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UltMS HP TIMiltellT. Arr: 'Vati <• is certain <p-f -rooty. A jyiv.-.i.r t'i 1 is w* v,- ail rank. Yiuuo.i wtfliunt feeling is rant. T’ r save the poor f < I for the prior \ i mu? to-taiga to the most pr*'.' rT in*'. VfiT to faopiienc® in the appreoiatiou of .t. A MKiTfoN in hut the evil shadow of .mil' pITHtltKI. -List uh r^^tX graj haire—o 4 poem! iy <j»ir own. Tub uvuv f h**e uf men the letter I tliutk of enifiiain. The, ft ret fnr*-at work U that yourself may to youm if lx* true. Commun aens** in an uneomraon degr *« in wiiat Uie world calh ww lom. TnBftflD of the j»a^.t hnd e nvi cious, while w«* fnfKinrim h iV*^ only opinion*. Bn noni.ft! *i.«l I ■* ru.Ui*-n' *» th t l»»y« in ulltff wen, tlo* ' l»’»l ip r r and, Will Die in III liifet liii.E Death i xpe teth thee everywhere ; lie wise, therefore, and ex je-ct death cvery »h- ro. To hr exempt from the pMMtcmx whi>*h torment others is the only pleasing soti tu-le. Who would v-citure on tli • journey uf life, if comp: bed to tsigin at tin end. Lovr s like the measles, all the worse when it com cm late in lif-* Dottf/lo* J< rroUL How far Hint little candle throws its beams, so ahi iC* a goo-i do- d in a naughty world. A iiM iMirr, how blunt urn ail the ar¬ rows -if thy quiver in comparison with thoi-c of guilt) He win* cherishes his old knowledge, •o teacher as coiilinUHlly of others. to acquire now, may be • Tunis is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our auspicious by finding what we atis|s-ct. What novelty is worth the sweet mo Botony where everything is known, and loved tiecaiise it is known? The law forbids you to revenge : when st ti s up the hands of some, it ought to restrain the tongues of others. The mind profits hy the wreck of every passion, and we may measure one mud to wisdom by thcsorrowH we have under¬ gone. Tub oliseur st sayings of tho truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profmiudest and most useful truths. Tubs* are four varieties in society the lovers ; the ambitious ; observers and tm >ls. The fisils are the happiest. J’ltinn. Tiik talent ot success is nothing more than doing what you can well ; ami do¬ ing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. Thkkk is less misery in lining cheated thau in that kind of wisdom which per «ives, or thinks it perceives, that all inaukiud arc clients. It is with dittem* a of the mind as with din-uses of the to-dy ; wo aio half deoil before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. lriiKdoes really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, whv, sir, when he leaves our houses let us emirt our spo m . Jo/iutnn. I’ovkhty is hs-d, but d» lit is horrible. A man might as well have a smok y house and a scolding wife, which are Nittd to 1-e the two wor-l evils of our life. Ann the knowledge we morbils can ac¬ quire is not knowledge possb lo, but kimwkwigt) comp irative, and subject to tin- errors and jnia-mns of hnmauity. Wk walk in the mi-lst of secrets ; we are otieompasaed with mysteries. Wo know not what makes the atmosphere that surrounds ns; we know not what relations it has u ith our minds. Tin as are moments when our i>as sions speak and delude f* -r us. and wo a- s*m to stand by ond wonder. They carry in them an inspiration of crime, that in one instant does the work of long premeditation. Wearing Mourning. No male muni can appreciate the great responsibility None of being a widow iu crape. but widows wear crape lavishly, for even wnen mourning is assumed tor • foi father other or mother single bands of crape while l on goods arc sufficient, Sonic persons arc satisfied with unob¬ trusive self trimmings. Entire ooetuin -s vd crape over silk u -ed to bo common for all degrees of bereavement, but the highest usage is now against it for all ex-vpl widows. Grave is the easiest to rumple, the quickest to show dust, and altogether the liar,lest of fabrics to wear neatly. When d el in it you never feet quite sate, and euiiuot hope nt ativ time to experience the sweet consolation of knowing beyond a doubt that you nre really and truly welldrrosivl. As to e\ peuse, mourning brill n sorrow to the uoekt't lasik, to cause common material in black I «> tray a itself at a glance. Cot¬ ton can not by any ait now known to the dyer to- made to lake on a |Hvrfect luster lesK black. Therefore, satisfactory mourning goods must bo flue been or •ilk. B mbar.tue, cashmere, Henrietta cloth, the now Irish {Kiplin, crape doth, •ergo, elm, 1 - 1.1 cloth, serge 1 fsc-al satin, dull brocade, grenadine, tulle, crepe du clo ne and tissues those are all fashion •Id. . and afford considerable variety, ex¬ cept m colors They aroused m com¬ binations, and with tin 1 addition of uu polislied quantities and out jet beads, which are pu‘ in on mourning toilets for full dress. A mixture of black and white is considered second mourning. Tin" atoc.it to discard black may with propriety asotme st I gtay, purple in various heliotrope altades, and pearl.— A’tu- i'orlc hotter. Omaha is the dog g -nest city in let. Throe thousand of the beasts •t wdt tbrougli tin- streets and f. rtfi th ir hid"-us s.-egs of prai-e •omethmg tiHmote-'tod through the the •iu! -il at watch-.* f in ' ’ Bewni-c I'-" ” b w: i • - ... «p.'ii hundreds 11 {.itvwsys, pli.'cd that he wh® reads may run. of neighboring cites affirm that can always toll an Omaha man by |Mich ou tlie equator of his wlueh marks the spot where the purp has reached for dry goods proud flush. It is indeed s cur sed — bbiift' Detroit Rejected Maiirw-ripts. T’-r.-ous con-plaining published iA slusnd the gnat autn to-i» of tniib pause to • .use; r that the numb r of w<«k» aunu iiy printed i:, tuaali in comparison With 1HM' written, re toy for ;h- pr ««, but .-j- v i by publishers. Ad of lie- la; . | :iii ,ip-- i.;- have a “ r--A-1--- ' IUAH whop ru.v s a!.m. in j .it Owed, :id eitiav accepts or r.j* tst. • in. i-i m I. s «i .isiih tlnre is no ~p|*uri. Aiaoi tioi*. young author cm.pl n ; that it is nujtist to lie coinp- il d to abide by the .foridon of a aing't- (e r-on ; to have to -ubmit So one oj>ii>i hi, when an ap. <a 1 to tin* public is what the anxious writ t deso. , to I* enaliled to make. That ■an not be made without the type-, and the : sir re n honors oi type can taj at t ,i i only by tin* consent of the •' re .r|er,” who, as a rule, is accurate in his judgments. will Intuitively he can tell what be acceptable to the reading ptiblic. T. Fields, while The lute Janies ti“ was mi active partner in the tirmof Tick nor A Fiekls, was waited upon by a young • ugar merchant who had jss-tic aqnra tiuns. The mer--anti e man had complained that his manuscript poems been re j-etei by the firm, and he wanted to know the reason why, as ail of his friends liad heard tun veises re* 1 and unani¬ mously declared them to Ire an invalu¬ able acctadou to American litoralnre. “Our ‘reader' decides that," said Mr. Fields, in hia blandest torn s. “ Then I would like to se - the “ reader.” Always Hie jssrsmnfication of amiability himself, the publisher took That the merchant upstairs to the reader. mighty personage sat at a desk heaped high with manuscripts; he carefully rend a few pages of each package, thou dropped it he into became a basket at tiis sale. Occasionally interested more than ordinarily ; in that caso lot placed the package through’em inside his desk. I “Why, ho goes exclaimed the just would-lie as sample sugar,'' That’s because jHiet, in amazement. “ he is us tnmiliar witii literary wares as you are with sugsrs,” rejoined Mr. Fields. “ 1 am salistiod," said the merchant, “lot us go. ” They went, and the disappointed bard gave np verso-making, tmt lie made a large fortune in sugar. ,Since “readers” are not infallible, be¬ ing mortals, they “Bin-lab commit niistpkea. rejected Miss Evan's novel of ” was by hall a dozen hoosez. At Inst Carlo ton’s “ reader ” saw its merits, and on delay, his judgment $J,o00 it was published the putilisliers wilhont making for ami as much more for the author. No leas famous a work than the “Hketoh (look ” of Waahingtou of Irving Loudon, was re jected by John Murray, One of the to st “readers" this country ever prislncisl was Henry “D'a-ler” J. Haymorul, Har¬ tlm editor, who was for tlie pers to-fore he starUsi the N. Y. linux. His judgment was invarintily correct. Sometimes there is a diff reuce between “ roielers ” and puhlisUers. Applo ton’s “reader" having first Lotliair,” ilecid d in favor of an issue of “ the brothers limiied the edition to 2,000; they s-iUl tll.iKK) copies of the work. "Readers" for magazines and story papers have a hard and endless task. Oliv-r I >y or, who has written n goodd »1 himself, is the “reader” for Bonner’s New York l.ntyrr, and lias filled the place acceptably reader’ 1 for a l/ur/xrH number of d/i-ii//,/// year-. Th- “ for pernacs, on an average, fifteen original eisitribiiti.nis a day, and, on single an average, rej- nt twelve of them. In a twelve mouth th* Harpers have rejected th mimiiHcriiits of one ihous.iml novels. Is th'-ri- any necessity for stating that the ton hundred long stories were not read through ? aspiring In consolation to young au¬ thors remains the fact that money r-ci¬ ders them entirely independent of the terrilile “reader. 1 If they have the mentis to pay for the printing, pacer binding and stereotyping, them any publish¬ cot!? ing house will publish for cash needed on mission. Without tho foi those outlays, all unknow n readers mils' abide by the decision of tho “ readers.’ rinnfore Revived. La-4 week a strapping negro woman « a- up before an Austin justice, charged with unmercifully colored beating her boy. a saddle iron. “ I don’t understand how yon can have the heart to treat your own child so cruelly. ” “ Jed go, has yon been a parent of a wildest* yaller boy lik’ dat. nr cub of wine?” “ Never, no never,” ejaculated the judge the with fae»>. great vehemence, getting red m , “ IHmdon’t, talk.” There was such a sensation in court that the judge had to call “next. ” four or five times, and to fine a man who said “hardly ever” fifty dollar-, before order was restored. — Texas AV - in </■>. “In the Ingnidi,’ says M. Leiiez, in ft mv iit t'ommnnication to the French Geographical Soch-ty. “a region of sand dimes very difficult to cross, I ob served a phenomenon which was as rare as it was interesting—resonant or musi¬ cal sand. All at once one hears in the -lesuit, issuing from a sand dune, a pro lougvd. smothered sound quite like the noise of a tnimjvt. It last for some seconds, and then direction. stops, to The resume it¬ self in another phenom¬ enon renders the traveler anxious. 1 suppose it proceeds from the friction against one another of tlie burning hot gmiua of quartz, which are simply laid one over the other and are always in motion.” Advice 3,500 Years Old. Oneof the oldest books in existence la a collection of proverbs by Ptuhbotou an ttis Egyptian, who lived somewhere about time of Abraham. Among his i - juictious is the following, which w, commend to the writers on woman's emancipation, domestic eoonomv, und otiier topi s, who may think that tho aubjccts which they discuss are fresh and suggested l-v the increased intelligenct ° of modern civilization : “If thou be wise, famish thy ' well with , her; woo nourish thy wife aud her; do deck lun'qnariel heroin, for fine dress is her greatest delight Purjxne to moke her glad as long as thou livest She is a blessing which her iKisiooior should treat as tonxmiee his own This standing. Be not unkind to her.” contiSA'I is none the less useful st Ife have present elapsed day, because 3,500 years * since it was given. The Prince ef Tramp*. The very romance of trump lift* was exemplified only by a di!ai dated individual iotered with one leg, who-e name was reg at trie station house as W. H. Cardw.-lL He and is k!v«t,t» l>v*-d many persons a r. p rter, has a m<*t varie g»%l li'.e. His full its.Ill'- 1 « \VVatt Henry. Cardwell. His father was the eminent I)r. Cardw-U, of Richmond, Va., and his moth r was the eldest daughter of the world-renowned ora tor, Patrick Henry. Cardwell is said to he a graduate of YVa-l.iagton Univervitv, and has withsl a polish e<l education. He lias the rem arkable gift of repe said sting long poems from mem ary. It is he can troll out “ Childe Harold, Don Juanyt' and such poems from iieginning to end. At the age of 15 he joined the Confederate army and was shot at Manassas, losing his leg. He watt taken to the Richmond hospital, where he excited the attention of promi neat ladies and gentlemen by Lis ureco city. Aftowards he became private see r-tafv doted to Senator Foote. He has wan all over the^pMjj^gmfbeiiig now beard of m New" York, now iu Cincin nati, now in Louisville and now in Wash ingtoii. At the present time he is heard of in Memphis. He has done consider able newspaper work in his time, was connected with the ANational -Star at Goodman, Miss., KosciussartSp^micte. in 1877, and afterward was oil the Wlier ever whisky. h<* has It has been, made lie hujiati him a pursuer* 1 - the United Stab and tramp all s, h.as caused him to be arrested. He has extensive aequo tSL a. with t he men of this country.lum KaSnow in 1 Stephens possfision congratulating a letter from him Alexander H. on his re forin. He ii a man of good address and has reduced begging to a fine art. For instnnoe, in approaehiaggg. stranger, he will sa.v : “Will yon pardon the per fect ingenuousness of Uie.roquest, but could nights you lodgings?” fi nd m*4Jl half Should a dollar the to get a person tlms will approached be indiffcnt deny the request, he not the (yWrers or insulting, but will change itioii to national politics, the ethics of journalism, the traits of great meu^r similar topics. He is an accomplish* all hVbod performer on the lianjo. With habits he is said to be honest. It is the one remnant of the Virginia gentleman. A more re¬ markable career could hardly lie im¬ agined. From a tine family to the |>ro feesion of n common tramp, and ho is only aliout 35 years of age. There was a time when he would force his way into the families of respectable people, but he docs so no longer, anolt is only too palpable that he lost caste witii himself. —Memphis Appeal. Monotony of City Life. Tlie monotony of lifff^ft the central streets of any great* modem city, where every emotion intondid to l» derived by men from the forbidden sight of nature, or leaves the sornte of art, is forever, th© craving of the heart for a sincere, yet thankful, interest, to Vie fell from one source only. Under natural condi tifiiis the degree of men fill excitement neons-ary the to of boddy the health is ond provided the vari- by course seasons, ous ek'U and fortune of agriculture. Iu the country every mining of tho year brings Willi it • of Hpringitig or -ii {S '---w duty to be fulfilled tqKin - arfh, and anew promise or warning in heaven. No day is without its innocent hope, and its special prudence, it< kindly gift, its sublime wise danger ; and iu every process of husbandry, and every effort of contend ing or remedial courage, the wholesome passions, tborer pride, and bodily exerted power luippi- of the I are excited and in est unison. The oenqianionship serviceable, animsls. of do nn stic, the care of sot ten and enlarge his life, with lowly charities, and discipline him iu familiar wisdoms and uuboastful fortitudes; while the divine laws of seed-time which can not 1st recalled, harvest which cannot be hastened, and winter in which no mail can work, com,, 1 the .mna ,cnees and coveting ol Ins heart into labor too sub missive to be anxious, and net too sweet \\ bat thou Hit can enough comprehend that the contrast to tween such life, and iu streets where summer and winter tiro only altenmlt >ns ot heat a.ul cold, where snow n v, r fell white nor sun slnuc clear ; where the ground » only a pavement, and the sky no more than the glass naif i.l an arcade; whore the nt most power of a storm is to choke the p.tfi rs. and toe tmest magic of spring to change mud in to dust; where-chief and most fatal difference m state-therc is no interest of occnpation tor any o the inhabitants but the routine of •-muter or desk within diwrs ami the - fiort to pass each other without colli j ' : so that (««“ morning to | .veiling the onlv , pos-uble variation of the monotony of the hours, and lighten mg of the lienalty of existence, must be *ouie Kind of mischief, limited, unless by more than fail ordinary godsend of slitting fatal itv, to the of ahorse, or the of a pocket.— Ituakin. I’retty Girls In St, Petersburg. There is much good, I do believe, in the Russian character. They are a Saborious, long-suffering and eaaily-eon tented people. But they are, on the whole, and with rare exceptions ia the low ranks of life, an ill-favored race, small and puny, with remarkably plain | features Very strict ami orthodox, dingy, sallow complexion. | I dare say, but I uglj^Christian withal; ugly men’ uglier women ! One may walk about these ! streets day after day and never meet with what'in other countries would be ! ca * ie< i. in a SR pretty Petersburg, face. where And it the was the ! splendid me type of girl I only met was at the railw ay terminus when on the point of storting for M--cow, and even she, faultless as she was in face and figure, ’ h»d a milk-white complexion without a shade of that pink which would sonat urady have become her early youth.— 7 •'<a < limes. Aditoctre is an oilv, wsxv substance, f<>rn.ed from the soft parts of animal bodies buried in damp soils or water. It is the substance that I bodies sometimes change into, rise to the idea that thev petrify. 1 —-- i ! Two hundred and forty-two mirn ra 1 epecios have toen found in tlie Unite) States, of which oidy one-third are ol any use to the practical man. Adulteration. There seem to be very good reasons why the pessimists should call a halt upon the genius of invention until some force can be made available to regulate U* movements. It is very generally acknowledge;! that the world is growing better as it grows older, and no donbt it is, hnt the progress of invention and ilis covety, although in the main beneficial to mankind, is bringing forth things that must of necessity evert an injurious m fluence. Charles Resile, in one of his now Is, speaks of some old solid silver plate, made in the ancient days when things were made honestly. “ Not,” he sa;,s, “because the workmen were more honest than they are to-day, but because they didn’t know how to cheat” As the world grows older, people learn more and more how to cheat, and tae people who don't want to be cheated have to study closer and closer to learn how to ciscuur vent it. It is a good deal like the inventions of armorers. Every few years a gun is produced, the projectile from which will pierce any known obstruction, and then other armorers exert themselves to And get up an armor that it cannot pierce, so it goes on, and the wonder is where it is all to end. It is so with in ven ti on and discovery in other direct! ions, Chemists are finding out more apd more how to adulterate food and its ingredients until it is almost dangerous to eatany tyring but primary substances. Ever and !l ' '#» accounts appear ill the papers of a family jxii-oned by eating or drinking this, that or the other, until one hardly knows what indulgence of appetite may be considered safe. There is a standing appeal evils, hut to legislation legislation, although to corn ct these it may have mitigated the danger, lias not, as yet, entirely removed it. It would seem to be an easy matter to treat this subject >u they a way to and assure the people that what eat drink need not pr-ive in¬ jurions on account of impurity or adulteration. If there is an offence in the calendar calling for the most condign punishment, it is that of adulteration, Let ns have laws, and an enforcement of them, that will make it safe to eat and drink what purjiorls to be healthful and nutritious .—Boston Budaet. A Drop of AVntcr. We read frequently :&sS£p“; of the drowning ritrkrss P a?*»“ Th. mmnoo Mphi»tion a rf »och ”"'”1 f swim from tbo vessel to the sin,re every evening, having their clothes sent in a to who would get to the bTad^ftalt! - rhe writ( . r in the course of a sharp struggle for the lead opened his mouth' t o breathe, and some of the spray flying the wind got into his throat and took the passage down the trachea. “I could neither,” he says, and’l “get any breath iu, nor any out, soon began to feel that 1 was dying on top of the water. q'j )ere have been a dozen men close p, me _ y,ut I could not speak, much less ca ][ shore, them. iu I about kept thirty swimming on for the seconds mv senses Irngan to leavo tne. I ceased to swim, a nl my legs touched went down, when luckily violent for me they helped the bottom; a jump me to cough up q Je drop of water, I staggered on shore fell quite exhausted on the bench, to the surprise of all the men with me.” It is the opinion of this gentleman that many fatal accidents to swimmers are diie simply to a drop of w ater in tho wind-pipe. A conclusive proof that they are not due to cramp is a fact that a man rescued within two minutes of sinking in this mysterious manner is beyond all hope of resuscitation. “ ~~ Home Life for the Blind, r nu ad<lregs before the College for Blkld fa Uper Postimwter Xoiwocxl, Henry F ,’ Wind General <){ E , an)] 8akl that> speaking of his own the greatest service that could be rendered to the blind was to pmbl( , th ,. m tolive M(ta - M possible tho same lifl , 1W y thev h ad not leet then 8i M -fhev should not bn imprisoned institutions or separated from their frien<K Few who had not experienced H wuW imagin ^ ^ the iudescribatde joy to thpm of ho e We . Some persons hesi tetad to 8 ak to the blind about out warf 1 jhcre could he no greats pr T1)e p ] easanteBt nn ,j happiest ” honrg of llig life were tho8e when h wa9 wHh ^ friendll wbo talkw l about everv thin lh ^ „ j ust M if he was not pre8ent . vho in a room talked about ^ pictures, when walking described the #nd wllo theT were the passing through, blind, people they met when %vith tht , people should , a , fc them ab< , n t aud describe every thing thev faug saw. The speaker concluded ^ )V remar that there was plenty of w j]j to assist the blind, bnt wliat was required was lietter organization, A True Fish Mory A country hotel’s guest went forth to fish. He splashed clothing himself with brook mud, tore his and hair in un derbrush, and at the close looked like a volunteer at the close of Bull Run. At night lie strode up to the hotel and ex hibiteJ thirteen trout to the veranda’s occupants, and related how easy the troll, came to grief, unhitch how lie climl-cd fourteen trees to the line, and how inferior the r stilt was compared with what he usually accomplished, At that moment a boy came up, well out of breath, and exclaimed; “Mis ter, masays I can't sell yer them fish; thev’s promised to another man ; here’s yer money_____ , r ,. Mirfnl Sp ‘ t of Folk'. ^ The Lepchas, . of India, ,. are Buddhists, . short in stature, bulky and of fair com plexion the Mongouon their features type. bemg I hey distinctly of are gross feeders, {gorging themselves constantly to elephant, repletion, rhinoceros and eating I the flesh of I hem the an. monwey. habits are nomaoic. mey do not usu mlylive longer man uiree yeare m one V‘ ac< > hhev huy tuemwives tor pncea rarving xom It to OUU rupees, and, u “ e T T e n0 rc< ? ne y: ' wul B f rTe tiieir fathers- -law as bondsmen m reoom Dense. Ou> men’s eyes are like old men’s memories ; they off." are strongest " for things a long wwy _ USEFUL IU>T8. To Drz Ha ib Black.—T ake sifted lime, sixteen ounces, wliite lead, two ounces; Mix ... litharge well together in fine . and powder, keep , dry. one ounce. When required for use, mix a little pow ikr with water to the consistence of cream and apply with asponge. Cheap Paint.— Three hundred parts of washed and sieved white sand, forty pans of precipitated chalk, fifty parts of resin an 1 four parts of linseed oil are mixed and boile-t in an iron kettle, and tiien one part of oxide of copier and one part of snip! uric acid are added. Die mass is ai p’ie.i with an ordmary [mint brush white warm. If too thick, it is diluted with linseed off Tlii* paint dries rapidly and gets very bard, but protects wood-work excellently. Eauem Ftai Tussl—W e copy from the (JluiutiUt and J)rvggi»Us Mary for 187& the following formula for a cement to make pajicr stick to tin: 1, Add to or duiary wash paste a little honey or glycerine ; 2, the surface of the tin vith muri atic acid before affixing tlu-laliel; 3, add muriatic acid to the gum—this is apt to cause the metal to rust under and around the label; 4, arid a little ammonia; or, 5, tartaric acid to the starch paste or mucilage; 6, add uinminittm sulphate (not alum) to the mucilage. 7. The best plan is said to be to add 20 drops liq, autim. chlor. to 8 ounces of paste or mn<-ilage. To Kemgvk I.n-x Stains.—T he Jour¬ nal de l‘harmaci i d’A nv< r<s recommends of pyrophosphate ink This of soda salt for does the removrd injure stains. not vegetable fiber and yields colorless com¬ pounds with the ferr c oxide of the ink. it is last to first apply to the ink spot, then wash in a solution of pyro¬ phosphate utvtil both tallow and ink ink liave disappeared. Stains ol red anilino may be removed by moistening tho spot with strong aloohol acidulated with nitric acid. Unless the stain is pro aueed d dieulty. by eosine, it disappears without the Paper is is hardly always altected by process; still it advisable to make a blank experiment first. An Easily Made Chaie.—T he Scien¬ tific American gives aa engraving of a very cheap yet strong and comfortable bv made as elegant as fcapkiBJSfjLJsa b “j ! ’p’S “ * 7* 0 s ;^"*‘ ” “ '-™ Atassr sfirdft-aisfar!; w /’ h Me care shmdd ^ ham-1 di the upholstermg much to disgiuse form as as [xissihle. Measuring Buildino Material.— We ia Hn exchange the following fig u,os 111 ^gard to building materials ; A of stone, three bushels of lime and cubic yard of sand will lay 100 cu. ft. Five courses of brick will lay 1 “ height wm in a make chimney. flue Nine bricks a coure » a 8 in. -wide ’‘ 20 in - lon g, and eight bricks in a will make a fluc8 in. wide and 16 ' lou K- Eight bvah. of good lime, 16 l,u 2 k «und jind I hush, of hair will moke en-ltighvhortar toplasta’T lfX) gq. Vlls - One-fifth more siding and flooring De ™ed than the number of square oi suiface to be covered, because of the lap in the siding and matching of hie floor. One thousand laths will cover lath nails 70 yds. of nail surface, them and 11 lbs. of will on. One thou¬ sand shingles laid 4 in. to the weather cover over 100 sq. ft. of surface, und 5 lbs. of shingle nails will fasten them on. Eloquent Passage. Tlie following is an extract from the Gen. Garfield’s tribute to llie mem¬ of Senator Ferry, of Representatives Michigan, de¬ in tlie House of “Before Washington ; let closing, howevor, me re¬ iso the crowning glory religious of his element life. Mr. had n strong in character. This was with him a controlling force, and not senti¬ No cl-uid obscured the efful¬ e.t his hope or dimmed his vision. and high bis intellect and Iris faith above all storms and darkness, and him in sweet companionship the unrevealed mysteries of pain, his end drew near he came after a brief absence. There, his own roof, with the an¬ of his household about him, ho to his rest. Thinking do, of the tri¬ and knowing, as we liow well wrought for the future, trusting in merits of his dear Lord, he could the. sweet lines of Boner ; Beyond the parting ami the meeting, I shall t e soon; Beyond the farewell and the ftreeting. Beyond the ptvi.eV 8hall be fever l<outiog,. I shod. l-ove, reft 8Bti homo ! Sweet hope! but X/ortlf tarry not, come. Beyond the frofftrehain aud the fever, I f hail be soon; Beyond the rock-waste and the river, Beyond the never aud the ever, I shall be aeon! Love, rest aud hoc* I Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come, “ Ay, the sweeter word of inspiration tlie volume of the book is written ; Lo 1 I come quickly. Eve.i so. conic, Jesus.’ ” A Plea for Tobacco. Here is an eloquent plea for the use tobacco: “It composes the mind, the thoughts, it attracts all out objects to the mind’s view, it set and retents tho senses, it cheers tlie strengthens the j udg > s P ies out errors > il exasperates it heats ambition, it comforts it abates passion, it excites to actions, knowledge, it digests conception, it it elevates, im-gina it creates fancy, it quickens writ, it makes reason pleader and truth judge in all disputes and and controversies right wrong.” So wrote Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, some 2t)0 years ago, and probably many a wife indorsed her statements since, for it does work wonders with an irritable man. we all know. Ip a bar ot steel be carefully on a point and then magnetized by it bing w ith a magnet, remain or any other will no longer in equilibro trill form an angle to the horizon. “Pru'rian Ladder.” [Sew Orleans Time*,] If there is a merchant in New Orleans who can sell goods them,RubeHoffenstein. at any price he choneaetofixon wfao keeM a cJothlC g and shoe store on h the man. One dav a customer entered his estab Ushment "and inquired: “Have -mi any low quarter Ihafanysdyla gaiters?” “Certainly, mv frent. vas* v(yn W ;-h, rid someding dot neat, jf 0 w here vas a pair uf gaiters vat is made uf Prussian ledder, de pest kind vfl » ; s known, und I dinks dey vill suit to1j J Suppose replied*the von dry deni on.” * 'All right," customer, * “Vmt. ’ in.' m ’fr»-nt, and I’ll put Ah, a lee-.Ua vat how der \ow dry dein. p, ttcr shoe you vant dan dot? It vits ehnst as if somebody takes your meas nr.:.’’ instep,” said “It’s too right across the th customer, nibbing the spot with his fingers, dear sir,” replied “It vill sdi jiersnisively, etch, my “dot ledder Hoffenstein vas made expressly for stlreteliing.” also.” “Bnt the shoa pir. liesmy vill toes, de first “Dot is i.oding; it go vay time it gets vet. You don’ vroit to buy a pair uf shoos mere as dree sizes too big, nnd go around de ladies mit your feet looking like a gouple of railroad scrapers. It vonld be a shame, you know.” “What do you ask for the shoes?” “Only secx dollars,” ‘•Jerusalem! That's too much.” “Veil, my dear sir, you must recollect dat dem shoes vas made of Prussian led¬ der, and ledder dere vas scarce. My uncle vat lifs dere write me last reek, und said dat ledder vas so scarce dey don’t make harness mit it any longer. All de harness dere is new made of wool. ” “I tell you what I’ll do,” said the “I’ll cus¬ tomer, examining dollars.” the shoe closely, give you g-r-raeious! four A Prussian ledder shoe “My dollars it for four ven costs me more as five dollars and fifty cents laid at the depot down, und the profit on dem don’t pay for the gas. My g-i'-r-aoiouu, vat’s de matter mit de people?” “Well, I’m not going to give moving $6 for those shoes,” said the customer, toward the door, “they are not worth it.” “Veil, my frent, take them along for 84, nnd call around again some odder day.” paid for the shoes and Tlie customer taking his parcel, left the store. “Herman,” inquired Hoffenstein of his clerk, “vat vas de cost lirice of dem split ledder shoes I shust sold de gentle¬ man?” “Von dollar und a half, sir.” small ‘ ‘My de g-r-r-acions, profit Herman, If pisness, dink how vas. you know, Herman, don’t get petter it vill preak all de store up. Possibilities of Cotton Prodnetion. It may be well to remark at the out¬ set that the practically production of cotton in the South is without limit. It was 1830 before the American crop reached 1,000,000 reached bales, and the highest point ever in the days of slav¬ ery was a trifle over 4,500,000 bales. The crop of 1880-81 is about 2,000,000 in excess of tiiis, and there are those who believe that a crop of 8,000,000 * bales ts umotig tlie certdfiit ics of the next few years. Tlie heavy increase in tlie cotton crop is due entirely to the increase of cotton acreage brought about by the use of fertilizers. Mill¬ ions of acres of land, formerly thought to be beyond the possible limit of the cotton belt, hove been made the best of cotton lands by being artificially en¬ riched. Ill North Carolina alone the limit of cotton production has been moved twenty miles northward and twenty miles westward, and the half of Georgia ou which no cotton was grown twenty years ago now produces fully half the crop of the State. The “area of low production” brought aa the Atlantio States arc to the front by arti¬ ficial stimulation is moving westward, and is now central in Alabama and Florida. But the increase in acreage, as large as it is, will bo but a small factor in tlie increase of production, compared to the Under intensifying of the land now in use. the present loose system of planting, the average yie.d is only one bale to three acres. This could be easi¬ ly increased to a bale an acre. In Georgia five and bales have been raised i *ii one the acre, is credited a yield of three bales to acre to several localities. President Morehead, of the Mississippi Valley that Cotton the entire Planters’ Association, says cotton crop of the present raised in year fourteen might have been easily counties along the Mississippi therefore, river. It will be seen, that the capacity of the South to produce cotton is practically limitless, and, when we consider the enormous demand for cotton goods now ples, opening up from new climes and peo¬ we may conclude that the near future will see crops compared to which the crop of the past year, worth $300, 000,000, will seem small .—Henry IF. Grady, in Harper’s Man mine. Specifle Against I'yphoid. Hr. GniUasse, of the French navy, In a paper benefit on typhoid fever, speaks of the great which has been derived from the nse of coffee. He has found that no sooner have the patients a few table-spoonfuls become of it than then-features relaxed and they come to their senses. The next day the improvement is such as to leave no doubt that the article is just th- specific needed. Under the influence the stupor is dispelled and the patient rouses from the state of somnolency tl** invasion in which he has been since of tho disease ; soon till the functions take their natural course, and he enters upon eonvaleeeenee. Hr Gmllasse gives to an adult i wo or three table-spoonfuls of strong black coffee every two hours, alternated with one of two teaspoonfuls oi claret or Btirgnnvd wine—a little lemonade or citrate or magnesia to be taken daily, and after a while quinine.—Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly. The worst of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it; but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed. As water containing stony particles in orusts with them the ferns and mosses it drops on, so the human breast hard¬ ens under ingratitude in proportion to its openness and softness, and ita apt¬ itude to receive impressions.