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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.”