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SUNSET. Sweet star of summer's eventide! O'er yonder sea of light. Where many a cloudlet crimson dyed Is cradled on the night. And lack from many a purple isle The darkness rolleth for awhile, As sunset o'er that billowy sea Unveils her heart of hearts to tluv. I watched thy coining. l'?ng ago. When hut a pensive child. Where Vincent's dark blue mountain s glow Bv Huron wide and wild. JVlltl Mimv. imillpii The night dew kisstil my tlm?l'bing brow; I felt with bird and breeze ;ui?l bower The witchery of the sunset hour. Oh, far o(T home <>f lioyhood's dreams! Dear land reincml?cred Ions! The magic of thy mountain streams. The valleys tilled with song; Through blighted hope. through pain an tears. Through wandering and through burdened years. Denied, unsought and tempest driven, Ye tell of rest and home in heaven. To-night!?and such a night as this? JBsTj. His touch on yonder skies, 'A | Where clouds are l?itl"il in Kden bliss. I And stais in spk-ndor rise: II bless Him, in the bonds I b-'s elcft.; ''t. 'The wealth of Iio|n>. <?f jov that's left; KThe^hield and shelter ever nigh: Tl;<.> jieoce that comet h bv and by. eI fc'jT turn from these. Thy works, to Thee, j&j A refuge of our nice! If earthly scenes !? fair to see. What is Thy dwelling place.' The glowing sunset's eriuisoti light; The splendor of the starry night; The rainltow, arched from zone to zone, Are shadows only of Thy throne. Thou stoopest with a tender heart To every little thing: A refuge and a rock Thou art, A father and a king! Did not life's darkness dim our sight; It's sorrows hide Thine own sweet light. How much of goodness could we see? How much of love that tells of Thee.' ?American Monthly. SIDD Y]S ADYIC K. I. WIIKN IT WAS CIV KN. Yoi: could not find a more notable woman in the fishermen's quarter of our pretty seaside town than the wife of Joel Sims. He might work hard in his boat, but lie spent all his hours on short in lounging about or sleeping, whereas Siddy Sims was never idle. The four fat little children who called her mother were as rosy and healthy as plenty of tubbing and wholesome food could make them; and spiders avoided the queerly-built tenement on the clifT side, that might be known as Siddy Sims' by the whiteness of the rough stone at the door and the redness of the pots of flowers that tilled the windows. Yet, with all her occupations at home, Siddy was sure to be one of the lirst on the beach in the early morning, when the boats came in; lirst to help sort the fish; first to take her placc in the mar ket, where her bright,smiling face and civility attracted many a customer. And who, when business was over there, tramped away more undauntedly with her basket, to sell her whiting and soles at4he doors of the smart villas on the outskirts of the town: coming home not unfrequently to mend nets or make creels; and if help in the sick-room were needed, to take her turn at sitting up as readily as if it were a pleasure instead of a toil. Siddy was the best of mothers, after the rough fashion that thinks love may be as truly expressed by a slap or shake as a caress; but it is doubtful whether her children were nearer to her heart than a younger brother of Joel's, who occupied her spare bed-room, and had called her mother ever since she nursed him through a dangerous illness. That >Ted Sims had recovered at all had been due?so said everybody?to her untiring care; and now that he had de veloixid into a great, broad-chested, handsome young fellow, half a foot taller than Joel, and endowed with three times his industry and energy, Siddy was rather apt to take all the credit to her self, and to be proud of him accordingly. She very often planned his future as she sat making his new shirts or mending his jacket. He was no drinker, thank heaven! and so his savings were mount ing up, and he would soon be able to buy himself a share in one of the boats. And then, he must marry. ''It would be more 'spectable-like to have a wife tUan to be sauntering about with first one lass and then another." Yetrit gave her a smart shock when, instead of "keeping company" with some girl ;'to the manner born," some fisher man's daughter like herself, she met Ed ward, flushed with pride and happiness, of the b^st looking and best dressed of the chambermaids at the huge hotel lately erected at the top of the cliff. 1 It was Sunday morning, and Siddy coming out of the tiny fishermen's church with her baby in her arms, stopped short and frowned disapproval. Yet it would be hard to say what fault could be found with the pretty little creature who listened to the young fisherman. "Take my advice," said Siddy the fol lowing day, "and break with her. She's too fine a lady for you.'' "She don't think so,*' Ned retorted. "She didn't show no airs nor graces, did she, when she walked home with you from the church, but praised your cold pie, and talked to Joel as nice as nice ? And didn't you see how the children took to her?'' "An' kep' me in a fidgc to my fingers' ends that they'd spoil her line clothes. If she's going to walk with you. Kddard, don't you let her wear no more o' them fal-lals; it's waste o' money!*' "I don't believe her brown gown," whs the angry retort, "cost more than that shawl of your'n, Siddy; and it's not half as flaring." After hurling this shaft Ned made his escape, for he knew Siddy would not find it easy to forgive a slighting remark on the huge-patterned plaid which she had hitherto worn in happy ignorance of its ugliness. But ere Ion# she had forgiven the i. ? ,.e .....i 6]KXXI1, UUil LilU LilU.M; VI 11, WUI^UIUIII^ pretty Liz whenever she could find time to visit the fishermen's quarter. The season had not commenced yet, and the huge, half-empty hotel was so inexpressibly dreary that Li/, preferred Biddy's homely kitchen, even though it wao inconvieutly crowded when the children came in from play; .Joel's burly frame filled up the end nearest the fire, and Ned took a boyish delight in getting in the way of the busy wife and mother. Not that Liz was always a grateful re cipient of her lover's attentions. She had her fits of willfulness, sometimes evincing an irritability that would lead to a quarrel. Then Ned would stalk out of the house, refusing to hear tho re morseful voice that entreated liis return; and Liz either tied in another direction, or when advised to keep her tongue within her teeth in future, retorted with the reproach that it was Siddy's fault; she was always making misceief between them. "If it ain't enough to cut a body to the heart to be told that!'' exclaimed the dis comfited Siddy. "Don't you never marry her, Eddard." "I don't suppose she'll let me," replied Ned, with a heavy sigh. The varying moods of the girl were perplexing him sorely. It was not like her to be so petu lant. Had he loved her too well? His gloomy airficttcd the woman who loved him with a mother's love, till at last she cried: "Ha' done with it, lad ! You'd better take the shillin' and be a soldier than make yourself miserable for a chit of a girl that ^in't worth it." "Think so?" was all the response he made, but he lounged away, and was not forthcoming when Joel, his supper eaten, went ofT to the beach. . An hour afterward Siddy was watch ing the fishingfieet.glide away toward the oo+tirirp ohm ii'li/in enn f/iittwl T iv lwir OUU, ?? 1AV.K r?UV/ IVUIIU JJI t* KJJ 1IU1 side, ghastly with agitation. "Where's Ned?'' The girl's lips formed the question more than uttered it. "He's down town 'stead of where he ought to be!" and Siddy indicated the boats. "That's your doing!" "No, no; I've been down the High street," moaned Lb,, clutching at her friend for support; "he's not there, lie was seen at the railway station with the recruiting sergeant. 1 le's uwav with him; he's taken the shilling and <rone for a sol dier!" "And it was my advice that done it!" As she spoke Siddy dropped on the rough bench in the porch, and for a few minutes she was too giddy to know what else the equally unhappy Liz was saying. II. THE RESULT, Biddy shut her door against the well meaning neighbors who would havc con doled with her, and all the next day she ought by working harder than ever to irget the violence of the reproaches J ith which she lmtl driven the weeping iz from her presence. Xcd a soldier! sent abroad not to 1 restlc with the elements?that was u-tn's work?but to be cut. and hacked y savages! And her eyes would turn, gainst their will, to a wretched daub pon the cottage wall?a picture of a attic with the Zulus, in which half a [?/.en hideous savages were hewing down youug Englishman, who, to her excited incy looked like Ned. When the children hail been put to ed this horrid picture kepthercompany, II, uuablc to bear it any longer, she ire it down :?iul thrust it into the tire. ' "Siddy!" It was Liz who had stolen , pon her, and with extended hands was i esceching her forbearance. "Oh! l>id me gooddn-kindly." moaned lie girl, "for I am going away.*' "What's that for?" asked Siddy, ! arshly. "I was ill after I went, hack to my ' lace last night, and they sent for a doe r?r, and?and?I haven't felt well ever itiee I slipped olT the ladder when we rere cleaning tin: paint.*' "Goon," said Siddy. beginning to di ine the reason of those tits <>i' irrita bility that had often surprised her. ' The doctor says I have strained the litscles <?f my side, and must have a 1 mg rest, and so 1 am no use here and ' inst make room for some one else.'' 'And yon have no friends in London, 'vc heard von say so. Wlicre'll von ;???' ''The doctor has triven me a letter for hospital. Oh, Siddy! say a kind word o lighten my troubles, for they seem lore than 1 can 'near!" The strong arms of Siddy were thrown onnd her, and there was silence, till, shamed of her own emotion, the elder iroman began making up the tire and ' mtting on the kettle. "1 cannot stay," cried Liz. "I shall use the train, and they will not keep me ,t the hotel another night." i "We'll not ask them. You'll bide here. i'ou'11 have Ned's room, and I'm goimr i> nurse yon weli again." So Liz, her heart heavy, her limbs ching, submitted to be put to bed, and liere wept herself into I'e.sig/jation. ' V'hen Ned wrote?oh! surely he would , .rite, and tell them where he Was!?she 1 ould let him know how penitent she J . as; and though uneipial to hard work, , lie wasclcver with her needle, and could , nd plenty who would be willing to cm- . loy her. .Joel was away longer than usual, and t the end of the week lie came home ulky. To lose good chances as lie had one all through being short-handed had xasperated him, and he growled at his rife, abused the missing Ned and looked > black at the guest that she was fain o keep out of his wav. Siddy had much to cope with while is ill humor lasted, but she bore it a>; lie richly deserved punishment of her asty advice. In other rcspccts the world went inoothly. The doctor called on Liz and redicted her speedy recovery. But nothing would'lift the load that iv on Siddy's heart, and as she went ionic down the clilT side with her empty iaskct she felt weak and spiritless, for he sight of Lizzie's pale face and the ound of the heavy sighs the girl j ireathed as she sat in the old arm-chair i nth her sewing were continual re conciles to her hostess. Mechanically the sorrowing woman I ooked toward the pretty land-locked ! lay lying below the rocky ledge on which he was resting. The smack nf old Aaron (ones, who had sailed away far beyond vhcrc the other fishermen cast their nets, tad just come to an anchor, and, borne horeward by the flowing tide, came the mack's boat with the first"installment of inny treasures. One of the rowers, catching sight of >iddy, greeted her with a lusty cheer, ^he recognized him in a moment. It vas Ned' The report of his having en isted was a false one, invented by a half ipsy idler, lie had sailed in the Won ler, because in treaty wi'h the owner for i share in his ventures, and the oppor unity of talking over and clinching the )argain was too good to be missed. How Siddy laughed and cried in her oy 110 one ever knew. She kept out of ight till the lovers met and were recon nled, and her first words to Ned were a cproach for not wiping his boots :leaner. ' If you two'U be said by me," she old tlie young couple, "you'll get mar led as soon as you can And that's he last bit of advice 1 ever mean to jive!'' But whether Siddy will keep this rc ioIvc remains to be seen. ? CimxcWn izine. Churchyard Poetry. That the following, near Leamington, s genuine, there is no reason to doubt, rhe lines are touching. They are in nemory of a man named John Trees: Foorlv lived. And poorly died. Poorly uuried, And 110 one cried. K(|iially melancholy, though with a Iriiwl nf cntltif.*! 'iri' Mm rlivmes jti John Hill. They come from u ''church rard at Manchester:'' Hero lies John Hill, a man of skill; His age was live times ten. He ne'er di?l good, nor ever would Had he lived as long again. Very likely not, for if in half a cen :ury a man docs no good he will hardly urn over a new leaf at fifty years of aye. [s the following to lie considered as an mlogium on the person comniemmorated? Provost Peter Patterson was Provost of Dun dee, Provost Peter Patterson, here lies he, hallelujah, hallelujee! And what is the meaning of this sin gular inscription in Cusop churchyard. Herefordshire? lias it any meaning at ill? If earth Ih> all. Why o'er and o'er a beaten path You walk, and draw up nothing new Not so our martyred seraph did When from the Verge of Wales he fled. The martyred seraph was William Reward, of Badscy, Worcester,, who lied October 22, 1742. How a man ;ould be a seraph, and how a seraph ;ould be martyred, are unexplained mvs cries. It is somewhat curious to find a person lot only writing his own epitaph, but loing it in the following manner. Mr. rhonipson speaks of himself as dead and juried; and yet he survived himself for he space of sixteen years. At Kirk Uradilan, in the Isle of Man, we read. Here underlyeth the ltodv of the Reverend Mr. Patrick Thompson, Minister of Hod's Word forty years, At present vicar of Kirk Braddan, Aged fir. Anno Hit:;. I)eeejise<l ye '?Mlli April, Anim livs1.). This vicar apparently looked forward ivith calm c<|Uanimitv to his death. "A aim despair"' is indicated l?y these niel inclioly lines: At threescore winter's einl I di?*l. A cheerless being. l<>?e ami sad; TUe nuptial knot I never tied. And wished my father never had. ?Loniliiti Sitcirlij. The Brianvood Pipe Industry. "The short clay pipe lormerly used by smokers has of late years been to a great xtent siip|Jantcd by the wooden pipe, the manufacture of which is now unim portant industry," says the St. J"nt<x ii'iucti'. "Some interesting information respecting these pipes is given in Consul Inglis* trade report on Leghorn, whence the material for making wooden pipes is j low largely exported. Similar works ire also to be found at Siena ami (!ros ;ety. Selected roots of the heath? pref ;rence being given to the male variety? ire collected on the hills of the Maremma. vhere the plant grows luxuriantly, and ittains a great si/.e. When brought to he factory the roots are cleared of arth, and any decayed parts are cut iway. They are then shaped into docks of various dimensions with a cir :ular saw set in motio.i by a small steam ;ngine. (ireat dexterity is necessary at his stage in cutting the wood to the best id vantage, and it is only after a long ap irentieeshi p that a workman is thoroughly flicient. The blocks are then placed in a at, and subjected to a gentle simmering or a space of twelve hours. During this irocess they acquire the rich yellowish rown hue for which the best pipes are oted. and are then in a condition to . L'ceive the final turning; but this is done j Isewhere. The rough blocks are packed 1 sacks containing forty to one hundred ozen each, and sent abroad, principally ) France (St. Cloud), where tliev are , rushed into the famous <J. 15. I)., or >ipes de bruyere,1 known t<? smokers in ngland under tlic name of 'biwrwood' ' iites. Tlic production of this article is ansiderable, four hands turning out bout sixty sacks |>er month, ('onsign icnts are also made to England and Ger lany; but the Anti-Tobaeco association ill be <;!ad to hear at present the tie- ] land is said to be rather slack." . The :eepcst running stream that is : nown is the Niagara river, just und< r ie suspension bridge, where it is seven 1 undred feet deep by actual measure - i tent. " 1 :N THE ITALIAN QUARTER.' ITALY'S SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN NEW YORK. How llic Itcsitlciits llrcss, Act, l.ive ami Work?Sitlvwalk lliickstt-rs? Dissipmion mid Pleasure. Nowhere else in the cosmopolitan life >f New York city, can such grotesque 'utilities and picturesque, if sometimes sorrowful, incidents l>e observed as those tvhich exist in the Italian colony, It mbraces the district lengthwise, from Worth street to Spring, and crosswise it extends from the cast side of Mott street to the rear of the west side of Mulberry. The colony comprises only the most ig norant and the poorest of the children of Italy, and within the territory named there are not two dozen families of other nationalities. Not many years ago a liandful of Americans, and a sprinkling .f Rimini"miis niiirlit havu been found in tin* district, hut the steady influx of the Neapolitans with their peculiar mode of living, caused a line of demarcation to Ik- drawn, and left that section iu their possession. And the district is a faith ful reproduction of uncultured Italian life. Within the territory virile vice keeps abreast of virtue, thick-lined pov erty rears its gaunt head with infinite wise above the modicum of moderate wealth, and whichever way the eye may glance characteristics startlinir, customs fanciful, scenes outlandish may be ob served. The people live within them selves. They revel in their peculiar and riotous fun, breathe the uncloistcrcd at mosphere of friendly fellowship, and earn a livelihood in a manner peculiar to the Italian. The women of the colony arc fantastic mid diverse. They are fantastic as to dress and diverse as to their habits and modes of living. Some of them arc; slat tern, coarse in their homeliness and clown ish in their rusticity. Others avoid the ground-swell of vice. They are cleanly in their habits even if ignorant, and im prove themselves cacli hour that passes in the gradation and continuity of their lives. Hut all arc picturesque. Kvcry woman wears jewelry. l,on<r pieces of Ljolcl of antique make hang from their cars. No matter how poor the wonir.n may be the pendants are there. Sonic of them have bands of gold or silver 011 their wrists, ami here and there one may l?e seen with a glittering careanet around lier neck. The women wear low shoes Ill UVCTV CilM*, aim m.Hj ^uiiiuno ihumk, is a rule, out of fustian clotli. (icuerally the upper portion of the costumes is worn mailt ilia-wise over their heads. The ef fect is never somber, for their dress is al ivayi garnished with some llimsev j^ew ,'aw. Nearly every woman carries a baby strapped to her back ami never seems Jo be conscious of its existence. The rest of the brood toddle along as best they may. But the male population must be from the very dregs of Italian civilization. All ire inelegant. Some are disfigured, oth ers grisly and many cadaverous. Every jne of them wears a still Derby Jiat. l'his is the only article of dross in which they are alike. Their habits are not. cleanly. To wash their faces once a week is the greatest punctilio the majority of them observe. Their dress is fantastic, too. Some of them wear clothes that mice may have decked the persons of European royalty; others add to their appearance by wearing the cast-olT gar ments of American dudes, and none of them is the possessor of a brand new suit i>f ciothcs. When not working or en gaged in games they stand in groups and jabber. Each one of them carries at his waist a hook that aids him to dive into barrels and ash heaps for many things of value to nobody until made so by Italian ingenuity. Some of these fellows are in tensely jealous, some arc good-humored, and some are habitually churlish. But the most familiar feature of the many to be observed in the colony are the sidewalk hucksters. From AVorth to Broome street booths litter the curb stones. Behind them women and chil dren are ensconced, but rarely, if ever men. What do they sell? Everything that he or she of the Italian colony may need in every day life. Old ciothcs and hats are ped dled from three or four booths, but the traflic is mostly confined to articles of food dear to the palate ot the Italian. They live simply and find 011 the curb stone stands the food which comprises their daily meals. What do they eat? Stale bread, decayed fruit, beans and old vegetables of every variety. The beans are the only sound commodity sold. The bread is several days old and is pur chased in the wee sma' hours for a mere pittance from the bakeries. The oranges are unripe and the bananas decayed. The cabbages are rotten and the potatoes worm-eaten. The hucksters buy the miscellany for almost nothing, and all day long they sell their wares to their compatriots. A loaf or two of this stale bread, a rancid orange, two bananas and a gill of the prepared beans can be pur chased for five cents, and a whole family can subsist on ten cents' worth. If the Italian has made a lucky strike or is feel ing jubilant, he repairs to one of the four restaurants in the colony, jind there he can purchase from the following bill of fare which is displayed conspicuously on the outside: Coffee Scents. Coffee and bread .'{ " Beefsteak and potato 5 " Mutton chop ami eolFee < " Macearoni 'i " Puddings ;J " Most of the sidewalk hucksters have husbands working elsewhere, and conse quently they save all the profits of their sales. These people comprise the aris tocracy of the colony, because they com prise the major portion of the modicum of wealth. 35ut living in this style and paying rent only for one room for an entire family, the Italian must save money. And so lie rl<w.e Ttw.rn 11 ro 110 lo? tli;m three Imnks in the Italian colony. The most preten tions is the lianca dc italiana in Mul berry street. The men put their sav ings in this, and their pile is augmented by driblets from their wives and chil dren. But surely the reader may ask if these men are able to save money on their small wages, they would be con tent to live better. No; they are willing to drudge and starve, willing to subsist on a crust, so that their ambition, the great one of their lives, may be realized. The poor Italian has but one object in view and that is to get back to his na tive land. It is to compass that object that he slaves and starves. Every day that goes by sees him nearer to the goal of his ambition. If he feels the chill air on a winter's night because of the lack of an overcoat he consoles himself with the knowledge that soon he will have money to briny him tosunny Italy,where, with iiis modest fortune, he can become a tradesman or a farmer. When the (Jaribaldiau has a gfuired $1,000 or $1,200 he sails with his wife for home. The children are then old enough to take care of themselves and they arc left to do so. These Neapolitans have their pleasures and heir dissipations too. To be sure, they do not go to the theatres, nor do they study the rhythm of the waves upon the seashore. I5ut they find surcease of toil and sorrow in their liquor saloons. These abound. They are vile places, but they suit tiie customers. There they dance the brisk rigadon, play cards for stale beer, and after an evening's dissi pation only spend ten cents. The beer costs two cents a glass and is the drain age collected from kegs. The cigars are sold for the same price, and a vile com pound called whisky may be purchased for three cents. The men play cards for the drinks, and only the victors quaff the stutF. Sometimes they quarrel and vile oaths tloat out into the atmosphere. Sometimes they jest, but their wit never reaches an Attic height and rarely gets to the level of a banter. If some .lack pudding comes along they entertain him while he gets oil his gasconade, but oaths are far more frequent than laughter. And this is how they live. A hundred families occupy a building and at least one a room. In it they eat and live and sleep and .sometimes die. The funerals are inexpensive but affecting. The cof fin is as rude and cheap as pine can be. The hearse is simple also. When the time for the funeral arrives the windows in the vicinity are black with Italian hu manity. The coffin is enclosed in the hearse, a male member of the family sits beside the driver, and the solitary pro fession is readv to start. Then two or three native musicians play a dirge upon heir violin and harp, and when they I'll//. / / / Indc/I III/. I'ti II/'I-'I I Kfni'fK Tlliv h the actual everyday life: of these strange ?eoplo, mid tliey number over 5,001) now. Arm Yuri. Mail uml hs/trcsx. The Freshness of Youth. Old gentleman:?"J am delighted to lave met you. Miss Bonniface; I knew ,-onr grandmother, a charming woman! i'oucan form no conception ol' her grace ind beauty." Miss lionnifacu:?"Oli, yes, T can? People constantly tell mc I am her living mage." Utter collapse of old gentleman. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The possibility of obtaining illuminat ing gas in considerable quantities from the droppings of cows and horses has been demonstrated to the French Aca demy of Sciences by M. (Jayot. The process does not lessen the value of the fertilizer. The best way to ascertain whether Hour has been made from sprouted wheat is to stir a sample up with water, filter, and test with corallin solution, rendered red with a trace of alkali. If the (lour is acid il turns yellow. Methyl orange can be used. Litmus is less delicate in ob tammy the miction. A factory lias recently been crcetcd in China for the manufacture of sulphuric aciil 011 a la rye scale, and chemical studies now form a regular part of the curriculum at the imperial colleges. In translating the text-hooks many new characters had to he invented to express the technical terms and novel ideas of the new science. More than 100 tons of human hair are annually bought and sold. Four ounces is an average clipping from a human head; so that 100 tons represent the product of from *00,000 to 1,000,000 heads. In Europe the heads of female criminals arc sdiorn. and they supply a large market, hut the greater part is honglit by traveling peddlers. Between the ages of fifteen and forty, a woman can grow about seven crops of hair. Doctor Dudgeon, the famous homeop atliist physician of London, recalls the fact?apropos of Koch's investigations into the nature of the cholera germ?that Hahnemann in is:ll suggested that the contagious matter of cholera consisted of "excessively minute, invisible living creatures,''and accordingly advised the free use of camphor, which lie held to be a potent cholera bacillicide?to the cflieacy of which treatment, adds Doctor Dudgeon, the statistics of every epidemic in Europe testify. *' Hitherto it has puzzled eminent sur geons to account for sudden death caused by apparently inadequate wounds in the heart, such as those made by the prick, without penetration even, of a needle, llerr Scluuey, a student of the physiolog ical institute, Berlin, has, however, just discovered that when a needle pricks a certain small spot on the lower border of the upper third of the septum cordis, <|in(c instantaneously the movements of the heart are arrested and forever set motionless in death. "It is now the task (if anatomical investigation," says Pro fessor Kroncckcr, who verilied the dis covery of his pupil, llcrr Sclimey, and communicated it to the physiological so ciety of Berlin, ;,to demonstrate with accuracy this vital center, tlie existence of which has been proved experimen tally/' The Man in the Moon Heard Front. At the astronomical observatory of Herlln, says a translation from Xyn I'rrsnen a discovery has lately been made which, without doubt, will cause the greatest sensation, not only among the adepts in science, but even among the most learned. Professor lilendmann. in that city, has found, be yond a doubt, that our old friend, the moon, is not amcrc lantern which kindly furnishes light for the loving youth and gas companies of our planet, but the abode of living, intelligent beings, for which he is prepared to furnish proofs most convincing. This question has agitated humanity from time immemorial, and has been the object of the greatest interest, lint the opinions have always differed very widely, and no two minds held one and the same. Already in ancient times the belief prevailed that the moon was in habited with some higher organized, intelligent beings, somewhat resembling man, and in order to communicate with them the earthly enthusiasts planted rows of trees several miles in length so as to form the iigurc of the Pythagorean theorem. The celebrated astronomer, Schroder, in the beginning of the present century, fancied that he could detect places on the surface of the moon which periodically grew* lighter and darker, and from this fact lie derived t lie conclusion that the phe nomenon was a proof of existing vegeta tion. During the last few decades, how ever, the idea of life 011 the moon has been held up to ridicule, and totally scorned by men of learning. Hut never theless, it has now been proved to be correct. By accident Doctor niendmann found that the observations of the moon yavc but very unsatisfactory results, owing to the intensity of the light power of the moon's atmosphere, which is that strong that it alTects the correctness of the ob servations in a very high degree, lie then conceived the idea to make the ob ject-glass of the refractor, less sensitive to the rays of light, and for that pur pose he darkened it with the smoke of camphor. It took months of experi menting before he succeeded in finding his right degree of obscurity of the glass, and when iinallv found lie then with the refractor rook a very accurate photo of the moon's surface. This he placcd in a sun microscope, which gave the picture a diameter of lifty-fivc and one-half feet. The revelation was most startling. It perfectly overturned all hitherto enter tained ideas of the moon's surface. Those level plains which formerly were held to be oceans of water proved to be verdant fields, and what formerly was considered mountains turned out as deserts of sand and oceans of water. Towns and habita tions of all kinds were plainly discern able, as well as signs of indnstry and trallie. The learned professor's study and observations of old Luna will be re peated every full moon, when the sky is elear, and we venture to predict that the time is not far oil when when we shall know more about the man in the moon than as being an agent in English politics In a Japanese Hotel. At daybreak I was awakened by an unmistakable British voice crying aloud for a towel. Looking out at the court yard I saw a gentleman whom we had passed on the road, standing hare throated and dripping wet by a bucket of water, in which he had been washing.' lie had only at this critical moment dis covered that the Japanese do not regard the towel as an absolutely necessary ap pendage to a toilet set. "Towel!" roared the wet and angry Briton to the trembling Japanese who stood there ready and willing to go anywhere and do anything, if he only knew what. "Heich ?"' the Japanese said, aimlessly hovering about. "Tow-el ! towel!" the Britisher roared, trying all possible forms of accent nation in the hope that one might strike a chord of intelligence in the mind of this inelTably stupid man. Tlu Japanese evidently began to think that whatever might be wanted, it would be safer for liiin to go and look for it inside, and not be in a hurry coming back. "Towel!"' the En glishman roared again. "Ileieli!" said the Japanese, and ran nimbly into the house. Hut he did not come back again, and the Englishman, after stamping around, disappeared into his own room, partially dried in the wind. 1 learned from him later that he had had a good deal of trouble from the unpardonable and unaccountable ignorance of the English language among the Japanese in the interior. lie had walked for fifty miles through glorious scenery, heading for .Nikko?the only word he could pronounce in the Japanese tongue was Nikko? and by dint of repeating this he got along moderately well. His chief ditlicnltv was the matter of food. Jlc lived ehiclly oil rice and tea, and had arrived at a tca-housc on the pre vious night half-famished. I fancy that in the best of circumstances he was naturally of an irascible temperament. Hut after living on tea and rice for two days to reach Nikko and find no towel after he had trustfully washed himself was, he admitted, more than he could bear without protest.?Loulon uYum. The Red Thread of Honor. It is related of Sir Charles Napier's campaign of the I'ppcr Scinde, that a sergeant with eleven men became separ ated from the rest of his command. An officer signaled an order to return, but they mistook the signal for a command to charge. There were seventy of the foe behind a breastwork at the summit of the mountain. They fell there, these brave eleven, after slaying twice their number. There is, it. is said, a custom anions the robber tribe which llicse brave men fought, that when one of their great war riors is killed in battle, they bind his wrist with a thread either of red or green ?the red for the highest rank. When the Uritish found the stark bod ies of their eleven brave comrades, around both wrists of each they saw the red thread. These robbers and foes gave the hero his own giory as best they could. Smelling-bottles arc coining in fash ion again. A Washington belle carries one a foot long and very heavy. lJut she would faint at sight of a potato masher. JBBING STAGES OCT WEST. ROAD AQENT TELLS HOW EASILY IT IS DOSE. >1 a Hit of Dancer to a Scientific. Kobbcr?Tile Passenger* too Had I y Scared to .Murmur. A Madiera (Cal.) letter to the New )rk Sun says: Two stage robbers in I here for operations in the Yoscmitc illey have been visited by many people (1 questioned as to their career on the td. Both men arc fully identified as e individuals who stopped a coach last II and relieved the passengers of'their limbics. Both claim that this is the ly robbery of the kind they ever par ipated in, but under the influence of je cigars they confessed that they had rtain friends and acquaintances who (1 had some very queer experiences as ad agents, some of them on the Yose ite trail. "For a man who wants real good btisi ss and an easy sort of life," said Tol m Tcrhune, one of the prisoners, "I mid advise him to go to work on the (Semite route. Living is compara bly cheap and good in that vicinity, d stages are just plenty enough?not o plenty, but just enough. You don't int to tackle every stage that comes ang, for that would spoil the whole ing. People would not ride, and after while there would he no stage at all. ju must let the recollection of one old up' kinder fade out of mind before 'U spring another on them. When a old up' hasn't occurred in two or three rmths drivers get kinder careless and sscngcrs take greater risks. "My observations have convinced me at there isn't anything in this world at the majority of people fear more an a road agent. It's all moonshine, it it is a fact, nevertheless, and the >ys in the business have to be very refill, or they will stampede all the ime. "Now there is no danger in stopping a ach. Did you ever hear of a stage bber being killed? I never did, and I tve been on the coast for thirty years, obody kills a road agent. In the first ace (lie passengers are too seared, and the next tliev are so almighty anxious have i lie thing over with that they > not think of anything else but com ving with the demands made upon cm. It is as safe a business as preacli g, and safer than preaching in some wns that I know of. I have heard an (piaintance ol mine, who operated in e northern part of Oregon, say time id again that some of the gentlemen liom he invited to shell out made him el ashamed of himself by giving up ings that he would never have thought asking for. One man, I remember, he Id me about in particular, lie was inding in the row with his hands up id his teeth chattering, and when my iend came up to him and pulled out his vest pocket a little wad of money, it over $(>. the fellow, evidently fearing at some dire punishment would be in cited upon him in ease he did not pan .. . .... 4U.. ?n. ii. as wuii an inu uhjuid, tuiu mo luui/^i at he had more money in his trunk, Inch was strapped on behind. Well, course my friend had to get that money, id that took time, but lie found it right lierc the fellow told him it was. lie >uld a good deal rather have gone oil ithout overhauling the trunk, but since e man had told him that there was onev in it, lie would never have rested sy after that if he had not got it. "I know dozens of just such experi ces. I had a cousin operating on the jsemite road, over near where I was unded up, who took more pleasure in e business than any man 1 ever heard . lie enjoyed the fun of the thing, and : often use to say to me that, as between bbing a stage and going to a minstrel ,ow, he would take the former every nc. Now, that, you see, was bccausc ere was absolutely no danger in it. lie as an experienced man, and knew that ic thing was safe. I honestly believe lat if, when he was going through a age load, somebody had fired oil a gun : would have fainted away, not so much om flight as from surprise. "My cousin was considered a very good an in his day. He had an air of au lority about him, and a voice that could i heard a mile in the mountain air. rhen lie said 'Hands up!' hands went l>, and no driver ever dared move a peg hen lie heard him remonstrating. Vet 3 was downed once, and by a woman, io. lie stopped a stage load of people oni New England, and there was a ihoolma'am in the crowd who wore icctacles and was a good deal more igular llian any of the women they lise out here. When he ordered 'hands |>' he didn't notice that she refused to !)cv, because she was down at the foot r the line, and lie didn't pay much at intion to her anyway. As he pro ;edcd along the line, working the dif rent victims as he went along, he no ced that her arms were behind her, and lat she was a slender old girl. So he lid nothing until he came to her. Then t.:? i.l... irowing an nu power mm uis may a m died, 'Hands up!' Well, she put her iuids up. She had one of those Cape od umbrellas, with whalebone ribs as ig as your finger, and when she raised cr hands she clutched that umbrella ith the grip of death, and down it tme 011 my cousin's head. He told mc e saw double for a week after that, and >r th^tiiuu being he was nearly knocked ut. It was a mighty ticklish moment. As have said, you work a coach load easily y terrifying them and getting away bc >re they recover their self-possession, ow, here was a woman who had not >st hcr's at all, and if the men at the ther end of the line had had an oppor mity to think for a moment they would ave been on top of me?1 should say on >p of my cousin?before he could get ut of the way. Hut he was a clever Imp. He just drew a big gun and sailed p to the other end of the line looking ltv ferocious, and muttered something ) the men about never robbing a woman, hey took on a fresh fright and did not ndcrstand fully what had happened, lie len gave the order to mount, and cov "ed the crowd as they got on the coach, lie schoolma'am was the last one in, id she was the only one who was not jbbed. Now, I'll bet those fellows felt lciin when thev heard her story and >iind thut she had not lost anything. ' That's the whole sccret of this aging business. No stage robber who lit to follow the road ever kills any tidy. lie may shoot iit times, but not > kill. Whenever you hear of a stage eing tired into and lots of people hurt, ->11 may make up your mind that some ing of hard men are at work. No pro ssional does anything of the kind." A Cremation in India. A Calcutta letter to the Omaha Herald ins describes the cremation of Keshub hiinder Sen: It was I o'clock in the ternoon when tlie company of apostles id mourners arranged themselves in dcr, took up the flowery bedstead with s precious burden and started for the dilation ghaut in Nimtollah, a suburb i the north, on the banks of the ooghly. Many hundreds of grief ricken people followed, their eyes )\vncast, their feet without shoes, and icir hair disheveled. There was much llieulty at the outset to preserve order id to form a line, as each was eager have a glimpse of the benignant smile hicli still played upon that beautiful ce, though cold in death. The liouse ps were full of gazing men and omen, who freouently took up a chorus piteous lament. Europeans, Mohatn cdans and Hindus all conspired to nder homage to the dead leader of the ;w dispensation. It was just dusk as the earthly remains id the flowery cot on which they re ised were laid upon a pile of sandal ood. The hand rested upon the heart, itside the winding sheet. As t he body y upon the pyre, the vast assemblage outed: "As tlie true, the intelligent e infinite, and the blissful, lie mani sts himself. He is the peaceful and era fill CJod. He is one without a pond. He is holy and sinless," The chief mourner, Kuruna C'hunder n, the eldest sou of the deceased, then oka torch in his right hand and ap ied it to the pyre, saying: "In the me of (Jud I apply this holy lire to the -t remains of the deceased. The nior I shall burn away and perish, but the imortal shall live. Oh, Lord, the do ited soul is rejoicing in Thee, in Thy issful abode." As the body began to irn, the multitude again chanted lves ib's favorite anthem: "(Ilory be unto e Redeemer, who is fi utli, wisdom,and y." The cremation lasted about five nirs, and at a <|uartcr past 11 o'clock i' ashes were collected in an urn, ami ought back to the Lily cottage by the ief mourners and apostles of the new -pensation. A universal feeling of sor w hangs over 'India. In Norfolk, England, farmers buy fish 91 per ton and mix with soil in the oportion of one to forty, and obtain avy crops of turnips. The Hog World. The following,' table, showing the number of hogs in the various natioua of the world, is from tables prepared by the Cincinnati Price Current, by which it will be seen that the United States raises nearly half: United States 43,270,000 Russia 10,332,000 Gerr. any 7,321,000 Austto-liungary 0,995,000 France 5,301,000 Spain 4,352,000 United Kingdom 3,840,000 Switzerland 2,000,000 Italy 1,584,000 British North American Provinces 1,419,000 Rotimania 837,000 Portugal H 7,000 Belgium 602.000 Australia 567,000 Denmark 504,000 Sweden 420,000 Holland 352,000 Argentine Republic 342,010 New Zealand 207,'W0 Greece 180,000 Cape of (iood Hope 132,000 Norway 101,000 Total 91,964,000 And bv the following table nrenared by the national department of agri culture, it will lie seen whore the hogs are raised in the United States, Iowa stand ing at the head of the column: Stalei. Xn of I[?<it. Iowa ,....5,107,445 Illinois 3,970,764 Ohio 2,714.11V! Missouri 3,892,920 Indiana 2,724,383 Kansas 1,984,M6 Nebraska 1,520,823 Wisconsin 1,1 0>,2.iS Tennessee 1,988,753 Kcntncky 1,!H0,5S7 Pennsylvania 1,060,850 New York 744,2:18 Michigan 934,184 Texas 1,953,1 s9 California 85:!,000 (Jeorgia 1,412,604 North Carolina 1,311,821 Alabama 1,225,534 Arkansas 1,250,513 Mississippi 1,070,269 Virginia 773,864 Minnesota 42-1,057 New Jersey 214,688 Maryland 325,113 South Carolina. 5S4,fl:>l Louisiana 564,439 West Virginia 414,600 Massachusetts 80.908 Dakota Territory: 109,600 Oregon : 163,954 Florida 320,000 Var,v,nn? 7.1 WiV. Maine 71,404 New Hampshire 5-1,511 Conned icat 02,405 Delaware ir.,740 Utah Territory '22,50') Washington 5!>,3U0 Idaho Territory 23,(1 Hi New Mexico Territory 19,300 Hhoilo 1 gland 14,4<*5 Montana Territory 17,200 Coloradu 12,100 Nevada 12,01)0 Arizona Territory y,2U0 Wyoming Territory "35 Total 43,270 ,0S Oddities of Paris Horse Cars. An amusins* feature of l'aris to a for eigncr is the horse cars. The appearance of the car-driver and the conductor would almost assure one that they had been im ported from America; but certain rules to be observed in running the cars very quickly remind him that he is in France. Tne cars arc allowed to carry onlj a cer tain number of passengers?ten standing on the front platform, ten on the rear platform, and as many in the car as arc allowed to have seats. Those inside pay fifty centimes (ten cents), and those out' side twenty-five centimes. When a car lifts its complement the gates are shut, a sign is hung out reading "camplet," and no one can enter. During the busy time of the day, between 5 and (J o'clock, when crowds arc waiting for a car, it is necessary to apply at the ollice for a numbered ticket. For instance, say you applied and re ceived No. 21. You wait for a car, and the driver, when ready, commences to c all une, deux, trois and so on until he reaches your number, when you must be ready to enter; if not you must pro cure another tickct and wait your turn again. Ths system has its advan tages as well as its disadvantages, and the French think it a great thing; but the amusing part of it to foreigners is the calling of the numbers, and, unless one is pretty well up in French, lie is very apt to get left and has to go and get another. Instead of ringing a^bcll like our con ductor they use a kind of horn, which ia attached to the dashboard and blown In a rubber ball which the driver presses. The sound, which is not unlike that of a cow-horn, can be heard distinctly for a block. It is not objectionable unless the instrument happens to be out of order, and then it is very unmusical. The cars arc a great convenience, and are verj liberally patronized. One sees in them the economy of the French people as n class, very finely dressed ladies standing on the platform to save five cents. Econ omy is observable everywhere in France, and there is much truth in the aphorisir that ''the people could live on what tlu Americans waste."?Chicago Tribune. Chinese Love for (Jooil Victuals. The Chinese, it must be confessed, ari a gormandizing people. In spite of tlief Buddhist professions, in spite of tlious ands of Buddhist tracts enjoining vege tarianism, fasting and mortification o t.b#> flesh as the onlv road to the Wcstcri paradise, the heathen Chinee will jiave t< take his place among that depraved clas: "whosegod is their stomach." Thcnnra ber of fat, oily priests one sees in tnonas teries convinces the visitor that their die is regulated by anything but I'ythagoreai principles. Their very deities are sadl; inclined to corpulency, while their pe image of the Buddha in a merry mood i one undulating mass of obesity, as hi j lounges on his pedestal. There is no ob ject upon which a Chinaman's eyes res with so much ple.asure as upon soim well-fed, beefy-faced, barrel-bodied Fall stall. When a man who is incliuc( to embonpoint meets an old ac <]iiaintance he is greeted wit! the compliment : "Why, hov your blessedness is increasing!" Tin dea being that fatness is the outwan and visible sign of inward happiness anc contentment; while leanness is alwav: associated with worry, care and sorrow According to Chinese phrenologists tin intestines are the seat of the mind ant affections, and it is a very common joki on meeting a stout Chinaman of Pick wickian proportions for a foreigner to sai to his companion: "What a line intcllec that man ha.*> got!" In a land when adipose tissue is a mark of beauty it ii almost superfluous to say that eating i: the all important business. If you wan to say: "How do you do?" to a China man, the only way is to ask him if hi has eaten his rice yet. Follow behind i company of Chinese walking along tin street and listen to their conversation and you will iiud that, if it is not aboui money, it will be about food and drink, I have never been two minutes in con versation with a fellow-traveler in a rivei boat without being asked what article ol diet constitute a foreigner's chow-chow, ?Sun Francisco Chronicle. 'J lie Inner Man. The stoic's fare?the radish and the t-'i-'g. Henry IV., of France, indulged largely in oysters. In England people eat to live; in France they live to eat. JJismarek's steady drink is a mixture of London porter and champagne. Pope Pius VII., when prisoner at Fon tainblcau found solace in cultivating cab Emperor Frederick, of Germany, and .Maximilian II., were inordinately fond of melons. Wordsworth, the poet, had lost the sense of smell?roses and onions were all the same to him. The Tartars pull a man by the ear to press him to drink. In this country treatment so severe is unnecessary. Charles XII., of Sweden, was an ab stemious cater, and preferred, above all r>f tlii> llMllnllot 1)l:lill biuiul and butter. Napoleon, like Voltaire, was excessive ly fond of colTee, as Roswell informs us the great lexicographer was of .Mrs. Thralle's cups of tea. When plucked from the vine, we call the fruit grapes, when dried, raisins, when in a pudding, plums, while the juice we extract from them becomes wine. The fourth earl of Sandwich was the inventor of the popular food known as the sandwich?without a supply of which no picnic party can be made a success. When an Knglish traveler expressed his surprise and disgust at some Arabs eating insects, the men retorted that it was poor affectation in a person who would swallow raw oysters. A gentleman was telling of the desti tution of the people in a certain district in the far West. "Why," said he, ' there are hundreds actually begging lor bread." ' That's pretty bad, stranger, no mis take," remarked a tired-looking specimen of humanity: "but Main't half so bad as working for it."?/ion/on I'niuscrij>(. In the beautiful metaphor of the Orient, a Chinese girl's foot is called a ' golden lily." There is nothing so fragile about the old man's hoof, how ever. It can indicate the way to the front gate just as pointedly and effec tively as the regular orthodox American pedal.?hnccll Citizen. TRANSCRIPTSF ROM NATURE. THE GIANT BEACH. A million little beech leaves sway In the warm wind above mo hero; A speckled marvis sings quite near, The cuckoo calls from faraway, But only beech leaves can I see, Trembling and tossing carelessly? A world of gi-een lost in the fair Surrounding simce of azure air. OLD FISHER-BOAT. Bright as a burnished shield, the sea In calm, in moveless peace doth sleop, Only the tide's faint ripples creep Along the brown sands hushfully, mi now tney jap ine mu worn ixiat That never more on them will float. A year ago a wild storm made The sands a grave where it was laid. A HKRMXG SHOAL, WEST HIGHLANDS. Between dark hills on either side The salt sea-loch runs for a mile; And now, sun-charmed to a smile, Gleams bright its flowing, frothing tide. But, lo! each wave to silver turns, In dazzling fire the whole loch burns. Millions of herring dart and splash, Each one a living lightning-flash. ? William Sharp, in Harper's. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The man who has the floor?The father of twins at midnight.?New York Journal. A scientist asserts that a bee can only sting once in two minutes. \Ve would respectfully submit that this is often enough.?Chicago Time*. Do boys or girls make the most noise? is the latest conundrum. Turn a mouse into a school-room and it will be settled so quick it will make your head swim.? Chicago Eye. A correspondent asks: "What shall I get for moths?" There is nothing that gives a moth or a lady greater pleasure than a seal skin sack. Suppose you try it.?I'eck's Sun. Umbrellas look tired. They have be come faded and worn, although carried every day. Its been a bad season for the crop and they arc hardly worth taking.? Cumhrvlge Trihune. A Cincinnati man claims to have a wife so hot-tempered that he can light his citrar from the Hash of her eyes. He made ti good inntcli when he married licr.?Lotcell Citizen. A compositor with a great prophetic soul, while putting into type a wedding notice, instead of "the high contracting parties," made it read "the high contra dicting parties."?Derrick. "Is snoring bad for the health?" asks a correspondent. That depends largelj upon the size and temper of the parties disturbed by it. There are cases on record "where it has produced serious con tusions.? Cletclnul JAd'hr. She was admiring herself and a twenty live dollar spring bonnet. "Do you think it becoming, dear?" she asked of her voung husband. "\cs, I do," was his response, ,lI think it is becoming verj decidedly dear."?Saturday Ni'jht. There is comfort for the child who swallows a two-cent piece, as one child or another is in the habit of doing almost daily; an eminent French physician says that the copper absorbed into the sys tem is a sure preventative of cholera.? liurilcttc. HE DOESN'T ADVERTISE. I feel like one Who treads alono Some market hall deserted, Whose cash Is fled, Whose trade is dead, And all but he departed. ?Wilmington Slur. Fisli in the Bosphorus. Dr. Neale, who witnessed the pcriodi ; cal passage of fish through the Bospho rus. thus describes the scene: "The wind continuing for two or three days from the north, wc wore sur i prised at beholding a singular rippling appearance in the midst of the waters of the Bosphorus. forming a dark serpentine line about a mile aud a half in length. | Over and all around this rippling were assembled a prodigious concourse of aquatic fowls, swans, cormorants, peh s cans, penguins, solan geese, ducks, r quails, divers, etc., which shrieked in i hoarse concert as they dived upon the i myriads of pelamydes (for such they - were) which iloated down in mid-chan ! nel. While we were beholding this sin gular phenomenon from the windows of 1 the palace, the boats from Coustantino ; pie and the adjoining villages began to arrive, and then commenced that ancient fishery which has been so much celebrated in the golden verses of Oppian. "But to return; this shoal proved only 2 the advanced euard of the grand army of [ pelamydes, which were coming down from the Palus Mieotis, terrified by the first approach of the bleak-northern blasts f and equinoctial gales. 1 "Before mid-day. some hundred boats ' having arrived, the numbers of fish cap 5 tured'were prodigious. The boats were - navigated by Turks, Albanians,_ and Greeks, habited in the diversified and t richly colored costumes of their respec i tivc nations, throwing their seines, and f pulling against the rapid current, bawl L in", shouting, and wrangling for the ? prize, which they were even forced to 0 contest with the fowls of the air, who - intrepidly descended to seize the hsh ' when struggling amidst the meshes of C their nets. They gave a life and anima - tion to the picture, which, surrounded 1 by the sublime scenery of the Bosphorus, - constituted, as a whole, one of the 1 most superb and impressive spectacles I f had ever beheld. This occupation con 3 tinned, without ceasing, day and night, 1 till the fourth morning, when the last of 1 the shoal passed Terapia. Palamys is the term given by the ancients to the young tunny when under a year old. The tunny is the same with the Spanish 1 mackerel, a large fish of the scomber - kind, the scomber thynnus of Linnieus, - the arcynus limosa, and pelamys, of other ! writers. It has eight or nine fins in the t hinder part of the back, which, as well 3 us the abdominal fins, rise from a deep 3 furrow. The t?il is of :i semi-lunar * shape. t "The tunny was a fish well-known - and highly prized by the ancients, hav ' ing constituted from the earliest ages, a 1 great source of riches and commerce to 5 nations inhabiting the shores of the i Mediterranean, and, iu fact, being the t principal food of the people of Bithynia. The periods of its arrival in the Mcditcr raticnn sea were observed and stations " for taking the fish were established on ' the capes and inlets most favorable to that occupation." Blood Food For Animals. The use of blood as a food for cattle , has been recently the subject of experi ment in Denmark by a ch-imist named - Sofus Ove Cj.er, of ltibc, who as a result has invented and patented a new kind of cake, in which blood ' forms one of the chief ingredients. This new food is stated to be exceedingly nutritious and wholesome, and eaten with avidity by all sorts of animals, and even by cows and horses, which have naturally a strong dislike to the smell of blood. The com position and process of manufacture are as follows: The blood is first deprived of its fabrinc, to effect which immedi ately it issues from the slaughtered ani mal it is treated in an apparatus like a churn, and subjected to agitation and cooling. To each 100 pounds of blood so treated, the albumen of about twenty five pounds of blood is added. This quantity of bloo 1 compound, or more ii it will be taken up, is then mixed with fifty pounds of meal, fifty pounds of straw or hay, two pounds of crushed linseed, two pounds of the finest bone meal, and one pound of salt, the whole being knead ed together and made into a dough, which is divided into cakes and baked in an oven, the heat of which must be but slightly above 21- degrees, because the albuminous parts lose their nutritious value at higher temperatures. The straw or hay serves to make up bulk and to give tiie required lightness and porosity, as no fermenting material is used, lest the bread should not keep so well. ? C/ilonj Tinux. Flaying Possum. At Monte Carlo it is the custom to till the pockets of suicides with banknotes, so that it may be seen that they did not I kill themselves on account of losses. A I reient letter from there relates how a ! presumably dead man succeeded in tret ting his pockets tilled a short time ago. After losing si small sum at the gambling tables lie suddenly jumped up, excla m ed, ' 1 am ruined!" and rushed into the gardens. Almost immediately afterward the guards heard a pistol-shot and then a cry of pain, and, rushing to the spot, found tin; man dead. It was dark, with no one around, so they filled his pockets with money and left him to be discov ered in the morning. They had scarcely gone out of sight, however, before the man was on his feet again, and skipping away in the most lively style. HER SECRET TROUBLES. Tlin Unknown Trial* Which a Woman En dared Without Complaint?Why They Vanished. Near the close of one of the moet trying of the few hot days of the present year a pale, caro-worn woman might have been seen at the window of her dwelling apparently in a j condition of complete exhaustion. Her ef- ; forts to meet tne accumulated dutiee of j her household had been great but unsuc- ! cessful, while the care of a sick child, whose j wails could even then be heard, was added to j her otherwise overwhelming troubles. Nature had done much for her and in her j youthful duys she had been not only beautiful j - ? A. XI ?V^olfVi crnoV) aa -la flAldom I I JUL Lilts UUSJCVMn ul ucaivu uuuu w *? ? seen. But homo and family duties and the depressing cares which too often accompany them had proven greater than her splendid strength and she felt at that moment not only that life was a burden but that death would bo a grand relief. This in no unusual expe rience. It is, in fact, a most common every day occurrence, and a great prayer is con- ! stantlv ascending from thousands of homes ! for deliverance from the deadly power which is i enslaving so many wives, mothers and daugh- j ters. And yet these duties of life must be met I No woman can afford to turn aside from the j proper care of her home and the ones who are j committed to her care, although in doing > these duties she may sacrifice her health, and possibly life itself. The experience of one j who successfully overcame such trials and yet I retained health and all the blessings it brings I is thus told by Rev. William Watson, presid- | ing elder of the Methodist Episcopal church, j residing at Watertown, N. Y. He said: "My wife became completely run down ! through overwork and care of a sick member j of our household, and I entertained serious j apprehensions as to her future. She was lan- j grnd, pale, utterly exhausted, without appe tite, and in a complete state of physical de- 1 cline. And yet she did not, could not neglect ! her duties. I have seen her about the house, try ing courageously to care for the ones she loved, when I could tell, from the lines upon her face how much she was suffering. At times she would rally for a day or two and then fall back into the state of nervous exhaustion she felt before. Her head pained her frequently, her body was becoming bowed by pain anil all hope or enjoyment in life seemed departed. What to do we could not tell. I resolved,how ever, to bring back her life and vitality if possible and to this end began fo treat her my self. To my great relief her system has been toned up, her strength restored, her health completely recovered, and wholly by tho use of Warner's Tippecanco, which I regard as tho greatest tonic, invigorator and stomach remedy that has ever been discovered. I was led to use it the more readily as I had tested the health-re storing properties of "Warner's Safe Cure in my own person, and I therefore knew that any remedy Mr. Warner might produce would bo a valuable one. I have since recommended both Warner's Tippecanoe and Warner's Safe Cure to many of my friends, and I know several doctors of divinity as well as numer ous laymen who are using both with great benefit." If all tho overworked and duty driven wo men of America could know of the experience above described, and act upon the same, there can be little doubt that much of the pain, and most of tho depressing influences of life might be nvoifieci. aucn truuis are 100 vaiuauie 10 remain unknown. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. The title of Janauschek's new play is " Life," the author boing Harry Meredith. Theatrical real estate in the United States is estimated at $115,000,000, divided amoug 2,552 theatres Ax adaptation of Bret Harte's " Luck of Roaring Camp;" by Clifton W. Tayleure, made for Maggie Mitchell in 1880, 'will be pro duced by its author next season. A New York paper figures up the losses of fifteen metropolitan theatrical speculations iuring the season, and makes the total $486, 870. Abbey leads off with $187,520 deficit on his opera venture, while Mapleson is set down as $18,000 short. In addition there is said to be $75,000 claimed by sundry persons as duo to ihom from the managers, ana $150,000 more is the amount iu litigation. Here is the other sido of the picture: Daly cleared $50,000 and Harrigan & Hart still more. The Casino has done splendidly, Irving accumulated $40,000 at the Star and Wallack made money at the Star (his old theatre), and the new WaUack'a uptown.. More money was spent in amuse ments than in any other season on record, the gross receipts from September to May. in all the Now York theatres, being estimated at $8,000,000. . No woman can live without some share of physical suffering; but many accept as in evitable a great amount of pain which can be avoided Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound was invented by one who understood its need, and had the rare skill to provide a j simple, yet admirably effective remedy. The average of fires in London is not quit? three a night. No disease can show such quick results as Heart Disease; do not delay, Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator is a specific. $1 per bottle at druggists. The last wife of the sultan of Morocco is the thousandth. You have tried everything for your Heart Disease? No, sir. Allow mo to show vou Dr Graves' Heart Regulator, been in Market tliirty years, great many good testimonials from its use. Only $1 per bottle at druggists. The streams in California are golden with salmon. Another Lite Saved. Mrs. Harriet Cummings, of Cincinnati, Ohio, writes: " Early last winter my daugh ter was attacked with a severe cold, which settled on her lungs. We tried several medi cines, nonj of which seemed to do her any good, but she continued to get worse, and finally raised large amounts of blood from her lungs. We called in a family physician, but he failed to do her any good. At this time a friend, who had been cured by Dr. Wm. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs, advised me to give it a trial. We then got a bottle, an 1 she began to improve, and by the use of three bottles was entirely cured." Mensmau's Peptonized beef toxic, the onlj preparation ofbeef containingits entire nutri tious* properties. It contains blood-making force generating and life-sustaining properties; invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervou; prostration, and all forms of general debility also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over work or acute disease, particularly if resulting from^pulmonarycomplaints. Caswell,Hazards Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists. | "Itougli on Itch." ; "Rough on Itch" cures humore; eruptions ring-worm,tetter,salt rheum, cnuoiains. Unlet Hendn, when you have tried everything else am failed try our Carboline and be happy; it wil prove its merits. One dollar a bottle, ant sold by all druggists. Rheumatism.?"Wilson's Wonder" curr \ s hours, or money returned Sentonreceir ' Medicine depot. 99 Park street. N. \ Life Preserver. If you are losing your grip on life, tiy "Welli Health Renewer.' Goes direct to weak spots. A Thing of Beauty. The most brilliant shade possible, on all fabrics are made by Diamont J)yes. Unequaled for brilliancy and durability 10c. at druggists. Sendee, for 32 sample colors Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt. I Pretty Women* . Ladies who would retain freshness and vi ,vacity. Try "Wells' Health Renewer." 25 Cents Will buy a Treatise on the Horse and Hii Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable tx ever}' owner of horses. Postage stamps taken Sent postpaid. New York Horse Book Co. 134 Leonard Street, New York city. A Popular Fallacy. Many people think that Rheumatism canno Ik; cured. It is caused by a bad state of thi blood which deposits poisonous matter in th< joints and muscles causing lameness, stiffnes and swelling of the joints and excruciatinj paius. Kidney-Wort will certainly effect i cure. It acts on the Kidneys, Liver and Bow els, stimulating them to a healthy action, puri lies and enriches tho blood and eliminate thi jxnson from the system. Go to the neares druggist, buy Kidney-Wort and bo cured. "ItouKh on Toothache." Instant relief for neuralgia, toothache, face ache. Ask for"Rough on Toothache. n15&:?)C i'iso's Remedy for Catarrh is a certain curi lor that very obnoxious disease. Low; Branch has the largest roller skating rink in the world. Profit by Experience The medicltio which thousands of peoplo Imvo triV>1 and found more than satisfactory is certainly entitle! toyonr confidence. Such a incdicino is Hood's Sarsa purilla, an I it M true economy to prolit by tho espo rienco of others, r.nd use that which has proven univer sally successful. For all Mood diseases there is no inediciuocqu.il to Hood's Narsaparilln, "Our Favorite Medicine" "Icannot tell of any marvelous cures, but I know that Hood's Sarsaparill:i has done me a great deal of good, and we esteem it in our family an old and valued friend. My husband has been subject to severe head aches, but is greatly heuetitud by Hood's Sarsaparilla. My W'n suffered from sprinir debility and loss of appe tite. and was restored to health as soon as he began to take our favorit-medicine. We are thankful for the gnu l Hood's Saroiparilla does, and we recommend it to all our friends and neighbors."? Mlts. Thalia K. Smith, Scipioville, N. Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla Soltl by :ill ?lr:i#rirists. $1, six Pr^p-inni only by C, I. HOOD A: CO , Apotlu*cxiri??s, Ijowt'll, Mns*. 100 Doses One Dollar furil I Hnntlhnmo new set cards four 1-c. stamps. ColltM'iorH I A. (i. ItnHwett, Ji??c)u'stor, N. \ . 25 CENTS A. TREATIt AND HIS I Ooofelnlmg UL taflej ?f Dleeww. which flrta th? 8; TrtMtfmniwl th? firtndp+1 drum usm for Ujo Hor? ?poi*m. iTiDiewnawian?c?TiDia ue floiw i . A valuable* oolleotton or Raoafpta aad aiuia otior tali 100-PAGE B00K??T3 OZjUB 1 mE COPIES II 00 I TEN COPIES 1 70 | 0??, Two Mid Thr??-Orat Stamp* rec?lr?d. iilr HOHNK boo: IS4LIONARD 4 Vital Questions!!!! Ask the most eminent physician Of any school, -what is the best thing-farflW world for quieting and allaying all irritation of the nerves, ana curing all farms of nervous complaints, giving natural, childlike refresh ing sleep always? And they will tell you unhesitatingly "Some form of Hops!//" CHAPTER L Ask any or all of the most eminent phyri v cians: ; ' "What is the best and onlyremedv that ..'J can be relied on to cure all diseases of the kid- y neys and urinary organs ;such as Bright's dis ocioa ilinhAhm. retention. or inability to retain urine, and all the diseases and ailments pecu liar to Women?" "And they will tell you explicitly and em phatically, rBuchu ! ! r " x Ask the samo physicians "What is the most reliable and surest cure for all liver diseases or dyspepsia, coastipo tion, indigestion, biliousness, malaria, fever, ague, &c.," and they will tell you: 11 Mandrake ! or Dandelioa I HP Hence, when these remedies are combined with others equally valuable, And compounded into Hop Bitters, such a wonderful and mysterious curative power is developed, which is so varied in its operations that no disease or ill health can possibly exist or resist its power, and yet it is Harmless for the most frail woman, weak est invalid or smallest child to use. CHAPTER IL "Patients "Almost dead or nearly dying" For years, and given up by physicians, of v Bright's and other kidney diseases, liver com plaints, severe coughs, called consumption, uave been cured. Women gone nearly crazy 11 III From agony of neuralgia, nervousness, wakefulness, and various diseases peculiar to women. People drawn out of shape from excruciate ing pangs of rheumatism, inflammatory uuu chronic, or suffering from scrofula. Erysipelas I "Saltrheum, blood poisoning, dyspepsia, in digestion, and, in fact,almost all diseases frail Nature is heir to Have been cured by Hop Bitters, proof oJ which can be found In every neighborhood in the known world. EgT None genuine without a bunch of green Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hope" in theii name. N.Y N U-25 THE NARROW ESCAPE Of a Mn*nnchiiaetta Engineer?Timely Wnrit Injrof .11 r. John Spencer, Boffgafremattcr olB. & A. It. 11. Sloop after fatigue, anil health after disease, are two of tho sweetest experiences known to inaa. Fou&t teen years is a lone time in which to suffer, yefTH^ Peter Lawlor, ofDalton, Mass., had led a miserable life for that period through the presence of stono In the bladder. That he sought in all directions for a cure is an almost superfluous statement. Ho did ob tain temporary relief, bnt nothing more. "Last Janu ary he called on Dr. David Kennedy, of Rondout, N. V., who said, after examination: "Mtvi^awler, you have stone in the bladder. Wo will first trv DR. OAVIO KENNEDY'S favorite REMEDY before risking an operation." A few days later the following letter passed through the Rondout postof flce: D\LTO!f. Mass., Fob. 6. Dear Dr. Kennedy?The day after I came homo 1 passed two gravel stones, and am doing nicely now. Peter Lawixb." Dr. Kennedy now has the stones at his office, and thoyaro sufficiently formidablo to jnstify the claim that Kennedy's favorite remedy is tho leading specific for stone in the bladder. In bis letter Mr. Lawler mentions that FAVORITE REMEDY also cured him of rheumatism. The subjoined certificate tells It* own story; Old Berkshire Mills, ? Dalton, Mass., April 27,1882. f Mr. Peter Lawler has been a resident af this town for the past seventeen years, and in our employ for fifteen, aid in all these years he lias been a good and rospected citizen of the town and community. He has had some chronic disease to our knowledge for most of the time, but now claims to 1*?, and is. In ap parent good health. Char. 0. Baow.v, Pres. Dalton, Mass., Juno 9,1881. Dr. Kennedy?Dear Friend:?Thinking you might like to hear again from an old patient, I am going to write you. It is now years since first I went to see yon. As I told you then I was troubled with Kid ney Disease for about (IS) years, and had (7) of the best doctors to be found. But I received only tem porary relief until I visited vou and commenccd tak ing your FAVORITE REMEDY. I continuo tak ing the Kemedy according to your directions and consider myself a well man. Very gratefully yours, Pkter Lawlkk. Our letter of April 27,1882, holds good sb faras Mr. Lawler's testimony is concerned regarding his health. Oil AH. O. Baowx. Dalton, June 9,1884. ELY'S CREAM BALM SaMBAiJsl Causes 110 Pain. ?? hwfeverSI, Gives-Belief at Once. Thorough Treatment will Cnre. NotaLiq nidorSunff. Ap uLul ply with finger. .SAV-fever Give it a Trial. :io c n-s <it Druffjjmt*. H i < en's by mail registered. Send tor circular. liLY l>Ku.S.t 1 Q*rego,N. x? GIVEN JSlw\KTJ?.'TZ'1 The "LITTLE WONDER" , 'TIME KEEPER Farmers, mechanic*, bast nets men or4>oys aa now own a handsome Hunting Cased Tlma Keeper. No Humbug or cheap toy, bat* thoroughly reliable teller of the time of day I in a silf er-nicke 1 ca*?. Send 34 ecatftio 'stamps to pay postage, and we will atone* end yon one of our New Camptifii Btdiei, finely finished, elegantly golden ?i ? ixl B^tl? ? (vun i IpboMcnph of thel Pnddent tod Vice Pmldent Republican or Democratic nominee, jut u ycm like. There Bidget mU like wild-lira and we w*nt 1,000 igenUitonee. 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