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■witvrn\; nonm:t, •* cow; •‘I flaw : iil • • ■ ! m*. ' ** Whla>. v h -tie, daughter, ainl you ahall liava b horn",' 1 •*I never nhiKt'od, n ib* , and cannot now of conrao. ‘ •‘TVhiet-, Aauphter, and you -that! nave a d><w ** Hoyt run I wht* tin, raotlior? To try would mate jue wo*- 1 . “Wblftlr, w!; *.!!♦*, dNiipliter. and you whillhiva a call;*’ *• I ru)iot whittle. mother, to try would m.ifc* tn i ugh. - "Vbi-!,. , whi >. daughter, and you -liall ha?a a and u’ “ 1 A ; t v ):. v .... u u-H, I anuot n.a! *■ ;* gn." * 4 Whittle. wliU l t, <S* lighter, and you ahull bate a man;'' - ** X nevor wliint Jed. mother, Inn now I know I (an." Ajd J.ke h merry rnock;ng bird, t' wlr.sMc aha bo g*n, Then nt to ran t tliu }?rctiiiMd prize, and wh.rtJM an ahe ran. A Spinning Wheel The old house stood in an intre qu< riled lnne; how infieqnented was evident from the grass-grown wheel trm'k in tho middle and the half-effaced foot path nt one aide. Tt had a rnolnri cboly aspect, the old house, as it guzcid out' nt ihe Held a with its blinded an<i closely-shut windows. A long, iui trimmeil hrinr-rose tapjied with its riot one withes <>u the front door, the littlo yard was choked with weeds, two or three missing panes lind been mendixi by squares of pasted paper ; tlmra was just repair enough to avert a look of squalor and not sufficientqnsintuuMi to achieve Ihe pietureßquo. Hlill, the yel low bun ned the swocl sir of Heptembwr batlied l.li' shablmiess and lout a peace ful sir to the spit, and the Mine blue sky arched above which overhangs earth's fairer faces. Nature knows no favorites. Her free bounty is shed for all, and her sweetness roaches aud com nmnicatfs itself to uulikeheat nooks. Forlorn as the old liouae was, it worn s delightful look to one pair of eyes— those, uutm-ly, of a young woman who wa.-. drivingdown the lauo iu h light country wagon, with a companion of Lor own age and sc* beside her. They wore city girls, lodging lor a few weeks in a neighboring village, and this was one of many drives they had taken together, partly tor enjoyment of each other and the scenery, and partly with a view to possible hric-a-brae, of which one. of ♦ hem was mi enthusiastic collector. Tlmy hadtekon tlm turn into tho lane with the expectation of tinding n human haliita tion beyond, Hini whon the old house caught the eye of Mattie Mason, the bric-a-brac, faueinr, an exclamation of rapture broke from her lips. The other •prl did uot notice it at first. Hite warn dreamily reperiling the liedgii-roir*, and hununiug to herself: Wild rose. do'iuati-Jy flushing All Hie border of tUe (tale, Ait thou 1 iku a pals etieok Idnshm, V Or lilte a rwl uliovk ' “Well, Mattie, wlml is it ?” as her ab straction was rebuked by n sharp poke from the elbow of her companion. “Oh! tic ter, Mm 1 Hindi a delicious old roo.-t ! II looks ns it it were built in tlm year one. The very house for and lroiis nnd Inuss e.iindlcatickH and spin uing-wle., .s. Wiiat'll you trot that I don't find tlie spinning-wheel of uiy drcauih in that very garret which you see up there ? And to think that no one told us that there was a house down this way !’’ " It docs look apimiing-wlioely," said Hii'Ur, it 11 a uh her friend tliriini the wagon toward a aide door, slwn waa viaildo a row of milk-pans set out to air. The sound of wheels, hushed and veiled aa it was by tbe spreading Crriiva (*"-- J •* - 1 ...,p wit in ii, for blinda rattled and one or Ip heads pet-pt-d out of windows. Ity tl time tbe homo bad chocked himself at the top of tin* grassy rise, the door had opened, and booonie, as Mat tie afterward expressed it, “ densely populated," no lens tlmu throe woman aud one old man crowding nt once to enjoy the unwonted spectacle of two young ladies and a wagon. Two of the women ware good ■peciueua of that hearty, though tooth less and wrinkled, old age so often aocu in the Nov? England eoantry regions; ♦ho third, tt spare, shrinking little creat ure, did not aeoni of the name genus. Mattie train and forward, HI 1 e was always the pokcKvvouiau of the two, mat her voice, as alio spoke, softened itself into the pretty, coaxing tone which she was Accustomed to employ when tliera was an end to nerve, or anew acquaintance to tic pleased. n Uo"d afternoon," said the sweet Tnioc, “wo stopped as we went by to ask it by chance von happen to have in your garret an old luahioucd tlur wheel winch >uu uu longer ueo V * "Well, yea, f eullu-rlnto therois one," rcidvd one of the women. " le if pretty sunilt, you knows and made of dark wood V " " h, ’te. kind of small. ** "I wonder if f might go np stairs and see it if-.-dueincly). 1 want juat such an old wheel. Would you aoll yours it it turns out what I vvantf ” You mo u not ak,ina lumt that - f I the man,’' renniikefh the ot her wom an, inning paid which oonoeasiou to ta, she turned sharply mid said to the noble ei, it i.io indicated, in a poreiup tor,i mice: ■ • You fjo along tip and light a candle, mi’s she can see when she gets theiv"v- a lnaudotu which *vthe man*' oli V'd vv if ti docility. Thou, turning to Jlatt; : “ You can go up, if you've a i in (i to tml you'll find it kind of dusty, 1 guess. " "Oh, I don't mind dust in the Icaml." laughed Mattie, who adored old garrets, amt wav n t often able’to win ndl'iuietv into ooe w ith ao little tioulde na this. She and Hosier jumped out; the old woguttt tied tlit lumas to tiro foace t>v his reins, and the whole party proceeded in doors and np a narrow-vvailed stair case, with sharp, square turns, to the upper entry. ‘ Here wes a put us,', during which llnv old man joint'd them again, a lighted tallow dip in his hand. "1 guess well have to go through yottr room. Miss Treadgitr, if it won't put you nit." said one of the eld r women. **Oh, go right in. Mv sister won't mind, 1 think," was the reply, in a shy, hesitating voice. They ps®d, accordingly, into* large, lovr-ctilod room, villi iruMo*son three *!<]* s*t in h *• lean-to" roof. K WDM furnished with some attempt at comfort. A small ojen-grte stove stood in Ibo chtoincv, there s lugh d'a, k> and rook mg-cluut owwad with oUltaslnoned “jxitch,“ * bod-quilt of th same, a cheat of aherry-nood drawr-i, and, on* '■i|i:ar< of faded m out- • tin* windows, a claw-legged table of 'it;: p dished ma hogany, Wore which Mani. M ison came to “point," much * a t i dog doc* when it detects the prmeiu'i of hidden' game. “What a dear little table, ’ (theories!; “aueh s tan nr, ddfsaliionnl shape. Do yon na It ranch I Wouldn't you hit* to sell it ?*’ t' Oh ’’ Usgtui the spsw uvuo woman, in a deprecating voice, but, as if evoked by the words, out from behind the bed ran another woman, with oddly shilling ere*. She came swiftly, with hands tightly looked together, and with a motion as if to embrace the table, cried: “Oh, no! oh, no! Don’t take away my ill He light-stand. It’s the only one I've got. I’ve, bad it always, I couldn’t bear to lose rny light-stand. Don’t let them, Hexy, don't let them!" “Hush, Harriet; hush, dear!" said the quire little woman, evidently the “ Hexy " addressed. “The lady won't. She don't mean nothing by what she said.” But still the fixed gate continued, and the imploring voice went on: “Oh don’t let them, you won’t, will yon, Hexy? They've taken away so many things. Leave me my litrle light stand!” “ Yes, dear, yen, dear,” said the sister, soothingly, while Mattie, discomfited and repentant, echoed her assurances: “ I wouldn’t rob yon of your tabic for the world. Pray don’t suppose ao for a minute. I was only asking from curios ity. Don't. feci badly—please don't!” Hut still the pitiful pleading continued, r.cMvli in o lower key: “Don’t, don’t,” ill tho elder woman pluc . her sleeve, fid ivliiqien-d: “ You’d better come away. Hhe ain’t •iglitly in her .senses, poor ereetnr, and ion’t know wloit she says”—and Mattie, *lad to cscajic from a jmene which was ,i coming jraiiiful, willimzlyJollowed to . farther room, wliioli proved to be a >/t, vrlieno- jireseiitly the old woman’s alee was heard demanding: “Now whatever can have taken that wheel ? I sis' it just t lie other year—that time that .Ichiol’s folk* wav here, I guess; it was twelve year, is it?—well, ’twus here thou I’m most sure, hut I don’t seem able to lay my hand on it now.” Hester, mean white, loss ahsorlved in a special in- I rest timii her friend, lingered with the sisters, the older aud feebler of the two still hovering over her property, as though she feared it might yet 'at si atened from her by fraud or violence. “ TANARUS ahe ill ? ” whispered Hester, when *t last the poor preature had lieen soothed into comparative quiet and jxr vitiulod to nit down in the frocking :hai r. “No, uot worse than she often in. It's just the excitement. Nothing wor ries her like the idea of losing tlie fur nitur’. ’Twits that upset lier in the first place, you know—” and “ Hexy ” gave a troubled sigh. “That? Yon mean ” “Oh, all the talk uliout breaking us up and soiling off the things, and send ing ns to tho poor-house. Tliey never did if, hut the idoa was enough to break Harriet ah down. She had kept up heart till then. Hlio was a master-hand fordoing uud encouraging, aud when I got wav down she would always kind of jiull me up and make me take a hopeful view as well ns she coaid. As long as we cqnld live on hi the room we had been used to always, and have our own tilings about uh, and have jnst work enough to keep us goia’, ahe was satis-’ fied and so was [. ’Twos home—-that wits what Harriet always said; and we both thought a heap of it—we was to gether, Us i, and of course that counted for a good ileal.” ‘•Where was this home of yours?" naked Hester. She had seated herself, and her gentle voice and sympathetic eyes tempted the speaker on. “ It was down to the North End. Ali son street it used to Is- called, but tin y’ve cut away uud changed every thing, and there ain't no such street now.” “The North Entl of Boston, da you 111 l ? ” "Yes, the North End. We’re Boston h mi, mid m> vvns nil our folks, ft used to he a real nice street when f was h lit tle girl. 1 can recollect it some; there was ever ho ninny big houses, and rich people lived in them. My mother took in i-civing then, and Harriet and mu helped, though wo was pretty little to do milch, but work was plenty, and wo got on well. Then tini, h begun to change, and the rich people all moved away iiud poor people moved in, and one by one wo lost all our customers. Most of thorn hail gone to a great way oft', where it was too fur for them to send, and—they kind of forgot uh, I auppose. It wasn't no more than natural. Stdl it came hard on Harriet and me. Mother was dead then, there wasn't no one left but us two. Hewing was the only tiling we knew how to do, and at last there was hardly any sewing to he had.’ "Couldn't you have moved too, and j, :i a little u ear or to your customers ?” - ' That was just what folks told ua. But. we didn't aeem to ace our way clear to do it. Wo was at t i died to our room for one thing. Harriet thought " heap of that room. We hud lived them al ways, you ace. Some folks don't ndud moving, but Harriot always said alia couldn't understand what they were made of. Everything stood juat where it did when wo was little things grow ing up with our mother, and we sort of clung to the spot. Then, moving waits luiu v, and it was stl uncertain how we should aloug after we moved. The folks wo used to work for got kind of scattered, and w- ’ 't know anv of tlm ncw-faaliioio- .of sewing. All our work v ck. If there was anything lid id not abide it whs a machiii. av said the man who invented du’t got .any jnior womau-udks >clongm' to him, that *h* w as sure." "It was ntry hard for you." " Yes, ’iwvie. ft got so had toward. Ike that 1" r laws* l) lii r.-<- nt<-iitti-> wo didn't lwv<- any work at all, not a single stitch. Mis’ OliaudW. that was a Hlivicvv— diii you ever know her, she’s a heauiifnl Indy?—she had sort of kep in with ns always, bat slic’d gone up to the mountinga tht summer, and there wasn't liolxxly etasttiat wanted auvdljn' done. Wo'd always countod a gmul deal on Mis’ Ohandlar- ahe was real kind to iih always—and whan alie went away we didn't know-which way to turn. 1 don't know how wo should have got along at all if it hadn’t lieeu for Mis' Ware. Do von know bar? She's another real fn-mtiful l vdy. She was keeptn' house that time for old Mr. Attics, up ou Bea >■ ei In!!, and ajuv’d taken charge of a " District " tor’aipeli, and so she came actpimutcd with Harriet and me. She us* and lo hnug u things most every week. No, 1 can't think how wa should ha.a doMwrithout Mis’ Warn," “Tin* Ijord sent bet* that's inet the long and -short >;f it," proceeded Hxt, her voice choking a little. " You see, 1 fell sick, and Ftarrie* she got ad wore out taking car*of ice, and w got ontof everything, and at toot th* overseer of the poor owma. and ha judged ’twuu't no uae onr trying to keep along any fur ther. We must sell off what we'd got, he said, and just go into the almshouse with the town poor and lie supported. I was settrn' up by that time, so I see him as well s Harriet. He didn’t mean to be unkind, l gue-s, hut lie said it kind of hard. I nqvpnse he couldn’t re atise what one's feelings was, and he didn't make it sound no easier than it was. After ha had gone awy Harriet turned kind of wild. She couldn't say a , ward, but walked up and down the room whispering to herself and wringing her bands. I cried till I was all tired out, then I went to sleep ; when 1 woke up she was gone! ” “Gone! where? ’ “ I didn’t know any more than yon do now. I was too weak to sit up long, and I couldn’t stir to find her. ft seemed as if the end of everything had come. I mistrusted the Lord that night. It seemed as if He didn’t know and didn’t care what beanie of us two poor cree tnj>, atid had just let us go. But there ' I needn’t ! Tt was real wicked and faith less in roe, for we always had been helped somehow, and we was then. The very next morning, by !l o'clock, conn- Mis' Ware. He sent Ler of course; and when she hoard what happened, she just went straight out to the police, and they writ and telegraphed id tout the country, and tlie third day they found Harriet.” “Oh, where was she?” cried Hester, thrilled with sympathy. “ Way out to tin back of Milton hill. What took he? that way I don’t know nor ever did. She don’t remember noth ing about it. She hod jnst wandered on and on, trying to get away from her trouble, poor thing, as if any of us coi ’ do that" A pause. Through the open door of the loft Hester beard Mattie saying: “ Yes, it iB quite a nico old wheel. What wilt you take for it? ’’ arid the old maid's canny voice in reply : “ Wall—l don’t know just what wheels is a fetchin’ now.” “ Mis’ Ware didn’t stop there, neith or," resumed Hexy. “ When she found how bad we felt about it, rhe told the overseer of the poor that she’d *ee we was supported somehow, without cornin’ on the city. I don’t rightly kuow how it was fixed, bnt, Home of Mis' Wnrc’s rich friends helped, and it was arranged we should stay on at the old place. Then the next year they cut the new street, and we moved out here. Mis’ Ware, she did it all. 'Twa* better for Harriet, she thought, and nil our mvn tilings was fetched out, to make her feel homo-iike. Hhe’* a good deal better sine*. 81ic likes to look out of the win dow iu summer time, and some days •lie's almost cheerful and like her old self—no, not thst, but roova like than [ ever thought she would be. 1 ’ "Itis a pleasant, quiet stop for her Are the people kind to you? ” “Well, yes. They are kind enough,as folks go. TlieyTe glad of the hoard, nnd I help along a Tittle, aud wo ret on very well. Harriet hesn’t ever got over being strongs to them, and I don’t sup pose she ever will; but ahe don't ever go down stairs and they hardly ever conn up, so it don’t much matter. .Sitting here alone with me, she don’t realize lmlf tho time that sho isn't in the old place, and that quiets tier mind more than anything else does." The bargaining in the loft grew loader. “ Half a dollar was what a friend of mine gave for one tho other day.' “Half a dollar! That don't seetu much for a wheel that cost’s much as sl7 wlieu it was new.” “ When it was n*w ! Yes ! But yon can't expect to use thing fifty years and t.hon get ns much us you gave for it! Now I'll tell you,” continued the little screw ; “ it's such a nice little wheel that I'll give you a dollar for it. That is twice ns much ns my friend gave.” “ Wail—a dollar scorns fairer,” in a convinced tone. Another moment, and iu they trooped, Mattie with a .lust y spindle fast in lier hand, tlie old man bearing the wheel and its appurten- OfWIUM “Come, Hosier—we must be getting home,” announced Mattie, with a look which meant that (the judged it expe dient to Iks ofl' with her prize without in. judicious delay. Hester understood, and rose to go. Bump, bump went the spinning-wheel against the stain. She lingered for a word of farewell. “ Thank yon so much for telling me about ypur sister. I wish there was lomcthirig I could do to give her or you • pleasure. Is there ?” "Oh, thank you,” with a flush of gralefnl surprise, “no, indeed, wo dou’t uant anything at all now. Folks lnu been so kind aince Harriet broke down.” She sobbed outright for u moment. “ 'Tin too bad iu me, only—only, I some times tbiuk how different twould bp if only someone had found out and helped a little 1 >ofora—-she—inoko—down.” The words rang in Hester’s ears as they drove home iu the spicy, dewy t," i tight. “Ah, dear !” she sighed to her self- :i great wave of pity :<ud concern a weeping over her hei.it—“ *hv can't |a*ople know—why don’t they'"- and just give the little lift, the small help, at, the right moment, which means so HiHch before and so little alter the Har riots of ins world 'break down?”’ The Yalua of Mental Tension. A certain degree of tension is iudis pdlisshl* to the cry and healthful dis charge of mental functions. Like the national instrument oi Scotland, tin mind drones woefully and will discourse j most dolorous music, unless nn expan ; siv* and resilient from within supplies f th* basis of quickly responsive action, j No good, great, or enduring work can lie safely accomplished by bra hi-furor with out a reserve of strength sufficient to give buoyancy to ths exercise, and it 1 may so say, rhythm to the operations t>f the mind. Working at high-ptcasnre may lie bad, but. working nt low-pres auiva is incomparably worse. Asa niat ter of experience, a sense of weanness commonly precede* collapse from "over* work;" not mere bodily or nervous fa tigue, but a more or less conscious dis taste for the business in baud, or perhaps for some other subject of thought or anxiety which obtrudes itself. It is the offensive or irritating burden that breaks the back. Thoroughly agreeable employ ment, however engrossing, stimulates the recuperative faculty while it taxes the strength, and the supply of nerve force seldom falls short of the demand. When a feeling of disgust or weariness is not experienced, this may be hceausc the compelling sense of duty has oreshed seif out of thought. Nevertheless, if Che will ia not plcaaurahlv excited, if it rulca like a martiuct, without affecriou or interest, them is no verve, and, like a complex piece of maehaiery working with friction and heated bearing*. tiro mind wears itself away and break down ensue*. lad us look a little clostiv t this matter. Popular Sciettee Monthly. Lit* is oiv, >d into three terms—that which was, which in aud winch will Iv*. la t us learn from til* |>ast to profit by the present, and from the present to live lsitter for the future. " Pat. my boy, we must sll of ns die onve." Tl-.e sick man turned over in a disgusted hams of mind, and replied : "TLaf's just what bothers me. If we eoulii only die half a dozen times I wouldn't worry about this.” It takfts a cook to do things up brown. True, out ths orfan-gruidar does things **■ Frank ITattoft. Of Frank Hatton, First Assistant Post master General, Private Dalzell writes as follows, in the New York Mali. ”1 was surprised to find that Frauk Hatton is only thirty-five years old ; his aunt Mary told me so, and she knows. Frank learned the trade of a practical printer, in bis father's office, at Cadiz, Ohio, when a boy. It was from there, in 1861, when but fifteen years of age, that Frank ran away from home and enlisted as a drummer boy in the 15th Ohio. Captain Bostwick tele graphed to Frank’s father to kuow whether he should send him home or swear him in, and tlio patriotic old fel low replied ironically, “Swear him in,” and it was accordingly done, and he served till the close of the war, mak ing the historic inarch with Sherman to the sea. When lie came back from the war, dissatisfied with the hills and old familiar haunts, Frank went West, and finding the Mount Pleasant Journal for sale, induced his father to sell out the Cadiz Republican and purchase it, and the whole family removed to lowa. At first Frank, his brother Burt, Rev. McAdams, who had married Frank’s sister G. and Rev. Brody, who had married Vs sister Margaret, all hud charge ot ~ Jo ■ nal, but soon finding it unprofitable for him, Frank sold out to Ins brother and brothers-in-law, and going to Burlington purchased l inter est in the Jinn ivti/e, where lie made his fortune and this quani Obinet position together. “Frai k mailed a Miss Snyder, a sober and dieceet young lady, of fine, appearance Bt.dl farming. manners, aud the fruit of diarniarriftge is a little boy, now five or six j ears old, wlto will ac company them lo Washington and con tribute much t* oolite society there this winter. “ Frank never lived here, at the home of his father's youthful days. He was liorn at Cambridge iu 1847. He was n special p'trlcgn of John A. Bingham, and from him probably Caught his political ardor and ambition. “ Frank Hatton is a small man pliysl oally, alx.ut five feet eight, and weighs may lie 150 pounds or less. He is a blonde of a darker type than riorum on, wears a mustacha amt shaves tlie of his round, meriy face closely. lie has blue eyes, an intellectual forehead, ana a pleasant face, lie is a ready conversa tionalist of the convivial hail fellow well met Western t ’pe, and knows all the difference* be< ! ev. “.!. 1 lh.e cut tobaccos, ci. mu artistically swiilde * case n* cigars, or upon occasion untie aeutcously over a bibulous basko ■“ good as anybody. Ills character b,ok lo < hthlhnqcl is with out it blot "*■ Veniish, and even free from those ligh ’ r escapades from which many a more jbunihhuz youth than his has not been vholly exempt. He hits due business tai' and is ft ready stump speaker. ” Wrestling With f’hissic Texts. • The story of the circus man who paid a collegian BJt for providing “ mono hippie aggregation” as a properly im pressive title fot his show, and then died of a broken he.irt at the end of the sea- ' son, when ho learned the true meaning thereof, is a story which seems likely to enjov continued popularityin the follow ing form : “A Boston man had just been showing nil the isights of that charming city to a New Aprker. ‘And now,’ said ho, ‘ toll me honestly, is uot this city thoroughly unique?’ ‘ Yes, indeed,’ was> the reply, ‘ unv , one, er/uus, horse.’ With this t ay be compared the re mark of the Htiimmnre at examination .ff if Tin V>/ I'•••■.* 1 '•••■.* I'ic .■ *• would lone his equilibrium ; because,’ ns he explained to an awe-stricken Fresh man, “the word comes from equus and libritm, and therefore signifies a horse of book*.” I’erhapa it vas the same Freshman who, in atruggli ig with an ode of Horace, said: “(.Vice Mvccmus equ<, Mtecenas, take care of you: horse ; and was favored with tlie remark: “Oh, no, Mr. 0., you pm too much attention to tlie horse.” it woe another Freshman to whom the instructor slid: “You seem to bo evolving the translation from your inner consciousness;” and who responded : “Well, Professor, i read last evening that ‘by faith Enoch was translated,’ aud l thought 1 would try it on Horace.” "Don’t yen think it would have been necessary to melt her first?” was the perhaps nardombl* inquiry of the Pro ftMSor when a htedloss youth twisted the text to say: “And tliey poured Agrip pina into tho sea” “Whose brother?” was the question put to a lady student who construed /-.y/o 1 1 fritter atnbulairtu*, “I and brother walk nnd that lady student absently responded: “Oh. most anybody's,” to tlis great glee of her coeducational comrade*. “Champagne, ’ was the reckless reply of n Yule mau to the iuqniry : *• In tile expression qui Jm/iii fui/i-ens cendat, what duct rinni.i f’lrjit m mean?” Wounds of flic Heart. It is generally sitpjiosed that wounds of the lioAi t kill immedintelv, atid a cor -I<>K poll dent haA sent to use a stag’s heart with tbe left auricle practically , milit ated and the upper half the left ventricle torn completely through by a bullet; so that three Augers can !>e readily passed through the wound into the cavity. Not withstanding the extent of the injury, “the stag ran about sixty yards, the . hist teu yards np hoi.” The fact is th&t wounds of the b irt are but seldom im mediately fatal, ii ever so. AVo know of no ease of absolutely instantaneous death from e v n.jd of *lie heio-i, in 0...- part or however ext ansi ve. The experi eoe in the battle-field corresponds with', that of tlio sportsman, who never s.iw a deer shot through tlir heart that, did not run some distance. Wounds of the apex kill comparatively slowly, in from one hour upward ; aud in one caae men tioned by John Bell, in which the ni>ex was completely severed from the rest of the organ by u sword cut, the man lived twelve hours Indeed, out ot twenty nine collected eases of injury to the heart, only two were fatal within forty eight hours, and in tlio others death re sulted in periods varying from four to twenty-eight days, boeovery may take ptac* even when the trouu.l is extensive, for a bullet has boeu found imbeded in the substance of the In-Art alter n lapse of six years from the date of the injury, the patieut having died from a disease of an orgiu. in no way connected with tli lesion. Some little time elapses befose the bl.xxl wholly esc .p- s from or fails to enter the cavities, amt the w alls continue to eontract aud propel some of it into the vessels for s much louger period than is usually th.night to lie the case.— Laurel. Thk 400,000 ws\ candles in the 700 rooms of the imperial palace at B'tltn are instantaneously lightest by a siugle match, the wicks being connected with a thread of gun cotton which, ignited .r' one end, spriugs to its work throughout the house. Mit Fooc ssid to his wife: "1 will coma right back." The wife gently re si ided . “ Se* that you cuae hack rigiik’’ GOSSIP FOR THE LADIF.S. Tlirw Calve*. Bh raimnurff’d to AAolphva, while hereyefi war* all u-d renin, ... . . . “I h'tar Hie marry .iiogle of tne pe-ldler of ioe neam ; ” , . . . iiut fihfi lof >k fri ac Mack aa thtiii'let, *nd BffT raph mft oil explode, WUn he loaraed the bell was jingled by a hener down the road. Tlien said A dolphin to hr, with a twinklft in hia eye* . . * “|£y Jovp, yr.u Arete not far from right, I pray you do u*i igh; ' Although the merry, tinkling b€ll wa hot the ped d’ftr'M pot, We’il folio•-• i;p tiiik joung bovinft, and heifer nice cream yet.’’ Till) liolfur •udrteuly turued tail —this tale in strictly “Jliso'n.’ lee cream,friend.,” .aktslrt, “buthere are hiirus f.r tivo. ,; r 'lbsfairci, Ilia not fancy thaw—it certainly nas roiiab ; HU6(y!.l u.- • lauutii—Ad >l|*bas hvtatiice servats. sure enough, ftisstiair. Love vv ithout a kiss would be like the harp without the hand, the rainbow without its hue; the brook without its babble; the lsudscapo without its color; the tea rose -sweetest flower for scent that blows—without its odor; the bore alis without its variations ; poetry with out rhythm ; spring without sunlight ; a garden without foliage, or marriage without love. The young woman whose ideal traohes her to recoil from it kiss cheats tho lover of tho joys of loving wid does not deserve the devotion of a manly heart. She may live up to the dining-room dado and the sideboard bric-a-brac, but she wiLl never prove a congenial wife, —Philadelphia Times. “11l llaalr.” A motherly-locking woman carefully handed the stamp-clerk at the postoifice a letter marked “in baste,” and in quired if there wns auy extra charge for writing thnt on. “Ob, none at all.” “ Flow soon will the letter go out ?” “In about forty minutes.” “No Boonerthan that?” “Well, wo might hire a special train and get it off in about t w enty minutes. “ Would it be too much trouble ? ” “Oh, none at all.” Hhe thought for a moment, turned the letter over three or tour times, anu anally said ; “I guess I won’t ask you to Jiire a special train, but if you will be kb and enough to telegraph my sister that I have written her a letter to tel! her that I can’t conic till Monday, nnd to be at the tlapot to meet ine, nnd. that mother didn’t go to Toledo after all, I shall be ever so much obliged. Good morning.” —hr Ira > f Free Press. nqinraliniK hr n NrHiiiliimvisii ilsrriasv. Prep* rations fnf a wedding feast be gin weeks beforehand, aud are so exten sive that M. l)u Gtittillu was utterly amazed at the quantity nf.solids and liquids that he saw stored %way • against an approndiing marriage feast. Invi tations to \vedil|igs'af ' -sent feifi well in advance of the flippy day, so that the guests may ptepare for two or three days’ absence from home ; ami the poor est person invited i" uevtif without a wedding garment. Tlie happy "couple eat, drink and dunce with everybody, and it sconu never to have occurred to the people to inquire how they do it. There is a limit to the endurance of the native head and stomach, and this generally is found on tlm third day; then the guests, on bidding good-by to the bri-le, tender their wedding pres-, ents, which ahvuya consist of money, aud aie deposited, without being ex amined, in a box whioli tie bride wears atiu r side. How many American girls l . ; ' .....rl , .’.. <'i. i'if.,, i. similar custom might prevail here can not cosily be estimated, hut all of them will understand why there are but few bachelors iu the land of the midnight sun. Long as are the wedding festivi ties, those of Christmas far,exceed them, for feasting and fun are industriously kept up from Christmas eve to Twelfth night, and quaint and charming are some of Hie attendant ceremonies.— Harper's Magazine. Terms in t w by Tinrriril I'mple. Tiie Hii-iton Herald thinks the epi thets used by husband and wife toward each other are an unconscious revelation of the true nature of the personal char acter and of the true nature of the affec tion subsisting between them. It says : When a woman addresses her partner as "Hubby,” or “My dearest liubby,” lie may possibly like it if lie can bear it, hut most men would like to hear almost anything else. One fears that different terms of address may follow, which rep regent nnotlior iuiahU On A/tlici hand, when nniiin addressesliisspouae ns 1 Wifoy,” il i- almost imposiblo to avoid tliinkiiig of ‘Doggy," and there is an uuplea-ant feeling of sickness at hearing the word. Rut when-one hears a hus band address his wife as “Queenie,” which is said to bo tlie word used by one of the most distinguished au thors of New England in address ing his better half, it seems ns if the wife had her proprjr place iu his affections. The word i.,y~ nressive ; it grants the superiority vf| • it en thrones her in his homo M *ieou trasl is tin reserved tor f ruse holds. Il is always * * and “Mrs. Smith,” anil oue , itlv that ho may disturb uigniiy of that h'liise. Such severe propriety, however*, e.in Imrdly endure tin iimova t>ns ot children, li is “ mamma” and “papa” wiiii-h.softens one’s feelings, aud then they grow i-ito the more iesp,n-ta ble terms, "father’’ and “mother.” until ih- • v. ife enlist lie husband "father,” and the husbaud calls his wife “mother.” Where there are no children, and it is always *'Mr.”ar.d “Mrs.,” there is a m.e! ion in the household, and iovo has esciped through tho window, like Noah’s dove, in search of a now life. I hen 11 o: e are the m-veiviv homely terms which ohe finds in nte by Clwf ley s f.irher toward bis wife, the woman saving “nivnmu,” or simply “man.” the husband addressing the partner of bis toils simply ns “ wife” or “woman,” and yet, when there is a smile on the hardy 'aces, the words are wonderfully freight and with meaning. After all, there is nothing like simplicity and honesty bet ween husbaud and wife. five anil Four tern. There ore two perio-is in the moral and intellectual development of u girl which cause the profonndcst anxiety to a mother. At n years old, or there abouts. the period of babyhood is past, while the period of giilbood is not vet feaeheu, anti, between the two. comes a time of anarchy aud cliaos. The little soul is now bursting its shackles and trying to readjust itself to new condi tions. The child is ceasing to boa mere pet and plaything, and i< beginning to live an individual life. Nothing is more common than to - e * docile, well trained child suddenly develop, without, mo. ipp. •- it reason, a willfulness and in il- ’c 1 u lion entire 1v at variance wi*h its previous habits. The mother, who has been dr,-aruing of a sweet daughter whoist. walk beside her all her days, making lite h-agrant aud beautiful toiler by sharing with her all her yonthful hopes, and jovs, and trusts, turns hoart- A iot r you may art vx, but aa old horse you uver eaa. sick at (he'EaughtinesCof the half-fledged termagant. For it is the good, cherubic little girl who iisuaiiy Manifests tb change ; a spoiled child is 90 tlriroUgli lv disagreeable all the while Dm 7 accession of badness is not noticeable A groat deal of self-condemnation and unbappv foreboding would be spared the mother if she would only recognize that much of what is so very unlovely in not essentially wrong—-that it is mere* lv what is" good in a state of unripeness. The fragrant blossom lias withered and fallen away, leaving in its place the hard and withered embryo fruit. A , wise mother will he very careful to distin guish between those qualities winch promise evil in their developed tor... and those which are mere crudities, and her aim will be to foster all the uufo.d ed possibilities in her child’s nature, and help to bring them to a beautiful ma turity. . . Every oue knows how tiresome lillu unattractive a little girl usually is when she has outgrown her infantile sweet ness. The little impertinences, the saucy retorts and unflattering personali ties, which have won for her smiles and caressesj of, at worst, an admiring re proof, all at once become intolerable and are rebuked with acerbity. The very ways which :he has been taught to consider charming become subjects for displeasure wiirii the baby roundness ami dimples are gone, her sense of justice is outraged, aud the unWarped sense of justice iu a child is often very strong. Bite becomes a little Ishmael, iier hand against every mall’s, and every man’s hand against licr< Iu a certain sense thU can scarcely bo alctcW, hut, if the mother s love be unfailing, and her sympathy always ready, she can keep sweet the fountain of love and trust ! which, without that refuge. niic.Ht be i come very bitter. Jiist When this new • life is unfolding a mother’s wise Cal'® is mo-1 earnestly needed. The soul which bus seemed to draw its life from hers is beginning fcJ lead an individual exist em e. It is to the petfec” development of this individuality that the moth er should bend all her strength. Each human soul contains within itself the germ of its own life. To make of it all that may be made the mother should only guide the growth, leaving it free j witiiin the limits of moral probity to grow into its fullest possibility. Bhe cirliot lop it off here aud there, or suppress its gro 'th yonder, without maiming amt stultifying the whole nature, Tho dangerous quicksands of this peri'id safely past, the mother begins to breathe freely again. She again begius to see visions, and to itt'earn dreams, till the second i. •] more serious sc-ilseV **f anarchy conies to try her faith. (Jlblil- Ikk.kl is over, and woniouliood is yet far away. The whole being, moral, intel lee.tiial and physical, is hi a state of fer ment. 1 New motives, new principles, lipw emotions, are battling for predomi nance, and itutil these relative claims are adjusted no peace can be hoped for. | This second I chaotic period-- which ' comes at about 14 years of age—lusts j longer, and brings a more hopeless uri<l radical overturning of that which lmd se. ined so tirirrty established. Ifn inotte er’s care were needed iu tho earlier chaage, it is infinitely inore needed now. New traits seem to lie starting into life, new developments are manifested, Changes hot only in purposes and ideas are taking place, but changes in temper ament, in disposition, in tone are mani festing themselves. There is need of ,a wise hand which shall guide without galling, a tender heart- whidi shall sus tain without compromising with evil. To aid in the conflict and insure victory, nothin*?- wiilj; 1- v nmth&r.mwn.,' i”*< ly, nor direct tier more easily in this diffi cult task, than the recognition that this, also, is merely a stage of growth neces sary to a full and perfect development of her child’s nature, and that to her is intrusted the privilege of fostering the growth, while she shall be looking to the end with the prophetic eye of love. —Century Magazine. Tilings Which Annoy One. To get fairly out of the house aud find you have forgotten the very thing you meant to hike with you. To get yourself snugly settled in your seat and your baskets, bundles' pack ages, valise, umbrella, and bird cage all stored auay in the reck and before and behind you ou adjoining seats, aud then to discover you’re in the wrong cur. To sit next the talking couple at the theater. To see yourself in a lucid moment as nth'*-" ... {' von To trade with the “ furnishing si eye clerk who insists after you have bought vvlnit, you and sire oil seTing you era vats, collars, iniflk and fancy hosiers To bujw - '.something handy W have, in the house" and be told by your wife on taking it home that you’ve paid twice too much for n poor article. To put something away for safe keep ing so carefully that you can’t find it again. To sit down hungry at. the restaurant aud wait fifteen minutes before yi u can eatcli a waiter. To fix your mouth for a favorite dish aud after waiting ten minutes more to he told “It’s all out.’’ To have the septuagenarian, who all your life has been as an old mau to you, speak out to you, “ Well, you’re getting old like tl rest of us. ” To be always putting your knife *or pencil in the wrong pocket and going through all the rest before you can find tlu-in. To stow your ra lroad ticket care fully away in some secret recess of your clothes and then forget it, and at regu lar intervals bo seized with a season of fear that you liax T e lost it, consequent on which comes a spell of frautic rummag ing until you find it. To attempt ; n one day more business of vani'inn sorts than your mind can grasp or your hands can handle. To lie taken on the Bowery by a confi dence man or other species of sharper for a verdant countryman. To b> told you are growing old when you know y ou are growing young. To be told by advisory friend that you ought not to do so and so when you haven’t done anything of the sort, and her. he told you ought to do thus and so 'then you have all along been doing it. I’atti. A Xew York paper says Patti is fat, i dampy, a little latne, her teeth are irreg i u!ar. her mouth large, her eyes waterv, and she shows signs of age. Well, what | in thunder are they paying fabulous prices to go amt see her for, then ? O, we forgot her voice. Of course, they go to hear her sing. It don’t make anv difference nlwmt the looks, as long as the voice is there. And yet, if she was handsome, had a gait that would take our breath away, and had beautiful blue eves that sparkled like diamonds and would speak whether her mouth and throat did or not, and lips red ripe and ready to pick, and teeth that look, ; 3 , though they would help a smile along amazing, and a heart that was the bo-sT We could feel more like going a long dis tance to Lear her sing “ Darling, mu „re (trowing iiald. '—/W.-'* Ann, NUT A .MAKRIISH Ulßl,. y-.xplstntn* *•** .*<lT'ili**c<>r*l*le m** f>dnnft lo mm Vnipattiem Lotrr. They Tore seated together, side by side, on tli? da, in the most approved lover fashionw-his arm encircling her taper waist, ete, “Lizzie,” Le said, you must, haref read my heart ere this ; you must knew i how dearly I love you ?” “Yes, Fred, you liavd certainly been very attentive,” said Lizzie. “But- Lizzie, darling, do you lota int ? Will you be my wite ?” “ Your wife, Fred! Of all things, no! No, indeed, or anyone else’s.” “ Lizzie, what do yon mean?” “,Tast what 1 say, Fred. I’ve two married sisters. ” “Certainly, and Mrs. Hopkins and Mrs. Skiiipor have very good husbands. I believe. ” •‘ So people say; but I wouldn’t like to siaiid in cither May’s or Nell’s s>>q*B j that’s all. u “ Lizzie, you astonish me.” “Look here, Fred! I’ve had over twenty-five sleigh-rides this winter, thanks U> you and niy other gentlemen friends.” Fred winced a little here, whether at the remembrance of that iivery hill or the idea of Lizzie sleighing with othr gentlemen friends, I can not possibly answer. “ How many do you think my sisters hate had? Nof the sign of oae, either of then!, pretty girls as May and Nellie were, too, and eorntwh aftupfion as they uAcrl to havp- i “ Now. Ih/.zic —’ “ I am fond, of going to the theater occasionally, as well as a lecture or c>on cert sometimes, snd I shoiildu t like it if I proposed attending any such entertain ment, to be invariably told that time* were ’ hard nnd my husband could not afford if, and then to have him sneak of alene." _ . . . -TV “Lizzie, Lizzie —” “And then if onoe in a dog’s age he did condescend to go with me anywhere in the evening', I shouldn't like to be left to pick my wav along the slippery places at the risk of breaking my neck, he walking along unconscioiisljMty my side. lam of a dependent, clinging nature, aud I need the protection of strohj arm.” “Lizzie, this is all nonsense.’ “I'm the youngest in pur family, and ■perhaps I’ve liee.o spoiled. At U events, I know it would break rny heart-to have my husband vent, all the iff- tempi which lie conceals from the wo? rM uv*” 5 riv .i f'Ußc'q' head. ” i “.But, LDwie, I promise yon AiiStl-M I “Oh, vos. Fred; I know what yon are going to any--that you will be different;) but May and Nellie have told me time and again that, no better husbands than theirs over lived. N <>, Fred ; tie a lover you are just perfect, and I hate awfully to give you up.. Still, if you are bent on marrying, there are plenty of fprh wlm have not got married sister*, or wi? are 1K wi>*e enough to profit by their example, if they have. And don’t fret about for I’ve no doubt I can find some ofte to fill your place—" But before Lizzie lind concluded, Fred made for the door, muttering something ’ “ unmentionable to ears polite.” “There f” exclaimed Lizzie, as th“ door closed with •, hang, “1 knew he was no lietter tlitn the rest. That's the way John nnd Aleck swear and slam doors when things don’t go jnst right. He’d make a hear of a husband ; but I am .lorry lie came to the upint so soon, i for he was iust a snlenidid befffi ” iiUL-j.. 1 u.-yj FACTS FUR THE ~U lit j v xo. Thr elephant, the rhinoceros, the ti' gcr and tho hipppopotamus are the only animals that are not afraid singly to fight the lion. Tt* tlie armadillo is in danger of being attacked, nnd happens tube near a preci pice, it will contract itself into a ball and roll itself over The flat-head hussar, a fish found in Essequibo, will march in droves over dry liuid, as fast as a man ordinarily walks, using its serrated fins for legs. Paper bags to the number of 1,069,- 000,000 are used yearly in the United Htatcs. The combined capacity of eight of the principal factories per day is 5,001), • 000. They are sold for a small fraction over the cost of the paper, Pr is reported that Die stomach of an ostrich which died in the Paris Zoologi cal Garden was fouud to contain four te mm pMif* two small keys, one cigar elite, one r<? sary, six sous, one pair of sen-wtprs, odi belt plate, sever? door handles aff4 *ev end pieces of a baby trumpet. A thotjsand wonders in nature are lost to the human eve, and only revealed through the microscope. Think of divid ing a single spider’s web into 1,000 strands, or counting the arteries and lierves in the w ing of a gossamer moth. Yet, by tbe powerful aid of a leas of a microscope it is found that there are more than 4,000 muscles in a caterpillar. The eye of a drone contains 14,!*00 mir rors, and the body of every spider is fur nished with four little imnps, ptercvl with hny holes, from each of which ip; sues a single thread, and, when l,o(ri f these fi om each are joined together, thov make the silk line of which the spider spins his wet*, and which we cal! a spid.-r’s thread. Spiders have been seen as small as a grain of sand, and theve spin a thread so line that it takes 4,000 of them-put together to wjtiai size a single hair. Fon years no one had supposed that a lump of soft coal, dug from its mine or bed in the earth, possessed any other purpose than tliac of fuel. It was next found that it wonld afford a gas which wits combustible. Chemical analysis proved it to Ire made of hydrogen. In process of time mechanical and chemi cal ingenuity devised a mode of manu facturing this gas and applying it to tbs lighting of buildings anti cities on a large seale. In doing this, other pro ducts of distillation were developed, un til, step by step, the following ingredi ents sre extracted from it: “An excel lent oil to supply lighthouses, equal to the very best sperm oil, at lower cost; benzole, a light sort of etlierial fluid, which evaporates easily, and, combined with vapor or moist air, is used for the purpose of portable gas-lamps ; so-called naphtha, a heavy fluid to dissolve gutta perclia and india-rubber; an excellent oil for lubricating purposes ; asij4altum, which is a black, solid uied in making varnishes, covering rooMf* covering over vaults : paraffine, a f crystalline substance, resembling wjf. .4 wax, which can be made into b ant'-ij wax candles. It aielfs at a temp-’ a furs of 110 degrees, and affords an exceli? l " - light. All these substances are now j made from soft coal. I A musical young mena of ours, wise-1 mg to bespeak his mistress’ attention the suppliant posture he had taken ’‘n at her net. sang with thrilling effect tin*’ Ids earliest exercise : “Dor*, solace cfo fion<ion Time*.