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Life’* Sunny Side.
What—you are dull to-day?
In a sad mull to-day?
Up and be social and stining, I pray
Why *o lugubrious?
Take a salubrious
iValk, and we’ll talk, lor I’vo something to say.
Verily, verily,
Things will go merrily'
[t hen you are merry, and busy, and bravo.
But if not cheerfully
Tempered, but tearfully,
Life is a tyrant, and you are its slave.
If you go wilfully.
However skilfully,
(Jursing your moods and your delicate whims,
Life will bo dumb to you,
All things will come to you
[cached by n shadow that saddens and dims.
Lifo has two sides to it,
Take the best guides to it,
joek at the best nnd the brightest,, my friend.
Be a philosopher,
Don’t look so cross over
fitters you never can alter or mend.
Look not so dismally
Down the abysmally
bark—hanging over the procipico brink.
Worst ol all bias is
1 iy | lochon d riusis—
nnsliiueis healthier than shadow I think.
If you would drive away
Gloom and would hive away
[oney-hke peace in your iuiiennost cell,
Work—like the humble beo,
.Soft let your grumble be;
tarn jour own smoke and the world will go
well.
— C. Crunch in youth’s Companion.
AN UNPAID BILL
“Thirteen and seven are twenty ;
tad nine—oh, dear me ! 1 wonder
ihat that noise in the basement hall
i! It sounds just like some one cry
ig”
Miss Comfort Walker laid down the
en wherewith she was industriously
dding up her household accounts, and
aetaphorically speaking, pricked up
:er ears.
“It is some one crying !” she said
a herself. “Oh, dear, dear! what a
rorJd of tears and tribulation this is !”
Tiss Walker had been penniless and
nprotected at the age of 20 , but she
fas not one of the “drooping ivy”
ind that takes to needlework and tu
ercles on the lungs. So Miss Cont¬
ort went boldly ahead, opened a first
lass boarding-house and made money,
ihis was the history of the brisk lit
le woman in a brown debage dress
tad cherry ribbons at her neck, who
Kistlod down stairs to see what could
ie the meaning of the vague, indeii
liie sobbing sound which now became
iiidible,
“Oh, it’s you, ii it?” said Miss Com
prt Walker, as she perceived Ellen
P’Brien, ksement the washenvoman, in the
hall.
i “Yes, it’s me, worse luck. Miss Com
prt,” whimpered poor Ellen.
| “And what’s the matter?”
“It's me bill upstairs, Miss Comfort
Mhe hoarder in the second story
jront, the with the gay goo] d shirt studs
p 1 green and yellow stones in his
leeve buttons! Nine dollars and siv
pty pastiing cents, Miss Comfort—six weeks’
and ironing—and now, when
| makes bould to ax him would he be
pleased to pay me, he tells me it isn’t
pnvanient I I And when I tells him
F ow sore need the money he ups
md gets mad, and says I shan't have
It at all.”
Miss Comfort stood listening, with
tnitted brows and troubled black
Ives.
“Have you got your bill with you,
Mien?’ said she, after a moment’s
esitation.
“Jimmy wrote it out, all nate and
proper," faltered Ellen, producing a
(rumpled slip of pale blue paper from
’er pocket.
Give it to me,” said Miss Comfort
' ;| lker. “And come here this even
»g at 8 o’clock, and you shall have
eur money.”
She went slowly up stairs with the
idle piece of paper in her hand,
b’s a shame,” said Miss Comfort.
Leotard Carlyon was Miss Comfoit
''alker’s best boarder, with the single
' ' Pption that, up to the present mo
uent, his twenty-five dollars a week
'ad been in futuro.
v °w it so chanced that one reason
Mr her reposing so much confidence in
Mr. Leotard Carlyon, the new board
r ’ was fhat he was the nephew and
eir apparent of Caleb Carlyon, the
G' banker from whom she rented her
r °wn stono house, at the trilling con¬
cretion of three thousand dollars
er annum.
''° ®he went bravely up to Mr.
"■Ivon’s room and tapped at the
“or.
“Come in,” he called out. “Oh. it’s
Miss Walker, is it?”
"ss Comtort advanced valiantly
w'tti the bill in her ha nd to
Leotard Carlyon reclined languidly
amid a heap of sofa pillows, with
a
^wspapm: in his hand.
“ Don’t you think you could settle
this little account. Mr. Carlyon?” she
askefl. The poor woman needs it so
rery much.”
She Cauinoton Star.
Leotard Carlyon’s handsome black
brows darkened.
“She has been to you with her story,
has she?” snarled ha “No, I can’t
settle it. And 1 wouldn't if I could.”
Go Miss Ccmfort tied on little
a
rown velvet hat she had trimmed
with scarlet poppies and brown
turn leaves, au
and set out bravely for
the Mount Orient Bank.
The clerk stared at her a little curi¬
ously as she was shown into the presi¬
dent’s room at the back, where Mr.
Carlyon sat, straight and upright, with
blue eyes like a falcon and hair slight¬
ly sprinkled with gray.
He elevated his brows at the sight
of Miss Comfort Walker, And she
told the story of Ellen O’Brien and
her w'rongs.
May I ask, Miss Walker, whv you
interest yourself so markedly in this
affair ?” the banker asked, with a cold,
measured calm that contrasted
strangely with the little woman’s heat
and flurry.
“Because I think no man has a right
to cheat a poor woman out of her
, hard earned
money.”
ker ker ”„T ob 1S rved V v'T he landlord. W ° rd> MiSS Wal -
case sLgV r c ! I 0 7 "' Vi t6d W ° MiSS rd lD C0m thi9
’
fort iVih Ua T l ing ^ hW 0W “
courarm g t0 C0nfr0nt
'
the ho st su dy ,, banker.
voufsel T ’ ** V W,n f 8 the ° mething bankcr t0
keenly ’ j
„ v 1! . ,S . M, f Com,ort mdde !
answer. Dut it ; isn t that I came |
about. I am quite able to attend to I
little my ^fi^ncial if it should be debt, necessary, even to but lose this a ! j
poor woman is friendless and alone.”
r ' a /° n S’nnced at his watch.
Miss ... r , omiort turned
toward the door.
“1 am sorry that my time is no
longer at my own disposal,” said he
courteously.
And Miss Comfort went away al¬
most crying.
“Now I’ve made an enemy of him,
as well as Mr. Leotard, and haven’t
done the least good in the world.” she
thought. “And he will let the house
to some one else in the spring, and—
and—but, after all, I am not sorry that
I did my best. Poor, poor Ellen I
What shall I say to her when she
comes at 8 o’clock ?”
But that evening, just as Miss Com¬
fort was beginning again at her pile of
account books, a ring came to the
door, and Mr. Carlyon, the banker,
was shown in. Miss Comfort rose up,
confused and fluttering.
“Miss Walker, pray don't let me
disturb you,” said the banker. “I
have only dropped in for a little social
call. You showed yourself to me to¬
day in a different light from any in
which you have yet appeared.”
“A dun?” demanded poor Miss Com¬
fort, almost hysterically.
“No—a true-bearted, noble-natured
woman I But you need no longer dis¬
yourself. The bill is paid. And
now, if you are at leisure, I’ll just take
my evening cup of tea with you.”
How pleased and proud Miss Com¬
fort was, as she poured the decoction
of fragrant Young Hyson into her
great grandmother’s china cun, decor¬
ated with butterflies and oblong
scrolls of gilt and violet 1 And how
she kept wondering all the while how
in the world Mr. Carlyon, the great
banker, could take such interest in
her homely and humdrum little af¬
fairs.
But if she had only known it, Mr.
Carlyon seldom came across a true,
real heart in his complicated business
transactions.
* * * * * *
“It’s not true,” said Mr. Leotard.
“My uncle never would make such a
fool of himself at his age. Why, he’s
fifty if he’s a day!”
“Only forty-four,” said Mrs. Leigii
Creswick, with malicious delight.
“But, of course, it must be a great
mortification to you, Mr. Leotard,
who have always been looked upon as
his heir. And to think, too, he is go
ing to marry that queer little old wo
man who keeps the boarding house,
For it’s true! True as taxes ! I saw
the wedding ring myself at _’s.”
“Mr. Leotard Carlyon gnawed si
lentlv at his mustache.' How strange
lv little circumstances are woven
rother into life’s web he thought. If
he had raid that whimpering washer
woman’s bill she would not have con
fi,t«l her woes to Miss Comfort Walk
aril Miss Comfort Walker would
not have gone to his uncle ; and his
uncle wouldn’t have fallen in love
with Miss Comfort’s rosv cheeks and
bonnet neither, and he would still
have been the rich banker's heir ap
parent. paid the washer
He wished he had
woman's bill.
Consul ShauUat Manchester. Eng..
savs farm expenses in that country are
10 per cent, dearer than in the
fully notwithstanding the
United States,
much higher wages p*W here.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1885
, .
The Bread of Persia.
“Persian bread,” writes a corny
spondent how in Afghanistan, ‘ is a
very peculiar production; it is made in
large flaps, in some cases about a yard
long. If ever the Persians reach the
advanced state of morning newspa¬
pers they might have them printed on
their bread, so that they cduld read
the neWs while they eat, and swallow
everything literally. On seeing these
large flaps I have often thought that
they must resemble the blacksmith’s
leathern apron, which was the old
standard of Persia; if the bread is not
made after that model they have man
aged to produce an article very like it,
not only in size but in color and tough¬
ness at the same time. We have had
now nearly two months’ experience
of this material, and it was a delight
on coming here to get at our breakfast
the first morning bread that was made
on a somewhat later model than an old
leather apron. The chances of finding
a change in this detail of our daily
life on reaching the Indian camp had
often been discussed on the wav, when
we were hard at work trying Vo mas¬
ticate of the leather kind. One
of our party said he knew Major Rind,
the commissariat officer of the other
Cam P* and that h « was not a man like
ly to corae awa T without the means of
bak ing good bread, but we had so long J
been used to that Persian kind t
these assurances did not inspire much
ho P«- There had been doubts, but
these were dispelled at our first break
fa st. Butter actually appeared on the
table with the bread. I fear for the
moment we either forgot or thought
lightly of the splendid pillausinth e
breakfast prepared for us by the Gov-
6 rnor of Khorassan’s cook at Meshed,
0 r the many delicacies Ali Mardan
treated us with at Sariikin. One man
wffiile munching a great mouthful of
bread and butter—the amount in his
mouth slightly interfered with his ar¬
ticulation—but we made out that lie
meant to say it was almost as good as
arriving at Dover. Of course he meant
to add that it was after having been a
long timo in iha Paul: away front. En¬
gland, but at that instant he had not a
moment to spare, and left the sentence
in its incomplete form as here record¬
ed .”—London News.
The Bright-hued Fish of the Sea.
The water of the Red Sea is of an in
tense green color, and so transparent
that even at the depth of two fathoms
the sea bottom is distinctly visible. It
is carpeted with coral-plants of many
species, and with numerous other
‘•wonder of the deep” of both the ani¬
mal and vegetable kingdoms. The in¬
finite diversity of form and color and
arrangement, still farther varied by the
restless medium through which it is
seen, makes a sight which the eye nev¬
er wearies of contemplating, This
beauty is still farther enhanced by the
thousands of brightly colored fishes
which flash through the wat rs. They
are truly marvelous tor their beauty of
form and color. To say that every col¬
or of the rainbow is represented is an
utterly insufficient comparison. Not
only are there violet, indigo, blue,
green, yellow, orange, and red fish, of
purest hue, but there are numbers
which combine two or more of these
colors. One little finny fellow of most
graceful form was of a delicate cobalt
blue, with .ins and tail of a line lemon
yellow; there were others with dark
blue stripes of a rich golden ground;
some black, with silver spots; some
red, with green * (ins and tail; othe.s
mingled «“* ""•*“5’ in „ most “t *M. , ,T , pM. “ '
and aiiu delicate uDiib»™ proportions; VI while one
snecies species, having 8 a rich, warm green 6 for
its its nrevailing prevailing hue, has fins . and , tail .
edged with genuine pr i sra atio
spectrum.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Niagara Falls Turk.
Among the good works authorized
by the last legislature of New York is
the formation of a park at Niagara
Falls, by which all .the grounds and
waters necessary for the preservation
an d public access to those great won
ders of nature are secured to the peo
p i e in perpetuity. The sum ol one
and a half million dollars has been ap
propriated by the State to secure the
purchase of private property, Lands.
equal to a little more than one hun
dred acres have been bought. ie
grounds and buildings on both sides of
River and Canal Sts. west and south
of the hydraulic canal have been tak
en by the Park Commissioners. 1 he
lines extend to the main channel of
the river, and middle of the Horse
Shoe Falls, being the boundary line
between Canada and the United
States, and the purchase t kos i i Goat
Island and all the littic Diets, with
their various mills, streets, and pas
sage ways. By tiie terms 1 ! he a -1 the
whole tract is to be restored as far as
possible to its original state of nature,
and when this is accomplished, the
trees grown. and all the improvements
perfected, the ait 1 actions <>i Niagar
will be increased a thousad fold. u
entific American.
IN THE CITY OF THE SUN.
Picturesque Scenes in the
Cashmere Capital.
What Life Was Like in the Oity that
an Earthquake Has Destroyed.
Serinagar, or literally Surgia Nagar,
the City of the Sun, is the capital of
the beautiful and romantic valley of
Cashmere, India, one of the most
charming spots in the whole earth. It
is some seven years ago that in my
wanderings I visited this happy val¬
ley, says a writer in the New i'ork
Sun. A lonely march of about 100
miles along the banks of the Jheium
River, the ancient Hydaspes, brought
me to the smooth waters of the Cash*
mere Lake. Here I hired a boat cov¬
ered with matting, and so arranged
that the stern of the boat formed a
cooking kitchen, both for the crew
and passenger. My crew consisted of
a full-grown man, an under-grown
boy, and an old woman, two small
children, and a young mother and a
plump baby. The whole party, ex¬
cept the plump baby, took their turn
at the oars and towing rope, and I
managed to got along at the rate of
two miles an hour.
It was a clear morning, and beauti¬
ful beyond description was the pano¬
ramic view as we wound along the
river in its circular course. All
around the country was rich with ver
dure. Rising at a distance were the
snowy ranges of the Himalaya Moun¬
tains, many of them as much as 13.000
feet above tho sea level, in the cen¬
tre of this lovely scenery is the City
of the Sun, which was destroyed by
an earthquake last Sunday.
Serinagar is a considerable city of
Borne 150,000 inhabitants, of whom
20,000 are Hindus and the remainder
Mohammedans. The houses are built
entirely of wood, and are usually about
three stories high. The streets are
narrow and dirty. The poople were
dirtier than the streets. No pen
could possible depict the real sanitary
condlton ot Serinagar, and consequent¬
ly one regrets that as the city had to
perish it, did not. aiuv-llinb to the puri¬
fying element of fire fktuoi man um
upheavings of an earthquake.
The city of Serinagar is on an island
in the midst of the Cashmere Lake.
It has seven bridges, all made of
wooden logs. Some of the bridges
are occupied with shops, like old Lon¬
don Bridge, which are extremely
quaint, although unsightly structures.
There are no cabs or carts or carriages
in the city of Serinagar, and there¬
fore no conveyances rumble along its
narrow, dirty streets. It is a wise
dispensation of Providence that
wheeled conveyances have not been in¬
troduced in the capital of Cashmere,
for the people would be too lazy to
get out of the way. The Cashmeree
never walks or works if he can help
it. In recent famines they have pre¬
ferred dying to either. And yet they
are skillful workmen. The manufac
tories of Cashmere are well known.
Cashmere shawls have a world-wide
reputation, although the trade is not
as prosperous as it used to be. A
Cashmere shawl has been sold in Paris
and London for $4,000, and even
niore. The silver and gold work in
bracelets and necklaces is perhaps un¬
equalled in the world for it has ape
cuhar unlinis s > e 0 own
which cannot be imitated. Ihe cop
per work is very antique in ts appear
ance. The painted and inlaid wood
erroneously „“ 1 celled by F.„rope.,„,
pap ier c , ’ i. «t» exceedingly \
Beautiful beauurui. It n is an interesting . .. e fact .
the well wou known Cashmere shawl
finds „ , expression . all
pattern, which in
articles of Cashmese manufacture, has
its origin in the peculiar windings of
the river Jheium along the valley.
The women of Cashmere are re
uowned for their beauty. . hey are
exceedingly fair for Orientals, ln for
m<*i years they were seized and sold as
slaves tor the seraglios of Eastern
monarc hs. And evt-n in molera days
the cashmere beauty has found a place
jn th0 a ff PC tions of some of India s
European rulers and warriors. Phys
icallv> the rat >n are a very fine race.
The phrenological development of both
sexes is good. Bui still the Cash
iiicree js a hopeiess individual. At first
whea you look him . you lelieve in
him His fme development of head
aad che9 fc win your respect. But from
the Jay that one of tiieir number ate
flve of my loaves of bread, aid anoth
er purkuned a bottle of prese-ved cur
rant3> ,i nd another appropriated a
lea thern strap. I lost conlidmce in the
raC6 Aft0r very careful inquiry I
ca , ne to the conclusion that the Cash
(P eree comes very low down in the
scale of humanity. He woift work if
lie can help it. and to beg he is never
^baina 1 Such is the race that in
.
h *blts one of the faireit tal most
productive provinces on earth.
Th • valley of Cishmere isabout 100
miles long and averages twenty-five
miles in width, and the surrounding
mountains vary in height from 8,000
to 15,000 feet. The valley Itself is
about 5,000 feet above the level of the
sea. It was formerly a Mohammedan
country ; indeed, all the natives are
Moslems, but at the conquest of north¬
ern India the British sold the province
Of Cashmere to one of the Sikh princes,
a Hindu, and it is now ruled by a Ra
jah under British protection- The
nearest railway terminus is that of
Rawul PindeS, where Lord Dufferin
received the Ameer of Cabul. This
place is some 1100 miles from Bom¬
bay. From Rawul Pindee to the
ruined city of Serinagar is about 200
miles, whicli can be travelled by easy
stages.
Seventeen-Yenr Locusts.
A letter to the Rockville (Md.)
Admrrtte says : My first observation
of them whs in 1851. A thrifty young
sugar maple tree was apparently
ruined by tiieir incisions, but, having
been well trimmed, it is now one of
the finest trees in the town. Their
next visit was in 1868. On the 30th
of May they were first noticed, ascend¬
ing the trees in great numbers at
night. Early in the morning ttiey
came out of their shells, and, after
being Warmed and turned black by the
sun, flew off. For about a week they
came up in great numbers, the ground
being filled with round holes, as though
countless canes had been stuck in and
withdrawn. The air was filled with
their noise, and in about two weeks
from their first appearance they had
pierced the limbs of bushes and ten¬
der trees, particularly the chestnuts.
They begin to die off rapidly, and by
last of June but few were seen or
heard. The damage done was slight,
compared with their countless num¬
bers. Their noise was at its height
about the middle of June. The male
only makes the noise, by means of a
tight, parchment-like membrane un¬
der the wing; moved by internal fibers
or muscles. The eggs are deposited
side by side in the slits or punctures
made in the limbs, about a dozen in
one place, and each female laying
about 100 eggs. Hogs and chickens
fatten on the locusts, and it was no
ticea umo luo cum was uuuo««uw»
by crows, and very few were seen, as
they found abundance of food for
themselves and their young in both
the fat grub and winged insect.
The only damage done was by the
limbs of young trees breaking off
where they had been punctured,
Their being poisonous to beast or hu-»j
man is a myth.
The only care requisite is, that if j
about to plant out a young orchard,
the trees should have been long
enough out to bear having the young
er limbs trimmed back, or else should
be left until 1886. Sometimes on the
borders of two districts there will be a
visitation twice in 17 years, as some
few' get over the line. The seventeen
year locust is not the locust spoken of
in many writings as being so destruc
tive and as “eating up every green
thing.” Tlrs is a species of grass
hopper ( Gryllus ).
Amount of Exercise Required.
Dr. Parkes has calculated that the
amount of exercise a inan in health
should take regularly is equal to walk
ing nine miles a day on level ground,
The amount of walking done in
ing about the house and other domes
tid duties may probably be put down
as three miles, which will leave only a
walk of six miles per diun on level
gr 7 r ‘ ‘ ’ e gr '' n ' ls n ‘ y ’ !.
w,l be st.ll more reduced, so that . it
amount to advise. The proper quan
titv must, ’ however vary greatiy with
’
circumstances. Females, ., , for , example, .
wi not a e as muc as mi n. n
w nter more may » a en urn n
summer. n ymit , w en - ls
undergoing its most active develop
ment, care must be taken t at every
muscle is exercised in its turn. cine
the free use ol gymnastics, games, an
sports at this age is mo^t null. 1,1
In advanced t e < power am ln ® 1
nation lo, t xercisc .iot a a. , m .v n
then every eitort s ou < 6 ,n<l ‘ e 0
prev.i.l upon to in< ink 11 a > .i.e
some amount of exercise, and to post
pone the evil day when he will become
completely bedridden. Such an amount
of exercise is in all cases necessary as
will keep the mucles m good health
and enable them to meet the physical
requirements of the rest of the body.—
Scientific American.
Her Ideas About Farming.
City girl (to Uncle James, a farmer)
_.. 0 O vou ij ke living on a farm,
Uncle James?”
Uncle James_“Yes, I like it very
much.
City Girl — “I suppose it’s nice
enough in the glad summer time, but
to go out in the cold and snow to
gather winter apples and harvest win¬
ter wheat I imagine might be anything
but pleasant.”
VOL. XI. NO 12.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
As tissue-exhustion—resulting from
toil, privation or anxiety—promotes
the development of cancer, an English
medical authority thin is the marked
increase in th ■ de ith-rate from that
disease during the last half century
may be readily < xo!; ined by a glance
at the history of our laborious age.
Angle worms, fish, etc., are often
caught up into the clouds by revolving
storms, and then dropped again m; ny
miles from the place where they were
taken up. Small fish have often been
found in puddles of water in village
streets, to the astonishment of peoph
who were unacquainted with the
phenomenon.
From an examination of several
skulls found in North and South
America, and believed to have be¬
longed to inhabitants living before
the glacial period, Dr. Kollmann con¬
cludes that the races of that ancient
epoch are those of to-day, the same
cranial and facial forms being found,
in spite of lapse of time and change
environment.
Miss E. A. Ormerod, England’s
well-known entomologist, reports that
her many correspondents all agree that
sparrows will not feed on insects when
seeds, grain, fruit and other vegetable
food is within reach. She therefore
advocates a judicious destruction ol
the house-sparrow for the protection
of crops, hut is careful to show that
the objection does not extond to other
small birds.
Near the equator perpetual snow
covers the mountains at the height of
15,207 feet; in latitude 60 deg. it is
found at 3,818 feet, and in 75 deg. at
1,016 feet. The main cause of this is
not that the solar rays possess less
heat in the higher regions, as the con¬
trary has been proved, but that the
portions of the earth’s crust projecting
far up into the atmosphere, as is the
case with high mountains, possess
less of the interior heat of the earth,
being more subject to cooling by ra¬
diation, which bas caused their tem¬
perature to descend to such a very low
degree that even a midday tropical sun
cannot raise it to 32 deg. F.
Professor Huxley assests that the
made up as follows : Muscles and
their appurtenances, 68 pounds ;
skeleton, 24 pounds; skin. 10 1-2
pounds; fat, 28 pounds; brain, 3
pounds; thoracic viscera, 3 1-2 pounds;
abdominal viscera, 11 pounds; blood
which would drain from the body, 7
pounds. The heart of such a man
should beat 75 times a minute, and he
should breathe 15 times a minute. In
24 hours he would vitiate 1,750 cubic
feet of pure air to the extent of 1 per
cent.—a man, therefore, of the weight
mentioned, should have 800 cubic feet
of well-ventilated space. He would
throw off by the skin 18 ounces of
water, 300 grains of solid matter, and
400 grains of carbonic acid every 24
hours; and his total loss during that
period would be 6 pounds of water
and a little more than 2 pounds of
other matter_
Tho New York Morgue.
The morge is attached to the great
Charity Hospital of New York, which
is situated at the foot of Twenty-sixth
stieet, on the East River—the place
being once known as “Bellevue.”
From the foot of this street thesteam
hoat lies to and from Blackwell’s Is
land (where the penitentiary is situ
ated)> the distance belng two miles,
^ ent „ r the hospital ground8 you
pass a ama ii brick structure, with a
large window opening into the street,
an( , here one often notice3 a cr0 wd
! « wonder, aZlng Tf for inside n T^t that window wh ow he lie the the
unknown dead.
^ b stonf , with a drain
w j 1 j c | 1 keeps it dry. Tts sole furniture
j s a p a j r Q f atone tables, each slanting
ao as to allow moisture to escape by
d . 0 n these tables are exposed
t he bodies of the unknown dead, and
t he room is open from nine until five,
ln order to permit inspection. The
cor p ses 3r e stripped of their clothing,
but are covered by an India rubber
c j Q ^ wb ich only permits the head to
be seen. In hot weather a jet of cold
W ater is often thrown" upon them in
^ tQ ^ ent d( ,com position, for as
^ ^ b fch are 8ent to the
^ Aq im tant feature
^ 0 i8 itjj wardrobe, and
1 s e emotion9 are felt as one
gazes on this varied array of garments
whose owners will, in most instances,
never be known! Each one is num
pered and accompanied by a few
words of description. Here, for in
s tance < are pantaloons, shirt and vest
labeled, “Picked up in East river Jan
nary 12, 1881 buried on the lKth.
Another is a full suit marked, “I icked
up In the street; stabbed. These
garments are kept for a year, and
even longer, in order to assist in iden
tifying those who have gone to the
trenches of the Potter’s field— Cinein
nati Enquirer.
I Know.
I know to-day the golden »un
Is lying in my little room,
I know the lilacs, every one,
Are bursting into bud and bloom
And on the curtain, to and fro,
The trembling shadows come and gi
I know the birds, just as of old,
Are fashioning their dainty nests,
There are some with wings like burnished gold
And robins with I heir crimson breasts;
Dear robins that have come so long,
And brought new meanings to their song.
And there beneath the sheltering eaves,
Far out of reach and way of harm.
They sit and brood, while clustering leaves
Wind swept, sing o’er and o’er the song—
The song of Life that Nature sings,
That wells from out the heart of Springs !
I know the tender hawthorn hedge
Is wearing emerald crown to-day;
That woodbine by the garden’s edgo
With every breath of wind doth sway;
I know the pansy’s tender eyes
Are looking upward to the skios,
And that, like sentinels by the gate,
My maples listening ever wait.
— L. M. Fogg.
HUMOROUS.
Why is there nothing like leather?
Because it is the sole support of man.
A man never wants to laugh when
a fly lights on his nose; nevertheless
he is greatly tickled.
The more rocks a man has the bet¬
ter off he is, according to an exchange.
It is different with cats we believe.
“Courtin’,” says Artemus Ward, “is
like strawberries and cream—want3 to
be did slow: then you git the flavor.”
Nothing was ever got together in
the platform of a political party that
meant more or panned out less than a
boy’s first attempt at gardening.
Pray tell us, ladies, if yon can, who
is that highly favored man, who,
though he’s married many a wife, may
be a bachelor all his life? A clergy¬
man.
“Hurrah!” cries the urchin; "the circus is
here,
And, by golly, 1 haven’t n cent!”
Bat ho dodges aronnd till he finds the coast
clear,
And then he crawls under the tent.
An Arizona man has stopped tak¬
ing an agricultural paper. He wrote
r
gnats. The answer came in the nexl
issue of the paper, “Kill them.”
Before they are married she will
carefully turn down his coat collar
when it gets awfy, but afterwar •
she’ll jerk it down in position as If she
was throwing a doormat out of the
window.
“Do you think your father is going
to move out soon?” inquired the
owner of a rented house of the son of
his tenant. “Think so,” was the re¬
ply; “we’ve begun using the window
frames for firewood.”
A gentleman was giving a little boy
some peanuts the other day. The good
mother said, “Now. what areyou going
to say to the gentleman?” With
childish simplicity the little fellow
looked up in the gentleman’s face and
replied, “More.”
Lire on the Planet Mars.
Prof. Lockver is of the opinion that
human life on the planet Mars may be
very much like life on the earth ; the
light cannot be so bright, but the or¬
gans of sight may be so much more
susceptible as to make the vision quite
as good. The heat is probably less, as
the polar snows certainly extend fur¬
ther, but by no means less in propor¬
tion to the lessened power of the solar
ravs _ He agrees with others that sev
al verv ; remar kabie seas, Including
inland s ft8 , aome 0 f them connected
not connectedby straits with
stiU larger seas, are now definable in
the southern hemisphere, £ in which, as
in the ca8e ^ wit the earth, water
S eems to be much more widely spread
than in the northern hemisphere,
There is, for example, a southern sea
exceedingly like the Baltic in shape;
and there is another and still more re
markable sea, now defined by theob
nervations of many astronomers, one
near the equator, a long, strangling
arm, twisting, almost in the shape of
a n S laid on its back, from east to
west., at least one thousand miles in
length and one hundred in breadth,
Paper Slippers.
Paper slippers are the latest form in
which paper is introduced in new in¬
ventions. An Englishman has patent
ed a system of manufacturing slippers,
3Hnda ) Si and other coverings for the
out of paper. Paper pulp, or pa¬
pj^ r roache, is employed for the upper,
which is moulded to the desired form
and g j M( and a so j e j g provided made
Q f p a p eror pasteboard, leather board
or other suitable paper material.which
j g unjtod the upper by means of ce
rngnt, glue, or other adhesive material,
-phe upper is creased, embossed, or
perforated at the instep and sides,
wh j c h renders them somewhat pliable,
and prevents their cracking while ir
use.— Scientific American.