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Poetry.
TKAILISO 1IBTTII.
BT TBOXAS CAL.TEB.
When lulls the bawling northern wind.
And reeta ita corse of fiow'ry death;
Ita anger soothed to mood more kind.
By kisses of the south wind's breath;
And ice end now no longer bold
The impulse of the yearning earth.
Then, on the bed of moss clad mold,
The sweet arbutos has its birth.
The sylvan shadows darkly frown
Upon the modest little plant;
The lofty pines with scorn look down.
And scarce a ray of light will grant;
But yet it opes its tiny star.
And heralds the approach of spring,
And song-birds gather from afar.
The joyful news to sweetly sing.
So, humble though may be our lot.
And er'ry view with shadows fraught,
And sunlight seem to reach as not.
And our aspirings seem as naught,
We may oplif t the silver star
Of hops and love each heart should hold.
And gather from pure hearts afar
The songs of joy. the rays of gold.
3Iisscellany
The Hermit Bird.
Francis Legnat flying from France
with a Protestant party, came in 1691
to the island of Rodriguez, till then
unexplored, and lived there two years.
The story of oar compatriot's "Travels
and Adventures" has been published;
we find in it the description of the fine
bird called by him the hermit Pczop
haps golitarius). Of all the birds in
Rodriguez Island, Legnat says this is
the most remarkable species. The
males are variously feathered with gray
and brown, with the feet of a turkey,
and the bill shaped like the turkey's
also, bnt a little more hooked. They
are almost tailless, and their rump is
ronnded and covered with feathers,
higher on the legs than the turkey;
they have a straight and rather long
neck, a black sparkling eye, and a head
without crest or tutt The female, our
traveler says, is admirably beautiful;
there are blonds and brunettes among
them, marked on the forehead with a
stripe like a widow's band, and on the
breast with plumage whiter than the
rest of the body. They walk with such
a mingling of pride and gracefulness
that one cannot avoid admiring and
loving them, so that their good looks
often save their lives. Nut a feather
lies uneven on their whole body, such
pains do they take to smooth and ar
range their plumage with their bills.
These hermit-birds do not fly; they
only use their wings, which are too
small to bear the weight of the body,
either in fighting or drumming when
calling each other. Lguat adds that
they are taken with great difficulty in
the woods; but in open places it is easy
to run them down, as they are not very
swift. From March to September they
are extremely fat, and the taste, espe
cially of the young ones, excellent.
Some among the males are found weigh
ing forty-five pounds. These birds, in
tending to build a nest, choose clear
spot, collect a few palm leaves, and
raise the structure a foot and a half
above the surface; they hate j bnt one
eag at a time, and the male and female
sit alternately during seven weeks, the
period of incubation, and for some
months longer the young bird needs
assistance from the old ones. These
beautiful birds of Rodriguez, called
hermits because they seldom go in
flocks, were abundant in the island at
the end of the seventeenth century,
when the French naturalist expressed
such admiration for them. In a few
years they have all perished, and no
thing but bones crusted with stalag
mite permitted us to ascertain that the
species described by Legnat was of a
kind unknown elsewhere, when an Eng
lish explorer, Newton, undertook to
examine the caves and boggy lands of
the small island of Rodriguez. More
than two thousand fragments, the last
traces of the extinct bird, were col
lected. The study of these wretched
relics was made with the greatest care,
and we now know that the hermit-bird
represented a special type, having close
affinities with the dodo and the pigeon.
A singular detail leads us to place full
reliance on Leguat's observations. Oar
traveler has said, in speaking of the
males of this Rodriguez bird: "The
wing of the pinion thickens at its end,
and forms a little round mass like a
musket-ball under the feathers; this,
with the bill, is the bird's chief de
fense. This little ronnd mass has
been found in the shape of a bony pro
minence on that part of the limb called
the metacarpus. Popular Science
Monthly.
Wh-a not to do It.
Look well to the time of doing any
thing ; there is a time for all things.
Choose the right time for saying things.
If your wife looks wearied and worn
out, be sure it is not the right time to
tell her that the dinner is not hot, or
that the bread is sour. Comfort her,
cheer her up. Use the ten thousand
little stratagems you were won't to
handle so skillfully in the old days, to
bring out the smiles around her lips.
If you are annoyed or vexed at peo
ple, just remember it is not the right
time to speak. Close yonr mouth, shut
your teeth together firmly, and it will
save you many a useless and unavailing
regret, and a bitter ecemy.
If you happen to feel a little cross,
and who among us dona not at some
time or other ? do not select that season
for reproving your noisy household
flock. One word spoken in passion will
make a scar that a summer of smiles
can hardly heal over.
If yon are a wife, never tease your
husband when he comes home weary
from his day'a business. It is not the
time. Do not ask him for expensive
ontlaya when he has been talking of
hard times ; it is most assuredly the
wrong time.
If he has entered upon any undertak
ing against yonr advice, do not seize the
moment of its failure to say, "I told
you so V In fact, it is never the right
time for those four monosyllables.
If people only knew enough to dis
crimininate between the right time and
the wrong, there would be less domestic
unhappiness, and less silent sorrow, and
less estrangement of hearts ! The great
est calamities that ever shadow our
lives have sometimes their germ in
matters as apparently slight as this. If
you pause, reader, before the stinging
taunt or the biting sneer, the unkind
acoff passes your lips, pause just long
enough to ask yourself, "is it the right
time for me to speak ?" you would ahut
the door against many a heart ache.
The world hinges on small things
and there are not many more trivial
than tie tight time and the wrong.
GEXERAL WARHISGTOH'I
COACH-AXD'SIX.
BT J AXES PABTOS.
No, Gentlemen of the House of Re
presentatives, President Washington
did not keep a eoach-and-six and charge
the expense to a contingent fund. Al
low me, gentlemen, to recall to your
recollection the facts relating to the
first President's compensation and equi
page.
At the first session of the first Con
gress, which assembled in New York
on the fourth of March. 1789. a Com
mittee of twelve members of the House
of Representatives was appointed to
take into consideration the compensa
tion of the President, Vice-President
and members of both Houses, and to
report upon the same at their conve
nience. The Committee had the matter
under consideration for several months.
This long delay was owing, in part, to
the very great difference of opinion
among the members as to the amount
of the different salaries. Some of them
were disposed to fix the President's
salary as low as fifteen thousand dollars,
and others were inclined to place it as
high as seventy thousand. At length
the Committee reported, advising that
the salary of the President be twenty
tnousand dollars a year, and that be be
provided with a furnished house, secre
taries, clerks, plate, carriages and hor
ses, at the public expense. On the
thirteenth of July, 1789, the House of
Representatives took this report into
consideration, and debated it at con
siderable length.
The clause relating to the providing
of a house and equipage was at once
objected to, and it was moved to strike
it out, which led to an animated dis
cussion. Mr. Tucker was of opinion
that for a new President to buy plate
and furniture would subject him to
great inconvenience, unless he received
a year's salary in advance, and when
he retired to private life, they would
not sell for half their first cost. He,
therefore, wished the publio to provide
house, furniture and plate, but not
horses and carriages.
Mr. Madison, afterwards President,
thought that horses and carriages would
also cost a new President a great deal
of money, and would not sell for much
upon his retirement. He was therefore
of opinion that, if furniture and plate
should be provided, equipage should
be also.
Mr. Stone favored the payment of a
sufficient salary, without any extras.
The President, he thought, ought to
live in any style he judged most proper.
"But," said he, "if you furnished
him with a house, horses and carriages,
you declare that this is the house, the
horses, and the carnages which be shall
use. But he may not choose to use
them. Ha may prefer equipage more
splendid or more plain ; and surely, if
a President chooses to live in an econo
mical manner, we ought not to prevent
him."
Mr. Vininir. on the contrary, was of
opinion that the President of the United
States, being the representative of the
Nation, was bound in propriety to main
tain a certain appearance of dignity,
and the House had a right to show what
they expected of him iu this respect.
After further debate, it was decided
to strike out the clause assigning the
President's horses, carriages, furniture
and plate at the expense of the public,
and to pay him a salary large enough
to admit of his providing these things
for himself.
Then arose the question, what shonld
be the amount of the salary ; and this
led to another day's debate. One gen-1
tleman proposed to pay the President
twenty-six thousand dollars for the first
year, and sixteen thousand dollars for
every other year. He proposed, also,
that he should be paid ten thousand
dollars the first year in advance, to
meet the great expenses of providing a
bouse and equipage. Other gentlemen
favored thirty thousand dollars a year ;
and at length, upon motion of Mr. John
Page, of Virginia, the sum was fixed at
twenty-five thousand.
President Washington, before this
decision had been reached, bad ordered
a handsome coach from England, which
arrived in the course of the year 17S9.
The body and wheels were of a cream
color, then very fashionable, with gilt
relief, and the body was suspended
upon the old-fashioned, heavy leathern
straps, like those upon which stage
coaches were formerly suspended. Part
of the sides and front were shaded by
green Venetian blinds, inclosed by black
leather curtains. The lining of the
coach was of a black glossy leather.
The Washington arms were handsomely
painted on the doors, with the motto
so perfectly characteristic of Washing
ton Exitut acta probaltha result
proves actions. Upon each of the
four panels of the coach was a picture
emblematic of one of the seasons, exe
cuted by an Italian artist of reputation.
In this substantial vehicle the Presi
dent used to ride about Manhattan
Island, which furnished one of the most
beautiful drives in the world, called the
"Fourteen Miles Round." It led up
what is now the Bowery and Third
Avenue, then called the Boston Road,
which commanded a beautiful view of
the East river, lined with farms and
country-seats; then across the npper
part of the Island, and down by the
Bloomingdale road (Broadway) to the
city again. It is impossible to imagine
a more lovely combination of cultivated
land, lofty bluff, and living, than this
ride must have presented in the early
day.
Usually, the General had only four
horses harnessed to his coach, but in
traveling between the seat of Govern
ment and Mount Vernon, it was often
a matter of necessity to use six. Mem
bers of Congress msy rest assured that
this coach, iu horses, and all its appur
tenances, were paid for with General
Washington's own money. It was an
honest coach in every respect ; for at
the end of the second term its builder
came to America and settled in Alexan
dria, where the General informed him
that not a nail or screw of the vehicle
had started. Fifteen years after the
death of General Washington, when it
became the property of the late Bishop
Mead, of Virginia, it was still a sound,
serviceable coach, though too heavy for
ordinary use. Its subsequent history
is thus related by the Bishop:
"Becoming an object ot desire to
those who delight in relics, I caused it
to be taken to pieces and distributed
among the admiring friends of Wash
ington who visited my house, and also
among a number of female associations
for benevolent and religious objects;
which associations, at their fairs and
other occasions, made a large profit by
converting the fragments into walking
sticks, picture-frames and snuff-boxes.
About two-thirds of one of the wheels
thus produced one hundred and forty
dollars. There can be no doubt that
at ita dissolution it yielded more to the
cause of charity than it cost the builders
at iu first erection. Besides other me
mentoes ot it, I have in my study, in
the form of a sofa, the bind seat on
which the General and his laly were
wont to sit."
So much for the General's coach.
Even if Congress had voted him a car
nage and horses at the public expense.
I very much doubt if he would have
accepted them. When Philadelphia be
came the seat of Government, the Legis
lature of Pennsylvania assigned him a
very handsome bouse lor his residence,
bnt he declined to accept it. He hired
a house for himself of Robert Morris
and pail the rent, which was three
thousand dollars a year.
X Aaiaaal Ejo;ha Except Haa.
May not the dog laugh with his tail
as he expresses his joy, his gratitude,
his delight upon seeing his master?
But is the dog left to rely solely upon
his tail to express his emotions or his
affections T We think not. Our firm
belief is that dogs laugh as mnch as
men.
We own at present a little sinner a
Spitz dog a pup, and full of mischief.
Out of doors it is almost impossible to
control him. Bid him obey yon, and
he leaps eight or ten feet away, and
every muscle of his face in motion a
laugh, in fact, as perfect, perhaps, as
any dog can express. Poor old "Ro
ver" and little "Joe" never meet us
without a smile upon their faces.
But the most marked insUnoe of a
dog laugh we recall as an incident of
our early boyhood say when we were
from eight to eleven years of age. A
near relative owned a little black dog,
a common cur, we are inclined to think,
bnt "smart as a steel trap" and "bright
as a dollar." Whenever we visited the
old farm house that dog received us,
as he received every old acquaintance,
with a series of sneezes and a play of
feature impossible to describe. We
were too young to be a philosopher.but
we always told oar good grandfather
that "Jack" both sneezed and laughed
at us.
Let one more illustration suffice, and
this is the most marked one that we
now recall. When living at the South,
where mecking birds are common, a
friend of ours owned a beautiful bird,
but as full of fun and mischief as any
animal that we ever knew; he would
imitate perfectly the cackling of hens,
the crowing of a rooster, the sounds of
the sawing of wood, Ac, but worse
than all he had learned to express the
joys of a let-out school held in his
neighborhood; at such timea "Bill"!
made an intolerable racket, disturbing
entire households. But his favorite
and greatest feat was to cheat "Jack,"
the terrier, which regularly came home
with his master to meals. The cage
was hung in the backyard; in a few
moments after the dog had got himself
comfortably settled in a berth, away
would go a whistle calling the dog, as
perfect an imitation of the whistle of
the master as it could be ; then the dog
would run "like mad" through rooms
and balls to the backyard, to be utterly
confounded in not discovering his mas
ter, the bird silting npon his perch an
innocent and apparently unconcerned
spectator. This whistling process would
be repeated two, three, and perhaps
four times before the dog would detect
the cheat, and then he would retire
with a look of disgust at the bird, and
no amount of whistling would start him
again. Just as soon as "Bill" saw that
the game was up, he would hop from
his perch to the floor st the side of the
cage, his feathers all ruffled, and his
whole expression that of intense de
light, as much as to say, "Now my boy,
haven't I caught yon?" We always
thought, and think so still, that the
bird langhed. That parroU lang h we
think there can be no donbt; and then,
how about the "laughing hyena ?
What Is Kenpeclaale Society ?
We heard a man, otherwise intelli
gent enough, lately sneer at another,
"because," said be, "one never meets
him in reepectable society." The
speaker did not mean, however, that
the person he affected to look down
npon was immoral, bnt merely that his
circle of intimates was not composed of
the fashionable or rich. This notion
of what constitutes respectable society
is quite a favorite one with that class
of individuals whom Thackeray has so
significantly called "snobs." Empty
pretense is always making iU own
characteristics a standard by which it
strives to measure the respectability at
large. In a community of mere money
getting, wealth is the test of respecta
bility. Among the proud, narrow
minded, respectability depends on being
descended from ancestors who have
married their cousins for so many cen
turies that neither muscles nor brains
are left any longer to degenerate de
scendants. Every conceited fool thinks
himself, in like way, the only man
really weighty, the only person who is
really respectable. But true respecta
bility depends on no such adventitious
circumstances. To be respectable is to
be worthy of respect; and he most de
serves respect who has the most virtue.
The humblest man, who bravely does
his duty, is more worthy of respect, is
more truly respectable than the covet
ous millionaire among his money-bags.
or the arrogant monarch on his throne.
The fine lady who backbites her neigh
bor is less worthy than an honest washer-woman.
The profligate noble, though
he may wear a dozen orders in his button-hole,
is often really not as respect
able as the shoe-black who cleans his
boots. That which is called the "world"
exalts the one and despises the other;
but it does not make them respectable
according to the real meaning of the
word. Their respectability is bnt a
shallow sham, as they themselves fre
quently feel; and those who worship
them bow down to a Fetich a thing of
feathers and tinsel. The selfish, idle
drone who wastes life in his own grati
fication, and dissipates the fortune of
his progeny, is not and cannot be re
spectable; but the hard-working and
self-denying father, who wears out his
life to bring np his children, is, even
thongh he be a day laborer, entitled to
distinctive respect. Nothing t an make
Dives fit to he on Abraham's bosom,
while Lazirus is welcomed there, even
with the sores the dogs have licked.
Indianapolis Herald.
Rest or Old Ace.
I covet rest neither for myself nor my
friends, so long as we are able to work ;
but when age or weakness comes on,
and hard labor becomes an unendurable
burden, the necessity of work is deeply
painful, and it seems to imply an evil
state of society wherever such a ne
cessity generally exists. One's child
hood should be tranquil, as one's old
age should be playful ; bead work at
either extremity seems to me out of
place. The morning and the evening
should be alike peaceful ; at mid-day
the sun may burn, and men may labor
under it Dr. Arnold.
Coal of the best quality, existing in
quantities sufficient to meet all demands
for many years, has recently been dis
covered in Japan. This is certainly a
result of no mean importance.
Hans christian Aadersea.
THE DANISH STORT-TELLER.
Hans Christian Andersen was born in
Odense. Denmark, on the 3d of April.
1805, iu the one room which his father
and mother occupied, which served
alike for bouse and shoemaker s shop;
be left the town when he was fourteen
to seek his fortune, and in 1367 he was
received in Odense as the guest of the
citizens; the houses were all illumina
ted, a banquet was given in his honor,
and he was presented with the freedom
of the city. In the sixty-two years that
lie between those dates, and the six
rears since then, is the story of a life,
full of varied lights and shades. His
father was a young man oi poetic mind,
always hungering after a richer life
than that spent in making shoes; his
mother, a simple, superstitious and
affectionate woman. In their one room
began his life, and his earliest recollec
tions furnished him with scenes which
afterwards he wore into his stories.
"Our little room," he says, "which
was almost tilled with the shoemaker's
bench, the bed and my crib, was the
abode of my childhood; the walls, how
ever, were corered with pictures, and
over the work-bench was a clipboard
containing Imoks and songs; the little
kitchen was full of shining plates and
metal pans, and by means of a ladder,
it was possible to go out on the roof,
where.in the gutters bet ween our house
and the neighliors', there stood a great
chest tilled with soil, my mother's sole
garden,where she grew her vegetables.
In my story of the 'Snow Queen' that
garden still blooms.''
lie grew into a tall, ungainly lad, as
shv as a fill, and ret so simple-hearted
that he was ready to confide to the ut
most iu auy one who smiled on him.
At a charity school he learned just a
little, hut that little so carelessly that
long afterwards he suffered for the lack
of such common knowledge even as
how to spell. It was now, too, that he
began to associate more with others,
and, like his companions, to go through
the Catechism, preparatory to Confir
mation. He tells a little story here of
himself, which shows where "The Red
Shoes" rame from.
"An old female tailor altered mv de
ceased father's great-coat into a confir
mation suit for me; never before had 1
worn so good a coat. I had, also, for
the first time in my life, a pairof lxiots.
My delight was extremely great; my
ouly fear was that everybody would
not see them, aud, therefore, I drew
them up over my trousers, aud thus
marched through the church. The
boots creakedandthat inwardly pleased
me: for thus the congregation would
hear that they were new. My whole
devotion was disturbed: I was aware
of it, and it caused me a horrible pang
ot conscience that my thoughts should
lie as much with my new boots as with
God. I prayed Him earnestly from my
heart to forgive me, and then again I
thought about my new boots."
When he set out for Copenhagen, he
had a little sum of money and his con
firmation suit, and unbounded confi
dence in every one.
The poor boy lived, one scarcely
knows how, but he could not help at
tracting people's attention, he was so
ingenious, and at last a wise and good
man, Councillor Collin, took him as his
own son, and began to educate him. As
Andersen now learned how to use his
mind, all the odd fancies and niake-be-liefs
which had kept him busy with
mock theatres and puppets and dolls,
began to find expression in writing,
and before he had fiuished his school
ing, he was writing stories and dramas;
aud just before he passed his last ex
amination, when he was twenty-four
years old, he brought out a collection
of poems,and one of his plays was acted
at the theatre.
Denmark is a little country but a a
old nation inhabits it; and hence it is,
in fact, that society there is something
like a great family. Every one knows
every one, aud personal affairs get
talked about, and a new author, or
artist, or actor, is at once taken in
hand; people not only talk about him,
bnt talk to him, and criticize him, and
tell him what he ought to do, and what
he ought not to do. Society there is a
village tea-table of educated people.
Andersen, who had come up from pov
erty, aud was, lesides a young man ig
norant of worldly wisdom, was bad
gered a good deal, and in the early
days of his authorship, and had to
struggle hard to maintain a position.
Bnt oy degrees, he commanded atten
tion and respect; people began to see
that he had gifts of an unusual charac
ter, and just the thing for which he was
at first blamed his "naivete" and
childishness are now what the world
recognizes as good qualities in litera
ture. From that time to this he has been
writing stories; novels for older people,
such as "The Iinprovisatore," which is
a picture of Italy, and "The Two Ba
ronesses," "0. 1 .," aud "Only a Fid
dler." where the scenes are Danish. He
is Danish to the core. The old legends
of his ancient country, the wild sand
heaps of Jutland, the beech trees, the
bright, quarrelsome city life, the fresh,
f rank hospitality, all get into his sto
ries. But it is his little stories that have
won him renown. They were something
so new and pleasing, that they became
at once general favorites with young
and old, and iu the theatres, instead of
poetry the actors would recite "The
Constant Tin Soldier," "The Top and
Ball," or "The Swineherd." Thor
wulusen, the famous sculptor, was a
Dane, and was delighted with Ander
sen's stories. In his company he wrote
"Ole Shut Eye;" and "often," says An
dersen, "in the twilight, when the fam -ily
circle sat in the open garden par
lor, Thorwaldsen would come softly
In-hind me, and clapping me on the
shoulder, would ask, 'Shall we little
ones hear any tales to-night T "
When he began writing his stories,
he sought only to tell over again old
legends of Denmark, which he had
heard as a child; but as his interest in
creased, he invented his stories, and
soon every Christmas brought a new
volume from him.
Andersen has never married, and
lives a rambling sort of life, sometimes
in Copenhagen, but quite as often
traveling in Spain. Switzerland, Ger
many, France, Holland, England, Italy.
He is a great favorite at variousconrts.
and has "had many honors from crowned
heads, but bis true distinction consists
in the fact that every home is open to
him, and the poor as well as the rich
know his kindly nature. He himself,
in "The Story of my Life," relates a
bright little scene, lie was away from
home, at Hamburg, we believe, and in
company with Otto Speckter.the clever
artist who has illustrated his stories,
was setting out for the opera-house.
"On our way," he says, "we came to
an elegant house."
" 'We must first go in here, dear
friend,' said he; 'a wealthy family lives
here, friends of mine, and friends of
yonr stories; the children will be
nappy.' "
" "But the opera,' said I.
" 'Only for two minutes,' returned
lie; and drew me into the house, men
tioned my name, and the circle of chil
dren collected around me.
" 'And now tell us a tale,' said he;
'only one.
"I told one,and then hastened away."
"'That was an extraordinary visit,'
said I.
" 'An excellent one; one entirely out
of the common way !' said he, exult
ingly. Only think; the children are
f nil of Andersen and his stories; he
suddly makes his appearance amongst
them, tells one of them himself, and
then is rone! vanished! That is of
itself like a fairy tale to the children,
that will remain vividly in tneir re
membrance.' " Riverside Bulletin.
I'setal mats Abeat Had Docs.
Persons are liable to be bitten by
mad dogs under two seU of circum
stances first, when a rabid animal es
capes from home and is at large; and.
secondly, when a dog not supposed to
be infected is caressed by his master or
those who have to do with him at home.
Consequently, it is quite as important
that the public should be a ware of those
slight indications which afford ground
for suspicion that the disease is impend
ing as that they should know the char
acteristic signs by whioh it may be re
cognized when it has declared itself.
The premonitory indications of ra
bies in a dog are denved almost en
tirely from the observation of changes
in his demeanor; eonsequently,althougn
they may be too trifling to be noticed
by a casual observer, they are fortu
nately sufficiently striking to arrest the
attention of any one who is about a dog,
and is familiar with ita habits and in
dividual peculiarities.
A dog about to become rabid loses
its natural liveliness. It mopes about
as if preoccupied or apprehensive, and
seeks to withdraw into dark corners.
From the first there is usually a fore
shadowing of that most constant symp
tom of the disease depraved appetite.
Mad dogs not only devour hub. and
rnbbish of every kind with avidity, but
their own excrement often immedi
ately after it has been passed. Indica
tions of this tendency appear early, and
are more than suspicious.
Along with this pecuiianty of beha
vior it is of equal importance to notice
that an infected dog, from the first,
snaps at other dogs without provoca
tion. This snapishness in most dogs
is very striking. II a dog previously
known to have no such habit snaps in
discriminately at the first dog it meeU
in the yard or in the street, it is prob
ably not safe.
So far I have had in mind chiefly
what is to be observed in dogs tie d np
or at home. A dog which is at large is
also to be recognized as in a dangerous
state by its demeanor. A healthy dog
in iU progress along a street or else
where shows at every step that its at-
tion is awake to the sights and sounds
which it encounters. The rabid dog.
on the contrary, goes sullenly and un
observant ly forward, and is not divert
ed by objects obviously likely to at
tract it
This statement, however, is subject
to the important exception already re
ferred to, that it is excited both by the
sight and sound of an animal of its own
species.
Of the symptoms which accompany
the final stage of the disease the most
important and characteristic are those
which relate to the organs in which it
localizes itself the mouth and throat.
Attention is often drawn, to the condi
tion of the mouth in an animal supposed
to be healthy by the observation that
it tries to scratch the corner of its
mouth, as if attempting to get rid of
the ropy mucus which is seen to be dis
charged from it In dogs that are tied
up it is noticeable that the bark has
entirely lost its ring, and acquired a
peculiar hoarseness, which can be re
cognized even by the most unobserv
ant. As the disease progresses the dis
charge increases, the lower jaw hangs
as if paralyzed, and the animal has
evidently difficulty in swallowing.
Along with this there is often loss of
power of the hind limbs. If now the
dog is watched, the peculiarities of be
havior which have been already no
ticed are seen to press themselves in a
much more marked degree than before.
It is observed, first, that it is subject
to paroxysms of excitement, in which it
makes often-repeated efforts to bite or
gnaw all objects (such aa wood-work,
straw, etc.,) within its reach, while at
the same time it continues to exhibit
the tendency already mentioned to de
vour its own excrement: and, secondly,
even during the remissions its excite
ment is at once renewed by the sight of
or sound of another dog.
It may be well to note that the dis
ease occurs at all seasons, that the mad
dog continues to recognize ita master
and to manifest pleasure when kindly
spoken to, that it does not shun water,
and that in many cases from first to last
that wild flurry which is commonly
supposed to belong to the disease is
conspicuously absent.
Uood Society.
A man of high position in the world
made it a rale to associate with men of
exalted minds. "Better to hog among
kings," says the homely old adage,
"than king among hogs. Choose good
company, or no company. Sir Thomas
Fowell Buxton often spoke of the great
benefita he bad derived from his visits
to a particular family. Their words
and example stimulated him to make
the most of his powers. "It has given
a color to my whole life," he said.
Speaking of his success at the univer
sity, he remarked, "I can ascribe it to
nothing but my visiU to this family,
where I caught the infection of self
improvement" Surely, if our visits
have such an influence upon our char
acters for life, it should be a matter of
serious importance to ns in what fami
lies we allow ourselves to be intimate.
Boys and girls form attachments very
easily, ahd often with very little fore
thought In this, as in all things else,
yon should not fail to take advice of
those who are older and wiser, and
never, never choose for a friend one
against whom yon have been warned by
those who dearly love you. There are
people whose very presence seems to
lift you np into a better atmosphere.
Choose such associates whenever it is
in yonr power, and the more yon can
live in their society the better, for both
mind and heart "He that walketh with
wise men shall be wise ; but a compan
ion of fools shall be destroyed."
A Cool Fisherman.
"I met,the other day," writes a foreign
sportsman, "with an Englishman who
travels some hundreds of miles every
year to indulge in his favorite sport of
trout-fishing. I believe that provided
stream was undisturbed' this enthusias
tic fisherman would be but little con
cerned if the whole world was sub
merged in a second deluge, as may be
judged by the following anecdote :
One day he was exploring the banks of
his favorite stream, accompanied by the
landlord of the inn at which he was
stopping. The latter happening to oome
too close just at the moment when his
guest was throwing his fly, the hook
caught the poor wretch's eyelid, causing
him intense pain, I he sportsman coolly
took ont the hook, readjusted the fly,
and, as the innkeeper continued, howl
ing at the top of the voice. 'Yon can,'
said he, in a whisper, 'put yonr eye
down in yonr bill ; bnt l u trouble you
to stop that noise, so as not to frighten
my flab.'"
The Royal Jewels of Persia.
"I went," &vs s recent writer, "with
the Turkish Minister, an Italian, and a
Russian lady, to see the Shah s jewels,
which are certainly the greatest sight iu
their way that the world can show. We
presented ourselves at tne palace, ana
were received by Yahya Khan, who took
ns ont of the second and innner great
court of the palace into a small quad
rangle, not far from the sacred pre
cincts of the harem. We then went np
a steep staircase to a small room about
20 feet by 14, where jewels to the value
of $6,000,000 or $7,000,000 were laid
out on carpets at the far end ot the
room, riear the jewels, on a chair, sat
the Mustanfiul Mamalik. or Persian
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and being
a Saiyid. wore the sacred color.
"In such a show of gems as seemed
to realize the wonders of Aladdin's
lamp, the eye was too much dazzled
and the memory too confused for de
scription to be possible. But I remem
ber that at the back of all was the
Kaianian crown, and on either side of
it two Persian lambskin caps, adorned
with splendid aigrettes of diamonds.
The crown itself was shaped like a
flower pot. with the small end opened
and the other closed. On the top of
the crown was an nncut ruby, appar
ently without flaw, as large as a hen's
egg. In front of the crown were dresses
covered with diamonds and pearls;
trays with necklaces of pearls, rubies
and emeralds, and some hundreds of
diamond ruby and turquois rings, in
front of these, again, were- gauntlets
and belts covered with rubies and dia
monds; and, conspicuous among them,
the Kaianian belt, about a foot deep.
weighing, perhaps, about eighteen
pounds, and one complete mass of
pearls, diamonds, emeralds and rubies.
Still nearer to us stood a drinking bowl,
completely studded with enormous jew
els; a tray full of foreign orders set in
brilliants, and in front of all lay a dozen
swords, which are worth a quarter of a
million each. Along with these were
epaulets, covered with diamonds, and
armlets so contnvad that brilliants re
volved and kept np a continuous scin
tillation. 'It was difficult among so many to
single ont particular gems. Perhaps,
however, the first place ought to be
assigned to the famous 'Darya-i-Noir,'
or 'Sea of Light,' the sister diamond to
our Punjab trophy, the 'Koh-i-aoor,
or 'Mountain of Light It is an inch
and a half long, an inch broad, and
three-eighths of an inch thick. It has
the name of Fath All Ubah on the one
side, and the inscribing this name re
duced the value of the diamond, so at
least said Yahya Khan. It is a mon
strous diamond, bnt not very brilliant
The Persians say that the Sea of
Light' and the 'Mountain of Light'
were jewels in the sword of Afrnsiab,
who lived 3,000 years B. C. Rustum
took them from Afrusiab.and they con
tinued in the crown of Persia till they
were carried away by Timour, from
whom they descended to Mohammed
Shah, King of Del hi, and Nadir brought
tr-.em from India; but when he was slain
Ashmed Shah Abdalli carried off the
Koh-i-Noor, which descended to Shah
Shnja, and was taken from him by
Runjet Singh. The Darya Nor re
mained in Persia with the greater part
of the other gems that Nadir brought
from India.
"Among the rings is one in which is
set the famous' Pitt dismond sent by
George IV. to Fath Ali Shah. Another
very large diamond is the Taji Hams,
or the diadem of the Phoenix. It
seemed as big as the top of a man's
thumb. There is also the finest tur
quoise in the world, three or four
inches long, and without a flaw, and a
smaller one of unique beauty three
quarters of an inch broad. The color
was lovely, and almost as refreshing to
the eye as Persian poets pretend. There
are also many sapphires as large aa
marbles, and rubies and pearls the size
of nuta;and I am certain that I counted
nearly a hundred emeralds from half an
inch square to an inch and three quar
ters long and an inch broad. In the
sword scabbard, which is covered with
diamonds, there is not a single stone
smaller than the nail of a man's little
finger. Lastly, there is an emerald as
large as a walnut covered with the
names of the Kings who had possessed
it"
Why People Itoa't f to Church.
Why do not people gotochnrch more?
One thinks it is this.and anotherthinks
it is this, and another thinks it is that.
You can open a church in a hovel, and
let a voice go forth that it has the pow
er of touching men, aud you will find
it crowded aud thronged. You do not
want the cob that used to have the
corn. That which men want is sappy
food, refreshing food. Men are willing
to be dealt with, to have their con
sciences aroused, but do not want to be
handled. They want a preacher that
takes hold of them in some way, and, if
he can, do more than that; if he can
give to them that which every man con
scientiously needs some men have as
pirations, and some more indulge in
superficial thought and if wt can give
him strength to bear his bunien.
Men that are sore in life; men who
are in sorrow; men who dou't know
how to bring up their children, and
who are continually having more aud
more added to their flock; people who
want to know where the next hod of
coal is coming from; people who are
afraid of the sheriff; men who are
pricked with 10,000 nettles of human
life they come to church and hear a
long discussion on the fall of Adam.
Well, that is not inopportune, but still
they're so flat themselves that they feel
as if they would like to know some
thing that deadens the struggle that is
going on within them; they want some
one who will take part with them, a
minister who brings God down to the
side of men, not as the everlasting
condemner, but one who brings God
down as a present help in time of
trouble.
Relations of Temperature to
1.1 fe.
Life in general is possible only be
tween certain limits of temperature;
and life of the higher kinds is possible
only within a comparatively narrow
range of temperature, maintained ar
tificially if not naturally. Hence it re
sults that social life, presupposing as
it does not only human life, but that
life vegetal and animal on which human
life depends, is restricted by certain
extremes fcf cold and heat
Cold, though great does not rigor
ously exclude warm-blooded creatures,
if the locality supplies in adequate
quantity the means of generating heat
The arctic Fauna contains various
marine and terrestrial mammals, large
and small; bnt the existence of these
depends, directly or indirectly, on the
existence of the inferior marine crea
tures, vertebrate and invertebrate, which
would cease to live there did not the
warm currents from the tropics check
the formation of ice. Hence snch hu
man life as we find in arctic regions,
dependent as it is mainly on that of
these mammals, is also remotely de
pendent on the same source of heat
Popular Science Monthly.
Youths Column.
Maxxa's Caxabt Bird. His name
was Ole Bull after the famous violin
ist, yon know, He was not a handsome
bird to look at bnt his brightness aud
cunning, playful ways fully mala up
for his mere want of outward betuty.
He was an excellent singer too, and at
times used to sing so loud that we were
obliged to stop him by covering some
thing, a shawl or towel, over hn cage.
I did not keep him in his cage half of
the time, he was so tame, and seemed
to enjoy being out in the room so much.
His first stopping-place as he flew from
his cage was generally straight to the
top of my bureau, where he would
stand for a few minutes, chirping to
himself, as if making up his mind what
he would do next If I went near and
shook my finger at him, be would flutter
about scold and pick at me, pretending
to fight, and puff himself out until he
looked like nothing so much as a Urge
powder-puff. I would let him fiht
until he was tired, and then he would
sit quietly on my finger, kiss me and eat
sugar from off my lips. Sometimes I
would pretend not to see him, would
take no notice whatever of him, but go
quietly about whatever work I might
be doing. Then he would fly on my
shoulder or head, and attract my atten
tion by picking at my hair or earriugs.
Often, when I have been writing, he has
suddenly flown down and lighted on
the top of my pen-handle, and tried his
best to stand there, or hopped on to
the table and picked at the corner of
my paper, trying to pull it away from
me. lie seemed perfectly bubbling
over with fun all the time. When I sat ;
sewing in the room, he would catch the
end of my thread in his month and fly
off with it, pulling down the spool and
tangling the thread at a great rate. Ihe
only way to make him drop it was to
make him fight Then in his excite
ment and nge he would forget and let
it drop.
lie was very fond of bathing. The
larger the bath-tub, the better he
seemed to enjoy it Once or twice I
filled my large wash-bowl full of water.
and it was really very funny to see biro
try to get in all over, llis leet could
not touch the bottom, of course, and
alter drinking a few swallows and wet
ting his head a little, he would try to
jump in. Finding he could not touch
the bottom, he would make a dive
across. Just dipping his feet and breast
in, and landing on the opposite rim of
the bowl. He would try it over and
over again with no better success, as
far as getting in all over was concerned.
lie generally went home into his cage
when he was tired, thongh sometimes
he preferred the top of my bureau for a
bed. I never left the room but what he
called after me, and I really believe he j
knew my step as soon as I entered the
lower hall. He would call to me, and 1
would answer him ; and if I came where
he was, be seemed perfectly delighted, j
This is all true that I have told you ; !
and if you like it, I can tell you many j
were all very remarkable and interesting
animals, I can assure you. Children'
Hour.
Bebtxd ths Bans. Knnny was a
little mouse who thought he knew more
than anybody else, yes. more even
than his wise old mother.
"Beware of cheese !" said his mother '
in mouse-language. !
"Cheese la nothing, said Kunny. ;
"Cheese is only a fiction of our sensa
tions. Take away our sensations, aud
there is no cheese. I see it, I smell it.
I feel it ; bnt take away sight and smell
and feeling, and there is no cheese."
hat Knnny meant by all this fool
ish talk, I cannot say. I only know
that cheese was too much for him at
last. He was caught in a trap. His
mother, his sister Nan, his brothers Tit
and Tat, all came to see him as he
stood helpless behind the bars of his
prison.
At last his mother found one of the
bars loose, and pressed it aside, so that
Knnny could get out There was great
rejoicing in the mouse family at this
delivery.
"I hope youll not get into such a
scrape again," said Sister Nan.
Kunny looked np in a very wise way,
and said, "Canyon tell me what matter
is, Nan?"
"Yes," said Nan. "You know too
mnch : that's the matter."
Tasso. Tasso is not a handsome dog ;
but he is very intelligent
One day, when his mistress and some
other little girls were playing with their
dolls, Tasso seemed very uneasy, and
acted as if he would like to have a dull
too.
So his mistress made a rag-doll for
him, with which he seemed delighted.
He played with it until he saw the little
girls putting their dolls away ; when,
taking his doll in his mouth, he trotted
off to the garden, and buried it
The next time he saw the little girls
with their dolls, he went to the garden,
and, after much scratching, brought np
his doll, and amused himself with it as
before.
Another day he was fonnd in the gar
den plucking flowers. He took them
in his mouth, and carried them to his
kennel, where he carefully laid them on
the straw, as much aa to say, "Yon see
like flowers as well as you, and I'm
going to have some in my parlor."
This pleased Tasso'a mistress very
mnch ; but she was not at all pleased
when he came home one day with a
little bird in his mouth.
HowtoSkctke Perfection. A friend
called on Michael Angelo, who was fin
ishing a statue. Some time afterward
he called again ; the sculptor was still
at his work. His friend, looking at the
figure, exclaimed, "You have been idle
since I saw yon last"
"By no means," replied the sculptor,
"I have retouched this part, and pol
ished that ; I have softened this feature
and brought out this muscle ; I have
given more expression to this lip, and
more energy to this limb."
"Well, well," said his friend ; "but
all these are trifles."
"It may be so," replied Angelo ;
"recollect that trifles make perfection,
and that perfection is no trifle." So,
also, is it with character.
Sionotcast Xakw. Did you ever
consider the significance of the names
of places connected with the earthly
career of Jesus Christ ? He was born
at Bethlehem, the house of bread. He
is the living bread for our souls. He
was brought np at Nazareth, the place
ot shrubs or sprouts. He is a tender
shoot out of the stem of Jesse. He
agonized at Getnsemane, the oil-press.
"He trod the wine-press alone, and of
the people there was none with him."
lit a school "ale and beer measure"
was given out to be memorized. Next
morning the first boy was called npon,
but said, "I don't know it" "How's
that ?" "Please, air, neither father nor
I thinks it's any use, for we neither
mean to bny, sell nor drink it"
"Varieties.
Ha has the largest life who lives in
the lives of the largest number of peo
ple. It is not a lazy firmer who sticks to
his bed lata in the morning, providing
it is a garden bed.
A kind word spoken to a husband
will go further than a broomstick or a
flatiron, says a woman of experience.
Who can doubt that anything which
makes a man discontented with his state,
without giving Lim the certainty of a
better one, is a curse.
A good citizen must know how to be
able to command and to obey ; he ought
also to know in what manner freemen
ought to govern and to be governed.
The more machinery a nation has in
operation, the more fully and profitably
is ita labor employed, the more rapid
its material progress and the more de
veloped its civilization.
He that gives good advice builds with
one hand ; he that gives good counsel
and example builds with both ; but he
tht gives good admonition ard bad
example, builds with one hand and pulls
down with the other.
Directions for finding the new comet:
Draw a line from the keel of the Dipper
to ita mouth at 9 o'clock P. M., and at
about twice the distance between these
points in a direct line towards the hori
zon the little joker may be seen.
A young poet in the Western States
sent to the local paper a love poem,
beginning, "Reveel, I begg, the madgio
speL" The editor answered that if be
would like to call at the office he should
have the run of the dictionary for a few
hours.
Six days filled with selfishness, and
Snnday stuffdd full of religious exer
cises, will make a good Pharisee, but a
poor Christian. There are many per
sons who think Sunday is a sponge
with which they can wipe out the sins
of the week.
S. T. Fields says, in one of his lec
tures, that the extravagant indolent
man, who, having overspent his income,
is sumptcously living on the principal,
is like Heine's monkey, who was found
one day hilariously seated by the fire
and cooking his own tail in a copper
kettle for dinner.
New Russian lace has just been made
at Moscow. A wealthy lady there, in
amusing herself with imitation old point
lace, suddenly hit npon a novel stitch,
which is strikingly original, and made
after designs of the old Slavonian style,
and is greatly valued. The Grand
Dnchess Marie is introducing this.lace
into the School of Art Needlework in
London.
A young bootblack observed a neigh
bor poring wisely over a newspaper,
whereupon he addressed him thus:
Julius, what are you looking at that
paper for 7 you can t read ? uo away,
cried the other, indignantly, guess I
can read ; I's big enough for dat. B13
enuff ! retorted the other, scornfully ;
dat ain't nnffin. A cow's big enough to
catch mice, but she can't
A small boy got another boy, some
what smaller than himself, down on the
ground the other day, and got hold of
both his ears, placing his knee in the
small of the boy's back, and asked him
iu a very persuasive manner if he would
give bim a white alley of his'n. The
boy replied in the affirmative. How
easy it is to settle things when one goes
about it in the right way !
Madame George Sind is preparing for
the press a memoir of the young and
nnfortuuate Louis XVIL, chiefly drawn
from the personal recollections of her
grandmother, Madame Aurore Dnpin
de Francueil, grand. laughter of King
Augustus IL of Poland, and nearly re
lated to Kings Charles X. and Louis
XT III. The memoir is to contain also
historical documents and traditions,
carefully preserved in the family of the
great French novelist.
Liberty of speech is not one of the
blessings now enjoyed in Germany. A
sentence of imprisonment for a year and
a half has been passed upon a Deputy,
Ilerr Most, for certain speeches de
livered by him at some meeting of work
ing men. The most serious charge
made against him was that he had de
nounced a standing army. This was re
garded by the Minister of War, Von
Kameke, as an insult to the members of
the army, and the prosecution was set
on foot at his request
The most popular mourning dresses
now, especially for widows, are made
entirely of crape. The toilette consisU
of a deep basque and single skirt of
black silk, covered in every part with
crape. The basque is very high at the
throat and the sleeves very close, and
both, with the skirt, are without fold
or flounces. Young girls and ladies,
who do not wear the deepest mourning,
wear tamise suits instead of the bom
bazine once thought necessary.
In drapery, the classio is still in
favor. Ladies afflicted with embon
point, "to the contrary notwithstand
ing." So, flat trimming! are popular.
Kilt plaitings, shirrs, puffs and foi ls,
are among the thoroughly established
styles of trimming, and are used to
good advantage, with folds flat, and
overlapping; cordings, single, double
and triple. Back breadths are still
flounced or loosely puffed to the waist
Flounces and rufHoe form their own
headings, and are rather scanty. Yak
lace is much worn, and like guipure is
laden with jets.
A Chinaman entered a store in Helena,
Montana, the other day, and walking
up to the counter, deposited a grass
hopper thereon, saying, as he gazed
upon the clerk with a confiding look:
"He too much hoppee ; all hoppee
stop him. You sabbee ?" The obliging
clerk at once commenced measuring off
mosquito bar, to the intense delight of
the heathen. The grasshoppers had
been destroying his garden, and wanting
to purchase some musqnito bar, but not
knowing the name of the article, he
brought the destroyer with him, and
the clerk understood in a moment the
article needed.
The young Napoleon's rooms at Wool
wich are modestly furnished. He has
some ornaments and souvenirs of in
terest ; among them a pen-and-ink
drawing of the first Napoleon's war
horse, drawn by his son, the "King of
Rome," and signed by him. The library
contains some books and statues taken
from the Tuileries ; and there is one
copy of Shakspeare, the gift of Queen
Victoria, and containing the following
inscription in her handwriting: "For
my cousin the Prince Imperial, with
many wishes for his happiness on the
oart of his very affectionate cousin.
Victoria R,, March 16, 1873." The
young Prince works moot assiduously,
taking his place in the oiasses like any
other student He discourages and
laughs at all attempta at flattery, and
altogether seems to be a very amiable
youth, of good abilities and to have
thriven in the school of adversity.
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