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The Early Rain.
Down through the mi.lj air,
Down from the gloom abave,
Fulling, pattering everywhere,
The ruin comes quick with love.
Sofily 'lie mbsel-thiush
Sing in IhnHoidfii s'nnn;
Ihu robin 1111,'cr a Innrcl bush
. Wuits lor to-morrow morn.
Drip, drip, drip from the cave',
Pit, pit, pit on the p ine,
Pwi-.li, swih, awiih on the drenched leaves,
I, is' ! 'tis the song of the rain.
Glasses are bending low,
Green is the com and thick;
You e m almost eo tbo nottles crow,
Thoy riow to stroeg and quick.
Soft i the wind from tho west,
Softer ttio ruin's low si;;h;
Tlie sparrow washes hi. smuky breast,
And watches the gloomy sky,
Etiried nro the h-uight by tho bn-eze,
Scarcely a Icuf u ttill,
Something m moving among the trees,
Like a restless i-pii it ill.
Standing watching the rain,
I) j you seem to hear
Ike voico of Go 1 mi spenking asj.dn
To min's nngmtehil cm?
rromr-ing plenty and pe.ice,
Giiriiun with trciuine hrtipod,
'J'lmt s rd-:iino mid harvest shull not CCA90
Till the harvest ol eurth be rr 'pi-d.
The ,1r:osy.
NOT A SUCCESS.
'Dear me," said Mrs. Heatherly,
"some folks do have all the luck! 1
thought when my Cousin Speakwell
Mas appointed assistant bishop of tlie
Cranberry Swamp diocese, that it was
quite asocial distinction. Hut here's
Helen Jones's uncle been put up for
Cninese ambassador! And I suppose
she'll get all her tea and chessmen for
nothing now, besides the credit of the
thing!"
And Mrs. Neatherley actually burst
into tears.
From the very first moment of her
arrival in Cherry hill, Mrs. Jones had
been her rival. If she d'eorated hep
parlors in lotusbaves and cat-tails,
Mrs. Jones immediately ordered an
artist from Philadelphia to paint her
ceilings in peacock-plumes and half
open sunflower buds. If she gave a
light tea, Mrs. Jones followed with a
full-Hedged dinner-party. If she had
a fancy masquerade-party, Mrs. Jones
issued cards for private theatricals.
And now the glories of the assistant
bishopric wen; entirely eclipsed by the
ambassador to China.
Mrs. Jones ordered her white ponies
and basket-phaeton, and drove in state
through Cherry hill, to invite all her
friends and acquaintances to an even
ing reception.
"To meet my uncle," she said, gri
ciously, "before he sails for China!"
For Mrs. Jones, albeit she never had
seen her Uncle John Jones, was seized,
all of a sud len, with the most affec
tionate devotion for him, and tele
graphed him to come at once to Cherry
hill. And the letter which followed
was full of niece-like devotion.
"I have always lelt," she sa:d, "tlmt it won n
eruol deprivation to ste so little of tny Inn.
band' relation.. , And now Hi it we mo so
soon to lose you, I must insin on at lenit one
visit. We have some charming people in
Cherry hill, who would esteem it n piiviloge
to make your acquaintance. We ahull meet
yon, without luil, nt tho six-Jortv train from
Philadelphia, on Wednesday nr.it."
Mr. Jones, a blunt, bullet-headed
man, w ho was in tho drug business,
scratched his nose when he heard til
his wife's prowess.
"It's nil a puzzle to me," said he.
"Uncle -.Tohn never had any brains."
"Dear me!" said Mrs. Jones, "what
brains are needed to be a Chinese am
bassador? It's all political influence
and wire-pulling, don't you see?"
"Well," said Mr. Jones, "there's
something in that. I remember Uncle
John being president of a 1'olk and
Dallas cluli, for years ago, or so, in the
village. And he manufactured torch
lights for the political processions, and
had a very good voice for a hurrah.
What puzzles me, however, is what on
earth he will think of our getting so
eery affectionate all of a sudden, alter
neglecting hini for all these years."
"No matter what, he thinks," said
Mrs. Jones, briskly. "I'll soon bring
him around. Only think ambassador
to China! What will Mrs. Ileatherley
say If You must telegraph at once for
plenty of pates de foie gras and cold,
potted game. And I'll have the two
colored waiters from the hotel. Mary
Ann is very well in her way, but she
will need addition! 1 help on an occa
sion like this. I shall ask ex-(!ovcrnor
rhilipstarnaugh and his wife they
are visiting the Whites; and an es
pecial card shall be sent to that stupid
old assistant bishop that Charlotte
Ileatherley boasts so much about. Mr.
ChimefieM, ihe poet, is in town alsof
and I shall beg Miss Bulkley to bring
her violin and give us one of those
sweet "Scandinavian Dreams' that she
Improvises so sweetly. Let me see,
there will be about sixty people- here,
unless I receive more regrets than I
at present anticipate."
"Sixty people, eh?" repeated Mr
Jones. "Aia't that considerable of a
blow-out, Fanny? We haven't settled
Spagnette's bill for that last tea-llght,
you must remember."
"Tea-fight! Mow-out!" Mrs. Jone.-,
repeated, in infinite disgust. "Peter,
I haven't any patience to hear you use
those odious, vulgar expressions. How
are Ethel and Constant ia to get mar
ried, I'd like to know, if the dear girls
never are to see any society ? Are the
ponies ready ?"
"You can't have the ponies to-day,"
said Mr. Jones. "The livery-stable
man says they don't stir out of their
stalls until the whole account is settled
-three hundred and odd dollars."
"How absurd of him!" said Mrs.
Jones, with a shrug of her plump
shoulders. "And now, of all times in
the world! lint never mind 1 shal1
walk!"
And Mrs. Jones nothing daunted,
put on a rose-bud-trimmed bonnet, a
pretty imitation cashmere shawl, and
a pair of cream-colored kid gloves, and
set forth to the florist's, where she
ordered a profusion of flowers; and to
the pastry-cook's, where she hesitated
between water ices, and Neapolitan
cream; and finally went home, w earied,
but triumphant.
"I'll show the Chines- ambassador
that there is some style about his coun
try cousins," she declared, to Ethel ami
Constantia, who were remodeling their
old dresses, to appear as new as pos
sible. And really Mr3. Jones's parlors did
appear exquisitely tasteful and pretty
when the eventful evening arrived.
The chandeliers new for the occa
sion-were draped withsmilax; the man
tels banked with cyclamen and begoniii
leaves; the angles of the apartment
Mi d with tall palms and stately fern.
Miss linlkley was there, with her
violin, and a package of music nearly
as large as a Saratoga trunk; the ex
governor and his lady were on time,
and the assistant bishop of the Cran
berry swamp diocese appeared, in a
red-nose. I and pompous manner, with
his cousin, Mrs. Ileatherley, leaning
on his arm. Ami, as the room began
to fill, Mrs. Jones waxed a little nerv
ous. "I do hope nothing has happened to
the train," she thought. " If he
shouldn't be here, alter all, I should
feel mvself a social fraud."
Hut, as the old Antwerp clock in the
corner struck ten, there was a little
bustle, the sound of retreating car
riage-wheels I'nchi Jones had ar
rived!
And the guests parted right and
left, to admit of tho entrance of a
stout old gentleman in a suit of home
dyed butternut-brown, a pair of silver
spectacles, very red hands, entirely in
nocent of gloves, and a blue-checked
shirt.
"Well, Niece Jones." said this re
markable apparation, grasping Mrs
Jones's pretty, little kid-gloved hands
"I'm dreadful glad to make your ac
quaintance. And this 'ere's Peter, is
it? I hain't seen Peter since he was a
boy."
"Uncle," said Mrs. Jones, with a sort
of hysteric gasp, "allow me to present
to you "
"Oh, yes, I see," t-aid Uncle Jones.
"Company to tea, eh? Your servant
ladies and gentlemen, your servant,"
bowing comprehensively around the
room. "And seein' we're all here to
gether, so nice antl friendly," be added,
"I'll jest ask you all to look at a new
kind o' salve as I've took the agency of
the 'Electric Agony Eradicator,' only
twenty-five cents a box. and five boxes
for a dollar. Business is business, you
know, and as I make my living this
way, I'm sure my niece and nephew
here won't object to my sidling off the
stock-in-trade to the best advantage
before I leave the country. Perhaps
tho company don't know that I sail as
skipper of the Lovely Louise next
month up to tho Xowfunlan' fishin
banks, and round by way of Nova
.Scotia?"
"Hut," jjaspe-l Mrs. Jones, "we
thought that is, we understood- wo
read in the paper, I would say that
you were to be the ambassador to
China."
"Me!" said Uncle Jones. "Not if I
know it! Mo go to furrin parts, to bo
eaten up with chopsticks, or burned
alive by the coolies? I guess not!
P'r'aps it's John J. Jones you're think
ing about. He's from the same place
as I urn a great friend of the adminis
tration and I've heerd as he's got a
plump olliee from the big-bugs at
Washington. I'm John J. Jones
Jacob, you know, arter my great
gran'ther, its was in the blacksmith)
bus'nes'. Oh, I ain't no Chinese am
bassador! I'm only a salve-manufac
turer. It'd dreadful good for frosted
feet an' ears, the 'Electric Agony Era
dicator' is and p'r'aps I may have a
good cTiance to sell a few gross of
boxes on board the Lovely Louise, if
it's a middliti' cold tiip."
Poor Mrs. Jones stood aghast ns the
distinguished guest of the evening cir
culated around amid the perfumed
groups, with his "Agony Eradictor,"
selling off tho precious panacea with
v-reat success.
Mrs. Ileatherley giggled audibly;
the assistant bishop elevated his Human
nose with an air of superciliousness;
the fair violinist laid down h-r bow.
ami only the instant announcement of
supper would have prevent e 1 a general
dissolution tit' this ..ociul parliament.
Uncle Jone ate a if ho were a
starved wolf, and then drank as he hail
been transformed into a fish: and linal
ly fell asleep on a sof.t in the corner
:nd snored aloud, with his pocket full
of "salve-boxes" and a handkerchief said: "You are very kind: but it my
over his face. inquiry is indiscreet I am sure you will
He went home the next day. The allow it to pass unanswered."
Cherry hill Jones's did not urge him to ; "I hear you, sir," he replied,
stay longer; an-1 Mrs. Ileatherley c.ill' d , "Well. th-n. general, did anything
to condole with Mrs. Jones in person. ' remarkable happen to you on the morn-
"It must have ben s mortifying to ing of fho battle of the Chippewas?"
the poor thing!" paid she. with iinu- j After a briel but impressive silence,
latetl sympathy. he said: "Yes, sir; something did
Hut Mrs. Jones did no! scl' her. she happen to me something very re
was crying in her own room, and s nt niarkable, and I will now. for the third
down a message of "Not at home," time in my life, repeat the story: The
"E don't care how soon we leave ' 4th day of July, HH, was one of ex
Cherry hill." she sobbed. ' I never t , in tremeheat. Mi that day my brigade
look any one in the face again. 1 ncer skirmished with a British force coin-
was so ashamed in all my life! And if
ever anyone mentions the name 'China,'
or 'the Chinese," in my pre enee again,
I'll commit suicide, that I will!"
For Mrs. Jones's party had not been
a success.
Among tlio Mongols,
The Mongol of to-day is in many re
spects a separate man. timid, yet gieti
to long, lunelv jonniovs over pathless!,' . ' . , ,
..." .. .- 1 bv a man in m aanl s dress mmroach-
tieserts; iiaiiitually atisloiiuotis. iet a i
drunkard; a controversialist, yet super
stitious; a thief by instinct, yet law
abiding; rough, brutal, and cruel -yet
in one respect genlh-r than any
European. Nothing can induce him I
to hurt an animal, however low in the !
scale of creation. "Nowhere," says a J
recent traveller, "will you find less '
cruelty than in Mongolia. Not only j
do their cattle and flocks receive ex- I
pressions of mnpathy in sull'ering, and
s.ich alleviation of pain as their owner j
knows how to give, but even the
meanest creatures ( insects and reptiles
included f are treated with eonsider
era'.ion. Crows pereii themselves on
the topof loaded camels, and deliberate,
ly steal before the verv eves of the
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down in tho market place at I rga, and
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v'f u-i r tr:ir iriv ,,m i.-,-i---
snatch eatables lroiu the hands of th
I unwary, who simply accuse the thiel
j of patricide, and pas on. My bald
! headed camel driver was nearly driven
; to distraction one evening by a cloud
of mosquitoes which ki it hovering
1 over and alighting on his shining pate.
During the night there came a touch
j of frost, and when we rose in the
j morning not an insect was on the. wing,
i Looking at them as they clung be
numbed to the sides of the tent, he re
marked, 'The mosquitoes are froen!"
and then added, in a tone of sin -ere
; sympathy, the Mongol phrase expres
j sive of pity, 'Iloaihe ! hoarhe !' There
! was no sarcasm or hypocrisy about it."
j This tenderness is the more strange be
I cause the Mongols in their few cities or
standing ramps let beggars die of cold
land exposure, though they never dis
I play tho complete callousness of
Chinese. The Chinese government in
Lama Miao, the great entrepot, pun
ishes highway robbery with violence
by ii sentence of death from starvation;
and our traveler saw this sentence 1
carried out, the man being placed in a
cage in tho street, with his head out- I
side, so that ho might see the eating,
shops, and die slowly of hunger and
thirst. He was four days dying there
in public. The Chinese citizens found j
this interesting, and strolled up every ;
evening, laughing and jesting, to see ',
the unhappy wretch suffer. i
A Cheese-Making lterry. soon outstripped them. As we made
A cl.eese-making berry has recently j our escape we were lired at. but got
been discovered in India, which seems ' across the bridge in safety,
to be a capital substitute for rennet. ' "I felt so much shame and niortifiea
Puneria, as the natives cull it, is the j tion at having so nearly fallen into a
berry of a plant known scientifically trap that I could scarcely lix my mind
as "withauia coagulans," a shrub upon the duties which now d"inanded
which is common in the Punjab and ' my undivided attention. I knew that
Trans-Indus territory, and which has ! I had committed a great indiscretion in
long been listed by the Afghans and 1 accepting too singular invitation, and
Helooches to curdle milk.
Experiments conducted officially on
a farm belonging to the governor of
Hombay have demonstrated the effic
iency of the berry in the manufacture
of cheese, a perfect curd being produc
ed and the cheese turning out excel
lently; and, with a view to the more
extended cultivation of the shrub, an
experimental plantation is to be estab
lished lit the government botanical
gardens at Sabaranpore.
The puneria. so-. -ailed from the Per-
sian name of cheese, is prepared by , lery, were ordered to cross Street's
placing about two ounces of fie bor creek, my nerves and confidence had
ries in a small quantity of cold water, ' become measurably quieted and re
p.nd allowing it to simmer by the side ( stored.
of a fire fortwehe hours. It is said ( "I need not describe the battle of
that half a pint of the decoction will i Chippewa. That belongs to, and is
suffice to curdle fifty-fhe gallons of I part of, the history of our country. It
milk. VasstIT Family Magazine. is sufficient to say that at the close ot
(JE3. SCOTT'S X A ttltOW ESCAPE.
An IntrreMIng Ite mlnlacenc from the
Autoliinuraphjr vt Thurlow Weed-How
the Uenriar J-ru. ved Hint.
From the autobiography of Thurlow
Weed, the following interesting account
"f an incident preceding tho battle of
Chippewa, in 1811, is taken:
One evening after our rubber, I said
to the gencral'There is one question I
have often wi-hxl to ask you, but have
been restrained by the fear that it
might be improper." The general
drew himself up ami said in his em
phatic manner: "ir, vou are inrnna.
ble of asking an improper question." I
mantled by (letieral Hiall, from an early
hour in the morning till late in the af
ternoon. We had driven the enemy
down tho river some twelve miles to
Street's creek, near Chippewa, where
we encamped for the night, onr army
occupying the west, while that of the
tnemy was cm-amped on the east side
of the creek. After our tents had
1 ,.,.,! ,,,'(,.,.,1 1 ,.l.uur,-.l ., Il.rr hni-rui
ing my marq He brought a letter
from a lady who occupied a large
mansion on the opposite side (if the
creek, informing me that she was the
w if" of a member of Parliament, who
w:t then at Ouebec; that her children,
servants and a young lady friend were
alone with her in the house; that Cen
eral I'iall had placed a fcntinel before
her door, and 'hat she ventured, with
great doubts of the propriety of the
i request, to asi that I woulu jilae a
sentinel upon the bridg to protect her
against stragglers from our camp. I
assured the ni'Sscnger that the lady's
request should be complied with. Early
the next morning the same messenger,
bearing a white flag, n appeared with a
note from the same ladv, thanking me
! for the protection she had enjoved,
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adding that, in acknowledgment of my
civilities, she begged that 1 would, with
such members of my stall as I chose to
bring with me, accept the hospitalities
of her house at a breakfast which had
been prepared with considerable atten
tion, ami was quite ready. Acting
upon an impulse which 1 have never
been able to analyze or comprehend, I
called two of my aids. Lieutenants
Worth and Walts, and returned to the
mansion already indicated. We met
our hostess at the door, who ushered
us into the dining-room, where break
fast awaited us, and where the young
lady previously referred to was already
seated by the coffee urn. Our hostess
asking to be excused lor a few min
utes, fho young lady immediately
served our coffee, licfore wo had bro
ken our fast, Lieutenant Watts rose
front the table to get his bandana ('that
being before the days of napkins),
which he had left in his cap on a side
table by tho window, glancing through
which he saw Indians approaching (he
house on one side and red-coats ap
proaching it on the other, with an evi
dent purpose of surrounding it and n.c,
and instantly exclaimed: '(ieneral, we
arc betrayed!" Springing from the ta
ble ami clearing the house i saw our
danger, and, remembering Lord Ches
terlicld had said: "Whatever it is
proper to do it. is proper to do well,"
and as we had to run, aud my legs
were longer than my companions', I
that if any disaster resulted from it I
richly deserved to lose both my com
mission and character. I constantly
found myself wondering whether the
lady really intended to betray us, or had
been accidentally observed. The ques
tion would recur, even amidst the ex
citement of battle. Fortunately, how
ever, my presence and sen ices in the
field were not required until (Jeneruls
l'orter and Hiplcy had been engaged at
intervals for several hours, so that
when my brigade, with Tow-son's artil-
the day we were masters of the posi
tion, and that our arms were in no
way discredited. The Hritish army had
fallen back, leaving their wounded in
our possession. The mansion which I
had visited in the morning was the
largest house near, and to that tho
wounded oflicers in both armies were
carried for surgical treatment. As soon
as I could leave the field I wen', over
to i-o aft "r "iy wounded. I found
the English oflicers lyii.g on the first
floor and our own on the door above.
I saw in the lower room the voting
lady whom I had met in the morning
at the breakfast table, her white dress
all sprinkled with blood. She bad
been attending to the I5riti-h wound
ed. On the second floor, just as I was
turning into the room where officers
were, I met my hostess. ( ne glance
at her was quite sufficient to answer
the question which I had been asking
myself all day. She had intended to clay, dried in the sun or baked in an
betray me. and nothing but the at ei- t oven, and nidelj- daubed with paint,
dent of my aid rising for his handker- An English doll is a marel to a Ilin
ehief save I us from capture. ( loo girl. The fair, blue eyes, pretty
"Years afterward, in relict ting upon , face, and the clothes that come off
this incident, I was led to doubt wheth- and on, fill her with wonder. In some
er I had not misconstrued her startled ; of the mission schools the scholars gel
manner as I suddenly eni ounted her. ; presents at Christmas, and the girls
That unexpected meeting would have got dolls, to their great deliuht.
occasioned embarrassment in either 1 .
contingency, and it is so difficult to be- j A ,.., AnIul(ll).
lieve a lady of cultivation and refine-j Forty years a-o, or more, a small,
mcnt capable of such an act. that 1 am j brightlv spotted" turtle was described
now, nearly half n century after the , ;ls living n. ar Philadelphia, and two
event, disposed to give my hostess the; miserable spc-itm ns were sent to
benefit of that doubt. And now, sir,'
added the general, "this is th" third
time in my life I have told this story.
I do not remember to have been spoken
to before on that snbje t for many
years."
He looked at me and seemed to be
considering with himself a few mo
ments, and then said: -licmentbering
your intimaey with (ieneral Worth. I
need not inquire how you came to a
knowledge of our secret."
"Well, general," I replied, "I have,
kept the secret faithf ully for more than
forty years, always hoping to obtain
your own eision of what struck me
as a most remarkable incident in your
military life."
Whistling Superstitions.
In whatever wav regarded, cither as
a graceful accomplishment or as the
spontaneous expression of light -
heartcdness, whistling has in our own
and foreign countries generally at-
tractel considerable attention. Why
it should have been invested with so
much superstitious awe it is difficult
to say. but it is a curious fa- t that the
same antipathy which it aroused
among certain (lasses of our country-
men is found existing in the mod dis-
tant parts of the earth, where, as yet,
civilization has made little or no im
perceptible pogress. Thus Captain
Burton tells ns how the Arabs dislik".
to hear a person whistle, called by
them el sifr. Some maintain that the
whistler's mouth is not to be purified
for forty days; while, according t the
explanation of others, Satan touching
a man's body causes him to produ,.'e,
what they eondder.an offeiishe sound.
The natives of the Tonga Islands, Poly
nesia, hold it to be wrong to whistle
as this act is thought to be disrespect
fultoOod. In Iceland the villagers
have the same objection to whistling,
andso far do they carry their supersti-
tious dread of it that "if one swings
about him a stick, whip. wand, or
aught that makes a Whistling sound,
he scares from him the IIolv fihost";
while other Icelanders, who consider il 1,lft.v ,r,'r- nt' overlooks the water
themselves free from superstitions. ! ,,ir(1 drilling their little om-s. and
cautiously give the advice: -Do it not;
for who know ftli what is in the air?"
However eccentric tfiese phases of su-
perstitious belief may appear to us, yet
it must not be forgotten that verysiin-
ilar notions prevail at the present day
in this country. A correspondent, of
Xntf. ami yirrV.v for instance, re- ' ni.v object" now is simply to give you a
lateshow one day, alter attempting in j suggestion of how much one man may
vain to get Irs (iogto obey orders to ' l im lc:,rn " "K1" farm in the
come into the house, his w ife tried to
coax ii ny wnistnng, wnen sne was
suddenly interupted by a servant, a
Roman Catholic, who exclaimed in the
most piteous accents, "if you please,
ma'am, don't whistle- -every time a
woman whistles, the heart of the bless
ed Virgin bleeds!" In some districts
of North (icrmany the villagers say
that if one whistles in the evening it
makes the angels weep. Voiilur
Science Monthly.
A Fowl Rail.
Scene at the base-ball ground. A ball
was knocked sidewise and caught on a
fly. "Foul and out!" was the cry of
the umpire. A charming high school ,
girl looking at the game ejaculates
"Ah, really ! How can it be a fowl ?
I don't see any feathers!" And she
turpd to her attendant with an inquir
ing look. "Well oh ! Yet, you see,'
he stammered, "the reason you don't I
see the feathers is because it belongs to I
the picked nine." Peoria Transcript-
CIIILDKEX'S COLUMN.
limine Children's Ioll.
Once a year, just before the Dasse
rah festival, the little Hindoo girls
destroy their dolls. The girls dress
themselves'in the brightest eolors, and
march through the busy bazars ot the
city, and along roads shaded by over
hanging mango or sissoo trees.till they
come to water probably a tank built
by some pious Hindoo. A crowd of
men and women follow them. Hound
the tank are. feathery bamboos, plan-
tains with their broad hanging leave.
and mango trees, and (in every side are
llights of steps leading down to the
water. No Hindoo girl has such a
family of dolls as many of our readers
have in this country. But her dolls
cost very little, and so the last one is
easily replaced. They are made of
rags, or more generally of mud or
j Professor Agassi'. Jt was called
i Muhlenberg's turtle, and since then
j not one has been seen until last I
summer. My friend was always on
the lookout, never failinir to pick up or
turn over every small turtle he met
on the meadows ir along the i reeks,
and examine w hether the marks on its
tinder shell were those of the lost
species. Filially, one of the ditches in
the meadows was drained off to be re
paired, and there, within a short ins
tance, w ere picked up six Muhlenberg
turtles! If you go to Cambridge.
Mass., you can see four of them alive
and healthy to-day. They could easily
have g me out of that ditch into other
ditches, an-l so into the i-r.-ek; but, if
they ever did. thev have xneeeedeil for
I twenty years in escaping some pretty
""'"I' (yes.
! Tllis litUo '"' ''b'l't has a moral for
I ,ls '" ,Wo wa.vs- "p is, that often
! t w' al'r:"'f'nt rarity of an animal
! L,mu,s lr(" the fact that we don't
' k""w u,u're to ,0"k for it; and the
j utll('r' thi,t lt takos a praciiced eye to
! km'w 'l wn'-'n -vou lli,vt' f,J1""' and
j to t:lk'' Cinv ,,li,t il ll,,('s t g't lost
j :'i",lt of ll,in- Practice your methods
! oltsorvation, then, without ceasing,
j Yo" Ci,not make discoveries in any
j oilier way. nd the cultivation of
tho habit will be of inestimable advan
i tage to yon.
Jlus is the merest hint of how,
without going away from home, by
always keeping his eyes open, a man,
or a boy or a girl can study, to the
great advantage and enjoyment of
himself, or herself, but to the help of
all the rest of ns. I should like to tcli
you how p;;t:ei. this naturalist
watches the ways of the wary birds
and small game he loves; how those
sunfish and shy darters forget that he
! is '""king quietly down through the
stl" Wllt(,r. and goon with their daily
l'1'' i,s '"' "'ants to witness it; how he
j tlril,s sl''tdly at midnight, hid in his
l'"so to tIl1 l'"1''1 heron, and
j s,,,'s him "ke at his prey; or how,
I concealed in the topmost branches of
sl,li1' s !,t Ilil" l'f a pair of rare
j otters, whose noses would not be rn
'f11'1 iin instant did they suppose any
, 0,10 was '""k'ng at them. Hut I can-
n,,t n count nil his vigils and ingenious
experiments, or the entertaining facts
! they bring to our know ledge, sim-e
j '"f thickly settled part of the United
Mates.--.v. a iriiiiii..
Curious Indian Ilelicf
I The Sanpoel tribe number about
; Indians and they all belong to a sect
known as the dreamers. They are 1
j looking for another flood, which they
! expect soon to come upon the earth.
In order to I'e prepared they have w- catching the fiery spray thrown up
rured all the necessary material for the j from the crater, but the" extreme fine
building of an ark, in w hich to sail off, ,.Ss of its texture seems rather U SUg
as Noah did, when the flood comes, gest the action of escaping vapors
Among the material is oO.'XX) feet of within the lava itself. This view is
lumber. The ark is to be fifty feet ! strengthened by the circumstance that
long and about fifty or sixty feet wide, j ft perfect counterfeit is fabricated at
The dreamers have a small fnlloivinir ' im i... ...
I r
among the Indians of the Patouse, I
Snake River, Warm Springs, Umatil-
las and other tribes. They believe that
the whites will all be drowned when
Hie flood comes, and that they only
will be saved, and will be enabled to
live off the fat of the land without
having to work at til. Seattle (IF.
V.) Post.
rUSGEXT PARAGRAPHS.
A watch like faith, is comparative!
worthless without works.
Why are thero no female bill-collectors?
.Because a woman's work it
never "dun."
" There's millions in it," said Smith.
" In what ?" asked Ilrown. ' Why In
billions, of course, ha! ha! ha!"
Many a man thinks that the world
has taken up arms against him when
his stomach is struggling hard with a
boiled dinner.
"Ymi ny your brother is younger
than you. yet he 1 "'ks much older?'
" Ye. i(J mi seen a gn at deal of trou
ble; but I never man-tod."
" I am saddest when 1 write hnmnr
cuts articles.'' said a funny man to an
acquaintance. -And I," replied the ac
quaintance, "am saddest when I read
them."
It, is wrong to laugh at the orookel
loirs ol the young man in tight trousers,
but it is perfectly proper to laugh nt
the tight trousers upon the man wit!'
I he crooked lees.
Medical journals continue to inforir
pe iph "how colds are taken." Tlif
I i lube gently imiU'.cs tba. a little infor
mation upon how to get rid of then'
p-oinptly would be e jiially. acceptable.
It give, a New York man an awfu!
start to suddenly observe a clipping
fr. iu tlie l hiiicso nt wspaper which
li t been hit l.ving on his table bj
.'me liiischieviniis friend. 1 1 is first
, th-miht. of cimr.-e. is thai it h a wash
I I"!!.
Two Miung i ify l.uli' s in tbecountrj
w-re sl.ilKiini' bv the side of a wiilf
I ditch, w hich the didn't know how to
iT"Ss. Tiny appealed to a boy whr
was coming along the road for help,
i whereupon he pointed behind their
I with a startled air and yelled ' Strikes!''
Tin1 young la lies t ro:-s-.-.l the ditch a
! a single bound.
j Lili asks her mother: "What de
I yi hi like best, gond dreams or bad ones?"
j "fiood ones. And you?" "Oh, I like
' b, 1 1 dreams best." "Wh?" " lleeattsf
wlu n 1 have good dreams I find when
j I wake up that they are not true, ami
I that atiinos iin-, liilt 1 it-1 1 I linvc
had b,-n out s 1 am happy when I wake.
bcciiiifc thev are not true.'
Japanese Holidays.
The Japanese have more than twenty
fanciful names by which they designate
their beautiful country, but the sobri
quet whiili to a foreigner .seems most
fitting is ci rtainly the land of lei. days.
No excuse is too trivial tor a Japanese
to make holidays, and v hen he doe?
not make them himself, the govern
ment politely steps in and makes them
for him. I'hus.onc day in every .sixVtall
ed i' hi rokn, is a statute holiday; so if
the third day in every moon, whilst the
list of national fetivalscoinineniorative
of great men or of great deeds is sim
ply inexhaustible. If a great man dies
in England, tin y i oinmciuoratc him by
a monument in Westminster Abbey; if
a great man dies in Japan. ho is remem
bered by a holiday; so that what with
the mythical great men who are thus
remembered and the historical great
men who have died during the past
lie thousand vear, it isa little difficult
to find a da of the Japanese ycai
which has not the name of a celebrity
attached to it; just as, in glaneinp
down a Human Catholic calandar, we
find that every day has its particular,
saint. Hut the great est day of the year
the festival par excellence of t he people
the festival into which is compressed
the essence of the fun and enjoyment
and happiness of all the other days put
, together, is the festival of the new
ear. We may be familiar with the
I celebration of the day in Paris or New
York, but the proceedings there are
' fame and lifeless when compared with
the spontaneous outburst of rejoicing
which characterizes new year's day In
Japan.
Pi le's Hair.
A singular product of vitreous lavas
is called in Hawaii "Pole's Hair."
This silky, filamentous substance is de
scribed by Miss Cordon dimming in
her latest book of travels, as "of a rich
olive-green or yellowish-brown color
and glossy, like the byssus of certain
shells, but very brittle to handle." It
js said to be produced by the wind
ll"ll-uin.) u. I'.i.ssiiii; jtu Ol SlCUm
through molten slag, when a material
resembling vitreous cotton-wool, ad
mirably adapted for packing fragile
articles, results. 'The -chief sent of its
(natural production is the nreat
Hawaiian crater of flaue.t f nersnnf.
fied as the Fire Goddess Pole), and it
is found well adapted for nest-buildlng
by Bome inventive Hawaiian llrdjp,