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RELIGIOUS_REkA.DING. Face To Face. Sad mortal! couldst thou but; know What truly it means to die, The wings of thy soul would plow. And the hopes of thy heart beat high; Thou wouldst turn from the PyrrhonLst schoo's, And laugh iheir jargon to scorn, As the babble of midnight fools Ere the morning of Truth be born: But I, earth's madness above, In the k ngdom of stormless breath? I gaze on the glory of love In the unveiled face of Death. I tell the his face is fair As the moon-bow's amber rings, And the gleam in bis unbound tiair Like the flush of a thousand Springs; HLs smile is tho fathomless beam Of tt e star-shine's sacred light, When the Summ rs of South.and dream In the lap of the holy Night: For I, earth's blindness above, In the kingdom of halcyon breath? I gaze on the marvel of love Jn the uuveilod face of Death. In his eyes a heaven there dwells? But they hold few mysteries now? And his pity for earth's farewells Half furrow, th t ->h ning brow; fcouls taken from Time's cold tide He folds to his fostering breast. And the team of their grief are dried Ere hey enter the < ourts of rest: * And still, earth's niadnes* above, In a kingdom of storm less breath, I gnz-- on-the li,jht that is love In the unveiled faco ot Death. Through the splendor of stars impearled Iu 'he glow of their far-off grace, He is soaring wor.d bv world. With the soul- iu his strong emtraco; Lone ethers, unstiivcd by a wind, At tlio | assago of Death grow sweet, With the fragrance that floats behind Tl>" f\f lu'cwinmtf] rot.rAAfc; Ami I, car:It's madness above, 'Miit a kingdom of tranquil breath, Have qazed on tho tustre of love In the uuveiled facoof Detttli. But beyond the stirs and the sun I can follow him still on h s way, Till the p art-white gates are won In the calm of the contral day. Far voices of fond acclaim Thrill down from the place of souls, As Death, with a touch like flame, Uncloses the goal of goals; And from heaven of heavens above God speaketh with batoloss breath? Mv angel of perfect love Is th angel men call Death: ?Ihttil //. Hayac, in Harper*r Magazine for May. Itefren'hment of Ileal Sympathy. There was an old Negro woman, some twenty years ago, in North Carolina, who was called by Union prisoners and Confederate conscripts as well "Cheer up Honeys" and 'Gloiy day." Sometimes they cnllcd her by one name, and sometimes by the other, but generally by both, as :i kind of double description of the humble saint. Because every clay, when prisoners were marched into the stockade, or conscripts were halted within her reach, she stood at the gate or hobbled along the line of wornout and suffering men, and with the music of Christ's own sympathy in h;?r voice she cried in the cars of ail: "Cheer up, honeys, glory day is coming!'' How she refreshed them! Why, they coir.ed a laugh out of their sorrows with the very name with which they saluted her. There are want.} of the soul and hun- | gov of spirit which can never be satisfied with the bread which one may purchase. There is loneliness of heart which no fullness of material rcsourses can remove. There r.re wounds and bruises of men, of women, and of children that must have something better than pence, that furnish oil and wine for the victim half-dead by the wayside. There are sorrows where contributions can only be a mock- 1 erv and the adding of chains to the cap- j tive. Nicodcmus does well to bring his costly gifts of spices and fine linen for the burial. But what has he of cheer and sympathy for h s suffering Lord '{ It would have been .better, Nicodcmus, if you had last night followed the Na/.arcnc to the olive-garden, and helped the disciples to watch, and brought them refreshment when their hearts were so Vipnvv with enrrnvv thnfr flw>v rnulH nnfrln their duty. Joseph, the rich Arimathean, docs well to open his new tomb, prepared at so much cost, and give the body of his Lord a resting-place away from the public gaze. But will he bring gold to the weary sulTerer on the Cro.'S, or to God's Lamb that has fallen in tie street? It would have been better, Joseph, had ycu gone down into that howling mob and helped to bear the Cross with your stronger shoulder; or if you had taken your place along with John and Mary and the other women, where the dying Sacriticc might be refreshed by your p:cs nee. Ti>ere arc suflcrcrs who need u*, not ours. They arc abundant, ?nd all about as. They may be found where least we are looking for them, and with the small est effort we may refresh them with all the fresh air thev need. Years a^o. one dark, blustering night, I was awakened in the middle ot the ni~ht by a warm little hand which was gently pressed upon my face. I reached out in the darkness, and found my precious little boy, whom long since God took to Himself. He was standing by my bed and trying to lay his head beside mine on my pillow. I said: "My dear boy, what is the matter? Why are you out of your bed? What is the matter?" lie answered in a whisper, "Nothing, papa." "But what do you want?" I said. "I want you," he answered, with a sob that shook his little body, and very soon shook mine. 11c soon grew quiet, and I said : "My chWd, are you sick?"' "No," he said. "Arc you hungry? Dm't you want something?" iiv.. u? i,;* 1 " HUj 111' 3<liUy >?ua an iijw |/ii;o.ii;u iir i my ear; "I just want you; it is so dark." Brethren, there are thousands of God's lonely children that have crept from their resting-place, and are wandering in the dark, and it is so dark. They want you. They want nothing hut you. Give yourself to them. IIow near to God they will bring you if you search them out diligently and refresh them! Their [x prayers will crowd the gates of God's mercy, and bring you mercy in that day. God help us all to refresh his needy ones!?The Rev. S. C. 1). D. True humanity consists not in a l" squeamish car ; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.? C. J. Fox. Ten years ago the almshouses of Nov/ York were inspected, and a persona! interview with nearly ten thousand inmates showed eighty-five per cent, of the men to be intemperate, and 212 per cent, of the women; fifty-five per ccnt. had intemperate fathers, and eighty-two per cent, intemperate mothers. The St. Louis Olole-Democrat, in au article upon the "Children of the Slums,,r says: "Among the causes of the ruin of children is prominent the unlimited sale ql intoxicating liquors. fl IMAGE'S SEBION. THE CHEAP SPARROW. Text: "Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?"?Luke xil, 6. You see the Bible will not be limited in the choice of symbol*. There is hardly a beast, or bird or insect which has not been called to illustrate some divine truth?the ox's pdtien e, the ant's industry, the spider's skill, the hind's surefootedness, the eagle's speed, the dove's gentleness, and even the sparrow's ] meanness and insignificance. In Oriental I countries none but the poorest people buy the I sparrow and eat it, so very little meat is there on the bones, and so very poor is it, what there is of it. The comfortable population would not think of touching it any more than you would think of eating a bat or a lamprol. Now, says Je3us, if God take3 such good care of a poor bird that is not worth a cent, won't he care for you, an immortal? We associate God with revolutions. We can see a divine purpose m the discovery of America, in the invention of the art of printing, in the exposure of the Gunpowder Plot, in the contrivance of the needle-gun, in the ruin of an Austrian or Napoleonic de>potism; but how hard it is to see* God in tha minute ru?ik.atinl orfoirc rvf nnr HvdqI Wp t.ViinLr r?f (Tod as making a re:ord of the starry host, but cannot realize the Bible truth that He knows how man)' hairs are on onr head. It seems a grand thing that God provided food for hundreds of thousands of Israelites in the desert; but we cannot appreciate the truth that, when a sparrow is nungry, God stoops down and opens its mouth and puts the seed in. We are struck with the iuea that Gcd fills the universe with His presence; but cannot understand how He encamps in the crystal palace of the dewdrop, or finJs room to stand, without being crowded, between the alabaster pillars of a pond lily. We can see God in the clouds. Can we sea God in these flowers at our feet? We are apt to pla?e God on some great stage?or try to do it?expecting Him there to act out His stupendous projects; but we forget that the life of a Cromwell, an Alexander, or a Washington, or an archangel, is not more under divine inspection than your life or mine. Poaipey thought there must be a mist over the eves of God because He so much favored Ca*ar. But there is no such mist. Ho sees every thing, We say God's path is in the great waters. True enough! but no more J certa'nly than He is in the water in the glass I on the table. We say God guides the stars in their courses. Magnificent truth! but no more certain truth than that He derides which read or street you shall take in coming to church. Understand that God does not sit upon an indifferent or unsympathetic throne; but that He sits down beside you t>day, and stands beside me to-day, and no affair of our lives is s^ insignificant but that it is of importance to God. In the first place, God chooses for us our occupation. I atn amazed to see how many people there are dissatisfied with the work they have to do. I think three fourths wish they were in some other occupation; and they s-jen/l a great dial of time in regretting tl at they got in the wrong trade or profession. I want to tell you that God put into operation all the influences which led you to that particular choice. Many of you are not in the business that you expected to be in. l on srartea ior lue ministry, ana iea: neu merchandise; you started for tha law, and you are a physician; you preferred agriculture, aud you are a mechanic. You thought one way; God thought another. But you ought not to sit down and irourn over the past. You are to remember that God?a Beneficent God. a kiud God. a loving Godarranged all these circumstances by which you wore made what you are. Hugh Miller says:* "I will be a stonemason." Godsays: "You will be a geologist." David goes out to tend his father's sheep. God calls him to govern a nation. Saul g02s out to hunt his father's asses, and b?fore he gets back finds the crown of mighty dominion. How much happier would we be if we were content with the places God gave us I God saw your temperament and all tin circumstauces by which you were surrounded, and I believe nine-tenths of you are in the work you are best fitted for. 1 hear a great racket in my wat :h, and I | find that the hauds and the wheels and the springs are getting out of their places. I send it down to tha jewelers ami say: "Overhanl that wat -h, aud teach the wheels and the spring and the hands to mind their own business " You know a man having a large estate. He gathers his working hands in the mornoyw? c o vo f/\ nvi e\ Vaii tri rvt fUnf vine;'' to another: "You go and weed those flowers;" to another: "You plow that tough glebe;'and cai-h one govs to. his particular work. Tin owner of the estate point* the man to what he knows he can do best, and so it is with the Lord. He calls us up and points us to that field for w h'ch we are b^t fitted. So that the lesson for to day, earning from this subject, is: "Stay cheerfully where Gorl puts you. ' I remark further; That God has arranged the place of our dwell:ng. What particular city or town, street or house you shall live in, seems to be a mere matter of accident. You go out to hunt for a hojse, and you happen to pass up a certain street, and happen to see a sign, and you select that house. Wa* it all happening so? O, no! God guided you in every step. He foresaw the future. He kn<;w all your circumstances, and he selected just thit one house a> better for you than any one of the ten thousand habitations in the city. Our house, however humble the roof and however lowly the portals, is as near God's heart as an Alhambra or a Kremlin. Prove it, you say! Proverbs iil., 33: "He blessed the habitation of the just.* I remark further, that God arranges all our friendships. You were driven t> the wall. You found a man just at that crisis who sympathized with you and help^n! you. You say: "How lucky I was!" There was no luck about it. God sent that friend just as certain as He sent the angel to strengthen Christ. Your domestic friends, your business friends, your Christian friends, God sent them to bless you, and if any of them have proved traitorous it is only to bring out the value of those who rema:n. If some die, it is only that they may stand at the oatpost of Heaven to greet you at your coming. You always will have friends?warmhearted friends, magnanimous frieads; ani when sickness comes to your dwelling there will be watchers; when trouble comes to your heart there will be sympathizers; when death comes there will be gentle fingers to close the eyes and fold the hands, and gentle lips to tell of a resurrection. Oh, we are compassed by a body-guard of friends! Every man, if he has behaved himself will, is surrounded by three circles of friends?those of the outer circle wishing him well; those in the next circle willing to help him; while close up to his heart are a few who would die for him. God pity the wret -h who has not | any friends! He ha< not behaved well. I remark, again, that God puts down the I limit of our temporal prosper ty. The world ; of finance seems to have no God in it. You can not tell where a man will land. The affluent fall; the poor ri-e: the ingenious fail; the ignorant suceoed. An enterprise opening grandly >huts in bankruptcy, while out of the peat du<r up from some Now Englanl I marsh the millionaire builds his fortune. The poor man thinks it is chauco that keeps him down; the rich m m thinks it is clian e which hoists him; and they are both wrong. It is so hard to realize that God rules the money market, aud has a hoak in the nos; of the stock gambler, and that all the commercial revolutions of the world shall result in the very best for God's dear children. My brethren, do not kick against the divine a'lotments. G.d knows just how much moiu y it is best for you to lo o. Yoa never gain unless it is best for you to gain. You go up when it it be t for you to go up, and go down when it is best f r you to go down. Prove it, you say.' I will; Romans viii., H: "All things work together for good to them that love God." Yoig ) t> a factory, and you see twenty or thirty wheals as they are going in ditl'erent dire "tions. This hand is rolling olF this way, aud another hand another way; one down, another up. You say: "Wliah fnnfiicinn in a faffcorv<" Oh. 110! all these different hands are only different parrs of the machine y. So I go iuto your lif?* and see strange things. Here is one providen e pulling you one way, and another in another way. Huf these are different parts of one machinery, by which He will advance your everlasting and present well-being. Now you know t%it a second mortgage, and a third and fourth mortgage, is often worth nothing. It is the first mortgage that is a good investment. I have to tell you that every Christsau man has a first mortgage on every trial and on every disaster, and it must make a payment of eternal advantage to his soul. How many worriments it would take out i of your heart if you believed that fully. ; You buy goods and hope the price will go up; I but you are in a fret and a frown for fear the price will go down. You do not bu/ the goods, usiue your best discretion in the matter, aua then say: "Oh, Lord! I have done the best I could; I commit this whole transaction into Thy hands." That is what religion is good for, or it is goo 1 for nothing. There are two things, says an old proverb, you ought not to fret about: First, things that you can help; and, second, things which you can not help. If you can helo them, why do you not apply the remedy? If you can not help them, you might as we.l surrender first as last. My dear brethren, do no sit any longer moping about yoir ledger. Do not sit looking so desponding upon your stock of unsalab'e good 5. . Do you tbink that God is going to allow you, a Christian man, to do business alone? God is the controlling partner in every firm: and although your debtors may abscond, although your securities may fail, although your store may burn, God will, out of an infinity of results, choose for you the very best resultsDo not have any idea, that you can overstep the limit that God has laid down for your prosperity. You will never get one inch beyona it God has decided how much prosperity you can stand honorably, and employ usefully, and control righteously; and at the end of 1886 you will have just so many dollars and cents, just so much wardrobe', just so much furniture, just so many bonds and mortgages, and nothing more. I will give you $100 for every jenny beyond that. God has looked over your life. He knows what is best for you. and He is going to bless you in time and bless you for eternity; and He will do it in the best way. Your little child says: "Papa, I wish you would let me have that knife i" "No,"' you say, "it is a sharp knife, and you will cut yourself." He says: "I must have it." "But you can not have it," you reply. He gets angry and red in the face, and says h3 will have it; but you say he shall not have it. Aro you not kind in keeping it from him? So God treats His children. I say: "I wish, Heavenly Father, to get that." God says: "No, my child." I say: "I must have it." God says: "You can not have it." I get angry and say: "I will have it." God says: "Vmi shall not have it." And 1 do not tret it. Is He not kind and loving and the best of fathers ? Do you tell me there is no rule and regulation in these things ? Tell that to the men who believe in no God and no Bible. Tell it not to me. A man of large business concludes to go out of his store, leaving much of his investments in the business, and he says to his sons: "Now. I am going to leave this business in your hands. Perhaps I may come ba k in a little while, ana perhaps not While I am gone you will please to look after affairs." After awhile the father comes back aud finds everything at loose ends, and the whole business seems to be going wrong, tie says: "l am going to tone possession or thus- business?you know I never fully surrendered it; and henceforth consider your- | selves subordinates.Is he not right in doing i it? He saves the business. The Lord | soems to let us go on in life guided by our own skill, and we make miserable work of it. God comes down to oar shop or our store and says: "Things are going wrong; I come to take chargo. I am master, and I know what is best, and I proclaim my authority." We are merely subordinates. It is like a boy at school with a long sum that he cannot do. He has been working at it for hours, making figures here and rubbing out figures there, and it is all mixed up; and the teacher, looking over the boy's shoulder, kuows that ha cannot get out of it. aud cleauing the slato, says: "Begin again." Just so God does to us. Our affairs Set into an inextricable entangloment, and [9 rubs everything out and says: "Begin again?" Is He not wise and loving in so doing? I tnink the trouble is that there is so large a difference between the Divine and the human e itimate as to what is enough. I have heard of people striving for that which is enough, but I never heard of anyone who had enough. What God c&lls enough for man, man calls too little. What man calls enough, God says is too much. The difference between a poor man and a rich miu is only the difference in binks. The rich man puts his money in the Nassau Bank, or the Park Baok, or Fulton Bank, or some other bauk of that character, while the poor man comes up and makes his investments in the bank of Him who runs a'l the quarries, all the mines, all the gold, all the earth, all heaven. Do you think a man can fail when he is backed up like that? ' I want to bring this truth close up to the heart of those people in this audience who have to calculate rigid economy, who are perplexed how they will make the old garment hold out a little longer, with whom the great question is not which is the best investment or the most lucrative security, but h iw Shall I ma\e the two ends meet? To such people I bring the con lolence of this Christian truth. You may have seen a map on which is described, with red ink, the travels of the children of Israel through the desert to the Promised Land. You see how they took this and that direction, crossed the river and went through the sea. Do you know God has made a map of your life, with paths leading up to this bitterness and that success, through this river and acros > that sea? But, blessed be God! the path always comes out at the Promised Laud. Mark that! Mark that! I remark, again, that all those things that seim to be but accidents in our life are under the Divine supervision. We sometimes seem to be going helmless and anchorless. You say: "If I hal some other trade; if I had not gone there this summer; if I bad lived in some other houss." You bave no right to say that. Every tear you wept, every step you bave takeu, every burden you have carried, is under Divine inspection, and that event which startled your whole household with horror, God met with perfect placidity, because he knew it was for your good. It was part of a great plan projected long ago. In eternity, when you come to reckon up your mercies, you will point to thai affliction as one of your greatest blessings. God has a strange way with us. Joseph found his way to the Prime Ministervs chair bv being pushed into a pit; and to many a Christian down is up. The wheat must be flailed; the quary must be blasted; the dia* mond must be ground; the Christian must be afflicted; and that single event, which you suppose 1 stood entirely alone, was a connecting link between two great chains, one chain reaching through all eternity past and the other other chain reaching through all eternity future, so small an event fastening two eternities togethor. A missionary, coming from India to the United States, stepped at St. Helena while the vessal was taking water. He had his little child with him. Tboy walked along by an embankment, and a rock at that moment became loosened, and fallirg, iustanllv killed the child. Was it an accident.' Was it a surprise toGod? Had He allowed His servant, after a life of conspiration, to come to such a trial? Not such is my God. Th-re are no accidents in the divine mind, though they may seem so to us. God is good, and by every single incident of our life, whe!herit be adverse or otherwise, before earth and Heaven God will demonstrate His mercy. "I bear a man say: "That idea he'ittlns Irocl. You wing mm aown ro sucu i?u? things." Oh! I have a more thorough appreciation of God in little things than 1 have iu great things The mother does not wa t until the child has mashed its foot or broken its arm before she administers sympathy. The child come; in with the least braise, and the mother kisses it. Go 1 does net wait for some treman ious crisis in our life, but comes down to u.s in our most insignificant trials, and throws over us the arms of His niorvy. Going up tho White Mountains some years ago I thought of that passage in the Bihlo that speaks of God as weighing mountains in a balance. As I looked at th so great mountains I thought, can it bo possible that God cau put th?se great mountains in scales? It was an idea too groat for me to grasp: but when 1 saw a blue-Djll down bv the mule's foot, on my wav up Mouut Washington, then I understood the kindness und goodness of God. It is not so much of Gol in great things I can understand, but of God in little things. There is a man who says: "That doctrine cannot be true, because things do go so very wrong." 1 reply, it is no in'consistency on the part of God, but a lack of undorstan ling ono;ir part. I hoar that men are making very fine shawls in some fa-tory. I go in on the first flo:>randseo only the raw materials, anil ask: "Are theio tho shawls I havo heard about?" "NTo,"says tho manufacturer: "go up to tho next floor," anil I go up, and then i begin to see the design. But tin man says: "Do not stop h?re: go up to the top floor of the factory, and you will see the idea fully carried out." I do so, and having come to the top, see the complete pattern of an exquisite shawl. So in our life, standing down on a low level of Christian experience, we do not understand God's dealing*. He tells us to go up higher, until wo oegm to understand the divine meaning with respect to us, and we advance until we stand at the very gate of Heaven, and there see God's ideaoll wrought out?a perfect idea of mercy, of love, of kindness. And we say: "Just and true are all Thy ways." It is all right at the bottom. Remember there is no inconsistency * Ion the part of God, but it 11 culy onr mental and spiritual in capacity. Some of you have be?n diappointed this 1 summer?vacations are'apt to b > disappointments, but whatever have been your perplexI if-'na onr? wnn'imMiti!. knov^ that "Man's heart devisetb his way, but the Lord directeth bisstepij." Ask those aged men in this church if this is not so. It has been so in my own life. One summer I started for the Adirondacks, but my plans were so changed that I lauded in Liverpool. I studied law, and I got into the ministry. I re olved to go as a missionary to China, and I stayed in the United States. I thought I would like to be in the East, and I went to the West?all the circumstances of life, all my work, different from that which I expected. "A man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps." So, my dear friends, this day take home this subject. Ee content with such things as you have. From every grass blade under your feet learn the lesson of Divine care, and never let the smallest bird flit acros* your path without thinking of the truth that "five sparrows are scld for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God." Blessed be His glorious name forever. Amen. POP'CIiAIt SCIENCE. Tho German newspapers state that startling experiments have been made at Berlin with a new description of shell, charged with gun cotton, which pro, duce.s most extraordinary results. No I kind of defensive works, no matter how solid, it is stated, are capable of resisting so destructive a projectile. The curious suggestion has been made by Mr. Francis Galton, of the London Anthropological Institute, that some of the colors of I he Italian mosaic workers be employed ns standards ::or describing the tints of the bkin of the various races and tribes of mankind. These colors have great durability, mosaic* in St. Peters at Rome having shown no signs of change after more than a century. A great variety of tints is available, there being about 500 appropriate to the flesh of European nations alone. It is possible to keep the adult lobstei alive for a long period in a moist, cold atmosphere. At45?P., in a proper device, lobsters have been kept alive and in good condition for fifteen days, and in a moist atmosphere only, their gills not having been immersed in water during the whole period. This discovery renders it possible to transport living -J-.n 1.1..1 - IU lUll lUUslLTS ULTU3B LUC UUUHliUHl/, OUU to stock the waters of the Pacific coast. It is also possible to pack the lobster eggs in seaweed in a similar manner and to transport them for long distances. By lecent soundings the London Geographical Society has as:crtained that the ocean-bottom in the North Atlantic is formed of two g cat valleys. One reaches in width from tho tenth degree of east to the thirtieth of west longitude, extending to the equator, at a depth of lot less than 13,000 feet; and the other lies between the thirtieth and fiftieth degrees of west longitude. The intervening mountain-chain with a maximum breadth of nearly 500 mile?, extends northward toward Iceland and southward to the Azores, and is volcanic in charac fcr ut the ends. The spectroscope?capable of indicating the millionth part of a milligram of sodium?has been regarded a* the most delicate of all means of analysis. Its keenness proves to be far surpassed, however, by that of the sense of smell, late European investigations having shown that the nerves of the noso are sensibly afLctcdby one 400,000,000th part of a milligram of mercaptan?a milligram being only .0154 of a grain. And if such be the delicacy of human smell, what must be the minuteness of the smallest particle which may produce an impression on the nose of a do<r! ' Can Imagination Kill'" This is, perhaps, hardly the corrcc. form of question that the British and Colanial Druggist puts to itself in discussing the death of the young woman at Hackney under circumstances in which Keating's intcct powder largely figured. As the powder appears by I)r. Tidy's experiment* to be perfectly harmless, the suggest'on is not unnaturally made that the dercaved, who w. s possibly of a hysterical, lrghly imaginative turn of mind, took the powder in the full belief that bj its means her death might be accomplished. The writer of the article in oui contemporary, we think wrongly, bring! forward two remarkable instances ol what may be regarded as practical jokes with melancholy terminations. In the case of the convict deliver* d up to the scientist for the purpose of a psychological experiment (the man was strapped to a table and blindfolded, ostensibly to be bled to death; a siphon containing water was placed near his head, and the fluid was allowed to trickle audibly into a vessel below, at the sarue time that a trifling scratch with a needle was inflicted on the culprit's neck; it is said that death occurred at the end of six minutes), fear must have played no inconsiderable share in the fatal result, and we do noi know whether all the vital organs were in a sound condition, though they were presumably so. The old story of the rase of a college porter is also one in point. The students entrapped him into a room at night, a mock inquiry was held, and the punishment of death by decapitation decreed for his want of consideration lo the students. It is small wonder that, under the dominion of lear find belief in the earnestness of his tormentors, the sight of an ax and block; with subsequent blindfolding and necessary genuflexion, a smart rap with a wet towel on the back of his neck should have been followed by the picking up of a corpse.?London Lancet. The Puzzle of the Egg. Mr. Mattliieu Williams, in one of Ms lectures, says: "Every one who eats his matutinal egg. cats a seimon ard a miracle. Inside of that smooth, symmetrical, beautiful shell lurks a question which has been the Troy town for nil the philanthropists and scientists since Adam. Armed with the engines of war?the micro^eopc, the scale-;. the offensive weapons of chemistry and reason?they have probed and weighed and experimented; and still the question is unsolved, the . 1 1 t?1 C'ltclUCl lins'UCKUU. J IU jjvauiuv can tell yoi that albumen is composed of so many molecuhs of carbon and nitrogen and hydrogen, and can persuade yon of the difference between active and passive aU.unicn, and can show by wonderfully deli.ate experiments what tha aldehydes have to do in the separation of Ejold, from his complicated solutions; but he can't tell you why from oi:c egg come* 'a little rid hin,' aud from another a bantain. You leave your little silver spoon un hour in your < gg-cup, und it is coated with a compound of sulphur. "Why is that sulphur there? "Wonderful, tint evolution should provide for the bones of the future hen! There is phosphorus also i? that microcosm; and the oxygen of the air, passing through th<: shell, unites with it and the acid dissolves the j ot.nii fViun maU-inf <roocl. strontr bones I , auw?i, ' O O ~ / for the chick, and at the same time thinning the prison walls. Chemists know a good deal now nbout albumen, and if they cannot tell us why life differentiates itself therein and thereby,they can tell you how uot to spoil your broak[tort." AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Cnrinf Hav it is not well to let grass lie too long in the blazing sun, after it is cut, says the Live Stock Journal. This rapid drying, especially when it is carried to the point of making the leaves crumble and rattle off in the form ot dust and chaff, as in olden time was thought by many to be necessary to make hay keep well in the mow, results not only in loss by waste, but expjls somewhat the life and nutriment of the hay. It is well-known that herbs cured in the shade are better than those that are sun-dried. It is the same with grass or other fodder plants. But it is impossible to make hay in the shade, and it is a good deal of extra work to cock it up. It can, however, be thrown into windrows without extra work. A good plun is to rake up the hay as soon it is thoroughly wilted?that is, while it is in a moist, pliable condition?and let it cure from internal heat instead of from the direct rays of the sun. Of course, the surface of the windrows will be exposed to the sun. but all below will be curing in the shade. Of late years it has been found that it is not neccssary to get hay "bone-dry" before placing it in the mow in order to have it keep well. If it is so dried it will not remain so. It will draw moisture from the atmosphere to replace wliat has been needlessly expelled by exposure to the hot sun. In a short time it will feel quite moist to the touch, and it will undergo the sweating process just as hay pnt up in a moister condition dees. Tnere is not very much gain, if any, in starting the mowing-machine before the dew is off. This extra water has got to be dried off, and will disappear sooner if the grass is left standing. When thus dried, and nothing but the juices of the grass are to be disposed of, the wilting begins at once, and if followed up by the hay-tedder, a few hours of sunshine will put the hay into a condition fit to rako into windrows, as we have indiratpd Warm Land for Corn. Ttye corn crop needs tropical heat for a time to reach perfection. Many facts go to show that much of the benefit from cultivation and m inuring for corn is due to the effect these me ins have in making the soil warm. In early spring the more frequently the ground is stirred the more permeable it is to the entrance of the air, which at this season is always much warmer than the soil. In fact, plowing and cultivation turn under considerable air spaces together with warmer soil on the surface. The heat from this rises as the soil settle', thus warm'ng the whole. Coarse manure helps in the same way, ! and by heating at tlie bottom of the fur- . rows it cor.tinucj to warm the soil : through the season. Every farmer j knows how vigorous a growth is given tocorn by a rotting sod. Thi3 may be haten.'d by frequent cultivation early in ' the season. In this way the worse the 1 [b othe greater the advantage of frequent : cultivation. Good com is thus grown on land infested by quack grass, the culti- 1 vation being then necessarily performed 1 once, E.nd if possible twicc, a week. ! After rains, especially on heavy soil, the cultivation can hardly be tco frequent, 1 nrovidincr the soil does not pack together. 1 Every time it is stirred it is opened to 1 admit more warm air. Every blade of ] quack grass put under the toil helps to ' furnish more warmth, and thi> in turn < makes latent fertility available for corn i root?. < Soils for corn should be loss? as possible, and this condition is fccured ] wherever they are full of vegetable mat- i ter. A dark color a'so adds to the j warmth, and for this re. sin the black prairie soils of the West, full of decay- .< ing grass roots, were lon<r unexcelled for 1 corn growing. It is probable that every- i where, as land becomes more compact by ; long cultivation, the best conditions for growing corn c'asily will be more infre- \ quent. But knowing what the corn crop requires it will not be difficult to supply ; them. A clover sod rots immediately < aft'r being turr.ed under. Besides this, . its roots penetrate the soil deeply, and as i soon as severed from the top by shallow j plowing, their decay keeps the soil both ! ( moist and warm. Corn' rarely suffers j from drought on clover sod, if well cultivated during the growing season. There j is moisture in the sub-soil until late every j, MAsnn nnd tho deen tan-roots of clover : maki3 it available.? Cultioator. Tuberculosis This appears to be as insidious a dis- j ease among bovine-animals as consump ] tion is among the (jenus hvno; and how: j far the prevalence of consumption in the |, human family may be due to tubcrculo- j ' sis among the cattle that supply us with !, meat ar.d milk, we do not know. It ap- j pearea to be quite certain, however, that ( the disease is transmissible through the meat and milk, and that it is therefore . more to be dreaded, for this reason, than . s pleitro-pneumonia. The fact that the entire herd of the , Maine Agricultural College Farm had . tuberculosis to such on extent as to call for its utter destruction, has tet m .nyto ^ thinking, and called out many exprcs- j sions of opinion on the subject. In the American Veterinary Jlevie>r, the editor, Dr. Liautard, Dean of the American Veterinary College, says: "Tuberculosis is | 1 not contngeous plcuro-pneumonia, and j vice versa. One disease is perhaps no 1 more desirable to have among our cattle i J than itb.e other; but if the public should ! adopt the opinion that the contagion of pleuro-pneumonia exists in Main?, even I , if confined within the limits of the Agri- j cultural College Farm, it might creatc . an alarm wMch would iesult in a demand I for extreme sanitary measures, which, j after nil, might be quite unnecessary. | We believe Maine to be free from pleuro- 1 < pneumonia, and she eight to defend her ( gocd repute in this particular." 1 ] But it seems Maiue has tuberculosis, j and the doctor tells us " one disease is ( perhaps no more desirable to have among ( our cattle than the other!1' lie further | < tells us that "Maine, Massachusetts, New i York and New Jersey, besides other re- ] gions, are rcpoited as having herds of ] tuberculous animals, among which are j many of high value, including bulls and ' . cow.s of the Jersey families.,r j, The question naturally arises, what are : , we to do about it? What is the cause of j ( the development of this disease? How : far the breeding for a specialty, throw- j < ing the system of the animal out of bal-! ance, operated to develop tuberculosis? , wtinrn 4? the snread of the disease to ! , stop, and what is there being done to j chick its further development? Re:illy j > nothing at all, so far as \vc know. It will ( probably go on, a9 consumption does iu j the human family. No notice will be taken of it until the animal is ready to drop dead, and then perhaps the remedy , applied at the Maine Agricultural Coilege Farm will be resorted to.?Live Stock Journal. Farm and Garden Notes. 8hort hay crops mean cheap cattle iu [ the fall A breeding sow should have a mild and 1 quiet dispos.tion. Oats are a good feed to promote egg production in heavy fowls. A good harrow will dress your corn twice as rapidly as a cultivator. Carbolic acid, applied in any efficient way, is a good remedy for lice on animals. Horses are fully mature at six years old, and arrive at their full strength at eight. Time intelligently given to bees will pay equally well with that given to any other kind of farm work. The Richmond grain exchange cautions Virginia farmers not to thrash their wheat until it is thoroughly dry. It is recommended that the aftermath of orchard grass be not pastured in summer or fall, but reserved for winter pasturage. Drones that are to fertilize your young queen should come from queens that arc strictly pure, if you would preserve the purity of your stock. Corn and potatoes may often be topdressed to advantage after planting iJ fine manure is used. This is better than to plow the manure under. Somebody says the smoothing: harrow in corn and other cultivated fields is the b?st implement to keep down the weed and make the surface mellow. When a hoe becomes dull it retards work, because of the increased tax it imnnses on strength. Sharnen it bv filinff I # O -rf O to a chisel edge, and it will then cut weeds. The trees can be protected from field mice by banking the trees up a foot or so with soil, and borers and rabbits can be kept awny by wrapping the trunks for a foot above this with tarred paper. A well-known horseman, who believes strongly in pedigrees, says when com?11.^ ?n pcucu iu v;uuuso uctnccu au |jcuigiwv and no horse, or all horse and no pedigree, he takes the horse every time. The horse which can plow an acre while another is plowing half an acre, or that which can carry a load of passengers ten mil.s while another is going five, independent of all considerations of amusements, taste, or what is generally called fancy, is absolutely worth twice as much to his owner as (he other. A well-known horticulturist, in relation to trapping ccrtain moths, advises as follows: "Take shallow pans or saucers and place some strong apple vinegar in them and fasten among the branches of the trees. The odor of the vinegar at- j tracts the moths and they are caught and , drowned at the same time. Good judges claim that a hog or steer that will fatten well and increase rap- , idly should be as nearly square in front and behind as possible. While the rule may not alone be a true index of quality, yet, in connection with other indications, 1 it may assist in arriving at a knowledge 1 of the value of the animal judged. To prevent geraniums growing out of < doors from becoming sun scalded give i them pood. rich, loose soil and shade the O J ? surface to escape the reflected heat. Rolle J leaf mould is excellent for the pur- : pose spread over the bed. Put plants rather close together that they may themselves shade the ground about the roots. It is thought by some good observers that the disease curl in the leaf of peach tree s is caused, or at least assisted, by the la<k of soluble potash in the soil. In proof of this, it is stated that trees un- 1 inistakably affected with curl have been quickly changed to health through the ; application of unleached wood ashes < lbout the trees. i A swine breeder says that in weaning I pigs there is something more to be considered than simply takiDg them away from their mother. They should be 1 weaned gradually, so as not to get any stunt or set back. To take pigs away before they have been taught to eat gives them a check for at least two weeks. Feeding them in a separate place to which they have access will accustom them to eating. Melon seed should not be planted until the weather has become warm and settled. Do not stint the quantity of seed; place from sixteen to twenty in a hill, \nd when the plants come up remove all but four of the most promising. Watch the young plants as soon as they begin to make their appearance, and if they appear troubled by any insects dust them freely with soot, ashes, or tobacco dust 1 when wet with dew. Geese can be fattened cheaply, as they trill eagerly consums choppea turnips or ' iny other kind of che.ip material at this season; but to get them very fat they should have corn also. A goose should 1 not be too fat, as such i3 objectionable, ] t>ut they should be kept fat enough to 1 fjre-ient an excellent market appearance. The young geese that have not yet com- I dieted their growth, however, cannot be 1 fed too liberally, as they will not become < jxtremely fat until matured. I An old horseman has this to say about ! ;he use of blinds on horses: "Usually :he use of blinds causes the very evil it 1 s intended to remedy?shying. The 1 lorse shies because he sees something ] mp rfectly, or cannot see at all an ob- ' icct which makes a noise, the nature of :vhich he d es not understand. If he has ' lot bli.ids to interfere with his sight he 1 ,vill shy less ofle i. If you could not see >n either side, only straight ahead, you ] ivould be far more timid, your heart 1 /vould suddenly begin (o beat faster, ( nuch oftener than it does now. So with 1 \ horse, blinds make him timid. If you j lave ft horse addicted to shying, remove J he blinrls :ind be kind to him for a few lays, until he has gained confidence in limself and in you. This will effect a adical curi?." i ? I A Southern Rice Field. "A large rice field," says JuJgc Hent ( lerson, Commissioner of Agriculture o , Georgia, resembles a map of a large city. [ racan a skeleton map, such as real es- J ;ate agents frequently distribute when , idvertisitig lots for sale. The canals and j Jitches of various sizes suggest the lines , )f lots. Or, it might be likened to a , jack^Jiinmon board. The squares in a , ice field are checked off with almost as , much regularity. Mr. Moynelo's planta- ( tion, which I recently visited, contained ] lbout 1.C0J acres, of which 900 were in | cultivation. The number of miles of ditches in the '.'00 acres was 1,500. Some , of the ditches were called canals. They , were large enough to float boats, which served the same purpose of carts or , ivagons in wheat or cotton fields. The I j ilykcs must have cost many thousands of . ilollars. My attention was called to one ' , 'trunk' on a canal which alone cost ?700. , The number of 'trunks,' drawbridges, and bridges of various kinds, must also have cost many thousauds of dollars. Superadd the cost of labor in clearing the immense forest growth which originally darkened and encumbered the plan tution, and it will readily be understood that ricc growing is an expensive business." Sinco 1790 Pennsylvania has hal sixteen Governors, eight of whom were | Germaaa, ^ . , . - V-. #3 , >,V: ?* HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. - ""5'a3S A Useful Table. A correspondent of the Uouitktzper give the following table showing th? time required to cook different fruits for canning and the amount of sugar required : Time for Quantity boiling sugar Fruits. fruit. to quart. ' Cherries. 5 minutes (i ounces Raspberries l> minutes 4 ounces Blackberries 6 minutes 6 ounces Strawberries 8 minutes 8 ounces Plums 10 minutes 10 ounces Whortleberries 5 minutes 8 ounces Pie plant, sliced 10 m:nut3S 8 ounccs Small, sour pears, whole. 30 minutes 4 ounces Bartlett pears, halved... 20 minutes 6 ounces Peaches 8 minutes 4 ounces Peaches, whole 15 minutes 4 ounces Pine apples, sliced 15 minutes 6 ounces Siberian crab-apple 25 minutes 8 ounces Sour apples, quartered. 10 minutes 5 ounces Ripe'currants. 6 minutes 8 ounces Wild grapes 10 minutes 8 ounces .a; imuurcs uuue. Gooseberries. 8 minutes 8 ounces Quinces, sliced 15 minutes 10 ounces The Baby. The baby's second summer? Every mother knows what that means. The poor little pilgrim has already found the earth a place of tears and pain. Those teeth, coding so fast, and as they come, occasioning so much disturbance in the fmgile little frame, what a source of peril and irritation they are to the baby and of anxiety to his parents 1 Keep the baby in comfort. Dress him loosely and simply, with soft, thin wcolen garments next the skin. Give him a sponge bath whi>ri hp rri#>n nnpn?ilv an n frpt.fnllv See that there is no chaSng of the soft flesh, and that no pins are pricking him in unsuspected places. Let his food be properly cooked and given at regular intervals, and attend to it either yourself, or let it be prepared by a trustworthy Serson. Let the little one be out of oors much of the time, and if he is iU an I a physician is to be had, send fo( one promptly. Frail as the lire of an in* fant is, and quickly as the silver thread may be snapped, yet a young child ral? lies in a way impossible to an adult. A very sick child, indeed, to-day, may ba frisking about merrily to-morrow. Nevei despair of the recovery of a little on* while life lasts, but do not trifle with th? beginnings of disease Prompt measuref at tirst are often half the battle.?Chrittian at Work. ... . > ' jtvecipesi 'Oh i Green Corn Pudding.?Cut the corn from six ears of com, add oue quart of milk and three or four eggs. Season with pepper and salt, bake as custard. Nice either hot or cold. Sliced Cucumbers.?Lay the cucumbers in cold water for an hour or more. Peel, slice thin and evenly, sprinkle with pepper and salt, and pour on a small quantity cf vinegar. "When serving lay ti small lump of ice on each dish. Ginger Ale.?Two pounds brown sugar or one quart molasses, two tablespoonfuls cream of tartar, two of ginger, two sliced lemons, two gallons boiling water. Stir well, and when milk-warm add half pint of yeast. Stir again and let it settle in a lightly covered vessel twelve hours. Strain, bottle, and put in a co!d place. It will be fit for use in two or three days, and will only keep a week. Cold Meat Pudding.?For cold meat pudding rub one-half pound of beef dripping into one and a half pounds of Oour, with a little salt. Moisten the paste with water and roll it out one-half au inch thick. Mince any kind of cold meat; season it and add a few spoons of fjravy. Spread the minced meat on the paste and roll it up. Tie it up in a cloth buttered and floured and boil for an hoar and a half. Boiled Potatoes.?Peel and put into boiling water, with a tablespoonful. of salt. Let boil till a fork will pierce them readily; drain, cover with a towel to abBorb the steam and render them mcally. Pot itoes are really better if cooked with their "jackets" on?simply cutting off an end or peeling a narrow strip around the centre. It is perfectly proper to terva them so, if more convenient than to peel them, and they are certainly more palatable. Cabbage Salad.?Shave a hard, white cabbage into strips; take the yolks of three well-beaten eggs, a cup and a half ot good ciaer vinegar, two xeaspuomuis of thick cream, one teaspoonful mustard mixed in a little boiling water, salt and pepper to suit the taste. Mix all but the eggs together and let it boil; then stir in the eggs, rapidly turn the cabbage into the mixture, and stir well. Make Boough for two days at once, as it keeps perfectly, and is an excellent relish for ill kinds of meat. Family Apple Pudding.?Make a biscuit crust with one quart of flour, three small teaspoonfuls of baking powder, butter or Jard the size of an egg, teaspconful of salt (less if butter is used) md milk enough to make a soft dough. Fill a deep baking-dish with sliced apples, sweetened with molasses and Savored with cinnamon, nutmeg and pounded dried lemon peel. Cover with the crust and bake in a moderate oven. The oven door may be left open a few moments when the pudding is put in, md Hnsed as scon as the crust rises. Serve with hard sauce, or if eggs are plenty, use egg sauce, to make which rub one small cup of butter and two cups of sugar to a cream, th :n stir in three eggs beaten very light, and two tabiespoonfuls boiling water and flavor with lemon. Chinese Execution Gronnd. This is a small, open court about forty feet long and twenty five wide, writes a correspondent from Canton. Is is used as a pottery when not nee.ied for executions, and as I strolled in the ground, covered with earthen jars and vessels, it seemed to give the place an air of peaceful industry rather than of bloody executions. Stepping carefully among the pots and jars, I stco 1 on a spot colored a Jeep, dark red by the blood of prisoners recently decapitated. Turning with a shudder from this spot, I gazed along the ?valls of the court, and my eyes rested on i pile of cage-like boxes stacked up on ane side. In each of these a ghastly head of a Chinaman showed through the bars, looking distoited and horrible. Near these cases were the crossed beams to which persons arc tied for decapitation. There are two modes for decapitation practised. One is to make the prisoner kneel, and the head is struck from the body while in this position. This is the usual mode of decapitation. AnDther is by tying the prisoner up to a soit of cross and then striking off the head. In this position the womeD are always executed. One sentence of capital punishment is to cut into the eyebrows, cheeks, aud fleshy parts of the arms and breasts in such a way that the flesh will hang clown in strips, and then the head is struck off. The sentence is usually inflicted on women committing adultery, and on parricides. In the hair of the condemned man is placed a paper on which is written tho nature of the crime for which he is being executed. " ^ - -