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Poet's Corner. A Cradle iu tha Hotue. We have got a cradle in the house, And we have something in It; A freakl'h, wayward, winsome bairn, Not t> gser than a miuute. Although no diadem he wearH Bu 1 Is ringlets soft an t brown, Hlsevery smile and irown wo heed, As if he wore a crown. N • sceptre in his hands he holds, But then his plnhy fist so small, He, like a royal rnouarc >, wields, And we are hutnole subj jets all. And when his tiny foot he stamps If s.ugat, caprice < r whim displease, The brightest gift in babydum We bring him to appease. An I when tie wills to close his eye o , We go on tiptoe throngU tne house ; Even papa’s heavy-boo’ed foot Falls softly as a mouse. We have a despot ou the throae, Keclluhig like a kinglet, For we have a cradle i n our house, And we have something in it. Love is Enough. Love is enough! Let us not ask f >r gold; Wealth breeds false alius, and pride and se flshness. In those serene, Arcadian days of old, Man gave no thought to princely homes or dress. The gods whd dwelt on fair Olympia’s height Lived only lor dear Love and Love’s delight. Love is enough. Love is enough I Way should we care for fame ? Ambition is a most unpleasant guest; It leaves us with the glory of a name Far from the happy haunts of peace and rest. Let us stay heroin this secluded place, M ide beautiful by L tvo’s enduring grace. Love is enough. Love is enough ! Why should we strive for power ? It brings mei only envy and distrust. The poor man s homa :e please t but an hour, And earthly honors vanish in the dust. The grandest lives are oftimes desolate ; L'lt me be loved, and let who will be g- e it, Love is enough. I ive is enough! Why should we ask l§r more ? What greater gilts have gods vouchsafed to meat What better boon of all their precious store Thau our fond deans that love and love again ? Old love may die—new love is j ust as sweet, And life is lair, aud all toe world complete, Wheu love is onoug h. Bella’s Picture. ‘‘Ha’ll never marry you, Puss,” eaid John Ar;t>tr. Little Bella, his grauddaughttr, looked up, with wist ful, staitled eyes. “Why not, grandfather? I think— I am almost sure he likes me.” Bella Arohc r had neitht r mother nor sister, aud had been in the habit of making all her maiden confidences to •her grand f ither. * Old John took his pipe out of his mouth and watened the blue curls of the smoke as they floated up into the y girl," said he, “E think lie does you. But be is in debt, my dear i terribly tied down with that old itgage £id the notes his father died ^ left him to pay off. And Hester Vis has a clear $1000 of her own. *ian cannot afford to push fortune e when she meets him face lo I thought so, grandfather ” “Little girl,” said John, not without a kindly pity in his voico, "you don’t [know the world as well as I do.” Bella silently rose from her seat, and taking a blue-edged china bowl in her hand, went out to gather currants for tea—and to be alone and think. "If Charley Walters can^ie as mer cenary as that,” she thought, with the big drops of crystal starting to her eyes, "then there is no truth and hon esty left in all the world.” "Bella!” Tarough the green wall of bushes the gleam of a pair of merry hazel eyes glittered upon her, and the text moment Charley Walters was at ir side. VI was coming this way on an er rand from the mill,” said he, "and bo A thought I would just look in. But, Bella you are crying! What for?” "I—I do not know !” faltered poor Bella, hanging down her head. "But you must tell me! Dear Bella, your tears fall like drops of fire on my head, for I love you, Bella!” "Oh, Charley!” "I have loved you this long time, dear,” he went on, tenderly pressing her hand in his, "only I dared not ask you to share my uncertain future But some day, Bella, when I have paid of! these debts and have a home to offer you, will you oome and be its little queen?” And Bella, half crying, half laugh- ig promised that she would. "But,” said she, with a demure in her blue eyes, "Hester Morris is much more of an heire s than I am. Hester Morris has a thou sand dollars of her own, aud 1 haven’t a thousand cen<s.” "I love you,” said Charley, "and I don’t love Hester Morris! There’s where It is, my little one. And al- tho tgh I can’t deny that a thousand dollars would be very acceptable to me, dill I do not propose to sell myself for any such sum of money as that.” Half an hour later old John Archer was electrified to feel Bella’s arms around his neck, her soft eheek laid I against his stubby beard, aud to hear her whispering : "Grandfather, he does love me ! He has told me so—and has asked me lo be his wife.” The next morning was one of those brilliant August dajs when the leaves scarcely pf r iu the golden rain of the sunshine, and the purple hills seem outlined like crayon skctihes against the dazzling blue of tbs horizm, and John was suuning himself on a wood en bench in front of the house, when up trotted a pi r .y of young equestrians from the Oveilrok H use, ten miles away. "(Jan we get a glass of milk and sometingto eat here?”|demai;ded Clare Dallas, the forerunner of the party,as he sprang from his high mettled grey horse. John Archer shook his head grave ly- "This is not an inn, sir,” said he. "Not an inn? Why, there is the sign swinging now,” said the young gentlemen pointing with one Anger up toward the warped and dilapidated board, on which was painted in letters well nigh washed out the legend, ‘ Entertainment for Man and Beast.” * Yes,” said John, there is the sign to be sure, jut as it bung there In my son’s days. He kept here, but I don’t.” "How i r woking !” said one of the ladies. Aud now we shall have to ride on six milea further—aud I am to thirstv.” "No need of that, no need of that!” alertly interrupted the old man. "It ain’t no inn, to be sure, but my grand- daughtt r, Bella, will be proud to give you a glass of milk and some of her homemade ginger ale, If you will alight, Walk in, walk in !” He walked on in advance of them, and Bella flushed and pretty, brought out her pitcher of milk and brown ginger bread at once. But one of the guests, a middle aged gentleman, quite bald, with shining black eyes, like beads, walked straight past the table to the chimney piece, where a dark canvas hung, enclosed in a cheap frame of painted pine. "What’s this?” said he. "Eh WhaVd this? ’ And ho lifted a pair of gold eye glasses to his eyes and gazed intently. "That?” said John Archer, rather deprecatingly. "Oh, that belongs to our little Bella! It ain’t worth much to look at, I know, but she thinks it is better than the blank wall. It was laid up in the garret these twenty years, and she brought it down last spring. Grandfather, says she, it will just c jver the stove-pipe hole!” “ Where did you get it ?” asked the g entleman. "There was an old furrin gentleman died here when my son Jake kept tavern—died of typhoid fever—and he set a deal of store by it. It was his wife, mebbe, or his mother, that there woman with Ahe child in her arms. He had no relations as ever any one hear of. Jake buried him, poor creeter and there was the end of it. But he lay and stared at that picture to the last, a muttering his furrin lingo,most likely it was some relation of his.” "Not (xactly,” said the dark gentle man, with a curious smile hovering the corners of his lipB. It’s a Madona —one of Carlo 8forya’s. Do you say it belongs to this little girl?” "Yes, sir,” said Bella, coloring and casting dow her eyes under the dark lightning of his. "Father gave it to me for my playhouse.” "What will you take for it!” Bella could hardly believe her ears. "I—I don’t know.sir” she stammer ed, "I don’t quits know what it’s worth. Worth ten dollars ?” "Ten dollars I” cried out the gentle man, "I’d give you a thousand !” Bella put her hands resolutely be hind her back. "Sir, that would be cheating you It is not worth so much money.” The old virtuoso smiled grimly.” "Child,” said he, "what do you know of art? Is It for you to deolde what a Carlo Sforya is worth ? A bot tle of Ink, please,” to old John, as he pulled out a pen and a morocco leather paper book from bis vest pocket. He knocked the frame up at once, rolled up the black aud age-stained canvas aud carried it off, as old John afterward remarked, as carefully as if it w rs a baby, while Bella, staring at her check for $1000, could hardly be lieve that the whole thing was not a dream. "But, grandfather, is this money ail mine, to do what I like with it?” "Of course it is, child.” "Then I’ll give it to Charley to pay ofl the mortgage with, and we can be mairied i.t once.” "A woman all over,” said he. "Weil, my lass, do with it just what will make you happiest.” Charley Walters refused to accept the money at first, and then he said he would take it as a loan. "Aud you into the bargain, my little go id fairy,” said he, with a smile that was choked by a sob. Relative Longevity in Various Occupations. An interesting exhibit of the mor tality in the diflerent walks of life was furnished by the General Regis ter in report on the death-rate of the whole of England in 1851. From this It appears taat out of evt ry thousand persons between the ages of twenty- five and fifty five, foity died on an average. Classified according to the most favorable mortality, and in creasing downward, we have the fol lowing tables: Below Average. Above Average. 1. Merchauts. 7. Miners. 2. Weavers. 8. Tailors. 3. Cobblers. 9. Bakers. 4. Carpenters. 10. Butchers. 5. Blacksmiths. 11. Liquor dealers. 6. Laborers. The mortality of the eleventh class is so great that in good companies they are only admitted with great caution, and on shi rt endowment or term policies. Mariners, also, are consid< red pot r risks, as 35 per cent, of the deaths among them ae attributable to acci dents. Among miners 25 per cent, among machinists 15 per cent., among painters, well-diggers, and glaziers 10 per cent, die in consequence of casu alties. The callings of brewer, type setter, tinsmith, lithographer, and stonecutter are also in a measure detrimental to a prolonged duration of life. Elephants. Mr. Sanderson, the elephant hun ter, in Africa has captured this sea eon, jjp to March, a total of two hun dred and fifty-one elephants. Two of his drivers were very successful, yielding sixty-five and fitty-five re spectively. He could easily have caught a hundred more, if he had had a sufficient number of tame elephants. All the wild elephants were caught on the Garrow Hills so that it may safely be concluded, when so many have been caught in such a comparatively small arena, that there is little fear of Aheir extinction in India at all events. Although Mr. Sanderson had little or no time for sport, he came across and killed some good buffaloes (the horns of one bull measured nine feet six inches outside and across the forehead, and nineteen and half inches in cir cumference well clear of the skull), also some good specimens of rhinocer oses, which he says are much easier to kill than a buffalo. Mr. Sanderson also killed some tigers, two in one day. One of these was what he hith erto has not believed in, viz., a ten- foot tiger. It measured ten feet one inch by the shortest mode, and he says could be made to measure ten feet and nine inoheB. Papa Castel’s classics : The unedu cated manager is liable to laughable mistakes. One of these geutlemen, Papa Castel, was getting up a mytho logical ballet. His stage manager was explaining the intended arrangement of the principal tableaux. "This raised Bcaflolding in the centre is Mount Olympus, where we will place all the heathen divinities ; that to the left is Mount Parnassus, which we can oover wjtli the poets of antiquity; on this, tojihe right, Mount Pindus, we will fena three groups, composed of the nife Muses, the three Futes aud th^tlflee Graces.” "No, no!” said Papa flastel, " that will never do; too uusymuetrloal by far; too Irregular. Let Ms have the five MuseB, the five FalM and the five Graces. That will be Kmnch^nretUftr arrangement.” Table Conceits. The Boa Ton. Fashionable dinner tables are 11 >ht* ed by candelabra on either side of the centre piece, or occasionally by a cen tral cluster of branch lights,which sur mount a pair of vaVs, all springing from the same base. Usually the foun dation is a mirror, and the support the figure of a child or mythological subject. Glasses for wines should indicate In shape or color the kind for which thev are intended. Taus, a red glass is suit able for whits wine, green for various kinds of Rhine wiue, while white of small size signifies sherry. Claret glasses are larger than port glasses, while th se for champagne are thin in the stem and of wide brim. Much amusement is derived at some popular dinn rs from the cards which indicate the seats of guests. They are of endless variety, are otteu printed expressly to order and contain witty allusions or sa*ideal pictures. The newest are mounted uppon rib bons of bright colors, about three inch es wide, which are fringed out at the edges, aud upon the centre of which a painting is either executed upon the material itself or upon tinted card. For a recent farewell bachelor din ner, on the eve of a wedding, such cards made expressly to ord< r by Tif- fany, each one being reserved for a special guest as a memento of the oc casion, cost $3 a piece. For hunting-dinners floral decora tions assume characteristic shapes,und a rabbit, hare or game of some kind appears iu emblematic form upon the ta ble. Beautiful little baskets are now in fashion as liquor stands. Each con tains four bottles, while srouud the edges of the basket are twelve little hooks, from which depend small square-shaped glasses. Usually bot tles and stoppers are of different oo]< rs while the little glasses correspond by having handles unlike the body of the glass. Coffee is presentsd to guests after dinner in the reception-room upon a revolving I ray. In this, the latest style, a little urn is in the centre, from which the coffee is to be poured, and the s-ts imported from Minton are provided with six, eight or twelve cups, cream jug, milk pitcher and sugar bowl. Upon the same principle 12 o’clock breakfast and 4 o’clock tea are served in boudoirs upon revolving tables. Sets of china are made which sti ve either purpose, being provided with toast-rack and muffin dish ftr use in the morning, while if intended for afternoon tea these articles are re moved. The tables for these sets are in Q, aeen Anne style and the mufli a dish fits into a round hole beneath the tea tray. Such sets of china comprise the requisite number of cups, a tea pot, a tea-kettle (both in china), cream jug, milk pitcher and sugar bowl. By their use the attendance of a servant is dispensed with. Universally popu lar in the best society in England, they i ra becoming somewhat general here and in Washington. Novel napkin rings are made of flowers, wired into shape and placed upon the semette. Although they serve no useful purpose they are orna mental. The newest ice cream plates are of Bohemian glass with little handles. The shape is something between an oval and a square. Others are in china, cream-colored ground, with gilt edges, in shape like a full-sized grape leaf. Single vases for each guest are no longer so popular as they were for dinner tables. The more fashionable style to day is a central globe either of deeply*cut crystal or of Bohemian glass, which rests upon a polished mirror. Some of these globes are mounted upon deep crystal trays, thus providing a second receptacle for the flowers. Four oorner pieces are sold with the globes, either for a con tinuous design around the centre or for the ends of the table. In spite of the attempt to introduce color Into the table doth, preference in the highest oirdes is still given to fine white damask, but occasionally the doths are trimmed with lace edging. Exquisite desert plates are in the richest Dresden china, with deep-toned centres and open-worked edges. The designs are so beautiful that doylies are not used with them. Very pretty pieces of glass are now In the leading stores for "odd” pi on a dinner table. TUey are in Sevres glues, amber or blue in color, and ara enabled in raised designs or gilt in relief. The shapes are especially novel and attractive. For gentlemeu’s dinner parties menu cards painted by hand are in vogue, representing some very realistio part of the preparations for the entertain ment. Upon one the cook in cap and apron is to-sing a pancake, on another the butler has just drawn the cork, and so on through the series. For or dinary dinutrj menu cards are upon tinted bristol board, aud the newett style is to have a vignette on one cor ner, date, aud plr.ee of entertainment occupying the other, This ii on single cards, but those referred to above are double, and are iutended to be laid opposite the plate of the guest. Some very fashionable people dia pause with flowers at the dinner table entirely. Ici fact, they are altogether less in faver for festive occasions than they were, probably because they are so much in request at interments. The Mile and the Knot. The confusion in the public mmd, and redacted most clearly in the writ ings of popular authors in regard to the diflerence between the mile and the knot, is astonishing. In the same article the knot and the mile is repeat edly compared as though they were sononymoua terms. It is very difficult in regard to English steamers to find out what speed has really been made. A mile and a knot are by no mems the same thing. A mile is It, s than 87 per cent, cf a knot. Three and ono- half miles are equal, within a very small friction, to three knots. The knot is 6)82.66 feet in leflgth. The statute mile is 528) feet. The result of this difference is that the speed in miles per hiur is always considerably larger than when stated in knots, and if a person forgets this and states a speed as so many knots wheu it was really so many miles, he may be gluing figures verging on the incredible. W hen we hear parties say that such a vessel is capable of making 20 knots per hour, we usually take the state ment with a very large grain of salt, for, 20 knots is 23.04 miles per hour, a speed which very tew vessels have made, and it is doubted by some who have had the best opportunity for making actual rneasu r aments, whethi r any vessel has ever made 25 miles in 60 minutes. What, then, shall we think of a person who reports that some of the English torpedo boats have made as high as 24 or 25 knots ? T verity four knots are over 27J miles per hour, and twenty-five knots are upward ot 28J miles an hour. How to Prevent Tocl3 from Rusting. The best plan of preventing too} from rusting is the simple preparatic employed by Prof. Olmstead, of Yall College, for the preservation of scien tific apparatus, and which he long ago published for the general good, de ciding to have it patented. It is made by the slow melting together of six or eight parts of lard to one of rosin, stirring till cool. This remains semi-fluid, ready for use, the rosin preventing rancidity and supplying an air-'lglit film. Rubbed on a bright surface ever so thinly, it protects and preserves the polish effectually and it can be wiped off nearly clean, if ever desired, as from a knife blade ; or It may be thinned with coal oil or ben zine. A writer in Forest and Stream says that if oxidation has begun, no matter in how slight a degree, it will go on under a coating; it is therefore essential that the steel surface he both bright and dry when filmed over. Heavy Grades. At Mauoh Chunk the elevation of the Lehigh Valley Railroad is 644.4 feet above the tide. The top of Mt, Pisgali is 4500 feet above the tide. From the top of Mt. Pisgah to the foot of the Mt. Jelferson plane the distance is six and two-thirds miles, and the grade is 46 feet to the mile [from the top of Mt. Jefferson Summit Hill the distance is one ml] and the grade 45 feet to the From Summit Hill to Mauch the distance is nine miles, and t| grade is 90 feet to the mile. An attractive ad.: A clerk of an neutly respectable house, the head which is a d< aeon, was instructed prepare an advertisement and inserted In the papers. He pre one which read: "The pot sooo We hotft four aces to the bob-tall of any other house In town on .table cloths.”