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Ium, eouiM low and s«eel < Organ's tfrorie. the voices f*l»t j. < . .J : . ii(«l fciin tl.fc quaint loiiw- meter hipniBy. w * ' *tottstaursr fee! -S3 I?• &. .-^a •ly From some m>sterious temple, dflp . , Attdbpautifnl with bine and red , Aikd golden lights from windows Wp^,' Where angels in the shadows «t*nd : f i- i >•; lad earth seems very near the s*jr, i The day dream fade# -and so I try | - '**4;' Again to catch the tune that bring* H© thought of temple nor otpriest, * But, onlv of a voice that sings. < li - G.. • 1 SIGHT OF HORROR. ; h,3 W • -- • •• ,-V4 ' . > ; - X t BT hot vomkml - v* *; nigbtT The moon haSifijled £ . its face from the world below. The stars, man's beet friends, whose eyes al­ ways twinkle at his mistakes, and fill with tears at his misfortunes, had to- aight closed their eyelids, refusing, it would seem, to countenance by their light the dark scene about to be en­ acted. The calm that precedes a storm " |ha^ settled upon all nature. The scene .. changes. The darkt threatening clouds, *+• so long confined, were filling the air \ ' with muttered warnings. Sharp flushes of lightning occasionally piercing the I J • gloom made the darkness sfciil more in- ' tense. The deep-rooted pines, that had 'for years withstood the onslaught of v ,<f, winter storms and laughed defiance at the raad lashing of summer gales, were j f; ^to-night helpless in flie hand of the ele- j laments,'and, stripped of their branches, hey moaned and sighed at the destruc- ion that had come upon them. Each : Successive flash of light coming from j flhe great beyond rovealed a large white | v <#iouse, standing silent and alone. j . jfc ^ The storm without increased in vio- j Within the mansion silenoe j \%vlreigned as deep and undisturbed as : A|hat which inhabits the grave. Those j ulD WIIM „ rwy B„rvoH3 anu ei_ wnthin lay quietly sleeping, unmindful citable, he took bis revolver and started down ' danger, and enjoying that sweetre- stairs. The tbievAs musthave heard him com- ; jpose that accompanies a conscience ' -Dp' fo-r they *Pre "t!P.art»nK thronsih the ^void of ofense. There were two per- •vl JMOLS in the house--the one, a man be- : ' loved by Ids Mends and respected by sudbis enemies; times without number mad he placed the onp of cold water to v liis neighbor's lips, and man^ a poor *r-jwoman, applying a fresh faggot to the •"Jdying embers, had, with uplifted eyes .s >. iand clasped bands, prayed God to bless •^|Mm as the iziend of tiw widow and the "Well, wife, if yoa will g^flf gb irith you ; yoc just take the light and go ahead, and I'll keep right b*hin'? yon with this pitcher of water, and if I •ee anybody 111 let fly at them.* So the solemn procession started. Mrs. Graham held the lfglit high above Iter head, and tiptoeing along behind «ame her brave husband. Cautiously descending the stairs the procession Wended its way to the dining-room. Mrs. Graham bravely threw open the door; the draught extinguished Utg ilie IIUtglRIB nt-itl UJIUU lillU, threw the water and pitcher with alt his might and started for the stairs on a dead run, leaving his wife to follow as best she could. The pitcher, of course, came down; but, fortunately, it 4id not come in contact with the person of Mrs. Graham. But the water--true to the law of gravitation--also came down, and, unfortunately for Mrs. Graham--as she was attired in her evening costume--its ruck her squarely on the head, and leisurely ran the whole length of her body. After grop­ ing her way back up the stairs and striking a light, she looked around for her husband, but he was nowhere to be seen. After calling him loudly sev­ eral times, he at last lifted the bed­ clothes from his head and asked his wife, in piteous tones, if it wasn't pretty near morning. Upon investigation, next morning, it was found that one of the shutters had become det&ched frum the building, and the wind, blowing strongly in the right direction, had forced it against the window, breaking several of the glasses. This was the crash that was heard. The papers, next evening, contained this account of the night's proceedings: nARIKG ATTEMPT AT BOBBEBX! The fallowing account or the attempted burglary at the resideuce of our respected townsmen and fellow-citizen, Mr. Graham, will be read with interest by all who have the honor of his acquaintance. We get thiaaocount from Mr. Graham himself, whom we riava *JO doubt could truthfully magnify the facte here record­ ed, were it not for his modesty and his wish to give to the matter »o undue publicity. At about 12 o'clock last night, he was awakened by hearing & disturbuice in the room directly underneath the one in which he was sleeping. Slipping quietly from the bed, so as not to arouse his wife, who is very nervous and ex- FAB*H0TS8. :f?8i Although he had yet scarcely reached ^fthe top of the hill of years, Mr. Graham a well-established reputation loar honesty and business integrity, and a 'l-,. record of which any man might be ' . . -siProud. n.f- *<•|;*' Now, as our minister used to say "J have dashed the picture upon the if*'vasI have told you all the good |^Vf'^things I could about Mr. Graham, and * i*now I must say, with all hi# virtues, he * ' ' ' h a d h i s f a i l i n g s . ( " In conversation with a friend a few ^••••j'ldays before the event about to be re- ^ ./;<corded, concerning a recent burglary, ^.^he said: "I do not wish to-take human . iife, but, let any man enter my house in pS%("|th© dead of night, with the purpose and *' ' intent of robbery, and I would shoot- 4 ^jhim on the spot. As I said before, I do V inot want my hands stained with human blood, but I have a wife and a home to ' >4|»Oteet, and that I will do, even at the f' sacrifice of my own life. I seriously hope, for the sake of my wife, that ^ -^toothing of the kind wili happen at our ^Wose, as she is naturally nervous and . -excitable, and I fear the shock would !... __ -t be too much for her*" Perhajis, reader., in your experience Uriwith men, yoa may have met with such ,v ,V*1 character as Mr. Graham. There ;'">j, wlSwtoe .quite a number of them around last time I looked. Men, you know, ^ ' ' who, when their neighbor comes down •• in the morning and relates his experi- f . * ̂ ence with a b«glar the night previous, y ihow he heard him at the blinds, and, ^ locking out, saw him stealing along the >*' .^inside of the liouse, throw their \ I into their pockets, and, after t ;3& -*<fAamiiing around the roem several ,times, ask him why he didn't go right oat and grab him, remarking they'd like |t„v Ho-ftee rome boxcar fooling around their If r- • house in that way. Theae are the kind ! • ' men fho are very in the day- time, bat when the day puts its night- j'cap oil, and the black curtain of night ' is drawn over the world, they seem to rj-fh : lose their grip; their backbone loses its atillaess, and, in walking home late at 1 y * night, they imagine every tree's a man, * and that every post wears pants. \ '>* Have you been awakened from a •** sound sleep at about 2 o'clock in the /. '* morning and fanciM you heard a noise in the adjoining room? You heard the a > 1 clock tick ominously, and then one of ^ those long, cold, slimy shivers woold •%*•> start at your heels and feel its way swiftly the whole length of your back, * g and, before yon had time to crawl ,|iHd®r the bed, another one would start <vij»irfke same place and travel in the name direction, Oh! how you wished $ it was morning, and then, when daylight |? fairly came, you remember how you 4 told your friends how somebody was - ptowling around your house the night before, and how you laid for them, and I you just wished they'd come again, you'd fix 'um. aj ltwas under circumstances aimilar I to these that Mr. Graham was awakened J this dark, stormy night by his Wife, who 5c whispered in his ear: * "James, James! wake up! I tell yon. There's some one in the house." * B}1^ Jamea, though he heard the disturbance, rj Lay quiet and still as a mouse. ' « Being urged bx- his wife, at l&at he arow, i The picture of woe and despair, Sj Wljile atandiiifc" erect; from that manly hw ^ * Was each individual hair. f * 4 Theee be stood helplesa and trembling, 4 N# daring to stir from toe bed. Wbile th-fear that fastened his feet to t)w flooi •;# i . "'as shaking the teeth in his head. . crash was heard down stairs, then a,U was quiet. At the earnest so- , 4- h^tstion of hi® wife Mr. Graham had dwgped himself from the bed, but his ^c^ttsed to move, hie hands clutched * j^"c^°thes convulsively, bin eyes etarted from their sockets, and with a ahudder he sank back helpless upon b?,d» a used-up community. Again pt|W wife urged him to take the light, < °.?n H^ire and determine the d*8turbanee. Casting a iU look uP°n ^er he said: Wife, do you want me murdered? Whp would protect you if I should be •SStSy- T never leave y°u ^ 18 danKer around. Let's W% quietlym bed and-make believe we are asleep; we haven't got much they can take, anyway." , I propose to know i j j W a gwng on In this home to-: ,5 and, if you ain't-fot Wank go, 'I'll gp alone. , "* , • ,v gtfl front door as te came in sight. He fired three shots at them, and he is confident he must have hit one of thun, as there were several drops of blood on tLe steps next morning. Nothing of value has been missed. Mr. Graham is en­ titled to a great deal of credit for the prompt manner in which he acted on thia occasion, and we will say we think if we had in oar town a few more men of pluck, such as Mr. Graham, we would have fewer midnight prowlers. For the first time in a good while, Mr. Graham neglected that night to take the Evening paper home to his wife. KALAMAZOO. Mich. >--- FACTS AND FIGURES. >2, ' ft* * TikkE are 16,000 locomotives in tlie United States. NEBRASKA has an area of 75,995 miles, or 48,636,800 acres. MRS. A. T. STEWART pays a tax of oniy $500,000 of personal property. W. H. Vanderbilt pays none. , , A COUNTY in Texas is said to Lave expended last year $3,000 for preaching, $100,000 for tobacco, and $300,000 for whisky. VIRGINIA has 675 colored schools, taught by 415 colored teachers. The male teacher's salary averages $30 a month, the female's $24. THE anthracite coal shipments from Pennsylvania mines for 1879 exceed 25,000,000 tons, against 16,486,000 tons last year, and 19.29(3,000 tons lor 1877. LONDON measures about thirteen miles from east to west and nine miles and a half from north to south, and is set down as containing 30,000 miles of streets, courts and lanes. DAKOTA is the largest of the organized Territories, containing about 150,000 square miles, orjc area nearly equal to Pennsylvania, few York, and all the New England States combined. In 1878 Nevada yielded in round numbers $35, 4)0,000 in precious metal; California, $19,000,000; Utah, $6,000,- 000; Arizona, $2,300,000; Idaho, S3,- 000,000; British Columbia, $1,300,000; Oregon, $1,300,00ft; Washington, $l£0, 000. ABOUT 15,000 varieties of colors are employed by the mosaic workers of Rome, and each of these varieties has about fifty shades; so that in all 750,000 tints are afforded, which the artist can distinguish with the greatest facility. Even with this variety the workers find a lack of tints. THE colonial possessions of Great Britain embrace about one-third the surface of the globe, and nearly one- fourth of its population. The total area of these possessions is about 7,647,000 English square miles, of which 3,000,000 are in America, 1,000,000 in Africa, 1,000,000 in Asia, and more than 2,500,000 in Australia. IN Bavaria 13.42 out of eve^y 100 births are illegitimate children; in Aus­ tria, 12.03; in Denmark, 10.39; in Scot­ land, 8.87; in Germany, 8.75; in France, 7.21; in Italy, 7.07; in England, 5.11; in Roumania, 3.43; in Ireland, 2.36; in Greece, 1.48. The excess in Bavaria and Austria is due to laws prohibiting marriage to those with a certain income. In 1878 there were erected in Chicago 1,019 buildings, having a street frontage of 31,188 feet, and costing $7.419,100; in 1877 there were 1,398 buildings with a frontage of 35,033 feet, costing $7,552,- 694; in 1876,1,586 buildings (including sheds) with a street frontage of 43,222 feet, ana costing $8,270,600. The total for the past four years is: Number of .buildings, 5,128; street frontage, 27 'tniles and 338 feet; cost, $29,987,949. : IN Philadelphia there are 50,000 men i s*nd women employed in the manufact­ ure of clothing, and 20,000,000 suits are made there ever$ year. CuttiDg machines are finding their way into all the large manufacturiug establishments. They cut 1,800 garments in a day of twelve hours. Button-holes are also made by machinery at the rate of 150 per hour. One establishment where these mechanical appliance* are used can turn out 100 suits daily ready for wear inside of twelve hours. IRELAND has an area of 32,531 square miles. In shape it is a rhomboid, the greater diagonal of which is 300 miles and the smaller 210 across; greatest meridianal length, 230 miles; greatest and smallest breadth, 180 and *110 miles. Its population is now 5,412,377. The next census will be taken there in 1881. In 1821, when the first complete census was taken, the population amounted to 6,801,827; in-1831, to 7,767,401; in 1841, to 8,199,853. The great decrease from 1841 to 1851, amounting to about 1,600,000, was due to the intervening famine and tbe in­ creasing emigration. „ SB£': 1 THE rain annually poors into the aoil a quantity of nitrate of ammonia folly equivalent to three pounds per acre. DAMAGED corn is exceedingly inju­ rious as food for horses, beoause it brings on inflammation of the bowels and skin diseases. (ii'IXEA fowls will kaep all bags and insects of every description off garden vines. They will not soratch like other fowls, or hiwn tbp tnr.sfc delicate plants. The avfiffnno butttu- jicid of tho Ayr­ shire cow is one pound from twenty to twenty-five pounds of milk; from the Jersty it is one pound of butter from eighteen pounds of milk. Ti RNIPS are healthful for horses. They should be cut in slices, or, what is better, pulped finely and mixed with a little meal and some salt. Rutabagas are better than white turnips. KEEITSG sheep is pleasant and profit­ able, if ettended to properly. Wool is a sure thing every year and brings cash. It has its ups and downs, but let any man make up his mind that none but his wife or his administrator shall sell his wool for less than 50 cents per pound and he will come out all right. PARSNIPS, carrots, Swedish turnips and especially mangel-wurzel, will all fatten pigs. These roots ought not to be given in a raw state, bnt always cooked and mixed with beans, peas, Indian oorn, oats or barley, all of which must be ground into meal. When pigB are fed on such cooked food as we have stated, the pork acquires a peculiarly rich flavor,, and is much esteemed, es­ pecially for family use. HORSE HINTS.--Rubber bits 'are the best for winter use on your horses. The mortality among horses is greater between the ages of 4 and 8 years than at all other periods of life. Warm the bit on your bridle in frosty weather be­ fore putting it in the horse's mouth. The bit full of frost, coming in contact with the tongue and lips, adheres to these soft tissues the same as it would do when red-hot, leaving the animal with a sore mouth. If you do not be lieve it place your own tongue on a piece of frosted iron some cold morning and be convinced. A OOOD workshop containing such tools as can be used to advantage by the far­ mers should be found on every farm. A room with a stove in it. and large enough to permit of the construction of a hay rigging, a gate or portable fence, will furnish a place where many hours may be healthfully and profitably spent in the most inclement weather of winter. Here a great deal of repairing may be done that would otherwise find its may to the professional mechanic. New tools may be built, that will be needed on the farm, or harnesses may be oiled and repaired and a great many things that will suggest themselves may be done. In mild weather the thoughtful can find profitable out-door work, such as repairing outbuildings and cutting np falling branches from trees.--Rural New Yorker. LAKOE numbers of cattle die annually in the West from the lack of water when feeding in the cornfields. Dry corn-stalks, as compared with grass, are constipating food; but smutty corn­ stalks are especially liable to cause im­ paction of food in the stomach, and disease of the brain. The risk is largely or entirely obviated if there is a suffi­ cient supply of water; but when the water is frozen np the animal can no longer chew the ond from lack of water in the paunch to separate and float its contents, and impaction and a whole train of evil consequences follow. If water can be . supplied so that the cattle can drink at will, it is better; but if not, it should be allowed abundantly at any cost twice a day. While in many cases no other than iced water can be had, it is all-important that stock should not be left to become so thirsty that they will fill themselves when driven to drink, and then stand shiver­ ing in the cold stall or stanchions, where they are denied even the privilege of stimulating their circulation by walking about.--National Live-Stock Journal. •OUSEHOLD ECONOMY* DRESSING FOR ROAST PORK OR GOOSE. --Make a dressing as for gooje, and one teaspoon of mustard and teaspoon salt, with a wineglass of claret, and mix with the dressing before putting in the goose or pork, or pour this into the gravy. ROAST GOOSE.--Two ounces onion and half as muoh green sage chopped fine; add one coffee cup of bread crumbs, a little pepper and salt, the yelks of two eggs. Do not quite fill the goose, but leave room to swell. Roast from one hour and a half to two hours, and serve with>gravy and apple sauce. SWEET PICKLES.--TO every seven pounds of fruit pnt four pounds of sn- gar, one quart of the best vinegar, an ounce of cloves, ounce of cinnamon, a dozen pieces of mace. Put the sugar and spices in the vinegar. Let it boilf then pour oventhe fruit; let this remain till next morning; boil and pour over for three mornings. The last time boil the fruit in it. Is A BRASS VESSEL SAFE FOR COOKING IN?--A brass kettle may be used for cooking with safety, if thoroughly well scoured before being used. The scour­ ing should be done with fine bath brick, and afterward with hot water. No acids, such as vinegar, should be used in cooking in a brass kettle. When the kettle is done with for the time, it should bevscoured and put away in a dry place, where it will always be ready for use after simple washing. CELERY CREAM SOUP.--TO make celery cream soup boil a small cup of rice in three pints of milk until it will pass through a sieve; grato the white part of two heads of celery (three, if small) on a bread-grater; add this'to the rice milk after it has been strained; put to it one quart of strong white stock; let it boil until the celery is per­ fectly tender; season with salt and cayenne, and serve; if cream is obtaina­ ble, substitute one pint of it for the same quantity ol milk. COFFEE CUSTARD.--Make a good, strong extract of coffee--by dripping it as slowly as possible--for ten people you will want two cupfuls; take eight of the same measures of milk, and beat into the milk yelk of six eggs; add three ounces of powdered sugar; mix into this the two cupfuls of coffee; as coffee differs in strength, better taste to see that is sweet enough; pour the mixture into cups, and put the cups in a not-too-deep pan with boiling water; the level of the water ought not to stand higher than the cup; do not try and boil the water too hard; about 15 minutes of boiling is necessary. SWEET AND SOUR CABBAOE.--My picklea gave out too early this winter, and I used this old receipt, which is iff * jJTt* * *• BT ». K. FCOJSO. be ready Ugliness, covered with mud, rushed to meet him with joyous barkv and fawned upon him to the detriment of the poet's new pantaloons. Disgusted as DeMugsst was, it would have been perilous to drive ff the im­ mortal's faithful dog, so he was com 4UVXWVAO AM'JUIIU UVg) DU UC W£b9 UUIU" *HOVU IUA UlfUU^fftpillO pelled to let the frightful animal lick purposes are a sort of calcareous slate VT 4 0 HAVII^A 1-1 _ TRTLLLLH /\H 4L\ A T^A VT 41 VT A T3 _ ! _ CI . his hands, cover him with caresses and mud, and precede him to the drawing- room. A moment later the academician en­ tered. DeMusspt noticed his embar­ rassment, at which he was not surprised, considering the behavior of the animal. They adjourned to the dining-room, followed by the dog, which, after giving vent to- his delight by various gambols and cries, placed two muddy paws on the oloth, seized the wing of a cold chicken, and began contentedly to ' de­ vour it. "That's the most abominable brute I ever heard of," thought DeMusset, and continued aloud, "You are fond of dogs, I see.* "Fond of dogs I * echoed the immor­ tal. "I hate dog*." "But this animal here ?" "I have only tolerated the beast be­ cause it is yours, sir." "Mine?" said DeMusset; "I thought it was yours, which was all that prevent­ ed me from killing him." The two men roared with laaghter, and DeMusset made a friend. Late thaday a yellow dog erossed the frontier of the Rhine at Strasbourg with the air of an animal that scored upon the tables of its memory a decid­ edly unpleasant recollection, and head­ ed for Constantinople with undimin­ ished celerity. To Sweep and Dost a Room Properly. This is an art, and like all fine arts has a right method. Well done, it reno­ vates the entire room, and the occupant takes possession feeling that all things have become new. It is not merely a performance to be done by the hands, but a work into which taste and judg­ ment, in other words brains, must enter. Are there closets opening into the room to be swept? Arrange the shelves, drawers, or olothing preparatory to sweeping day, thee let this be the first to be swept. Cover the bed with soiled sheets, as also all heavy articles that cannot be removed, first, however, hav­ ing carefully dusted and brushed them. Remove ail the furniture that can^easily be set in the hall or adjoining room, having first dusted it; then, taking a step-ladder, begin to sweep or brush, or wipe the cornices and picture cords and pictures. Draw the shades to the top of the window, or, if there are inside blinds, dust them carefully. Open the windows. All the dust left in the room now is in the carpet or air, and the cur­ rent of the windows will soon settle it. Now bogip to sweep, not toward a door or corner, but from the outer edges of the room toward the center, where the dust will be taken Up with a small brush and dust-pan. Go over the room once more, this time with a dampened broom; that removes the last bit of dust, and gives the carpet a new, bright appear­ ance. Replace the articles of furniture as soon as the air is entirely free from dust, and the room is new and clean. All this seemB an easy thing to do, but there is not one in a hundred who will follow out the detail. Some will sweep the dust into the hall or from one room to another, and then wonder why their house is so soon dusty again. Others forget oornices and pictures, and thus leave a seed of future annoyanoe; while a third class will do all bat use the dampened broom, which is as finishing touches to a picture. - •'j Mb.Si; Well, Mr. President, what do you think of it? " said Mr. Clay. " Well," answered Mr. Monroe, " it is very good, but it tastes to me exactly like old Ken­ tucky whisky." On investigation Mr. Clay found that his son Tom had, some days before, emptied the bottle of wine for his own benefit and then had filled it up with Kentucky whisky. Music as Medicine* Sidney Lanier has been leoturing on the "Doctors of Shakspeare's Time." Mr. Lanier finds that music was regard­ ed as physic, a true remedial agent, as were aloes and cassia and other drugs. In "Pericles," for instance, the phys­ ician Cermion actually calls in the ser­ vice of music to bring Thaisaback from a fainting fit. Dr. John Hall, who, in 1607, married Shakspeare's youngest daughter, Susannah, possibly was tho model from which Cermion was made. This Dr. Hall was the son of the man who wrote a work called "An Historical .Expostulation Against the Beastly Abases, bothe of Chirngery and Phjs- ike in Our Tyme." "Macbeth" Mya; Throw pbyaic to the dotn; I'll none of it. In "Borneo and Jnliet" we have a sketch of the apothecary of the day. . ' w M v r ,!l' 'J<* ' # '1 W ,4, U W,I' Dutch, iir an old woman gave in Albany just forty years ago: oabbage4ead and cut it down into eight pieces and oover it with coarse salt, let- tingit remain in a jar twelve hours; take it out, aqnee^e it, and chop it fine with two onions; put it on the fire in a china- lined taaael, covering it with vinegar, and boil for a full hour; add to it then one ounce of turmeric (a teaspoonful of curry will do instead of turmeric), one teaspoonful of ground pepper, a tea­ spoon fni of oelfe -y-seed, a table spoonful pfiiUf.vjort of ground muoini'ui aiiu half ttii GUBCC of TfhitC mace, with one and a half pounds of brown sugar; cook one hour more. -- ^ -- -- ^ -v • Alfred DeMusset and the Dog* j , 300 B 0 The ^ v Alfred DeMusset always declared that Greenwich, waa founded br OharlanTf he hated dogs for the reason that twice 167& A. D. ' in his life an animal of the canine race Tmr „ had come within an ace of wrecking his bor b th p . ^e e®#le was fi^t fortunes. borne by the Persians. Figures of the T le first time Was at a royal hunting a^underbolt in itft f' sometir?e8 wifch party when the poet, Louis Philippe's ° H T' °? 4 pomt guest, when a bird was flushed, fired ?! ' tL SI y Se Roman? hastily and sent the citizen King's fa- standard^ of Nandf^nn W&S Ji 11*$>enai Torito poinfc*toCerberus.* SSVu^ri'Vlftol r « e m t h e to pay the customary visit to an influ- lfflE at. Greal waa the vessel from ential iinmortal whose chateau was in , ,our Savior is said to have taken the environs of Paris. , 8®PPer» _ an« which was subse- At the moment that the poet rang at QUGn"J filled'with the blood that flowed the gate an ignoble whelp of incredible **om the wounds inflicted on Calvary. Uftliness. covered wi fch mud. rushed to * _ was. 881(* ^iave been preserved by .. *k*j»o#t celebratedipeoiman of an tiqueglass is thel PottlandVaae, which wIS!® ™ «* Alexander Severfts. The vase u of deep-blue glaaa, the flgates, in bas-relief, are of opaque white, jmd exquisitely cut. THE most celebrated light-house of antiquity was the one erected by Ptolemy Soler at Pharos, near Alex- andna, Egypt, 285 B. C. It waa 55# feot high, and could bo seen afc a Jis- ttincc of forty-two Tm first observatory is snpposed to have been on the top of the Temple of Belus, at Babylon. The first in au- Snn5° Was at Ale*andria, about Joseph Aremathea. The quest of this is the most fertile source of adventures to the Knights of the Round»Table,and Merlin, when he made the table, left a place for the Greal. ' THE stones used for lithographic Story of fletfry Clajr. One day, during President Monroe's administration, Mr. Clay was invited, with other friends of the President's, to dine at the White House. A few days before some friends of Mr. Clay's, liv­ ing in Indiana, had sent him a bottle of wine which had been made in that State. Mr. Clay thought that he would take the bottle of wine up to the White . ,anr M , , . ,. House and have it opened at the table, ^ ^^TP,y J° dl8* and show the guests how fast they were C?ver Uie N<?rth P?lo\but ^ make reg- progressing in the West. When the °b8ervatlOM for a party was seated at the table Mr. Clay ^ m. . ., . told a serrant to opei the bottle and " serve some of the wine to tlie gUMts. P'»°ticablo lor a sleamcr to keep com- mi, n . , , ? " , 8 j * munication open with the civilized h * "na, P M M 0 " 1 " Lady Franklin baV, about 160 it came to Mr. Monroe. mi)M'fr?m thi pole. A fine and easily- found on the Danube, in Bavaria. Some of an inferior quality are obtained from England. The surface of the stone is polished with pumice stone. Upon the surface prepared the design is made with lithographic chalk and ink. The chalk «s used in a mold, the ink is dis­ solved by being rubbed like India ink in water, and is used in a pen or camel's- hair pencil. THE term foolscap is derived from the fact "that Charles I. granted to certain parties a monopoly of the manufacture of paper, and every sheet bore in water­ marks the royal arms. The Parliament, under Cromwell, made jest of this in every conceivable manner, and ordered the royal arms to be removed from the paper, and the fool's cap and bells sub­ stituted. These were removed after the restoration, but paper of the size of the Parliament journals always retained the name of " foolscap." " JOHN o' GROAT'S House " is a phrase used to designate an ancient building formerly situated on Duncansby H remarkable for being the most no: ly point in Great Britain. Joh Groat and his brothers were originally from Scotland, and are said to have set­ tled ^ here about 1489. According to tradition, the house was of an octagonal shape, being one room with eight win­ dows and eight doors, to admit eight members of tiTe family, the heads of eight different branches of it, to pre­ vent their quarrels for precedence at table, which, on a previous occasion, had well nigh proved fatal. Each came in bj this contrivance at his own door, and sat at an octagonal table, at which, of course, there was no chief i place, or head. A CORRESPONDENT of Notes and Queries gives the following remarkable instance of a beetle's tenacity of life: A relative of mine, while cutting a loaf of bread, found imbedded in it a beetle. A small portion of the loaf with the in­ sect in it was cut out entire, and, after a lapse of about five minutes, the beetle began to crawl out, apparently none the worse for its incarceration. It i§, of course, well known that beetles are fond of warmth, but I should ncit have thought that one would have so com­ fortably survived some hours spent in a living tomb, escaping the danger of being crushed to death in the making of the bread, and subsequently the risk of being killed, either by suffoca­ tion or the heat of the oven. EDIBLE bird's nest is the nest of the sea-swallow of the Malay archipelago, a bird of the size of a common martin. It builds its nest of a glutinous sub­ stance, which it is said to derive from a sea weed. This weed is swallowed and partly digested, and then disgorged and fashioned into a nest as large as a coffee- cup. When fresh, these nests are of a waxy-white color, and are said to be worth twice their weight in silver in the markets of China, where alone they are sold, the general cost being $5 or more a pound, according to the age of the nests. The taste of dishes pre­ pared from these nests is said to be in­ sipid, but the Chinese prize them, not, perhaps, so much for their taste, as for their supposed tonic and aphrodjsiac powers' The Polar Mystery. Oapt. Howgate makes an appeal to the national Congress to ratify the rec­ ommendations of the Geographical Con­ gress and make the necessary appropri­ ations for his proposed Arctic explora­ tion by means of fixed stations in the. Polar regions. These stations are in the summer months to be supplied for the long winter siege. The main­ tenance of the two northernmost points have been assigned to the United States Government. The purpose is not, as Oapt. Howgate explains, simply to dis- accessible deposit of coal exists at this point, about a mile from the shore of a small bay, and distant four miles from the winter quarters of the Discovery. Here it is proposed to erect buildings and store provisions. The occupants of this station would not be exposed to greater hardships than are u6ually en­ countered in the Polar regions, and "the horrors of the long Arctic nights will in great part disappear before the kindly influence of improved appliances for comfort and amusement now avail­ able." Near the seam of coal, too, is a fresh-water lake; and much game was killed there, indicative of vegetable life, also, during an exceptionally-cold winter. "In ordinary seasons it is not expected that there will be' any serious difficulty in reaching the sta­ tion by the aid'of a steam vessel es­ pecially fitted for the work, and the vessel can annually carry out fresh provisions, clothing, books, implements, and, if need be, fresh details of men to replace those who may wish to be re­ lieved. The work of observation and survey will furnish constant and useful employment for the men. This will render them less liable to attacks of homesickness after the M : " "jpportnnity to pnali th*ir w»7 The scope of their observations will include the determination of the figure of the earth by means of pendalom ex­ periments, the magnetism of the globe, the ocean tides and currents, polar •windfj st»d all geogmp!ii»i*l, uittleiuulo^iuul mux bolauiual facta that are to be obtained. The practical re­ sults he predicts will be a wider knowl­ edge of air currents and atmosphere; better data for predicting storms; and some success, may be, in discovering and, if possible, anticipating and pro­ viding against, the cause of those ex­ tremes of temperature which sweep over the northern regions of the globe, and especially the continent east of the Rocky mountains.--Detroit FreePress. A Month of Evil Omen* . January would seem to be a month of evil omen for modern sovereigns, whose deaths and disasters firm a very large proportion of its most noteworthy anniversaries. On the 1st of January, Charles the Bold, of Burgundy, was killed by the Swiss, in 1477, and the allied armies entered France, in 1814, to begin the campaign that overthrew Napoleon. On the 5th, the death of Edward the Confessor ushered in the series of complications which ended in tha Norman conquest of England. On the 9th. Napoleon III. died in exile. Louis XYI. was beheaded on the 2lst, and the 22d brought the same fate to the ambitious Duke of Somerset, Re­ gent and virtual King of England dur­ ing the minority of Edward YL The 30th was doubly fatal to the honse of Stuart, having witnessed both the exe­ cution of Charles I, and the death of Prince Charles Edward, the hero of the final attempt to expel the Hanoverian dynasty in 1745. But apart from these tragedies, the Wolf-month, as the Sax­ ons called it, is rich in other and less gloomy associations. The present Emperor of Germany be­ came King of Prussia on the 2d. Sophia was taken by the Russians on the 3d (1877), and the Turkish army cap­ tured at Schipka pass on the 8th. The destruction of England's Cabul army in 1842 marks the 9th. The 14th wit­ nessed the seizure of Danish ships in British ports (1801) which preluded the destruction of the whole Danish fleet by Nelson at Copenhagen two months later. Fort Fisher fell on the 16th. Gen. Skobeleff's brilliant victory at Snenovo, which virtually ended the Russo-Turk- ish war, marks the 17th, which has also the greater renown of, the birth of Benjamin Franklin. On the 18th, the German empire was established by King William's assumption of the im­ perial crown at Versailles. The same day witnessed the birth of Louis XIY.'s famous Minister, Louvois. Lords Bacon and Byron were born on the 22d. On the 23d, the Duke of Edin­ burgh married the Czar's only [daughter, Maria Alexandrovna. The 24th is the birthday of Frderick the Great. Paris was taken on the 28th (1870), and Ehrenbreitstein, for the first and last time, on the 29th (1799). The 30th witnessed the execution of Guy Fawkes, and the marriage of Napoleon III. to Eugenie de Montijo. To the same list may be added the first sailing of War­ ren Hastings to India as an unknown ci^lian (1750), the storming ot the great Sikh fortress of Mooltan by the British (1849), and the reorganization of the Russian army (1874). Irish Superstitions. In Ireland, as 'in other countries, the robin is believed to have plucked a thorn out of the crowi of thorns, and to have got its breast stained with blood in so doing. Tinkers are looked down upon in Donegal for the following rea­ son : When the blacksmith was or­ dered to make nails for the cross, he refused, but the tinker consented to make them; and Christ coudemncd him and all his race to be wanderers, and never to have a roof of their own to cover them, till the world's end. "Can that be true?" we asked the woman who told us the foregoing story. "la it not the case that tinkers must wan­ der from place to place in order to ply their trade?" "Na, na, miss; it's the blessed Lord's judgment on%them that keeps them from having a house o' their ain." The same person delares that she has seen the sun dance for joy on Easter morning. "She (the Irish peasant always makes the sun feminine) was just risen above the mountains, when she gave three wee skips for joy that Christ is risen. Sure, I seen it wi' my ain eyes." The cock is estimated very highly for his wisdom, inherited, in all probability, from the ancestor that crowed when Peter denied his Lord. Should he crow at an un­ timely hour, such as from 6 p. m. to 11 p. m., he is believed to prophesy some event affecting the family, and the mis­ tress hastens to feel his feet. If they are cold, her heart sinks, for she knows that he foretells a death; but if warm, she is comforted and reassured, sure that the house prophet is but rejoicing at the expected arrival of a good letter from America, or some other piece of luok. In Cork and Kerry the crowing of a cock at night is thought to give notice that a ghost is in the house, and then whoever is still afoot' hurries to bed in trepidation and draws the blanket over his head. The Little inmate full of mirth. Cbirpinp ou my kitcheu hearth, ° ia regarded by our peasantry of all races--Celts, semi-Scotch, and the des­ cendants of the English settlers--with superstitious interest. It is described in Ulster as "a gentle wee thing," the word "gentle" always meaning of fairy origin. It is thought to be very lucky when crickets come to the house, and very unlucky when they leave it, and it is considered a dangerous thing to kill them.-- Belgravia. Causes of Duels. The old story of the Irishman who called a man out for expressing disbe­ lief in his having seen anchovies grow­ ing on a tree, and when his opponent lay wounded on the ground, repentant­ ly owned to suddenly remembering it was capers he meant, may be an inven­ tion, but duels have been fought for equally trivial reasons. One of the members of Louis XVIIL's body guard fought three times in one day; first, with a gentleman who had offended by looking askew at him; next, with one who had looked him hard in the face; and thirdly, with a stranger who had passed by without deigning to look at him at all.--Chambers Journal. IT is rumored that Mr. Anthony Trollope ia engaged upon a somewhat elaborate work, of whieh Cicero ia tho subject. Out til the oold now I'm wandering •kaidsi# < • 1* trom toy liiudi and far from my hotlnl Far fisom the scenes of my childhood *o dear Shrinking befoie the colct worth's Ikeartlessjler. Qnce I had fri<io<fei I thought loving and true- * * * / Once, amid pleasure and honor, I grew; 4r"-m Once. Oh! tue word ha* a sorrowful tones. - *7 1 * or pleasure has left me ud iio&or is Children at one time I fondled wilh Rle«{ - Where are tliey no*, with li^ht hearts and free* wnere are the dear ones I once loved so willt ^ they ,*:;a aJljr M ™ * ' Myself and m« two sons stood close by her rtdef T^Vn°,° !h^heir h,nd8' ina whispering nld-» Take care of thy father when mother 1* dmt. 1 them: 'twas all I could gi«*£ 1 roof th*y »»*<* I could live. ' wii f"""f® came, atd I, poor and ©M, Was turned from its th^ahoid out in the oold. them the deed they have done, ?ho££ t£7 h?!e,pleuty and 1 have none; Flr?rgnm,v.r °ld ffher is left £rom tho one» he lovts, far from his »•««., Soon the cold waters of <Jea<h rippling by rael7wltl'rLfra*1 n,irit to '•"P'""* °n 2w ™ d(?al" children of old, ' .rhat once tunied their father out in the --i* AFPUIOK, Onto* f;r# PITH AND POINT. t LAID on the table--The table-dloth. To THE sluggard every year is sleM? year. ~ v A BIO tree is the best boughinff ao- : quaintance for a hot day. A TBSB may be downcast, and . chop-fallen. It may be blown do^ for instance. FAST horsea only should be clipped* therefore do not clip your hone unlaii he is a clipper. Jp-.: THE older the tree the more rings it has. It is very much the same way with a city. ^ "WHAT struck you most in Italv?"%, newly-returned traveler is " Til# sun," says he. ; • • "BLESSED are the piece-makers," said the small boy, who dropped a costly porcelain ornament. > IT is the easiest thing in the world to discover all the grease spots on a man's coat when you don't like hit^. A MAN and Hon met one one night But they'll neve - meet attain, For the man ran away with all his miffht. And the lion with all his main. JOKES, being told he looked seedjr, and asked what business he waa in, re* plied, "The hard-wear business--look at my wardrobe!" "IF there's no moonlight, will yoa meet me by gaslight, dearest Juliana?" "No, Augustus, I won't," she replied; "I'm no gas-meter." JAY GOULD'S success in managing railroads is explained by the fact that his father used to keep a switch for his especial benefit. SAMSON is the name of a San Fran* cisco actor. If he follows the exampto of his illustrious namesake he will oex* tainly bring down the house. A BACHELOR editor, who had a prettf unmarried sister, lately wrote to one similarly circumstanced, "Please ex­ change," thinking it no robbery. HE told me that he was now regular­ ly engaged as a writer for one of th# leading dailies. His honest old motlir er said, "Writing wrappers at $3 | week." j ; THERE was the potential promise of a thorough-going Pharisee in the pioua little boy who was heard to say, "O Lord! make Brother Bill as good a b#. as I am 1" v* V.,' "IF you marry Grace," exclaimed an irate father to his son, "I will out youa. off without a cent, and you won't have so much as a piece of pork to boil in the pot." " Well," replied the young man, "Grace before meat," and he imr mediately went in search of a minister. I SAID to my little girl one dayi "What a large forehead you have go It is just like your father's. You could drive a pony carriage round it." To which her brother, 5 years old, said> "Yes, mamma; but on papa's you CM see the marks of the wheels." v PASS the butter gently, Mabel; Shove it lightly through the air; In the corner of the dish, love. You will find a nut-brown hair. , What fond ineni'ries it awakens, Of the days when we were wed, When upon my nood coat collar *" Oft was laid your little head 1 j* .Savingly I stroked those tresses In the happy days gone by; ' Wow I strike theru every meal-tim* I Jtt tl*« butter or the pie. Cooked Alive* There was a hog-killing in progress ' near Huntsville, Ala., and two colored, men, Robert and Dennis Patrick, brothers, got into a dispute aboat each other's share in the year's crop. A long kettle filled with water was ndar by. The water in the kettle had been heated to such a degree that they were T waiting for it to coel a little in order to scald hogs in it. The water was so hot that they were afraid it would "set* the hair of the hogs. This was the high temperature of the water when the brothers began to quarrel. Dennis,' who was the oldest, told Robert that he would put him in the kettle if he didn't shut up, and Robert, the preachar brother, told Dennis that, if he put him, Robert, in that water, he, Dennis, would have to go with him. Dennis caught Robert and pressed him backward ia the direction of the kettle. He pressed him, both of them having their arms locked meanwhile, until they both went headlong into the kettle of seething water. Their piteous, awful screams and means soon attracted others to the place, who finally extricated them from the white-hot caldron. They retained'.* their senses when first taken out, and their intense agonies were simply be­ yond description. They at once com­ plained of their hot clothes, and, when these were taken from their limba, gTeat flakes of boiled flesh went with . them, leaving their bones exposed. Their beards fell out and their hafa> dropped from their heads. They had literally been cooked alive. The sight was such that those who witnessed it were well-nigh paralyzed with horror* All possible measures of relief wena tried during the night, but Robert died, next day and Dennis On the day fol­ lowing. LAWS for the suppression of mendi­ cancy are strictly enforced in Switzer­ land. Relief is refused to the idle and,, dissipated, and the property of spend-' thrifts may be seized and administered for their benefit, while they are placed, under official guardianship*should them seem any likelihood of their coming t$ want. On the other hand, orphans art} ,* assisted in every possible way. About ' 5 per cent, of the members of the conl* v munett are annually relieved at the&£ cost. A recent return proves that perism js not more widely prevalent Roman Catholic thap in Protestanl * cantons. m** THESE are 41.C00 poatofficea iafMfc" , rnited States. „ " y" - 4* <\ Us.;