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THE WAT TO WIN.
EJ^ard Slone stood impatiently upon
the top step of Uncle Dan’s stately resi
dence. There was not the faintest sign
of life anywhere around—the whole
front part of the house was closed and
darkened; and having raDg several
times without eliciting any response, he
was about to conclude that there was no
one within hearing, when a head was
thrust out of the upper window.
“ Young man, go round to the side
door.”
Considerably startled by this unex
pected address, the young man obeyed.
Upon the porch brushing away the
Ieaves thafcoveredit,- was a young girl
of fifteen. She looked very pretty as
■ sue stood there, the bright autumnal
sunshine falling on her round white
aims and uncovered head.
Setting down her broom, she ushered
him into a medium-sized, plainly-fur
nished room which gave no indication
cf the reputed wealth of its owner.
The young, man took a seat, brushed
a few flecks of dust from the lapel of
his coat, ran his fingers through his
carefully arranged locks, and thus de
livered himself:
“Tell year master that his nephew,
Edward Stone, is here.”
A-faint smile touched the rosy lips,
and with a demure “yes, sir,” the girl
vanished.
A few minutes later an elderly gentle
man entered, with intelligent, strongly-
marked features, and a shrewd look In
the eyes, which seemed to take the men
tal measure of his visitor at a single
glance.
“ Well, sir, what is your business
with me?”
“ I am your nephew.”
“ So my daughter told me. What do
you want?”
“ I was thinking of going into busi
ness, and thought I would come and
talk it over with you, and dsk you to give
me a lift.”
“What better capital do you want
than you already have ? A Btrong able-
bodied young man wanting a lift! You
ought to be ashamed of yourself! What
have you been doing?”
Edward’s face flushed with anger
at this unceremonious language; but
feeling that he could not afford to quar
rel with his wealthy relative he gave no
other indication of it.
“ Saved nothing from'your salary, I
suppose?”
“ No; its only five hundred; not more
than^enough for my expenses.”
5 able to dress your-
‘Hum
... l! Yon are
self out of it, I perceive. I have known
men to rear ana educate a large family
on five hundred a year; and if you
have been unable to save anything, you
certainly are not able to go into business
on your own account. When I was at
your age my income was less than three
hundred dollars, and I saved half of it.
What is the business you wish to engage
“ Stationary and books. Six handled
aoiiars will Buy it, tM Ifee owner is obliged
to sell; a rare chanoo. I don’t ask you
to give me the amount, only lend it; I
will give you my note with interest.”
“Young man, I have several such pa-
g irs already. You can have all of them
r five dollars; and I warn you that it
will prove a poor investment at that. I
was the cheerful response. “ Curiously
enough it is the same business that I
wanted to buy then. The man who
took it had to borrow money to pur
chase it with, getting so much involved
that he had to sell at a sacrifice
•• justwnat you wan tea to ao."
Edward smiled at the point made by
his uncle.
“ It isn’t what I’ve done though. I’ve
saved four dollars a week fronf my sal
ary for the last three years; and so was
not only able to pay the money down
but had fifty dollars besides.”
“ Bravo! my boy,” cried the delighted
old man, with another grasp of the
hand that made our herowince. “Tm
f rond of you! You’re hound to succeed.
see, and without anybody’s help. I
told your consin Polly that when she was
eighteen I’d buy her a house inthacity;
that she should furnish it to suit her
self. and have all the servants she want*
ed, ana I've iept my word. Come
around and see os whenever yoa can.
You’ll always find the latch string out”
Edward did not fail to accent the in
vitation so frankly extended—a very
pleasant intimacy growing up between
the three during the twelve months that
followed. Onr hero’s business grew and
prospered until he began to think of re
moving to a larger place. His uncle
had given him several liberal orders, as
well as sent him a number of customers,
but said nothing more about assisting
him in any other way until Christmas
eve. Entering the room where Edward
and his daughter were sitting, he said:
“ I mustn’t delay any longer the little
lift I promised you, nephew, and which
you have well earned.’
Edward glanced from the five thous
and .dollar check to the lovely face at
kis sid« and then to that of t.he sneaker
* X ou are very xina, uncle—far innaer
than I deserve—but—”
But what, lad? Speak out! would
you prefer it in some other form! ”
Edw
ward’s fingers closed tenderly and
strongly over the hand he had taken in
his.
“ Yes, uncle—in this.”
The old man looked keenly from one
to the other.
“ You are asking a good deal, nephew,
roily, nave you been encouraging this
young man in his presumption? ”
“I’m afraid I have, father," was the
smiling response.
“Then go, my daughter. I give you
into worthy keeping; and if you make
your husband’s heart as happy as your
mother did mine daring the few short
years that she tarried by my side, he
will be blest indeed.”
can give you some advice, through,
which if you follow will be worth a good
many times over the amount you asked.
Bat you won’t do it.”
“How do you know that?” sal
you know that 7” said Ed
ward, with a smile, who began to feel
more at home with his eccentric rela-
;<ive. “ Fd like to hear it, anyway.”
“ Well, hear it is. Go back to your
-place in the store, save three dollars a
week from your salary, which you can
easily do; learning in the meantime all
you pcs3ibly can in regard to the busi-
you wish to pursue. At the end of four
years you will have the capital 70a seek,
together with sufficient experience and
judgment to knowhow to use it. And,
better still, it will be yours earned by
your own industry and self-denial, and
worth more . to vou than ten times that
amount got m any other way. Then
come and see me again.”
“ .You’d rather have my money than
advice. I dare say,” added Mr. Stone, as
Edward arose to go; “ but we’ll be bet
ter friends four years hence than if I
let you have it. Sit down, neDhew,
the. train you have to take won’t ‘leave
until six in the evening. You must
Btay to tea; I want you to see what a
complete little housekeeper I have, and
make v®* sas^endnted with her.”
“Polly!” he called out,.opening the
door into the hull.
in prompt obedience to this summons
a ros] -.-heeked, feight-eyed girl tripped
in. ‘She neat print dress had been
chanted for a ©?ettv merino, but our
herd (Sid not fall Co recognize her, and
his fa 33 flushed 5,sinfully as he did so.
. “Pally!” c.on®aued$her father, “ this
isybiyeousin, Edward. He leaves on
(the ‘ 8% o’clock train, and I want his
\hort stay with ry as pleasant as possi-
>’•’ i ‘
. ; “ Polly is my little housekeeper,” he
idfed, turning to his nephew: “ I hire
(woman for the work, and she does all
"e rest. When she’s eighteen she shall
jjte all the servants she wants, but she
v jserve her apprenticeship first. It
i^ffP'stand her in a good steacf; she may
jnto her head to marry s poor
;.•’ijjoA her mother did before her. ithl
A Waste of Money.
The New York Sun, in an article on
worthless and catch-penny advertising
sheets, says:
In few departments of business, too,
has there been more misrepresentation
and downright swindling than in that of
advertising. The flush times for that
sort of thing were eight or ten years
agOj when worthless sheets^, with only a
nominal circulation and no Influence,
scoured the city to obtain advertise
ments, hesitating at no falsehood, and
consenting to almost any terms, so long
as they got what they were after. An
enormous amount of money was obtained
from advertisers in this way, much of
which might ahont as well have been
spent in sticking up posters in dark
cellars.
The New York Evening Pott, com
menting on the same subject says:
The revival of business ts bringing
this sort of sheet, into existence again.
A day or two ago we had three or four
of these new publications laid on our
table at one time. We venture to say
that we gave these new-comers more at-
SCTENCE AND APT NOTES.
Experiments made on dogs show
that these animals can absorb with im
punity about sixteen times as much ar
senic, in proportion to their weight, as
kill a human being.
would
The Gulf Stream is not the only cur-
tent of the ocean. There is a south
ward stream running under that, and
over the whole ocean there are currents,
some of which circle the whole globe.
By means of the polygraph, an ap
paratus invented by a Russian, sixty
copies of any written document or
drawing can ,be made in an hour, and
the cost of material for the sixty copies
is only two cents.
J. E. Reynolds has published a sugar
test for determining the purity of water.
Half a litre of water is put into a flask,
and then apiece of‘white sugar about
the Bize of a pea is introduced. The
month of the flask is covered with a
piece of paper. After the flask is ex
posed 8 or 10 dayB to the sunlight, its con
tents will become muddy if the water
held much organic matter.
In the number for Jan. 3,1880, the
Scientific American has an illustration
showing a snake after having been
more thin' half swallowed by a larger
make, escaping alive through a wound
in the side of the latter. The editors
say the snakes were found as repre
sented, in a hay-field near Collinsby,
Canada, by Mr. JohnFilmer. “Itis
Mr. Fi Inters opinion,” they continue,
“ that while throating a fork into the
hay, he most have struck the body of
the larger snake; making- the opening
through which the smaller one was par
tially liberated. Both snakes were
alive. The larger one is familiarly
known as the garter snake, the smaller
one as the common brown snake.”
A CORRESPONDENT of Land and Water
says: “A carious incident of the whole
of the occupants of a small fish-pond
being destroyed by a flash of lightning,
is reported from Seek, Grand Duchy of
Nassau. The Nassauer Rofestates that
during a heavy thunder and lightning
storm at night time, a flash of lightning
struck a small pond, well stocked with
various kinds of fish, the property of
The follow!
the pastor of the parish. The following
morning the whole of the fish were dis
covered dead upon the surface of the
water. They had all the appearance
of having been half boiled, and crumbled
to pieces at the least touch, just as is
the case with fish after being boiled.
Neither any external nor internal in
jury coaid be observed, the scales being
intact, and the swimming bladder filled
and well preserved. The water in the
pond was still, muddy, and doll the
morning after the storm, as if the light
ning had only then struck it.
A very important inquiry into the
properties ana functions of chlorophyl
has just been made in Berlin by Pring-
sheim, the results of which necessitate
a great change in the current opinions
on the nutrition and general physiology
of plants. The main object of the re
search is the influence upon chlorophyl,
and upon the plant-cells generally, of
concentrated Bunlight. From these ex
periments the important result is arrived
at.,*that the destruction of the green
coloring matter is a true process of
combustion, and has no relation what
ever to the decomposition of carbonic
acid by the plant. As long as the
chlorophyl remains unaltered,~ the pro
toplasm is also unaffected, so that the
chlorophyl may be said *0 act as a pro
tective covering to the protoplasm
against the hurtful action of the ligh*
or in other words, to diminish the inten
sity of the respiratory process. Theab-
" c l aYC , l f C3C Wf t sorptive property of ‘ chlorophyl on
mv&asr&fcs
‘ary’s only reply to this was a smile
blush. Our hero was considerably
barrassed by the recollection of the
stake he had made, but the quietly
„idial greeting of his young hostess soon
imt him cosroarafivelv at rest. -
AtTier lather's request—wnc was very
proud of his daughter’s varied accom
plishments—Mary sang and played for
her cousin; and liis visit ended in singu-
' L .lar contrast to the stormy way it com-
'■ menced. Edward refused the five-dol-
lar note tendered to him at parting for
his traveling'expenses.
The old man smiled as he returned
the note to his pocketbook.
“ He’B a sensible young chap, after
all,” he remarked to his daughter, as
the door closed after his guest. “ It’s
in him, if it only can be brought out.
We shall see, we shall see.”
“ A good deal for father to say,” was
Mary’s inward comment, who thought
her cousin the mo3t agreeable young
man she bad ever met.
Three years later Mr. Stone and his
daughter paused in front of a small
but .neat pleasant looking shop, on the
plate glass door of which were the
words: “Edward Stone. Stationary and
Bookstore.”
It beine too early in the day for
customers, they'.tnuna me proprietor
alone, whose face fiu hjd with pride and
pleasure as he greeted them.
“ I got your card nephew,” said the
old man, with a cordi 1 grasp of the
hand, “and called aro nd to see how
you were getting on. I thought it was
about time I gave you that little lift
yon asked of me three years ago. You
don’t look much as if you needed is
though.”
“Not at present, thank jgou uncle,”
every ten persons who happen t«
them; but a very hasty glance disclosed
to os their utter worthlessness, and
forthwith they were pitched into the
waste basket. Yet each of these sheets
had a goodly array of advertisements,
and it was probably solely for the sake
of the advertisements that they were
printed. The amusing part of the matter
is that the tradesmen who paid for the in
sertion of these advertisements undoubt
edly believed that they wou’d thereby
make their wares known to the public.
The error in their calculation is that
these sheets themselves are not public.
As nobody reads them because they
30ntain neither news nor opinions of
anv worth, it follows’as a matter of
course that advertising in them is
rays,
confers upon it, therefore, the power of
regulating the respiration of the plant.
pure waste of money It is rather worse
than this, because a man who advertises,
once or twice and gets no return from it
is disposed to believe that advertising is
not necessary; and having leached this
opinion he is at once deprived of an in-
Cutting Oranges and Apples.
To cut the orange, make two parallel
cuts, through the skin only, leaving a
continuous band about an inch wide
round the body of the orange. Remove
the rest of the peel. Cut through the
band once r just over one of the natural
divisions, and gently for re the whole
open, and out, leaving each section de
tached from the others, but still fast to
the band of peel.
The apple i3 cut by setting the blade
of a narrow, sharp-pointed knife
in the oblique position of the in-
:i j tended cut, and pushing it, point first,
directly to the core. When all the cuts
are so msdej the apple will come apart
in. a very pretty manner. Care mu it be
taken.not to let the knife slip through
the apple, into the hand.
Here is a good though not a new way
dispensable means, when intelligently J to cut an apple so that it will look whole
used, of increasing trade.
A Speedy Core.
A young lad entered a car on one of
the roads leading out of Oil City, the.
other day, and discovered every seat
filled except two, which had been
turned to face each other. On one of
these seats sat a man with his feet rest
ing on the outside arm of the opposite
seat completely shutting off any attempt
to enter it. The boy walked up. to the
stranger, and asked:
“ Is this seat taken ?”
“ No,” was the gruff response, as he
eyed the little fellow, “ but X am so stiff
ened with the rheumatism that I can
not move, and the man wbohc-lps
and unmarked while in the dish, but,
j when pared, will fall to pieces without
I being cut with a knife:
Take a fine needle and a thin strong
thread; insert the needle at the stem of
the apple in such a way that tbe point
will come out again away from the stem
and a short distance from the first in
sertion ; ‘ pull the needle and thread
through very careinUy, so as not to
break, the skin or enlarge* the holes,
^ leaving a few.inches of thread hanging
‘at the stein. Then put the needle back
into the second hole,' thrust it in the
same direction as before, bringing out
the point still farther from the sted%
and again pull the thread through. Gj
on in this way straight around the apple,
and. when the thread comes out at the
around is to get off at the next station.” j su , aij p U jl it by both ends very eare-
The youngster winked softly with one
eye and took a seat on the woodbox.
The train started, and was running
slowly out of the city, when the boy sud
denly jerked open the door and sprang
upon the platform, yelling, “ Great
Caesar, help! Here’s a young lady drag-'
ging along on the ground! Help!
help! help!” The rheumatic man was.
the first one on the platform* while the
lad sprang rnside, gr bbed a stick from
the woodbox and dropped into the va
cant seat, with his feet; resting on the
arm of the opposite one. The man with
the rheumatism came back with his
eyes glaring, and was about to eject the
lad, by means of his collar, when he
said, “You lay your hands on me and
I'll bat you with this stick. But if
you want to sit down, asktike a gen
tleman, and I’ll give youlialftbe seat.”
He asked.
A Nevada Stage Driver’s JFeat.
An old Virginia (Nev.} stage driver
fully, until it has cut entirely through,
and comes out of the apple. If pared
now, the fruit would l3ll in halves;
but, by working the thread round'under
the skin 53 before, at right angles to the
first cut, and again pulling the thread
quite through at the stem, the apple
will fall into quarters’.
After a little practice, the cutting
can be done so skillfully that only a
very keen eye will be able to find out
how it was accomplished.
A Test for Sheep-Worrying Dogs.
In order that many of onr innocent
canine friends may not-suffer the- ex
treme penalty for sins they have not
committed, and that no guilty dogs
may escape, we think it worth while to
reproduce the following from the report
of the district veterinary surgeons in
Wurtemberg, as a novel device for dis
covering dogs which have been worrying
sheep. In February of 1874 a dog at*
says that he has been more exasperated -tacked a flock of sheep and killed eleven.
. j liia voilnra tn mn 5 1 j <_i • *.
gucl chagrined at his failure to run
ton stage and six-in-hand after a hog,
and just at the moment when-he ex
pected to catch the fly inggrunter under
the forewheel, he would lurch to one
side with a grunt of satisfaction at his
escape. He~ never succeeded in run
ning down a hog except in one instar&e.
In that case the hog had just succeeded
t hiss
beside?
as too much startled
-— it down, butup-
^-enger's,
The shepherd reported the circumstance
to veterinary surgeon Ostersteg, who
soon after discovered a dog which from
his general appearance and muddy con
dition, he suspected to be the culprit.
He accordingly resolved to test his sus
picion by giving it an emetic; the effect
was to bring up some flesh and ear, cor
responding to that of one of the sheep
which had been partially devoured.
Another dog ^as also suspected, and to
this was applied the same treatment,
an entirely different character. In the
law coilM the owner of the first dog had
*<■> — - t the j* hole of the worried.
FACTS AND FANCIES FOR THE FAIR
Trains are very plain this season.
There are three Japanese lady stu
dents at Vassar.
Two sizes of buttons are used for
most costumes.
Bright tints take the lead in nearly
all of the mixed goods.
House polonaises are made quits
bouffant, and are really long basques.
Ladybugs of red enamel are the last
charming substitute for buttons.
Of fifty members elected on the Lon
don School Board, nine are women.
Neckties of a narrow hand of for
fastened with a bright, satin bow are
pretty.
Young women should set good ex
amples, for the young men are always
following them.
Thebe’s many a slip ’twixt the cup
and the lip, and not a few between the
first kiss and the ring.
A Purr, a tvet.pitta woman owns the
largest colored diamond ever brought to
America.
It was wittily said of a beautiful
French literary lady, that-she had but
one fault—a husband. -
If woman had the ballot what would
she do with it? It isn’t long enough for
a belt or big enough for a hustle.
Queen Victobia’s gift to Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris was a miniature of her
royal self set in precious 6tones.
A Wetzel country girl says one hug
is worth a dozen love letters. They can
not he introduced as evidence in a
breach of promise suit, either.
According to some of the English
fashion plates, we are threatened with a
revival ef the “ waterfall” style of ar
ranging the hair.
It is said that the fashion of turning
down one corner of a visiting card was
originated by Gen. Schenck in a fit oi
absent-mindedness.
Give a girl long eyelashes and small
hands and she will put up with No. 6
feet and marry all aronnd a curly-headed
girl wearing ones and a half.
The daughters of General Sherman
refuse to dance “ the German.”—Float
ing Bern. Are they equally conscientious
abont walking Spanish ?
What did the young lady mean when
she said to her lover, “ You may be too
late for the train, bat yon can take a
bus?”
Before marriage a girl frequently
calls her intended “ her treasure,” but
when he becomes her husband, she looks
upon him as her “ treasurer.”
You may meet with twenty men in
the day who stutter, but you never
heard of the woman who had an impedi
ment in her speech.
A post out West, describing Heaven,
says—“ It’s a world of bliBS fenced in
with girls.” Where is the man that
won’t repent now?
A conscience yoid of offence is an
inestimable blessing, because it gives
a pleasure which no ran coring of malice
can destroy; it is proof against malig
nity itself, and smiles upon its most san
guinary efforts.
hangin’
Lime Kiln Club Skepticism.
[Detroit Free Press.]
Said Brother Gardner, at the last
meeting of the Lime Kiln Club: “ I
was axed de odder .day what dis club
didn’t believe in, an’ de queshion was
one deservin’ of thought an’ reiekshun.
Speakin on behalf of all dose present
an’ miasm’, I think 1 kin say
“1. It doan’ believe 11
clothes down cellar to dry.
“ 2. It doan’ believe in puttin’ a ten
dollar hoss in front of a fifty dollar
wagin.
“ 3. It doan’ believe dat talkin’ poly-
tics will buy codfish, or dat disputin’ on
religion will darn socks.
“ 4. I doan’ believe dat a cigar in de
mouf’an’ holes in de butes help a man
to git a job.
“ 5. It doan’ believe in payin’ cash
down for penny whistles an’ runnin’ in
debt for grindstones.
“ 6. It doan’ believe dat de world owes
any man what he doan’ work fur an’
put in full time at.
“ 7. It doan’ believe in singin’ frew its
nose when its mouf has nuffin else'to do
but sing.”
Scene—Gold Sill public school. Ob
ject lessons in the primary class. Sub
ject, Grammar:
Teacher—“ Form a sentence with the
word ‘deaf’ in it.” -
First Pupil—“A deaf man cannot
hear.”
• Teacher—“ Correct. Next, form a
sentence with the word ‘blind’ in it.”
SecordPupil—“Pulldown the blind.”
[Sensation in school.]
Etiquette in Arkansas.
[Little Eock Gazette.]
Last night two men from Philadelphia
engaged in a quarrel at a hotel in ‘this
city. After usiasr all kinds of epithets,
one of them thrust his. hands behind
him as though about to draw a pistol,
and then took it away. The quarrel
terminated without damage to either
party. An old. man from South Ar
ks usa?, shook back his long hair, and
advancing to the man who had made the
hip-pocket motion, remarked:
“ Both of you men are strangers here,
I reckon?”
“Yes.”
“ Not acquainted with onr little rules
of politenes.s? ”
“How?”
“Why. you put your hand behind you
just now.”
“ Yes.”
“ You didn’t pnll a gun?”
“ I haven’t got a gun.”
“ Now, young man, let me give you a
piece of advice. While you are in this
country don’t put your hand behind
you unless yon intend to shoot. Don’t
even run your hand into yonr pocket
for a chaw of tobacker. Don’t spit.
Don’t wink, for if you do your partner,
if he’s an Arkansaw man, will jolt yon.
Yon must learn these little rules of
politeness. Yon may know bow to con
duct yourself at church, but you’ve got
a good many rules of etiquette yet to
THOUGHTS FOB SUNDAY.
“ Do you think we shall have a storm,
Mrs. Goo ding ton?” asked the young
parson, polite y uncovering his brain.-
box. “ Well; I don’t know, Mr. Proof-
text,” replied the old lady; “I don’t
know. Darniel was just saying that
them circus clouds looked rather omniv-
erons. Darniel, yon know, has just
gravitated at the Universalist, where he
studied gastronomy and all about the
heavenly' consternations. Why, Par
son Prooftext, if you could hear that
boy talk—iest like reading, too—about
apple trees and Pericles, and then them
roly-poly-aliases, you world only have
to shut your eye3 to think you was in a
sort of visionary.” And the good old
soul closed her eyes, and seemed to have
really gone off in a “stupid,” as she
would call it.
-A good constitution is like a money
box—it’s full value is never known til]
it has been broken. ,4
Good character is above all things
rise. _
A grain of prudence is worth a pound
of crhft
You will never lose by doing a good
turn.
Nothing overcomes passion more
than silence-
He who has nothing to do has no
business to live.
Want of good sense is the worst of
all poverty.
The ohly disadvantage of an honest
heart is credulity.
It costs more to avenge wrongs than
to bear them.
A GRAND safegnaril for doing right is
to hate all that is wrong.
We are apt to consider an act wrong
because it is unpleasant to us.
Hat.v the ills we hoard in our hearts
are ills because we hoard them.
By being contemptible we set men’ *
minds to the tune.of contempt.
Happiness and unhappiness
ties of the mind not of place or posi
tion.
We have little pity for others until
we are in a situation to claim it our
selves. __
A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the
ocean, make an analogous impression on
the mind.
To know how to listen is a great art;
it is to know how to gain instruction
from every one.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may
catch small flies, hut let wasps and hor
nets break through.
A wise man may be pinched by pov
erty; but only a fool will allow himself
to be pinched by tight shoes.
It is by attempting to reach the top
at a single leap that so much misery is
produced in the world,
If thy conscience smite thee once, it
is an admonition; if it smite thee twice,
it is a condemnation.
When gratitude has become a matter
of reasoning, there are many ways of
escaping from its bonds.
The man who can hold his tongue
longest in controversy is the one who
will come ont successful in the end.
Do not be dogmatic in your assertions,
arrogating to yourself much consequence
in your opinion.
If those who over-eat and those who
half-starre were to strike a balance, the
world would he well-fed.
No one can be happy without a friend,
and no one can know what friends he
has until he is unhappy.
The most terrific storm of real woe in
a man’s heart rarely flings its froth and
foam as high as his lips.
A man may practice sin for years
and never know that he possesses a con
science until his sins are found out.
We learn to climb bv keeping onr
eyes not on hills that li6 behind; but
on the mountains that rise before us.
‘Too late,” and “no more’’are the
mournful sisters, children of a sire
whose age they never console.
People glorify all sorts of bravery
(braver
ccepr tne
l behalf of their neighbors.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the
health of the body, the peace of the
city, the security of the State.
Canting bigotry and caressing criti
cism are usually the product of obtuse
sensibilities and a pusillanimous will.
The reason that so many people up
set and sink in the stream 01 life is
because they pat np more sail than they
can carry.
There is no saying shocks us so much
as that which we hear very often, that
a man does not know how to pass his
time.
Don’t despise the small talents; they
are needed as well as the great ones.
A candle is sometimes aB useful as the.
sun.
Maintain dignity without the ap
pearance of pride; manner is something
with everybody, and everything witS
some.
Using Up the Elephant.
[From tbe London Telegraph.]
Considerable interest attaches to a
question which has been put by a Shef
field worker in ivory. He desires to
know whether elephants shed their tusks,
as if not. upward of L2-I0 of tiie?e
magnificent beasts must have been killed
to supply -manufactory alone with the
ivory used last year. The answer to bis
query is. unfortunately that .before the
tusks cs--- obtained an elephant must
be siiilqri. ■ ; ami ;< t'..>o.o‘jc
subject tor -.cry hit:.- itil, r; „!-.
Numerous still in O* \ ■■■■■;., ifcoi.an by no
means so plentiful a iLev were a few
years ago, and will not existing
also in large numbers i»i e-rutin parts of
Africa, the eloo.'-.-.nt is, how< n-r, rapidly
disappearing. As a beast of burden he
unrivalled for streu^t!}, endur r.ee
and intelligence; and the service lie
renders in times of war, as well as peace,
would alone more tlnfnI reward a great
effort on bisbehaiL Quite it part from
the fact Hun when he goes the supply
of ivory ceasijs, too, there is aiso tbe
grave consideration of his loss as a
means of locomotion and transport. It
is Cv<- 1 l known that he does not breed in
cao ivitv, and it. is. therefore, rely in a
wii>i Mate titat the species can be pre-
se-vi ii The destruction of more than
1,20:.! of tbi? kind for one knife-making
firm implies a huge ami serious waste.
Reason In a Wasp.
[Land and Water.]
The late Dr. £ramus Darwin, in his
“Zoonomir,” gives from his own per
sonal observation the following illustra
tion of the reasoning powers of a wasp:
One circumstance! shall relate which
fell under my own eye, and. showed the
power of reason in a wasp as it is exercised
among men. A wasp on a gravel walk
had caught a fly nearly as large as him
self. Kneeling on the ground, I ob
served him separate the tail and head
from the part to which the wings wert
attached. He then took the body put
in his paws, and rose about two feet
from the ground with it; but a gentle
breeze waiting the wings of the fly,
turned him around in ike air, and he
settled again with his prey upon the
gravel. I then distinctly observed him
cut off with his mouth first one of the
wings and then the other, after which
be flew away with it. unmolested by the
wind.
Fancy, if you can, American au
diences submitting to such regulations
as the following: At Kieff, the Direc
tor of Police has ordered that the au
dience must not hiss the actors; that
applause is allowed only at the end of
each , act, and that recalls must not ex
ceed thr?e in number. At Marseilles
the Mayor has forbidden any manifes
tation before the fall of the curtain on
The Process of Incubation.
There are many things the existence
of which the majority of us live and die
in ignorance of. Only by close obser
vation do we acquaint ourselves with
some interesting facts. We know that
a hen sets three weeks before bringing
out her young; a turkey sets four weeks,
or about twenty-six days; the common
duck nearly the same length oi time;
while the robin brings ont her fledgling
in abont eleven days. The young of
the latter bird is not fully formed when
it comes from the shell. The eyes, beak,
and feathers grow afterward, and the
body grows into shape, requiring fully
eleven days more before the young bird
can help itself, and indeed for many
days after leaving the nest it is fed and
cared for by the parents.
The “People’s Practical Poultry
Book” says of incubation: “ The hen
has scarcely set on her eggs twelve, hours
before some lineaments of tbe head and
body of the chicken appear. The heart
may be seen to beat at the end of the
second day of incubation. It has at
this time somewhat the form of a horse
shoe ; but • no blood appears. At the
end of two days two vessels of blood are
to be distinguished, the pulsation of
which is very visible. One of these is
the left ventricle; and -the other is the
root of the great artery. At the fiftieth
hour one auricle of the heart appears,
resembling a noose folded down upon
itself. The heating of the heart is first
observed in the auricle, and afterward
in the ventricle. At the end of seventy
hours the wings are distinguishable;
and on the head, two bubbles are seen
for the brain, one for the bill, and two
for the fore and hind part of the head.
Toward the end of the fourth day tho
two auricles already visible draw nearer
to ihe heart than before. The liver ap
pears toward tbe end Of the filth day.
At the end of one hundred and thirty-
one hours the first voluntary motion is
observed. At the end of seven hours
more the lungs and stomach become
visible; and, four hours afterward, the
intestines, loins, and upper-jaw. At
the one-hundred-aud-lorty-fourih hour
the ventricles are visible, and two drops
of blood, instead of the single one that
was seen before. On the seventh day
the brain begins to have some consist
ency. At the two-hundred-and-nine-
teenth hour the bill opens, and the flesh
appears on the breast. In four hours
more the breast-hone is seen. In six
hours after this the ribs appear, (form-
‘ ‘ Huulisch
ing from the back,) and the bill is clearly
visible, as well as the gall-bladder. The
bill becomes green at the end of two
hundred and thirty-six hours: and, if
the chicken he taken ont of its covering
at this period, it evidently moves itself.
The feathero begin to shoot out toward
the jtwo-hundred-and-fortieth hoar, and
the skull becomes gristly. At the two-
hundred-and-eighty-eigfith hour the ribs
are perfect. At the three-hundred-and-
tliirty-first hour the spleen draws, near
the stomach, and the longs to the chest.
At the end of three hundred and fifty-
five hours the hill frequently opens and
shuts, and at the end of the eighteenth
day the first cry of the chicken Is heard.
It afterward gets more strength, and
grows continually, till at length it is
enabled to set itself free from its con
finement.” In the whole process, we
must remark that every part appears in
its proper time. If, for example, ihe
liver is formed on the fifth day, it is
founded on the peceeding situation of
the chicken, and on the changes that are
to follow. No part of the body could
possibly appear sooner or later without
the whole embryo Buffering.
Hr. Buskin on Dress.
Mr. Buskin finds himself at a loss be
fore no subject and talks with as mnch
dogmatic emphasis of woman’s dress as
of the abomination of machinery and
of the beauty of earth and sky. His
ideas on woman’s duties in this life are
short and exact: “She is to please
►le, to feed them in dainty ways, to
e them, to keep them orderly, to
teach them.” As for the pleasing, Mr.
Buskin is convinced that tasteful dress
is necessary, and he expatiates upon
this conviction in a way calculated to
much delight the fair.” He esteems
it the duty of a woman to look as lovely
as possible. “ Now, mind,” he says, “you
always dress charmingly; it is the first
duty of a girl to be charming, and she
cannot be charming unless she is charm
ingly dressed. Set an expample of
beautiful dress "without extravagance;
that is to say, without waste or unneces
sary splendor.”
He does not insist that tbe dress
should be costly; on the contrary r die ad-
■rises that it should be markedly"simple
10 put Town the curse of luxury and
waste that is consuming England.
Nevertheless,, the dress while simple,
must be becoming and pleasantly
varied; and what hio female reader
thinks it necessary to buy beyond this
for the good of trade, “ buy ” he com
mands, “ and immediately burn.”
He is not a little judicious in other
injunctions. He especially hates long
wo Ik nqr dresses and declares that such
dres-f s should never touch the ground,
at all. He scorns cheap ready-made
clothing of any kind and condemns
sewing machines, and he urges that all
girls should learn dress-making and de
vote a part of every day to making as
pretty dresses as they can in good ma
terial for the poor people who have no
time or taste" to make them well for
themselves.
Of the influence of the earth’s sub
terranean force in altering the level oi
the land, we might quote many remark
able instances. The slow processes of
upheaval or depression may, perhaps,
seem less immediately referable to sub
terranean action than those which
are produced daring the pro
gress of an actual earthquake. The
gradual uprising of Sweden, the slow
sinking of Greenland, and the gradual
uprising of Nova Scotia and the shores
of Hudson’s Bay are illustrations of
this slow process. Remarkable and
suggestive as these phenomena really
are, and indisputable as the evidence is
on which they rest, they are much les3
striking than the rise and fail of land
during destructive earthquakes.' For
instance, in November, 1822, a widely-
felt earthquake was experienced in
Chili. On the next day it was noticed
for; the first time that a broad line of
sea coast had been deserted by the sea
for more than one hundred miles.
Rocks some way out to sea, which had
been formerly covered, were now dry
at half-ebb tide; careful measurements
showed that the rise of the land was
greater at some distance inshore than
along the beach. At Valparaiso the
rise was three feet; at Quintero four
feet. Many instances, fully as remark
able, could’be quoted, and we find that
the earth’s suoterrauean forces serve
to produce the effects which are re
quired to counteract the : continual dis
integration of the shores and interior
A Few Hints fforth Preserving.
1. Child two years old has an attack
of croup at night; doctor at a distance-
whatis to be done? *
The child should he immediately n^.
dressed and putin a warm bed. Then
give an emetic, composed of one part of
antimony wine to two of ipecac. Th e
dose is a teaspoonful. If the anti
is not handy, give warm water, mn
and water, or any other simple emetic-
child and wrap it carefully in £
dry the 1
warm blanket.
2. Some one’s nose bleeds and cannot
be stopped.
Take a plug of lint, moisten, dip fo
equal parts of powdered alum ard gum
arable, and insert in the nose,
the forehead in cold water.
8. Child eats a piece of bread on
which arsenic has been spread for killin-
rats.
Give plenty of warm water, new
milk in large quantities, gruel and lin
seed tea; foment the bowels. Scrap*
iron-rust off anything, mix with warm
water, and give in large draughts fre-
’**"' n *’AN«v s ^
vomited, because, the stomach will not
contract properly if filled, and the ob
ject is to get rid of the poison as qnick-
y as possible.
4. A young lady sits in the draft and
comes home with a bad sore throat.
Wrap flannel around tbe throat,
keeping ont of draughts and sudden
changes of atmospheres, and every half-
hour take a pinch of chloride of pot
ash, place it on the tongue, and allow
it to dissolve in the month.
8. Child falls backward into a tub of
water and is much scalded.
- Carefully undress the child, lay it on
a bed, on its breastif the backis scalded,
be sure all draughts are excluded; then
dust over the parts scalded with bi-car
bonate of soda; lay muslin over it;
then make a tent by placing two boxes
them in bed, to
with a board over inem in Dea, to pre
vent the covering from pressing on the
scald: cover np warm.
6. Mower cuts driver’s legs as he is
thrown from his seat.
Put a tight bandage aronnd the limb
above the cat, slip a cork under it in
the direction of a line drawn from the
inner part of the knee to a little outside
of tbe groin. Draw the edges of the
ent together with sticking plaster.
7. Child has a had earache.
Dip a ping of cotton wool in olive
oil, warm it and place it in the ear.
Wrap np the head and keep it out of
draughts.
A Boy’s Noble Nature.
A generous soul hates the doing of a
wrong or mean thing, more than he fears
S ' * punished for it. An instance of
magnanimity that any boy might
emulate, is given here:
A lad was once called before a police
court in one of onr large cities for
throwing a stone which struck a girl in
her eye. The respectability of the par
ties excited considerable interest, and
drew many persons to hear the examina
tion.
The boy was bound over to appear at
the municipal court, and Colonel M—
was engaged as his counsel. Soon after
the examination, another boy about
twelve years of age called upon the
Colonel, and asked:
“ Sir, are you engaged to defend f ’
“ Yes, I am; why do you ask?”
The little fellow replied: “Because,
sir, I threw the stone, and cannot sutler
a comrade to he punished for a crime of
my own commission.”
“ Well done—you are a fine boy; what
is your name?”
“ My name is .”
“ Well,” said the counsellor, admiring
the noble-heartedness of the lad, “wifi
you tell the County Attorney you com
mitted this act?”
“ Yes, sir,” said he, and immediately
went to the attorney’s office for that
purpose.
The friends of the injured girl on
hearing these particulars declined tak
ing any further steps in the matter.
Relinked.
On one occasion a Californian heingre-
ceived by Mr. Carlyle, with his habitual
denunciation of the great Republic,
endured it calmly to the end, and then
observed: “ Go ahead, Mr. Carlyle. I
like to hear yon abuse the United States,
for. it seems to do you good, and it
doesn’t do us a bit of harm. You’ve
had a good deal to say of wind bags. I
confess that we’re pretty windy on the
other side, but we can’t come np to you
over there. Now, you impress me as tbe
biggest windbag—you say you like can
dor—I have ever seen. If we should
take the wind out of your fifty odd
volumes, what would be left of them!
They are all wind and you know it. 1
don’t biame you for writing them, how
ever. You made your wind pay, and If
you bad any common sense, and were
fifty years younger, you would -surely
make, if you’d come and live with U3, a
pretty good American. You’ve ex
pressed yonr views of my country, and
I’ve expressed my views of yon. I sup
pose we’re about even. Do I owe you
anything, Mr. Carlyle? If I do, I’ll pay
you.” The author is reported to have
smiled grimly by way of response, and
to have said afterward that the Cali
fornian wa3 the least uninteresting
American he had ever seen.
Not Her Motto.
A Woodward avenue policeman was,
the other day halted near theCity Hall,
by a two-hundred pound woman
with a parcel in her hand, and
she reqnes’ed to be directed to the store
where they sold mottoes. He asked
which particular store she wanted, and
she explained: “Well, I can’t teH.
My old man came to town yesterday,
and I wanted him. to bny the motto of
: God Bless Our Home.’ He got in
somewhere where they told him stylish
folks no longer hang ap chat motto,
and the old idiot went‘and brought
home this one.” She unrolled the
parcel and held up a card on which
was rudely painted: “ Don’t ask fog-
credit—our terms are cash.” “Yon
lg is bad, but I'm going
to walk this town till I find the man
who got this thing off on Samuel for
‘God Bless Our Home.’”
An Affable Manner.
Mnch of the happiness of life depend*
on our outward demeanor. We have
all experienced the charm of gentle am
courteous condnet; we have all heel
drawn irresistibly to those who an
tbe third debut. At Nantes, the artist,
after three de/juts, is submitted simply ! parts of the continents through the
.to the vote of the subscribers.j/. t - action of ocean waves and rain.
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obliging, affable,
their aeir"" ‘' '
the warm
enconragin
ner, bear n
joy of li'
stern rebi
tbe coid and
curt and disre pec: ,
cilious and scornful bearing, are
Bible formoreof human distress
d woe, than their transien-
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