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The temperance hospital just established in Chicago under the lead of 3Iiss Frances Willard is the second of its kind in the world, the first one having been fouuded in London in 1873. Alcohol can only be administered in cases where a council of physicians decides that nothing else can avail. At a recent Mexican bull fight just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, j Texas, ouc of the bulls broke through the enclosure and began climbing up the benches. "Women screamed and fainted, men scrambled to get out of the way. and a general fusillade began, every man near enough popping away at the bull, who succumbed with thirty bullets in his bocv. Dr. Carver, the crack shot, says that an orange hit in the exact centre by a rifle ball will vanish at once from sight. ''Such is the fact,*' he writes, "and thut is my way of makiug an orange disappear.*' Another way that takes less practice is to buy, beg or convey an orange, peel it carefully, separate the . compartments and put them into the mouth one at a time, holding a napkin under the chin. A number of Indians recently attended j a church service in Manitoba. During | the service one of them concluded to j have a smoke, and began tilling his pipe. Then he tried to light it but his matches were poor and wouldn't burn. The minister seeing the state of affairs, came down from the pulpit and struck a parlor match. The Indians who had never before seen a parlor match were greatly terrified, and thought they were about to be massacred,but matters were finally explained to them, and after the pipj was lit, the service proceeded. California carries on a large business in sea shells, which are gathered on its coast and shipped to Europe. One firm has a contract to ship forty tons of shells rvnrv aiirtw ftnvc TViof nrf> wnrth frnm ! $700 to $1,000 per ton. They arc used i in all kinds of decorative industries, re- ! turning to the United States from France j vastly increased in- price, when trans- | formed into pearl buttons, brooches, i shawl cla?ps, knife handles, or inlaid ; work. Tahita shells, large flat mother- J of-p?arl shells, arc worth from $1,50 to ' $-1 each, and the finest selected pairs arc j sometimes sold for as much as $50. One of the forest curiosities of the Isthmus of Darien and lower Central ] America is the tree killer (matapalo). This starts in life as a climber upon the trunks of large forest trees, and, owing to its marvclouslv rapid growth, soon reaches the lower branches. It then begins to throw out many shoots, which entwine themselves all around the trunk and branches, and also aerial tendrils, as soon as they reach the ground rn-it Tn ft fp\v vorirs this firmntir BmEgw^^^Kite w',11 completely envelop the trunk tree which has upheld it, and kill 3wlB6angag^Etti whole of the inner der\d_Jrc? . ^'leaTTTig'tne^nollow ^3^^Kw|^|^^Handing alone and flourishBkW^P""m""K have recently been made Younger, of San Francisco, on the ^^p^nfoject of the transplantation of teeth, with a view to their growth in the newposition. It would appear that, if proper precautions be taken to secure perfect apposition and cleanliness, the operation is often attended with success, and possesses many advantages over the use of false teeth. The inflammation of the J gums, however, is somewhat persistent, and constitutes a drawback, from the inconvenience which results therefrom. Recourse to this method is more particularly indicated when the teeth to be replaced are front teeth, and essential both for appearances' sake, and for perfect articulation. In the opinion of M. Cambier, Chief j Roadmaster of the French Government! railways, the best plan yet discovered , for consolidating, by the interlacing of j its roots, the loose soil of a newly made embankment is the double poppy. Ten ! years' trial has enabled M. Cambier, as j he says, to guarantee that the poppy will j be found far more efficient for this pur- j pose than any of the grasses or clovers usually employed; and while these re- j ouire several months for the devclon- ! I ment of their comparatively feeble roots, j the double poppy germinates in a few days, and in two weeks grows enough to give some protection to the slope, while at the end of three or four months the roots, which are ten or twelve inches long, are found to have interlaced so as ! to retain the earth far more firmly than those of any grass or grain. Although i the plant is an annual, it sows itself after the first year, and with a little care the bank is always in good condition. The subject and facts of longevity ' have been made almost a life's study by j Professor Humphrey, of London. His j investigations show that in the first year of life the mortality among males is much i greater than among females?the latter, j therefore, have the start of the former at i the very beginning, in inherent vitality, j The average height of women he has found to be five feet three inches and of j men five feet six inches; in pulse and i respiration, also, the women have the ad- j vantage, showing eighty-nine in comparison with the men's seventy-three, while the lattcr's respiration is nineteen as against twenty-two of the weaker sex. The bones of men and women which, up to maturity, increased in weight, after that period lost considerably, though with no decrease in size, but more often an increase, to which latter fact may be attributed the bony appearance pre-ented by many old people. The average number of teeth in men an T women above eighty years of age was six and three respectfully. The greater proportion ?>r these old-lived people, Professor Humphrey found, came of long-lived families. HALF OF MY LIFE. "Half of my life is gone, and I have let The years slip from me, and have not fulfilled The aspiration of my youth to build Somo tower of song with lofty parapet Not indolence, or pleasure, nor the fret Of restless passions that would not be stilled; But sorrow and a care that almost killed, TsTent nip from what. T mar aronmnlieh vet. Though half-way up the hill, I see the Past Lying benenth me with its sounds and sights; A city in the twilight dim and vast, With smoking roofs, soft bolls, and gleaming lights, And hear above me, on the autumnal blast The cataract of Death far thundering from the heights.'' ?Longfellow, from his Biography. A WIFE'S GRIEVANCE. "Maybe I'd go to Boston with you, "Warren, if urged," said young Mrs. Gcrrish, archly, standing on "tiptoe to smooth down her husband's'nodding scalp lock. "It's too late to think of it?too late altogether," cried Mr. Gcrrish, in haste, rushing to his desk and scattering the papers like a Dakota blizzard. "Where's iny bunk-book? Seen it, Mabel?'' "There, "Warren; I forgot to tell you. I thought it would be safer behind the clock. ' "Safer behind the fiddlesticks," cogitated the annoyed husband, as he tipped over th) timepiece in laying hold of the missing property; but being a gentleman, he merely remarked impressively t'-at ten to one he should lose the train. "It's only eight, "Warren. You've half an hour." "But I've?I've something to attend to before going to the station," he stammered, obviously embarrassed. "Oh!" Mrs. Gerrish dropped her questioning brown eyes, flusliiug hotly. Why did her husband reject her proffered company? And what was this mysterious errand that he would not tell of? "Good-bv, wifekin. Take care of yourself till I see you," he added, in a iricndlier tone, as he jumped into his carriage. "Well, I must say!" ejaculated the little lady, frowning after the retreating vehicle. But she did not say it. Instead, she set the clock on its legs again, and fell to musing. She was sorry she bad vexed Warren by meddling with his bank book, but he need not have been so cross. What did he want of the book, anyway? Had he not only yesterday told her that he didn't owe a cent in the world? And why? this was a vital query?why had he gone off without her, too preoccupied to snatch a good-by kiss? Last week he had left her behind in the same way. She would not have minded the neglect so much if it had not afterward come to her ears that he had gone straight from her to Miss Ebbitt, and escorted that young lady to the city. He never had hinted a word about it. Mrs. Gerrish secretly hoped the rumor wasn't true, but it was shocking to have the neighbors talking. And now to think that, after humbling herself to ask her husband to take her, she 6hould have met with a flat refusal! The stroke of nine surprised her just this side of tears. Was it possible she had idled away a whole hour in arranging the writing desk, and bridgct gone for the week? Hurrying into the kitchen to wash the breakfast dishes, her eyes rested on a quaint-looking man in the doorway. unghTsThnt for coolnes7rather than courtesy. "Good-morning, Uncle Jabez," responded she, kindly. "Have you come to split me some kindlings?'' "Sartain, ma'am. I suspicioned you must be about out," said the village factotum, wiping his bald knob of a crown, which rose above its cncireling fringe like the seed-vessel of a poppy above its corolla. "I knew your husband wasn't here to j do for you," he continued, putting his j hat on again with a screwing motion, as | if it were the cover of a fruit jar. "I'd j been clearing out the Widdcr Ebbitt's ninPQ nnrl T tvoc orowljno- i t -i'?') ? v""" w"o "vt rug, when Mr: Gerrish drove up for 1 Jinny. He didn't have to wait. On the 1 flat of her foot Jinny is, for all her fuss j and feathers." "Did they catch the train?" faltered the young wife, her face averted. 1 "Yes, ma'am, they cate.hed it. I asked Hiram Blodgett when he fetched your ! J horse back to the store," answered Uncle I Jabcz, his confiding blue eyes fixed on the sky. "I'm jealous of a shower, ma'am. Remember that pealcrwc had the last time your husband took Jinny to Boston?" 1 "La^t Thursday, do you mean?" queried Mrs. Gerrish, anxiously. That 1 miserable rumor might be true. She j was ready to believe anything. "It strikes me 'twas Thursday. Yes, j ma'am, 'twas a week ago to-day, fori was 1 in the Widder Ebbitt's stable mendin1 11 her crib when your husband drove in with |; Jinny. The water was a-streakin' it off o' the kerridge, but he'd wropped Jinny 1 complete, so't she skipped out dry as a ;1 gnisshopper. She tola him she was no j1 end grateful for his care, and faith she'd j! orter been; for if he hadn't held her J1 shawl round her so, her silk gownd would j! 'a been spotted hitherty yonder." "What did he say to that, uncle?" "Oh, he was even with her, ma'am, i' <T1 it - * * "* im me one ooicegea, 3lics .Jinny,' says ' he. 'You know you're everything to J ( me.' I lost the rest, he spoke so low." I( "Yes, certainly," murmured the dazed . ] little wife, absently shutting Uncle Jabez (] into the shed. Miss Ebbitt everything to "Warren by ;1 Warren's own confession! Could she '< trust her own ears? Eccentric and scatter-brained Uncle Jabez might be. but deaf or prone to mischief he was not. I! CV./> /./%.,!A t ^ J i-i v I uuv wuiu uui iui a muuieiil uouut iris word. That her husband should be ,( seeking clandestine interviews with any ! lady was enough; that the lady thus I sought should be Miss Ebbitt was beyond endurance! In her fierce perturbation j< Mrs. Gerrish hardly heard the crash of j the sugar-bowl that slipped from her i hand. Who would heed breaking china when the very sky was falling? To be i1 frank, from the time she came to Oak-1J land a bride, Mrs. Gerrish had suffered i intermittent, spasms of jealousy on ac- j count of th'.3 same Miss Ebbitt. She 1 had never been able to forget a jesting i ] remark made by one of her best callers, j "Among our village celebrities we : i reckon Miss Ebbitt, our talented organ- J i ist," the guest had said. "Really, Mrs. | Gerrish, I must hasten to introduce you \ to your husoand's old flame." "Old flame!" the coarse words'! rankled. One moment the young wife '1 would resolve to repeat them to her hus- 1 band, the next she would shrink from j alluding to them, feeling that if he had once loved Miss Ebbitt, she would rather 3 not be assured of the fact. She recalled \ the nervous headache produced by that ] unpleasant visit. How devoted "Warren had been, so grieved by her suffering, ] that for shame's sake she could not have ; hinted at its cause. Dear old fellow, of course he had loved her theh, and ol course he loved her now. Uncle Jabez's distracting gossip could be easily explained. To think otherwise was absurd. "Jehu! I was satisfied I heerd something smash," cried that simple individual, pushing the door ajar with his moccasincd toe, and shuffling in, his arms full of wood. "There, there, ma'am, 1 wouldn't take on so about the chancy. Your husband won't feel getting you t new sugar dish, beiu' he's in the crockcrj line." " It breaks the set, you see," equivocated the proud little matron, humoring his conceit. Better pass for a ninny than a jealous wife. "Wcall have our pesters," philosophized Uncle Jabez, placing the sticks in the wood-box with fond deliberation. "Now you know how 'twas at my lionsc last spring. My wife was sick, and 1 had a narrer squeak to get along; but now my wife's dead, and I'm out of debt, and I thank the Lord! Hullo! here's Lunt's team." The entering grocer nodded affably to Mrs. Gerrish as he dropped his parcels upon the tuble. ""Warm morning, ma'am. Shower brewing. Mr. Gerrish to be gone long?" "Only till noon. He has run up to Boston." "Oh, I supposed he was going further. Noticed he carried a valise, and got checks for New York." "Guess he was seein' to Jinny Ebbitt's traps," volunteered Uncle Jabez, following the grocer out to beg a ride. "She's started for New York. They're tinkerin' the meetin'-house.and she's free xo run on. "And to stay off, for all of mo," muttered the little matron, sweeping up the scattered sawdust with a spiteful flirt of her broom. "Why didn't Warren tell me she was going? He's amnzingly coy about speaking of his old love." Old love in more senses than one. Miss Ebbitt was thirty at least, for all she would persist in dressing as youthfully as herself?nineteen this very day! What ravishing bonnets the coquette did wear, and v nat airs she did put on in the choir, where she always sat next to Mr. Gerrish! Often whispering to him too. Was it necessary for organist and chorister everlastingly to confer with each other? In that case, aggrieved Mrs. Gerrish wished that she might be the organist herself. With a little more practice in the use of pedal', she was sure she could play as well Miss Ebbitt. At all events, she could have played as well before she left her father's home and the dear piano. Warren had praised her execution in those days. He ne:dn't trouble himself to praise it again, if Jenny Ebbitt was "everything to him." What else had he to say to Miss Jenny that day? Had shebeen in E:ncle Jabez's place, Mrs. Gerrish felt sure she should have heard every word, had her husband ti'V?ier?oro/l nnrnr cn enfflr Wfifl V?r? of tVlP ..U?p.>,UUV.?. J. present moment holding Miss Jenny's shawl about her in Iho cars, as he bad held it in the carriage' Didn't the woman possess a shawl-pin I Ten o'clock, and the dishes unwashed! The belated little housekeeper bared her dimpled arms and mndc a feint of haste; but the stroke of eleven found her hands still in soapsuds, and her thoughts in Boston. "Warren called Miss Ebbitt a superior woman. Pity he hadn't married her! Twelve o'clock! Well, by this time he had doubtless seen Miss Jenny off to New York, and he must.be on the train for home. She would' put the pudding -wic, in(mSuaTUtfuFofflining^tlie pudding was dough, and the Jamb not nan roastea. wnat auea tne ovent ror once in his life her husband would have to wait for his dinner. Mrs. Gerrish said to. herself that she didn't cnre. lie had been partaking of an intellectual feast with Miss Jenny; he must make that do. But when at two o'clock the dinner was smoking in the warming oven, she chafed at his non-appenrancc. Why shoald he delay on this of all days, while the heavens bewailed a furious tempest? lie knew her dread of lightning. He had never before neglected her so cruelly. What if?absurd fancy?fchat if he had really gone on a journey, as the grocer had supposed! Chiding herself for the thought, she rushed upstairs to prove its fallacy.. Through gathering gloom she glided straight to her husbaud's closet, suggestively open. Where was the valise that had stood in r\nn nnrnnr ? Wlinrn inrlnnrl ? T1?a mono vijv vviiki it awib luutuut i 111; it had filled mocked her with its blankness. A new suit fresh from the tailor's had also vanished?yes, and the bankbook! In pity's name, why had her husband needed that? Had lie gone on to New York with Miss Ebbitt? Transfixed with horror at the suspicion, the miserable young wife glared at the dismantled wardrobe till rou<cd to physical fear by a terrific thunder-bolt. Then, half frenzied, she lighted the lamp, drew the shutters, and Hung herself on the bed. In the grasp of that memorable tempest the cottage trembled like a living thing, and the ground shook as with an earthquake. Older and braver women than Mrs. Gerrish shuddered that day, and she, poor fasting soul, was nil alone, and battling with her first nngui h. Oh, the cruelty of it! Gradually the storm subsided. She grew calmer. Spent with excitement, she may have drowsed. Suddenly she started up in a p inic. The clock was striking five. The September night was shutting down upon her. She coulfl not confront it unattended; but, on the Dther hand, how could she proclaim her desertion to the neighbors? Could she ever tell living mortal of the tress of hair hidden among her husband's old letters?a snaky curl just the shade of Miss Ebbitt's? Shrouded in misery, little Mrs. Gerrish buried herself again imong the pillows. From this premature interment somebody exhumed her five minutes later? somebody with broad shoulders, and beard slightly frosted with gray?her own husband, in fact. "Frightened, Mabel?" cried he, blinking at the lamplight. "Why, my blessed girl, the shower is quite over. See how bright it is?" He threw back the shutlers, and let the sun shine full into her tearful eyes. "What?why?hew did you happen to come back?" gasped she, fluttering from his embrace with the dignity of an insulted sparrow. "Cordial query, little wife! I came foi my dinner, but it seems I was not ex peetea. "Dinner!" Mrs. Gerrish choked with indignation. To be put off like a baby in this manner was too humiliating. Her husband regarded her in surprise. "How ill you look!" he said, tenderly. "Strange thunder showers should prostrate you so. Don't try to come down. I'll forage for myself in the pantry. Must bolt mv dinner in order to be at the store it 2." "At 2? It chances to be past 5 already." "Past o? My dear Mabel, how incoherently you are talkiug! Don't tell m; you've been struck by lightning!" cried lie, in real concern. "Look at my watch. It's just a quarter past one." . 1 i 1r 4 One?two?three ? four ? five?six, disputed the clock below, with lying impuaence. i Mr. Gerrish threw back his head and ! fairly roared with laughter. 44Oh, that's the game, is it? So much for my tipping the thing ovor?taking time by the forelock. as you might say. But, dearie, how strange that you didn't suspect that I the clock was going two hours in one! How absorbed you must have been this morning!" i "More absorbed than you were?" p queried Mrs. Gerrish, viciously. 44Well, no, Pussy,"maybe not," re. sponded her sublimely unconscious hus11 a fwinlrl/* <<Ynn r UBI1U, Willi a IU^uiom vniii??v. ? [ see, this is young Mrs. Gerrish's first birthday,and I've been deeply engrossed in choosing a gift worthy of her." i "Wurren!" "We've been engrossed, I should say. i Jenny Ebbitt's judgment has been every^ thing to me. Wc didn't find everything ; satisfactory Inst week, and had to wait till to-day for the new lot; but Jenny dei clares that we've at last hit upon the sweetest-toned piano in Boston. I'm i dreadfully cut up because you can't have i it on your birthaay; but you can try it to-morrow. Meanwhile, here's the bill i of sale, made out in your name, as you'll perceive. Mrs. Gerrish allow me to present it to you with your husband's love." "Warren, Warren, you're lots too good forme," sobbed his little wife, with selfupbraidings as wild as her grammar. "Nonsence, goosie; no man created could be that," jested he, highly flattered. He thought her simply overwrought by the fierce tempest without. Of the fiercer tempest that had raged within he knew nothing, either then or afterward. Next day, along with the piano, came Mr. Gerrish's valise containing the suit left at the tailor's for alteration. And the nost brought a letter from Miss Eb bitt* The waiter had secured a lucrative position as organist in a New York church; might she resign her former situation in favor of Mrs. Gcrrish? "Howkind of her! It's more than I deserve, Warren," cried the contrite young wife. And it gratified her husband to see that she put the letter carefully away in the very drawer which held her dead sister's curl.?Penn Shirley, in Bazar. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. Hints and Recipes. Wash thp hair in cold sage tea. To remove fnlTstains^soak in sour milk over night. To brighten and clean old alapaca wash in coffee. To brighten carpots sprinkle with i .It before sweeping. "When cooking beans add one-half teaspoon of saleratus^ 1 To polish a stove rub with a newspaper instead of a brush. Mix stove polish with vinegar and a teaspoonful of sugar. , To remove tea stains from cups and saucers scour with ashes. Soft waffles?One quart of milk, four eggs, one-quarte^'of a pound of butter, yeast; to be made as thin as pan cakes. To remove grease from wall paper lay several folds of 'blotting paper on the spot and hold a hot iron near it until the grease is absorbed. 1 Crackers that aU&pt fresh can be made to appear so by prciing them into a hot _ oven for a shftflMBe, "YTntrh tir ~||f.h 'tbiig a I'll JJti \ Ml brotvn and spoil them. A good potato, when cut, will show a light cream color, and a white froth will be the result produced liv rubbing the cut surface together. Reject that variety nrboro rlrnna nf trofnr orvnoor Anntlipr test is to put potatoes into a solution of salts; the gcoi will sink, the poor float. Bishop's bread?^Beat fourteen ounces of sugar with the yolks of six eggs and the whites of three for half an hour. Then add slowly eight ounces of flour, six ounces of blanched almonds cut in thin strips, six ounces of raisins and three ounces of citron cut in fine pieces. Pour in a wcll-gressed pan and bake slowly. * ? To bleach a sponge, soak it well in dilute muriatic acid twelve hours. Wash well with water to remove the lime, then immerse it in a solution of hyposulphite of soda, to which dilute muriatic acid has been added a moment before. After 5^ * Klftn/kVi/i/l anAi/tianfltf rnmAVO if it > uitntutu ouuititui/ij itaiv/ii/ icj wash it again juuL,4*y -it. It may thus be bleached ^Imost'snow white. Birds' neit pudding?Peel and core eight tart apples; in each hollow stuff sugar and a little cinnamon; make a batter of a pint of flour, a spoonful of cornstarch, a large teaspoonful of baking powder and a spoonful of melted butter. Mix with milk to the consistency of drop-hake, pour over the applies and bake three-quarters of an hour. Eat with sauce. Petroleum jelly serves to clifan and take away all traces of dirt from the hands after work in the shop or laboratory. For that purpose, yo.i need only rub the hands witn a small amount of the jelly, which, penetrating into the pores of the skin, incorporates itself with the greasy matters which are there. Wash them with warm water and Castile soap, and the hands become cleansed and softened. A palatable supper dish?Line a vegj ctable dish with well-seasoned mashed potatoes; leave a large space in me centre, wet it over with the white of an egg, or with milk sweetened with a very little sugar, and put it in the oven to brown delicately; take about two dozen oysters, and a little milk, with butter, pepper and salt, and let it come to a boil on the top of the stove. Put in with the oysters a few thin slices of cold roast beef; when this is sufficiently heated and the oysters cooked, pour it into the space left in the potato-lined dish. An Armor Plate That No Shot Can Pierce. The latest victory in the long drawn match between the gun and the armor plate has been scored in favor of armor. At Spezzia a German chilled steel armor plate, five feet nine inches in thickness, weighing 100 tons, was fixed against the face of the cliff, and battered with chilled shot from the 100-ton gun. A thunderbolt weighing almost exactly a ton was hurled against the face of the plate by the explosion of 7+ cwt. of powder without producing more than a slight indentation and some trifling cracks. Three shots failed to make auy serious impression on the plate, which has thus come off victor in the struggle. It would seem that no shot yet invented will go through six feet of chilled steel. ?Pall MaU Gazette. John Wright, n noted tttief-catcher in the mountains of East Tennessee, has killed thirty-three men in the last twenty years. All of them were killed in selfdefense. ?t ' ^ SELECT SITTINGS. f * rvNt*. ! An English experimenter finds that, contrary to general opinion, a growth of ivy over a house renders the interior entirely free from moisture. The Malays, who freqently find ancient stone axes in the soil, call them ' thunderstones," believing that they proceed from thunderbots. Barbers near Mono Lake, California, whose water is heavy with salts of sodium * * --a 1 and oorar, use id as a natural suauijiuuing water, to the satisfaction of their customers. Georgia planters kill a good many crows and the way of doing it is thus described: "Catch one of the birds, tic it to your body, and walk through the field with your gun cocked and finger on the trigger. The cries of the bird will cause others of its tribe to flock around you and they can then be easily shot." The following process of preserving flour is being carried on near Utrecht, Holland: The flour is placed in a large vat or chest and heatea to a certain temperature by the use of steampipes. It is then subjected to hydraulic pressure, which reduces it to brick form. In water-tight packages flour thus prepared is said to keep fresh for years. George E. Pirn, of West Goshen, Penn., has a calf that has no eyes nor ' * * i-M TITl 4.1 tne least sign 01 a tan. rvnere me ejrea should be there are two small round holes or sockets, but no eye-balls. Where the tail is usually appended the skin is as smooth and even as on the sides of the youthful bovine. It is perfectly healthy, and appears to enjoy life as well as any of the rest of the calves, but has to do it in a more quiet way. According to the American Railroader, it costs a little more than twenty cents a mile to run a locomotive, on the average. Nearly eight cents of this is for fuel, seven and one quarter cents for pay of engineer and fireman, one-half cent for oil and waste and more than four and a half cents for fcpair. *A ton of coal will run a locomotive twenty-four miles, a pint of oil will run eleven miles and a pound of waste 123 miles. The locomotives of a railway like the Northwestern run a half-million of miles a month. WISE WORDS. The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation. If any one says ill of you, let your life i ii-.i :it Viim ue SU mat UUUI! Will ucucvc mill. Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. Faith is letting down our nets into untransparent deeps, not knowing what we shall take. Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear them rattle as they walk. For want of self-examination many are like travelers skilled in other countries but ignorant of their own. Pain itself is not without its alleviations. It may be violent and frequent, but it is seldom l?oth violent and long continued, and its pauses and intermissions become positive pleasures. It has the power of shedding a satisfaction over intervals of ease, which, I believe, few enjoyments exceed. What Hnndred-Eyed Animals See. If the lobster's eye consists of more than a hundred separate eyelets, each ' * ?v -^ L ./ _ J,Witn its own icps, wnat sort 01 u piuturu. ^see ffssfer sec a hundred different images of the same object? As he crawls along the rocky sea-bottom in congenial haunts, where the wily fishermen temp his epicurean appetite with his favorite food, does he see a hundred lobster-pots where there is only one? Does the single whelk-bait within look like a hundred tempting morsels? The same question would apply to the lobster's enemies, great fishes with flat, pavement-like teeth, which easily crush through the armor-plates which form his shell. Supposing the lobster to multiply such enemies visually by the hundred, his life could scarcely be said to be a happy one. The question thus raised is an interesting one, especially as it applies not only to lobsters, but also to all insects. For instance, does the housefly, with its 4,000 eyelets, sec 4,000 house maias ousting tne wiuuuw-puuc wm-u there is really only one? Does the cabbage-butterfly; with its 17,000 eyelets, see every cabbage multiplied 17,000 times? And docs the dragonfly in the same way sec 3(5,000 turquoise-colored companions hawking about by the pond side when there is only one. The problem has been fought over by zoologists w b much vigor until quite recently. T e advocates of the multiple vision theory, astonishing as that theory may seem, have not been wanting; but eventually the advocates of the single vision theory are now in possession of the well-fought field. Whatever be the number of eyelets, or the number of pictures received on the cornea, it is the retina which receives the ultimate impression from external objects. The delicate, subtle and mysterious nerve ends which we call the retina are the ultimate sensory aparatus which determines what shall be seen. The conclusion arrived at is briefly this. Apart from the lenses and cones in front, the lobster's or insect's eye is a hollow sphere pierced by numerous close-set perforations, running down the facets toward the centre of the sphere. Only those rays can reach the retina which run in the axis of the perforation. Other rays than the axial rays are required to ? ? a rvinftir/i of *VlO rofinal j jJIUUUlC rt UULUjJlttVy jUWbUtu ?w Viiv end of each perforation. It follows that the light-impressions caused by the ; axial rays, whose number corresponds j with the separate nerve rods, form a single picture or "mosaic" of points of sight on the retina.?Leisure Hour. The Waste of Life. An English naturalist remarks that it is a sad reflection that while the turbot lays 14,000,000 eggs, not more than one, on an average, ever lives to reach maturity. In tish generally it takes yearly at least a hundred thousand eggs for each individual, to keep up the average of the specie-. In frogs and amphibians a few hundred are amnlv sufficient. Reptiles often lay only a much smaller number. In birds which hatch their own eggs and feed their young, from ten to two eggs per annum are quite sufficient to re plenish the earth. Among mammals, three or four at a birth is a rare number, ! and many of the larger sorts produce one : calf or foal at a time only. In the human race at large, a total of five or six children for each married couple duping a j whole life time makes up sufficiently for infant mortality and all other sources of j loss, though among savages a far higher ' rate is usually necessary. In England ' an average of four and a half children per I family suffices to keep the population I stationary. j Chicago handled 7,000,000 hogs, more j than 2,000,000 cattle, and 132,000,000 ; bushels of grain last year. J SOME LOST GOLD MINES. A LONG AND PERSISTENT SEARCH FOR AURIFEROUS WEALTH. . Great Treasure Known to Exist Which Cannot be Found?How the Search is Prosecuted. A Santa Fe (New Mexico) letter to the New "EJork Sun. says: The many lost criVIrl minog novpp liorl SO much interest for prospectors as now. "Whenever men j fit themselves out for long expeditions in I search of wealth, it is found that the legends and traditions of the business are kept well in mind. The Adams diggings, long celebrated in this region, are now the goal of more than a dozen prospectors, some of whom are thought to be on a hot trail. They are situated somewhere in Arizona, just over the New Mexico line, but where is the mystery. Adams found them twenty years ago, and proved by more than eighteen years of persistent but fruitless search that he was no dreamer. Year after year, as the old man's goings and comings became familiar to the people, the conviction that he was in search of no myth grew upon his acquaintances, and when ho died a little whiie ago others took up the hunt where he left off. Adams was led to the deposit iu 1806 by a party of Indians with whom he was on good terms, and with three or four friends he worked the lead untn rney were driven oil by hostiles. In his eagerness to get to the diggings and in his precipitato flight he took no account of tne country through which he passed, and when he undertook to return to the mines he found himself hopelessly lost. "When he died in I.os Angeles he left several valuable charts of the country that he had traversed in his patient searches, as well as- plans for further campaigns, which he said he was confident would bring him or anybody else upon the lost treasure in time. Another lost mine is that which is said to have been located in the eastern part of this Territory in 1660, but which was abandoned in the course of time, owing to the hostility of Indians. From records of the amount paid in tithes to the Roman Catholic Church, it is estimated that the product of this mine during the few years that it was worked was more than $60,000,000. San Antone set out at the beginning of this century to find the lost treasure, and actually came upon the mine in 1804. Not being prepared to work it, he and his followers got together what gold they could carry and set out for a mission on the coast with the idea of getting assistance. To guide them back to the mine they drove stakes on the plains, but San Antone fell sick at the place where the city of San Anofon/lo nnrl flihfl tlinrP Tfl - tuiiiu Aivsrv oiauuo uuu dians and desperadoes murdered his companions for their gold, and as the stakes which they had set were not-cared for, they soon fell away, and the mine was lost once again. Several prospecting parties have left here in times past in search of the mine, but they have all returned footsore and weary with long journeys over arid plains, and destitute of information of value. In the same way Kit Carson's lost Elaccr, the Dutchman's Gulch, and the ost Cabin have been the objects of years of fruitless search on the part of thousands. Some people believe that the Dutchman's Gulch nas been found, and old Tom Edson is of the number. In 1864 two Germans came into Denver with a large amount of coarse gold, but they would not tell where they got it.. Ex. r?? " i*.1' > 1*02.? again toward the north, and that was the last that was ever heard of them. As almost anything would bait the gold hunter in those days scores of men set out and explored the country near and far to the north, but they came upon no trace of the "Dutchmen." Tom Edson never gave up, however, until he satisfied himself that he had found the gulch. He began his prospecting in the southern part of Wyoming ana went north into V.? UlonU rT<11a until lio fnnnrS trnr-fts of mining operations. Believing that he had come upon the place where the Dutchmen had secured their dust, he went to work and would have made his fortune if he had not been driven out by the Indians. On returning to Denver in 1873 he told of his discovery and was laughed at, but he now asserts as a fact, and challenges contradiction, that the lost Dutchman's Gulch was near where Dcadwood now stands, and that is the {dace out of which so many millions inve since been taken. Although much speculation is still indulged in concerning the general location of Carson's placer aud the Lost Cabin, the great majority of prospectors have settled down to the conviction that they are both in the Big Horn Mountain in Southern-Montana or Northern Wyoming. Not one of the lost mines has ever been so persistently sought for as that of the Lost Cabin, and each year finds new and more numerous parties on the hunt. Poor old Pancake Comstock, the man who gave his name to the great Nevada Silver lode, and who was once a hundred mil lionaire without knowing it, killed himself at Bozemnn at the conclusion of a profitless search for the Lost Cabin. He started out with high hopes of success, but when failure stared him in the face he gave up the hunt and his life together. The evidence in favor of the belief in the Lost Cabin is too strong to admit of a doubt as to its existence. It has been found, lost, found again, and then finally lost, as all agree, and it cannot therefore be a myth. "The discovery was made many years ago by three men who were prospecting in what is row called the Big Horn country. After satisfying themselves of the richness of the raiqes they started back after supplies, were attacked by the Indians, and only one escaped. By the time the survivor reached a settlement he was so exhausted that he fell sick, and on his recovery the prospect of great wealth was more than he could stand, and he went insane. Prospectors tried with the assistance of this unfortunate imbecile to re-locate the -cabin, buf failed, and since then, year after year, men from almost every "Western State and Territory have taken up the search. An army olficer operating in the Bie Horn country a few years ago, came upon the cabin and the gold, but he has never been able to return to the spot, though he has tried repeatedly. As the eountry settles up the faith of the hunters strengthens, and it is probable the mines so long sought will be revealed at no distant day. Anatomical. The members of a class that had been studying the rudiments of physiology were asked to give their imprcsJions on .paper of what they had learned, nr.d oiic of them gravely wrote: "Our collar-bones arc situated under our chins." This idea is certainly capable of very liberal application. All of us have seen beys in positions w'here their knees were directly I under their chins. Another bright pupil j put pen to paper to say: 4'If we did not have any backbones we could not sil down." True enough! Whoever heard of an oyster sitting down??Potion AW get. H I v . * Bn| NEKT-DOOfi STSIG-H 'H O^ecottage porch, win open doc* Shelters a nestling brood and Upon the toy besprinkled floor HBffll A sturdy baby guards the cther^^BH| The maples and the cherry-tree* BBB Shut In the boys And birds togc'HBB A - i hoM I juiu uere uw arawj-acauucu mwAre busy all the summer weath^H|HC The farmer, husband, early, l*te, Tilling, his land, his produce By thrift compels unfriendly Fate^MBS He mokes a homo cf labor tellin^^^U Broad barns swelling stacks Fat, placid sheep, contented catt^BH Prove that his toil is not in rain, I I And mark the progress of the bat^^^B His round-faced wife, with cbubby^^B Goes briskly by in rattling wagoiMS The pewee, frightened at the noise,^BgB Darts from her nest, poor timid (^Hl Whirling about, with ruffled crest, Her mate pursues her, tender, sa'\HBI As wV?n okAuU oov> GRAlnVAd. Who'd dare this happy homo The stubborn farmer would but Tho plucky spirit of his neigbbcrr,^^M That lightsome heart, of suusbine That sings its songs to sweeten lat^^H Yet bound are both in love's own ct^^H Each tethered to a central dnty, |HH To the house-mother, with her pain,^H| And the bird-mother, with her bc^^H ?D. II. R. Goodale, in Youth's Co^^H HUMOR OF THE 1>Am| Always ready to strike?Tn^Mj man. |^H The interests of the butehers at steak. MH If the night air is unwholcso^Hj do owls live so loDg.?National Before marriage a girl speaksHfl lover with her eye3; after marriaHHB her tongue.?Life. Bfl A man must look up and be Bfl particularly when he is trying HB from a jug.? Picayune. hb They have fogs so dense in fHB that the citizens use them to stufl^^fl and mattresses with.?Washingto^^t Somebody has written a book "What Shall my Son be?" Has as a baseball player? If not, still hope. ? Call. Hfl "Love is blind.'' True, true^B young man never discovers the d^H it is too late to escape in n d^H manner.?Philadelphia, Item. Hjj It is boldly asserted that, the Aj^B hen is no taping her duty. Shc^B around doing nothing, and exp^B patent incubators to carry the he^H of the contract.?Philadelphia Ca^B "Now, miss," concluded a p<^B young Pittsburger, "I've given^B bird's-eye view of the wholo s^B Havelnotl" "You have," was^B wildering response; "a goose's."-^B hurg Bulletin. H A man in Lawrence, Kan., has bfl rested for burglary. He attemf^B prove an alibi by 'declaring mat u been.out fishing, but he couldn't pW any fish and was held for trial, .fl a state of things, j A string of fis J lutely necessary toj prove that a nj| been fishing! Tins is dent.?Kansas He called at sir, Until the midni^Bnj^EB^B And if two Was angry at ^lgpgth 'Twas then the uttlo maicl repjjflB "At least you're open to I see you're in t^e eighty H There are sereril species of\vp ?| popularly called iship-worms, whVe ordinarily included under the ni jj teredo. Although they have a wor.gj annearance. they are not worm;.*/ shell-bearing mollusks as much ' ?' "common long-necked clam" of t" lantic coast of the United States. The teredo is not particular as\ i kind of timber into which it bore always goes with the grain, uolg. meets with some obstacle, such as^ or very hard knot. It is not believeju the wood it performs furnishes any n ment to the animal, but that its su ance is derived entirely from the t which is constantly passing throug body. Upon the water fronts of San cisco, I have known (says a writer) of Oregon pine and lir, over a f< diameter, rendered worthless in eig months, and have heard of even a rapid destruction of wharf piles i harbor of the city. In the case came under my notice as above, the of the pile had not lost its original ness when it had to bo removed fro wharf, and a new one put in its pirn One case occurred of the destn of the supports of a small puir of p six weeks. The money loss cntai these little mollusks upon private ] and business corporations cngag commercial marine enterprises, a tbe naval equipment and appurten* is enormous, and has led to a numfl experiments by governments and il ors, for the protection of woodworl in marine structures; but from thcl of experiments, it is believed til constitution of the ship-worm is fl proof. I The palmetto tree of the Sol States is said 'to be never bored ship-worm, and some Australian have similar imbaunity. MM l j The Cleanly Japs. The Japanese are very cleanly habits, and the bath tub is in d^H It is large and high, with a char^J nace in one side which heats tli^H A lid sometimes encloses the HI the top excepting a space ji^H enough for the hc$d of the emerge through. Hi Before visiting Japan myselfl^H read that the natives sometin^^J these tubs with the water bubbl^^H them at boilin'g heat, but this flHH case. They certainly use water^nffl higher temperature than wou^hH sistent with our ideas of cor^^H they do not boil thcmsclvesflljH Companion. Every graceful shaded lin^^BH Strength and beauty does ^^^^M 'Tin the penman's pride toBnfl Each lair curve without <|H| Records or an ueeus ana HM|i Roaster's brag and poet's Rude or artful, still mustflraHR Only writ, bright pen, Oh! what power for goo^^H^Kfl Kept in hands that show^HE^H Surely for such power Swift to act and strong Tempered like Damasou^BH^H Even, true and perfect Th' pen! the unrivaled'HBH Leads the roll with livi^HB^Q And exalts the race ^HDU By tracing deeds of liv^^MBflH Not for foul purpose Stained with sin or eviflHHH ?PenniAn's^^^Bj^B