-s-zse-n fry to to B. F. SCHWEIER, THB CONSTITUTION TH1 UNI05 AND THE I5TOKCIMEST OF TH1 LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXVIII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., OCTOBER 14, 1S74. NO. 41. Poetry. A LENKOS. I said, mv life ia a beautiful thing, I will crown me with ita flowers, I will sing of its glory all day long. For my harp is young, and sweet, and strong And the passionate power in my song Shall thrill all the golden hoars. And over the sand and over the stone. For ever and ever the wares rolled on. I said, my life is a terrible thing. All rained, and loot, and crashed. I will heap its ashes upon my head, I will wail for my joy and my darling dead. Till the dreary dirge for the days that are fled Stirs faint through the doll, dumb dost. And orer the sand and over the stoue. For ever and ever the waves rolled on. I said, I was proud in my hoar of mirth. And mad in my first despair. Now, I know nor earth, nor sky, nor sea. Has heed or helping for one like me. The doom or the boon comes, let it be. For us, we can but bear. And over the sand and over the stone. For ever and ever the waves rolled on. And I thought they sang, "We laugh to the sun; We shimmer to moon or star; We foam to the last of the furious blast; We rage whf n the rain falls fierce and fast; But we do oar day's work; and at last, We sweep o'er the harbor-bar.' And I learnt my lesson mid sand and stone. As ever and ever the waves rolled en. IV I i js eel I a ny . Cholera and Bird. German naturalists, says the London tilobe, have called attention to a new incident with regard to the outbreak of epidemics. It is on record that an ex traordinary flight of birds has occurred simultaneously with the appearance of ine disease. I he occasions have been so numerous and in so many different countries that it is impossible to regard the coincidence as merely accidental. Thns, bo far back as the year 1818 birds of all kinds deserted the towns of St. Petersburg and Riga, and it was in that year that cholera broke oat. The epidemic proceeded in its westward conrse the following year, and the same phenomenon was observed in Western Prussia in 1849, and in Hanover in 1850. In all these cases the facts were chronicled as having occurred at the time, bnt they were not supposed to have any relation mutually. Bat when these phenomena were more closely ob served by men of science more accurate details were given. Thns, it was found that in the little town of Przemysl, in Galicia, all the jackdaws took flight from the streets into the country on the 26th of September, 1872, and that cholera broke ont there two days after wards. On the 30th of November these birds returned from thhir spontaneous quarantine, and by that time the last case of the disease had been recorded. The same results had been observed in southern Germany last year. Both Munich and Nuremberg were visited by this epidemic in the autumn, and in these towns it was observed not merely that the larger birds fled from the environs into the open country, but that sparrows and swallows deserted the town. It was a repetition of the article in every sailor s creed that rats desert a sinking ship. The inhabitants of Nuremberg looked with joy for the re tain of the sparrows, who seem to have arrived as soon as the danger bad dis appeared. Foreign physicians seem to think the state of the atmosphere when the poison is in the air has a direct ef fect upon the birds, who instinctively fly from it. Bat the whole phenomenon seems capable of a much more simple solution. It is a well-known thing that during the getting in of the harvest sparrows and the kinds of birds that are found in the neighborhood of towns fly off to the fields. This may be tested much nearer home than Germany or Western Russia. When the harvest has been reaped they would naturally return to the shelter of streets and houses. Even swallows, thengh they do not seek the corn-fields for grain, find the insects which they feed upon in the fields, and these birds also return to their town quarters to reassemble for their winter flight The simple people of Nuremberg and Bavaria probably ac cepted as an omen an event which happened to be coincident with the arrival of the dreaded epidemic, but which, in fact, was of annual occur rence, and had no real connection with it. Birlh-Plare fColambiis. Tradition makes Cogoleto, a small town a few miles from Genoa, the birth place of Columbus, and there is an in scription which marks the house of his reputed birth. It may be tree, and it may be false for, in this land of tradi tion and superstition, it is as easy to fabricate a tradition as an inscription, and credulity is ready to believe that it is as old as Adam. The house of his father was in the suburbs of Genoa, as is shown by the deed. He, himself, says he was born in Genoa, an expression which may well mean the territory, and not the city, of Genoa. There is, therefore, some color for the tradition, and it is not worth while to dig deeper to find doubts. He was a Ligurian, and nothing could be more likely to sharpen his curiosity and suggest a life of adventure than to look out from these rocky highlands upon the Medi terranean washing the field at its base and covered with the little, but daring and enterprising, corsairs of the Levant, the Grecian Archipelago and the African How time seta things right ! Brought home in chains, robbed in hia lifetime of his honors, and hia profits, and the name of another given to his discove ries, time has written his name "with iron and lead in the rock forever. His jealous and triumphant enemies, as well as his royal patrons and enterpris ing followers in the path of discovery are remembered; but when we call them np from the land of shadows, there is always in the midst of them, and be fore them, the great Genoese with a glory about him, in the light of which they shine with a pale ray. So it will be forever. ,, He went on, when every other would have given np in despair. He gave a New World to the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon. But Castile and Aragon and all the progeny of their descend ant commonwealths, are dwindling and fading away, and a race, never akin to the old Ligurian "the world-seeking Genoese" is, from year to year, de voting the New World to the great commonwealth of freedom and mutu ality t . Success, says Josh Billings, does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. THOSE TWO HEARTS. Tea, it certainly was the door-be 1L "De-liverance !" said Miss Phrygia "and I've just taken the comb ont of my back hair 1 In emergencies of this kind Miss Phrygia had a way of drawing back the tidy chintz curtain just far enough to peer inrougn ana see whether it would do to run down "just as she was." If it would do, down she ran, and if it wouldn't, she called softly through her wuiuuw. --immeaiaieiy j ana then flashed through her preparations with a speed truly miraculous, for Miss Phrygia had a love of promptitude that covered the whole superficial stratum of ner nature, and "immediately !" was so favorite an expression of this aualitr. that if she had been asked graciously to set a time for her own execution, those who knew her best would have expected it as the natural and unhesi tating reply. But this time, as the chintz curtain revealed a pony phaeton at the ante. and on the door-step a slight, maidenly figure, a sweet young face, and a mist of golden hair, she only said "Dear heart ! and laying the comb on the dressing table, she glided down stairs, her own locks falling into an undula tion of chestnut rings, that might well have been the envy of a goddess in her own namesake land. "So glad yon are at home," said a voice from under the golden mist. "I've just brought you my little book. I've kept the last page for yon, always have everything so nice. Any trifle, 'light as air,' you know will do. It was one of those blessed old towns, rare to find in these days, where the lofty and the lowly knew and respected, loved and took an interest in. each other, and Miss Phrygia, instead of waiting for the book, which the maidens of the place, when about to assume the duties of wife and housekeeper, had a fashion of circulating among their friends for collections of choice receipts, reached forth and took both the slender, gauntleted hands in her own. As she did so, her right thumb pressed a dia mond on the left forefinger of her visitor, and her face, so beaming as she ran down stairs, suddenly melted into a different expression, as she gazed into the hazel eyes confronting her with a yearning tenderness pitiful to see. Poor thing I" she said softly, "poor little thing .'" "Why. what's the matter. Mica Phrygia 7 I know you don't like en gagement rings, but you can't under stand that I am. and am going to be. the happiest little woman in the world." '1'oor little thing I was all Miss Phrygia said again, much as you would do over an unfledged doveling that will fall ont of the nest. "And then," with a caressing squeeze from the slender hands, "I'm not going far, yon know only a step you can see the chimney right up there through the trees, xou 11 come and see me often, won't you?" That s what they say when people die. but a pretty long step, I call it," said Miss Phrygia ; "still its always a sort of comfort to visit their graves, and I'll come with pleasure." Oh. Miss Phrygia! Well. I only wish you did understand. I wish you'd get married yourself! You'd be a hundred times better off; didn't yon ever feel in your secret heart ? "Tea," said Miss Phrygia, quietly a great many times." "Don't yon think it would be pleas anter than living here all alone 1" "Yes," said Miss Phrygia. "Then why haven't you tried it ?" "There's been always just one diffi culty with every opportunity I've had," said Miss Phrygia, dropping her eyes thoughtfully "Yeu can't aeem to find any way of doing but by marrying some man, and that," with a little shiver running over her shoulders, "puts it so out of the question I" A rippling laugh, that made the golden mist Beem like moonlight on the lake, answered Miss Phrygia. "Then if you could come across an angel you think you would venture ?" "Immediately," said Miss Phrygia. "Well I'm sorry I'm so fond of the only one in the world that I can't give him up to you, but it dot seem as if you might find something," and with another little squeeze, the dainty hands left a marble-covered book in Miss Phrygia's,.took np the pony-reins, and drove away. Miss Phrygia went slowly np stairs, put in her comb, and sat down to the receipt book, for "immediately" was deed as well as word with her. A soft evening cloud that alternately lets fall a few drops of refreshing upon the flowers, and then illuminates its whole surface with a heaving flash, direful to be encountered, is a fit type of Miss Phrygia's face, as, gazing at the open page, her thoughts turned first to the gentle heart that would ponder its pud dings, and then to the "man" into whose keeping that heart's happiness was to be confided. "Poor thing! Sweet heart!" she murmured, with a tender moisture in her eyes, and then, with a dangerous flash. "Horrid creature ! I wonder what he looks like I" The alterations went on for a few min utes, and then a sudden gleam of humor lighted np her face, as if some stray, belated sunbeam had tipped the cloud with pink. "A trifle light as air," she said, "111 write it for herl" and seizing a pen. Miss Phrygia wrote : "Mortality PcrKS, KEVEB KNOWS TO FAIL. Eggs (cockatrice), L Milk (human kindness), just ready to sour, 1 drop. Cream oi xartar-caugnt, qs spoons, heaping. i lower (oi an nourj, iiiu vuy. Salt (of the Earth), very small pinch, mere dusting. Raise with fermentations Drewea as follows : Hop (e)s realized, L rlisnnrjointed. 99. Sweeten with faith and submission. Spice with variety. Bake in earthen vessels, under a slow fire, till the vessels crack." A week later, Miss Phrygia put on a pair of black gloves, a black bonnet, and a black lace veil to let down in case she should cry, and went to church to see a plain gold ring take precedence of the diamond she had pressed, and to hear the hymeneal blessing pronounced over the mist of golden hair. She had to drop her vefl once or twice as ahe gazed at the cloud of lace and orange-blossoms before the altar, and when she eonldn't help seeing the new broadcloth suit that stood beside it, she kept herself down by repeating as fast as she could, "Charity hopeth all things, endnreth all things, is not easily provoked." Then she went home, pat on the brightest dress she had, and Went to nurse a sick neighbor who could obtain no assistance for money, and therefore must have it for love. The bright dress had almost time to fade before Miss Phrygia saw the way clear to go home again. It was a long pull, and neither ahe nor the invalid knew how they would have got through had it not been for the strength and comfort of the doctor's daily visits. Six feet in height, two hundred pounds in weight, strong as a tower, firm as a rock, cool as a hygrograph, and yet when pain or discouragement called for it quick with a brooding tenderness, more beautiful. Miss Phrygia thought, even than a woman's. Twilight in the sick room seemed lonely to Miss Phrygia, and she fell into the way of watching for a light to gleam through she elms that shaded the Doctors house just opposite, but no light ever appeared, and ahe had just made up her mind that he was never at home in the evening, when she had to send for him two or three times after the stars were out, and there he was. "Oh dear!" she said, "I hope he doesn't sit there without so much as a candle lighted, thinking about those children of his that were drowned, and the wife in the insane asylum that only died a year and a half ago. He can't, or he never could come over here on a moment's call, all ready to cheer us np and be such a comfort I" This "cheer ing them up and being comfort" con tinued until Miss Phrygia began to wonder what days at home would seem without it, when her season of duty should be ended. What the Doctor thought about losing his nurse, he did not say, but he insisted upon seeing her home, when the time came, although the moon was as large as a cart-wheel, and shining clear. As they came out, they both involun tarily glanced up at the house under the shadow of the elms. Dark," said Miss Phrygia ; "it al ways is. 'Yea'" said the Doctor, "it has been for a good many years now, very dark." "I know it," said Miss PhrvKia,sof tly. feeling as if she ought to have on her black gloves again. Don't vou think." sid the doctor. adjusting her hand a trifle more closely to his arm, "don't yon think I might bring in a bright warm light before long, if I could find it?" 'Immediately I" said Miss Phrygia. 'Even," and the doctor stooped to come as near as he could to a look un der Miss Phrygia's hat, "even if I should leave your house empty and dark to do it? What Miss Phrygia said, or what either or both of them said after that, will never be revealed ; but certain it is that when Miss Phrygia ought to have been going to sleep that night, she wasn't going to sleep at all, but saying over and over to heself : "Oh, what have I done ? What have I done ? How could I ever do it ? What am I going to do?" The perplexity thickened and dark ened, to the peril of Miss Phrygia's night, when suddenly a ray of light flashed forth upon it. "Why, of course V she said. "He isn't exactly a man, after all ; he's a doctor's and that's just how I came to do it I" and with this satisfactory con clusion in her soul, and a wonderful whirl of new sersations in her heart, Miss Phrygia turned on her pillow, and went to sleep like a kitten. The village was so astir with the news the next week, that Miss Phrygia was thankful her first walk, leaning on an arm that wasn't her 'a, and yet claimed to be, came in the twilight. The shadows deepened as she wan dered on, listening to a great many things the Doctor had to say, until at last, just as Miss Phrygia spoke for the first time, a glow-worm came in sight. "I must stop and tie np mp shoe !" was what Miss Phrygia said, and whether the Doctor heard it or not, he stepped forward a few paces to see about the glow-worm, and Miss Phrygia put up her foot on a stone by the way side. As she stooped, a noiseless step, accompanied by one a trifle heavier, came behind her; somthing misty touched her cheek, and a voioe whis pered in her ear : "Is that your mortality puff?" 1 Hush-. " said Miss Phrygia. "Yes, for a breath might blow him away. Bring him round to visit my grave, won't you t Some evening about tea-time ; and well have puffs ! Immediately!" said Miss Phrygia. A Gruger Fable. In a certain zoological garden two bears were chained several rods apart, which were fed each with a different kind of fruit. Now there were in the same garden a half dozen monkeys who thought it would be nice if they could ?;et a portion oi tnese luscious iraiis or themselves. Accordingly they per suaded the bears that, variety being the spice of life, it would not only be grate ful to their palates, but oonducive to their healthy digestion, if they would exchange with each other a portion of these fruits at each meaL But the chains being too short for the bears to come in a convenient distance to each other, the exchange could be affected only through the kind offices or. the six monkeys aforesaid. Accordingly the fruit was passed by bear No. 1 to the first monkey, who passed it to the next, and so on to the last, who delivered it to bear No. 2. The fruit in exchange passed back to bear No. 1 in like man ner. Now each monkey through whose Eaws the fruit passed thought a few ites was no more than a just compen sation for his services, and it happened when the fruit reached its destination little more of it was left than the core. So both bears grew lean in spite of im proved digestion, and the monkeys grew fat, and put on many airs, and winked at each other aa they passed fruit to the hungry bears in the course of their employment. The keeper of the garden seeing tnis, and ascertaining the cause, lengthened the chains of the bears, and so the ser vices of the monkeys were dispensed with, and the bears grew fat again. But the monkeys set up a nowi at Do ing deprived of their legitimate em ployment, and berated the bears for their ingratitude. A lesson which patrons anouia pon der. A Hero's Dewetlea. "M. de Moltke,' says a correspondent, "goes to bed regularly at ten, but on a Aim nnmer'i eve he will first indulge in another short solitary stroll, in which he mentally prepares the next day's work. Often, too, he goes at night to visit bis wife's tomb, which is concealed bys row of cypresses, on hillock in the park. He lost her on the Christmas night of 1868. She was young and charming, and they appear to have been tenderly attached to each other, al though he might have been her father. Whenever he arrives at his seat, his first ears, before entering the house, is to go and pray near her grave." The Gipsy's Flowers, THE ORIGIN OF THE STORT OF BLUEBEARD. There was once a Snanish oentlemnn of high rank, who had led a very wild and dissolute life, bat now desired to settle down on his estate and take to himself a wife, who would preside over uuunruuiu in a rming iasuion. Being rich and handsome his wickedness went for naught, and soon he was betrothed to a lovely lady, whose family were pleased with the alliance and who Drought him a hne fortune. The wedding was celebrated with peat pomp, and when he brought his bride home to his palace, the poor of the place as usual gathered about the door, and one a withered old beggar nuuian oeing iouu in ner praises or the lady's beauty, and begging to be permitted to present her with a bouquet oi white wild flowers that she had gathered in the woods. A poor oftenng, my lady," said the woman, "bat all the poor gipsy has to give." The lady took the flowers with a smile, and dropped coin into the gipsy's hanil A a . .1 ,i. .1 A 'uiiv. 3 nuc run i cu me uuur, sue bent her lovely head and inhaled the Pennine oi the Dowers. The servants rememlxrod the action and her smile as she passed into her apartment leaning on her husband s arm, ior it was the last thev ever Raw of her. An hour after she lay dead, and all the doctors in Madrid could not tell what had killed her. The vonnz widower was verv anil fr a long- rime, our, uy and Dy he began to find life bright once more, and chose for himself a second wife. This lady was younger and lovelier than the first, though not so rich. Her predecessor's fate did not alarm her. for she was strong and tun ot health. Death seemed to lie very far from so radiant a creature as she stood before the church altar and plighted her troth to the man with whom she hoped to pass her life ; but those who remembered the first wife's fate shuddered, as at the fall of evening sue entered the gates ot her husband s villa. The same old gipsy who had greeted the former bride stood amidst the crowd. "Heaven and the saints blea von. lady!"' she cried. "I greeted her who came here be tore and faded like a Bower. May you live untd your hair is as white as mine. Flowers are all I have to give. Will you honor me by taking them, lady V The bride, as the other bride had done, accepted the offering, and repaid the gift with coin. She held the blossoms loosely in her hand, and passed into the hall. A ban quet was prepared and she partook of it- vi ine was on the board; she tasted it. When the dance began none danced more gayly than the bride. It was a merry wedding; and when at last in the early honrs of morning the music died away, the guests departed, and the lamps were extinguished, the beautiful girl turned with smiles and blushes to seek her place of rest. As she crossed the threshold of the hall she stooped and picked something from the floor. "My poor gipsy's flowers,1 she said. "I will not reject the humble token of kindness:1 and bending her face over them she passed out of sight. Half an hour afterward the husband also entered the bridal room. All was still. The lamplight fell over the. pil lows but no fair head rested upon them. He looked alwuthim; in a far corner of the room lay what looked like a heap of rumpled satin, at first sight, lie advanced toward it, and saw a hand that grasped convulsively a little bunch of white flowers, and, with a cry of horror, cast himself beside the body of his biide. She was dead ; she bore no wound; no sign of injury altout her. Again thepbysicianscould find no cause for the death, and people began to whisper tales of evil spirits who haunted this fatal bridal chanilier, and did to death the fair beings who braved them by entering it. Again the gentleman was a widower; again he suffered much sorrow, but it was not eternal. He began in time to seek another bride, but in vain. No one would risk the fate of those other young and lovely women. No one would have this Bluebeard, the mystery of whose castle was so terrible, and for years the widower went a wooing with out winning, until one morning meeting the Donna Mora on her way to the church, her black eyes vailed beneath her black mantilla, he made a grand impression, and was permitted ere long to offer his hand and heart with true Spanish gallantry. Donna Mora, who was a widow, list ened not ill pleased. "I do not detest you, Senor," she said, "and I frankly tell you so ; but you have had strange "bridals heretofore. I do not feel tired of life, and desire to en joy myself a little longer. Let pie know woy your nrsi wives uiea. l ou musi know." "On my soul I do notT eaid the gen tleman. "I believe you," said the lady. "Listen to me, then. I am ready to marry you, but before I do I must be allowed to inspect your house from roof to cellar. You must vacate it. and give me the keys, and I must go there alone with my sister. I will discover the mystery, if there is one." "Donna Mora,'' said the gentleman, "do as yon will. I vacate the dwelling at once. There are the keys. The long one of steel opens that fatal chamber which I beg you not to enter the bri dal chamber of my dead brides. Adien ! Thanks for your promise, which I shall hasten to claim when you summon me." He kissed her hand and rode away. She at once made ready to seek the dwelling of which she had heard so much. The lumbering carnage held her, her sister, two brothers, maid, man servant, and pet poodle, very well. And. at last, thev came in sicht of the old Moorish building, and paused to inspect it. "I begin to tremble,"" said Donna Anna. "I have no fears," said Donna Mora. Then she ordered the coachman to drive closer, descended ;and unlocked the gate with her own hands. All was still ; only the echoes welcomed them. Theirfeet awoke more upon the stairs; they made Donna Anna nervous. Donna Mora was as brave as a man. They inspected every room ; they peeped into every closet, they opened the bridal chamber, and saw the dust that had gathered noon its ornaments, and from the neighbors they drew the whole story. All tnat was known. And for the first time Ionna Mora heard of the old gipsy and her flowers. Then she waited, pacing the floors of the empty rooms, while Donna Anna watched from the window, and the brothers smoked cigarettes in the court yard. What was she waiting for f She told no one. At last: "Sister, is any one coining! I thought I heard a step," said she. "It is an old gipsy with some flowers," said Donna Anna. And Donna Mora said : ' Bid her come in." Then, passing between the smoking brothers, who scarcely looked up, and by the little dog, who growled, entered an old woman, shrivelled and yellow, who rourtesied and said : "May the good stars shine for the fretty senoritaa and the brave senors. have heard that the lady who is to be mistress here has come, and I am old and mav not live to see her a bride, and would fain welcome her." Then Donna Mora answered: "I am the lady." "Then may I offer a few wild flowers," said the gipsy, "and my good wishes. ior ine senior nas Deen my oeneiactor. A poor rift, but do not scorn it." She held the flowers toward Donna Mora, who took them and put them down upon the table. "Donna Anna." said she, "bring my dog here. Brothers, seize the gipsy." In a moment more the struggling woman was held in a strong grasp, and uvoii -uora, uoiuing ner nog id ner uip, pressed the flowers to his nostrils. "If he lives, free her. If he dies, have her arrested." she said, quietly. Donna Anna hid her face. The brothers sternly regarded first the woman, then the dog; the latter had begun to tremble. In a moment more he uttered a whine, long and terrible to listen to. Donna Mora dropped the flowers. The poor creature lay motion less across ker lap. He was dead. "Have the woman arrested," said Donna Mora, again. It is she who has murdered those two poor women with her poisoned flowers, as she would have murdered me." But to the senor, when they met once more, she said this: "I know the ways of gipsies and their art of poisoning flowers. I know also that an injured gipsy girl is always avenged by her tribe, lie who is false to one woman let no other woman trust Adieu." Sleep. Persons who live by mental labor not only require a full supply of sleep, but they also need letting down gradually to the level of repose. Hence, the longer the interval between the time of the active use of the brain and the hour of rest, the better the chanoe of refresh' ish and restful sleep. The American Journal of Insanity not long since attributed much of the Erevalent nervousness and impaired ealth of individuals to the want of sufficient and quiet rest It says : "To procure this it is important, in the first place, that the mind should not be dis turbed for several hours before retiring to rest. Study during the evening is improper. Some few persons, we know, are able to perform much mental labor, and to study late at night, and yet sleep well. Some require but little sleep. But such individuals are very rare." Another medical authority, the Lan cet, places the minimum of sleep at six hours for men, and seven for women, with an extra hour or two to be taken whenever practicable. Dr. Hammond, an authority on nervous diseases, says : "For the brain there is no rest except during sleep." Southey slept seven honrs and a hall at night, but he also took a siesta during the day. "Sleep agrees with me," he wrote, "and I have a good substantial theory to prove that it must ; for as a man who walks much requires to sit down and rest himself, so does the brain if it be the part most worked, require its repose." In respect to sleep. President Grant, E. E. Hale, and others have confessed to requiring nine out of twenty-four hours. Milton in winter invariably took eight hours repose, and seven in summer. Hum bolt is reported to have slept but four hours in the twenty-four, but this was in his old age, when he did not need much sleep, and besides it is said that he was a great "lie a-bed," and spent many hours in this half -wakeful state. Campbell slept over seven hours Douglass Jerrold retired at 10 and rose about 7, while he slept a little after dinner. Chief-Justice Story always slept eight and often nine hours. John C. Calhoun went to bed at 10 and rose at daybreak. Dr. Arnold allowed him self about eight hours' sleep. Dr. Channing usually took an after-dinner nsp, besides taking a full night's rest Melanchthon used to take but six hours' rest, but he would not even open a let ter in the evening, and retired at nine. This whole subject may, perhaps, be summed up in a sentence, viz. : that a man must proportion his sleep to his work so as to give time during the former for the brain to restore the waste which has taken place during the latter. If he can get along with a small supply of sleep it shows either that his nervous energies recuperate rapidly, or that the rate of waste during work is slow. Again : In every example of an ex traordinary amount of work being per formed by any individual, it was always followed by a long rest, or resulted in injury to the constitution of the person. or death, as in the ease of Horace Greeley, who was a life-long sufferer from sleeplessness. Lastly : It would appear from the number of examples of such a practioe that taking a midday nap is a prudent policy. Among those who make this a rule art 1 hi ers, and Beeoaer, not to mention others. Golden Aae. Three God Lessons. "One of mv first lessons." said Mr. Stnrgis, the eminent merchant, "was in 1813, when I was eleven years old. My grandfather had a fine flock of sheep which were carefully tended during the war of those times. I was the shep herd bov and mv business was to watch the sheep in the field. A boy who was , . i - , i . i . i . i more iona oi uis dook man me siieep was sent with me, but left the work to me, while he lay under the tree and read. I did not like that, and finally went to my grandfather and complained of it. I shall never forget the kind smile of the old gentleman as he said : "Never mind, Jonathan, my boy ; if you watch the sheep you will have the sheep." "What does grandfather mean by that r I said to myself. "I don't ex pect to have sheep. My desires were moderate, and a fine buck was worth a hundred dollars. I conld not exactly make out in my mind what it was, but I had great confidence in him, for he was a judge, and had been to Congress in Washington's tine: sol went back contentedly to the sheep. After I got into the field I could not keep his words out of ravhead. Then 1 thought of Sunday s lesson: "Thou hast been faith ful vrr a few thin its. I will make these a ruler over many things." I began to see through it. "Never you mind who neglects his duty; be you faithful and you will have your reward." I received a good lesson soon after I came to New York as a clerk to the late Lyman Reed. A merchant from unio wno knew me, came to buy goods, and said: "Make yourself so useful that thev cannot do without VOU." I took this meaning quicker than I did that of mv grandfather. Well I worked upon these two ideas nntil Mr. Reed offered me a partner ship in the business. The first morning after the partnersnip was maae Known, Mr .Tames fieerv.the old tea merchant. railed to congratulate me, and he said. "Be careful who you waus ine streets with." That was lesson number three." And what valuable lessons they are : Fidelirv in all things;" "do your best for your employers:" "carefulness about your associates." Let everybody take these lessons norne ana siuay mem well. Thev are the foundation stones of character and honorable success. In our own affairs, making is better than ready made. Six Haaatreel Acres T Water Lifted la tm the deads. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle gives the following particulars of a most re markable water-spout near laangley, ueergia: A dense cloud was first seen approach ing the pond, being apparently a con siderable distance up. Nothing par ticular was tnougnt oi it, ine citizens of Langley being at the time occupied in trying to keep oool, a hard thing to do, with the thermometer 100 degrees in the shade. But presently a startling circumstance occurred. The cloud had halted over the pond, and established connection with the latter. A genuine water-spout had, in fact, been evolved, and an immense quantity of water was rushing skyward through the liquid conductor. When first seen, the water- rut was near the dam, and traveled rly across the pond until it reached the railroad trestle work, a distance of a mile and a quarter from its starting point, when it disappeared, and the cloud moved majestically off, carrying with it thousands of gallons of water which had been drawn from the pond. The latter, covering an area of six hun dred acres, was, in fact, lowered fully two inches. The huge column which joined the upper region to the expanse of water below resembled a cone in form, and rotated horizontallv with ex ceeding rapidity. The marvelous speed with which the column turned im pressed the beholder immediately with the idea that it was associated with a whirlwind. This was most orobablv the case, as a tremendous wind passed over Augusta, from the direction of Langley, some hours afterwards. The heavens were brilliant with incessant flashes of lightning after the spout de scribed above had disappeared. There was no rushing noise connected with it, as is the case in some instances. The water underneath the clouds just before the spout formed was in a state of great agitation. Waves rolled angrily, and a perceptible bulge was seen. As the clond halted, a sort of tunnel protruded from it, and dropped slowly down, be coming larger as it lengthened, the broader portion, or base, being at the surface of the cloud. When it reached a point about one-fourth the distance between the cloud and the pond, the bulge on the surface of the latter rose to meet it, and the two at length joined, when the water from the pond com menced ascending into the cloud, which moved slowly toward the trestle-work. The waves in the water all leaped and tended towards the spout, and the spout itself continued the vertical motions referred to above. The outside of the watery funnel was dark and not well defined, while the center was much lighter, being rather of a bluish cast. This would seem to indicate that the column was partly hollow, the dark portions representing the sides. There can be no doubt but that the immense quantity of water which was transferred from the pond to the cloud was literally sucked up. The spout finally disap peared, as if it had been drawn boldly up into the cloud, while the latter quietly moved off to parts unknown. Not a drop of rain fell during the oc currence or afterward. The formation and subsequent motions of the spout are described as having made up a spectacle grand in the extreme. Nothing of the kind was ever before seen in that section. The strangest part of the phenomenon was the fact that the cloud, so burdened with water, moved off without dispensing any of it in the form of rain in the neighborhood. Mom Rosea. Moss rosea are largely grown for the London markets ; they thrive pretty well under trees, and are very hardy and floriferous. Light, rich and deep ground suits them best. Two rows of these roses are generally planted between currant and gooseberry bushes, about two feet apart, but as suckers, speedily make their appearance, all traces of rows become lost and the result is a broad band of roses, some 2 or 3 feet wide, occnovinff the central BDace between the bush fruit. Under fruit trees where no fruit bushes exist, they are grown in lines 2 or 3 feet apart, I and interspersed with sprouting broc coli, Brussels sprouts, potatoes, or shallots, and they are also grown in the open ground, about the same distance apart. After they have done blooming, and have made good wood, they are layered on both sides of the rows, and in October, or any time between that and the following March, the layers are lifted, and after their roots have been dressed and their tops shortened a little, they are planted out in permanent rows from two to three feet apart, or, if space is scarce at the time, thickly in rows a foot or eighteen inches apart, where they remain for twelve months before being finally planted out. They are pruned very closely in Winter, and in Spring they begin to form flower buds, almost as soon as the leaves make their appearance. It is the buds that are gathered for market, the blooms never being permitted to expand. In hot summers, and indeed whenever oonve nience permits, the space over their roots, two or three feet in width, is mulched with litter, which saves them from drought, and also acts as a stimu lant A Scalptar's Idea of a Ghost. T. K. Gould, the Boston sculptor, has f rod need in marble the "Ghost of lamlet." It consists of a head , bearded, helmeted and plumed, chiseled in high relief on a sunk oval set into a sqnare. The "Advertiser" says of this effort : "Here is a shadow in marble, yet a distinct personality of keen and varied expression. It is a spirit striving to become an apparition, end showing the strain of the endeavor. As one looks lontrer the Diteousness of the whole expression grows especially, again, in the wonflenui eyes; me countenance, grim and pertubed' as it is, is seen to be 'more in sorrow than in ancer.' and even the dead frown seems tempered by the love and longing which led tne father to seek his only son. In every line and aspect the head is most majes tic and kingly; and by some subtile skill the effect of paleness, as required by the text of Shakspeare, seems to be imparted to the wasted cheeks." A Pair af Pretty CaaapUnseaU. Sir Geortre Rose beinj introduced one day to two charming young ladies, whose names were Mary and Louisa, he instantly added, with a bow, "Ah, yes ! Marie-Louise thesweetest pear I know; a compliment almost worthy of being coupled with that most graceful one of Sidney Smith, suggested by the sweet pea. A young lady, walking with him in the garden, paused to examine a favorite flower on which she had taken great pains. "I am afraid, Mr. Smith," she said, "that thia pea will never come to perfection."" "Then allow me," tak ing her politely by the hand, "to lead perfection to the pea i The sweet orb of life The honey moon. "Voiitlis Column. HI ln kisses plt. mutlwrr IJtu Witter aaka, ftaiai&ff gr- t, dark. mast tTM Tbst bnahteo for her Mirer b"jr Tbroagh taer ufe of Sop ud Joy W hat know be uf I Sara careaaea atft and awaet Earh fneb boor of life to irreM Bleaaina klaa of aire and mother, Claap of alater, has of brother ? Thanks lot babf Mlaw. Happy, e herl bed darlinjr. He Dor knowa nor carea Of paaeioaale lipa that preaa hi Taut On thoae that cannot alow aain. Of wild, deapatrlmi klaaea preaarxl On damp aoda where oar idols rest, 'Mid aad ana&ewared prayera. Can troe-heartad childhood Oueee each thinee can be Aa kiea twist aecret ft and foe. Aa handa that ctaap o'er anlfa below. Aa klaaea with no loving laaTan, Coldly taken. Idly gieen. In cuaUMu courtawy ? Can frank hearted childhood Urea that kindred upe Lips that have met a thousand times. Warm and true as posts' rbymea May for each other learn to frarue Scorn or hatred, mork or blame. Lore's on warned eclipse ? Dim not childhoods fniden fai'h With socb tore as this la ; Let hun trust the sUdneas round Trust toe love aa birthrubt foaad : Hoon. too soon, the world will teach HtiDRa may lurk m honeyed speech. Treason hide in kissos, TAjfrsa Birds. It may not be unin teresting to some of your readers to see the account, which I give below, of my experience with wild birds. I am very sure birds could quite easily be taught to have confidence in ua. While living in the West I tamed two families of birds known as "chipping birds." Thev at first nicked ud the crumbs shaken from the table-cloth. After a few days they would come npon the steps of the cook-room, and at last, they became so very tame, they would come into the house for food for their young, and if they found no one in the room to leed them, they would go into all the rooms, until some one was found. I have known them even to go into the parlor, where five or six mi eats were seated, without fear, and come directly to my leet, hen their young left their nests the parent birds taught them to oome into the house also, and they never manifested fear. Sometimes several of them were in at onoe. This season, we have bluebirds quite tame, naving their nest in the verandah. Y e have a tame chipping-bird, and feed him many times daily. Last eveninc. at ten o'clock, I was sitting by the table reading, and was much surprised to hear the little fellow singing. He had seen the light shining through the win dow, and saw me sitting there. Plaw Talk to Girls. Your every day toilet is part of your character. A girl who looks like a "fury" or a sloven in the morning is not to be trusted, however finely she may look in the evening. No matter how humble your room may be, there are eight things it should contain, viz : a mirror, a wash stand, soap, towel, comb and hair, nail and tooth brushes. They are just as essential as your breakfast, before which you should make good and free use of them. Parents who fail to pro vide their children with such appliances not only make a great mistake, but commit a sin of omission. Look tidy in the morning and after work is over improve your toilet. Make it a rule of your daily life to dress up for the after noon. Tour dress may or may not be anything better than calico ; but with a ribbon or flower, or some bit of orna ment, yon can have an air of self-respect and satisfaction that invariably comes with being well-dressed. A girl with fine sensibilities cannot help feeling embarrassed and awkward in a ragged, dirty dress, with her hair unkempt, if a stranger or a neighbor should come in. Moreover, your self-respect should de mand the decent apparalinsr of vour body. Ton should make it a point to look as well as yon can, even if yon snow nobody will see you but yourself. A Wo.wderptt. Art. The manufac tory in Kome where pictures are copied in mosaic being thus rendered almost everlasting, or time-proof, is the most celebrated establishment of the kind in the world, some of its productions be ing little less than miracles of artistic genius, beauty and skill. The mosaio is formed of tiny bits of opaque colored glass of various shades, amounting, it is said, to the almost incredible number of 30,000 different and distinct shades, themselves so arranged as to form a picture perfect in every detail in light, shadow, shade and color. It is de scribed as corresponding, in some measure, to the pictures formed in Berlin wooL The various pieces of colored glass are placed in their pre arranged order on a table covered with a sort of cement, and when this tedious process is over, for there are many thousands of pieces in each picture, the surface of the picture is then smoothed and polished. These are the main features, mechanically considered, of this wonderful art. Books. Books are a great aid in thinking, and the people who really wish to learn will be careful in their choice of books. A great many works have no tendency to awaken thought on the part of the reader. They present oaly common-place thought, and are not worth reading, except for the in formation they may convey. There are other books which set the reader think ing. They are commonly the produc tions of first-rate minds. It is seldom wise to read a book produced by an inferior mind. Tou know that there is an advantage in having familiar inter course with men of superior minds. Yon would not choose the society of weak and ignorant minds, if you could have that of strong and learned minds. In like manner you should not spend your time in perusing the works of feeble or common-place minds, when those of first-rate minds are within reach. How to Succeed. If your seat is too hard to sit npon, stand up ; if a rock rises up before yon, roll it away or climb over it If yon wish for confi dence, prove yourself worthy of it. It takes longer to skin an elephant than a mouse, but the skin is worth something. Don't be content with doing what another has done surpass it. Deserve success and it will come. The boy was not born a man. The sun does not rise like a rocket, nor go down like a bullet fired from a gun ; slowly but surely it makes its round, and never tires. It is as easy to be a leader as a wheel horse. If the job be long the pay will be greater ; if the task be hard, the more competent yon must be to do it Bring np a child in the way he should go. A French youth was recently put on trial for murdering his mother. The murderer was found "guilty" with extenuating circumstances, the only ground for which was, that he had never received any eanoauon. t nineties. Silence never yet betrayed any one. Drunkenness is nothing but volun tary madness. Egotists cannot converse ; they talk to themselves. The agitation of thought is the be ginning of wisdom. A long winded orator is said to have a sleeping car attached to his train of thought. When your pocket-book gets empty, yon can put all your friends in it, head and ears. One of the Prince of Wales' principal creditors is Poole, the tailor. He pants for his pay. It is a strange fact that wise men learn more from fools than fools do from wise men. Love others well, but love thyself the most : give good for good, bnt not to thine own cost. Laws, like saosaffes. would fail to in spire respect if all people knew how they were made. The books in the library belonging to the British Museum occupy twelve miles of shelving. The bread of life is love : the salt of l-'fe is work ; the sweetness of life poesy ; the waters of life faith. It is said thst water which percolates through gneiss rocks is an infallible homoeopathic specific for cancer. A red-hot iron pressed closely to the gnm, in contact with an aching tooth, will usually prove effective. A Yankee editor has recently (rot no a remedy for hard times. It consists in ten hours' labor, well worked in. We are all hunters in the field of life. Some of us bring down our game ; but most of us end in a wild goose chase. The great struggles in life are limited to moments ; in the drooping of the head npon the bosom in the pressure of the hand upon the brow. Velocipedementia has become epi demic in Paris, and the bicycle is not only used by sickly persons for exer cise, but by cyclopedic reporters of the leading journals. Shakespeare says : "It is a good di vine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty men what were to be done, than to be one of twenty to follow my own teachings. " There is that in every animal's eye, a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of control over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature, if not ot the souL Jiuxkin. Emulation, even in the brutes, is sen sitely "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antonius : "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." A child, born recently in Chautauqua county. New York, and still living, the local paper asserts, has its heart located on the outside of its chest, and in plain view. The heart is perfect in form, is well proportioned, and as firm in tex ture as could be expected in so young a child. When the child cries the the heart expands to nearly twice its ordinary size. The Niagara Falls Gazette tells of a queer trip taken by a lady visitor's par asol the other day. The lady accident ally dropped it into the swift current that harries under the Lnns Island bridge. The current whisked the light burden over the precipice, and the late owner figured up the late cost of her carelessness. Subsequently the lady took a trip into the Cave of the Winds, where she found her truant parasol pa tiently bobbing around in a friendly eddy. A German professor from Frankfort, in relation to the use of horse-flesh as food, said, at the late international Con gress, "Once get the people over their prejudices, and we will see no more lean, lame and suffering old racks, for when unfit for work, they will be fatted for food, and of course well cared for. He remarked that, to his knowledge, there were more than five hundred horses kept for food annually in Frank fort, and yet there was not a person to be found in the place who ever eat horse flesh ! Certainly not Speaking of the exhibition of British and foreign birds at the Birmingham Exchange, the Uazette says a vulture and a pair of horned owls were to have been exhibited, but their introduction was marked by such a panic on the part of their predecessors that it was found necessary to keep them back. The en trance of the vulture was especially re markable. Every smaller bird seemed to become instinctively aware of the presence of a natural enemy and the screaming which prevailed for some time after its removal was prodigious. A novel street car has been put in use in San Francisco. It is built some what in the shape of a balloon, and has ample seating capacity for fourteen per sons. The car revolves on the wheeis and saves the necessity of having a turn table, and can be turned with ease, so that in case the street is blockaded, the driver can turn back at once on bis re turn trip. The expense of a conductor will be saved on these cars, passengers dropping their fare in a box near the driver. The front is so arranged that the driver can sit down or stand at will. The car is a novel contrivance, ia quiet light, rides easy and comfortable, and will probably be sought for more than the cars at present in use, as they can not be overcrowded. In China where locusts are wont to ravage the country, the local authori ties, whether civil or military, are held responsible for the stamping out of these insects as soon as their appear ance has been reported. They are re quired to summon a large body of men, and at once surround and destroy the locusts, the expense of maintenance of the men and compensation forthecropa trodden down during the chase being supplied by the Provincial Treasury. Should the local authorities suoceed in stamping ont the locusts within a lim ited time, their services are favorably reported to the Emperor ; but should they fail, and the locusts spread and do damage, they are liable to be deprived of their posts, arrested, and handed over to the proper board for punish ment A certain sum per bushel is paid to peasants bringing in unwinged lo custs, and half that sum when the lo custs are able to fly, while compensa tion is given for crops trodden down in the chase. The locusts are swept with besoms into trenches dug at the sides of the corn fields in which a vigorous fire is kept up. The best time to cap ture locusts is when they are feeding; at dawn of day, when their bodies being heavy with dew and their wings wet, they are unable th jump or fly.
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