Tlke„Marvele of a Seed. Have yt u ever considered how wonder ful a thing the teed of a plant is 1 It is the miracle Of Miracles. God said, "Let there -be plinis yielding seeti;"•end- it is _further at'ded, • , each one after his kind," Consider, first their number. - Aboui a hundred and fifty sears ago, the celebrated Linnaeus" who • • - t-ealted-otheef tolnny." reck' t 0 -,,' about 8 000 digefent kind of plants; an; then he thought that the whole number existing could not much exceed 10;000. But one hundred - years after him. Al de Oandolle, of Geneva, de rierihed 40,000' kinds of plants, and sup posed it possibteetnat the number might - even amount to 100,000. -' Well, let me.ask y_eu, Have these 100 000 kinds of plants ever failed .to bear the right seed ? Have they ever deceived us ? Has a seed of v heat • ever " yielded barley, - 7 -er a seed oh poppy grown up into sunflowt• • er? Has a 'sycamore tree ever sprung from ail acorn. or a beach tree from a chest nut. A tittle bird may carry attay the small seed of a • sycamore en its beak to letd its nestlingi, and on the way may. drop it on the ground. Tile tiny seed may spring up-and grow where it fell, unnotic etl, and sixty years after it may become a magnifirent tree.•untler which the flocks -of the valley and the shepherds may rest in the shade. Consider next the wonderful power uf lift: s and resurrection bestowed tin the seeds of plants, so that they may he preserved from year to year, and even from century to eentury. Let a child put a few_serds into a draw er and shut than up, anal sixty years after wards, when his hair is white and h's steps tettesing, let him take eve of these seeds fide sow it in the gentled, and soon after he 'will see it sprieg_ep ii.to new life, and become a young, fresh and beautiful 'plant. M..11/Pat tut rektes• that ,in the year 1835, several nod Celtic tombs were dis covered near Ilergorpee. Under the head of each of the dead bodies them was found a small square stone or brick. with a hole in each containing a few seeds, uhich had been placed thire beside the dead by the heathen frient!s. t ho had buried them,per haps 1.500 or 1.700 years before. These seeds were carefully sowed by those who bound them. What uas seen to spring from the dust of the dead? Beautiful sun flow er. Hue corn flowers, arid clover, hear• iug blcssorna as bright .and sweet as those which are woven into ureaths by the rner• ry children now plat ing in our fields. 84,rne }ears ago. a vase hermetically scaled. tta ft , und in, a .mummy int, in E. gt pi by the Epglisb traveler,. ‘Nilkinson. uho sent it to the Britt-4) Museum. Thed i !Iberian thr're. hay'''. unfortunate! . broken u, discovered in it a few grains •.1 . wheat -And one or too peas, old. wrinkled, and as hard as stones. The i eas were planted Bare tully under glass on the (mirth of June, 1895. and at the end of thrrty days these seeds we sete to spring up into new Me. They had been buried probably about 3,-. 0110 years ag,o,perhaps in the time of Moses sad had slept as that long time. apparent. dead',ly vet still living in the Just of the fuillb•—CAv!FsEst. Coolness of the Eucktails A correspondent writes from one of .the northern counties in this State where the 11:tektatls were recroita: as follows: want to hear something of the Pennsylva• -vial's. I know the boys who fought at anti flashed their maiden swords under General Ord, and l weli knew when they met the foe soint;boly• would die. I must give you an incident nr two, of that tight: Charles Yahn. a young man from tOs vicinity, was shot through the lace, shattering the jaw and knocking out teeth, aid ug_a_v_er-y—ogly—s-mi — patifird wn U fit :4 pitting the blood from his mouth, he handed a cattridge to his next. neighbor, saying,can fight yet, if l can't , site.'— And 'hits he fought it out, getting his corn fade to bite off the cartridges, anti he is now recovering unde'r the bands of the surgeon. Another was struck over the eye by a spent ball, ,cotting the skin but not entering the skull. Ile coolly picked up the bullet, remarking, .there is the Se. eession lead that struck me.' and put the lade memento into his pocket,. This is the sort of men Pennsylvania has in the na tional- army, and I want to hear more of them." When Napoleon (at that time First Con sul) heard the' death of - %V ashingion he said: •.The great light .•f the wend has gone out." lu his hand, in the following order of the day, he thus, anwinoced the decease of the ..Fattier of his Country" to the Consular Guard and to the armies of France: ..Wa.hington is dead! This great man fought against tyranny; he establish ed the liberty of his country. - His mem ory must al i ways be dear to the French people, as well_ as to all the_free of both o I an especia y to t e renc so • Biers, who, like hire and his American troops, fight in defence of liberty and e quality. Therefore. the First Consul has ordered that, for the space of ten