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IF WE HAD BUT A DAV. a W? should fill the hoar with sweetest things, C If we hai but a day; We should drink alone at the purest springs ^ In our upward way; We should love with a lifetime's love m an j hour, j If the hours were few; < We should rest, not for dreams, but for fresher power i To be and to do. We should guide oilr wayward <>r weary wills By the clearest light: We should keep our eyes on the heavenly hills, If they lay in sight: We should tramnle the pride and the discon tent Beneath our feet; AA'e should take whatever a good Go I sent, ET'' - AVith a trust complete. AVe should waste 110 moments in weak regret, If the days were l>ut one? L If what we remembered and we regret AVent out with the sun: AVe should be from our clamorous selves so free To work or to pray. And be what our Father would have us Ik?, I If we had but a day. | THE OLD TREE'S" SECRET. "We will take the house?shall we not, Charlie?" We had gone all over the roomy, old-fashioned house, my little wife and 1. from the dusty, cobwebbed garret to the neglected cellars, and we now stood together at the back of the garden, critically surveying its appear; ?ncc. It was a low two-story house, built in ^ ? the shape of a T. with a cluster of tall chimnevs in the middle and the three gables hidden in ivy. It had once stood quite out of the town, which had since gradually crept toward it. until what had been a road was now become a street of straggling cottages and villas, extending to the high wall inclosing the grounds. The lawn was shaded with old trees, and the garden choked up with thickets of lilac and snowball. The old lady, Mrs. Gage, who had for forty years resided here, leading a very secluded and invalid life, had taken no pains to keep the place in order, and she and the property had decayed together, until recently she had died, and the house was for sale. "It looks dreadfully gloomy and neglected,'' said Cede, gazing up at the ^ . back windows. "Mrs. Moss, next door, fes, says that for twenty years no one has occupied those up|>er rooms; and see mm how the ivy has bound together those shutters on the left. Hut it is a beautilui old house, and I know that we can make it bright and cheerful. And then the garden?what a delight it will be to the children and to ourselves, too. We will take it, won't we. Charlie?" Kt. * There was no resisting her pleading, coaxing manner. So that very evening |e I went to see the agent, and before the week had e!aps0li the house was ours. With what zeal and enjoyment we entered upon the transformation of our new abode. The masses of ivy were torn gjfcv; down from the gables or judiciously bR?.* trimmed; every door and window was thrown wide to the fresh air and sunlight; and paint and paper, muslin cur* ?* tains, ana origin carpets uuu muiu limiting unfile the house delightful to hehold. This much accomplished, we turned our attention to the garden. It was already June. and the season too advanced for much improvement; but we pulled down the rotted arbors, thinned out the thickets of roses and lilacs, and I caused a little round table and some rustic garden scats to be placed under an old tree at the further end of the central walk. Here, on returning from my office on the warm, sunny evenings, we would sit? Cecie engaged with some light stitching, / and I with cigar, books and papers.reading to her, while our little ones ran wild up and down the garden walks. "This is thoroughly delightful,'' 1 remarked, one evening. "How is it, Cecie, that we have managed to live eight years of housekeeping life without a garden "Yes." she answered, radiantly, "it is delightful. Living so much in the open air one seems to take a new and fresh growth, like the flowers. Only? and here she glanccd uneasily around? "Only, Charlie, I think?I fancy?that this is not exactly the spot for our al fresco boudoir." "Why not? It faces the walk, it commands a view of the house and the " . whole garden. And these branches hanging so low and clothed in ivy, make a nice canopy above us. What is it that you object to? "I scarcely know. But somehow I have never liked this tree." It was a very old tree under which we sat, with a huge gnarled trunk growing in a sloping position near the garden wall, and covered with ivy. About eight * *1 3 1. It'CL I rum II1U gl'UUIIU IUC LltiiifV .^|Miuigu into three branches, and here the ivy had matted itself in an impervious mass, concealing the dccayed branches with the exception of the extremities, which here and there protruded from-the green mass, white and bare. "They look like skeleton fingers," said Cecie, glancing up, "and it gives me the horrors. I think the tree ought to be cut down. It always reminds me of a graveyard or a haunted house." I did not at the time pay much atten* tion to her remarks. But sonic days after she again suggested that our gar* den table and chairs should be removed to some other spot. "I don't know why it is," she said, uneasily, "but I always feel nervous here. I fancy there is something pecuculiar about the place?in the rustling of the ivy and in the very atmosphere; I Eterv- often find myself starting and looking around with a vague sense of something horrible. I hate the sight of that tree, with its distorted shape and bare skeleton arms.1' if I rallied her upon bein<; fanciful, but promised that the "skeleton arms'' of which she complained should be cut olf. She sat silent for a moment, then said, seriously: "Charlie, did it ever occur to you that MBpV'v'" certain objects in nature -trees, for instance?may have an individual life of nyvr" their own? I don't mean the mere vege table life, but a sort of mysterious spirit ual existence. Now, I can't help fancying that this tree is conscious of wh it is I going on beneath it?that it remembers (tilings which 11 mis wimcsseu m ii? iuhj^ i >S.- life, and. were it able, could tell us some horrible ghastly story of the past. You may laugh, but I assure you that I never sit under this tree, even on a sunny noonday, without feeling a chill creeping over me, and a sense of something mysterious and horrible, which makes me almost afraid." "Of course," I said; "having once imagined that the dead branches resemble 'skeleton arms,' and associated them in your own mind with the idea of a graveyard. you will be haunted with all sorts i of dismal thoughts and fancies in connection with the tree. But since you don't like it, Cecie, I will have this bugbear removed, and we will build a pretty summer-house on the spot. I will speak ^ to the men to-morrow, when they come to take down the wall."' The portion of the wall to which I al luded separated our garden from that of j |*v our next door neighbor. It was of stone, I jfgr* but the mortar had fallen out and left it j little more than a pile of loose stones, i j which I feared might at any moment topple down on the children, as they played about it. So I concluded to have jjsSj jt pulled down, and a light wooden palS&r ng placed in its stead. , Over there, in the next house, lived an WLt, old gentlemen and his wife, who passed gv2 much of their time in thtir garden, cultivating flowers and small garden fruits, in which they appeared to take great deHp light. 'J hey had called on us, a cheerful |&j and kindly old couple; and when the old wall was pulled down and before the new ! . one was up, the way lay open to a more familiar intercourse. One evening, by their invitation, we stepped over into their garden to see a j collection of roses upon which Mr. War- i ren prided himself. These duly admired, ! the old lady expressed to Cecie her pleas- t ure in naving neignDors wno were neiga- i bore. She. bad lived ten years in their 1 present abode, and in that time had only 1 twice seen Mrs. Gage! r ' She wasn't always such a recluse," 1 said the good lady. "I remember that r when she and her husband first came g here, a young married couple (I was a j&: . child then), they were merry, gay and t fond of society. It was their daughter's j fate which so sadly changed them. You t have heard the story ?" We had not been long in this town, ? yet Cecie remembered to have heard o something about a daughter of Mrs. Gage c running away to join a lover at a dis- I t?nce, and being never afterward heard v of. t "Her name was Emily," sflld Mrs. v Warren, "and she was the handsomest f girl in the town. She was an only child, t nd had been all her life petted and in- T lulged, and allowed to have her own ray. Such children don't generally turn >ut as well astaeyshould do; and Emily lagc rejected many good offers, to fall 11 love with a handsome and dissipated j fellow, who made his appearance here for a short time, lacing unable to give a satisfactory account of himself, Mr. (Jage forbade his visiting his daughter, and j the two then agreed upon an elopement, i This was put a stop to, and the young t man shortlv afterward left the place. | i * _l . ...I 1 ne gin, nowcvrr, was i ?aa?vw, r the parents having cause to suspect that ] she was in secret correspondence with him. And one morning she was nowhere to be found?only a note slipped under the door of her parents' sleeping- ] room informed them that she had gone . to join her lover ? that she had taken with her all her jewelry to- gether with five hundred dollars, which ] her father had left in his writing-desk; since she would need money for traveling and other expenses. And that was the last that they ever knew about her." ' Hut could they not find the young man ?" asked Oecic. ''They found him, after a long search, but he denied all knowledge of Emily and her intended flight. They had cor- i responded, and she had assurred him | that she would yet find means to join him, hut her letters had then ceased, nor had he ever since heard trom her. This was his story. Sonv believed it, but others, though nothing could ever be proven against him, h:ul dark suspicions of him. And the strangest thing was, that, having once passed the garden wall, every trace of the girl was utterly lost.'' "The garden wall ?" "I forgot to mention that it was in that manner she escaped. She mounted the sloping trunk of the old tree at the foot of the garden walk?the same under which you so often sit- -and then stepped along its horizontal branches to the top of the wall. This was rendered evident by the broken twigs and scattered leaves at the foot of the tree. On the ground outside the wall was found her shawl, * - * " T- 1 f.... which she had uououess uruppi-u <ji juigotten in her haste. That was all. To this day the mystery of her fate remains unrevealed. though undoubtedly there was foul play somewhere. The jewels and the money were great temptations to crime." That evening my wife said to me: " That horrible tree. Charlie ! Did I tell you that it had a secret to reveal? Perhaps it knows what became of that poor girl." Next day Cecie went on a visit of a few days to her mother, taking the children with her. Before going to my business I gave orders respecting the tree. I wished every trace of it to be removed before her return, when perhaps she would forget all about it and its srlooiny associations. Returning home in tlie evening, I was met by the workmen with countenance of interest and mystery. Their information startled me. While busied in cutting down the tree, they had heard something rattle and fall within; and on examination discovered within the bones of a skeleton, though whether human or not they could not tell. Communicating the fact to Mr. Warren, who was in his garden, the\ had by his advice desisted until my arrival. I went to the spot, and with the men and Mr. Warren examined the tree. Though the opening already made the bones were clearly to Ik* distinguished: and I directed that the trunk should at I once be felled. When this was done I there was exposed a hollow stump, in i which lay a mass of human bones, with j remains of a woman's dress; and beneath | these and the decayed wood and dust l which hart gathered over'them gleamed the lustre of jewels and cold and silver coin. I looked at Mr. Warren, who, white as death, had staggard to a garden i 1. UUIH.I1. " My Godl'' he exclaimed. " It is? : Emily!" Yes, it was Emily. Of this there I could be no doubt. The tree had long ! held its fearful secret, and was still un- j able to reveal it. It had given up Emily's skeleton, but how came the poor I girl to be immured within this living I tomb? Further examination, however, re- J vcaled the whole horrible truth. "I see how it all was," my old neigh- j , borsaid, in a broken and faltering voice, . "She had thrown her shawl over the j wall that it might not be in her way, ! and then mounted the tree to where the j ' three great branches meet; and there, I hidden by the masses of ivy, lay the i fatal trap. Through that great hole she , slipped, and the ivy closed over her in | her living tomb." I , fie shuddered, and the tears gushed ; into his eyes. We neither of us expressed the thoughts i which chilled and moved our hearts to i pitying horror. Had lit-r death been j sudden, or had she here slowly starved j , and pined to death ? Her cries could not have been heard, for the house stood j apart, and her parents had left home and j gone in pursuit of her. I thought of | t'ecic's strange fancy concerning the old i tree, and lost myself in vague conjectures as to the nature of those mysterious influences which sometimes affect our J Vinmnn ncrfcntinns. how or whence we I may not know. i This was the secret which the old tree ! so long held. And 1 may add that to j this day Cecie kno.vs nothing ?>f it; for. ! beside the clergyman who gave Christian I burial to the remains of the poor girl, j no one but ourselves, who made the dis- I covery, ever knew the secret. We j thought it best that it should be so. Hut I observed that Cecie never after j complained of the uneasy influence which j had before so annoyed her. With the removal of the tree and the burial of the bones, nature resumed her bright and joyous sway in the old garden.?Sti-vtu .1. II reixs. Crushing a Doorkeeper. A doorkeeper of one of the ladies' gal- j leries in the House has succeeded in get- I ting himself quite thoroughly disliked by ! his eolk-agues and by the ladies who are [ not hungering for the devoted attention } of strangers. This particular doorkeeper appears to live only to be beautiful, and ' in that view of the case his lift* is largely a failure. Many remarks have been made about his constant habit of coming inside" the gallery and staring intentlv upon any <1 i 1 i?Ti.. ...I.,, i.o,f*. WCU-IUX'SSCU vuuiij; inviy mi" jiu|>[<v.uo iv ; be near him. The other (lay this crush- I [ ing doorkeeper persuaded one of his col- j leagues to take his place for half an hour. The crusher went down on the floor of the house, took the seat of a Congress- | man who happened to be absent, stretched his thin legs over the desk, and tried to , look interesting and very much at home. "When he returned to the gallery he asked the doorkeeper who had taken his place, ' Did any of the ladies see me down there?" ''Oh, yes.'* ( ' Did they make, any remarks about me?'' I "Yes, several of them inquired who j that long, lean, cadaverous looking im- | becile was down there." "What? 'l'hey didn't say that, did j' they? Who did you tell them I was?" j "I said you were hired to stay down | there and keep the lighted stubs of the j members' cigars off from the new car- j, pet.1' The '"masher" doorkeeper did not go j on the floor of the house again for a : week.? IVmhihyton Ikji'iWimn Singular Phenomenon. There was once found a pair ??f field 1 glasses in the desert near what is known ! as Death Valley. The glasses are supposed to have belonged to Hahn, a lost guide of Wheeler's expedition. They were brought into one of the interior towns by an Indian, and were purchased from him. The most singular fact connected with them is that every object within range of where the glasses had been lying for a year or more is distinctly photographed upon them. We have heard of such phenomena before, but this is one of the most remarkable instances we remember. Both object glasses are covered with \ ' - 1 ' '- '--l - J peneci anu ucaudiui jjuuiuyia(jii3 uj vitu- ( k ings of desert shrubs; stems, branches, I leaf stalks. Leaves and leaflets are dis- . inctly marked as if laid on by a mas- ] :er-hand. There is no mixture or conusion of one plant with another, each ' laving a clear border of unmarked glass, endering it probable that the sun or ightning photograph, or whatever it > nay be, was received through the eye- s ;lass. v These pictures seem to occupy a posiion about the center of each of the ob- ? ect glasses, but a little nearer the plane v han the convex side.?Inyo Independent s $ It is said that as late as the latter part j f the thirteenth century, "the upper J lasses in Europe ate whales for dinner." tl t is not stated, but we should think one l h fhale would not ouly make a dinner for I h he largest family in Europe, but there i< L'ould be enough left over to warm up or next morning's breakfast.?Nurrinoicit Herald. t NJURIOUS TO THE HAIR, !HE AMERICAN CLIMATE SAID TO CAUSE BALDNESS. lenlriutivc Influence of the Weather on the Capillary Growth?"What WitfN arc Iflade of?All About IIalr< An inquiry by :t Cincinnati Noca reporter among sonic of the leading dealers n hair goods led to the revelation tliat he alarming fact was generally recoglized among those who cater to the donatids of fashion in the matter of false lair, that the growth of the hair was injured by the climate of this country. "Yes," said an extensive importer, "this weather is snatching us baldheaded just as fast as it knows how, tnd 1 hate to think cf what will be the fate of trie native American a hundred thousand years hence. The noble red man. if lie has not been exterminated by .i.?. ,..:n l.n../i cl.-irm!cli firm)ml lllill iiuir, >*111 K\J ouiii...,'.. pretty lively to get ;i scalp. "No, I cannot say how* it is that the climate has such an ellcct on the hair. It may be that the Anglo-Saxon race is not yet thoroughly acclimated. At any rate, American women as a class have not the luxuriant hair European women have. Emigrants, too, who arrive with splendid heads of hair, in from five to ten years have but a few rat tails, figuratively speaking, to boast of. A proof of the destructive influence of the climate on the hair is furnished by the increasing sale of wigs. There never was such a demand for wigs as at present. Human beings are not alone affected 111 this way. The sheep that bear the finest jjrades of wool are also injuriously affected in this climate. The wool loses its lustre, and :? /HxiiniaWrl in 1111:111 in linn; 11 iiixuuiva ui.,u?. uv.. ... ?4 tity, so that the animals, after a few years' residence in America, find their way into the butcher's shop before they have an opportunity of getting tough enough for a boarding-house table. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. ' Where, then, do you get the hair from that forms the head pieces, switches, etc., that are the staple of your business?*' asked the reporter. ' Kurope and China." "China? Why. I thought the ccclesiastial iaws of that country forbade the Mongolian to uart with his hirsute adorn o i mcnts. The <|iicuc tncrc is supposed to be its sacred as the eat in Egypt or the monkey in India?or the pig in Cincinnati." "Young man." said the merchant in hair, "I will gladly give you any information I can iu relation to my business; but if you persist in tiring scientific problems at tnc I shall have to plead another engagement." ' Well, then, to what base uses do you apply the sacred Chinese pigtail?" "If by that you mean the Chinese hair, it is a coarse article from which we fabricate the cheapest headpieces, switches, etc. Laugtry bangs made of Chinese hair will retail for seventy-five ccntsand upward, and Chinese hair switches realize from two to four dollars. They are not. however, very substantia!, as the process the hair has to undergo in order to render it salable makes it brittle." "Is there any danger of importing leprosy or other contagious diseases in the hair from China?" "I cannot say that there is no danger to the importer of the raw material, so to speak; the manufactured article passes through a chemical process before it is made up that destroys all the germs of disease. No, there is no danger to the consumer. x.tin .1^ vaiii? Itnffjit* ntiolifv ?? Here ?u wu >wu? KI.H . -| of capillary tissue from ?" "From Europe principally. The dark hair from France and Spain, light brown and auburn hair from Germany, and all colors from Eugland. The Anglo-Saxon mixture of races produce a crop heterogenous in color. "How do merchants in Europe get possession of the hair "They have traveling agents who go from village to village and bargain with rustic beauties for their tresses. Peasant maidens, with a wealth of hair, are in the habit of selling it and purchasing with the proceeds articles of tinerv so dear to the female heart. Of course with shorn heads they have a tom-boy appearance for a time, but nature soon supplies the deficiency.'' "Do American girls ever sell their hair when in need of money with which to buv fictitious aids to adornment '.J n.nv " \ CI V M'lUUIII* WUIIII^ ??U VA|>VI>VII^ [>f twent> years I have not purchased more than a dozen heads of hair direct from women upon whose heads the hair lias grown. The only portion of this continent where women sell their hair is in the Canadian Provence of Quebec. There the rural population is mostly made up of French inhabitants, and the customs of old France are strictly observed by those people. The hair dealer still plies his trade there. American women will not sell thiselement of female beauty. They must be reduced to abject poverty before they will barter this inheritance of nature." "How much can a woman procure for a good head of hair?" ''The prices vary according to color. Red hair is worth very little, and dark brown hair and black are very valuable. Light auburn is a rare commodity. A good head of auburn or black hair is IV-rvr** ?10 40' Tlin toVturn nrnl quantity regulate the price." ' Is haircut from a person in the delirium of an infectious fever valuable?" "Oh, yes; but whenever hair is brought to us/alrcady cut fr.?m the head it is disinfected before anything is done with it. We have to dye gray and red hair, but dyed hair is not as valuable as hair of natural color." "What are the prevailing modes in hair to-day?" "Front pieces, known as Laugtry bangs and Langtry curls, arc the prevailing fashion. Those who have plenty of hair of their own use these false pieces on account of their convenience. They are always curled, and do not become disarranged like one's own hair. Switches went out of fashion a couple of years ago, but now the sale is beginning again. The present is an era of revival-in the hair business all round, and it may be taken as another evidence of the force of capillary attraction." The Name of America. The geographies tell us that the name ' ' - * -1 1 .... ?!...( oi tins conunem was uenwu num nim of one of the navigators who followed Columbus?Americus Vespucius. His real name, however, was Yespucii, unci Yespucius is the Latinized form of it, just as Americus is supposed to be the Latin for Amerigo. But why should this continent have have been called America? If it hud been called after Columbus, it would have been not Christopheria, but Columbia. Why, not, then, if Columbus was to be robbed L>f his honor, call the land Vespucia? And was Vespucci's name Amerigo? Mr. ['harlesMackav maintains that it was not. Ho has seen a very rare volume, published in Milan only nine years after the death of Vespucci, describing his voyages and discoveries, in which his name is given as iVlbertatio. (if course it is possible that this was a misprint, though such an error would be unlikely to occur on a title-page in those lays of careful printing, lint Mr. Mackay lias not been abln to discover when the name America was tirst applied to this continent. lie has a theory that it was not derived from Vespucci's name at all, but raine irom a i euie worn, iinncn, which means to emigrate, or to go to another country. The idea is n fanciful one; yet Iheie have been stranger formations of names than this would l>c. However the; name may have been derived, it is certain to stand. The whole ivorld, except Franco, calls the country America, and spells the name one way. This un.fonnity is true of no other great country. Deutschland is Germany to the English tnd Alleitiange to the French. England s Angleterre to the French and Inghilerra to the Italians. France is Frank eich to the Germans and Francia to the Spaniards. Espuna is Ispagna to the Italians and Spain to the English, and o on. But America is America, with the same ironounciatioD to all the world except '"ranee, where it becomes Ainerique, and Vmerica it will always be.? YoiU/ih' Commnion. / At the recent annual meeting of the Vmerican Bible Society, the report howed that 2,115,765 .copies of the Bible ?ere printed or purchased during the ear; of which nearly 2,000,000 wore disributed; the circulation in foreign lands ~ mi ? ? a. .. ^ r . fas olU,o4(3 copies, i ne receipts ui me ocietv were $640,719, and the expenses 562, i?6. _____ Now is the time when the smail boy in he country comes into the house with is hair all wet and tells his mother that e ran home from school so fast that, he ? all perspired.?Boston Post. The Egyptian injunction? "Mummy's lie word." HEALTH HINTS. Exercise to the extent of great fatigue docs more harm than good. A hearty meal, taken while excessively fatigued, has often destroyed life. Chilliness of body dampens the spirits, sours the temper and renders the whole man unlovely. The best auodvne in all nature is moderate, steady and continuous exercise in the open air. The thinnest veil or silk handkerchief thrown over the face while riding or walking against a cold wind is a remarkably comfortable protection. Nine-tenths of the inmates of insane | asylums who recover are those who arc j sent within a year after the first inani- | festation of their infirmity. Life is warmth, growth, repair and j power, to labor, and all these are derived j from the food we eat and the fluids we drink, and these should be good. Never sit or stand with the wind blowing on you for a single moment, for it speedily produces a chill, to be followed with a fever and then a bad cold. The worst cold may be promptly cured if, within twenty-four hours after it has been taken, the patient will keep warm in bed and eat little or nothing for a day or two. Cleanliness in all the surroundings of a family mansion pays richly in many ways, in good health, moral elevation, personal comfort, and dollars and cents beside. In going out into a colder air. keep the mouth resolutely closed, and wain briskly for a few minutes, thus preventing '.i.:ii;,w.l.u iilwavs the ncrcursor of :i cold. A good cleansing of the entire body with soap and warm water once a week is all the bathing the human system requires for purposes of health, in ordinary circumstances. . ' Nature is very much like a shiftless child, who, the more he is helped the more he looks for it. The more medicine a mail takes, the more he will have to take, whether it be anodyne, tonic or alterative. The portion of the body which mo9t requires protection against cold and wind is that between the shoulder-blades bei no h is s?t this noint the lunira are attached to the body, and the blood is I easily chilled. To spend two or three moments, on rising and retiring, in rapid frictions of the whole surface of the body with the hand is a more rational treatment of the skin, and a more health-promoting operation, for most persons, than a daily coldwater bath. At every period of life, at alt seasons of the year, and from the tropics to the poles, in every clime and country, the temperature of the human body in health is the same to a degree, that is ninety-eight of Fahrenheit; hence we should eat in winter mainly of warming food, such as meats, fats, oils, sugar and all the grains, farinas and starches; in summer, the fruits and berries, and melons and vegetables of the field, the garden and the orchard, which cool and open and ventilate the system.?I frill* Junrwd of Health. WISE WORDS. Our acts make or mar us; we are the children of our own deeds. To count but few things necessary is the foundation of many virtues. Women enjoy more the pleasure they ! give than the pleasure they feel. I TVi ?nr>r<ppil one must sometimes be very bold, and sometimes very prudent. "Whatever the woild may say, there are some mortal sorrows; and our lives ebb away less through otir blood than through 1 our tears. The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without any inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it servo us in need. Love is indeed a transcendent excellence, an essential and sovereign good; it maketh the heavy burden light, and the rugged path smooth; it bearcth all things without feeling their weight, and from every adversity taketh away the sting.. An Oriental portentate once bade his prime minister to compose for him a motto tha? would answer both for seasons of prosperity and adversity. Here is the sentence which he had engraved upon his signet-ring: "This too shall soon pass away.'' If you want to look for heroes in our day, you must go down to the kitchen, you must go to the sewing attics, you must go where persons endure everything almost without a murmur, where they divide their penny with their parents, and work on through days and months and years, and die in wretchedness and neglect. A Turkish Military Episode. The personal bravery of the Turkish soldier is too well known to require repeated assertion, but I may mention u remarkable exhibition of it which fell under my own notice. During Omer Pasha's Bosnian campaign, in which I accompanied him in order to report to Lord Stratford on his progress in suppressing a gieat rebellion, we marched along the valley of the river Bosna, which was too deep for fording, in the hope of being able to cross it at a ferry some miles further west. The enemy were in force on the other side. A captain of cavalry was sent on with fifty men to take possession of the ferry-boat. When we reached the place, the boat was there and the captain was there, but instead of fifty men there were not more than twenty. The Pasha asked where the rest were. The captain pointed to the river, and replied with perfect quietness of manner that he had found the ferryboat on the other side of the river, defended by hundreds of armed Bosnians, and that he had been obliged to swim the stream and bring the boat back under a fire which had killed thirty of his men, " Aferin, Dervish Agha," was all Omer Pasha said. I lost patience with his cold. "Well done, Dervish Agha," after such a gallant feat. I told him that in an English or French force an officer would have immediately been promoted for it, and asked him how he could expect his troops to distinguish themselves without other acknowledgment than such faint praise. ''Well, well, you need not get excited over it,"answered the Pasha, coolly,lighting a cigar. " Dervish Agha, I promote you to the command of your regiment, which is vacant. You shall have your firman as colonel by return of post from Stamboul. Fall in, and pass the word to all the coloneh that we halt in half an hour here to give their men a smoke." The young officer saluted and fell in at the head of his regiment with ! an unconcerned look which surprised me. Omcr Pasha, who could not live without smoking, never indulged in a cigar without allowing all those with him to light their pipes. As Turks, they adored him i accordingly. At a later period of this j campaign, a trustworthy officer of rank . was required to take charge of an expc- ' dit ion into Herzegovina. Omer Pasha j said to me that he had 110 one lit for it. ; I suggested that Dervish Hey might suit j him. The Pasha adopted the idea, and the expedition was perfectly successful. ' The colonel was made a general for it. J Long afterward I met him as Dervish j Paslm. and lie reminded me that lie owed his quick promotion to my taking his i part at the ferry of the Bosna. In the j last war with Kussia, he commanded the i army corps defending Batoum, and his j name lias since become very well and very favorably known to Europe in connection with Dulcigno.? Temple linr. Aspects or the Body. It may seem a dream to those who have not thought upon the subject to suppose that any connecting link can be tound between such animals as worms, mollusks, crustacea, spiders and insects, on the one hand, and fishes, amphia, rep- j tiles, birds and mammals on the other, j Yet it is a significant fact that if any one I of the first series of animals be turned ! upon its back, the heart, nervous system, j stomach, etc., stand in precisely the same j relative position to each other as they do j in the latter series. The only thing that ! differs in position is the mouth, which in the first series opens out between the two _______ i: c 1 nervous guugim wuiui lunu uie wiiwij, | and is directed toward the side of the I body on which the nervous axis is situated, and in the second series opens out beneath the brain, and on the op- i nosite side of the body to that occupied j by the nervous axis. Professor Owen be- j lieves that ccrtain structures which are situated in the center of the brain of back-boned animals, and have known j use, are remains of the primitive course : of the upper part of the gullet, and show j the vertebrate developed from the invertebrate.? I'ittabury Dispatch. RUNNING AROUND A DEPOT. ROW A TBAXST GOT PAST A BUMPY TBXiZQBAPK OPEBATOB. The Order Which He Failed to Fulfil?An Accident Averted?What the Chief Dispatcher Said. Percy, Wyoming Territory, can hard ly be called a city. It cannot boast of an opera-house, sewers, aldermen, daily papers, the electric light, or a dog pound. Outside of the section house and a small affair called a station there nre no bui.dings to speak of, if one cares to speak the truth. Not so very long ago a man named Allen?Winfield Scott Allen?was stationed there as night operator, and one Sunday evening, after said Allen had been up late, instead of wooing the drowsy god whose name looks very much like "morphine" in print, he received a message from the dispatcher's office in Laramie, telling him to hold ".No 7" for orders, lie reau a novel. The arduous labors of the day, however, had told upon the frail constitution of Winfielrt and just as he reached that point in the volume in which Gwendoline had consented to bid defiance to her stern and unyielding parents, and elope with her own and ownest Gerald McCloskey, the tired operator dropped ofT to sleep, showing a lack of sympathy for the heroine that could only be excused on the ground of extreme fatigue. Meanwhile his redlamp within had gone out It was but a weak and sickly light at best, and the poor thing p obably felt so bad at being huug out in the cold alone by itself that it concluded that life was not worth tho living?at any rate it croaked and as trains do not stop at Percy unless signaled, the reader can get ready for a terrible collision, witli the accompanying crash of engines, noise of escaping steam, the shrieks of the wounded, etc * * * ^o. 7 came inunaering aiong?a mu^ train of loaded freight cars with a half dozen emigrant coachcs in the rear, filled with men, women and children en route for the Golden Gate. Engineer Mathison, as he nearcd the station, glanced inquiringly at the signal-post for the rcdlitrht which he half expected to see there, but all was dark. The long train swept by and disappeared in the black night. Allen still slept; the thunder of the passing cars had not broken, in the slightest degree, his slumbers, or the regularity of his snores. * * * For the last hour the chair on which Allen sits has been throwing out distress signals. The sleeper has tilted it back until his whole weight rests on the rear limbs, which, after sundry squeaks and groans, gave way. Allen gives way at the same time. The iloor, on which he alights, doesn't. As the overworked brass pounder and four-ace manipulator gathers himself up from the floor and gazes ruefully at the ruins of the only chair there is in the building, he becomes conscious of the fact that the instrument on the table is sounding his "call" with startling rapidity. lie grasps the keys and rc]>lies*"I." "Where is number seven ?" "Hasn't arrived yet," replied Allen. "Are you sure ?" "Yes; don't think it could get by without my hearing it, do you ?" "Have you been asleep ?" "No." "Got a red light out ?" llVou " "How does it happen, then, that the operator at Fort Steele reports the arrival of number seven at that place ?'' Allen was paralyzed?partially. He rushed to the djoraud found no red light?only a lantern. He took in the whole situation in a second, and, seizing the key once more replied: "Blamed if I know. No. 7 hasn't passed here to-night. If she's at Steele she must have gone around by the overland stage road, it runs within a few ruiles of here, you know." * * * There had been no accident. No. 10 had orders to meet No. 7 at St. Mary's, but had been delayed at Fort Steele by a hot box until after the arrival of that train. Allen packed his grip, and every time a train from the east hove in si^ht got rcaay 10 turn over inc omcc iu ui? successor, who, however did not put in an appearance. One day Chief Dispatcher Baxter came along. He took Allen to one side very confidentially, and he made up his mind that the official ax was about to fall. Baxter said: ' Don't go asleep again while on duty, I and for goodness'sake don't let anymore trains go around over the old stage road. The alkali mud cats the paint off the locomotive wheels, and the amount of coal required to pull up some o." these hill# is simply awful. The next time an engineer tries to give you the slip by taking that road, just take .1 horse and follow him up. You can catch him, because the r.mdbed is so uneven that he can't make very good time. When you catch him, kill him, and I'll send a casket and the coroncr up on the first train. The company will pay all the bills. Eh?'' Allen said he would.?Liramie Ihwmcrany. Civilized, Bnt No Bread. There arc civilized nations a large proportion of whose peasantry cat little or no bread. Baked loaves of bread arc unknown in many parts of South Austria and of Italy and throughout the agricul tural districts of Roumania. In the villages of the Oberstcicrmark, not very many miles from Vienna, bread is never seen, the staple food of the people being sterz, a kind of porridge made from ground beech nuts, which is taken at breakfast with fresh or curdled milk, at dinner with broth or with fried lard, and with milk again for supper. This sterz is also known as heriden, and takes the place of bread not only in the Steicrmark, but in Carinthia and in many parts of the Tyrol. In the north of Italy the peasantry live chiefly on polenta, a porridge made of boiled maize. The polenta however, is not allowed to granulate like Scotch porridge or like the Austnan sterz, but is boiled into a solid pudding, which is cut up and portioned out with a string. It is eaten cold as often as hot, and is in every sense the Italian peasant's daily bread. The modern Roumanians are held by many scholars to be descended from a Roman colony, in other words, to be the cousins of the Italians, and, curiously enough, a variation of the polenta called mamaliga is the national dish of Roumania. The malign is like the polenta in that it is made of boiled maize, but it is unlike the latter in one important respect, as the grains arc not allowed to settle into a solid mass, but are kept distinct, after the fashion of oatmeal porridge. The Blble-and-Key Test for Theft. Keports of "rows'* between the Amazons, nf London alleys, do n-t often furnish such interesting rending tis does a case which was before a Thames police magistrate the other day. Mrs. Lyons, it seems, had "missed'* her shawl and she made up her mind to find out the thief by means of the unfailing test of the "Bible and key." The door key with a piece of string attached was accordingly laid inside the Bible, with the wards flat upon the leaves. Mrs. Lyons then closed the book, took hold of the part of the key which she had left projecting, and proceeded to pronounce the names of various "suspects," repeating after each nume the following incantation: Turn. Bible, turn, turn round the key: Turn, key, turn, und show the name to 111.' At the name of Mrs. O'Brien the key gave such a turn that it twisted itself out of her hand and loll on the tloor. There arc, however, several Mrs. linens mute neighborhood?a contingency for which the test of the Bible had been unprepared, and the confusion which naturally fol lowed led to the "row" in question.?1'nll Mall Gazette. Poetic A rubs. Through every part of the Arabian desert, says Hurckhardt, poetry is equally esteemed. Many persons arc founlwho make verses of true measure, although they cannot cither read or write yet, as they employ, on such occasions, chosen terms only, and as the purity of their vernacular language is such as to preclude any grammatical errors, these verses after passing from mouth to month, may at last be committed to paper, and * ?"1" romilar Will most COIJlIIluiiijr uii miiu. >vg..m. and correct. I presume that the greater part of the early poetry of the Arabs whicli has decended to us is derived from similar compositions. Ibn Saoud had assembled the best, poets of the Desert of Derayeh; he delighted in poetry, and very liberally rewarded those who excelled in it. According to the Arab "custom, if a reputable poet address some verses to a sheika, or a distinguished warrior, he will receive a camel or some sheepasa present. The largesses, which in former times v ere bestowed on poets by Arabian chiefs, are still the subject of frequent conversation among t.he Bedo- j uins. A chants acquamtaince?an introduction to a pretty member of the choir,? | Hartford Journal. I Fish That Go Ashore. An old fisherman took a scientific re- q Eorter of the New York Sun to a pool on ong Island, where they found numerous ^ little fishes (killies) resting partly out of water, with their heads high and dry upon A blades of grass. The old man also spun a yarn about some large fishes that he nad ^ seen hoppingalong on the banks of a river in the Malay country. These fishes were recognized from the fisherman's descrip- ' tion by the man of science, who then took his turn at telling fish stories as follows: ' 'The fish is only one of a dozen or twenty ? that are more or less amphibious. When ? the C'eradotus is under water it breathes ^ by the gills, but it has a habit oi leaving the water and prowling around 011 the marshes of the Mary river. As soon as it V leaves the water the gas in the air bladder is expelled with a noise that can be s heard half a mile. The fish takes in air at the mouth or nostril that passes into the air bladder, to which the heart is now pumping blood to be purified, instead of ? sending it to the gills. "The Ceradotus. which may be called a E dry land fish, is over six feet long, and looks like a great eel with two pairs T of fins that compare with feet, and the F most curious part of it is that previous to 1870 the fish was unknown, except as a c fossil. These fossil remains were described years aco by Professor Owen as the ("era- \ dotus. Strange stories came from the Mary j river of loud noises that were heard in the ^ swamps at night, and the crushing and rushing as of some huge animal. At last ^ + *! ?/? ntfnnflAn r?f II I IUU3U IUII1U13 ULIWIUICU Hit UIILIIVIUU V/. .. naturalist, who went to the locality, and the discovery of the fish was the result. They live on leaves and vegetable matter that they obtain partly out of water, and they are the last of a powerful race that is probably doomed to extinction. " The killies are not the only fishes ^ that leave the water. Last year I spent some weeks near a small fishing village s where there was a large eel pond, and to n say that it was alive with these animals is putting it extremely mild. Some au- t thorities say that the eel goes down to ^ the sea only once a year, but these fellows went out to sea every night, completely filling the little channel so that in ? wading across you stepped on hundreds that writhed about your feet and legs. If there happened to be a dory or other boat about that blocked the way,the eels ' left the water and wriggled away over 1 land, presenting a curious sight, and ' moving with such rapidity that it was an impossibility to catch them. I thought it might be accidental, and inquired of the fishermen how it was, and one told ine that several years before the entrance to the pond became clogged by sand , after a storm, and the eels, finding no , way of getting out, started across tne ] sand every night, forming passageways by which they returned. ,lIn England, when a pike pond gets too low to suit its occupants, they, according to Couch, start overland in regular droves, and travel until they reach 1 some place better suited to their requirements. This is true of a large number of fishes that are peculiar to the East and to 1 3outh America. In the latter country the catfishes known Doras and Hussars, when left in drying pools, travel overland in droves, and are caught in great num- ! hers by birds and various ani- 1 mals as well as men. Fishes of another genera, from North America, 1 have been found far from water. Perhaps the most curious is the Protopterus, some being found in Africa us well. They also breathe by the air bladder when deprived of water, but instead of migrating overland they descend into the mud and encase themselves into a ball, the interior of which is lined with a slimy secretion, and thus closed u|>, as it were, they lie until the rainy season comes again, and tiiey arc soukcu out. In ccrtain parts of Africa barren wastes have suddenly become flooded, and the sudden appearance of lishes lias given rise to ideas of spontaneous generation, as the enormous quantities of fishes could not be explained 011 any other hypothesis unless they had Mined down. Daldorf, the Danish naturalist, caught an anatas, a perch like fish climbing a palm, working its way up by its sharp fins. Hence, these fish are called climbing perch. They don't climb usually, but they are perfectly amphibious, like a frog. "As a matter of course, these fishes have been experimented upon. An English naturalist put a blenny in an aijuarium, and at certain times noticed that the fish tried to jump out of water. To see what it would do, lie set a stone in the water that formed a little island, and in a moment the blenny jumped upon it, high and dry out of water. The experimentalist noticed that it was then low tide on the beach, and every day at. exactly low tide the fish jumped out upon the rock, and returned to the water at flood tide. It is remarkable that the fish should leave the water, but how much more so that it should in a house and tank know the turn of the tide.'' Earthquakes and Luminous Paint. The connection between earthquakes and luminous paint would hardly be an parent to any one without explanation. It nevertheless exists, and the recent earthquakes in our own country have served to remind us of its existence. As a matter of fact large consignments of this paint are sent to those countries where earthquakes are prevalent. The < use to which it is put invests it with the 1 utmost importance just for the few criti- 1 cal moments of the shock. In the Philip- 1 pine Islands, where earthquakes are not uncommon, small metallic plates coated 1 with luminous paint are so placed about ' the premises that at the first warning the ' inmates arc quickly guided to the door, 1 and thus to the street. In Manila it is 1 laid on in patches about the bed-rooms I fiml stnirciiMfts. snrvinxr as fruides for the ' door handles and the stains, night lights I being considered especially dangerous as ' likely to set fire to the falling house, and ' thus to roast the inmates in their own homes. It follows that those who live in 1 districts likely to be visited by earth- * quakes will do well to adopt this plan. ( and to burn no Hume lights at night, es- 1 pccially in the case of gas, the pipes for 1 which might be broken asunder, and the ( gas escape and take fire. The gas should { be turned oil at the main nightly, and ' luminous labels be so placed as to indi- ' cate the door handles and other guides ( to the main point of egress, which would { enable the residents to find their way out 1 of their houses in the dark before the ' walls perchance buried them. It will be remembered that at Ischia there was just ( sufficient time between the first shock 8 of the earthquake and the downfall of s the Grand hotel to permit those who 1 acted promptly to save their lives.?Iron. ( f Osier Willow. t The cultivation of the basket willow i has been undertaken u number of times (> in the United States, but each time abandoned from the fact that American labor could not compete with the cheap labor of women and children in Kurope I in peeling and preparing the shoots, li The value of osier imported into this c country is anout Kii,uiH>,t.M>u umiuiuiy. i and it sells at from *100 totfl.'iO per ton. / TJie cost of raising is from $:10 to :?.*50 a ton, ' and the product varies from one to four li tons to the acre. To raise it the soil should d he deep, well drained and thoroughly ' worked, but moist and rapable of being ' overflowed in dry months. The osiers si are propagated by cutting its rows three a feet apart. The ground should be kept e clean of weeds. The crop the first year fi is of little value, but should be cut in a order to have a good stand of shoots the a second year. The shoots for market are a sometimes cut in November, and from o that time to April are equally good. ' After cutting they are tied in bundles, o and the lower ends placed in water until they are peeled in April, May or June, v After peeling they arc cleaned and placed ' in the sun to be dried. ?Chiruffn Xnm. <. I How to Eat An Orange in Society. ? I "How shall I eat an orange in society?" (i asked a subscriber. Now, what in the d I world do you want to eat an orange in p l society for? They are not there to eat, ti j but to look at, or to hold in a cold, o I clammy way in your hand, or roll oil v\ j your plate while you are using both hands s< I to steady it. But if you will persist in S 1 being old and cccentric, and eating your o ! orange before the world, there are several f( i ways of sacrificing it and yourself. Then a< I skin it gently and throw the pulp away. n Or you can quarter it and choke to death tl on the sections. Or you can dissect it, ir toy with it, and ruin your clothes and u your host's furniture with the Juice. It. A is usually adventure enough for one even- h ing to cut the thing up. Either it is a al ripe orange, and holds a cistern full of j n j juice, which squirts all over creation, or | w : it is dry, with a hide like a rhinoceros, j o i and nothing inside. You can impale j t< j yourselves on either horn of the dilemma. 1 n j The only safe way to eat your orange is j to leave it.?New York Mail and Exprm. i si The price of Circassian girls hes lately n J dropped to $600?the lowest figure ever si known. All young men who have been 1< despising matrimony because wives are so cheap can now purchase one for about | a year's salary, ana be happy.?RxrUmj 0 I ton Fne 2xress. 1 "rnircmnrrir'wrrr- - , ? THE DEFENDER ire come and laid his hand upon nor shoulder, 'a nd Sorrow came, her lids with salt tears 'e wet; ?c nd Pain, with features marred, aud white !D and set, t(I ressed to her side; and then, stern-visaged, ^ gaunt, d) rightening her shaken soul, unpitying Want rj, tared In her face; and then, growing q1 bolder jj, y all these ills, Temptation, smiling, fair, q pread for her weary feet a charmed snare, fith tender, cruel hand. So cold the world; w .11 her weak soul in a strauge tempes T whirled, It Tith whitened lips, and sad, imploring a' breath, 1( he stretches out her helpless hand to Death. 0 ?t hen lo! one came, before whose radiant 5 graca 1( oitow grew difmb, and grim Caiv hid his 9, face; g, efore whose presence as radiant as the c day, t 'emptition, vexed and beaten, fled away; v or whose dear sake she trembled at the thought f Death, whose pallid kiss she vain had sought. i VTith a strange rapture, holy, restful, sweeti s igainst her own she felt a tine heart beat. s Ih, Life! she cried, no ill of thine can hold j: me, n ince Love, the mighty, in his t.rms doth r fold me. a ?Charlotte Perry, in Vanity Fair. I ? c HUMOR OF THE HAY. a a The most courted belle?The dinner c. tell. J The hen that thinks a woman throws <] hoo's at her for good luck is very much y nistaken.?Bradford Moil. ( Hospitality. "Do take some more o c he vegetables, Mr. Blood, for they go t o the pigs anyway.?Harvard Isimpoon. r "Another expedition to the pole," f aid the man, as he wended his way to i lis barber shop.?Cincinnati Saturday 1 Wight. "Yes," she said. "I always obey my , msband, but I reckon I have something | o say about what his commands shall jc."?Bonton Pod. I My love and I for kisses playe 1 And it did chance to be The darling girl won all the stakes? And gave them all to me. ?Salem Sunbeam. Lady, to small boy with a dog?John-1 il-l .1 1 1. T?V.,-,r.,r IV, C10U8 UKU UUJ/ Ulii n. ill my in . ovu uujr, ivho is ft connoisseur in dogs?No, ma'am, ic barks at cats and other dogs.?Merchant Trawler. "I don't think I'm cranky,'' said a dudish young fellow, "but when I go out with my dog, and hear a man whistle ind I look around, and lie says he was whistling at the old dog and not the puppy, 1 think it is time I was asserting my rights.?Merchant Trarelcr. A new poetess from the West remarks: "If love you give, no more I'll ask." When this poetess has a little more experience 3he will learn that there are times when a single cold potato possesses more intrinsic worth than a whole moonlight evening full of love.?Philadelphia Call. " In Siberia you can purchase a wife for eight dogs." As long as girls can be had for the asking in this country, very few of our young men will go to Siberia to procure a wife. And one who has seen a Siberian wife will wonder why they come so terribly high.?Xorrintmcn Herald. A messencer boy recently fell oil the roof of a very high building up town, but was not hurt at all. It seems when he fell he was asleep, ami the slowness which characterizes him when on life and death errands didn't desert him. In fact he dropped to the ground so slowly and softly, that when he landed he was not awakened, but went right on dreaming until a policeman aroused him.?Puck. Vaccination. Previous to the introduction of vaccinnation 210,000 people died of smallpox annually in Europe; 4/5,000in Great Britain and Treiand alone. Catlin asserts that of 12,000,000 Indians one-half were destroyed by smallpox. From August, 1871, to August, 1872, 4.410 deaths occurred in Philadelphia, the mortality being one in every five cases. Inoculation was introduced into England from the East by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, in 1714, and into America by Dr. Boylston, of Boston, in 1721. This process, which, by the mildness of the attack, was nearly always protective of the individual, at the same time propagated the disease by multiplying the amount of virus. .Tenner's introduction into English practice of vaccination proper?that is by the inoculation with the virus of cow-pox, known before his time among dairymen?has, however, greatly abridged, not only the destructiveness, but the prevalence of smallpox. The theory of vaccination is. in brief, that the vaccine virus is merely the diluted virus of common smallpox or variola. A vaccinated person in whom the virus "takes,''has had a modified smallpox, iind ordinarily is not susceptible to the malignant, or, indeed, any form of the disease. With most of the zymotic diseases?smallpox, scarlatina, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, etc.?one ittack, even though not severe, usually secures immunity for life. No fact is better established in medicine than that most persons are, by one good vaccination, protected for life; also, that varioloid?modified smallpox?occurring in :hc vaccinated is seidom fatal, and rarely )roduces pits. Nevertheless an unjustiied distrust of vaccination has, within a few years, done harm in many locaities. Experience shows that a number of icrsons. after several years, reacquire he susceptibility to smallpox. The highest authorities place the proportion liable o variolous infection after having been raccinated at two and one-third percent. )f M,000 cases of smallpox in the Lon- : Ion hospitals, in the epidemic of 1870- ; "3, only four presented proof of having ' )cen revaccinated. In 1880. in the same :ity, the death-rate per million in Lonlon from smallpox was ninety among ] he vaccinated against 3.350 among the invaccinuieu. In the light of nil the facts of medical ixperience and practice, it is safe and , tdvisable on the occasion of epidemic imallpox to rejwat the viccination. The >])erati(>n is insignificant, without dancer , if any moment, and if followed by a , genuine * vesicle and sore arm, the brief lisoomfort may insure permanent immu- , lity from the dreaded disease.?Indian- \ 'pi/in Journal. ' Sliakesperian Slang. The power of Shakespeare over the j iiiblic is shown by the extent to which ? lis phrases, and even his slang, has be- 1 omc incorporated into our language. I n this point, indeed, he is unequaled. unong these is "bag and baggage."' 1 ' dead as a door nail," ' proud of one's i t iiimility," "tell the truth and shame the j i evil,"' "hit or miss." "love is blind." ?? ' .. i t selling utr a suii?, mm: 'cut copies,'' " fust and loose," uncoil- t idered trifles,'" "westward ho." "familiritv breeds contempt," " patching up xcuses," "misery makes strange bed- t L'llows," "to boot," (in a trade), "short | ml long of it," "comb your head with ! three-legged stool," "dancing attend- j | nee," " getting even" lrevengei. "birds ' f a feather,''" that's flat," "tag-rag," ? ( reek to mis" (unintelligible), "send ne packing," " as the day is long," }' ' packing a jury," " mother wit," " kill ,ith kindness," "mum" (for silence), t 'ill-wind that blows no good," " wild- ' roose chase," "scare-crow,'' "luggage," ji 'row of pins" (as a mark of value), viva voce." "give and take," "sold" < in the way of joke), "give the devil his J ue," " your cake is dough." These ex- ^ ressions have come under my own noice, and of course there must be many thers of equal familiarity. The girl -t._ II.. .n,n.. 1-nntll 1? n IllilL". I'UU I'HIJ 1IIIM WUIJ? fUUH. 4...... jp'" is also unconsciously quoting hakespcare, and even " loggerhead"'is f the same origin. "Extempore" is tirst ~ jund in Shakespeare,and so are "alnian- ( cs." The "eltn and vine" (as a tigure), | lay also be mentioned. Shakespeare is le tirst author that speaks of " the man 1 the moon,"or mentions the potato, or ses the term "eyesore," for annoyance. nother often-quoted utterance may be ere mentioned,simply because it is gener- 1 lly misunderstood: "One touch of ature makes the whole vorld kin," hich is supposed to express the power f sympathy, whereas it solely referred I > the widespread operation of selfish- a ess.?Hermitm. lroij 1 lines. ^ There are in the United States thirty- ' ix varieties of oak. thirty-nine of pine, ine of fir, four of hemlock, two of perimmon, twelve of ash, eighteen of wil. .j >w and nine of poplar. London consumes annually about 800,- j 00 head of cattle, 100,000,000 eggs and i 30,000 tonB of fish. ft ^ Overloading at Sea. ' ?n A stiip was sent to sea terribly over ' den. The captain was as fine a young ?x] llow as ever stood on a bridge, and he >ok his risk like a man; but before sail* ,g he wrote a letter which, with its ird and unrestrained pathos, is enough i wring one's heart. He said to his ither: "We are badly overladen, and I d not think we shall return any more." his letter was brought out at the in- 0 uiry, after the poor fellow's prophecy- eve: id been fulfilled. It is now in Mr. is t hamberlain's possession, I believe. Uls Pass on to another case. This ship sine ent down and an inquiry was held. Cal be court decided that she was overiden, upon which the owner jumped up diff ad made protestations until He was 91- j hui meed. The ship was bought for ?24.- I ^ PO: she was. according to the evidence ? iven, insured for .?33,000, and the fact wa hat the owner cleared ?9,000 by the ^ jss of the ship makes it easy to uiidertand his strong feeling when the court j*1 ettled that the vessel carried to much ^ argo. The owner was nowhere near as, he place where the ship started, yet he nel ras held responsible.?Pall Mall G'uetU. ^3 The Elevator. k? The person that first put an elevator fro uto a high structure, so as to save pasengers the labor of walking up many ? teps of stairs, little dreamed of the im- ? lortant results that have followed the doption of that expedient. It has 11 (radically revolutionized the domestic V ,nd business architecture of large cities, n New York thore are literally hundreds if high buildings accommodating thous,nds of persons, although the apartment ,nd office buildings are a thing of yester- A lay. In this city there are scores of Iwellings between 140 and 160 feet in leight. One house is over 180 feet high, ij rhe lower part of New York has a num>er of enormous structures filled with >ffices luxuriously furnished. The oc- P :upants of the upper floors prefer them E ? ?1-? ?aaham 4-Vtn cifiwfnAA a# fVtn anp+li ^ O IUU3C lit'UIl'l luu ouaa^t ui buv vuuu, The air, they think, is purer, and there ire fewer annoyances, while the elevator f s a swift and pleasant means of com- 2 nunication.?Demorett. 9 Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound B itrenzthena the stomach and kidneys and I lids digestion. Is equally good for both sexes. I . The town of New Madrid, Mo., is nearly P 100 years old. L Don't let any one convince you that those I pains around your heart are not heart disease. they are, do not delay but procure Dr. Graves' I Heart Regulator. Thirty years have proved P its value. B The cost of the late civil war Ls estimated I at $0,500,000.000. 1 Dr. Graves' heart Regulator cures all forms _ of Heart Disease, nervousness, sleeplessness. Kerosene oil is solidified in Russia and 1. made into candles. | Female M. D^i Are having quite a success, says a Mrs. *| Thrall. I have been practicing medicine p, for thirty years, and have had some very d< difficult cases. I know of one man who came from England. His was a severe case of " kiiney complaint. He was a great sufferer, M and had almost given op hopes of finding a relief. After he had used four bottles of the ? medicine I gave him he was relieved through * the natural channel of a piece of oxolate of ? lime calculus fully as large as a hazel nut, of t? a very irregular shape, somewhat like a griain ~ of corn when popped open. It was of a dark !_ brown color. It passage was of course ac- " companied by very severe and cutting pains, di I am pleased to say tie is a well man now. a fall account of the matter appeared in .the T "Banner of Light" at the time, and was much commented on by the medical fratemity? r. Not long ago I had three or four cases of dropsy. One of them lived twenty miles from here. In these cases sometimes the f1 perrons swell to an enormous size. Ul I could enumerate any number of pecsons tl who have despaired of grttipg well, and I * have cured them, as I pwsriroe a never-fail- CI ing medicine?one that I have used in all di s milar cases for six year?, namely, Hunt's el Remedy; and I give it to them in the original a package, and after the most thorough and " exhaustive provings I am fully convinced of c' its superior merits and specific action upon '< the diseases for which it is recommended. '? In short, Hunt's Remedy cures when every- ? thing else fails. ? Meh. Flavu A. Thball, M. D. h Poquonock, Conn., May 31,1883. Keep this in mind. In the Diamond Dyes' ? more coloring is given than in any known ? dyes, and they give faster and more brilliant colors. 10c. at all druggists. Wells, Richard- | son & Co., Burlington, Vt Sample Card, p. colors, and book of directions, for 2c. stamp. A Beantlftil Head of Hair, J long, silken in texture, rich chestnut brown, j? reaching to the ground; such are the effects of m the justly celebrated and widely known Car- t> boline, the prince of all Hair Restorers. ?( Instantly Relieved. * Mrs. Ann Lacour, of New Orleans, La., * writes: " I have a son who has been sick for " two years; he has been attended by our lead- ? ing physicians, but all to no purpose. This morning he had his usual spell of coughing u and was so greatly prostrated in consequence that death seemed imminent. We had in the house a bottle of Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for * the Lungs, purchased by my husband, who aoticed your advertisement. We adminis- * tered it and he was instantfy relieved." "j Figures Won't Lie. . The figures showing the enormous yearly sales of Kidney-Wort, demonstrate its value j as a medicine beyond dispute. It is a purely vegetable compound of certain roots, leaves and ? berries known to have special value in Kidney f trouble. Combined with these are remedies actiug directly on the Liver and Bowels. It is * because of this combined action that Kidney- 0 Wort has proved such an unequaled remedy in all diseases of_these organs. E "Rough on Corns." f Ask for Wells'"Rough on Corns. "15c. Com- ? plete cure. Hard or soft corns, warte, bunions. * For dyspepsia, isdioestios, depression of splr itH and general debility in their various forms, also as a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphor ated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all Druggi?t8, is the beet tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no equal. Heart Pains. j' Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness, j,; Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by w ''Wells' Health Renewer." J Rheuxatism.?"Wflson'i Wonder" cures \\ in H hours, or money returned Sent on receipt y $2. Medicine depot. 99 Park street. N. Y. p "jsncuu jraioa." Suick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation, Stone, Gravel, Catarrh of bladder. >L Druggists. 2.3 Cents i Will buy a Treatise ox the Horse and his b Diseases. Book of 100 pages, valuable to | every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent i>ostpaid. New York Horse Book Co., i:J4 Leonard Street. New York city. ^ "Ron^h on Rats." fo Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies,ants,bedbugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. 15c. Drgte. 2 If a cough disturbs your sleep, one dose of Piso's Cure will give you a night's reek $ A THOUSAND women were present at a re- | L-ent Kentucky hanging. Approaching Summer # (Varna ns to be prepared for the hot days which will E loon be here with their depressing and weakening >fleet. Prepare for them by putting the bod; in a ^ wealthy condition through the um of Hood'* Saraapa ' ills, the great blood purifier, regulator, aad building 0 ip medicine. "I was for Ave years a sufferer with boil?, all run lown, and wait st one time obliged to gire up work. ieture taking all of two bottles of Hood'" Sarsapanlla ju *a* votinilv CDrfi(i."_R M. I.iw Pitisbar*. Penn. P , - -- - ' ? 3U Purify the Blood * "My wife was troubled with diziiness and constipaion, and her blood has been in a bad order?in fact, M he has been all run down. Hood's Sarsaparilla 1? JJ loing her a wonderful amount of good."?K, M. Bald- "p vis, Druggist. Blanchester, Ohio. " 1 was sevurely nttlicted with icrofula, and for ovsr i year had two running sores on my neck. Took five ? utiles of Hood's Sanupanila, and conmder myself ?nIrely cured."?U. E. Lov&joy, Lowell, Mm. /t Hood's Sarsaparilla ? Sold by all druggists. $1; six for 85. Prepared only >j C. I. HOOD ? CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 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T.)?After Sereral Able Physicians Had Failed, and the Patient was Nearly Beady to Abandon Hope?The Substance of a Long and Grateful Letter. ne of the most remarkable cases that has , r been brought to the notice of the public >hat of Mr. J. 8. Beach, of Stone Ridge, Qb ter Co., N. Y. Mr. Beach has suffered Jm e October 18, 1874, from the presence oLJ cuius or Stone in the right Kidney. No i than seven physicians were employed a 'erent times, to whom Mr. Beach paid ldreds of dollars for medical treatment, h only temporary relief. iy the urgent solicitations of his friends he s induced to try 1)11. david ke.\;dy\s favorite remedy. He exienced a marked improvement from the t (lay he l>egan to use the medicine; on the h of September he voided a stone as large 2ould be passed through the natural chanilr. Beach concludes a long letter to Dr. nnedy by saying: " It will always afford pleasure to recommend the FAVOKITE E.'VfEDV to those who may be suffering m difficulties of the KidneyB and Bladder, any disorders arising from an impure stat) the blood." N.YW~P?g3 BeKenentlon for lISl LI vneat, W CfintiTTi ^ HA nfferlng from asen' K *' er*l**nt of tone,and lag diet and^ttlmtiU m o tIrof g^nnl^eco^wtlM U tb? pO?ae*i O Q of tilts k ?TOM?CH ^ SffilmEffSSK iITVfD3I ter-s Stomach Biti| I I W%.^ teraaoeffective aa an IB p*"* invteorant. For Mia >11 Drnwrlata mi Doalew generally. qhUE,jr's Creim I A K H when applied bj flnr,r into the noetrik. I iiffih*Ll S,will be abaorbed effect \ j "tADJ tiorl?- It allays inflam. Wf uTvCrVTD?w ?tf J nation, protect* the *1 lAl'i Dtmbnoa ol tin tinl ^ K It/t' sfBM passage* from frA?b / colds, complstely b?*l/ J jj^SBtho sores and restart* and smell. A tm t*1W ri'".y^n<N .?pii-*Han? relieve. 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