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i ' KOTHER'g WOBKi jiklnjr, ittirl"!, and breitSnflfc Wishing, MtnbiBg, and tr*nlnc. Ripping, tandog, and mending, Catting, basting, and »tittibinjb Haft: ng the old like new; Shoestrings to lace. Face to waab, ^p::|Bnttona to sew. jfity, : And the like of such; • • JStockingS to darn I',.?':" • »jWhile the children plap|. : *tortea to Ml, .'ears wipe away, 1V" Makin* hem happy - .The livelong day; ^ ii a thus frrm morn till nigm; aaTa that a mother's work Is light? tl. At erenJnp fonr *§* Xilttle lorms In white; ' Prayer* all paid, .JAnd the last good-n: ^Tneking them oafe f. In each downy bed. •%# 0'« r each head. That the dear Father In Heaven will keep Safe nil my darlings, Awj.ke o'" asleep. I think the old adatictrueeTerw easy to labor tor those tint - Z . 1IL ' Ahtne! dear me 11 often say, Aa I lianpthe tumbled clothes awfty; And ti.e tear drop* start = While my burd -nert heart 5,, s AcbfB for.the mother across the way. ^here, oh, wher»i are '! ' • Her nestlings flown? J • All, all are gone, *\ • ..v Have one alone] - '• K«1 led th'Ir garment# :•* . . 'i •.With tenderest c* re, ; ; • Unpressed the pillow -• * - And vacant the chair. > • .• * .No ribbons to tie, No fac-R to wash, ' No hair all awry; • No merry voices •" /• *• ' To hu«h into rest; *• God save them! V ; He took them! And He knoweth best; . ahl tlio heart anpuishl the tcarsthat fall! Ms mother's work 1« the hardest of all! • --Philadelphia Sunday Republic. SWINGING ON SOMEBODY'S GATE. ®"^Oh, where is my darling boy to-night®*: v. Kings a poet in plaintive song. iW^Pe're not quite certain that we are right i And may be we miirht be wrong, Bmt we tirnrily believe that the boy is out late. Because be is swinging on somebody's gate, #omel>ody's pate--nh! veil do we know What the joys of that pastime are! • We'll never forget--'tin years av o Since we fwnng on that wooden bar; Nor did we inspect that the hand of fate Was cnt stretched while swinging on ioine- bedy's gate *r.:4S»»e o'd, old story, bnt ever new-- •Her fat her appeared on the scene, ;i®is locks wet with the falling dew, *4# looked like a monster marine, jraa the buildov--oh, we can never relate What happened when swinging on somebody's gate. Don't worry abrnt yonr boy to-night, ^ Or siKh out y<ur soullet in rhyme; « : For tiie chances, he's all right. And will have a jolly good time. For he won't go astray, though he stays oat late, As long as he's swinging on somebody's gate. •--Exchange. Our Ivories, A V-"-- Facts and Fictions in the Philosophy »f Tooth-Growing. Some old folks cat their teeth when hat advanced toward centenarianism. An old woman living near New Haven cut an incisive troth in the lower jaw •when 75 years old; it confirmed a strange hallucination with which she had long been possessed--that she had been dead and was come to life again, "with the usual infantile carrer of teeth­ ing, etc. Another lady living in Phila­ delphia about a dozen of years ago cut an entirely new set of teeth when about 80 years old, after having been many years toothless. In 1832 a woman in Richmond cut eight new teeth in the 87th year of her age--thus winding up a toothless period of many years. A dame of Boston, after being toothless from 70 to 90 years of age, cut several new teeth. Edward Progers, aged 96, died in 1713 of the anguish of cutting teeth, and had several ready to cut which so inflamed his gums that he died thereof. As if to take revenge for these dupli­ cations, or rather triplications of teeth­ ing, nature sometimes requires us to dispense with dental apparatus alto­ gether. At a Loudon cemetery there is the following epitaph: "Elizabeth Cook, a poor woman, aged 86, and who never had a tooth, was buried June 11, 1798." On the other hand, some folks greatly exceed the orthodox number of thirty-two. Dampier, in his account of the Philippine Islands, says: "The next day the Sultan came on board again, and presented our captain with a little boy; but he was too small to be serviceable on board, and so the cap­ tain returned thanks and told him he was too little for him. Then the Sul­ tan sent a bigger boy, which the cap­ tain accepted. This boy was a very pretty, tractable boy, but what was wonderful in him he had two rows of teeth, one within another, in each jaw. None of the other people were so, nor did I ever see the like." The pearly teeth of the poet and nov­ elist would not be valued by some of the Eastern and Polynesian nations. The Chinese blacken their teeth by chewing the fruit of the areca, or betel nut. The Tonquinese and Siamese beaux and ^belles, in bringing about the same re­ sult by nearly the same means, almost starve themselves for three or four days, while the dyeing is going on, lest the food should disturb the dye. The Stinda Islanders sometimes blacken all the teeth but two with burned cocoanut, covering the two excepted teeth with thin plates of gold or silver. The Ma­ cassar people sometimes pull out two front teeth in order to supply their place with teeth of pure gold or silver. Two Italian girls, twins, have been known to have had natural teeth of a light red rose color--both the milk teeth and those which succeeded them. The charms, omens, signs, panaceas relating to the teeth constitute quite a formidable item in folk lore. In some parts of the country there is a super­ stition that if you put on your right stocking, right shoe, and right trouser leg before the left you will never have toothache. To driuk out of a skull taken from a graveyard; to take a tooth from such a skull and wear it around the neck; to apply the tooth to your own living but aching tooth; to pat a double nut into your pocket; to pare your finger-nails and toe-nails, and wrap up the parings in paper--all are charms against the toothache. If you catch a mole in a trap, cut off one of his paws, and wear it as a charm, you will soon see the effect, provided a right paw be used for a left tooth, and vice versa. When an aching tooth is ex­ tracted mix it with salt and burn it There is a certain custom of calling the toothache the "love pain," for which the sufferer is not entitled to any com­ miseration--whether he (or she) fully assents to this may perhaps be doubted. Many other items of tooth lore have no connection with toothache. For in­ stance if the teeth are 6et wide apart there will be good luck and plenty of traveling for the fortunate possessor. "When a tooth is drawn, if you refrain from thrusting your tongue into the cavity the new tooth to grow in its place will be a lucky one. A letter written in 1713 by a lady to her son spoke of th« efficacy of wolves' teeth to assist children in cutting my do some people's teeth come put more readily than others? The reasons for this are probably many. About the middle of the last century leter Kalm, a Swede, visited the United States and wrote sensibly about what he saw. flo observed a frequent loss of teeth among settlers from Europe, especially woman. After dis­ cussing and rejecting many modes of explanation, he attributed it to hot tea and other hot beverages, and came to a general conclusion that "hot feeders lose their teeth more readily than cold feeders." He also noticed that "the American Indians have better teeth than the whites." He accounts for the difference in this strange way: that the reds keep the mouth shut, whereas the whites keep it open. JThe teeth, he says, require moisture to keep their surfaces in good working order; when the month is open the mucus membrane has a tendency to dry up, the teeth loose their needed supply of moisture, and thence come discoloration, tooth­ ache, decay, looseness, and eventual loss of teeth. He scolds the human race generally for being less sensible than the brutes in this respect, and the white race specially in comparison with the red. We keep our mouths open far too, much; the Indiah warrior sleeps, hunts, and smiles with his mouth shut, and respires through the nostrils. Among the virtues attributed bv him to closed lips one is excellent-- when you are angry keep your mouth shut. There is reason to believe * that the Greeks and Romans knew something about false teeth. Martial, in one of his epigrams, says that Thais' teeth were discolored, while Lecania's were white. Why? Because the former wore her own teeth, whereas the latter wore those of some other person. There was an old Roman law which al­ lowed the gold settings of false teeth, or the gold with which they were bound, to be buried or burned with the de­ ceased. There is also some indication that the Greeks were not to extract teeth and to fill up decayed teeth with gold. The Sunda Islanders at the present day are in the habit of employ­ ing their old women to dress up the teeth of the youths and maidens at woo­ ing time; the canine teeth are filed to a fine, smooth edge, and the body of the tooth made concave, or they will notch the edge of the teeth like a fine saw, as an additional means of beauti­ fying. An imperial toothache once made the fortune of a poor barber. The late Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Aziz, having a touch of toothache one day, sent for the court physician; he was hunted and could not be found. The domestic hurried about Constantinople and at length found a poor, ragged, barber-surgeon; they took him to the palace and furbished him up. He drew the offending tooth, and soothed the pain of the Commander of the Faith­ ful. Whereupon a nice house and $60 a month was awarded to him. During the days of body-snatchers, when graveyards were subjected to pil­ lage for supplying anatomists with sub­ jects for dissection, the teeth from the dead bodies formed a frequent article of sale to dentists. Sometimes graves were opened for the teeth alone, as be- ing small and easily concealed articles. The making of artificial teeth is a trade in which a large amount of in­ genuity is displayed, both in the adap­ tation of new substance and in the mode of shaping and finishing. When artificial teeth began to be made, in­ stead of using the natural teeth of dead persons, tbey were made of bone, or the more costly kind of ivory, fiom the tusks of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, walrus, or narahcl. If only a single tooth were wanted it was customary to cut a bit of bone to the proper shape, and tie it to the next tooth by a ligature of wtre. It is still found that tusk bone possesses the best combination of properties. It com­ bines, as a learned authority in the dental world tells us, "lightness, strength, and solidity, with a natural appearance and a certain congeniality to the mouth, possessod by no other material, whiqh render both partial pieces and pntire sets at once the most useful substitutes for the lost natural teeth." The mechanical dentist must be a genuine workman. Wlun he is tbout to make bone or ivory teeth he cuts a tusk into pieces and shapes each piece by an elaborate series of mechanical processes. Sometimes, for a customer who has plenty of dollars to spare, he will make a whole set, upper or lower, as the case may be, out of one piece. He saws his block of ivory roughly to the size, and then, with infinite pa­ tience, files and graves it into shape. He has at hand a model of the patient's gum and works to that model with ex­ actness. The teeth are not separate pieces; they are cut into apparent rath­ er than real separation, like the teeth of a comb. An artistic workman will take care that the teeth shall present some of that irregularity which our natural grinders always exhibit; a learner falls into the mistake of mak­ ing them too good. Many persons do not like to wear dead people's teeth-- there is something uncomfortable in the idea; there is. also frequently a germ of abcay in such teeth, and these two reasons led to the custom of mak­ ing artificially ivory teeth. Ivory, with all of its excellences, becomes discol­ ored, and hence the chief motive of making teeth of certain mineral or veg­ etable compositions. There is, in fact, a sort of triangular duel going on among the ivory dentists, mineral den­ tists, and vegetable dentists, each class fighting stoutly against both of the oth­ ers. Whether yonr dentist really makes the teeth which he inserts in your cranium is a question he does not deem it necessary to answer. In truth he very rarely does anything of the kind. There are certain dealers who sell sets of teeth, half sets twos, or threes, singles or doubles, front or back, top or bottom, finished or unfinished, as well as all the apparatus and tools re­ quired for the dintist's art. And some of these dealers themselves are sup­ plied by manufactures who conduct op­ erations on a considerab e scale. TM United States is ahead of all other countries in this art. A recent computation makes the number of ar­ tificial teeth fabricated here as high as 6,01)0,000 annually--symbols (according to some folks' notions) of 6,000,000 at­ tacks of toothache. In one of the larg­ est and most complete factories, where.; mineral teeth are made, the ohief in­ gredients compr se feldspar, silica, and clay; those of subsidiary character are sundry metallic oxides, to produce those tints of discoloration which are necessary to make the imitation a good one. The feldspar, sdica, and clay are ground to an impalpable, powder un­ der water, then dried and made into a paste. The teeth are cast in brass molds, varied in size and shape to suit the requii&nents of the moatli. A special kind effMWte, to fotattb* enam­ els is first put into the mold with a small steel spatula; the platinum riv­ ets, by which the teeth are to be fast­ ened, are adjusted in position, and then the paste forming the body of the tooth is introduced until the mold is filled up. Next ensues powerful pres­ sure and drying. When removed from the mould the tooth goes through a process ca'led biscuiting (analagous to a particular stage in porcelain man­ ufacture), in which state it can be cut like chalk. It is then sent to the trim­ mer, who scrapes off all roughness and unnecessary projections, and fills up a'>y depressions which may have been left in the operation of moulding. A wash called enamel is made by select­ ing various ingredients more fusible than those of the tooth, grinding them to tine powder with water, and apply­ ing the thick liquid as paint by means of a camel's-hair pencil. The tooth then goes to the gummer, who applies a gum composed of oxide of gold and other ingredient*. At length heat is applied. The tooth, when dried, is put into a muffle or enameler's oven, where it is placed on a layer of o:ushed quartz strewn over a slab of fire-resist­ ing clay. Alter being exposed for a time to an intense heat the tooth is taken out and cooled--and there it is, beautiful forever.--Brooklyn Eagle. TIM Water Sappiy of (he Ortart. In the principal Indian cities it is no longer necessary to drink boiled water, owing to the excellent supplies fur­ nished by the public water works. In Jaffa the water is intolerably blackish. In Routschuck the muddy Danube is filtered and sold to the native Bulgar­ ians. In Vienna the water works are very extensive and the water the best I know of, being nearly ice-cold on the hottest day. In Aden the public water supply is obtained by condensing and distilling common sea water by means of large engines. This unpalatable pro­ duct is then sold for as high as eight cents a gallon. Rains are too rare to be depended upon. Filtered rain wa­ ter is used in Jerusalem, and if you want enough for a bath you must pay for it extra. This suggests the matter of baths. Whatever the resident Oc­ cidentals in the Orient may be mt>rally, they endeavor to be physically clean. Usually a room in a hotel includes a special bath-room adjoining, and nearly every bed-room in a private house is similarly equipped. A morning bath is regarded as a matter of necessity, and an evening bath as a barely dispensa­ ble comfort. Even the first-class rail­ way coaches in India are in many cases equipped with bath-rooms, with Bhower- batlis, so that you may take your reg­ ular ablutions while whirling along at full speed. Many of the railway depots are also provided with baths, so that you may utilize tedious waits by cleans­ ing yourself. The Japanese bathe to excess, using such hot water that fatal syncope is an occasional consequence. With the Japs a bath is a sensuous luxury. They de­ light in relieving themselves of super­ fluous clothing. On the other hand, their neighbors, the Chinese get inside as much cloth­ ing as possible, and are never seen in the streams with which their country abounds bathing or swimming. The Ma­ lays and natives of Aden, many of them, are scarcely less than human ducks. A bit of silver cannot reach the bottom of the sea before they have it. The Hindoos and Brahmins bathe --es­ pecially in the Ganges--as a religious exercise, smearing the body with oil first if they can afford it.--Correspond* ence of Chicago Inter-Ocean. Indian Jngg ers' Wiles. The one class who interested me pu* ticularly in India were the jugglers. My investigations lead me to state pos­ itively that the most remarkable stories, told about them are fictions, based upon the flimsiest foundation of fact. Let us take, for instance, two per­ formances, the mysterious basket and the mango-growing tricks. I have seen both oc tht m over and over again, and have found the same easily-detected frauds to exist in every case. The baa* kets are bell-shaped have a false bot­ tom, between which and the exterior wall of the basket there is ample room for a very small child to stow itself away. "The spectators are not allowed to touch or even to come very near to the basket, and in a causal glance at the interior one is not apt to detect the false bottom. The basket is placed over the child, who squats upon the hard ground, and after saflicent time has elapsed for the youngster to crawl into its place of concealment, the jug gler horrifies the audience by passing his sword through the basket, and then upon upsetting it shows that the child has dissapeared. Meanwhile, a dupli cate child, that closely resembles thfl first one, enters upon the scene from the background, and the wonderful trick is completed. The famous mangoi growing trick is even sillier than this.; You have, of course, read how a man o£ mysterious arts plants a mango seed in. a flower pot, and then makes a dwafec{| fruit-bearing tree spring up from that seed. The facts of the case are simply these: The seed is planted and the pot is then placed under a sort of tent, whose voluminous folds must not be|; touched by any but the juggler. The latter then waters the earth in the pot| and does a lot of manipulating while* his hands are concealed in the tent. Meanwhile a fellow juggler is perform-l ing a series of tricks to amuse and dis­ tract the attention of the spectators, When juggler number one has had time to change the pot for another that ia hidden in the folds of the tent, he opens! one side of the canvass a little and the second pot can be seen with a half-; grown mango tree in it. After anotherj interlude of the same sort, the tent door; is again opened and a third pot is dis-* closed, which contains a little tree bear-: ing a mango.--San Francisco Call. The First Families. Indian squaw (visiting her daughter! at the Indian school). "Who are those two girls you were playing with?" "Indian pupils. Their names are Edith and Ellie. 1 little girls." "But they are white." "Yes, ma." "Where do they come from?" "Ed th is from Boston and Ellie from Philadelphia." "Just as I supposed. How often must I tell you never to associate with such folks?" "Why, ma, what is the matter with them ?" "The idea of my children--my chil dren--stooping to recognize suoh crea tures! Be more exclusive. ^Rem em ber vou belong to one of the old fami lies." « "But don't th^jr, ma?" "Of course not. They are mere foreigners whose' ancestors came over with Miles Standish and William Penn."--Philadelphia Call* - - - - - . _--,-- . be» corneas famous fortbetr tTprivMPtanos as tbey have Ion* been for their world-renowned Cabinet Organs. Having experimented sev­ eral years at great expense, and with the a» sistanceof probably as able aoorps of experts as can be found to any factory In the world, hey bave succeeded in producing a piano which has elicited the warmest encomiums from the best judges. The distinguishing feature about It is an important improvement In the method of "stringing" the piano, wtaloh originated in their own factory. The strings are secured by metalHo fastenings, instead of by the friction of pins set in wood, as has been the case, and the advantages re­ sulting are numerous ana highly important; among them are the following: Wonderful beauty and musical quality of tone, far less liability of getting out of tune, greater re­ liability in trying climates, and greater solidity of construction and durability. Mason & Hamlin have made 150,000 organs. Tbey can hardly expect to make as many pianos, but they will doubtless be called upon to make a very. large number -Hosfoii Traveller. ' Vegetarianism.. A new refinement of vegetarianism has been devised. At a recent vegeta­ rian banquet in England, after the usual amount of distensive food had been con­ sumed, a malcontent had the courage to observe that if we left off rearing ani­ mals for food it would interfere with clothes. He was, however, instantly confuted in the most practical manner by a true vegetarian, who arose and as­ serted that lie was completely dressed in material which had involved no bfc>od- guiltiness whatever. A ootton velvet­ een coat, dark linen drill waistooat, cor­ duroy trousers, and lawn-tennis shoes constituted the array of this friend. He also committed to the statement that "he had never tasted animal food in hie life." 1 "Wj The Stinging fcawUH In the gnllet known as heartbnrn, is snch a common source of annoyance that it deserves something more than casual mention as an inci­ dent of dyspepsia. Its direct cause, so far as is known, is the evolntion of gas in the stomach, which rising in the throat bears with it particles of undigested food mingled with vitiated gas­ tric juice. The acid of the latter stings the membrane as it rises. For this invariable and most unpleasant manifestation of dyspepsia, Hostetter's Stomach Bitiers is an infallible rem­ edy. It should be taken before meals, when it not only promotes the secretion of gastric juice and prepares the stomach for the reception of food, but gives a hearty relish for the latter. It must not be supposed that its occasional use will remove the cause of this symptom. Chronic dyspepsia if an obstinate malady, anil requires tiinj to remove. Whether taken to obviate this, or for fever and ague, rheumatism' or constipa­ tion, use the Hitters persistently. Lirrr.F. boy blew: An Indiana baby, born during a tremendous wind storm, has been named Cyclonia. Ha; Congress would be a shorter name and quite aa appropriate. Important. When you visit or leave New York City, aave Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stay at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot: 600 elegant rooms fitted np at a cost of one million dollars, reduoed to $1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator, Kestanrant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. 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