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GOSSIP FOU THE LADIES.
l.ovt’i* Sleep.
We’ll cover Love with n>oe.
And tweot fllotp bo shaU Uke—
None but a fool suppoeea
Love alway* keep* .make.
I’ve known loves without number—
True lovoa were they, and tried ;
And, lust for want oi alum bur,
They pined away and died.
Our love waa bright and cheerful
A little while agoue;
Jsow he ia pule and tearful,
And- yea, T’ve wen him yawn.
So tired in he of ki*c*
That ho can only weep;
The one dear tiling ho iniaaoa
And long* for now ia sloop.
We could not let him leave ui
One time, he waa bo dear.
But now it would not grieve ua
If ho adopt half a year.
For he hAM had li'.a aoaaon,
Like the lily and the roae )
Aid it hut standi to reason
That he should want repoM.
We prieed the amillng Cupid
Wlio made our days so bright;
But be has grown so stupid
Wo gotdly way good-nigtyt.
And if ho wakena tender
And fond, and fair as when
U* tilled our lives with splendor,
Wc’ll tale him back again.
And ahouki he never waken,
Ah that percliance may bo,
We will n< t weep forsaken,
But ting, “Love, tra-la-lcoi”
_2T7a Whreler,
A Cunwrvaiive Splnafer.
The old maid of the period is li.-I. dl_v
ft rich old maid, and her virtues nre of
tho conservative order.
Such a lady was addressed hy a
widower with seven children, who de
nired to mnrry her.
“Sir,” slie said, “I would not live in
the house with seven children of my
own, niileli less any body elso's.” Tho
widower said:
“ You astonish me.” And after u lit
tle while—“ What am Ito do with my
seven ohildrou ? ”
“ Oder them to some girl in her teens
who doesn't know any better," and the
widower said he lnilieved lie would.
Charles Simmer on Women'* Ilrrs.
With all Mr. Humner’s profound
studies he was as good an nntliority on
all matters relating to a woman’s toilet
as Worth himself. 1 recall the approval
which lie expressed of Michelet'stheory
that a woman should not yield to the
dictates of fashion to the extent of
making violent changes in her dress or
tho arrangement oi her hair ; hut a cer
tain uniformity, with minor variations,
that just suggested a costume, so that
lx-oplo would sav, “That looks like
Iter,” was more effective and attractive
than those sudden changes which a 1 most
destroyed a woman’s identity and dimin
ished the power of association. Mr.
Hu inner thought that nothing promoted
a woman's youthfulness of appeavnnee
so much as, after suitable study on the
subject, adhering to one style of arrang
ing the lmir. “ Imagine,” said he, “a
Groek goddess changing tlm arrunge
nient #f her hair every fy gnontliH.’
—Ajjln Ilowaru, in Provitbncc l’rhss.
Ulrlii' Siting.
' Does the “sweet girl graduate like
tile looks of her portrait as it is drawn
in this sketch by ono who evidently
knows that it is accurately given? Ho
Bays tho schoolgirl's failing is slang;
that she never uses it in her father’s
hearing, but if he were in ear-shot of a
group occasionally ho would hear some
thing like this;
“ Meet me on tho avo’ this aft’ and wo
will go to the mat'."
“No, itof this aft’on the aye’."
“Well, good-aft’.”
“ I had a perfect Mag’ timo, and don’t
yon forget it,” “Don’t give me awav,
Skate. ” “ Well, 1 sht add softly exclaim."
"I should blush t.i murmur,” “I
should remark.” “I should mutter.”
“ I should smile.”
•‘Are you Ruing to tho musirnlo?"
“ You just hot. 1 mil."
‘‘J told the guv’ I wanted a now
dma.” < 4• s'
"Dnl ho tumble to tho rnoi.et?”
“Did ho trail?" “Did ho catch on?”
“Ho forked over, girls, and it's my
trout,”
These phrases are from the sweet girl
graduates who stand up ill tho month of
roses and road charming essays on "The
Real and the Ideal,’' " Life as It Should
Bo,” “Beforms,” mid other practical
subjects, ami who turn from admiring
teachers, to whom they have been listen
ing with mock-serious eyes, to say in a
low aside :
. “He’s giving ns tally, girls,” and
•who christen everything that does not
please them as " snide.”— Pittsburgh
Gazette.
The qiinlltK-. That < om|cl Itlllllrn
tloil.
lii all civilized countries, woman is
entitled to advantages which are accord
ed to wo other class. She can comfort
ably sit w hile men stand ; she is cordial
ly invited everywhere and in public
vehicles and private doorways man
stands ready to step sside for her ac
commodation. This treatment of the
female sex is bused upon a deep-seated
and chivalrous sentiment which is be
coming more and more pronounced as
we advance into civilization. If a
woman is licautifn! the favors multiply.
If she be handsome she is well eared
for. ft she is the possessor of a clear
complexion, bright eves, pearly teeth,
n handsome liana, luxuriant hair, or liny
of these attributes, tnp average man is
prompted to make her comfortable, lie
will pick up her handkerchief, open the
door for her entrance or exit, carry her
parcels and hand up her fare. She is a
picture upon which he likes to gaze, and
which affects him as pleasantly as a
beautiful landscape in an art gallery.
Favors are bestowed spontaneously ujxm
her on the supjHjsitiou that man is the
stronger and ought to cun' for her. If
ho finds her masculine in ideas, inde
pendent m notions end selfish in thought,
the treatment charges. If she is
handsome having those defects, the i
change is not so quick, but its coming
is only n matter of time. Any young
lady who thinks that l>ecause *he is
pretty she will always be courteously
waited on and lie treated with marked
deference has the wrong idea of the
question, and is building air castles on
n basis of sand. If we carefully read
what has been said of woman we will
see that she has beau spoken of in two
different ways. One writer is the author
of the disrespectful proverb, “ There
were only two good women. One is
dead and tho other was never found."
The Chinese say that woman's tongue is
her sword and she never lets it rust.
Dr. {‘aysqn wrote, ‘' A wetided man is
life' a bird with a broken w.ng. Ho
umyflntGT but he cannot fir." Among
the Amazonian* oaudidatos for nuptial
honors had their jiandfl tied .in n paper
hag tilled with tiro anti. If they sur
vival ♦hi' ordeal drfey were eop
aidered fitted for the trial of matrimony.
AU through thu diffc-rani ages women
hmT) bean spoV.au of, not only slightly,
out with the utmost bitterness. On tno
other hand she has been paiu' jd in the
most euiijgistie terms. Ope writer pro
nounced her the poetry of the world, as
the jure the poetry of heaven. To
enjoy her society the philosopher has
forsaken his studies, the merchant his
business, 4he artist his studio and the
warrior kU camp firs. Washington
Irving likened her to the ivy which
winds its tendrils more tenderly over the
oak which the storm has laid prostrate,
and other writers have been equally lav
ish in paying homage.
Tho girl who expeet* to win her way
by her beauty and to be admired and
accepted simply lmcanse she is a lady,
lias the wrong ldoa. him must secure n
lovable character if she wishes to be
loved, and my advice to you all is to lay
the foundation of a permanent influence.
Woman has lieen likened to three things
in nature. 81ie is like the snail because
she loves her own house best, and she is
unlike the snail, who carries all he jxm
sesses upon his back. She is like the
echo, which speaks only when S|xrken to,
and unlike the echo, which always has
the last word. Hhe is like the town
dock, which performs its work regular
ly and on time, and tmliko it because
her voice is not heard all over the city.
To win and hold admiration you must
cultivate tho gifts that nature lias lie
stowed upon yon. If you have a talent
for music, develop it; learn to sing some
choice songs and to perform upon some
instrument, for many are charmed more
by music than by handsome feat
ures. Pursue the same course
with regard to painting, drawing
and designing, and if yon have the
power to obtain useful knowledge in any
direction do it. I have heard young
men, in speaking of their lady acquaint
ances, “Oh! they look well, but they
don’t know anything.” There is no
necessity for sneli a state of things;
books are cheap and accessible. If you
labor all day in shop or store, still at odd
intervals you can gather up an education
and contend with no greater difficulties
than did Clay, Fillmore, Webster and
others of mr greatest men. It von no
through life like a flitting butterfly, how
will you he spoken of by and by. I own
it is nice to eat and drink, and be merry,
anil be courted ami flattered for four or
live years, but how much la-tter it would
he to cultivate character, sense and true
womanliness that would last forty or fifty
years. Andrew Johnson would never
lmve been President hut lor tho faithful
ness of his wife, who taught him to ipad
and urged him to eminence, Disraeli's
wife was equally as useful to him.
Ho, while society pyuises, tho adept iu
small talk, the world will remember <sily
those who, hy cultivated intellect tmd
purified hearts, assisted mankind anil
helped to make the world better. Wo
always think kindly of Florence Night
ingale, who, liy her uhsclflsh devotion
to the sick and wonnded in the Crimea,
made her nume a household Word; of
Harriet Ilosmcr, who, finding that she
possessed talent, developed it and became
the best modeler in clay and sculptor
in marble known in the history of our
country; or Harriet Beecher Stowe,
whose hook before it was a yoar old Was
translated into all languages ami proved
an important factor in the emancipation
of slavery nhd hastened to uplift the
whole continent to u briwdrf anil mns
i linritabte eminence, null thb wife Of Sir
John Franklin, who, lying upon what
proved to he her deathbed, bade lior
husband depart on his voyage to tho
North pole. Such women as these are
spoken of after the beauties of the world
are forgotten. You, young Indies, ought
to lay tho foundation of tho enduring
admiration of tho good and of God, and
consecrate yourselves to a high and lioly
life. S'noon hy Her. J. S. Brccfan
ri. lye, of Brooklyn, •
’ Men’s Pants.
Full dross pants have always sustained
many objections, and men hnvo nover
been ontirelvsiduilled with tho bifurcated
garment. If they roach tho boot heel,
they mnst either take the dirt iul dust
of the street, or men must Buffer what is
infinitely worao— tho hidcousucss of
walking tlio streets with pants “rolled
up.” You eon conceive of nothing mure
"alarming ” to tho eye of beauty than a
man stamlingin pants whoso lower edge's
are “curled up. He presents the ap
pearance of having on a garment for
which ho lias improvised dirty and rag
ged nitiles, made of the sarno material
os the body of tho pants. To bring tho
thing beiore you vividly, think of a statue
made of a man with bis pants “ turned
up.” How would that kind of a llguro
look in marble? We have always
thought that the author of tho novel en
titled "He Cometh Not, She Said,”
must have boon endowed with a fine
sense of beauty. She mokes one of her
characters discard her lover because she
saw him passing on tho other side of tho
street "with his pants turned up.”
Another horror attending tlio common
joints as worn by men, is that .they
"hag horribly at tlio knee," As yet
thero has been no means suggested to
overcome the disabilities now imposed
upon oriliuary trousers. They will have
to continue. It was thought that tho
[esthetic craze might afford Homo relief,
lmt the Cincinnati Gazette says:
“Accepting knee breeches as the toathetic
clothes, several persona have written in
their favor that tiioy will avoid that hag
giuess to which trousers arc subject at
the knees, from the devotioual posture,
and from tho habit of sitting with one
leg lVßtiug on tho other. Not to dis
courage this movement, hut to prevent
disappointment in a worthy effort, it
should lie mentioned that tins idea of
the exemption of knee brooches from
being kninsl is a radical error, for that
their being fastened just below the knee,
and the tightness which betlts this gar
ment, allow no slack for the bending of
tho knee; therefore would knee breeches
1h) kneed more than trousers. That
shorter form of breeches, which does
not oomo to the knee, would be requisite
to avoid this bnggiuess. Yet the tights
worn under these would bag. The
(esthetic clothes arc not free from dif
ficulty, but no one should lie discouraged.
The ennsc is worthy of a great effort, and
of a great sacrifice, if necessary. Let
every aspiring waihetio say, with Harry
V., ‘ Ouoe more to the breach, dear
friends!’ The Scotch Highland eoutuuio
is absolutely exempt from bagging at
the knees. It has also a pieturesqueuess
far surpassing Mr. Oscar Wilde’s black
breeches, black stockings, and stiff dress
cost, and more befitting the wsthetio
renaissance, whose emblems arc the sun
flower and the lily.” The gentle apostle
of the aesthetes certainly never visited
Scotland, or he never would have adopted
the old dull-colored English pants, and
left unrecommended the unique High
land ooetnme.-—inrfmnopofis Herald.
Not That Kind of a Donkey.
A coolness has arisen between Mr.
and Mrs. Fitznoodle, one of the most
respectable families in Austin. One day
last week a Mexican donkey was run
over in the outskirts of Austin, and
killed bv a freight train on the Interna
tional Railroad. Next morning, just as
Mr. Fitznoodla was about to start down
town, liis wife threw her arms around
his neck and said:
' “ Dear Alonzo, promise me not to go
near the railroad track. How can the
engineer distinguish between you and •
donkey, in time to atop the train?”—
Texas Siffingt,
Two Pats.
“ The Spectator delights in cat stories.
May I add one to tho, interesting list
which lias from time to time appeared
in your columns ? L'iotqre to yourself a
little girl, about two J-earfc of age, sitting
on a low stool before a drawing-room
fire. Coiled up on the rug is a favorite
domestic cat. The child is in a fretful
nnxx 1, and lifts been crying for some
time. The cat endures the annoyance
for some time, though evidently dis
pleased. But even E-lino patience has
its limits. Ho pussy uncoiled herself,
walked up to the child, anil gave her a
box on the ear with her closed paw, and
then laydown again before the fire. The
child, taken completely aback, cried
louder than ever. Again pussy tried to
endure it. Aguin her patience became
exhausted, and she delivered a second
Ihjx on the ear. It was now the girl’s
turn to Ire enraged. Hhe rushed at the
eat, and dragged it around tho room by
the tail. Tlie story rests on the authority
of the child’s mother, who was a witness
of the scene.”
“As I am a constant reader of the
Sjtrrtator, T know you take a great in
terest in domestic animals, and I have
long wished to tell you about ‘Dot.’
Hhe was handsome as to size ; her coat
was a beautiful glossy black, anil at tho
throat was a pretty white star. Each
day, as the different articles were brought
in for dinner and placed on the table,
tho charge always was, ‘Now, Dot,
come here and take earn of this till I
come back.’ ‘Dot’ mounted guard at
once on a chair at the side of the table,
and was never known to leas e her post
till the viands wero claimed. Whether
it was beef, mutton, fisli, or game, all
wae perfectly safe; and she was quite
pleased when a cooked morsal, after din
ner, was given to her as a reward. Her
own dinner, though placed close beside
her, she never touched, but always
waited till it was given to her, however
hungry she was known to be. .
“She was obedient to nil ot.V-rr, one
of which was that she was not to como
to my room. (I prefer to keep at a re
spectful distance from evftft domestic
pets, however excellent their individual
characters.) But one very cold evening
of a very severe winter, ‘Dot,’ pupsing
all tho’othcr rooms, to which she had
jierfect freedom, came to my door, and,
with a' special petition, to which my at
tention was drawn, as being something
quite unusual in eat language, waited
till she was told she might come in. The
good creatnro placed herself before the
bright fire, and purred—to her own great
pleasure- a self-invited and truly happy
guest. Site - never eucroMihcd oa this
%>!ie little special favor. ' Could even
the illustrious ‘Jack’ have excelled lior,
wjifen food was the charge ?’•*—Letters to
the London Spectator.
Romance of it Poor Young Girl.
A lady correspondent at (renter White
Creek, Washington County, soads ns the
following romance of real life. lt-con
cetns h native of Washington Coduty.
She says :
Five years ago a jioor and modest
country giri of twenty-one summers,
following the path of duty, enlisted in
the holy wars and sailed with a band of
brothers to a far-off’ heathen shore, leav
ing boliiml her two rejected and likewise
miserable lovers ; one a lad of low con
dition, tho other a regular patrician.
Hut the heathen have souls to be saved,
mpl for four years oqr soU-saigificang
heroine followed the noble calling she
had chosen. Early in May, 1881, oiir
fair toiler in tho vineyard, deeming that
the heathens were sulliuiuntly converted
to admit of a visit to her native shore,
resigned her charge for a period and
sailed, via England, for her own home
and harbor. An English wbbfelfian who
chanced to bo among the passengers bo
oome interested in tlio poor American,
and ere tho good ship anchored at Livor
jmiol had offered his hand, heart and for
tune and been accepted. At London
the lovers ported soon to meet again, to
receivu a father’s blessiug and port no
more. The bride of thefnluro continued
her journey alono with her trousseau,
and was soon welcomed in New York by
a host of admiring relatives and tiie for
gotten lovors. Preparations w ere com
menced for the reception of the noble,
and the disappointed lovors sighed for
the things which “might hnvo boon.”
But alas 1 tho nobleman met with a
financial misfortune. Tenderly did he
break the news to the distant fair one,
nobly releasing her from promises which
might beoorne irksome. Tho humble
aud faithful suitor (who clmncod to bo
nearest), soon became dearest, and tho
weary heart, taken on tho rebound, sur
rendered gracefully, and they xvcio
united iu the holy bonds of matrimony,
at the residence of the bride’s parents.
— Trot/ Times.
The Cigarette-Consumed Young Man.
Like a midnight apparition which can
not bo shaken oft’, the cigarette-con
sumed young man haunts mo daily in
the streets aud nightly iu theaters * nnd
saloons. His sallow countenance, be
tokening the signs of approaching dis
solution, ajqiears ever and anon between
tho masses of death-laden smoko which
arise and are wafted into the faces of
healthy predestrains, causing sensations
of a sickly nature. The smile with
which lie greets you is only an alleged
smile, and the hollow voice which utters
liis equally hollow words grates ou the
ear and makes one think of the way a
skull might talk if skulls were gifted
with speech. His walk is a totter, his
breath savors of the charnel-house and
liis eyes wear a pitiful, painful, idiotic
look.
The cigarette -consumed young man,
despite the perils surrounding him, is on
the increase. It is considered smart to
l>e a cigarette-consumed vonth. It is
deemed tho height of manliness to waste
ambition and destroy vigor with smoke
—and such smoke. The cigarette-con
sumed young man thinks he is attractive
and supposes that the small parcel of
brains which lrns escaped the influence of
nicotine furnishes tho world’s thought—
at least the superficial, unreal world in
which he moves. He thinks mother will
pet him oil the more, sister humor him
and all the girls adore him because he is
cigarette-eousnmed.
The risiug generation promises to be
largely composed of cigarette consumed
young men unless stringent measures arc
tnkcu to counteract existing tendencies
It were better that Mother Shipton had
been right or Unit the sun hurry up nnd
reach the earth than that snch" a result
occur. It would bo vastly better for
the young man to be suu-cononmed than
cigarette-consumed. The cigßretto-c<wi
sumed young man is a bore and tho
world is tired of seeing him around.—
Philadelphia Times.
The name of the chameleon i* de
rived from two Greek words signifying
"ground lion," a name singularly inap
propriate. since it is one of those crea
tnres which is especially fitted to live on
trees and is ill at ease ou the surface of
the earth. •
A narbow-ocaoe road of three feet
costs iu construction about five-eights
u much as abroad-gnage.
Facts About New Mexico.
The greatest length of the Territory.
from north to south, is 390 miles, and
its greatest breadth, from east to west,
341 miles; its area is 121,201 square
miles, or 77,568,040’acre5. There is
great diversity of climate, owing to dif
ferences in latitude and altitude between
different portions of the country. In
the lower plateau the summer days are
warm but not debilitating, the nights
are always cool and bracing; the cli
mate throughout the Territory is so mild
and equable, combining dryness with
purity, that many persons afflicted by
pulmonarv and other diseases of a simi
lar nature have tested it with marked
benefit and frequently permanent cure.
It is estimated tliat there are in the Ter
ritory from 18,000,000 to 20,000,000 acres
of arable land, or at least that much can
be brought under successful cultivation
when a judicious system of irrigating
canals and reservoirs shall have been
constructed. At present more than
three-fourtks of all the waters of tho
Territory run to waste. The soil of the
valleys throughout New Mexico is a rich,
sandy loam, light and porous and of sur
prising fertility. Corn, wtieat, oats,
and barley glow well in all parts, the
first named being a staple product. The
c -reals tlo best in the northern districts
aud elevated plateaux; corn, vegetables,
and all kinds of fruits do best in the
valleys; tho Valley of tho Itio Grande
Del Norte is admirably adapted to grape
culture; and grapes do well on the lower
valley of the i’ecos, and in many other
parts of the Territory. Cabbages grow
finely, also onions and Irish potatoes are
grown in the northern districts, where
they yield' enormously; sweet potatoes
arc raised in tho Mesfflu Valley and at
Fort Stanton, on the Rio Bonito anil
Rnidoso, in Lincoln County; beets,
radishes, turnips, parsnips, and carrots
grow well anywhere , beans, jieas, aud
tobacco nre also grown successfully;
peaches, pears, and apricots do well from
Bernalillo down, and on the Pecos from
Anton Chico down; melons of all kinds
grow to large proportions and of the
most delicious flavor. The most valua
ble timber is pine, which is confined
chiefly to the mountain districts and the
high rolling lands; Pitch, yellow and
spruce varieties, grow to a large size and
make excellent timber; cottonwood,
walnut, locust, box-alder, and sugar-tree
are found along the streams and canons
of the mountains ; also live oak of small
size, and a peculiar species of cedar,
called in the Territory “juniper;” the
lint pine, or prrton, is also abundant,
and furnishes good charcoal and fire
. wood. The population of New Mexico
has doubled in thirty years. At the time
tbe United States acquired the country
tho native population was about three
fourtlis Mexican, or Ifispano-Auiiricans,
a! id one-fourth Pueblo aud other Indians,
with a very few Germans, French and
Amorioaus. To these original elements
have been added a considerable number
of Irish, Germans, Belgians, French,
Spanish, and Americans. There are
twelve counties. Santa Fo has about
6,.100 inhabitants, Albuquerque about
5,000, Las Vegas, Mesilla, and Silver
Pity from 3,090 to 4,000 each, and eigiit
or nine growing towns with 1,000 or
more inhabitants. Education is in an
indifferent condition. According to the
most recent reports there are about 200
church organizations of the Roman
Catholics, and some twelve or fifteen
organizations of other denominations.—
Chiouyo Inter-Ocean.
The Benefit of Bedbugs.
In my last .paper I asserted that
mosquitoes contained a large quantity of
animal quinine, aud therefore when they
bite a person they inject into his system
an antidote to malaria and febrile causes
generally. I had then experimented
with th< mosquito anil knew whereof I
spoke, aul since you kindly published
my communication I have captured
quite a number of these insects, aud,
macerating them in a morter withal-
cohol, have by chemical experiment
acqually precipitated the sulphate of
quinia, or quinine of the drug stores, to
the amount of 70 per cent, of the mass.
lii this Southern land of ours, except
where the salt breezes immediately along
tlio coast are freshest from tho briny
waves, in every household in the woods
away from tho habitations, are myriads
of chinches or bedbugs.
Chinches, annoying as they may be,
have a purpose, and night after night
they are working the accomplishment of
that purpose: achieving those duties
which as fnctors in tho economy of na
ture are incumbent upon them. The
chinch in sucking blood from the human
body draws nourishment and strength,
and, above all, the material which in the
retorts of his body is distilled into a
rich fluid which lie in biting one ejects
into the body to take tho jilace of the
blood he lias but borrowed, and this
entering into tho circulation furnishes
nn antidote against rhumatism. All
mercurial preparation, when taken in
excess, causes articular rheumatism,
affecting the bodies and the joints of
tho bones of the human body. The
calomel taken, by decomposition in tho
system, forms corrosive sublimate, but
not in the quantity to produce dentil
save by slow torture of rhumatism.
Corrosive sublimate, ns every housewife
in all the land will testify, is the only
, riddance for bedbugs. The juices (if
■ the bnpr and the sublimate are the anti
-1 dotes of each other, foes by nature, and
whcnevi r they meet onlv the death of
one or tlie other can end the contest.' A
single bug, of course, can not overcome
the quantity of sublimate it comes iu
■ contact with, but the human system s?e
-coming gradually fully impregnated
with the juice of the bug, by their bit
j ing at night, the poison iu his veins of
the sublimate, from the use of calomel
or mercury, is in the end overcome and
neutralized, and, the cause being re
tnove 1 the rheumatism gets well.—
U.dl s l Texas', Herald.
German Military Schools.
j The German military authorities seek
to establish a school in Alsace-Lorraine
for the training of non-commissioned of
ficers. Two objects are to be attained :
First, that which appears on the face of
the proposition; the second, the secur
ing of a sapplv of non-commissioned of
ficers for service in war, and in the stand
ing army; "'secondly, the further snb
jugatiou and Gcrmanization of the old
French district. Two similar schools
have already been established iu differ
<p4 P4i't-.of the Kpipiofe with good ro
* milts. * ’rfmstnftiTe ReMistag has abso
lutely refused to vote the necessary
f. >r the hew academy. Even Von
JfoltKo, viUo has entered heartily into
the project, lias not been able to prevail
'on the menrtvis. Among those who op
, pose the appropriation are the delegates
from Almtee-Loraine. Nevertheless,
there is little doubt- that pressure will be
.brought to. Lear, and tlio school ulti
> n:st< i# crested. It is contemplated to
make rpooa fotfour hundred boys, who
will He taken of any age above* eleven,
given their clothing and food, and edu
cated at public expense, on the condition
that they shall spend two years in the
army for evtry War that they are in the
academy. \
BOPULAB SCIENCE.
A lrriPioi.Mi essence of almonds may be
mode from benzine.
Evidence is brought to prove that tilt
antiquity of man can not be less than
200,000 years.
Thirty per cent, of forest is considered
the best proportion for the most bene
ficial effect on climate.
Agassiz says: “ The pupil studies
nature in the school-room, and when he
goes out of doors he can not find her.”
Strychnia acts only on certain por
tions of the spinal marrow, and opium
on parts of the cerebrum.
Next to tho diamond, the ruby is one
of the most remarkable scones for the
exhibition of phosphorescence under
electricity.
If cold water frogs will breathe en
tirely by the skin, and can not be killed
by immersion as long as they are pro
vided with food.
Many butterflies take no food and have
no digestive organs. The eating and
storing of nutriment was performed in
the earlier larva state.
In forest beds near the delta of the
Mississippi are found cypress trunks
twenty-five feet in diameter, and one
containing 5,700 annual rings.
Remarkable transformations have
been made in the Algerian Sahara by
irrigation. Under its operation a soil
has been formed in which plants grow
with great vigor.
By an experiment made with a chest
nut tree thirty-five years old, to calculate
the amount of moisture evaporated from
the leaves, it was found to lose sixteen
gallons of water in twenty-four hours.
The vegetation on Behring Island is
exceedingly luxuriant. The sea in the
neighborhood is especially rich in alg.
Forests of it from sixty to one hundred
feet high render dredging exceedingly
liflionit in some localities.
As a test for the coloring matter in
red wine it is found that, on mixing an
equal quantity of nitric acid with the
wine to be tested, the color will remain
unchanged for hours, if the wine be
pure, while if artificial, it is changed in a
minute.
By a registering apparatus, contrived
for the purpose, the frequency of the
wings of the different insects has been
determined. It is fonnd that while the
common fly vibrates its wings 330 times
per second, the honey-bee makes 190
strokes, aud the dragon fly only twenty
eight.
It is maintained by some scientists
that the aroma of fruits increases with
the latitude, while the sweetness de
creases. Many herbs, such as caraway,
are richer in essential oils in Norway than
in more southern regions. This effect is
ascribed to tho influence of the pro
longed light of the summer months.
1 Attempts have been made in Spain to
substitute orange for grape juice in wine
making. Four kinds of wine, one a
sparkling wine, have been successfully
produced. They are all of an attractive
color, perfectly clear, of an agreeable
sweet, slightly acid flavor, and of an al
coholic strength of about fifteen per
cent.
Tin? effect of lightning on frees near a
telegraph wire is thus described by a
French savant: “The line under obser
vation runs east and west. Of the pop
lars bordering on the road those on the
north side suffered most, those on the
i other side being rarely struck. Eighty
\ out of 500 trees were destroyed. The
instances multiplied with increased ele
vation, and in the plateau at the highest
point of land reached the maximum.
Tho injury was mostly opposite and
under the level of the wires. It is sup
posed that while the wire is strongly
electrified by induction, the lightning
does not striko if, but strikes the neigh
boring poplars directly, which, wet with
rain, afford an easier passage for the
| electric fluid to the ground ”
A Social Fraud.
A subscriber writes to know if it would
be proper for him to speak to a lady
that he lias never been introduced to.
He says he has met her on tho street, in
places of business, and at partie# for
two years, that lie knows all her family
ami she knows his, and that she looks
almost as though slio wished he would
speak, but lie has never been introduced
to her, and dares not speak. No, you
must not speak to her. You may* go
along meeting her every day till Gabriel
blows liis trump, and she may look as
familiar as your sister, and yet till some
mutual acquaintance says : “ Mr. So-and
so, this is Miss So-and-so,” you can not
speak to her without society will say you
are an impudent thipg. She may wish
she knew you, and yet if you speak to
her she would feel it her duty to society
to say “ Sir,” and look greatly offended,
and t hen you xvouid be all broke uj>. If
ifiieshonld drop lier jiocketbook, nnd you
srniuld pick it up and liand it to her, she
would thank you with a smile, but you
would have no right to speak to her next
time you met. If she should meet you
some day and say : “ How do you do,
Mr. So-and-so ? I have known you ever
since you lived in this town, though we
were never introduced formally, and it
lias got so embarrassiug to pass you half
a dozen times a day without speaking,
while I speak to those that may be with
you, that I have concluded not to wait
for an introduction,” some nine spot
with a number six hat on would say ;
“ Oil, my, what a llirt that lady is. She
actually spoke to a man without being
introduced.” If you frankly offer litr
your hand and sav, “Tiiankyou, madam,
for suspending the rule of etiquette in
speaking. I have seen you so many
times that your pleasant face iu as wel
come a sight as that of my sister, and I
have wanted to know you, but had given
up all idea that I ever would,” some
simpering female idiot would say : "Only
to think, that bold, awful man has ac
tually flirted with Miss So-and-so until
lie has got acquainted without a formal
introduction.” No, young man, go right
along about your business, and don’t
try to hurry the cattle. Society must be
consulted, though in some respects so
ciety may be a confounded fool. Peek's
Hun.
Some old wooden wheels were discov
ered some years ago in the mines of
Portugal, supposed to have been once
used by the Romans for hydraulic pur
poses. The wheels were eight >u num
ber, the spokes and felloes of pine, and
the axle and its suport of oak. They
are supposed to exceed 1,450 yearn ot
age, yet the wood was in a perfect state
of preservation, having been thoroughly
immersed in water charged with salts of
copper and iron. A similai instance
occurred m San Domingo, an old wooden
wheel being discovered in a disused
copper mine. How long it had been
there is uncertain, but it was completely
preserved, owing to its having at>6orbeil
considerable quantities of iron and cop
per. The preserving quality of these
minerals f or tbe impregnation of wood
is well illustrated in 'he mines of Hal
lien, Austria, the timber used being the
same Tlfich was originally introduced
ante for to the Christian era, and which
is ever now in a perfect condition,
American Bilk.
Perhaps the craze which most frequent
ly agitates the agricultural community is
that of producing silk for home manu
facture. There is no difficulty in breed
ing and rearing silkworms if one lias
time, patience and mulberry trees at
command, but there is no market for
the cocoons, the manufacturer wanting
reeled silk—not cocoons. The manufac
ture of silk thread, Mr. Wyckoff toils
us, though it has now outgrown foreign
competition, was a long time “in the
wilderness.” American housewives had
a prejudice in favor of Italian sewing
silk, and Massachusetts manufacturers
had to humor them hy affecting foreign
packages and wrappers, and commanding
“Italian” trade names. The sewing
machine has completely revolutionized
the business and brought about the in
vention of machine twist. American
sewing silk has an extremely high stan
dard of purity,a fact which has naturally
helped to drive out English goods, which,
by the addition of dye, are made to
yield from eighteen to twenty-five ounces
for each pound of raw silk.
Thousands of cords of white birch from
Maine are annually converted into spools,
aud many English makers come to the
United States for these little articles,
which an ingenious machine centres
aud prints—printing on the wood is
preferred to labelling—at the rate of
100 a minute. The cabinet given by
manufacturers to new customers with
the first purchase cost about 1J per cent,
of the total sales; one firm lias spent
5150,000 in this sort of advertising. A
fifty dollar cabinet is nothing out of tlie
way, and at times their value will reach
§3OO or $450. In dress goods, plain
black fabrics are the hardest to make, as
every defect in them is perceptible, and
until a very recent period their succes
ful manufacture was scarcely expected
in the United States, principally on ac
j count of the costliness of the skilled
j labor required.
Now nearly a third of the plain silks
are made here and the indistry is making
steady progress, thanks especially to the
cure given to the quality of the article,
while European mauuraeturers arc only
too apt to load theirs with dye. A sim
! pie test is to burn a small quantity of
■ of the threads; pure silk will inunedi
j ately crisp and lc-aVe a pure charcoal ;
heavily dried silk will smoulder and
1 leave a yellow greasy ash. Very few
velvets are manufactured in tlio United
States, but the production of figured
dress silks, grenadines, satins and the
. like, is large and growing. American
[ linings have a high reputation, and the
! American ingenuity has proved equal to
the task of producing a satisfactory and
lasting silk for umbrellas. Silk hand
kerchiefs have come into vague during
the Inst- eight years mid especially since
the Centennial Exhibition. The manu
facture of ribbons began in 1861 as an
| experiment, there being a demand for
particular shades which, it was thought,
could be more speedily met by making
than by importing. Now the business
lias grown to great proportions. Curi
ously enough, nearly all the designs for
Ameriean ribbons originate in American
factories, frequently months in advance
of the introduction of the goods into
I the market.— Herald.
Last Wishes.
Some eccentric people trouble them
selves greatly concerning the disposition
; of their bodies after death. An English
! woman bequeathed a surgeon SIOO,OOO
on condition that he should once in every
i .year look upon her face, two witnesses
: being present. Another lady, of nn
; economical turn of mind, desired that if
she should die away' from home, her re
: mains, after being placed in a coffin,
i should be enclosed in a plain deal box,
1 and conveyed by goods train to her na
tive town. “ Lot no mention,” she states,
“be made of contents, as the conveyance
will not then be charged more for than
an ordinary package.” A French traveler,
recently deceased, desired to be buried
in a large leather trunk to which lie was
attached, as it “had gone around the
i world with him three times;” and an
• English clergyman and Justico of the
i Peace, who, at the age of twenty-three
i had married a girl of thirteen, desired
to be buried in an old chest he had se-
I lected for the purpose. In the matter of
. burial, too, all sorts of whimsical notions
are cherished. One man wished to he
interred with the bed on which he had
been lying; another desired to be buried
far from the haunts of man, where na
ture may “smile upon liis remains;”
and a third bequeathed his corpse for
dissection, nfter which it was to bo put
into a deal box and thrown into the liver.
One man does not wish to be buried at
all, bnt gives his body to a gas company,
to be consumed to ashes in one of their
retorts, adding that should the supersti
tion of tlio times prevent the fulfilment
of his bequest, Ins executors may place
his remains in a city cemetery, “to as
sist in poisoning the living in that neigh
borhood." A person may approve
himself of cremation, but it is a
little hard when he requires his relatives
to approve of it also. In cases of this
kind, it cannot he incumbent upon
friends to regard tho last wishes of the
dying-
The Gift of Expression.
Men who openly demonstrate their
Affection for wife, mother, or sister by
the rendering of numberless kind atten
tions, may not be any kinder at heart
than cold, silent men w ho make no show
of their emotions; but they are pleasant
people to have about one," for all that,
and sensible girls like them. They
recognize the fact that if a man pos
ses.sess the true instinct of courtesy and
kindness, it will develop in a thousand
little acts, which are always sources of
! pleasure to those for whose sake they are
indulged.
There has grown up of late years a
style of literature which makes a man
such a self-contained hero that lie re
strains tho gentler emotions, and only
indulges at certain (Hid intervals iu over-
I whelming scenes of passionate expres
sions for the benefit of some particular
lady love, who is naturally fascinated by
the contrast; and believes that because
he so seldom shows what he feels, that
he must have a great deal of feeling
which he keeps smothered up like a
sleeping volcano. But the romantic girl
i who makes such a man her hero, and
trusts to her fascinations to produce an
irruption of emotion after marriage, will
most probably find herself mistaken, and
pay the penalty of her too vivid imagi
nation in a life of domestio unpleasant
ness, for the man who is courteous to
nobody will scarcely be courteous to his
own wife. There is a selfish egotism
about such men that makes them trying
companions. Their thoughts are not of
what is due to others, but only of what
is due to themselves, and in this latter
category they do not include that tribute
to their own vanity elicited from the ap
proval of the world at large.
At.ex andeb ordered pieces of flesh to
be thrown into the inaccessible vail y of
Zuimeah, that the vultures might bring
j up with them tire precious stones which
attached themselves.
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
Apprehension of evil is often worae
than evil itself.
Dlspatch is the soul of business and
method the aonl of dispatch.
That which is bitter to be endured
may he sweet to be remembered.
Every one is weary ; the poor in seek
ing, the rich in keeping, the good in
learning.
We are led on, like the little children,
bv a way that we know not. —Qeoras
Eliot.
We think very few people sensible,
except those who are of our opinion.—
Mochefoucauld.
I dimly guess from blessings known
Of greater out of sight.
Men are never killed by the adversi
ties they have, but by the impatience
which they suffer.
If anybody reports you not to be an
honest man, let your practice give him
the lie.— Antoninus.
Our doubts are traitors, and make ns
lose the good we oft might win by fear
ing to attempt. — Shakespeare.
It many times falls out that we deem
ourselves much deceived in others, lie
cause we first deceived ourselves.
A hermit who has been shut up in
his cell in a college has contracted a
sort of mold and rust upon his soul.
Ip the past is not to bind us, where
can duty lie? We should have no law
but the inclination of the moment.—
'Jenrge Eliot.
No sian was ever so completely skilled
in the conduct of life as not to receive
new information from ago and experi
ence.
I’d rather laugh a bright-haired boy
Than reign a gray beard king!
—O. IF. Holmes,
A snob is that man or woman who is
always pretending to be something bet
ter—especially richer or more fashiona
ble than they arc. Thackeray.
It is no disgrace not to be able to do
everything; but to undertake, or pre
tend to do, wliat you are not made for is
not only shameful, but extremely trou
blesome and vexations.
Tiiou lisst a stout licart and strong hands.
Thou i-anst supply thy wants: -That wnjilibt
tllou mart- 7 ' —U. IV. Long/ Uon.
Art is long, life short, judgment diffi
cult, opportunity transient.
No one knows what he is doing while
tho act’s aright; but of wliat is wrong we
are always conscious.
The height charms us, the steps to it
do not; with the summit in our eye we
love to walk along the plain.
A true scholar learns from the known
to unfold the unknown, and approaches
more and more to beiDg a master.
Nothing is more charming than to see
a mother with a child upon her arm ;
nothing is more reverend than a mother
among many children.
As he alone is a good father, who at
table serves his cliildren first, eo is lie
alone a good citizen, who, before all
other outlays, discharges what he owei
tho State.
True art is like good company; it con
strains us iu the most delightful way to
recognize the measure by which, and up
to which, our inward nature has been
shaped by culture.
HISTORICAL.
The first abbeys or monasteries were
founded in the third century.
During the time of the Norman con
quest the game of dice was very com
mon.
In the twelfth century slaves in Europe
were rare; in the fourteenth slavery was
almost unknown.
Cervantes, three years before his
death, became a Franciscan monk; Lope
de Vega was a priost and officer of the
Inquisition.
In 1623 an English attorney suffered
imprisonment and lost both his ears for
“speaking very lewdly and scandalously
of Queen Elizabeth and Henry VIU.”
“I send against you men who are as
greedy of death as you are of pleasures,”
were the words addressed by Mahomet
to the degenerate Christians of Syria.
Henry 11. was the first English mon
arch who emphasized the royal authority
to the weakening of that of the aristo
cracy. Ho was the sworn enemy of the
feudal system.
Eight years before the birth of Na
poleon Bonaparte Itousseau recorded in
print the following augury: “ I have a
presentiment that Corsica is going to
produce a man who will astonish tho
world.”
Heioiie the middle of the sevonth
century the clergy possessed more in
fluence in Spain tlian was exercised by
any other body. At a council in 633 the
King prostrated himself on the ground
before the bishops.
Ventidius Bassus, by his military
skill, nnd by friendship of Julius Caesar
and afterwards Antony, rose from the
position of mule-driver to command of
the Roman Army, aud at last to the
Consulate, 40 B. C.
The researches carried on at Epi
daurus by the Greek Arclneological
Society have unearthed one of the most
celebrated theatres of antiquity, that of
zEseulapius, built of Peutelic marble,
and capable of holding 30,000 spectators.
Egyptian deities were at one time
worshipped at Rome. Juvenal refers to
the Roman women breaking the ice of
1 the Tiber to plunge into its sacred stream
i at dawn of day, and dragging them
selves about on bleeding knees in praise
of Isis.
Trip, passion for gladiatorial combats
was the worst, wile religious liberty was
probably the best, feature of the tbe old
Pagan Society, and it is a melancholy
fact that, of these two, it was the nobler
part that iu the Christian Empire was
first destroyed.
In the reign of Charles HI. the Span
ish colonics iu America were, for the first
time, treated according to a wise and
liberal policy. When George 111. was
fomenting rebellion in the English colon
ies Charles IH. was conciliating the Span
ish ones. ’
First Love.
A long story in the Wheeling Leader
is headed, “Her First Love.” Wo have
no time to read long stories, but if it
was really and truly her first love it is
safe to say he got away. It takes a
practiced hand to know just when to
reel in, pay out more line, and “ play ”
him till he can be landed and put in the
basket. It can’t be done by a girl with
her first love, because of the excitement
when she first feels there is one nibbling,
causing her to shut both eyes, pull for
dear life and throw him fifteen feet into
the air, when the hook drops out of his
mouth, he falls ‘‘slap "into tbe water
end scuds under some old root. The
and -sert of life is strewn all over with the
bleaching bones of first loves, who hate
had their jaw torn off so they could not
masticate their food.— feck's Hun.
The difference between a hungry man
and a glutton is, ‘‘one longs to eat, and
the other eat* too long.”