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FOR YOUTHFUL READERS
4 Jt VE.VILE, ARTISTS.
Chat With Hoyt Who Aro Learning to
Draw.
The first thing a boy attempts when ho
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HOW TO DRAW A LAMB’S HEAD.
starts in to draw te to put a sheep upon
paper.
If he puts a bad sheep down when he
is a boy he is apt to keep on drawing bad
sheep.
So Mr. A. F. Tait, ta the Art Amateur,
has kindly seen fit to put all young
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HOW TO DRAW A SHOP'S HEAD,
draughtsmen on the right track. The
first cut allows the proper proportions of
» lamb’s head; the second the proper
lines for the face of a “maturer speci¬
men. "
Tommy's Excuse.
“Ma, ” says Tommy, sobbing faintly,
“1 was whittling as toys do,
When my pen knife sllpiwd and cut a
H lg gash In ny hand I (loo hoo I”
Answers mamma: “Very often
Have I told yon to take care
Of your Angers while you’re cutting
With your knife, my son. So, there I"
“Yes," says TYmwiy, os a tear runs
Slowly down Ids rosy cheek,
“You have told me ’bout my Angers
Six or seven times a week;
But’’—he holds his chubby hand up.
As he nearer to her ootues
* Talii't a Anger, and you
Said, never
• He careful of your thumbs !’ "
—II. It. Miiglnlcy.
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Hew to Make * Scroll Saw.
A toy’s workshop can not to consid¬
ered complete which does not contain a
scroll saw. With this valuable adjunct
brackets, picture frames, and innumer¬
able other things can bo- made, Tho
greatest objection to it ip its price, a good
san costing from $5 (o flG. But this
difficulty is easily removed, for those
care’ally following the directions below
can have a good machine at a cost of not
more than 80 cents.
First procure a piece of wood for tho
tilting table. It should to 12 by 6 inches.
About three inches from end erect two
standards, each one foot long, one-half
inch apart. By means of screws next to
the standards fasten the ends of the board
to a wooden table of any kind. About
four inches from the other end of tho
board tore a hole three-eights orone-hsdf
inch in diameter. Then connect tho up¬
per part of the standards with a wire
nail, allowing tho latter to pass through
a stick, 10 inches Jong, at ono extremity.
Next, end take of a it jxiwerfui the spring and fasten
short one end of the to board, theothortothe
stick; A piece of wood 12
by 3 inches hinged to the floor will serve
as a pedal. Fasten a wile to the other
end id the stick or swinging arm and let
it extend till it is about twp inches above
tlic table. Attach another wire to tho
pedal, and let it also extend to within two
inches of the table. Fasten clamps to
the ends of both wires, and, after passing
the small saw through tho whole aud at
taching it, to the clamps, your scroll saw
will to complete. When tho worker
presses upon the pedal the saw is drawn
down, but the spring pulls it up again
Thus a continual up and down motion is
established.
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Talk* With the Boy*.
Come, my lad, but did you ever run
away from home? No? Then try the ex¬
periment. The toy who imagines that
borne is no place for him, that the “old
folks" are behind the age, that he is
being kept down, that tho outside world
is aching to give him a totter show than
his father will, should make up his mind
to run away. I’ve been right there an *
I'll tell you just how to do it.
Some day, after your father baa ob¬
served that you are getting altogether
too high headed, and that ho will shortly
have a seance with you in the woodshed,
go out tohind the house and sit down
on the frame of the grindstone and have
a talk with yourself as follows:
“Am I coo old to to licked?”
“You tot lam."
“Is father unreasonably tyrannical?”
“Of course he is."
“Can a boy of my ambition amount to
anything in this town ?"
" Not by a jugful."
“Will father make a slave of me as
long as, I stay here?"
"He will."
“Isn’t every other boy in this town
given a better show than I have?"
“Every one. ”
“Wouldn’t any boy of spirit, situated
as 1 am, run away and set up for him¬
self?"
“He certainly would.”
“Then you’ll go, won’t you?”
"This very night.”
Having come to this conclusion you
shopld set about figuring on what to take
with you, the hour of leaving, and the
direction in which you will go. An out¬
fit for a runaway boy of 14 at which
age the swell begins, is:
One loaf of bread.
Two apples.
One package of salt
One piece of cold meat
Two boiled eggs.
One jackknife.
About 11 cents in cash’.
*kie bundle of clothes-
no rsE for cavalry.
Wo* Id Re Annihilated toy the Quick
Firing Arm of Thee* Day*.
A military writer in the Nineteenth
Century says: Magazine and machine
guns would seen, to sound the knell
of possible No employment of cavalry in
battle. matter how dislocated are the
infantry ridden at, so long as they are not
quite, demoralized, however ruse the
cavalry leader—however favorable to
sudden unexpected onslaught is the
ground—the quick firing arms af the
future must apparently stall oil the most
enterprising horsemen. Probably if “the
writer were arguing the point with a Ger¬
man, the famous experiences of von
Bredow might be adduced in bar of this
contention. In the combat of Tobits-
chan, in 1866, von Bredow led his cuiras¬
sier regiment straight at three Austrian
batteries in action, captured the 18 guns
and ever, thing belonging to them, with
the kiss to himself of but 10 men and
eight horses. It is true, says the honest
official account, that the ground Shells favored
the charged, and that the fired by
the unusually skilled Austrian gunners
flew high. But during the last 100 yards
grape was substituted *for shell, and
Bredow deserved all the credit he got.
Still stronger against my argument was
Bredow’s memorable work at Mars la
Tour, when, at the head of six squadrons, of
he charged across 1,000 yards open
plain, rode over and through two separate
lines of French Infantry, carried a line of
cannon numbering nine batteries, rode
1,000 yards further into the very heart
of the French army, and came back with
a loss of not quite one-half of hie strength.
The Todtenritt, as the Germane call It
was a wonderful exploit, a second Bala-
klava charge, and a bloodier one, and
there was this distinction, that it had a
purpose, and that that purpose was ac*
chieyed. For Bredow’s charge in effect
wrecked Franco. Jt arrested the French
advance, which aside, would else have swept
Alvenslehen and to its timely effect
is traceable the sequence of events that
ended in tho capitulation of Metz.
The fact tha charge t although from the begin¬
ning of his until he struck th«
front of the first French infantry line,
von Bredow took the rifle lire of a whole
French division, yet did not lose above
56 men, has been a notable weapon in tho
hands of those who argue that good cav¬
alry fantry. can charge home on unshaken in¬
But never more will French infantry
shoot from the h|p as Lafont’s conscripts
at, Mars la Tout shot In the vague direction
of Bredow’s squadrons. French cavalry
never got within yards of Gorman in¬
fantry even in loose order, and the mag¬
azine or repenting rifle, held reasonably
straight, will stop the most thrusting
cavalry that ever heard the “charge"
Sound.
The Deatfi Agony,
“Many pereons wortder, "said the house
doctor of a well known hospital to a New
York Telegram reporter, “how physi¬
cians can watch unmoved tho death of
persons whose dissolution te seemingly
accompanied by evidence of great suffer¬
ing, and the remark te a common one
that doctors are heartless and unfeeling.
This harsh criticism te founded on u
wrong idea of things. The fact is tliat
what is known as the death agony is
largely restricted to the imagination of
the watcher at the bedside of the dying
person. The visible spasms and distor¬
tions of the facial muscles, which in many
cases mark the ending of life, are not
only painless but take place uncon¬ is
sciously so far as the dying person con
cerned,
“Evon In cases of death by hanging
where the prolonged agony of the sufferer
is feelingly described by witnesses, it is
reasonably certain that in a few mo¬
ments the pei-sen becoffifS unconscious
and dies in tliat condition. Such lias
been the experience of persons, acci¬
dentally or purposely hanged, but after
ward resuscitated. It Is a fact that peo¬
ple who have been nearly drowned agree
in the statement that aftev a few mo-
meets of painful struggle a feeling of
tranquility ensues.
“The suffering is while the resuscitated
pqrson is being brought back to conscious
ness. Then it is he often suffers physical
pain and mental misery. It is a merci¬
ful dispensation of God and nature that
when the last moments of the dying man
are at hand vital forces give out, and • I.H
the long drawn out gasps for breath
come and go the apparent sufferer is
happily in a comatose conflition, and sc
passes painlessly into the other life."
The BH«S 1* «n Awful Foul.
“No animal that walks on four legs is
as big a fool as a sheep," says a sheep
raiser to the New York Tribune. “ W*
have to watch them every minute, and if
vigilance is relaxed for an instant the en
tire flock is likely to practically commit
suicide. degree In handling most animate some
of self help or intelligence can to
relied on to aid tho owner In saving their
lives, but sheep peem to set deliberately
to work to kill themselves. If caught in
a storm on the plains they will drift lav
fore the wind and die of cold and expos¬
ure rather than move 100 yards to wind
ward to obtain shelter In their corral. To
drive sheep against the wind is abso¬
lutely impossible. I once lost over 1,000
head because I could not drive them to a
corral not 200 feet away. In the corra 1
they are still more foolish. If a stem
comes up they will all move ‘down wind
until stopped by the fence. Then begins
the proceeding so inuch dreaded by sheep¬
men, known as ‘idling.’. Tho sheep will
climb over each other’s backs until'they
are heaped up 10 feet high. Of course all
those at the bottom are smothered. Not
one has sense enough to seek shelter un¬
der the lee of the fence, as a horse or dog
would do. Again, if a sheep gets into a
piicksand, its fate teaches nothing .to
those that come immediately after, hut
the whole flock will follow its leader to
destruction. No more exasperatingly
stupid brute than a sheep walks. ”
The first known weather record was
kept by Walter Merle for tho ydars 1887
to 1344. A few photographic copies of
the original satin manuscript, now in the
Bodleian Library, have just been niado,
—■St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
THIS GOLDEN AGE.
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!3 the MILLENNIUM AT HAND, AND
WE DON’T KNOW IT?
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On the Borders* of More Important
Pfitte Only Id Lsu kiiiK.
Julia Ward Howe in a recent address
suggested that we might now be actually
riving in the millennium without know¬
ing it.. That period was, according to
the prophecy, to exist for a thousand
year*. During that era there to be
a state of peace. All wars &;'<,« »- -omits
would cease, and there would,' far-'t be the a rapid reli¬
advance In religion. In
gious atmosphere would be aU the
world. 'There was ateq to be great ma-
terial prosperity. The workl would
settle down into a condition of content¬
ment, striving only for mutual advance¬
ment along the lines of honorable com¬
petition. be The millennium was simply to
a riper period of the world, when
human progress was to be greatly ac¬
celerated and every discovery should
make for the benefit of mankind. That
has been the dream of the age*. Some¬
where in tho future there was to be a
golden age—one better than the world
had ever known.
Now, as compared with all former
periods, this is the Golden Age. It Is
better than any preceding one. There is
more security for human life, more prog¬
ress that benefits humanity, more great
inventions that are creating peaceful
revolutions, more science turned to the
account of the ma..ses. In short, the up¬
lift of humanity was never so great as it
is now. But aU this has hardly brought
in the millennium j or If so, then it is
quite evident that it lias found ho uni¬
versal recognition. It is passible that
such an era might glide in so quickly as
to fuil of general recognition.
If a thousand years ago the condition
the world had been sot forth is a proph¬
ecy just as it exists to-day, that condition
would probably have been recognized as
belonging to a mill -nulal period. There
would have been included the wonderful
ad vane* of knowledge, That was to be a
prime characteristic of the new era. The
world could lie circumnavigated in Jess
than 80 days. I’eople would cross conti¬
nents at the rate qf 50 miles an hour,
feasting and sleeping as they skimmed
over the earth. They would cross oceans
In floating hotel* lighted by miles electricity at
the rate of more than 20 an hour.
They would send messages aU around tho
globe and receive answers in a few min¬
utes. They would talk audibly with each
other from points 1,000 wiles apart.
They would read in the morning and
evening papers every important event
that bad occurred in the last 24 hours in
all the world. They would light up
houses, stores, churches, anil ships l>y
that subtle element that was seen blazing
along 6ne the sky,
would have only to touch a button
to illuminate his house or set In motion
the most ponderous machinery. Ho
would only have to touch another button
to call to his aid the doctor, the police, a
carriage, or a messenger for hie service,
lie might, in fact, treasure up speech by
another instrument, so that'he could
have repeated to him over and over
again a speech or a song which had been
given thousands of miles away. Ho
might, the in fact, hear the words once moro
of dead uttered while they were
living. Instead of tho slow process of
writing on tablets of wax or on parch¬
ment, ho would have only to touch the
keys of a little machine, when hia
thoughts would appear on a neatly
printed page. Pictures of himself aud
all his living friends could he made in an
instant, catching tho very moods and ex¬
pressions of life.
Now, all the gains here noted have
been made within a century. No one
would have doubted a thousand years
ago that if tho sum of them could ever
he realized, that, would be the millennial
condition so long foretold. If it lmd
been brought in suddenly no one, even in
this age, would have questioned that the
fulfillment of prophecy had been realized.
The transition from an old condition into
one so radically new wonld have ob¬
tained universal recognition. It is a trite
saying that “the world moves." But it
lias never moved so fast as in the last
half of the nineteenth century.
Many are ready to affirm that it is not
possible that there can be any such prog¬
ress in another century along all the lines
of discovery and invention as has been
witnessed during the present century.
There is no tenable ground for such a the¬
ory. The world is probably now on tho
borders of as important discoveries as
have been recorded in any of the modern
ages. There were never before such a
number of scholars, seientillc men, and
others working on lines of original in¬
vestigation. Some new fact is added to
the world’s stock of knowledge almost
every week. There are no visible signs
of arrested development.
The transition from an old cdRflition te
one radically new may be so gentle and
come with so little observation that it
will fail of universal recognition. Julia
W ard Howe certainly had some reason
for the suggestion that possibly we may.
now he living in the millennial period
without recognizing tho fact. For the
distinguishing evidence of that was to lie
the rapid advancement which the world
was making along all the lines of human
progress. It wa* not to be o period of
rest, but one of intense activity.
If during the next century the same
ratio of progress were to be maintained
and the sum of important discoveries
Shashi be equally as great, the condition
of tiie world atethe close of another cen¬
tury would to greatly in advance of the
present. Even then, because the transi¬
tion would have been -so gentle, there
might be no general recognition of a mil¬
lennial season, The good time is always
coming. *
One fact seems to militate against this
optimistic tlieory. There ha* probably
never been more discontent and unrest
in the civilized world tjUMr - now**
this m uy ev Mkradty l ff>© turnodJHMH (
account of. human h Sflh
seem to make for 9
of the test and better.<
* A PwtoUe BekifktUi,
It is generally known that the late
Willialh Corcoran was a philanthropist
in a large public way, but it is not so
well known that he was the generous
benefactor of public men. Letters left in
his hands show this. He gave Father
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fn Washington; he headed with a sub-
scriptiuti of ,000 the paper to enable
Morse to togjd his first telegraph lino
(from the PfistMster MjM^gten General, to* Baltimore) Cave Johnson, .after
had ridiculed it as being “impossible as
building n lino of communication with
the moon. ”
Datiial Webster was always “short,"
and always supplied with money by his
friends,
Mr. Webster made his great speech on
the compromise measure in March, 1850.
The morning after that speech was made
Mr. Corcoran addressed him a note; thank¬
ing him for the speech, and in reply Mr.
Webster writes:
Louisiana Atmos, March 9. 1S».
My Pear Hlr; In all sincerity I am proud of
your approbation of my speech, »* I feel that
you have are a competent but judge, and on# who can
no wish for the preservation of the
Government aud the safety and security of
private rights. For what else 1 received with
your note, I pray you to receiveiny thanks. If
there is, a man In the country who either
doubt* your liberality or envies your prosper¬
ity, Iw assured I am not that mau.
With cordial regards, yours,
Iusiki. Wzbstkr.
The Inclosure to which Mr. Webster
refers as “what eise I received with your
note" wa* a check for |3,000, as an ac¬
knowledgment of Mr. Corcoran's appre¬
ciation and value of that great speech.
In another letter Mr. Webster says: “I
can not trust my feelings at this moment
to allude to the iuclosurse In your letter."
A POEH FROM EDWARD EVERETT,
There are beautiful letters, and a good
many of them, from Edward Everett.
These lines, sent with a look of his hair
and photograph to Miss Louise Morris
Corcoran in 1856, May 19, will bo read
with interest now, 85 years after they
were written
These scanty hairs, so frosty now,
That thinly clothe a furroWed brow.
In other ilays proft,*cly spread
In rich, brown curio, adorned my head,
tot them at length, on this fair page,
Defy the further imwerof age;
Amt when life’s varied scene is o’er
And this poor head almll throb no more,
lost ffametimee them, dear girl, in future days
arrest thy pensive gaze;
And while a gentle too* shall fall
Thy mother's friend and thine recall,
Nor doubt that from a higher sphere
That friend shall watoh and Jove thee hero.
Boston, Mass.. May 19,1850. E- 8.
jokrd oi» ms dbathbisd.
JUi-num’x Puzzling Conundrum to Ilia
Legal Advtger.
Not long before his death, the story
runs, Barnum summoned his lawyer to
the side of the couch where he was ly¬
ing-
“I am very much worried^ he said,
“about a certain matter, and I want to
consult you. My neighbor keeps pea¬
cocks, Suppose some of them should fly
over into my yard—which they are doing
aU the time—and lay some eggs here.
Would those eggs belong to me, or could
my neighbor compel me to give them
up?”
The lawyer, having duly scratched his
head, answered:
“Well, Mr, Barnum, I must take time
to look into this matter. But the best
thing for you to do would be to keep the
eggs and let your neighbor sue tor the
possession. In that way your rights
would to determined, and we should have
a very valuable test case."
“ Well," said Mr. Barnum, “while you
are looking into the matter will you find
out how it would be if the eggs were laid
by peahens?”
The lawyer swore softly to himself, but
never made any investigation. — New
York World.
The. Prince of W*lei’« Great Income,
The Prince of Wales’s budget consists
of £100,000 of civil list and the revenues
of the duchy of Cornwall, amounting to
from £38,000 to £40,000 a year. Tho
princess on her marriage received a more
tteui modest dowry from her father, the
King of Denmark, and she would have
lieen positively poor in her own right had
parliament not voted in her behalf a
civil list of £30,000. Each of her chil¬
dren receives from the country an an¬
nual income of £6,000,
He has three fixed residences, besides
the houses he temporarily rente on given
occasions—Marlborough House, where
only the building is looked after by the
state; Sandringham, in the county of
•which, Norfolk, although and Abergeidie, gift in Scotland,
in tb e of the queen,
has to be kept up on lus private purse.
These three residences entail the presence
of an army of retainers—caretakers,
coachmen, and grooms, keepers, beaters,
gillies, gardeners, and hangers on.
Independently of these the household of
the prince consists necessarily of a great
number of functionaries and officials
with whom he is bound to surround him-
eelf. He has a comptroller treasurer,
who is no less a person than a lieutenant
general; three chamberlains, four equer¬
ries in chief, and six others who are sup¬
librarian, plementary, superiptendant a private secretary, of the house¬ and a
a
hold, with two assistants; a house and
frthj norary chaplains, three houses and
kfery HLwm doctors, three surgeons and
i a dentist with a yearly
WASHINGTON LETTER.
TH. «.
A Revival of Real E*tat« Activity E*.
pretrd-Tkt Fndtnt’i Way of Bu-
Heating-A Local Political ©emotion,
W* Still Live.
(Special Washington Letter.]
If anybody has ever seen a thne when
things social, political, and commensal,
were duller at the national capital than
at present, they should step forward and
give the date thereof. However, there
are optimist* who take a cheerful view of
the situation.
“Things have been pretty dull," they
say, “largely owing to the inactivity in
suburban improvement*, which were so
lively a year ago. Matters will soon
mend. The Treasury will be {touring out
the millions appropriated by the last Con¬
gress, and money will become plenty.
The wheels of enterprise will start up, and
business will be better than ever. ” Bu
mote it be.
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Those who started the rumor that tho
President and family had soured on Cajio
May Point were evidently writing with¬
out correct information. The Presiden¬
tial family (those who aro not in Europe)
have evidently taken up their residence
in the famous seaside cottage for the sea¬
son. The President spent last Sabbath
there, and will run in and out during
each week of tb season, getting two or
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three days a week of rest from cure and
heat at the White House. The plan is a
sensible one, and if the executive family
could only bo relieved Of the presence of
a dozen or so of hungry scribblers, who
record every trivial incident of their do¬
mestic life, they would doubtless be En¬
tirely liappy. Publicity, however, is the
penalty of greatness. Evidently the peo¬
ple want to know all about the Presiden¬
tial household, including Baby McKee,
or the newspapers would not be so eager
to give them such news.
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Locally, the political sensation of the
hour is the proposed raid of the District
Commissioners on the heads of the va¬
rious departments of the city govern¬
ment. Dr. Townshend, Health Commis¬
sioner, is already slated for removal, and
Commissioner F*» Commissioner Walker Moore said and be Tax
aro to also
selected for removal in due time. These
changes have reaily been pending for
some time, and there is little doubt in
the public mind that the causes for a
change are chiefly political. The soon
to lie ex-officers are all popular and capn-
ble, anil it is only fair that their services
should be recognized upon their retire¬
ment to private li to. Washington lias
been and is a well governed city, and it
is to be hoped that the new heads of city
affaire will lie equally popuKir and de¬
serving of public commendation. The
old question of popular government for
the District is mooted again; but the
eanl.es that gave it its present form of
government will continue to operate to
prevent a change.
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“Has Washington a single first class
restaurant?” asked a Bostonian of me the
other day, when we had taken a rather
thin cold lunch at one of our leading ho¬
tels. Tho proper answer to the question
would involve an explanation of tho
period of dullness tliat characterizes this
town in summer. Many of the leading
ogling houses close up, and those thut re¬
main open are as a rule not troubled w ith
a surplus of custom. Let my Bostonian
friend return in December, when Con¬
gress is with us again, and he will find a
ready answer, and a favorable one, to his
question. Just now thecheap restaurant,
of which a number excellent in their
cuisine and management have sprung up.
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are well patronized. No stranger need
go hungry at the national capital. Ha
can dine as exjiengively as he likes .'if-
Chamberlain’s, Welcker’s, Harvey’s, or
other places of national reputation, or he
can invest a quarter in a meal that will
surprise him by its variety and excel¬
lence. We manage to live during the
summer, and we roll in luxury during
the winter. Townsend.
Dr. Merriam, of the Government expe¬
dition exploring Death Valley in Califor¬
nia, says of the animal life in tliat desert
of horror that the scorpion mouse lives
almost wholly upon scorpions and like
delicacies. This lively mouse knows
enough to keep clear of the business end
of the insect. In the same region is
found the chaparral cock, which subsists
upon scorpious, centipedes, tarantulas,
izarda, and horned toads.
The prevailing tone of a family is some¬
times reflected in the conceptions of the
children. A lady, hearing a little girl
repeating the form of prayers she had
learned, told her to ask, as she would of
a father, and in her own words, for what
she needed most. The child knelt, aDd,
after a few momenta’ reflection, implored
earnestly: Oh, Lmd, please make us all
vary styltehl . .. . "—Kate Field’s Washington. ... ,.
*k« Leaned te Walk*
Americans are bad walkers, says a
engines of our own continent, a noble
mien is not uncommon. I understand
the causes of this ugly defect among our
people, and my present purpose is to call
attention to it and to point out the
remedy. .
In the English and French honks on
the military drill and physical training
whole chapters discuss the subject of
walking We are told that this or tliat
part of the foot must touch the ground
first—that the angles must be so and so,
etc. I will not say this advice is not-,
right, but 1 will say that very few have
been helped by it.
Look at a good walker. Shoulders,
head, and hips drawn well back and the
chest tin-own forward. What a firm,
vigorous tread 1 Such a walk may easily
be secured by carrying a weight upon
the head. An iron crown has been de¬
vised for thin ^purpose. It consists of
three crowns, on© within the other, .each
weighing about nine pounds. One or all
three may be worn at a time.
The water carriers of southern Europe,
although belonging to the lowest class,
hnv a noble bearing. Certain negroes
in the South, who “rote” burdens upon
the head as a butenes*, can readily be
pointed out in a or -wd. The effort re¬
quired to keep the burden directly over
the spine so developed tire muscles of tho
back and neck that in the absence of the
burden the head is carried in a noble,
erect attitude.
By carrying half on© of these crowns upon
the head an hour two or three times
a day while walking in the garden or
through the halls of the house, onAmay
soon become a fin© walker. One-tenth
of the time occupied in learning a few
tunes on the piano given to this exercise
would insure any girl a noble carriage.
The crown is not necessary. Any weight
which doe* not press upon the very crown
of the head, but about it, will answer the
purpose equally well.
Cowardice •( Crowd*.
The Spectator has a paper called the
“Cowardice of Crowds." The writer is
deeply impressed with the very strange
story of the poor woman who had a lamp
thrown at her and was burned to death,
while a little crowd of people looked on
and did nothing, writes Walter Besant.
One poor woman akme attempted to put
out the flames. It tea horrible story, but
I should not have made it the peg for a
paper cowardice ou cowardice, beoauee I think that
Why had nothing whatever to do
with it. cowardice? There was no
courage wanted to tear off your coat and
Wrap it around the burning drapery of
the unfortunate woman. Presence of
mind was lacking, if you please, but not
coumge. Presence of mind, which means
readiness to act for the best ori a sudden
emergency, will prove to be wanting
more and more qs we depart more and
more which from the prlfixitive being conditions of
man, te ope of always hunted
for food by wild beasts, always hunting
for food, and always fighting. In that
condition man te fuU of resource, con¬
trives a thousand stratagems, and meets
a thousand dangers, move from him
the habit of hunting and the necessity of
fighting. Make his life assured and easy
and lie will infallibly lose the readiness
and the resource—m other words, the
presence of mind—of the savage. This,
in fact, we have done. In moment* of
unusual, unexpected dangers we aro par¬
alyzed. This is my reading of the con¬
duct of a crowd Which looked on while a
woman’s clothes flamed up and burned
her to death.
AI wap* Harvest Time.
It is literally true that harvesting is go¬
ing on in some parts of the world all the
year round. Excepting November and
December there is not a month in which
wheat and other grains are not being
harvested. In December and January
the harvest of Chili, the Argentine Re¬
public, of parte of Australia and New
Guinea, is being gathered. In February
and March the wheat harvest of the East
Indies is cut, while in May comes the
harvest of Texas, Tunis, Japan, China, Turkey,
Asia Minor, Adgiers, Morocco, and
Egypt. June is the harvest month of
California, Spain, Portugal, South Italy,
Sicily, and Greece, while In July the
reapers are at work in Fiance, Austr ia,
the central United States, and Black Sea
departments of Russia. In August the
harvester travels further north, and the
crop of Germany, England, Belgium,
Holland, Central Russia, the Northern
States of this country, and of parte of
Canada Ls gathered, while September finds
the gleaners at work in Scotland, North
Canada, South Sweden and Jforway, and
North Central Russia. In October and
the first days of November the last of the
grain fa harvested in the extreme north-,
ern fields of Russia and Norway.—Gloto-
Democrat.
The Dakota Bad Land*.
A gentleman who has been in the Bad
Lands of Dakota to his sorrow says they
are composed of a white clay, which, by
the action of rains, has been cut into
hillocks. They are not high, seldom more
than 40 or 50 feet, but It is up one amt
down another the whole way. You can
not follow the water courses, for there are
none; a gully, 40 dr 50 feet deep, with i
foot and half of mud at the bottom, is
the nearest approach to a water course in
the whole region. At every few yards
you must stop and with spade and shovel
cut a path down the side of a hill in or
der to descend, and then up the side of
the one opposite in order to get up again.
The mud is a* sticky as tar, and in going
a few yards the wheels of a wagon l«v
come solid round cakes, and ait the mules
that you can hitch to it will not be able
to pull it a foot further. —Pittsburg
Commercial.
A comprehensive study of the influence
of forests on the daily variation of the
temperature ia "Germany and Austria
shows that the absolute value of the in¬
fluence in woods of a given kind of tree
is affected by the degree of density of .
the woo<i. The fact of whether
climate te oceanic or
4^^ the result