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VOL. XXXIX.
MONTPELIEB, VT., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER G, 1882.
no. :jg.
MONTPELEK. VT
WEDNESDAY. SEl'l. 6,
1882.
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lilt; hid closed, and .Jusiis
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watched tlic crowd as Ihcy oust their gifts
into t i' treasury, he goes "' w''h his
disciples about to return to Bethany for
bulging, "i" disciples Usui board before
of the coming destruction of the temple,
mill tlc-v l ik" occasion to call his attention
in tin- strength anil beauty of the building
.Imephus give :m ill ntu-iL fabulous account
of tli i '. of stone" out of whieh the
-Sinetnary" wis built; lie siys they
wero 25 cubits long :iin1 10 high and 12
broad. Well might every .low look with
confidence itn d pride upon such a struc
ture! Jesus answers simply and briefly.
"There shall not bo left one stone upon
another that 6 1 1 ill not bo thrown down.
These words point to a complete destruc
tion of the building, if not to a literal
displacement of every stone. Christ and
his followers then withdrew from the city
aid the next incidents given in tho lesson
transpired upon the mount of Olivos,
whore they seem to havo halted, for
little, to rest and view the temple and
the city A group of his most favored
disciples are about Our Lord, and private
ly they ask him whon the ovenls he had
predicted should take plaeo, and what
should Im tho sign of their coming. As
n preface to his answer Josus gives them
a warning lest they be deceived in those
matters. From the account that Matthew
gives of tliis conversation we learn that
the disciples connected the coming of Christ
with the events connected with tho dostruc
lion of Jerusalom; ko in his answer he
warns them against imposition in this
matter. Ho says many shall come saying
I am Christ; and shall doceiva many,
neither wore thoy to think that wars and
politics and revolutions word sure signs
of his coiuing.and of tho eud of the world.
Those things ho doclares are a necessary
part of tho prosont Bystom of things,
wherein huuian passions and personal
aspirations exert so much influence. But
such commotions aro not uocessaril
connected at all with tho ooming of Christ,
or the end of the present dispensation.
How persistently mon have forgotten
l huso words of tho Master! Hardly a war
of any magnitude has arisen but a class of
expositors and teachers havo boon ready
to declare that tho word of God and all
the signs of t!ie Units pjintod to tho im
mediate end of the world. So of another
class of phenomena, civil commotions,
earthquakes. In 1 seasons, causing famines.
Tiie.se arc nat necessarily oonnectod with
the immediate coiiiiusi of tho ond. but mav
be
considered as (ho beginnings of sor-
rows. A m liter -if oioe'i "e t or iiiomcn
should, however, engage a ieuiion o'
the disciples I'liey s'lou d take lined 1111:0
t icmsolves. I'o be ngnt, ml p-n s m aly
icady for tli i c 1 u. 1.; .JU'is is visly
greater importance than to know the signs
of his coming, or even tbj exact liuic of
tin event. If Advenli.sts of tho present
wouly only observo this injunction of the
Master, and put tho emphasis whero he
puis it, i. 0., upou a personal godliness,
rather than upjn a pseudo knowledge
of the time of his coming, they might be
vastly more scrvicablc to their generation.
There was tho more need of tho disciples
seeking :i well established Christian char
acter on account of tin trials and persecu
tions they would be called to endure.
All these sufl'orings Christ clearly 90
before them, that they 111 ly b j fully
apprised of their coming trials and thus
moved to groator care for themselves.
Thcv wero to bo prepared to witness for
Christ before rulers and kings, and tho
fact that they had thus borne testimony
was to be a witness against these rulers if
they refused Christ. Before the end
he declares the gospel must bo publl shed
among all nations. Ho next enjoins them
to depend upon the Holy Ghost to guide
them when they were called to witness
thus boforo king3 and rulers. Wo should
notice here that this spoaking before kings
was to be in 11 sensu a personal defence
of themselves when thus arraigned, but
rather a defence or statement of thoir
faith and the basis on whieh it rested.
Any studied plan of defence would almost
inevitably run in'o an effart to clear
thomsolvos; hnt God would have them
leave themselves and his truth with him
felf for vindication, that all might realize
the divine hand in tho deliverance
wrought. Ho proceeds to toll them of
1 lie bitter personal hatred which would
follow with thoir adheronco to Christianity
so bitter that tho doarest natural tios
would he 110 bond to prevent brothers or
paronts, or children from dolivoriug up to
tho rulers thoir frionds who refused to
deny Christ. But those who, in tho midst
of these trials, endured unto the ond
would sccuro salvation.
Thu next declaration of Christ seems to
relur wholly to thejdestruction of Jerusa
lem; and concerning this Jesus givos us
a dclinito sign. It ni'y bo hard to deter
mine just what was intended by the abom
ination of desolation, but it was doubtless
better understood by thoso who hoard his
words than by us. It lias usually been
iinderatojd lo ni-jan somo profanition of
I lie temple or tlio setting up of idolatrous
worship of Jehovah. Hut as there is no
proof that such an event did take place,
ti;i words of Christ h.iva been supposed
to reler to the cue imping of the Roman
armies about Jerusalem, an I, as tho com
mon view was that too territory about ihe
temple for s jiiio furlongs was all halluwcd
ground, tho d-wrati jn of this ground
would he virtually a desecration of tho
temple. This "Abomination," whatever
il might In, wis to be a signal to the
Christians to maUn tho quickest exit
possible from the doomed city.
They wero to pray that their llight lie
not in winter, or rainy season, as cxilo
during those months would in tiny event
be full o! hardships. Indeed he plainly
declarcs that so great would bo the suffer
oring of thoso times that except tho days
be shortened tho whale pcoplo would per
ish. Hut for tho sako of tho elect, or
choson, ho declares the days will bo short
ened. We little know how many calam
ities havo been nvcrtcd from individuals
and nations for tho elect's sake. Tho
people of God havo been and aro tho oou-
i rvalors of the race; and because God
oves his people, ho defends and proteots
In-nations whero they largely dwell.
Plans for the Improvement of Hip Missis.
sii;ii.
A brief statement of the main theories
advanced, however, is of great interest,
especially in view of the fact that the gov-
irnment at Washington lias adopted one.
and appropriated a few millions for the
beginning ot a work that is to cost "not
more thau $lii,0l)i)'000," its advocates sav.
Theorists seek in two directions for an
answer, (in tlic one iiaml, it is uracil that
by improving tho character of the bedand
strengthening tho banks the river may be
Kept witnin its bounds. On the other. It
is declared that no works aro practicallv
possible that will bo sufficient to confine
the river in a flood season, and that since
it must overflow its banks the pbilosophiu-
u tiling 10 no is to proviiie auxiliary chan
nels or outlets that shall guide tho surplus
water 10 tne sea witnout damage. Theo
rists ol each school denounces those of the
othor as incompetent and radically wrong.
mil stoop 10 personal abuso when argu
ment fails. Only a short timo ago Mr.
K Iward Atkinson in concluding an ablo
argument in favor of the plans adopted by
the Mississippi river commission, said;
it is hardly worm while to consider the
projects for rclioving the Mississippi river
Hoods by creating new outlets, since these
sensational propositions have commeuded
thomsolvos only to unthinking minds, nnd
have no support among engineers."
Wailothis stylo ot argument has been
100 often replied upon by both sides, the
tact remains that too only considerable
work undertaken by our raco have been
in the direction of trying to confine the
river, nnd not of trying to give additional
outlets for surplus or flood water. The
"lovee and jolty advocates havo had their
way so far as actual operations havegono,
and they scorn likely to continue to have
it for some time. The present operations
are under tho direction of the Mississippi
river commission a boily which was
createil by tho forty-sixth congress. Pres
ident Hayes was given the power to create
its individuality, which he did by appoint
ing only known and committed advocates
of the restrictive theory on the list of
mombors. KHortswcre made to secure tho
appointment of some of the opponents of
this theory, but tho etlorts were unsuccess
ful. Tho outlet theory is one which hardly
needs description to be generally under
stood, though it has been studied and set
forth by several persons with much atten
tion to the engineering details involved.
By a glance at any large map of tho lower
Mississippi tho great number of bayons
and natural outlets formod by tho natural
action of tho river will be discorncd.
Souio of thoso it is proposed to open and
clean out, so a3 lo render them available
in caso of Hoods, nnd tlieu, by lock gates
at tho river side, keep thorn closed at low
water, and open whon tho wator rises ton
high Tho main objection to this theory
is on thu ground that tho real dosidcratum
is a single deep channel, as realizing tho
least friction between tho river and its
channel, rather than a multiplicity of
channels.
Tho levee, jetty, nnd revetment system
is not so simple. Its claims aro far more
elaborate, and tho criticisms that nro offer
ed are far more complicated than thoso of
1 he, outlet, system. Iho radical idea
involved is the building of artificial banks
that shall confine the river within them.
in order to secure tho full ibrco and
scum" of the stream for tho improve
ment ot the bed. Ihe obvious cllccts ol
such works obvious, that is, to all who
havo given the subject of river hydraulics
auy careful study aro such as to lead to
careful theorizing 10 justify them; and in
the various steps of tilts theorizing there
is'plonty of room for cavil, if not for .sound
criticism.
Without enti ring tho list cither ns advo
cate or critic, it is sullieicnt to give hero a
brief description of what has been done.
what it is deckled to do, what it is claimed
tho benefit will be, and what the objec
tions are. Iho public prints during the
period of subsidence of the recont Hoods
were full of references to the proposed.
works, and to those which had been con
structed and yet it was difficult, if not
impossible, to catch from the discussion a
completo idea of tho system.
the hist works ol which we know de
finitely wero tho levcos. Thoso aro largo
banks of earth built tosorveas extra banks
if tho river should rise, and to keop tho
water off the low, cultivated lands behind
them. When well built they undoubtedly
servo this purposo, and if kept in repair
the V can be made to resist any flood that is
ever likely to come. Tho whole city of
Cairo, during tho Hoods this year, stood
about fourteen feet below tho surface of
tho water outstde, which roso to the very
top of the surrounding levees. When tho
ripplos wasuou on tne top 01 mo luvoos tne
people turned out, and built a tomporary
bank above to tho height of two feet; ami.
although the water rose sixteen inches
against this hastily constructed barrier,
tho town was saved.
But however well a levee may sorve to
nrotect one snot of land, it does this to
detriment ot other places, since tne water
kept from one place nows to anotner, ana
being out of its banks, is spread to places
that would bo untouched If a portion of its
natural ovorllow wore not walled In.
Therefore the levee system, to be perfect.
should be continuous along both sides of
tho river. Mathematically speaking, a
defect anywhere would vitiate the whole
system; but practically it is claimed that
the levoes constructed by slave labor, and
kept in order before tho war, worked fair
ly well. It should bo remembered, how
ever, that during the years whon this
system was in its best condition tticio wore
no suoh Hoods as have happened at othor
times.
Tbo next work of importance in tho lino
of restriction was that done by captain
1C uls in tho south pass of tho Mississippi
delta. Ho conceived tho idoa, or, at least,
cxecutod it) of confining a wido, shallow
stream within comparatively narrowbanks,
arguing that if tho wator could not pass
over the wido spaco, it would scour out
tho bottom, and so deepen tbo channel.
During the construction of tho jetties it
was found that tho water, instead ofsconr
ingout tho bottom, preforrcd to follow its
old habit of seeking tho imo 01 loastrosist
ance. Finding an obstruction In its way
in the south pass, it turned off through
Iho southwest pass, and tho arUutro
It was found that instead of scouring out
the jeltiod pass, it was scouring out tho
othor two, nnd thuro was stiortiy nn aaui
lional depth of two feet In each of theso
Captain Ends says: "as soon as this fact
was discovered submorgod dams wero
laid across the south west pass and tho Pas
a Omro. about two foot tuioK and about
seventy livo feet width of baso. Each of
these dams is about throc-qu irtors of a
mile in length."
Ily thus' partially damming tho othor
two outlets, nnd by tho uso of a very
powerful dredging inachino to assist tho
stimulated "scour" in tho fouth pass, Cap
tain Eads has maintained, and is to-day
niniiitiining, a deeper cbannol than over
lieforo existed between Now Orleans nnd 1
the sea. It is claimed by his critics, how
ever, that the effect of his work is to retard
tho flow of tho river above it, and by tho
consequent settling of tho silt held in
solution, to build up the bottom of the
river, and thus increase tho danger of
overflow. "
The plan of the Mississippi river com
mission is nioro clahorato than any other
hero described. They proiose to narrow
tho wido places in the rivor to a uniform
width of oOOO feet, in order that tho bot
tom shall be scoured out in tho shallow
places, and they p-opwo lo strengthen
the banks, and regulate tin, shapu of Ihe
bottom by wire and woven brush mattress
es, or linings, lo be laid in such places a
iho river would naturally eat away. In
conjunction with this it is proposed to
strengthen tho system of levees, though
this is not a part of thu work of tho com
mission. Theso wins and brush iu ittress
C3 nro to bo placed In position in such a
way as to encourage the settling of sedi
ment in places whero it is desired to have
tho revetments, and tbey are to bo secured
with rnhblc stone, wlrle in places stone
pavements uro to lio constructed. There
aro, of courso, in a plan of this kind, an
enormous number of details that cannot
be described within tho limits of a maga
zine article, but tho general scopo of the
plan has been fairly told.
As was to bo expected, the plan has been
severely criticised, and numberless argu
ments havo been made to show tho defects
in its theory. Whether it is sound or not,
however, the theory b is been adopted by
the govarnment, and tho work is in prog
ress. The lowest estimato of itn cost by
ono of tho commission was 3:1.000.000.
and another member said it would be not
more man s io.uuu.uuu. ji9 opponents,
however, declare that ten times that sum
will not complete it satisfactorily Daci'l
A. Curin, in H-t tncr'a MaiK-.ina for S.;n-
Uinhcr.
A littlo Philadelphia hoy had his loner
curls cut oil' tho other day, and was an-
noyingiy reminded or tho Tact by the re
marks of his frionds. To bis dolirrht he
escaped thorn by going with his f i;nily to
me counjry. boon alter his arrival, how
ever, he came running into the house in
great sorrow, crying, "Mamma, mamma,
even tho lions laugh at mo; they all say,
'Cut-cut-cut-got-your-hair-cuti' "
Henry Erskine, pleading boforo Lord
Thurlow, had to speak of a certain cura
tor, and gave the Scotch pronunciation of
the word, with the accent on tho first
syllable. " Pardon me, sir,' said Thur
low, " wo pronounce tho word cu-ra-tor
in English, following the analogy of tho
Latin language, in which the penultimate
syllable is long." "Thank you, my
lord," replied Erskino," and I bow at
once to the authority of a so ni-tor so
learned nnd nn o ra tor so eloqu-jnt ns
your lordship."
A correspondent of Vick's magazine
recommends tho use of salt in extermina
ting white worms. " In ordor to kill the
white worms in plant boxes, I used about
a teaspoonful of salt to each gallon of soil.
just sprinklod tho silt on the surface,
and then stirred it up well, and I havo
not seen any since. I put salt around
geraniums, fuschias, begonias and parlor
ivy. I do not think the salt did thorn any
harm It is a very simplo method, and
easily practiced. I shall try It on cabbage
plants for cut worms.
Boy Wanted. Thoro is a gospoi tent
at tho cornor of Michigan Avontio mid
Fourth street, and of a Sunday evening
thoro is considerable passing in and out
on tho part of pedestrians. Last Sunday
evening a boy of fourteeu who had just
left the tent encountered a stranger, who
stopped him and inquired:
bay, bub, what sort 01 a porlormanco
is going on in there?"
' rimy goon iiung, was 1110 repiy.
' I'd kinder like to see tho fit woman
and tho living skoloton nnd tho Albino I
hildrcn once more, but I'm purty near
strnnped. Is there any way I kin work
in
' Us boys crawl under iho canvas."
' Anybody around to knock you stiff?"
'Never saw anybody. I'll show you
where to go under."
"By uokcy. III try it: its no uso to
throw away a quarter when you kin beat
1 side show.
The boy look him around behind the
tent and saw him safely under, and Hum
crossed tho street and sal down. Ho
wailed iusl exactly three minutes, and
then the stranger came oat of Hie tent by
the door. Ho looked up and down Ihe
street, olosely scanned every youngster
about him, and finally said to a bootblack :
"Bub, I m looking for a youth about
two heads taller than you peaked noso
brown straw hat hair cut short! I want
to see him so awful bid for about minute
that I'll give you half a dollar if you can
find him around Hero! iaroa tree
Prest.
Tun Famous Sullivan Faum. The
famous Sullivan farm of Illinois is now a
- - - - -
thing of tho past. A short history of this,
at our time, the largest lanu in tho world,
will prove interesting. Et-Govornor
Sullivan was largely connected with gov
ernment surveys, and through his influ
ence, a largo tract in Ford county, nbout
100 miles south of Chicago, was entered
as swamp land. This tract the far seeing
ex-governor then bought nt about forty
cents por acre. Just in order to round
out his farm nicely, Mr. bullivan bought
a fow adjoining sections, and then had a
farm seven miles broad and ton miles
long. During the war Sullivan contract
ed with the government to pasture thou
sands of its worn-down horses and mules.
At tho close of tho war Mr. Sullivan
turned his attention to farming, boing
guided by the ambition to bo the largest
farmer in tho world. Ho owed his failure
to too much discipline. His farm was
divided into three sections. Gangs of
forty plows wero at work on each division.
If the first plow sustained a break nono of
the others could pass it, but must wait
until tho damage Is repairod. No over
seer must dismount to porform any nianu-1
al labor, no mattor how urgent the
demand. No secretary must perform tho
most trivial act of labor savo what prop
erly belonged to his department. Thus
constant loss was boing sustained through
dolays and loss of timo.
Sullivan bad at ono timo Iwonty-olght
thousand acres of corn under cultivation
and employod six hundred laborers.
Failing to got sufticiont nid horo, ho sent
an agont to Europe nnd brought over
'jcrmins and Swedes, paying their pas
sago and contracting with tbom to pay
him iu work. The importations would no
sooner got thoir employer paid, than thoy
would leavo him and set up for thom
solvos. 1 to sides this drawback tho farm
was boing worked by incxporionood
hands, ns tho Europoans know but littlo of
farm work. Tbo grain was haulod to
Gibson, a city on tho Chicago and Alton
road, and thoro disposed of at a fow conls
a bushel. At one timo throo-quartors of
a million bushols of corn woro mnrkolod
through ono salo.
Sullivan mado an assignment, his farm
was reduced to twenty thousand ncros,
and thousands of plows nnd harrows aud
othor tools wore sold. Noxt, tho remain
der of tho land was sold out in small
tracts, and a fow days ago a Swodo mado
tho last paymont on tho last eighty-acre
section of iho groat Sullivan farm. Ex
Govornor Sullivan was roputcd to bo
worth in 1S7!) over $:l,000,000. Uo died
insolvent, Cinr.inm'U Iwititcr.
Ksraptt from It?
I.iltle Children.
lilt of flTO
On Friday miming, J.ily '21. 1S., four
littlo children living at Alloi.i! mine
started mt witn pails rnl b iskets to pick
hrrie5 They wandered alunir tho bi i-h-
way for about r 1111 al ter of a mile and then
turned on a new road, which loads through
iho thick woods to tho new mine oil led
the Wolverine-. All went well until the
youngest, a mito of a girl and very small
of her ago, being but seven ye rs old,
coniplaineel of being tired and 'wanted to
go homo. Then fir the first time in their
efforts to retrace their stein thev discover
ed that they had strave.l from the iitth
and were lost in the thick wools, wnere
in many places llij trees nro but a foot
apirt and the underbrush grows as high
as tivo feet. Vainly they sought Ihe rigln
path till nightfall closed around thein
then, bruised and scratched bv the busies,
with head, face and limbs bitten anil ba lly
swollen by the nip of Ihe wicked black Ily,
iho two older children (belonging lo Hie
Finn set! lenient beyond tbo Alloms prop
or), tire'd and frightened, lay do 11 and
cried themselves lo sleep and wero found
by anxious searchers the following day ia
a woeful condition. When thoso children
were nsked for their little companions
they replied: " Wo begged them to stay
with us but the boy said ho would go and
And Iho way to the road and then come
back for us, but his little sister would not
stay without him," and Ihcy pointod tho
way they had gono. In that direction a
party of men searched all day, aided by
tho half crazed Norwegian "father and
Finn mother of the lost littlo ones, nnd all
day the whistles of ihe Allouez and Wol
vciino mines blew nt inteivals of ten
minutes to guide thein to tho settlements.
Saturday night came aud ito children
found. Tho weary mother must return to
her babe, but tho father with a few men
spent the night in fruitless search. Sun
ilav we found tho road full of Swedes,
Norwegians and Finns, while large parties
were in Iho wooels, and Ihe whistles blow
all dny. Monday came and Iho Calumet
and Hecla joined in tho search, sending
out about four hundred men. Toward
night a littlo footprint wasdiscovercd.and
a pieco of the little girl's dress. Tuesday
more men were sent out and success was
thought to bo certain, but alasl no children
wero found. At evening the sky was lull
of dense black clouds. The thunder was
awfnl - never before da I remember such
a rainfall and tempest as raged for a few
hours, while the rest of tho night and
succeeding day was sultry with drizzling
rain anil Wednesday night another torn
pest. Still the search continued. Every
day tho shouts of six hundred men or
more were making the woods alive. Fri
day morning ono week from the chil
dren s disappearance came, and the Cal
umot and Hcclamine was closed and ihe
whole forco together with tho Alloucz men
were stationed along tho rond front, ffvo
feet apart, with orders to break through
the woods in that line as best they could,
to search eveiy hollow stump, to remove
underbrush, to examine holes and make
sure of leaving no spot unexplored, and
yet night brought nearly every man back
with no traces of the children. Some
stayed all night at their almost hopeless
task, and some, a party of four Swedes,
wero thomsolvos lost, and hero is thoir
wonderful story.
" At 'A o'clock Friday afternoon wc sat
down by a brook to rost. Wo wero tired
and bcwildored and shouted loudly for
our companions to como to us, whon from
a heap of bushes came a boy saying:
Where are youP Who is it? We,
thinking ho belonged to somo puty of
s-archurs, askoJ, 'Who aro you with?'
His answer came, ' My sister.' Up wo
sprang to our feet, nni know, cvon in Hie
midst of our amazement, that tho lost
children were found, and alive, and in
their right senses, although they had been
alone in that dismal wood, amidst .ight
ning and tempest, for eight days, with
nothing lo eat but berries. And tho boy
of but 'J years had built huts of brush to
cover them at night, had gathered and
loaded both himself and sis'.or with great
bunches of blueberries whero thoy wore
to be found, and was trying to follow the
tortuous courso of the brook, which, ho
remembered, emptied into Torch lake,
lie was still brave. Wo gave them small
pieces of bread at intervals during the
afternoon and night, as wo walked in or
by the sides of tho streams ns bust wo
could with our joyful bunion, or lav down
for a littlo needed rest, each two men with
a child hot ween thein to give warmth to
the littlo chilled frame."
Siturday morning some one in the street
shouted lo me, " Ihcy are found ! they are
found! ' I throw up the sash and a party
of men wero right in front of the house
They had Iho children with them. They
refused food aud drink, saying they had
just fed them nnd did not daro to give
them any more. Bitb children's eyes
looked wild and rolled restlessly, a) they
clung tightly to the necks of thoir resellers ;
their bodies seemed covered with hruisos
and their little foot were badly blistered;
they wore being taken to tho hospital for
examination. Dr. 1)., tho assistant super
intendent of tho mine, rode with headlong
I ajei;u iif lull mu ji.tiuma. A lie
I wildly clung to him and fainted
speed to tell the parents. The mother
away,
while the father, who had spent every day
nnd part of every night in the woods, was
nearly overcome. (.'alumet, Mich'tym,
letter to Boston Post.
Euuoi'K a Thousand Khars Ago. In
the your 800 aftor Christ, what was the
stale of Europe? The Goths, the Vandals,
the Franks, the Huns, the Normans, the
Turks, and othor barbarian hordes, had
invaded nnd ovcrlhrown the Roman Em
pire, and hnd ostablisho various king
doms upon its ruins. These hordes of
savagos had destroyed, not only all tho
works of civilization, but civilization itself.
Ignorant ns they were of everything that
distinguishes and elevates human nature
they broke up the schools, (ruined the mon
uments, abolished arts and manufactures,
proventod conitnorso, and reduced tho
conqurod nations to their own conditions,
iuaugeruting in tho complotest manner tho
roign of brute-force and mental darkness.
If they after warp ospoused Christianity,
thoy molded it to their own savago super
stition, till at last naught was left of the
divine ilispcnstion but its namo, to cover
the most degraded idolatary nnd demon-
ism.
There cxhistcd uo soiouco worthy of the
namo, no schools whatever. Heading,
writing, and ciphering, wero soporato
and distinct trades. The m isses, tho no
bility, tho poor and tho rich, woro wholly
unaejuainted with the mysteries of the
alphabet and the pon. A few mon known
as clerks, who generally belonged to tho
priesthood, monopolized them as a special
class of artists. Thoy taught thoir semin
aries, apprentices; nnd beyond thomsolvos
and thoir few pupils no one know how to
road and write, nor was it pxpoutod of tho
generality, any more than it would bo a
shoemaker or a lawyer. Kings did not
even know how lo sign lliuir nam is, so
that when thoy wanted to subscribe to a
wrltlon contract, law, or treaty which
somo clork had drawn up for them, thoy
smoar their right hand with ink, and slap
it down on tho parcumcnt saying, "Wit
noss my hand." At a latter elatu, somo
genius doviccd tho substitute of tho soal,
which was impressed instead of thu hand
but oftoncr bosides tho hand. Evory gon
tloman hnd a seal with a poculiar diviso
theroon. Hence tho sacramental words
now in uso, "Witness my hand and soal."
affixed to modern doods, servo nt least tho
purposo of reminding us of the ignoranoo
of Iho middlo ages. Popular Svienee rr
August.
Wonderful
Vht Guest Chamber.
Ilr very tired they were! That feeling
seemed to crowd out others deeper and
sad.lor onos. Lydia had almost forgotten.
11 slio helped her mother plan how to
rrnge tho furniture in tho now aud
smillcr house, how changed all things
wore wi h thera. To a girl of fourteen
moving is always delightful, oven though
it bn as in Lydia's caso, from a largo house
to a small one The girl quito surprised
herself a, well as her m ilher, by her
quickness in ndupting things. It was
l.y li 1 who made a cosy littlo 10 m for tho
biysoutof a '-forlorn looking" hole, as
thev reported it, in the carriage house or
birn I: was she who, remembering her
mother's little dressing room, surprised
Icr by arranging almost its counterpart,
only on a very limited scale, by removing
a few shelves and an extra door iu the
pissigo way betwoen two rooms.
Lvdi w is thiukina; with no little satis
faction nnd pleasure of all this, and think
ing bisl les of a plan she h id which, in
this twilight resting timo, shu thought she
wo aid talk ovor with muuaii. S sh'i
camo luck to thu lirodncss, and said wilh
a g -ntlo caress.
"Are yon very tired, m im.n 1 dii ir?"
"Not too tired to talk to the little daugh
ter who has saved me so much fatigue.
Is it some now, wonderful plan, Lydia?"
said Mrs. Paul, smiling nttheunoonscious
energy that soenied to start into life in the
girl's face.
1 "Yes Oil, mamma! it's my room this
lime. I suppose I'm to have one connect
ing with votirs? It isn't the room exact
ly I know whieh it is to bo but I want
to nx 11 up with grandma s old bedstead
and her worked vnlance and curtains.
I can make a lovely room of it; nnd there
is the high chest of drawers, nnd my old
book case out of tho school room and "
"But, Lydia, which roa n is to bo the
guest chamber?'
"Oh, mamma liiero is 110 sparo room.
You couldn't put a guest up in that room
bythosido of Bridget's 1"
"No 1 couldn't unless thero really were
no belter loom. Uur guest, should have
our best, I think, whon wo remember who
it is we take in."
"Why, I nevor thought! Is that why
we hid three spare rooms, and so many
people always in them?" Lydia spoke in
a disappointed tone. She did not ,vant to
sleop next to Bridget.
"Well, mamma," sho said, after a mo
ment's thought, "we can't have even one
sparo room now; can wc?" This a little
anxiously.
"Child whunevor I am planning a new
homo I always scorn lo hear that message
the dear Lord sent before bim whon ho
was on earth: Whero is tho guest cham
her?' And remomborlng that ho has said,
'Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of the
least of these ye did it not unto me,' I feel
that alany discomfort we should have that
room reaily, lest bo should noed it."
I was going to mako it so pretty," said
Lydia regretfully.
"Why give it up?" Arc you not ablo to
make two pretty rooms of your odds and
ends? The ono next Bridget's might be
your retiring room when tho master
needs the othor. ' It seems to mo it would
help my hot tempered, impulsive little
daughter to livo in tho guest obambor
that is always kopt ready for tho master."
There was silonco for a time. It was
hard for Lydia to answer. Sho was trying
to pleaso the dear Lord, and since papa
had been so suddenly called away sho bad
wished again nnd again that ho had known
lliat his littlo girl was trusting in tho Savior
lie loved, and ovor and over again sho had
lesolved lo "spoak lo mamma," but any
girl of fourteen can understand bow shy
she felt, how hard it was to respond to
her mother's words, and w!iat a relief it
was to havo littlo Carrie and tho boys run
into ttio room.
II lit Lydia, though sho said nothnig,
thought again and again of what sho
should do as to a room. Sho began bv fix
ing both rooms, ns her mother had pro
pose 1. Bat somehow all tho beautiful
1 bin's found their way into what she
called from tbo first "the guost chamber."
She carried hor largo engraving, "Ecco
Homo," upstairs to tho little room, but
then the tii ought came, "If it is his room
this should be there." And so it was wilh
her prettiost vases, her choicest brackets;
the little rjoni on tne tnird lloor was
a pretty litilo placo, but tho largo room on
the second lloor was a quaint, urigot rest-
in" place, with beautiful reminders of the
hi. i. Ion inner life.
N.i mon) was said as to whoso room
this was, and the first night Lydia spont
in the new homo she wont to this room as
her own. She flung herself into an easy
chatr, and oven ns she began to exouso
hcisulf Irom any 01 bio reading, becauso
she was so tired, her hand loll on the
large copy of tho K-svised Versiou of the
new Testament her fathor's last gift.
She opened it anil her eye rested on theso
words, "A certain woman named lydia
. And when sho was baptised. .
Sho besought, us saying, If ye havo itulg
cd 1110 to be faithful lo tho Lord, coiue Into
my house and abide thore.
Lydia fell as if this wore a message
a reminder; she knelt and in simple words
told the Lord she would use this room as
his; if ho needed it for any ono she would
gladly lake Hie other room; and then the
little girl, with an earnest desire to be
faithful, asked help to Keep tho room
ready tidy and nioe. It seemed no effort
after that prayer to fold her clothes care
fully, to put her soiled collar in the bag
and lay out n fresh one for tho morning,
Mrs. Paul, coming In for a mother's last
look an hour after, nolod the open testa
ment and c.ireluliy lolded clothes, and
felt that the guest chamber was already
inlliiencin' licr uoar utile uangnicr.
' Oh, mamma!" exclaimed Lydia, about
a week after they hail been settled in their
new homo, ' Uncle llob says ono of the
telegraph operators a young lady in
bis cilice Is breaking down. Ho wants to
know if you could find her a cheap board
ing p'ace out bore."
Mrs. Paul waited for a moment and
then said, "perhaps Mrs. Kant might take
her I'll"
"But, mamma, couldn't you don't yon
roineniber maiunin, tho guost chambor?
Wouldn't she be"
Lydia could not get on, but mamma
understood, and kissed tho oagor fano say
ing: "Yes, I think sho won Id doar, and if
you will give tho room I will gladly givo
tho board."
"Oil, how nii-o! May I writo to Undo
llob to send her at once? Every thing is
ready. Mamma, it is an upper room fur
nished,'" sho addod shyly.
"'Meet for tho Master's uso.' Indeed,
am thankful. Run, my own Lydia, and
ask this girl to come into your house."
"Oh maniina! You'vo noticed it, too!
I do want to bo 'found faithful.' " "Anil
I think you are ; but it is a daily light 10
mcinbor.'' A few days later a very plain almost
shabbily dressed girl rang tho bell nt Mrs.
Paul's. Lydin who had been expecting
her guest, opened the door herself, nnd,
truth to loll, experienced a groat shock.
She had expected some ono so diflcront?
Somehow sho nindo up hor mind that her
guest would havo "liquid bluo oyos"
Lvdia's wero gray and wavy brown hair.
Hor dross, though it might be plain, wonld
have an air of "elogant simplicity," and,
in short all was to be so lovoly and bore
stood Hi ia plain, shabby girl or woman!
"Is this Mrs. Paul's':"' sho naked shyly,
and Lydia instead; of beaming nnd dimp
ling as sho would havo dono to "liquid,"
oto , nnswoiod shortly, "Yos.you'ro expeot
c.l," showed her up stairs to tho cool, airy
room, and then went up to bar own little
room, next to Bridget's inclined to cry or
bo cross.
At tea tho newcomer was most awk
ward; sho spilled her lea, crumbled her
bread, and answered so awkwardly to
Mrs. Paul's kind words that that lady con
sidered it the truest politeness to leave
her alone. They all assembled in the
parlor, where tho hoys played games,
Lydia sing, and only jittlo Carrio made
mabe friends wilh the guost; sho took the
littlo girl in a cornor whero they chatted
togi'ther, Mrs. Paul not liking to send tho
child to bed, nnd so bring back Miss Lis-
comb's nervou? shyness, until Carrio fairly I
dropped asleep in hor new frionds arms
ivVdia was disgusted: sue resolved that
sho would not again ask any stranger into
tho house and be deprived of hor lovely
room lor sucli a common pjrson Undo
ltob said a l.uly.
And so she is, but nervous, shy, poor,
and ill," said her mother; but Lydia was
incredulous, and left her guest carefully
to herself.
Miss L'scomb had been with them
a week; Mrs. Paul was beginning to find
out how much real worth and cultivation
lay beneath such an unattractive extorior,
when ono day Lydia fell ill. The doctor
was sent for nnd pronounced it a low fever
that might turn to typhus all depeneied
on the nursing.
Airs. Paul, if yon will help me, wc can
bring ber down to that lovoly room I have
boon using, and if Miss Lydia is willing
I am thought to be a good nurse."
And a good nurso Lydia found her.
Sho could sing old ballads, and the
hymns Lydia liked so much; she alone
scemod to guoss just how much light whs
ploasant in iho room, just what the girl
would fancy, and tho plain, dospised
guost nursed Lydia so faithfully that she
was soon pronounced convalescent, and
could sit up and be talked to and amused.
Ono day, when Mrs. Paul was out ami
Miss Liseomb could not think what new
subject lo s'art, Lydia suddenly broke out:
"I was awfully hateful when you first
came."
"You oh no! Why, I know it was you
who asked mo, and I saw littlo things
about the room that mado mo sure this
was your room, given up for mo. Then
othor things about tho room made mo sure
you loved tho 9.11110 iktar Lord only you
wero shy, as I was,"
Lydia was crying quietly now.
"Oh, doar Lydia, I wish I could tell you
how I loved you for bringing mo bore!
I was so sick so tired I hail almost
mado up my mind God did not care for
mo when I received your kind invitation.
Then thoso books and pictures, every thing
about tho room, seemed to say, 'These
people love the Lord ; they are taking you
for his sako.' Ho will repay, for you see
I can never, never thank you enough."
You havo! you have! Miss Liseomb,
you ought to know. It was for the Lord;
but then when you came I was mean and
hateful ; 1 thought you so
Lydia stopped in contusion ; wnat bad
sho nearly said !
'lou expoctctl sumo ono liko uini,
lear," said Miss Liseomb, pointing to the
Ecco Homo. "I understand; but you did
it for him, and it was very lovely ; wo
loam more nnd nioro as wc grow older.
I think, dear Lydia, you will bo glad to
give up your guest cbambcr lei even
a very plaiu disciploat times; and Lydia's
loving, toarful kiss was a seal that sho
would. one Lcduatdin Christum Union.
Rotation ok I'ltors. Experiments
by Sir John Lawes, tho eminent agricul
turist, havo proved that, with proper ma
nure, tho rotation or crops is unnecessary,
for wheat has now been grown at ltotli-
amstcd for thirty-eight years iu sucession.
turnips with an interval of three years
for twenty-live, barley for thirty years,
and so on; and, tak ing Iho results of, say,
twenty years, tho annual average produco
tn bushois of wheat per acre without ma
nure was sixteen and a quarter, with
farm-yard manure exactly double, and
with artificial manure thirty-live and three
quarter bushels.
'PKiil'Keri.v HAiiMl.l.ss." A Londoner
who lately crossed from Canada to Ogcns-
burg asked the hack driver as to to popu
lation and form of government of Ogens-
burg. On being informed that it was an
incorporated city.thc chief oflicor of which
was mayor, ho inquired: "And does the
mayor wear tne insignia ot otitcc.' ' "in
signia, what's that?" askod tho astonished
hackman. "Why, a chain about his neek,
explained the Cocknoy. "Oh, bles3 you
no," responded the other; "he's perfoctly
harmless, and goes about loose." Boston
Budget
It is woll lor young men starting out in
life to know that when a vocation is once
selected it is best to stick to it. If the
task is disagreeable, it should be reinom
bered that there is no position in life with
out its unpleasant surrounili ngs. It one
task is dropped to pursue another, it also
may be found unsatisfactory. Tho young
man, for instance, who is at one thing
to-day that disappoints htm, and at anotner
to-morrow which affords no greater delight
now manufacturing, then farming,
to-day reading law, to-monow studying
medicine sooner or later linds himself
"Jack of all trades and master of none."
Such persons gain no confidence in them
selves, and inspire less in others, and in
tho ond have no reputation. It may be
sot down as an axiom that, having dolib,
eratcly choson a lino of life, it is ordinarily
best to stick to it.
V.'kau ot' Coiv and Bank N'otks
Tlio relative cost in wear and toar of gold
coin as compared with bank notes has
lately been investigated in England, nnd
tho advantage been found lo bo largely
with tho coin. To manufacture a million
of sovereigns cost 910,000, or about a cont
apieco. In fifteen years they lose in
weight ono half of one per cent., or about
325,000, and become too light for further
uso. This makes thoir total expense as
currency for tho fifteen years $,'15,000.
Tho paper nnd printing of a million one
pound notos would cost, it is estimated,
four cents apioon, or -10,009 at tbo outsot,
anil during fiftoon years thoy would havo
to bo replaced at least throe times, or,
with active uso, six times, thus requiring
an outlay of cortalnly $lii0,00(), nnd por
haps $2S0,000, for the sanio period that a
million sovereigns would remain in circu
lation. Even Sitka, in Alaska, has attractive
and plolurosquo features to interest tho
tourist. A correspondent of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin writes: "Tho woathor
during tho month of Juno has been delight
ful. A succession of clear, sunny days,
tempered by cool winds; lovely cloudless
nights, whon tho twilight glow of sunset
mingled with tho rosy tinges of dawn, the
sun setting in the northwest and making
his appearahco iu the northeast. While
wo aro not In b sufficiently Uigb latitude
to witness tho strange phouomenou of the
midnight sun, wo are on the vcrgo of tho
region of nightlcss days. F01 about seven
days from Juno ill to 28 inclusiveday
light does not disappear, and wo read an
ordinary newspaper, under the open sky
at tho witching hour . of midnight every
night between the abovo dates. Tho haV-
bor of Sitka, with its numerous islets, and
the picturosquo setting of tho littlo town,
with Its magniliccnt background of snow
covered mountains, including tho volcanic
Edgccombo, challenges tho attention and
ndmiratiou of the most blase traveler,"
(i loss we're all right now!" puffed the
old gentleman as, mopping the perspira
tion from his forehead, he reached tii"
steamboat landing with his wife just in
time to be too I 'tn; "guess we're all right."
"Guess we're all right, do vou?'' rej line I
she, catching a glimpse of tho sieamer as
it disappeared around a bend in the river.
"Guess wo're all right! Well, I guess
we're all left," and they were Iktroii
I'rec Pren.
RF.roriNirios is IIkavks. It was
good Richard liixter win suggested the
now often quoted thought, lb it we may
confidently expect to know our loved ones
in Heaven, inasmuch as wc certainly shall
not know less in the next world th in wo
know in this. " You cannot justlythiiik,"
ho savs, "that the knowledge of tho gloii
had shall bo more confused or imperfect
than tin knowledge of natural men on
earth. Wo shall know much more, but
not so much less. Heaven excocdelii
earth in knowledge, as much as it doth i i
joy. ... It is said expressly, that
our present knowledge shall be done away
only in regard of its iniperfoctiou ; and
not. ol itself which shall bo perfected.
' When that which is perfect shall come,
then that which is in pin shall bo done
away." " Iho truost worth of an eirthlv
companionship is its lunoss to be continued
In etornity.
CiitLDitENs ErnUHrrE. Always say
yes sir, no sir, yes pipi, ni thine, y 11.
good night, good morning.
Uso no slang words.
Clean faces, clean clothes, clean shoes
and clean linger nails, indie itegoo l bree I
ing.
Nevor leavo your clothes about the
room. II ive a placo for everything, an. I
everything in its place.
Uap before entering a room, no 1 never
loave it with your hick to tbo. compiny
Remember this.
Always offtir your so-at to a laly or old
gontleujan.
Never put your feet on ci-thioiis, e tair
or table
Mover ovoi look any ono wbon readings
or writiug, nor talk or road aloud whiiu
others aro reading.
Never talk or whisper at meetings or
public places, and especially in 11 private
room where any ono is singing or playing
on the piano.
Be cateful to injure no onj's feelings by
unkind remarks.
Never toll talc.-, make faces, call names,
ridicule the lame, mimic the unfortunate,
nor be ciuel to insects, birds or anything
ul-c.
Havk Faith is Bivs. Somewhat
more than fifty years ago, I was appoint
ed a midshipman in the navy and sent to
New lork. 1 was only lourteen years
old, and being of a delicato mako and
small stature, tlid not look more than
eleven. My previous lifo had been spent
in tho country, anil I knew nothing of
city ways or business proceedings. Pay
day was the tuirtlcth ot tno monin, nut 1
wanted somo money on tno twcntictn, ami
passing through Wall street I went into a
broker's office and said :
" You lend money hero, tlo vou not? '
"Yes."
" I want lo borrow twenty dollars for
ten days," I said.
I did not thon understand tho riuizical
manner with which tho broker looked at
mo before replying:
" You shall havo it, and I won't charge
yon inlorest for it cither."
Ho gave mo tho monoy and I signed tho
receipt; and, I need not add, tho twenty
dollars wero promptly returned at the
expiration of ten days. I 11111 sorry that
I have forgotten the namo of tho broker.
I mentioned the incident many year?
afterward to a gentleman who said it was
tho most extraordinary story bo bad ever
heard of a Wall street broker, of all men.
The other caso happened iu Washington
about fifteen years ago. I was standing
in tho porch of Willard's hotel, when a
littlo boy with a bright, honest face said to
mo :
' Please, sir, lend mo twenty live cents
to set up in business? I want to buy
somo newspapers to sell."
I replied :
" My boy, I haven't got twenty-live
cents, but here aro fifty cents, and when
you want to return it you will lind mo at
this hotel."
"Thank you," said the littlo lad I
will bring it back."
I never oxpocted to soe him or tho mo 1.
ey again and considered it a donation;
but in tbo cvenlug as I was walking up
and down in tbo entrance hall smoking,
my coat was pullod by a little newsboy,
and I turned and behold the yotingstor
who had applied for a loan in tbo morn
ing, with tho sanio bright faco that had
attracted mo then.
" Well, mv man, what is il?" I said, as
though I didn't know him.
" I have brought you back your fifty
oents. sir, said he, " and 1 am ever so
much obliged to you. I have mado more
than a dollar clear profit with your mon
ey. hxenange.
Goon AnviOE. Mr. U. S. Uurdctte, ho
of tho Hnwkcne, givos the following a lvico
to a voting man : "Jly son, wncn you
hear a man growling and scolding becauso
Moody gots 8200 a week for preachin?
Christianity, you will percoivo that ho
nover worrios a minute bacatiso Ingersoll
"ets S200 a night lor preaching atheism
You will observe that tho man who is un
utterably shocked because F. Murphy gets
$150 a week for temperance work seems
to tnink it is all right whon the bar keep
er takes in twice ns much money in a sin
"le dav. Tho laborer is worthy of his
hiro, my boy, and ho is just ns worthy of
it in the pulpit as no is upon tne stump.
Is tho man who is trying to save your
immortal soul worth less than tho man
who is only trying his level best to go to
nonsross? Isn't Moody doiug as good
work as Ingersoll? Isn't John B. Gough
as ranch tho frlond of humanity and society
as tho bar tondor? lo you want to got all
the good in tho world for nothing, so that
you may bo ablo to pay a high price for
tho bad? Remombor, my boy, tho good
tilings in tho world aro always the cheap
est. Spring water costs less than corn
whiskoy ; a box of cigars will buy two or
thrco Bibles; a gallon of old brandy costs
more than a revival of religion ; you can
sloop in church every Suntlay morning
for nothing if you'ro mean onough to dead
beat your lodging in that way, but nap
iu a Pullman car costs two dollars every
timo; fifty cents for tho circus and a pon
ny for tho little ones to put in tho mission
ary box ; ono dollar for, tho thoatro and
a pair of utd trousers frayed at tho ond,
baggy as to tho knee and utterly burstod
its to' the dome, for tho Michigan sufferers;
tho horse race scoops in 2,()00 the first
day and tho church fair lasts n week,
works twcnty-livo or thirty of tho best
women in America nearly to death, ami
comes out $10 in debt why, my boy. if
you over liud yourself sneering 01 scoffing
becaeso 01100 iu a while you boar of
a preachor getting a living, or even a lux
urious salary, or a temperance workor
making money, go out in tho dark and
fool ashamed of yourself, and if you don't
fool abovo kicking a moan man, kick your
self. Precious littlo docs religion nnd
oharity cost the old world, my boy, and
when the monoy it does is (lung iuto his
face, liko n bono to a dog, tho donor is
not bcnelitod by tbo gift, aud tho rocelvor
is not and certainly sbouM not bo grateful.
It is insulted."
A Utile gill, of two nnd a half years,
picked up a cane in the corner of tbe
rewm and was 1 tying with it a plain
stick ber.t at the end. Papa aj-ked.
"What aro you doing with tho cane?"
"It isn't a oane." "What is it then?'
'It's an umbrella withoutany clothes on."
People who poke fun at the blue laws cf
Connecticut aro invited by ihe Hartford
duurai.t lo consider tho fact that in the
year of grace 1882 tho general assembly
of the free church of Scotland and inovetl
to itsuo a deliverance against the sin of
" admiring the vorks of nature on the
Sabbath dav."
Southern newspaper report that a man
in Florida lias produced a now variety of
cotton by budding the cotton plant on the
okra, which grows wild in groat abundance
in itiat state, t here is but one boll nn
the plant, but is larger than nn ordinary
cocoanut, and contains at maturity two
pounds of pure lint, while there are no
seeds in it, and therefore will not require
iiiuiii 11::.
A dispatch in one of tho Chicago iianors
announces that a man has boon wounded
by a bicycle. If nny weapan of warfare
has been invontod by which biovck'S cm
bo shot at an enemy 1'. will bo a swent
boon to tho country, though Ilia riders
should be dismounted and shot out of a
separate gun. U would bo nn interesting
sight in the hospitals during th next
month to see tho doctors groping a man lo
removo a bicycle.
A curious fact in connection wit'i in
stantaneons photography has lately been
n Htceii. in me pnotograpn 01 a vouicie
drawn by a trolling horse, all the parts
,uo very distinctly shown except the
wheels, which are less distinct in their
upper put than in their lower. Tho
rlason is the mathematical one that the
spokes of awheel havo a much greater
velocity w hen at the upper tiart than
when the extremities are near the ground.
Professional etiquette is strictly Insisted
on at tho Belgian bir. At the recent session
of the appelate court at Brussels a young
advocate who was about to addrcM the
judge was interrupted by tho presiding
magistrato with the remark that, it was
a violation of precedent and propriety for
counsel to appear bofore tho court with
a moustache. "I was under the impress
ion," replied the advocate, "that my mom
tacbe was of such microscopic magnitude
as not to be likely to attract the attention
of the court." "It is not a question of
quantity," said the magistrate, "but ono
of the prinoiple." Somewhat afraid of
giving offence, and reluctant to havo the
interest of his olient prejudiced, the young
lawyer suggested adjournment of rtio
hearing to enable him to betake himself
to a barber; but tho barber replied that
that was not necessary. His remarks
were intended for consideration on future
occasions.
A scientific writer says that tho oddest
of all defensive methods employed by an
imals is that of snapping oft tho tail. The
blind-worm, or slow-worm, is a lit tie snake
like lizard common in the O'.d World.
Whon alarmed it contracts its muscles in
such manner and degree as to break its
tail off" at a considerable distance from tho
end. But bow can this aid it? The detach -,od
tail then dances about very lively, hold
ing the attention of tho offenders, while
the iiz tnl himself slinks away. And for a
considerable time tho tail retains its capa
bility of twisting and jumping every time
it is struck. Tho lizard will then grow
another tail, so as to bo prepared for an
other adventure.
The burning oil woll iu Wasl i lgton
county Pa., Hi miles from Bethlehem, is
said to bo a grand sight. Tbo well was
bored by the Niagara Oil Company, ami
at a depth of 2o00 feet from tbo surface a
vast reservoir of gas was struck and com
pelled a suspension of work by blowing
the tools clear out of the shaft. The es
cape of gas was so immense that it pois
oned the atmosphere, nnd as stock ami
illation suffered,, a pipe was laid from
ihe woll up a hillside, and then a light
applied. Ever since February tbo gas has
continued lo burn in unabated violence.
and the supply seems unexhaustablc. A'
night the spectacle is, indeed, grand. Tlic
column of lire is nbout 50 feet high, ami
from ,') 10 10 feet thick, while the roaring
1 hat accompanies item bo compared to a
licet ol steamboats all blowing ott sluaiii
at once.
Monkkv Thicks An old monkey sat
asleep in a snug corner, with a friend
nestling against bim nnd indulging like
wise in a comfortable snooze. Presently a
yonng skyiarker approached thein some
what timidly, and sq la'ting beside the
friend, sat quiet for somo seconds, then
suddenly, as if possessed by some mali
cious inspiration, ho re idled his arm out
cautiously behind tbo slumbering friend
and gavo the elderly monkey a whacKin;
box on the car. lie. waking in just wrath,
und unsuspicious of the trirh-tor Urn cul
prit was nowsshaiiiiuing bleep and looked
Ihe picture of innLcence Hew upon his
friend with an indictment for assu lit, and
chivied him with monstrous clamour round
tho cage, while the culpii', sat regarding
them and jabbering with j .y. Sme little
timo after, the perform nice was repeatetl;
tho old monkey nnd his froind having set
tled in the corner, and tho assault nn I
wrongful punishment occurring as before.
Ouco again the trick was tried, but the
friend, who had twice suffered, was sham
ming sleop this time, and caught tne cul
prit iu the act, and, with the help of the
old monkey, gave him a good drubbing,
which, indeed, lie well dcserved.-.l'i' tin:
War Hound.
Tin: Washington Monument. The
white, tall, plain shaft of the Washington
monument is foot by foot daily rising sky
ward, and its comflEHion, in due courso
of time, is now assured, says the Wash
ington Pod. It is already a landmark
visible from any part of Washington, and
tho inhabitants, nfter a generation of-ridi.
culo, are bogining to bo proud of it.
part from its unique character as an archi
tectural wonder, modern science proposes
to utilize it for pnblic benefit. Tlio signal
office expects to havo a permanent station
at its snmmit, nnd its officers say that ob
servations of tho air and atmospheric
movomonts taken nt an altitude of 550
foot will bo of groat value. Observations
aro taken, of courso, at far groator alti
tudus than this, hut tho gradual slope of
oven the precipitous mountains and the
presence of largo masses of rock nenr the
obsorvatory create surface currents, even
on mountain heights, and intcrfcro with
tho study of the phenomena of tho higher
levels of the atmosphere. It has often
boon prooscd to instituto a series ol these
experiments by means of captivo balloons,
but tho exponso of such work provontcd
tho plans boing carried out. Tho monu
ment i3 now 2f0 foot high. Tho orignnl
design contemplated a height of 500 feet,
but nt a mooting of tho commissioners
two yoars ago, when it was decided to rc
stimo tho work, it was votod to make tho
monument tho loftiest strueturo iu tho
world. The commissioners examiued tho
heights of all tho noted monuments,
towers, pagodas, spiros, buildings and flag,
polos, nnd found that lo safoly distance all
rivalry a hoight of 550 foot would be nec
essary. It was therefore determined to
complote tho shaft on this plan, ami the
drawings woro uiodifiod to that end. What
was tho surpriso and gratification of the
commissioners to Ond subsoquontly that
the new proportions of tho shaft as n ov
adopted wore exactly those of an Egyptian
obelisk.