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n.inee :ng common place memories. lirk quite independently of ourselves. We often find it impossible to remember •li- ibings that interest us most deeply, tail are made to burden our minds with 'natters to which we are entirely indif ferent.. This is a universal experience, and •li»i:ld render us charitable to people who have sjood forgetteries and bad memories. —A'" ry Saturday. Lowrj»g Cat—^The Rocfcjr Mountain Mouser. Jim Stewart, sometiiaw called the ''Commodore," is the most noted narkey in Erie, i+e is a good natured,_ shrewd sort of a fellow, somewhat addicted to doing business now and then on the Jer «*niv I)iddler style, as the following inci dent. will testify Living near the resi dence of the Hon. Morrow C. Lowrv, he was frequently eni]loye«l by the latter to do odd jobs around the house and in the garden. One day Mrs. Lowry concluded that the peccadilloes of a worthless tom- rat, long an attache of the family, were fiich as demanded the infliction of a cap ital punishment, and Good Memories. gwine to gib me foah dollars for him at the Heed House, sah. fho WW it that said he had a bad mem- Morrow (recollecting the general cus vbnt a good forgettery? We forget sedness" of the family cat):—.jfm we want wag's name, but his statement might a good cat up home, and I guess' I'll take adopted by almost anybody, though this fellow, but—but—don't you think I a people out of ten will tell you that four dollars is steep for a catv have gooi memories. That is to say, Jim.—Why all de rest sold fo retain very clear and vivid iinpres- lars, sah. i,df certain*things they never forget btfeiness or their ,.uts they can tell •nth this or that inc s about crediting them with good •loriea. To apply this test is of course .••ossible but a little observation will 8 our, will have no difficulty in recall- he minutest detail. We know of an i pagi readi annot remember to wind his watch rht, and could not if his life depend ii his doing it regularly. We read :v day of wonderful instances of lory, but they are always instances of :.ti ulty working in special directions. :ind this in a recent English journal: who can repeat a page of blank or of prose after reading it once, iin Kemble used to say that lie could i a whole number of the it which was read and returned, iwner, wuie time afterward, pre ng he had lost it, begged Magliabec write out as much as he could re- I 1 Lv-ichin of i! Jim play the part of executioner. After a •ong c:hase the victim was captured and Put in a basket, over which an old shawl *'5s securely fastened. The next mo\e "was, how to dispose of the prisoner. Mrs. L. suggested drowning, but Jim, with tears in his eyes, protested that he f'ould no more drown the cat than he could drown himself that were lie to do s#, his conscience, acting on a natu rally tender heart, would trouble him so much at nights that he was sure lie could never sleep a wink thereafter. Not, wish i&g to ruin Jim's jteace of mind, Mrs- L. compromised the matter by giving bun a dollar, and directing him to dispasc of it that she should iT/i Mnrniii'j l'oxt .- i Massachusetts, about half he had not read it for lerful go. A man might fail lamentably such a test and yet possess a good »ry, by which we mean catholic rv. This we take to be about the of gifts. We have- never met more wo or three people who seemed to ss it. :he ability to remember the little -s of every-day life were more com- n. nore generally blessed with humble- He says "So equisite is the nervous sen- vvljicli People for five dol- Jr observation they ons that took place "icraWy accurate in all statistical mat-j consented to do. Arriving at home, he i same demon of a stove maybe converted But if you could compare what took his prize into the sitting-room care-I into a bet comertea people remember with what they fully dosed the doors, slightly liftin" the fsrgotten^ vou would be very can-1 basket covering and smiling benevolently apparent astonishment, re ,, T, al'farent lni ir\»j one that almost every man's iory is restricted within very narrow One man remembers faces and the basket, and commenced rubbing him- water that it contains, that names .another names and not faces self against his master's legs. Morrow I pint of it will seldom be vap. ird, neither i w'es nor names, but stopped short, while his wife brokein im- i course of twenty mr hours nl in aclas: historical ble to state [instances while another pupil, who drown not more than ten minutes ago." close to the stove, or hung from it by ... Ai •. ....a i .-v/ mviiii rim ,.vUrs. 1 bin is not e*. One pupil in a class can give the patiently: a fourth part of what is required for even of certain historical transactions, "J.a me. Morrow! Why that's the same a single ro.m of moderate size. Place i ?0:,n'I'T1 is wholly unable to state the attendant old cat I gave Jim Stewart a dollar to instead, upon the neck of the stovepipe! knowledge, and nu Distances while another jmpil, who drown no't more than ten minutes ago." close to the stove, or hun" from it bv carry a date in his mind lor half hat followed we know not, but a few means of a wire, a tin container, holding minutes later the Hon. Morrow 15. Lowry at least a quart of water. This, might have been noticed on the streets of that nigger when he wants to see liim badly. JJe«nr lunliriil. The Minds of Animals. DR. W. LANDER LINDSAY», of whose physician, devoted to mental diseases, but II*days. Scaliger could repeat a hun-I who also takes a great interest in the verses or more after having read minds of the lower animals, the study of i. a single time. Seneca could repeat housand words on hearing them Magliabeechi was once put to a se rial. A gentleman lent him a man- whicli he is now systematically prosecut ing. He believes that animals have minds a tealh as do men, and that, although vastly and variously lower, they are still kindred to the human nnnd, and upon analysis yield the, same mental elements or rudiments of the faculties. But he goes still further, and affirms not only ier whereupon the latter, appealing i that animals have true mental natures, memory, wrote out the whole essay, hut tliat^these are liable to derangement if some of the old historians are that is, in fact, animals are subject to the credited, could remember the name same mental diseases as man. He has re ?ry soldier in his immense anny. A eently published an elaborate paper on a insanil} in the ii urv ago, could repeat the whole of he gives the most curious and interesting lower animals, radise Lost' without a mistake, al- proofs that they also go deranged all twenty in which kinds of ways. Even the vexed qusetions Euler, the great mathematician, of civilization and insanity he finds j„ jf,*of anv he became blind, could repeat the mixed up with this lower animal problem. of Virgil's sEnti'U and could re- J**"- Tuke, an eminent authority on hti »er the first line and last line on insanity, remarks that there is an page of the particular edition which acuteness of sensibility, a susceptibility been accustomed to read before he of emotions, an intense activity of the lie Wind," These are certainly verv I feelings, which would seem to be peculiar illustrations of the power of to highly civilized life, and out of this the sides of the [ry—memory playing, like Paganini, state of ie"string but no doubt the people predispositions to mental disease. Dr. iccompTished the various feats de- i Lindsay holds that this is equally •(1 had very poor memories in other i true of animals. He says: "The •rs To be able to repeat a hun- effect of domestication nnd breeding verses after one reading is no proof in the prodnction of a predisposition to od memory—except so far as the disorders of the wiiole nervous system, including especially tlie brain, is another subject of the tirst importance in relation to tlie symptoms of insanity in animals. the nervous system come, various High breeding, for instance, in dogs and horses, begets extreme nervous senMbiiity, including high mental sensitiveness, one result of which is great susceptibility lo diseases of the entire nervous system The distinguished Parisian physiologist, I he distinguished rar.s.an pnysio og si, wc could very well do without such M. Claude Bernard lias pointed out the rational powers as were possessed by efleot of breeding in the ob\ lous difleiences ^i^hi, Scaliger, Cyrus and the I"««« our ^fac es, and ,s ,s, vjmo ««J\A W«\^ i *. «s The world would he spared a vast hihty between high bred animals and the hrcathed over and over again, while our of annoyance if men and women 1 same species in the wild or natural state, nihility of dogs of Ihe higher breeel that U tiiev hear it constitute a verv larire I formed within the abdominal cavity are i who always forget where they left i iiii.ik, a paper or some such trille, are everybody's acquaintance. The? people ho forget that they owe you five dollars too numerous and almost too painful ntion. Good forgetteries are a great •i"a] more common than good memories, i!ui, as Hamlet said to his mother, we wo'dd it were not so." There is one 'hiiiir to he said in extenuation of us 3i'rt tls. We all would have good memo* i's if we had our way about it.^ But iiemory is a faculty placed nearly if not •viiolly beyond our control, It seems to 'lever recollect what they said or 1 th«i slightest operations bring on Je\er, niethod that we have described: U), the somebody else said are always get- i and are attended with alarming symp- hemselves and their friends into loins. They cannot, then-fore, be em- i .'e The well tnc iniix' folk* who ployed in researches connected with the Icumot-for the life of them repeat a thing I gastric jui( e in fact, all operations per- i- Tlie less dangerous but more"absurd liable to superinduce peritonitis, which I occupant of the room until it has thus generally proves fatal. In dogs of a b,.eI1 properly warmed and moistened (.), lower breed the results are totally difler- ent, and M. Bernard stales that in the horse these differences arc, if possible still more strongly marked."—" MiuxUtiny" in 1r Jiiitunry. Hints About Housekeeping. WE give to intelligence, to religion and to all virtues, the honor that lielongs to them. And Htill it may be boldly affirm ed that economy, taste,'skill and neatness in the kitchen have a great deal to do with making life hnppy and prosperous. Nor is it indispensably necessary that a house should be filled with luxuries. The qualifications for nil good house keeping can be displayed as well on a small scale as on a large one. A small house can be more easily kept than a palace. Kconomy is most needed in the absence of abundance. Taste is as well displayed in placing dishes on a pine table as in arranging the folds of a damask-curtain. bkillful cooking is as feadily dis johnny-cake, drive n Domestic was called upon any way he pleased, so never see it a "am. Putting the clollar in pi,yHicai exertion—what inay his pocket an'7l the basket under his arm, Jim started down town. He had not Wneout of sight of the house when he met Morrow, walking leisurely toward his sued: Morrow.—Hello, Jim, ^Iwt have you got there? Jim —One ob de celebrated Kocay Mountain cats, sah. Morrow.—A llocky Mountain cat. ^hv, Jim, where did what are you going to efo with him V Jim —T trolly, sah! Didn't you lieah on de big bunch ob dem cats cum to town yesterday from Klafbrny, sah'' Bes mous- in de wurl, sah, and dls is U)(. economy isa science—atheory —Eschaitilf. TCHPENTINK IN HKADACHK—Dr. severe headache to which nervous and hysterical women are subject. 1 ncrt i. moreover,'" he says, "another cla-* of sufferers from headache, and posed of both sexes, who may be r-li veel by tur|»entine. I refer to the frontal headac he, which is. most apt to occur af mental effort, but may l'ke bv unduly sustained be styled tcr prolong wise be induced jieiKliw lie of a and—worst you get de of him, and biggest •od beat one ob de lot, DV *re Stores and Ventilation. A WRITER in the New York Ewnity M'til neficial servant, To manage the stove rightly, two things r- benevolently of equal importance must be done—first, astonishment, re- to procure a proper supply of moisture in the air. The urn that surmounts our 1 dear, Ive brought you a Rocky stoves is entirely inadequate to vaporize Mountain cat the best mouser—| enough water for this purpose. Its slen Vs.mom,ent the cat jumped out of der pedestal conducts so little heat to the as much as a iporized in the Erie, armed with a walking-stick, and!F... ..i .....nunrvo mmtcmc i i wondering "why a man can never find i healthy and comfortable or it may be i "J.," 'i necessary to remove the urn from the" ton views on the subject of animal psycholo- furniture, preventing it from cracking and gy we spoken, is a Scottish warpin*: u piano will last much longer i •11 J"" in a parlor of which the air is thus kept in a respirable condition. i's But, second, we have to provide for the ventilation of the room that we have thus i warmed. The fault with ventilation in wjmt,r time coinmonl*' is that it is left to (.hance-to doors ajar or the cracks air ](..uJin,r it al,|t. 11S i In llj(. ori|inary (,f lc(,t iin. leaks of in below. T,, r,.«.H|itulute pur(, Dr Sir iging the The charm of good housekeeping, in the order of economy and taste displayed por part many a one from home to seek comfert and happiness somewhere else. mUHt j)ay of life which all sensible women ought to study and practice. None of eiur girls are fit to be married until they thoroughly educated in the mysteries °f or drowne-d—I'he-^Preivince must imy^for the kitchen. 4U See to it, all ye who arc mothers, that daughters are accomplished by an experimental knowledge of good house keeping. ever, War- A cup the fatigued of vt,ry rtrong of headach«- f( W home, and the following colloquy en- pajn, it may produce genera s sued: brain tea often relief this f»n but th.s rcinely, w'thnot j, perilous for, hriivriiig rehtf all—banish sleep. lur nentine, in doses of twenty or thirty minims, given at intervals of tl not on v remove: the htauatl.t, fui will not only r^m1 but 'produce in a wonderful manner that soothing influence to which reference has already made." —Some styles of ear-nnga are worn long enough to touch the shoulders. THE M15I9TEB OF TUE iMKBiO«r-The cook. the windows, and that the fresh air coming thus directly from without strikes un wanted upon the sitter, producing dis comfort, cold and disease. Tlie local draught of air is the most trying and dangerous thing for the lady at her sew ing or the student at his desk. Hut we can remedy all this trouble by the follow ing simple device: Through the side of liLi niint'ii' ui/» iv-v. i in 1111 riuw «u or through the upper pane of a wjn,|,,w introduce a tin tube lor fresh it along the ceiling to a point the stove. Have no damper sort. The draught of air noariv ov£r tj passing through the stove and stovepipe will then draw in the cold pure airthrouirh 1 his tin tube, which should be three inches in diameter for a sitting-room of ordinary size. Falling upon the stove, it will re ceive its heat and spread laterally toward not reaching the r'M,m« the points of the letter ,.0JJ air t|ipnugh with a sufficient quantity Wlil(.ry a ter tjic hjtter S-u-ntifir srov'rjemptied into the Harbour. This is the in a nicelv baked potato, eir a respectable „ran(|,.st Event which has ever yet haj as a nutbrown sirloin, or a .)en(.ti since the Controversy with Britain brace of canvass-backs. opened! The Sublimity of it, charms me! a in attention to little things, has a wonder- sentiments of it, better than in the Words ful influence. of Coll. J)«ane to me last Evening— A dirty kitchen and bad cooking land and ali that—But—these Terrors are all but Paginations—Yet if they should become Ht alities tbey had better be suf fered. than the great Principle, of Par liamentary Taxation given up— makes some very practical sugges stions about ventilation in general, and particularly in regard to rooms where stoves are used. He says, very truly, the still ami calm of a Saturday night than "it most frequent means ot warming for in- was last Night. All Thins* were con dividual rooms is the cast-iron stove, ducted with great order. Decency and sitter until it is thoroughly warmed and pttte{ in by the city of New York, Brook moistened. The windows may be kept perfectly tight, if desired, without danger to health, and we have abundance of pure, moist and warm air in-doors. But how, after breathing this air, are we to dismiss it from the house before it becomes noxious? Make an outlet, or register, communicating with the chimney at the level of the floor to this the warmed air, now impure, will be forced down from the incoming current from above. It will make our feet warm and comfort- service, and then, its duty iK-ing finished, it will pass out through the register and escape into the open air. the st,.r and escape into the open air. The Town of. Boston was never more I'Jii't xubjiu-wioii to Tllli* is brought from without, an air-tulM*, to the center of the roonJ. jt is heated by the stove (.1), dmrfred f(,r it.—Now, I thinK, the rre^v- ince, may pay for it, if it is burned easilv as it is drank—anel I tliink^ it is a matter of indifference* whether it is drank it in either Case—But get C1 burton Begbie (Edinburgh MtA^d Jwir- inc. wouht never pay for i nnh advocates the use of turpentine in the .Q C/"f* ,n i of the stove and to supply its place with hen or iron vessel placed lirectiv ^al ""If" an earthen over the fire. The air thus moistened resembles that of summer, and acts bene ficially not only upon the lungs, but upon 1 1 i i i U V U I 1 i t- U I I .- o i I I U O I I I jIoi |lt of-t,m „„seicnhlic arrangement 8tovc-hcatcd rooms, tlicr impure ,.),i|]t.(i by a stratum of cold air ircumstanc es, and ilef.rr there is this difler ence—I be lie-ve it will take them 10 years to the Province to pay for it—if »o, we shall save 10 years interest of the Money—Whereas if it is drank it must 1m paid f»r immediately, thus He—How He agreed* with me tlj|lt th(. Colonies should follow our example, will in the opinion of many Persons bank rupt the Company. However, I dare say, that the Governors and Consignees and Custom House of ficers, in the other Colonies will have more Wisdom than ours have had ck take effectual care that their Tea shall be seflt hack to England untoucheel—if not it will as surely be destroyed there a« it has been here. Threats, Phantoms, Bugbears, by the million, will be invented and propogated among the Pc ple on this Occasion—In dividuals will be threatened with Suits and Prosecutions, Annies and Navies will talked of military Executions—Char- lie talked of, military let# annuii'd—licaaofl—iryala rnment—No I)oubt, We 11 thought the Administration in letter Hands than it had been. Please to make Mrs. Adams most respectful Compliments to Mrs. Warren, and mine. I am your Friend JOHN ADAMS. Surface Movements of the Eartli* The old geological theory that from time to time the surface of our earth has been changed by grand catastrophes, which, destroying plants and aiflmals, were, on an immense scale, similar to the local catastrophes produced by volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, has been abandoned by reason of our more correct more careful observations tigators have been making for many years. These observations r'-v w,ll(l1 investigate) heated *,ave I,roVt'd that sudden catastrophes are nearly or quite to the boiling p«»int, -vvill meroly KK-JU but that all the great give off enough moisture to make the air the surface of our earth, as tin n„ "IViI'lV!"1 i.'*1. Pn"*s',,a °f valleys and their ultimate h?,,!-r s into lakes and oceans, are grad- a,wavs «!v»*n at the present Paeitic Ocean California—are perpetually 1 a" the In 1J1 lt" h/»»•»»» our great American lakes sl,')v'-v ^'"kmg, with a probable corre- ., spondinir upheaval of the Mate of Ken- tucky. of Southern Indiana and the sui^ rounding countries. Geological investi gations prove that once our lakes had ^ion I* of vapor (4), it dc»es not reach the j)(.in respired it is pressed down to t|1(. ](,vo] 0f the floor to warm the feet of and ('»). it is dismissed into the m»en air when it is no longer wanted. Thus we have a simple, rational and healthv svslem of heating and ventila tion and for those who will try it tui we have described, we can predict a consider able gain in comfort, if not in length days. The Tea Party in Bo-ton Harbor— Letter from John Adauis. A RESIDENT of Boston has given to the AdrerHwr, of that city, the following copy of a letterr now in his pos-tision, written by John Adains to General James the whole e»f the village of Halduende Warren, of Plymouth, on the l?th of can now lie seen, while in 1K47 the vane December, 1778: Bovrov, Dec. 17, 1TB. The Dye- is cast Tlie People have pafW(.(i the Kiver and cut away the- Bridge! i last Night Three Cargoes of Tea were nROt express my own have ghould repeat them—The worst ^jiat can |)})pj)j((.n, I think, says hein C.on- sequence- of it, will be that 1hc I rovince their outlets south, till by depression at the rutttjon. Now for the baked custards north a new outlet waslirst.formed, about i{llt forty thousand years ago, through Mia gara to the St. Lawrence river. The di vision line of the water-shed of the lakes and the Mississippi Valley has been slowly traveling southward since that time and when the city of Chicago recently turned the waters of Lake Michigan up the Chi cago River intojtlie Mississippi Valley, she -imply re-established the old stage of affairs, wiiicli, if the motion in question continues, w ill be more difficult to main tain in the future than it is now. For tunately this motion is very slow, and only a very remote posterity, some thou sands of years hence, will meet with the difficulties we now foresee, when the bed of tlie Chicago ltiver becomes lower and i gan. n reaching tlie jrr,.v It appears, furlher, that the State of New s IT"ilia uloretr fJlf* coast of Northern France, Hi-lgium, Hol land stinl Northwestern (ieniiany, white the* coast of Sweele n, along the Baltic, in slowly rising, including the Capital of Sweden, the city of Steu khohn. The late st scientific journals rejnirt two very striking contemporary upheavals in Spain, entire!) authentic. M. DcHotcHo describes the in detail, and the moM cu i rious fact is that the short time of scarce ly a quarter of a century was siiflie-iejnt to produce an e fleet whii'h has surprised every inhabitant who observed the cir cimistanccH formerly, and compared them with the prevent conelitioti In the pro vince of Jamora, it is observed that from the village of illar don Diego, it is now possible- to see Uic upper half of the churh steeple of Kenifarxc*, in the province of Valladolid whereas, twenty three years ago, the summit e»f this Btecple could only just be perceived. The same thing occurs to the same degree and under the same circumstances in the province of Alava, where, from the village of Salvatierra, of the church steeple couhl hardly be per ceived. These- ufacturer iml HaikU r. that the Prov it—and also flna] Huin, of this that the final Kutn, oi our Consti tution of Government and of all American Liberties, would be the certain Conse quence* of Suffering it to be landed. Governor Hutchinson an«4 his familv and Friends will never have- done with their w rviees (ireat Hriiain cz tiK Colonies But for him, this te* might have lieen saveel to the K^t^ India om pany. Whereas the Loss il the rest of Youths' Department. CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS. What did yon And In yowr stocking*. Good littl*' fjirle and toy*?" "Horse and donkey* andtrui Lots of Knudcrfiil toys! Dollies in lovely drcuwo. Tops, aad tt fwonl and mm Rattle*, Hiul Jacks in boxes.— Jollit-s* tiling for fun! "Play-holies, bows and arrow*. Turkey* and ilaok* that i-qnwk Canel i,-. and tinv iea-*«-ts, Bau-Umtm woolly and met-k." "Shake out each little stoekiatf: Sonu'thiiijf is loft behind. Somt-thiia so fwoit and proclan, Kvt rv ^KKJ child may find. Caa't you guem Somothingdwer, Palror, than all your toy, love of father and mother WOt their darling r1rlf and bora '/T« A\nwry. TINAS NEW DOLL. Au, tlk« Httlo women went »o Ke it* cfo'eti, A11 the Utile monun utter little «h'a, ("url v hair and flaxen—very little none— The urottiont of xaciiuoii ou rlbbcMW, lOOBMI, liows. In the cradle rocking—hnniplnjf on tho flttor— Lying in a Khockiug n«ap behind tlie door. B«*nli)i" oYr it* low«on—tnniMin^ down the rtaln»— IlaviuK it» nlL'ht dro'" on kneolin^ at itw prayerw. l.ittlc none battered tlion a fi»t Is *onc— Then an arm ta rlmttcred—Dollio all foakirn. Snaking in the pitcher—dryl"K "x" mid day. The mountains bordering "on the ^turo -riding on the oat. in fact, tlie whole coast of Under marchinir orders- trotting to thfiiftor Leuviu) trail of nawiiimt all alon^ the floor. rising, and for half a ind contain- AH the little women utter little oh'», Tina wautna now our ^vt* ir I Hippo-.*, IUfU Oorpond. THE "UTTLK Wll»OW.,» "Well," said the good old doctor, with a sigh of satisfaction, "we have disposed of the roa*t ehiekeu without a singfc inter- lint as he spoke the ttllv OII(. lower at its junction with Lake Mi hi-| ,j|(: ^^t leather-covered, sinking, and this i- even pnrtici- lyn, Long Island, etc., at the rate of som. sixteen or seventeen inches per century. This is insignificant, to be sure but let it only go on for a thousand years and it i» some fifteen feet, HO that the new stone docks now commenced in New York city at that, tjme will be totally submerged but then they will probably not last, so long, and the soil of the lower part of the city maybe very easily raised half a foot every thirty'years. It is evident that the )jjs ','it'lit hand, cruslieel'and bleeding, most correct data may be obtained at the .. Whv. whv that's bad How did sea shore, as the main height of the ocean yOU frou office bell (j„ iimt njy boy )os-esses a perfect stability. This main *3 trying to help at the express ,,v eontinuul 0,,^rVHti0n of tUi„s air if u „I1(, .r different anywhere the high- I Thu dN'tor tj(1,, r(,u.h'a hi„H.r than did one hundred or two hundred years ai:o, it is a proof of depression or sinking uf the land. Hut four points are ua a line parallel to the system e»f the Kanserrois mountains, while the-extreme points are one hundred anel forty miles apart. All the* movements we speak ef here have nothing to do with volcanic erup tions they are, of course, e auscd by changed e oiiditions of the earth's mass, which, by the se facts, is proved not to be solid, the opinion of some modem geologists notwithstanding the earth, if neit liquid inside, must at least le soft anel plastic, in erdcr to make depressions in niiv place with simultaneous elevations in another. One other interesting fact we must mcn ti»n in this connection it is that the highest mountains are not the oldest, as one would naturally Mippose-, but IM-Ioiiir to the system lait elevated so the high Swiss Alps are much younger than the lower Jura, and the-Catskill younger than the lower Shawanirunk mountains.— Man THE Manchester Mirror says that here after no denizen of Bristol, N If., should oppose lovers in ke e late—or, rather, early hours, for the late- fire there was discovered by a voung man whe had been eiut courting. T'he I' ranklin Kire Com iuade- the young lady a present for e eping her beau up until three o'clock in covered. A STOHY is told of a man In Connecti cut who fell from the nof of a five-story building to the sidewalk but, as he- struck on the thick soles of his rubber shees, he Winded bacrf within a epmru-rof an inch of the roof, anel so continued to bounce, the distance decreasing by crnly a quarter of an inc at each journey, lie subsist ed on hash enclosed in rubber balls, which he managed to catch on the bound, and at the end of a month was stopped igeci id of and returned to his family. —Dorabella, who reads the papers, thinks it nothing wonderful that the King should le in Jiag- i in arrears. Bhe aays she's had rings in Vr ears ever since she »even rang, and he rose instantly, the yet untuxted custard in his hand. "Now, father," exclaimed the young girl opposite him. his only companion at tin* little dinner table, "why need you go Eat yotir custard. Whoever it is can wait a few minutcB." "No, dear," he said. "Pain finds it hard to wait. Whoever it is iiwy be suf fering. The custard can wait. I'll just take it with me, and eat it at the fir«t spare moment." So he passed from the dining' room into the office, and looked around for his visitor. He had time to set the custard-cup on the mantel shelf and lay the spoon acro,-s it, before be discovered j„ ,!l(. completely tkid stiitled easy chair hide the little form behind it. It was a small boy, very poorly clothed, but with neat patches on knees and CIIHJWK, which spoke of motherly care. Hi* face was pale with pain, but there was a resolute look in hi* brave eyes, which showed a I tiiilMt. be narn'"ff something, sir I'm a poor—." Pshaw muttered the Doctor agaiu, "what should such a child earn You ought to be at school, 1 say. Who brought yon he re "Nobody, sir. I saw your sign out, and I caiiM* over here myself Hut, sir," lie continued in a piteous tone, "1 can not pay you. I have no money. I'm a poor—" Ah, well, no matter! we'll sec to that," interrupted the doctor in a cheery voico. lJui the child continued. I haven't any money, I'm a poor widow, sir,—" but bere.t'he doctor, who had just put. on the last slip of plaster, leaned back in his great chair and burst into a hearty laugh, to the surprise of the little boy, who raised his lar^e, sad eyes to the doctor's face wondcringlv Just lO me oue ior N I» I. OIK'» .mm Kirl f».|«-.'|.c-a ill «t II,« I open door, attracted by the uii'iiual ftlce. See hc:r!, sound of mirth in the My boy, tei the lady what daughter you are.'' I'm a poor w idow, ma'am," repeated the e hild, innrjeently, and the doctor laughed again riirht merrily. Poor e-hild said the girl. "I sup-j [Hse he lias hrarcl bis mother say that, and thought In* -bared her lot in all things good, manly little- fellow,'' she added push ing tin-hair back from his forehead with kindly touch, and she bellied to bind up his poor hanel with soft clean linun. Then the little widow was set in the large- arm chair and treatcel te the »locter'a nice custard. When it was finished, the doctor said Now, my boy, the boggy is at the door, I am going your way, and I u ill take you home to yoir inc)ther.'4 Bi- mother was, indeed, "a poor whiow,'' and tliis was her only cbiM. Un«l the des tc/f's are the boy soon recovered the use* ef his hand. 'urtbef prescriptions followed as to schooling for the el'*-tor had a way of administering to people 's mi-fortunes as well as to their hoddy ail ments anel as time went e»n, the "little widow," as the good old man use-d te call the child between him^rlf and his daugh ter, became the doctor's office boy with good pros|wcts of Incoming his assistant at last.—(J"li/jrtijiduindlmt. "The Old WoinaAt" It was thus, a few days since, the morning—the time the fire* was clis jy though in the latter case the phras* in more often used endearingly. At all t'uue s, as commonly spoken, it jars ujon t^ear anl shocks the sense. An "old woman" This fire was the first one the Franklin boys had been c*U«d U» for eighteen months. We lie-ai A a stripling of sixteen de-signate the motA er who bore him. By coarse husbaiids W(. |jttve heard wivm so called occ asiotal- should be an objfM-t r,f reverenc e, above u|, and Is'ycind almost all cither phrases of Yorker humanity. Her very age should be her sure st pHssjKrt to courteous eronmderation. The aged mother of a grown up family ne.-eds no either certificate of uurth. She is a monument of excellence, approved and warrants!. She has fought faithfully "the good fight,'' and come off conqueror. Upon her venerable face win bears the marks of the conflict in all its furrowed lines. The most grievous of the ills of life have been hers trials untold and un known only t'» h«*r CJod anel herself, she has borne incessantly and now, in h'^r old age—her duty done patiently aw*it- slain his thousands, or stood triumphant upon the proudest field of viotory. Young man, speak kindly to vonr mother, and even courteously—tenderly of her. But a little time and ye shall sew her no more forever. Her eye is dim, her form is bent, and her shadow falls grave ward. Others may love you when she has passed away—kind hearted sisters, perhaps, or she whom of all the world you choose for a partner—she may love you warmly, passiouately children may love you fondly, but never again, never, while time is yours, shall the love of woman be to you as that of your old, trembling mother has been. In agony she bore you! through puling1 helpless infancy her throbbing breast wa» your safe protection and support in way ward, tetchy boyhood she Jxire patiently with your thoughtless rudeness, and nursed* vou safe through a legion of ills and maladies. Her hand it was that bathed yoyr burning brow or moistened the parched lip her eve that lighted up the darkness of wasting nightly igils, watch ing always in your fitful sleep, sleepless by your side, as none but her could watch. Oil* spe*ak not her name lightly, for you cann"t lire so many years as would sufneo to thank her fully. Through reckless and impatient, youth she is your counselor anel solace. Up to a bright manhood she guides your improvident step, nor even there forsakes or forgets. Speak gently, then, and reverently of your mother and when you too M'Hjirzinr. shall be old, it shall in soino degree lighten the remorse which shall lie yours for otlrer sins, to know that never wantonly have you outraged the respect due to the "old woman."—Arthur"* limn* Chewing (jam. "When fwd is taken, saliva Is .wrcted to aid in masticating it. When other sub stances a?e chewed, saliva is, nt first, secreted iw for food but the vital in stincts soon recognizing the nature of the substance, excrete a tluid similar to saliva for the defanse of the tissues. This tluid (thrown out against tobacco, gum, efc.,)~ is really an excretion. The bile occasioned by taking poison ous nii'dicines has, by careful experiment and analwis, been found to be epiite a different substance from that socrcteel by the liver in its healthy a« tie»n. So the fluid which the salivary glaneift product! during protracted chewing of that which is not food, is e|iiite different from healthy saliva. The waste1, however, is probably just as great us if it we re healthy saliva. Those* who habitually hew gum, unduly exercise either ultimate debility, or un due development in size. There is also danger of permanent depreciation and poisoning of the salivary glands. This constant chewing also injures the teeth. T!»e teeth are no small it* tn in a lady's beauty anel as they go to such rapid dm-ay in America, demanJing so early the- dentist's care, It i* surprising that ambitious young ladies should so wantonly destroy them. Boys often ruin their tcc'fch by cracking nuts they do it to get at the kernel—tlie-y have a motive —but what possible motive can boys, girls, or women have for chewing, chew ing, hewing, hour after hour, an insipid lump of irum. i soul stronger than the pain. "Ah, there lie is ried the doctor. "Well, my little man, what can I do for And lie seated himself in the urge hair, to bring himself more on a level with the little pale face. "Please* sir, my hand," he replied, com ing in front of the doctor, and holding Ti box Vlin and hur 11 went to work at once ,hey L.J °Je^Ls tTbL unK y with I the utmost gentleness to bind up the poor little* hand, but muttering, Pshaw what doe's the express office want of such a child y Vou ought to lie at school." Tim habit also diverts attention from duty or study, and is one of the familiar modern modes of killing lime*. In short, it is a useless, indecent, unhealthy prac tice. Boys and girls h-i it done.—Mtdr itnl Jifiiriut/ Keeping Diaries. Oi.D people who liavo not accustomed thciuse-lvi's to anything etf the kind, aro very averse to jotting elown not*s of what transpires from day to day. As the father of trfie» .» ril(/r. »u cvsjre^e'H it -"Tltey think they can carry things in theirhcaefs much better than on paper It is a very easy matter, howe ver, to form, in youth, the habit of keepin* a diary—pulling down in a me-inoratnium-book the facta and incident* of our everyday live a. (fcice- fixed, the habit remains ami lie come* a source of pleasure. Thousands of persons de-rive* solid enjoyment from siltiag down at their desks be:fore retir ing. and speudipg a few mouu nts with tlM»mjounials. But. line be»»/ffits resultmj fnmi such a practice aro what should make it universal, particularly among young laelies, who generally havw time for such things. Itc a.ju s re-lle cion'and given a cJeliberate turn to e»ur mjnds. We can-: not sit elown every tvse:nty tour lamrs and. recall what we have done, without soon tore: doing a thin wore cautious nnc! tions i -tlie-reby tiecoming ipuu-ded in our My The practice- fnriiishtcsesercistjs in com position. The young lady who writosa little eve-ry clay and habitually clothes lw ideas in we»rds, will sooner late lio able-to const nut the- fine w-ntence-H and t«» cnipleiy the Iteauliful laugunge which she now, i»erhap«, covet.i in others. N.tilling is better calculated to fix in our immoricH what we- hi.vo read, and at the same lime to strengthen! emr memories themselves, than the' c-ommunicating to paper the thoughts obtaine:d from Ixioks. We have a friend who makes a rough skeleton ef every book the in/me nt h« has ceuuplcted its perusal^ iiiting the princi[»il chariu-ters anel the*ir charactiT istics, giving a brief symipsis i the- plot, if it h« a novel copying a beaatiful pas sage Imp and there, etc., e-tc. By Wield ing he supplies himself with a reference book ejf all that he reads, an.J, as he in forms us, constantly refresh'.* his memo ry by running over bis skelcion work. The daughter who de-sire te cultivat© economy, the heuscwife who wants to lio frugal and el raw us little a« possible from h«r husl»un«rs earnings, should keep a diary of daily expenditu'.««. The»se who have never made the* e tperime-at would be surprised to find bow the keeping of an expense account promotes economy. To see e-very clay how fooladily ye^u have ex peneleel your pennies i to In- constantly re mineteel how you rn ^bt ami should save them against the eh./ of ne«d. Try H, and see if this is not the ca.sc It has lieen truly .said that no one who kept an account of expenditures ever be came a spendthrift. The person who al ways remains imicr the weather, finan cially, is the one who complains, at the I end eif the day or New Yorker. week, thaK, he cannot ull(.r(, ha, K,jn0 —In the ten to.-Jtural —In the temporary absence ol Its father and mother, a little three year old son of Charles Tolliver, of Fairbault County, Minn., wandered from the house, and, overc enne by the cohl, lay eiewn by the roadivide, about forty rods from the houw|, whexe be was found shortly after by father, froze-n to death NAPOI.EON the First used to cariy with him, when he went hunting, fifty bottlea of wine, but never touched it. On one occasion he was thirsty, and ordered u ing her appointed time—she stands more glass. "All gone," said the valet "Here truly beautiful than ever in youth more after," said Napoleon, taJka aity-on% hoiui»blti duu-viug tLau U* wlu h«u, battles, aud keep one &r ne.. FONMDTOIFEADLILII