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THE HEIGHTS AND THE VALLEY. There are gray clouds in the valley, Clouds and mists and chilling rain, But the heights are bathed in sunshine, There we look with longings vain. Silver moonlight in the valley, Glitters on the heights above. While the dew-drops in the valley, Kiss the lilies that they love. On the heights there are no lilies, They love best the valley low, All that glitters on the heights, is Diamond, ice and pearls of snow, THE ABANDONED BRIG. a sailor's story. A more singular incident than one which occurred while I was one of the crew of the ship Stranger, is not to be found in the records of the sea. Wc loaded at Liverpool for the Cape and ports beyond, on the west coast of Africa. Our last port of call was to bo Zanzibar. Before leaving the docks at Liverpool two or three of us took down the map hanging on the wall at our boarding house and traced out the course. When we came to figure up the distance we were amazed. When we came to figure on the perils of such a voyage we wondered how many of us would live to see the palms of Africa. The average lands.man sees a ship pull out of her dock -without asking or caring which way she is to go, how long the voyage is to be, or what the perils of her course. Perhaps it is not his business to ask or care. Each vocation in life has its profits and perils, and it is seemingly left to each toiler to work out his own salvation. Well, we had touched at Port Natal to ' unload some machines, and were headed 'up for the Mozambique channel, when we got caught in a cyclone. It came on 1 A : a auuui iu,u tiutR xu tiic uiuiuiug, miu vvc had everything snug to meet it. Two ^coasting schooners, both bound our "way, hud come out of Natal with us, and ^hen the storm came howling down both were in full sight. Inside of twenty minutes one foundered and went to the bottom, and the other we almost ran over as she drifted bottom up. We had a big craft, and she had taken out enough cargo to float like a cork; but within an hour the sea got up until a mill pond constantly washed our decks, and now and then a wave came over the rail, which filled her until we stood hip deep in the frothy water. We liad to knock away a portion of the bulwarks to give her a chance to unload, but even then there were occasions when it seemed as if he could not rise with her burden. I don't remember that any of us were frightened. Both watches were on duty, the officers alert, and we knew that nothing could be done, except to stand ready if any sudden peril menaced us. We were not lying to, as would have been the case in a roaring gale. With the ?J J ?~ .\r>A cl<?i?L-inrr nlnner nt W1UU M'l'l'lUlllMg auu OU44V.MUQ & ? the rate of eighty or ninety miles an hour, no ship could have leen held up to it, even if she were not driven under sUrn fi: sr. - =? I had been sailing for fifteen years, and yet had never encountered anything like this storm. The anger of it was appalling. It seemed aetermined that nothing made by the hand of man should survive it. When we slid down into the great hollows between the waves the wind was lost to us on the decks, but it roared and shrieked through our tophamper like ten thousand mad devils. Then, as we slowly climbed the steep hill of water, the ship seeming to stand almost perpendiculpr on her stern, the wild blasts struck us again, until every man had to hang on for his life. When we were in the full embrace of the storm the report of a field piece could not have been heard twenty feet. I had only one look astern of the ship. A five-pound note could not have hired me to look again. A great wall of water, crested with six feet of froth, was rushing down as if to roll over us, and I shut my eyes and held my breath. It lifted the ship and flung her forward as a boy might toss a chip, but I would not look ag.iin. It was about noon, and I was making my way aft to tell the Captain that we could make out some sort of a wreck on our port bow, when we were swept by a wave irom stern to srem. my grip 011 the life line was broken as the waters rushed over me, and next instant I knew I was being carried over the rail. As I went I bumped against two of the men, buried over their heads in water, but hanging on for life. I clutched at one of them, and tore a piece from his jacket, and thirty seconds later I was overboard for good and trying to get my head above the foam, which j>ilcd up on the surface like yeart. When I did get a look around nxe-dhe ship was a quarter of a mile away, &?d just sinking into a hollow. I know it has been the case with most sailors who have been put in such peril that no hope of salvation existed, that a feeling of exultation was l;orn. It was so with me. 1 had a profound pity for the poor fellows on board the Stranger. Their dajjger seemed far greater than mine. They would drive on until the ship grounded or struck a rock, and every soul of them would perish on the cruel ledges or be drowned in the clutch of the deadly undertow. My death would be ?asy and without pain. All I had to do was .to cease struggling aud sink down, down, down to a peaceful sleep below the vexed surface. I was doubtless drowning when this feeling was upon me, but somethtng occurred to arouse me. Some object bumped against me, and instinctively I reached out toward it. It was a part of the cook's galley or house. The wave which had swept me overboard had smashed the house and sent one whole side of it after me. I can remember that I knew what the object was, and that I grasped it and felt that I had a chance for life, but then comes a blank. I suppose I was buffeted about until I lost consciousness, but I h id a grip on the wreckage which even death would not have released. The next thing.I remember was a feeling of thirst. I thought I was wandering ip the woods in search of a spring, and the louger I hunted the more |tlursty I became. I was about to slide down a bank into a dark ravine when I opened my eyes and found myself extended on the wreckage, either hand gripping so firmly that it was only after several trials that I could open my lingers. The wind had gone down a good deal, and with it some of the fury of the sea, but I was still being tossed about in a very uncomfortable manner. The sun was about half an hour high, aud as the events of the day slowly came back to my befogged brain, I figured that it was now coming on to sunset. Half an hour later, greatly to my surprise, the sun was much higher, and by and by I was forced to the conclusion that it was morning, and that I had floated all the afternoo* and all night. Hunger and thirst soon proved the correctness of this conclusion. As the sun came up the wind and sea went down, and before noon I was pretty comfortably fixed, though stiff and bruised from bring so much knocked abo::t. Hope ? and ambition were slow in coming, and it was fully midday before my mind was clear, Did I hope ? Yes. Hope is the last thing to desert a sailor, no matter how desperate the circumstances. It was almost hope against hope, however. I understood something of navigation, and knew that it was a circular storm which struck the ship. There was no telling how lanre the circle, or whether the Stranger was on the outer or the inner edge. I afterward learned that we were very near the centre, and did not feel the force as much as ships 100 miles to the south or west. A great part of the island of Madagascar was ravaged, and terrible havoc was created seventy-five miles inland from Port Natal, East London, Georgetown and the Cape. Two whalers 120 miles to the west of us were dismasted, and two others went down with all hands. I think it was about ten o'clock in the forenoon when, as I was heaved up on a sea, I caught sight of a craft dead ahead of me and not more than a mile away. I didn't make her out very well for a time, as there was a haze in the sky and the spray flying about me, but when I drifted nearer I found her to be a dismasted brig. It was a mercy that I was driving straight down upon her, for I Iiad'nt the strength to turn my unwieldy float in either direction. There were no signs of life abent the wreck, and I made uj> my wind for a tremendous struggle to sret aboard of her. She wa3 a hulk, and being tossed about like a cork, and there was no tellinghow long she would float, but I felt that if I missed her I should driit awav to an awful death from hunger and thirst. It ' seemed as if Providence guided my float. : The wreck was stern on to me. This was proof that her wheel haci'been lashed, and that her steering gear was all right. You would have thought sha-would have drove faster than my float, and I was surprised that she didn't. It was found,as I may tell you here, that one- of her anchors was overboard, with ten fathoms of chaiu attached to it. This gave her a heavy drag, and nsy pace was twice as fast as hers. When- I came up I drove past her stern on the port side, missing her by not more than four feet. There was a lot of her top hamper on the port side held there by ropes which had not been severed and I drove into this >i mess as we went into the trough of the* 5 sea. Climbing up the height beyond, the wreckage slewed in toward the hulk:,, and I seized the opportunity to grasp a rope and draw myself oo board. I did not get there before receiving several hard bumps, and when I was safe on deck I had to sit down for a while to recover my breath. n-11 _ ; A ^ 1!i.i J ine aecKs were ia a icrnuiu inter, auu a good share of the bulwarks on the starboard side had been washed away. Boats, booms aud everything else movable had gone, and it was plain enough that the brig had been wave-swept. As a sailor I could tell by the feel of her that she had little or no water in her hold, and that was the main question with me just then. The first move I made was to begin at the ropes holding the wreckage alongside. I had my sheath knife to work with, and later on found nn ax, and in about half an hour I had the satisfaction of seeing everything go clear. The hulk made less work of it riding the waves after that, and the danger of having a butt started was disposed of for good. It was only after I had cleared the wreckage away that I felt hunger and thirst come upon me, and I put away the ax and looked around for water. The scuttle butt was lashed firmly in its place, with a cork in the bung, and after a little hunting I found the drinking can and indulged in a long and refreshing draught. Not a drop of salt water had entered the barrel. To satisfy my hunger I must go below, i The brig was built in the old-fashioned | way, with the cook's galley, steward's j pantry, and all that sort of thing below ! I decks. I found everything much knocked I oHniit sinrl lirnlrf?n hilt. in t}lf> fonnnrs WllS I i a piece of beef, thoroughly done, and I j soon turned up a fair supply of ship's ! bread. With these articles of provender 11 returned to the deck and ate until I was | thoroughly satisfied. Not the slightest suspicion that any I one living was aboard had crossed mv : mind. Indeed, I was only too thankful ; that I had not encountered any dead. I j was about through with ray meal, and was thinking of making a careful invesj tigation below, when I was suddenly ( seized from behind, flung violently to the j deck from my seat on the main hatch. ! and I found myself on my back with a ! man on top of me, his hand on my throat, and his knee on my chest. It came upon me so very sudden that I had no strength for a time. It was only when the stranger raised his other hand, which clutched an iron belaying pin, to give me a blow on J the head, that I put forth any effort. It I was well for mc that I was in the prime | of life and possessed of lots of strength, for he was a burly fellow and determined to do for me. I tore his clutch loose, and put forth a great effort and turned him I over, but we had a terrible struggle be; fore I conquered him. I did not get the I better of him until I had given him a rap over the head with the same pin. While he was unconscious I tied him hand and foct, and then for the first time got a , good look at him. He was a common sailor, strong as a bull, and without ! doubt, a lunatic. Fear of death had unsettle 1 his mind, and led him to hide himself away when the others left the brig. He bad looked upon me as an ! enemy, and no doubt intended to take my life. ; Well, after I had the man securely tied I he recovered consciousness, and it was well that I had not been sparing of the rope. He made herculean efforts to j break loose, and, being now in a sort of ; frenzy, he would have been more than a , match for me. His screams and shrieks i and curses were awful to hear, and I left ; him securely tied to the deck and descended into the cabin. Scarcely any! thing here had been disturbed by human hands. I found the briar's losr. and from , it I made out that her name was the Saint i .Joseph, and that she had been up the j coast on a trading voyage. She had a I cargo of tine woods, hides, furs, spices, and dried truits, and carried a crew of : twelve men. The hist entry in the log ! told of a fair run and fair weather. Her 1 cargo I got from her papers. When I had 1 thoroughly ransacked the cabin I went forward to the forecastle. The men had i gone without their bags. Then I went ; on deck, found the sounding rod, and ! sounded the well. The brig did not have two inches of water in her. I was , fussing about for a couple of hours, and during all that time the lunatic never { ceased to scream and shout aud try to ! burst his bonds. When I finallv cot j around to see if I could not do something ! for hira he all at once subsided, and I would neither look at nor speak to me. During the afternootf the wind was constantly falling and the sea going I down, and the weather put on such a I settled look that I grew very hopeful. 1 ! wns aboard of a hulk, drifting I knew I not where, and had a dangerous man for ' a comrade, l>ut there was plenty to eat, I the brig was dry, and the chances of ! being sighted and rescucd were good. It : was a long afternoon to me, though I was | kept busy :u:n.:iagiug u'.out and cL*a: iu? up the litter. When the sun finally went down the night came on hazy, and the wind fell to a two-knot breeze. I was in a great quandary as to what to do with the man, who seemed to have been asleep for several hours. I lighted the ship's lanterns and hung ;hem overboard, and then, about two hours after dark, I carried the man some tea and bread and canned fruit. He Jay on the broad of his back, and was deaf to my soothing words. ' I held up his head and put the tea to his lips, and in anstant he seemed to go wila. By a mighty effort he looseiid the ropes?I afterward found he had gnawed some of them in twain?and next instant he was upon me. Neither of us had any weapons, nor was there opportunity to secure one. We grappled each other, and in less than a minute I saw that it was his life or mine, or perhaps both. He was seeking to drag me to the broken bulwarks, and I was seeking to prevent. He had a grip like death, and as we struggled back and forth amidships we tore the clothes off of each other, aud used our hands and feet whenever there was an opening. He was the stronger of the twor but I coald use my fists the better,, and this evened us np. ' I said that we had no weapons. I had my sheath knife, but I did not propose to use that until I felt that my life depended upon it. The time finally came. I was growing weak, and while he seemed aa strong as ever. I was just about to loosen the grip I had on him with nxr risrht haod and reach for my knife when there was a great shout from the bows, a number of men came running along the decks, and a voice which I recognizsd as thai of the master s>f the Stranger aalled ourt: "What is it? Whoare-you? What & going on?" "Lay hold of Bam, 34ir. Jameson; he'sarazy!" I shouted,, and with that four di five men seized hisoi and Sung him to the fcck. Now, let me telU yixt what hud happened. I was lost overboard from the Slip about midday. Six hours'afterw3rd 3he sprung aleakr ajid was abandoned just before she went down. The orew ?ot away in two. boats, outlived the storm, and were- heading up the J&dagascar when they spied my lights a ad altered their course to make the week. They had hailed the hulk several iimes, nml finallv alioard itist in 'rsme to prevent a deed -which would have been a burden to, my peace of mind forever after. The crew which left the brig were never heardl of more, while tha lunatic died next (Say after our men can?ie aboard. Not a man from the Stranger was lost, and we rigged up the brig and took her to the Cape, ana the salvage more thao paid far the loss of our ship and carg<x ?Neia York Sun. Growth in Children. The rate of growth in children varies according to sex. Thus, at the age oi eleven and twelve years, boys aro largei and heavier than girls; but from that age on the evolution of the girls is more rapid, and they soon overtake the boys and pa*s them, till the ago of fifteen years is reached, when tho boys regain the asccndency, while the girls remain nearly stationary. A curious relation has been discovered between the growth of children in stature and in weight. M. Malling-Hansen, Director of the Deal and Dumb Institution at Copenhagen, has for years weighed and measured his pujiils daily; and he has observed that their growth does not take place regulurlv and nrosrrcssivelv. but bv stages separated by intervals of rest. Weight also increases by periods after intervals of equilibrium. While the weight is increasing, the stature remains nearly stationary, and vice versa. The maximum of increase of stature corresponds with a minimum period of augmentation ol weight. The vital forces appear not to work on both sides at once. These variations are subject to the influence ol the seasons. During Autumn and early Winter, according to M. Malling-Hansen, the child accumulates weight, while his stature increases slowly; but during Spring, stature receives a veritable push, while weight increases but little. Some local habits have an influence on the A Stature. BICUUIIZU ii-ui.umu luuk iiiuiij Roman girls had deformed vertebral columns, or were a little hump-backed, and found that it was the result of a populat belief prevailing in Rome that parents could promote the growth of Iheii children by punching them in the bick! ?Popular Science Monthly. The Grave of a Famous Horse. On the crest of a hill at Chester, New York, close by the roadside, the foundei of the greatest family of light-harness horses sleeps. The grave is enclosed by a frail, picket fence, and a marble slab bears this inscription: "Rysdyk's Hambletonian, foaled May 5. 1849; died March 27, 187G." The little gate which opens from the road is barred by a large stone, and he who would stand upon the sacred soil must climb a fence. A young elm is growing above the mound, and thirty feet away is a wild cherry now in blossom. The dandelions grow like drops of gold in the tender grass, and an 1 -f ? i J !.i 1 4.1 ainiospiicrc ui ^wuuiuwauuu quiet uuuica the bills. The great horse rests not moie than 100 yards from the stable which sheltered him, and among the scenes of his triumphs. He made Mr. Ryskyk a rich man, and surprise is often expressed that he was not more generously remembered in the will. But Mr. Rysdvk was an odd character. He once bccaine disgusted with horses, and offered, as Mr. Gavin well remembers, all his stock, including Hambletonian, for sale. Only a few neighbors attended the auction, and a3 no bids were made the stallion was preserved to him. Some goddess of good fortune seemed to interfere and ward off the evil. As Mr. Ryskyk's income increased he gratified his passion c? i?-3 ? ?v:? lux KiLiu piujjiluiutsiiip, uuu itu 111 aitui farm was added to the modest homestead,, Nearly all these lands have passed from his descendants, and now strangers are asked to subscribe to a fund for erecting a monument over the grave of Hamblctonian.?New York Commercial. Daniel Pratt as a l'oet. Speaking about the late Daniel Pratt, the crank known as the "Great American Traveler," a writer in the Boston Ari.ntrtiup*' anva- Vn.nn non whpiJ the .? ; - ? writer was a "devil" in a printing ofnee in Charlestown, harmless old Daniel Pratt used to call occasionally to talk politics with the printers. We could not then realize his greatness, although he often used to tell us of it. His shocking, bad, tall hat, as it loomed up over the cases on the other side of us, was a grand target for three-em quads and slugs. It used to make Daniel mad when his hat was hit, and his ravings afforded great delight. One day he brought in an advertisement for a wife, to be printed in the paper, as he had become tired of living alone. It closed with these pathetic lines: I seek a lady for a wife Who'll cheer my solitary life; Be you lean or be you l'at, WiU you have ms? ?Dartiel Pratt. I BUDGET OF FUN. i HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. v/<>uiun t scare mm?uniortnate . Misunderstanding?Wanted It Rolling?Animal Food?A Nat- i ural Question, Etc,, Etc. A talented pianist, Mme. de , Bitting at dinner by the side of Colonel j Ramelott, asked him in an amiable tone: , I "Colonel, are youi fond of music V "Madame," replied the warrior, rolling his eyes savagely, "I am not afraid of it,."?Norrustoum Herald. ! An Unfortunate Misunderstanding. j i "My dear," said a gentleman to his wife, "where did all those books on astronomy on the library table come from? j They are not ours." t | "A pleasant little surprise for you," T responded the lady, "You: know, you said this morning that we ought tostady J astronomy, and so I went to a book score and bought everything I couldifiad, on the subject." I T * mnn ft An, A m ! ?mi f Af V\A^ ArA U A. on/vl'ft I At W?U>3UIliU 111111 U ICO UCIUIC uc oprn. "My dear," he then said s4o*vlvr his J voice husky with emotion, "I never said we must study astronomy. I. said that ^ ! we must study economy."?New York ' Sun. . ! "Wanted It Rolling. Home- Seeker (to real estate- ar?n) ?"And you say that the farm will just &uit me-?"" Real Estate Man?"Most assuredly." "L want the land to be rolling, j ou s understand?" * i: "Yes, this land is rolling." j Several weeks later?Home Seeksr (to ^ real esfctfe- man?"You are a miserable 4 fraud aad?" ReaLEstateMan?"W'y what's tha-mat- ? ter!" 1 "Matter! w'y, confound you, tea acres I of xay farm went into the river last ? night" "I'msorry to hear it; but didta't you ' telL me that you wanted rolling,land?" " Yes." ] " Well,, then, you got it. You. didn't ; 1 1 - -3 il- - 1 3 x- I ; ssuy which way you wameu iu? tauu iu roll. Don't be in a hurry. Draw up a ! ?hair and sit down a while;.'? Traveler. Xnimal Food. Old man Jupe is a noted character in 1 our village (writes a correspondent), lie was taken quite ill at oac time and the serviees of a physician were called for. He was prescribed for,, and the doctor told the old man he musU take no food but gruel for a few days. "Gruel! gruel! what's that?-' asked tho patient. The constitution of that article was explained by the doctor. I " Slops! " growled the old man. On the second visit a slightly altered I diet was proposed, and the details given. | "Mush!" was the summary of tliQ patient. i In due course old Jupe's health im< | proved, and the physician announced to him that he might eat a little animal | food. This was too much for the I patient, now nearly a well man; he flatly refused, as follows : | "Look here, doctor; I've eaten your oats, and I've eaten your corn, but I'll be blamed if I eat hay!"?American Maya. tine. A Natural Question. Little Nellie was in the court room i where her uncle was a witness, and found i ' much to interest her there. She was ! especially struck by the impressive man- j i ner of the lawyer who was haranguing i i the jury. - I! I "Papa," she inquired, "who is that \ i man that is talking so loud?" | "That is the lawyer for the defense, my ] . dear." I "And who is that man with the scar i over his eye, that just sits there and never says a word?" "That is the defendant." "And who are those men that the law ' yer is talking to?" "Tliey compose the jury." After a moment's silence Nellie renewed the attack. "Papa!'' "Well?" "What has the jury been doing?"? 1 Merchant Traveler, i The Curious Wild West Show. About two weeks ago a Dakota farmer was approached by a stranger, who said: "What will you take for that little | short-horned yearling out there in the yard?" "'Bout $15." "Is he gentle?" "Yes." "Never kicks?" "No." "No danger of butting a fellow over . I with his head?" "Not a bit?my children play wita 1 ( him whenever they take a notion." "Well, I guess I'll take him. I'ra agent' , for Hollcrwell & Showpoor's Anti-1 ] European Circus, and we need another ] buffalo for our 'wild West' department. . By the time we put a hump on his ( shoulders and paint his horns black you j wouldn't know your calf. I hope he'll stay gentle, though; the last one we had ( hooked three of our cowboys off their horses, disabled two Buffalo Bills and j drove Texas Jack, the Western terror, up i the center-pole. He acted so we had to < tie him up with the elephants, give him ' ] a coat of red paint and call him the terrible man-eating jogglewock, captured in Central Africa at great expense and loss of life. Do you suppose the calf will drink milk??the sacred cow gives a lit- j tie more than the zebra will take."?Da- i lcota Bell. < i Staking Out His Claim. ' ] A slim young man was perched on a stool j < in one of the large restaurants near the [ i Tribune building devouring a strawberry 1 dumpling. The capacity of the re^tau- 1 rant was not sufficient lor the rush of customers and behind the fortunate possessors of stools formed another line of hungry candidates glaring over the shoulders of the eaters and watching each mouthful disappear. Behind the slim young man, however, four hungry eyes watched the vanishing fragments of strawberry dumpling. There were two ? contestants for the seat, a corpulent old f person in spectacles and a tall man with 1 r a silk hat. ! t The slim young man completing his i ^ luuch climbed down from his perch, and the corpulent watcher with great activity began to climb up. "Hold on," said tho other candidate: gruffly. s "What for?" c "Jtsecause, sir, x uuvu ? ugm >,? mC j * scat. I was here, sir, when that young a man began to eat bis dumpling. .Per-1 c haps," added the tall man scornfully, ; f "you think that I have been standing c here just to count how many mouthfuls s there are in a strawberry dumpling." j j The elderly man laid his hand on the i c fet.iol and said with the confident air of t no who holds four aces: "I am very! * sorry, sir, but yotl really have ncr ?toim at j all. 1 was here -when this young man was unabtc to decide *ðer he waited a strawbefry dumpling: or custard pie." And then the corpuIetfC old man, havinsr "seen" the tall man and gone hini one better, climbed upon the stool, and his rival moved sadly along to stake out another claim on a man who had just ordered fish bafb with tomato sauce.? New York Tribune. His Memory was Good. "Aad you pretend! to say," remarked a lawyer to a witness, ' 'that you remember :he exact words this man said t? you ten jrears ago?" "1 do;." "Well,, if my memory serves zrr?v I met l rou at Saratoga about five years ago, and [ should like to know iff you can swear :o any expression which L then made." "I can."' "Now, Mr. J., I want you to resnem)er that y?u arc under oath. Now, inder oath,, you swear that'you can)quote vith great accuracy a remark I made to rou at Saratoga rive years ago?" "I can." "Well, wHnt was it?" "You met me in the hotel corridor." "Yes, quite-correct." "And you shook hands with.me:" "Naturally II did." "And you said to me: 'Letfa- go> and ake something.'" The crier of. the court had to? oall si- I cnce for ten minutes, and the lawyer 1 :onfessed that.the witness had a.remark- 1 ible memory. The Lnn?I> and the Wolrr. A thirsty Wolf was one day drinkmgat ;1 i clear flowing brook and was on.itsfourccnth lap, whan a timid L imb came to he same brook, io drink and went a litle way up She stream abowe- the ;' Arolf. "Look, here," said the Lamb, j 'don't you know better than toipush in ind drink up cil the water when ywa 3ce ! ! am drinkiugr" The Wolf meekly re- j )lied that he was there first, butt would jo away directly. "Well," said the .amb, "haven.'t you any better manners ; ban to thrust your nose iuto the- water md make that horrible sucking noise vhen you driak.?" The poor Woif pro- ! ested that it would be impossible fbr : lim to drink a drop with his nose in the vater; he barely touched the tip of his , ongue to it. "That's the same thing," iaia the Lamb, angrily, "audi beside, I ' lon't want you to wash your.flieeee in this 1 jrook while I am drinking; I! cau't abide J .he tastej sf wool in drinking-water." rhe Wolf began to tremble: and said that le was standing as far a,way from the * - ' U J .v _ < arooK a&necouiu, anu iuuc uiurcuvci uc iad no. wool and never did have. "Now, 1 [ awear^ exclaimed the Lamb, "this is 1 :oo mtteh for the patience of an angel; j lee how you stand thejre rolling up the ivater with your great hoofs, making it ; iosauddythat I can't drink. Look at ! it!1" "But," said the: frighteued Wolf, vhow can that be, when 1 am not in the nrater, and you are up stream anyhow?" Ll<5reat heavens!" roared the Laja?h> "must I be tormented to death by this brawler? If there Is anything I caa't eniure it is a contentious spirit. I roust aave peace." So saying she seized the aowling Wolf by the neck and swept a path across the mossy glade with him. Explanatory Moral: The Wolf had jeen for three years the husband of the Lamb's ouly daughter.?Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle. How Eyesight is Injured. 1> ian well L-tinwn fnr>t thnt. school chil ircu suffer from influences which tend to seriously injure their eyesight. Dr. Lincoln has recently written on the "Hysjiene of the Eyes Among School Children." He says: In school work we should require (1) a comfortuhle temperature, and especially let the feet be kept warm and dry, (2) good ventilation, (3) loose clothing, (4) erect posture, (5) little study before breakfast, or directly iftcr a hearty meal; none at all at twiiight or late at night, (6) great caution about study after recovery from fevers, (7) light abundant, but not dazzling, (8) sun not shining on the desk or objccts in front of the pupil, ^)) light coming from the left hand or left and rear; under some circumstancc-s from in front (no light from the right of the pupil permitted); (10) the book held at right angles to the line of light, or nearly so; (11) frequent rest by looking up, (12) distance of book from the eyes tobq about fifteen inches. _ -> More Clothes than Brains. Mr. E. Berry Wall, otherwise known as the King of the Dudes, is reporti-d to have a va'.et who follows him about town with suits of clothes in a valise, so that he may make a change of raiment at the proper period during the day. I don't know how much fact there is in this diverting statement, but I have, by experience, become cognizant of a case quite similar to his, as stated. I went into the barroom of the Hotel Brunswick at one o'clock in the day. At the next table to my party sat one composed of three young elegants. The most superb of them looked as if he had just come out of a bandbox. We had hardly seated ourselves when he remarked, in the voice of i man weary of all the world and its follies: ''Well, fellows, I'm awf. I must iwess faw awftawnoon." And off he went, with the languid farewells of his blase cronies. The combined ages of the trio, I should judge, tvould have been about - that of one healthy old man.?New York JS'evs. The Richest Church in America. Trinity Church is the richest ecclesiastical concern on the American continent in the goods pertaining to this world. It jwns enough property to make a poor man's hair staud on end. There was a eport made by the comptroller of the corporation to the State Senate, in 1846, showing some of its wealth. George H. , Harrison was then its comptroller, ar.a , lis report was as follows: //OIW.H ami Lots Number rented separately 4G1 Number in the Lispenard lease SI Number in the Mortier or Astor lease.. 3o0 Nnmber not rented in 1S46 37 Dwelling houses 3 Total 938 Nine hundred and thirty-eight houses ind lots! Averaging them at as low a igure as $20,000 each, they are worth learly $19,000,000. But that is far below ;he market, for Trinity is probably worth ?00,000,000 to-day.?New York News. Iron Houses. At the recent Liverpool exhibition ome pretty examples of iron houses, hoicely furuished, were exhibited by an Cnylish firm of iron workers, one being ; i tropical villa. The building itself was . if wrought iron, and no masonry oiindation was required for the , :olumn and main supports, which had elf-fixing bases. The interior was of >ine una redwood. The house was so ( levised that it could be readily bolted , ogetherby unskillednativea or workmen, j - Cassell's Magazine. / JACK TAR'S FOOD. I r | EATABLES THAT MERCHANT SAILORS LIVE AUD WORK CWF. Regelated by Law and Much Betfe* Than It V?ed to Be, Bat Still Neither Very Tempting Nor Varied?Keeular Rartions The San Francisco Call ha? been ei? a mining before thie roast menus?, and has discovered some interesting factat The imagined joys ana glorias of a sailos's life fade vmry quickly axt sea, especially at meal times. The question of food is one of tiie worst hardships that ssilors have to oootend with. It is said that no class of nuen are so ill? or under-fied for the .amount of work tiey perform as sailors. Howorer, sailors on; Jeep-water ships are better fed now thamfchey were fifteen or twenty years ago. Tftey get a greatar variety. On board all deep-water vesiels thre<*meals are servedidaily when tht watches tare changed at eight bells?at 8 a. m. noon, and 0 p. m. . Besides this-' what is callcd early coffes is served to> the watch on deck at 5 a. m., before the: work of -washing the decks commences. The cook^or, as he is always called, the "doctor,""33 the most important personage on th??hip, and lucky is the seaman who can !?ep good friends with the cook, for he is certain to? get lots of "malevoloos"'?a peculiar term given to the viands that are left froo the cabin tables. T2?ese are also called "gubbins," and are brought forward in what is called j the dog-basket, a large bosket lined with tin. Now as?to the diet provided for Jack in the forecastle. Every sailor, when he ?oes aboaud, is provided with a knife, fork and apoon, a "hookpotf and a pannikin. T&e hookpot is a tim pot with an iron hook riveted on so that it can be hung on tiae side of the bunk while Jack is using both hands to ea* with. In EnglancL everything is said to be done by act o? Parliament, and the sailor's food is, certainly regulated by the act, ind his daily bill of fare infixed by law. In this country it is fixed.by an act of Congress, and in vessels of both nations the shiij captains are compelled, under a heavy penalty, to post in, a conspicuous place in the forecastle a? copy of the igreement signed by the sailors on shipping,. sontaining the quaatity of rations iigned lor. The regular allowance: of food for each man in both English and American merchant vessels should be a* follows: Bread 3n& pound; tea, one-eighth of an ounce ;, coffee, one-half ouace; sugar, two; amices, and water, t&ree quarts per day; bi*df, six pounds; pork, one pound and - l .it A3 A J ? X nail ; UUUl , UUC pvCLUA* auu auau , Hiaoy i>ae pint; rice, ons-third of a pound pei week. These provisions are to be served out in addition to the daily issue of lime juice or other :vnti-scorbutics. It is also provided: "No sheath knives or grog allowed on board. Substitutes at master's option." The following substitutes are allowed: One ounce of coffee, cocoa or chocolate for one-quarter ounce of tea; molasses for sugar, quantity to be onehalf more ; one pound of potatoes 01 yams; one-half pound of flour or rice; one-third pint of peas or one-quarter pint of barley may be substituted for each other. When fresh meat is issued, the proportion to be two pounds per man per day in lieu of salt moat. A landsman might think that one-half a pound of beef or one and one-quarter pound of pork would be sufficient for a man, but when it is considered that a good deal of it is cut off as unfit for human food and thrown overboard, that the meat is weighed with the bone in, and that when salt meat is boiled it shrinks a great deal, Jack won't have much meat left to eat with his hardtack. The beef, or a3 it is always termed "salt lirtraa ? Jo alw<n7<a nil Ipjin and the salt UWiOV) y 7 pork is generally all fat. The meat is generally kept on deck in two casks called the " harness casks." The fat that arises to the surface when the meat is boiled in the salt water is saved by the cook and put into the slush cask. This slush or fat is the cook's perquisite, and many a pound of fat meat he surreptitiously cuts from the meat to increase the amount in his slush cask. Arriving at jiort this fat is sold to the soapmfikers, and the price fetched largely increases the "doctor's" pay. A good deal of the meat has made several voyages around the Horn or Cape of Good Hope, and when the cask is opened smells frightfutly, and is really unfit for human food. "When cooked the meat for each watch is placed in a wooden receptable, calied a "kid," and taken into the forecastle. The peas are made into soup, the flour is made into "duff." It is mixed with water and boiled in a comical-shaped '? ? no!*- wofflp TViia mnl^M tViP nilf UUg iu oai b ? uiui. J ?Mw side of the duff taste salty. On being taken into tlie forecastle, one man cuts the duff into as many pieces as there are men iu the watch, some pieces larger than others. Another one then turns his back, and as the carver holds up a piece on his jack knife and says: "Who's this whack for?" designates the man who takes the piece. Sugar is eaten with the duff, or molasses when served out extra, as is often done. The pea soup is often made thick by i pouring a little vinegar in and eaten that way, and some old suits stir a spoonful of sugar in the soup, making a queer mess. On Christmas day, and. maybe, the skipper's birthday, raisins are boiled iu with the flour, and then "plum duff" is served. Whenever a pig is killed on board ship the afterguards get chops and sausages, and Jack gets sea pie, and it i L!.?.au ?~ i l&Kl'S Il'b iiiuulii nuici tv tiiiiiiv vi it, for it is a tasty dish, and, like angel visits, few and far between. This is how it is cooked: The '"doctor" places a layer of bones on the bottom of his largest copper kettle. On this he places i layer of pork, cut in chunks aud seasoned; on this goes a layer of pastry, then another layer of pork, and so on. till three layers pf each are laid. This is called a ''three-decker," and when boiled to perfection is a sailor's delight. The meat is always sent to the forecastle it noontime, and it invariably happens that all or nearly all is eaten at that meal, md for the following supper and breakfast next morning Jack has nothing to *at but hardtack, washed down with the Jecoctions called tea aud coffee.- Any ( lousewife knows the strength of a decoction made of a pint of water and jne-eighth ounce of tea or one-half ounce , )f coffee. , ., . i A native of Japan has recently indented a new process by which paper ( nay be made from seaweed. Paper made 11 this way is very strong, almost untear' 1 1 - +r\ imc, ana is suiuuicmij idniit of its use as window glass. It akcs all colors well, and in many respects , esembles old window glass. J The beginning of hardships is like the | ( irst taste of bitter food; it seems for a | noment unbearable; yet, if there is noth- ( jig else to satisfy our hunger, we take j mother bite and find it possible to soon, j 1 - - V j-}?*. . v.. A - MaMHnMMaartr ? - frOFULAB -tCIENCfc." By the ma ai palladium1 in' the haif"ipring and balance, a Geneva' watchmaker claims to have produced accurate tim$ pieces which are unaffected by magnet* ism. To aid in an analysis of noise, Pro* feasor Crum Brown, of the Royai1 Society of Edinburg, hopes to be able to-make a machine to give vesy loud imitations of vocal sounds. He expects the aooaratus tfo hiss with thousandNnan powei; A new discovery is fiat by the uae of citric acid or citrate off silver sea^water may be made drinkable;. By this deans shloride of silver is precipitated and a harmless mineral water is< produced. An ounce of citrate makes a haa-pint of wat?f drinkable. A leaf of the giant waterlily (Victoria regia^ has been known to measure twe?ty-fcur feet 9} inches in circumference, its weight being nearly fourteen pounds One of the flowers was four feet two inches in circumference, with'petals nine inches*ib length,and weighed'^ pounds*. Platinum wire, experiment -las shown* can be drawn so fine as to be invisible to the nakedi eye, although it can be seem by'the ani of a small magnifying glas? when laidi upon a perfectly white cardi held im3?ca a position that the wire cast* a shadow. It presence on the oard cam also bedietected by the touch. The bee's sting, says Naturalists Clark,, is by no'nacans made for stinging onhfi. but is used in doing the artistic celt vrork,. capping the comb and infusing theformio acid, by means of which Honey receives-its-keeping qualities. Thesting: is-really a skilfully contrived littlettrowal withiwhirfi the bee finishes off andicap? the-cells'when they are brimful of honey. This- explains why honey extractedibe fore-it is capped over does not keep walk The-formic acid has not been injeote<i into-it, ' Ifcia. paper to the Liverpool Astronomical Society, Mr. W. H. 8. Monck, suggested lately that the puzzling climatic variations recorded by the rocks may have- been produced by the near approach to.the earth of intensely hot stars*. This may fcave been due to the traveling of tVio oi?\r ?frar?lf nr tn tVio mntinn nfr >Kfv solaa-system in space. Moving wJtin the earth's own rate, a celcstial bodir woold traverse in 50,000,000 years the-distance separating our globe from the-most xpmo*e of the 70,000,000 stars- visible ia the most powerful telescopcs, . making it possible that, with suitable proper notdoiis, any or every star known may have visited the solar system daring tdie period, commonly assumed by geologj&ts. to have- ' elapsed since the first dawn of life.' Intensely hot stars may have- added materially to the earth's heat wiihawt coming sufficiently near to gr.afttLj derange the planetary orbits. A Queer Philanthropist Stephen Girard wa3 a mfiia under a possession. He had a greait talent, and it dominated him. In his pursuit of business he was as keen as a lover, and aa blind to outside and diverting influences. It was not money-making that was his passion, that came as a logical result; but he was absorbed in, and devoted to business. He sometimes hardly seemed to realize the value of money to otherneoDle. and that a man should be mined because he could not command a certain sum on a certain day was almost a crime to him. No one had a right to get into such a position, and he should ask no pity. Girard had no patience with failures. If a man had feet, let him stand on them. No one found Girard willing . to act as a crutch, although he could go into the houses whose very air was death, and in his arms carry out mon who were dying with a pestilence. He believed in fraternity, but his employes were?his employes. In his counting-room, his bank, his house, there was but one will, and that was his own. He paid for the work doue for him. Did the worker need more money 'i What was that to his employer? Ho kept to his limits in all his relations in life, and never lost a clear sense of relative positions. After his brother Jean died, he took charge of the three orphan children left in Philadelphia. He sent them to the best schools, but he paid the bills out of the little estate their father left. His house was their home, and he was kind to them. , He never bought a shawl or dress for one that he did not for the others, and he remembered their girlish faucies. After they had married from his house he petted their children, and liked to have them shout, and, indeed, felt a right to the little people, but he never adopted these little girls, and never seemed to have a father's devotion fev them. He corresponded with his family in France, but he was too busy watching the markets of the world to give much time to individual^ even if they were his relations. ?Domestic Monthly. - ^ W.. Signs of Wind. Frank Dominick Navarette in the seventeenth century discovered certain infallible signs of winds. One never failing token "was the running and fluttering about of little insects aboard the ship, . and the more restless they are the higher . tVi? wind rind hv observing? what nlace they comc from mariuers shall know if it will be fair." Another sign, according to his reverence, is when pigs begin to ruu and tumble about a ship in a calm. Baumgarten, in his "Travels," says he was with a pilot who, by putting his finger in his mouth, and then holding it up, "prognosticated to us that we should have wind very speedily, which, indeed, proved accordingly." All that the modern sailor can do by wetting his finger and lifting it is to feeJ if there be any movement in the air. The digit has long ccased to be a sibyl. Formerly the Brittany fisherman raised the wind at will by procuring the d.:st swept cut of a certain church and blowing it in the direction from which they had desired the breeze to come. Sardinian sailors also possessed the same useful art. To procure a fair wind they had nothing to do but to sweep a chapel after mass ana blow the dust of it after departing ships. London Telegraph. A Dog That Catches Fish. J. N. McConnell, of Crawfordsville, T?J Anrnni. O Arr flinf l>n folnoa 1IIU., 13 tiivi KJ ?? uvi VI u uu- buabiiv ? very highly. It is a full blooded Scotch shepherd, about one year old. The canine is a smart one, and seems to understand every word that is spoken to it. Among its many accomplishments is that of being an expert lisherman. lie will tako i position in a drift in a small stream running near Mr. McConnell's house, and making a racket, will scare the fish out into the water, where he can see them. Then diving suddenly he will bring a fish up in his mouth. This operation he will repeat until he catches as many as he r wants. Spectators on the banks in no wise embarrass him in his piscatorial pursuit. The doer is very fond of fish and cats all that he catches. That is the only abjection to the whole proceeding, as his jv/ner thinks that he could supply his :able with fresh fish the year round if the log could only be taught to retrieve; ind he will give him a few lessons in that irt.?Cincinnati Enquirer. ri ^ i