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A Persian Lore Song.
All! sad are they who know not love,
.Bat, far from passion's tears and smiles
-Tbift down a moonless sea, beyond
Tho ailvorj- coasts of fairy isles.
And sadder thoy whose longing lips
Kiss empty air, and nover touch
Tho dear warm mouth of those they love? j
E> "Waiting, wasting, aafferlng muob. * j
But clear as amber, fine as musk, j
Is life to thoBe who, pilgrim wise, / , I
Move band in hand from dawu to dusk,
E&oh morning nearer Paradise. ^
/ OIt? not for them aliall angels pray s' ,
Thoy stand hi everlasting light; r H
Thoy walk in Allah's smile by dsfr,
Aud nestle in his heart by pfght. ,
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THE MUtMKKRS.
"Man tho mao#-heads there 1" was
the order from the mate of the Statesman,
on a bright, clear morning in the
tropical'latitnles of tho Pacifif.
"Tie or^r was obeyed by those "whose
. ... it was to take the first look-outs
' filming. But the youngster
was in the fore to'gallant
i . j.?auv.din tlu ? . . .p, .-.'ad
tii-. w j. v-apjd gh.mv round \'t- iv- $.
oail < ; he Jv , >H ,e.
.,u *, <k i- t, < ruing
t per u r.ui .? stir at
: : ' not onfy the
,ue watch below up.
ant morning dutl of
\ decks was suspended for
to gaze tfpon the una.-hi
of u whale-boat done
diii, coming to boart us
u.-j.' (t. like the verit|ble
\ t ii i-, of equatorial nlto- ,
wu i more than a cotyle ,
when lirsi discovered, J
' atly under the combit?cl ,
-nd oars. The captaik's ,
jcope was brought to bear, and it ]
was soon ascertained that she had Wt ^
least a full crew. We backed the mail topsail,
and hove to, waiting impi- ,
tiently to know more, and making van- ,
ous shrewd guesses and speculations at i
to her feistory and character. v .
' ? lowered for whalegnja&di (
?ot from their ship," suggested] ]
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"Likely enough," returned an-j ,
other.
" The captain makes out eight men 11
In liw,"-?ald-a CvixswolD, coining frOxni
aft. " ' \,
Here was a new phase of the matter, \
and our theory was blown to tbe four I
winds. Nobody would lower in pur-1
suit of whaleti with any more than six |
in a boat.
" Castaways, of course," was now the
unanimous opinion. " Ship foundered
or burnt at sea and some of her boats
lost with her."
But we were not kept long in suspense,
for the strungers brought their
frail craft ulongside as rapidly as oars
and canvas could do it and leaped on
deck. In a few minutes we were in
possession of the whole story?a parody
on the old one of Bligh and Fletcher j
Christian.
Tho boat contained Captain Watson,
his mato and six others, from the
hark Newcastle, of Sydney, who had
h?en set udrilt the day before by mutineer*.
The second mate, named McGregor,
was at the head of the conspiracy,
which had been most artfully
planned and carried into execution,
while he had charge of the deck.
It was supposed that McGregor, the
new commander, intended to carry the
bark down among the Marshall
Islands and there destroy her, taking,
np his residence among the savages.
Thero were still twenty men on board ;
but how many of them wero actively
engaged in the plot, or how many
were merely cowed into submission to
the new authority, was more than tho
Cantuin nnnld tell.
" And how far do yon suppose your
ship to be from us now ?" asked Captain
dent.
I have steered west* north west, by
ipass, as near as Iconld," said Cap
Watson ; " aiid have run, I should
\e, aboat eighty miles. The Newwhen
I lost sight of her, was by
\d on the northwest taek, under
.all. She ought to bear nearly
st from as."
' ' \e below, and let's lay off your
cor- i * the chart. I don't know as 1
> Vhinf for you, even if I should
T-. j a "T> -"our ship, but it might be
f cue i. ton to see her."
uns went into the cabin,
uu . i i - .. ->r was passed along to
!-eall_* ou wind. Nothing was
e$S? '< ho il'ij.and at uight we
. ;i > nd the first gray
ig showed ud the bark
;' Ouoe by Captain Wattheir
own vessel?
i?S course.
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taint 'fThat most be McGregor's object.
there's isn't mnoh tobacco on
boarfand but little powder. He wants
to Wy more. Captain Bent, let's yon
an* I have another talk by ourselves,"
ly added, seeming to have oonoeived
frnxe new idea.
Their conference was short; but,
judging from the expression on their
faces, when tbttey came on deck and
took the mates into their conference,
it seemed to have been productive of
something of importance. The bark's
boat,.in which the wanderers had been ~
picked up, was plaoed overhead otv tb*
Bkids, as if she "had been one et our
own, and a sail thrown over her that
he might not Joe reoognized. The crew
were instructed to keep themselves out
of sight while the two vessels were
communicating.
" What ba^k is that ?" asked Captain
Ben. innooentlv. after he hod civen
Lis own name.' ip ,
" The Newcastle, of Sidney."
" Who commands her I"
* Watsoi*," was the reply.
" One of onr men had his leg broken
yesterday," hailed onr captain, " and I
would like to get the service of your (
surgeon." ?
" Certainly. IH oome aboard, and
)-ing the doctor with me. I wish to see
you to trade with you." And with a
farewell wave of a trumpet, as the
vessel passed out of hearing, ho
luffed to under our lee, and then lowered
his boat.
Now the doctor of the Newcastle was
at that moment in our own cabin, he
having been sent adrift in the boat with
the captain ; but MoGregor would, of
course, bring some one to personate
the character. This would tako seven
men from her crew ; and it was also
certain that he would man his boat
with his choice spirits, for if he brought
any doubtful or lukewarm ones, they
might prattle. We had our instructions,
and within five minutes ufter the sevon ;
men stepped on onr deck, they had all
been decoyed below and quietly se- (
Wred.
The boat was veered astern "by the '
tvarp, and the maintopsail filled on a
wind, just as if we had made arrangements
for a day's " gam," according to {
die frequent usages of whale-ships on ,
3ruining ground. Of dohfrsS oat part- ]
ler followed our lead, keepiqg"Qbmpany ,
with us all day, without the least bus- ,
cicion. The remainder of our plan to j
regain possession of the ship could only t
carried out nndegnpwar of dekuwri? t
McGregor and his associates in (
crime were ironed and placed in the I
rtin for safe-Weninc. Aftur I
hove to and sot a light in the rigging,
which was at once answered by another
from the Newcastle, as she closed with
us and lay under onr lee.
Away went a boat from us in charge
of our mate, with a picked crew; while
a short distance astern of her followed
another, with Captain Watson and his
whole party. Tiie ruflian who waa in
charge of the bark, calling himself
mate of her, was amused by the first
comers with a story that his captain had .
made a bargain for a quantity of gun- (
powder and tobacco, and that our mate (
had been sent for the money in pay- (
ment. Suspecting nothing, he invited ,
his visitor below, to drink and enjoy
himself awhile. Onr men managed '
adroitly to engage the attention of those ,
on deck* and the second boat was
silently alongside in the .darkness, before
her approach had been observed
by them.
The alarm was given by the cry
"Boat ahoy 1" but too late. As she
touched the side, her crew sprang up to
assist ours, forming a superior force,
with all the advautages of surprise.
McGregor's lieutenant was knooked
down by pur mate in tbe cabin; the
few men who really had any heart in
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me ixiixkmj were (juiumjr u >sposeu oi J
and in lea* than two minutes from the
time the b?et was hailed, the quarterdeck
of th? Newcastle was in possession
of her former officers.
McGregorund the other principals in
the revolt, still ironed, were carried to
Sydney for tiial. As our season was
up, we kept company with Captain
Watson, and made our port there, 1
where we were liberally rewarded by
the owners of the recaptured vessel for
our share in the business.
A Lady's Chances of Being Married.
The statistician, and likewise the
average woman all the way from fifteen
years of age to the point when birthday
anniversaries cease to be a time of
oheer and gratuUtion, may take at
least a passing interest in a table recently
printed in England, to show the
relations between matrimony and age.
Every woman has aurne chance of being
married ; it may be one chanoe to fifty
against it, or it may be ten to one that
ntio will marry. Bit whatever that is, I
representing her entire ehanoe at one
hundred, her partictlar chance at certain
defined points of her progress in
tins! is found to be in the following
ra'ior When between fifteen and
ta mj years she has fourteen and a
huh per cent, of her whole probability ; ,
when bet. *en twenty and twenty-five
? hn;? fit Hro per cent. ; between
ly-Oe eighteen per
* !. >r years she has loat i
v K?n. at alf per oent. of her i
bn. uu'. hirty-flve she has
od > hu ? <*>nt. Between ]
anu ff Tis three and j
f *. and for each i
> * i-; respectively '
'...if, oi> and one- 1
oent. "* -rj -'U* sixty <
:tn cl 01 r -en er one- i
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HAY-FEYER AND ITS CURE.
A. Paper Read by Dr. Beard before the
Public Health Association of Philadelphia.
Dr. Beard rertd a paper before the
American Public Health Association of
Philadelphia, on the subject of " HayFever
and its Cure." The doctor began
his investigation rf*on this subject
by preparing a " circular of inquiry,"
which he sent all over the oountry?to
persons suffering from the disease, to
physicians, to soientifio persons, and in
fact to all who oould aid him in his researches
npon this subject. From the
information thus obtained he arrived
at the conclusions embodied in his
paper, of which the following is m
synopsis :
Hay fever is a complex and not a simple
disease, as has been generally understood.
The first element of the disease
is a nervo-bilious temperament,
or, at least, a temperament in whioh
the nervous element predominates.
Hay-fever patients are the class of patients
subject to other nervous disflaflAH.
The accnnrl factor in itiiu rlia.
ease is beat following cold. The heat
of hot climates does not seem to aot as
a cause, but the heat of temperate
climates following the cold weather.
The disease is found only in that belt
where there are extremes of temperature.
Third?Various exciting causes,
over twenty or more in number, such
as perfume of flowers, dust, in-door and
out-dopr, fresh hay, old hay, bright
sunlight, gaslight, close confined air,
smoke, cinders, hulling of corn, Roman
wormwood, sneeze-weed, over-exertion,
etc. In order to get up a case of hayfever
two of these three faptors, certainly
the first two, are necessary. The
exciting causes are named under the
third head, and have ^ regarded as
the d^gpase, hence the name hay-fever,
peach cold, rose-cold, etc. One might
as well call a sick-headache a sausageheadache,
because it may be at times
caused by eating sausajtoe. The majority
of the patients afflicted with hayfever
who are reported to me are of
American birth. Dr. Jacobi, of New
fork, whose experience practice
among the better olass of Germans are
reryTarge, tells me that he has never
known a case of hay-fever among Germans
in this country. I suspect that
imong tig) foreign population not born
n this country hay-fever is oomparaiively
rare; iast as among the same
daltfea uarwuua disease ot all kinds are
comparatively rare.
After a person has once been attacked
he Beems to be for all his life
liable to be again attacked. Now and
?&*%*** uuu *gu uvoi a joai Wiiuoui.
the disease, bat this is raie. Sometimes
the disease increases in severity
with years, and sometimes diminishes.
A majority of my patients have tried
the local application of the solution of
quinine, as recommended by Helmholtz,
and they report that it is little or no
good. Among the regions which hayfever
patients visit with benefit, I may
mention the White Mountains and the
?cean everywhere, at least in oold
dimes ; for those who take sea voyages
llmost never suffer while at sea, but
may be attacked as soon as they land.
A trip to Europe, the Adirondack
region and the island of Maokinaw are
very highly recommended by some.
Dr. Dennison, of Denver, Colorado,
sends me a pamphlet which reports
that seme oases of hay-fever have been
cured by a residence in that locality.
Like other nervous diseases, it is
powerfully under the influence of the
mind. The striking periodicity of the
disease coming on as it does, in a certain
oase, at precisely the same day or
hour, is probably the result in part of
expectation of the patient that it will
come then. The plan of treatment that
I would suggest for hay-fever is as follows
: First, to prevent the disease.
As early as March or April the patient
should begin to take a course oi nerve
tonic treatment. I would recommend
it to be arsenio, phosphorus in its various
forms, cod liver oil, iodoform and
electricity, especially the methods of
general galvanieation and general
faridization. When the disease appears
the great dependence must be on local
treatment, combined with general tonic
treatment. Mr. friend, Dr. W. F.
Hutchinson, of Providence, had a case
this year, which he broke up by central
galvanization. I relieved decidedly one
case and somewhat relieved another
by flocal galvanization externally. The
remedies should be used thoroughly.
The great trouble with those wh^ galvanize
themselves is that they do not
completely and thoroughly bring the
remedies to act upon all the sinuous
and tortuous lining membrane of the
nasal passages.
Plants.
It is well known that plants sleep at
night; but their hours of sleeping are
a matter of habit, and may be disturbed
artificially, j ust as a cock may be woke
up and crow at untimely hours by the
light of a lantern. De Oandolle subjected
a sensitive plant to an exceedingly
trying oourse of discipline, by
completely changing its hours ; exposing
it to a bright light all night, so
as to prevent sleep, and putting it in a
dark room during the day. The plant
Qnnnovml KA 1^ J 3 .
H|/|M^nivu w UV U1UUU ttllU C118tnrbed
at first; it opened and closed its
[eaves irregularly, sometimes nodding
in spite of the artificial sun that shea
its beams at midnight, and sometimes
waking up from foroe of habit, to find
the chamber dark in spite of the time
of day. Such are the trammels of use
and wont. Bui, aftor an obvious struggle
'h^ } i rr to the oh in/e,
i t.j uirned d into t g *'! witM ..
upparont ''1 c . ot?.
TheNPrcsident and the Horse Dealer.
Among the enfferprising citizens who
contributed to the St. Louis State fair
was Mr. Dillon, who is a dealer in
Normen horses. Mr. Dillon has recently
imported a number of these animal*
from Europe, and had a " si*-inhand
" attached to a ponderous vehicle
on the fair grounds. Driving around
the Qturse, the horse fanoier met old
Sam^Buckmaster, of Illinois, and inducod
him to accept a seat in the caravan.'1
They drove several times around
the ttfack, and were the observed of all
observers, but finally Mr. Buckmaster,
seeing two gentlemen approaching,
said There comes the President; I
muskget out and meet him."
;-~if?he President I" exclaimed Dillon ;
'* trlyt, that is just the man I want to
see.^1 wanted to got hold of a man
thatvis a good judge of horseflesh.
Whioh is the President ?"
" The gentleman in dark clothes
carrying the umbrella," replied Sam.
xiuii'j i cneu Amnion 10 tne
stranger ; " come here ; I want to see
you."/
The gentleman with the umbrella approached
smilingly and shook Dillon
by the hand, supposing that he was
some aoquaintanoe of other times.
" What do you think oi my team ?"
said Dillon.
"They do very well," said the man
in dalk clothes.
" Jttmp in and let me show you their
paou. i Bring your friends along,"
shouted Dillon, heartily.
" You must excuse tne. I don't want
to be Conspicuous," said the stranger.
" Conspicuous ?" remarked Dillon.
" Get in here and let me give you a
ride behind these horses."
" No?no," cried he of the umbrella ;
" I must be going."
" Why don't you get in ? I won't
eat you !" said the horse fancier.
At this the stranger and the friend
turne^ abruptly away, and were lost in
the crowd.
" Well." exclaimed Dillon to Buckmaster,
who stood by dumbfounded,
" Just to think that the president of a
one-horse Missouri fair refused to ride
behind my team. What a sop he must
be."
" Pifesident of the fair I" Buokmaster
shouted in amaze ; " don't yen know
who that was ?"
"No," replied Dillon ; " you told me
he wafc the President."
t'ktatfce is the President," rejoined
Buokmaster, " but not of the fair.
Why. surely you knew him ?"
"I'll bo hanged if I did," Dillon
said. " I was sure he was president of
this fair."
"Oh, this is too much !" oried Sam.
"Why, that was the President of the
United States 1"
Dillon grew very red in the face, and
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oiumj ^aouou IUIIU YT?S?UlRl
Grant ?"
" Certainly, it was Gen. Grant."
Dillon canght up his reins, dropped
his whip and exclaimed, "Oh?"
A Clean Apron.
A lady wanted a trusty little maid to
come and help her to take charge of a
baby. Nobody oould recommend one,
and she hardly knew where to look for
the right kind of a girl. One day she
was passing through a by-lane and saw
a little girl with a olean apron holding a
baby in the doorway of a small house.
"That is the maid for me," said the
lady. She stopped and asked for her
mother. "Mother has gone out to
work," answered the girl. "Father is
dead, and now mother has to do everything."
14 Should you not like to oome
and live with me?" asked the lady.
" I should like to help mother somehow,"
said the little maid. The lady,
more pleased than ever with the tiay
looks of the little girl, went to see her
mother after she came home, and the
end of it was that the lady took the
maid to live with her, and she found?
what, indeed, she Amonfji/i +? ?- '
f 9 wo^wwu ww uau
tliat the neat appearance of her person
showed the neat and orderly bent of
her mind. She had no oarelesH habits,
she wsb no friend to dirt; but everything
she had to do with was folded up
and put away, and kept carefully. The
lady finds great comfort in her, and
helps her mother, whose lot is not now
so hard as it was. She smiles when
she says, " Sally's recommendation
' was her clean apron and who will
say that it was not a good one ?
A Curlons Character.
' A singular trial has just been concluded
in New Haven, Conn. The suit
was brought by a farmer against his
hired man, who olaimed an offset to
more than the amount of the plaintiff's
claim. The plaintiff, some time ugo,
Li a vine lost ni? r?/v?nri .. ?j
0 ? ?. wwwa V4 hrvuaO) lilttUO
notes of his business trauHuotions on
separate sheets of paper, which he deposited
as fancy inolined him. Sometimes
they would be placed beneath the
i carpet, sometimes behind desks and
doors, and wherever their secrecy was
supposed to be unquestioned. Nearly
all these papers the plaintiff brought
into oourt to sustain hia claim. There
were suoh queer items as tiffs? The
hired man did something in deposition
to the wish of his employer, the plaintiff,
or pushed him hard against a door, injuring
his feelings thereby. For some
of these episodes th{ hired man was
charged forty oents.) For "being
" liquory ** mother charge was entered,
and for full ii gdown stairs, and thereby
rhockiog ?.uu * * ?>bor a 4
was fcol'ed. V ' red tu?n -Tiu i t|
psy U\e.40 o .v find' thought
oogi)t be jji*. ertsin amr-nnt ? . ,
labor be pvrior t-Uf ?'?
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Clolhing- for Cold Weather.
The usual dross is sufficient quantity,
and often good in quality, but it is very
badly distributed. There is too muoh
about the trunk, and too little about
the lower extremities. If one quarter
of the heavy woolen overcoat or shawl
were taken from the trunk, and wrapped
about the legs, it would prove a
great gain. When we men ride in the
cars, or in the sleighs, whero do we suffer
? About the legs and fee$J When
women suffer from the cold, where is
it ? About the legs and feet!
The logs and feet are down near the
floor, where the cold currents of air
move. The air is so cold near the floor
4-Vt 4- *11 ? J A AI " ^
vuab nil pi UUUUb lIlOlIIGrS Rfty, " JJ'OIl t
lie there. Peter ; get up, Jerusha Ann ;
play ; play on the sofa ; you will take
your death cold lying there on the
tioor." And they aro quite right.
During the damp and cold season,
the legs should be encased in very thick
knit woolen drawers, the feet in thiok
woolen stockings (which must be
changed every day,) and the shoe soles
must be as broad as the feet when fully
spread, so that the blood shall have
free passage. If the feet are squeezed
in the least, the circulation is checked,
and coldness is inevitable. This free
circulation cannot be secured by a loose
upper with a narrow solo. If when the
foot stands naked on a sheet of paper
it measures three and a half inches,
the sole must measure three and a half.
I will Buppose, says Dio Lewis, you
have done all this faithfally, and yet
your feet and legs are oold. Now add
more woolen, or if you are to travel
much in tho cars, or in a sleigh, procure
a pair of ohawoie-skin or washleather
drawers, which I have found to
be most satisfactory.
I have known a number of ladies afflicted
with hot and aohing head, and
other evidence of congestion about the
upper parts, who were completely relieved
by a pair of chamois-ekin drawers
and broad-soled shoes. Three ladies
in every four suffer from some congestion
in the upper part of the body. It
is felt in a fullness of the head, in sore
throat, in palpitation of the heart, torpid
liver, and in many other ways. It
is well known that a hot foot-bath will
relieve for the time being any and all
of these difficulties. This bath draws
the blood into the legs and feet, relieving
the congestion above. What
the hot foot-bath does for an hour, the
broad soled shoes with thiok woolen
stockings, and a pair of flannel drawers,
with a pair of wash-leather drawers
added, will do permanently ; of oourse
I am speaking of cold weather. Nn
| one hesitates to multiply the clothing
abont the trunk. Why hesitate to increase
the clothing about the legs? As
a preventive of many common affections
about the chest, throat and head,
including naBal catarrh, I know nothing
so effective as the dress of the lower
extremities whioh I am advooating.
The bath is a good thing, exercise is
a good thing, friction is a good thing,
but, after all, our main dependence in
this climate must ever be, during the
cold reason, warm clothing. Already
we overdo this about our trunks, but
not one person in ten wears clothing
enough about the legs and feet.
The Exact Truth,
Two young masons were building a
brick wall?the front wall of a high
house. One of them, in plaoing a
brick, discovered that it was a little
thicker on one side than the other.
'His companion advised him to
throw it out. " It will make your wall
untrue, Ben," said he.
"Pooh 1" answered Ben, "what difference
will such a trifle as that make ?
You're toe particular."
"My mother," replied his compan
ion, " taught me that 'truth is truth,'
ever so little an untruth is a lie, and a
lie is no trifle."
"O," said Ben, " that's all very well;
but I am not lying, and I have no intention
of doing so."
"Very true, but you make your wajl
tell a lie ; and I have somewhere read
that a lie in one's work, like a lie in his
character, will show itself sooner or
later, and bring harm, if not ruin."
" I'll risk it iu this case," answered
Ben ; and ke worked away, laying more
bricks and carrying the wall up higher,
till the elose of the day, when they
quit work and went home.
The next morning they went to resume
their work, when behold the lie
had wrought out the result of all lies !
The wall getting a little slant from the
untrue briok, had got more and more
untrue as it got higher, and at last, in
the night, had toppled over, obliging
the masons to do their work over
again.
Just bd with ever so little an untruth
juui uimniuier; it grows more ami
more, if you permit it to remain, till
it brings sorrow and ruin.
Tell, aot and live the exaot truth always.
English Army.?Last year 743
soldiers were sentenced for desertion
from the British army. Some of the
reasons given for desertion by the men
i are onrions. Forty-seven were annoyed
by comrades or harshly treated by
non-commissioned officers and others;
forty-four married without leave, or
had love affairs ; eighty-seven were led
astray by driak, or deserted from dislike
to the army ; eighty-one were persuaded
by comrades or bad oompany
'on* alleged refusal of absenc . |
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Items of luterest.
At Salisbury, N. H., Master Cushon,
aged fifteen, killed Master Couch, aged
fifteen, with a club.
A society for tlio introduction of tt. nEeranoe
literature in the pablio sohools
as been formed in Chicago.
The sale of onions has largely increased
in Maine, those who woald i,
like alcohol if they could get it being,
aooording to one theory, the purchasers.
In October the affectionate husband
weeps to see his wife skip about the
house flourishing a duster, and to hear
her shriek in aoceuv. wild, " Kill him I
There's another moth miller 1"
A good meal, it is said, is served in a
restaurant in the Rue de Trinite, Paris. for
nine cents. The menu comprises a
plate of meat, a plate of vegetables
dessert, and half a bottle of wine.
A couple of fellows who were pretty
thoroughly soaked with bad whisky got
into the gutter. After floundering for
some time one of them said, "Let's go
to another house ; this hotel leaks."
An inquiring man thrust his
into a horse's month to see Lov
teeth he had. The horse clos
mouth to see how many fing > ?... <
man had. The ouriosity of eaoh was
fnlly satisfied.
Thirty Chinese boyB have just arrived
in Springfield, Mass, to be thence sr
to various sohools in that State ;
Connecticut for education. The.
brought their wardrobes and trinkets
in great bamboo chests.
The lifting power of plants is well
illustrated by an oak tree in South Had- 1
ley, Mass. A rock had a seam in it,
and a fibrous root from the oak crept
into the seam, grew and lifted the rock,
weighing over a ton, to a height of one
foot.
A Western man set fire to the prairie
for fnn, but after he ran seven miles
and climbed a treo, with his p.\w*
abent all burned off, he conclude*
sport was a little too violent exc?.
to be indulged in oftener than one
a lifetime.
Good advice. When yon use a pes* a I
card, always write the address the l
thing. Tons of postal cards witho?
any address are destroyed in the Dead
Letter Oihce, because people write
their message first and then forget to
address the card.
A bashful young man mortally offended
the bride of his most intimato
friend by stammering, when taken
aback by a request for a toast at the
wedding supper: " Tom, my f-fr-friend,
may you have a wedding once a year
as long as you live."
A pistol to be used by Marietta Ravel
in a play at a Troy theatre was loaded
with a decidedly realistic bullet. Jk
boy had been rat hunting with tlia_fir<?
arm, and had left in a deadly charge.
The discovery was made just in tiir ,
probably, to save the life of an actor.
Nineteen years ago a Tenr eo
father refused to let hiB young daughter
go to a carfdy-pull, and she di. .ppeared.
The other day she re, . 1.
luted eleven children out of the \
and entered the house and took o *. things
as coolly as if she hadn't >n
gone over a day.
Excellent paper pillows may be rr.;ao
of old letters?the stiffer the paper
the better. Newspapers will not d >.
The paper should be cut into strips
and rolled round an ivory knitting
needle; it is then almost like aspr:' ig,
and makes a much better cushion
than the torn paper, being more elastic.
Tiie Slave Trade.
It is not alone piety which prompts
thousands of Mohammedan, merchants
annually to join the pilgrims marcbi'ip.
to Mecca. The charm of a profitable
bargain is not unknown to these apt ,<rently
righteous wanderers, and they
by no means overscrupulous as to the
manner in which they gain their money.
While the more devout shed their tears
and say their prayers at the shrine of
the Prophet, those who have an eye to
business capture slaves wherever they
can, in the regions of Africa throu^
which they pass, and sell tuem wit 1
the Dominions of the Sultan of Mo . .
oo, who takes one slave in twen^
uis iriouie. xms trade, wlneh is > r
ried on within a few leagues of th-.
French settlements in Algeria, is said
to be by far the most lucrative indulged
in by the caravans. Three thousand
slaves are annually brought down from
the Soudan, and not eveu the powdered
gold, the incense, the precious stones,
the indigo, or the rhinoceros horns,
which the oaravans sometimes get io
Central Afrioa, are sought for with hi f
the eagerness displayed in sis~ counting.
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A Rich Church.
The salaries of twenty-eight p
amount to ?152,900 a year, or
eight hundred thousand dollars i
this you must add ?38,000 tor
deans. The annual patrons i
to these twenty-eight dioo< (
at ?901,165. This patr , . . I
oanons re ident, ar
other olei'f1 anngg
of the coal os'ite c
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