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my wifh: .wi> r. Come and drain a cup of j<>v, J Now with me. good wife. And bring the girl and boy I Now with thee, good wife. Let all hearts l<e blithe and gay, It is fourteen years to- lay Since you spake the little "aye"' That to me was life. I When in wedding whito arrayed I beheld you stand. Why. I almost felt afraid K en to toueh your hand. And wuen witn mvc mum Your ga/o on me yon ln-nt, You seemed ;i being sunt From tli" "licit 1 Lnnd." Ami an an^ol you have proved Since that go xl glad hour, Aye, wherever we have roved In sunshine and shower. In all goo lness you transcend, And all excellences blend lu the mother, wife, an I frion 1, As a sacred dower. Yon have made my life more pure Than it might have l?'cn: You have taught me to endure, And to strive and win. With your simple song of praise You sanctify our lays. And our thoughts to heaven you raiso From a world of sin. Come, lot's quit the dusty town With its noise an<l strife, And seek the breezy down Tliat with health is rife. Work is ?ood and so is play, I ,et us keep our wedding-ilay (>'er the hills and far away, Ilappv man and wife. ?John Ueu. Il'ii'/s, in CassclCs Maj<tzinc. A LOST DIAMOND. ' And it was the most beautiful stone lhat I ever saw in a finger ring. None of those paltry things you can't wear till candle iiirht on account of the yellow there is in tliem. So white, so clear, so brilliant, pellucid .".s a water-drop and sparkling as a star! It was all but big enough, too, t?4 have a name o( its own, like those that lliw loval diamonds have ? 'Star of the Four Points of the Compass,' 'Light of the World to Come,' 'Glory of the Middle of the Karth,' 'Mother of the Moon.' Why under the sun," cried Mrs. Torrance, the pretty creature in a bewitching gown, pouring coffee for her husband, the litt'c butler having been dismissed by Mr. Torrance ?in fear of the wrath to come, perhaps ? "shouldn't our diamonds have names as well as those of kings and queens and "Yours ought to have one,'' said her husband, quietly. 4,lt would be suitable to call now; it's in the vocative, you know." "Well, 1 must say I don't belijve any man was ever so undisturbed by the loss of such a thing as that. Archibald, that stone was worth a thousand dollars." "Really I ought to be aware of the fact. dear, if anybody is. You have of fered to sell it and procure that sum for my necessities every time 1 have been hard up since we married. And if 1 have Mildred arrested for its theft, as you suggest, it will cost another thousand befoic we are done with it. For .'he would certainly be proved inuoccnt, and then a libel .<uit would be the next thing in order."' "But, Archv, Mildred can't be proved innccent. How can she be, when 1 know she took it? And there was no one else to take it." And Mrs. Torrance paused with suspended cup, her great wondering eyes searching space for a reply. "If ever anything lay in a straight line, it is the evidence against that girl," she continued. "The other day when the ring fell on the floor she was in the room, and she asked me what a stone like that was worth, and then gave such a sigh that I said, 'I suppose you think it's wrong for me to wear a thousand dollars on my finger?' And she said, 'I wasn't thinking rinrr* T wiia nnlv fhinkinrr tliftf n thousand dollars can do a great deal of good.' The minx! 'Well,'I said, 'it does a great deal of good?in looking pretty on my hand.' 'Indeed it does look beautifully there,' said she?she's very particular about her adverbs; I wish she was ab;>ut her catechism?'but a good deed done by a hand is its most beautiful jewel, to my thinking.' Just hear that! To her mistress! Are you through? Why, I've only just begun.*' "She is quite a missionary," said Mr. Torrance, picking up his newspaper. "And the worst of it is, she is right." "Now, Archibald, don't, for mercy's sake, go to reading!" said his wife." "I do think the morning news might wait for oncc. It's nothing but dynamiters blowing up the British empire,and Arabs making mummies of the British arm\ ? ail abstractions; but my ring is something positive, tangible, here at hand." "I wish it were!" said Mr. Torrance. "And then I could be allowed?" But as he glanccd at the lovely creature opposite, with her reproachful brown eyes in which stood two tears as big as the diamond she had lost, her color going and coming with her breath, as you might say. and the rose-colored ribbons of her morning cap all a-tlutter with her earnestness, he folded his paper, and said, "Well, my dear?" "Well, my dear!" mimicked Mrs. lorrancc, in (tension. 1 snouia say it s anything but well when a man hears of a servant insulting?actually insulting? his wife, and says she's in the light."' "Now, Janet, I will submit it to your own judgment if that's a fair interpretation." "You needn't do anything of the sort. It isn't fair to suppose 1 have any judgment, if what I say concerning Mildred? perfectly ridiculous cognomen. Whoever heard of Mildred for a servant's name?'' "Why not Mildred!'" "Why not Gwendoline,then,or Frcdegonde, or Thusnelda? How would it seem to be telling Gladys to brush the dust off my shoes? And Mildred is just as bad. If I had my way all the cooks should ^ie Noras, and all the second girls should be Ellens, and if they came from England, then they should bn Elizas and 3Iary Anns, and it wouldn't sound as if you were taking a liberty with your superiors when your own name is just plain Jane. I ought to have been Rosamond myself, you know," said Mrs. Torrance, absently, twirling the grounds in her cup," or {Catherine, or Eloise, or something. Rut I'm sure I have trouble enough with these people without being troubled with their names. And 1 don't believe her name is Mildred, anyway. I believe it's just plain Martha, and she took the Mildred. If she took my diamond, she wouldn't ston at tnkimr a nuinn Or maybe it was just Miilv?And here Mrs. i Torrance paused, not for breath, but in amazement to see her husband's eyes twinkle, anc3 he himself lie I aek in his chair, as he pushed his plate away, with J a laugh he could repress no longer. 'If she took your diamond. Well, my darling', I am gliid you have arrived j at the diamond once more. 1 began to j think it had been lost again. Hut don't tell me about the inconsequence of a woman's mind. Its workings arc labyrinthine, but the thought always conies out at the place it went in. Now, let us be business-like, if we can, Janet. What makes you think that tin* pretty .Mildred of ours took the diamond?"' ' Pretty Mildred! Well, perhaps because she is pretty," said Mrs. Torrance, I looking like a satirical sparrow. "Not at all impossible," said her bus- j band, graveiy. "You don't mean to imply that 1 1 would denounce a person as a thief be cause you said she was pretty?" cried ! Mrs. Torrance, half rising to her feet, j "I've as good a mind to leave the table j a? ever 1 had to eat. I would, if the ; buckwheat cakes had come up.'' "My dear child!" "You treat me exactly as if I were a child." cried the outraged wife. "What . do I care whether my maid is pretty or not? JJeing pretty, apparently, doesn't keep her hinds from picking and steal BpPk. ing. I know she stole my diamond just | as well as if I had seen her do it." "But what would she do with it'." ! "What a question? As if that sort of p2rson didn't know where to dispose of things easily and take care of the j>ro- j cccds! 1 wonder if Patricia is never going to send those cakes up?" "How 'u the world did ourcook come ! to he called Patricia?" "1 called he so myself when she came. I Her own nnmc was Hannah, a combination of sounds I utterly detest, and ! wasn't going to have ringing in my ears J ail the time. And she is so tall and erect she justifies l'atritia. Don't you1 think so?" "Ail right," said Mr. Torrence, thinking it best to make uj reference to the ! Noras of a few minutes since, "But we | were 8 jeakins: of Mildred." "I did think very well of Mildred, I j will confess, before this," said Mrs. Tor- ' ranee, with judicial calmness. ;'Shc is r educating her sister, who has a voice? such a voice! for a church singer, when she will have a salary that will be wealth s to them, ami give some lessons beside. And she was wrapped tip in her. And 1 took an interest , in them myself, and gnve her a silk dress to make over, and irot a new clo.ik that I really didn't need, so :is to give Iter my old one (and 1 saw she had ,! tlie good taste to take o!T some of the \ trimming), and lots of my old music, i And out of her own wages Mildred h:is ; to hire a room nnd a piano and pay for her lessons; somebody gives lei her t board till she can pay the debt, and it i takes every cent Mildred earns; and you : see it is quite natural that she should I look about iter to lind where she- can 1 turn a penny?'' < "An honest penny.'' said Mr. Tor- | ranee. "A girl who is doing that for j another is not one that would be likely ] to turn any other sort of penny.'' < "How you do love to interrupt me, ' Mr. Torrance! It really seems as if you 1 couldn't bear the sound of my voice! 1 i was iroinir on to say, before you took the i words out of my mouth, that recently ; this sister of hers has been advised to i take hysons of another master, who asks 1 all creation, but is really worth it. And < he says he can make her voice a fortune i to her. And they have been dreadfully * cast down because they couldn't do it. < And now you sec where the diamond j comes in. If she can get for that stone i anything near its value, her sister .Mabel 1 can take her lessons. And her voice is I delicious?just perfectly delicious !" ex- i I r-lnimot! Mrs. Torrance, fori/ettinLr the ! diamond again. ''.Mildred had her come here and sing to inc. And 1 can't dc- 1 scribe to yon. I never heard a lark or 1 a nightingale, but a bobolink . isn't a whistle to it. A flute, a trumpet? < weli, it was sweet and satisfying and i penetrating as the odor of some llowcr, ' and yet soft as the velvet side of the < petal of the (lower. Angels would sing ; so, maybe, if there aic any. And 1 was j just carricd away. I forgot ali about 1 j her sister's being my maid. I cried and < | I laughed, and I felt as if I had found I her. And now 1 will solemnly tell you. ! Archy dear"?and the bent across the pretty china service, transfixing him with her radiant eyes?''I looked at my vi?n- onil T tmnoil if <ind turned it. and < I said to myself I have had the good of < it ever since Grandfather De Peyser yave < it to mc, aiul everybody knew I had it, and my position was pretty well estab- I lished, diamond rings or not, and when i you were able to afford a real grown up ] butler, you would probably get me < plenty; and if I sold it now, and gave i this poor dear girl the money to secure a s career, what a blessing it would be to < her, and what a joy I would be giving to 1 the world in her, too; for of course t;he : wouldn't be confined to a church choir I in that case, and if she were, in what < a heavenly fashion could tlio-e tones of | hers swim out over a prayerful audience, and just take the prayer on their silvery i strength, and lead it up, up; and any- i body who is the means of producing I more of them, and so brin?s down the i price of prima donnc in the market, is a i public benefactor, to be sure, anyway; i 1 T ? * A ' a? <" o fitwi- I anu i was jum wit uiu (luiui ui nifi j < that I would speak to you, and if you j approved, as I knew you would, I could I have a thousand dol ars or thereabouts < for them to-day, when Mrs. Yeasey happened in, and so, as 1 didn't want Mrs. .? Veasev to know anything about it, and 1 be taking the wind all out of my sails, I 1 just told Mabel to come again to-day and < I would have something further to say to i her! And so 1 shall!" cried Mrs. Tor- 1 ranee, taking breath with renewed vigor, l "I shall have to tell her that her sister i has been arrested for a thief, and she I may go sing to her in prison." I "Hut robbery is a very harsh term, i Jauet darling, when carelessness may be 1 the whole thing." ; "There it is again. My carelessness, J not their dishonesty. "When I went to i the washstand I turned the ring on my > linger again, and there was the stone I gone." 1 "And how many times have I told ' you that the careless habit of washing . t vniip hands in vonr rin<rx wears oil inlini I 1 J ~ ? ? ? ? O " t . tesimal fractions of the gold till the ' stones are loosened in the setting, and < drop out without vour being aware of ' it V ' it "Von arc always so wise after the act! 1 IIow do you know I wasn't going to t take my rings oil? You arc so ready to I find me at fault! Hut I thought at first the stone must have washed out?'' c "So it seems you did wash your hands t with the ring on?" said the turning worm. i "Yes, I did. There! And I scut for 1 the plumber immediately, for I knew if < it had washed out, it must have caught s in the first trap; and lie took up the ( pipe, but it wasn't there. And he said < if he made a real job of it, and went J down to the main something, lie might : find it there; but 1 thought that would ( cost more than the diamond itself?" 1 "Wise woman,'' groaned Mr. Tor- ! rauce. 1 "And so, you see, I didn't accuse Mil- ' dred in the first place. I searched, and took everv nrecaution. I didn't think ( of such a thing till I saw her stand I ( there turning more colors than the lady ( in the lobster?" "You don't say that you really have accused her';"' ' "We'l, what if I have? I must lose my diamond that my dear grandfather gave me when I was married, and that ' ' 1 treasured so, and end ire it all in J ' silence for fear some little hussy's feelings will be hurt! My feelings are of : ; no consequence at all! It isn't to be ! reckoned to my account that I was ready t to. give her the diamond?and I love diamonds. I don't think there's any- . thing so boiutiful in the whole world." ] "Hut, .Janet, you arc always so posi- 1 tive." "How can you say so? What am I ! ever positive about? You wouldn't have J me distrust the evidence of my senses? And if I cvir saw guilt on any face?" ! "There is nothing more fallible than the evidence of your senses."' "1 beg your pardon. I can see as far, and can hear as quickly, and taste as j keenly as any one alive. And for you to j begin to run down my eyes now?per- ( haps they're not so bright as they have I ( been?but I never thought?to hear you I twitting me of growing old?in this way, ] 1 :ill nf n stirldi'n'' Mrvimr 1 r<l tn swallow her sobsi?"becausc?you're interested j ?in?in my servant-maid?*' ' For Heaven's sake, Janet, think what you're saying!" "I do think what I am saying," site cried then, in a fury. "And 1 say, whatever the evidence of my sensesunay be, I have every evidence that you care nothing at all for my feelings, and can sec me robbed without lifting your voice, and?nnd?oh, a husband ought to love his wife, and protect her, and take her part." And here Mrs. Janet rose hurriedly and pushed over her chair, and was running from the room. Hut Mr. Torrance was not to lie outdone by any such sleight of foot, and I hud caught her in his arms befoie she j reached the door. "And do you think," j [ he exclaimed, "that 1 don't love you. | you abominable iittlc mass of contradic- j tions? Do you suppose that I won't pro j j tect you with my life itself? Do you j ' fancy for a moment that I won't take I J your part, when you decide what your j ! part is r" i "Let me <'o! Let me 'ro. sir?" she exclaimed. "Or, else, at any rate, let | me find mv handkerch:cf!'' And she ! struggled for her handkerchief, that the kisses her husband gave her might nut he too salt,and [lulling it from her pocket, something in a great arc and stream i of lustre whirled out with the violently wrenched handkerchief, sailed through ; the air like nothing so much as a Hying j , rainbow ,>nd fell at her feet. It was the lost diamond. Mrs. Torrance stopped in the midst of i 1 her tears, blushing, disheveled, diamond ; 1 dropped herself, as pretty a sight as a ' rose-bush in a shower, and held back her j ' skirts with both hands while she 1 >oked 1 at the great shining eye there before her 1 ' on the carpet. "The horrid thing!''sic ' said. "The horrid, uuwinkling, accus- j 1 ing thing! It is calling me all sorts of : ! names. I shall never want to see it i ' again. Only think it I had denounced ! 1 that iionr girl! I'm so glad I never j 1 breathed of it to her. I remember I had | 1 oti this very gown when Mrs. Yeasey was j t in. How stupid of me! Now, I'll take 5 this down to a diamond broker's to-day, j ' and. Mildred's Mabel shall have her i ' thousand dollars' worth <>f lessons. I j : dare say she'll sing at our parties bv-and- 1 by. She'll be our particular prima don- { na. And by tint time I shall have im- ' proved .Mildred into a companion. Oh, ! 1 I should think you would despise such a ' ridiculous, wiekeu little wife as I am:" j 1 she cried, turning to her husband. "You ' ought to have married a saint. What a 1 good man you are, Archy!" "My dear." said Mr. Archy. "life with } any other woman wlia didn't arrange 1 these little circuses for my morning cn- , c tertainmcnt would be too stale, flat, and unprofitable to endure. I should run away from the saint, and take to the fly- j v ing "trapeze and you,"?llarper'a Bazar. ! t ilfll WESTERN" INDIANS. OME SAVAGES WITH A TALENT TOB MAKING MONEY. low They Accumulated 'I'licir Wealth- \ Illslikc for Hanking: ^Ictlioilti Kciuliir; tin* ?H<i. A Montana letter to the New York >'</<. says that there arc a few red men in arious parts of the couutiv who have :xhihitcd a disposition to amass wealth, mil have succeeded pretty well. Of the Shoshones in Nevada and I'tnh hen-are three or four who may he snid ;o lie independent, (ieorge Washington .. .i ^i.?; i ...i l(I(( rMIWMllim: tl.lliv UIU UUlll inwuivx. Landholders and aristocrats. The former Ijegan stock raising in a small way several years ago. At first it was hard work For him to ^ct anything or to keep it iftor he got it, because his dissolute, happy-go-lucky companions exerted an jvil inlluencc on him, hut when he finally succeeded in marketing a couple of pigs lie was in great glee, lie put the first money that lie ever saved into a hank, md about half of his tribe followed him, iriving vent to their disgust in groans md grunts. Whop the bank failed, lieorgc was nearly hcsule himself with disappointment and rage. It took half !i dozen white men a week to explain to him how it was that a man could put his money in a bank and never ^et it again, while the bankers were permitted to ?0 about their business. Ueorge Washington believes to this day that the bank failed on purpose to give its ollieers a chance to run away with his N.ir/1-noi-rnil mnni'iv Sonic white men gave George :t little lielp after his misfortune, and he soon had other pigs. Then he branched out into stock-raising in general, and by careful economy and the most untiring industry lie has obtained a considerable property. It is estimated that he now jwas ?-, ")()() worth of ponies, cattle and pigs, and lie lias s:?00 or $100 on deposit with a mine boss who once helped liim. He calls around to sec the boss :*very day of his life, and has done so for live or six years. When he comes the same dialogue is gone through with. 'You got'em?" lie will say. "Yes, I've got 'cm,*' he will say. "Well, you keep 'cm. .Me sec you jvcry day. No sec bank man; mebbe so mce a year. Heap vamoose all same :oyotc; 110 good." Shoshone Jack is meaner than dirt, but he has a level head. Some of his issociatcs arc envious of him, but most Indians are too lazy to care about another's good foitunc. Jack has a farm, i house, several horses, cows and pigs, uid considerable money. It is almost 3Ut of the question for any one to beat liiiu in a trade of any kind. He is not in untutored savage, lor iie Knows every trick, and he is one of the very few Inlians who make money by playing poker. What he gets he keeps. Jack has a great contcmpt for banks uid bankers, and no one lias ever been ible to induce him even to enter a banking house. He carries his money n an old leather girdle, and when he spends a cent it is because he wants something pretty bad, and there is no >thcr way of getting it. lie never pays mything for railroad fare, though lie :ravels around a good deal, and what lie :ats costs him little or nothing. Old Colorow of the I'tes is a man of some propcitv, and takes particular delight in lording it over his associates, lie is to?) vain ever to be very prosper- I 3us ii: a financial way, as lie will spend [ money freely to gratify any whim that lie may have or to accomplish anything th-it lie thinks will add to his importnice in the eyes of other members of liistribe. One of his pet schemes is to juy papers or books, and assume !o ead them to the s:iwages. Whenever :ie gets possession of a pamphlet.magazine, or book he will call as many of lie redskins about him as possible, and n a dramatic way read them 4 the lews." His only conception of a printed >age is that it contains news, and ivhether he holds it right side up or not ic will reel off a lot of stuff about the hinrrs thnt are iroiiiL' on in the world >vliich will evoke many ki vis from his learcrsand sage grunts from those who lo not pretend to understand. The Jtes have no regular money-makers, hough a good many of them pretend o do some farming. With the majority he idea is that the goverment should lay them for farming. One of the wealthiest Indians in the :ountry is Chief I'cone, of the Spokane ribe, who lives near Spokane Falls, iVashingtou Territory. Not another nan in the trilie has a nickel which is lot morally certain to <ro in card pliying )r horse racing. Peonchas a long head, shrewd business tact, and a consuming lesire to get ahead of the world to some ixtcnt. lie never plays cards, laces lorses, or drinks whisky. Many years igo he made up his mind that it was )nly a question of time when the whites ivould be wanting land at or near Spo cane Falls, and he took up the Lest land n that vicinity and made some efforts to . uitivatc it. lie built a rude house and ivc I there apart from his tiibe, though ;.\crci?itig his authority as usual. In the lourse of time, when the Northern Pacific road was surveyed, he saw further opportunities for money making, which le did not permit to pass unimproved, ind by the time that white settlers began :o arrive he was ia possession of the best and in that vicinity, lie sold cut at rnrirl m-ir-es iinr-lfefnd lii< inonnv and I said nothing. When the town of Spokane Falls was laid out it was found that I'conc owned several good lots in it. l'hcsc have been sold at a profit and the money invested in cattle, horses and bonds. As soon as I'conc made his trades he abandoned farming, and, taking his money and portable property, he rejoined his tribe, lie lives now as plainly as any of his brethren, and is even more careless than they about what lie eats and wears. It is said that he is worth ?23,000, and that there is no such thing as getting any of it away from iiim. Butter by Lightning1. The London S/iorl-ivntii says: "Making butter by lightning is the latest craze of the c'ectncians. The patent taken out f<v this process is very simple. A pair of electrodes are placed in a large vessel of milk and a current runs through. Directly the milk feels the force of the electricity, and it undergoes u curious change. Little balls of butter form upon the electrodes and subsequently detach themselves and tlont to the top. The I butter is then collected, placed in a I kneading machine, and worked up into I the "best Dossit1' as fast as the operator I can turn the handle. The process is much ouieker than the old-fash ioncd method of"churning. The only ilrawback to the butter so made is that it will not stand the onlcal of a thunder | itorm. During the prevalence of any severe atmospheric disturbance the rolls j of butter stand on end, give out sparks, !ind often leap about the place. Curi- I onslv enough, this does not spoil the butter, but it is found to be unpleasant it the breakfast or tea table. Cheese c:m be made by a similar process. It is now proposed, in order to save time, to apply an electric milker to theco .v. This will sort the butter and cheese as the milk leaves the teat. The quality of the cheese is determined by the food given to the cow and the strength of the current. The most powerful currents ure required to produce (lorgonzola or I.imburger cheese, but it is not safe to | make much of the latter kind, because i the cow is always greatly exhausted nfterward."' Shops in Japan. The villages are full of shops. There is scarcely a house which does not sell something. Where the buyers come from, and how a profit cui be made is a ; tnvsterv. Manv of the thinirs are eatables, i such as dried fishes, and a half-inch J long, impaled on stitks; eakes, sweet-I meats composed of rice, Hour, and very i littie sugar : circular lumps of rice dough, j sailed moclii; roots boiled in brine; n white icily made from bc.ins; and ropes ' straw shoes for men and horses, straw j cloaks, paper umbrellas, paper water- j proofs, hairpins, toothpicks, tobacco i pipes, paper mouchoir?, and numbers of j >ther tTitles made of bamboo, straw, j jrass, and wood. These goods are on stands, and in the room behind, open to ; lie .street, all the domestic avocations j ire going on. and the housewife is usuilly 10 be seen boiling w iter or sewing, ivith a baby tucked in the back of her ! Iress. .\ lucifer factory has recently > jeen put up, and in many housc-trorits lien are cutting up wood into lengths or matches. In others arc husking ice. a very laborious process, in which ' he grain is poundt' in a mortar sunk in he iloor by a Hat-ended wooden pes- j le attached to a long horizontal lever, j vhieh is worked bv the feet of a man, I nvariably naked, who stands at the l ither extremity. Thousands of glasses of pure spring j rater are sold daily at a cent a glass 011 I he street corners of Boston. I SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL. "Weather vanes illuminated by electricity, so as to be visible at night, have been suggested. ('. F. Iin Thurin, the <!crman explorer nf liiitish Cuiana. in climbing Mount Koraima, found, at a height of ."5,000 feet above tlio sea level, a garden of orchids. It has been discovered that, the famous tree from the bark of which quinine is obtained furnishes no quinine except in malarial regions. If the tri-e is planted in a malarial region it will produce quinine. If it is planted in a non-malaiial region it will flourish, l ut will not produce quinine. It is therefore claimed that quinine is simply malarial poison drawn from the soil and stored up by the tree. The antiquity of trade-marks has been traced by a contemporary to be almost coeval with the industry of the human race. It has been found that ancient I'abylon had property symbols, and the Chinese declare that they had trademarks 1,000 years before Christ. (Jutenburg, the inventor of printing, won a lawsuit about a trade-mark, and the use of a distinguishiiigstamp was recognized by the Knglish parliament in 1U00. Mothcr of-ncarl. of which ornamental buttons buckles, fan sticks, car.I cases and otlfr fancy articles are made, is the principal production of Tahiti, and makes a commerce variously estimated between $20,000 and *100,000 a year. The lagoons in which the oysters producing this materia! are found arc growing poorer every day, and unless protective measures are adopted, thev will bo impoverished, if not mined, in a lew years. There is no record of the distance from shore at which divers have gone down in the Atlantic ocean. They can go down to certain depths at any part of the ocean. As long aijo as 1850, E. P. Harrington, of West livid, X. V., went down 170 feet and rccovcnd the iron safe of the steamer Atlantic, sunk in Lake Erie the year before. lie was dressed in a common diver's suit, and remained down eleven minutes. A recent French invention enables men to descend over 800 feet. The peculiar acid which exudes from the pores of the body acts directly upon leather, and takes the ' life" out, rendering it stiff and hard. In a pair of shoes recently returned to a prominent manufacture the uppers were moist with sweat, the soles dry. The kid leather, when it hardened, was so brittle that it could he torn and cracked like paper. The destruction was caused by perspiration of the feet. New shoes from the same maker and of the same material were perfectly sound and firm. Professor Hiley states that ''insects probably outnumber in species all other anima!s combined, and that some three hundred and fifty thousand species have already been described, and full as many more remain to be characterized." It has often been asserted by naturalists .4 <1,.. nC onnnino of inur?f*t.Q llill U1U UWU ?*1 w. ...www to p'nnts is about live to one. and, as considerably more than one hundred thousand plants have been described, 'it is quite probable that Professor Riley's estimate is not far out of the way. It must not, however, be supposed that the insect enemies of plants arc equally distributed, and that each has just five and no more, for Professor Lintncr. State entomologist of Now York, rccords no less than one hundred and seventysix dilTcrent species of insects affecting the apple. Cultivated plants useful to man appear to have more insect enemies than those of little or noeconomic value. ?Xeio York Su.i. HEALTH HINTS. For toothache try chewing cinnamon bark. A bag of hot sand will often relieve neuralgia. Hop pillows arc successfully used by many pcop'c who arc otherwise unable to sleep soundly. For ringworm of the scalp try ten grains of iodine dissolved in an ounce of turpentine; apply as a local remedy after the diseased part has been thoroughly washed. To cure felons, mix one ounce of Venice turpentine with one ounce of water; stir with a rough stick until thick; then wrap a good coating of it around the finger with a cloth. Another method is to wrap the part alTected with a linen cloth dipped in a tincture of lobelia. Tliq Journal or' Health says to stop blecdintr, if from a cavity in the jaw after a tooth has been extracted, shape a cork into the proper form and size to cover the bleeding cavity, and long nns\xrrli tn l>n L-oiif firmlv in nlsion when the mouth is closed. This," wc believe, is our own invention, and we have never known it to fail. It has served us in desperate cases. Many persons seriously damage their eyes by forcibly rubbing them when drowsy, especially when awakening in the morning. To strengthen the eyes, to relieve them when swollen or congested, and to remove chronic inflammation in the eyes, prurient discharges, etc., nothing is c<|Ual to bathing them frequently with water, at first tepid, but afterward lowering in temperature to absolute coldness. A very effective and instantaneous remedy in almost all cases of poisoning is a heaping teaspoouful of common salt and i-s much ground mustard, stirred rapidly in a teacup of tepid water. It is scarcely down before it begins to come ii]>, bringing with it the remaining contents of the stomach, and lest there be any remnant of poison, however small, let the white of an egg, sweet oil or butter or lard?several spoonful*?be swallowed immediately after vomiting. . A Water-.Hnseiun. A water-museum consists of glass ves self containing fish, mollusks, larva*, and such other creatures as will live in the smill quantity of water These vessels hold. The great advantage that the water-nluscum has over an aquarium is, that while the latter is bulky and has many dark comers in which you can only see with diHiculty, if at all, the jars of the museum can be easily carried about and held to the light, so that you can readily observe the smallest movements of your specimens. Beside, in an aquarium you can have but one kind of water at a time, either salt or fresh, and you keep only those specimens that will live together peaceably; but in a watcr-muscum one may have both sorts of water (in different vessels), and both marine and fresh water specimens. This museum, or water-cabinet, too, costs very little,while an aquarium is not only expensive but troublesome. We must first make sure of a sunny window, where the museum will be out of the way, and where there is room for a small table. Then we must forage for the vessels in the glassware shop, or at the dealers in chemical apparatus. 1 have often been able to pick up confectionary ja:s which I got cheaply because their tops were broken, which, of course, made no difference to me. I consider these the best for our purpose, in size from four in :hos in diameter by six in height to seven inches in diameter and nine in height. The jars must be placed on the table in the sunny window, so that they will all get plenty of light, as this is necessary to most forms of life. One or two of the larger jars had best be used for fish, and to make them attractive their bottoms should be covered with clean river sand and pebbles, or fragments of rock in the shape of grottoes, as the fish like to rest on these and to cat the almost invisible weeds that grow upon them. Of course, all the vessels must be filled with water iiiiil Kliiiirj <if mnmfic nl.-intt; S'tf'll :i< water cross, villisncria or duck-weed, placed in them to keen the water pure. Many kiiuls of water insects arc carnivorous, or prey upon the weaker species. Of course, it won't do to keep tlie.-:e in the same jar with heir victims. To lind out wliich kinds agree. we can mix them in the clear, shallow bell-glass, where we c;\n easily observe the peculiarities of each.?.">t. XMiofa <. Keeping Rooms Cool. A cool place should never be ventilated, unless the air admitted is cooler than the air within, or is at least as cool as that. The warmer the air the more moisture it holds in suspension. Necessarily, the cooler the air, the more this moisture is condensed and precipitated. When :i cool ce.hvr is aireu on a warm lay, the entering air being in motion appears cool; Ixit us it (ills the cellar, (he cooler air with which it becomes mixed chills it. the moisture is condensed, and dew is deposited on the cold walls, and may often be seen running down them in streams. To avoid this the windows should only be opened at night, and late ?the last tiling before retiring. There is no need to fear that the night air is uuhealthful?it is as pure as the air of midday, and is really lirier. The cool air enters the apartment dining the ni^lit ami circulates through it. The windows should be closed befoie sunrise in the morning, anti kept closed and shaded through the day.?American Agriculturist. POSTMEN OF THE WORLD. HOW THE MAILS ARE CABBIES IN DIFFERENT LANDS. 1*211 hi v.cnf l<ci(<'r? In linlia -C'amol i:\|?rc*N IflotciigcrN?Iluffaloc* ah i Hail < airier*. 1 In my furthest wanderings, writes ; 1'. (iordon Cumming, the celebrated traveler, in C?t.vell'* M(Hj?zim\ I have i never yet reached any point ?o isolated i as to be beyond the ministrations of the postotlicc, but strangely varied have been its emissaries. I had heard of a settler , in a wholly uncivilized island, who, while building himself a boat, required some tool which he had lelt at home, so he selected a smooth chip of wood and thereon wrote a message, which he bade one ol tlic iiystar<cicrs curry to 111s wuc. | Of course tlie man on seeing her look at the chip and then delivcrto his care the needful tool attributed the whole to magic. Nevertheless, he had unconsciously been a letter-carrier of the most primitive type. Slightly in advance of this is the system ol writing with a sharply-poin'ed instrument, on long strips of lirin green palm leaf? a substitute for paper?which is in common use in Ceylon and on the scacoast of liindoostan, and wherever the cocoa-palm tlouridies? or still bet ter, the broad-leaved taliput or Palmyra l palm. Whole books arc thus inscribed, but for letter-writing it is particularly useful, and the missive is folded and tied up with a trail of natural string plucked in the forest, and is slung from a light stick and so carried to its destination. In my travels in the Himalayas we found a truly useful friend in the native postmaster at Kofghur, which was the furthest limit of the groat postal network. Thenceforward as we journeyed in the wilds he forwarded all our letters by a very lightly-garbed special runner, who carried them as English village children carry sweet violets in the end of a cleft stick. Thus the letter was perhaps carried for several days and was at length delivered as ciean as when it started. "The commonest type of Indian postrunner. or 'Tappal wallah,'wears a long white coat, very tight trousers inclose iiio lonn Ipcru jiud his headdress Js a huge li.jht blue turban. His letter-bag is slung on his side, and it is necessary that he should be a good linguist and be able to read a great variety of strange crabbed characters, for several of the multitudinous languages of Ilindoostan arc written in quite distinct characters, all of which are alike incomprehensible to our untutored eyes. The rural lettercarrier of Ilindoostan carries along stick villi a sharp iron point, which can be used as a weapon in case of ne ed. This stick is adorned with six little brass bells, which serve to frighten away reptiles and dangerous animals and also to give notice of the approach of the post. The danger from wild beasts is, in some districts, a very real one, the 'tappal' runners through the forest districts in the south of Ceylon havin g occasionally had very narrow escapes from 'rogue' elephants and other wild beasts. Of all varieties of Indian letter-carriers, clothed or unclothed, none are so picturesque as the Camel express messengers. The men wear a serviceable red uniform and large green turban embroidered with gold thread. From their girdie hangs a curved sabre in a red sheath. The camels are adorned with trappings of gay cloth and tassels, ornamented with blue beads and cowrie shells, and small brass bells round the neck to give notice of their swift approach. It is said that their rough and rapid trotting, sometimes at the rate of eighty miles ;i (lav, is so trying 10 inc riders as to shorten their days. Two heavy mail hags hang to right and left on each side of the camel, and tho saddle is so arranged that a passenger can take a seat behind the, postman. In no country of the world is the postal organization more wonderful than in Japan, the chief marvel being that tiil about a dozen years ago there was no regular government Institution posts in the country. In very strange contrast with this extraordinary rapid postal development in the little island empire of Japan, is the equally wonderful stagnation in '.lie vast empire of China, where, even to this hour, there is no government insti tution for the transmission of posts. But as regards letters, a considerable proportion of the 400,000.000 Chinamen do occasionally exchange letters?those who cannot write for them selves hiring scribes to do so. These letters arc consigned to firms which have houses in all the large towns, wheie letters arc forwarded to distant ports, to be there distributed by special ngents, who generally collect the postage from the receiver. On the death of the Emperor HicnFung, intimation thereof was sen! from his country palace (a distance of COO li, which is upward of 200 miles) in twentyfour hours, which is the highest speed attainable in C'hna. But the placid Celestials,to whom hurry appears a form of vulgar impatience, and to whom telegraphs are an abomination, arc content that all ordinary communications should be convcyed either by slow paddling or poling boats, or else by foot-runners, whose high sounding title of "the thousand-mile horse" does not quicken their pace beyond about twelve miles 111 twenty-four hours. They carry a paper lantern and a paper umbrella, and their letter-bag is secured on their backs by a cioth knotted across the chest. But though the rise and fall of nations in the outer world of barbarians are topics wholly without interest to these millions, there arc some subjects which call forth enthusiasm and an eager desire for early information. Foremost among these is the declaration of the list Ot Sixty SllCCCSSlUi canuiuaies lur uiumrjr degrees in tlie Confucian classics at the great annual and triennial examinations. So great is the competition for this honor, that sometimes as many as 8,000 candidates present themselves in a single province! Then, when this long-looked for list is published, the rivers and creeks in the neighborhood arc all astir, and swift, lightly built boats, each manned by half a dozen strong rowers, slart olT at full speed to convey the news to anxious relations and fellow citizens. Others have made .agreement with the owners of carrier pigcous, to whom the lists are immediately forwarded, and the messages, being inscribed on slips of thin still paper, are rolled up into the smallest possible compass and attached to the legs of these winged letter earners, who straightway start on their respective journeys at a rate of eighty miles in three hours. "Of vehicles we find every conceivable variety pressed in to aid the post runner in his kbor. In Natal the post cart is a light four-horse vehicle?not much to look at, but capital as a means of getting over vile roads with very deep ruts. In the mountainous districts of I3ra/.il, a two-wheeled wagon, drawn by oxen, is in use?the wheels b:*ing cut out of a solid block and fastened to the axle. "In some part of I'ussia, buffaloes harnessed 1o two-wheeled vehicles convoy I the postmen on their road, hut morefre- ' (juen'.ly mail-sledges are drawn by horses, ' l?y reindeer, or, in the far north, by dogs. The latter wo fiiul again in Canada?as, for instance, in the mail service between I Selkirk and Lake Winnipeg, where the J work is done by trains of letter sleighs, eacii drugged by three dogs harnessed in single lile. The Kcccutrie King of Havana. Ludwig II.. while visiting the 10x- j hiliitiou of im>7, became passionately: } enamored of the Km press Ku?enie, and, I with the imnetuositv of voutli he did not | sulliclently hide his sentitneuts. It is I also said tli.it, in accompanying him to j the station, tiiu empress embraced him, j smiling in the most natural and charm- i ing manner, and that sinc e then lie has, ! like the little urchin in Punch, been try- | ing to rub the salute in, instead of oil". | Certain it is that hud wig 1ms never al- ; lowed the lips of another woman to ! 1 iri.sh the place, "because it was sore." The only one who ever tried had a ducking for her reward. It was the actress who created the role of Iscult. The king invited her to take a turn in his boat. { and made her repeat her great aria. He coining too enthusiastic, she was about to Jling herself into the royal arms. Their owner merely chucked her into the stream, and left her to get out as best .she eould. It should lie added that she j was dark and not comely. Ail this and much more is related with bated breath at Munich. The inhabitants of the capital regard the sovereign I with a kind of awe: the upper clashes I look upon him as a poet trving to real| i/e the fancies of his own and others' I brains; the humbler look upon him as a j supernatural bcinir. ? l.omlun (Kobe. There is a great demand in CSrcal 1 j ]>ritain for rabbits as articles of food 1 j The-c little animals are imported in j large numbers from Holland and Belgi- j um, wheic rabbit farming proves a remunerative industry. WISE WORDS. A TI If a nation expects to be ignorant and Tree, in n state of civilization, it expects ivhat never was and never will be. You may safely commit the child's clothes to the servant, but the rest of the little one you had better take care of Y< yourself. be Persons extremely reserved arc like old tk enameled watches,. \\inch had painted tai covers that prevented you seeing what ta o'clock it was. When we deplore the absence of some single excellence in another that we pride ourselves upon possessing, it is well 'J! to look at the opposite side and see if ! 1 there is not present another class of vir- ai tucs in which we arc probably Inmcnta- I1. blv deficient. 1 *.. . , , 111: I Jciiatc ana tiieon/.c us wc- may, must perceive that events and circtun- jjj stunces have a persistent way of regulating the course of the world, and that ar l he opposite influences of the heart and w the head will go on while man has a |j( head to think and heart to feel. Wisdom dwells in blue skies and vc broad sunshine, and the wide lulls and m infinite waters; in peacc of mind and m freeilom, and the worship of the earth, wi lie is poverty stricken who is 30 absorb- fir p(l in the one little enclosure of which he in holds the title deed that he looses his dt grasp on the beading universe. th Duty of every kind has in it the cle- til ments of pleasure, and, if we do not w discover and appropriate them it is our h< own fault. If we study the principles to of our life-work, dwell upon its details, fr and strive to perfect it as much as possi- w blc, we shall insensibly learn to love it, w anil feel no sacrifice for it a burden. tli One means of confirming aud cstab- ?c lishing one's allections is by serving the 1,1 loved. Nothing endears one person to another so much as aiding and serving him, especially if self-sacrllicc is in- . volved. Giving what is valued always } increases alTcction to the recipient, even ^ if it be only material benefits that are conferred, much more when it is our ^ time, our labor, and ourselves. CI Sidney Smith's recipe for cheerfulness ^ is not to have one motive only in the C( day for living, but a number of little motives. A. man who from the time he ]_ rises till bed-time conducts himself like C( a gentleman, who throws some little ^ condescension into his manner to infc- ? riors, and who is always contriving to ^ soften the distance between himself and a the poor and ignorant, is always improv- Q ing Irs animal spirits and adding to his j, happiness. al SELECT SIFTINUS. A p The potato, introduced into England 'j in 1000, was first eaten as a sweetmeat, stewed in sack-wine and sugar. ? A mushroom near Ventor, England, t, measured over eleven inches in diameter. a When cooked it was palatable and filled S] a large breakfast dish. ^ Young chicks come into the world h with the yolk of the egg stored away for u their immediate nourishment, and there si fore they need no feed for twelve or Ii twenty-four hours. e J. A. Cam]), of Atlanta, Ga., says he si has cabbage growing in his garden that tl are eight feet in circumference and that b ft catiOnge weigning sixteen pounus is a ;< common tiling fttnong liis vegetables. d Signs in Cuba being taxed five cents a | letter, emb'ems arc mostly in vogue fj there, it is said, as business advertise- | ^ ments at stores, etc., with here and . there a daub of paint across the letter- . in# of a worded sign, resulting in an ?' obliteration that exempts it from the tax, but which leaves the sign decipher- J1 able. 11 A peculiar custom in the Cape Verde islands is noted by a recent visitor there, {j His hostess was smoking a cigarette, ^ when suddenly she drew it from her lips t| and offered it to him. Though some- e what startled, he accepted it with the jj best grace that he could command, and ? upon subsequent inquiry found that it ? was considered anions the islanders one |, of the g.catest compliments a lady could pay to a gentleman. The use of artificial teeth is not so modern as is generally believed. '-Cos- ^ inns"' states that in the museum of Corneto, on the coast of Italy, there arc two curious specimens of artificial teeth found in Etruscan tombs, probably dating to four or live centuries before our era. These graves contained the bodies of two young girls. On tho?ja\v of one are still two incisors fixed to their neighbors by small gold rings: in tiio other the rings remained, but the artificial teeth had fallen out. The teeth had evidently been taken from the month of some large animal. Coney Island Vcars Ago. ' Howard'' says in a Now York letter to the Boston (Jlo'/e: You know Coney Island, of course. 2so one coines to New lorK in tnc summertime wimuiu lasiiny the clams aud ihc beer of Coney Island. But which of you to-day knows C'onoy Island ns the Lord made it? Jump buck with me twenty-live or thirty years. Let's piav we arc both boss again. Here we are in Brooklyn on a bright Saturday morning in July, and we want something to do. One of the boys suggests to go down to Coney Island. What fori? tl Clams and a bath. All right. Clubbing \\ together '.ve hire a wagon, and take the ci twelve-mile drive along the king's high- o way, shaded on cither side by magnifi- tl ccnt ovcr-arching trees, beautiful in their o untrained naturalness. All along, dotted n here and there, are road houses, nothing h more than a shanty in which there is a e: bar-room with a huge piazza stretching o all about it on which men sit and loaf o and spit. On we go till we come to a a long stretch of sand on which arc a few h deserted bathing-houses and one or two a Hv tonts Onicklv disrobinsr we nluntrc o into the magnificent surf, sheltering our- b selves from" swarms of mosquitos that c hum and sing above us in bafHcd rage. / An hour spent there in undiluted fun among ourselves, with a light or two with another eang of boys beyond, brings us to the dressing point, whence v we yo in a body to the nearest clummcry . and gorge ourselves with clams fresh ]l from the sand, with soft shell crabs still H kicking the in ml of a neighboring creek from their claws, with blue fish just P hauled from the stream beyond, and " with vegetables, if we care for them, I1 pulled ten minutes before from the garden 0 spots we passed as we came along. This, mind you, was all there was of Coney Island, lifteen years ago. " e Utilizing the Cactus. The chief production of the beautiful | plateaus and valleys of Colorado and ; J' New Mexico, surrounded liy the l'ocky ; " mountain range, ancl desolate sand i plains of Arizona, is the cactus, twenty- i seven species of which aic said to flour- I isli in the greatest luxuriance. Some of , 1: those attain a height of forty to fifty j feet, and the rows of fibrous ril>3 which p hold their pulpy trunks together make c the latter resemble huge fluted columns, ii tiie resemblance being materially in- i ji creased by the uniformity of size and absence of limbs, the only outgrowth from the body beiny a thick coat of c prickers. I'nlil recently this, like all tl other species of the cactus family, was j supposed to be destitute of value, but : arc now turned to good account by (,'ali- ! fornia paper-makers, a.id in some locali- ; ties considerable numbers of Chinese la- j borers arc employed in felliuir the trunks, I stripping the ribs which grow on the : / surface, and pressing the pulp into bales, j g whence it is shipped to paper mills. The j juice is also manufactured into a species . of beer by the Indians and Mexicans, who , } ferment it in large earthern vessels. Flesh of Wild anil Domestic Animals. ! An amateur writer on gastronomic | matters avers that the "llesh of young animals digests ipiickcr than that of ma- ' tun; ones." If that is the fact, the j world has been much in error about veal. i .. ...... fWI, ,,f n-11,1 I lie jjuujj uu iu ??.iwv . * ?*v. w. ..???? * birds is more tender than thai of domes- ' [ ticatcd ones. 'i'liis is accounted for l?v | the greater amount of cxuc:se they take, ' thereby renewing their flesh imi'e rapid < ly, and making it younger than that of 1 ? liirds which live a more ipiiet life." If r exerc ise is what does it, there must be a strange perversity in old game cocks ? trained for the liit, that makes them iter- ? sist in becoming as tough as bunches of * fiddle-strings, and hard as clock-works. No birds have more systematic exercise E than they, but, it all docs not make | them tender as a young capon. And exercise doesn't seem to improve the jackrabbit of the plains. lie roams airily ? over a hundred miles, more or less, to ' <ij pick up, bit by bit. the fragments of his n'i daily grub, but gets so tough at it that J,', he makes the coyote a-weary that seeks r. to eat him Hut the jack-rabbit's tame ?' cousin, however old, is almost as tender 01 as a frog. ? .\eir York It has been decided to build an underground metropolitan railway iu 1'aris. C FRIGHTFUL EXISTENCE. IB BEAST-LIKE LIFE LED BY A FARM EE B OBAZY SON. mtrncd to n Tree by a Collar mid Chain?Apprnaclicd Onlf by hi* Mother. A Sperryvillc fVa.) letter to the New irk World gays; For years there have en stories told of a wild man living in e fastnesses of the Blue Hidge mounins, the son of one of the small mouu!n fnrmcrs. who is jealously /juarded d protected by him; but the description ven of the monster have been so vague at I determined to test their truth for yself. A rough ride of several miles rectly up the mountain from the vilce of Sperryville brought our party to little farm which had been cleared on c mountain side. In the field an old (in, evidently the farmer himself, was work. As we stopped to spenk to m our cars was startled by a series of e most appalling and unearthly shrieks id yells coming from a clump of trees hich surrounded the log farm-house, a tie distance oil". For some moments c quiet country roadside seemed a iritablc pandemonium. Only those who ay have visited what are know in a ad-house as the "hollow squares," ere the more violent patients arc conled, can form any idea of the horribic lprcfl-ion made upon the mind by the mioniic yells and howls which filled ic fiir. The oiu farmer, informing us nit it wa; his son that we heard, led the ay to the house. . "There he is." said pointing with his long, bony finsrer i a large oak tree, a little ways removed om the house. I looked and saw a ild, brutish looking creature, whom it ould be mockery to call a man, unuer le tree, to which he was fastened by a >llar and chain. lie was the veritable ipersonation at last, of Caliban, a range, uncouth monster, neither man )r brute, but with the cra^teristics of 3th painfully blended, lie was entirenaked, though his body was covercd ith n short growth of shaggy black xir. Around his neck was a heavy iron >llar of home-made manufacture, and > this was attached a heavy chain, fasticd in the tree trunk by a staple. From ?e constant attrition of his neck the jllar had been worn perfectly, smooth id bright. He kept up a steady walk -the monotonous, unreasoning trot of a igcd animal. In his hand he carried is chain to keep the weight of it of! his cck. precisely as a monkey may be seen > do. Now and then he would stop for moment and give vent to a succession f piercing screams,accompanied by such orribly grotesque contortions of face nd limb that one was lorceci to luru way in very horror from the sight. .rouDd the trunk of the tree was a ath worn bare and smooth by his jstless feet. He did not take the lightest notice of our presence, and we, f course, stood at a respectful distance, he old man was not at all averse to liking about his unfortunate son. From child it had never shown the slightest park of intelligence, and at its birth it as scarcely even of human form. It was ardly possessed of even the instincts of n animal, for it never evinced any deirc or made any signs for food or drink, t had never manifested the ordinary motions and sensibilities of a brute: it Bemed absolutely indifferent to everytiing. Food is placed within his reach y his mother, who is the only person rho dares approach him, and he cats of although never seemiuc to care for it. [e only sleeps when utterly worn out y his unceasing tramp up and down uner his heavy chain. In winter he is ept in the house, but chained to keep im away from the fire. Clothing it is npossible to keep on him. lie is short ut heavily buiit, and possessed of a owerful frame. His arms are of exriioidinary length, and of unusual musular power; his hands 1 ar?e and owerful, and-armed with long, clawke nails. For forty years has this rightful object lived, a constant soliciule and terror to his parents. Strangely nongh both his father and mother are, anything, above the ordinary intellicncc. His health is good, and to all ppcarance he may live chained to the lg tree for years to come. Signs of Rain. The following signs of rain were given y Dr. Jcnncr, in 1S10. to a la lv, in rely to her inquiry whether it would rain )-morrow: The hoilow winds begin to blow, The cluuils look olack, the gluss is low; The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, An 1 spiders from their cobwebs creep; Last night the sun went pale to be 1, The moon in halves hid her head; The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, for see, u rain now spans me sky; The walls arc damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel; The squalid toads at dusk were seen Slowly c rawling o'er the green; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh; Hark! how tho chairs and tables crack! Old Betty's joints arc on the rack; And see yon rooks, how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding kite Or seem precipitate to fall As if they felt tho piercing ball; How restless are the snorting swine! The busy flics disturb the kine: Low o'er the griss tho swallow wings; The cricket, too, how loud she sings! Puss on tho hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws: 'Twill surely rain, I seo with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow. Sunday is observed in Guatemala more lau 111 any other Spanish American city e have visited. Usually, in all these ountries Sunday is the great market day f the week, when nil the denizens of le countrv dress in their best suits to J JI1U LU lUVV'II tu ti U14U auu Ultiv u uluu ^creation; but in Guatemala there is a iw, whicn is respected and generally nforced, requiring the market and all ther ])laces of business to remain closed n Sunday. Sometimes a cignr shop or saloon will be found open, and the otels, barrooms or ''cantines.'' as they re called, do more business than on any ther day, but there is no more general usiness done lien; on Sunday than in the ities of the L'nited States.?I'/iiliulclp/iia 'ras. "Mothers Should Note This." Under this caption an old physician rites to a Cincinnati Medical Journal, liat in view of the fact that people liv12 at a distance from cities are frtuently obliged to resort to cough mixiircs already put up for use, they should rovide themselves with only such rcmeies as are known to be free from opiates, oisons and nnrcotics; thus avoiding not nly danger, but even fatal results. Ife jcominends the recently discovered Red tar Cough Cure which analyses and ists by various Hoards of Health proved > be purely vegetable as well as prompt, flective and entirely harmless. Eighty-niuc Americans and eleven jiglishmen arc in attendance at the erlin University. J,tvi:n Comit.aint is declared by many Id sufferers, after years of medical exerimcnt, to be; incurable, and yet Vineah liirinns has clTectcd innumerable ermanent and perfect cures of chronic ases. Invalid-*, do not suffer longer, lit purchase a bottle of the Bitters and 'ldge for yourselves. A profecsional wild beast tamer uses lect licity to subdue the animals when liey are unruly. If allictml with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac lump :on's live Water. Druggistssell it. -5c. Tiik first horse railroad was built in S><.V2r. 'aw ICIIKI'M IT!KM* XKI'KAMilA,SCIATICA, l unbaco, HucUm-h.'. Hcmlachr. Toofhnrbe, civ TLrt'tl, S?r#*llir?i:??. Sjirr.ln*. ftri:l*r?, Itur::-, tinld', Frost itilf. anil ulhrr 1'iiin. an.l \rl:r.. Iff} l<pmni<'< n-l Iw-.l.i., n,r?-li,i).lfilll;nt.nrti. Tilt (II U.I;... VONF.l.KI: 10.. Haltlnorr. Jid., U.S.A. ndigestion Cured. I suffiTPtl for more (linn flvpyear* with Indlsrrittlnn. j arccl.v iihlr to retain Hie ?lmpl*-si food <m my nom I h. I ilcelinrd In lte?li. and suffered all ilie usual ?!"n nitindant upon llii* trrriblc dlxiase. Af 1 u-t. fit 111 tip In lltul r*llef in ant thing else. I com I ien>-?d lIn' use nf Swiff* SprrWe, The meilli'lnn itii'il up Ilio >inmui li. strrnr'lliniril the illtfoMlvo or | ins unit siM'ii all ihat litirtitng ri'a-<*U. nml I I'nuM j lain loud ? th'iiit illltlfiilly. Now niv health l? kh], an 1 ran fill am Ihllijc in tin* shape of foinj. anil lei Kt II without ilir.icllUy. Tiiki-ihepivserihcd ilese , ftrr nil Inc. JAMI'-S MANX, No. 14 Ivy St. >'or (Mil- I.) all itrilKslsts. iJlo. d :in I Skin I>I?*iis'-s mailed free. thk swirr sciirii'ic eo.. E& J Y?. 2"d St. Iirawer:l. Atlanta, (?*. .'i?riiliiiic 11iibit Cured In 1(1 tiS^Balfwi tn 'Ini- No l"*> til' en red. I WlTI !>* J. bTEPUXNt), I/*bfcUOQ, Ohio. A Dally Defalcation. Tho Hon. John Kelly, tho head and front or Tammany Hall, a man of strict integrity, an indefatigable worker, early at bis office, late to leave, so burdened with business that regular meals were seldom known by him, with mind in constant tension and energies steadily trained, finally broke down. ? The wonder is that ho did not sooner give way. An honest man in all things else, he ^ acted unfairly with his physical resources. He was ever dawing upon this bank without 8 ever depositing a collateral. The account overdrawn, the bank suspends and both arc now in the hands of medical receivers. * It is not work that kills men. It is irregularity of habits and mental worry. Xo man In good health frots at his work. Byo and bye when tho bank of vigor suspends, these men will wonder how it all happened, and ? tiiey will kesp wondering until their dying day unless, perchance, some candid physician j f or interested friend will point out to thorn . how by irregularity, by excessive mental effort, by constant worry and fret, by plunging in deeper than they had a right to go they Uav<? produced that loss of nervous o:s ergy which almost invariably ext>resses its ' , in a deranged condition of tho kidneys a:: ' liver, for it is a well known fact that the poison which the kidneys and liver should j1 removo from tho blood, if left therein, soon j knocks the life out of tho strongest and most j J vigorous man or woman. Daily building up ' 1 of these vital organs by so wonderful and I highly reputed a specific as Warner's safe J , euro, is tho only guarantee that our business j npiicau have that their strength will bo ; ' equal to the labors daily put upon them. Mr. Kelly has nervous dyspepsia, we learn, indicating, ns we liavo said, a break down o! nerve force. His case should be n warning to others, who, pursuing a like course, will certainly reach a like result.?The Sunday Her- 1 aid. 1 The Prince of Wales is five feet seven inches in height. Fob nvsrEPsiA, ikdiqiottom, depression of soir * ! its ami general debility in their various forms, j also as a preventive against fever and agno and \ otherintermittent ft vers, the "Ferro-Phosphor- j ated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, ! Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all Drug- j gists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from feveror other sickness it has ire eqiul. j A ti Only Dntifflitrr Cured orCon?iiuintion. , When death was hourly expected from Consumption, all remedies having failed and Dr. | H. James was experimenting, he accidentally 1 made a preparation of Indian Homo, which i cured his only child, and now gives this recipe J on receipt of stamps to pay expenses. Hemp [ also cures night sweats, nausea nt the stom- i ach, and will break a fresh cold in 24 hours. I Address Craddock & Co., 1032 Race street, Philadelphia, Pa , naming this paper. Impnrtntit. When yon riiltor tear?Nrt'.? York oitr, wirn b?jrqr*ne expresft*ce And $.1 carriage hire, and atop at the Grand Union Hotel, oppoiit* Grand Central dipot. ftX) elegant rooms, fitted up at a coat of one million ?' -?A ??? Amrf r.i?An?in nlin P!u_ vator. R??taurant supplied with tholie-t. Hone cur*, stages and elevited ra Iroads to all (1 >puts. Familial rsn live bettor for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class ho:el in the city. I.v wealth Indiana ranks seventh in the Union. What Everybody Says Must be true. And the unanimous praise which people who hare used it give Hood's Snriapnrilla, should convince those who have never tried this medicine of its great curativo p.iwora. If you suffer from impure blood, that tired feeling, depressed spirit t, dyjpepsia, or kidney and liver complaints, give Hood's Sirsaparilla a fair trial and you will bo greatly benefited. " My wife has had Tory poor hoalth f>r a longtime, suffering from indigestion, poor sppet.te end constant headache. She found no relief till slio tried Hood's Sirsaparilla. She is now taking tin third bottle, anl never felt better in her life. We feel it a duty torecommend it to every or.e we know." G. somebville Morrlnnl, Cook C).,III. " I cannot And words strong enough to express my feeling in far t of Hool'g Sarraparilla. It has done everything for me, curing m9 of dyspepra with which 1 had suffered many years." Mr*. S. M. BEEnE, Marb'ehead, Mass. "I suffered with boils five years. Hood's Sanapa rilla cured mo." K. M. Lane, Pittsburg, Pa. Hood's Sarsapariila 8old by all druggist*. $1; s:i for SI. Praparod only by C. I. IIOOD <!: CO., Apothocaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses Qna Dollar R. R. R. RADWAYS READY RELIEF The cheapest and best medicine for family use in the would. In from one to twenty minutes, never fails to relieve I'AIN with one thorough application. No matter how violent or excruciating thn paiu, the Rheumatic, Bedridden, Infirm. Crippled, Nervous, Neuralgic or t rostrated with disease may suffer, RADWAY'S READY RELIEF will afford instant ease. It instantly relieves and soon cures RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE, INFLAMMATIONS, C.'ON<i EsTION, SPRAINS BKUISES. SOKE TIIIIOAT. BOWEL COMPLAINTS It will In a few moments, when taken according to directions, cure Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Sick Hcadache, Summer Compl iiut. Diarriioea. Dysenferv, Cholera Morbus, Colic, Wind in the Bowels, and nil Internal Paius. Travelers should always carry a bottle of BADWAY'S READY RELIEF with them. A few drops in water will prevent sickness or pain from change of water. It is batter than French Brandy or Bitters as a stimulant. Malaria in its Various Forms. There 1* not a remedial egent in the world that will cure Fever and Ag'je and all other Malarious, Bilious ond other I?*vers (aided by JUlwav's Pills) so Snick as Ridwav's Ready Relief. 1'nce fifty cents, old by druggists. DR. RADWAY'S SARSAFARILLIAN RESOLVENT, The Great Blood Purifier, fob the ci rk op SKIN DISEASES, Esditioks op the Fack and Boot. Phjplrs, Blotches, Salt Rheum, Old Sobks, Ulceus. Dr. Railway's SarsKpnrlUinii Resolvent excels all remedial agents. It purifies th? blood, restoring health and vigor; clear skin, beautiful complexion secured to all. Chronic Liver Complaints, etc. Not onlv does the Sarsaparillian Resolvent eicel all remedial agents in the cure of Chronic Scrofulous, Constitutional and Skin Diseases, but it Is the only positive euro lor Kidney and Bladder Complaints, Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes, Dropsr. Stoppage of Water, Incontinence of Urine, Bright'* Disease, Albuminuria, and all cases where there are brick-dust deposits, or the water is thick, cloudy, er mixed wiih substance like the white of an err. or there is a morbid, dark, bilious appearance and white bone-dust deposits, and where there is a prickling, burning sensation when passing water, and pain in the small of the back and along the loins. Sold by Driifgists. Price SI per Bottle, Dr. Railway's Replalp Pills r or me curr oi uli uipurucr* ui iuh diiiuhuu, imn, Bowels, Kidnnjrsi, Blander, Nervous Diseasun. Femala f.'ompUlntc, l/oss of Appetite, Headache. ComUpa'ion, CiMtireuriw, Indiicottlton, D??rei??ia. Bilious n mvi. Fever, Inflammation of the Bowels, l'ilra suid all derangement* e.t tho Internal Vlicxa. Purelv vegetable, containing on mercury or deleterious drug*. Price. 25 cent* i>er box. .Sold by nil druggists. MrSend a WterHtamp to Dr. RADWAY <fc CO., No. 32 Warren Street, New York, for "Falio and True." We Want 5,000 More BooK Agents to Sell The Personal History of. U. SLMT. j 7*> took cnabricesth? General** ?aiir* milldfx, Ctvll trrv'e*. aatJ | pnfita C*rr*r, aai is tin ro^'t complete am) b.itor; ?.f h;n ex- [ tint. A ltrp lwvlMt.it ocu?u rclunt, *up?rU2jr irus:rv.?4 i \\r ?tnt ?H? ?<rntln?vf r/ I.rir.'l Am? Po*t ?t: 1 intrcrj towtJlLip. ben! ; f it fn.l particular! ami n'Ki'IALTCSIMSTO AGCNTs, ott?ui? vtncj i at r ir? I?r trniliof t*. f..f oiiiflt. f Mention th!? A?l !rr??, I AMERICAN 1'1'KMSHIN<* CO., H?utlor?l Boston* Chicago, Cincinnati, or St. i.uuli,. . | BOSTON'S PALATIAL HOTEL j The Vendome J W. TRACT EUSTIS, Manager. I Blair's Fil!s.??stsr | . Ovitl Hi)Xi 31.00; round, 50 ctw. ill ? aSm,"i?5 B H ill'? )' for ?Kf!ts. (' inliiiH' l P' C iPtj wff B s?0 inni;i! NViv Church St., Now York. ("? A C I\2 "3" GS OUaiimil. Si>uil sfauip for rAl bis 0 inv. ut?iV(iiii.io. l. iiisauam. I'.iti'itt l/i.vycr. \V,;shiUi;loii. 1>. C. SITUATIONS FREE. bors. CiirrcHiMMKlnicr ( uiv??r*ity* Chicago. III. TPI PfJBAD^Y TAIT.Itr AND SIT0ATION3 H LL.Lk.ln/4rtJ I I r ;Msm.I). Circulars frc-o. B VAI.E.VI'INIC ItliOS., JuiiCNville, }Vis. i no, t'iSoM<?*r>tV II m!>. s-iiusu a.' Pensions i? .5 wj.&wit'i!: ffZi fRl 0 R 13 HABIT. Sum mm In 10 to tf J 8 T C E?s3 S-iiii!:iniim in'ltn?Bt. z FOR ^5o In stamps wa wi postpaid, a ver >RSE 10 diseases apt I approved rem the terth, how t ;reat value to Ho !. CO., 114 ! Listen to Yonr Wife. The Manchester Guardian, Juno Sth, 1853, ays: ' At one of the "Windows" Looking on tbe woodland ways! With luuips of rhododendron:* and great masses of fay blossoms!!! "There was ail interesting roup. It included one who had been a " Cotton pinner" but was now so Paralyzed!!! That ne could only bear to lie in a reclining tosition. This refers to my case. I was Attacked twelve years ago with "Loomoter Ataxy" ia nni-iilvtio disease of nervo fibre nwel? ;ver cured) md was for several years barely able to get ibout. And for tho last Five years not able to at;end to my business, although Many things have been done for mo. The last experiment being Xerve?tratelling. Two years ago I was voted into the Home for Incurables! Near Manchester, in May, 1882. 1 am no "Advocate'': "For anything in tho ih/ipo of patent"' Medicines? And niarlo many objections to my dear ivife's constant urging to try Hop Bitters, but ilnally to pacify h-r? Consented!! I had not quito finished the first bottle whsn . [ felt a change come over me. This was Saturday, November :>d. On Sunday morning I felt so strong I said to my room companion*, "I was sure I could "Walk! So started across the floor and back. I hardly knew how to contain myself. I wai all over tho house. I am gaining strength Bach day, andean walk quite safe without any "Stick!" Or Support. ' 1 am now at my own house, and hope soon to be able to earn my own living again. I have been a member of the Manchester " Royal Exchange" For nearly thirty years, and was most heartily congratulated on going into the room on Thursday last. Very gratefully yours, "JoH.'f Blackburn, Manchester (Eng.) Dec. 24, 18S3. Two years later am perfectly well l5^~None genuine withoutabunchof green Hops on th? white label. Sbun all the vile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hop3" in their name. NYS U?32 Only Tempers Known, !"! I 11 Grateful Thousand* proclaim Vmau Brrrras the most wonderful Invigorani that over sustained the sinking system. ITIado from California roots and herbs, free from Alcoholic Stimulants. A Purgative and Tonic. 'f hid Bitters cures Female Complaints,' Inflammatory and Chronic Hhenmatlsm, Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Blood, Liver and KldneyDisesses. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Paiu in the Shoulders, Coughs. Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Stomach. Furred Tongue, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Pneumonia, and Pain in the regions of the Kidneys, are cured by the use of the Bitters. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, 'Bolls. Erysipelas, Scrofula, Dlscolorations, Humors and diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of the Bitters. It Invigorates the Stomach, and stimulates the torpid Liver and Bowels, which render It of unequaled efficiency in cleansing the blood of all impurities, and imparting new life and vigor to the whole system. No Person can take the Bitters and remain long unwell. Pin, Tape and other Worms, are destroyed and removed from the system. Clean mo the Vitiated Blood whenever It Is foul; your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of the system will follow. In conclnslon: Give the Bitters atrial. It will speak for itself. One bottle will prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy ad vertleement. K. H. ITIcDonaldDrnz Co., Proprietors, Baa Francisco, Cat.. and 628,6304 632 Washmgtoa SU Cor. Charlton St., New York. Sold by all Dealers and Druggist* REMINGTON Standard Type-Writer. Tlio Best Writing Machine in the World* WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT, , 339 BROADWAV, NEW YORK. ' MEDIATE RELIEF! Gordon'* King of Pain relieves pain of whatever nature, tho moment It Is applied, and Is a household remedy wherever known for Rheumatism, Neuralgia. Headache and Toothache, Burns and Scalds, Sprains and Bruise*. Diarrhoea Dysentery, Sore Throat, Ulcers, Fresh Wounds, etc. Burns will nol blister If applied, and Bruises will heal in a day that would require a week hy any other method. The remedy Is furnished In powder, with labels, etc., and Is sent by mall, postage paid. It ts put up In 50c., tl and $3 packages. Tho s)c., or trial package, when reduced to liquid form, will fill 31 2oz. bottles, which are worth at retail. $' . Agents can coin money selling It. It Is worth ten times Its cost for burns alone. Send postal notes or two cent stamps. Address E. G. RICHARDS, Sole Proprietor, Toledo, Ohio. r || j From Summer ComIhS BI i plaints? A 23c. bottle Wi 8 8 H I of Dr. Soth mu "J | Arnold's Balsam I ! Will cure every ordi* a i nary attack. % B fiTfTf I* i Warranted or money ouisuri? G1LMAN BROS.,WholeMlB Drugging, Prop'?, Boston* BEST TRUSS EVER USED. . Improved Elastic Tru?i Worn Highland day. Poj Itivelr cuiv? Rupture. Wf gr ASTI C Brt Se"' ?v mail everywhere. Hi m B n p p KB Write for full dencriptir# circular* to the New York Elastic VITvf J Trass Company, V# \y 744 B'dway, New York quickest of nny I erer tried."Any man or woman making lens than $40 per week should try oui easy money-making business. e guarantee it the best paying in the land. $1 samples quick selling goods fre? to any lady or gent who will n^rote a few hours daily. Experience unneewary; no talking. Write quick and s^ cure your county. Address, B. L. Merrill & Co. Chicago. LF PAGES o LIQUID GLUE figa 1IMWOT2 fcjjPSI Awirdnl GOLD MEDAL. LONDON. If? Uwd i/s*h bT Mijod it Hamlin Or**n tod Pitao Co.. Piillmaa V&Jtill fa'ace Car Co.. fcc. Hid nnlv br tkt RUSSIA CEMENT CO. GLOUCESTER. MASS. SOLD ^^5' EVERYWHERE. WSampUTin Can bar Mail, go. FRAZER AXLE GREASE. , Rest in the World. Made only by the FrazcrLubriea(. rCo.at ("hlcaco, N. Y. x St. Louis. Sold everywhere. AGENTS WANTED > We tvnnt n ri'Ilabl?> Lady or Gout In o.-urotairn and w township to soil our Rood*: also general agenUPPortlcularstwe. AddnwtJkffebsosil'y'u Co.. Toledo.O. R. uT AWARE^Lorillard's Climas Plug, bearing a red tin tag, mat Lorillard'* 5^ Koko I.onl'flnecut; that Lorillard's Navy Clipping* and 'hat Ix>rll lard's Snufl's are ?i.? i ...f .....i . iicMiinst. oiialltr considered ? iDRPHINE?&? EASILY CTKEI). BOOK FREE DR. J. C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson, Wisconsin. 4% II .1IK.HOIKS ready tof Sen. brain tssr-jsrssrsi udJre*? AIMMMIATTttX. Box h'9. Philadelphia, P* WffnftTfiir S10T0S20 A DAY ma<1owitk rjHj 41 [i 111 1/ *or nianufacfurinp StcncilV j>fl Is U N I ^?*v and Rubber stamn*, iHltflTlfll I ?Irro. S. M. SPENCER. /"A .Jlvdfl A u-j Wa<hin^fi>u St., Boston. Sfa??. THOHSTOITS KTOOTHPOffDER Keeplnf TMIh Perfect and Uuina Healthy. ^BESSSBSSWSSSaaSB Sort rullcf?CTTTW 1 KIDDER'S PASTILLES by mart. StowcllACo, mm*TKmJiiHw&!xmJx:s*ichiiicziQ*n, mmi. Kl S vPjPaj VtR obtained for inventor*. c'ir[pf$ 9 i ^ tr'?. h. s. Snow k <v>, U Ri a lie 3* B UAlt'<?.Wa<ihinct',ti.r>.i} PENNiSOYAL "CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH" The Original ami Only Ucniilnp. Suf.'unl alv.nt* fli.iM". !<? * W'or?hlf?n Imitation?. ahl<?he?trr** Kncllah" a- ?h?* \? ma.l*. Inii?prn?abl# TO LADIES. I.i-i i-t.mp^r|.-rti^Urvi^ Vi A ME PAijER.SIJ j Cf CTTute..8l LL3 B .m. ;il fonvard.^^. y valuable BOOK \(j\. to afflict the Horse, and^V edics therefor; dircctions^^^T^^V o ehoc properly, and m 11 ci trse owners,^armors andoih-.Tg.N^T^^l^ Leonard St., N. Y, City. X N