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OREGON SCOUT. J0NE3 & CHANCEY, Publishers. IJXIOX. KWiOX. THE SONG THE SlHENS SANG. In son caves 1nrl; nnd rocks whom lildrs Tho restless wind thutlisiunts the M'li, "Where wurmiiriiiK w at rf. nnd moaning tldci Chant their uncciiclnR melody: , In meadow k bright with fiuldem sprint?, , Where dead metii's bonus the llphl ilotlleR , "What were tlio hours they used to Mug Tho sirens ol Ihls isur.tiy Islo? Solt breathed and tender, sweet nnd low, Across the wnters dark and wilfl, Tho wanderer heard thulr numbers How, And all his soul their charni beguiled; Swift throuRh tho brenkers' snowy fonm lie drove his bark with punting breath, ForncttlnK wlfo and child and homo, Whllo htrens sans him to his death. "Vc Itixiw their f onps the v had tint one Odywrns heard tho fateful thliifj; And "madnem si-l'-ed I.nortes' son, Who heard "Tho Flowers that Hloora Id Sprint;;-' And still unchanged In air or word, Tli ci sirens slnjr, with tireless breath, Tho same old Mint? Dysses heard, And with It stilt sIiik men to death. Ilobict .. llurdttlt, in JlrooUin l'.wjtt. PNEUMATIC GUxXS. An English Journal on tho Grout American Invention. It Admits Tluit Aiurrlrn Has Atriiln Itevolcc tlonlied the Selenefi ul War Kllcet l or Ciliuit njimiiilli! Shi lK l'l'" , JiMinellilc" Ironclads. The nroblcm of lii-iiif,r or, rather, pro pulling shells Idled wit It high explosives may bo sulci tci have been jiti-fjic-tnrily wilvecl hy tho American. Tentative e.vjtcrinients in tliatdirection have Imm-ii cm-ried on for the last two years with powder ymih liy ofl'icers of tint United states army, hail.v in JHH. trials were made witli dynamite shells at l'oit Lo hos. Oil.. underlheMiiieivision officii end Kcllon, itsMMcd by Lieutenant Qiiinan, of tint Fourth United States Artillery. Tim piece of ordnance used was a condemned three-inch rilled wrouglit-iron tfun. Mr. Qtiinan in pcr nmi loaded the shells, each shell an elongated three-incli rille iirojectile -bcinjj charged with seven ounces of dynamite!. The lirst projectiii"; charge was a Uiiitcr-pound of ordinary powder k used in the United States artillery, KiiliHeciiicntly increased to half a pound unci one pound. In the lirst and sec ond discharges, the shells did just what wits expected of them: they did not ex plode until they struck the target, rock one hundred yards from the gun. When the third charge was tired, how ever, tho explosion of tins charge, the Imrstiug of the shell and the shattering of tlio gun, appeared to he simultane ous, the piece of ordnance being torn into fragments. This may bo said to Jiuve been just. what, was expected and intended, the object being lo eloinnn ptrato how far a shell loaded w ith a high explosive may bo fired from ertli iiaryguiiHif tho propelling charge is properly regulated. Subsequently, trials wore made o; tho Potomac, near Washington, by the United States Dynamite l'rojectilet'om pany with Snider dynamite projectiles. I'our nix-inch shells, carrying eleven pound bursting charges of nitro-gola-lino, were tired against a ledge of rock one thousand yards distant. The ex periments were regarded as a success Jn every respect, and as a conclusive proof of tho destructive power of six inch shells, tho latter exploding on striking the target, and doing good execution on the rock. Hut so far, all nt tempts to throw larger charges of high explosives out of powder guns have failed. At least four guns have been iurst at Sandy Hook; one recently. Having failed in the attempts to throw vneamphorated explosive gelatine, tlie Tery much less sensitive camphorated rxploslve gelatine was resorted to. This is also less powerful than tho un ostnplinratcd, and requires very strong 4ultlttl detonation by fulminate of mer cury and dynamite or gun-cotton to tit tain its fullest development of Mrungth, In no case have the requisite detonators of fulminate of mercury itcon thrown, as these are very sensi tive to explosion, by the shock which Ihey receive in the powder gun. All the experiments made were Instructive, Jmt they were also destructive of the guns. The problem of propelling shells filled with high explosives, with safely to the gnus and to those discharging them, was not sat sfaetorily settled -until Lieutenant .at: iski, of 'the Fifth United States Art 111 y, brought for ward his pneumatic mii, oh the inven tion and improvcuieii' of which he had heen engaged for soti.e time. This gun is In reality a tube sixty feet Jong, made of half-inch iron lined with one-sixteenth of an inch of brass, and lmiug a bore of e'yltt incite. The barrel is suppoited and stiffened by v light but strong iron 'nunc, t the cen ter of which Is a pivot, about which tlie gun may be revolved, tho breech oiid being provided with wheels, which Ttm uiHin a circular track. The gun Is Novated and depressed by means of a piston, tho cylinder of which receives idr from eight reservoirs each of which is twenty feet long, Ivu-ho inches outside diameter, and made of iron half an Inch thick placed upon the frame beneath tho barrel, tho air being supplied by a compressor. This piston presses upon the gun just for ward of the trunnions to elevate tint laurel. Upon the air being allowed to escape Mowly, the barrel lb lowered by jjrwvlty. To the pistons of two cylin der placed at the pivot are secured h endti of wire ropes, one of which h 'Ttoeured to the rear part of the frame, ike other to the mmoslte bide. The gun may be rapidly turned in eitbci direction by admitting air to either oi the cylinder. An arm at. tho center of one of tlie trunnion, through which tlie eompreecl air paes to tlie gun. operates an auxiliary valve, which in turn moves tin- main valve, opening tlie passage to an air-chamber behind the projectile;. From the instant, of opening tin.' valve, the full press tiro 'of the air in tlie reservoirs is exerted upon tlie projectile until it readies the muz zle, when tin; valves are automatically elocd. The eight reservoirs contain enough air at one thousand pounds pruure to discharge the gun &ix titiie; but as they can bo continu ously reapplied with air hy the com pressor, there need be no delay in tiring. All the movements of the gun are controlled from the, platform at the breech. Tlie cartridge launched forth front the lube consists of two parts a wooden tailpiece lifty-one inches long, which guides tlie projectile in its lliglit; and a head. The forward por tion or head is a bra-s cylinder forty inches long, Inning a conical cap forty inches long, In tlie tube are placed one hundred pounds of explodvc gelatine, through 'the center of width extends a core of dynamite; and in tlie center of the dynamite, again, is an exploder of fulminate of mercury, from which a rod leads to the point o till! cap. As soon as the latter strikes an object, tlie charge explodes. In order that, the charge may be exploded, in ea-e of failure of the above arrange ment, a dry battery, ,laeed in a little recess in the tailpiece of iSie cartridge, is connected with the fulminate ex ploder. The battery begins to work upon being broiighi into contact with water, and the gelatine is then ex ploded. For it is for navi.l warfare, in tlie first place, that the pneumatic gun of Lieutenant Zalinki is intended. And it must, lie admitted that, while the United Slates are -till without the i.it;..li needed ships, forlilications anil heavy guns, which would place tlie country on a level with other naval powers these pneumatic guns will form very ellleient. defensive weapons. Besides mounting them on points along the coast liable to at tack by a hostile licet, they are to .be employed in a more decisive way. It is admitted that 'he range of pneu matic guns is limiti'i! .is compared with powder guns. An enemy's Heel might lie bevonil the rang f pneumatic gnus, and bombard American ports and cities with impunity. Hut it is suggested, and appears perfectly feasible, to mount pneumatic guns on fast sea-going tor- nc o-boals. With such boats, aggres sive action of a very decided and do cislve character would he possible. Hoats have been designed two hundred and ten feel long by twenty-six feet Imam, earrvimr from one to three of these guns, of ealtbet's of from leu and a half to twelve aim a lialf inches. The speeds of torpedo-boats so armed are lo be from tweutv to twontv-hvo miles an hour. The shells are to be thrown at least one mile, and to contain from two hundred to live hundred pounds of e plosive gelatine, Ihe rapidity of liring tlicni being from one lo two shells every two minutes. I lie ellect of such shells upon even Jlie strongest ironclads would bo i irre sistible. If dropped upon the deck of an enemy's ironclad, thev would cer tainly crush it. for their action would not be coiiliued to a simple local per foration, but tlie crushing in would en sue over a considerable breadth. He sides the direct hivikiug action at the ooint of impact, thee would bo a very 'rent transmitted shock, which would seek out and break up the ship at all weak points m the vicinit v. I lie deck even of the inost. heavily armored ves sel have less than six inches of armor, ami thev present by far the greater portion of the tarret lircd at. .More over, tlie most heavily armored shij leaving out 01 uccuiini.iiioiriicci. havi but a small proportion of the entire surface covered with heavy armor, Should the shell strike tho portions of tho armoring too thick for perforation tlie tremendous blow, as stated above, would seek out tho neighboring weak points by the transmitted shock. It might he assumed as Almost certain that the ellect of exploding a large epiautltv of elynamiteor.exploslve gela tine upon the turret or the casemate of a ship would be such as to render the crew Inside incapable for further ac tion, even if tlie armor w ere not pene trated. Supposing, also, that the shell .should fail to hit thn vessel, if it ex ploded near enough, even if its explo sion wire not sitlli lent to ili-rupt the hull, It would certainly ailed the mo tlve power and the steering appaiiitii' and thus practically paralyze the ship Whilst twelve and n half inches is at present the limit o caliber, there i nothing to hinder il " construction of a run of sixteen ami .1 half Inch caliber. and such a gun ce Id throw a charge of one thousand mis of e-ploit gelatine. Tlie ellect -if ueh a fearful missile exploding hoard a .ship hue 'better be left to the agination; but it is well to bear lu i nil that throwing licit charges long Stances has he come perfectly practicable by tlie intro duction of the pnoiuu'itio gun. - ilium turn' Journal. There is something half humorous in the paragraph " ich occasionally impetus In one of eir contemporaries that "owing to tlie dines of 'Mr. we 11111 unable to present his Hints on Health' in this hu." $u J.ukc Vr'cr- - m mi The HYcAty OccMenUil is a . San Francisco nowMtniM'r printed wholly lu the C'htiuse Ihi uigo. - fVnrtMieji A MASTERLY STYLE. The Inileserltmlile Charm Which l.lteratiiro Iteeelves from Kiprcssloii. Gatiticr is one of the writers who prove how largely the form of expres sion gives literature it.schnri.i and ideas their interest. When the Tieni-h say that the style is all important, they como very much nearer the truth than a class of English writers who regard it as nniniiiortant. tiatitier was a critic of much delicacy and justness of fcelinir. but he had no new ideas to 'bring into the realm of art or thought. No man had less claim to be regarded as a philo-opher or a sage. His views of life were often intended to be ninu- inir. and when not so intended they usually furnish ainu-einent for their nitintc and their simplicity. They please ns by the ignorance of life which they display. Gatiticr looked at life with the irlance of a child, who find in it much that is pretty and is wholly unconcerned as to whether there is aught to existence but picking llowers ami chasing biittcrllics. Hut the style made every page that he wrote full of charm. He said of liinielf that his was a style of adjectives. He thought that the complications of modern life de manded a supple and complex mode of expre ion, that should seek words in all directions, colors from all palettes, harmonies from all Ivrcti; his should be like the light of tlie setting sun, that reflects through burning clouds it varied hues. Few men knew or used so many w-ord. He had the content of the dictionaries from A to Z. With an eve that saw all things mil a command of word. that fewcoiild equal, he excelled in a gorgeous rich ness of description. I he things which (lie eye could i"', he saw more clearly, he described more vividly, than any- other w filer of this day. Of tlie things not visible to the eye, the whole world . t ii ... could .-how no one else so ooin ton. His power of perception was the more intense, because lie liael no conception of the things which were beyond his diservation. He never dealt with the tliciughlsof men, their inner life, their mental or moral development, w ith the mysteries of life or tlie problem of the future, l or him such questions had no existence. Hut all things in life, of which the impie-siou could strike the optic nerve, were to him tilings of joy. Span ish muleteers singing over the passes ot tlie Pyrenees, lusian Princes wrapped in sable amid the snows Ihatenveloped f ir rolliur steppes, the minarets ot fst. Sophia, the sun setting over tlie lagoons of the Adriatic, where the cry ot the "rondollcr breaks upon tlie travelei landing in the shadow of St. Mark's neb things he could describe with vivid ness and richness which no one else could cejo.nl. Jle possessed also tlie two '(iialitics which are toiiuil in alino-t all iiteraliMe lhat can hope to .-Mrvive Us author, imagination and humor. Ilis iuiagi nation was a pictorial imagination. one that was excited liv sltDtle re-elll- Idanees of form more than of feeling: but it gate lite lo every line he wrote, from a poem on love to a government -cport. Men like to lie amused, and vil, more than thought', keeps books .live, flautier's writings have not the vit of the great work, which are read forever becaii-e they forever entertain, but lie had tlie humor which delights in tlie delicate eongruities and incongrui ties of words ami things--the humor 'hat always plea-es and never pierces. Atlmitif Montlil. Built by Washington. ,rheiuill that Washington built stands in a ravine about half a mile east of l'crryojMdis, Fayette County. It isstill in operation anil propelled, as he de signed, by a stream (lowing clown a rugged run called after the founder ot the mill. The latter is, as might be expected, a rude structure. Originally it consisted of but one story, and the lines where Washington left oil" and the improvements, such a- they were, begun are plainly discernible. The name of the present proprietor is Sam uel Smith, who takes pride out of the fact 1 1 1:1 1 it has been kept in llie Smith family since it pas-ccl from the po.es sion of the illustrious founder. To the east of this is to he- een two of the block house in which Wa-hingtuii's slaves were liou-ed--the only ones re maining through tho year since t lit ii occupant. Still further eat on the 'elevation -taud the lioue of Mr, Hor sey, one of the original owners of that portion of the grant to Washington upon which Perryopolis was built. I'HLiburyh l.nuhr. I Capabilities of Wells. Various at tempts are in progress te get from arteiau well? not only water, but power and heat as well. Machin ery is already driven by the pressure, in France, and experience shows that the heat may he increased by adding to the depth of Oie well. At (ireuelle a well ISO:! toot deep, and yielding daily ,"i(Hi,tHMi gallons, has a prcsiir of ity pounds to the square1 inch, acel the water is o hot that It is employed lot heating hospitals in the tlcinity. The deepest well ill tlie world is being sunk at Pesth, Hungary, to supply hot water for public baths. It now yields daily 170.1KX) gallon heated to 1.18 degrees, ami the boring is to he continued until the temperature is raised to 170 de grees. Jrku (.( 'J'nnxUr. Not a Fair Show. Magistrate ( prisoner) -You are charged with being drunk ami disor derly and assaulting a Dutchman. What have y mi to say for yourself? Prisoner The policeman arrested me too soon, your Honor. If he hud given nte tlniu for two more drinks 1 would have thrown my arms around that Dtitchiiwu.'s neck an' 1 ailed hire 'brother.'' .V y. Suu. RENOVATING CLOTHES. Hon to Clrnn Mterk unci I'iiiibcb SHU. Srtt!ll, l.-C,loiH'rrn, Utc. Hhiek silk may bo sponged with a de! coction of soap bark ami water, if very dirty, and hung out to dry, or, if only creased and needing to be freshened, weak borax water er alcohol, and, where possible, it is better pressed by laving pieces smoothly and passing them" through the clothes-wringer, screwed very tight. If you must iron, do it after the silk is dry, betweeii two damp pieces of muslin; the upper one may better be. Swiss, that you may see what ott are doing through it. This is a littfe more trouble tlian ironing tlie wrong side of silk, but you will be re-: paid; the hot iron gives the silk a paper-like- feeling; above all, never iron silk wet, or even very damp. Satin may bo cleaned by sponging Iciirtliwiitv never across the width, with benzine, if greay. or alcohol or borax water; this will not bo injured by direct contact with iron; press on the wrong side. HI ack cloth may bet sponged with ammonia and water, an ounce of rock ammonia to a wine bottle of water; or liquid household am monia, diluted very much, may be ued. Hlaok cashmeres may be washed, in borax water, and as indeed may navy blue. It should ho rubbed only between the hands, not. on a board, and tho water only pressed, not twisted, out. Each width folded in four as smoothly as possible, and run through the wringer, then opened and hung iij) to dry, is the nest way. caso- meres so treated, if it is oualilv. will look like new. of good Pongee silk is 'supposed by many never to look so well after wahing; but if properly treated, it may he made up again with new added, and tho difference can ntit be seen. Hut as usually wash eel, it is several shade darker, and sometimes has a stiffness to it. although it. may not have, been starched; this change of color and stiffness is due to its being ironed wet. Again, a pongee dress will come from the laundress covered with dark spots; this i.: where it has been allowed to dry and then been 'sprinkled down;" I he sprinkling show. Thcri'tncdy i simply to put it again in water, dry it, and iron it when quite dry. Pongee requires no morn care 111 washing than a white garment; it. will bear hard rubhinir if necessary, hut it must not bo boiled or scalded. Treat it about as you would tlannel ; let it get quite dry, and if you use a eiiiite hot iron, not hot enough to singe, of course, all the creases will come out and the silk will look like new. The reason it darkens it to iron it weit i this: If it were put into boiling water the silk would darken as llannel would. If you put a hot iron on the damp silk you convert what water remains in it into boiling water ; it i thus scalded. A silk which has changed color in the wash may be partly restored by wash ing again. Parenthetically. I may re mark that Ibis ironing them wet is tlie reason gentlemen's white silk handker chief become yellow with washing. Catherine Owen, in (ionl HoiitckccpiiM. AFTER DECAPITATION. Action r tin. timed of nn Anlmul After Its Separation rromtho l.nil.v. At a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences. M. Hayeni, of the medical school, read a paper on the phenomena noticed in the head of an animal after decapitation, with or without transfu sion of fresh blood. As soon as the head is separated from the body the eyes move convulsively and a look of wonder and anxiety is noticeable em the face. The jaws separate with force, and tlie tongue seems to bo in a tetanic state. There appears to be some con sciousness of what is going on, but this does not last more th.in three or four seconds. The eyes then shrink into the head, and .some spasmodic effort s at breathing are made; the nostrils ex pand, the mouth opens, tho tongue is retracted toward the fauces. This re-siiiratot-v cfl'ort i repeated three or four times, but the sense seam to be ' inactive, and the will is lost. Theso 1 phenomena last one, or at most two j minutes, and the head then be ! conies utterly inert. It prepara- lion have previously been made , so that the head after separation continues t receive a fresh upply , of bloo.l, the voluntary manifesta t tion persist as long as the blood sup , ply is siillleieiil that is, for half an ! hour or mote. When a blood supply is furnished after the head has become entirely motionless, the phenomena are a follows: Some contractions, very 1 weak and feeble, take place, especially in the muscles of the lips; then sonio respiratory efforts; redox actions of tlie eye, first weak, then well marked, but the eyelids remain drooping; tlie senses are quite aleep, and 110 will is manifested. (.' course the longer the period between deeapttation and tho restoration of blood supply, the longer the time be fore these phenomena are apparent. In conclusion, it may b assumed that de capitation docs not produce instant aneous death. 0 luscious life and feeding continue for a few seconds. Whether or n it pain is-felt during this 1 brief period can not bo ascertained, J most likely not, owing to tho rapid j death of nervous elements, with which ! alone sensation is coucerned. Paris tor, Science The quantity of sugar beets worked In (e'ltnany and Franco lu I8S0-O was 10.nl 1,000 tons. Thirteen yours ago the amount was 10.1119,000 tons. Hut during that time thetiormau consumi thin of sugar beeUs more than doubled Uttelef tho. inlluenee of the export re bate, while the Fr.Mteh consumption was reduced more than one-half. X. ( i' Examiner. ENGLISH COMPOSITION. The- A.lvlvchillty or romli'n.liip Sontrnrrn into ClmisCs, unci CIiiimch Into Word.. At its best, language is inadequate to express thought. Thought is of tho spiriL ami language ; of tlie body; thought is inlinjte. language. Jiuite. A far-reaching truth is rendered in tlie beautiful lines of tli" Laureate: Ilreak, break, break On thy cold pmy stonr. O srn! A net I would that : teniKne could "iter Tho tlior.Rlits Unit ilrtse hi inc. O.t account of this incapacity of lan guage our thoughts must bo elelinitc, before we can express them in words. Language can only be a Delphic oracle for vagueness. In an ideal sentence, there is an exact balance between tho thought and the expression, so that thcre'are just enough words to express the thought. Writers who-o vocabu lary i ample and whose ideas are comprehensive, strive' to keep this bal ance of thought and language. Those whoso ideas are vague are apt to be lavih of words. The English nis'ie relatively makes a greater draft upon hi;, little stock of words to express his dim notion than did either Shakes peare or Milton to utter their grand ideas. The word s of the wie are few and well chosen; every utterance shows thai they would rather meditate than speak. Hence their sayings are often oracular, and if they err it is on the sale of speaking loo little rather than too much. 'flu sentence of Goethe. 'Thought widens, but lant-s; activity narrows, but quickens," will bear pages of ex pansion. When the cask i full, the linid mils in jets from tlie spigot: when it i nearly empty. I lie liqti'd comes freely. Ye: to use too few words is a greater error than to iis; loo many. Superlluotis word mav bA removed, but inising words can not always he .supplied. KtU its few :ti" wise enough to ! too concise, and as thousands err in being ton diiVitse. we must notice the error of verbosity, or that of using too many words. In the discourse of a colored Drencher occurred the following sen tence: "After much consideration and serious relleetioii I have) arrived at the deliberate conclusion, that in thos cities where the population is large there is a greiK u- number of men j women and children, man 111 11101 cities where the population i less. Here a fact so apparent that it needs no statement is amplified so that on the minds of the hearer its nothing ness would not be impreeil. Tlii needle, aumlificatio'.i i too often tin fault of the clerirt: and many a bubble of conceited utterance might be blown into a drop by a breath of common senses. A erviceablc rule for such write would be: Scan every eui-nco; then condense your sentences into clauses your clauses into phrases; your phrases into words; and if you do not really need the word blot, tbeni out. A ver bose writer, above all others, needs the unsparing hand of kindly criticism. Circumlocution or indirectness is not always a fault. Sonietinvs it is better to suggest an idea than it is to expres it. Chaucer did not wish to tell id readers that the sea captain drowned his captive, so lie saiel he sent them home by water. In act lirst. scene fourth of "Iving Lear," G uieril lakes folH tcen lines to utter what tlie Fool couches in two Hues. When the grave digger said to the inier, who h sital"d about paying for the burial of his de ceased wife, Down with y o.u-dust, or ! I 11 . ..t. l tiji she comes! 11 auonteo a iuiii-kcu instant1.) 01 too oesii aonn 01 ru i-iini-loeutioii. In cases where il i not needed, it is a grave fiult of style. In Dickens' sketch, "The Steam Excursion," he thus describe. one of the characters: "Mr. Hardy wa observed, some hour afterward, in an attitmh which in duced his friends to suppose that he was busily engaged in contemplating tlie beauties of the deep; they only re gretted that his taste, for the pict uresque; should lead him to remain so long in a position, very injurious at all times, but especially so to an indi vidual laboring under a tendency of blood to the head." The fact, was, Mr. ll.tr ly wils sca-siek; but when the author lakes sixty .oven words to tell what can be told in three, it. i a ques tion whether lie is not carrying the joke too far.--Vo: T. IP. liancroj't, in Cltuut'iw(iian. Don't Wake in a Horry. Never spring out of lied the moment you awake if it is possible to avoid it, and never disturb a sleeping child by lifting it suddenly tint of bed before it is fully roused. Fifteen minutes spent in gradually waking up, after the eyes are partly op mi, turning over and strele!iing the limb, set tiie blood in motion by degrees and equalize tlie circulation which during sleep becomes somewhat stagnant, and bouncing up a child when aslcop scuels the blood in an overwhelming quantity to tlie bean. Of course, sotnot professions, such as ilu soldiers', tho doctors' or t lio nurses', require rising at once; but un less it is necessary, take your beauty sleep," as the French eaill the gradual waking up of a morning. Detroit Tri bune. A Drawing Feature. "It lias got to hw quite the tiling for shows to have lightning crayon artist among their attraction," remarked one variety managor to another. "Yes. and I am inclined to think that mod thing." lu what particular respect?" Why, these artists are pretty sure to draw well." Merchant Traveler. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. - The colleges of this country con tain eighteen thousand female students. - The trustees of Harvard will estab lish an astronomical station in the Southern Hemisphere. -Tlie play-roont of the children.' play-house shortly to bo built in San Francisco, and for wImcIi Senator Sharon left $.10,000. will be thirtecra 1.. .1 r. ... multireel icei niirc. Dr. Matthew H. Kiddie, of Hart ford Congregational Seminary, lias ac cepted the chair of New Testament Literature and hxogoi made vacant at Allegheny by Prof. Warlield's call to Princeton. - Methodists in England propose raising the suin of $ P.M. 000 as a royal jubilee o fieri ng. the same tube devoted to the education and sheltering ot des titute children in connection with Dr. Stevenson's homes. Thirteen member of a Haptist Juvenile Missionary Society in Halifax. Knglaiiil, whose, subscription is liin'ted to a halfpenny, must have been iiuiu triotts lat year, as they col ee ed X-'-M. lid., equal H ),(!)-' halfpennies. Unitvil I'ris'ntt riun. The -capital of tlie New York branch of the MethodiM Hook Concern now amounts to $1,Vj0.00(. and its sales last year were over $1,000,000. Tin- Western branch ha a capital of $.100,000. and its sales last year were 870,001. X. J. ICramincr. Senator Stanford has decided upon his plans for his California tiniver-ity. Trie buildings will be grouped in a quadrangle, will be constructed of Cal ifornia sandstone, and w ill be Moorish in design. Work upon 'Veil of the buildings will be begun this summer. All the training school for 111110 in Philadelphia are free. This i one profession for women that i not over crowded, and where woinMi can earn good wages. Tho chief qualifications are good health, good temper, general intelligence and a fair common ohool education. Princess Sarah Winnenn;ce:a is still successfully running her school at Lovelock, Xev. Tho Piute children arc saiel to be apt scholar. The school house is on the ranch of Chief Naelies. and the little boys arc to be taught how to cultivate tlie soil. The moving spirit in these educational projects is the princes. She has long been stead ily striving for the advancement of her people. The stories of clergymen who go through the service for one auditor call to mind a ease in Eastern Connecticut. Tlie one auditor in this cae was -.1 young lady, a member of t ie clergy man's family. He not only went through the entire service for her sole benefit, but read to her a notice of a change in the time for meeting of the young women's guild which she had herself handed lo him. ISoMon Ulo'jt. WIT AND WISDOM. Persistent industry is the best a-'- for teutptatior. Louisville .- na . The cockroach i always wrnvg when it attempts to argue witli a chicken. - Unrlfonl Sun ui .lourn ii --Many a man who thinks ho is going to set the world afnv. linds, to his .or low, that somebody has turned the Iioh. on him.- - .V. J'. I.alyir. Degree in excellence are oftet:--r marked by degrees in effort than by de gree in talent, and the recognition of this truth is' the basi'of much 'that is best. -I'ni'itl I'trsbiti riar.. -The fad that a man has not had his hair cut for ten or twelve year need not neei s-arily imply that he is eccentric. Ho may be bald. York (I'i'nn.) '.-' ulr.h. "Don't see so much oj you lately as wo ued to, Dick." "No, no: fact is. I reckon y 011 don't see quite so much of me: you see I've been a little short 1 1 1 i s 1; v ) 11 1 1 1 . " Jlnol;liii En jlc. Fond Mother- -Well, Hessio, n-.w that you have seen your cousin Walte r, what do you think of hint? Did h leave a pleasant iinpreinii? Hossio Oh, yes, mamma! he ki-ed me Lowell Citizen. 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