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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.
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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.