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If God Shall Bless Me So.
In years long paat I sstd, If Ood shall give
He certain blesningss-cue my path to lead
Through waye of coiuforti grant ma long to llr,
And irangth anfflclant for llfe'a ntmoat need,
Much Joy ahall aurely through these channels flow,
II Ood ahall blaaa me o.
Trlenda and fair hnnon, ahonld Be grant me these,
Home-lore and children, and some skill to giasp
From the rich world Its opportunities
What more conld heart dealre, or foil hands clasp?
Barely my life like some glad time shall go,
If Ood shall bless me so.
Bat now I say. If Ood shall grant me bearsn,
And so end there; If I St leotth ahall come
Into Hli presence who Himself hstb siren,
All Utter gifts muse He in lhat vast turn;
No good thing there ahall be withheld, I know,
If Ood shall bless me so.
The Unseen Island.
There is a very old and beautiful story, that
has formed tbe staple for poems in many
tongues, that we with we oould worthily tell.
It is of one sailing on tbe sea in a sleep with
out a dream. The ship was wrecked and shat
tered, and yet be slept. Tbe wares bore him
like an infant in a cradle, upon the p.ank where
on be lay, and when he awose it was with mu
sic, and upon a oonoh of flowers.
The shore was strange, yet lovely, and
throng' d with thousands who proclaimed him
king. It seemed as though they bad awaited
him, waif though he was, for there was
a throne without an occupant, and royal robes
for his arraying.
All human wills seemed merged in his, and
glory shone around him even as the sun of that
fair unclouded olitne.
At length there came to him a reverend man.
and tuld bim that the time onld come when,
exiled frum his kingdom and poweiless as he
cam, there would be "none so poor to do him
reverence." Hut, continued menage, D-yondtbe
cloud that skirt this 'and lied an unseen island
bare and drrar; no fountains sparkle, and no
flowers perfume; no inueio but the wail of
-winds and waves; no shelter but tbe shadow of a
rock.
Thither they will banish thee, and there thou
snUht make thy inevitable borne. But uow thon
art supremely blrst; slaves do tby bidding, and
gold strews thy pathway like sand. So, seek
that islaud out; oauBO the rook l o be smiilen,
that it may gush wth living water; ootid fra-
?;rant flowers from tby gardons and npioy trees
rom ihy forests; let tfao amaranth bo tr.ns
Jilanted, and tbe palm sbed i leaaut shade till
be wilderness shall ba glad from thorn, and tbe
"deseit b ossom as tbe rose."
Build thero a rojnl m nsinn, and fill it with
a'l things pure and beautiful tht surround
thee no; so tbou shall have a Paiadise at List,
and go rejoicing iuto exile.
Tun king was wise, mid while he oberisbed
the te dm be bad rub d, yet sought tbo island
and "colonized," ns it were, the hdf of bin
heart. Spring was peisuaded to come that way
and she hnn. her robe on the trees he bad
planted, and left her breath on the gele. The
mu-io of tbo biids and fountains, the ind
among the leaves, fl.mted round tho new pala o
ho had huilded; but nothing of this land hud he
over beheld.
Y ar went on, and the old, royal glories
grew dim, aud tbe crown was inrnlehed, andbj
and by, thoie was another wreck; a new king
came sleeping to the shore, and he that had
ruled in n pslsoe, was not suffered g t muob as a
shelter, for ho was an exile, as tbe sage bad proph
OHied. But he went not with a heavy he't,
for Booiolimes when tho wind Ma from the
lUHton shora, it bad borne to bim the fragrance
of tho orange and tbo palm, and so he know
that his gardens era glowing beautiful for hi-.
Coming Aud ho laid oil tbu purple hko one
disiohinz for pleas int dreams, aud put down
tho scoptro as if it had keen a burden, aud went
awny to bis utisocii hope with a "good-bye" on
hisilp.
And, though none have Been tbo Eden he
dolls in, yet sailors driven out to sen, declure
that sometimes sweet odors have been wafted
across the drck, from an unset n land, and by
it they know the gardons of tho Exilo are near.
As when to them who vail
Beyond the Cape of Hope, aud now are panned
Mosaintilquu. ofTat sea uorlheaat winds blow
Babeau odor from the aptoy chore)
Of Araby the bleat; with such delay
Well pleawl thuy a.aok Ihelr course, and many a
It ague
rieami with the grateful scent, old Oceau amlles.
Heavy Rain Falls.
The most remarkable rain falls on the globe
areou tbe Kliasia hills, in India, where it av
erages nix huudred inches, about five hundred
of which falls iu seven months of tho year.
According to the Journal n Chemistry there is
not known any otherplnoe on the gluba whore
the average rhos evlu to three hundred inches.
So far as bos been ascertained, the Ilye in
Eugland, at au tlevatlon of ten hundred and
seventy-seven left, between the lakes of Dor
wentwutar and Watwater, is the wettest spot
in Europe. In I860, it is reoorded tint two
hundred aud ninety-six aud fifty-six hundredths
ofnninoh of rain fell. Among the Highlands iu
Kootland, and in the Encliahlake district, from
five to seven Inches ofien falls in a day. If an
iuoh of rain fills in a day in our country, we
cill it a pretty heavy rain. Tha average an
nual fall of ralu in tbe east of England is not
more lhan twenty to tweuty-e'gut iuohea. Iu
Franco it averages thirty inches. Iu level
Bus-is it falls as low as fifteen iuobes. In the
NoitheVn States of our oounlry, it ranges fioni
tweuty-sevou to forty-five iuohes; iu the Sou fa
em States, from ttfy to sixty, five iucbts.
There are regions where it never rains, as iu
the Desert of Sahara iu Africa, aud the Dtsert
of Gobi iu Asia, aud on the coast of l'tru. It
ralus nearly every day iu Patagonia.
LxcrnniNd Turn and Now, The latelloraoe
Mann, iu rt spouse to au luviUtion to lecture
btfore a lyceuui, once wrote: "l'erhtps jon
-will not wish to hsve your invitation accepted
Mh-n I inioruiyou thst I baverslsed my terms
to fifteen dollar." This was in 1819. A strange
coutratt, iudeed. as now lecturers of the sec
ond otsas druuud one hundred dollars for their
eveuiug perloruiance. They ant mostly dear
at any pile.
Usirvx, Hint. A kind of tracing paper,
which is transparent only temporarily, is made
by Dissolving castor oil iu ab.o:ute alcohol and
applying tbs liquid to the pap. r with a sponge.
The aloobol speedily evaporates, having tbe
paper dry. Alter the tracing is made, the pa
per is immersed iu absolute alcohol which re
moves the oil, restoring the sheet to its original
opa.iiy.
Blob Etk A good judge says Toucan most
always trust u blae-eyed woman without regard
to the length of her ftagar nail.
Aged Beauties.
History is full of the accounts of the fascina
tions of women who were no longer young.
Thus Helen of Troy was over forty when she
perpetrated the mott famous elopement on
record, and, as the eeige of Troy lasted a de
cade, she oould not have been very juvenile
when tbe ill-fortune of Paris restored her to
ber husband, who is reported to have received
her with unquestioning love and gratitude.
Perioles wedded the courtesan Aspasia, when
she was thirty-six, and yet she afterwards, for
thirty years or more, wielded an undiminished
reputation for beauty. Cleopatra was past
thirty when Antony fell under her spell, which
never lessened until her death, nearly ten years
after; and Livia was thirty three when she won
tbe heart of Augustus, over whom she main
tained ber ascenoanoy to the last.
Tnrning to more modern history, where it is
possible to verify dates more accurately, we
have the extraordinary Diane de Poitiers, who
was thirty-six when Henry II. (then Duke of
Orleans, and just half her age) became at
tached to her; and she was held as the fir-t
lady and most beautiful woman at oourt np to
the period of the monarch's death and the ao
cessiou to power of Catharine de Medicis.
Anne of Austria was thirty eight when she
was described as tbe handsomest queen of Eu
rope, and vhen Buckingham and Bichelieu
were her jealous admirers. Ninon de l'Enclos,
tbe most o 'Unrated wit and beauty of her dav,
was tbe idol of three generations of the golden
youth of France, and she was seventy-two when
the Abbe de Berais fell in love with her. True
it is that in the ca-e of this lady a rare combi
nation of culture, taltntB, and personal attrac
tions endowed their possessor seemingly with
tbe gift of eternal youth. Bianca Carol I o was
thirty-eight whn the Orand Duke Franoisco
of Florence fell captive to her obarms, and
made ber his wife, tbo gb he was five years
ber junior. Louis XIV. wedded Mme. de
Maintenon when she was 43 years of age,
Catherine II, of Russia was thirty-three when
she seized the empire of Russia and cantivated
tbe da-hing youug General Orloff. Up to the
time of her death (at sixty-seven) she i-eemtd
to have retained the same bewiichlug powers
for the lamentations were heartfelt among all
those who bad ever known hor personally.
Mite. Mars, the celebrat d French trag- d enne,
nly attained tbe zenith of her beamy and
power bt-Ueen forty and forty-five. At that
ueriod the loveliness of ber bauds and arms
especially was celebrated throughout Europe
The f imous Mme. Recsmfer was thirty-right
wh n Barras was ous'ed from power, aud she
was without dispute declared lo be the most
b-auiiful woman in Eutope, whioh rank she
held for flitotn yearB.
This, That and the Other.
Oentlemen, if you desire to speak to a friend
in the street, stand on the street corner, so yon
can prevent people from crossing, the
m re tbe better, and if they cast ii.dignant
looks towards you, on no account let it disturb
your eomposuro, for this is a free country, as
you doubtleis are aware.
Adjurt tour eye-glasses on your classical nose,
give your hat a slight tilt to one side, pnt your
hinds iu your pockets and froo your mind by
pe iking audibly concerning tho pass.rs-by;
m d if yon see anything in an individual's ap
p -stance th t is peculiar, ridicule them by ill
mauH, as it will create a lngh; never mind
about tliH individual's feeling-, th it is no con
oern of yours, and you are not supposed to have
t heart. Ob I no, that was left out. Spit to
baco" j dot here, there aud everywhere; anM if i
-hoiilcl soil a lady's dress, why sere hr right
for wearing such long dr. sses; why cannot she
wo ir thorn short enough to clear tuo ground
aud i-how her pretty fet 1 1
Lo ies, when you meet a stranger, slowly
and searohinaly eyo her all over from hoad to
foot; and if iho independent creature will not
doom-bed, but roturni your lonk iih one of
surprise and pity, then curl your lip, or smile
iu a superior manner; jou will feei relieved at
bavins acoompli-bed your duly. When ridli g
iu n car, and oue of jour nix outers aid looks
around for a seat, sproid out your dtess, or
iivo Fido the soat beside you and remain in
blissful unconsciousness that any one is stsud
ing; nud if alio -hou d remove Fido, give her a
withering lok, but do not niivo ono inch, bb
ladies nto nottdfor their oouitesy towards oioh
t'ther. But if it is a g-ntloman that enters the
car, tsko Fido iu your n'ins, and looking
shyly in bis faco, iudirato that there is room
for bim at jour sid. "Truly the waysof some
people are past finding out, and the mind of
a woman is a iuj story," oven to one of her
own sex. Elba Anthony in Rural Press.
WuATTnKOuto Gibls Gan Do. An Ohio
girl who bad read something iu a Ciuolnna'i
psper about the physio il degmeraoy of Ameri
can women, oomes valiantly to their def nee, at
least so far as the girjs of her acquaintance are
concerned. Shosiys: "Whatever may bo ttie
oimliti ill, physically oon-idered, of the eirls in
the East, I know thtt in our healthy Sato ol
Ohio there are pltnty of healthy girls. And if
tbo girls in large cities will lace and diet for
tbe take of a bloolless face, weak nerves aud
shaip bones prnjeoiiug at every poiut, let them
have their pins for their trouilo aud don't
msiry them, young men, but come West, where
the girls, both iu town and country, ate (but
vti'h a few exceptions) healthy aud strotg, fl
to become wives and mothers, and lh-,v d not
btuo pale (Uoes, weak nerves, neuralgia, etc,
nut can wasb, irou, cook, sew aud milk thai
oows, and do all the wotk common to the house
bold, besides having a good tdncation in mutic
and books To say nothing of tbe pleasant
horseback rides in summer and the skating ex
cursions iu winter, when we ri turn with bright
e yes and rot-y i h eka, whloh plainly tell thai our
veins are filled with pure, rich blood, wherein
lurks no disease."
Tun Tburst BeUUTY. Tbe truest besutv is
not that whioh sudd-ny dailies and fusiiuat. b,
out mat wnicn sttwis upon ns insrnsihiy, Lot
us each call up to memory the faces that have
been most pleasant to us those that wa havr
loved b si to look upon, that now rise u.ost
Yiuuiy inure ns in solitude, and pttetust
haunt our slumbers and we shall usuallv find
the m not tbe most perfect in form, but tbe
sweetest in expression.
Suoutlt Inexact. Sir Richard Phillips haa
put forth a book entitled "A Million or Facts,"
in the introductory notice of whiott he eats;
"On tbe title of tbe work it may be remarked,
lhat, though it limits the contents to a mUion
of (acta, yet, in truth, the volume, directly or
indirectly, onutains far more." Yet. accordinx
to the oomputitiou of "Notes and Queries," if
every word in this flotitious "Milliou of Facts"
wre a fact, it would contain uo more than
403,650, or a little more than two-fifths of a
million.
FaooiEM in JiraM. As a moof that tha
idolatry of Japan is shaken to its fuudation,
it is said that the beautiful temDtea whioh ire
thickly seal tared over the laud are little oared
for and u rapidly going to deoay.
W1XJLAMKTTE FARMER.
The Cheerful Face.
Next to sunlight of heaven ii the sunlight of
a cheerful face. There is no mistaking it, the
biigbt eye, the unclouded brow, the funny
smlle-all tell of that whloh dwells within
Who has not felt its electrifying influence ? One
glance at this face lifts us at once out of (he
arms cf despair, out of tbe mists and shadows
away from tears and repinings, into the beau
tiful realms of hope. One cheerful face in a
household will keep everything bright and
warm within. Envy, hatred, malice, selfish
ness, despondency and a host of evil passions
may lurk around the door, they may even look
within, but they never enter and abide there
the cheerful face will put them all to ihame
and flight.
It may be a very plain face, but there is
something in it we fei-1 we cannot express, and
its oheeiful fice sends tbe blood dancing
through our veins for very joy. We turn t
ward the sun, and its warm g nisi influence re
freshes and strtnxtbens our fainting spirits.
Ah, there is a world of m gio iu the plsin,
cheerful faoe I It charms ns with a spell of
eternity, and we woul I not exchange it for all
the soulless beauty that ever graced the fairest
form on earth.
It may be a very little one that we nestle
upon onr bosom or sing to sleep In onr arms
with a low, sweet Inllariy; but it is such a
bright, cheery' face 1 Ihe scintillations of j iy
ous spirits are flashing from every feature
And what a power it has over the hou-ehold.
binding each heart together in tenderness, and
love, and sympathy 1 Shadows may darken
around us, but B' mehow this face ever shines
betweeu, and the shining is so bright that the
shadows cannot remain, and eilently they creep
away ioto tbe dark corners, where tbe cheerful
fire is gone.
It may be a wrinkled face, but it is all the
dearer for that, and none leR bright. We
linger near it, and gaze tenderly up -n it and
say, "Got bless tbe happy facet" We must
keep it with ns as bug as we can, for home
will 1 se much of its brightness when the sweet
face i ginn.
And a' tor it has gone how the remembrance
of it purifies and so it- n- onr wayward nature t
When care and sorrow would snap our heart
striugs asunder, this wrinkled faco looks down
upon ns, aud tbe p tinful tension grows light r,
the way le s heavy. As is tbe spirit, mind, dis
position, so are the features.
. Blushing.
The suffusion or reddi ing of the skin, par
ticularly of the face, whit h is termed "blush
ing." i" a pnysical phen -menou mtirely de
pendent upon nient I influen' es The lumber
of persons h suffer actually suffer from a
tendency to b'ush is 1 irge, bene it mav be en
courtging, however, tj these distressed cnes
to ki.o that
It is better for one to .blu-h than to turn
pale.
That a blush is a sign which nature hargs
out to show whiro chas ity ai.d houor would
dwell.
That a blush is nnlnre's al irm at the approach
of sin, und her testimony lo the dignity cf vir
tue. That a full-blown rise, besprinkled with tbe
purest dew. is not s beautiful as a chi d b'ush
ing benea h its parent's riisulesure, aud bhed
ding tears of sorrow for its faults.
And that so 'ong as vioiouor siuful allu-ion-and
acts ciu-e the warm b ood to cnniiOi the
oneek, tbe a.ul is qmckuued by tht bihT
xpiriiual impressions, aud impurity ii cffeusiVr
to it.
The Two Bbeaths. So far as pure air i
concerned, some hints are giveo by Canon
Kmxs ey which may be useful even to tbe
poor, or ti emplojeis who cre for tl'eir men
He dehciihes what be c.ls ' the two breaths,"
aud their tffai ts Tha to are, of course, the
breath taken in which "is, or ought to b-,
pure air composed, on tbe whole, of oiygei
HLd mtrrgen, with a mil nte portion of or
bouio ecid;" aud the breath given ou h'ot'
"is an impure air, to which has been add-d,
among other matters width will not support
life, an eice-s of carbon o acid." He tlien
p liuts out that this carbonio acid g a, when
warm, is lighter than air, aud a.-c-nd-i, ai d,
when at the siiue temperature as common air,
is heavier than t at a r aud de-rends, Iy ug
along the floor "just a it often lies in tho bot
tom of old we'ls or brewers' vats as a stratum
of poison, killing 'Cta-ionnlly the men whode
sceud into it " Hence a word of admonition
is addrrB od to thcBe who think notuiug of
sleeping on the floor.
Woman ScrrniOK in Enoland. As is gener
ally kuosn, worn n iu Engl n l hive a vote on
miinicuia1 aff irs it they pay tnxes; but not in the
election of members of Parliament. Q lite i.n
antmatod co test laiely came off in Prliament,
in which it was attempted to ext nd th rubtof
suffrage to women iu ihe election of munHers
for that body. The measure f died by a vote
of 187 to IG'J; and the fact is uot a little sig in
ostit that Disiaeli the Prime Minister vot d for
tbe women. A aim lar Vote, was h id iu 1873,
which stood for suffrage, 155, against it, 2'22
The gain, and the r-spectnb'e character of
ihe voto is verv significant. The lesder iu t is
movement is Professor Fawcett, of Ctmbidg
Univer-ity, hose wife is also prominent as a
lady worker iu the movement. Th- iudioali ns
aie thst the right of suffrage will soon te ei
tended to tbe women of Great Biitain at 1 ast
t all uumairid women who pay ttxts. Th
psssaRo of such a law in Eugland ain
fail to have a ms.Bt marked effect in this coun
try. Union or ErrosT. No woman is free from
responsibility towatd h-r own Be-x. All are to
be ir oue another's bnrdeus, and to share one
another's sorrows. This is th true sist rbood
of women. However widely apirt iu slati n,
they resot upou each other tor good or evil,
Tue prizes ot virtue may be given to ihe hum
blest as well as to the highest. After t e lsie
Urnble war, Ibe Freuch government d cieed
three medals to women who halsetved the
most faithfully iu the hospitals Tbe first aaa
given to a poor stwlug-gtil, the second to an
nitttss, tbe third to a woman of rank and
lashiou, wh se name bad been often mixed up
with tbe scandals of tbe empire. Who oould
i ut feel tbat the spirit of lhat noble Euglish
womsu, Florence Nightingale, bad btn the
inspiring examp'e of these women, so widely
sepa ated in rank, and yet all united iu the
wtrk of charity ?
Tai American woman has lot g been regard d
by Europeans aa the moat be tuiiful woman iu
the world. This h is and has b. en for Wei ty
five years, without doubt; and as the cirenm
sunoe of her life become eai r, her Isborl-w
severe, snd ber .duration belt r. she will be
come more beau'iful still. Ameri.a never pos-
seaa a mote oeautitui genera in ol women
than aba poeses to-day and there is uo doubt
tbat the etjl- of beauty is changing to nobler
tyt . The cbarwt- ristio Amerio-n wqmau ot
in preatut geuerotion is Niger ibau thi chr
M'e&tia American woman of the previous
SariiiM.-laU Cor, Nat Xork TfaM.
Cold Winters in Europe.
In 401 'he Black sea was entirely frozen
over. In 763 not only the Black sea, but the
straits of Dardanelles were froztn over; in
some places the Bnow banks were fifty feel
high. In 822 the grett rivers of Enrope, tbe
Dannbe, tht Elbe, etc, were so bard frozen as
to bear heavy wagons for a month. In 860 the
Adriatic was, frozen. In 991 everything was
frozen, the crops totally failed, aud famiue and
pestilence closed tbe jear. In 1067 most of
the travelers in Germany were frozen to death
on the roads. In 1131 the Po was frozen from
Cremona to the sea, the wine sacks were
burst, and the trees split by the action of Ihe
frost, with immense noise. In 1236 tbe Dan
nbe was frozen to the bottom, and remained
long in that state. In 1316 tbe crops wholly
failed in Germany; wheat, hioh some years
before sold in England at $1 60 per quarter,
rose to $10, In 13u8 tbe orops failed in So it
land, snd such a famine ensued that the poor
were reduced t j feed on grass, and many per
ished miserably in the fields. The successive
winters of 1132-3-4 were uncommonly severe.
In 1368 the wine d.s'nbnted to the soldiers was
cut with h tohets. In 1683 it was excessively
oold. Most of tbe hollies were killed; coaohes
drove along tbe Thames, tbn ice of which was
eleven inches thiok. In 1709 occurred tbe cold
winter; tbe frost penetrated fully three yards
into tbe ground. In 1716 booths were erected
on the Thames. In 1744 aud 1746 the strong
est ale in England, exposed to the air. was cov
ered in less than fltteea minutel with ice an
eiuhth of an inch thick. In 1809, and again in
1812, the winters were remarkably cpld. In
1814 there was a fair on tbe frozen Thames.
A Sanouinabt ArTAis. Always cork np your
causup bottles tightly . Going out on Urn steam
cars the other day, we observed a man p'ace a
bottle of tomato catsnp, neck downward, in the
rack above his s-at. Presently a friend came in.
and ii a few moments tbe friend, who was clesn
log his nails with a kn fe, introduced the snl-
ject of a intra term I r Urant. Toe discussion
gradually b-came warm, and as the excitement
increased, the man with the knife gesticulated
violently with tbe band i on ainiug the w spin,
as be explained his views on the question.
Meantime tbe cork jolted out of the b ttbj over
bead, and the catsup droip d down over tbe
owner's bead and o ,at aud collar without hiB
peroeivins the taot. Directly a nervous old
isdy on the oppo its seat, who caught sight of
me reu Biam, auu iiiiuK'ueu it, was oioou, orgm
to scrvaui "murder" at the top of ber voice.
As tbe passengers, coiidictors, and hrakemen
rushed up, she brandisbe I ber umbrella vio-1-ntly,
and exclamed, "Arrest that man there!
Arrest instwillin! 1 see bim do it, 1 Bee bim
stab lhat othe- one with his kni e till tbe blood
-ported out. Oh! you wretch! Oh! you wil
lino is rasod, to take human life in tbat arandal-
us manner. I see yon p-.noti bim with ihe
kuite, jou butcher, yi ut and I'll swear it auin
jou in o u t, tn, ou awduoious iaso.1 1"
rhey took ber into the re r car and soothed
her., wb'le the v ctim uiiedthe catsup off his
o mt. But the vei eiable o d womsu will go
down tu the silent grave with tbe conviction
tbat she witnessed in those oirs oue of tbe
most nuful nd sangnin ry enounters that
bve occurr d since tha affair between Cain
ind A oel. Max Ade'er,
Children. A tbe pure brettb of children
revives the life of sued men so is onr ni ral
nature revived by their free and simple thoughts.
their na'ive fe-ling, their mirth. Their gcief
is soon aroused hi d soon aliaye 1. Their in
fluence on nsisatletst rt-cipiocal witliours on
nem Wheu our mf moy is almobt f rgotten,
and out boyhood long departed, though itseem-t
out as yesteiday; wnen life settles down daikly
U ou us, and we doubt whether lo call o ir
S'lvrs yoi.ng any m re; then it i good to steal
away I rom ihe sotittv of bearded men. aud even
of ge tier woman, i.n I spend an hour or iwo
with children After drinkiug from those foun
tains of still fresh exi-t no-, uoshnllrtturnint i
be crowd toslrug.le onwatd nud do onr part in
i'e, perhaps us terveutly as eer. but. for a time.
w tli a kinder uud purer heart, aLdu spirit more
truly wise.
Household Frjavisnitio. The New Yotk
Times r. frs to tho revolution in the ntt of
u u-ehold film shinz, there beinz at present
it le d m nd for extiavajant and florid goods;
soberer stiles and more substantial wares being
tue oraer ot we any.
New Mode of Raising Water.
Mr. R. F. Mushet, of Cheltenham, England,
has recently mvented and p dented a device,
whereby w.iter and other fluids cau be raised
from a greater dep'h than bat hitherto been
Hweicticat'le by the use of hii ordinary suction
pump, to tne tower ena oi tne oarru of an
ordinary buo ion pump is attached a suction of
feed pipe, the unite I lengths of which barrel
and p po must no t geher exceed the bight to
which in prat tne a sue ion pump will raise a
0 luuntf watei. Tbe lower end of the suc
lou pipe pas es into a covered reervuir or
oiiamber, and extends nsarly to tbe bottom of
the same. A stc nd leu. th of suction or fetd
pipe is ins rn-d through tbe bottom of the res
ervuir or clamber, and pauses upwards to with
in a short distance of the top thereof. A simi-
1 r artangrm-nt of piies and reservoirs or
ihambera is continued until the source of water
is ieaeh-d. The reservt i s or chambers are
respectively supplied with water by auy con
venient me iu8, a stratum of air remaiuing at
he top of each reservoir or chamber. The
pump ia set iu action in the ordinary manner,
.u I the water is ratstd from the sou roe of sup
ply snd dischaiged from Ibe outlet of the pump
bin el A ohetk valve or valves is or are
placed in the suction pipes for the purpose of
-.tt-tatnlue the c. luuiu or columns of water,
nd thereby rendering the discharge from tbe
pump more uniform ILau it otbei wise would be.
Iiifobtant Esoinkebiso Wobk. A great
engineering work, tbe only one of the kind in
France, is about lo be executed at Lyons. It
is that of an iron biidge to connect lb. plateau
of Fouvneres wi huat of tbe Croix-Bousae,
wbiob are two bights, like that of Montmartre.
in Par s at a di tmce of 300 metres from each
ther. This uudert.kiug is estimated to cost
aHont 2.800.000 Iraucs, of which a subvention
of 60O,Oi 0 francs only is ask-d from tbe city.
This aerial bridge will consst of three spans,
ihtj Oe-ntral in. of 135 mslres and the two
others nf seventy met es each, resting on'opn
iron columns in a 1 ns i h tbe houses on the
quays. Tha plitfirm of the bridge will be
ixiy-five iuetie above the road and neatly
fifty metres above tbe hoos-s. Etch of the
two central columns will have inside a lift,
by which pedestrians will be rased in two min
utes, at a charge of Un cen imas, to the top,
whence tbey may r-ath the higher parts of the
cty, where tbey may have business. The only
similar works existing In Europe are the
Britaunia Tub lar Budge in Eugland. con
sunottd by Robert Stephens, n, in 1847, and
ooDsiatiog of one span of 669 feet and two
smaller ones; that over ihe Conway, by tbe
same invinexr, of stretch of 400 feet and the
bridge f Dir-ecbau, in Prussia, which has six
svoiiona of 129 memat each.
My Little Brown Hen.
My little brown ben in ber cosy seat
Sat saddled close, where the aan la the West
Peeped cautiou.ljr, as he passed thst war,
With s friendly alsnce of his brightest ray.
And she threw him back such a gladaoma light
From her twinkling eyas as she said, "All
right t"
New mornings came, and the hours wore on,
Jut twenty daja of the weeks were gone
Since little brown on her fresh white eg,
Snapped her keen, black eyes at big Feather legs,
Aa aha meant to sar, "Tbcee chlokens are fine,
Bat you wait awhile till I'll be counttog mine."
We langhed to think that so small a hen,
Should aak for eggs, bat we gave her ten,
As yon Hire a child many toja to please,
When to say him nay would bat make him tease;
Aod we smiled to see what a queenly air
She asaumed, sod the mystified look she could
wear.
Sedate aa the beat of the Brahmas, she,
A quiet hen as you'd wish to see,
Scarce had stirred from her corner nook
These twenty dsys, so we went to look
At the wee brown dame, on the New Tear morn.
For wa thought, perchanoe, she is oat of corn.
She winked her eye with a look so queer,
And whispered cur-r as we. came tuo near;
For sore enough, Biddy Feather-legs,
She had plenty of corn, but was outof eggs,
Not a whole egg there, but the chlckene ten,
Hade a cunning fringe for the wee brown hen.
Need I to point or to moralize
On what is plain to the dullest eyes t
Tbe weittern son, as he sets to-night,
Looks under the corner, snd aaya, "All right I"
For he knows fall well, doea this good old snn,
That the small folks do the best work that's
done.
Our flewe Journal,
Weeds.
I was once walking with a farmer through a
beautiful field, when he chanoed to see a tall
thistle growing on tbe other side of the fence.
Iu an instant he sprang over the fence, and cut
it off close to the g'ound.
'Is that your field ?" I asked.
"Oh, no," said the farmer, "but bad weeds
don't care muoh for fences, and if I should
leave that th s le to blossom in my neighbor's
field, I should soon have plenty iu my own."
I wish all fathers and mothers would think of
that. The evil seeds in yonr n ihbor's field
wi 1 scatter seeds into your own. So it is
worth while to pull tbem up in self-defence.
Try to Influence ihe lit le ud taught child to fol
low the good, tbe true and the beautiful, not
ouly for his own s ike, but lest he sow evil seed
in the heart of yonr own child, in spite of all
your careful tending Every weed pulled np
in yonr neighbor's field is a dangerous enemy
driven away from your own.
Keep at It. After a snow-storm a little fel
low began to shovel a pith through a la-ge
snow-bank before bis graudmother's do' r. He
had nothing but a sm 11 shovel to work with.
"How do ou expect to get through that drift ?"
asked a man pa-sing along. "By keeping at
it," sol I tbe b y cheerlully; "that's how 1"
That is the secret of mastering almost every
difficulty under the auu. If a hard task is be
fore you, stick to it. Do not keep thinking
bow la ge or bard it is; but go at it, and Hi tie
hy little it will grow smaller and smaller, until
it is dune. If you desire to impte-s tbe public
tbat you hive tue best war g and the best
prices, and are worthily entitled to their pa
t ontge, adveitlse yourself. Co not expect to
ajuompdsh everything with one trial, nor two,
nor three, but keep at it snd you will surely
win. Hive some system ab-ut your advertise
men, and let that be your shovel, then dig
tway ut tbe people keep at it and you will as
surely get tbr u-th the dull times and bring
moie custom than you can attend to, as tbat
boy went tatougn the drift with hiB small
shovel.
Read an Hour a Dav. There was a lad who
at lourteeu was apprenticed to a soap-boiler.
Oue of his resolutions was to read an hour a
day, or at least at that rate, and he had an old
siherwatoh, left bim by his unele, which he
timed his readings by. He stayed seven years
with his master, and it is said tbat when be
wastwentj-one he knew as muob as tbe young
squire did. Now let us Bee how much time he
had to read in, in seven years, at the rate of
an hour a day. It would be 2,555 hours, which
at tha rale of eight readings per day would be
equal to three hundred and ten days, equal to
fotty-flve weeks, equal to elevea mouths
nearly a year's reading. That time spent treas
uiing up useful knowledge would pile up a very
Utge store. I am sure it is worth trvinz for.
Try what you can do. Begin now. Jn years
after you will look btck upon the task as the
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A Little Oibl's Idea. Somebody tells the,'
following good story ab mt a little child of ana-w
appointee to the etaff of Gov. Tilden of N'ew
York: It is said thtt when the indivi lual' re
ferred to first presented himself en milifaire lohis
wife and little daughter, tbe latter, af er, gaz
ing at htm in wonder for a few minute'), turned
to her mother aud exel limed, "Why, mo, that's
not a real soldier, it's pa 1"
Wonderful Retention of Heat.
On the 30lh of October last, about two
o'c ock iu tbe afternoon, tbe large new air
shaft of the Beloher mine, then completed to
the 1000-foot level look fire and was destroyed.
Tbe timber of tbe shaft all bnrned ont-and the
rock fell in and blocked it up. After mature
deliberation it was thought that it would be
better and cheaper to sink a new shaft thin to
try lo clear out the old one, bo badly were its
sides caved aud so great was the quantity of
rock tbat had fallen into it. The new Bhaft
as sunk a short distance to the west of the
old one. It his now reached a point near the
1000-foot level, where it will be continued
down on an incline. The incline was Btarted
at the 1000-foot level, and carried up to meet
the vertiosl por ion of the shaft. The course
of this incline carried it through the remains of
the old veiticd shift, but as soon as it was tap
ped tbe men found tbat they could do nothing
in it on account of the ashes, burnt earth and
rocks tbat poured down into their incline. A
tunnel was then run until it had reached a
point a short distance west of the old shaft,
when a vertical upraise was made to the line of
the proposed incline to be run np to meet the
new shaft. The men thn huun tn .i .).
on tbe incline in order to reach tbe point
m ur,ven in trying to come
up. They have succeeded in getting into the
bottom of tbe old shaft, where, much to their
surprise, they find the rock still red hot. In
trjing to but in timbers they were set on fire,
and in order tnwnrlr at all le I. t-.n-j .. 1
to bring a line of hose into the place and pier
- . . -.,t. usuu un, rucsa weageaiu tne
bottom of tbe old shaft. There is no timber on
fire among the rocks. They seem to have been
heated to a degree so Intense at the time of the
i ' tbi,,lley h remained red hot ever
since. Wben we find ao small a mass of rocks
as can be con'ained in tbe bottom of a shaft
remaining hot for over five months, after hav
ins been heated la hit.ea.a .v.i j ,
credu'oua on being assured by aciesti.ts that
"""' " cria, once a molten mats of
rock, still I remains in a molten state after nn-
fire in the Yellow Jacket mbt, places were
fonndin tha In.. u..i. i.JtVwere
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