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THE COQUETTE’S TEfllBS. Rivulet* from violet eyeR Tremble down a glowing cheek ; Hnow’rs are they from Hummer skies Wending through a heathered creek. Weep, O maid ; I from the pain Lightly laden pleasure gain. How I’d soothe yonr grief, If great 1 But I know the pearls but pranoe Like outriders to the state Of your smiling roguish glance. Weep, O maid ; for there appears Sweetest sadness In your tears. Were I not as coy as you I would deem the weeping sad, Cos a you as I sometimes do, KIbs you till we both were glad; But i'll lose a kiss to-day, Watch yon weep and waste away. Ah, your hands now hide a laugh, Which your voice too well betrayal Come, then,mingled wine we’ll quaff From the cup-llke lips yon raise, There, O maid!—ah, now you cry— There, then! there ! and so do I! True Heroism. Once or twice in my life I have met with heroines. I will tell you of one now. I can paint no beautiful vieion, nor dower her with charms of intel lect. When I first knew her she was past thirty, small, brown and void of grace or beauty. She had married at sixteen ; had no education—oouId read and that was all. She had child after child, until seven cumbered her dwelling but gladdened her heart. She had borne and sufl red much, but her great heart was brave still. Her husband gamed, drank, and used her cruelly. Fre quently he drove her out on the lone ly hills, and with her children cow ering about her she spent the night under the cold, unpitying stars, call ing for aid on the heaven that was far beyond her misery and praying for aid to her mother's God. I wondered then how she trusted Him with such blindness, for I knew no mother’s piety—mine lay under the lilies. At length her poor husband committed a crime for which he was arraigned be fore a court of justice, and his two eldest children were the principal witnesses of his guilt. She knew their testimony would be against him but her parting admonition was: “Tell the truth and nothing hut the truth. It is hard but it must be the truth, the whole truth.” He was convicted, but escaped from prison—some said by her contrivance. Now began her struggle. Alone and unaided she looked want and desola tion in the face, and bared arm and heart for the strife. She asked no favor but “any employment.” The boys worked in any capacity. The eldest girl sewed with her mother. The light dawned and at last shone stead ily and her children went regularly to school. Now she learned to write own name from her fourth child, om she herself had taught to t owned three cows, milked and sold the milk. She worked a market gar den, assisted by a son of fifteen. She had four other children, the yongest five years old. “And he was only a year old when I lost my man,” she added, seeing I was an interested listener. “1 have bought half a square of ground, something is still due on it and I want to pay a note this morn ing. “How early do you rise every morning?” I asked. “At four, sir. It’s weary work. What with digging and watering the garden, milking the cows and odd jobs of a house my feet are often so sore that I can’t sleep when I lie down, but the clothes to buy and the mouths to feed is a good spur to drive me,” she concluded with a laugh. “Are none of them able to help ?” I asked. The March of Malaria. “Oh 1 yes, my girl helps, but she goes to school, you ses.” “And who makes the clothes?” 1 asked. “I sew at night som: times, and when I sit down to rest, t t summer is here now and we won’t want so many clothes.” I have given the synopsis of tie story she gave me in detail. There was heroism, and here in this worn, withered, homely woman wa3 a spirit beautiful in itspowsrand sublime in its patience. Not one word ef com plaint, no wuining over destiny, no feeling of disappointment because her lot was less fair, yet her language told that a fairer would have been more prized as It wouid hsye been sweet. Oh. fair and gentle women of quiet, happy, love-girdled homes, unused to toil, wearing luxurious garments and jewels of great value, do you ever think how far a sweet smile or a kind act will go toward lowlier sisters? You sit beside them, regarding them as little as the weeds by the wayside, or perhaps sneer thoughtlessly if their homely garments should happen to touch your own, never knowing that the common clay beside you holds a soul as pure and leads a life more heroic in its struggle than yours can ever be. “Kind words fitly spoken are like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” American and English Scenery were the pr >udest family I knev^ They felt their own rthinesiflUid looked for no slights superiors in station. They had taught to associate with the good espectable or remain isolated, sphere widened, society extend- hand and at last a place was anted them Near this time the fu gitive husband returned and the two long parted met again. Bhe led him as a stranger to her bed room, and re tiring to her lonely chamber spent the night in prayer. Like Jacob of old she struggled ; like him she triumph ed. • Her sons and daughters, when grown to man and womanhood, held places of trust and honor, and when her last hour came the soul passed to rest while a triumphant song was issuing from her lips. I met a heroiue this morning, a very homely old creature, but one of life’s bravest soldiers. “Stop the car, madam, please stop it!” It was a woman’s cry, as she ran after a street car of which I chanced to be the only occupant, and the cry was so pleading that I rang the bell at once though Bhe was a good dis tance off. The driver stopped his mule, looked back and seeing a woman freighted with a huge basket nrepared to drive on. “Let her wait for the next car,” he said carelessly. “Please wait. A minute or two may be a great deal to her,” I pleaded. "With a smile he nodded assent, ami in a few BecondB she was at the door. Khe sat down and wiped her face with £er coarse apron, thanking me in broken English for my kindness. What a trifling kindness it was and f how - grateful she soemed for it. »•**.*To*, into •» »' ™ was so hurried. It does not always rain in England ; there are sometimes breaks between the showers, and In those breaks we are able to get a few glimpses of what is, after all, for English eyes and English brains, the most beautiful scenery on the face of the earth. There is grander scenery else where unquestionably, for we in Britain are not good at the sublime, and when we attempt it—as at Glen coe, or still more feebly at tbe Valley of Rocks and Blackgang Chine—we fail egregiously, like Icarus, and only succeed in making ourselves dismally absurd. But for the phases of nature which Englishmen love best there is no land like England. Not that the symmetry of our tastes and our sur rounding is due to any pre-established harmony any more than in the fa mous case of all the great rivers which, by a merciful dispensation of Providence, have been observed inva riably to flow past all the great towns; no doubt by this time, as Mr. Herbert Spencer would put it, our »3thetic sentiments have adapted themselves to our environment. Quite lately Mr. John Burroughes, a delightful Ameri can essayist, vtjjio stands to American woodland life in somewhat the same relation as Mr. Jefferies stands to Eng lish woodcraft, has been informing his countrymen how the scenery of England struck him on a recent visit. The fr shness, the verdure, the park- like expanses, the cultivated lawns— all pleased and delighted his eye im menaely. But to a mind formed by the vast horizons of America there was always a sense of confinement and pettiness. He longed for the infinite among so many trim inclosures ; he pined for the open sweep of forest or prairie among so many neat quad rangular hedges. It is the lack of these things, he thinks—and thinks wrongly, we venture to say—that drives so many Englishmen to seek the wider horizons of Bwitzerlaud or the Tyrol; he fancies we muBttlreas he does of our own quiet country soenery, and must long In our hearts for the unkempt vastness of American wood land wilderness. In fact, he falls into the error of supposing that we Eng lishmen, whose whole nervous system is harmony with English scenery, must share the feelings which are due in him to hereditary association and The recent reports of commissions and scientific bodies, like the Board of Health, giving the results of careful and extended investigations, notably the papers of Dr. Chamberlain, of Hartford, and Dr. Adams of Pittsfield, though marked by the habitual cau tion in generalization and inference which characterizes the scientific mind, make it plain to common sense that the fever, in its several special types, whether dumb or shaking, whatever may be its pathology, or nature, or origin, is due as an existing evil here to decomposition or exhala tion and all the morbific and malefic influences engendered about marshy or wet regions and impure water beds. The best authorities are not sure, or agreed, on the question whether the disease is indigenious or imported, or on the question why it is brought info activity at one time rather than an other. They generally concur in the opinion, on both sides of the Atlantic, that it germinates or sprouts in the human body from very minute spores, measuring, perhaps, 8000 to an inch. But how these seeds are transported about, or what the conditions of re ceptivity and susceptibility are under by the bmbs of sunk streams, and works its burning and shivering dam- which they are developed, nobody can yet tell. There is evidence that sporadic cases occur in dry, upland regions,but the disorder loves marches, lings to artificial lakes or ponds, runs age most malignantly where the nor mal mutual relations between soil, vegetable matter and stagnant or moving water have been unsettled. Mention is made of some compact rural populations near foul mill ponds, where half the inhabitants have been down at once. Speculation as to causes, as might be expected, has been bu^y. What causes of malaria exist now which were non-existent, or in abey ance, so long prior to this late day ? Not only is science shy of hasty con clusions, bat property, too, has its self-preserving instincts, and the mini- owners and manufacturers are not unwilling to have a part, at least, ot the curse rest on other shoulders than their own. What then are the new conditions ? Railroads and tobacco culture are two. The railways are apt to open the surface on low ground, and if there were enough of them it might happen that unwholesome gas escaping would afleot the workmen, as it is said the upturning of acres of old sod on build ing lot? affects the health of the people in the upper part of the island of New York. But there are altogether too many railways where there are no chills^nd too many chills where there are no railways, to allow much plausi bility to this theory. It fails twice ovtr. Much of the same may be said of the tobacco fields. The idea that the sickuess comes of f< rLilizers used lor tobacco raising has even less sup port, for that nuisance is of but a very brief annual continuance, and is far from being conterminous with the malady. Bo far as the great forces of nature are concerned, not much can Mb done in the way of remedy. If, as tliere is some reason to think, there is a constant shrinkage going on in rivers, fountains, brooks and lakes, with a diminished rainfall, through out this part of the country, all we can do about that is to employ every per sonal effort to remove or deodorize the stench-breeding and fever-breeding matter along the banks, and to In - crease our forests by planting or pro tection, as many thoughtful land owners are now doing, and as the late forestry convention in Montreal leads us to hope may be done more and more. I childish familiarity with far other There are thousands of citizens who, with only a moderate outlay, can stanch, on their own premises at least, the offensive sources of pain and death—for, though not regarded as ordiuurily fatal, fever and ague some times takes a congestive form, or otherwise overmasters the vital pow er, in spite of the best treatment, and the patient dies. Dwelling iu bad climates study the laws of sanitary safety ami heed them. Out-of-door night air #nn, to a great extent, be avoided. A'ires can he built evening anil luorBng. The human system can be kept wee, vigorous, and protected iving, temperance and flan- me physiologists think a flue uze at open windows may the spores. A line of thick th underbrush has been sup- by righ( nets, wire keef oi, trees posed to arrest them. Tliera is plenty of proof that good drainage counteracts this as it does other kinds of sickness. The Broad Field of Science. A German jourjal notes a singular behavior of copper and lead salts with soda-lye. If a solution of copper ni trate is mixed with lead acetate, and if soda-lye ia then added till the pre cipitate first formed is redissolved,and if the mixture is boiled, the solution, instead of depositing black-brown copper oxide, becomes clearer and clearer. This phenomenon Is stated to occur even in very dilute solutions. It is asset ted that the electric light ing of the Vaudeville, on the Boule vard Moutmartre, has far exceeded the expectation of the most sanguine. In a double sense it is a brilliant event. Every night the hall is densely crowd ed. It seems that the power employed is an 11-horne power gas engine, which with Faure accumulators, is sufficient to keep 250 Swan lamps in a state of incandescense every evening. The Moniteur de la Flotte de cribes a proposal for placing passing ships in communication with existing subma rine cables. The projector would fl »at buoys with the necessary connecting wires and apparatus at intervals of a day’s journey along the line of the cable, each numbered and properly lighted at night, and he considers that the plan presents but few difficul ties, and would obviate much anxiety anti man} 7 dangers. Carefully conducted experiments hi>vo demonstrated the fact mat sea soned wood well saturated with oil when put together, will not shrink in the driest weather. Wheels have been known to run many years, even to wearing out the tires. Very many dollars might be saved annually if this practice were adopted. Boiled linseed oil is the best for general use, although it is now known that crude petroleum on even old wheels is of great benefit. Various cases of poisoning from the use of perfumes have been reported in recent English journals. In one in stance a little girl had bought some heliotrope perfume at a bazaar, and had applied it on her face. This caused a vesicular eruption, swelling, itching, and, in fact, erysipelas, which lasted for some time. The scent was made with some of the product of coal tar, and not with the odoriferous principles of plants, thus acquiring its Irritating properties. A French writer estimates the mini mum annual consumption of nickel in England at 600 tons, and. places Ger many second,with 300 t Jk the United States third with 200, ..ud France fourth with 100. The Engineering and Mining Journal says that, in view of the fact that in this count-y nickel plating has reached an extensive use nowhere else approached, not to men tion the consupmtiou for coinage, this estimate is probably far below the actual figures. Professor Tobin has shown the Kentucky S ate Millers’ Association some experiments which demonstrate conclusively that flour and other fine organic dust, under certain conditions, may become almost as explosive as gunpowder. He also showed tha dampness destroyed the explosive ten dency and recommended the use of the wet bulb thermometer constantly In mills, and on its indication ofjdryness the injection of live steam into the atmosphere. Captain King, of Paris, makes a positive on glass from a negative and on the same glass in this way : The back of the negative is covered with soluble bitumen or asphalt, and then illuminated through the negative. After an exposure sufficient to render the light part insoluble the remainder of the asphalt is dissolved off *vith any of the usual solvents, and the result is a positive. The silver negative is then dissolved off with thecholoride of cop per and a fixing agent. The Habit of Detraction. It is so easy to get into the way of thinking the worst of our friends aud neighbors, that one should guard against a habit of detraction with all one’s might. It is painfully depress ing to he with those who habitually Hpeak evil of others. One feels in a charmed circle of hopeless iniquity, if it be not one of delusive appearances. Everything is bad throughout, and there is not a square inch of virtue left for our weary soul to reflt on. People whom we have loved since we were children, are shown to us as seamed aud soared with iniquities, and unworthy oar most tepid regard; names that wa have venerated are stripped of their laurels, and crowned with weeds ai. <1 straw, or made out to fhe mere shadows of names, if indeed they are not the shadows of foul sub stances ; our pet illusions are sneered at, and life is stripped of its poetry. People given to detraction can never find a possible excuse, a charitable reason for anything they do not quite agree with, like, or understand. Bay they see some one they know under conditions admitting of two explana tions—one supposing doubtful taste or discretion, the other compatible with perfect Innocence and purity of thought and motive; you neyer hear them give the latter interpretation, or accept it when offered to them. It must be that doubtful appearances are tbe warranty of evil deeds ; and they will not be convinced to the contrary, say what you may ; they love to hear and believe evil rathtr than good. Another Danger to Iron Ships. A rather singular occurence has been discovered by the officers of the steam ship Carmona, now iu port ai Mon treal. Lately, while the vessel was pitching in a heavy sea, daylight be- came visible in the iron rudder be tween the screw and the outside rud der frame. Closer inspection revealed the fact that a very large hole had bean eaten into the rudder nearly four feet by three in dimensions. Not withstanding this, she steered fairly, and arrived without any drawback. The only solution of the problem what caused the hole in the rudder is that it is due to the galvauic action of the large brass nut at the end of the pro peller shaft, and this having disinte grated the iron of the rudder, the ac tion of the water washed away the iron piecemeal, until at length the large aud dangerous hole was noticed This is another of the difficulties iron ships have to overcome. Christian and Heathen Hos pitality. A comparison between the hospital ity of our government and that of the Japanese to distressed seamen is well illustrated by the recent case of the “Bremen,” which went ashore, a cutter or government vessel sent out o protect property. In the case of Japan, the American ship “ Surprise ” was wrecked in h\> U ary, 1876, on the Plymouth Rocks, ai„I was abandoned with all sail set. A Japanese man-of- war was sent to her assistance. The* crew furled all the sails and remained alongside to prevent fishermen from stealing, and property was safely pro tected. The “ Bremen ” was left in a hurry and not a man or vessel has been sent by the governirent to guard her, and, as a consequence, the effects of the captain and officers and even of the crew have been appropriated by fishermen and others who scour the seas for prey. Keeping Butter Cool, Before ice became a universal lux ury people were in the habit of hang ing butter in their wells to keep it cool and sweet; and that is doubtless the custom still where ice is scarce and dear. It must have happened a thousand times that the cord broke and the butter disappeared, but there can’t have been many cases where it was recovered after thirty years. Such an incident has just given local fame to Mr. Goodman’s well in Bloomfield, Conn. A workman who was clean ing It found at the bottom a ball ot butter and the dish In which it was suspended thirty years ago. It is pure white and has the consistency and odor of spoiled cheese. Royalty in Art. In becoming a member of the insti tute of Paint-rs in Water Colors, the Princess Beatrice follows the example set by her sister Louise, who I? a member of the Royal Society of PaiLiters in Water Colors, aud actu ally exhibited a portrait at the Gro» venor G .llery last season, aud by h eldest sister Victoria who, wb Crown Princess of Germany, has i thought it beneath her dignity to j tho Institute of Painters in Wa Colors and exhibit publicly several her works. Two boarding-house keepers ar comparing notes. “It ’pears to in Mrs. Mlggles, that your chickeu sala is pever found out—leastways I never heard none of the boarder? complain.” “You see,” explained Mrs. Higgles, “I alluiRihop up a few feathers wltu the veal.”