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r I * Corner. [h on a Lady. this stone doth Vaut; 'fe lie ty as could die, aid harbor give frtuethan doth live; i had a fault, this vault. [Things. time run short ? sport ing to you ? 'ork to do. |uickly in? fin. old ? &d bold, thrbne ? i own! Tile, air [ears, the while •? Finshine sweet, \ way. \ —Celia Thaxter. yrone and evil; if you do. for your neighbor, Ire back to you. Us, iuok for gladness: , them all the while, smiling visage _ s, you meet a smile. —Alice Cary. |kes anew this throbbing heart, ,e are never old. ■Winter glaciers ae Summer glow. [through the wild-piled snowdrift, sebuds blow. —Emerson. warm rose ciyjnger than steel tiSe sword of the Spirit; [Swifter than arrows The ligttit of the truth is; Greater-than anger Is love ttuk subuueth 1 i burn silent with unconscious light, ; euse in beauty shines most bright; ig charms with edge resistless fall, who means no miseheifdoes it all. —Aaron Hill. Not the show tis and features. No. flowers sir dated hours (fieir momentary sweets, then go. stainless soul within foutshines the fairest skin. '—Sir A. Hunt. . I see humbly I seek to do, 'pedient-to the law, in trust vil! come, and must come, i well. will —Edwin Arnold. if occupation is not rest, ^mind of ignorance is a mind distressed. —Cowper. The truly generous is the truly And he who loves not others li wise; ives unblest —Horne. Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to hil. 1 —Frances Ridley Havergal. Scientific and Useful. Sir William Thompson follows Dr. Thomas Reid in ascribing to man six senses instead of five, namely, the sense of force, of heat, of sound, of light, of taste and of smell. An excellent soap-bubble preparation is composed of oleate of soda and glyce rine, and from it bubbles two feet in diameter and of exceeding brilliancy can be blown. Some of these have been kept forty-eight hours upder glass. An apparatus for recording the exact speed of a train during its entire rim, including stoppages and startings, has been invented by M. Pouzet. M, Jacquellin says that carbons free ash ean lie made by passing dry llorine gas over pulverized coal or coke to bright redness. tooording to the Sanitary Review the the high mortality in Memphis shown by Dr. Thornton to be |with the negro popu- patient. A day’s treatment will effect a cure usually. The grapevine in France is surely and steadily failing. The phyllogera has no doubt contributed much toward its de struction, but aside from that the vine seems to be in a state of natural decay. The young and vigorous vines of this country must in the fixture supply the deficiency of the French vineyards. Bricks are thus made without baking : Equal parts of hydraulic lime, sand and scoria are pounded and then mixed, being made into a paste by the addition of water. This paste is submitted to strong pressure in molds, and afterward hardened in cold water. The bricks therefore, it will be seen, simply consist of hydraulic cement. There is sometimes an advantage gained in blindfolding a balky horse. If tl^p habit is not inveterate, closely band aging the eyes will distract the attention and set the animal at work again. To do this with the bestjeffect the bandage must fit closely over the eyes, and the common blinders which* |only partially exclude light will not answer as well. Artificial siates : Boil four gallons water, and add when boiling, four pounds and one and one-half ounces borax, and then one pound gumalac, in small portions. Then add two ounces lamp-black, eight ounces silicate of soda solution (sirupy), one pound nine ounces silica. When this mixture is of convenient thickness it is applied on thick paper. Some experiments have been made by M. Decaux, on the effect of the electric light on the colors of cloth and paintings, etc. The colors were exposed for 1500 hours under thin glasses to the action of an arc light at a distance of 150 cm. (about GO inches), and under these con ditions the effect of the electric light was found to be similar to that of sun light, but only one-fourth as great. It is almost a self-evident fact that there should be some other way of dis posing of sewage than turning it into streams. But there is hardly any cen sure too severe for those who cut and store ice from polluted waters. Or ganic germs of disease are contained in Such ice. People drink water cooled by it in the summer, when the system is most liable to sickness that may last all the year round. 'An automatic electric' mechanism that is designed to announce the ap proach of railroad trains has been tried on what is called the Paris-Lyon-Medi- terranee line. It consists of a box filled with mercury placed under the rail at the required distance from a bell. When a train passes over this box the mer- ipury is so agitated as to form contact with the wire communicating with the bell, and thus make it ring, The Smith says that a number of ladies of Summer, S, C., have organized asilk association, bought land near the town, purchased mulberry trees and silk-worm eggs, given notice of applica tion for a charter and entered upon the venture .in a very business like manner. The ladies propose to buy a reel and reel off the silk in Sumter instead of sending the cocoons off, and hope to have at some time a silk manufactory. Dr. Thomas Taylor of Washington has made some investigations which' convince him that the common house fly, aside from being an annoying pfest, islpossessed of the capacity of transmit ting disease by carrying the germs from place to place. It has been proved by numerous ex periments that flour cannot bear the action of the sun, even when no|ij|x- posed directly to its rays. When flOur is exposed to the heat of the sun an alteration takes place in the gluten similar to that produced by the heating of the stones. For this reason it is ad visable that the transportation of flour should take place, if possible, on Tool days or by night, as well as that flour should be stored in a cool place. :aj;ite antidote for rattlesnake exico is.a strong solution of assium iodide. Mr. H. H. pd sou^e of the poison and finds that itate is ex- clining to the southeast. Three day after this, with seventy-three flowers open, twenty-one (among the older flowers) had advanced toward the north east, their horizontal faces becoming nearly erect during the journey. A non-conductor of electricity has yet to be found, for all substances hith erto discovered are conductors of the force under certain known conditions; but those whicli offer a great resistance to it serve the purpose of non-conduc tors in practice, although they may be all classed as good or bad conductors. The best conductor known at present is silver ; the worst conductor is solid par affine. The Mayall metal, a substance .composed of plumbago and rubber, re cently patented by Thomas J. Mayall of Reading, Mass., is said to be economical and most efficacious in this connection. Dr. Merkel states that the height of an individual after a night’s rest, meas ured before rising from the bed, is two' inches greater than it is in the evening, measured standing. There is a grad ual diminution in height, caused by the yielding of the plantar arches and of the intervertebral discs ; and a sudden di minution, when the individual rises, occurring at the articulations of the loAver extremities. The sinking at the ankle is one-third of an inch; at the knee, one-twelfth to one-eighth of an inch ; at the hip, two-fifths of an inch. The shortening at the knee is probably due to the elasticity of the cartilages. At the hip there is, in addition, a sink ing of the head of the femur into the cotyloid cavity. A Greek Wedding in London. A London letter says : Last week I was present at an interesting ceremony in the beautiful Greek church at Bayswater, in itself is a study of Byzantine archi tecture and elaborate decoration. A Greek maiden was to wed one of her own nation, and to make her future home in classic Athens among his peo ple. But very few young women, ex cepting the bridesmaids, were present, and I noticed that the men and women sat on different sides of the church, as is the case in our own very High churches. As the bridal party walked up the centre of the church, two golden doors above the altar steps were thrown open, and two priests appeared, gorgeously robed, wearing curious liat- like coverings to their heads, much like those worn by Jewish rabbis. One of these, the Archimanorite, is a handsome man. They descend, each holding a cross in his hand, and proceeded with the ceremony in a language quite un known to me, and I found it was equal ly unintelligible to a distinguished Greek scholar who was with me, who explain ed that the pronunciation of modern Greek differs so much from that of the 7T IIis father died when he was a child and his mother, who was his father’s second wife, was left to support hef- self and her children from her farm. She lived in comparative poverty in a small wooden house. Her son George was a strong, healthy boy, and gave her, no doubt, all the help lie could- He studied well at school. He was always industrious. Like many useful men, he educated himself. His mother would no doubt have been glad to have sent him to college at Princeton or Har vard ; but the cost was great, and the poor widow's son could hope for nohe of the advantages of a higher education. John Adams and Samuel Adains could pass through Harvard with success; Hamilton was at Columbia College, Jefferson at William and Mary. But Washington, the most eminent of the patriots, was obliged to educate him self in the midst of his labors on-the farm. Like Franklin and Burns, Shakespeare and Virgil he probably re;id as he worked at the harvest or guided the plow. Washington had never any leisure to learn Latin or Greek, or eveai French. His object was to make a living. He ancient Greek of the university schools j kept no journal of his youth. He never Sanitary. Effects of tooMuciiBrain Work for Children.—Dr. Richardson, F. R. S., delivered a lecture on “National Necessities as the Basis of Natural Education,” before the Society of Arts, and brpught forward the following facts : “In one large establishment, con taining about six hundred children, half girls and half boys, the means of indus trial occupation were gained for the girls before any were obtained for the boys. The girls were, therefore, put upon lialf time tuitions ; that is to say, their time of book instruction was re duced Rrom thirty-six hours to eighteen per week, given on the three alternate days of their industrial occupation, the boys remaining at full school time of thirty-six hours per week, the teaching being the same, on the same system, and by the same teacher, the same school attendance in weeks and years in both cases. On the periodical examina tion of the school, surprise was ex pressed by the inpectors at finding how much more alert, mentally, the girls were than the boys, and in advance in book attainments. Subsequently, industrial occupation was found for the boys, when their time of book instruc tion was reduced from thirty-six hours a week to eighteen, and after a while the boys were proved, upon examina tion, to have obtained their previous relative position, which was in advance of the girls.” Tetanus from a Carious Tooth. —The American Journal of Dental Science says that a very remarkable case of fatal tetanus, ascribed to the irrita tion of a carious tooth, was reported some time back in one of the West of England journals. The patient was a shoemaker, residing at Bridgewater, who had enjoyed excellent health until he was seized with violent pain in thp side of his head. lie was treated in the first instance by a chemist for neuralgia, but the symptoms becoming aggravated, Mr. Kemmis, a medical practitioner was called in. He found the patient in sensible, with his jaw locked and iin movable. Treatment, however, was unavailing; the man remained insen sible, and died in a few hours. At the inquest Mr. Kemmis stated it as his opinion that death was due to tetanus brought about by a decayed tooth, and he characterized the case as a most ex traordinary one, a statement with which every one will agree. Simple trismus from some form of dental irritation generally the difficult eruption of wis teeth, is not a very rare phenom cases of it are recorded anditotal tetanus from iu^^Hfcilv of rare occur a case that though he could read it tolerably he could in no way understand or converse in it. It was noticeable that no instru mental music enters into the service of the Greek Church, but the voice alone, chanting or intoning the prayers and re sponses, conducts the whole service. I was curious to know why I had seen two wreaths on the table, thinking, per haps, that two brides were expected, but I found that in this very symbolical ceremony the bridegroom is crowned with flowers as well as the bri le. This is solemnly done by the priest, and the wreaths are crossed and exchanged above the heads of the pair in a wonder ful way. until, with them supported as well as possible in position by an attend ant groomsman, the bridegroom is led by the priest, intoning as he walks, still holding his bride by the hand, in a sort of procession round the centre-table of the church, followed by the bridesmaids and the assistant matron, and by two young men of the party, each holding a large wax caudle, about six feet high, lighted and wreathed with white flowers md satin ribbon. It must have been a trying position for the young man, and certainly neither a dignified nor a solemn one to an outsider, looking more like the performance in a cotillion than a religi ous service ; but I was told that in the Greek Church much is symbolical, and appeals only to those who can estimate the significance of each little ceremony. This processional march indicated joy and rejoicing, as by a dance. The sign of the cross was very con stantly made by the congregation, as in a Roman Catholic service, and the thick gold wedding-ring was used for that purpose by the priest on the forehead of both bride and bridegroom before it was placed on the lady’s linger. The pair partook of the bread and wine under the siime symbol. Of course the mar riage was really and legally effected by yie registrar at an early period of the day, and a Greek lady told me that the ceremony we witnessed included both betrothal and marriage, hence its length and variety. • In such classic society as this we scarcely expected ordinary food but 1 found that good English roiist beef agreed admirably with preserved rose leaves and delicious honey from honey Mount llymettus, where the bees of to day still extract luscious fragrance frqm luxuriant and perfumed flpwers, under the sunny skies of Attica, as they-did in the ancient times of classic story. The honey cakes we had for lunch on this occasion I shall not soon forget. They were a dream of flowers and ambroflial sweetness, and were washed down by a rich wine which tasted to me like nectar. For Our Youth. Washington In Youth. Fortunately for himself and his coun try, Washington was educated in pov erty, the son of a Virginia farmer. From his childhood he was probably employed in active labors. His father had large tracts of land that apparently produced little money. The house in Which the young Washington was bom Wap small, and built of wood. The arouii'Jjl was wild and thinly desired to become a “great man,” but he was resolved to be an honest one, and to maintain himself. At one mo ment he thought of going into the navy- but his mother opposed it. She said it was a “bad scheme,” and she.kept him at home to become the founder of the Re public. The warrant for making him a midshipman was already signed, when she interfered so happily for all. She would not part with her eldest son, the stay of the family. She feared to expose him to the temptations, and dangers of ‘ naval life. A mothers love saved him fco his country. Forty-twp years afterward, in 1787, b£ could still vyrite and subscribe himself, “I.am, honored madam, your most dutiful and affec tionate son, G. Washington.” :Yt fourteen Washington became al most accidentally a surveyor. ,He had already taught himself to write a clear, round hand. He drew well and was a careful mathematician, very correct and methodical in all that he did. He had left school and went to stay with an elder half-brother, who owned the fine estate of Mt. Vernon. He seems to have resolved already to become a, sur veyor. He had surveyed the land around the school-house, and was fond of wandering over the country. ,, He had not sufficient knowledge to become a teacher, like John Adams, or a law yer, like Jefferson. He seems to have found farming a pursuit that brought in little money. He passed the winter in preparing liimself for his duties, and was Em ployed, when under sixteen, by Lord Fairfax to lay out his large estate beyond the Alleghenies. In this pursuit he plunged*into the wilderness, slept on the ground in dull weather, swam streams on horsebacK, climbed over rocks and precipices, anc performed his work well. Ewrythiffg^ that he did was done well. He gretv tall and strong ; he could bear hardship and constant labor. He was trusted for his honesty and good faith. At nineteeu he became the most active of the surveyors of the colony. He re ceived large sums of money; he was never again ii^want of it until late ih life, when his patriotism had made him poor. But his work was constant^ Fop three years lie was always busy in wilderness. He climbed mountains, explored valleys, became, familiar with the red men and the wild tehantq .of the forest, and evidently loved his border ife. This was the school and college in which Washington was drained. . He was the product of a laborious youth. Had he been accustomed only to the luxurious life of a city, he could never have borne the toils and cares of his camp life. Had he been loss honest aud true he might have sought a crown and a tyranny instead of the lovq and gratitude of mankind. It was l>ecause he turned to labor In youth that Washington became useful to all men. We celebrate his birthday because he labored, not for himself, bqt for his country.—Harper'’a Young Peo ple. e salts of nickel are claimed «in#l nAUroi>fil1 Tjtiu II# i