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HUIiiTJJL* ONE TEAR.*. $2 OO SIX MONTHS 1 OO THREE MONTHS 50 CLUB RATES FIVE COPIES, or less than 10, each 1 75 TEN COPIES, or more, each 1 50 Terms —Cash in advllilcc. Ni [lapei 1 sent until money rocoivort. All papers atopped at tlio expiration of time, unless renewod. The Spirit ol 'Truth iu Answer to Prayer. From the unseen throne of the Great Unkow-n, From the soul of all, I came ; Not with the rock of the earthquake shock, Nor with the wasting flame; But silent and deep is my ownward sweep, Through the depths of the boundless'sky, 1 stand sublime, in the lapse of time, And where God is, there am I. In the early years, when the youthful spheres, From the depths of the ohaosl sprung, And the heavens grew bright with the new born light, And the stars in chorus sung, To that holy sound through the depths pro found, ’Mid then’ glittering ranks I trod. For I am a part of the central heart! Coequal, and one with God. The World is my child, though wayward and wild, Yet, I know that she loves me still; She thicks I fled with her holy dead, Because of her stubborn will, And she weeps at night, when the Angels light Their watch-fires in the sky, Like a maid o’er the grave of her loved and brave, But, the Truth can never die. One by one, like sparks from tha sun, I have counted the souls that came from the hand Pivine— ill, all, are mine. And I call them by my name. One by one, like sparks to the sun, I shall see them all return, Though tempest teat, yet they are not lost, And Hot Biie snail eeaie to btirfl; I only speak to the lowly and meek, To the simple and chjlflljko ljear.t, But \ leave the proud to their glittering sliriMd, And to the tricks -of their cumiing art, Like a .white-winged dove, froni the land of lcive, Through the airy space nntrod, I come at the cry, which is heard on high, Hear hie, O Gotf ! my God I —Miss Lisxie Dblcn. m Carried it Too Far. Mr. Butterwick called iu to see me the other day and in the bdtillie 6f Ihe conversation, he said: , , “I‘ra going to move. I can't stand those Thompson's next dbol td me any longer. They are the awfullest deojlle to borrow things that I ever saw. Coffee and sugar, and butter and flour, I don’t mind so much, although when, a, tubman borrows high priced siigrif and Java cof fee and sends bank sand and cliickorv. p man naturally feels billious and mad. Hut they've borrowed pretty near every thing in the houSe. First it's one thing and then it's another, from t-u night, right straight along. Now the poker. A poker's a piece of ma - ‘chincry that you'd think anybody might go round and buy, or, if they couldn't afford ihev might use a fence pailing to shake up the fire. But Mrs; Thomp son seems to 1 canker after oiir poker. She borrows it fifteen dr twenty tinfes a day, and last Sunday she sent for it thirty four times. She pays a boy two dollars a week to run over and borrow that poker ; and she's used it sb muon that it's all bent up like a cork Screw, Now, take the. chalts for instance. She asks up td lend her our chairs three times a day, at elery meal, and she bor rows the rocking chair whenever she. puts the bdi)s td Sleep. A couole of times 3fee sent o'ver fo' 1 a sofa, and when the boy come back with it, he said Mrs. Thompson was mad as thunder, and kept growling around the house all day be- cause there were no castors on it. Last Monday she borrowed' our wash boiler, and we had to put off our washing till Tuesday. She did her preserving in it, and the consequence wits all our fclothes were lull of preserved peaches; I've got on an undershirt now that I‘m {nighty doubtful it ever I'll get it off it Is stuck to me so tight. Every now and then she has company.' and then she bor rows out hifed girl and fill our pa’rlor furniture' . once, because I would not cany the fntih'c) o~}er for her, and take flown the fihandelier, she told our girl that there were rumors about town that I was a reformed pirate. , “Perfectly sjanda'lous t They th'ink nothing of /etidfinjf over after a couple 6t bedsteads, of fheentnfy carpet; and the other day Tho’mocon says to me : ‘Butterwick, do£s youf pjrip’ log pull up easy?’ and when 1 said I thought maybe it did, he said: ‘Well, I‘d like to borrow it for a few day? tin I can get one,‘ ( for /nine has rotted away.’ The only won der to me is that ha didn't tty to borrow the well along with ft; *. “And then oh Thursday Mrs. Thotnpy son sent that boy over to know if Mrs. Butterwick wouldn't lend her oUr front door. She said their'a was away being painted and she was afraid the baby would catch cold. When I asked him 'what he supposed we were going €6 do to keep comfortable without the front door, he said Mrs. Thompson said aWe reckoned we might tack up a bed quilt hr someihing. And when I refused, boy said Mrs. Thompson told him if I send oVer the front door to ask Mrs. Butterwick to lend her a pair of striped stockings and a horse-hair bustle and to borrow the coal scuttle till Mon day. What in the name of Moses she is going to do with a bustle and a coal- SouttlO I can't conceive. “But they're the most extraordinary people t Last Fourth of July, was it? #e;?—last fourth of July the boy came over atPl told vlrs. KutlefWick that Mrs. Thompson would be much if she'd lend her the twins for a fev£ min , utes- Said Mrs! Thompson wanted ’em to suck off a hOYtr bottle-top, because it made her baby sidk to taste fresh India rubber! Cheeky* wasn't it? But that's her way. She dofl't mind it any more 1 Why I've known her to take off our Johuny's pants when’he's been playing over there with the children, and send Vol. 2. him home bare-legged to tell his mother she borrowed ’em tor a pattern. And on Thonipsorfis birthday she said het house was so small lor a party that if wo‘d lend her ours wc.niiglll home in late in the evening and dance with the company if we didn't lot on that she didn't live there! Yes, sir{ I‘m gointa to move; I'd rather like next dodr td an Insane Asyluni dtkl hdve the tiianiacs pouring red Hot shot over the tenoe ev ery halt hour ot the day; Indeed; I would.—Max Adder. Cottori Planting in Checks. A correspondent ct the Southern Cul tivator gives the following as his experi ence on this subject. I broke up old wortf oiit land, .sandy loatii at, that, atld lltid the rows off four feet apart and checked across thirty inches. In January I haiiled out forty loads per acre of rich ditch Barifcsl bfiriks that had been'brown oiit for tlileß oi : four years, and composed thiity L'usliels of cotton seed with the forty loads. I ran the checks off with a seven inch shovel plow twice in each furrow; feely deep, and about tlio Ist of April I put a shovelful of tho compost iu each hill, and threw two lurroWs with a turn plow, which formed .*i bed then drilled (with a drill made at home, out of ii piebe . bt oak about eighteen inches long, fite inches wide at the fop, and tapered off td bne inch at the bottom, with a duck bill, as I called it, of boulter; running through the beam in front 6t this wood forced on at the bottom with i strip of iron,) and handled this drill as we taojfld plow and opened the bed across the check, say about one toot, the sower al ways noticing the check. My cotton came up well and grew off finely; and I never saw cotton do any better, or as well. It matured to the top. and I have counted ten bolls on eight inches of the top, all matured and open I have the same kind cf. seed now, and have just picked and packed from one acre three heavy bags; and lilts j’O.'ti' has not been very favorable for cotton in our country. J left two stalks to each check. This cotton lias not a Irtltfe stalk and is very prolific. Will bear crowding, and is much earlier in maturing. lam an old latillef of nearly fifty years experience. Thinniiig t’orii. iVof. Roberts, ot the Cornell Univer sity, made some experiments in growing corn upon the coliege farm last season; me results ui wmoi, ...„ . *.. planted three plots of three sixteenths of an acre with corn, and thinned the hills in one lot tp three stalks, another tcf four stalks to the hill; the third was not thinned. The first plot yielded at the rate of lfid bushels, the second 125 bush els, and the third iO6 bushels (of ears) tb’ Hie acre. Mr. Roberts states, as the result of many experiments prior to these; at the lowa Agricultural College, thfit the heaviest crops of corn were ffiado fey growing three gtalko (o a hill, and that two stalks to a hill will ptodube more than five stalks. If every stalk produces an ear, and corn ie planted three feet apart each way,,there will be hefirly 100' bushels of shelled grain per acre.' To grow maximum crops of corn, then, it is only necessary ibetaw one ear upon and Stalk, and the ears of such size that a hundred of them will make a bdsh'el bf, grain., lii ylevr of this, it is sti singe that with so prolific a grain as corn, a yield of 100 bushels per acre sf ould be considered as something al most impossible to be obtained. • Horrid fMctifteL The following startling statistics are copied* from the New York Medical Journal. Read, pause and think : For the last ten years the use o’f spir its has Ist Imposed upon the nation a difect expense of six hundred millions. 2d. Has caused an indirect expense of several hundred milliofis. 3d. Has destroyed three hundred thousand lives. 1 4th. Has sent one hundred thousand children to the poor house. gt.h. Haai committed at leafi’t one hun dred and fifty thousand people to prisons and work houses. 6ih. Has detei mined! at least one thou sand suicided. , 7th. Has caused the loss by fire or by violence of at feast ten millions worth of property. , . , ti Bth: Hah made two hundred thousand Widows and one million orphans! How to Choose a Wife/ That young lady will make you a good wife who does not aapolbgize when you find her at Work in,the kitchen but con tiuues at her task until it is finished! When you hear a lady say, ‘I shall ah. t6nd church and wear mV old bonnet find water proof cloak; for fear we shall have a rain storm,’ depend upon it she will make a good wife. . . r When a daughter remarks, ‘Mother, I would not hire help, for I can assist you to do all the work in the klichen,’ set it down that she will make somebody a good wife. „, When you hear a young lady say to her father, ‘don’t purchase a very expen sive or showy dress tor me, but what W PI wear best,’ you may be certain that she will make a good wife. An exchange aotfotbiej? the illness of its editor, and pto'jtfl/ Remarks : All good paying subscribers ate requested mention him in their prayeis. Tne oth ers deed not, as the prayers of the wick ed availeth nothing.” CONYERS. OA., MAY 18. 1876. How Girls Are Made Pretty! The Hindoo girls are gracefully and exquisitely formed. From their earliest childhood they are accustomed to carry burdens on their heads The water for family use is always brought by the girld; iu eartfien jars, carefully poised in this fViiy This exercise it? Said to strength rn t h e muscles ot the back, while the chest is thrown forward. No crooked backs are seen in Hindoston. Dr. Ilcn ry.Spry, one ot the company’s medical officers, says that “this exercise of harry ing small vessels ot water on the head might be advantageously introduced into our boarding schools and private fanii lies, and that it might entirely supercede the present machinery ot dumb-bells, back-boards, skipping ropes, etc. The ybiing l-idy ought to be taught to carry the jar, as these Hindoo women do, without ever touching it with Her hand.’ The same practice ot carrying water letlas the same results in the south of SpdiH atia id the south of Italy as in India. A Neapolitan female peas ant will early rirt het head a vess;l full of ti'rttefc to the very Brim, over a rQtigh load and hot spill and drop,of it} find the acquisition ot this art or knack gives her the same erect and elastic gait, and the same expanded chest and well-formed back and shoulders.—[Home an< f School. a ' " 7"T7^~ Look Out, Toting Man! wlien it is said of a youth “he drinks," and it can be proven, what store wants him lor a clerk ? What church wants him for a member? Who will trust him ? What dj ing man will ap point him as hifi executor? He may have been forty years in building his reputation—it goes down! Letters of recommendation; the backing of busi netfs firms; a brilllilht ancestry, cannot save hinn The world shies oft'. Why ? It is whispered all through the commu nity “He drinks! He drinks!” That blasts him. When and yodng man loses his reptftdtjori fc'l Sobriety; he might as well be at the bottom of the sea. There are young men who have their good name as their only dapltdl. Yddl father has started you out to city life. He could only give you an education. He gave you no means. He started you, however, under Chtßuan influences. You have cdrfic to the city. You are now achieving your own fortune; litidcr God, your own right arm. Now, look out, young man; that there is no dtttibr of your sobriety; Do not ctefite any suspicions by going in and out of liquor ■ • - -- --- -a.,.- of your breath, or by any glare of your J by any unnatural flush of yon’r cheek, x rin can dot afford to do it, for your good name is! your only capital, aud when that is blasied by the reputation of ta king strong drink, itli'is gone forever. The Cross. Blest they who seek ■While in tlieiryonth • With spirit meek. The way of truth. To them the sacred Scriptures now display Christ as the only true and living way Iti" precious blood on cavalry was given To make them heirs of endless bliss in heaven. And e’eri on earth the child of God can trace The glorious blessings of bis Saviour’s grace. For them he bore f'.is Father’s frown; cr them He wore The thorny crown; Nailed to the cros, Endured its _ pain, That his life’s Joss Might be their gain. Then haste to choose The better part, Nor e’en dare refuse The Lord thy hoart,. Lest ht> declare—• “ I findw you not,” And deep despair Should be your lot. .. . r .1, Now look to Jesus who on cavalry died. And trust to Him who there Was crucified. An exchange aptly hits the nail on the bead thusly :’ After a man has been drilled through an appienticeshrp ot many years to the art of editing a news paper he feels' that be has mistaken his calling when some ignorant, cuss who nevqr patronized a newspaper a dollar’s worth in his* life, travels through wind aud weather to point out defects which he alone could tell the editor how to remedy. Why he continues tr drudge a'ong through this Vale of tears, earn ing at some humble calling a paltry dol lar k day, when he might be directing the great minds of the world, is past all human comprehension. A doctor on West Adams street saved a young woman's life two mouths ago. When he brought round his bill the grateful father replied: “Take her doc tor,' ehe is yours, her heart beats oniy for you. Me and the old weraan will come and lWe with yeu by and by. The son of Escvla’piu's said he wasn‘t that sort of a man { th'fit he could not afford it that seeing it was him he would take S6O. Sixty-six debars 1 screamed the pious father‘why, I could have buried her for half the money,’—[Chicago Tribune. A physician boasted at dinner that lie cured his own hams, when one of his gVefils remarked s “Doctor, I’d. sooner be your ham than your patient.” Sad Death op a Child. — A little eight year old son-of Mr. Virgil John son, of Barren county, Kentucky, inet with a most shocking and appalling death on Friday last. He was riding a mule, which became frightened and ran 'aVay,’and the little fe'lowq in falling or attempting to jhiffp; got his foot entan gled in a chain which was fastened to the mule, and was held tight while ibe mule continued to run. His neck, legs aud arms were broken, and his body and head were frightfully mutilated. Peter’s Call. Y hat I want to oall your attention to |is this : That before a imn leaves his occupation, whatever his ''usincss may be, to giVe his whole life and service to Hod, he must be sure bo has got the call, “Follow thou me!" I think there are great mistakes being made every year by men who would make good tanners, carpenters, and mechanics, per haps, by those who would make good business men, giving up their oocupa • ion and attempting to preach, to work for God. Now, 1 don’t know how many men have come to mo during the past few months and asked my advice about going into the ministry. I never ad vised a man in my life to go into the miivstry. I don’t think I ever shall, for I think the ministry is too high a call ing for a man to be influenced to enter it by anv body. He must get a higher call than from man. He wants to get. a call trora abo<e. If God calls him into bis servixe lo leave all and become “ fishers ot men,” ho won’t fail. One reason why so many break down in the pulpit is becaußo* they run before they are sent—in fact, before they are called at all—and the result is so many ta'l ures. Now let us be sure we have a call, before we give up our business to go into the service of the Lord, and one good way to tell whether you have got that call is: Has God used you ? . I think Wesley has a good idea of it When a man came to him and asked him it he should enter ministry, he used to ask him: “ Has God blessed you? Ilavh there been any souls con verted under your efforts? How is it .’hcti you preach ; do people go to sleep under it ,or wake up? Do some get mad anil some get He thought that was a good sign that they had been called to the ministry,jjfor that is what the gospel does, lor it wakes up some and brings them to the feet ot phrlpt, . It is better if they get mad, for there is some hope of their getting over it and becoming Christians ; but it they go to sleep, they make tip their minds they are not called.— Moody. To prevent cabbages and other plants trom cut woryis,. make a ring, of salt around each p.’ir’nt about an inch from it. The worms will not pass over this, and when the rrtin dissolves it tho savor in the salt will drive them off. Another, pour strong tobacce water around the roots.’ To keep bugs from the vines simply hollow out the holes for cucumber, n- <—' - . put in a pint cr so of hen manure. Cov er with earth and plant Ihe seed. While the vines grow luxuriantly it will be too unpalatable for the bugs. Another is to sow a few radish seed with the above mentioned seed. Bugs are so fond of radish pldnts that they will eat them in preference to the young vines, and thus enables them to get a good stsft’t add out ot danger from' the insect. Water Drinking. Dr, Hall is opposed to the immoder ate drinking of water. He says i “ The lduger one puts off drinking in the morning,' especially in the surrnnei; the less he will require during the day. If much is drunk during the forenoon the thirst often increases and A very unpleas ant fullness 16 observed,’ ifiaddmon to and metallic tastfe in the mouth. The a man drinks 'he better for him, beyond a mod erate amount. The more water a man drinks the rfiore strength he has to expend in getting rid of it, for all the fluid taker! into the sys 1 em must be car ried out, and there is but little nourish ment in water," tea/ coffee,' behr and the like ; more strength is expended in car rying them out of tile th’afi .they impart to it. The fhore a man drinks the more he perspiies,’ either by lungs o' through uiis skin ; the more he per spires the more carbon is taken from the system ; but this carbon is necessary for nutrition, hence the less a man is nour ished the less strength be has. Drink ing water 1; igely diminished tb£.Strength in two ways,’ and yet many are under the impression that the more water swallowed the more thoroughly is the system ‘ washed out.’ Thus the less we drink at meals the better for us. If the amount were limited to a’ singly cup of hot tea or hot milk and waier each meal, an immeasurable good wpuld. result to all. Many persons have fallen into the practice of drinking several glasses ot cold water or several cups of hot tea or coffee at meals,’out of mere habit. All such will be greatly beuefitted by break ing tup at once. It may be very well to drink a little at each" meal, andf per haps it will ue found that in all cases it is much beiler to take a single cup ot hot Lea i.’t each meal than a glass ot cold water, however pure. A' Beautiful T i io uG l it. — God knows what keys in the human soul to touch in order to draw out its sweetest and, most pei feet harmonies. They may be thfi minor strains' of sadness and sorrow ; they may be the loftier notes ot joy and gladness. G-od knows where the melo dies of our nature are, and what dis cipline will bring forth. Some with plaintive tongue must • walk in lowly vales of weary way; others in loftier hymns sing of nothing but joy; but they all finite without discord or jar, as ttie ascending anthem of lofting aud believing hearts finds its way into the chorus ot the redeemed to heaven. A man be said to have been drinking like afish when he finds tnat ho has taken enough to make his head swim. The Eud of the World* A meeting of Second Adventistn was held recently at Cooper Union, New York, to discuss the prophecy /©f the coming of Christ in 1876. Mr. Verrie, who had written oil a blackboard romo figures to show that the end of the world, or “ the time of the end” will come this year, spoke of the fulfillment ot the prophecy in the twelfth chaptor of Daniel. 1-Ie illustrated his inlerpro tation of the prophecy of historical references. He next told that the proph ecies toretold the end 1,335 years from a given time when,,the daily sacrifices shall be taken a tarty ( and the abomina tion that miiketh be set up. This ahem ination he said, Was the Church ot Rome, and its setting up occurred in 541, when the emperor Justinian placed it on the pinicle ot its power, and in order lo do so overthrow the Goths. Then followed the period of 1,290 years of iu the propheoy, bringing tlie time up to 1,832, when the alied powers of Eu rope, to prevent a continual war, took away just as much power as Justinian had given him. To this 1,590 years the prophecy added a month and a half meaning forty five years, thus fixing the time ot the end in 1876. Iu this view, Mr. Jerrie said science and relaxation agreed. He did not attempt to fix the day or tho month ot the eud, which is to come “ like a thief in the night.” Two or three other peisons spoke, and the old man criticised the churches tor not preaching the coming Christ. ei?tlc In giving medicines or prescriptions tor others the following table will he found useful in the absence of a giuciu. ated glass vessels: A tumbler contains 10 ounces. .A teacup '• 6 “ A wineglass “ 2 “ A tablespoon “ 5 drachms. A desert spoon contains 3 drachms. A teaspoon coutains I drachm. Men we Don’t Want to Meet. The man who grunts andjgasps as he gobbles up the soup, and at" every other mouthful sebrts’i threatened taiib ji ehok -1 mg fit. . - *, 'The mau who, having by accident been once thrown into your company, makes bold to bawl your name out, and shake your hand profusely when you pass him in the street. The man who artfully provokes you to Llhy a game nf bUliards with, him, and ces his own chalk. The rnan who can’t sit at yonr table on any occasion without getting on his legs to propose some stupid toast. The mangp'ho, thinking you are mu sical, bores you with his notions on the music of the future, of which you know as little as the music of the spheres.' ( , '1 he man who wears a white, hat in winter; and smokes a pipe when walk ing, and accosts you as ‘old fellow,* just as you are hoping to make a., good, im pression On some well Pressed lady friend. The man who, knowing that your doctor faces him at the table, turns the talk so as to set him talking ‘doctor shop.’ The man who with a look of urgent business, when you are in a big hurry, lakes’ you 1 by {he button hole to tell you a bad joke. The man who, sitting just behind you at the opera, destroys half your enjoy ment by humming the air. The rrfan who makes a remark on your you personal adornment, asks you wb’ej;e buy.your waistcoats, and what you pay for your dress boots. , The man who lards his talk with little scraps of Fiench and German after his return from a centennial tour. An Awful Little Girl. There was once an awful little girl, who had an awful way of saying “awful” to everything. She lived in an awful hpUSe; in an awful street, in an awful vfllage, which was an awful distance from every other awful place. She went to a school, where she fiad an awful teacher, who gave her awful lessons, out of awful books. Every day she was so awful hungry that she ate an awful amount ol tood, so that she looked aw ful healthy. Her hat was awful small,' and her feet were awful large.' ( She went to an' awful church,’ and her minis ter was an awfal preacher. H When she took an awful walk, she climbed awful hills,' and when she got awful tired, she sat down .under an awlul tree to rest herself, In summer she found the i weather awful hot, and in winter awful cold. When it didn’t rain there was an awful drought,’ and when an awlul drought was over there Was an awlul raid. Bo that this awful girl was all the time in an awful state, and if she does not get over aying “awful” about every thing,’she will, by and-by, comes to an awful end. And this awlul little girl lives in this awful city.—[Cincinnati Times. Norwich Bulletin: It is often’ said that a womau has got ucftalent for busi ness, but when' a' man goes home and finds that his wife has swapped off his Sunday pantaloons for a | atent taek bainmer and a china ornament for the mantle-piece, he is compelled to wonder at the genius thtt succeeded in getting the tack-hammer thrown in. When do two *1 and two make more than four ? When they make 22. Advcrtibcmentß, *' , *' r r s* 1 re - > w- .'im First insertion (per inch space) Ji oq. Each subsequent insertion 75 rttTA. liberal (liSeount allow oil those adver tising for a longer period than three months. C#.rd of lowest ratca can be had on application to the I’roprletor. Locail Notices IGo. per lino first insertion and lOe. per line thereafter. Tributes of Kospoot, Obituaries, etc., pub hehod free. Announcements, $5, in advance. Nn. 43. Somnambulist. a UITI.E - ini’s WTHAonpiXAul keaT WIIII.K ASLEEP. , Jennie Lawson is a member ot the lebonil class in thy Eighteenth street fe gflj? grammar fffihooT. Friday last a pupber pf arithmetical .examples wore given pbt for solution, but three of them J 111 piTCciUage, requiring long processes' of division, all Jennie s efforts to secure tlj.o: W'ect nnswef._ The cir cumstance,seemed to distils !,lie child; and af-er working through them again mid again without success,' elm- went home determined by persistent effort to find out where her error was, and she continued to strive uutil long alter the rest of tlie family had retired. Towards midnight her mother, who slept in aii adfoinThfr room; called to her daughter that, she lia f better gp to bed, lest° she should be late ij|. rising thk riext day. The gill iit pticj retired; and in,,jt few minutes was fast, asleep., an hour afterwards Mrs Law sob yps again awak ened by a sudden noise fc dto'ghter’/ bed chamber Which was then fn entire darkness, biiepalled, but receiving no answer, arose to see what was the mat-' ler. Jennie waS,silking at her desk, and had apparently just some work' 011 her slate, the noisy beep made by the falling ol a ruler front,.,(he,,table to the floor, I’he girl was fivft asleep. Mrs. Laws 11 did no; wake per at the time, and on the following day it wast afternoon before the gil l could be roused from the deep sleep iu which she seemed lo be. Upon awakening Jenriie spoke' of the problems, and expressed her in tention ol making a further trial at their, soluuou. Upon getting the slate she found them completely solved in hand, each line neatly ruled aud figunpfff without the slightest error. At ihip spe was greatly surprised. Her last know* • edge of the puzzling examples was of leaving them unsolved on the night, before. Ot lief pefformances in her sleep she fiijefv tanfiii awake absolutely nothing, and her tnotlier not having mentioned the incident, jeft her the more bewildered. Yesterday the girl brought tho work to school and related the inci dent attending it to her teacher The r-j'-ni was dark, and the girl soundly asleep during the Working of the test examples. Bhe had never bofore shown any symptoms ot sleep-working, nor have any of her relatives been so affect ed.—[New York World. A Dangerous Practice,* Frequent complaints are made by rati-, 00 and off cars Willie m ‘mom/fi wmwigd the city. In this respect boys who merely jump on lor a ride cause the greatest affpoyarice," although often pas sengers risk life and limb by an impru dent leap. Accidents to passengers; however, iarely occur. They are much more frequent in the case of boys, and it is of this class we desire to speak. Narrow escapes are almost of daily oc currence on Washingiori street,’ despite the tig|lafji’e of the officials.’ It is not a single jump on unit again after a reasonable ride, if there is such' thing as leason in that kind ot ride catching, that is the most dangerous. It is a series of • ‘offs’ and l ons that the boys Indulge in just to show bow easily, and gracelully it can be done, and how near ‘kingdoiq come’ can be wantonly approached, at the risk ot an arm or a leg,’ or eveti a life. As warm weather approaches again {lm nuisance is becom* ing intolerable. Occasionally a lad is arrested,’ reprirfiauded, fined jirsd some times imprisoned, but such instances have been few, and have not clone. any good. Mild measures have been tried and have failed. Sterner oueri must now be resorted to,’ and the police should ar rest every boy caught jumping on a train in moLion. * How a Horse Captured a Wolf. A singular story of a horse is told by the Gazette ot Barrie, Canada, to the following effect: Mr John Davis, of Sullivan township, has a horse, which having a bad habit tff getting out of its pasture,’ he feiter’Ad one uight recently by fastening the fore feet together.. During the night a pack ol wolves were heard in the vicinity, And the next day Mr. Davis visited his horse with some anxiety as to his condition. Away off in the field the animal was seen standing in a very singular position. A great, wolf was under his fore feet held to the earth bv the ohaiu fetters, and so secure- ly imprisoned that escape was impossible.. The horse had a lew scratches upou his neck. He had evidently Keen attacked by the wolves, had worsted them, capt*. uring one, holding his captive a prisoner of war for tour or five hours. l . " E’en Such is Man! Like a damask rose you see, • ~ Or like the blossoms on the treo.’ Or like the dainty flower in May, Or like the morning of the day, Or like the-sun or like the shade* Or like the gourd that Jonas had, . ( E’en such is man : —whose thread is spun. Drawn out, and out, and so is done; The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, THe flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, Too gourd consumds, and man he ’us 1 • fake’ to the grass that’s newly sprung. Or like a tale that’s new begun. Or like the pil’d that's here to-day,' Or like the pearled dew of May,’ Or like an h<Ar, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan— *t>, E'en such is man : —wlio lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life-and death, The grass withers, the tale is ended, The bird is fio\j;n, the dews ascended,' TUe hour is short, the span,is >, ; The swan’s near death, man’s life is dono!