: [Rose Terry.] Oto whoa the How moon giitierad in the west, Hiookad goto 5 shotlier And a wild stirred my breast, Over my white t shoulder I looked at the silver horn, And wished a wish at even, To come to pass in the mom. Whenever the new moon glittered, Bo slender and so fine, 1 looked aeross my shonlder And wished that wish of mine! Now, when the west is tosy, And the snow. wreaths blush below, And I see the light white cresent Bink downward soft and slow, I never looked aver my shoulder, As 1 used to look before; For my boart is older and colder, And now | wish no more! CARE OF THE EYES. How to Bemove an Offending Partis cles Weak Hyese(lasses, {Boston Budget.) It often happens that weak or inflamed eyes result from not using spectacles when they are required, or from using spectacles unsuited to the sight. The advice of an oenlist on these matters is often invaluable. Indulgence in alcohol is very bad for the eyes, We soe this in the “bleared eyes’ of the habitual tippler. Everybody has experienced the pain and annoyance of ‘‘something getting into the What should be done when this happens! In the majority of cases, if the sufferer has the patience to close the eye gently, and keep it im movably closed for from five minutes to a quarter of an hour, the offending particle will be safely and painlessly washed away by the tears which the eye will naturally shed. All who have carried out this plan speak of it with great commendation as ly in- fallible. And certainly a difficult and complipated sort the result of the less endeavors for self-reli If winked, in hopes of « eign body,” it is apt to upper eyelid, which must then everted to get it out. The way to per form this stmple operation Is as follows Take a pencil or pepholder (perfectly clean, of course) in the right hand, lay it lengthwise on the upper eyelid, direct the patient to down while vou id eve, os : : absoiu “ove onss Of re often apposite COUrse of rest the eve is the behind the lw look A press with the pencil, shove the eyeli mckward into the socket, as it were This maneuver causes the eyelashes to | project forward. Then seize them be tween the forefinger and thumb of the left hand, and, while you turn the lid back over the peneil you shove down the back of the lid with the pencil. Thus the eyelid is everted, or turned inside out, so that you can now see where the particle is and pick it out with the corner of a handkerchief, twisted if need be. The care of the eye essentially con- gists inguarding it against accidents, and from all irritating influences. Ex- cessive use of the eves at night is to be avoided. Curtains, lamp-shades, eye-shades, or smoke glasses are the best means of avoiding the injurious effects of light. The pale shade of “London smoke’ glasses is the best. Artificial light, be it of gas, lamp or candle, should never be in front of or on a level | with the eyes. The light should fall either from above or over the shoulder. “Goggles” should only be used to pro- teet the eye where a great deal of dry, sandy dust exists; they should never be worn too continuously. Short-sighted people and children should be promptly supplied with spectacles suited to sup plement their deficient vision, else the strain on the eyes is apt to weaken and injure the sight irretrievably. Artificial Evory. {Scientific Journal.) The variety of economical uses to which the apparently worthless refuse | of the slaughter-house and tannery can be adapted is daily on the increase. One of the latest processes in this direc. tion is the manufacture of a really fine imitation of ivory, possessing considera- ble elasticity, and susceptible of as five a polish as the elephant's tusk. The bones (principally those of sheep) are macerated for ten or fifteen hours in a solution of chloride of lime, and after wards washed in clean water and allowed to dry. Thay are then mixed with all the scraps of hides, white skins, ete., and put into a specially construeted boiler, with about 2§ per cent. Mum, where they are subjected to a steaming process until dissolved into a semi-fluid mass, The foam is carefully skimmed off, as it rises, until the whole mass remains clear and transparent, If it is desired to have the ivor tinted, coloring matter is now added; and while the mixture is still warm it is strained through a cloth of appropriate coarseness into a cooler, where it is al- lowed to remain until it has acquired a consistency which will permit of its be- ing on canvas without going through it. It is thus dried on frames in the air, and forms sheets of conven- jent thickness. Next comes the harden ing process, which is accomplished by immersing the substance for eight or ten hours in an alum bath, the quantity of alum Routed being about one-half the t hoe Jy or | ras BIG CITY CEMETERIES, The Memory of the Dead=¥onith of the LivingeCremation, {Joseph Howard in Boston Herald.) New York at one time was a perfect nursery of graveyards, and we have now iu the eity mits a score of little eeme- teries, where hundreds and thousands of decaying bodies remain. There are two things to be considered, respect for the memory of the dead, and care for the health of the living. I was looking in 8f, Paul's churchyard a few days ago, a plot of ground worth millions of dollars, opposite the building of The Now York Herald, and I saw a large number of grave stones piled one above the other, Nobody knows where they belong, and nobody caves. It is against the law for anybody to be buried within the limits of the city of New York, and a fine of #500 is put upon the person who breaks the law; nevertheless there are hindreds of persons who intend tobe Lurled within the limits of the city of New York, in Trinity churchyard, in 8t. Paul's church. yard, or in St. Mark's churchyard. w sure they are members of our ‘‘rich, old families." | Some years ago this law was passed, {and since then cemeteries have been | built up adjacent to the city, but al f ready the growth of the metropolis, and | its neighboring cities hes een { even these have een enveloped and ave part and parcel of the living economy ! {of the time. Calvary cemetery, 1 saw in some paper a few days ago, has over half a million dead bodies under its soil, i and some of its coffins are so near the | surface that one can easily punch them { with the ferrule of his eane. Green | wood cemetery, one of the most charm | ing &pots on the face of the earth, i» the home of hundreds of thousands of {dead and is a most embarrassing | in the highway of travel, tr 81% or eight i nues of Brooklyn. Todix k ns aversing, (a A : | Ol | 8411 Le FL Already the { hand of polit ca has reached out i hold of it; already sel to drive these aver i the cemetory As to } PESOT ing eration, I eons of sentiment about viel considering: after all, men or women who read th tell where what is leit aven {it does, Lint but : un Tanda atners or iny and who of us them } . 18 buried to « there who vv hie | that Cares | generation K But y the affected affection 4 Man Ges | » generations, {Ome that a very proper way would be to have {a public de pository in which, | trifling sum, we could place t tf eontaining the ashes of our friends, and i leave them there for all time to « CGI, Baden-Baden's Baths, {Haynie's Foreign Letter. | the new castle i i i { (Close to stands the { Friedri ksbad, the most splendid and | { largest bathing-house in the world, so | {am told, It is three stories high, up against the southern slope of | Schlossberg in the form of terraces, | backs directly h which give vapor for the KE heat for the Turkish baths tthe r fof the and Of springs 144 an and against the solid marble. They have steps { leading down to them, and each is pro vided with apparatus for a shower or a jet douche. Nome of th: tubs have fine sand or mud at the they say it is good for “rhemmatio.s in room there is a vomfortable conch where | you may read and nap after your bath as long as you like. bottom; each i bath, four feet de p and feet in diameter. It is wholly con- ttructed of marble and provided with | steps around its Rimi sion This magnificent bath house is 200 feet long; it cost over $400,000, and unlike in most establishments of the sort, the wa modation for the women is precisely the same as for opr sturdy selves. I mus be permitted to add that the house be- longs to the city and state, and that no fewer than fifteen physicians of Badea | are ready daily to give visitors advices a to the proper kinds of baths to take. twenty eight OE Trouble with Cats and Dogs, {Henry Bergh in Interview. } We have a great deal of trouble with cats and dogs, especially at this season. People going out of the city for a few bi lock their eats in the houses, leas ing them no food or water. They think the eats can enteh enough rats, and they naturally want the rats weeded oat by their return. In a few days the eats be gin onterw adling, snd the neighbors come to us with complaints. We get the key of the house from the agent and literate the imprispned felines, The other day one attempted to get had gone to Coney island to give the eat au chance to clean the house of rats, The cat jumped twenty-five feet on the roof of another house, and then rolled down into the water-gutter and was eaught Eleven days afterward the cat was accel dentally seen, and a report was made to this office. Wao spliced two ladders, sent a man up to rescue the cat, after it had lived eleven days without eating. Dogs are also locked up by familios ing ont of the city for a fow days. The rly feels lonesome and to howl, and the annoyed ne come to us. It seems that will never learn the folly of locking sp dogs and eats during their absence. It is not galt cruelty to animals, but to the neigh- Jot , concluded the pioneer human- To | such that | for a | he urns | gation; rising | the | i Blanchard and {| tgeir in some of i tn ous the bathing tubs are hewn ont | P bait the substitution of . ! they became Up stairs, on the second floor, I had | some sport in a large circular swimming | i hours, HISTORY OF AERONAUTICS. The Recent Experiment at Meudon «The Montgolficrs and Others, [Lamdon Times, No little excitement has been caused in France by the news that a successful experiment in balloon-steerisig was por- formed at Mendon, near Paris, on the oth of lust month--a date which M, Herve Mangon, in reporting the experi- ment to the Academy of Seiences on Tuesday, declared “will remain ever memorable in the annals of discovery.” We are unable to judge the importance | of the alleged invention, for its authors | are the two military officers in command of the government aerostatic works, which were instituted of their contrivance have, of course, been disclosed to the war office only, Without expressing an opinion-—sinee we have no data for doing soon value of an invention which has may briefly recall whst has progress " aeronautics since balloon rose into the than a esntury ayo, year the town of the first air a little more At this time last Annonay was celebrat- ing the centenary of ballooning by the | inauguration of a monument to the rothers Etienne and Joseph Montgolfier: but the first practical idea as to aerial navigation may be credited to an eccen tric character who lived in the seven- teenth century, Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano wrote a number of fantastie books, which were consulted by Swift for his “Gulliver,” by Voltaire for his "Mi cromegas,”’ and by Fontenelle for his “Mondes,”” In the most popular of these, a “Trip Through the Moon,” the hero is made to ascend from the earth by means of bladders filled with hot air. The Montgolilers improved upon notion by substituting ones globe of for several bladders; r roip their balloon was an adaptation of Ber this gilk ts d y gr! iT in oth e's idea, for it had an aperture al its which hot air rose froma al stove in the ear. The first hot wnt ij the Mth in fYOuRt an enamn y OM 4 El n C4 | a balloon Inflated with In September the Mont nehed a new fire-halloon with 3.000 feet which excited the wildest enthusiasm and the most fanciful anticipations, All the practical scientists of Europe be came stwitten with a erage for acrial nay- and pamphlets on the hieet wore published by the scare, and believed that a method for steer balloons would be contrived without uch difficulty The first ascent in England was made from Woolwich in November 1783: in 1788 a Sig. Lunardi started in a baloon from Moorilelds and in 1785 Mr Dr. Jefiries performed ¥ Tey books from Dover After this was made 1521, when ordinary coal-gas for inflating pur- manufacture of hydrogen tronblesone and expensive, coal gas enabled at a comparas from this time popular objects of amuse. ment in public gardens. The famous trips of the great ““Nassaa' lwmlloon, famous Calais in distin t ballooning {:reen two hours advanos until used no The been Poses had nl’ to tively small WIA be blown cost, and { whieh went up from . Vauxhall gardens in 1886, are still remembersd by many living persons with wonder “Nassau was 157 feet in circumfer- ence, ita fall height from car to summit was eighty feel: it was made of 200 contained 70,000 cuble feet of gas Nine persons could be earried in its ear. On one of ils first voyages it de- seended in the duchy of Nassau, having | in eighteen traveled about 500 miles From Mr. Green's days until now ne gentine advance has been made in bal loaning. ascents with many aceidents—though not so many of these as might have been expected: and some of these ascents un- | dertaken for seientifie ends have yielded interesting ob dervations on atmospheric phenomena. to a height of 20,000 feet, but, notwith- standing the information obtained from | n { to prison to undergo his sontence Mr. Glaisher's ascents the British Asso. ciation for the Advancement of Science has suffered acronautical investigation to drop out of their programme, Before | 3 50° 1 dismissing a subject which has always | out of a tenement-house while the family | ol ‘ A been fraught with the groatest interest and which, indeed, exercises something like fascination upon every mind, the association had been fairly harried by papers on balloon steering from inventors of the kind who have not yet given up trying to square the circle, and we be- lieve the patents that have been taken out for various contrivances in aero nautics ean hardly be numbered. How- ever, the problem of balloon steering has never been regarded even by scientists of the first order as insoluble in theory: it is only in practice that experiments have failed, because it has not been found possible to eonstruct a motor combining power with lightness. Filth from Weod Pavement, i in Central America and Hayti are also un®r M, Gam- | betta's auspices, and the technical seerets | | counterparts among | southern, and central | joie with dancing and feasts at each the | not been submitted to public scrutiny, we | bean the i 10 Bave | by excess of fervor The | | four years i to England, yards of crimson and white silk, and | ®otien, | spotted Oswald Puekridge-—she pulled death during There have been innnmerable | { thrashed | pist can find them at every corner of this { or any other English town, wailing and Mr, Glaisher and Mr, Cox- i well nearly lost their lives in mounting | pe { and children alive | of Lake Superior, where 1 spent some ——— - Re The Man in the Moon, {Popular Science Monthly.) By the Hurons the moon is called the srentor of the earth and the grand- mother of the sun: in the myths of the Ottawas it is an old woman with a pleas. sant white face—the sister of the da star. The Chiguitos call the moon their mother, and the Navajos make it a rider on a mule. Where the planets are worshiped, preference in honors is gen- erally accorded to the brighter and wiore conspicuous star of tha day. But the Botocudos of Brazil give the higher place to the moon, and derive most of the phenomena of nature from it; and Jucple who hold the moon in no less enor, Curiously, these people find their tribes of western, A frica, who ri anpearance of the moon and expect an improvement of their condition from its beneficent influence; and they are not 80 far removed from the superstitious women of dvilized Furopo und America who wait for the increase of the moon to change their dwelling, to cut their bgir, to be married and to bptize their children. A belief existed among the | ancient © Mos and Peruvians, the Natchor of the Mississippi and the Ap palachian: of Florida, that the sun was | the radiant dead and | braves. To the Esquimaux of Labrador | belotgs the honor of having discoverad | that the moon was the paradise for the good, while the wicked were to a hole in the earth; although some of the Soath American Indians and Polynesians of Tokeslan may be nearly | abreast of thea in the competion yay CAs phode of chiefs consigned | the Charlotte Bros o's Wedded Life, {London Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph trived in Y orkshi Job Office And Have Your Job natire brother that { tin w hos her own the she had idolized In spite of his short comings. What was there left then to | the oly, un atistied heart save the one | | Le troubled? Yet WAS 20 i ko lon repose that may never how many of us woul nave appearad ane of Piness? {0 To have writt been Foeeay odd na est authors of the da oomed as healthy, appreciati tiny would havi with the choleest 2 a sister Mr. Pocekridge's {Lelanei’s Lond In 1880 a Mr. Puckridge, of Rand wich, in England, took part in a politi eval demonstration. The color of his candidate was yellow, s0 Puckridge cov ered himself with yellow ribbons, and dipped his dog into | a dye-vat and yellowed it, also, before | yelling in a demonstration. Unfortu nately, the dyestuff was dyestuff in deed, since it was poison, and the dog died of it. For this very slight sin of igno- | rance Pockridge was actually condemned to six weeks’ imprisonment at hard labor, To escape this he flad to France, and exiled himself for Thursday last he returned | hoping that all was for- | Justice could not forget she was awake. She But that yaller dog him, and the very day of his arrival he was marched off to pick oakum and tread the wheel and do up his little six weeks at deal for a valler dog. How may women have been kicked nearly to | the Inst four years, how little children starved and] Heaven knows the philanthro- | It wax & gn many weeping, | could find twenty io an hour. But no. Pockridge’s valler dog was more of an object of pity to a real British philanthropist than all the women It was more inter esting, “He was arrested and removed Mow an Hog Mooted Up a Cliy. {(“Carp” in Cleveland Leader] I have just returned from the shores time visiting the copper regions, said to be the greatest in the world. Through. out the 1vky, barren Keweenaw penin. sula, good for nothing as farming lands, the immense copper deposits have caused large towns to spring up, and they now give employment to tens thousands of men. About teen years ago a pig strayed fram the ghte to which it and fell into a pit on a gpot where the city of Calumet now stands. In rooting about it uncovered a mass of native copper, and showed to the the location of the greatest mine it bas ever known. 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