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¥ * u .,\ ,»f f. F.bif I aon pubs my
pi t tlU in* » ; * lo^iit brotliet
T bvks ii »* « very night a hat a* w
t IV' Ik* *ii up to b»-dftv ; and
|HH.r b*iis, ami says 1 am the
tip rtc chilli she ever fc »w.
k! grnuffxna lookh uj> from
fi. it stuff htittlfH Abe ays,
tut, fi r ! Oi \iuy isn t
tUlV .. rM* Hutu a little girl I knew iota«
ti . >. cried ... I day, , 4 . do .
ile; * * 11 grandma' toll at suit her one for l like to
ac me ;
i at. »ii nmighty little girls. What
Was her name, grandma?” spectacle*
(iruudma looked over her
•t ma-unm and smiled, and mu mm a ikmI
ded and biniled back. Then graiidnia
•niil I ihinU I will tell yon of one of
little (flam’s capers; hut mind, you arc
lint !■* gi* ami do the • aim* thing the first
ch.-ii '■*' vwi get.” grandmother told
Tins is t •*• • torv a
ii
“Little (Jura lived on a farm away
out in tin* country. Hh»- was thcyoimgcat
of seven iiihhin, «n<! a great |>ct, of
conn Hut Hat littU* r< * f««'t
sod ii(i-f ‘oievou* lingers often brought
h. *,t > finable ami diagnuv,
4 Une day Clara's mother laid oeca
ei-.;. go to Ihe store, which wits three
Bide;, away. Clara wanted to go too.
Her mother feared she would he in tie*
Way, anil looked doubtful; but big
broiler Ben tnil, ‘lad her go, mother.
She'd lie good, I know.'
“ VV*|s; let her go, said Susan, who
r*"* I: ring to net » I . ad purse, and keep
l tufa's fingers out of her box of bead
at t *alne time.
" • Do let her g*>!’ U:d It iger. •1
wat ' to ri r my slap H*i ifU'ittiHiti; amt
• 1**1 m* iiui't d * i * tli her around.'
41 * ,f was il i* t Clara should
go ; lui'l it, was tli. W-l of but a fe is
in ts to j *olisli tip ehuliby fa. -
Hl|*i Id. ftu*l brush tbe curly hair.
Tia* k divas, red ho s. and white
■ un •unfit, and w«'rt* Olni-ft j»nt on an qmcklv . aw
p»i. e *>. wan r»*n«lv,
Sow, fft* trv and
4* hi t!11 I Hi I Ml He'ti iift4*d tin lift lo
girl into tin* \vag<m.
f If yo if * I vA llj rnplind ('Utra,
p *> f: j i/.r )ji*r loil lip ,
"‘Hit tint hln- U liitvc! hei>w;lfV‘ you
a tlv. Aii f I will tA'II V* Ml
;* WllGn tlmy numltetl tin* htorn, Mr.
Iht) •, the Mloro'Kfnjiov, out to asnitil
thnin and, art hr hf>)|ied (')aia <mt of
tin- vii^on, he* CfttU d ht r ‘ a HttU hwty,*
"iiK’lt !ii fd«‘ h»’V t«*«*I till of two iutdlOH
tailor than iiHuat. 1 non In- ytivt* tier si
•♦tit*] ‘1 eandy, and lifted In r t«» a neat
*IW ill-* f. iitut ’f, ch*M' hr^ttlc u dr'tr old
pu«*HV f,i(, who |mii rod loudly tin lit
th* f?irl ^mouthed h«T fnr
"(MantSN uiOtln r hint a ^<mh 1 tunny
tl mf r tf htiv, mid wry mk»ii forgot ail
Aironl hi t liltl thoi: htfV: wlirti lu ll
riutn 1 in, htdf im hour lat<*r, lii^ tirnt
qu« si»oii was * W in ) *' (-lara, mother?*
“Hurt* rmougt), wlu jv wsih (’.inra? IH*r
•••iff • enipri. s * had dHappriu * d.
' ( \u !*. Fill I'll ’ i*:dh*d h«»th hf*r tuedh 1 r
aud lien ; but there w * no answer.
4 4 She a in some mi-eluef, 1 said lieu :
•lid, the quick as thought. Iu> rushed into
I k put of the store, followed by
hi* mother and Mr. li.de What a sight
met their eyi** ! Tli focal ('lira, in
the cent* r of th* in s , -stepping back
•lowly, as a pool of i iski--,, streaming
»tcadil> from a hog;*! * ul in tie- eorner,
cl'* i*t tounrds ihe to. - of ln*r little red
l*li( fi- x CAIlght q* l*inra uh ijtuck as
ft lift’ll,
“ No, }p.*;itulma,” ml* rt uubnl mamma,
“it mun Mr. I>•*!«* VvId* <1i<I tbul, while
Uhi mo»»• ■ b t t* t t.i ti Hit* lmit'v't Ui
|>unt*iti furth r u L
“ Mhv, iimimun/' * <h\ \. “how ffo
y«»u know? Won* you tli*-to?**
" I lu-ord about it.* sniff ah<*: auff she
ftuff rriUDlma l»otU suiileff. "Tlie little
girl was just mv age, miff 1 knew her
ren mffl.”
*“ Auff \(*ur nnnn s were l»otb Clara,”
•M.iff l. " How queer
Ar.ff Ji. timim miff grmiffma must have
th* iu li! q queer, too ; for they both
H’u liv'd lunriiiv.
Hon th» Boy s Made Chalk
l o t 1 must tell yon that these little
b 'swho mad** th*' chalk till go to the
swim d s i.ool They arc Ivtwven eight
* ' 1 \e.iis of ape. ami theiv are only
nine ol them.
one iLy their teacher mid to them
»* m«* a^tmt chalk how that it is
t**nu«\l fr >ui liiut* auff a stth ; fhtui slit*
tylff ti* thi ti*. kinff that, t‘\oi*v time wo broatho,
"itrif <-f g-.is that ho!]»s to form
chalk ' out ot our lung* fluff is car
lew iuto tho \ r bv our t>roath.
N a, if wo \ roatlio j- tt> lirm'-nah'r,
what ‘ opens? 1 h ■ liiue is changed.
Th* ’ in our l>r* .eh turns the lime
into chalk. And now we come to tbe
w \ b\ which the children mild * them
•uix* of this.
V May cot .--onie lumps of lime,
s : as i! have seen men ns* 4 to make
. ....... - 1 pt them into a tav,;e bottle
Ol fell wat mte ewder, l «• lumps crumbled, and
l aud mued with the
w iter. Tins formed ihe lime-water.
Afar it had stood u while most of the
lime w t ti* the bottom of the liottle,
; the water looking very clear;
but * .** little bits oi lime stayed with
the water, though they were so small
they could uot l*e
Nii'-s May pxared the clear part into
tvttVs, ami each 1 h*v t**ok one; then
from a long box she took some nice
Straws, such as picture-frames ar»* son***
*11-iv- made of, and handed one to each
child.
Y.a, h clii'd put one end of tho straw
into his bottle, aud tho other cud into his
month, atid 1 ireathed into the clear lirne
water. .V*w watch the change! The
dear mdv.
W*
i t it
4 Uh
it fiir itreai 1.1
fa s our Jrtnirs. li.i; turned tin
*alk, ltemcm •r this, i 1
th ' thing for y.mix-if >*,0,
Anna's Bird.
Ant * little liiril, and sin* calls it
Tot. Jt can will HHgikltd jda) its ; audit is so
[iC that it put bill Istweeu
Ait lip* when »hesay», “Kiss me.
Tot
H r I an**y, .*»so ; fttu«l of tlie bir»i
t it *rtw '■* his ticttfl; ami
Anna i*» trying to make Muff, the c^t,
give Up habit of killizig birds. Hut
I ho}* that Anna wii! !*• cstrcful, and not
trust Muff t<K> far.
J lmvc beard of a cat in a bird shop,
^ iat WftJI trairu*d to tAke care of birds,
illH(4itll<rf harming them; but tin-i«a
rar ,. rasp, jt \& hunt to kc‘ p a cat from
€ . u t<*liitiK birds, and from troubling tuc
jjtth* young ones in their nests.
Anna is ho fond of Tot that she will
not let a cat come in the room where he
ik Tot can whistle a time. He liken to
light on Anna's head, and will somethne*
id most hide himself under her t tin
i m i r Hi ie feeds him, and giv« h him E)
Iiatli every day, and Jets him fly alKiut
the room,
If Tot were to flv out of tL** window,
J think In- would try to get back to his
own little cage, so food is he of Anna.—
,! unit * A out.
A Tlih-f Disguised iis a \ohle Rady
A noble lady from Holland landed
hen* with a secretary, a maid, and a
tailored footman, the little set putting up
at the White Home Hotel, in Leopold
stadf. The Countess, in taking the best
suite of apartments intimated to the
hotelier that she expected her father-in
law, who was to be married shortly to an
AuHtrian noble «if tin* lmat WcmmI. ami
that the wielding bam|iict would take
place iii the Hotel. Him hired a hand
home c irrihge and drove out every day
with her footman on the box by the side
ot the coachman. During her drives
she stopped at many shops, ordered
samples hotel, and patterns to lie sent to her
and at the same time made pur
eliases of siiks, laces, fine trousseau
btie.i h*; tin* bride, etc,, never di-tinrs
j i11;* a siiijjh* lireuz r, for the colored font
man s*> thor confidence sigldy ivpteaant d wealth
ahd inspired that *hnp-keep
i j >-i» loble were only too glad to send to the
I ihino-'i hotel double the stuff's she
ordered. The C.uiuteas also called on
1 -r rs, one of whom hod just
r -r mdse.me garni'lire in liril
hunt w bieb at once took her fancy, be
itig valued at tie* lo -t at 5(1,009 II wins,
UiUt iic*r-iR*iftw iHiiijf' (‘xjMH*t* 4 «l on
tlu- following day thv jeweler rt*
tit I»i iuft tiu* stjfc to tfcfC hotel itt. u
giwii lu'iir. This was douo, and \\ht*n
tin* diuMUMid mi tfimnt lit* wsw r<*
i„, ...iff ti„. no.mh.Hs
t.mk the bull, ew into h.!v the next s-ingi nmni
where in. lather.,„ ass ,!r,
st,,* mud. \.t*r waiting knitek-d a quarter of m
hour. M.. .Icwele, *«t the door
.... B° ,, *dPWi . ||
i«mud it hu*knd. A nossg in th *, pasbJ^c
siftracfM hin ntS*fitiou. A rush, and ho
is in tin* |H»v?n*r'rt lof.’* , wlu*o* In* iimls
tho (’imntfl ss dabguiaefi m man’s clot ))oh
mid guard*• ! hy u ftniM. Providence
hud waniod tho |M»rti<*r, and ho had
•4o|»|>od tin 0 «>iiuU*ha in gootl time as
rtlso was gjitliug |>ust in Jit.*r iJiaguiae. He
Hiivod tin* Vieuna from the
loss of many thousand*, and placed a
sot of dangorouH thieves under tiro ltK*k
of juntioo, J'he trades people art* vory
grafoful. and the porfter has re<*fived
tin it* thanks with many bows uml
HtdaiDH. him shdlinp, The jeweler, but T he believe, deeliind offered
a to
tuk«* it.— Vo nnu l.rtU r.
Idle Fu Iso, j
Within the limits of health there may
be *naidei able variation in the ire- 1
(*■
(lUonev ot the pulse, ilidVriug the number ill of ;
pulses p< r npmit< musculnr ftetiun, mentnl v 1 ag \ : j
ISI stature, ae
tioii, the state of the ilig« alive process,
and the time of day. The average fre
tjui'iiey per minute is approximately table in¬
dicated by tho following given by
Car|H*ntm*:
l*ul it in tin* in w !y-lMirn 'avit----- ■ i
l*iiJ h> thiriiifl? Iut ,o*ar.......... . .,115 to i;ui
Culst* dnrlbi! ‘iii >tor.... ........ : I | I
l'u!i»** iluviug ;kl \«*ar............ . *.♦.') t». ion
PuiM* aurlur "tli t > U*n \«»r ..... . . H0 to 90
1‘uloMturaiK Hilt to 2J»t yoir ... 75 to H5
l*ulm* duriiiK ^***1 to you . . .. To to 75
in uid »k«*................... ....... . *75 tv» HO
la inflammatory or acute diseases the
pulse may rise to J20 or even 150 in the
adult, and become so frequent in tho
child that it can not be counted. Muscu¬
lar exertion, mental excitement, diges¬
tion, alcoholic drink and elevation above
the sen level accelerate the pulse, and
as a general rule it is more frequent iu
the morning than in the evening. effect It is
slower in sleep and from the of
rest, diet, eold or blood-letting. exeeeffs that The
pulse of a grown woman of
a man of the same age as much as 10 to !
H iH'ats a minute, and according to
some authorities is less frequent iu the
full than in the short person, tlie varia¬
tion living uliout 4 licuts for each six
inches of height
A Sarrcff Hold Mi no.
In the eleventh and twelfth verses of
the second chapter of Genesis will be
found the following important informs
tion :
“The name of the first is Pisoii ; that
is it which couipas-rth tile w hole land
of Havilah, where there is gold, and the
gold of that land is good.”
The Chicago luter-i k.an states with
uppan'iit seriomwesa that a company of
London gentlemen, who have neither
followed their tngersoll Bible nor the scientists into
l>osc notions, have organ
feed themselves into a company to test
flit* truth ul the above sacred assurance.
and that the stock of tho “Havilah”
gold mine has actually been placed on
the London market, the proprietors an¬
nouncing it to Is* the richest in tlie
world, and the passage from Genesis is
qui fid as proof of it from an inspired
•001. o.
A Boston liu.snn imui tried to mu
pitv a game of liase-ball Is*tween is,
nim - made up of his etnplovt s, and, i«*
f *,v the tourili inning, he had discharged
every one ot Ui players tr> n his era
p**o. cut down ni wages of the seer
ami Kvu throwu over a fence bv ' ti.
e veiled men.
Making Blass.
Ill Si (j eer.ptioi, of the San Francis*;,
Glass Work a piper 4 liiat eity g*
“ te pr iuul m»*~f intfPr stiii ^
of ti fe» are tilt- fn
iif the prlis melt*
rt work ic
. Apt old if) ,Tt W ft' SL
tie
1111
huil tar* und ing of f tc. tu the
r ia bif'it the large 1 which
frorti tile floor of tin sco ud story
in the hape of a large dome, about
twenty feet m diameter. At interval,
piercing the walls of thi a dome, are
oneuings aliout nine liu-ln which’ <iuare
giving acce»a to the iut iior, in
maid a fierce fire, can l>e »*<*n seven
s«!r: 7:5 “rr-s
heat, like tiieir contents. Around thia
riSwX»hof
low rod of iron, one end of which they
dip into the molten glass. A few turns
winds upon the talai aqwuitttyof thick
molten mate,ial, whidi is then with’
drawn and held high in the air whii e the
work mail blown tliroiigh tUc* tnlie until
the glass begins to expand. Then the
soft bull* of tlie red-hot glass is r.died
rapidly for over a stom- to .dtajM: it properly
blowing, and then dropped down
into an open mold, which the workman
<• os*s by u lever operated by his f.sit.
When shut into the mold, a few strong
blows into the tube causes the glass to
expand and fill the mold exactly. The
il**.1*1 is then aliened and *. 1 Kitt le trr.it
jar, demijohn, or whatever the mold is
intended to form, is taken out. The
comieetion of the bottle with the glass
remaining bottle, on the blow-pipe is broken off,
and the parts of which are still
red-hot, is carried to large ovens lmilt
around the sides of the room, in which
they are stacked up. These ovens are
kept heated while the bottles are tieing
stacked; but when a sufficient number
lias txsAi obtain'd to till the ovens, the
lire is allowed to die out, and the in
tarior called is gradually cooled.^ and This process
i» tempering, w necessary to
prevent the breaking of the bottles by
sudden cooling in the air of the ordinary
temperature. the workmen The rapidity the operutioiiscun with which
i*erform
r* tidily tw realized when it is known that
the works, in full running order, can
turn out titty gross of fruit jars per day,
besjd* s a large number ot bottles of
different kinds.
The sand, which is obtained in Mon¬
terey-, is brought to the works in bags,
aud is then mixed with soda ash, lime,
salt, magaiiese, cobalt, ami arsenic the
mineral snlist inees being used to correct
the color of the glass. When dark glass
is to be made, tike that seen in brandy
bottles, black lead, imported from Hun¬
gary, is added. When the ingredients
h ive been proper jr mixed, one ton is put
into a j sit, uml is melted through the
fifiiius and La/iin*s«»,
About as fociJish a notion as can
itself in the head of a young man
1 (h '' iih ' n t,m< h " “ g.mius, and,
| f^for. 4 , .lutestry is not ne< 4 es-ary to
*“ <>X .‘ n* Sh " rKl .‘ U, “ M
* himsclt the endowments 1 ol three
in ex
traordiimrv men, being a writ, a drama
fist and an orator, is not infrequently
numtinned as supporting this notion.
Sheridan was a genius, and he was
huy. lbs ludotem-e however together
with his dissipated and prodigal habits—
the three are natural associates—
that weighted him so heavily in life’s nuv
it was only now and then In* np
peared among the foremost. He never
reached the goal.
Even these appearances were due to
spurts of hard work, to which ho was
sion spurred the by the necessities of the ocea
or protests of friends.
“You know 1 am an ignoramus,” he
would say to political associates, when
they urged him to make u speech on
some important measure before the
I toils.* of Gunmens, “but instruct me,
and I’ll do mv best.”
They would cram him with infonna
ti.in, which his quick intellect mastered
and arranged. Then ho would prepare
a speech, writing the move brilliant parts
two or t tire* times over.
The greatest speech, of bis life was
that which he delivered in the House of
Commons, against Warren Hastings, on
the question whether he should be
impeached for his conduct while Govern¬
or General of India. The best orators
and critics placed it above all ancient
and modern speeches.
L“gati, one of Hastings’ defenders,
said to a friend, after Sheridan had
tqaikcu for an hour; “All this is dedam
at ory assertion without proof.’’
“A wonderful oration !” he muttered,
when the orator had consumed another
iniUt,
1 !f 8tlu 8 a a <*‘<*'! very on
jiistitiabh . Ins eoutessiou the
, was at
end of the third hour,
The fourth hour drew from lum the
{“hganpt *1Jot assertion, joun urimiual “ Mr. ! Hastings is a
I 10 eoneludipg—lie orator went on, spoke and, just and as he
was halt five a
hours—Logan exclaimed, “ Of all
monsters, the most enormous is Warren
Hustings f"
It is not strange that Pitt, at the eon
elusion ot the speeeh, moved an ad
juurmneut to give the House time 41 to
Collect its reason.” Of course, it was
tile product of a genius who was a liatu
Tjl work orator. for days, But genius preparing had been hard
with elalas
rate cave even the pettiest details of the
wonderful oration.
Hlieridan, though haliitually lazy,
Could, in spt'oial emergencies, toil like a
(f art-horse drawing a loud up bill. He
h*.l, at times, “ the eapaoity for infinite
lien Minx-taking," genius. which If is Carlyle’s will delini- add
of young men
tips idea to tiieir notion of genius, it will
Sc them no harm to think themselves
membersof that endowed class. — Youth's
ibmpa/iion.
American Inventions.
The sixteen American inventions of
Word-wide adoption are the cotton gin,
the planting machine, tbe the telegraph, tlie
grass mower aud reaper, rotary print
Big press, steam navigation, the hot-air
|wgine, industry, the sewing the machine, machine the mauufact- India
riiotK*r
urc of horse shoes, the sand blast for
Carving, the gauge lathe, the grain ele
Cator, avtirtenil ieemaking and on a large
scale, the oleetrie magnet telephone. ite praeti
tad apnlicstion, the
KISIORICAL.
■ Paulo* ■«*»“«--■», ere used as early a.> . 1.JSI. 1M
LiFE-Boaxs wert i iureated in the year
IT-7.
?rs known ia tbe sixteenth
1‘BED wa t!ie first Saxon king who
• lUi ii,, t*‘d.
Pensy- ■,j ia first mentioned in Eng
j lish statut iu 1711.
'
Mills for draining water from lands
were tir -t used isi Holland in 1408.
Qcnsx El. IX v beth nsed to embroider
| boos covers with gold and stiver thread.
At thf. end of tbe fourth cental? in*
! cine ration hid fallen into general ffisn&e.
tnrv
» Fri ;-' ,n tLe ^
3.”°°’ a,1< 3 ,u England at the t.me t oi f he
( -" u 'l ut " st -
introduction of , plating , on
The first
copper was in 1712 by a cutler of bhef
England. of mod
Bkick layer%’ hods, like those
cm times, are mentioned in the four
teenth century.
No fours are found at Herculaneum,
so they are not supposed to have been
used in that era.
Amos*, the Anglo-Haxons the science
0 ( medicine “ Z and ^ Ly. of the law was inonopo
• • |,v
'
L -*• 1asners barb for l,ot , , * 'f T * ,
f
*** b - v D “ teh t fl J'“ w *“ ,IU Eaglttud
1 *e rr ' ,0 '" d the ,,lea in
lx kari.v times shad and salmon were
caught in large quantities m the >Vil
luuautic River as far up as Tolland.
lx 1602 Bartholomew Gosnoid, a mar
i n,> r of the west of England, discovered
and named the peninsular of Cape Cod.
Amovo the Saxons on New Year’s day
the “wassail bowl ” was carried from
door to door with singing and merriment.
lx the fourteenth century ‘in ulass mir
ro rs were extremely rare France,
while metallic ones were ia common use.
Tiffi knotted walking-stick and wallet
were distinctive attributes of the Greek
and Reman philosophers, especially the
Cymes.
The Athanasiun Creed, used in France
about the year 850, is ascribed both to
Atliiinasius of Alexandra ami Hilary of
Alice.
The cork tree is fit to he barked when
it is twenty-six years old, and it is then
harked every eight years. The quality
of tiie hark improves with the in.Teas
ing ago of the tree.
The first white settler of what is now
the town of Windham, Conn., was John
Cates, an English refugee, who hid there
in the Autumn of ltiS8.
fT WAR in the year 1550 that Pullisv
father of French p, .tterv Work, made Ins
discovery as to the method of olitniiiiug g
brilliant colors upon 1 china. *
C ophrmits, the most celebrated math
cmatician irnd astronomer iff the age in
whi<;h he 1-1.-, lived, ami was died born at i non., Iffrus
in b,M.
Lie Mi.ssachusetts General Hospital
Philadelphia B ‘n , ^t" 4 n Hospital. C ,' Ullt It *'>- was mcorpo- tue
rated in 1811 and opened for patients in
1821.
JI hytbilK'rt 4 .,,.. cent Morris, was first proposed in 178“
o" the great financier of
ie Revolution, and named by Jefferson
‘ W o years later. It made its
from the nnoearauce
mint in 1792.
The professors of anatomy at Naples
iu 1645 first conceived tlie idea of mak
ing leaf skeleton*, by (lewmpositum
Frederick ltuvs.-li, a Dutclmmu ’ i m l
proved tbe proves.-* ' in 170.S ’
,, f ! k ‘'i“ t , l CUUtUI ' y „ 1 U
10 ' rm
r " as applied i to * ornament* upon
limed h eee Tl“‘ a Tf S " ^ Vn ' ,,fi;
such ornamcn s ii f A-i—"* w J ffi U~o “
The Terrible Pellagra.
It is about. 150 years since the pellagra
made its appearance in Europe, first in
Spain, afterward iu France and Italy,
and later in Greece and other countries.
In Italv the seour.ige has assumed vast
proportions. In the province of B.-r
“tuno alone, in the year 1878, at least
■20,000 persons, it is calculated, were of
tlicted with the terrible epidemic, almost
id per cent, of the agricultural popnl.i
tic.1 of that province. The effect of the
malady is a complete degradation of the
physical and intellectual powers. The
greater part of the victims either die in
tin- lunatic asylums and hospitals ser^s or
commit suicide, leaving the of tbe
maladv (a sad heritage) to their children.
This is a terrible picture, and Signor
Alhorglietti, a member of the Provincial
Commissiou of Bergamo, from whose
ro|*ort, ahove lately puldfehed, I gather the
particulars, advocates the most
urgent and stringent measures, on the
part of the Government to arrest the
ravages of the disease. As it lias been
nicontestaI.lv proved 1 that the pellagra 1 ^
made i v
its -i appearance and x increased • v with ,
the uicrcased cultivation of maize, that
whatever thedifterenceof soil,climate,
nuv, social regulations, manners and
customs those places only are infected
wnere the food of the agricultural popu
lation consists chiefly iti maize *ioui in
the shape of polenta or oread, auct that
even those already affected with the
malady are speedily cured if their diet
lie varied with meat, vegetables, radical etc.,
Signor Aiborghetti advocates a
reform iu the food of the agricultuaal economical
laborers. He proposes that
kitchens superintended and by provincial
commissions regulated aeeordiiig to
the size of the parishes and the numl r
of lawsons afflicted with the disease,
should lie established, and that medical
oili... rs of the V-arWi, at the first sign . 1
the pellagra inva.nng a hitherto iv -
A-.,, lOllrtieti 4, .,1 dlTvtriki, rthouid MIOliia lvive 1UH the l -H power j
benefits of such economical kitchens.
Tiff, lie s-ivs is the best, most rapid
uid efficient wav to put an end to the
epidemic.— 2?apL* Cor. London Daib,
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Eiiglish t leanlmoNs.
An American correspondent English vmtes:
The cleanliness of the towns
and cities deserves an allusion. of the No
American city in any part nearly soclean. conn
try lias been seen by morning us if they
Thev look iu the as night,
liad been well swept during the
You hardly get your shoes dusty in a
half day’s walk.
Iceland's Pompeii.
From th*' geyser th e fa a plain new
t j Jf . of this unfortunate island. It
j.s interesting only on account of its his
torv, ud looks so much like other
mountains that, unit sss you were a geo!-
1st, i nr it tel! it from hnn
,lr < Bring 5,3(11 Englishmen, feet high,
It parucu charms t* *r
w! at to 1 b.,rn with a hereditary
propensity to cum’*, out as most ot the
ponies that have attempted to climb it
came * town with a rush over its f reach
erous pumice-lined sides, no sane Amer
lean has yet I wen up to its toji. About
the tune they celebrate the next Ktiilen
jnal here, *bey pat up e. •TiicolVs
ladder, as they nave it at 3lonnt\\a*ii
o?Uoimn-light effects, as the h ive at
Vesuvius, ' Americans, I have no doubt,
SKSt , siur^ii
js a faTorite screeching place of the
eagle. Tiie reputation of Heela is like
I11;l ny others-more than her due. She
is heard of in all lauds, yet Skspta .To
hul lias done twice as much m a volcanic
way, and little is known about her.
In my reminiscences I was almost for
getting about bkapta Joknl Skapta
may i>e said to occupy tne soutliwestern
portion of Iceland. »he is no ordinary
f**H, for she Kliodc has pre-empted Island for a herself. space
>>«gfier U>aii tllat s!
? sn 1 !f 15 “° x ‘ l ° 0! J ? r ,‘
‘I n,res " “«* sht! dou ‘
want. Skapta s greatest effort wits per¬
formed in 1783, seventeen years alter
Het-ia liad don.* the best she knew how.
The reading of the account of Skapta s
work null invigorate the imagination,
for she gets away with anything the
pennj-dreadful the beginning author of June, ever thought of the of.
About year
named, the usual preliminary noise be
gan nine, m and the on neighborhood the 8th. of of the the month mount- a
great volume of smoke atm ashes spread
over the whole district of bias, going v*
the'direction against the wind. Gn the
AU tl
, . j wafcer a ‘ 1 22 s uki S *P"
peared. Fire broke out on t-lie mouut
lL j n) two days later a stream of lava
came oozing out of the dhrbedof the
r i ver . Notwithstanding that the channel
was (iffU feet deep aid 2o0 inundated wide, the lava
overflowed the hanks and the
Meddelland country, lifting the grass as
it went ns water would float a film of oil.
The stream finally floated into the Med
delland lake, tilled it up, and then di
vided into two streams, one of them
again seeking the course of the river
aud finally leaping, maddened and hot,
into the sea, over the great cataract of
Stapafoas, whose brink is 800 feet above
the sen level. The other stream, after
traversing a wide section of lowland
country, found a line of least resistance
1,1 tbe’flverfiRflirt river bed. This lout
Btrea “ °o kV ‘ l * Tr'^'Z
V<J A evl tJ(ero is much ot u it, ho muoh
150 onfi kn(,ws * n ! a eouufc 7 '; v, r ^ hich
no man has , ever been—is forty miles m
length and seven in width. fifty That which
went over the cataract fc miles long
and fifteen broad. The lava ceased to
flow w August, and tho.convulsion mid¬
ed with a grand earthquake. For a
??* >} « mU,maJ *> Rll “ C .““ ferB
and dust and thousands of acres ot grass
land were buried and withered under the
hot showers. It is estimated that 190,
000 »h' 4 ep, 28,000 d£ed horses, 1C81llt ll.OOp cattle tile
aud y * ,l{10 1,1011 as a ot '
eruption. Since then there has been
nothing worth mentioning in the volcano
line .—Letter from Iceland,
, Fhe r , 1,,lsJlle8s • «* , hoJ!,i1 8 litlwgrapli«l ....
«omiou» for lazy uiiuistm was formerly
confined to England au« Scotland. Now,
however, the New York Fun discovers
tl,at there is a house in Chicago
engaged in supplving For this verv peculiar
class of literature. half a dollar a
clergyman who is too indolent or too
ignorant to prepare an original sermon
can procure which, if a placed very respectable-looking his pulpit
one, on and
read to his congregation will lend them
to believe it is iris own composition and
penmanship. This is a bonanza to a
certain class of preachers, and will ro
' , vo , ot . ot * ho 1 ™<lf?ery
,, “ la 110,1 <
'""kes pastoral . . labor irksome,
4,,4<l <*- 1 ff««»rly decay among tlie nnui.s
( erfiun c.ergy men who have ac¬
‘j U,ne 11110 a veputatiou l.y picking tor brilliancy have
‘ «. up the published
-sermons ot enuneut nmn.-tus. IIus is
Attended with great mk, and is almost
sm " ° f olk, "’ ed <*spi*nre : when
s<,u ;' > '" , 1 " ho ? ,as 1 . ! a PP 0U « 3 m roa<1
-
1,1 l>m. t discovers wh'at
}‘ v i ! nllllUlt clergymen have J»eei> doing.
Ha 4 business of supplying sermon man
^rn.ts in lithograph houses m a specialty do by
1 he whien do it .not
1 ithograph tue sermons ol famous di
vines, hut keep m their employ several
f U ‘ r & vwen " bo *'« e to orJer
the puq.ose The English concerns
k *’M* a large and well assorted variety of
sermons on hmid, as they have to meet
all manner of requirements, lav both as to
^ J , - of treating them,
Tt ,‘ l Cr oi thogo who fiu-iiLl, these
Rerrn !K that tlie people who hear
tbpi)1 ()lvadlc ff wlll have the advantage than if
i ist0 i,ing to far better sermons
th , ,, u . hpvs who use them had deliv
em | ffj sconrses 0 f their own manufac
til IV.
A Teutonic Argument.
Iu tlie Legislature of Ohio, some
years ago, there was a warm dispute
whether a certain proposed railroad
, should commence at a given point down
or at;a certain other up the.liver,
" Vlho ever Inard, “o{. said a down-the
’ river advoctt^ beginning my thing
; at the top ? }\ ho evi; heard of bmkhng
Wimtv.i ki. jila i -‘® 4 “ j; -l
v. p JllSlpOtl a DatCll membei i n mi afi
Kx.viv- r pnmit*- " ATtWer Bvr i
■ 3ces hc
r 4 -» •••'* all von noomfioog. peciutae vee
vants to pegeen oat rauruat wit ae top
<->v <ie Slitate, nnd he make some seelv
eombansons apout de houze imd de
>. •]' imYlOY. 1 Tee] also ass Cld jentie
mans von questions. Eon bees bart ov
de Sbtate, ven dey pegins to built von
velL do dey mgrns mit de bottom ov de
veil, or do dev pegins mit de top ov de
veil? Veel de jentlemans Wees answer
me dat leetle von question? ”
The laughter which explosively showed fol
Sowed this Teutonic retort who,
in the opinion of the legislators, had the
better of the argument.— Harper's Alag
azinr.
FIR RENTS.
The Greeks called scissors a “ doable
I he pea is supposed to be a native of
Fra
The earliest known nails were made
< >f copper.
The sceptre of Charlemagne was seven
f. at Joutr.
Ca;.*jle is from a Greek word mean
in t> shine.
The Homans eonsiJered it disgraceful
to be donned.
The earliest mention of parks is among *
t; Persians. ,
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Theee are forty-six *[>eeies of tiieEng
lish cuckoo.
Disteks were at first made of the tail*
the «£zra%*. anci&it Firmans. ™ *»., *.
Pilots wejeu;i.;*<*ntty called lodeamen,
from lode-stac, the ]» >iur stai-.
( 'oral was anciently deemed an excel¬
lent antidote against pji .on.
Bracelets were given as a reward of
bravery to soldiers in the Middle Ages.
i Trees Elizabeth i--ft three thousand
Cliangrs of lirei-s in the royal wardrobe.
The Emperor Augustus in liis letter
hours. writing dated even ihe divisions of the
Coleriimie and OoMsiritii wrote “The
House that Jack Bniit ’ and “ Goixly
two-shoes.”
Euvptiax sieves were miule of papy¬
rus, or rushes ; those of horse-hair were
first used by ihe Gauls.
The early sheriffs of London had be¬
fore their door two posts, upon which
wore exhibited public edicts.
The Persians swore by the sun ; the
Scythians by the air and their scimetars;
the Greeks and Romans by their gods.
The Chinese divide the day into
twelve parts of two hours each. The
Italians reckon the twenty-four hours
round.
A kind of portable chaffing dish, upon
which perfumes were burnt, w as carried
as an ensign of honor before the Roman
magistrates.
Grecian doors open outward, so that
a person leaving the house knock first
within, lest he should open the door in
the face of a passer-by.
Froissart mentions a person who,
it having his chin cut off in a riot, replaced
by one of silver, winch he tied by a
silken cord around his head.
Flints are found in the tombs of the
-Northern nations, they having ltccn sup¬
posed to he efficacious in confining the
dead of their habitations.
Tiie Roman soldiers .carried, in their
military baggage, chains for prisoners of
war—iron for common, and of gold and
silver for rich prisoners and princes.
The office of Mnrqnis v ns formerly to
guard the frontiers and limits of the
kingdom, which were called the marches,
from the Teutonic word mart he — a
limit.
On the Patent Roll of Henry TV. is a
record which allows Matthew Flint,
tooth' drawer of London, sixpence a day
for life upon condition of las drawing
the teeth of the poor gratuitously.
Christian names are so called fry hav¬
ing lieeu given to converts in baptism ah
substitutes for tlicir former pagan ap¬
pellations, many of which were borrowed
from the names of their gods, aud weie
therefore rejected as profane.
Among the early Romans a kind of
Fasti, or annals, was kept by driving
nails into the walls of the Temple of
Minerva ; and in public calamities, in
time of pestilence, etc., a nail was fas¬
tened in the Temple of Jupiter.
The institution of the “Order of the
Rath " originated in the custom of the
Franks who, when they conferred
knighthood, bathed before they per¬
formed the ceremony, aud from this
habit came the title Knight of the Bath.
Pocket Pistols.
Since cast iron revolvers can be bought
for :i dollar, in about every other boy and
young man the State has one of these
weapons in his pocket, and makes it a
constant companion as his watch or
pocket-knife. At a bowery dance or a
billard room in tho heat of passion he
whipes it out and commits a murder. Ih
this peaceful age no man wants a revolv¬
er, except at liis own home, to protect
himself and family from burglars. Tlie
law against a man making a peripatetio
arsenal of himself, if enforced, would put
a stop to three-fourths of the murders.
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