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St? V V . P't ? , . <.?4y . $ v .K . ... . - _ la his anuual address before tho Now SSngland Agricultural Society recontly, Veorgo 13. Loringstated that the number of farms in Now England had increased from 184,004 in 1800 to 187,253 in 1880, end that the value of these farms had increased in the same period from $470,"804,447 to $580,721,433. At the recent International Congress, of-the* Salvation Army, held in London, it wns stated that there are 1,553 corps and 3,003 officers. Twenty-eight lliou cand, two hundred weekly, and 1,400,-400 yearly services are held. The newsqp&per of the army is printed in nineteen -different languages, and the Salvation fmttner waves in ninetoen different countries and colonics. Eternal vigilance is the price of prohibition. A Boston whiskey dealer bought cheap coffin, put a four and seveneighths gallon keg of ryo whiskey ineide, screwed a plate on tho lid of the coffin, on whic i were engraved tho name, age and birthplace of tlie alleged corpse, boxed the coffin, as is usual, ani shipped it to a town in Maine. Thcro an undertaker took cliargo of tho box and drove ten miles into tho country before the -Coffin Wild nnr?nf>r1 nrtA ttin UmiAi. ?/> <moved. 7The science of engineering is advancing. An iron bridge on the Pennsylvania railroad, woighing 190 tons was ffepently moved bodily thirty-two feet in .: - "forty-eight minutes by half a dozen men under the supervision of Mnster'Carpen. ^ibr Webb of.tho Pittsburg division, with the object of placing it on a stone arch. This is tho third operation cf the kind since May. There was no impediment to the passage of trains, the rails being elevated as the bridge was lifted and fcallasted by the trackmen. Three sixtyton jacks were placed under each end. ' , ======= There are more methods of acquiring lcnowledge of the art of war than are taught in the drill rooms of France. Sets of pocket handkerchiefs, stamped with military rules and regulations, diagrams And other infirmation important for the Soldier to nrnuirn nnd --- ^ ? ?wauwuut/Cl| UIO lacing sold for the use of the French -soldiers and are officially encouraged by 'the French government; ; By purchasing ^ -right cheap, ornamental and, of course, ! ^useful handkerchiefs the French soldior 4s provided with a complete pocket i manual ot military instruction. I * 'There is on exhibition in Paris," saya I 'the British Mai tea I Journal "a type of a very primative race. It is a very curious -specimen, entirely covered with hair, the tkia very dark; the child would remind , ?t>ne of the chimpanzce. The hairs on tthe arms and legs follow the same direciinni'M fllrtan nn ? 1 ' * * ? vu iuu iuuukl'j ; xne tegs are thin and Bhort, while the arms arc very long. It appears that the tribe to which she belongs dwells more on trees than on the ground. The child is ftwelve, and seems to havo a certain in- 1 itelligeuce, and takes great interest in titer doll. Her eyes and hair are very i&ne, her nose is flattened, and her ears ' *ro deprived of the cartilage. She has ' thirteen pairs of ribs, and consequently 1 thirteen dorsal vertebr?. The race to ' which she belongs is found in the north i of Siam, and several families are kept at 1 the court of the King of Siam." 1 { = 1 V rancher near Albuquerque, N. M., i recently commenced digging for a well | ?n the site of an old ruined pueblo. At a > eight feet ho struck a huge bowlder, i (Underneath this was found masonry, a *and when this was pierced a cavity was \ I"*"* - discovered. Upon examination it was t found that tho workmen had penetrated a (through an arch of stone, supported by t \ heavy pillars of masonry . and largo pine a \ 'timber. When the debris was cleared g .away a volume of pure water was dia- 1 -closed sufficient to supply a great num- I sber of cattle. Among the discoveries a made in the vault were stone axes and t hammers, flint-knives, arrow-heads and c quantities of pottery in fragments. Hu- q *nan remains were also brought to the c \ ?urface, including two skulls in an ex- 0 ?ellent state of preservation. The build ing is supposed to have belonged to an i extinct race of people, as the relics.found c evidently antedate any thing hitherto dis- t covered in this territory. j a On the crest of the eastern bank at "Woolfolk's Bend, on the Ghattahochee river in Georgia, one of those curious v mounds left bv the mound hu?M<?w? stands. There has just been taken from ity beside the human remains, by a Cok *imbu9, Ga., antiquarian, some fine -aamplts of pottery, most of which is of t9fl'n\que design, with some attempt at dcroration. The largest perfoct vessel is 5n shape something like a carby, with mhortetr neck and mouth more flaring. I, Though the base is globular, it is so l'f' fashioned or weighted that, turn it ma you will, right side up with care it bobs ft- ?- " vu vug oiud Ul liUU HlUSUOr 1 j>ot8 a copper disk was snugly fitted as a 6 cover, and in it were a number of beads, * suggesting the possibility that it had ' once served some ancicnt belle of ancient jfiji days as a jewellery case. Other piece* ' in design resemble the modern enspidor, and others still are shaped as the regula- * ion pot of this da?. He also secured * *eT0h?l Iadiati uinea.: f?ur utnnA * J ^ J Mono J i, Lonelj ! Hi# four-years' boy above h!s blocks "Watched bis castle as it rocks, With wandering eyes? fools only The too loud ticking of the clock? Starts at an unexpected knock, And wido-eyed, pale, his mother greets, Whom at the open door he meets. lie throws himself into her arms, And to.Is hor all bis vague alarms, With ''Oh! I was so lonelyl" The dreary morning breaks again. And with it wakes a bitter pain, That lingering s'eep dulled only; Tho wife, whose heart lies with tho t!ead. Reluctant lifts her heavy head, Sees the new day look coldly in "NVlrle the its journey must begin; 1 Must pass a^ain the hope'ess round. For many a year all joyless found. Her life is left so lonely! The old man leans upon his oane, And sees his life go by again, Now trembling, sad and lonely; H s streugth is spent, his eyes are dim. And not a soul to t^are for him ? Is left of all his kith and kin. There is no door will take him la. "VVfly did his boys all leave him so? And his old wife before him go? . lie left alone?he only. Tho child, the wife, the poor old mat. Must ilnd their comfort as they can, XNew Mope or memory only. Can these console? Shall Destiny A thing of worn-out garments be, Affectionate torn and spent, the heart At la<t insensate to its smarb, And all the universe to ma Mere emptiness and mockery; , I dying here so lonely! Yes, this is all, if life must be Eut wh?t we touch and what we seo. And outward flowering onlj. If depths of being underlie And love surroun i the mystery; If belp divine meets human pain And transient loss is endless gain. In sharpest stress if God draw near ( And in the dark new suns appear, Ah, than, who need be lonely} ?Mrs. D. H. It. Goodale, in Independent. KIDNAPPED. ; There was nothing new in tats plot of the desperate villians who sought to extort money from Mr. Ross by stealing his ^ son Charley. The kidnapping of children for the sake of gain or revenge has been a practised for hundreds of years. There j are doubtless to-day in thi? country a score or.more of Charley ltoss ease?, but r as the parents are not rich and promi- a nent, and the search not aided by legislativc action and the united press, they * are seldom heard of by the groat public. The case of Willie Allbright, an Eng- , lisli lad, was full of strange adventures. 11 He liv'od at Sheffield with his parents \ until five years of age. His father ^ was employed in a great fac- ^ lory there and his mother was a dressmaker for the neighborhood. They ? lived in a cottage in the suburbs of P ? A. n.- x * iuc town, ana at tho ago of four the boy was permitted to run about the n neighborhood a good deal. At five, when he was kiduapped, he was sent to the store* to make purchases, and knew ^ ill the streets clcar to tho factory in which his father worked. One day in L861, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, j* lie was Bent a store three blocks away 11 iftor some buttons. Before ho reached it a strange man accosted him and asked lis name, lie then gavo Willie some *< iweetmeats and asked him to go and look it a Pnnoh and -Tmlo al< - 11? nt ? uvtuj OUV/VT AU 111U lUWIlj ^ promising to return with him in a half ai iour. Th?Jjoy eagerly set off with him, md was taken to the railroad depot and ^ ilaced on a train in charge of a middle- m iged woman, who gave him more sweetneats and was very kindly spoken. She nt aid the show had moved away and they *ere going after it, and the novelty of P* he child's position prevented him feeling ar iny anxiety. When the detectives came ?* o take the case up, as they did two days tc iter the boy's disappearance, ,they ftr jot no clew whatever. Although he lad walked a mile or two hand Ju n hand with the abductor Jnilff Apna-^d ot./iot. 1 5 ? wv. dhceus nuuuuy remem>ered fleeing the pair. They had gone penly to the railroad station, but no me there had noticed them. The guard ca >n the train dimly remembered a woman ic< md a child in a compartment, but could wi 'ire no discription. As the Allbrights or rere poor and lowly, no great stir was th treated, and#no great effort wag made by on he detectives to restore the boy to his ke >arents. ^ The boy was taken from Sheffield to -of Liverpool, being so well treated on the, mi vay that he had no thought of his home, ba V.t Liverpool he was told that his nntne bit vas John Man ton, and that the woman is vas his mother. "When he disputed tho ?oint ho was soundly whipped. His or isir was cut close, his dress entirely ea ;h&nged, and a liquid was rubbed on fn lis skin which turned it dark. Except "] ffhon he asked to go home, or denied mi hat his name was John Manton, he was no cindly treated, and after he had been to >eatcn (even or eight times he accepted an he now name, and ceased to refer to hiB a nrents. Young a? he was this was a de itroke of policy on his part. He real- 0f zod that he had been stolen from home, bj ind he kept repeating to himself the de ifs true nam? was Willie AUbright, and th hat he lived at Sheffield. n t After a couple of weeks' lessons in th umbling and tight-rope walking were ne riven to the boy. He was never per- gy nitted to go out alone or to converse hi rith stranger*, and it soon came natural hi or him to call the woman mother. In mi \.? V*4 1 */# i 1 ^ ' * _ .. i *" n . tau wuiw oi u coupio 01 months tin past deemed a dream to liim, and hi would have forgotten all about it had h< uot kept repeating to himself. "I an not Johnuy Manton, but AVdlie All bright, and they stole me away fron Sheffield." lie was in Liverpool si: weeks before lie knew the name of th< city. When he had been taught how to dance, sing, tumble, and walk a tight rope?a matter of three months' timehe was taken around the country with i small show, which the woman owned it part. The novelty of travel was s< agreeable that he almost forgot his situa tion, and was for two or throe year; quite con'ent. There was no one t< teach him how to read or write, but h< was quick-witted, and could reason be yond his years. He had hopes that thi 8hoW WOUld sotnf? Hn? SKnflinU and ho would slip out and run home,but the people of course carcfully avoided the place. Once, when they were showing at Doncaster, a few miles away, Willie observed a man, whose face had a familiar look, gnzing at him in at earnest manner, and presently hearc him say to a friend: "The laddie keeps me thinking of tht child who was stolen away from neighbor All bright; but of course it can't b( the one." The boy was about to call out that hit name was Willie Allbright, when th? woman, who always kept an eagle cy< on him, came closer, and intimidated him. The show then hurriedly packed up and left the place. The boy now realized more fully than ever that hit right name was Allbright, and that he had been stolen from home, but he alsc realized his hopelessness. He had bceD told that if he ever tried to run away, wild animals would pursue and devoui him, and he was in mortal terror of a bulldog which followed the show. He therefore humbly obeyed all orders, and nade no move to run away. Ho was ibout eight years old when he changed naster.<?, being sold for a good round irice to a man who called himself Prof. SVillianv. This man was a ventriloquist ind juggler, and he took the boy tc Australia with him, and gave hall perormances for a year or so. They then etufned, and made the tour of Scotland ind Ireland, and sailed for America. Ulbright was about eleven years old rhen he landed in New York. Tho i r - - rmessor men took the name of La *iorre, though he was no Frenchman a look or speech, and travelled for a car. Cne day as they were lling a date at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the oy was sent to the postoffice with letcrs, and a curious thing happened. One f the four boys who had witnessed the erformance the night previous made up > him in a friendly way, and asked his amc. "Johany Manton," was the reply. "Yes, but that is your stage name. STbat is the other?" "Willie Albright." "That's funny. A family named Allright live next door to us. Tlicy lived i England. "So did I." "Maybe you are related. I'm going > tell e'm about you.' Two hours later a man and his wife illed at the hotel and asked for the boy, id the mother had no sooner set eyes on im than she hugged him to her heart, he father was longer making up hia ind, but he soon camo to feel certain tat John Manton was Willie Allbright id the boy who had been stolen from im seven or e\ght years before. The irents had been in America three years, id had long before given up all hopca ever hearing from the child. The pressor made a great kick, as his bread id butter were at stake, but when he und tho people determined to have slice done he slipped away in tho ght and was hoard of no more.?Neva ork Sun. Hiding Treasure in Mexico. The sand whirls of a storm- win I indi-. to placer gold or buried money. Buri treasures can also bo located by itching the movements of the eulebriia* little green snakes that love to draw eir coils near euch snots. Vpf. if I - ? " aen were infallible it would indeed iep tlio snakes busy coiling. The scar- ^ ty.of banking facilities, the frequency revolutions and forced "loans," has ude Mother Enrth the favorite savings ( ink of our next neighbors, and the irying or resurrection of a littlo hoard j really a matter of daily occurrence. , Where have you been, amigo?fishing , hunting?" the stranger may ask an rly riser, and as likely as not get a ink, though rather unexpeotod, answer: ^ STo, so nor, l>een burying a bit of t>ney"?burying it in away, too, that >thiog short of supcrnaturalism is apt betray its hiding-place. With a stick d a digging tool somewhat resembling "flower spado" or mason's trowel, th? posltor w.il steal forth in the silence , a moonlit night and baffio espionage , crossing a few open fields, where un- \ sired followers would have to drop g ulr cloak of darkness. After selecting mitab'.e spot and effecting his deposit, t e night-walker will take care to linger ar several neighboring rocks, trees 01 1 illies as an additional safeguard, against e Aden spies, as well as in order to clinch a i topographical data by private way* b ?rk?. ? Felix L. Onwqtd. c I VOICE BUILDING* 5 , Possibilities in the Art of Tra'ning the Vocal Organ. i 'The Professional Voice of the Olergy; r man. Lawyer and Actor. . j Mrs. Floreueo Jurat's Adams has . ! Btudied the urt of voice building, both i ' in this country and abroad. She is j deeply interested in the subject, nnd an : ! ardent believer in tho future possibilities . " of the voice. ! j "First of all," she explained, "you : must know in the new method of voice : j building the conversational voice is > trained by the vocal scalo. There are ! three registers in the speakiug voice? , ' upper, middle and lower. Every voice has a range of at least seven notes. The i lower register is merely used in convcr1 Bation, of course. Its province is to ex( press anger and the harsher passions. The middle register is usually the weakest of the throe. This is, however, l the normul voice. The upper register, | with its shrill, decisive tones, is the mental. The lower one is called the | vital. It is deep and passionae. The ( normal is, of course, the happy medium, j The evenly balanced man whose heart does not outrun his head, speaks in this voice. Excitable peoplo drift into one extreme or the other. In the voice, as in things, repose brings grace. The rango matters little in the conversational voic". Though it were limited to three notes, a wise succession of tone would make it effective. It is the Blur, the careless, meaningless rise and fall that ruins the speaking voice. ' "Are not our English cousins good speakers ?'* "They Bay, you know," Mrs. Adams replied, "that the rising inflection is the best spur to conversation. The falling t inflection is dogmatic, decisive, and cuts off all discussion. The younji Englishman says, *I-ah lovo you-nh,1 with the I rising inflection. He leaves the subject poised in the middlo voice. Naturally tho young woman can't leave it hanging there like Mohammed's coffin. You see> the matter has alroady drifted into a delightful explanatory discussion. Tho young Amorican, however, says 'I lovo you' wi*h falling infljetion. That ends the mittcr. Tho young woman can call or pass out?that's all. But there is evor so much to be said on the other side." "Do the Americans speak through the nose ?" "Educated Americans ? No. The Amcricaus have a good speaking voice as a usual thing, though it tends, pcrhapsto sharpness. The voice, you know, is the truest test of churacter. It is almost unfail:nr? fin#. " ? aX -g. l/Ull UlSgUISU IUU fuco, the eyes, the manner, but rarely thinks of speaking out of the usual voice, One can toll the intellectual man, the immoral man, by his voice more readily than in any other way. The professional voico is another strange thing. One can *tell a lawyer the moment he opens his mouth. Ho speaks in a hard, didactic tone with a downward inflection. His voico is low, but decisive. Usually when a lawyer wants to get a great effect he assumes a stage whisper. Of course thero are ever so many characteristics." "What of the clergyman's professional voice?" "Well, from his calling one would expect him to have a middle-register voice, full of heart and sympathy, but* as a usual thing the head tones predominate in the pult>it. The idea of nnn ing charity and benevolence in head tones strikes me as very ridiculous. The voice and thought are out of harmony. It reminds one of a boatman looking one way and rowing steadily in the other direction. Of course most clergymen are hard students given to brain work and this accounts for their voices. Now and then you hear a clergyman who speaks in the low, broad tones of the normal voice. He may speak the veriest . nonsense, but he is called magnetic* . Every evangelist I ever heard uses this ^ voice. Moody, Sam Jones, Tulmage and nr?<>/>h<.N f ?,?.* J- ml * ' " luai. nmu an uu. mere is j a heart quality in it that has a wonderful cffeot. Again, it gives one an impres- J lion of self-contained strength. A ' speaker can never use all tha middle voice, and one feels that thcro is ' ^ always a reserve awaiting call. Dr. John Hall, of New York, is one of the best illustrations of what I am saying. Ho * understands that emphasis depends on ( [he tone, not on the force." "As to the stage 1" A "Thcro, of course, thu voice is all im- * portant. One can always pick out the * poung actor. He has awakened to the T ealization of the fact that ho has a ? ;oice. He runs up and down the scale, snding his sentences now in one voice inrl iiAtif in nnnf Tf 1 ..... uu? ... UUUKUUII IV ? lllVIUIjr II Hlftt* y ?r of vocal imitation. The thoughtful -y roiceis always poised. That is the reason y vomen?especially of the flippant sort? j tave flexible, sliding voices, that run the cale in a few sontcnces." ^ "Good conversational voices are rare. fl hen!" ? "Well, it is hard to say. ' Children's ? -oices before they team to imitate their lders are perfect. Thoy talk as the Unlet sing. Tho lower classes of ovory m ouptry, in spite of their harshness and m orruptneaa of speech, have good quality d w - v / . : ;v " - ' ! i | of voice. They produce the great sin^? ors of the world. Tlio modern Italian method of voice-building, you know, ia founded on the idea of kinship between the speaking voice and the sinking voice. The same training goes to make * each. There is no reason why one who has all f ie natural vocal organs cannot sing as well as speak. If he can speak ruly, without affectation or falseness, he can sing well."?Chicngo Tribune. A City ot 0 (1 Buildings, Kiln and Flail. There are only three cities in Norway, writes a Boston Herald correspondent. Kristiania has the greatest number of inhabitants and is the capital. Throndhjen is tho oldest and perhaps the most famous historically. Bjrgen is best known for its interesting old bu'.ldinga and fish. It lies for the most part on a hilly peninsula, and on three sides are steep mountains whose tops aro almost always cloud covered. There arc four distinct summits, though after one has bccomacclimated a<id has receive.! due instruction, he will learn that there are three more peaks, lor Bergen, like ancient Rome,is a *'city of seveu hills," and in token thereof has blazoned them on her scuteheou beneath a fortified castle. These mountains are considered the cause of the heavy rainfall for which Bergcu hus long been noted. They attract the clouds, which thon pour their .waters into the town, seventy-two inches falling during the year. This has been an unusually rainy summer, and out of six consecutive weeks here there have been but four bright days. So notorious is Bergen weather that a story is told of an old Dutch skipper who for twenty years had brought goods to tho town, and always, when he reached his port, it was raining or very misty. One duv ! when ho arrived it happened to be bright and clcar, which so surprised the worthy sea dog that he felt he must have mistulfcn his course and cone into the wrong harbor, so he set sail again and hunted for many weeks along the shore in search of Bergen wharves, with their rain and wet. 'Miicly und Nine." Sankey, the revival singer, tells of his favorite song and the way it originated : "The Ninety and Nine" I place at the head of tho list. I well remember how I came to compose the music to the words. It was done on the spur of a great and exhaltod feeling. When I was goin^ from Edinburgh to Glasgow I picked up a paper on the train and came across the words. They at once struck me as being full of feeling, so I hid the paper away in my pocket. Tho words rang in my ears. At Glasgow.we had a glorious meeting. Mr. Moody preached from the twenty-third psalm of David. He touched the hearts of the people. When he was about to close his sermon I did not know what to sing. I wanted to select something appropriate to the sermon, but I found nothing suitable. Those grand words, full of poetry, simple, yet beautiful: "He inakcth me to lie down in green pastures; lie leadcth me beside the still waters; ho restoreth my soul; he leadcth me in the paths of righteousness for his sake," as Mr. Moody closed jvith them, acted as an inspiration. I hastily pulled the crumpled newspaper from my pocket and sang the words of "The Ninety and Nino" to music that came to mo then and there. I did not know how the ac- 1 companiment would go. The feeling of the moment carried me through, and I afterwards wrote the music. ' 1 Ponds In Saxony. i In traveling through Saxony ono is { strucK with the large number of ponda { of all sizes which stud the fields in every ( direction. "Whether these ponds are the < result of accident or design, they are { as carefully tended as are the fields g themselves. They, too, are a sourco of t income to their owners. They teem with { carp. ieni n ana otner mil that will thrive f in sluggish water, which arc taken out t in the fall and sold at prices ranging * from 12 to 20 conts per pound. Tho t ponds aro then restocked with a young f brood,which costs from 60 cents to $1.25 per hundred, according to b ze. These Ish are left to shift for themselves until :hey are a year old, when they are gener- r illy large enough for the market. In c winter the ponds yield a crop of ice, ii which is readily disposed of at a fair h jrice. Where their services arc not re- a juirod to turn a mill, they at least serve b is watering places for the cattle, and o vlicro they are situated near a village or d lamlet, they even foed the hand-engine a n caso 01 nre. Where these ponds nro u nade, the land taken the purpose 1 a ;enerally is unsuited for other purposes. f< ??? fc Erery-Day Hypocrisy. jj What she says: "I'm awfully sorry ^ ou roust go so soon, Mr. Longwind. cj Vhy, it's only eleven o'clock 1 What's ai our hurry? You don't know how mnch hava enjoyed your visit!" What she means: "Thank goodness, ou're going at last I If you had stayed ve minutes longer, I think I should th ave had an attack of hysterics 1"? da \ick. There are a number of Mormon misonarles iu Turkey, but they are not th taking many convert*. The Mormon# foi o better in Christian. sji Love the Living. Tho sanctity that is about the doad. To make as lovo tbom nioro than late, <rhen here Is not it well to find tlri living dear, With sanctity liko this, ore they have llod! Tho tender thoughts wo nurture for a loss Of mother, friend or child?Oh I it were wise To spend this glory on tho oarne-t eyes, The longing heart, that fool life's prosont cross. Give also Iier?v to t>>? ? ? ? "'6 uoic, "Whose koon-struug houLs will quivor at your touch; Tho utmost reveronco is not too much For eyes that woop although the lips may sneer. Independent. HUMOROUS. The sigh of tho seamstress?A-liem. A suit of armor was the old-fashioned Knight dress. The biggest gum-boil on record has been discovered in a mucilage factory. A cross old bachelor suggests that births should be announced under the head of new music. ''Brilliant men are born with black eves." Men with less brilliancy have their eyes blackcd artificially. , "There's a coolness between us," said , the sea captains to each other when an iceberg passed between the ships. Some one asks:^ "Is tiler-' a field for a man who can live on fifty cents a week?" There is. It is callcJ Potter's Field. Uncle Siim is monarch of millions of unsurveyed acres, and is that much better than Alexander Selkirk, who was only monarch of what he surveyed. "I've eaten noxt to nothing," lisped Smithors, who was dining with his girl. i t _i - vii| j jmvuya cio mat when I sit by you," responded tho young lady pleasantly. "My goorl man," said a philanthropist to the street laborer, "do you ever have cause to grumb'.e at your position?" "No, sir," was the answer: "I took my pick at the start." "Children," said a Dakota school teacher, "from tho noise outside I think a dog "fight is-going on. You ure all excused and mny go out and watch it. Don't get in a hurry, here, it will look better to let your teacher go first 1" and he shot out of the door followed by i wild rush of the scholars. The Structure of (he Skin. Roughly speaking, the skin is composed of two layers?the cuticle or scarfskin and tho corlum or true skin. The former is principally made up of two portions, the hornv lavnr whiMi i? ?rf J - ? " principal protective to the body, and th? mucous layer, which contains cells to b? pushed up and become the horny layer after awhile, and these contain the coloring substance which gives the tint to the complexion. It is true that some oi the microscopists are uncertain about the transformation of tho mucous into the horny Inyei of the skin, but it is difficult to imagine whero tho cutsido protection comes from if not from the layer next under it. The true skin is composed of a net-work of fibres intermixed with particles of living matter abundantly supplied with blood vessels, nerves and all the ? ?li|iuiniua ui;ui;i?lt| V IOT U COnClQUOUS Slipply of fresh materials for the building up of now structures as well as ol means for removing those that are worn out. The glands for the secretion of the perspiration and for the formation of a fatty, lubricating matter arc to be found almost everywhere, as well as the little 3acs to give origin to the hairs, whiqh ire mere modifications of the cells of the skin. The nervous apparatus fos the ' jenso of touch is almost everywhere present, much more abundantly in some localities than in others. Muscular fibres ire found in connection with the hair lacs and glands for keeping the skin >ily and supple; they are not under the control of the will, but act to squeeze * >ut the lubricating material and to raise he hairs to an upright position, as in he so-called 4'goose fckin," noticed undet he influence of cold and sometimes of ear. ? Olob&- Democrat. Black Chevrlng Qnm. Lately there has crept into the Detroit aarkqt a substance known as "black hewing gum," made out of tar, which i said by medical men to be extremely inrmful and pernicious. It is becoming great favorite with local gum-chewers, uc pnysicans assert its use is productive f sore mouths and innumerable throat iseascs. Put up in fancy paper, sold t a penny a block, flavored with some nknown ingrodicnt,and christened with ? sweetly-sounding name, as "lutl-tuti," >r instanc.*, the black chewing gum is >rcing its entrance into ail grades of etroit society, and driving its rivals to te wait. But it is nothing but tar? leap tar at that?mixed with gelatine id flavored with?heaven and the man* lecturer only know- what. ?Fr?e Prut, Overreached Himself. She?James, do you know you put ree buttons on the pinto in church to He?Yes, I know what I wu about. X* She?James, perhaps you doa't knpw at I bought those buttons yesterday r my new dress and paid fifty cents live/ for thorn. ? Washington Star.