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r f l Th‘ Chin an Index of Char acter. If the experience of mankind is competent to interpret facial indica tions, some of the “propensities” and “perceptives” which Spurzheim lodges in the back rooms of his pan- sensorium must have a penchant for changing their quarters. “Firmness,” for instance, which he locates in the posterior part of the upper head, un doubtedly manifests itself in the prom inence of the chin. “Draw a face in profile,” sajs Winckelman, “and ob serve how timidity or its opposite can be expressed by the shape of the lower jaw. Let the chin be receding and your profile can be made to express pusilanimity and feebleness of char acter, even to the degree cf imbe cility. Then, without changing any upper line of the profile, combine it with a prominent chin, and it will exhibit firmness. Exaggerate the prominence and you can intensify that expression to one of obstinacy and ferocity. That such contrasts are less striking in living faces is owing to the circumstance that we take in the expression of all features at a sin gle glance, without analyzing the complex tffset,” Have we not here a positive crite rion, a rule without an exception ? Does it not occur to us, on after thought, that all warlike, aggressive nations have such projecting chins, while the weak or degenerate ones are more or less chinless ? In their classi fication of the North Amer can abo rigines the Spaniards distinguish be tween Indies mansos and Indios bravos (tame and savage Indians). The former comprise the different agricultural tribes of Central and South America—ignorant but harm less creatures, who subsist on a vege table diet; the latter, the carnivorous savages of the North, who divided their time between hunting and war fare. In their physical characteristics these various tribes of the American autochthones could hardly be distin guished, if it were not for a slight va riation in the color of their skins and a very marked difference in the shape of their chins. Our redskins have chins, though they cannot emulate those or che IndioGermanic race; the Indians of Mexico and South Amer ica have none. In the profile of a vegetarian Indio from the neighbor hood of Vera Cruz, the lower jaw re cedes in a sharp line from the mouth to the throat, so that the nose, though not excessive in size, becomes ridicu lously prominent. Obstinacy with a projecting chin and shrinking timid ity with a receding one are here Btrongly contrasted, and the study of individual faces proves Winckelman’s rule to be almost, if not altogether, in fallible. Can Professor Fowler point out a corresponding difference in the shape of the posterior skull? “Ama tiveness,” too, may or may not effect the bones above the nape, but Theo phrastus, Galen, Della Porter, Lava- ter, Dr. Redfield ?,nd all portrait painters agree that it is disclosed by the eyelid*- especially the lower one. Lavater and other critical students of the human face have shown the fallacy of some popular notions—for instance, the connection of a high forehead with superior intelligence— but also that generally received opin ions differ less in different nations and ages than should be supposed ; and it is surprising of what minute symptoms even the ancient nations have taken cognizance. Alleged Humorists. Yahoo restaurant some evening, my dear?” Husband ‘ No, darling.il is disreputable.” Wife 11 Tnen, dear, why do you bring home its marked napkins in your pockets?” “I believe you’re a fool, John,” test ily exclaimed Mrs. Miggs, as her hus band unwittingly presented her the hot end of a potato dish, which she promptly dropped and broke. “Yes,” he added, resignedly, “that’s what the clerk told me when I went to take out my marriage license.” “As you are going past the grocery store,” said Mis. Brown to her son, “it will save time if you step in there and get a pound of tea.” “Wuatdo I care about saving time ?” replied young Brown, contemptuously ; “I guess I shall have all (he time there is as long as I live, and I ain’t going to hoard up any for my heirs to squan der.” The Dispensary. Why, gentle, reader do we ai ways find U in trouble 1 The feeling between ague and qui nine is exceedingly bitter. One half the world don’t know hew the other half lies. We speak from experience. The best reason yet advanced for having Monday washing day the next day after Sunday, is because cleanli ness is next to godliness. Walt Whitman exclaims in one of his poems: “Give me solitude!” Very iiisily obtained, sir. Start to take up a collection tor the Washington Mon ument. Health journals insist upon repos ing on the right side only, and claim that It is injurious to lie on both sides ; but we don’t know where they will find a healthier set cf men than law yers, There is more money spent for rum in this country than there is for flour, and yet people howl evtyjy time flour goes up, and don’t bother themselves about the whisky that goes down. the rife t ~“Oan’t yon take me to An egg poJka has been composed in Berlin, the music of which just lasts long enough to boil an egg properly. We may now expect to hear of a ve*l cutlet waliz and a porter-house steak lancers; but, to cook the average boarding-house spring chicken, we fear that nothing less than a perform ance of “Parsifal” will indicate the time necessary to prepare it suffi ciently. In baring a well at Oloveidale, Cal., the auger, at a depth of thirty feet, passed through a white pine log, aDd six inches further struck a tree stand ing on end, and had to cease opera tions. It was about time to stop. If they had bored a few feet deeper they might have struck a party of campers- out playing seven-up uuder the tree, and created a panic. An Austin man who had been liv ing in a rented house, notified bis laudlord that he was going to move. “I hope,” said the landlord, “that I will find the house iu the same condi tiou it was when you took it.” “No, I do not expect to leave it in the same condition I found it ” “Well, 'you will have to do it.” “All right, then, I’ll drop a cat in the cistern, and ad vertise for bed bugs.” “Soyou are back in the city again,” said a laboring man on Twenty-sec ond street. “Thought you went down with a lot of others in the south part of the conn y to work on a farm.” “We did.” “Well, what’s the rum pus ?’’ “Why, you see, the old farmer went to work and strung the whole farm over with barbed wire fence, and we all quit and came home. There is a time to work and a time to rest, but you can't rest on a barbed wire fence.” A Faithful Little Wife. Oftimes I have seen a tall ship glide by against the tide as if drawn by an invisible tow-line with a hundred strong arms pulling it. Her sails un furled, her steamers drooping, she has neither side-wheel nor stern-wheel ; still she moves on stately in serene triumph, as with her own life. But I knew that on the other side of the ship, hidden beneath the great bulk that swam so majestically, tnere was a little toilsome steam tug, with a heart of fire aud arms of iron, that was tugging it bravely on; and I knew that if the little steam tug untwined her arms and left the ship, it would wallow and roll away, and drift hither and thither, aud go oft with the tfilu- ent tide, no man knows where. Aud so I have known more than one ge nius high-decked, full-freighted, wide- sailed, gay-penoned, who, nut for the bare toiling arm, aud brave, warm beating heartof the faithful little wife, that nestled close to him so that no wind nor wave could part them, would have gone down with the stream and been heard of no more.—O. W Holmes. She swared :—“ Dj you know the nature of an oath ? ” aski^i a Judge of a colored woman. “Yes, sah ; I reck on I dues.” “you know, then, what it is to swear ? ” “ Yes, sah, 1 reckon I does.” “ Hold up your hand and swear.” She held up her hand and ripped out an oath which aluuAt took the Judge’s breath. “I will send you to Jail for this.you wicked creature.” “For what, Jedge?” “For using profane language in this court room.” “ I doesn’t know what you means by ’fane language. Yer told me to swar an’ I swar’d. White folks gettin’ so high up it gins a nigger a crick in the naik ter look up at ’em. I’se gwine ter leave dis town, ’case I wa’n’t horned in Arkansaw, nohow.” — Arkanaaw Traveler. In Cask of Poisonings — What is to be done in case of poisoning or sus pected poisoning? This important question Dr. Von Nussbaum, a first class authority in medicine, has answered clearly and concisely in a book recently published. He says : In all cases of poisoning, no matter what poisonous substance may have been taken aud no ma ter in what way such substance has entered the system, this is the first rule t) be observed : Remove as much as possi ble the poisoning sub fiance out of the body—then, if the poisoning substance be known, give an antidote, which is, however, not always at hand. Finally, dilute as much as possible aud throw out of the system the remnant of the poison. These effects can be obtained by pro moting, as soon as possible, evacuation of the stomach by vomiting. For this purpose give copious draughts of warm water, and tickle the fauces of the throat with finger. Then as an anti dote for ali poisons, large quantities of tepid milk may be swallowed, which, as a fatty emulsion, will envelop the poison and alleviate irritation. A large quantity of black tea will serve the same purpose. By drinking several cups of warm light black tea the poison will be diluted, and, by way of increased perspiration, urination and respirations, • be secreted from the system, and thus the danger be re moved, or at least lessened. The same treatment can be followed in poisoning by stiugsof poisonous insects or bites of venomous or diseased animals. Tne first thing to be aimed at is to prevent the inoculation of the venom into the blood of the system. Consequently, should you be bitten by a snake in the flugsr, or be stung in the hand by a poisonous insect, or scratcli yourself against a rotten bone, & at once try to prevent the poison from entering the blood. Take, therefore, the first string or ribbon you can find, or yoor handkerchief, aud tie it around the limb above the wounded part, in order to hinder the infected blood from going to the heart. This treatment is useful for several reasons. If a ser pent hae, for instance, bitten a person in the band and a ligature is applied on the arm, not only is the poison iu the wound prevented from going to the heart, and thence to the whole body, but the ligature will cause the blood in the arm below to fl >w backwards, the wound will begin to bleed freely, and this bleeding will also, as is were, wash away the venom; it thus becomes, in a manner, the first stream in which to bathe the wound Later on the wound cau be washed thoroughly in a stream of water. Moreover, if we believe that the poison cau be sucked out of the wound, we shall do well to construct without delay a cupping-glass. Any wine glass will answer satisfactorily. Hold a wine glass over burning paper or over an ignited alcohol lamp, to warm and at tenuate the air in the glass; then tip it quickly over the wound ; the glass will suck out the wound like a cup ; and in this way many an injurious subs anco may be removed. But as iu cases of poisoning through bites and s(iDgs, copious draughts of warm drinks are always remedial, arm iu such cases great attention is likewise to be paid to diluting and quickly wihdrawing the poisoning substance. That kind of religion is most popu lar whloh does not interfere on Sunday with what you Intend to do on Monday. Salmon in Scotland. Once good fishing was within the reach of a poor man ; it can hardly be said to be so now. Aud the fact may be noticed that,as rod fishings have be come more valuable,so has the number of fish decreased—the number, that is of those which reach the upper waters. It is a well-authenticated fact that the Slule Pool, on the Fmdhorn, once gave 1800 salmon as the result of one night's netting—a quantity, as Mr. Francis Francis says, probably greater than the supply of the whole river now duriu there are men yet member when frei mou formed a larg poor crofters in rents got now for water are enormous, one rod pay X100 for part of a river, and nothing for it; another for the same sum. week on L >oh Tay is o parison with this. Man the season ; and viug who can re- and kippered sal- part of the food of d districts. The ,ood stretches of e have known month for a et absolutely illing six fish f’lve pounds a i eap in oom kcauses eon. decrease in the number of fieh which gain the upper waters. Instead of bs- ing let to small tacksmen at a nomi nal sum or being worked by the pro prietors in a coreless and unscientific way, these are now in the hands of men who pay huge rents for them and spare no expense in plant or men. We never go to these stations without won dering how it is that any fish at all get up some rivers during six days of the week, and indeed, except during heavy floods, fe w do get up. Look at the Kyle of S.itherland, aud consider the risks which nave to be run by a salmon which meditates an expedi tion up the Oykle to Kiuloch Aisb. He has, we will suppose, missed the numerous traps which have been sat for him along the coast. At the “shots” below Bonar Bridge the nets are never out of the water, day or night, from Monday morning till late on Saturday; as one is being hauled up the treacherous meshes of another are unfolding themselves a little way above. If our fish runs the gauntlet of this pair safely, he i3 only at the beginning of his troubles. There is another “shot” a few hundred yards above the little town, another near the viaduct of Invershin, another at the mouth of the River Shin, sometimes yet another above this last, near Rose- hall. Aud then the hungry angler is waiting tor him. Truly, if there be such a tniug as an insurance ottice in the North Sea there must be a heavy premium paid by those fish which belong to the Cassely or the Oykel! The only time for a free passage is on Sunday, and if the river i? out of con dition then, and the tides not suitable for bringing up the fish (and to the anxious watcher far above this seems generally to be the case), by far the greater bulk of the strong run of sal mon which have been waiting their opportunity in the Kyle are captured during the week, and are flying, cold and stifl, in their icy coffins to London when they should have been leaping aud plunging, rej >icing the hearts of all wiio saw them, far up in the higher pools. Education oi Apprentices. 4 tribute to this soaroity of salmon for the angler. So far as polution is oon- cerned, the Nor ern rivers are as they have ever been, no flfills or chemioal works or oollierles pour their foulness into the Beauly or the Naver or the Laxford or the Shin, and it is the net fishing i in the tidal waters whloh is chiefly reAansi^h/er the Catching Moths. “Treacle,” or “sugar,” as it was for merly called, is a mixture of coarse treacle and rum, and is designed to at tract the night-flying moths, for which purpose it is spread on the trunks of trees in a favorable locality. Attracted by the odor of the spirit the moths come flying from all directions to the coveted dainty, and, settling on the painted trunks, Bpeedily become engrossed in the occupation of sucking up the mixture. Meanwhile the col lector, lantern in hand, makes his round of the prepared trees, and selects the specimens' which he re quires for his collection. The ap- paiatus consists of: First, an o mustard tin, provided with a of strong wire, and containing rather more than half a pint of “green” treacle, mixed with a little stale beer in order to thin it. Formerly, instea of treacle, entomologists employed a compound made by boiling the coars est brown sugar—“Jamaica foots,” as it Is technically termed—in beer for two or three hours, and keeping it bottled until required for use. How ever, by degrees it hasb^en found that a simple mixture of green treacle and rum answers every purpose, aud very few now adhere to the old plan. Secondly, a large painter’s brush, wherewith to apply the mixture to the tree trunks. Next, a small bottle holding about a tajjflespoouful of the coarsest and newest procurable rum, to be mixed with treacle jast before applying it to the trees. Then there is a large satchel containing chip pill boxes, such as are used for holding ointment, of four cousecutive s'z-s, aud “nested” into one another to economize space; these are for hold ing the expected captives. A “bull’s- eye” lantern, a box of lucifer matches aud a butter-tty-net complete the list. After tv short walk we arrive at the wood, aud find that it is high time to commence operations, for the sun has already set aud the bats are busily engaged iu hawking for the insects which constitute their prey. Round an adjacent bush a swarm of gnats are performing their aerial evolutions, a sure sign that the evening is a pro pitious one for the entomologist. We note the favorable omen and then set to work. The sailor’B life is said to be a dog’s life. We know he must go before the mastiff he goes to see, aud then he be comes a sail setter. When a new comer is about to settle to tornado-tossed Iowa, he doesn’t ln- q 'lire if there’s a well on the premises ; he merely asks: ‘JHow deep is the illai A Springfield (Mass.) firm of iron manufacturers Uas recently put in practice a new system of apprentice ship which promises good results. It is intended to combine the thoroughly practical education of the shop with the theoretical education of the school; or, in other words, it is an industrial school in which more time will be given to practice instead of theory. They propose to require of the appren tice 58 hours a week cf work in the shop and nine hours a week of study. The term of apprenticeship for those beginning to learn a trade who are under 20 years of age is six years, in which time under this system, it is believed that an apprentice will be qualified to rank with the best jour neymen aud to earn the same wages. Those who are over 20 y ears of age are allowed to finish their apprenticeship j in five years, and those who have^ worked in a shop are advanced accord^ ing to proficiency. All applicants aij taken from tour to twelve weel on trial, and if not satisfactory aj then dismissed. The rates they pa| for labor range frogs five to twelve cents per hour, depending upon age and years of apprenticeship. The firm also pay two cents per hour additional into a reserve fund, which is paid to those apprentices who finish their full term of service : far the six years this amounts to $41)). j The scheme in this shop grew out <j)f the difficulty experienced in getting thoroughly qualified machineats, and is an attempt to solve again jhe old problem of how to continue the Bystem of appren ticeship now largtly fallen into disuse.. It is stated that this firm have already more applicant# than they cau accept. The scheme seems worthy of a trial, and is weii calculated to- produce workmen not only competent for the ordinary routine of shop work but competent to design and devise the execution of work. The scheme re minds us of the times when appren ticeship was fashionable among me*> chanics. i Sulphur and Malaria. At the recent meeting of the Par-i Academy, M. d’Abbadie called a^en- tion to some facts ieg marsh fever. Some African elephant hunt ers from plateaus with comparatively cool climate brave tie hottest and most detererious Etbopian regions with impunity, whici they attri bute to their habit of da !y fumigation of the naked body with sulphur. It is interesting to know whether sul phurous emanations, received invol untarily, have a like tffect. From inquiries made by M. Firque, it ap pears that in Sicily, whiL most of the sulphur mines are in lii^i districts from malaria, a % !* ^ P' -rt men iu then less, not more tfhan eT cent, beii g attfutked. c irtain marshy! plain stead in the island of ivlTTb (Grecian Archipelago), Ir, i 8 hardly possible to spend a night without being attacked by intermittenft faver, yet on the very fertile i art nLar the mountains are the ruins of al large and prosperous town, Z ‘phyrp, which 300 years ago, numbered 40,(100 inhabitants. Owing to th# ravagfcs of marsh fever the place is now! nearly deserted. This change was ,brought about by the transfer of sulphur mining in the J neighborhood to the opposite side of a mountain radge. The decadence of Z jpliyria haIs nearly corresponded to this transference. The sulphurous emanations |io longer reach the place, their passagf; being blocked by the mountain ifya^s. Again, on the west side of the liiarshy aud fever-infested plain of Cljitania, traversed by the Simeto, is » sulphur mine, and be yond it, at a higher level, a village which was abandoned iu the early part of this century because of marsh fever. Yet tin re is a colony of work men living about the in:ne, and they seem to be advantageously affected by the emanations. A Frefoh photographer boasts of having b4f,n able to catch the impres sion of a fjy ing bird. There is noth ing at alj woudeiful about that. An Austin ujpku, who has no Hoieuiifio at tainment!, whatever, without any ef forts on Mis part, caught the impres sion of alflylng bat. It was a very olear impression. The flyiug bat was a briokblt. He was ottering a resplu-f tion at t| ward meeting when the ^*nt