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Misce neous ,Selections. n'
MARCH.a
to
"YMAIu.-Its tree, Juniper. Its stone, Blood
atone. Its motto 'Courage and strength in times
of dianger.' "'--d Sayng. 801
In the gray dawning across the white lake
Where the ice-hummocks in frozen waves ireak, cr1
'Mid the glittering spears of the far Northern
Lights,
Likes cavalry escort of steel-costed knights,
tpanning the winter's cold fulf with an arch, t
Over it. rampant rides in the wild March. N
(;coaltoing, galloplng, galloping in,
Into the world with a stir and a din,
The north wind, the east wind, the west wind
together 10.
In-bringing, ln-bringing the March's wild ha
weather.
hlear his rough chant as he dashes along: lit
"H'o,, ye March children, come list to my song! :a
A ,old outlaw am I toth to do and to dare, wi
Ant I fear not old Earth nor the Powers of the i
Air;
Winter's a dotard, and Summer's a pnrue,
But Spring loves me well although I am rude.
Faltering, lingering, listening Spring- 'TI
Itlushing she waits for the clang and the ring m
O)f my swift horse's hoofs ; then forward she
prsuses, thi
tepelling, returning, my boist'rous caresses.
"The winds are unbounds and loose in the sky, d
RIioting, folicking, madly on high:
Are ye able to cope with the North Windl's strong
arm? mn
Welcome bolly his flerce grasp: 'twill do you no jat
harm.
He knows the chiliren of Ma.rch are my own,
healed with my signet of magic blood-stone. an
Blood-atone, red blood-stone, green dark and
red light
Blood is for ardor and stone is for might;
And the watch-word borne on by West Wind,
the ranger al
Is, 'tnourae and strength in the moment of so
danger.'
''Uhildren of March, are ye strong,ar yestrong a
Shame not the flag the West Wind bears along; CU
( ye men of the arch! be ye rm as the steel; ic
e ye women of March! be ye loyal and lest- (
Strong in your loving and strong in your hate,
Ctonstant, like juniper, early and late.
miler, JulruniperJlniler green,
Berrie or Iblue set in glittering sheen, y(
In the winter's cold snow, in summer's hot th
splendlor,
t'achanging, unchanging, thou heart true and
tender!" - he
to
Sininngof junipler, forward he whirled, as
Galloping, galloping on through the worll; f
Andl when. shivering, wakmg, the dull Day
gased out
From her tower in the gray clouds, she heard but he
the lshout
Itf the riotous winds as they followed in glee,
On, on to tlhe wooing in tad rsevelry.
Wooing, tahe w ,,ing, the wooing of Spring- t
Iere's a Isld wooing that makes the woods
Andt thril the leaf Ilalas, though with snow
overla'hn,
As March, the wild outlaw, bears off the
Spring maiden.
--Herper's 3fagsainufor 3March.
- -- It
KILL OR .CURE. w
" Tta Major Is a capital fellow, Doe- Lt
tor," I said, as we sauntered out to smoke of
our cigars in the garden, after an early pi
dinner; "hut he ought to be more merc!- i
ful to uas wretched bachelors. What with at
his charming wife and that exemplary at
baby, he makes it diffcult to respect the fa
a tenth commandment." t]
" You admire Mrs. Layton?" m
"Admire her ! If she were not Char- p
lie's wife, I shouli fall head over ears in a
love with her. I have seen fairer faces, d
but for dear, pretty, delicate womanly
ways, I never met her equal." p
" You couldn't understand a man's a
thirsting for her blood?"
"Good gracious ! A wretch who could y
touch one of her golden hairs roughly de
serves to be orucified." I
"And yet for many days she was in sB
deadly peril of her life,"
".lor her fortune ?"
" She had none."
"Don't tell me, Doctor, that an inno-.
cent creature like that could give any one
cause for revenge." at
" No; I won't tell you anything of the O
sort." I
" I think I ee. Some one was madly si
In love with her'" p
"If you were to guess till this day oath
you would not LAd the cause," said my ai
fiend. '-Let us lt down here, and I will I
explain. It's no secret; I wonder the a
Major has not told you." I
..Down here" was on a rustle meat that p
the Major's pretty wile had made at the d
end of his garden, close to where a little t
ril, soon to be lost in the blue Hudson, b
tinkled its way through his grouads, d
"During the war," began the Doctor, d
"I errvedin the army, in the same regi- t
ment with an old schoolmate. He was as m
Ane a soldier as ever drew sword. Hale, a
hearty, and sound In mind and body;
eager to see ervice-and he saw plenty.
I thought that he bre a chared Wme, tI
one day he was carried Into the hospital I
tent In a bed way. A ball haentred his I
shoulder, glanced on the elavile (what (
you ca th e laroone). and dgone
somewh, e Titwu Tha wecoald til,
for these was no other oriaem; but wheth- I
er It had pasd up or down, or taken I
some erae course rOand about, c as a
balls will take, we knew not and no proI
1mg could And out. Well, he reeoveredI
weat North to rega lh streln
r.neariy three years I lot - t_ of
him. When the war was over, sad I I
bad to practice as a civilian in I
New Yd I met him allgi. But how I
ehanged! wasa li skeleton, and
Imw ln a oment thatbe had beeome
hattuated to oplium. Do you know what
that msnas No? Wal, throw abue, ke
of water Into a plano sad the llght a re
under it, and it strings will not be more
out oftue thal IaI opIlm4moker's nerves
areoutof order. He asked me if be
might eall oa me at my oe, and of
course I aseneted; bti was day bere
se rme d when be did r hve Iknew
a, , rato id the trnth, mi to
nse, i esr s, to ezamine a men's
mid b e we ask about heis body, anad
hardened aa sergien met b, I eoaness
tbhat tihe euibLe eo my por tad
tMenedde. mTh was en .prsenm
in iyethat i had i r e Inlans
an bag l wbbat made this wre
was the a mon e - e asnr in
in his had, inesad inmrit
,But I ha net ear m emlt youa
abaut th e Imld,  tlis I Mat bom-r
bear. wmto.God thatthy weaa
ways teaig m! The w t is whm
V~ yleave me,' e rplida , teb
wm awt t 6es rL , Df in it i/M,'m
olmlvo. toeslE sag o in fs.'
iam ' notgmneodIY aserws manbut
had been. I hav been irly rved
onee or twtic. at dmrlg to leave my
room. I e comqrn my mamd ow;
tod so. I ed that g a rwlrpon
me. I Idel my power of itanMe be
coaing weaker and weaker-the eraving
for blood gettng so r wl stroner.
Im lkeaml who ha Ipped over
Lee plpe, and fel te earth ad shrubs
he clings, slo , uorwly, ua ,r
ly, surely, giving way with him. I have Jof
brought wretched curs out of the street, I ma
and killed them in my frenzy, inn the hope sht
to exhaust it on them. It is no use. I sih
must have Auna life.' hel
"' Any human life?' I inquired, 'or alan
some one in particular?' Cer
'"' Why do you ask this, Doctor? he th(
cried, ptting suddenly excited. mu
"' No matter; go on.' tin
"'Sometimes,' he resumed, . it seems for
that any life would do; and sometimes- tot
I)octor, four days before I saw you I met, we
ulon a New Jersey ferry-boat, a young on
girl. So pretty so:retined and nice! I live
followed her to her home-the devil, that net
has taken possession of mle, led me. She cid
went in and soon came out again into her wii
little garden,. and tended her flowers- wi,
poor child! Doctor, if I had' ad a pistol its
with me I should have shot her. You sne
may smile; but some day soon I shall ha,
take a pistol on purpose, and shoot her.' cri
"It was clearly noose arguing with him.
The best way with such people is to ad- cat
mit their facts and try to work round
them. ma
"'Then.' said I 'the only thing you can "
do is to submit to the restriction of an res
asylum, till this feeling has passed.'
"' *It will not pass. If I were to go to a no
madhouse I should sham sane. Sooner or
later their vigilance over me would be re- up
lazed. Then I should murder my keeper,
and go straight for that innocent girl.'
""Then leave the country.' til
"'Well, that would save her; but,
Doctor, one life is as dear to its holder as yo
another. If I don't kill her, I shall kill the
some one else.' inj
"'My dear fellow,' I replied, in as light yo
a tone as I could assume, 'these fancies are
curable. Put yourself under skilled med
ical treatment. You are all to bits physi- di:
craly. Get sound in body, and you '1 get mn
all right in your mind.'
"' On the contrary, I am all to bits, as ho
you say, mentally, and my body suffers on
through my mind. Medical treatment! I we
have consulted every pra.titioner of note fei
here and in Europe. Some think I'm fo
fooling them, some look wise, and talk
as you do about "treatment." All have in;
failed. Doctors are no use to me.'
S'" Then may I ask why you have come of
here?' lo
"' To ask your advice as a friend,' he wi
answered, drawing his chair nearer to to
me; 'aud,' lowering his voice, 'to ask
you one question as a friend and a God- ki
tearing man, and to which I pray you to all
give me a plain yes or no.'
"'Goon.' lo
"' Feeling as I feel, shall I be justified hi
before God In taking my own life? Will
it be deadly sin for me to do for myself or
what I would do to a mad dog ?' al
"' I repeat his words almost as he spoke
them. Icannot give you the faintest idea to
of the solemn dellberation with which he
put this awful question. For some mo- a
ments I could not say a word. Then I ti
started up and !old him that I would not ')
answer him yes or no-that it was not al
fair to ask me to take such a responsibili- b
ty. Then he rose too, and said that he
must resolve it for himself, and I saw ce
plainly which way it would go. 'Give m
me till to-morrow to think it out,' I said,
detaining him.
- ' To-morrow maybe too late,' he re- ci
plied. 'The fit may come upon me to- w
mght for all I know.' w
"' Come homewith me; I'm not afraid. m
you won't hurt me,' I said.
"'I would try very hard not to do so- t
but-I know myself. I cannot trust my- ti
self. Don't you trust me.'
" 1 ,ill trut you; but I'l do more. -
You are not armed I suppose?' t
"'No,' he rsplied with a shudder, 'not ne
now.'
"'I'll take care that you shalt not be,
and I'll carry my Derrinwer in my pocket.
On the irst ndi o ohomcida mania t
I give you my word I'll shoot-and I'l d1
shoot straight.' I said this to satisfy him,
oor fellow ! In his weak state I could
have lald him down like a child. It did
satisfy him, and we went home together. p
Iled him to talk of our old soldiering days. P
and gradually got him back to his wound.
I maie him deseribe the tirst sensations of b
pain in his head, and repeat all that his d
different advisers had said. I hapened
to have a strong preparation of asheeash
by . I gavehim a dose, and whilst n
der its influaene I careflly examined his
head. Now the head, you must know,
does not fatten or waste away in propor
t.iou to other parts of the body. tI hisa
s had become mer skin and bone; and this
state, perh , wve anan advantage over
other who ma the same examina
tion. At la felt, or thought I t, a
ii hint twitching-a sort of ablmormal pulsa
l tdon-about two inches above the left ear. t
a It iht be merely nervous, iSt igAt be t
t y tAs bald.
"I then. set my mind to work, and
, t htt whole ease over steadily. In
Stbwthe as that Impulse to take
hua life of hich my peer friend had
ugumm, ss/Uy uncontrollable. For ex
Samplsuppo that on day be did take
- ' 'on purpose,' and go to that
if her? To suppose tha the inan mind
I never hange its prpoe, or trn from
11the fel eompbtle of It8 purpose, is to
w ay in other wwds that the I ae mind
4 to than te hen s msned. Ifa man
Si la qwbely la r Iwee to tell you ,
at he was to run a foot-race, you
It would not bkelve hilm, because your
re Iommon sense revoltsgit the idea of
Shis runn with a le diabled But If
r o with brn bed declares that
me he is going to do somethlng dependent
of upo4 the action of his mind, common
re sesse does not always argu so well
w "In the second pdlae, did my poor
a i t with Bd ted meas of judg
S Becae if he did theeudwould
i- be thess, so hras he wal oeerned.
'a Be would acrles his own li to protect
ad that of others, thoughthey were ino
msatual dge
ad " In te third plae might ot this
m atory of the imp e be a mere pretense
By to ezeue the commlssion of suiIlde?
-a Now there are o frs of madnesseore
I obsm re in their ~ more dlMcult to
ind Mast, more and morm htal
- llta scdal mania; and a there have
as be.. nameweases la whie penons
u te not be oe la u lneh tle rtal at was
at tibse (s bras pl'ello) d JUid
51- " In th the tis - r
in- theiruhatic aoesset of sts, andthe
dmes uItsto be drawa thu*eAd, I a
at iered them tother. A victim of sul
me da man rarey if ever saksof suicde.
ws- mhe W masse isog to drown
mto hmslZryeu y jede e him a
) i the rs whIc too to the river
ed sIde wih the fbs lst conviton that he
my will not breakfast with ess. Iflan
w; exceptional me, suaide is mentioned, It
s will eis' be trated lightly, a an at
en that is not a crime or the patient will be
e- very earnest in his assarane that be
ag would never commit it. Remembering
er. my poor friaend's manner, I noticed that
ra be spokeoftang his own life with much
abs more soemtonat he evinced wheo be
- toldameu ofthe tmse ts shed tbe bIood
of others. His words, 'I must have hu
man life-if I had had a pistol with me I
shbuld have shot her-some day soon I .1
shall take a pistol on purpose and shoot div
her-I .bould murder my keeper are
and go straight for the Inno- ner
cent girl,' were spoken as calmly as the
though he said, "I owe five dollars-I the
must go and pay them,' and at the same poi
time with a tone of deep commiseration knt
for the predestined victims. They were pul
todle for no fault of their own, but they wa.
were doomed to death-if he lived. When, of I
on the other hand, he spoke of saving their i
lives at the sacrifice of his own, his man- by
ner changed. No one attlicted with sui- to i
cidal mania ever treated self-destruction lint
with the horror, the consciousness of its ciri
wickedness, and the religious doubts as to me
its being pardonable under any circum- 'I
stances, with which he considered it. lie arp
had never once spoken of murder as a Mc
crime. tail
"After a long careful consideration I tio
came to the following conclusions :- ant
"He is not laboring under suicldal wii
mania. "tio
"His impulse Is real and will have fatal am
results. wa
"Confinement in an asylum would have wii
no curative effect. tiv
"Then I took down me iooks bearing Bu
upon the anatomy of the bh .ian head. is
SanRll
"The next morning I addressed him ter
thus :- chi
"' "fore I answer you as to whether pl
you would be justified before God, under
the impulse you have told me of, in tak- du
ing your own life to save that of another aw
you must answer me several questions.' to
" 'Go on,' he said. as
"'When you consulted those doctors
did you tell them all that you have told,
me?' , set
"'No. Idid notdare. I said that I had
horrible thou"htsand cravings, but with- mt
out entering into details as to what they to
were. Once I went so far as to say I IA
feared I was becoming dangerous, and the ph
fool smiled.' tial
"'Good. Did they ever speak of search- an'
Ing for that ball?' ekl
"'Yes. they said it might be the cause L,
of my sufferings, supposing that it had dc
Slodged near the brain, but that no one or
would take the responsibility of searching sil
for it-so to speak-in the dark.'g ne
"'They wereright-the operation might an
kill you and the ball be not found after ri.
all.' cir
'" He looked up, and the dull, dejected ru
look that had become habitual passed from na
his face. th'
"'And even if it were found,' I went ve
on, ' Its extracti3n might cause your death sti
all the same.' ina
"He laid his hand on my arm, and tried
to speak, but he could not. I o
"' Still it would give you a chance-Just all
a chance of more than life.' His grasp I ti
tightened. I could feel his heat beating. ed
'And submitting to such an operation- th
almost hopeless though it be-would vt tic
be quite suicide.'
" He fell on his knees and sobbed like a as
child. 'You'll do it?' he cried, ' God Al- th
mighty bless you! You'l;do it?' is
t , s * * * *
" Well," said my friend, lighting a fresh p'
cigar, "to make my story short, I did it, th
with the assistance of a young surgeon p
whose nerve I could trust. We found the it
miserable piece of lead near where I had tr
suspected it to be. It was just a case of sa
touch and go. Had my knife wavered i,
twice the breadth of its own edge-had the tr
assistant been unsteady with the forceps th
-it would have been fatal. I don't want vi
to appear vain of my success, so I'll say it
no more than this-he recovered." to
" And hasn't killed anybody ?" at
" No, and doesn't want to.'
" By Jove! I wouldn't be too sure of vi
that. And so the girl he wanted to mur- tl
der married the MsjorV?" s
"" She did." 0 co
" Then if I were her husband I'd take
precious good care that your interesting g
patient didn't come Into the same State P
with her."r
"My dear fellow if you were her hus- Li
band you'd do exactly as her husband s
does.'
" Does he know '
I " None better."
" And doesn't care ?"
" Not a bit."
" Then he's a brute !"
"You'd better tell him so-here he
comes.' (
," Does she know?"
r " She doe" 2
" And she's not afriid?"
a "No."
' "One other question. Does your ln
teresting patient still live in this coun
S L He does."
"d In what State ?"
e "Near here?"
- "ha with all possible deference for
Sourfred the Majbr, I think he is very I
t foolish. Were I in his place I should say, t
S od sir, Iadmlt that theball from
d whlr e sauered, aotmgcannot get beck
SIntoyour brains, bat rIam by n6 means
a sure that the ik.s It egeadered may not
d return. At any rate yur presence nearm
a my wihfe is likely to make her oners,
a ad I appeal to you as a gntieman to le
r country. If you do so I hll have the
If hi r r you a; if you n
vethemlsfortu ntopaswith
Sin a mile of my hose, the interior of
your skull wil becomi more ltimately
a sepalated than ever with lead in the
usual form.'
"Very neatly pat" said the Doctor, I
"but our friend does not think of com
Smilting suicide now."
1 "May, DoctorP I cried, " you don't
man to may that te rsa who wanted to
rder ti ajor' wife -s"
"The Major aimself. Yes, sir."r,-m- 1
is ie Baa.
A LIrely Threher.
to , The Tituavlle ass gives an aecount
l of a y -og ma hom an eastern city who
r had been viingrurad itends in that vi
a ety After.selg a farmer thresh ouat
e. a "oon of eats the other mornil
w be asked andadreived permisa sion swg I
Id the Sail a few minutes, upa asuring teI
as .grcult.Ias that be was Pfef fil!
lar withthe art of trsing. xpecto
at ratring upon his hands, tbe young man
or went at the ats, but at the t pass
1- knocked the horn off om a new milch
a cow tbhat was leisurely chewaing her cud in
a elborlD stall. The secoan swing
r c1aredib thehead of the farmer, who
he thoa.gt he wasmsfeeeogh as lg as be
-rocated on too the fanning mil in tbe
el- other end of barn; but, without dis
eoverig the havoc he was making, the
n kept at his labors; the thur
to blowfell upon theoats, the fourth killed
er a heta in asaur earby, ad the ifth
he pasem the dadly weapona was the best of
an all, for it came round behind the young
it ure, boomerangfashion, and taking him
t undertheloweraw, knocked him down,
be ad thubs put a stop to the work ofslaugh
be ter. The mere fact that the city "thresh
og er" returned to consciousness an hour be.
lst fore the farmer did, allowed the former to
ch get several miles out of town before his
he efforts at threshing oats were discovered
po by the neighbors.
The Future Electric Telegraph. tor
titi'
As we now understanl it, electricity is tahb
divided into two halve., or as those halves po l
are scientifically termed, positive and the,
negative. The earth is a vast reservoir of foul
the negative half; but who can fathom tint
the extent in the universe of the other, or vah
positive condition of electricity? Yet we edx
know that when these halves meet, an im- (3.M
pulse, shock, or Ila'h is resultant. Tiis
was shown years ago in the experiment
of the celebrated TLeyden jar.
U'tilizing this impulse, shock or tfla-th 2
by simple machinery, so that it is made floi
to indicate lettersand words by graduated froi
interruptions or frequent breaking- of the ' It i
circuit. constitutes the whole system of sall
modern telegraphy. wa;
The positive portion of electricity, as r gat
applied to mnodern telegraphy, or thte in
Morse system, is artificially made by cer- pla
tain acids and minerals (the chlemical ac- I a
tion of acids on minerals producing k). ctal
and this action is transmitted over the mu
wires of indefinite length. IBut this ac- cot
tion, ebullition or positive impulse would i red
amount to nothing-would be 'a mere mo
waste-were it not brought into contact oni
with the earth containing the nega- catl
tive or opposite electrical condition. an(
lint this connection with the earth ton
is made at the telegraphic stations, fv
and a decided impulse or shock results,in- Dr
terrupted as before stated, to indicatc gal
characters and letters by the use of sim- seti
pie machinery adopted for the purpous. Ti
This is the present system of telegraphy, ill i
due credit for which has been already I le
awarded to Professor Morse. We have cul
to comprehend those simple formulas vat
as developed by mpodern telegraphy to str
roperly understand the idea suggested talt
r. Loomis in his aerial telegraph '1
schewe. Ifou
As in the present or Morse system, we ui:r
must have the negative or ground current due
to complete the circuit, so must Dr. cul
Loomis in his plan us - the earth to coin- thl
plete his circuit. But instead of genera- ba
ting the positive formnn by means of acids rot
and metals. and transmitting it over wires ! for
elevated a few feet above the ground,. Dr. we
Loomis proposes to go urp above the '
clouds and then find a conti:nuous strata j pi
or current naturally positive and univer- art
sil (the same as the other pplosite or for
negative form is universal to the earth), nap
and by simple means bring tlhese two mar- tiv
riageable forces together, complete the sol
circuit, make the impulse or shock inter- ter
rupted by me.bhanical devices to form sig- its
nals for letters and words the same as : int
the Morse system, and without the inter- nil
vention of wires, from point to point the cli
strata in the upper cloud current answer- us
ing the purpose of wires. ha
The conception of I)r. Loomis is a grand fr
one, and worth the profound attention of Bt
all his countrymen. It is a far more feasi
ble plan, in view of our present knowl
edge of electricity as applied to telegraphy,
Stan was the Morse system at its concep
Stion. w
In certain conditions of the atmosphere. th
as in thunder storms and the presence of
the aurora borealis, this form of electricity c
is brought so near to the earth that com- za
munications have been sent from point to is
Spoint over our telegraphic wires without tit
the aid of chemicals. llence, above the to
point affected by terrestrial disturbances, ! p
it is philosophically inferable that elec- it
I tricity in its positive condition is univer- m
f sal. The earth, as we know, throughout at
I its vast extent, possesses an invisible elee- hi
tric force in a negative form, and why not of
the corresponding positive form lk the
t vast depths of the ethereal universe ? And tt
it is not essential that the condition should I
take the form of currents correlative to
air currents (spoken of by aeronauts) for
the purpose of telegraphy, since the uni
versal presence of electricity in this form
throughout the vast strataof either would
suffice to carry out to success the idea con- n
ceived by Dr. Loomis. t
This system will revolutionize tele
graphy all over the world as boon as it is
a practically developed and utilized, and so
inexpensive will it be in its daily opera
tion that it will soon supersede the postal 11
I system of all countries without the aid of a
legislation to this eflect.-Dr. J. R. Hayes. Y
The Land of Ophir. a
- a
Among the wonderful discoveries that 1i
turn all eyes toward Africa, it is thought
e with considerable confidence that the t
Ophir of the Bible has been identified in a
the gold region which exists between the a
Zambezi and Limpopo rivers in south- I
eastern Africa. This region has been pe- c
culiarly inaccessible, being held by the r
SMetabeh: nation, a fierce and warlike peo- t
r pie who originated in the Zulu hL nd, and 1
sweepinr northward, conquered it, and I
have prohibited, on penalty of death, all f
toreignea from examining its auriferous t
csabllities. But on 5. death of their I
King Umazihkazi, abo' three years ago, C
theirjealous strictness has been a little 5
Srelaxed, and elephant hunters, particeu
Y larly Mr. HarUtley have paally explored -
I' the region and bbroutt back wondernhl
a ounmmta. CGrl u, the erman geol
k ogist and explorer, some time ago made
a flying trip into the same country and
sent accounts of certain remarkable ruins i
r and ancient mine shafts to Petermann,
a' the geographer, who gave his published
D snction to the Identicartion of this re
a ion with the anent Ophir. Sir Robert
rchison ino l es to the same opinion.
, The reords of the earliest Portuguese
Snasvigao mention extensive ruins to the
sont u ward of the Zambedi, which they
Ssnpposedtobave marked the palaces of
Ste Quee of Shbs. Rev. JosLah Tyler,
the nison y, whose station is but a few
r, hundredmes south of this gold coun
- try, eorroboratems the probabilities of in
tereting discoverechaueological among
i't the rest, which promie to make this, as
to well as other parts of Afr.c, famous in
the near fture. He regrebts, however,
n- the very hsty observations of Carl
Manuc , leavng it in doubt whether the
ruins alluded to may not belong to the
early Portuguese adventurers.
We know that King Solomon had
at theremdeavous of his oreign navy, the
so ships of Tarshiah, in the Red sea, and that
ri- his Phealelan ally, Hiram of Tyre, "seat
at in the navy his servants, shipaen that had
nowledgeof the se, with be servanBt f
sCT notb' rnothat t gey b ht bek
from OphFr, not only gd in aud e,
brt"grest plty of almug-trem sad pre.
. dons stones:lo sllver,ivory, aps and
an peacocks." Much the same sorto traie
ea coms down from that %egon now espec
eh ally if the ancient almug tree may be the
in ebon, the precious stones, utamonds,
ag ndthe pacocks may be extended to in
he clude ostrich feathers and parrots.
he The speediest connection between the
he United States and Port Natal onthateoast
Lis- at the present time is via Suez canal and
he Aden on the Red sea. Accordinag to
Ird Herodotus, Pharaoh Neeho, king of
led Egypt, about 200 years after Solomon,
fthU hving buallt the original of the present
Sof Suez canal, dircumavigated Afrc, and
ing probably long before thsathe Pbealclans,
lm most renowned mariners of the olden
n, times, had knowledge of this Afican coist.
gh- It corresponds, too, with the long voya -
sh- to Ophir and back, that it shouldbe in a
be. land distant as this, for "once in three
to years came the navy of Tarshish," accord
his ng to the books of the Kings.
red So while Arabia and India and Spain,
and e p rn . have been rival claimants
for identithlation with the land of Ophir,
the prhlb;,ilities multiply that it was this
table-laud between the eambezi and Lim- Th
popo rivers in Africa. At any rate, if to In
there is gold there now, it will soon be of th
found, overhauled, and put into circula- vegel
tion, and with it probably some equ lv live
valuable additions to the world's knows- from
edge of itself and its history. - SXingfel teithl
(Mlass.) Rphtaican. No 0
S-- « --- tidle 4
Wild Plants Domestieated. ;hadli
S- jureid
The Cabbage is first cousin to cauli- the -
flower. broccol. etc., and they all come shlin,
from the wild cabbage of the sea-coast. hour
It is a marine plant. and loves salt and denrt
salt water. The wild cabbage is a tall. gurg
wavy, coarse plant, but the pods are now thurie
gathered and eaten in thi spring months gle t'
in some parts of England. There is no elain
plant which has produced by cultivation of th
I a greater number of varieties than the WI
cabbage. We can extend the varieties seed,
much further, but it I sullicient for us to Like
consider the wide range between the little it gr
red cabbage for pickling, and the '. mam- cut
moth." with a head so large that It can and i
only be boiled in a large caldron. In the abou
cau'liflower we eat the fleshy ilower stalks rmnits
and undeveloped buds, which are crowd, d in he
together into a compact mass. It was a limb
favorite saying of the treat lexicographer. over
Dr..Iohnson, "Of all the flowers of tie shor
garden I like the cauliflower the best," a are i
sentiment worthy of this learned epicure. deni;
'ime numerous Varieties of the cabbage pa-'
illustrate in the most striking manner te first
changes which are produced in species by slice
cultivation, and the permanence of some old I
varieties of races. They also give us in- port
structive lessons in the economy of vege- E
table life. diffe
The Turnip comes from a wild plant ferem
found by the sides of rivers, ditchesb , and bard
marshes. Like the cabbage, it has pro- il ft
duced several varieties, the result of long wIll,
cultivation. From the wild plant we have the
the little flat turnip and the huge rata be a
bgna. with all the varieties between. This the
root is now most widely cultivated as food that
for stock, and it has added much to the as a
wealth of England. lash
The Parsnip is also a reclaimed wild mec
plant, and it is difficult to say whether we mor
are indebted to cultivation or importation of ti
for it; most probably tue latter, as it is a you
native of Britain. If the wild plant is cul- wot
tivated two or three years in rich gar den brat
soil, it acquires all the desirable charae- stop
teristies of the best kinds; and if left to not
itself in poor soil, it speedily goes back he i
into its wild, degenerate condition. Pars- port
nips appear to nave been very early re- that
claimed from a wild state, for Pliny tells In
us that parsnips were cultivated on the bral
banks of the Rhine, and were brought as t
from thence to supply the tables of the witi
Roman emperors.-Jourtnal of CA(enitry. end
thet
Guarm time
This is the name of a popular beverage w'er
which the natives of Brazil prepare from lh e
the fruit of a small climbing shrub that Sot
grow- chiefly in the northern part of that e1
country, and on the banks of the Ama- Intt
zon. The essential principle of this fruit re
is identical with caffeine, and its composi- e1,
tion in other respects is strikingly siFilar tfra
to that of tea and coffee. An analysis by
Trommsdorf shows that it contains caffe. pi
ine, 4; green oil, 3.5; resInous oleaginousC
matter, 2.5; tannie acid and salts, 40, starch col
and gum, 16; vegetable fibre, 30. Sten
house. in some cases, found 5.7 per cent.
t of caffeine. It is thus kPen to be very
e much richer In this Important inkredient
than either coffee or tea, the former rare
ly containing more than one or the lat- tht
ter more than two per cent. of cafeine. of
r During the months of October and No
vember the fruit is gathered,peeled,cied, dri
n reduced to powder, and made into a paste wi
with water, when it is ready for use. If a
not overdrled, the color of this prepara- ti
tion Is a light chocolate, and it also has as
leasant flavor, which is said to linger sh
ong in the mouth. With cold water and ra
10 a little sugar It forms an excellent bever
Saie,lr it may be eaten in the solid state HP
like the preparations of chocolate. It Is th
also employed by the natives in a form
known as guaran bread. As commonly ce
prepared it admits of being tansported in
without suffering deterioration, resisting h
alike the sun's heat. intense cold, humkl
it ity, and putrefaction. i
ht Mant.tgazza, writing of the efects of to
te the beverage, says: "Between breakfast nu
in and dihner. in the warm days of June du
me and July, there is not a teverag more
i- healthful and refreshing than a fresh cup
e. of guar a. After drinking It one feels Il
ae reinvigdrated, having in a measure par- th
o- taken at once of food and drink." It has c
Id been used medicinally both as a remedy for ca
ed headache and as an astringent, but Its ef. th
i1 fects are only transient. Like other mem-co
as bers of its class, guarana is not without or
ir its dangers. In large doses it prodauces t
o, exhilaration, convulsive Inquietude. ex
le aation ofinteijgefe wakeflnless, sight e
- diminution ofpuse, and.want of appetite.
al -ela tz~vforI
Nextee and Its New President.
We took Premsident Lerdo of Mexico to
Sbea msnofwork. In referring recentlv hi
to Homuans' Cylopedla of Commerce, we
found thatall the iormation the recomtpl- t
ed on Mexieo was derived from the works de
Softhissame Lordo deTejad. But a let
n. terto the Tribue complins that his ad- tt
Sministration is not a working administra- a
tion, but spends its time inattending ban- B
of quetsa nd uceptions, to tho neglecot of the
statebusneas. Sonoterious has this be.
Scomethat Lerdo appears in caricature as a
thefestive president. Thesets of the P
In- Mexican nobllity arebeyond descriptiona,
d throwquitetbe~the shade any of eur d
a in that line. Theriehests 1
man n xi ,Senor Eseadon, receatly
entertained 1,00 uests, settaing a table of T
400 covers, ete.a. anwhile the elements d
he of soclal discontent areperilol plenty.
he Think of tbis ht, that the whole anded
roerty is held by 10,000 fmiles, outof a
population of nine or ten mllions, the
Smiortt of whom are little bettertrated
thuslve! Thvast substratm of a- I
I derl nalutbw#mwit all molten with
cano in erption This is the material
oI tht is ready to aloe to the standard of 1
-"anywhowor~mf thenros t oft
maintains ith heart of the countrystub I
d born ltle Indian eommunities that se- I
yeassly def the contrl of the govera- j
.l- ment. One of thes commaltesr, not
the content with defensive operaztions is now
is, In the Seld with 10,0010 men, 20 ees of
in- armllery, andtherebeiLoed at tkir bed.
To deal withtheseemauesofsocia disturb- I
S-ace and with thedisturbanes themsels,
Let lerdo seems not sn:tieleenIy active. Su
md perior to Juarez in learulng and more anml
to able than he in disposiion, he seems in
of ferior to him in administrtive quality.
on. Hewasevidentlyin the right placeas chief
ent jsimtlee of the supreme court. It is yet,
nd however, toosmo tojudge positively of his
m"'s adminlstraatou.--urAa,,s.
eat. --- -
Ge GILT Faa.rzs.-Boll three or four on
in a ions in a pint of water, then, with a clean
tree paint-brush, wahl over your frames, and
ord. the flies will not alight on them. No in
jury will result to the frames. This ren
ala, ders unneceessary the unsightly drapings
mtsI of gaue.
The Bamnya Tree.
The ILnvan (Fcus Indica) is indigenous A.\
to India onily. I call it one of the "kings, niodi
of the forest." because no other of the that
vegetable giants ever measured a tithe of the e
live acres in circuit, or afflrded shelter lakes
from the torrid sun at one time to one- 1 form
teyth of an army of ten thousand men. sanos
No one who ever spent the long nioon- of it:
tide of an Indian day under the capacious being
shadlow of a bansan-tree, or slept unian- own,
jured during successive nights under opnl
the protecttion front dens and rains ofits case
shingled foliage. or strolled leisurely for consi
hours along avenues and foot-paths bor- a ser
dered by flowering shurbs and cooled by so gi
gurgling streamnlets, all within the boun- etar3
daries of the repeating branches of a sin- the i
gle tree, will he dispoised to dispute the ject,
eldnins of the hanyan to be counted as.one tigur
of the tlree monarchs of the woods. surd
When a banyan first springs from its ern i
seel, its method of growth i4 normal. Terr
like the oak, or elm. or beech, or maple, rean
it grows progressively through itsdifier thoen
ent stages of(.hoot, and plant, and shrub. otteu
uandt sajelirg.:, and trte. There is nothing theni
about it that is lw'nuliar. It observes the lperil
ordinary routine of vegetable life. lising up al
in height from year to year, it puts fortha that
limbs which are clothed in foliage. All they
over the Orient there are banyans. still ing,
short of their hundred years of age. which cea s
are in no resp et peculiar. Lake other Ti
denizetns of the forest. tihe stranger would tiful
pass thema by unnoticed. But, when its the
first century is passed, and its burden of Ideet]
successors htecomes oppressive, like a hale its v
old fellow of the human race. It seeks sup- erset
port in its children. eenor
Every one is familiar with the fact that toml
different trees shoot out their limbsatdif- of cl
ferent angles to the trunk. The Lom- The
hardy poplar, in this respect, varies wide. ray
ly from the elm, and the larch from the the
willow. The English oak-branch leaves The
the parent stem at so high an angle as to the
be almost horizontal. The banyan does ridg
the same. But the latter has a length the
that surpasses the former almost as much and
as a ship's cable does a coachman's whip- relk
lash. Now, it is a well known law itn as I
mechanics, that the longer the arm the tion
more powerfial Is the lever. The buanch subi
or the English oak ceases to grow be- whi
yond tle point where the lever power lank
would wrench' it from the stem. The hon
branch of the banyan does not. One from
stops at tive-and-twenty feet; the other scal
not even at five hundred. Provisiontust the
be made, therefore, togive the latter sup- The
port, and its wonderful peculiarity is, and
that nature has made such provision. the
In the banyan, when a horizontal aby
branch has been put forth to such a length tast
as to render it difficult to maintain itself glas
without breaking, it lowers down from its spoi
end one or two more roots, which, enter- mol
ing the ground, send forth rootlets, and mot
themselves become new stems. In due
time the horizontal branches, which once
were In danger of being destroyed by
their own weight, are as easily support·
ed by the pillars as a bridge is by Its piers. be
So the process goes on. Lateral branches in
t shoot out from the main limbs, which the
latter are constantly growing till they Noe
reach gigantic size. These lateral branch-the
-es also put don n stems and shoot out t
branchlets, until it comes to pass that, in _
place of a single tree, there Is a wogdrous is
colonnade of stems, supporting as many sit
;:.tural rafters, on which repose dense m
canopies of follage.--N. S. Dodge in Ap- n
pletons' Journal. API
The Earliest Newspaper. hil
ArTuoarrauS have differed widely as to
the nation and city entitled to the honor mn
of having started the first printed news
p aper. For many years it was sumoed
that the credit belonged to England. It T
was claimed that the British Museum had
If a copy of the earliest paper in it collee
s tion. It was called the English Meurise,
a and printed July 23, 1588 but it has been
er shown that this copy, rke specimens of
d rare old coins was spurious, and rotten
r- p for sale. WVatts, the bibliographer of
Sthe Museum, who saw, on examination, 1
is tht the type and paper were of modern
R origin, and did noteong to the sixteenth
Scentury, exposed the forgery. It was an a
Singenious fabrlation, pretending to give trh
fthe news of the S aish Armada,whihp
was destroyed in the English Channel by n
Drake and Howard a day or two previous ti
of to the date of the sheet. There were seven
at numbers of this spurious Mercurie pro
duced-four In manuscript, and three in
ie print. n
Veniee has also claimed the bonor of
as cause it sold for a smallpied oemopney m
worthycalled authoritis asserted, was prlnted
city as early0, as 157, petendars a that P
ut honiesof the rst paper the are noteento ~
es disovryie hav apanrently established th
s theeamof the oird lection tyO Nu
dates allto thirs exthigh honor. A pe 14
Scland the O uttr, oforgnde. It is trlst
worthy author Zities, was printd in that
cityand bears thedate of earst. TerP er
ritish Nurem, it is saidI na dpl
to eate of tthis sheentr, also m the
a t onorly of the Arst p inters I n the rst
pe mntryg, buthe is  the atly printed
si e . It hbr also another elaim t
m dteis allt. In 1615 te senolf 1urmel
eat an the CLrsc dodlonpe. Itr s _a wlled P
he ateo l tis stu bled; a te
it Frankfor Thus to an eren ta monorument
Sprininng, of its founder and editor mi thed
at pers and Editors" by 8. . Coa r, lam
est sartSed Die Frahfwor March.taus Z ts
Aty atthe frst fisy pper  nth amed. e
of ThYamaloar reIs adn i Yed; sa thaet,
a governmeort isn toer sumtof monnmnt
iooment of dtounder and editor the Ii
4d fathe of ancspapets. -Frout "tews- I
r ad E ore s" tenbtos . S. CoXa1 , in
ser. Hardl was he dead when the oA
Eeerw (lo, ru sent t In Mast yt
mrie A na eive Jhmapae marehant nameid
oblef Y at, took keys and bookso, anl
pheedt with burIs in kthe possion of hisdd
prb- soertti yTe sine e w aindebted tothel
ue goerdc he for ad sof aiOel: "by e
-hear other dnt ane ot elfdnitru t Ion
rumored." Thos ws rent tally a terrible talehm,
oof the result of twinges ofa dishonsenste. Ittrd
s ea he todpted that neither the fahling norb
a its remeft wat extend in or to our k nm -
tim- sel. land What wouhld en the oroner do
enet in the matter of fdeagtmentary evidenea
Shokearg, even to thinkns of self-destr.-ction.
rumored." This i reallyaterribletale
Heald.
The Airless .oon.
AMIN the illusion- swept alw::y by
mnodern s.iencet was the leaa':n tf:lle
that the moon was. a habitable globe, like
the earth, its slUtimce diversitied with seas.
lakes, continents and islani. :anl variled
fornlm; of vege:tationl. Tl1heoloeialts and
saants gravely di:scnsed the prI,,ba:iliti.s
iof its being inhabited by t r-a'e lof sentietnt
beings, with tihrnls and faculties like our
ownI, anid e'enl propounde4l scihemlles tI r
olwening columunlhlatinll with thiem,. in
case they existed,. 0l)n of tihoese Was to
constlluct on the broadl highlaiils eet A-ia
a series of geometrical tigures" oil a ii sl
0so gigantic as to to vi-ible fromn our plan
etary n-ighbor, on the suppo-itioinl that
the moon people would re:ognllize the Oh
ject, and imnediately eonstrnet imilar
figures in reply! Extrlvagant a"lld ab
surdt as it may appear in the' light of mnold
ern knowledge, the establishment of tlhi
Terrestrial and Lunar Signal Se.rvi+.e lni
r"eau was treated as a tiasitele schenie, al
though practical diltlclltie4. which so
often keep men from making fools oft
themselves stood In the way of actual ex
Iperinent; blt the disclusioul wias kept
ip at Intervals. until it was direoverrel
that if there were people in tlie imonll
they must be able to live withoullt breath
ing, or eating. or drinking. Then it
ceased.
There can be no life without air. lilau
tiful to the eye of the distant observer.
the moown is a sepulethral orb-s world of
I eath and silence. No ve gelation clothes
its vast plains of stony desolatio;, tray
ersed by monstrous 'revasses, broken by
enormous peaks that rise like giganti"
tolbstones into space; no lovely forms
of cloud float in the blackness of its sky.
There daytihne is only night lighted by a
rayless sun. There is no rosy dawn in
the morning, no twilight in the ev. .lInli.
The nights are pitch-dark. In d:iytine
the solar teams are lost against the jiaggeil
ridges, the sharp points of the rocks, or
the steep sides of the profound 143 sses5:
and the eye *ces only grotesque rhliples
relieved atainst fantastic slhadows bllack
as ink. With none of that pleasant .grada
tion and diffusion of light, none of the
subtile blending of ligit and shadow.
which make the chatm of a terre-trial
landscape. A faint conception of thi,
horrors of a lunar day may may t foramed
front an illustration representing a ladtl.
scape taken in the moon In the celnter ot
the mountainous region of Aristarchllls.
There is no color, nothing hut dead white
and black. The rocks reflect paLively
the light of the sun; the craters awl
I abysses remain wrapped in shade ; ian
I tastic peaks rise like phantoms in their
Sglacial cemetry; the star appelar likeI
I spots in the blackness of spare. The
moon is a dead world; she has no at
I mosphere.-Ifarper'a Megat:ia for JMvrch.
Dresden Porcelain.
TnHE celebrated porcelain of Saxony
bears the name of, though it is niot madle
in l)resden. but at the towa of Meissen on
the Elbe, fifteen miles below the capital.
Not to go there Is a palpable neglect of
the tourist's obligation. 'Thie porcelain
t manufactory is in the old Castle, once tilhe
residence of the Saxon princes. It is all
Simposing edifice, anid, from its local Iplo
y sitlon on the banks of the river, Ioks re
Smarkably picturesque at a distance, and
not much less so on close inspectiiont. Its
appearance is assisted by the Cathedral
hard by, a handsome Gothic structure
with a graceful open-work spire.
The earth from which the porcelain is
made is obtained from Aue, an insignili
esnt village twelve mill.s from Zwickau.
The process of preparing and baking the
t clays slow, difficult, and complicated.
The mixture, or biscuit, is colposed prin
cipally of kaolin and ground feldspar.
s The materials are reduced to very fine
' wder, an I stirred together with water
Sin cisterns, the surplus water being
bs out through linen bags, separated
filtration or other methols. When
the biscuit is of the consistency oflough,
n' it is thoroughly worked over by beating,
th kneading, and treading; and is then put
h away moist for a year or more to undergo
n the molding process, which increases its
h plasticity. The better kinds of porcelain
are formed in molds of gypsum, and the
S nicest skill and care are needed to fashion
n the vessels, as well as in the glazing and
Saking. A good deal of the ware is una
in vokbly spoiled, such precise landling
does it require; but the artisans employed
in this manufacture have had years of
of experience, and have inherited their trade,
toas the cae with the Brussels lace mak
er's anl Amsterdam diamond-cutters. It
is said that the excellence of porcelain de
t pends on locality and atmosphere; that
numerous efforts to manufacture the
Dresden china elsewhere, with eeactly
the same material and the same work
Smen, have failed again and again. There
rwas always something lackint-some
Sthing a[lmost indefinable, but still some
t thing. Whether it is that the artisans are
aeeustomed to a certain routine and
subject to subtle influences of sur
'u roumndin which they cannot change
he without Jketment to the product of their
ha I a n open question; but that
lj ak or not infrequently folows the
SI m mysterious law governing the re
Smovl o plants has been shown by re
Speated ex periments. The manufacture of
Sporcelain has been for generations the.
most profitable industry of the neighbor
hood of Dreden, and is libel to continue
1 sofor genertmts t cone.--yrom "Along
the Eibe," by JfNi:e s lItRI BRow.G, in
rst Berper'. Magsine for Marck.
to German Emigration.
~ei Tua qustion of the great increase of
Id. migrtion from Germany, which it was
the thought some time ago the Government
eat would take some active means of check
the lg. as been broulht up in the German
ws- Prliament, and with very satisfactory re
Ln sults. Count Eulenberg, the hanitter of
Sthe lnterior, acknowleded the facet, and
deplored It, but declared there was no
it helpf Iot, and attributed it freely to the
iwar, in it of ail that the war has done
for thei Sato of Fatherland. In the
aid Sratplae, the enormous riseof prices has,
m, a is usual, not been followed by a corrs
to ultadr oy e e m ,th . labor
lesa yclsesar s srmely,although
the the Tre sr s hhyi on
the nety isne en on the Conwnent,
done- it appoan of the everyday cotaigncibues.
.m, ti The are, therefore, afraid to embrk or
rad- tieonnae been bsinera aare hurrying onthe
with their little all to the only iticntry in
his whih the field of enterprisole inot troblr
h-h bmy wars nor dertmoken of wars, and wherent,
imWe- theand wihorst enemiaes athe dtrlous man
ion i to fey ar ae therefore, workers" and maoper
terle catonne." As a remedy for the grrwin of
nItl ith teir littley of agriculturol labor, the Mry inis
rnor ter recommends the increased use of nla
hri chinery.-N- . Y. atin.
ence? --Two English sisters named P'ratt.
T. y. haveJuet pat up their shingles as dentht4
Ln Blin. Tbey draw.