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0AW8 AKD ;BT WA*m»OT<IW OLASDKH. f i mt UphypicianR, lurched aloft 1 '• On the lop of a •dry pin«»-fcwwi, Jplave talked all day in a marvelous way 'h'm[ -®f diviacpwioeopby ' - ^o wild Coleridgean ramblers thay S . All over the realm of laws-- *Th«y stick to their text, howerer perplexed, The doctrine (and practice) of caws. "The biggo«t crow, on ttie nearest limb, Gave first, with n«ver a pans*, iA clear, profound,deliberate, soond Oiscourse of proximate caws. <A th»olo?ue in a caseock clad, With a choker under hi« Jawa •And a cold iu hi« head, either song or mid A treatise of second caws, >& flmh-hawk lit on the top-moet With a pickerel in his claws, •When small and great began to rnonc Concerning efficient caws. •An t when, at the close, the confess toae, ts»* the old crows pause, 4«'i what they said, as they flew o'erhead, Had the sound of final caws. No longer in me, oh Philosophy, Thy devotee expect; fa spite of thy laws, here's a chain of oawa, And not one single effect. --Bfcrper'j Magazine for Fehrtwry. WHO MA.DK THE PROPOSAL I Dr. Gibson, having made an unpro­ fessional visit to Mrs. Kellioott, walked down to the gate with her daughter Matty. Matty was 20 years old, and the doc­ tor was 80. Her eyes were brown, and his were gray. She " had on " a pink «alico dress and a white muslin apron ; be wore clean, cool-looking linen clothes and a wide Panama hat. The gentleman admired the lady's flowers very much, especially the white loses--one of which, by the '•ay, she had tacked under her ear. She inquired with considerable show of interest about the Buggies children, who had the measles. He told her gravely all about Tommy and Ben, Alice and Kit; and, when he had finished, a silence fell upon Matty was leaning on the gate, look­ ing down the village street. She thought how fanny it was for Mr. Scott to paint his new house pea-green with lavender trimmings, aad was about to say so to Dr. Gibson, when he stopped her. Ho said the very last thirg she would Jiave expected to hear. He said : " Matty, I love you, and want you to marry me!" The verv look in the bright, brown eyes would" have told him, without a angle spoken word, how thoroughly un- looked-for such a proposal had been. She had never, in all the years she had known Dr. Gibson, thought for a mo­ ment of the possibility of h s loving her. She was very sorry, she told him, but she didn't love him one bit, at least in that way. But the tears came into her ber ayes as she saw the quiet face grow a tnjfle pale. " I hardly believed you did care for me," he west on, after a pause. " But I hoped you might yet learn to do it" . " But--bat--" said Matty, with em­ barrassment, " I thought every one knew I was engaged to my cousin Tom." "Tour cousin Tom I" echoed the doc­ tor. It was impossible to mistake the impression which passed over his face. It was not merely personal regret at the fact she announced, but an impartial disapproval of the match. He made no comment, however, but dqectly said : "Matty, I shall never get over this-- I mean that I shall always love you, and, if you need a friend or protector, or--or any one, you'll come to me, won't you f" JBiie promised and held out her band fco \am. He shook it warmly, said "God bless you!" and left her hurriedly. Matty, still leaning on the wooden gate, watched the retiring figure out of -sight. She was very quiet all day, and in the evening propounded thi« absurd question: * Tom, what would you do if I should jilt yoa J" Tom stroked his downy upper lip, and looked pensive. "Couldn't say," he replied, after acme moments of reflection. " You xmight try and see." "Perhaps I will," she replied more Boberly than the occasion seemed to warrant. Tom & tared very hard at her, b&t immediately forgot the incident. Nearly a year passed. Sue day Mrs. Kellioot's "help" rushed frantically into Dr. Gibson's house, and breathlessly dumstmoed to that gentleman that " Mr. Tom would be deader'n a door nail long before he got there, if he didn't jump." -For two seconds, thinking of him as his rival in Matty's affections, the doctor bad half a mind to consign him to the tender mercies of good, stupid old Dr. Wells; but his better nature prevailed, >aad he-s'arted for Mrs. Kellicott's at the "very heels of the servant-girl. When be arrived he found Tom in bigh fever, and delirious. He pro­ nounced it a severe case of typhoid ifever, and privately added a doubt that >be "would recover. He sent to his own ihoua? for changes of clothing, prepared tfo«£evote himself to the sick man. Mat- tor too, was unwearied in her work, and, beij ;g necessarily much in Tom's room, consequently saw the doctor constantly, fie and his patient presented a marked ooutrast to each other. The latter was •captious and peevish to an unheard of -degree, and talked almost incessantly of some unknown being named Kate. <Oja the other hand, Dr. Gibson was so patient and gentle, so strong and help­ ful, doing so much for Tom, and yet not forgetting one of his accustomed duties, * that Matty opened her eyes in admiring w .astonishment. One morning, as the dootor prepared *st sleeping draught for somebody, and •dictated to Matty a prescription for p^mebody else, she said with real solici­ tude : "Dr. Gibson, you will certainly kill yourself if you keep on at this rate ; and 'tis my belief that you are overworked, and you ought to take a rest." " Do I appear to be at death's door?" ihe inquired, straightening up, and •squaring his shoulders, as if proud of Jn« proportions. " No, Matty, he con- tftacued solemnly, though with a merry twinkle in the honest eyes, "work, as Mrs. Bowers frequently remarks, is a pannaky." Matty understood him and colored crimson. At last Tom was pronounced out of dtenger, and now the doctor felt that he i«t remove himself and his belongings from Mrs. Kellicott's house to his own. Matty, hidden by the honey-suckle-vines over the piazza, watched him go and oried a little. The morning after, Tom and Matty sat on the piazsa; he reading, or pre­ tending to read, while she sewed dili- eu tly. Neither uttered a word few more than half an hour. Presently Matty shook out the muslin cap she wan making, and laid it on her work-box, put her little silver thimble aside, and dropped her hands, one over the other, into her lap. Then she looked up. Tom was staring straight at her. She colored violently, and so, for that mat­ ter, did he. < " Tom," she began, " don't be angry. Oh, do forgive me!" She paused, try­ ing to think how she oould tell him softly ; but she went on bluntly, "I want to end our engagement." * " So do do I," rejoined he, with diffi­ culty suppressing a whistle. Then both burst into a hearty laugh. "You see, Mat," said Tom, when he oould speak, "I love some one else." Matty appeared to be taken quite by surprise at this declaration. "But I couldn't htlp it, indeed I couldn't. She is--" "She is a young lady whose name is Kate, and her eyes are the blackest, and her cheeks the reddest, and she sings •Under the Stars' with guitar-accompa­ niment, " rattled Matty all in a breath. It was Tom's turn to stare. " Where did yon find all this out?" he asked. "My dear little bird, etc. I think I'll go*and write to my future cousin and off she ran, glad to escape the ques­ tions whioh she feared he might pro­ pound. " But you haven't told me--" he.called after her. "And never shall," she returned, whisking into her own room. In less than an hour she had recon­ ciled her mother to Fate's decree, and written to Miss Kate Spencer, and per­ suaded Tom to write also, and had done much toward informing the whole vil­ lage of her altered prospects. In due time Tom was married, Matty officiating as first bridesmaid. Matty, after the excitement of Tom's wedding, bethought herself what she should do. There were her summer dresses to be made up, her music scholars to attend to, the sewing-circle and the flowers; but these occupied neither all her time nor thoughts. There ought to have been Dr. Gibson, too, she could not help thinking ; but that gen­ tleman, instead of falling at her feet as soon as he heard she was free, paid her no more attention than before. She waited for him, in growing wonder and worry, an eternity -- two weeks -- and then took measures to bring him to him to his senses. She employed only recognized and ladylike means, however. She began by flirting a little with different gentle­ men. There was Will EHis. This young gentleman had offered himself to our heroine, on an average, four times a year, ever since she was 15. She had invariably refused him, decidedly and emphatically ; but they were the best of friends in the world. She now told him in so many words, that she could accept all the attention he would offer her during the next week, taking care to remember that this singular declara­ tion proceeded not from any special re­ gard for him, but was mado in pursu­ ance of some occnlt design on her part. Forthwith the pair embarked upon what seemed to be the stormiest flirtwtkm Skinnersville ever saw. lit the long morning they drove or rode together; they dined at Mrs. Killicott's, and im­ mediately after sallied forth on some other excursion. Both were excellent equestrians, and Matty gloried in gal­ loping over hill and dale, on one of Will's handsome horses. (Will, by-tbe- by, was the son of a rich man.) Then they drank an early tea on the veranda and spec* the evening at the piano or in reading. At the hour of % Matty always sent Will home, without a parti­ cle of ceremony or r»*gret at his de­ parture. In r-hort, what uppeared to Skinnersville as a s* rtous courtship was, in reality, a pure business matter, and so understood between the two parties to it, This state of affairs <*051 Sinned for a week os~ ao, during whicif time the doe- tor ignored Matty's existence, exc&ot as she was tlje daughter of his dear friend, Mrs. Killicott. And *01 the time the girl was raging inwardly at her qnandain suitor. " Why don't hea*k me at once gain?" she queried, menta-ly ; " I urn sure he loves, and any « ne uiuht see that L love him ; but I c«Tt, an t [ suppose I shall be an old maid.*' But the doctor was not to hlamn. A man of the world would have seeu through Matty's stratagem, but he did not; he imagined that she was either trying to drown her disappointment at losing Tom, or had really decided to marry the enamored Will. . The truth occurred to Matty at last. She could hardly believe such stupidity existed in the mind of man ; but she de­ termined te try what modest and retir­ ing behavior would effect. So she dis­ missed Will, and became, to all outward resemblances, a little nun. Still no ad­ vance on the doctor's part. He came and went constantly to the house, how­ ever. Matty gave up all hope, finally, of ever coming to a better under­ standing with him, when something hap­ pened. Dr. Gibson "dropped in " one morn­ ing, when Mrs. Killicott sat sewing on the pleasant veranda in the cool, re­ freshing breeze. "Yon musn't come here," she called, as he tied his horse to the hitching-post. "My vork requires my undivided at tention ; besides, you'll step on the ruf­ fles. Ynu may go and help Matty, if you like/' That young woman was making pies in the kitchen. She saw the doctor coming round the corner of the house, gave a hurried glance at the bright bot­ tom of a tin pan she was holding, found herself presentable, and greeted him composedly. She was very glad to see him, she said. Wouldn't he come in. No he wouldn't come in, the day was so beautiful. He would just stand on t e little brick pavement under the win­ dow, and lean over the sill. So there he stood under the grape­ vine trellis, with a little golden sunshine falling o\£r his hair and shoulders. Matty observed that he looked thorough­ ly unloverlike, and concluded thai he didn't intend to propose. She also no­ ticed a rip in his coat, and wondered who would mend it for him. Someway the talk veered round from the weather to woman's rights. Matty, on this, spoke up. She didn't at all believe in the seoonl- hand influence which reached the ballot- box through the agency of husbands and brothers. " When I vote," she said, "I want to march to the polls put in my own vote my own self." " What a pretty spectacle you'd Matty, with that rolling-pin in your hand, and--" " I'm not at all sure that I want to vote," she interrupted. "But I just yould like to make some laws, that's tAL* " Well, you mi^ht petition the Legis­ lature," suggested the doctor, gravely. " Oh, they're not legal laws ; only social customs and usages. I'll tell you just what I mean." She laid the roll­ ing-pin aside, with an emphatic bang, placed her floury arms akimbo, looked very earnest and determiried, and quite regardless of the fact that she and Dr. Gibson were in love with each other. *' Now, at a party, when a lady sits alone in a stuff chair all the evening, not dancing, simply because she hasn't any partner, and can't ask any one, oh, you know, Dr. Gibson, you know--" " How it is myself ? " interpolated he. " How it was at Mrs. Campbell's the other night. If I had been Anna Ilad-- cliffe, o» Dora Collard, I'd have asked some of you men to dance with me." "Then you think women should have the privilege of asking for whatever they wish?" he retorted, with half a smile. She answered that she thought jost that. " Well, Matty, I quite agree with you. I not only think they should have this right in such a case you mention, but also in more serious affairs. For in­ stance, women might, with perfect pro­ priety, make proposals of marriage." Now, such an idea had never entered Matty's foolish little head, and she siezed the sugar-box with great embarrassment. The doctor went on, with much gravity " I am aware that it would be a very unconventional proceeding, and I am afraid that no woman will ever be wise enough to take the initiative ; and yet I an persuaded that in many instances it would be the most natural and beauti­ ful thing she could do." He was looking unconsciously up at the blue sky shining through the filagree work of vine-leaves above him. It was evident he was thinking in the abstract only, but a faltering little "Dr. Gib­ son" recalled him to the concrete. And there stood Matty smiling, blushing, dimpling, ready to extinguish herself in her brown gingham apron. " Dr. Gibson, I like you ever so much!" she faltered, bravely, bat breath­ lessly. The doctor jumped through an open window, and made his proposal over again.--Portland Sunday Time*. Rapid! Transit in London* London is served by three rapid-transit roads--the North London "ailway, which traverses the northern suburbs above the hoiases, and is twelve-miles long; the Metropolitan District rail­ way, seven miles long underground; and the Metropolitan railway (the- first built), which is thirteen miles uader- ground. There are a few branch lines in addition to these, and the main lines are connected witti the principal lines of railway running into London at the sev­ eral large teronai. The Metropolitan cost $3,00^,000 a mile, or $39,000,093 in all. The Metropolitan District cost $3,- 700,000 per mile, or $25,000,000 for the whole road ; and the North London the smaller sum of $3,560,000 per mile, or $18,720,000 in all. Thus the three roads, running thirty-two miles, cost $83,®30,- 000. The bulk of the passengers on all these lines are tf&ird-class--that is» ar­ tisans, laborers, a'*d the poorer classes going to and returning from their wprk. In the aggregate the percentage of pass­ engers is one-tenth first-class, one$fth second-class, and seven-tenths third- class. The working expenses of ®ach line vary---the highest, an underground line, being 55 per eent. of the receipts, and the lowest, aiao an undeigroand, being 39 per cent. This latter is- the first railway of the kind built, andi pays about 4 per cant, on its capital. The highest pays 4$ per cent., the lowest about 2 per cent. Not Ready to he Buried* A few days ago a resident of Bucking­ ham county, naimed Bnjamiu Winter, who has an unusual propensity for tak­ ing medicines of various kinds fetc real or imaginary diseases, swallowed' % dose of opium, mixBd with some*othetr drugs, and when found by his wife was believed to be dead. Accordingly, the usual preparations were made for the burial, but owing to the weather the supposed corpse was kwpt uuburied longer than is customary. Finally, however, the coffin wo® followed to the grave by a procession o£ friends and neighbors ; and, in obedience to an expressed wish of some perscAi present, who desired once more to behold the face of the departed, the lid of the oof- fin was removed. A wonderfully unexpected scene was the result, for as soon as the cold air touched the body the eyes opened, and the supposed corpse was found to be alive. It is farther stated that Mr. Winter actually walked back home 1-- Lynchburg {Va.) News. The Traversing Thread. The one sole thread which traverses all the win drugs of the labyrinthine im­ broglio proptrly called the Eastern question-- which affords.a clue to it, ren­ ders it intelligible, and gives it a pres­ ently interrogative shape--is a tiussian thread. Thus, without the ambition of Russia, there would be no Eastern ques­ tion, any more than there was a Roman question during the decline of the By­ zantine Empire, or a Spanish question when the power of the Moors was fading out of Spain.--Levant Herald, WHISKY, it has just been discovered, if given in sufficient quantities, is an infallible cure for lock-jaw. The faot must be borne in mind, though, that it acts only as an antidote,not as a prevent­ ive. You must have your lock-jaw be­ fore you take your whiaky. SIOUX AGAINST SIOUX. Gen. Oroofe'a Plan for Closing the Indian W#r--What Is likely to Happen. [Cheyenne Gar. New York Sun.] Since the return of the last expedition •gainst the Sioux, and principally the hostiles under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, the headquarters of the Depart­ ment of the Platte in the field have tem­ porarily been established at this point. To-night they were somewhat startled by the intelligence that the Indians had run off over twenty-five head of stock, mostly horses, from the ranches of Max­ well and Phillips, on the Chug, and be­ tween Cheyenne and Laramie. Neither the Black Hills stage line nor the Gov­ ernment transportation have been i*»o- lested, but fears are entertained that these marauders will not rest satisfied with mere theft. A few days ago Sergt. Berry and two privates from the garri son of Fort Laramie were attacked by Indians, badly wounded, and their horses killed. Truly, the Sioux do not appear to be so nearly subjugated as has been reported, but, on the contrary, seem spoiling for a fight. Present appearances indicate that the operations of last summer--God grant without the horror of another Custer massacre!--are to be repeated. Fruit­ less, or at least indecisive chases, worn- out and starving troops, and exhausted horsefi >sh--these are the expensive hardships of Indian campaigns. They will not vary for at least two or more decades. As soon as his services as witness before this court martial can be dispensed with, Gen. Crook will proceed via Fort Laramie to Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agen­ cies to organize another expedition against Crazy Horse. It is said that Maj. Mason, Third Cavalry, will com­ mand, and that his force will De com­ posed largely of volunteer Sioux--Ogal- 1 alias, Kiocies, Brules, etc. Indeed, Spotted Tail has proposed and asked to go out with his entire individual band. The President, it will be remembered, conferred upon him the title of Grand Sachem of the Sioux Nation, but his are a troublesome people, and unfortunately there are some who fear neither him nor tho Great Father. Frank Gruerd, the noted scout of Gen. Crook, will again accompany him. It seems to be the policy of the latter to fight Indian with Indian, or, in other words, to inflame the various bands against each other. This plan he pursued in his campaigns against the Apaches in Arizona, and it was eminently successful. The Sioux difficulty is likely to be yet settled by those who caused it. The early spring will see an influx of miners into the Black Hills that nothing can stay. Even now they are assembling and outfitting at this and other contigu­ ous points. There will not be sufficient gold to supply the demand, and thou­ sands of unsuccessful *-aen will either return or devote their attention to agri­ culture and stock. Towns will spring up with better ingredients of stability and success than nere mining settle­ ments pesaess, and the Sioux will be forced to retire from their hunting grounds. The Northern Pacific railroad may be bailt; and, whether it be or not, the oounisy immediately north of the Black Hills and about the Big Horn mountains,will become great and popu­ lous regions because of their intrinsic value. Y*nderMlt% Whist. The gjteat passion of which he was possessed was card-playing. In former years the games were always played at either the Union or Manhattan Clubs, and tjonsiated only of whist, of which he was very fond. Those wh© have played many games with him state that he was a very adroit and clever player. He had a most remarkable and wonderful memory of the cards after they had been played. He always received a poor play with a frown, and praised a good one. He once* had for a partner William Cooke, a railroad man of Bridgeport. He declared that Ms. Cooke made the best play he had ever seen during his long experience in the game. Hearts was trumps, and the Commodore's long suit was spades, tho whole of whioh he held, wiiih the excdp&on of the king and a card d smaller denomination, which were held by Mr, Cooke, ^without the Commodore's knowledge.. It was the Commodore's lead,, the trumps having been exhausted, and he was debating in his mind how to capture or get rid of the king, so as to rua> out his suit. He at length led the acs> on which his partner played the king, thus giving the Com- modoue the contra! of the suit. If the small card bad been played, his partner wouldl have had the leading card in the suit, and would have been unable to re­ turn ihe suit afterward. The Commo­ dore- often referred to this play, and de­ clared it was thet finest he had ever seen. --N*w York Tribune. p? Hand Air. There are some things, says the Now Yoik Tribune»that are almost as good at second-haad as when bought now. Furniture, for instance, that has been carefully kept, is more paized by many people than that which is fresh from the shop. Diamonds do not lose their taster or their value by being handed down through generations of fair women. Fine laces ar* treasured as among the most precioua of heir-looms. Even food served np the second time might be quite as savory and nu­ tritious as when first brought on the table, and a nice garment made over new is not despised ; but second-hand air--is it to be for a moment tolerated ? What is second-hand air ? It is air that has passed through one, two, or more pairs of lungs, to which it has largely given up *ts most precious element, and from which it has received a load of effete animal matter in the shape of car­ bonic acid gas, one of the most poison­ ous of gases. It has also received the exhalations of the body, and has become to a greater or less extent loaded with excrementitious matter, and more fitted to fertilize barren land than to sustain life. _____ A Sew England Oath. "I swanny" does such universal duty as an oath throughout New England that the expression merits some atten­ tion as a philological curiosity. No one can sojourn among rural New Englanders for any length of time without being driven to speculate as to the origin of the phrase. Could it have come down through ageaof gradual elimination from some highly respectable pagan formula, such as "I will swear by any of the gods," for instance? This seems a not wholly incredible supposition, and lifts the seeming vulgarism at once to the level of a " condensed olasaic. "-~8rib- ner. Captive of the gloux for Nine Years. [From the Pittsburg Chronicle.] Yesterday afternoon a \oung girl, aged about 17, arrived at <he Union de­ pot, by Chicago express, on her way to relatives at Lockport. Her name is Lizzie Smith, and she has been captive to a tribe of the Sioux who live north of the Black Hills, for nearlv nine years. Her father resided in Philadelphia, and was engaged in a dry goods store. She and other members of the family were visiting in Western Iowa, when the Sionx raided the place, capturing her and others, and killing her little brother. She was taken to their hunt ing grounds, and was, she says, treated well generally, but mistreated at times, because of her inability to learn their language. Another girl, a year or two her senior, was captured with her, and the two, by conversing together, suc­ ceeded in retaining their knowledge of the English tongue. Her companion was a Miss Stewart, who was rescued at the same time and sent to her friends at Omaha. \ Miss Smith states that a party of five trappers discovered them some weeks since and persuaded them to make an escape. This they consented to do, and the party stealing Indian ponies, left for the white man's country. They were pursued four days by the Sioux, but got off, and in time to reach Rock City, on the Union Pacific. There they were supplied with clothing by their rescuers, Messrs. Welsh, Schwartz, Wolf, Botmeyer and one other whose name Miss Smith cannot recall. The railway company passed her vi* Chi cago, boarding her in transit and treat ing her with the greatest kindness. The agent of the Pennsylvania railway did similarly here, and the young woman was sent to her uncle at Lockport, on the 4:30 train yesterday afternoon. Miss Smith has been so long with the Indians that she has acquired a few of their pe­ culiarities, and to the reporter seemed to have some of the prominent features of the savages. She is intelli­ gent, considering her disadvantages, and quite prepossessing in appearance, notwithstanding her bronzed com­ plexion. Weorge Eliot. Somebody who has been in London recently, intent on learning the prices which authors get for their work, claims to have discovered that George Eliot has not been paid so handsomely as has been generally supposed. He appears to have been very busy gratifying his curiosity. He declares as by authority that, up to a late date, the lady had re­ ceived for "Scenes of Clerical Life," $5„0©*>; for " Silas Marner," $7,500 ; for "Adam Bede," $17,500 ; for " Mill on the Floss," $20,000; for "Romola," $15kQ0t>; for " Felix Holt," $22,500 ; for "The Spanish Gypsy" (poem), $2,200 ; for "• Middlemarch," $40,000 ;for "Le­ gend of Jubal" (poem), $2,000, and for " Daniel Deronda," $30,000, making in &LL ,000. As it is eighteen years since she produced her first original work, she has earned only about* a year, and those who know her declare that she toils terribly over her MSS., or rathar over her, characters, and incidents of hex stories before she begins to write. This is certainly no extraordinary com­ pensation for a woman believed to be the most gifted of her sexj and the greatest of liimg novelists. Hack writers in London often earn more; so that geniais does not appear to be such a coiner of gold even when it has been universally recognized. George Eliot, by the by, i»said to have been sorely disappointed at the general opinion tliat "Deronda" is neither so able nor so interesting, as "Middlemarch," because she considers nfc by all odds ber masterpiece. She has, we hear, already begun to outline an­ other novel, which she is determined shall exceed anything she has yet done. Although in her 57th year, sho does not beMeve she has reached the summit of her powers, and she expeats to prove it by her next performance.--Neur York iribune. Brain-Workers. There is as much danger of hiarting (the brain by idleness as by overwork, according to Br. Farquharson*s theory, as he gives it in the Popular Science Monthly. He argues that intellectual power is lessened by the listlessness in which the well-to-do classes generally spend their lives. Under sveh condi­ tions the brain gradually lose* its health, and, although equal to the'deinands of a routine existence, is unable to withstand the strain of sudden emergency. So, when a load of work is unexpectedly thrown on it in its unprepared state, the worst consequences of what may be called overwork show themselves. Simi­ larly, a man accustomed to sedentary pursuits is liable to be physically in­ jured by taking suddenly to violent ex­ ercise. As to the amount of mental work that may safely be done, Dr. Far- quharaon says. "So long as a brain- worker is able to sleep well, to eat well, and to take a fair proportion of out-door exercise, it may eafely be said that it is not necessary to impose any special limits on the actual number of hours which he devotes to his labors. But when what is generally known as worry steps in to complicate matters, when cares connected with family arrange­ ments, or with those numerous personal details which we can seldom escape, in­ tervene; or when the daily occupation of life is in itself a fertile source of anx­ iety, then we find one or other of these three safeguards broken down." Appalling Darkuess. Referring to the extraordinary storms that prevailed lately in Spain and Portu­ gal, the Manchester Guardian says: " For nine days a pall of black cloud hung over Madrid, and the darkness by day was like the darkness of night, and the rain poured in torrents night and day long. On the coast and in the in­ terior the storm raged with a violence almost without*parallel. From Lisbon accounts of the same tenor have been received." • POOR Jim Nye used to say: "My people liked me better than they do Jones; but Lord ! I oan't run against a silver mine." PAI^cMUMHTIC IMEMiS^, 0®k#°?pt^In Nu*» » sailor bold T Of England's proud Naves, And lie sailed to the land of perpetual OOld •• h??i »!>nr'!fr»,hp Arctl<'He*- * Hi 11 hojwUy beat these felleis," he said. Amerikee, . < waT 10 tbe P®1* ao *11 that come After me.** 8° he sailed away to the fro»n North. UP Smith Sound west he; Till at last fee came to the end of his rope In latitude eighty-three. " A**"1 co'd h"P 'ere in the hiat" Said this Captain bold, said he-- " 1 shouldn't go Ijack since that 'Avaa Game nearly as far as me. " Hill mark his latitude twenty ̂ And say a mistake made he, And call hio blasted Hoppn Pole My PalaBocrystie Sea." There's more in a name than Shakeanear* ttinnoh* Though a poet grand was he, v0*™ wougnr, And the R. G. 8. will a medal beatow For my Pa)jnocry»ttc Sea." So he hauled his sheet and bore away And quickly home came he, With many a story dark and dread Of his PalfBocryetic Sea. And now it is left for some Hall or Whoever he may be, To sail -with some little American ship Through the Palaeocrystic Sea. --Graphic. • Pith and PolnU~ IT is the want of motive, says George Eliot, that makes life dull and makes men feel old. Now is the time to subscribe 50 cents to the poor fund, and $5 to the base-ball club whioh is to scoop the world next spring. LongfexI|Ow's noble head is still thatched with a mass of curly white hair. He never carried an altercation with a female to any great length. WHEN a Long Island husband is miss­ ing, his wife has a regulur programme to follow. She first makes sure that the servant girl is at home or also missing. IF you don't feel any itching of the spot on the left arm within two or three days, you can charge your dector with having scraped his virus from an old wart. DON'T trust to appearanoes. A New York policeman looked into a wagon, expecting to find a lost dog, but found instead $4,000 worth of stolen kid gloves. THH late Treasurer of Egypt had an income of $2,000,000 per year, and his great anxiety was to spend every dollar of it. He once burned up $8,000 to balance his account. Mb. BEVAN'S boldness in reproving a person for ooughing in a New York church is not without precedent The Duke of Gloster stopped King Henry's coffin on the way to cburch: A PENNILESS Chicago girl has opened a barber shop as a last razor't--Boston Post. A new way for a girl to hone up that she is financially "stropped."-- At orris foum Herald. Ooh hone I--St. Louis Republican. TENNYSON'S new drama is absorbing the attention of the literary circles of New England, and the Boston husband before returning home stops at a gro­ cery to purchase some crackers and, cheese or goes to bed without a meal. "TRIPLETS," said the Doctor senten tiously. The husband of a year rushed out on the back porch, thought upon his slender income, glared upon the snow clad yard and exclaimed with a wild, mocking laugh : " Son-struck in Janu «y." His iiAST words to her in the morning were : " Wrap up warmly, darling, if you go shopping to-day ; the weather is very cold." She said she would, and before she went out she had all her bustles weighed and put on tho heaviest one. What will not a woman do for the man she loves! THE goldsmith of the New York Her­ ald himmers out of the finest metal this beautiful and eminently sound reflection: "Mr. Moody sensibly says that pretty girls should not permit men to kiss them at church fairs for 23 cents. That is right. They may be just as easily kissed after they leave the fair and for 100 per cent, less in the price.. THE HBSiT KISS. For twenty years the elder had the sister Courted, and vet hell never tigged her; Till, growing bold with long delay. He thus proposed to her ewe d*y: " I think, my dear, well better knr^el and pray That Heaven above will judge it not amiss If we partake of, ere we part--a kins." And so with due solemnity the P'<ir Did tm tho osculation thus prepare. And then--a rousing smack dinturbod the air. " Tis good," Baid < '_a, a--. tUey the- . cetar drank,' '"lis good. ' the elder said, "let'w kneel and thank." HE was only an inquisitive boy and he said : " Ma, will all the heathens turn up when it comes resurrection times ?" "Yes, my son." "And them mission­ aries; those will turn up?" "Cer­ tainly, my son." " Well, when them cannibal heathen what's been feed in' on missionaries gets resurrected, and them missionaries what's been eat comes around and wants to resurrected, things is going to be mixed up, hey, ma?" " It is time you were in bed, my son. " THE merry jingle of the sleigh-bells, the sparkle of the crystal snow in the lambent light of the moon, and the con­ fiding creator© that nestles closely to him beneath the buffalo robes, tenderly clasping his left hand in hers while his right holds the reins, constitute the winter night's poem that is floating through the doting lover's soul and leaving him in doubt whether to let go long enough to get his handkerchief out or draw his coat sleeve across his nose. Emigration, f The number of passengers landed at New York dining 1875 was 75,036. Of these 60,308 were aliens, 2,357 were born in the United States, and 12,376 had previously landed at New York or other port in the United States, ©f the whole number of aliens who arrived, 21,035 were from Germany, 13,314 from Ireland, 8,447 from England, 2,246 from Scotland, 5,636 Russia, 2,618 Italy, 3,693 Sweden, 2,114 Norway, 1,218 Denmark, 2,168 France, 1,210 Austria, 2,721 Bo­ hemia, 496 Hungary, 1,292 Switzerland, 588 Holland, 292 Belgium, 451 Wales, 83 Luxemburg, 465 West Indies, 260 Spain, 136 South America, 106 Central America, 154 Canada, 29 Australia, 31 Africa, 192 China, 33 East Indies, 21 Greece, 43 Mexico, 87 Nova Suotia, 32 Portagal, 24 Turkey, and 36 from va­ rious other countries. SOME one says : " Put 2,000 men to­ gether on an open prairie, and if they are panic-stricken they will trample one another to death. They will rueh like a herd of frightened buffaloes, and you might as well think of reading the ten oommandmeuts to stop them as to con­ trol their flight."