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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. LAMAR & DENNIS, Publishers. 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.