, 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.
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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'
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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."
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