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- * 771 DOTEDJ TO POITIS, MORALITY, EDUOATION AND TO TfE GENERAL INTERERT OF THER 00UTRT. By . F. BRADLEY & 00. .............X.. N O 30..... , e4 XOXW ]faly-Btty a2d .7W! Nr.Eoand accept lgI ap. S r.Rotud in a printer. biouse hewM soeP. at~Onq rz will hold another exposi. ~a Ys year. Although the last one iedeto be a success, financially, it was P.- Bovzws, the new Public Printer, besides being a thorough business man, a practical and artistic printer by Wade. ________ __ WYvATox on the St. Lawrence was opened before the 1st of April-the shortest winter -ice-lock on A Nr&aexn FAws hackman died, the other day, whose estate is valued at Sw88,000-aid he was the poorest of them all. STATr~rxos of idiocy may be. compiled by ascertaining the number of persons who have paid money for Guiteau's autograph. IT s time for the report to start the rounds. 4iat the peach buds have been killed. However; it is only a question It of a few days. Taru seoent blizzard, extending from Southern Dakota to Manitoba, was very severe, and there has been much suffer ing and many deaths. Tax statement is current that ice will be plentiful this summer, notwithstand Ing the warm winter. We are glad to know something will be abundant. THE Governments of France and the U~nited States have agreed to notify the other powers interested of an indefinite postponement of the Monetary Confer ence. DE LusSEPs is charged with building 4 boarding houses and filling cemeteries. Of course this is carried on in connec -.tion with the building of the Panama Canal. _____ __ A OANE was voted to the greatest liar in Warrington, Missouri, and a grocer carried off the prize. The two editors in the town received but three votes be tween them. Bozsoors boys caught fighting in Wash ington are arrested and fined in the -Police Court. They are bound to have good norals in Washington if every.. thing else goes to perdition. -ANITUONY COMSTOOK is waiting for some que to draw a big prize in a lottery before he shuts down on that manner of swindling, and under the law, confiscate the "piize." That's why he is still waiting.________ Ig is hoped the coming warm weather will prove a scorcher on the sunflower Idiocy. If there is anything at the pres en6 moment that is really saddening it is the remtembrance of Oscar Wilde's in vasion of America. MAsON's popularity, attained by reason of his attempt to kill Guiteau, is en *-couragement for the She-ifr' who Is to perform that duty. But it is hardly necessary to say that there will be no "''4heriff fund" staIrtna~ after the job is completed. PROP. 'ixoE, the weather prophet, the predieter of earthquakes and elucidator of cyclones, predicts a wet summer, which will be a consoling fact to those who fear that 'all the water is coming down, and being wasted at this season when it isnot needed. Txie villa Queen Victoria inhabits at Mentone is a modern structure, Bump. tuously furnished, and filled with all the * most modern appliances for health and comfort. It was built by' Mr. Henfrey the same whose villa was occupied by her lAfaje'sty during her visit to Baveno. 4 TuaE Confederate Government never made but four silver dollars, one of which was sold in~ New York a short time ago for $800, and another, which is held by a man in Texas, is held at $3,000, but for which an offer of $1,100 has been made. They are mementos of what "might have 1been." FnANK J. MosEs, ex-Governor of K South Carolina, has been photographed for the Rogues' Gallery at the New York *police headquarters, as a swindler, and sent to the Tombs Prison. The dis ;tance fromn a Governor's office to a Rogues' Gallery is perhaps not so great 'as we had imagined. * ~ Tn, Pond bill, whic~h has become a law In Ohio, imposes a yearly tax on saloon-keeper. In villages of less than S'J.2,000 population, of $150; In villages of les than 10,000 popul~tion, $200; in. towns of the second class, having 10,000 population and upwards, $250, and in cities of the first alaws, $800. Twa is no question about It, Women are taking vast strides. A short time 3 ,ago Hon. Carl Sohura delivered a snasnh uN OM= PaF" 01 MAannolba, specula Uop is-wild. It isaid to be quite com. mon toi a settler to sell his farm at froma 5OOO to *10,000-$25 cash, balance in twenty to thirty dayq. The oalciulation I of the purchaser is.that within the time specified he may dispose of the land at ma advance; if not he only loses his $25. AIMHOlgGR Oe ral Skobeleff has re. ceived an "honorable exile" by appoint. ment as commissioner in the reorgan. ization of Turkestan, there is perhaps no better advertised foreigner in the world to-day than he, and particularly in Amei. ica; all of which leads us to remark that to the popular being there is money in the lecture field. And it all cane from that little banquet speech, strengthened by a " we& dhrap of the crathure." THE resignation recently of Keeper Blodgett, of Sing Sing Prison, is evi dence of the brutality meted out to thlose who are so unfortunate as to land in penal institutions. Blodgett testified last week before the Board of Inquiry, that he resigned because he could not stand the evidences of brutality around him, and 'Would not be Keeper there i again for $1,000 per month, on account Df hearing the moanings and wailing of the eonvicts being paddled. Tim following is considered ar Mr. Longfellow's finest sonnet : "As a fond mother, when the day is 'er Leads by the hand her little child to bea, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leaves his broken playthings oi the-floor, Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted Iy promises of others in their stead, Which, though more splendid, Inay not please him tuore; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one and by tWe hand Leads us to rest so gently diat we go Scarce knowing we wish to go or stay, ?Oing too full of sleep to un1iderstand How far the unknown transcends the what we 'know." TRsE are yews coming to the United States from Russia, Irishmen from Mun ster and Ulster, oordially detesting one another; Republicans and Democrats from France, German Socialists and Im perialists; Italians, some of whom be lieve that the Pope has been cruelly wronged, and others that he should be driven from Italy. To assimilate all these and blend them into a harmonious 1 homogeneous political society is a task which no other country in the would could successfully undertake. Two weeks before his death, Longfel low wrote with his own .hand to a lady who sent him flowers : "I have been arranging these wonderful flowers under the lamp in my library. I can only think of the floral games of Toulouse in the times of the Troubadours, and were I a good Troubadour I would write you a f letter in verse to-night, but I am worn I and weary so that I find it difficult to write even prose. Thanks is a little word, but it has much meaning when there is -a heart behind it, and thus I send you mine for those Newport flowers." THE titles of Mr. Longfellow whose death was chronicled a few days since, were Master of Arts, from Bowdoin; Doctor of Laws, Harvard, 1959; Canm bridge, England, 1868, and Bowdoin, 1874; Doctor of Common Law, Oxford, 1869. He was Professor of French, Spanish, Italian, and German, as well as Librarian in B~owdoin; in Harvard he was Professor of Spanish, French, Belles Lettres; he was a member of the American Antiquarian and of the Maine and Massachusetts Historical Societies; a member of the Historical and Geo graphical Society of Brazil; a member of the Royal Spanish Academy at Madrid, and a member of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg.. [T is said that a woman is at the bot torn of the Herzegovina rebellion. Misa Alice Hurtley, a beautiful female of uin certain antecedents, made her appear ance in 1879 at Serajevo, the capital of Bosina with an English newspaper cor respondent, who introckeced her to everybody as his wife. Shie is a dimn-u tive creature, but of remarkable beauty, with fine blue eyes and light hair, cut a la George Sand. Her personmal charms and enthusiasm in behalf of the Bosniana cause secured her an extraordinary popularity, and made her a conspicuous figure in the revolt against Austrian rule, which she urged with all the re sources at her command. Nikita, Prince of Montenegro, is said to be infatuated with her, and she is apparently destined1 to play an important role, FEw people have any idea of the im mense quantities of oleomargarine con sumed under the name of butter. There are, in Cincinnati, three oleomargarino dealers-a man, his wife and mother. who'stand in market and Cell on an aver age fully 900 pounds a day of sftuff called better but which is nothing I ut the vilest oleomargarine. Barrels con taining this so-called butter are branded " butterine,"~ but they are kept well back under cover, and the "rich golden rolls " are piled temptingly in tiers on the improvise$ counter and sold at a figure considerably under the regular market price of butter. These dealers comply with the law insofar as labeling oleomargarine is concerned, but "lie like old salts " to their customers if oharged with handling the vile stuff. This is only one of thousands of similar oas in Cinoinnati and other cities, which Is not only an imposition on dairy men and farmners, but ean outrage on Advancement. he t, Mtr is luminous with the spirit of . When we Cobidet the inarvelous tchievement. of this teeming age, we woider if the end has been reached, and .I limitation has not boon plAced over or. gpnality. But as the old and f-imiliar P.ass away, the new and wonderful con nuall appear. The march of progress since e world emerged from hedr ges, was slow for centuries, ]ut dur. ng the nineteenth century it has gone forth with the rapidity of I htning and with the force of a giant. New applica bion has been made of old ideas in gov arnment and in' morals. The spirit of progress has breathed upon all of the Dlements and converted them into new !actors in life. Medicine and theology lave been largely revolutionized. Even law, one of the most conservative of professions, founded upon authority and practiced by precedent, shows signs of 3volution. Chemistry, geology; arch pology, ethnology, have all been shower Lng upon the world the riches bf their wealth. The travelers have searched 3very available nook and corner of this planet for new objects of interest. As bronomers have diligently swept the leavens in search of new worlds. Yet, hn the face of all the positive advance nent, we are asked by Tennyson to stop md : " Contemplate all this work of Time) The giant laboring in his youth." The results of the last few years have Ihown, is the development of scientific uvention, an activity wholly unparalleled n past ages. Some now and startling ichemo is thrown up at every step we make. A writer says, " Every Inan and voman seemsspecially endowed for some project, and grasping at the future as if -ertain that it held some grand prize ;hat could be secured by individual or ,ombined effort. We now only stand on ;he threshold of mechanical discovery nd in our infancy in the great world,of cientific development. The wonderful -esults of the past are only, stepping itones to the vast future that lies before is. We certainly have been advancing vith rapid strides and with an increased -atio during the latter part of the present sentury. What may be the grand Lchievemnents of scientiflo discovery, vlat wonderful developments of practi al results may not be expected before ts close? We can easily surmise the )ossibility of some new and inexpensive notive power, that will displace all of he present methods. Perhaps it may )e electricity, perhaps a new combina ion of gases, using the atmosphere, or vater, or both combined. It is possible hat we may navigate the air with the, same ease and certainty that we now do he sea, only with an accelerated speed. [ow anxious do we peer into the uture." These prophetic words are luoted from one.who even proposes to wercome friction. We have not yet ieen the great age. It is imbedded in he future. Or it might be better to say hat it is germinating in the present, and vill arise in its splendor to meet the uture.. But in all the grandeur of this >hysicial advancement of the world, let 10 man be forgotten. He should stand >ut, superior to all, the "finest finish" f his age, and " The herald of a higher race." -Indianapolis IHerald. Why N(ovelists Prefer England. The hard experience of American .uthors makes the task of writing books or the enlightenment or pleasure of the eading public on this side of the Ltlantic so uninviting thati the wonder s, not that we do not have a large class >f writers, but that any one thinks it voi-th his while to devote time and at ention to this work. An American lovelist commonly depends for his profit m the sum he receives for the sale of his itory to the publishers of one or another >f the widely circulated monthly period cals. What they pay him is a matter )f trade, and the price given must vary rery greatly, though as an average it nay be said that $1,500 for a story run 1mng through from eight to twelve num aers would be a tolerably high rate of -emuneration. After the work has ap eared in this form, it is the custom to ~epublish it 'in book form, the author re ~eiving a commission on the sales. If rom these he nets $500, he may consider fimself exceptionally fortunate. Assum ng that an author writes two novels in a year, and if the work is faithfully and sarefully performed, this is about all thant he can expect to do, his income will mot be over $4000 per annum, a small return wvhen the talent required for the service is taken into account. Novel writing is, however, a monkey-making 3mnploymnent when compared with the returns received 'for some other forms of iterary work. For exampllle, it was not matil his fourth book had been published bhat Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson received m penny in return for the literary wvork Lie had done, and the sum total he has received durinig his life-time would loubtless represent but a very modest imount. Mr. James Russell Lowell was 30mpelled to publish his first book of oems at his own expense, and at the mnd of a year, in making up the pub ishers' accounts, it was found that only korty-five copies of it had been gold. In this instance it would be unnecessary to) iay whether it was Mr. Lowell or the American public that was at fault. As a 3'ontrast to the foregoing it may be said Jhat according to' common report Mr. William Black has of late years received from ?8,500 to ?4,000 for each novel bhat he has written. From this one rea ion may be drawn why Henry James, Julian Hawthorne, and other American iovelists prefer to make their home in England.-New York Times. You know Seollops, the drug clerk ? Well, sir, the other night he wvent to a ball, whlere his best girl's father also aperd osee that young Scollops didn't waltz with his daumghter, and if that boy didn't put on his Arctic over shoes and lead the gid~ right out be fore the old man's face. Hostess came to him. " Mr. Scollops," she says, " for pity's sake, why are you dancing in yorar overshoes ?' tAnd if Scoltops didn't wink toward ther old man, glow ering in the corner, aid say, " Because a soft dancer turneth away w'mii. Broke up the party; hope to die if it didnt leauing Out the Butle The army sutlet *as the soldier's bet friend an4 worst eneiny. Ile was looked upon as an extorone, and the fate an enemya nd et Ie wate ed #s a friend who stood betwqen the soldier and hunger. There were occasions when regimental wagons could not "get there " but it was only on rare occasions that the sutler's wagons oould not pull through, It is e, he asked a bi price for his cakes, cheese and cann goods, but he had taken big risks in following the regiment. All.things con 'sidered, the suler did not deserve the reproach bestowed upon his calling. He ran risks which only brave men take, and his expenses sometimes devoured his profits, large as they seemed. Very few of them made any great amount of money, and scores of them were finan Wally busted by raids and robberies. From first to -last the sutler was con sidered fair game for any one who could beat him, and when he could not be tricked he could be cleaned out. This latter process was the darkest mystery in army life. No one seemed to plan or to lead, and y t all seemed to under stand. At a en moment from twen ty-five to one undred men would sud denly appear at the sutler's tout, or hut, and go through him like a hurricane. The blow fell so quickly that there was no dodging it, and the guards airivttd too late to make-an arrest or save any thing. At the remount camp at Pleasant Val ley, in 1865, thirty men fell upon the sutler's cabin about five minutes after roll-call. It was a stout log hut, se curely barred and bolted, and contained $700 worth of stores. The clerk, a young man of nineteen, slept within, armed with two revolvers. There was a grand yell, a crash, and all was over. In five minutes from the first alarm a guard was on the spot, but too late. The only articles left in the hut would not have sold for $50. The clerk was outside in his night clothes, robbed of his arms and cash, and cheese, bags of nuts, boxes of candy and cases of tobac co and canned goods had disappeared as if taken up by the wind. A strict search was at once begun, but not so much as a nickel's worth of the stolen property could be discovered. A hundred men were suspected and que3tioned, but nol one could be held responsible. It was like the swoop of a hawk, as full ol deadly vengeanco. In 1862, in Richardson's brigade o infantry, a sutler was cleaned out at ngeF in the midst of 4,000 men with thei eyes open, and a thousand dollars wortl of goods secreted in camp so well tha only a dozen pen-holders could be found by the searchers. T wenty men did th( business in about two minutes, and noi one of them could be identified. The Spider as a Balloonist. in speaking of the intelligence dis, played by birds and beasts, Beth Greer prgued strongly in favor of the reasoning power of insects especially and relate< from his own experience tiie manner it which a spider constructs a balloon. I you anchor a pole in a body of wate leaving the pole above the surface, an< put a spider upon it, he will exhibit mar velous intelligence by his plans to escape At first, he will spin a web several inche long and hang to one end while he allow the other to float off in the wind, in th hope that it will strike some object. O course this plan p roves a failure, but th spider is not discouraged. He wait until the wind changes, and then send another silken bridge floating off in an other direction. Another failure is fol lowed by several other similar attempts until all the points of the compass hav been tried. But neither the resource nor the reasoning power of the spideri exhausted. He climbs to the top of th pole and energetically goes to work t construct a silken balloon. He has n hot air with 'which to inflate it, but h has the power of making it buoyani When he gets his balloon finished he doe not go off upon the mere suppositio that it will carry him, as men often d< but he fastens to it aguy rope, the othe end of which lie attaches to the islan ole upo n which he is a prisoner. H .hen gets into his rial vehicle, while:i is made fast, and test it to see whethe its dimensions are capable of the work< beajring h~im away. He often finds the he has made it too small, in which cas he hauls it down, takes it all apart, an< constructs it on a larger and better plar A sp~ider has been seen to make thre different balloons before he became sai isfied with his experiment. Then b will get in, snap the guy-rope, and sa: away to land as gracefully and as st premely independent of his surrounding as could well be imagined. Mr. Gree stated that he had repeatedly witnesse such actions by spiders, and that he feel convinced that it is reason that enable them to free themselves from their prisor -Rochester' Democrat. The Fireplace in Summer. The aching void of a black and empt fireplace in summer time has proved source of annoyance to many generatior of sensitive housekeepers, and variou ingenious contrivances have been evolve to render its yawning blackness less o1 pressive.. It may be that practical, ur imaginative minds can scarcely apprec: ate the possib1ility of a fire ready laid i a prosaic grate being made to look pi< turesque or artistic. Yet an Engl1is writer enthusiastically describes such cold fire apparently waiting the applica tion of the mnatch. Flightly protrudini between the lower bars was a crumple piece of greenish-tinted paper ; over th lay a small faggot, with its bindin, loosed, of dry twigs ; upon this was jud ciously placed a lot of clean, knobb~ coal, the whlolo surface mounted by magnificent ynle log, carefully seleot for its shape and the pIetaresque di tribution in its upper surface of sorr moss-covered brok on bark. Estheot housekeepers, who are puzzled to kno how to fill up their empty fireplaces the summer time can try the effect this admirable device, worthy, acco dir to this writers's view, of being studic with advantage by a pamnter of stilt lit, " WnAT a pity flowers can utter r sound," says Beecher. You bet it is If the sunflower could speak some of ti fools in this country would hear som thing drop. - Pote the Poet, Nurderee. Dr., J. $. Moran, of 1alls Ohurch, Va., in a leoture upon the death of Poe, said: As the shades of evening descended upon Bhaltim ei had rambled on un he had reached a dangerous portion of the town, where it was e for a man to loiter alone. Here the men who had been following came up with him and he was forced into a low den where he was drugged, robbed, stripped of his apparel and then clothed in the filthy rags of one of the brutes who had s saulted him. From this place he was thrust into the street, and as he staggered along, his brain benumbed by the deadly drug, he fell over an obstacle in his pathway and lay insensible for hours exposed to the cutting October air. A gentleman passing recognised the face of Poe as he lay prone uptxi the street, and calling a hack he directed that he be conveyed to the Washington Hospital, sending his card to Dr. Moran, with the single word " Poe " written in the cor ner. Poe was cared for, and received energetic medical treatment to counter act the effect of his depressed condition. During this time Dr. Moran said to him: "How do you feel, Mr. Poe?" "Miserable." "Do you suffer any pain ?" "No. "How long have you been sick ?" "I cannot say." As Poe's last hours approached Dr. Moran said that lie bent over him and asked if he had any word he wished communicated to his friends. Poe raised his fading eyes and answered, "Never more." In a few momenta he turned uneasily and mdaned : "0 God, is there no ransom for the deathless spirit ?" Continuing, he said: "Ho who rode the heavens and upholds the universe has His decrees written on the frontlet of every human being." Thon followed murmuring, growing fainter and fainter, then a tremor of the limbs, a faint sigh, and the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe had passed the boundary line that divides time from eternity.- Wa8hington Po8t. The Chameleon. The chameleon has been an object of curiosity the world over on account of its power to change its color, but its power to change its form is not less re markable. Sometimes it assumes the form of a disconsolate mouse sitting mum m a corner; again, with back curved and tail erect, it resembles a crouching li, n, which no doubt gave origin to its name chamal-leon, or ound lion. By inflating its sides it ttens its belly, and, viewed from below, takes the form of an ovate leaf. The tail is the petiole, while the white, serrated line, which runs from nose to tip of tail over the belly, becomes the midri4 Still again throwing out the air, it draws in its sides, and at the same time ex pands itself upward and downward till it becomes as thin as a knife, and then, viewed from the side, it has the form of an ovate leaf without a midrib, but with the serrated line of the belly and the serrated back becoming the serrated edges of a leaf. When thus expanded it also has the extraordinary power to Isway itself over so as to present an edge to an observer, thus greatly adding to its means of concealment. I have studied the changes of color with much SIinterest. In its normal state of rest it is of a light pea green, at times blend ing with yell ow. The least excitement, as in handling, causes a change. The ground-work remains the same, but transverse stripes appear running across the back and nearly encircling the body ~in a full-grown animal, numbering ab~out ~thirty, and extending from head to tip ' of tail. These stripes occupy about the 8 same amount of space as the ground awork and are most susccptible of change Sof color. At first they become deeply 0 green, and, if the excitement continues, 0 gradually change to black. When &' placed upon a tree the ground-work be e comes a deep green and the stripes a -deeper green or black, and so long as athey remain on the trees the color (does not change. The prevailing idea that " they take on the peculiar hue of the rfoliage among which they happen to he is, I think, erroneous. We ae plae them on the scarlet leaves of the d racm na and among the red flowers of the acacia with no change from the prevail mng green. B Origin of Life Insurance. - The risc of life insurance may be traced to several sources. The doctrine 8 of probabilities developed by rascal and ; inggens, .as to games of chance, was Sapplied to life contingencies by the great putch statesman, Jan DeWitt, in 1671, but it wvas not till some time after a that it was applied to life insurance. In S1698 there was a hint at modern life in surance in a London organization, and athis was followed by another association two years after. The operations of these two seem to have passed away withoul giving to their successors any clear na tuire of their plan of operations. A third, the Amicable Society for a Perpetual As surance Office, was founded at London in 1706. It was mutual; that is, each a~ member, without reference to age, paid a fixed admission fee, and a fixed annual payment per share on from one to three shares; at the end of the year a p~ortion of the fimd was divided among the heirs 'of the deceased memb~ers in p~roportion to the shares held by each. T1here grew up wit this the election of members, hin after years, then the limitations as to a age, occupation, health, and other sug agestion which were finally developed by 'other ('rganizations upon scientific prin Sciples. _______ s On the Blue Danube. g A correspondent, describing a trip i- down the Danube, in Austria, says : y " The floating grain mills on the Dan a ube are its most curious feature. Fancy d two canal boats moored parallel to each~ rother in mid-river, about flfteen or twen e ty feet apart, and supporting between Lc them the crank of a gigantic mill w wheel, turned by the current of the ii stream. Fancy, moreover, the sides of >one of these boats carried up one story g higher than the other, then roofed over *d a la Noah's ark, with windows and doors 3. as needed, and you will have a fair idea of these Danube grain mills, some four Lo or five thousand of which, in groups of I ten or twelv, together, are scattered oalong this watery iha l h way >- from Vienna to Belgrave. Each ill iu A horrible Record of Crime. The New York Society for the Proven& tioh of Cruelty to Children, in its last annual report, gives some harrowing do& tails of the condition in which many children were found during the year. The following are a few specimens taken from the report I A little girl but four years old was rescued from a saloon-keeper who was selling to her a bottle of rum, and the precocious little toper was placed in a home for children. Thomas Smith father of a little boy fifteen years old, was arrested by the Society, fined and imprisoned for com pelling his son to be a contestant in a walking-match at the American Insti tute Building, where one hundred miles were made in twenty-four hours, and where the little fellow fainted long be fore the task could be completed. At No. 835 Eleventh avenue, officers of the Society found Michael and Alice McKendra both drunk and surrounded by three ciildren. The rooms they oc cupied were reeking with dirt,. vermin and horrible stenches. The only article of furniture was a mattress spread upon the floor. The children, aged six years, two and a half years and six months, were gallowing in vomits and excre ments, and were all starving. The little child of two and a half years was totally blind. The baby shortly died, the other two were cared for in public institutions, and the unnatural parents were sent six months to the Penitentiary. The Society rescued a littlegirl only eight years old, whom a man named Geo. Walker was in the act of abducting. The girl was restored to her parents, and the kidnapper punished. Four children, Mamie, John, William and James, aged respectively thirteen, ten, seven and six years, were rescued from their parents, Thomas and Cathe rine Wilson, who occupied a hut in a New York locality known as " Hell's Kitchen," and who have since been sent to the Penltentiary for highway robbery. The interior of the hut was a counter part of old Fagin's quarters, and the children were being subjected to the same training that young Oliver re ceived. They were sent to the New York Catholic Protectory. John, Rosa and Peter, all uxider seven years of age, were taken from their parents, Patrick and Maria Boylan, at 353 West Fiftieth street, and were com fortably housed in an Asylum. They were all naked and were found crouch ing in a corner to escape the blows of their father and mother, both of whom were in a beastly state of intoxication. Patrick and Maria were committed. Nu merous other cases are detailed in the report. One where a little girl only nine nine years of age was rescued from a man who had attempted to outrage her; another in which a little girl was delivered from a father attempting an unnatural crime, and still another in which was saved a little motherless boy named Husley, compelled by his father to sleep through December in an open cellar on Twentieth street, where his ears and hands were frozen, and where he wvas frequently bitten by the rats. It is of little consequence in whose name t~he Society does this humane work. It is of little consequence what the motive that prompts it. So long as the hungry are fed, the naked clothed, and those who perpetrate the inhuman ity are punished, so long ought the Hu mane Society to be encouraged and sus tained. ____.___ -ilTHE story of John .1)uncan, of Alfort England, the "wveaver-botanist," has been received with the warmest sym pathy by scientists and scientific socie ties the world over. Although only poor weaver, toiling at the loom for hii dlaily bread, he has by a lifetime of in dustry and earnecst devotion to scienc< added very materially to the botanica knowledge of his country; and quite re cently presented his large and very val unable herbarium to the university o Aberdeen. His scientific labor, how ever brought him no pecuniarv reward and extreme old age found him depend ent for his daily necessities upon par ochial relief. Recently the worthy ol< botanist's needs have attracted much ai tention, and a fund now raising for his rn lief by voluntary subscriptions he reached the respectable proportions < about ?4325. Her majesty, the Queer presented ?10. The money suibscribe is to be placed in the hands of a boar of trustees, who will make ample provii ion for Mr. Duncan during the remaii der of his life, and on his death will di vote any sum remaining to the prom< tion of science. The weaver-botanist now in his eighity-seventh year, and I feeble health. Equal to the Emergency. A young women while going from lie home to a postoffice, was accostedl by on of the la-da-da gentry, wvho asked if h might accompany her dlown town. Sh objected and commanded him to leav her. The rowdy still followed her an she sought retuge in a neighiborin house. In a fe w minutes, thinking the wa clear, she started out for her destinatioE When in the postoffice she recognize her assailant, and he followed her oui When on the sidewalk he stepped to he bidle and inquired: " Are you fror Canadla ?" " No," she replied, "I'm from Ir< land;'' and with this last remark slh dealt him a stunning blow in the fac< felingh him to the sidewalk. " My God," cried a woman who wi nessed the act, "have you killed him ' "I don't know," answered the youn her home she discovered that her han~ and sleeve were covered with blood, ar she then concluded that she left a mai on the impudent fellow's phiz.--Be City (Mich.) Tribune. Da. MoDERMo'rr, of Monticello, Ar! has invented a flying machine. It do not fly y$e, but is expected to. Mr. NI Dermott was led to undertake the io through pride. He says: "It is mor fying that a stupid goose or a bnzza should go at will above the earth, ai man, the greatest of God's creatures, 1 obliged to crawl around like a worm. hope before I die to give a flying chari to every lady in the land.'' EomlBURGK UNIVURarry has 3,287 sti dents, the school of medicine taking tia larger nyonartion--1.828. . M.W '. Aw inventor nee* recently in 6-7, tweny-six TuR anelent ab1orl l w United MAWC -who 7 glazing their potterf. OARsa Was one of the arls that ever lived.. t11 the weight and value a'' he took it in his band. Tiina is a fairy mytho that of Europe among th . of Americaswhch embrodw em Z superstition of the change IN the reign of Titus 8,000 (Se compelled to fight as g W and 000during the reign oft Emperors were noted forth AcconwoG to Spanis historan$ centuries of warfare elapsed and, battles were fought before the kingdoms in Spam submitted to Ohuis tian arms. PRMIP TBOZr , When accused of the assassination of Alexander L of Tuscany killed himself through fear that torture ini ht extort from revelations injurous to is friends. IN THEM general bearin toward se. ci6ty and in the nature and minuteness of their scruples the early Ohriatains bore a greater resemblance to Qiakers than to any other existing sect. TEmRE was a question among the early Christians as to the proprety of wearing, in military festivls laurel wreaths, because laurel was called after D hne, the lover of Apollo, the heathen IN 1596, David Black, a Protestant minister in Scotland, delivered a sermon in which he said that, as to the Queen of Scotland, they might as well pray for her because it was the fashion to do so, but no good would ever come of it. As a consequence he was thrown into prison. J PERU, as soon as a death occurs, ashes are strewn on the floor of the roomi and the door fastened. Most morning the ashes are carefully examined for foot prints and the soul of the deadis said to have passed into the body of whatever animal the imagination traces in the ashes. ONE method used by .the Anglo. Saxons for ascertaining the intentions of fate was to take slips of wood from some fruit-bearing tree, mark them, and after a solemn prayer, shake them together and throw them into a white garment spread for the purpose. The number of marks lying uppermost decided the greater or less degree of fortune to oom. IN 1886 Nicholas Lillington, Abbot of Westminster, then nearly seventy years old, prepared himself with two 'of his monks to go armed to the sea coast, to assist in repelling a threatened invasion of the French. One of his mnks is de scribed as so large that when his armor .was afterward offered for sale no one could be found of suffioient se to wear it. __________ Perils of Ridicule. I know of no principle wich It is of more importance to fix in the minds of young people than that of the most de termined resistance to the encroachment of ridicule. Give up to the world, said to the ridicule with wich the world en forces its dominion, every trifling qsues-. tion of manner and appearanee; it is tg toss courage and firmness to the winds, to combat with the mass upon such sub-. jects as these. But learn from the ear liest days to insure your principles , against the perils of ridicule ; you can no- more exercise your reason, if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life, if you are in the constant dread of death. If you - think it right to differ fronm the times,. and to make a stand for any valuable point of morals, do it, however rustic, iowever antique, however pedantic It may appear, do it, not for insolence, but seriously and grandly-as a man who Ewore a soul of his own in his bosom, and -(did not wait until it was breathed into him by the breath of fashion. -Let men call you mean, you know you - are just ; hypocritical, if you are hon 1 ostly religious ; pusilla.nimous, if you feel that you are firm ; resistance soon iconverts unprincipled wit into sincere E respect ; and no aftertime can tear from >f you these feelings which every man car i, ries with him who has made a noble and d successful exe~rtion in a virtuous cause. dI -S idney Smith4. -A Bolt From a Clear Sky. 3-The Hlawaiiarn earthquake of 1887 i described for the first time by an eye - a witness, in Missionary Coan's new book. B On the 7th of November, 1887, at the evening prayers, we were startleda by a heavy thud and a sudden jar of the earth. The sound was like the fall of r some vast body upon the beach, and in a e few seconds the noise of mingled voices o rising for a mile along the shore thrilled o us like the wail of doom. Instantly this B was followed by a like wail from all the I native hotys around us. I immediately g ran down to the sea, where a scene of y' wild ruin was spread out before me; the .sea, moved by an unseen hand, had, all I on a sudden, risen in a gigantic wave -and this wave, rushing in with the sA r of a racehorse, had fallen upon the r1 shore, sweelsbg everything not more than fifteen or twenty feet above high -water into indiscriminate ruin. Houses, 0 furniture, fuel, timber, canoes, food, 5, clothing, everything floated wildly upon the flood. About two hundred peple, -from the old man and woman of three "score years and ten to the new-born in g fant, stripped of their earthly all, were trgglin in the tumultuous waves. So sudden and unexpected was the d catastrophe that the people along the. k shore were literally "eating and drink '3 ing,"' and they "knew not until the flobd came and swept them all away." The harbor was full of strugglers calling for Shelp, while frantic parents and children, swives and husbands ran to and fro along the beach seeking for their lost ones. As rk wave after wave cam~e in and retkree the j rdstrugglers were brought near the shore rd where the more vigorous landed 'witl ddesperate efforts and the weaker and ox