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SIGHTLESS EYES.
Ijcarninjt to Writ©—FIrat Steps In
School Work—How the Blind
Study Music—Teach In jc la
dost rial Pursuits.
The New York Asylum for the Blind
has been visited by a Herald reporter,
who writes about the instruction of the
9 youngest children first receive the
kindergarten training, and their fingers
quickly learn to shape the wooden blocks
* metrical figures. They learn to
and others arc .stringing colored beads on • DITHPUT AT? T7TTAT
fine wires and bending them into tiny bUI/uIjI UJ? a UJjs
baskets, chairs, tables, slippers and dolls*
cradles. The boys and young men are
taught mattress making,, and work in
their department with the correctness
and assurance of practised artizans ;
others go into the cane work and learn to
re-scat chairs and make baskets and
brooms.
Many of these children have no parents
or homes, and when- the school year it
ended the institution kindly sends them
into the country to board on farms, where
outdoor life brings perfect health and
strength. To look at them in their play
grounds, at first sight, one would hardly
think them blind. The older boys play
leap frog with a gusto quite equal to s
boy with sight, but he does it by
also by the point system, especially
for the blind by Professor
invented
Waite, the Superintendent of” the institu
tion. This system requires the use of
brais slates with graved surfaces. A
crossbar three lines in width fits down
. over these bars as a guide to the stvlus.
Every crossbar is divided into squares.
The paper fits between the slate and the
crossbar, and the pupil, guided by the
squares, ipakes the points in the grooves
with a small stylus. An alphabet of
points is arranged, and in this manner
every pupil learns to write. One pecu
liarity of 'this writing is that it is exe
cuted from right to left, but when taken
out from the slate it is reversed so that
the points may be quickly felt by the finger
tips, and is then read from left to right.
Another slate is used in the class-rooms
occupied by the older pupils, who learn
to read and write in the comman English
form also. This slate has no crossbars,
but the grooves are much wider and
guide the pupil in syritlng and printing.
A slate for tnd arithmetic claase* is di
vided into small square cells, like a
honeycomb, and is made of steel. Types
with faces of T, V, L and blank, respec
tively. are used. The first two can each
be. turned in four'different direction, and
this supplies eight numerals. These
types, skilfully handed, are set in their
squares and used to demonstrate prob
The first step
learning to read, spell and write by the
point system. The child
all hit »lessons from dictation and studies
with his lingers. The work in the geo
graphy clnss-rooms is particularly inter
esting, as the maps are cut Int^ block-
with rahed surfaces and the children arc
taught to put them together.
The most important branch of instrac-
• steps. They promenade up
i the halls and courtyard with
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Johnnie finally condescended to stand np
in a corner, give his head a jerk, and
^^Terwinkle. terwinkle, littte statu
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the— 1 "
Here Johnnie suddenly breaks off and
Down with tbe Tyrant*—An Im
portant Game — Inexcusable
Stupid itv—A Joke on a
Senator, Etc.
“Yea,* 1 said he to his neighbor across
the fence, “the laboring men are in the
righb It was time for them to nse
against the tyranny of capital. Down
with all tyrants, I say”
“John Henry!” shrieked a shrill voice
out that clothes line and
When coming out of class they all. join
hands, and tne
, ___ ____ leader place^ her hand
upon the casement through the hall, then
upon the railing of the stairs, and makes
her way quickly as any seeing school
girl.
White House Silver Weddings.
In the past fifteen years two of those
who have filled the office of President of
the United States have celebrated their
silver wedding.(or the twenty-fifth anni
versary of manage) while holding that
high position—Presidents Grant and
Hayes. The twenty-fifth anniversary of
the marriage of the former occurring in
the summer, he and his wife celebrated
it at their cottage at Long Branch on Au
gust 22, 1873.
On December 31, 1877, President and
3Irs. Hayes celebrated their silver
wedding In.thc Executive Mansion by
evening reception for a limited number
of invited guests. The actual wedding
day was the 30th of December, but, as it
fell on Sunday in 1877, the following
evening was celebrated. On Sunday,
however, there was also a quiet celeDra-
tion of a religious character.
tion is the musical department, in which
vocal meric, piano and organ playing nrc
taught, and each pupil is thoroughly
trained. It is intended to fit the pupils
for teaching, so that they may be pre
pared to support themselves when they
leave the institution. The work begi
with the " ””
This ceremony occurred in the Blue
Parlor, where the Kev. L. D. McCabe,
who had married Lucy Webb and Ruth
erford B. Hayes in Cincinnati on Decem
ber 30. 1852, again performed the mar
riage ceremony for them, in the presence
of a few relatives and intimate friends.
On the some day there was a christening
and a christening feast. The baptismal
ceremony occurred in the Blue Parlor.
The children baptized were the youngest
of the family of President and Mrs. Hayes
—Fannie nnd Scott—and the infant of
Mr. and Mrs. Herron, of Cincinnati, who
was then named Lucy Hayes. Rev. L
D. McCabe was the officiating clergy-
split 1
and draw that water, or snail I have to
come out to you?”
“Yes, Minmdy,” be answered meekly,
*Tm going right about itj’—Boston
Journal.
An Important Game.
“Come on borne quicker ’n’ lightnin’I”
exclaimed a boy rushing up to au Estel-
line man who was watching a game of
checkers in a Second street drug store.
“W-w-hy, what’s the matter?”
“The baby’a fell down the well!”
“Gosh!, Fell clear down?”
“You bet he has.”
“Got his head up out uv the water?”
“Yes, but we can’t get him out.”
“Well, it’s too thundering bad-^-you
see I’m sort uv backin’ this fellow on the
game and he’s just about got ’em where
he wants ’em. Tell my wife to heave
the rattle-box and the rubber-ring down
to the poor little fellow and sing to him
- ....
goes racing and tearing around the room,
——— chairs, snatching at table-
loths and shouting like a young Indian.
Jenkins, “that isn’t
'Don’t,” says Mrs.
half of your piece.”
“It’s all Tm going to say,’* and the
mad race is resumed.
Johnnie! Johnnie!” interposes Jen
kins, Sr.
The infant Jenkins is now standing
i j » i
WHAT SCIENCE SAYS.
trustworthy on.]
“Han is the greatest of all chemical labor
atories. Magnify the smallest cell of the body
and what a lacto y Is spread before the eyes
—ooon£ee> chambers in which are globes of
air, mamas of solid matter, globules of dying
muscles and tbe various nerve centres.
his head in a corner, kicking oat his
heels and laughing. This interesting
pastime is soon abandoned for the more
exhilarating one of prancing around the
room on his hands and feet and imitating
the “woof, woof” of a bear.
“You’re too noisy,” says Mrs. Jen
kins.
“Ain’t”’ briefly retorts Johnnie.
“You are,” says Jenkin9, Sr.
“I a-a-ain’t!” shrieks Johnnie.
“You John Henry Jehkins!”
Ire is in the father's face and voice,bat
Johnnie doesn't care for ire or anything
else.
The result is a sort of pitched battle,in
whifch the combined forces of Pa and Ma
Jenkins are sufficient to drag Johnnie out
by the heels. His mother returns, red
and mortified.
*\‘Children will never show off when
you want them to,” she says sadly.
It seems to me that Johnnie has*
* ‘showed off” to perfection.—Detroit Free
Free*.
—- ;
"BIh4 Win Tell.*’
Yes. the old adage Is right, but if
Sasatffftfc
the liver is
—hereby cor*
tell" la diseases of
wended in « straight lina frecn
de Lion, or the noblest Roman of them all.
Frr setting the liver in order no other medi
cine In the world equals Dr. Pierce’s “Golden
Imprisonment for debt lias been aoousued
n Sew York State.
The potest, sweetest and best Cod Liver Oil.
In the world, manufactured from fresh,healthy ,
livers, upon the seashore. It is absolutely pore >
and sweet. Patients who have once taken it :
prefer it to all others. Physician* have do-
rior to any of the other^ oils
e by Caswell Hazard & Co^New
masses which tbe air in tbe lungs did not af
fect: blocks of chalk; slabs of tartar; piece*
of bone-ash, strings of albumen; drops of
where yon will in this great stream, you
must come to the purifying places of the sys
tem. Here is oh activity and an invisible
kind o’ soft like and til be up just the
The Great National Library.
The National Library is the great
minute this game is finished.”—Eetelline J brain reservoir of the United States, says
{/>„£.) Bell.
Washington letter to the Cleveland
Inexcusable Stupidity.
“Your beau seems very bashful,” said
i Dayton avenue mamma to her daugh-
igt«
Leader. I might say the brain reservoir
ter.
with the youngest children, when for an
hour in tho afternoon they we gathered
into a .class-room and taughl the rudi
ments of vocal music. Time keeping,
scale singing, with the meaning of musi
cal terms, are the first steps; then the
singing of simple melodies begins. Upon*
this follows, as the pupil advances in his
literary clashes and is able to make use
of the point system, the reading of music.
All music for the blind most be trans
lated into point writing. The pupil usu
ally writes it him? elf from dictation, and
then going to the piano memorizes first
the treble, then tho bast, taking a bar at
■“^tinre^-JttullheA putting them together.
While rendinfr with the fli * "
While reading with the fingers of the left
hand, he runs readily over the chords
and melodics with his right, and then
method of
▼ice versa. In this r
f study the
r is more quickly and thoroughly cul-
n in pupils who uso their eyes,
otes, must be depended
upon. It is exceptionally interesting to
watch one of these intelligent little pupils
master a difficult bar. With mind, en-
and listening intently,
tnand quickly across
Polk and Fillmore were the only other
Presidents the twcnty-fi.'th anniversaries
of whose mariages occurred while they
filled that office.
The two Adamses, John nnd Quincy,
e the only two Presidents who had
golden weddings,” or had fifty years
of married life, but these anniversaries
fell after their terms os Presidents
ended. John and Abigail Adams lived
together sixty-two years, and John
Quincy Adams and his wife nearly fifty-
one years.
The next longest periods * of wedded
life enjoyed by any of the Presidents
were by Harrison and Andrew Johnson,
each of whom had been married J!orty-six
years when he died.
Madison was married forty-two years
before his death, Monroe forty-one years
before his wife died, and Washington
foaty years before he died. Jackson and
his wife had been wedded thirty-seven
years when his death occurred. Taylor
and his first wife and Pierce and his
wife were each married twenty-nine
years when death in each case removed
the wife.—New York Herald.
‘Bashful,” echoed the daughter,
“bashful’s no name for it.”
“Why don’t you encourage him a lit
tle more? Some men have to be taught
how to do their courting. He’s a good.-
catch.”
“Encourage him!” said the daughter;
“he cannot take the most palpable hint.
Why, only last night, when I sat all
alone on the sofa, and he, perched up in
a chair, as far away as he could get, I
asked him if he didn’t think it strange
that a man’s arm and a woman’s waist
seemed to be the same length, and what
do you think he did?”
•“Why, just what any sensible man
would have done—tried it.”
“He asked me if I could find a piece of
string so we could measure ajidsec if it
aid.
i so. Ain’t he horrid?”—St Paul Her-
s fingers of his left
the page of point-print music, and with
his right follows on the keys. Again and
again he plays it till the tune and ex
pression are perfect: then, reversing
hands, he memorizes the base, and then
triumphantly puts them together.
Besides the music class-rooms there
ore a number of small rooms, each con
taining a piano, where the pupils demon
strate the principles taught in class.
Other small rooms are used to teach the
An Ugly City.
San Francisco is probably tho ugliest
” n, despite ’ ’ '**
necessarily quite different from
pupils who read from ordinary
but it is -none the lest thorough,
ouch bass is taught in classes, each pupil
being callod to the piano in turn, and
while ho illustrates the different forms of
chords the class follows him, describing
each chord and naming the notes from
the sound.
To the visitor no part of this institution
is more attractive or interesting than the
industrial department. The girls are
taught plain sewing, machine work of
all kinds, crocheting and knitting in all
their multiplicity of stiches and designs,
machine knitting and rag making. The
work-room is long and sunny ana pleas
antly furnished. Through the centre of
it is a row of sewing machines and work
. tables, and beyond them another row of
knitting machines. The operators bend
over their machines as naturally as though
city in the Union, despite her beautiful
surroundings, her ideal situation, her
ravishing water view. Nature has sup-
the deforming hand of man has left
heavy, hideous marks. Her architecture
is a nightmare of gray and wooden hor
rors; her houses lack both paint and
and nre huddled together, sepa-
A Joke on Senator.
A gentleman met Senator Beck yester
day for the first time in a dozen years,
and the greeting was cordial.
“Ah, Senator,” said the friend, “you
don’t look a day older than you did the
last time I saw you.”
“I’m a little grayer, possibly/’ sug
gested the Senator, with a pleasant
smile. •
“You are looking in excellent health,
too,” pursued the friend.
“Thank you. And do you know,”
continued the Senator, “that I am sixty-
four years old and I never paid but one
doctor’s bill in my life, and that for a
broken arm?” >-
•*Is that so?” asked the friend in
JCUtl, A U53U1U juu.
“Well, Senator,” said the friend, with
, significant smile, “don’t you think it
a significant
is almost time you were paying
them and preserving your credil
The 8enator moved for an executive
Jiington Critic.
Bill Nye In Washington.
and general headquarters for the rechi
business. It would be hard to find
a bontonier aggregation, than the one I
was just at, to use the words of a gentle-
force reaches out into the stream, seizes and
carries the mass of waste into vast trenches,
thence into a smaller reservoir, and finally
into a larger reservoir, which regularly dis-
-v its contents.
separation of lime, uric acid and other
of the world, past nnd present-, for it has
rcrything of value, old and new, which
as ever been printed. It is complete as
to the workings of the American rand.
Everything in literature, music, or art
that is copyrighted must be deposited
here, and hi those narrow quarters of the
capitol, piled up in store boxes, squeezed,
up into shelves, and packed away down
in the ground in the crypt, are hundreds
of thousands of volumes, charts and
lamphlcts, each of which has consumed
lays of labor, and some a lifetime of in
tellectual work. There are nearly 600,-
000 books in the library, and almost
200,000 pamphlets. These will now be
brought forth to the light of day. The
works of ait will be collected into gal
leries and the books be made accessible.
Few people have any idea of the expanse
of this library. Away down under the
capitol there are cavern-like rooms into
which the light never comes, which are
filled with thousands of bound volumes
wspapers of h df a
nt languages, and of
all tho years back almost to the
date of the Declaration of Independence.
Here, too, are 9,000 valuable maps and
innumerable engravings, photographs,
prints, and drawings. Some of the maps
are those made by the Generals of the
Revolution on the field of battle, and
some, indeed, have never been printed.
It will take five years to complete this
new library, for Mr. Smithmeyer, the
architect, tells me that you cannot do
work of this kind in a hurry. At this
time it is estimated that the library will
contain at least 1,000,000 volumes. It
waste material from tbe blood, without rob
bing it of a particle of the life fluid, posses
human comprehension. In health this blood,
purifying process is carried on without oar
knowledge. The organs in which it is done
are foithrul servants wboee work is silent as
long as health remains.
“People strangely wait until pain strikes a
nerve before they will realize that they have
any trouble. They do not know that pain
concerns chiefly the exterior, not the interior
of the body. A certain set of nerves connect
these blood-purifying organs with the brain.
They may not gnaw and bite as does the
tooth-ache or a scratch, but they regularly,
silently report. When these organs are fail
ing these nerves indicate it by drawing tho'
blood from the face and cheek, leaving the
lip and eye blanched, by sending uric acid
poison into the smallest veins, the skin then
becoming gray, yellow or brown. They also
{ >revent the purification of the blood in tho
ungs and cause pulmonary difficulties, weari
ness and pa'n. Who enjoys perfect health,
especially in this land where we burn the
candle in one mass? The athlete breaks down
in the race; the editor falls at his desk; the
merchant succumbs in his counting-room.
These event* should not have been un
expected, for nature long ago hung
n ’ Wlmn t.hA
hundred forms; either
tion, chronic weakness, as wrong action, as
head troubles, as palpi-
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premature decay, as dryness and harshness
of the skin, causing the hair to drop out or
* y.a* apoplexy, as paralysis, as gen
ii ty. blood poisoning, etc.
no faith then in the wiseacre who
says there is no danger as long as there is no
pain. Put no faith in the physician, who
ever he may be, who says it fs a mere cold
or a slight indisposition. He knows little, if
any. more than you do about it. He can
neither see nor examine these organs and de
pends entirely upon experimental tests, that
nreparat inn* of iron than of
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contains albumen, lymph, crystals, sweet c
morbid matter, is red with escaped blood, <
roily with gravel, mucus and froth, some
thing is wrong and disease and death are cot
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the ones in which a large majority of human
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in public, I ’* ’ ’
because it is conceded that the pro-
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What is wanted for such organs is a simple
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to the afflicted,
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o harm to tbe moet
Such a remedy, tried
iy many thousands all
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2,300,000 volumes; of London, 1,500,000 ;
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tho United States, and I doubt whether
there is a nation in the world whose,
brain is working as actively as ours. Says
Mr. Spqffordt “The literary activity of
the United States is iucreasing every
year, and our annual increase from copy
right alone varies annually now from
20,000 to 30,000 volumes. Our annual
Sixteen years ago there were 50,000,000 and then disease and
books in the libraries. of the United cross tho threshold.
States, and there is now more than an
average of one book per person to our
population.
Literary activity is on the .increase in
conviction that what Editor ]
. j , wv.uw hi ovi,null vuiumca. uiu oiuiiuu
£ I ^ntries of copyrights now eiceed2fi,000
if I wrote “The Heathen Chinee,
was a very talented man, with a broad
sweep of skull and a vague yearning for
copyright
volumes, and we have in the library more
than three hundred and fifty thousand
pieces of music.”
its obvious use in rural districts,
where it protects the grounds and gar
dens of the residents from the unwelcome
incursions of roving cattle, but it is many
a year since kine and swine have been
permitted to gambol about the San Fran
cisco streets, and there is neither sense
nor beauty in the large, wooden structures
which surround the lawns and parte ores
of every second house in San Francisco.
Eastern cities have long since abandoned
fences, except in some cases, where a
low, lacelike, iron railing is substituted,
and one can ride miles through the
beautiful boulevards of Chicago, Cin
cinnati, Detroit or Boston without seeing
a fence of any description. There your
grounds are- separated from your neigh
bors* only by a 'low, stone coping, and
the lovely expanse of green and
their eyes were not rightless. But here
again the sensitive finger tips are made
to do the work of eyes. Tbe machines
are threaded and run.as quickly and cor
rectly as any one could do it by sight
stretches away indefinitely, unmarred by
the painted excrescences which render
our streets as lugubrious as the shadow
of convent walls, which neither adorn
nor depend, hut successfully conceal' the
utiful lawns which lie behind
their aged backs.—San Francieco Pott.
By the sense of touch the work is guided
through the machine and then receives
tbe finishing stiches with the needle. At
the knitting machines the yarns are set
by counting the needles and memorizing
tbe stitches. One cannot help thinking
what pleasure it would give them could
they aee the beautiful work of their own
skillful fingers when it is completed.
Lace, jackets, shawls, skirts, underwear
and hosiery are*knit here. Around the
walls of the room sit the girls who are
learning to crochet Each stich is first
committed to memory and then executed,
guiding the thread and hooks by tiie
sense of touch. One bright little girl of
twelve years of age was crocheting lac^
of 100 linen—one of tbe finest threads
made. The pattern jra$ • shell arid leaf,
and every stitch was perfectly done—a
thing which is not always the cat? with
the work done by seeing people, where
the eye is • depended upon for ac
curacy . instead of counting the
stitches. Beautiful rugs, copies of the
Smyrna rug in color and design, are made
by these blind children, and are quite as
handsome as their famous patterns.
Many of these rugs lie on the wood mo
saic floors in the drawing rooms .of some
of the city’s finest dwellings. The work
room contains a large case filled with the
articles made by these little blind girls,
embroideries, afghxns. .mats, lace
Underground Life in France.
In the Cevennes fountains, in central
France, there is a village named La
Beagc, the inhabitants of which practi
cally live underground the great er part of
the year. It is 4,250 feet above the sea
and in the bottom of a pass where the
snow is rapidly heaped up by the winds.
As soon as the' snow begins to fall ~
irs, and it is not
long before the low-roofed cottages are
buried, the only means by which the air
can reach the interior being down the
single chimney, which in all the co
is built very wide and substantiaL
snow gradually mounts so high that the
door will not open, and at last the
dows are blocked up.
The inhabitants lay in a good supply
of bread, cheese and salt pork for them
selves, and of hay and straw in the out-
house for their cow and horse ; and, al
though the men occasionally g3 out by
way of the chimney, the women and chil
dren live in the fetid atmosphere all the
winter. They spend their time making
cane chairs and baskets, doing a little
rude wood carving, and knitting stock
ings, while, if the snow does not melt in
a month or so, the people burrow tunnels
from house to house, and so get a little
^ society. Should a death occur, the body
of fine crocheting, all kinds of is roughly coffined and laid upon the
goods and even dainty baby * “ * v 1 *
ashington, he said, in the inter
est of Mingo county. I forgot to ask him
where Mingo county might be. He took
a great interest in me, and talked with
me long after he really had anything to
say. He was one of those fluent conver
sationalists frequently met with in so
ciety. He used one of those webperfect-
ing* talkers—the kind that *~ A
be fed
with raw Roman punch and that will
turn out punctuated talk in links like var
nished suasages. Being a poor talker
myself, and rather more fluent as a lis
tener, Ldid not interrupt him. He'said
that he was sorry to notice how young
girls and their parents came to Washing
ton as they would to a matrimonial
market. I was sorry also to hear it. It
pained me to know that young ladies
should allow themselves to be bam
boozled into matrimony. Why was it, I
asked, that matrimony should ever single
out the young and fair!
“Ah,” said he, “it is indeed rough!”
He then breathed a.sigh that shook the
foliage of the speckled geranium nearby.
“Showed OIL”
The hearts of many parents have been
saddened by having their children obsti
nately refuse to “show off” their mental
attainments in the presence of visitors.
It is always a parental delusion that this
display of Johnnie’s or Saily"s accomplish-
ments cannot but be a source of infinite
Joy to all beho’ders, whereas the victim
ized visitor is simply enduring in enforced
silence £he torture forced upon him.
Jenkins, a friend of mine, has a son three
vears old, supposed by the Jenkins fam
ily to
to be an infant prodigy, a future
President, and all that. The friends of
the Jenkins family have different senti
ments, which I will not here expose be
cause of my regard for Jenkins. I called
at Jenkins’ house the other evening, when
the phenomenon of the family was fairly
overflowing with smartness. He came
into the room with a whoop and a yell
combined with a hop-step-and-jump
movement that plunged him head-long
into my lap, where he lay burrowing his
head into my stomach and screaming
frantically.
“There, there,” said Mrs. Jenkins,
‘you didn’t hurt yourself much, I guess.
Stop ciying and speak your new piece for
the gentleman.”
“I won’t!”
“Why, Johnnie, is that the way to
talk to mamma!”
“Ya-a-as!”
“No, it isn’t. If yon’ll speak your
piece I'll give you some candy.”
**I want it first.”
“No, dear; speak your piece first.”
“I shan’t!”
“The gentleman wants to hear yon.”
The “gentlfcnaa” didn’t want anything
h, didT^
Bears Killed by Mosquitoes.
Lieutenant Schwatka in his account of
Alaska says: A traveler who had spent a
summer on the Lower Yukon, where I
did not find the pests (mosquitoes) so bad
my journey as on the upper
of the opinion that a nervous person
without a mask would soon be killed by
nervous prostration, unless he were to
take refuge in midstream. I know that
the native dogs are killed by the mosqui
toes under certain circumstances, ana I
heard reports which I believed to be well
founded, both from Indians and trust
worthy white persons, that the great
brown bear—erroneously but commonly
called the grizzly—of these regions is
times compelled to succumb to these
sects. The statement seems almost pre
posterous, hut the explanation is com
paratively simple. Bruin, having ex
hausted all the roots and berries of one
mountain, or finding them scarce, thinks
he will cross the valley to another range;
or perhaps it is the odor of salmon
washed up along the river’s banks that
minded people.
language of Precoius Stones.
Chrysolite was used as an amulet
against evil passions and despondency.
The opal imparts apprehension and in
sight, and is the emblem of unrealized
hope.
The topaz was thought to promote
fidelity and friendship, and to calm in
ternal passions.
The properties of the amethyst are to
calm tne passion of the body and pre-
ikenn
vent drunkenness.
The diamond’has the mystic symbol-
, faith and up-
ism of light and purity,
rightness of character.
The bold stone was thought by the an
cients to impart courage, prudence, for
titude and stability of character.
Garnet or carbuncle represents con
stancy of pmpose and fidelity to duty.
It is pre-eminently the soldier’s gem.
The moonstone was the emblem of the
merchant prince and signified well di
rected industry and the art of peace.
The ruby was thought to guard
against unfriendliness, and particularly
that form so common in antiquity—
poisoning.
The sapphire signifies modesty and
attracts him. Covered with a heavy fur j eharity of opinion, and was thought to
on his body, his eyes, nose and ears are j possess the power of breaking the spell
the vulnerable points for mos'quitoes, and j of magic,
here, of course, they '
greatest numbers. At last, when he
reaches a swampy stretch, they rise in
myriads, until ms forepaw is kept so
busy, as he strives to keep his eyes clear
of them, that he cannot walk, wherenpon
he becomes enraged, and, bear-like, nses
upon his launches to fight. . It is now a
mere question of time until the bear’s
eyes become so swollen fiom innumerable
bites as to render him perfectly blind,
when he wanders helplessly about until
he gets mired'
death.
i the mud and starves to
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longevity and health.
The emerald symbolizes truth, and
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happiness in friendahip and home. It
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