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SCHOLASTIC SAUSAGES. A New and Shorter Catechism tor the Ileneflt of Teachers and Pupils. Question. Is the sm-.ill boy. always benefited by being filled with facts and ligures? Answer. . He is not. He is, on the contrary, often overloaded with them, as is hisstoniac! with plumcake, and the result of both doses is to make him a dull boy. Q. How much should a small boy loam at school in a day? A. As iniu-h as he can take in easily and pleasantly, and no more. In fact, knowledge can't be forced into him as is the gas into soda-water. Or if to forced it won't stay. Q. Should learning be made pleasant for the t-mall boy? A. It should, ami for the tame reason that his bread, ale? nr.d pie are made pleasant to bis taste. He will not absorb learning if it is made t taste like rhubarb, and that is one reason why so many boys and girls get .sick of studv at school. Q. Whose fault is tlrs? A. It is the fault partly of the teacher, partly of the parent, and, more tha:i all, of the sys tem which forces the same kind of in tellectual pie, cake and pudding down the throats of all boys and girls, whether tl.ey like it or not Q. Vha in "si;me respects, docs our educational system resemble? A. An immense sansage-stulling machine. Ma chine the system; s.uisages the boys and girls; men who run the machine the teachers. Q. What someiimes .happens if the scholastic sausage is crammed too full? A. The skin bursts and the small boy d'es. Or if he dfes not die Irs m'nd is crippled f r life through the overcram ming. Q. Docs a . "well-stored memory argue a . well-org.ini zed mind? A. So. A man may be alle to parrot the whole dictionary, and not -be e.spable of taking charge of a peanut stand. Q. How may such an overloaded ra. mory affect tli3 small boy's mind? A. As au overdose of plum-pudding does the small boy's stomach renders it heavy, and i nahle t act vigorously. Q. What do sue'.i heavy loads of book knowledge frequently make of people? A. Hons, who are always trviug to stuff others as full as them selves of the dead weight of fae'.s they carry. Q. What is the result of overs tudy to many of the child: en in our schools? A. Premature spectacles- Q. Visually into what may this soon develop the race. A. C'oggle eyes. Q. What is iurpiirv to the child's eye from ovcrtudy Cjii'valent to? A. Smashing a man's toes in training him lor a foot-race. Q. lint iuut not small bovs and girls be forced to learn to keep them lrom ignorance and idleness. A. If 3011 force fruit in a hot-house to ripen you do so at the expense of native strtngth an I vigor to the plant or tree. Q. What is the frequent reward in I ract:eal ijfe of a full-grown and filled sausage turned out of the college stuff ing machine? A. Ten dollars a wet-k as amanuens's or "private secretary. Q. Why so poorly paid? A. Too much st u ;iing. lirain overloaded with knowledge. No room left for "gum;t tioa." Q. What is "gu jaption"? A. Know ing how to use knowledge after you've got it. Some fo'ks call it wisdom. ' Gumption" know enough togctth tool it needs, and then b arns how to u-e it Tl. i-au-age-atuirer e.luca'ion:il p ocess swallows a who'e shopful of all sorts of tools, and the sausage frequent ly spends tiie rest of its life in vain effort.-! to digest them. Q. Would 3-0:1 allow the small boy to select his o- n stud'es? A. Would yo;i not allow each tree to bear its own fruit? If the boy wants to blos-som into Latin, let him; if he wants to blcssom into a blacksmith, fertilize him with iron and let him. Q. What do some "finished educa tions" resemble? A. Intellectual pat-hwork. A little of this, a little of that, ami nothing in particular. Re sult: "Crazy quilt." Q. Or in other words? A. A men tal rag-bag. Full of fragments of all siiapes and colors, but not awoll-woven p'eee of cloth that one can make a suit or. Vren'icd Muford, in Lotion Globe. ALL ABOUT VIOLINS. T'.iei Surrr of til's Crrraoni Woods Uel l.i !I.nar.ioIiri'i? the Instrument. For some time considerable attent'on has been devoted by manufacturers of the violin to 'perfecting that instrument. A discussion has for some time been progressing as to the secret of the suc cess of the cremona. Mr. Shradieck, of Cincinnati, says the 'secret of the cremona makers has been discovered, and consists of using for their instru ments the wood of a tree containing balsam. This tree used to be planted in the neighborhood of Cremona, but it is no longer to be found in Italy. A reporter f ;r the Moil and Express visited a manufacturer in this city and asked for his views. He said: "The subject of the manufacture of violins Has always caused difference of opinion. a'id I think always will. The rea-on of th' success of t lie old cremonas is very 1 illeult to account for. One way of doing so is that there are a number of lot arts, ami it is contended by some ti;?.t the old cremona manufacturers know an art of which we know - noth ing." i) von think that the Cremona vio lins are far superior to any now made?" "Xo. 1 do not. I think that with a number of people a cremona is only usvd for the sake of having an old vioi'n. aid not because of more excel lent tone. Artists have crazes as well as other persons. I don't think that there was so much of a secret in the cremona manufacture, but that there is a great deal in the fact that they are very old, and have, consequently mel lowed in tone. Mr. Shradieck. who say s that the secret lias been discovered, and that cremonas were made of wood containing J.alsnm, does not say whether it wa pine, spruce, or Tfir, all "of which 3'iel 1 balsam. "What wood is principally used for violins?'1 "The sounding-board is -adc of spruce and the back of mapfe. The sounding-board is made out of two pieces glued together down the center. It is not bent into shape but cut out. The wood is never cut with a saw, but split, and the finer the grain of the wood the finT the tone. The backs are never polished, but varnished with a sort of lacquer, which is supposed to add to the tone. Some makers say that a fine-toned instrument simply depends on line manufacture and proper propor tions; if that is so, why do they not al ways turn out good instruments? You may make a hundred instruments and not have one good 'one among them. This accounts a great deal for the ex pensive prices violins fetch." X. Y. Mail and Express. GUESTS. How They Should Be Served Stujitd Cus tom Outgrown. Not every one who can skilfully carve a joint, or a fowl, is capable of serving it. None but a natural diplo mat can successfully accomplish t':e feat. The "eternal fitness of things'" should be carefully considered by the host previous to serving li s guests; and the apportioning of special parts of a dish to certain individuals should be distinctly' understood and fully -impressed upon the servant waiting on the table. Many a host, however, fails in this essental requisite for the perfect accomplishment of a dinner, his chief aim apparently being to get rid of the pieces before him, regardless of the sex, age or tastes of his company. A man of this kidney ought never to be allowed to give a dinner, and it rests with the guests to decide- whether they will ever a second time be found seated at such a man's table. 1 have witnessed at private dinner parties the most egregious blunders committed by servauts. Plates con taining delicacies intended for certain sp cifed guests, given by mistake to those who ueither cared for nor appre ciated them; while those for whom they were intended got that which they least relished. A stupid waiter should be carved, drawn and quartered. When the carviug is done at a side table I hold it a good rule to place the dish before the master of the house, so that he, presumably knowing the tastes of his guo-ts, can properly serve it. The eu-toiu of passing the carved meat arouud the table, allowing each person to help him or herself, I do uot ccn -ider wise. Two-thirds, probably, of the guests especially w!htj the company is a little mixtd as regards age an I sex scarcely know th. difference between one piece of meat and another, an., therefore, naturally take that which is closest to their hand. Indeed if they knew the difference, they feel a deli cacy about turning over the various pieces on the dish in search of that which they prefer. Whereas, if the host himself sends it to them,' the' have no scruples in accepting it. Of course the waiter should l.e instructed, when he reeehes the plates, to place them without making an error before the persons for whom they are intended. The fashion wh'ch used to exist of passing, in the name of politeness, th -plate seat to you by the host, to your neighbor, is now, happily ignored. In the old days say tweuty-five years ago I have seen a plate of meat handed to a guest at the right of the ho t, pass entire! around the table until it found a resting place in front of the gue t on his left sile. How preposterous was this! As the plate passed from hand to hand its contents depreciated in value, and was little better than "cold vittals" when it reached its final abid ing place. Another old-fashioned cu-to.n which we have fortunately outgrown, but was once regarded as the height of polite ness, as for none at the table to begin c:.t ng tint 1 ali surrounding it were helped (I like the word helped in place of scr.cd ) Thereby, however, many a plate of soup grew cold e'er partaken of; and goodly slices of mut on or beet were chilled, and thus rendered u:.pal at tble. Of coi;re it woul I be quite im polite to proceed, the moment a plat: of soup was placed before you, to "gut zie" it ilown imme Hatch", ins'ead o! waiting a few seconds until your neigh bor, especially if a lady, as se ved. You mav employ, the moment, if ou b a dull -man, with toying with the cms of bread before you; but if a witty cue. you will critically examine, with one eye closed, the sh. rry wine in the glas you uphold, rcinark'ng upon the deli cate pet fume and the uuity flavor of : true wine a real Amontillado of high grade which it possesses; though 11. your coasciousnes you may privately shrug your shoulders and whisper t yourself that it n-v-r saw the land o lion Quixote nor ripened in the town o Xeres uuder Andalusian euns. 1'hil adtfphla Caterer. APICULTUht. The Kcep'ntr of lie - and the Production of Honey as a Fine Art. There ib alo an a-sthet:c ind hy gienic side U apiculture, though in this practical and materialistic age mere sentiment must be subordinated to utility. But the more advanced scien tific bee-keeping of to-day may, with out assuming much 1'cense or latitude, be called "one of the fine art-." To the cultured and ivsthet c tlevotce of art proper in the recesses of his studio, who has never pract'cally studied the nature and hab ts of the wonderful little hone'-bee, and manipulated it from day to day, th s claim for our be 1ovm1 art may excite a smile. Never theless, the apiar an elevotee who has studied, observed and handled the marvelous denizens of the h ves for twenty years will affirm his art. no less than the flavor of the nectar it produces, to bo indeed fine. Ladies of high culture and refined taste's are engaged (and suc cessfully too) in bee-culture w th all the enthusiasm wh'ch is naturally in spired by a congenial and ennobl'ng pursuit; and this is the best proof of our content on as to itsie.-tfu t e status. Being withal a healthful occupation, bee-culture invlt:ngly offers itself to those in delicate health and not strong enough for hard physical labor. In numerous instances such persons, by engag'irg in this pursu t. have not only procured liberal means of sul si-tenee; but have also recovered lost health and strength. The eap't.-l-required is com paratively small, wh lj tfie return for skilled exert on is large. Hardiy any other legitimate bus ness yields so large in dollars and cents for the amount invested a el the work be stowed. AVr.n i'ringle, in Eoj'tlar Scimce Month' y. When the shaft hd b'"-n con sfructed to a lie'ght of 2.0 feet, rm morning when ti e workmen ascended by the -levator they were surprsed to lind a e-at at the tep. The animal w:is sta1 tied at their approach and jumper: upon the wall of tl e monument. One of the men went toward it, and the cat. seeing no way ef e'eape, jumped ovei the side to the ground. Instead o' being smashed to atoirs, as the work men expected, upon reaching the ground, although evidently a little stunned, it got up and started to run away, when the watchman's dog caught sight of it, and, seizing the cat by the neck, killed it. Washington Star. A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. A woman with pleasant smileclear skin, bright eye, generous expression, elastic step, hearty-hand shake and courteous welcome. Such a woman is not the victim f debility, languor, or dyspepsia. She has overcome these pests by using Brown's Iron Bitters, the world's great tonic. Miss Mattie Benson, South Parsonfleld, Me., says, "AfterusingBrown's Iron Bitters for weakness and lack of appetite and energy, I felt like another person." A OKEAT SUFFERER FROM DEBILITY, JJERV0U8NESS, LOSS OF SLEEP AND APPETITE, RESTORED TO HEALTH BY COMPOUND OXYGEN. The following, written for publication by W. G. P. Briuckloe, of Hulmeville, Pa., editor and publisher of the Odd Fellows' Journal, gives that gentleman's happy experience with Compound Oxygen : "In the Spring of 1S81 my health began to fail, so that I became a great svfferer f rota debility, nervousness, and loss of sleep and appetite. After trying several remedies and continuing to grow weaker, I almost in despair gave up the hope of living. To add to my sufferings, in Octo ber of the same year I was afflicted with a severe cold, which seemed to induce con gestion of the liver and kidneys, threat ened paralysis of the right side. The pre scribed remedies aggravated, rather than allayed, the suffering. "About the first of November I heard of Compound Oxygen and was induced to try it. At this time I teas losing about half a gill of blood a day. I could not sleep soundly, very little appetite, and very flighty memory. "n less than Uco tceeks after taking the Compound Oxygen I teas like a new person. The bleeding had stopped entirely, my ajwetite became healthy, my sleep proved, and my memory became good and steady. I have continued its ue until the present time, September 1st, 1S83, enjoy ing good health, excellent spirits, and im proved powers of endurance, both mentally and physically. "There have also been a numberof won derful results that have come within my observation from the use ot Compound Oxygen." A "Treatise on Compound Oxygen," containing a history of the discovery amd mode of action of this remarkable cura tive agent, and a large record of surprising cures in Consumption. Catarrh. Neuralgia, Bronchitis. Asthma, etc., and a wieie range of chronic etiseases. sent free. Address Dbs. Starket & Palkx, 1109 and 1111 Girard street. Philadelphia. Orders for the Compound Oxygen Home Treatment will be filled by H. E. Mathews, 600 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. China is going to work her coal mines with labor imported from Europe. 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They have saved hundreds of lives and millions of dollars' worth of property. lie ware of worthless imitations ! 43TXone genuine except In blue bottle with Btar. U U ODflCC I2GN H ront t., I'ortiand. il. n. Unu,l6 Second St. S. F. J. M. Halsted's IccnMors From mZO up. Th. xt it r V T lJrooder from $3 jup. Bend for ir- : s cular containing much valuable information. Thoroughbred Poultry & Koam. 1011 Broadway. Oakland, Cal. ROYAL rs&'.Vfli j Iff! WTttrrVm1ritTJ,gl irvi PITHE MODEL. ( 1 it LF-RcautArma, Ugr 1 a "HAVEN'T TIME." A Wearisome Iteration. Which Suggest a rertineut Inquiry. No matter how reasonable and im portant the thing you ask your friend or neighbor to do, ten chances to one she will answer. "Haven't t'.me. Would like to ever so much; nothing would please me belter; but, positively, I haven't time." The veriest dawdler or do nothing, male or femrJe, will chant the f-ame refrain in your ears. Haven't time," until you learn to ex pect it like an echo. So by and by it naturally occurs to a reflective mind to wonder what has become of all the time. People used to have plenty of it for everything they wanted to accom plish, and st 11 be at a loss for some thing to do for pastime. But to-day the man or woman who has time, really has plenty of it and to spare, strikes one as a rel'c of by-gone times one who has outlived his generation, as it were, and now stands alone among strangers; at least such was our im pression on discovering one of these in dividuals not long since. A woman neither young nor old, nor yet hand some nor homely, sat in a pla n but comfortable room, applying herself most industriously to knit ting threads into lace, each' yard of which would require probably a day and a half to finish. After expres sing our wonder, to say nothing of the disgust, we felt st the woman's pa tience in this work, we inquired what it was intended to adorn. O, nothing in particular." she replied. "I don't know what I'll do with it. I'm only making it to kill time." Wonder gave place to amazement. It had been so long since we had heard any one own up to having time enough for any thing, that our look became a stare and the woman appeared anxious on our account. We explained as best we could, to make the situation endur able, but really we haven't yet ceased to wonder at her. That things have changed since the good old time when almost every one had le'sure, is cer tain. We" have invented machines that do the work in doors and out in less than half the time it could be done without them, but indoors at least we have also invented work for the machines to do, that just a little more than till up the half time saved, and so we have grown busy and st'll busier, until we haven't time for a good easy breath more than once a week; and not then if obliged to superintend the get ting of three meals a day Sunday, and an extra big meal at that. This pre cludes the possibility of woman's one chance for a full, deep breath, and she must content herself with breathing half way to her waist without hope of a chanire for the better. To be sure she won't live out half her days, and can't be worth much while she docs live. But she tlrnks she might as well be altogether out of the world as out of the fashion, and since Mrs. Tom, Dick and Harry do thus, and so her fate is lixeJ. It is really unalterable, or might she not help herself if she would? Who made her neighbors her pattern? And who obliges her to fol low blindly every senseless course they may choose to walk in? The fact is wj need to cultivate a spir-t of self-dependence that1 will en able us to adjust our domest'c affairs with reference to the happiness and convenience of ourselves and family Without auy reference whatever to who may tl.i lk what. There isent'rely too much plate-glass, front to American houses. We seem to thirst for notori ety, without much regard as to the kind we receive. There is not another civ.lized nation in existence but seems to regard the home and home life hs something sacred; and while we are convinced that in this very matter of homes we have the sweetest, purest and happiest the world affords, we do feel that we should imitate the example of others in this particular. Tho habit we have of living out of doors and parading our domestic affairs before stranjrers. not onlv detracts from the dignity of home-life, but t;nus 10 iosier an aniuciai manner, of livinsr that chokes all the heart out" of the home. Aga'n, could we but do away with this custom of advert s'ng every ra'.'t'eular of our 1 vmg, we should cease to care for anything be yond that which conduces to the h jm est -rood of the inmates of the home; and what superfluities such a reforma tion would cut oil! And what time and time we should have left for mental improvements, and companionship with husband and eh Idren. For verily, whether we realize it or not, mv dear sister, tlfs is what becomes of the bulk of our time. And we may save many an hour from weary. ng, useless drudg ery to deote to the moral training and happiness of our families, by s mply daring to order our homes after our own notions regardless of our neighbors or any one else outs:de of our own foursquare walls. Burlington Hau-fccte, THE ARABS. Savages M ho My lie Conquercd.'nul Who Xcvi r Surrender. As at Tcb and Taraat, the wounded Arabs nfused to be made prisoners, and preat cant on had to be exercised in ni;)vmr about the field, not only to avoid the covert stabs dealt by the bleed'nu Arabs but the rushes an I cuts of the fanatics who shammed death in order that they might the more sure ly get achanceof bury!nsj their weapons in one of us.. Kxplorin.r along th's wady a party of our men came upon six dead ami four wounde I Arabs Iv nir under a Iuisip dwarf minosa t:ee. The soldiers had an interpreter with them, and the Arabs were called upon to surrender and cnnv out. That thev said thev could not do; would the soldiers there fore com a an 1 take them. The four wounded men s.ll had the'r spears in their hands. "Very rood.'1 sail our sold ers, "put down your spears, and we will see vou are well treated, and do all we can to cure your wounds.'' The answer of the four Arabs cami- fierce and co c se: "Put down our spears, infidel dos! By God r.nd the prophet never!" There was a crack of Martin'-Henrys. You can guess the rest. It was azain, as at Teb and Tamai, almost impossible to take pris oners, and we secured but two of their wounded alive. The third prisoner I assisted to bring in, but he was hardly a capture for the gave man h'mself up. He had a Reming ton and over 100 rounds of ammunition. His story was that he had been one of the .Berber Lsrvptian jrsirriscn, and since the fall of that place had been breed into the Mahdi's army. He was glad to escape from them, he declared, and I must say the fellow looked cheer ful at be'ajr taken. A trooper of the Nineteenth conducted him to General Stewart He was our one unwounded prisoner! Cor. London Telegraph. , WARNER'S THE ""SLE?asJJEST u. O 2 14 o r- o r O COPYRIOHTIO. TONIC (0 x a. u ni X 3 rn z to fOQPYHIOHTtO.' SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. H.H. WAENE2 & CO , Eoclierter, 2f.Y. K FOR BILIOUS HEADACHE, NOTHING LIKE IT. jiSl.OO 130TTL.E. H. H. WAENEE & CO., Bochester, N. Y. Rev. FRANCIS GILLIAT. Arllnp-ton, Vt., reeonimendH Warner's Tiitecanok, The Bent, for sick headache caused by stomach disorders. FOR FEMALE DEBILITY, UNSURPASSED. 5$1.00 A I30TTLE . H. H. WARNER & CO., Rochester, N. Y. Mrs. SPENCER McCLELLAN, Gowen. Mich., warmly recommends Waruer s Tiwe Caxoe, The Rest. The 1eat Blood Purifier and Tonic Alterative in um. 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