Woman's Voice, Not in the swaying of the eummer treee, When evening breezes sing their voeper hymn— Not the minstrol's mighty symphonies, Nor ripples breaking on the river's brim, Is earth's best music; those may have awhile High thoughts tn happy hearts aud irking cares beguile. But oven as the swallow's silken wings, Skimming the water ol the sweeping lake, Stir the still silver with a hundred rings— So doth one sound tho stooping spirit wake To bravo tho danger and to bear the harm— A low and gentle voice—gear woman's chiel est charm. An excellent thing It is' and ever lent To truth and love, and meekness; they who own This giR, liy the all grarioua (liver sent, Ever by quiet step and smile are known; By kind eyes t list have wept, heart* that have Sorrow \l. An excellent thing it is—when first in glad neas — A mother looks into her infant's eyes— Smiles to its smiles, and saddens to its sad ness— I'alo* at its paleness, sorrows at it* cries; Its food and sleep, and smiles and iittlo joys— All these coiao ever blent with onejlow, gentle voioe. An excellent thing it is when life is leaving— Leaving with gloom and sadness, joys ami cares— Tho strong heart falling, and the high soul grieving With strongost thoughts and wild, unwonted fears; Then, then a woman'b tow, solt svmpathy Comes like an angel's voice to teach u* how to die. But a most excellent thing it is in youth, When tho lond lover hears the loved one's tone That fears, but longs, to syllable tho troth— ilow their two hearts are one, ami she his own; It makes sweet human music—oh! Ihe spoil* That haunt tho trembling tuio a bright-eyed maiden tells. — Edwin Arnold. ' "A Desperate Character." AN ADVENTURE IN LONDON. I went to Covent Garden theater one night la-st season. We were let ! out at 12, and sot off to iny lodgings. j I knocked; there was no answer. I ! knocked again; a window was thrown up and my landlady's head appeared. J "Who are you?" she screamed. "Let's in, please; it's me!" I an- ! i swered. "Then, Mr. Me, if you don't come j home before 10 you may still out till mornin'. I never wait up for my ' lodgers—my door is closed at 10!" and then the window closed with a bang. ' "No g<>!" thinks I. "I have no money, I'll go to a railway-station and wait in the waiting-room till morning;" | whicli resolution I proceeded to carry ; out by walking briskly for the bank, j I turned into Moorgate street, and was just thinking whether I should g<> ; to London, Brighton and South Coast | or the London Bridge station. I stopped to think. There was a con- | fectioner's shop just in front of me. i Oh! that it were open! I had three pence left. Just at this moment a tall, broad- j shouldered man came up to me and 1 viewed me from top to toe. I looked at hirn. He was dressed in dark j clothes; a pea jacket and clajetrap j cloth hat, with a peak lying level on the forehead, gave me a feeling of awe. The thought forced itself upon j me that he was a garottcr. He spoke first. "You're Mr. Sam ?" and lie laid his finger on his nose. "You've guessed it," said I. thinking it liest to agree with him, although my , name was Turn. "Then come along!" and away we went. "Did Butler give ye e'er a pistol?' he asked. "No," said I, beginning to tremble. "He said he wanted them himself." "Just like him. He told I'd (Ind j you standing at Moorgate street, be tween 12 and 1, opposite the confec tioner's, with yonr right hand in your pocket." "I'm in for it," thinks I, "but I must go through with it. Hut whatever will it come to at all, at all?" He led me through a labyrinth of streets, walking rather fast, till we emerged upon the city road. Then he made straight for the Angel, and from thence took a cab for Fleet street. What object he bad in doing this I cannot say. He did not offer by ex plain; in fact, not a word passed be tween us till we got out at the top of Ludgate hill. From thence wo went into a back street, and out of that into another, no matter which, and suddenly stop ping opposite a shop, ho exclaimed: "That's our crib!" "Is it?" says I. Whereupon he produced from his pocket a rule. The shop was evident ly a tailor's, as it had bars standing out like the rungs of a Jacob's ladder, from each side of the door, to exhibit stock upon. My friend stepped on the first of these, which was three feet from the ground, and sjiee.lily measured the hight of a large glass fanlight over the door; then, stepping down again, he measured the breadth of the door, and as the fanlight was square he mut tered to mo byway of giving me its dimensions: "Three and a half by two high!" and chuckled quietly. Then he crossed the road, and I foL lowed, ho explaining that we must wait till the policeman passed. He hove in sight about ten minutes after wards, while we walked past him. Then we waited till he returned. This time we did not pass him, but watched from a corner at a distance. "Twenty minutes and a half between going and coming," exclaimed my com panion. "And a handy beat; for he conies up the corner there"—pointing to one a little beyond the shop—"and goes down this street next ours." The impression began to steal over me that 1 was committing, or helping to commit, a felony, and that if caught I might get into trouble. 1 thought of running for it; but the remark my companion made at that moment, to the effect that it would be a short run if 1 deserted him (for he seemed to see I didn't like the Job), deterred me. I dared not explain that he had made a mistake, for I felt sure that he must have mistaken me for some ally of his own. "I must go through with it," thinks I. "He'll leave me outside to watch, and I'll hook it then?" .So 1 went on. He crossed the street again the mo ment the policeman was past interfer ing with us, and producing a piece of stout black cloth he applied the rule thereto, I holding it against the shutters, while lie set out "three and a half by two" thereon. This done, be cut it within two inches of the mea surement all round, and then produc ing a treacle-pot from his jssket, he smothered one side of the cloth with treacle, and, desiring ine to hold it, he mounted the shop-door, so to speak again; and I gave him the cloth, which he immediately clap|>ed on to the sky light, the treacle making it adhere tlrmly to the gla-s. Then, looking at his watch, he cried: "llvj ngo' he'll be here this minute!'' and away we walked. A glance be hind us, :ls we turned the next corner. Not yet in sight! We stopped and waited, but the policeman came not. My friend muttered an oath, adding, "I'll go. Come along; but keep your ■ weather-eye open'" And off we went. "Perhaps he is watching us." I sug gested. But the idea was discarded as not in the nature of a jsdiceman "like that one we saw." We arrived at the shop. He mounted again, and drove a string through a hole in the cloth. Then he ran a dia mond round the edge of the glass. A gentle pat, and it gave way. Now I saw the use of the cloth and string. He could hold the glass by the string; and he slowly let it down into the shop, and, producing a long-shaped pad. he laid it along the bottom of the fanlight to cover the glass edge, and threw one leg into the opening and got astride ..f it! "Follow me," he muttered, and ducked his head under the door-head. But before he could draw in the other leg I mounted the ladder, and, seizing it. gave him a pull that kept him from going in, at the same time yelling, "Police! Thieves! Murder! Police!" at the top of my voice. And. lo and be hold! the policeman appeared at the corner at that moment. A horrible oath from within, a pistol-bullet whistling past my head, and I ran for death and life. I did not stop till I , found myself in Broad street. In the next day's papers I saw the account of the capture of a burglar by one policeman, who had watched two burglars from the corner, and saw one I enter the house, and the other leap up the wall like a rat, grab at a disappear | ing leg, and yell "Police!" and run. The one that was caught got seven | years' penal servitude, and "the police are searching vigilantly, though as yet unsuccessfully, for the other, who, it appears, is a desperate character!" They never caught him.— Cat-wll. Bachelor Life In Turkey. Both state and church combine to make the life of a Turkish bachelor miserable. As long as his parents are alive, he ran live with them without much trouble. As soon as they die he must get a permit from the civil and religions authorities liefore he can be admitted to any household. Then the proprietor thereof, in the interest of public morals, must see to it that other persons than females wait upon his Ixmrder. If the bach elor be rich enough to occupy a house or to rent unfurnished chambers, he cannot iiossibly obtain that simple privilege unless he shows that a woman of good repute lives with him therein. A mother or sister or aunt removes that difficulty. But a man without ktyidred may go an indefinite period without n home. nOXE MFK I!f I'AKIH. PHilkrlllM of th® Pirliltnl.-lloK I'ropla l.lff In Ih® Krsurli < apllal. This picture of home life in I'nris is given l>y n writer in the Demrator aiul Finisher: Wherever one sees a yellow bill upon the door of a Parisian house ho may be tolurably certain of discover ing within a neat apartment, well furnished, iiaving at least a bod-room, a parlor, a dining-room, a kitchen, and usually an anto-room into which the entrance door opens. The windows, extending to the floor, are hung with lace and stuff curtains; the doors have portieres ujwn either side, rugs, as a rule, take the place of carpets, the bed is under the protection of a canopy, even if it be no more than muslin, and a heavy wardrobe, with a full length mirror in the door, is often the point do resistance in the room. A showy silk down quilt is thrown over the bed, and a bolster of huge proportions rests at the head. The top of the mattress | averages three or four feet from the floor, and suggests the advantage of step ladders and the utter discomfort | of little people. The peculiarity, how ever, of the French bed is its restful i quality, for it is so whether it be found in the Palace of the Klysee or a third rate apartment house on Montmatre, in the Hotel de I®'At hence, or the most provincial of pensions. The elasticity of prices in the rent ing of apartments is wonderful. A Frenchman pays s.'so a month for a nicely furnished flat in the i'aliis ltoyal, or, we will say, in the ncighlW- I hood of Trinity church, taking the two extremes of localities, and an Ameri- ' can tourist gladly pays f.V) for the same accommodations. If the lesjwc is fortunate and rents from a family that may be going to Vichy for a few months, ho possibly can arrange for silverware, linen, and crockery, but if this is denied him, he will find a most agreeable company organized for the very purpose of supplying the transient resident with all the necessary appur- j tenanecs of housekeeping, at a price that allows one to display a magnifi cence approaching royalty at the most j economical outlay. A l<onne may be had at |7 per month, <m* of those , smart French girls that d'X-s every- ' thing from cooking the meals to dr<-vs. ing her mistress, and who insists uj>n ■ doing it. Seven dollars. Is- it under sto<N|, is not starvation pay, it is muni licence, and one may expect from such ' a girl all the e-thetic cooking of the French repertoire -peas, not as we have them in this country, yellow and hard, but deliriously sweetened, tender as cream. The bonne does all the marketing, wrangles with the trades p'-ople, and hands in her account every day or week. Of course she has aj Percentage from the stores, hut who would begrudge that to get rid of the intolerable nuisance of shopping? A str<dl on the lioulevards, a visit to , the dardin d'Acelimation, a ride to the Hois tie Boulogne, by the way of the Champs F.lysee, all tie *<• are pleasures, and combine with the attractive fur nishings of the house to make one forget the annoyances he is subjected to and the crude and primitive domes tic surroundings he is called upon to endure. He is Induced to forget that on his way home he may be run over bv a vicious cab driver and then arrett ed for being in the way of the hor-c # for, of course, in Parisian streets vehicles have the right of way. The concierge is an important factor in French life. If one fails to "come down" with the proja-r amount of sulwidy in the sha|e of "jxitir Inure" 1 the concierge, whose place is at the en trance to his building, takes very good care that his rlose-fist<sl tenant do-s 1 riot receive his mail, certainly until one j day after its delivery at the door, and his visitors are informed that he is "not at home," when in truth lie is await ing their coming in his rooms. Should the tenant protest to the landlord, his life will thereafter lie miserable, a suc cession of ills ami terrors that will finally drive him from the house, to look for other apartments. Hut he is ; known to every concierge in the city, and. despite the tlaming yellow poster that announces from the outer wall there Is an apartment to let. he meets i everywhere the one reply, "There is nothing here sir," and if, perforce, he does get into the building the price is placed at such a figure as to put it beyond the reach of the tired and discouraged searcher. After one ex perience of this sort the traveler either succumbs to the inevitable and pays up like a man, or else, with what i courage he lias left, lie goes off to I Switzerland and freezes on Mount Blanc, or to Rome and gets the fever. Of course, where there are few carpets the floors must be kept in good condition, so a man comes every week and waxes the boards, and skates about on them with stiff brushes tied to Ids feet. A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence. PEARLS) OP 7HOIUHT. JTo Is richly endowod who Is cheaply divert ed. The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. Ho shall iio immortal who livetli till lie bo stoned by one without fault. To love Is to admire with tlio heart; to admire is to love with the mind. Fame cornea only when deserved, and then it is as inevitable as destiny. Unfriended indeed Is he who l as no friend hold enough to point out his faults. Physical exercise and Intellectual rest in due season should never be neglected. A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applause of the multi tude. The primal duties snine aloft like stars; the charities that soothe and heal ami bless, are scattered at the feet of men like flowers. He is a good man, people say, thought lessly. They would be more chary of such praise if they reflected they could 1 bestow nope higher. The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult. Is there one whom difficulties dis" hearten who bends to the storm ? He w ill do little. Is there one who w ill conquer? That kind of man never fails. Oh, there Is nothing holler in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love—the first fluttering of its silken wings—the first rising sound < and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul to puri fy or destroy. A t'lty In Two Hemlphfres. At Quito, South America, the only city in the world on the line of the ! equator, the sun rises and sets at 6 o'clock the year round. Vour clock may break down, your watch get cranky, but the sun never makes a mistake here, says a correspondent. When it disappears from sight f>r the night it is 6 o'clock and you ran set vour watch accordingly. In one part of the city it is tS" summer season and in the other part it is winter. The present dwellings in Quito in architec ture have degenerated and fallen far short of that old, gigantic race of In dians, who. with the In '-as, of I'ertl, joined their city with massive and grandly constructed highways. There still exists va< ant remains of colossal buildings on this roadway of palace* and fortresses with w.ills so finely cut and closely joined together that be tween these massive stone blocks there is not space sufficient to insert the edge of the thinm-st paper. In one royal palace of the In' a*, gold or silxcr was used for th<- cement. If the journey is long and difficult to reach this old Spanish town, there is much to eom pensato one's trouble in its interesting structure. It is pi,'*" feet atiove the sea and contains some buildings. I am almost afraid to say how old is this ancient city, for it dates far bark in the dark agw when the "memory of man goeth not to the contrary." When you realize that everything of modern invention found here has Ixen brought a six days' journey, through difficult mountain passes, on mules' barks, then you understand how highly luxuries are appreciated. In this way all the supplies from the outer world and all their exports are carried. There are in Quito scores of beautiful pianos brought by ships to Guayaquil that have been carried on Indians' backs this long distance of 300 miles, up through the mountain passes 10,. 0* feet above the sea to their rich owners in the city. I.eathrrohl. Leatherold is a new article which is being made of paper. It consists of a 1 number of thicknesses of cotton paper wound one upon another over a cylin der. The remarkable qualities of strength and adhesion it possesses are derives! from a chemical bath through which the paper is drawn on its way to the cylinder. The effect of the chem ical bath on the paper is said to be wonderful Leatherold, for the pur poses It now serves, consists of about twenty thicknesses of paper; it is shaped upon or around molds, while wet, into the form it is to represent, ami will hold that form perpetually when dry. When dried it is as difficult as rawhide to cut with a knife. Cans made from this notorial are alwut one fourth the weight of tin cans of equal j sire ; while tin cans are liable to get bent, cans made from leatlieroid are entirely free from this objection. Thev have the elasticity of thin steel, and no amount of kicking and handling will break them.— Host on Journal qf Chem istry.^ Llfs aad Death la Bfatnre* For some inscrutable reason, which she has as yet given no hint of reveal ing. nature is wondroiiHly wasteful in the matter of generation. Khe creates a thousand where she intends to make use of one. Impelled by maternal In* stinct, the female coil casts millions of eggs upon the waters, expecting them to return after many days as troops of Interesting offspring. Instead, half the embryotlc gadi are almost immediately devoured by spawn eaters, hundreds of thousands perish In incubation, hun dreds of thousands more succumb to the jK-rlls of attending lchthylc infan cy, leaving but a few score to attain ' to adult usefulness, and pass an honor- j <sl old age, with the fragrance of a ! well-spent life, in a country grocery. The oak showers down ten thousand ( acorns, each capable of producing a tree. Three-fourths of them are straightway diverted from their arbor eal intent, through conversion into food by the provident squirrel and the Improvident hog. Great numbers rot uselesslessly upon the ground, and the fi w hundreds that finally succeed in gi rmmating grow up in a dense thick et, whereat last the strongest smoth. ers out all the rest, like an oaken Oth ello in a harem of quercine Desdctno* nas. This is the law of all life, animal as well as vegetable. From the humble hyssop on the wall to the towering ce dar of Lebanon—from the meek and lowly amu-ha, which has no more char acter or individuality than any other pin jxiint of jelly -to the lordly tyrant, man, the rule is inevitable and invaria ble. Life is sown broadcast, only to be followed almost immediately by a de struction nearly as sweeping. Nature creates by the million, apparently that she may destroy by the myriad. Hie giw-i life on" instant, only that she may snatch it away the next. The main difference is that, the higher we ascend, the less lavish the creation, and the less sweeping the destruction. Thus, while probably one fish in a thousand reaches maturity, of every ItMJ children b"rri 604 attain adult age. That Is, nature flings aside 999 out of every It*" lislu-s as uwle-s for her purjHisi-s, and two out of every live human beings. Popular ,S rtenee Monthly. Grain and Meat In Europe, In a pajwr on agricultural statistics real liefore the British association, W. Both* gave some interesting facts con , corning the f..<l supply of Great Britain and the continent, as follows: "At present the fond supply produced in Europe i* equal to al>ut eleven months' conxuinpti >n. but in a few years the deficit w 11 IK- sixty instead of thirty days. The present production and consumption ar<: Grain c-insumj tion in the l"nit-d Kingdom, 607,<**V I" bushels ; continent, 4,791,<*0.f**; total, .%.I'd",<*" bushels. Produc tion of the United Kingdom, TiJ.'s",- ji "0 bushels ; continent, 4.736,<* *l.OOO bushels; total, Meat consumption in tb<- United Kingdom, ! 1,740,n0n tons; continent. 6.372,(**> t tons; total 7.319/* tons. It appears that the hulk of the deficit lielongs t > ! Gnat Britain ; but as the continent Is unable to feod its own population, we must in future look to some other hem isphere for the needful supply, rather than to the supposed surplus of Bussia ! Hungary, Holland or Denmark. Europe paid last year £35/"*>,<**• for I foreign meats and £85,000,000 for j grain, a sum equivalent to a tax of J £10,000,09 M jier month. In the United Kingdom the importation of meat, including cattle, has risen as , follows: 1860, 91.2.10 tons, value. I £4,1190,000, per inhabitant, 7 pounds; 1870, 144,225 tons, value, £7,708.000, l>er inhabitant, 10 pounds; 1880, 650,- . :O0 tons, value, A' 26,612,000, or 40 |M>unds for each inhabitant, A Carton* Taste. The Malagasy tate for tomlebuild ing was another frequent cause of , delay. Among the Ho van. the hading triln-s of Madagascar, large sums are spent on their tombs, which are a kind of vault, made of immense slabs of un dressed blue basal! rock. A man will live in a house which has not cost more than from ten to twenty dollars, but ho will cheerfully expend two hundred or three hundred dollars upon his tomb. A a soon as a young man marries and settles in life he liegins preparations for building his family vault; and all of his spare time - and most of his spare money—are spent upon tliis work. The luwalt slabs are often brought for two or three miles distance, dragged by hurdreds of peo ple, all the family connections goingto assist. Although the portions ground in these toinlw arc of stone, above ground a massive, often elalHirate, structure of drcstfli stone is erected, with bold moldings, and sometimes with a good deal jpf carving.— -London (jnivcr. J THE FAULT DOCTOR. atln* u • Car* for HbnmiUi*. I>r. Tanner's heresy may yet becoms the creed of regular practice. Tanner claimed that fasting was a good hygienic cure fur many forms of Wood disease, arid now Dr. Wood, of the medical department of Bishop's college> Montreal, reports fasting as a cure for acute rheumatism. J'lenty of water or lemonade was allowed but no medi cines were given, and from the good results obtained in fasting from four to ten days J)r. Wood is inclined to believe that rheumatism is only a phase of Indigestion.—Dr. F'XJWB Health Monthly. Hemolr for Krratprlaa At the recent congress of German surgeons, Ir. Fisher, of Strasburg, drew attention to the valueof naphtha line as an antiseptic. For some skin diseases, and especially in the treat ment of erysipelas, it is almost specific The application is made in the most simple manner possible by rubbing gauze in the powdered mate rial, or dipping any suitable fabric in an ctheriel solution diluted with alco hol. Naphthaline being very cheap, this preparation will lw less expensive than anything of the kind now in the market. It is extensively used in Strasburg, where it is regarded as a perfect preventive of erysije-las; and it is hoped that if this valuable property can be substantiated, it will Is? used for the same purpose in this country. Dr. Fisher does not state whether its use jn the manner stated is attended with any inconvenience or pain to the patient; but persons employed in gas works and elsewhere who have suffer ed from seales "f naphthaline entering the eyes, etc., would be disposed to regard the remedy with very consider able suspicion. -lUd Teeth And lilirtir, Had we the means we should endow a charity the great aim of which should )• to prevent disease by establishing an institution for the treatment of decayed and imperfect teeth. There are more cases of disease of various kinds and various degrees of severity emanating from l ad teeth than fr<.rn almost any other cause. The trouble is easily remedied if taken in time; but those who suffer most are they who have not the means to employ conij>etent dentists. It is pitiful to see the children of the poor as they grow up. gradually losing their teeth bv decay and neglect and lecorning dyspeptic at twenty and old and haggard at thirty. If there is a nobler charity than that which would supply free dentistry to the j sir, and dentist ry at cost to those who are able to pay no more, we know not what it is. But there are persons of ample means who pay no attention to their own teeth or those of their children. They should l>e taught the imjs.rtance of attending to this matter, and, if they th n refused, they should be punished for the neglect of an important duty toward their families. There is no exruse for any person having bad teeth. A child ran l>e taught the importance of attending to the teeth, and every child that has his second front teeth should be pro vided with a tooth-brush and be re quired to use it at least once everyday, using castile soap. Once in six months at furthest.a dentist should IK- employ ed to examine the teeth and properly fill any that may lie decayed. Were this'p'un generally adopted we should see no more toothless men and women — HalTs Journal of Health. Overtaxing the Brnin. In a recent lecture on "Brain Health." at Edinburgh, Dr. J. Batty ,Tuke said that, as a matter of fact, it w as not an easy thing to overtask the energies of the brain by work. It was not work, but worry, that killed the brain. But break down from over strain did occasionally take place, and the first really important symptom was sleeplesness; when that set in there was cause for alarm. Loss of sleep was brought al>out thus; When the brain was Vicing actively exercised, there was an increase of blood in its vessels--this was spoken of as "functional hyperemia" If they con tinued the exercise of the brain power too long, there was a tendency of Vbe j blood to remain in too great quantity t ! from the cells lieroming exhausted and not being able to control the vessels. ! In sleep the amount of blood was diminished, and sleep could not be procured if this functional hyperemia ! persisted. In the absence of sleep, the I cells could not recover themselves, and ! their activity became impaired. Headache, lost of appetite, and general j bat)i --emess followed. As soon as a or young person Uevelopes con. ■koua headache, work should be dls- Hmtinued at once. I Forty years ago a man worth |tV\ooo was accounted wealthy, now he must * have his millions to be so regardod.
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