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N 1 ESTABLISHED 184S > / In man; a village window barn Tne evening iampa, ^ The; Rhine amid the dews and dampa, Those lights of home 1 Afar the wanderer sees them glow, Now night Is nekr; The; gild his path with radiance clear, Sweet lights of home. r Te lode-stars that forever draw The wear; heart. In stranger lands or crowded mart; 01 lights of home. When m; brief dag of life (fo’tr, 1 Then ma; I see, * Shine from the heavenly house for me Dear lights of home. Animats ss Doctors. M. Q. Dalannay, in a recent com* monicaiion to the Biological society, observed that medicine, as practised by anima<s, is thoroughly empitfoal, bjrt that the same may be said of |hat pihc- tieed by inferior human races, or, in other words, by the majority of the human species. Animals insti ictively ohoot .3 such food as is best suited to them. M. Delaunay maintains that the human race also shows this instinct and blames medical men for not paying sufficient respect to the likes and dis likes of the patients, which he believes to be a guide that may be depended on. Women are more often hungry than men and they do not like the same kinds of food; nevertheless, in asylums for aged poor, men and women aio put on precisely the same regimen. Infants scarcely weaned are given a diet suit able to adults, meat and wine, which they dislike, and which disagree with them. M. Delaunay investigated this question in different asylums of Paris, and ascertained that children do not like meat before they are abont five years of age. People who like salt, vinegar, etc., onght to be allowed to satisfy their tastes. Lorain always taught that with regard to food peo. pie’s iikeings are the beet gnide. A large number of animals walh themselves and bathe, as elephants, stags, birds and ants. M. Delauney lays down as a general rule that there is not any species of animal which volun] tarily runs the risk of inhaling emana tions arising from their own excrement. If we turn our attention to the ques tion of reprod notion wej shall see that all mammals suckle their young, keep them clean, wean them at the proper time and edneate them; but these ma ternal instincts are frequently rudim entary in women of civilizer, nations. In fact, man may take a lesson in hy giene from the lower animals. Animals get rid of their parasites by using Just, mud, day, etc. Those suffering from fever qgstrict their efiet, keep quiet, seek darkness and airy places, drink water and sometimes even plunge into it. When a dbg has lost its appe tite it eats that species of grass known as dog’s grass, cMerrfent; which acts as an emetic and purgative. Cats also eat grass. Sheep and cows when ill seek ont certain herbs. When dogs are constipated they eat fatty substan ces. snob as oil and batter, with avidity until they are purged. The same thing is observed in horses. An animal suffering from chronic rheumatism al ways keep as far as possible in the Ban. The warrior ants have regularly organ ized ambulances. Latreille cut the antennas of an ant and other ants came and covered the wounded part with a transparent fluid secreted from their mouths. If a chimpanzee be wounded it stops the bleeding by placing its hand on the woond or dreflsing it with leaves and grass. When an animal has a wounded leg or arm hanging on, it completes the amputation by means of its teeth. A dog on being stung in the muzzle by a viper was observed to plnnge Its head repeatedly for several days into running water. This j ^ntma) t eventually Recovered. A sporting dog was ran over by a carnage. Daring three weeks in Vinter it remained lying in a brook, when Its -food wis taken to it; t)ie animal recovered. A terrier dog hurt its right eye; it remained lying under a counter, avoiding light and heat, although habitually it kept dose to the fire. It adopted as a general treatment, rest and abstinence from food. The local treatment confi£sted in licking the upper surface of the paw, w hich it applied to the wounded eye, again licking the paw when it became dry. Cats also, when hurt, treat them selves by this simple method of contin uous irrigation. M. Delonney.. cites the case of a oat which remained for some time lying on the bank of a river; also that of another oat which had the singular fortitude to remain f ,r forty- eight hoars under a jet of cold water. Animals suffering from traumatic fever treat themselves by the continued ap plication of cold water, which M. De launay considers to be more certain than tiny of the other methods. In view of these in ter sating feats,-eve «re, hs thinks, forced to admit that hygiene and therapeutics, as practiced by ani mals, may, in the interests of paychol- o;y, be studied with advantage. He ooulrt go even farther and aay that veterinary medicine, and, psrhape, human medicine, could gather from them some useful indication, precisely because they are prompted by Instincts which are efficacious, in the preserva Uon or the restoration of the health. The island of Cuba has Havana as its principal town. It is%ict qht almost as .regularly As Philadelphia-,—hence it is quite easy to find your way about; rather is it easy to find the direction in which yon wish to go, for if you start to go on foot yon find your progress .by no meant rapid, for the apology for aside- walk is only about 2} feet wide, so that one ii constantly obliged to take to the 'stree^,* ^ityh is obrrospondingly narrow. There is one shining exception to the ordinary thoroughfares. It iq the Paaeo del Tsabel, a fine street about 200 feet wide, with a drive on etAi side of a park filled witn trees, statuary and shrubbery laid out in broad walks. It rans along the site of the ancient fortifications of the city, and the part of the town lying one fide is frill called the part “in- duros” afu^the other side “estramu- i,” although the walls have long since disappeared. There is also the Calle de la Heine, running at right angles to the leasee del Tsabel ont through the new part of the city or the “estramuros.” The eontinnation if the Calle de la Reina, the Paseo de lacon, is now being laid out. At present it shows all ths ugliness of construction, bat if the plans are carried ont it will some day make a beautiful drive. The Calle de la Reina passes the Campo de Marie, a large square surrounded by a high wooden- picket fence, each post of which is capped bv a cannon-ball. Here are held the military parades, and it seems as if all the space would be needed, for the number of soldiers seen in the street is bewildering. They are dressed in linen uniforms and tne corps is designated by the color of the braid on the caff They present anything bat an imposing ap pearance, for they are small of stature and their uniforms are usually quite wrinkled. 4 T will be 100 years old on the 22d of next month, if I live Mrs. Daphne Nevins, of Chioego, ‘reporter. A -u'r Mrs. Nevina is a colored lady living on the second floor of 800 Clark street. She is abont five feet six or eight incnee tall, almost perfectly erect, andot spare build. In complexion and physiogno my she is purely African. Her •’♦tire is neat, her voice low but firm, her lan guage good, and her manner quiet, fbn- sible, and refined... “Yes, sir,” she said. '*1 was bora said' It will be surprising to Americans to hear A St. Petersburg letter of late date says: The shops in Havana are quite difier- ent in oonstraction from those In the United States. There seems to be no each thing as a show-window to display the goods; in fact, there are no windows. The shops are lighted and aired by the means of wide doors, which occur at frequent intervals in the front of the block. This arrangement also facili tates the entrance of dost, and as the streets, although paved with square blocks of stone, are quite dusty, the goods inside get a liberal allowance. The frequency of the doors and the signs painted on the walls constitute the only point of difference between the business blocks and the dwelling-houses. Within the city all seem to build on the same plan; the wall rises directly from the sidewalk, thus making more appar ent the narrowness of the sujfwalk, as yon are constantly grazing the wall of the building as you pass along. Thtf doors and windows occur with geomet rical regularity, and the only chance for the display of individual taste is in the painting, for the ’Walls ;are all, of stone cove: pain and blue being the favorites; this with the number of church towers and domes gives quite an oriental appearance to the city as seen from the harbor. The number of dhurch buildings is astonish ing. As you pass along the rtreets their imposing fronts of weather-worn stone irresistibly claim your attention. They are usually ornamented either with seulptitres 4 on the corners and over the doors, or the whole front is covered with i ’ representations of fjome incident,in. religions history. Tie i firno • UAl'AAJQ, PAAO W MAAD tU. U O.AJD. V'A 01ASJUU vered with moftar yr plaster «nd then tinted. Light colors prevail, yellow a pity there fi’no portable and adequate guide to,the city, which should give such information About the principal churches as would enable the traveler whose time unlimited to use Ids horns to the bqqt advantage. But time is pot valued highly in Spahish America. The cathedral where the bones of Columbus are said to rest, faces a small square from which you get the full effect of the frqpk. Tftfr neoetpftfrpf ooyyjmrmg the possible effe^hgf Jan (jarthq^aljg seems to have hampered the architect, for there is no cornice to speak of and she towers are stopped far short of where they should have been to have carried out the design symmetrically. The in terior is finished wholly in veined marble of various colors. The—ittty vaulted- ceiling supported by hugs garble pil lars, the tessellated floor and the posi tion ,pf the altar showed .the skill and taste v £f the architect, while the richer adornments of the aitar and the shrines on the sides bespeak abundant present resources. As we entered the mass was being chanted by a fall chorus of male voices stationed behind the aitar, and the effect of the strong eonoroun voices as they sounded through the church was grand and solemn : an element of beauty which enhanced the effect was the ac companiment on an exquisitely toned organ placed high np over the entrance to the havit. Many </f the churches and iraildinga designed . for ecclesiastical purposes are UOw serving oth6r ends. At tire time of the expohsion of the monks nearly all ths monasteries were confiscated and put to other uses. The university is housed in a former monas tery and 2000 students pass in ondet the Latin motto extolling,the worth of a day oi a learned man’s life. “How can ydit bo so certain about your age?" “Well, you see, the Baneoms always put down the birth of their sla^e ohiT- dnen in their family Bible, just as they did the birth of their own children and wheo I began to gt>i , pretty < they always looked at that Bible to how old I wasy Then ..I remember day of Uie month, because my granddb! Sam, there, was bora on March 21, and I was, born on Mareh 22. So there ain’t no doubt about it.” ' •Yon were bom a slave, of course ?" “Yes, sir. I belong to iMr. Harry Ransom Until he died, and then to Mr. Ambrose Ransom, bis son, until he dis^T and then to bis children,” “Where have you lived ?” “Well, sir, I was 26 years old wtyan Ambrose Ransom died, and his children took me away bom Virginia to Franklin county, Missouri. They sold'me to Mr. Huff, who took me to Saline coun^, and I was his slave there when Lincoln set ns all free. After the war, when I was 80 years old, T moved to Leaven worth, Kas., and lived there eighteen years. For the last two -years I havi lived in Chicago,” “What soi t of constitution did you have when yon were young V” T7 “A remarkable good one. With the exception of chills and fevers, I have never had any sickness in my life; I used to be mighty strong, too. I re member that it wasn’t any trouble for me, in my young days, to lift three bushels of corn off the ground and put them on a horse’s back, I take alter my mother, yon see. She was 112 years old the last I heard of her, and how mnoh longer she lived I never knew. I was living out West then, and didn’t hear from her often. But my five children didn’t live to any great age. They are all dead now, and I have only five grandchildren living that I know of.” “What sort of health do yon enjoy now ?” , “Very good health, indeed. I never have any sort uf slokuess, except now and then a doll headache. My hearing is almost as good as ever, and my sight is good enough for me to sew abont as well as ever. My appetite is good, and I sleep first-rate, unless I drink coffee. I can’t say I sleep as long ss I used to, because I lie awake a good while after I go to bed. But when I do sleep I sleep as welLae ever.” •‘How good is your memory , “Well, sir, I remember things that happened fWken I was a child, just as if I saw them now ; bnt lam a little for getful about what happened yesterday or a week ago/’ ’' W* « “Do‘you rmnember anything about the reyolntionary.war, or the great men of that time ?” “Almost nothing. You see, I was only a little girl, living away off in the wilds of Cumberland county, and didn’t have any chance to see anything. I do remember though, that once, when I was a child, I saw some of the soldiers going to the war.” •“How do you feel about dying?’ “Oh, I am ready to go at any time. I am expecting it every day. But death has no terrors for me. I was converted down in Missouri abont fifty years ago, and^br three days I was so happy that I^lmopt died of joy.” , r ‘ ’Are you haaking any preparation to celebrate your 100th birthday ?” “Oh I my 1 no. Yon see I am jnst a poor old wonjan, and I don’t; expect anybody to take any more notice of me in this world.” •Ala Says Ton Do.” (hvtnff op Oas UkUI. Vital Statlsttes. tliai by far the greater portion of news re ferring to the Nihiksts reaches us from abroad. In fact, we who reside here have few chances of obtaining any local Inform- ation about them. I attribute this to two reasons—the forced silence of the press and the small importance which Russians at tach tr the movement. The .Nihilist re ports which are circulated abroad are very much exaggerated, many of them having no foundation whatever. A ■ common street row is turned into a revolution, and a fire at a small grocery or hotel is re- pprted as a great Nihilist incendiary move ment it would bo idle to deny that Nihilism and Nlhllkld^^^^^ extet, but rtf k very a claqs of people of every, country there is a dissatisfied por tion oi the populatjoe* who give vent to their refilings add ideas by breaking out into petty rebellions and by fighting news paper ‘wara.v .The dissatisfied in Russia epn do neither. Their piovements are too well guarded wid known to permit of a revolution and the press is not open to ' them. They, therefor^ plot and continue to plot .vjLet as ae*; who she the individuals forming tt e Nihilist army. Very few of them are Russians, none of them have any financial or social standing, and all of them are expecting the time when, having caused anarchy, they will be able to rob, pillage, burn and murder There is no doubt that Nihilisip ones . Us origin to the disgraceful -behavior.'of those of the wealthy nobles who reside abroad. While they were living in luxury their agents, in order to obtain morp, meney for theiri masters, were driving the working classes to desperation by cruelty in various forms. They complained and were turned into the streets. They burned the nobles’ prop erty in revenge. They wqjre, as a natural consequence^ sent to Siberia. When a laborer could not Qr did not want to find work, h? joined the}r'ranks; so did con victs and ail classes of dissipated men and women. -> When the first Nihilist disturbances oc curred the Government, instead of inquir ing into their grievances, treated them harshly and cruelly. This was just what the revolutionary leaders wanted. They had been made martyrs and bad attracted the sympathy cf other classes, which had hitherto kept aloof from the movement. I allude to the student classes of both sexes. Thinking that the people were ill- treated and thinking that they were suffer ing young men and women came to their aid, and at the present moment the dan gerous element of the anarchists is com posed exclusively of students. The peasantry know nothing whatever of the movement; three -quarters of them never heard the wordNmilism, and would never believe tLet pe^lo tXlbl who are audacious enougn to raise their voices, much more their hands, against the holy person of the Czar. Years and genera tions must pass before the bulk of Russians will believe that any Czar could do wrong. Call Nihilism reform, strip U of assas- sination’and crime, and advance- a liberal programme adapted to the country, and in your ranks within a year would be found all classes of Russians, from the Czar him self and' bis Ministers downwards. Assassination, pillage, robbery and anarchy ate strange to the country, and those who engage in them, or who incite others to them, must and will be severely dealt with. Uiass Eyes. 7 1 i. V m *‘' x, —Flofir g6ee from Minnesota to Europe insured all the way through un der one policy. | French /vital statistic^, as shown by a late census, indicate a falling birth rate in France. The population is not crepaing, but the rate of increase is on such a descending scale that, if it shall continue, before fifty years ^re oyer t’-n country will have sank, if not to the level of a second rate Power, at lead to the botyomtof" ftio list of the great Powers. The average annual in crease in France is 26 to every IQ,000 inhabitants, while it is lOl 'in Groat Britain, 116,; in Germany, and atiU greater in Russia and in the United States. It is further demonstrated thAt the, small increase is notjue to. a higl* g¥ death rate or fewer marriages than in other European' Countries. It most, therefore, he dne alone to the compar atively small number of births in Fnfdbl^ This decay has been going on for over fifty years, and unless France, gets transfusion of bloea somehow and from soopawhare it k only a question of time when the deaths will outnumber the births. If we may suppose that the population of the United States and of the various countries of Europe are dfe- olined by no wars or exceptional mal adies, and, that they will preserve their present frontiers and go on increasing at their present rate, their numbers will, by the year 1932, be as follows; United States, 190,000,000; Russia, 168,000,000; Gfirmany, 88,000,000; Great Rritian, 68,000.000: Austria-Hun gary, 44.060,000, ajjd Italy, 46,000.000. Sejjti'a* Fsanoerwhish e century ago was really La Onfm,de, r Nation, having thek tile l&gest population in Europe, will be but sixjth. in ranlf in point of numbers. “Do we have many applications for glass eyes? Well, I nhonld say so,” re plied a well-known optician to a repor ter’s inquiry. ‘‘If there were more profit in it we might subsist on the sale of them alqna. This coast beats everything in that line, for there are more accidents here than anywhere else, and a great many of snob character as to injure or destroy the eyes. Why, Lord bless your innocent heart, they average abont one to every 600 or 600! The reason you don’t notice the glass eyes is be cause sometimes it is impossible to dis tinguish them from the real ones, espe cially when they are in the socket. At the utmost, it makes you think the person S cross-eyed. Yon see, it there are plenty of mnscles left a glass eye will torn as naturally and quickly and nearly as far as a real eye, and it is only where the muscles have all been ont away that the eye lookq dead and remains always Atiitionary, producing »n effect which trill 4 make the average man quake in his boots. Then there are a great many people who wear them for vanity’s sake becanae one of the eyes has sn-unken away and become smaller than the other. Then they simply pat on one of these shells and it would puzzle an expert to tell which is the glass and which the real eye, as they Can be matched to any 'shade nowadays and as in those oases the glass eye moves equally as well as the real eye. “Yon see, we have to make them all sorts of shapes, with a piece notched out here and a piece notched out there to quit the exigencies of the case. Then we have to have large eyes and armtil eyes, wide eyes and narrow eyes, and gqtuid eyes and opaque eyes. . We some times comes aorqps a man who wants an eye as large a» {^ small-sized saucer, and ttmn agfurione fio larger, if as large, as a Lima bean. No, it is not painful to 'wear one if it is fitted to a nicety, but great attention has to be paid to fittiug tkim ok. - They-knokld be taken out every night on retiring and the cavity washed both at night and in the morn ing, but very few people do so. though it is a matter of cleanliness. Well, we tdl have our own tastes, and I suppose theirs ran in that direction. Bat can’t I sell yon an eye to-day? Well, good day. Call again when yea want a glass eye.” “Ma's up stairs changing her dress” said the freckled faced little girl, tying her doll’s bonnet-strings and casting her eye about for a tidy large enough to serve as a shawl for that double-joint d young per son. “O, your mother needn’t dress up for me,” replied the female agent of the mis sionary society, Lking a self-satisfied view of herSelf in the mirror. “Run up and tender to come down just as she is in her every day clothes and not stand ou cere mony.” “O, but she hasn’t got on her every day clptbes. Ma, was all dressed up m her new brown silk, *001180 she expected Miss Diamond to day. Mips Dimmond always *“ whow, off her nice mean to get left, coming she said. The Dickens!’ and I guess she was mad about something. Ms said if you saw her new dress she’d have to hear all about the poor heathen, who don’t have silk, and you’d ask her for more money to buy hymn books to send ’em. Say, do the nigger ladies use hymn book leaves to do their hair up on and make it frizzy? Ma says she guesses that’s all the good the books do’ em, if they ever get any books. I wish my doll was a heathen. ” “Why you wicked little girl, what do you want of a >eatheu doll? ’ Inquired the missionary lady, taking a mental inven tory of the new things in the parlor to get material for a homily ou wordly extrava gance. “80 folks would send her lots of nice things to wear and feel sorry to have her going abont naked. Then she’d have hair to frizz and I want a doll with truly hair and eyes that roll up like Deacon Shder- back’s when he says amen on Sunday. 1 ain’t a wicked girl, oither, ’cause Uncle Dick—you know uncle Dick, he’s been out West and swears awful and smokes in the honse—he says Pm a holy terror and he hopes I’ll be an angel pretty soon. Ma’ll be down in a minute, so you needn’t take your cloak off. Bhe said she’d box my ears if 1 asked you to. Ma’s putting on that old dress she had last year, ’cause she said she didn't want you to think she was able to give much this tune and she needed a new muff worse than the queen of the cannon ball islands needed religion. Uncle Dick says you'ought to go to the islands, ’cause you’d be safe there and the natives be sorry they was such sinners anybody would send you to 'em. He says he never seen a heathen hungry enough to eat you, ’leas ’twas a blind one, and you’d set a blind pagan’s teeth on edge so he’d never hanker after any more missionary. Uncle Dick's awful funny and makes pa and ma die laughing sometimes.” “Your Uncle Richard is a bad, depraved wretch, and ought to have remained out West, where his style is appreciated. He sets a horrid {example for little girls like you.” “Oh, I think bo’s nice. He showed me how to slide down the bannisters, and he’s teaching me to whistle when ma ain’t round. Tnat’s a pretty cloak you’ve got, ain’t it? Do you buy all your good clothes with missionary money? Ma says you do.” Just then the freckle-faced little girl’s ma came into the parlor and kissed the missionary lady on the cheek and said she was delighted to see her and they procee ded to have a ’ real sociable chat The little girl’s ma can’t understand why a per son who professes to be so charitable as the missionary agent does should go right over to Miss Dlmmond’s and say such ill- natured things as she did, and the thinks tl eansslonary is a double-faced gossip. Infection* Consumptions. A fashionably attired young lady asked her doctor, the other day, if he did dot think that the great weight of the large hats and Imnnets nojr in style had a tendency to cause disease of the brain. “Not sit all. my dear Miss; la dies who have brains don’t wear those large h&ta.” i Tne persistence of the magnetic proper ty observed in eeiiaiu frees is attributed by M. Laroque to the trantportation by light ^ g of small particles of iron held in sus- peosma with other matter, whldh makes up what u known aa the dust of the ajr. Dr. McAldowie has considered the much-debated question whether pulmonary consumption is an mtectious disease in the light of his own infirmary and private practice. He is of the opinion that it is infectious, although it is not so frequently communicated by infection as it would 11 were the lungs Jess well protected, they are against the access of germs. He mentions four cases where the wife, previously healthy and with no family history of tubercular disease, became affected while attending to her phthisical husband, and two cases in which persons suffering from the pneumonic form of the disease appeared to communicate the tubercular form to healthy persons. Phthisis is not often commumcated in this manner by ordinary intercourse, because the germs arc sifted out in the air- passages by the vibiating action of the cilia situated there, and are remoyed by expectoration. The germs floating in the air are, moreover, commonly dry, and of feeble infective power. The lungs are liable to infection onlv when the inhaled germs escape the filtering action of the bronchi and reach the air-cells, where they come ui contact with a surface highly favorable tor their absorption. This happens only under exceptional conditions. The parts of’the alveoli most exposed to the attacks of inhaled germs are those near the entrance, at the points where the small bronchial tubes lose their cylindrical character and become covered on all sides with the cells; and pathol- ogio-tl observation has proved that these are frequent starting-points in phthisis. Tb« Homely Woman. “What ladies are the easiest to wait upon?” ‘The hfonely ones,” replied the clerk, emphatically. Seeing a look of incredn- lity upon the reporter’s fane he continued: “It's so; I am not bracing yen a bit. The prettier they are the harder they are to please. A handsome girl has been so flattered and cajoled and petted, from in- fancy up, that she has lost her head. She enters with a flutter, and must be shown half a hundred different cosmetics. Then she settles down to a twenty minutes’ vi bration between them all. She is change* able, fluctuating and peevish, and if yon venture to make a suggestion she skips from the store ss though fired from the 1 mouth of a cannon. Now, on the other hand, a homely girl has a mind of her own. She is not constantly cloyed with admir ation and netting from her admirers, and has drunk but precious little from the golden bowl of adulation. But she knows what she wants, asks for it decisively, and leaves you with a smile that would be charming if her month were only a yard and a half smaller and her teeth a little lees like elephant's tusks God grant us a prosparity of homely girls. Life would stUl be endurable without pretty faces, but Heaven help us if we lose *our homely As the twilight was deepening into the darker shades of night, a reporter stood at the corner of Madison avenue and Thirty- sixth street. New York, a few evenings ago to witness the sudden transformation from Cimmerian darkness to toonday bril liancy in the palatial residence of J. Hier- pont Morgan, the well-known member of the banking firm of Drexel, Morgan & Co. Weary of waiting for the uptown electric lighting district, to be laid out and circled with wires to be connected with uptown residences, Mr. Morgan gave the first order for an Edison isolated plant among the mansions of the millionaires who in habit Fifth, Madison and Lexington aven- uet The plant is tor 869 A and' 116 B lamps, 01 a total number of 885 btrnam. _C In a IWinxling, as if by inagio, from every — window in the dwelling,' on tfie evening in question, there brotfe foiih a.flo<lb of mellow light that gave the appearance of a general illumination. The Star man was received kmdly by Mr. Morgan as he en tered the mansion, and the mysterious illumination was explained to be the per fection of electric lighting. “i have abandoned the use of gas,” said Mr. Morgan, “with the exception of a few jets at various points for use when the electric engines are not working. The different lamp circuits throughout the house are protected by the usual Edison safety guards against fire, while switches, each designed to cdntrol a large number of -lamps, are conveniently ananged in the dif ferent rooms, so that the lights can be turned on and off in quantity, in addition to each lamp being lighted or extinguished separately.” “Your house must have been thoroughly wired,’’ said the reporter. “Yes,” was the answer, “in every por tion of the house and stables.” “How are the lights distributed?” ‘They are distributed in the following order: Main halls and stairway, 89; attic rooms and balls, 14; dome over stairway, 20; servants’ hall and butler’s pantry, closets, etc., 16; third floor, 20; second floor, 40; drawing-room, 42; reception- room, 11; library, 10; sitting-room, 22; dining-room, 22; stained-giass skylights in dining room ceiling, 22‘; conservatory, 42; basement, 28. cellar, 28; stable and car nage-house, 6, and engine room, 4, miking a total ol 386 lamps.” After contrasting the Morgan mansion with its more dimly lighted surroundings, and admiring the simplicity of mechanism which controlled the electric force, the reporter called npon President Eaton, at his cosy offices, No. 66 Fifth avenue, and asked nim how many of the up-town palaces were prepared for the introduction of 1 be electric lighting system. “We are wiring the uptown mansions at very rapid rate,” was his response. der if Old Wildoy will come back. This time, when aunt Hannah came in and told Grandfather that Old Wildey had come back, he put aside his newspaper and went to the feed-room for some corn and called out, “Gome along home, mydnokie’, when Wildey jnst flew out of, the water and eame np to him and ate the corn ont of his hand. Although she had been away for six months, she had not forgotten the voice that railed her, or the hand that had fed her during the winter. “among others the hemes of William H. Vanderl lit and his son, Cornelius Vauder- bilt, are thoroughly wired, as are the residences of John Sloan, R. L. Btuart, W. I. Hutchinson, Ogden Goelet, H. L. Belknap, Robert Goelet, H. Lamp and the Hawthorne, one of the largest and most fashionable apartment houses in the city. The Dakota apartment house. Seventy-second street and Eighth avenue, is being wired for 6000 lamps, and orders for public and private houses in the upper district are coming in daily.” •‘Old Wlldev.” Footprints on the Fallen Snow. few of the citizens of Salt Lake recently were electrified by the very of a number of gigantic and. hit&erto unknowfl footprints on the sur face of the recently 'alien snow. From 'he' fact that the prints commence ab ruptly in the midst of the street of one of our blocks, and, after varions erratic wanderings, vanish in another as abrupt ly as they 'jegiu, we are iorotJ to the conclusion that the unknown authors or the mysterious traces were supplied with means of serial transportation. The footprints are of two distinct sizes.* measuring respectively three and fonr feet in lengtn, and twelve and fourteen inches in width. The general outline of these esoteric records of our noctuni al visitors presents a graceful curve, approximating to the eliptic at the toe or forward portion of the impress, con tracting gradually towards the heel, and ending in a single long and slander line. This latter mark is evidently the scratch of an immense spur or spine with which the birds are probably provided a defensive weapons. It is noticeable that the smallest prints, probably those of the hen, show the longer impress of spur, indicating that she is the warrior of the tamiiy. The snrface of the prints shows also the impress,of a web-like covering, crossed with interlacing and knotted tendons and at once classes the authors among the aquatic fowls of the genns Anser. The absence of toe or claw marks is most noticeable and some-~ what mystifying. Balate Dam. Yon mast know that Old Wildey was a wild duck that, fonr years ago, came one fine day in December to the mill pond, among the other docks, and swam with them until they got almost to the place where Grandfather fed them; then it was afraid to come any nearer and would fly away again, and thus it hap pened that every night when he called the tame ducks to the shore to feed them, Old Wildey came a little nearer and a littl# nearer, till one night she came to the grassy bank and looked at the other docks eating np the grains of Indian corn that Grandfather fed to them, “But, as she was a wild dock, and did not know that Indian corn was fit to eat, she jnst stood looking at them eating it. Well, one night she walked np among the other ducks, and turned her head to one side, and looked at the grains of corn with one eye; then she turned her head to the other side and looked at the grains of corn with the other eye; then she took a single grain np in her bill, and held it a mo ment and then swallowed it: then she carefully picked np two or three more giaina, and ate them and flew away. This delighted ns grandchildren very mnoh. The next night she seemed to lave found that corn was as good for wild docks as it was for tame ones; so she walked np among the other ducks, aid when Gran fother thisw them down the corn she ate it up as fast as ever she could. In the course of a few weeks, when Grandfather called the ducks she would fly out of the water, and would be the first one that would come to be fed, and before spriog came she would eat out of his hand. So it went on till the early part of May, when the leaves were out and the mead ows were dotted over with golden dan delion, and blue in spots with tufts of violet. Then we all noticed that Old Wildey wonld occasionally leave the other flock and fly away ont of sight, and after awhile return again, until one day, abont the middle of May, she dis- appered and we saw her no more. However, abont the first of November, a flock of seven wild ducks were seen on the lake, and when the tame ducks came home to be fed, one of the wild ducks left the flock and came np and ate corn with them. Itwaa Old Wildey! And so it has beer, every year since, About the .middle of May, when the ico begins to break up in the Northern lakes, Old Wildey leaves her winter home to go north; and every autumn, about the first of November, she returns to her old home in Pennsylvania. Each year, Grandfather and Grandmother and the aunts and grandchildren, won- From an article written by Dr. W. Riegler, published in the Woch- enschrift dee Niederoest, Oewerbe- Vereins, we gather the following infor mation regarding this new article of commerce, which promises to become of considerable importance in view of the ever-mcreising demand for India rubber, and the rapidity with which the trees that produce both the latter and gutta percha are necessarily being de stroyed. Balata is a product of the Mimusops balata (Nat. ord. Sapoteoeae,) a tree of large dimensions growing on the banks of the Orinoco and Amoxnn. in South America. The milky juice is procured, like raontchono, by incision of the trank. It dries very quickly ou exposure to the’ air if the atmosphere is dry, and can be readily moulded into shape by first being softened in water. This gum, in its general properties, appears, to be of a character interme diate between India rubber and gntta percha, possessing the elasticity of the one and the ductility of the other, with out the intractability of India rubber or the brittleness of gntta pereha. It is tasteless; heated, it diffuses an agreeable odor, and can be cat the same as gntta percha. Heated to a temperature of 120 degrees Fah., it becomes soft and capable of bei ig welded. Its melting point is 270 degrees Fah.. a temperature much higher than that necessary to melt gntta peroha. It is entirely solu ble, cold, in benzole and bisulphide of carbon. Under the action of heat it is likewise soluble in turpentine; in anhy drous alcohol and ether, however, it is partially so. -It is acted upon by neith er the caustic alkalies nor conoentrated hydrochloric acid; but, like gntta per- cha, it is attacked by conoentrated sulphuric and nitric acids. Subjected to friotion it becomes very electrical. It is probable that it will be extensively employed as an insulating medium for telegraphic purposes, for which its superiority over gntta percha has already been proved by trial. In balata, says Dr. Riegler, we have an article that gives promise of being of the highest ntility; not so mnoh on acoonut of its possessing new properties, as because it is a new member of a group of the use ful elastic gums; and which, occupying, as before remarked, an intermediate place between caoutchouc and gntta percha, may become under certain cir cumstances more valuable than either of these substances. Dldo’t He Lie. “Father,” l>egan a Cass avenue lad the other night, “is Mr. T. a good man ?” “Yes, my son. I regard him as one of the best men in Michigan.’’ “Do you believe he would he ?” “What, young man, are you crazy ? Why, sir, Mr. T. would not telfvhe for all the gold on earth. What makes you ask that question ? ’’ \ ‘ W hy, when a mah says he saw a Spring robin on the 16th day of February wh'at do you call it?’’ “Did he say he saw one ?” “He did,” “Are you sure.” “Oh 1 I heard him tell three different men so. Didn’t he lie, father?” “N-'n-o, 1 think not,” mused the father; “but let It be a great moral lesson to you all tbe same. Itim’t onoe in a thousand years that a robin comes up here from Tennessee at that date and exhibits himself to a single citizen and ret arm on the after noon express P