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V, .j:, A-4 ' . " '! 'j;t:~.444.-\ -~F No~ W N-ri('us I -444 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ T i-4 it I I 144~4 t"!4~.*~";1)~44j44 ~ ~ 4.~ TUE LIUTs"dIr Uo0)L'. In many a village window burn The evening lamps, They shiWp amid t)ie 4ews and damps, Those lighti of home' W Afar the wanderer see them glow, Now night ts nekr; Thej* gild his path with radiance clear, Sweet lights of home. - Ye lode-stars that forever draw Tho weary heart, In stranger lands or crowded marl; - 01 lights of home. - J When my brief da of life I o'er, \ Then may I see, Shine from the heavenir house for nie Dear lights of home. anaa,s as D)octoru. Mn. 0. Delaunay, in a recent com munication to the Biological society, observed that medicine, as practised by anima#,' is tbLoroughly e'apifcal,b that the saine inay b said of hat p;fici tised by inferior human races, or, in other words, by the majority of the huma! species. Animals iusti'ictively choose such- food as is' best suited to' them. M. Delaunay maintains that the human race also. shows this-instinct and blames medical men for not paying sufficient respect to the likes and.dis likes of the patients, which he believes to be a guide that may be depended on. Women are more often hungry than men and they do not like the same kinds of food; nevertheless, in asylums for aged poor, men and women are put on precisely the sawe regimen. Infants scarcely weaned are given'a'diet suit able to adults, meat and wine, which they dislike, and which disagree with them. M. Delaunay investigated this question in different asylums of Paris, and ascertained that children do not like meat before thoy are about five years of age. People who like salt, vinegar, etc., ought to be allowed to satisfy their tastes. Lorain always taught that with regard to food peo. ple's likeings are the best guide. - A large number of animals wabh themselves and bathe, as elephants, Fitags, birds and ants. M. Delauney lays down as a general rule that there is not any species of animal which volun) tarily runs the risk of inhaling emana tions arising from their own excrement. If we turn our attention to the ques tion of reproduction we shall see that, all mammals suckle their young, keep them clean, wean them at the proper time and educate them; but these ma ternal instincts are 'frequently rudim. entary in women of civilizea nat.ons. In fact, man may take a lesson* in hy. gieno from the lower animals. Animals get rid of their parasites by using du3t, mud, clay, etc. Those suffering from fever gstrict theii' diet, keep quiet, seek darkneRs and airy places, drink water and sometimes even plunge into it. When a dog has lost its appe tite it eats that species of grass known as dog's grass, chiendent; which acts as an emetic and purgative. Cats also oat grass. Sheep and cows when ill ieek out certain herbs. When (logs are constipated they qat fatty substan ces, such as oil and butter, with avidity thing is observed in horsea, An animal suferig fom hroicrheumatism al ways kepa a spsil nthe sun. The wrirathaerglryorgan ized ambulanoes. L atreille, cut the - anenne ofan at an loher ntscame and coee h one atwith a transparent fluid secreted from their months. If a chimpanzee be wounded it stops the bleeding by 'placing- its hand on the wound or dre#sing it with leaves and grass. When art animal has a wounded leg or arm hanging on, it completes the amipuation by, meaps of its teeth. A dog on being stung in the muzzle by a viper was ob)served to plunge its head repeatedly for several days iznto ruinnn water. . This u1n}mat event,ually t'ecovered. A sporting dog was run over by a carrage. During .three weeks in tvinter it' remaied lying In a brook, where its d-ood was taken 'to it; the animal recovered. A terrier dog hurt its right eye; itremained lying under a counter, avoiding light add heat, although habitually it kept cloge - to the fire. It adopted as a general treatment, rest and abstinence from food. The local treatment consisted in licking the uippel' Bturface of the paw, which it applied to the wounded eye, again licking the paw when it,becatne N, ~ dry. Oats also, when.hurt, treat.theps. 4 ~ selves by this simple method of coniin ntous Irrigation, M. Delouney.oites the case of a cat which remained for '- 7 some time lying on the bank of a river also that of anofhdr eAt which had ife singular fortitude to remnain f ,r forty eight hours under a jet of cold water. Animals suffering from traumatic igver treat themselves by the continued ap plication of cold water, which M. Ve launay considers to be more certin than any of the other inethods. 'In view of these interesting facts,--weihte, he thinks, forced to admit that hygiene. and therapeutics, as - praetioed by ai. mils, may, -im the interests of -psychole~ ogy, be studied with advantage, He could go even further and say that veterinary medioine, and, perhaps, human 'medicine, could - gatheu' from them some useful indication, precisely becausec themy are yron ted Aby instinocis which are efficacious, in the preserva tion or tho restoration of the health. noavana. ThA island of Cuba has Havana as its prificipal t 64490 almost as ,refulal dAliiladd1jhWr,4hence it is quite easy to find your way about; rather is it easy to find the direction p which you wish to go, for if you startto go on foot you find your progressy no means rapid, for the apology for a side. walk Is only ibout 2j feet wido sk .that oie i om0Aa4tl4 obj4ged to take to the 'stree,.w)iqh is opriespondingly narrow. There is one shining exception to the ordinary thoroughfares. It iq the Pase6 491 Ysab,el, a fine ,street but 201Y feet wide, with a drive o.n ead& sid of a park filled with tre,&,, statuary and shriberg laid out in broad walks. It runs' lopg the site of the ancient fortifications of the city, and the part of the ton lying o10ne Idois 9till called the part 'in-i alurol"otphe other side "estramu 8,'i'ltiiugh tie walls have lon'g siici disappeared. There is also the. Oalle do Ia Reins, runni4g -at right anglef * tW6 aseo del Tsabel ioutthrough the now part of the city or the "estramu*s." The continuation of the Calle de. la Reina, the Paseo de Tacon, is now being laid out. At present it shows all the ugliness of construction, but if the plans are carried out it will some day nake a beautiful drive. The Calle de Ia liina passes the Campo de Marie, a large square surrounded by a high wooden. picket fence, each post of., which is capped by a cannon-ball. Here are held the military parades, and it seems * 4 if all the space would be needed, for the number of soldiers seen in the street is bewildering. They are dressed in linen uniforms and the corps is designated by the color of the braid on the cuff. They prese;nt anything but an imposing ap pearance, for they are small of stature and their uniforms are usually quite wrinkled. The shops in Havana are quite difler eut in construction from those in the United States. There seems to be no such thing as a show-window to display the goods; in fact, there are no windows. The shops are lighted and aired by the means of wide doors, which occur at frequent intervals in the front of the block. This arrangement also facili-' tates the entrance of dust, and as the streeta, although paved with square blocks of stone, are quite dusty, the goods Inside get a libetal' allowance. The frequency of the doors and the signs painted on the walls constitute the only point of difference between the business block s and the dwelling-houses. Within the city all seem to bulld on the same plan; the wall rises diroucly from the sidewalk, thus making more appar-, out the narrownems pf the-sicwalk, as you are constantly grazing the wall of the building as.you pass along. Thd doors and windova occur with geomet real regularity, and the only chance for the display of individual taste is in the painting, for the 'WiAlls ,are all of 'stone 3overed with moi't'a r pla%teriand then painwd. L4glit eolora preal, yellow ind blue being the favorites; this witi jhd number of church towers and domes gives quite an oriental appearance to the iity as senm from the harbor. The uniber of c'hurch buildings is astonish ing. ,As you pass along the atreets their im posing fronts of weather-worn stone irresistibly claim-your atetion. They ire usu,alIy ornapnt either with ieulptuiros s'on the corn rs and over the loors, or the whole front is covered with 3lhboratOiv cArved representations of some incident)nm religious history. tis ipity there Ts'no portable and adequate guide to, the city, which should give mobh' iuformation'i dbout thes principal 3hurc.hes as would enable the traveler wvhose time isi li,mited to us'e his hours bo the begt advantage.. But time' is po,t v alued highlfin' Spadilsh America. The 3athedral where the bones of Columbus are said to rest, faces a small square from which you get the fill effEct of the rropmt., *go.,necessi4y.of co$ygring the popil0l oWegtgfim aarthqialg9 seems 50 have hampered the architect, for there is no cornice to speak of and the Goirers al-'9ebbed far lihort of where they should have been to have carried cout the desig dymmetrically. The in terior is fi holly imveined marble of various ol %r. Ther-195ty vaulted. geiling~supported by hug0e; rle pil Iars, tietessellatedi $oor anm the posi tion ~f the altAr sbdwed tleskill and. taste lf the arOhiteqt,4yiIloehe richer adrdents of the sitar And.the shrines on the sides bespeak gibingltit present resources. As we entered the mass was being chanted by a full chorus of male voices stationed behind the altar, and the effect of the .strong sonorous voices As they sounidbo tthrough,the ocgrch was grand dild solemgn: an elenidift' of beauty which enhanced' the offrect was the ac compainment on an exquisitely toned organ iilaced higli up, over the entranbe to the iiave. l1Iany di the churches and' puil.dipgs jesignied ,jor, , cccpelastical phmrbu(sds Ai'e iiow ?ving oth4r ends. At' tire' titne of the expulision of the monks nearly all, the~ monapterips were confiscated and put to.othier uises, W!ho university is hotised, jn a formepr monas tery and 2000 students pass .in undogj the LMin motto .etolling,1thi woith of a dy of a'r&erdU 'h'an's lie, Europe insured all the way thrtoughaum~ der one policy. I will be 100 'yedi old on the 22d of next month, if 'I live' that 16Og," said, Mrs. Daphne Nevins/f of Chicago, tga 're rter..- . . s. Neviua,is a colored. aay liting on the second floor of 800 Clark street. She is about five fe6t sii,6iclght inches tall,* ahlmost perfectly! brect, and ot soare, build. In complexion and physio no my she,il purely: African. Her a ,. is neat, her voice low., but firm, her an guage good, an4 ler ,nanner quiet, A Bible,and refined.,, "Yes, sii'," h9esala.:, "I was born Mare 17 Outh r1nd couht, V i Ao. .bove -o d "How can ydf be so certain about your age?" J .4, - A -.Well,:you nee, the Ransoms always p ut down the birth of -their slave chuf; uninstheir family .Bible, -ust as they, did thre:birth, of their own children. an.d,whe I begn. to. -.g.tujpretty o. they always looked at that Bible to e how old , waoi :Theni.I remember ' day: f the month, lleoause mygrandfoif, Spem,. there,.wa brn op March 21, and& I was, born on March 22. So,there aint , dout about it." - "YoU were born a 'slave, of course ?" "Yes, sir' I belong to Mr. Harry Rander luntil he died, and then to Mr. Ambrose Ransom, his son, until he diq and then to his children," "Where have you Lived ?" . "Well, sir, I was 25 years old w4en Ambroie Ransom died, and his childteu tooi me away fiomVirgiiia to Franklin county, Missouri. They sold'mo to Mr. Huff, who took me to Saline counWi, and I was hisslave there when Lincoln set us all free. After the war, when I was 80 years old'"I iAoved to . .ven worth, Kas.,- and lived there eighteen years. For the last. two -years I have. lived in Chicago." "What soit of constitlition did yop -have when- you were young ?" I "A remarkable good one. With the -exception of chills and. fevers, I have never had any sickness in my life; I used to be anighty strong, too. I re membAr that it wa4n't any trouble for me, in my yolu * days, to lift three bushels Qf corn off the ground and put them on a horse's back, I take atter my m6ther, you see. She*was 112 years old the last I heard of her, and how much longer she lived I never knew. I It was living out Weat then, and didn't hear frOm her often. But my five children didn't live to any great age. They are all (lead now, and I have only five grandchdldren -living that I know of." "What sort of health do you enjoy c UQW ?" ,"Very good heaWth, indeed. I never havo ay sort of. nioness, except now a and then a -dull headache. My hearing i is almost as good as ever,. and my saght ' is good enough for me to sew about as t well as ever. My appetite is good, and v I sleep first-rate, unless I drink coffee. I can't say I sleep as long as I used to, a because I lie awake a good while after P I go'to bed. Bit when I do sleep I- Y sleep as well.as ever," . a "Low good is your memory I" s "Well, sir, I remember things that. A happenedwhen I was a 4lpild, just as if a I saw themW now ;"but I an a little for- el getful about what happened ;mterday or a week ago ". , ' -era y i ",Do-y6u i'aejber' anytfihig aboAt the revolutxOnary .war, oi'the gicat men of that t1=n,?" "Almost nothing. You see, I 1as g only a little girl, living away off in the P wilds of Oumborland county, and didn't t have any echhoce to see anything. I'do ii remember though, that once, when I ti was a child, I saw some 'of the soldiers ii gding to the war." . h "How .do you feel about (lying ?' n "Oh, I am ready to go at any time. d I am expecting it every day. But death Y has no terrors for. me. I was converted o down in Missouri atiout fIfty years ago, y and for three days I was so happy that c I almo.stdied 1of joy." ., ti S"Are you mnaking' any preparation to c celebrate your 100th birthday ?"~ u "Oh I my I no. You see I am :just a I poor old woman, Sand I- doni't; expect p anybody to tiake any more notice of mc til iu.this world."a a late census, Indicate a falling birth rate in Franee.- The population Is not deptoe,aig, but eh,e raLer of increase is 'a on suchy a descending scale that, ifit. 9 iihail continue, before fifty years spre a5 oypr tlhe country will have sun1k, if not to the level of a second rate Power, at -a lest 'tod he- btom'bfi 'tie list of the t: great Powers. The average annual lii- t crease In France is 25 to every 10,0p ,. inhabitantil, while It Is '101'In Great Britain, 115 ,,in -Germany, and still greater In Russia and in the United .$ Nates. It is fnrther dmonstrated tha~t e the,.stal Increase is notAlue t49 a higly efethrate tou'f6%(r inerlages than ~ in other Euro'peaui' Countries. It must, ~ therefore, ke due alone to the compar atively small number of births In FrduITob !$ This deony Ias been gomng ou for! fit.y years, eand unless France. gdtl trahsfusion of blOecl"sosiuehow and from e sogiwir it,isoply. a figstion of time 1 when the deaths will outnumber 'the- i birthA. If we ruay suppose that the a population'of thei Upited Statecs androf t the various countries of -Europe are d4i ~ olined by no way's ol' exd,eptional 'Yndl-' ' adies, and.,tbat thaey will preserve their present froiitiers. and g'o on increasing at . their present rate, their. numbers. ) will, by the year -1982, be as follows;,1 United States, 190,000,000; Russia,' , 168,06),0b0; Geila, 8,000,000;' es au 0,000 0; AustriaH i. So sthat Franceg w1iche a 'centary ago was real {f,ru9(aton, hayir~ gI A St. Petersburg letter of lato datj says: It will- be-aurprisiug to AmerIc4as- tW near tha; by, far'the g porton of news re terrIng to the W , 1sts reaches. us froni abroad.'. An faoe,We,who reside here have few.'mai0kf . ing any lobat!Iutorm ation about them . - attribute thig-tb twc re,gopis-g forI'e sjlenebbfth pre* and the siall importance Whlch issifane at. tach to.te -movemilt. The Alhilist rei pond 1184 , pre clroiateOi abroad,areivery much .exaggerated, ~l1ny of them hating ko:, fo#ndatift "wh 4ver. - common street row le'turned a revoiution, and a fire at a small,g ry or hotel tore pprcys ag d move ent, It woild be Nlhilism 'and INllls i 82t'l but ifi.My, w - k:Qjgs.oX peop' opt ttype., svery0 try, there ',adLs6at1af1ed por ti6n 01ftepopue p9plt , o' %y glio Vet to kg; gs a d y breakingout lato petty eblom1Oal' - ighting news paper. (wgraoiThe ated iYA-Ruisla vp-do n.iher. TI%J6avemeits-are too well guarded.. Mk'knqw to permit of a revolutiion andlne .P is not open to ahini. 'ley tbere ot and continte ' pIdt. Let-.usseij who; a 'the individuals 'orming.the ihilist army. Very few of ,hpm are Ryssians, nqe of them have ady Inanclal or social standing, and all of them re expeotih, the time.:.' when, having ,ausqd anarchy, they will be able to rob, Aillag6, burn and murder. There is no l(u4t hat Nihilsmg owee_ its origin to the lisgraceful . behaviOr. of 'those of the vcalthy nobles who reside abroad. While hey were hving ih luxury their agents, in order. tajb. an mqrp ..p9ney for theiri nasters, wre drivng the working classes o desperation by cruelty in various forms. ['hey complained and were turned Into the treets. They burned the nobles' prop irty in revenge. They we, as a natural onsequce, sent '1 Biberia. When a ap"rer could not or dio mot,w4nt io find vork, i joined .thejr ranks;'as did con 'lots and all classes ot O)ssipated men and iromen. When the first Nihilist distu"bances oc urred the Govern:ent, instea of inquir ag Into their grievances, treated them iarshly and cruelly. This was just what he revolutionary leadets wanted. They iad been made martyrs and bad attracted he sympathy of other dlashes,- which had dtherto kept aloof from the movement. allude to the student. clases of both, exes. Thinking that the people were ill reated and thinking t hit they were suffer ag young men and women came to their id, ani at the present moment the dan erous element of the anarchists is com osed exclusively of students. The peaeantry know nothing whatever f the movement;' three -quarters of them over heard the word Niwilism, and would LVO baolivo Ut PO&oD" I'xi, who are uttacious fenough to raise their voices, juch more their hands, against the holy er'on o the Ctar. Years and genera ons must pass before the bulk of Russians rill believe that any Czar could do wrong. Call NIlhillshi reform, strip It of assas ination;and crime, and advance, a -liberal rogramme adapted to thd country, and in our ranks within a year would be found It clasa6 of RuAiats. from the Czar him A1f arid' his .Ministers.. downwaids. sassinatiou, pillage, robbery and anarchy re strange to the country, and those who igage in them, or who lacit others to iem, must and will be se6rely dealt ith. Glass Eyes. "Do we have many applicatious for lass eyei? Well, I uhould say so," re lied a well-known optician to a ropor ir's inquiry. "If there were more profit it we might subsist on the sale of rem alone. This coast beats everything that line, for there,.are more accidents ere than anywhere else, and a great iany of such character. as to injure or estroy the eyes. Why, Lord bles our innocons heart, they average about no to every 600 or 600! The reason ou don't notice the glass eyes is be mae sometimes it is impossible to dis nguish them from the real ones, esye ally when they arein the socket. At the tmost, it makes you think the person cross-eyed. You ace, it there are lenty, of musces left a glass eye will mrn as naturally and quickly and nearly s far as a real eye, and it~ is only where lre muscles have all been cut away that we eye look~ deard and remains alw a tilonary, producinugj en fooet which' ill' make the average man quake iii his oots. Then there are a great -inny cople who wear them for vanity's sake ecause one:ofathe eyes has shrunken wayrind become smaller tharn the ether. 'lien they simply put on one of these hells and it would puzzle an expett to all which is the .glass and which the sal eye, as they oaih be matched to any lmsde nowadays anid hh in those eases ,glass eye moves equlyawela ie real eye. - ulya ela "You see, we have to make thenm all ~rts of abrapes, with a piece notched out ere and a p ieee notched out there to uit the exigencies of the case. Then e, have to have large eyes rand sinall yes, wide eyes and nlarkow eyes, and ?Aqd eyes arniopaque eyes. . We sqme unes comes aocops a man wbo wanta an ypas rygpasa Asmill-siized saucer, and 'a iitoideAfo largelr, if as large, as Lra bean. 3No, it is not painful to rear one if it id ltted to a lIiq0, but yea atteniontc p id 16ftting hmi.biJ.Th3 ebl 'b 'aen ont very night on retiring and the cavity rashed both at night and i the m'horn rig, but Very few people do ad, though as a inatter of' oleanliness. Well, we i1 have our own' 'aet.es, and I suppose here run in that direction. But can't sell yon an eye to-day? Well, good ray. Call again when -yo 'want' a glass "AIrAnIUonrADL attired your g 'lady sked. her cJtor, the. other day, If he lid inl6t tik that lh peat weight of hSIAtge lbatatis b'oinn vIn style iad's Ltendency to Iba*Gleeiheof the itain. '"ot.atill, 'hydear Mish; la fies who halve -br'Ans .d 't wear those arge hate.". The persistence of the mnagnetic broper' y'is6rnd i11 ei'tatn ti'eed;fs attributby 4i'krdqd4 to 4heitAupotatSer by'Ught g -of small patoie;b irdh holdlin Bus ~ensibn withs het adttr,'whidhr makes p what is known as theo dust of the ajr, 9, "9 Says You Do.' at upasire .caging. her dress" sa the freoled-foded l1ttle girl, tying he doll's bOnnet-stilings and casting her cy 'about, fora tidy large 'enough to servo as -shawl for that doubleij6inted :young per son. !0, your mother needn't dress up fo moi rplied thefemale.agent of the mu slonty Ooety, taking a self-satisfied vies of iherdefin the -mirror. "un up an( tellber, to come .down just as she is In he every day' clothes and not stand on cere Mony O& but she hasn't got on her every da: elpthes. Ma, was all dressed up in he nOw brown silk, 'cause, she expected Kim 41 p*oad to da. Di ond alway 19 her nlo meUA to got loft When inasaw you coining she said, 'Th Dickens I' and I guess she was mad aboi -sonmething. -Msaid it you saw her ne dress she'd have to hear all about the poo heathen, who don't have silk, and you'< ask her for more 'money to buy hymi books to send 'em. 'Say, do the nigger ladies use hymn book leaves to do thei hair up on and make it frizzy? Ma says abe guesses that's all the good the books do e5, if they ever get any books. I wisI my doll was a heathen." "Why you wicked little girl, what dc you want of a heathou doll?' inquired the missionary iady, taking a- mental mven. tory of the new things in the parlor to get material for a homily on wordly extrava gance. "bo folks would send her lots of nice things to wear and feel sorr., to have. her going about naked. Then she'd have hair to frizz and I want a doll with truly hair and eyes that roll up like Deacon Slider badk's when he says amen. on Sunday. I ain't a wicked girl, either, 'cause Uncle Dick-you know uncle Dick, he's been out West and swears awful and siokes in the house-he says I'm a holy terror and he hopes I'll be an angel pretty soon. ' Ma'll be down in a minute, so you needn't take your cloak off. 8he sald she'd box my ears if I asked you to. Ma's putting on that old dress she had last year, 'cause she said she didn't want you to think she was able to give much this time and she needed a new muff worse than the queen of the cannon ball islands needed religion. Uncle Dick says you'ought to go to the islands, 'cause you'd be safe there and the natives be sorry they was such sinners anybody would send you to 'em. He says he never seen a heathen hungry- enough to eat you, 'less 'twas a blind one, and you'd set a I)ibd pagan's teeth on edge so he'd never hanker after any more missionary. Lfncle Dick's awful funny and makes pa and ma die laughing sometimes." "Your Uncle Richard is a bad, depraved wretch, and ought to have remained out West, where his style is appreciated. He sets a horrid lexamplo for little girls like you." "Oh, I think he's nice. lie showed me how to slido down the bannisters, and he's teaching me to whistle when ma ain't rond. That's a pretty cloak you've got, ain't itV Do you buy all your good clothes with missionary moneyf Ma says you do." Just then the freckle-faced little girl's ma came hito tlis parlor and kissed the missionary lady on the cheek and said sihe was delimdted to see her aud they procot ded to have a 'real sociable chat The little girl's ma can't understand why a per son who professes to be so charitable as the missionary agent does should go right over to Miss Dimmond's and say such ill natured things as she did, and the thinks tLenussionary is a double-faced gossip. Infeatfons oa8 Inptio.. Dr. McAldowie ho" 'usidered the uch-lebatei question i a iur r pulmonary consumption is an intections disease in the light of his own infirmary and private practice. He is of the opinion that it is iec.tins, although it ls not so frequently communicated by infection as it would,, were the lunge less well protected; they arc against the access of germs. Lie mentions four cases where the wife, previously healthy and with no family hist,ory of tubercular disease, became affected while, attending to her phthisical husband, nnd two cases in wich persons suffering fronm the pneumonic form of the disease appeared to communicate the tubercular form to healthy pers-ms. Phthisis is not often communicated in this mannor by ordinary intercourse, because the germs are sifted out in the air passages by the vibrating action of the cilia situated there, and are removed by expectoration. The germs floating in the air are, moreover, commonly dry, and of feeble infective power. Theo lungs are liable to infection only when the inhaled germs escape the filtermng action of the bronchi and reach the air-cells, where they come in contact wi th a surface highly favorable tdr their absorption. This happens only under exceptional conditions. 'The parts of'the alveoli most exposed to the attacks of mnbiled germs are those near the entrance, at thie points where.the smali bronchial tubes lose their cyhlirical character and become covered on all sides with the coils; and pathol ogical obilervation has proved that these are frequent starting-points in phthisia. The IIonsely Woman. "What ladies are the easiest t,o wait upon?" -"The homely ones," replied the clerk, emphatically. Seeing a look of incredu-' lty upon the reporter's face he continued: "It's so; J am not bracing you a bit. Tlhe prettier they are the harder they are to please. A handsdrne girl has been so flattered and cajoled and poetted, from in fancy up, that she has lost her head. She enters with a flutter, and must be shown half a hundred different coemetice. iThen she settles down to a twenty minutes' vi bra'tion'betweeni thoem all. She is change. able, fluctuating and peovish, and if you venture to make a suggestion she skips from the store, as though fired from the niouth of a - Jannon. 'Now, on the other hand, a homely girl has a mind of her own. She is not constantly cloyed with admir ation and -ettingsfrom hier admirers, and l'ha aruink'but precious little from the golden bowl of adulation. , But she knows what she 4ants, asks for i't decisively, and leaves you with a smdle that *otad be charming if her mouth were only's yard and m.half smaller' and her teeth a little loss like elephant's tusks, God grant us a prosbarity of homely girls. Life would still be endnrable without prett,y faces, but Ileaven shelp us It we lose 'our homely 'ones.'' atvtng up Ga. Light. As the twilight was deepentfg into th darker shades of night, a reporter stood a the corner of Madison avenue and Thirty sixth street, New York, a few eveninA . ago to witness the sudden trapsformatio from .Cmmerian darkness to noonday bril r ~hanoy In the palatial residence of J. 'ier , pont Morgan, the well-known member c r the banking firm of Drexel, Morgan & Cc I Weary of waiting for the uptown electri4 lighting district, to be laid out and circle( r with wires to be connected with uptowr residences, Mr. Morgan gave the fire order for an Edison isolated plant amonj the mansions of the millionaires who in habit Fifth, Madison.anct Lexingtqn aven .u The plant Is ,or 269 A and 116 1 .a P8., or 9alnia In. a aHlug, Allb W%- frobi 6*ek ogidow in the dwelling - on tie' evening in question, there brokb 'forth a flodd of mello* light that gave the appesaance of i general illumination. The Star man wal received kindly.by Mr. Morgan as he en, tered the mansion, and the mysterioui illumination was explained to be the per fection of electric lighting. "I have abandoned the use of gas," sald Mr. Morgan, "with the exception of a few Jets at various points for use when the electrp engines are not working. The different lamp circuits throughout the houst are protected by the usual Edison safety guards against fire, while switches, each designed to cdntrol a large number of 'lamps, are conveniently arranged in the dit terent rooms, so that the lights can be turned on and off in quantity, in addition to each lamp being.lighted or extinguished separately." "Your house must have been thoroughly wired," said the reporter. "Yes," was the answer, "in every por tion of the house and stables." "How are the li;hts distributed?" "They are distributed In the following order: Main halls and stairway, 39; attic rooms and halls, 14; dome over stairway, 20; servants' ball and butler's pantry, closets, etc., 15; third floor, 20; second floor, 40; drawing-room, 42; reception room, 11; library, 10; sitting-room, 22; dining-room, 22; stained-glass skyhghts in dining. room ceiling, 22; conservatory, 42; basement, 28. collar, 28; stable and car riage-house, 6, and engine room, 4, making a total 01 885 lamps." After contrasting the Morgan mansion with Its more dimly lighted surroundings, and admiring the simplicity of mechluniam which controlled the electric force, the reporter called nport President Naton, at his cosy offices, 1o. 65 Fifth avenue, and asked him how many of the up-town palaces were prepared for the introduction of I he electric lighting system. "We are wiring the up'own mansions at a very rapid rate," was his response. "Among others the hcmes of William H. Vanderbilt and his son, Cornelius Vander bilt, are thoroughly wired, as aro the residences of John Sloan, R. L. Stuart., W. 1. Hutchinson, Ogden Goelet, it. L. Belknap, Robert Goelet, H. Lamp and the Hawthorne, one of the largest and most fashionable apartment houses in the city. The Dakota apartment house, Seventy-second street and Eighth avenue, is being wired for 5000 lamps, and orders for public and private houses in the uppor district are coming in daily." "Old Winay." You must know that Old Wildey was a wild duck that, four years ago, came one fine day in Decomber to the mill pond, among the other ducks, and swam with them until they got almost to the place where Grandfather fed them; then it was afraid to come any nearer and would fly away again, and thus it hap pened that every night when he called the tame (ducks to the shore to feed them, Old Wildoy came a little nearer and a little nearer, till one night she came to the grassy bank and looked at the other ducks eating up the grains of [ndian corn that Grandfather fed to them, "But, as she was a wild duck, andu id rnt kno that Jicas corn. was fit to eat, she just . 'ood looking at them eating it. Well, one night she walked np among the other ducks, and turned her head to one side,'and looked at the grains of corn with one eye; then she tnrned her head to the other side and looked at the grains of coi'n wilth the other eye; then she took a single grain up in her bill, and held it a mo ment aud then swallowed it: then she carefully picked up two or three more giains, and ate them and flew away. This delighted us grandchildren very much. The next night she seemed to have found that corn was as good for wil clucks as it was for tame ones; so she walked up among the other ducks, aid when Gran fother tinw tlien down the corn she ate it up as fast as ever she culd. In the course of a few weeks, - when Grandfather called the ducks she would fly out of the water, and wonld be the first .one that would come to be fed, and before spring came she would eat out of his hand. So it went on till the early part of May, when the leaves were out and the mead ows were dotted over with golden dan delion, and blue in spots with tufts of violet. Then we all noticed that Old Wildey would oecasionally leave the other fleck and fly away out of sight, and after awvhile return again, until one day, about the middle of May, she dis appered and we saw her no more. Hpwever, about the first of November, a flock of seven wild ducks ivore seen on the iake, and when the tame ducks came home to be fed, o'ne of the wild ducks left the flock and came up and ate corn with them. It was Ol Wileyl And so it has been every year since, About the ,ndale of May, when the Ice begmns to break up in the Northern lakes, Old Wildey leaves her wInter home to go north; and every. autumns about th-e first of November, she returns to her old home in PennsylvanIa. Each year, Grandfather and Granmother and the aunts and gandohildren, won '4i der if Old Wildoy. will come back. This e time, when aunt Hanuih came in and t told Grandfather that Old Wildey had 'come-back, he put aside his newspaper s and went to the feed-room for some . corn and called out, "Come along home, my duokie', when Wildey just flew out f ofthe water and came up to him and ate the corn out of his hand. Although she had been away for six months, she had not forgotten the voice that called her, or the hand that had fed her during the winter. Footprnts on the Faledsnow. A few of the citizens of Salt Lake wereelectrified by the Sof a numbor of gigantic and, hit erto unknowd footprints on the sur face of the recently fallen snow. From the' fact that the prints ommence ab ruptly in the midst of the street of one of ofur blocks, and, after various erratic wanderings,. vanish in another as abrupt ly as they begin, we are forced to thO cun elusion that the unknown authors of the mysterious traces were supplied with means of werial transportation. The footprints are of two distinct sizes: measuring respectively three and four feet in lengtn, and twelve and fourteen inches in width. The general outline of these esoteric records of our nocturn. al visitors presents a graceful curve, approximating to the eliptie at the too. or forward portion of the impress, con tracting gradqally towards the heel, and ending in a single long auid slendor line. This latter mark is evidently the soratc4 of an immense spur or spine with which the birds are probably provided a defensive weapons. It is noticeable that the smallest prints, probably those of the hen, show the longer impress of spur, indicating that she is the warrior of the tamily. The surface of the prints shows also the imprs,of a web-like covering, crossed with interlacing and knotted tendons and at once classes the authors among the aquatic fowls of the genus An8cr. The absence of toe or claw marks is most noticeable and some what mystifying. 11a61TAta Gum. From an article written by Dr. W. Riegler, published in the Woch enschrift des Niederocet, Gewerbe Vercins. we gather the following infor mation regarding this new article of commerce, which promises to become of considerable importance In view of the ever-increasing demand for India rubber, and the rapidity with which the trees that produce both the latter and gutta percha are necessarily being de stroyed. Balata is a product of the Mimusops balata (Nat. ord. Sapotece,) a tree of large dimensions growing on the banks of the Orinoco and Ama.on, in South America. The milky juice is procured, like caoutchouc, by incision of the trunk. It dries very quickly o.a exposure to thd air if the atmosphere is dry, and can be readily moulded into shape by first being softened in water. This gum, in its general properties, appears, to be of a character interme diate between India rubber and gutta percha, possessing the elasticity of the one and the ductility of the other, with out the intractability of India rubber or the brittleness of gutta percha. It is tasteless; heated, It diffuses an agreeable odor, and can be cut the same as gutta percha. Heated to a temperature of 120 degrees Fab., it becomes soft and capable of beihg welded. lIs meiting point is 270 degrees Fahi.- a temperature much higher than that necessary to melt gutta percha. It is entirely solu ble, cold, in benzole and bisulphide of carbon. Under the action of heat it is likewise soluble in turpentine; In anhy drous alcohol and ether, however, It is partially so. It is acted upon by neith er the caustic alkalies nor concentrated hydrochloric acid; but, like gutta per cha, it Is attacked by concentrated sulphuric and nitric acids. Subjected to friction it becomes very electrical. It is probable that It will be extensiveiy employed as an insulating medium for telegraphic purposes, for which its superiority over gutta percha has already been proved by trial. In balata, says Dr. Rtiegler, we have an article that gives promise of being of the highest utility; not so much on account of its possessing new properties, as because it is a new member of a group of the use ful elastic gums; and which, occupying, as before remarked, an intermediato place between eaoutchouc and gutta percha, may become under certain cir cumstances more valuable than either of these substances. J)Ia t, nie Le. "Fath'er " began a Casa avenue lad the other night, "is Mr. T. a good man 1" "Yes, may son. I regard him as one of the best men In Michigan." "Do you believe he would lie I" "What, young- nian, are yq.u crazy?i Why, sir, Mr. T. would n'ft telhbghe for all the gold on earth. What makes you ask that question V" ' 'Why, when a mail says he sawa 8p?Ig robin on the 15th day of February wh ., do you. call it?" "Did he say'ho saw one ?' "Hie did," "(Oh I I heard hin tell 'three different men so. Didn't he he, father V" "N'n-o, i thiuk pIot, ' mused the father ; "but let It be a great moral' lesson to you all-the, same. it-isn't once in a thousand years that a robin ,comnes up bero fromn Tennessee at that date and exibits haiself to a single citlzeni and rttag *(hige after. noon exprosl" -