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OUB YOUNG FOLKS.
Violets,
star tyfr—'beauty of the .print,
Whore thy blopxoma form . ring*
Fairies come to danoe and ring.
Falrloa come to ting and dams,
So ’tin told in old roniance;
So you may believe, perchanoa.
You may watch and you may wait
At the circle long ana late,
Fairy f you will not meet
There’* a fairy nearer by,
Yo* may find, if you will try.
Would you aek me 44 how” or 44 why?"
living word, and gentle deed,
Rowing good, like precious seed,
Helping those who .tend in need,
Form the fairy’* magic art.
Form of fairy life a part,
Train a fairy in your heart
THE DOCTOR’S WATCHMAN.
“ Tell you what, doctor; you’ll be get
ting robbed and murdered one of these
days ; you will, upon my word !"
“Hardly, my boy. You ought to
know, by tills lime, that it’s the province
of us doctors to kill other people, not to
be killed ourselves.” And, with a thick
chuckle at his own wit, Dr. John Hunter
Bistoury settled himself comfortably in
his chair, and began to peal his third
■orange os carefully os if he were taking
off a limb.
When the doctor first eamo to New
York, thirty years before, he had been
in no way burdened with riches; but
his face had proved his fortune in a dif
ferent sense from that of the over-candid
milkmaid in the. song. The mere sight
of that round, florid, jovial visage, in
every crease'of which a joke or a good
story seemed to bo lurking, was a cor
dial in itself, and appeared capable of
reviving the most hopeless invalid with
out the aid of medicine at all. Mindful
of the hifmaii Weakness which makes so
worthy people regard their own
ailments as a kind of personal distinc
tion, the lessening of which in any way
is a direct insult to themselves, Dr. Bis
toury skillfully took a middle course be
tween alarming his patients, by ail pver
serious view of their case, and offending
them by appearing to make light of it.
In this way he had acquired an enor
mous practice, and his reputation now
stood so high that the mere eclat of his
name liatl sufficed to sell an entire edi
tion of his great work upon “The Mu
tual Relations of Mind and Body,” in
which he proved to his own satisfaction,
if not to that of all Iris readers, that all
criminal impulses whatever, and indeed
the very existent* of sin itself, me whol
ly due to “ a morbid action of the physi
cal system”—that a murder may be pre
vented by the timely use of Epsom salts,
and an unbeliever converted by a judi
cious contemplation of the virtues of
quinine.
“lean assure you, my dear Harry,”
resumed the genial doctor, “that it’s
amazing flattering to me to And myself
considered worth robbing at all. No
thief would have thought me worth a
center-bit in the days when your poor
fafher—as fine a fellow, Harry, as ever
breathed—used to come and sup with
me upon biscuits and toasted cheese in
my Little snuggery down town. And
then, as surely as the time came to go,
he’d turn to me and say: ‘ Now, Jack,
old boy, won’t you think better of it,
and let me write you a check—just to
give you a fair start, you know ? ’ But,
although I knew well enough that he’d
have been only too glad to do it, I had
to refuse; for my motto is, ‘ Heaven
helps those who help themselves ! ’ ”
“A motto which you'll find some
black-masked gentleman exemplifying in
this very house one of these nights,”
growled Harry Everett. “Look here,
doctor, I’m not joking—l’m not, indeed.
Everybody knows you’re a rich man,
and it’s got abroad that there’s a room
in your house which is always shut up;
the very thing to make people tlrink
there must be something very valuable
stowed away there, and yet, after all that,
you go living in this big house without
a soul near you except the cook and old
Sam yonder, who wouldn’t be worth a
cent in a real scrimmage ! ”
“ Well, my boy,” said the doctor, with
a curious smile ; “would it tranquilize
your mind if I were to engage a night
watchman ? ”
“I should think so. That would be
just the thing.”
' “Very good. Consider it done.”
This room, of which Harry hail spoken
as being “always shut up,” was a stand
ing puzzle to the doctor’s lew intimates.
Not a man of them had ever crossed its
threshold, and its master, when ques
tioned on the subject, answered only by
some joking evasion. Rumor whispered
that one adventurous gentleman, ren
dered desperate by his wife’s threat to
give him no peace till lie found out
“ what Dr. Bistoury kept hid in that
room of his,” had actually attempted a
burglarious entrance ; but the attempt,
if ever made, had been unsuccessful. It
is needless to say that countless conjec
tures, and not a few heavy bets, likewise,
were being constantly made respecting
the contents of this Bluebeard chamber.
Many declared that the doctor had fitted
it up in the hope of discovering the
Philosopher’s stone. Others were
equally positive that it contained the
hoardings of his whole life in American
gold, his opinions being notoriously of
the “hard-money ” order. A rival prac
titioner, of a somewhat cynical turn,
suggested that it must contain the re
mains of the unfortunate patients who
had perished under that fellow Bistoury’s
ministrations, and one imaginative lady,
deeply read in “Jane Eyre,” stoutly
maintained that the doctor, in imitation
of the hero of that famous work, had
immured his wife in that mysterious
oubliette, in order to enjoy unchecked
the freedom of a bachelor life. Against
this ingenious theory there was only one
thing to be said—the doctor had never
had a wife to immure. This flagrant
treason against the sex was the more un
pardonable inasmuch as he had had
abundant opportunities of changing his
condition, had lie but chosen to avail
himself of them. To most of those who
questioned him on the subject he re
plied that he was wedded to his profes
sion, and that any other union would be
flat bigamy; but to bis friend Harry
Everett, in a moment of after-dinner
confidence, he told a very different story.
“My medical cousin Alice was the
woman who ought to have been Mrs.
Bistoury, and an admirable fellow-prac
titioner she would have made for me.
The way in which she once cut a splin
ter out of my thumb did equal honor to
her hand and her heart ; and. when she
was onlv 13, she bought a skeleton with
her uncle’s birthday gift of $5 ” (a fact),
“and articulated it in a manner that was
really masterly. But in an evil hour she
became tainted with a fancy for homeo
pathy ; and after that, of course, ah was
over between us. Such is life 1”
The doctor’s agreement to engage a
night-watchman quieted Harry s appre
hensions for the time being; but a few
weeks later he returned to the attack
once more. “I say, doctor, have you
got that night-watchman yet ?”
“Yes; some time ago." ....
“ Well, he don’t seem to do his duty,
then, for I’ve passed this way at all hour*.
Hamilton Journal.
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VOL. VIII.-NO. 33.
of the night, and never seen him. Are
you quite sure he’s to be trusted ?"
“ Wait and see !” replied the doctor,
oracularly.
And Everett waited, but did not see.
The invisible watchman remained as in
visible as ever, and Harry, out of pa
tience with Iris old friend’s seeming in
fatuation, had almost, decided to take
some decisive step on his own authority,
when anew complication introduced it
self into the drama. This was nothing
less than the temporary retirement if
the doctor's veteran mnn-servaut, popu
larly known as “Old Sam,” whose
health had begun to give way so mani
festly that Iris master insisted oil send
ing him into the country for a three
months' holiday, replacing him with an
other man, who had volunteered as
promptly as if he had been keeping his
eye on the place for a year past. The
new-comer was a grave, smooth-faced,
taciturn man, who moved ns noiselessly
as a shadow, and seemed a living com
bination of the two proverbial requisites
of a goisl servant—silence and obedi
ence.
Blit, although the doctor and Iris
friends highly approved of this model
domestic, there was one man who did
not. That one was Harry Everett, who
lost no time in announcing his opinion.
“ Look here, doctor. I don’t want to
be always bothering you about this rol >-
bery idea, but it’s a fact, that that new
fellow of yours is up to some mischief.
I was coming home pretty late last night
when I cauglit sight of him standing at
the garden gate talking to a couple of
men. On? of them happened to turn his
face to the lamplight as I passed, and I
knew him at once for a noted thief, who
goes by the name of ‘ Badger Bill. ’ ”
“ Indeed! Are you bum of that ? ”
“ Quite sure. You know I never for
get a face I’ve once seen.”
“All! In that case, it's time for me
to act.' ” The last word was so curiously
emphasized that Harry, who was not
wanting in shrewdness, liegan to suspect
that his persistent warnings to the doc
tor had been superfluous, after all, and
that the. old gentleman was quite equal
to the emergency.
The suspicion was confirmed one even
ing about a week later, when the doctoi
dropjied in upon him unexpectedly, say
ing: “ Give me some dinner, my boy.
You’ve no engagement this evening, 1
know; so I’m going to be very benevo
lent, and find you some amusement my
self. Have you ever read * The Count
of Monte Christo?’ because you’re go
ing to see a chapter of it dramatized to
night, and pretty effectively, too, I flat
ter myself.”
‘ * What do you mean ? ” asked Everett,
staring.
“Why, you see, I told my servants a
few days ago that I should be away from
home to-mglit, and my cook naturally
seized the chance for getting an ‘ even
ing out;’ consequently, the house will
bo under the sole charge of that worthy
man-servant of mine, against whom
you’re so unaccountably prejudiced. It’s
quite possible that the two lionest gen
tlemen with whom you saw him talking
the other niglit may he kind enough to
enliven his solitude with a visit; and
so—”
Harry sprung to his feet, and cut a
caper worthy of a dancing dervish, snap
ping his fingers by way of accompani
ment. “Capital! first-rate! I see it
all now ! But come, now, doctor ; why
on earth couldn’t you tell me before that
you were up to the whole game, instead
of letting me make a fool of myself by
preaching to a man as smart as any six
of me?”
“ Never mind, my boy,” said the doc
tor, laughing. “Your warning was
kindly meant, all the same. Eat your
dinner—you’ll want it before the even
ing’s over, I can promise you—and then
we’ll have our talk.”
Dinner over, the doctor lit one of the
incomparable cigars which were his sole
luxury, and proceeded to expound his
plan of action. “I’ve locked up the
outer room that opens into my mysterious
chamber, which puts two strong doors
between it and the robbers. My estima
ble servant will warn them of this, and
they’ll try the window instead. He’ll
let them in by the garden door, and
give them the old ladder that lies beside
it to mount by. We'll hide in the sta
ble, which, thanks to my keeping my
brougham elsewhere —has been unused
so long that no one would dream of sus
pecting it; but I can open the door
easily enough. And then—”
“And then,” broke in Harry, eagerly,
“ we’ll go for them the minute they ap
pear. It’ll be a fine chance to try my
new revolver.”
“Better leave it at home,” said the
doctor, quietly; “we shall want no
weapons for this job.”
“ Why, are you going to mesmerize
the fellows ?” asked Everett, completely
mvstified.
“ Wait and see,” chuckled the doctor.
“We needn’t be there till 11, for my
lionest domestic will make sure, before
giving the signal, that I’m not coming
back ; and beside an experienced burglar
seldom begins work till after midnight.
The only thing to he sure of is that no
body sees us getting in.”
But in this fortune favored them; and,
as the doctor had foretold, the lock of
the stable door, rusty as it looked,
moved without difficulty, and the two
conspirators glided in, unseen and un
heard. .
Weary, weary work, crouching there
in the darkness, with ear and eye
strained to the utmost for the first sign
of the coming danger. Dr. Bistoury’s
practiced nerves l>ore even this pro
longed trial easily enough; but to the
impulsive, excitable Everett it was ab
solute torture. Like all young soldiers,
he found the suspense before the action
infinitely more trying than the fray it
self. Tile stable opened on the street
close to the garden-door, and its farther
window, at which the two watchers had
posted themselves, commanded the
whole side of the house, the blackness
of which was relieved only by a solitary
light in one of the upper windows.
Suddenly the light vanished, and re
appeared a moment later—a perform
ance repeated three times in quick suc
cession.
“That must be the signal, whispered
the doctor. “Keep your ears open,
Harry.”
Courageous as Everett was, he felt his
pulse quicken, and his hand went in
stinctively to the revolver which, despite
the doctor's verdict, he had persisted in
bringing with him.
“ Hark! Was that a stealthy footstep
outside?”
The next moment came a low whistle,
instantly answered from the house ; and
then a shadowy figure, issuing from the
building, glided noiselessly to the gar
den-door, and opened it to admit two
others.
“They’ve got the ladder,” whispered
Dr. Bistoury-, as the three phantoms
crossed the garden. "Bo oil the look
out, my boy ; yoitfre going to see some
thing worth seeing! ”
The ladder was soon placed against
the mysterious window, and Badger Bill,
after whispering to his comrade to " keep
an eye ” on their worthy confederate, as
cended, and, cutting out a pane so dex
terously that, the sound was barely audi
ble, put his hand through and shot back
the hasp. His two assistants mounted
after him ; and Bill, stepping cautiously
into the room, turned the “ bull's-eye *'
of his lantern upon its interior.
Instantly the treacherous servant re
coiled with a stifled cry.
“Ain’t that a—a cq /fin over yonder?”
whispered he. tremulously. “Good
gracious! suppose there should be a
dead man in it, and——”
“ S’pose you should be a thunderin’
big fool! ” growled Bill, savagely.
“Shut your mouth, will yer, or thar’ll
bo another dead man somewhar round
soon. I’m a-goiu’ right in —l am 1 ”
And he stepped resolutely forward.
Crash! the coffin-lid burst open, and a
skeleton, thrown out iu ghastly relief by
the red light that flamed in its eyeless
sockets, started up with a hideous rattle,
thrusting forward its louy arms and
grinning jaws as if about to spring on
them. The “Nauvequipeut" of Napoleon
was not more decisive. The honest
servant gave one yell sufficient to wake
the whole neighborhood, and rolled on
the floor in convulsions. The second
burglar, leaping backward, dashed his
head with such force against the corner
of a bureau that he dropped as if felled
with an ax, while Badger Bill, making a
frantic rush for the window, overturned
the ladder, and fell crashing along with
it, breaking his leg in the fall.
“You see now, Horry,” said the doc
tor, as they went up-stairs after seeing
their unbidden guests marched off by
the police, “that my night-watchman
did know his duty, although there’s
nothing more unearthly about him than
a few concealed springs, which are re
leased upon the approach of any one,
and a little phosphorus. As for this
wonderful room, you see it’s only a
laboratory, after all. But the stories
that people told about it amused me so
much that I must plead guilty to having
given them a good deal of encourage
ment. Now, let us be off to bed; and I
think you may sleep in ponce after this,
for it strikes me it’ll be some time be
fore anybody robs my house again.”
And, indeed, no one has ever attempt
ed it since
Spasmodic Action.
Tlie muscles are endowed with con
tractile power. They tend of them
selves to draw their extremities toward
tlieir center. The heart is a double hol
low muscle, whose alternate contraction
and dilation constitutes its “beating.”
Tlie contraction throws out the blood
into the system, and the dilation opens
the heart for more. The working of
this central engine is so essential that
its power to dilate and contract is, to
some extent, provided for within itself.
So much so is this the ease that the
heart will beat for a considerable time
after it lias been removed from a vig
orous animal.
Certain ganglia at the base of the
brain supply the force necessary to
motion—the motor nerve-force, as it is
called. The supply is generated by the
nerve cells in the motor centers, directly
from arterial blood.
Withhold the blood from the motor
cells and all motion at once ceases. The
same effect follows when the blood is
sufficiently vitiated through the failure
of the lungs, liver or kiilneys to elimin
ate its constantly accumulating im
purities.
The motor nerve-force acts by extend
ing the muscles ; or, when they are in a
state of apparent rest, by simply coun
teracting the contractile tendency. In
the case of tho heart, the motor and the
contractile force act alternately.
If, through any cause, the motor force
is suddenly checked, the muscles yield
to their normal tendency, and the result
is spasms. Hence spasms in the dying
do not generally indicate suffering, for
the nerves of sensation also, at tho same
time, fail of their nervous supply.
On the contrary, cramps in the limbs
at night, caused by an over use of the
muscles, which has partially exhausted
the supply of motor-force, are attended
with pain, inasmuch as there is no dim
inution of sensational nerve-force.
The arteries have a muscular coat, by
the action of which the arterial blood is
increased or diminished. In th<f ease of
the dying—and often under other cir
cumstances —the lesseningof the motor
force allows the art riel muscles to con
tract along their entire course, thus
greatly diminishing the blood supply to
all the nervous centers, and lowering the
power of sensation. Hence the act of
dying is ordinarily painless. Hence, too,
the pallor of the face. — Youth's Corn
panion. *
The best substance to preserve pol
ished steel from rust is pure paraffine.
The steel should be wanned sufficiently
to melt the paraffine, which should, how
ever, be already in a melted condition.
Lay the paraffine on with a brush or rag,
and wipe it carefully off with a very
warm and dry rag. Tlie thin coat of
paraffine left adhering to the metal after
this process will not be perceptible to
the eye. Being solid, it does not leave
tlie greasy feeling that remains when oil
or tallow is used. It does not affect in
the slightest degree the color of the ob
ject, and we think it would prove excel
lent for the protection of a fine gun bar
rel from the action of a damp and saline
atmosphere.
A reporter on the Rochester Demo
oral counted twenty-seven young men in
one evening who were driving livery
rigs with one hand. The other hand was
either off or belonged to an arm around
a girl.
“ DUM SPIRO, SPERO.”
HAMILTON, (lAm AUGUST 12, 1880.
Carried Safely Through.
The danger of reviving on old appe
tite, or of creating anew one, by ad
ministering alcoholic drinks to sick per
sons has led many conscientious medical
men to abandon trie practice.
In the following cose is an instance'
where a patient with the assent and
sympathy of his physician, refused
strong drink to the very verge of death.
Trusting in God lie fought his battle
through, and conquered. The facts are
condensed from a narrative in a recent
address of a member of the Women’s
Christian Temperance Union.
A reformed drunkard, after sixteen
years otfuithful adherence to his pledge,.
was attacked with pt/iemia, or decay of
the blood, probably the slow growth of
seeds sown (luring his early excesses.
Tlie physician who was called to him
was well aware that wine and malt li
quors were always' proscribed ill such
cases, but lie shrunk from the responsi
bility of possibly making the man a
drunkard again—if he recovered.
The disease is almost incurable, under
any treatment. He frankly told his pa
tient so, and submitted to riim the ques
tion of the remedies. The patient re
ferred it back to him.
“ With a wife and nine children de
pendent on me,” he said, “I douot wish
to die ; but, doctor, my children know
nothing about strong drink.”
The physician was iu a distressing
dilemma. To withhold the liquors, and
probably lose his patient, seemed almost
liko committing a crime against, a human
life. To prescribe them, and save his
patient would probably only insure the
man’s slower ruin.
Tlie physician was a Christian man.
He asked for guidance from Him in
whoHO hands aro the lives of all men, and
decided at last to dispense with all alco
holic stimulants, and use only simple
nutrients and correctives. If he could
not restore the man’s health, he would
do nothing to injure his soul.
The patient, who was also a follower
of Christ, grew weaker every day, but
liis faith in his physician, and his faitli
iu his Savior, were touching to Bee.
Week after week he lay helpless on his
bod, praying alternately for life, for his
family, and for resignation. But all the
time tlie thought that he was free from
the poison that lie hated for the harm it
had done him gave liiin joy.
“Thank God,” lie would say, “if I
die, I shall go into God’s presence a
sober man. ”
At last his friends interfered, and in
sistod that he should take wine. It was
the only thing that would revive him,
they said, for lie was almost gone. But
he replied:
“ No, no; if this is the passage from
life to death, lam happy. Once I was
dying a drunkard, and that was misery
unspeakable. ”
Hiß wife entreated him with tears, lmt
even she could not move liim.
“Take the wine away,” he whispered,
pointing to it with his feeble finger.
“It nearly lost me heaven once. Take
it away!”
By-and-by the crisis came. The pliy
sician in despair wrote what he believed
to bo his last prescription, ordered care
ful nursing and went away. The patient
lay scarcely breathing, his attentive
watcher loaning over him, with fingers
on liis pulse. The pulse began to grow
stronger; the breathing became deeper
and more regular. The weeping family
in the next room waited for the closing
scone. They heard a strange sound and
tuslied to trie sufferer’s bedside. Tlie
poor man had opened liis eyes and was
trying to sing .
Praia® God, from whom all blesHlngs flow.
The crisis seemed to be passed, and
the gladness with which wffo and chil
dren joined in that thanksgiving must
hove made itself heard in heaven.
The man got well, and that physician
will always believe that his recovery was
due to the fidelity and Oliristian trust
which enabled him to keep his pledge
through a trial such as few men would
care to encounter.
A Pretty Girl at Auction.
“Grandfather” Ackley, of tho village of
Watkins, N. Y., hail rather a novel ex
perience recently while “crying off” a
vendue in the town of Heetor. After dis
posing of the articles on tlie sale list,
there was a lull iu business, and the
crowd was getting impatient waiting for
“Grandfather” to “come down/’ or
rather to announce tho close of the sale,
when a pretty, plnmp, rosy girl asked
him to offer her to the highest bidder.
“ Grandfather,” being of a modest re
tiring disposition, seemed reluctant, but
the girl insisted, so ho proceeded to
“ cry ” her off. The first hid was offered
by a timid young man with a pianissimo
voice, who weakly offered 875, a bald
headed man “ went him SSO lictter,” anil
the bidding went along lively until $2,000
was offered. At tljis juncture the girl’s
father went SI,OOO ljetter ” anil “ Grand
father ” closed tlie hid to that gentleman.
“Grandfather” looked the crowd of
young men over, and, raising himself up
in a dignified way, proceeded to address
them in the following manner: “Gentle
men, I am surprised, nay more, deeply
mortified, to think that you should let
such a prize slip through your hands for
such a paltry sum. Wli v, do you know
that this young lady would, if married,
get up in the morning and make a fire
without jarring the floor enough to wake
her lord and master up; and, further
more, if I were as young as some of you,
I would swim the whole length of Seneca
lake, climb a liberty pole, throw the
pole away ;• <1 climb fifty feet further
rather than I , • the opportunity you fel
lows have.” it is needless to >ay the
assemblage roared with laughter. —New
York /Evening Telegram.
The Greatest Work of Goethe.
Victor Hugo never could abide Goethe.
Good reason why. Tlie great German
said of “Notre Dame” that it was a nice
enough story, but villainously valueless
from a historical point of view. “Goethe?”
said Hugo, scornfully, when his name
was mentioned once, “Goethe? Who is
Goethe? What did he ever write? What
does he amount to? The only thing he
ever wrote that is at ali passable is ‘ The
Bobbers.’” “Pardon me, mastir,” ob
serves one of Hugo’s disciples; “ but
‘The Robbers’ is by Schiller." “And
that is Schiller’s ! ” concluded Hugo, in
triumph. — Drench paper.
SCIENCE AND ART.
Fkom the speed of light, which lifts
been measured, it is proved that at least
four hundred (uul fifty-one millions of
millions of these minute waves flow into
> the eye and dash against the retina in each
second.
AViutk fish less than a week old and
looking like a pair of eyes with a tail, if
placed beneath a microscope are found to
lie transparent, and exhibit beautifully
the action of the heart iu propelling tlie
blood, and its circulation through the
tail.
Ik sisals (barley, corn, etc.,) lie iilaeed
bet ween moist pieces of Jituuis paper, the
roots stiak to trio papei and color it so in
tensely red that even oil the back of the
paper their course can be traced in red
lines (Hi a blue ground. If tincture of
litmus be repeatedly added, the intensity
of the red color is increased.
Prof. J. Lawrence Smith, of LouiH
ville, Ky., in a pujHir read before the
French Academy of Sciences, says that
the meteorite which fell at Kstherville,
lowa, on May 10, 1875), should be placed
apart for tlie phenomena of its full, es
pecially the force of penetration of its
fragments into the ground, and for tin'
mode of association of its mineral con
stituents.
An Italian Antarctic expedition is pro
posed by Lieut. Bovu, who was one of
the officers under Nonlenskjold on the
Vega, It is to sail in the spring of 1881,
and touch at Monte Video, Terra del
Fuogo, Falkland, and South Shetland
Islands, and, proceeding in a southwost
wardly direction, commence explorations,
expecting to lie engaged for two winters
in the Antarctic region, and return by
way of Hobart Town. The expenses are
estimated at <IOO,OOO lire.
An instrument called the statlimo
graph, for recording the speed of railway
trains, has been invented by a German
mechanician at Cassel, and works so well
that the Prussian Government is about
to test it on some of tlio State lines. A
dial iu view of the engineer enables him
to ascertain the velocity of the locomotive
at any moment, and tlie changes of speed
aro graphically represented upon a roll of
paper, which can bo studied at tlie cud
of tho journey.
A few years ago Herr Kolbe suggested
dringiug-water used on long voyages
might 1■ preserved from corruption by
moans of a little salicylic acid, and this
was supported by laboratory experiments.
Afterward experiments were inode on a
largo scale on board ships without suc
cess, and when tho water was examined
not a particle of the acid could he found.
• What became of the acid is an open
question. Herr Kolbo considers that tho
action of tho wood of tlie cask decom
posed tlie salicylic acid.
(Somewhat in those •cords an English
scientific journal introduces tho follow
ing suggestion: They propose to light
tlie wholo of Loudon by means of a great
central light-liouse. Suppose a circular
tower, say 1,000 feet or more, with gal
leries at intervals of one hundred feet,
anil each gallery provided with a series
of electric lamps, with reflectors ar
ranged at suitable angles. The light
could thus he directed and diffused over
the entire metropolis, rendering gas-light
unnecessary except in the suburbs. This
is the suggestion. Who will carry it into
effect?
The Philosophical Society of Glasgow
is to hold an exhibition of gas apparatus
on a large scale next autumn, and it is
intended, also, to make a display at tho
same time of the apparatus which will
illustrate the progress made in electric
lighting, in telephonic communication,
in tho manufacture of mineral oils, in
hydraulic engines, in heating and venti
lation, etc. There can be no doubt that
this exhibition, taking up, as it means to
do, some of the most important prob
lems to which man’s attention is given at
present, will prove of great service to
those who have to deal practically with
sanitary appliances.
According to M. Edmond About there
aro at least 2,(XX) pictures in tho present
French Hidon which no dealer would
show in his shop. Within the last twenty
years the number of pictures hung has
doubled, without art reaping much ad
vantage. M. Paul Parfait gives us an
amusing description of some previous
Balous. That of Yeai IX <1801), con
tained only 485 works of all descriptions,
instead of, as to-day, 7,289. M. Gullet
exhibited a magnificent canvas symbolical
of tho 18th Brumaire, of which the centre
was occupied by tho vessel of the Btuto,
which was represented as having safely
entered port and as moored with a chain
of laurel wreaths. Tlie British leopard,
too, was displayed on it vainly lavishing
guineas on expiring monsters, and Dis
cord was flying before tlie dawning rays
of a luminary doing duty for anew era.
Educational Gifts.
Do not Americans ajijireciato educa
tion ? Here is a list of their beiifaee
tions: SI,3(X),(MX) by Mr. Simmons, of
Boston, for the industrial education of
women ; $1,(XX),000 by Daniel Drew, to
endow a theological seminary, to which
Abel Mcnand adds SIOO,OOO more “ for
the education of women for the min
istry ;” $200,0(H) by Erast.us Coming, for
a female college ; $400,000 by Robert
Barnes, of Indiana, for the education of
orphans in the State ; SIOO,OOO by Or
ange Jndd, the, agricultural-book pub
lisher, for scientific department in Wcs
levan University; SBO,(XX) by Cyrus
McCormick, the reaper, for the theo
logical seminary at Chicago; SIOO,OOO
by Daniel Appleton the book publisher,
for the Chancellorship and library in
New York University; SIOO,OOO by
Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, to Harvard
University ; $100,(XX) by Ohuuncey Rose,
of Terre Haute, Ind., for a female col
lege ; $100,(XX) by Henry Sage, of.
Brooklyn, N. Y., for a female-college
building at Cornell Univesity ; $500,0)X)
by Mr. Shaw, of St. Louis, for park and
botanic garden • $200,000 by Mr. Par
dee, of Pennsylvania, for scientific de
partment at Lafayette College, at Easton,
IV; $75,000 by Hi rare Sibley, of Roch
ester, N. Y., for a library building at
Rochester University ; SSO,(XX) by the
Rev. Jesse T. Peek to the new university
at Syracuse, N. Y., which lias been in
creased by other citizens to a million
and a half ; $160,000 by Samuel Willis
ton for educational purposes in Eaet
hampton. Miss
J. L. DENNIS, Editor.
SI.OO Year.
x Fool Nlonil*.
Noticing hurts a man, nothing hurts a
party so terribly as fool friends.
A fool friend is the sowerSj had news,
of slander and all base and’unpleasant
things.
A fool friend always knows every mean
tiling that Ims been said against you and
against the party.
He always knows where your party is
losing, and tlie other is making large
gains.
Hi' always tells you of the good luck
your enemy has had.
He implicitly believes every story
against you, and kindly susi>eets your
defense.
A fool friend is always full of a kind of
stupid candor.
He is so candid that he always be
lieves the statements of anv enemy.
Ho never suspocis anything on your
side. '
Nothing pleases him like lining shocked
by horrible news concerning some good
man.
He nover denies a lie unless it is ill your
favor.
Ho is always finding fault with his
party, and is continually begging pardon
for not belonging to the other side.
He is frightfully anxious that all his
candidates should stand well with the op
position.
He is forever seeing tho faults of his
party and the virtues of tho other.
He generally shows his candor by
scratching his ticket.
Ho always searches every nook and
corner of Ills conscience to find a rnason
for deserting a friend or a principal.
In tlie moment of victory ho is mag
nanimously on your side. In defeat he
consoles you by repeating prophesies
made after tho event.
The fool friend regards your reputation
as common property, and as common
prey for all tho vultures, hyenas and
jackals.
Ho takes a sad pleasure in your mis
fortunes.
Ho forgets his principles to gratify
your enemies.
lie forgives your maligner and slan
derer with all his heart.
Ho is so friendly that you cannot
kick him.
He generally talks for you, hut always
hots tlio other way.— Col. Ingcrsoll in
the National Illustrated, Wceklv.
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
provo the fact, and the great truth is also
demonstrated by tho bottoms of all
these oceans, according to their various
depths, constantly getting tilled up by
primary formations. In short, tho 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 Imiwclh 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 iui matter how far down,
every inch of the descent was once the
surface,however low it may now he out
of sight, by tlio accumulation of creative
increase over it since the time. Thus,
so far as we have been enabled to pene
trate, and thn rule holds good over every
part of its surface, we find the strata,
however deep we may ilesoend, all lying,
as to time, in the order of their forma
tion. They can not Iki otherwise, as no
convulsions of nature could reverso the
position of one stratum by superimpos
ing it upon another. If wo sink down
through the strata to tlie depth of, say,
a thousand yards, wo pass through the
works of several geological epochs, the
first one that on which tho drift of the
deluge rests, tho latest formation, the
next—if in tho sinking there is no miss
ing link—a step in time earlier, and so
on in succession, until wo reach the low
est stratum at tho depth mentioned, the
oldest one in the series. There it is just
whore it was deposited, then on tlio. sur
face of tlio earth, perhaps more than
1,000,(KX) years ago, while all the others
have lieen 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 tlie globe
arose, which will yet he dry land, and
will ho the latest formation for the geol
ogists of the remote future. — Colburn's
Magazine..
The True Wife.
Oftentimes I have seen tall ship
glide by against the tide, as if drawn by
an invisible tow line with a hundred
strong aims pulling it. H-r sails un
furled, her streamers drooping, she hud
neither side-wheel nor stern-wheel; still
she movedon, stately, in serene triumph,
as with her own life. But I knew that
an the other side of the ship, hidden be
neath the greut hulk that swarn so ma
jestically, there was a little toilsome
steam tug, with a heart of fire and arms
of iron, that was tugging it bravely on;
anil I knew that if tlie little sti urn tug
untwined her arms anil left the ship, it
would wullow and roll away, and drift
hither ami thither, and go off with tho
effluent tide no man knows where; and
so I have known more thftn one genius
high-decked, full-freighted, wide-sailed,
guy-pennoned, hut for tlie b/ire toiling
arm anil brave warm heart of tlie faithful
little wife that nestled close to him so
that no wind or wave could part them, lie
would have gone down with the stream
anil been heard of no more.— O. W.
Holme, s
Accomplished Beerlst*.
A Pomeranian Lieutenant of Land
wehr cavalry and a Bilesian student,
giants in stature and hulk,stalked into
Landvogt's restaurant in Berlin, one af
ternoon in March, anil called in sten
torian tones for respective mugs of Pil
sencr and Munchener lieer. Of the
foaming contents of these vessels they
promptly disposed by the , so-called
“cow-swallow” method. When they
called for their bill some three hours anil
a half later, it was found that the Pom
eranian Lieutenant had absorbed sixty
seven pints of beer, while his Silesiar.
fellow **oaker had only succeeded ii
furnisnmg accommodation for fifty-foui
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
A wobd with business men—settle.
Iron affected by fog is mist runted.
A mule is tamo enough in front, but
awfully wild behind.
A little cider now and then is re
lished by the best of men.
The man who can't remember that he
was ever a boy is entirely ripe for the
harvest.
Starch is said to he cxplosivp. It
causes explosion in the family when tho
old man finds it has been loft out of his
collars.
A Boston paper says tho conductor of
a street-ear in that city took o<K> fares
last Sunday, hut is entirely |ilcnt as to
lihw many the company’gpt.
The Crown ''Prince of Germany gotH
more pulling overdriving a jf-fstiil<llo to n
blind dot than an American does over
leaving S4Oy(XH) to an Orphan asylum.
There is a fortune in store for the mil
liner who shall'"devise a bonnet that can
ho worn in any part of a church anil al
ways present its trimmed side to the con
gregation. '
A norr, try authority sftys that “ chick
ens should have an ample range.” It
depends ui>ou the number of chickens.
A little chicken will broil pretty well
over n very small stove.
Many persons who rake tlirougli an
other's character with a line-tooth comb,
to discover a fault, could find one with
less trouble by going over their own
character with a horse-rake.
It costs more than a hundred millions
of dollars annually to keep the fences of
this country in repair. Now, gentlemen,
get off tho fenoo and stay off till after
election, and savo your country a few
millions of this outlay.
Grown-up sister—“Oh, Oharlqg, if
you must go away can’t you introduce
ino to one of your school-fellows, to look
after me till you come buck?” Charley—
“Oh no, it wouldn’t do! It would ho
too rough on a fellow to fag him out liL-j
that."— l‘irneh.
Somebody who appears to know liow
fashionable schools are managed, says:
“ To educate young ladies is to lot them
know all about the ogies, omeuies, the
ifics, the tics ami the mistios; lmt nothing
about, tlie ings, such ns sewing, darning,
washing, baking and making pudding.”
“1 say, mister, this is a double seat,
and you can’t lay over it iu that way,"
said a stand-up passenger in a crowded
car to another passenger who was making
himself too much at home. “Can’t lay
over the seat?” echoed the loafer. “Bet
your life I can. See here, 1 have a lay
over check from tho conductor, and it is
good. ”
A young lady received the following
note, accompanied by u liouquet of
flowers: Dear , I send you hi the
boy a bucket of flours. This is like my
love for u. Tho nitn shade meiies kiqie
dark. Tlio dog fouil meiies I am your
slavo. Bosis red anil posis pail, my love
for yon shal never fale.”
Thu flowing reporter who wrote, with
reference to a well-known belle, “Her
dainty feet were encased in slums that
might be taken for fairy hoots,” tied his
wardrobe up iu a handkerchief and left
for parts unknown w hen it appeared the
next morning: “Her dirty feet feet were
encased in shoes that migrit ho taken for
ferry boats.”
A Youno lady.who is studying French
lately wrote to her parents (lmt she was
invited to a dejeuner the day before, and
was going to a fete champvlre the next
day. The professor of tho college was
Bill-prised to receive a dispatch from the
“old man” allay or two after saying:
“If you don’t keep my daughter away
from these menageries and side shows, 1
will come down and see what ails her.”
It is amusing to watch a slim man
weigh himself. Ho steps on to the plat
form as an elephant steps upon a bridge,
with an awful fear of breaking the thing
down, anil then puts the tlirce-huudrcd
pouud weight on the end of tlio beam.
Of course lie takes it off again, hut lie
does this unostoututymsly. Having found
that ho weighs, say, one hundred and
twenty, if you watcli him carefully you
will see him slide the weight along to
ono hundred and seventy-five. “By
George!” lie will exclaim us lie goes out,
“I’ve lost ten pounds since lust week.”
He doesn't sny how much lie weighs
now; if you wish to know, there is tlie
scale. Ho knows you will look.
Armies of tho World.
Tho following table, which Ims been
carefully compiled, shows tho regular
army, tho annual cost of tho name, ami
the cost per head of all tho principal na
tions of tho world :
nciuNTßKi.. />/
A rjny. of Army. Htad.
AilMtrljt-Ifiingary 290,218* 6<),oo,<KMl S 1.3#
ArgouUuu ltuplimlo.... 8,283 *4,1114,018 3.40
llulglum 46,277 *,787,Wi1l 1.64
Unlivia 4,031 1,136,016 .66
llru/.l! 16, 6(8) 10,662,496 .97
Canada 3,000 1,013,044 .37
Chill 3,610
China 700,000
Colombia 2,600 3*8,000 .16
rmnmarf 8.6,703 3,406,100 1.36
Egypt 62,920 *4,462,522 . 30
Franca 470,600 100,007,623 3.70
rtormany 419,560 02,578,406 2.16
(Irout llrltuln 113,720 85,161,016 1.00
India, Brltlah 68,170 76,875,060 .40
Italy 190,677 37,983,766 1.36
Japan .. 86,380 7,606,(88) .21
Luxembourg. 613 100,480 .48
Mexico 22,387 *10,564,746 1.18
Nethorland* 61,803 10,266,18(0 2.65
Norway 12,760 1,480,760 .81
Psrxla 28,400 8,400,000 .56
Peru 13,200
Portugal 36,733 4,342,928 1.07
Hou mania 130,158 8,810,198 .66
lIMHMIa 787,186) 144,216,616 1.90
H'tvlm 14,160 *09,138 .63
Spain 830,0001 49,146,401 2.97
Sweden 36,495 3,579,040 . 80
Hwltaurland 100,102 2,419,213 .*7
Turkey 167,667 24,768,096 2.58
United Ht),tea 20,014 37,082,736 .96
Uruguay 4,060 *2,364,100 6.31
Venaznela 6,494 .
•Army and nary.
Cost of a Circus.
If you have any idea of going into
the cireus business, know ye that an
even S<JO,(XX) will buy 100 work and ring
)iors4.'s, twenty-nine ponies, five ele
phants, five royal Bengal tigers, eight
hyenas, two lionesses and three eubs,
one lion, one jnguur, five panthers, one
eland, two peccaries, one hortebeeet,
two anteloiies, one llama, one sacretl
cow, one elk, one zebra, one camel, one
emu, together with sixteen cages for
animals in which such animals arc kept,
three cages for birds and small animals,
two tableau ears, two railroad cars, one
hand wagon, one small chariot, one
dragon clmriot, one ticket wagon, six
truck wagons, eight circus wagons, nine
circus tents, with seats, and clothing
for five sleeping cars.
“ I ONhY want to show you one thiug
more, Professor. I have invented a short
method of boring mountains which I
think will prove very valuable.” “My
dear sir,” hurst forth the wearied listen
er, “if you would only invent a short
method of boring individuals you would
indeed confer a lasting benefit upon the
race ”
Bv*ry man who has become President
of the United States has been elected
during a leap year. This is something
for the girls to wonder over.