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Now, if thou art a poet, tea me not
That thee bright chablire were atd thus
To bold the dew for fairies they eet
in moneligbt eesaea is the basal ber,
And dae tU they are thirsty. hal mot up
The faded fancies of an elder wrld;
lit rve thhe narlet cup. to ppoaed moths
Of June, and giletelng liee, asd hummaar-bird
To drink from, wh n all theus bomduless lawa
The morning sus lookb hot. Or ltthe lwnd
O(erturn in sport their ruddy brhms, and pour
A sudden shower upon the trawberry plant,
To swell the reddening fruit that even now
I Ieathe a slight fragrance from the nuny slopI
IBut thoM art of a ga erfanry Well
Then let the gentle ltanito of lrwee
Ligetring amid the bioomsy wase he aove,
Though all hiL swarthy w.rtpn are o
Btiender and mall, his ro ebeek all brown
And ruddy with the sumahine; let him none
On aummer mornings, when the blsomms wake
And part withitbltttle handa the piky pam;
And touching. with hin cherry tes. t dg
of them bright beatera. drain the Datm.d
THE LAST YOYAGE.
5T A IJC CAR.
At ahbut of day they smt a tileaed,
in their old hoam by the sel ;
The wenther-eraten 8"lontos,
And his good wife, Maumiee.
The sun looks like a ahipl" he sod,
"That is narly come to land
That alanting beam, lihe a ak pushed
To take aboard some "
And when, at length, the geld-bacohed cloud
Cromrbd tn the dark, from view,
Hresa, "It will bea a my alght;
May te good lp weather through !"
At latd the old wife, Mareles,
Could wlan o maweing word;
TIhe hp was gone, the pak heauled in,
And Solomoun we aboard.
A ANGUINAZTM00 LICT.
The oeilosmes EighSt batwee M _-
Amisem mne Asnsar nonlssar.
A arremddondent of the World gives
a- anouat of one of the most ferooions
duls ever fought. It oceurred on the
eveing of Jaly 4, in. the Indian territo.
ry, at Medicine lodge, a point whichis a
great resort for hunters during the
colder mouths. The parties engaged
in this dsperate fight were Hugh An
derasm of Texas and Arthur Meoluskey
of ande, both desperadoes well known
on the frontier for their recklesmness of
life. Anderson had killed a brother of
Meluabesy in a dance-house fracas and
;he latter sought him out for the ex
tr uose~ dtaking vengafos upon
i rATa - named Mhardb
acted as seond for MeCluskey, asad a
huge Meetuekal of the namse of Har
ding fulfdiing a similar odoe for An
derson.
Tsa AG3a MT.
hepon between
were to fght with revolvers ad bowie
* ikes to be placed back to back atn
imterval t a to wheel and re
Stapvaine andabr the ast inter.
shause Ut to ondiedt the flqhs as
meh one should deem it best to his ad
=a ge. The spot leted for the ea
peas h bes d.d aered bee the
eatle, aIr' the tu sSm, yet tie
and ju&ie thing e r rou and tur.
*.bj esuae. The - met long after
asst in the pesuse of a erowd of
wore dul pandied, and the rewd
.e dited with breathless la st the
ye am o the d had faite b
IIfld/ A SWtgto the prnia
pa OlePi' 6' h"a begn tob
- -s that i
* at b the rispet dof a e der
his roer' assa s .it, .
-e g os ad reivI the
l .thtrou his ima, ,s hia f
hs d, o a.l, apela
tdme e d . s 1
ei• dt ty eo n detslLA thett
ids hi sl cal to Sd hisar
ses mthesed isearssat to him faled
poured mn hutr a" biarfon y
ml a d moms keyem bet et
esthis tý withh ibi to a hliiba
iar at wrt e e t bse ve had toh
uret in o ant tellr . At the sod,
o ste h i h e .in . sht idar.
. e tppa h "m 'nn a " m Le he
hii eew9 beautnned to ad
vankeJXIe aaedt atfla of belo
epring l theed A -, d
oorri * *sht mdea he m- ....a
ita with it seeral f M he
tea-e sad portio o h e
r~e from Me s e his beeisl; km .
wide had l bletined to ad
m b .Wu e. pbbeSU I M
4IM -'_ M
crowd would interfere, but Harding
sternly bade them keep bmek and leave
the men to settle the matter in their
own way. As none cared to dispute
with the gigantie hunter, the manlate
was obeyed, though a universal expree
sion of horror ran through the specta
tors, a number of whom were the engi
neers and attaches of our party. Still,
horrible a was the scene, no one
thought of leaving the spot. An irre
sistible faeination to see it out bound
one sad all alike to the blo. d-stained
locality. But the finale was at hand, the
curtain almost ready to drop.
McCluskey, summoning by a supreme
effort his remaining strength, drew his
knife and began to crawl feebly in the
direction of his antagonist The latter,
who had raised himself to a sitting pos
ture, saw the moaement and prepared
to meet it. Both had droped their re
volvers, leaving to the 4d. steel the
completi of the woreek.
By this-time it lad grown quite dark,
sad to distinguish the movements of the
combatants required the closemt atten
tion. Aadersom was clearly unable to
move any portion of his body save his
right arm. With this he raised his
knife aloft, and as McClnskey crawled
up to within reach dealt him a terrible
blow in the neek, cutting muscles and
tendons sad veins, and half severing
the head from the body.
IEs L AST n Prrr.
But the effot was too much for him.
and leaving the weapon stieking in the
wound, he pitehed heavily forward on
his face. Every one supposed that this
blow would have instantly killed Me
Clukey, but, strange to say, it did not,
for so great was his vitali that before
falling he twice plunged his own knife
into the bod-of Anderson. The tale is
soon told. MeCuskey lived a minute
longer than his antagoist. The dlead
bodies firmly looked in each others'
embraee, were taken'to the house of
Harding sad laid out side by side on
the gaming table. A erimson trail
marked the path of those who carried
them indoors, and pools of blook indi
cated th sene of the late conflict.
There was no gaming that night.
the hunters and Indians appearl to
nad excitement enough in taking over
the events of the day without having to
resort to their usual pastime. About
11 o'eloek the moon rose, and the bod
es were taken out for burial. There
were no funeral ceremonies, but Job
Harding remarked as the muffled forms
were lowered into the grave, "There
two ras brave men as ever lived."
were buried deep to keep the
weoes ad eoyotes from digging them
, ad the earth was heped up in a
lite mound to mark where they slept.
Tbh. lieb Mood Toward Arbi
Mr. Gladstone would have had no
great objeetiom the pssage of an ab
straet declaration in -aerof arbitration,
popular though it my he with the
emsy at. nhinnly ecusioru
that iWI fb t of pea
have nt met wit great favor on the
eanilsnt si th time when he be
cae pia minister. I don't wish to
se a eeave weeard; but most Englith
mn weould sy for themselves that Eng
lmed has bee mabbed for interferin~ .
How Priasis treated her remoastranes
in 1870 is haws to all the world. Mr.
Glaidtoni, in his pesee, Tuesday even
lndsserred, with evident mortication,
to that episode. He probably then
made up his amind that he would not re
am a ttem which had been met by
with iontemptaaus .
diiaee- m eand withk sileme Those
ma-- swee d ankle in the
of the ihpiritd ebief of a
_ n su r,lteeminental
-- -ad dan
s winl, S"& Ithe true
Sa lamst, ad of
sad pimed ea u ad toqtene· of
I-trir`Lshst Mr. (idstome does
mlt b War; granted. I knaow nobody
®e does, weept thoese am trade it .
Bet e i wake up some day to
iad that phe t qit in this peo
tSh th i leein b quickly (or
SstIl. Mr. tla.id koe hoa it,
Skningor t sdat wmt sthe fe
ig masin Downi stret turnea into
his semass suhuited.
Soim hn tiedthwhile
re ur m Mns.-A Miupesota
--idd pa little str y hih I
-oto ardseroof for dsursbess
ie n hlua~e to be lost. A
olfdr the United Brthba
sb preaching in the samae
m-ighbehood, -ad wammd myedby
puid; "I m always afrad to repove
ose who mibeieve in ehuret.k the
arly part my umisr I made a
geat m ke I was preh
-e whLo st jsti rme was
a Ise dt After th eld eatbe
paroleee of the esoli aimbems
medl said t, m th.r 
eal- te a d bemrSl rird to
i I shMl that s
tSM Is 'l hese was - cs -er.
a' rl aen they uere4 welatl
M I dr"lss I,
""S Dni
Dumas at School.
The first day of going to school was
a most important occasion. A new suit I
had been ordereed, made out of a riding- I
coat of his father's, which was of a cafe- I
an-lait color. He expected that it would .1
produce a remarkable effect: and, thus a
attired, proceeded at 8 o'clock on Mo'n- t
day morning to make his first visit. The 'I
a·trous mother had fitted him out with a
school b oks, also new, the Epitome a
Historis Macro and others, those little t
primers half-bound in dark marble pa- a
pers, familiar to all who have had their t
schooling in France. He had entered i
the court through the large arch-way,
when the door was suddenly closed be- a
hind him, and he found himself among s
a noisy mob of school-boys, who at once d
proceeded to make him go through the a
new boy's probation of practical joking I
of a very rash kind. He was hustled, 1
deluged with water, and played other a
tricks, which had the effect of destroy- o
ing all his new finery. Utterly mortified b
at this reception, he could only sit down t6
and cry bitterly. Presently entered the g
abbe, having come from saying mass. a
He found all his pupils gathered round
the new boy, who was sitting crying on o
the steps, and asking each other with an A
appearance of genuine wonder and in- n
terest what could be the matter with t6
him. The abbe pushed through the ring I
of little hypocrites, and, fixing his glass ti
in his eye, bent down over the sobbing I
child to ask what ailed him. Alexander a
looked up, and was about to tell, when li
he suddenly asw a whole range of mena- i
cing fists threatening him from behind a
the master, and checked himself with I
an abrupt cry. The abbe turned round tl
sharply, and found them all smiling. ti
" Tell me what it is all about," he said. a
" We can't make out," they said; " he eI
has b en crying in that way Ever since e
he came." Indignant at this misrepre- 8
sentation, Alexander then blurted out rI
the whole story of his treatment, and s1
appealed to the state of his new clothes b
in proof. "Very well," said the abbe, aI
" I shall punish you for all this ; you w
shall have no recreation to-day, and e3
plenty of ferules, too." These were at ti
nce administered amid groans of atd
rering; but there were fiere glances et
ireeted at the new boy, while mattered gi
Slannciations of "' Informer," "Spy," cl
amse to his ears, and began to alarm a
him. There was no mistaking these at
lymptoms; a heavy reckoning would
have to be paid for his indisereet revels
bo-. .kour o'clock eaue and the end of
shool; the abbe said a short prayer
da dismiassed the elsas Ale der for
Smoment thought he would invoke his
protectior, or get the hump-backed sis
er to take him home; but he felt that
his would only be temporary sdl; the
bbe or the siser could not alwes see
nus home. Ts oolpoured ot into f
he street. With a beating beat he
lathered up his books as slowly as he
.uMld, in the fant thet they iMht
v gones home b him, and hten
lescended into the court. He found
he whole school Fathered on the steps d
n a sort of semiceirele or council, ervi
lentlywiting for him, while a youag
iampie, named Bligny, to whom had
sa deputed the duty of vengng the
hebool was standing at the steps, coa t
an d sleeves ready turned up. At
his alarming spectacle the new boy was
ree to falter sad stop short on which
yell of exeerstion burst forth. He
elt himself ready to drop, and a cold
west burst out on his forehead. The
isnation was, however, desperate; there
as no esupe. With a sudden impulse w
is recovered himselL Cowardice often w
lads bravery its most efeetual resort,
ad in many of his duels, when he was
pown up, Aleixder behaved courage
usly from much the same motive. He
leseeded the steps, addressing his
rey, " So that's the way, is it ?"
'Yes, that's the way, it is,' sad the
other smeeringly, who was a son of a
loth--lter in the town. "And so
ro wat b.. ghtr Yes, I do."t
'O yo do, ta .'. "Yes I do." "Well
ben, there !" He hastdot to the bot- if
on of the steps; in a second he bad in
id down his books, stripped of his
eket, and had fallen on his enemy. p
'Ah, so you wald, would you?-take P'
hat, and that sad that, and that !"
urprised and taken shack at this readi
rs, where be pected to find "shirk
g"- the loth-seller's son was stag
overwhelmed, andfuaIly borne
mother is te math. Thes
- ,ad the tvitor
uith ah of u p me s reyI
peiuully made way for him to pe
at, thy bhard him ' W
'u- Iwher r--" wk te inte
sated sgnieaatly. He w nvper
onted agai.
Vale of ight nulaMees..
Mes aept hof themd elves to
all into the most atoulh g delasieas ih
bout the tutie whis time at- d
rds, but t eae eve more duded wI
Sthe talk of the peoAe about the.. t
Sehildrea hear that a new emtrage p
as bse ordered of the bilder, they a
zpesttose it d~ivem u to th dor aq
a afortght with the paint dry a -e s
se ) All people - ~Mldue i this hi
hew weetmas m l hi
be letsss ot as hes as
t thee hte o
seea we ad how M e aed So
-em in the lae a day The ao
agesof the hsk(i be hal-urased I.
ra of y inthe p I
San ee .at bum the
Ibe
Tombs of the Englis Kings.
Re-v. Arthur P. Stanley, dean of
Westminster, has been exploring the
last resting places of the kings of Eng
lani who were buried in the abbey. On
June 26th he read before the British
society of antiquaries a paper on the
tombs of Richard II. and Hen:ry IlI.
The bright beginning of Richard's reign
and its miserable close have been the
subjects for moralizing by writers of
both poetvy and prose. Shakspeare's
apposite words, "Come let us sit upon
the ground and talk about the death of
kings," and Gray's well-known lines,
"Fair laughs the morn and soft the
zephyrs blow," have their origin in the
same source. When and how Richard
died has long been a mooted point
among historians, it being generally
held that after his formal deposition in
1399, he was murdered while a prisoner
at Pomfret by Sir Piers Eaton. Many
curious questions have been set at rest
by Dean Stanley's investigations. The
tombs, it may be mentioned, are above
ground and have open work sides, with
a full length effigy on the top-stone.
In the tomb of Richard IL, two sets
of bones, female and male, were found.
As to the set of female bones, there is
no dispute that they compose the skele
ton of Anne of Bohemia, the queen of
Richard. The only doubt was whether
the male skeleton was that of Richard
I. The skull was found to give cubic
spacity less than the standard of Eng
lish skulls, and this, taken together
with the measurements, agrees with the
well-known character of the king.
There were no marks of a battle-axe on
the skull, thus refuting the above men
tioned legend; other antiquarian re
searches show that in 1400 Richard IL
sceaped from 1omfret to an abbey in
Northumberland, whence he removed to
Scotland, and that many plots for his
estoration were set on foot during the
succeeding reign of Henry IV., of the
oueae of Lancaster. As to the tomb of
lenry III., no searching investigation
was made, as no grave historic doubts
exist as to his fate. The effigy, among
he first of such castings, was found to
e almost perfect, and the coffin, eov
'red with a continuous piece of cloth of
,old, is it turn covered with dust. The
loth has lost its strength, so that a
mall puff would blow away both dust
ard silk.
A Summer Slide Down Hill
Any one desirous of sliding down hill
n the summer time may gratify that
lesire at the falls by a seoot down the
pron. How nicely it ean be done was
lustrated by a couple of tourists,
rithout any " guide," sad also by their
Iriver, on Tuesday afternoon. These
entlemen were much interested in all
hey saw about the falls, and especially
, the frrent of water shooting over
I~t Anthony's best apron. To obtain a
etter view they ventured out upon the
lam extending from the platform.
about an ineh of water runs over the
lam, shoots down the apron with
nest Velocity for the distance of one
undred and fifty feet, until it strikes
he timber-bed running out level for
wenty or thirty feet, and then dashes
ito a regular whirlpool that froths and
Dams among the reeks. Unfortunately
or the tourists the coffer-dam was
.ickly coated with a green, slimy sub
tance, making one of the most shppery
owndations imaginable; and in les
ime than it takes to tell it, their " feet
rers gone," and a couple of dark streaks
rere visible as they went down the
limy apron like a special telegram.
Ipeetators feared they would be dashed
ipon the rocks and instantly killed,
it, luckily, they managed to stop
hemselves on the timber-bed before
pokes of, and were sorry-looking sub
sets, however, covered as they were by
be deposit wiped up from the dam and
pron, and were " wearing of the green"
a the fullest sense of the word. Their
river subslequently attempted to reaov
ran as tray hat from the dam, and lack
ag apron-strings he, too, indulged in
a namepected trip down the inelined
lane, was shed up, spnged, and the
arties started for SL Pual, feeling that
was not good for them to be here.-
.i Paul Poneer.
0o Damberal OGroun.
A broken-hearted young thing writes
rI a weekly paer as followsa: "About
bree years ago I became aquainted
rith a yomng gentleman; ad although
e never pad me ny partienlar attem
io_, be would often emprm me to
tfrom hreh, et, . ButlatelyI so
es agreat emange in him. He avoids
Subueh as pomble,m adm Lstarts if I
ddraei him. C be have eaed to
ve me? f or Ikmwhedid, ogh he
vera id so; If thought he had, it
rould bre km ert." Perhaps we
o-- mt to interese ia this mattr;
as we ka ez satly what saboul be
m with the yomng rm, we esl as if
r ought to st ,n D t net he mpt
. taoan himt , r bs e him, or
reiyhim. The nae t re adstake
nmehba-wsML, feates it asemsely
ndlisnsoe, ead him 1 t Lo dinig
mom, sd ask him in a bra weibs what
areush three or Sour times, butt hIs
mt sp fs the scw manatel
or a ew sainut4 as, s udd
st a soumle d s' bea a
iisbhm a thsd t io bsa asd
best
be
Traits of Dr. Johnson.
When Dr. Johnson was five-and-twen
ty years old he did precisely what one
could suppose he would do : he married
a woman aged fifty ! He would have,
loubtless, called this idle and vicious
perversityin another man, and have been
mercilessly sameastic over the mistake
of taking a widow when a maid might
have been had. Perhaps he hoped to
obtain more authority over an old than
he could obtain over a young woman.
If this was his idea, he did not delay
its execution. According to the fashion
of those times, the bride and bride
groom set out on horseback for the
church: but before they got there,
Johnson found it necessary to show his
wife, as he afterwards showed his
friends, that wherever he was he must
be first. Let him tell his own story:
" Sir, she had read the old romances,
and rot into her head the fantastical
notion that a woman of spirit should
use her lover like a dog. So, sir, at
first she told me that I rode too fast,
and she could not keep up with me, and
when I rode a little slower she passed
me and complained that I lagged be
hind. I was not to be made the slave
of capriee, and I resolved to begin as I
meant to end. I therefore pushed on
briskly until I was fairly out of sight.
The road lay between two hadges, so
that I was sure she could not miss it
When she did I observed her to be in
hears." His marriage, his affection, his
admiration for his wife, were perfectly
in secord with his character. If we
nay believe Garrick, Mrs. Porter was
stout and old, with swelling bosoms
inch as Fielding loved to write of, and
rat cheeks whose dimensions she exagge.
rated by a thick coating of paint. She
ad an undue partiality for strong wa
iers. Her voice was loud; her walk
was a swagger : she was gros in her
stes, affected in her behavior, anad
taring in her dress. Either Johnson
was too proud or too blind to see his
nistake; for he would talk of her bean
h as Congreve talked of the charms of
htrs. Bracegirdle; he contrived ender.
ng appellations for her; he had the
ighet rspet for her judgment; and
when she died, mourned her with a con
tancy and vehemence of grief that
hronghout his life suffered no
abatement. Though they often quar
rled, there is no doubt that they were
ot more unhap together than maost
narried people are. At all events they
were well matehed. To any other man
ot Johnson, her whims, her habits, her
ates, her person, the abundant peu
isrities or mental infirmities wich are
-enerated 6b old age, would have been
tremely distasteful ; but Johnson also
had habits ad tasteswhich, iftheywere
nao original, were ertainly not less
I'-esble than hes. At table hewas
aularly gross in his manners and of
euave ai his ehaboice. There were pe
iods r y when her appetite might
-ave rther; when, with face as
rellow as her cheeks would allow it to
oomie, she could only watch him with
maement and disgust. He would
armr oiersoe over pm-pudding,
ad allow the melted butter to run
rom his toast into his chaboolate. His
avorite dish was a veal-ie, sweetened
rith sugar, or astafed with plums; but
ardly lesi eboice i hiseyes was the red
ind of a mt buttock of bede, or a leg of
ork, boiled until the flesh fell in ragas
rom the ban. HBe did not eat, hbe
orged. He could devour at a sitting
a much as would nourish two whales
le would mastite his food with the
nergy and fervor with which he de
laimed; the veins would stand out
pon his temples, and the pspeatioo
Sting the most formidableof his habits
is gesticulations wer often so exeess
we and un trUllable that he would
wieh the shoes f ladies' feet, sweep
he salt boxes from the table, or ase a
eral e afusion by half tearin of the
ableeloth. He threw o wdows oa
he bleakest December danys, d would
tend meditatively in the old drru t,
hile those in the room erpt for el
or behind a screen or into the fender
or warmth. His behavioria the streets
as equally g. As he paved
long he would kno lads off perters'
-ses, a d walk oa ia happy unem
-ams o the misabdle he- Id dome;
r would th e s es, as thsy oe.
arved the burley fkm lg tm
heminanat~l not nalie tlat of
f the bearikew ofen elephant, dare to
mrm him. His march seemed to be
ieformed by the wofaid his head
ad the cotortions body rather
e ss by t she movement of his ee
colleet tt o wath him.
Ie tone the strest post as h
sed wi th supertitionad and
f he omitted oa, h w ue his
taps that the qber cer~mghtboe
as he was ise owihb am er or
.nvnlsion, end woald daese sahou the
ment to the ecuternation or marri
mett the passengers.
harm o f the Il f Jersey.
Of all tb gmes of the osea, of arll
whe rpots thet the earth hasu
a b, t leamt m i w al settled qr
er, it us i me teht naone a om
r with this beautiul island ad its
tsoen old stone ehur sa, dating from
he twelfth and thirteead eanturies,
lad with mse iyas is nowere ele to
a fouad, ad anestld among such tree
ad thathed a s as een the best
itures of dl d a d math.
With its stent varying limpse of
he sa, with its t d charming
rills rseidenes, staething nearly
he whole territory, the seekers for ru
ml beauty nd en areadien mimplietty of
ceaery a het fr nd thir beet exa
le.. A Jurseyrad lea marveltob
mod .Theyars a farse, by an oes all
liha, hut there are miles ad mihesu a
al describe, amy, often too aerrew
r veilees to pes each othar except
It the tern-ts; Leured like Beflevae
wam in Nepr with the aded
- d -, with eastlya-sibt
meteneam, end bused with earthen
mas e high that t ee - at into
dbudktin 6
1.
I have seen. If these rmoads were sim
ply uninterrupted lines of communica
tion between different points, they
would still be beautiful enough ; but
they are lined on both sides by farms so
small that one is rarely ont of sight of
the neatly thatched farm buildings and
the curious, half-tropical vegetation to
be found in every door-yard. In the
thatched houses, even the most modern
ones, there is a look of the century-old
respectability and comfort which is es
pecially in keeping with the whole char
acter of the scenery; and, however
beantiful and attractive the Jersey cow
may be as we see her in the lawns of
our rich neighbors, she can have no set
ting to equal the gnarled old orchard
behind the stack and straw-covered
sheds which we see through the gaps in
these ivy-olad road-side fences.- Ilearth
andul Home.
Causes of Short Sight.
A recent paper by Dr. Liebreich
throws light upon the origin of this de
fect. He demonstrates that the two
evils of permanent short sight and cur
vature of the spine, both so mneh morel
frequent among the eduneated than the
uneducated classes of soeiety, are de
veloped by the unnatural posture usu
ally enfored in schools. During child
hood the eve possesses a great power of
acoommodating itself to distance, and if
in reading and writing the desks are so
arranged that the eye, instead of being
twelve to fifteen inches distant, is kept
at seven or eight inehes from the book or
paper, the eye adapts itself to the near
objeet, and permanent short sight is the
result. Moreover, as the predisposition
to the disease is hereditary, abhort sight
is eonstantly on the increase in highly
civilized countries. The bad posture
adopted at writimg desks is also the chief
cause of lateral eaurvature of the spine.
In extreme eases, says Dr. Liebreich,
the copy-book is pushed forward, so that
its lower border is inclined at an angle
of forty-five degrees with the edge of
the table. The head is lowered sad so
much twisted that the left eye is only a
few inches distant from the book; the
left cheek almost touches the left hand,
or even leans upon it; the ribs of the
left side are pressed against the edge of
the desk, and the taller children slip
beakward on the forms, so that only the
lower part of the thighs rest on the nar
row bench. In may shools the pupils
maintain this unnatural position for so
reral hours daily, until at last the mus
eles are overtired, and permanent dis.
tortion of the spine is the inevitable re
salt. To avoid thee evils, desks should
.be so coastructed that when the pupil is
seated the shoulders should be even,the
spine straight, the head balanced on the
top of the spine, the elbows on a level
with each other, and only the hands and
part of the forearm resting an the desk.
In rder to effect this, Dr. Liebreih re
commends a desk in which the angle is
twenty degrees, for writing, and which,
btoraing upflap, givesan angle of.
ty degrees, for suppor a book for
ding. He trongly cdu theab
surd unanatom notia that tr
pinesan be insured by mkingehildre.
t upstraight without support for the
b , thus over-fauni the muzsle
and producing t ver et desired to
be avoided. He also depreeated stragly
the unnatural plan of making lie
on an iaelined board or n the fr"a
foolish torture which misses its aim."
A couch with an angle of forty-Ave de
grees, with eurves adapted to the ear
vatres of the spine, is onebet adapted
to girls with threatened spial 'disr.
tio.-PAidelpA. l hdleId.
NOw szisean KermaMs.
A delicate but self-atilsfed youth of
great Gotham resently found haimself i
one of our New Memsina cosheas. In
leaIving our god town the shoddy e
himsteef efrnlly apon
the seat bh e r4s of a minature
rie and fishing sek which es arred
Sa paprtof aisa e As the coameh
--hthiwa piete eaed his
b to des thda deltM. In the
shded of the tall eattomwood trees,
whieh line the baks, b ted a
of tou7 Mexian am they
"0er Ods s, Mr. Driver, wrhat
are thoe beatiful aia ?"
"Tbhem are mermaids," aswered the
0 holdma jst eme -'ue" ad
while he threw the hook toward the
| -group witha gestore of be
Th. w thn grl,.adal eloed e
the bs ed b a he s uapo
tlr bte k drinking in tbh raturos
emslr before him, but iayn little at
teaton to his lin or balit S deMy.
black-eyet Pri of about ifteen s t
the ealn of his pole, and, with a isiee
ou movemenat, landed the fisherma
into the middle of the Aeesqin. Every
mermaid of the bate immediat toek
a lively interest in irrigating their ep
tive, who ml aeeedsd in erawing up
thbe beank afr desps rte 
a n, d very muh in the oedition o
a Nerway rat.
The washerwomaa at the art taloea
delared she r ver aw so muesh Bio
GIrand mad on nea suit of elothes in
her life, ad the -an was heard
to mutter ofte to 'im lf: "D-d
herd fis to eateh, then Meuiean me
maids!"
Nwrow's Ecucarrerss. - Iema
Newton,, during the two years which he
-rteiaipeug and developin his
b etsmrkonly lived to ealeulate
sad think, preserving o comneation
with theondinarydair of life. It is
said tLhat, frequently, on rising in the
meri, would it dwn byhis bebd
ad wal re for hnurs tethr
sing mtef. If he did dbt o b
elothes beaose the mood earne ea, he
weal th move neity of eating. A
dwn end ate the diarws a se
Z: "I ha
iLI· --"'brd
The Altitude at which Men Can Live.
There has been a great deal of dis
cussion as to the altitude at which lin
man beings can exist, and Mr. (Glai
sher himself can ttll us as much about
it as anybody. In July, 1872, he anld
Mr. (,uxwell asended in a balloon to
the enormous elevation of :17,IN1) feet.
Previous to the start, Mr. Claisher's
pulse storal at seventy-six beats a min
ute; Coxwell's at seventy-fonr. At 17.
0(N) feet, the pulse of the former was at
eighty-four; that of the latter att ,one
hundred. At 19,0W00 feetr laisher's
hands and lips were quite blue, bit
not his face. At 21,0(10 feet, lie heartl
his heart beatihrg, and his breathing i.'
came oppressed; at 29,(N000 he is'camte
senseless: notwithstanding which the
wronaut, in the interest of science, went
up another 8,000 feet, till he could no
longer use his hands, and had to pull
the strings of the valve with his teeth.
Aeronauts who have to make no exer
tions have, of course, a great advantage,
over members of the Alpine club, and
those who trust their legs; even at 1:1,
000 feet these climbers feel very uncom
fortable, more so in the Alps, it seems,
than elsewhere. At the monastery of
St. Bernard, 8,117 feet high, the monks
become asthmatic, and are compelled
frequently to descend into the valley of
the Rhone for-anything but a "breath
of fresh air ;" and at the end of ten years'
service are obliged to give np their
high living, an I come down to the usu
al level. At the same time, in South
America, there are towns, such as Poto
si, placed as high as the top of Mont
Blanc, the innabitants of which feel no
inconvenience. The highest inhabited
spot in the world is, however, the Budd
lust cloister of Hanle, in Tibet, where
twenty-onme persons live at an altitude
of 16,5010 feet. The brothers Beglagin
tweit, when they explored the glaciers
of the Ibi-Oamin in the same country,
encamped at 21,000 feet, the highest al
titude at which a European ever passed
the night. Even at the top of Mont
Blanc, Professor Tyndall's gnides found
it very unpleasant to do this, though
the professor himself did not confess to
feeling as bd as they. The highest
mountain in the world is Mount Eve
resat (Himalaya), 29,008 feet, and the
codor has been seen " winging the blue
air" 500 feet higher. The air, by the
by, is not "blue," or else, as De Mann
sure pointed out, " the distant moun
tains, which are covered with snow,
would appear blue also;" its apparent
color being due to the reflection of
light. What light can do, and does, is
marvelous; and not the least is its pow
er of attraction to humanity.-f'haam
bes's Jornml.
Something Lie Wild at.
(an Lae Ot(apo (atl.) Tribuae.)
We learn that an unusual and very ex -
eiting contest took place at the ranch of
Reaon Felis, on the Morrow creek,
about fourteen miles from this place,
e orming last week. It seems that
Mr. Flis shorbtly after getting up in
the morning, went out to feed his stock
mad that soon after he was startled by
the ries of his wife and family. Run
sing to the house he found a large wild
eat had seised his youngest child, an in
fant, by the bau of the neck and was
making off with it. After severestrug
le he sheucceeded in resoing it, the cat
making its escape. Some time after the
exaitement had subsided an Indian boy
about eighteen years old went omt to
bring in some hbrass that had been
staked out over night some distance
from the house. He had been gone but
a few minutes when the family was again
aroused by the aris of the boy, who
Dame rusbing towards the house yelling
libk a madman, with the identical at
that had caused the fri disturbanee
rly seated po his bash, with the
teeth be d in the bak of his neck.
Another battle ensued, which
resulted l of the eat, which sue
seemfr y cleaned out the whole Felis
eatwy lle their two dogs, and re
te-sted in good order to the house of
E M. Howe, under which he easonces e
hiaelf, defying all efforts to dislodge
him until night, when it escaped un
scathed. T wounds received by the
Indian b were qite severe, and the
goad fe ing that the cat was
a tbha it et to sarif~ the
wounds, whichthe did by heating a
erowb, the only mplmt absout the
e that wouad mswerthe purpoee.
e ndestand tht, cosidering the or
deal of seratching, biting and singeRng
the boywnt aru he is doing re
rhbly well and will be all right
again in a few da...
A DemsesTmsrce47 d ie Meral.
Whern a woman puts three mkerel to
soak over night mn a dias-pan whose
sides are eight inebes high, and laves
the paon a stairwa she has acm
hierl I misia and should go bence.
d s what a Divislo street wonman
didFi night. Filled the pan at the
ampadthem lt it stading on the
steps to the stoop, while she went into
the anet house to see how may bottoma
wrald be equired to go down the front
of a redingote. And a mighty impor
ttahir that was to be sure. And
there w b rhusband tearing through
the bhase in search of a handhrsehief,
sad not fadingit, of course. And then
he rushed out into the yard, wondering.
where on earth that woran cold be,
and ustarted down the steps without msee
ingthe pan, or eve dramiag tht any
em- could b as ididitci a t lae at
there. Of eouras he steped on it; or,
t lest, that isthe osti as tim
S ars who r oe out u by the
- a- f ollowed aswa
__ d rsbm dowb the shrau
-An.. he ws - aies ight, was that
nheman, whne tey im em
Id ase t t hues hian o
aid mis hair a faH Mts of
mel, and ome of his saholders was out
J ad his coat was splt the whole
of the beas, ad Apperwe
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