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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. A. VI A KM'II %I, K I a „ \V. A. UIAKN4 H A1,K,l Editors and Proprietors. .KOT LOST. The look of sympathy, the gentle word Spoken so low that only angel heard The secret art of pure self-eacrffioe, T T nseen by men, but marked by angels’ eyes : These are not lost. The sacred music of a tender strain, Wrung from a port's heart by grief and pain, An.l chanted timidly, with doubt and fear. To busy crowds, who scarcely pause to hear: These are not lost. The silent tears that fall at dead of night Over soiled robes, that orce were pure and white - Che pravers !’>* rr-M>, Uk fncrn e fr ni the soul' 1, m i> g tor Chiist to make it clean auil whole: These are not lost. The happy dreams that gladdened all our vontb. When dreams had less of self and more of truth; The childhood’s faith, so tranquil and so sweet, Which sat like Mary at the Master’s feet: These are not lost. The kindly plans devised for others’good, So seldom guessed, so little understood ; The quiet, steadfast love that strove to win Some wanderer from the ways of stn : These are not lost. Not lost. 0 Lord! for, in Thy city bright. Our eyes shall see the past by clearer light. And things long bidden from our gaze below Thou wilt revea', and we shall sure'y know They were not lost. UARNET’S HUMILIATION. BY MRS. M. A. DENISON. “ Some callers for Miss Westbury,” said the well-trained hotel servant, as be presented cards on a silver salver. “Ob. mamma ! its those fashionable Mays ; just the best people in Washing ton ! John, tell them I’ll bo down very soon. IV hat shall I wear, mamma, please tell me quick ? If Cousin Stella wasn't so awfnlly stnpid she might have got my lavender silk out by this time ; or my lovely blue one with the punt lace trimmings. Pray tell me, some body. wbat I shall wear.” “The silver gray you have on with a fresh ribbon will be prettier than an elaborate dress. I shouldn’t think of making an evening toilet, if I were you, even for the Mays,” said Stella. “That’s because you don’t know any thing about them,” responded Garnet. “ What can such fashionable people have in common with you ? Probably you’ll never speak to them in yonr life,” and she threw ribbons and necklace, watch and chain recklessly on the mar ble-top table in her haste ; while her mother, who had brought a costly, im ported dress from the wardrobe, pro ceeded to array her only and beautiful child in it. For Garnet was beautiful ami had been brought up, as her father often said, “ without, regard to cost.” To please her, the old oil-merchant bad consented to spend the winter in Washington at one of the first hotels and to incur no end of expense, for Gar net was wild to see and mingle with the best society. There also he had found his niece, the daughter of his dead brother, ill at an ordinary hoarding house, and in the goodness of his heart had insisted upon her leaving an arduous position and spending the winter with his family. Feeling the need of rest aud relax ation Stella had accepted the kind offer, much to the spoiled Garnet’s chagrin, who saw only in the little plain figure and somewhat old-fashioned garments a dowdy and a foil. In fact she was verv much ashamed of her cousin and took no pains to hide her dislike. “Thev are very worthy people, I be lieve,” Stella answered, with a flush on her check. “Very worthy ! Good patience ! mam ma, hear her—the very pink and perfec tion of Washington society! Very worthy people, indeed ! Why, there are persons who would give half they are worth to be called upon by the Mays. Do you really think they are very worthy people, Stella? How much they would bo obliged if they could hear you.” Her cousin settled quietly into her corner again with a book, but the flush on her cheek bad faded into paleness. “ Now, mamma, how do I look? Oh, but how awfully long to koep them waiting. They probably saw in the papeis that I have just come out. I’ll wear both diamond rings, mamma. Dear me, I wish the interview was over. They say that, Miss Bella May wears an India shawl of almost fabulous value, given to her by some great eastern mag nate, and that Miss Aune is to marry an earl, an English earl; think of that! If ever we go abroad it will be of such ad vantage to be acquainted with her.” She swept once or twioe back aud forth, her splendid train spreading in ppacock glory over the rich burs of the carpet, then taking one last look in the cheval mirror, and posing her bead in its daintiest fashion, she walked out of the room like a little princess, conscious of being at her best. “Isn’t she dressed a little too much for a day eall ?” asked Mrs. Westbury, anxiously, as she saw the last iris glitter of the rich silk vauish at. the threshold. “ I think she is,” said Estelle, quietly. “I’m afraid so ; but what could I do? Garnet has had her own way so long that I never pretend to dispute her •wishes or her taste,” sighed the meek little woman—a sad confession for a mother to make, as Estelle thought, with a pitying lock. “ Pray, arc the Mays so very wonder ful ? ” asked Mrs. Westbury. “ I believe they are of very good family. and I know they are immensely rich,” said Estelle ; “ but what I have heard them chiefly cxtnled for is their uuaffeetedness and good sense. Though they are really among the leaders of society here they are as quiet and un assuming as—well, as true nobility of character always makes one, I suppose. I am glad they have called upon Garnet. H may really be considered quite an honor.” “ They must have seen her, and she is so pretty ! ” said the gratified mother. “Yes, Garnet is beautiful,” replied Ktelle ; adding in her heart, “if only the mind corresponded to the outer shrine.” Meanwhile, Garnet, gratified and tri umphant, entered the handsome parlor of the hotel. Here and there in groups sat visitors, ladies and gentlemen, and the young girl was delighted at the sensation caused by her appearance. For one little moment Garnet was con tused as, going up to a small and well dressed group of people, she said, speaking to a lady : “Mrs. May, I pre sume.” “ O no, that is Mrs. May by the win dow,” responded the lady, pointing to another circle with her fan. “Mercy, mamma,” exclaimed Anne May, as the over dressed Garnet came toward them, “we have evoked a rain bow! ” Garnet, a little taken aback at sight °f the plain toilets of this distin guished party, sailed up to them with her grandest, manner, and to cover her surprise and trepidation plunged at once into conversation. She scarce waited for questions, but with the volu bility of a school-girl just released from bondage talked and talked. Before long these strangers, as well as others, whose ears were sharpened by hotel experience, knew the pr.u eipal events of her life ; what school she had attended ; bow she hated Blank, her native city ; what sort of a house her father had bought aud furnished ; that part of her family were traveling on the continent, and had sent her costly presents; how much she, too, wanted to visit foreign countries ; and numberless little incidents that kept her visitors staring and almost silent. At last she paused and began the con templation of her dress. Sorely that most exquisite point lace must impress them favorably ; and the diamonds on her fingers and in her ea-s—not many young ladies could afford to wear them’; and then the dress itself, how she ached to inform them that it was an importa tion from Paris, and the worn of the great artist, Worth, the prince of dress makers. “Mamma,” said Anne May, in a voice strikingly unlike the high-pitched tone of Miss Garnet, “ would it not be as well to mention the business for which we called upon Miss Westbury ?” Garnet’s ears tingled so that perhaps anew splendor shot from their pendant jewels, for was this not a prelude to an invitation to their house, to some Gor man or grand reception, where she might see the president, and some of the great men of the country ? “ Yes, dear,” said Mrs. May, in the Ratne low, modulated tones. “You see, Miss Westbury, we have been searching the city for a missing friend, and having heard, accidentally, that you were a re lation, we called to see if you could give us any information concerning Miss Stella Glen.” “ Stella Glen ! My cousin 1” exclaim ed Garnet, the blood receding from her cheeks, while she inwardly wondered at the strange question. Was it possible, after all, that this could have been the only object of their visit ? Did they not come to make her a call of acknowl edgment, or of compliment? Gould it be only to inquire after Miss Stella, who perhaps they took for a dress maker ? And who knew but she might have been one—she was such a stickler for the right of women to help them selves ? and at the thought her cheek burned. She drew back a little, mortified to the heart. Had all her fine clothes, her point lace gone for nothing ? Had she been called down, it seemed to her now, like a servant, to tell whatever she knew about her cousin ? “Miss Glen ie here, with us,” said Garnet. “What 1 in this hotel ? Oh, mamma !” exclaimed Miss Anne, with sparkling eyes. “I will go up and send her down,” said Garnet, rising. “Piav, don’t think iis so rude,” said Mrs. May, and her hand was on the bell-rope. A card was seut up by the servant, while Garuet sat still, in mute surprise, her high spirits gone, her vanity laid low. Presently, to her horror. Stella ap peared in the doorway, in the same identical black silk dress—rusty at that— which she always wore. But now Gar net saw with new eyes—saw a delicacy aud beauty in her figure, an expression in her face that had been sealed to her hitherto. What was her exceeding astonishment to note that all the Mays rose, and with outstretched hand welcomed her cousin with the warmest demonstrations. Miss Anne kissed her; Mrs. May patted her cheek and called her darling; Miss Belle chided her for not coming to see them ; all had a kind word, a rjal wel come, for the girl Garnet had considered a little nobody. At last the truth came out. Miss Glen was the daughter of one who had been a bravo soldier during the war. Her father had died, nobly giving his life up in the heroic effort to save his superior officer—and that officer was Col. May. Miss Glen had then devoted hersolf to the sick aud wounded in hospital and had, singularly enough, succeeded by her devotion iu carrying through a ter rible illness the son of this same Col. May, a young lieutenant, who had been dangerously wounded at Gettysburg. From that, time the Mays adopted her as nearly as possible until they left for Europe. They had been very anxious to take her with them, but as the young officer aforesaid had made proposals of marriage to Miss Glen, ami been re jected, she very wisely declined. All this Garnet learn eel afterward. At the time she only felt a burning resent ment tha t this quiet, unfashionable cousin bad preceded her in the good graces of one of the most prominent families in town, and it seemed like adding the one drop too much when Mrs. May, after almost literally implor ing a visit from Miss Glen, turned, as f she bethought herself, and blandly added: “And bring your little cousin with you.” Evi lently they thought her fresh frem school “ I’ll never go—l’ll never go !” she cried, in a tempest of passion, when the cousins regained their parlor. “Why didn’t you tell me you kuew them?” and she turned ou poor Stella with a perfect torrent of vituperation, blaming her for all that she had been obliged to undergo. In time, however, she thought better of it. Fiuding that her quiet little cousin had the entree into society, she condescended to treat her upon more equal terms ; but she never forgot the humiliation or the lesson of that day’s defeat. The Secret of Eloquence. An admirer of Mr. Bright writes to a Manchester paper that he has discov ered the secret of the power this great speaker posseses of riveting the atten tion of his audience. This be believes to lie in the fact that he uses monosyl lables verv largely. The grand pas sage in Mr. Bright’s speech on the Burials bill describing a Quaker funeral begins, “ I will take the case of my own sect,” and on couuting the words of that remarkable oration it will be fonnd that out of one hundred and ninety words one hundred and forty nine, more than seventy-five per cent., were monosyllables. On this it is urged that those in charge of youth should teach them the use of monosyl lables. American journal lately mentioned a school where such pains had been taken to instruct the boys in the art of public speaking that if they had learned nothing else they had acquired the greatest contempt for all the de vices of stump oratory. The course of study prescribed left to the imagina tion, but doubtless includes the trans lation into monosyllables of the pon derous verbiage which passes current in most political assemblies' as gen uine eloquence. It would, however, be cruel to insist on the introduction of such teaching into any of the “standards.” Many are obliged to sneak who have less to sav than Mr. Bright, and to them the sesquipedalia verba are indispensable, —Pall Mall Gazette, MRASSHOPPER RUIN. The Whole Northwest Threatenerl-- t'hleapo and Vincennes Already Keaehed by the Vanguard of the Pe st royerg. Chicago Tribune. The great army of grasshoppers that poured its vast multitudes over the northwest last summer reached far in this direction, the van penetrating as far as Vincennes, although not in suffi cient foroe to make any general devas tation. An irregular triangle, with that for its apex and the Rocky Moun tains for its base, would include the territory thus far swept far over by the victorious pest, including large portions of Kansas and Missouri, and almost all of Minnesoto, Nebraska, lowa and Da kota. The question which vr*r agitates the commercial interests nf the country is, can the grasshopper be kept within that territory, or will they, as some predict, overrun Canada. V New York and the Eastern States? It. is held that in thickly set led parts of the country, where smalls farm abound, there can be no great danger from them, as the birds and domestic fowls will keep down their numbers, but if the invasion is made by such over whelming hosts as defeated all meas ures of protection last summer, such instrumentalities will have little effi ciency at first, however powerfullv they may thin their ranks in oonrse of time. And even in the event of the advancing plague being successfully stayed in its progress east, it can hardly be expected that Illinois, lying as it does on the border line, and already partially in vaded, will escape the attack of vora cions legions, if the vast hordes of grasshoppers shall issue forth again. The intense cold of Inst winter and the protracted frosts of the spring have been relied upon by the agricultural community to effectually rid them of this plague. As late as the last day of April there was a severe freeze, doing ranch damage to fruit, but which was borne with cheerfulness as being sure death to the grasshoppers. Now the report comes that in Southwestern Mis souri “ the young grasshoppers are de vouring everything green. The people are panic-stricken. Cattle and horses are dying of starvation. Everything is being eaten by the pests.” Similar news comes from Southern and West ern Kansas, and large sections of Min nesota, lowa and Nebraska are declared to be doomed. In the southwestern portion of the latter state, they are already swarming out by the million, with millions yet in the ground. All this, and only two weeks since a frost. With the cessation of the cold rains and the increasing varmth of the sun, it is to he expected that the millions of eggs in the ground will send forth their myriad swarms, and the invasion of the grasshoppers begin. In that, case it, can hardly be hoped that Chicago will escape a visitation. Already the pre monitory signs have appeared. The warmth of the sun during the past week has had the effect of causing the ap pearance of young grasshoppers in the southern sections of this city, on the Hyde Park line, and, although at present in a state of inactive torpor, the establishment of warm weatLor win send them scurrying through the air, their numliers rapidly increasing, until the vast and compac- host of the main army joins them. The so-called grasshoppers that have been the plague of the west are really a species of locust, and have all the vora cious appetite and omniverous taste of the genuine African locusts. Instead of proceeding by jumps like the com mon grasshopper, these locusts go long distances in the air, flying and borne bv the wind. They move along at a height of from 30 to 100 yards above the ground, and extending upward as far as the eve can reach. These flving swarms are described as looking like great banks of snow when illuminated by the sun shine, and again like clouds tossing and rolling in a strong wind. When making their descent, upon the country, and un der impulsion from the wind, they rat tle against, the window-panes like hail, and beat against the face of whosoever may be out at the time, descending in such myriads that it would be as im possible to escape their contaot, as it would be to avoid being rained on when out in a shower. The concussion of their million of wings on the air make a whizzing roar, plainly heard as thev fly overhead. Tt, is this ability to make long and high flights that bids fair to make them such a pest in Chicago. They flv with the wind and without, in telligeutdireotiou; dropping, after alight of a few hours, on any place they mav happen to be over, whether 1 and or water, town or country, and attack destruct ively whatever they can. The country is stripped bare of green and living things ; cattle, and even human beiugs, die of starvation. Gen. Ord, com manding the military department of the Platte, last fall reported that the bodies of people who died of starvation were found by his men in their marches, and men and women were discovered whose only means of subsistence for days was clothing, which they gnawed at like rats. Had it not huen for the efforts of the charitable all over the country, thousands whose crops had been destroyed by this pest would have starved to death last winter. Longevity of Jews. According to statistics, gathered in France, Algeria and Prussia, the Jewish race is remarkable for longevity and immunity from disease. Its mean aver age duration of life exceeds that of Christian races by about five years. This tenacity of life is due to the in heritance of a sound physical constitu tion and to the watchful care of the mother over her offspring. These two causes insure the Jews comparative security from maladies that decimate other races. Tscliudi stages that the plague of 1346 did not affect the Jews of any country. Frascati asserts that they completely escaped from the epi demic of typhus in 1505. Ran mentions that the same immunity from typhus was observed at Langeons in 1824. According to Rsmazzi, they were free from the intermittent fevers prevailing at Rome in 1691. And, according to Degner, they suffered nothing from the dysentery that raged at Nimenguen in 1736. It is said by other authorities that croup is extremely rare among Jewish children, and that they have very little scrofula. On the other hand. M. Ribaut says, in his work on “ Heredity,” that, inter marriage has exerted a baleful influence on the Jewish race by sowing the seeds of mental disorders. He declares that the number of Jewish deaf-mutes is enormous, and that idiocy and insanity are very frequent. According to a table of German statistics quoted by this au thor, there is on- idiot in Silesia to 580 Catholics, to 408 P/o’estants, to 514 Jews ; in Wurtemberg, to 4 418 Citbo lics, to 3 207 Protestants, to 3 003 Jews; and one lunatic in Bavaria to9oß Catho lics, to 967 Protestants, to 514 Jews; in CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1575. Hanover, to 528 Catholics, to 641 Pro testauts, to 337 Jews; in Silesia, to 1.355 Catholics, to 1,264 Protestants, to 624 Jews; in Wurfemberg, to 2,006 Catholics, to 2,028 Protestants, to 1,544 Jews. The mortality amorg Jewish children in London from one to five years of age is rated by Dr. Stallard at ten percent., while among Christian children it is 14 per cent. The average duration of life of the Chris’ian in London is 37 years, and that of the Jew, 40.69 It is an interesting fact that there is a larger proportion of boys born to the Jews than to the Chnstiaus. Prof. Waltz gives 100 female to 203 male births amoug the Jews iu Berlin ; 100 to 120 iu Livorno ; and 100 to 111 through out the Prussian dominions. N hy Men Become Bald. Because they wear close hats aud caps. Women are never bald. Some times, from long confined headache, boat in the scalp, bad hair-dressing and sumo other causes, women may have bare spots here and lhere; but with all these combined, you never see a woman with a bare, shiny, bald head. And you never see a man lose a hair below where the hat touches the skull. It will take it off as clean as you oan shave it down to exactly that line, but Defer a hair below, not if lie has been bald fifty yoars. The common black stiff Jiat, as impervious as sheet iron, retains the heat aud perspiration. The little hair glands, which bear the same rela tion to the hair that the seed wheat does to the plant above ground, become weak from the presence of the moisture and heat, and finally be come two weak to sustain the hair. It falls out, and baldness exists. A fur cap we have known to produce complete baldness in a single winter. A man with a good head of hair needs very little protection where the hair grows. Women who live much within doors, and who are, therefore, susceptible to the cold, oil their hair and plaster it down hard and flat npou their skullp, so as to destroy nine-tenths of its power as a non-conductor, have worn for years postage stamps of bonnets stuck on the back of their skulls, and then going out of furnace-heated parlors, have ridden f r hours in a very oold temperature without taking cold and without com plaint. Man, with his greater vigor and habits of outdoor life, and with his hair not plastered down, hut thrown up loose and light, could no doubt go to the north pole, so far as that part of his person is concerned, without any artifi cial covering. And yet we men wear immensely thick fnr caps, and do not dare to step out into a chilly atmos phere a moment lest we take cold. It is a silly, weak and really serious error. The Creator knew what he was about when be covered a man’s skull with hair. It has a very important function iu pro tecting the brain. Baldness is a serious misfortune. It will never occur in any man who will wear a common black high silk hat with five hundred holes through the top, so that there shall be more hole hot. Tnio ouotj uotn ing; the hatter will do this for you when you purchase your hat. If the nap be combed the wrong way, and after the holes are made it be combed the right way, no ODe will observe the peculiarity. The hat will wear quite as long—the hatters say considerably longer—because it is dry instead of moist; in brief, there is "not a single objection to it, while it will certainly prevent baldness and* keep the top of the head cool and prevent much head ache. Marching 011. Prof. Riley, the state entomologist, says that the ravages in western Mis souri are indeed alarming. He explains that the young hoppers will not be ready to lake the wing until the 15th of June. For a whole month the farmers of Missouri will have to stand the scourges. The oidy approximate relief that can be gained is through a war of extermination, and farmers all over the state are called on to figkt them with rollers, ditching, burning, drowniug, and contiuual flawing. The professor recommends to the state authorities to offer rewards for the destruction of the grasshoppers by the quantity. About the route of the swarms after becoming full-winged, there are the most contra dictory opinions. The most probable and popular belief is toat they will move westward, northward, and to some extent, eastward from this state. A large firm of wholesale grocers to-day received by express from the western part of the state a box which, upon being opened, was found to be com pletely full of grasshoppers. Accom panying the package, was a letter from a heavy debtor, who said unless the hoppers were received in liquidation of his account, he saw no way of ever pay ing his indebtedness, as these were all there was left, or in prospect, of the product of his section. All the whole sale houses in St. Louis are receiving letters by the hundred from their west ern Missouri creditors, declaring their total inability to meet their paper, on account of the plague. The formation of a relief commission, and a thorough organization for the work surely in pros pect. are already being agitated hire.— Si. Iritis Special. Changing the >anies of Paris Streets. Poliiical affairs in Frauoe can not be half so exciting as the telegrams would have us believe. The perfecturo of the Seine has found leisure to occupy itself with the good old sport of changing the names of the Paris streets ; and it is a pleasing illustration of the resp-ct in which the arts are held in France that the government has given the artists their share of these mnncipal honors. The Bus Saint Paul is to be known henceforth as the Rue Henri Regnault; the Rue du Chemin de For becomes the Rue Lacaze, in honor of the great amateur who presented his superb col lection, long the glory of his residence m the Rue du Cherche-Midi, and su premely rich in French pictures of the eighteenth centnry, to the Louvre , the Rue des Artists sinks the general in the particular and becomes the Rue Gayar ni; Fragonard is to be commemorated on the corners of what was the Rue Philbert Ddorme; the Rue Chariot takes the name of the great painter I'Toyon; and the Rue des Yignea, the name of the sculptor of Washington and Voltaire (conjunction strange!) Houdon. A Cmc ago lady, who had had the misfortune to smash her last bottle of P.wisiau hair-die, encountered a solemn looking man with au armful of tracts, who, in presenting one to her, took 1 cca-iou to ask if she was prepared to uieet her Maker. “No,” she spitefully replied, “I don’t expect to stir out 01 the house for several weeks,” USE BT ONK. They are gathering: homeward from every land, One by one. As their weary feet touoli the shining sand, On - * by one. fbeir brows are enclosed in a golden crown, Their travel-stained garments all laid down, \nd clothed in white raiment, tUey rest in the mead Where the Lamb loveth his chosen c lead, One by one. Before they rest they pass through the strife, One by one. Through the waters of death they enter life, One by one. Vo tome sre the floo Is of the riv> r tiil they f r I iheir way to the heavenly hill ; To others the wave* run tie> c ly and wild. Yet all reach the home of ttie undeflled, One by one. We, too, shall come to that river’s side, One by one. We are nearer its water* each eventide, One by one. We can hear the noise and rla*h of the stream Now and&gaia in our life’s deep dream ; Sometimes the floods o’er the banks o’erflow, Sometimes in ripple* the small waves go. One by one, Jesus ’ Redeemer, we lock to Thee, One by one. We lift up our voices tremblingly, One by one. The waves of the river are dark and cold. We know not the spots where our feet may hold ; Thou who didst pats through the deep midnight, Stieugthen us, send us thy staff and the light, One by one. Piant Thou Thy feet beside as we tread, One by one. On Thee let us lean each drooping head, One by one. Let but Thy mighty arm ’round us be twined. We’ll cast all our cares and fears to the wind. Saviour! Redeemer! witu thee in full view. Smilingly, gladsomely, shall we pass through, Oae by one. MARRIED UNDIR DIFFICULTIES BY GARRY MOSS. “ Yes, Tom, you heard the rights of the story ; someone did cry out, ‘ I for bid the bans!’ “ That was a nice fix to be in, I can tell you, at that late hour. Bessy and I in church, with Miss Spicer, the old general’s daughter, for bridesmaid, and John Charles, a particularly nobby fel low, who stood up as best man. There was Bessy, as pretty as a picture, dress ed in as handsome a bridal outfit as ever you saw—white satin and lace and flow ers and veil. I’m not much at desetip tion about a woman’s rig, but I vow and declare, though I’ve seen many of ’em since, I’ve never come a cross a bride as all-fired pretty as she was, and I never shall. “ I didn’t want to be married in church—it lookel sort of conspicuous— but Bessy wouldn't be married auy oth er way, and I wanted Bessy. “Well, the mbiister, a very tall, grave-looking man, standing on the other side of the rail, had just begun the service, aud says he, ‘lf any man has any reasons why,’ and so forth— you know what it is—‘let him now speak, or forever after hold his tongue,’ when up jumps somebody iu the bank of the house and cries out: “ * I forbid the bans !’ “Well, that was a pretty kettle of fish to begin with. I felt Bessy trem ble, and I grew hot all over. If the old man, her father, a queer old codger, had taken it into his head that Bessy was too good for me—and, indeed, I don’t deny she was—l was done for. But thee that couldn’t be. The minister he lurLoa -“A and the people who had come to see were m a State ut ness, you may be sure. “ ‘ For what reason do you forbid the bans?’ asked he of the white gown. All this passed much quicker tfcan I can write it. “ ‘ Because she is already my wife.’ “Says I, ‘That’s a lie !’ and her father repeated it with an amendment which was not exactly appropriate to the place—and in a moment there was a pretty how d’ye do. I bad made my way to the back of the church, and if I had laid hands on that fellow he’d never seen the outside of his skin again. I’d have torn him in pieces. But there was a crowd ; some pointed out one and some another; and one man gravely told me the villain had gone home to get the proofs. Then Bessy frightened out of her wits on missiog me, screamed and fainted away, and of course the minister couldn’t have gone on anyhow. Bessy’s mother beg in scolding me, and Bessy’s father ripped round there all but swearing in the very face of the parson, till I surely thought the last day had come aud we had all gone crazy together. So we ha Ito go back, every body mad, Bessy in hysterics, and the old folk i storming at her, at me, and each other. Upon ray word, Tom, you’d have pitied mo or any other man, for what was 1 to do? A slur had been cast upon Bessy, poor innocent child, and oven I, who had been her lover less than six mouths, didn’t know what to think of the statement so boldly made before all Israel and the suu. “Well, of course it got iuto the papers, aud all manner of comments were made, which nearly drove me die tracted. What to do wo didn’t know. Bessy’s aunt, a regular old Tabby, de clared it was the worst of bad luck to have a marriage put <iff, and abused me like a pickpocket. The wedding hieak fast stayed for two days untasted, while Bessy’s father and myself went tearing round the city to find the man who had set all this trouble going ; it wab like hunting for a needle in a havriek. “Meantime poor little Bes-sy was sick with low, nervous fever. I went there every day to inquire about her and muse upon the uncertainty of man daue affairs gem rally, when on© morn ing the door was "opeue I before I had reached the top step, a big, red hand pulled me inside, and the whole house hold began an Indian dance, including everything but scalps and the war whoop. “‘Bulger, my glorious fellow, we’re all right!’ shouted the old gentleman, giving me such a plap between the shoulders that I lost my breath. “ ‘ My dear boy, our sorrows are at an end,’ sniffled the almost mother in law. “ ‘ I hope it won’t be put. off again, for then we should have a funeral,’ re marked the Tabby aunt, looking at me from under her spectacles with her usual severity of expression. “‘What! you haven’t found ’ cried I, utterly unable to finish from sheer bewilderment. “ * Yes, we’ve fouud him !’ said the paternal. “ * The poor, miserable wretch!’ ejac ulated the maternal. “ ‘ Ought to be roasted alive,’ mut tered Tabby, glaring at me. “ ‘ Jo,’ oried a weak voice at the head of the stairs ; ‘ come up hare.’ “You may guess now those stairs disappeared from under my feet. Poor Bessy, pale little thing, "fell into my arms without any fups, and cried—and cried—and oried. Then, alter all this c mmotion was —and it didn’t kill me —my blaming father-in-law that should have been at that time, handed me a paper, with the brief nmaik, ‘ ead !’ And this is what I read : “ ‘ A lunatic from G., in the county of M —, has been at large for a month, but was last night tracked to his hidica-place in this city, and taken bftca to the asylum, It seems, from the accounts we can gather, that he has been leading an eventful life since his escape, having personated, successfully, a member of congress, the governor of a state, and a bank president. He is evidently a genius, aud is highly de lighted with his tonr. One exploit of which ho boasts—for singularly enough he remembers bis pranks—was that of spoiling a wedding. The circumstance will be remembered, and we sre most happv te> make matters smooth again lor on. esteemed fellow citizens, J. B and C. L , also the charming bride, whose maiden meditatioos were so ruthlessly and painfnlly broken in upon. We congratulate them as hearti ly as if the weddiug were consummated, and wLipu it is may we be there to see.’ “ Well, you’d better believe it wasn’t long before that w edriing came off, but we didn’t risk it in a church again. And we might have admitted the tradi tional five hundred friends, for we had become celebrities ; but Bessy wanted a quiet wedding, averring as a reason that amoug five hundred people there must of necessity be one or more luna tics. Miss Spicer was gracious and stood np with us again, but John Charles had taken his departure to realms unknowu, so we had to put up with an ordinary man. The wedding eame off this time without an inter ruption ; and don’t fail to look in upon ns, Tom. and wish ns joy.” Some Facts Abont Brains. Dr. W. A. Hammond, having been re-elected to the presidency of the .Neu rological society, chose, as the subject of his inaugural address, “ The Brain not the Sole Organ of Mind.” Asa compilation of instructive facts, this paper merits special attention, while the conclusions reached, though not without precedent, are yet deserving of renewed attention, for which reasons we are in duced to present the following con densed review of these facts and views : While there is no evidence to prove that the mind can exist independently of the nervous system, every fact in our possession bearing upon the question of their relation goes to prove that, where there is injury or derangement of the nervous system, there is corresponding injury or derangement of the mind. Accepting this intimacy of relationship as conclusively established, Dr. Ham mond briefly defines the constitution of the nervous system as follows : “The nervocs system consists of two essen tially different tissues, which are dis tributed in varying proport ions through out the organism. Toe one of these, the ganglionic, or gray tissue, is col lected in masses in the brain, the spinal cord, and in the course of the ramifica tions of the great sympathetic nerve. The other, the white tissue, exists in much larger proportion, and is also found in the brain and spinal cord, of which it constitutes the larger quantity. Examined microscopically, the gray matter is found to be composed of cells, while the white matter oonsists of fibres. As regards function, the difference is still greater, for the gray matter is the generator of nerve toroe, while the If Lltv u*LU—— Al— Janwn Uyo which the force is transmitted.” As the brain is by far the largest mass of nerve substance contained in the body of any animal possessing a braiD, atten tion is first directed to certain general faots regarding the relative size and weight of the brains in various raoes of men and in the lower animals. The average weight of the brain of the white inhabitants of Europe is forty nine and one-half ounces, the maximum being that of the brain of Cuvier, which weighed sixty-four and one-third ounoes, and the minimum, consistent with a fair degree of intelligence, thirty four ounces. The average of twenty four American brains, aceuratel y weighed by Dr. Ira Russell, was fifty-two and six hundredths ounces, while that from one huudred and forty-seven fall negro brains was only forty-six and ninety-six hundredths ounces. Tnming from the weight of the brain to the oapacity of the cranium, we fiud that this capacity in the Teutonic family, including Eag lish, Germans, and Americans, is ninety two cubic inches. The largest recorded capacity of the cranium is that of Web- huudred and twenty-twosquare inches. Owing to disease, however, Webster’s brain weighed but sixty-three and three-quarter ounces, thus placing him second only to Cuvier. In the native African negro, this capacity is reduced t) eighty-three cubic inches, and in the Australian and Hottentot to neveuty -five. The brain of an idiot sel dom cxc*mls twenty-three ounces in weight, while in one instance coming unier the speaker’s own observation, the mature brain weighed but fourteen and one half ounces. After no'icing a few exceptional oases of diminutive brams, Dr. Hammoud preceded to the consideration of the brains of animals, and the facts elicited are of interest and value, both iu themselves and as bearing upon the subsequent discussion. Seuret found the mean proportional weight of the brain to the /est of the body to be in fishes as one to five thou sand six hundred and sixty-eight. It should, ho vever, be noticed that the range in this order is very great, reach ing from the bass, where the proportion s'ands as one to five hundred and twenty-three, to the gold-fish, where it is as one to eight thousand nine hundred and nineteen ; these latter observations having been made by the lectnrer him self. Passing from fishes to reptiles, we find this average decreased, so that it is represented by one to thirteen hundred and twenty oue. Here, also, are to be found wide diftVreuoes, the proportion in lizards being as one to one hnudred and eighty, while the brain of an alligator, examined by the speaker, weighed only a little over half an ounce. There ore four hur.dr* and religions journals iu the United States. The Methodists tmve forty-seven, the largest number ; then come the CathoHcs, who number forty one ; the Baptists, tbiriy five ; Presbyterians, twenty nine ; the Episcopalians, twenty-one ; the Luther ans, fourteen; German Reformed, four teen; Jews, nine, and Congrrgatioual ists, eight. There is a man in Paris with a great project. He proposes to light that city with one lamp. He wants a big lamp and wants to suspend it at a proper height by means of a balloon. His argument is that all Paris can be lighted on that plan as well as an opera house The authorities hare a preju iceaaa nst his plan, because he boards at a lunatic asylum. A case lias been before the English divorce court of a man suing for e divorce on the grouu 1 of hi* wife’s desertion. The judge said it war the tirst case of the knd siooe the estab lishment of the eonrt seventeen years aO. Men as Women’s Idols. While the pious women of Brooklyn flock to Plymouth church and help to fill the court room where the great de fendant sits watching the trial of bis reputation, their worldly sisters on this side of the ferry are equally devoted to the two shapely Englishmen who form the leadiug attractions at Booth’s and Wallack’s theatres. Superficially con sidered, nothing coaid be further apart than the pnlpit and the stage, the pews and the pit, the clergyman and the ac tor, or the sentiment which reigns in the breast of a church-going damsel and that which flutters the frequenter of the play-house as she watohes her favorite hero disport himself behind the foot-lights. But when the phenomo ena are analyzed, it is found that the law which governs tbem is m both cases the same. Women are naturally idola ters, and whether their idol be Mr. Beecher, or Mr. Montague, or Mr. Rig nold, or some other conspicuous person, depends upon circumstances which do not affect the springs of their oondnet. The whole fabric of society rests, in fact, upon this fundamental trait of tneir character, and men who ridicule it, ridicule the very thing to which they owe much if not all that makes life en jovable. In general women idolize men simply because women are women and men are men. The latest results of scientific inquiry have only confirmed the ancient belief that souls are male and female as well as bodies, and that physical sex is the result and not the cause of spirit ual sex. Women love men by an in stinctive impulse, and what is more, they cunningly inspire love in men for themselves so that men are unaware of it, and fancy that it is they who kindle the flame in the first instance. Every woman, to be sure, denies that this is true of herself, but she readily admits and asserts it to be true of other wo men. She will point out to her selected victim, at the very moment that she is weaving the net about him, the arts and devices by which Miss So-and-so is seek- ing to entrap Mr. Such-a-one, or Mrs. Blank is fascinating old Brown, and she will make him think, nevertheless, that he is the irresistible charmer to whom she is reluctantly yielding her heart. It is as if a puppet should be made to fancy that he pulled the wires by which in truth he is compelled to dance. Cynics and satirists impute this talent to women as a fault, but without reason. They might as well blame them for being comely, rounded and graceful. Women seek to win love, because, as Dr. Watts says of the barking and bit ing of dogs, it is their nature to ; and men ought to be thankful that they have such a nature, and not the nature of dogs. The legitimate object of woman’s lovingness is a husband, and this is the reason why marriage occupies so large a part of her thoughts. The hackneyed figure of the vine and the elm is a sym bolic verity. A homelier illustration is the potato, the sprouts of which feel their way in the darkest cellar toward the light. Women need, and therefore seek, an object and a resting place for their affections, and unless exceedingly when they find it." II So 'mUBdJ it, as many do not, or if having fancied that they have found it they discover that they have been mistaken, they still continue the search. No amount of disappointment or ridicule, or oppo sition, can obliterate this their master passion; and if it cannot expend its force on a reality, it will create an imaginary object for the purpose. Here we find the key to women’s adoration of men like Beecher and Montague and Rignold. They do not worship their idols for what they are in themselves, but for what they repre sent. The clergyman stands in the pulpit precisely as the actor does on the stage, personating an ideal charac ter and surrounded by accessories which heighten the effect of liis performance. It is not surprising tha* the unsatisfied yearnings of the women of his flock should fix upon him as the support and stay which they have sought in vain elsewhere, any more than that the hand some actor, decorated not only with the trappings of the outer man, but shifting with the wit and accomplish ments which the playwright lends him for the moment, should seem the long-waited-for hero of the woman of the world. Both profit in a large degree by a fact which every man profits by more or less, and whoever is jealous of their success should take a lesson from their example. Lovers and husbands need only to be what clergymen and actors seem, in order to win the same admiration, and enjoy the same devoted attachment.— N. Y. Sim. Skating Belles. Mr. Conway writes of skating rinks in England and says: A noted l>ello of Brighton is at this moment laid up by an accident suffered at the rink. Ail her upper teeth were pressed through her under lip, the teeth becoming dis located, and she has been nnder the combined attention of the surgeon and the dentist for a week. A second beauty has broken her thumb, and a third her leg; bat they are reported to be heroic, feeling that they have suffered for a great cause, and oomDlaining only that some little interval must elapse before they can again fly over the nnk. One thing was especially observable, I thought, that no company of English ladies ever appeared out of doors in such really beautiful costumes before. It is true that when I selected, by invi tation of a Brighton friend, the lady that seemed to me the most beautiful and the best dressed, I was informed that she was an American; but the complacency with which I learned this did not prevent my saying that there was not an ugly or ill-dressed woman among the gallant six hundred. There was not a highly colored, not a sensa tional, not a “loud” dress among them. The dresses were short, thongh not so short as is usual among fair skaters in America, and they were all free from heav iness. There stood on the sides of the rink, looking on, a few ladies dressed in the “tight” French f&shioD, which is just beginning to appear among us, but that fashion was in sharp contrast with the loose draperies of the skaters. If the new fashion should become general over here there will have to be a special skating costume made for Brighton, for it is difficult to see how, in the tight style, any of these young dames could perform the graceful curves and brave evolutions which now excite so much admiration. lam told that the physi cians declare that for sanitary advan tages the seaside air aud bath are of little importance compared with this new exercise, which is gradually finding i?s wav to all places of resort. Tin cun be removed from copper ves sels very thoroughly by immersing the 1 objects in a solution of blue yitrol. VOL. 16-NO; 23. SAYINGS AND DOINGS. “Young ladies are growing oolder and more selfish every day,” said a vet e ran oynio, “ and how few do we find now who love a man enongh to hang around a barber-shop for a lock of his hair. When a man mistakes the height of a chair he is going to occupy by about an inch and a half, it is remarka ble the amount cf momentum he will acquire in making that little distanoe. He will strike that chair with nearly a a much force as if he bad sat down in it from the roof of a two story building. A cross-eyed man who handed his ticket to a Chicago street-oar conductor, ?Jie other day, had three holes punched in it. The conductor thought he glanced at two ladies at his side. They were entire strangers, bnt he meekly forbore to say any thing. It costa something to be cross-eyed. Don’t leave wagons, mowing ma chines, etc., in the weather. It rots r,he wood and rusts the metal. A shed built with rough posts and covered with straw will save many a dollar as a cov ering for such things. Paint the wood work of wagons, hay frames, etc., and tsee that all metallic parts of machinery are well coated with oil. I b THE young lady students of the Syra cuse medical college are very careless. ]Recently three of them purchased the l>ody of an Auburn convict, and, after cutting it up, threw the pieces into a vacant lot, causing immense excitement in the vicinity, the general opinion be ing that a diabolical murder had been committed. The most perfectly shaped man or woman is nusymmetrical—- that is to say, there is a marked unlikeness between the two sides of the body. The two sides of the face (which is most seen, t.nd, therefore, permits of more aocn iate study) will be found always to ex hibit considerable differences. Proba bly no two sides of any human face are precisely alike. It is the same with every limb. No pai .of limbs is shaped f.like. One hand is almost always larger than the other; so with the foot; so with the leg and arm. Last month the building erected for the poor of London by the trustees of the Peabody fnnd was opened for general use. It covers about two and a half acres, and will accommodate 312 families. The average rent of three rooms is abont six shillings per week ; two rooms, three shillings and sixpence, and one room, two shillings and six lenoe. In alluding to this movement, Sir Charles Heed, member of parlia ment, said they are proving the greatest success the wrrld has ever known in the way of beneficial charity. Ladies are sometimes surprised at the rapidity with which an apparently heavy black silk will go to pieces. A r jeent writer says this is often due to the fact that it has been “ weighted.” This process, originally adopted for the purpose of making npthe loss occasioned by ungumming, is now earned so far as sometimes to increase both weight and balk three-fold. Tfte weight is added by treatment with salts of iron and as tiingents, salts of tin ana cyamue, %*<* nwmlts if* "u yih'rs change both of the chemical and physical properties or tbo silk. It is an agglomeration of foreign natters without cohesion, bums like tinder, and, worse than all, is said to be kaown to have absorbed gases until enough heat was caused to produce B]>ontaneoas combustion. Ladies should be on the lookout for snch silks as these. Of all the love affairs in the world none can surpass the true love of a big boy for his mother. It is a love pure and noble, honorable in the highest degree to both. Ido not mean merely a dutiful affection. 1 mean a love which makes a boy gallant to his mother, saying plainly to everybody that he is fairly in love with her. Next to the love of her hnsband noth ing so crowns a woman’s life with honor as this second love, this devotion of the son to her. And I never yet knew a boy to “turn out” badly who began by falling in love with his mother. Any man may fall in love with a fresh-faoe girl, and the man who if gallant to the girl may cruelly neg lfot the worn and weary wife. But the big boy who is a lover of his mother at middle age is a true knight, who will love his wife as much in the sere-leaf of autumn as in the daisied spring. There is nothing so beautifully chival rous as the love of a big boy for his mother. —Beriah Green. Brigham Young is in good health, and is doing as much harm as could reasonably be expected from a person of his age. He said to his people re el ntly: “Education renders a boy worthless. All our congressmen and governors of states and public officials are the spawn of free schools. These men never performed a day’s useful labor in their lives, and they would be far more valuable to the community if they would lay down their robes of office and go to work in the corn-field. Would you have your children grow up maudlin and worthless? I had no schooling, yet God ohose me for the most exalted position on earth. Your cc liege professors and men canning in all the wisdom of the Egyptians often want a meal, while I have laid np my millions, and can buy every congress man, every editor, and every preacher in the oountry. Go away to your corn fields. I am opposed to free schools and to all legislation in favor of fiee schools ; and, understand me, although you come begging to me on yonr knees, I will not give one dollar to educate another man’s child.” The Professions and the Presi- D3NCY. —The confident prediction by so old and intelligent a statesman as Hon. Alexandria H. Stephens that the next president of the United States will boa journalist, suggests the inquiry as to how the different professions have fared in the past in the distribution of that honor. A histy review of the list will be found to result somewhat as fellows : Washington, soldier. Tyler, lawyer. A lame, lawyer. Polk, lawyer. Ji ffersom, lawyer. Taylor, soldier. Madison, statesman. lawyer. Monroe, lawyer. Pierce, lawyer. J. Q. Adams! lawyer. Buchanan, lawyer, Jixskson, soldier. Lincoln, lawyer. Van Boren, lawyer. iJohnson. lawyer. Harrison, soldier. (Grant, soldier. it is true that Jackson was a lawyer an well as a soldier—a judge as well as a general—but as it was his career as a fighter that made him president, he is credited to that profession. So Pierce was a brigadier-general in the Mexican war ; but he didn’t distinguish himself peculiarly as a warrior, so we apply to b m the correlative of the proposition list we pp t htftor , e ’•a' I '* r<l c - >r. f oTT he studied law, but seems to have been drawn into public life too soon to make any progress in the practise-