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My Httte lore, do yoti remember, , i
Ere we were grown bo Badly wiae, ;
Those eTonlcjfi! Iq the bleak December, .
Curtained wejta from the snowy weather
When yoi tad I played chess tojethea
Ohe mated by each otb r 's eyea 1 j
Mi; still I see your iott, white hani;
Hovering mm o'er Queen end Knigtji.
'. BraYepawnB in valiant battle etam
The double castles guard the wings; I J
The Bishops bent on distant thing, ft "i
Move, s'd'.ing through the flgh; " ;
Our fingers touch ; 'our glanles meejt .
And falter; fall yott'rJjolep"$aii"
" Against in? checks; down the field;
- - Tout Queen
Bides slow, her to'djery all between,
And checks jjie Unaware. .
' Ah me 1 iheiittta lUft'a, $.',. -,
uitrperBt is ail its omyairy ; ' ii j
Tali aiasy a move, since then, bare we " i
'Mid life'a perplexing jcheokers mafle j
And many a game with fortune piayel,
. What is it we have now? I
This, thia at least ifthisa'oue; I
TTiat uever, ucnu', ntvJuor,: 5
Aniuthoseo'd still nlhls of yore - f'
(Ere we were grown so aLiy wise),'!
Can you and I tlwt out the skies, 1 ,
Ts-hut oat the world and wintry weather,
And, eyes excnanriUg warmth witbleyes,
May chess, as eu Wt playeil u.getlity !
JL QUEKJl SI OR Y.
honvt of the Perils ,of liailutty (TivveHnff
' , in Great Jiritaltu 'i .
The crime of Lefrpy caused tlie great
est agitation in Eiigland concerning the
system of traveling 1 by railway. Mr.
Labouchere took' advantage off the ex
citement to publish a ramarkaple story
illustrating the perils of that system.'
It is drawn from real , life, an'J records
the adventures, of . Rev. Jude Gloam, a
slry young clergyman, who !had taken a
glass more than usual at supper, and of
"Miss A.vis8, an -equally shy yoto lady,
n hom. he accosted on the traini ' .
It is the curse of say men that, getting
Bo little practice in converging with
women, thfiy never know whefe to stop
when, peradventure, they db get a
chance of talking. It is by, shy men
that the rudest things are habitually
said and done through sheer ; inexperi
ence. . Mr. Gloana had no ide that he
was transgressing the proprieties He
thought he ,was making himrelfi very po
lite and agreeable. : ' ' '
"I say, Miss A viss," stuttered the.
llev. Judef, with a leer, " iipposing
there were a piece oi mistletoe in this
carriage?" jj
o answer from the girl, bufjher eyes
opened wide, and she shrank tip, trem
bling, in her corner of the carriage.
"I I think' there i3 a pfece ; look
there!" continued the foolish; man,
pointing to the lamp in the ceding, for
he meant to be facetious.
3.e girl was now lairly mgntened,
and moved from her seat to the further
corner of the carriage. She had heard
of drunken ruffians insulting ladies in
railway carriages, and she set down her
revered, companion as leing drtmk, and
possibly a ruffian. No doubt fiia cieri
cal garh was only a disguise, jf 1
V What are yon running away for ? "
asked Mr. Gloam, and hexose- to follow
her with an unsteady gait, caused not
bo much by tipsiuess for lie! i was not
regularly tipsy as by the dscilhition of
the train. But to 'the-affrighted girl
who saw him stagger it' looked?; as if he
were dangerously inebriated, ji
"If you approach another step, sir, I
shall scream ! " cried ske, starting up,
with all the color tied from her; fact.
"What for?" asked the Bev. Jude,
and, putting his hand out to steady him
self, he quite unintentionally rested it
on her shoulder. The movenent of re
coil which thisj apparant assault caused
the girl to make threw Mr. (Jloam off
his balance, and he pinniped into the
seat from which she had risen. This
only increased the girl's fright and wild
ly opening the window of thei carriage
she screamed " Help ! Help ! Mnrder !"
. In an instant Mr .Gloam wall sobered.
The -girl's shrieks cleared all ilie fumes
of wine from his brain and shewed him
in what a desperate position he ha3
; placed himself. "For God's sake, don'
scream Like that," he imploredj " you'll
ruin mp" and Kr-i'iT.c thA cnr bv fliA'
0 . o "J w .
waist he wrenched lier from I jthe win
dow. ' ' i
" Help ! " she gasped as she f ell on to
one of the seats and struggled jto regain
her footing. ,
"Miss Aviss, for God's sake Jet meex"
plain," entreated Mr Gloam seizing , her
hands ; but the horrible fear which was
now legible on his face made him a
more dreadful object to look at than bej
fore, while the violence he' used ,to re
strain the girl robbed her of alj ! presence
of mind. DiseDgaging- herself from
him, she .tottered toward th! nearest
door and iriUitically tiuned thk -handle.-A
blast of cold night air flew1 to ihe car
riage, and a shower of sarfes from thej
engine was seen flying by. Mr. Gloam,
made a grab at the girl to raw heT
back. She eluded him, and, ijreaming
louder than ever , tried to step? on 'the
foottoard. Then there was ; another
faint shriek and ' all was silence. The..
door, swinging forward by the., impetus
of the train at a curve, closed sdf it- own
accord. The girl had slipped ! anil was
gone. ; . ''
" Great, GlfVmuttere4 Gloam
wheqn awful mwute had elapsedAHe
had taken off liia hat and wasp stroking
. his forehead as 1a sat endeavoring to re
rt-ixzx wuaii tuci uapouou, ; aio asKeu,,,
himself whether he was not in the midst
of a nightmare. If our train had
stopped at that minute he would have
been unable to crawl out, and anybody
who had seen him must have suspected
him of a crime. During a quarter of an
hour the poor wretch could neither stir
nor think lucidly ; he could only moan
and tremble. What first recalled him
to himself was the sight of the things
which the poor girli-no v dead, beyond
doubt had left in the ''carriage. There
was a shawl, a traveling bag, a novel;
and on the floor a small gold watch
without a -chain. - "
The sight of, these articles stirred in
sC?Tunwilu,ng murderer tha"sense of self
preservation. He caught them up one
by oneand flung the,m out ' of the win
dow into the dark, after which he crept
on his knees and looked under the seats
to see if anything else had been left. He
bund nothing. J- Pitiable as his agony ol
mind then was, he saw the necessity" for
composing himself, and sat down again
trying to reflect. Had anyof the pas
sengers in other carriages heard the girl
speak? Had any one seen her fall? If
so, he was a lost man. He would be ar
rested at Birmingham, '"and in due time
he would be tanged orrnlenced to
penal servitude for the better part of his,
life. How would hia story be believed
And if it were believed how would it
justify him ? The public outcry against
liim would be all the greater, as he was
a clergyman ; and, now that he had
thrown ihe girl's things out of the car
riage in the lirsV monaent f hisr panic,
the evidence of criminal intention worikV
seem complete. " Why did I tiirow the
things out ? " faltered Mr. Gloam, speak
ing to himself; and then 'he groaned
again r " My God, what shall I do?"
It was between Leamington and Bir
mingham that the girl had fallen out of
the train; .As the' express neared Bir
mingham the tension on Jude Gloam's
nerves was such as few men ever expe
rience. Within five minutes he endured "
an amount of terror and anguish enough
co spread over a lifetime ; yet he had
the craft to see that all .. his chances of
iscaping Unsuspected j might depend
upon his behavior when the train
slopped. Ha nSusb alight quite coolly ;
he inust not run, nor appear anxious to
get away ; he must control his terrors,
though his heart throbbed to bursting.
. The train glided into the station ; the
porters ran along the platform opening
doors ; one of them opened Mr. Gloam's
carriage. " Any luggage, sir ?"
" Yes, I have some luggage," said Mr.
Gloam, aud he stepped out, shaking in
every limb, but apparently sedate and
calm, as it behooves a clergyman to be.
Next moment he was mixed up with the
throng of people whp were foraging for
their trunks and portmanteaus.
Nobody paid any attention to him.
No one talked about shrieks having
been heard during the journey. The
passengers all attended to their , own
business, and left him to his." Mr.
Gloam's biisines's was to collect a
portmanteau, a box and a hamper ; hav
ing done this, he turned to ask a porter
to call a cab for him, but, as ; he was
about to speak, his words froze on his
tongue, for he saw standing beside him
a girl who f as the very image of .Miss
Aviss.
Tf the girl hpd looked at him she mfi'jt
have noticed bis confusion, but she wJ
glancing toward au elderly gentleman
and lady who wo walking toward her;
" Here's her box, papa, but Ty& not
seen her pass," said the givJ to the
elderly couple.
. " We have looked into every cj-riage,"
said the. gentleman addressed as papa
" but she hasn't come. I suppose shi
missed the train." j
" But how comes her box to be here?"
" Wasn't there a change of. carriages
somewhere between this and London ?"
suggested, the elderly lady , ;"I think
there's a-change ftfr-Diirew Perhaps
she got out ther
the wrong train.
she got out there and afterward entered
it B . . ;
ThA wrnnir train
"How very provoking 1" exclaimed
the girl. ' .
" 1 dare say fw shall t find a telegram
when we get ' hom'ft" -tsaidHhe elderly
gentleman; "but we must ask the sta-:
tionmaster to take care of Mary's box
whenshe comes to claim it."
Mr.' jjflosini had. glanced at the box
beside vhich the girl stood, and he saw
on" it a card with the name " Miss
Mary Aviss. " The miserable man shrail
as the father, mother and , sister of
poor girl with whom he had traveled
passed him. Theh fie helped the porter
to lift his portmanteau .and walked with
him to a cab. He had a six-mile drive
before he could reach his parish of Ror-
leigh, which was on the outskirts of
Birmingham. However, he drive wai
accomplished in safety,- and that night
was spent by Mr. Gloam, ; sleepless, in
his new parsonage. h" ' ' ''
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The body of Miss - Aviss . was found
dead on the line early on the following
day, and afterward her' -traveling-bag
v.-' '.' -: -; U
was aiscovered twenty mues runner
down the line. But for this discovery
of the Tag the poor gifl's death would
have leSittr4Stedlto vcidentYa8T it
washeniit fl-sttisteAte''ii2
somebody must have had a share in her
death, nobody accuaea w Kev. Jua
Gloam, Nor was anybody else accused.
The porter who had put Mr. Gloam into
the carriage at Oxford had not noticed,
that there was a young lady in the com
partment, and, simply owing to this'
slight fact of non-obEervance, tho Btory
of Mary Aviss death was fated to re
main a mystery.
It became known in time, however, to
one man to whom Mr. Gloam communi
cated the facts in writing some five years
oiter-they had birpp3nd.He7thero; "
tot of R&rleigh,' fended bis letfer by Bay-2
vug : - I nave Uvea in -a purgatory, of
remorse and sbrrow ever'since that aw.-
ful night, ,ahd am thankful to think 1
Bhall soon be rid of my load." He was
dying when he wrote this of a decline,
brought on by overwork in, his parish ;
and he left behind him the reputation of
being the most earnest, zealous, kindest
and also the saddest rector whom the
people of Eorleigh had ever seen.
TUB W1IALKBOKE TBAD9.
The whale is the largest fish that
jBwims in the sea and it is probably the
most useful. It is,' of course, captured
for its oil, but there ia a part of its body
which commerce has made an extensive
use of to the enrichment of many men.
In the upper jaw of the whale are thin,
parallel lamina, varying in size from
threa to twelve feet in length, f These
are called whalebone, and all above six
feet 'in length is called size bone, a-
quality which, commands the highest j
price. Whalebone once brought a very
high price, especially when hobpskirts
were more in fashion than they are to
day. The Dutch formerly received
$3,500 for a ton of whalebone, but since
1763 it has never brought anything like
that price. In 1818 it brought $450 a
ton, n 1834 from $530 to $545, and 1844
it varied from $L080 for Southern to
$1,550 for Northern bone. As the whale
becomes scarce of course whalebone will
rise in the market, and at present the .
Dutch add the Scotch whalers are doing
a very poor business. The Americans
also complain, and now that this is the
case the inventive genius of man is try
ing hard to find the oest whalebone.
This is obtained from Greenland whale.
From the mouth of one of these mon
sters from 2,000 to 3,000 pounds are
often taken. The manufacture of whal
bone into articles of use and ornament
is not so extensive as one might imag
ine. - it is principally confined to jNew
York and Boston, four manufactories
being, in the former ,and three, in the
latter. When the raw whalebone is
first received at the factory the hair is
cut off the slabs. They are then soaked
in water until they are - soft, after which
they are scraped of all the gum that ad
heres to them. . They' are next put in a
steam box, where a workman Straight
ens them with a knife ; they are finally
polished, and are then ready to' be made
use of for any purpose"; that the dresser
may see fit. Whalebone, is principally
used nowadays in . the manufacture of
whips and corsets,. Umbrella frames
used to be made altogether of whale
bone, but since its .. scarcity and high
price steel is mostly used for this yax
pose..' Whalebone hats and whalebone
ribbon have just come into vogue. The
former look very beautiful and are very
comfortable on the head. Whales, like
seals, do not get time to grow, for they
are slaughtered mercilessly, young and
old, in the pursuit of wealth. The old
ones are of ten killed before the young
are able to take care of heinselves, and
the result of this cruelty is a loss of
thousands and thousands of whales and
seals in a year. Mankind will have to
be -more'.thoughtfil in the work of
slaughter if it wishes' to be better com
pensated by tliese animals, and the
whale must be let' alone for a few years
if the ladies" are to have fine corsets' and
the gentlemen- fine' walking-sticks and
riding-whips.---Brooklyn Eagle.
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T Maqazme that the belief in the alleged
!
disagreement of doctors is a popular
fallacy. In the first place, there is not
much real disagreement and the discussions-are
largely 'in, regard to tech
nical terms rather than the merits of a
case. - He says, moreover, that it is as
nnrea8onable to expect unanimity among
doctors in regard to disease, as it would
be to complain of engineers for differing
in their opinions as to how many miles
an axle with a flaw in it could run with
out breaking down. The controversies
over medicine are 'trifling when com
pared with those which come up in law,
politics, finances and religion. Mortality
ranges from 1 to 3, peTj cent. annuaHy ;
but, since for each lawyer "that gains a
case the other must lose, it follows that
lawyers" make 50 ! per cent, of mistake.
In' religion it would range from 100 per
cent, saved of thd Universalistsi dowp,to
the one less in ten ' consigned by-the
Calvinist to the hades of ' thia new ro-.visionj',-i'
t:..-;:H
tfSbi Wheeling Intelligencer notices,
as a curious feature of the mortality sta-'
tisties of this year, the large number of
deaths from what are known as zymotio
or Cltn diseases. The last quarterly re
port of the health' officer ! of that city
from all uaeaj 1Q8, camej under the head
pf Zyia.0tio disease,'
Astronomers divide meteors into sev
era! classes aerial meteors, as -winds.
tornadoes, etc.; aqueous jneteors, aa
fogs, rain, snow, hail, etc.'; luminous
meteors, or those doe to the 'action oi
elements in the air, as rainbpwshalos,
parhelias, mirages, etc.; electrical me
teors, as lightnings, aurora eto. ; ; and
igneous meteors, as shooting or falling
stars, star-showers, bolides or fire-halls,
aerolites or meteorites, eta j In present
usage, says Prof,. Newton, they term me
teor is generally limited io thoxlast
group, or to the igneous meteors.." ; The
meteorites are all evidently fragments,
not separate formations. Thjr ar$i says
the same authority, in the heaveas, to
some extent at least, grouped in eireams
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along tne orbits of known comets, and
hence have a common origin with them.
The continuity of these sreams- the
double and multiple character of Biela's
and other comets, and the -steady dim
inution of comets in, brilliancv at suc
cessive returns, seems to argue ja con
tinuous breaking up of the comet' into
fragments by some cause, prpbably by
the sun's heat. This view ;is. strength
ened by the fact that the meteoric irons
and stones bring with thejn carbonio
acid, which is known to form so fpromi
nent a part of the comet'sj tail.s. It is
now' universally admitted : that igneous ,
meteors are caused by small Itodiea trhich
have been traveling about1 the 'Bun in
their orbits, but now comeu'intd the
earth's atmosphere, and rin general,
burn up. 1 The stony meteorites 'have in
general the shape of, broken fragments
of stone. The outside is usually covered
with a thin: black crust, which ?is evi
dently due to a melting ofjtli'6 suDface in
the atmosphere. There have bee$ found
at various times and place Jlooy iron
masses that are assumed to be of; mete
oric origin, because their peculiar form,
their peculiar composition," anc 3 their
peculiar crystalline structure aire like
those of the iron masses that'hae been
seen in several instances to: eomstdown
from meteors. Shooting stars aye seen
on any clear, moonlight night j they
leave behind, many of thgni, a 5 bright
cloud of phosphorescent light ; Pieme
leors and their trains hive various
colors white, green, blue,i yellovj scar
let, etc. ; the duration of" ihe flight is
generally less than a second of tbae, but
the brighter ones
may tlabt- .Rev era!
seconds; the meteorites containno ele
ments, so far as we know whicli have
not been found on the earth, but' these
elements are compounded differently
from terrestrial mmeral,;60DifltiQies
they reach the earth, and again $re con
sumed in their course. it
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BTVFIJi TEAGBVfG. f
There is a vast amount oil humbug in
the system of common-school education,
and it is hot strange that many parents
are adopting the plan oft having their
children instructed at homewhe they
can carefully watch the child's teaining
and see that what time ia chsvoteel to in
struction is turned to good account. A
disgusted father writes to-Phlli!4elpbia
journal saying that the .ojheray he
heard his Httle girl sobbing' ovr a rule
which she was trying to cojnniit l mem ory,
in the following woras,';to-it :
"Rule for short divbiiav" rule dah
one write' the divisor at tie Jefi of the
dividend, semi-colon, begipi'at Jhe lft
hand, comma, and write ; the 'quotient
beneath, period. Paragraph. ; 2. If
there is a remainder af tet any division,
comma, regard it s prefixed to he next
figure, comma, and divwe' as l)eore,
period: If any5 partial dividenjl Ss ls
thaii the divisor, prefix U to the next
ficrnre. comma, and write a' cipher in the
quotient, period. Paragraph proof pe
riod dash- multiply the quotients Sby the
divisor, comma, and add the reminder,
comma, if any, comma,. toVthe product,
period. " 4 f t
After reading these painfull idiotio
paragraphs the amazed parent made in
quiry and found that tha pupils chil
dren under 10 were required rto study
rules in this way in order tlsat thej
might be able to wrjte'them it and
"point" them, not' correctly, Tmt ac
cording to the "book. 1 1,
"I. also found," he ajjds, "that if a
comma was left out, though th sense
remained unchanged, th "pupil uffefed
as much in loss of rnark. as though she
had commitya Vital blinder; ' .Thahks
to home instruction, my little irl .un
derstands the rules of arithmetic, but
she cannot learn them 1 by rote an this
parrot fashion,, and suffers- Accordingly.
Can we have nothing jlone . in this mat
ter to relieve our childr&r froni utterly
useless memorizing, that leaves them at
theend of a few ear vwith weakened
minds and no taste f jr tudy? -I got a
letter the other day from a rin who
had graduated from a university. He
could nekher . write nonipeli Correctly
(spelling goes 'gose'), andye at school
a few yeara ego, he cold glihjhf recite
all the rule of gramnar, ; and Was by no
means an indifferent pupoJL"- ,1.1- .
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In Iowa, Uliuois and -Whiopnstn many
farmers are purchasing oows and gping
extensively into the dai busiiess, giv-
ing as a reason , that- tnero is
tv greater
profit
grain.
to be expected than
ia
rasing
if
BBAUT DKJKJ1XP1
It is not surprisine to find the
learned in things medical unable to un-j
derstand that brain development, which
of course is generally a matter of heredi-j
ty, determines eharaoter. Such, how!
ever, is, and must needs be, the fact.:
Whether the mind is something outside
matter which acts through or by the!
brain, as a musician may use a musical
instrument, or whether, as some think,)
what we call mind is simply brain func-i
tion, it should be manifested on consid
erahon that upon the quality and con-j
formation of a man's brain must depend
his mental capacity ; and, consequently,)
also his characteristics both intellectual
and moral. We are not disposed to"
urge specialities of development as ex
enses for cqnduct because,' given an av
erage degree of intelligence and f airly;
strong will power, the individual is
clearly reaponsible for his actions ; but
it must not be forgotten that his instincts
of right or wrong, and the facility of
kidgment with which he distinguishes
between good and evil, will be acute oi
dull in proportion . as his brain is de
veloped. The mind is in a large sense the char-;
acter of a man, and as directly depeni
dent on the physical growth of his brain
as -the speed of a race-horse is dependent
on its muscular development. This is
not sufficiently recognized, and because
it is not we every now and then find
silly remarks in print such as the follovi-
ing: "The convolutions of the brain
may have something to do with the dif
ference between mediocrity and genius
but at present they are not recognized
in the law courts, and it is difficult to
see how. they can.be ;" with such weak
and wide moral, reflections as that "It
would be scarcely satisfactory to a pick
pocket to have his brains (sic) examined,
in order to prove to those ho left behind
that he really could not help being jtt
thief 1" And yet the facts are sufficient
ly plain and simple, so plain and simple
that any one should be able to under
stand them. Lancet '
OA RFTBLD AS A F It I TJX I).
The world likes to hear of the person
ality of its heroes their habits, tastek,
peculiarities, likes and dislikes. I may
be pardoned, therefore, for speaking of
things in connection with the dead
President, which would be of trifling in
terest. if not an impertinence, if said of
one not widely loved and honored. Gen.
Garfield had a warm, aflectionate na
ture. The people he liked were very
dear to him. He took them to his heart
and cave them his full confidence. He
would often sit down beside a friend and
throw his arm over his neck, or put his
hand on his shoulder -or knee, as the
natural, expression of his liking, or in
walking would place his arm through
that of the friend.- He had a way of
calling an intimate friend or comrade
"old boy" or "old fellow," and once,
when Col. Bock well thanked him for
some kindness, he said, putting his
hand on his friend's shoulder, "Old boy I
the ties of friendship . are ; sometimes
Btronger than those of blood ! " By the
courtesy of Col. Rockwell I am also en
abled to include here one of Gen. Gar
field's most characteristic letters. CoL
Rockwell says ; ; 5 j,K i , j
"On. the Sunday preceding the elec
tion I had sent, him a little expression.
of my confidence in, his success, closing,
hs I remember, with the stanza from
Goethe: . y.
" The future hides In il
dladness and Borrow.
We press still thorow ;
Naught aV'ded in it
Paunting vis onward !.
"To this' on the eve of election, Ihe
sent the following reply : ; .
11 ' "filKSTOB, Ohio, IsTov. 1, ISHQ.
"DkAk Jahvis : The evening mail brifigs
me yonr letter of. the 3st, and I take a mo
ment, in the lull before the battle, to say how
greatly glad I am for all the oarxtett and off 06
tive things you have done for uie. Wiateveir
may be the issue to-mortrow, I shall carry with
me, through life, niost grateful mention
the enthusiastic and noble work my frieudt1
have done, and especially my college class
mates. .The campaign has been fraitfril to we
in the discipline that : comes from endurance
and patience. , I. hope that defeat will .not sour
me, nor success 'disturb the poise which I have
sought to gain by the experiences of life.
" Prom thia edge of the conflict I give yon
my hand and heart, as in all the other "days of
our friendship. Aa ever yours, J
"J. A. GAJLFIXIdB.
E. V. Smaltey, in the Century Sfag
azine. ... . j
mm m . ' .- i i
J. TTED TAZL'S SOKE,
One' day Capt. Liee was talking with
Spotted Tail and others about fhohest
people and the keeping of one's word,
- " There's no such thing a an honest
man,", said , tiiei. Captain, r,,, jokingly.
There used to be, however. . Infor
mer tunes honest men . always used, to
have a. bunch of, hair, growing in!, the
palm of the right hand, , I don'l see;
but a few bunches in my hand." ,
SpottadTail . stepped up .h. jand,
shaking hands with him, sanl ......i,
How ! . How I JL usea . to nave , a
nreat big bunch of , hair in tha palm of.
my hand, Jpv. it Joaa au Den worn on bj
hakinK j-tands with the waitea.
Mast preachers'seek to "impress their
hearers with 'the fact that life is
short,5
but forget it in their sermons.
A V KfOtSEUUiB.
It is a beautiful legend of the Norsa-
land. Amilias was the village black
smith, and under the bpreading chestnut
treekin his village smithophiken stood.
He the hot iron gehammered and sjhod
horses for 50 cents all round please. He
made tin hjelmets for the gjodds and
store-pipe trousers for the hjeroes.
Mimir was a rival blacksmith. He
didn't go in very much for defensive
armor, but he was lightning on two
legged "bjswords, and cut and slash
svrculassssses. He made cheese knives
for the other fdodds. and he made the
great Ejsvsstusen, an Arkansas tooth
picK tnai wouia mase a tree moision
- i - . , . ... - . , -
clear into the transvere semi-colon of a
cast-iron ichthyosaurus, and never turn
- its edge.' That was the kind of a bhjair-
pin Mimir said he was.
One day Amilias made an impenetrable
suit of armor for a second-class gjodd,
and put it on himself to test it, and
boastfully inserted a card in the Svenssf-
ka NorderbfrdinskJkanahelde8plvtden8-
kaoroaovu8aken. saying that he was
wearing a suit of home-made, best
chilled. Norwav merino underwear that
would knick the unnumbered saw-teeth
in the pot-metal cutlery of the iron
inongery over the way. That, Amihas
remarked to his; friend Bjohun Bjt ob'in
sssoh, was the kind of a "Bdjucckk "he
was.
When Mimir spelled out the card next
morning, he said, " Bjji !" and went to
work with a charcoal-furnace cold anvil,
and A. T. Hay's isomorphic process, and
in a liftle while he came down street
with a sjvazaxd that glittered like a do!
lar-store diamond', and met Amilias down
by the new opera-house. Amilias but
toned on his new bjarmor, and said:
"H you have no "hereafter use for your
bid chyjeese-kj-aife, strike !"
Mimir spat on his hands, whirled' his
-skjvaard above his head, and fetched
Amilias a swipe that seemed to miss
everything except the empty air through
which it softly whistled. - Amilias smiled,
and said, "Go on," adding that .it
"seemed to him that he felt a general
sense oi cold iron somewhere m the
neighborhood, but he hadn't been hit.'
"Shake yourself," said Mimir. -
i Amilias shook himself and immediate.
y leu into naives, tne most neatxy-ai-
vided man that ever went beside him
self. '
"That's where the boiler-maker was
away on in nis diagnosis, saia mimir,
as he went back to his shop to put up
the price of cutlery 65 per cent, in all
lines, with an unlimited advance .on
special orders.
Ihua do we learn that a good action
is never tnrown away, ana ui&v uaa
words and.patient love, wilLovercome the
hardest natures. Burlington llawk-
.Eye. . e , : -
The bindings of books in galler
nerish ' from heat, and the higher the
boJks are above the floor the , more ac-
Jtive is' this destructive agency. .Leather
an animal tissue, and 'Win not, like
llinen, cotton, paper and Qther vegetable
jsuhstances'.' ' sustain 'without injury ' a
i;"Ligher ternperatiire than we find agreea
;ble to live in. Books cahnbt live w;here
;nieu cannot live. They are more nearly
Sallied to us as congeners than we are
'wont to suppose. In excessive heat the
leather of binliAgE slowly consumes and
iits life departs. The sulphurous re-
;sidiam of gas comb-nstion is also said' to
'be injurious to bindings. Books should, '
klierpfdre be shelve'd in the coolejt "par
of the'tqom; aiid where the air" is iieter
likely to 'pe overheated, which is ndar
the floor, where we ourselveB : live and
Imovo. In ' the private libraries of our
! residences a mistake is often made in
P carrying the shelving of : onrbook-cases
iso high that they enter-thtf upper and
jovirtieated stratum of ir. H-any one
be skeptical on this point, let- him test
by means of a step-ladder, the condition
: of the My near the ceiling of his common
sitting room on! a winter evening, !when'
.the gnsT is burning freely.;: Ths heat ia
eimp'ly insufferable. - 1 ' - -
Gov.. PnEiiPS, of Missouri, has been
surprising all hie friends - by 'refusing to
drink when invited. ,: -Three months ago
he V swore off" in New York- city, and
though ho has " drank enough to float a
Mississippi steamboat, he -says never.
again will any ; alcoholic, liquor pass his
lips., ' : His , . qi.it ting drink was ; brought
about by a singuarciTcnnstance. He
went to visit his sister in New York, and
when , she. prepared, . a zoom for her dis
tinguished brother she placed a -decanter
of whiskv in it The next day she
noticfedr the . Hquor - was untasted, and
asked him the feason. He did not tell
her J' but h afterward told a friend that
when he saw; tha whisky in hia room he
thought to himself,; "Does my sister
think, I have e-qch a love for whisky that
it is -necessary to ioep it ia my room?
Does anybo4y s tiaink it ?- s-H thej . do,
they will never think so again, for I will
never drink another dtaaJv, From that
day to this he has sot touched drink,
anaoia njwM3j u iuuiku n (wt; qjj Qr seventy-nve or even iw tmo.-
him that last week he broke off
mgbacccC' ;i4 'V
chew
Tms butter, cheese, egg and milk busi
ness in Montgomery county, Pa., is aid
to be worth &4U.uuu.uw yT i
-Bearup k CarrahAr are gasfitters ia
Grand street, New York.
Christian Angel was arrested at De
troit for refusing to support his family,
and Christian Whuson for burglary.
Mr. Kansas Nebraska Bill lives at
Saybrook, Ct Mr. Bill was born in the
time of the Kansas-Nebraska excite
ment, about 1853 or 1854, when the
Kansas-Nebraska bill was everywhere
discussed, and his father, James A. Bill,
named him Kansas Nebraska. He has a
brother, Lecompton Constitution Bill,
and another, Jefferson Davis Bill.
Michael Sir Shepherd lives as Hf ord,
England. When his mother was bid
den7Name this child,'r she curtesied
and replied: "Michael, sir," and Mi
chael Sir it was. An old Irish song re
cords a parallel case, where a dog, an- '
swering to the name " Dennis," was
making himself too busy at the christen
ing, and had to be checked by the
mother, with the result described:
u What's his name?" says the prieat ; " Down, Pea-
nis," says ahe;
So Down Dennis Bulgruddery they christened me.
Doctor WiHard Bliss is the name of
Dr. D. W. Bliss, who attended Presi
dent Garfield. He was so christened
after: Dr. "Willard, who presided at hia
birth at Auburn nearly fifty years ago.
The Rev. Ebenezer Bholanath Bhose
has- been appointed curate of St. An.
drew's, Bethnalgreen, London.
, The Rev, William Napoleon Barley
corn has been sent to Fernando Po as a
missionary by the English Primitive
Methodists. . F
Mr. Arthur Wellington Waterloo is an
ex-army surgeon in England.
Mr. Eldersley Clinton Dor lard rde
Clements keeps a laundry at Detroit.. , '.
Miss Pauline Castle Garden, aged 2,
was picked up in the rotunda of Castle
Garden on the night of the Fourth of
July, named by Supt. Jackson, and
sent to the refuge on Ward's island.
Messrs. 'Nova Zembla and Adamant
ine' Johnson are residents of St. Louis,
Mb.
Miss Mazin Grace Brooks il a resident
of Kansas City, Mo., her pious mother
having named her" (by ear) out of the
hymn-book r " Mazin grace, how sweet
the sound I" - '
Dr. Theodore Ledyard, of New York
city, used to be Dr.! Theodore Ledyard
Smith, but obtained permission from the
Court of Common Pleas to drop the
last name." He gave as a reason that
" it is his ambition and hope to become
master of bis profession, . and to build
up and establish a distinct individuality
in his practice, and he fears that because
of the great number . of doctors named
Smith that name will hinder him jtn hia
object." -..,;.!..,-; . 4 . !
The late Mr. Lewis Hamilton, of Ken
tucky, left five children Mi; ; London
Judge Hamilton, Master Southern Boil
Hamilton, - and Misses Avenue Belle,
China Figure, and, (Hebrew Fashion
Hamilton.
. XXX f CAN . ADOBE MOVMEM.
One of the many distinctive feature
of a foreign people to attract a stranger
on entering Sew Mexico ia the . adobe
(dobe) castle of the natj-fe. The arch
tecture of the Mexican ,. adobe is simple
and primitive, being constructed of .clay
and mojdedtouit the convenience and
taste of the owner. In the rural districbi
of me Tenitoryby .which is meant all
parts outside r of the half-dozen or so
commercial centers, these mud houses
rarely,' if ever', exceed one storylif height,
and are constructed very much after the
pattern 6f the backwoodBmaii't shanty,"
with flat Toof, earth floors'" etc. In Ihe
three principal towns of the Territory
Santa Fe Albuquerque and Las Vegas
the adobe very often assumes 1 an impos
ing appearance, in some instances reach
ing two and even three stories in height.
The clay being susceptible of a smooth
finish, the surface of many of these mod
err adobes is designed in imitation of
granite, brick or such other pattern as
may best su't the-fancy of the owner.
To each adobe, in town or country, ia
attached a plaza, either rear or front
Tha wl-tw"ln .Matt nan farmer or town
citizen constructs his i residence, olose to
the design of a barrack or corral, with a
wall, from twelve to fifteen feet . high,
surrounding an area of - ground suffi
ciently large to meet the requirements of
his household. The. only entrance, to
this incaosnre is by a gateway, ,. , i
The several apartments of, the family
are. arranged within and around, the in-,
closure, without other opening than a
door, leadinjr to the plaza or, court-yard,
wnere a structure of mud from three to
Bix feet hich andj beannfr a close re-.
semblance to a bee-hive serves for a bak-
rv and other kitchen purposes. By thia.
stvla of architecture the Mexican senor
not only draws the line of caste,', but " is
protected from, severe .'now arid sand
storms'that sweep, ' over the Temtory at
irregular intervals. These jmud: struc
tures are said to be Very ocWortable
4 mm in winter and cold in summer, it
i ia claimed bv the natives that a properly-
. 1 eonstructed adobe can be used with conv
.ee
Missoxtbi " has weekly newspaper
which ha' suspended and been revived
thirteen' different times. That's what
ups ht he called Hyoig out eorofie.
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