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THE OREGON SCOUT. JONES & CHANCEY, - Publishers UNION, OREGON. SUNDAY IN BURMAH. ""Woralilporn nnil Spectators Aroimil tin i Famoiin l'ugoilit nt ICntigoon. I Tcrlmps ono of tho most wonderful structures that tho Orient can boast is tho pagoda nt Rangoon. "Shwny" is Uunnoso for gold or gilded, and, if the reader can imagine an elongated bulb ous dome drawn out to 'a height groater than St. Paul's, and covered complete ly with burnishod gold from base to summit, ho may got an idea of the Shway Dugou pagoda. Hut stay, lie must not forgot tho Eastern sun blazing on it in a clear atmosphere, causing tho oye to turn away from it, dazzled by its suproino brilliance, for rcliol among tho doop-grcon foliago at its foot. At tho very crown of tho spire is fixed a canopy studded with rubies, diamonds, emeralds and sapphires, and this again is crowned by a gilded Hag, in which all tho choicest gems aro sot In puro gold. This ling was recently dislodged by an earthquako and was taken down, and for threo consccutlvo Sundays all tho pious Burmeso flocked to contrlbulo a sharo toward tho cxponso of remodeling and enriching this ornament. Thcroaro two or threo layers of a leaden alloy insldo, whilo outsldo thc80 nro covered with a layer of puro gold about a quarter of an inch thick and densely encrusted with gems. Tho romolting is a solemn coromony conducted by tho "poongyeos" or llur meso elders, a select committco of whom gather and control the public funds. Clad in flowing whito garmonts the "poongyeos" gather bohind a bam boo barrier insldo a kind of squaro tent, and rccoivo tho .offoringa of the people, which vary from a diamond worth G.900 rupoos to a fow pice, ac cording to tho wealth of tho donor. Tho hlgh-casto Uurmoso lady comos forward, and unclasping a costly banglo Bet with goms, hands It over to the pro siding functionary; tho magnate strips his rings from his hands, and they, too, go into tho molllng-pot, whore the pooror pooplo contrlbulo small gold rings, bangles, necklaces, pins, otc,, down to rupoos, annas and pices. In the mooutlmo, in tho foropart of tho lnolos uro, which is riohly hung with all tho natlvo emblems, such as uinbrollas, fcathorfl, vases, quaintly-colored car pota, long muslin loaves covorod with epanglos and gold, and suoh llko, two charcoal fires aro bolng kept allvo with blow-plpos, in which aro to bo Boon crucibles full of molton gold. At elx o'clock tho gold Is cast Into Ingots, and tho final molting takes plaoo on tho last Sunday of tho throo. Tho crowd of spectators prosslng round tho .bamboo barriers Is of a ory variod nature Guyly-dockod Uurmoso girls, with faces plastered over with whlto paint If of high rank, tho hair turned up ovor tho head, and clad in orango and brilliant colors; naked children; Chlunmou in huge hats and looso coats, with yollovv, oily complexions; Slums in black, clothes; I'uthnnH of flno stature and apeai' unco; Paraoos from Bombay, of a Sem itic cast of countonaneo; Hindus, Blkhs, runjabctof luilf-otiBtes, ' and Europeans of all nations aro to bo found lu tills motloy mass, Tho Bitr rouudlligs, too.aro well worthy of re taork. Surrounding tho bmco of tho 'pagoda aro numorous BhrlnaH and smullor pagod.19, fitted with tho most wondrous carving; outside thcNO sit inuslolans playing on tom-toms, gougs, strango violins and string lu utrumonts; you boo two Or threo bands ussomuiod within a fow foot of eaoh other, each playing Its own tuuo (If tuno It can bo called) irrospoetlvo of ita neighbors; there, too, aro tho chlronmuolBts or fortune-tollers, us trologtstH ami provision mongers. If you aro inclined to bo told your char acter and future, you pay a fow annas und And that you aro going to bo blessed with ton nous and daughters, that you aro hospitable and klud liourted, and, ubovo all things, ex travagantly gonarous tho latter qual ity Is never missing from tho catalogue, for tho wily lJur'man hopes In this way to screw out another anna or two, but, -perhaps, as a rule, unsuccessfully. Whou a Burmun goes to pray ho can ilo it most comfortably, as ho brouk fusta in church and puta In a prayer be tween each mouthful, and if any thing tickles him ho stops to have a hearty laugh. Chicago Times. Niagara Falls Receding. It Is estimated that Niagara Tails will recede two miles and then remain ittatlonury, their height at that point bolng eighty foot, instead of 1(51. as at present. Tho supposition is supported by un argument which appears reason able. Tho present site is a limestone formation some eighty or ninety feet thick, with a Bhnly foundation. As tho Bliulo Is wushed away, tho llmestouu breaks off, and tho falls take a step backward. Hut tho end of tho shaly deposit will bo reached two miles from tho present falls, and then tho rushing water will have more than it can do to wear away tho isolld precipice over which it will bo projected. '- A shoemaker at Soran, Germany, mado a pair of boots for a customer but callously loft a nail protruding from tho solo; tho wearer's foot was noon scratched, inflammation ensued, und tho foot had finally Ui bo uinpu. iiu. Tho Hhoomulcor was sued for Ouwugos, und tho court compolod him to pay to tho Injured roan u sum equal s$225 per your for life, and to pay all vAMtoetor'fl bllla und tho costs of the euit HEALTH AND BEAUTY. An Explanation of the Intlnintn llclatloni Kxlutlntr ItotWfcn tlm Two. To bo beautiful, a woman must be healthy; tho delicacy which comes from physical weakness is not an ele ment of beauty. Tho grace of a per fect form is tho result of sound bono and flesh; health strengthens tho muscles, and the proper condition of tho stomach and lungs is of great Im portance on tho perfect circulation of tho blood and Its freedom from all impurities doponds the beauty of the complexion. Tho skin must bo kept hoalthy by frequent bathing and propor diet, as woll as plenty of ex ercise in tho open air. Tho English aro wont to say tho paleness and sallow tlngo of tho American girl's complexion is duo to insulllcient nour ishment, tho want of strengthening food. A French author of noto snys: "A train of exact and rigid observation has demonstrated that a succulent, delicate and careful regimen ropols to a distance, and for a considerable length of time, tho external nppear nncos of old age. It gives moro brilliancy to tho eyes, moro freshness to tho skin, moro support to tho mus cles, and us It is certain in physiology that it is depression of tho muscles that causes wrinkles, those enemies of beauty, ,it is equally true to say that, other things being equal, thoso who understand eating aro compara tively ten years younger than thoso who do not understand that sclonco." Our dry utmosphcro, it is true, is somowhat unfavor able to clearness and brilliancy of tho complexion, and our cltmato is moro or less exhausting to tho constitu tion of women, yet with caro and at tention to certain rules any woman, not actually diseased, may have good health, and with it somo degree of beauty. Bathing is ono of tho first require ments, as it produces a healthful con dition of tho skin. Thoroforo, tho daily bath, with a walk of an hour or moro In tho open air (not tho oxorclso of housowork), and a plentiful supply of good, well-cooked, nourishing food plain food, not pies, puddings and sweet meats will add not only to a woman's attractive appoaranco, but improve mind, body and soul, for hoalth, happiness and virtuo go hand in hand. Ladies' Homo Companion. IUVA TO HER LOVER. An Ingcminim .Maiden's Spotinli In "Tho Wltiii'i of the Sun." "I seem to havo belonged to you al ways," slto said, with a beautiful can dor. '! seem only to have a right to myself through you. Your love makes mo glad to bo mysolf, becauso If I had been any ono else, no mattor how groat or good, you would not havo loved mo and your lovo Is best. No, no; you must not speak; you must not contradict mo. Just lot mo say what Is In my heart. I fool that what is there must run into your heart llko a stream Into tho groat soa. It Is won derful to think that I havo your lovo 1 out of tho world! It Is as though a groat star wore to ooncontrnlo Its light all on somo llttlo llowor and say, '1 will shino only for this llowor that I lovo.' It is nfl though somo high ono in Heaven woro to rof uso to slug in tho groat choir, that his voieo might bo hoard only In dreams of somo poor : woman upon oarlh whom ho loved and waited for. Ah, do not interrupt mo! It is so big in my heart. It strains mo. 1 havo no one else to speak to Indeed, no ono that I caro to speak to. You aro tho only ono tho very first tho ili-Bt since I was a llttlo child and I gavayou my sllvor book. You holpcd to form my life. You helped to make mo Into what you now lovo. You woro llko a song through tho slleneo of my life. Always your momoi'V was with mo at tho right moment. I never had a wrong thought, a wrong impulse, that your face did not come us eloar, as olonr it was as clear as that whlto magnolia llowor there In the moon light. And your eyes would look so grieved. 1 longed to ask your pardon, to havo you take my hand and say that you forgave mo. I dreamed about you 'sometimes when I was awake, Bomotlines when I was asleep. When I used to fancy how It would bo If yon woro dead It scouted llko a tiresome voice insisting that I was alive. I would try not to listen to It, but it would seem to llll the room. And thon I would llo quite still and think. 'Aft er all, it Is you who lovo him. my heart- Heat on, beat on! Oh, do not stop! without you I could not glvo him my love."' From Mrs. Chamber's Latest Novel. Tho Coat Made tho Horse. A citizen of Xenla, O , had tho family horse clipped, and then told his wife and daughter that ho traded off tho faithful animal. Roth woro as tounded and began Immediately to orltlelsu the now ono. "How ugly his color Is," said ono of them. "What an unirnlnlv Hltane. too." remarked tho other. "And boo how wild and rock less ho acts," Bald tho mother, who al ways doted on tho gontlottessof tho old horse. In thin way they dissected tlio now horso for quite awhile, and whon told tho truth could hardly refrain from apologizing to tho old horso thoy had bo slandered. Two Scotch tramps, man and wife, make a irood llvimr oil tho baby, "Wo lust gets Mm christened," explains tho man. "In all tho towns wo passes, and then, you see. parson makes us all comfortable wl' sutniuut to out and monoy for beds. On duys orful bad wo Las to do m tyio. BURNED TO DEATH. A Sarnco I'linifttiuicnt Itrvlvril In the l'rnvlncn of Yunnan, Clilmi. Tho Governor of Yunnan states that in somo of tho country districts of that province tho villagers havo a horrible custom of burning to doath any man caught stealing corn or fruits In the Holds. Thoy at tho same time compel tho man's rolatives to sign a document giving their consent to what Is done, and then mnko them light tho lire with their own hands, so as to doter them from lodging a complaint afterward. Sometimes tho horriblo ponalty is exacted for tho breaking of a single branch or stalk, or oven falao accusa tions aro made and men put to death out of spite. This terriblo practice, which seoms incredible when heard, camo into uso during tho timo of tho Yunnan rcbollon, and tho constant ef forts of tho authorities have not succeeded in extirpating it since. Last autumn a caso of tho kind occurred in tho Chluching prefecture. Ono evening a man named Peng Choa-Sheng was going down to watch his own Hold. His path led him along tho side of a patch of malzo bo longing to another man. As ho passed ho pulled off a head of corn. The owner saw him and shouted out. upon which ho dropped tho corn and lied. Tho owner wont and told his landlord, upon which the latter proposed that tho pil ferer should bo burned. Tho two men having agreed, next morning they laid tho matter before an assembly of tho villugors. As tho mat ter was so trifling sotno advised that it should bo let drop, but their opinion was not listened to. On tho following day tho two men seized their victim and bound him. Tho poor man's moth er camo with all her relatives and bogged for mercy. She offered to mako atonement by forfeiting tho whole of her property to tho community, but all sho could say was of no avail. Tho moii refused to give way, and ordored her to give her consent to tho murdor In writing, threatening her that otherwise thoy would put her to doath also. Ovoreomo by fear sho asked a stranger, a traveling doe tor who can not bo identified, to writo tho required paper for her. Thoy thon piled up a heap of brushwood in an empty plnco outsldo tho illngo and tho noxt day at noon carried the man out and laid him bound upon it. Tho woman was compoled to sot firo to tho faggots, and her son was burned to death. Afterward, as soon as sho could, sho stolo away to tho town and gavo Information to tho authorities. The two men woro Immediately ar rested. Ono of them, tho landlord, died in prison, but tho other was sont to the provincial capital for trial. Tho memorialist ljnds that in tho fifteenth year of Ch'ion Lung, A. D. 1750, at tho request of tho Governor of Szechuon, it was decreed that in tho case of any porson bolng burned to doath by a body of men, tho principal olTondor should bo executed by tho lingoring proeoss and tho participants in tho crlmo bo bohoaded. Tho land lord, who In this ease was tho princi pal, has already died. His follow-of-fondor was condemned to immediato decapitation, and tho sentence- has boon carried into effect without delay. Peking. Oflleiul Gazette. THE LATEST DISEASE. It Hits it Short Nituie, Hut u I. out; List of UnpluiiHiiut Symptoms. "It" is tho namo of a new disonso so-called for lack of a more descriptive tltlo. Its symptoms and courses do not tally with tho description of othor diseases, although It resembles a good many In Its different forms. The most prominent symptom, in tho first place, U a muscular or neuralgic pain mostly in tho back. Anothor important symp tom Is oxtremo weakness, coming on suddenly, without any rlso In pulse and without fever. Tho patient is languid, disinclined to work, tho appetllo is usually abnormal, and In a majority of eases tho throat becomes affected, giv ing rise to something like tonsilltls, but it Is not howvot amenable to local treatment, as Is tho ordinary form of tonsllltis. It Is Infectious without being contagious, in otXor cases tno mucous mcmnrauo oi mo stomach becomes affected, giving rise to severe symptoms of dyspepsia, in still another class of eases tho mucous inoinbrauo of tho bow els Is affected, and tho symptoms ap pear to bo typhoid fever, but In all these casos neither tho pulse nor tho temperature shows any febrile dis turbances in tho tlrst day or two. In all these genuine casos tho fever first comes and then tho disease develops. After tho lapse of several days tho pain usually disappears, with tho gen eral weakness Increasing, and then, as tho heart becomes weakor, both pulse and temperature become higher. Tho glands, usually, in tho neck or in any part of tho body, are moro or less af fected, being tender to tho touch and somewhat swollen. If It appears In the throat or nose wo frequently And false membranes upon tho surface of tho mucous membranes closely resem bling tho false membranes of diph theria, differing from it, however, In that they do not chango color nor turn up at the edges, nor Is thoro any raw ness or ulceration Inmeath. A distin guished Philadelphia physician thinks tho malady Is caused by an organic poison known as ptomaine, which Is very volatile and Is probably Intro duced into tho system through tho lungs. Tho poison can bo eliminated only through tho kidneys and tho skin. Stimulation of their excretion Is tho propor treatment. Public speakers, lngors and actors aro prone to the all u. ;:t. Cincinnati liuuLirer. FOREIGN GOSSIP. German cavalry officers hcreaftct will havo to Includo stcoplcchaslng Id their studios. In Homo thero nro 30 cardinals, 3.? bishops. 1,-IG'J priests, 2,215 nuns and 3,000 monks, friars, candidates, etc. At tho recent London dioccsnn conference the Bishop of Bedford ad vocated card playing in workingmon's clubs, but, rather strangely, disap proved of dominoes. Tho Boers havo whipped England five different times, and ono of tnolr prophets now predicts a coming war in which a Boor will bo raised to the British throne. In 1882 Icolnnd was visited by n remarkable sand-storm, lasting two weeks, which hid tho sun and objects a fow yards off liko a denso fog, and caused the death of tliousands of sliccf. and horses. A discussion as to tho height ot trees in tho forests of Victoriit elicited Irom Baron von Mueller, tho govern ment botanist, the statement that ho saw ono of a height of 525 foot. Tho lato chief inspector of forests measured ono fallen and found that it was 385 feet long. The commander of tho French Na tional Military School at St. Cyr lately issued an order forbidding card play lug. Ho defends tho order by assert ing that playing for money was so com mon in tho school that young men of no fortune had frequently mortgaged their pay for five, six, and even ten years after leaving the eollogo to pay gambling dobts. A German traveling on tho Lako of Como recently, gave a waiter a paper of diamonds tolling him that it was a tip, and mado similar presents to others. Tho police asked him some questions, and ho replied that he lived upon diamonds and ho paid with dia monds, whereupon ho proceeded to swallow several of tho precious stones. He was locked up In an asylum and hia friends sent for. Ho had neaii fifty thousand dollars' worth of diamonds in his possession at the time. Tho population of Kamchatka, which was carefully registered in 1878 and 1879, shows a regular decrease; since 1741 tho population seoms to have been reduced to one-half of what It was 148 years ago. Years of scarcity of fish, tho staple food of tho popula tion, aro quito common. In such casos tho Lamutes and tho Koryaks usually bring to tho Kamchndales a number of their reindeer; but this voluntary help is not sufficient to prevent starvation. --Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckloy, writing of Spain, says: "Bribery is goneral in Spain. Almost any thing can be done with a fee. Not moro than forty per cent of tho taxes leviod by tho government can bo collected. Mayors of cities get rich in n yoar. One at least of tlio most important cities is destitute of credit. No one will lend it any money. Spaniards so distrust each othov that monoy is not forth coming for groat public works. Tho English manage tho water-works, tho street cars and almost every thing else." Ono of the strangest pieces of ar tillery in Europe is at Metz and Is known by tho namo of tho "Griffin," from the figure of the fabulous animal which is to bo found among tho orna mental portion of- its workmanship. The gun was cast in 1520 at Ehren broitstein, near Coblentz. It is 17 feet In length and 3 in diamotor. Tho bore Is 10.1 inches; weight. 22,500 pounds. Us carriage is 21 feet in length, and the weight of the ball which it carrlos is 150 pounds; 42 pounds of powder is required for the charge. Napoleon Intended it for the War Department. Paris, but found difficulty in transport ing it. AN AMUSING CASE. a ri ench WlilowN tiliiss IJyo Crouto Con- Hltlitruhlti .Mm inn-lit In Court. A very curious cause lately came be fore the justice of tho peace of Neuilly, Franco. Somo time ago Madamo Flu yette. a widow of fifty, but v ho still attache much importance to personal appearance, nnu ute nusioriuuo, in playing with a lap-dog, to receive from It bo sovoro a wound In ono oi iter oyes that it came out of tho socket. Hav ing heard much of artificial eyes, and being recommended to apply to an e--pert manufacturer in this way, named l'ainsler, sho gavo an order for a glass oye for which tho optician charged her 100 francs ($20). Refusing to pay this charge, tho manufacturer summoned her before tho justice of tho pence. Madame Pluyo.to having appeared, holding tho glass oyo in her hand, tho judge asked her why sho rofusod to the bill which Monsieur Tamsior had sent in? For a very good reason," replied tho defendant; "1 can see no moro with this eye than 1 could before." What!" said tho judge, "did yon really imagine that you would be able to see with a glass oyo?" "Did I think so?" retorted tho angry dame. "Certainly I did. Will you bu so good as to tell mo what oyos aro.fof except to see with? 1 ordered tho oyo for use, and until Monster Tamsior makes me one with which I can see 1 will not pay him a sou." Tho justice of tho peace endeavored to convince Madamo Pluyetto that glass oyos were for others to look at, and not for tho wearer to look through; but finding all appeals to her reason of no avail, ho condemned her to pay tho plaintiff tho amount of his demand. When the defendant heard the decision she becamo furious with anger, and, after dashing her glass eye on tho floor, sho rushed out of court, amid tho laugh cr of the crowd. N. Y. Lodger "BMLIN' THE WATER" A Maine Glrl'n ConunnnU Upon Seclnc n Steum Fire Kiisine. It was not many years ago that Ka tury Barker, a brisk and talkative Maine girl, camo up from York County to Boston to look for household em ployment. Sho found It In a family where the people woro willing to sub mit to hor talkativeness and familiar ways sho had no idea that sho was In tho family oi any other than equal terms for tho sako of getting a capa ble and industrious helper. Ono after noon Katury was sent by her mistress to tho squaro to get somo thread which was very much needed. Tho errand was not Hkoly to take moro than fifteen minutes, and Kalury's mistress did not think it necessary to toll tlio hustling Maine girl to make haste. But after a long lime had passed, and tho girl did not return, the mistress began to worry. "What aim havo happened to the child? I havo never known her to loiter." Soon after, howovcr. tho girl came in, red and breathless with excitement. "Why. Katury, whero havo you been?" asked her mistress. "llccn! My goodness, ma'am, there's a firo down t' the square tho awfulest liro you over see! More'u five hund'ed folks stan'in round lookin' on, an' the craziest lot o' fools my! Why, what do you think they're a-doln'?" "What, Katury? Putting out the firo?" "No, and that's tho wust on't. There they bo, fellows with big hats on an' red shirts, an' their sleeves rolled up, stan'in' round a kind of a b'ilor, pilin' on coal, an' bilin' that thero water bc- foro they put it out' tlm liro!" "Boiling the water! Why, Katury, it must bo u steam-engine!" "Steam-ongyno? I guess not! Them fellers thoy jest wont to work, kinder cool an' collected, an' got a lot o' coal an' stuffed it in undornoath their b'iler, an' thero they was, b'ilin' the water an' not goiu" a stop toward that fire! I jest stepped up t' tho policeman that stands there, an' says I: 'May bo they call us folks from Down East green, but if that 'ore ain't tho greenest thing I ever see, my namo ain't Katury Bar ker!' says I. " 'Green?' says he, kind o' careless. What's green?' " 'A-stoppin' to bilo that water 'foro thoy put it out' tho firo!' says I. "No, sir,' says I, 'ye don't ketch tho folks down in Maine doin' a stupid thing llko that!1 An' that policeman ho laughed right In my face!" Tho joke was so good that the family wero soon all in possession of it, and finally an anecdote based upon it crept into one of the newspapers. This printed nneodoto was shown to Katury. "Oh, dear! dear!" sho exclaimed. "It'll got copied into tho York County papers, an' what'll 1 do thon?" "O Katury," said hor mistress, to reassure hor, "you seo thero is no namo given in this story; It just says 'a country cousin.' Nobody could toll it was you." "Land's sakes, ma'am." said Katury, shaking her head sadly, "tho minute they seo that down in York County they'd jest know 'twas mo!" Youth's Companion. TO REDUCE DISCOMFORT. How Liiillrt und Ciiiilloiuru Khoulil Con duct 1 litiuiHt-l vrs III I'ulilli! l'liiciti. Do not carry your umbrolla or cane so that tho person behind you is threatened with the loss of an oye, or must dodge to avoid a thrust in tho face or ribs. Bo especially caroful not to carry it under tho arm at an anirlo of forty-livo degrees going up stair ways. Do not wait until in front of a rail road tiekot window to consult the time table Do not wait until in front of the tickot-sellerboforo your pockotbook is found. Try to havo tho monoy ready, tho exact change if possible, and re member that, whilo you may have plenty of timo. every ono following you is not so fortuuo. When entering a pow in church, do not sit down in tho aisle end, and com pel eaoh porson to crowd past you. Go through to tho end, and remember that to bo polite requires that tho loast dis comfort and oxcitonient shall becausod by your acts. Brigands, robbers, or Indians are not likely to makodeseonts on public places of worship or amuse ment In our day, and women may bo trusted to sit in the aislo ond of the pews and seats. Whon thero aro no reserved seats, and tho wholo house is sold at a uni form price, it is hardly fair for ono porson to go and ronorvo threo or four seats for hor friends, saying "tho seats aro engaged" to thoso who, moro just and polite, rof uso to question tho in justice, and unquestionlngly take less advantageous seats, though they sacri ficed time to secure bettor, and aro dis turbed, after tho performance or lect ure has begun, by the lato arrivals who had used a friend to defraud the public. If you moot a frlond in a storo, do not forgot, in your own joy of mooting hor, that tho clerk's timo is paid for, and that you havo no right to monop olize it to tho exclusion of othor trade. In leaving church or any public hall, do not stop in tho aisle-ends of teats, preventing othor people from leaving tho building who muy havo no time to spoud that way. To romember that thero aro othor pooplo who havo their own affairs that need immediate attention, who mako engagements for certain time which they expect to keep, is to bo simply just. To olog a llttlo as possible tho currents of travel is tho part of every considerate man and woman. Chris tian llnlrtn. FACTS ABOUT WINDS. tlowThpy Art Cumnl iiu.l How .Mankind Js ItonrllttiMl by Thrill. Tho ntmosphoro which surrounds this earth, tho presenco of which is CBSontial to tho existence of every liv ing being, extends to a vory consider able hoight, and, as tho philosophers havo demonstrated, exerts a prossuro f of fifteen pounds on every squaro inch of tho earth's surface. This being re membered, wo enn readily conceive thnt evory motion or agitation of this atmosphere will bo sensibly felt, whether it occur in slight and gcntlo breezes, such as may on a summer's evening refresh all animate nature, or whether it assume a moro fearful character, such as when, under tho form of tho simoon, it threatens death to every traveler in tho desert. By agency of tho winds tho atmos phere is purified from the noxious ef fluvia which arise from the marshy Boiis and stagnant waters, and which would be destructive alike to animal and vegetable life; by their currents tho clouds aro transported Into distant regions, whero falling in rain, thoy re fresh and fertilize lands that would otherwise bo barren; by their aid, too, llttlo seeds, provided with pinions or fringed, as it were, for tho purpose such is tho beneficent forosiglit of Nat ure aro borne along to spread far and wido tho empire of vegetation. The ingenuity of man. too, has made a lover of tho winds, which ho hns ap plied in tho operation of machinery, as may bo observed in wind-mills; also, in taking ndvantago of their power, and adapting them to his service by tho ingenious manner in which tho sails of a ship are set to catch every side-wind that may still urgo her od hor voyago. Tho causo of winds is simple and easily understood. When tho air, by which wo aro surrounded becomes specifically lighter, in consequence of which it mounts upwards; and tho colder and denser air which surrounds tho mass thus ratified, rushes in to supply its place. When the door of a heated apart ment is thrown open, a current of air is theroby immediately produced; tho warm air from tho apartment passing out near tho top of the door, and tho cold air from tho passage rushing iu below. On applying theso principles to ac count for tho origin of tho wind, wo find that, whon tho rays from tho sun, by their reflection from tho earth's surface, havo rarified a portion of tho surrounding air, tho air so rarified as cends into the higher regions of tho atmosphere, and tho colder air by which it was surrounded moves for ward in a sonsiblo current to llll tho vacuity. When, also, a condensation of vapor in tho atmosphere suddenly takes place, giving rise to clouds which speedily dissolve in rain, tho temperature of tho surround ing air is sensibly altered, and tho colder, rushing in upon tho warmer, gives riso to a sudden gust of wind. For this reason a cold, heavy shower passing ovor head with a hasty fall of snow or hail, is often attended with a violent and suddon gust of wind, such us sailors call "a faquall," which ceases whon tho cloud disappears, but is re newed when another cloud, sweeping along in tho sumo direction, brings with It a fresh blast. Accordingly, a whistling, or howling, or noiso of the wind, is universally considered to bo a prognostic of rain, becauso it indicates that a change is taking place in tho totnporaturo of tho atmosphere, owing to tho vapor iu itjs higher regions be ing condensed into rain-clouds. The general nature of tho winds in this and iu other countries depends very much on tho character of the region whence they may havo swept, and, accordingly, it is necessary to re momber that tho globe Is divided into livo zones or belts tho torrid, which is oxposed to the direct rays of the sun; tho two temperate zones, which, meet ing tho rays of the sun obliquely, en joy a moderate degree of heat; and the two frigid zones, which, deprived of tho heat of the sun for it great part of tho yoar, and during the other part receiving his rayb still more obliquely, aro regions of ice mid snow. Currents of wind are described not according to the point to which they proceed, as is the case with the cur rents of tho sea, but according to that from which thoy aro derived. By a westerly current of water wo imply a current flowing towards tho west; by a westerly current of air, ono coming from tho west. Wo may now thereforo observe, that a wind is moist becauso it comes from tho Atlantic, wltero a great quantity of vapors arise. Whon mingled with that of the south, which comes from the torrid zone, it is rendered particularly warm. The wind is the driest which comes from tho continent of Asia, where thero aro few seas. Tho north wind, however, is tho coldest, becauso It sweeps from tho linnienso tracts of ice and snow in tho frigid zouo. Tho northeasterly winds aro la this country proverbially chilly and bitter. N. Y. Ledger. His Case the Sadder. "This is tho seventh timo within I two hours that you havo asked mo whon tho train loft for Lansing," re plied tho policeman at tho Third Strcot depot to a young mun with a Buohol. "Is It against tho law?" "No, but It Is rather annoying to mo," ' "Woll, if it annoys you, how do you think 1 must feel about It? T?o faro Is $2. GO, and Pvo got to think of somo way to got out there on $1.0." Do trolt Freo Prose.
