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Life’s Better Moments.
f’ ' Life has its moments
Os beauty and bloom ;
Bat they hang like sweet roses
On the edge of the tomb.
Blessings they bring us,
As lovely as brief,.
They meet us when happy,
And leave us in grief.
Hues of the morning,
Tinging the sky,
Come on the sunbeams,
And off with them fly.
Shadows of evening
Hang soft on the shore
Darkness enwraps them,
’ We see them no more.
So life’s better moments,
In brilliance appear,
Dawnffig in beauty,
1 Our journey to cboer.
Round as they linger,
Like shadows of even ;
Would that wo, like them.
Might melt into Heaven.
To My Mothei;-
BY CORIBLLB.
I love to see thee sitting there,
Quietly in that old arm chair;
With folded hands, and half-closed eye,
Dreaming of days long, long, gone by;
Treading again in Fancy’s glow
The pleasant paths of “Long Ago.”
Thy hand is weak and shrivelled now
And time has furrowed deep thy brow;
Has dimmed the lustre of thine eyes,
And blanch’d ihy lips with many sighs;
Blown from thy cheek its roses fair,
And whitened o’er thy silken hair.
Thy hand is weak with toil for me.
But mine it strong to work for thee;
ihiab eye is dim with watchful tears, —
111 he thy sight in failing years;
My arm shall thy faint steps support,
Make smooth thy path, and cheer thy heart-
Thou gav’st me life and all I have,
I'll nourish thee e’en to the grave;
None can replaoe'if it be gone
Tho love, the care, so long my own;
To craving spirit earth doth lend,
But only once so true a friend.
’Twas thou who cheered my life with love,
And watched my heart like.brooding dove;
Who taught me pleasing voice to shun,
And showed how honor’s fruits were won;
And if men wisdom find in.mo,
’XU hut reflected here from the.
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Thine eye could trace some good in me,
When others only ill could see;
And when roy latest hope was gone,
Thy stronger spirit love mo on;
ifsuece3S;aUendn»y path,
vpis but in answer to thy' faith.
’Twas thou in infancy and youth
Taught mo of God, and Heaven, and
Truth-,
And if this willful; wayward heart,
V E’er finds in Heaven its better part,
p-Motherl it will be thy prayer
That turned my wandering.footstops there
The True’Woman.
Iter name shines not in bannered fields,
Where rights and wrongs so boldly war;
Nor rings her voice in any cause
Which men and women battle for ;
Yet in her- presence, subtle, sweet,
You long to kneel and kiss her feet.
No wondrons romance wreathes her life;
Nor hath she led a martyrtrain;
Nor beautiful nor rich is she,
But poor—and some would call her plain;
Yet in her two dear eyes you see
A beauty shining constantly.
No silken robe enfolds her form;
N o dainty leisures hath her hands;
Her jewels are a single ring;
A ribbon binds her hair’s smooth bands;
, Yet in her garment’s simple grace
H,er boul’s regality yon trace.
No gift hath she to shake and thrill
A thankless world with warbled songs;
And art that wakes' the ivory keys
To other bands than hers’ belongs ;
Yet in her words of tender cheer
A richer music charms the ear.
She walks fti bumble ways of life
That lead oft times through gloom and shade
And cares and crosses not a few,
Are on her patient shoulders laid,
Yet smiles and drinks the bitter cup,
And keeps her brave eyes lifted up.
And homely ways she wreathes with grace,
Harsh duty turus to loving zest;
And cheery hopes and steadfast will*
Aro at her side in work and rest;
Yet never dreams she who can spy
The angel looking from her eye.
A Wife to her Husband. *
If I h»vs sought by art the gifts
Os nature to supply; .
Or, ever asked for beauty’s charm,
’Twas but to jileaso thiev'eye. '
If I with labor strove 4» make
Toe stoves of leer<i n S mi ne,
Twas that I mijrU betitiingly,
1 As tby compand®® shine.
V X have se/died with tireless zeal
Vo seek for earthly fame,
’Tvas th»t thy heart' with pride might thrill,
nwution of my name.
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Thft.iraise of other lips than thine
hi’ss than nought to me;
I lafvw no'world where thou art not,
i* life apart from thee.
. At neta- Gilbert, of Charleston,
New York Sun describes
a i a Wutiful and modest young
lady Hwenty-three, with a slight
tinge Wi .frican blood in her veins,
Daf umit.ted 3ijit for SIO,OOO dam
agayagajst ike New York and
Chark td Steam Ship Company for
refusing ior a state-room on the
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MISCEJLZ&JVXQVSn
Parlor Games.
Although the calendar tells of
spring, and the days are percepti
bly longer, the beating snow on our
wiudow-panes speaks loudly of win
ter and, furs and cracking ffres
are as much in order as ever. Still
night follows hastily on the heels of
day, blinding the world wilh his
dusky cloak; still the boys and girls,
driven in early by the darkness,
cluster about the hearth with lesson
and needle, or, weary of both, yawn
loudly and demand to be amused.
“What shall we do, mother, what
shall we play?” perplexing question
oft limes to poor mother, who has
no frisk left in her, and wonders why
the children can’t be content to sit
still as older people do. Dear madam
they can’ll You might as well ask
your cider-barrel to stop working.
Their legs and arms are all a twitch
with the insatiable fermentation of
their age; their brains are electric
with growth. Let them have their
fun now at the proper season, and
they won’t be half so likely to take
it bye and bye at the wrong.
Let them act charades, get up
tableaux, dance about, “dress up.
Never mind it it does pull the room
to pieces; or if the comtort of on in
valid or busy person is invaded by
the noise, let them play games, of
which there are plenty neither bois
terous nor difficult. They will en
joy them all the more if you will
lay down your work for a while and
take a part with them.
There is “piano kaleidoscope,”
for instance, which will keep a
group of little ones enchanted and
happy for a whole evening. The
lid of the piano is raised and folded
over so as to form, with the help of
the piano cover, a long, triangular
passage. The children stand at
one end of this peeping in} the other
is brightly lit by a gas branch or a
couple of candles, and Mother holds
up at the opening a series of gay
objects, such as flowers, lamp-mats,
bead-baskets, which, triply reflected
in the polish wood, make a series
of beautiful effects', like those of a
kaleidoscope.
Or there is the “Game of Statues.’*
Everybody is a statute, excepting
two who' enact a showman and a
would-be purchaser. The show
man must be the “funny one” ol the
family. He describes the statues,
turn then round, gives the prices,
indicates their be3l points, regrets
that this one’s noso was a little in
jured in packing, and that one got
dirty on the voyage and hasn’t had
its face washed yet; the statues
meantime standing perfectly still,
with immovable faces. Any one
who moVes or laughs is punished by
a forfeit.
“Menagerie” is another nice game
especially if there happens to be a
family gathering or a little party.
The older people arrange themselves
as audience, one person acts show
man, ! the rest are put out of the room
and enter one by one. The shop
man stales that he has the fti’esl
collection of beasts ever seen;
brought together at Vast expense
from every quarter of the piobe; and
including every animal tkftt went in
to Noah’s ark. What would the
gentleman (or lady) like to see?
The visitor is pretty sure to choose
some out'of-lhe-wiy creature tike a
crocodile or gorr/tla in hopes of pos
ing the showman, who prolongs the
conversation a little, and , manages
to extract * sketch of the animal
and his ways. After which be
draws aside the curtain, behind
which a loooking-glass is hidden,
and fom, who has demanded the
“chimpanzee—a troublesome crea-‘
tare, always in mischief, a dread-!
ful glutton; nails—qf course they’re
dirty —he never cleans then?,”—he
sees his own face! And Fiona, who
has asked for the porcupine, as a
“cross, sulky creature,* good for
nothing but to make pincushions,”
is scandalized by a similar reflefc
liytil Well managed, this game can
be made very amusing. & !
“Musical fright** is noisier. A row
of chairs—one less in number than
the persons playing—is ranged down
the middle of the room. Someone
plays the piano, while the children
dance in a circle. Suddenly the
music stops and the players run for
the chairs. One person of course
fails to secure any, and is counted
out of the gatnq. Alter each chair
is withdrawn till only one chair and
two players are left; the one who
gets that is declared winner. >
“Russian scandal” is played in
this wise. One person takes an
other out of the room and tells him
a story. Player No. 2 calls out No.
3 and repeats the same story. No.
3 tells No. 4,and soon till all have
heard it, when the last told rehearses
the story aloud to aft the others, the
version being generally widely dif
ferent from the original, each per
son having unconsciously added and
left out something.
In “Black Art” there must always
be two confederates who know the
secret. < )nc goes out of the room
while the rest choose some object to
be guessed. The person out then
re-enters and is asked : “Is it this ?”
“Is it that ?” till finally the right ar
ticle is named, and immediately to
the"surprise ol all he answers “yes.”
The apparent witch craft lies in the
fact that confederate No. 2 names
first some black object and then the
thing chosen.
“Charade.” Three or lour per
sons in the secret go into a room
by themselves. The rest of the
company enter one by one. The
word of the charade is “Mimic.”—
No one speaks, but everything done
by the new-comer the rest imitate
exactly till he guesses the word ;
after which he lakes his place among
the actors, and the next comes in.
“The Reviewers.”—This is a
game for older boys and girls.—
Each is furnished with pencil and
paper, and begins by writing the
name of an imaginary book on the
top line, folding it once, and passing
it to the next player, who adds a
second name and an “or,” nud
hands it on, Each then write the
author’s name, a motto, an “opin
ion ol the press,” and a second
“opinion of the press.*’ The papers
are then opened and read- -thecon
tents ruuning something in this wise :
Dilly Ducker;
or,
The Fiend of the Hills.
By
Penelope Perry.
Motto :
“I heard a little lamb cry, ‘Bah !! ”
“Sweet—soothing—satisfactory.”
Home Register.
“A book calcnlated to make the
American eagle screech proudly and
flap hi3 wings.” —Kenntbunlc Argus.
“Word and question,” is also
played with pencil and paper.—
Eeach player writes a word and a
question on two different slips of
paper, folds them, and lays them in
two baskets provided for the pur-
Eose. They are then distnbpute
ap-hazard, and every person writes
a rhyming answer to the question
he draws, in which the word is in
troduced. This game gives greai
opportunity for clever people to
snow their cleverness. We con
clude wilh a list of amusing forfeits :
Tho forfeit-payer asks everybody in the
room to do her a favor.
She must answer three questions without
smiling.
His eyes are bandaged, and he guesses who
feeds him with spoonfuls of water.
To put your sister or friend “through the
keyhole.” (This is done by writing the names
on paper and passing ttem through.)
Answer “no” to twenty questions.
Walk round the room aud kiss your own
shadow without laughing.
Two persons frsm opposite sides of the room
are to meet aud shake hands blindfold.
To imitate a donkey to the best of your pow
ers.
To be puil up to auction and bid for. When
the forfeit-bolder thinks the price sufficient,
he restores the forfeit.
Answer five questions without saying “yes”
or “so.”
Oaths are the weapons a coward
wields.
A Firm friend—An obstinate
Quaker.
The pitable plea of the defendant
in a breach of promise case in lowa
is that he “was in earnest about
marrying the girl until he got that
rheumatism.”
Mr. Jones told his wife, the other
day, that if she did not take care, he
should lose his temper with her; she
replied, she was glad to hear of it,
and only hoped he would never find
it again.
As old Van SUroomps was giving his
youngest, who was inclined to be la
zy, a good cowhiding, the young boy
cried out: “Oh! don’t, (adder, it
makes me smart!” “Dat’s shooost
vat I vanls,” srid the old man, as he
whacked away with renewed vigor.
The leading journals of the city
of New York are the World, the
Flesh and the Devil. The first is
edited by Manton Marble, the second
by James Gordon Bennett and the
third by Horace Greeley.
The British Museum is enriched
by the acquisitions of two specimens
of a mammoth crab which nourishes
in the waters of Japan. It measures
ten feet between the tips of the claws,
and the jaws themselves are six fefel
in length.
C?' Proper names have caught
the Darwinian theory very bad.
The name of the Algerine insurrec
tionist, which reached here as Mak
aroni has developed into Mokroni
and Monkrain, it is thought to be on
the way up to Muggins.
The recent explorations in Jerusa
lem have excited great interest a
rtiong the fraternity of Free Masons
throughout Ihe world, on account of
the discovery of what are belie ved to
be “Masons* marks” on a considera
ble number of the immense founda
tion stones recently uncovered uncer
the debris of one of the ancient tem
ples of that city.
[ Speaking Slightly of Women-
At a recent dinner in New York,
at which no ladies were present, a
man in responding to a toast, “Wo
men,” dwelt almost solely on the
frailty of the sex, claiming that the
bast among them were little better
than tiro worst, the chief difference
being their surroundings. At the
conclusion of the speech, a gentle
man present rose to his feet and said:
“I trust the gentleman in the ap
plication of his remarks, refers to
his own mother aud sisters, not ours."
The effect of this most just and
timely rebuke was overwhelming ;
and the maligner of women was
covered with confusion and shame.
This incident serves an excellent
purpose in prefacing a few words on
this subject.
Os all the evils prevalent among
men, we know of none more blight
ing in its moral effect than the tend
ency to speak slightly of the virtue of
woman. Nor is there anything in
which young men are so thoroughly
mistaken as in the low estimate they
form of the integrity of women—
not their own mothers and sisters,
thank God, but of others, who, they
forget, are somebody else’s mothers
and sisters.
Plain words should be spoken on
this point, for the evil is a general
one, deep rooted. If young men are
sometimes thrown in the society of
lewd women, they have no more
right to measure all other women by
what they see ol these than they
would have to estimate the charac
terof honest and respectable citizens
by the developments of crime in our
Police courts.
Let young men remember that
their chief happiness in life depends
upon their laith in women. No
worldly wisdom, misanthropic phi
losophy, no generalization can cover
or weaken this fundamental truth,
It stands like the record of God
himself—for it is nothing less than
this—and should put an everlasting
seal upon lips that are wont to spsak
slightly of women.
WHO INVENTED SAFETY-VALVES.
It is usually supposed that the
Frenchman Papin was the inventor
of the safety-valve, which he first ap
plied about 1082 to his digester in
such a way that it was kept closed
by a lever and movable weight, so
that the pressure on it could be va
ried by slidihg the weight along the
lever; in this way he kept the valve
in place, and could regulate the
steam-pressure, so that it could not
surpass the limit to which the valve
was charged.
It appears now that Papin was
only the inventor of the improve
ments just mentioned, but that fifty
years before, the German, Glauber
(who contributed many valuable ad
ditions to the mechanical depart
ment of chemistry) used safety
valves. Ih his treatise on philosoph
ical furnaces, translated into Eng
lish in 1651, he describes the modes
by which he prevents retorts and
stills from bursting, from excessive
pressure. A conical valve was fit
ted, being ground air-tight to its seat,
and loaded with a “cap of lead,” so
that when the' vapor became too
“high, 1 ’ it slightly raised the valve
and a portion esqaped, the valve
then closed again of itself, “being
pressed down by tbe leaden cap and
so kept close.”
The idea was followed up by oth
ers, and we find in the Art of Distil
lation, by John French, published
soon afterward in London, the fol
lowing concerning the action of safe
ty-valves: “Upon the top of a stup
pie (valve) there may be fastened
some lead, that if the spirit be too
strong, it will only heave up thestup
ple and let it fall down again.”
Tbe fact must not be lost sight of
that the word steam was unknown at
that time, being of later coinage. In
its place we find in every old book
the words vapor, spirit, smoke, ayre
and even ghost, whence the modern
word gas, for aeriform bodies, is no
doubt derived.
A Nbw Credit System.— A cer
tain merchant in Austria was re
cently met at the door of his store by
an honest-looking Frenchman, an
entire stranger to him, who asked
credit for a barrel of flour. ‘I can
pay half ze cash down and ze bal
ance next Saturday, sure.’ The
merchant, without hesitation, turn
ed to one of his clerks, and, with a
kindly smile on the would-be owner
of the barrel of flour, said : This
good man wants to get trusted .for a
barrel of flour, he’ll pay ‘half down
and the rest next Saturday. Pll
risk him ; he’s good as gold ; open a
fresh barrel; weigh out half, deliver
it in good shape at.his house put the
barrel away safely, and take it down
next Saturday when he pays the
rest; never refuse to trust an hon
est looking man for bread.* It was
done ; the money was paid, and
the-French gentleman departed, re
joicing in an abundance of flour and
unlimited credit.
No. 1.
The Dessert.
—Grocers should remember that
honest tea is the best policy.
An affecting sight—To behold at
a wedding the sorrow-slrickon air of
the parent as he “gives the bride a
way,” when you know for the last
ten years he has been trying to get
her off his hands.
—“Ah!” said a Sunday school
teacher, “Caroline Jones, what do
you think you would have been with
out your good father and mother?”
“I suppose, mum,” said Caroline,
“I suppose as I should ha’ been a
horphan.”
—A Boston woman refused to
permit her husband to go on a fish
ing excursion, “because he was very
apt to get drowned when he went
upon the water, and, moreover, did
not know how to swim any more
than a goose.”
—An apprentice sailor fell from
the “round top” to the deck, stunn
ed, but little hurt. The captain
exclaimed in surprise, “Why where
did you come from?” “From the
north of Ireland, yer honor!” was
the prompt reply, as the poor fellow
gathered himself up.
—A married lady who was in the
habit of spending most ol her time in
the society of her neighbors, hap
pened one day to be taken ill, and
sent het husband in great haste for a
physician. The husband ran a short
distance, and then returned,exclaim
ing, “My dear, where shall I find
you when I come back?”
—A Boston grocer, who excited
the ire of one of his customers by
presenting at his house his bill for
goods rendered, was waited upon
soon alter by a daughter of the debt
or, who said: ‘ I wish you wouldn’t
come wilh that bill when father’s at
home—it makes him nervous to be
dunned,” The grocer apologized.
—Figaro represents two married
ladies chatting about their husbands.
“What,” sajs one of them, “you
permit your husband to smoke in
vour rooms?” “Certainly I do, but
he spends his evenings with me,”
replied the other. “Yes, at that
price!” “My dear friend, a shrewd
wife avails herself of her husband’s
faults to repress his vices.”
—There iaaffiftle railroad near
Bayou Sara, i£, timt runs to Wood
ville on a verjJFuncertain schedule.
A stranger came in the other day
and inquired how often that steam
car made trips to the country. The
party interrogated said “tri-weekly.”
“What do you mean by tri-weekly?”
The answer was, “It goes up one
week and tries to come down the
next.’ 1
—An elderly lady who was hand
ling a pair of artificial plates in a
dentaloffice and admiring the fluency
with which the dentist described
them, asked him: “Can a body eateg
with these things?” “My dear majpj
am, mastication can be performers
with a facility scarcely equaled byq|
nature herself,” responded the den-ll
tist. “Yes, I know, but can a body !
eat with them?”
—A darkey was boasting to a 1
grocer of the cheapnecs often pounds |
of sugar he had bought at a rival *
shop. “Let me weigh the package,”
said the grocer. The darkey assent
ed, and it was two pounds short.
The “colored gentleman” looked
perplexed for a moment and then
said: “Guess he didn’t cheat dis
chile much, for while he was geltin’
de sugar I stole two pair of shoes.”
—A vary smart boy on his return
from college, attempted to prove that
two were equal to three. Pointing
to a roasted chieken on the table,
he said : "Is not that one?” and then
pointing to another: "Is not that
twd? and do not one and two make
three?” Whereupon his lather said:
There is a man (evidently a rela
tive of Mark Twain,) living in Kan
sas City, who boa3ts a setof furniture
made of the tree on which his father
was bung ten years ago.
Thb boys on Long Wharf, New
Haven, have a novel way of getting
molasses into their stomachs. They
take a long string, dip it into the
molasses, and putting one end be
tween their teeth swallow the rest.
After calmly enjoying the delicious,
sweetness awhile, they take hold m
the end of the string and pull it gent
ly out and repeat toe operation. It
is fun, says the New Haven Palladi
um ; if you do not believe it, try it
yourself!
The nearest an old bachelor gets
to the matrimonial harness—asirsiu
*!*• *: :
A Mobile paper is indignant at a
cotemporary for announcing that
Mobile is the fourth ooflee pot in the
country. Investigation proved that
"cotton port” was meant,