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2 1E HPE .rCLE. Don't Slop Over. "Don't slop over," the old man said, . An he placed hl hand on the young man's head, "Oo it, by all iuans go It fast: Oo It while leather and horse shoes last, Oo It while hide and hair on horse Will hold together. Oh, go it, of courso Oo It fast as over you can, But don't slop over, my dear young man. "Don't alop over You'll find somo day That keeping an eye to windward will pays A horBe may run a little too long, A preacher may preach Juat i fraction too strong And a port who pleases the world with rhymes May write and regret It in after times Keep the f nd of tho effort ever in view. And don't slop over, whatever you do "Don't slop over. The wisest men Are bout d to slop over now ami then And yet the wisest at work or feast Are "ho v ry oneB that blunder the least ThoBo that for split milk Dover wall Are the ones who carry the sle idlest pall. Wherever you go, go In for the fat; Hut don't slop over and freeze to that I "Don't slop ovor. Distrust yourself. Nor always reach to the highest shelf; The next to the highest will gen'rlly do, And answer the need of such as you. Climb, of course, but always stop And take breath this side of the top; And you will roach It in wind and strong, ifi lthout slopping over. Thus ends my song " The Bridal Wine Cup. "Pledge with wine ! pledgowith wine ! " cried the young and thoughtless Harvey Wood I "Pledge with wine 1" ran through the bridal party. The beautiful bride grew pale the de cisive hour had oome. She pressed ber white hands together, and tho leaves of the bridal wreath trembled on hor brow; her breath came quicker, and her heart beat wilder. "Yes, Marion, lay nsido your scruples for this once," said tho judge in a low tone, going toward hiB daughter; "tho company expect it Do not seriouBly infringe upon tho rule of eti quette; in your own home do as you please, but in mine, for this once, pleaso me." Every eye wos turned toward the bridal pair. Marion's principles were woll known. Harvey had been a convivalist, but of lato fiieuds no ticed the change in his habits; and to-night they matched him to see, ns tboy sneeringly said, if ho was tied down to a woman's opinion so soon. , ,,,,,.. ... Pouring a brimming cup, they hold it with tomptlngsmllos towards Marion. Sho was very palo, though moro compos d and hor hindB Bhook not, as, smiling back rIio gracefully ac coptod the crjstal tempter, nnd raised it to her lips. Unt source ly bud she done so, when ov ery hand was arrested by hor piercing exclama tion of "Oh how terrible 1" "What is it?" cried ouo and all thronging togethor, for nho had Blowly carried tho glass out at arm's longth, and was fixedly regarding it, as though it was some hideous object. "Wait," she answered, while n light, which seomed inspired, shono from her dark eyes; "Wait, and I will toll you, I soo," sho added Blowly pointing her jewoled flngtr at the spark ling liquid, "a Bight that beggar all descrip tion; and yet, listen I will paint it for you if I can. It is a lovely spot; tall mountains, crowned with verdure, riso in awful subl.inity around; a rivor runs through, and bright flow ers grow in tho wator's edge, Tlicro is a thiok, warmniiKt, that tho Bun Beeks vainly to pierce. Trots, lofty and beautiful, wave to the airy mo tion of the birds; but there -a group of Indi ans gathor; they flit to and fro, will something liko a Borrow upon their dark brows And in thoir midst lies awauly fonn; but his cheek, how deathly pale I his ojos wild wilh fitful fire of fever, Ouo friend stands behind him nay, I should Buy, knoels for, see, ho is pillowing that poor head upon his breast. "Genius in ruins I Oh, the high holy-looking brow 1 why should doath mark it, and he so young ? Look how ho throws back tho damp curls I Sio him olasp his hands t hear his thrilling shrieks for life I mark how he clutches at the form of his companion, imploring to be saved. Oh, hear him call pitoously on his father'B name ! soo him twiuo his fingers to gether us ho shrioks for his sistorliis ouly sistor tho twin of his bouI weeping for him in his natlvo land. "Seel" she exclaimed, while tho bridal party shrank back, tho mitasted wine trembling in their tailoring grasps, ami tho judge fell, over powered, upon liis Koat "seek mercy I Hot fovor tvnhtw through his veins. Tho friend beside him is wet miiu awe-stnekou. The dark men move silently away, and leao the living and llieiljing togollier.- There was a liui.li in that princely parlor, brokou only by what seemed a smothered cry from somo maulv bosom. Tho bride stood jet upright, with quivering lips, and tears stealing to tuo outward etige oi ner lasiuw. uui ueuuu fnl arm hud lost its tension, nud the uloss, with its little troubled red wain, came slowly to ward tho raugo of hor vision, Sho spoko again; ovory lip was mine, nor oico wasiownmi faint, et awfully distinct; sho still flxod her sjrrowful glance upon the wine-cup. "It is oviuiug now; the great, white, moon is coming up, aud her beams lie gently on his forrlitud. Ho iuoos not; his ejes are set iu their socket; dim are their pierciug glance; iu aiu his triond whispers tho name of father and bister dealh is there. Death 1 and no soft baud, no gentle olce to bless and sooth him. His head sinks back ! One ooutnlsive Bhudder ho was dead I" A gronu rau through the assembly. So vh id was lmr description, bo unearthly her look, so umpired her m inner, that what sho described souued actually to have takeu place thou aud there. They noticed also that the bridegroom li id his fueu in his hands nud was weeping. "Dend 1" she mieattd ncain. her lips uui- erlug faster aud faster, and her voice moro and more brokeu; "and there they scoop him a anwe, and thoro. without a shroud, they liy hiiudowuiu that damp, reeking tartli; tho only sou of a proud father, tho only idolued b other of a foud sister. And he sloops to day in that distant couutry, with no stone to mark tho spot. Thoro he lies my futlmr's sou my ow u ficln Wether n victim of this deadly poisou. "1'athor." she exclaimed, turning suddenly, while tho tears ralued down her beautilnl cheeks, "father shall I driuk it now" The form of the old judge was convulsed with agony. He raised not his head, but iu a suiotherid voice he cried, "No, no, my child no!" Sho lifted the glittering goblet, mid letting it suddenly fall to tho lloor, it was dashed iu a thousand pieces. Many a tearful eye watched hor movement, audlnstautineouidy every wiue gWai was trausfemd to tho marble table on which it had been prepared. Theu a she looked at the fraguieuta of crjstal, she turned to the company sajlug, "Let no friend here after, who Ioyim me, ,euipt me to peril my soul f.ir whin. Set firmer art the everlasting hills thau my resolve, UoJ helplug me never to touch or Uto the poison cup. Aud he to whom I have given my nana who waicueu oer my brother's dying form iu that last sol emu hour, and burled the dear wanderer thor by the river, in that land of gold will, I trust, sustain u In that rewlve. Will you not my IiusImuU J" , Hi glistening eye, hi sweet smil, wai her anwor. The Judg left the room, aud whtn. an hour after, returning with a more subdued manner, he took part in the entertainment of the bridal guests, no one could fail to see that he, too, hud determined to banish the nemy at once and forever irora ma princely nome. Those who were present at the wedding can never forget tho impression so solemnly made. Many from that hour renounced the social glass. ; The Rear of Houses. Take the prettiest and best-kept village? of New England, and we doubt if a tenth part of e.ven of the most pretentious mansions aud the most ornate cottages will bear examination in the rear. Instead of being nir-ely finished in all their pretty domestic details and conve niences and kept snug and trig, with trim grass-plots, with all the subordinate avenues and garden approaches well graveled, clean swept nnd tree of refuse, and everything wholesome and orderly, there is apt to be a look of general untidyness, as if the rosidual rubbish of jears had been dumped therein. Not unfrrquently a railroad runs its track in such a manner as to expose the rear of plenty of houses to the eyo of the traveler over it whose sense of neatness offended by the square rods of backyard lumbered up with every con ceivable variety of second-handed, damaged and invalided articles known to domestic use, from a horse-cart, disabled by broken thills and wrecked wheels, to the ghost of the baby-carriage, which survive two generations of chil dren; interspersed wilh broken croikery, ruBty and condemned tinware, old boots, sardine boxes, disablod junk-bottles, hoop skirts which have outlived all usefulness if they ever bad any, chips, burdock, mnllen, ashes, half burned Inmps of wasted coal and all imaginable litter, debris, or dirt. On the other hand, noth ing is prettier than a cottage which is thor oughly well kept in the rear as well as its more public portion. It seems inevitably redolent of a purer, sweeter, happier domestic life than one with heaps of festering rubbish crowding hard upon it. AVhat is Personal Maqnetism ? A magnetic temperament; as nearly as anything, is the Umporament of tho artist, of genius; and yet it may not be associated with, may bo radically opposed to, art or genius. We are usually bo much under its influence; jf affected at all, that wo do not pause think of its composition. If wo should think, we should find that the natural magnet is invaribly sympathetic, in tense, individual, independent, strong of will, goncrally inaginativo, egotistic, self-confident, inclined to be aggressive. Commonly a large degree of discipline goes with it; for the con quering faculty is inclined to conquer first at home, and covers sharp and harsh energies with the velvet and satin of bocial amenities. Hut for a certain self-containment, magnetism, so activo and penetrating is its forco, might es capo and waste itself; and thoro is need of it for many ends. She who is spontaneously magnetic is hard to affect magnetically. As a rule, she haB her errotic fortune in command, and this is rate an) Inekv to a decree. Thus is she protected from in ward amorous assaults, which, more than those from without, plsce hor in the power of her nearest enemy. If the relation of the sexes be a siego, it is "unfair; since man, in attacking woman, has hisBOcret ally hersoll wltnin tba eates. to whom be looks for support, and on whom he countsat every escalade. Impartial as tho contost may be, it is always two against one. The galaxy. A Beautiful SiNTiMaNT. Life bears us on like tho Hire am of a mighty river. Out boat at first glides dowii tho narrow channel through tho playful murmurings through the little brook nnd tho winding grassy borders. The tress shed the blossoms oer our young heads; the flowers on the b ink seem to offer them selves to our young hands; wo aro happy in hopo, nnd grasp eagerly at tho beanties around ub; but the stream hurries on, nud still our hands are empty. Our courso in jouth and manhood is along a widor and deeper flood, and nmid objeotB moro striking and roagnitl cent. Wo are animated at the uioviug picture of enjoyment and industry passing aronnd us are oxcited at somo Bhon-lived disappoint ment. The Btrcams bears us on, and our joys and griofs are ulike left bohind us. Wo may bo ship-wrooked we caunot be delayed; whether rough or smooth, tho river hastous to its home, till the roar of the ocean is in our oars, aud the tossing of the waves is beneath our feet, and tlie laud lessens from our oyes, and tho tloo.i is lifted up aionnd us, and we take our leave of earth and its inhabitants, uutil of further voy age thoro is no witness tuwo the Infinite nud iUerunl, rATitAAOAM.'h. Tho first lesson in econom) is to learn to 'Mo without." Tho second is to use what ouo has without waslo These two lesson are ery hard to bo learned by a people which has always beou accustomed to have whatever it wanted, nud to treat costly things as if they wero common, for fear it should not bo supposed wo aro familiar with them. One thiug has inuoh contributed with this tho ab sence of ail) thing like, class Btjles of expendi ture. Abroad, a man will not allow his wife aud daughters certain modes of dross, un less ho o m have other things in keopiug. A camel's hair shawl and diamonds required ft o irriaso and bervants iu proportion. The ha bits or life which fit a particular iucouio aro wollkuQWti. No one goes booud thorn with out censure. In America there aro is no Mich rule, l'eonlo live iu hotels whero waste is the order of the day, aud whero childreu are edu cated in tuo want oi rare, nua ine iiaun oi un limited ordering. Mimstkrimi. Pure religion nnd uudtfllod is "ministering;" not the othor thiug "beiug ministered unto." It is handtug over the morning piper to anothor'for first perusal. It is Micatiug a ploisaut seat by the fire for one who comes iu chilled. It is giving up the most restful aim-chair or sofa-corner for one who is weary. It is "nioiing up in the pew to let the uew comer sit down by tho entrauce. It ii rising from jour place to darken the blind wheu the siius rays stream in too brightly on mine face iu the circle. It is giwng your owu comfoit and convenience eery time for the comfort and couveuieiice of another. This is at once true courtesy and real Christ auity, II we mean to copy the spirit of the Master we must b ready in e ery relation of life, and at oory hour of the day, to glie up being waited upon, aud to practice this self-sacrlficiu jt, be neficent aud "uiinisteiiug" graciontness of spirit aud conduct. RrrnospKcr. We should sometimes pause to look back on the landscape behind us, to ee its colors softened with the Tell of distance, to recall "the teuder grace of a day that is dead." 4UVIV 4. B(jlPt RUU PMVIIIU VUAt IM IN IVtlV.- pect. Pleasures are remembered without the acompauyiug drawbacks, pain has last much of its suug. and scene aud olrcuuistauce loug lmit are often far more clearly apprehended than at Ilia time when we took part in them at aclora or spectators, Wbitk your name iu kiudum, lovd and mercy, ou the hearts of those you come iu con tact with, aud you will never be forgotten, PkiXKB was not iuveuteJ; it was boru with the first sigh, the first joy, the first sorrow of the human heart. WILLAMETTE FARMER. The Duty of a Woman to be a Lady. Wildness is a thing which girls cannot afford. Delicacy is a thing which cannot be lost and found. No ort can restore to the grape its bloom. Familiarity without love, without con fidence, without regard, is destruction of all that makes woman exhalting and ennobling: "The world is wide; these things are small s They may be nothing, but they are all," Nothing ? It is the first duty of woman to be a lady. Good breeding is good sense. Bad manners in women is immorality. Awkward ness may be erndicable. Baahfulness is con stitutional. Ignorance of etiquette is the re sult of circumstances. All can be condoned, and do not banish man or woman from the amenities of their kind. But self-possessed, unshrinking and aggressive coarseness of de meanor may be reckoned as a state prison of fense, and certainly merits the mild form of re straint called imprisonment for life. It is a shame for women to be lectured on their man ners. It is a bitter shame that they need it. Women are the umpires of society. It is they to whom all mooted points Bhould bo referred. To be a lady is more than to be a prince. A lady is always in her right inalienably worthy of respect. To a lady, prince and peasant alike bow. Do not be restrained. Do not have the impulses that need restraint. Do not wish to dance with the prince unsought! Feel differently. Be such that you oan con fer honor. Carry yourself so lofty that men will look up to you for reward, not at you in re buke. The natural sentiment of man toward woman is deference. He loses a large means of grace when he is obliged to account her a being to be trained into propriety. A man's ideal is not wounded when a woman fails in worldly wisdom, bnt if in grace, in sentiment, in deli cacy, in kindness, she should be found want ing, he receives an inward hurt. Gail Hamil ton. The Scholar's Duty. Every scholar who now noes forth to take his place in the active world, should feel that to do bis part in the work of progress and reform rests upon him as a solemn duty. From pure love of his kind, for the welfare of the race he should labor to promote its success. "A peer age or Westminster Abbey 1" exclaimed one of England's heroes as the battle commenced. But in this cause the scholar of to-day should be animated by a nobler spirit, without thought of honor or self, to labor and to do his part to aid its advance. Nor need he, to perform it, impede his progress, or impair his usefulness, in the particular calling upon which he may enter. we an nave opportunities oi garnering inform ation, of making observations that will be of value in solving the problem; we all may, with out entering into the arena of party politics, exercise our influence upon those who surround us, in the instilling of Bound views, Nor is it necessary that we Bhould enter into controversy to accomplish the object. By the presentation of tho troth more will be done to depose error, than can effected by wordy com bat. He who would cleave a bar of iron must use o weapon of iron; he who would re move prejudice or error should not inflsme it by opposing it, but rather raise the people to a plane where they will cast it aside. The fault of the scholars of the past was that they placed oeioro tneir lenow men too little oi tne results of their labors. A more liberal spirit now pre vails, and the treasures gathered by the schol ars of lo-diy in theirsearcheB alter the truth are spread with a liberal hand before the people. May they iu the future be still more ready to improvo and benefit the race by making known to the publio the methods and results of their searches ! Efflcts of iNTKMrj rance. A short time ago, at a modical temperance meeting in Lon don. Dr. George Lamb, in the course of a speech mentioned the following curious inci dent in hospital practice: "You have not long ' came out all right. In a few minutes more it Are there ar,y thorns to pierce them any pits to be dresser or house surgeon in any hospital would probably have been doath. Mrs. Dolo- J Jnto which she may fall? Now I think of it, I before you become practically acquainted with way had to pull the cat off the child so eager j must tell you of her little speeches. I think some of the results of drinking upon the per-1 was it to remain. It had a paw on either Bide . 8he is so cunning though perhaps I am par sons of the patients who collect there. You of the child's head and had its nose pressed tial; if so, pardon. One night last week, she will ory soon have brought under your care deeply into the child's mouth. The cat was in- crept into my lap, and ere I was aware of it, broken limbs, fractured skulls nnd disfigured ' stantly killed. Middltton (iV, 3".) Jitrcur. feu asleep. I took her up to her little bed; faces. I remember, when it happened to bo but, before putting her in 1 said: "Ntlliemust one of my weeks ou duty as drosser, a woman oania into the casnalilv ward carrying her left Sheriff of Kings county New York was sued in hand and pirt of her forearm in her right hand, the Brookln City Court, before Judge Hey She lisd deliberately cut tho flesh to the bone, uolds for tho value of a tapestry picture, called and, fiudiug sho was unable to get through the the "Last Supper," seized by the sheriff to bone with tbe carving knife she was using, satisfy a debt against the plaintiff's father, finished the business by chopping it off with a j Emma Leiser, plaintiff, sued by guardian, blunt ax. The jigging of the wound by this proved that it brought a prize at the Vienna ui-driinitiut prevouted, in a measure, some of I Exposition, and claimed $2000 for its detention, tho bleeding that would hao otberwiso The defonce was that the picture was the pro occurred. She was at once placed in bod nud pertv of bor father, he being entitled to bis the arm had to be amputated higher up, more child's labor. The jury found for the little girl in occordttiico with surgical nrt. The only ex- and against tho sheriff. A righteous decision, planation she could give of her conduct was, that tho dovil was ou her clock, and had told her to doit. I need scarcely tell you that the devil in this case, as in many, others, had en- torcd iu the form of strong drink.' Do SouKTitiNo. It is sometimes a little diffi cult for a ditfident young man to got a start in lito and a htart is all they want; out they need I authorities of our large cities. The superficial going through a watermelon, when a man halt not bo disheartened, and above all things they I nre(l 0( the streets is eleven million metres, ond ' ed and asked, " This is a great town for hogs, not no iiisuearteued, anu auove an inings mey i nre(l 0( the streets is eleven million metres, ond ea ana asea, -need not collapse iuto the pitiable degradation t0 c'oanse this before the traffic of the day be-1 isn't it, bob?" of saying "I can't." Ono of a youug man's gjnSi operations have to commence about 3 a.m. as he filled his i first duties is to butt against the world; if it The staff omployed musters in brigades at cer- on the man; "y does not loldit the first trial, let him make tain points of each quarter, and is then dis- another; if it does not yield at second trial, let persed over the various streets. Beside them New Readivo. Give a dog a bad name, and him make a third; and if it refuses to yield ot ' mav bo seen the nocturnal philosophers who he'll learn to answer to it as well as to Any tho third, lot him keep on butting till it does pry jnt0 the filth nnd rubbish deposited other. yield, Sorner or later it will open its doors, near tho curb, The two classes are on very aud admit him to a fair shore of us riches audi friendly terms, the scavenger facilitating the Mdsk. Musk is a secretion, and is ob houors. It does not matter a great deal what chiffonier's tearch, and assisting him, if neces- tsined from the musk deer ( yfaschus moschifer a young mau goes at at first, provided he goes satyi t0 obtain a good harvest. In addition to , us), a pretty little animal inhabiting the high at something. If he couot work with his head, i gwecplug by hand, mora than forty machines , er mountain ranges of Chin, Tonquin and let him work with his hands; there are none of Rre at work, something liko those used in the Thibet. The musk is found in a small pocket us who have a rk'bt to imagino ourselves aboe city of London. The driver, who must keep on or pouch under the belly of the deer. The manual lab , i,nd thore are fow of us who iey8 olJ his horse, manages a spring which raises hunters cut off this pouch, which becoming dry would not re seasoned aud improved by such nr Inweni the aweenina cvlinder. These are . nraserves its contents and in this stain (ha hast Uboi. r.mplojmtut will show us what we aro principally used for boulevards, avenues, wide article reaches our markets. Musk, when out fitted fcr, sooner than years of idleness: streets, nnd squares, and aro nt work nearly oil moderately dry, is an unctuous powder of red aud when a young adventurer discovers what May. In bad weather they traverse the most i dish brown colorl It gives out o powerful he can do best, let him go at that with all his I (,0queuted streets aud sweep away the mud or odor, of a warm, aromatic character and most might, aud with the blessings of heaven upon SI10w. Sweeping by band is very activo the wonderful persistency. Blending well with hU honest cffoits, bo will find that there is whole morning in tbe vicinity of the chief mar- nlmost every other scent, it discovers but little scarcely nu thiug he cannot do. KtM'TUK Birthdays. Keep the birthdays relicionsly. They belong exclusively to and treasured among tho sweettst memories of heme. Do not let ou) thing present some IllfcPU, VO 11 KVT SU VUgUI, llltlb It IOH4i:UlWI"4, BlrttuU nre great events to childreu, For onediy they feel that they are heroes. The special pnddiug is made expressly for them; a uew jacket, or trowsers with pockets, or the first pair of boots, are donued; and big brothers aud sisters sink into ioiisnldcance biside "lit tle Charlie," who it "ail to-day," and is soon "going to be a man." Fathers who have halt a doien little ones to care for, are apt to neglect birthdays; they come too often sometimes when they are busy, and sometimes when 'they "are nervous;' but if tbey only knew how much such sou euir are cherished by their pet Susy or Hatty, jears afterwards, when away from the heartbstoue they have none to re, mind them tht they had added one more year to the perhaps weary round of life, or to with them, iu tne old-fashioned phrase, "many happy returns ot their birthday," they would never pruift any causa to sUu between them tad a parent's pmlleg. Make your Own Sunshine. "Oh, dear, it always does rain when I wont to go anywhere I" cried little Jennie Moore. "It's too bad; now I've got to stay in doors all day, and I know I shall have a wretched day. "Perhaps so," said Uncle Jack, "but vou need not have a bad day unless you choose.' "How can I help it ? I wanted to go to the park and hear the band, and take Fido and play on the grass, and have a good time, and pull wild flowers and eat sandwiches under the trees; and now there isn't going to be any sun shine at all; and I'll have just to stand here and see it ralu, and see tho water run off the duck's back all day." "Well let's make a little sunshine," said Uncle Jack. . "Make sunshine 1" said Jennie; "why, how you do talk I" and she smiled through her "You havn't got a sunshine factory, have "Well, I'm going to start one right off, if you'll be my partner," replied Uncle Jack. "Now let me give you these rules for making sunshine: First, don't think of what might have been if the day hod been better; second, see how .many things there are left to enjoy; and, lastly, do all you can to make other people happy." 'went to amuse her little brother Willie, who -MVeil. 1 II irv IIIO l- uiuk IHOl, MW Dw was crying, .uy me iiiue sue uau mm uuiuk a chair and laughing, she was laughing too. ' 'Well," said Uncle Jack , "I see you area good snushine maker, for you've got about all you or Willie can hold just now. But let's try what we can do with the second rule." "But I havn't anything to enjoy 'cause all my dolls are old, and my picture-books all torn, nnd " "Hold," said Uncle Jack; "there's an old newspaper. Now let's get some fun out of it." "Fun out of a newspaper 1 why how you talk 1" , But Uncle Jack showed her how to make a mask by cutting holeB in the paper, and how to cut a whole family of paper-dolls, and how to make pretty things for Willie out of the paper. Then he got out the tea tray, and showed her how to roll a marble round it. And so she found many a pleasant amuse ment, and when bed-time came she kissed Un cle Jack, and said : "Good-night, dear Uncle Jack," "Good-night, little sunshine-maker," said Uncle Jack. And sho dreamed that nignt tnat uncle jock had built a great house, and put a sign over the door, which read: sunshine factoby. at tne came nour ino louowing aay. tvimeror Undo Jack and little Jennie. summer, rain or shine, she never fails to make She made Uncle Jack laugh when she told ' her appearance. She is an elderly, respectable- bim her dream; but she never forgot what j looking woman, of quiet manners, and why she you must remember, "A cheerful heart makes thus devotes herself to her feathered pensioners, its own sunshine." The Little Fulks. t no one seems to know. A Child Stkujoled by a Cat. The ques- Be Content. " O dear! I don't see what tiou so often asked "Does a cat ever suck the you buy such thick Bhoes for," said little Jen breath of a child?" seems to be quite defin-1 nia Ttav. "thev are only fit for clod-honners. itely settled by the following occurrence A strange occurrence took place a few mornings since in the family of Mr. Silas Doloway, en gineer in Babcock, Fuller & Co's new hat fac tory, who occupies J. W. Canfield's house on Mulberry street in this village. Mrs. Doloway is accustomed to have her babe, a little girl four months old, on the bed up stairs while she does her morning's work in the basement, from where she could easily hear the least noise. On the morning in question she heard tho little one crowing as usual, but finally (no ticed that the sounds ceased, and shortly after beard a strange, gurgling noise. Supposing that the child had got its head under tbe bed clothes and was suffoc iting, she ran up stairs I to see about it. and found the house oit with its nose in tho childs rnoulh. The child was Btrangled blacu. ana nguting ieeoiy wuu us hands. She caught the child and shook it , several times, when it caught its bieath and A CniLD's Kioht to Her Handiwork. The tYii. n vnnno mimti tn lieoin to nick lint nff foTugnTan's coat collar, is said to be a sign the ' man is in perll. -- . Soavenoerino in Paris. The Debats gives an account of the scaiengering of Paris, the I efBciencv of which micht serve as hints to the nlnvnd musters in briaades at cer. . kets, where masses of rubbish of all kinds ore found. Between six and ten o'clock scavengers ' ore there hard at work, and heaps of rubbish i are carted away. A correspondent of the Thiim, writing from Alexandria, lactuonsiy remarks: "tancy rant- ton fattened ou ancient Egyptians 1 The other uay at oaauara a buw uicb cauieis pacing aown from the mummy pits to the bank of the river laden with nets, iu which were femora, tibia ana ouier uony pus oi ins numau lorxn, gome 200 weight in each net on each side of tbe cam. el. Anions the pits there were people busilv engaged in searching out, sifting and sorting the bones which almost crust, the ground, On inquiry, I learned that the cargoes with which tbe camels were ladened would be sent down to Alexandria, and thence to bs shipped to Eng lish mauute manufacturers. They make'excel lent manure, I am told, particularly for Swedes and other turnips The trade is brisk, and hoi been going on for years, aud may go on for many more. It is a. strange fate to preserve one's skeleton for thousands of years in order that there may be fins Soathdowns and Che Tiots in a distant Und. Bat Esvnt is always a I place of wonders." Yodpq Polks' GoLdrviH. Don't Let Mother do It. Daughter, don't let mother do it 1 Do not let her slave and toll, While yon sit, a useless ldler,t Fearing your soft hands to soil. Don't you see the many burdens, Dally she is wont to bear, Bring the lines upon her forehead Sprinkle silver in her hair? Daughter, don't let mother do tt I Do not let her bake and broil; Through the lone, bright summer hours Share with her the heavy toll. See, her eye has lost its brightness, Faded from her cheek the glow, And the step that once was buoyant, Now is feeble, weak and slow. Daughter, don't let mother do it 1 She has cared for you so long, Is it right the weak and feeble Bhould be toiling for the strong? Waken from your listless languor, Seek her side to cheer and bless. And your grief will be less bitter When the Bods above her press. Daughter, don't let mother do It 1 You will never, never know What were home without a mother Till that mother lieth low Low beneath the budding daisies, Free from earthly care or pain To the home so sad without her Never to return again. Two Parisian CKLEBBrnts. Luoy Hooper, writing from Paris to the Philadelphia Press, deenbes two of tbe street celebrities of Paris: One, she says, a Savoyard, who heads a band of street musicians. He began life many years ago as a street singer, and, as he had a very peculiar voice, he always drew a crowd around him wherover he appeared. He never missed a fete day at Versailles or St. Cloud, and always goes around himself to take np his collection. He is now quite an elderly man, and he hag amassed a fortune of some $60,000, notwith standing which he still continues his toilsome vocation and hi3 penurious mode of living. He is a fine-looking man, tall, gray-bearded, and with a well knit, stalwart form. The other is a woman, who comes every day to the garden to feed the birds. No sooner does she make her appearance and utter the peculiar call which i Bne uses, man Hpurruwt, hwuiiuwb nuu picuuo flock around ber, and come to percn upon ner shoulders and her arms. sue bestows upon them plentiful supplies of grain and bread crumbs, which thev take from her hands or for which they scramble into ber lap; and when I her stores are exhausted she departs to return why can't I have a pretty pair of French gait ers like Jennie Swift's?" "We buy such things as we can afford, and think suitable for you, " answered her mother, " I am sorry that, instead of being thankful for them, you should fret so. 1 wish yon were more like the man who said, 'I never grumbled but once, and that was because my shoes were worn out, and I had no money to buy new ones. Soon after, I met a man who bad no feet, and I went con tented with my bare ones." "I'm not so bad ly off as either of them," laughed Jennie; "so I'll be glad I have got thiek shoes, to protect my bare feet, and that I have feer to be pro tected." An Infant's PnATEn. Whenlittle-three-vear. i 0d Bjster lays her fair cheek against mine, i 8nd, with dimpled arms clasped round my neck, prattles in her innocent way, don't I think of tho nath her little feet must tread? not forget her prayer." Shecommenced: "Now I lay me down to sleep Dod knows the rest," she murmured. And the white lids closed over the bright eyes and Ntllie was asleep again. What it Costs to he a Loafer. Does the young man who persists in being a loafer ever rt fleet how much less it would cost to be a de cent, respectable man? Anybody can be a gentleman if he chooses to ba, but it is expen sive being a loafer. It costs time days, months, jears ot it. It costs friends. Your consorts will be only the buccaneers of society. i.i i ' ? j:. ..,, .r j it costs nealtn, vigor, comtort an true pleas- he respec?' of the 3d wEeT Hv n and ,"; S," A , rt ,,, "Ln ,7 finally all regret nnd consideration when you are dead. The Detroit Free Press tells about an urohin that was seated on the Post-office steps. wan, no," arawiea tne laa, month again, and kept bis eyes on the man; " you 11 be awful lonesome here! ' of its own peculiarity in compounds in which it is an ingredient. Genuine musk is very costlv. beine worth ' when separated from its sao and all extraneous matter, from 25 to $35 to the ounce. Its great strength compensates in a measure for "its price, une part or musk, tt ts said, will , scent more than three thousand parts of iood- urous powuer. Fjjoobess is China. As an evidenoa of the progress evident in the East we learn that a . Chinese Polytechnio Institntion and Reading llooms have recently been organized at Shanghai, China, with the object of bringing the sciences, arts and manufactures of Western nations in the most prominent manner possible before the notice of China. When tbe wants of the enormous population, as well as tbe im mense, but hitherto almost latent resources of that country are token into consideration, it is easy to see tbe great advantages that an insti tution of this kind, is ciloulated to confer both upon the natives generally and upon European m inufacturer and merchants, Shanghai Ming tbe great center ot foreign commerce with the Chinese, is manifestly the most suitable locality for its establishment.
