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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.
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—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