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, , > -v - * . .VafcL»il 4S*a<»»v - *• '».« *• ' J Ail. 4.\ , " -% j 't^V^ *« •.<"*+1 : V * cnrg ||IaiudcalM J. TAN 8LYKE, EDITOB AXO PUBUSHHL McHENRY, ILLINOIS, . : ; OVTt JUVENILES. ^ The Grown-TTp Clock. • "' Ok, dear me, what a fuss! Tick, tock! tick, toflkl ' Pray, what are yoo talking about, old clock. All flw> Auj lonyt--why. I w»Uy dont think ̂ You stop long «on(fa to sleep i wink. Tor onoe in the night when I waa awake-- , • ' " S'posa I waa atck 'cause I ate the plumcake-** I heard you in the hall, tick, tock I tick, tockfl - Oh, did yoM have a pain, old clock, old clocklt ; lick, tock! You're a grown-up clock, I knoVj It yon weren't yon wouldn't keep ttiwng so ( Tor aomebody*d aay, at juat the first word, little folks, Bob, should be seen and not 1 You are dreadful stuck up, I think, and tall; | And you dont like nice little boys at all; For when eight o'clock comee you just" raise Med," So Jane will hear it and put me to bed. >> ' \ Dear me! X wish you would low your tongM ̂ <- Just as I used to do when I was young. And company came and a poke to me-- (Of eourea you would tell when 'twas time for tea) 8*pose ffia Uttle Clock mamma bought last spring, And grandpa called i new-fangled thing, Is your child, and the reason he don't go la 'cause you'v® scolded him for chattering so. long fray, they came to a great palace. They asked a parrot that they heard talking in a tree who lived here, and she told the children that it was a rich unhappy old man, called King Gruff, who had lost his grandchildren. They went up to the gate and knocked When old Gruff saw them he was so charmed that he dressed them in silk, and had them placed in splendid rooms, where they could be taught all sorts of wonderful things. Poor little Goldhand oould not learn how to play the piano, embroider, paint, or do any kind of work, so King Gruff turned her out of doors, and shut Brownie up because she cried to go with her sister. Not long after the fairy that the children had helped found poor starving Bose, and bathed her hands with magic water, only one drop of which dropped every 100 years from a certain rock. This made Hose's hands like her sister's, and she was welcomed back into King Graff's palaoe, where sfTe lived happily ever after. Gold Hands and Utfful Finger*. One pleasant summer day, away off in old story land, two poor little friend­ less girls started out to seek their fort­ unes. You never saw more charming little maids. Rose had a sweet, timid face, lovely blue eyes and long golden hair that floated about her shoulders. Brownie had a keen, dark face, set off by great brown eyes. Suddenly they heard dismal groans coming from behind a hedge, and, peep­ ing over, they saw a poor old donkey with a sharp stone sticking in his side. He was moaning and tossing himself about as if in great pain. "Oh, come," said Brownie, "let us see if we can do something to help him and she crept through the hedge. "lam afraid he will kick," said Bose. "Let us run away." "Not You hold his heels and I will - try to pull out the stone* Bose did as she was bid, and, when Brownie had drawn out the stone and bathed the wound in oold water, the donkey got up and shook himself, gave three loud brays, and passed out of sight. 4'I never"--began Brownie; but all of a sudden she stopped, for there be­ fore the children stood a most dazzling creature with gauzy wings and rainbow- colored robe. " It must be a fairy," whispered Bose. " You %re right," replied the beautiful creature; "lama fairy, but I am ap­ prenticed to a wicked old witch who makes me take the forms of all sorts of creatures, and sometimes I suffer ter­ ribly. If I should happen to be killed while I am in any of these shapes, there is an end of me forever. I can now offer you only one gift; but, if I live un­ til my time is up with old witch, I can do great things for you. Go on till you come to a epring hidden under the edge of a rock and covered with leaves. Dip your hands into the water and you can have them turned into gold ones or gifted with wonderful usefulness. Think well over the matter, for much depends upon your choice. Now, good-by." So saying, the fairy was turned into a beautiful yellow butterfly, and went sailing away out of sight. "I shall certainly have gold hands," cried Bose. "They will match my yel­ low hair, and I have heard that there is nothing in this world so powerful as gold." "Well, gold hands must be very nice, as you say; but, after all, there is noth­ ing like being handy, nnd I guess 111 chooBe the useful fingers," said Brownie. So, when they came to the spring, they dipped their hands into the water, and Bose drew up hers changed into glittering polished gold, while Brownie's seemed just the same as ever. Then they hurried on until almost dark, when they came to a robber's camp. Here they stopped and asked the old robber-mother, an ugly old woman, to give them some supper. She gave them some corn cakes; but Brownie was obliged to feed Bose, be­ cause her hands were so stiff that she could not pick up the food half fast enough. After supper the old woman made them a bed of leaves and tied their bodies to the trunk of a tree, so that they could not run away. Brownie wondered what this was for, l>ut, as she lay awake, she heard the robbers tell how they were going to cut off poor Rose's hands because they were worth so much money. Brownie 'then undid the knots of the ropes with her useful little fingers, and the chil­ dren stole away in the darkness. The next morning they came to a vil­ lage where the people were all at work in the open air, and got permission to live there if they would clear two very stony fields. At first they got on very well, for Brownie did the work for both but by and by she had to work in the liouse, and, when the farmers found that BOBO could do nothing with her gold hands, they beat her and drove her out of the village. Brownie followed her sister, and, after they had traveled a Remember fitey." to remember the 5th of November ,' Gunpowder treason and plot; We know of no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot! < , i Certainly the boys of Old England are not likely to allow any one who has ears to hear or eyes to see to forget the 5th of November. I was but a little bit of a girl when I was taken to see " Guy Fawkes " carried about the streets of London and then burnt in the great bonfire that was blazing on an open space of ground at the corner of a street. Though so many years have passed since then, I can seem to hear the bells ringing, the cracking of the bonfires and the shouting and singing of the boys as they ran up to passers-by, hats and caps held out, " Pray remember Guy!" * Please remember Guy!" If Guy had had all the sixpences and pennies that were thrown into the boys' caps, he would have been a rich old fellow. Now let me tell you how the " Guys " are made, for there are a great many of these M men of straw " made in London and the towns and villages all oyer En­ gland, the first week in November. The body and legs and arms are made of straw firmly bound together, and the boys make " Guy" tall or short, or fat or thin, just to suit their fancy; then they buy or beg a barber's old block for the head, and with chalk and char­ coal/ make fierce-looking eyes with shaggy eye-brows; the mouth they don't care much about, because he is gen­ erally M buttoned up to the chin," as no doubt the real Guy Fawkes was when he went on his wicked errand more than 200 years ago. The good-natured barber will perhaps give them an old wig to put on the block­ head, and on the top of this the boys put a stiff paper cap painted and trimmed with strips of colored paper to imitate ribbon, or frills and ruffles of writing- paper; then for his dress they have an old coat, waistcoat, breeches and stock­ ings, or boots. They don't care about the fit of the dress much, seeing that, after being paraded through the streets, poor Guy will so soon be nothing but a heap of ashes; but he must have a lan­ tern in one hand and a bunch of old- fashioned matches in the other; and now, when he is finished, this is verjr much like the Guy Fawkes that I saw- more than fifty years ago. Of course I need not tell any of the Companion readers who have studied history anything about Gunpowder treason and plot, fVi»i wicked conspiracy to blow up the houses of Parliament, on the very day of their meeting--Nov. 5,1605, in the reign of James I.--or how, in the good providence of God, the plot was discov­ ered in time to prevent the terrible ca­ lamity.--Youth's Companion. WOODSTOCK. EDITOR PLAINI>5AI.KR 4f». Clturch. Relic of our much missed msults his brother, and his uncle, and jjis first oousins, and his particular iends, till one fine day he finds that lamented Friend and Fellow citi e is 65 years of age, that he has lost so Col. L. S. Church, died very sud<!< inch time in consulting first cousins on W«di»'-K«»*y at about five o'ohd particular friends that he has no P. M. Tho history of Col. Church family, have from an early day bee closely interwoven with the hisfcor tore time left to follow their advice, here is so little time for over-squeam- ihness at present, the opportunities newly parallel with the other, the last two years Mrs. Church been an active member of tl|e Bap church, during which time her activity, and liberality, In the id in pro¥erbla| am charities have been our people. On Wednesday afternoon^ as Pi O'Brien, Jr. was attempting to ci the Rail Road near Jefferson's house, a lengthy toward the Depot from Warehouse and freight cars stanri|. on side track, collided with the te shoving team and driver a distanci fifteen or twenty ro<lsrkUliug .one h< on the spot, injuring the othejjr so t! OUr.COUnty,,.tlUtt th.e \>Ut0ry, °f mPP ™y; the very period of life at hich a man chooses to venture, if ever, so confined, that it is no bad rule to reach up necessity, in such instances, f a little violence done to the feelings, port ^hechulXwdin dterlbui°'effort"*>»>» ™ nd sober calculation. KATIOXAL CM AM A CTRRI8TICB. Since the days of Tacitus, the subject WDe Moribus Germanorum has never Freight, back een worthily treated. It has been the behind Custom to epitomize the character of a ation in a proverb. Voltaire, whose rit, like a Malay creese, carried poison n its blade, turned his satire on his wn countrymen, whomheepigrauunati- j&lly described as moitie singe, moitie St died during the night, ami sthasl., the sleigh. Fortunately Mr. Q*nlgre' A Gorman Provsrb "A escapcd without serious injury. ^ern*an will do as much work as three O'Briau was muffled about th«f:ic *n8f5*an8» ^ Englishman as much as he had been driving a long drive in ^ree Germans, and an American as cold, which* together with the niach ae three Englishmen." The Ital- that the warehouse and oars com pi ftns say, "It takes three Jews to make !v hid the backing train from his v i Genoese, and three Genoese to make would seeiu to exhonerate htm fi i Greek." The Turks are as little com- JSXPL OSIVR8 AS FIRB-KJirDLER8. Year after year warnings are pub­ lished in the newspapers against the practice, in which some house-servants and fewer housewives indulge, of kind­ ling fires with coal oil. Sometimes the warning is the simple account of a fatal accident, sometimes it is in comments thereon. The warnings, however, do not seem to be heeded; and now comee the story of the woman who used blast­ ing powder with which to kindle a fire, and caused an explosion fatally injuring herself and two children. The use of powder for kindling fires was not un­ usual in the army during the war, but the fires were in the open air, and the powder was used by men familiar with its properties. They were, indeed, so well acquainted with the danger attend­ ing its use that they never tried the experiment until all other means had failed to quicken a fire, and then with extreme caution.' It is scarcely necessary to say that all explosive compounds and all burning fluids should be kept away from the stove, and under no circum­ stances should an attempt be made to add powder or oil to a fire. It is bad enough to saturate wood with oil before lighting it, which is a practice very apt to lead to carelessness and danger, but the attempted pouring of oil on a flame | is an acA Ledger. * •, * ind a^- tiful creatures as will amaze you, and probably ever after lead you to cleanse your fig before eating it. Some similar results will follow like experiments with many other dried fruits. We come now to an unlooked-for re­ sult in our investigations in the insect world. There is a small winged insect known as the saw-fly, so called because of a very remarkable appendage. This is a minute apparatus appearing to the unaided eye somewhat like a fragment of hair about the sixtieth-part of an inch in length. In the microscope this is found to be a veritable saw, more perfect, indeed, than that made by man, as it not only has regular teeth along its edge, but on the edges of each individual tooth there are cut smaller teeth fully as perfect as the larger, making in fact a compound or double saw, and doubtless capable of very effective service. It is this perfection of the minutest parts of the minutest creatures that so deeply impresses us, and makes certain the presence of an Almighty Creator in the planning and forming of each one. Thus again, in the eye of that smallest of visible winged creatures, the gnat, we would hardly expect to find what we saw in the dragon-fly--a combination of eyes--and yet here, too, in this minute creation, where there seems hardly room for a single eye in that small head --here also we find a multitude of per­ fectly-formed visual orbs, and all as dis­ tinctly seen as the eyes ol an eagle or of a horse. What must be the size of one of thoee multitudinous eyes where all together are not visible to the unaided eye of man! And yet each eye has its separate parts as perfect as thase 'in the largest animal. What must be the size of those separate parts! Now it will be readily seen that it re­ quires far greater wisdom and skill to make }>erfect what is so very minute thaii to make what is large; just as it demands more ingenuity and delicacy of touch to make a very small watch than it does to make a rough packing- box. How, then, do all these wonders show us the wisdom and power of the great Creator of the universe, a& also His goodness in condescending to bestow so much thought and labor upon His most insignificant works! For the gnat is as perfect in all its parts as is the elephant or whale. And how do all these minute wonders teach us the utter impossibility of such per­ fection in these insignificant beings coming by chance I Then, as they must be the direct personal work of the Creator, He must be present to per­ form this work. In this way we are so clearly taught and compelled to believe that great truth that God is everywhere. WANT or COURAGE. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a num­ ber of obscure men, who have only re­ mained in obscurity because their timidity has prevented them from mak­ ing a first effort, and who, if they oould only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame. The fact is that, in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank, and thinking of the oold and danger, but jump in and scramble through the best way we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances; it did all very well before the flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication for 150 years, then o live to see its success for six or seven of suicide.'--Philadelphia I centuries afterward; but at present man I waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and plimentary to their own nation as Yol* taire to his, for they say, "The Turks hunt harea^in carriages drawn by oxen;" and of the Persians, whom they regard as heretical Mohammedans, they say that in the other world they will be transformed into asses, to carry Jews into a locality not to be named to ears polite. Of a great liar they say, "Send him to Persia to teach Persians to lie;" and the Russians they describe as "bears in kid gloves." The fault of a German is that he can not understand a joke unless it be a very practical one; and herein he resembles the matter-of- fact Lowland Soot and the English peasant. The Frenchman, who has but a dash of German blood in hi£veins, is active in mind and in body, has neither time nor pertinacity to be inquisitive; he has general views, but changes them every moment; is quick to anger, am­ bitious and egotistical, but none so read­ ily takes a joke. Count Bulow cleverly describes the three nations--French, English and German. "Many years ago," said the Count, Ha prize wfis of­ fered for the best drawing of a camel. A French artist, as soon as he heard of it, rushed to the Jardin des Plantes, and in a week had finished a beautiful im­ aginative picture. The Englishman took a week to consider, and then went to Arabia, whence he returned in six months with an accurate and bold sketch of the subject. The German shut himself up in his atelier and endeavored to elab­ orate a camel from the depths of his moral consciousness, and he is still at work." 8OMR ITKM8 AROUT SUGAR On an average, every man, woman and child in the United States con­ sumes each year about 30 pounds of cane sugar, and nearly 2 gallons of mo­ lasses, besides maple sugar, honey and other sweets. Nineteen pounds of pure cane sugar is actually made up of, and can be changed into, 8 pounds of char­ coal and 11 pounds of water! Pure white starch is made up of 8 pounds of charcoal (carbon) and 10 pounds of water. Any boy can demonstrate this roughly by putting a small quantity of sugar on a piece of thin iron over a hot lamp or coals, and hold over it a glass jar bottom up. The sugar will change to pure charcoal, while the water will rise up and condense on the inside of the jar, if it be kept cool, and he will get nothing from the sugar but coal and water. The chemist can easily take the 19 pounds of sugar and change it into 8 pounds of charcoal and 11 pounds of pure water, though he has not yet learned how to put the coal and the elements of the water together to produce the sugar. That requires the action of the living plant.--American Agriculturist. ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE SMOTTOAY, Feb. 22.--SENATK.--'Tfee Senate lud HQ exceedingly dull session. A few peti­ tions and committee reports were received, and three or four bills or minor importance intro- ooeaaful attempt on lan to get throujrh a refutation Hmitteg the introduction of Mttflli duoed; then, after an onsu the part of 8enator MoOlellan to get resolution on the after much refused to 75. The the Democrat Congressional kigfalaBon g consumed, then the rulea--yeas, 58: voted soudljr "no, .°24 MARCH. MARCM. This is the first month of spring, and is called by the poets "the stormy March," "the changing March," and other names of a similar character, be­ cause, like an exceedingly fickle young woman, the month cannot make up its mind whether to be sad or happy. To­ day it is smiling; to-morrow weeping; the next, stormy, like a very scolding termagant; and the day after, perhaps, it returns to its smiles again, and is as happy as sunshine sod bland breezes can make it. It is a month, we suppose, that no­ body likes. Fickleness is never popu­ lar. We don't think that Mark Tapley, with all his love for misery and miser­ able things, could have fallen in love with fickleness. Mark might love a woman who was always blustering, or a woman who was always complaining; but a woman who oomplained one day, re­ joiced the next, scolded the next, and so kept up this alternation of passions, would have even ruffled the temper of a Mark Tapley. to March 10, th© Senate adjourned. HOUSE.--The proooedinpH to the House wars tamer even than those of the Senate. A few Unimportant Mils were offered during the half hour's session, and, on motion of Mr. Hopkins, an adjournment was voted out of respect Is the memory of George Washington. MONDAY, Feb. 21--SINAIK.--Senator Hauna offered a resolution containing a series of proposed amendments of the Revenue law..... A resolution was presented by Senator Artley, thanking Congress for its action in prohibiting the immigration of Chinese. laid over.... Senator Joalyn called up the bill to remove the legal liability of railroad companies of $5,000 for the aeath of any oiif cansed by negligence of companies' employes. The bill, after considerable discussion, was ordered to a second reading. ...Sena­ tor Kelly offered a bill to wipe out the State Hcmse Commissioners by repealing the law under which they were appointed.., .Sena­ tor Fuller offered a bill amenaing the criminal code, giving Justices of the Peace, befor« whom persons are arraigned charged with petty of­ fenses, power to imprison defendants until the fines and costs imposed are paid Senator Taliaferro's resolution, offered some days eincv, requesting the Judiciary Committee to propose a bill compelling railroads to rati ex­ clusive passenger trains on their roads, &tu doing away with mixed trains, was adopted. HOUSE.--The House had a dull day of it, and was in session but a short time. The bill in regard to fencing railroads, and. Mr. Crook- er's fish bill, were discussed in a jmjsy sort of way. The bill in relation to the disconnection of territory from cities and villages by a ma­ jority of tho legal voters was under discussion when the House, at noon, adjourned for the day. TUKSDAY, Feb. 25. --BMRA. -Favorable committee reports were made on tho bills to regulate stock-yards and to prohibit the use of railroad free passes by members of the Legis­ lature. . „,Bills were introduced: To repeal the Vagrant law of 1877; relative to gas companies; requiring foreign insur­ ance companies to deposit #100,000 with the 8tate Treasurer before doing business in the 8tate... The two Chicago Park bills, which have occupied the attention and a good deal of the time of the Senate for some timo, were passed; also the bill offered by Senator Dement to prevent fire insurance companies from ad­ vertising any assets but those available for the K,\ ment of losses by fire, and the bill to amend e law relative to animals running at large. HOUSE.--Another unsuccessful attempt was made to shot off new business on the 10th of March... .A large number of bills were passed to second reading... .There was a long discus­ sion of Mr. Robinson's bill lowering the grade and qualifications of school teachers ui the public sohoois. The measure was sent back to the committee....Bills were intro­ duced: To confer chancery powers on certain courts; for the better protection of policy­ holders in life insurance companies: to amend the act relative to depositions in civil cases; to enable cities to raiee revenue; to protect brook trout; to provide for the release of deeds of triiHt, and *o revise the law relative to State printing. WKDNSSBAY, Feb. 96.--SBNATB.--The Ju­ diciary Committee recommended the passage of & bill niakiug the maximum term of impris­ onment thirty-three years, thus abolishing life sentences Quite a number of bills were in­ troduced; none of them were of any import­ ance. however... .Several bills were passed, in­ cluding the bill regulating reprieves and par­ dons, and the bill consolidating the several divisions of the Supreme Court.... The resolution requesting the appointment of a State agent to prosecute claims arising out of the late war in favor of the State of Illinois against the United States gave rise to a noisy and pro­ tracted debate, and was finally adopted... .A resolution thanking Congress for passing the law restricting Chinese immigration was adopt­ er! by yeas to 1.8 nays. Senator Artley, the in­ troducer of this resolution, created some ex­ citement by his remarks advocating its passage: " If the immigration of Chinese is not restrict­ ed," said tli« Socialist Senator, "California will accede from the Union, and I am one of full 10,000 men in Chicago alone who are ready to respond to the call of the workingmen of Cali­ fornia in the hour of need. * * * You may go on organising your silk-stockings and count­ er-jumpers into'military companies, but the workingmen mean to protect their rights, and if they cannot obtain them by peaceable means thev will demand them at the cannon's mouth and in the smoke of civil warfare. This is no idle threat, but a warning which it would be well for gentlemen on this floor to heed." HOUSE.--The usual grist of petitions and new bills were introduced... .Majority and minority committee reports were made on the bill grant­ ing 183,500 to the militia for service during the riots of 1877. After a long and stormy debate the whole matter was turned oyer to the Appro- Jriation Committee... .The bill to establish a oard of Fish Commissioners was, after a bitter debate, ordered to a third reading. THURSDAY, Feb. 27.--SENATE.--The Presi­ dent of the Senate presented reports from sec­ retaries of the stock-yards at East St. Louis and Chicago, as called for by the resolution of tho Sen­ ate some days since A number of committee reports were received and acted upon... .Sena­ tor Merritt offered a resolution that when the Howse and Senate adjourn on March 20, 1879, thev shall adjourn sine die....New hills introduced: To amend the law in regard to wills; amendatory of the school law, making a good moral character an essential requisite to tli© appointment of any teacher desiring em­ ployment in the public fechools of tho State; to appropriate moneys for the use of the State Board of Agriculture; to amend the law relative to toll-bridges, making it an offense punishable by fine and imprisonment to ride over a» y toll- bridge faster than a walk; relative to funding debts of cities and villages. HOUSE.--Favorable committee reports were made on the bdl prohibiting the killing of deer for a period of ten years, and the bill allowing the killing of prairie chickens from Aug. 15 to Deo. 1, and pheasants and quails from Oct 1 to Jan. 1... .Mr. Latimer reported back the House bill making County Treas­ urers ineligible to re-election for two years after term of office has expired, and recommended its passage... .Bills introduced: To legalize the metric system of weights and measures; to make the stealing of dead bodies felony, and the maximum limit of imprison­ ment therefor ten years; to donate to the widow of the late Hon. Sidney Breese the remainder of the salary for the last year of his term in office; to protect breeders of live stock by pro­ viding punishment for false pedigrees, etc.;_ to amend the law relative to mortgages, requiring the delivery of personal property mortgaged to the grantee; to provide for the administration of persons dying intestate by the appointment of public administrators and prescribing fe«s. FJUDAY, Feb. £S.--SENATE.--The Senate pro­ ceedings were dull and uninteresting. A few bills were ordered to third readings Among the new bills offered was one to amend the Me­ chanics' Lien law, and another to amend the Road and Bridge laws, so a» to allow t.ie pay­ ment of load tax in money or labor, as the voters of the township may determine by vote at their annual election... .Senator Hunt s pro­ posed constitutional amendment _ rendering County Treasurers and Sheriffs ineligible to a Becond term was debated at length sod post­ poned till March 4. HOUSE.--Mr. Hinckley offered a resolution to pay the militia $85,500 for services in the riots of 1877, which, after a long wrangle, was referred to the Committee on Militia....Bills were introduced: To protect County Treas­ urers; providing that all dams in streams now constructed and hereafter to be constructed shall cont&m fishways; providing for a public inspector of food and its adulteration; to amend the manner of incorpo­ rating cities....The motion to suspend the rules for the consideration of the Senate joint Third M&nih. "Oomes in as a lion and goes out Hko a lamb," or "Comes in a* a lamb and goes out like a lion.1* 1. St. David--Patron saint of Wales --hence the name Taffy. St. David was born of a princely family, and was cele­ brated for his learning and sanctity of life. Ho was Bishop of Menevia, since called St. David's, and died in hia 83d year, about A. D. 544. On this day natives of Wales wear leeks in their hats, it 18 by their historians raid, in commemoration of,* victory gained over the Saxons. 1, 2, 3, 4. Ember Days.--On these days young men intended for the min­ istry of the English Church are sol­ emnly set apart for their offioe, and prayers are offered up that the "Bishop may lay hands suddenly upon no man, but faithfully and wisely make choiee of fit persons to serve in the stated min­ istry." 2. St. Cedde or Chad.--An early En­ glish Bishop, who fixed hia see at Litch­ field. He died of * pestOenoe in the year 673. 7. St. Perpetua was thrown into the Amphitheater at Carthage, A. D. 203, and tossed, but not killed, by a wild cow; eventually she was put to death by the young gladiators. 12. St. Gregory the Great, consecrat­ ed Pope in 490, was regarded with much favor in England, on account of his hav­ ing sent St. Augustine for the purpose of Christianizing it. Although austere, St. Gregory was in every sense a hum­ ble, pious, amiable man, devoted to good works. Ho gave much attention to the revision of the office books and to the music of the church, henoe the popular designation of "Gregorian.* His death occurred A. D. 604. 17. St. Patrick.---This patron saint of Ireland is claimed by the Scots as a na­ tive of their country. They say that he was born near Dumbarton, and that he founded many churches in North Britain before sailing from Port Pat­ rick for Ireland. Arrived there he en­ ergetically set to work converting the heathen and founding churches. In explaining the doctrine of the' Trinity, he plucked a leaf of trefoil, and showed how three leaves might be united and yet be but one. The Shamrock has, therefore, been recognized as the na­ tional emblem ever sinoe. The saint is also said to have charmed all reptiles from the island so that none can exist there, and also to have taught the na­ tives the true art of mixing their liquor --an art which has never sinoe been lost. He died A. D. 432, at the good old age of 123, and was buried in the cathedral city of Down. For some pious reason the Reformers left St. Patrick's name out of the calendar, but an Order of Knighthood was established in his honor by King George IIL; and there appears little likelihood of the day bein{£ forgotten by the saint's adopt­ ed countrymen. 18. St. Edward, King aadmartpvwas son of King Edgar, ascended the throne at the early age of 12, in 975, but four years afterward was foully murdered by order of his step-mother, Elfrida, at Corfe Castle. His body was privately buried in unoonsecrated ground, but could not rest, and, on the 20th of June, 982, it was translated to Shaftesbury with great pomp. 21. St. Benedict, or Benet, patron of the Western monks and founder of the Benedictine order, was born in Umbria in 480, and, when only 14, retired to the desert in order to enjoy a solitary reli­ gious life. He founded his first mon­ astery on Mount Casino, and then drew up a stringent code of rules for the government of the order.; He died- A* D. 534. v 25. The Annunciation commemofttes the visit paid by the angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin when hexevealed the purpose of God, and told of the Savior who should be born. • ' 4J>s3l Bf:<S '-V. MiM :. •• t" ^ " • -te' p( / ' /l,' |i'- IN the British House of Lords there is one Roman Catholic Duke, Norfolk, and two Marquises and four Earls of the same faith, the latter six being con­ verts. The Duke of Norfolk is premier Duke and Earl of England. Tiscount Gormanstown, premier Yisoount of Ireland, and Lords Mowbray, Segrave ,5 \-Ji and Stourton, premier Baron of En- '̂ gland, are also Roman Catholics. There are forty-eight Roman Catholic Baron­ ets, and the heirs of two Protestant J Earls are Roman Catholics. STAT at home, young man, stay a. -,;' home, and yon stand some chance. In ^ this country 8,000 men among 10,000 ; , get married; in Francei only 5,566; in | England and Wales, 5,398; in Austria, I 5,271; in Italy, 5,27(9; in Denmark, pj 5,191; in Germany 5,107; in Norway, 5,065; in Sweden, 4,952; in the Nether- j lands, 4,748; in Scotland, 4,678; in I Belgium, 4,634; in and in Ireland, 4,313. LOCKING a boy up is faults imprisonment. '!? •••% il