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Ol a V«H V. I til.fiS, st i r. i.nii .1 rail it*»S #1 »> 4 1 J r. fail* dui ■ ♦'ith, wHat fh M thof ! • |; * e>An,u ’Id «* **4,* • wfcaf rr» *• Wat, t f t I litit Ilia wilt 1 At; I. t m »*• * •'Oh art w»*«t w»r o Cf if.t ffi» *ith<*r Im *'hln |I»*i' ’ • »U J fj»i* * ajif* n < 41, I 4 .il ft**' " ft *r c lucky I * onr MU* h. Am I tt * * | ’* I H*ft fiwliur < tf’u (* I 10*1* » h,r r*t wait f. , IIm O t, fytw KO I th, J 4 ** t'-*W i.i’Mt (ail. ■ • I. *f II* sit t«j iri At J flu* k*}*• •‘i Witig, I fi- -m Imr n M n *i tv» i-. it* -1 r* .vaid all A I tb«t 1 He tr* Www •!****» r «* thf-m, H II •» *!'!«!. I <> itf U*f k *np I. <ti 'i ■* i* tm li / *.' • ptm t sicnET Pr Ic- ' «t , ■■ t. and nobody could find ml She would do stairs 4u t Hi ining, sad wal J,ers-if at the bn s t ild,., and tin ii jaqia would say, “w r, j’siis, a \ou going to tell us y*ut S' c ot to Painy '.. .itId hak* la*r homl, and re jpK, •* V■>. must guess it, pajia !” Can you not, iqi ..it?’ ** Wot , I gn>wa you lmve a new tisitli mom mg. ’’ "On, no, that is no! it Mother can * tav - iaiU -.r than that, I think. It con *anu vou, illi o r. o ui , " II 1 gu •«, s ii.l mother, “ that you ■■ ri, I, ,V . the pre-eut of a kitten iron, im.t .1 uli. • •■tel I file (Iioss," Slid brother John, mho ... years (butting old . than i.air Pansy, cuff’s “I I.., , you are a of f • . l •' Y I are all wrong," cried Pansy, “and I all'll not tell von my re,-ret to All T *• <i morning, initi a* she was coining lows St»irs. she d, and reel to lo t *'lf, “ Hli.tii 1 fell thcui sc', iny wen t now? tin, Pali y, I'd tic-in that yon can jm Hf i *1 ' No „ i was sl„. seatitl at the tii'ile l.or lugh. imtoii Ireir, tla pqm Sint, “Well, PfttM , lit»vv I'mgor mo you ^oing to k..,.p us ... I.......... ' ’ Vie you till us your seeret ? *’ Not yet, p ipa, said Pansy, liaiking «p with a roguish smile. “ What owi it be V" said mother, lay¬ ing down her Unde and fork, and putting ho baud to bm head, J d..n’t believe hrothei it is any tldug of ativ •mount," ericil Johu. “ She wants Well, t , keep think us eiirious," learn ** 1 pi Pansy must be her 'tom lug i new 'ce to recite,'’ said her Unit's it,” .il Pa “H •* nut iv. a ^portan t s. et , one that mother will like b.-.u ” “Oil, it’s impiiibi'.i! i; it V” ■ iid papa, **J .to s-m.-dcr nli.-it *it '-.ni be ?' '• Mot'ii v, whit l-v ,s it that you lost your wedding ltd John. “ IWl mm ,tli nl it. .f<dm II was ■row titan I* month M" 1 have hunted high iwitl low, s- I nit not find it. I I xronUl have given all ntv other miliet ill’ll, (i ,ve led It Here | Vi-.v term I red in tie' face down fr,in her hichair, and r.in «d (he loom. •• rial i,m relied 1 -aid papa Kith 0 1 * in * b,H found the ring, u,d l! her ’jolt., mmulelhtnxy 1,1 f. met lu a camel aril, fin ring. Mid her tmv radiant with light. *<• 1 found il, mother, arnon-, doli's tliint,.' You must have droine it th ic wli n ven were fixing them,” Ynd so little Fine, s . ret was out rii,(, ft-,.,! H,m,*■ I, Phfimj the Chinomn * Franz is a little lire, id out four old a ho lives in Hi.-Alvu Ote.fi'irn , It IK tsvorite plnv I- to take some pie «r cl.»*),, lilUiis in,mill with wafei his bead t rom side t sid- lettin:' w it.r uqtiirl from the corners of ssoutli ui......hern (as he has see,, OIh.miiihii <to«t the laiiialrv h fold them i tom n,o .................. iV t . * . 1 , r f ' Tins im , , ’^STC , , i 8 are not. wet . * .j ■ .« lb'* '** V r miT.!' nv* K ■ l»n i v mg giHH ' ' * b °- th l * " l n ,,tu .it i i * , 1 ‘ 4 j ,'T 1 u !i f il ,lll '|\ ,, i u lu s _ J* ‘7,*' , *, l l , i K ! l , 1 * \y .->o,i.«ey \umt, te says tnuiiMie . wann- . u 4,1 » n,< 4 ° 151 Whenho , peh . fifed . j of t .. thi» . , pufe , f bm tM»l. into api'.'Mif piq.-i-, takes bun.lfo to mammtv. “1 H qv 11 * *** n " “H* blue, Jehu, say* " mwiim it. * , * ' ” '' ' •' “■ 1 Aui ' ' vn, AiA 1 “ » ,x‘ Kl ?' _n ,'U b Irni , , 7 ., ',ii ... ,1 , , ’,"' . 1 it. „ ‘ ' ,, i ' ‘ ..... » • , 1 , ,, , !' •' . ' ” «Sixh»fa . (Sv'vcnty-ftve centa.) , . ,. r I dot,', n \ .Il> oh ap. Munmi', gives him two butt,ms. one tai:. for the four-lift piece, eentek «ud a smaller one for tho “ • V! , .. „ ' ' ' ' i.evx “Good by, returns mamma. fiabet s Secrets And . , what , . wore . her secret-? *9 o]., Slu W v:.;.T;reV,‘ jsi 11 night, she alwayscliuilietl upon liis to t. It him everything that bad hapiK m b-r little world during the day ; tier paps always listened to her w ib a great deal of interest. V w, there was something she not tell, aud Mabel could think of ■•n ^before that to this country amount r H 4 J-» s •E't’ f t-, i,i»i -• • d »i«ie li'tle M < TT ‘■the l itiv tli: i i ii* r v rfee hit e »♦ ;wi. ** MstBrna knows, ft he « MiHonpd “ fait v«*n mu- tnH kiiar-v; i w •e goiag Hild to iiavi a Chri»tm rr it :!li Oil, very bo* ly will lie ire CtnristmaB Ev* cmii . er t (flit ® Riir§>med, oBt, tiftti most iio!i of !!. little yin IWl : for a 1* and uiaiiy oU » r prett* u thing? i buug ttpou the tr* e bar her. Why. m aroma/’ he exclaimed, ^'honiebody ox? mast Inve 1 « ret.s, too!” The Geese and the Hawk tme davit, Mav, as Charles walked through th- fields', he saw n large hawk h«»v. ring in the air, and heard a noise an of •cuekUnK S am an old mother (OH mo with a troop Aim. of little ones, cam* mo»i„« toward Si knew t at Charles would protect ha- # „d her iedgttiurs from the cruel l,uwk -in ■ and she was not mistaken. He took « stick, and looking up at the hawk, said : “ Now come on if you dare, vo .1 old tinel!" ■ The hoik iiKidu a sw.aip down to the griding*, top of a tree neat by. caught doubt, sight id the m 1 would, no have liked to elntcli one of them and carry it oft; but. the robber-bird \reji not quite i»oid enough to do this while Charles sf.ssi by. At last (he hawk flew off out of right, mid Charles called his g.xid dog Fido, arid Jxntitl'd at the geese, and sakl : “ Take care of tliem, sir.” So Fido sat down near by, and watched Hie geese. I think if the hawk had come then, Fido would have been more than a match for him. In the Swing. The swing was hung , from , an old ,, oak . *»* . »» . Knmd«n«»tlier i „ , a grove. _ ,j,, lucre »“H 1 and 1 used to go every firm sum im ,-morning before breakfast, aud swing five inmates. Me did not swing fow««'r timn ti'at because feo much of this kind of exercise is not healthy. Ono<\ wji«n I had swung her very mi* high, Mabel had a fall, butjjt did hurt lier, for she fell among some tufts of soft grass; Isit if her head had struck ti stone, it might have done her great harm After that wo were both more l ive years have gone _by_ ... since those davH. , Wo noth go to Hchuol, and I do not think you would know us. But s't'nmcr we horn, to visit grand ujotm-r ouco mor«‘, and ,,nd wo ahall revive ,1 “’ “ V1,1K '‘ r tluU ‘ ld " ttk 111 The sly squirrels will c<nno out and lisik at u* ; the bird* will twitter, and try to make us think that they have no nests iii the trees and bushes therea¬ bouts; but we shall say, “We -hall do you mi harm, birds, squirrels, beetle* — no harm- for we love you all! Ho play on, and please let us play too.”— Hdith. ~— t mlileiiis of Mourning. “I trust that bhu k will not always rcnuiii mi emblem of mourning in this country,” said a dealer in nnimning goo.;., who is a scholar as well us a im-r chant “It is not a suitable emblem, but it implies an absence eeituitily nt light nhd a want of life which iu- do not wish to convey as out conception of the state is supposed our of departed Ik* the friends. outward Mourning visible to s'/u of inward grief. Tlie notion of a cliimue, however, would not readily be I. - veil, for when one has to put on the Imbiliuionta of woe grief is too suong to bo overcome by fashion." “ Wh it Other colors arc used iu “In Italy women grieve iu white gar melds aud men in brown. In China white is worn bv both sexes, fu Tur key, eeiitial Syria, blue Cappadocia is the tint and chosen; Armenia, iu Egypt yellowish deemed brown, the hue of the dead leaf, is proja'r, and in Ethiopia, where men are black, gray is tlie emblem of mourning. All of these colors are syiuV.ols. White symbolizes ; puritv, an aWntmte of our dead ; the I celestial blue that place ot rest where ‘lend happ.v leaf, soul* tells are tlmt at peace; death the is yellow, or tin, end of ah human hope, nml that man falls as the autumn lent; mid gray whispers of ,bp greve to winch all return. The Em-i.uis considered mourning for the dead an effeminate practice, and so whin they graved they put on women’s i*lotlu ‘8 ns a them symbol of weakness and as « shame m for a lack of ninnli | I ««-■ of 7! flu'ir ' p I fowtl hractiius nuulc <liod, a feaat and when olio <>m s every j method loved. of This joy and delight that the were dead cm- had f meant I passed from a state of misery lUaek into one - of of never never .ending end;* ; felicity. f. lieitv. Black was was in- in ! trodmvd troihnvd as ns mournint; ua.uruir.u l»v l»v the the Qiuvn Quivn of of Pliarlc oh ai*!es VIU. Ylll. Ihdore 1- fore that that the the French French ! Queeus Qui'cus wore won; white white mounting, mourning, and and wore wei», known known as as the tho White While Queens,”—JV< Queens ,**—New w , lS ya,\ Atmt.n, . .. . ..... Tr i..ur«.y. ,,,. d - “l know that l am wo! beautiful, Adelbert, and in my jealous moments it comes to me with a great throb—the power ol beauty over a man. Boft, i pearly flesh, rounded curves, sweet, red 1 ! hps, velvety cyea—all the magic outline— and marvel of tint and texture of | when despair, l thiuk and of this, the proud 1 say, girl I am crushed in nt ter fori j with cruel force Howcr-p.'t between that her white, s!,....l wiih tap ' wrsa : „ t! , ers in t t„, window. The noise at track d the attention of her father, who wa , .,. :issiu; v p_ v , and he pushed aside the curtain and entered. * * * “ Haw much will a new window cost ?’ Ntol ■ Mr McAnery to his agent •• Did ho take tire sash with him ?” , “ V. s.” “ Alxmt S15.” • ♦ * * Two years later Violet Me An ,. rv married a man who owned two ■ ■ * •ai? . . :z ‘ zriouuc. f --- - Lsi,i..w . jfn, JotAf feci at all humil -y, \ ipatiou You’re ! ,, uauinfae’nrer veil nakc money every dav vouaotk. - K -.. •«< kv.S'f.ri. J, nial A uk irnsd f.vl is more foolish than an arnorant fool, . an a.;l are hi Uriel,' aad Hr sti- tte American * il of two pro: «ii C .1 M hi IVitl lit eg K Xiv m in t*wi it tt tbo i tii« cm ii! w.-y iti •/» t,i the ““ t - n cw C4, ieeit ■ CfS i rec. ■rtr A’itv, but he c; wuicu au fb nrihki at Y- it ue*-»D a of th* tv i*-: ts t - achieve -w e Cal! it <*, “eii* t*k/' “overdra »i sirs whatever u push, -t uiiUnoi .e.l > , ver , t- a ree ig.uzed f.aturo of rensti it ti-jmii n ,1 ‘- -V ' 1 :iu; rc i« uo to ti t it existence It 3 .s%jiec«terv ri.ftor ia mo* tern life. In r yif midst oi tie rush am! hnrry of these dava « nau w,1 .‘ '"I ,ett *" ll,e »" does not , -“* 8 hllu . " */ W'siv.a Mere brain P wrer w >•"* ?‘ ou $ h -, T<*™ mnattt*, hWM * “f""" wh W Wo idulity can ‘1 e manifest,-d * •ietermuiafapa .... to make . the v ,i,, ‘ ‘- j ! ‘ P'V r « t! *» ma » ««•»»*»'*»• H nwdnot be jhowniu “ way *o aimoy or disguat. Quietly, but {" r -.»» f *’ 1 f »‘.'‘-,n.ct.may be nusle. , " fl, ‘enee the Inc, of other*, f «* f™' .....-I, 1 die gvc-pof *" e ,•*“ tin- T hand i and ''T foe ' '*>■ "- l*'' 1 1 ‘"' , * ' ' * Mon polii ae for the asme tlHOg Brass m only coiira r - modernized, and !ei -l- fii-'t adopting it. It appears *' !" t'h- drnnmier is brass per southed iu bn-mess; the Irnok agent in journalism; in- publishing trade; the remlrter in the pettifog,.r in law, And the secretary of tha various lioards in the ministry. Yet all of these eventually lad unless they have the brains where with to back up anil reinforce the bra I -••• -bful bin- fa fa I b.coming a ■ histoneil character, Vied vet the bo:d lover often fails because he took for at feet ion was only cheek. Ureat scholars, as a general thing, woo* make nerveless lovers. They try to through the head in sfead of through the heart, and fail, he eo.se ,t is the heart which generates boldness and sweeps all barriers away There la 110 key to this combination, Most men are horn with or without bruins, and most meu cctltte into tlie world with or without-brass. vate brass fa like trying to brains. If one hoen t-in«.thnig to \w gin Ability with he general can’t, very natural, well/ultivllfe and it. is y so is courage. To pick them up afterwards is the hardest kind of work. - Yefun questionably they are abaolnfelv Tequi site in these rapid times. To wait iu the lowermost place in order to get an invitation to come np higher, is pr.-ttv Door S; nolicv 1 known* nnwiwlavH thaf'y If von don't («♦ be ou are 'annuid som, other fellow will climb over you ami achieve wealth and renown. A learned man might live all his life and no one hear of liis knowledge. There must hr some vehicle for earning It out into the activities of life otherwise it will "bo wasted. The best vehicle is brass -<]e termination and self-possession united, The man of brass aiid brains r .7 p,. eminently within the sueee-isful niun. lie contains liims.lt the elements which go to make up u-'e, ss tpoheull [„ >t; without brains or all brains with, out brass 'this is to be an iueumplete imli vidual in nineteouth century anil iu this country.__ I'liUu-l-1 a Times. , Who llocs the Thinking ’ Nature, v . we are told, ,, wust s noihmg. . 1 !,lt II }!* ,Cfl n said so often tint we iu TO,wt . '• •"'* h ; ” ""‘ « n T u,ol, ‘ that mt... utterly Nutnic wash'll. laynt.'e.- .TUs, brain power is con- m-! , jwlcf Imbitmits font of every this one glob, of has the a mi flunking kon ^udy provt.UHl-c.imcs ) into tile vorlil with it rt.-inly to hand—n>d * ,s k how many of them use it? lK * tlnnks. 1 erlups a dozen mya do ,, tiu‘ thinking for an outlie community, j' 1 ' 1 * that w putting the tigtire high, wearenot a bowed to think . 1 a {J? w how the cnties would not 1 '.'* "*• I hey give out the ttme aud we sing it, and nufor iinateiy the tune i* p«4 !l n,w °” p - ” ttlp v <? n ,'y w P n!< l quarrel, . ,f ** u ' y aou1 ^ ditler, if only they would wrangle bt chance—but over any one thing, there he ' “ for they do not. 1 time even critics to thiuk inde pendent 1 > mouth has gone by the 1 ucx can t do ’* I vory sees pulvieatire.i of book notices; read one and you have read all, and have as just an appreeia (, o’i if you had raid none. Bufyon whut to thiuk, that s the comfort , of : V “U need never nfe the mt.clnnery , whh u hicl, yon are supplied. When the xhibitions opeu who among the crowd is good of ? gazers and why is it ^going is? to what thiuk is what vub or P and ir > pretentious, Iterated, copy? and why why it it is? is? bay Hay two two in in fifty, fifty, and and that that with with is is probably probably original original two two thought thought. too too many many to to credit credit any any No, No, the the»t art notiees notiei's will axil settle settlo all all that, that, and and save save the the individual the trouble, and oue critic in a hundred may know what ho is talking about. There might be a cbanco for tlie at large, published, if his opinion happened to \kj ttic br-t but it probably will not, and so it will be useless for him to expect it at all, for no one will beliove it, the world will have accepted the verdict in the popular paper.-., aad the eyes of thousands will see what the. eye of oue has imagined to be there. If we must have our thinking done for ns, lot us at least try to Have it done by ; ixnapetent persons.—Aew Yen k Mail. Oai mrev story aramt D, an Stanley , No one feels m> to his won., ho sain day “1 have always thought that a 1 ,au siiou.d have three none of "Inca I possess, hurst, I think j a Ttean sliould know something about subject. • t Secondly, ai>r ab^utely 1 think ignorant a of Dean the should know somvUiiUg uhout architrot J ' tirm } kikiw k a nth.rung i ea:i shoiud about know it. Third- some * * I thmg i7.gS.","S: about the management of busmens; is — Ausexic is not freely soluble in any organic mixture* and may generally be fund as a white sediment, which, when thrown npon red-hot coals, gives out a strong odor like onions and a thick smoke. Common arsenic can not be detected bv the taste. The Sperulalitre -Mania. The dfapautfan to get lieu suddenly isnares many men fiw are engag.cl ic nits, an i «' tli wmoiu itu opjT , ,»fa tbeywiu aqnet-tion a-suredcompetence. few years wzen fber l av.- are 1 !.y the occasional gams of lucky bier emlwrk on lb - :*ea irf specnia tiun, and iiot infrequently as wed as tiieir won*dr ^yjusr 11* in Boston, of Hi urv L. . Will) WM for a long }>eriod id'ivfitkd with the insurance iiit.-r of New Eag land. K - was gr , “re • ‘ a lJ miidi Secret of the tihoe and Leather , ory i’ost.ei. lie Insurance l<initially, attended t closely was paid a tine salary, to business, and lms .yd. i s were considered 1 except; rally g>'i.t lenly he d asp i ware.l, aid an - ti m of the books of the concern revealed the unwelcome feet tha' he had, at id tines appropri atc ate! i s-1 s] T , 000 O K* belonging hel< Hgi g to t» the the subsequently ! cumpany c rtafany to his ~ It own u«\ v is leametl that \Vliite had been aaohiicg ia stocks u.id losing on hi.; -pezniatrens. Asa resmt, he became guilty nf em bexzlemtmt, b z/.lemeiitu lost lost his lus place, place, wcatae >>- came a a fugitive from justice, and brought misery and ilisgvace his ....... ami clmdren. The 0-1... terrible .-kulnniH, danger upon of gambling —b'b.e e b, .. m »„V any shape fa that, with persons of a weak nature it finally holds out some tempta tion turn to t“ betray betray trust trust iu iu or.ier or.ier to to gratify gratify s> , pa^jon which has become an JutzarBiug imi«rions necessity. Psoj, fa Ugui with tl.-ir own money and end with putting the money of others at at ko. The form ( gambling whicl iWuti by of it. = speculations , ually.sforts with a de.-iro ! to make routine money faster business. than by Men, the urged eo% mon of bv their own greed, which is too often 1 stimulated bv extravagant wives and , daughters, and tempted bv fire chance j fe*tones of others who have gone >a!Vlv i the tlir-.iigli the whirlpool, turn aside from U„i slow-going iiich luivo aud abs, failed lnb-lv them, safe pur- and ts w never venture into speculations which are' at be • uncertain, and in most cases abso hl , . lv *£ . rui; „ lUs . Iu a shocking number I ! Q moneTlirn f ca there is not s-molv a loss of aseveuts prov, life’desirable a loss of in ’ legrjty; ail that makes is offered * ^ratiimal tm at the viewoT same lifewoukTsu^ nnestiouahle alter fdddenly gest p, Uut rea y, y desirable to get jum^the rich. The employment of life nature .hon'd pt discipline and it is bet tor that meu fill up the full measure of their vigorous manhood in I honest Se and useful work, and take their ea toward the close. A ‘of vonng, rich man , w ill, iu nine eases out ten. get into evil wavs and if he do not entirely squander his money he will squander health, morals and worthy ambition. If ^ you are howUrhnLdnim doing passably well st.dktoL^d at auv vo tion< j f speculation 1 » alone \ eaus^ bird in the ieasouabfe Vnvinan who his ^ ^ cl-nvrm iiiVioimmv ss toww Is a cola ojiupeieuceai pt u at the rue mid enu o£ onus jouruey, ia is ! | foke no'fks bf^en 4 wlmte^r *° Wi h the majority Sly lfe is all the way j r.mgl ^“^incto^howat a sriugele for present Cot "rnre theed ' iHc ial Mortality in Diffi rsnt Par-nits. The report of the Briti-l. Il -gistrar General shows thet the annual death rate in the Un-t.-d Kir v. ’om is V- 'll * larger, _ “ " the entire j<#f.nla Tlie but not the hugest, let a 1 . Hi tk of mortality, s-nd is ir.v an 1 tA?. A aid tr |extreme* v_ tv.. n Uie t nto Yi hii h tfi poiafloo may ■ >■ the !a i iiig, the trading i i*"' ' £ 0*4 and the ceutrv aim tit c-d—ti e ei.aii < h oi life are- v ry re . equal, al though shown in a slight favor advn of the .tage ;q.p. class, are to lie be fi rst trucks most iJiifavc • hl 1 * to :.re, as a rule, thow which fttkl to < *>e the operative to an atmosphere leaded with dust, or compel liim bo .U-al ui one way or another with poisons. .iO>ry 'grinding, Sheffield, hh practiced on needles and forks at fa the worst; work mg m coat mme* m next in deadlines*. QMm and silv revs of glass are ex post'd to v pwis of mercuiy; workers ui hrasa are liable to diseases produced by »«> volafll.-ted oxide of lend ; all who work in paints -are subject to « ii! ™ ■“ «-b- ™ and Milors have their lives shwtened by the exposure they have to undt rgo, or by disease hroug.t oa by their habits of living. Lak. rs, tmtora and milliners are liable -> 1 ‘‘luf.tvon; Pi fare compositor be^r than jsenliarly - , - men compos- 1 ' J ' ! ;' lr “ appef&a «»be Um most healthy of ocm-, piitams, wlufai that of the lunWper is tin most lataL Butohers die compara tivyb early, as also do brewer.<, dray ifei, and generally those who have e*&ig much toMavHth establishments fw and drinking. Ike over-exertion of those who follow athletic pursuits appears to .Nnidum- «!«»te aw Winch to^it life as d.s -8 the sclent ary strain ptifco student. 1 ; - ms to make but little diflVronoe in workers the *^ixict»r,i. whetiier tlieir of labor life- of is bald iiwlopr or not; but those vrbo are employed out oi doors have a cifanco of living six years longer, if their work keeps them busy and active, than'if It fa',, mere matter of routine and standing an mid; ami a ‘-comparison ,0 the table lcaifa us to the conclusion that the life of; the out-doo* worker with little exercise is worse than that of the sedentary 111 -door worker, whether with little or great exercise.’ The most curious fact dustmen brought and clea«- out is that the scavenger, ers of severs m London are reckoned among the healthiest of tlie population, The Pabhage Pest. Tim _ imporfed . , . cabbage , . worm has , Long eome tn ht y ‘, 77,s ' 1-st summer on e showed , the natives that he capabfo of mlvancing worth the price dertroyed ot cab bage-gStlftOtK) the suburbs was of New lork. m one Reason m He^s followed the tide of eivUizntioi, ■“‘.TO* »>' at wiU kilt the 17ie P robl and f lu not » ow «* worm injure «»* «ibb^o? We would suggest, that dehv6r “« s mmt l v P lvvw “ >"« th f. raoth . , l!lylu « th « ^ on the cabbage. We have suggested to our neighbors to try tying newspapers, or sacking, or netting »>f any kind, over tl,,! c; 1 b»uge fnants during the preva lonce of the moth ; when it <b-:ap]>ears the covering to lie. removed. Few of nil the remedies so far named have given .satisfaction. lutelligsiit, Prof. C. V. Filer, always practical R^tlmijn. and Ho first suggests tried it in tbe 1879, use °* hut did not recommend it that vpar. ns he wished ti > test it fnrtht r, -Ho has made t sts, and canoed tests to lie nuak by agents, aud the general experience hits been most favorable. He uuhesi attingly recommends that pyrethrum infest the for cab all the dilTerent worms kige pbuita. Prof. A. J. Cook, o! Lxns feg, Mich., says no tried bi-snlbhnfo of carbon as a weapon against these posts, It had been successfully inf employ, which d m fighting suggested the phylloxera here. ranee, He made its use a small hole close to the plant, three or four inches deep, aud turned into it about a half teaspoonful with of liquid, then aril quickly filled the hole earth packed by stepping on it. The same experiment was tried for the squash borer with gratifying success. He tliinks the bi-sulphide of carbon would prove eflVctive in fighting the peach-tree borer and the radish and onion maggots.— Exvhnnyc. ____ Enkissscl Kisses. i rti.y sat together ,, ' on (lie . verdant , banks which ran down clow) to theoeoan j beacu. In front of them lay the slum- j berrag sea, beneath its placid surface softly gleaming the mellow light of the rising moon. “ Tm» n,.i on hour nnr a .reneior.iight An Ashesat ^^“’£. with her d ^tho, hut w ut ! j there i night. There was no one near them; at least, • no one that they eared for—pateriiiinil- i ias aed the the mnt night night ir ditto air into into having tho the meandered j out out of ot air warmer warmer at at 1 mosphere mosphere of of the the hotel. hotel. He He broke broke the the ■ poetic poetic “Ami silence silence 1 by by I’.ave , observing observing read 1 Oscar ; ; S so you - - . '' Wilde’s poems?” ! v have.” ^Aml vrat like tliem ?” ! “O. I think thev are jnsf. too awfully too too. There is an outwardness and entirety about them go extremely son!- I ful. They are tangibility. gushing with the sub stance of m ” “IVh.it do von think he means when fe, writes about tho barrenness of uu kissed kisses ?” First of all, I thought he ' “ referred to those kisses which young ladies give to ouch other when their veils down ' arc : riderahSu"-here but. on giving fi;e matter thormigh Sously cou she looked M , nUK \—“ I came to the conclusion that * ev were those ki ses which a lover to toke when he is aloni with his .. ........ and allthc chances are favorable Yor his obtaining them.” Having said this, she cast her eves down and blushed. Then hia arm wan dered around her waist, her bead . drooiwni upon his shoulder, and—well, imagine tlie rest .—Somerville Journal lpa - t , a from a orivate reix.-t zssssxxs&spzi phor tree, and whose silk is utilized m a singnlai-manner. When full grown, the caterpillar is cut open and the silk ex tracked in a form much resembling cat gut. This substance is subjected fish- to a hardening process and made into lines. Naming the v ( Inform. Remember in giving names that tlx children when grown up may be in sit nations where they will have frequently to sign their initials, and do hot give neu.es thatmight iu this situation jiro yoke contemptuous remark. For iu ulavce, David Oliver Green, the initials ma’-.e “dog;” Clara Ann Thompson, the initials child spell is “ boy, cat.” it be equal If the a may jy nucomfortable for him to have a long string life of becomes names. Suppose that in banker, adult j he a merchant or with plenty of business to do, then he will not be well Robinson” pleased to write two “George three jl.eiry Talbot or hundred tiines a dav. It is not ft had plan to give girls only one baptismal mime, so that if they marry they can retain tlieir maidensur- 11MU « . a s' Elizabeth Barrett Browning, H; U 'riet Beecher Stowe. This is the practice among the Society of adoption, Friends, and is worthy of more general for we should then know at once ou see mg the name of a lady whether she wan married, aud, if so, what her family name vss. Some pareuta very wisely susceptible refuse for tlieir children all names of tj, e melting process, thinking with Dr. Rove that, “it. is Jack’d not a good Sim’d, thing Sam’d, to bo Tom’d or Bob’d, .Tra>’d or Mi. I'd or or as you go through the world, q'i, e euphony of our nomenclature v ,ould he greatly improved by n jmli citms adsptation of the Christian name to the monosylwKe surname. When the surname is a the Christian name should be long. Nothing can Murk reconcile Fox, the ear to such curt names as !Y>x, Duke A)<xaiider Harte, Ann Harto Scott; and Cecilia but .Gilbert Scott are far from despicable. excellent Chris With such a variety of tiau namcH, it is astonishing that so few should be in ordinary use. The dicUon aries nri contain lists of about 2 cC male tnd 150 hm <■ names, but out of these not more than twenty or thirty for each sex can be called at all common. Yet our language has inmiv beautiful names both male and female, worthy of a noimlarity they Imve not yefc attained, Among tlie males for instance : Christo- Alban, A nth use, Bernard, Clement, Michael, plier, Gilbert, Godfrey, Harold, Marmaduke, Oliver, Roland, Paul, Ralph, Sylvester, Ru pert, Roger. Beinald. Theobald, Urban, Valentine, Vincent, Gabriel, Tristram, Norman, Pereival, Nigel, Lionel, Nicholas, Eustace, Colin, Sebastian, Basil, Martin. Claude, .Jus tus, ate—all of which have the attrib ut« s of euphonv, g.xnl etymology aud interesting assomatitnis. female why have And among names we. not more girls called by the noble or graceful appellatitms of Agatha. Bea trice, Bertha, Cecilia, Evelyn, Moreuce, Ethel, Gertrude, Isabel, Leonora. Philippa, Pauline, Mildred. Milli-ent, Hilda, dance. Ambel, Irene. Muriel, EsteUe, Eigenia, Euphemia, Cimstabel, Theresa, Marcia, Antonia, Claudia, Rosabel, Rosamond, etc.? , , -7-TT twenty-live t ‘ per cent. —--- If the two sun—be thermometers—exposed covered, with equally to one white, th- other with black cloth, the instru in. nt under the black cloth will indicate a higher temperature than the other. a tlheslly lwru. The Cincinnati Commercial publishes , f articles on exhibition at an un establishment at Vinetmies, fi. diana , which, for suggesting hard things it vault lie to excel. i’ueir enrmtneratiem ia as follows ; Article No. J—Is an tat, covered arith which wa» tile instrument ussu by man named Vn-v. st, ou th* night of i, 1878 ia killing the A atehell composed ©t i^u.iaud, the wife and sons. This was most terrible that ever occurred in the vi jxxity. V<, q \ easqvin which killed Hahiuel {Vririn-, in September, 187a >-<,. ;<_]» a towel with which Provost suicide, by hanging lus horrible himself »ciierv* ; a ji % ' uUC dav.- mt«f i ' flI j,o i-dv 1—1 knife that idled named two PffiSps: map in tili [jiis , on. ,, f t ;.o-:.. ^ iu JkTI. No. 5—Another jn;Ifo which on Ail s day, 1ST- in the hands of Mitchell Mallett, sent Joe4Juslemau to the other or ,. No. 6—A brick tint, thrown by a small | wv at hi-plavmate. Killed him instantly, * Mav2 ,, t l87& No. 7—A rope found ou a man named J Smvthe, tlrowned in the Wabash, May JS78 Xo g_ Xwo masks worn bv two men who „ ere ehot and killed whifo in tlie act rf rob bnig the store of Watts Bond, in Oaktown, Indfana, U January oi, 3. 187ft N „, .,_ A knife i D. Pronelt, drownt ^ itl tlie Wabash, December 26, lava ' ’ v io_Po-ket bo< k found on bio \ jt W —Bra-skuuckles h , diediui .il Jaunarv oil* 1° IsTs" 0 11 railro^l ‘ found inau | eled " on ,o_V„ the theV x () oocket lxiol- bC on .. man wlioco-ainitUi * " 1 suiohle drown ’ 18“4 l i_a «•,«• buttom win,), wbl" whila w -a* {Xrf ^im17thd 1 vS Itverwm rZm ’£ L-j”, ” , p ^ ut ’ 0,1 o, Ve" 11 11 foCt pllt ? i f W u ae Id *.» 187 ». fel1 ,, «l» u a «l«toon , and , broke , his “y,; i .4 rinn which ix- « ot ' r> cmnnntfed .11 suicide , m jail, Novem l- ,",- * v^ b ,iekeve drewnc^TpS found r.J 187?' V r „ 8 who u’fVl, -ifti f -0 fiev hTtbiv y 1 ’ 1 i T t in 187a ^,’ Vo l 1 7 _ » rk^r with r-n„,u,. rr mm-ifered mUldeUd Wilfe.m WlUSaai ’ ^18 cob “a red sfa-’ro Aa A ™i which c u was w,« fonnd f 1 on « ’‘''kuo'vu , Uuciuuatiau, kided by the to lW>us|MeB m ! l of d s auu. halted 1 , , ~ No. 'J) A piece of , suspender and small P 1 ^ 1 ’ foundmside.bf thebody of '“T*. Coleman, who was killed by the f foundry, pl*"*"^* December boiler 11, in 1877. Clarke & Buck’s "T f-lu ‘lead 7 -rh.g in cheek bed, May wlueh 1 1878. was ou N ”’• 22 “j Ilvc ^^ Piecefound pn Mr. Hankins, body „ ^covered drownecl February- December 19, 1878. 27, 1877; Na 23 -® nn ® < *' ,f elotlieB fonn<1 ^‘h a baby , murdered November 10, 1877. No. 24-Boot of John Miiler, who was killed by an explosion, tlie same that kill, d Coleman on 1>c-mb r 11, 1877. -Miller the outside was wall I|lown of thirty frame feet, house. through a Seventeen other articles r.f less impor tunco are eniimerafed. .Mr. Gardner, the owner of these relies of crime and accident, conceived the idea of his museum ten years ago, and since that time has exerted himself to make bin strange museum of respectable pyoy-or tion. Reckless Mosby. brave Although a guerrilla, Mosby was a man. He would run risks and take cliiiuoris which he would not order V^ * 2 i: *! Mas’nng- . . J ijf® 1?. v ^ ? nt tlc «^ d I l - ring “®i’ tfie W “ l *“ lnOT< ’ than a dozen instances he pene¬ trated the Federal lines for information. Near Middletown he was once cut off by Federal cavalry w ho held the pike in both directions. When ordered to surrender lie drove bis horse over tlie stone wall and got away through tlie fields. Three bullets pierced his Cloth¬ ing, his horse was struck twice* anil an overcoat dean strapped to his saddle was while he cut away by dinner builets. One day valley was six eating Union in the Lu ray him, They did not cavalry know walked him in on as Mosby, but rightly conjectured that he he was a guerrilla. As they attacked him shot two and dashed through a win¬ dow mid made off with one of their horn s. He was oree captured in Washington while on a spying expedi¬ tion, but feigned drunkenness and made a dash for liberty while on tlie way to the Provost Marshal’s office. At that time he had plenty oi proofs on his per¬ son to have convicted him as a spy. Near MTrrenton lie one night rode with twenty-four men full upon a Federal reserve picket of at least a hundred men. Both sides stood staring at each other for a moment and then Mosby called out: “Did any of them mules come this way ? ” “Haven t seen any,” was tbs repiy. “Cuss the critters—they stampeded turned on uy’ his growled men and the rode guerrilla, as he Some of liis had blue away. men overcoats on, some wore citizens’ clothes, and no one could say that they did not belong to the Federal wagon trains.— Virginia li tier. A Pretty Picture. trees, A leafy hammock background, two beautiful she a whom swinging heart beneath, and on your is fixed, lazily swinging in the same, is a very pretty picture, young znan, very pretty; and v\ e don t blvme yon tor being attracted to a magnet of such wondrous power. E > c-n the floomt rang reporter was forced to acknowledge that your evident infatu¬ ation was pardonable. But consider if your means will enable you to keep mat picture all your days, or whether ia the coming time it will not be supplanted by a ehromo or wornout, jaded woman, trying middle doughnuts of hot over a not fire in the pictures a intimately summer day. The two are connected.—Rdf yge’s Boomerang. Anoxo the Indians near the Amazon there are no words for numbers, and a similar want of arithmetical power. The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and au owl’s eyes