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Wall-Makers in the Black Country.
About 24,000 people are engaged in
this dismal part of Great Britain in
making nails and rivets. It would not
be so much a matter the for surprise, even they
for the lowness of wages that
earn, if they were al! men and youths
who are engaged in paid the industry— one of
of the very worst in any part
the country. But it degradation so happens—and
here arises the social of the
traffic- -that there are at least 10,000
females engaged day after dav in the
ySpcupation. '-women either; They daughters are not work all mature by the
side of mothers—daughters ought who, in
their tender years, to be either at
home, if they have any home, or in
bed, instead shaping, of working still their weary
arms in in the small hours
©f the morning, molten iron into the
form of nails for the benefit of what are
called the “foggers.” Here is a picture
©f what may be seen any night in this
district—except, the middle perhaps, shed Saturday
nights, adjoins In squalid-looking of house, a a shed there which is
a
a whole family at work in the pro¬
duction of those nails; father, mother,
aons and daughters—daughters, in but with the too, sad
look very V<T young years,
look of of premature premature age age which is always
to to be be noticed noticed in in the the faces fa of child- work
ers. The gayety of youth, its freshness
and its gentleness seemed to be crushed
oiit of them In the centre of the sned
w.th its raftered cc.lmg-a bleak am
wretched building, wind readily t rough finds the walls of
which the its way—
thstre is a “hearth,” ted by “gl des ’ or
cirl,*widTa her Vounn'cst daughter -it flaxen-haired
sweet and winsome face—
was certainly not more than twelve
vonrs of was"’what age. Bv i!s the side of the hearth
there “Olivor” barreWtke technically called the
a construction, on
the too of which h fixed the sfamo of
the mki particular paiLicuiar pattern pauun and ana si/c sue of oi the mo
“l!,T.i r w.,S»omr 'irti
woodon treadlo—an industrial tie id
-^toSnrnar&iosloTrn TO U] it ought more strictly to be called
which they are fixed. They have pro
viouslv hammered the top of the incan
descent metal, with masculine firmness,
m as to form the head of the nail. The
women and the girls seem to work with
indcod, more vigor than the men--very oft« n,
their fathers, they support their husband? and
who have fallen into
drunken habits; in other cases, I his nail
the making is the means of supplementing
husband’s wages.
But what do I lie nail-makers earn a
week, may naturally be askedP The
small. remuneration It they receive is inoredibly
is no unusual thing-on the
Contrary, it is rather the usual custom
for a family of three or four persons,
after ■tel:, working something like fourteen
■KfeJup day, to earn Tl in a week. But
■iMI.for money there has to be de
carriage to convoy
” as they are
Hi^mLliere ^j is al
il |. |l ,
'MW
v menom! to work every morning at milf
p*st seven wdrked or eight o’clock, and who
day, have with on substantial through food, all tlio weary
no uutil late
<U fit night. Who is it that reaps the beno
of all this terribly hard workP
Certainly well-known not fast the that laborers; for it is a
from week’s end they rarely taste
meat oue to the other.
In the expressive but simple language
*if th® > oor workman, this is how they
fare: “When the bread comes hot
from the bakehouse oven on Saturday
we eat it like ravening wolves.” The
lives “logger*,” of < r “Tommy-shop” profit, and men live
contentment, rest at
the expense of the poor nail-workers.
The “logger” is an intermediate agent
between the worker of nails and the
buyer. Out of the bone and sinew of
these living—and poor people does he makes work. a very fine
he not H e has
a huckster’s simp attached to his dwell¬
ing; he supplies, at the beginning of
the week, the nail-workers with their
sixty-pound bundles of iron, and when
they return the bundles of iron in the
arketabie sliane of nails—out of which
lie makes at least twenty per cent,
profit -if they do not buy bis high
pric. *d previsions, These they get no more
work tom lutn. are the men
who, by nutting down the workmen’s
wages to starvation |>oint, are at the
root of the evil .—London Standard.
A (enfrsslen of IHftldence.
The memorial sketch o' the late Rev.
„'i u2 , cSSSit‘oiJr’rh*!i
d. w....,« .li.uicnt
making such a confess! n he once -aid
that when he was a boy his mother
wsed often to send him about the neigh- !
borhood to invite her friends t„ tea i
aml that when he reached a house ,
where uu invitation was to be left he 1
mover could look anybody in the face,
but with eves upon the l'o.,r he would ;
•x'peat these words. \vh oh he had sa d j
ovrr and oxer on his wav there
“Mother sends her compliments nd j
she hopes \ou will take tea with her :
this evening.” He went on to say that
wfter he beg:ui to preach he could never ;
catch the eves of liis audience till after
hc had listened to the sound ol lus own 1
voice for a while, and that at such j
times there same words were Mire day,” to j j
come into his mind •* And some
said he. "1 shall s]>eak them out, and
you will he very much astonished *o
near me remark, at the oiren ug of n
tsermon. and • Mother sends vvll tier eompli
meets, she hopes you take tea
with her this evening. ’’—A’ew Lomlon
(Conk. ) Telegram.
Wh at part of the eye is like the rain
bow ? Tlie iris. What part is like tlie
wckocl-bov? The pupiL What part is
like the globe* The 1«1L What part »
like the tern of the chest? The lid.
What part is like the piece af a whip?
T':< lash. Wi» *i part is like the sum
writ ctf a hill? The brow.
farm Morals—Borrowing and Lending.
In every occupation, the character
and unity of the occupants has great in
fluonce to determine b ith the respect
ability and the success of the oecupa
lion, in localities, and more or less gen
erally. Farmers must live upon farms,
generally have farmers for world ne'gh
hors. Very few men in the can
with any strict propriety be called in¬
dependent men. i he best condition of
human society is doubtless a o mddioa
of fully realized mutual dependence.
To make or keep the most desirable
condition of intelligent society ideas am>ng right
farmer neighbors, proper of
and wrong must be understood^ and
acted upon. We would modestly and
humbly present some judgment, suggestions, l>or- as
the matter strikes our on
rowing and lending.
There must be limits to the right of
borrowing, and consequently obligation there lend, must
bc limits to the to
Karo implements, perhaps costly,which,
though indispensable at ought times, are but be
rarely borrowed. wanted Suoh in use, implements, not to when
wanted for use by others than their
owners, should always be hired, and the
p r j C( , 0 f |,j be ro fairand agreed equal upon all and parties, paid,
ghat will to
y () rrowing would be sponging, ” n and not
equal
No person ' should borrow any article
f ‘ „ who holds it only as a
hon ,, w( (i urlicle . No one has any belong right
J(;nd what doos not unjust prop<jr)y lb
tohim It is very £i the owner,
arid u not a raor right. Such privi
T ! " " e ” fi
c ^ ,,,ou bh i- h.ul Peen .stolen, foi it
will . be lost, to him. If a borrower may
a l,,,r f” we d "'ensij or article,.'o®
° ecom , , h 'iiowei may do the .samc, and
"hinVf'the L.le 'r artiole ’^The'ifnrrowerTf an
Ll i. ..n ^ nsil hn haj rw shadow of a
’''Sht in - the article which he can trans
f er to a third party, lie loo who borrows
knows have of.ny only o„ borrowed, whom
to it as
• of tre against good
w a «P as ® n0totera
, , '? 0Mh ™
-
U 5 9
Noth '»'«t perhaps, is . more necessary
, t0 « l ood especially neighborhood among farmers,
» n ‘ among farmers who own
»®* 11 farm? as farm homes than a
f understanding lmlli and iu borrowing consideration
? ,l ’ e s r ^ h '< and
And . there should be no priv
' the W obligations persons, which as exempt are from any to of
good neighborhood. If necessary father bur
a
r0Wf ' wf his son, or a son borrows from
Ws father, or a brother from his brother,
it is ft business transaction; and none
°* « tkem , can cia m any exemption from
lae lftw •‘ , and rulra which should govorn
atl ' era 1,1 a society of harmony
a ™ Peace. Where relatives take special ;;
llb f. rtl,!S ,n 8,,oh »i»'ters, it were ettor
'? r «httodoit. bye among strangers It should They bo regarded, have no
as 11 fcn, v ls * !l tres|JOS8, an immorality.
*'*'ich of the miploaeantness so often
seen aim mg relatives, springs from an
'laWi presumption ht supposi- ..-s-i
••4horn>“<*nu--wtUcy ght to
.are rela¬
heart, tives. Many in a man Itas had it in Ms
when* such cireumstaoces, to
pray to be delivered from' his friends.
I should no* be faithful 1 to the subject
I am treatings wore I to silently ignore
another form of presumption of special
rights, which £ have often observed and
looked upon with profound regret.
People elevation are often of seen rank, to which act as they tfaringh had
any constituted license to take
a
nnnsualliberties; financial, whether tiuvtelevation
were or social, or religious.
So young ladies often,when they step np
the rank of mere scholars to that
school teachers, will take liberties- in
of proper rules of politeness,
they others, never did before. Audi farmers
when they rise up to a m>
fession of piety and to church -merahar
are often foolish in the same tiling,
substance, andi practically claim
which they, ought net- to think
taking. In lending articles or uten¬
none have tried my patience and
more severely,, than by taking
liberties, have some
people. It is certainly all
Christian an immorality. To make become
true ca« never any
a bad citizen or a bad neighbor.
higher onr rank the right more strictly
we seek to be as neigh*
No man’s goodness is sufficient
make wrong right.—.4. G. Comings,
New England Farmer.
Development of Forest Trees.
^ a aiveraity among
» "*«U»
£ gsrz, trz
we huve main 1 <vi ' ' .’
and some of the most nse ul and . l .roU
£Me tna's are of this iharaiter. Ir.
Wanlncar, of Ohip, m a paper on l or
•f'D- ^ locust be harvv .
u ' may twenty to thirty
after it has grown from
years, The oatsdpo the ,, same
specioaa in
period will make good croes-bes and
fence posts. attains a useful
The ailantus very soon
size, and for certain purposes lias been
highly commended both ui this country
and ui Europe. Professor u. S. Sar
gent is advising ita extensive plantation,
and some years ago it was spoken of as
the mi«t premising tree for the and
plains of the Southwest
The forest of Scotch pine in reach Germany then
are allowed sixty years to
useful size tor fuel and for timbers,
Tlie birch there reaches ita maturity
in about half a century, needed
The willow used tor charcoal
in the manufacture of gunpowder may
be cut after growing twenty years or
even less,
Chestnut, in its second growth, is most
profitably cut every twenty or twenty¬
five year*. ■■■■
The beautiful wood of the wild cherry
soon reaches a profitable size for many
purposes, tliough fear saw logs and lum
ber the tree should be larger.
For Onr Stoi
Madame de Dura* oijrrymp- T nngly
said that a knowledge #i stein fa* use
fnl would in making almost sweetmeat?, if a>i’ rorough so it
seem as esfijptial a
knowledge of physics was in
sele- ting a dinner, as if cooks
ought caterers to be graduates first class from cherhisirej®^ thej§g«d;cal dor
seboo's. After listening to potoolies.
reading volumes upon what to ” at ar| d
what not to eat, after having ? ur cher¬
ished mince-pie wrested from alter
sacrificing our toasted ehcesej^r ^e
loved doughnut, our savory Yntte -, to
the enlightened plum-pudding spirit of the ! e a ®o'd ‘^r
giving shoulder our in for indigos we " chills,
return
aivl banishing eakc from tfc® test ve
board, according to the dictal" °f t"®
dietary police—we begin, prfaap®' t°
suspect that wc have been den; P*bo mg o eat ir
selve - for naught, since vhose
what is set before them, asking®® ques
tions for conscience sake-’® r the
hostess —paying little heed to j' ie ™a
terial are quite s »long as well as' it off pleases in the th^-palate, ilpttcr of
digestion as we who have ff'™, our
whole minds to it. But com-ci*® let on©**. that these he
careless folks 1 eeoroe
has a stomach, belief and the we heroic experil/ eet. ce a re- In
laj sc into in l kely tfiv!>e t buf
the meantime we are ;
feted by every wind of doclr fe, after
devoting ourselves to oaten*-*' ^osolyte, ’vith
h c “H’uwasm of a
,akm , . S 'ho Utter with t.J sweet
™ he a theory 'f «"d<lenly lha con oatmet^-y; froafi wth too
‘ , LT- u g v C more
Bg upon
ht it is too
water” is swallowed a 1 o ir ewn risk;
a ff er doing v'olen e fo our pre udiees
ami taking of beef underdone Aomebody
r j s< ; 9 to say that it is the «houi:5bc wept thing thor
wl!tonW ,l0 ’ as meat
cooked , in order , to '£> whole
some ; after converting om ves to a
ta brain to for fish, with a oonfmHK view ^jereased 1 * by the
power, we are jd theory
... ,„«p food;
which recommends fish for ,in
after resigning our hard boileH e gg like
a niarh the progress of
sure-us that fluids must be lomerted
into solids before digesting; tor eoax
mg our convalescence W.
some lea ned Asculapius l^“ »as
had by wine more jeily convalescing than by daeasflF pa^ts «®nee- kiiled
forth keeping the culinary becomes depart a bug- met\|ofhouse- the
simplest preparation may turd out . to be
yenst-powdeis a dangerous compound; betrayed usf liav<- .fend n0t our
mwy
we not be shortening the ot daytB* " iends
cipes r—JJarpet ^ s s m Bazar. r^ r -8
I lusliliiTt. ..
Everyone is familiar with 'he word j
ftmh, as applied to the criiriHonJd cheeks, in
when visible, the become minute suddenly capillaries, gd[R®d ^'eUre with
blood. The sudden full in A f’ w i s the
leading idea.
plied The to word the has cleaimiaea^ for a longj* ^OSS. ll l>- a
coni one Amount
t:» nnn
conteitie and bears thcmbi'l'k' it in ita
rush. f \
This method of cleanaag he} sink and
soil-pipes of onr dwellings uijkjoyed. ould be
systematically An ordinary stream and thorcfcglily wfl flow e tiie
over
sediment, and allow it accm malate so
as, in time, to fiQ, and alyays t* bo send¬
ing back its odor to the nmse. 'The dif¬
ficulty is increased in oif- sink- pipes by
the eareiossnoss of servants in allowing
peelings, paiingay and bite gei - «dlv, t<>
enter tlie wlueh pipe, and by tlii many greasy
particles constantly jniss ifown.
It is well, once or twice a welt, to re¬
move the straiiwar, and has ing: tilled a
bucket with boiling water, to mm- the
latter into the sink at once, at die same,
time opening the faucet to the tester, and
allowing tlia whole to ran two or three
minutes. This will dissolve tl«- ■ greasy
particles, the mil carry clean everything and off, and
render jape sweet.
The wool, of late, has b >en happily
opening applied to the the door proper and airing the windows, pi a aoom in the by
front and rear, so as to secure, vs. far as
possible, a fftll rush of the air 4trough.
This is the more necessary, «oee tlie
most dangerous impurity—tlie ufflnvimn
from the skin—is not, like tin' gases,
subject to tife tow of diffusion, tends
to settle upon, the floor, fumiitUBe and
bedelothingi opening of window*, however
A mere a
long, amount* to but little beyond cool¬
ing the rcenx.
Popular Ideas of the dimes.
In the West of England formed there is of a tra¬ the
dition that the cross was
mistletoe,, which before that went uses!
to be a line forest tree, br # lias since
been doomed to le;ul believe a panvritical that it exist
enoe. The gypsies ash Tho nails used was
made oi’- the tree. at
the erueifietion, said to have been found!
by Helena, are reported to have worked*
many miracles. Oue of them w. i
thrown by her into the Adriatic during a
storm, and produced a perfect helm, cal .a. of
Another placed in found the crown in or mutilated
Constantine, was a Croce. The
state in the Church of Santa
third is said to be in the possession of
Duomo of Milan, white that of Txeves
claims the fourth. Ia the time of Char¬
lemagne a new relie was discovered in
the shape of a spouge soaked to the
blood of Christ. In Cheshire tho Amm
maculatum is culled “Gefchsesaane,”
because it is said to have been growing
at the foot of the cross, and to have re
oeived some drops of blood on the its orueifio- petals.
The dirpe of Mam re died at
tiou! "Christ’s thorn" is a very com¬
mon plant in Palestine, In Scotland it
was formerly believed that the dwarf
birch is stunted in growth because the
rods with which Christ was scourged
were made from it These are the popu¬
lar ideas of the material of the cross,
some of which will, perhaps, neve* be
entirely obliterated until tlie last great
dav, when “all things shall he made
plain-"— AU the Fear Round.
A xroro teamster in N ashvdte declares
that he must either gire up driving mutes
or withdraw from the elmroh; tn.> tvs^
positions inoompatjb}*,
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
in —Two-story Berlin. street-cars are a success
—Several electro-motors have been
introduced into the French collieries
where they colliers have given satisfaction to
all the except the mules. The
muies kicked.
—A prize type setting contest took
place winning recently compositor iu Berlin, 9,415 where letters the in
set
the course of three hours, an average
of about fifty-three letters per minute,
in ordinary newspaper type.
—By the will of the late Mr. Trotman,
a wealthy planter of Demarara, half of
his large fortune is bequeathed as the
nucleus ol an institution to be estab¬
lished for the benefit of distressed plant¬
ers and their wives and children. Two
provisos in the rather remarkable docu¬
ment are that no confirmed drunkard
and no black man shall profit by the
bequest.
—A Paris paper tells a story of an ec¬
centric man who put a clause in his will
that the funeral should take place at six
o’clock in the morning and that his
property, an old mattress, should be left
to those who followed the hearse to the
graveyard. As there was nothing in the
will to attract many mourners, the fun¬
eral procession was limited to the driver
of the hearse and a young neighbor of
the deceased. He got the mattress and
found in it $40,000.
—A discovery which has been hailed
as a modern Pompeii in the center of
France, has been made in the neighbor¬
hood of Poitiers, A buried Gallo-Roman
town has been found, with the ruins of
yards a temple broad, 114 baths, yards long by streets seventy and
theater,
houses. Sculpture in good preserva¬ articles
tion, iron, bronze and earthen date
are found. The town is thought to
from the second century.
—Ages of living Empresses: Augusta,
of Germany, 71; Queen oi Denmark,
65; of England, 63; Empress of Brazil,
60; Queen Olga, of Wnrtemburg, (30; !
Queen of Saxony, 49; Empress of Aus¬
tria, 45; of the Belgians, 46; of Sweden,
46; of Italy, 52; Empress of Russia, 35;
Queen of Portugal, 34; Queens of Spain
and the Netherlands, 24 each; of Ser
via, 23.
—Captain White, of Ireland, belong¬
ing to the Eleventh Hussars, who has
been in receipt of $10,000 a year from
his estates, but who has been financially
embarrassed lately by the loss of in¬
come caused by the troublous times in
that happy awhile land, walked out on meeting a lonely
moor ago, and on a
laboring Chain saying mar gave had him further his watch and for
he no use
them, and then cut his throat.
—The seventeen-year old bride of a
Siamese Prince died not long ago,whose
funeral ceremonies were on a scale of
magnificence seldom made if ever equaled. logs
The funeral pyre was of of
the fragrant sandalwood, costing $10,
000, and a million dollars’ worth of gokf
and jewels were strewed upon with his it. The
Prince applied the torch own j
hand, and when all was consumed the
ashes were hich collected stands in in a magnificent the sacred
CTn> w now
temple at Benares,
—The shop assistant? population of
London is estimated at about 320,000—
larger than all Dublin—and there are
ciyy"* - 1 “ yoA»y ; ng
about one-third of this population, who
work from twelve to fourteen hours a
day without relaxation. A century ago
early closing was general, day, including .and for cen¬
turies twelve hours a two
for meals aad relaxation, was the regular
period: tension of of work hours for employes. in with The and ex¬
came (in the gas largest
steam; big houses 1800
shop in London employed and keener only competi¬ sixteen
on the Thousands premises) of employed
tion. persons
in London shops die. break dowr every year
and go-home-to
Jonathan Edwards*,
It is-impossible that people-of ordin
ary sensibilities should have listened to
his torturing discourses without becoin
ing atilast siok of hearing ot infinite
horrors and endless agonies. . It came
very-hard to>ki®d-hearted persona to be
lieva that the least sin exposed a creat
ure God had made to such exorbitant
penalties. Edwards’ whole uystesn had
too much of the character of file 1 savage
people by whom the wilden-fjes-had so
recently beemtenanted. Tie re was re
venge—“ revenging it—insatiable, just:*?* " was
what he railed ex
haunting its-higenuitv in confeaLving the
most exquisite torments; there was the
hereditary hatred glaring on',h* babe in
its. cradle; there were th* suffering
v retch and, the pleased aadi shouting
1-jokers-on. Every natural grace of dis
position ; ail that had one .©harmed in
he sweet ingenuousness of south, in the
laughing aayety of childhood, in the
winning heititessiiess of irkuwv ; every
virtue that:Piato had dreamed of, every
character that Plutarch had drawn—all ,
were branded with the l ot iron, which
left the blackened inscription upon
them, signifying that tbev,-were accursed i
of God—the damning wood nature.
There is no sufficient season for at*
tacking the motives of j, man so saint'/
in life, sc holy in aspirettans, so met-i,
so laborious, so thoroughly Ini in earnest giv ji
the work to wMch life was ■».
But, after long smothering in the snl
phurous atmosphere of his thought, one
eannot help asking. Was this or my
thing Ske this— is this or anything.«like
this—the accepted belief of any coasid
erabte part of Protestantism ? if so,
we must say with B&eon : “ It wem bet
ter to have "no opinion of God at ail than
such an opinion as. is unworthy of Him.”
A “natural man”'is better tham an un
natural theologian. It is a less, violence
to onr nature to deify protoplasm than
it is to diabolizo the"Deity —i>r O. B .
Holmes, in International Review.
There is at Brussels a cartons case of
chronic drowsiness. A mae about forty-.
five years cl age, apparently in perfects
health has lately been attacked by an
irresistible tendency to sleep. As scon
as he stops walking or seats himself even
to eat befalls into a deep slumber. All
the remedies prescribed failed bv the leading
Belgian physicians have to said produce be
anv effect upon him. This is to
the first case of the kind in Europe.
el though snob eases aie bv Ooioea no means l\a
among the negroes r
rare htavarC
cMl them
French and American Fire Laws.
Nine out of tea of the churches, hos
pitals, warehouses other cities—not and dwellings, etc.,
of this and omitting
libraries, city buildings, and school- the ; j
houses—are complete examples combustible of
work of the masters of '
'
building and architecture. They are
aeed on the outside with a stone, brick,
or iron sham, in the design of which 1
what, is miscalled art has been at- j
tempted. In the first burned eleven within months the! of \
1882 there were
limits of the United .States: 362 hotels, j
99 churches, 7 hospitals, school-house.?, 14 asylums, college 6 j
almshouses, 62 13 J
buildings, 20 court-houses, 2 custom- i 1
houses; total, 585. These special combustible _ speci
mens of the work of the
builders and arebi'.ects of our land
formed a pait of the ash heap of 1832,
valued at $90,000,000. It would be
quite safe to affirm that an additional
cost, ranging from one to two per cent,
upon the construction of these 585 speci
mens of the incendiary art of the com
bustible architect which are recited
above, would have saved at least two
thirds of the loss of property, and might
save a much larger proportion of the
loss of life which is now apt to occur
when any ot the buildings named m this
list take fire. In every case of serious
™d q SS > £e.^“?»neS
tenants, architects, builders, and un
dor writers published, and the faults of
construction distinctly stated: tie in other
words, let the principle of only in French
law be trial applied by here, not It has court, lately
but in newspaper. meV
been stated to a French under
writer, as follows: In France all per
sons having fires on their premises are
looked upon as pseudo-criminals, lying the
onus of proof of their innocence
with them. You will observe that we
burn more than one hotel week, per day, and more
than two churches per more
than two hospitals, asylums, or alms¬
houses per month in this country, which
yet prides itself on its common’schools,
and which claims especial merit for
“gumption,” mechanical aptitude, and
versatility of fires, talent. But of we fire waste depart¬ in
the costs of cost
ment, and cost aside of sustaining from losses, our system
of insurance, some¬
where between $120,000,000 and $140,
000,000 per year—a sum which is more
than $1 in every hundred of the gross
product of the whole nation; which is
more than ten per cent, upon the an¬
nual savings or net incomes of the peo¬
ple in a year of greatest prosperity, and
which is in great measure a useless, be¬
cause perfectly avoidable, tax, which
adds eighteen to twenty per cent, to the
$700,000,000 of national, State, and
municipal taxes which are now collected
and paid unde? our laws.— Boston Ad¬
vertiser.
Habits af the Pig.
“When the pig" wallows in mire,”
says Dr. Ballard, “he merely follows an
instinct implanted in him, in common
with some other of pachydermatous which creat¬
ures, the object is cutaneous
cleansing. The mud stands to him in
the relation of soap to a : human being,
but instead of washing it off with water,
he allows it to cake and- dry upon the
skin, and then rubs it all off, miud and
cutaneous debris together,- upon Loose some hair
sufficiently rough scurf^jjrithte surface.- him, and
and cutaneous SjfWup--*tffitermg'dris
W
skin from them. Cleanse his skin for
him and he will rest in contentment,
without offending the eyes of Ms super¬
cilious betters, often less scrupulous in
this matter than he is, by his wallow
ing-Vserata-hings been and scrubbings. that pig
“It has long known a
thus-cleansed with soap and'water not
only becomes less objectionable, but
grows fat more speedily than if left Sim¬ to
cleanse himself in his own way.
ilarly as respects his food. Garbage is
not the food that the pig selects by
'reference. In fact, a pig which has
been fed for any time upon sweet food
will turn away from sour and disgust
ing food. If left to pick up his own liv
ing. where be- can find it, he-will eat
anything he can find eatable,-but even
then will eat acorns, fallen fruit, or
roats in preference to garbage-; and
human beings in similar straits will act
.qr -eisely in the same way. It may be
economical,, and perhaps even desirable,
convert into pork matters which can
in no other way, or in no way aiore con
venient, be made subservient to the sub
sistence of mankind, and the this- pig bs pos
, My properly utilized in manner,
Onr only desire is to vindicate*-his char
«ter as a cleanly feeder, if only he has
the chance of cleanly feeding vouch
A Remedy for Adversity.
Tbe ___ ^
*® l “ t ou ghhtx>be i taken that is taken
of the eouffitam of health nvesnmatmg
^‘ e causes ofsuccess or fMfire in lde.
The habit af> &ihn 0 is formadin some
families, and,seems to be transmitted by
mhentanoe;. the same is tbe e^se xxitb
constitutional peculiaritie.jud often
wlt -h certain morbid coaonaons. j j
would be an interesting and. profitable
■tody to apamne how far what is ca ed
ill-luck bad fortune is reduced.by such
peculiarities. Accepting mi& view, so
far from rts being stamge,fffiat failure o«
success shoald run nifmnibw, it would:
^ inexplicable, contrary to every n&fc
nral la wand precedent, character, if be strength did not io of
so - The force ol
will 1 dearness of mental vision, ~*d
qualities of vigor, patie^e, and perse ,er
ance, wMch constitute the secrets of sac
oess m. life, are the several properti.s of
the physical organising eomponndea.as it
13 ot oody and mm.'u A new <mce is
suggested then, the health cure, a®
remedy first personal, for advorsi^-, them hereditary which in would its mm, e
aspects, worthy the and attenSoa baring. of medical The aiiqect men is
social phil osophers.
_
_i n the old records of the-Post-office
Department aa entry has been found by
which T. O. Howe; the present Post
master-GenerM. was appointed Postmas
ter at Readtield, E ennebec County,
Maine, on June 12, 1841. He was re
moved by President Tyler.—B ashing.on
Star. ___
Raff f wax has just presented to
the Zoological Garden of Moscow a hair
less horse of Central Asia The animal
belongs to the hybrid "rarity; species and is con
gktewM «. great it is well formed,
but its skin is red and without the slight
trace of hair, and in ctfid Moscow it
baa to be oovered with blanieti
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Germany „ . —-. to $25,000 ... ... for .
is give
scientific . exploration in Africa and
other countries during taeiinaueial year
18ho 4.
—Dr. Gatling, of Hartford, Conn.,
lias patented an arrangement by which
he is enabled to fire his gun at any ele
vation. This is considered one of the
most remarkable achievements of gun
nery.— N. Y. Post.
—Albemarle County,Va, yearly ships
a supply of Albemarle pippins to Queen
Victoria. This famous apple can not be
produced elsewhere distinctive than in Albemarle flavor
county, in losing other its soil, if
grown any
—The rice paper of commerce is not
paper grown from rice, as its name
WO uld imply, but is the pith of a certain
plant cut spirally with a very sharp
hnife, opened out into sheets, and
pressed flat, when it is ready for the
market .—Chicago News. ••
_ D i 9 patches from Calcutta report
^ bat t j ie Attock br i<jge across the Indus
j n p un j a b j s nearly completed, and
^afc trains are likely This to will run give over India it by
^ gfc Q f ]^ a y # an
u .-[broken line of railwav from Calcutta
p er shawur, a distance of some 1,600
ilp a
-Into*™! sha « |'^ no. e™lo„ 1 J° to
sleeve s j lms of buttons certam and the hke-these,when }- l ? r £ ew fb *{’ “ r
dried, and polished, almost equal ug the
the choicest fossil stones, coral pontes. and greatly The resembnfj vertelM
°* the shark aie always filled in demand for
canes. The opening with mar
row during life is for this purpose fnted
w^li a steel or iron rod, the side open,
mgs are filled with mother-of-pearl,and, i.eeided
when polished, the cane is or
namental. N. Y. bun.
—Frank Kittredge, model of for Danville, Vb.,
has constructed a a new steam
engine, whose chief distinction is that it
does away entirely Kittredge’s with engine the piston
movement. Mr. con¬
sists of a deep rimmed wheel, with
movable floats therein, something on
the plan of a turbine water-wheel, and
the closed steam is discharged which he claims against will the furn¬ in¬
wheel,
ish a steady and continuous power, and
more of it than can be procured from
the piston movement.
—Among the various uses to which
electricity may be put there is one of a
very practical nature, which promises
to effect a very great saving of property
and life. It consists of an arrangement
for the immediate stopping of an engine,
by merely pressing a button similar to
those by which electric bells and fire
alarms are sounded. This button may
be placed ait any distance from the en
gine upon which it acts, and the invent¬
or proposes that a number of such but¬
tons should be placed throughout the fac¬
tory or elsewhere where the apparatus is
in use. The principle of the contrivance
depends upon the action of an electro
magnet upon the 3top valve of the en¬
gine.— Chicago Tribune.
—In an article published journals in one of effect the
German scientific on the
of- the color of glass- bottles on the
liquids contained in them, some inter¬
esting facts are stated. It appears from
this that liquors contained in colorless
bottles, when exposed for some time to
the light, acquire a disagreeable taste,
notwithstanding the fact that they may
kewirFt.ss-wWtiprsT'v.w treated; liquors quhUiy contained before-bfepi in
ing so bottles, however .remain
brown, or green
unchanged direct sunlight. in quality, Since, even then, if exposed the
to re¬
sults in question are due to the chemical
action of light, it follows that red,
orange, yellow, green or opaque bottles
are essential colorless, to the preservation blue and violet of
liquors, while
ones are to be discarded.
Men’s Brains.
The human brain is absolutely of bigger
an d heavier than that any animal
except the elephant and the larger
whales, but in no other animal is there
so great variation in brain weights of
different individuals as in man, and it
is perhaps a curious fact that the higher
the civilization the wider the variation,
That i»to say,.the brain weight in-savage
enlightened’nations. race:: is more nearly While uniform-than in m
of ^-general
way greater the_average in civilized weight it the doe? brain not at is
races,
of all follow the degree- that? the of brain intelligence. is. an indication The
average weight of the adult European
mate brain is forty-nine to fifty, ounces,
That of the female is forty-four-to forty
ounces,, the Statistics difference for being America fully
tea* per cent;
vosy nearly ooincide of with this-result.
There are examples men ot-remarka
intellectual attainments whose brains
hAye largely exeee ded the average, as
Quvier, sixty-four and a half'ounces,
apd Dr. Abarorombie.sixty-tkiaeounces. had large
Daniel Webster also a very
brain. That of Agassiz,- weighed
fifty-three and a half ounee?, not very
much above the average, Jn the other
band, higlhbrain weights have also been
f oun d where there was no. evidence of
sn p er i or intellectual capaaity. In an
£ n gu s b the insane asylum examined- nearly skewed ten per
cen t. of eases a
braia wa igMi of over fifsy-five indicates ounces,
excessively small brain
feeble intel!ecti and an abnormally
i ar g e on8 may indicate the same. Be-,
tweer[ phe extremes there is a wida.
rat wr e , in which it is evident that intelf
i ec ^ us y. power is more dependent oBs
q Ua ]:^ than quantity of brain matter.,
j}ut it is estimated by several compe
tent authorities that ia, an adult male, of
anything approaching average size, »
bri i n less than thirty-seven ounces, is
usaa j|y associated with imbecility. In
ot ' fler Vords, a brain ol less than, that
weight will not sonfer the reasoning
faculty in the civilized Caucasian.fchough
ki uncivilized maa, a rnde inteUigeuce
mav spring from a brain o| thirty
ounces. -St. Unis Republican^
—A valuable cow in Kentucky broke
into that a she corn-field and gorged die, when herself so
was about to a sur
geon made an incision to her side and
“ took out over six I ushels of core,
epm-stalks th t i; the and cow grass. had been It hungry is thought she
would have eaten out the entire corn¬
j 6* kl ' including seven.een panels of
Pp 5 ' and rail-fence and four white oak
Mumps. -Aom*few» Uerakl,
