission in the army, and here I am, Colonel Spalatro, with the Cross of St. George, and a big estate in Central Rus sia Now if you fall into the hands of our soldiers you'll IK? killed to a cer tainty, so vou'd better come with tne to headquarters, where I'll rejHtrt you as my prisoner. You will IK? safe under my charge until there's a chance of sending you home, ami then you are welcome to go as soon as you please." And Colonel SjKilatru was as good as Ids word.— llnr/yer't Young People. It it related of a young American clergyman who was traveling in Knglun<l in coiii|tniiy with nn F.ng- , lishman, that ho kept Ida eyes on the landsea|H% and his companion said : "I suppose you are not accustomed to I such rapid traveling, hut I beg to as-: sure you there in no danger." "Thank you," the American replied, " L have i>cen aceustomcd all my life to going faster than this, hut I am expecting < this train to run off the little island." : LADIES' DEPARTMENT. A I'rmlnliic pmrnirr, Anna K. II aw ley, of Delhi, Lonisi- , ana, lias patented a button that can be readily attached to garments without sewing, and readily removed without i injury. The button head may be of any suitable form or material. The fastener, which also forms the shank of the button, is a strip of spring metal, doubled upon itself to form a llangisi head portion, and its ends are then bent outward to form projecting spring posts. The ends of the posts are again bent outward and backward to form claws. The fastener is secured to the back of the button in any suit able manner, and the posts are passed ' through an aperture in the cloth ami 1 through a slot in a washer back of the cloth, the elasticity of the spring posts retaining the claws over the edges of the washer. To remove the button the claws are pressed together when the button is drawn oil. A Nriingr Aflnlr. A strange affair occurred in Colum bus, Indiana, a short time ago.showing what an ordinary portrait will do to disturb a woman's mind. Mrs. Jennie Council was a handsome and wealthy widow, who bad many friends and ad mirers. l'or several months past she had been in lowa, and while there was married to Mr. William (iritlin, a for mer acquaintance. They returned to the home of the bride in Columbus. The first objeet that met tier gaze on entering the parlor was a life-size por trait of her former husband. The sight of the familiar features almost over came her. and all the familiar sur roundings so wrought upon her as to cifiise a complete rc\ ulsion of feeling toward her new husband. After broil ing over her trouble for a day or two she confessed all to her husband, dc clarisl she could never love him, and besought him for the sake of Isith to leave her. She persisted in this re quest until an attorney was called in, who drew up a statement, in which each exonerated the other from all wrong-doing, but stated that tln-ir mar riage was a rash mistake, ami mutually agresl to separate, and eaeh grant the other a divorce when the law would permit. Mr. (Irillin pleaded with his wife to change her mind, but to no avail. He then left tin- bouse and the town to again become a wanderer. and Notra for \\ owirn. A lady who lives in "Central New I'ork state," near the lakes, and who has high family connections, ami who is known in the best society in Wash ington, employs her time in summer HI preserving and pirkling fruits and vegetable, at whleli she lias great skill; and her sales reach S2'UX a year. Miss Marianne North, who recently gave to Kew gardens, London, a gal lery erected at her own expense and filled with her own paintings of rare flowers frotn almost every part of the glohe, has started for Africa, the only quarter yet unrepresented, and will spend a year (tainting the characteristic flora. Tin* Princess Eugenie. sister of the king of Swklmi, r*ntly sold her diamonds to raise fund* in order to complete a hospital in which she in in terested. When visiting the hospital after its completion a suffering inmate wept tears of gratitude as she stood by Ills side, and the princess ex claimed : " Ah! now I sec my diamonds again!" In Naples a kind of wife market is held every year. All the marriageable girls assemble in a room, to which young men of good character have access. Offer of marriage on the part of any young man iseonveyed by allow ing his handkerchief to drop la-fore the obj<-ot of Ids clioiee as he passes by. If the girl takes it up, she thereby signifies her aereptanee, hut her re fusal, if she allows it to remain. Jennie Mr Co wen, M. !>., of Haven port, lowa, read a valuable paper, on "The Prevention of Insanity," la-fore J the National Conference of Charities, at Madison, Wisconsin. I)r. MeCowen graduated with honor from the State University of lowa in 1870, taking the first prize for her medicine thesis. She served three years on the staff of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Mount Pleasant, with unusual efficiency and fidelity. I'H.Man N •!•. Overskirts are to be looped full and high tn the l>aek. Bronze and crimson form a fashion able combination, i Itlark glove* arc the rule with all j Mark and whites toilets. The new shade of royal cardinal ■ promise* to Ims a leading color. l'iain velvet Is now considered much " smarter " than that which is ribbed, brocaded or striped. Mile* of satin or moire ribbon are frequently used upon an elaborately | trimmed evening dress of the latest make. Either an all white or an all black hat is seen with a carriage dress, but black is the choice for the promenade. White silk stockings with minute jet heads forming a vine pattern on the in step are novelties of the prevailing mode. Handsome ornaments used sparingly and (lowers of the most brilliant colors are seen with rich black ami white dresses. Flowered muslin squares, originally used for the neck, now furnish trim ming for rough-and-ready hats of straw to be worn in tin- country. Wattcau drapery in the form of a : very broad double box plait is added to tlie simplest as well as the most elab orate toilets of U'sthetic tastes. Ladies able to do so bui one large or two small white Canton crepe embroid ered shawls, and these make a polo naise to accompany a black velvet skirt. Levantine, satin do Lyons, satin duehesse, satin merveillcux and heavy repped faille are the silk fabrics that will I M # worn for autumn and winter dresses. The most tasteful bonnet for mid summer has a crown of colored Lg lisii erape drawn on wires, with a brim of mignonettes, lilacs or other small (lowers. The present season is railed a cotton season, and now, byway of going from one extreme to the other, it is an noimccd 4hat the next will be a velvet season. A witty communication upon the present styles says that then* w but little difference bet weeii the picture of a medieval saint and a modern fash ionable sinner. The same long walking-coats that were worn two years since are now called nxlingotrs, ami are associated with a silk walking-skirt, trimiiosl with a ruche, a flounce or a thick l>ox plaiting at the foot. Narrow liraid, in silver or gold, is much us<s| for trimming cloth dresses of a monochrome color. Ever so little of this garniture goo* a great way in effect. An unsparing use of it is gaudy in the extreme. Lace flounces ami frill*, and also muslin embroideries, look well when placed over thin colored materials, such as batiste and India muslin. The tone given by these semi-transparent fabrics is much more delicate than where silk is employed as a foundation. A black and white atri|ied silk and satin is laid in kilt-plaits falling over an eight-inch plaited flounce, the uje js-r dress being a straight rcdingotc of white veiling for the carriage or a short polonaise or panicr basqm when the dress is for indoors. The newest wool fabrics to be com bincd with plain Vict<wia silks are i-cru stripsl with bronze and pale hlse satin, dark brown with old gold and snuff brown, and white striped with storm gray and black. The latter comes under the head of new color rag<-. StJESTIFir SCRAPS. In the Shetland islands recently a stroke of lightning detached a mass of four hundred tons of risk from the side of a hill, causing it to fall into a road below. The lightning cut a deep rut down the face of the hill. Salting. M. L. Fourment asserts. Is not necessarily fatal to trichina- ten lieddid in meat. These parasites may live In salt provisions for fifteen months. Salting, ind-ed. often serves to preserve the vitality of trichina?, as it protects them to some cxWfit from the destructive influence of heat. It is said that much more-difficulty is found in rolling, and otherwise manipulating, gold in a factory where much electricity is generated by the actio* of machinery than in a room where no machinery is in operation, and where, consequently, frictional electricity is altsent. The trouble is manifested in a disposition of the edges of the plates of t liin bars to crack. Messrs. Schulhoff and llossert have worked out anew the olwervations re corded of tlie comet of 1812, and from the most, probable elements obtain a revolution period of 71.7 years, leading them to believe that the c<*iet will again come to perihelion about the mid die of 1883. The uncertainty as to the period of revolution is alsoul three and a half years. According to John Rogers, F. It. M. 8., it is claimed that modern micro scopes are made to magnify as much ns 32.500 diameters, while some regard 100,000 diameters as possible. Much excessive amplification, however, glVea too imperfect results and is attained by too many difficulties to he of any value The greatest living mlaroscoplsts are of the opinion that a power of 3,000 or 4,000 dl uneters represents the highest | useful limit of microscopic vision. TOPIC'S OK THE DAY. The census shows that of the whole number of farms the largest proportion occupied by actual owm-n|g| in New England, ninety-one jar cent. The next largest is eighty-two per cent., in the Pacific States; in the West it is seventy nine per cent.; in the middle West and the middle group it is seventy-eight per cent.; in the South it is sixty per cent. It is now believed that the total wheat acreage of the i'nited States will be alsiut 37,28K,3'J9 acres, and this at the average yield per acre for the last thirteen years of 12.3 bushels would give ■b'w.'.MM.'JJ'.l bushels; or if the yield should average the largest in the last thirteen years, or 13.1) bushels, the aggregate crop would he , r ) 17, J71,321), and the agricultural department esti mates the wheat crop at something over 000.000.00U bushels. This would give an immense surplus for export, probably about 2OO. , ) ( >O,0OO bushels. Extraordinary reports have appeared in the Japanese papers in relation to the cremation of the c-rp s of the poorer victims of cholera. The opera tives who attend<-d to the cremation apjear to have been stricken with panic, and a considerable nuinls r of them forsook their work. The govern ment authorities, limling it impo ibb to replace them except by men of gr< at ignorance and questionable char acter. the work was ic-gleeti-d, and •cores of bodies dried before they were burned, arid it is asserted persons still alive were thrown into the flames. The orders for public printing now at the government printing office, Washington, w ill test all the resources of that establishment in order to till them during the recess of Congress- The printing of the census publica tions alone is an enormous job. There will lie over thirty volumes, comprising atsuit lh.(M) pages of the same size a> the Hmml. This will lie the largest single work overturned out, and Uiis is no small job. The llt'uril bus grown rapidly in size of late. The custom in the House of gi\- ing leave to prmt -p.#bes not d<- livercd swells the /s'x-.ri/ considerable. Recently Captain liurton. the trav eler, re|M>rt<sl that almost illimitable gold can be obtaintsl on the (odd < oast, Africa, a district which h;is la-en aurif crooal? proline for eaottuioß. lie Mys the region is espial t>< half a dozen < ali fornias. In this he is supported by the Knglish Commander Cameron, who in vestigates! the (iold Coast in his com pany. (odd is found in the sea sand, in the ilust of the roads and in the mud walls of native huts, A subject of such imjtortanec has of course Iws-n widely discussed by experts in Kng land, anil bv tliis time large nunilN-rsof prospts'torsare doubtless verify ing mat ters on the spot. Notwithstanding all the difficulties that would confront gold miners in Africa—the insalubrious climate, the savage inhabitants, the hostility of the native rulers, and other obstacles ispially as great —there Is no doubt that when prsif positive is ol* tained that a great gold deposit exists tliareall these difficulties will lie over rode, and that wfeit l ' men and the capi tal and energy >4 civilization will flow thither to Confront those of nature and barbarism. The use of prepared foods has le --ooihc universal. A half a century ago condm-cd fo<b proper were unknown. Prepared foods may la- broadly classi fled thus: 1. Hermetically sealed, or canned goods. 2. Desiccated and dried foods. !l. Steam - cooked eonilen.-osl foods. 4. Extracts of leef. mutton, vegetables and fruits—or concentrah-d foods. Tliis grouping also indicah-s the relative consumption, la-ginning with canned good* as the highest. Practically, all things edible in the animal and vegetable kingdoms are now cannot Desiccated and artifi ally drhsl vegetables and fruits are in great variety, and embrace equally the product* of tein|>erate and torrid xones. Condensed fiawis cover the cereals lit for table use. and milk, eggs, coffer-and chocolate. Extracts of beef ud mut ts!, oftentimes in combination with fruits, are principally used in hospitals and by invalids, although a well-known extract of beef is largely used in hotels and restaurants for making choice sou|s. It will readily in* seen that the commercial value oj the preparations contained in the four classes nauicd is very great How much the South lost before the war from the waste of cotton seed may easily la* estimated from the following statistics. The amount of cotton pro duced during the fifteen years from 1845 to 1860 was 4(5,675,591 imles, and for every bale of coMon there were 1,200 pounds of seed, or three times the weight of the cotton itaelf. The amount of seed wasted was therefore 28,005,354.6 tons. The manufacture of oil arid it* products has created such a demand for cotton aoal that the price at tin* crushing mill* was alout $lB per ton la*t year, and will proliably a virago S2O in the future. At tin- latter rat** the seed wanted during the hurt fifteen year* before the war Mas worth $500,107,002, JTobahlv that amount represents not more than half the market value of tin- manufactured product* of the seed. During the first fifteen year* after the war the amount of cotton produced was 50,1 hales, and l)Ut a small part of the seed it yielded was utilized. The average annual cotton crop is now not lens than 0,000,0ft0 hid'**, o that the amount of seed i* 3,700,000 tori*, which ;it s2' jier ton would he worth $74,000/100 at whohfale. It is safe to place the value of the manufactured product* of that amount of sei*d at $100,000,t00. It will !*• seen, therefore, that the wealth in cotton seed i* ahout equal to half the annual expense of the I'uited Statin government. When the nation manu factures all its cotton, as well as util ize* ;iJ| it* cotton seed, it* tteoinc from the cotton crop will Is- more than doubled. Itogu* Eje*. " I tftil k nolasly Mould la- MI dcceii ful :is to steal a six-dollar eye." The speaker was a well-dressed ma tron who hail visited the < ffice of a manufacturer of "artificial human eyes" in Blisi-ker street to inquire Mii.it had become of an eye whieh had been ordered for h<-r -ingli-eyed daugh ter and jiaid for in advance. The eye was discovered securely packed away in a little lux, and the lady took tiie treasure away. The office presented a neat, business-like appearance. Over tbe mantelpiece the sign was conspicu ously displayed: " A dejMMit required on all eyes -or dered." "I don't want an eye myself, to-day," oliserved the HUtr rejMirter to the dap. per young man in charge, "but I have a feu- friends who have just come in from I >T-adMlX >d City and want evea Think you can straighten them out?" "Did they bring any dust home?" " Loaded down. Money no object." A pleasant smile flitt<*d across the man's face at this cheering in* formation. •• We can match your friends with eyes of any size or tint at prices rang ing from six to fifteen dollars." "Arc your eyes ready-made V" " We have a stock of 2,000 on hand, hut the sound eye can 1w matched more |Hrfectly when we take the order. They arc made of the fin<*st glass. (Irt the right fit arid there is no more trouhle in putting in or taking out the eye than arranging your baton your head." "How long will the eye last'?" "With careful treatment it should last six months or longer, liut the ma terial is fragile, and unless handled v<*ry carefully it is lialdc to hreak. The se cretions from the lids and lachrymal gland act ujwin the enamel and in time d<*strov the smoothness of its surface. The roughness thus created gives rise to irritation and inflammation of the lids, which, if allowed to run its course un checked, will result in a condition in which it will Is* impossible to wear an artificial eye with comfort. It is ad visable tn remove the artificial eye t>e fore retiring for the night, and to wij>e 'it carefully. Cleanliness does as much good to the artificial as the natural j eye," "Are your patrons principally men or women V" "Both patronize this house ; hut I should say there are fewer women than men." " Any prominent people ?" " A great many; but it wouldn't do to mention any names. When a man wears one of our eyes it is the perfect image of his own, and none hut his most intimate friends know that it is artificial. You w ill understand, then, that professional honor requires that we should keep the nanus of our cus tomers a secret ." The house referred to is engaged in the manufacture and sale of artificial eyes, and is one of the many in the same vicinity. The business of im porting eyes is confined to three houses. A representative of one of these said: "We import the finest French and tier man eyes; the former are more per fect and more extensive. We sell on j an average about six eyes a week. We do no business in the domestic article. The weekly sales of imported eyes in this city amount to aU<ut eighteen, the average cost being ten dollars. We j can match every size, form and color. These eyes are lost chiefly by accidents j which ltefall men, women and childrra alike, hut it so happens that men are | the principal victims."— Nrtr York Htar. Kansas papers are said to I* reaping a rich harvest announcing .political candidates at $5 a head.
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