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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1883)
TQK BETROTHAL, nt, for oua bnnr of iuch enchanted light fiy old timo lov and I A.hllewo talked 10 low and tenderly. 'I" ,:.iT mo l!itnlM tree above u lean; Ami louder fr the ni'i'ice eeiued to mo lilt crept at h"t beiween. n,r betrt lT flnUluu on IU quiet thougtitt, i lka water llile'i tranquil lake; And lue wi'hlo, unknown, because untought, Ur dieeintug ball awake. Ah lore li tin lightest deeper ever known I A will"!'. n(i be ' P'alu to tlew, old m uie bTem m-cmed our etury grown, While jot the moon, wui new. And wbon aha po'. her anawor leemed tbe sweeter lor swe"."iem of the llpa dial ItlJ, Willi a piHiloua word wllhlu a emlle A dUuioud rlutjeu wltb gold. Th"n blnnuiel f-rui tbe perfect century flower, Tntn filled Ibe cup anl overran tbe brim. lid all the 'tain, prtiltasloual thut hour, caai.t.-d a brldl hymn. Ah. Time, all after rtayiroay fly away, , ui-b Juy as mat tliou hut but once to give; An. I L' ruJa' lruu blacruwulug Uuy, Tnouaa klncduinleu be Ho. 100 " -Boton Transcript. TUG SOUTH EUN GATolt. Bix thousand boby alligator? are sold in Florida every year, and tbo nmoant of ivorv, number of skins, nnd quantity of oil obtained from tbo older members of tbe Sjariun family are sufficient to en title theni to a high plaoe among tbo pro dnets of the state. Tlie hunters sell young "gators" at twenty-five dollars per hundred, and the dealer from seventy-five conts to one dol lar each. Livo alligators two years old represent to tho captor fifty cents each; and to tho dealer from two to five dol lars, as tbo season of travel is at its Leigbt or fur advanced. A ton-foot alli gator is wortb ten dollars, and one four teen foot long twenty-five dollars to tbe nuntcr, wbilo tbe dealer charges twice or three Utiles that prico. Tbo eggs are worth to tho hunter fifty cents per dozon, and to the dealer twenty-live cents each. The dntd ulligntor is quite as valuable as the live odo, for a specimen niuo feet long and reasonably fat will net both branches of tho trade as follows: TUB HVNTKS TICS DEALER. Oil. ...MM. 8kti Head - 1 0" . in ou Oil. Skin..., Head. ..17 60 - 4 OU ,.25 00 IK 11 136 fO The valuo of tbe head is ascertained bv tho number and size of the teeth. Dealers mount especially fine specimens of tho skull.bnt the greater number have no other value tbau that of the ivory thev contain. The wages of tho hunter depend, of course, upon his good fortuno iu finding the game. Ono of tho most expert of these trives as instances of successful hunts the items of three day's work whioh yiolded thirty-nine dollars and seventy-live cents; of six days with a yield to twenty dollars and ten conts.and of eight days' hunting which netted forty dollars and twenty five cents. Without speaking of those enemies of tke "gator" who hunt him for sport, there are about two hundred men in the state of Florida who make a businoss and try to make a living by capturing or killing him. Very many havo eaten alligator-steaks from simple curiosity to learn its flavor; but many more cat it be cause it is the cheapest and, oftentimes, the only meat they cau afford. Tho flavor when it is fried or boiled is that of beefsteak plentifully supplied with fish gravy, while the forolegs roasted taste liko a mixture of chicken and fish, and have a delicate fibro. Very methodical in his habits is tbo alligator, and very suspicious of any thing new around his home. Wheu he starts out in search of food it is invari bly an honr af tor tbe tide has begun to ebb, and he returns about four hours after low water. If he has a land jour ney to porform.bo goes and comes by the same route, never deviating from it un til ho sees evidence that strangers have trespassed upon bis domain. He lives on the banks of some stream, for he has decidod objections to stagnant water, and to make his home he digs a hole at least twelve inches bolow the lowest level of the water. This hole is perfectly straight, although on an incline, and from twenty to thirty feet in length, terminating in a chatnbor sufficiently large to admit of his turning in it. There he or she dwells alone, save when the female is caring for a very young brood, in whioh case the room is oonverted into a nursery. Full-grown alligators not only do not occupy the same hole, but they will not live near each other. The alligator usually lays her eggs about the first of July, and during tbe month of June she is busily engaged in preparing a cradlo for her young. Selecting a place on tho bank of some stream or creek, she begins work by beating hard and lovel with her tail an earth platform about six feet square. Jsho scrapes together with her fore-feet, oftentimes from a distance of fifty yards from tho proposed nest, dried grass, sticks and mud until fifteen or twenty cubic feet of tho material is in a place convenient for her purpose. On tho day following tho completion of these prepa rations she lays from thirty to fifty eggs on the prepared ground, and piles over them dried grass and mud deftly worked in with sticks until a mound six feet iu dianiater and three feet high has been raited. The surface of this is quickly hardened by the sun, and, in order that itjmay be as nearly air-light as possible, tho female visits it each day, covering with mud every crevice that may have appeared, as well as remodeling such portions as do not satisfy her sense of beauty. The ordinary time of incubation is abont three months, and then the newly hatched brood may be heard yelpingand snarlicg for their mothcir to continue hf r work by releasing them from their prison nest." On the second orthird day after the first noiso has been heard, the female bites a hole in tho side of the mound, out of which the young ones, barely moro than eleven inches long, como tumbling in most vigorous man ner, crawling directly toward the water. Until the young are three years old the mother exercises a parental care over them, always remaining within sound of their voices, not so much to protoct them from their natural enemy, man, as from their unnatural enemy their father, who has an especial fondness for his wn children in the way of food. When the hunter finds a nest, be car ries the eggs home to batch tbem, where he can easily catch the entire I. rood if the eggs aro fresh, or if tho yonng in tiiem are not more than five inches long; at any other stago they will not hatch if removed, ami aro of no value except for the shell. The captured eggs aro thon packod in straw as ncarlv as nnssiUn in tbo natural way.and the young uny thus be hatched out very successfully. One farrnor reared sixteen hundred' and an other a thousand last season. Tho young nui cm imiueaiau'iy on coming out ol the shell, but they thrive best if given no food for at leant fifteen days. Tho cry of a full crown Vator is not unlike tho bellowing of a bull, except '"' ui ujuiu vuiuinu, biuco mo voice of a malo can bo heard, on a culm ilnv n distanco of five miles; and they may bo sain 10 do -snu worshipers, " since they seldom "rcsolvo thcmsovles into song," save at tho rising of tho sun; in fact the only exception to this morning melody is when a storm is approaching. The aviii-nge Florida "cracker" needs 110 other baromotor than the alligator in tho neighboring creek or swamp. One ceases to be astonished at tho vol um3 of sound which comes from theso monsters when ho sens a full grown one put forth all his strength to produce the effect. Ho stretches his body to its full length, inhaling sufficient air to puff him up nearly twice his natural sizo; thon, l.l.i. i..n. :i 1 uuiuiug u.d uu-uiii, 119 it wuio lur uu in stant, he raises both bead and tail until bo forms tho segment of a cirolo. When all is thus oomploto, tbo roar oomcs with sufficient force to Btaitle ouo, even though he be prepared for it. Since, in order to guard his head, the alligator is obliged to turn his body somewhat, nnd sinoe, wbon his jaws are once closed lie is unable to open them if only a moderato amount of Btrength on the part of man is usod, tbe hunter se lects this point for attack wbon it is pos' siblo for him to steel upon his game unawares. If the intending captor gets a firm hold upon tho jaws of bis game in this way, tbe monster beoomes reasonably easy prey; one rope soon secures his jaws, another is tied around his nock aud fastened to a tree, while a third so cures his tail in the same way, thus stretching tho captive in a straight line; his foro-paws are tied over his back; a stont pole is lushed from the end of his snout to tho tip of his tail, and the alli gator is helpless. It is Beldom, howevor, that the hunter gets his game at a disadvantage, and to Bccuro him alive he must set about tbe work much as boys do when they snare rabbits. A tall, stout sapling near the water's edge is tbo first requisite, and direotly in front of that, in tbe water, a narrow lano or pon is made with Btakes, the two outer ones being noticed, as is the spindle of a box-trap. At the end of this pon, and nearer the shoro, a stake is driven into the mud, and on the top of it is fastened a pieoa Af taintod beef. A stout ropo, at one end of which is a large noose, is fastened to the top of tbo sap ling, and to the upper part of tho noose is attached a cross bar, or trigger, which, when tho tree is bent, catches iu the notches on the outer stukes just bolow the surfuco of the water, the noose hang ing around tho entire opening. To get at the meat tho alligator attempts to swim nnder the bar, but his back dis places the trigger, and he is a captive, with the ropo fastened just back of his forolegs. It is necessary to bind tho captive while he is iu the wator, and then to carry him to the shoro iu a boat; for, amphibious as he is, ho can bo drowned if dragged even a short distance through tho water. When ouco properly secured and on land, the alligator can do nothing in tho hope of effecting a relcaso, save to roll over, and this he does by a mighty effort with his shoulders, frequently working himself over a quarter of a mile in distance in a tingle night. Those who aro most familiar with tho habits of tho Alligator, B3 seen in the southern states, believe his partiality for decayed food docs not arise from any particular flavor it may possess, but sim ply bocauso in a putrid state any largo amount of flesh is more easily torn apart and masticated than when fresh. Al though the possessor of so much ivory in the shape of teeth, and able to use his jaws with so much power, it is an ex tremely ditucult matter lor an alligator to dismember a pig, even after the flesh is decayed. While tho meat is yet firm and the muscles intact, it is an impossibility for him to do other than swallow it nearly whole, as he sometimes doos when inter rupted shortly after ho has killed his prey. That alligators do like fresh food when it is possible for them to eat it is shown by the fact that fresh fish and small turtles are their favorite diet. In the stomach of a twelve foot alligator there have been found six catfish, none of them mutilated, weighing altogether thirty-four pounds. If ono believes implictitly the positive assertion of the alligator' hunters, he uiuet perforce sny no man knows the span of life allotted these saurians. The native Floiidian, as well as the hunter, will insist that the largest of tbo gators are more than a hundred vein old, point ing to the fact of his mow growth In proof of the assertion. A newly-hatched alligator is eleven mciiesioug; at me age of six years ho is very slim ana but three feet in length; at ten years of ago ho has gained considerably in breadth and but twelvo inches in length, wbilo during tbe next two years he has grown hnrdly more than one inch longer. An alligator fifteen feet in length, caught near the mouth of the St. John's river, was so covered with barnacles and other marine growth as to make it almost certain that he must have been in existence seventy five years. Our Continent. Ornaments for Tombs; Greek antiquity had evaded death and neglected tbe dead; a garland of mien ads and faunda among ivy leaves, a bat tle of Amazons or centaus; in the late semi Christian. Flatonio days, some Or phic emblem or genins; at most, as in the exquisite tombs of the Keramikos of Athens, a figure, a youth on a pranoins; steed, like the Phidian monument of Dexiieus; a maiden draped and bearing an nrn; but neither the maiden or youth is the inmate of the tomb; they are only types, living types, no portraits. ,"ay, even where antiquity shows us Death or nermes.gc ntly leading away the beloved, the spirit, tbe manes, tbe dead one, is nnindividual. "Sarkophagen u. Urnen bekranzte der Heide mitt Loben," said Goethe; bnt it was tbe life everlasting because it was typical, the life not which bad been relinquished by the ono burici there, but tlAjife which danced on, for getful, TOrf initio ashes. The Itoutana, on tho contrary, graver and more reten tive folk than tho Greek, as well as moro domestic, loss coffee-house living, ap pear to havo inherited from tho Etrus cans a desire to preserve tho offegy of the dead, a desffo unknown to tho Greeks. Cut the Etrusco-Koman mon uments, where husbund and wifo sturo forth togaed and stolutd,balf reduced to a conventional crigi-headednoss, grim and stiff as if sitting unwillingly for their portrait, or reclining on their sar cophagus lid, neithor dead nor asloep, nor yet alive and awake, but with hier atic mummy stare, havo littlo of lesthetiu or sympathetic value. Tbo early Uenaia Bunco, then, first bethonght it of repre senting tho real individual in tbe real death slumber. And I question whether anythiug moro flttingto be placed on a tomb tbuu on effigy of tbe dead as wo saw tbem when the coffin lid is closod down, as we would have given our all to see them but for ono little tuomont longer, as tbeycontinno to exist for our fauoy with the grave; for to any but mor mid feelings tho loved ono can never suffer decuy. Whoreas a portrait of tbe man in life, as tbo throning popes in St. Peter's, seems heartle3sand derixive; such monuments strikiug us as conceived and ordorod by tho inmates when alive, liko Michel Angelo'a Popo Julius, and Drowning s ISishoi), who was so prooc oupied about his tomb iu St. Praxed'a Church. The Henaissanco, tho late Mid dle Ages, felt better than this. On the extreme pinnsole. hi'ih on tho roof, thev might indeed pluco against the russet brick or the blue skye, amid the hum of life and tho movement of tbo air, tho living man, like tin bcaueers.the mailed knight on his charger, lance in rest; but in the church below, under tbe funereal rail, they could place only tho body such as it may have lain on tho bier. Cornhill Magazine Too Much Mudr. . isutwccu half-past eight anil nine every morning our streets are dotted with children- ou their way to school. In somo parts of tho city almost all these children belong to the public schools, bnt in many districts tho majority arj on their way to the many private schools for which iioston is famous. 1 hey como in groups, in Hocks, in long streams, some by horse cars, others by railroads from neighboring towns, others from their city homes; hero children just old enough to be trusted in the trains alono; thore young men and mnnlons of iifteon or sixteen years all moving to their morning's work, and all with books. Books ofton two or throe apiece some times a Btrap full; not a child without at least one volume. From theso books tbe children have been learning their "home lessons." Theso lessons aro recited in school, but have to bo prepared at home, where also my extra work has to bo dono tor which for one reason or another thero is no time in school. If one would kuow what this work amounts to, let him inquire of some of theso bo-booked children what they had for thoir last nights lessons, and how long they had to work. Tho answer will probably bo, "Oh, only a little X'rench exercise that took an tour; with the writing out of somo notes about half an hour more." Or, "Last night I had algebra, but I didn t get through, though I worked over an hour, because I had somo Latin grammar to make np, and that took rae nearly an hour." This, perhaps, from girls of fourteen or fifteen. "And does it ever tire you to study so long out of school?" "Yes, sometimes; but we have to get tho lessons, you know. It is to be hoped that tho stories that ono sometimes bears of overworked boys and girls aro exaggerated, and that tliee aro not many teachers, "sccjessful" or not, who putexoosuve pressure ou their pupils. Yet it must be admitted that cramming, both in our private and pub lic schools is far too common. So much is required of the scholors, there is so much emulation among the scholars, there is so much rivalry among tbe schools, that it is difficult eveu for the most discreet teachers to resist the- de mand for a system of high pressure. And not all teachers aro duyrcct. Too many of thera think little or the physical, or indeed of the mental welfare of their pupils. They regard them as little re ceptacles, into whioh a great deal has to be forced in a certain limited time; and they devote themselves to tbeir task with immense energy, skill and perseverance, too often ignoring the danger to which those frail vessels are exposed by tho process of cramming. To make children boys or girls be tween tbe sgos of twelve and sixtoen study more than an honr ont of school, is, unless in exceptional cuses, to impose upon theso growing bodies and brains more than they ought to. Children are tough, and they are ambitious, and so uro able to do more work than they ought to do. Somo may vov hard all the morning aud all evening, und keep this up for years before any evil effects appear. Others neod coustant wulching in school hours, and should nover have work to do out of school. The evil of tho forcing system lies not only in giving children, on the average, too much to do at home, but iu requiring the snmtf amount of work of all the children in a class regardless of their health, their temperament, and their quickness und capacity for work. The forcing system is not only dan gerous, but it is short sighted; it tends to defeat tho very object for which it is employed. Of what avail is there to carry children along at high pressure for half a dozen years if at tbe end of that time they have to give up study. A thorough education may bo valuable, but not at tbe expense of a weakened brain, a disordered stomach, impaired eyesight, general loss of vigor and ex haustion of vital power. It is better that children should devote thoir years of growth to securing strength and toughness of body, even at the eipens of some mental discipline, than that they shonld try to master all wisdom and all knowledgo, and run the risk of not being able to use these dearly bought acquirements. It is the work ont of school, rather than the work in school, that is objec tionable. Most children under twelve shonld have no tasks at borne. A little easy memorizing, that may take twenty or thirty minutes; a bit of interesting investigation or an experiment; some thing that shall seem like play rather than work this has miioh as ought to be put on any child of this ago as extra work. From twelve to flftoen, ligh home tasks may4rell be given to all but the least vigorous, but tho tasks should be such that only tho slowost students will have to study on moro than an limit and this limit of timo should bo set forafc At sixte children of settled vigor may ltfgin dorug harder work out of school lork that may require an hour and a half and even more. But children of this qge should bo watohod with special care; th,4 they are ambi tious that tliey feel that their school days are noarly ove)fcaud that thoy are becomiua; so maftre that thej see moro and more cloarly'lbo meaning aud valuo of their atudies, and bo aro prone to spend tqt Aueh time over the studies themselves and the feadiug tho studies suggest. It is to bo remembered, too, that study under preRsur'o.except for a limited timo, is almost useless iu some cases is worso than useless. Study prolongod after a child lgin to grow tired of it, is timo wasted. Sijmo chihhen tiro moro quickly than others; but to most children tho work given'thera at homo, even if inter esting, if a task, an intrusion npon leis ure time; aud study prolonged under such conditions does not amount to much. Again, if study in school is carefully conducted, the' four and a half hours in school oucht to eive a child about all ho can digest a day; aud if ho has any work at home it oucht to bo not only light and cntortuining, but different in character from what he is busy with during the morning. Moro attention to this mutter on the part of tcaohors would take away much of tho reproach that attaches to the practico of giviug home lessons. isosion Advortiser. Ornltolosleal Intelligence. But perhaps tho most remarkable bird performance was shown near Pall Mull, London, iu 178'J. A number of littlo birds, writes Strutt, to tbo amount of 12 or 14, being taken from different cuctcjl were placo l ou tbe table, in the prosonco of the spectators; small cones of paper bearing somo resemblanco to grenadiers caps were put on their heads, diminu live imitations of muskets made of wood secured under thoir loft wings. Thus cquippod, they marched to and fro sev erul times, when a single bird was then brought forward, supposed to be a de sertor, and set between six of tho mus keteers, threo iu a row, who conducted him from tho top to the bottom of the table, on the middle of which a small brass cannon charged with a littlo gun powder bad been previously placed, and the bird was placed in tho front part of tho cannot; bis guards then divided, threo on one side aud three on tho other, and he was loft standing by himself, Another bird was produced, aud u light ed match being put into his claws, he hopped boldly on the otbor end to the tiil of tho cannon, and applying tho match to the priming, discharged the piece without the least nppcaranco of fear or agitation. The moment the ex plosion took place tho desortcr fell down and lay, apparently motionless, like a dead bird; but at the command of his tutor ho rose again, nnd, tho cagos being brought, the feathered soldiers were stripped of their ornamenta and returned into them in perfect order. This per1 formance is now attempted, but never carried out to such perfection, tho bird merely hopping upon a perch its weight alono tiring the cannon. Acompanyiug tbo shows of trained animal were persons quite remarkable for their power of lmitutiug thoir cries. An old advertisement of tbe timo of Queen Anno, details tbe powers of a man named Clench. It status that ho "imi tated the horses, tho huntsmen and a pack of hounds, a sham doctor, an old woman, a drunkou man, the bolls, tho iluto, the doublo curtoll and tbo organ, with three voices, by his own natural voice, to tho greatest perfection." Ho then professes himself "to bo tho only man that could ever attain to so great an rt."-N. Y. Post. Wasted Politeness. A man came into tbe office tho other day with a black eye, a strip of court plaster across his cheek, ono arm in a sling, and, as ho leaned on a crutch and wiped the perspiration away from around a lump on his forchoad with a red cotton handkerchief, ho asked if the editor was in. Being answered in tho affirmativo, he said: "Well, I want to stop my paper," and he sat down on the edgo of a chair as though it might hurt him." Scratch my name off. You aro responsible for my condition." "Can it be possible?" we inquired. "Yes." said ho. "I'm a farrnor, and keep cows. I recently read an articlo in you paper about a dairyman's conven tion, wheroflne of tbo mottoes ovor tho door was, 'Treat your cow 03 you would a lady;' and the urliclo Baid it was con tended by our best dairymen that a cow treated in a polito, corit'.emuuly manner, as though she was a companion, would give twice as 'much milk. The plau seemed feasible to me. I had been a hard man with my stock, und thought maybe that was one reason my cows al ways dried up when butter was forty cents a pound, and gavo plenty of milk when butter was only fifteen cents a found. I decided to adopt your plan, and treat a cow as you would a lady. I had a cow that never bad been very much mashed on me, and I decided to com mence on her, and the next morning after I had read your awful paper I jmt on my Sunday suit.aud a white plug hat I bought the year Ureeley ran lor presi dent, and went to the barn to milk. I noticed the old cow seemed to be bash ful and frightened, but taking off my hat and bowing politely.I said, 'Madam, excise the seeming impropriety of tbe request, but will you do me the favor to hoist?' At tho same lime I topped her gently on the flauk with my plug hat; nuttiDK tho tin rail nndcr tier, I Bit dottti en tho milking stool. "Did she hoist? said we, raiber anx ious to know how the advice of President Smith, of Hhebsygan, the great dairy man, worked. 'Did she hoist!" Well, look at mo, and see if you think she hoisted. The .... ..in. cow raised and kicked me wun an lour feet, switched rne with her tail, and hooked me with both horns at once; and when I got np out of the bedding in the stall anddng my hat out of the manger, and tbe milking stool from tinder me, and began to maul that cow, I forgot all about tbo treatment of horned cattle. Why, sho fairly gullopcd ovor me, nnd I novor want to read jour paper nguin." W'o tried to explain to him that tho nd vico did not apply to tho briudle cows at all, but he hobbled out the madde d man thut ever asked a cow to hoist. Ex change An Arkansas Dialogue. "1 do not see any pocnliarity about your peoplo," said an eastern judge, ad dressiug his traveling companion, a woll known Arkansas lawyer. "I havo trav eled quito extensivoly In this state and I have uot as yet found that eccentricity of uction aud prevarication of reply that have often amused mo iu the newspa pers." "You havo done most of your travel ing by rail," tbo lawyer replied. "This is your first trip away from tho main roads, is it not?" , "Yes." Jk "Well, I'll tdnfiv you sumo of our gen uine nativos. Yonder ii houso. Cull tho landlord aud hold u conversation with him." "Hallo!" callod the judgo. "Coiuiu'!" tho man replied, depositing a child in the door aud advancing. "flow's all tho folks?" "Children's hearty; wife's not well. Aaiu't what you might call bed-Biok, but jest sorter stretchy." "Got anything to eat in tho house?" "If I hud it any whar, I'd havo it iu tho houso." "How many children have you? ' "Mauy as 1 want." "How many did you want?" "Wa'u't haukeria' arter a powerful chance, but I'm satisfied." "How loug have you been liviug here?" "Too long." "How many years?" "Bocu here ever siuce my oldest boy was born." "What year was he born?" "The year I como hero." "How old is your boy?" "Ef he had lived ho would have boon the oldest nntil yit; but, ashediod, Jim's tho oldest." "How old is Jim?" "Ho ain't as old as tho one what died." "WoU, how old was tbe one that diod?" "ne was older than Jim." "What do jou do here for a living?" "Eat." "How do you got auytbinsr to eat?" "The best wo kin." "How do you spend your Sundys?" "Like the week days." "How do you spend them?" "Like Sundays." "Is that your daughter, yonder?" "No, sir; she ain't my daughter yon dor, uornowhar' else." "Is she a reiativo of yours?" "No, sir; no kin." "Kin to your w fo, I snppose?" "No kin to my wifo, but she's kin to my children." "How do you make that out? "She's my wifo." "How fur is it to the next house?" "It's called three miles, but tho man what calls it that is a liar." "I've got enough,'-' said the judge, turning to the lawyer. "Unvo on. I pity tho man that doponds on this man for information. "Arkansas Traveler. Truisms. Folly is liko matter, and cunnot bo au nihilated. In all superstitions, wiso meu follow fools. liacou. The Arniv of Northern Viririniii is on ing to hold a grand reunion ou tho field of second Bull Hun this summer, and invite tho Y'ankeo veterans to pay them a visit. To know how to say what other peoplo only think, is what makes men pools and sages; and to dure to say what othors amy dare to tbinlt, makes men martyrs or reformors, or both. Mrs. Charles. Tho way to wealth is as plain as tho way to market. It deponds chiefly on two words industry and frugality; that is, was to neithor time or money, bnt muio tho best of both. Franklin. A troubled mind is often relieved by maintaining a cheerful demeanor. The effort withdraws its attention from the cauao of pain, and the oheerfulness which it promotes in olhors extends by sympolby to itself. "You, who despise your neighbor, are a snob," Bays Thaokoray. "You, who aro ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as you are who boast of your podigreo,or are proud of your wealth." Things being investigated, knowledgo became complete; knowledge boing com pleted, thoughts were sincere; thoughts iicing sincere, hearts wcro rectified; huarU being roo'illod, persons were cul tivated; persons being cultivated, families were regulated; families being regulated, states were rightly governed; states being rightly govorned, the whole nution was made tranquil and happy. Confucius. Our true knowledgo is to know our own ignoranco. Our true strength is to know our own woakness. Oar truo dignity is to confess thut wo have no dignity, and aro nobody and nothing in ourselves, and to cast ourselves down before the dignity of God, nndor tbe shadow of whoso wings, and in the smile of whoso countenance, alone is any created boing safe. Let us cling to our Father in heaven, as a child, walking in the ripbt, clings to his futher's hand. Charles Kingsley. "The Sneer Shows the Animal." The teeth of animals forms a series of structures, subject, as even the tyro in zoology knows, to literally immense variations, which bear, as a rnle, rela tion to the habits of Ufo of their possessors. Man's teeth are undoubt edly peculiar in that they form a con tinuous series, and are not separated throuchont their extent in either law by an interval, such as we soo very fr.miliar- lv in the month of a borso or rat. It is true that man shares this peculiarity with a little lemur called Tarsiui.and.witU anextinctquadrnped'tboAnoplotherinm; this fact serving naturally to diminish somewbkt the special character of the human teeth array- The "eye-teeth or caniDes. of humanity, altuongu not specially prominent, are yet sufficiently developed to prove that they have as sumed their present place m the jaw enly by protest, as it woro.and that at no vory remoto period they were raueh more obtrusive than now. In tho apes we see these teeth highly developed, and re minding us of tl.oir prominence in the carnivorous tribes. So also when man sneers he unoovers his upper cunino of one sido, after the fashion of the enraged dog, and employs aimilur muscles for tbo display of the tooth. Mr. Darwin is, therefore, speaking within the bounds of a seieutiflo physiology wbon we find him saying that a sneer roveals the des cent of mou; "for noyuo,"he continnos, "even it rolling on tho ground in a deadly grapple with an enemy, nnd at tempting to hi to him, would try to nso his canino teeth moro than his othor teeth. We may readily believe from our affinity to tho anthropomorphous (or muulikc) apes that our male semi-human progenitors possessed great eaoino teeth, aud men uro now occasionally born having them of unusnally largo size, with interspaces in thoomioMto jaw for their reception We may further suspect," concludes Mr. Durwin, "not withstanding that we have no support from analogy, that our semi-human pro genitors uucovorod their cunino teeth when prepared for battlo, as we still do when fooling ferocious, or when merely sneering or dofy ing some ono, without auy intontion of making a real attack with our teeth' In other words, tho moro gesture, once probably pntsuing a vory definite uso in tho battlo of attack, has, like tho tooth oonoerned iu its exhibition, become a moro shadow of formor realities. Other teeth besidos tho cauiuos in man, appear to afford means of traciug his kinship with lower forms. That tho last molar, or "wisdom" teeth, aro probably smaller in tbo men of to day than in the races of the past, appears to bo a crediblo asser tion. They appear to bo of larger size in those races of men iu whom we justly esteem of lower nature than oursovos; aud if this observation bo correct it would appear to show that our dental belongings, liko our muscles, are not be yond tho reach of thoso modifications to which wo owe, in part at least, our ns cont from lower ancestry to tho crown and acmo of life' s development. Long man's Magazine 'Ho Hud lio Home; The idea that John Howard Payne was a victim of nature's retributive justice will probably bo a now ono to a majority of readors. Yet it appears to bo sin cerely entertainod by tho Rev. E. H. Shepherd, of Scptou Mallot, England, tho clergyman at whoso suggestion and through whose efforts, wbilo he was aot ing as British qbaplain at Tunis, the stained glass window in memory of Payuo was placed iu the English church thero. In a sermon preached by him recently in his parish church at Shepton Mallot, ho roforred as follows to tho dead poet: "Poor man, it was from tho aching void of bis heart that he sang, 'There's no place like homo,' Though bo livod in a 'palace' he -was homeless. Though ho 'roamed amid pleasures' he was an un happy man. Thoso who knew him woll have told mo that in spite of his fine poetic iustincts it was a paiu to convorso with him, ho was bo misanthropic. And why? In his youth ho disregarded the voico of God and nature. 'It is not good for man to bo alono;' and in his old age ho foil inl that, left alone, the garden of Eden is but a barren wilderuess to dwell in. Having fuiled to mako a home for another, by just retributive nature ho was deprived of homo himself." Test for Nltro-GIrcerlac. It is desiruble to obtain a ready moans of ascertaining if a suspoctod fluid be nitro glvaeriuo or not. Thore are m ny oily-looking, yellowish colored, inodor ous fluids with whioh it might bo con founded, but nitro glycerine alone pro duces tho effect on tho systoni I tm about to describe. If we put ono tenth of a drop on our tongue we observo after one minuto moio or less throbbing iu the bead, especially iu tbe templo, aggra vated to pain on shaking tho head, a fooling of constriction in the neck, as though a band were tied tightly round it, the pulse rising to 100 and even 1-0 per minuto. Those effects soon go off and leave no bad results. We may ap ply the nitro-glyoerino to the tongue by moistening tho top of the finger with it; and so oonveying a small quantity to tbe mouth, or if wo dosire greater aocuraoy we may mix together ten drops of nitro glycerine with ninoty diops of spirits of wine, brandy, or whisky (it is solubloin water or nearly so One drop of this applied to the tongue gives us the doso of one-tenth of a drop of nitro-glycerine. No other substanoa produoos tho same) effoct. Dr. Dudgeon in London Post. "Tncy'ro Swearing Yet." An eminent divine from ono of our in land districts, having a very liyoly hor ror of the dangers of tho sea, took pas sage on board of an ocean steamer, with a particular recommendation to the care of the captain. On tho fist day out, the wind boing frosh and the sea lively, the parson became quito alarmed, and spoke to tho captuin. who smilingly taking him by thoarm, led him to the forecastle scuttle, and told him to look down. When lie heard the men talking very roughly to each othor, and swearing and damning one another's eyes and limbs, he was struck with horror, and tho cap tain said to him: "Do you suppose those men would uso that kind of language If they thought there was any danger?" A few days after a severe and dangerous storm was encountered, and the parson 1 1 1 . 1 1 : 1; 1 was unnerved vj cue eupiuiu uiHauig uis way with great difficulty to tho forecas tle scuttle. He immediately came back, muttering to himself, "Thank God, they're swearing yet." A traveler reports having found a coin in circulation among tho Malays, which is the smallest iu the world. It is a mi nute wafer made of the gum exuded from a certain kind of tree. It represents a value equal to about the millionth part of a dollar. Tho virulent "buffalo gnat" followed the Mississippi flood this year as it did last year, and stock is being stung to death in many places. In one neighbor hood in Mississippi 47 mules were killed in two days; Trne friendship between man and man is inflnito and immortal. Plato,