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It El. 11. 11. HWirtt). Editor. A. l». fit UXETT, Manat/er. ‘HITTIT MINUTES TO SPAKE.’’ BY HALT.rK C. YOVW«. 0 youth, tn life's bright, rosy morn, Whilst sunlmma gild thy way Ar i thought* intense within thee bum, 1 mindful of to-day ' 1 he present thou max al claim for thine— The future’s a dream most fair— Think twice ere thou dost squander, the Thy “fifteen minute* to spare.” And, should a comrade say to thee: “ We ll shun the narrow way, And eat, and drink, and merry be, For to-morrow we’ll away, Turn thou at on« tire tempter boohs Who spread* for thee a snare; Touch not, nor tastA, but be a man In “ thy fifteen minutes to spare.” There nr A treasure* scattered on the pls That await a searching hand, And coral wre;.i; < in the billowy main Ami grains of >!d in the sand; There are g.ms of learning snugly hid And bright thought", here and there That may l»e thine to revel amid ’ In thy “ fifteen minutes to spare.’ The transient rain-drops of a day Help make the, sparkling rill, And it, in turn, doth baste away T<> help oi l ocean fill. If thou wouldst v.rar a starry crown Mid angel bands up there, Then earn the jewels, one by one, In thy “fifteen miautf* to spare.' Clarendon, Ark. Lion-Taming. “Is your life insured?” asked a /?«- j>u6Zican reporter of George Conklin, the lion-tamer and elephant-breaker of the circus now in winter quarters at the Fair Grounds. “ No, I have not got a dollar on it. I’m not a good risk, and the companies won’t write me.” “ How do you feel when you enter the den of the lions and tigers?” “ I trv not to think of anything, but I soon fed the excitement, which grad ually becomes a delirium. Some time ago I was putting a family of leopards through their performance, and, while working one of them, another fastened her fangs on the rear part of my thigh, and yet, through the excitement, I never felt the pain. Indeed, it was c nly when I turned round to engage one of the other animals that I found the brute had me fast, but I cowed her down. This, however, can not always be done, and as an instance of this i recall the death of my friend Herr Lengel, .of Philadelphia. I received this extract from one of my Australian correspond ents : “ ‘Mr. G. A. Courtney, proprietor and manager of the zoological circus bearing his name, wrote from San Do frningo, W. L, September IG, as under: “Last night at ten o’clock the well known lion-tamer, Herr Elijah Lengel, of Philadelpeia, Pa., entered the den of the Brazilian tigers attached to the cir cus, and had nearly concluded his per formance with them when he made a (false step, and one of the tigers caught him by the head and neck, and in less (than five seconds he was torn to pieces. Ills jugular vein was cut, ids ear on the iright side completely eaten off, and his [body was a mass of mangled flesh and Ibone. The tent was densely packed with [people, and the scene that followed it is 'impossible to describe. The guard and Also a few private individuals com imenced firing with revolvers and rifles lat the tiger, and sooi killed it, thereby enabling the attaches to drag the body jof Lengel through the compartment. The remaining living tiger at once fell ■upon the dead animal in presence of jthe audience and tore it into frag ments. ” 1 ” 1 “Do you go armed into the cages?” I “No, sir. Three years ago in St. .Louis during the night the lions dragged A performing leopard through the bars and devoured it. When L went to the •cage next morning (Sunday) all that Temained of the creature was its head ;and one leg. That Leopard was a pet and a good performer, which drew the people, and when I told Mr. Cole he isaid: ‘Well, George, can you do any thing with any of the other leopards?’ II told him I'd try, and that afternoon I 'took a green animal and worked with her for some time. I guess I tired her out, for she came at me with blood in 'her eye, so I had to kill her—it was Hobson’s choice.” “How did you kill her?” “I struck her on the head with the butt of my whip. I can kill any leopard or tiger that way. Did you ever hear of an elephant freezing to death in May?” “I never heard of an elephant dying.” “Well, four years ago we were to Denver by way of Pike’s Peak, and the w’eather was warm enough for your shirt-sleeves, but two days later it was so cold that one of my elephants got ■frost-bitten, and it was all I could do to get her to Denver, where she died on May i 3, being literally frozen to death.” Mr. Conklin has been a wild beast trainer for seventeen years, and his body is covered with terrible scars, the result of the caresses more or less .demonstrative of his animals. Although he' has performed his lions thirteen years, he says that the slightest hesita tion or fear displayed by him would result in a ferocious attack upon him. He rules bv fear. “ Then I am to understand that a lion which \ou have performed for years never has an affection for you?” “ Never—or ra* her Pinafore. They know me very well and fear me, but, if they got the bulge on me, I’d hardly present enough material for the Coro ner to work on. Ail wild animals make directly for the throat, and in a big cage I can always dodge 'em with hot irons if they get bo refractory as to endanger my life. They are not afraid of my firing off blank cartridges, and the most liskv thiojtl do is to feed themfror my hand with raw meat. The blood makes them hanker after warm human blood, I suppose. I have been around wild beasts ever since I could walk; my father was at it before I was born, and I have a brother in the business now. So used to their traits and moods have I bevome thM I wwik iqto * suwoge The Weekly Defiance. den among lions who never saw or smelled me before. Joe Whittle, whom I trained up to the business, came to grief and made a meal for ‘Frank, ’ into whose mouth I put my head.” “ How was itr” “Joe was performing Frank and George in rehearsal, and when he put his head into Frank’s mouth the brute closed on him. Instead of keeping still Joe pulled his head out tearing all the flesh off his neck and face. We called to him to come out, but he refused, and said he’d conquer him *or die right there.’ He then whipped the brute through the drill, and was about to leave the ea#e krr Um trap-dons, whan Frank pounced on his leg, and tore most of it off. He died, and I have performed the lions ever since. In Pottsville, Pa., a lioness took me by the calf, and I kept still, turned around and baat her with my whip until she let go. Another time I had all the meat chewed off my chest and my shirt-bosom dislocated; but then one gets used to these slight inconveniences.” It takes four months to train an ele phant, and their breaker gives them two lessons a day. Two hundred pounds of hay and four bushels of oats, together with a mess of bread and potatoes, are consumed daily by each elephant. A lion takes six months’ incessant labor to bring it into subjection and teach it tricfcs; and even then oniy about one lion in ten is successfully trained for exhibition. To place one’s head into the mouth of a lion, tiger, leopard, or elephant requires dauntless courage, ana even Mr. Conklin admits that the process Is accompanied oy decidedly unpleasant sensations. “Are lions or timers strongest?” “ When about the same sue they are equal in strength, and when or e attacks the other it all depends wmch gets the first grip on his roe’s throat —they are like bulldogs. I give a lion fifteen pounds of beef once a day as his allow ance. “ I pick up stray facts once m awhile, and the average ages of animals might interest you,” said Conklin. “A bear lives about 20 years, a dog 20, a fox 14, lions, from 50 to 70 years, cats 15 years, elephants 700 years, pigs 30, rhinoc eroses 20; horses 10 years, although one lived to be over 60; camel* live 100 years, whales I,oob, cows 10, sheep 10, ravens 100, swans have been known to live 300 years, and an eagle died a Vienna at the age of 104 years. If you want to get at the height of an elephant, all you have to do is to take a string and measure twice round its foot, which rives that animal’s altitude to a nicety.’ “ Have you ever any forebodings that you will die in a cage r” “ I never allow myself to think of that. I just go in and do my trick and take my chances, but I take care to keep my eyes upon the animals. There’s one kind of animal I will not perform with, find that is a cross-eyed • one—he’s like the cross-eved woman i you meet on the street, you can’t ten I whether she’s flirting with you or the man on the other side of the street.” Expensive Red-Tape. Six years ago a dull-witted clerk in the <juarterma-ter - ( eneral's cilice made an error in the percentage in computing the amount of a claim due the Central Pacific Railway Company tor transportation. This left one cent due the Central Pacific Coroi any. The same error was repeated in three separate cases, until the Government had defrauded the Central Pa ike Com j any out of the sum of Miree cents through the clerk’s negligence. W ben this mistake was discox ered all the wheels of the government were set to work to try and correct it. lor six years clerks have been hard at work on the correction. The Secretary of \\ ar has addressed several letters upon the subject, and the Secretary of the Treas ury has responded, and finally to-day the profession of routine came to the end of the first stage. The requisition for three cents was approved, and three warrants for one cent each were or dered to be issued. Thus far it has cost the < ovornment over -sl,ObO to reach this p int. However, this is n t the end. The warrants must go to tne First Comptroller, then to the Assistant Secretary of Treasury for signatures, They are then to be transmitted to the Bureau of Adjustment of Railroad Ac counts. They will then be sent to the company, which will have to make affi davit before the nearest Assistant United States Treasurer that it is the party to receive the sum. —Chicago Women's Rights In Africa. The Bolonda negroes in Africa believe in the supremacy of woman. It is with them the law that women shall sit in the councils of the nation; that a young man on entering the matrimonial state shall remove from his own village to that of his wife, and in forming this relation he shall bind himself to provide his mother with wood so long as she shall live. Here, too, the wife alone can divorce the husband, and the children in that event become the property of the mother. The men cannot enter into the most ordinary contract without the permission of the lady superior of the domestic circle. In the very heart of Central Africa is the paradise that many women are vainly striving for in American, and the rights she clamors for here are already granted in this far-off country to women, and, by what we call an “uncivilized people.” A few delegates from Bolonda might be of good service to the cause, for they at least can speak from experience of what, to us, are yet untried laws, —The general agent of the Prison Association of New York states that the nio>t prolific source of crime amon» vo :ng men and boys is the poo) for diinlwt— A. K ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 24. 1883. Leached and Unleached Allies. The question is often asked, what is the comparative value of leache 1 with unleached ashes 3 The answers have been widely different. While some have claimed that a bushel of leached ashes is worth as much as a bushel of unleached, others do not value them worth more than one-third as much. Why this difference? Do not cultivat ors o’ serve alike, or is there a great difference in ashes? While, no doubt, cultivators are careless in their ob servations, and there is every reason to believe that there is a difference in the < utilities of ashe<, there are other, quite as important reasons, why there is a great ctifterence of opinion as to the com arative value of leached ashetf. I The lirst is beca so there are other elements of value in the ashes beside; ■ potash, one of them phos; hori • ceil; ; therefore, if leached a-i es he an d ’ to land already rch in potash ami da- I ticieut in phosphates, it will tie evn at once that the results would be more favorable than if appbed to laud tr L in phosphates and deficient in potash. While if the unleached be epf lied to the first, and leache ! to the last, the re sult wo Id be very un'avort’ ie to the leached ashe ; . There : s ano Tn r cause of th s great di;.creme <>t which is a ire pient misiimkr f aadififf in regard to the measurement. While one party understands a bushel of leached ashe. to simply mean a bn-’he! measured after leache another partv means a bushel measured elor*» it f* leached; as it le pares three bushels of unleache I a-hes to make one of leached, it will be seen at <>n e that such m sunderstanding must lead to a great different e of opinion as to the value, so long as farms differ as to the amount of different fertilizers the soil contains. Each farmer, by his own observation and experiment, must decide what his own soil is de; cient in, anil in what it has a surplus. The 1 est way to do this is to apply different fertilizers an i note the results; by applying a bushel of leached ashes by the side of a bushel of unleached. If he finds that the un leached does the best it is an indication that his land is deficient in potash, but if the leached does the best it is an evi dence that the potash is not as delicient as the phosphates. Massachusetts Plouahman. Attacked by Muskrats. An extraor linary battle occurred in Charlotte, the other night, between a eitizen, aided by two po.ic ‘men, and a gang of muskrats. Charlie lox was going to hs home, and, when feeling lor the gate in ti e dark, something jumped at his leg and nabbed his breeches. Looking down, he saw a number of -mad eyes sparkling like diamonds. He could not imagine what they were, and, kicking them from his legs, hopped over the fence, hurried to the house, and came back with alignted lamp and a stick. Hardly had he reached the spot before the hungry animals once more attacked his legs. He knocked one, and as he did so his light went out, and he beat a hasty re treat and hunted ior the police. Tne officers got a lamp and proceeded to the scene, and when they reached the place they had to do battle. One big fellow', who was evidently president of the body, as his immense size would indicate, made a jump at Officer Black welder, who struck at it with his club, but mi'Sed h s aim. The same one then jumped on 0.1 ccr Boyto, wno was more successful in the use of his club, and killed it by a blow on the head. The officers knocked right and left, and finally the rats, for some cause or an other, (eased fighting and scampered off. taking refuge under the culvert near. A search of the field failed to show but one dead rat, a re markable large one that weighed ten pounds. Mr. Fox saw only three when he came out with the lamp, but about ten or fifteen in all attacked the police. They were e ceedingly vora cious in their attack on Mr. Fox, as the torn condition of his pants about the ankles indicated. Cnarlobtc (A. U.) Ob- SCTL'cT. Diarrhea in Bowls. —Recent scieu tifie researches have proved that this dis ease is caused by a microscopic organ ism which is developed in the intestines, passes into the blood, and multiplies it self there with extraordinary rapidity. The parasite is ejected from the bowels, and may be taken by birds who pick about among the dung-heap or eat the grains that have been soiled by contact with it. If a fowl dies, and there is any cause to believe that diarrhea has caused its death, the birds should be immediately taken out of the poultry yard and isolated. The poultry-yard and poultry-house should be well cleansed, the dung removed, and the walls, perches, and soil washed with plenty of water. The water used should contain five grammes per litre of sul phuric acid, and a still - broom or brush should be employed. When ten days have passed without a death occurring, the birds need no longer remain isolat ed, excepting those which show signs of prostration, depression, or sleepiness. These simple means will be found suffi cient to stop the progress of the conta gion, and to prevent its return. If they are employed as soon as the disease makes its appearance, they will reduce the losses to an insignificant figure.— TjAccllrnatat ion. {-—An exchange says that ‘to wear >atoned clothes is no disgrace,” but it ooks like sin struck with a club, and we wouldn't do it if—if we were en gaged In other business. Saturday Make four Will. It in very common to hear men say, i “I do not care to make a will; the law will make a enough will for me but the experience of lawyers and busi- > ness men shows that in ninety cases out of a hundred it is better for the owner of a house or land or personal property to leave clear directions in a form which the law will recognize as binding as to the disposition <4 his estate. At all events before he decides not to make a will—to “ di* < as lawyers say —he should havi dearly before his mind ’uh'vt wUI foppen in due legal j airer hi* -Wm, not only as to the dJrviv.m of hl.-, property, but as to the i r.tra and d«day which may be hiGPrrcd by in-* Ivbzte to name some •-< t ‘ *ct as his execu- Let ft that a property >wuar, whom, ”<xT convenience sake, we will call j. after the legal fashion, lu*t a end three children, the young whom, U lie* yet twenty-one years (dd, and lot iis sappose that he will leave real eatßnfthat is, houses, land or ground rent,) 1 and personal - -tate (that «, steaks, bonds or money. > Che law will then, in the absence of a will, di vide his property thus: The widow will hive one-third of the personal estate absolutely, and the income of one-third of the real estate for her life. The re aaainder of the -property will lie equally divided am on $ the three children; but the youngest is a minor, a guardian must bo appointed for him by Hie Orphans’ Court of the county. Now this "Jt a very simple and favorable case of because most men wish that their children sh. .11 inherit equally; but even here there are several questions which J. D. must ask himself before he decides not to make a will, for instance. 1. Do I wish that my w ife should have more than one-third of my estate ? 2. Do I desire her to be the guardian of my minor child ? 3. If one of my children is a daughter, do I wish to give her a larger share than her brothers? If J. D. answers yes to any of these questions, he must make a wil'. Let u» suppose, however, that J. D. is ratified with the law’s division of his estate. The next question concerns tbe settlement of his personal property. All debts, funeral expenses, ect., must bo paid fidta this, and the remainder divided among his wife and children by a person who, if appointed by the will, is called an Executor; and, if there is no will, is appointed by the Coiu t, and called an Administrator. Au executor need not enter security ; an administra tor must. This security is in many cases obtained with difficulty' and ex pense. Does J. D. desire his wife or mend to whom will be committed the settlement of his estate to be put to this additional trouble ? The w riter Im known more than one instance, among people of narrow means, where wives, possessing the entire confidence of then husbands, have been unable to take out “ letters of administration,” as it is called, because they could not get the necessary security. Tn short, all the evil consequences pointed out can be averted, if J. D., will go to a lawyer and instruct him to draw a short will. Let us suppose that he desires his property divided as the law divides the estates of intestates. Then the will would run something like this (unless J. D., is one of those clients who like flourishes and red tape, and si forest of legal verbiage) : “This is my last will and testament. I devise and bequeath to my wife, A. D. , one-third of my real estate for life and one-third of my personal estate abso lutely. The residue of my real ana personal estate shall be equally divid ’d between my three children, F. D., G. D. and H. D. I hereby appoint my wife, A. D., guardian of the person and •state of my son, H. D., during his minority. 1 empower my executor, hereinafter named, at his discretion (o? upon the request of my wife and chil dren), to sell my real estate, <>r any pari thereof, and make good title to the pur •baser thereof. I appoint my friend, A. 8., of the city of Philadelphia, exe cutor of this, my last will and testa ment.” He must sign his name at the bottom, and he should have two or more wit nesses. This is a very short and meagre will, and usually other provisions tfould b< added, expressing more in detail the of the testator; yet these fe’w lines wmihl save money and time, ana possibly incalculable vexation or trouble Philtdelphi* FatHe Layer. Manufacture of Paper. Paper stock of all kinds is now in use. In France paper is made from tXe hop vine; in Scotland from jute. The ma terial is inexhaustible, but the process of manufacture is too expensive. Wood, •traw, esparto grass, and various other vegetable products have been pressed into the service. The hop stalk, as yidkling textile fibre possessing qualities of length, suppleness and delicacy, is the best substitute for rags vet discovered. A Connecticut man being much bothered by burglars gave his mind to circumventing them. His patience and ingenuity were rewarded the other morning by finding a marauder m the seventeen foot-deep hole which he dug under his store in front of his safe; but a neighbor of his who missed his whisky, was^not quite so lucky, for be is now in jail waiting to see whether both of the voung fellows who drank a dose of equal parts of croton oil and bQ n<^ r be had “fixed up” for them will die from ho effects. One of tljem Aas. Aw jfywn Colored! Houses. The latest product of art-protestantism in the way of street ornament is the colored house. A few years ago, apart from a shop, such a thing was unknown in London. When it came in landlords wept for it, newspapers railed at it, and the public sniffed and jeered. But the painted house has gone through the usual course of all reforms —abuse, ridi cule, imitation. Welbeck street (Rev. H. R. Haweis) took the initiative in 1873, in a house painted moss-green, re lieved by red and black in the reveals of the windows and the balcony—an effort almost simultaneously supported by Townsend House (Mr. Alma Tadema), in the Regent’s Park. The shock was at first so great to the popular mind that little groups would collect and stare op posite, as if expecting a raree-show to emerge. But in the year following one or two neighboring houses began to lap a little green and chocolate on their win dow sills in timid recognition of the im provement in the aspect. A second house in Welbeck street turned red,' with a sage-green dooc. Sir Charles Lyell, in Harley street, had ventured on a bright blue door; but this vivid color, being unsupported by color elsewhere on the facade, was not successful as a contribution to the world of art. Year by year the parents of the move<nent were amused to see how abuse was melting into that sincerest form of flattery—imi tation. As street after street began to furnish itself up and don rainbow hues, the obtusest people suddenly awoke to perceive that they possessed a pretty cornice, and they picked it out in two drabs in lieu of one; then they thought that pseudo-Greek forms must venture upon the hues of Greek pottery —black, red and pale yellow*. This having hap pily a kind of precedent in the reviving admiration of classicisms caught the awakened fancy, and it is now curious to see how in Mayfair and Belgravia numer ous houses have thus been copying each other in every shade of black, red and yellow—some exceedingly well done, others unintelligently. Still the worst of them are an improvement on dirty white, for nothing in our climate wears worse than that. Cavendish Square boasts of colored houses; Gloucester Place many. Lady Combermere’s house in Belgrave Square, and that of Lady Herbert Lea, denote the conversion of the aristocracy. Wim pole and Harley streets show some very pretty combinations of color —one new’ly painted -with a capital mixture of dull red, relieved by yellow (nor Pompeiian), another in lavender with crimson lines, are real additions to the movement, and form good *nd harmonious features. — London Queen. Growth of the Earth. The millions of aerolites descending upon the earth as an everlasting shower over all its surface prove that the earth is growing; the gradual rise of its oceans prove the fact, and the great truth is al S( ? demonstrated by the bottoms of. all these oceans, according to their various depths, constantly getting filled up by primary formations. In short, the uni versal law of terrestrial growth is de monstrated by every shell upon the shore, which, by its formation, is just that much permanently added to the bulk. But sinking into the bowels of the earth as deep as man can reach proves the growth of the earth far more strongly than all the facts and words which are available on the momentous question; for no matter how far dowm, every inch of the descent was once the surf ace,however low it may now be out of sight, by the accumulation of creative increase over it since the time. Thus, so far as we have been enabled to pene trate, and the rule holds good over every part of its surface, we find the strata however deep we may descend, all lying, as to time, in the order of their forma tion. They can not be otherwise, as no convulsions of nature could reverse the position of one stratum by superimpos ing it upon another. If we sink down through the strata to the depth of, say, a thousand yards, we pass through the works of several geological epochs, the first one that on which the drift of the deluge rests, the latest formation, the next—if in the sinking there is no miss ing link—a step in time earlier, and so on in succession, until we reach the low est stratum at the depth mentioned, the oldest one in the series. There it is just where it was deposited, then on the sur face of the earth, perhaps more than 1,000,000 years ago, while all the others have been in latter times superimposed in their respective geological epochs, up to the surface. There is another such epochal formation going on and getting thicker under all oceans since the pres ent continental features of the globe arose, which will yet be dry land, and will be the latest formation for the geol ogists of the remote future.— Colburn, a Magazine. —As a rule, it may be stated that moisture and filth are the prevailing causes of foot-rot in sheep. All de cayed and detached horn should be pared away, without wounding the vital parts or drawing blood. Application o tincture of iron may then be made once daily. The sheep ’should be kept on a dry floor and supplied with clean, dry straw bedding. * Until a cure is estab lished the animals should be kept from damp er wet pastures or grounds.— Breeders’ Gazette —.Lillie Singleton, a school girl of Cambridge, Mass., slipped and fell upon the street, and a lead pencil, which was in her pocket, penetrated her right side to the depth of about four inches, caus ing serious injuries. The pencil was broken, and a surgical operation had to be performed to extract it. VOL. 11. NO 32. HUMOROUS. —Somebody put a fresh turnover In among those on the counter of a railway restaurant and the traveler who got hold of it was so astonished that he gasped four times. — Somerville Journal. —“Dear Mr. Jones,” said a learned woman, “you remind me of a barome ter that is filled with nothing in the up per story.” “Divine Amelia Brown,” said he, “ you occupy my upper story.” —N. 0. Picayune. “Well William, what has become of Robert?” “What, ’aim’t you ’eard. sir?” “No! Not defunct, I hope!” “That’s just exactly what he ’as done, sir, and walked off with every vhing he could lay his ’ands on ! ” — Punch. —We are willing to take a certain amount of stock in newspaper accounts of Western cyclones, but when an Ar kansas paper tells us about a zephyr car rying a bed-quilt sixty-one miles, and then went back for the sheet, we ain’t there. — Boston Globe. —A very colored man who entered complaint against another for assault ing and battering him upon the head, was told bv the Justice: “I don’t sea an v marks?’ “Does ye s’pose he hit me wid a piece of chalk!” was the in dignant rejoinder. The case proceeded. “I’m going to a maspterade ball this evening, and I want an appropri ate dress,” he said to the costumer. “What is vour bus ness?” “(), I’m a milkman.”* “Ah! Then you’d better put on a pair of pumps and go dis guised as a waterfall.— N. Y. Commer cial. —Miss Malvina Rumley had just started out with her beau for a walk, when her little brother Johnnv calls to her from the fence: “1 say, Malviny, don’t you bring that feller back here to tea with you. Mamma says there ain't more'n enough biscuits to go around as it is.”— Alexander Sweet. —When Mrs. Fogg asked her lord and mas,er for a fur cloak, and he re plied that, really, my dear, I can not iur get you, she did not feel so bad be cause she couldn’t get the cloak, but was quite broken down by the heart less manner of a man who could make a pun on a matter of such transcendent al importance.— Boston Transcript. —Mrs. Peter Schinsky is one of those Austin ladies who take much better care of their animal pets than they do of their children. She has got a pet poodle by the name of Fido. Yesterday Mrs. Schinsky’s little boy, Bob, asked his mother: “ Shall I give Fido this piece of sugar he is begging for?” “ No. my child, it might spoil his teeth. Eat it yourself, Bobby.”— Texas Siftings. The Advantage of Two Eyes. Tn response to the question, “What is the use of having two eyes ? ” the answer has been given, “to have one left if the other is hurt.” Much as we may admire the sagacious foresight of this youthful physiologist, it will not be sufficient to rest contented with his ulti matum. He had evidently not tried his skill to find how unexpected!, 7 he would miss the inkstand while endeavoring to dip his pen into it at arm’s length, with one eye closed. He had not thought of holding his finger a few inches in front of his face to find what of the wall it would hide from each eye in succession, or how differently it would look when regarded from those two points of view separately, how much thicker it would appear when both eyes are open, how readily he could examine three sides of it at once, how much more definitely he could judge its distance; in a word, how mucli more comprehensive was the in formation given by two eyes if used at the same moment. Assuming that he knows exactly how to account for inver sion of the retinal image and the erect appearance of the object there pictured, how our visual perceptions are only signs of what we momentarily feel on the retina, signs that generally represent the realities with a fair degree of ac curacy, but may sometimes represent almost anything else on demand, how, if the eyes be healthy, we have no con sciousness of possessing any retina at all, but instantly and unconsciously refer every retinal sensation to some external body whose existence we are ob’iged to assume, unless there be special argu ments to the contrary—granting all this, our young physiologist has not thought of inquiring how it is that, although two retina image* are produced, we see but a single object, and this despite the fact that, like photographs of the same body simultaneously taken from different stand-points, these two images are necessarily dissimilar. Science Monthly. —An old woman in St Louis save ’ $l,lOO out of the hard earnings of thin • years, and the other night lost th»- money in the street. The newspaper described her pitiable grief, for she wr.s completely prostrated by the loss, and when she read one of these accounts she felt still worse, for sne did not want thv whole world to know her trouble. But when a boy came in with the money and explained that he had found out its owner from the papers, she thought better of journalism. — St. Louie Poti The Elmira Gazette relates a pathetto story of the three-year-old child ci an express messenger recently killed while in the discharge of his duty : When the remains were brought to his home, the little child toddled into the room, and when told it was “papa," said: "No, ’tisn’t papa; papa walks in whan he comes home." Then taking hold of the arm of the dead father, the little one said; “Turn. papa, det up and ivalfcl