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The woman was old and ragged and gray, And bant with the ohill of the winter's dayi The street w wet with a recent snow, And the woman' font were aged and slow. Hlio stood at the crossing anl waited long, Alono, nncaved for, amid the throng Of human boings who passed hor by, Nor hocdod the glance of her anxious eye. Djwn the street, with laughtor and about, Glad in tho freedom of school lot out, Came the boyi like a flock of sheep, Hailing the snow piled white and deep. Past the woman so (Id and gray, Hastened the children on their way, Nor offered a helping hand to her, Bo mock, so timid, afraid to stir Lest the cariiage wheels or the horses' foot Should crowd her down in the slippery street. At Ust camo 0110 of the merry troop Tue gayest Uddie of all the group; Ho paused beddo hor, and whispered low, "I'll help you across If you wish to go." Her aged hand on his strong young arm Hlio placed, and so, without hurt or harm, He guided the trembling feet along, Proud that his own- were Arm and strong, Tncn back again to his friends he went, His young ho irt happy and well content. " Buo'a somebody's mothor, boys, you know, For all she's ol I, and poor and Blow; "And I hope some fellow will lend a baud To help my mother, you understand, " If ev r she's poor, and old and gray, When hor own doar boy is far away." And "somebody's mother" bowed low her head In her home that night, and the prayer she said Was: "Gad be kind to the noble boy, Who is somebody' son and pride and joy !" WANTED, AT ONCE "Yes, I will," said Amy Jennings. 'This time I will. My brother's wife has culled mo ' a little vixen ' long enough. Now IM be a little vixen. I'm tired of tins persecution I'm tired of it." Amy spoke nugrily ; her eyes were blaziag ; her checks were flushed Bat nt din last sentence (die faltered ; repeating it, she fell upon her knees be side hor bed and buried her face in the pillow. " I'm tired of it," she cried, with passionate sobs. A rtip at the door aroused her, She arose, wiping hor eyes ruefully, and ankod, :n a vice of forced calm, " Who's there?" . Me," answered a rough but friend ly voice "Jack." "Have you brought mo tho Times t" "Yes." N " Well, then, you can't see me jnst now, dear Jack. Put the paper through the crack." Sue opened the door for a crevice, received the newspaper which a clumsy brown hand thruht in, aud then, with a quick "Thauk you, dear thanks, my dear good Jack," reclosed the door, and turned tho key in the lock. The boyish footsteps bounded down the stairs, and Amy, once more in soli tude, flew to the window, flung herself into the arm chair that tilled its em brasure, and opening the newspaper, spread it upon her writing-table, and bflgan eagerly to search the "Wants1" Her eyes drifted over solumn after col umn of those marshalled appeals iu print that staud side by side ns unrecog nizable as faces in a crowd, but each one bearing its own individual burden Heaven knows what heavy burdens for some, homeless and friendless in the great city. Her eyes drifted gvor these, and seized the brief column rlcvotod to "Instruction." "WANTED. AT ONCE-A Roveroess for a i irl eleven years old. Must be of au amiable isnosition. and mistress of the modern an. ootuplishments. Call immediately, etc, eta This advertisement, so peremptory in regard to time, struck the fancy of Amy Jennings. It was urgent and impetuous, and she was in accord with impetuos ities and urgencies. "This is just the thing for me," she thought. " A girl? I like girls : boys are so awfully ' affectionate and rough. Eleven years old.' That is quite young; I could manage that. Oh, I wish I were eleven years old I wish I were back again to happy eleven I I had my darling mother then, aud my kind father. Now they are both gone gone forever. It is terrible to be an orphan, and terrible to think how un kind some people can be to orphans. I hope neaven will keep me from ever being unkind to uuhuppy people. I think it is the worbt sin of the soul." She bathed her eyelids, so red with weeping, and prepared herself for a walk; left the house without a word to any one, and went directly to the place described in the advertisement. The lofcatiou was remoto from the brilliant avenue where Am7 lived in her brother's house; it had a strange, un familiar, and rather dingy air. The house stood opposite a suiull park, not frequented throngingly or girt with steams of travel like the larger squares. It was early winter, and the trees were bare, but children played in the walks, and sparrows flitted tamely across the faded sward. Amy gazed at this wintry park while she stood in the doorway of the strange house waiting for some one to answer the bell. She waited long, and when the door was opened, the face frhut re sponded to her timid " Miss Jennings: an auswer to the advertisement for gov erness," was so stern and repelling, her heart sank with a sudden chill. This depressing impression was not lessened when she entered. A lady entered, and Amy aroie, trem bling. The lady was in traveling cos tume, and carried, as if in act of depart ure, a sachel and blanket-shawl. She motioned to Amy to be seated, and her self, in stillest possible attitude, ap propriated an arm-chair. She was tall and gaunt and severe. With a sharp assumptive ana grating voice she enter ed into examination: " How old are you T" " I shall be twenty-one in two years." " Too young. Where were you edu cated? What are your qualifications? To whom do you refer? What system do you use in the study of languages ? What method do you employ in teaching musio, and in drawing and water-color ? Give me your answers as expeditiously as possible. The train starts at 11:45; me carriage should bo here at this mo ment. I am going to Montreal for a month, and am unwilling to leave my niece alone. And our cook has given us warning. 'Tib a pity, for although she has a fiery temper, she pleases brother. With difficulty I have persuaded her to remain a month. The waitress, too. exrjresses dissatisfaction : the RAnmnt.rnHn I think, is more reliable; but altogether me household is in a state particularly unfitted to be managed by a mere child like my nioce Martha, who, however, is 'head of the house,' and you will call ner 'Miss manna,' please. And I need lor the place an experienced person. But really, as this is the last moment, and you may be better than no one. per haps I had bettor engage you for one month; provided, of course, that your credentials "The cab is at the door, mem, and says he's late, and must hurry up; and 1. I I r - .... on i ucro is iur, imnor nimsoii. And a gCDtleman entered in some haste. merely paying, as he was presented to Mi'uu T-nni'nrra ' ' T mill DoA l - I moments," and hurried his sister to the carnage, she all the way endeavoring to impress upon him how very unfavorable an opinion she had formed of the capa city and experience of the new governess, " to bo engaged only for the month, von know; and it was necessary to have some one at once. Her last act, as the cab drove off, was to thrust her hoad through the window, with an expression of dire solemnity, and say, with a groan, " Brother, we've gone through the wwods to pick up the crook ed stick at last." Mr. Rainor returning to the parlor, supposing that his sister had arranged ill preliminaries, only said: " How soon oan you come, Miss Jennings ?" "To-morrow morning, if you like," answered Amy. "Let it be, then, by ten o'clock so that I may presont my little daughter, and see you established before I go down town." "Just what you might have expected from such a wilful girl," said Amy's sister-in-law to her husband, who was petrified with astonishment when he learned that his pretty, sprightly sister, who seemed to him all smiles," and who, " just out of school," had been received most lov ingly on his part into his affluent home, had engaged to " go as governess." "It is a girlish freak," he said; "I can not consent to it " But Amy shock ed him into acquiescence by a tempestu ous outpouring of her story of home sickness andunhappiness: and although he was sorely puzzled to conceive how Ms wife could nave been cruel to Amy, or rather how Amy could have imagined his wife to be cruel, he finally consider ing that the engagement was only for a month, and Mr. Rainor happened to be known to him as one of the most estim able of citizens gave his reluctant con sent, saying to his wife, caressingly, " She'll oome back to ns, Matilda, at the end of the month, quite, cured of her girlish homesickness." So Amy appeared the next morning by ten o'clock in the breakfast-room of Mr. Rainor, and was presented to his little daughter. The child was an angular, awkward girl, with sharp, delicate features and immense black eyes that seemed to be peering forth from an extremely active intelligence with a suspicious vigilance lhat to Amy was really formidable. " I had hoped she would have resem bled her father," thought Amy, despair ingly. "1 like Mr. Rainor. But this child is Mrs. Edgeley in miniature. What shall I do with her ?" Little Miss Martha, clinging devoutly to her father, received her new governess as she would have received the gift of some wild and unknown animal, whose claws or talons or teeth it were well to beware of. Mr. Rainor, glancing at his watch, found that he was too late to go through the rooms and look over school-books, as he had intended; but he ayd, kindly, as with Martha's fond assistance he was putting on his overcoat to go down town, " You will examine the ground to-day, Miss Jennings. Mat tie will assist you. There will probably be some things that you will want. Perhaps you had better make out a list, and give it to me this evening. " Nine o'clock at eveniug. Mr. Rainor seated at his reading table in the library, book iu hand. " Enter Amy, timidly, but with a secret bravery. " Miss Martha has retired, because her head still troubles her. I had her feet bathed in hot water." "Poor child, she inherits that," said her father, lie meant headache, not hot water, although that element had been conspicuous in the rule of the late Mrs. Rainor. "And I have made out the list," said Amy. Mr. Rainor took it, and after drawing an armchair near the fire and placing a footstool for Miss Jennings, resumed his place at the table and adjusted his eyeglasses. He started slightly as he began to read the list, and his expression, as he proceeded, varieJ from astonishment to amusement; he looked over his glasses inquiringly at Amy, who regarded him steadily with a grave dignity. Then he read aloud as follows: "Two canary birds, six house plants, order at florist's for fresh flowers twioe a week, six children to dance, a wood fire in the school-room, a battle door and shuttlecock, a new piano." "The battledoor and shuttlecock," said Amy, "are the French verbs. I throw a verb, you know, at Miss Mar tha, and she catches it and throws it back to me. In this way we go through the tenses, and they become impressed upon the memory without the tedium of leaning over the book." Well," said Mr. Rainor, pleasantly, " I don't know that I should object to Buch a French exercise. Mattie has bad some trouble with her verbs. But how about the children for the dance ? is it necessary that we should have six chil dren, Miss Jennings ?" " Yes," answered Amy, decidedly, " because each child will bring its own defects and its own graces ; the defects will bo warnings, and the graces will be models, and the correction of many blun ders will make a more complete order, as failures build up success. It took forty women, I have heard, to suggest the modelling of the Oreek Slave.' " Mr. Rainor did not perceive the pre cise application of this illustration ; but Miss Jennings evidently did ; so thai point was settled, and they returned to the list. "And the flowers," she said, "are to be copied in water-color, and to exhilarate us at our tasks." "And the piano?" " It has all false notes ; a false note makes trouble in a house. I think that a false note, even one, puts everything that it reaches out of tune, Mr. Rainor, lam sure that you sing. " "Sing? Oh no. I haven't sung for years." He paused, and a strange bright light came into his kind eyes. He added, hesitatingly, "I believe there is a pile of my old music packed away in- the house." I knew it, " said Amy, " and it would be very good for Miss Martha if yon could sing with her. I can play accom paniments, and we could have musio evenings." " I feel inclined," said Mr. Rainor, after studying the list more carefully. and with a mere serious air than at first, "to accede to these requests. And books ?" "Books?" repeated Amy, rather dis mayed. "Really I forgot; in fact, we haven't gone so far yet as the books. Mr. Raynor," she said, rising to bid him good-night, and faltering from her dig nity wiui a genuine tremor of diffidenoe that was not ungraceful, that was. in deed, for some reason, irresistibly charming, "I think perhaps it will, be the best perhaps, if you allow me, I will loan upon you a little about the books. "Well, I declare, said the cook, a fort night after Amy's arrival, "if this ain't the surprisin'est governess! La sakes, don't she make a good missus, though! Always a-smilin' and serene. And she knows what she wants, and what's what. And Miss Martha, chimes inmy! how she does chime in! as no un could have bethought. If missus don't come back, I'll stay right on, and no questions asked, so I will." "Yes, Miss Jennings is surprisin'." said the seamstress. "And to hear Miss Martha lay in' down the law to her is as good as a play. 'Now I ought to do this. Miss Jennings.' and 'Now it is time for me to do that,' and 'You must be strict with me about this Miss Jennings.' And tlie new governess, though she b fresh as a rose-bud, and much more of a baby in looks than Miss Martha is, has ner own way through all. 1 can see that. But it's a nice way and a bright way, so it is. It's as good as going to the theater to hear her talk. And when she goes laughin' and singin' through the house, my machine spins, bo it do." "What has come to me?" thought Mr. Rainor. Age must be tempering me. I feel so light hearted, so well, of late. And Mattie, my precious little Mattie I begin to think that she will make a glad, strong girl yet. I wonder if there is any thing in Miss Jennings's idea of sun and fragrance, music and color and stirring life? Amy Jennings! What a strange woman she is! a child almost, and yet a woman quite. She is a sur prise to me everyday a surprise." Surprise I That was the word which Amy seemed to have written upon the whole house. But the greatest surprise of all befell Mrs. Edgeley on her return home. She came a day before she had written she would come, for some reason of her own. Perhaps she expected to be surprised; if so, her expectation was realized. The cab rolled un to the door at nine. o'clock of a clear moon-lit winter night; and Mrs. lMgeley, satchel and blanket- shawl, exactly as she left, had come back. But at the very door-step of the cab she stood motionless, as if transfixed by a shock. The house was lighted from attio to basement. The white blinds were drawn, but lamp-light streamed through them into the street, and shadows moved across them in swift chase. Sound of music, played by piano, violin and harp, escaped as distinctly as the light. Mrs. Edgeley hardly had strength of mind left to pay the cabman and ring the door-bell. The door opened in a flash. The stern dis satisfied waitress admitted her with a yes, actually with a grin. Girls in light evening dresses and white-nooktied boys were promenading in the hall, and the parlors were filled with the whirl of the dance. Mrs. Edgeley, dumb with indignation, attempted to ascend the stairs, but mid way she was almost upset by twa chil dren in a high state of excitement; com ing down abreast. "Who are you?" gasped the matron, coming to ' a dead stop. "We nre Miss Rainor's orphans," said they, or said one for both, who were exactly alike in brown stuff gowns and blue capes. " Miss Rainor's what ?" "We go to the L School, and Miss Rainor has no mother; so she takes care of us, for our mother is dead too. Miss Rainor makes our frocks for us, and our capes; and we have been to hear the musio, and now we are going home; and we are to have oranges to take with us, and plum-cake." " Mercy !" cried the lady, pushing past them with hasty steps, 6nt pausing again on the landing with another dead stop. Not because the rooms on this floor too, with the exception of her own " wing room," were a blaze of light and half full of guests, but because the dance music had stopped and some one was singing: a love song, a serenade one of " the old, old songs." A man's voice ! It carried Mrs. Edge ley back ten years yes, fifteen years back to the gray parsonage by the stone mill, where, night after night, that sum mer agone, some one came courting, no one knew which, till the one sister was taken and the other left. Mr. Rainor was singing. Heaven only knew how, out of that grave of fifteen years, he had got back his voice. . It is a year from the day when Amy Jennings went out as governess from her brother's house, and now she is back, only for a month, for at the end of that time she is to be a bride, and her room is strewn with bridal stuffs, and the wed ding gown is this moment being trim med with its pearly border of lace. " We had hoped to keep you longer," said the affectionate Dick; and " It's to bad in you to go off just as you've come back," said the affectionate Jack. But Matilda remarked' " How ridiculous it is for a girl bike you, Amy, to marry an old man iiKe that r " He is not an old man," said Amy, indignantly, " and if he were, I'd make him young again. 1 love him so much love and respect and bless his kind heart so deeply and so much I There is no old age to a forever kind heart." "And then that girll Very much fitted you are to be avmother to a big girl like that !" "She'll be a mother to me," Baid Amy, laughing her merriest little laugh. " I assure you Mattie is equal to that." "And to be married so soon, too ; only engaged for a month Mr. Rai nor," Matilda changed from the sarcastic to the angelic in a trice, for Mr. Raiuor had entered as she spoke "Mr. Rainor, why don't you marry a mature woman instead of this giddy girl ? or why do 0ovl not at least wait a year or two before you commit the rash act ?" "Because," said Mr. Rainor, not ac cepting as badinge what he knew Matilda at heart did not consider a jest " be cause Amy, just as she is" his arm was around her, and with hands clasped upon his shoulders she was looking up joyously and lovingly to his face "Amy satisfies my mind and my heart; because she has brought sunlight to my life ; because in my house, and by every one in it, she is wanted wanted at once !" Vitality of a Shark's Heart. The Providence Press tells this story, appropos of a shark story in Wide Awake, written by Dr; J. T. Payne : " He describes the capture of a shark and its dissection at sea, and says that after the heart had been removed from the body and placed upon the deck it kept up its contractions for a period of twenty minutes or half an hour, just the same as when in place and performing its office of pumping the blood to the various parts of the body.' We, in company with the late Surgeon Mc Gregor, used to enjoy annually a shark fishing excursion. One season wo ren dezvoused at Edgartown, and fished for the monster off 'Oapoge.' We caught among others a fellow of splendid pluck and proportions, and decided to dissect him. We landed him upon an old wharf in Edgartown, about four o'clock in the afternoon, andproceeded in true sur geon's style. We opened him ; took out his immense jaws, which, when opened, passed over to the extreme of our shoul ders, and afterward found his heart ex panding and contracting as if in life, though the body was devoid of blood. We cut the heart out, placed it upon an inverted iron try-kettle used by whalers, and proceeded with our work. After we had finished it was nearly dark we took the jaw and the heart, the latter still pumping, to our hotel, and placed the latter upon a stone post, while we went in and had our supper. We took a lantern with us and examined that marvelous heart again. It was still con tracting, though feebly, and its last quiver, about 8:30 o'clock, was merely a spasm. Dr. Payne's story is not as marvelous as ours, and we vouch for its truthfulness." The Asiatio race loves monotony. The London Spectator says that there are artisan families in India and in Damascus who have worked at the same work day by day lor l.uuu years, peasant families who have not only tilled the Bame fields, but have gone into them and left them at the same hour, according to the season, from a period of over 1.800 years. They have- no wish for change, no amDition to do better, no inclination to roam, no sense of failure because tuey are as their forefuthers were aud as their sou's will be. FARM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Household Hint. Make a paste of soft soap and emery lor ponsmng steel. A small onuntitv of tnmentine nddnd to stove blacking will make the stove easier to polish. To remove old outtv from window- frames, pass a red-hot poker slowly over it, and it will come off easily. A few drops of glycerine in a bottle of mucilage will cause the mucilage to ad here to glass when used upon labels. A bottle of flaxseed oil, chalk and vinegar mixed to the consistency of cream, should be Kept in every house for burns, scalds, etc. To cleam chromos, dampen a linen rag slightly and go over them gently, If the varnish has become defaced, cover with a thin mastio varnish. Quick-silver beaten up with the white of an egg, and applied with a feather to every crack and crevice of a bedstead, is the very best bug preventative. To sew caroet-racs on a machine. make the stitch short, run it obliquely across the rags where they are to be joined, and sew a good many before cut ting the thread. Alabaster is best cleaned by putting it in a pan oi water ana lemng it bobk some hours until quite clean. Another mode is to cover it with a strong solu tion of soda. There is no part of the year when cel lars in which vegetables are stored need ventilation oftener than the present. If the cellars cannot be thoroughly aired every day, the vegetables should be removed. Boil sweet or common potatoes till well done, then mash or strain. To each one and a half pints add one pint and a half of milk, a little melted but ter, two eggs with sugar, salt, and nut meg or lemon to flavor. To clear cistern water, add two ounces powdered alum and two ounces borax to a twenty-barrel cistern of rain-water that is blackened or oily, and in a few hour the sediment will settle, and the water be clarified and tit for washing. Borax is used in the washing, but it is also used in starch. It stiffens the starch, prevents the iron sticking, and produces a finer finish. It should be used by dissolving half a tablespoonful in a little boiling water, and mixing it with about three pints of the starch. The way to clean feathers is to wash them in a lather, then rinse in cold water, and then in water slightly blue, and shake them until dry. If the flue looks thready, damp it between the folds of a cloth and beat lightly, and clap it between the hands till quite dry. It improves them sometimes to hold them in the steam of a kettle. In selecting flour first look to the color. It it is white with a yellowish Btraw-color tint, buy it. If it is white with a bluish cast, or with black specks in it, refuse it. Next examine its ad hesiveness wet and knead a little of it between your Angers ; if it works soft and sticky, it is poor. Then throw a little lump of dry flour against a smooth surface ; if it falls like powder, it is bad. Lastly, squeeze some of the flour tight ly in your hand ; if it retains the shape given by the pressure, that too is a good sign. It is safe to buy flour that will stand all these tests. ProHto of liood Feeding. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman gives the following details of his experience on this subject: Last fall I had the offer of a cow on an old debt, and hesitated some as to whether I had better lose the debt or take the cow, as she was old and very thin, but finally concluded to try and make something out of her, though the chance looked very small, and the boys made a good deal of sport of her, and said I would get nothing but her hide. She was far row, and was not giving more than one quart of milk night and morning. I took her to the farm and told my man to do the best he could for her. He com menced feeding her apples, and though she gained steadily in milk, it was some time before she improved much iu ap pearance; but after awhile the feed and care began to tell on her, and in three mouths she was in good condition, and gave twelve quarts of milk daily. One week I brought from there nine pounds of nice butter, which the woman assured me was the product of nine days' milk, and at the same time sold two quarts of milk daily, and used what they needed in the family, consisting of herself and husband. I expected to feed her well, and turn out to grass to fatten, but she proved so good for milk I concluded to keep her another year. She has kept in good order all summer, and gives about as much milk as any of the cows, but we shall soon dry her off, as we expect to have her for a new milch cow this winter, I also bought last fall a flock of store sheep, just as it was time to turn in for winter, fed tuem till the 10th of March on hay and oat screenings, and sold them at an advance of $2.50 per head. Buying Meed. Be careful in buying your seeds. A German paper says that clover and lueern are often mixed with small, arti ficially prepared and colored quartz stones. For production of these quartz granules there are special manufactories, which accomplish their tank so well that even a practiced eye would have difficul ty iu detecting the fraud. Old seeds, also, are colored, sulphurized, oiled and treated with various substances which produce a fresher and better appearance, ami are often even mixed to a consider able extent with old seed, no longer capa ble of germination. Items of Interest. Edison is worth $150,000. Cartmen's slang Hire a haul. The early bud catches the froBt. A cutting remark ' Chop the hash. There are 1,679 prisoners confined in Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison. How can five persons divide five eggs, so that each man shall receive one, and still one remain in the dish ? One takes the dish with the egg. The average population to each phy sician is, in the United States, 600 ; England, 1,672 ; France, 1,814 ; Austria, 2,600 ; Germany, 8,000. A woman in Pomfret, Vt., has a hus band and children to take care of, and Eerforms most of the work on the farm, er husband doing nothing. He is not out of health, but was born tired. Mr. F. D. Millet, an American, was the only correspondent who went through tho Balkans with Gen. Gonrko. The czar presented him with the decora tion of St Ann, which is the highest decoration given to any correspondent. A young lady, says the Elizabeth Herald, astonished a party the other day by asking for the "loan of a diminu tive argenteous truncated cone, convex on its summit and semi-perforated with symmetrical indentations," or in other words a thimble. A Wick (England) fishing boat landed a fine conditioned halibut, weighing 187 pounds, measuring six feet eight inches in length, and about the same in girth. On opening the fish its stomach was found to contain a fine salmon in very good condition, and which weighed 20 pounds. The fisherman remarked that it was no wonder the halibut looked so well, see ing the Bort of dinners he indulged in. The Hawkeye says there is a cat in Burlington that has lost its voice. This explains some things. There is a cat in Norristown that has found the Burling ton feline's voice. And from the uproar she creates when she sits on the back shed at night and converses with some friends on the other side of the river, a mile distant, we judge that she has found several other lost voices. Norristown Herald. A SINOULAB BONO. My Madeline I my Madeline ! Mark my melodioua midnight moana ; Much may my melting musio mean, My modulated monotones. My mandolin's mild minstrelsy, My mental musio magazine, -My mouth my mind, my memory, MuBt mingling murmur, " Madeline." Muster 'mid midnight masquerades, Mark Moorish maidens, matrons' mien, 'Jlongst Murcia'a most majestio maids, Match me, my matchless Madeline. Mankind'! malevolence may make Much melancholy musio mine ; Many my motives may mistake, My modest merits much malign. My Madeline's most mirthful mood ' Much mollifies my mind's machine ; ' My ruournfulness' magnitude Melts makes me merry, Madeline ! Mutch-making ma's may machinate, Maneuv'ring misses me mis ween; Mere money may make many mate, My magio motto's " Madeline 1" Melt most mellifluous melody, 'Midst Murcia's misty niouu's marine, Meet me, my moonlight marry me, ;' Madonna mia ! Madeline. ' Aerial Navigation. Mr. Brearey, secretary of the English Aeronautical Society, called attention, .. in a recent lecture, to some curious facts which those who are seeking solutions of the flying machine problem might pro fitably bear in mind. He stated that light as the atmosphere is in proportion to the weight of water, the rarer me dium is capable of supporting a creature much heavier than itself, while water, 800 times heavier, only supported a fish of about equal weight, bulk for bulk. Supposing a fish bore the same propor tional weight to its elemental medium as a bird does to the atmosphere, it would have to be made of something heavier than platinum. As it is, a fish is really a bird without wings. Ha gave some curious comparisons between different birds and insects as to the surface they presented to the atmo sphere and their weight. Thus the gnat was three million times less weight than the Australian crane, but presented in proportion one hundred and forty times more surface to the air; and between these two there were almost all grada tions. In these investigations lay some of the most hopeful facta which seemed to render aerial navigation possible, and if man could get sufficient surface he could surely get sufficient machine power for propulsion. It was not so much a question of power as- of the right application of power. There was also the question of balance. The man ner in whicli a bird kept its balance, while its wings were being energetically worked alternately above and below its center of gravity, was marvellous, Mr. Brearey thought that with the example of the bicycle the question of balance would not present much difficulty. He then touched on the application of steam to the navigation of the air. Until lately it had been thought that this was inadmissible ss a motive power, because of tho cumbrous method of its genera tion; but it had been declared that whiv steam could be upplied with a wci not exceeding twenty pounds per 1 power, the problem would n" solved. This had been aooi ! and they would hope the f tii'i; in' t t trui'.
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