The Flight of Time. "My !%y* iw swifter then a weaver's shnltU .** Tho Will ringn out Uie hour of nine— An hour that wits, no more is mine; The minutes worth so much . Have vanished like a swallow's flight. Or as the sinner's dreams of right, Or like a spirit's touch. I cannot call nn hour iny own For, when I clasp it, it has tlowui What riches have I then? The little moments, ticks of time. I sit and weave thein into rhyme; And now tho clock strikes ten. Two hours, and then the dny is dnas| Tho day so thoughtlessly begun And lighily spent by me, Has stamped some mark, or word, or sign. On this enduring henrt of mine, Which ne'er effaced can be. Those hours have passed: the hands that ; lay Around the clock-face all tho day Are |M>inUng heavenward now: A round of jierfectwork is done, Another day's swift race is run; To heaven they pay their vow. And shall those hands upon the clock My own free hands and lingers mock, And point to Heaven alone? No—l will raise mine own and pray That that bright world of endloesday May this day's sins atone. The days go out, the days come in— They fly and whirl like tops that spin l)|H>n the kitchen-floor: Thus have they spun since Time began Thus will they spin for boy and man. Till Time shall be no more. — C. P. /lUSl tit. THE THUNDER SHOWER. "I don't think I care about the nut ting pic-nic," said the rector's /daughter. "Not care about it?" echoed Ilora tia Dale. "Why, 1 thought you always went overy year." "So 1 always have done; but I don't think I shall go this year. "Ah 1 I see—jealous!" said Horatio. "I am not!" cried Fanny Forrester. , ".\rxl no one shall dare to say such a thing of me?" "Nevertheless, it is true," said Miss Dale. "Yon are not going to the nut ting party because Harvey Carroll has ;v4ked Oriana Van Velsor to accom pany him. Now, deny it if you dare! What a goose you are, to go pinning after a man that doesn't care for you!" "I don't pine!" said Fanny. "To break your heart because Har vey Carroll prefers the gaudy city tulip to our little wild rose of the woods!" "I don't break my heart!" persisted Fanny. "Come, cheer up," said lioratio, laughing. "Miss Van Velsor returns to town to-morrow. The ward schools tiegin next week, and she must take her placo as second assistant schnolnia'am in I'eake street. And even if she should take Harvey Car roll's recreant heart with her, why, there's this consolation, there's as good lish in the sea as ever came out of it." "I hate vulgar proverbs," said the rector's daughter." "You hate Oriana Van Velsor, yon mean." said Miss Dale shrewdly. "Horatio," cried Fanny, "if you say another hateful word, I'll "Come now, Fanny," said Horatio, putting his arm around the waist of the sobbing girl, "I'm only trying to raise your dormant spirit. Don't let this conceited city girl think she's breaking your heart; and don't let Ihtrvey Carroll suppose he is the only man in the. world. Hush! there they come up the garden path!" "Not here," cried Fanny. "Yes, here. Why shouldn't Miss Oriana vaunt her conquest here as well as elsewhere?" "I won't see thein," cried Fanny. j •Mbit you must," commanded Miss Dale. "Do you want her to think you're a blighted blossom? Brush those big drops off your eyelashes at once and come into the parlor." And Fanny Forrester decided that it was best to oley her friend's counsel. Miss Oriana Van Velsor was a tall, brilliantly-complexionhd young lady, who called herself flve-and-twenty, who wore her hair bangd, and gen erally wore a white lace veil drawn lightly <iver her face, after the most approved style. Harvey Carroll, the handsome vil lage lawyer, was well nigh infatuated by her metropolitan airs and graces, to the grief of little Fannie Forrester, who up to this time hail lieen his fav orite companion. To lose the rich guerdon of Harvey Carroll's love bowed our little country girl's heart to tho very ground, and made her think vaguely that it couldn't lie so very wrong to commit suicide after all. For Fanny had no mother, and the rector, honest man, lived in a world of Itooks and manu scripts, from which he emerged relttr fantly, three times a day, to eat his abstracted meals. Miss Van Velsor giggled, flirted her fan, as Fanny Forrester greeted her in a low voiee, scarcely even glancing at Harvey Carroll. "You're going to the nutting party 10-morrow, of course. Miss Forrester F* I said she. Fanny was about to snv no; but she caught Herat ia Dale's warning I eye, ami changed her answer to : "Yon," 1 suppose so." I "We are going," said Miss Van Vel ' sor—"Mr. Carroll and I. We has de picted thu delights of a nutting party in such vivid colors that I really am quite anxious to participate in one. 1 do hope it won't rain." "Oh, it won't rain," said Mr. Carroll. "1 don't think it will rain," said Fanny, feeling she ought to say some thing. "And," Harvey added, "If you are not provided with an escort, I am sure Miss V;ui Velsor will he very glut to have you join our party." "Delighted," chimed in Oriana. "I thank you," interposed Miss Dale, before Fanny could reply, "but Fanny is to go with my brother Lemuel." (Now Mr. Lemuel Dale was an old bachelor, regarded as the common property of all the girls in town.) "Yes," said Fanny, clutching at the straw of escape ; "I am to go with Mr. j Lemuel Dale." And Harvey Carroll's conseicncc did sting him a litMe as he j met the glance of unconscious reproach in poor Fanny's eyes. "She is a little jewel," he confessed Ito himself. "Hut then she is only a pearl, and Oriana is a diamond of the ' lirst water ; and there can be no better { chance for me to propose than to-mor row." And morning came one of those brilliant, summer-like days that seem ; to have been plucked out of the golden ; diadem of August itself, i "How delightful!" lisped Miss Oriana j as she sat gracefully onatwistisl in— root and drank out of a silver cup. j "Ah, how indesi ribably charming is the country!" ' "Could you be rontentod to live here ■ always ?" asked Harvey Carroll, as he) : lay stretched on the green turf at her feet. "I could desire no happier fate," said Oriana, lifting her eyes heaveti ' ward. "Then " Harvey was beginning. I when honest Lemuel Dale came st mult ling over the uneven ground toward ; them. 'I say, Carroll, what are you dream ing alsiut ?" critsl he. "Don't you ss> the thunder-clouds piling up in the west? Don't you feel the sudden chill in the air? K very In sly else Ls seeking shelter front the storm, while you stay here, apparently blind, deaf, and dumb' Luckily for you that I came back for . Miss Forrester's shawl, and roused you front your dream." And Fanny, lean. I ing on Dale's arm, scarcely looked up while he spoke. Miss Van Velsor raught up her lace ; parasol, with a shriek. "Is it going to rain ?" the cried. "I Hi, I have such a j dislike of thunder showers! Oh, do let us go to a place of shelter, some nice old farm-house, or dear old dame's lioneysuckle-covcred Cottage." "Tho nearest place is the rectory at j the foot of the hill, half a mile off, said <'arroll, doubtfully. "We shall l>e happy to welcome you there," spoke up Fanny, unconsciously heaping coals gf lire on her rival's head. "Oh. do let us hurrr," criisl Miss Van Velsor. catching at Carroll's arm, as the thunder broke in low rumbling tones and the lirit big drops began to , fall. Hut Miss Forrester and Mr. Dale reached the rectory by a short cut across the meadows, and w ere at the door to receive their dripping guests j when at last they reached the haven of refuge. Carroll surrendered Mi.ss Van Velsor at once into Fanny's care. "Take her upstairs, please, Miss Forrester," said he, in a startled tone, "J--I think there's something the matter with her." "Oh, 1 am all right," said Miss Van Velsor, with a simper. "Only a little tired with the haste we have made. Hut Fanny started back with dismay, quite comprehending Mr. Carroll's dis comfiture when she caught a glimpse of her rival's face. It was striped like a zebra, where the streams of rain had run down her brow and cheeks, the streaks of red and white paint blending curiously together; the penciling was washed entirely from one eyebrow, fhe . other shielded by a fold of the luce veil, was totally unchanged. Fanny was • silent, but Mr. Lemuel Dale, honest • ; old bachelor that he was, proved less I discreet. t "Excuse me. Miss." said he, with his L eye-glasses at his eye, "but 1 rather > think yottr paint is washed off." "My paint !" repeated Miss Van - j Velsor. And then, happening to see the rc s flection of her face in an oppteito mir ror, she uttered a wild shriek, and r went off Into good old-fashioned hys a terics. t 1 When she came out of them again Mr. Ciuroll had vanished from the y scene. "I Miss Oriana Van Velsor went back to the ward school in Peakn street quite unfettered ly the golden clasp of an engagement ring ; and they Hay there is to bo a wedding at the reetory, in which pretty Fanny Forrester and Mr. Harvey Carroll are to play the prin cipal parte. Strange how slender a straw will turn the current of the stream of lifo ! If it had not been for that thunder storm in the woods the whole aspect of Miss Oriana Van Vclaor'a existence might have been different. ilut her complexion, unlike the rosea and lilies of Fanny Forrester's face, was not waterproof. A Strange Place on the Welsh Coast. The most interesting jn>int on the (Sower const is a rocky promontory called Worm's Head. They tell us that sailors who see it from the westward perceive in it a resemblance to a great worm crawling with head uplifted—a tiling they naturally would do if they already knew tts name, which is prole ablv a corruption. From other points of view the head is thought to resem ble other objects, as a great mile-stone, a lion eouehant, a camel, etc. The promontory runs more than a mile out to sea, and at half Ilood becomes an island, the isthmus connecting it with the mainland Is-ing then submerged by the tide. Its sea-front is some Hires hundrisl fist perpendicular. A series of strange phenomena characterize it. There are times, in quite calm and bright weather, the sea lying almost without a ripple, w hen the wavs of the ocean come climbing mysteriously up the sides of this precipice in a dense volume, surmounting it, and breaking over its summit in a v.ist cascade. The fishermen say this strange performance is the result of anus-ting of opposing under-currents, and is the sure precur sor of a storm. The lb-ad is hollow; inside is a gn at cavern, very dangerous to enter, but which has la-en entered, nevertheless, bv one rowing a l>at within on a quiet summer day, and rowing out again with some haste. Tin- w iniLs and waves habitually hold such dissolute revel* inside the cavern of this haughty Ile.nl that al>at which should Is* caught in there by so much as a wandering zephyr from the sea would have a very hard time of it. The winds liecome transformed to fu ries in this roaring alssle of chaos. I.ong before a storm has really arisen, the rnst terrific turmoil is raging inside the Head, and through an opening in the rock above—a little crevice no wider than a man's two fin gers, and no longer than his arm there rnh<-< a torrent of tempestuous wind, with a noise like the blow ing of a furnace. This noisy monitor utters the warning of an approaching stortn. Science has duhlxsl it the Ithossillv barometer (Rhossill is the weather lieatcn little village hard by); the peo ple call it simply the blow-Hole; and if ever snake's head should attain such dimensions as this Head of Worm, its hiss would perha|M be as loud as the noise of this lb-ad's blow-hole. The cause of the noise is of course simple, and needs no explanation; it has abundant parallels at many points on the coast. The Head is haunted by many aw ild legend -of a great door in the depths of the cave, studded with mighty nails, and which is heard to hang and slam noisily in storms ; of terrible shipw recks, centuries ago, of proud Spanish galleon*, which went down laden heavily with treasure, sowing the sands with golden roins. which men still dig up from time to time ; of the ghost of the lord of the manor, who wa* stablsd on the shore, with his hands full of Spanish gold, and who haunt* the Head o' nights in a phantom chariot drawn by four black horses.—//nrper. The Co-Operative Principle, The failure of the Co-operative Press Association of New York has given rise to many unfavorable comments by the daily papers ujH>n co-operation as an Industrial principle. In one or two leading dailies it is asse-rtesl as fact needing no proof that all co-operative ventures in this country have lieen failures. The truth is, there are many nourishing ro-oj>crative manufacturing establishments in the T'nited States. One of them is the largest manufactory of wood-working machinery in the world, selling its products to every civilized country. Quito a number of co-operative stove foundries, both East and West, are running successfully, one (in Troy, N. Y.) having been in operation about fifteen years, and ' steadily increasing during the whole period. Co-operative furniture manu factories are also running. loth East, West and South, with excellent suc cess. Hardware and cutlery, boots and shoes, and a variety of miscella neous goods, are now being made in co-operative establishments in differ ent States of the Union.—American Machinist. Canada has twenty-one cotton mills; tw jmrs ig -i' v .r. but seven. I.AIHKS' DEPARTMENT. Fnatilon Nolo The coiffure remains close and low. Ntnall jet buckles fasten many cor sages. Heavy rcppesl ottoman velvet rlb bons are much in use. Walking suits of velveteen are rival ling plush costumes in popular favor. black velvet Iconrie-ts garnished with white are unpretending and pleasing. Angora cloth, trimmed In applique velvet, makes a rich and admirable suit. The large Ixinnets are worn higher than ever, but remain reasonable in width. black velveteen is the favorite walk ing suit of the dressy New York woman. The newest linen collars are stand ing clerical hands with a ilnely em broidered e-dge-. It takes an artist to place a bird or bird's crest effectively on a lady's hat or liorinct. Shirts, when made of velvet or cloth, plush or velveteen, need not be trimmed at the Ixittoin. Mahogany continues a good shade, and the color of blush roses eomhines prettily with it. For rustle drosses the skirt must be plain, kilt-pleated, and reach only to the ankles. Leather straps passing through buckles of tin- same, arw fastening many woolen walking suits. bold, silver, and chenille cords are braided in with the camel's hair brands of the new bonnets from I'aris. Fawn-colored silk stocking, worn with slippers of dark r<-d kid or velvet, are the- affectation ~f the moment in New York. J'rim ruffs are much worn. They lire very high and are fastened behind. The upper one is high enough for the dimpled chin to rest upon. Inside frills for the neck and wrist, of dresses are three narrow rows of white crepe lisse in sharpened M-ollopM overcast on tin- edges in button-hole stitches. • Handsome rcdingolcs are left open from the waist all the way down the front and back. The sleeve* of these garments are perfectly plain, and are tight-fitting without cuffs. Light silksof pah- sea-green,delicate pink and lilac are combined, for even ing wear, with dark garnet, dark blue, brown and royal purple velvets, with admirable effect. The elegant simplicity of street cos tumes Icccomes more noticeable each day, elaborations in drc-s* garnitures being left for homo w ear and full-dress occasions. There is, unfortunately, no happy medium in the fashionable fan. It is either extremely large- or extremely small. In the latter rase, it is usually of tortoisc-*hell, jM.itit lace or amber. buttons arc- quite an important fea ture of cheap and effective home dec orations. Ordinary pearl buttons arc those employed, and when sewn upon rich-colored velvets or pbuih, in fancy or geometrical designs, the result is very good. Plush is now very much used with everything to combine with other ma terials for costumes, and even for jcelisses and demi-pelissc*. a* well as for Watteau garments, fringc-d with chenille. Nfttadnd N(rfar %% •mm. A girl -mploycs| as a spinner in a Lowell mill ha* taken the first prize offered by the- boston Musical Society for the best c riticism <-f vocal and in strumental music. Mi*s M ('. Thomas, of baltimore, Md., has won at the- University of Zu rich the degree of doctor of philosophy, "Hiirama cum laude," the highest honor ever granted there. A woman's mutual insurance and accident company Is one- of the latest institutions in New York. It is de signed to iccru-fit sewing women and servant girls. In Uomodistrict. Nevada, there is a mining claim whieh was located sev eral months ago by the Ely sisters, agcsl sixtcs'n and fourteen, and naunsl thp Wocslbine and Daffodil. These young ladies, who are personally verv nttractixe, are at work developing their claim, in the value of which they have great confidence. The total amount annually received or ex|M-niled on Queen Vieoria and the other metiiicers of the royal family is £8911(882. In this is inclnded main tenance of palace.*, expenditure in con nection with royal yachts (£35,.182); households of deceased sovereigns (£f,475), and many other such items. Itis estimated that almut £50,000 per annum would have to lie expended were there no 'royal family to provide for. ItfwHrM kr Ilia Fa Car* Rridr. More than one woman has worked in the mines for her living in this country as in the English pits. The Philadelphia frr** recently mentioned Mrs. Higiniary, of Locust (lap, who I hauls coal with a two-horse team to j customers. Hhe formerly worked at Kxoelsior colliery with her husband, j and it is related that she could load I wagons us quickly and well as her hus | hand. Another rmtable example of this kiml is current among the miners Reliance colliery. Thomas Fast, now deceased, usisl for aw hile to bring his fourteen-year-old daughter to the mini* 1 to help him. She did the le-st she could 1 until the I M>SS put a stop to it by send ing her home. Kast had a family of girls and proposed to make them useful in the most convenient way to himself. One morning, before the foreman's interference, a miner saw the lass at work, lie hail riot heard of her iiefore, and thinking himself bew itched or the beholder of a vision, he fainted from fright. He lived to regard her pre sence with less terror, for within a I year she walked to the altar with him and became his bride. *br Arrrptrif. lie had a new silk umbrella over his head its he walked up Woodward avenue. It was snowing, and all at once Ids heart gave a Ismnd as lie discovered a female ahead of him without any prolix tion from the storm. "Ah—ah -excuse me, ah!" he stain merisl as he reached her side, "hut would you accept my umbrella and save your hat?" "You bet!" she replied as she reached out and took it. "This hat <-' st and as 1 am out of a place I don't know when I can afford another! Thank ye! I'll consider it a birthday present.— : Ottroit Free J'r's*. THE FAMILY IMM I OR, I Try glycerine in place of sugar in i your tea orroffee when troubled with flatulent ( wind ) dyspepsia. -In. FCKJU'S Health Monthly. We give the recipe of a celebrated Paris physician for the cure of mail pox; "I herewith append a r<-i|>e w lii< 11 has 1-ccri used to my knowledge in hundreds of cases. It will prevent or cure the small p<>x though the jut tings are [tilling. When Jenner dis i-overisl cow-|>ox in Kngland the world of science hurhsl an avalanche of fameujion his head, hut when the most scientific school of medicine in the , world that of Paris published this recijw as a panacea for small jox, it j..iss*l unheeded. It is as un failing as fate, and conquers in j every instance. It is harmless when taken by a well jierson. It will aL-v curescarlet fever, here is the rt* ij>e as 1 have used it and curisl my children of scarlet fever; here it is as I have used it to cure small |'X; when learned ! physicians said the |>atient must die, it cured ; Suljihate of zinc, one grain; fox glove (digitalis), one grain; half a table* poonfulof sugar; mix with two tablespoon fills water. When thoroughly i mixed, aid four ounces of water. Take a spoonful every hour. Father disease will disappear in twelve hours. For a child, smaller doses, acconling to age. If counties would compel their phy icians to use tin* there would Is- no need of jiest houses. If you value ad vice and experience, u*' this for that terrible disease." Many persons troubled with sore throat find rebel in a gargle of pine-tar water. (treat Indians. The l<e*t blood of Mexico does not ilow through S|ianish channels a writer savs. The Iw-t man Mexico h.as had was Renito Juan /, who was a pure |i]imm|isl Indian -one of the common people, but a great man. Altimirano, the lea<ling orator in the Mexican Con gress, is a pure-blooded Indian; Ro mero, the present minister to Washing ton, a statesman who ha* done much for his country, is an Indian; General Trevino is, I think, more Indian than Spanish, and I am sure this is true of the greatest living man in Mexico,l)on Porfirio Diaz, to whom more than to any other man Mexico owes the final ending of civil war and the establish -1 tnent of a peaceful, orderly and perma nent government. In one of the anti-vaccination tracts j written by 11. I>. Dudgeon, we read ' that .Tenner, the originator of vaccina tion, practiced the art ujion his own son. first with sw ini-jwix when he WAS : a year and a half old, and later with other viruses. The son was alw ays del ' icatein health, had a defective nnder j standing, and died when alxuit twenty one years old with pulmonary consutnjv tion. It is also stated that King George 111 and the Commons granted Jenner I'-'IO.OOO after he ha.l given them the jxmitlve Assurance that all who subject id themselves 'to vaccina tion should le perfectly secure from death by small-pot.-- Dr. Foot'** Monthly. The Rev. L. J. Knapp, cf Paterson. N. J , Was a silver coin of the reign of Tlbefins Cawar, who died A. I>. 37. It Under him that Christ was put to He was the second emperor of if me. This is the "penny" of which l'hrist .tid: "bhow uie a jxmny!" HCIESTIFIC WRAPS. It has been observed that worker* In cojqier who absorb a considerable amount of dust frotu the metal, enjoy n quite general immunity from cholent typhoid fever, and like couijilaints, while copper salts jirotect various ma teriala from parasites. Where the air is charged with sul phur fumes the tiritn of foliage in the fall, HO noticeable elsewhere, are not produced. The leaves Dimply blacken, shrivel up and fail to the ground. The remains of a forest at leant three acrea in extent have been found ten feet la-low the surf.ve of the ground at t'rowland, near Peterliorough, Eng land. Some of the trees are very large and in a good Htate of jireaervation, especially the firs. Dr. Virchowr, of IJerlin, hat some ancient skulls found in the Caucasian district. They are believed to afford proof of the existence of the race called Makrokephi, descriled by Hije jKHTatc*. The heads are large ami ex tremely long or high in form, an t believed to be due to bandaging in early infancy. Arehselogical researches have shown that the ancient Kgyptians were familiar with dental prooesv-s which are cotninonly regarded as modern in novations. hi tomb* of tills people, Ht-l/oni and others have found artificial teetti of ivory or wood, some of them fastened upon gold plates. Teeth of mummies filled with gold liave also been found, it is stated. An automatic electric maehanism, that is designed to announce the aj> proach of railroa/1 trains, has l*-en tried on w hat is ralhsl the Paris-Lyon-Medi terran's- line. It consists of a box filled witb mercury placed under this rail at the required distance from a 1 ►-!!. When a train jiasM-s over the f"*x the mercury i* so agitated as |to form contact with the wire communi cating with the )*ll and thus makes it ring. Ilerr Fuchs divides the anunals of tin- sea into fauna of light and fauna of darkness. The former are found at a depth of little more than thirty fathoms, and the latter at fifty fathoms. Where the light-limit is higher the d<*-|>-*ea fauna ascend; and when the light penetrates farther as fresh water, the fauna of light go down. An "Ocean Carrier." A good ileal of interest is felt in nan tical ejr< les in regard to exjK rimerits recently made with what is ealhsl an "ocean carrier." It is a hollow ball of red imlia rublier, about two and a half feet in diameter, made very light, and so constructed that dispatches or irins sagi-s can !*• inclosed in it. It is in tended to 1* thrown overlmard from a ship at sea in case of disaster or want of .assistance. Its large size in propor tion to weight. which is only seven j.umls. keeps it Ufwin the top of the water, and it is rapidly carried by the prevailing vftnds to the nearest shore. It has a great advantage over casks and lsittb-s. as it is easily seen, and likely to attract attention of passing shijw, not easily injured i vcn by ex Ireine violence, and at the same time moves more rapidly than a eurrent- Inirne float. Oneofthi-ee carriers trav eled 200 nautical miles in five days, and another one an equal distance in even less time. Casks and bottles are notoriously slow, and months usually elapse before one is picked up; tiesidee, they arc also frequently broken up and their contents lost or at least no it k Mipjxtsed, as many of them are nevej found. The experiments that havJ l-cn made with the carrier have t>eenJ unusually successful, and the inven-l tion promises to lie a most valuable! one. | Solar Cannon of the Pari* Royal, Strangers in Paris who have hap-j pened to be in the garden of I'alah! ltoyal at noon on a fair day will hav4 noticed groups of persons watching intently at a not very conspicuous ob ject in the garden, hut all eyes seemed turned toward it. The object which attracts their attention is a small can non of antique pattern, which is autcv matirally fired at midday by the ar rangement of a sunglass so adjusted as to concentrate the sun's rays upon the I priming powder, and produce an ex-! plosion at exact noon. Referring \tf the little cannon I,' Astronomic says it ilates from a greater antiquity than la generally know n. It thundered during the coin mune. under the empire, during the days of '4B, under Louis Philippe, under the Restoration, during the wars of the grande armor, during the guillo tines of the reign of terror, on the day w hen Camill I>enmoulins harranged the people. I ouis XVI., under Louis XV.— Scientific American. While the Vnited States produce almut 67,000 liarrels of crude oil daily fU dally consumption is about 35,000 barrels, and the remainder is exported or goes Into stock.
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