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A -flMiKAB' on tly street, _ vwINM 4nMi> f»c« we Mur» In «ac it ir.iirt ~ j/ ' ' • t": *:'4/ -fr.<•.'-: t •_•* i'j CsStA; :K m • > ' . , t £ r % •:is0> ^ V ; f~ &!!•' Ewr hwua Hf*> * mystery, ,ir. ,,\_F*r txtytt**11 mortal *«•} ? JEvcry human life * hist<®R _ -, Worthy of a poet's pert. ,U v s^jRt«ry human life a •"• ii?M" f, Or a sorrow; all Its owii§ k"^f , -Every human life a story i ' One can fully know al<Ntt| V ftj'T- ('NKvcrr hnman life a beanto", ;• . That no other eye can vMVf lh"V: .* jEverv human life a dirty ^ • ••'• ' That no other life cam ifc . pt'. *4- <• * \ M: jlnd the yearning, and thel»»gH| . For the loTe, and tor tM ligliU,, K' juod the lore, and the forsaking, ^ " And the passion, and the pala« jV ,. .And the sleep, and the awaking : %. , *•*<•> And the wufal sleep again. i\\ • And the something, oh I py bTotii* 'fi In your heart as well as mln^ ' •hat we do not toll «*ck othtr, ' i Be it demon, or divin*! "Ml. k arled deep, and i ! Bid from men, Mt kaon ts I pwanted inly, lemon, Mtt'iNi •i niu imm u :* divine, re* ::M But if aemi ' V « %.4- *m a jlatan's rad, far tver scMtgtag £*$*» fi With a deep aad tantec mr; .. .. Matan's rod, for erer mgfog On hi* victims to dmiatr. ; SECET THOUGHT* *»D PASSIQH ̂ jw Buried it each dwjp: jjphanfring with «ach Siting f«MM) Know no real, and »rk s» stoegt^' ' ' mm with stern and reared featB^Kr; ISstUing with life's cruel tide; . />?• • Jlckl!> fortune's jaded croaturea .;• BmKIw vkit shall next totM%. - (few aloagr with looks defiant, SProad and stubborn as of old-- / tJFUl not bend the knee suppliant T* U* world so proud ana cold. ' <BfciMr»o wish their pmlling fa<xM% jV, Full of innocence and glee; «"f «iftw> sunny graces, i'- Merry, happy, blithe and free,, }»«• the long prweesslwi i \ Eret passing on the street, >pr in the lond possesdw, ' the l»ve of aU they meet! ' "j|ad of face and consclou»-»tricke% ' See that j Ah t hbdai See that young man passing th4M| h! bis dangers quickly thicken. All bis pats is strewn with car# iik ,• imj;aft tiCany a secret tin and Borrow i Doth his sin-stained conscience nd be fears lest each to-morrow, ~!ring his retribution down I * |Hd and young, and tray and nallik; ,iPw in neTer-endlng stream, ^hile the mind of each Is laden, With the burden of a dream. . , 'earns of riches, joys, and |ili n IIIIM, ,-fS Thoughts of lore, or hopes of fame; ffrnstotts cares for hoarded treasuma ' Flush of pride, or qualm of siuHMf 'his the oft-repeated story, ! c>* Borne along the crowded way: " " filn and shame, and fame and gloM) ::s Side by side pursue their way .If; j j, -*7*^; - • < ,»'»^Tisa drama always changing; < " But the wonder and the woe, ^ '• *«'"»*• •>* "ifPen the guardian angels ranging. »• »j ^ Through the ether, scarce can now . « - 1 ' , f * ' • ! i . o p o n t h e t m i e n u a a , • • • • i ; k Of the pewem on the street; lt, > v« 9 * ' i4nd In erery fhce a drama TB UTILB I0BI09 lilMEBT ANT. A f { \ ̂ /' 'M | When we came lo lite as GtabtilM = aBMmg the Mormons in Utah, the first | difficultj we met alter establishing oar | household, was in finding servants, | Hie first oook we hired, at exorbitant | wages, was a Chinaman; but as these I Celestials have neither godliness nor the | nttxt thing to it, my wife soon discharged | Mm, and I came home one evening to I find that he had packed np his things | --and a good many of ours--and was I gone. We had a young Ghina-boy for hoose- timself to maid, bat be allowed himsel be in- ̂teeaopd ĵ to d»jhM®»d fell°w-s«T- m r_y-" '*• Wi ••J* t, ' \ r^'-v *a ,f • ' ••j,. *4, .. ..... ant and took French leave the next day. Misfortunes never oome singly, nor go ̂wxfe now began to walk the town M over in search of a girL Women-serv- 'M ants, especially young girls, it is diffi- .Ji colt for'Oentile families to procure in S aoine mrts of Utah, particularly in jg towns off the railroads, wnere the Mor- f|l saoas retain their great prejudice against || tte 'foreigE element,4 as the Gentiles are called, and rarely allow their 5*". "1 ' ' ̂•4aught>a« to go oat to mrvim in Gen- familieSj lor fear the young saints 5,"/ ' * 1 T will be estranged from the church, or ^ ecmtaminftted by the world's people," . l^.as the Mormons'express it BesidcMS, « ibm are not manyyonng girls in the V J* ' ̂ Monnon church. They are advised to ̂3narry young, and Mormon men are en- $1 '» eoBffagrf, to marry a number of wives. 51 , Tbe mora wives each man takes the i%}il ̂ .T,": greater Ms power in the churoh. x - B«: my wile's search f o r a servant • ̂repaid by introducing her to the i'.«" - . ' quaint lateriors of a number of Mormon houses to which she had been advised to go, and for several days we had little conversation at meals beside a descrip­ tion of these interiors; and they were not always appetizing. Some of the hotiBea to which her search led her were the homes of Soan- * . ' *< dinavian converts to Mormonism, houses ' of one room, built either of rough, red granite boulders, or of dull adobes; inside carpeted with loose straw; the little square -windows curtained with short white conventual curtains, gathep- ed on rods at the top and bottom. In many instances a shelf is hinged agalUst tne wall, and serves as a cloth- less dinner-table, atrd can afterwards be dropped flat against the wall by folding its prop9 thus making more soom in the hampered quarters. Some of these houses are enclosed by -rush-woven fences, made of switches braided horizontally between upright posts. These fences, looking like the woven willow cradles in texture give a foreign appearance to the streets they border, and are so close-weft that a child could not find an aperture large enough to thrast its little hand through to pluck the flowers inside. But the queer fences seemed also to guard the young girls in the families as well as they did the flowers, and my wife was unsuccessful in her search. The Mormon mothers all told her there had been a rule recently made in the church that all young girls under the age of (nxteen, instead of going out to service, must go to school, for the Mormons hate educational establishments, but they are schools where "knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers," being mere instruments for the diffusion of Mormon doctrine. ' At last, after days ot fruitless effort, we found at our very door that for which we had searched far and wide. It chanced that t"he Mormdn Bishop, from whom we rented our house, lived ||l a rambling house of rough and red granite, next door to us. He had built Bis houses on adjoining lots, and had a wife and family living in each house ; t>f * ; 54 \.h X 'M$--: =w ssC a? $jV- laBdlor&a wafe offist witt^ *laai£t(QBe of her ttai&evMa and ill-Bupported dangklats flit the situation. Hair first thought was tlttt the woman made the offer simplyto oblige us temporarily, and die iyas about to decline it with thank*, when, after % glanoe over the poverty- stricken room, she oonoluded that the ofltWM from pecuniary neoeaaity in­ stead of pure kind-heartedness, and at oooe closed the bargain. Apparently this Bishop pinohed his firat wife's fam­ ily to indulge the seoond wife's, for he was a man of some consideration in the ohoroh, and must have had means to support one family well. When I returned home that evening I frnind a young " Saint" established in the place of our departed Oelostial. It seemed to give our little Mormon rl delight so disproportioned in effect the cause that she was questioned by one of the children, why she seemed BO happy. She answered that if she had hot got a home with us, she was about to have been obliged by her father to go to live with his secoha wife, where woe would have had hard work: would have lived in the country, whioh she disliked, and would have received no wages. In the poorer Mormon families it is onstomP arv for the first wife and her children to become virtually servants to the second wife and her children. The children of one wife call all the other wives ot their father " Aunt." Our little Mormon maid's name was Julie. She speedily became a great favorite with the children of our family who ate with her at the second table, and learned from her some primitive taWe manners. At dinner, on her first evening in our service, the children dis­ covered that it was against the rules of the Mormon church to drink either tea or coffee, and Julie never tasted either hile she lived with us. On the first Sunday night Julia was with us, she was undressing the younger children in the nursery while their mother was hearing them recite their catechism. One of the children was asked-- " Paul, who made yon f * • And he answered "God.* The next question in the cate^ismis *" Are there more God's than one ?" „ And again he answered properly, "No, 'there is but one God." At this Julie looked np astonished, End as if thinking Paul's oatechiser was abstracted and allowing him to recite wrong. Julie said, timidly : '"Paul an- twered that question wrong, ma'am." 68What must I say?" lisped Paul, be­ wildered. Julie answered. "Ton must say, Tes, there are many Gods."* Paul's mother protested againit her boy's learning this false doctrine, and .Julie protested that it was true, and as Eroof, went to her room and brought out er well-worn Mormon catechism as an /Bnd to the controversy; pointing to the Question, the answer was truly as she nad said, "There are many Gods." Mor- 1 monism teaches a plurality of Gods as well as wives. Julie endeared herself to the children, for she had that first qualification of a good nurse--she was a fine story teller. By the hour she would entertain the lit­ tle folks, and their mother,, too, with quaint tides of her old home in Sweden; wonderful, fairy-like stories of the baroness to whom Julie's mother was dressing-maid until a Mormon mission­ ary had converted her. She. related gruesome tales of how her father and mother, after crossing the ocean to this country, walked with an emigrant train across the prairies from Omaha to Salt Lake, aL-d of the adventures they met in this three months' walk. Julie delighted in taking the children out airing, and brought them home with their hands full of wild flowers, some of which have received curious One, a yellow, daisy-like flower. Julie said was called the " Mormon biscuit," because when the first Mormons who came into Salt Lake Valley ran out of provisions while waiting for their first crop, they were obliged for a while to live on the roots of this weed in lien of bread. The children went one Sunday after­ noon to the Mormon Tabernacle with Julie. The communion consisted of broken briad and water, and was dis­ tributed indiscriminately among the peo­ ple assembled, both to Mormons and strangers. Little babes received it. When they came home from church, little Paul provoked the good tempered Julie by innocently asking if the women ,sat on one side of the-aisle and the men on the other, so the several wives of each man would not quarrel about which one would sit next to the husband. Julie seemed very anxious to prose­ lyte asid make us converts to Mormon­ ism. She said to my wife, one day, in a burst of gratitude after receiving some slight favor from her, 44 Oh, ma'am, you are .too good and kind to be a Gentile." Heir mistress suggested that she would not like to divide her husband amon several more wives; but Julie answe: shaking her head sorrowfully-- "Oh, Gentile ladies are so jealous. Don't you know the more wives a man takes, the higher np he goes in Eternal Glory, and carries them up with him? If a man has but one wire, when they die they only go to the mooBe but each plural wife will take him to a higher star in 'Glory.'" This argument may indicate a belief that the more a man suffers on earth, the greater will be his reward hereafter. Julie, however, saw that my wife cared to go no further than the moon, and eeased trying to move her from her iuuucy. It is a common saying among Gentiles that Mormons are taught it is no harm to steal from Gentiles; that rather it is good to punish their "heresy" by worrying them in every possible way, and that to steal from them is praise­ worthy ; but we found little Julie per­ fectly honest, and she only left us to be­ come the fourth wife of an old bishop, who was already married to a widow and her twin daughters.--K. D. Forgeron in Youths' Companion. xiixim THS qoestiaa whether .angar sad svrap oan be profitably manufactured from sorghum has passed the experimental stage, and has been answered in the affirmative. Tn ana of wheat culture in Switzer­ land ia rapidly depressing. In fact, the country raises bat two-fifths of the p mount annually oonsumed, leaving the remainder to be imported mainly from the United States, Russia, and Austro- Hungary. " Wooi. growing and spinning in Bussia is almost universal, being as much, if not more, of a home industry than a factory business. Almost every peasant keeps a few sheep, whose wool seldom enters commerce, bat is span and con­ sumed at home. IN NEW YORK cheese designed for ex­ port is made so that it is ready tor mar­ ket when thirty to forty days old. At this stage a cutting from the cheese triers' iron will mash down soft and plastic when tried between the thumb and finger. This test, and a clean flavor and cheesy taste, full and rich, are what cheese-mongers require as marketable goods. A NHW YOBK inventor, writing to one of the milling papers, says that his patent process of forcing oxygenated air through damp, musty, or unsound wheat Bill completely dry it and removes all traces of unsoundness in eight hours, at an expense of $5 per 1,000 bushels. The "claim" is, perhaps, much too im­ portant, but if it is realized to one-half or one-third of its extent, the process will be exceedingly valuable. AGENT.* of the large dairy produoe houses in Normandy, Franco, attend the local markets, buy the butter from the farmers, who in their own interest at­ tend to rules laid down by the buyers. It is then carted to the stores or facto­ ries and then put through a machine, so that instead of having 1,000 different lots, varying from twenty to fifty pounds each, they turn but many tons per day of precisely the same sample. This, in­ stead of being packed in baskets,, rough cloths and perhaps newspapers, is put into boxes, each hofding twenty-four pounds, in two-pound rolls, neatly made and prepared, and presenting remarka­ ble uniformity in appearance. IN THE purchase of seeds the Royal Agricultural Soeiety of England recom­ mends that purchasers should require a guarantee in accordance with the follow­ ing standard: 1. That the bulk be true to the species ordered. 2. That it oon- tain not more than five per cent of seeds other than the species ordered. 3. That the germinating power shall be, for cereals, green crops, clovers, and tim­ othy grass, not less than ninety per oent.; for foxtail, not less than twenty per cent.; and for other grasses not less than seventy per cent. The soeiety also recommends that the purohase of pre­ pared mixtures be avoided, and that the different, seeds to be sown should be purchased separately. CONCERNING the raising of potatoes from sprouts: A pound of early pota- tatoes was taken and allowed to spirt (sprout) freely. From each potato a spirt was broken, and potatoes and spirts were then planted in separate rows. Both grew well, and the following is the result of the experiment; from the spirts, which weighed in all, half an an ounce, five pounds five ounces of sound potatoes have been obtained, and from the pound of potatoes, five pounds four ounces, showing a slight balance in favor of the spirts. The spirt potatoes were the more regular in shape, the earlier in growth. ON THE subject of sowing of corn for ensilage, O. B. Potter writes: I have tried both ways of planting corn, and I do not know which is the best. If I could be insured against its being blown down by hard winds, I wonld sow it broadcast. For the last two or three years I have sown it in drills. I don't think you get as muoh from the acre when sown in drills as when sown broad­ cast, but it stands up and resists the wind better. Very much depends upon the season and the nature of the cross. That is my experience.. I have tried different varieties of corn and I confess that I have a strong prejudice in favor of sweet corn--mammoth sweet corn. I find my cattle eat it more readily give more milk than when fed upon the ordinary Southern corn. I don't think I get as much stalks as from Southern corn, but I get as much milk. THB Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland has ascertained by experiments that an ounce of red top seeds contains 425,000 grass, and of timothy, 74,000. Of more practical importance was the fact shown that th egreatest number of seeds of timothy germinate at a depth of one- fourth of an inch. "Only one-half the number sown," says the report, "germi­ nated at a depth of one inch, and none at a depth of two inches. Orchard-grass seed at two and one-fonrth inches. The proper depth was indicated at one-fourth of an inch. The result of the experi- rendering of tTie rtennnmi gte?, Wag<* fUe Gulteau case, by the Court of let the nnauimou* approval of Ire bir. Mr. Cha*. Ke«d is seek- tnake notoriety for himself by advantage of every imaginable to prolong the existence of the ble assassin. All such efforts will unavailing. Guiteau will pnv tlie y of Ills awful crime, and when done, the last chapter in tftis tragedy will go into history, ruiit that the nation may be its repetition. Twice In a score but jealousy sprang up between the two |>* has oiw tfouatry given as inar- wives, and the Bishop removed the y .youngest and favorite wife to the coun- toy. and rented to us her vacated house. One morning, while we were still with- •out.a servant, my wife chanced to in^A tifof tinf/\'n U„ into the Bishop's first wife's house, next door, to see about having some repairs i made upon our house. Nothing but an •errand ever takes a Gentile lady into am of these Occidental harems. While there she happened to remark her great need •of a servant, and was muoh astonished «t the novel experience of having our r most honored and l>ve<1. Liu- nd Oarfleld, though deafl. ace (I will be in all the future an in^ II to noble purpose aud manly r. The Itiflneuce of *uoh pa- hres can never die,/ ' * es WLLI tiVE IN litftjffif, IFNFTFHFRTY /». CONCERNING the strongest New En gland factories an astimate is made that thejr pay an average of 7 per eent, oa the investment. ' ments in determining the germinating power of common field grasses corrob­ orates experience and militates against the practice of some farmers, who sow their grass seed with the grain and har­ row in. The proper way to sow grass seed is: After the grain has been har­ rowed in, cover with a light bush, or by passing over it with a roller, or if left upon a seed-bed it will germinate if not bushed at all." SUCCESS in growing garden vegetables lies in the generous application of manure. Fearing Burr relates the fol­ lowing experience of a neighbor in this connection: No movement was mad© towards the preparation of his ground till the month of June had well oome in. He found his stable Btocked abund­ antly, and he entered on his work with a determination that, for once at least, his ground should have enough. At the time of plowing the land was literally "crammed," as he expressed it, and when this was completed another dress­ ing almost as liberal was spread on the surface and harrowed in. Beside all this, he proceeded in the planting of his melons, squashes, etc., in the same man- on tli#r ner as had been his custom when no want | such application had been made. Holes fall to were formed in the usual way, filled from a* his stable, and so prepared for the seed. ey« . When the plants came up, they found manure in front and rear; it was to the right of the roots and to the left of the roots, and everything started on the ^,ot"jump. The twenty-third of July he had flrinatifon his table, as his memoranda showed. Fall SU peas, string-beans, beets, squashes, and Y on Ufmew potatoes, though his early peas had to suit «been previously served. It was a crop, as he affirmed, that in quantity and Umb«(lnalit.v hftd ne*er been equalled in his eat ^©xperiencc. e thf SAYS Georere Geddes in the New York | Tribune : Silos have been introduced Finer with 8.ac^ exaggerations of their good best st <lualitie8, that many men are going into Call atj th0 extreme of discrediting everything ' * »- said in their favor. But in the end it J feed should j»ot be so watery. Obe meal * day of S06culent food Is, ptirtuip, enough. Boots are used just beosnae th?y are valuable to feed in ooBBeetkm with dry hay, cornstalks and straw, but they cost too muoh, and are of too great nneartsinty as a crop. May not the plan of preserving green food in siloe meet this point? I have no idea thai the nutritions value of an acre of oorn is i&T wur increased bv ensilage. Fifty bushels of olilrnthat will weigh 3,000 pounds when ground into meal (no cobs included) and 4,000 pounds of well- oared stocks will go further in wintering stock than any otlmr product of an acre of land, produced at anywhere near the same oostj that I have seen. But cattle love a variety and some change in their food. Once a day some crop that has been preserved i* a condition very neatly as it was when first cut is very much liked by cattle, and cows give milk freely when they have such feed mixed with the usual dry fodder. This object may be secured by the silo, and I venture to suggest that this will be its HOUSEHOLD HELPflt I From the Detroit Free Press "Household."] OORN STABCETCAKE.--One cup of but­ ter, two cups sugar, two cups of oorn staroh, three eggs, one cup of mOk, two tablespoonsfols of baking powder; lemon or vanilla to taste.--Myrtle. LRMON PIS.--One cup sugar, butter lam as hickorynut; grate the outside and squeeze ont juice of one lemon ; stir together. Scald one cup milk, three eggs, one tablespoonful corn starch; then stir all together. Frost with whites. BtANO MANGE CAKB.--Whites of three eggs, butter size of a butternut, one cup of sugar, one-half cup of sweet milk, two tablespoonluls of baking powder. Flavor with lemon. Bake as for jelly on the pie and place in the oven till of a light brown. BRIM'S OAICB.--Two cups of granu­ lated sugar, one-half cap of butter, one cup of cold water, the whites of four eggs, three cups of flour, two tea poon- fuls of baking powder, one teaspoonfnlof vanilla. Stir the butter and sugar to­ gether well, and add the whites of the eggs, well beaten ; put in the water and when well combined, mix the flour with the baking powder. Now take about one-third of the mixture out on a plate, and stir into it one-half a teacup or more of red sugar; have ready your baking tin and put in the two mixtures alter­ nately, same as for marble cake, and you will have something both pretty and palatable. The first part of this recipe I took from The Household a number of years ago, but the latter part is some of my own experimenting. I will lay claim to a slice of the wedding oake when it is passed around. I was one of the principal actors at a wedding break- with water and soak over night, till it looks clear, then beat eggs, sugar and sago together; add the milk and enough grated nutmeg to taste. Bake or steam. If you wish frosting, beat white of an egg and sugar; spread over the top and set in the oven for a few minutes. The same recipe is good if made of tapioca. GINGER COOKIES.--Two cups molasses, one cup lard, two-thirds cup hot ooffee, one tablespoonful ginger, one large tea- spoonful soda, flour enough to make a stiff dough. The taste of ginger oookies miff be much improved by using coffee instead of water, there is almost always enough left for that after break­ fast, if not put a little water in the pot and let it boil for a minute or two.-- Marian Qrey. LEMON POE.--One tablespoonful of corn staroh with a little cold water; add tflree-fourths of a pint of boiling water, the grated rind and juice of one and a half lemons; out the lemon very fine, and add, also, one and a half teacups of white sugar, and the yolks of four eggs well beaten together; line a pie-dish with crust, put in the mixture and bake in a moderate oven. Then beat the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth, add two tablespoonfuls of white sugar, one tablespoonful of oorn starch, stir them into the eggs„ spread cake, then take yolks of three eggs, one oup of sweet milk, two tablespoonsful of corn starch, sugar and lemon to tsste. Cook till thick enough to spread between layers of cake. SAGO PUDDING.--One quart sweet milk, four eggs, four tablespoonfuls of sago, .one cup of sugar. Cover the sago fast where cake of this kind was served, made by the bride's own hands, and pro­ nounced good, of course.--Bay Shore. YANKEE BAKED BEANS.--Take a quart of beans {white ones are best), soak over night in cold water, boil next morning in same water until soft enough to eat; then skim out into bean-pot, put about one pound of fat salt pork in center of beans, one tablespoonful sugar, then cover with fresh water and bake until night. They want to bake slow and not in too hot an oven. We have them for supper; serve in bean-pot on table, they can then be set in the oven and warmed over as often as liked and they won't dry up. In our town the bakers sent out carts Sunday mornings with baked beans, brown bread and Indian meal paddings, so you see it is a favorite dish with us in Yankeedom. The bakers put them into their ovens at night so they bake all night and are warm in the morning when sent out. You may not know what a bean pot is; it is of brown earthen, flat bottom, small at top, with cover and handle; they can be baked in other deep dishes, but they bake too fast, and the -.aver ccuSiSw iu u»&mg iuern slow and a long time. We Yankees don't tWinfr them fit to eat, only in a bean pot-- Mermaid, Buzzard Bay, Mast. KlKOV, will probably be found that they have their uses. Fresh, juicy food is good to feed to cattle in the winter along with thejdryfodderusuaUyfed. ButsMtheir ~lVf* -f&WT- JV •v15*?-; v- i * .7} ivl A Licentious Judge. In Boston, Police Judge J. Wildei May discharged a young man from ar­ rest in the act of indecently assaulting a woman on the Common, at 1 o'clock in the morning, giving as a reason that a woman had no business to be out of doors at that hour. The woman's screams brought the police to the ground, and the indecent assault was both proved and admitted, and the man had nothing to offer in extenuation. The woman was crossing the Common, which was as well lighted as any of the streets, and is a short cut from a railway station. Women should erect a monument to that Judge. There are many necessities to compel poor and respectable women to go on foot in the night, when the horse cars are stopped. This infamous decision is that any man may ravish any woman whom life finds out of doors in the night. Even if she had not been respectable, the decision that any bawdy ruffian may assault her would be infamous all the same. What right had the man to be out at that hour? His assault proved that he was a street walker. If the women do not make it warm for this licensing and licentious Judge, they lack the persistence which they are accredited with. ASSAYS of several hundred million dol> lars' worth of the native gold of Cali­ fornia have shown an average proportion of 880 thousandths of pure metal. The Sold of Australia gives an average of 900 lousandtha. I- %r h rnmmm msckllajt. Pa. FIWJIOTT Cons' hew list of the birds ot North America mentions 888 species. Only about 500 were known in Audoboa's time. A LOVDOK medical offioer, Dr. Gib- boo, is authority for the statement that the Jews of London average twiee as kmg a period of life as the \3hristianB. Pulmonary consumption and scrofula are almost unknown among the Jews of the metropolis. Their children seem to suf­ fer less from disease than do those of the English and Irish Gentiles in the neigh­ boring localities. THE micro-telephone has been applied by the Count Yon Eugenberg, in the Tybol, to the discovenr of underground streams of water. He buries several microphones in the soil, connecting each with a telephone. With this arrange­ ment he is enabled, in the quiet of the night, to distinguish the gurgle of flow­ ing water at a considerable depth in the earth. PRorspsoB NCMU>ENSKJ<HU>, during his $ garotio voyages, was perplexed by the - 'question, what becomes of the bodies of Animals which die a natural deatL. He very seldom found such remains, and declared that on Spitsbergen it was easier to find vertebrae of monster ex­ tinct reptiles than the bones of the sesl, walrus or bird of the present day. The problem is yet unsolved, A DUBIOUS burial place was lately re­ vealed in New Zealand. An immense tree, supposed to be many centuries old, was blown down, and a large quantity of human bones was disclosed in the hol­ low interior, some of the skeletons being quite perfect. The existenoe of the cemetery was unknown to the Mooris of the vicinity, who assert that it mast date from a very ancient period. M. ARTHUR MORIN, of Paris, states that experiments continued for a number of years by garrisoned cavalry regiments in various parts of France have proved that horses are healthier and stronger when kept in stables with doors and windows open, night and day, in all seasons, than where they are kept shut. Similar observations have been made iu stables containing large numbers of cat- tie, whioh are by good ventilation re­ lieved from epidemic affections of the respiratory organs. THE havoc wrought by lightning is often frightful. A thunderbolt struck a chimney 150 feet high--located in a town in the north of France--and cut a deep fissure in its entire length. Among other examples of like powerful effects, Argo states that in 1762 lightning destroyed the turret of a church a Cor- nouilles, aud threw a stone weighing not less than 225 pounds to a distance of 150 feet; and in 1809, a wall near Man­ chester, weighing more than twenty-six tons, was lifted from its foundation and removed nine feet at one end by a violent thunderbolt AN ORIENTAL writer has reoently given an interesting description of an ancient burial in the Chinese empire. It was the custom for the wealthy man to pro- cur© a coffin when he had reached the age of fofty. He would have it painted three times a year with a composition ' resembling silicate paint or enamel,, which formed an exceedingly hard coat­ ing. The process of making this paint is now one of the lost arts of China. If the owner of the coffin lived long enough, the frequent painting--each coat being of considerable thickness--caused it to aosnme the appearance of a sarcophagus, with a foot or more in thickness of this hard, stone-like shell. After death the veins and cavities of the person's stom­ ach were filled with quicksilver for the purpose of preserving the body. A piece of jade would then be placed in each nostril and ear, and in one hand, while a piece of bar silver would be placed in the other hand. The body thns pre­ pared was placed on a layer of quick­ silver within the coffin ; the later was sealed, and the whole deposited in its final resting-place. When some of these sarcophagi were opened after a lapse of centuries, the bodies were found to be perfectly preserved, but they quickly crumbled to dust on bfeing exposed to the air. , Conducting Hotels in Europe. Hotels in Europe are conduoted on the theory that the guest is a private personage to be entertained in a private manner. He is not required to register his name--he goes only by the number of his room, and most frequently no one but the waiter--not even the landlord, will have anything to say or do with „him. Meals may be sent to the guest's bed-room, or he may take them in the dining-room; in many hotels, also, in the "coffee room," the "smoking room," the "commercial room," and even in the parlor. .Some hotels, but,, not all, have a table d'h te. In many hotels in Great Britain, rather good ones, too, as far as furnish­ ings go, nothing but cold cuts are to be had--except at breakfast or at the late dinner, cold ham, roast beef, corn beef or chicken, bread and beer, form the ordinary lunch. Some hotels in London furnisn no vegetables. At such the bill of fare is coffee, tea, ham and eggs, mut­ ton chops, roast beef, soles or salmon and bread. Even with this indifferent bill of fare they are often crowded and at times decline to receive guests unless rooms have previously been bespoken. Most usually--invariably so in the hotels of the middle class--women are the housekeepers; assign guests to ;he Rawlinson about $M B. C., sad he speaks of m #ho ftlped be­ tween that tima and 688 B. 0. The historical chroaologyot Berosuf ista a degree confirmed by the iasonptlons which have been discovered inBabykoia and Assyria, and, as flsr as they touch upon each other, by the Hebrew rec­ ords. It ia generally aoeepted as toler- a(4y aqthentirt by scholars. % - ^ JN«rf«ww» Xa America. ^ to carry their own Ljaa '̂sMl anxious beyond their face years ax* getting con­ spicuously common hi America. The slow, sententious Yankee of the stage is becoming rare in the cities, and the cool individual who offers the raspkioos stronger a cigar light stack in the muz­ zle of a revolver, is happily oanfined to Deadwood Creek or Gough Eye Gulch. The women are more lovely than aver. Their faces are the faces of angels chiseled in marble; but the pallor is unhealthy, and the liveliness of the American girl is, to a great extent, in­ cipient disease. It is, like their beauty, part of that nervousness whioh is afflict­ ing their race. Their minds are un­ troubled by the cares of h< for most of them live in hotels or ing houses. In Europe they oontraot in marriages. But they soon fade, and while the English matron, and even her sister of Canada, who leads much the same kind of life is still in her prime, the oncje beautiful American is often a lean, hysterical haunter of health re­ sorts. The future is not a pleasant prospect. As men of leisure depart from the busy multitude, it is difficult to see what they are to do with their money. There is a limit to the number of greenbacks whioh a people can spend on a house, and even a modest fortune is cumbersome to carry about in dia-. monds and watob. chains. They can, of course,always go to Paris, but a Tuileriea American, as this hybrid Gaul used to be called in Napoleonic days, ceases to be an American, while if he stays at home, it is hard to see how the rich average republican is to spend his money in. any other way than that which has produced, and is increasing the nervous­ ness of his race. Competitive examina­ tions, which will, in time, add their worry to the endless voting and eleoting of the present time, are calculated to intensify the trouble. But for long the evil will not be muoh noticed. The ooimtry will be fertilized by a continu­ ous stream of fresh-faced, simple-lived emigrants from "used-up Europe." These will mingle with the humbler na­ tives, and since the true-born Yankee of New England, and the "fust family" Americans of the South are notorious for the fewness of their children, will keep up the population of the United States. Meantime, the -learned folks, without the fear of patriotic papers be­ fore their eyes, will affirm that the European is not naturalized in the new world. At best he is a nervous edition of the gallant from whioh he sprang, and were it not for the new blood that is re­ cruiting his jaded life, would dwindle away and beoome extinct.--London Wor ld. The Piftan Frlm«r for tha QIAM of To-day, ! Is this the Great Eastera? No, it is a Cincinnati girl's shoe. See how easy it is to b@ minftakA«, ' Here is a poet. He is going up in the Elevator. How happy he looks. Pretty soon he will walk down, looking very Sad. He has seen the Editor. See the Boot. How large and shiny it is. A Man owns the Boot. Call on his daughter some evening, and see what it is made for. This is a Hone. It oan go very fast. The Man who is standing by the Horse looks sad. He iB broke. Do not go to horse raoes, Tommy, or you will be broke, io . What a fine-looking Old Gentleman. Is he rich? Yes, he is very rich. Sea how healthy he looks. He will not die of Enlargement of the Heart He lives in Chicago. Here is Miss Lucy. How proud and fine she looks in her Sealskin Saeque. It cost Three Hundred Dollars. Lucy's Father will Fail next week. What have we here? It is a Young Man who wears a yellow ulster and a High Collar. Does he smoke Cigar­ ettes ? Yes, let us all take a kick at him. The Man is at the Desk. He is an Editor. What is that in his hand ? It is a Microscope. What does the Editor want of a Microscope ? He is looking for his salary. This is a Young Lady. She is sitting at a Piano, and will soon begin to sing, I ««Empty is th© Cradle, Baby's Gone/' ' Bun away quickly, children, and per­ haps you will miss some of it. Where is Tommy? He is playing base-ball in the lot Oan Tommy play well ? Yes, indeed, for he sometimes makes a Home Bun. This is when his Father heaves in sight. ' See the Elevator. It is not running. How the man swears. He is an editor. Do elevators ever run? O, Yes, when they are first put in a Building, and bo- fore they are Paid for. rooms, keep the accounts and manage Lilt] ixitoruul Hu;nag6iu6ui5. P&yiuSui ia exacted only .for what the guest has ordered. He will be charged for the room, but is under no obligation to take meals in the house. A cup of coffee and a biscuit will be as cheerfully furnished as the most elaborate meal. Tlie waiter is the principal executive officer. He invariably wears a suit of black broadcloth, claw-hammer coat, white necktie, broad expanse of shirt bosom and sometimes a white vest. " What is your number, please?" he will say on first coming in contact with you, and will quietly book against that num­ ber the price of dishes ordered for the meal as well as the lodging. Previous to departing you will ask him to render you an account, or at any rate he is the official who will present the bill to you, receive the payment and make the change.--Edinburg Cor. Detroit Free Press. The Father of Chaldeaa History. Berosus was a Chaldean priest who lived in the time of Alexander the Great and his immediate successors. He trans­ lated the history of his native country, Chaldea or Babylonia, into the Greek language, and dedicated the work to Antiochus, one of the Greek Kings of- Syria. He professed to have derived the materials for his history from the archives oi the temple. We know of his work principally through the fragments of Polvhistor and Apollodorus, two writers' of the first century before the Christian era, who are quoted by Eusebius and Lyncellus. The history embraced the myths and traditions of the early ages, a description of Babylonia, and a chrono­ logical list of its Kings down to Cyrus. His earliest historical date is placed by ; • \ • s- - t" 'A t " ' * 'H'v' •' 1 & j-- ' K . . 1.4 nope Ahead. A committee of stockholders, who waited upon the superintendent of a California mine in days gone by to ask whv in blazes the said mine hadn't panned out anything but assessments, were graciously received, invited to be seated, and the offigiacfexplained: " TTOU are all a war A of thg fact that we had scarcely begun work when the mouth of our mine was blocked by a landslide. That put us back a month. f They nodded their remembrance. "Then we had just got/in, shape to take out 4,000 tons of oref worth $2,000 per ton, when the mine caved in. You recall it?" They did. " Once more we bent ourselves to the burden of reaping $500 for every ten in­ vested when the mine was' flooded by a subterranean river." That was true also. " Then we had just got the water out when we discovered that our mine was located on another man's claim. We had him shot to prevent trouble, and once more we were about to declare a divi­ dend of 200 per cent, when the dead man's heirB put in an appearance. There were three ot' them. We chased one over the range, had another hung by the vigilance committee, and I am happy to inform you that I have four men out after the other, and am every hour expecting to hear that he has tumbled off a cliff. Gentlemen, there is hope ahead--golden hope. Please oome up and drink with me; after which there will be another assessment of 10 per oentt"--Wall Street Daily News. " How MUCH do you charge for your peanuts ?" asked a lady at the fruit stand at the Central station. "Ten cents a quart," said the olerfe "Too dear," re­ plied the lady. "But," persisted the young man, "these are hand-picked, and we warrant them to cure consumption and heart disease." The woman actu­ ally purchased quarts.--Rochester Chronicle. THB tiigMt* thing <m loa--The profit. TlalMNMt eatpedHfaa on reoord w«s Noah's. 'MAMT men of many minee--Sharon, Moyd, Maekey it Qa. iTwaa never o»e af tha mintakaa of Moses to call tha other man a liar. r THHaaperiodeof Ufa--Yooth, mmnpe; middle age, bumps; oU age, dnmpa. • • War is your elder brother like tha' grass in the fieU?->Beoaii»e he's paat- your-age (pasturage). , A Tna way that Ctak. Jubal Early be- '% came a great man was by going to bed* i Early and getting up Early. „ SOME hooaekeepen* arc so oonstito-"-p\ tionaUj wastefal that the more floor they have the more thegr knead. A BUBOTJAR got into the house of an <i editor the other night After a terrible « | struggle tha editor succeeded in robbing j him. ' • 'j| Glass eyes for harsee art now made ^ with such perfection that the themselves cannot see through the de- f ^ ception, xJ'Ss A LiTTx.xgirl,on being told that an older ! Bister was only a half-sister, mournfully W.M asked, "When will she be my whole ' I sister?" A WEsraihr paper annooncee thatupoa f: the occasion of m recant boiler explosion in the neighborhood " between v| and four m©n were killed." \ J • Fooo, who had bean fed on pie for a "'V*! day or two, informed his landlady v | he was not fond of pasteboard. Fogg ' ,1 was given his walking papers. ^ g BIOHKS and religion are not 1 « Kiible, only a man does not want to J: M ve too muoh religion in the way while . J he is getting riches.--Kew Orleans "2 F icay i tm; '? ; f j "PA, why do yon call 'em High if schools f' "It's because we pay so much for 'em, my son. YouU under- I stand these things better when you get to be a tax-payer."--Louisville Cwttrier- ; 1 Journal. ' THIS great grammatical conundrum-- % " The United States are, or the United t States is?"--New Haven. Register. Let ' ^ us remark that she probably has been, v --fl and pertulventure they will be, and drop the subject.--Elmira Free Press. As THB Bev. C. P. Williamson was holding services in Madison, Ky., a little 4-year-old one joined in the sing­ ing, and at the conclusion of the first stanza the little voice went on with the words, "Frog in the meadow and tan't dit him out," very muoh to the amuse­ ment of the entire congregation. A GENTLEMAN somewhat advanoed in life, and who was never remarkable for his good looks, asked his grandchild what he thought of him. The boy's : parents were present. The youngster made no reply. " Well, why don't you tell me what you think of me ?" "iCause I don't want to get licked," was the answer. AN Austin gentleman who is an inva­ lid had occasion to hm a negro man to wait on him. When an able-bodied ap­ plicant for the position put in an appear­ ance, the gentleman said i "HI hire you, Sam, I shall expect you to help me up tha stairs, and assist me in getting into bed." " Bress your soul, boss, Pse more fitten for helpin' folks up stairs and puttin' 'em ter bed das anyfing else, l'se been porter at a boardin' noose what dar was four Senators. I'se de berry niggah you am sufferin' foah."--Texm 8ijtings. 1 t ' ^ THE POMOT- HOTLDHR'S XIAIOANL^; For fifteen yeara I wine fowww, , \ x '- i: I abjured gaady raiments; . I never crawed the play-houie door, i I never tooled a coach and four: The clothes ttere shabby whioh I iron} I saved my meager, meager stem For life-insurance payments. AP I thought it aU a horrid bore, "S ;f'l Yet made those endleasfpaymanta, " *| That, when I reached tha golden ahoM, > > . > •• N , The wolf might shun my children's doW The company is now no morel * ; f*5 They found it rotten to the core ; ^4 ? Receivers grin now at the door ' • At all the luckless claimants. --Boston Advertiser. IT was one of the rules of a tmerabla doctor of the experimental school of medicine never to have anything wasted; and, therefore, when any medicine re­ mained after the patient died car recov­ ered, he would empty it into a bottle kept for the purpose, which became th® receptacle of a heterogeneous compound that science could not analyze. A younger member of the faculty noted this as a very singular faot, and asked of • him the reason for it. The doctor hesi­ tated a little, and then replied that, though iB ordinary cases he knew well what to do, there were instances when all his medical skill failed. At sucn times it was his custom to resort to the big bottle, and leave nature and acci­ dent to accomplish the cure. " And will you believe it ? " said he, " some of my most brilliant successes have resulted from Ancient Chinese BarlaL V >j The Celestial Empire gives iu a recent number an account of a Chinese burial in former times. A man of means pur- chased his coffin when he reaohed the age of forty. He then had it painted three times every year withaipecies of varnish, mixed with pulverized porcelain--a com­ position which resembled a silicate paint or enamel. The process by which the varnish was made has been lost to the Chinese. Each ooatmg of this paint was made of some thickness, and when dried had a metallic firmness resembling enamel. Frequent coats of this, If the owner lived long, caiuttu ooiSsi tiO a»j#as sume the appearance of a sarcophagus, with a foot or more in thickness of thli» hard, stone-like shell. After; death tha •eins and the cavities of the stomach were filled with qaicksilver for the pur­ pose of preserving the body. A piece of jade was then placed in each nostril and ear and in one hand, while a piece of bar-silver was placed in the other. The body thus prepared was put on a layer of mercury within the coffin; the latter was sealed and the whole committed to its last resting-place. When some of these sarcophagi were opened after the lapse of centuries the bodies were found in a wonderful state of preservation, but they crumbled to dust on exposure to the •jV .;V;,fhe Bad.' My master whi pped me very well; with­ out that, sir, I should have done noth­ ing. I would rather have the rod to be general terror to all, to make them learn, than to tell a child if you do thus or thus you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod pro­ duces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whip­ ped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't. Whereas, by exciting emula­ tion and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundations of lasting mis- i chief. You make brothers and sisters I hate each other.--Samuc! Johnson. I MR. F. J. FUBNTVAUI says that George ; Eliot felt the symbolism of gems, while j, Shakspeare felt that of flowers, " Her I';" works/' says he, 4* were fen in«3ietasejit of r" men in favor of women. Men, with her, '•! were drift logs. All ShakHMMMfrhectfeft j had a feeling of God." I ";w¥wm: r f t V *"f *-'i* " l i t . ' j ? . . . . i A J . . 3 . i % 1 , - L » * * « . > . - k . . i / S L a . ' V •Jh