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LOST IS THE W0©HS. • IwfHfeer'd "VtoA&imAafka Veri- Si»«airt HvvrhusaOriettelhi as how lie got lost in the wilderness. Ht lua The forest was of hard wood, and open, except for a thick undergrowth of moose-bush. It was raining; in fact, it had been raining, more or less, for a month, and the woods were soaked. 'This moose-bush is most annoying stuff to travel through in a rain, for the broad leaves slap one in the face and sop him with wet. The way grew every moment roord dinjajy. The heavy clouds above the thick ioli*g« brought night on prematurely. It was decided­ ly premature to a nearsighted man, whose glasses the rain rendered use­ less. Such a person ought to be at home early. On leaving the river bank, I had borne to the left, so as to fee sure to strike either the clearing or the road, and not wander off into the measureless forest I confidently pur­ sued this course, and went gayly on by the left flank. That I did not come to any opening or path only showed that I haa slightly mistaken the distance: I was going in the right direction. I was so certain of this that I quick­ ened my pace, and got up with alacrity every time I tumbled down amid the slippery leaves and catching roots, and hurried on. And I kept to the left; it even occurred to me that I was turning to the left so much that I might come back to the river again. It grew more dusky and rained more violently, but there was nothing alarming in the situ­ ation, since I knew exactly where I was. It was a little mortifying that I had miscalculated the distance, yet so far was I from feeling an v uneasiness about this, that I quickened my pace again, and, before I knew it, was in a full run --that is, as full a run as a person can indulge in in the dusk, with so many treesin the way. No nervousness, but simply a reasonable desire to get there. I desired to look upon myself as the person '%not lost, but gone before." As time passed and darkness fell, and no clearing or road appeared, I ran a lit­ tle faster. It didn't seem possible that the people had moved, or the road been changed, and yet I was sure of my di­ rection. I went on with an eneigy in­ creased by the ridiculousness of the sit­ uation, the danger that an experienced woodman was in of getting home late for supper--the lateness of the meal being nothing to the gibes of the unlost. How long I kept this course and how far 1 went on I •do not know, but suddenly I stumbled against an ill-placed tree and sat down on the soaked ground, a trifle out of breath. It then occurred to me that I had better verify my course by the compass. There was scarcely light enough to distinguish the black end of the needle. To my amazement the compass which was made near Green­ wich was wrong!. Allowing for the natural variation of the needle, it was absurdly wrong. It made out that 1 was going south when I was going north. It intimated that instead of turning to the left I had been making a circuit to the right. According to the compass the Lord only knew where I was. The inclination of persons in the woods to travel hi a circle is unex­ plained. I suppose it arises from the sympathy of the legs with the brain. Most people reason in a circle; their minds go round and round, always in the same track. For the last halffoour I had been saying over a sentence that started itself: "l wonder where that road is?" I had said it over until it had lost all meaning. I kept going round on it. And yet I could not be­ lieve that my body had been traveling in a circle. Not being able to recog­ nize any tracks, I have no evidence that I had so traveled, except the general • testimony of lost men. The compass annoyed me. I've known experienced guides utterly dis credit it. It coukurt be that I was to from a^^the«SieOUIfein' turn about and go the way £ had come. Nevertheless, I said to myself, You'd better keep a<w>1 head, mv bnv. or von are in for a night of it. better listen "toscience than to spunk. And I re­ solved to lised the impartial needle. I was & little weary of the rough tramp­ ing, but it was necessary to be moving, . for with wet clothes ana the night air |. was decidedly chilly. I turned toward ? •the north, and slipped and stumbled -along. A more uninviting forest to pass the night in I never saw. Every­ thing WSb suukeil. II I uecautu ex­ hausted. it would oe necessary to build a fire; and, as I walked on, I couldn't and a dry bit of wood. Even if a little punk were discovered in a rotten log, I had no hatchet to cut fuel. I thought it all over calmly. I had the usual three matches, in my pocket. I knew exactly what would happen if «I tried to build a fire. The first match would prove to be wet. The second match, when struck, would shine and smell, *nd fizzle a little, and then go out. There would be only one match left. Death would ensue if it failed. I should get close to the log, crawl under my hat, strike the match, see it catch, flicker, almost go out (the reader pain­ fully excited by this time), blaze up, nearly expire, and finally fire the punk --thank God! And I said to myself: The public don't want any more of this thing; it is played out. ..Either have That's a cat," siifl the guMe. 1 felt, in a mo­ ment, that it was the Wlce of ** mod­ ern oultchah." "Modern culture," says Mr. Joseph Cook, in a most im­ pressive period, "modern culture is a child crying in the wilderness, and with no voice but a cry." That describes the catamount exactly. The next day. when we ascended the mountain, we came upon the traces of this brute, a spot where he had stood and cried in the night; and I confess that my hair rose with the consciousness of his re­ cent presence, as it is said to do when a spirit passes by. Whatever consolation the absence of catamount in the dark, drenched and howling wilderness can impart, that I experienced; but I thought what a satiiw upon raj present cc edition *vas modern culture, with its plain think­ ing and high living. It is impossible to get much satuaaction out of the real and the ideal, the me and the not me. At this time what impressed me most was the absurdity of my position, looked at in the lisrht of modern civil­ ization and all my"advantages and ac­ quirements. It seemed pitiful that so­ ciety could do absolutely nothing for me. It was in fact humiliating to re­ flect that it would now be profitable to exchange all my possessions for the woods instinct of the most unlettered guide. I began to doubt the value of the "culture" that blmits the natural instincts. It began to be a question whether I could hold out to walk all night; for I must travel or perish. Ana now I imagined that a specter was walking by my side. This was Famine. To be sure I had only recently eaten a hearty luncheon, but the pangs of hunger got hold on me when I thought thai I should have no supper, no breakfast; and as the procession of unattainable meals stretched before me I grew hungrier and hungrier. I could feel that I was becoming gaunt and wasting away. Already I seemed to be emaci­ ated. It is astonishing how speedily a jocund, well-conditioned human being can be transformed into a spectacle of poverty and want. Lose a man in the woods, drench him, tear his pantaloons, get his imagination running on his lost supper, ana the cheerful fireside that is expecting him, and he will become haggard in an hour. Iam not dwelling upon these things to excite the reader's sympathy, but only to advise him, if he contemplates an adventure of this kind, to pro7ide himself with matches, kin­ dling wood, something more to eat than one raw trout* and not to select a rainy night for it. I had now given up all expectation of finding the road, and was steering my way as well as I could northward towara the valley. In my haste. I made slow progress. Probably the distance I traveled was short., and the time consumed not lon»; but I seemed to be adding mile to mile and hour to hour. I repeated something like a thousand times, without contradiction, " What a fool you were to leave the river;" I stopped twenty times, think­ ing I heard its loud roar, always de­ ceived by the wind in the tree-tops; I began to entertain serious doubts about the compass; when, suddenly, I be­ came aware that I was no longer on level ground; I WAS descending a slope; I was actually in a ravine. In a mo­ ment more I was in a brook, newly formed by the rain. Thank Heaven, I cried, this I shall follow, whatever con­ science or the compass says. In this region all streams go* sooner or later, into the valley. This ravine, this stream, no doubt, led to the river. I splashed and tumbled along down it, in mud AND1 water. DOWT| hill we went together, the fall showing that I must have wandered to high ground. When I guessed that I must be close to the river 1 suddenly stepped into mud up to my ankles. It was the road! Run­ ning, of course, the wrong way, but still the messed road. It was a mere canal of liquid mud, but man had made it and it would take me home. I was at least three miles from the point I sup­ posed I was near at sunset, and I had before me a toilsome walk of six or seven miles, most of the way in a ditch. But it is truth to say that I enjoyed every step of it. I was safe; I knew where I was; and I could have walked till morning. The mind had again got the upper-hand of the body and began to plume itself on its superiority. It was even disposed to doubt whether it had been "lost" at all. I»x of matches, or let eatch tire. the first one Wonders of Greenland. (? _____ ' • „ MK. CLEMENTS MABK&AM last night, at the London Institution* gave a lec­ ture on Greenland. His history of the early discoveries included the voyage of Eric the Red and a curious expedition of clergymen in the thirteenth century from the Bishopric of Gaidar, in the south of Greenland, toward the un­ known north. The "Norsemen built churches and villages on the rare green strips up the fiords, but the savages de­ stroyed them; and for three centuries Greenland was closed. Hall was the first Englishman who laid his bones on the shore of Greenland. In 1721 Hars Egede, the apostle of the Esquimax, landed in Greenland. It has been found impossible to penetrate for any distance into the vast interior. The natives be­ lieve it to be inhabited by enormous and malignant beings. It is 820,000 square miles in extent, the whole being a mass of ice. A Danish Professor in 1820 made his way for thirty miles inland, and described the scene he saw. There is nothing but a white world supporting a blue vault. From far be­ low one's feet there comes up a moan­ ing noise, the voice of rivers flowing far beneath. Occasionally there are loud reports from the opening of a cleft, a vast mass of water pierces its way in the ice down to the underlying granite itself, for thousands of feet. At thirty miles from the coast the height above the sea was 2,200 feet, and the ice was still rising. A wonderful sight is that of the colossal rivers, deep and broad, which flow between tall blue banks, and pour at the end of their course down a cleft with a mighty cascade, which is conspicuous from a distance by the cloud of mist which always hangs above it. On the strips of the land near the coast the Greenland flora, though scanty, is very pleasant to the eye. Vegetation covers the ground in thick masses, forming turf in the level places, while it fills the chinks and crannies of the rocks and creeps over the surface of the stone, giving a bright appearance to the land in summer. The prettiest thing of all is the club moss, with its graceful little white bell flow­ ers like miniature lilies of the valley. With it are generally the dwarf willow and birch and the whortleberry, with its red berry and glossy little leaves. As far as Disco, but not farther north, there are beds of lady's mantle and angelica and masses of holly fern, the erect red blossom of the pedicularis, bright little red and white saxifrages, the dandelion potentillas and ranuncu­ lus, the Arctic poppy, the sweet-smell­ ing ledum paluster, and the showy, purple blossoms of the epilobium al- pinum. The study of Greenland botany, interesting in itself, derives special im­ portance from the hypotheses to which its remarkable character has given rise. Sir J. Hooker suggests that the Scandi­ navian flora, which is one of the oldest in the globe, extended during the warm period preceding the glacial over the whole Polar regions, including Greenland and Arctic America. On the arrival of the glacial period, the flora was driven slowly southward to the extremity of the Greenland Penin­ sula in its longitudes, and to latitudes of the Alleghany and White Mountains their longitudes. The effect in Greenland would be to leave there only the more active forms of vegetation, the rest being, as it were, driven into the sea. On the decline of the glacial period, Greenland could be repeopled with plants only by the northwaid mi­ gration of the Scandinavian species. In America, the Scandinavian plants would ascend the Alleghanies, and many plants which had been driven out of Greenland, but preserved in south­ ern latitudes of North America, would reappear in Parry Islands and Labra­ dor. Mr. Markham dwelt upon specu­ lations like these, and upon facts con­ nected with the mineralogy, meteorol­ ogy, ethnology, etc., of Greenland, to snow the value of Arctic exploration for its contributions to science, as well as for the encouragement of that mari­ time enterprise to which our country owes so much of its greatness and re­ nown.--London Times. _ ting gloomy mood I plunged along. The prospect was cheerless; for, apart Jtaom the comfort that a fire would give, it is necessary at night to keep oft the WId beasts. I fancied I could hear the tteadof the stealthy brutes following their prey. But there was one source profound satisfaction. The cata­ mount had been killed. Mr. Colvin 4he triangulating surveyor of the Adil jondacks, killed him in his last official report to the State. Whether he dis­ patched him with a theodolite or a barometer does not matter; he is offi- ««ta!ly dead, and none of Hie travelers can kill him any more. Yet he has served them a good turn. 1 knew that catamount well. One Aright, when we lay in the bogs of the flbiDth Beaver Meadow, under a canopy It mosquitoes, the serene midnight was parted by a Wild and human-like cry Skin of Flesh-Eating Aifnih. TURNING to the structure of the group, oneof the first things that strikes us is the looseness of their skin, which instead of being stretched on the body as tightly as a drum parchment, as it is in grass-eaters--for instance, the ox or hippopotamus--is quite " baggy," hav­ ing between it and the flesh of the beast a layer of the loosest possible fibers. It is for this reason that the skin of any but & very fat dog can be pinched up so readily, while of a Herbivore it may be said, in the words of eukgy uttered by Mr. Saueers of his son Wackiord, Here's firmness, here's solidness! why you can hardly get up enough of him between your fingers and thumb to pinch him anywheres." In consequence of this the operation of skinning a lion or a bear is a comparatively easy one. After the first cut the beast may be pulled out of its skin, almost with­ out further use of the knife; while with an antelope or an ox the skin has to be cut away carefully and laboriously from the underlying flesh. The use of this loose skin will be very evident to any one who will take the trouble It was evident the snake felt his master in auickiiess of movement, and that his only safety lay in Iteeping his head coilea within his body, as the mongoose would not touch him in that position, probably knowing that if he attacked nim anywhere but on the head the snake would get a bite at him. The mongoose was evidently tempt­ ing the snake to strike again, but the latter knew better, and kept still. It became evident at last that the mon­ goose had determined to finish his meal on tho frog before he troubled himself again to make a decisive set at the snake, and so to shorten matters we stirred up his enemy to action by the help of along pole, and got him right opposite the mongoose, still intent on his meal. The fated snake seemed to know that the decisive moment could not be delayed, and Went 'at the mongoose, and, as before, all we could distinguish was a series of rapid movements and a fearful struggle; after which appeared the mongoose pinning the snake by the head to the floor, by a bulldog grip on the upper jaw of the snake, the latter writhing and struggling with all its might. The mongoose knew that if he once let go his hold his death was sealed, ana he held him down and regularly crunched the snake's jaw and head un­ til he was quite helpless, and then quietly finished him off, and ate the head. I was so glad to see the mon­ goose 'victorious, as the viper was such a beast. But the vicious way in which the mongoose held on made me shudder also; but he evidently hated snakes as much as I do. The mongooseJJappeared to be un­ touched, and in fact must have been so, or he would have died almost im­ mediately from the bite of a deadly snake of this kind, where he is alive to­ day, and none the worse, except being slightly lethargic, which is accounted for by the heavy meal he made on the frog and the snake. It is delightful to think that the poi­ sonous snakes have such an enemy in the little mongoose, which is tolerably plentiful in a wild state throughout the country. Before seeing the fight, I thought that the mongoose would prob­ ably only tackle his enemy unawares, and hardly expected that he really ex­ ceeded him in quickness of movement, as I am now convinced he must do, and really conquers him scientifically, evading his dart and returning it stili quicker, with fatal accuracy. * It is rather unromantic to eat your enemy after killing him, l|ut the little mongoose certainly deserved his meal, as the snake had fair play as well as he, and four days' accumulated poison in his fangs, so that any little mistake in the mongoose's accuracy would have been fatal to him. I have been so in­ terested in having this question of the mongoose's powers decided before my own eyes that I have thought it worth detailing to you. I hope, therefore, the subject may be a new one, and of interest to you as well as to us.--Cor­ respondent jrom India. Religions. TJENCE. MP *WBBX there no night W« could not r*sd the stent. The heavens would torn into a blinding glare Freedom is beat Been through the priwm-'bars. And rough seaa make the haven jMming fair. We can not measure joys but by their low; When blesfdnea fade away, we see them then; Our richest clusters grow around the croag, And in the night the Angela sing to men. The seed mast lint be buried deep in earth. Before the lily open* to the sky; . So " light is sown, and gladnem has its birth In the dark deeps where we can only rry. "Life out of death," is Heaven's unwritten law; • Nay, it is written in myriad forma; _ The victor's palm grows on the field of war, And strength and beauty are the fruit of Btormn. Come, then, my soui, be brave to do and bear; Thy life is bruised that it may be more sweet: The ctom will soon be left, the crown we 11 wear-- . Nay, we will cast it at our Savior s feet«J, > 4 And up among the glories never told, '* V-1 > Sweeter than music of the marriage-beH, . • Our hands will strike the vibrant harp of gold well." 'aqazine. #ur irnniu win siriKt; uic viuirnu To the glad'Bong, " He doeth all things ̂ --Henry Burton, in Sunday Magt Snnday-Schooi Lessons* FHIST QCAWnftt. 1878. Fab. 8.--Jeliosaphat lU'pi o*ed. .2 Chron. 19: 1-9. Feb. 10.--Jcbusaphat Heiped of God.. ....... 2Chron.£0:14 22. Feb. 17.--Joash Repairing the . Temple 2Chron.24: 4-13. Feb. 24.--Ueziah's Pride Pun- ished ......... 2 Chron.26:16-23. Mch. 3.--Alias'Pensist'nt Wick- edness 2Chron.!t8:19-27. Mch. 10--Hez'kiah's Good Keign. 2 Cimin.29: 1-11. Mch. 17.--Ilezekiah and the Assyrians. : --2Chton.32: 9-21. Mch. 24.--Manasseh Brought to _ Repentance 2 Chron : 9-16. Mch. 81.--Review of the Lessons for the Quarter. Bob's Sermon. none of those things. I was botfng down to a particular work which I eouj$ not set aside, and which I have been obliged to follow up to the present day. But I told you I had one consolation* and that consolation I tender to von. I knew, and I know, and yon know, that there is a time comifW VteB £1 will be clear; when you ahn.11 know even as you are known--then MI intel­ lectual Dives will be no better informed ' than pious Lazarus. And all this learn and believe--and I trust that you will learn and believe it, too--from the {iromise given by our most blessed -ord--4 Seek ye first the Kingdom o| God and His righteousness, and all these. things shall be added unto Y. Observer. you. The Religion of Charaetk., „ J, • _ to watch the great cats playing togeth­ er at the Zoological Gardens. They are eontinually scratching one anoth­ er; but the loose skin is dragged round by the claws which, in consequence, can get no hold, and do no harm; with a tight skin, on the other hand, the slightest scratch of such a claw as a tiger's, would cause a serious wound. The looseness of the skin is very evi­ dent in the puma and jaguar, in which it hangs in a fold along the middle of the belly, like a great dewlap.--OosteU's Natural History. --Next to committing matrimony, committing perjury in swearing to a savings bank return is the most likely to withdraw a prominent citizen from general circulation*--N. Y. Tribune. Fight Between a Mongoose and Viper* YESTERDAY I saw a most interesting experiment, if I may call it so; a fair tight between a mongoose and "a very 'poisonous viper. The Mongoose is a small animal, about the size of a very large rat, or half-again as big. It is something between a rat and a weasel, hairy, and with a bushy tail. It is known to kill snakes, and even the cobra, I believe, which if the most doadly of all. • But how the mongoose does it, is not generally known for certain, as I have heard several opinions on the subject since I have been in India. A large (russet P) viper, about two and a half feet long, said to be as dead­ ly as the cobra, was caiight a few days ago, and kept by a friend here for a day or so in a large box for curiosity's sake, and as luck would have it, a mongoose was brought in a day or so afterwards. It was undersized and out of condi­ tion, and we thought the hissing beast of a viper must be too much for it. We took them both into an empty room, when the snake evidently dreaded the mongoose at first sight, as he would aot leave his box for a time. When he came out, and the mongoose saw him, it ran up to him, and they faced each other, the mongoose evidently courting the snake's dart. It came like lightning, and the move­ ments of both were so quick that it was impossible to see what happened until they both appeared, struggling together, and after a time separated, the snake curling himself up with his head under his body, and hissing per­ petually, while the mongoose appeared to hive been bitten, ana ran about in an uncomfortable manner, and began to throw foam from his mouth. We then thought that he was bitten and would die, but 1 now think he had bitten the snake, and did not like the taste, hence the foaming at the mouth. However that may be, he soon showed that he was not the worse, and seeing a frog hop out of the snake's box, he pounced upon him and began a hearty meal, every now and then taking a run to look at his enemy, whom, finding still curled up, he returned to the frog and his meal in the most matter-of-fact manner. Slaughtering the Buffalo In Texas. THE Town of Griffin is supported by buffalo-hunters, and is their general' rendezvous in this section. The num­ ber of hunters on the ranges this season is estimated at 1,500. We saw, at Grif­ fin, a plat of ground of about four acres covered with buffalo hides spread out to dry, beside a large quantity piled up for shipment. These hides are worth, in this place, from $1 to $ 1.60 each. The generally-accepted idea of the exciting chase, in buffalo-hunting, is not the plan pursued by the men who make it a regular business. They use the needle-gun, with telescope, buy the powder by the keg, their lead in bulk, and the shells, and make their own cartridges. The guns in a party of hunters are used Dy only one or two men, who say they usually kill a drove of thirty or forty buffaloes on one or two acres of ground. As soon as one is killed the whole herd, smelling the blood, collect around the dead body, snuffing and pawing up the ground and. uttering a singular noise. The hunter' continues to snoot them down as long as he can remain concealed, or until the last animal "bites the dust." The buffalo pays no attention to the report of the gun, and flees only at sight or scent of his enemy. The others of the party then occupy themselves in "peel­ ing. Some of these have beeome so skilful they offer to bet they can skin a five or six year old bull in five minutes The meat is also saved and sent to mar ket, and commands a good price.-- Galveston News. How Two Brothers Met. AN interesting episode in the lives of two excellent actors occurred on last Sunday night, the time being midnight and the place a turnout on the North­ western Railroad, about half way be­ tween Charleston and Florence. Mr. Thomas Hunter, of the Janauschek troupe, is an elder brother of Mr. Har­ ry Hunter, the great comedian and the Lone Fisherman of the Evangeline Combination. The brothers, natives of Boston, had not met for years. ^ Tom was a passenger on the down train and Harry on the up train, and both learned to their profound sorrow that while one train would stop on a switch the other would go thundering on. The same idea occurred to each. They bore in mind that they were in South Caro­ lina, and each appealed to the con­ ductor of his train. The appeal was hot in vain. As Mr. Tom Hunter stood on the rear platform, handkerchief in hand, prepared to wave it to the pass­ ing train, the latter slacked speed, and the elder brother's heart pulsated quicker. What was his joy when the train stopped, and who shall depict the scene, as, in the darkness of night and in the swampy marsh of Carolina, they grasped each other's hand, and with a tew words hurriedly spoken and a lov­ ing embrace, the brothers, a thousand miles from home, met and parted!-- Charleston (8. C.) News. --" Hurrah! hurrah!" cried a young lawyer, who succeeded to his father's practice. " I've settled that old law­ suit at last." "Settled it!" exclaimed the astonished parent, "Why, we've supported the family on that for the last ten years." AWAY out in the mining regions of the far West I was holding a meeting. The place was a desperate one, and I had been warned not to go there; but God went along with me and took care of me. There was an organized band of gamblers, who had been a terror to all {ireachers and all good people. The eader of this band was named Bob. Through some generous turn Jof God's wonderful providence, I " got on the good side" of Bob at the very first; and, by a little tact, gained the ears of the whole band. They came to church and demonstrated, very soon, that they knew well enough how to behave when they had a mina to try. Alter a few days, Bob rose in church, and while I was making a little talk, and said to me, " Parson, let me talk a while." '• Say on, Bob," I replied. Turning his face about toward his comrades, he began: " Henry, old boy, you know I love you. You and I have been together in many a spree. Henry, old fellow, I can't turn away from you. I can't throw off on you, but, Henry, I don't want to go the old road any more. I'm down, mean down to the bed-rock. Henry, let's all stop and try t'other way. Boys, all of you, you know me. I don't want to quit you, but come, let's all 'bout face. I tell you, boys, we are all gone up the flume if we keep on the way we've been living. I am going to try t'other road, boys; come, go with me, won't you?" With such words as these, only with vastly more mining slang, BOD went on begging his old comrades to join him in coming to Christ. The effect was general and profound. The whole band melted down. Then we had a time of weeping and confessions. Strange stories were told about early homes for­ saken; early lessons long ago forgotten, about the iong descent down, down, down, to the life of crime. There were prayers and instructions, and finally, as we Verily believe, sound conversions^ more than a score of them. Bob organized his old comrades, his new comrades, now, into a prayer-meet­ ing, and, at last tidings, he and his friends were still faithful to the new life, and still continuing their prayer- meeting. , If unconverted people who are held back from Christ by fear of their com­ rades would only take Bob's plan, they might have all their old companions along with them here on earth, and have them for stars in their crowns in Heaven.--Angeron Page, in lAmcrican Messenger. A Seal Hobleman. WE know of no man in England who can show a clearer title to true nobility than the Earl of Shaftesbury. Besides filling his place in the House of Lord with distinguished ability, he devotes his time, his talents, his influence and his wealth to the promotion of the cause of Christian and philanthropic benevo­ lence. There is no one who is more fre­ quently called upon to preside at pub­ lic meetings or who acquits himself more honorably in his public address­ es, which are frequently elaborate. He recently delivered an address be­ fore the Young Men's Christian Asso­ ciation of Glasgow, which in addition to the sound advice it contained was filled with happy allusions to practical life, and to science and literature. He closed with the following personal state ment: " In early life I was passionately de­ voted to science, so much so that I was almost disposed to pursue science to the exclusion of everything else. Jt passed away, and I betook myself to literature, hoping that I shoula not only equal, but that I should rival many in men tal accomplishments. Other things were before me, and other things Fassed away, because, do what I would was called to another career. And now I find myself at the end of a long life not a philosopher, nor an author, but simply an old man who has en­ deavored to do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him. But then I had, and ever had, and have now, one consolation- and that consolation I tender to you young men. There are many of you lull of earnest desires after knowledge who would fathom the depths o£ science, or explore all the regions of literature, and seek to know every­ thing that can be.known. But yet you are interdicted from the full pursuit, because you find yourself bound down by an industrial and daily occupation. It was so with me. I could pursue IT seems not over-sanguine to find la ­ the signs of our times many ' yielding hope of another and a pro­ found regeneration1 of the religions spirit. These indications point to the identification of religion with personal; character at once in its simplest and largest sense; as right doing, the faith­ ful , the pafciant pursuit ol ail moral ex-' cellenee; as aspiration and toil towtfrd a perfect manhood, a manhood firmly planted in fidelity to all human and earthly relationships, and bound by conscious and vital kinship to the spir­ itual power of the universe. This re­ ligion, when fully developed, will recognize goodness as the one thing needful; it will find the noblest employ­ ment for all lofty and spiritual faims in applying them to produce integrity, pnrity, love, joy, pcace, in the lives of men; it will find in such fruit the best approval of the faiths that nurtured It; it will, let us hope, by making men mor­ ally better, and purifying their minds of the animalism, bitterness and selfish­ ness that dim the moral vision, enable them to discern as by intuition the great spiritual realities about which we ques­ tion, thus making good the promise that the pure in heart shall see God. While a religion of character will thus be in the strongest sympathy with spiritual faith, it will not condemn any man, whatever his belief, who in his life is pure and benevolent; it will not be afraid to accept the teaching of Jesus, that the supreme test question Is whether we have ministered to the hun­ gry, the naked, the sorrowful and sin­ ning. It will affirm without' reserva­ tion that the only real heresy is wrong­ doing. "Every man shall be Judged according to his works."--G. 8. Mer- riurn, in Scribner's Monthly. FACTS AND FI(*CRE&«» 4'.; ILLINOIS manufactures $205,000,000 worth of goods annually. AMERICA sent $1,000,000 worth of toys to Europe, last year. THE Maine State Prison last year paid $8,910 less than the expenses. THE first silk fabric woven in Amer­ ica, in 1800, is still preserved at Salem, Mass. THERE are eight Methodists in the United States Senate, and seventeen in the House. THERE were sold at the Del Norte United States Land Office, in Colorado, in 1877, a total of 319,381 acrgs of land. Two NEW YORK law firms have ex­ tracted $80,000 in fees from the (Charter Oak Insurance Company since Mar, 1871. • I THE Peruvian mines that Henry Meiggs was tunneling when he died have yielded $500,000,000 in silver since their discovery. THIS country imported from Japan, last year, through tne port-of San Fran­ cisco, 4,100,000 pounds of tea. From China we imported only 926,000 pounds. IT is estimated that the Moffett bell- punch, in Virginia, will bring Into the State Treasury only about. $300,000 a year, or $200,000 less than was ex­ pected. IN spite of the ratification of the Reciprocity Treaty with the Hawaiian Kingdom, the imports of sugar from that country fell off considerably in the year 1877. FOURTEEN bushels of chestnuts were sent last autumn through the mails, in small packages, from Merrimack Coun­ ty, N. H., to Helena, Mon. The post­ age amounted to $102.37. THE Cleveland Leader has discovered that the Cutholie Bishops of the United States held $9,000,000 worth of prop­ erty in 1850; in 1870, it says, this had increased to $60,000,000; now it, :lt $110,000,000. -Si THE total debt of Philadelphia is $73,615,351, including a floating debt NEARLY $12,000r000. Its S.NSSTR! "TO re­ ported by the City Comptroller at $83,- 328,194, including the Sinking Fund securities, parks, public buildings, etc. --The Agricultural Department thinks that coffee should be grown at home. It seems that the United States can grow its own coffee, as Lower Califor­ nia, a portion of Texas and Florida possess all the essentials of soil and limate. THE valuation of the State of •Con­ necticut for this year has fallen from. $358,491,451 to $351,785,469; the valu­ ation of New Haven has fallen in the same time from $57,843,163 to $53,- 359,464; and in Hartford the valuation has risen from $48,516,668 to $48,965,- 920. BUSINESS is increasing in the trade­ mark and label division of the Patent Office. The number of patents issured during the past year for registration of trade-marks was 1,416; of labels, 623. Total receipts, $39,192, an increase of $9,000 over 1876, and $30,000 in excess of the cost of maintaining the division. THE Hartford Post says that the Comptroller of Connecticut has made a very interesting report to the Legisla­ ture on the indebtedness of the coun­ ties and municipalities of the State. Adding the indebtedness of the State Government, the total indebtedness is $22,108,927.28. The items that make up this sum are as follows: State debt .§4,967,600 00 County debto .v.....'. a. ..... 165.186 II Town debts....;...^ City de_ Borough 9,448381 74 7,004,466 31 468,844 S Total 5102,118,927 SB The counties and municipalities have paid as interest, to carry their part of the indebtedness, $1,089,978.63, ^ the State has paid on its part $280,04$ making' a total ol $1,370,024.63.