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-»ti ! * . . a iWTTi * Y«f fetltw * faUMMr^ Bf-HENRY. "1 I T ILLINOIS '*'<• mB SCHOOL-BOY*: & W*J fMidtfiit him a box for fain books and things And a cricket bag tor his bat; d he iooktd the brightest and best of kings nder h&> MR straw hat. . v.. "We handed him into the railway train. With a troop of his young compeers; - And we made a* though it were aunt tM Hum Vfere iilimg our e>e» *»U.h teaiB. 'We looked in his innocent facetoseeV t " Twa« mot that he loved not as heretofore. For the l>ov was tender and kind: zm t his was a world that was all beforit And ours was a would behind; "flfwas not his fluttering heart was cohlf * fe'J For the child was loyal and true, ^ -v-And the parents love the love that is old, And the children the love that is now. • wmfcttu yre came to 3cno3r *b«t lnv® is a flower Which only erovr^th down; -' And wewcarcely spoke for the epace of an honr As we drove back through the town. --Epiacopallan. THE SWALLOWS. DZAK birds that preet us with the spring. That fly along the eusay blue. That hover round your last year's necto, 9 Or cut the shining heavens thro'. That skim along the meadow pra^t,, Among the iiowcre sweet and fait, . That croon uiton the pointed roofjf fV? i Or, yuiv'iiiig, balance in the air; Ye her a ids of rhe summer days. As quick ve dart acro^ the lea, Tho' other birds be fairer, yet The dearest of all birds are ye. , ^ Dear as the messengers of spring Before the buos have opened wide, DeWTVhen onr other birds are her*. . Dear in the burning Rummeitide; But when the lonely autumn wind About the flying forest grieves, In vain we look for vbu, and find-- •* Your empty nests beneath the eavts. D»ra Bead Goodale, in St. Nicholas f$r Auff. WHAT THERE IS IN LUCK. " WieSiibject of Cbai^ra and M Remark" libl i €oincldeiice(|,n liisiyked 4. Man of Science, IN Forster's Life of Dickens a cu- -*rious story is told of what Dickens ~ ©ailed a 44 wonderful, a paralyzing co­ incidence," experienced on the Don- - caster Race-JUoiirse. On the St! Leger Da j, in 1857, Dickens bought a cara of the races: facetiously wrote down three names for the winners of the three chief races (never in his life having hoard - or thought of any of the horses, except -that the winner of the Derby, who proved to be nowhere, had been men­ tioned to him), and, " if you can be­ lieve it," he wrote to Forster, " If you '«an believe it without your hair stand­ ing on end, those three races were won, -one after another, by those three horses!!!" (The notes of exclamation are his own.) Such cases as these seem to many to afford absolutely con­ vincing evidence of the reality of what is commonly called luck--that is, the occurrence of events that pure chance • cannot account for. •&. suppose ninety- nine men in one hundred believe in luck of this sort. Some men are lucky, • others unlucky; or else on some occa­ sions a man is lucky, or his luck is in the ascendant, while on others he is unlucky. Men who ought to know most about such matters--that is, men who very often try their luck--have the fullest faith in these ideas. In Steinmetz's Treatise on the Gaming Table we have the axioms of a pro­ fessional gambler (and blackleg, but that is a detail), and among them we find the doctrine of good and bad luck, of lucky and unlucky seasons, set • down as a sort of first principle, which none can douht or question. " A pru­ dent player," he says, "before under­ taking anything, should put himself to the test to discover if he is 'in vein,' or in luck; in all doubt he should ab­ stain. There are several persons," he says again, " who are constantly pur- - sued by bad ltick; to such I say, * Never play.1" , 1 suppose it is utterly hopeless to at­ tempt to persuade those who believe in luck that the experience of gamblers in this respect has been wholly deceptive, and that coincidences such as the one, ; for example, which Dickens eallcd wonderful and paralyzing, are not in "the least wonderful, "and raight safely he prcdictcd. One such story does -.more to one onr age belief in litck than • any : mount of reasoning*could do to show that the belief is unfounded and mischievous. It may be useful^ however, to con­ sider suchstories as that related above (using: it -as ffen illustrative case.) It appears, and in one sense it was a very singular coincidence, that ^ Dickens1 taking one name at random "from the sets of horses1 names for each of three <races, should in each case select the winner of the race. I do not know how many names there were; but the • St. Leger is not a race for which many horses usually run. Probably about teti may have run in 1857, and perhaps six horses for each oi the other two races. If this were so, the chance of -doing what Dickens did was equal to that of drawing one particular ticket : from among 360 (ten times six times) in a single trial. If there were ten horses in each race, the chance was the same as that of drawing one ticket from among 1,000 (ten times ten times), etc., the calculation being exceedingly simple, whatever the number of horses may have been. Now, certainly, it was a • curious chance that anyone at a first trial 'should have had this piece of good for­ tune--or what at least would have bein good fortune had money depended upon the result--just as it would have seemed K & curious chance if a vase containing some 400 tickets had been set before Dickens, and he had, at a first trial, drawn the particular prize-ticket. But 7 it must be remembered that, if nothing remarkable had followed from Dickens1 little experiment, we should have heard nothing about it. We never do hear t anything about the thousands, nay, we may fairly say the millions, of cases in which men try their luck and nothing noteworthy comes of the trial. Dick­ ens was one of thousands who have tried some such experiment at at their first race experiment, again, was doubtless one of thousands of cases in^hi^h Dickens was, so to speak,J- . vay of meeting with some stran^ g-:-- - and not fail; but every single case id which they succeed, either wholly or/ partial­ ly, is reported, and, once reported, it is repeated over and over again, until each *4 strange chance" has done duty for a thousand strange chances. But so soon as we recognize this we per­ ceive the real interpretation of coinci­ dences of the kind. They are no more wonderful, in reality, than would be the drawing of one marked ticket out of any number of tickets - in a much greater number of trials (the drawn ticket being replaced after each trial). If there are a thousand tickets, one of which is marked, and a million drawings are made in this way, it is to all intents and purposes certain that thfi marked ticket will be drawn atrreat number of times; and it is exceedingly provable, the probability amounting almost to certainty, that the number of successful drawings will not greatly exceed or fall short of 1,000. It is very easy to show that, with a sufficient number of trials, the wonderful and paralyzing circumstance which hap­ pened to Dickens would be sure to hap­ pen several times. Suppose the num­ ber of horses in three given races to be ten, six and six, and that of ^he many thousands of persons on the radb- course, 10,000 try the experiment made by Dickens. It is certain that of the 10,000 random selections for the first race, somewhere about 1,000 will be right, for each of the ten names will be selected about the same number of times. Say only 600 are right, which is far more unlikely than the occur­ rence of Dickens1 wonderful event at first trial. All the remaining ,9,000 persons have failed, and we helar no more about them. Of the 600 who have marked the winner of the chief race, about one-sixth are sure to select also the winner of the second--that is, about 100 will have this doubtful suc­ cess. But say that by a wonderful co­ incidence only sixty are thus successful. The remaining 540 have failed, and they join the 9,400 who failed on the first race, and we hear no more about them.. The sixty left have eaph made their selection on the third race, in whi&h there are only six horses. It is to all intents and purposes cfertain that several of them will have selected the winning horse. Let anyone cast a die sixty times, keeping a record of the result (or it will serve equally well to cast a pair of dice thirty times), and he is certain to find that every face--ace, deuce, trejT, quart, quint and size--will have shown several times, and most probably about ten times, but almost certainly five or six times. So with sixty who named at random a horse out of six engaged in a race, it is prob­ able that about ten will select the win­ ner, almost certain that as many as five or six will, and practically certain that two or three will do so. Here, then, will be certainly two or three, and probably nine or ten, to whom the f>aralvzing coincidence which so great-v astonished Dickens will have oc­ curred at a first trial. When we con­ sider that probably not 10,000, but sev­ eral hundred thousand, make precise­ ly such experiments about every great race, that there are many great races in the year, and that gambling on races has been going on for very many years, it will be seen that " coincidences" far more surprising than Dickens1 experi­ ence must occur many times each year, and that more startling " coinci- FACTS Aim F18UBB8. single State of Ohio hsfe 000,000 invested in railroads, whi eludes a rolling stock of 50,000 ea: 2,500 engines. i THE first telegraph line in Japan was established near the end of 1869, now there are 125 stations and 5,000 miles of wire in operation. THE population of London has doubled in the last forty-seven years, but the number of arrests by the police is only increased 7 per cent. THERE is a body of snow in Xacker- man's Ravine, Mount Washington, the length of which is about 300 feet, with an average width of forty feet. THE number of paupers iu Eukicmu, on the 1st of January, was 747.111, a decrease of 69,411 from the number in 1875, notwithstanding the " hard times." dences" must often have occurred than 18 er *enL of which is home Qinna raninnr harvun Ann rn fnaon thn . .* .. - faeinatii •ience.V We hear nothing wnieh such experiments since racing began. Add to these the millions of experiments yearly made in gambling transactions of other sorts, and also in more or less speculative business transactions, and we see that there must of necessity be an enormous mass of evidence apparently favoring the belief in luck, lucky persons, lucky seasons, and so forth. The marvelous stories (true stories, too,) of men who at Baden, and Homburg, in the bad old times, had wonderful runs of luck (some of them are given in the essay on "Gambling Superstitions" in my Borderland of Science) are founa, when thus considered, to be not mar­ velous at all. The wonder rather is that among the multiplied experiences at rouge etnoir, roulette, and so forth, still more curious cases have not oc­ curred, or have not been noted. At a first view, nothing seems more certain­ ly to demonstrate the reality of luck the sneeoss «f those >vho have sev­ eral times 44 broken the bank," and have !»r^n«?ed a short time^norrao"* .snros at *he gaming-table. But so soon as we consider that among the millions who gamble, tens of thousands must be very successful for a while; that, among these, hundreds must continue to be successful yet longer; and that, among these hundreds, several must have a further spell of success, we see how the stories of great good Juqk, of amazing luck, ana, lastly, of "paralyzing" luck, cannot only be explained, but a?e necessary consequences of multiplied gambling experiences. But the lesson from all this is alto­ gether against gambling, apart from innate immorality, iff there were such p tttinc^as^eal* iuckf men anight tijjr their TuCk m-the'Way Steinmetz1# black­ leg taught, and, by playing only when 41 in vein," or abstaining altogether if they found themselves absolutely un­ lucky by nature, might experience no great loss. But when it seems that there is no such thing as luck; that, by the very nature of gambling transac­ tions, every great winner represents many losers, while, in the long run, all the great winners have invariably be­ come great losers (the only lasting suc­ cessful men being the blacklegs, high class and low class), the utter folly of gambling is clearly seen--that is to say, it would be clearly seen if men were not, in such matters, willfully blinded. --Richard A. Proctor, in London Echo. --"It's all very well to talk about how the thermometer stands in the shade," remarked a gentleman with a boiled lobster-oulcred face who dropped in the other morning. "What I want to know is how it stands in the^ sun. That's the way I have to take it."-- Boston Transcript. --Go West, young man. It is a charming place. Those who don't freeze to death in winter get sunstruck in summer. The others get killed by a tornado.--Norristown Herald. --The Germans say that more peo­ ple dig their graves vwitfa their teeth than with spades. V; , > • t r v THEUE are 400 colleges in this coun­ try, with an aggregate of 3,700 profes­ sors; there are twenty-nine universities in the German Empire, with 20,229 students. * ? MERRIMACK COUNTY, N. H., with a population of, less than 50,000, sup­ ports LOO0 paupers. This does not in­ clude persons dependent upon rela­ tives or friepds. • <, . f * THE largest of tfuf pyfamids is 481 feet high and 693 feet on the sides; its base covefs eleven acres. The stones are above thirty feet in length and the layers are 208; 360,000 men' were em­ ployed in its erection. | , THERE is nq»doubt about the success of the Paris Exposition. Up. t4 July 5 the receipts w«4 $768,384, o# $3,240 more than they were up to July 5,1867, though in that year the-Exposition opened a month earlier. * ^ t / f THE potato-crop of thQ. United States for the past five years has averaged 145,- 000,000 bushels. The crop of 1876 was the poorest for many years, the reduc­ tion being from 166,000,000 bnshels In 1875 to 125,000,000 bushels. THE statement that the nCgroes are dying out as the effect of freedom is de­ nied from South Carolina, where it is averred that they are rapidly increas­ ing. The census of 1880 will have to be awaited to settle the dispute. THE cotton-crop of the present year will be the largest since the war, and is estimated at 4,700,000 bales. In 1859- •'60 the crop amounted to 4,861,000 bales; WO^l, 4,437,900 bales, 1875-'6, 4,632,000 bales; 1876-'7, 4,474,000 bales. LAST year there were, in Ireland, 25,078 marriages, 139,498 births and 93,500 deaths; 38,503 persons emigra­ ted, so that, without making any allow­ ance for immigration, there was a gain of 7,495 in the population of 5,338,906. ACCORDING to official returns, the wheat-crop of France was 274,800,000 bushels in 1877, against, 2(56,000.000 bushels in 1876. Lafiest mail advices indicate favorable prospects for an av­ erage yield of the wheat-crop of 1878. IN hoisting heavy machinery or other weights, by means of pulley-blocks, if the ropes stretch and the blocks come together too soon, w0t the rope, and1 the object will be elevated by the con­ traction of the rope without any, other force. TnK tJnifed States conBumc^ jmnuat- ly between six and seven hundred thqpsand long tons of cane Sugar, less - 'fflnwical condition 4Mb day. At thee e n d o f t h i s t i m e a n d t e n d a y s a f t e r i n s " tot ©aptoms, the prisoner gave up twtae, and, calling the Sheriff# r "I give it up; I'm hungry." Ho ,1; . . iswtted his attempt at deceit, re­ marking, 441 tried it at Worcester and succeeded," and 1 thought I could do it here easier; but Fm beaten." He prom­ ised solemnly that he would behave himself in the future, and begged that his action might not be used against hun upon trial. The Sheriff accepted his repentance as genuine, and com­ plied with his request, to keep the mat­ ter from affecting his trial. In a few days he was tried, and sentenced to five years1 imprisonment in the State Pris­ on. It was afterward learned that in January last Clapp was committed to the ^Worcester Jail for trial for horse­ stealing. At the end of two months he was sent to the Worcester State Lunatic Hospital, and soon after was adjudged cured and released.--Boston Herald. production. The leading sources of for­ eign supply are: Cuba, 450,000 tons; Spanish Possessions, 50,000; Porto Rico, 30,000; French Islands, 22,000; Brazil, 18,000; Dutch East Indies, 11,000; British West Indies, 10,000; British Guiana, 10,000; Sandwich Islands, 10,000. Twenty-one other countries supply less than as many thousand tons in all. In 1862 our home product was 191,000 tons; it fell to 5,000 tons in 1865, then slowly rose to 79,600 tons in 1871. The crop of 1876 was 77,000 tons." -Y i y. SPEAKING on the subject of prtaonfen; feigning insanity, the Transcript says a case of remarkable endurance occurred recently at the Charles-street Jail. Reuben W. Clapp, a native of Mcrth- boro, aged thirty years, was arrested last May for passing corns tcrfr.it money, and connncd in the J^il to a^vaifc the coming in of the United Str.tcs Circuit Court.A One n'gM, a few :iay3 before the session of the court, a horrible yell from his cell roused all the inmates of the prison, and the offi­ cers in the neighboring buildings. Clapp was found in a nude condition, dancing a war-dauce, whooping and yelling at the height of his power, and he was a man of tremendous voice. With some difficulty three strong men marched him into'the insane (Apart­ ment and placed him in a padded cell. Dr. McCullough, of the Jail, and Dr. Chase, the United States physician, ex­ amined him, found his pulse regular, and were at a loss to account for such symptoms in so healthful a body. For four days the man raved day and night most violently. Now he was Sitting Bull leading his forces With terrible yells to battle, again he danced and then he sang. By turns he prayed fervently, often eloquently, represent­ ing himself to be the brother of Christ. He performed all sorts of feats which an insane man could be supposed to commit. In fact, he overdid himself. His symptoms were altogether too vio­ lent, and the doctors finally gave the opinion that the man was shamming. Yet, how he could keep it np so many days, and with but little rest or sleep, was a mystery. Upon the fifth day the man purpose ly made himself and his quarters as filthy as possible. He still refused clothing, wearing only his 44 Indian" blanket, but his appetite did not fail him. He was immediately given an­ other padded cell, and the same acts and scenes were repeated. The doc­ tor still maintained that he was 44 play­ ing 'possum," and the Sheriff, with much anxiety and doubt lest he should punish a sick person, suggested a re­ duction of diet and the punishment of allowing the man to remain in the con­ dition in which he had placed himself. This was agreed upon. For four days the ,44 maniac" was allowed to revel in Wamtaf DweUiuft iB Snmmetv " TJHE Cincinnati Ariimn, in a refill issue, has a very important article upon the necessity which often occurs for warming dwellings in the summer. People in general are prone to treat with contempt the idea that a fire is ever needed in the summer season for warmth. We frequently hear remarks like "The idea of a fire in July; it's absurd." The weather clerk does not, however, appear to think that a cold morning or evening or a cold east wind is an absurdity in July, and sends them accordingly, and people shiver, but will not warm themselves because it happens to be a summer month. The Artisan says: As we approach the warm season of the year, and the temperature of the air becomes high enough to cause us to court the genial breeze from with­ out, it is the custom to put out the fires, remove the stoves and leave dwellings without any artificial means of heating until the chill breath of autumn brings the furnaces and stoves again in use. It has long been,known that sickness prevails to a much great­ er extent in summer than in winter, but many do not recognize the causes of the diseases of the warm season. A warm and dry atmosphere is not un­ wholesome, but when, in cloudy and rainy weather, southerly winds bring a sultry air which dampens everything around us, the atmosphere is loaded with the germs of disease and fire is needed to destroy them. The walls, the ceilings, the floors of apartments, should never be allowed to become damp. Sometimes, when the warmth of the air is oppressive, fire is more needed to preserve health than it is at another season to protect us from the cold of winter; and the rooms of a dwelling should never be left with­ out means of warming and drying. The investigations of science show that many of the most fatal diseases are caused by the germs of vegetable and animal life, and that a.humid atmos­ phere is most favorable for their prop agation. It is, therefore, neglecting to avail ourselves of the great discover­ ies of the age, and failing to protect ourselves from the scourges which so fearfully afflict families, when we ig­ nore the dangers which surround us. Apartments exposed to the full action of the sun may be less comfortable in dry, hot weather than those from which the sun's rays are excluded, but gener­ ally they will be found more wholesome. --•American Bui lder . - - - - Youth's Department, Cl , at** 3»a, his dirty surroundings, subsisting only upon bread and water, the doctors carried out, it will prove an in making a thorough examination-of ̂ his lable gain to b?Hh.--«. Y. Times , j f THE tefrifbry of Bosnia, or Bos which includes both Bosnia proper and Herzegovina, is, like other Turkish Provinces, a valuable property rendered useless by neglect. The hills--which cover two-thirds of its surface, rising on the western border to a height of nearly 7,^00 feet--abound in fine tim­ ber, and contain stores of coal, iron and lead. Competent authorities de- clare that the Bosnian* horses require nothing but careful breeding to make them a match for any in Eastern Eu­ rope. The smc.il portion of the central plain which is linder cultivation yields excellent wheat, maize and hemp; and B at the timber is little utilised; tho mines, where they worked at nil, :: re whol­ ly dependent upon foreign eiiterpri Jt* and foreign capital; the liorsfe-rearing is in the hands of the Tufks; the little' 4rade that exists is in those of the Jews and Armenians; and the chief manu­ factures of the Province, Significantly enough, are fire-arms, sabers and knives. The fact is that, partly from its intractable nature and partly from its not having been, annexed till 1528, Bosnia has always retained more of its original character than the other Eu­ ropean Provinces of Turkey. The great outbreak of 1861 was only an en­ larged specimen of what has been go­ ing on for centuries among these steep, craggy ridges and gloomy forests. The Morlaks of Herzegovina are still as fierce and untamable as when their forefathers, the terrible " Croats" of Count Tilly, swaggered through the burning streets of Magdeburg in 1631, with living infants on their spear points. Oat of the 1,250,000 popula­ tion, nearly one-third are Bosnians of the genuine breed--tenacious of their own customs,, hostile to everything for­ eign, passionately fond of hunting, splendid horsemen and born robbers. But there is one infallible remedy for all the disorders of Bosnia, namely, firm government. The strong hand of Austria will teach these* desperadoes that respect for law and order which they could never have learned under the capricious tyranny of the Porte. Roads and railways will gradually ex­ tirpate brigandage, as they have al­ ready done in Italy and the Pyrenees. The quaint old capital of Bosna-Serai ("Bosnia's Inn"), still dominated by the citadel which repulsed Prince Eu­ gene himself in 1697. may yet become, with its central position, its population of 50,000. and its rising manufactures of jewelry and hardware, the nucleus of a flourishing traffic. Whatever may be thought of the justice of Austria's occupation of the two Provinces, there can be no question that, if resolutely rove an ineakm* iLlTTLE IMPATIENCE! fT take* so many honrs to make a day! It takesi ap mam days t«i make a year! * My seventh birthday seems so far away. • And yet my eighth, ttaev say, is nowheTC t«t! Tb* robins' nest out in the cherry-tree «nwl|r Jounlf birds, naked, and weak,|u|ri A month a?o<--so fast they grew, yon sect, * .» There s not a robin m the nest at all; , ^ Thfy flew, full crown!--and I'm no bigger now loan when ti.e nest WAS built that one cmi How robins grow BO fast, and eirl* so slow. Is very strange indeed, it seems to me. I wonder how 'twould seem to be seventeen And wear long dresses like my Cousin Sue, She has a watch- the prettiest ever seen, > ~ *** Aiiu ..it «*I1 --as 1 £u\miu I s'pose I shall be married, too, some da4»tl m , As mammH was. I've seen her veil and dress* They re in the bureau drawer, laid away. She s saving them for me to wear, I gneaa. Not Cousia Jest-I wonder who I'll have' Nor teasing Clare! Maybe my Uncle' My is the nicest man I know; B«t mamma's very sun she can't spare him! --Jot/ Alliton, in Youth't Companion. THE FROGS' LEUEHO MOON. Of THE Miss FROG sat, in the cool of the evening, under a plantain-leaf j by the side of her blue and placid lake. The day had been excessively warm, and so, as she sat, she graoefuliy waved, backward and forward, one of her delicate web feet. It was a beautiful, natural fan, and served admirably the purpose intended. Around Miss Frog arose the varied warble of other frogs. The little polli- wogs had all been put to bed; and now came stealing on the season for silent thoughts. Always anxious to improve her mind, Miss Frog gazed about her to find a subject on which to fasten her attention. She had been once, sent to a Southern lake to finish her education, and was really quite superior to ordinary frogs. "There is no one here in this mud- hole to appreciate me," she regretfully sighed, as two silly frogs passed her leaf, flirting so hard that neither of them observed her. She drew around her her shawl of lace, made from the finest cobwebs of Florida--and sulked. Just then arose the moon, taking its solitary, silvery way across the sky. Her attention was arrested at oncC. How like to a poiliwog it is!" she rapturouslv exclaimed, " save that it lacks a tail." "And a glorified poiliwog it is, daughter of the water!" croaked a sud­ den hoarse voice beside her. She hopped with fright, and gasped as if about to faint; but calmed herself again as she recognized the tones of the rou^h-skinned Sage of the Frogs, who dwells alone in some remote corner of the lake. He it is who always sings, " Kerdunk!" when he condescends to sing at all. This learned hermit, after clearing his throat repeatedly, thus explained himself: " There is a legend, connected with our race, that runs in this wise:" "Ahem I" " Upon a time, in a certain valley, where once flowed a considerable stream, the waters suddenly failed and the stream died away. *' "Upon the unfortunate frogs who dwelt there, in vast numbers, the hot summer-sun shone its fiercest rays un­ hindered. " Dreadful!" piped Miss Frog. "Yes, it did!" said the Sage, ve* proachfully, "and if you wish to hear this story, you must be careful not to interrupt me again, thoughtless girl! As Miss Frog was very desirous, in­ deed, of hearing the story, she remain­ ed quiet and the hermit frog continued: " The waters dried away, and hun­ dreds of wretched frogs died on those scorching fields. Dying fishes gasped, with their last breath, for a drop of cool water, and joined their wails with those of our suffering kindred. ; ; "At length, one old trout, who had held out to the last, confessed: "'Miserable I! and wicked! /have caused this drought! And now I have no pevrer to remedy the evil I have done!' ** At this, all of ihe fiogs who were old fiout andlistcned to his words. " ** * That was aa-c^'U'dsj.VgnFi'Cd' the 'spc-eklcd •sinner, 4when I poked my no?;©.out of vHa'or to dan; a.samy king­ fisher, who was mocking the whole fish tribe; in his Usual dashing manner. ' Catch me if you can!' I cried, darting about at my ease. "•But the bird beguiled me. He made me believe that, if I would only work a little hole through that dam there, I could descend with the escap­ ing waters to the stream below, and make my way to the sea where, as I heard, the fishes were all Kings, and ate nothing but diamonds for dinner. " 'I enticed all the trout that I could influence to assist me, and we wriggled and wriggled our noses into the gravel for a long time, apparently to no pur­ pose. " 4 But, at last, a little leak started, and our water dripped away, drop by drop; but not in sufficient volume to carry us with it. " ' When the waters had receded, so as to make the stream very low, back came thac artful kingfisher, to dive for us iu the shallow pools. 44 4 And now, what the drought had not destroyed that tempter has gorged himself upon. "4 Oh-n-h! Boo-hoo-hooP "The frogs freely forgave him be­ cause he cried. " But the problem remained, how was the supply of water to be renewed. 44 At this juncture, an earnest, meek- eyed poiliwog flopped feebly, and said: ' Show me the place where these waters leak away.' 44 Astonished at her manner, the sob­ bing trout indicated the spot. 44 4 Drag me thither by my tail!' ex­ claimed the heroine, resolutely. 44 Then the frogs used their last re­ maining strength to do as she bade them, and awaited, in exhausted surprise, to see what would happen next. "'Good-by!' wept the brave little poiliwog. wriggling with feeling, and groaning some. 4 U any of you survive me, tell it to your children that I laid iayself in the breach!1 44 With these few farewell words she erowded herself into the hole, out of their sight. 44 Presently, the stream began to rise and the pools to fill up. The frogs sal knee-deep in water, and the fishes swatt upon their sides. T " Day by day things improved, and the fishes began to sit up in bed, whil* the frogs were heard incessantly blesa» ing the little poiliwog. One night, sht, appeared to them in the sky, as all tW world sees her to-night; returning1 nightly, for many nights, to beam & them; growing larger and brighter at every appearance. 44 Such," said the Sage, concluding, 44 is our Legend of the Moon!" And ha leaped into the waves with a resotmj. ing plump! Miss Frog felt so many different sations at once that she dropped her» lower jaw. involuntarily, ana sat sow unconscious of aught, until awakened from her reverie by a cricket jumping suddenly into her throat. . Hastily gulping him down, she gat||p ered her shawl about her, and, with j*.. ^ spring, sprawled graciously toward har wave.--Flela Forrester, in St. NiUuilttt* i. . • . Habits eT Hie Mtmh 1 i* v. E f - LET US examine the more immediate environment of the Eskimo--their4 house. It is composed of a hillock off turfed earth, of square form, recalling somewhat our military fortification*.- It is entered by a low aoor, giving : cess to a narrow and very low passage ̂ in which the Greenlander himself, not­ withstanding his small size, is forced t» bend down. The single apartment to which this passage gives access, &o$' the floor of which is lower than the suit rounding ground, is ventilated by aa orifice in the upper part. It is lighted by two openings on each side of the door, ana hermetically closed by strips, sown together, of a sort of gold-beafc- er's skin, made of the intestines of thar seal. This kind of immovable glazing sifts into the apartment a sullicieM light, but appears,from without alt#-, gether opaque. The furniture consist!"... of a sort of camp-bed, which occupies •" the entire half of the apartment, pr4v vided with seal-skins, and on which tlia<' whole family pass the night, after hav»«, irig taken off their day costume and put on another, more ample, dress. On the ground, a stone basin, said to be ojf, serpentine, the form of which resent^ bles that of a fish, is filled With seat**' oil, in which are steeped several wicki* j The flame which rises from this vessel gives a sufficient light, and maintains^ the confined space at a high temper^ ture. The cotton wicks come from Denmark, as also the chemical matcher which the Greenlanders constantly use , 7,. to light their briar-root pipes, whichf % with their tobacco, their alcohol and their coffee, are sent them each year bjrw'!, the Danes. Their costume is made almost entire­ ly of seal-skin. It consists, in the cast of men, of a shirt (Danish), above which is placed a woolen vest. Tha pantaloons are of hairy sealskin; the boots, under the pantaloons, of sealskipt leather. Gloves of fur, armed, whatt, ' necessary, with bear's claws; bluesped*- tacles--against the wind and the reflec­ tion from the snow--complete the ae» couterment* The costume of the womeflji' ; '7 is not wanting inelegance. The haijr ^ is raised, a la Vhinoise, on the top of , the head, and bound into a sort of ver­ tical chignon, tied by a colored knotty ' A well-fitting blouse of European terial, trimmed with fur, is provided with a hood, in which the mother ca#» lies, when necessary, her latest bor% «• as the opossum does her yoffhg." Till •'1 woman wears very tight "brewhes, of sealskin, and high boots, reaching abov^ t the knees; red. embroidered with vet- low, after marriage; white, embroide^ ed with green, among unmarried girlaJ"'*' t Their arms consist of botfs withr, which they shoot arrows pointed with ^ < . bone or iron and similarly made ha^t • poons, which they throw from thf» hand. When the harpoon is |o bl' thrown into the water ft is attached to a cord provided at the other end witk" an inflated seal-bladder which acts as ft buoy and prevents the loss of wounded animal, ^rhich would run A / away into deep water with the harpoon. ! Their other apparatus are iron ' hooks, wooden baits representing lisliy*! w^ioicd, and-r>v oil "i-Uiit&tad. Ite. these we may add cases ofc whicll 4 they put on 'he.of the dogs whe|L the sold is very intense;- leathern v. •ales to put sver the snout,of' the dogfc*'-*" smoothing irons of stone, knives idcij^ f s tical with those which iron-tanners use- • ' to dress skins, and intended for th*£ * same purpose. This will give an idetj, > of ail iiiai the Greeniauuers have help them to struggle against the in- ^ cleniencv of their native climate. » Before concluding what relates to th*<>i surroundings, one word about the ali­ mentation. The word Eskimo is nqjt^ , the name which they give to them* selves. They call themselves Innun . (the men); so true is it that under alf<; climates human vanity prevails. Th«?'>* name Eskimo (eater of raw fish) is malevolent nickname given them bjrif ,t their American neighbors. It is noiL " merited now as il1 at the time whea f Crantz observed them. They continue?* " nevertheless, to eat raw the lard sent them from Denmark and also the line||<| of the seal. The rest is eaten 60ok<yJ*o3 --Mure- . _ . ' • • • • , Mr. James Robson, 'of this oifcyp* was fishing on the opposite side-of th*f j river, yesterday afternoon. While his way across the river he saw a whi object moving on the water. He pulli to the place and found what proved t#* be a bass weighing eight pounds, witlifr a cattish which it had tried to sw&lioftf? fastened in its month. He struck the fish with his oar and pulled it jjoftotli# boat. The bass had atteaigte^o sw#!^ low the catfish, the horns of the !atte|& became fastened in its gflls, tod it wapf unable to swallow or reject Its Poughkcepsie Eagte. r Vy^t >,,$$• • :-----•»»•,"*'1 '"Uij --Murdering for love Is getting to be ̂ very popular, Cincinnati furnishea, the latest example. Perhaps 'tis better* to be loved ana shot than nevfer ttf br loved at all. L ' m % aim i i| - *- - jtH • --A Pittsburgh man deserted he$, whom he had sworn to love and honor. because &ha~£&Ued him "molif* r'5 riff 838# • Ufc.' Ml# however, so well was last century, just ground hog' and a"skunk/