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I "• §erhaua. at leiwth, yowharo rhapa, at Jeufftt), yowT»w> tearceft te-d7' only wbaa writer tbafia* or mw a IMUTQ wbttmoiWi roust die to I . <*ly w!x«n «B a*a atlS »««M door will swtttt M Hi Wtago# 4UI HER BESETTING SIB. e choose to call it m sin, because it hardly be tailed a no®, and yet it is ons aad dMnM*lizing---not a venal afnt but one of those sins against the peace and oomfort of home which, when allowed to become a habit, renders not only the principal ridiculous, but ren­ ders other people uncomfortable. Mrs. flawtelle's besetting sin was mirrore! is the speech delivered daily, and al­ most hourly, "I toldyou BO; O, I knew it would bo sol" When her husband needed comfort--when he had been be­ trayed--when accident had befallen frim--no matter what the occasion--no matter what the circumstance, from her he only received the inevitable "I told you so; O, I knew it would be so!" And then she was wont to blame him for his fjtupidity, for his stubbornness in not ,paving listened to her. "Polly, would you believe it, Jack tw>« sold the Jersey stoek--the whole of it, twenty-two head, and has used the money in paying his debts, and I ean't--" "I told you so " interrupted his wife, Jolly, without allowing him to finish. **I knew it would be so: now see what you'd 'ave saved if youd only listened to me. Stupdd I' 1 Poor Sam Sawtellef It was of his 'Wife's own brother, Ja^k Gordon, that ffe spolie, and he had gone in with him, and advanced one-half the purchase money toward the obtaining of a mag­ nificent stock of pure Jersey cows-- twenty cows and two prize bulls--and he had done this at his wife's own ur­ gent request. She bad let him have no Eace until he had done it. He had ired Jack from the first--had distrust­ ed him--and now the treacherous part­ ner had gone and sold the whole herd to m heavy cattle dealer, had taken cash in liand, and had spent, put away, beyond teach of any other party, every dollar of It (very nearly $2,000 he had obtained), j|pd that was far less than the stock was %orth under the hammer. , "I told you so! 1 knew just how it %ould be. Sam Sawtelle, you're a ; |t>ol!" > What could he H|ff He oouid not ~---#ell his wife she lied he had too much heart He cOtild only bow his head and writer. As for argument and reproof! Jttercy! It would hav® been like at- , tempting to sweep gunpowder into a witli a broom of livibg fire. ' , But the time came when Sam had an i ^Opportunity to give his wife a lessen. He , : * *|pad recently purchased anew patent hay flatter for ths work of chopping feed for (lis horses and cattle. It was a ponder- r #» machine arrangod to run by foot- ^ power, or by baini, with an iron balance wheel, weigiiing very nearly half a ton, V aca large revolving knives. It was a grand thing--it did its work perfectly, «nd cotdd do a vant amount of it. Even bis wife was willing to acknowledge that it was a great improvement on the old .. ̂ %utt«r. The truth was, she was proud because none of the &eigkhors;jEiad such •?.# one. ' * Well--(me evening Sam and his wife ,; ; fcad company, Twwntj to thirty oouples bad come op from the village and there "Were, beside®, nearly all the neighbors-- - fnlly sixty gueste, told. Supper had been eaten in thtf great, p>ld-iasxiiont-d kitchen, and the company fcad axljourned to the large, double draw­ ing-room called " the parlorand a lull ,|iad just follo^ved the old clergyman's re- •cit.al of a cirffumstaace of his boyish re­ membrance when Sam--the host--came in, wild-ejed and flustered--his breast heaving aad fulling--seemingly laboring for breath. ' Hi® wile was frightened. " Sain!" she cried, with a vigorous effort, "wliat's.the matter with you? " "O, Polly, you wouldn't believe it!" •' What is it? Don't set there shiver- in' like a toad under a harrar | What is it? Out with it!" " Polly!--my new hay-cutter. The old briudle cow has got at it, and made a clein bwoep of it--swallowed it, knives, balance whe«d and all! O, I'd rather " O, Sam Sawtelle, didn't I tell you so I knew'twould be so if you left it layin* round as ye always doeverything I I knew it 1 I knew it I Eftrou'd only listened-- Eh ? " By this time she had detected the broad grin which her husband oodid no longer keep back. * And then somebody snii'kere ;--then a giggle. "Eh?--the--the--old brindlel--the bury-cutter!--swallered I O, Sam Saw- And then the roar burst forth, in the midst Oi wiii< h Sam, wiAedly criel: " O, Poflv ! You told me so ! You knc.w it! If Td only listened to you! O, Polly I what a keeu-eyod woman you sre. And now," he mercilessly con­ tinued with a giiu, thai was wickedness simmered down and crvstallized, "per­ haps yon'U Sje ^ good m to toll these {ood people whatjnm told me--how you n» w. Come, Pcfiy--y<m told me so! You knew it sol Do let us know when aitditow.?* : It was dreadful > aad Polly Sawtelle declared m he* feeati that ahe would make her iiusbantl««ii&rt far that. But the man who had ( mnft courage to in­ itiate the movement had braced himself with courage to cafcry it through. He was physically a giant, and in life he held his own. It-wag hard--very hard --but he hud dek pinned, and he would : not bu'!fr.<. The li^sou should be given to its luiiest extepit, and she should I eoti mit it to meiuutjr, and, he hoped, to . heart. A'ter the company had gone, she oitmt'.l h r Iwttenep and waited to see i hiua sitow riie white But he leaned _ back in his cliab and laughed. \ *4ii«iws, Manoi-wbeiBi, and aft! » Old Brindle t̂silowed the whole thing! Ok, PoByl--sod-ytm knew iMm^dbe so! You had told me that very this* J Polly ! Polly! You most fa&VG-- Eh! Now don't do thst! Don't do it again, Polly I • Oh! I an stronger than you She had tried to strike him in the face --had aimed a furious bloW~4>ift he had caught both her hands and held tliein as iu a vise--held them until she groaned with pain. , »Will you try to strike me again, Polly?" And stfll he held her wrists, though not so tightly, and went on : " When I told you of Jack's treachery, the only response I got from you was that you had told me so--that you knew it would be so! Polly, at whose re­ quest did I trust him? Oh, I don't blame you for the first part; I only blame you for the manner in which you treated me in the end--afU>r he had be­ trayed us both--for those cows were as much yours as mine--as is every dollar 1 own. 'Polly, I did this tiling to-night for a purpose. You are not a weak, whimpering woman, to be wheedled or deceived into going in the right way. You are strong, and you aro willful; and I have given you this lesson that you might be benefited. I haW) held up before your face a mirror in which you have seen yourself as others see you. Aye, your friends have seen it! But, Polly, they will only remember it while Srn give them occasion. When you can ugh at it, they will do the same--they will laugh at the fan of the thing rather than at yourself. "There, Poily--now go and sleep upon it Go, and bear in mind this one thing; I have commenced this work for a pur­ pose, and I will not yield while life and sense are mine. If you are surprised, BO am I. I declare, it seems good to be master for onoe in my own house. Let us try it so for awhile, and see how it will work. "There--now away y©u go. Think, Polly, and talk with yourself as much as you please. I will go out and feed the cattle." For the first time in long, long years, Polly Sawtelle went to bed and cried. She cried like a child. First she cried with anger, then with shame, and then with an aching, breaking heart. Her husband offered her no comfort. Two days passed, and the woman found herself looking up to her husband. She was feeling respect for the strong, resolute man whom she could no longer hold in subjection to her besetting sin. Ah ! and she knew she would hold him in subjection never, never again. Three days later Sam came in late in the afternoon with trouble in Ids face. The look was one of real pain. He went directly to the cupboard, in the hall between the kitchen and the eating- room, where he kept his choice garden seeds and his medicines. He took down a bottle of medicine. She could endure it no longer. " Sam--what is it ?" He looked around with a start. For years he had not heard that sympathetic tone until now." " Poily, our poor Nellie is very sick." It was the faithful horse. Here was the place for the old refrain; but it came not. And--it never came again! A eingle moment she hesitated, a mo­ ment, and the ice was broken, and a cur­ rent of tears swept it away from between them forever. " O ! let me go with yon. I can help. Poor Nellie 1" He could hardly believe his ears. But they went; and while they brought the good old horse back to health they round a love that had lain dormant for years. Two weeks later, on a Sabbath even­ ing, wheu they had been to meeting all day, Polly came and laid her hand on her husband's head. " Sam, it's better so, isn't it?" He answered her with his hands around her neck and her head pillowed upon his bosom. ; POPULAR SCIENCE. and faded daguerreotyjMS w9t often become as bright aa new, if plaoe'i in a weak solution of evanide of potas­ sium. A NSW use for glass is found in the manufacture of window shutters. These «.re now made of opal glass, decorated, and have the important advantages of being beautiful and easy to keep clean. ALTHOUGH he had examined over 100 hearts of children and grown-up j»eople. Dr. Langier discovered blood-vessels in the heart valves in rally one case, that of a woman of 60, in whom they were evidently the result of a pathological prooess. Ak artificial surface, suitable for skat­ ing, and behaving very much like nat­ ural ice under a skate-iron, has been formed by a mixture of the carbonate and sulphate of soda. The crystalline mass is spread on a floor, and may be used as a skating-rink, and will last in­ definitely with slight repairs. It " cuts up " like ice, and %hen too rough may be smoothed again by a simple steam­ ing apparatus. FOB articles of rubber which have become hard and brittle, Dr. Pol rec­ ommends the following treatment: Im­ merse the articles in a mixture of water of ammonia one part, and water two parts, for a time varying from a few minutes to an hour, according to the circumstances of the case. When the mixture has acted enough 011 the rubber it will be found to hare recovered all its elasticity, smoothness and softness. THS success of butter made from beef fat (oleomargarine butter) has led to the use m Chicago of pork fat or lard for the same purpose. It has been reported that large quantities of this fraudulent butter have been shipped to England, seriously injuring the market for genu­ ine American butter. The report is dis­ puted by exporters, though it is admit­ ted that sample lots have been sent by New York and Chicago dealers. Obvi­ ously if lard butter is wholesome and of good flavor it can be sold on its merits; it bad it should not be sold at all. In either case its sale as genuine butter would be a fraud, and should be pre­ vented. AT a meeting of the American Elec­ trical Society in Chicago, Col. O. H. Wilson read a paper on the use of large telegraph wires. He held that the employment of large-gauge wires for the quadruplex circuit was an advantage. A No. 4 wire laid between New York and St Louis was giving entire satisfaction. The question had been raised whether, in the desire to increase the conductivity of the wires, there was any limit to their size. There was a limit, and the con­ ductivity could be increased by employ­ ing different conductors, copper iustead of iron wire, for instance. In a discus­ sion which followed, Mr. Soiners advo­ cated the use of large wires, and said that their employment had simplified the quadruplex problem. ' A Practical Joke on the Wrong Party. Mr. Wa^on was the victim. His son tR'-SK" Johnny is a mischievous lad, and one day resolved to play a trick on his broth­ er. He arranged certain attachments to tuat brother's bed, worked by cords run­ ning to his own room, and then went off fishing. While he was gone, his brother was sent away to be absent over night, and a lot of company arrived at the house. Mr. Wagon gave up his own room to them and occupied the absent son's bed. Johnny got home late at night, and wholly ignorant of this change of arrangements, went to his room, which was next to his mother's, and prepared to perpetrate his designs Upftn his brother. The first proceeding was a haul on a cord which ran between the blankets aud spread on his brother's bed, aud, being fastened at the top, would pull the clothes off the bed. Mr. Wagon was comfortably tucked in, when suddenly the clothes began to slip, and he found himself uncovered. He thought he ini0'ht have kicked them off, and sat up and took hold of the clothes to pull them back. Meanwhile, Johnuy had yanked another cord which pulled the pillow off the bed. Mr. Wagon discovered his loss" and reached for the pillow, aud when he got it,-the clothes went off again. He was much excited at that, and again went after the clothes and again lost his pillow. That time the pillow went under the bed and Mr. Wagon went after it, and immediately came out again slid swore prodigiously, for the floor was strewn with chestnut burrs, and he had gotton into them. He resolved to scold the chambermaid for leaving so many pins on the floor. Once more he attempt to get the pillow, and, as it was way under, he made a frantic dive for it, and just then Johnny, who was shaking with laughter, pulled the last cord aud the whole bed came down upon Mr. Wagon and jammed him upon the burrs. His frantic howls brought his wife and friends to the rescue, and he was fished out. And then the gas was lighted and eomeV)ody discovered the cords ruuning to Johnny's room. Mr. Wagon at once hastened there. The lad explained, that lie thought his brother was in the bed, but it didn't make any difference. His yells were mistaken by a man sleeping half a mile awav for a cry of fire, aud he jumped out of bed so hard that he sprained a toe. And the next day when Johnny went to school he got spanked again because he wouldn't sit down, and 1 is now resolved to ruji away from houie the first chance he can got, as this part of the country is a mighty discouraging region for a boy.--Exvtuingc. Benevolent Mr. Wixliam. At a meeting of the Ladies' Benevo­ lent Society, it was resolved that a com­ mittee of four ladies be appointed to canvass for donations, and in the course of their perigrinations this committee dropped into Mr. Wixham's office. He received them as a gentleman should, and, after the usual formalities, one of them began : "Mr. Wixham, we are asking aid for benevolent purposes." "Ah! yes. Benevolence is a bump which should be cultivated. Are you looking after poor folks ?" " We are." " Very proper--very proper. Ton all have children of your own ?" "Oh, yes."' " AH of them are well fed, well clothed and well eared for, are they?" "Yes, sir." " That's very proper. I presume their stockings are properly darned, but­ tons in their places, and thev say their prayers when they go to bed ? Am I correct ?" The women looked at each other in a sly way and then at him, and one of them said : " We shall be happy for any contribu­ tion." " Yes'm, yes'm. You don't wan't this contribution for your own families, eh?' " No, sir ! " answered four voices in chorus. " Well, I ara somewhat inclined to be- nwolence. Hardly a day passes that I .ion't do something for charity, Here's an old account of $2(i against Mr. . I know he's hard up and having a close time to get along, and yesterday I can­ celed the debt." One of the canvassers turned red, white and blue and looked out of the window. That was her husband, but Wixham didn't know it. "And yesterday I found a poor, for­ lorn-looking little boy out here crying with hunger and cold. He said his name was Tommy , and he lived at No. 36 street. He hadn't been washed or combed for a week, and I felt sad fur him. I was going to take him home and feed him, but he slipped away." Another woman suddenly looked out of the window, and her pulse ran to 120 a minute, but Wixham was as innocent as a lamb of any knowledge that it was her boy. "Then you won't aid us?" queried the spokesman. "Oh, yes, certainly I will. § I was sim­ ply figuring to see how much I could upore. I signed a note with Mr. last fall, aud I had to pay it yesterday. 1 That makes me feel rather poor." The third woman didn't turn red, but green, but Wixham couldn't have pos­ sibly known that it was her husband. "L'jt's see, let's see ! I waut to give you all I can sp >re. Mr. , ou street, owes me four months' house rent, and IU give you an order on him for $i0." i'lie four women rise up. They rushed in a solid body for the door. They went out in a heap. Some were red and some were pale, and all were mad. They tried to speak, but they couuln't, and as they hastened to get away from each other Wixham held up the half-written order and gasped: "How very singular! Perhaps they thought they eoulun'toollect the money. --Free J*roM. result, when they were again called into oourt, audthe^ informed bis Honor that they had WA "agreed, and there was no prospect of any agreement. The hour being late the *jnry was then discharged without a verdict. This may have been a farce, but, if it was, it was no more so than uro one-half of our jury trials.-- Cor. Albany Law Journal. How the World Has Been Frightened by Stars. In 1572 a magnificent star of the first magnitude suddenly appeared, effacing by its brilliancy the most beautifiil stars in the sky. It remained for eighteen months and disappeared. Astrologers said that this appearance was the same as that to the magi at the birth of Jesus Christ, and concluded from it that the last judgment was near. Thirty-two years later another new star appeared. From the day of its appear­ ance, the 10th of October, 1604, accord­ ing to Arago, it was white ; it surpassed stars of the first magnitude in bright­ ness, also Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, which were near it. Many compared it to Venus. Those who had seen the star in 1572 found that the new one exceeded Venus in brightness. It did not appear to become fainter in the seoond half of the" month of October; on the 9th of November the twilight which effaced Jupiter did not prevent this star from being visible. On the 16th of Novem­ ber Kepler perceived it for the last time, but at Turin, when it appeared in the east, at the end of December and at the beginning of January, fts light was fainter. On the 20th of March, 1605, it was smaller in appearance than Saturn, but it exceeded in brightness the stars of the third magnitude. On the 21st of April it seemed equal to the shining star ol' the third magnitude. It diminished imperceptibly; on the 8th of October it was still seen, but with difficulty on ac­ count of the twilight. In >March, 1606, it had beeothe completely invisible. These appearances, like all extraordi­ nary phenomena, excited terror and awakened ideas, not to be stifled, of the conflagration of the world, the fall of the stare, and the end of time. One of the most memorable predictions is that of 1588, announced in emphatic Latin verse, of which the following is a trans­ lation : After 1,600 years, dating from the concep­ tion of the Virgin, this tighter-eighth year mil be strango aud full of dread ; it will bring with it sad destinies. If, in this terrible year, the perverse world does not fall into dust, if the earth and seas are not annihilated, all the em­ pires of the world will be overthrown, -and af­ fliction will oppress the human race. This prediction was later renewed in favor or disfavor of the seventeenth cent­ ury, and the Mercure de France an­ nounced the greatest revolution for the year 1788. It then passed for having been found in the tomb of Regiomon- tanns. Authors did not think how right they were to describe this memorable epoch under the title of revolution. But while considering these predic­ tions, the list of whioh would be longer than at first imagined, we cannot help relating the, curious mystifications worked in 1524 by the German astrolo­ ger Stoffler. According to him, on the 20th of February of that year, the con­ junction of the planets must produeo a universal deluge. Astrologers gave faith to it like the common herd; the sinister news soon traversed the world, and they prepared themselves to see the universe pass from time into eternity. "All the provinces of Gaul," says an au­ thor of that period, "were iu strange fright and doubt of a universal inunda­ tion, and such that our fathers had not seen, or was kuown by historians or others, by means of which men and women were in great fear. And many removed from their low dwelling-places and found higher spots, and made pro­ vision of meal acfd other matters, and had processions and general and public prayers, that it might please God to have pity on His people." Fear seized on a great many minds. Those who lived near the sea or rivers left their abodes, and Bold, at immen&e losses, doubtless to unbelievers, their properties and goods. At Toulouse, another Noah constructed a ship to servo as an ark to his family and friends, and probably, also, to a few couples of ani­ mals, This was not the only case. Ac­ cording to the account of the historian Boiliu, " There were many infidels who made arks to save themselves, although God's promise and oath, never again to drown by a deluge, was preached to them." Many and many a time the prediction was given out, and it always found the same number of believers, al­ though each time the event gave it a positive denial. In 1584 tne fear caused by an announcement of this kind was so great that the churches were unable to contain those who sought refuge in them. A great number made their wills without reflecting that it was useless if all the world was to perish; and others gave their goods to the priests, in the hope that their prayers would delay this day of judgment. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. IT is officially stated that 198,165,794 acres have been granted by the United States for rail and wagon roads. It would make 1,288,536 farms of 160 acres each, and its area is greater than that of the five States of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota. Its value as $2 per acre would be $396,881,588. j -THK reason alleged in China why Chi­ nese become Christians on reading'the Bible is, that the ink used has a power to stupefy the reader and take away his reason, and so make him ready to be­ lieve false doctrine. The people are warned against buying or reading for­ eign books. The missionaries are sus­ pected of desiring to kidnap Chinese children to sell them. IT was formerly held that spoiiges were vegetables, but they are now gen­ erally admitted to be animals. They are fixed by a kind of root at the base, or incrust other bodies, growing mostly in groups, sometimes in fresh water, generally in salt water; some in shal­ low, some in very deep water. They are said to grow by division. Scarce and small in cold latitudes, they increase in size and number toward the tropics, being most abundant in the Australian seas. The sponges of commerce are procured chiefly in the Mediterranean and the Bahama islands. A CURIOUS case occurred at the Chil­ dren's Hospital in Paris. A girl of 12 was at school, and during a thunder storm the electric fluid fell close to her. For a moment she seemed to be suffo- 'o* itnooence. Yea, kiss, mother, for i that good-night kiss will linger in the ! memory when the giver lies molderii g ! in the grave. The memory ef a gentle i mother's ki«s has cheered many a lonely • wanderer's pilgrimage and has bean the i beacon light to illuminate his desolate ! heart; life has many a stormy billow <o ! cross, many a rugged path to climb, 1 nd i we know not what is in store for the lit- i tie one so sweetly slumbering, with no ! marring care to disturb its peaoeful dreams. The parched and fevered lips will become dewy again a3 recollection bears to the sufferer's couch a mothers love, a mother's kiss. Then kiss your little one's ere they Bleep; there is a magic power in that kiss which will en­ dure to the end of life.--Troy Tinies t Some Memorable Cold Snaps. New Year's Day in 1864 will be re­ membered as long as any man or woman i3 living who undertook to make or re­ ceive calls on that festive occasion, or who was obliged to give up the idea of doing either, as hundreds were, just by reason of the low state of the ther­ mometer and the high state of the wind. On Thursday, the last day of December, there was a tremendous suow-storm that extended all through the Northwest, and this was followed by a gale that almost took one's breath away. On Friday morning, Jan. 1, the thermometer stood at twenty below zero, and in the course of the next twenty-four hours it got down to 25. It was 38 at Oshkosh, 33 at Ruckford, 30 at Dubuque, 26 at Kankakee, 38 at St. Paul, 35 at Mil- ,1 waukee, 33 at Galena, 25 at St. Louis, eating, but this sensation soon passed I 50 at Fort Snelling. Railroad trains off into a fit of the luccoughs. These 1 MPU. WORE FOR WHILE I Lira." " Wby don't jrwu tab you* . t «fl TgT* r--»T V«r<n»N|Uta]rMjMi Although yoa'»al«aja Beat, tkaovt* Said John, and toughed » meiqj hflM •• Why, Will, your jxxilwfs Hke * « Fva got m duty to perform-- A wort for mother whi.e I H»». , • u And such a mother aa we hav»-- Father he left har to oqr 6ai»; gj Thai'« mother rittiag 'mid the flower* > WHh sweet brown eyea aad tlivery f ' Wa mean to bay thmt eottae*) bom* By navlng up--it can ha don*-- Brother and I; ye», hear me, WiB, • = • i !;.i i Before we lads are tweuty-o&e 1" What heartfelt joy that mother had, Aa he, her aou, paeaed in the door What though they lived iu humble So costly pile upon the floor I But love was there--and «Uouid Ood To call tliat foil by Hits decree. That mother iuiO liur tears could aay IP y became so distressing that after three days the mother took her to the hospital for advice. The surgeon ordered her to be taken to the operating theater, where, on seeing the medical man standing at a table covered with some awful-looking instruments, and surrounded by a num­ ber of assistants in white aprons, the child became so terrified that she forgot her hiccoughs, which did not recom­ mence, and she was thus cured. THE inhospitable Arctic regions have been generally regarded as the very op- ?asite of life-sustaining or fertile in food, et a recent traveler in Siberia asserts that birds go there to breed, n»t in thou­ sands but in millions, and that for the reason they find there a prodigal abun­ dance of foods. Berries of many kinds in inexhaustible quantities, frozen dur­ ing the winter, are ready the moment the snow has melted for the fruit-eating birds; and, for the insect-worm varie­ ties, 4nosquitoes in sue.li swarms that the birds have but to open their bills to have them fly down their throats. That is the oddest feature of all. One would scarcely think of going to the North pole to look for mosquitoes. DURING the draining of some huge carp ponds in Silesia it was observed that frogs were clinging to the backs of many of the larger fish, and that most of these fish were blind, the frogs' fore feet being found firmly fixed in the eye sock­ ets of their victims. The carp frequent­ ly had a spongy crust on its head, upon which the frog feeds, and when once solidly seated they soon succeed in goug­ ing their finny steeds, blinding them, and, being unable to look out for their food, soon perish of hunger. How tight­ ly these voracious batraeliians held on to their living pastures was exemplified by the poud master, who picked up a carp weighing two pounds and a half, aud held it suspended in the air by one of the hind legs of a frog perched upou its back in the manner above described. Carps thus frog-ridden to death begin to turn yellow on the third day after the parasitical croaker has taken his seat, rapidly waste away, and die within a fortnight from the commencement of their martyrdom. Indian Peculiarities. Marrying into an Incliau tribe assures the white man an immunity from danger he could not otherwise secure. Though he is not considered one of the baud, he is, in a measure, attached to it. His re­ lationship is that of a mortgage to a house, whose owner can't discharge it. In the event of a difficulty between his people and his tribe, he re­ mains perfectly neutral, taking care to keep out fioin between them. As a renegade, the Indian would not tolerate him. As an en enemy, ho would be hunted into the ground. When trouble looms up he packs his traps and moves until it is over, aud then • returns with a M He alwaya did his beat for me! "' Young men In all the wa2ka of life, Alul blessed with mother* kind audlM^ Ah! would that you might prize them wail, Aiid <lo your duty by them here. Fortune may strew your path with flowers. Or wealth may not be youra to give, But never manlier word* than theee: "I'll work for mother while I live!" PITH AND POINT. hardly ran at all for three or four days, and business throughout all this part of the country was practically suspended. The winter of 1853-'6 was, in the Eastern States, almost a reproduction of the famous season of 1779-'80. The cold wave passed over the United States on the 23d mid 24th of December, and severe cold weather continued for al­ most three months. On the 10th of January, following a heavy snow-storm, the temperature was 30 deg. below zero in Chicago, 10 below at Washington, and 26 at Fort Snelling. At Woodstock, in Vermont, the temperature fell to 43 deg. below, and at Enfield, N. H., Fryeburg, Me., and many other places, the mercury was frozen solid. It was jocularly proposed at that time, in view of what had happened in the Maine town, to change its name to Fieeze- burg. Large quantities of snow lay in Washington from New Year's to the middle of March, and ice covered the Potomac for the same period. Long Island sound was closed to navigation from Jan. 25 to Fob. 27, and the harbor of New York was much obstructed by ice. The winter of 1848-'9 was also one to be remembered in Chicago. A great hnow-etorm came in January, and from that time on, with steady cold weather, which prevented any thaw to apeak of, the snow kept piling up by one storm after anothei until April, when a warm rain produced a flood which, causing the waters of the Aux Plaiues to overflow and pour into the South Branoh, swept bridges, canal-boats and shipping of ull sorts out into the lake, and pretty much inundated the southern part of the city, and the vast expanse of low land lying to the south and west of it. The winter of 18:34-'5 deserves to be marked in the annals of cold weather. On the 4th of January the exceedingly uncomfortable temperature of 40 degrees below zero was reached at Moatpelier, Vt., at Bath and Bangor, in Maine, and at i: ranconia, in New Hampshire, and on the 8th of February following the same figure was reached at New Leban­ on, N. Y. At that time nearly all the surface of the United States, as then ob­ served, or all east of the great plains, was below zero. No such general and successive depression occurred again for more than twenty years. Near the end of the same year, however, Deo. 18, 1835, the temperature in some parts of New England went down to 40 degrees again. A very severe winter (1835-'6) followed. Of earlier cold winters, the most re­ markable in this 177y-'80, when, as Jefferson says in his the Cuesapeake was covered THE balloonist's home is one flight up. TAXA soft hata supply a long-felt want. A HTTMOROTJS article--A baby with tho rash. Puck wants to know If "the soft, soothing sounds of the far-distant mill " refers to the mill's tone. MADK of the mist--Drizzling rain. Maid of the mister--His sweetheariL Made of the mystery--Hash. AN exchange says : " Streams all over the country are running dry." This is a oanard. When a stream i» dry it can't ran. " I'M A man of few words,** said Pren- dergast " True enough," replied Fogg, " true enongh ; but you never tire of repeating tkem." LITTLE Jimmy is laid up with measles and suffering a groat deal, but when he. was asked how he liked the measles he brightened up and exclaimed: •' The doctor says I can't go to school for a week or two. That's how I like it." A BOYISH novice in smoking turned deadly pale and threw away his cigar. Said he : " Thar's something iu that air cigar that's made me sick." "I know what it is," said his companion, pulling away. "What?" "Tobaeker. A QUESTION OV THE 0VEK-80UL. V A chicken ; a chicken died; HIb ili-umsticko ai d his wings were fried. His foutlier* l>y a dtu.cr dried, And, very thoitly lifter, dyed. Soul lie had none; i>ditiitiiiig that, How oimen it? 'there upon her hat, His piuwef--a mortal chicken's--rua A glorious bird of paradiHC. ".4 MAIDEN aunt to tall young nephew--- " As I stood by you in church, Percy, I could not help being struck by your size." Percy--"Very sorry, aunt, but there was such an awfully pretty girl the other side the aisle I couldn't help sighing !" I SAID to my little girl one day: " What a large forehead you have. It is just like your father's; you oould drive a pony carriage round it To which her brother, 5 years old, said: " Yes, ma, but on pa's you can see the marks of the wheels." HEBE i3 an inscription on a soldier in the kirkyard of Dumfries: Here lies Andrew Macpheraon, Who was a peculiar person, He stood nix feet two Without his sto?, And wtt« Blew At Waterloo. wide, the ice was from five to seven inches in thickness, and loaded wagons passed over. The storm which lias Rip-Van-Winkle-like yawn, wondering j passed into New England history as the THE Galveston boy is progressive. He was standing in a crowd of boys on the sidewalk when his mother called to him to go down town and bring her a demi­ john of whisky. The boy was too busy to go, but he oalled oat: "Send the old man ; I've got considerable confidence in him." HE was a fine-looking man, and he proudly strutted down . the sidewalks with the air of proprietorship in every movement " Beg pardon," said a stran- f'er, as he stepped up to liim, hat in land, in utmost humility. " Do I have your permission to remain in town over country was that of j ^ ^ , ' MONS. DUPONT, who was a widower, "Notes," the Cuesapeake was covered j re-married. It was iu full honeymoon, with solid ice from its head to the mouili made countless tender protests- of the Potomac ; and at Anuapolis, where the bay is more than five miles ~ " ' " THET have the sppaking tube in Ger­ many, but not tho.telephone as yet. One day a tenant waited on his landlord to pay his reut The landlord, seeing that the peasant iuteuded to stay, thought to hurry him by saying through the tulte: " Gretebcn, bring up my lunch." The peasant d iolaml tin t the instrument was a wonderful invention, and asked per­ mission to speak through it, which was granted. He at owe approached tl e tul»e iuul puckering np liis mouth, whispered: " Gretchen, you uuty briug up lunch for two," A Jurj of One. Yon remark that a jury of one man might be letter than twelve, bueanse he could never disagree. This reminds me of the anecdote of a case of the kiuu in a Justice's court. A jury luul been de­ manded, but there was diflieul y a»»out getting a jury together. One juryman Habits of the Bearer. I am well acquainted with the habits of the Northern beaver. S -veral years ago I bought up several hundred acres of mining lands near the south shore of Lake Superior, in Ontonagon county, Mich. On Carp river, a small stream that crossed a part of my lands, the beavers had built several dams, and formed extensive ponds, in whioh they built their houses or lodges, as the In­ dians call them. These lodges are built iu water several feet in depth, and the entrance is seve ral feet under water, but the floor of the lodge is buiit at least two feet above high-water mark. The floor is built solid fioin the bottom of the pond except the entrance. Although the beaver is warmly clad with long, tine fur, he is very sensitive to the cold, and rarely, if ever, leaves the poud or lodge during the cold weatlier. Ho lays in his winter supply of iood, which mainly consists of the bark of a curtain species of poplar. He cuts down Kinall trees and outs them in­ to short pieces of one foot or a littie over in length, and takes them into the pond. These pieces of wood are dragged up in­ to the lodge as olten as food is needed, aud the I.ark is gnawed oil, and after be­ ing denuded of the bark they are I if no means thrown away as useless, but are taken under the ice aud carefully placed in the d;un, to strengthen it. They built one dam a little below the foot of Oarp lake, wliich raised the lake thirty iueh s. The lake is a small one-- about one mile long aud a fourth of a mile wide. I measured the slump of a maple tree *4iat tL»ey hud cut dowu, and it measure. ,*>uitecu inches iu diameter. There were no less th.MU eleven dams on the stream, all in sig_<> of c or buildings, what has happened in his absence. It is this position that has made him an ob­ ject of some suspicion among whites aud Indians where neutrality is au uuknown force. He is on neither side in a fracas, a situation more unfortunate than to be with the defeated, among people who take a hand iu everything. He may be brave, but he is circumscribed, bound down by his domestic relations, but powerless for action. According to prairielaw.it is dis­ reputable in a white man to 'abandon his dusky wife until she has grown too old to work for him. Then he may send her back to her tribe if he so elect. The obligation upon the wife is different She may not desert the husba nd for an­ other white man, but she may leave him for an Indian who wauts to marry her provided she have no children. If a squaw desires to abandon her hu9baud, the Indian of her choice must put back the price originally paid to her mother. He may abate no jot or tittle, and it is in such payment that the divorce is per­ fected. She then becomes a siuglo woman, free to marry, but she can not live in the vicinity inhabited by her former husbaud. She must move away with ner new venture. Such divorcos are not infrequent. It is a difficult thing for the squaw to perfectly adapt herself to her white husband. He may be of the kindliest disposition, but his ways are not as her ways, and though she struggle with all her strength to draw closer to her existence a part of his, she can not make him one of her kiud, and she drifts away from him. The birth of children directs her thoughts into a new channel, and lessens the chasm between them, but without them he has but little hope of keeping her to himself. Sooner or later she will find her affinity. "great snow," came in 1717, and was followed by very cold weather. About six feet of suow fell in Boston between the 18th and 22d of February, and " the extremity of the weather hindered all the three posts from coming in " for a good many days. As late as the 5tli of March the Boston News Letter luul this item from Worcester : " We hear from j Strafford, in Connecticut, the sound is J frozen over BO that people ride every | day from theuce to Long island, whioh ; is three leagues across, whioh was never known before."--Chicago Inter Ocean. • No Warmth in Clothes. It is, says the Lancet, a mistake to suppose there is any warmth in clothes. Auimal heat is the direct result of changes going on within the body itself. Nutrition by food and the discharge of energy by exercise are the sufficient causes of heat. Clothes "seem" to warm because they prevent the cold air and objects with a capacity for heat which surround the body from attract­ ing the heat generated within its organ­ ism. The clothing is simply au insula^ tor. It follows that it tshould bo ii^ht to her. " Always, always?" "As long as I live." *' And afterward, you will not love me in eternity ?" " But I have already promised that to my first wife." HE was a great l>ore, and was talking to a crowd about the coming local elec­ tion. Said he : "Jones is a good man. He is capable, honest, fearless and con­ scientious. He will make the very kind of au officer we need. He once saved my life from drowning." "Do you real­ ly want to see Jones elected?' said a solemn-faced old mau. " I do, indeed. I'd do anything to see him elected." " Then never let anybody know he saved your life." The meeting then adjourned. A JOIITIY LOOKING German was quietly walking down Third avenue, loolang up occasionally at an elevated-railway looo- motive, and perhaps wishing he could smoke as much as it could, when he waa familiarly approaohed by a man who said, " Hello, Joe ! What are yon doing here ?" The old man looked and said, "Bnt I am not hero at all." "Not here?" said the man. "What do you mean by that?" "Veil, now, you see my name is not Joe, and so how could I be here ? Yon must mean some other man."--New York Herttld. The Fen'ans. These people, if we believe the early XK historians so far as to allow them anhia- eicrht. and above all things thai it ' torical existence, were a body of Irish , 1" __ 1 i__n 1- - •!!...• 1 : L.'„J„l.k.nJin»linnT should permit the free and lull circula­ tion of blood through every part of the system--to the end of every finger and toe--and that the muscular apparatus of the extremities should be in perfect working order. If we will weur foot ooverings, whether boots or stockings, militia, forming a kind of standing army, j which was employed to defend the coasts j of Ireland from the invasion of foreign i foes. They were billeted upou the in- j habitants during winter, and obliged to I maintain themselves by hunting and I finhing during summer. Each of the by the conrt that tl>«\y would t-y the case I . ,A*e beaver po sessu 0 .8 by a jury of 0:1 . Accordingly the case was tried, and the jury (of one) retired to eonsnlt of their verdict under the ciiurge of an olficvr. Af er waiting an hour or two the jury were called into com t to seii if they had agm d 0:1 thejr ing ttkill, always building his durns iu iorin of an arch, giving it strength to resist the prcssuie of tlie water. The Indians used to tell the many singular traits ot vharack r that this auunal pos­ sesses.--i \rrc**t and Stream,. The Power of Kisses. When ( h rles II. was making his tri­ umphant progress through Eugland cer­ tain country ladies who were present d to liioo, inste id of kissing the royal hau l iu their simplicity held 1111 their pretty lips to be kissed by the King, a blundt r no one would more willingly excuse than the lover of pretty Nell Gwynue. Geor- giana, Duchess of Devonshire, gave Steele; the lurcher, a kiBs for his vote nearly a century since, and another equally beautiful woman, Jane, Dueh^ss of Gordon, recruited her regiment in a similar maimer. A kiss from his mother mule B iujamin West an art st " Ki-s me, mother, befor ) I sl» ep.' How sim­ ple a boon, yet how soo'hing to the little suppliant in that soft, gentle kiss. The which compress the feet and render the : four provinces had its own band of tnese ' warriors or champions, but Leinster waa the most fortnuate province in incorpor­ ating distinguished names in the list of ita Fenians. Fingal himself was one of the illustrious I*aid, which included al­ so the ever-memorable Ost-ian. ^ When St Patrick oame to Ireland, Ossian nar- rated to the Apostle of Ireland the ex­ ploits of the valiant Fenians. The record of their conversation, which ia still extant, is called the Dialogue of the Sages; but it seems that the saiut and the bard, sage as they both were, were sometimes on the point of quarreling. Our readers may rmnember the version of an ancient Ossiauio poem which, ao- eording to Sir Wa tor Scott, Hector Mclutyre gave to his uncle, the anti­ quary. St Patrick there complains that .- , his devotional meditations and psalms built are disturbed by the old women's tales of Ossian; aud Ossian, annoyed at the separate action of each toe impossible, it is simply absurd to expect to be warm- footed. Heat is the complement of work and nutrition ; and if a part of the or­ ganism is so bound that it oonnot work and ita supply of blood is limited, it must be cold. The resort to stouter and heavier clothing uuder such circum­ stances is simp:y ridiculous. Generally it is the stockings that compress the feet The garter acts as a ligature, and diminishes the blood-supply, while the stocking itself acts as a bandage, and impedes the circulation through the ex- tremities. Our Djlng Commerce. Twenty-four years ago our exports and imports in American ships were double what they aro to-day. During the last five years Britain has years 1,800,000 tons of iron ships. -- we have built in that time 100,000 tons. I oompariKm of psalms to the verdict, and the foreu a-i informed the j A ciiBRGXMAN, meeting an inebriated ! h sad f-iuks couteu^lly tlie pyim'-, •urt. that they had not a, reed, and that neighbor, exclaimed. "Drunk again there were no pro^p ct of their agre;eig, Aud the court sent the jury «>UL again ' waiteu two or three hoars laager for the Wilki is !" to which WilUi is, in asemt- confidential tone, responded, "Sho am parson 1" f >r all is peace and happ nos* within. T10 bright eyes ai.d rosy lip» ciose, aud the littlo di.r'ing is soon reveling in the bright aud sunny dreams British tonnage in our ports has in­ creased 7,000,0d0 tons. In 1660 foreign- e > had 33 per cent of our aomuierce ; in 18S0 they have 82 per cent We pay $100,000,000 ovfcry year to foreign ship* ownoiB lor UiUiaportiitiOU, ftll of wnioii cash pot s out ot this country. Lvery tales of the bare-urmed Fenian, declares in no measured terms that he should think it no great* harm to wring the saint's bald head from his shoulders. A WOM VN was drowned kho other day, , _ while being baptized, and if any para- year we have fewer ships, and the for- grapher riugs in a hoary P'tn about tho eigner t an increased percentage of deceased dying of dip-theory, he should^ our traffic. 1 be wverely talked to.