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îiwiinwjriim. Mosik-: Mernlj on tlx* hillside, •... ltn<ter giant town, . StnetcUf d »!onn toe nii'lrtaft, CtttbinR MimMr'8 bi*eee.- . s IImt the ppla^h ami • " !'s -•Of the brook t» BWOPt> . S". (*i/r That in constant chattw^. <j£ ft. a :V* Tumble#! at our foot. • Everything is beeping Time to merry tune; ' "> Care ia idly sleeping it? #• Wake her not too Rootl. Let her s!eop forovor I ' Softly paw he* fcy; Lover* hsd mho never; v. Beat to M her die. + ~ May she B:<vp forever, sj£~"^3e£? Withered, wrint:«l mMHT :/7l% hover* had shenever; : • May her memory fado'J J°^ Sitting on the hiiliiide, sits#| Runs the time away; •J " Merry by the rillaide Qoem the summer day. !thoi«hts on man '• a. ». ho*O,. "i- *'•]_ -• --• -- Slan is essentially an aiiimal. He be­ longs to that class of the works of crea­ tion that possess an animated existence. Vegetables have life as well as animals, but they possess no consciousness, nor sensation or the powers of locomotion. 9jhe human race possess many faculties a»d characteristics in common 'with ani- jpfinls that are below it in the scale of being. When man eats, sleeps, rests, defends himself or his progeny and propagates his kind, he accomplishes 'What all animals da The faculties that imps# him to the acts enumerated are essential to his being and his well-being and to the perpetuity of his race. They are termed " animal faculties," from the fact that they are possessed by animals of the lower order of creation. While they form the entire character and nature of the " brute that perishes," they form bat a small part of the character of man. He possesses in addition to these others higher and nobler, that elevate friiw in the scale of being and invest him with a superiority over all oilier animated beings that lind a habitation on this mundane globe. e Man possesses an intellect--faculties that enable him to think, reason, study, and investigate the laws that govern the universe and to make achievements that result in the happiness and welfare of his race. By the use of these powers, which distinguish him from the animals below him, he is capable of making im­ provements. We cannot but look with wonder and admiration on many of the mechanical contrivances of the lower races of animals. The construction of tile nest of the bird, the dam of the beaver, the cell of the bee, and many other results of constructive animal in­ stinct are specimens of skill that excite our admiration; but if we compare those made in the nineteenth century with those constructed in the remote ages of the past we shall find no change •--no improvement. They were as per­ fect in their construction, answered the design for which they were formed thousands of years ago as completely as do those made at the present time. The law of progress, of advancement and improvement, is unknown to them. On the other hand, we have but to compare the primeval habitations of our race and those still used by the peo­ ple whom, as yet, the elevating, refining nand of civilization has not reached, who have failed to exercise their intellectual powers, but, like the brute, are satisfied with supplying the animal wants, with the grand, magnificent architectural "• Achievements of Greece and Rome, the Glatial residences of the inhabitants of •tli hemispheres, to gain an idea of the improvements of which man, by exer- -cise of his intellect, is capable. For an­ other illustration, compare the simple canoe of the Indian, the only vessel with which he essayed to travel on water, with the magnificent steamer that plows the crystal waters of the fathomless <»6ean. •Within the meanoiy of not, indeed, J "**the oldest inhabitant," but within the I recollection of all who have arrived at maturity, there is scarcely an industry bttt what in reference to which the in­ genuity of man has made improvements in the implements used for its opera­ tion. In the business of agriculture, in the cuisine art, in almost all mechanical arts, improvements have been made which facilitate the processes, save man­ ual labor, and, in most instances, im­ prove the quality of the material manu­ factured. But the ability to make improvements in what is already in use is far from be­ ing all that proves the superiority of man, and the possession of high, noble intellectual powers that are evidences of the grand design of his creation when he came from the plastic hand of the great Author of his bei^g. _ Guided by reason, man is able to find his way across the trackless ocean where snow-capped billows rear their foamy heads in awful grandeur, to travel with almost lightning speed over mountains and through valleys, to bring the forked lightning from the gold-fringed clouds oi heaven, nor let it return to its thun­ der home, but make it his messenger from shore to shore. He is able to un­ derstand the laws that govern the plan­ ets that revolve in their respective or­ bits, and ascertain with certainty the time required for their revolutions. He has devised means by which surgical operations--the amputation of limbs and the reductionof dislocations--can be effected without pain or conscious suf- ^ fering--in fine, to accomplish much that is calculated to elevate, enhance -the happiness, mitigate the sufferings, t . aiid essentially benefit his race. ,fi i To the present state of civilization he lias come, through the lapse of ages, by (gradual but continual steps, and the persistent exercise of his intellectual abilities, emerging from a condition . equal in degradation and simplicity to ttatnow occupied by those whom the genial and elevating rays of the lumin­ ary of science have not reached--whose unexercised powers of intellect have been flowed to lie dormant. But there is another, grander, higher, »li#obler class of faculties that man pos­ sesses over and in superiority to the brute that elevates him to the oosition ^ i^but "little lower than the angels." It ti his moral faculties that lead him to onor and adore the Author erf his exist- - - jftnee, that point him to his duty and his v.. 4estiuy as a responsible being and plain­ ly indicate his existence in another state of being when this earth shall no longer f)|>e his home. It is the exercise and cul- 44ivation of these faculties that make him * Jfiod-like in liis character, and enable to comprehend his duty to his God Lirespect the rights of his feUowmen. . y- .""It is to these that the teachings of di­ vine revelation appeal, and by his be- .3rng guided in his acts by the sacred •3*r .V>ra<:len elevate him to that position in fe ; ' which he glorifies bis Maker, and is an r" *•"' lumor to his race. fe: The physical powers that man pos- *k * uesses, the feat* he is capable of accom­ plishing, the &rand construction of the were designed, are subjects fraught with lessons of deep instruction and well worthy our study and investigation. In the case of the inferior animals, certain species are capable of sustaining their existence only in that portion of the globe of which tbey are the natives. The lion and tiger roam in their natural strength and ferocity over the burning sands of the Torrid zone, but cannot en­ dure the rigors of the frozen north ; and the polar bear, that grows to maturity and manifests prodigous power and strength amid the ice and snows of the Frigid zone, cannot survive in the salu­ brious temperature of temperate climes, but dwindles away and dies. But man can exist in all parts of the world, alike in temperate climes, under the burning sun of the Torrid zone, and amid the Arctic snows. A good sized man has been capable of sustaining a weight of 2,000 pounds--so placed as to bear equally on all parts of the body--while the stoutest pack-horse is unable to sustain a greater weight than 800 pounds. The reason is, that in man, whose posture is erect, the vertebra of the back are so placed as to press upon each other, thus ehabling them to sup­ port a greater weight; while in the horse they are placed horizontally and do not support each other. The deltoid muscle, which is placed at the top of the shoulder, is but a small bundle of fibrous flesh, less in size than one's little finger, has been proved to be capable of sustaining a weight of hun­ dreds of pounds. The human eye is composed of two fluids and two thin coats, on the inner of which the image of the object seen is impressed inverted. If the smallest pointed instrument puncture these coats a colorless fluid escapes, and the _ sight is gone forever. In view of this we may well exclaim : "Who but a God could have made us ? Who but a brute would fail to worship Him ?" When we take into consideration the construction of the human hand, and the variety of uses to Which it can be applied, we are led, almost involuntarily, to the realization of the fact that the Great Being, who could out of nothing form so curious and complicated a ma­ chine, could have been nothing less than perfect wisdom. When we investigate the sublimity and grandeur of the formation of our physical frames, and the fact that we are placed in possession of mental powers that are capable of such grand, sublime and important achievements, well mAy we say with the sweet singer of Israel: "I am fearfully and wonder­ fully made." But this being, so God-like in his natural endowments, capable of per­ forming such wonderful feats, has but a short and, comparatively, ephemeral ex­ istence, and', after the lapse of a few years, he sickens and dies, returns to and mingles with the dust from whence he came, and treads the earth, that has been for a few fleeting years his home, no more. In consequence of the violation of a divine command on the part of the pro­ genitors of our race, the sentence: " Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return," has been executed upon their descendants--an irrevocable de­ cree, from the fulfillment of which there is no possibility of evasion. Although death is ultimately the doom, the un- I avoidable destiny, of the human race, | yet the great majority of diseases that afflict the human family, the largest share of pain and suffering that is en­ dured, can be traced to a violation of some law, or laws that govern our phys­ ical being, either on the part of the sufferer or of his progenitors, who have left this tendency to disease a sad and unwelcome inheritance. We look abroad over the world of mankind, and we see them bowed down by a load of physical suffering--disease is preying upon their vitals and sapping the fountains of life, impairing their physical and mental powers, lessening their vigor, and militating against their ability to properly perform their part in life's drama, and finally bringing them to premature graves. When we view this melancholy specta­ cle we are led to propound the interroga­ tory : " Has our kind Heavenly Father, whose mercy, tenderness and love are so clearly manifest in His care over and preservation of our lives, in so lavishly upon us in the different relations of life we may be called upon to sustain ? By so doing we shall be enabled to be hap­ py here, and, by observance of the moral precepts given "us by the Author of our Being in His written word, be euabled finally to enjoy the fruition of the better land, in the society of angels who have never sinned, and of the loved and re­ deemed, with whom we associated here, throughout the interminable ages of eternity. Chioaoo, 111. Breeding Elephants. If, as Mr. Corse and the London Cir­ cus seem to have demonstrated, ele­ phants, under proper conditions, may be brought to breed in captivity, it may be an open question whether, in view of the increased difficulty of capturing the ani­ mals, the supply m India may, at no distant day, be wholly dependent upon their power to produce their young' in bondage. Mr. Corse's experience en­ abled him to study the young elephant from its birth under extraordinarily ad­ vantageous conditions. The precise period of gestation, he says, is twenty months and eighteen days. The young animal when born is thirty-five and a half inches high. It soon begins to nib­ ble and suck the breast, pressing it with its trunk to make the milk flow more readily into the mouth while sucking. It has never been observed to use its pro- lxxscis in any other wav during this act, but invariably seized the nipple with the side of its mouth. At this peritxl it is a common practice with the elephant at­ tendants to raise a small mound of earth al>out six or eight inches high, for the young one to stand on, and thus save the mother the trouble of bending her body every time she gives suck; for she never has been observed to lie down for that purpose. The nipples are two in num­ ber and are between the fore legs. It is remarkable that the elephant, having only one young, has by no means a strong affection for it. Instances have occurred of a mother leaving her off­ spring and escaping into the woods. If a wild elephant happens to be separated from her young only for two days, though giving suck, she never afterwards recog­ nizes or acknowledges it. "I have been much mortified," Mr. Corse says, "at such unnatural conduct, particularly when it was evident that the young elephant knew its dam, and by its plaintive cries and submissive ap­ proach, solicited her assistance." During the first year the elephant grows eleven inches, and is nearly three feet eleven inches high. In the second year it grows eight inches, in the third six, in the fourth year five inches; about the same in the fifth year; in the sixth year three inches and a half, measuring then about six feet four inches in height. During the succeeding ten years the growth is comparatively slow. The male is longer in attaining its full growth than the female, seldom having acquired it before his twenty-sixth year. These figures are arrived at by Mr. Crose from the study of Asiatic elephants only. The African elephant does not arrive at the colossal proportions of his Oriental brother. But it will be observed that while Mr. Crose only succeeded twice in breeding during his five years' service as a director of the company's elephant hunters, he nevertheless speaks of facts that could only have been learned from some one who had studied elephants, other than the two born -within his ex­ perience, from their birth upward; so that the conclusion is irresistible that the birth of young ones among the ele­ phants owned by the East India Com­ pany was not an uncommon occurrence. --New York Sun. The Open Sky. It is a Btrange thing how little, in gen­ eral, people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man --more for-the soul and evident purpose of talking to him, and teaching him, than in any other of her works; and it is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere pleasing of men is not answered by every part of their or­ ganization; but every essential purpose of the sky might, so far as we know, be answered, if, once in three days or there­ abouts, a great ugly black rain cloud were brought up over the blue, and furnishing us with all that is necessary ! everything well-watered, and so all left to supply our physical wants, in the re- i blue again till next time, with perhaps a demption of our race by the gift of His j film of morning and evening mist for dew. son, by unalterable decree fixed the des- j And instead of this, there is not a mo­ ment of any day of our lives when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and work­ ing still upon such exquisite and con­ stant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain that it is all done for us, and intended for our per­ petual pleasure. And every man, wher­ ever placed, however far from other sources of interest or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly. The noblest scenes of the earth call be seen and known but by few; it is not intended that man should live always in the midst of them; he injures them by his presence; but the sky is for all; bright as it is, it is not "too bright nor good for human nature's daily food." Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful; never the same for two moments to­ gether; almost human in its passion- spiritual in its tenderness--almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what is immor­ tal in us as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is es­ sential. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sen­ sations; we look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon all which bears witness to intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive more from the covering vault than the light and the dew which we share with the weed and the worm, only as a suc­ cession of meaningless and monotonous accidents, too common and too painful to be worth of a moment of watchful­ ness, or a glance of admiration.--Hun- kin. A Hawaiian Heroine. Passing along King street last week, says the Honolulu Advertiser,vte noticed a gathering of natives, in the center Of which was a middle-aged man, of rather a sickly aspect, and a young girl of some sixteen or eighteen years. Drawing near, we found it was one of those who had been washed overlx>ard from the Waioli, and the girl was his daughter. He was relating their experience while overboard --about an hour and a half. When thrown into the sea, the man had on heavy sea-boots and thick clothing. After swimming a while he began to find it difficult to keep above water, and told his daughter that he must soon give up-- his heavy boots would sink him. She encouraged him to persevere, and she would try and rid him oi he boots. She then dove beneath him, and, after several attempts, actually succeeded in removing the heavy boots, which, of course, fitted very loosely. She dove again and re­ moved his thick woolen pants, which im­ peded his swimming, and then assisted him in getting off his pea-jacket. Thus lighted, he was able to keep his head above water until, at length, the vessel's boat came along and picked them up. Was not this a Hawaiian heroine? FARM NOTES. tiny of His intelligent creatures, so that, from the cradle to the grave, our journey must necessarily be one of pain, suffer­ ing, woe and affliction ?" Oh, let every sentiment df piety, every just conception of the divine character at once and forever forbid the heaven- dishonoring thought. What else is it than gross impiety and a grand insult to our Maker, Protector and best Friend to recklessly, wantonly and heedlessly violate the laws that He has made by which to govern our lives, which, if obeyed and w e live in harmony with them, will insure our happiness-- the design He had informing them-- and then, because we suffer the unavoid­ able penalty attached to their infraction, lay the blame on Him, and cherish the idea that He delights in afflicting us ? We should remember that the wheels <jf nature will not turn aside because we, worms of the dust, are liable to be crushed beneath them. An eminent writer has said : " The chief misfortunes that befall us in this life can be traced to some vice or folly that we have committed." If we are guilty of committing the folly of transgressing the laws of nature and health, we must expect to incur the penalty. Doubtless in very many instances, perhaps in most, these laws are violat­ ed and the necessary penalty incurred through ignorance of their nature, and the baleful consequences that must be the result. So far from this affording any mitiga­ tion of the offense or lessening our re- { sponsibility, in my judgment, it often enhances it. Where the opportunity for acquiring important and useful knowl­ edge is possessed and neglected, ignor- \ ance is a crime. \ In my humble judgment, but a very small portion of the deaths that occur in our world can be called natural. The only natural death we can conceive of is where one has passed through the term of years allotted him, in obedience to the laws of his being, comparatively free from disease, and, by U3e and age, the powers of life give way--the oil having been exhausted, the flame expires. We cannot regard a death the result of wast­ ing disease, or sickness brought on by exposure, or by intemperance, or bvany other violation of the laws of health-- any more natural, in the strict sense of the word, than is one caused by suicide or violence. In this view of the subject what theme can more properly or profitably engage our attention than the laws of our be­ ing ? Is it not a duty we owe to our Creator, who has displayed such match­ less skill in our creation ? Is it not a duty to ourselves, that we may be more Pic* off the potato bugs by hand when the vines are small; it will save the ne­ cessity for Paris green. TftE mowing machine ought not to be gauged to cut low. If grass is cut too close the succeeding crop is much in­ jured, especially if the summer is a dry cian prescribes vermifuge ; here the fe* male dentist cures toothache by extract* ing worms from the teeth. In America, lightning kills; in China, thunder. You pat a friend on the shoulder ; here it means calling a man a thief. That little girl in Sunday-school with blue eyes and golden curls--it is no use to say what you think. This j black-haired race think her eyes one. As a rule, in a country which produces 1 wkite and hair uncombed. How merry a wild fruit a cultivated variety of the j a dining with the gentlemen and ladies •nine may be successfully raised. There­ fore, wherever the wild blackberry makes its appearance, the Lawton and other improved varieties ought to have at least a fair trial. When plants are to be transplanted they should be well wet.down several hours before moving, so as to allow the water to soak around the roots, and if this must be done while the sun is shin­ ing brightly it will be best to shade the plants lor a time till the water has soaked in. Oats are often recommended as an ex­ cellent crop with which to sow grass seed. The argument is, that the oats will shade and protect the young grass. But grass does not need shade, when sown in proper season--it needs sun, and especially it needs moisture; and this the oat plants are continually tak- at separate tables in different rooms! Our streets are filled with pack-mules and drays; in the middle kingdom "men are beasts of burden." You know you have never seen a city, for a city cannot be a city without a city w«i&' HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. One-Ego Cake.--One cup sugar, one and one-half cups sifted flour, two-thirds cup of sweet cream, one egg, three tea- spoonfuls baking-powder, one-half tea- spoonful vanilla, one-fourth teaspoonful salt. Bake quickly. Green Peas.--There isn't much prin­ ciple in cooking peas, as it all dei>eiids on the tenderness of the pea. But what hurts peas is to drown them in too much water. Some cook-books say it doesn't matter as to quantity of water, but it ing from the soil, thus robbing tue young i does. Boil quickly, that's the thing, grass plants from the start. but with just as little water as you can. A farmer on the line between Iowa , ^°, Bread Moist.--Have the - -- • * ' dough stiff when it is set for the last ris­ ing. The larger the proportion of flour in the dough the moist. After the bread is baked and cold put it iD a tin box or an earthen jar with close cover. and Missouri has been experimenting with cow-pea as a weed exterminator, , - cocklebur and Spanish needles having ] J° °* moisture taken possession of his orchard. He i 'on8®r keep says that sown broadcast the peas will not do it, but planted in drills and cul­ tivated like com they will kill out the j ^d keep it cavered tightly. Bread thus weeds. The peas he planted were mixed, j n}a .,^ , kept cool and always from the v-.-i. --!xi_ x. 1 • •» • . - l cir will last and be moist for a week. but mostly the whippoorwill variety. < The best food for fattening fowls is a mixture of boiled potatoes mashed in skim milk, with Indian meal added. Feed this warm two or three times a day, and at night one feed of whole corn. Keep the fowls in a warm, dry coop. Too much light is not advisable for rapid fattening. If the fowls are in fair order, in ten days of feeding as pre- Soda Cake.--Take one pound of flour, j six ounces of butter of dripping, six ! ounces of sugar, half a pint of milk, one j teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, and j add one or two eggs, with half a pound ! of currants or caraway seeds; mix the ! soda thoroughly with the flour, rub in ; the butter, and beat the whole with a I wooden spoon for twenty minutes before _ j putting into a well-greased cake-tin. scribed they will be "fat enough for mar- ! EuJuu,g *n}°11 ? • , ,-kgj. ° | Bake for a full hour and a half. Lemon Sirup.--Take the juice of The striped bug that infests cucum­ bers, squashes and melons as soon as they appear above the ground is one of the greatest obstacles in the way of a profitable cultivation of these crops. The surest prevention is to place over each hill a frame covered with mosquito netting. A treatment of ashes and plas­ ter, applied to the plants when the dew is on, serves to make the vines less pal­ atable to the pests, though this is by no means a sure remedy. A gentleman experimented with peas in this way : He saved, at the time of picking, all the early full pods as they ripened, and planted the seeds saved from these pods year after year, for three years, and the fourth year had peas of the same name that were more than two weeks earlier than the seed of twelve lemons, grind the rind of six in it, let it stand over night, then take six pounds of white sugar and make a thick sirup ; when it is quite cool st'.ain the juice into it and squeeze as much oil from the grated rind as will suit the taste; a table-spoonful in a goblet of water will make a delicious drink in a hot day, far superior to that prepared from the stuff commonly sold as lemon sirup. Scotch Potato Scones.--Rub one pound of cold boiled potatoes through a sieve, put them on the baking-board, and scatter over them seven ounces of flour; work first with the rolling-pin in­ to a paste, then a little with the hand until smooth ; strew flour heavily on the board and over the paste, which roll over tfte paste, , . „ about the thickness of half a crown, and the same name purchased m the store. I cut into shape8> L the scones on a Seeds of cabbage, lettuce, tomato, cu- i gtove; when a little brown on one cumber, peas, corn and many others can be much improved by the same care. The best feed for young chickens is oat meal and corn meal mixed, wheat, cracked corn and other small grains. They must have fresh water before them alwayp. Green food is good for them in small quantities. The game hen is the best sitter and mother--she can cover thirteen to fifteen eggs. Games are good foragers and very healthy fowls. All diseased fowls should be kept from the flock. A bran mash mixed with meal is a good morning feed. Tomatoes like water, and in setting them out a cloudy day should be chosen ; then, after the holes have been made for side, turn and finish on the other. Serve hot in a napkin. Veal Roi/ls, -- Ingredients--The re­ mains of a cold fillet of veal, egg and crumbs; a few slices of fat bacon ; force meat. Mode--Cut a few slices from a cold fillet of veal one-half inch thick; rub them over with egg; lay a thin piece of fat bacon over each piece of veal; brush these with the egg, and over this spread the force meat thinly ; roll up each piece tightly; egg ancl bread crumb them and fry them a rich brown; serve with mushroom sauce or brown gravy. Time, ten to fifteen minutes to fry the rolls. Mutton Pie. -- Ingredients -- Two weighed after being boned; two kid­ neys, pepper and salt to taste; two teacupfuls of gravy or water; two table- spoonfuls of minced parsley; when liked, a little minced onion ; puff crust. Mode--Bone the mutton and cut the meat into steaks all of the same thick­ ness, and leave but very little fat; cut up the kidneys; arrange them with the mftat neatly in a pie dish ; sprinkle over the minced parsley and a seasoning of pepper and salt; pour in the gravy and cover with a good puff crust. Bake for an hour and a half, or rather longer should the pie be very large, and let the oven be rather brisk. the plants and some good fertilizer j pounds of the neck or lain of mutton, placed near the root of the hill (hen ma- - - - - - - - - - nure or unleached ashes are good), lift the plant carefully with a ball of earth attached to the root, and after putting it in place, if the soil is at all dry, put a pint of water at the root of the plant in the hole and cover at once with soil. Plants thus treated will stand sunshine and do well. Potted plants or those in boxes or on turf or " flats " do not need water in setting. A correspondent of the Garden rec­ ommends lime-water to aid in destroy­ ing worms in lawns. He says: "Worms instinctively look for moisture. In wet weather they may be found at night by scores on the surface of the lawn. Last year, after a fortnight's heavy rain, I treated my lawn to a dose of lime-water, by stirring up a very small handful of Irish lime in each gallon of water, poured the solution on the grass without a rose, and picked up the worms as they came to the surface. I filled a seven-inch pot twice with the proceeds in the shape of worms, then rolled the green; and on the following day the smaller and weaker worms were lying dead in hundreds on the surface. The work occupied a whole day, but the green has been beautiful a whole year. The larger worms come up in from one to seven minutes after the application, and must be patiently picked up as they rise; consequently only a few square yards of surface must be treated at a time, unless there are plenty of helping hands and sharp eyes." Chinese Contrariness. a letter from Soo-ehow, A Short Novel. Mr. Froude sends us a little novel, which we print with pleasure, and in small type, as it is paid for by the foot: It was autumn. Yes, merry, golden tinted autumn. The sun poured down its mellow rays on the laughing fields of grain, and all nature seemed to rejoice in the glad­ ness of the ample harvest. The little birds twittered and sang their sweetest and cheeriest notes in the branches of the oak trees that skirted the foot of the cloud-tipped hill, while the big ones sat still and looked at them. Far away to the right lay a vast marsh, in which water-cresses, sweet sedges, and bull­ frogs generally mingled. Don't forget that it was a pretty sight. Suddenly a boat is seen shooting out from the mossy banks that encircle the marsh like a chaplet of laurel. In the little craft are seated a young man and a In a letter from Soo-ehow, China, , , i Rev. H. C. DuBose gives some amus- ' a i • n ing examples of Chinese contrariness: * u J 1 A1 1 V'sH^eren^" or^an81 Ix^dy and their J perfectly quidified to enjoy the boon of i^pidaptation to the uses for which they ' life, and discharge the duties incumbent Do-Seen-San, will you let me ask if • any member of your family is dead ?" | was the question when I'came out in a j suit of linen last summer. Black with | us is mourning, an 1 they have the op- j posite color. In foreign lands gr^en and blue, brown and red silks are for ladies ; I here a gentleman may have a red bon- j net, a black satin jackfet, a blue silk robe, green trousers, and embroidered shoes. Our shoe-soles are black, a ; Chinaman's white. Your run your arms , in the sleeves and then draw on your j coat, our friends first put on the gar- , ment and then run their arms in. We ; wear hats in summer and John goes • bareheaded; we take off our hats in the ; house, and he keeps it on as a mark of j respect i ! You go to see a friend, and in the cor­ ners of his reception hall stand two big ( black coffins ; you shudder, but he looks with a smile upon the big red character, ; "happiness," stamped upon them. To! take tiiis method of being a dutiful son, you think, suits the country where the , | magnetic needle points to the south, i j "Good morning, Mr. John Smith," and ' you grasp his friendly hand. While you are speaking, up walks a Celestial friend, " Smith John Mister, have you eaten rice," and shakes his own two hands at him. What if men fly kites and boys look on, and boys play with dolls and girls look on ? It is all just as you look at it. If a man wants to eat his dessert of candy and watermelon seeds first, and then rice and greens, why it is only a matter of taste ! To lo­ cate knowledge in the brain will do for foreigners who have only twenty-six let­ ters, but they keep these 10,000 charac­ ters which Confucius made in the "do- bee," or large central portion of the body. For certain maladies a physi- his face bronzed by the kisses of the burning sun and scent-laden breezes; she fair and delicate like the lily, or a Chicago base-ball club. With powerful strokes he sends the boat shooting through the water, while the ripples fall away on either side. Suddenly the maiden utters a faint shriek, and a pallor o'erspjeads her lovely countenance. She has seen a bull-frog. One hand drops nerveless by her side, and from it fell her hat--a dainty thing of straw and canvass, trimmed with flowers. The young man at once plunged into the water to recover the hat. The cruel waves closed over his fair young head, the last thing seen being the part in the middle of it. But he omitted to come up again. After waiting until it was a betting point that he had gone to stay, the maiden rose in the boat and gave a des­ pairing shriek. "Dead, dead for a duck hat," she moaned and fell over the starboard side, never knowing that she had got off a good thing. That night the sexton in a little village near the lake laid down one pair, and he was not playing poker either. The pair was the two lovers who had died that day, and been fished out later in the evening. But where was the bull-frog that caused this calamity? Oh, w -re, indeed?--Chicago Tri­ bune. • During the recent semi-annual exam­ ination in Baltimore of applicants for teachers' positions, 179 candidates ap­ peared, 72 of whem were colored. The total number of successful ones was 62. Eighteen of them were colored teachers--or 25 per cent, of the number examined As Arkansas Examination. " Cap'n," said a colored man, entering the office of a School Examiner whose skin was so black that to see him you would think he had spent his life in boil­ ing crows for dissatisfied politicians, "Cap'n," repeated the visitor, lightly tapping on the door facing. " Wall, sail, what is hit?" " I'se called roun' ter be 'zammotted. I'se a 'fessional school teacher." , " Did you know dat hits a mighty hot cross-fire ter stan' under de range ob de batteries ob my knowledge?" " Yas, Cap'n," said the applicant, "an' bein' proud ob my 'complisliments I hez sought you stedob goin' ter de onedy- cated white 'fessor." " Yer action is dat ob a wise man, an* fur siclx wisdom I zibited in de very bud j ob de edycation rose. Oh, I'se flow'ry; i I'll 'struct my Secretary to mark yer one j on de sheep skin stifikit ov knowledge. Dis am figerative. We'se out of sheep ! skins, an' in der place hab substituted 'coon skins, tanned by a Arkinsas nigger an* ketched by a Justice ob de Peace. Do hit strike yer in de stomach ob recogni­ tion?" "Yas, Cap'n." " Wall, now ter de zamination. Sec­ retary, git down dat brass pen wid a dog­ wood holder an' fetch hit lieah, fur I, in de cordance wid structions, is gwine ter toat dis man through de new groun' ob knowledge whar de briers am thick an' whar dar s many a toenail lyin' mung de grubs. • Now fur de fust. Does yer un- derstan' 'gogafy?" " Oh. yassah, dat's my holt." " What does yer know ob grammar? Keep yer motif open fur I'se de eddyca- J tional dentist, 'zaminin' de teeth ob yer larnin'." " I eats up grammar like a man han'- lin'greens," " What aboat de sciences ob phle­ botomy?" , " I walks all ober dat science on stilts." " What does you know about meta­ physics?" " De quilt ob my bed am patched wid hit." " Mr. Secretary," said the examiner, turning to the functionary, "gin dis man a double stificate. Recommend him ter de people ez de ablest man I hez 'zam- ined dis yeah. Dar's yer papers, sah; an' remember dat the clowd ob edycation am a black one. A man dat shows sich a familiarty wid science az you does, is boun' one day ter put his foot on a white man's shoulder, reach up an' take de gown ob superiority from de peg in de wardrobe ob life's great competition. Let's see, five dollars for the single dorse- ment, an' five dollars an' a half fur de double dorsement. Gimmy ten dollars." The money was cheerfully paid and the man with bis blotted coon skin went out into the world to engage in the tourna­ ment of letters.--Little Hock Gazette. Married Again Without Knowing It. A man in Toledo, with a wife and three children, became enamoured of an inter­ esting woman and procured a divorce in an obscure Indiana town. He did not say a word about it at home. One day his Old­ est daughter received a parcel of patterns from a lady in Indianapolis. It was an old copy of a country newspaper. An ad­ vertisement attracted her attention. It was an application for a divorce for her father from her mother. The young lady decided to visit her friend in In­ dianapolis, and to make an excursion to the county where the divorce had been granted. She returned with ample evi- ence that her mother was living with a divirced man. She showed her father a copy of the advertisement, and told him that she had found out all about him. He walked the floor for a minute, and then turned to his daughter: "I have been a very bad and guilty man," he said; " but it is not too late to make amends. I will go to her and confess all, and undo what I have done." "Confess first to me," said the girl. "It is Miss who is the woman in the case, is it not?" "It is." " I thought as much." "Are you to marry her?" "I was to have married her." " You must not go to mamma yet. She must be your wife again before she knows the fearful truth." The young lady was equal to the emergency. The twentieth anniver­ sary of her parents' marriage was close at hand. She invited all their friends and had them married again by the same minister who performed the cere­ mony twenty years before. She took pains to have her mother's rival present, and remarked to her in a corner: "Papa and mamma are married again as fast as law can do it Whether the truth is ever known depends upon you. Papa will never tell it, I am sure, and for mamma's sake I never shall. But it does seem to me, dear, that some other climate would suit your constitution bet- than this/| The Horse and His Rider. In the history of Rome, says Joseph Cook, it is related that in 331, B. C., a great chasm opened in the middle of the forum, which it was found impossible to fill. The soothsayer said it would close when it contained what Rome possessed of most value, and the state would be perpetual. A noble youth named M. Curtius demanded if Rome had anything of more value than arms and valor. He mounted his horse, richly caparisoned, and, amid the silence of the people, spurred him over the brink of the tre­ mendous precipice (vide Liv. 1, vii. 6). I have seen a striking picture of this somewhere. It represented the horse and rider after they had passed the brink and were descending to the unknown depths. There was a remarkable con­ trast between the fright of the brute and the unruffled solf-possession of the man. The limbs of the horse were tightened to his body and the muscles of his neck drew his head to his chest, and a shud­ dering terror expressed itself in the flash of his starting eyes, The rider was serene nnd calm, with a solemn expres­ sion of majesty on his fac?, as of one who lived with high thoughts. If I were to spiritualize this picture I should say that it was no mean representation of a ripe Christian departing this life. The horse is the body and the rider is the spirit. Flesh shrinking, spirit steady snd calm and solemn. 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