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Odd People. f What human being knows so entire ly his fellow creature’s inner aud outer life, that he dare pronounce upon crotchetty habits, peculiar man ners of dieis, eccentric ways of life cr inodes of thought, which may have resulted from the unrecorded but never obliterated history of years? It Is mobtly the old who aie “ odd and when the young laugh at them, how do they know that they are not laugh ing at what may be their own fate one day? Many a peculiarity may have Bprung from some warped nobility of nature, many an eccentricity may have ( r ginated in the silent tragedy of a lifetime. Of necessity, “odd” people are solitary people. They may dwell in a crowd and do their duty in a large family, but neither the crowd »or the family understand them ; and they know it. They do not always feel it, that is, not to the extent of keen suffering, for their tery oddity makes them sufficient to themselves, and they have ceased to expect the sympathy which they know they cau- not get. The tide of life is almost sure to be at its ebb wit > those whom we oall odd people. Young people have, n a sense, no right to be odd. They have plenty of years before them, and will meet in the world enough atlri- ticn to rub down their angles and make them polished and pleasant to all beholders. Early singularities are generally merpaffectations. But when time has brought to most of us the sad “too late,” which in many things we ftll find more or less, the case is differ ent. Therefore, it becomes the genera tion which is still advancing, to show to that which is just passing away, tenderness, consideration and respect, even in spite of many harmless weak nesses.—Mrs. Craik. A Cure ior Sciatica. A cure for neuralgia and sciatica— smd, as I am told,an uufailing one—is too valuable not to be recorJed. An English officer, who served with distinction in the war with Napoleon, was once laid up in a small village in France with a severe attack of sciatica. It so happened that at that time a tinman, was being employed in the house whtrd he lodged, aud that this tinman, having been himself » soldier, an interest in the officer’s case, :d gave him the cure which in this nstance succeeded immediately and ~rever and which I am about to set own. 14 is at any rate so simple an to e worth a trial. Take a moderate sized potato, rather irge than small, and boil it in one r: of water. Foment the part lei with the wattr in which the to has been boiled as hot as can be eat night before going to bed ; then the potato and put it on the cted part as a poultice. Wei r this night and in the morning heat the ater, which should have been pre served, over again, and again foment the part with it as hot as can be borne. This treatment must be persevered with for several days. It occasionally requires to be continued for as much two or three weeks,but in the short- or longer time it has never yet fai led be successful. An Affair of Honor. When the dry goods house of Dollar Bill & Co. opened business in a near city, the managtr was very particular about the character of the employees. To one of the travelers, who seemed \n need of extra advice, he said: “I hope, sir, you will do everything in your powt r to sustain the honor of the House.” “Yes, sir, yes sir; depend upon me,” replied the traveler, as he set forth. In three days word reached the firm from Syracuse that this par ticular man was on a spree in that city, but it was five or six days before the firm could get au answer to any of \ts telegrams ordering him home. At last he wrote : “Drummer from Bos ton said ne could outdrink any hyena connected with our house. Took me days to lay him out, but I was I to sustain our sacred honor or Shall I let any one bluff me at ’? Forgot to ask before I left . 1 go West from here.” Quesnevllle stated before the } d’Hygiene that he had fre ed wattr potable for more than ee years by adding to it half a grain * is itlons The Church Temporal. An amusing typographical error occurs in The Church Union. Speak ing of the Centre Congregational Church of New Haveu, it says that a moral tablet to his memory has re cently been erected there, meaning, of course, a mural tablet. Over the grave of a Springfield, Mass., man in the old Methodist grounds, who died from the kick of a horse, is ths following quaint epitaph cut in cold marble: “Blame not the beast who sent me to dust for the God of nature said he must.” The London Echo says that sundry fossils have “protest d against the re- movaf of the Church of St. Olave, Jewry, to some crowded locality where the clergy and the building will be of real use to the living, because a long time ago certain citizeua were buried under the church. The dead baud grasps us tightly still. We deny the right of a few worthy old citizens to occupy for all time hundreds of yards, of laud iu a locality where lanu is worth something like a guinea the square foot. The worthy cii zans will be quite as comfortable at Ilford or Wokiug.” It is as much treason to coin a penny as a twenty-shilling piece ; be cause the royal authority is as much violated in the oue as in the other. Tin ra is the same re tundity in a little ball or bullet, as in a great one. The authority of God is as truly despised in the breach of the least command ments, as some are called, as iu the bitack of the greatest, as others are called. It is wondi l’ful how men change to a clanged heart! Bai g n >bled ourselves we see noble tilings, and loving find out love. Little touches of courage, of goodness, of love in men, which forintrly looking for perfection we passed by, now attract us like flowers beside a dusty highway. We take them as keys to the character, and do. r after door flies open to us. Goloa now remarks that this severity defeats its own object, and it advises, that this antiquated legislation should be abolished in favor of fill religious tolerance aud liberty of conscience, after the example of the States of Western Fiurope. The Springfield Union, of Massachu setts, does not believe in Sunday pa pers ; but thinks that the people who demand them, and not the journalists who publish them, are mainly respon sible. “It may be pleasant,” it says, “for a certain part of ttie community to spend its Sunday over its Sunday paper, but it must he borne in mind that every additional secularization of Sunday tends to defeat the physical and moral pin-poses for which the weekly rest day was instituted. The laws of natira and of God may some times be evaded for a time, but sooner or later they have to be met, and those who transgress them, whether communities or individuals, must pay the penalty.” . The Pall Mall Gazette says that the Rev. ‘.‘Jack” Russel, the well known octogenarian sportsman, is lying dan gerously ill at the Rectory Hous6, Black Torrington. The reverend gentleman, up to within the last week or so, has been as ardent as ever in his pursuit of the chase. The venera ble gentleman a year ago was invited by the Paince and Princess of Wales to Sandringham, where ho remained some time on a visit. The Prince has now telegraphed his sympathy, and requested to be kept informed of the reverend gentleman’s condition. The annual meet of the Sevenstone hounds has been postponed on ac count of his illness. A Japanese paper having learned of the craze among Europeans and American for works of art from Japan including the Buddhist and Shinto images, suspects that the missionaries sent to that country decry the use of images for the purpose of bearing” the market. The cunning foreigners send the missionaries to decry the popular reiigiou, and when faith in it is duly shakeu, the people are ready to pait with their relics. In this way the missionaries and their employers are supposed to make a great deal of money by buying at low and selling at high prices. The explanation is an ingenious one, and may possibly be a specimen of Japan ese humor or Satsuma joke. Aooording to the existing Russian law, apostasy from the Slate religion entails severer penalties than theft or murdir. A Russian subject who abandons the Orthodox faith for any other whatever is deprived of his children, his estate is handed over to guardians appointed by the State, and he himself is liable to prosecution b. the Holy Synod until_lie abjures. T The Valley of Death. A valley surpassing in reality of horrors the fabled region of the upat - tree has been discovered in the Island of Java. The island is volcanic and in one spot the emanations from the interior of the earth are so deadly that the place is called the Valley tf Death. As the traveler approaches it he is attacked by nausea and giddi ness. He also notices a suffocating smell. As he advances these symp toms disappear, so that, after passing through the belt of fetid air which guards the valley, tne visitor is able to examine with less risk the spectacle before him. A recent traveler de- soribes the valley as being oval, about one mile in circumference and about thirty to forty feet below the level of the surrounding land. The floor of the valley is flat, dry and without any vegetation ; and scattered all over it are the skeletons of men, tigers, wild boars, birds and stags lying among large blocks of stone. No steam < r smoke is to be seen, nor is any crdvice apparent in the earth which appears to be as hard as rock. The hills which hem in this Valley of De-.olation : re clothed from base to summit with healthy trees and bushes. The traveler whom we have already qu> ted descended the side of one hill with the aid of a bamboo stick to about eighteen feet of the bottom aud he compelled a dog to go down to the plain. In five seconds the animal fell on its side motionless although it continued to breathe for eighteen minutes. Another dog died in ten minutes, aud a fowl resisted the deadly air for a minute aud a half aud was dead be fore be reached the bottom. It is be lieved the human skeletons are those of malefactors who have sought refuge here, ignorant of the fatal influence of the air they were to breathe. The neighboring mountains are volcanic, but they neither emit sulphurous odors nor do they show any indica tions of recent eruDtiens. English the World’s Language. A Russian priest, Father Alexander DUIgentaky, is now in New York, on his way back to St. Petersburg. “I was sent to our church at Sau Frau- cisco,” he said to a reporter, “and in stead of going west through Europe and over the Atlantic I went east by way of Odessa and Nagasaki to San Francisco. I came from that city by way of the Isthmus. Now, after two years’ service at San Francisco, I am going home, and thus completing my journey around the world.” “What has struck you most during your trip?” “The lead that English-speaking people have taken everywhere. Eng lish has become the international lan guage. With my limited knowledge of English during my trip I have been far better off than any of my occa sional German and French friends. English has a glorious future. It is bound to become the universal lan guage of science, trade and industry. There have been three great epochs in which all the educated men talked Greek, Latin and French respectively. Now we are entering the epocU ol English. The Greek world was too limited in both area and age. The Latin world was iarg*. r than the Greek, but its field—politics—was too narrow. The French epoch was di plomatic. Now the English, or rather Anglo-American, epoch will embrace the whole we rid. The English-speak ing nations lead the vorld in the higher politics and in industry and tiade, and they are unsurpassed by any nation in scientific, religious, or philosophical thought. Our German friends object to Eagliah on the ground that it is iu their opinion not an origi nal language, being rathe r a mixture of German and Latin. In my opinion this is rather an advantage, for Eng lish is not quite a foreign tongue to Germans and to the nations of Latin origin, and so much the more easily can be adopted by all of them.” Abuve the Clouds. The visitors’ register at the Pike’s Peak station is . a curiosity in its way. A rush of blood to the head, causing lightness aud headache and extreme nervousness are the most com mon sensations experienced by tour ists. From both of these disorders the register suffers. The sentiments vary from the sublimest utterances of"the Holy Hcr'ptures and Milton to the commonest kind of slang. Page after page brings together such as these : “Glory to God in the Highest,” “Well, I’ve climed Pike’s Peak and I’ll never do it again, you bet,” “Let all Thy works praise Thee.O God,” aud “I am twenty-six years old and have clurnb up 14,147 feet ;• how is that for high ?” Many who have strong lungs re main purposely all night to witness the electric and stellar sights which are sometimes very flie. Oue night last summer an eleotrlo storm came on, which from the deioription given me by Officer Leitzell, must have been very grand. . For two days previously thunder storms had been rolling among the mountains and then for two hours everything was tipped and covered with eleotriolty. The Spanish paok mules which were left on the summit for the night seemed to be all ou Are the clothes of the men seemed ablaze and electricity streamed from the tips of the Augers, from the nose and from the hair. The anemometer on top of the building spat Are at every revolu tion. Every rook on the summit was coverd with flame. Thurlow Weed and bis Sweet heart. “When I was working in Coopere- town,” Mr. Weed said, “I and two other young fellows were arrested for insulting some girls while going home ; rum meeting. I was never more in nocent of anything in my life, but I had nd friends and was threatened with jail. Suddenly a man whom I did know stepped forward and gave bail for me, and a lawyer whom I had birely seen offered to serve me as counsel. My trial came on, and the girls completely exomrated me from having had anything to do with it. A year or two after this I fell in love with Catherine Ostrander, of Coopers- town, and married her, and a better wife no man ever had. It was ten years before I found out how I had been defended. Meeting the lawyer In Albany I asked him. “Why,” said he, “it was Catherine Os!lander’s work.” She had feft rather shy and had not told me in all that time. But the next year that lawyer was sur- ^ ( prised by being nominated and elect- " ed Attorney General of the State. Not altogether because he 'had interceded for me ; he was just the man for the place. I very rarely had a man elect ed or appointed to office for reasons personal to myself.” Nutmegs. Nutmegs grow on little trees which look like little pear trees, and are gen erally not over twei ty feet high. The flowers are very much like the lily of the valley. They are pale and very fragrant. The nutmeg is the serd of the fruit; and maoe is the thin cover ing over the seed. The fruit is about as large as a peach. When ripe, it breaks open, aud shows a littla nut inside. The trees grow on the is' of Asia and tropical America. be:ir fruit for seventy or eighty haviug ripe fruit upon them all seasons, A flue tree over four thousand every year, in Jamaioa nutmegs .on A Warning Lsftnp. An Ingenious adoption of the electric signalling syptem, says The Telegraph and Telephone, has been effected in connection with a lamp which is made to give notioe oi either a burglarious entrance into or a lire upon premises where it is employed. The apparatus oonsists of a small battery with wire leading to attachments on doors and windows, and other wires communi cating with the lamp, which may be placed either inside or outside the premises, as preiir.cd. Upon a doer or window being moved, after the apparatus has been set U r the night aud the lamp lighted, a red glass disc is released by the aid of a small electro magnet placed within the lamp, aud a red or dauger signal is thus given, the light haviug previously been white. For fire purposes a special thermometer is used, and when the raised temperature causes the mercury to rise, metallio oontraot is made, aud the lamp at once shows the danger signal. Placed outside houses or pub- lio buildiugs this lamp would afford a sure index to the police as to the safety or otherwise of the interior of the premises. A Few Jokes. Seaside exercise : “Does your wil*’ take much exercise?” asked Fende; son of Fogg, whose family is at thS seaside, “Exercise I” exclaimed Fogg “I should say so. She changes he: dress six times every day,” A Brooklyn boy wrote a composi tion on the subject of the Quakers, which he described as a sect who never clawed each other, and never jawed back. The production contained a postscript in these words: “Pa’s a Quake r, but ma isn’t.” Three-year old Grade was hugging and kissing her baby sister when her auntie said to her, “And you really think you love your lit le sister, do you?” Quick as a flash came the re ply, “No I don’t flak I love my little sister, I love litr without fluking.” Going About Loose. A Londoner who lately crossed fro Canada to Ogdensburg asked his hack driver as to the population aud form of government of Ogdeiisburg. On being informed that it wfs an incor- poni ted city, the chief f fticer of which was the ma^or, he inquired: “And does the mayor wear the insignia of cilice ?” “Insignia—what’s that?” asked the astonished hack man. “Why a chain about his neck,” explained the astonished Cockney. “Ob, bless you, no,” responded the other ; “he’s per fectly harmless, aud goes about looser” Wagnerian, “What’s that you’re playing?” said a New Haven man to his daughter, who was pounding at the piano key board with more noise than skill. “It is Wagm riau, pa ; that’s the music of the future.” ‘ Oh, it is, is it? Let it be a long time in the future before I hear any more of it. Play me Cornin’Through the Rye.” “O, pa, ayi’t you hoirid; always thinking about some tkin£ to drink.” Honors are easy in that family. Simple Solution. Solving the problem.—“Jack said an aff'ecUouate mother the ot morning, “you really must come ho: earlier nighis. Do you suppose Es meralda likes to have you stay so late?” “I’ll tell you how it was, said Jack. “You see, she was sittid on my hat, and I felt a little delica about mentioning the fact.” “Ve well, I’ll give you a bit of advii The next time don’t hold your hat your lap.” A Difference of Opinion. 1 Some time ago Bishop Mlnkwitz,^ well-known freetliinke r of Little Rod furnished lmnbt r far the erection of, negro church. Somehow the brotheil neglected to pay Bishop Minkwitz] and last Sunday the old man went church, a place he rarely visits, an| took a seat among the ardent breth^ ran. During the sermon the minister said: “This is the Lord’s i#use, and we should all be thankful for the priv-l ilege of sitting in the house of tie* Lord.” “Hold on!” exclaimed Mink£ witz; “this is not the Lord’s house. This is my house. When you pay me for the material of which this house is constructed you may call it the Lord’s house, but until you do pay me you must refer to this as the house of Minkwitz.” It is said that the old man has secured a writ by which he oan by law compel the j readier to re fer to the church as the house of Mink witz,and thft he intends to be present at every meeting and see that the pro visions of the writ are enforced. Upward of 13,030,000 letters and pos tal cards are posted dally in the world ; 8,418,000,000 letters are annually dis-'* tributed in Europe, 1,248,003,000 in America, 76,000,000 in Asia, 36,000,000 in Austria and 11,000,000 in A r rica. The value of the hay crop in Nei England, according to the siatlsticlai of the Agrioultutal Department Washington, is as follows: Main! $10,436,740 ; Massachusetts,$15,831,45( VeriuoDt, $12,203,112; C-uneotlau. $12 160,800; New Hampshire, $7,925,^ 255; Rhode Island, $1,728,240. TotalJ $66,383,604 Years ago an old gentleman, walk! on the pier at Dover, Euglaj dropped his gold headed cane thro/ one of the holes locally known t*s nail holes, in the plank. Indlg] and disgusted at his loss, ht'f queathed a sum of money to paj annually stopping these holes, overplus to be laid out in a dinuj the Corporation. Au aunual consequently takes place, aud the party break up they certlf the holes have been duly alii