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% y MS 5*. - ̂ mms }-' ' W ' : A HOUSE WITHOUT CBODREK. rro let, part of a hooae, where there are no ohtldren, to a neat American family without ohHden. Apply at st."-- Adeertiaiment in the Bontftn Journal! A house without children, did yon ever observe t? Is a <l-»*o'.a,tc ma^fl'-n < vershadowed by gloom; ftalo chambers re-och yonr lootsteps, Add chadowy Fpeuters flit oft through your n.om. ' ;*Tlll9ro <lys ep»la 1* rampart., the htees thej^aa- B .11 ' O-l. . And tr nbj&t crowd thickly of like kith and A kin; "TOire th chaise of the doctor U often se^n «.»Rrtlwifcv . - • • •- , -, ;.£*d crape on ,t>» 1w>clc« tella of a arrow " w,U.in. • .THJ • .. . - jt-feiua* without chiHrtn, pray dont advertise , ' It? Beep the street and ih» number a secret, my s' , r eri'l; lufcthc c ook tick in silence the few fleeting mo- ft*. m nts 11 * *bw havf yet in yoor lonely apartments to > i-i>en:i. TKIM- if any one knows cf a dwelling Whp'c the nsightor.* would like to hsar voloes % of jrtoe? |j,'. l oou'd i ring them, I'm anre, In oar Mabel and Annie. > D^lght nl companions, if they'll notify me. rf, > 4 for the sun breaks upon them the first to the n ornirg, !* •- . ; A«d «he biriR they love dearly to come day by dav • /, AHA pi * up the crumbs which their little hands Mstu'er. -• When, i ounding with life, fliey ran out to y,- play j, ' \ Does any on? know'op any such dwelling? ' i| Its n ^dt ipust besmtll, for our means are not ,, V" "Where t he'land! rfi, Ood Wesahlml for the aakg • • ' of the cbifdrm.1 ' • , Wilt thnw in the rent at a nominal charga >.„ ^rHenry S. \V<i.*h'iur)k THE WIDOW HONITON. M ence him. HON. nit y > nd Hit ad could have had her -way, would hare settled the matter bj tearing it into shreds and stamping upon it; though, as remarked by Miss Margaret Thomp­ son, there was not much to stamp upon. The old state of affairs was re-estab­ lished as thoroughly and completely as though Mrs. Honiton liatl never been. Mrs. Honiton was not onl'y more at­ tractive than ever, but she had learned many artful and coquettish ways. She combined the privileges of a widow with the fascinations of the girl to that ex­ tent that it really seemed a positive happiness to be left a widow at that age with all those attractions. As a maiden she would have no license to practice the ensnaring arts which she now put in force in virtue of the fact that she had been married and lost her husband. I fancy that Mr. Weller's experience must have been among widows Of this stamp, bouncing, fresh-faced widows at coaching houses, who set their caps--• far back--at him, and regulated his liquor and generally superintended him. I don't wonder .that the burden of his advice to his son was to beware of widows. The female villagers witnessed with dismay their eligible young men once more falling down at the feet of the flaxen idol, following her wherever she went, sauntering behind her to admire her figure, walking on before her tb Catch her smile, swarming around her at parties like flies round a sugar-cask, and from those out-door devotions turning to the smarting bosoms of their IH'T> HO we i.IIi HK. oY YMR1 JJ^FOHVIWI wid- 111y, cellar to garret.!:. The "iiinnrdsMh- (ion not as large as the Sentinel* bu*- 6®11 ru t, *eem to In- jtisf as lovely. for "Yes. sir'" he said, "that's •IIHI knowing Dull-dog of mine. Jam full of fleas, and hie got wrenching his spina and the cofring hiAjieck reaching round to gnaw ear .. , hen tired ©. i :g "®een -- fLaan. w 1 tli f ̂ rjTseiiooFgirls have become women, school-boys have become men. The "idol" had come back to catch both in her net. Such are the privileges of" having become a widow, young, of course, providing that you are pretty in the bargain. Sex TOftkes'-all the difference. . Widows are not popular, however handsome they may be. You never see girls running after a bereaved male, unless, indeed, they are old girls, who are beginning to despair. Then, of course, as drowning men catch at straws, so aging maids, when tliev see the torch of Hymen flick­ ering, will clutch at any hand that is held out to tlieai. Such was the state of affairs when Mr. Charles Bevington came to reside in our village. Mr. Charles Bevington was a rising young lawyer, a handsome, dashing"1 young fellow, with black whiskers and an easy, nonchalant ad­ dress. Physically, he was a sort of prize man, a specimen of humanity who would have carried off the gold medal at an exhibition of his species. He had a broad forehead and a broad cliest; his frame was muscular and strongly knit; his hair was curled all over his well-set head; and his eyes beamed with vigor and vivacity. With all this he had a ready tongue, a won­ derful faculty for talking rattling non­ sense ; and he was a bachelor. He was a person who, as soon as seen, provoked onvtcTHi^ vSSS"2v!»?j handsome man!" His good looks were so strongly developed, and, as a whole, so complete and undeniable, that even married ladies, in the presence of their husbands, eonld not restrain their ad­ miration; and husbands could hear their remarks with complacency, for it was a startling fact which nobody conld deny. It was as natural to say that besides IIP WHS rather taste o' himself. What. We»t, out. sir, and got ( l id I n f o .. It was a terrible shock to\tlie s< ayatem of Cloverdale when M*s. II ton--widow Honiton a few rebel! young ladies tried to christen her, the title didn't stick, I promote y< returned to that delightful little vill "to make her home once more an us," as she delicately phrased it. If she had come back logo] wretched and haggar J--exhau ted, s her body with nights of watchim (the bed.si&e of the late Mr Honiton, wearied, as to her mind, by long anxTotv and grief--if she had come back that way, then, indeed, the young ladies of our village would have been charmed to see her, and would have called upon her condolingly and spoken of her with pity as poor Mrs. Honiton, A widow faitliful to the memory of her departed spouse is an object of univer­ sal sympathy, and .none ' would have been more glad to ten­ der it to her than the young ladies of om^vill age. But alas! Mrs. Honiton was as beautiful, as radiant, as fashion­ ably dressed, and apparently as young as ever. It was evident she had not 1>een rlunged into any violent grief; she had not cried her eyes out and spoiled her beauty; she had not been left destitute to give others the luxury of commiserating r.nd helping her: and, worse than all, she wore so very natty and retiring a widow's cap that you could scarcely detect that emblem of bereavement. I don't exactly know what an invisible peruke is, but Mrs. Honiton's head-gear was certainly an in­ visible widow's cap. It was considered quite scandalous that she should have got over her calamity so easily. It is true, the deceased Honiton was kn<Wiyjto have been anvtiiing but a de­ sirable companion or an estimable man, and we couldn't help acknowledging TluvYy *:id "vf MwV Btt still, a decent show of regret would have been only proper; and to call a carefully-composed head-dress like that Jt widow's cap was the very caricature of mourning. When she appeared in it for the .first time in church she looked lovelier than ever. The merest suspic on of crimped white muslin, creeping out between her black bonnet ^ ^ and her golden hair, gave an addi- I Mr.'Charles Bevington Tvas^handsome 4 tional piquancy to her beauty, and then l»er weeds were air so fashionably made «pd so elegantly worn that her figure "really seemed to be improved by them. JHer pink complexion stood out in •charming contrast against her black -crape bonnet; and this last-mentioned portion of her dress was a dainty cockle- vhell article, so neat and nattv that jou might have imagined it to be a •wedding bonnet dyed black. Her black bodice fitted to perfection, and the «t*pe mantle which hung from her shoulders was so contrived as to show that lier waist was as it had ever been; when she lifted up her crape flounces and exposed a tiny, neatly-fi,tting kid boot with a graceful curve fn the in­ step and military heels. Miss Nipper was heard to. say that she had a great mind to go and slap her face. In fact, Mm. Honiton in her widow's weeds was a much more-attractive person than she had ever l>een in all the dazzling splendor of white silk. Her first Sun­ day at church proved this conclusively as it would have been to say that a man seven feet high was tall. Like all the others, Mr. Bevington became attracted by the beauty of the widow, and, very shortly after his arrival in the village, he epie to me r^ing si bout her. MI wish you would marry her." I said. Mr Bevington was startled at my coming upon him plump at the first word w^tli such a wish as this. "Why--how--what do you mean?" lie stammered. "I mean exactly what I «ay," I re­ plied. "I wish you would marry. Mrs. Honiton, for thereby you would* do the village a signal service. " "I should have thought quite the contrary," he replied, "for all the young fellows are mad after her." "That's the mischief " I said. "Mischief! I really don't understand you." "Why, the fact is, Mrs. Honiton mon­ opolizes the attention of all the young men, and the other young ladies have The single young men never took their j no one to make love to them. If Mrs. «yes off her, and indeed a good many j Honiton were married, five or six eligi- of the married one3, including Theo- j ble parties would be let loose from her dore and Adolphus, could not help their | train to go and court elsewhere. Onr glances straying in the direction of the | damsels are languishing for beaux, and beautiful relict. | all °n account of this fascinating wid- j^Do you wonder that the women folks j Were indignant? They would have been Biorc than woipen, more than mortal, if they had not.y6 They had suffered al­ ow. "Well," he*said, "Idcm't wander at that." ^7 No," I said, "but the young ladies XOady at the hands of thin ensnaring wonder at it, and, what's more, they siren; they had got rid of her, as thev j don't like it; and if you will only go fondly hoped, forever, and here she was again trdubl ng their waters as of • yore. Her cap was assailed at once, u was a heartless mockery to p it on a thing like that, and her husband only dead six weeks, and she ought to be ashamed of herself! Mrs. Honiton did not appear af, all ashamed. She paid close intention to the service, and said all the responses, and sang all the psalms, and, with her calm, pale face and placid eves tprued upwan , looked like anan^el--at I*a*t that ii what young Parkinson V thought- Parkinson, who never closed either his eyes or his month since> the ttir vision burst upon him at the very commence in ent of the service. I sus­ pect there, were not many young men in the church that Sunday," who, if tliev , had been questioned, could give a very Satisfactory account of the sermon, or «ven were able to say what the text was. The eloquence of the preacher was no Snatch for the more attractive metal of Mrs. Honitoa's piquant beauty. If there had been a sermon in that fair young face, the single men might have been Jfcetter for coming to church that Biorning; as it was, they dispersed -fc) talk of nothing else for the rest of •the day but the young widow's golden and marry Mrs. Honiton out of the way, I am sure they will subscribe for a tes­ timonial to you." "Are you really serious?" he said. "Perfectly so," 1 replied; "in fact I would marry her myself out of pity for the poor girls, only for a trifling ob­ stacle, of which you are aware, that I •am married already." a "Has she money?" he asked. "Lots," I replied. "Then," he said, "there is no need to ask more questions, far I don't require you or any one else to tell me that she is as beautiful as an an -el. By Jove! I'll tak» your advice and stick to her." I "Do," said I, "and if you only win j the witlow's heart, you will at the same I time win the hearts of all the unmar­ ried ladies in the village. Maidens and matrons will be ready to praise you." _ "In that caw," he said, "I shall step into a perfect mine of affection. Well; I will go in for it, at any rate." "Yes," I said, "do; go in and win." Mr. Bevington did go in for it. He laid siege to the widow immediately, much to the indignation and disgust of her train of admirers, who looked upon time, and did their best to dispute the ground with the handsome barrister; but it was very discouraging work. The lawyer generally got the best of it, and at such times the widow would look at her train and shrug her pretty shoulders, as much as to say, "It is real­ ly not my .|ault. I try to give you all a chance, and, if you let thia dashing, black-whiskered man cut you out, why, you have only yourselves to blame." Mrs. Hontton's followers began to drop off one by one, and the female villagers looked up. Mr. Webljer, the cotton-broker, was the first to relax his hold and sink into the waters of des­ pair; then Capt. Jarvis, then young Jenkins, the Alderman's .son, and two or three more, until the prize^was dis-. puted by only two--Mr. Bevington and Mr. Joseph Perkins, a mild littie gentle­ man, whose sticking up to Mrs. Hon­ iton had always been regarded as like his impudence. As some half-dozen of Mrs. Honiton's admirers had now been detached for other service, the village^ was in a humor to be amused at the pretensions of "little" Perkins, par­ ticularly as little Perkins had only $2,0<)0 a year, and was short, and by no means what the ladies call handsome. Little Perkins h d another fault--or, at least he exhibited certain traits of character which are a positive disad­ vantage when placed, an competition with physical beauty and dash--Per­ kins was amiable, gentle; and unob­ trusive in his manners, kind and gener­ ous of disposition, and, on all occasions, highly considerate of the feelings of others. And. because he was all this and wasn't six feet high, and hadn't black whiskers, and didn't l»ounce and talk lond, the girls called him a "molly." It isthe same in the matri­ monial market as iii the shop or the bazaar--it is the showy article that takes. WomeV see a gaudy man, all dazzle and brighf eolor, and they say at once, "111 take this article, please," without stopping to inquire if lie will wash, if he will wear and if his colors are fast. sSo the vil­ lage laughed at the pretensions of little Mr. Perkins, and of course Mr. Beving­ ton was in every respect above serious­ ly regarding so insignificant a person as a rival. In fact, he was amused with the "little man," afld liked to "trot him out," as he f,expr^S8ed it, before the widow. Anft we widow seemed to en­ joy the fun, ana was forever sending Perkins to fetch and carry for her. If, when she was sitting beside the dash­ ing Mr. Bevington, she happened to drop her handkerchief, she would call to Perkins to pick it up for her, and Bevington would quietly keep his seat and allow Perkins to perform the office. Everybody pitied Perkins aud wondered that he could be such a fool. But Mr. Bevington was suddenly called a-wa'y upon business, and Mr. Perkins seized the opportunity to make an offer to the widow. He fell upon his knees, vowed he loved her to dis­ traction, and swore he would never be happy without her. Mrs. Honiton re­ jected .him, and actually laughed at him. Poor little Perkins^ went home and took to his bed. In the meantime the handsome young lawyer returned, and, hearing of Per­ kins'declaration, was immensely amused and told the story everywhere with great gusto and delight. One day shortly after this Bevington called upon me with an invitation to an evening party at Mrs. Honiton's house. "Well^ I said, "I presume you have done it; gone in and won, as \ advised you." ' "Well," he said, "I think I may safe­ ly say [have." "And it is all settled," I said. "Well, not exactly," he said; "shehas some scruples about giving her consent so foqp after her--her bereavement, which is quite right and proper, you know, and I like her all the better for it; but it's all right." "Ah! doesn't like the idea of serving up the 'uneral baked meats at the wed- diii'jr tables," I remarked. "Precisely, and wants to wear out the black shoes; but you will come to the party, won't you? I want you to be there particularly, for we are going to h-'ve a lark with little Perkins." "What!" I said, "will he be there af­ ter what ha«! occurred ?" * "There is the lark," he said; "observe the date of the party, the 1st of April; we are going to make an April fool of him." I asked how they intended to pro­ ceed. " Oh! the simplest thing in the world," he said; "I have written a letter to Per­ kins, as if from Mrs. Honiton, inviting him to the party, and giving him to be­ lieve that she relents toward him and is anxious that he should renew his ad­ dresses." • "Does Mrs. Honiton know of it?" I asked. x "Oh! yes; of course she drm, and en­ ters into the joke with anticipation of rare fun. What a lark it ^vill be to see little Perkins hoaxed!" "It will, indeed," I said, "and I cer­ tainly shall be there to see." I went to the party on 'the lst^of April, and, arriving rather eany~-ftm««v Mr. Bevington and the widow concoct­ ing an elaboration of t'.ie plot for mak­ ing an April fool of Perkins. It was arranged that Mrs. Honiton should give Perkins great encouragement, and load him to a second declaration, and that the guests should all come in at the mo­ ment, and find Perkins on his knees at her feet. I thought this was going ra­ ther too far, and was somewhat sur­ prised that Mrs. HQniton should be so eager to join in so heartless a plot; but, as all the guests who were in tbe secret looked upon it as a great piece of fun, I said nothing, and let matters proceed. Perkins arrived, was announced and was ushered into tlie drawing room in a faultless evening suit, evidently pur­ chased for the occasion. He went right up to Mrs. Honiton. shook her by the hand, and looked his thanks with an expression of honest earjjfcstness that made me ashamed ofni^self for having in tlie remotest waf^entered into the conspiracy against * him. I could not have imagined Mrs. Honiton to be so consummate an actress. She returned his warm grasp in the most impressive manner, ami put on an expression of delight and pleasure which it would have been impossible to suspect. Bev­ ington was holding by the mantel-pieee, convulsed with suppressed laughter. Mrs. Honiton saw him, and frowned gfavelv, sustaiiiing her part to perfec- Bevington gave the initiated the signal, and we followed. Mr. Perkins and Mrs. Honiton were walking up and down the room, arm in arm, talking softly. Every now and then we could hear Perkins make mention of' his "heart," his "devotion," his "long at­ tachment," his " unalterable devo­ tion." Mrs. Honiton was silent, and looked modestly, .with admirable art. Perkins handed her to a chair. He sat down beside her; he whispered more words of love--he fell npon his knees at her feet. "Now is the time," said Bevingtfbn, and he rushed into the room and bu*st info a roar of laughter. Perkins rose in haste and confusion. Mrs. Honiton rose also, but looked calm and serious. SIIM turned coldly to "Bevington and said: "Pr/iy, what are you laughing at, sir?" "Capital! capital!" cried Bevington; "how admirably she acts her par: !" "Mr. Covington," said Mrs. Honiton, in the same cold, earnest manner, "the part I am acting is one in which I am prompted by my heart and my inclina­ tion, and not by your cruel and un­ manly designs. Mr. Perkins has made me an offer of his hand, and I accept it, confident that he also bestows upon me a heart capable of love, capable of'feel- ing and capable of kindness and gen­ erosity .A < . Mr. Bevington was still trying to laugh, but it was a little on the wrong side of the moutii now. Mrs. Honi­ ton's acting was a little too deep, too subtle, too profound for him. She con­ tinued : "You must remember, Mr. Beving­ ton, I am a widow, and that I am priv­ ileged, while very young, to acquire ex­ perience of your sex. The experience has not dome too late for my liappinoss. I have thought it possible, sir, that a person who has acted with such delib­ erate and wanton cruelty to the most kind-liearted and inoffensive of men might at some future time feel no scru­ ple in practicing that cruelty upon a defenseless woman; and I Hftve thought it most probable that a man who has in­ variably, and under many trying cir­ cumstances, shown himself to possess all the qualities which make up the true gentleman will prove himself to be a kind and devoted husband. Sir, I have made my choice." And Mrs. Honiton gave her hand to Perkins, led him into tlio ball-room among the com­ pany, and there openly announced to lier guests that she had made choice of a husband. And so Mr. Perkins, instead of being made an April fool J was made the hap­ piest man alive. And the village won­ dered, and refusedVto believe its eyes, until it saw Mr. anuVMrs. Perkins roll away ijj*the bridal clmfcjpt. . . . . . , , t l i e e n c r o a c h m e n t o f t h e t a l l , h a n d s o m e . n U o « . u u n i ^ u r a i i m e i ! - Aajy, and blue eyes, and the coral lips j hamster as something unfair and en- tion. When Bevington could control 4i f? T f?fclnatlllff by contrast tirely disproportionate. When Mr. j his laughter, he went up W&'erkins and <*ith the black veil and the glimpse of Bevington dashed into the midst of j whispered words of encourageineat in •White muslin. The maids and matrons i them, and carr ed tJj£^adda5v.ofI> m tf i- j his ear, and all the evening he fol- «*rere justified in being indignant. It nmpli his rivals^tell off tTnufflyHHirfl lowed lum about, muttering such things looked up at hfto as much as1 to say, j as "Faint heart never won fair lady," "Why don't you Xjmpete with one of your own size?" The widow, however, was by no means inclined to encourage a monopoly of herso f, , and still con­ tinued to distribute her smiles with im- Was very wrong. The clergyman him­ self felt the rivalry, as he felt it on frnany a subsequent Sunday. But what . i&ould he do? He could "not go and «£old the widow for. looking pretty, and St was no part of his duty as a divine to determine the fashion and proportion of j partiality. The consequence, ^yas that aft widow's cap. Miss Nipper, if she ! her many admirers • held on for some "Fortune favors the. brave," "Go in and win." "She loves you, Perkins." The moment came. It was after supper and after the first quadrille. Mrs. Honiton, wl^o had been Perkins' partner, led him out of the drawing- room into adjoining apartment. Gloves, Old and New. Gloves were articles of Oriental dress, for according to Xenoplion they were worn by Cyrus the Persian; and "Athe- nseus speaks of a celebrated gourmand who came to a banquet with gloved hauds, that he might eat more rapidly than his fellow-guests, who had to wait until the viands were cool. In ancient times a glove was employ­ ed as a token of pledg^of faith in the making of contracts--a sort of substi­ tute for the hand itself^-being cast down by one contracting party, to be taken up, as sealing the agreement, by the other. Before the union/ of. England and nvxniiSim, t]BOIV?Arara }iovn/nor nu(*p> ph dged their fafth to an enemy, regard­ ed its violation as a grave crime; and, when such a breach of honor occurred, the injured person rode through the field at the next border meeting, hold­ ing up a glove on the point of his spear --as a pledge of faith--and proclaimed the perfidy of him who had broken it. To wipe out a such stain, tlie (^minal was often slain by his own clan. Passing over all mention of the gloves worn by Knights with their mail armor, or having overlapping plates of steel, I will name a few of those of which some note has been made in history. A fur-lined glove, worn by Henry VI., is still preserved in the old man­ sion that gave him shelter lifter the dis­ astrous battle of Hexham (1464), The son-in-law of Tunstall, and "esquire of his body," Sir Ralph Pudsey, kept him in concealment at Bolton Hall, York­ shire ; and there, when he left his faith­ ful host, he also left a boot, spoon and glove. The latter is of tanned leather, lined with hairy d^er-skin, turned over at the wrist as a deep cuff. The embroidered gloves of Coeur de Lion lost him his liberty at one time, and might have cost him his life. He was lying in concealment in an enemy's country, and his page carried them very indiscreetly in his pocket--though, per­ haps, for their better safety--when sent by his royal master to obtain food in the neighborhood of Vienna. How it happened does not appear; but tHev were seen, and recognized as being only suitable for a crowned head to possess. The same night the King was captured by the Duke of Austria, and sold by him to Emperor Henry VI. for 60,000 pounds of silver? . Anne Bolevn seems to havebeen very particular about lpx gloves, and it" is re­ corded that lier royal predecessor used to delight m-HM^King her play cards without thgm, that some little blemish in the shape of her nails might offend the eye if the King. Quoeri Mary and her sistfer Elizabeth took prim; in this article of dress. It is said that the latter was extravagant in the extreme about them, and that a marveloiw pair was at one time present­ ed to her that was inclosed in a walnut shell./ She even retained her gloves playing the virginal. One "pavr gloves einbrawret with gold," is re­ corded as having been sent to her sister Mary as a N»>w Year's gift before her accession, and "t§n pavr of Spanvshc gloves from a Duches in Spavno" caiue to her a year afterward, while at about that time "a pair of swete gloves" were also presented to her from Mrs. rWhcl- lers. j The degradation of any exalted per-. I sonage in thtfTinddlc ages was express- I ed by the deprivation of his gloves--- j just as a glove was presented to him in I tho ceremony of bestowing on him lands j or honors. The enormous quantity of so-called j kid gloves is greatly in excess of the j amount of leather afforded by the skins qf'all the yonug goats annually killed j to supply the demand. There has long tibeen quite a trade carried on in Paris i by the gamir.s in rat skins, who have j much profitable sport in catching them j at the mouths of the great drains of the city. Our real kid-skins come from Switzerland and Tuscany, dispatched from Leghorn.--The Queen. JOSEPH HOACTS YISIOW. remem-v all my Wkat mb Old Quaker Saw in the 8kjr In IMS Concerning the Future of the United States. from the Now York World. Joseph Hoag was, about 50 years ago, a celebrated Quaker preacher of New Hampslvire. Born at Sandwich, N. H., of Quaker parents, he was brought up in strict accordance with the tenets of the denomination, and early gained the liigli character for moral worth which he bore throughout his life. His business, wlucli was that of a farmer, he pursued with diligence and success, but while still a young man he took an active interest in religious matters, and soon became known as an earnest ex- liorter at the meeting house. He trav­ eled as a preacher throughout his native state, and was well known at Sandwich, Wolfborough and Dover. Those who remember him describe him as a staid, sedate Quaker of the old school, very clear-headed, a zealous Christian, but Without a tinge of fanaticism. One day while at work in his field he had a remarkable vision, during which he said he received a revelation from heaven. He kept it to himself for some time, but it at length became such a burden to him that he wrote an account of it. This was published in a New Hampshire paper of that date, and the vision became a topic of general discus­ sion in the New England Quaker com­ munities. Hoag is said to have made frequent reference to the subject in his sermons. Much comment has taken place among those who have known of the vision since it was first published by the consummations they have wit­ nessed of events fore-shadowed in it. The following is a copy of the account of the vision* as written by Mr. Hoag himself: " "THE REMARKABLE PROPHECY car JOSEPH HOAG. "In the year, 1803, in the 8th or 9th month, I was one day alone in the field and observed that the sun shone clear, but a mist eclipsed ik§, brightness. "As I reflected upoiNrhe singularity of the event my mind wa\ struck into silence the most solem I bered to have witnessed, faculties were slow and brought into deep silence. "I said to myself : 'What can all this mean? I do not recollect ever before to have been sensible of such feelings.' "And I heard a voice from Heaven saying : 'This which thou seest is a sign of the coming times. I took the forefathers of this, country from a land of oppression; I planted tliem here among the people of the forest, and while they were humble I blessed them and fed them and they became a nu­ merous people. " 'But they have now become proud and have forgotten me, who nourished and protected them in the wilderness, and are now running into every abom­ ination and every practice of which the old countries were guilty, and havi taken gratitude from the land and suf­ fered a dividing spirit to come among them. Lift up thine eves and behold P I saw them dividing in great heat. The division began in the clutches on points of doctrine. It commenced in the Presbyterian society and went through the various'/religions denominations, and in its progress and close, its effects were the same. Those who dissented went off' with high heads and taunting language, and those who kept to their original sentiments appeared exercised and sorrowful. And when the dividing spirit entered the society of Friends it raged in as high a degree as many I had noticed or before discovered; and, as before, those who separated wenj off with lofty looks and taunting, censur­ ing language. , Those who kept their ancient principles retired by themselves. It next appeared in the lodges of the Freemasous and it broke out in appear­ ance like a volcano, inasmuch as it set the country in an uproar for a time. Then it entered politics throughout the United States, and did not stop until it produced a civil war. An abundance of blood was shed in the course of the combat; the Southern States lost their power, and slavery was annihilated from their borders. "Then a monarchical power sprang up, took the government of the States, took a national religion and made all tributary to support its expenses. I saw them take property from Friends. I was amazed at .beholding all of this, and I heard a voice proclaim: 'This power shall not always stand, but with­ out I will chastise my church until they, return to the faithfulness of their fore­ fathers. " 'Thou seest what is coming upon thy native country for its iniquities and the blood of Africa, the Remembrance of which comes up before n^e.' "This vision is yet fu mari^4ay8- I had no idea .of writing it for many years; but it became such a burden that for my own relief I have written it. JOSEPH HOAG. The Current of Rivers. A very slight declivity suffices to give the running motion to water. Three inches per mile in a smooth, straight channel givesNa velocity of about three miles an hour. The Ganges, which gathers the iwaterp of the Himalaya mountains, tlie lpftiest in the world, is at 100 miles frSm its mouth only 300 feet above, the level of the sea, and to fall 300 feet in its long course the water requires more than a month. The great river Magduiena, in South America, running for 1,000 miles between two ridges of the Andes, falls only 500 feet in all that distance. Above the distance of 1,000 miles it) W seen descending in rapids aud cataracts from the moun­ tains. The gigantic Rio de la Plata has so gentle a descent to the ocean that in Paraguay, 1,500 miles from its mouth, large ships ate seen which have sailed against the current all the way by the force of „ the wind alone--that is to say which, on the beautifully inclined plane of the stream, have been gradually lift­ ed by the soft wind, and even against the current, to an elevation greater than ouiv loftiest spires. are always kept in this Macca of the fortune-seeker. Had the searcher for marvelous things in the old time, who boldly embarked upon an unknown sea, and, having landed on an unknown coast, bravely pushed into tbe forest to meet the dame who always waits to be overtaken--had these bold searchers penetrated to imperial Dakota, they would have considered their mission ac­ complished. There is no need to go beneath the snrface for the gold, for it lies on top. No great amount of labor is necessary to accumulate great riches in a country where the ground prepared and the seed placed beneath it assures the harvest in due time. Dakota farms are the most profitable on the sod and are a mine of wealth never-failing, to those who possess them.--Fargo Bul­ letin. CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC. DR. HEWSON asserts that the com­ mon sparrow is liable to have small-pox and is capable of communicating that disease. TAKING all the world the United States in 1878 had the greatest mileage of railroad in proportion to the popula­ tion, having a little over twenty-one miles for each 10,000 persons. In Europe Sweden led with six and a half miles to every 10,000 of her population. A WRITER in one of the scientific journals contends that "the excesS'of mortality in hot weather is largely de­ pendent upon the heat evolved from the cooking-stove, and that by utilizing that heat as means of ventilation much bene­ fit might be deprived and the mortality lowered." IN thinly-settled* districts, and espec­ ially in those portions of the northwest not yet netted with telegraph wires, it is .suggested that a system of gun sig­ nals-be adopted to indicate the approach of hurricanes and floods, and to denote also the direction and degree of the ap­ proaching danger. ~ , , AceoRDi'Xa- to the Medicfal Record, "the blue appearance which milk some­ times presents after standing a few days is due to an organism which is allied to bacteria, and can be transplanted into other samples of milk and various solu­ tions. The bluing occurs only in oxy­ gen, and is attended witji evolution of carbonic acid." Contrary to the general opinion, tak­ ing the last five years ending in Decem­ ber, 1880, it does not appear that the supply of Asiatic ivory is falling off. On an average over these years the British imported 3,684 hundred-weights per annum. At any time the highest imports from the East was in 1858, when it rose to 5,000 hundred-weights. It seems that when elephants are tamed the tusks do not grow so long and the ivory is not of so fine a quality. THE imitation gems now produced in Paris by chemical means so nearly re­ semble the genuine article that even connoisseurs cannot readily distinguish them without the use of scales or files. The following oxides supply the color­ ing substances employed: Gold, for purple; silver, for yellowish green; iron for pale red; cobalt, for blue; tin, for white; maganese, in small quantity, to make the glass devoid of color, in a larger to give it an amethyst hue, and in great quantity to make it black and opaque; antimony, for reddish hyacinth color. M. D'ABADDIE says that immunity from marsh fevers in bad tropical coun­ tries is often HfciCllrtd Ijy Siilpiiui* fuuii gations on the bare skin. The efficacy of sulphur is otherwise illustrated. Those people who work in the sulphur mines of Sicily suffer less from inter- mitten fever than the rest of the popu­ lation. Zeplivria, in Greece, which once h|id a population of 40,000 inhabitants, has been almost destroyed^ by marsh fever, and its decay has corresponded with the transference of sulphur-min­ ing to the East, where a mountain mass prevents the emanations from reaching the site of the town. • IT IS reported that mica face masks are proving very beneficial to workmen exposed to great heat, acid fumes, flying sparks, or fragments of stone and metal. The mica plates are fixed in metallic frames, protected with asbestos. The masks cover the eyes more effectively jhan mica spectacles do, and the whole ell. The neck and shoulder same time be protected by a cape of asbestos or other proper material. The space between the masks ancl^he face allows the use of inner glasses for improving vision or shading the eyes.l The tough and flex­ ible mica prevents the breaking of the glasses by heat pr flying fragments. ACCORDING to a foreign journal a strong, impervim.^ parcliment-paper is obtained by thoroughly washing wooiStr or cotton fabrics, so as\to remove gum, starch, and other foreignBTSdies, then to immerse tlieiii; in a bath containing a small quantity of paper pulp. The lat­ ter is made to penetrate the fabric by being passed between rollers. Thus prepared, it is afterward dipped into, sulphuric acid of suitable concentra­ tion, and then repeatedly washed in a bath of aqueous ammonia until every trace of acid has been removed. Finally, it is pressed between rollers to remove the excess of liquid dried between two rollers which are covered with felt, and lastly calendered. fiTV AUD PODIT. AN EXTRAORDINARY thing LA lading* bonnets--a cheap one. » , "THERE," she said, waving her mar­ riage certificate in the air, "there is the flag of our union!" DID Richard III exclaim, "Give me another horse J" because he was tired of the nightmare he had been riding ? "THEY tell me you have had some money left you," said Brown. "Yes," replied Fogg, sadly, "it left me long ago." WHO was it that said it is not good for man to lie alone?" asked a Sunday- school teacher of the class. "Daniel, sir, when he was in the lions' den." INGERSOLL says no such man aB Noah ever existed. He probably bases hi« .belief on the assumption that no in his senses would invite a pair of mosquitoes into the ark. WE NOTICE that it takes a very rich man to appreciate the blessings of pov­ erty. Solomon was worth about $75,- 000,000 when he said: "A good man is to be chosen rather than great riches." WIFE--"Can't y</u take me to the Y ahop, restaurant some evening, mV dear?" Husband--"No, darling, it is disreputable." *Wife--"Then, dear, why do you bring home its marked napkins in your pockets?" HAVING interred his four wives to­ gether, a .disconsolate widower em- blamed their memory: Stranger, pause and drop a tear, ; Far Mary Jane lioH buried here; ' "'•••• MlWled in a most surprising maimer With SuHan, Maria, and portions ot W<m " WH| didn't you deliver that message as I gave it to you ?" asked an Austin gentleman of a stupid servant. "I did de best I could, boss." Yoo did the best you could, did you?" imitating his voice and look. "So you did the best you could. If I had known that I was sending a donkey, I would have gone myself."'--Texas Sifting#. "I TRUST you are putting a few pennies aside in your savings-bank," Baid a fond father to his son, who was beginning to earn money by doing errands and odd jobs. "Not any, pa. Ever since I saw you shaking out a dime from it I have regarded it as a blind pool. I have no faith in it." That endod the boy's cate­ chism for^hat day.--Boston Globe. "DON'T swear so, John. What if yon should be struck dead with such horrid oaths on your lips?" said his wife sooth­ ingly. "Swear so? Jimminy crickets, by all that's great, I'm not swearing, but I'm going to express my opinion of this confounded, nine-cornered bazoo of a blamed rickety infernal stove-pipe-- Exit wife with her hands over her ears. SS^ ROMANCE AND REALITY. Do you remember, dearest Jane, That bygone day in June We strolled ad own your father's lf|M: One balmy afternoon? :>\f. And how we on a rustic seat. Reclined among tho {lowers, t And there in conversation sweet ' l-assed some ecstatic hours, Until the weary sun had found His usual western bunk • And how that blasted bench broke down. And sprawled ua both, kerchunk? "I DO," said a young man at a Col­ orado wedding, when the minister asked >if anybody knew any reason why the couple should not be united. The ob­ jector explained that the bride had promised to marry him; but that was not considered a sufficient reason for stopping the ceremony, which was con­ cluded amid the tittering Of the assem­ blage. THE Bishop of Limerick being in fail- itfg health, liis physician told him it would be necessary for him to seek rest and change of air at Nice. The Bishop positively declined to do so. Then said the doctor, plainly: "My lord, I tell you candidly your case is a most serious one; and if you do not go to Nice, you must very soon to heaven." "Oh, well, in that case," replied the Bishop, dismally, "I will go to Nice." • AT a company the following question was put: "How does the little ground- squirrel dig a hole without throwing any dirt about the entrance?" When all had given it up, except an Irishman, that witty guest, said: "Sure, do you see, he begins at the other end of the hole!" One of the guests asked: "But how does he get there ?" "Ah J" said the Irishman, "that's your question. Can you answer it yourself?" "COME, Mary," said Henry, as they were preparing the church vestry for the monthly meeting, "you can lend a hand, can't you?" Said M^ry, quite demurely, "And if I did lend a hand are you quite sure you wouldn't keep it ?" "No, by George," exclaimed Henry, • his face lightening up with a new revel­ ation; "no, I am sure I wouldn't give it up, never--never--never." Of course they were married, and of course they lived happily ever afterward. THE movement in the East to alfolish the vest has petered out. When a man takes off his coat at a Sunday-school picnic to ladle out the ice-cream he wants something between the p^Uio and tlie knots in his suspenders. Dakota Farms. . A Dakota farm is like no other farm on the footstool. Tt produces more J wealth, is easier managed, requires less \ to manage than a farm in any othe j country on earth. There are no rocks j to clear away, as in the 'East; no trees to fell, as in the Middle States: no ditches to dig and no irrigation tryplan, as in some of the Western States; no drought to fear, as in the Southwest; no floods to dread, as in the rich bottdm lands of the Lower Mississippi; n° levees to build or fertilizers to buy, as in the'older agricultural countries, and j no past record of failure to hover over j and alarm the man who plows and reaps j in the ..wheat garden of the imivers<?.«,{ The land that was put in cron eleven j years ago is as fertile to-day as' then, j Yearly, there is no diminution in the j I productive qualities of1 this unequaled j ' land. The promises of fortune' What Vice-Versa Meant. "Sam," said an old colored man down at the postoffiee to another old codger, "What's de meaniu of versa-versa?" "It means tother from which," an­ swered Sam with great dignity. - '"Idunno," said the first one, "I think it means upside down." "No," retorted his friend, "I'se done suali it meaun hind side defoah." A third old fellow came by just then and they appealed the question to him. "I cannot desplain pezactlv," he said, "so to meet wid your compredeliension, but wiser-versa, am a 'propriation from de Latn and means witss and wuss and mo* of it. I members stumblin' ober it at colled ge. It am a hard word to pro- nonce." He ambled along with his buck saw and the two who had referred to him looked after liim with respect and ad­ miration, wondering that "one small head could cary all he knetv.--Detroit Post. ^ No IOWA chronicler of the doings of itornadoes has equaled the artist in Georgia who records that "a gentleman from Dooley was in town last week, and in speaking of the storm in that county said that the strangest thing that happened there was that a kettle was overturned and the bottdm blown clear through itself, resulting in no damage to it, hut turning the legs on which ft stood on the inside. New legs will have to be put on it." » ARCHIBALD FORBES will get $5,000 for writing a book about America. Chewing Gum. It is a fact of some consequence to dealers in certain goods that the chew­ ing-gum season begins with school. There is some demand during the sum­ mer, but boys and girls generally have other means of diversion and recreation; but when the school-room door opens aud the year's toil begins there is some­ thing necessary in study hours, j Taffy and other candies leave marks on fin­ gers and faces, but the hardy gum can be laid away snngly in the corner of the desk, mouth or pocket, and reproduced whenever the pedagogue has his back turned. . Very little pure spruce gum is in the market. Packages are received that look like pure gum at first sight, but the lumps are supposed to be formed by the lingers after a little gum, resin and other things have been added. If a dealer is in doubt about the genuine­ ness of this spruce gum, he applies to a Canadian, who can tell at once. It must not be inferred from this that the regular diet of the Canadian is spruce gum. No; he gets something more on holiday^ occasionally. ' Tfie amount of chewing gum manu­ factured is enoriuous. There is a fact­ ory in this city. The gum sold by con­ fectioners is chiefly paraffine wax. Spruce gum is 50 cents a pound for the best in Maine, liencc? the use of cheaper things gives profit. The gum-makers follow the toy seasons in the form of chewing-gum--that is to sav, when tops are the toys gum is in the shape of tops, at other seasons other forms attract pennies. Chewing-gum may seem in­ significant as a trade commodity, but it is not. There are large houses in the country engaged solely in the prepara­ tion of chewing gum.--Providence Journal. BLOTTING paper was discovered in 14D5. Previous to that, when a man dropped a splotch of ink on the lower left-hand corner of his paper, he would give it a lick with his tongue toward tile upper right-hand corner, and make a better picture of tlie comet of 1880 than any that lias yet appeared in the illustrates! papers.--.tforrtstoum Mer*. aid.