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7 iBSwf. v T.ovttt* "•*'• by unnoticed, these INfWMred ad mm ; aition «t tit* bunds of tbe Upper . hot uplifted and my cordial r d'ye do f Wori t stony «tfcm-- • n \SPifUl Id^laref* •••<*•• "Vdlckeni are yoaf" >1 tneet thctn nightly at german, dinner, 1 rout, i of the clnbs, the matron* and "bubs" . ,, this season "out. * • Jftwedding. and fete, and luncheon, I'm alvmya there to so*. ' I know them all-- The great and nrrinU; Ana all of them know me. Then'* Jones of tbe Knickerbocker--I've helped MB of late; ider Velvet's I"ro polished many a ISA" hSmioften of late; At Mrs. VaB de Pll^j To Mis# Dndette at Newport, I was all «mile» and reeppct; And yet when we mem In the park or the street* <n»ey give me the cut direct 1 Then what is this Taunted breeding of the boasted Upper Ten-- , This courtesy of women--this chivalry of men! Do they think that I have no feeling? Do ttey all ignore me so Because I'm a waiter : ; ' • Fiom the eminent cater* Ing firm of Gobble & Co. ? HARRIED BUT NOT MATED. 7 She was dead; an old woman, with sil- ' ̂ Very hnir brushed sm&othly away from her Wrinkled forehead, and snowy cap tied un­ der her chin; a sad, quiet face; a patient mouth, with line3 about it that told of sor­ row borne with gentle firmness; and too w ithered, tired hands, crossed with a restful look. That was all. Who, looking at the sleeping form, would think of love and romance, of a heart only just healed of a wound received long, long •go? Fifty years she had lived under that roof, • farmer's wife. If you looked on the little JMate on her coffin-lid you will see "Aged 0" there; and she was only 20 when John Fhilli) >s brought her home, a bride. A half century she had kept her careful Watch over dairy and larder, had made butter and cheese, and looked after the in­ numerable duties that fall to tbe share of a farmer's wife. And John had never gone with buttonless shirts or undarned locks; had not come home to nn untidy bouse and scolding wife. His trim, tidy llarthii had been his pride; and though not a demonstrative husband, he had boasted sometimes of the model housewife that kept his home in order. But underneath her quiet exterior there was a story that John never dreamed of, •nd would hardly have believed possible bad he been told. She did not marry for love. When she was 19, a rosy, happy girl, a stranger came on a visit to their little Tillage, and that summer was the brightest and happiest she ever knew. Paul Gard­ ner was the stranger's name; he was an artist, and fell in love with the simple village girl, and won her heart; and, when be went away in the autumn, they were betrothed. "I'll come again in the spring." he said. "Trust me, and wait for me, Mattie dear." She promised to love and wait for him till the end of time, if need be; and, with a kiss on her quivering hps. he went away. Mattie Gray did not tell her father and mother of her love, for they had no liking for city folks, and had treated Paul none too hospitably when he ventured inside their house. Spring-time came, and true to his word, Paul returned; he. stayed only a day or two this time. "I am going away in a few weeks to Italy, to study," .he said. "I shall be gone two years; and then I shall claim you for my bride." They renewed their vows, and parted with tears, and tender, loving words; he f)ut a tiny ring on her linger, and cut a ittle curly tress from her brown hair; and, telling her to be always true, and wait for fc: Paul Gardner; did you think I was waiting all this time for another woman's husband? --that I was keeping my faith with one who played me false so soon?" "Played yon false! I have not. I am come as I promised yon. The two years are but just past, and I am here to claim you. Why do yon greet me thus? Are yen indeed married, Mattie Gray!" She was trembling like an aspen leaf. For answer she turned and pointed to the cradle. He came and stood before her, with white face and folded arms. "Tell me why you did this! Didn't you love me well enough to wait for me?" She went and unlocked a drawer, and took out a newspaper. Unfolding it, and finding the place, she pointed to it with her finger, and he read the marriage notice. "What of this?" he asked, as he met her questioning, reproachful look. "Oh, Mat- tie! you thought it meant me. It is my cousin. I am not married, nor in love with any one but yon." "Are you telling me the truth?" she asked, in an eager, husky voice. And then, as he replied, "It is true," she gave a low groan and sank down into a chair. "Oh, Paul, forgive me! It nearly broke my heart! I didn't know that you had a cousin by the same name. I ought not to have doubted vou; but 'twas there in black and white--and this man, my husband, came, and I married him!* With bitter tears, she told him how it all happened. With clenched hands he walked to and fro, then stopped beside the cradle, and bent over the sleeping child. Lower he bent, till his lips touched its wee fore­ head, while he murmured softly to him­ self. "Mattie's baby." Then he turned, and, kneeling before her, 6aid, in a low voice, "I forgive you, Mattie; be as happy as you can." He took both her hands in his, and looked steadily, lovingly, into her face. His lips twitched convulsively as he rose to his feet. 1 have no right here--you are another man's wife. Good-bye--God bless you!" He turned, as he went out of the door, and saw her standing there in the middle of the room, with arms outstretched. He went back, and, putting his arms around her, pressed one kiss on her cheek, then left the house, never looking back. And she went down on her knees beside her sleeping baby, and prayed for strength to bear her great trial. They never saw one another again. Seventy years old! Her stalwart sons and bright-eyed daughters remember her as a loving and devoted mother, her gray- haired husband as a most faithful wife. "Never was a woman more patient and kind, and as good a housewife as ever was," he said, as he brushed the back of his old brown hand across his eyes while looking down on the peaceful face. And not one of them ever knew of the weary heart and broken hope that had died in her breast, nor ever dreamed of the sorrowful load she had horned through life. ffEKSSt PUBLIC BY BEN: PF.RL.EY POORS. & %' % r Mattie was eem short by that she >V6E, when he wife. "It must be about the time be is toi start," she said to herself one day. And by and by, as she glanced over a newspaper, her eye' was Attracted by his name, and with white lips and dilated •yes, she read of his marriage to another. "Married! Taken another bride, in­ stead-of coming hack to marry me! Oh, Paul Paul! I loved and Irnsted you for this!" She covered her face with her hands, and wept ftitierljr. An hour afterward, as she sat there in the twilight, with the fatal newspaper lying in her • lap, she heard a step on the gravel walk; and, looking up, she saw John Phillips coming up the steps. He had been to.see her often before, but had never yet spoken of love, and had, of course, received no encouragement to do so. He was a plain, hard-working farmer, with no romance about him, but matfer-of- fact to the core, Hi& wife would get few caresses or tender words. He would be kind enough--would give her plenty to eat and to wear. Now he seemed to have come for the ex­ press purpose of asking her'to be his wife; for he took a chair, and, seating himself beside her, after the usual greeting, re­ serving scarcely a moment to take breath, began, in his business-like way, to con­ verse. There was no confession ©f love, no pleading.no hand-clasping, no tender glances; he simply wanted her; wonld she be his wife?* His mAhner was hearty enough; there was no doubt he really wanted l*er--woujd rather marry her than any other woman he Kftew: but that was all. 1 a- Her lips moved to} tell him she did not love hiIU; but as she let her eyes fall upon the crimson-hearted rose that swnng from the vine over the window, she caught sight of those few lines again. "Married!" she said to herself. "What can I do? He doesn't aBk me to love him. If I marry him I can be a true wife to him, and nobody will know that Paul had jilted me." The decision was made. Her cheeks were ashy pale as she looked up, straight into his eyes, and answered quietly, "Yes, I will be your wife." Her parents were pleased that she was «hosen by so well-to-do a young man; so it was all settled, and they were mnrried that same summer. People thought she «obered down wonderfully; more than that, nothing was said that would lead any one to suppose any change had taken place. Yes. she was sobered down. She dnred not think of Paul. There was no hope ahead. Life was a time to be filled up with something, so that she might not think of herself. John was always kind, but she got so wearied of his talk'of stock and crops, and said to herself, "I must work harder; plan, and fuss, and bustle as other women do, so that I may , and grow like John." years went swiftlv bv. A baby JNf* in the little cradle; and Martha--no- fcoaj called her Mattie but Paulr--sat rock- i&g it with her foot as Khe knitted a blue woolen stocking for the babv's father. There was a knock at the half-open door. A "I have got into the wrong road; will vou be kind enough to direct me the nearest way to the village?" said a voice, and a stranger stepped in. She rose to give him the required direc­ tion, but stopped afetWMIa "liftvieme quickly forward. "Paul!" "Mattie!" His face lighted up, and he reached out bis arms to draw her near him. With a surprised, painful look, she drew back. "Mr. Gardner, this is a most unexpected BaeetiuK." "Mr. Gardner?"' he repeated. "Mattie, t That do you mean?" "Don't call me Mattie, if you please," she replied with dignity. "My name Phillips." "Phillips!" ho echoed. "Are you married?' m ***** $*m jo®, Why the Irish Like Green. Some old Greek traditions tell how Kadmus, a mighty leader and a very wise man in all the arts anil sciences, came over from Asia and taught the Boeotians letters. In Phoenician the word Kadmus means the East-man, while the word Europe, which gradu­ ally was applied to a vast extent of land, a continent, at first belonged only to the land just across from the island of Eubcea, on the other side of the narrrow strait called Euripus, and means in Phoenician, the "West-land. So when you read of Kadmus coming to Europe, it is the East-man coming to the West-land. Over and over again in history we find names, to which all sorts of fanciful derivations have been given and beautiful legends and myths have been attached, turning out to be the simplest kind of words. Thus, Ire­ land also means Westland, and it comes from the Celtic word iar and our word land; iar meaning the West. Iar. be­ fore being used to denote the West, meant the back, and that fact lets us into an important secret concerning the religion of the Celts who first came over the Irish Sea to the Emerald Island. It tells ns that those early men named the points of the compass according to the other directions when the observer faced toward the East. So the East was named from front, or forward, the West from back or be­ hind, the North from left hand, and the South from right hand. That means that the early Celts worshiped the Dawn and the Sunrise. And so faith­ fully have the old traditions remained in men's minds in that big western island of the British Empire that, to this day, the emblem on the coat of arms of Ireland is a sunburst or rising- sun. i. nother carious thing is that it is more than probable that the Irish pref­ erence of the color green, for their flags and their sashes, arose from a mistake among those who had lost a thorough knowledge of the old Irish language. The sun, in Irish, is called by a word pronounced like our word "greenand it is likely that the Irish fondness for that color arose from the word's exact likeness in sound to their word for the sun. In the same way, when we talk about greenhouses, we think they^re called so because the plants are kept green during the win­ ter. Yet it is far more probable that "green," here, is the Irish word mean­ ing, not the color, but the sun; because greenhouses are built so as to catch the sun's rays and store them up while it is hidden by clouds, as happens more than half the time in showery Ireland. --Henry Eckford, in St. Nicholas. •m A Monster Volcano. Prof. Baudin-Lassalle holds that the grandest firework ever witnessed on this planet must have blazed aloft on the Pacific slope of our United States. The most active volcanoes of the pres­ ent age, Mt. Etna and Mt. Sangav, have surrounded themselves with lava- fields varying from ten to fifty feet in thickness, and extending over an area of half a hundred square miles. But the prehistoric volcano that seems to have had its crater somewhere on the western slope of the Cascade range, Oregon, lias covered a district of two hundred thousand square miles, with a continuous bed of lava of an average thickness of eighteen hundred feet. All the vast table-lands from the valley of the Klamath River in Northern Cali­ fornia to the Okanagon range in British Columbia must have been deluged by a fire-stream equal in volume to the con­ tents of the five great Canadian lakes and the river system of the Mississippi combined. Niagara falls, pouring down molten lava day and night, would have to flow on for half a century to equal the results of that monstrous eruption or series of eruptions. "Much Improved." Friend---How d' you do, Mr. Schnooks? Schnooks--Goof morni'g. Friend--You vasn'fe so deaf as usual dis mornin'. Schnooks--Youst shpeak a Ifeedle louter. Friend--I say you don't vas so deaf di8r « i* Schnooks--Oxkuse me| yotl vill schpeak louter, blease. Friend--I sait you don't vas So teaf dis mornin' as u>sual. Schnooks--Oh! schure not. I vas hear much petter as usuaL--Jhidqt- The elated South indulged in rose- coloved dreams of empire. Francis W. Pickens, of South Carolina, who had just iretnrned from Russia, where he had served as Minister plenipoten­ tiary, wrote on the 7th of December, 1860, to Hon. John Appleton, of Maine: "We are in the midst of a revolution and I have no time to write. Great events are passing in the country. The Union is gone. The South is united, the North divided. New York will be a free city. A part of the West will go with the South. God bless you.*" Gen. Lee was one of the few who did not iadulge in these "great expecta­ tions." When questioned as to the length of time the war would probably last, he replied, with a solemn and sig­ nificant emphasis which the questioner never forgot: "My little madam, I am afraid it will last until we are driven into the hills and mountains." The Fortieth Congress, which had adjourned in March, reassembled on the 3d of July. Sumner lost no time in calling up his universal suffrage bill, which he called the "short cut to uni­ versal liberty," while Mr. Stevens urged his confiscation bill. But a large num­ ber of conservative Republicans, headed by Senator Fessenden and Rep­ resentative Bingham, insisted that only reconstruction bills should be dis­ cussed. There was a sharp debate the first day of the session on the admission of a delegation from Kentucky. Edwin M. Stanton was really the principal counsel for Sickles' defense. Severe and searching. in every particu­ lar, and insulting and domineering in his disposition, he scarcely gave a wit­ ness on cross-examination time to think, and actually terrified them with his coarse voice and manner. He was well known to the Washington bar, having had several cases at the National Capi­ tal, the first one having been in 18441 Then Caleb J. McNulty, Clerk of the House of Representatives, U. S., hav­ ing charges preferred against him by the House, of loaning the public funds in his hands as such officer to certain parties for betting purposes, a com­ mittee was appointed to investigate the same, and they reported the charges true, and the House sustained the re­ port, and by resolution declared his office vacant, and also requested the President of the United States to have Caleb J. McNulty indicted. Accord­ ingly he was indicted in the Criminal Court of the District of Colombia. Senator B. Tappan was one of Caleb J. McNulty's bondsmen as Clerk of the House, and he sent for E. M. Stanton to defend McNulty in the trial under 3aid indictment. He made a splendid jffort and gained great celebrity on ac- jount of the manner in which he man­ aged the case, up until almost a con­ viction, when all was excitement, the tears trickling down the cheeks of many in the court-room who sympa­ thized with his wife and child, who were sitting by his side, and on whose behalf Stanton appealed to the jury for mercy; when, all at once, he turned to the conrt, and demanded the discharge of Caleb J. McNulty on the grounds that he was not accountable to the House as a disburser of the funds in his hands, but to the department from which he had received the money, and had accounted for the same. He was discharged. And Stanton (with the aid and cunning of Judge Tappan) re­ ceived the first introduction in his prac­ tice in Washington City. Mr. Benton, when he became excited in debate, was like an enraged elephant. He would trample on his best friends, and steadily refused all attempts at conciliation. One of his most ferocious attacks was in reply to an elegant and concise argument which Mr. Calhoun had made on his patronage bill, the germ of civil-service reform. The gifted South Carolinian did not speak over fifteen minutes, but Benton occu­ pied over two hours in his verbose re­ ply, and toward the close of his re­ marks he lost/ his temper. Mr. Cal­ houn sat with his burning eyes fixed upon him, and his whole face eloquent with scorn. Benton grew more indig­ nant as he saw he was more despised, and as the assembly glared on him from every side, shaking his trembling fingers in the very face of Mr. Calhoun, he accused him of the basest partisan feelings and intentions, the very things which he had before abjured in a voice of thunder, and to crown the vile tirade, charged him with a "direct attack on truth." This was too much. Mr. Poin- dexter called him promptly to order. "Take down the words," cried Benton, I am ready to sign them." Mr. Cal­ houn rose. He hoped,' earnestly hoped, the Senator would be allowed to proceed; nothing he could say would possibly deserve his notice. The objectionable Words, however, had been taken down, and it was the duty of Vice President Van Buren to decide whether they were in order. Between Benton and Calhoun he found no diffi­ culty in deciding, and after a few words of explanation, uttered with more than usual warmth, he threw himself as it were before Benton, and decided that that Senator was in order. But others thought not so. Mr. Webster rose and was proceeding with a few introductory remarks, when the Chair called upon him to resume his seat. But Mr. Web­ ster kept the floor. It was a firm and noble maintenance of his privilege. He was yet to learn how he was to be set down under such circumstances, when he was uttering a few thoughts previous to a motion. The Chair, with a plausi­ ble admission movement of the head, was not aware that such was the Sen­ ator's intentions. Mr. Webster was de­ sirous to know what right the Chair had to prejudice his intention. He was not to be deprived of his rights on that floor, and he proceeded. His short and direct argument was conclusive, and he closed with an appeal from the decision of the Chair. The appeal was well, manfully supported by Freling- huysen, Goldsborough, and Leigh. It was an all-absorbing, a vital question. Was that Senate to be the arena of mere gladiators, without rule and with­ out honor ? Was it to be dreaded, was it to be borne, that, under any circum­ stances one Senator in his place should rise and charge another with making a "direct attack upon the truth ?" This was the question; these were the words; they were to be admitted or re­ jected. Mr. Preston thought they were supported by certain parliamentary ad­ mission in other countries, thongh he was grieved at this juncture, and seemed to argue that as these were words of excitement, and not strictly personal, they might be passed by, and he hoped Mr.* Poindexter would consider the case, and do all he could to close the breach which threatened to widen be­ tween the Senators. But Mr. Poindex­ ter sfcrenouslyUnd rightly kept to his determination. Mr. Cuthbert, in an ebullition of froth and exceeding non­ sense, would prove that Benton was in His exposure of las principles r were first was te, and the of a mock Ros- r. Linn sup- 1 as lie could, hard to do it; is words were and of equally d; worthy of m. second was worthy cius at a low theater. ported Benton though it was eviden' but the weakest of those which went to fc(j»w him the mere Advocate of pistol satisfaction. He did hot agree that such words were gentle manly or orderly words, but he would have the decision of It left to the par­ ties. This was evidently weak and mistaken reasoning. Mr. 'King, too, of Alabama, showed that if he had been insulted, or should be, he was ready to be killed for it. Meanwhile dinner­ time was at hand, and there were cries of "question! question!" Mr. Poindexter called for the yeas and nays. Then, with a plausibility of his own, the Vice President again stated the position of the Chair, which he had no right to do then, and put the question. His de­ cision was reversed by a vote of twenty- four against twenty-one, and Mr. Ben­ ton then had leave to proceed. He felt humiliated by the indirect censure of his friend in the Chair for having sustained him, and he raved and foamed until his friends tried to make him resume his seat. But no! he could defend his own honor! he was not to be backed by any one, and so he insulted Webster and Goldsborough as well as he could, for a finale, found they laughed at him in scorn, and yielding to his friend Cuth­ bert, who poured out the last magnifi­ cent syllabub of the occasion, sat down, and in a few moments went home, with the rest of the adjourned. Senate, to his reflection and his spoiled dinner. ; Tyrquoises and Their Value. , ..Turquoises are found in Thibet, China and the neighborhood Of Mt. Sinai, but the supply for jewelers' pur­ poses comes almost wholly from the celebrated Persian mines. Very little was known about these till a remark­ ably interesting and exhaustive report upon them was recently furnished to the British Foreign office by Mr. A. Hon turn Schindler, who was for a short time director of the mines. They are situated in a range of mountains bounding on the north an open plain in the Bar-i-Maden district, thirty-two miles, northwest of Nishapnr, in the Province of Kliorassan. Botanists tell us that the brightest blue is seen on Alpine flowers. If pure mountain air could be supposed to brighten the color of a gem as well as a flower, there is no want of it where these turquoise veins occur. Their position is between 5,000 and 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, and a strong north wind blows almost continually over the ridges of the hills, rendering the situation very healthy. "Wheat, barley, and mulberry trees grow well on the slopes at the lower of these heights. * * * At the mines the turquoises are roughly divided into three classes of first, sec­ ond and third qualities. All the stones of good and fast color and favorable shape belong to the first class. But how curiously these vary in value will be best understood by quoting Mr. Schindler's own words: "It is impossi­ ble to fix any price or classify them ac­ cording to different qualities. I have not yet seen two stones alike. A stone two-thirds of an inch in length, two- fifths of an inch in width, and about half an inch in thickness,, cut peikani (conical) shape, was valued at Meshed at £300; another, of about the same size, shape and cut, was valued at only £80. Turquoises of the size of a pea are sometimes sold for £8. The color most prized is the deep blue of the sky. A small speck ef light color, which only connoisseurs can distinguish, or an un- appreciable tinge of green, decrease the value considerably. Then there is that undefinable property of a good turquois, the zat, something like the 'water' of ^ diamond or the luster of a pearl; a fine colored turquois without the zat is not worth much." He subse­ quently adds: "The above mentioned £300 Meshed turquois was bought from the finder by one of the Risli-i-Satids (elders of the village) for £3; the latter sold it still uncut at Meshed for £38. As soon as it was cut its true value be­ came apparent, and it was sent to Paris, where it was valued at £600. The sec­ ond purchaser, however, received only £340 for it; the difference was gained by the agents." Among the fine tur­ quoises in the possession of the Shah there is one valued at £2,000. The best stones of the second class are worth £00 per pound, while the most in­ ferior will scarcely bring a twentieth part of this price. The latter are chiefly used in Persia for decoration of swords, horse-trappings, pipe-heads, and the common kind of jewelry. Small cut turquoises of a slightly better quality than these sell at the rate of from 2s. to 3s. per 1,000. In the third class are included stones unsalable in Persia, as well as large flat stones, some of which are esteemed for amulets, brooches, buckles, and the like. The prices given there will be more than doubled when the turquoises are sold in Europe. --Chamber'* Journal. Philosophy of the Forehead. A very retreating forehead which is low and shallow usually accompanies want of intellect. If slightly retreat­ ing, or what appears to be retreating from the fullest of the forms over the eyes, it signifies imagination, suscepti­ bility, wit, and humor. SlovS persons, with dull intellect, have very projecting foreheads. Perpendicular foreheads, rather high and well rounded at the temples, rarely fail to go with solid understanding, powers of concentration; and love of study. A low, arched forehead, which is full at the temples, is indicative of sweet­ ness and sensitiveness, and when com­ bined with great fullness over the eyes, gives an impressionable, idealistic na­ ture. High, narrow, wholly unwrinkled foreheads, over which the skin is tightly drawn, show weakness of will­ power and a lack of imagination and susceptibility. Foreheads not entirely projecting but having knotty protuberances give vigor of mind and harsh, oppressive activity and perseverance. Persons possessing poetic, ardent and sensitive natures not nnfrequently have a blue vein forming the letter "Y" in an open, smooth, and low forehead. Perpendicular wrinkles between the eyebrows, when of equal lengths, sig­ nify anger, but if the wrinkles are of unequal lengtlis, they show deep thought and concentration. TESTIMONY is an arrow shot fr6m a long 1K»W ; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross­ bow, which has the same force whether shot bv a man or a child. THE easiest way to train up a child in the way he should go, is to go that way ronrself.--/Wow T » ^i . ;•• ErolKjttra. The largest, weightiest mountain on the earth's surface does not materially influence the motion of the world. In­ deed, it was that very motion of the globe around its axis that raised the towering mountain. Nevertheless, as it rears its bold head above all surjpundings, it is a promi­ nent feature m the landscape; smaller objects than itself are influenced by it, indeed, sometimes owe their existence to it. The city on its side takes rank in commercial importance in proportion to tho abundance of the mineral re­ sources of the mountain; the river at its base rises and falls, in its flow, ac­ cording to the measure of water the mountain-side supplies. So it is the age makes the man or woman, not the man or woman who makes the age. Either may leave his mark upon his age; that is, a man or woman can, by superior intelligence and energy, make an impress upon the very social system that first created them. It was the emergencies of the times, the imminent peril of our country, that drew from obscurity both Washington and', Grant; but, while they were each men of destiny, they proved themselves men of power, and their names are to all people incentives to noble deeds; their memories intensify the luster sur­ rounding the country they saved. It was the immense amount of social and commercial traffic between the two cities that inspired and carried to com­ pletion the great Brooklyn bridge; but, where is there another object in either Brooklyn or New York that adds more grandeur, more glory to either city? It is a marvel to the ordinary visitor, a study and a model to engineers,- . and a convenience unrivaled to the modern suicide. It was the energy and enterprise of Chicago's commercial men that necessi­ tated the erection of our mammoth Board of Trade building; but now that that palatial structure is renowned at the ends of the world, its beauty and elegance enhance the city, and the halo of light on its tower by night causes the respectable citizen's heart to swell with pride, and the anarchist's bad blood to boil. It was the result of years of aesthetic culture that produced the species "dudebut what a conspicuous posi­ tion it occupied while in existence;how its presence molded the masculine mind for a time; how its idiotic stare fluc­ tuated the feminine heart for a season. It was ages of restraint that finally led up to the bursting of the bonds and to the advent of the strong-minded wo­ men; but how her crude, extravagant ideas have educated us to endure and even embrace the woman laiyyer, doc­ tor, and pen-driver. It was the stupidity of the average young man, his inability to know what he wanted, that has given to society the managing mother who has daughters who must make good matches but what an important factor that "m. m." is in that young man's Kfe, after he has been developed into a son-in-law. It was years of inactivity and indif­ ference on the part of the regularly ordained ministers of Christ's gospel toward the hungry hearts of Christ's children, longing for religious food and consolation, that has created the "Sam Smalls" of this season; but those ec­ centric non-theologians have given new impulses to the same lukewarm clergy­ men. On the whole, society is made up of countless idiosyncrasies, just as the great ocean is made up of countless waves, some larger, some smaller, and it is their motion that gives the cur­ rents the ebb and flow on the shores of time; but it is the momentum given by the whirl of the ages that raises and depresses the waves.--Annie E. My­ ers, in Chicago Ledger. Quebec. The city is built upon a rocky pro­ montory, formed by the junction of the St. Charles and St. Lawrence Rivers. The highest point is on the southerly side, facing the St. Lawrence; this side is also the most precipitous and Avas originally about 300 feet above the AVater. It slopes gradually toward the north till the elevation is perhaps not more than 100 feet above the lower town. The general form of the upper town resembles a triangle, with each side about half a mile in extent, the base resting on the land side. Around the edge of this rock the wall of the city is built, which is about twenty-five feet thick and twenty-five feet high, though in many places, owing to the irregularity of the foundation, it varies considerably from these proportions. The walls, having been built for de­ fense, was Qonstructed of course upon scientific, military principles, hence the ramparts are wanting in that architec­ tural beauty one would see in a castle, for they are so placed that when guns are mounted upon them they may com­ mand the most advantageous positions, so that the fortification contains numer­ ous angles, equal to almost any number of degrees. Originally there were three gates through the wall leading to the lower town eastward and northward, and three leading westward out into the country. The three former have with­ in a few years been razed, leaving noth­ ing to obstruct a passage from the lower town; the three latter still re­ main arched gateways, much the same, doubtless, in point of strength as when they were first constructed, but in point of beauty, I learn that they have been recently very much improved. They are named St. John, St. Louis, and Kent gates respectively, the latter in honor of the Duke of Kent, the father of Queen Victoria. Through St. Louis gate, the "grand allee," which is French for Broadway, the broadest street in the city leads out into the country di­ rect to the historic plains of Abraham, which are about a mile distant. Noth­ ing remains upon this plain to-day to tell the visitor of the scenesotliat were once enacted here, except a plain, round granite shaft, surmounted by a helmet, on the base of which is the following inscription: "Here died Wolfe victorious, September 13, 1759." --Boston Traveller. The Advantage of a Long Head. She had two adorers, and as is usual, halted between two opinions. Henry loved her well, but George's head was the longer, as the sequel shows. "Speaking of memories." cried Lu­ cille, " why I can remember when I used to play with dolls and make mud-pies in the lane." "What a wonderful memory!" ex­ claimed the foolish Henry, admiringly. "Pshaw! Wonderful to recall that which occurred so few years ago?" spoke George of the long head, and the next time Henry s]K*ke to her she snubbed him.--iiinghampton Repub­ lican. A COUNTER irritant--the lady -who prices everything and buys nothing. \ > The bee is one of th« most wonderful insects in all creation. A whole life-, time can be spent in studying its habits, and still all will not be known. We will cite one or two instances in which Prof. McLain's labors are liable to prove a great value. It is known that the tongue of the honey bee is not sufficiently long to reach and gather the sweets of red clover. That plant is only fertilized imperfectly through the workings of the bumble-bee. The sweets of red clover are pure and of fine flavor, and would greatly add to the quantity and quality of honey, if it could only be gotten at by the* honey bee. The question was--how to go to work to accomplish this end. The red clover blossoms oould not be induced to change their form for the benefit of the bee, and so it became evident that the bee must undergo a change. Its tongue must be lengthened. It would be impossible, and owing to the extreme warmth of the insect's latter end, dangerous to catch each individual bee and try to stretch its ton&ue. The professor thought long over the matter, and arrived at a much better plan than this. He arranged a fine wire screen, and on a smooth surface beneath this he spread a thin coating of sugar. And here the bees on which he is operating are compelled to feed. He places the sweet out of the reach of their tongues through the screen. As they get hungry, they strain their tongues and run them out just a 1-i-t-t-l-e further till they reach the sugar. When they get so they can feed upon sugar easily at this depth, the plate contain­ ing the sweet is dropped a trifle lower --perhaps the thickness of a sheet of tissue paper. In this way the professor will lengthen their tongues, and he will continue to breed these bees and stretch the tongues of each generation until a variety of beeB will exist with abnormally long tongues adapted to the red clover blossoms. Among the many more ingenious things Prof. McLain is now experiment­ ing on, is the production of larger bees. He is arranging for this result by arti­ ficially enlarging the cell in which the queen bed is formed. He thinks he can continue this for a few generations, until we have bees as large as June bugs, if not rivaling in size the hum­ ming-bird. If the professor is fully bent on doing this, Ave are going to see him about leaving out the stingers, for if one of his old sockdoligers should hit a fellow behind the ear he would tbin|r he was struck with a red-hot cannon ball.--Aurora Blade. Acclimatization of Animals. It is not established at what time the acclimatization of domestic animals be­ gan, but the dog seems to be the first to have attached himself to man, whose faithful friend he still remains. His bones, at any rate, have been found among the ruins of the pile buildings in Denmark and Switzerland, with fragments of kitchen utensils and other refuse. Next following the dog came the sheep, which, in its Avild state, Avas found almost everywhere in the northern hemisphere, as a dependent upon man­ kind. Afterward the ass, the ox, the goat, and the horse, in the order named. The swine is believed to have Had its original habitation in the deep forests of Germany, Avhere the Avild specimens of the race are still preser\'ed. The cat appears first in historical times in her function as a mouse catcher, and was introduced to Europe from Egypt. She bears no sort of relation to the Avild cat, which is still to be found in the forests of continental Europe, and Avas little known even as late as the tAvelfth century. Among the feathered race the pigeon Avas the first to be do­ mesticated. Fowls were bred accord­ ing to the records even in the most ancient times. Geese seem to. have been first heard of in Egypt, and appear to have been very common in ancient Greece. The old gray goose, which is found eA'erywliere in the colder regions, is generally believed to be the first parent of the sibilant race. Later on came the duck as a domestic fowl, but it is uncertain where she originated. The swan came from the northern part of Asia and Europe. Centuries after­ ward we Americans gave to the Avorld the * very best of the feathered tribe, the turkey. The campaigns of Alexander the Great did much toward the intro­ duction of the various domestic animals from one century to another. The Argonauts brought the pheasant to Greece from the river Phasis, and Alexander the Great sent peacocks and parrots from Asia to Greece* Guinea hens are natiA'es of Africa. • The old Romans imported from their native wilds, ostriches, lions, panthers, giraffes, bears, elephants,, crocodiles, tigers, hyenas, hippopotami, the rhinoceros, the deer, the wild ass, the wild horse, and other animals for the purpose not only of forming menageries but also for their barbaric gladiatorial combats, in which the podr beasts Avere commonly killed under,, tho cruglgst circumstances.--Exchange'. . • A Curious Custom. A curious old custom among llie quarry men of the Isle~ef Pu^beck was observed lately at Corfe Castle. There is among the quarrymen a ohttMer bearing the date of 1551, wM^n is rigorously obeyed, in order to keep the working of the stone quarries in the hands of freemen. To be able to take up one's freedom one must be the legiti­ mate son of a freeman. He onlst be 21 years of age, up to which time his Avages belong to ilis parents. Once during the year the 4}tiarrymen meet at Corfe Castle town,; luOl. «nd there read t h e ' c h a r t e r , namely, Shrovfl claim and take thisf morning aj men assemble Castle, and pi of officers, af freemen were to sign the of 6s. 8d., on purp«ifc. and to thus sworn Should any en that occasion-- «dav--"free boys" ; their freedom. On number of quarry- e town hall, Corfe ed to the election Jlrhich about twelve Ipn in. Sadl man has |bf freemen, pay a fee a penny loaf made baker of the place, fpot of beer. The man * ihes his own master, the freemen desire to marry during the next year he has to pay to the- stewards a "marriage shil­ ling" ; and should he neglect to do this his wife loses all inte/est in the quarry, and cannot take an apprentice to work for her. After the above business was transacted the ceremony of "kicking the ball" commenced. The ball is pro­ vided by the man who was last married among the freemen, and is presented in lieu of the "marriage shilling." If it should so happen that no freeman has married since the previous Shrove Tuesday the old foot ball is used. The ball was taken from the town hall _ to a field at Corfe Castle and there kicked about by anyone who wished. Those very, novel proceedings terminated by th«^dl and a pound of pepper being takMt to the lord of tho manor, as an acknowledgment to him in respect of :to BivwrOwwr. , outlook is ding. ' A COUNTER mMcih-% AHTTP. beat. ' '.r"sv THE most difficult lock to pick lock. . WHY is a dense smoke like ternal parent's wedding-ring? it 'smother's. A CHINAMAN and Indian '«F|§ ent as a trotting match ^ match--they are the same A PHYSIOLOGIST has wri,^ column article on "When tck when you are hungry, we is the best time.--Arkan A POET opens a lyric wfH^p^f-lin, "The clock is stopped; that**ii§j£" Pe haps this is only a poetical ly of nouncing that there is no iagK$ick fop the rhymester--Bmton A BECENT scientist ' , bread with yeast in it is a much be brain food than unleavened brt This proves beyond all question thw Wiiie Men came from the Yeast*--Itjmzl Union. 4^., BIOHT TO THE POINT. Coo! brain, FeeHn*»kind, '* " life; Nerves controlled, !M Happy mind, . True eoiil|ik, BltiBHOd txlgf Peace erf Bpjven- i Unto wbatn ' Such i> given. Warm feet, ^ Food plain, Temper sweet, Body clean. Sunny room. Sleep serene, Cheeks in bloom, . --New York Mail and Express ^ "I DON'T want any castor oil," said sick little Boston boy, petulantl... "Why, Horace," exclaimed his mothers "don't you know that castor oil is madpf* from beans?" And the little bo whose faith in his mother is perf< took the dose, and feebly asked f more. . * A MEMBER, in a silver speech, slappejjt' at the national banks, and in a loud voice exclaimed: "What is the differ­ ence between my note and a national banknote?" "You can buy something with the bank note," chipped in an op-: ponent before the Texan oould answer his own question. m BOOK AGENT--IS the boss of th« house in ? Husband (who has responded to the ring of the door-bell)--I guesi so, I heard my wife say that she was in. B. A.--Oh! the boss of the house is a lady. H.--Yes, our servant girl. . J guess you will find her in the basemen|f kitchen." GQ down the flight of stair* to the left. Good morning.--Boston Courier. WE ALL LOOK IN THE MIRROR FOB HIM. A popular man must be easy and affable, atifl! never do anything loutish or Iftushabl^j i must live without friction, be plaic i||' hia diction, and, like a good fellow, pajjf up hie subscription. . f He must keep a glad mien between gayneat and gravity, and keep well concealed^ all his native depravity; spend caafi rich and regal, do nothing illegal, ant keep his eye peeled like abald-headei In keep 1 eagle. drawirg-rorm circles he mnst bchavif proper, and not blunder round like ft- lumb'ring clod-bopper, be polite to thl ladies--sweet Susans and Sadiea--ana never raise Cain, nor confusion, no* Hades. --Lynn Union, A NEW railroad was recently com­ pleted through a Dakota town. Thjj, first train that ran over it carried a|T excursion that include'd the editor of the local paper. The track was very rough and he jolted around, lost his hat out of the window, had the stove fall upon him and was bitten by one of the director's dogs. A tramp who waft ; stealing a ride picked his pockot of hi| * pass, and a drunken conductor kicked ' him off the train just before he go|p« back because he couldn't show it. He" walked four miles across the country to get home, and the next week said his paper: "We cannot too warmly conr gratulate our many readers over oujf^i good fortune in the J. Y. & P. D. Railroad going through this place. Equipped with elegant coaches and a Avell-ballasted road-bed, it makes travel­ ing over it a real pleasure. Another feature is the gentlemanly attendants, and also the courteous treatment inp ., variably accorded to passengers. La^'J;^ dies traveling alone over this road anJ^'/i receiving the same kind attention thalf > Ave did on the recent excursion will nof miss any home comforts.--JSstellin^':$s A . : - Engraving; There Is ni intimate coijfe&fttttt*toe?? tween the invention of engraving an$ the art of the silversmith, or rathe? that branch of the silversmith's worP: which consists of an outline into a plate 6f precious metal, to be subsequently filled up Avith dark-colored enamel. This so-called Niello work, according to recent authority, was never identi­ fied with engraving until, at the close of the last century, Abbe Zani found among some old Italian engravings, in the National Library at Paris, a print which he recognized as similar in sub­ ject to the famous Pax, decofated Avith Niello work, made by Maso Finiguerro' for the Baptistry of St. John, and paid for, as is proved by the records, in 1452. This Pax of Assumption was subse­ quently transferred to the cabinet of bronzes in the gallery at Florence, and it was proved, on comparing it A\ith the engraving, that the latter had actu­ ally been printed from the sih'er plate, before the enamel had been fused into tbie outline, prior, therefore, to 14521 On tho strength of this discovory, Fini- guerra has, ever since the year 1796, been credited with the invention of pro­ ducing engraving on paper from metal plates. There seems little reason to doubt, as has been often pointed out,. that many silversmiths of the fifteenth;' century may have been in the habit of1' obtaining trials for their work in prog­ ress, as did Finiguerra, perchance, when he produced this historical print, representing Christ crowning the Virgin from his work on the Florentine Pax. It may indeed have been, together with the Avell-known sulphur casts, a recog­ nized mode of obtaining a record of Niello work, which had been practised for many years previous to the time in question, though no such paper im­ pressions of an earlier date than this have been handed down to us. It was a common practice to take proofs of the work by means of sulphur casts long previous to 1452, as numerous speci­ mens of such casts have been preserved to us, but it is difficult to say who was the first bold innovator Avho substituted a piece of paper for sulphur, and thus originated the precious art of engraA-ing. The story of the wet linen, which acci­ dentally gave the idea to Finiguerra, is generally treated as fiction by those who have studied the subject. He Wanted to Come Home. A young boy who recently left hia St. Paul home to attend a preparatory school is not much taken with the change. He is suffering his first case of homesickness, and naturally desireS to return to his home. In making known his desires to his father in a re­ cent letter, he said: "Dear Father: "Life is very short; let us spend it together. , Your affectionate son"--St.