going galling. "WHEN _A MAN COMO - HOME." When 'a Man Comes home, - i;Dpki;. begin Ack, wrangle! • L Petter tar to_ sleep Ilijite . hu e ogrycleep, sliceti Of NMI, -' Anil 'tit:sea-weed tangle Peace, peace, peace ; .Cease, cease, cease. Wltela a ul , an comes hope, '-'l2ion't begin to' vikangle: When a man comes home, Let hinitenter sinigng ; • Take tha'etildren sweet, _ Playing roUnd , his f eet ; Throw off' grief and ,gloom; _ . 'And the , world's beguiling. , ~• ;- i ''' Petee, peace, peace ; Cease, evase,'eeasis. When a mai conies hoine, Let, him. find ckii When a man comes home, nersimMd,StiliremeMber 'Tii3 not always litay. Eitb.er liork.or piay— Sure as Junwill come:, There Wilt CoMe 'December. 'Peace; *ace, peace Cease; cease, cease. Evening 'bringi3 all home, . And sunshhie bedember. WHEN SCHOOL - LETS OUT. Wheirschool let 3 out at sundown time, And shadows long up bill sides climb, With leap and romp and laugh and shout,..; In kilt and smock and roundabout,. By grain -field fence, through pasture-grass, tbot-worn way, the scholars; pass ; A brighWaced les3 and brown-faced lout, Go heart-glad home, when school lets out. 1 I sit and ,Watch, where, white and low, below ; The Mistress moves in grace A lithe young girl, with folded han s, . With low-dorm lacks inn , wide, brown bands Who fityitsn in light where deep shade lies, With sweet, sad looks in lak&blue eyes ; Fsit and watch, and Dope and doubt . I know not what, when school lets out. Werei 'So . .young as they who know The - mild maid rule, just there below, Would I lie glad'as, they who pass By grainfield fence arid pasture-grass ? Would I begladthehorne-boundway, And laugh romp shout as thek; It might be so in roundaboUti But not its now, When 'school lets out. Borne day—how soon I cannot tell, But some day soon, ITknow full weal My. feet shall fall with best as slow The green-laid way; that hers do go, Aid I shaltfeellny ,teat heartrlie To , tender looks from lake'bluegyes, And'tbeie shall.be, no fear, no doubt, Her hand in mine. when school lets out. BEEFSTEAKS. , AND. PIES. Every body. except cannibals and the Aahan tee consumers of steaks from th 2 living kiue, prefers' well prepared food foodt to the other kind.— There is itta farmer's boy who eats a greasy lump of shoe-leather fried in a prin,arid called a beefsteak, who would not prefer dwill broiled porter-house from the band of a good coOk.-- Here, theni'dear madame, is a point of depart- Well-cooked food is not only more tooth _ some, but it is more nutritious. Your grand , mother would have scorned a fried Steak.' Pork fried ielts own juice is another thing Yet the American beefsteak,the national dish for break fistvis generally fried. it is often of a pale, measly complexion. Its, dry and bard surfaCe it; vainly irrigated with lukewarm grease, in which lumps of scat butter float—pardon, mad lime. the' nnsavory details which imperious truth iniPoses. Is that proper food for a human being ? - Vet the average American human being is-subject ed to Hiin thegreat - multitude of honest homes. Can you do nothing about it 2 ' Then pies. Even that dismayed Frenchthan could not deny that we have as many pies as eeligions; and be - Viould be a bold,Fienchman also it he asserted : that we , are as fond of our religions as of our piee. • Pies, indeed, there must be. They are is an. tient as Thanksgiving, and the pie on the4able of that grearday was: as constituent a part of it as the minister in the pulpit. ' Nay, What is the festiial Itself hut ti humble and pious 'offer ing of thatiks for the Copieue hartiest of ve-- in its oriknal material.? Indeed, the moremet sphysical inquirer might justly ask, as he sur veys the autumn ' gorgeous with The mu sive pumpkin," What is it there for except to 11111iCij i)rer! It` is as manna , fallen ukri :the earth: - i is 'a 'celestial hint of :•.pie. - It is a heavenly command of pie. . There is a time in the life of the contempla tive American when be perceives in Unser *ascent doubts of pie. Ile may even go so far as to protest ofit hem white tiptigb,"sitorten ed" with Heaien and the lard pot know what, is not wholesome food. . , • , But 'Viral the, learned and eloquent Rufus Choate, when his mouth- fairly watered at the luxury of the forecastle' and galley of a salt staryed, coasting smack "On lifiniday, gentlemen, the wholesome and toot*me duff; .u 2 Tuesday the nutritious and deliciOusinnOpfunk;'' and in ,the chinas' his lapt e'y,..4eftelii in vision the very transfigured material of pie, althOugh he . called it by a kin dred nanac,,when he 'exclaimed, "and on - Wed: mesday, gentlemen,wlth' his own-hand, whh Ids own paternal" hand, the captain dealt out to them squashlp.not the told ,- and shriveled vpie ! ; ; Sable of ikirttiern clime, ,hut t .hegorges. the luxuriant, ',the exuberant. the tropiee ; ) ; Think; maditmejlyitaoo: l kolilvith this ea ealent—squesh or pumpkin, It *ail the same ; .r► concede' that the German will surrender sauerkraut,' the Seotehman his oatrtield "par - - riteh,r the Irishman hia potato,' the Italian his macaroutlhe Frenehinau •his- Ifog,:as sOon as "theAineilean.hii-piel• waive alit the - argunlents against 'pie as •pie ;:.yet- are Yott•:. not Morally botiud toleousider the crtht, and'can you, asm•irionti oE truth, asseit .that - thelwhite; soggy slab oti'duff", that sunderlles , 'your pie is ,eitber. Wholesome, or toothsome P.. , 4 Z- V. * l" The question that 'comes home' to you 'is, Can't.you brown it ? Can't,' you. make:. it•'- clry and:crisp, Within* too much reference te'the lard pot ? , Whert it :is ,npple - With which you , are concerntd, the responsibility is greatei,ibi; se to,speak, your applq-pie wears a lull suit ; has a coat and trowsers, an upper sand a lower garment ; and, dear madame, since 9t• is net 4.lwayskity,". why should the innobent knit be always' clad in white ?. BroWn' if,' madame, brown it ! _ ' ' ' ~ : ir-,., . ..44- , ,.;,.... These itre' iirngle • hints, but they involve bealth,nomfort and ,progress: - :Let es regard what bus been saki as. ta fitst lessou- 4 -studies, if 76u please, tor,beginuers.. - Devote yOur energy to secuslui ajuiey,llrolled steak,dryland'lnehly potatocs, : broWn; and not buttery paitry, and lightoboroughly baited bread—",only these and nothing, more"—and . not your 'children = only;, madame, bay all wearied - souls whtEhave been long ,watching for the dawn, will .up and call you blessed l The Indian: Mail has 'the following In 'the marriage market an Indian year, used to_be requined as worth £3OO a year, dead or The nominal value of Bombay civilians now 'bids fair to rise yet higlier, although the real value will remain much, as it was, in view of the growing cheapness of money. Owing to the flourishing state of their wid ows' fund, it has been proposed that £4OO in stead of 2300 per annum should be the peniion granted to afl ladies who come on the - fund as widows after the first of July, 1876. This,says an,lndian journal, will be . equal to a marrilge settlement, ia the ordinary manner, of 212.000 in consuls—a sum which not one man in twen- . ty belonging to the upper middle IScid profes- Biotin,' classes is able to settle on his wife when he marries. ; , . .A Counter proposition, which .is even .more liberarthati the original one,is also going round tor'signature, to the effect that jilt the Widows, now on : the hind-should. aiso 7 4dt the increased , . • pension, and to this amendment there is said , to be little Or Am' oPpoiltion: .•, • • ' • • As:widows on the Bombay civil fund forfeit half their pe'nolon• if they: marry . again; itibl r lows,that each one of _these; 'ladies. who takes unto herself a secondliusbabd•Willhav - 6 .C. 200 a year ; ,tohelpka keeping . up, her new home... That sum is settlempat..ol,.£6,ooo. or so in consols,- and 4,is, not every. hdy;wheth• er widow ; or4naitl, - who•can command so useful 4.dowry. Thus the new regulation ,nottonly raise the value Ot.Bornbay civil.servants - as husbands, -but also. of the widowsthey leave . behind them.. The following anecdote illustrates the. truth of the proyerb anent the slips bet Ween the cup and the lips : - . A few years before - his death the Emperor Nicholas, of Russia, sent a looking glass of rare size and beauty, - with an embassy, to the Em presi of China. The looking glass had to be carried all the way from. St. Petersburg to Pe kin by human hands. Despite the immense distanc l e which had to be performed in this manner the looking glass reached China ; -but in the . meantime difficul ties had broken out between Russia and China. The son of heaven neither admitted the em bast, nor did he accept the present. A courier was despatched to St. Petersburg, who asked the Emperor what was to be done with the looking glass ? . TheEtnperor replied that it shmild he car ried back by the - .same route. and ia the same manner. When he gave this order the Grand Duke Michael happened to he present, and,of fered to lay a wager wjt,4 thc_Emperor to the effect,that the looking glass would be broken on the way back to Bt. Petersburg. .The DA peror accepted the Wager, and the bearers o the looking glass received orders to be as care tut as possible. If they should break it on the road they would be severely punished, but if they should bring it , baCk safely they would re ceiveA handScime reward. -' They carried it back = with the most incredi ble care, forty men ,• bearing it :py. AI/11A and safely,reached St. Isaac's Palace, in st. petem burg With. ,kwhere :the pqnperor stood with hid brotheriat the, window of the palace, and latighOat c having won the -bet. "BUt dri the staircase of the palace ; • one. of -the carriers slip: •lard his foot and fell down, dragging several of his companions after him,and the looking glass was broken into I , oooeocesi Grand Duke therefore won the bet. -•-• • 4 SII.BSTITVMPOR GT*l'O4l5Ell. A substitute for gunpowder hiu3 been Invent- Id in England, in the shape of paper impreg tated*ith a chemical conibination of chlorate of potMh, nitrate Wash, prus?iate of pot ash, and , chromate of potash, coupled with a little charcoal and, tinder.. • . _ Tlic paper iaxolled around these latter in the 'desired sizes for eatridges.. ..The advantages of are that no danger Of'explosion exists'eic eept fronk actual contact w . ith fire; theinterior of the arm is not soiled; leis sntoke endless re bound.are madethsn with gunpowder, and less dannige takes, place fromburnidity. VeryT'satisfactory • trials, have been-ilia& of the new material ' Mental - pleasures never cloy ; unlike those the body, they