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THEIR MEANING. Jhat. doe* U mean when the bluebird flies )ver the hills, singing sweet and clear T J'hen violets peep through the blades of grass T I'hoHC are the signs that spring Is here. |That does It mean when the berries are ripe ? When butterflies flit and honey-bees hum ? When cattle stand under the shady trees T These are the signs that summer has come. What does It mean when the crickets chirps, And away to the south-land the wild geese steer? When apples are falling and nuts are brown ? These are the signs that autumn Is here. What does It mean when the days are short? When the leaves are gone and the brooks are dumb? When the fields are white with the drilting snows ? These are the signs that winter has come. The old stars set, and the new ones rise, And skies that Were stormy grow bright and clear; And so the beautiful, wonderful signs Go round and round with the changing year. -M. K. N. HATHAWAY. Nemesis. In 1848 a circumstance oct-urred in the city of New Orleans, which, at the time, created an excitement which affected the entire population. An old merchant, highly connected, wealthy and of distinguished social position, one night mysteriously disappeared. His family were in infinite distress, and his business in consequent dis order. He left his store at a late hour, ostensibly to go home; but before going, contrary to his usual practice, he took a large sum of money. His way led along Peters street, on the bank of i.he river, far down into the Third District of the city. His life may have been sacrificed, and his body thrown into the river that rolled at his feet. Police regulations at this time were bad, and crimes of this de scription were not unfrequently per petrated. A little way back from the street was a ruinous building, half tumbling to decay, and inhabited by thieves. Among the notes Mr, Conlay was tknown to possess was one for $500 with the word "Canal” written on *the back. The rest were of various •denominations, and without peculiar identity. Mr. I— and myself visited the resi dence of the missing man at the re quest of his wife, and by her we were charged with the duty of tracing out and bringing to justice his supposed murderers. She was a tall, eleg ait- looking lady, of commanding pres ence and great culture. The wealth of her rich beauty and fine mind were inherited by her daughter, a young girl of about twenty. The terrible be reavement had paralyzed the senses of the mother, but had aroused the energy and fire of the girl’s nature. More like a beautiful Nemesis than an ordinary woman she appeared to us. As we entered the room, she was in t^pi act of consoling her mother. ^The long, black hair had escaped from confinement, and almost enveloped ler person in its ebon tresses. The [great, luminous eyes were tearful, but ■flashing and full of fire. The glorious ’beauty of the young girl fascinated while it bewildered you. Starting .up as we entered the room, she inquired hastily, almost fiercely, I thought: "Are you the detectives?” “We are,” and I mentioned our names. “I must speak to y^u in private,” le said. “What do you think of the mat ter?” she asked, when out of hearing of her mother. ‘‘As yet an opinion would be mere guess work,” I replied. “Nevertheless, I have come to one, I have no doubt he has been murder ed, and that the deed was committed somewhere near the old ruinous build ing near the river.” # “Some such idea has crossed my mind, but there is no trace as yet which can lead to the proof of it.” “We will find it, rest assured,” she said, “and to this end you must co operate with me; and now listen to what I have to say : To-night, at 12 o’clock precisely, do you two visit the old building. I will be there. Ask for the young woman who applied at nightfall to them for shelter. Let your object We to arrest her. “But I do not understand.” “But you will. I am going there at dusk disguised as a beggar girl. By the time you come my Information will be collected.” She rose to her feet as she spok and now indeed she wore the app anoe of the Nemesis I had likene to at but rig set, dete; The lips were pale, but rigid as iron, and the beautiful nostrils dilated with an expression of heart-consuming vengeance. “I will read the guilty secret,” she said, “if the criminal is there, how ever deep in his heart he may bury it.” Strange as it may appear, I made no attempt to dissuade her from her pur pose. I could not, I felt as if the beautiful creature exercised over me a magnetic control. And with that uh- dei standing we took our leave. Those acquainted with the city at that period can form some idea of the danger of the plot we had formed. To us it was only a matter of daily occur rence. But for the young girl, inex perienced and tenderly nursed, to thrust herself into the very house of the unscrupulous and desperate wretches who were suspected of this crime, was simply appalling. It would not do, however, to go to the place be fore the hour appointed for our com ing, for that would defeat the object in view. It was, therefore, with many a misgiving and uneasiness but poorly concealed we bided our time. But we determined to be there at the very mo ment, and the clock was on the strobe of m’duight when we knocked at the door. The outside of the house gave no signs of life within. There was a momentary hesitation as if counseling together, and then the door was opened wide. It was a long, low room, dusty and brown from age. About a dozen per sons were seated around ; but every eye was tuined to ihe door. Two men had risen to an attitude which might mean defense, before the fire place, but the object that attracted our atten tion most was a young girl sitting in the centre of the apartment. Her face was as dark as a gypsy’s, and her long hair hung loose on her shouldeis; her dress was of poor material, ragged and unclean. Patches and rents had al most changed its hue and disguised its texture. She seemed too thinly clad f r that cold night, and her slen der frame shivered, as if from cold, as the chill air from the open door swept in. “What do you want?” was the stern question addressed to us by one of the men at the fire. Before I had time to reply the young girl sprung to her feet and spoke in stead : “Arrest these men!” Her voice was low, but the face, flashing in the light of the fire, was that of Nemesis I had seen that day. There was a short, fierce struggle, and the men were in our power. The girl then walked to a place in the floor and touching a concealed spring, lifted a trap door. Bhe bade Mr. lift the box that lay in the hiding- place. The lid was wrenched off, and in it were the old merchant’s money, papers and pocket-book. With the money were found the bill and the word “Canal” written across it. It was not long before the men con fessed their crime. The old man had been murdered and his body thrown into the river. The daughter had accomplished her mission. Bhe had carried out her te- sign, and traced to their hiding places the*proofs of the murderers’ crime. It is useless to relate what followed. Long years have fled since then, and the young Nemesis is yet among the living. Beautiful still, there are many hearts to grow glad at her smile, and share with her the joys of the home she charms. But this strange incident in her life will never be effaced from her mind, or fade from the memory of those who saw her then. Another Use of Electricity. A letter from Rome announces that a priest of Ravenna, named Ravaglia, has constructed an electrical appara tus which can be set in operation by simply pressing a button, and by which the doors of a large building can be instantaneously opened. The apparatus was tried during the last week of April at the Alighieri Thea tre, in Ravenna, with the most satis factory result. All the nine doors opened simultaneously, as if through so^ne spiritual agency. The inventor hopes to improve his apparatus so that should a fire break outjon the stage of Burke’s Eloquence. From Leckey's “ England in the Eighteenth Century.” Grattan, who on a question of ora tory was one of the most competent of judges, wrote in 1769: "Burke is un questionably the first orator among the Commons of England, boundless in knowledge, instantaneous in his apprehensions, and abundant in his language. He speaks with profound at tention and acknowledged superiority, notwithstanding the want of energy, the want of grace and the want of ele gance in his manner.” Horace Wal pole, who hated Burke, acknowleged that he was “versed in every branch of eloquence,” that he possessed the quickest conception, amazing facility of elocution, great strength of argu mentation, all the powers of imagina tion and memory; that even his un premeditated speeches display ‘a choice and variety of language, a profusion of metaphors, and a correctness of diction that was surprising,” and that in pub lic, though not in private, his wit was of the highest order, "luminous, strik ing, abundant.” He complained, however, with good rtason, that he “often lost himself in a torrent ef im ages and copiousness,” that “he dealt abundantly too much in establishing general positions,” that he had “no address or insinuationthat his speeches ofteu show a great want of sobriety and judgment, and “the still greater want of art to touch the passions.” But though their length, their excursiveness and their didactic character did undoubtedly on many occasions weary and even empty the House, there were others in • which Burke showed a power both of facina- ting and of moving such as very few have attained. Sir Gilbert Elliot, describing one of Burkes speeches on the Warren Hastings’ impeachment, says, “H i did not, I believe, leave a dry eye in the whole assembly.” Making every al- lowence for the enthusiasm of a French Royalist for the author of the “Reflections on the French Revolu tion,” the graphic description by the Duke de Levis of one of Burke’s latest speeches on the subject is sufficient to show the magnetism of his eloquence, even at the end of his career. He made the whole House pass in an in stant from the tenderest emotions of feeling to bursts of laughter; never was the electric powei of eloquence more imperiously felt. This extra ordinary man seemed to raise and quell the passions of his auditors with as much ease and as rapidly as a skill ful musician passes irto 1 lie vrioua modulations of his harpsicord. I have witnessed many, too many, political assemblages and striking scenes where eloquence performed a noble part, but the wboleof them appear insipid when compared with this amazing effort. a theatre the rise would itself set ti motion. ^vas only in rom Amerl [From Sei n 1. temperature .machinery in that the first [crossed the A* ;>er 1, 1880, to ■mount of fork ha* Science of Perfumes. By a process known as infleurage, which is the exposure of beef fat to fresh flowers in close boxes until it is thoroughly permeated and charged with their odors, the perfumes of six flowers are obtained which could in no other manner known to science be preserved apart from the fresh petals. Those flowers are violet, jasmin, tube rose, rose, orange flower and cassic (cinnamon flower). From those six there are fifty or more combinations made for the simulation of the odors of other flowers. Sweet pea is made with jasmin and orange flower ; hya cinth is counterfeited by jasmin and tuberose ; lily of the valley by violet and tuberose. But the resources of the perfumers are by no meaus con fined to the pomades, as the scented fats are termed. He uses many es sential oils, the principal of which are sandal wood, bergamot, lemon, rosemary, neroli, (made from bitter orange flowers), patchouli and ottar roses. It is very difficult to get the last named in a pure state, because its great cost tempts to dishonest adul teration. Very often rose geranium oil is substituted for it. Musk is an other important ingredient, entering as it does, into almost all perfumes, except those which are actually imi tators of flower odors, or, as styled by perfumers, “natural”—as, for iustance, heliotrope, tuberose, white rose and violet. ■ ■ ♦ • To understand the world is wiser than to condemn it. To study the world is better than to shun it. To use the world is nobler than to abuse it. To make the world better, lovelier and happier is the noblest work of man or woman. The Chinese written language oon- ■1st* of 100,000 characters. Statistical. The oleomargarine factories of New York have a producing capacity of 116,000,000 pounds annually, while the production of dairy butter in the State is only 111,000,000 pounds. Wool-growing and spinning in Rus sia is almost universal, being as much, if not more, of a home industry than a factory business. Almost every peasant keeps a few sheep, whose wool seldom enters commerce, but is spun and consumed at home. The yield per acre on Australian farms is as follows : The average of wheat per acre is 14J bushels this year, or one bushel less than the year before; maize, 85 bushels, or one-third of a bushel lesB; barley, 20 bushels, or 1J bushels less; oats, 19 bushels, or 4 bushels less; potatoes, 2jj tons, as against 3} tons last year, and hay $ ton. The Government Surveyor of Ja maica reports that there are at present 800,060 acres of timber-producing land in the island; that out of this there might be cut each year, without per manent injury, 400 feet to the acre— say 320,000,000—as an annual timber supply; and that out of this large quan tity only about 3,500,000 are actually cut for building purposes every year. At the sheep shearing at Miduie- bury, Vi., the first week in April, four teen rams, aged three years or over, cut 377 pounds 12 ounces of wool, or a small fraction less than 27 pounds each; sixteen two-year-old rams cut 381 pounds 3 ounces, average, 23 15; fitteen yearling rams cut 262 pounds 3 ounces, 17.7; fourteen two-year-old ewes cut 242 pounds 2 ounces, average, 17.4; fifteen yearling ewes cut 199 pounds 12 ounces, average, 13 5 of wool each. Among the sheep was a ewe three years old, with a lamb by her side, which was sheared the next day after the exhibition, before witnesses, yielding 21 pounds, 9 ounces ; carcass weighing 65 pounds, a per cent, of 33 1 of wool to live weight—364 days growth of wool. A Kentucky cow, raised on the farm of Erastus Ellsworth; of East Windsor Hill, has a remarkable record. On April 16th, 1877, she gave birth to twins, one male and female; on March 16th, 1878, she gave birth to triplets, two males and one female, making five calves in eleven months and three days ; on July 9th, 1879, she gave birth to twins, both males; on October 7(.b 1880, slie gave birth to triplets, two males and one female, making ten calves in three years five months and twenty-one days. The calves have al been of good size, healthy and hand some, and have all been raised on the farm. Personal and General. Mine. Gerster and her husband, Dr. Gardini, have sailed for Europe. Ex-Vice President Wheeler has offered to give $10,000 toward a new Congregational Church in Malone, N. Y. During last year the number of per sons killed by being run over or knocked down by vehicles in the streets of Paris was 103, besides whom there were 1084 who in their injuries required the aid of the police. At Ems, the ex-Empress Eugenie lives in great retirement, and avoids all society as well as unnecessary ap pearance in public. Bhe occupies the rtsidence which was inhabited by her in 1878, and which was often the abode of the Princess Dolgorouki. Florida papers say that the bronze or rusty oranges are much the s weetest and can be kept longer than the light fruit, but they will not sell for half the price of the fair fruit at the North. It is said that this country is indebt ed to Richard Storrs Willis more than to any other person for the introduc tion of college songs, he having taught the Yale students the Latin song of “Guadeamus,” which he had learned in the German universities. At Oroville, Cal.‘recently, Mr. J. G. Vanmeter was moving a hive of bee3, and it is supposed that a bee flew in his throat, stinging him so that his throat closed. He entered the house uttering the word “bees,” and imme diately went into convulsions, dying in a short time. A father and sou living in Water- bury, Conn., joint owners of a sick dog, determined, after Borne discussion in the poor beast’s presence,to put him out of his misery. “Have you a pis tol with you?” asked the father; but before the son had time to answer, the dog staggered to hi* feet, limped out of the barn as fast a* be could, and disappeared. Carving. In carving fowls, as the legs are al ways bent inwards and tucked into the belly before it is put on the table, the skewers by which they are se cured ought to be removed. The fowls should be laid on the carver’s plate and the joints as they are cut off placed on the dish. In taking off the wing, the joint only must be divided with the knife, for by lifting up the pin ion of the wing with the fork, and then drawing it towards the legs the mus cles will seperate in a much better form than you can effect by cutting with a knife. Next place the knife between the leg and body and cut to the bone ; turn the leg back with the fork and the joint will give way If the fowl be young and well done; the neck bones are taken off by putting ia the knife and pressing It under the long, hard part of the bone; then lift the neck-bone and break it off from the part that sticks to the breast. The breast itself has now to be divided from the body by cutting through the tender ribs clcse to the breist quite down to the tail; then lay the back upwards, put the knife into the bone half way from the neck to the rump, and on raising it the lower end will readily separate. The first thing to be done is to turn the rump from you and neatly to take off the t wo sides. Each part should be neatly arranged on the dish, or served out as desired by the guests. A turkey should not be divided until the breast is disposed of. Begin cutting close to the breast bone, scooping round, so as to leave the mere pinions. Each slice should carry with it a portion of the stuffing or force meat, with which the craw Is stuffed. Partridges are carved like fowls, but the breast and wing are not often divided, the bird being small. Pigeons may be cut in two, either from one end to the other of the bird or across. A goose or duck should be cut with as many sliced from the breast as possible, anj3 serve with a portion of the dressing to each plate. When the meat is all carved, and not till then, cut off the joints; but, ob serve the joints of water fowls are wide spread and go further back than those of land fowls. A roast pig is generally slit down the middle in the kitchen, and the cook garnishes the dish with the jaws and ears. Separate a shoulder from the carcass on one side and then do the same thing with the leg. Divide the ribs, which are frequently consid ered the most choice part, into two or three helpings, presenting an ear or jaw as far as they will go, and plenty of sauce. Some persons prefer the leg because not so rich or luscious as the ribs. The neck end, between the shoulders, is also sometimes preferred. The joints may be divided into two each, or pieces may be cut from them. In carving beef, mutton, lamb and veal, thin, smooth and neat slices are desirable; cut across the grain, taking care to pass the knife through to the bone of the meat. A ham may be carved in several ways. First, by cutting long, delicate slices, through the thick fat, in the centre, down to the bone; or by run ning the point of the knife in the cir- w cle of the middle and cutting thii circular slices, thus keeping the hi moist, and last and most economically by beginning at the knuckle and ing upward. A tongue should be carved as as a wafer, its delicacy dependinj great deal on this, and a well- tongue will tempt the most fastidious. A beef’s heart should also be out in the same way. Feminine Type-Setters. Somebody writes of feminine y setters: “As a class, female are diligent and worthy. The! ‘sojer’; they never bother the] for chewing tobacco; they ne^ around among the exehangl Police Gazette; they never swt the business manager; theyl smoke nasty old clay pipe! never strike for more pay ; not allude to editorial mi ‘slush’ or ‘hog-wash’—in si are patient, busy, consciei ieliable.”—Ex. Yesl we’ve experimented,! last adopted the principle of j type-setting, and heartily the above.—Bristol limesj The contribution plate ln^i fashionable church is; nickel plated.