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parents, guardians, aociety and govern­ ment more important than a careful trevision of ptop«r reaaing lor chil-ren, or rather a atrict prevention of admission of improper literature Into our homes. Reading necessarily helps Jbi the formatfcmetf character, ana often exerts a greater, influence upon the young than anything else, or all things Use. Literature of the Jack Sheppard er BuffalbBtl! e^Atfcctdr is nGfc caleu- to developour boys into such *»el> lien as will be of benefit to either man* kind or themselves; and yet it is a Ifeffieatftb!-? f*et. that thousands of oar boys and girls are being sallied with this sort of trashy literature. New York is the place of publication of sev- «ra! young people's periodicals which fire doing an injury that it is simply impossible to estimate; and not only lire those papers which are denominat­ ed young folks1 papers doing thi? in­ jury, but special energy is oefyg put forth by the publishers of many New fork story-papers, so called, to get lheir b! ood-and-thnnder'&fid lote stones Into the hands of children. ifcts not an .'(infrequent occurrence to find the agent* these publishers standing near our School-houses with arm-loads of this perfectly useless and worse than use­ less stuff which they distribute among *e young going _ to or coming from School. That It Should be stepped no t^prht-minded man or woman will deny. • |p Chicago a determined effort is being Ihade to prevent the sale of liquor to minors, and the movement is receiv­ ing verv general support; but what a Storm windignation would be raised if * man shwoW stand at the doors of our achool-Hbuses with bottle and glass in Itand to tempt the children to ruin. Yet jttiis is what these distributors of trashy fJew York papers are doing. It may he safely stated that liquor itself would do no more harm, for this kind of read­ ing leads to the formation of character which is so utterly shiftless that it soon *nd readily bends before the storm of ??^Hce in all its various aspect?, I| is doubtful if parents take'Iras trouble*to fiseerfcain the true character of much of •Jhis literature. All thOilgfrijful people know that the very foundation of sub­ stantial character is laid in the home, $nd not only consists pf contentment amidst the home surroundings, but illing obedience on the part of the hild to parental rule. Whatever dis- rbs the former or prevents the latter - fs a serious detriment, and is likely to jj-esult in the final ruin of the child. Yet |;he literature of which we speak is cal­ culated by its vulgar tone, not to say Obscene character, to accomplish this ery ruinous result, liideed some of it irectly and emphatically teaches dis­ respect for the parent, disobedience to ibome authority, and dissatisfaction Ivith home restraint. Entire stories re often made up of a broadly'expressed mpudence to father or mother, and of f the slang words and phrazes that ave ever originated in the bar-room or ong the outcasts of society. The ather or mother who expects to devel- p from the child an honorable and use- 1 maa or woman in the midst of such influence is deserving of guardianship. But if parents have not sufficient in­ terest in the welfare of their children keep them out of an atmosphere thus tainted, society has some rights in the premises which the parent is bound ' to respect. No one has the right to snake a criminal or idler out of a is or her child. Society has the right to de- taand that every household shall be so jgoverned, and protected from such in­ fluences as are detrimental to the for­ mation of right character and indus­ trious, useful habits, that the boy or S^irl, upon reaching maturity, shall be (|a help ani not a burden to it. It is very far beyond the right of the parent .to compel the community to support jhis offspring in the almshouse or to ! Ibuild prisons to prevent the commission of crime. And generally society steps in to protect its rights when they are in danger. If a father is directly teaching his child to be an crtilfow, so- i^y^ietF rill demand that he gtwi 'tip the jehild to other care; but there are thoa- --NO an.ds of fathers who in cftrelessy per­ mitting the New York trashy chiiaren's v-;--jpapers, and nauseating love stows, to <iato -the iliauds'of their children, iare doing this very thing.' This, indeed, b going to be one of the most fertile f' . sources from which the army of tramps •--going to be recruited in the future. In a jstory now before us, and which has been taken from a New York child's paper, a disobedient boy, after pouring "forth a volume of impudence to the fa­ ther who is attempting to correct him, "is made to say: "I am going to run away, and come back to this old one­ -horse town when I am a man, in a gold band-wagon, with silver Vheels and ;®i* Maltese mules a-drawing it. Prob­ ably the old man will be in the poor- house then, swallowing shadow soup with an iron spoon." Now there is no I language strong enough to censure a | parent who will permit a boy or girl to .read & story composed of such debasing ^ stuff. But what must be said of a man who is so far lost to all sense of honor 1871, and the present date, a penoq of six and one- half years, no leas than twenty-one sav­ ings banks in the City of New York have been deolared insolvent. THS Peabody Fund in now amounts to about been increased by a donation Of 000 from an anonymous atfutoe. the close of the jfnar 8,6$6 persons resided to the dwellings built toy this fund. THB(<I Bfitash Newspaper Press Pi- reetofyV-tat exhibit* 1,744 news- paperspubtfabed in tfcp. (felted ffing^ doni. In .wyinlte^ , in' wf there were 8.075 newspapers and pe­ riodicals. British newspapers 158 are daily, while of the American 709 are daily. a . In a contribution to the Austrian Jfonolscfcrtyi /. d. Orient, Baron von Richthofen reckons the coal production of Chimijat 3,000,000 tofts annually,. The anthrax t* beds of Shansi repiffesent 1,000.000 IbiWj the bituminous coal of that Province, 700,000; the Province of Hunan, 600,000; Shantung, 300,000; and Chi-li, 150,000. IT appears from the report made to the International Sunday-School Con­ vention at Atlanta, Ga., that there are 76,580 Sunday-Schools in the United States, with 6,438,286 scholars. New York stands at the head of the list of States, With 908,899 scholars; Pennsyl­ vania is next, with 782,025; and Ohio is third, with 621,702. THE coinage executed at the mints during the month Of April fs as fol­ lows: 8I78I 18,900 Total sold Total mh iollltta • • I ilver. . - I t o t e l c o i n a g e . u » 6 , 1 4 8 * 9 3 0 THE Brazilian Empire has been obliged to issue $10,00<)£000 to $20,000,- 000 in papet money to meet current GX-, penses, the treasury bemg depleted and unable to meet its payments, although 6 and even 6| per Cent, interest is of­ fered by the treasury fcr six-months' loans or renewals. This 'is owing to. recent extravagances in prosecuting public works. ; THE total expenditure for the main­ tenance of the Central Park Menagerie," New York, during 1877, amounted to $11,336--being $4,000 less than in 1876. Only $25 was expended for the pur­ chase of animals. A number of star­ lings (Stumus vulgaris) and English pheasants were last summer liberated in the park. The starlings remained through the summer, tmt departed in the autumn. THE Procurator of the Russian Church has reported to the Emperor that at the end of 1875 it had 38,602 churches, including cathedrals; 12,860 chapels and oratories; 98,887 arch- priests, priests, deacons and precent­ ors; and 56,500,000 members, of whom 29,000,000 were women and 27,500,000 men. The income of the church for the year was 11,278,111 rubles, of the nom­ inal value of $9,398,425. LORD ROSEBERBY, who married Miss Hannah Rothschild, the other day, is a much greater man than is generally supposed in America. The general supposition in this country is that he is merely a member of tne House of Lords, a millionaire, and a gentleman of more than ordinarily elegant leisure. Nothing could be further from the truth. Lord Roseberry is far more than all this. He is the editor of a newspaper. „ A TABLE of distances around the world may not be uninteresting, and so 1 append it: MUf. New York to Ban Franciscota.. ,.v. ,. .... .3,460 San Francisco to Yokohama.!,.. .4: 4,764 Yokohama to Hong Kong .... -34 1,620 Hons Kong to Singapore.. * 1,150 Singapore to Calcutta V. .; ..,.t > v. .s 1,200 Ke'JS3^i:r.r.-?.^K--.r.a8 A<kn to Suez-- - ManeiUm to Paris. i.... -,r. .A.,,. Pane to London .'-- London to Liverpool-- iihci-oooltoHec; 7-:>rk ..-T. The above lucludea this direfct line around the world. There are any num­ ber of detours that can fee made if the traveler has the time, money, patienoq and endurance 'to iiiake them.--Cor. London Times. -1,308 . 250 .1,900 . 586 . 316 . 2% .3,000 % (>•* I and manhood as to write or publish it. g " It pays the best," is the dirty plea of ?such monsters in human shape. It pays best to ruin our boys and girls! It *! the love of Son or daughter! It pays ^ best to wrong society! Mo, it does-not; and these men who think otherwise will awaken to a realization of the fact » one of these days. It does not pay to , | ruin a soul, or do any kind of a wrong. ^ JMo man ever yet succeeded in the long < vnn in doing wrong. | Wc are glad to see that a part «f the most influential of the Hi as tern press is ,'jk taking hold of this monstrous evil and 4 sounding the alarm. This kind of lit- ure |s wholly an Eastern product, it is exceedingly becoming that the i, should begin to deal with the evil. The Poston Herald, -itself not a para­ gon of virtue--finds the outrage entirely t too bold and monstrous to sanction any "* longer, and utters a severe denuncia- tion of it; the Boston Transcript follows •" aiiif, md the Atlantic Monthly chimes in. Wfio&ir as we of the West are concerned, f a decent regard for our own interests 11 would seedi to demand tlmt legislation | be invoked, if the laws are not already sufficiently strong to reach s^ch case*, to suppress the sale of such incendiaity literature.--Western RurcU. ' off down to the present AJ^myto: H., the coronation oeremony nan men place in this same ehufch, on platform in the o«iter of tbe bnllding. The cathedral is more than rich. ItTs ^ It--cow>s Beauty and 8qvai(»w AFTER breakfast I proceeded to take a general view of the town. It is the strangest mixture of Beauty and squalor that can be seen. Here is a church painted bright green all over, with a Sicture of some saints above the door fext it is a little, dai k shop where icones and lamps arc sold. A little farther on is a narrow, somber passage, running through to thb next street, with shops opening into it, where all sorts of small wares are exhibited. The proprietor stands at the door and recommends his goods to the passer-by. At tbeend of the street is the Kremlin, that wonderful remnant of. barbaric splendor. If you stand and look at it, as I did, under a dull March sky, the sharp little snowflttkes pelting you fiercely in the face, with melting snow undfer foot and a general nastiness and sloppiness all about you, you will be Sioyed to a sort of wonder that these igh white walls, these queer-colored domes and roofs and all thid strange architecture could ever be admired by any but a savage race. But go to the same point of view on a clear day, aft­ er a snow-storm, when the ground is white and clean, when the sun scintil­ late* on the delicate tracery of the which surmount the" domes, crosses when the domes themselves take deep- hades of blue and green and golf ly--then you will * ter the real beauty Which this apparent barbarity er s and gray--then you wil 1 the rej een and gold appreciate bet- underlies all inch in floor, or ceiling, or frMsi <wfc)e(i is unomartiented. The' awem ct * the back of the altar is of solid gold. $fee icones have necklaces ^4 , tiaras<of diamonds, emeralds and pegnH. The chandeliers are of siimir. The walls are covered with paintings and mogaic work of Siberian marbles. Splehdor gleams from every corner. No Words can express the fiched of this ohtrrfch. It is said that all the we^tAi of ^l the Ros­ si as could not buy the contents «f this one little building. , But for quaintnes^, barbarity and beauty combined, the Church of St. Basil is unequaled. It stands outside of the Kremlin walls, near the Holy Gate. It is m low building, with eleven queer, mushroom-shaped domes, eac|| Sainted a different color. Under every ome is a chapel dedicated to some saint Dark narrow passages lead from one chapel to the other. Here Is displayed the same richness of orna­ mentation as in the cathedral --gold, silver and 1e#els everywhere. There a legend attached to the church, which was repeated to us no less than five times by as many different people. It was built* by an Italian architect, in the reign of John the Terrible. When it was completed, the Czar called the architect before him and inquired if it was possible for him to build anything more beautiful. The Italian replied that it was; whereupon the Czar ordered his eyes to be put out. This story, like many others which are told of John the Terrible, lacks proof.--Cor, Bosfan 4d- vtr*Kr- -ssim,, Entering the Holy (irate, which is nothing remarkable to look at, every­ one, not excepting the Czar, must un­ cover his head. From the walls of the Kremlin there is a magnificent view of the city. Raised so high above it, the squalor and dirt do not stare one in the face, and the hundreds of minarets, and spires, and crosses, all brightly colored, and the green roofs of the houses with the low range of the Spar­ row Hills on one side, across which the French army marched, and from where , Napoleon got his first view of Mos- The Speaking phonograph I TOLD Mr. Edison, when I wrote to him to send me one of his Speaking Phonographs, that I wanted it to give an exhibition before a lyceum, and that I would like to have sent with the in­ strument any jgood things in the way of music, recitations, and so forth, that be had secured for use in the phonograph. He forwarded what appeared to be quite a choice collection. It came in the shape of dotted strips of tin-foil, labeled, so that I could select anything that suited me. Upon the evening of the entertain­ ment, after explaining the machine to the audience, I picked up one of the strips of foil, and fixing it on the phono­ graph, I said: Ladies and gx ntlemen«*-Mr. Edison has kindly furnished me with, a bit of tin-foil upon which is recorded a part of 6 Washington's Farewell Address.' If you listen you will hear those immor­ tal words repeatod distinctly." Then I turned the crank, and to my amazement, from the funnel came these words, in a loud, shrill tone: Oh, Mary had a little lamb, it jumped np to the sky.andwhenitlitii0on itefeet.it said. How's that for high ? ' The audience laughed unfeelingly. "Edison," I sajd, "has evidently got­ ten things mixed somewhat. Labeled the wrong strip, of course. Let us try something else. We have here a few strains of that tender and pathetic mel­ ody, 4 Home, sweet home,' a sons which many a tearful wanderer has sung with saddened and longing heart. I win now produce it;" "Rake hear down, Sal! rang dang diddlev! Bake her down! Bake her doiml Bang dang diddle!" It came from the phonograph with a hilarious scream, to the intense delight of the audience, with the exception of a man on the front bench, who looked indignant, and said he know the thing was a humbug. I will write to Edison about Ms carelessness," I said, warm with em­ barrassment. " Such mistakes are sim­ ply distressing. I find here a strip la­ beled ' Fragment of a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher.' This, I know, must be correct. I will give it a turn." I seized the^ erank and moved -it tell-' derly. The phonograph thereupon ex­ uded lLo following observations: • :; 'i f The-fcoy r.tood-on-tho-bnraing-de^s, His*luggage-checked-i'or-Troy; HM-hat4jTew-off-aad-br«Ve-isi9-iideki * His-name-wus-Pat-Ma loy-ov-o JOOV !" Several persons giggled. Three re­ spectable-looking men in the back part of the room got up, and went home The man on the front bench said that now he knew it was a fraud; for Mr. Beecher never preached any such doc­ trine as that. " This is unfortunate--^most unfortu­ nate!" I said. 44 Edison's carelessness is simply scandalous. Let us try some more music. Among the labels I no­ tice Schubert's Serenade. I will start it, and if it goes wrong I shall stop." "Meow-ow-ow! Ee-e-̂ ow-ow! Pst-pht-pst-me- ,ow-ow-ow---<•" Evidently an imitation of cats." I said, stopping the crank;'while the man in front looked as if he would burst if he couldn ot express his disgust in some violent manner. ** Suppose we try *A Life on the Ocean Wave,'" I suggested. Edison must have some of them right. I will pasjg tbe strip on. "liui>-»-dub-dnb! Three men in a tnb. The batcher the baker, the eamifcartiok-inaker, all jumped out of a--" Four whole families rose in the middle of the house and drifted off down the aisle toward the door. The discon­ tented spectator in front gave a hysteri­ cal laugh, waved his hand scornfully, and said: 46 Didn't I tell you so? Nothing but the awfullest bosnf' ' 44 Probably we maf be mote success­ ful with something of a humorous char­ acter " I said, beginning to wish I had Edison in some secluded place where I could scalp him. 441 will how give you apart of Artemus Ward's comic lec­ ture on »Forts.11* I turned the crank. "Now, 1 mytself believe that the mind, carried op to its intuitional state, is exalted to a higher plane and a higher sphere. I believe that the the extract from the farewell nddfess, I am not certain which. But let us try once more. Edison has marked this 4 comic negro aong.' I don't belieye it is; but will ascer­ tain. One mom trial noir. Here goes:" A life on the ocean home, a wkte on the fweet. where the raariog l » bounding deep. O. alue on _-- and the wind* though I a*jr 1«T«fci O, fr-r- r, I--I think this mnstbe a mixtaire of the two songs that I--LL'*5 * ' ,7r "Oh, immortal Caesar!" exclaimed the man on the front bench, 4'don't f ive us any more explanatory slush, ou know mighty well you're doing that on purpose^ You've got an Irish­ man under the stage throwing up his voice, and I expect he's drank. Pin going home." Then he stalked down the aisle, and when he got to the door he turned off the gas. So we adjourned the meeting. I begin suit for damages against Edison at the May term of court.--Max Adeler, in N. Weekly. - - . . • iJi' Origin and EYOIVUOB EF fans. . ,M THE fundamental ideia of the fan Is said to have been hit upon agreat maiiy centuries ago at a certain Feast of Lan­ terns, where the beautiful Kan-si, daughter of an eminent Mandarin, found herself so hot that, contrary to all etiquette, she was obliged to take off her mask with which--partly to hide her blushes, partly to cool her heated face--she commenced upon herself the process whieh we now call 44 fanning." The action waf seen and admired by Kan-si's young companions, and at once, says the narrator of this truthful legend, 4410,000 hands agitated 10,000 masks." Other writers have discov? ered the origin of the fan in the neces­ sity felt in all hot countries for keeping off flies, whether from sacred offerings in the temples or from the hands and faces of the officiating priests, or from the persons Of the population generally. In India and China the original model of the fan is said to have been the wing of a bird; and an admirable fan can al­ ways be made from two lords' wings, joined by a strip of wood. The fan of the High Priests erf Isis was in the form CHURCH OF THE ^S;.. BORN." . \ *<«»-'•* . .; .if m I":"!(Psa*naumm ratm twinI (I) r the hoi? mountains fonnd' <*, stands aiorned withfgjK «; Oh the h walis and towers hrth > ouaded; on her, Hal smiling fast* ' .?« all on Jehovah )ov« flfis 29km, u low to her undying. lor her that Jwua died. / in (iota things of thee, oft spoldin, tand thy gaud through every age. • ft < f Boni, WM., flobHwmebmtbvnea* _ ^?hen thy day or ulor7 Bat O Zion (wondrous stc When thy splendors eye shaJl iee Kteth alttlf boast her chlefeut gioty, That her were born in uiee. til Hi I iii : sons were born in 1 Are, it will never be forgotten. . When the Lord makes up His oount, 1m Hia chonen were begotten, > JBach one in thy Holy Mount. ;, Well Jchorah will remember, When He notes the sons of men. That in thee, each mystic members .,.. -Pf Hishonse was bom again. () . ^ --Christian OU*n«r. Sunday-School Lessoiii t.i ->J SECOND QUARTKR, 1878. May 19 -Dream of Nebuchad­ nezzar........ May 26 -The Fiery Furnace. „. June 2--I he iJanawntlng on the Wall Juae K Daniel in the Lion • I)en • ;•••• June 16--Messiahs Kingdom.. __ Jnne 23 -The Decree of Cvrns. 2 Ghron. 96:22 23* June 30--Review of the Lessons for the Quarte, ~ " jV w;:s man; denind to m«uvy is they go broken, disappointed hearts, and try to ! • "aSBfiKSaS^ •nfWwy wnrns to ngtnntMr ""•"igMwr m*rm %«•;»« " Nowdraap 'and thedazkaMR." ; What a Mewed thing it thfcr a*ooti»»> chqrd of sympathy, and wJba4n,ben- dietion comes over our ow%J oinm, as we look nponHth^.^ ^ 6f our own tdala AMb apnmtaHe, withj full heartednesa, the heavier eompwg ofll <many of onr friends, whi<4i -«#e notCM hard to diseov^r, if OUT ^etare not al-i' ' Whether turned npoii ' I } when yOKf iliirfe ilmw imiae, myi {friends, and you feel that the donds}' hang over you heavterthan ov«r etlwrgrtM1 and that God's afflictive hand is crush-W |ing ycur heart and •. lile^ -iemeiaib«r thePV sweet words of the little child, 'put flowers on the other graves, too" . •land .go with cheerful 'bear the sorrws of StandariI. ire to be; song^t inti sli^ious «sion.. It la a erudef? v": Q1A itt ^ Two OBJECTS are church music, re and religious expression. notion that no music is legitimate infk church except that in which the wholeST congregation may join. The cofijfre-*0 gation may be benefited by listening as| well as bv singing. But those whoM listen find emotions stirring; within^; gh Priests of Isis was in the forni saa as well as a glad home to Mrs. lirey; of a half-circle, made of feathers of I sad because of the absence of the one was bright with the love and cheer which pervaded it, and made that spot of all on earth most dear to each mem­ ber of the family, and a hospitable, hap­ py resort for a large circle of intimate, reciativc friends. And yet it was a as well as a £rlad home to Mrs. Grey; "owu cmuuuiis 3birrijij£s WltltlBi jfcntol them which ^ will do them good to ex-f _ s«ol4b ' Press for themselves; and therefore the11* r*™ | congregation ought to have an oppor- Daniel g:l4-2^ ; tunity to po^r out its, voice in a ,grand»4 Daniel_7: 9-14, , choral song. And when the congrega-V* tion is called on to sink the yaJ tie of!* 1 the chorus as a leader is felt. The con-i*- negation will sing with a chorus toj lead; and led by such a force of stead- It is quite frnpos-^*. ere ging, or that the diaoords should themselves prominent. . n >(, Pneonsclons SJI tx a neat, pleasant home in one of f ilv-marching melody our quiet villages, sat Mrs. Grey, one sible that tkere siiotild be anv drhg4f^ c o l d , b l e a k d a y m F e b r u a r y , H e r h o m e ~ -- -- ^ - j * - ' * it actio a ot any faculty i* that which wuler very hitfh excitement. 1 " Here I dropped the crank. Some of the people hissed. A boy in the gallery whistled on his fingers. The person on the front bench fairly writhed with disgust. I heard him say to the man behind him that in well-governed coun- tries Penitentiaries gaped for sttch men as me. different lengths. Such, too, were the fans carried in triumphal processions, and which among the Egyptians served as military standards in time of war. The Sibyls are said to have been ih the habit of fanning themselves as they de­ livered their oracles--the fan being evi­ dently npt regarded in those days as in any way connected with frivolity. The fans carried by the Roman la­ dies were not, like the most ancient Chinese fans, made in one piece, whether of paper, gauze, or silk, but were composed of little tablets of per­ fumed wood. The ladies of high fash­ ion were followed when they went out walking by fan-bearers or flabeiliferce, and guests of both sexes were fanned at dinner by slaves charged with that particular duty. The earliest reference to fans on the part of a classical author occurs in Euripides1 tragedy of "Hel­ ena," where one of the characters, a eunuch, relates how, according to the Phrygian custom, he has fanned the hair, face and bosom of the beautiful heroine. The fans of the Middle Ages were in good society worn suspended from the girdle by chains of gold, and were usually made of feathers; those of the peacock, ostrich, parrot and pheasant being preferred. They were sold in large numbers, at the markets of the Levant, whence they were sent direct to Venice, and from Venice to other Earts of Italy. The fan is said to have een introduced in France by Catharine do Medicis, where it was quickly adopt­ ed not only by women but by effeminate men. Thus Henry IIL's notorious minions habitually carried fans. Un­ der Louis XIV. and XV. the art of painting ornamented fans was brought to great perfection. Among the cele­ brated painters who have not disdained to employ their talents in the artistic decoration of the fan, Watteau and his successor, Boucher, must first be named. In our own time Diaz, the great colorist; Eugene Lami, chiefly known by his marine pictures; Hamon, the painter of scenes from ancient Ro­ man life; and Gavarni, celebrated as a caricaturist, but who has exercised his talent in almost every style of pictorial art, have all painted" fans. The most famous sculptor and decorator of fans in the present day is Froment- Meurice, generally known as a gold­ smith and jeweler, but who is in fact a great artist. The French Fan-Mak- ers' Company was established by edict in 1083, when to be received into the guild or corporation it was declared necessary to have served four years' apprenticeship, and to have produced a "masterpiece.'1 The masterpiece, however, was not required of the sons of fan-makers, nor of apprentices who had married fan-makers' daughters. A great number of processes are em­ ployed in fan-making. The frame has to be cut, shaped, polished, trimmed, engraved, inlaid, painted, gilded and riveted. The web has to be printed, gummed, colored and retouched. Yet after passing through so many hands fans can be sold in Paris at one sou apiece. This is the lowest possible fig­ ure; the highest quotations, except in special ewes, as wnere the talents of a great painter are called into requisition, being $400. Fans are broadly divided into two classes, those Consisting of one web of paper or silk, and those which are made up of several thin strips of wood or other material. The former are held to be the best for fanning, the latter for shuffling, or for the maneuver, known in the days of the Spectator as " flirting " the fan. It was during the reicm Of Elizabeth, about the year of 1570,"that fans were iiMf iminf/v J nnu -- _ -- vvv* 1UW 1UOV aic said to have been brought from Italy, but probably reached England from France, where they were brought into fashion 8 bout 1560, by Catherine de Medicis.--Pall Mall Gazette. --A witness, on being cross-ques­ tioned lately, swore that he was in the habit of associating with every grade of society, from lawyers up. The lawyer who "had him in hand" gasped out " That's all!" and sat down. T ter, and glad because of the blessed at-' mosphere of his presence which seemed to pervade the home, even yet, and for the joyful memories which were con­ tinually brought to mind. Mr. Grey had been a prominent mer­ chant in the Town of Greysville for many a long year, and was known and loved by all the country round for his strict business integrity, his genial, courteous manners, his kindliness of heart, his noble ways. He was ac­ knowledged by all to be a true noble­ man, in all that the term implies. He was not only loved and honored by his fellow-townsmen and by the members of his church, but in the hap py home, where he was best known, he was the joy of the whole household, and his absence of even a day was felt and regretted by all the family, from the loving wife to the little child, who bade her father a cheery good-bye in the morning, and whose blue eyes and laughing face greeted him at the win­ dow each evening on his return. About a year ago, tbe time of which we write, Mr. Grey was suddenly taken sick with a raging fever, and almost before the friends could realize it, he was delirious and past all help. The light, joyful atmosphere of tbe house become heavy and sad; the children were taken to the home of a friend; the bells were muffled; friends, and nurses, and doctors spoke in Whispers as they tiptoed through the halls, and, ere many days had passed, the bright spirit had taken its flight to that better land, had become a citizen of that heavenly city, in that country from whose bourne no traveler returneth, and the home so recently full of mirth and joy, was strange ana sad in its en­ vironment of sorrow. For a few days the hearts of all seemed to beat in sympathy with the sorrowing ones, and then they seemed left to carry their own burdens, ami the v.'orld moved on in its restless, busy way; other interests and sympathies took possession of the hearts of friends, and the sun seemed to shine for ail but Mrs. Grey and the dear ones that clus­ tered about her. But to them "Theface of all the world waa changed." In the early spring-time, while yet the bleak winds sighed over the barren fields, Mrs. Grey took her little child with her, and went to lav flowers upon the grave of her husband.. The cheery little one helped to Carry the basket and talked in a bright, happy way about the flowers, ana how glad dear papa would be when he looked down from Heaven, and saw them going with them. " He'll know we don't foxget him, and he'll see his little Tot trotting along with these beautiful flowers; ana you'll let me lay some on the grave, won't you?" But how even a child's words can turn one's thoughts away from self, and make one feel that though her own sorrow may be heavy, she's not the only burdened one--that " There are trials besetting every path • ' Which call for constant care? M - f»s •Tfeftre is a croea in every lot , ,, And earnest need for prayer.** r"n ' • These words were brought to the mind of Mrs. Grey, as kneeling by her husband's grave, and fooling that in losing him she had lost more than any­ one ih the world beside; that the sun no longer seemed to shine for her as it used to; that the earth which once was a paradise, seemed now adreary waste; her little girl, looking about upon the many other graves, said with a kind, bright look, " Mamma, let's put some flowers on the other graves, too." Ah, what a suggestive thought! On the other graves, too! Yes, an sau tut your trial maybe, my .friend, remem­ ber there are others who have as heavy, yes, heavier burdens to bear! While you look back on only sunny forward to jc a Jarg©^ The great meetings of the• pvangel-™ ̂ ists show usf the value of! botn' or! these! methods of praise. «The solos of Mr.!* Sankey are often impreftsive; who Willi* cavil at this method of [conveying truth^ or awakening emotion ? The choruses^* of the great choir are often still mow impreskive;fi ho person who w*tch)e« congregation- listening to spirited aacb ?. triumphant sacred song from body of trained singers .will doubt ti value of such a service as a means of, , religious impression. And yet for ther* proper rendering of these choruses is better that portions of them be sungjM* by a single voice, or by two or three or four voices. ' A phrase or a stanza may often be well delivered in this manner, ' heightening the effect of the music, and> fixing attention still more strongly, upon the words of the song. Then, when the great congregation, moved' by the singing to which it has listened; and the other services in which it has' engaged; is called to " stand np and v bless the Lord" in some simple and familiar hvmn, its response is a burst of praise In which the angels might well wish to join. Whatever, therefore, Mr, Moody's theories of church music may be, his meetings show us the value of solo> singing, of quartette singing, of chorus singing ana of congregational sing-" ing, and make plain to us that we ean afford to dispense with neither of these, methods of praise in our jhurch)^--• Sunday Afternoon for May, The Oldest Fortrettft*v"11 voyager who ascends beyoad4feer First Cataract of the Nile, finds himself > in a narrow valley shut in by granite , hills, and only sees here and there a space wide enough for cultivation. There are buildings of all ages and** kinds, chiefly temples; and at intervals, where the sandstone ridges approach the Nile, he finds vast grottoes carved in the face of the cliff; the greatest of all being the furthest--namely, the. Temple of the Sun at Ahosliek, bet- > ter known as IspambooJ. Amid this wealth of architectural f remains, the" best of thcin on the western bank, thef e?.5tlo opposite Dakkeh, on the oasteni bank, is very often passed by unvisit : ed. Yet it well repays a visit, though, the visitor wishes in vain for some one competent to describe the defenses as. Mr. Clark would describe a Norman' Keep in England. For, though it is; built of crude brick--that is to say of mud--and though it is 700 miles from the sea, and though it is one of the' oldest buildings in the world; having* been erected 2,500 years at least be« fore the White Tower, yet to. Um eyesj of an English traveler it resembles nothing in the world so much as the' Keep of Rochester or of Guildford. There is the ditch, with scarp ami counterscarp. There are square tow-> ers overlapping the corners. There^ are fiat buttresses not reaching the top of the wall. There are gates with nar-1 row walls and Signs of draw-bridges. There is a covered way down to the water's edge. We might be exploring a castle on the Thames or the Dee, ex­ cept for the material of which it is built. The walls, some fourteen = feet thick at least, and still in less than forty in height, are al) If rmed of great blocks of sun-driet^ jpnd, very like the sods of peat one s^ in Scot­ land and Ireland. Here and there the impress of the maker's hand mnyiie found, and yon may lay your fingers the veiy marks left by a into flesh and blood, of cles, of skin with a lines such as you palm, yet who lived ntanof nerves and ppust thousand delicate see in your' Own and labored' fafad died more than 3,000 years ago. Seine of the marks are small, <*nd mus* be those of a woman's hand; for female labor, by which to-day the new streets of Cairo are built, was, no doubt, the rule in Egypt under Hatasoo as it is under Ismael. Of the history of the fortress opposite Dakkeh, of'ity very name, we know nothing. Ceqtnrias be­ fore Joseph or Moses, centurkfe before the siege of Troy, tens of oenthtibs be­ fore William the Normah, ttton&rehs days, and look forward to joys un- had castles builtfor them, andeinptored speakable, there are many whose back- the labor of their 8ubjeot8> |5gefnd ward l°ok is full of strengthen their o wn nhiiiii tfnfrr day Review. and who have no hope beyond. Let us remember them; let us lay the flowers of sympathy and kindess upon their hearts, if not upon the graves of those tnanfc their own, nbains nfliftt» ^ i m * -- '~r'• *' --Women are generally pretty smart; but they cannot hold a caiuile to * can they loved; let us be thankful for the j of kerosene with safety.