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Two Voices. A voice came down from the far white hills, And crept like a thought along ; The world woke up from its dream of suow To the sound of the bluebird's song. A stray lost bird in the wind-blown sky, A stray lost flower by the snow ; And a wandering brook ?r two set free To seek where tho violets grow. All fresh with tte breath of the mounta breeze, IJlie rong of the mountain rills, The voice sped on through the city ways And over the sunlit hills. And fctill as it went the pulse of life With a dream of change beat high ; wnne over an ine cnangeiess stars Burned on in the watchful sky. " "The world is wide, and the labor email, In tho reach of all the crown And over tho hopes and the bright-wingc dreams The &ua of spring went down. 9? "i -m ? * dlow and solemn from the forest Wher.ce all mysteries have biith, Speaking in the llow of rivers, Came the second voice to earth. fl' * All the world grew still before it, Idlo fell the toiling hand ; As the red leaves of the maple Drifted brightly through tho land. And the stream of life set deeper Through the channel of the year ; Down among its wrects were sleeping Many a hope and many a fear. With the Bun the birds went southward, Bright wings glaccing in its beams ; Close bebide, on viewless pinions, Fled an airy host of dreams. " Wido the world, its labor endless, Further off the distant crown." Over nil the broken visions Slow the autumu sun voDt do*n. ?Alice if. Perry. THE PASSING CLOUD. M Do yon want me to get anything f( you in town?" Andrew Tliurston spoke ve.ycalnil1 and a chance visitor might have thougi that he spoke kindly. He certain] spoke deferentially; but his lips wei compressed, and there were lines upo his brow which were not usual. Ord narily he would have said, as he drew c his gloves : 44 Now, my love, what can get for you iu town ?" and he won! tmrtlran rrnr K? on/1 ft*or?lr1tr Wlf nu)u ct|yuacu uuv* ?4ww^j) >.*? sprightliness and sparkle. For they had been married not a yet yet, and only the day before Andrew ha declared that tbey would never outln their honeymoon. "Dollie," he ha said, with a kiss, "when we cease t love we shall have ceased to live; fc life could be nothiug without love." But now a cloud had come?ver small at first?not bijger than a man hand?but yet a clond. Dollie had nevt complained of fatigue and weariness and yet she was far from robust. O tbfe phrtkmla* moruiDg she had rise with an achiDg head ; but she did n( tell of it. She did not smile as was h< wont, and her husband asked her whi mflffaw VTio nnacfinn coomc wao LUU UJUl'ldi UU7 VJWVIJVJIVU uovmv to imply that her manner had frette him?there was almost an accusation i it?and sho replied, rather shortly "Nothing." " Bat there must be something. Win is it?" Thin, to the wife, rendered over-su oeptible by her headache, seemed a di pntipg of her word, and sho answered " I tell you?untiring." "But, Dollie, you wouldn't act so there was nothing the matter." "Act how?" demanded the wifi flushing under this direct chargi " What "have I done ?" What could the husband reply 1 this? What single act of hers?whi word, even?could ho point out ? Som< thing hi her manner had jarred upo the sensitive cords ox his heart, and cloud had come between! thsm; but ho could ho tell it? How could he give ai ?*> i.lon rrKi/>K nn VCUUi (Ul iucu Vi iuuv tiuiwu JUUU, uv/ivtd nor substance, and which he had on! perceived because it dropped a discoi into the exquisite harmony of his jea ous love? He could make no plausib! answer, and this fretted him still mor< " Oh, nothing, nothing," he saic drawing back. "If von don't wish { confide in me, all right." The wife's eyes flashed now, and sb spoke quickly?spoke so quickly and s feelingly that the husband was ia tur offendc-d; and, with a hasty word npo his lips, he went away t?.? his chamb< and made ready for the city, which w? distant but a few miles from his snbu ban residence. When Andrew Thrust on returned t the sitting-room, with his bat in h hand, he asked the question we have a ready heard : " Do you want me to g< anything for you in town?" How cold his voice sounded to tb wife who sat, with bowed and aohin head, by the curtained window. It di not sound like tiie voice of iier iiu band, and fihe did not look up. SI would wait until be came to kiss ber, f he always did before ho went away, au then she might be able to speak?1 speak upon bis bosom, where she cou. bide her face?but she dared not tru her voice now. She knew she wou cry if sho spoke, and sho would n have her husbaud see her do that if 1 were angry with her. But he did n come to her. He turned away withe another word and was gone. Andrew, Thurston knew that his wi must have heard his question, and she did not immediately answer, ho i lowed his auger to express itself in slam <>f the door as ho went out. I pulled on bis gloves very vigorously at stepped off with measured and mnj^t strid- s. But not long so. The frei morning air fanned his brow with a coc ing influence, aud ho begun to thin' Ho missed eometbitg. For the fir time'since he had been married he wi tmirtrr arraxr frnm li r> rn t\ trnflmnf. h ^ " iv - ~ ~ "? . wife's Mss. Surely a cloud had arise upon the domestic horizon, and som thing very much "like a storm had con upon their peace. He was unhappy; ar the more he meditated the more ui happy he became. "Dollie was to - blame," ho said 1 himfelf. But this did not heal h wound. T moTr li.itto lu>An lmcfr 99 Iia fl knowledged, alter further reflcctioi "But still," he assured himself, "el irritated me." Thus he reached a point very fi from soothing or satisfactory in its i: fluenee. He was forced to ackuowledt that bo had allowed himself, in a m ment of irritation, to speak hastily at unkindly. When he entered the tra: he t?x>k his seat alone, in a far corne and pulled his hat down orer his eye He did not wish to converse. When 1 reached his office he was moody ar taciturn ? very unlike the Andre Thurston whoso wont it was to come : with Hmiles and cheerful salutation. A little thing it was, to be sure, but gave him great pain. A mote is a tir particle, but it becomes a thing of pai fuf nvroent when it is lodged in the ey and tin* heart that is made tender with devoted, living love is as sensible motes as is the eye. Hitherto, the on rent of Andrew's love had flowed on un broken and untroubled, and this incom ing of obstruction had produced a tur bulence as destructive of peace and hap piness, for the time, as though the very fountain of love itself had been broken up. As he sat alone in his office he picked up a paper, and sought to overcome his unhappy thoughts by reading. He could not fix his mind upon the thread of a loug article, so he read the short paragraphs, and at length his eye caught the following: "Where there has been misunder standing between two near and dear friends, resulting in mutual unhappi ness and regret, the one who loves most, and whose sense of right and duty is strongest, will make the first advance towards reconciliation." Andrew Thurston dropped the papdr and rose to nis ieei. jli- w?a m uiuu^u ? voice from heaven had spoken to him. "I do not love the most," he solilo quized; " but I am the strongest and should show my love by my works." He looked at his watch. It was al most noon. It was not his custom to return homo till evening; but he could not remain as bear the burden through the other hours of the day. And he marveled, and he put on his hat and drew on his gloves, how even the re solve to do this simple thing had let the sunlight into his soul. * * * * * * Dollie Thurston, when she knew that her husband had gone?had gone with out a word or a kiss?had gone without giving her time to recover her stricken senses?sunk down and wept; and it was a long time before she could clearly think or reflect. She had been left alone ? alone with pain and sorrow?and she was utterly miserable, biie blame a herself for not having called her hus band to her; and she blamed him for not having come of his own aocord. To her it seemed as though the death of joy had come. She had never known such misery before. By-and-bye, when she could think, she wondered if her hus band would smile upon her if she should offer him the first kiss, and speak the first word of love. She would try it. It would l>e terrible if ho should refuse her; but she could not live so. The hours passed and the young wife sat like one disconsolate. She thought not of lunch?she had no appetite. She only thought, could the warm sunshine ever come ugum i jl/iu uci muiuiuiu love her less than sbe had thought ? There she sat, with pale cheeks and swollen eyes, when she heard the outer door opened, and a step in the hall. She started up to listen, thinking that, perhaps, her senses might have deceived her, when the door of the sitting room was opened and her husband entered. His eyes filled with tears wheu he saw how pale and grief stricken his wife looked, and, with open arms, he moved toward her. "Dollie?my darling! Doi't let us be unhappy any more !" He had been thinking on his way home what ho should say when he met her ; and he had framed in his mind a speech of confession which he would make, but he forgot it all when he saw her, and hi"* lieart spoke as it would. The words burst from his lips lovingly, prayerfully, beseechingly: "Dollie! my darling ! Don't let us bo unhappy any more!" She came to his bosom and twined her arms about his neck; and for the kiss that was missed in the morning they took many now ; and they wept no more apart, but wept together. Thaf tco<3 nil Tha r?lnnd linfi tmssed and they experienced the exquisite thrill which all true hearts can feel when a wrong hits been made right and when the warm joy beams drive away the dark shadows of sorrow and regret. It was a life lesson to them both, and they promised themselves that they would pay heed to its teachings. Fishing Fleet Destroyed. A disastrous accident is reported of the fleet of French fishing boats annual ly sent from the ports of the Normandy coast to the fishing grounds of Iceland. This disaster will, undoubtedly,strength en the belief in presages and omens en tertained by the kind-hearted and cour ageous, but rather superstitous, popula tion of the villages along the seashore HPlmw trriJI fl)A Ofl UX I'iaUtAJi JL UVJ IIU1 ?vtuvu*>/v? VMW ??v cident which occurred at Boulogne some months ago, just on the occasion of1 the nailing of the two pioneer boats of the tishihg fleet. Most of the inhabitants were crowded upon a drawbridge to wit ness at a nearer distance the sailing of the two vessels, v heu suddenly the bridge gave way, and some persons were drowned. This was a bad omen; anil now we learn that the Emma, of Dun kirk, has been wrecked "on the coast of Scotland. Besides, the crew reported that six other French vessels engaged in the Ice land fishing trade have been lost, and it is feared that the whole fleet has been destroyed. We hope that this latter fact will not be continued; .but it must be admitted that of late disaster* to the French fifth in g boats which h uve peri odically for the fishing grounds have lie come more frequent ti.au formerly. The cause is to be partially found in the fact that the French government has not tnnwn Intra f./\ fl?r* virrlifja nf French fishermen in th? Newfoundland waters, and those men, constantly trou bled in their fishing busine.-s, have been compelled, iu larger numbers than be fore, to go cinbdng on the more dauger ous coasts of Iceland. Learning to Swim. As the season for swimming is just at hand, it may bo oppoitnno to say that Captain Webb, who is on the topmost wave of bis profession as a swimmer, thinks that the best pla;-e to teach a very young chiM to swim is a large puddle in the sand at low tide. The child, like a puppy, will begin by paddling. If yon throw a cork iuto the water, yon will fee the* puppy run in up to his depth and give a short "bark, and the chances are, especially if there is a grown-up dog that can swim to set him an example, that in a day or two he will take hia plunge of his own accord, and very proud he will be of his first success ; only here, again, don't overdo it. Af soon as tho puppy has been in, walk away and call him, and he "will be more anxious to go into tho water anothei time. Now treat your child like yoiu puppy. Entince bim to go in, and if you can get some omer cnuu wuu c;m swim to go in with bim, all the better ; but lei the child do iust as he likes. Get two children to play at splashing one an other ; they will enjoy the fun, and gradually getting excited, will venture in deeper nnd deeper. Lapland Babies. Lapland mothers are not in the habil of staying at home with their babies. The Lapps are a very religious people, and take long journeys to hear theii pastors. As soon as the family arrives al the Jittle wooden church, and the rein deer are secured, the father shovels s snug little bed in che snow, and tlu mother wraps the baby in skins and de posits it therein. Then the father rile; the snow around it, and tlir dog iy a t or guard, while the parents go decorously into the ohuroh. Often as many ai thirty babies may be seen laid away ir the snow about a church. The Agricultural Building, Within the immense Agricultural building on the Centennial grounds are exhibited all the processes, ma chinery, and products of tho farm, the orchard, the garden, and the fishery from a score of nations, and from the four quarters of the globe. On the whole, this department of the Exhibi tion may be considered its most striking and ori inal feature. There have been great displays of art, manufactures, and machinery before, but never such an exhibition of industries that feed the world. Two-thirds at least of the floor space is occupied by United States exhibitors. Three-fourth's of all the machines and showcases were in posi tion on the opening day. Something of the luxury and variety of taste in the j installation of exhibits, so prominent in the Main building, is to be seen here, many of the cases being of extreme ele 1 -t ?_i; guiiut) f UUU XXI IUI3 uiaujjQucuv ui oiu cles to attract attention there is often j skill'and taste shown tbatalmost amount to genius. Take for example the Glou cester fisheries exhibit. In a tank float models of the fishing craft of 1776 and those of 1876 ; projecting into the wa er is a fac simile in miniature of the wharf of a century ago and one of the wharf of to-day, with men and women engaged in passing the fish, and on one side of the tank, on shelves and frames, are shown all 'the implements, nets, etc.,! used in securing the finny tribes. The long row of aquaria bordering the east-1 ern wall of the building, containing the food fishes of lake, river, and sea, will repay careful inspection. Salt water is brought daily from the ocean for the marine fishes. Several States are pre paring admirable collective exhibits of grain, grasses, and other farm products, but none except Iowa have made much progress. The cotton exhibit is not a quarter as largo as it ought to be. Of wool, there promises to bo an excellent display when J it is all in shape. Some cases are now up which show fleeces under glass, and have on their tops stuffed specimens of sheep of the breed that furnished the wool?an admirable idea. The seeds men are of course on hand. Many of them deserve praise. There is a very fine exhibit of grain in the sheaf. A spacious area is closely packed with the cases of the tobacconists. Nearly all the lumbermen show odorous boards and hnce sections of tree trunks. The makers of fertilizers are well represented, and, with a commendable regard for the olfactories of visitors, they provide air tight and smell-tight casep for then articles. The show of native wines from Cali fornia, Ohio, and central New York is calculated to make foreigners think that the problem: "Will the future American drink wine?" is already set tled. The extent of the industry will surprise nine-tenths of our own people if they will take the trouble to look into its statistics. A brilliant show is made by the rival starch makers, who have secured places on the grand aisle. One has a gorgeous Moorish pavilion, and others are glorious in gilt and glass. The manufacturers of wiiat wo Ameri cans call crackers, and the English name "biscuits," make a fine show, and so do the spice grinders?one firm displaying its articles in a twenty-feet-high model of its five story factory. Of hams, lards, canned fruits and vegetables, preserved meats, and a great variety of other non perishable food preparations, there are quantities and quantities. Tntprnational Exhibitions. International exhibitions date from the year 1851, when the first structure over erected for an exposition of the in dustries of all nations was opened in London on the first of May of that year. Previous to this time the idea of one uation inviting others to a competitive exposition of its products had not been entertained, or certainly not encouraged. The daily average number of visitors to the exhibition at Suydam during the 141 days it remained open was 42,831 ; the greatest number visiting it in one day was 109,915; the greatest number present at any one time iu the building was 92,224. Financially, the enterprise w/is successful beyond all expectation. V balance remained after all expenses had been paid of about nine hundred thousand dollars. The second British exhibition was held in 1862. It was opened May 1, 1862, and closed the first of November of the same year. Of the 22,000 exhibi tors, 1,700 were native or colonial, and .'lio remainder foreign ; as in 1851 one half of the building was reserved to England and her vast colonies. The 1 1 ??? ? 117 inn tUl?UI ii IILLL UCL Ui VIOibVJLO nog \j, The first international exhibition held in France was in 1855, and it was simply the expansion of the nation?! expositions which had been held regularly since 1794. The last exhibition we have to con sider is that held at Vienna three years ago. Like the French it was a govern ment enterprise. Misfortune seemed to attend it from the first. It was not nearly ready at the time fixed for the opening ; the number of visitors fell far below what wns expected, and a heavy financial loss was the result. The prizes to exhibitors were awarded on the eighteenth of August; nine diplomas of honor were awarded the United States, besides a number of medals. The exhi bition closed Nov. 1, on which day it was visited by 139,037 persons. The total number of visitors was reported at 7,254,000. Size of Countries. Greece is about the size of Vermont. l.; _1 JL UlCSLUJtJ 13 UUUUli UUU-IVUIDU vxxv oa^w of New York. Hintlostan is more than a hundred times as largo as Palestine. The groat desert of Africa has nearly the pros nt dimensions of the United States. The red sea would roach from Wash ington to Colorado, and it is three times | as wide as lako Ontario. The English channel is nearly as large as lake Superior. The Mediterranean, if placed across North America, would make sea naviga i tion from San Diego to Baltimore. The Caspian sea would stretch from ; New York to St. AuguRtinc, and as wide i as from New York to Rochester. Great Britain is about two-thirds the s size of Hindostan ; one-twelfth of China, and one-twenty-fifth of the United States. i The gnlf of Mexico is about ten times i the size of lake Superior, and about as ; largo as the sea of Kamschatka, bay of i Bengal, China sea, Okhotsk or Japan s8a ; lake Ontario would go in each of 1 them more th in fifty times. > i The following bodies of water aro ! about the same size : German ocean, Black sea, Yellow sea; Hudson bay is rather large. The Baltic, Adriatic, Persian gulf, and JEgean sea, half as ' large, and somewhat larger than lake Superior. ' , ' Centennial Badges.?The badge t adopted by the Centennial commission, - worn by each of its members, is made of gold, and consists of an American j eaglo grasping in its talons a horizontal bar, upon which are the letters U. S. C. C. An escutcheon is suspended from the bar, and the badge is worn in the center of a blue silk ribbon, at the top of which is the name in gilt letters of the State to which the commissioner be longs. A. HARBINGER OF PEACE. Editorial Thonghts SuK*eisted by the Uen tennlul Exhibition?Will the Lnion bi Lost f Amid the ringing of bells, the thun dor of cannon, the blare of trumpets the military display of regimonts of sol diery and the enthusiasm of a great city . the Centennial Exhibition -was formally opened by the President of the Unitec States. All the high officers of the gov ernment, the President and his cabinet the Senate, House and supreme court the foreign ministers, tho governors o various States, took part in the cere monies. And, as if to add to the his torical significance of the day, the em peror of Brazil showed by his present his friendship for our people and his in terest in this international fair. If the Centennial Exhibition wer< simply a snow or wares ana morn;* 1 I would he useful. Civilization becomei more and more a question of peace, anc peace is confirmed by nothing so mucl as these comparisons ol national indus try and skill. In the oldeu times th< comity of nations was shown iu the in terchange of princely visits, the retinu* of one sovereign displaying its splendor! at the court of another. All that tht people saw of their neighbors was ai occasional pageant. But in our dayi the people, who are sovereigns, exchang< these visits. Instead of a royal meet ing on the Field of the Cloth of Gold whero rival princes vied with each othei in the brilliancy of their trappings, in stead of a sumptuous carousal at Famp ton Court, or a tournament at White hall, we have the artificers of Englanc and France, of Russia and Spain, nay even of far China and Japan, coming fc the graceful palace on the wood} Schuylkill banks to exchange rivalries to show mankind how far they have fail ed or succeeded in the developement o civilization; for those men whose worki are now spread before us in the Centen nial Exhibition are the true kings. Tc them we owe the comfort and repose o our daily existence. They have torn om ' * ?*- _ - P a l? i-l. i.1 1. ? tne aepius ox iae wui, uuvt pierced the subtle mysteries of the skies they have traced paths in the midst o: the sea and over, the mountain summits they have put the universe under dis cipline, that we may live a wiser anc gentler life. When we compare their achievements which find expression in a hundred forms in the life of the humblest, witl the glowing deeds which hietoriani record and which some foolish paintei emblazons on canvas, how much highe: they are! We are not indulging illusion! as to this Exhibition being "a harbingei of universal peace." Wo wish it coulc be. Tho skill which bnilt it, and whicl fashioned its millions of objects, maj go out to battle again, for there ar< many questions, unhappily, awaiting battle. But every such display is an other step to neace. These friendly con tests will determine new friendships anc strengthen old ones, and bind th? nations closer and closer together. Take for instance, countries like Japan anc China, who are here in fervent competi tion with our own laborers, and the facl is full of emphasis. Japan, whicl twenty years ago was only a geographi cal name about which hovered dart memories of cruelty and superstitior ?Japan, for instance, which at the tim< of the English fair was only a pole sinister star in the galaxy of nationali ties, is seen to be a refulgent, glorioru planet, worthy to rank with the bright est of them all. And so we might continue this thought deducing the lessons that intelligeni minds will see in the presence of nationi like Brazil and* Peru, of colonies like those of England and the Netherlands of civilizations as venerablo as those o. India and Egypt. If the imagination ii strongly moved by trophies which tel of the glory of Sesostris and Alexander by remnants of ages and races wliicl have faded from the memory of man, il is no less impressed by the fresh glorj of countries like Australia and Canadf and California, only yesterday the hom< UI bLLU BUVH^O U1JU tU'Uttj ovauuiugj mai uui to breast with na in all the essentials o: a refined civilization. Which lessor will be the most instructive to the phil osopher ? That which he learns withir tbe gloomy portals of the khedive'i palace, over which the brooding Spbins j sits in sad, questioning silence, or thai I which young Australia obtrudes upor him in the mountain of gold which telb of her wealth, or the photograpliio pano rama which tells of the wonders of hei new world ? For the Centennial Exhibi tion has a high use in this, that withir the four walls of its main palace we have every phase of civilization. It is the nineteenth century, with its past anc the promises of its future. As the mind follows the flags of the great nations of Europe it recalls the hundred battles in which, even during our centenary, they have waved in vie tory and defeat?the hundred battlet 1 rum U CJLLlLUapCCJ V\J Ut-UiUi. JUUWW of these dark memories hero, under th( central towers of the main palace, thej unite in friendship and peace. It was ? happy thought to bring together, in the very heart of the Exhibition, Englanc and France, Germany and the United States. It seems only yesterday wher two of these nations were at swords points, and here, nnder the flag o; America, tbey meet in peace. If w< dared to indulge a romantic and un availing hope, which at nil events is ii keeping with the day, it is that the tie* which bind the genius of those might] nations together to-day?which bringi England and America, Germany ant France into the friendly strife of indns try against industry?may never bi broken, and that tho prayer for poac< which the reverend prelate offered at th< opening may bo blessed to ono and t< all.?New York Herald. The Government Clerks. It is remarked of the femalo clerks ii the Washington departments that the; might set up an aristocracy of their owi if they chose. Widows or daughten of army and navy officers of the highe^ rank, daughters and granddaughters o I former members of the cabinet, senatois supreme court justices and President! are to be found among them. The grand daughter of Thomas Jefferson has i clerkship. The daughter of Andrew Jackson Donaldson (the adopted son o Andrew Jackson) was born in the Whit< TT-- -3 T^nvlirt 0?/l ID T?/"?T HOUHU illid euuuuweu 1U juuiuu,iuiu u j-iw. a clerk in the. Post-Office department The daughter of Chief Justice Taney is or was, a clerk in some government bu reau, and so was the daughter of Rober J. Walker, formerly secretary of thi treasury. These are bat a few instance! where names might be cited. A Stick of Oysters. But I have brought you here to hav some oysters. Will you have a stiok my dears ? Yes, a stick of oysters 1 In Fu-Ohow the passing refreshmen trade is supplied, not from cans anc kegs, but from a stick, a bamboo stick upon which the oysters, all in thei shells, are set fast. In fact, they gro\ upon this stick. At the proper tim< these bamboo rods are thrnst down int< the oyster beds; and the baby-oysters all babies always want something U hold by while they are growing, yoi know?attach themselves to these rods When the oysters are mature, the rod are taken up and brought into market A moot dainty and appetizing way,! think.? Wide Awake, THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Voyocei iHnde Previous to that of Christo pher Columbus. The chapter of pre-Columbian voy ages in Wm. 0. Bryant's new history of the United States ia new and interest ing. The authors trace the legendary history of voyages to America by the Welsh, the Norsemen and the Chinese. " We have devoted these earlier chap ters," say the authors, "to periods which, in previous hiatofies of the Uni ted States and of America, have either had no place at all or have been dis missed in a page or a paragraph. Should it ever be possible to penetrate the mys tery and darkness which shrouded one half the world almost as completely as if it had been another planet, from the time of its creation to a thousand years after Jesus Christ, such an addition to human knowledge would be of inesti mable value and intense interest. Mod ern science has only began to read this ntorv of races and of civilization that long wince disappeared, leaving no other record than those relics which till re cently have been either overlooked or misunderstood. " What point in time or what degree of knowledge may be thus reached by future discoveries and deductions from them in a field as yet but little explored it would be rash to hazard even a guess. But it is well to know what ground there is for presuming that it is possible to learn anything of that pre-historio pe riod. And still more in actual his tory, even though its records be obscure and imperfect, or only traditions re duced to writing; even though the pe riod of which we can gain only such im perfect information be, in some respecte, legendary and romantic, ve may, never theless, profitably and properly go fur ther back than the ordinary starting point by five hundred years. "Hitherto the legitimate commence ment of American history has been hold to be toward the end of "the fifteenth century, and all beyond fabulous or in scrutable. But there were bold men and skillful sailors before Columbus. Ever since men sailed upon the sea or pos sessed a literature there have been glimpses, sometimes transient or illu sory, at other times distinct, of a mys terious world in the Western ocean, the subject of curious conjecture, of vague propheoy, and oftener, perhaps, than is supposed of attempted discovery. Though there was no permanent occu pation and no positive recognition of this as a new quarter of the globe till the Columbian era, the real or supposed approaches to its possession for the 500 previous years appeal as much to hu man sympathy and are aa pertinent to human progress as the mythical periods of the hiatorica nations of the old world. "From discoveries made without de sign and in ignorance of their real char acter we are led, in the gradual progress of events and the slow advance of knowledge, to that later time when the ocean was traversed with a distinct and intelligent purpose and with unhesitat ing faith. The Northmen, the Welsh, the Venetians?assuming their narratives to be wholly or partially true?while fhav xoara Aortnin +.haf. tliAv Imrl nailed into unknown seas, and were cast upon new lands and among strange peoples beyond the accredited limits of tLie in habited world, also believed, no doubt, that they had only reached the further shores of the outlying islands whence they came. The notions as to the shape and the extent of the earth were at that period so vague, even among the learn ed, and the art of navigation was so lit tle developed, that there was not much speculation as to the possibility of pene trating beyond the known limits of the continent and out of the accustomed tracks of ships. All that mariners dared to do was to creep along the coast from headland to headland, with a fair wind, to go to places frequently visited." The authors aro of tne opinion that " Columbus, like the navigators of Prince Henry, meant to find a new route to the East, only in a freBh direction; and he died in the belief, after four voy ages to the new world, that the countries he had reached vere literally the West Indies?the coasts of Asia approached from the west. The difference between him and those who by chance crossed the Atlantic before him was, that he, impelled by a fervid religious faith and by conclusions drawn from scientific study, had boldly sought to explore the unknown on which they had only been ignorantly driven." Bad for the Fanners. Potato bugs are ravaging Long Island farmers' hot beds. Beetles, the parents of the potato bugs, that had slept in the beds all winter, awoke on the appear ance of spring, and settled on the ten /I A** oV?nnf f.Tinm Tlinr UOl giunvu uwuv vuvmt auvj their eggs on the softest leaves. From the eggs were hatched potato bugs, and they begun to devour the leaves on which they were hatched. Taking the reporter to his hot- beds, wherein were egg plants, a Flatbush farmer uprooted a plant, whose leaves were picrced and withered, and peppered with bugs, and said : " See how lively they are! The potato bug eats a farmer out of house and home, until it gets to be a perfect beetle. Then it dives into the earth, and stays nine days, probably getting ready to lay. When ready, the beetle comes out of his hole, and lights upon the youngest plants. On them it lays eggs, and then bobs away. Last June the beetles came upon us, and caused thousands of dollars' loss by breeding * upon the plants in the hothouses. I had 3 eSS plants enough to yield two hun 3 dred pounds of seed, that I was to sell 3 to a Philadelphia seedsman for $800 ; 5 but the potato Dugs ate all but 840 worth. They couldn't hurt the potato shoots, because they were about a foot high. The beetles hung around all summer, crawling and jumping in the sun, and in the fall burrowed in the earth. Farm? : era are setting out only half as much potatoes as usual, and are terribly , afraid. In plowing, we turn up lots of . beetles. The ground is full of them, and as soon as real warm weather comes ' fVifiv will beffin to hatch."?New York Sun. A Murderer Baptized. Burr Beggarly, the Tennessee mur derer, was baptized in tho jail yard. The officiating minister said it was a solemn occasion. Tho man had resolved that the brief remainder of his lifo would be spent in trying to undo the sinful life of tho past. Tbo hymn, " Alas, and did my Savior bleed I" was given out, and just as tho setting of tho sun threw tho jail yard into shadow, Burr stepped into tho pool that had been provided, and was baptized. Imme diately after coming out of the water, Beggarly began shouting with fervor. He exclaiuitfd: "Oh, if you want to find me when I am dead, como up; don't go down there. This body has got to be hung, and tho worms will eat the flesh, but they can't hurt my soul. Thank Go i I've found him, and I ain't afraid of death now." An Advertising Lawter.?The law yers of Ireland are indignant at a bar rister who advertises in the newspapers. The ancient etiquette of the legal as of &ie medical profession is to starve rather man publish one's business in the same column with announcements of dry goods and groceries The Horticultural Department. The grounds of the Horticultural de partment of the Exhibition embraci forty acres, in the midst of which ii Horticultural hall. The walls embraci an area of nearly two city acres, each o 200 feet square. Tho grounds are lai< out in walks, borders, miniature lawns flower beds and ornamental gardeniug The space allotted to exhibitors ant occupied is a trifle oyer eight acres The walks, roads and passageways ar< substantially made, mostly paved witl asphalt, and collectively they reach i distance of two miles. Both foreign anc domestic exhibitors present large dis plays of flowers, plants, forest and orna mental trees, among which are choio< new species from China and Japan. Ii some special lines England is excelling all others. France, Germany, Nether lands and Cuba are well represented. The decorative ground embraces j parterre or sunken garden, so planted ai i . 1 l.jj: to snow corpei, ueuuxug, nuuuu geometric gardening. Here all kinds o; bulbs soited to the season are in bloom others are to bloom in the future, anc the vast extent of this planting is to b< gathered from the statement that theij number is over 5,000. As a part of th< decoration are to be seen fountains, statues, kiosks, summer houses, rustic seats, clumps of evergreens and all sue! adornments, place 1 with due regard tc the rules of landscape gardening, and ri such are worthy of study by amateur* and professionals. The hall stands on an artificial eleva tion, ornamented by artistic ter-aces which are reached by flights of marblf steps. At a distance the chief object connected with the hall and being s part of it are the glass conservatories or the sides. The structure is divided intc several, departments for the exhibitors. The architecture is in the Moresque cfttIo nf tVio fwfllff.li (iflnfnrv. And fchf principal materials are iron and glass. On the north and soath sides are the conservatories, font in number, each 3C xlOO feet, The heating is done by hoi water in a most effective manner, and one -which will attract great attention from those interested in heating apparatus for propagating purposes The main hall is 80x230, ornamented by a handsome marble fountain, sur rounded by choice tropical plants, and near by is a grove of oranges and lemons, loaded with ripe fruit, intermingled with statuary and works of terra-cotts and porcelain. Prominent citizens oi Philadelphia have contributed largelj from their houses of rare und choice plants, as have also the joint library committee of Congress and the Agri cultural department. The number oi exhibitors occupying the grounds ex ceeds 200, representing many of the States, also Cuba, Philippine islands, Spain, Netherlands, .fortngai, .Brazil, Argentine Republic, Germany, France, Luxemburg, New Zealand and Sandwich islands. The English exhibition covert nearly an acre, and it is largely devoted to a display of rhododendrons, whicl will far excel anything of tho kind evei seen in America. Portugal occupicf half an acre. Tho show from Now Jersey has a money value of 310,000.. Among mo most noticeauio uujeuu that con be mentioned at this time are A fruit cabinet of all the various kind; of fruit done in papier-mache fron: Cincinnati; the fan palm from Japau, pines on which grow the pine apple, th( Phenix palm, Hibiscus of Australia, India gum, or rubber tree; banant tree, a new arbutulum, with striking blossoms; /.he Mexican Yucca, sagf palm, Australian evergreens, a larg< philodentrnm in fruit; hoya, bearing fruit similar to strawberries, from 'Japan figs bearing fruit. In the east green house is a larga palm stalk or stump with a cactus growing from the top. Ii another room is a great variety of bud ding plants. On the other sido is f magnificent fernery, among which is i now caladium, white and lovely ; Soutl Mexican plants, quite curious; th? doer's tongue, witn young leaves grow iug out of old ones ; theceonoma pamia from Africa, a sugar plant; draccena, 1 rare decorative plant, blood red; Dutcl pipe plant, which is gorgeous ; i maranthum, from the Amazon river, sel dom seen; Livingstone palm, fron Africa; Maiden lane hair fern. Nea: the north entrance are specimens of cof fee, tea and sugcr plants. On th< grounds is a large collection of rose: from Paris, notable from tho fact tha many varieties are budded on singli stocks of tho native wild roeo of Europe It is said that the French will be likeh to excel all other nations in roses. A no great distance is a large planting o; American tea roses, now coming int< bloom, and all old and new sorts ar< presented. America will make the besi show it is able to make. A Warning to Conntry Girls. A young girl named Hottie Hall lef the town of Sayres, Pennsylvania, tc come to Now York city in scarce of cm ploymeut. In tho cars she was accostei by a strange man, who inquired he) name, where she had come from anc whither she was going. The man introduced her to two fash ionably dressed young girls, by whon he was accompanied, and soon iugrati ated himself into iier confidence. ?K invited lier, on thoir arrival at Jersey City, to come to his house," where h< said she might have a home nntil sh< had procured employment. The womei who accompanied him pressed her tc acoept the invitation, and her monej being nearly exhausted, she finally con sented. The party then proceeded to Green< street, and shortly after tho unfortunate girl discovered that she lm.i been en ticed to a house of prostitution. Sh< requested permission to leave, but th< man ordered the doors to be locked anc threatened, with an oath, to' break lie) head if she attempted to escape. She was forced into submission ant ruined. She was closely watched bj the man and his wife, the proprietors o the establishment. About eleven o'clool at night, while coming down stairs, sh< uoticod the hall door standing open and, notwithstanding the coldness of the the night, rushed out into the street it her scanty attire, determined to effecl her escape. The attention of an office] was attracted by her short sKirts and tin sel. Shb rushed wildly from one sid< of the street to the other, and he arrest ed her. At the station house she told th< above story to the captain. Hettie, wh< is an interesting looking young gir about eighteen years old, was taken tc a police court, where th& justice, aftei hearing her pitiful narrative, issuec warrants for the arrest of every inmaU of the house. The officers arrested th< man, his wife, six girls, two colorec cooks and one man. The prisoners wen arraigned before a justice, who at onc< begun a thorough investigation. A Business Rule*. A personal friend of the late A. T Stewart says that he once remarked t< that gentleman : " Mr. Stewart, I hav< often wondered what will become o your great mercantile interests whei you pass away, for no one who has th< means to carry on such a business woul< invest it in dry goods in these days." "Oh," said he, "my business doe not depend on any one man; it depend upon a principle?to buy as cheap as ! can, and to sell aa cheap as X can. Th rest takes care of itself." Fashion Notes. There is a marked effort to popularize gilt embroidery and braid, but as yet it is seen only on tbe new house jackets. A decided novelty in summer dresses is furnished in those composed of Indian cambric, with the fronts checked and the backs striped. Bonnets of coarse straw, known as " peasant's straw," are fashionable. The long Saxon glove, without but tons, are adopted for demi-toflet. Knitted silk purses are again rey vtd _ For summer, fine thread gloves, either ecru or white. Small checks and stripes rule this season in silk and woolen, as well as in cotton goods. Nothing has been introduced to take the place of the almost indispensable black suit so long worn for street pur poses. Bubiria is the name of a new model for a close-fitting gabrielle style of pol onaise. Boiled gold jewelry is every year more extensively patronized. Jackets, cut by pattern out of the piece lace, now made in close imitation.of real lace, are largefy taking the place of the woolen ones, as they are not only less expensive, but can be fitted to the figure with greater precision than the ready made ones. Novelties in ornament are offered in white coral, carved conch shell, and in -i.i -i _.uu. -i?- cio+a g Bmootll UVUI pUUUiO ObUUCD v/i uoiA kumvu color. New veils are seen made of ecru, net, with chenille dots. The shapes of the bonnets are rather smaller than last year. Morning wrappers are now made of cream colored cashmere, trimmed with cream woolen lace and cardinal red rib bons. Muslins will be confined to house wear entirely, and for the country in July and August. The black grenadine? checked with gold and silver threads find but few pur chasers. A desire for matching ifi observable in all the details of the toilet. Ladies who can afford it have a hat, parasol, gloves, stockings, etc., to match each suit. In silks there are a great variety of tissues this spring. The Parisian, whatever her station, never has a large number of toilets at one time, which accounts for her always being dressed in the fashion. Some of the new bonnets look like evening caps or headdresses, as they are composed of a garland of flowers and of a ruche of lace. It is the fashion at the present time for ladies to paint or etch menu and guest cards for their dinner parties. Polonaises, partly of black cashmere and partly of black silk, .are mostly readiJy sold, as blaok promises to re main the dress for the street. Now that all the bouffant effect in dr&nflrv is nroduced lower down on the skirt, long, slender bustles that slope larger as they descend instead of pro jecting suddenly below the -waist are worn. White silk, richly repped, is largely used for wedding dretses. Ladies' Lingerie. French hand-made lingerie, a fashion journal says, is largely imported this season, both in simple, inexpensive gar ments and also those very elaborately trimmed. Thus it is possible to buy for 82.25 a nightdress of French percale of light quality made up by hand, with clusters of tiny tucks in the yoke, and neatly stitched collar and coifs. This thin percale loses its elaziness after be ing washed?the goods are imported un laundried?and is quite heavy enough for sleeping gowns. By adding a littlo of the Smyrna linen lace now coming into fashion for trimming under clothing, this is made into a very pretty garment. For $2.90 are heavy Mada poliam gowns fot winter use. The pri ces increase1 upward to 812 or 815 for elaborately trimmed gowns, with three rows of embroidery separated by clus ters of tacks extending the whole length of the front. Yoke gowns are still preferred. A neat fashion is that of laying tlie yoi;e iimness in tnree dox ptaits in front, with three similar plaits in the back, like the plaited waists once 30 popular. These are sold in nice American muslin, with a neat ruffle of Hamburg work around the neck and wrists, for $1.75. With domestic muslins at their pres ent low prices, expert needlewomen can easily supply themselves with an abundance of underclothing. The beau tiful light muslin known as Fruit of the Loom now sells for nine or ten cents a yard, while the heavier Wamsutta and New York Mills cost but twelve and one half cents a yard. " Looking for a Job." When Arthur Wayne swung around in front of the desk and remarked that he was looking for a job, the justice re plied: "Tliat's too old and it's too late. Ton might have put in such an excuse month ago, but I can't receive it now. The grass is up and growing, the honey bee is kiting around, and the music of the hand organ makes the song of the morning lark dwindle to a single note. Spring is hero, Arthur Wayne, glorious, big Injun spring. The vagrant season has closed. Ships sail up and down, red-painted rocking chairs may bo seen on the ferry boats again, and I'll put you behind the bars for a chronic loafer." "Will you put me in prison?" asked the offender. " I will." " Will you let me get a drink first?" "No, sir." " May 1 send out and buy a bo logna?" "No, sir." " May I borrow some tobacco of some one?" "No, sir." " May I go to the post-office?" " No, sir." "Will von send me ud for three mouths ?" "I will." "That's more like it?I know I'd carry my point," growled the prisoner, and ho meekly sat down on a plug hat which some one had left in the corridor. An Exciting Experience, Mill river, above tho npper dam, at Leeds, Mass., was the theater of an ex citing scene, in which Joseph Sheam, superintendent of the silk mill, was the leading actor. Ho was in a boat teach ing his eight-year old boy to row, when he discovered that his little girl of three years, who had been sitting in the stern, had disappeared. He at once dived into the watxr, and, snatching the child, swam tojthe shore, although encumbered by an overcoat and rubber boots. Arriving at tho bank, he was compelled at once to drop the girl, throw off extra clothing and swim after the boat, which was drifting toward the dam. Seeing that ho was not gaining on it, he called to two men coming down the railroad track to save the boy. This they weie ablo to do by the boat's drifting within reach of the shore. Ey thi i time the father, who was in the middle of the river, was taken with cramp and would doubtless have perished but for the timely discovery of an upright stake, to whioh he clung until rcsoned by the men who had seoured the boat and boy. THE CENTENNIAL EXH1BH1VU, Che Wonders ol Machinery Hall?The Gr< Variety ol lis Attractions. Machinery hall is 1,860 feet long ai 160 feet wide; it covers about fonrte -ores, and cost $642,800. On entering the edifice at the weste md the sight is picturesque and impr< ive. Almost every sort of machine xistence, from a locomotive to a pap< older, is in active operation. The p< ons employed to work them are n< airly started in their tasks, and t >rospect of six months in the buildi eems to make them feel at home. T entral object of interest is the magni ent engine, which furnishes the moti tower for all the machinery that is n elf-propelling. It consists of an ij aense fly-wheel, thirty feet in di?u ter, two feet in thickness, and fifty to a weight, caused to revolve at the ra f thirty-six revolutions a minute by fci liston rods of two cylinders; and so i mtly does it perform its work thatev* rhen close beside it you can hear tl jwest tones of your companion's voic ielow it is the main shaft, which 1 ear wheels six feet in diameter co ects with eight lines of shafting, ea< 35 feet long, running lengthwise und be roof, and communicating their m ion by leather belts to the various m 1 - xt, _ r% uinery on uie noor. This machinery is of the most ing ions and varions description, and co ists of apparatus used in mining; forking metal, wood and stone; in spi ing, weaving, felting and paper ma ig; in sewing and the manufacture > lothing and ornamental objects; in tyj 3tting, printing, stamping, emboss in] ook making and paper working; : rodncing and transmitting power; : nmping, hoisting and lifting by h; raulic and pneumatic force; in man' icturing locomotives and railway ro] ig stock; in preparing agricultural ir lements; and in aerial, pneumatic ar pater transportation. While saunterii long the aisles one can witness the pr ass of rock drilling, of well and sha oring, of coal cutting, of electropla ^ aottnnf VAUftPrini JH> ^""""61 ? "*? e>, 1 rooving, mortising, tonguing, cuttini lolding, stamping and carving; riJling, slotting, turning, punching ai Dining; of dressing, shaping and pc ihing; of rolling iron, grinding glas isting metals, and riveting, najJinj olting and tacking them by stea:u; < lanufacturing silk, cotton, woolen ai nen goods, rope and twine, paper ar siting, in di& rubber goods, mixed fa :cs and wire cloth; of preparing ar orking leather, making clocks, watche ad pipes for smoking; of printing, ei ossing and lithographing, type castii ad stereotyping, bookbinding and p er folding; of generating power t oilers, water wheels, hydraulic ram ;eam, air, gas and electro magnetio ei ines, and of transmitting it by shai ig, belting, cables, gearing and sere ropellers; of lifting and moving liqui< ad solids, and moving and compres ig air or gas; of extinguishing fire ar scaping from it; of manufacturing soc rater, bottling it, and coriung tne do es; of diving for tlio recovery of ?unk easures; of manufacturing locomi ives, carriages, brakes, buffers, couj ngs and snow plows, wheels, tire lies, and springs, switches, tun ibles and water cranes, street railway ad horse cars; of grinding grist, reft ig sugar, making candy, preparing t acco, oil, spices and fancy goods, ar rewing beer and distilling liquors; uilding suspension bridges, transpoi ig cables, sending balloon boats ai ailing vessels, and finally of transpoi ig telegraph cables and railway train nd of steering and propelling ships ai teamboats. Indeed, it is not too mu< o say that an extraordinary lifetic light be spent in examining the appa tus, the processes and the results pi ented in Machinery halL The va kmctnre. with the exception, perhap f soma of the persons who are visitii does not contain a single object n itereating or instructive. The Government Building. The building devoted to the exhibi f the United States government aore nearly complete in its featur ban any other on the Centenni rounds. And the display is a much mo reditable one than could have been e lected. A prominent future in it is (ranch of the Philadelphia post-offic therein are received and sent regul aails with the precision which h Qade our postal service the mo3t el ient in the world. Near by, machine q full workiDg order, for the manufa ure of envelopes, attracts all passer t is worked by a woman, and the e tliora marlo liflftrirny a Oente u'al memento in one corner, are sold he post-office window. The departme: i agriculture makes a good showing ho products of the country. The p ent office and tho Smithsonian Insi ute contributes an amount of curio.1 ies which would set Barnu-u up iu tl auseum business again. Tlio or iance department exhibits, in addition nnnon, guns and ammunition of ? inds and calibers, the machinery wil rhich they are made, and here may 1 witnessed the process of making gi locks, rifling gun barrels, and tl lanufacture of metallic cartridge fear by, a group of wax figures exhib be various style? of uniforms worn t ur soldiers since the days of '76. Son laborate work by government eng eers is exhibited by that departmen .mong these is a perfect model of tl nder rock-and-water operations < General Newton at ilon irate, jcrom lance at this, one cau get a complel lea of how ho intends to blow up tl le bottom of the East river. The e: losion in Jersey City the other dt ras but a side show to what Ge'ier Tewton's circus promises to be. One of the very interesting featur< 1 this building is the exhibition < ghthouses, in practical working ord< nd by models, by the lightbonf oard. The signal bureau has ah ^ c xhibition the machinery and paraphe alia pertaining to its peculiar servio lur national fish commissioners alt lake a very interesting exhibit ot fish( euuliar to our lakes and rivers, t ether with the various contrivanci dth which they are captured. The: j also a splendid collection of sea mar lalia, including stuffed walrus, seal sa lions, casts of whales, etc. In shot lie exhibit in the government buildii ives a very fair glimpse of the scie ific experiments, investigations and r earch made by the government for tl iformation and protection of our pe lo. The English Navy. A Parliamentary return of " the re ious persuasions of the royal navy, ai Iso of the royal marines," states that he seamen, 22,816 belongto the Char if Eugland, 1,150 are Presbyteriai 1,675 belong to the other Protestant c lominations, and 3,866 are Rom Catholics. " Jack Tar " is a stout Co ervative. The religious classitieati >f the marines is as follows: Church England, 9,545; Presbyterians, 4f: ifeher Protestants, 1,295; Roman Catli ics, 986. The return also gives t lumber of cliaplaius employed on H klajesty's ships, with their pay and i owances, and a list of ministers of eve [enomfnation employed in the hoc lorts, on foreign atations and amorg tl oast guard man. me .ajsieries. Once on my mother'a breast, & child, I crept, Holding my breath ; Then, safe and ead, lay shuddering and wept At the dark mystery of death. Weary and weak and worp with all unreet, Spent with the strife? . , Oh, mother, let me weep upon thy breast At the sad mystery of life I ?W. D. Howell*. Items of Interest. A woman seats herself in a church pew in seven motions; a man with one. Over $18,000,000 are invested in var ious enterprises of the grangers in the United States. A Pennsylvania man owns a farm in which he can fell a tree so that it will lie in three counties. Think all yon can ot tiie good qnaii ties of others; forget and keep silent concerning their bad qualities. What place is so .rugged and so homely that there i3 no beauty if yon only have a sensibility to beauty? Never trust him who flies ink) a pas sion on being dunned, but make him pay quickly if tnere is any virtue in the law. . N Of the 55,000 dead-he&l tickets issued to the Centennial, 54,000 will go to-com mon people and the other thousand to editors. ' . . A Mexican girl living at Tuescola has three well developed arms. She can do np her hair without cramming . her month fall of hairpins. - > Lots of able-bodied young ladies whose parents haven't got a spoonful of horse radish in the house are oat all day hunt ing for trailing arbutus. The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury and imprison ment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death. The dress coat has been called the swallow tail, the steel pen, the claw hammer, the spike tail and the nib, and now it is called the taokraiser. True courage is cool and calm. The bravest men have the least of a bullying, brutal insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free. "EVo-n/na/vi Vina nsliniDTKvl Tipr sohools for want of money. The chil dren now go around throwing atones at heathen Chinese to their hearte' con tent. : A teacher asked one of the little boys in her school: " Where does the ran rise?" Great was her astonishpie'nfc as the little fellow, with , a wise look, answered : " In Boston, ma'am."" With, a sigh of relief we announce the fact that during the past week no candi date for the Presidency has been accus ed ol murder, forgery, burglary, or ar son. There ia life in the old land'yet. Sterne says in his Koirair: I never drink?I cannot do it on equal terms with others. It costs them onjy one day, but me three ; the first in szfming, the second in suffering and th&tliird ni penting - - They tried to get rid of the pastor of an Illinois church by reducinghissalary to 6200 per year, but he took tne motion kindly and replied: "Why,'I lived through last year on $75 in cash and a bag of meal!" A man from Michigan has been a clerk in government service iu Washing ton for the last sixteen years, and he brags that he has had to change his po litical and religious views but two hun dred and eight times. i God has fixed upon the earth two T gates wnicn lena to neuveu. an una placed them at the two extremities of life; one at its beginning, the other at its end. The first is that of innocence, the second that of repentance. Discarded ulsters make excellent wraps for parlor sfoves during the rammer of retirement to the woodshed. The lifter, poker, shovel and other small at tachments can be put in the pockets, and the hood may be drown over the Inn. A little neglect may breed a great mis chief ; for want jf a nail the sboe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a littld care about a horseshoe nail. A poor Frenchman, whose wife aroused him from sleep with a cry: " Get up, Baptiste, there is a robber in the house!" answered sensibly : " Don't molest him; let him explore the house awhile, and if he should lied anything of value we will take it away from him." 11 - -??Kw, aliAw fch A All u receiii Trcoucxu ?ywu^ w-vn, ? ladies arranged all the wee morsels side by side, covered their faces, and re quested the fathers to pick out lheir own. One proud parent came forward and grabbed a pair of kicking little feet. One foot belonged to a girl, the other to a boy. The clarionet is not a solo instrument. By an advertisement in a Belgian paper it is shown what it must accompany: Wanted, in a mirror factory, a little clarionet player, who would be able to act is second leader, conduct at the piano, drive the car of the firm, and take a hand in the out-door affairs. Dealers in trees assert that experi enced men buy small, thrifty trees, while those who are just starting are anxious for the largest ones to be had. Those who ore to set trees the coining season will do well to learn irom me ex perience of those who, at considerable loss to themselves, have demonstrated that small trees are the ones to bay. The iron prow of the old steamer New Jersey is lyiog at the Pennsylvania rail road company's yard at Perth Amboy, N. J., and is to bo sent to the Centennial exhibition in a few days. When she first came from England she was known as the R; H. Stevens, but was rocherter ed as the New Jersey. She was the first steam vessel that crossed the Atlantic, <iud no smaller steam vessel has crossed it up to this day. Says the Ogdensbnrg Journal: Some =>a men nave a great propensity w trme, ?" | An honest farmer of a neighboring town es paid ns for fonr years' rabaoription re J and stopped his paper, because we would Q" not trade the amount, whilo ho could got cash for his butter and egg3 any "tj where on the street. * Iu less tbna aweek after he commenced to trade with a pat n" ent right man and is out 8750. Moral: J?* Don't stop your paper. 6 The following statement of the cost of the "big Runs" of Europe is from ; the Loudon Engineer: The eighty-ono : ton gun has cost $75,000, and the price I named for the " Newcastle infants," of ]i_ | one hundred tons, for tho Italian navy, . ad ' is $120,000 each. The cost of tho Krupp 0f monster will be $150,000 or more. The j latter will send a ball weighing about l8> I 2,300 through the air. It costs $125 |0'. | every time time the eighty-one ton gun ) is nrea. j Mrs. Livermore thinks women should be allowed to vote, because, as she says in tho conrso of a logical argument: " When tho Roman Marius was victori ous, the Norse men and women besonght him to protect their virtue ; but he said: 'To-morrowjou shall be given up to my soldiers.' That night rr of T;oi a submitted to their daughter* tli allt-r native?'Death or dishonor?" and be fore morning thny ha;l all met denth ok their otrn hands."