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> - v . * » « T V ' pPllg^fP - V ..* Jr't, , .»<" »> , v* J. TAK 8L1KK, Kclltor * PsfclMar. I r ILLINOIS. MCHENRY. WHEN THE WIND IS IN THE EAST: I SOOT buohohject to* sdeexe dow a'd thed. tt Irakeds wud up, a'd it clean out the head-- Bat, whed wspd issdeesi'g ffob borli'gto dight. It'* rathe* bodotolous--ab 1 dot right f I subtibes quite fadcy by head will cub off Id wad of these sdeezes--they're worse thad a cough. A cough team your lndgs, bat a adeexe tears you through-- A'd--^ooddess!--it's A-tochoo! That sdeeze waa a bild wud--I thidk subthi'g wedt Idside of by p'raps by braid-pad is redt. That s dothi'g to what it cad do whed. it tries! It rip through by chest, a'd tears out at by eyes. By dose a'd by bouth, with a shivcri e crash, That shatters by frabe wud horrible shaoh! Ah! that is a sdeeze! Whed it cubs it's a crusher-- A d--oh! it is cubbi'g--ar--r--ruschah!-- Ar-- r-- r--•srnBch--ah! - --Punch. ' cs -- - <» .. • WAIT AWHILE. If you cannot seeyonr way, * Wait, wait awhile; S, Why impatient ofdelay- Do wait awhile; For the Star of Hope is shining, Yonder cloud ha* silver lining-- Oh. then, wait awhile* Ohild of Trouble, banish feats. And wait awhile; Fortune soon may dry your tears. Just wait awhile. Weary one. Oh, cease thy sorrow. Look for brighter things to-morrow- Only wait awhile. • T Time will level all things right. j, Oh, wait awhile. ... Horning always follows night Then wait awhile. Why despondent, weary mortal. When perhaps you're near Joy's portal- Wait, oh, wait awhile. Rocked with doubt and full of care _ Yet wait awhile. v Boon eternal bliss we'll share, '1 Wait, wait awhile. Heaven at last will change all Badness Into never-ending gladness-- , Ho then wait awhile, f-ar. r. School Journal. rtiLMK»STEAym»e. f Sr-S ' Aerial navigation, the faculty of lo­ comotion through the air, the power of "scaring bird&tlke into the azure fields 6f ip ace, has always been tantalizingly Seductive to the human imagination. So, engrossing is the theme that al­ though the subject has already been discussed from a scientific point of view in these pages, a few additional words about its more popular aspects may niot be found Uninteresting to our readers. Great, and, as it has proved, baseless -anticipations were evoked by the ad- vent of the first balloon. Aerostation was to disclose the secrets of the at­ mospheric world, and by enabling men to predict rains and droughts secure by the proper cultivation of the soil abundant and excellent harvests. The unmanageable nature of the new in­ vention was not taken into account at all, nor the fact that although you might ascend intp the air from any. point you choBe, no one could predict where or "how you would descend. This charming uncertainty still attends aerial voyages; no means have yet been discovered of guiding the balloon in a horizontal direction; and it is always Bp touch at the mercy of currents of air that the eourse it will follow is a mat- _ ter pf chance and not an affair of the aeronaut's will or choice. Attempts have been made to press this unmanageable machine into the service of science, and with some suc­ cess, although what has yet been done is little more than a suggestion of dis­ coveries which may at some future time be practicable by its aid. In 1&62 Mr. (xlaisher, author of a Ihfttory of " Travels in the Air," made a series of ascents from Wolverhamp­ ton in order to verify a number of scientific observations, the results of whieh are contained in the annals of the British Association. A new ballopn was provided for him, wljich was not made of silk, but of American cloth, a stronger and more serviceable material, and in this aerial machine he encoun- ' tered sundry mishaps and misadven­ tures, on two occasions narrowly es­ caping with his life. Its very danger lends to balloon traveling a sense of conscious adven­ ture, of thrilling excitement, peculiar­ ly its own. Added to this the cloud scenery through which the aeronaut glides is not only novel, but is often, especially at sunrise, and sunset, most gorgeously beautiful; while the earth beneath, which seems to have motion transferred to it, presents as it hurries past, a charming and varied panorama. Woods and rivers, hamlets and towns, hills and valleys, and wide-spreading downs, succeed each other in rapid succession. From the immense height, all idea of the comparative altitude of objects is lost; great cities appear like small models of towns, and the biggest man-of-war looks like a boy's toy snip. Morning up in cloudland is a gloriously radiant spectacle. The balloon floats out of darkness into a world of shad­ owy mountain ranges, colorless and unsubstantial at first, but borrowing from the rising sun the softest, ten- derest hues of roseate pink and warm­ est crimson, glowing and blending and fading away at last in a mellow flood of amber and gold. In France, for some time after their invention, balloons were quite the rage, the first madp for scientific pur- purposes being that of July, 1808, and which was followed by several others, having for their object the solution of many physical problems, not a few of which remain problems still. In 1850 two ascents were made for the pur­ pose of investigating certain atmos­ pheric phenomena. One especially of these aerial voyages was in the last de­ gree unfortunate. Scarcely had the two philosophers, MM. Barral and Bixio, taken their seats than they made the unpleasant discovery that their balloon was not in good working order,; and while they were hesitating about what should be done in the circum­ stance, a violent gust of wind settled the question for them, and the balloon, blown from the earth, shot into the air with the velocity of an arrow. Be- . coming rapidly inflated, the machine then bulged out at top and bottom, ^covering the car like a hood, and en­ veloping the unfortunate aeronauts in total darkness. "Their position was most critical; and when one of them endeavored to secure the valve-rope, a rent was made in the lower part of the balloon, and the hydrogen gas with which it was inflated escaping close to their fatfes suffocated both of them, causing a momentary exhaustion, fol­ lowed by nausea and violent vomit- ing." In this helpless condition they dis­ covered that they were descending rap­ idly ; and on groping about for the cause they found that the balloon was split open in the middle, and that there was a rent in it two yards long. This was a cruel predicament in which to find themselves 30,0u0 feet up in the air, and very naturally they abandoned all hope of life, although like wise men, they aid all in their power to preserve it. To lessen the downward velocity of the balloon they threw overboard ail their ballast, then article after article of their raiment, even to their fur coats, preserving only their instruments, with which they at last descended in safety in a vineyard near Lagny. The motion in a balloon is scarcely perceptible. You are not conscious of rising; but the earth appears to recede from you, and to advance to meet you during a descent. In the higher regions of the air, the intense solitude of the cloud-scape has something in it awful and oppressive, as if the world were left behind forever, and the aeronaut were about to launch chance-driven into the vast infinitude of shadowland. Amid these altitudes, if any sound is made by the aeronaut, it is echoed back in ghostly tones by the vast envelope of tne balloon, which as it floats casts a shadow sometimes black and some­ times white, but which is usually sur­ rounded by an aureole or halo more or less distinctly marked. In throwing out ballast or any small article from a balloon, a certain degree of caution is requisite, as a bottle or any similar object falls with such ve­ locity that if it were to strike the roof of a cottage it would go right through it. We are told that Gay-Lussac, in an ascent in 1804, threw out a common deal chair from the height of 23,000 feet. It fell beside a country girl who was tending spme sheep in a" field, and as the balloon; was invisible, she con­ cluded--and so did, Wiser heads than hers--that the chair had fallen straight down from heaven, a gift of the Virgin to her faithful followers. No one was skeptical enough to deny, it, lor there was the chair, or rather its remains. The most the incredulous could venture to do was to criticise the coarse work­ manship of the miraculous seat, and they were busy carping and fault-find­ ing with the celestial upholstery when an account of M. Gay-Lussac1 s aerial voyage was published, and extinguished at once the discussion and the miracle. In 1868 M. Tissandier and a profes­ sional aeronaut made a voyage over the North Sea in a balloon called the Neptune. The machine made a splen­ did ascent and was soon floating in mid­ air, buoj'ant as a feather, at the height of 4,000 feet, bound, as the aeronauts fondly hoped, for the coast of England. But in this they soon found that they had counted without their host; the Neptune, impelled by the wind, was soaring away in the direction of the middle of the German Ocean. This most inauspicious goal struck terror for a few moments into their ardent souls; but they were soon reassured by ob­ serving that the wind in the atmospher­ ic regions below them was setting to­ ward the shore, and that by sinking in­ to this lower current of air they could return whenever they chose. Thus yielding to the current of their fate they allowed themselves to be carried out to sea, floating like gossamer into the very heart of cloudland. Gorgeous scenes/ more splendid, more airy, more delicate than the most glow­ ing visions of the Arabian Nights, rose around them. It was like the en­ chantment of a vivid dream. They took no note of time; every sense was absorbed in .that of vision; they even forgot to be hungry, but gazed, and gazed, and gazed again upon the wide waste of waters that spread beneath them, gldyving like one vast molten em­ erald; its glories half seen, half hid by the multitude of cloud-mountains and valleys that rose, fluctuating and fantas­ tic on every side, fair with luuinous half-lights, delicately lovely with pearly iridescence shading into silvery gray. Thus hovering miles above the world and its commonplacc cares, they en­ joyed an interval of transcendent de­ light, rudely broken in upon by the pro­ fessional aeronaut, a creature of appe­ tite, who pulled the valve-rope unbid­ den, thus causing them to descend from their cloudy paradise into the grosser atmosphere that immediately surrounds the earth, where they at length be­ thought themselves--of lunch. In spite of thick-thronging poetic fancies and transcendental raptures they made a very tolerable repast, M. Tissandier fin­ ishing his portion of the fowl by tossing a well-picked drumstick overboard. For this imprudence the professional was down upon him immediately. "Do you not know," quoth he, "that to throw out ballast without orders is a very serious crime, in a balloon?" M. Tissandier was at first inclined to argue the point; but on consulting the sensi­ tive barometer he was fain to admit that, in consequence of the disappear­ ance of the chicken-bone, the Neptune had made an upward bound of between twenty and thirty yards. Very flnecal culation--if true. Luncheon satisfactorily over, they again soared upward out of sight and sound of earth, and soon found them­ selves once more in their cloudy Elys­ ium, but with a change; mist and log hemmed them round instead of the breeze and sunshine, but did not make them less happy. The Neptune was to them a little Goshen, a lonely float­ ing temple of peace, dedicated to con­ tentment and' ease. The serenity of their souls was depicted in their faces. Tranquil and easy they took no thought of the morrow, no, nor of the next hour, when suddenly there broke upon their ears, like a faint, far-distant murmur, a sound subdued, monotonous, and yet terrible. Was it the voices of the spheres? No, gentle reader; it was a strain more awful still --it was the voice of the sea. In a moment the listlesS ease, the sweet do­ nothingness of those idlers in cloud­ land was gone, clean washed away by the swish and swell of that intrusive ocean, which stretched beneath them, painted by the sunset with a thousand | matter of vital importance---of life and glowing fintjS^of beauty", whicli iftey death--and it is an imperative dutv of all had neither leisure por |^n<fui|gtf to ; housekeepers to see that they are fur- admire. Fortunately thlwigdvfis set­ ting inshore, and amid^the fait, fall­ ing shades of night the anxious aero­ nauts were fortunate enough to descry a cape crowned with a light-house. Every nerve was strained to reach it, and, after a few moments of intense anxiety and effort, the anchor was let go. It caught in a sandhill, and the Neptune, once more moored to earth, rolled over on its side and was after some difficulty secured. The spot where they landed was, cu­ riously enough, only a few yards from the reef of rocks where the first aero­ naut, Pilatre de Rosier* was dashed to pieces in 1785..* Sometimes, like other bubbles, the balloon bursts, and when this little accident happens, say 4,000 feet up in the air, it is, of course, attended with unpleasant and inconvenient conse- -quences, as-was the experience of MM. Fonvielle and Tissandier* who with a party of nine made an ascent in a veteran balloon caiied "The Giant." Merry as larks they soared into the air, keenly enjoying the beauty of the day, the novelty of the pastime, the sense of liberty, of entire freedom from all wonted conventionalisms or accus­ tomed restraints. Then with what a keen school-boy edge of, appetite they fell upon their chicken, which seems the appropriate food for balloons, eaten from newspapers, which served as plates, and washed down with soda- water and Bordeaux. Champagne was inadmissible; an unruly cork might have popped unawares through the silken tissues of the envelope, and thus hastened a catastrophe. But let us not anticipate. The banqnet was over, the board, that is to saj- the newspapers were cleared, and "the feast of reason and the flow of soul" had begun. All was bright, airy, genial cordiality and mirth, when suddenly the attention of the travelers was attracted to a white smoke issuing from the sides of the bal­ loon. Y/henee came this ominous mist, this preternatural cloud, that began to enshroud them? One reckless youth said, "It is the giant smoking his pipe." And so it was with a venge­ ance! Then followed a few terrible moments, in which each after his own fashion bade the world farewell and found it marvelous hard to do so. The clouds, the sky, the pleasant sunlight-- was that their last look at each? It seemed so; but while they were still shivering dizzy and aghast upon that awful threshold, the balloon fell, and, strange to relate* fell safely, and.they were saved. ~ \ A few days afterward Mons. Tissan­ dier made another ascent in the Nep­ tune with Mons. de Fonvielle, and they were busily engaged conducting some scientific experiments when a sharp crack like a sudden, quick peal of thun­ der fell upon their astounded ears, and the professional aeronaut exclaimed in a loud startled voice: " The balloon Jias burst!1* What -followed We give, in Mons. ^Tissandier1 s own words: It was too true; the Neptune's side was torn open and transformed suddenly into a bundle of shreds, flattening down upon the opposite half. It's appear­ ance was now that of a disc surrounded with a fringe! We came to the ground immediately. The shock was awful. The aeronaut disappeared. I leaped into the hoop, which at that instant fell upon me, together with the. remains of the balloon and all the contents of the car. All was darkness. I felt myself rolled along the ground and wondered If I had lost my sight or if wo were buried in some hole or cavern. An in­ stant of quiet ensued and then the loud voice of «the aeronaut was heard ex­ claiming: 4 Now come, all of you, from under there!' " And one after another they emerged unhurt into the sunshine in time to Did farewell to a few frag­ ments of the balloon which were float­ ing away upon the rising wiud. Such experiences must, as a rule, be trying to the nerves of most people, and we must be so plain as to say that traveling by balloon ts at best an act of extreme danger and temerity. In order to utilize balloon^, it is evident that some sure meaiij of gjaidiiig them must be invented, and this discovery or any­ thing approaching to it has yet to be made: In fact, a balloon is still, after about a hundred years' experience, lit­ tle better than a toy .^-Chambers' Jour­ nal. . Avoidable Misery lid Deatlf. •> nished with safe oils. If the person with whom you deal cannot furnish them, go to the next town, or elsewhere, until th§y can be found, and in the meantime use tallow dips, or anything but cheap oils. If nothing better can be done, let two or three neighbors combine and send for a barrel of some reliable brand, but under no circum­ stances use unsafe oils for a single night. Lamps never explode, the vapor of unsafe oil does, and will, somehow, in spite of ^very lamp. No matter what the kind )f oil, never fill a lamp while it is lighted, and even with the best oil be as careful as if it Were unsafe.--American Agriculturist. Youth's Department. 'M Witt NOT a cheerful topic, but one that it is our duty to treat. We have hardly looked through a paper for leveral months without finding a notice of serious burning or death, from the care­ less use of kerosene. Did all these casualties occur in one place, and with­ in a few days of one another, the ac­ count would be more appalling than that of the yellow fever in a Florida city, or of a battle in Turkey. As they are scattered here and there, but little heed is paid to them-jet the aggre­ gate of kerosene accidents is frightful, and what is the most distressing fea­ ture, they are all avoidable. A large share of these accidents--so-called--re­ sult from the use of kerosene in kin­ dling fires. Bridget find? the wood is damp, or the kindlings do not burn up at once, so she gets the can, and pours on the kerosene--that is usually the last of Bridget. \V$ dp not call these accidents--they are wilful self-slaught­ er. We suppose there is no help for absolute idiocy of this kind. But be­ side these suicidal performances, we find that there is just now an epidemic of lamp explosions. These, while equally avoidable with the fire-kindling catastrophes, are likely to occur with a different class of persons, and it is im­ portant for every housekeeper to think of this matter. What kind of kerosene are you using? It is not" welt to trust altogether to the storekeeper; it is a matter of quite too much consequence to be indifferent about. There is danger, and great danger, in poor oils; with gOoa oils there is no danger--provided ordinary care be used. The light oils give just as brilliant a light as the heavy ones, they are much cheaper-- but you use them at a fearful risk. Any oil that gives off an inflammable vapor at a heat of less than 110 degs. is unsafe; this is the lowest that should be tolerated, and the best oils will stand the test of 150 degs. or more. It is a Marine Aniinatoalegf . Darwindelates, in his "Natural­ ist's Voyage Round the World," that, on the coast of Chile, a few leagues north of Concepcion, and, again, a de­ gree south of Valparaiso, when fifty I miles from land, the ship Beagle passed ' through great bands of discolored water. Placed in a glass, this water showed a reddish tint, and, examined under the microscope, was seen to be swarming with minute animalcules, darting about with rapidity, and often acquiring a rotatory motion, at the con­ clusion of which they exploded. The animals were exceedingly minute, be­ ing invisible to the naked eye, " and covering a space equal to the square of the thousandth of an inch." "Their numbers were infinite," says Dr. Dar­ win, "for the smallest drop of water which I could remove contained verv many. 11a one day we passed through two spaces of water thus stained, one of which alone must have extended over several square miles. What in­ calculable numbers of these micro­ scopic animals! The color of the wa­ ter, as seen at some distance, was like that of a river which has flowed through a red-clay district; but, under the shade of the vessel's side, it was quite as dark as chocolate. The line where the red and blue water joined was distinctly defined." , At the head of the Gulf of California there has been noted, from the time of the early Spanish navigators to the present day, a body of similarly-discol­ ored water; while at the mouth of tho Gulf there have existed patches of a deeper red, which have given the waters the name of the Vermilion Sea. During the survey of the Gulf and its shores by the United States steamer Narragan- sett, in 1876, an opportunity was af­ forded of examining these waters and ascertaining the origin of their pe­ culiar tints. Dr. Thomas H. Streets, U. S. N., furnishes an account of the investigation in the pages of the Amer­ ican Naturalist. After much careful examination through the microscope, the same animalcules were discovered, which Dr. Darwin had seen in the wa­ ters off the coast of Chile, in 1835. At first oniy molecules were visible in the field of tne microscope, across Tvliich small objects darted like a flash and were gone. "Finally," says Dr. Streets, "one of the little bodies mentioned above, stopped directly in the center of the field of vision, and commenced a rapid rotatory movement, which pres efltly ceased, and the animal was qui­ escent for a second or two; when, lo! a rupture occurred, its molecular con­ tents oozed out, and its transparent en­ velope became invisible. This, then, was the solution of the mystery." Dr. Streets describes the animal as " ©val in outline, with a projecting lip at its broad extremity, fringed with cilia. The rotatory movement took place around the smaller end as a pivot, and it advanced the same end in its to-and-fro movements. The envel ope is a transparent and apparently structureless membrane, and in its in­ terior are greenish-yellow granules, or bodies with dark rims and bright cen­ ters. These bodies floated loosely in the cavity of the animal, for, when it revolved, they changed their places like pebbles in a revolving cask. They averaged about the 1-12,000 Of an inch in diameter." These minute animals have %een known to inhabit the same localities in the Gulf of California for more than 300 years, " remaining as closely ag­ gregated as a community of indiviu uals endowed with reason or instinct, and not exposed to dispersing causes. . The great Colorado Kiver, at the head of the Gulf, constantly pours into it an immense volume of water, which has a tendency to carry things sea­ ward, as it does logs and other drift; yet here is this microscopic animal, the 1-1,000 of an inch long, exposed to the same influence, b|ut remaining in^ its chosen locality for centuries. What keeps these masses together forever in one place, in spite of the circulation of the waters on the surface of the earth?" In certain portions of the Gulf there are brick-colored patches of water, hav­ ing a caustic property, which inflames and blisters the skin of those who .bathe in it. Dr. Streets encountered this MISS MUSLIN BORROWS AN UM­ BRELLA. Qpiday, aa.Mim Mwlin. of Qnintilli»n Bqoare, Waa returning from--well, I don't recollect tehm. It came on to rain; m> she ran. belter-shelter. Up the Btepa of a mansion dose by, to take shelter. When, lo! in the doorway, umbrella in hand, «. stood an old lady who said, very bland, Wnen 1 see people caught thus, I generally bring em, As fast as I can, my umbrella of gingham. " Aad there's only one thing that I'll ask yon to In return"-- t̂he old lady went on;, " 'tis you B t̂arnit at once. If you don't, you Kill rtw "O yes rootled Miss Muslin, "FU certainly do So she thanked the old lady and bade her good day, And burned off home. Yet, I'm sorry to say That she left the umbrella down-stairs in the rack; And two weeks after iAmt it was not carried back. And I fear the affair would have gone on that way From then until now--but that, one wild March rtRV. Oar hemine, already dressed to go calling. When she came to go out, tound the rain-arope were falling; And as ill-fate would have it, it happened that ail The umbrellas that usually stood in the ball Were gone, save the borrowed one. " Well " exclaimed she, " I shall have to take that one, for all that I nee." "Why," she said as she raised it and turned from the door, " Deary me! How it blusters and rains, to be sure!" But she held her umbrella quite low down in front. And pushed on--when she all at once heard a low grunt; Then, before she oould lift the umbrella up, ran With such impetus into a little old man That he found himself suddenly bent quite up double. , "O, d<«rmej" shemurmurea^X^a«w Tdsee And Jnst then, as she hurriedly turned round a corner, A terrible gust of wind rushed out upon her, And, seizing with firm grasp her luckless um­ brella. It twisted and tugged at it " tike \ good fel­ low. But our heroine (being a very determined ¥ourtu person), was not slow ia making np her nnnd That she would not let go--so she shot her lips tight, And held on to the handle with all her «m«ll • might. And little Miss Muslin, of Qnintillion 8quare. Would have quickly been carried straight up in the air. And never come down to this day, without doubt. But that j ust then th* umbrella turned inside 0>1(.' And there she was left in the wind and the rain. Quite unable to turn til* umbrella again; While a rude little boy, who'd been following after, Stood by and looked cm almost dying with laughter. And just then, as by magic, she saw at her side The old lady that owned the umbrella, who cried 1 Well, well! what does all this mean, Vd like to know. Pray is that my umbrella you're maltreating so?" ' O dear," said Miss Muslin " you srtid I would rue it If I did not return it?--why didn't I do it!" " Yes," the old lady said, while Miss Muslin's cheek burned, " I should say it was high time that it was re­ turned.'" --John lirownjohn, in March Wide Awake. water in the Bay of Muleje, 41 an in­ dentation in the coast more than half­ way up the Peninsula, where the whole surface of the water was of a milky-red color. The body that gives to this water the strangely-caustic properties is not a mineral, but an animal--a flag­ ellate infusorium--the common Nocti- luca miliaris. In this well-sheltered bay they accumulate, from their light specific gravity, at the top of the water. How thick the stratum was we did ijot ascertain, but we may form some [idea of its extent from the fact that"we steamed through the tract in a straight line for four or five hours, at a speed of about five miles per hour. We dipped a canvas bucket in their midst, and, when the water was drained off, it remained ^naif-filled with the ani­ malcules. Tfiey resemble minute grains of boiled eggs. Every drop of water was literally crowded with tnem. They were so small that it required two or three to cover a pin's head. It is very easy to comprehend how, if this bay were agitated by the slightest cause, it would glow like as a broad sheet of liv- ingflre." The sailors of the Narragansett, who bathed in this water, experienced a con­ siderable inflammation of portions of the skin; but the trouble was of short duration.--Chicago Tribune. smelt! What were they? Dig an|! rooted all among them wit! all his prying, inquisitive strength; hi must find out. "Yap! yip, yap, vow!" Oh, of ale the screams that ever came from a poop dog's mouth! Something had take! hold of the end of his nose with a snaj _ And as before, he worked hard to get in, so now he worked harder yet to gb, it out; but it wouldn't come, it stuclt-- fast! He scratched and pawed thi ground in his rage and pain, howlis* most miserably. Up sat the old colored man, an&_ rubbed his eyes. '4 What do dat mean ?"* • And then he saw a small brown amma& struggling apd kicking half under thjf ^ bag, and yelping as only a dog can in such circumstances. " Hii yi, yjff* You're caught good now, my fine felloysfj, ain't youP Wat foryonben peerin' i# "' - ter my tings for? He, he, he!"n But being a kind-hearted old fello^i > he soon proceeded to release tfy<| wretched little dog from his mean pos|| tion. He untied the neck of the barf, but not without many grins; pot in hj| hand, and turned around and over tl*i contents until he came to the particife> lar part of the bag that was causinjf Fidget'3 distress, just opposite the how where his nose was fast, and then, chuckling as he did so, " Bress you! I don't believe you'll go pokin' that now of your'n in a clam bag agin," hfi forced open the shells of an enormoifjji clam, who, resenting the impertinendfc ' of Master Fidget, had snapped her jaWit together on the very end of his nose. Without a word of thanks, away fle# * " fidget with his paw up to his nose-* awav with many a hop and a jump, howling as he went. Where did he goP Why, where every boy, girl or dog always does go, when* ever they are in any mischief or tronbto --home to mother lor comfort aftdhelp. - --•Youth's Companion. s Morions Fidget. THERE was once a little brown dog who was always minding other people's business more than his own. It was a dreadful habit, this spending so much time seeking for news and adventures, and poking and prying so much into the affairs of others. His mother was a good, staid. Old dog, who felt very badly about this restless trait of her child's, and who often talked very seriously, and warned him that sad consequences would sure­ ly follow such a persistent spying and meddling with other people s con­ cerns. But you could not possibly tell our little brown dog anything; and he didn't mind, so he had to learn by sad experience the penalty of having his own way. He would run and race him self almost to death in search of some gossip or investigation, poking his nose into ash-bins, dust-heaps and whatnot, in hopes of some stray thing to find out. If he heard a 3light noise at the corner, away he would jump and stand with his ears pricked up, one eye turned up street, and one eye turned down street, to see if he could tell exactly where it was. What matter was it if he couldn'tP Why, it worried him almost to death, if lie couldn't see and hear everything ! When he was a little baby dog, he was so pretty with his bright eyes, and thick, brown hair that curled in rings, that the children declared he must be called Fido; and so he was for a time, but as he soon developed such a miser­ able, disagreeable habit as the one I am telling you about, he presently began to be called Fidget--and often Old Fidge! His nose grew long and sharp on the end from constantly poking it so much into other people's business* and as he never had time to take care- of himself and form neat, tidy ways, his pretty, soft, brown coat became a mass of frizzy, crinkly hair. One day he was going home from one of his long rambles, and he thought he would not go home quite then, so lie sat down to rest in a lane by the roadside. A short distance from him, lying oathe ground under a tree, was an old colored man fast asleep. Near him, on the ground, was a large, strong bag. Now, as soon as he saw it. Fidget became perfectly possessed to know what was in the bag. So he got ujit and walked around the bag. Then, as he saw that there was no prospect of awakening the old. man, who, having walked miles with his load, was very tired, he grew bolder, and, with one eye on the sleep­ ing man, commenced to snuff and peer around the bag; he put out his paw and began to scratch ana feel of it. After prying around some little time, he found, to nis great delight, a small hole on the under side of the bag, at one end, just large enough to admit his long nose, but not large enough to take in his inquisitive eyes. Delighted at this discovery, he pushed in his nose and sniffed with long, searching breaths the hidden mystery. He poked around there among the eon- tents, pushing hard to get his head in, but of no avail. They were queer, oval things--some of them smooth and moist, some were soft and damp at one end, like a little brown bag that shrank and wrinkled away from his tantalized investigations; so he pushed and scram­ bled all the harder. Oh, how good It Perseverance Cenqaers DUfealties. A MOST wonderful and ingenious bird is the Turnstone. It has earned this singular name by the manner in which it procures its food, which is by turning over, with its strong, curved beak, thtf stones on the sea-shore, in order to ob­ tain the insects under them. A great naturalist, named Thomas Edward, who is now living, tell& « vexgp curious story about these birds. Mr. Edward from his boyhood alwas* delighted in wandering along the sea­ shore, or among rocks and caves, or anywhere where he could watch close­ ly the habits of animals, birds, ori£» sects. He met with some strange ad­ ventures in these rambles. One day as he was walking along the sea-shore on the Scotch Coast, near Banff, Mr. Edward saw two strange- looking little birds standing by a large* object, which he afterward found to be a dead cod-fish. Hiding in a hollow among the shingle, he watched the little creatures eagerly, for he knew thqy must be Turnstones, and those birds are seldom seen on that part of the coast. These two little creatures were try*" ing hard to turn over a cod-fish, but as it was six times as large as themselves they found their task rather difficult. Still they set bravely to work, pushing away first with their bills and then with their breasts; but in spite of their poshing the fish would not turn over, so thev ran round to the other side of it, and began to scrape away the sand to undermine him, so that he might turn over more easily; and then with fresh energy they set to work, but still the heavy fish would not move. What could they do? The}- did not act as some of you little boys and girls do when you have a diilicult task to accom­ plish--give it nPjin despair, and pet­ tishly declare it Is of no use trying. No, their motto seemed to be, " If at first you don't succeed, ' • Try, try, toy again." < t *3 i' I don't suppose they said so to eaoh other, but no doubt they meant it; for again they returned perseveringly to their wcwrk. Presently another Turn­ stone came flying toward them from the* rocks, and 5lr. Edward could hear a low, pleasant murmur of delight at this timely help. So now there were three to tackle the obstinate fish, and many hands* or rather beaks, made light worh m removing the sand; then, with a long push, aad a strong push, and a push all together, at length they raided the fish some indbes above the sand, but it was too heavy for them, they could mot turn it over--down it sank again. , Foor birds! they were obliged to rest for a while, to recover' from their dis­ appointment. But still the dogged lit­ tle creatures would not be beaten; thrusting their bills under the fish, they managed to lift it again, and with an­ other united push with their breasts^ at last the fish rolled over and the brave little birds were victorious. You may imagine how much they enjoyed the rich feed of insect? which they found where the lish had lain. " I was so pleased, and even delighted,"- adds Mr. Edward, "• with the sagacity and perse­ verance which they had shown, that I should have considered myself guilty of a crime had I endeavored to take away the lives of these interesting beings at the very moment when they were exefcising the wonderful instincte implanted in them by their Creatoy^-- N. T. Observer. 9 --Hiram Cranston late proprietor of the New York Hotel, appointed tluree executors--his wife and two etheas. The latter refused to qualify. Mid the creditors of the estate have since ob­ jected to Mrs. Cranston's acting as. the sole executor'. They alleg«*l that her manner of living was. ex­ travagant, and in proof of this statement adduced the remarkable fact that she purchased from one-New York shoemaker eight or ten pairs of shoes and slippers in less than a year. The property consists of #400,0tt> worth of real estate, and personal property amounting to f15,000. The matter was compromised, Mrs. CraiHtoo^ consent- ing to the appointment of a disinterest ̂ ed person as admiaistralor. --Stanley is Uaviug a tirat-rate tim% knocking around with " them Kings?1* in Europe. A reporter vflll find iris level wherever vou put him.--Detroit Frte Prm* * * IF-* Mfc * ' •-.fH .