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A 9,000-pound mus of tin ore was recently exhibited at a smelting -works in New York. It was taken out of a 20foot vein in the now well-known Etta tin mine, in the Black Hills. The speci'' men will be sent to London for the benefit of those British tin-mine owners who have so complacently watched our heretofore unsuccessful search for* the metal. The Knights of Labor propose to establish a community farm in the northwest. There are in the United States many thriving settlements which are conducted on the community plan, but in ?? > almost every instance the members are hound together by religious as well as by property bonds. It remains to be seen whether the Knights, on their 600-acre farm in Minnesota, will be able to work harmoniously together for any considerable time while subordinating individual advantage to the general good. Some idea mav be formed of the mae nitude of the higher institutes of learning in Germany when compared with those of the United States, by reading the official reports of the number of students in any one of them. It is reported that there are now 2865 students in the university of Munich. Of these 1067 are devoting themselves to the studies of medicine, 890 in judiciary tranches, 800 law students, 524 to the study of philosophy, 180 to theology, 102 to national economy, and 152 to pharmacy. M. Charles Girard, chemist, of Paris, recently amused himself by investigation of the ingredients of a beautiful red currant jelly, charmingly put up for export to the United States. There waa not an atom of fruit in the mass, as was demonstrated by the adding to it of methylated alchohol, which would hare turned it green had it contained any fruit acid. It was found to consist of gelatine, sweetened with glycerine residue, colored with pichsine (a poisonous mineral extract) and i&vored with no one knows what. ? _ Referring to the purpose of the Audubon Society to prevent bird-debtruction a correspondent of Forest and Stream says: 4'As the country became cleared of timber and more thickly inhabited, the birds have been destroyed in large numbers and insects have gained the ascendency. There are birds worn by our city belles that alive would accomplish more good work for mankind than the average fashionable belle, although she lived for a century. The eyes and beaks of these dead birds cry out in shame against the cruel fashion that causes their (tlniicrVitor " An English agricultural journal seriously urges that in time of abundant and cheap wheat it should bo purchased in large quantities by the Government, and stored away in public ^granaries, in order to insure the country at least one yeur's supply in any contingency. *'It argues," says the American Cultivator, "that the home food production in Great Britain is now so very deficient that, in case of war, prices would go up at a bound and cause terrible distress among the people before a source of supply could be developed. This measure, involving the purchase of grain for storage, might relieve the market so much as to chango the present agricultural discontent in England, and put an end to the demand for protection; but it really reminds us of the historic, time in Egypt when Joseph laid up grain in the years of plenty to serve for food in the years of famine." The Boston Herald constitutes itself the champion of New York State in the following editorial paragraph: "In seeking to belittle the political importance of the Empire State, the Galveston News observes that 'New York does not occupy milch of the Soil of the United States.' No, but it has one-tenth of the population, one-sixth of the property, one-elventh of the electoral vote; it produces *>ne-fifth of the total value of manufactured products, receives the greater part of the imports of the country, and ships the larger proportion of its exports. Even its farms have a value of one-tenth of the -whole, and nearly ten times as much as those of the great agri>cultural state of Texas. New York is considerable of a state, however you look: at it." The American Exhibition building for 1887 is being very ingeniously contrived v in London. Like Solomon's Temple, the various parts -will arrive ready to be "'V-. fitted into oach other without noise or confusion, and the structure will arise fairy like. Its component parts are made td fit any section, and will be bolted together without the slightest friction. No skilled labor, indeed, it is said, will be required in its erection. The cast iron chair will rest on 700 stout iron A ? posts, sunk in deep beds of concrete, jfe Thh will be firmly secured and bolted, and upon it will rest the wall plates, tjpon these will be lifted the whole oi the main rafters, previously bolted to* gether. The roof is to be of six spans, ' the largest extending to sixty feet. The frr rafters, pillars and girders are all of iron. ' It is*intended to erect a press pavilion, llgffi;; an Atlantic cablo office, an clectric elevated railway and reproductions of the frontages of the more remarkable public buildings and institutions in the United v States. I The number of egg* a hen will lay depends much on the care and food given. If you do not believe it glance over the following, condensed by the Cincinnati Commercial from reliable statistics showing the average number of eggs a hen will lay yearly: Maine, 89 eggs to cach lien; Massachusetts, 80; Connecticut, 85; New Hampshire, 81; Rhode Island, 76; Vermont, 69; Pennsylvania, 62; Indiana, 60; Ohio, 57; Tennessee, 55; Kentucky, 52; Iowa, 51; Illinois, 42; North Carolina, 42; South Carolina, 37; Louisiana, 30. According to a statement of the United States Potters' Association there are aboot 175 kilns in operation, not including those employed in turning out decorated pottery, of which there is a largo number. The number of employes is roughly estimated at about 15,000, and it may fairly be assumed that not less than 30,000 derive their means of subsistence from this source. The total of capital invested in the business is supposed to be not less than $8,000,000, two-thirds of which is absorbed in plant, the wages paid amount to $4,000,000 or $5,000,000 annually, and $8,000,000 worth of goods is made. The chief centres of the trade are Trenton, N. J., and East Liverpool, Ohio, but establishments more or less extensive are to bo found in more than a. dozen other places. A Washington correspondent speaking of the late Mrs. Benjamin F. Brewster, explains how she, a very attractive woman, happened to marry so notoriously plain a man: Both had been married before, she to a Frenchman and he to a Russian lady. When widowed, the only thing left her by her husband was three children, whom Brewster adopted as his own. She was bo entirely without means, though of excellent family, that she obtained a position in the treasury for selfsupport. She was there when the Philadelphia lawyer, having occasion to call at the department, passed her desk and overheard her remark: "That is the ugliest man I have ever seen." Turning to her, and bowing very politely, he said: ! "Thank vou. madam: T (llwavs lilrn hear a lady express herself frankly. This ackward circumstance was soon followed by an introduction and his falling in love with her. In proposing he is reported to have said: "You are charming and I am hideous; but it will not be the first . instance of the meeting of Beauty and the Beast. You may never love me; but, if you will accept me, I shall always try to deserve your love." That is the way to win a woman, and he won her. They are believed to have been entirely harmonious and devoted to one another. The ex-attorney general, albeit singularly fantastic in dress, and often in manners, is extremely polite and kind-hearted, and has a host of friends. The Farmer's Choice. In a speech recently made by "Jim Hill," President of the St. Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Company, at the dedication of the Duluth Board of Trade palace, he said, characteristically: Down in southern Dakota there lives a fine old gentleman and farmer who come me the other day and wanted to know on what terms we would construct a line down into his territory. "That," I answered, "is something out of our beat. There is only one thing that would induce us to build a line down in that direction, and that is a row with our neighbors." Then the Dakota man said his neighbors shipped wheat to Chicago and sold it for 80 cents a bushel, when it was worth 93 cents in Duluth, paying 85 cts. per 100 for hauling 450 miles, when, if they had an outlet to Duluth, they would l fill} 11 CiWT n lino rtrnr Ortrt inilnn nVtrvnf I , W . w. M WW I1M1VO OUUUU (U1U anbody would think of charging them over 20 cents a hundred. I told him I thought he was right and that people who felt as he did about Duluth would get there in some way. He answered: "My people are pious, prayerful and church-going, and mean to gain an entrance through the pearly gates, but if they had to make a choice in that country between Heaven and Duluth there would be a big majority in favor of Duluth." The Brakeman'H Peril. The present method of coupling freight cars is primitive, costly and dangerous to life and limb, and for years the inventive ingenuity of the country has sought to produce a better way that would be accepted by railroad managers. Over 4,000 patents for couplers have been taken out, and yet the "man killer" has not been displaced. Few people have the remotest idea of the number of men who have been crippled or killed coupling cars. I venture to say that the casualties from ; this cause for the lost ten years far exceed j in number the killed and wounded of any battle of the late rebellion. A nun> ber of states have passed laws requiring alt. cars built or owned within their limits to bo fitted with couplers which can be operated without going between the carp, but in none of them is any serious attempt mudc to enforce the law. Every year the Master Car Builders* Association and ths convention of railway superintendents and the master machinists devote considerble time to testing automatic couplers, With but little apparent progress, so far a* their adoption by the roads is concerned. ?Philadelphia New*. '' 'Wv.if1 i'i mnnsninHHRi * ;V> J.-N? ... : v. !-. ' ' d -.*v ' >;, ! _M _ Loaf Aspects. IN SPRING. The maiden leaves through veins of sylvaif blood Are thrilled to 4ove and sweet Arcadian bliss, Whon murmuring 'round litho bough or -wakening bud, They dimplo softly to the south wind's kiss! IN AUTUMN. How silently abovo the dying leaves The treacherous frost a fatal network weaves;, And slowly robbed of Autumn's V?nr?vnnf. breath, The weary foliage lapses into death! j IVm. H. Hayno. i LOVE AND HAIR DTE. Keturah was leaning over the pair of bare which divided the back garden from the meadow which wound past the maI pie swamp, up to the lonely sheep pasture. Apparently, she was watching a motherly hen-turkey conduct her downy brood through the high timothy-grass; but in reality she was wrestling with fate. "It's perfectly ridiculous!" said Keturah. "There never was in all this world a girl with half as ugly hair as mine. If it hadn't been for that hair, I might have had the chance of being married half a dozen times, instead of drudging on here, with my father scolding because I don't accomplish more housework, aud my stepmother deluging me with good advice. Oh, dear, oh, dear! I would pluck it out by the roots, if it would do any good!" And she seized the luckless red-gold tresses, a handful in each grasp, as if she fain would have twiclied them out of her head. "But what a very silly thing that would be!" said Barbara Decifcr, who sat on a stump of a tree, hulling the rich garden strawberries, which she had just gathered from the 6unny beds under the stone wall. "Why on earth don't you dye it?" "Why don't I?ichatV' said Keturah, turning around in sheer amazement. "Dye it!" repeated Barbara, popping a particularly bright ripe sphere of scarlet into her mouth. "It's what Mrs. Poller's city boarder did when I was help there last summer. She was as gray as a badger, Miss Perkins was; and yet her hair shone like a crow's tail-feathers. I seen her puttin' on the dye once, through the crack of the door, when I was a-scrubbin' the hall oil-clotlis, and it was as ensy as you please. Of course black dye won't suit you, but there's plenty of colors would." Kcturali's eyes glistened. "Oh, Barbara I" said she, "do you think T Oil i. CUU1U t "Think? I don't think nothin' about it," said Barbara, flinging a mildewed berry at a squirrel on the fencc. "I'm *wre of it. You can get the stuff at Mill & Tweezer's. I've seen it many a time in their glass show-cases, and?" Just at this moment, however, Mrs. IJitchings, Koturah's stepmother, wns heard shrilly inquiring from the back door, "whether she was to be kep' waiting all day long, with the preservingkettle over the tire, for them strawberries?" Barbara jumped up and fled. Keturah stood still, meditating over the disclosure that she had just heard. She went down the path to a certain crystal-clear spring, into,whose depths fill i* linrl nffon i/\ ^ ? x? ?? un.vu gawu iu iuujv iur iuc traditional rings displayed by the fairies to those who are about to find their true lovers. It was her favorite mirrior, and just at this period of the sunny, summer day it was clearer than any sheet of looking glass. "Horrid!" said Keturah, grimacing at the copper-red burnish of her hair reflected below. But just then some languid movement of the deep, still waters focused the sun's rays in a sort of circle; for a second it seemed as if a ring of gold shone far down, and then disappeared. Keturah's eyes sparkled, and her heajt beat rapidly. "The fairies' wedding-ring,", she gasped. "I saw it with my own eyes. Bllt- nf milT-SP TinfVlinf* Ttrill unni 7 W| IIAUVTW1 V>VIUU Ui it as long as my hair is such a hideous ? hideous color. I will get it dyed I" And, in her mental consciousness, she remembered that Harry Boycc, whef went to college with her brother Simeon, would be there that very week, and that Harry had once said, "What a pretty girl that little Kitty was." "But, of course, he couldn't have noticed my hair," thought Keturah, mournfully. ' 'It doesn't show so awfully bad ?*hen I sit in a corner where it's pretty dark. T the sunshine that brings it out such an Intense carrot co'or. I will j dyo it!" So that very evening, in tha friendly indistinctness of the purple twilight, Keturah crept down to Mill & Tweezer's, and waited patiently for an old fanner to buy an ounce of Paris green for potatobugs, and his daughter to select a bottlo j of cheap perfumery, for two tall lads to ' get a physician's prescription made up, | and a plump-cheeked child to purchase a cent's worth of peppermint drops, before she came up to the counter. "Well, miss," said the sleepy old druggist, who moved about like a patent perambulating toy which had got out of a'. fSWWBPJ ^ ** T > '/ / c?fv v'*, *'v" / *'c * * , ' r " .*' ' * order, and winked drearily behind his tpectacle-glasses, "what can I do for ? you?" Keturah'8 heart seemed to leap up into her mouth, every drop of blood rushed to her face, while in a guilty whisper she murmured: "Ilair-dyo, sir, please. . "Dye?" repeated the purblind ana*partially deaf old man. "What kind of dye?" "I?I don't quite know, sir I The usual kind, I suppose. Anything but black," she added, remembering Barbara's remark. And with a "Yes, yes," and a patronizing smile, old Mr. Mill put her up a bot tie of the brightest aniline-red that he possessed. "Gills is always partial to bright colors," he said to himself. And Keturah ran all the way home, as if the whip-poor-wills and rabbits would know that she had a bottle of hair-dye wrapped up in her pocket-handkerchief. Once safe in her own littlegarret-voom, she rubbed the mixture well into the roots of her hair, brushing it out to the very ends, according to Barbara's description of the "city boarder's" manipulations. She had scarcely finished, when she heard her stepmother's voice calling: 4 'Ivcturah! Ke-tu-ra-a/t!" "Ma'am?" she chirped feebly back. "Come down stairs quick!" said Mrs. Ilitchings, in a sort of stage shout up the back stairs. "Here's your brother, Sim, and Harry Boyce, come by the night stage, and supper to get for 'em, and nobody knows what all! Do make haste!" And momentarily forgetful of the chief sorrow of her life, Kcturah ran blithely down stairs to be kissed by Sim unci chivalrously greeted by Mr. Boyce. Both student-lamps were lighted, and Mrs. Hitchings had even gone *o the extravagance of a pair of mould candles on the muntlepiece, and as Kcturah turned to help set the table there was a unanimous shout of laughter. "Why, Kit, how do you come to be topped off with cardinal-red?" jceringly demanded Simeon. "What in all creation ails your hair?" said her father. And Kcturah, catching a glimpse of herself in a cherry-framed looking-glass which hung opposite, uttered a shriek of dismay, and took to precipitous flight. Her head no longer bore the old hue of coppery-red, but now display the vivid cardinal hue of Farmer Rumford's new barn-door. And as she hastened to hide herself, she heard the laughter-choked voice of Simeon exclaiming, incoherently: "Well, I always knew that red hair was fashionable, but I didn't know that the girls were so wild after it as to dye their bangs the regular blazing vermilion." Mrs. Hutchings herself got the supper that night. It was Barbara's evening out, and poor Keturah was nowhere to be found. And it was nearly ten o'clock when the weeping girl, coming up the long pear-tree walk, met Mr. Boyce face to face. "Don't run away, Keturah," said he, kindly. "Don't make an enemy of one who would fain be a friend. I have so much to say to you, Keturah." I've washed it and washed it, and it won't come out!" sobbed poor Keturah. "Washed what!" questioned Mr. Boyce. "My hair?my horrid, hideous, hateful hair!" u.:? n --;.T xivii/i . uiuiu jruui imu, siwu mr, Boyce, gently drawing her arm +hrcyigh his. "But?but it was such a dreadful color, and I dyed it; and tliey gave me the wrong color. And, oh, I'm almost sure t never will come natural again!" "Oh, yes, it v*ll!" said Harry Boyce, coaxingly?"the prettiest gold-auburn shade in the world." "Oh, Mr. Boyce, do you really think so?" "Upon my soul and honor I do I But don't vou want to hour mv nnws?" "Of course I do," whispered Keturah. "Well, then, Kitty?iny Kitty?hero it is: I have received my first call to the pastorate of a church in Livingbrook, Massachusetts, with the prettiest little rectory in the world, of vellow-stonc, all covered with climbing vines. And all I need now is a wife to keep house for me, and ask the deacons and deaconesses to tea. Will you be that wife, Keturah?" "Oh, Harry," she gasped/ "do you think that a woman who dyes her hair is worthy to be a minister's wife?" "If we none of us had any earthly imperfections," said the young ministerelect, smiling, "we should bo angels; and although you're the nearest I ever saw to one, Kitty"?with a kiss?"I don't want you to float away and lcavo me just yet. So I'm rather jsrlad you haven't arrived at that wing-and-silvertrnmpet stage." And Keturah Hitchings never troubled herself any more about her h^ir. , "If Harry likes it," said she, "Jdol" ?Helen Forest Graves. + ' Two hives of bees en route to the West from Kentucky, escaped from their quarters and invaded thog-j of the passenger* in tho rear coach of the train. After a pitched battle, in which cvats were used with good effect, theintrufeis were vanquished. They left evident** of their visit, though. % A CHINOOK DANCE. f Ho^?v the Yakima Indians 4 Propitiate the Diety. * ri Woird Incantations and Grotesque Dances j1 in Washington Territory. A rccent issue of the Yakima (Wash- " ington Territory) Signal says: Yakima ("VV. T.) Signal.?The Indians j are by nature superstitious, but the ag" | grcssions of civilization in this quarter ' have killed many of the old beliefs of the ( Yakima tribes in signs, "lioodoos," and the efficacy of pum-pum and Tumanimus dances, and the incantations of medicine ' men in driving away the evil spirit. ^ There are some, however, who refuse to f conform to the new customs and revel m i superstitions handed down by their un- ^ tutored progenitors. This faction held ^ their annual Tumanimus dance and feast j on Monday last, on the reservation just j Knlnw TTninn finTUn I wvtvii V Ktvu VJ* U^i JL UU U([//(UC 1 U|)VI tui j was oil liand with the expectation of capturing an interesting item, but the mummeries which were weird and fascinating were at the same time entirely unintelligible. At the head of the Gap on a promontory a large white flag floated from a pole, and two miles further on blue, white and orange flags marked the long, low building or shack where the exercises were being conducted. The i medicine house, for so it proved to be, was about seventy feet in length and completely covered with the matting. From the inside came the monotonous chant of many voices and the steady beating of Indian drums, but although the Signal representative and a young lady who accompanied him walked completely around the structure they could find no entrance, and were debating a plan of action, when a fly of the matting suddenly flew up immediately in front of them, and the hideous painted face of a fantastically clad siwash presented itself , to view and nearly scared the young lady into convulsions. A friendly wave of j the hand, however, disarmed fear and usacreu uie pilgrims Del ore a scene of barbaric grotesqueucss which would tax \ the pen of a Dumas to describe. , On a platform covered with skins, at , one end of the lodge, Indian children ] were crowded, and in front of the little \ ones was the orchestra of six huge bucks j with instruments which appeared to be , made of sheepskin stretched over empty , cheese boxes. Along the length of the j temple or lodge were ranged the bucks , on one side and the klootchmen on the , other. They were all clad in gorgeous ( costumes and the many-colored blankets , and prints gave a rainbow appearance to j the worshipers. Their faces were painted with orange, blue, red and white j paints, and when there was any consider- , able space of solid color there would ap- ] pear fairly well executed figures of ^ moons, stars, birds and beasts, in con- , trasting tints. All had fans of feathers , and many wore head-dresses of fine furs, | feathers, and even the horns of animals. , There are various puin-pums , during the year for divers objects, the j one just celebrated being Tumauiinus, or , Chinook dance, held for the purpose of ( propitiating the Deity and bringing on ] the warm winds from the Orient to carry t off the snows. "When the winters are j usually hard the Indiana do severe pen- ] ance, and three years ago, when the cat- { tie and the Cayuscs were dying by the { hundreds, the Tumanimus lasted for c ten days, and the self-inflicted punish- t ments were of a .rigid nature. Sa-lu- 2 skin, one of the head Indians, took a ^ dull knife and hewed out great blocks of j flesh from his arms, singing and dancing c all of the time in religious frenzy. The r next observance is the festival of the e "reburial of the dead," when the bones , of Indians who have died or been killed c will be exhumed, covered with new blankets and exposed to the view of relatives. Then comes the salmon dance, at which the Great Spirit is entreated to ^ send a free run of that succulent fish j which form so prominent a factor in the s Indian food supply. j The recent Tumanimus was under the t direction of Co-ti-ah-kin the head medi- j cine man, who directed the observances r by means of a bell. For hours and j hours the Indians would dance and chant ?] their songs, which are not devoid of i hafmony, until tired nature could bear j no longer, and then they would fall on c their knees and offer up their "amens' i to the exhortation's of the medicine man. , The singing and prayers were all in the ^ native language, and even the lookers-on r who were familiar with the jargon were i unable to catch the drift of the importu- t rings. ^___________ The Bee. Here is a Bee. lie is a lively little Bird. He likes to swarm. This is why * tho great poet Burns said that Bees of a * feather flock together. The Bee is most * always healthy. The only Disease ho has * is the Hives. Ho is a Builder. He 11 builds cells and calls them Honey and c then sells them. He bites with his Tail 1 and his Teeth are poor. The Bee is an ? honest Bird. He never gets on a Spree. When a small Boy first learns his Letters * he sees a B, and goes for it.?Chicago * m ? \ jmount. ? 8 The census officials estimate the pop- i ulation, of the country at present to be t 60,000,000. - i / ... ,;V. v*VV; I The Sinking of the Tecumseli *~l This accident occurred during the atack made by Admiral Farragut on the iefenses of Mobile, Augusts, 1804. Farngut had been blockading this port with, is squadron, ever since the beginning of he year, but had been unwilling to make ny attack upon the forts, because he had othing but wooden vessels. In the later part of July four monitors were sent o him, the Tecumseli, Winnebago, Manlattan and Chickasaw, and immediate reparations were made to attempt thentry of the bay. Eearly on the morning if August 5, the fleet, headed by the Te umseli, moved up the bay. At about 7 >'clock, when the head of the column :ame abreast of the fort, the latter tpened fire, and the action soon became general. The Tecumseli had fired two juns, and had loaded and was about to iiu ugmn, wnen a large torpedo exploded mder her, blowing an enormous hole in ler bottom, just under the turrets. She urched from side to side, careened vioently over, and went down head forenost. An incident is told of her brave :ommander, Captain Craven, that should ilways be linked with his name, as Sidley's is with the cup of cold water. At. ;he instant of the explosion, the pilot and le instinctively made for the nariow opening leading to the turret below. Craven drew back. "After you, pilot," ho said. There was no afterward for him; ;he pilot was saved, but he went down ivith his ship. Captain Jouett, of the Metacomet, on seeing the Tecumseli go lown, instantly sent a boat to the rescue >f her crew, in charge of Ensign Nields, m officer of the volunteer navy. Tho boat pulled toward the wreck, and succeeded in saving the pilot and nine of ;he ship's company. Two officers and !ive men had also escaped in one of the. Tecumseh's boats, which was towing Alongside, and four swam to the fort, where thev were made prisoners: thus From over one hundred men on the wrecked ship, twenty-one were saved. Inter Ocean. The Pilgrimago lo Mecca. .. Extraordinary percautions are to betaken this year, in connection -with the innual pilgrimage to Mecca, bo as to prevent a fresh inroad of cholera from Ara- ^. L>ia into Europe. Especial care is to be taken by the Indian government in regard to these pilgrimages, so as to avoid theJread diseases caused by overcrowding ind the lack of ample provisions and water. Every year several thousands of Indian Mohammedans perform the 7iaj or pilgrimage to the hol}T cities. The government has legislated for the pilgrims, ind has laid down stringent regulations for their conveyance from Indian ports toJedda. Special passports have been ea:ablished to allow them to land at Jedda, ind a Mohammedan protector of pilgrims las been appointed at Bombay, in iorder :o further take care of them. Special provisions have been inserted in the nativepassenger ships act with regard to the fit:ing and provisioning of pilgrim ships, which are now bound to carry a qualified nedical officer if there are more than one lundrcd pilgrims on board, and similar >ercvitions will be taken in Egypt and >n the transit of the Turks, through the led sea. Jedda is the port for Mecca, ,hc holy city being about three days*" ourney inland. It is the birthplace of VIohammed, who was driven from that :ity to Medina, A. D., 622; hence that :pocli is called the hegira, or the flight >f the Mohammedan era, from which heir dates are reckoned. The port for kfedina (one hundred miles inland), vherc the prophet died, is Yembo, ISO niles north of Jedda. The performance >f the liaj takes place in August. Lastrear over ninety thousand pilgrims landid at Jedda alone, while huge caravans vere directed to the holy city from all >ther points of the compass. Don't be too Fine. Dr. T. Davidson, in his new book for *oung men, "Forewarned, forearmed,1* lits out at the "fiue young man" in thia ityle: "He admires n scarf or a breaatjin, and, as he must have it, he purchas- . :s on credit, and, ten to one, before he las money to Day, the one is threadbare >r the other is lost, and so he grudges, layment, and is tempted to evade it. Hius the mischief grows. Don't seek to >e too fine. Be manly enough to appear ust fes you arc. Be contcnt to begin life it the beginning, and to await, as others lave done before you, till your income warrants this or that unnecessary indulgence. It is an awkward looking arangemcct when a youth begins with the nrge end of the horn, and cornea out at he small end." How Children Grow: A remarkable physiological discovery las been made by Rev. Mailing Hansen, principal of the Danish institution for the )eaf and Dumb. During a period of hrce years, he has made frequent careful ncasurements and weighings of the 130 hildren under his charge, and has cached* the conclusion that the body loes not incrcaso evenly in bulk and leight throughout the year, but that durng some months the child accumulates ?ulk and remains stationary in height, rhile at another time there is growth in tature with comparatively little incrcaso n weight. These results aro confirmed >y similar experiments in several smaller nstitutions in Denmark.