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V . LATE TO CHURCH.
Along the road, on either side,
The elder boughs are budding,
.. .-ThejBcadow.iandsa rosytide __
Of clover bloom is flooding;
The sunny landscape is so fair,
Q sweet the blossom-scented air,
That wneii I wont to church to-day
I coii'd blit ehopfc thf 1
i/>v.w e«nf» iho htibC'Hnk? 2nd round
The mifltweed lowers the bees were hum-
Japanese Oddities.
FTile Jaifenese ttfrkeys do 'not quite
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i theif Jtind in
does not become
so succulent and tender upon a diet of
rice as upon meal and corn. The Ja
panese Save an odd" name For this Bird,*
signifying the “seven-colored fkce,”
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ilUJii bliv
gills, in the same way their name for
I the crab, the animal that walks “several
ways.'* Speaking of the curious names
without impairing the solubility of the
residue, may be described as follow^:
The blood id placed in a vessel so that
the pressure may be reduced and evap
oration effected at a temperature hot
exceeding that of fresh blood. The
mils,
I sauntered on, but soon I heard
Behind me there was some one coming;
I did not turn my head to see,
And yet 1 knew who followed me.
Before Tom called me-“ Kitty, stay.
And let me share with you the way.”
We did not mind, our steps grew slow,
Or noticed when the bell stopped ringing,
Oh think of being late; but lot
When we had reached the gate the singing
Was over and the prayer was done—
The sermon fairly was' begun 1
Should we go in ? should we stay out?
Press boldly on, or turn about?
Tom led the way. and up the aisle'
I followed—all around were staring—
And here and there I caught a smile;
I tried to think I was not caring,
And yet I blushed, I know, and showed
A face that like a poppy glowed—
For every one seemed saying “ Kate,
We all know why you are so late.”
Another Sunday, come what will,
1 mean to be at church in season;
But to regret this morning still,
I trust I never shall have reason;
For should I wear a wedding dress
A year from now perhaps you’ll guess
What Tom said to me when, to-day,
We walked to church the longest way!
duced to a powder which is
soluble fn water and may
digested in pepsineT "Mixed witlTVArl-f°
ous kinds of meal, it forms a compound
that is alike compact and nutritive.
Experiments with blood as a food have
reminds me oi wnai tne coolies say j recent1y fc en made in ?evera l of the
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Significance of the Fingers.
The question wether the index finger
of the human hand is longer or shorter
than the third or “ring” finger does
not appear very abstruse, 5 yet Prof.
Eoker, in a paper on “Some Remarks
upon a Fluctuating Character in the
Human Hand,” published in “Archiv
fur Anthropologie,” is unable to come
to any definite conclusion. Previous
authorities differ on this point, and he”
therefore studied it in four aspects; 1,
in the hands of apes, especially anthro-
t R pomorphous apes; 2, in the lower races
of man; 3, in European man; and 4,
in art. He found that in apes the index
j. . finger is shorter than the ring, and
often considerably so, the greatest dif
ference, five-sixths of an inch, having
been found in a male chimpanzee.
Twenty-four negro men had a shorter
index finger, and one had the two fin
gers of the same length. Fifteen negro
women had a shorter index finger, in
three the two fingers were of equal
length, and in six the index was the
longer.
No decisive conclusions have been
arrived at in respect to Europeans, but
it appears probable that the index fin
ger is longer in women than in men.
Among men it is longer in the slight
than in short and thick persons. All
the measurements of human hands
were made by tracing the outline of
the hand laid down on a sheet of paper,
with the axis of the middle finger
placed upon a line drawn parallel to
the sides of the paper.
In all such matters we are apt to
turn fo the art productions of the
ancients as a criterion, and in this case
they do not fail us. “The Dying
; *4 Gladiator” has the index of the hand
,ti longer than the “ring finger.” In the,
i' “ Apollo Belvedere ” there is no differ-
.. ence. In the “Venus tie Medici.” the
“ Venus Pndica* at Rome, and in the Norway.
.nV*nss" hvPriSitelre, tliB index Sn-
--■ger ir the longer, thus repeating the
obiM rf^%pupon living women.
that the index fin
ger is relatively shorter in apes and
-negroes, 1 ahd relatively longer than the
t rwg imger-/n white women of good
- birth; Am. «at great artists have never
made a short index in a hand which
perfection—it is sug-
^^tj^Iojiger index finger re-
1 p^ebtealugher type of beauty, and
thfit fn this respect as in others the
female form, appears to be the purest.
about chestnuts and sweet potatoes.
These poor fellows who perform the
most toilsome and prolonged tasks
for a mere pittance, who “bear the
burden and the heat of the day,” in the
fullest sense of the expression, have a
hearty appreciation of good food.
Toiling as they do for daily wages that
would not purchase the food of a child
in our country, cheap food is the ne
cessity of their lives. Hence it is that
they feed largely upon sweet potatoes,
the cheapest of all edibles in Japan.
Chestnuts, which are known as “nine
mile nuts,” while not excessively dear,
are generally beyond the means of the
coolies. But they delight to fancy that
sweet potatoes are almost as good as
chestnuts, as they accordingly dub the
potato “eight mile and a half food,”
which makes it only half a mile short
of the chestnut A man who lives on
chestnuts can go nine Japanese miles
[about twenty-two and a half English
miles] in a day, while he who eats
sweet potatoes can go eight miles and
a half (twenty-one and a quarter Eng
lish miles), hence the names. Not
withstanding what seems to us to be
the weak and insufficient diet of the
Japanese laboring men, their endu-
rence and strength are truly wonder
ful. I have ridden sixty miles be
tween sun ahd sun in a jynrickisha
drawn by two coolies, and the day after
that I went about forty miles more
with the same two men. At the end
of the first day’s journey they did not
seem to be vhry fatigued. Immedia
tely after stopping at a tea-house for
the night they took a bath in water so
hot that I could not have washed my
hands in it, and after comfortably par
boiling themselves got out, took a heavy
meal of rice and dried fish, and then
sat up almost all night gambling and
drinking saki. On the eoldest days,
and even when there is snow on the
ground, you can see these fellows on
the street with no clothing save a thin
cotton shirt, a pair of pants of the same
material reaching to the knees, and
straw sandals. Nor do they seem to
be particulary cold, although a foreign
er would consider their costume barely
sufficient for a warm summer.
PARAGRAPHS OF THE PERIOD.
Wp have given up Charlie Ross and
Bill Tweed; hut see here! where's the
inventor of the Keeley motor?
. A lazy man says: Success seems to
solid residue which remains is then.re- composed of three ingredients, to
.. wit, good luck, energy and some more
. e , easily goodjuck.
Laziness is said to be one of the
causes of insanity. In the Virginia
bedlam there are two womenrand one
man who became Insane from indolence.
Nourishing-Powder.
Two novel kinds of flour or nourish
ing-powder have recently been brought
before the public, ahd, as they may be
destined to hold a prominent place in
the list of concentrated foods, attention
is directed to them. The first of these
is known as “fish flour,” and is now
mainly prepared in Norway. It con
sists simply of dried codfish thoroughly
desiccated and then ground in a mill.
It is furnished, of two qualities, coarse
and fine, and it is said that with it an
excellent dish of preserved fish can he
prepared in a few minutes. The fine
flour is used in the preparation of fish-
puddings—a dish greatly in favor in
The chief demand for
new product will, it" is thought, come
from those inland Roman Catholic
countries where fresh fish is rare. The
second artificially-prepared food pro
duct to which we have alluded is the
soluble extract of blood, as prepared
by a recent formula proposed by Le
Bon. Where blood is evaporated by
ordinary methods, the residue, when
ground, forms a powder as insoluble as
sand, and hence possessed of no nutri
tive properties. Th i process suggested
by Le Bon, and which affects the
removal of the water in the blood
European armies with the best results
the chief objection to its use being
found in the difficulties attending its
preservation. In this powdered state
it may be kept secure from decompo
sition for longer periods, and hence
may he found of great value to both
soldier and invalids.
Irish Bulls.
Miss Edgeworth, in her essay on Irish
bulls, says it has never yet been decided
what constitutes a bull, hut she gives
illustrations. One is: “ When I first
saw you, I thought it was you, and now
I see it is your brother.” Carleton, in
his address on the Irish-peasantry, says
that Miss Edgeworth wrote her essay on
what does not and never did exist; and
he says that the source of the error in
reference to the Irish bull arises from
the fact that their language is in a
transition state. A bull is a contra
diction in terms; an assertion of some
thing which is denied in the very terms
of the assertion, or the denying of
something which is asserted by the very
terms of the denial. Here are some
examples: I met you this morning,
and you did not come; I’ll meet you
to-morrow morning, whether you come
or not. Oh, if I had staved in that
climate until now, I would have been
dead two years ago. Why, by the
powers, I can see no reason why women
should not become medical men if they
want to. During the Irish rebellion an
Irish paper published this item: A
man named Pat was run over by a pas
senger train and killed on Wednesday'.
He was injured in a similar way two
years ago. Then there are blunders
of omission and commission in legisla
tion, that have their cause away hack
where men vote heedlessly and care
lessly, when it is not sterling honesty
and purity of conscience that is sought
in a candidate, but a subserviency to
party ties.
r-.. The Chinamen in Massachusetts are
out-growing their superstitions, and
now allow their folks to be buried in
American cemeteries.
Ax exchange says “ the only cure
or intemperance is more water and less
whisky;” but there is yet another and
a better cure—more water and no
whisky.
A Milwaukee woman is applying
for a divorce because her husband al
ways spreads his ears over her when
he is asleep, instead of hanging them
over the headboard, as other Milwau
keeans do. -
Miss #ouzens, the leading female
lawyer of the west, says that only the
tadpoles and minnows of the profes
sion have opposed her, and that the
great lawyers have hidden her “God
speed.” 5 ... . >
Oneida county, Idaho, says the
Wheeling Standard, has a lake a mile
and a half in length so teeming with
trout that they appear along the shore
in one continuous school. The lake
was recently shown to the whites by
Indians."
How Long to Milk Cows.
Some cows settle this question for
their owners, and such—unless they
are fine, large animals and calf-raising
is the chief use of the cow—should be
fatted and killed at four or five years
old. or sold. As a general rule, it is a
poor cow that does not need to be dried
off before calving. As to how little
milk pays for the trouble of milking,
that depends upon the number of cows
and the amount required for familv
use or for sale. If the milk is worth
four or five cents a quart, it will pay to
milk every cow that will average two
quarts a day; if less than that quantity
is obtained, I would advise to dry off
the cow.
The practice of half-feeding dry
cows is a •poor system. All cows that
are worth keeping should be well kept;
and any animal with young should be
as well fed as when giving milk,
this! though the feed need not be so rich or
| oleaginous as'when the milk is set for
cream or used'for butter-making. The
rapid taking-on of flesh at this period is
an indication of sound health.
If you expect to have a fine calf,
stop milking at all events six weeks
before the cow itill come in again.
Some cows will give milk the year
round if you allow them, and it is hard
to dry them before they make a bag
anew, but this should always be done.
It will be found profitable to feed cows
well, and curry them twice a week
thoroughly,
At the Charity “bawl” in New
York one lady had her hair in fleecy
puffs like the flax spun by Marguerite;
another bevy of lovely. girls' were like
a “ bunch of rosebuds ;” a lady wore a
dead white silk, embroidered with seed
pearls, which strikes ns as rather a
meloncholy combination, while a fourth
wore rubies “red as pigeon’s blood."
Yes, the times are indeed hard, and
charity covers a multitude of jewels.
At one of the stations on the Har
lem railroad a day ar tWo ago a very
large man failed to secure a ticket be
fore entering the cars. Refusing to
pay the additional charge levied by
the company, or to leave the tram, the
conductor, aided by two brakemen, un
dertook to assist him to the door. The
passenger offered no resistance, but
the two, with their combined efforts,
were unable to move him. He finally
told the conductor that he had eanied
his money, and handed over five cents,
which was the amount asked.
A lady ape died in Dresden reef n tly :
As Director Schopf (the director of
the gardens) leaned over his favorite,
the ape drew him toward her, placed
her arm around the neck of" her friend
and looked at him for some time with
clear and tranquil eyes ; she then kissed
him three times, with short intervals
between each salute, motioned to be
laid on her couch, gave her hand to
Schopf—as though bidding farewell to
a companion of many happy years—
and slept never to wake again.”
School Life.—Early school life
should do mueh to guard against the
rudeness and coarseness which turn
domestic life into bitterness, and pre-
]«are the way for outbreaks of violence.
A constant stream of refining influence
should flow through the minds of the
pupils. Everything favorable in the
reading book, in history, or in the inci
dents of the school-room should be
utilized for this end. By all means at
our command let us seek to refine and
elevate. Our aim must be to give a
softening tinge to the character, like
the mellow bloom on the dark, rich
clusters of the vine. Thus a higher
life is in some measure \ reached by a
child, and he wields a gentler influence,,
cheeking the aspirations of - life.