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The Press and Banner! Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1891. < i ( Twelve "Pni^es. i A foreign periodical published some [ interesting figures relative to the j population of Ireland : "Ireland's population in 1S41 was 8,1 i??;,oVJ7 ; In 1851, 6,574, 271: in isw, o.cw,;..., , ... 1871, 5,412,377; in 1881, 5,174,.SMii, and inl891, 4,70<>, 1?>2. These are I lie official figures of the census authorities at their regular ten-yearly computations. Along in 1S41 Ireland had beengrowing in population, her increase in the ten years ending with that date having been 5.25 per cent. The decline then set in, and between 1841 and 1851 it had amounted to 1H.S5 per cent., between 1S51 and 18G1 to 11.50, between 1801 to 1871 G.(>5, between 1*71 and 1881, to 2.40 and from that vear to ISO] to 9.05. Emigration, due to bad government, is responsible for this decline, and should the policy under which Ireland has suffered so severely, be|continued, not many years will pass ere the Irish question is settled by depopulating the country. The Chicago Advance says : "Liquor dealers and anti-prohibitisls who are constantly harping on the blighting effects of prohibition upon the r>mcr*>i-itv nf a citv will not be able to v draw much comfort from the experience of Des Moines, Iowa. Desl Moines is a city of (>0,000 people and : has not an open saloon within its limits nor within the county in < which it is situated, and yet it is just now enjoying an era of the most remarkable prosperity. Such a house ( or store room to rent can scarcely he found at any price, while more than i 1,000 new residences and more than $1,000,000J worth of new business i blocks, some of them the finest in the < West, are in process of erection, j Hank clearances run from twenty-five i to fifty,per cent, higher than a year j ago; its manufactured products *1890 i exceeded those of 1889 by more than | So,000,000. Every kind of business is extremely prosperous, and the actual | statistics of the lransier ruuniiwuv.hIiow that the population is increasing, by new arrivals alone, at the rate of 1,00 per month. A good many other cities would like to ' lie killed in tin same way that prohibition has killed Des Moines." Word* of I.pnriHMl I.cut;(li. Fift}' years ago cultured men and women spoke and wote in Johnsonized English. One of the poet Bryant's friends, a Miss Robins, was remarkable for herbrilliant conversation. "Her talk," says the poet's biograph- J er, was a stream of narrative, argu- ' ment, criticism, anecdote, and pathos. 1 But, like all valuble talkers, she was ? at times (riven to 'words of learned ' length and thundering sound.' " Mr. 1 Bryant used to frequently take her vocabulary to pieces. She was sitting alone in Ins library' f when a cabinetmaker brought a rickety s old rocking-chair he hud mendeft. As J Mr. Bryant caine, Miss Bobbins said 1 to him, "The mechanic has returned y your chair and expressed the hope ; that its equiblirum had been properly 1 adjusted." * } "Did he say that ?" replied Mr. Bry- 1 ant; "he never talked so to me. What did he really say ?" "Well, if you must know," rejoined Miss Bobins, "he said he guessed * the rickerty old concern would't jog* > trie anv more." $ A Cure Diphtheria. Should .you or any of your family be attacked with diphtheria, do not be ( alarmed, an it easily and speedily cur- ( ed without a doctor. When it was j raging in England a few years ago 1 ( accompacied Dr. Field on his round.to witness the so called wonderful ( cures he perfomed while the patients j of others were dropping on both sides, i The remedy is so rapid it must be simple. All he took with him was* , powdered sulphur and a quill, and ' with these he cured every patient ] without exception. He put a teaspoonflll nf Hnnr nf til*?,nthiiio i? glass of water, ami stirred with lii> linger instead of a spoon, ad the sul , phur does not readily amalgamate with water. When the sulphur was | well mixed he gave it as a gargle, and < in teii minutes the patient was out of danger. Brimstone kills every species of fungus in man. beast and plant in a few minutes. Instead of spitting out . the gargle, he recommended the swal- . lowing of it. In extreme eases, in which he had been called just in the nick of time, when the fungus was too . nearly closed to allow the gargling, he blew the sulphur through?<juill into the throat; and after the Tungus had ' shrunk to allow of it, then the garbling. He never lost a pittient from ( from diphtheria, if a patient cannol | gargle take a live coal, put it on a shovel and sprinkle a spoonful or two of Hour of brimstone upon it; let the sufferer inhale by holding his head over , it.?Belfast (irelaud) Witness. A little boy had to l>e punished for I saying bad words. His sister said that ? mamma was "unlearning" Freddie the I bad words. I should think that was a : great deal harder than learning them. 1 Thereto abetter way to "unlearn." ' It is the squirrel's way. When he gets ( a bad nut he does uot till his mouth with it and then make a wry face and spit it out. He just throws it away without tasting it. It is easier to keep < sin out of the heart than to put it out. t Love ok Chii,i>kkn.?Whoever takes a child into his love may have a i very roomy heart, but that child will : fill it all. The children that are in t the world keep us front growing old and cold; they cling to our garments 1 with their little hands, and impede i our progress to petrification; with t their pleading eyes they win us back \ from cruel care; they never encumber s us at all. A poor old couple, with no one to love them, is a most pitiful pic- i ture ; but a hovel, with a small face itt! t it, is robbed of jts desolation. _ ma m m 11 The devil never puts a straw iti the way of the man that preaches against j f the sins of ihe people in the nexti, county. 'f The First Year of Housekeeping. To inosl housekeepers the llrst year s usually very trying. The natural i..i..n (.cui'v tliiiio- iii nerfeet U'Sikjia/ ixttv x ?vi j n?.?n ... >vder, to show that one is capable of iecpihouse as it should be kept, oflt*ii associated, as it is, with ignorance >f methods, and especially with unformed habits of domestic industry, places the neophyte in unpleasant situations. She may not know just where and when and how to begin preparations for some specified work, and she must often learn the right way by doing the wrong. She soon! finds out that there is in even the smallest domestic enterprise a succession of steps, which, if taken in their natural logical order, make the word easy. She must learn to have a dozen irons in the fire, and not let any of them burn ; to hold many threads in her hands, and not let them get broken or tangled with each other. But experience at last makes this easy. It is well to think out beforehand every separate step that must be taken in doing any one tiling, the first, the ""'i <- '* "t> tn thf> last, and to es OCWIJU, ituvt ou UU WW _ limate how long time each and the whole will require. This done, the mechanical part will be the least of the work. A note-book in which out-, lines oi plans for various industries are kept is very useful. Lists of work to be done may be entered here, and when one is at a loss what she had best be engaged in, ? glance at the list will suggest. The young housekeeper! will be encouraged by seeing ho\v| much she has already accomplished, or] stimulated to renewed exertion by seeing how much remains to be done. A slate with a pencil attached hanging on the pantry wall is convenient for daily jottings of cash paid out, groceries bought or to be bought, and many little items of which one wishes todisrdiarsre hfi* mind. It is well to allow time for preparation for many tasks that seem simple. It takes two or three days toget all ready to make mince-pies or fruit-cake, :>r to tack a comforter or to make a garment. The materials must be got together, recipes ami patterns selected, And a day chosen not liable to interruption when the linal work -shall be prosecuted. "One war at a time" is a good motto for the housekeeper. Sometimes one mist keep half ado/en enterprises gong, as in getting an elaborate meal, uid be every-where at once, so to speak, but the habit of keeping at Hashing dishes till they are all done, -r ? 2 ?1. 2 -r- ? WisvtV* HU COO 11 H HIJIHIIIII^ uiciiuiug ii mi/in o., is possible after beginning it, of havng one garment at a time in the proms of making, is 11 good habit. A varety of unfinished work staring one iu lie fare is disheartening. Jf the foting housekeeper lias "help," close ittention to the interests of her housciold will require her to know exactly jow every thing is done, and to see ,hat it is done well; tliat there are 110 leglects, no wastes, no extravagances; ind this close attention will enable her ,o appreciate and commend her assisant with discrimination. (Gradually the young housekeeper >vi 11 become familiar with tliose saniary considerations of water supply, sewage, drainage, disposal of refuse, jpon which in so great a degree the lealth of household depends. >She vill find that good housekeeping is a tcience no less than an art, ami that it s worthy of the devotion she will be ;ompe)led to give it in order to master t in all its details and connections. * An Ant Funeral. A lady gives this account of some ints which she saw iu Sydney. Havng killed a number of soldier ants, ihe returned iu a half hour to the spot .vhere she left their dead bodies, and n reference to what she then observed she says: "I saw a large number of ants sur'ounding the dead ones. \ determined o watch their proceedings closely. I bllowed four or live that started oft' rom the rest toward a hillock a short I listanee oft', in which was an ants'! lest. This they entered, aiul in about j ive minutes they reappeared, followed j )y others. "All fell into rank, walking regularly I iu<l slowly, two by two, until they irrived at the spot where lay the dead | uodies of the soldier ants. In a few| minutes two of the ants advanced andj took up the dead body of one of their . onirades ; then two others, and so on until all were ready to march. "First walked two ants bearing-a body, then two without a burden, then i ;wo others with another dead ant, and J jo on until tho line extended to about i forty pairs ; and the procession now moveil slowy onward, followed by an j irregular body of about two hundred illtS. ''Occasionally the two laden stopped I md laying down the dead ant, it wasl laken up by the two walking unbur-j lened behind them, and thus by occa-j donally relieving each other, they ar-; rived at a sandy spot near the sea. "The body'of ants now commenced i Jigging with their jaws a number of I holes in the ground, into each of which j i dead ant was laid. They had tilled I up the ants' graves. This did not juite finish the remarkable circum-j stances attending their funeral. "Some six or seven of the ants had : ltieniptcd to run of!' without performing their share of the task of ligging. These were caught and: wrought back, when they were at once ittacked by the body of the ants and ' killed upon the spot. A single grave [ ivas quickly dug, and they were all! iropped into it." A HhimI of Mercy Ito.v. It was a cold morning in March, in [}hicauo. A little old mail stood oil' lie corner of Clark and Randolph Streets selling newspapers. lie was thinly clad, kept trotting up ind down, trying hard to keep warm,! ind his voice was hoarse from cold, md passers-by could hardly hear him. Some boys jeered ami laughed at lim ; but one, about thirteen years old, ather better dressed than the rest, ifter looking at him for a few moments valked up to him and said, "1 will iliout for you.'' The old man thought the boy was liakiug fun of him, but the boy began o cal out. '"Times,' 'Herald,' Tribun.' News,'" in a clear voice, which ittracted so many customers that in a ittle while the old mail sold his stock.' He ottered to pay his youthful { lartner, but the boy would take lothing, and went oil' with a smiling! a?-e. <nrlii? it llliinl <?iitnl. Calcutta is a line, large oily, on tb( northeast coast ot India, ami one whc lived there tells :i strange but tru< story of how a doctor cured the biggest patient he ever had. The patient wai a huge elephant, who for a long (inn had su(ler?:d from a disease in his eyes which at last got so bad that lie eonh not see. Hisowuer, an English otticer, weu to Dr. Webb, and begged him t( come and see what could be done. U< did; and after looking carefully at tin giant creature, the doctor said : "The best cure that I know of i nitrate of silver : but it will give i good deal of pain." Perhaps some of my readers whoa friends have bad eyes have heard th name of this remedy. Well, the owner said he had bette try, and if the animal-would not allov it he must give it up. But?would you believe it?th elebhant, who like most of his race was as wise as he was big, found s< much relief from his first day's doc toring that when Dr. Webb visite< him the next day he lay down of hi own accord, placed ms great neav; head 011 one side, curled up his trunk and then, just like you or I might i we were going to bear some dreadfu pain, he drew in his breath and lu^ perfectly still. The healing mixtur was dropped into each eye. and wli'ei the sharp, short pain was gone, hi I gave u great sigh, as much as to say 1 "That's a good thing got over. I fee j all the better for it." -When he go up, he tried, in his poor dumb fashion to thank his friend forgiving him bacl his sight. ? ? ? ? A IlrleT Harangue on Talking Slang This "sermonette" is especially fo you, dear girls. The advice could b< put in three words: Don't do it 1'ossiblv there might come all oeca sion? say once in a life?when a gooi round bitof thegenuineartiele "slang/ would prove funny. Hut to hea vulgar words used by a gentle girl i: almost invariably shocking. I reniein ber passing two girls in the street am hearing one of them say : ''JM1 bet yoi a quarter." It gave me a shiver. Auc when a group of school-girls fill theii conversation?as, alas ! they often d< ?with one slang phrase after another the effect on an outsider is painfully disagreeable. The habit of talking slang grow: rapidly. It is like reporting a bit o scandal. Have you never noticed i you say at) unkind word against i neighbor, how quickly a chance comet to say anotherV And with just Ilia same appalling ease a habit of using careless, coarse words increases. Weed! grow rapidly. There is plenty of good, strong English to give expression to wit .Iml inn ni> uvmnulliv Wlt/IIVIJ, IUUI^UUtlU.1, w. .-.J...,, J without rccourso to the phrases \uhicl belong to horse-jockeys, gamblers tipplers, and vagabonds. The stree' Arab picks up slang as he does tin ends of old cigars from the gutter Surely a well-bred girl is not on tin same level in her speech and manner Why should shetise vulvar words an) more than she would stain her hands' There ought to do something akin t< dowers in a fresh younft girl. Sin need not he prudish nor priggish. N< one wishes her to nay, "Prunes atu prisms" to coax her lips into the propel curves. ]>ut refined and dainty it speech as well as in dress she surely ought to be. How <?oil Teaches The Itirtls. On the island of Java grows a tree the leaves of which are said to he i deadly poison to all venomous reptiles The oder of the leaf is so offensive (< the whole snake family that if the) come near the plant in their travels they imemdiately turn about and tak< an opposite direction. A traveler on the island noticed one day, a peculiar fluttering and cn of distress from a bird high above hi: head. Looking up he saw a mother bird hovering round a nest of litth ones in such a frightened and perplexei manner as to cause him to stop ant examine into the trouble. (Joitif round to the other side of the tree, lu found a large snake climbing slowlj up the tree in the direction of tin little nest. it was beyond liis reach ; and, sinci he could not help the little featherei songster by dealing a death-blow, he sa down to see the result of the attauk 80011 the piteous cry of the bird ceased and he thought, "Can it be possibli she has left Tier young to their fate and has flown away to seek her owi safety ?" No; for again he heard a fluttering of wings, and, looking up, saw herllj into the tree with a large leaf from tliii tree of poison, and carefully spread i over her little ones. Then alightin; 011 a branch high above her nest, slu quietly watched the approach of hci enemy. His ugly, writhing body kep slowly along, nearer and still nearer until within a foot of the nest; then just as lie opened his month lo take ii Ilia-dainty little breakfast, down In went to the ground as suddenly a: though a bullet had gone through hi: head, and hurried ofl" into the jungl< beyond. The little birds were unharmed; and as Hit! mothqj--bird flew down am spread her wings over them, the poisoi leaf?poison only to the snake?fell a the feet of the traveler; and he felt, a: never before,'the force of the words ":Ve not two sparrows sold for 1 farthing? yet not one of them shall fal to the ground without your Father.' For who but he who made the deal little birds could have told this one tin power there was in this leaf??(iooc Words. "The most ancient of profane his toriuns has told us that the Scythians of his time were a very warlike people and elevated 011 a platform an old cim eter, as a symbol of the god of war and offered more sacrifices to it than t< all their other gods." "Are we then at all advanced, in one respect, beyond these Scythians! What are contributions to charity1 education, morality, religion, justice, and civil government, when compared to thewealth we expend in sacrifices to the old cimeter representing war?"?John Bright. The value of pedigree is not in its vouching for ancstrv, but in its vouching for offspring. r* ~ ' - . . \'" A MAN OF MA^.Y DONT'S. ) All <>!'tlieni Aimed Strai^lH at Wo, mini's Shorlroiiiin^N. t A person who seems to know a greai j a deal lias sent (he following "Dont's to the esteemed New York Jleeorder : L t Don't stand at the door of a streert i ear and worry some man near at hand j into giving you a seat when there are 11 three empty seats at the head of the 3 j car. You all do this. ?| Don't sit down in a car until space e | has been made for you. It is vulgar ; to sit even on other women. g| Don't get oft'a car with your back ;i j to the horses. Men get a great deal !of fun out of your persistency in q doing this. But you are not bound to e amuse men. Dont leave your handkerchief and r pocketbook iu your lap when you are v riding jin a street ca\ Some man : wiII pick them up for you as you arc e passing out, but they will get muddy. , Don't wait until you get iu front 0 of a ticket-office betore taking out .. your pocketbook. Tne wives of the j eight men who are patiently waiting 9 the opportunity to buy tickets are y wondering why they are so lute home. Don't have your skirt badly fastened } at the back so that your underskirt 1 becomes visible. You cau't see this rr and no woman seems to tell you. e Don't keep smoothing the wrinkles 3 | out <)i yuui waisi. a ie\\? wriiiKies; e will keep you from looking like u|t ; fashion plate. ji Don't try to have a long waist. 11 t! For 3,000 years the artists^?the pro-| lessors and conservators of beauty?Is ; have been saying that a short waist! is more beautiful. At least please take c the hint. i Don't forget that no one who could possibly be considered an authority . ever said a small waist was beauti- 1 B ful. c Don't wear shoes that are not at! least three-quarters of an inch longer|ji than your feet. Pretty feet are better' ! than small feet. And besides, rem-| ember how nervous and peevish you I are. 0 ! Don't ^et hot and cross when your0 child whimpers a little on the ferryIboat. Let him howl a little. Nobody I j, : will complain but a few old maidsjt , j and a stray bachelor, and they are not j worth considering. ; Don't forget to be punctual in keep-;: I ing an appointment. You never are, i1 but it*is not too late too reform. Don't ridicule dress reform until IIyou have found out what it is! : ,i J Dont forget to keep to your right in j' [igoing up and down stairway*. You1 i lose much time in shopping because| ? !? yon overlook this necessity. ' f Jj Don't he led by a pug dog unless' > you have no further interest in tlie' v 'Iadmiration of an honest man. ,t ! Don't he so dreadfully cordial whenjn ? you meet a woman you detest. M Don't use the "gentleman" when I ?i"man" will do. Kvery real gentle- i 1 man is willing to be called a man. ?! Don't leave the kissing good-bye, j until the car has come to a full stop. I Don't handle articles you have ab-|> solutely 110 intention of buying. j t ' Don't use that precious adjective t ; "lovely" fortjvery and any occasion, j Don't make your husband a selfish i brute by eternally waiting on him. I Don't give yourself a questionable1 position in the word by living in idle-j j I ness on your husband's labors. No! | intellingent woman is willing to be*li rj "supported." il ' Don't run a charity kitchen and a ' have the words "For the Poor" on c I the wiudow. This is not London, I whore the poor are willing to he lab- i. Unied. 1 until vnn i?at t ? tl>n ? i piano to-pull off your gloves when i 1 . you are asked to play. j c > Don't choose a time when you have | r company to find fault with your litis- j , hand. if you do lie will get even f; e with you it it takes all winter. f If you wear a traveling skirt in the j , street don't claim that it is because e f you rather like it. Admit candidly 14 that you lmvn't the pluck to defy an t - absurd fashion. ~ ^ i " ? '' \\ 1 The Immortal Soul. ;; At a dinner given to Victor Hugo, u Jjin Paris, some years ago, he delivered u r' an impromptu' address, in which he jjgave expression to his faith in the j 1 intftiite and in the soul's immortality. |' ii His friend Houssey, who was present,j t * soya . I t "Hugo at that time was a man of:*! . jsteel, with no sign of old ago about 11 , 'him, hut with all the agility, supple- j r ujness, the ease and grace of his best; , | years." He was contradicting the j. 11 atheists and his friend says, /his faceja jwas bright with the heavenly lialo | j;and his eyes shone like burning; f coals." !! " 'There are no occult forces,' he| t said, 'there are only luminous forces, j ?| Occult force is chaos, the luminous L iI force is Ciod. Man is an infinite little! ^ i copy of God-; this is glory enough fori t t*man. I am a man, an invisible atom, a ; , drop in the ocean, a grain of sand on ; , j the shore. Little as I am, I feel the i.'God in me, because' I can also bringj 1 i j forth out of my chaos. 1 make books, j r * which arc creations; I feel in myself i 3j that future life; T am like a forest jt i which has been more than once ciil | , down; the new shoots arj stronger, ii , and livelier than ever. ' I " 'I am rising, I know, toward the; i sky. The sunshine is on my head, t The earth gives me its generous sap, v ^.but Heaven lights mewiih the reflec-11 ,; tion of unknown worlds. You soy i v i the soul is nothing but the result of r I i bodily powers. Why, then, is my| j ' jsoul, more luminous when my bodily | r r powers begin to fail? Winter is on my ' i j : head and eternal spring is in my heart. s 1, There I breathe at this hour the fragratice of the lilacc, tbe violets and j, ,the roses as at twenty years ago. The s nearer I approach the end ihe plainer ln il hear around me the immortol sym-!u * phonise of the worlds which invite) , me. j " 'It is marvelous, yet simple. It is! , Ja fairy tale, and it is historic. Fori > half a century I have been writing.v | my thoughts in prose and verse, his- a Mtory, philosophy, drama, romance, |V '! tradition, satire, ode and song. I have| b 'said all, but I feel I have not said aje i j thousandth part of what is in me.lt jWheu I go down to the grave, [ say, iq . like many others, 1 have finished my je: ' | day's work. But I cannot say I havele i Ilnished my life. My days will begin 11] j again the next mornfug. The tomb is li i j not a blind alley ; it is a thoroughfare, n I ft closes on the twilight to open oil the b dawn.' " o I iiii'ntlitiiile. 15 low, blow. thou whiter wind, . Thou art not so unkind it As mnn's Ingratitude; Thy tooth is not. so keen. ; \\ Hecuusu lliou art not seen. sl Although thy h'reath l>c rude. I, I ' Kreeze. freeze, thou hitter sky. j 11 Thoti dust not Into so nigh As benefits forgot ; i 11 Though thou t he waters warp, Thy stint; Is not so sharp ! |j As friends rem ember "d not. i ^ Tlie Xig;lit Comes 011. I am tired, Lord and tearful, My courage well-nigh gone ; And I He soul in me is reariui. j . For, lo the night comes on ! And dark the shadows gather, i s And thick they rent upon The way liefore me. Father, j Ci And lo, the night comes on ! j r< 0.elasp me. Church, and hold me, For lo, the night corncson! I y 1.et Thy lender arms enfold m*e : i. Till the blesed morning dawn. ^ As the last touch of theartlst ft Gives the work Its perfect grace. Ah the last stroke of the sculptor n Is its crowning lovliness I) As the author's closing sentence |j Oft with most of heauty glow*, Be thy life, that wondrous poem, The most beautiful at close ! 0 - / GRAINS. v Jesus Christ never tried fo make a U lisciple by argument. e1 It lakes contact with other people j" o make lis acquainted with our- , elves. ,J C( There is but one sure way to keep 1> ?ut of debt, and that is never to get ci n it. g God is in all that liberates and lifts; !l 11 all that humbles, svectens, and . onsoles. tl Don't measure a man by his prompep, a little man will make the great- ei st promkee. ' w Love in its purity is the triumph ^ if the unselfish over the selfish part f our nature. Xo church is ready for a revival so tx ring as the members are afraid of siting too close together. People have lo be living very near9! he throne before they can enjoy hav- P ng their faults pointed out. ' * Oue of the hardeftt things to do is lo p elieve that the man is honest who] losn't look ut things as we <lo. C IV Let us us be content in work to do ? lie tiling we can, and not presume to Ul ret because it is little. . No man loves Cod with all his heart- al vho spends the most of his time in w rying to get the start of his fellow nen. o. If sone people would be a little v nore-careful where they slep. those vho follow them wouldn't stumble so $ nuch. Make olhera to see Christ in our moving, doing, speaking and hinking. Your actions will speak oi lim, if he be in you. la The man who says he is kept oul if the Church because there a?e s(. w nany hypocrite? in it is not influenwl hv them anvwhore else. It is by the general bent of a man's ci ife, by his heart impulses and secret ti Icsires, his spontaneous actions and cl biding motives that his class is delated. 11 You will never see God's face hruogh your sins. You must throw ? lowu your sins and look over them ^ f you would see the smiles of mer- jj yAll pleasure must he bought at the trice of pain. The difference between alse pleasure and true is just this? ci or the true the price is paid before ei ou enjoy it; for the false after you fi njoy it. fi . If an angel were sent from heaven o find the most perfect man, he ?] vould probably not find divinity. mt perhaps a cripple in a poorhouse N vhom the juirish wish dead, and ^ tumbled before God with far lower houghts of himself than , others 11 hink of him. ? i u The avoidance of little sins, little ? ncousi-tences, little follies, indiscre- ii ions, and imprudences, little foibles, I ittle indulgences, of the flesh: the a voidances of such little thirgp as ti hese go far to make up at least the ?| icgative beauty of a holy life.?Bonar. tl "Money has a digraceful history. It ^ las had the career of a corrupter and s< l despoiler. Its march down the ages * ins vertifled and illustrated the divine * U linition of it as'root of all evil."' u Covetousness is the tap-root of the oh- s< ections which men oiler to the de- ? nands of the Church for money. The real objection is to the depart ure of d he engle, and not to the direction of ? ts flight. a 11< When you make a mistake, don't lu ook back at it long. Shake the ? eason of the thing into your own n nind, and then look foward. Mis- t< akes are lessons of wisdom. The h >ast cannot be changed; the future t a yet in your power. Ip ^ Iv Life is so short, we have no time to' raste on trifles, liowevvr innocent hey may t>e. Times eome to earnest! rorkers when body aud mind musti^ est, lest they wear out prematurely. | y iut the heart should never rest. SVea-, n y brain and tired limbs must rest,if, iut heart bears on steadily, and its if, toppage means death. So our minds 1 mi bodies may lie weary, but our j p iearts i c, our affections ami our wills, i p hould never rest; and when we can do I o lothing else, we can pray and praise i|f nd love. >; ChIn Ah CloekN. , pi The Abbe Hue relates that when he' ,'as traveling ill China he asked hisjj, tteudant what time it was. The man ,'ent over to a cat that was quietly U asking in the sun and, examining its jsl yes, told the abbe that it was about ivo hours after upon, and, on being uestioned on how he knew that, be K! xplaiued that the pupils of a cat's tl yes were largest in the morning, and 111 iiat they gradually grew smaller as the 'c ght increased, till they reached their linimum at noon; and then they,10 egan to widen again fill at night MieyjP' lire more became large. " ... T*""v _ . i. Tlie Legem] of tlie Dial Plate. " JIoriiK nun numcru mm ucrenaa"? I number only the sunny hours"? 'as written on an accident dial-plate, ml is quoted upon many modem nes. The Philosophy contained in ic legend is v.-iluable in ils applicants to daily life. "The last time I saw you," said a idy to her littl? nephew, "you were ery. very sick, and suffering terri ly." "O," rejoined I he little philosopher, I forgot'all about that long ago." Quite different was the mood of anther little fellow whom his teacher oticed crying bitterly as he sat on his jhool-bench. Inquiring as to the nuse of his tears, she - received this iply : "Dick Yetten threw a stone at me esterday and hurt my head," and ere the grief broke out into loud )bs. ) In one of his famous speeches, Rujs Choate exclaimed (we quote from lemory): "Shall America, proud, uoyaut America, just starting out on er splendid career among the nations, orrode her young heart by brooding ver the wrongs of the Stamp Act, nd the Tea Tax, and the tiring of the <ropanl on the Chesapeake in time of cace ? No, sir ; a thousand times no! We are born to happier destinies." We knew a lawyer once who used . > quote that whenever any untoward vent, like losing a case or failing in jme enterprise, overtook him. Afif nrr\innr MVPrtlio whnla or mil ml nf Vlifl efeat, and deducing all the lessons he [>iild as to its causes and the points to , e avoided in the future, he would reite the above quotation with' due esture and emphasis, and then disliss the whole subject from hip mind, 'hus he escaped corrosion and cynicsru, and kept himself buoyant, enuisiastic, lresh. The greater part of our troubles are ither in the future or in the past, e refuse to cross every bridge until e coiue to it, and make the motto of ie sun-dial our own, the majority of oes will disappear, and leave us siuaIv the burden of the present moment > bear. ' # The largest specimen of the bovine pecies ever recorded was the 4,900 ound ox raised by Samuel Aarkley in ennsylvania, and exhibited at the entennial Exposition at Philadelliia. The largest trees are in Tulare ounty, Cal. Some of them are over ro feet liiglkand 34 feet in diameter, ml are from 2,<M)0 to i!,o0() years old. At the Woolwich (Eng.) arsenal i9 ie largest anvil. It weighs <><H) tons, iwl Mih lildflv nimn which it rests eighs 10.'5 tons. The largest library is the Imperial f Paris, which contains over 2,000,(X)0 oluiues. . > - ; The cost of a palace sleeping-car is 15,000; or if "vestibuled." $17,000. The largest desert is Sahara, 4,000 titles long and flOO miles wide. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, is le largest park in the world. Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, is the irgest cavern in the world. ' m Of the twelve largest cities iflFthe orld three are in Japan. The J3kic;ht Sidk.?Cheerfulness in become a habit, and habits someraes help us ouer hard places. A leerful heart seeth checrful things. A lady and gentleman were in a imber yard situated by a dirty, louiuelling river. The lady said : "How good the iue boards smell!" ?Pine boards!" exclaimed the geneman. "Just smell this foul river !" "No, thank you," the lady replied, "I prefer to smell the pine boards." And she was right. If she, or we, in carry this principle through our 11 tire living, we shall have the cheerll heart, the cheerful voice and cheeril face. There i? in some houses an unconsci- 4 lis atmosphere of domestic and social '.one which brightens everybodj'. health cannot give it nor can poverf take it away. We depend a good deal, in our lifejlings, upon the names by which we ill things. If we do not class a miptation among our temptations, e are very apt to be entangled. ? iiu fivlHu lu>fnro wo irnnar if ? ndeed, it is a part of the Tempter's i t to prevent onr seeing the tempta011 in temptations. We are often regained from wrong doing by the fact iat we feel ourselves being tempted. ^re shun deceit, lyihg. theft, and a jorn of well-recognized sini, because e realize in-them the power of the 'eitipter. But these temptations that lore nearly all Vet our outward conuct among our fellows are in no wise ;> subtile ami so dangerous as those ^ rliich bie more essentially personal nd spiritual.. The temptations to oubt, distrust, and reject (Sod steal ver us before we are aware that we re in the Tempter's.hands. We are .>mpted to think of God's mercy as nfairncss or injustice, of his love as rrnth, and to set ourselves up as judgs.of what (hid has or has not a right > do. Kveiy occasion of suffering, i.ss, sorrow, ought to be regarded as he peculiar opportunity of the Tem ter. But such temptations are coratpondingly to be regarded as divine pportunities given to us to witness >r Christ. The iiieonsistenry of our invitation * all nations to participate in the World's Kxposi?ion at Chicargo, while ur laws forbid any (.'hinaman to set >ot on our shores except those who >me on diplomatic businesess, has een brought out by a letter from Vice resident ilryan to the Treasury ])eurtoieot, iii<|ttiriiig a.s the hearing of le exclusion law upon Chinese visi?rs to the Fair: Assistant Secatary 'ettli'toii has replied that the intent of lese laws would not be violated by emitting Chinese citizens, under roper regulations, to visit the United tntes in 1 SiW, but that, should any itliculty arise, Congress will have anile time to take the question into con(leratirii.?Christ ion Statesmen. Thut great, statesman said: "if clerynH'n of the present day would reirii to the simplicity of the Gospel lit preach more to individuals, and ss to the crowd, there would not be > much complaint of decline in relign. Many take a text from'Paul and reach from the newspaper."?Daniel rchster.