PORTIiT. A OOl'B J If-1 could And a rose without a tliorn, A fragrant blossom with no bitter taste, A day of sunshine with no spot of cloud, A world without a dr«»ry deeert waste, Or one bright hope jfiiShadowed and serene. One perfect trnst With every fear cast out. My heart could rest upon the promise Bweet, Laying aside the evcr-presont doubt The shadow dim that falls upon the ring When wedded palms are clasped in fond . embrace; The spectre at the banquet, and the guest That silently usurps the highest place ; The presence all unseen, yet ever nsar ; ■ The minor note to every Joyous strain j The echoing thrill that answers rapture sweet With something very near akin to pain. It dims the lustre of the conqueror's sword, And falls upoa. the radiance of the oross ; No alchemy can purify the gold Beyond the dinging of its ashen dross ; It falleth like a mildew on "the page Where weary fingers toil for erngty fame, And on the shining escutcheon #{'»he great, Beside the greatest there, it writes its name. Th» Al'linn for November. HLSCELLANT., I'lulu Niteakmg. You may have heard the anecdote of the old in Newark, N. J., who went to hear the celebrated Dr. Thorn ton preach. Upon returning home his master asked— "Well* Sambo, how did you like the master?" —— ? "I like him fuss rate, mas'r; but I "don't t'ink he is so berry smart after all." "Why not ?" "Why, bekase 1 could understand ofcery word he said ; and I an't smart in larnin', any way. This was told to the doctor, who de clared that he considered it one of the finest compliments he had ever received. And he then told his friends how he had come to adopt a simple method of speech in his preaching. One day he overheard two laboring men, in a store, conversing upon the subject of a sermon which he had de livered on the previous Sabbath. They" had no doubt that it was good. "But"' said one of them, "you and I, Tom, have not got learning enough to see through the doctor's preaching. Them biff words always knock me." The doctor went home deeply im pressed with what he had heard. Was he doing his duty as a minister to tlie people, when the very class who most needed instruction from his lips gained only the hnsks of ambiguity in place of the bread of life ? Upon the table in his study, lay a half-written sermon, in which he in tended to give a brief history of the progress of Christianity. H# had writ ten of the sweeping djwn upon Rome of the Pagan hordes of the North, and of the gradual adoption by the savage conquerors of Roman habits and Roman ideas. The last cause he had written as follows: "And through this concatenation of events the introgression of Christianity in Northern Europe was brought about. It seemed very plain and simple to him ; but how might it seem to others ? He called his gardener—an industri ous, honest and reaily intelligent man —to his study. "Thomas,' said he, "can you tell me •what a concatenation of events is ? "Really, sir," stammered the poor man, scratching his head, I don't ex actly know ; but I should think it must 1 be something pretty bad !" 1 The doctor next summoned his house servant. i "Mary, can you tell me what intro■ i yretttion means ?" "Mercy I sir," cried the pert and 1 ready-tongued domestic, "how should 1 I know ? You never told me to fix any thing that way." The doctor dismissed Mary, and then retuffled to his manuscript, from whieh he erased all ambiguous words and phrases, substituting language simple and effective, and easily comprehended by the common understanding. And from that time he carefully pur sued this sensible course, the result of which was that he finally came to ftreach so that even poor Sambo could iaten and understand. True Frlendahlp. As regards private social life, I kuow no happier phase of it than that whioh allows you to have only a few intimate friends, and whioh does not compel you to fritter away your hoara among a host of acquaintances who have no hearty regard for you—paying a cold visit hero, a oold yisit there, glad when ihej are over—receiving these conventional visits in return, and uttering common places the while whioh are devoid of meaning and have no suspicion of earnestness. Where you have within hail a few friends between whom and yourself a sincere esteem existed, room is given for earnest feeling tk flower; the true heart glow is felt, and you give and repeive smiles whioh are not artificial, and speak and hear words which are good and glad utterances. In time the . ties whioh bind you and your friends grow as strong as ties of blood and kindred, and when a face is missed from the circle you mourn for it with genuine grief and affection. Ener»l«te mail Pearls. A Paris letter says: For evening wear pearls and precious stones are alone in vogue. Coral, Roman gold, and other leas costly ornaments are no longer worn. The emeralds of the Duchess d!Arco, which she wore at the ball of the Elysee lately (she is the individual who waa pointed out to me as a Russian Princess and whose jewelry was recently men tioned) are valued at $500,000. The Duchess of Medini-Cceli posseses a pearl _ necklace which isafamily heirloom. It is composed of twelve or fourteen strings of large and beautiful pearls, and valued «L $400,000. When she wears it the pper string fius around her throat, while the lowest falls below her waist." A tonohing obituary : " He knew the value of an editor's time, and never trespassed long upon it." Peaoe to his ash IT. ACBIOTLTrRAIi. RUBBEK OVEBSHOES FOB HORSES. — Rubber overshoes for horses are a re cent invention, which promises to be a boon to the equine inhabitants of pavod cities. The shoe is made and lined in precisely similar manner to the articles of apparel worn by the human race, and, in fact, presents no points of dif ference save in its shape, and its man ufacture of the best quality of india rubber. It is designed as s substitute for the iron shoe, and as a means _of Ereventing the many maladies tp which orses' feet are subject. Horses suf fering with cracked or contracted hoof, and similar painful hprts, it is said, are quickly cured by the substitution of the rubber covering for the unyielding metal shoe. The elasticity of the former allows the hoof to remain in its natural shape, while protected from abrasion against pavements by the heavy rubber sole beneath. The de- Ince is easily removed from or put on the hoof, and hence, while standing in the stall or turned out to pasture, the horse may be left barefooted. In winter time this covering serves as a protection against illness due to the common practice of mingling salt with the ice and snow in while the roughened surface of/ the gum be neath serves to give the animal a foot hold in slippery weather. As compared with iron shofes, the 6ost of the rubber one is about one-third more, and their weight is some 40 per cent, less, while they are very durable; Sixteen sizes are manufactim|d, so that accurate fits may be obtained. TAKE CABE OF THE TOOLS— The tools employed upon the farm are costly, and should receive the same care whioh is bestowed upon other valuable property. There is manifested by many farmers a kind of chronic neglect in respect to the care of the implements of hus bandry. Complicated machines like those used for mowing, raking, thresh ing, ete., with their iron wheels, levers and cams, are allowed to rust and decay, so that in a couple of seasons they are worthless. This neglect is inexcusable unpardonable. Some farmers become torpid, frozen up, in winter, and ap pear to have no active blood in their veins. They will not take up a rake or a neglected noe in winter and put it un der cover. We have seen ladders, forks, harrows, shovels, etc., peeping out from under the enow in winter, in time of thaw, and have asked why they were not cared for. Sometimes the reply has been, "We will attend to it to-morrow," but that to-morrow never came. There must bo a society organ ized for "protecting farmers tools," and the officers must have full power to forcibly seize and put away all neglected implements, no matter upon whose premises thoy are found. WOODHUCK OlL. —Perhaps some far mers who are troubled by that little pest, the woodhuck, are not aware that the oil of this animal iB excellent for oil ing harness, boots, shoes, and all kinds of leather requiring a simple oil. Several observing, practical farmers with whom I am well acquainted, say it is equal to or better than neat's foot oil for this purpose ; and I know of my own experience that it makes leather very soft and pliable. It is also useful for many other purposes instead of lard oil, which it very much resembles. There is no doubt but that it would sell for a very fair price if its good qualities were generally known. The woodchuck is very fat late in the fall, and a good sized one will yield a full quart of oil. Sometimes the oil is ob tained by baking the whole animal, but a still better way is to take off the fat, as free from bloody and fleshy parts as possible, out it into small pieces and try it over a hot Are ; then strain, bottle up and keep in a cool place. GUUBR AND TICKS.—A correspondent writes: Wood ashes, sprinkled upon the backs of beet cattle that are to be kept late, will kill the grubs, so that they will not injure the meat at all. Put it on two or three times in the first half of January, two good handfuls at a time ; when the hair is a little damp, is the best time. When one skins the animal, he may see "where the grubs were, but the meat will be of the natu ral color, and all right. I also know that snlphnr fed to sheep will drive away the ticks, and keep them away. A tablespoonfnl of sulphur to two quarts of salt, well mixed, iB about the right proportion: and it should be given about twioe a month, while the sheep run to grass. ■ I have tried it for more than twenty years, on flocks of from 100 to 500 in number, and the sheep have been almost entirely free from ticks during the whole time." EGOS IN WINTER.—TO have plenty of eggs in winter, the fowls must have warm roosting and nesting plaoes, warm food, if possible, with some kind of animal food at least onoe a day, and water to drink at will; gravel and lime moat be always at hand, and the poul try house must be kept scrupulously clean, and the fowls oul of the way of •vermin and free from lice. Lice may be destroyed by the applica tion of lard or sweet oil in which car bolic acid has been mixed at the aate of ope part of acid to one hundred of oil or lard. Por poultry, the mixture should be rubbed beneath the wings and on th 6 top of the head, exoept In the case of sitting hens, which should never have grease of any kind applied to them, if the eggs are to be hatched. » i To SATB B WARMS.— When they show the first symptoms of swarming, stop up some of the outlets to the hive, so as to force them to a considerable time in coming eat. The swarm being made up in part ef the young bees, many of them unable to fly well, and as the swarm can do nothing until all are out flying in the air, by prolongiim their exit, the feeble ones beoome tired, and, finding their plans frustrated, they alight to arrange their journey. Air OLD Dutch proverb says: The plowman must go up and down, and whatever else may be done there is no other but this long way to do the work well. " SCIETTIFIC. THE TULIP TREE. —This noble tree I deserves a place on every lawn, as it seldom fails to develop itself into a stately specimen in- any good, deep, I well drained soil. In habit of growth, I it closely resembles the common maple, j but its conspicuous orahge-tinted blos soms and scaly fruits at once suggest its near affinity to magnolias, to which it belongs. The flowers are not unlike those of a tulip, and hence the name by which it is most generally known. The broadly expanded leaves, instead of being palmate as in the plane, are ir regularly four-lobed, and somewhat resemble a saddle in conformation ; and it is sometimes called in the vernacular the saddle tree, from this peculiarity. The flowers are profusely borne during the summer months ; and although not strikingly ornamental on the tree on account of their being somewhat hidden amid the ample foliage, when cut and arranged in a vase with the fdliage that naturally belong to them, they have a distinct and striking appearance. This tree is from 100 to 150 feet in higbt, but in Europe it rarely exceeds 70 or 80 feet. In the old arboretum at Chis wick, Engohd, there used to be two specimens of this fine tree, one having much larger and brighter colored flow ers than the other; and, doubtless, other varieties of it exist where plants are raised from seeds. All through the 'summer the foliage is of a fresh, pale green ; and in the autumn, it dies off a bright golden yellow. Striking effect might, therefore, be obtained by group ing it with querent coccinea or the purple-lea Ted beech. In addition to its ornamental properties, its distinot and noble port commending it at once to the notice of intending planters, it is valuable as a timber tree, the wood being firm in texture and capable of taking a fine polish. THB FRENCH METER. —Sir Edmund Beckett is a true Englishman, and does not love the French measure. He says : "The polar axis is estimated at 7,899$ miles, or 500 millions of inches a thou sandth part longer than our present standard inch, which probably only came by accident to be what it Was when the standard was taken, and might just as well be a thousandth more. True the other European na tions have inches too, and some of them are rather longer than ours. The French meter, 39 371 inches, is the worst measure in the world, because it is inconsistent with any natural one : whereas our yard is the long stride of a man of good hight, and the natural length of his walking stick, and half his hight or half the stretch of his arms ; and the meter is not even what it pretends to be, the 40 millionth of a meridian of the earth, for the measure taken was erroneous; and if it were, such a standard is of no more real value than the distance of the moon. Tet there are people who have engaged in the orusade of trying to force on us this bad, erroneous, arbitrary, and revolutionary measure of a nation which tried also to abolish the week and make a new one of ten days, and whose language is declining over the world, while ours already prevails over more regions of the world than any other, and is evidently destined to ad vance more and more." Sir Edward, we think, is about right. The good old yard stick is a better measure than the meter. THK CHAMELEON'S CHANGES OF COLOR —THEIR CAUSE. —A paper was recently read before the Society of Biology, of Paris, by Mr. Paul Bert, upon the causes whioh produce the* ohanges of color in the chameleon. These changes do not run through quite so wide a range of tints as is assumed by the disputatious travelers in Arabia in the well-known fable. They vary from a deep bottle-green, through a bright pea green, up to a very lively yellow. The cause producing them is purely nervous. This has been fully proved by various experiments in viviseotion. The mechanism is thus described : Beneath the skin of the animal taere are found all over its surface vesicles charged with a coloring fluid, which, when withdrawn into them, leaves the epidermis and the tissue immediately beneath to exhibit their natural color, whioh is bright yellow. These vesicles, however, communicate with a net-work of minute ducts intersecting and inter lacing by a myriad of ramifications immediately beneath the transparent epidermis, and when the ooloring liquid is injected into these the effect is to produce a ohange of oolor in the animal, the intensity of whioh depends on the degree to whioh they are distended. The nerves aot directly on the vesicles. When these oontract the fluid is ex pelled ; when they expand it is re absorbed. A NEW VARNISH FOR METAL WORK A late Italian patent aontains the fol lowing reoipe for a varnish for protect ing metal work : A paste is made of finely pulverised quartz, carbonate of potash, or oxide of lead and water ac cording to the oolor required. A thin ooat of this is applied with a brush" to the object, whioh is then placed in a muffle, and heated to 1,495® Fah. The artioles emerge covered with a sort of polished glass, which resists blows and whioh does not split or scale off, while it serves perfectly to protect the metal against oxidation. COR* FOB CATABBH.— A medical au thority asserts that the severest catarrh cold can be removed in about ten hoars by a mixture of carbolic acid, 10 drops, tincture of iodine and chloroform, each 7.5 drops. A few drops of the mixture should be heated over a spirit hunp in a teat tube, the mouth of which should be applied to the nostrils iv volatiliza tion is effected. The operation should be repeated in about two minutes, when, after the patient sneezes a num berof times, the troublesome symptoms rapidly disappear. Oil* horse power is required for each bushel of winter wheat ground dep hour. _ _ A W*LL tempered bar spring will lose much of its elastic strength by filing off a very thin scale from the surface. DOMESTIC. DEATH IN THE SIBUP JUO. —Probably there ara very few articles of daily con sumption which are not adulterated in a more or less vile manner. One of the most scoundrel like impositions that unscrupulous rascals practice upon a long suffering public is the soanaalous compound sold as sugar sirup. It is as- Betted that nearly fifty per-oent. of the artiole sold under the seduotive names of golden sirup, silver drops, eto., is a rank poison, formed by the action of sulphuric acid upon some of the sub stances containing the essential of wood fibre. The quantity of sulphuric acid used to form sugar by this process is so great that it cannot be thoroughly extrao ted enough from the product, it leaves to be dangerous even to the stomachs of robust men—excessively so to the more delicate organizations of children, who use far more of the article than grown persons. Sino6 public attention has been called to this rascality, many instances have come to light of mysterious sickness which disappeared on the use of this breakfact dainty being discontinued. Severe burning pains at the stomach, and racking headaches are among the lighter symptoms of sirup poisoning. A case is mentioned where the cork in a keg of sirup sent for the use of a lumberman's camp was found to be nearly eaten away. Fancy a vile drug which will corrode cork, gnawing away at the coat of one's stomach. We will in future worry down our buckwheat cakes without the adventitious aid of sweetening, unless sufficient guarantees of the character of the article be fur nished with it. the detection of the pernicious stuff is easy. A small quan tity of muriate or nitrate of baryta, mixed with water, make a clear solu tion. If to this be added a small quantity of sulphuric acid a white precipitate is formed, which is insolu ble in water. Tannin also gives a black precipitate, unless the acid has been neutralized by albumen. If any of our readers have reason for looking upon their matutinal sirup with suspicion, let them at once take a sample to a chemist and have it ana lyzed. If found to be dangerons, let the makers and retailers be prosecuted with the same vigor that wholesale murderers would meet with. PERSONAL APPEARANCE. —On our per sonal appearance and habits muoh of our success in life depends. There have been many instances where the soul, shining through a maimed or de formed body, has conquered the ad verse circumstances. This is far easier to do than to overcome' an offensive or disagreeable trick of behavior; for sooiety will accord its pity and sym pathy to natural defects, but for ac quired ones it only reserves its disgUßt. Every reader will recall to mind some person toward whom he or she has felt a repugnanoe almost unendurable, merely from an offensive habit such an one has formed—sometimes a mere turn of the lip, a cast of the eye, or a pecu liar inflection of the voioe. Often a practice has been formed of clearing the throat, or spitting profusely about, or picking the ears, or some other vulgar habit, These things will create a dis taste for such persons in a fastidious mind, and deny iWs we may, or call it "squeamish," or "silly," we are all of us more or less fastidious. It is the duty of every person to make himself agreeable to others. Most of those peculiarities of manner which create aversion are spontaneous in their origin, but become so habitual that we are unconscious of them. Many of them were formed in childhood, when habits are easily acquired, whioh are not easily removed in after years. While we cannot like everybody or be lived by everybody in return, still we can take especial care that we do not make ourselves personally offensive by habits and ways that shock the delicate fastidiousness of those around us. A SMALL Pox BEMEDY. —The follow ing is said to be a certain cure for small pox. One man speaking of it says ; It is as unfailing as fate, and oonquers in every instance. It is harmless when taken by a well person. It will also cure scarlet fever. Here is the Receipt as 1 have used it, and cured my ohildren of the scarlet fever. here it is as I have used it to curesmall pox; when learned physicians said the patient must die, it cured : Sulphate of zinc, one grain ; fox glove (digitalis), one grain ; half a teaspoonful of sugar; mix with two ta bleepoonfuls of water. When thor oughly mixed, add four ounces of water. Take a spoonful every hour. Either disease will disappear in twelve hours. For a child, smaller doses, according to age. If counties would compel their physicians to use this, there would be no need of pest houses. If you value advice and experience, use this for that terrible disease. "WHAT do you eall that?" indig nantly asked a customer at a oheap restaurant, dointing at an objeot that he had discovered in his plate of hash. "Wristband, with sleeve-button at tached, sir," said the waiter, briskly. "Well, do you oonsider that a proper thing for a man to find in his hash ?" asked the oustomer, in wrath. -"Oood gracious 1" cried the waiter, "would jou expect to find a ten-dollar umbrella in a fifteen cent plate of hash ?" TALKING AT TABLE. —Is it proper to talk at table ? Bv all means. We are aware that some few oonsider it proper to observe perfect silenoe while at table. The table is the very place to talk, and the meal hours should be among the pleasanteat of the day. Don't talk buaihess and discuss what work shall be done, chat. This should not pro long the mealinoonveniently, but there ahould be enough of it to prevent the oommon custom of rapid eating. A Lima girl braids the hair of one who sat in front of her, instead of studying, when the teacher remarks : *'Home is the plaoe for arranging the hair, not here. What would you think to see me braiding my hair in school ?" Presently Susan's hand is raised, and the teacher, supposing she wishes to ask some question about the lesson, nods, when she hears the following: "Marv says your hair is false, and you wouldn't dare to do it here 1" Huaosous. How TO CABBY AW OX TO MARKHT.— This from a correspondent at Riviere da Loup, Canada: When the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada was completed, in 1860, many of the farmers had never heard of, much less seen, a rail way, but it soon got re ported around that passengers could travel by it, and even cattle. A back woodsman who was indebted to a coun try merchant was pushed by the latter for payment of the amount due, and the only means of liquidating the debt was by taking a fat ox to the Quebeo market. For this purpose he tied his ox to the back of his cart, and drove to the railway station, a distance of nine miles. On surveying the train and see ing an iron railing around the platform of the hind car, he concluded that was the place to tie his ox, which he accord ingly did, taking a place in a second class oar himself himself forward. Presently the train began to move off elowly. The speed increased ; quicker and quicker it went. The poor man got very fidgety, the speed still increas ing, until large drops of sweat became visible on his brow. By ,this time the conductor had reached his car to collect the tickets. Nearly out of breath, the man ran to him, exclaiming. "My dear conductor, my ox will never be able to keep up to this pace ; it is not possible." "Your i ox! Keep up to this pace ! What do you mean ? I don't under stand you. Have you oxen on board ?" ' Not on board, of course. I tied him to the railing of the hind car.'* "You tisd your ox to the railing of the hind car ? Who told you to do so?" "No one ; but that is the way we always do in the country." Of course the conduotor could not stop his train before reaching the next station, when, neediest! to say, on look ing for the ox, they found attached to the rope a pair of horns, with a small portion of the neck. Mr. Bergh could scarcely call this cruelty to animals, as it was not in tended. The humane conductor made a col lection among the passengers on the spot, realizing a larger amount than the ox would have brought at market, which he presented to the crestfallen farmer, who immediately returned home, vowing he would never have oxen taken to market by railway again. He has kept his word, and to this day he leads his.ox to market behind his own cart;— Harper's Magazine for March. A CLERGYMAN IN A QUANDARY.— The Saratogian has tha following : "Come in here, you black rascal I' That is what the young lady said. The young lady, you see, was closing the window blinds at the twilight hour, and seeing her little black dog sitting out on the stoop wagging his tail, and wistfully looking up at her, her heart was mftved with an impulse of affection toward her pet canine, shivering in the cold and wagging out his mute appeal. So she hastened to the door, and, throwing it open, gave vent to the loving expres sion we*have quoted—'Coqje in here, you black rasoal ?' So far as the dog was concerned he seemed to understand the terms of endearment addressed him, but when the young lady's pastor, dressed all in black from top to toe, stepped forward from the shady side of the doorway he wore a curious expres sion on his countenance. The young lady looked at the reverend gentleman and blushed. The dog wagged his tail as if willing to divide the honors. We don't know exaotly how it came out. Bnt report has it that the good man regarded doubtfully the ebony beast, glanced at his own broadcloth, con cluded it was all right, and accepted, the embarrassed young lady's declara tion that 'l—l—meant' the other—the other—come in and see ma 1* " GEN. MAOQUABIE, by a distribution of seeds and implements, attempted to induce the natives of New South Wales to cultivate the ground. Among the packets of seeds were some which ob tained fish-hooks; these, togeiE& wiSr the seeds, were given by the 'Governor to the sable monarch, King Bungaree. Some time after, the Governor inquired of him whether the seed had yet come up. "Oh, berry well," exclaimed Bun garee ; "they all come up berry well, except dem fishhooks, dem no come up yet" BUSINESS is dull in New Jersey. Re cently a man went into a paint store, and remarked in a low-spirited way, "Putty," and darted out. The pro prietor rushed after him. "What's that you said?" he demanded. "I thought you kept putty for sale," said the man. "So we do," replied the pro prietor ; "come back here." "I wasn't going to lose that ten cents," he re marked, as the man went away with two pounds. A GENTLEMAN friend has two canaries and has named them "Wheeler" and •'Wilson." His reason for these appli cations is that neither of them is a "Singer." "SEKBKTS," says Josh Billings, "is# bad investment. I! you pass it, you lose the principal; and if you keep it you lose the interest." ~ WILL the young man of the period be good ? Will he out off several yards of his new overcoat and give them to the poor? ' WHY is a docter better taken care of than his patients ?—Because when.he goes to bed, somebody is sure to rap him IP- _ . WHY does a butcher stick splinders of wood into his meat ?—To s.kewer it for his customers. THE proper salutation when you meet a writing master is, "How do you flourish?" AH ! glorious weather this," say the doctor ; "splendid run broken leas lately." "FAITH apd reason are close allies : And so An infidelity and " A GENTLEMAN caught oold by H«N'NG a lady's snowy brow. N . ' - ; YOUTHS' COLUHT. What is the Use ? What is the use of trimming a lamp If you don't intend to light itT What is the use of grappling a wrong ... lf you never intend to right it f What is the use of removing your hat, If you don't intend to tarry f 'What is the use of wooing a maid. If you never intend to marry t What isihe use of buying a coat, If you do not Intend to wear it ? What is the use of a house for two, If you never intend to share it t What is the use of gathering gold, If you do not intend to keep it r What is the use of planting a field. If you never intend to reap it t What is the ase of buying a book. If you do not intend to read it? What 1b the use of a cradle to you, If you never expect to use it f -* SEEING MOTHEB.— A. lady was riding one day in her carriage, among the mountains, when they came upon an old wom%n, with a funny little hood on her head and a staff in her hand, walk ing all alone. She was neat and olean, and her skin was soft and delioate, but her back was bent and she was barefoot. The lady saw she was shoeless, and stopped the carriage. "Here is some money," said the lady in a tender tone. "What for ?" said the woman, look ing up pleasantly. -"To buy shoes for your feet. Do you not want a pair of shoes The woman laughed a little low laugh which seemed to come from a heart filled with simple, happy thoughts. . s'pose I do," said the womail, but I never didn't think of anybody's giving them to me." "Take this bill, please, and buy you a pair," said the lady. "God bless and reward yon I" an swered the woman, heartily. The carriage drove on, and the lady sank bank.on the seat with tears in her eyes. "Oh," said she, "I thought I saw my own mother in that dear old lady. She had just such a sweet face and pleasant voice. Xou don't know how I felt when I thought of my mother, old and feetye, walking with bare feet over this tough, rooky road." If we all saw fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, in the poor, the cold, and the hungry, what a world this would soon be. THE DORMOUSE. —The squirrel has a distant relation, a kind of a third con sin once removed, well known nnder the title Dormouse, and often seen in cages, but not very frequently in a wild state. This little creature is also one of the hibernators, and has its warm nest in a thick bush, much as a squirrel has its domicile in a tree, where it sleeps its time away throughout the Winter. Like the squirrel, too, it has its store of food, not gathered into the earth, but tucked away into sundry nooks and orannies in the neighborhood. The amount of food whioh the dormouse takes during the Winter, and the fre quency of its awakening, depends al most entirely on the severity or mild ness of the season. In a very sharp Winter the drowsy creature wakes but seldom, and very little of its store is consumed, and in deed, even if the season should be mild the inroads on the larder are but few. The provisions are not gathered so much for the Winter as for the first few weeks of Spring, when the animal has at last shaken off its long Wintry sleep, and returns to its own lively habits, nature not yet having supplied it with a sufficiency of food whereon po live. OUB BOT'B OWL. —Some time since, a little boy, while at play is an orchard, found a small owl whiqh was disabled so that it ooold not fly. He brought it oarefully home, placed it in a large cage, gave it plenty of water, and fed it on various kinds of food, but princi pally meat, of which it was very fond. The owl was not muoh larger than a pigeon, and of a yellowish-white oolor, with rings of brown feathers round the eyes. ' The beak seemed hardly large enougk to admit a small oherxy, yet when a dead mouse was given him, he swallowed it whole without apparent - often heard the saying, "He looks as wise as an owl," but never realized its truth before. He would flz his large, round eyes on me with a steady, searching glanoe, which seemed to rrfad my inmost thoughts, and would wink now and then, in a most knowing manner. He liked very much to have his head scratched with the baok of a it was a comical sight to see him enjoying the luxury. He would sit on the perch in his cage, with his big, round head bent forward to get the full benefit of the scratching, and would slowly open and close his eyes, as a oat does when yoo gently stroke . her head. I paid him several visits and became muoh interested in him FIGHTING PISH.— In the East Indies a species of fish is found known as the "fighting fish," and used by the natives for sport muoh after the manner of game cooks. It is said that when two are plaoed in separate glass vessels and brought near together, they will at first watoh each other olosely from a dis tance, "then, changing oolor and be coming almost black, the gill oovers are opened ont and form a sort of collarette round the head, giving the fish a most curious appearance. The tail and fins beoome phosphorescent in oelor, as well as the eyes, and are tinted with most beautiful hues." The fish then' try to get at each other, but are pre vented by the glass. When they be oome sufficiently angry they are put utoone vessel, and fight furiously, Wnking one another rapidlv with their tails and %u until one or the other is conquered, when he turns a sort of grayish while oolor and uses every effort to get out of the way of his conqueror, » often jumping out ox the water in his endeavors to esoape. I WOULD rather be the author of one original thought than oonqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellenoe is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valu able than a hundred original thoughts. —W. B. Clulow. -A* apparatus has been invented by whioh tunes can be played by telegraph. It is called the telephone, and when put in operation all the operators along the line can hear the tones distinctly.

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