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SONGS AND SONG-MAKERS. Some Hitherto Unpublished Facts Con' cernlnc Popular llnllntl. Popular songs nrc often queer. So nrc t hoi r authors. But stranger still is tho secret governing tho public taste, by which sonic compositions arc taken up nn! others rejected. Not 3 per cent, of the songs annually issued have 11 spark of originality nbout them. Jn this country thd dozen or so publisliors issue annually about 18,000 editions of songs, of botweon 1(5,000,000 and 20,- 000,000 of copies. This, added to tho reprints of English and foreign songs, means fully thirty copies daily per cap ita to every teacher of music in tho land, l et out of this vast number there is not ouo song in 600 that reaches a popular salo of 5,000 copies and less than one-tenth as many that exceed an issue of 300,000 copies. Hero arc tho sales of a few well-known songs: Coptt lolit. " Flower From Mother' Grave".... .OW Sweet Vlolots" aro,an "Only u 1'nimy Hloom".. U00.Of) "When the Leaven Hocln to Turn" I!i0,000 " Only to Sco Her Foco" 180,XM Notwithstanding this apparent luck of appreciation on tho part of a surfeit ed public, the isuo of sheet music con tinues a profltablo enterprise, rendered so by tho spasmodic s:ilo of an occas ional hit, tho pecuniary rotum of which usually overbalances losses entailed in other directions. Since tho days of Stephen .C. Foster, Henry C. Work and John Howard Payne, a class of balladists has sprung into existence, tho exact description of which it would bo dillicult to give. Tho array embraces almost every vocation from minstrel to mechanic. Among the moro notable are Frank Howard, well-known as author of "Onlya Pansy Blossom" and "When tho Bobins Nest Again;" David Brahani, James 0. Stewart, Win. J. Sranlan, tho actor; Charles Connolly, Sydney Rosenfeld, J. K. Eniniot and Walter Fhiunix. Koscnfcld was formerly a Philadelphia journalist, whilo Win. Henderson, tiio writer of so many topical songs, was formerly connected with tho editorial stall' of tho Now York Times. These comprise onlya very few of tho thous and who have cssayod popular song making. The song which stands alono in tho Aiuerionn market in point of issues sold is tho "Scotch Lassie Jean," which reached 1,000,000 copies, and is still in fair demand. Another great success was tho ballad "Must Wo Then Meet as Strangers?" of which many editions have been printed. Still others are Tucker's pretty song, "Sweet (Jene viovo," "The Spanish Cavalier," "Call Mo 'Hack Again," , "Sweet Forget Me Nol," and "Prottynsa Picture." Then there must not be omitted Westeiidorf's "I'll Take Tlieo Back Again. Kath leen." To name the very latent pop ular -ong successes is a matter of moro difficulty. The ballad that is whistled t -day by thousands may be dead and forgotten by to-morrow, while an'othor, not ipiilo mi quick to catch tho popular taste, may sell on and on, just as familiar but old stories like "Uncle Tom' Cabin" do. Tho hitter is to-day among tho best soiling books in the world. Some songs approach, but they do not quite equal its lasting popular ity. Following are tho approximate Mates of some later successes: Coptt until. "Wult Till tin) ClotnU Holl Ily" "lVolc-u-boo" 1T.',()!1 'When tint Kotilns N'it Ai;nln" 1H,U "I'll Await, my Love nr.,(n) "Over tho Ghirdun Wi.ll" W.Omi v "CUmblDK up tint (lolilim Stair" Kiu "Hurrv. I.lltlP Chllili-on. Humliy Morn"1. , "Don't Luvo Your Mother, Tom" 45,0n) It is interesting to note how songs are made popular. Undoubtedly the stage is tho great factor. A catchy ballad brought out by a prominent singer invariably produces a desire to imitate. Tito minstrel is, therefore, the introducer of the song. Of all the singers who have popularized musical compositions in this country Lotta stands at the head. Take the num ber of songs written expressly for her and see their subsequent salo in sheet form: Coita Sohl. "Dmn Golden Slippers" ,. ..'HXMXX) "In tlio MuruliiK iv tho llrlght Light" . . . ., "Hnzornln tho Air !rioii "Como Alotur, SlnnerM liVl.ooo 'Swim for tho tlohlon Shoro" oo.deo How some songs eaino to bo written h lifplintorosling study. For several monllis there was a warm controversy on the authorship of "Don't Leave Your Mother, Tom." It was claimed by Miss Maud Beverly, but it turned out, as its English Haver indicated, that it was an Knglish song altered, its old form being "Stick to Your Mother, .lack," a Yorksluro'ballad of threadbare popularity as well as age. Tho author of "Climbing Up the Gold en Stair' was a poor fellow who board ed in an attic, and got his inspiration by climbing tho rickety stairs that led tniUPhiladephia Cor. San Francisco Chronicle ii i Entirely Too Particular. "I wish to report a case of larceny," she said as alio entered tho police station yesterday. "Yes'm. When did it occur?" "Last evening." "At what place?" "On a ferry boat, sir." "What are tho particulars?" "Why, 1 was with a young young man, and-" "Oil, you worol Well, go on." "And trtll his name?" "Of course." , "And that I novel saw him boforo?" "Certainly." "Thou 1 won't report tho caso, sir! You itro too particular, and tho ring wasn't worth over threo dollars uny. howl" lie roil Free Press. Tho 'confidant of uiy vices is my master. (JoeUie. THfc SIZE OF MATO. A Claim Tlint Ho Norer llatl i Greater Height Thun at Prnscnt. Men of tho present day have no occa sion to feel humiliated, because thoy aie not taller and larger than thoy are, Thcro is no reason, in tho ,discovori s of science, for tho supposition that men as a whole, havo ever had a greater average height than they have now For a long time, at Romans, in France near tiio junction of tho Isero and Rhone rivers, there existed a deposit of gigantic bones which hnd long been known as the "Giant s J-iold. In re cent times bones havo been exhumed there which were believed to bo human and which were said to be those of Teutobodus, tho King of tho Teutons who was overcome near tho spot by Matins, tho Roman General. Iho re searches, of Cuvier, hovfever, proved that those bones, together with nil tho others exhumed in tho namo place. were those of tho dinothcrium gigan- tcum, an extinct animal of tho tapir spocics, which measured about twenty3 feet in length. Tho myth of a raco of giants has its counterpart m thoso other creatures of imagination, tho pigmies. Ihcso fablod people, who woro so small that a stalk of grain was a trco to them, which they chopped down with tiny hatchets and brush hooks, were said to inhabit Ethi opia. Thoy wero always at war with the cranes, but lived on such excellent terms witii tho partridges that thoy wero able to harness them into their carriages. Thoy lived at first, accord ing to the fable, in Iliraco, but were driven out of Luropo by tho cranes, and took refuge in Ethiopia. It is now commonly supposed that tho pigmies wero nothing moro nor loss than monkeys of small size, llko tho mar moset. Tho pigmy's warfare with the crane was probably the ouo grain of exact truth which survived in tho tradi tinn. Tho stories of the pigmies belong with tho fables of tho giants. Tho men of ancient times woro of tho same, or nearly tho same height, as thoso of the present day. Iho doors of the ancient houses, the ancient armor, tho Egyptian mummies, as well as the bones of the fossil men, prove that there lias been little or no variation. Among famous tall men was the Roman Linporor Maxiniin, whoso stat uro was seven and three-quarters feet, Maxiniin was a young barbarian, tho son of a Gothic father, who tirst at traded the attention of tlte Romans by overcoming sixteen of their strongest men, ouo after another, in a wrestling contest, and, having been made a cen turion, fought and intrigued his way to the imperial throne. The normal stat uro of mon and women ranges between four feet and six feet, four inches. Those who exceed the latter height may be called giants, while those who uro below four feet un called dwarfs. There have been dwarfs scarcely one foot six inches in height, but even these have been considerably taller than the fabled pigmies of an tiquity. You Ufa Companion. SICKENING SIGHT. rifly-Siiven llend of Cuttln Transformed Into Mountain of ,Miuij;Ied Flesh. Just as the west-bound train had reached a water tank a mile west of Pino Blull's a herd of three thousand Texas eattlo was observed grazing on the adjacent prairie. Tho long-horned animals gazed at tho locomotive a mo ment, and then with ouo accord started toward the train at a rapid gait. It was evident to the cowboys in charge of the herd that a stampede was inuni nent, and they endeavored to stop tho mad rush of tho thoroughly crazed mi nimis. nTho engineer also reached the same conclusion anil crowded on the steam in the ollbrt to pass the ho id be fore a collision should occur. In this ho failed, liowover, and a nio mont later there was a terrific shock that shook the train from end to end, and the quivering flesh of frightened rattle was being ground to pulp under tho wheels of the locomotive. Tho cowcatcher itself worked terrific exe cution in plunging through tho huge masses of eattlo that woro promiscu ously piled along tho track. The locomotive was revorsed as quickly as possible, when a sickening sight met tho gaze of passengers. Dead and dying cattle lay strowu along the track, maimed and mangled. Many with legs partly or wholly torn oil made desperate efforts to get away, while tilt hundreds unhurt, with tails curling in the breeze, wero scattering to all points of the compass. As soon as the train had been brought to a standstill a number of passengers who wero armed with revolvers per formed acts of meroy by killing crip pled animals. Tho number of cattle killed was lifty-soven. Tho locomo tive, strange to say, was not derailed, although considerably damaged. Re moval of tho carcasses necessitated a delay of over an hour. Cheyenne, ( H'yo.) 'Leader. About Dlack-Headod Pins. Sitting alongside a lady in tho ele vated train the other day, writes an ob servant Now Yorker, she had occasion to adjust a portion of hor dress which was fastened witii a black pin, when tho head broke in fragments and dis closed the fact that it was some kind of composition fastened on it broken needle. Curiosity led mo to make some Inquiries, ami I found thai nearly all the blnck-hoadod pins in the market aro mado from needles which are broken in tho factories in testing tho oyes. Any ono who has handled tho black-headed pl'is has probably noticed their rcnutrkublo sharpness as com pared with tho ordinary white pins sold in tho market. This Is tho expla nation that they lira old needles. Chicago Journal, . THE BARREL HAMMOCK. Reliable AdricA or One Who 11ns Kpcrl enced All of It Flensnres. Kind reader, did you over swing in a barrel hammock ono of tho genuine, homo mado country barrel hammocks, such as you find in tho summering places of Now IlampshlroP If you havo not one you missed something in this world which falls to tho lot of but few mon. Fall, did I say? Yes that is it. That's part of tho pleasure of tho hammock tho falling out. But first, lot mo discribo tlii instru ment of tor pleasure. It is composed of six parts, barrol staves, two of rope, and two of cussednoss. Two ho es aro bored through each end of the stave, and through these pass tho rope, the ends being fastoncd to convenient trees, hooks, or posts liko tho ropes of a more peaceablo hammock. A pillow is thrown in carelessly. This is done to tempt men and load them on to death. Liko a siren that pillow reaches out its overy feather, and beckons you to como and cnjo3 its soft embrace; and you do so. Ami the end is not yet. You sit down in tho mid dle first, imagining that tho ham mock lias sonic feeling liko its genus; but you aro astonished at receiving a crack on each sido of your cranium from the two respective ond staves. It startles you at first, and you will doubtless feel a littlo hurt nbout it, but, liko all tho rest, you will look upon it as a littlo eccentricity of tho article and swing your feet in to en joy a reclining position. In doing so you find that your pant- havo lowered somo slack down between the two middlo staves, and that in turning around you aro i : danger of twisting a hole about tho size of a dinner-plate in a spot which would inconvenience you. So you gather your robes about you, taking all tho slack on top, and onco more prepare to recline. This time you iiave missed your reckoning, for tho pillow is about ton feot above you. liow to got up thoro is tho ques tion. In vain you attempt to reach it. Each timo the bottom of tho stave with five of its neighbors flies up and hits you in tho small of tho back. Then you try to shdo up. Digging your toes be tween two of tho bottom staves and working slowly along, you manage to tear a hole in your vest, stick a nail in your ear, and grasp the pillow all at tho same time. But you havo got tho pillow and you aro happy. There's a nowspapiir in your pocket, but how to get it is the quostion. You dare not movo, for tho pesky thing will kick you out, so you content your solf with reaching for a cigar in a con venient pocket, striko a match on a stave Oh, these barrel hammocks aro accommodating and scttlo dbwn for a smoke. In fivo minutes, under the soothing influence of tho weed, your mind is at rest; you havo forgotten tho tricks that lurk in every individual stave of your couch, and are picturing to yourself the dash von will cutwhon, at. homo after vacation, with eight dol lars per week of saved board money in your pocket, you will paralyze tho dorks in the storo with stories of "gay Newport, you know." At this junc ture ono of tho young lady boarders rushes out, anil with a "Mr. Jones, we are going," she plants her plump form down on tho lower staves of tho ham mock. Tho uppor ones rise in con junction. Jones rises, too. Your cigar Hies in tho air and conies down in your eyes just in timo to blind your sight as you descend from among.tho branches to terra linna. "Blank, blank tho blanked thing! who cut the rope, any way? Oh, ox cuso mo, ladies." Of course you havo to oiler apologies at tho tea table to smooth tho matter ovor, but Miss Brown will always avoid you after that, for it is possiblo she had a suspicion that before the cigar struck you you saw her where the treacherous staves of tho lowor half of that hammock had plac ed hor. Reader, should you over visit tho country shun tho barrol hummock. It cost ono man fivo yours of his life, a now vest and tho acquaintance of a most estimable young lady. If you must uso it, tako it down and spread it on tho grass, drivo a railroad spiko through each stave, and you havo it. Cor. Kewbcrryport (Mass.) acivs. i A Careful Nurse-Girl. Tho Hibernian's idea of being care ful is sometimes ratlior peculiar. A lady who had recently engaged an Irish nurse-maid said to hor ouo day, while walking in the garden: "Mary, wrap the baby up very care fully, and bring him out to me." "Yis, mum," glibly replied Mary, and straightway departed. She presently returned, bringing the Infant bundled and bound in ti shawl-strap. "Ion unfeeling creature! shrieked tho poor mother, frantically. "You will kill tho child!" "Not at all, nium, not at all. You towld me to bo careful, an 1 am. Tho choild was so htvvy, I thought a shawl, slit rap was tho safest way to carry him." Youth's Companion. m "Did yo over hoar tho storv of Pat and Ids employer?" asked a hackmau as ho declined to drink tho third time. No; 'tell us it, Vandorbilt." re marked tho driver's "fare." "Well, Pat was out wid Ids muster wan day and was asked to drink. Ho did. Then again, and lie did. Tho third timo Pat declined, ami as ho did so said what 1 think Is very thrue, gontlemen: 'Wan, Sur, is good. Two is bcttlier. But three is not half onough.' " Philadel- phia Call. Tho nlcasautcst thine in tho world are pleasant thoughts, and tho great ait of life Is to havo us many of thorn as posbilUv liovw. SLAVERY IN BRAZIL. I'rorlslons Made for Freeing the Hondsmen Held In the Umpire. In 1871 a law was passed in tho Bra zilian Chambers or Parliament provid ing for tho gradual emancipation of all tho slaves in the empire, nnd requiring a registration by masters of all slaves. Such slaves as wero not registered by a certain dato were to bo declared free by tho terms of the law. Thoro were then about 2,000,000 slaves in tho coun try. The law also gave unconditional freedom to all slaves who had readied or should thereafter reach tho ago of CO years. In 188f the number of registered slaves was found to bo not greater than 1,200.000. At the opening of the Chnmbcr in May, Mr. Alfonso Celso, a prominent member, and son of a former Premier of tho same name, offered a bill for the Immediato freeing of tho remaining slaves. Iho following aro its chief pro visions: All slaves registered throughout tho wholo of tho empire of Brazil are dc clare'd to bo free from the date of the promulgation of tho present law. Those who aro free from bondage in virtue of this law arc obliged to labor for the spueo of two years in the ser vice of their former masters, but this service shall be non-iransfcrablc from !iiv cause whatsoever. From this obligation shall bo accept ed tho following: (1). Those who shall redeem themselves from service by payment of such service in money. In this case the value of such service, for the full term of two years, shall in no ease be valued at moro than $200. For tho purpose of making this valuation, tho clauses in the recent law (18SG) and in that of November 13, 1872, shall bo continued in full force. (2). Those who havo reached fifty years of age. and also thoso who shall hereafter reach that age within tho specified time of two yours, shall bo declared ipso facto free, and shall at onco enter into tho enjoymont of their freedom. The ago of tho slave, for this purpose, shall bo determined by tho registry; proof to tho contrary shall only bo admitted when tills proof shall bo in favor of the liberty of tho slave. When cither one of a married couple shall havo acquired his or her freedom from rendering obligatory service, through whatever cause, the other shall likewise be freed at once and without any conditions whatever. Frcedinen, during tho two years in which they aro obliged to rainier service under the present law, shall bo paid just wages or salary, have full right to suitable cloth ing and proper food, and to necessary medical treatment and care should thoy become ill or incapacitated. All ex-masters who shall not faith fully carry out tho obligations and du ties imposed by tho preceding para graph, shall lose all claim or right whatever to the services of their for mer slaves, now become freedmon. All taxes and revenues destinod to tho fund of emancipation by preceding laws and regulations shall bo employed for the use of establishments of practical and professional education designed for tho children of freedmon, and for.tho en dowment of asylums for freedmon who may hereafter become incapacitated for work by disease or accident. Ar. O. Picayune. LIKE HER ELDERS. A Mttlo Girl who luxl Hut Mttln Uso for riiiliilnn Phiynmtci. A story of tho rising generation: In one of the suburban towns there is a young lady quite a young lady sho is, too whoso somewhat boj'ish aspect and innocently masculine tastes havo won for her the soubriquet of Tommy. Not long ago sho gavo a lit tlo party to tho children of tho neigh borhood, and in preparing for tho event her mother, in order to get at an idoa of tho sort of young people her daughter would liko to have attend, told her to prepare a list of thoso sho wished to invite. Tommy went to work with zest and In a short time fin ished a pretty long list. "There, inainniii," said she with an air of conclusiveness, "there's every single one that 1 want to como." Her mother took tho document and read it with an astonishment which in creased as her eye approached the end of the list. Tommy hud only one girl's name on the whole list! "Why, Tommy!" her mother ex claimed, "do you want none but boys to conic to your party? What aro you thinking of?" "Well, inaninia," said Tommy, "you know girls aren't any fun!" "But would your boys have any fun if there weren't any girls?" "Weren't any g'irls? Why, there'll bo Kitty BickerstalV and me, anil that ought to bo girls enough!" The mother, however, insisted upon the nomination of a full quota of girls; but in onler to get it she had to make inquiries herself. Tommy's informa tion was deficient. lioston Transcript. At Springfield, O., a few days ago a mother checked her baby carriago to a neighboring town where sho was about to visit, nnd forgot to remove the child from it. Just before tho train started she missed tho baby, and after a frantic and fruitless search suddenly remembered whoro sho had loft it. She got to tho baggage-ear just in timo to get tho infant us it was being loaded on tho train in its enrriage. This is the season of year when wo uro thrown into tho socioty of tho man who rocks tho boat for fun if ho goes out with you for a row in tho lako or rivor. Ho never gots to bo ovor thirty yoara of ago, and generally partici pates in a double funeraL Beware of lit in. Albany Journal, SOWING GRASS SEED. A Subject Tlint Needs to lie Studied by the Grent Majority of Farmers. As a rule, the sowing of grass of var ious kinds is made with some grain crop, and usually in tho fall with wheat or rye. This method, however, is not just to tho grass, nor is it favorable for tho best results to the seeding. 'J ho so-called fostci? crop very often roba the grass and exhausts the soil of its needed nutriment, and a very poor catcli is tho result. If tho soil is thor oughly woll prepared by manuring nnd sufficient tillage, tho two crops may grow together very well, and the grass mako a good stand. But this is seldom the caso except with a few farmers, who need no advice or suggestion upon tho subject. Tho great majority of farm ers need to study this subject, and un derstand the requirements of grass for its successful culture. The preparation of tho soil should bo very thorough. ' Tho land should bo plowed deeply, and a liberal coat of manure turned under, not buried, but with tho furrows laid over at an angle of forty-live degrees, so that tho manure lies between tho layers of soil standing on edge in a sloping manner. The harrow, run along tho furrows, works the soil and manuro together, mixing them and making them fine and com pact. Tho harrowing should be con tinued until tho whole surfaco is as smooth as a garden, and tho soil is quito fine. If tho land is clayey and lumpy, it should be rollod between' the harro wings. Sowing the seed alone is preferable. If any grain crop at all is used, it should bo oats in tho spring, or buck wheat early in July, as may be most convenient. Excellent seeding has been mado early in August with a pound of turnip seed to tho acre. This shelters the young grass during the winter, and dying, the turnips decay in the spring and afford a most useful fertilizer for the erop. Timothy and clover, and orchard grass and clover, and the three kinds mixed, and orchard grass alone, havo been sown in all of these throe ways with better results than when sown with fall grain and subjected to the risks of the winter weather. In sowing grass and clover seed an even stand is desirable, and to secure this, great care is to bo taken in tho sowing. A very good practice is to mako tho last harrowing with great care, evonly and with tho marks all parallel. Then the sower can follow these marks, first taking the edge of tin field and returning six short paces dis tant from tho first course. Then re turning on the second course, and al ways sowing with the right hand to tin loft. Six foot from each is east as much as can bo taken witii light seed, as or chard grass, blue grass, red-top, etc., and as much as should be taken with timothy, and the quantity of seed taken m ly be readily guaged to tho width of tho cast. The cast is mado with ea h movement of the right foot. When ti e wind is blowing, even slightly, the casts should lie made low, to avoid 'ir regular dropping of tho seed, and whin the limit seeds arc sown it is easier to walk across tho harrow marks when tho tracks mado are easily seen, and a? the wind may carry tho seed to one side, tho sower may go out of the straight track to accommodate the wind, and on returning can easily dis tinguish the foot marks of the previous track in tho soft sou. A broadcast seeder is a convenient implement, and costs but little, and can bo carried by the sower with ease It drops tho seed low, and if the sower goes faco to the wind at the start, tho seed is not spread unevenly. When, in spito of all care, an irregular seeding is anticipated, it is woll to sow half tho seed one way, and cross the sowing tho other way, when vacant spaces may bo covered. An inexperienced sower siiouid practice on tlio snow, using sand, which can bo easily seen on tho white surface, and in two or threo at tempts lie will bo ablo to mako the sow ing quito evenly. The sowing should bo dono as soon as tho last harrowing is finished, when tho seed sinks in the looso soil, or is covered by tho first shower. A smooth ing plank is a good thing to cover seed with. It may bo eight or ten feet long, and is fitted with a tongue and two stiff braces. Tho tongue is fitted to the plunk on tho lovol, so that when it is raised tho front end of tho plank is olovatcd a little. This prevents tho plank from gathering stones or seeds in front of it, and causes it to ride over them. It leavos a smooth, oven sur face. American Agriculturist. A succossfnl 'balloon trip over tho Irish Sea has been made by tho well known English aeronaut, Mr.Sinnnons. IIo started from Preston for a short ascent, but a contrary breozo took his craft directly over tho channel, some what to tlio aeronaut's dismay, as ho was neither provisioned nor provided w itli the apparatus for keeping atloat if the balloon suddenly doscended in mid-channel.' Happily, the wind landed him safely in Ireland, at a farm at Ballyboden, Rnthfarnhain, seven miles from Dublin, after six and one quarter Hours' journey. A criminal suit has boon brought by the United States against throo men in Colorado for cutting nnd moving from Government lands 30,000 cords of pine and spruco wood, which thoy converted into charcoal and sold to the Omaha and Grant Smelting and Refining Com pany. A civil suit is also to bo insti tuted against them and tho smolting company jointly for $160,331, tho pur chase price of 1,758,000 bushels of char coal. Tho smolting company, it ap pears, was an innocent purchaser, nnd lionce only liable for tho prico paid for tho coal. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. Among the sixty -six graduates from Amherst this voar was a Japanosa I student. Longing for goodness does not bring it It is to bo sought after with all tho might. America is growing better. Tho church attendanco for 1887 wns twonty per cent over that of 1886. Somo of his children mustgo.into tho furnace to testify that the son of God is there with tlieni. E. Prentice, ' Every man has in himself a con tinent of undiscovered character. Hap py is ho who acts tho Columbus of his own soul! Ho who shall introduce into public nffairs the principlosof primitive Chris tianity will revolutionize tlio world. Benjamin Franklin. The women of the Presbyterian. Church of this country are said to havo raised in tlio past sixteen years, $2, 150,000 for missions. Rev. Dr. Happer has secured $100, 000 toward founding a Christian Col lego in China and expects to open tho institution next January. D ing good to our fellow-men. makes a greater impression on most of them than any other course open to us. Central Christian Advocate. Depend upon it; in the midst of all the science about the world and its ways, and all the ignorance of God and His greatness, tho man or woman who can say. "Thy will be done," with true heart forgiving us, is nearer the secret of things than tho geologist or theolo gian. George Macdonald. The trustees of Harvard Universi ty, Senator Geo. P. Hoar, ex-Speaker Wiiithrop, Profs. Putnam, Heatou and others, have bought for $4,000 sixty acres of land in Bratton Township, Adams County, O., on which is situated tho Serpent Mound. The party will make a National Park of the tract N. W. Christian Advocate. If wo work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, timo will efface it; if wc rear temples, they will crumble into dust, but if wo work upon immortal minds, if wo imbuu them with principles, with tho jnst fear of God and love of our fellow-men, wo engrave on those tablets something that will brighten to all eternity. Daniel Webster. Rev. Dr. Tillett, of Vandorbilt Uni versity, recently visited a Mormon Sunday-school whilo in Salt Lako City. As lie entered tho infant class depart ment a t niporary teacher was saying: "Well, boys, whoro is your teacher? " They all replied promptly in concort: "In the penitentiary." The teacher then asked: "Is ho there for doing right or for doing wrong?" All re plied: "For doing right." Dr. Tillott learned afterward that the man in question was serving a term for big amy. WIT AND WISDOM. The greatest homage wo can pay to truth is to uso it, Emerson. Tho man who blows out tho gas is anxious to know what they feed mock turtles on. Whenever I find myself covetous of something that I havo not, I can ef fect a euro by recollecting what 1 have. Tramp "Are you going in bath ing, sir?" Gontleman "Yes." Tramp "Shall I hold your pooket book?" Tid-Bits. Problem in arithmetic If a man gets full when ho has a half holiday, what would ho got if ho had a wholo holiday? f'A-i-rlcstoicn Enterprise Der feller dot can vhittlc a pooty goot cha-acter out of der rough chibs of of cry day life, ho vas enditled t haf a goot abetite on his tomb shtono. Pretzel's Weekly. Do not think a lesson learned nntil you have found somo thought that seems particularly to fit your needs. Each lesson holds such a thought, if wo but find it. Seek! t So great a happiness do I ostcem it to bo loved, that I really fancy overy blessing, both from gods and mon, ready to dscend spontaneously upon him who is loved Xcnophon. Little Dick. I don't want to do that. Omaha mamma But you must. "Why?" "Because I say so." "What's the reason I have to mind you? I ain't your husband." Omaha World. Lawyer There is a fearful wind coming in at that window. Ollico boy Shuro an' I will jist open the ither wan, too, so tho wind can go on through an' not bother ye. Detroit Free Press. In a breech of promise suit in Ohio tho girl showed up 715 letters for 120 days of love. That was ovor six letters per day, and yet tho young man kept saying ho wished ho could find timo to drop her a lino now and then. "Thought," says Dr. Mungor, "may stay behind silent lips, but when it becomes feeling it runs to expres sion." Wo havo noticed this in case3 of men who thought they wero hitting a nail, but who felt that thoy had mashed their fingers. Ar. Y. Commer cial Advertiser. A middle-aged man at tho beach, whoso wife thought tho water too cold for bathing that day, encouraged hor in a novel way. "No, Moriar," ho said, pointing to somo iron wasto pipes that entered tho water where lie stood, "don't you see? They're n-runnm' hot water into tho ocean an' heatin' of her up." His tickor brought moro tick: When I wns young, and all was well. I used to live on tick, t As merry as a marrige bell, , Until my wife took sick. Then I was broke ; my darling wife ; P Krom day to day grew sicker. And I was forced, to save her life, To live upon my "tieker." OrtroU rrn Prtu.