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Poetic Gems. The Leaf in the Book. An ancient lady is m/ aunt, A little old book has Rhe, A faded leaf In me old book lies, Withered as leal can be. The hands are withered that plucked it once For her on a day In spring; Wnat alls her now, the poor old soul, That she weeps when she sees the thing ? Many persona depreciate in others the excellencies of character which they do not possess themselves. This shows a mean spirit of envy and jeal ousy, and bttrays the littleness of their minds. Such a spirit should not be indulged for a moment. To the Bead. A PARAPHRASE. Gone art thou? gone, and the ligfit of day Still shining, Is my hair not touched with f.ray? But evening draweth nigh, I pass the door, And see thee walking on the dlm-llt shore. Gone art thou ? gone, and weary on the brink Of Lethe waltlug there; O. do not drink, Brink not, lorget not, wait a little while, I shall be with thee ; we again may smile. You may have noticed that all evening shadows point to the east where the dawn will appear. So every shadow made by the descending sun ot earthiy prosperity points with sure prophecy to the better hopes which are kindled by the glowing promises of God. A Bientot. Farewell, brlghtrdawns and perfume laden airs, Faint with toe breath of roses newly blown Warm slumbious noons, when sleep our haunting cares, Long summer, uajs and nights, too swiftly flown. With sighs and sad regrets we saw you go; Way did you leave us, who had loved you so? •Neath sapphire skies, and starry hedgerows sweet Laced with gold threads of gossamer, we went, Wild summer blooms beneath our wandering feet, And Summer In our hearts; our love in tent. “I will return,” you said, “when roses blow,” That time we said “good-bye,” a year ago. But I alone Lave seen them bloom and die, While you haveipassed beyond these shad ows here Into the light. I’ll follow bye-and-bye. Meantime I wait, ana eoid the roses dear, And summer sacred for the love I bear; Until we meet again, some day, somewhere. Impoliteness is derived from just two sources—indifference to the divine, and contempt for the human. The Home Doctor. Quinine Hypodermically. Dr. Sawyer, of Alabama, says that quinine used hypodermically—that is, thrown under the skin wish a syringe —results beneficially when largo doses by the mouth have completely failed. Anaesthetics. The London Lancet, of August 27th, 1881, says: “We admit, and have al ways admitted, that on the who.e ether is the safest general anaesthetic yet discovered. It is probably three times safer than chloroform.” Still deaths occasionally occur under its administration, especially where there is some disease of the lungs unsuspect ed by the patient, and not discovered by the operator. The Lancet adds: “We are inclined to the opinion that in all cases where there is disease of the structure of the lungs, the auais- thetics of the chloroform group are the safest and best.’ 1 This doubtless from the fact that ether acts directly on the pulmonary nerves, while chlor oform acts on the cardiac. In surgi cal operations of the mouth, the dan ger of asphyxia (suffocation) is much Increased by blood finding its way into the windpipe. In such cases the quickest actiDg ansetthetic is to be pre ferred—say methylene. Ether is one of the slowest. There is no reason to believe that chloroform has not proved specially dangerous in cases of partu rition and military surgery ; but that the fatal cases are mainly in the minor operations, such as the extraction of teeth. Nitrous oxide is always safe. But as its effects are brief its use has been necessarily confined to minor operations. Some later experiments, however, seem to show that, if a cer tain per cent, of oxygen Is mixed with it, its effect# last long enough for the more difficult and protracted opera tions. If this becomes fully established as a fact, it will reuder surgery both painless and safe. Cerebre-Spinal Meningitis. The brain is covered with three membranes. The one next to the sbull is thick and tough, and is called the dura mater. The one which im mediately invests the brain, as the skin does the body, is thin and tender, and is called the pia mater. Betwei n these is a cob-web like membrane called the arachuoid, winch secretes a thin lubricating fluid whereby all friction from the movements of the brain is ( prevented. As the spinal cord is sim ply an extension of the cerebral sub stance, the same three membranes ac company and ipvest it down through the spinal canal. Each of them may be the seat of disease. Cerebrospinal meningitis has its proper seat in the pia mater. As the name shows, the membrane both of the brain and the spine is affected—inflamed. The dis ease is a fearful one, from its pain ; its rapidity of action ; its great mortality —thirty to eighty per cent.; and from its liability, in cases of recovery, to leave behind it more or less of perma nent injury. The inflimed membrane exudes a gelatinous fluid which presses on the cerebral and spinal substance, both of which increase in volume. Abundance of pus is generated, espec ially at the base of the brain and down through the spinal cord. The inflam mation may extend to the other mem branes, and most of the organs of the body ma> be more remotely affected. The early symptoms are headache, dizziness, numbness in the limbs, stiff ness of the neck and limbs. But its onset may be in full force with high fever, intense headache, vomiting, de lirium, spasms ot the muscles of the neck, back and limbs, and intensely painful sensibility of the skin. These symptoms may continue fiom twelve to twenty-four hours and. be followed by the stage of depression, at the be ginning of which the patient may die, or, if he passes through it, is mos'. likely to live. The disease is generally epidemical. But the one fact which we would strongly emphasize is that it follows in the track of defective hy gienic conditions. It seeks out filth. The better classes erj >y a remarkable immunity from its attaiks. “Fore warned is forearmed.”—Youth's Com panion. What Is Glucose ? Glucose is the sugar of the future. Oppose it as you will, it is daily in- creising in importance and iu the number of its uses. In climates where the sugar-cane will not grow and in countries where the sugar-ceet cannot be cultivated with profit, there is a wild field for glucose. Wherever corn grain, or potatoes thrive, there glucose factories will flourish. Glucose differs as much from cane sugar as tallow from lard, or butter from olemargarine. Both kinds of sugar are sweet, al though in a very different degree, and for many purposes one can be eut sti- tuted for the other without the consu mer being aware of the fact. The manufacturers limit the term “glucose” to the thick syrup which neither solidifies nor crystallizes on long standin g. The same substance in a solid state is called “grape sugar,” but there is no chemical difference be tween the two. The name “grape sugar” owes its origin to the fact that a kind of sugar found in grapes and other sweet fruits has the same chemi cal composition as that made from starch by methods that we shall pres ently describe. This real grape sugar is often seen as an incrustation on rai sins and figs. Honey also contains grape sugar, and it was there it was first discovered by Lowitz in 1702, Glucose can be made from any of the carbo-hydrates, starch, dextrine, cellulose, etc., but is generally pre pared from starch. In this country cornstarch is used, while abroad po tato starch is preferred because it is cheaper. The uses of glucose are very numer ous, although it is seldom sold to the public under its real name ; but under the ideas of “golden honey;” and even as Vermont maple syrup, its sale is very extensive. It is largely em ployed by confectioners for making candies, by wine dealers for strength ening wine, by brewers to add*body to their beer. Most of the sugars aud table syrups contain glucose. Of sev enteen samples tested by the Michi gan Board of Health, fifteen con tained glucose. Of twenty samples anal.\ zed in Chicago, only one was unadulterated. Of samples obtained from all the leading sugar dealers iu Buffalo, only one was found pure. We do not believe that pure glucose in an injurious substance when prop erly made, but to sell it under the name of cane sugar, when It is hut one-third as sweet, is a fraud ; and to charge the price of cane sugar, when it costs but three cents a pound to make it, is a swindle. That it payH to make it is evident from the fact that there are wore than twenty glucose factor ies in this country turning out over one million pounds per day of grape sugar and glucose. Last Wishes. Borne eccentric people trouble them selves greatly concerning the disposi tion ot their bodies after death. An Englishwoman bequeathed a surgeon $100,000 on condition that he should once in every year look upon her face, two witnesses being present. Another lady of economical turn of mind, de sired that if she should die away from home, her remains, after being placed in a ccffln, should be inclosed in a plain deal box, and conveyed by goods train to her native town. “Let no mention,” she states,“be made of con tents, as the conveyance will not then be charged more for than an ordinary package.” A French traveler,recent ly deceased, desired to be buried in a large leather trunk to which he was attached, as it “had gone around the world with him three times and an English clergyman and Justice of the Peace, who, at the age of twenty-three had married a girl of thirteen, desired to be buried in an old chest he had se lected for the purpose. In the matter of burial, too, all sorts of whimsical notions are cherished. One man wished to be interred with the bed on which he had been lying ; another desired to be buried far from the haunts of man, where nature may “smile upon his remainsand a third one bequeathed hia corpse for dissection, after which it was to be put into a deal box and thrown into the river. Oue man does not wish to be buried at all, but gives his body to a gas company, to l e consumed to ashes in one of their retorts, adding that should the superstition of the times prevent the fulfilment of his bequest, his executors may place his remains in a city cemetery, “to assistin poison ing the living in that neighborhood.” A person may approve himself of cremation, but it is a little hard when he requires his relatives to approve of it also. Incases of this kind, it can not be incumbent upon friends to re gard the last wishes of the dying. A Little Humor. Bakers are the most persistent loaf ers in the world. A great module issued the following directions for wearing a new style of head gear: “With this bonnet the mouth is worn slightly open.” “Do you pretend to have as good a judgment as I have?” exclaimed an enraged wife to her husband. “Well, no,” he replied slowly, “our choice of partners for life shows that my judg ment is not to be compared with your3.” In an editor’s room in Fleet street, London, a skull is nailed up against one of the desks. Underneath is written in large letter’s “This is Smith, who did uot like an article about him self, and was rash enough to say go.” Dr. Gunther says there are seven thousand species of fish now known to men of science. When a man sits on the river-bank half a day, watching a cork idly floating on the stream, and comes home with a sunburned nose and not a single specimen of these seven thousand species, he is inclined to think that Dr. Gunther has made a mistake of several thousand. Bev. Dr. Bamuel Ellis related at a recent club meeting in Boston a num ber of anecdotes about Dr. Chapin. Once when Dr. Chapin was dining at a hotel, he was served with what was called barley soup on the bill of fare. “This Is not barley soup,” said he to the waiter: “it is barely soup.” He once asked his daughter, who was also a pronounced frunette and very small. “Marion, why are you like a certain Boston book-publishing house?” “I give it up, father,” said she, “Because you are little aud brown,” was the answer. Old Maggie Dee bad fully her own share of Scottish prudence and econ omy. Oue bonnet had served her .turn for upward of a dozen years, and some ladies who lived iu her neighborhood, iu offering to make and present her with a new one, asked whether she would prefer nilk or straw as material. “Weel, my laddies,” said Maggie, after careful delibeiatien, “since you insiston gi’en me a hanuet, I think I’ll take a strae ane. It will maybe be a niouthfu’ to the coo when I’m through wi’t.” Toad-in thk-Holr—Mix one pint of fl >ur and oue egg v* ith milk enough to make a batter O'ke that for batter cakes), and a little sa't; grease dish well with butter, put in lamb chops, add a little wat* r, with pepper and salt, pour batter over it, aud bake for an hour. Thoreau’s Highway. Now I yearn for one of tho*e old, meandering, dry, uninhabited roads, wnich lead away from towns, which lead us away from temptation; where you may forget iu what country y< u are traveling; where no farmer can complain that you are treading down his grass; along which you may travel like a pilgrim goiug nowhither; where the spirit is free; where the walls and flowers are not. cared for; where your head is more in heaven than your feet are on earth; which have long reaches where you can see the approaching traveler half a mile off aud be piepared for him; some stump and root fences which do not need attention; where it makes . no odds which way you face, whether you are goiug or c )ming, whether it is morning or evening, midday or mid night ; where you can pace when your breast is full and cherish your moodiness ; where you are not in false relations with men. The trees must not be too numerous nor the hills too near, bounding the view ; a way where no geese hiss along it, but only some times their wild brethren fly far over head ; where the small red butterfly is at home on the yarrow, and no boy threatens it with imprisoning hat; the road whence you may hear a whip- poor-will or a quail on a nrd summer day. Ah! there is the road where you might adventure to fly, and make no preparation till the time comes— there I can walk and stalk and plod. Boys Will Be Boys. An Exchange says: A boy will tramp 247 miles in one day on a rabbit hunt aud be limtier in the evening; when, if you ask him to go across the street and borrow Jones’ 2 inch augur, he will be as stiff as a mea -block. Of course, he will. And he will go swimming all day and stay in the water three hours at a time and splash and dive and paddle aud puff, and next morning he will feel that an un measured insult has been offered him when he is told by his mother to wash his face carefully, so as not to leave tbe score of the ebb and flow so plain to be seen under the gills. And he’ll wander around a dry cieek bed all the afternoon piling up a pebble fort and nearly die off vhen his big sister wants hiai to please pick up a basket of chips for the parlor stove. Aud he’ll spend the bigg st part of the day trying to coruera stray mule or a bald- backed horse for a ride, and feel that all life’s charms have fled when it comes time to drive the cow-) home. Aud he’ll turn a ten-acre lot upside down for ten inches of angle-worms, and wish for the voiceless tomb when the garden demands his attention. But all the same, when you want a friend who will stand by you and sympathize with you and be true to you iu all kinds of weather, enlist one of those same boys. Unbalanced Justice. “What!” exclaimed an Austin Jue- tice to a colored culprit, “have you the audacity to say to me you do not recognize this pocketbook?” “Yes, sah.” “But It was found in your pos session.” “Iu my what>did-yer-say Jedge ?” “Iu your possession. This pocketbook was found in your pocket, sir.” “Jedge, you has deue tole two stories about dat ar. Fust, yer said hit was foun’ in my possession, and den yer ’lowed hit was foun’ in my poc ket. Bofe dem yarns can’t be true.” The Justice called the culprit to order and, once more producing the pocket- oook, said : “You denied just now any knowledge of this pocketbook. I now ask you again, did you ev«r see this pocketbook before?” “Why, of course. Hit am de tame one you showed me a minute ago. Yer must be losing yer mind, Jedge.” Remauded to jail without bail. Petroleum for Fuel. Recent trials for burning crude pe troleum for generating steam for steam vessels seem to indicate that we may he on the eve of a marked revolu tion in the use of fuel for obtaining power. Enough has been done to demonstrate the entire feasibility of substituting crude oil for coal. De spite all the Ingenuity of man, no system has yet been devised whereby coal has been made to yield in prac tice its full theoretic value as a fuel. In tiie locomotive trials recently it was shown that the entire product* of the consumption of crude oil, atomized aud heated by super heated steam, could be directly and economically applied to producing power with a large saving iu labor end stowage of eoul. In the case of a steamer burning petroleum, more than one-half the engineer’s force might be di-pensed with. In a vessel like the Ssrvia there would thus be a saving in wages of about $1 600 per month ; of rations amounting to 30 cents a day, or about $676 a month'; besides the value of the quarters which could be used as freight room. In ad dition there would be a saving in bunker room of at least 25 per cent, in favor of crude petroleum Steam could be raised in quicker time with oil and at less cost than with coal. Pe troleum, it is claimed, can be applied to the present type of boiler at tri ling expense, and it i* hoped that after another series of experiments by en gineers of the Navy, similar to those conducted at the New York Navy Yard, the new fuel may be used in the Government vessels. The Summer Solstice. On the 21st of Jane, at 8 o’clock in the moriing, according to The Scien tific American, the sun enters the sign Cancer and inaugurates the great phy sical epoch known as the summer sol stice. He has reached his extreme northern declination of twenty-three and a half degrees, and just grazing the tropic of Caucer, pauses for a few days in his course before turning his steps from our northern clime. It would seem as if our hottest days should occur about the 21st of June, when the sun’s perpendicular rays fall upon this portion ol the globe. But such ii not the case. As midsummer appro iches the quantity of heat re ceived from the sun during the day is greater than the quantity of heat lost during the night, and there is there fore an increase of heat each day. The daily increase reaches its maximum at the summer solstice. B it the heat gar nered up by the process causes an ac cession of heat each day until the heat lost during the night is just equal to that received during the day. This happens sometime in July or August. Our hottest weather for this reason oc curs some time after the summer sol stice, ustas the hottest part of the day is sometimeafter midday, and the coldest part of the night toward morning. The Extermination of Salmon, The destruction of fish seems to be going on in a terrible way, both up in Oregon and at Lake Tahoe, as the following two items will show: The first item notes that a gentleman, who came down from the Cascades lately, states that one ot the fish wheels there caught 4100 salmon in 24 hours. The fish appear to be running in vast num bers*, as he saw a man with a dip-net catch 78 at the head of an eddy in less than an hour. He caught three at one scoop. The fish, in makinga passage of the cataract, are compelled to keep close to the shore, and so are readily captured. A law must be passed by the next Legislature to put a stop to this wholesale destruction salmon. The second item from ihe Reno Oa- zt.tie states “that 1200 pounds of Tahoe' trout were shipped below by express one night. Of this amoun' H. D. Bur ton caught 400 pounds. For the past two weeks an average of 1000 pounds: has been shipped through Wells,. Fargo & Co.’s express at this place daily. There is littleoredit in catching trout at Tahoe at present. Women and babes aud sucklings are catching their Btrings of from 40 to 80 trout in the space from one to three hours.” Cured of Stammering. Miss Fox tells an amusing anecdote,, in her journal, one which illustrates the value of certificates ot cure : Mr. Gregory told us that going the other day by steamer from Liverpool to London, he sat by an old gentle man who would not talk, but only answered his inquiries by nods or shakes of the head. When they went down to dinner, he determined to make him speak if possible; so he proceeded,— “You’re going to London, I sup pose ?” A nod. “I shall be happy to meet you there; where was your quarters?” There was no repelling this, so his friend with the energy of despair, broke out,— “I-I-I-I-T-I’m g-g-g-going to D-D-D- Dootor Dr-Br-Br-Brewster to be c-c-o- cured of this el-sl-slight im-impedll merit in my sp-ap-epeech.” At this instant a little white face which had not appeared before popped out from one of the berths and struck in, “Th th-th-that’s the m-m-m-man wh-wh-who c-o c-c-o-cured me !”