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, A MAHRIAG7. VT LA'-MODC. Ilnrnyou IimiM r'A'. tlmjr nro siu.n(r (VerPio wnlnuts iin.l thn wino, Eccn-lo cairorly liott nvtiiir About i our iiRuir.4 nnu m'nc? Foe n nl fr oii-Ia receive nitent'on. lro ! fnch rh'ittinir lirnu ami bo'Ae. I jrnl irov casimtlv 1110 n t on Thnt Mnr c lias "marr.od ivoll." "Irr 1 well!" Ah. Hint's expresslva, Am! 'torn it we umloritnnd Thnt ilio lr ileirro.nn lins ovcoss.vo rtorc or ducat nt coinmnpil. i Is ho (rood Ho h Ins vice Hnn ho lirn iis.' Wo scnrro.cnn toll. Hnu(l.nino? Iliiicllvl Itsiifllce.s, If ilur o has man cd well. Does sho lovo h m? I.nvo's a p.isslon, ChUdlsh In tli s Inttordny. 8ho w II dross In the ho tfht of fnshlon, And licr li Us ho II promptly piiy. I Dors ho lovo her wihMy. nindly! i Slnco ho tiotifrlit the trottor, Noll," Ho lins wotcoinod imuht ns trlndly; Vcs. Mario has timrriod wolt. I she happv? That's a trlllo : Happiness Is bought nnd sold; And Hho rend ly can stltlo I.ovo she used to know of old Well slio know a neurt 's hrokon; As for her s sho cm not toll; Hut her bridal vows urn spolcon, And Mario has marrJod well. In th's trnmo one should k vo hcodlnu To tho stakps, notcrontlo arts; And. whon it ntnonds nro load tnr. Whore's ilio iHonf pluvlnjf hoJrts? I cotiKratulato her vr Iml I y ; Hut tin w sh I oiin't dlspol Thnt most r"rls may marry badly, If Mnr.o has mnrr cd well. Henry II Smith, in Ilam'Acr. TOILERS OF THE SEA. Divers' Work Upon tho Cargo ol tho Stoam3hlp Orogon. Ilovr Men Toll nt Twenty I'ntlioini Hoptli and Arc HoiiioIIiikm l'nrnlyml Tlio Condltliin or tlm HiwllySli.it ! toreil Vol Its Cnroj' 1 Condition. On tho 1.r)tli of March, 1.835, somo (li ng poked ii hole 1 ti tho bittern of tlio steamship Orogo i. "iiml slio sank to tho bottom of tlio nan," about oightoon miles uway front Fire Island Inlot, in wator 12 J f.iot deep, on n liar.l surface of coarse mntl and gravel. Tho oc currence is fo recent I hat most persons will roni'unbor what an excitement was occasioned by it. No lives were lost, but the survivor. mado Un firmament echo with remarks about their trunks, merchants hero and abroa I joined in lamentations over tho cargo; the vast army of foreign noblomen on this side of tlio water, expecting remittances, with s'ngular unanimity bowallod the loss of largo sums, and got ronowod credit for weeks on tho strength of their m'sfortuno; and tlio person who had notnt least hvd tin important lot tor in the mails that wont down with the Oregon was quite out of fashion. Thou speculation ran riot as t) tho cause of tho disaster. Witnesses of tho highest credibility wore certain that no vessel was any wiioro in sight of tho Oregon when sho reco'ved tho shock that sont hor to t m bottom. Othor witness of equal'v unquestionable ve racity saw vessels enough to have made a fine naval parade. Tlioro were those who won oerlii'n that sho was sunk by an ONl'osion in ur hold, and othors who doomed it boyon I (,ii-sfon that a Hiitmiitrino vessel, possibly an Irish torpedo-boat, had given her tho fati thrust. Tho excitement incroasod uu til. after niiK-li delay, the wrookors established the facts that sho had boon sunk by a collision with some unknown vessel, and that it would bo practicable u save a great ileal of her earyo Then, sud lenly. tho popular interest in her died away, a id though tho divers wore at work on her all .summer, little more was heard of thoir progress, and seemingly ntue was enrod about t even by Ihoremi t ineo-oxpoeting noble men, who n m inoanwhilo made other arrangements. Mr. I. .1. M. Morritt, .Jr.. son of t nptain Alurritt. of tho Coast Wrecking Company, by whom tho salvago was oUbeted, narrating the story of tho divots' work on tho Oregon tho other day, hum: "ho neop ino nros natiKotl in our wrecking steamers tno year aronn I, ready to start any time, at a moment1 notice, for any point on tho coast whore our services may bo required. Ho when 'news of tho wreck of the Oregon was received, and we were called upon, as wo were immediately, wo were oil" to her on the same dav to cmunlnn limv she lay, take soundings, and pick up wtiai uoniuig cargo ami mall we could. un March tho 17th wo started out t go to work, but the weather was such that we co'iltl not do any thing until the -'Dili, whon wo began. "The Oregon lay in twenty fathoms of water. There is a popular idea that tho agitation of the sea by storms is quit a shallow outlet. But it doesn't take much of a storm to make itself folt sixty feet down, where the Oregon lay. as our divers woro fully satisfied, and though it was possible to soo dimly outside the hull, tho darkness in tho hold was perfect, so that tho dllllotil ties under which (lie divers worked wer. great. Noyerthelois.it did not take them long to find out that, the Oregon was n very badly shaltorod ves sel. When sho dived to tho bottom she careened over to the side on which she had received her Injury, and drove her nose down ho deep in tho sand that it was held thorn, while tho power of the waves broke hor in two close to iNo. 'J hatch, which was tho largest and .most important in the vessel, and .slammed her down with inch force that her bottom came up and hor decks mottled down so that hor cargo was smashed botwomi. Where sho was broken in two she had been literally twisted oil", and though the recovery of goods from tlio great hatch nt that .point should have been the most im portant, itwas.ln fact, where least was saved, the magnitude of the opening having porniittel Mist quantities of cargo to lloat out, rise to tho surface ami drift away. Tlio first of tho float lug cargo that was picked up was from that opening, ami hail drifted miles away. "Tlio salvage of tho cargo of tho Or ogon was one of the greatest plocoi of work of the kind ever performed, not ho muidi on account of tlio depth of the water m because of the locality and the h' unity continuance of the work, often under exceedingly in T-irse olrcuni fctaiieos. Lots of diver go down twenty j l.ulujins lor a row minutes at a nraa on .some qtt'ok job, but staying down at that depth and working is quite u dif orent matter. Sotno of our divers stayed down forty live and even sixty minutes, oat in i tmtal tims was irom tlrrty to foriv minutes. A3 a rulo. wc did riot allow them tostaydown as long as nicy wislicil to alter tncy nan Dccom.s acciistiinied to tho work, "for tlioro was always tho danger that if a man was too long subjootdd to sixty or sixty-two pounds to tlio square inoli. that had to ue maintained nt that depth, it might nrcak lilin all up forsovnral days. 'How urcaK linn upr W oil. it scomeil to paralyze them. Sometimes a maa would como up witli no control at all of an arm or a leg. It would hang n if dead. In a few days it would conn all riht. but tho sensation, while it lasted, must havo boon rather dis (piloting. Then, when there was not actual paralysis of one or imn limbs tlioro wero apt to no sharp palm anil aches. Somo of the men who started in diving there could not stand the work, and ha 1 to give it up; but those wlio slucK to it snotnoil to crow accm- tomed to it and did not complain at all after a littlo while. Hut tlier were an exceptionally good lot of men. an I wo took tho host posi blc caro ot tliom. hen a man would como up ami hi.i liomlct nnd armor woro taken oft", ho would be thoroughly rubbed all over, walked up and down tlio deck lor a little hit, get a good drink of brandv, and then he lav down to sloop for an hour, whon he would 1)0 qulto fro-ih and roady to go down again. l.wo would go down while one was resting. "Wo had altogether fourteen divers wltcn wo started, b.it half a- dozen of Ihcm could not stand tho work, and our average force of divers was o'ght. Tlioy worked in tw soparate and en tirely distinct oxpodiiions, oacii ot which had a schooner to operate frou, and there was also a steamer, to takt caro of and tend them. Whon t.V weather was so violent (hat it was itr. possiblo to work on tho wro ik. tin Rtoanier would take tho schooners into Kiro Island Inlot to wait for ;noro pro pitious skies. lint tlio distance was so groat, involving so much loss of time in going to ami fro, that we only lefl our ground when the necessity was most imperative Often we took in cargo when tho schooners woro pitch mg and rolling with such violcnco lr. tlio angry waves that thoy wore taking wator over their rails on altornato sides at every roll. Perhaps wo oven took some desperate chances, but wo had to do so or suiter Intnrminablo delays. As it was, we havo had to lose as much as throe weeks at a stretch wnitiau; fc change in tlio woathor. "Another dangor wo had to en counter, that was not a littlo ono, was that of being run down by steamers in tlio fogs that wero quito froqiient. Wo woro right In their trade, nnd nail several very narrow escapos. " 'Sharks?' O. yes, wo saw sharkt, there, but thoy did not make any trouble. Of course it makos a man fe d a littlo tiucomfortablo away down in tlio sea, to have a groat shadow gild ng over htm and icnow that it is iniiilo by a huge, ravenous lisli, tiial could hito him in two if it dared and considered it worth while. Hut the sharus are more alrald of the d.vers than the divers are of the sharks. A real diver isn't afraid of a shark. On! tho divers that dive about gin mill.' havo tho torriblo shark oxporioneov Aside from sharks, the water about the Oregon wreck fairly swarmed with fish. There wero myriads of tliomjgood big ones and excellent eating, too, a? w found, but I don't remember their names. ".ccldontsr No. nun expert onccd skill, conscientious care, an 'ntolllgouee in coadiietingdiving opoi a lions thoy need not bo attended with any more danger of accidmt or not much more at least -than any heavy work on land. Our powerful an pumps, driven by s'.oain, f rcad tho air into tanks, whonco it was admitted to the divors1 hose by a nicolv rogu'atej system of gauges and cooks that cou l rolled tho prossuro to a nicoty, am that was alljunder tho oaro of oxpori jueed and very caretul man, in w.iom the d.vers below had tho utmost conli denco. It is a great help to a diver t ) havo ills mind clear of all anxAity about what is going on up at tlio pumps, lie knows then Unit all he has to look out for is to take oaro that his hose and life line do not get entangled and that lie does not himself get jauimod among the cargo. cry often wo had to have one man on deck to attend to the hose and life lino of anothor At work in the hold five fathoms below. to see that the strong current did not sweep tliom away to whore thoy would Do entangled ami porhap.s tujurcui. i hero woro hand air pumps as wolt as the steam ones, connected up and roady for action at any moment li any thing should happen, and tin pressure wa always roa;ulatjd according to tho dopth at which tho divers woro, accurate knowledge of their movements being transmitted by signals on tho life line. No signals oxcopt for air are over sent by tho hoso. Wo saved au unmonso amount of stiill'. Of course, we brought up much that was ontiroiy valueless after tho soaking it had received a lot of nrtill- fill (lowers, for instance, tho condition of which you may imagine. The divers could not toll whon thoy got hold of a no what was in tl. and consequently selection of cargo was quite impossible. borne of tlio changes that had Inon worked by tho water wore surprising. Houm containing dry goods that had been iron hooped at tho ends wore so ouigod out ny the swoiiingof tho satur utod stuns inside thnt thoy wore round 113 hogsheads. Ono part of tho cargo that wo could, dispose of down below was tho rloe, a vnst number of bags ot which wore aboard. Thoy wore slm- )ly thrown out and sank to the bottom ike lo:nf, thousands of thorn. Hoforo we wero half through there was noth mg in the hold that would float. Kvory thing was loadod with wator. Kvon tho white pino of the boxes was hoavv ns metal. And along toward tlio last every thing got to smelling bud. "Somo of tho hardest work wo had was tho trotting out of the mail-hairs from tho room where thoy wore stowed in the bow. but we mot that by btnudv eutt:iig a hole through the ir.m side of the vessel and yetting at thorn directly utnor7r:.-3 ertcn ono would Tlavo'Iinrrto I bo carried out separately, for no tackle could ever have dragged them out oy mo tortuous way thoy would nave ha to go. lucre is a clock that, among other things, wo fished out. It stopped at nine minutes poforo ono o clocl. tho exact titno that tho vessel went down, no doubt. "About tho middlo of September w found that wo had got out all that could bo rescued that was of any valuo at all and all that was loft wa? to soo that nothing of tho vessel was loft stickin up far enough to bo an obstruction in the way of conim !rcc. Wo satisfied ourselves that tho highest point of tho vessel left was twelve fathoms below tho surface. Tho foremast had fallen when sho.wcnt down, and tho main mast and sniokc-staeks woro swept away ny tno heavy waves made by storms, au was without tho possibility of doing harm, and on September 27th wo came away. "1 ho amount that wo will receive for our services can not bo fixed until tho underwriters havo nscertaino I tlio valuo of cargo recovorod, as our coin pcnsation comes in tno lorm or nor contage, t'm proportion of which is, in every' instanso dependent upon tho value of tho recovery and tlio dilTicul ties attendant upon the work of sal vago. The un lorwritors generally fix tho amount or percentage to no alio won. People who know little aboiitsuch mat tors nro apt ti be surprised at our per contagos and think that wo must in ike enormous fortunos on every wreck Hut they do not know tho coit of tlr work to us. Wc havo to keep a large and oxponsivo foro ready all the time. and our fires banked ready for instant service. Wo havo boon as much as five months with nothing to do, yet under heavy expenses all tho tunc And then when wc get to work, sco what our ox pcirlitiiro must amount to. Tlio fact fs that there is very much loss profit mil far more risk of capital and dan gcr to life in our btisin ss than per sons outside m.irinu circles havo anv idea of. For saving tlio material of vessel wo got from lift v to seventy per cont. or its value. Lho allowance on salvago of cargo depends upon circutn stances, and is either privately agreed upon with owners or loft to tho sittlo ment of the underwriters.11 Cincin tiali Jinquircr. A WEIGHTY PROBLEM. Prrsnnt l'luses of tho QieUlons Per taining to tho Higher Kduciitlnn ot Woiuiin. Of iato years this question of woman's work lias passed into another phase, and tho crux now is, not so much how thoy can be provided with work ado qnatoly ronmnorat:d, but how thoy can lit themselves for doing it without dam- ago to thoir lioalth and those interests of tlio race and society wliioli aro bound up with their well-being. This is the real difliculty, both of tho higher educa tion and of tho general circumstances surrounding tlio self-support of womon. For tho strain is severe, and must be, if thoy aro to successfully compoto with nion unilen'ably tlio stronger, both in mind and body, in intellectual grasp and staying powor, in tho faculty of origination, tho capacity for sustained effort, nnd in patient porsovoranoo under arduous and it may bo distasteful labor. Hut tho dro tin and tho chief ondoavor of womon now is to do tlio same work as nion alono havo hitherto done which moans thai the woakor shall come into direct competition witli tho strongor tho result being suroly a foregone conclusion. This is tlio natural consequence of tho degradation by womon thoinselves of their own moro fitting work: so that a fsmale doctor, for thn present, holds a higher social position than dies tho resident governess, while a telegraph girl may lio a lady, but a shop girl can not. l'or well-paid intolloctual work a good oducation is naturally of the first necessity, and tho base on which all tho rost is founded. Wheroforo, the higher education lias boon organize I more as i practical cquipmnt than as au out come of the purely intellectual desire of womon to learn where thev have nothing to gain by it. For all this, many girls go to itlrton anil rownh:im who do not moan to practically profit by thoir oducation girls who want to osoapo from tho narrow limits of tlio home, and who yearn art r tho iiitasi- independeneo of college life girls to whom tlio unknown is emphatically tho magnlllcont, and who desire novelty hoforo all tilings; witli tlio remnant of the purely studious those who lovo loaruing for its own s iko only, inde pendent of gain, kudo, freedom or novelty. Hut thoso are the women who would have studied as ardently, and with less strain, in thoir own homos; who would have taken a longer time over their oducation, and would not have hurt their health and dra'uod thoir vital onorgios by doing in two or throe years whatshould have taken livo or six; who would have gathered with more deliberation, not spurred by emu lation nor driven by compot tion; and who, with energy superadded to their love of knowledge, would havo made tho Mrs. Somorvulos or Caroline ller jehols, tho Miss Hurneys or Harriot Martlnoaus of history. Hutsuoh women sre not many; voluntary devotion, ir rospoctiivo of self-respect, to art, liter utiiro, science, philosophy, being one of tho rarest accidents in "tho history of women as, indoed, must needs bo if they nro to fulfill tho natural functions of thoir 80X.--.1V.. K. Lunn Linton, in lputar Science Monthly. A citizen of Brant ford, Can., went ihootlug, got a good bag of crows, and the famtlycookod and ato the ill-onionod birds. The result was that each person became vlolontly ill. and was saved with dHHculty by the local doctors. Montreal Wttntss. Oat Moal: One toaounfnl of oat moal, one-fourth teiispoonful of salt one and ono-fourth pints of wator: place in small pill within kettle and boil one hour. It will boil in throe fourths of an hour If previously sotikoil.--v.rcjaiije. There are V2 choose factories in St hawroiico County, N V and last year thoy minufactured and sold 13, vKWiOOO pounds of clioedo. NATIONAL SPORTS. Tho I.ovo of tho Anglo-Saxon Itaco for Sturdy Out-Door Kxerclses. It is a striking fact that, of all Eu ropean races, thoso Inhabiting tlio Hritish Isles, with their brandies scat tcrcd over the world, aro the only ones which prefer athletic and opon-air games to all others, and practice them with tho zest of trno enthusiasm. Both in England itself, and in the rcmoto English colonics wo find that tho most popular pastimes aro thoso which ex orciso tho muscle, and which test physical skill and endurance ; and this is true of tlio recreations of both sexes, and of persons of mature ago as well as of young people. Cricket in England, "golf in Scotland, and base-ball in tho United States, may be called, from the extent to which thoy aro played, national games. Foot-ball is practicod in tho schools and colleges of both countries; and boat-rowing has becomo in both a regular and establish ed custom of effort and rivalry. A now out-of-door gamo like polo or lawn tennis is eagerly taken up by English and Americans, and soon becomes a popular .abit. Tlio English aro too conservative to borrow baso-ball from America, but the Canadian game of lacrosse is rapidly becoming popular in "tlio States." Tho chief sports of adult Englishmen hunting and shoot ing aro also practiced in this country. especially in tlio regions of tlio far West. If wo turn our eyes to the European eonlinonr, wo find that tho out-of-door games so popular in England and America havo scarcely a foothold there at all. Such recreations as cricket and base ball are almost, if not wlioly, un known to the boys and young men of France, (Jermanytind Ilnsia. Indeed, tho'favori:o pastimes of the young peo ple of the continent are sedentary ones. Instead of romping after halls in open spaces, they prefer to stay ui-doors, and to play billiard4, chess or dom inoes. Even hrrsc-racing and boat- icing aro regarded bv the French and Germans as foreign customs, and aro not pursued with any tiling like tho zest that thoy are in English- speaking countries. A favorite exercise with lho rrouch and Oer mans is that of fencing with small swords and rapiers. Hul tins is not practicod merely as an amusement. J lie custom ot dueling still survives feebly in tiioso countries, to such an xtent, at any rate, that ii is regarded is a desirable, if not an important, part man s education to be expert with tlio sword. Perhaps the nnst popular of all out of-door pastimes with continental peo pi es. and especially of thoso of South ern Europe, is dancing, m which all dasses of people take part, and which is resorlcd to on all festal occasions. Tlio Italians, Spaniards, Roumanians ind Hungarians all have agreatrarietv ofdanees, nccoinpanicd by inusii especially adapted to each. Tho Italians have their "tarantella and "sailer e!l;"the Spaniards thir "boleros11 and "cachucas, and the Hungarians (heir czardas." I he principal opon-air recreation of the S'laniards is tlio bar barons "bull-light;" but the physical exercise is, of ' course, contiucd to the actual performers. Tho vast audience it in indolence, watching tlio cruel port. Hero nnd there, in Europe, indeod, wo find athletic games practised, lint they are of a milder character than those of the English. For instance. tlie Italians have a gamo called "pnl- ono, which is played with a hi light ball and heavy gloves; and lho Southern Germans play game called "kogelspiel," somothin like skittles, and aro also fond of tar get-shooting and wrestling. The Hus shins skate and go sleighing; butitcau caicely be said that any vigorous out door pastimes are generally prac ticed in Hussia, despite the cold tem perature of its moro northerly regions. It may well bo that tho moro sturdy pastimes of the English race havo had their share in imparting that national igor which lias peopled so many regions of tlio earth with thriving and powerful colonies. Youth's Com- luinwn. OCULAR ADVICE. How tho lliiiunn Kvin Mnr Ho Kent In Sorvlrtuililo (,'oinllt Ion. Do not walk with your eyes on the the ground; the gravel is apt to wear sight off. Never get up in the morning until you have first oponod your eyes, if it takes you until noon. Many a young man has a young woman in his eye, who will effectually impair his sight tho remainder of his life. Never throw your eyes suddenly to the hard pavement; you nro likely to cripple them. Do not try to look too far into tho the depths of the eyes of tho young lady; it is certain to mako you near sighted. When peoplo toll you thoy soo mis chief in your oyes, you should go to an oculist and havo it removed. In keeping one oyo on your nnigli bor, you should frequently chango tho oye. 1 know a young man whojpermonont ly injured his oyos by trying to soo the bald spot coming on top of his hoad. Somo men have glass for an oyo. That Is bad, but it Is worse to have an oyo for tho glass. It is said to be a good thing to "keep an oyo out," but it is better to keep two eyes in. Never strain your eyes in trying to see the good you have dono in the world. 0 hor groat oculists, besides mysolf. have assorted that the host thing for ovos is never to call another man a i liar. A. II'. tic'.law, in Tid-Jiils. ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS. Practical SiiggcstloB on the Composition of JCncll'li Hcntrncc. In the composition of an English sen tence the arrangement of the words even more important than the number. In inflected languages like the Greek and tho Latin the order of words is ol less consideration. Every word in Latin sentence has in addition to it! own meaning a sense of relation to other words: so that tho members ol such a sentence ma' c arranged al most at the pleasure of tlio writer. Tlio English, in earlier stages of its existence, was an inflected tongue, but it lias lost its inflections, so that now few words can bv their form show their relation to other words in the sentence Hence the necessity that the order of words should conform ns nearly as possible to the order of tho thought Ideas exist in the mind, ns it were in wholes, but languago revolves these wholes into parts, which must be pre scnted successively to the mind of the reader. Hence, when wc sav tlio order of the words must conform as nearlv as possible to the order of tlio thought wo confess the inadequacy of language to express tho thought. Hut even if the mind does not conceive thought a whole, the moment that it attempts to communicate thoughts to other minds, it begins to prepare thc thoughts for expression by resolving tliein into parts. For tlio sake of brevitv we will at once call these the parts of speech. In the mental composition ot an English sentence the most important word to fix upon first is the subject. With the proper subject, tho words, phrases and clauses of a sentence can be arranged in due order; just as iron filings will lie grouped around the poll of a magnet. The right subject, then, in JMigli.sh will give the right arrange ment; the wrong subject, a wrong ar rangement. For example take the fol lowing sentence: "When a handsome Peeress is painted bv Sir Thomas Law renee she is not contemplated through a powerful microscope, nor are the pores of the skin, the blood vessels of the eye and all the other beauties Gulliver discovered in the Hrobdignag- gian maids of lienor, transferred to the canvas.'1 Tho most careful reader would not probably recognize this as one of Macaulay's sentences; but re arrange it as lie wrote it and the im portance of the right subject is mani fest at once "When Sir Thomas Law rence paints a handsome Peeress, he does not contemplate her through a powerful microscope, and transfer to tlie canvas the pores of the skin, the blood vessels' of the eye and all the oilier beauties which Gulliver discov ered in the Brobdignaggian maids of honor." The predicate should not bo far sep arated from the subject by intervening clauses. Long relative clauses, modi fying the subject, suspend the thought so that the meaning is, to say tlie least, obscure. Long parenthetical clauses in the middle of a sentence 'are still worse. In one of the sketches by Hoz, Dickens has tho following parenthesis: "Nicholas (we do not mind mention ing the old fellow's name, for if Nieho- las be not a public man, who is? and public men's mimes are public proper ty), Nicholas is tlie butler of Bella my's." Here tiie clause is so long that the author wisely repeats the subject. Sometimes a parenthetical clause, in the middle of a sentence, is so loosely connected that it looks both ways. French critics call this tlie squinting construction. For example: "Tlio minister who grows less by his eleva tion, like a little statue on a mighty pedestal will always have his jealousy strong about him." Here the reader is left in doubt whether the intervening phrase, like a little statue, goes witli grows less or will have. Rearrange as follows: Tlio minister, who. like a lit tle statue on a inightv pedestal, grows itss by his elevation, etc. Prof. T. if. IIllllLtUJl, tti . llttHZHttJlllift. 7.'........ t'l ni..-..i. GAVE UP HIS SPOILS. How n Crots-Kycil Clerk rrlKlitunoit Youthful lVrulutor. During the late Christmas holidays n large firm in H employed as an as sixain cieiK a young man who was exceedingly eros.eyed. lho especial duty assigned to him was to. act as watchman and prevent tho peculation o ...1 s.irts of small fancy articles that were lying about tho counters for exhibition at that time. One day a half-grown boy came into tlie store, and after looking all around, pricing first one thing and then an- ither, among which wero somo very nice socks, ho finally started to go out of tho door. At this moment tl ill iiiiu- clerk touched him lightlv on thn shoulder and invited him to como into tlio back part of tho store, said to him, politely: "Oblige mo bv giving me at oneo the socks that vou havo in your oacK pocKcr. "How do you know I havo anv socks in my back pocket?" demanded the boy, in a bold tone "I saw you put them there," said tho clerk, verv iront- Tho boy looked up into the vouii" man s face in utter amazement. "Arc you looking at mo now?" ho asked. earnestly. "Do you see mo at this very nitnuto?" he asked, still moro wnestlv. "Of course I do," replied tho clerk. "Good lword, mister!" cried the with a blanching faco: "here's ..,.r locks." And witli a bound ho was out of tho back door, over tho fence and a way, hnvii-g loarned a losfon concorn. ing all-seeing eyes which it is t.. i. loped he may novor forgot. Lur r. JcrwoodMcCunn, in Harper's Magazine' 4 It is said that tho funeral nf n,- recontly deceased . lady member of the royal family 0f Hawaii cost $40,000. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. There arc one hundred and ninety college papers in this country. The Methodist Church gained one hundred thousand ncy. members in the United States last year. About ono hundred boys aro in the plumbing class of the Now York trade school engaged in studying the art. The Protestant baptisms through out Japan average at tho present time about one hundred and twenty each week. Knox College hns sent into the foreign field, in nil, eight ordained mis sionaries and eight assistant female missionaries. Amherst College memorial of Bceclier will be a lifty-thousand-dollar endowment of tho Professorship of Physical Culture The Hebrew Christian asserts that there arc 100.000 Jews who are Chris tians, though there nro only 250 mis sionaries to tlio Jews in tlio world. Christina I 'nion. A half century ago in Turkey it was considered a shame for a woman to read. To-day two schools in Con stantinople have been established by the Sultan himself. Baptist missionary Diaz says there arc three thousand converts in Cuba waiting to seize tlie opportunity to bo immersed by night to elude tlio vigi lance of the priests. The Wahlensians. at the General Conference at Florence, Italy, have decreed that hereafter womon members shall lio allowed to vote, but not to speak at church meetings. Sister Mary Innis, an inmate of Mercy convent, Pittsburgh, Pa., has do nated" $100,000 to the sisterhood of which she is a member. Tlie money will lie used in tlio erection of an industrial home for girls and a chapel. Ch'cago Times. -The English Baptists show a con stant advance in foreign missionary work. The society last year accepted twentv-one new missionaries. It wholly sustains 117 missionaries nnd assistant missionaries, 3!3G native pastors and evangelists. N. Y. Witness Christians aro like tlio several " flowers in a garden, that havo each of them tho dew of heaven, which being shaken with tlio wind, thoy let fall at each other's roots, whereby they aro iointlv nourished, and becomu uourishers of each other. Bunyan. Tho American Board, lias expended in tlio first half of its fiscal vcar, about $-10,000 more than for tlie same period last year. This is on account of tlio largo number of missionaries sent to Japan last fall, and to tho new open ings at Sendai and at Shantung, China. Dr. A. D. Mavo savs there is a State industrial college for white girls it Columbus, Miss., not vet two years old, which lias about livo hundred teachers and pupils, doing earnest and successful work. Ho calls Columbus 'ono of the most attractive towns of tho Southwest." Conarcnationalist. WIT AND WISDOM. Three things to wisli for health, a cheerful spirit, friends. Look on tlio bright sido of life, if ares do weigli heaviiv upon vou and life seems hardly worth the living. Tlio man who doesn't know much. nnd ids name is legion, is tlio ono most anxious to display ids knowledge. Drake's Travellers' Magazine. Imagine a man nnd ids two sons married to tlireo sisters and then figure out tho relationship of tho children nnd grandchildren. Foster's Health Monthly. A sentimental w.'iter asks: "Did you ever watch a dear baby waking in the morning? Mauv times. It gen erally occurs about livo (clock, and enables tlie father to got up a splendid appctito for breakfast. Dru Goods Chronicle. ' Husband What nro you going to take that scrap of luco along for? Wife Scrap, indeed! That's my handkerchief. "O, that's it." "Yes, and, by tlio way, 1 forgot to give j'ou yours. It's up stairs on tlio 11 "Never mind, dear, Fvo a postage stamp." A letter has just boon disentombed in Pompeii, just where tlie district messsenger boy lost it 300,000 years ago. The boy is supposed to bo still alivo and slowly wandering along in tlie direction of the house at which the letter was to bo dolivered. Burdctle. It Matters Much. "It matters littlo wiioro I was born. Or whether my pareuts were rich or poor; Whothcr they felt tlm cold world's scorn. Or walked In the prHo of wealth secure. Hut whether I livo an honest man And hold Integrity llrm in my clutch, I tell you, my brother, plain as I can, It matters much." It is not what a man has scon but what ho has read that makes him learned. It is better to know ono groat mind than it is to visit three great countries. lho wisdom we get from books broadens tho mind; the experi ence wo derive from travel sharpens tho wits. An Absurd Proposition. -Lily (Sec retary of tho Cooking Class) "Now, girls, woVo learned nlno cakes, two kinds of nngel food and seven pies. What next? Susio (engaged) "Dick's father says I must learn to mako bread." Indignant Chorus "Bread? Absurd! What are bakers for?" Pittsburgh Bul letin. "Excuse me, sir," said a young man, nudging a fellow-passenger in a Chicago car, "you havo a speck of soot on tho ond of your nose" "That's boon thero for eighteen years," replied tho passongcr. "It's a peculiar kind of a mole, and you aro tho ninth man to ask mo to spongo that noso since breakfast this morning. As a rule, tho avcrago is about twelve a day." 0