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SCARLET FEVER. AlMolule Krrnwltr -t Coiiiiilrtfl Isolation Wlia 1 ! : l)lwe 1 In Our Mliltt, One of the usual noeompan'monts of tho colder season of the year is ttmt terror of all mother., the scarlet fever, which, although cotitinml to no partic ular hOnon, anil having, like death, all seasons for it own, nevertheless scorn always to rage with more vehemence when tho nmn ury gets down among the small figure. Unlike tho measles, which most moth ers think it desirable for tho r children to have early, there in almost no pain which wine mother will not take to avert from their children thin feurftil evil, than whit h no other disease is no much to be d o .d -d. And it i justly that this dread in felt; not even the small-pox is so deserving i.f it, for nl tliougii that sonio' ntc take 1 fe, and often beauty, it Held mi, after good re covery, doe further damage. Unt the .scarlet fever, even if th" 1 tile patient escape with life, i a likely a not to poison the blood, to injure the brain, lo destroy the hearing, or to nflect to deadly purpo-o some vital organ with long and slow and panful decay. Po Vs terrible story of too "Masqiio of the lied l)eaih"'had in it some element of tin) horror that belongs to tin pc.iii lenccthat walkelh by noonday; and w have known an aged phytic an who never could speak of til's especial form of fever without tear springing to hi eye., no lunch misery to child and parent and household had he seen it bring about. When wo see a disea-e which, even on recovery, drug. afier it in most in stances lung seiueliii of other a linciit., often veileiland obscure and no' eay to reach and treat - kidney atlection. lung troubles, glandular diHicillties, id ocy and Hie reht -we can judge of the virulence of the original tiling it self. And if bv any ehancit we see the child itself enduring the lir.-t distress, the liual agony, cry ng out in blind wonder at it own sull'ering, yielding up it brief l,fe perhaps in ib lir inn, pcrhapH in faiiitnovs, with (lie pang of suspense and despair of the moilicr bending over ii, and the desolation of the Inline it leaves so empty of it sweet presence, till it seems u if there were nothing but sull'ering in the world - when by any chuncc we have seen all th , have fought, our own light Willi a disease capable of working such woe- then it sreius to us tliat we would almost give our own life rather tlul'l lie the mean of ili:l'i:sing Mich trouble, of increasing the sulVering of the world, of bringing such pa n and sorrow upon another pel sun who loved a ch id. Yet it U an almost universal thing for families every individual nf whom would feel all this shrinking from in creasing the sorrow. of the world -instead of doing their utmost to prevent t lie spread of the terrible infection, acting with hii almost criminal care lessnes in the matter, and that, of course, with no intention other than good ones, but partly from Ignorance and partly from thought lessness and partly from a general trusting to luck. There is a case of fever in the house; they isolate it, and then they think they have done their whole duty; they themselves, if not needed in attendance, go and come, here and there, in and out, a tliev ploasfl. "Oh, it Is only a si ght case!'' they answer on if vim ipieslion their actum, forgetful ot the fact that the most malignant form can bo developed fiom the lontag o i of the very slight est case of m';i i hit mi. scarlatina being the generic name of the disease in any form, and not merely of its lightest do- clopuieut. The doctor goes and come unavoidably through the hall and up down the commo.i stairw ay between the door and the sick. loom, nobody know how many germs of the disease el ng ing to the woolen tiluvsof his garments tti be scattered in the hall mid on the stairs, over which th - rest of th.- family pass uee.'.ssarily nianv limes a dav, to gather them up in their own clothes, and have them ready to disseminate whenever they go out among people. The nurses, to,), and I ho e in attend mice on the sick-room, go up mid down into the k tchen ii'id elsewhere about the house, earn iug with tlum more or less of the atmosphere of the room and all that belong to it, again to be possibly caught up by those w ho have never gone near the patient; and the very dog and cat about the place, to sav nothing of the llies, are liable to gather the dangerou unknown tone in their long fur, and bring it to the other members of (he family. If then these other member of the family, ihu virtually contam inated, go out freely on the street, what deadly work is it Ihev do, all uninten tioually and unconse ously, what seeds of death and sorrow do they scatter with every wave tf their garment a they walk and as they encounter peo ple on the street or venture into houses! Doubtless it is hard and unpleasant, a sort of inipr sonient, indeed, for peo ple not immediately concerned in the work for tho sick to shut themselves up when such a trouble is in the house; but there are always way for them to get enough fresh air to keep themselves in health. And for the rest of it, if the thingooniin, it should boreecivod l.kcany other disH'nation, and borne witfi becoming strength and self-denial. even if that rcqu're abstinence from church aiul o: cert ami call, the foregoing of the morning shopp ng and the after noon stroll. Fortuity three weeks after the patient L out of danger and con Talenojig a process called dcwqiiamat on a shedding of the scarf skin -goes on with the little person, and every llakcof that cuticle wafted abroad is but in oculation of tho disease wherever re cti. ved. Isolation, then can not bo tin) much regarded; and if we do not here speak of disinfection It is because we believe everybody in the world must now know the value and necessity of that In its most extended form, while nianv forget or are not aware of the need of complete isolation. There is nothing tine in the courage or bravado of thoe who would visit or go errands to the dwell ngs where this sickness Its. It is very easy to bo courageous for other jn-ople, and it is other people, and not one's self, that tho grown por snn endanger by go ng into the way of the dlsea e, and those other people lii-'j ''' I1"!' ldren. Grown peo ple are seldom in much d.mg r of re ceiving tho contagion for themselves, but they can carry it in their clothes; and knowing this, and knowing tho alarming vitality of the germ, and how long af.erward it can maintain this de vnstat ng vital ly with uirmoaclicd power, tliey would be acting w tli total want of principle, an 1 even of decent human charity, if they d d not avoid go ng to the house, where scarlet fever exist, and did not also nvoid tho -a who come out of th it house. When people who are awar of the danger do livo d those who h :ve come out from th fat il d r it i not for themselves it shoil I be remem bered, nor ind e,l ,-ilw.iy for those dear to them a' Ifo it elf. but ijllilc as often for the sake of those d ar as I fe to other; and no on has a r g'lt to be offended at this avo d. nice. It is not tlie people themselves who ire tliu avoided; t is the I rr ! 1.' trouble w I o e companionship lurks abort III m. Tin very imliv dual wh i nvo d then or who b id eoinp ll' d ti eo'iilem i th r want of co 'side -at o i and ca'v n go ing abroad, would, it 1 ver, I l.elv. go to their homes and rcn.i n t'i them helping and chei-ri 'g i hem as long as the necessity biste I tut! not da" tig to go out tilt the wo, Id ng ii:i so long a the least danger of coinm'tu'eating the evil ivtn lined. Listen I of being of fended at the avo d inee, all per on, on tli oilier hand, would i!o well t prevent the necessity of such avoidance by keeping out of th.i way themselves, aiul by voluntarily and sontanctiiislv, with noble regard for others, even if Quixotic regard, maintaining them selves mid their house in a sort of quar antine, which, uncomfortable ns it may be to them, is indefinitely better than sickness ami death and tin1 sorrow of vacant house to other. Harper's lia znr. ' THE TONGUE. TIip (inslitlorjr I'ii'ihtI m of Its Dlinlnu llv Tip. When we want to assure ourselves, by means of taste, about any unknown object -say a luinpof some white slulV, which may be crystal or glass or alum or borax or quail or rock-salt we put the tiji of the tongue against it gingerly. If it begins to burn us we draw il away more or less rapidly, with an aeciiiiijianimeiit in language strictly dependent upon our personal habits and niuniieis. The let we thus occa sionally apply, even in the civilized adult states to unknown bodies is one that is being applied every day and all day long by children ntul savages, Un sophisticated humanity is constantly pulling everything it see up to its mouth in a frank spirit of experimental inquiry a to it gustatory properties. In civilized life we lind even III ng ready labeled and assorted for us; we comparatively seldom reipiire to roll the contents of a siispie'ous bottle (in very small quantities) doubtfully upon the tongue in order to discover whether it is pale sherry or Chili vim gar, Dub lin stout or mushroom ketchup. Hut in the savuge slate, from which geologi cally and biologically speaking, we have only just emerged, bottles and labels do lot exist. l'rimi tiv i man, therefore, in his sweet simplicity, has only two modes open ! fore him for de ciding whether the th mil's he linds are or are not strictly edible. The lirst thing he does is lo suit) at them, and smell being, as Mr. Herbert Spencer has well put it, nn uii!ici atoiy taste, generally gives him some idea of what the tiling is likely to prove. The mt oml thing hedoes s t poi it into his mouth, and rocicd practically to ex amine its further charaeteristV-. Strictly speaking, w th the lip of the tongue one can't really ta-te at all. If you put a small drop of honey or of oil of b tier alliums on that part of the mouth: mhi will lind (no doubt tovoiir great surprise) that il product s no cll'cct of any sort; you only taste it when it begins slowly to tl ll'ue itself and reach 's tin' true tasi ing ivg on in tlie m ddlo distance. Itut if ou put a lilt le cayenne or mustard mi the .same part, yon Mill lind that it bites you immediately- tilt' cxper, m. 'Ill should I c tried sparing l while if von put it lower down in the month ou will swallow it almost without not cng ill pungency of the st iniiilaiit. Tlie reason is that lh" tip of tlie tongue is-upplicd only w th nentN w hich are really nerves of touch, not nerves of taste pioper; they belong to a totally ibll'trent main b'aucli, aiul they go to a d ll'eVent ecu ter in the bririi, to .ether W illi the very similar threads whit b supply the nerve' of smell for mustard aiul pepper. That i w hv the smell ami taste of these puu- g.'Ut .substances are so much al ke, us everybody must have notice I ; a good sniff at a mustard pot roducingaluiost the same irrtatiugellcetasunmc.nl' tons mouthful. As a rule, we don't accurately tbst ugiiish, it is true, be twt't'ii these tl. tic re nt regions of taste in the mouth in ordinary life; but that is btvaiise we usually roll our food about iiist'iictively, without paying uiiicti atteui ou lo Hie particular part affected by it. Indeed, when one is trying did berate experiments in the subject, ill order It) test tlie varying sensitiveness of the different part's to different sub-taiiees, it is necessary to keep the tongue dry in ijrderto isolate the thing juii are cxper. nieiiting w th and prevent its spread. ng to all parts of the mouth together. In actual prac tice this result is obtained in a rather ludicrous manner-by blowing upon the tongue between each experiment wiih a pair of liellows. To such un- dignilied expe lient doe the pursii t of science lead the ardent modern Iisycliologist. Those domestic rivals of r. Fori- Wiiislow, the servants, who behold the enthusiastic investigator al ternately diving hi tongue in this ridiculous fashion, a if ho were n black smith's tire, and then iiiceiiig out a single drop of essence of pepivr, vine gar, or liccf tea from a glsss syringe upon the dry surface, not unnaturally arrive at the conclusion that muster ha goue stark mad. and that, in the r private opinion, it's the iuicroctiie and the skeleton a has do.ie it. ( omhiil In the matter of speed, the bYvcle ranks seventh-the balloon, the loco motive, and trotting, pscing and run ning horse having faster reco-ils. It ranks seventh b cause .1 lir w II ravel faster than any of tlietu. CurmiL THE MEXICANS. Rom or Their 1IuIim-m llnblU Which Itrmlrr Close L'oininerclitl t'onnrctltia with Them I'ntleslriilile. I have lately talked with a gentle man who is thoroughly conversant with this people, whose remarks are here substantially reproduced: " Tho Mexicans, I may say, appear to bo divided into two groups those who have somo education, and the peons, who are absolutely Ignorant, ex cepting that they show the animal in stinct to provide themselves with the meager daily necessaries of life. The former class nro intri,u ints by nature. Their business habits nro tortuous, and from the time they wake In the morn ing till they go to rest they seem to be studying how to put up n job on sonic body who has got a little means at ci m inantl. Your Mexican does not consid er there is anything wrong about this, When reproached with a crookedness, they simply shew their white teeth by a bland sm.le, and hug themselves witli pleasure that they have been smart in getting the best of the 'gringo.' Tricks are not tried on the natives, because there is no money to be made there The large town (.warm with lawyers nnd one.! in their clutches, it is ' mini In fliilii Yi.ur Folic.! Court in San Frarcirco lui a few lawyi rlings of the siillie type; till'. Heavens! you ought to see tlie' brood that tilings round a Mexi can court, under the name of abogados,' "1 will mention an instance," the gentleman continued, "of the trouble I g t into abi.u' a piece of land I ptir cli i--i'd, or thought I pin chased, near a principal town. I was a piece of tine .' hundred acre, from a grant set aside for school purposes. In the first place, I made application totheayunianiieiito, 11111I wa told I could have it for si me three or four ci ntiiv.ts an acre; but aft erward found out that a ineiul cr of the ci.vmcil and in outsider, who divided the proceeds of the sales of the-e lands, object! d, and I could Hot get the In-'.d nt all. Tin 11 a merchant of the lilac; sent me notice that he oul.l sell in.' the properly, nn I give me what was calied in old l ines with 11 a warranty deed, guaranteeing me possession ngiiiii.st all c liners. 1 took his offer; lui! hail scarcely completed ti.e bargain when I found seine one sum. milling my purchase with a rude blll-h f ne". ''Whet are you doing lure?' 1 :ikeil him. ' ' Fencing in my land,' wa the re ply. "I bought the whole of it.' n ti'i ing a comprehensive sweep with his hand, manv years i.go, for lifleeii dollar.-.' "1 win in a fix. 1 mentioned the mer chant; but the fence-builder laughed. I went to the merchant, but he calmly told me that although my t tie was good, as he had insured it, I had better settle with the invader, as he did not want any trouble with jicoplc who were customers. It would injure his business. 1 did not M'ttle. Afterward, when I was lying sick in my room, with an infernal cnlentiira, a couple of abogados entered with a bill a yard long, covered with stamp. They said it was for rental; and threatened the direst conseipieiices if 1 did not pay. I was half mad with fever and rage, and had they not beat a hasty retreat would have thrown them out neck and heel. The stranger in Mex'co. the man who is tempted lo 'go into business' there and has money lo invi st, thinks it all plain sailing, No one so bland a your educated Mexican, till the stranger has made his invest ment, and proceeds, as he thinks, in the credul ty and simplVty of Irs heart, to acquire a rapid fortune. Then he linds his way barred l y unforeseen ob stacles. Dues, t barges, taxes, counter titles crop up on every band, and they must be paid or settled, else you will have no peace. After a year or two, if you can not guard yourself by some strong 1 roteetlve ntt rest, you will hao no property." (. at. i.viiii A' ?- Until. ROLLER SKATING. lit llt 11I i't Arc l.l tlilti to llefni'iietii's el Hit' I. Hutu mill tlllier l ioii'lloii tl ! rungi'iiii'iili. Concerning the roller skat ' t' ere is unfortunately little risk of exaggerating its evils. Although of only compara tively recent in' rt Inetioii, it etl'eets upon the carriage ami gait and upon the anatomical development, especially of grow ing children are already ipiite marked. These obvious physical effect are inherent in the must ular act on in volved in tlie u-e of this form of .skate. I'nllke the ice skates, there is no glid ing movement, nor arc the opposing muscles ot the lower extremities etpially exerebed. in the constant mic cessions of side thrusts which in; ke lii all there is of cxere'se on roller skates. When to this is added the fai t that tin1 practice may ne, an 1 is nv manv, coii- t line I throughout the year, winle ice- skating lasts only a lew weeks at a time with long interval between, it is 1 a y to sec why so ninny youths of both seves are acquiring the peculiar gait of a M en at- Ind an or H ul on llav voy ngeiir in the snow-shoe season. F.xam iiiation of the ankles of the major. ty of tlie chiMivn who c utter among the smooth stone sidewalks of our residence streets w.ll reveal a thickening of the bgann nts of th oint, ami 1111 undue development of the muscles an I tend ms of the outer side, wiiieh point to the eond t on o." one of the common kinds of elii'i foot and in h ch the subject walks on the inner ankle. The re-u!t are patent even to the non-profc-sional eve, and a if there ore proper tuple of cou'iiicnt ill t'.e minimis of a news journal. I'm there is another class of evils a is'rg from the continuous use of ro 'er k i'cs whvh ia of a much more st-rioiis ind ue. and to w hich only the merest ai'iis'im may here W made The cure of 1 he health of fut,,r mother is the especial saer d charge of those who know, by xTsonsl expi rience. how pro foiiiiiilv t! at health may Ik- affected by wiiii' apparently insignilicant cause during a.loiest e ice. There is sufficient reason for tlie belief that the form of exercise in tpietion is capable of pro ducing bolh structural ami functional dlMurbanivs of a lasting nature. -G.i-cir;i .Vers. The Te.vi public ehoe system U aid to be t! e tine-t in the land." ADOBE BUILDINGS. fTtnc th Western Kxriner Mnj Kcnnouaiza llullillni; Material. As compared with brick, stone, con crete and frame buildings, those built of adobes liuve many advantage. They cost less are as durable, cooler in sum mer, warmer in winter, and let there be incessant rains for weeks at a time, tho wall will never "sweat" or show a particle tf dampness. In We-tern village livl; of conven ient clay-beds lias induced the se'tlen to mako adobes of common earth or loamy soil. On western or southcrj exposures, cot' ages of such adobes soon look very much bat.ered nnd worn, tha niater'al not pi ss. ssing power to resist the beating rain. Adob.' reiirut)be well prn'ccV-d bv a prooct ng corn'ie, nnd 11 founda tion high enough to keep the drip off the eaves from splashing up a-iains: the wall-. When the big 1 foinulatio i is ol j'vtionable, the first foot o- mo:c above the foundation is freiiieiit'y con structe I of bard brick. Should troughs be lilted to the eaves, the wear on tho g;des of the walls and the splashing ol the base nro entirely obviated. When only inferior material can be obtained for'making adol es, tl.ey are freipiently laid so ns to be plastered on the out s de, by not filling tho outer joints with mortar. Ano her plan iidonted in somo localities i- to dovcta 1 the edge of each adobe by a p'eee secured in the molds. Another still is to drive largo nails in the outside wall, about two nails to each adobe, leaving the head project ing about three-eighths of an inch. Jn cither case the plasler is clinched on the walls securely. Adobe wall are laid in clay mortar, composed oi two parts of sail I, and one part of clay, by measure. This, when dry, adheres so lirmly as to make 1111 almost solid wail. As this clay mortar, containing so large a proportion of sand, washes badly whn exposed to the weather, "it i now the custom to lay tiie outer tier of adobes with lime mortar, or to point the cxpo-o.1 joints with good ipiaiity lime mot tar, w hich, drying smooth and white in we.l struck joints, adds inueli to the beauty of the bu'lliu". In plast ring outside walls the lirst two ci a's are applied with clay in-rt n-, a. lime mortar will 110' ad'n im to adoi.e w iis. The last, or linisliiu:; coat, is 'ijipll' d with I nn! mortar, pre pared for oiiisi I wear. The li:-t i.iul second coat f !' inside plastering are al-o of c'ay tno't.ir. linished wiih a white coat of et'.lier I in i or pla.'.r ot I'aris. The inoilur adheres irmly cnoiHi on inside vv.dN without any s e- cial p ep:iii!iuu of the sin face. K.uvly, an adob cottage is pa nled of a I rick color, with the jients laid oil' in white paint. Adol is are always in demand among the tanners, as the common kinds can be nn.de by any one i.t the plac w here wanted. The common blue clay that underlies the sub soil of many large district in the prairie State would no doubt yield excellent adobes, if made in the dryest part of the suiii suniiiier, and thoroughly sun-baked. As laid in the walls with clay mortar, adobes are capable of .supporting great press lire. A wall in tho basement of a largo brick building, tlie second story of which has long been used as a theater and dancing-hall, has supported the pressure of a central post llmt su-tained the center beam of the upper flo ir, under all the weight and springing of a a crowded attendance for several year. This wall is only the leniTth of one adobe in thickness -a' on! eleven inches, yet it remains firiil. Tne church in l'ay-on, I'tah. a ftruc' ure forty-live by .-event v-tive feet, w.lli wall. Iwenly-foiir feet liigb. supposing a heavy roof and belfry, appear a . se cure as any brick building of the -:11ns dinien ions. These wall i are two feet thick, on a lirmly grouted wall which is surmounted with -everal layer- of brick and a one water-table. lie ides the use. already nieiit'otie I, tl lobe, are much in deimud for backing the brick walls of dwellings, stor a ,d public buildings of that material, and are fie jiiently 11 ed for til ' bi'ck w:i'l of sto.es, In ing 'oined to the brick. Three courses of a 'o'ie e ,ual in heh'ht four corrscs of In !; Adobe a e a, 0 much li-cd as lining for frame liou.es, I cing laid up edgeways in clay -mortar between I he studding. When so used the laths are pla ed fart her apart than Usual. When adobe are u-e. I for ba 'king brick walls, it is customary to tie the adobe s ai.tl bricks together when the coursci 1 01110 even, w ith iight straps of iron laid across every two or three fee'. In the Far West adobes an' used for ail kinds of buildings, especially on the farm. They lotild be safclv I'sed in nearly all the Mississippi Valley by taking the precautions that have'hccti here mentioned. Manv farmers could construct all tlieir . smaller otit-biiildingi of this material, nnd thus add much to the comfort of their animals, and to the pleasure ami profit of agricultural pur suits. Jmerieuii A'rivii'titrist. Russian Justice. Tho question bus often boon asked whether in Russia men receive impar tial justice or not. I shall mention two cases which came under my ow n ob servat'on. The landlord of my house entered an action to recover the sum of S--,.00 owed for goods to that amount delivered. Both parties britied the Judge, but the landlord was the most lavish, and he alii ruled that be paid t-T.VI, after the decision in his favor, on condition that he received the other 1.2.'i0: his offer w as ace-pted and ho paid the amount sfter waiting two u-ars for his money. An Austriin gentleman was robins, at a hotel when lie was ".topping of property to a con siderable amount. The servants were all examined by the nlioc ami one was selected a the probable th'cf. Tlie hotel proprietor well knew the honesty of this man and gave him a char.tcttv which would have exonerated him ftoru the charge. But no, the joliee do terniined that he was the thief, and actually flogged him to the comfortable number of if'"' lashes. Scarcely wss this received before the true th'if wa.s Fseovered to be quite another p-T-oi; the poor servant, instead f lie'ng con oid! for the severe flagollatitn 10 lia.l re-e.veil. Was sert out of the ctv .p. ml. r that ie l u-'n s nv -' t ' f .- to tc.ul.ond.m Ti'frc.vh. JOHN PHQINIX. Tlie Trick He V7 on the ITofeMor of eoloy t tteit rolnl. The following story in regard to Lieutenant Derby (John Phtcnix. the humorist) was told me by General Milam T. Sherman: "You inow. there was a few miles from West Point a place known as Benny Haven's, where tho boys used to go to eat flap jacks and drink flip. Uenny Haven g Iliu had a National reputation, and his llanjacks were delicious. The cadets, however, patronized Benny Haven 8 to such an excess that the officers of tho military school attempted to put a stop to it, and very few permissions were "ranted thorn to go outside of the walls Zl tho institution, Derby was in es pecial bad favor, nnd he knew that he could not on ordinary grounds get a permit. One time, after ho had been a week or more without a drink of Benny Haven's Hip. ho pretended a great re pentance as to his studies and gave out that he was going to do better. The Professor of Geology wa a curious old fellow whom he had cartooned un mercifully, and who had a honor of him. To him Derby went, and with tear in hi eve said' that he wa sorry that he had wasted his time in the past, and that in the future he intended to do better. He feared as it was he would not be able to pass his exatiiinat ons, but that hu wished to uso Irs remaining t me in the Academy so that when he went out he wiAild be tit ted to battle with the world, and he in tended to pay especial attention to geology. This geological professor was an" enthusiast, and very simple and innocent withal, lie embraced Derby am! congratulated him upon his reso lution, During tlie next few days Derby came into the class-room vv.th the best of lessons. He asked manv question and showed great interest in the subject, thus winningglowing opin ions from his professor. He remained in the class-room after the lesson of the fourth day, and told the professor that one of tli" milkmen who supplied tlie Academy had been telling him of some wonderful petrifactions at ti point away up in the mountains, lie had spoken of lishes nnd tau tracks of birds and other specimen.'' carefully posted which Derby, having himself bv the books. sa il he supiio.- .I belonged to sueii and sin li an age. The l'l oiess'jr rao'icil his hand dry ing the re'atioii, saying "es." "yes," 'very likely, ver.' 1. keii'.' And when Deb,- eon eluded bv savin;: the 111 Ik- man hail oiler, d to conduct him to tlie place, be wa. eager to have him- go. t )u 1 Tie, 's asserting the doubt that he wo'lid not be permitted lo leave the Academy, the Profcs-or said there .would le 11 1 trouble a'noul that, and thai lie would 'et the counters gn and the perm t. This he did, and the next day Derby started out early and struck out at one.! for Benny Haven's, Here he lay around all that day eat ing llanjacks" and drinking flip, and carried 011 his carouse far into the night. Kiu-ly in the murning he came back to the Academy very mellow in deed, but succeeded in passing the guard and tunibl ng into his room. As he lay down on his bed he happened to think that he must have an explana tion to give til'1 geological jirofe-sor for not having the spec mens. He be thought himself a moment and then went down and picked up a couple of stones from a p le which lay by the riverside. He brought these to lis room and witli his chisel cut into them a number of what looked very much like b'rd-iracks. Going out again he rubbed these with din aiid then came back, la d them 011 his table, and went to sleep. After breakfast he took his stones to the professor of geology, who, by the way. was very nearsighted, lie told hi lii that the 111 Ikman had failed to keep his appo'.iitm nt, and that he hat attempted to lind lir place himsel Ho had not discovered the petrli lishes nor the other fos'.ls tlescr.beil tin1 in Ikman, but he had found V stones, With their iiirloiu tracks, he thereupon gave the Professors explanation of the bygone age to the stones belonged, and how liivi.ui birds of a character v known h id 111. id these curior II s tbsquisit on wa- so well the Profes.or co nelded w th took the stones iu!o the elas day. and related Derby's ' d.sco'. er'es. The alia r w as for days tiie talk of the class, but -could not keep his secret to bill and told it to out' or two of his fri. 11 It went all over tiie college, ami the rt suit was that Derby was suspended. He L'ot back again, however, and after a t me wa graduated. (7cci7 ind J.uuUr. 1 A HUNGRY ARTIST. An Appetite Which Took a (ir t Ileal or Minify In I'roperly Api fane. Lui De Morales wa 'torn in 1,'iO'J and was the lirst Spanish painter who aetU;rel a reputation i'Utslde of his own country. Hs subject. were nil religious, and he wis called "El Divino," or "the divine," on this ac coirit. When Morale wa fifty-five years old. Pnibp II. invited him to court. When he appeared before the King he wore so niiignilieeiit a costume that Philip was angry, -d ordered a sum of nio'iev "d the artist and a dismissal time. So . he for st ok poverty. In I.mI. 1 saw Morale from that w "Morales, Kin'.;. "Yes, sire him me same 'es that great and Ires art. tiie .1 lid Vi the prutcr. Hi 1 p then him Iretl ducal B.ula'oz shook the p i Titer to Hearing this. "A'ltl for su; This Aptness he added o-.e h pens'on nnl the e.-n.v t for the r s'r.'-t l'adajoz II. line. I .. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Vermont lias 113 Baptist churches, with 9,326 members and 106 ordained ministers. There are 10,000,000 school chil dren in tho United States, 10,000,000 of whom are enrolled in the public schools. So many valuables are annually stolen from churches in the south of France during the midnight service ut holiday time that those services have been ordered discontinued in the future. The principal of one of New York s many finishing" schools where youa j lad es are presumed to get the li ,:il toueh of polish to lit them exquisitely for soeiety, includes in her course of lectures lino on the art of slum!) -ring presentiibly. .V. F. Sun. Tlie following s!at'tst;c are give concerning tlie t'athol'c Church in th s country: Cardinal, nrehbishoos ,i, bishop's, 7G: priests. u.H:l.'i; chiirche and chapels. 7.70M; seminaries, colleges and academic for both sexes. "US; asylums, ''!U: hospitals. 1 communicants, J.IJOO.0IHI. Piishop Lyman, of North Cnrol'na, takes exception to tlie statement of Dr. Thompson, liishop of Mississippi, that negro rector are not desirable in the Protestant Episcopal Church through the South. He says that ten blacks in his State are satisfactorily ministering to congregation of their own color, and ho would not like to see any other system tried. Chirago Ikrnld. Tho value of chewing gum as a factor in education has been settled at last. A Macon (Cm.) schoolmarm had six bright scholars come to school pro vided with gum and six without. Then she threw twenty-nine problems at them with astonishing' results. The chewers of gum correctly answer twenty-one, while the gumlcss six had mastered only eight. This is another vital educational problem solved. .S7. Louis 1'oxt. President Eliot, of Harvard Univer sity in an address before the Massachu setts Teachers' Association tlie other day, said that it would be niurh better for two or three towns to maintain one high school adequately equipped, rather than for each one to maintain a weak and poorly equipped high soiiool. The only tiling that stand in the way of such a union is local jealuuiy. and tho sooner that is set aside tlr better. l!o!o .'I Jon ma'. ,' The will of tiie late (bivcrnor Abner Cobuni, of Maine, beq'.lea'lis theluilkof his property to the cause of education in the South. To Cobur.i Classical In stitute lie bequeaths ."."'.0iKI; to Colby Univers ty. of Waterville .-'i)0,000, which, with oilier amounts for the ben efit of the university, make hi ontiro bequests thereto o'vi r S.'iOd.OlM). The State Agricultural College at Orono re ceive vHM.ihki, and the .Maine General Hospital in Portland 10.iKK. The New York Sun is discussing tho grammar of the fai.iily prayer, "Now I lay me down to sle q)." It pronounce it'all right. It ludotibtedly is; but, grammatical or not, it has gone up to the great jiiilgimnt seat freighted with the sweetest confidence and trust that only infantile hi.manity can understand. That simple petition will endtvre as long ns Christianit' prevails, and will be familiar to more hearts and lips than probably all other prayers combined. Few English-speaking men and women but learned it at mother's knee and few wholly forg t it. Indianapolis Journal. P1INGENT PARAGRAPHS. -O 'he world doesn't know how as w -r VI ( es. And 'tis just eat deal of gossip. -land of Sicily are heir eyebrows shaved before the wedding lace. .. while out riding with ot out of the buggy and ith a pistol. He proba- 1 driving with both hands. yv.'.s.s'. iow, that sticks in my i.e.! the old farmer, a a nvi'il him over six bushels . branches extracted from a oost hay. lltirliii'jton Free lor can breathe easy again. ' year they need not blush covly and timorously when the ems tell them they have some say in confidence, you would be truly happy, my suid one lady to another.' "you ave neither eves nor ear wlien uisband comes home late from the "Yes, I know," answered the r, wearily, "but what am I to do wiiii my nose?'' At the rink: A tliirinir ytiiinif man named MeCVdum. Who wits loiur uiiil limk. ami lotiki-il solemn, Hit Hie Hour with his heml, And tlie woiils that h suitl WotiM HII u limn nowspiiniT column. .ViMTiVftiirH llirnltl. It wa just after the till'. "I won der." snarled Homeo, "if we shall know each other in heaven." "I'll re member you, of course," replied Juliet, with tender emphasis, "but, of course, I couldn't know you without meeting you," and a period of silence as long as a centennial poem crept into the room. A. )'. .TtiM. business has been rather dull in Texas this year. A Galveston drummer who had made a tour of the State, on his return to Galveston was asked by his boss: Well, did you get anv orders?" "I should smile. I don''t think I went into a single store, that I wasn't ordered out by the proprietor himself." Texas Sifting. When Mrs. Oleo. the boarding house mistress, was told that the inspec tor of provisions had seized -Sti pounds of veal, ninety-two pounds of jMiultn, fifty-two K)iiuils of bear meat, thirty seven lambs, six barrels of pea., and ItfO boxes of herring, she remarked: "Pretty good apet.te; but nothing to some of my boarders. You'd ought to see them when they're good and buu pry." Chicago Tribune. ':Smith. how is it that you always get such good bargains?" queYied Jones. .'Hi.isuii.:.! I ... .1 . : : ....... . . , i.uij-m, in my liu.llll ii..,..iisi mi in, I'Hueuce ami economy, Veplletl Smith. "My father was alwavs Iriiniiiiiiig it into Sue to 'wait a little bile and you'll purchase cheaper, 'hy. even my mother used to sing 'bye w, baby,' before I could walk."Joiies 8 perfectly satisfied with the cxplaua . Boston Courier.