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<* Thor jro blossoms in the garden sweet and fair;
There's a sense of wondrous fragrance In the air :
aaaaterikeeteasawdow-graes in ewajdue^eMesasaeinaeieai
Tbo ilcklo breere obeying ;
And tno daisies lift their whlto heads everywhere..
? Uff,
Fly hither and flSflkhlthor In their mirth.
And tho bees about Uio b'iitterenp? or roimd/ I 'r\ /v
With a busy, humming, droning sound,
And they gather all tbo sweetness
Of tho summer-day's completeness. V A * \ \
Whore tho fleldk with do ver-bloh-aomri most abound;
Thero are fleecy clouds above me soaring high. , .
Light and lazily, across tbo aznre sky,: { .1 I. .1
There are shadows Bhlftlng lightly
as tho sunbeams follow brightly:
And tho day lu peacofiU beauty passoth by. , .
And a sltv'ry srfnna of BomhtngTOBiQay \^
From within the grand old formats come to me ;
Tis tho tiuy brooklet gliding
Bcncattitnc} tVeds,' hatf-hidmg,' ' ' y\ \'j
Tho wiitie it ripples forth its song bf glee.
And when fls^s ?onio tho distant bvoning-boU '
From tbo shadowy skies are pooping.
And gontlo eilonce comes at Jar.t with us to dwell.
ALMOST A GHOST ^ STORY.
** Did you over see a ghost ?" was the
" Well, I came deuced near -it, I can
toll you, V said young-Howard.
"How near ?" cried the company,
diaAving") their ;chaira to tho fire..:
" It was in-that 'deaolatej God-forsa
ken part of New Jersey," said Howard,
near Barnegat Shoals. ' i What with
the nature of the soil thero, its barren
ness* ttgduteriHty, the jagged j-repelling
* grimness of the rooks, rnd the wild,
desolate infinity of the', waters} there?s
something about Barnegat that breeds
an affinity with ghosts and spectres,
There h;ui boon a wreok of a coasting
sohooner in the vicinity, and although
tho news didn't make much bf a sensa
tion iii tho 'newspapers, it brought db
Bpair and desolation to one heart at
least?that of the youngmate's mother.
Ho was an old school-mate and warm
friond of my own, nod I volunteered to
go down and see if the .body could be
found and.brought home. * s ri < I
" When Ireaohed there the whole as
peot of (the place struck me as forbid
dingly wild and lonely ; and when, to
ward ; the r olosox of a .stormy s. day,
poor old jack's body-was washed aBhore,
w?tark and-stiflyanddistorted almost be
yond recognition, I wasn't able to lend
' the fellows dowp there p, .helping hand.
I was seized with,a ^nervous chill, and
went ihrdoo'rotQ the brandy flask. Plop
ped up with an artificial courage, I went
out again and found them hauling their
helpless burden toward a fisherman's hUt
clogo by. They; had flung it in an old
tarpaulin' blanketvand I couldn't help
protesting inwardly against che rude
way^n wmcn ttiey ,;bnmp'ed it along
through the breakers and over the
rooks. I .1 'j J2
" I thought of that tender, womanly
heart at homo in tho east, and the gen
tle reverence that - hedged about even
her overy thought and feeling about
Jack,, and I determined there and then
that'he should be taken home to her in
some shape'tbat wouldn't appall or hor
"They laughed at mc wUorfl spoke
of a coffin, but nevertheless I resolved
upon getting one, if stioh a thing could
be had for love or money. Not that a
coffin-is absolutely requisite in nil oases.
It wouldn't have, mattered a pin to
either Jaok or 'myself if, tied up in the
old tarpaulin, with a weight heavy as
destiny itself, we^were forced ;to the
bottom of .the" sea. But to .a woman,
nn old Cijuroh-ridden, ? conventional
woman, a victim to cirenmstanco nnd
custom, a coffin was the only thing that
could render the affair respectable, or
indeed bearable.
, " X passed u sleepless night, and went
off before daylight in searoh of an old
man that bore a queer reputation about'
there for appropriating any thing that
came inshore, and rendering it useful
or ornamental with a rude knack he had
in tho ca'penjter jltncf.} The boys, told'
me thero was a little bf everything in
his old rookery, and they hadn't the
loast doubt I o?ifld find oyan a coffin
there, or somothihg that could be mod
eled into one.
1?ewiselt waa ** good league .to . his dwell
ing, and I reached thero with a forebod
ing that my' journey wan for nothing ;
but upon broaohjUig the sub]oof to him,
he sfatcd'his reanrness at once to com
^ly^withmv demands.
,i .V'Bht'.wlmt will you do for material?'
.-? "Ho. .erriiletik grimly, and opening a
? door that led up to a sort of loft, he
beckoned mo to follow him. In that
loft thero was wood readily adapted? to
build a ship, a house, a theatre?any
thing and ov^ry tiling that might bo de
sired. Not common ^woo?^ftmarfcf'you,i
but wreokors' material?panels of Frenoh
walnut, exquisitely .carved in (bass-re-,
liof, bits of preoioUsN ebony, of sandal-'
wood, of box, and some of that, deli-ato
white pine that exhales a delicious' per
fume. The boys had said that he was
very OleVer in the oarpenter lih?. I was
inspired with a sort of trust in* his ca
paoity,; and his willingner.;? to undertake
tho. job was only equaled by his dpterp
mtuation to be paid woll for doing it.
" ? Don't you fret, young man,' said
'. the old Bkoleton., > Til ;flx it for, yon, in
a shapo that '11 suit. I'll have it as'
scrumptious ae a nut?that is,, ef you're
able to boar tho heft of tho expense.
It's oostly, yer know, to hev things pi
iotis ' and ,nico down tin? way: wo onn't
'fillers affiordit; then tho'Bea bein' han
dy,, iff; a temptation .to nave timo and
money ; but ef tho expense ain't eountotl
m
^m'J^^QWf P"Jld.tho expense, pard,' I
taflrSf. WfTOeff fafitiibo |hing,tu? aiqelfc
for me, and I'll see you through ; but
it rmW be I dono at ohod; the body is
almost beyond saving now, and I want
the ooffln by to-mcrrow-night. It muot
be ready to bo shipped before daybreak,
the next morning.
"" Aii fiflftv faia'ffie^ia^oiWJ'' ?i'
d^t^ind losin' a littlo sloop to^.bo
oouu^^^iii to nim^^uo^g^greenbaol^
to mako. his sharp old noao oome down?
and ob op over his chin with auuuotuoun
emaok of appreciation.
? \ *\' IUI h^v it tho^' eorr\mptioufl/ saip ?
'the wretch, with gieeay enthusiasm,
'Mint you'll olap your hands over it.*
It'll bo that peart and pious that yon.
needn't be ashamed of it in a church 1*.
\f\?I n^ded?aj^nra?W, and started,
on tho homo atretoh with the comforta
ble feeling of a man who has done nil
be could to ameliorate on irremediable
suffering. All that day there .was a'
threatening aspect of the winds' hud the
waves that boded more misohief on that
malevolent shore. Massive heavyeTouds.
hung.black as .ink over the sharp jagged
rooks, and a fierce nnder-tone in the ele
ments told* of a conspiracy for a tem
neattipnsidebauab.r > -1
" My poor old Jack had been washed |
and shaven,, hia la^t toilet lenderedsWith
all tho oare that his old friend and
school-follow could bestow, upon a mel
ancholy labor of love'; a few hot tears'
burst from my burning eyes. and.fell
upon that atraugo and unfamiliar faoo ;
and finding it bocomo kks and less re
cognizable as I gazed upon it, I covere 1.
it reVerently with1 my handkerchief, and
sat silent and alone with it and tho
darkness, waiting for the old man with
the .coffin. fn
"<A)s the, qay waned and twilight
gathered, a wad broke forth from the
rocks, and waves; a few belated galls
flopped their wings heavily over tho
water that began to lash.furiously tho
low. sandy shore. Presently a few;ar^ps
fell, the precursors of one of those furi
,ousr storms ?that riot ?on that -desert
-O&uw**?^ IllvVr Oil XtOi*I W ;.
" An agony of impationco seized mo.
I got upon my feet, and paced to and fro
the loose boards o'f the hat.
M WasHl; (then,-v condemned to stay
here, powerless to save my poor Jack
from being the puppet of yonder malig
nant fiends of the shore and the sea ? I
knew if the coffin were delayed until
the storm inoreased in fury, the rpad to
the old wrecker's homo would bo impass
able, Hooded, and without a clow.
I *J Was it, then, destined thSt he shoal d
be thrown into tho greedy maw of tho
sea, after all, and his place in the dear
little church-yard at homo know him. no
more ? There were prayers oven then
offered up for him in .that dear little
village "in [ the valley, ;n?t only by the
thin and withered lipa pf his mothor,
but pweot and roseate osos were trem
bling in his behalf that late had clung
to his own in rapturo, and gentle young
fingers would gather flowors for his
grave and niurmur benisons there fofr
many a year. Oh, %as it, then, impos
sible to give this joy to my poor old
Jack ?
'?I started up with a malediction upon
the storm and its surroundings, and
with an-impulse of desperation wrapped
myself in an old tarpaulin and ventured
forth.' ?\ -AT jnr,T*
"I suppose my nerv?s wore.pretty well
unstrung, for the dea I face of my lost
comrade followed mo with a grotesque,
ana" horrible ?persistenoV. ? I1 strug
gled against the feeling, bat it seemed
to me the murky air was full of shape-'
less fiends and bodiless spirits of d.ovil-"
ish propino^^b^ ''
" Stumbling along, the rain beating
moroilessiy down, making the i^ooky.path,
perilously smooth, I made my way slow-,
ly in the direction of tho old wrecker's
abode.
." Feeling the path step by step ia
'this wilderness and storm, it must have
taken me many hours to accomplish a
mile, for.I had scarcely gono half-way
when I found uy my watch it' was
nearly midnight. The same lnrid
gleam of lightning that showed me Uie
face of my watch gave -mo also a fleet
glimpse of. something lying in the road
before me, almost at my feet.
" I looked, and started back in hor
ror ; a peoulinr sensation ?ame to my
scalp; I felt . my hair, so to speak,
rising on ond ; for there, iu a defile of
the road, half wedged in the shelter of
a rock, was a ooffln. The peculiar
shape of it was only dimly discernible,
and either exaggerated by this dimness
dr else the coffin waa bf gigantio 'stee.
How did it got there ? Did the. fields
about moioontriye this shape to djpeoivo
"my half-delirious sense's?^*"! Tookod:
again, and slowly I saw the ponderous
lid rise, a skeleton hand oomo forth;
then an arm. At last half tho form
emerged -from .this torrible resting
place, and, wrapped about with a wind
ing-shoot, seemed struggling to leave
the ooffln altogether.
\\ \'*I seized my pistol with a trembling
hand. I cocked it.
/ 74 Don't shoot, young man !' oriod
tho speotro. 1 Yo'll spilo tho polish, ef
yer do; j This oasBed rain has | e'en-a'-'
most done for it already. It was pious
and peart a spell back, but it's protty
well spiled n?w, I'm afeord.'
"It was my old wreokor, oarponter,
and ooffln-maker. He explained to mo
that he'd started, on. time with tho . oof
fln, and kept up till the storm had oomo
npmx.him.rand, was forced to rest.awhile
rindor the ? overhanging rook. He
thought, very properly, nat no better
shelter could bo found than tho coffin
itself ; and ho was right. Wti might
both have oropt inside, and thero would
Btill lij?vo been' room for more. .
" ' Why on earth did you make it so
big ?' I Haid. ' I 'don't, want my nor
J?.0Jv-5-A'Ho around looao in this way.'
'"WelXhere's the odds?' said the
accommodating artisan, i 'You didn't
seom to spare the expenso; so I thought
? i
i'd'leaVe11 plenty of elbowlroCm. We
can find suthin or other for ballast, I
reckon.down below.' .....:'
' -fpoor J&k'lies to this day In the
Bingnlar oofliu thus provided for him,
and over him the .axbntne. blooms, ana
tender,violets, and all the dainty flow
ers dear to *a young" girl's ; f an\jy-6il 1 an
old worn mrB love.'? ii '.. > ,'>tvl
<- '",n ":Tabij>1 Cu^tomA:-' i
l( tVhilo eortain f01 ruB of tablo ctiquotto
may fjoom altogether conventional, .'even
fantastic, the , forms . usually . observed
a.ro founded on good sense and adapted
to general convenience.' Tablo etiquette
i?, not,, as., is,often , alleged, ?,merely; a
matter of .fashion, although some things
thaij were in vogue a, generation or tiro
'fagb are nolbnger dfeemed polite. The rea
son is that manners and tablo furniture
have undergone so many changes ; havo
i really so much improved, as to require
a mutual readjustment. For |example,
everybody was accustomed twenty or
oarry food to the*, mouth, because the
fork of the" day was not i dopted to the
purpose. 7Binde the introduction of the
rour-tined silver fork it has so bntirely
aupplantod the knife that the usage of
the latter, in that way, is not ' only
superfluous, but is regarded as a - vul
garism. , J
' Another oxample is . the discontin
uance of the custom of turning tea or
coiled from the cup into tho saucer.
Although small plates were frequently
.employed to set the cup in.'they were
not at all in general use; and. even
when they iwere used, the tea or ooffee
was likely to be spilled upon tho cloth.
' The habit, likewise, of pntting one's
knife into'the butter arose from the fact
that the butter-knife proper had' not
been thought of. Snob customs as
these, onco necessitated by circum
stances, are now obviously, inappro
priate.
by good taste and delicacy of feeling,
and the failure to adopt them] argues a
laok of fine perception or social insight.
One of these is eating or drinking audi
bly. 11 No sensitive person can hear any
one talcing his soup, coffee, or other
liquid without positive annoyance. Yet
those who would bo very unwilling to
consider themselves ill-bred are con
stantly guilty of such breach of. polite
ness. I The defect is that they are not so
sensitive as those with whom they come
in oontaot. They would not be disturb
ed by the offense; they never imagine,
thorofore, that any one else can be. It.
Is for them that rules of etiquette are
particularly designed. Were their in
stinct correct, they would not need the
rule, which, from the absence of in
stinct, appears to them irrational, pure
ly arbitrary.
To rest one's elbdwton the table is
more than a transgression of courtesy;
it is an absolute inconvenience to one's
neighbors. All awkwardnesses of posi
tion, such as sitting too far back from
or leaning over the table, are reckoned
rudeness, because they put others ill at
ease through fear of such accidents as
are liable to happen from any unoouth
nesq.
Biting bread or cake, inBte'ad of out*
ting or breaking it into monthfuls, is
Unpleasant, since it offends our sense of
form or fitness.
These and kindred matters are trifles;
but social life is bo largely composed of
trifles that to disrecard them wholly is
? serious affront. We'can hardly realize
to what extent bur satisfaction or dis
satisfaction is made up of things in
themselves ihsignifioant until their ob
servance or i non-observance is. brought
directly t? us.? <SoH6?er's Monthly.
Darwin's Devotion to Truth.
.Darwin shake no difficulty ; and, sat
urated aH the subjeot is with hie own
thought, lib' must have known, better
than his critics;'the weakness as well as
the strength of hia theory. This, of
bourse, would be of little avail were
his object ft temporary dialectio vic
tory, instoad of the ostablishmont of a
truth which ho means to bo everlasting.
But ho takes no pains to disguise the
weakness he has disoernocl; n'ay, ho
takes every pains to bring it into the
Btrongeat light. ; His vast resources on
nble-him to oopo with objections started
by himself and others,so as to leave the
final impression upon the reader's mind
that if they be not completely answered
thoy Certainly, are not fatal. Their neg
ative force, being thus destroyed, yon
are free to bo influenced by tho vast
pos?ivo mass of evidence he 'is able to
bring before yon. This largeness of
knowledge and . readiness of resource
render Mr. Dar win. the most terrible .of
antagonists, Accomplished naturalists,
have.leveled, heavy and sustained criti
cism ogauist him?not always with a
vinw of fairly weighing Iiis theory, but
with the "express intention of exposing
its weak pointa only. This does not ir
ritate him.. He treats overy objection
with a soberness and thoroughness
which even Bishop Butler might bo
proud'to imitate, surrounding eaoh fact
with its proper relations, and usually
giving it a significance whioh, as long
as it was kept isolated, failed to appear.
This is done without a traoo of ill
temper.
He moves over a subjeot with the
passionless strength of a glacier * and
tho grinding of the rooks is not always
without a counterpart in tho logical
pulverization of the objooior. But,
though, in haudling this mighty theme,
all passion has been stilled, thoro is an
emotion of the intellect incident to the
; discernment of new truth, whioh often
colors and warms tho pages of Mr.
Darwiu. Hia snoooss has been groat;
and this implies not duly the solidity of
his work; but the propurodneio. of the
publio mind for snoh a revelation.?
Popular Soiene? Monthly.
thirty
since. to use tho knife to
-~?:-?r-r-:-r--., ?
\A% Rnat?*s XMeWron* Con
sequence. ;. ... .
Although tho, commandment against
lying fa found almost at tho dose of the
decalogue, I iuoliuo to place it, in tho
education of children, at the head of
the list, for lying f?dns tobe with most
children the first'intentional offence.
It is eometimefc ;iMe>ited, but oftener
taught by imitation. Children hear
their nursery maidftell downright false
hoods to shield the. selves from blamo
for; various triflingj^aalts or, oniisoions
of duty; and thoy are, indeed, fortu
nate in thoir parents if they do not also
. find i them. gnilty jof prflviurication and
intent to decoive..', In a . hund^od differ-'
er.t ways mother^ .deceive their little
children; not thinking for a moment
that they uro torching .them a.lesBo'h.in!
falsehood whichjnay boar fruit to their
latest hour, and V:ducatiug the children
to doubt tho ono in whom, of nil per
sons,, they should,, put inyplioit. confi
dence, ;-1 ?, ,'t 40 f ';' "' " " j
Biding in the cars a fow weeks since !
heard a mother r;??y to nn uproarious
child:
44 Jamie, bo still I If yott don't atop
screaming I'll throw you out of tho oar
window, oortainVauro I . Hush, now, or
you'll see what W do !"
The ohild, a Ip?y obout twoyears old,
looked his astonishment at the threat,
but his ories wero not muoh lessened.
Then the mother* took him up in her
arms as though aho would throw him
out, when he screamed in frantio terror
and clung to her neok ' with' such ap-;
palling fear that she was forced to hash
him with kisse?, caresses and ? candy.
After a while he. fell asleep, worn opt
with his tumultuous passion. Poor lit
tle ohild I
A little girl of four or five, who. had
watched the whole scone silently, bat
with the deepest interest, and1 who,
whon her mother motioned to throw her
little brotheY from tho window,, ihad
caught her armin terror, now said :
" Mamma, "f?ild you have thrown
Jamie oatV'-TiW- -it
44 No, indeed ohild," replied the
mother; 441 only wished to : frighten
him."
44 Frighten him,!' forsooth 1 She suc
ceeded in it far better than she expected,
and at the sanio time taught her little
girl a lesson in falsehood, and also in
oontompt for -her mother, for the ex
pression of that child's month boibken-i
ed the feelings of her heart. How I
longed to cKont to her, in Othello's
words: * * ? 1-;
" Yon told a lip; an odions, damned lie;
Upon my sodl a lio ; a wickod lie!"
Of oourse she would have thonght me
an escaped lunatic, so I forbore, bnt I
could not help my lips wreathing in
scorn at the woman's perfidy, and I did
wish to tell her that if she disciplined
her children in that style she was sorely
sowing 41 the whirlwind to reap dest ruc
tion."
Tiying in a besetting vice of weak
characters, and therefore the love of
truth and the hatred of falsehood noed
to bo most assiduously Cultivated in
children at the youngest period of, oon
soiousness of evil. Truth-tolling and
truth-loving are the fundamental basis
of whatever is excellent and desirable
in character, and if a man or a woman
lacks this essential element,, all their
other virtues suffer and nre' of little
value. If a person is truthful we can
forgive many little faults, because this
salt of character may possibly redeem
other failings; - besides, a person who
loves truth will never rest satisfied un
til he has improved his moral strength
and raised it nearer to the standard of
rectitude. Taot, management and pol
icy are all essential elements in social
and domestio life, but they are not in
consistent with perfect truthfulness.
Daily we oome into oontaot with pe -
sons who require to bo properly man
aged to bring out the* agreeable traits of
their character and repress those whioh
are annoying and. disagreeable, but it
does not necessitate falsehood to accom
plish this. Many persons have n fac
ulty of telling you disagreeable truths
in a pleasant manner; or administering
antidotes to vice of which the recipients
are barely conscious; of hinting at
facth which will not bear a frank
disclosure. And all candid persons
must admit they are not always justi
fied in telling the wholo truth. I Indeed,
were wo to do so, wo should doubtless
be called insane. For there are very
many things that should not be spoken,
yet we ore never guiltless, if we utter
falsehood:), and it in our duty, to strive
by example and precept not to lead ten
der feet astray from the paths of truth.
The ohild who imbibes with his first
nutriment a reverenoe and love for it
will become a man of honor. Holy
writ assures us that ib were better for
us to havo a millstone about our necks
and bo drowned in the sea than to of
fend one of those little ones. And when
a mother utters a deliberate falsehood
to her children it seems to me that she
has committed an unpardonable sin and
will surely suffor for it. The lack of
truth brings dishonesty, and dishonesty
is tho crying sin of oar nation. Oh,
mothers, be warned in season and take
counsel wjth your own wisdom,and make
a,,Compact with yourselves that from
this timo forth you will never deoeivo a
ohild. Tho battle of Christianity is to
be fought in the family rather than in
the church. See to it that you are not
deserters from tho ranks !
?By this timo the school-girls havo
told each otherwhere they spent their
vacation, aud, taking up the bnrdou of
lifo again, have resumed last sea-on's
quarrols. m
?44 Is tu? pandidate for sheriff hero?"
a?ked a stranger ob he looked into an
Illinois bar-room. 44Yes; why?" ans
wered eighteen men .as they rose up.
? ' ?r-t- u;|,j?;;> \\\ itnfiti? u;1'^ ati;;:-i i) j.
I) i .jF^rpfi^aUe FoJUrtieness^ l )K, \
;;Tho BcatouT^ayelh^r'in cormuBn^ing!
on the prevalence of rudoness, tells the
following incident that happened sohio
years ago;: ; kidil.t lo^fifcj ortT |
Thoro was a,very jplainly,,pressed
elderly laay who was a freauent baS-i
tome? at1 tnje ' then leading dry' gbtjAsj
store: tin. B on ton. f: No (one* in tho stor a
knew oven her namo.' All tho olerks
but one avoided her and 'gave their' at-}
tention; to those who werb better dressed
and more pretentious. Tho OEception
was a yonng man who hud n conscien
tious regard for)attty ,and,'8yefeW' He
jdovor lof% another customer, to' wait on
the lady, but when at liberty hp wait oil
on her with as much attention as though
she had been a princess.. Thh? con
tinuaci a t iyear. or' two) uutji; the. jvpung
man became of age. Ono morning the!
lady approached the young man, - when
the following conversation took place s
Lady?" Young mon. do you wish to
go into business for yourself ?" ,
Tea; tttomy * he responded * I'''but
I hnvo neither money, credit nor friends,
nor will any one trust me. 1
wWeli;.,fobntintied the Iadyi'''?"^
go and gelect a good situaticm,' ask what
tho rent is, and report to mo," handing
the young man her address. Tho young
man wCnt;'found a capital location, a
good .storey but tho landlord required
Beourity, whioh ? he ? could npt giye.i
Mlndlul of1 the lady's reque?t' he?forth-;
with wont to bor and reportedi1';;. ! odt
He' went; 'and! the landlord' or' agent
was surprised, but tho bargain ; was
closed. The next day tho lady called
to ascertain the result. '? 'The young man;
told her, but addod, " What am I to do
for goods?, _No one. will trust me.". )(h
"You inay go and. see Mr. ??andj
Mr. ^L?t<aa& ?Mri1^-^,,an,d' tell1-them'
to call on me." viir. ??-r;tU tic *.1
; He did, and his store was soon stocked
with' the beet goods' in tho market.
There are many in this city who remem
ber tho circumstances aud tho man. Ho
died m. ny years sinco and left a fortune
of tt-.v ? hundred1 thousand'dollars. '80;
much lor politeness, go much for civil
ity, and ro much for treating one's/eld
ers with1 the /deference duo to ago in
whatever garb they 'sire olothed.,J W 11
. v .. . :?: ?.. ??w- \
? Fossil Mammals of Colorado,; 1
Some remarkable' and gigantic ani
mals related to the rhinoceros ;ahd' the;
EobaailOnB have been recently discov
ered by. Prof. Oope.in jtlm"Bad. Lands of
Colorado! . There arb seven 'species, six,
of which aro refofled to the.nevr'gehus
Symborodon, and one to MiobasileuS,
also new. While related to the' rhino
ceros, ' theSe. creatures were higher on
the I logs, and had comparatively abort
necks ; it is also npt unlikely that they
possessed a short proboscis./ What ren
dered their physiognomy most 'striking
was tho presence of horns, in pairs; on
the front of the head. The cores are
preserved in the speoimens of all the
species, and-' are very various in their
forms. In Miobasileus they stand over
the eye; in Symborodon over the side
of the face or the snout. The smallest
species is S. ucor, whose horn cores are
a foot long, round,,and curving outward
on oaah side of the' snout. It was about
the size of the Indian rhinoceros. ? The
largest species. ;was equal to the ele
phant. Its horns were flattened in one
plane, and its cheek-bones were enor
mously I expanded', so as' 1 o form a hinge
projection on each ride of tho face, and
give tho muzzle a wedge shape. The
eyes were'compelled to look obliquely
upward. , The S. altirostris was nearly
as large,; Ite, horns were round and
straight, and tho muzzle exceedingly
short and high; no that the eye was very
far forward! 8. trigonoceras had three
cornered horns, whioh .rolled' ontwa'r'd,
and but'little Upward. It 'Was little
smaller than the preceding, tt. polo
ceras had mere knobs in tho position of
horn s. The mU zzlo was loh ger.' ""?'" 1
These Animals arb i at or ea ti ng ns con
firming the conclusions reached by tue
discoverer of Ebbaailens, as to the rela
tionships'of 'his remarkable form and
its affines. The whole structure shows
that the peculiarities of .Eobaflilous, by
whioh it differs from tho other probos
cidians, are to bo found in the rhino
ceros and these, its. oxtiuct allies, and
not among tho cloven-fdoted typea.
Old Letters.
Lord Oookburn writes in ids memoirs;
MI have all my.life had a bad habit of
preserving letter's and keeping them all
arranged and docketed, but seeing tho
future use that, is often made of papers,
especially by friendly biographers, who
rarely' hesitate to sacrifice confidence
and delicacy, to tho '< promotion of sale
and excitement, I have long; resolved
to send them up tho bhimney in the
form of smoke, and yesterday the Sen
tence was exeb?ted. I have kept Rich
ardson's and Jeffrey's and some corres
pondence I had during important passa
ges of our Scotch progress y but the
rest, amounting to several thousand, oan
now, thank God, enable no. venality to
publish1 sacred soorets, or to stain fair
! reputations by plausible mistakes. Yet
Lola friends cannot be parted with with
out a pang. Tho sight of oven the out
sider of letters of fift y years recalls a
part of the interest with whioh eaoh
was received in its day, and then anni
hilation makes one start as if one had
suddenly reached the age of final obliv
ion. Nevertheless, as packet after
packet smothered tho fire with its nsluv,
and gradually disappeared in dim >va
por, 1 reflected that my correspondents
were safe, and I was pleased."
?A gentleman who landed from an
Erie, expreas train attracted universal
attention by tho magnificence of his
diamond breastpin. He was supposed
to be a hackman from Niagara Falls,
fh\\AbiUvihA) ,*l?vjtjj .T i?t'?I? 9-&fwt
tp ?'Great works are performed.no* by
?Jnjun probabilities : ".Mobbo sdow
nextweek'; mebbeliddp o^mlTO6
uuuLThkfi'&tlS ^Wa^^oollefee^W
learning tohewim,? -Fourteen oft'them
>T'^A!lSrirAfegft!'Wle,waai thVow^^n%
couvnlsionh, and , hor henlth seriously
impaired., because her, bean wanted ip
dano? with her without weiring 'gloveff.
'-?^Tdtb^mppir1; th^e pUfe?'n? mT^*h$b
cheerful and gay,.not gloomy! and'task
anoholy. A ProPan>dtV.^^n?amli0X
is real riches; one to* Mar And4 aoVrow;
rbal'p^erty.'J ^'tnMT^H tutum
?'? ?Asaha rolled up 'her sle-oveal and
looked hard at.a, big/baskot.of tomato.es
crae^ remarked : n,,Therey get" *&*??&&
up,- bang hp, g?'.up, 'step' hp and blimb
!api b?b.^ereigoeo;fp}? oakjppV' ^?inlii?
?"When yoaseeaxnan TOpa^i-ikler^'!'
says Mrs. Marrowfat, V as never to take
a?glass^fwaferwita
it for ito?eotB^.dpn't^tt?l hiin^lio'a on
his, way, tp, ^drunkarjra jgr^v^"^ _
' -r-A man who, goes to Kansas to settle
on1 a homestead musb'expebt to dWibli&t
sleep on:the^floor,^3fight:^gn&ts .?id-^S*
fiveyearTb'efPie^eS' begin^'lpenjoy
lifojKv r>u iTmlw at ^oiuj?u oil?aolol
?A baokwp^td^mam (de^tpribingyrt*
Bteamboat, said : "It has, a sawmill
bn1!bhe-'BiaeVJ fe^gnst'limlll -*"on 'the
other and a blnoksmith shop in-'the raid
? ^here' are^?oivV7sixty;;dhMs>{ W
dents supported by their government iu
Connecticut and Massachusetts. ;r**'
came two. years ago, and,thirty t
a year Bhice,' and thiity'inbre o
ved
a year flinoe,' and thirty' m?re**a"*** ex
pected ? in ,abput Iaf.fprtiught.toiSp^far
their deportment- has been excel lent
and their progress'ql^e?aHLaW8*
uj ?iAt a reoehl^babV^hfaw in ^vIbco^
sin.twf(nty?aev!ep ,-ftpmea7Jitarte&?haai0
tearing each others hair and hoops.
Nineitenths' 6i: the women ' shouldn't be
Eermitted to have babier. They 'can't
oar,rivalry., If .all women weroi ban
ished from the .'world,' we% would vneyer
havb laby ?troubleat'otn*1 b^byishbWai>{l*
, l ?A party of twelve crack-brains left
Chicago recently to, join t in : the estab
lishment of a " community,'' similar to
the Gn'eida obmmuhity'inJNew
yalcour's iflland;>in -*iaake.; Cham plain,
tho foundation of tho flocietybeing ?! ab
solute social freedom," and its only^rov
traing law "compleW;vuhiver?l free
Iovri''
?A pouting ? bride, on her . first sea
voyage, writes liqine,:. " The motion
of the screw steamer is" like ? riding a
gigantic camel.that, has the heart-dis
ease, and you /do not miss ? a: single
throb. I Imow of nothing to'compare
with it for boredom;:unless it bo your
honeymoon when you have niarried. for
money." \ .Vr
?We are now told how we can'reach
tho. gold regions in tho 'Blank thills.
Somewhere, in the neighborhood^ pt; gap
hundred dollars will carry bno throngk
But we would advise the honest1 -miner
(o take two hundred dollars along. Ho
will need the,other to get back .on,,,
to buy a hod to commence work wil
and likewise a,wig, ??' ??? > [ ,-'
IK f-rln "?Paris the dealers in refreshments
have had a congress tp ngtee on tho
important reform of reducing from six
to five the number of pieces-'Of- sugar
served with a pup .of j ooffee. Formerly
they served 'six pieces with each cup ;'
th? Customer put1 three;! plebes^fri*- his
coffee, two in his pocket, and left onn
on his saucer out of,, jfespeot tp public
opinion. Now that only five are served,
he puts three in. the coffee; still leaves
one out pf sense of publio decency, end
only puts one in his pooket.
?In tho government of Pieskau, '.'in
Russia, a letter was circulated which re
ported that tho government intended (o
send 5,000 of the prettiest girls of tho
country to Africa to be married to iie
groes. There was a panic; and the girls
nvjde haste to ?farry any one who would
have them, and there.was any number
of marriages. 1 One'brandy dealer made
a small fortune out of it, .for at Ruc?ian
weddings they must have brandy. Now
the authorities have discovered that this
merchant started - thd I story; and f thoy
are not yet done with him. .'.^ ..;.{to-j
?Aooording to Roohard, a Veterinary
surgeon, a simple method of preventing
flies from annoying bor sc.? consists in
painting the inside of the ears, or an*"
Other part especially troubled, with a
few drops of empyroumatio oil .of juni
per. It is .--aid that tho odor ot this
substance is unendurable to flies, acd
' that they will keep at a distance from
the port sp anointed. If this treatmeut
should accomplish the alleged result,
it may, peThops,"be equally applicable
in repelling mosquitoes from the face
and hands of tourists and sportsmen
when passing through the woods, or
meadows. .
'Opportunity to Try an Organ before
Purchasing. .
Many a person is half persuaded that
a Cabinet Organ would bo & capital
thing for his family ; worth much more
than ita cost. Yet they are not sure that
it would be permanently valued, but
fear that after a few months' use the
family would tire of it, and bo it. would
prove a poor investment. . The Mason
A; Hamlin Organ Co. now offer their
famous Cabinet Organs on terras whioh
will satisfv all such. They will root an
organ with privilege of pnrohaso. ;The
party hiring may try it as long as he
pleases, paying only the rent for it
while so doing. If ho concludes to pur
chase within a year, all the, reut he nas
paid is ?llowe I and deducted from the
price of the organ.
