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GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN, MONTPELIER. Tt. Offlw la Oie Brick Block, Head of SUU Street tebmb: $3.00 if paid ia advance; otherwise, fSM. Payment nmy be made by mat! or otherwise to J. W. WUEKLUCB. Editor and Proprietor. TUe FnKKMAN. nnilerthe receut law of Couktom eircuIatCB Ire in WaBbiiiKtno County, On all paper aeu( uuUnlc WashiuictoiiCoauty, tiie pottage la paid by tliu publiriUfr at tUo utlic in Moutplier (the xtmnn. 'TERMS FOR ADVERTISING. i.'rt iT ;r:;r? ' " Airr a frw. . l'mUte ,uil OomtnlMioMr.' Nutiwi, ioo eich. (ouiiwui liie fetter. , money muatmc- County Clerk VOL. XXXV. SIONTPELIElt, VT., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1878. NO. 49. Jitarofeii .1 .JSTPELIEH.VT. WEDNESDAY. DEC. 4, 1S78. Deferred Items. Simon Cameron is certain sure it will ho Grant; ho predicts that the campaign of lfsSi) will ho livelier than tlio Jackson cam paign, nearly half a century ago, every body will bo in earnest, anil Grant w ill go in with a sweep, carrying overy north ern stalt!. Imiiiman Curn.TV to Paiter In sane. A sudden visit of a committee of the supervisors ef Syracuse to the asylum for insanu naupcrs rerouted the fact thai tivo hitman beings were kept in under ground cells, naked, filthy beyond belief, and evidently without any care except tho furnishing of food through a hole in the doors. A remai kahlo death bed confession bus been made to Hishop Pinkney by Charles Bradford, a wealthy young man of Union Square, Mil., who tried to die. in peace by acknowledging himself the author of nu merous Idlers sent ill I he last four years, which have smirched Iho characters of an innocent man and woman and caused ninny quarrels in that neighborhood. William Ilnss Wallace, the author of "The Sword of Hunker Hill," was ar rested on a recent Saturday night in Xew York, charged with being intoxicated, lie was discharged without a line. Wallace was at one lime a man of much promise. Ilis later . veins have not fullilled the promise. He is now a wandering Hobe mian without friends or money. The youngest member of tho next onc grcss will be Kobert 1.. Taylor, elected by the democrats of the First Tennessee dis trict. He is just twenty-live years of age, and carried a district that gavo over one thousand republican majority, two years nno, beeauso of Hie unpopularity of the Illinois carpet-bagger nominated against him, and because his father, a prominent republican, worked for him. The llli noisan insulted Taylor on the stump, and was knocked down with tho butt of Tay lor's pistol. Wisk.sti.ixo MATCH. At Chicago, Sat urday night, a collar-aud-elbow mutch was wrestled between John MuMahon of Ver mont and James 11. McLiughlin of De troit, for one thousand dollars a side and the championship belt. MuMahon weigh ed two hundred and four pounds and Mc Laughlin two hundred and forty-three pounds. McLaughlin won the lirst fall, but Me.M ihon gathered in the next two in goodsUle. MuMahon showed the belt and said: " Gentlemen, I have been after this for live years, an 1 havo got it at last." The action of the north toward the south in her latest hour af desolation and alllic tion has done much to bridge ovev the chasms between the two parts of the na tion, to lieal old wounds and lo inculcate good feeling and good will in the place of party and sectional haired and distrust. The south can never forget the grand, heartfelt, splendidly generous manner in which the north, so little a time ago her deadly enemy, came to her aid with money and medicines, and material aid of all kinds, and wrds of comfort and encour agement and good cheer. It took away hard feelings long cherished and softened bitterness long felt. Senator l.nmar. The Memphis (Tenn.) Appall gives its parly good advice. It says that it is the duty of the democratic members of con gress to move, on the first day of tho ses sion, for a committee to investigate the cipher dispatches, and also to constitute a joint committee of the House and Senate to inquire into the alleged election frauds in South Carolina and Louisiana, in St Louis and Xew York, with power to send for'pei'sons and pipers. "One wrong does not justify another. If election frauds have been perpetrated in Louisiana or South Carolina, in Cod's name, in the name of law and order and public decency, let tho perpetrators be tried and punish ed." Tin- Largest Plant in the Would. We are aet-iislunied to regard the great trees of California as tho most gigantic specimens of vegetable growth known to iimn.hutjsiu-li is not the case.There is a -lib-marine plant growing in the North l'acilic ocean, which, according to Prof, l'.oinsch, dwarfs all others in iis vast proxrtion3. The Macroeystis pyrifera, one of the Mel nnospcniHfi, has been known to grow to such an extent as to cover vast areas of tlie ocean bed, One specimen by meas t'.rement was found to cover throe square miles, and the stem from which the growth proceeded was eight feet in diameter.- It is almost impossible to coneievo of such a plant, or how a system of nourishment can be maintained through such extended channels in the living organism. Nature performs strangu freaks, and certainly none can be stranger than the fact that of this gigantic species there are some speci mens' so small as to be microscopic, or only to be seen by the aid of powerful ob jectives. Ho 4un Journal ef Chemistry. A Waijn-ini-:. Prof Wilder of Cornel; University has done a great service to hu manity hv patenting what he calls a "ker osene warning tag," to be attached to all packages of tiiat fluid. On its reverse side he gives these timely bints as to the proper tise'of keros-ne oil and lamps: " Huy the best oil. The lower-priced varieties are apt to be more, volatile and explosive. Have your glass lamps securely hung. Se lect those in which the end of the burner is elevated considerably above the body of the lamp. Lamps to lie carried should he ol metal, have handles, and be of some safely ' pattern. Kill the lamps by day light and never while lighted. If obliged to lill them :u night, havo tho lif?lit at least a yard oil', anil not in a current of air. Lamps should be filled daily, and never li-diled when parilv empty. Never caary a "hiss lamp lighted: A lamp with the wicK turned down is more liable to exp ode. Keep the can dosed anil in a saiu piin-u x'. , w,ni mi the lire If burniug oil .rets upon the floor, smother Willi woo en blanket, rug, carpet or clothing. If the ..LMi.hiw takes lire, wrap a blanket or rug about the person, or ro'.l him upon floor. the Tin: KvANiirt.isrs." There is grow ing up over the country a small, irregular force of ni n, well-intentioned, many of them, however, under-educated, following the example of Mr. Moody, and ta a large extent icaching-with more or loss consist ence and publicity what are called " pro millennial views," and so getting ready themselves, and preparing some others re entering into " Plymouth-brotlieiism, U a man can bo said lo enter that which is without land-mark or definite boundary. Some of them are already " brethren of the -open" Uind-ono of the earhcr stages of the disorder. In the full development of the thing all churches arc denounced as corrupt and worldly organizations, from which all saints must " come out, ami the ininisier.t of which are money-loving or place-loving hirelings. tW.at should be done? Two things: ministers bad hel ler do their own evangelistic work in their b Minds rather than engage these men ; and secondly, in their sermons, Lible-class-,-s and woek-day lectures pastors should teach the irulh on such topics as have been Ku. '.'listed. Any "evangelists" wlio ore as'aliove described will denounce this statement. Tho others will bo grateful for it, Dr. John. Hull. .Hiss Ashbcll. Consternation was depicted on the facos of the family group assembled to hear it, when I finished reading the letter I had just received from my aunt. Iho group consisteu 01 myseu iiiary, eldest daughter of tho house and hearth brown, dark eyed, tall, and eighteen; Helen, not quite as brown, hazel-eyed, almost as tall, and sixteen; Will, browner. darker-eyed, a head shorter, and ten; and Carroll, towering abovo us all, bluo-eyed, golden-moustached, and twentv-one. Aunt was, in fact, our great aunt, sister of our father's mother, but the only aunt. great or little, that we had ever known. We had met her but two or three times during our lives, in far-away Illinois, und she was too much occupied wiih grains and herds to think of frequent visiting, and we well, wo were too poorly provided with gold and silver to take long and expensive journeys. So what little visiting there had UUIMi IHVU UUeu lli,ifc o omv, nn wi'O exception, and then was tho visitor. It was when I was about fifteen this short but memorable visit took place. Yielding to aunt's repeated solicitations 1 was her namesake I started from home with the intention of spending tho summer months on the Illinois farm. I arrived there safe ly, was welcomed heartily, and entertain ed right royally ; but before a week had passed away I had grown so tired of the seeming boundlessness of everything, and so longed for tho little cottage and Lilli putian garden where grew my three rose bushes one red, ono white, one a creamy yellow that aunt, seeing the longing in my eyes, said, " Child, you must go back," and back I eatno long before I was ex pected, but my dear father and mother assured me not a moment too soon. Wo children had always heard twice a year from aunt once coueoiiveiy at Christmas, and once respectively on our birthdays and each tuno tho kindly note which exhorted us to " be good, industri ous, mid sell-reliant, lnoioscti a cjicck larger or smaller, according to aunts gains of the preceding year that aunt being tho wealthiest and most influential member of tho Carmody family. A few days before our father died he call ed us togethor and said, " My children, it isn't at all likely to occur, but if ever aunt should ask a tavor of you, grant it, at no matter what inconvenience. She has been my best and dearest friend." Poor father! I suspect aunt has often helped him out of pecuniary difficulties. Uo was an unpractical, ureamy sort 01 man, loud ol onus anil poetry anu Bow ers, and didn't succeed very well in lifo. But, in spite of his dreaminess and his want of worldly tact, and his being so totally unlike her in most ways, he was a great favorite of aunt's, and when we tel egraphed Ids serious illness to her sho left her vast possessions without a captain at a moment's notice, and hastened to his side, making her appearance in a bonnet that immediately suggested the prairies, it was so unlimited in size, and so bare of orna ment, and which grotesquely obtruded itself into tho remembrance of that sad time forever after. Since father's death things nadn t been very bright with us. In fact, they hadn't been bright at all. We found there was a good deal of money owing, and wtiat remained 01 me two hundred dollars aunt gave us on the day of tho funeral sho bade us " good bye " the instant tho ceremonies were over after our very deop mourning was paid for, went to the butcher, grocer and shoe maker. We were all willing to do, and all did, whatever wo could toward supporting the household; but dear! dear! talk about weeds! uever saw anything grow like hills. Carroll, who had an artistic iituin of mind, struggled with it, and 1, who had a dressmaking turn of mind, struggled with that, and lieien struggled with her books, hoping to become a teacher in time, and little Will struggled with somebody's else's books, for 'ho went into a publishing house as errand hoy, poor fellow! Besides the struggles, wo iiad mother on our minds. A few weeks after we lost our father we lost our baby sister. A beautiful child she was, as bright as a diamond and as fair as a pearl, and the pride and darling of us all. Already sinking beneath the blow of her husband's dcath,"when her little daughter died too, my mother's heart was nearly broken. From being a sunshiny, energetic, busy woman, she became listless and apathetic, silting in her room day after day gazing upon tho pictures of the loved ones, or rocking back and forth, her hands clasped before Her, looking with dry eyes upon vacancy. Well, tho exchequer was low enough and mother had had one of her very bad spells, and a lady customer had just been in and abused me yes, abused ; I can use no other word; women do fly in such a temper at their dressmakers about the lit of her dress, declaring it to be " utterly ruined," when it only wanted taking up a little on one shoulder and lot ting down an inch or so in front, when aunt's letter fell like a bomb shell into our very, nearly disheartened little camp. " lkar Folk: A friend of mine an Inglislmian " (aunt's languago was correct enough, but at times her spelling was something peculiar)" who came here purposing to start in business, took the fever, lingered a few months and died, leaving. Heaven only knows why, his only child, a daughter, wlio will eventually be a not-to-hcsnilled-at heiress, to my care. Having been delicately reared in the midst of devotion and tenderness, this placo only suited to hold, strong natures, is a little too ruff for her. So she desires at least 1 desire for her a homo in the north, and I wish that homo to bo with you. Her maid will accompany her. At present her all'airs are in a ttftftle, but I hope to un ravel them in the course of a few months, and then yoti will be recompensed for whatever extra expense sho may cause you. I would enclose a check at present writing, but all my funds are invested in a speculation from which I expect to reap much profit. Do the best you can until you hear from me again, when I will fur ther unfold my plans in regard to Miss Ashbcll, who,' hv-the-by, starts to-morrow. Aunt." No wondir consternation and dismay were depicted on every countenance when I ceased reading the letter. What in the world were wo lo do willi this line young lady in our humble home? What could aunt bo thinking aboulP True, she didn't know exactly how poor we. were, for we'd been too proud to ac knowledge our extreme poverty in our few and lar-between letters. On the con trary. I am afraid wo had led her lo be lieve that we. were in quite a nourishing condition. Of coiirso Miss Ashbcll would look with scorn on our seven-roomod dwelling, with a back garden twenty-live by twenty-live, and a court yard ten by ten. Anil suppose as aunt, with a short sightedness vci v unusual to her, compla cently remarked Caroll should fall in love with her? And somebody else might bo attracted toward her -men are sn susceptihlo to woman's beauty somebody who now thought inij brown face tho sweetest in the worlil. The very thought mado my heart stop beating. And the maid? Even if wo could make ariaugeiueiits to accommodate her and it seemed utlerly impossiblo for us to do so IJeity, our faithful servant for the last fifteen years would look upon her in the li"ht of an interloper, and treat her as smih. lietty had been used toboing " mon arch of all she surveyed.", Even in house cleaning times those times that try men's souls and women's soles she scorned the idea of an assistant. "No, ma'am, I'll have no strangers tiok- n' roun' m. When I'm not .able , to do the trnrlr r,f tlx, a lmoa lnna I'll '' work of this house alone, I'll go." And mother dear, shrinking, jrricf- stricken mother how would sho bear the advent of this dainty Miss Ashbcll? lint we could do nothing to avert the impend- ing misfortune. The news must bo immediately broken to mother and liettv. I. being the house- kec)er, undertook to face the latter. She heard me grimly, never censing to pare the potatoes she held in her lap, and when I had ended, looked u i) with a sham nod of her hoad, and said, slowly and eniphat- lenity, uotiy'ii iiave to go now, suro. She can't stand no fine young ladies and easy young ladies maids about for noth- in." Helen wont to mother, put her arms about her neck, and with a kiss and a smile told her of the expected visitor, ad- ding, with an assumption of gayoty : "Sho sha'nt come near you at all, niamiua dear, If you don't want her; but you know aunt nas tieen so Kinu to us, and lather loved her so dearly, it would be impossible to refuse the lirst favor sho ever asked of us." ai.,ti.nn -.1 I... I i ..... .u , a ui-a.li., uniMiiiir uiu uair uacK irom iter leiupiesj lieht Is gone with both hands in a nervous way she had ' ,, 6ll0 ;imi,M?3uuiy, 8omy coin,, ,M stlc.it f.ol. when anything grieved or annoyed her. I stepson. And tlien wo began preparing for Miss'i am going ; come and kiss mo-klss me for iny Ashbcll. Will's room was to be "riven un I dariinir wile: to her, and Will (Carroll's room was scarcely largo enough lor himself and his art trails, ns he called them) was to be stowed away in tho loft a proceeding which he viewed with immense dissatis faction. " Oh, I wish there wasn't anv Miss Ashbcll! Why don't she go to a hotel? " " Why don't she?" echoed I. I said we began to prepare for her, but for lack of the before mentioned silver and gold, our preparations were of the simplest kind. Carroll mado and put up two pretty brackets, and hung, with a sigh lor ho hated to part with llicin the few pictures he possessed on the walls. I looped back tlie white curtains (freshly washed and ironed, with much grumbling. by Betty) with now blue ribbons, and I covered the trunk ottoman with a bright chintz, and with Helen's help made a new mat to placo before the bureau, and we turned an old table cloth into napkins, and bought a new napkin ring and two or three cut glass goblets and a lovely china cup nnd saucer, and when all was done, waited with anxious hearts for our unwel come guest. Mother had shut herself up in her room early in tho morning of tho day we ex pected ner, nnd had remained there ; and the rest of us were all as uncomfortable as poor, proud, shy, sensitive people could be at the thought of a perfect stranger's in gress into tho very heart of their home, ;tnd wishing audibly and inaudibly that Miss Ashbell's father had never brought her from England, when, as the sun sank in the west, and a cool summer breeze, fragrant with the breath of the roses, lifted the curtains of our cozy bay window, a carriage stopped at our door. She s come, and 1 m gone, paid Will, flinging down his book and rushing out into the garden. Carroll rose from his chair, ran his fin gers through his golden hair, nnd glanced in the mirror at his new bluo silk neck tie. Helen sank back on the lounge with a sort of a groan ; and I opened the parlor door as Betty went muttering through the entry in answer to the bell. " Is it Mrs. Carmody's? " nskod a pleas ant voice, with yes, it was a slight brogue. " Yes," answered lietty shortly. Anil in another moment a round-cheeked, un mistakably red-haired, good-natured-looking young girl in a plain traveling dress stood before me. "Good gracious! is this tho beauty?'' thought I ; and Carroll fell back a step or two. "Aro yon Miss Carmody? " she asked. " I am," I replied, holding out my hand, "nnd let me welcome yon;" when, turn ing from me, she gently pulled forward into tho room tho loveiiest little child 1 had ever beheld in my life, with large soul-lit brown eyes and sunny hair, the ex act color of our lost darling's. " This is Miss Ashbcll," said tho maid ; " nnd 1 am to stay or go back, as you see lit." I looked at Carroll. He indulged in a long under-the-breath whistle. Helen buried her face in the sofa cushion and laughed hysterically. The child came forward and holding out her little hand said with a pretty drawl, " I am to love you, nnd you aro to love me. Aunt said so." I went down on my knees on one side of her, and Helen went down on her knees on the other, and we kissed ber till her dimpled cheeks glowed again (you see the house hud been.so lonely without our little sister), whilo Carroll looked on with astonishment, admiration and tender ness blended in his handsome face, and Will stole in with the only bud from my precious tea-rose, the stem carefully stripped of its thorns, and put it into her hand. "Thank you, boy," she said, "I will have you for a brother, an I you, too," looking with a bright smile up into Car roll's face. " There is an angel home, in a big picture, with hair and eyes like yo nrs." Carroll caught her up in his arms, and ran away with her to mother's room. And there sho had no sooner said: " My papa nnd mamma are both in Heaven," than mother burst out into a blessed Ut of weeping that left a rainbow behind it. And from that hour the weiirht began to bo lifted from her brain, and soon 1 had to resign my position as housekeeper, for we had our mother back again as of old a little quieter in her ways, perhaps, but just as sweet, as kind and as unselfish as ever. And Carroll's picture of " Miss Ash bcll! " gained him a place on the walls of the academy that autumn; and Will, I often think, looking at the two young heads (there is only four years' difference in their ages), bendiug over the same book, some day will tell her tho old, old story, and she will hear it with a smile. " I shouldn't wonder if you were right, Brownie," says my husband how I laugh when I think of my jealous fears about him one upon a time!--" you almost always arc." And aunt's speculation turned out splendidly (sho is still living a hale old woman of seventy-five), nnd she insisted upon our accepting what sho called fa ther's share, and that share was no incon siderable ono. And tho scvon-roomed liouso has grown to a twolvo-roomed ono Hetty, by-the-bye, has allowed her daughter to assist in tho housework and the Uvonly-fivo by twenty-live garden to a hundred by a hundred, my corner just filled with ro.-e bushes. And everything has prospered with us, and no lengthening shadows have fallen upon our paths since the rosy Juno after noon Wo so unwillingly opened tho door to let in tho darling who loved us, as wo loved her. at first sight sweet, brown - frr.l.lnn-h'iirnd tlfic Ashlirll' oyod, goldon-hairod Miss Ashbcll! Harpers Heemi. j solemn injunction not to breauie ii lor ten Tho judgment of a child is a terrible thousand worlds. But it is just like a seid tribunal. Ono enn face tlio world and liu powder in his soul, in full efferves ono's equals, knowing all that is in one's cence. lie cannot endure the trust, and ,1 fnelino- tho full force of ono's so shares it with others. If Edison could rights. But the secret verdict of a boy or girl, whom natural rospcet will prevent from expressing-it or even defining it to themselves what a thing that is to en- counter. Mr). Oliphmt. tub nviNO Moi.niEit. Wriltcn on the death orcolonotChrldtv of North CHeiina, who lull uauruiiy woumini at t tfSj hS&$ w, '-"ti ...n.. i.... . i ... i . li-u a, mo oauie Wificheslor, Va. . ii hi. Delhi." bin before tbe reached V inchester he wa noauj I am dying is she coming? Throw the window open wide, Is she coming? Oh t Ilovohor more than all the world beside. In her young and lender bcauiy, must, obi mutt ehc tc"1 11,18 los8: s'io'i my voor petition, teach ber how to Ucar """ er08!- nt., her lo be calm and patient, when iniiiminn: moulder Let tier say and feel, ray Father, that thy ways are true and Jim. In sho coming? Uianl listen; I w,ml I soo her race once more, 1 would hear her Si3;tkin2 t mo, 'uro life'a sever- uil dteam is o'er. I woul I fold her toroy bsoin, look Into her soft, bright eyos; I woul I ted nor h )w 1 love he c kus her onco be fore I die. Ishocoiiiiug?Ohl'ii eve.iing, and my darling comes not still; Liitthiiumntms it grows duker;li is sunset on i the hill. A ti10 evening dews aro fall ng; 1 am eold-lhe . Take for her my paiiin blessing lake tho la-st ivaim kiss of life. Tell her I will wait Lo greet her where the good uuil lovely are, In that home untouched by soirow, tell hi r she must meol mo Ihere. In she cnmiiiK ? Lilt Iho curlainp, let mo nee the I'umng light; Oil I I want to livelo sue her, surely she will come to-nightl Sine on the day ilieth I will fold her to my brctst. Willi her hand upon my bosom, ccttainly, I'll siuk lo rest. it is head to die wllhuut her. Look) 1 think she's coming now. I can almost feel licr kissos ou my faded cheek nnd brow. 1 can almost heat-her whisper, feel her breath upon my cheek . HaiUt 1 hear the front door open, is she coming? U'iI the speak? No! vv'cll drop'the curtain softly, I will sco ber face no more, I'll see it smiling uu me, on the bright and bettor shore. Tell her sho musl come and meet me in lhat Eden land of ll-IH. Tell her Til be waiting for her, whore llioro is no ilea ill or nielli. Tell her that I called her darliug, blessed her with my Uyin breath. Co-lie anil kiss mo lor my Dell l, tell her lovo out lived my death. Animal FitiKNDSmi-s. Harper's Week ly gives remarkable instances, from Euro pean sources, of warm friendship among animals. Here are a few of them : A gentleman in Sussex had a cat which showed the greatest affection for a young blackbird which was given to her by a stable-boy for a day or two after stie had been deprived of her kittens. She tended it with the greatest care; they became in separable companions, and no mother could show a greater fondness for her off spring than she did for tho bird. Lenimory shut up a cat and several mice together in a cage. The mice in time get lo be very friendly, nnd plucked and nibbled at their felino friend. When any of them grew troublesome, she would gently box their ears. A German maga zine tells of a Mr. Ilecart who placed a tame sparrow under tho protection of a wild-cat. Another cat attacked tho spar row, which was at tho most critical mo ment rescued by its protector. During the sparrow's subsequent illness its natural foe watched over it with great tenderness. The same authority gives an instance of a eat trained like a watch dog to keep guard over a yard containing a hare, souio spar rows, blackbirds and partridges.. A pair of carriage horses taken to wa ter at a stone trough, then standing at one end of Manchester Exchango.was followed by a dog that was in the habit of lying in the stall of ono of them. As be gamboled on in front the creature was suddenly at tacked by a muslin far too strong for his power cf resistance, and it would have gone hard with him but for the uulooked tor intervention of his stable companion, which, breaking looso from Ihe man who was leading It, made for the battling dogs, and with one well delivered kick sent the mastitr into a cooper's cellar, and then quietly returned to the trough and finished us drink. In very sensible fashion, too, did Mrs. Bland's half-Danish dog Travel ler show his affection for his mistress's pet pony. The latter had been badly hurt, nnd when well enough to bo turned into a tield, was visited there by its fair owner and regaled with carrots and other delica cies. Traveller for bis part, never failing to fetch one or two windfall apples from the garden, laying them on the grass be fore the pony, and hailing its enjoyment of them with the liveliest demonstrations of delight. luisiiMKN and Cit-iKS. What seems so strange a contradiction in Irishmen is that while in their own country they cling to land with life nnd death tenacity, in this country, on the other hand, they cling to cities. Lord Dunraven, however.who has great Irish estates, stated in a speech which he made in connection with Lord Leiti im's murder, that the Irish, as a peo ple, aro not fond of agriculture, and only take lo it in the absence of other occupa tions. In Australia is a current saying that the English trade, the Scotch farm, and tho Irish hold all the offices, and it appears that office holding is an avocation which in all quarters of the glole appears to be particularly acceptable to them. They aro very gregarious nnd fond of physical acliuu, and thus make capital soldiers when under a linn hand. Again, quick perception makes them excellent lawyers and physeians ; hut although the mathematical standard of Trinity college, Dublin, is exceedingly high. Irishmen have rarely been conspicuous in the field of science, and tho list of Irish inventors is small. The fact is, that while a wonder ou.dy quick, they are not a dilligent peo ple. An Irishman educated at an English public school and university spout several years as master at a school attended by tho best class of Irish boys. Ho said that while incomparably sjuicker of apprehen sion than Lnglish boys, yet they had rare ly attained at seventeen as much solid linowjilgo lo carry away as tho lattur do. Tin: Tcav.i k. Wo could not get on verv well without tongues, and yut we are half inclined to wish that some people would try the experiment. What sets the world bv the ears, and makes more actual sorrow than all the bloodiest battle fields of history, is this everlasting " cackle. ackle. tackle, all tlio day. mis nun 1 that you aro asked not to tell, burns, boils, I .. l,,..i l,M,W in rmir mnllth. Illlfl illSl I seethes, bubbles in vour mouth, and just for tho sake of a temporary relief yon tell it to your dearest friend, with the most only invent a padlock which would keep a secret shut up safely ho would bring the millenium on at onco. Over exertion of tho tonguo is the real reason of half the Ills of life. IIome Rbmuiov. Homo religion it a thing of the heart which is the samo as saying it is a tiling of love. It may exist in connection with forms; and it may ex ist in its sweetest unfolding independent of forms. It may say grace at the table; anil it may not say grace at the table. It may be gifted to sustain a family altar; and it may not havo the gift requisite. But if the heart be right, there shall be grace and praycrfulncss albeit forms be hu king in the family. Thcro is a wav of eating your food which thanks God better than any formal grace-saying that can be devis ed. Thcro is a way of kissing tho wife after the meal, and tho husband is leaving for his office, which covers the whole ground between husband and wife Intend ed to be covered by the influence of the family nltar. We have knewn a man to ask a blessing on food which he himself condemned in the very next breath. To thank God for food, and. scold your wife or tho cook in the next breath because the steak is over done, or the cakes not brown ed to your suiting, or the tea too strong, is something more, friend, than impiety: it is indecency. Home religion should be loving lirst of all, and last of all it should be loving. It should bo very patient, too especially on those days when it is hard to be patient. It should bo cheerful, es pecially when it takes wit to invent occa sions of niirthfulness. It should be brave, not to face the troubles that arc without, but the troubles lhat aro within. A kind ly word, a pleasant speech, a cheerful or sympathetic look, n touch of the hand in the old tender fashion of the courting days, a stroking of tho cheek and tho soft move ment of the palm over tho hair "Foolish tricks?" Yon are a fool if you say it, frierrd. You didn't think they were fool ish tricks once, and you were wiser (hen than you aro now you have dropped them. A little more courting in married lite would keep marriago lifo what courtship is. J he foolishness of lovo is wiser than the wisdom of hato; and tho more foolish yon are in these directions, the happier will your homes be and the sweeter will be your home religion. An Empehok's Kindness. Emperor William, of Germany, is a kind-hearted old man. Two anecdotes aro told which illustrate his natural disposition: An olticial ot the German civil service anil his wife recently celebrated their dia mond wedding. The emperor, in his re tirement, heard of this event, and sent a medallion portrait of himself in a golden setting, ornamented with tho imperial arms, by way of a wedding present, and at the samo time scnl bis regrets that bis inability to writo prevented his appending his autograph which, howover, he prom ised as soon as lie was able to do so, Tho other incident is as follows: Two children of a butcher, in a village a few miles from Berlin, having heard of the emperors fondness for blue corn-flowers (our bachelor's buttons), gathered a great nosegay of them in the fields, and without saying anything to anybody started off on the Berlin highway, trugged all the weary miles to the city, found their way to the palace, anil handed tho flowers to the lack ey " lor the good emperor." mere appearance attracted attention., ind when questioned they told their sim ple tale. They wore taken into tlio pal ace and given a luncheon, which was probably the best they had ever eaten, and then, as the emperor divined that the parents must be bv tins time in great anx iety, the two little dusty and wayworn ohildren were sent homo in tho imperial carriage, an honor which made them the most distinguished residents of their little village. A Si-LEXDiD Wife. Wo once knew a man who was always praising his wife. On the corner, down the street, in tho post office, at the race track, in tho skating rink, at the theatre, in the sal that is, at choir meeting, he was always telling what a happy man he was, just because he had such h splendid wife, and ho talked every man lie met into a perfect frenzy ot envy about her, Woll, one winter morning when it was Dot yut too light to make one appear over ostentatious, we sneukod into that neighbor s yard to steal a fence board for kindling, and had to wait before we could safely obtain it, until that man's wife came out and sawed a couple of armful of wood, shoveled out threo snow paths, fed and groomed the horse and cleaned out the cow shed, and then when she went into the house and wo heard her call to her husband that the silting room was warm enough for him to dress in it, if he wanted to get up now, and we wore so amazed that we forgot what we were wailing for, mil went back and kindled the fire with a corn cob und a pint of kerosene, Hawk- eye. Redeeming a Five-Dollar Note. Au Indiana man had a j national bank-note chowed up by his dog. He sent two frag ments of tho note to tho treasurer ot tho United States and wanted a good ono in return. Treasurer Gillillan refused to re turn a good note, thero being nothing to show that tho other fragments might not be sent for another new bill. Tho Indiana man then sent the two fragments back again, pinned to an allidavit he had made before a notary public, as follows: " Per sonally appeared before me this day, , who, being by mo duly sworn, maKes oatu lhat tho remainder of Ihe bank bill here unto attached was totally destroyed by his dog; that he detected him in the act and rescued theso remnants, taking them from the dog's mouth, nnd that the remainder of this hill was chewed up and swallowed by tho aforesaid dog, anil thereby totally destroyed. Subscribed and sworn before me, etc. 1 ins being considered suillcient evidence of the dog's voracity and tlio In diana man's veracity, the treasurer sent on a new note. Some Skasonaislk Advice. Hall's Journal of Health has these directions ns to the wearing ot flannel : " 1 tit it on at once. Winter or summer nothing better can be worn next the skin than a loose, red, woolen flannel shirt; ' loose,1 for it lias room to movo on the skin, thus caus ing a tiltilation which draws tho blood to the surface and keeps it there, and when that is the enso no ono can take cold; ' red.' because white flannel fulls up, mats together and becomes tight, sun, heavv and imporvious; 'woolen,' the product of a sheen, not of a gentleman of color, not of cotton wool, because tliat merely ab sorbs tho moisture from the surfaco while woolen ttannol conveys it from the skin and doposits it in drops on the outside of tlio shirt, from wnicii me oruinary cotton shirt absorbs it, and, by its near exposure to the exterior air, it is soon dried without injury lo tho body. Having theso proper ties, red woolen flannel is worn by sailors even in th mid-suniiiier of tho hottest countries! , Wear n, thinner material in summer. . , Thero aro said to bo many indications of a genorat railroad war in tho west. Tho present catting of rates is said to have its origin in a breach of faith on tho part of the run Handle railroad, ii is not iiKeiy that the trunk lines running out of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore will be embraced, nor possiuio mat tue nosiiiuies cau long continue, as p;issongor rates havo been reduced below tho cost of transporta tion. ' The Floor ok tite Ocean. Tho report of the exiedition sent out Irom ixmiloa in Her Majesty's ship Challenger, has recent ly been published. Nearly four years : were given lo the examination of the cur rents, and floors of the four great oceans oi tlio world. I lie Atlantic, wo nre told, if drained, would be a vast plain, with a mountain ridge in the middle running parallel with our coast. Another range crosses it from Now Foundland to Ireland, on the top of which lies a sub-marine enble. Iho ocean is thus divided info throe great basins, no longer "unfathoma ble depths." The tops of these sea moun tains are two miles below a sailing ship, and the basins, according to lteeius, nre fifteen miles, which is deep enough for drowning, if not lor mystery, liio moitn tains are whitened for thousands of miles by a tiny, creamy shell. The depths are red in color, heaped with volcanic masses. Through Iho black, motionless water of these abysses move g'ganlio abnormal creatures, which never rise to upper cur rents. There is an old legend coming down to us from the first ages of the world on which these scientifiu deep sea soundings throw a curious light, l'lato and Solon record the tradition, ancient in their davs, of a counlrv in the western seas where flourished tho first civilization of mankind, which, by volcanic action, was submerged and lost. The samo story is told of the Central Americans, who still celebrate, in tho feast of Izcalli, the fright ful cataclysm which destroyed this land with ils stately cities. De liourbourg and other archicologists assert that this lost land extended beyond tho West Indies. The shape of the plateau disvovered by tho Challeiigor corresponds with this theo ry. What if some keen Yankee should yet dredge out from its unfalhomed slime the lost Atlantis. The Bkide and IIkii Dowkv. A clorgyman was sent for to visit a girl who was seriously ill. The illness proved fatai and the mother was left bereaved of hor child as well as her husband. A few days after her child's funeral the widow called and requested lo see the clergyman. Sho put into his hand a small package, con taining money, which sho begged he would give to some society which was sending the gospel to tho heathen world. He opened the parcel, and to his amazo ment cuiintod out twenty dollars. He at onco remonstrated with the widow, told her that, gaining her precarious living as a laundress, she surely ought not to give so large a sum. With firmness she urged him to take it. and then said: "How I came lo havo this large sum is just this: When my child was born, 1 thought, ' She'll live to get married some of these days,' and I thought I would begin to put by a litllo sum to be a store for her then, and I began that day with sixpence. You know what hapiened last week. Well, I thought to myself, ' Tho Heavenly Bride groom has come, and lie has called her home to be His bride; and as He has taken tho bride, it is only right He should have the dowry.' " Talk With ttte Boys. No words of counsel and cheer pay better than those spoken to boys whom you meet occasion ally on the street, or at yonr homo, or in your placo of business. Boys liko to bo recognized by those older than themselves. And boys are a great deal more impressi ble than they commonly have credit for being. If you see a boy doing some fool iMi thing, or some wrong thing pulling at a cigar thai is a little shorter than ho is, reading a dime novel or a flash paper, making sport of some poor unfortunate, or quarreling with a companion don't pass him with a sneer, wondering that boys will be so silly or so vicious; but stop and say a wi-e and kindly word to him. Tell how he can do better, and why it is worth his while to try it. He never had such a word as that from you possibly from no one else. A word of thai sort just now may shape his course for life. Or, if you see a boy doing a miinly or a gentlemanly act, interfering to protect some weaker one, rising to give a seat to some one oldor than himself, or showing himself attentive to his mother, say a word t)f hearty com mendation lo him. Let him see that his well doing ia noticed and approved. There aro sure returns for such work as this. Sunday School limes. Wh it tnt tnrl.i). One man described to me his night of peril twelve hours in the water clinging to the masts, after a day of great labor, beat about by winds and waves. One of their number was washed away. .-" We threw him a rope and would have lashed him to tho mast, but he was too weak to hold on." " How did you feel when you saw him going down?" somo one asked. " O, I did not mind much, for I thought wo must all go, soon; 1 did not believe wo could hold out long for every time the wavos rolled up we had to duck our heads under water so as not to be swept off." Ho stopped talk ing for a minutu as if it were more than he cared to think about, and then ho said : " But that man was tho only single man amung us. He had no wife and no chil dren, and thai, I believe, Is the reason that he could not hold out. I think it was my wifo and my home which kept mo alive that night. If I had not remembered them I should have let go ninny times." Boslun Transcript. Ovi'.u-DoiNCr It. Aunt Mehitabel thus sensibly writes from l'enn Yan, N. Y.: "There is a good deal of sense and true tas'o in Faith Rochester's remarks on house decoration in tho September number of la American J'ricu'titristi liitlo touch es here and there do brighten up a room, and uiako it more cheerful and homo-liko, but the truth is, that ladies who have a taste for fancy-work aro apt to over-decor-ato their rooms uu il they too much resemble one that my sister saw last year in an interior town, and which sho describ ed fo me as 'mottoed, and bracketed, and wall-pocketed, and dricd-grassod to doath!' Certainly the owner of that room did not believe with Michael Angelo, that ' the strictly beautiful is tho verv purgation of superfluities.1 " There can be to much of a good thing. Takinu Cold. The 1'eriscopc says: " When a person begins to shiver, the blood is receding from the surface; con gestion, to a greater or less extent, has taken place, anil the patient has already taken cold, to be followed by a fever, in flammation of Ihe lungs, neuralgia, rheu matism, etc. All these evils can be avoid ed and the colds expelled by walking, or ill, somo exerciso lhat will produce a prompt and decided reaction in the sys tem.. The exercise should be sulliciont to produce perspiration. If you itro so situ ated that you can get a glass of hot water to drink, it will materially aid the perspi ration, and in every way assist nature in her efforts to remove the Cold. This course tolloweu, youii cold is at an end, nnd whatever disease it would terminate in is avoided; your sull'erings aro prevented and your doctor's bill saved." The respectable people of Bos'on aro greatly exercised at the very lai "e plural- hv iiwaieii uy wuiicrai Duller in mat city. jTiiey say that it was made up of Iiquor j sellers, newly-naturalized citizens, nnd unprincipled persons who submitted to be Oi'E.f Movement ok Secret Societies. When a great political paitv arises, making a flnancia4issuc of an ins.ino sort, tho multitudinous sreret lodges of all kinds are under strong temptation to unite. i-.ven Justus bcuwab, in New lork, has a certain influence with the rougher class of voters. I know that in New York Citv an investigation was lately mado as to iho socialistic labor party, as it was found that only eight hundred men in that cily and five hundred in Brooklyn belonged lo its organizations. Of these a thousand were Germans, nnd of theso thrcc-qunrters wore saloon keoiwrs. Not more than half a hun dred Americans were enrolled. There wero only a few Irish. But the knights of labor are largely under American control. According to their own statement, what they moan is to protect labor- against capt tal.and to do this, if necessary.by inaugurat ing simultaneous strikes in different parts of tho country, esiajcially at railway cen ters, and by acquiring and using polifii-iil power to cripple capital mid support tho iniciosis ol tlio workingmcn. A million and n half of voters in secret organization, soroading steadilv under the soil; two million unemployed people in the United States; and demagogues searching north, south, east ami west for pedestals; I foresee not ruin iu the Amer ican national future under universal suf frage, but painful political and social crises. unless by public discussion, by justice, by Christian philanthropy, by tiie central lueas ot tlio Christian commonwealth, we prevent the formation of an unprincipled, an ignorant and an unemployed class; bring tlie controlling power in politics into loyalty to sound ideas; estimate men nei ther by the bags of gold, nor by thy windy socialistic philosophies ou which they may happen lo ride, but by character; and pro claim nil classes friends who aro loyal to too tnrono wlucti has foundations, nnd all enemies who aro opposed as rebels and as traitors to lhat supreme government. Joseph Cook. Mr. Moody on Ciiuki.ii Finis. Mr. Moody is opposed to church fairs. At Baltimore he said a few days airo : " And there are your grab-bags your grab-bags! I tell you thero is too much of this. Your fairs and your bazaars won't do, and your voting, your casting of ballots for the most popular man or the mast popular woman, just helping along their vanity. 1 toll you it grieves the spirit, it offends God. They've got so far now that for twenty-five cents young men can conic in and kiss the handsomest woman iu the room. Think of this! Look at tho church lotteries going on in New York. Before God I would rather preach in any barn, or tlie most miserable hovol on earth, than within the walls of a church paid for in such a way. What is the use of going to a gambling den when yon can have a game of grab with a lady for a partner? " Of church choirs which are not composed of Christians he disapproves in the same emphatic way: "I tell you it's about time you stopped hiring ungodly men and ungodly women to sing in your church choirs, just because they happen to have good voices, lou smile. 1 tell you U s uo smiling matter. You ought lo blush with shame; that's what you ought to do. And thero is such a thing as having an organist who gels drunk, and who can't play but he must go back every now and then and take a drink lo refresh him." Are you willing to be as the dew, to steal abroad in tho darkness and carry blessings to men's doors which shall enrich them and do them good and give them joy, and stoat away again before they wake lo know what hand brought the lien- ediction? Are we willing to do great favors to others and not have them know to whom they owe them? Are wu willing to work without gratitude, without recog nition, without praise, without ret urn? Aro we content to have our lives poured out like the dew to bless the world and make it more fruitful, und yet to remain hidden away ourtelvos; to see the effects of our lives all about us in the homes and characters of others, in beauties and joys springing up, and In benefits prepared by our hands nnd enjoyed by others and yet never hear our names spoken in praise or honor? And yet is il not thus that we are to live? Self is to be utterly forgot ten. Praise is not lo bo sought. Every thing is to bo done for Christ. All the honor is to be given to Him. We are to seek, like the gentle dew, to bless the world, to breath inspiration everywhere, to shed quickening influences upon other lives, to impart bclptullhess and noble im pulse to all we meet. But, like the dew again, we arc to do all these things quietly. We are to strive to give help, without an nouncing ourselves. Lcawjctisl. . A singular terrestrial phenomenon has recently been noticed tit Ortali, Italy, where tho earth lias fallen until it is now twelve or fifteen feet below its original level. In consequence of this strange freak of nature the houses of the village ire toppling over, and tho people havo lied to the fields and arc now living in huts with their families. A still stranger fact is that aliout two hundred yards from the town the earth has risen to a similar height, and at times tho ground has risen so rapidly as to make its movement visible. Tiiinus Worth Knowing. That fi-h nv lie tented much easier bv first diiminir into boiling water about a minute. Tl...f o.U ti-ih nre nnii'k-est. nnd best freshened by soaking in sour milk. That milk wlncli lias turned or cnangeu miiv bo sweetened or rendered lit. for use again by stirring in a little soda. That salt will curdle new iiiiik; nenco -...nini. ntill- llrtl I'll 1 1 Trt CTI'OVipS PfC- III JlL,l 111 Will. (.,......,,., p.."". , the salt should not lie added until tho dish i prepared., Tli-it i.iivir boilino- water will removo -ii'. . - o . - , ct.itna unit many fruit stains. 1 0111' tho water through the stain, nnd thus pro- vent US spreauiug over uiu lauiic. . . , .. i-.-i p i : r.:i Iliat a tabiespooniui oi luipuiiuuu- uon wiih vour whilo clothes will greatly aid the whitening process. . That boiling siarcu is uiucu uiipioveu l the addition .of salt, or sperm, or both, a little gum arabic dissolved. That bluo ointment ainl kerosene mixed ,in.il nroiinvt ions. 'and nmdicd to bed steads, is an unfailing bug remedy, and lhat a coat of wlittowau is unto ior me walls of a log honso. - ri.t..., I ...til ciflnn 1inif.i rir elmnc 1. liab MIIU3UIIU Mill aui'." ... .-.v.- that havo been hardened- by water, and will render worn, pnaoic as new. That kcrosena will make your teakettle an l.ii.rlit ns new. S itlll'Uld .1 WOolfU llllT and rub with it. It will also remove stains from tlio clean varnished furniture That cold ram water ami soap will re movo machine grease' from washable fabrics. , . , , ,:,,.,:.'., . Timo is money aud always at par.. The man who thinks ho is going to get one lninilred and twentv minutes out of an hour is going to bo left by tho train ; going to lose his chance; going to say that lie didn't have a fair chance; going right along the road that leads to tho poorhouso cursing his "poor luck" and howling for a new deal and an erirtal divido till around. : No, no, boys, inflation in time Is only equaled in its bud results by inflation in money, nave noiuiug 10 uo wim on.u.ei- Sixtv minutes mako an hour, nud one hundred cents a dollar, and do hot go lb trifling with thnt sort of arithmetic, ot1 you will have more holes than patehes to cover I hem , .-; ,; v ',..!; ii.,,-;; j,.. "Mamma is the moon full to-nieht'" " les, child.". Full of what?'' . Ono reason why we accomplish so little in this world is Ixicaus. go much time is lost huuting up collar buttons of a morn- Hood, in describing . the meeting of a man and ;i linn cni.i. -i-k J i 11 . . ',"" . ,ul"i ran on with all Ins might, anil the lion with all IMS UKUIU. ' Ono of the saddest and most vaxalious tl'illls llmt Cfllllita in n tr, k , " o' L " in-11 dud iunr n's, is tlrot site hns to discharge her , l mien KTll. A I'liral rf)ihi1 Ism To!., tn tl,-.l..U of horse, slioes. . He nailed .one over his door recently, and that morning there came by mail threo duns and seven "stops," ...I .1 in. ui eaiieu wun a revolver lo ask, ' Who wrote-that article?" ' A Hostim vvninon ill A,.i.r. VI.'-'.. l .1 "" aim.uii.il m; MIOU1U- er tlie other day while attempting to lift a pail of water to throw in her husband's lace. W ben Will Wnmnn Liar. In nnll -- ,w UUI Die hro department when anything of this iinn ia u ue nouer Smyth spent two whole days and nights iu considering an answer to tho conun- iruiu, W by is an osrir underdone ikn an overdone?"' He would sillier no ono to tell ruin, and at last It it upon the solution he- cause both are hardly done. . ,..-. 'Tills is Neptune," said tho: nrofessor. placing his linger on the outside ball of tho system, " and we aro now two thousand, seven hundred and fifty millions of miles irom tlie sun." Khcuiuatic student on the back scat turns un his collar and hiverH perceptibly. - '..-,.. The Sunday Afternoon says: One of the most remarkable things in human nature is the willingness of women to sacrifice a girl's life for the chance of saving the mor als of a scapegrace man. If a pious moth- r c:m oniy marry ner UueJzebub to some good, religious girl, tho-chance of his re formation is greatly increased. The girl is neither hero nor there, when one con siders the necessity of saving tho dear Beelzebub." A correspondent in Kngland of the New York Tribune says thai the situation in the British Isles, regarding business pros pects and outlooks, is really much more pitiable than has generally been rep resented. '.Widespread disaffection re garding moneyed institutions prevails and said enterprises have como to be distrust ed and looked npon with suspicion. The situation is one of grave moment as well us vast discomfort, ; , . "'(leorge, did von chop down the cherry tree?' " What did you say?" " Did you cut down that tree?" Ax uiq no, ques tions, .ami I'll tell you no lies." " Goorge, have you a hatchet?" " Po's a hen." " You "chopped down that tree." "Didn't." " Yotmg man eomiucro to nre." " What do you want?" " To play hide and seek." So the old man went out to seek tho hide. I'he. scene which ensued in the woodshed beggars description. It was touching in the extreme llnrlinglon Hawkeije. A little three-years-old fell into a well, I'Vcntly, where the water was only six inches deep, and remained thero some lime botoro he was discovered. Wlien ha was finally rescued his pent-up indignation knew no bounds. There was crying atyout it, and sticli a volley of invectives upon Ihe heads of neglectful parents never be fore fell from childish lips. Here is a sample; " Voii link I kin tay in a. well without iiuliiu. to eat, liko a Tog? fFy wasn't no better fadder'n mndder'n 'ou I'd go wifout children!" - A I'ltoi --ane Parrot. The story goes that a parrot which had learned to talk, had also learned tho naughty habit of swearing. Indeed, he had become so pro fane as to annoy tho family, and they tried various ways of curing him but without success. It then occurred to them to try the water process. So, thereafter, when he swore he was immersed and put be hind the, stove to dry. On one occa siuii, when thus drying somo young chick ens, which had been exposed to cold and wet, -were also brought in and put behind the stove to dry. Parrot's curiosity was excited, and, alter eyeing them attentively for some time ho reached over towards them, and said softly but emphatically, "rj d little fools ; been swearing?" : - Honest Oii Ahe. When Abraham Lincoln was postmaster in a small Illinois village, word came that- the post office agent would be along in a day or two to collect the balance duo to tho government. It was about seventy-five dollars, and one of Lincoln's friends, alarmed lest the young postmaster should be embarrassed by the sudden demand for so much money, ollercd to lend him tho required sum. Lincoln declined, with thanks, the proffer ed kindness, und going to the upper shelf of a closet, brought down a bag contain ing the amount iu the very coins which had como into his hands. Ho said he never allowed himself to use, oven for a day, money which was in his possession belonging to other people. Would that all who havo-Iho handling 'of tho money of others were as rigidly square in their transactions as houtst old Abe was in his. "Suit You: Moltu." Callin taught tho world the importance of shutting the mouth and brtathihg through the nose.. It would seem that Jiis little book entitled " Shut your Mouth " is bearing fruit in Germany, whero new thoughts receive mora attention from physicians than any where elso in the word. Respiration by the mouth is easier than by the nose, but is not so safe. Tho nose to a certain ex tent tits the air for entering tho lungs. The senso of smell warns us against breathing an air loaded with poisonous vapors. The moisture of the nasal cavities to somo extent saturates tho air, nnd makes it less irritating to tho throat and larynx. Tho mucus of tho nasal passage ind tho hairs catch the dust before It goes far enough to harm. On the other hand, breathing through tho mouth dries . the throat aud in children muy causa falso croup, catarrh, and it. may so affect the Eustachian tube as to cause .injury to the oar and deafness. ' 1 ' ' Sklkctt.h Miscelt.Ajty. Quick believ ers need broad shoulders. - A good wit will make uso of anything. Genius finds ifs own road ami carries its own lamp. kindness is nn invisible rorce of un measured power. :. . i. .;.. A man is sometimes more generous when ho: has . little than when ho has lUUCll.. , , ,.- .1 y,-.,., '': I ' -, , ;!.,.,. From tho littto acorn conies " the mon arch of tile forest, pushing upward ever. Its -lesson- is persevorartce. . Man must be disapointed with the lesser things oi" life before ho cat. comprehend tho full value of tho greater.. , No one ever did a designed injury io httotheT 'but1 at' thb same time te did a much greater to himself. u v;.!: u i It is .danjpcjjjuij for otto. to climb bis fam ily troo too high, for be is vory apt to. got among dead and decayed branches. - Strango as il may seem to you, mankitid had rather see you fail than Socooed,. be cause they had, rathei1 pity than Admirer Josh, Billings. .. ... y.' ., .... , ' , Some ono has beaiitimlly said that "sin cerity' is speaking as wo think," bolifcvlng as Vvo protehilv aetin as w rofessv per forming as wa ; prowso, - tmd .being.as..ws appear." M,i 67jir! 0J has t: