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EMBROIDERIES, L A C E $, NOTIONS, &c., &c.. &c F,yANs & lIILDRETII ToW:1(1113, 2, 76 4 . Co. • BEAUTIFUL ----- ASS-bRTMENT OF lini ITOLIV . AI . GOODS, r AT r TAYLOR h CO'S TIILS WEEK Towanda, Dec. 9,.‘1:5 *lrtityi rocky. FAB FROM RCM. - . ~ , ' Hari; t I bear a Mournful trioaning. And a dismal, pileotig g . roatilng; . . As the Winter wind gilcs walling through the for- CSIY, bleak and bare; ~ .." Failed Isnntnninal glorT, - 1 And stern lipatcri cblll and hoary. In mild Antiinui's footsteps treadlng, ' Itelgning lyrantillke, bi*rrading Over f1 , t , 1 an over forest, desotation errrywherek Ti. no wintry 'Gina that chills me, Tis W.) innurnfn wound that tills nio With a :drangely solealn sadnes,—•tls that thought to-night will roam (tut through 'pace t o cold and dreary, that fire Ade bright and cheery, Where the dear„ . lfamiliar fares Elll,lheir old, aernitomed races, n hlta 1. f:,4 that I am intssing all the warmth and light of henry.. I Though the rt....l:apt, ~ .arrt.,l beauty, enctrellng duty, To It tends a , hartu ths4 keeps ute from keucath the :41.Arrillt;110111 , `. Yet when p:ca,ant ram-, meet me, AMI when loving k - entes greet me, Still from them Mv I, turning, And with tr.tt , t,r yvarn.itq For Limo faces,r.r:d th- would xe um! hear MEM 11111: , ilponll.lte's And ttio! 141. sv, In ~,i,inv,H,,,,, In th.• irmpt.,: wilLfly : , . in.gh,g, rot - cr:nly fr.llll.nrk .1 AN ith fi.:l!ii; , ' , y,t Mt.:: rvcr 1.... n; int. nrnr,r. -. 1- 'Volk:At Im:it:. where , 'tter, cleari.r, 1.• th : , :•ttvt• ' Ant t .. - litt e nuf. In Ow Loitst. of pt:tny truitt,!,,w,, mt far M , 'r: , t•rstal C.. in l'ittsC•nrg RNcrilatteviv;. . . DRAWN FOR DEATH. 111 X STORY Or I,THEI AMERICAN WAR To the conimon realler I believe that personal experience is always more interestinur +than any amount, of !reneralizing;atid in this . faith, I ivill'ltriefly set forth' an incident of army life, which itl none the less en- tertaining ffom the r it is be the common - expel - 431(T of a military career. This is a leaf out I the Freon! of Capt. B. F. Porter, of the New Jersey Cavalry, 'descriptive of one incident nktne l ii' his Conlin -meta in Libby PriSon in 1,!;3. lie • nas taken prisoner i with his compa ny outside Port Iltnison lir June. and front ihat mothent until his es- cape from the Lihlb-, months after— and his was - the Eery first ,escape from that prison his adventures were many ,and till of interest. I haul the whole stOry from his own lips in I Sr) and ?lly note hook is I full of if; hut one' only Will Sltal•t.t ttn the presi , nt purpose. It ! is one which he de i scrihed as s o m e - I thinr that prodtMed t u ne emotion than I have ever seen.' aside from it, amomi. a crow , l of line t." It must Le premised that -ht• was one of al-. most -200 Vhion officers at this time within the walls, who were confined in roooms up stairs. Among his companions were (let. Neal Dow, Col. Straight. afteiward known to fame' bytile exploit of himself and others "in escaping hy "tunneling Out, - and 'Lieut. Col. Irvine, after . ward Adjutant General of New York. All the captains among the pris oners were one lh ordered belOw, into-the cominantliffit's room. _More titan fifty of us wer'e assembled and counted. - AI 9jor `f l utter, the coni manulaht. was si4iin,r by the, tattle • with an opell char lbox before-, him. half-tided with palie! i r Slips. • A mur mur of delighted diScovery ran-from lip to lip. o'einert- eerta;n heitnr evthanured t • hut IfieVer were' 111011 111 4,111011 g 11S :nollll4 : I " c 1,;11 - • reCt. net' . 4 of tilt' two tai Our evinins• in Oiliu :is spit-;. by Gt'co, Bnrusi‘le,and our Voverninent plioinlses : tut 'UAL?. lam I,rtletv4 to schat by iot two of the Yank( e contlind; here. Tor imme.liattl execution. LI this ly,x-is the name of ei - ;c11 of you the van be lone in such a in;:nner its von prefdr.! You eau talk tou , etlnar about it, :lint arrange, the details to suit yourselves, so that it proeeu-d Once. The men Selected Will- be led fritin ht! , re to execution. Confer together, it.Ld say;how you • - will have it.- I think five minutes passed before a WUrd Ikl.•n. 1 1 The revulsion was so painful from) the hopeful ex pectation of a monient before that we could only ,look lilankly into each other's faces. awl keep silent. Well, make haste, - said -TurnOr. A few of us t.: ; :eliale . red a few words. Then some spokesman de:- dared that we shoo 1 have. nothing to do with what we regarded a s a. , 11:1,14r:int uutrage lipon the - tights of , priz.oners and rules of civilized Var. L • Very well," stdd Turner. harshly.; arrange. it 14 you. We are lgound to make -11Musigie - and all your Generals sick of this sort of thing; and we will begin with you. Von. sir, may draw two slips out of that box. one aft et c anotdter. Mix them up together lir'st." lie spoke to a gray haired ehap lain of one of our( regiments who. strangely, enough, had been for some time detained in the Libby. The ohl man was-a general favorite, and at the command he elapped his thin hands and looked arpund on the som bre faces in pit iful distress. i "My God, I ean'tl!" he sobbed, and tears rolled dOwn his cheeks. We partially forgot our own fears in witnessing his trouble. There were inany white faces and mans„ loud bentiny• hearts among uS; but we as sured the ehaplairlat 'if one of our number must mak . e ithe fatal allot; ment. we would prefliT that he should do it Ile hesitated in moment, step ped up to the box with averted face: and atter mingling* . the ballots drew ' one Out. In the midst, of the most I painful hush that -ever heard he handed it to Major Turner, who nu , folded it and read till! name, " Capt. John W. ;sawyer.'" It was the thane brave a fel low as wort , ti and he showed. his courage in that ii•ying inoinent. Fel, ling Ilk arms, 11.1 steplied to the aid of the taltie Nvit4 a defiant smile and in another inoini l at of horrilile suspense. anotlwr was drawn, handed to the commandant and read. For,an instant Majtj,r Turner hesi" tatted. ~ '4'l 3 , -; TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, 3IARCH 23, 1876 e "Blind - c4riting," he ►nuttteed, loud enoughlto, be heed across the room. "What in - -- is it, anyweyl Captain B—; yes, that's aB; F; , I F—, and then: a Ile was reading my own doom.frem that little slip of of paper! Thus far he' had read my exact initials. I knew there *us none °Viet in my room, and could: not hope there was in the prison, with th 6 same. I grerefaint, and leaped on the should er of my neighbor. With a dead weight of despair at my heart, I fast ened my eyes on . the face of the com mandant, and awaited the sound of my name. 13. P.—that's sure,' he went on. 'ls the next 4P. I wonder? Fo—its another F—; and the name is Flynn, Capt. B. F. Flynn.' Well—that was such a revulsion as very few 'men cut experience in. this life. The throbbing of my, heart as the blood Went back to it,, sound ed to my ears like the strokes of thi., hammer gn the anvil. I felt some thing as -the cataleptic must feel when his coffin lid is torn off at the grave - by son't'e oue who had detect ; ed nrstnre's awful secret. The two doomed captains. bade us farewell manfully, (I lbelive they were, more maufnl afiout it than the rest of us); and were taken away by the guard; while we' Were returned to out,. quarters. The names of Flynn.and Sawyer ought to haye a prominent place among those) of the heroes of the great rebellion, if mental torture to be, counted in the making of such. They were not executed but they lived for weeks in daily expectation of the order tO go out to their death, and they - bord the torment as bravely as it is in thelpower of man to bear it. On leaving the prison they were taken before iGen. Winder, the coin inandzint of the city, who heaped un men,:ured abitse and insult upon them (grange to say) and ordered them to be ecinfined in irons. ThiS treatonent th 4 endured until the selection a Geui. Fitz Lee and other Confederate kisoners of high rank; by our War Department. for,:retalia tion, admonished the authorities at Itielimmid that this was "a game that two could play at " The irons of our two Captains were removed ; and the execution waS deferred. Time p.:ssed on, and save their separate confinement, they were not molehteill, until one day they were sent h:tek 'to Libby. This was the end of thud matter: but it , is cagy to understand that the actual 'pangs of death mild not have added largely to their suffer= IDE LIVING EXPENSES. i . The New tOrk Sim speaks in thisi wise Of the Condition. of affairs in New lurk, and its remarks will ap ply as well hetie at home as in the East i Leaving out the estates of menl like Astor, Stewart, Goelet, and few others, it is safe to say that nine 4 blahs of the real estate of New Yorkl is mortgaged ni t ) to at leastione-half of its asseised valuation as that was : fixed. three Years ago. These mort-: uages are largely 'held by savings banks and insurance coinpanies, and in their totality they reach an enor mous ti:rure. During the war and immediately after,when the unhealthy speculative spirsm witsa.t its height, the number of ;costly mildings erect ed was very great. Broadway was mmie: a new street in a few years, and t e frshionithle avenues were rapidly adviluccd toward' the 111116011 river with . expensi i ve I! pretty safi! to say that l.'p'ent, property owners w‘t Live - ll:twit, all these structures were heavily ihurt:rageti." We now that building went on at that time so rvidlV and • at too costly a I rite. When lli. Seward, coming here from Europe, in the language of A u! , ustus, said that he left New York . brick and found - it marble, he meant to fiatter us; but perhaps we should have ben wiser if' we had re mained contented with brick qutil we actually had the money to pay for the marble. Puling' the period of ten years and More we were extrava gant in the character of our build ings. extravagant in most cases with out-producing beauty or securino• lit ne-s. A ware house need not be a Grecian temple or a Renaissance pal- ; ace ; If it is strong. capacious, suited to its purpose, that . is enough. The simpler the architecture the better. But we put up showy buildings for business, - and in order to do it the builders had to borrow,: for . tlagree - merely., great sums of money, the interest on which now.disturbs their .happiness. In dwellm'g hotises the same extravagance hasnprevalled. It nut too much to say that-live thou sand families in New York are to day liVing in houses which represent a rent of over three tliousand dollars a year, and of the five thimsand at least one thousand in _houges whose rental value is between five and ten thousand dollars a year. This means that so large a number - of people are under a yearly expense-Of living of from fifteen or twenty to-fifty thou, sand dollars.' This is a degree of ex travagance that no European city of the relative size and wealth of New York begins to equal. It is not sur prising, under such a state of affairi, that there is business distress, and that people find their expenses bur -Idensotne. Nor is it remarkable that mortgages are reeling under the weight of the interest on the money I they 1)m - el borrowed on their real. property. It is well known that the savings banks and insurance eompa- Patties are met by the perplexing 'problem what to do because of the frequent defliult in liquidatingtnort ! gages and paying interest on . ..them, which they are now experiencinff. They are obliged to' be lenient with. the debtors. They dare not foreclose, because if they did a real estate panic would result. If all the mortga!*es, to-day in default were fOrcelosed by these institutions, the papers would. be full of the advertisements legally necessary in sue eases, and the anc - tioneer's hammer would everywhere be heard. It is; plain that: We - IMISt revise our methdds of living and do ing business to meet the present con 7 ditibn • of thina . s,? is • IttGAItDLESS OP DENUNCIATION FROM-ANY QUAItTEIt iIISHO. =3IBIFORCIE, Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester, was one of the most re markable characters of modern times and exhibited a versatility and a fertility of resources that have been seldom equaled. In his active and crowded career several distinctive eareets ik'hte tirtnallY comprised. In the management of two important dioceses he exhibited . ati administra tive ability and an energy of charac ter-that haver been rarely paralelled. In the House of Lords !he gave an attention to politics—using the word in its highest and best sense—which was exceeded by few hereditary leg islators, and by not many who were trained and veteran statesmen. In literature his active and versatile pen was constantly • challenging public attention and influencing public In society, as. one of the mos, prominent and refined of its members, he has a power, whether on the public platform or in the pri-• vate drawing room•of its most intlif ential rulers. Ile published, lie preached, he governed as a , Bishop, he &tatted and legislated in Parlia ment, his presence was continually felt and recognized in all the multi plied departments of current public life. Now be was speaking at great public entertainments, such as the dinners or the Literary Fund or of the Royal Academy. Then, as a rural Squire, he was pleasantly ha ranguing the rustics on the green or in the tent. Now he would, address. on a week-day crowds of laborers in a church or under a railway shed ; and presently he was away off in the north consecrating 'some gorgeous fine. Again, he.was down in Kent preaching' twice on a Sunday at the opening of some humble district church ; and still again, he was inisy with superhuman energy, in his dio cese studying the eahareter and ap titudes-of every clergyman, learning the details of every parish. devising practical plans for the physical or intellectual or spiritual welfare of his people, entertaining his clergy with open hospitality at his own mansion, or meeting them in confer ence at Oxford or elswhere. Ile was tireless. He was 'the lion of the great dinner party ; he was the leading speaker atmeet ings; lie was the ruling. member of a Cnurch Con!rress; he was the most tv•tive - fi:rure ofi.the Convocation.,-,- Now he Was luilding a conlirmatiE:sn in Paris, now consecrating a church in Brussels ; and, again, we meet him perpetually in the princip:il newspapers; in the reports of learned or literaryor benevolent, societies ; in correspondence, in pamphlets, in contemporary history. His compre hensive mind seemed equally famil iar with the crreatest principles and the minutest details. At one time he was aiding in the attempt to up hold or destoy a ministry, or stamp ing,the impress of his character on the debates and legislation of his country ;, at another he was objurga . ting dull-headed church wardens or demolishing a libelous alderman. His correspondence was immense; all kinds of people wrote to him and to- every one he gave a full and , careful answer; he would dictate seven letters at a time to as many different amanuenses.. Few men ever lived more in the open air, speaking metaphorically. He was essentially a public:, matt ‘Vherever Christian work was most animated and intense, whereVer the ez,ntlict of opinions was keenest, wherever debate Was most excited, wherever bold or burning speech and prompt action were most n e eded, there the form of this brilliant pre late was ever most prominently to be descried.—llarprr's 31(19a:int'. THE QUAKEICS first oc clusion on which the Quaker's hat came publicly and officially - into trouble was at the Launceston Assizes in the' year 11;51';, before no less. a pvrson than Chief Justice Glynn. -When we were brought into the court," says FoX, "we stood a pretty while with. our, hats. and all wat , quiet, and I was moved to say, 'Peace be amongst you i"Whv do you not take your hats otr?' said the judge to us. We said nothing. 'Put ofT your hats,' said the judge. again. Still we said nothing. Th r : en said the. judge. 'The court commands you to put off your hats.' '' George Fox, with amazing simplicity, asked for :some scriptural instance of any mag istrate commanding 'prisoners to put loll' their hats. Ile next asked to be ,shown, "either printed or writtemany law of England that did command -such a thing." Then the judge grew very angry, and said, "I do not carry my law books on lily back." "But," ~said Fox, "tell me where it is printed . in any statute-book, that I may read' it." The Chief Justice cried out i"Prevaricator !" and ordered the Qua kers to be taken away. When they were - brought before 'him again the, Chief Justice asked ',Fox whether hats were mentioned at gull in the Bible? "Yes."' said the !quaker, "In the third •of Daniel; 'where thou mayst read that the three 'children were cast into the fiery fur nace' by Nebuchadnezzar's command ;with their coats, their hose and their hats on!" Here twas a proof that • even a heathen king .allowed men to Wear hats in hiS presence. "This . plaminstance stopped him," wlys Fox, "so he cried again, 'Tak l them liway, gaoler;' accordingly we were taken away and thrust it among the thievis l. where we were kept a great While." .1 After nine weeks' imPrisonment “or nothing about their hats,"' as the Chief Justice told them, they were again brol before him.grimly wearing the offending headgear. 'Take off their hats," saki the judge to the gaoler. "Which he did," says Fox, "and gave them unto us; and we put them on again. - Then the judge be gan to make a great speech, how he represented the Lord Proctor's per son, and that he Amd made him Lord ' Chief Justice of 'England." The Quakers ii i were incorrigible. They Ivere sent back to prison, but not ! jr alWays' seems abSurd to us to hear ttally so much for the T. enring of the henier heavy villain in a melodrama, Iri is hats as for the suspicion that exclaimjas he secretes himself in .a room they were royalist_ emissaries anct- iu the castle or elsewher6, " And.—nowt lisco . vered—Pro m lost nig religious singularity in' order to n stupid boy in the gallery knows vin their way among the extreme that If lie's discovered .hc's found—he's Puritans. found. ISE :1!),',14:11 7 41:/;rtm:g4 • Women who have the talent of hoMe making, that is, the power to transform the plain rooms of a house into a cheerful and comfortable and. beautiful home, are found in every, walk of 'life. A . cottage of three rooms may be cosy and mviting,and• 'have all the atmosphere of boatel while a three 7 story marble front may be•cold and dreary—a place merely in jyliich people eat and sleep. Or the narble front may be the ho me, andithe cottage as blank and sta r ing as ail old barn. This depends on the preience of the hoine-lovin g woman, having the ability to carry out her instincts and desires. It en 7 as a rnie, are helpless before bars walls and . unearpeted floors. Their are not only helpless, hilt are distEessed and bewildered. I remem ber ime case in which - a Well known and' popular poet hid more diseonk fortin selecting a house for his fam- ily than he 'would have had over the loss of half his income. His books abotmd in the tenderest and - prettiest piet*es.of home, 'and yet; with his wife in Washington, he was bewil- dered. At last he communicated hks trouNes to a gentleman in whose cd, sy hime he was a guest. This gen- tleunin and his wife went with the poet:to the home selected. The lady pron'Ounced it a beauty, and looked t i e aboi4 with genuine interest. 0 • poet ' , ,followed her hi a sort of da . At fist he admitted that the tro Ile was that he could see nothing home like about it. The - bare walls and square rooms and loi)g halls were' to him as severe as the lines and figures in a geometrical problem and as puz zling The lady said : "It is a house, not plicne . ; your niife will make it a lionie;,'. Here is you parlor, you see, and f t here your liltrary ; this your dining-room,and that isyourkitehen." "4,it ?" said the interested man. I couldn't make head or tail ouL of Tlity went up-stairs and the lady proceqded: "This will be your room, andAere is a cosy room for the little girl; fund this will 'be, your guest ehanilier, and all have good places for tlie beds, don't you see land good .!walls for pictures, and your wife s ill make them all as cosy as a Liars nest !" • At last the man of brilliant fancy begawto see pictures that made' the liouse. a possible home. His wife Caine ;ind made theliossibility a Met. Many' houses never, become more than.hOuses to their owners simply because the man is helpless and the woman has not the womanly talent of hoine-making. Of OOurse, the work of ornaments• tion May be overdone, and the rooms have she appearance of an over dressed woman. The evidence of lack of taste, the obtrusiveness of apparent effort, arc as bad as the ab sence ;;fall ornamentation, and should be avoided. AniOng. the devices in ornament ing rOonts that are comparatively new ti she, are wall-pockets for bou quets. 'of. dried grasses and leaves. These-t may he made half-moon in shape pr triangular. Take stiff card boa Wand cut out two, half-moons, say measuring,. the one four or five inchea; across the straight edge, and the other three or four. The larger one isfor the top, and is cut out in the center so as to leave a strip an inch (tide all Around. The smaller one is: for the bottom, and is used withont cuttin..7. The elges of both should be. pinked: Pierce holes in both lower and upper places half an inch Apart, with an awl' or stilel:to, inakirw, them large enough to admit the sqaws, you .buy bunches at the china stores. 'There s!Puild he an eqUal ntunlier of holes in top and bottoin. and care should he taken to duly proportion the distance in lower eirclea Use white straws six of eight inches long, putting them thro the hides so that they kojeet :thou an in . ch at i the, top and bottom WeavO narrow .ribbon (say lad wide.),i scarlet, bite, or green, in an out, 4tween the straws, commencing at th(f. botttom and weaving basket fasliio4 (ribbon crossing under straw one an Al. above it the nest, and so on). This niay be tinishedlvith bows, etc.; and tiling against the wall, makes a pretty;;reeeptaele, for many clusters of gr;(sses, leaves, etc. Instead of ribbon' ;4 - lazed paper in color map be used. .'::This is much cheaper, and looks almost as well. While on the subject ,of straws, I will :4ay that very pretty easels for small .;pictures or photograph may he maile of colored straws (bought at the 'ilhina stores for ten 'to twenty cents ti. - bunch). These are scarcely descritiable, except to say that the three Upright straws form a tripod (two fOr the picture and one for sup port), and that the straws joining these A short distance-from,the bot tom prOject at each corner. All are sewed together, and ribbon tied in bows W . all crossings to hide the. stitche,4. l „ They are graceful and ap propriatqi and ladies who know how 'to make them can teach :others how to dO•si) j ilt five minutes. • Covers for flower-pots haie been mentioned. I have a simpler iform than the , one given last week. Take strips oT white paper an inch wider . than the depth of the 'pot to be cov ered. Vold this in creases as children do in ti faking paper fans, the folds to be hairan inch wide. The paper should)ie long enough to go around the pot ; with the fold half open. Cut a hole':or slit 'through the fold au inch from the top and the same dis tance frymi the bottom,, and through these run a ribbon. - 'The lovers may be made of paper of any ;Color. They are very pretty made of drab paper folded as de -1 scrihecl with strip of gold or silver paper :4 the top and bottom. "Sraliere, conductor, why don't -yi' have a ate iu th)s car ?" "Well, you see, one of the directors is a clothing. man. and another fs a doctor, and another is adrug store nuni, and anotheti runs a toombstone. factory, nod y 04.1 know in this world peo ple niustlive and let live.' " • • , 1.--.-- . .. i• .. . ~ , •1 .-, . ~ . • - I • .. .. ~.... , . 1.. 1 ,...... L i .h . r .:: L \ r :.....,. • 1.. 1 .. ._ . .• . _.,111.,; Ell 1....; ...,_.i ~• • .• . _AL._ • • , ........ ~. ..::,.. . .1 •., vii. . • .. . . _. ~.,i , . _ , • , , . ~ INTERESTING EXPEIMNTS WITH 7, ANN Sir John Lubbock recently read an interesting Paper on 'Ants before the Linnian Society; Ills paper was di vided into three heads, 1. The pow er-of intercommunication among ants as to inforMation about locality of food s Ale. 1. Their organs of sense. - 3. Tlieir nOction or regard for one another. Ills arrangement for testz, ing their pSilwer of ,communicating ; information As to route and locality was modified in some minor respects in different sets of obserations, but the essential facts of it were . these.: He had a gliss bek for the "nest" so that he could 'See what wisbeing done insides Thiii was placed on a pole about,as high as the level of his eyes. On -the otherside of the pole *as a board intended as a promenade for the .ants. Near to this. were three pieces of glass the size] of microscopic slides, and these were connected with .the board by strips of paper, which served as bridges. On one, of the 'pieces of glaiS was placed a collection of tOod,and4m the other two there was nothing. I Two ants were taken and marked ititir spots of tolor, as in former observations, so that they should readily, be.recosinized. These. (were both taken, one• after the other, to the store of foal, and were guh.ed and taught their way to the: nest. They soon learnt their :way to and from the nest to . the :food supply, coming out oe the door along tue out- Kide to the Ige, around. that / across the board, along the paper. bridge, and so to the glass that supported the food, and so hack again to the nest: Sir John Lubbock's object Was to watc'h whether - the other ants in the nest would find out the food, and, if so, to test if possible whether they found it• from", information given, or whether they t;racked the Seca: Ile devoted certain -periods. as he could spare the timegtowatching the move-, ments of the ants, Counting the num ber of journey,s made by his marked ants, and reCording how many untaught strangers , as he called them, made their wad from the beard along the right bridge to the food. At his first period of labservation he found that, while WS marked ants made forty journeys with food, nineteen strangers also 'Caine on topthe bridges. Of these, two Only turned to the food, eight turned to4he wrong bridge, and the rest went straight on. Modifteatiori4 in the arrangements of the bridges ivere made in ditferept ways, while the" rest of the construc tion was left unaltered. The:Observations made on different days and ( - hiring peeiodS of differnt duration all shbwed the same result. The marked ants who had been taught their way pursued their work steadi ly and sys;l-matically, , , while of the strangers onlr a very 'sMall percen tage reached *food. the remainder taking one of 'the bridges that led -them wrong} For example, at one period a watching, out of one hundred ancr:ltilty strangers', who crossed the bridge's only twenty-one went the right *ay: to the food. In one set of arraiigementsjt- was fotind that while all :had to :travel- thirty inches along the same road; and the diverging bridges were - but . another two inches long, the large proportion went wrong in - reaching the food in that last two 3 inches. •. The notion that ants have 1,1.),e power of makinit communication§ about routes and lo calities seems, ;therefore, to be 'Jana cious. In referring Ito the organs of sense, Sir John 11:1(1 endeavored to ascertain whether the rti,tennat are corgahs of hearinlr or of omell., He had tried them with all 4ilirts ( 4 . noises he. could contrive and . 'found no results. If ants lave hearing' they must be sen sible to those..iibrati;ans -of the air whiell.do not alfeet the human ear. But he had al so tried the attenme with smells, mid he fonnd that if he put a tine camel's hair pencil with a scent on it. near one of tluini it shrank _ • away, and theiiif applied to the other that also turne4 iiway. *The use of . . the attenmv, hOwever, needs further investigation, find Sir John hopes soon to wake :,further - observations.' As regards thejr affection for one an other hp does iipt doubt that an ant that dies lail6 with fi,c;d will be cared for by his': companions; but he brought forwao a number vf instan , ces iu which litt had put ants that had suffered from iittintersion in water from periods of from an hour to ten hours in the 'ray of ants • that were . passing by,' and. he found almost in- Varialply.that they took no notice of their unfortunate brethren. Indeed', the exceptions in which any attention was paid were so few that Sir, John said he was di ::Posed to regard these as ants with individual feelings which, were by no mean . s common to the community.—Eiondwi: Time:c WATER can eonie and go when its tide. Lx -cote. tax---when the carpets g down. ItEronT is a q u ick traveler but an un safe guide.° • A WOMAN'S pride and a sailor's guide —ll.e needle. a At A a recent - sPelling match one man spelt it'"pa.ssuip and got beet. "THE rich," siid a, Dutchman, "eat venison because i, ish deer. I cat mutton because it is sheep." " VE1.1., id peaty ter tyful how dis coun try vas gotten cut up mit ter railroads !" exclaimed an uooivii Tilton, carefully examining a pattikru supplement to Ilar per'S Bazar. • • . AN' Irishman recently soliloquized-: "What a waste of money to be ;buying mate when you know the half it is bone when you can spend it for whisky that hasn't a hone in it." . • A mxs tamed adog that somebody solt him, Yintil the deile creature would .eat off his hand. • A f t, least it ate off about °OAF, thumb, but died Of concussion of thebraiabefOre it could fin ish the hand.- . A sEotto in f3O:uth Carolina, who was complaining of the hard times, declared they were the :learilest. 'ever knoWn; "Why - ," said 1ic,7."1 works all daY and steals all night and yet blest if 1 kin make an honest "MA i , :114 a quack to an oldlady: who insisted on 10mwing wid. ailed her '..`the IlerVeß of yottr tympanum have fall, 'en on the cerebellem, causing a tharizen hint is what way. call a scrntinary com,. plaint." "Goodness me," she exclaimed "you're the first doctor that ever told me exactly 'what was 7 the matter." FU_N, FACT; AND FACETIE. s2 . sie'An mln Advarice. NOP ER 40. Tan IN HO7BIIIIOLD rmayitrcrßE. • • 'ln a very iresting lectnre which Cardinal Wiseman once delivered in Englatuthe ,pointed outqo :his,audi ence that the old vases and Cups and , bokes and other objects which were kept carefully under glass in :.muse ums, which were so graceful and re-' fined in form, and were ',.treaSitred by us, as precious relics of am. 'extinct art, were the ordinary vessels of-the user and conveniences .of the life. of the .times. from whiCh they descended. Is there any good, .reason that the- WaSh-bowlsand pitchers and jugs and jariolf old Ij.ome and Athens should be, beautiful , ' and ours, designed , for the same purpose, clumsy and Ugly ?' Arid if we cannot invent new forms of, beauty for ourselves, may we not ropy pleasing models rather than un pleasing ? - Whether wego back for our, model a year Or a thotiSand years, there is really no need of seleeting an-ugly one. So in the cost of•fiti ishing and. furnishing the house, the ptatipkin in ,Cinderella'S - kitchen did not ,more' surely hold the gilded coach, nor her own "liberty rags" the Most magnificently jeWeled robes, than :every little dollar full Of neat- • ness,•!•fltnesS, and beauty, if we have the gift of seeing them- and extract ing, them. I • , Ms a subtle gift, indeed; for 4 is taste. All -the dollars in the, world will not bay it. It is _like that !ear for music which thOse who ba:Ve it not•deride and deny.'. Yet good taste is not the. first, but the second,boase hold magician. The first is good temper.._ Good temper dill make a bard,. stiff; horse-hair chair delightful; liiitgood, taste, without good temper,_ will. make the most luxurioui, and beaittlfal -lounge uncomfortable. two.combined make the perfect hOUSe hold. The minor magician, ini:leed, has One advantage over I . thc• Other, andiit is that she•developa her. Good taste promotes good temper, but Wood teniPer no more promotes' goOd paste than': thesmile of the 'gardener ripens str:4berries.- • On the Other hand, good.terapet; has an advtintae'. • 'lt can pot I?ri:s' good taste, but Litlaiy, buy !its wbrlts. You may not i;novt• mushrooms from toad-stool's.. lint if an himest; man whO, afi yon May inow can ilistingnish them, offers itoi. yon-Mushrooms,y— mu may buy in teder able:confidence that your fillet! will not he garnished with pason. tlt is So . with the mystery of ho4sehold art. You may not perceiVe . the harmony of colors, nor the superior graie'of one'form to another. But if per 'on Whom you 'know to be an:e:Oert assures you that this , paper andAat carpet arc harmonious, and that this or that table is graceful and ple4ing, if yo'u really do riot kriow, n [lOll'9llW you_ not trust him ? POtipiar perennially shows her confidence in Afr.'Marcotte by giving him' earte blanAe to redecorate and furnish. She does it, perhaps, quite, as Mtf.ol because of his fashion as of his taste But What she does expensively for fashiOn, may you not. do economi cally for taste?' In a word, it the 'apparent- mission of what is known as household art to show that cheap and:nasty are not synonymbus: . _Eillforl Easy Chair, in Harper's Magazine Yor F lON S FOB. C it.—Biact: is always a favorite cluireh-going dress in N e w York city, and - partichlarly is its:O . this season in 9onjunctiop with the cream and Ivory tints:l" --- ,A. woman can hardly help feellit7'devo tienat inn, really handsome black silk suit, With cream-colored hat,trimined with. creaurcolored ca ,, hmere lace. i‘'cirt silk tie and ivory tinted g . loye3. Thi , rk. st,rt-nitv, th:itikfulness that 'are iiot, as lith • er people are, in every liUe arid fold of .N Othin, loud; uo pontiasi of high Colors is ever worn at church by a really fashionable or well-bred Tro inan;,. It would _shoW what is', wOrse than religton, —bad taste and after all there is a connection bet Ween ,taste and morality, whether pietYhas ranch to do with it or. net. blithe matter of !church dress We only imi tate 'obr French cousins, and We.are of late acs, imitating them alsci in the Substitutou of tine soft cashmere for silk. lllack cashmere dresses are .in preparation this 'sea' : son as fashionably and extensiyely as las't spring, church and street - wear, alwayS associated padre or less With hlaek silk, usually of-the soft,band finished kind.. The .sinirtlest and most popular method of making them is - with a trimmed or .puffed ifrOnt, shirred sides, and draped hnd: sleeves in which lengthwise putliags of Silk are inserted and a euirasSe basque, the latter being now universal unless the dress is cut in the.princesse style. The ,fine "41tiee" pleatings which have been:so well worn are this sefi r soif used edge shirred flounees, 414 cad . of being employed to torin the ,enlire trimming of a skirt' and thCretorc less Material is require'd, while ithe effect; even better .than bcfbre. Flat folds, bands and braids are Om- , big into vogue so rapidly Oat :mati24 of the. spring suits and cosetimes)vill completedbe ` without the addition of a flounce or a. ruffle. ' • NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. A rt: L 2, tB7G . r : ..31:T-I_.—GOLDEN TEXT; St. Lute xanol. SEC:O,7D, grARTEft: I LESS'ON" . . . The'llook of Acts was written by 'Like; a Gentile convert to the ~TewiSh faith and to Chr'i'stianity-." - He wa r „. during: the iat ter portion of St.. Paul's life, his constant c)tripanion. The. Apostle calls hini "tile beloved. physician:" He, was.ievidently man of title talents and Scholarly caltnre, Of all The Evangelists, he is the Most classical iii style. According to 'tradit he suffered martyrdom in Greece. The anthotship is indicated 'by the! in-.' troductory address. The writer spe4k4 of a "fOrmer treatise," Which is no•dnlibt the third gospel: since this IS addre4sed to the same person, is written in the same style, and exactly correspondsto this 4es- , cription. _ It is "the" former treatise; :" c i .i. c.', the first book or diseours . in,rehtf ion to the Acts: The nook of .:1e s tike iup the thread of the history where St. I.4e's (, - .lospeli drops . it. After reCapitulating the fact attic ascension, the author pass es on. to show the planting and spread of the Christian Cliurcli. , 4 6 1 bOok before • us is a special history of , e 'planting and ' extension of this Church, tli among Jews and Gentiles, by the ge eral 'establish- mbnt of radiating centers ir Sources of in- ' licence at certain salientints through out a large part, of the eni i re', , beginning points at Jerusalem and ending . at, nothei."--' Al exander. : 1 4 . , i . It is: generally agreedhart this Book ' _was written at Borne about A D 63 ; that is, about third, years nftt the' death of , i 1 - -, Jesus Christ. 1 .- • 1 ' We niay, for conveniet Lesson.nto three parts: - .1. tion. 11. Therreliminari , sion. 111. The l Ascension, , 1, U =I . , . i ~ L Jhe Intl . eduction tegthts Book, vs. 14. l'iht fOrine'r treaties (Or !the third - ~ Gospel),.aelgresSO to Thee hilui;(proba; , ! . bly a'resident cif ll:firriti and man of rank) ! ' . • narkates . ail halt Jesus did , 4 ; taught, air., our great Ifrophet. 'This reetord termir • . -, nates with his Miraculous mfion,which ,f did not Occur until thro' t , Roby GhoSt, .1 : he had 'given eernmands , , his ?losers . ' Apostles'' -concerning thei r ~ , ion and mission to his Kingdan. • ',‘ l , h' i reference - • ' • may then be especially, tho'Vio, perliapsi ' exclusivelY, to ti,e great a ''f olic 'co n -. tit mission recorded ,by Math iv 1 (28t120) • s and Mark (160-16), i ts ll as t o the ;. - specific charge recorded in. Ltilie, 24:49, i ':, and in v:4 belovi,,"—.Atexur clet. ' But as , 7 the mission of the Apostlti was based , ' upon their being' nye-vvitneirs,lof the res- ! . erection of Jesus,' St. Luke reverts to this great. fundamental fact ofi i heilKingdom - i of God, aid stateti,clearly t e imm of the ev'idenee _ln its -favor, • " d i language • seems to show that the first Ghri i stians had distinctly '• revOlve l d the:flue:arm whether ' 1 the Savionr's re-Siirmtion was fiat or' not, . ' and had assitred:themselvesrpf*s reality 'A i ,' ': by evidence which did not admit in their . ; minds of the shadow of adotibt.' Our . "infallible signs", does not; express the sense too: strongly."—lfackitt.i As ex-, -, planatory 'of what follows, S. Luke giVes • • one of the, commands referred ier in V. - 2, as imposed on the day _of the ascension. 'I The Saviour's meaning evidentlY, was that they should not, . allow therOsOves to be • either drawn or driven front Jerusalem 1 notil the promise Of the Father had been. - : fulfilled. • ! Why rertiain in Jerusalem? ay ' " Because of the 'prophecy.lX4a. 2::;3). . (2), Because there . wmild be :the greatest ' -assembly f',l* persons to WitneS i s this great ,• inifacie and to bp ,worked upon hy it. (3) Because it was Most fit, thili this great mark of Clnist's :power shoilldi be there .. displayed; where , had been bial greatest , :', humiliation; that 'those ' wha were not convinced, by the' reSurrectioit Might be eouvii.iceft by this miracelou gift of the Holy GlieSt."—Lifjhrjuot. , :11 , 7e ,May add a's an additional reason that, the holy . Ghost witssto corns upon tfterli in their united capacity—as an org,anirdbody of believers, or a clinreli. . Hencei they must , remain tigether...' , i The prorni4. of the • Holy Ghok. is called "the pr,AiviSe of the Fat iter;" because} . Christ' in '•;'giiing the promise ;Take as the : servanli and organ . . o f the Father. #''l speak tdl the World • these - thin:ip: which I have Ilea: f.l of him: , • (St. John''S:2(l). I Compare S i . joint 12: , 49-50. Anther ;explanation ' l 's 'that the out-pouring'of the Spirit is herb called the proniise Of the :Father," beelateiel it was .. - the sum of the Old -Testanielt•promises, which were given When the Spiritiwas the spirit of the Father; not of the Son as now. This .baptiSin Of the Holy - 'Spirit came ten flays after the aster 'ion. "But had not the Spirit been alre i dy i given? • Yes, to individual believers, and indeed to the Apostles in a, body (John )0.22);' but not in such a mode or measure ; Was nee- • esavry, both forithemselves, ' dlfor the a ts church at large."=;-, ...I!;?.ra i ntler. TO speak .. more definitely, We would Say 'that the • Holy-Ghost had been given tf the Apos tles as a spirit of; lippe, patiernie aid corn- . fort—as a Spirit 'of passive power rather ' than of active energy. The' promiSe Of the Father was a Promise, Of peweil to act, ,I to do, to conquer. •Ilt meant albatkism o f . . lire. • The fi rst eemmunielonlof the Spirit on the evening of the Ilestutection7 Day was given iii the ' form tlf - r l breath ' ' (John 20::22.); thus.; sYmbolizirL the soft, sweet intinenceS; 4f hope, p. tit 'and -comfoit. it prepared ; them ti, v.lait tli- - etly and expectantly for, the'l lir:ln - dee of, I the Father, I ' 1 11. The Preliinitiaries to tls .-len.sion', vs. c-S, 'lt -is perhaps the iiii,st satisfae- . i f tory explanation , to refer ilZe {Tor& to ' the meeting spoken of in verse 4. The' -. first clause iii..ty , be .trauslated-: " They then Who laid eeine togethet asied.'i— They nianifesti2.-14u1 an expeltati l en op a visible rind. temporary -supretiacy i of the , kingdom of the Mt;.Ssiali. . They elieved i that lie would deliver them firom i subjec- - tion to thulloinati4, *. land resteire te. Israel her primeval 'prosperity and Pow'er- To - what. extent , they,-apprehended at this ' ' time the spiritual , featuresof Ois k ingdom i it is very difficult to-Say. ITimes and: • seasons " denote' all classes= "of future events. Thy are determinecl(an Settled by the Father in 'the exercise:3-)' f vis! Own power or aiithority ; which Milue. es both poWer ; and moral right. "This is a gen eral rf;proof of all ' excessive curiiisity M reference to such times or seasons las have neither been explicitly revealed, nor ren dered ascertainable by ordinaly means." But while reproving an idle catrif4ity, ho comforts them with the aitse nee. of something i better than the kn wledge ' they sought. "1 . 6 shall recliv power after that ,' the:T.)ly Ghost iscorpe npein you." This power: was mani4lfl.l: •It un doubtedly ineludedthe gift ofongues, of miracles and of teaching. Be: i it also in- ' eluded the 4)oweref inspiratioi , b' which their inembries Were .so qui' -cried and, , - I energized th at the): could re 'all ; all the: words andacts of Christ with 4ex-fect pre-' cision and in their true order, an 4 so set' l . them forth 'as to Convey the ex4et truth of both letter and .viiit,to m en. (.I