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. v. ; ... . . . , . , ... ' : .. . ... i . . . ; . " i ' ' iT i J i.i' ..m . i "' i ' i i ' - - - - - - i u ... , " , .- - ' .. 1 . '. . , i j , ... .. i. I , , - - - . - - . -- - J. '- '. . 1 ' ' ' ' n - tms: eit pef iv ; i . ,ii. ii-i , ftETOJR, N; C.V .THUKSDAsY, MARCH 2. 1876. 'ltft.l.l ",1 7K1 viHi - rl i' i i 4 OREEN GSASS UNDER njySKOW. f Tho work of tie inn uilow. Bo Vti forget, . ' ?i;tatres.gcaVn ptM luddf tbuauow. hehth 'iHntfl'bf Hrlnter Mow, Wiling likcrdloeli of Woe, There arfajril'!mora,rs. Ana baas and flower, And green grwt uudYftthe snow. We And that ItV ever so Iu this life's uneven flow ; We'yeoaly to wait, Jn tbe ff o tate, For the grees grass nndertbe uow. SprtnjJoW Republican. End of a Feud. BV A. F. HILL. Ill a certain quarter of the West, noted for family feiute, there lived, xome years ago, a young man, named Martin llazen. Unfortunately, the Hastens had been through many years at enmity with a family named Morgan, by a member of which Martin's owu father had been killed in ft desperate encounter, while ho was yet a child. Martin was now the only male member of the family left, and he had grown up lo manhood on the old homestead, under ihe careful"guardinsbip aud teaching gf his widowed mother. . . She hai npt,tajiht him he lesion of .."hatred. he. had Jold him of his un ctuous fathers deatih that she honed to see no more wicked tragedies and . adm,wlshe4 him.although he might never like thflMorjians, to cherish no thought of revenge. rb& Morgaps wwe four In number Henry, a desperate and revengeful man, by whope hand pld. Mr. Ifazen hud fallen; hit two sons, Janifes and Kphralm, much like him; and his daughter Esther, who was not like him. but who, with a lovely '-face, possessed the sweet and gentle nature of her mother, whom torroW had years before hurried to the grave. The two famines lived in the same community: Martin and Esther fre quently met In the village, at ehuijch and at social partlet, and notwithstand ing the feud that had oast a shadow on both homes, they loved each other; and to the unbounded rage of Henry Morgan and his sous ho hated Martin forlils father's sake they deliberately w ent and eot married. Esther and Martin wt;ll knew that she must not dare to visit her old home again after that; So she went with him to the house of the Hazans, and they did not see any of the Morgans for ' month. Hut Martin was warned that he was In danger, aud he knew the Morgans too well to doubt it. While he desired to live at peace with them, he deter mined not to fall as his father had fallen, if he couJd help It. Like most ieople in that section, and at that time, he went armed when away from home; and besidos being one of that class of )ersou8 scarcely susceptible oi lear n W as one of the best shots, with rifle or pistols iu the community. One evening in autumn, just at dusk, a few months after the marriage, ho was riding home from the village on a spirited horse, when the Morgans sud denly came into his mind. He thought over the strange history of tho two fanjillos, and began talking to himseit, as he rode leisurely along : "How unfortunate how foolish It is," he mused, "that this enmity should exist throutth whole generations, merely because remote ancestors quarreled over a line of fence, or the ownership of a truani pig! they hale me; I do not lear tnem,jJfa Has to ;ue reconciled. I thlnlt I shall tee them and talk it over. 1 believe I could reason them Into fair ness. How Jo approach ljb,em, though He was' then riding by .a. 1 title, gfofe of timber, from wblcii three men sprartg into the roadi ' Otie grasped his bridle itelh: whllatwo iDood with rifles leveled . tjpou him. It was not yet so dark bit Uut he re cor nixed bis assailant, i bey . wer the Moriruis. it was EDhratm who held Iris bridle-rein, while his father trul James menaced hjni'wlth their rifles. "Ob, Hasen I" Mid the old man, with n ale of triumph, "we've got you! You won't see the sun rito to morrow, you lodepcident young dog I You'll be with tour father before that. What's more, you'll steal no more daughters of mine. Stop that I don't oner to reach for that shooter 1" he said, as MartlnV hand moved toward his breast-pocket. "At best, you've but a minute to live, while I tell you why I am going to shoot you, and how glad I am to wipe out tho last llazen; but none of your trtcki or you wont live a second l" i Martin tHacen, sitting la the saddle "with the calmness of tall treei by the roaflaldehalloekedla the" fathering . darlessVKktf bHitl ejtrea frowojbg upon the terrible scene felt thatrt was no time fiow?ltrjort wKh'tys'tmemle and he dismissed the thought. He w sited Ltaot1bleV!, 'for Henry Morgan to apUk glln,-fbr he' knew that the revengeful man. would love tfl afloat ov4 terftfOTVftroHnr M"V nd thsVM AmwM awalthirttmmand. Henry Morgan, with rifle still leveled went on ; , , 1 ' ' "Yet. Touni Tlaxen, the last oT out " QulflTc u a flash Martin tnttdheVl hit - molver from hti pocket, and dropping bis roe upon hit Horse's mane, to ten fuse-the aim of Henry and - Jamoa Mor gan, he fired at Ephratm, who fell te tne earjn: aup uie .tfft siarwea dj the.cfkOl'if' thelWVWvef 'atf his ear, dahedawir at mil, speed. .,-, hlini MAtwmtptilatvJajBsamuflfi , ;Mfuabjr)tbfdaetituyiaft. plewed j March's r left 'tkdgh. He had not gone rar Deiere ae ulsoovered -that the shot had broken the bone, ami he began to suffer such excruciating pain thiitlyHhe' danefvhlciy he knew wat'stfll tMhlmY him, and hhls realiza tion of liow Important it Was td reach home prevented him from reelliiir froin his saddle, in a swoon.' He succeeded In feachinit home, to be met at the gate- by his mother, who told him that during his aDsence Lanier naa beetoroibly -earrled away by her father aud brothers. Martin fell, rather than dismounted from his horse, dragged himself into the lawn, and with the words : "The Morgans have shot nie I" fell fainting upon the grass. Mrs. Hazen hurried to a neighbor's house for assistance. A surgeon was summoned. Martin was carried in and laid upon a bed. lie revived, and his wound was properly atteuded to, with appliances of splints and bandages ; and the good doctor Anally left him that night in great pain, with the consoling remark that be would "keep his bed for a good three months at least." For many days several armed friends of Martin Hazen remained constantly at the house, to defend him from a pos sible attack of the Morgans. He began to recover from his wound; but his anxiety for Esther tormented him day and night, lie reared they might mur der her; but his friends, assured him that they would not dare do that; that she was probably merely kept at her old home under strict survellance, and that in due time she should be rescued by some process or other. It was as certained, meantime, that Ephraim Morgan was not killed by the bullet from Martin's revolver on the night of the attempted assassination; that the missile had only plowed its way through the scalp of his cranium, producing a shock that had merely stunned him for half an hour. Finally, when Martin was able to get out of bed, and sit in a chair for a few minutes at a time, the Mirgans not having made their appear ance, the friendly neighbors left, and Martin was alone with Mrs. Hazen. It was the very next night after the vigil ceased that the door suddenly flew open, and Esther Durst into the room occupied by Martin. It "was a room on the ground iloor, properly a sitting-room, hut a bed had been placed in it temiMjrarily for the wounded young man. "Eather!" Martin exclaimed, joy fully. She ran to his bedside, kissed him, then said, excitedly: "Ohi Martin, they are preparing to come to-night to kill you ! I overheard their plans, and I escaped by jumping from the window1 bf a room they had locked me in. They don't know it." ".Let ua hasten for aid!" said Mrs. Hazen, who came in from an adjoining room at that moment. "It Is too late! They may be here in a few minutes. We must carry Mar tin out of the house. Oh, heavens!" she exclaimed, trembling from head to foot. "I hear their horses' hoots now. They are not a hundred yards away." "Be calm," said Martin. "I will tell you what to do, and do It quickly. Mother, you and Esther help me, and I will get out and lie under the bed. Then arrange the pillow under the covers, so that they may think I am lying In the bed, then both of you got Into the next room. They will prob ably rush In and fire, and I will crawl out with my revolver. Here it is. Then they with their empty rifles, will be at my. mercy. JNow leave the canaie Durn Ing on the mantel. When 1 rap three times on the wall, come in." , These instructions were quickly obeyed, aud as the two women with drew, Esther said : "You won't kill them, if you can help it?" . "No; I promise you that. Quick, now I I hear them !" The women withdrew, and had just closed the door behind them, when the front door flew,jQpen, and the Morgans rushed In. "Ha! ha!" exclaimed the old man. "Give him no chance this time!" Instantly the reports of three rifles raqg out, and the bullets perforated the bed-olothea and the, quiet pillows, and the Morgans rushed to the bedside to see if their victim was dead, while bits of plastering, loosened by the concus sion, rained from the celling, Martin, although It caused him con siderable pain, noiselessly dragged him self out at the foot of the bed, which stood In a!ioorner of' the room, and nlaced himself la a low chair near the door, and Just as he had attained this favorable situation, the Morgans dis covered the trick that had been played upon them, and found themselves with empty rifles, confronted with a large revolver In tne hands of a very cool and brave man. "Henry Morgan," said Martin, "you and your sons are at my merer. Don't iDQSel,llYou know how I handle this revolver. Move but a halr's-breadth, any one 6f you, an 1 1 Are to kill !" "They" stood transfixed. They were not cowards, but they did not poesess the cool moral courare'eiMarUo, and the surprise to - which they had been treated completely unmanned them. To complete their onfualon,. Martin gave the signal,' and Mrs. 'Irar.en and Esther came in. r'WbyVgirl!" exclaluled Henry-Morgan, "how in the-k "Not a word!" interrupted Martin, stetolr, .I wlU. dd the talking how. There' are chalrtr near you--eit down. Do you hear V and he pointed the re volver at each ene in turn, with such rapidity that he teemed to cover all three at once, They wtr a completely under bis control, that they obeyed hit command la the most submissive manner. "Mr. MoTiM.!' Martin proofded, "I hsvan;6aMiveS'ln'tor-fisml. Our loeen ty enmity rorwnera nowt for what. ' You .tr- tainly ht bt) tenon to hat me. l We never harmpd.you. J have h)y bfftnded you'by rotoylng JstD.U should rather have made .us friends. You killed my father,, nd hve.,fwi tried t6 murder, me. , Now I, have, you in my'W(Yer,1iu& 1'ih not gorng. to? kill v nrwr. Tint I'm not flri .n vou. 1 ram w ninsr to forgive aou .for get the past. Although you ajiB A re vengeful man, Henry Morgan, ! believe you have a generous' nature. Np'W at tend.) li alter tms you try to narra me I will not spare you ; but if you will be reconciled, take my hand and say to, and I wllj( trust you, for I knw that you ana your sons .arc fu men wno will lie. Will you do lf or win you depart with the same old hatred In your, hearts?" nenry Morgan had been sitting with downcast eyes, his empty rifle poised upon one knee. He had trembled at first, apparently with suppressed rage ; but now his better nature seemed to possess him and after a moment of thoughtful silence he arose, left his rifle standing against the wall, walked across the room, took Martin by the hand, and said: 'Hazen, you make me ashamed of myself. There's my hand. Let's for get and forgive all round. Hereafter you are my friend and son-in-law." The younger Morgans, catching the same true spirit, shook hands with Martin, 'and between the brave youth and these rough men , there was a re conciliation that was earnest and abid ing. They had tried to murder him; now they would have killed a dozeu men to defend him. Martin tossed his revolver upon the bed, for he knew he could safely do so. Hough men as the Morgans has been all their lives, there was truth in them Martin knew it. And the feud between the Morgans and the Uazeus was at an end forever and ever ! f Hints to Brala Worker. There is no kind of employment bo exhausting to all man's faculties Aa steady brain work. No one is in constant need of ' more recu Deration than the individual bo employed. Itshooldbe. a study with him how he may husband his energies aud prevent that strain upon hiB powers which is breaking down so many in professional life. Any means or agencies which will save wear and tear, should be eagerly seized upon. While the brain 'power is exhausted by thought, the manual labor writing is wearisome to4he flesh. Journalists, ministers and lawyers often postpone and then never accomplish intellectual tasks, because they pave not the physical pluck to undertake them. The employment of an am anuensis to perform the manual work of writing while one dictates, is a great saving of energy. Any person who has not tried this plan, would be agree ably surprised to find how much assistance it affords. Very often a professional man feels too .weary -to resume tb. pen and finish some weary literary task that is urgent Then is the time when he should draw back in his easy chair and take a comfortable attitude elsewhere, and dictate to an amanuensis. After a little experience one will find thereby that he can ac complish twice as much and with far less exhaustion, The attention is not divided as when one writes himself. With nothing to divert the eyes, a person can, if necessary, close them and closely concentrate the mind on the subject, while theissistant commu nicates to a paper the thoughts which follow. Many of our greatest writers rarely touch the pen and paper them selves, unless when writing on private matter, but stretched oat in the mean time in an easy chair or upon a lounge, prepare their articles through their amanuensis. Heme !. Homes, which are the nurseries of children who grow up into men and women, will he good or bad according to the power that governs them. Where the spirit of love aud duty pervades the home where head and heart bear rule wisely there where the dally life it honest and virtuous where the govern ment is sensible, kind, laying then nifty we expect from such a home au Issue of healthy, useful and happy beings, capable, as they galu the requi site strength, oi following the footsteps of their parents, of walking uprightly, governing themselves wisely, and con tributing to the welfare of those about them. On the other hand, If surrounded by Ignorance, coarseness aud selfishness, they will unconsciously assume the same character, and grow up to adult years rude, uncultivated, and all the more dangerous to society If placed amidst the manifold temptations of what ls called clyllUed life. "Give your child to be educated by a slave. Said an ancient Greek, "and, Instead of one slave, you will have two." I4ftt 1b pBf e. Recent investigations have shown this carious fact about sponges : That no matter how long it may have been used kept dry, its life is apparently re stored when it is wet. The tponge be ing wet with warm water and placed in a warm room, the extremities of the tpongs after a little while appear to be alive and reach oat like so many snakes the longer they are. the great er the motion. Nearly half of all the slender points teem to come to life, but after they become dry the motion eases. AU torts of dnst were put upon the tpongs to that they should be aider the tarns oircumttanoss as the pores of the sponge, but nothing but the pores showed any motion. These moTung parts, when, caught with pli ers, would pall -Out a portion of the tponge. When there it much water In the apooge tbey seem to be satisfied, bat it it as the sponge it drying gradu ally that etldenoet of life are exhibited thjt act being discovered with an instrument which magnified only for ty :two diameters. Love, Juitloe and fortune, are said to have no eyet; Uiftir three make men opea the!) eyet pretty, wide sometimes. Hake Hoteof It. i Those who have never tried the ex periment rarelr appreciate tht benefit which an enterprising, progressive me- oiiBiiic uenvee irom Keeping a recora of matters worth remembering. An intelligent workman, especially' one who reads, it constantly acqoinng in teresting and useful information, which at some time he will probably have occasion to apply practically in his business. Almost every day he learns something new. and save to himself : "I must remember this ;" but unless he has occasion immediately to apply his knowledge, he is very apt to forgot all about it, or to retain only a vague recollection of having some time read or heard something about it. The memory, unless highly trained and naturally retentive, is a treacher ous repository for odd scraps of useful knowledge not gained by experience or peisnnal observation, and every mechanic slionTd have a paper mem ory, which will never let a useful fact slip away. We should advise all mechanics, and especially all young men with un formed habits who are learning me chanical trades, to keep note books in which to enter anything woith remem bering which may come to their knowledge. Facts learned from obser vation and experience.or gathered from conversation with other mechanics, useful hints gained from books, valu able suggestions, or facts of practical interest found in newspapers should always be promptly recorded and saved. When a book is full, it should be carefully indexed and laid away in some place where it will be easy of ac cess. The mere fact of writing, espec ially if condensation is required, will tend to fix a fact in the memory, and give ' a man a more ready control of what he knows. In any case, he has the fact at command at all times, and a book such as we have described, con taining the gleanings of years of study and practice, becomes of inestimable value to the possessor. We have seen mechanics' note books which would not hare been given in exchange for a whole library of technical works, aud we have never known a man to begin the record of facts who was not glad he acquired the habit. We regard this as a matter of great practical importance to mechanics in the trades we especially address. No printed text books contain all the points which a smart mechanic will pick np in the conrse of his business, and nothing will take the place of a scrap and note book. Let oar readers, young mechanics especially, try the experiment, and we promise them that they will find immediate and life-long benefit from bo doing. It will be to many the stepping stone to success in life, by inculcating careful habits of acquiring useful knowledge, and mak ing them wiser men and better me chanics than they would otherwise have become. To all young mechan ist we say : Never let a fact worth re membering slip away from you. Make a note of it in some shape, and then put it where it will be accessible when you want it most. The habit is easily acquired, it need consume no time re quired for the performance of other and more important duties, and the pleasure which it will give will more than compensate for the trouble in volved, even were no subsequent bene fit to be expected from it. Iron Age. How Coffee Cm to bo Beed. It is somewhat singular to trace the manner In which arose the use of the common beverage of coffee, without which few )er8ons in any half or wholly civilized country in the world now make breakfast. At the time Columbus dis covered America, it had never been known or used. It only grew In Arabia or 1'pper Utopia. The discovery of Its use as a beverage Is ascribed to the superior of a monas tery In Arabia, who, desirous of pre venting the monks from sleeping at their nocturnal services, made them drink the infusion of coffee, on the re port.'' of shepherds, who observed that their flocks were more lively after browsing on the fruit of that plant. Its reputation spread through the ad jacent countries, and in about two hun dred years it had reached Paris. A single plant, brought there In 1714, became the parent stock of all the French coffee plantations in the West Indies, and the French and Spanish all over South America and the Went Indies. The extent of the consumption now ean hardly be realized. The United States alone annually consumes it at the cost, on its landing, of from fifteen to sixteen millions of dollars. itro. The religions mendicants of India are a numerous class, deriving their subsistence from the charily of the populace, whose pity they excite by practicing various kinds of telf-morti-cation. One exhibits himself destitute of clothing, or covered with a coating of ashes ; and another displays a with ered limb, which he has succeeded, by resolute effort, in paralysing. Each one strives to surpass all others in the fanatical extent to which he car ries hit self-abuse, in order that be may obtain a superior reputation for sanctity. One year, one oi these pious beggars contrived to make bhnself a lion in the religious circles of Jeypore by suspending himself by the heels a great part of each morning. By tying ropes to the branches of a tree over banging the road, so as to form a sort of polley, and then fastening his feet into slip-knots at the end of one of the ropes, be continued to haul himself up until he hung his whole length in the air, with his oead downwards. In this position he remained hours together, mumbling hit prayers and telling bis beads. - His face was serene, and he tpoks without difficulty, and in no way gays signs of particular discomfort. Darisg a whole month he continued this novel feat, winning thereby Rest enthusiasm from the crowd of admlr lnc Hiadooa. At another time one of these beg gars, or fakirs, diitinguiahed himself 4; by bis extreme fcideonsnesa. "Upon his face, half hidden by a rough and unkempt beard, was tattooed in red 4. 1 . i f J . m it a . tne maens oi rsepcune : dis hair, tied in a knot, was rolled above his head. forming a sort of mitre : and his body, which was very lean and quite naked, was besmeared with ashes. Bat the most revolting thing about him was his left arm, which, withered and quite stiff, stood out perpendicularly from the shoulder. Through the closed band, bound round with stripes of linen,, the nails had worked their way, and were growing out upon the other side ; and the hollow of this hand, which had been filled with earth, served as a flower-pot for a small myrtle-bush." In order to reduce his arm to this miserable condition, the fakir was tied to a seat, and the the uplifted limb was fastened to a cross-bar. During a considerable period, the torture result ing from this unnatural position is agonizing; but, as the arm becomes withered, sensation deadens, and fin ally anchylosis ensues, and a perma nent condition of rigidity is the result. A Peaceful PIp. Much thought, supplemented by on little experience, has led me to prefer the pipe before all other methods of tobacco using. There exist objections but neither are St. Peter's dome and the Medicean Venus wholly satisfac tory, though on the whole the best of the kind. There are times and places tolerant only of the cigarette, tenderly white and sweetly fragrant: a grimy pipe is no fit sight for the dark -eyed daughters of warm Castile. And have we dined with delicate sumptousness ; has each successive viand, from pearly oyster to perfumed Stiltont once cun ningly relieved the palate from what went before, and subtly stimulated it for what was to come ; in short, has the repast been as epicurean song of finest harmony hardly may we play the epi logue upon a pipe. More fitting there will be the refined Habana, dark and tapering, yielding a firm white column of moulded ash, which may be broken from its fiery base, but crumbles not. Let the elderly dowager, with high arched nose, and the silk -stockinged Frenchman of the old regime, enshrine themselves in their gold snuff-boxes. And be not even that other preparation of the weed too much condemned. A horseman once, on a twenty-four hoar gallop, condensed all nourishment into a mouthful or two of "chewing tobac co," and it brought him successfully through. But, after all is said, we turn to the pipe once more, It is better than chewing and snuffing, because we taste the fire-emancipated soul instead of the unrefined -material part; better than' the cigar, because the cigar is a mere stranger a pasning acquaintance; though much of the fine geutleman be in him, he is dry and formal. Begin ning the conversation with airy words of captivating savor, his. language gradually grows stronger, till at the end he sinks into rank and bitter re pinings ; now is he gone forever and forgotten. No romantic associations can cling to him ; his history is com prised in a single event Picturesque he is not ; an attache of the fashionable world, it is beneath his dignity to con sort with such people as Teniers drew ; nor will he enroll himself among the familiar spirits of poets and philiso phers. Shakespeare with a Partaga be tween his teeth ! Milton wrestling with an Intimidad ! Dante paffing a cheroot 1 We cannot entertain such images. But a quaintly carved pipe-bowl, em browned and lustrous would it not add to the grave dignity of each one of them 1The Galaxy1 A Carpot-baa at Dtaaer, aad Ita Aelt. A recent second-class passenger on the Union Pacifie Railroad, who was suspicious of some of his fellow-travellers, took into one of the restaurants on the road a huge carpet- bag. about half filled with his effects, and placed it in the chair beside him while he ate. Having finished and asked the price of his meal, be was charged two dollars, one for himself and one for the carpet bag, which the restaurateur remarl ted, baa occupied a seat at the table, and must pav for the privilege. "But," reasoned the passenger, ''it didn't eat anything, and, as there were plenty of other seats for all who wished a meal, didn't inconvenience anybody." "Can't help that." said the host, "seats at this taSle are a dollar apiece, and if your bag occupied one it must pay." Seemingly convinced by this logic the passenger banded out the extra dollar. Then he walked up to the carpet-bag and apostrophized it thus: "Carpet bag,'' said he, "you've been mighty pa tient while I've been eating, ana too busy to attend to you, and now you shall have all you want" So saying he unlocked the bag displaying a yawn ing emptiness which tne contents of s half-bushel measure would scarcely fill and began heaping into it all that the table cotaiued, the other passen gers, appreciating the situation, joining in to assist him, till the carpet bag bad enjoyed such a "good square meal," that it was borne away with difficulty by its owner, who feasted upon its con tents for the rest of the trip to his great comfort and satisfaction. Locle Aacoa rrleada. If eople wish to live well together, they must not hold too much logic and suppose that everything is to be settled by sufficient reason. Dr. Johnson saw this clearly with regard to married people, when he said, "Wretched would be the pair above all names of wretch edness, who should be doomed to adjust by reason, every morning, all the min ute details of a domestic day." But the application should be much more gen eral than he made it. There Isuotiino for such reasonings, and nothing that Is worth them. And when we recollect how two lawyers, or two polltldsns, can go on contending, and Uiat there la no end of one-sided reasoning on any subject, we thall not be ture that inch oonteutJon Is the best mode of arriving at truth. But certainly It It not the way to arrive at good temper. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. The Lord lovcth a cheerfurglter. The May of life blossoms only once. Sweet mercy is true nobility's true badge. c - The rich should remember What they owe to the poor. ' ' Tbe end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation. Men are geese, women are ducks and birds of a feather flock together. Greatness may build the tomb, but goodness must write the. epitaph. Sorrow turns the start Into mourners and every wind of heaven Into a dirge. He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better' em ployed. - , t In such a time as this It is not, meet that every nice offence should bJar Its comment. , The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are top 'strong to be broken. Tne worth of the State in tne1 long run, is the worth of the individuals composing It. Treason doth never prosper; whit is the reason? Why if it prosper. (none dare call it treason. ' - Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less In the world. . " ' ; Piteh a lucky man Into the Nlletays the Arabian proverb, and he will' come up with a fish in his mouth. A cross husband'ahd father iat the head of the table makes the best dinner unpalatable and indigestible. ' ' The eyes of the critics, whether; iu commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.--Lani3n, :i The comparison of love to fire, holds good In one respect, that the fiercer it burns the sooner It Is extinguished, It is absurd to let a colt run wild the flrBt few years of his life, and their by might and main,, reduce himaU at once, to subjection. He shouKT be taught from infancy to be led by a baiter and be handled. A wild Arab would be ashamed to reat a colt that required "breaking" when grown up. A Cologne inventor has constructed another speaking machine:' admirably adapted for dramatic performances, in asmuch as It can do (everything but hiss. It pronounces, labiala ; JJnguals, and even gutturals, fn a manner conso nant with human custom fbat,'Of coarse the vowels are Its strongest points es pecially Its 0 de Cologne; i The Mikado of Japan' is on" drlthe busiest sovereigns of the period, ; He takes a hand In the court councils, ( at tends naval, military and educational displays, and dignifies the casting (of a cannon or trial of a torpedo boat ' with bis royal presenee. Ho ports a heavy mustache and imperial, and stands, un booted five feet seven inches. ; It has been said that true , religion will make a man a more thorough gen tleman than all the courts in aiope. And it is true; you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any Duke, simply because they , have learned to fear God, and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which Is the very root and essence of all good-breeding. ifer. C. Kingiley. A little drummer boy was taken prisoner. Aroand the bivouac fires the soldiers said to him : Now beat ua s "re MilU." And he beat them a "yWslU." Xow beat us an "advance." . And. he beat them an "advance.", ow,. beat us a "charge." And he beat ' them a "charge." Now beat us ' "retreat." "No," said the drummer boy, "I can not do that; I never learnt that." The late synopsis of the' 'Palms of Australia by Wendland Drude- lnorms us that there are twenty-six species, on the continent and adjacent' Islands. Four species are found on Lord Home's Island and twenty-two are scattered over tbe mainland. At In Hla&ostan, the palms of Australia flourish, wost luxuriantly In the vicinity of the tea coast. Ont of the finest specimens the Liviitona Auttralit, attains a height of about 80 feet. , I love such mirth as, does not make friends ashamed to look upon out another next morning; or men, that cannot well bear it, to repent of. the money they spend when they he warmed with drink ; and take it for a rule, you may pick out such times and tuCU com panies that you may make yourself merrier for a little than a great deal of money, for "it is the company and not the charges that make the feast." hook WalUm. No trait of character-is mare yalnsble In a woman than a sweet temper. Ilome can never be mads happy without it. It is like a flower that springs up in our pathway, reviviag and cheering us. Let a man go home at night wea ried by the tolls of the day, and1 'how soothing Is a word dictated by 4 good disposition! It Is sunshine falling on his heart. Study, then, to acquire-ind retain a sweet temper : It it more valu able than gold ; It captivate! more than beauty and retains all freshness - And lower. , In a work describing the preMufccpn dltfon of of the domestic lnduitrtev of KussIa.W. Wsschnlakoff states that not less than thirty mllllont of wooden spoons are annually made In that country" tbe Industry having its great centre in the district of. Son sua w. Poplar, aspen, maple, and box are the woods used for this purpose, sod the cost of the spoons varies from about, $S to J0 per thousand. The first 'opej-a-UoQ.flonaliU in cutting the wooU Into the proper lengths, and making, these tap Into bundles; the bttor'art' sold in the aiarketa. and, are often. i pDe&red from long dutanses. , The second .stage It that of forming the bowl of the tpoon the third, shaping the hasdlt; atuMhe fourth and last, dyeing thftfj.a1.velkiw color. . . n . ' ' J .l1