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CHESrXOTS*
in the* orchard, all the dar,
I Lie ui j'lfo rli-i iu'd and dronneii away; ,
Tawuy, and yellow, and ml thov fU,
t illing the air with a apioy hiaolL
lint the sturdy cheetuutg OTar the hill
**arded their prickly ca*>k-tM atill,
A’ul laughed iu scorn at the wind and rain,
seating their bnrly limba In vain.
• Hush;*’ Mid thefrtiet; “If you’ll hold your breath
t ill hill and valley are atill aa death,
T will whi.4]ter a spell that shall ojten wide
The casket* green where the truuure* hide,
• >\<*r the roof* of the eleeplng town,
Over the hiUaidea bare and brown :
Field ami meadow and wood were i rowed
liy the aliining trail of the silver t n
*
t’loee at the door of each guardetl cU
He breathed the word* of bin wonderful spell,
And the bristling lancea turned arldo
And every portal opened wide.
lj. sprang the wind with a l>ud “ Ho! Mol’*
Ami siutb red \\ t e treauttre* to and fro;
And tbechUdrcu ajKtutod, “Como away!
There is sport In the chestnut w.xxls to-dgy,"
How 1o Min*! a Baby.
?irt a man must have ouo to take
eart* of. It isn’t everyone that is fort
unate enough to have one, and when he
doe* his wife is always wanting to run
over to the neighbor’s five minutes, and
lie law to attend to the baby. Sometimes
■ho Caresses him, and oltener she savs.
sternly, “John, take ginnl core of the
child till I return.” You want to re
monstrate, but cannot pluck up oourftflfe
white the’awful female eye r* u|>oii ;
so you prudently refnui*, and meraly #©•
*hark: “Don’t stay long, my dear.”
She is scarcely out of sight when the
luekloes halos g*ens its eyes, and its
mouth also, and emits a yell which
causes tin* cat 10 bounce out of the door
j had stung it. You tim
idly lift the cherub, and sing an operatic
,i,r { it does not appreciate it, anu yells
JJ c hauler. You try to bribe it with a
• •it of sugar ; not a bit of use, it spits it
out. You get wrathy ami shake it. It
stops a second, and you venture an
• ?her, when, good heavens! it sets up
Mieh a roar that the passers-by look up
in astonishment You feel ciperate;
your hair stands on end and the perspira
tin oozes out of every pore as the ago
n mg thought over you, w liat if
he luckless child should have a tit!
<u try baby talk; but “ litty, litty
him by ” hsr, no effect— for it stretches as
it a red-not poker luul leen laid upon
its f>r,ine, and still it yells. You are
afraid the neighbors will be alarmed,
tiiid give it your gold watch as a last re
source, just in time to save your whis
kers; though it throws down a handful
•f your cherished mu- taohes to take th *
watch, and you thankfully find an <a*y
<'hair to rest yoiir aching limbs, when down
o >nu*s that costly watch upon the floor,
and the cause of all the trouble breaks
into an ear-splitting roar, and y< u set
your teeth and prepare to administer
\ crsoual chastisement, when in rushes
the happy woman known ns your wife
mi itches up the long-suffering child
bom your willing arms, and, sitting
down, stills it by magic, while you gaze
mournfully at the remains of your wt*h
and cherished mustache, and, utter ng
a malediction on l*nbykind in general,
and on the image of its father in partic
ular, vow n*ver to tak* car© of the baby
again—until the next time.
Ingenious Hut Ineffectual.
Tn Illinois some gentlemen had n most j
elaborate plan for obtaining drinks.
They formed an association for the
avowed purpose of promoting temper
ance, friendship, and such-like virtues.
<l r .e of the associates was already the
nappy jß)s.s‘*ssor of a dramshop; the as
sociation bought him out, hock, stock,
and barrel; then—for he was a jolly good
fellow they elected him to the honor
able and onerous position of treasurer,
and left him in charge of the old shop.
So anxious were the promoters to extend
the benign benefits of temperance and
friendship that the doors of their society
were thrown oj>en to any and to all who j
Mere willing to pay the nominal fee of j
one dollar. In token of payment of the j
fee the member received a ticket ujwni
which were the numbers from one to j
twenty inclusive. When moved by one j
of the
“Reasons why men drink;
Good wine, a friend, booauM*. I'm dry,
Or lent I should l>e by and by,
Ur any other reason why,”
the member called upon the treasurer,
presented his ticket., had a number
punched, aud received his liquor or his
cigar. The treasurer took all the money,
gave, no account to the others, and
bought all the drinkables and smokables.
The court was so prejudiced, narrow
minded, and opposed to the enlightening
influences of temperance and friends l.ip
that it considered the whole affair a
fraud and a device to evade the law, and
that the treasurer was guilty of unlaw
fully selling intoxicating liquor.
In one establishment whenever a eus
turner purchased a cigarette ho was
handsomely treated to a glass of whisky.
The court (knowing perhaps front per
sonal experience the cost of such ar
ticles, or having had evidence thereof
submitted) considered flint the transac
tion was a sale, of the whisky its wall as
of the cigarette, and acted accordingly.—
/.\ I'. lior/crt, Jan. , in Albany haw
Journal.
A Sharp Rebuke.
A certain infidel, who was a black
smith, was in the habit, when a Christ
ian man came to his shop, of asking
someone of the workmen if they had
ever heard about Brother So-anil-so, and
what they lira! done ? They would say
no, what was it ? Then he would begin
and tell what some Christian brother or
deacon or minister had done, and then
laugh and say: “That is one ot their
tine Christians we hear so much about.”
An old gentleman, a deacon, one day
went into the shop, and the infidel soon
began alrout what some Christians had
done, aud seemed to have a good time
over it. The old deacon stood a few
moments and listened, and then quickly
asked the infidel if he had read the story
in the Bible about the rich man and
Lazarus ? “ Yes, many a time, and
what of it?" “Well, you remember
about the dogs—how they came and
licked the sores of Lazarus?” “Yes,
and what of that?" “Well,” said the
deacon, “do you know you just remind
me of those dogs, content merr ly to lick
the Christian's sores.” The blacksmith
grew suddenly pensive, and hasn't had
much to say about failing Christians
since. _
Ole Bull, the venerable violinist, I
•whose tall form was always straight as |
an arrow, wore no heels upon his shoes, j
believing that they favored a stooping
postnre. What will women, who gener
ally wear heelH of enormous propor
tions. think ot this ?
The planting of elm, maple, and other
forest trees at proper distances along the
highways increases the value of adjoin
ing property and adds to the beauty and
comfort of the section. In Germany
fruit trees adorn the waysides.
Anything serves as a pretext for the
wicked.— Voltairt,
dljc (fSiyctte.
VOL. X.
The Girl OpitoMto.
The cnlitor of the Philadelphia Vinif*
has been flirting with “the girl opposite”
and giv\* his rentiers the 1 oueflt of bis
experience in a lengthy article:
“It is a wise and merciful dispensation
of nature that there nearly nbvnys is a
girl oppoiU\ Possibly a dweller in the
proverbial vast wilderness might hit
upon an exception to this far-reaching
rule; but the chances are just as he was
thinking how dismal it was that he had
come at last to n region where no girl
opposite was to be found he would ace
the ‘savage woman’ out of Loeksle> Hall
peeping at him from among the bushes
on the other side of the stream and
then the usual flirtation with the look
ing-glass would begin. For the flirta
tion always does begin with a looking
glass, and so, after all, the self-alb'gvd
inventor of heliograph)’ is only a base
copyist. Millions is but a thin shallow
sort of a word to express the number of
men who have at one time or another iu
their lives been subject to the will >f the
girl opposite, and who have regulated
their ]H*n*onul affairs—their com in;, and
goings -not by the requirements of their
professions, but bv the eccentric stand
ard of her disappearance and visibility.
Why, did governments impose upon men
one-tenths part of the burdens and in
conveniences which they willingly bear
for the girl opposite, the world would be
more or less swimming iu the sea of rev
olutionary blood pretty much all the
time! These assertions are not made
rashly nor carelessly. Have yon ever
stopped to calculate how much time you
have fooled away in making love to the
girl opposite; that is to sav, to all the
girls opposite to whom you have made
love in your life long? And have you
ever stopped to think how few things
there are in this world that you would
sacrifice so much time to for so small a
result? We say “fooling” a wav time
advisedly. If flirting with the girl op
posite ever led to the inevitable marry
ing that in the long run every fellow
must attend to, then it would be a reas
onable thing to do Hut it never does,
never. You marry sonic other girl, and
the girl marries some other fellow, and
the whole performance is just a sheer
waste of time. And yet, after all, worse
ways than this is have been invent and.
Even if yon do marry and go to live in
Dan, and the girl marries and g< es to
live in Beersheba and you never lay <*;, s
on each other again or hear a word about
each other to the very end of your sev
eral days, yet, somehow, you have al
ways a little soft spot in your heart as
you remember her standing there framed
in the window, like the pretty picture
that she was—‘reproof on her lips, but u
■mile in her eve,’ and simply irresistible,
and you eannot help believing that down
Beersheba-way there is somebody who
remembers all about it. and feels a good
deal the same way you do. Truly, the
girl opposite Is a good deal of bother;
hut the time for legislating her out of
office has not yet come. No indeed.”
Letter- Writing.
Youth of both sexes may learn from
the following extract how to do that
which many attempt and few do well.
We refer to the art of letter-writing—a
“lost art,” owing to postal-cards and
newspapers, but which, when done at
all, should lie so performed as to show
the wr'ter to be a person of culture :
Asa rule, every letter, unless insult
ing in its character, requires an answer.
To neglect to answer a letter, wle-n
■ written to, is as uncivil as to m-glect to
i reply when spoken to.
In the reply, acknowledge first ti"> re
ooiptof the letter, mentioning its date,
I and afterward consider all the points re
quiring attention.
If the letter is to be very brief, com
mence sufficiently far from the top ot
| the page to give a nearly equal amount
| of blank paper at the bottom of tne sheet
I when the letter is elided.
Should the matter in the letter enn
j tinue beyond the first page, it. is well to
I commence a letter above tin- middle ot
! the sheet, extending as far a- necessary
| on the other page.
It is thought impolite to use a half
\ sheet of paper in formal letters. Asa
! matter of economy and convenience tor
I business purposes, however, it is cus
.' ternary to have tin- card oi tin- business
man printed at the top of the sheet, and
a single leaf is used.
11l writing a letter, the answer to
which isoif more benefit, to yourself than
' the person to whom you write, inclose a
postage-stamp for the reply.
Letters should lie as tree from eras-
I ures, interlineations, blots and post
! scripts as possible. It is decidedly bet
ter to copy the letters than to have these
appear.
A letter ot introduction or recom
mendation should never he sealed, as
the bearer to whom it is given ought to
know the contents. —J fill'x Manual.
Apples as Food.
An exchange states the benefits of
apples to be as follows: “A raw, mel
low apple is digested in an hour and a
half, while boiled cabbage requires five
hours. The most healthy dessert that
can be placed on a table is a baked
apple. If eaten frequently at breakfast
with coarse bread and butter, without
meat or flesh of any kind, it has an ad
mirable effect upon the general system,
often removing constipation, correcting
acidities and cooling off febrile conditions
more effectually than the most approved
medicines. If families could be induced
to substitute them for pies, cakes and
sweetmeats, with which their children
are frequently stuffed, there would be a
diminution in the total sum of doctors
bills in a single year sufficient to lay in a
stock of this delicious fruit for the whole
season’s use. ”
In Germany, including the free < iti*
about 85 per cent, of the population
have incomes under $300; in Berlin,
Hamburg and Bremen, 14.0 percent,
have incomes from S3OO up to $1,500,
and one-fifth of 1 per ceDt. (that is to
say, about 3,000 persons in the three
cities taken together) have incomes ex
ceeding $15,000 per annum. This does
not give one a great idea of the wealth
of Germany.
‘Too against my Will,” murmured
she sweetly, as she fondly leaned on
William’s arm, as they meandered to the
i theatre.
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 23. I&S3.
In nn Insert's Place*
What a horrible place must this world
tppenr when regarded according to our
dens from an insect’s point of view! The
lir infested with huge flying hungry
lragonn, whose gaping and snapping
uouths are ever intent upon swallowing
die innocent creature* for w hom, accosti
ng to the insect, if he were like us, a
n-operly constructed world ought to bo
wefnsivdy adapted. The solid earth
continually shaken by the approaching
read of hideous giants—moving mount
line—that crush out precious lives at
every footstep, an occasional draught of
die blood of these monsters, stolen at
ife-risk, affording but poor compensa
tion for such fatal persecution.
Lot us hope that tin* little] victims are
ess like ourselves than the doings of
mts and bees might load us to suppose;
that their mental anxieties are not pro
portionate to the optical vigilance indi
cated by tlm 4,oooeye. lenses of the com
mon house tly, the i 7,000 of the cabbage
butterfly and the wide awake dragonfly,
>r the 25,000 possessed by certain spe
cies of still more vigilant beetles. The
insect must see a whole world of won
ders of which we know* little or nothing.
Erne, we have microscopes, with which
we can see one thing at a time if care
fully laid up ii tlie stage; but what is
the fluent instrument Uoss can produce
compared to that with 25,000 object
glasses, allot them probably achromatic,
and each one a living instrument with its
own nerve branch supplying a separate
sensation? To creatures thus endowed
with microscopic vision, a cloud of sandy
dust must appear like an avalanche of
massive rook fragments, and everything
else, proportionally monstrous.
Inserts are probably act plain ted with
a whole world of physical facts of which
we are utterly ignorant. Our auditory
apparatus supplies us with a knowledge
of sounds. What are these sounds?
They are vibrations of matter which are
capable of producing corresponding or
sympathetic vibrations of the drums of
our cars or tho bones of our skull. When
we carefully examine the subject, and
count the number of vibrations that
produce our world of sounds of varying
pitch, we find that the human ear can
only respond to a limited range of such
vibrations. If they exceed 3,000 per
second the sound becomes too shrill for
average people to hear it, though some
exceptional earn can take up pulsations
or waves that succeed each other more
rapidly than this.
Reasoning from tlio analogy of
stretched strings and membranes and of
air vibrating in tubes, etc., we are justi
fled in concluding that the smaller llitv
drum or tube the higher will be the note
it produces when agitated, and the
smaller and the more rapid the roriul
wave to which it will respond. The
drums of insect cars, and the tubes, etc.,
connected with them, are so minute that
their world of sounds probably begins
where ours ceases; and what appears
to us as a continuous sound is to them a
series of separated blows just as vibra
tions of 10 or 12 per second appear sep
arated to us. We begin to hear such
vibrations as continuous sounds when
they amount to 30 per second. The in
sect’s continuous sound probably begins
beyond 3,005. The bluebottle may thus
enjoy a whole world of exquisite music
of which we know nothing. Hduvavia .
Idle Men fn (lie House of Commons.
Everybody who lias ever read it re
members Call .tie’s famous description
of the work-house of St. Ives, in Hunt
ingdonshire, and what the picturesque
tourist saw: “I saw sitting on wooden
benches, in front of their bastilc, aud
within their riugwail and its railings
some half hundred or more of these men.
Tall, robust figures, young mostly, or
middle age; of honest countenance, many
of them thoughtful and even intelligent
looking men. They sat there, near by
one another, hut in a kind of torpor,and
especially in a silence which was very
striking. 11l silence; for alas! what
word was to be said? An earth all ly
ing round crying: ’(' me and till me,
come and reap me;’ yet we here set en
chanted! • In the eyes and brows of
these men hung the gloomiest expres
sion, not of anger, but of grief and shame
and manifold inarticulate distress and
weariness; they returned aiy glance
with a glance that seemed to say, ‘Do
not look at us; we sit enchanted here we
know not why.' The sun shines and the
earth calls, and, by the governing powers
aud impotences of this England, we are
forbidden to obey. It is impossible,
they tell us! There was something that
reminded me of Dante s ln-ll in the look
of all this; and I rode swiftly away.”
Ail exactly similar scene may he wit
nessed any night by a tourist, pictur
esque or otherwise, who finds his way
to the House of Commons. There they
are, moody and listless on t heir benches,
flitting aimlessly hither and thither from
corridor to corridor, sauntering through
the tea room, idling in the smoking
room, all at their wits’ ends liow to get
through the dreary hours, and hoping
against hope that the morrow may break
the horrid spell. And so “many of them
thoughtful and intelligent looking men.”
—fall Mall Gazette.
A Live Man.
A prominent citizen of Western lexas
was ill Galveston, and was introduced to
Gilhooly. They got to talking about
the frontier telegraph. Gilhooly said it
was a great blessing to the people of the
frontier, but the stranger shook Ins
head, and said it had caused the arrest
and imprisonment of his uncle.
“ What did he do? ”
“Nothing—only robbed a stage.”
“Well, you know that is an isolated
ease.” , . , , ,
“Yes, that’s so; he has been isolated
ever since.” . .
“But, you know, observed Gilhooly,
“that the Government allows private
individuals to use the wire, and that is a
great convenience to people on the
-frontier.”
“ That’s where you are fooling your
self. I used a few hundred yards of the
wire to make . wire fence of, and I have
!;een subject i to all sorts of expense
and inconve -lice. You just go West,
and try it. ul you will change your
mind about at telegraph company be
ing aDy c< irt to a live man.” —Gaft
vtxlon Ne
A STORY HUH A MORAL.
II liat 111*, r.i r.ilni: *l' i, lliiiiqiii'l to Hu* :
IVriMllt IIOII.H 1' Itl'CH 1 I.
[Minn; 11.'U[ttet. m Spit York Tt Ihtlne. I
It was not long ago that a gentleman
said vo mo—lie ivas in win. l -“Johnny,
I will take your best bouquet tlmt big
one on n trav, tit to be the bridal lied of
Eve if you will carry it to tins ad
dress.”
"All light, boss,” was my response,
ns I took his Si 0 bill; and observed a t
rather devilish light in Ills eye, while ho j
wrote a name on a curd, it was n beam '
of the light that shone in the eye of
Cain as tho discriminating ihtmo of
heaven shot past In- offering and blared
on Abel's altar. However, I was not
particular about what was going on in his
mind, and be slipped the card in tho
bouquet, and I started off to deliver it.
Stooping close by to change my note
and eat a bit of luiu'h, a good minty peo
ple gathered near the great. prize bou
quet and began to talk about and smell
it, and so, whether some jealous rival
stole that card, or whether I had dropped
it on tho street, tho card was missing
when I took up tho great salvor of
flowers again.
I hastened bael. to the place where 1
had met the gentleman. He had gone
away in a carriage. I told my trouble
to the hotel clerk, the genial ('jibs, and
he said, “Pshaw! lake it to his wile. Jle
is no sporting man.”
Now, that gentleman I knew, by nn
accident of passing his house, and I had
often admired tho inflexible, the solitary,
| the lofty and self reliant quality in him.
| lie was kind to his inferiors, manly to
his equals, haughty to his superiors.
, About once or twice a year lie 'showed
liquor in bis eyes, as if < sin bad bred on
Abel’s stock, and a little liquor brought
old the consanguinity. I said to my
sell: “These flowers will witner tor
which I have been paid. I believe bo
meant to send them to his wife, and I.
will take them there.”
1 rang tho door-liell of his house and
asked for tho lady. Shown into the par
lor I saw my buyer's picture over the
: mantel. Tile bouse was not expensively
furnished, but looked like the alamo ol
perseverance in some moderately com
pensating profession and slow but. gain
ing conquest on halt fortune. A lady
entered tho parlor and beheld the flowers.
She turned to me and said: “Who are
these for?”
“For you, Madam.”
“Forme?” Her face flushed. “Who
has dared to send flowers to me ?”
I saw I was in for it somewhere, and
that there was no safety save in con
sistent lying. “Your husband sent
them, Mrs. I heard his numo,
and felt that this was his wife.
“My husband?” Her voice faltered.
“How* came he to send me flowers?
Have you not made some mistake?”
“No, madam. He lias never bought
flowers from me before. He iH not a
customer of gallantry. There is no
mistake about it.
She seemed all fluttered like a widow
told that her dead husband Ims returned
life Hooking now at the flowers,
again at his portrait, her eyes dilated and
her temples Hushed Him walked to me
like a woman of authority, and under
some, high mental excitement. Hooking
into my eyes, she said:
“What, did my husband say? ’
“He said, madam, ‘I have not made a
present to my deal wife for years. Busi
ness and enro have arisen between us.
Take her these flowers, that their blos
soms may dispel the winter from our
hearts and make e.s young again.
Him turned to the bouquet and rained
tears 11)1011 it.. An orange hud sin: took,
all blinded so, and hid it in her bosom.
Him sank upon her knees, and hud her
head among the (lowers to let, the cool
lIO.SH refresh In r parched, neglected
heart, and sobbed the joy of love and
confidence again. I. state away like a
citizen of the world.
As I went up the street and stepped at.
the same hotel, Ilia husband was there.
“Johnny,” said he, “did you deliver the
bouquet?”
“Yes, I took it to your wifo.
“To mv wife ?”
“Ytrt boss, you are too good a man to
wander’ as yon wished to. The me is
broken. Your wile is full of gratitude.
Saved by a mistake, embrace the blessed
opening made for hotii ot you, plant
those rieli blossoms on the grave of your
estrangement, and in the words of the
great good Book, ’cling to the wife of
thy youth.’” , , , . ..
He staggered a moment, looked as if
ho ought to knock me down, and rushed
from the place.
Next de.y I met her upon his arm.
“Johnny,” said he, “bring her as big
a bouquet every week, and save one
scarlet rose for mo,”
Atlantic Ocean Patrol.
The New York Timex makes a good
suggestion and asks this question:
“Has not the time come for the gov
ernments of England and the United
States to take some action to diminish
the risks of ocean navigation? Every
municipal government patrols its streets,
and there is no good reason why the
great ocean highway should not be pa
trolled. Were England and the United
States each hi provide two steamers, the
route between New York and Liverpool
could be thoroughly patrolled. These
government steamers could remove
sunken wrecks, warn passenger steamers
of the locality of icebergs, and afford re
lief to shipwrecked vessels. A steamer
with her machinery broken down would
bo towed free of charge by the patrol
steamer, and would not, ns is too often
the ease, decline assistance in order to
save $30,000 or $-10,000 of salvage. A
shipwrecked crew compelled to take to
their boats would have a reasonable de
gree of confidence that in two or three
(lays’ time a patrol steamer would pick
them up, and the owners of a missing
steamer would have good reason to be
lieve that, were she in danger or distress,
help would be not far off.
The tenor Campanini is pronounced
‘perfectly splendid and just too awfully
too too for anything,” by the bang
wearing ladies of New York. —Men Or
leanx Picayune. Awfully too too
what? Campanini is a woeal'st not a
too tootist. But as Toots would say,
“ It’s of no consequence.” .V Y. Com
mercial, . .
Tin: hitowni of a ( im.it.
Int c rcfclln i{ Observation* in tin* l*M -
rliol|ficnl study l Inkanl*.
The Medical /iY cord reproduces the
leading features of tlio studios of Frol.
\V. Prever, of Jena, in a lioLl ns yet. al
most uni rokon~-that is, in the psycho
logical study of infants. This study be
gins, the professor nays, with tho obser
vation of the movements and sensations
of it child, and then proceeds to note the
development of tin* different senses, the
formation of speech, etc., and the effect
of all these tilings in awakening the in
telligence. The first manifestation of
voluntary motion occurs about the iour
toenth week, when the infant ln-gins to
hold up its head. After four months tin*
head is usually balanced well, and at ten
months the power to sit up is sequin and.
Ability to stand was usually, m the
eases studied by the professor, gained |
suddenly at tlio end of the first year.
The. first grasping motion of the luindm
the first quarter year is entirely lellex
and mechanical, the first voluntary at
tempt to take hold of an object not being
noticed before the seventeenth week. A
child dot s not show self-consciousness, a
knowledge of its independent existcnc ,
until the second quarter of the, second
your. The sensibility of the skin of a
new-born child is very low, and it will
give nosigns of discomfort if it, he pricked
on the nose, or lips, or hands. The eves,
too, close slow'y wlii'ii touched, and do
not close at all In tho bath. An increase
of sensibility, however, appears in a day
or t wo alter birth.
All infants are deaf at birth, b .ms ■
tho of.Tcr ear is do rd and teere is ;
yet no air in the middle ear. A response
to a strong sound is observed at tho
earliest in six hours, but olteu not
for a day or two. Tho awakening l the
sense may be, detected by the blinking
which a loud noise occasions. No other
organ is thought to contribute to the in
tellectual development of the child so
much as the ear. Tlio lh'st perception:
are those of light. '1 lie infant, shuts it:,
eyes as soon as light enters them; within
a week it. turns its glance to the window,
but it is three weeks before the eyes
will follow a light moved bet ore them.
The stupid expression on the child’s
face does not leave it until the second
quarter year, and the face grows more
human and spirited with the increase of
the power of seeing intelligently. The
power to distinguish colors follows that
of intelligent attention, and light and
bright colors are preferred, hut the
power to distinguish tin m by name do; s
not come until the beginning of the thud
year. The recognition of form, size ami
distance comes slowly, in the first
month the inl'unt pays no attention h*
the swift approach of the person s hand
to its face, and in the third year it will
show ignorance of size and no apprecia
tion of distance. The proles or set
down in writing every sound uttered by
a child during its first, two years, and
which could lie so represented.
At first only vowels are heard, but
even in the first live weeks these sounds
are so diversified ns to express different,
feelings. Thus, the professor says, the
periodically broken cry, with knit eyes,
denotes hunger ; the continuous whine,
cold, and the high, penetrating tone,
pain. The consonant m was heard in the
seventh week, and in the seventh month,
b, and, n, v, and, rarely, g, h and k were
distinguished. Its perfect imitations of
sound were heard m the sixth month,
and at this time voices began to he dis
tinguished by the child. < beat progn
is made in the imitation of sounds alter
the third half year, and the powers
of articulation become well developed by
the fourth half year.
Tim Tobacco lfablt With Women.
“It is true that American xvomen do
largely use tobacco. In fact, they al
ways iiave, American ladies of African
descent in the South have always smoked
their pipes, and their white sisters do
not altogether disdain the pipe aud ‘dip
ping.’ But, hero at the North many
ladies have, in imitation of Cuban,
Mexican, Month American, Spanish,
French, and even English women, taken
to the use of cigarettes, to their very
great detriment.”
“Why more so than to men?”
“I don't think men are often injured
by the moderate use of tobacco in smok
ing. But the female body is no more
adapted to the use of tolmeeo than tic
female mind is to mathematics. Ii
causes neuralgia, headache, dyspepsia,
palpitation of the heart, aud, worst of
all, ruins the complexion and disorders
the teeth. I say nothing about the.
health, but I think, nevertheless, that
all will agree that the stale odor of to
bacco coming from a woman’s mouth is
worse than the same sun II exhaled by a
man. As to chewing in men aud its
analogue, ‘dipping,’ in women, nothing
can be filthier, and I know that both are
productive of di..cases of the nervous sys
tem. ”
“ But, Doctor, does not smokingcausc
diseases of tiie nervous system in men
as well ns in women?”
“ Certainly it does, if indulged in to
oxcess, But'then men’s nervous systems
are not as impressionable as womens,
and hence a man can do many tilings
with impunity or even benefit, iinpnssi
bin for a woman to do without greet,
risk. And besides, it does not make
much difference to a man if his com
plexion is a little sallow, his eye lustre
less, his body shriveled up arid his skin
rough, whereas these tilings are very
important to a woman.”
“I see you are an admirer of beauty
in women, Doctor?”
“ Yes. rt is the greatest gift a woman
can have, for it not only means .‘.esthetic
enjoyment for all who looks at her, but
it means a healthy mind and a healthy
body; and then the means necessary to
preserve beauty are the very ones neces
sary to keep the mind and body in sound
health.” — Dr. Hammond in Hew fork
Thf, investigations, which were under
taken by a commission of the French
academy, m relation to tho filling of the
Tunisian and Algerian part of the Sahara,
have been finished. The conclusions
are entirely favorable to the project mid
would lead to the establishment of ,-m
interior sea, 248 miles long and about
999 miles in circumference.
If all hearts were frank, just, and hon
est, the major part of the virtues would
ha useless to \w.—MoUcrc,
NO. IS
Capturing Monkey#*
Tho monkeys mv frequently oaptnroil
iu uoosos uuil traps built in tins shape of
house*. Tho only entrance is a _trap
door iu tho roof,' which communicates
with a trigger art upon the ground.
Fool is spread about inside, tho mon
keys cuter, and, skirmi lung around,
disturb tlio trigger, mid the Imp shuts
them in. The third method for catch
ing them is a most humorous one. An
old’, hard eoeoanut is taken, and a very
Hindi hole made in the shell Furnished
with this and a pn-l etfil’. of boiled rice,
the sportsman rallies into the forest,
and stops beneath a free tenanted by
monkey . Within fell bight of these iu
quisitive spectators he flivti uts a little
rice mid then puls a quantity into tho
eoeoanut with all the (Mentation possi
ble. The nut is t! up laid upon the
ground, and tlm huuh r retires to aeou
\eniei;l ambush. Thd reader may bo
sure that no sooner is the man out of
sight than the monkeys race helter-skel
ter for the eoeoanut. The first, arrival
peeps into it, and, s, ■ ittg the plentiful
store of 1-iee inside, qimeres his hand
in through tlio tiny hole, and clutches a
handful. Now, mo paramount is greed
over ovary other feeling connected with
monkey nature, tlint nothing will induce
the creature to relinquish his hold.
With his hand thus clasped ho eunnot
possibly extract it, luibtho thought that
if lie leaves go one nt lis brethren will
obtain the feast is oveTpowering. The
sportsman soon appear* upon tlio scene;
the unincumbered monkeys fly in all di
rections, but the lmi'n■'tainatobrute, who
still will not let the riee go, is thereby
handicapped beyond hope with a cocoa
nut as large as himself* a state of affairs
quite fatal to rapid locomotion, either
terrestrial or arboreal. The sequel is
that he falls an easy capture to the hunt
er, a victim to his own greed. Even
when caught he reads fill the actions of
liis captor a design to|roh him of his
rice, and lie clutches ife all tlio harder ;
and tho very first tiling ho does when
the nut is cracked and the hand released
is lo ei'am ils contents: into his mouth.
Thoughts of escape tumo afterword.—
London Field..
The Fellow that Locks Like Me.
Except an Irish landlord, says tho
London World, no Imeinber of the
Peerage is more to be pitied than Lord
Ail-lie. For several years post he lias
been endeavoring to step tho career of
a clever adventurer, ! who has been
pleased to adopt the name of his eldest
son Lord Ogilvy, and, under that desig
nation, to run uj) debt 4, forge bills and
swindle people generally in all parts of
tlm world. The number of applications
which Lord Airlio Inis received for “pay
ment on my account” *4'rum tradesmen,
who thought they were trusting his son
and heir, is simply incredible. These
bills come in a perfect shower from all
parts of the Gout,incut mid the United
States, and although public notices and
w arnings of all kinds have been launched
at, tho head of the impostor, and once or
twice he actually has been arrested, yet,
after a short time, he is certain to be
found at his old tricks again, and poor
Lord Airlio is obliged once more to ex
plain to a phalanx of clamorous trades
men that lliey have been duped and
r, Jibed. No real Lord was never trusted
In.lf so much as this spurious one. His
manners are said to be “distinguished,”
hi ; pi mould appearance is attractive, and
with the fair sex he has always been a
great hit. Meanwhile the real Lord
Ogilvy is always with his regiment, the
Tentli 1 In; snrs, in India, not, having half
such a good time of it ns his double.
The Cockfail.
11l a vocabulary of drinking terms, the
Hetailcr remarks regarding the “cock
tail “A word oi very uncertain ori
gin. (conjectural etymologists have
traced il to the Mieso-Got.hie, fho Chi
le e, tl.e Cherokee, and the Gumbo;
one lias settled it, to his own satisfaction
that it is of Sandwich island origin ; an
other that it is Celtic ; and still another
that Noah left the recipe to his son
Hie m, giving the beverage the name
Ko’kdal, written in tho old Hebrew char
acter with tho Massoretie points. The
probability is that the name and the
beverage were invented by the mound
builders, and the most prominent phil
ologists are inclining more and more
to that opinion.” Tho Jtetailcr also
gives tlm following information: “The
•ocktail is made of brandy, gin, whisky,
or ehampeagn, mixed with bitters,
sugar, and a small—yery small—per
centage of water. It is mi early-morn
ing drink, mid is highly esteemed for its
medicinal properties. A large propor
tion oi those wlm use it habitually will
never eat solid food until the flooring of
the stomach has been overlaid with cock
tails. There is no time in a man’s life
when he is more deserving of heartfelt
sympathy than when, in a condition of
pecuniary collapse, he craves a morning
cocktail and craves in vain.”
A French Fanner.
The lot of a French farmer is neither
bappy nor jolly. He fares frugally on
soup'and the thinnest of ordinary rul
xvido or eider. The stock of his soup is
bacon, and ho eats lmtoller’s meat only
twice a week- that is on Sunday and
market-day. When lie attends market
he makes' a succulent dejeuner and
drinks a good ileal el' boor at tho Cafe,
This is bis only cheerful time ; at ordin
ary seasons lie is morose, troubled about
the weather, tlie 'conscription which is
going to take his son in the army, and
about politics, of which he understands
just enough to lie in constant dread of
revolutions. He is conservative ; that is
to say lie upholds the government of the
day, "whatever it is, for fear of anarchy ;
but no government is popular with him,
for every administration finds it neces
sary to lay on now taxes. The climate,
however, is in his favor. A bad harvest
is not a common thing in France, and a
succession of bad harvests never occur.
It is lucky for the French farmer that
this is so," for there are few French
landlords who would he in a position
to ri mit, any part of a year’s rent after a
bad harve The rule in France is that
fai is i ’ rent must he paid as punctually
as lodgers’ rent. If it lie not paid,
ejection is resorted to at once, and no
body thinks of lookini upon the tenant
as an ill-used ntuu
FACTS AND FIGUItFS.
Loan Pitnmr lias an income of ?7nfl,-
000 a year.
Lakh Emu is flit feet higher than
Lake Ontario. The falls of Niagara aro.
102 foot high.
Tub butter, choose, egg, ami milk
business of this country are estimated
to ho worth fMO,()Ob,iK)O.
Thu British Government spends $700,-
000 ntmunUy on its consular service, anil
tho United States only $300,000.
Tunm: firms are now engaged in can
ning Boston linked beans, and their an
nual production is net less than 4,000,-
000 or 15,000,00(1 cans.
Is vai;tors parts of Ireland, Scotland,
and Wales arc remains of beehive-shaped
lulls, underneath which are chambered
burial places. These huts aro of great
antiquity.
Amu r tho year 100 of our era died
Simon Stylitem a Syrian, who had lived
iu self-imposed martyrdom for thirty
years on the top of a grauito column 30
or 40 feet high.
On this New England coast, moss is
I collected in great quantities. The white
kinds ore kept for food, forming an im
portant industry, while the coarser kinds
are placed on tlio farms.
Neah Jerusalem is a building entirely
rock cut, about 90 feet wide and a 100
feet high, which is reported to bo tho
place to which the Apostles retired bo
tore the siego of that city.
In Australia tlio average temperature
for a certain three months was till de
grees Fahrenheit ill the shade. Iu tho
winter snow-storms often fast three
weeks, and cover the ground to a depth
of 12 to 18 feet,
Fraomunts of celestial bodies in tho
form of meteors oeeasionally reach ns
from tho distant regions of space. The
stones exemplify the same chemical and
crystallographic laws as the rocks of tho
earth, and have afforded no new element
or principle of any kind.
Tub Marquis of Lome receives $51!,-
000 ft year salary as Governor General
of Canada. Tho Frineess Louise has an
animal grant of $20,000. She received
$150,000 oil lidr marriage, w hich brings
in $(1,000 more, and with nn allowance of
about $15,000 to the Maruuis from his
father, tlio Duke of Argyll, tho couple
have on annual income of aboutsloo,ooo.
Strict economy is the rule at Itideau
Hall, ns it is at Windsor Castle.
In the tropics of the Old World the
annual rainfall is, according to Dana,
about 77 inches, while it is 155 inches in
Mouth America. In the Eastern United
States it is -it) to 50 inches, but west of
tho one hundredth meridian, beyond the
Mississippi to the Sierra Nevada, it is
mostly 12 to It! inches. The annual
mount in Great Britain averages 35
inches; in France, 20 to 21 niches;
further from the coast, in Central Ger
many and Russia, only 15 to 20 inches;
but about the Alps, it is mostly 35 to 50
inches.
Some Men’s Luck.
Gen. Gordon was severely wounded
four times in one buttle and within an
hour and lived to fight again ; and this
is only a specimen of the singular good
luck that attended some men. In 1864
a Michigan cavalryman named Drake
was out foraging in the Shauandonh val
ley in comiiany with a comrade named
Cooper. Cooper was in a smoke-house
after meat and Drake was on guard at
the door when thirteen Confederates
suddenly appeared. They were mount
ed, and advanced at a gallop, part of
them firing as they rode up. One bullet
found a suitable opening in tho stone
wall of tlie smoke-house, and flew in and
killed Cooper dead m his tracks. Drake
was standing beside his horse, and his
saddle was hit by three bullets, one of
which glanced through his lint.
As soon as the trooper could realize
what hod happened lie swung himself
into saddle and dashed at the circle
around him. The moment lie happened
in view he was a target for carbine and
pistol. His horse mode a rush at the
line, but was driven buck. Followed by
Cooper’s horse he galloped around and
across a circle not over 100 feet across,
all the time under a steady fire by tho
Confederates. This fire was soon re
turned by Drake, who tin-d away seven
cartridges and then drew his saber. His
seven bullets, ns afterward vouched for,
killed two men, wounded two more, and
killed one horse. His fire broke the
circle, aud begot out of it, but for thirty
rods, as he made off, he was exposed to
the fire of nine or ten men. Cooper’s
horse was killed in the circle, while
Drake’s was hit no less than nine times
anil yet not disunit'd. As for the rider,
his.comrades, on his return to camp,
counted up a record of a truly-miracu
lnus escape. Three bullets struck his
scabbard, two his hat, four went through
his clothing, one burned his cheek, one
raked his knee, aud two hit his left
boot. While one single bullet killed the
one trooper, the other had sixteen fired
point blank at him and yet did not lose
a drop of blood. Cooper's horse was
killed by one bullet, while nine failed to
disable the larger and more-exposed ani
mal.—Detroit free. Prcxx.
Solemn Suggestions.
When a man sits down suddenly in an
icy mass of slush, laugh heartily. Of
course he sits down for your especial
edification.
If you have no influence yourself, tell
your superiors you have none, it will
relieve your mind, at least, if your hear
ers do set you down as a foreign speci
men of disgruntled nothingness;
When you puss a lady on the striid,
turn around anil watch her till she’s half
a block away. By doing so you will dis
cover whether she turns around to look
at you or not.
When you are driving, never give
more than one-fourth of the road to
those you meet driving in the op
posite direction—especially it' you have
a lumber wagon anil meet nothing but
light buggies.
Never go to a public meeting until all
the business has been disposed
of. Then, just before adjournment, you
can stop in, object to everything, abuse
and vilify those who cam - . ally and did
idl tho work, and your name will be
handed down to posterity-—us a public
infliction.
Poetoy makes hope a formation, grief
makes it a solace, and desolation makes it
tho brightest flower that adorns earthly
creation, while oven disappointment anil
delusion whisper darkness out of the sky
of to-day into the sunshine of to-morrow.
Sobbing sorrow may crush and cripple
the soul, but hope gives it new elasticity.
Nay, it may be humiliated in the dust,
but hope will raise it up again. Hope is
man’s birthright, which, after all his
blandishments, delusions and mockeries,
never maketli him ashamed to hope on,
hope ever. Airy fancies may allure him,
and smiling faces beguile him into
treachery, but hope flits eternal 'round
the human head and breast and hangs
the rainbow on the blackest cloud on all
the chaste sparklings of an angel from
immortal light.