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By and By.
Vfrt.Vri.lr it'rnattcr by and 6y i ;
Whether my put1, below was bright, 1
. tyhetixes W 'foiuid through dark or light, .
Under a gray or a golden sky,
tvT-.Ifn I look back on It, f and by ? '
What will it matter by and by
"Whether, nnhelpod, 1 toiled.alono,
Dashing my foot against a Btono,
MioBing the charge of the angol nigh,
Bidding me think of the by and by ?
What will it matter by and'by
' Whether with laughing Joy I went
" Down through the years with a glad con
tent," .
Never believing, nay. not I,
Xoars would be .-nvcetor,by and by ?' ;
What will it matter by and by t -
Whether with check to check I've lain 't
Close by the pallM angel, r'aiu,
Soothing myself through sob and sigh ;
; All will bo elBew ise by and by ?"
What will it matter ? Naught, if I
Only am sure tlio way I've trod,
Gloomy or gladdened, leads to God.
Questioning' not of the how, the why,
If I but roach him, by and by.
What will I care for the unshared sigh,. 4
" if, in my fear of slip or fall.
Closely I've clung to Christ through all,
Mindless how rough tho path might he,
Since Ho will smooth it by and by ?
'Ah ! it will matter by and by
frothing but this : That Joy or Tain
Lifted me skyward, helped to gain,
Whether through rack or smile or sigh,
Heaven home all in all, by and by !
Maboaret J. Thestos.
MY AI M'S STORY.
I was visiting Ireland and my groat
aunt for the first time. ' Her lovely
Lome, Glenbawn, nestled at the base of
one of the Wicklow mountains, Sugar
loaf. It was the winter of 1867-8, and
all onr neighbors of note had moved
into Dublin, driven from the lonely
hills "by the terrors of the Fenian move
ment, which was the one engrossing
topic in every mouth and with every
class.
We had talks in the long evenings,
when'he curtains were drawn, the turf
fire heaped up with an oaken log in its
ruby heart, its ruddy glare striving
with the soft, steady light of the wax
candles which burned in old silver
branched candlesticks on every table
and bracket in tho pretty, quaint
drawing-room. Then my aunt told me
stories of the eaily days of Ireland.
" Yon have heard of your Aunt Ma
bel," she said, one evening. " From
the time of your grandmother's death
she, had' bpeh.'my child and darling;
your father was in Dernerara, And wo
were alone in the world but for each
other, and wa were very happy togeth
er. She married at eighteen; her. hus
band was an Englishman, a younger
son, not rich; he had been in the army
for a,, few years, but sold out on his
marriage, and took a farm on the other
side of the valley. My wedding-gift to
them was their new home it was a mere
farm-house when Will bought it; but
during their wedding-tour, which lasted
for .ix months, and which they finished
by ajround of visits among his peoplein
England, I had the whole house re
modeled and enlarged, made into a fit
ting home for my pet. Sow I enjoyed
furnishing it, remembering all her pret
ty, whims and fancies I
It was a bright homo-coming. With
what pretty glee Mabel ran from room
to room, delighted with every thing I
had done for her ! Then the pretty shy
grace with which she took her place as
mistress 1
One little happy week passed, to
which I shall always look back as the
laBt of real happiness in my life. You
knpw, dear, I am happy now and con
tent, as uu old woman should bo whose
life is warmed by tho loving kindness
of every one around L r, who has been
given the abiding joy, which never
grows insipid, of being able to brighten
other lives with some of the brightness
given to her own. And then there is
the best and dearest joy of all the
knowledge that the loves of long ago
are kept safely in God's own care, to be
mine again one day very soon now
. when I too reach the world where the
incompleteness of this will be rounded
and perfected.
" But this little week was happy and
warm with joy of another kind which I
have missed ever since. It was Christ
mas eve ; all day my darling had been
busy with deoorations and preparations
for the next day, when all the tenants
on their new estate were to be enter
tained in .the servants' halL . .
" Well, dear, I remember coming
down tha.t afternoon. I had been busy
writing in my own room. I found the
whole house a bower of greenery, the
last' touch given; and May and her hus-baod-xeating
before the fire in the hall,
whose cedar wainscot sent out ruddy
gleams and 1 spicy fragrance in
acknowledgment of the light ..and
warmth. Bhe smiled up at me from a
nest of skins', among . which she was
cosily lounging, resting her bright head
against Will's knee, and held up two
pretty dusty hands to be exclaimed at,
We were talking of 'last Christmas,'
she said, when I had taken the chairWill
drew forward for mei v How long ago
it seems, and how strange that then we
did Hot know each other I Will scorch
ing in India, you and I Chr.istmasing
at Glenbawn, auntie. ; Oh, .1 wish I
could give you those eighteen years,
Will.l Ij. is so dreary to thinf you
werp not in them." . , r :
.' You yill give m'c.the next eight
een, an.d many a year besides ; that will
content little wife. I am sure you
were a misohievpus monkey, and I am
thankful I did cot .discover., you until
aunt Loura had tamed you.' '
4 .You wicked, unsentimental boy.'
"And the 'dusty hands were twisted
in - a thick brown beard which wag
teftfptihgly near, and so they . laughed
kAA "chatted, children as - they were,
qttitetincheeked by my presence, -until
a servant ' cams' in with a message, for
me It was news of the sudden illness
, of bn ofthe 'servants here. " My first
intpurBerwas to come home without de
lay, 1 .bnt they., would not "hear of my
. it'BS nettled-that Will
ineMd -jriTrdver; calling for the doc
tc Mhj?Md through. th Tillage,
and if he did not bring a good report,
he promised to take mo- back immedi
ately on his return, If I Wonld consent
to Wait tmtiently so long. I consented
would that I had not ! All might
have been but no ; there are no might-have-beens
withGod." t j
, Aunt Lora covered her face for a few
moments, and then she went on more
steadily: ' - .
'"" I remember all every word and in
cident of that evening. .We watched
Will drive away into the gray twilight,
and then' came back to the fireside until
the dressing-bell rang, while my pet
nsed every loving wile to keep me from
dwelling too anxiously on M'Carthy's
illness We grew anxious, as the even-
iufrTTua.t'Oli, fur jay Beimntj Will's pro.
longed absence made me fear she was
seriously ilj. Now and then tha young
wife shivered a little as the fieree blast,
whioh now at intervals swept up the
valley, with one sudden gust rushed by
to die away among the higher hills. It
was the suow wind; we knew it well,
and longed that onr traveler were safely
home. Mabel had ordered dinner in
her morning-room, from which there
was a view of the road along which he
would return; she thought, too, it would
be easier to warm and brighten it than
the large dining-room. We stood for a
long while at the window watching the
heavy woolly clouds rolling and mass
ing themselves in the livid sky." There
had been a light fall of snow in the
morning, enough to whiten the trees
and grass, but we could distinguish the
dark line of the road as it wound round
into the valley.
" Again and again the wind swept up
with its wild, angry moan, bending the
trees in its course, and hiding them in
thick clouds of snow-powder sweptfrom
their tossing branches; then again the
din would hush and a great stillness
fall on the outside world. We watched
till I saw my child was growing pale,
and I drew her into the warm- room.
bright with fire and candle-light, the
pretty rose-colored 1 room, where the
shining silver and crystal of the dinner
table looked brighter still in contrast to
the outer gloom. I pretended, to be
hungrv, that she might be forced to
give up the watch for a while", we sat
down- to dinner, leaving the warmest
seat for" Will, and each tried to eat for
the sake of the other; but at every gust
the sweet little face" opposite me grew
whiter, and a dark line began to show
beneath the soft eye?.' As yet, the
worst we feared for Will was a struggle
with the storaK while we sat at home
wrapped from cold and all discomfort,
" The evening wore on ; dinner was
removed, the snppcr table laid, covered
with every oanty the little wife could
suggest. She hunted up a fur-lined
dressing-gownj which he had used when
flt.flt'oDed in Canada, and Hurjff it before
the fare ; then she went back to her
post beside the window, having warmed
the hearth and spread the table, all for
Will peor Will, who should nevermore
enjoy food or warmth m-this world;
" Lights were placed in every win
dow to made him throntm the snow.
which was now falling blindingly, dark
ening sight and hushing sound. (Ser
vants were sent out with spades and
lanterns ; but unhappily the butler was
old and feeble, and the only other man
at our disposal was Will i soldier-ser
vant, an Englishman, quite ignorant of
the neighborhood. They -returned
without having been- able to get farther
than where the road divided at the head
of the valley.
" As the small hours crept by, the
cold grew intense outside the circle
warmed by the fire. I tried to wrap
Mabel in a mantle, but she- put away
my hand impatiently, and shook her
self free from the soft folds. -. .
." 'I will not be warm. Willisbld.'
" And she turned to the Window bnce
more with ;a slight shudder, while ' her
weary eyes. gazed on into the whirling,
blinding snow-fall. ' '
" At two o'clock I again tried to in
duce her to lie down, that her husband
had staid weatherbound at Glenbawn ;
that Brown Colleen, the mare he had
taken, could find her way home to. -h r
stables on the darkest night ; that in
short, I used every 'means coaxing,
remonstrance, command, all in vain i
words she did not. seem to hear. -When
I'tried to draw her away she pushed me
gently from her, and the white lips
rroVed, though no sound came from
them.. ....
'At three b'clook the wind lulled;
the" snow whirl ceased. I was holding
her burning hand iu mine, longing in?
tensely for morning, turning with a
sick shudder from the pictures which
would pass before my aching brain of
Will sleeping his last sleep beneath the
drift, ' when, suddenly . she snatched
away her hand an'd started up.
"Heis coming- I hear him!' : Bhe
lltjw into.', the-hall where ah immense
tire was blazing on the hearth. Throw
on the yule-log!' she cried, impatiently,
to the servants - who were . standing
about. 'Don't I.tell you he is coming
he is here!' . ..
' I signed to them td obey her, and
the great pine tiunk which had been
carted home so- merrily only a week
ago, which she and Will -had garlanded
a-few hours since, was flung on. 'I
asked, softly, whether they heard- any
thing but the men shook their heads,
and, indeed, the depth of the snow
must have hushed any sound. They
said if their master, had waited in
shelter at the mountain foot till the
storm subsided the horse might make
his, ..way . beneath th&. shadow of the
rocks ..which " overhung the road, . and
which must have kept a comparatively
dear trapk. ...
" Mabel had gone back to her win
dow. Now she rushed in. ber face
quivering and flashing with excitement.
" 'Auntie, he is here! I see him!'
" bhe began tugging furiously at the
fastenings of the great door. Stronger
hands came to her aid ; iq an instant it
was flung open,'-and before anyone
could interfere she had rushed out. We
saw the white flying figure flit pver the
snow like, a wraith suow-dift -so deep
and light that it -seemed a bird must
have sunk into it ; we saw the dog-cart
creeping slowly nnder the cliff at a foot
pace, Will's ' upright, : soldierly 'figure
showing dark and clear against -the livid
background ; -we saw hr -reach him
and spring up to him f then there was
a -silence. - I do not know-why we all
locked ob at a ioene la whioh we
had no part, ' until a cry, loud, an
guished, exceedingly bitter, laden with
terror and heart-break, cut through the
dead heavy stillness. I felt hands hold
ing me back ; I saw dark figures strug
gling aoross the white lawn J then
nomethlnrt was carried i -and laid on
the soft inrs Doiore rue oiaze some
thing, not Will, never Will any more.
The kind, strong hands gave back no
answering pressure to the cold clasping
fingers whicn clung to tnem ; tne lov
ing eyes had lost their light ; he lay
beside her as he had lain not twelve
hours ago, on the same spot, in his own
hearth-glow ; out it was win no longer
he was dead.
" Something crueler and fiercer than
the storm ha been abroad that bitter
night. He had been tempted from home
to his death ; the murderer had reck
oned on his loving heart answering to
the call of sorrow and sickness ; the
false message as to M'Carthy's illness
had been but a lure to draw the victim
to the toils. He had set out on his re
turn journey, dropped the doctor at
his own door with a merry good-night,
and driven away to his death. The
murderer only knew the rest.
" His wife's white dress was covered
with crimson stains when we raised her
from her husband's body. She did not
faint or cry; she even smiled, a faint,
weary smile.
Will is so cold.' sue said.
" When we brought her wine, she put
it to his dead hps.
" ' Will first poor W ill I and even
while she spoke her head fell again on
his breast.
" All nieht she clung to mm witn a
clasp which we could not loose without
using force, which I could not endure
to do. We sent for tho doctor; he made
his toilsome way throngh the snow
only to tell us what we knew too well
already.
" Will was dead, and all night long
his wife lay motionless upon his breast.
Great fires burned ; tables stood covered
for the master, who was never to feel
cold or hunger more. When tho chill.
late winter morning broke,-Mabel too
had entered into the great eternal sun
shine of God."
The next day' Aunt Lora took me to
the grave where wife and husband slept
together. The moss " God's blessing
on the grave " had crept softly, green
ly above them; the scarlet letters at the
base of the white cross, which told the
story of William Forsythe Long and
Mabel his wife, gleamed redly through
the holly wreatn wnicn nnng mere,
message of love and remembrance from
the living to tne dead.
No trace or the murderer was ever
discovered.
A Curious Poison,
Tho nmanUa imfM'.ri.alis, a f lingUS,
ha long Deen Known lor its intoxiuat
ing and poisonous properties. It has
sometimes been eaten by mistake, and
the results have proven fatal. Haller
mentions the cases of six Lithuanians
who perished at one time by eating
this' amanita. Christison, among
other instances, relates those of four
French soldiers who were killed, and
others who were much disordered by
a similar fatal repast. Orfilla records
similar examples of its virulence, in one
of which a whole family was poisoned,
and, although some were recovered by
speedy remedies, two died. Linnreus
says that in Denmark the natives cut it
in pieces, whioh they steep in milk, and
it proves as destructive to hies as arsen
io. Dr. Johnson corroborates this fact
by stating that he has observed flies
which sip the dirty yellow liquor into
which the amanita dissolves, die al
most immediately. The Ostiacks, of
Siberia, the Hamsohatdales and Kori
acks, employ the amanita to produce
intoxication.
Pennant says " these infatuated peo
ple sometimes eat it dry, sometimes in
a fermented liquor made with the
epilobium, which they drink, notwith
standing the dreadful effects which in
evitably follow. At first they are seized
with convulsions in all their limbs,
then, with a raving, such as attends a
burning fever; a thousand phantoms,
gay or gloomy, according to their con
stitutions, present themselves to their
imaginations ; some dance,- others are
seized with unspeakable horrors. They
personify this mushroom, and if its
effects urge them to suicide, or any
dreadful crime, they say they obey its
commands. To fit themselves for pre
meditated assassinations, they take the
Mouchomore, the Russian name of this
agaric ; and such is the fascination of
drunkenness iu this country that noth
ing can induce the natives to forbear
this dreadful poison.
A Great Hand at Wnist.
One of the most extraordinary inci
dents you ever heard of in connection
with whist occurred in Westminster
lately. Four gentlemen of the highest
respectability, with -whom I am well
acquainted, were playing at whist one
evening. They had been playing a
couple of hours, when one of them,
after having dealt, found his hand to
consist of the whole thirteen trumps.
Two packs of cards were used alter
nately all the time, and this eoourred
with one of them after being shuffled
and cut in the usual manner. Can you
or any of your correspondents give an
other instance of this ever having taken
place ? r -
An apparently well authenticated
case of the dealer holding thirteen
trumps, supplemented by three other
hands as extraordinary, -was published
some ten yeacs ago in Bell's Life,
Our correspondents inquire as to
what are the odds against its happen
ing again. The mind is incapable of
guessing the enormous number of pos
sible ways in which 52 cards can be
dealt equally among four players. It
has been calculated that if the entire
population of the earth, taken at one
thousand mllions of persons, were to
deal the cards incessantly day and
night -. for one , hundred millions of
years, at the rote of a deal by each per
son ft minute, they would not have ex
hausted the one hundred thousandtk
part of the number of the essentially
different ways in whioh the oards can
be distributed. The odds against the
dealer holding thirteen trumps may be
taken in round figures at one hundred
aud fifty-nine thousand millions ta one.
"Making Up With IIer.
We old fellows have all been there,
and we can remember all about it. , We
loved her guess we did! and we knew
that she loved in return. But one day
she crave Sam Tomnkins a smile, or
she let Tom Watkins walk home with
her under an umbrella, or she did some
other simple thing, and we got huffy.
We loved her all the time, but we sat
down and wrote her a letter, dating it
at midnight, saying that we wanted all
those letters and that ring and that
photograph ' back. We hoped she
wonldn t return em, but we leit a
malicious pleasure in punishing her.
The letter was sent or handed to her
personally, and we met her with a cold
" good morning as she came to scnooi,
but bestowed our best smile on Lavina
Wedge, the homliost girl in the town.
Our heart ached when we looked
across the desks and saw her - slyly
reading the letter and trying U keep
back the tears ; but we went over to the
third girl behind to borrow a geography,
and to tho second girl in front to bor
row a grammar, and we were entirely
unconscious of the presence of the girl
wo loved. We stood beside her in the
class as straight as a pole, never letting
on that we saw her, and tho mutual
agreement that if one missed the other
should do the same, in order to keep
together, was broken. We tried to feel
maliciously glad when we went to the
head and left her near the foot, but we
couldn't do it.
It went on this way for three or four
days. Once in a while wo caught her
looking at us with a sad, sweet smile,
as if she were some poor orphan with
no friend in the world ; and her note
said that she couldn't part with the let
ters and the keepsakes. We hold out
bravely until it began to hurt us the
most, and then we got ready to " make
up. It couldu t be done suddenly,
that would be acknowledging our
wrong. We waited until noon-time.
and then as she sat eating her dinner in
her seat we began looking for a lost
book. We thought it was under the
seat next to he-s, and while we were
looking for it she spoke. Wo heard,
but pretended not to, and she spoke
again. Then we coldly replied, but sat
down near by and asked if " she had
those letters with her." " Bhe said no,
and we moved nearer. She said it
wasn't her fault, and we said it wasn't
ours, and somehow our lingers touched.
No one knew what a burden of
anxiety was rolled away in five minutes,
and how much clearer the afternoon
sun shone for it. ' She seemed dearer
than ever before, and when the brown
eyes cleared the teais away and the
merry dimples came back, we wondered
how we cotild have been suoh an un
feeling wretch, and yet it was the same
thing over in less thnn six weeks.
- Ah, me! Those lovers who have had
a smooth path and married without
having quarrels and make-ups and
jealousies will never know what true
love is.
Henry Ward Bcecher's Romance,
In a sermon lately Rev. Henry Ward
lieeclier told the following story :
Tom was a stranmmr. healthy bov.
with a great appetite. He lived hp in
the mountains among the charcoal
burners until he was nineteen. Then
he went down into the valley and hired
out to a farmer. Tom was a scllion
and a drudge, and first along the farmer
hesitated to trust even the hogs to his
care. But there was a glimmering of
something in him that showed just a
little through his uncouthness. After
a year or two he became a full farm la
borer a broad-shouldered, deep-chest
ed, powerful fellow, who made himself
clumsily useful. Well, about that time
the farmer s daughter came home from
school. What a revelation she was to
Tom. He never knew until then what
it was to worship anything, nor how
awkward and coarse he was. He would
have given all he had, which wasn't
much, to learn how to get into a room
without hitting the door, or what to do
with his hands, or how to sit down
right. He began to change his clothes
for better ones when he came in from
the day's work, and there was about
him tho dawning or improvement.
Finally the great day came. Ho stood
trembling before the farmer's daughter,
the hard word was spoken, and she
didn't repulse him. I think there is
nothing in the life of a man which so
rouses and stirs him as love. Tom
went to the wrestling matohes, and
what a vim there was in him. He read,
he went to church, ne wanted to see
how neorile aoted. And when after
good life he grew to be an old man, and
talked in a trembling voice to his
grandchildren, he used to say, " O,
what a wife she was to me. Whatever
I became she made mo." The world is
full of just such instances of blessed
innuence.
Does " Drumming" Pay I
There is just now a warm discussion,
especially among dry goods jobbers,
relative to the value of " drummers."
and looking toward breaking up the
drumming system altogether, several
of our largest houses will send no Bales
men out this season. . They propose to
make prices low, send out occasional
samples, and make the buyer feel the
real necessity of coming to market and
canvassing the trade. The present
condition of the interior trade shows
too plainly the evils of buying wholly
from road samples. Many who have
been wholly dependent on drummers
for goods are now asking for exten
sions, and, ia too many cases, have in
stock goods diihouit to move. The
salesman, drumming through the coun
try is often too apt to consider the cus
tomer and not his employer. Anxiety
to send home good full orders often in
duces him to neglect some important
fact that might curtail his patron's
credit, because it would reduoe the sum
total of sales and . might displease the
customer. Thus the customer gets
overloaded, and at settling day falls
back on 'the selling firm for speoial
ravors. nost on commercial JJvlltetin,
It business men spent one-quarter
tne amount oi me expenses of " drum
mers" in advertising in local papers,
they would make money by the ohange.
In the West business men have tried
this and found it to be the true way of
maung country vraae, .
An Economical Wife.
The following letter from Lady
Compton to her husband. Lord Comp
ton, afterward earl of Northampton,
written in the year 1610, the eighth year
of James I., shows that our grand
mothers were not bo sparing of their
husbands' purses, after all, as some
would have us think them :
"Mr Sweet Life. Now I have de
clared to you my mind for the settling
of your state, I suppose that it were best
for me to bethink and consider within
myself wlat allowance were moetost
for me. I pray and beseech you to
grant to me, your most kind and loving
wife, the sum of 2,600 ($13,000), quar
terly to be paid. Also, I wonld, besides
that allowance, have 600 ($3,000),
quarterly to be paid, for the perform
ance of charitable works ; and those
things I wonld not, neither will, be ac
countable for. Also, I will have three
horses for my own saddle, that none
shall dare to lend or borrow ; none lend
but I, none borrow but you. Also, I
would have two gentlewomen, lest one
should be sick, or have some other let.
Also, believe it, it is an uudecent thing
for a gentlewoman to stand mumping
alone, when God hath blessed their
lord and lady with a great estate. Also,
when I ride a-hunting or a-hawking, or
travel from one house to another, I will
have them attendinar : so. for either of
those said women, I must and will have
for either of them a horBe. Also, X
will have six or eight gt ntlemen, and I
will have my two coaches, one lined
with velvet to myself, with our very
fair horses ; and a coach for my women,
lined with cloth and laced with gold,
otherwise with scarlet, and laced with
silver, with four good horses. Also, I
will have two coachmen one for my
own coach, and one for my women.
Also, for that it is undecent to crowd
up myself with my gentlemanusher in
my coach, I will have him to have a
convenient horse to attend me, either
in city or country. And I must have
two footmen. And my desire is, that
you defray all the charges for me.
And lor myself, besides my yearly
allowance, I would have twenty gowns
of apparel, six of them excellent good
ones, eight of them for the country, and
six of them very excellent good ones.
Also, I would have to put in my purse
2,000 ($10,000), and you to pav my
debts. I would have 6,000 ($50,000)
to buy me jewels, and 4,000 ($20,000),
to buy me a pearl chain.
' Now, seeing I have been, and am,
so reasonable unto you, I pray you do
find my children apparel, and their
schooling, and all my servants their
wages. Also, 1 will have all my houses
furnished, and my lodgidg-chambors to
be suited with all such furniture as is
fit, as beds, stools, chairs, cushions,
carpets, silver warming-pans, cupboards
of plate, fair hangings, aud such like.
" So now that I have declared to you
what I would have, and what it is that
I would not have, I pray you, when
you be an earl, to allow me 2,000
(iSiu.uuu), more than 1 now desire, and
uouuie attendance.
A Vehicle for Heat. .
A correspondent of the Boston Jour
nul of Chemistry furnishes the follow
ing sensible advice concerning the ap.
plication of heat to the body. Wring.
ing out clothes in hot water, infusions
of hops or other plants, and placing
them upon the part atlected, is probi
blv the blan most frenuentlv mirsued.
This practice is objectionable, because
it needs close care to prevent wetting
and chilling when cool, and also to be
so frequently renewed and reapplied, to
keep up the due amount of heat. I was
led to select Indian meal, as it is gener
ally on hand in the larder, is of light
weight, not unpleasant in odor, and
holds heat a long time. Corn meal after
grinding, will bear several times' trans
portation, and, after delivery and dis
position in the bins of the granary, will
for hours still be warm from the fric
tion of grinding. When, therefore, it
is desired to apply dry heat to any per
son, it is only required to place a quan
tity of the Indian meal in a baking pan
on a heated stove, and stir constantly
till thoroughly warmed. It should not
be burnt. It can then be put into
woolen sanks and tied up and applied
as a hot bottle usually is or into large
flannel bags, if for the abdomen. In a
care of successful resuscitation of a
new-born child, the "heated meal was
poured into an oblong chopping-tray, a
flannel cloth laid over it, and the infant
in it. The cloth yielded, and the child
was partly buried in the warm meal. It
is found that the meal retains its heat
long, and when it cools it docs not chill,
which is a very important considera
tion. Two sets of bags or wrappers
may be provided, so that while one is
being applied the other may be heated.
The meal is not weighty. The aroma
of it when heated is rather agreeable
than otherwise.
Nutritive Value or Black Tea.
Tea is not only to be considered as a stim
ulant, but also as nourishment. That people
who use tea are able to live longer and do more
work on an insufficient amount of food than
those who abstain from the boverace. is attri
buted to its power of presenting the waste of
me douv, ana in tne animal economy may be
compared to the financial proposition that a
"penny saved is twice earned." From the
large amount of nitrogen it contains, it may
also be considered, to a certain extent, a direct
means of nourishment. Exchange.
The above is rather too broad, for
tea does not agree so well with every
person. A person with weak digestive
powers one whose food is liable to
"sour on his stomach" cannot use tea
to advantage, for it " sours" readily.
Coffee used in moderation is best in
all such cases, for it has a tendency to
prevent food from becoming acid in
the stomach.
The grand flourish about the bene
ficial effects of tea on acoount of the
large amount of nitrogen which it con
tains does the writer but little honor in
the way of showing up his information.
A. Vogal,. the noted chemist . put tea
through a careful test whioh showed
that the extract made from a thorough
drawing of the leaves, gave 2.8 per
cent, nitrogen, while the drawn leaves
gave 8.58. From this it would seem
that tea contain s 5.66 percent, nitrogen,
but that, in order to get the benefit of
it, we would be necessitated to not only
drink the tea, but to eat the leaves also,
the latter containing by far the largest
per cent.
Mysterious Disappearance.
Mysterious disappearances that cause
years of painful suspenso, says an ex
change, and very often intense suffer
ing, are, we regret to say, becoming
common. Young men, and old men
likewise, from a lack of some honest,
healthful occupation, get the notion in
to their heads that either their wives,
their kinsmen, their friends, or their
acquaintances, or perhaps all of these,
do not appreciate them as much as they
ou ht, and, having brooded over it for
some time, decide at last to punish the
unappreciative ones by mysteriously
disappearing, and botaking themselves
to secluded neighborhoods from which
to enjoy the "rare sport"-of seeing a
number of worthy persons busy , at work
telegraphing to every police station in
the country ; having photographs taken
for distribution among detectives. drag
ging ponds, canals, lake, and rivers ;
getting excited over rumored "traces,"
or, worse still, identifying and giving
burial to the remains of those whom
they had never known in life. Of this
class the discontented, otherwise called
the eccentric, young husband, is the
most cruel. He, after permitting the
body of another human being to be
interred in his family vault, and allow
ing his sorrow-stiicken widow to admin
ister on his estate, and morn for him,
sometimes turns up again, and, as ho
supposes, prevents, or balks, the desire
of the widow to marry some other man.
There was a case of the kind in Williams
burg, a year ago, and there have been
several others since in the Western
States. The old, rich eccentrio who
desires to witness a scramble for his
property among his hungry kinsmen,
sometimes disappears from the world
far awhile, and boys who have fed on
Eernicious literature, almost break the
earts of their parents by starting on
expeditions to undiscovered islanilsi to
seize the Governments, subdue the 'in
habitants, and marry the daughters of
the kings. But, much as we regret to
hear of boys acting in this manner, wo
should be better pleased if the number
of mysterious disappearances was made
up from their ranks aloue. It is tho
married men and the bachelors of ma
ture years who, nowadays, do most of
tho running away mysteriously, and
this fact is due, as wo have hinted be
fore, not altogether, but in a great
measure, to a lack of heathful occupa
tion for men who have inherited the
wealth of hnrd-working, industirious
fathers without any of the natural gifts
that would make it valuable to them.
Queen Victoria's Parliament.
The Parliament which is so soon
about to pass away into the region of
history, is the eighth Parliament which
has been assembled under the reign of
Her Majesty, and the tenth since the
passing of tho first Reform Bill. The
Parliament which was sitting at the
death of William IV., in June, 1837,
came to an end iu the following month
by the demise of tho Crown, and the
new Parliament elected in the August,
which met in the November of that
year, was dissolved in June, 1841, haz
ing lasted four years. Her Majesty's
second Parliament, elected in August,
18il, was dissolved in July, 1847, hav
ing lasted nearly six yeaM. Her third
Parliament, which met in the Novem
ber of the same year, was dissolved in
July, 1852, having lasted about four
years and three-quarters. The fourth
Parliament of Her Majesty met iu
November, 1852, and was dissolved in
March, 1857, having lasted four years
and a'.half. Tho fifth Parliament of
Her Majesty was the briefest in dura
tion, having met in April, 1857, and
having been dissolved in the spring of
laO'J, after a life of little more than two
years duration. Tho next Parliament,
which assembled in April, 1859, lasted
six years, being dissolved early in 1805;
and Her Majesty's seventh Parliament,
the immediate predecessor of the pres
ent one, lasted from the spring of 1865
to the autumn of 1868, about three
years and a half. The present, which
will nereaiter be known as Mr. Ulad
stone s i'avliament, was elected in
November and December, 1868, and
hence has enjoyed an existence of a lit
tle over five years. Consequently it has
lived longer than any of its predeces
sors, except only those of 1841-47 and
lbO'J-05. As Her Majesty has now
reigned for nearly 37 years, it will be
seen upon an easy calculation that the
average duration of the Parliaments
which have been assembled at West
minster under Queon Victoria has been
a little over four years and a half.
A Xovel Cure for Rheumatism.
An Englishman with rheumatio gout
found this singular remedy a cure for
his ailment : He insulated his bedstead
from the floor by plaoing under each
post a broken-off bottom of a glass bot
tle. He says the effect was magical
that he had not been free from rheu
matic gout- for fifteen years, and that
he began to improve immediately after
the application of the insulators-. We
are reminded by this statement, says
the Scientijle American, of a patent
obtained through this oilice lor
physician some twelve or more yoars
ago, which created' considerable inter
est at the time. The patent consisted
in placing glass cups under the bed
posts in a similar manner to the above.
and the patentee claimed to have effec
ted some remarkable cures by the use
oi ms glass insulators.
Contradicted. .
A cousin of Louis Kossuth cofitra-
diets in a letter to the Chicago Times
the statement that Kossuth is in the im-
Eecunious strait the papers have plaoed
im in. He is not compelled to teach
for a livelihood, having sufficient means
of his own to live upon snugly and
pleasantly. , His two sons, who bye
with him, are civil engineers, and can
earn largely more than enough for their
own support, and aie but too glad to
share what they have with their beloved
father. He is now seventy-two, and his
hair is perfectly white. He is by no
means unforgotten by his countrymen
on the contrary, though not in accord
with the present order of things be
tween Hungary and Austria, he never'
tbeleea ecjoyi the highest esteem of his
countrymen,
Items of Interest. ;J
No one but a fool is always right.
Edwin Booth,' the tragedian, is a
bankrupt. .
Berlin streots are to be cleaned hore-
after by a now steam sweeping machine
Gladstone has created forty peers
sinoe his accession to office, five years
ago. ' ,
A club of farmers in Chesterfield, 111.,
takes $100 worth of newspapers annu
ally, r - .;
Queen Victoria is said to be writing
a book, tne scone being jam in uer-
many. ,
A colored man living near Hunting
don, Tenn., claims to bo the father of
sixty-five children. : "
The Spanish Government is said to
have agreed to an exchange of prison
ers with the Carliets.
James Gordon Bennet, proprietor of
the New York Iferald, has given $30,000
to the poor of New York City.
A Butte County (Cal.) man receives
$2,000 a year rent for 160 acrca of land.
The land is worked by Chinese garden
ers - -
Bancroft recently appeared on skates
at the Thiergarten Pond in Berlin. He
is said to have dono tho " eagle " very
nicely.
An Italian musical education, together
with the advantage of a c ArTpcronr.coRts
a young lady 5,000 a year on an
average.
There is an csiublislimcnt in Paris
whose solo bnsine'fe is to make over and
recurl feathers. Che business done is
enormous. :Y
The questiouVs frequently asked,
" How much is ve horso power ?" We
saw a man who was kicked by a horso
the other day, but he i3 too sick to
tell. .
The question of tho legal right of a
woman to be Justice of the l'eaco in
Maiue is at issue, and tho Governor hns
asked the Supreme Court for a de
cision. It concerns thoso who trip the light
fantastic toe to know that one young
lady lately receive! such injuries by
falling on a waxed ball-room floor as
resulted in death.
Young Lady : " O, I am so glad you
like birds ; which kind do you admire
most?" Old Squab : " Well, I think
the goose, with plenty of stuffing, is
about as good as any."
John Eiswnrtbf of Hartford, dreamed
that he was carried on a train to St.
Louis, and there met his long-lost
brother-in-law. He wroto to St. Louis,
and the brother-in-law was there.
Mrs. McCrum, of Kalamazoo, ban
twins; but she isu'tiproud, for one of
them weighs only 1 lb. 10 oz., and tho
other only 1 lb. 8 oz. This is a caso
in which he ounces are oi importance.
A man lost his railway season ticket
nearly a year ago. Last week he fouud
it in his liiblo. tie has thought it
necessary to publish iu the newspapers
a statement that "it wasn't his other
Bible."
A correspondent piteously inquires :
How long are the poople of Missouri
to be robbed ?" We cannot answer
says the St. Louis Globe, as the Legis
lature has not fixed the day of adjourn
ment. '
Douglas county, Oregon, boasts of a
lady who has been married nine times,
has eight husbands living, and is living
with none of them, jviore than this,
she has a daughter who is now twenty
three years of age, andliving with her
third husband.
H. B. Harvey, Wor. MaRter of a Ma
sonic lodge in Troy, JN. t., says the
country is overrun with bad characters
who solicit relief on tho ground of
being Masons. He has had eight ap
plications in a day from men who, as he
learned upon investigation, had been
expelled from lodges. .
May it please your -honor," said a
lawyer, addressing ono of the city
judges, " I brought tho prisoner from
jail on a habeas corpus." " Well," said
a fellow in an undertone, who stood in
the rear of the court, " these lawyers
will say any thing. I saw the man get
out of a hack at the court-room door."
Bret Harte says the success of Arto-
mus Ward in England was a surprise,
even to his warm friends. Ho told
Bret that on the first night of his ap
pearance in London it was a toss-up
whether he would be arrested after the
lecture or invited to dinner. He added,
with that delicious because half-unconscious
satire, " Heads won 1"
M. Tany, in a communication to the
Academic des Sciences, objects to
vanes as indicators of - the wind, since
they indicate a direction when there is
no wind, and they do not indicate the
force or velocity of the wind. He
would substitute a little flag suspended
by a cord from a metallio ring, pulleyed
on a vertical rod. This is worthy oi
consideration.
Interviewing has reached its height
in Chicago. A reporter of one of the
loading papers visited the police in
spector, and informed the publio- that
"Mr. Sheridan sat back in his chair
gracefully smiling at a group of fledg
ling firemen, and spurting rich-colored
tobacco juice into a ravenous spittoon
with marvelous accuracy and over
whelming constancy."
A young man who was teamed-in
Detroit six months ago has joined in
the discussion of the question of family
economy, but his little contribution is
far from satisfactory. ''I da not," he
says, "understand howit is. ,1 used
to figure it out, as I sat with my arm
round her waist on Sunday nights, and
all it would then cost to live wonld be
$2.75 a week, and now I spend $13 and
am hungry half the time.!, 1 .i ut
Wishing to keep it souvenir of his
visit, an excursionist to Brighton, who
had never seen the sea before, thought
he Would take home with him a bottle
f ul of sea water. While he was in the
act of filling the bottle, an old Bait,
who had been watohiug him asked,
" What are you up to ?" Why,' fill
ing my bottle with salt water, as you
see", "Well, you must only half fill
it." ." Why?" "Cos, If you don't,
when the tide rises, it will be sure to
overflow,"