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SCRAPS OP 8CIEXCK. iUTKKTAIHDfi PARAGRAPHS* J. VA* SLYXE. EdRsr M< ftMfcher. cHEyiiT, ILLINOIS. A LOOK AHEAD. Ancicnt Anatomists. ancient anatomist must have felt eal for the science which makes' the agination shudder. It reached to ling less than dissecting men alive ; | this purpose the bodies of criminals devoted. Herophilus, a Greek psician of Clialcedou, who flourished years before the Christian era, is to have been one of the first who ected human bodies. Tertullian |s he dissected them alive ; but Coc- who published a dissertation in |6, denies that he was guilty of this Ibarity. Herophilus, by an unprece- Ited spirit of investigation, discovered, jiomo report, the lacteals, the nerves, their various uses, the pulse, etc., gave to the different parts of the lan frame the names which they still [lie dissection of dead bodies was, at vexy late period, looked upon as [ilege; and the Emperor Charles Y. bred a consultation of the theologiaus Balamanca to determine whether, in it of conscience, a body might be dis­ ced in order to obtain a knowledge of structure. the month of January, 1474, the |sicians and surgeons of Paris repre- ed to Louis XI. that several persons condition were afflicted with the colic, pains and stitches in the |; that it would be proper to inspect sorts where these disorders were en­ tered ; that the greatest light they Id receive would be from performing Iperation on a living man, and there- | they begged that a francarcher, eon- led to be hanged for a robbery, who afflicted with these complaints, Id be delivered up to them. Their fcjon was granted, and the operation, first in lithotomy ever made, was licly performed in bfc. Severin's fcliyard. After the operators had lined and made their experiment, Ibowels were replaced in the body, |h was sewed up, and so well dressed in" a fortnight's time the man was and pardoned of his crimes. Big Words. words are great favorites with lie of small ideas and weak concep- V, They are sometimes employed |ien of mind, when they wish to use that may the "best conc. al noughts. With few exceptions, pver, illiterate and haK- educated [>ns use more "big words" than of thorough education. It is ly ^ommon, but egregious mistake, Ijroose that the long werds are more pel than the short ones--just as the sort of people imagine that high and flashy figures improve the of dress. They are the kind of OM» tailed states Vhl Um to ,Half a Centnrr more. [From the Detroit Free Pica*.] The center of population in the United j&tates has, during the last ten yean; sniffed from Columbus, Ohio, to the Indiana boundary line ; in a few decades anore it will reach the Mississippi, river. At the rate of increase prevailing during "the present century, the country will, in 1930, contain between 150,000,000 and 160,000,000. This is only forty years •1ien.ee, a space easily grasped by those ' who can remember " the Harrison Pres­ idential campaign." Ten or twelve Tears more, equal to a look backward as •tax as the days of Jackson, nullification ^d the United States Bank, the country will be found to contain 200,000,000-- *^f}ual to the present population of Eu­ rope exclusive of Russia. Austria and 'Turkey. It is hard to imagine the changes in the social and commercial phases of the coun try which this population implies ; t.ie immense domestic trade, the large interior cities--Chicago larger than New York or Philadelphia, Cincinnati and ®T. LOUBJ than Brooklyn, Boston and Baltimore; Cleveland, Detroit and cities of that grade containing 500,000 ef people. Already the New England and •Middle States are falling behind the average rate of growth, and they will tend more and more to the stationary poiut, when their annual increase will be significant. Under these circumstances, there* is ivery reason to suppose that there will ow up in this central portion an int­ ense city, perhaps more than one, rhich will be the great metropolis and .stributing point of the continent. It ay be Chicago. It may be, also, Kan- City, or some other point farther est. For, when this oountry contains ,000,000 of people, certainly when t of the Mississippi it begins to ap­ proach the density of European popula- *on, its domestic commerce will be ore important than its foreign com- erce, and its interior cities more im- )rtant than its seaports." The metrop- is will not be New York,' but the cen- al point of distribution and exchange, 'his is true of nearly every country and metropolis the world over, and there no good reason for douVting that it 1 prove true of the United States, ndon, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, adrid, Pekin, in' modern days, Athens, abylon, Bagdad, Palmyra, in ancient ,es, are, or were, all interior cities, t will attract, as they have attracted, jhe swarming multitude, the intelligent, e energetic, the pleasure loving, the venturers from the immense reservoir populations around it. It may be ss cosmopolitan, but it will be more erican than the seaport cities, just as 'aris is the most distinctively national, "arseilles one of the most cosmopoli- "i cities in the world. New York so !ly, Boston intellectually, are already minated to some extent by foreign in- uences, and are not likely to become as so in the future. They are already itling down into hard, fixed modes of liought and life. The newspaper press of the different ds of cities in the United States be- to faintly prophesy their respective indencies. The press of Boston and iw York is comparatively provincial, most wholly in its news, and mainly its comments, it scaroely recognizes e existence of any interest west of the leghenies. If there is any striking cliar- teristic in the New York press at all, its Etnagement and tone partake of the En- (ish type. On the other hand, the cago papers show on their very face at they are published at a central int. Every point of the compass is jlly represented. Their drag-net of terprise is thrown over the whole con- ent. This will be the law of their ,ure growth, and the law of the future wth of Chicago or whatever the great tral metropolis may be. It is to be a .lized, energetic, distinctively conti- |ntal center of commerce, art, liter- ire and amusement, and will suck into whirling current of business and asure the teeming millions which then swarm in the great central tea of the Union. folks who don't begin, but " commence. They don't live, but "reside." They don't go to bed, but mysteriously " re­ tire." They don't eat 'and drink, but "partake" of "refreshments." They are never sick, but " extremely indis­ posed ;" and instead of dying, at last they "decease." The strength of the English language ip in the short words-- chiefly monosyllables of Saxon deriva­ tion ; and people who are in earnest setdom use any other. Love, hate, auger, grief and joy express themselves in short words aud direct sentences, while cunning, falsehood and affectation delight in what Horace calls verba ses- <juipcdalia--wordB " a foot and a b«ilf " lung. Superstition. Superstition has not only prevented mankind from attaining a superior emi­ nence of happiness, but, what is more de­ plorable, it has added in a great degree tc an already extensive catalogue of earthly miseries. It is not by the ignorant alone that superstitious beliefs are entertained, but by my emineut men of the past and present Dr. Samuel Johnson "was a firm believer in ghosts and second sight. Josephua, the great Jewish historian, re­ lates that he witnessed the extraordinary sight of an evil spirit being induced to leave the body of an afflicted patient's nostril. James YL, who was noted for his intellectual attainments and theologi­ cal learning, was a firm l»eliever in witch­ craft. So deep a hold did this absurd notion have on him that he published a work upholding this doctrine, and act­ ually persecuted all who opposed the belief. Even Martin Luther, the sturdy old reformer, informs us that the devil appeared to him and sp enraged him that he threw a heavy inkstand at him where­ upon the father of all evil vanished. Socrates, the sublimest character in pro­ fane history, firmly believed that he was actuated and directed by a demon! Blackstone, the author of the incom­ parable commentaries on the laws of England, was an undoubted believer in witchcraft This list of superstitious votaries could be indefinitely extended, but enough has been said upon the sub­ ject Some of the ancient superstitions are very pleasing, and in the highest degree poetic. There is a superstitious belief prevalent in the East that eclipses ot the moon are caused by a demon who, out ot the malice of his nature, afflicts the queen of the stars. And on these oc­ casions the inhabitants leave their dwell­ ings, and, by pounding upon pans aud pots, and shouting and discharging fire­ arms, endeavoring to frighten the mon­ ster away from his work of destruction. A popular belief is that the sound pro­ duced by a little insect known as a "death watch" protends the death of some relative of friend. That the noise made by this little creature resembles the ticking of a watch is uudisputed, but that it in any wise foretells the dissolu­ tion of a human being is absurd. Ob­ servation has established the fact that these little insects infest decaying timber and posts, and that the peculiar noise is caused by them in gnawing and boring through the rotten wood fibers in quest of food. The howling of a-homeless cur in the stillness of the night has caused more dread than would the roaring of a wild beast And many who have braved the cannon's mouth will tremble at the break­ ing of a looking-glass. The number thirteen is supposed by many to be unlucky, and if they find themselves one of a party of that num­ ber they will depart with haste; Our Saviour and his disciples were thirteen; the original States of the American Union were thirteen. Other iustanoes could be cited to establish this principle, were it necessary. Superstitious doctrines, countless iu number, are founded on and magnified by an ignorance of the plainest truths of natural sience. If we remove the cause the effect will oease. Let more attention be given in the instruction of youth to the inculcation of the fundamental prin­ ciples of the sciences, and less to mere ornamental studies, and the result will be advantageous to mankind. Chamber's Journal describes a factofy where the hammering of fifty copper­ smiths was scarcely audible iu the room below, their benches having under as oh leg a rubber cushion. A MAGNETIC sand, imported from the Isle of Bourbon, aud since found near Morbihan, is said by M. Edard to have the property of rapidly reviving plants which had shown pronounced symptoms of decay through disease. his wife and children, and somewhat few the general interest of society. A hus­ band left free to lead and govern in his own f'imily is the most useful husband to all who may be concerned in the re suits of his conduct That exceptions to thi« rale may be pointed out i3 no t In­ jection to or disproof of the rule itself. Humane institutions are all more or Jess imperfect, and their complete efficiency in practical working cannot be expected iu every instance. It is enough that thev produc > beneficence to the treat mean and in the? great majority of cases. A subjugated husband is » less pi casing A SEW air thermometer, by M. Miller, , r n consists of an iron support, fitted at its 1 less energetic member of' society upper end with two tubulures, in which ' than one who keeps his true place, vet are fixed the two tubes of the manome- j knows how to temper* authority with ter. The closed branch bears a thread ; affection. The law does not discourage of opaque glass, soldered iu its side at I cou.ugal consultations or free and volun- the point where the large tube joins the j tary co-opt ration iu all transaction which connecting tube. THE microscope is a wonderful instru­ ment It tells the murderer that the blood which stains him is that of hia brother, aud not of the other life which he pretends to have taken; and, as a witness against the criminal, it, on one occasion, appealed to the very sand on, which he had tread at midnight THE Scientific American feels con­ strained emphatically, though regret­ fully, to condemn Pharaoh's serpents as dangerous toys. Perhaps, it saya, they may be permitted among the brilliant atf ct or may affect the welfare of the family. » • • But the law does not undertake to secure this delightful har­ mony by coercion, but leaves it to issue spontaneously from tha hi ly relation of matrimony.--Georgia Supreme Court. A Remarkable Calculation. A curious illustration has been afforded by the New York Journal of Commerce. It takes up an utterance of the Rev. Adriondack Murray, who said in a re­ cent lecture: 4 o "Now the population of the earth is experiments of the chemical lecture, but i 1.000,000,000, and a generation dies for children to play with--not at all. e^er7 thirty years. In every thirty years, M^rcurul fames arts hftrdlv oouducive to i 1,000,000,000 human boiugs go out health. of the world and 1,000,000,000 come in. A , -,1. - Forty years ago the church taught that fi,, « anaonnoed the wf>rl(1 ̂G 00Q <ll(£ ghe from Nevada tnat will eat oak leaves, as doesu.t ^ pretend to guess within T of, 100,000 years how old the world is. Very UiS th® °°n- ! well. What has been the population 3 taves to slip out between the fibers, so ; the world since the race began? Who «rUg i %' F16 estimate the number? By what 1 fT11*? arithmetic shaUyou compute theswarm- l • \ h® hoped there iug millions ? tfake tho * lobe ftnd flat. isnt any bombast in his pretensions. ten it into a vast plain, 24,000 by , , T, .. TIIE Scientific American reports twenty-four, andIwouif it aocommodate | that there/is no really good method of but a fraction of the human beings that removing superfluous hair from the face have lived upon its suaface ? Where is except by destroying the hair follicles by tho locality of the judgment to be, then? means of a needle introduced into them Can it have a locality ?" beside each hair, the needle being ma e [ To this the Journal replies: "Now the negative pole of an electrical battery, make the widest conceivable estimates. This process is tedious aud requires an Suppose that the human race has ex- expert. Unfortunately there is no easier isted on this earth 100,000years, that the TWENTY years ago an iron theatre was •snipped to Australia, from England, in oonvenient sections, BO as to be put up easily on arrival there. A WOMAN at West Cornwall, Conn., failing to induce her husband to move out of a house which she did not like, deliberately destroyed it by fire. LET US not despise homely persons. They serve to remind us that a but slight variation in our facial lines would have irremediably marred our beauty. A WBTTEB on dogs saya that every one given to sedentary pursuits ought to keep a dog, as the necessity of giving exercise to the dog will exercise the man. THE following is an epitaph from a tomb near Versailles: "Except in 1859, during which for several days BIIO took lessons on the piano, her life was without a stain." "I WISH," Bays Dr. Schliemann, "that I could have proved Homer to have been an eye-witness of the Trojan war! Alas, I can not do it" Still the doctor lias not lived in vain. DURING the reign erf Napoleon L a book of birds for children was suppressed because it contained the phrase: "The cock is rather the tyrant than oWffjnn of the farm-yard." ! EVEBY shell fired by an army during siege operations oosts, with the powder with which the mortar is charged, the sum of eight dollars--enough to support a poor family for a fortnight ONE pf the modes of punishment in China is to compel a criminal to die of sleeplessness, by keeping him awake a week, night and day. Ten days is sure to prove fatal and is terrible agony for the victim. AN official return puts the feminine "models" in Paris at (575. The pay for a sitting is from 50 cents to $10. Most or better way. MR. EDISON has nearly finished a dy­ namo-electric machine having three field magnets six and a half feet long, and au armature one aud a half tons in weight The armature is connected di­ rectly to a Porter-Allen engine of 100- horse power. Both the engine and the dynamo-electric are mounted upon a large iron bed. This new electric gen- Awful Mistakes. An English gentleman of my acquaint­ ance was invited to a (gentleman's) din­ ner-party in New York, at 3 o'clock, that early hour having been adopted to suit his convenience. He went, of course, as he would have done in London, iu frock coat and black cravat, but was em­ barrassed by finding all others present iu evening dress. Such dress would not be allowable iu England at any company not expected to extend through the evening. It is not allowable here at afternoon receptions, though I observed that it was so used iu some parts of America. Complaints are made that certain emiuent Englishmen have ap­ peared at companies in America without evening dress, and in some cases, no doubt, the complaints are just; but it is possible that in other cases the English­ men were perplexed about the American hours. Even 6 o'clock might be a very dubious hour for dinner to an English­ man, who is in the habit of dining at 8. This may seem a trifling matter, but the respect due from the gentlemen of one nation to those of another is 110 trifling matter. And, by the way, now that the I social sanctity of the evening dress is admitted, is it quite the right thing for Americans to wear white cravats in the morning, aud along the streets? One newly arrived from Europe might won­ der at the number of clergymen in Amer­ ica. Grant that the little white tie is cheap, light and cool, might it not be colored, if only not to mislead the for­ eigner? Even in America the secularity of the white cravat appears not to be universally appreciated. I heard in Philadelphia that a gentleman with a white tie having appeared at the gate of Girard College, was refused admission, iu pursuance of the fundamental law of that institution forbidding the entrance of clergymen. The irate applicant, how­ ever, having exclaimed "Go to hell with your old college," the gates were at once thrown open and he was politely invited to enter.--M. D. Conway's Lon­ don Letter. Riding Heaithfal. A correspondent in the Household says: I have a friend who, among other luxuries, possesses a carriage, and many an invalid has been gladened and benefited by a ride. Last spring my friend discovered a lady who from long illness and sorrow was so reduoed in strength that it was with the greatest exertion sbe could walk across her room. She invited her to ride, but the invalid declined, fearing she was not strong enough to endure the fatigue; but on consulting her physiciau ho decided that it was just what she needed and would do her more good than medicine. The first ride WM but a very short one. and on the str&t railway, to avoid jolting. When left at her door she grasped my friend's hand, while the tears filled her eyes, aud said: "If this does not kill me how I shall bless yon." Well, it did not even hurt her, and the rides were continued every four days for three months, when the invalid was entirely population has never from the first day been smaller than this estimate for the present time --namely, 1,000,000,090. For the salve of easy calculation, instead of the estimate of Uiirty years to a gen­ eration, call it three generations to a century. There will appear to have been 3,000 generations of 1,000,000,000 each, who, being assembled, require standing room. For a crowded meeting of men, erator is intended to do what is usually j women.. and childreu, it would be am- done by sixteen similar machines with P . to give each two square greater steadiness and economy. - ! f0®4 of room. A square mile contains, » ^ . . » , . _ j round numbers, 25,000,000 square A COMMITTEE has been formed in St ' feet, and 12,500,000 persons could stand e rs urg tinder private auspices, it on it Therefore, eighty square miles would seem for the purpose of devising would hold a generation, and 3,00 ) times and collectuig apparatus and draw- : that space would hold the population of ings that may assist in teaching natural 100,000 years. That is to say, 240,000 science m the primary schools. The ob- ' square miles would contain them, and, Jeu ^iai tJPl)*rdtusj will be sent from ' gathered in a parallelogram, thev would schoqi to school, and lectures delivered stand in a space. 600 miles long by 400 at each institution on the subject they broad. They could easily l>e accommo- lllustrate. There » a strange, modern . dated in one or two of our States. sort of quickening influence at work in Russia, of which the world may hear more in many ways some of these days. IT will be remembered that the arti- 'ficial production of the diamond made last year by a Scotch chemist looked • ^ 6lvo them a oemetery. If any one very much as though small diamonds ; wishes he may estimate how many thou- had been fractured. None of these 18ar,d years of generations could find specimens was perfect. All of them j graves in this oountry without crowding were fragments. A step in advance has 1 each otJiei. Whoever will may imagine been made, however. Dr. Marsdeu has ! the population assembled in a oircle, or lately been able to effect the crystaliza- i ̂ft vast theater, with floor above flo« ̂ tion of carbon in the cubical form. Pos- [ each floor diminishing the surface area sessors of the most valuable natural : the building. It will do people of gems need not be alarmed as yet Dr. ' vivid imaginations good to reduce such Marsden says his crystals are so small imaginations to the facts of figures, and "Dead and buried, side by side, they would require five times their standing space, or (say) 1,200,000 square miles, and the United States has ntoiple wild lands, as yet unwanted and unoccupied, that they are of no commercial value whatever. The fact that a perfect dia­ mond can be produced, no matter how small, is a notable event, and when the paper describiu^ the process by which the end was attained is published it will command general attention. IN a paper recently read before the any school girl can do it" Be That Your Croat! In a conversation about his Western and Southern trip Lord Lymington, a member of the English nobility, told a reporter of the New York World that he stumbled at a railway station on a gentle- French Academy of &iem^,~Professor ' ^an who <:x,libiUH\ a most ingenuous Fort gave some startling instances of the efficacy of artificial respiratiou. A three- year-old child had apparently died, and was considered as to have passed over to the majority of three and a half hours. At the end of that time Professor Fort set up artificial respiration and kept up the process for four hours, when the child returned to life. A person had been under water for ten minutes, and was evidently drowned. Dr. Fourncl, of Billancourt, however, after four hours of labor, managed to make natural succeed artificial breathing, and so re­ animated his patient Iu some instances artificial respiration will be found of great efficacy in removing poison from the lungs and glands. In any case of asphy&ia hope should not l>e abandoned until hours of trial of artificial respira­ tion gives no enoouraging result A Hint to Embezzlers. They were talking it over iu a restaur­ ant Said the first: "So you have come down to make a settlement aud try for a new start?" "Yes." "How bad was the failure?" "Well, I think I can pay forty cents on the dollar, but perhaps not more than thirty-five." "It was all owing to your partner, you said." "Yes, he raised money on onr oompany note, aud slid." "That was bad. He must have been a thorough rascal. Have you made any effort to overhaul bim ?" "No." "But you will?" "No." "Are you going to permit such a rascal as that to roam the country un­ punished ?" "I think I shalL He has almost ruined me, in a business sense, aud yet I can't help but feel grateful to him. When he slid he took my wife with him!" | The other looked at him for half a minute, nodded his head, and l>egan on his steok without a word and with a look of dumb Buffering in his eyes. He had no partner, poor man! -- Cincinnati Gazette: thirst for information concerning the British i>eerage. "Pray how did he manifest this?" Lord Lymington--Oh, very civilly. He introduced himself to me very kiudly on learning that I was a trav. ler and an Englishman, aud offered me the hospi­ talities of the town. It was very oblig­ ing of him, but unfortunately I could not stay, so we kad a chat while I was waiting for the* train. During this chat his eye fell on a portmanteau of mine which I had caused to be m'arked for convenience sake and easy identification with the cabalistic figures 120. This he scanned for some time with ill-concealed euriosity, and finally turning to me said rather abruptly: "If I am not mistaken, you are a nobleman, are you not?" J admitted that such was my unhappy lot. "Then," said ho, "I presume that num­ ber there on your valise is what they call in the nobility armorial bearings, is it not? Iu fact, your crest?" "Hardly that," I modestly replied. "A number is only borne as a crest, I behove, by much more illustrious persons; for exam­ ple, the Beast in the Apocalypse." "Oh," he replied, and then after juedi- tating a moment or two, asked: ' 'Have your 'oTnilw luun Inner in Wnnln-JV' "Yes 'use. | attacks the individual some ol' •'Perhnrj, -unto '^° thnie first 'hey i , you fth? 1)U and > at i ly American; 145 have been in the hands of the police. THF.BE is a man in Newark, N. J., so close that when he attends church he occupies the pew farthest from the pulpit to save the interest on his money while the collectors are passing the plate for contributions. THE stages and theatres of tho Greeks and Romans were so immense that the actors, to be heard, were obliged to have recourse to metallic masks, contrived with great mouths, to augment the natural sound of the voice. A GENTLEMAN in Buckingham County, Va., has among his domestic animals a large rat, which was caught twelve months ago by a cat; but, instead of devouring it, the cat nursed and fed it, and they now play and sleep together, like cat and kitten. A SAD story is related by the Pittsyl­ vania (Va.) Tribune. A young man in that county bought a house, fitted it up from garret to cellar and purchased his wedding outtit But the wedding didn't take place. On the day fixed the bride married another fellow. TUB Milwaukee Sun speaks of a per­ son who "turned as pale as the ace of spades." We always supposed the nee of spades was red, and was hard to distin- tinguish from the jack of--diamonds, as we believe that card is called where the figure wears a orown.--Xorristown Her- aid. ANOTHREB of the Bine Laws in ye olden time was: "No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverentially to and from meeting. No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cnt hair or shave on the Sabbath day. No woman shall kiss her child ou. the Sab­ bath or fasting day." IT is a melancholy fact that crystal £alaces do not pay. That at Sydenham as been a financial failure, and now the Alexandria Palace, on the northern heights of London, with its beautiful park of four hundred and seventy acres, is announced for sale. The expense of keeping up these places is so large as to absorb all the profits. VIOTOB HUGO wrote to those friends who fixed a.commemorative tablet on the house at Besancon where he was born: "I thank my fellow-countrymen with profound emotion. I am a stone of the thoroughfare humanity traverses, but it is the right road. Man is master neither of his life nor his death. He can only offer his fellow-citizens his efforts to diminish human suffering, and to Bhow his unshakable belief in the extension of freedom." A NEW HAVEN brute saturated cotton with alcohol, tied it to a dog's tail and then set fire to it. The dog started on the run to go under the brute's barn. Then it d du't seem BO funny to the brute. He madly howled at the dog and ran after him, but before he could over­ take the animal it got under the barn, but somehow the cotton went out and didn't set the barn on fire. This was poetic justice. Barn was insured for twice its value. "thatiardshlps you 1 ov" *trimo..y, aud v. , led l ife. A Remarkable Monument. 7 A correspondent of the New York Evening Post says Baltimore has what no other city in the world, save Geuoa, possesses--a monument to Christopher Columbus; and although the monument was built almost a century ago, very few m-ii^7lTeaus know °f its existence. It I . ..... n :l" u,l property known as "Belmont." Eng- | give liiin ami In* kind plainly t| cot n'ry residence of the elder stand that even in the ruml |,, yf hotel fame, and within a there Is a refinement worthy of the fortifications built respect i*t the hand? or raiheifera'. ^ ^e defense of , .. ... . , "M"® in 1861. There seems to bo mouth* nl public n.eak«r*. pi ^ vet known about it " f ibey claim to preach Chjthat the property from 1789 until as we ly peace ( ill rough hiui crucified. Min - is owned' and occupied by the first I Consul to this country--Charles ^ Adrian de Paulmier, Chevalier 'tr. The monument, which is a itial aud well-proportioned shaft let iu height, is built of brick, cov NUNOA. EDITOR PLAINDEALKK:--Sn| and a prospect of mure. like to inquire if this thing #ith a rough coat of piaster, and is wheat,cstilr>-B£'«t.! 1'UKcV 1!\MiLi.""1 'F°t°nou*. pxcellent state of preservation, ex- man. tramping in the opposite clad in rags, and carrying his scanty ef­ fects on his back. To their " chaffing" he listened with perfect good nature, and then dryly replied, "That's all right, lioys--that's all right; / went into Lead- ville with my store clothes on, and on top of a cc»3h." - • ? No Fascinations In I' have seen, says Nature, a guinea- pig, after finding no place of exit from the cage, quietly settle itself down in the midst of the coils of an Australian con­ strictor, shut its eyes and go to sleep. Ten minutes afterward the snake moved and the guinea-pig was waslung its face with its paws. Not once, but a dozen times, a rabbit has nibbled the nose of a River Jack viper (rhi­ noceros) in a pretty, inquiring way, heedless of the Btrong blows the reptile would administer with its snout to the ftnpertiuent investigator of that queer- looking object For fully ten minutes one day a rabbit sat gazing at the poised and threatening head of a puff adder, now and thea reaching forward to smell the reptile's nose, and ancru sitting on its hind legs to wash its ears, and again returning to the " fascinating " object of its inquiries. " ' ' ASSWM: IMUnrwri. rwtM, A WU« peach In tb« orchard mr-- A lilt). r«ach U MMraid hu<% A HtUe boy, ho dlmei the fenc- And took that pescb from heoc to thme*. - Dttrvtt Fret 1' k* such i Mil lie Mia lira nerer «tr*' * erwn agtiB. --Richmond ( Va.) BHm did forward prance, Aadtuatchea a bite (torn that -- Cltmlmmi W He Joyful aanc In homeward But iatec grappiad with iaftnt oo ks. ^ _ . B0. An* thajr (&• b*^' ' ^ HU torn bet one bore the let ten tirrmr; # Ho more tha woojahed aud the var." 1 -Peri* TranteH**. ' ,, Cil0 **t.a prt*n, ere»n pench, inatgtowa away oui beyomt ymir ie:uh. " THIS firet "Mother." PITH A5P POljrc. lady in the land1 AN unpaid note often riaes up in ment r. i .if A THE railroad If, during that time, the i "*8 business. does a flomhh rabbit had fallen into the state of trance, it was so soon released from that condi­ tion as to lie able to attend to its own comfort and busy itself abont its toilet The birds show no more recognition than the other animals of the dangerous posi­ tion in which they are placed. We see them hoppiug alx>uf. on the snakes, and picking lustily at their scales; sitting on the branches preening their feathers and behaving themselves just as though no such dreadful (or pleasing?) sensation as "fascination" was possible. I saw " If blood will tell, a mosquito shondft be confessing nearly all the time. GOUATH was the first person ikot wore a bang on his forehead. TUB retired prize-fighter generally" keeps a bar, showing the sorrowl of tntf fittest WHEW YON say that a girl'S hair is ' black as coal, it is just as well to specify that yon do not mean a red-hot coal. MANITOBA ought either to come into, the Union and shut the door behind, once a sparrow perched upon the body j her or stay out and keep her blizearda of a snake twisted round a branch aud to herself. preening itself. By andbyconstrictor "IF I punish you," said amammato ! crept up slowly, touched the bird with * her little gfrl, "you don't suppose I do so for my pleasure, do you?" "Then whose pleasure is it for, dear " " EUGENIE, Eugenie, will you still in* sist on wearing tho hair of another wom-v an upon your head ? " " Alphonso, Al- phonso, do you still insist upon wearing Husband and Wife in Law. The wife has been much advanced by the general tenor of the legislation of late years in respect to her own projx-rtv. She has acquired a pre'.ty ind pen lent position as to title, control and dispo­ sition, but this relates to her property, not to his. The law has not yet raised her to the station of superintendent of her husband's contracts, and probably never will. He is bound to support her and "he childr -n whieh slieb ars to him, and iu order to fultill this obli.crati m he ought to have as much freedom in the management of his business a if airs of (the world as unmarried men are allowed exercise. In taking a wife a man d e ncft put himself under an overseer. H a subordinate in his own family, _ but the liehtLof it Th'> law assigns him recovered and'could and did walk three j this position, hf>| for his own advantage miles. ' alone, but as much for the real LOIXI of the penile of tha Northwest claim that the new process makes their hitherto in­ ferior wheat the most valuable in the world. Burr stones are things of the past _:d Hungarian steel rollers have taken their place. These rollers are abont thirty inches long aud eight iuchcs iu diameter, it takes five sets of steel rollers to finish the flour. Each set of rollers run closer than the preceding. After the wheat passes each set of rollers it is bolted or sifted through course cloth. This cloth lets the disintegrated par­ ticles of wheat through aud p.isses off the bulky and larger pieces, which are run through another aud a closes set of rollers and cracked ajjain. The last rollers have little else but wheat hulls and wa*y germs of wheat, whieh do not crack uj», but Bmash down like a piece of wax. Tho germ of a kernel of wheat . not good food. It makes flour black. Wy the old millstone process this waxy germ was ground up with tho starchy Jiortion and bolted through with the lour. By tho new system of oracling the kernel instead of grinding it this germ is not ground, but flattened out and sifted or Ixilted out, while the starchy portions of the wheat are crushed into ix»wdered wheat or flour. All the big mills of Minneapolis now manufacture by the new process. fcSpt \^here the cement has been chipped off by visitors. On one side of the base is a marble tablet with this inscription: BACKED to the MEMORY of CHKIS COBUMBU8, Oct XII MDCCVIIIC. Which means 1792, three hundred years after Columbus sighted America. On two other sidee of the base are places left for tablets, which have never been inserted. Th>" legend is that the French Consul built this monument at an ex­ pense of £800, the brick's for it having been imported. It has long l>eeu cur­ rent among tho poor jieoploof the neigh­ borhood that the monument was erected to the memory of a favorite horse, but it is not very likely that a man would be quite so eccentric as to expend $4,000 for such a purpose. How He Went Info LeadTille. During tbe first Leadvillo excitement tho hi<-nn8 of transportation thither were • axed to their utuirwt capacity, an 1 the sta/es rolled slowly over the high passes a«id into the camp, laden with ex-ited aid expectant passengers. One day such a coach load met a forlorn-looking its nose, and then threw the crushing folds around it The deliberate approach of the snake and the unconscious atti­ tude of the sparrow, concerned about its private affairs, would have staggered an ordinary believer in "fascination." I have closely watched the behavor of snakes inteat ou feeding. It may be a sudden rush, when the victim has no time to see its enemy, or the gradual, lazy Advance of the reptile; in either case the doomed victims betrays no suspicion of danger, at least so far as I have lieen able so ascertain after passing some hun­ dreds of hours contemplating tho snakes iu the unequaled representative collec­ tion of the zoological society. The Chicago Maiden. "But papa--" " Not another word. I'm a wild-cat when my back's up, and don't you forget it" The speaker was a hard-visaged man, dressed with an elegance that ill-accorded with his evident want of culture. She who addressed him a» "papa" was a fair- haired girl of eighteen summers. Reared ou the kneqof luxury, she had never known what it was to have her slightest wish thwarted. Her father, a plumber, was, from the nature of his business, a man of iron will, but he was not devoid of pity or generosity, as many a debtor whose house and lot he had taken in part payment of fixing the water pipes, letting the balance of the account run along for two months, oould testify. He had sur­ rounded Cecil, his only child, with all that wealth could purchase, looking for­ ward to the time wheu she would marry the eldest son of a Niagara Falls haok- man, or some person of fortune eommen- surtfte with her own. But she had al­ lowed her heart to be ensnared by the wiles of Cupid, and that morning had asked her sire's consent to her marriage with a poor but 'toot proud young man whose agricultural operations oh the Board of Trade had not been attended with success. It was this request that produced the answer given above. Again Cecil pleaded with her parent not to crush the love that blossomed in her heart. The old man's mind went back to the happy days wheu he told her mother of his love, and how they com­ menced life with nothing but strong arms and willing l»earts. Placing his tan-like hand ou Cecil's shoulder, the old looked at her tenderly and Bnid: "Look ye, my lass. You say you love this man, and cannot live without him. Mebbe not I have promised you a seal­ skin sacque this winter. Let us teat your love. If you become this man's bride I shall Hot buy the sacque. In my hand is a check for $300. In the wheat E)it over on the Board of Trade is your over; which do you choose?" Without raising her head' she reached out convulsively for the oheck. --Chicago Tribune. Jay Gould. Jay Gould is forty-five years of age, but looks younger. There is a slight tiuge of gray upon his bfltck beard, and his high, full forehead and sharp, dark eyes, attract notice. His friends say that within a year or two ho has changed his method of doing business, when he used to manipulate stocks altogether. They say he is now exclusively engaged hi the establishment and management of great telegraph and railway enterprises. But it won't do to rely wholly upon the ap­ parent stillness of the man who holds the stock market by the throat, and can choke sheckles out of it whenever he hap­ pens to be in the mood. Some twenty years ago Mr. Gould married a Miss Miller, whoso father was of the firm of Dater & Co., grocers. They ljave rtix children. Mr. Gould is eminently a man of habits. At the close of business he rides home, takes diuner with the family, aud passes the evening ia his study. In this room are his telegraphic operator and private secretary. Private wires ena­ ble him to communicate with his broker and aids at all hours of the day and night No man works harder than he. Wine and tobacco are forbidden guests. Beading and looking at his magnilioent pictures are his only recreation. He is a generous, open-hearted huge-minded, unostentatious man. To his family Mr. 1 Gould is devotedly attached. He rarely travels either for business or pleasnre, unless accompanied by some of his chil­ dren. They have anything and every­ thing thev wont, and do just as they please. Mr. Gould is at ail times the plainest of men. The California Beet Sugar Industry. Beet sugar manufactories iu California seem to be experiencing a greater de­ gree of prosperity than has heretofore fallen to their lot Prices are more re­ munerative, competition lesa urgent, and, by reason of careful management, the field of sacharine matter appears to re­ turn a greater percentage of sugar than has been the case in past seasons. Nor do we hear any oomplaints as to the quality of their out-put About 2,000 barrels per month are now said to be turned out by the two beet-root sugaries now in operation in that State. The San Francisco Grocer, in referring to the subject, says: "Nothing can be more eutirely a home product than beet sugar, and while lookiug about fbr opportuni­ ties to develop profitable local enter­ prises, we know of notliing better en­ titled to the consideration of capitalists than this industry." the skin of another calf upon your feet : A FINANCIALLY-MINDED youth got up ' the following verse in a Detroit Sunday- school : ShovM »U the baaka at Snflaad break, Should England's lunk l>e smnfcheiL Brlns in Tonf cbecka to Ztcn'a bank, And you will get them coahed. LORD HOLLAND told of a man re*l«rk- able for absence of mind, who, dining once at some sort of shabby repast,, fan-' cied himself in his own house and ' to apologise tor the wretohedneaa of tha dinner. A GALVESTON widow is about to marry, her fifth husband. Her pastor rebuked her for contemplating matrimony e® soon again. "Well, I just want you to understand, if the Lord keeps on taking them I will, too," was the spirited reply. --GalvcsUm News. * . THE boast of a newspaper giving ths fullest account of a late revolting specta­ cle reminds us of what a campaign: .speaker admitted of a political opponent: " He can dive deeper, stay under longer, and come up nastier than any i»*n lever heard of."--New York Mail. THE Milwaukee Sun speaks of a spn "who turned as pale as the ace ot spades." We always supposed the aca " of spades was red, and was hard to dis- " tingjiish from the jack of--of--diamonds, as we believe that card ia called whew the figure wears a crown. --Nori isiuwu Herald. " Yoo did wrong to shoot that man'*, dog. You might nave pushed him of with the butt of your gun," said tl Galveston Recorder to a man who wa _ charged with shooting a neighbor's dog.**' "I would have done that," replied tbr. prisoner, "if tho dog had come at m<%^. , tail first, but became at mo.with hia biting end." IT has become customary in Galveston to refer all commercial troubles to tha Cotton Exchange. A few days ago A prominent merchant slipped up ou a ba­ nana-peel with the usual results. Ho sat up on the wet pavement, and, look­ ing at the slippery peel, said : " If f knew what hyena put that peel there r«r have him up before the Cotton Exchanger •' • for impairing my standing on thai street"--Galveston News. A GENIAL mistake : New beauty (on*-. versed as yet in the mysteries of high, life)--"Who's that wonderful old gen­ tleman ?" The Captain--4' Sir Digby da Rigby, a Hnmi>shire Baronet, one of the oldest in England; James the Firstfe creation, you know." New beauty (de- ' termined to be surprised at nothing)-- " Indeed ! How well preserved he is ! I shouldn't have thought him more' than 70 or 80." SHE was a big, buxom lass, and when her small beau called one evetiing she ' said: ** Good evening, Lily." "I'm no lily," he replied, surprised at the idea ; "you're the lily; men are never lilies." " Yes, sometimes they are, and you es- ' peciaHy are a lily. "How's thatf " Lilliputian." He then looked as if he ' wished he were an elephant." U DON T talk to ma ? I would liavo you to koow The pleasure1* been min* all through Ufo A To be my own boa?-- But then you, of course. Wont niKutioti tliia fact to ru'y wife. -- Yonbert Statesman. SUNDAT a little girl came home from church and failed to repeat - the text to her mother as customary. The good - mother cast her deep, expressive eyes reproachfully to her regretful child. " How could I, mamma, remember such a long text, when every lady in the con­ gregation had on a brim' new dress that was too sweet for anything ? Oh, mam­ ma, you'd ought to have been to church !" And all thoughts of the text were forgotten as she described what aha saw to her loving mother. Whisperings for Bachelors. None but the married man has a home in his old age; none has friends then hot ho; none but he lives and freshens in his green old age, amid the affections of wife and children. There are no teanl shed for the oH bachelor; there ia no one in whose eyes he can see himself reflected, and from whose lipa he can receive the unfailing ' assiuauces of care and love. No, the old bachelor may be tolerated for his money; he may eat and drink and revel as such do; and he may sicken and die in a hotel or a garret with plenty of at- » tendants about him, like so many cormorants waiting for their prey; but where are the moistened eye, aud gentle hand, and loving hps that ought to re­ ceive his last farewell? He will never know what it is to be loved, and to liv» ard die amid a loving circle. He wittlj#y>« t to from this .world, ignorant of the de- ^ i lu'hts of the domestic fireside, and on the records of humanity his life ia noted --a blank. ; IF a woman really loves her husband, and enjoys his society, she can find a ; way to keep him home evenings. Let her get somebody to hint to him that a young man calls very often of an eveviing - at his house, and he'll plant '•••yrtf i»» the i>arlor right after supper, and: think of going out