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iE wrap I MORGANTON, GA. The governor general of the new commonwealth of Australia is to re¬ ceive $50,000 a year for his services. President Diaz thinks that with 6000 miles of railway Mexico has enough for some years to como ami cannot afford to extend government aid to new lines . It is an interesting fact that of the 865 colleges of the United Stales, 204 are co-educational. Women at present constitute fifty-five per cent, of the Under-cxaduntes in this country. Says the Boston Traveller: it seems that in Great Britain, as well as in Germany, the cities are growing out of all proportion to the rest of the country. Apparently these are (lie tendencies in all the great industrial nations. This drift cityward fore¬ shadows an active demand and good prices for farm products everywhere, and an improvement in conditions for the farmers. One of the latest electrical dis¬ coveries is the power of electricity, under certain conditions, to destroy in water bacteria that causes diseases, and possibly in the human system as well. There are good and bad bacteria, some of them of great value to fann¬ ers for the increase of fertility of soil. These we have sometimes thought were increased in activity by thunder- storms. So when scientists aim their electrical discharges at bacteria tiiey should have a caution to aim to de¬ stroy those only that are known to be injurious. During the seventy-five years that the American Bible Society has been in existence it has received in legacies and contributions $9,900,000, and gifts of Bibles and special funds con- tributed made up a grand total of $20,864,000. Four general distribu- tions of Bibles have been made in the United States. Every eighteen cents expended have represented a copy of the Scriptures. At the last general distribution, beginning in 1882, 8,- 000,000 Bibles in twenty-seven lan¬ guages were sent out. _____ Charles Emmott, the Oldham (Eng- land) cotton spinner, who is to marry Lady Constance Campbell, daughter of tiie Duke of Argyle, is the son of a man who began life as a factory operative and is now the head of a millionaire firm. It is told of old “Breadbasket” Emmott that he used to take his dinner along with him, wrapped in a handkerchief, when he went to the Liverpool and Manches¬ ter markets,and so saved the eighteen pence which he would hare had to pay had he dined at an inn. TheSt.Louis Star-Sayings observes: “One result of the marvelous growth of American citizens and tho conse- quent crowding together of large num- bers of citizens and their families, has been a renewal of the agitation in fa¬ vor of a new cabinet officer to have charge of a national health department. In all the crowded countries of the Old World such a department and such a head have been found necessary, and there is no good reason why we should wait for a very serious epi¬ demic before following the example. The expense would be quite nominal, and the -concentrated action which would bo rendered practicable in cases of emergency might be the moans of saving thousands of lives.” There is a marriage bureau in Ber¬ lin which during the last eleven years has received 19,959 applications for husbands and wives from all civilized countries, while matches have heeu brought about for 4399 women appli¬ cants and 5417 men. “To such an ex¬ tent is the traffic carried on,” assorts the Philadelphia Record, “that the matrimonial agent arranges with the keepers of American boarding-houses where the American girls live to take young officers into their homes, with the promise of a commission if a match shall be brought about. Tho penniless Lieutenant Herr Baron,with waxed mustache, blue eyes and red uniform, has frequently found liis fate in one of these accommodating wmcies.” Superintendent Totter says tlmt n compendium of the work of taking the census will bo completed in time for the next Congress, which will he throe years and a half ahead of the last census reports. IIo states that the compiling of special data will require longer time, but that the entire work will be completed about seven years sooner than ever before. A company lias recently been organ¬ ized in New York city which proposes to make its principal business the preservation of the health and comfort of citizens. It proposes to establish an institution to bo known as a ‘•Ilealthery,” similar in its nature to institutions of that name in London. It is proposed to make this an adjunct of the Board of Health. Three chem¬ ists will be employed to make analyses of food, to conduct experiments as to the value of various food preparations and to make examinations of any and all articles of diet which may bo sub¬ mitted to ascertain whether they may be safely used or not. One of the provisions of the company is that it will hold each year an exposition of food products. Some idea of the magnitude of the postal service may be gathered from the fact that the combined length of the railway postal routes of the coun¬ try is 144,557 miles, while the trans¬ portations of mails on those routes in 1880 reached the enormous total of 186,575,884 miles. Germany, which comes next, only has 24,522 miles and a total transportation of 89,267,000 miles per annum. But while the rail- way service is one of great magnitude, there are the star-route and steamboat services, which extend over 251,792 miles, with a total annual transporta¬ tion of over 12,000,000,000 miles. To carry on successfully this immense service requires tho work of over 90,000 persons. The postal corres- pondence of* this country with foreign la “ d8 , fa , " ,, 8 / ^ below that of Ger. ^ Of the 90,000,000 pieces sent abroad last year 70,000,000 -were car¬ ried by vessels of foreign register. The United States is now the great- est iron producing country of the world. We have long been second only to Great Britain, and last year we passed our rival, going to the front with an unprecedented produc- * 30n 9,202,708 gross tons of pig * r0I1 > au excess of 1,200,000 over the ll! S tl0sfc figures ever reached by the furnaces of any country. Noting this fa3t the Philadelphia Telegraph recalls tba ^ Nicholas Biddle and other citizen9 of Pennsylvania offered a botlllt f of SoOOO for the first furnace * n continuous blast for a period of three months. It will thus be seen how brief is the history of this grea t interest in our land. It is true tlia 1 iron was made in that state many years before 1838, and we exported pig iron to England before the revolu- but it was not until 1841 that the prize for running a furnace three months in continuous blast was won in Pottsville. The Washburn & Moen Company, at Worcester, Mass., is making a sc¬ ries of experiments which promises to transform the rod and wire busi¬ ness. Copper is now used altogether in rods and wire where great strength and resistance to tension are required. Steel lacks this tenacity. It is stated, however, that the company’s experts have discovered a process by which steel can be tempered so as to possess this necessary tenacity, and that steel wire has been actually made which will stand all the strain and tension that copper wire will. It can be man¬ ufactured, it is believed, at a much less cost than the present figures for copper, and its success would canse a decided drop in that metal. Despite the secrecy of those who have iiad the experiments in charge gossip about them has been current for some time among the brokers, and speculation as to their influence on the market is rife. The late Mr. Moen, it is under¬ stood. was tiie active spirit in this matter, and the new plant which the company is starting at Chicago is sup¬ posed to be intended for the extension of the business which would result from the success of these experiments. The willingness of (he company to part with its barbed wire patents to the trust is explained by this new in- dustry. Toilny. £!<■ swift to love vour own, dears, Your own who need you so; ■Bay to the speeding hour, dears, “I will not let thee go Except thou give a blessing;” Force it to bide and stay, Love has no sure tomoirow It only has today. Ob, hasten to he kind, dears, before the time shall come When you are left behind, dears, In an all-alone home; Before in late contrition Vainly you weep and pray, Love has no sure tomorrow. It only has today. Swifter than sun and shade, dears,, Move the fleet wings of pain; The chance we have today, dears, May never come again. Joy is a fickle rover, He brookoth not delay. Love has no sure tomorrow'. It only has today. Too late to plead or grieve, dears, Too iale to kiss or sigh, When death has laid his seal, dears, On the cold lip ami eye, Too late our gifts to lavish Upon the burial clay; Love has no sure tomorrow, It only has today. [Congregationalist. — THE FIItST-BOM. Preston found his wife in a low arm¬ less rocking-cliair before the grate fire of her bed-room. Their baby boy, whose first weak rail against the mis¬ eries of existence had been heard bat two months before, lay flat upon hi s back in her lap. He was swatlied in a long woolen night-gown, which bulged restlessly under the impatience ^ e ° S ' The mother was pinching his cheeks and smothering him with kisses. This caused him to give vent to bub. bling gasps of delight and to wave liis clinched fists convulsively. When she saw her husband she lifted the baby, supporting his body with one hand, and his uncertain back with the other. His big head, fallen forward, rolled from side to side, while his bright eyes stared at his father fixedly, and without the smallest gleam of intelli¬ gence. Preston smiled constrainedly, and put one forefinger under the rather damp chin. As the cliil#r showed that he disap¬ proved of tlurehatige of position, his mother put him in her lap again, and began the interrupted play. . Preston looked down upon it with an irritated expression. When the nurse came iu with a small tub partly filled with warm water, ho looked about awk¬ wardly, as though iie were out of place. Then iie sat down in a deep leather chair by the window. As he watched the two women and tiie baby, a feeling of isolation and sadness grew upon him. . When tho nurse had put/the bath on the rug near the fire, site pushed to the mother’s side a small table spread with the articles of a baby’s toilet. While the child was bathing, the mother kept up a steady flow of talk, at times addressed to the father, al¬ ways intended for the son. She took off the long woolen gown. Then she lifted the child and laid him gently in tho bath. At first touch of the water he clutched wildly and twisted his face into a crimson tangle. But the warmthand the safety guaran¬ teed by the voice and fingers of the mother reassured him. He was soon splashing and kicking as widely as the narrowness of his bath allowed. Ilis face reddened and puckered as he was lifted to the blanket on his mother’s Jap, but the softness of the fleecy towel consoled him. At last she was done, and he lay ^straight and glowing. His eyes closed languidly. The talk of the mother ceased. There was silence in the room, except her monotonous and soothing “Sh-h-h! sli-h-h!” as she rocked to and fro. The husband’s eyes turned away im¬ patiently as he saw the look iu her face. She was admiring, wilh a look of perfect love, the beauty of the smooth round form in her Jap. The skin of tiie child was soft and delicate. Waves of color, first pure white, then rosy pink, passed across it from head to feet. They put a few clothes upon him so quietly that he only smiled, and did not awaken. The nurse left the room, and there was no movement or sound but the occasional slow rock, with the ^aint “Sh-h-h I” which accompanied it. The mother looked steadfastly at her child. The husband watched her sadly. They had married two years before. As both were strong-willed and posi¬ tive, there had been much clashing in tho first twelvemonth of their life to¬ gether. Each was finding out the real character of the other, so di fie rout in many ways from tho character each had admired beforo marriage. But in this undeceiving there had heeu no serious disillusion, and their love had grown stronger. Through this love happiness had gradually come. Just, as they were entering upon this unexpected happiness, which comes in married life if any at all, just then tiie baby was born. Preston had looked forward to the event with un¬ easiness and dissatisfaction. It had seemed to him that a third person would be an interloper. And liis feeling was shared by his wife. But with the birth of the child came the birth of the maternal instinct. Preston found himself alone in lus dissatisfaction. He realized this when he saw his wife afterward. At first he was awed by the change in her face, by the mysterious being whose head nestled to her shoulder, by the wonder of birth and maternity. Then, as the meaning of it for him came to his mind, the instant thought was that she was more lost to him than if site were dead. A few days before her eyes had in them the sparkle and the frequent flash of passionate love for him. Now those same eyes were turned to him with tenderness, but with a changed tenderness that pained him keenly. She was still young. She was still beautiful. But in those few days the quality of the youth and the beauty had been transformed. Her face now shone with the calmness and serenity of a mother. And the sad conviction came to the husband that tho change was final. On this morning, two months after¬ ward, as she sat in the low chair, in health and strength again, he studied tiie change more carefully. He had been trying to deceive himself during these two months. He felt that he could deceive himself no longer. He cared for her as before; more, perhaps, since he grasped so clearly the change in her. But she, sitting there with her child, cared for him in a new way. The child was first, the central figure, in her life henceforth. She loved the father through the child. In the days of their courtship he had fancied that the passing of years would not touch them. When her hair would bo gray and his hair would be scant they would cling together still, excluding everything and every¬ one else. Now all this was thwarted, brought to naught in tiie very dawn of their real happiness. The girl wife was gone, with no hope of return. This small form had pushed in be¬ tween. These clinched hands, so un¬ skilful, so helpless, had yet battered them apart. They must come, each to the other anew, and through tiie child. He seemed to himself to be passed away. He felt as though he were in another world, looking across a wide gulf to the far place where the child lay in the mother’s lap. And he thought, with utter lack of hope, that he was straining his arms and his heart in vain. This instinct love which showed in her eyes as she looked at the scarcely featured face filled him with bitterness. “And as time passes,” he thought, “this will not grow less, but greater. She may conceal it when she finds that it stabs me. But her real heart will be barred against me. She will care for me, but she will plan and scheme and try to control me for his sake— for their sake, if there are more.” Then he thought of his own father and mother. How intensely his mother had loved him! How often she had shielded him from his father! And he wondered how his father had felt at first. He certainly cared for me, and he and my mother lived happily, conlentedly, loving their children be¬ fore themselves.” And he saw that he too would no doubt grow to care for this little one in some such way as his wife now cared. “And I shall he content,” he said to himself, “as my father was content, and I shall forget the happi- ness that might have been in the pleasure and pride - that are. But I shall be a loser. For I have lost her exclusive love. I shall have only the second place in her heart, and in the heart of her child. For he will love her first. lie will bo first hors; mine through her only.” While tho husband was searching in vain for consolation, tho wife also was thinking of tho change in their rela¬ tions. She realized as fully as he that there had been a change, a transfer of love. And in a certain way she felt sorry for him. But she had no regret for the happiness they both thought they should regret as they talked it over beforehand. Indeed she was wondering how she could have been so blind thou. For this new love was so sweet to her, so self-absorbing and self-denying! How strange, how wonderful, how satisfy¬ ing was the new love—the love for this small being which was hers through the miracle of birth, through suffering to be remembered only with gladness! She realized the isolation of her husband, yet she could not long think of it. She was so absorbed wilh her son. “My son!” she thought, and she bent to kiss him softly, while the joy of maternal possession went through her like a strong wine- Her thoughts leaped along the years, pic¬ turing him as he would be when he could walk and talk, when he should be a schoolboy, a youth, a great man, of whom she was so proud,who loved her so. The look that came into her face with these thoughts cut her husband to the quiok. He arose and stood looking bitterly out of tho window. “She is no longer a wife. She is a mother!” he said.—[Harper’s Weekly. Cuteness of the Crow. The crow, as we all know, is a saga¬ cious bird; but the following account of its cuteuess, told us by Annie Mar¬ tin in “Home Life on an Ostrich Farm,” affords a fresh instance of its powers of reason. The hen ostrich— so far from deserting her nest and leaving her eggs to hatch, as was once the common belief—on a hot morning when she leaves her eggs as usual for a quarter of an hour, first places “on the top of each a good pinch of sand. This she does in order that the germ, which, whatever side of the egg is up¬ permost, always rises to the highest point, may he shaded mid protected.” It is at this time that the white-nock crow appears on the scene. Unable to break the shell with its bill, “he carefully watches till the parent’s back is turned and she is a good distance from the nest; then, flying up into the air, he drops a stone from a great height with a most accurate aim, and breaks an egg. In like manner, the same kind of crow kills for food the tortoise, numbers of, broken shells, some of immense size, being found about the veldt. It is not clear but that the crow may carry the tortoise into the air and let it drop and break.’* As many have noticed either onr crows or fish-hawks will collect large whelks and sea-urchins at low tide and carry them up and drop them on the shore, as if to break them and get at the animal within. Bullet Proof. The opponents of General Balma- ceda, the Chilian dictator, claim that he owes his survival to liis custom of wearing a patchwork of silver coins in the lining of his blouse. Persistent luck has, however, enabled the heroes of many battles to dispense with such precaution, says Dr. Oswald in Bel- ford’s Magazine. It has been esti¬ mated that in the course of his forty- six battles and two hundred and ten skirmishes, the first IS apoleon became a target for at least ten thousand bul¬ lets, not one of which could do more than kill his horse or rip his mantle. Admiral Nelson owed his fate to his habit of exposing ins person to the thickest shower of every bullet-rain; but in spite of a similar recklessness of personal courage,Marshal Suwarofl escaped with a few bruises; and Frederick tho Great was “knocked out of time” only once, when tiie frag¬ ment of a bursting shell unhorsed him in the battle of Torgan. lie had the advantage of a small stature, and may more than onefe have owed hi* life to the same mistake that saved Hickory Jackson in his duel with Dickinson; but “long pole” Welling¬ ton was equally lucky, and Joachim Murat persisted in charging at the head of his cavalry, relying on the prediction of the Bibyl Lenormand, who had told him that ho was not des-- tined to die on a battle-field.