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•U183 Iý MOL INO.
There. wai a ftire. monster, who mad.
His ithone" in vale, w,.adland and glade.
It. lalughed in his terrible might,
Anld 'ihilled e*very iheart with affright
At he seatered the iowdery nmow
Ito! ho!
Three lsr little maids lost their way,
As homeward they wandered one da .
11w lovely they were! and how sweet!
This sonmeter aid, "UThse I will eat,
But I'll wait until drkness sets in
To begia."
The little maids heard him, and wept;
Then claser together they crept,
And earh kit.sed the other's pale cheek.
o who eainltd harm darlingf ws meek?
4'.w rualder a snow-hank they tried
To hide.
The sun went down, lurid and cold ;
A shroud of snow round them were rolled;
They heard the grim monster go by,
The.e three little maid. to espy;
Itit, binded with anger, no three
Found be!
Now the moraing sun warmed them, and Io!
They peeped from thei shelter of snow !
Th.em darlings were smowdrops; and he
Who bowed to his will every
Pine. maple, and lacust, and lareh
Was March I
Little (orporal.
Jeffersa and His Enemies.
Jefferson oth believed and proved that
a public man, St for his place and doing
h;s duty, cannot be injuied by a hostile
press. This truth we now all know, and
have seenit tested many times; but in
1801 it was a discovery. Nor was there
then in Christendom one government
besides that of the United 8tates strong
and able enough to permit freedom of
the press. Bonaparte's, of course, was
not. Pitt's was not. Nor was there a
government in all Europe where the
idea of a free press could be entertained.
And what made Jefferson's triumph the
more remarkable' was that the federal
ints were the "vocal class." It was
they who filled most pulpits, wrote most
books, edited most papers, presided in
most courts, pleaded most causes, and
taught in most colleges. They were
denominated the educated elass. Edu
e:ttion, at that day, did not mean the
aqunisition of knowledge, but of sachol
arship; which, while it enltivates the
tommnnicating talents, may leave the
prejudices intact, and is compatible with
the last degree of mental servility and
narrowness. A man may become a
genuine scholar and remain a Jesuit.
The federalist leaders, too, were exas
perated beyond mortal endurance.
Their self-love was torn all to pieces
They had pred eted their own speedy
return to power; they saw their minor
ity dwindling at every election. They
foretold anarchy; they saw universal
order and general content. They had
prophesied financial chaos; they saw
every obligation of thegoverument met,
its debt steadily diminished, its credit
lprf et, its only embarrassment a ,ur
pllus. They had expected a suppression
of the navy ; they now saw, for the first
time, the navy put to its legitimate use
in terminatin the piracies of the .Ale
rines. They haddreded expulsion
from office of all their adherents they
saw the right of opinion ree andL
no man disturbed in his place, except
for a reason that did not include his
political creed. They had predicted a
reign of loaters and scallarags; they
saw the great offices filled with men who
were both refined by sholarship and
enlarged by knowledge. They had fore
told a base subserviency to France;
they saw the presaident win from Franme
the most valuable sequiition that one
country ever gained from another since
the creation, and this without blood
shed. They had predicted insult and
rash hostility to Great Britain; they
saw the moment omem when, with un.
vernal acclamation, Jeerson could have
hada war with England, andyet he held
back the conflict fo another four years,
every mouth of which made that con
diet lee unequal.
Itis not in mortalsto bebold with
equanimity such brilliant and triuam
phant widom in the career of a pensum
agsist whom they publie com
mited. The lsadin fedaelis seem
to have been equally passled end isliq
anat. C. P. i ey Gould only aii
baut the str t i bold JeAlso
had of the publi eaU ee to "the
infatuation of the pile." John Quiey
Adams theight that Jefferona snuaass
was owing to an mnseontoable ran of
good luck. "tFor~tune,"s sI " he.
teken apleasure in makiar retin.a
greatest weaknes and flonies issme
more sccessfully than if he hd been
hsired with the ofouadet wisdom "
(ThNis in 180 Bfore Mr. Jesas.
went out of ofce. Adam. was a s
publi m Goaernear Morris, the
atty ulariert, rse it down,
nfashiou, to the tral-smness
of merchants ad traders. It was a
favorite fetion of the class of tastes
represented by Morris, thaut the ouat
ing-room is centgr and resort of all that
is sotdld and contemptible. But Morris
did not dea of the renpablie. "When
the sabdu hed pea bed oepag
oug dn , thy will gt sober; but,
whilethe froic ls to raon with
them is useless. Tb t leaders
take sdvantsge of enedi
tion, and tie their hands and feet; but
if this prevents them fm anaunng Inte
it was alLeis s of I' ,
this: Ma Is a
bethe duaeso bod end cna
-eed ealmpasies but
Is e m et bata
ftath feei t t
ma~r -b
umdlru
the mildest anad the ferest county edi
tor could draw every week the slanders
most congenial to his disposition. They
did so. The state courts gave members
of the administration a fair maens of
redress, and some of them appear to
have thought of bringing suits for libel.
Jefferson avowed their right to do so;
but sMid he, in various forms of ex
pression, " Let us prove to the world a
that an administration which has noth
ing to coapeal has nothing to fear from
the press. It is the means which the
press has of giving publicity to events
which makes it one of the great powers
of the modern world. When it utters t
falsehood, the party injured is itself.
"I admit," he wrote to an old friend, t
in 1808, "that restraining the press to
truth, as the present laws do, is the only
way of making it useful. But I have r
thought it necessary first to prove that
it can never be d rou." Again, in
his soeood inagura, he spoke of the 1
importance to mankind of this experi
ment to as3artain whether a government
that did no set which it would be un
willing the world should witness, could t
be written down. "The experiment has t
been tried," said he. "You. have wit- t
nessed the scene; our fellow-citizens
looked on, cool and collected ; they sar
the latent source from which these out
rages proceeded; they gathered around c
their publie functionaries, and, when *
the constitution called them to the de
cision by suffrage, they pronounced
their verdict, honorable to those who t
had served them, and eonsola.ory to the
friend of man, who believes he may be
trusted with the control of his own
auirs."-James Parton is Afanutie.
Study Beneficial to Health.
True study is an eminently leisurely
process, the great condition of success
in it being deliberation, and though it
always sufeiently interests the student
to keep his faculties lively, it seldom
excites him to any dangerous degree.
Hence I believe that genuine study is
much less injurious to health than is
often supposed ; dertainly much less in
jurious than many things which are
scarcely reputed injurious at all. The
proeasses of genuine and well directed
study positively save the brain by their
rational and orderly sequenoe, by the
safe advance from step to step. Study '
of this kind is like a well-built stair
case by which yon can climb to a great
height with a minimum of fatigue, nev
er lifting the body more than a few I
inches at a time. But as there might 1
be such a thing as racing up a stair
ease, so when we study against time,
shere is a strain in the mere speed, how
ever good may be the system we are
following. Theme may also be a strain
on the faculties in the direction of
them toward a kind of study which is
not adaptd to our natural gifts. If we
learn what nature qualified us to learn,
and learn it step by step, without hurry,
we incur a miaimum of cerebral fatigue. I
gand a maximum of acquirement. I
Study of this kiml gently stimulates
ad does not fatig, unle pdonged'
oan mu ielength of time. It i
i positively favorable to health, be
Sit is favorable to cheerfulness.; it
makes life pleasanter and more inter
eating, and so far from being injurious
to the aervns system, gives it tone and I
vigor, exactly as manly exercises give
tone and vigor to the mscular system.
There can be no doubt that men were
intended to bear intelleetual labor with.
out injury to their health; we are con
stituted to think and to learn just as a
fish is constituted to swim or a bird to
fly.-Lowdon Globe.
The Terinus of the Northern Pa
[xalams (oreson) Hasse.)
We understand that the Northern Ps
eise railroad commi asko rJudge Riee
and Captain Aiasworth, appointed to se
le a terminus for the main line of the
Northern Pacific railroad on Paget I
sound, have, after a very careful ex
amination of various harbors on the
sound, and after having given full hear
ing. to all artis interested, and ma
trely prrio al prpositions for
aid by - m t lo.ti, ome of which
have bean em diagly libeal, inally 1
--"-.-- int ey jbe outh aide of
Oo T ba in town-sip 21, range
S east, of Willamette meridia, for that
In this we think the commissioners
acted wisely as the hardor aeolected can
nt be exeed for salubrity of elimate,
extent, safety ad eas of waseess both by
sa and i Persons interested an
metbe dirpgoin in thea tion of
the mas~nsimthrs but the omgmecial
._-mld rin unbemith~yl~ approve.
By rferwee to a ap of the ountry
irwll be mass that the loatioa sleted
is at the head of deep wate on Com
meeameat bay, south of the present
town of Taeoms, and combines more ad
vastgs for a great commerelal eity,
destiad to represent and become a
eat semprim of trade, beyond any
other mart aon the Pisei eoat, and we
sinerely feel assured is to become the
scomd ity of the new wdrl.
As earnest of the faith reosed in
the Ioti, we bhear that material for a
aludde newspaper, job printing and
'Th' Thm Havasm or Im,--No
-e em $lowed h bsius till It
ati him. T'!ugb the rsalt were
boly weakness, yt perhaps no one
m sy t the emasquenes were to
beregratted, for these were a life in
tss .- Lames and sweat seemi
is more dlas, -ste y,
mors iutaAlA, that Isn ya suam
res bateesto
pr selL. The .tudgaid vatfs
Prbap sthef tn mostaa ad
motd eal are never essauuIoe by
fIinbige sste agimurg
The Warm Full Moon.
Poets have so long sung of the c()ld,,
haste moon, pallid with weariness of
ter long watch upon the earth accord
ng to the image used alike by Words
rorth and Shelley), that it seems
trange to learn from science that the
ll moon is so intenw'ly hot that no
reature known to us could long endure
ontact with her heated surface. Such
a the latest news which science lhas
irought us respecting our satellite. The
rews is not altogether unexpected ; in
act, reasoning had shown, long before
he fact had been demonstrated, that it'
must be so. The astronomer knows
hat the surface of the moon is exposed
luring the long lunar day, lasting a
ortnight of our terrestrial time, to the
sys of the sun as powerful as that
rhich gives us our daily heat. With
aut an atmosphere to temper the sun's
teat as ours does, not, indeed, by im
eding the passage of the solar rays,
out by bearing aloft the cloud-veil
rhich the sun rinses from our oceans;
he moon's surface must become in
ensely hot long before the middle of
he luner day. Undoubtedly the want
f an atmosphere causes the moon's
est to be rapidly radiated away into
pace. It is our atmosphere which
auses a steady heat to prevail on our
arth. And at the summits of lofty
nountains, where the atmosphere is
are, although the mid-day heat is in
ense, yet so rapidly does heat pass
way that snow crowns forever the
mountain heights. Yet although the
noon's heat must pass away even more
spidly, this does not prevent the heat
ig of the moon's actual surface any
nore than the.rarity of the air prevents
he Alpine traveler from feeling the ac
ion of the sun's direct heat even when
he air in shadow is icily e ad. Sir
[ohn Herschel long since pointed out
hat the moon's surface must be heated
it lunar mid-day to a degree probably
urpassing the heat of boiling water.
Such, in point of fact, has now been
roved to be the case. The earl of Rosse
,as shown by experiments which need
lot here be aescribed that the moon not
nly reflects heat to the earth (which, of
,ourse, must be the case), but site gives
vat heat by which she has been herself
warmed. The distinction may not per
appear clear at first sight to every
sader, but it may easily be explained
tad illustrated. If, on a bright sum
mer's day, we take a piece of smooth
at not too well polished metal, and by
seans of it reflect the sun's liglt upon
he face, a sensation of heat will be ex
rienced. This is reflected sun-heatt.
But if we wait while so holding the
metal until the plate has become quite
ut under the solar rays, we shall. re
,ognize a sensation of heat from the
mere proximity of the plate to the facet,'
vren when the plate is so held as not to!
reflect sim-heat. We can in succession
Wy, first, reflected heat alone, before
he metal has grown hot; next, th heat
which the metal gives out of itself when
warmed by the sun's rays; and lastly,
he two kinds of heat together, when
he metal is caused to reflect sun-heat.
nad also (being held near the face) to
live out a sensible quantity of its own
warmth. What Lord RBoe has done
is been to show that the full moon
ends earthward both kinds of heat;
he reflects solar hea just as she reflects
olar light, and she also gives out the
eat by which her own surface has been
It may perhaps occur to the reader to
nquire how much heat we actually ob
sin from the full moon. There is a
ample way of viewing the matter. If
he full moon were exactly as hot as
oiing water, we should receive from
er just as much beat (leaving the et
fet of der atmosphtre out of account)
as we should receive from a small globe
s hot as boiling water, and at such a
istane as to lpok just as large as the
moon does. Or a disk of metal will
serve equally well. The experiment
may be easily tried. An oldfashioned
peny is just one inch in diameter, and
is the maa erge distance is about
11i times her own diameter, a penny at
a distance of 111 inches, or three yards
and three inches, looks just as large as
the moon. Now let a penny be put in
boilimg water for a while, so that t be
somesashot as the water; shen that
ointaken quiely and set three yards
from theobserver, will give at for the
few moments that its heat remains ap
ably that of boiling water so much
to the observer as he re. ires
from the full moon supposed to be as
hot as boiling water. Or a globe of
thin metal, one inch in diameter, and
fall of water at boilihag heat, would
serve as a m ae lostant artifial moonm
in respeat of heatppl. It need not
be thought marbl them, if the
heat given out bythe moon is not
asily meured, or ev recognised.
Imagie how little the cold of a winter's
day raouid be relieved by the presence
in a room no otherwise warmed of sace
Inch globe of bolig water three yards
awayrl And, by-the-way, we are here
reminded of a estimate ofO. P. Smyth,
resualting from observations made on
the moon's bheat during his Tenerife
exeerimaents He foundthehea aeq
tothbaemittedby the bad at a di
t·ae of three feet.
But, after slU, te mat interesting
reslts Sowing hf the rme t re
arshees ae those which elate to the
moon herself. We eaiot but rju
late on the colition of a a
stngely lematmeed that a cold
m--ore-- e r ter th at of our Aretic
nights alternates with a heat exceeding
tat of boiling water. Is is strange to
think tha ths enlm-looking moon i ex
Tbr sereel be life in any patof
the moon, unless it be uader-gromad
lise, like that of the Modo Inudians (we
oesmead this ide smealsy to the more
a- edvoade of aroseterisa
. ei g other wedlds tha en a)*
=mu st be a -singsy -
--e mean-iesl apogsmes t -weekiyo
dQew mb The moons una aasI '
- r l. The material of
than i ad
. e AtrMr
moon, a wall sinking here, or a crater
vanishing elsewhere ? The wonder
rather is that the steep and lofty Inns
mountains have not been shaken long
ainee to their very foundations.
Our moon presents, in fact, a strange
problem for our investigation. It is
gratifying to us terrestrials to regard
her as a mere sattelite of the earth, but
in reality she deserves rather to be re
garded as a companion planet.
The Zone of Lifo.
Insignificant as is the spot we inhabit,
tlie zone of life, the area which not only
all that live and breathe and move in
habit but in which all vegetation is con
tained, is still more limited. From the
submarine forests in the lowest depths
of 'the sea, to the highest altitude to
which the condor soars, above the per
petual snow is but twelve miles. Within
those scanty limits, six miles of air above
us, six miles of water beneath, every
thing that has vitality is confined. If
the salamander lives in the central fire,
the exception is so small as scarcely to
be worth mentioning. The air presses
upon the earth with a force equal to 83
feet of water, and upon every average
human body with a weight of 15 tons,
which only does not squash us flat as
pancakes, because the air surrounds us
on all sides, including our insides, and
thereby the weight is balanced. To
most of us nature is one vast mirage,
suggesting infinate delusions; and even
to the learned many things still remain
to be cleared up by slow moving science
in future ages. *ho would imagine,
upon the face of the matter, for instance,
that in an airless world not a sound
could he heard. On the contrary, in
still and silent space, one would eon
cieve that we might hear a pin drop
from the moon. Hawksbee demonstra
ted the contrary of this fact in a memo
rable experiment before the royal socie
ty, 180 years ago. He placed a cork
under the receiver of an air pump in
such a way that the striking of the
clipper would continue after the air had
been exhausted ; while the receiver was
full of air, the sound was quite audible,
when it was empty all was silent. Again
when the air was introduced there was
a feeble sound, growing in intensity as
the air grew denser. At the top of
Mont Blanc the report of a pistol is no
louder than that of a common cracker
let off at the level of the sea. " Above
two miles," says Mr. Olaisher, who, as
everybody knows, is an aeronaut of con
siderable experience, "all noise ceases.
I never encountered a silence more com
plete and solemn than in the heights of
the atmosphere, in those chilling soli
tudes to which no terrestial sound
reaches." On the other hand, clouds
absolutely facilitate the transmission of
son.ud. AIbove a great city, to the
height of from 1,200 to 1,500 feet, there
is always a noise, "immense, colossal
and indescribable." The whistle of a
steam engine is beard at 10,000 feet, the
noise of a train at 8.20t, says M. Flam
marion; but Mr. Olaisher testifies to
having heard this latter when 22,000
feet up in the air; the barking of a dog
antd the report of a gun rise each up to
5,000 feet; the shouts of a crowd of
people, the crowing of a cock, the toll
ing of a belt, to 5,000, and the shout of
a human being to 3,300 feet.- Chamber.'
Journal.
Modern English Poetry.
There is more poetry written now in
one year than was written during the
whole of the eighteenth century. Much
of it is fairly good, quite as good as
would have sufficed to establish a great
reputation among 'uar grandfar
The standard colkc:'ios of Br]ish
poetry contain the works of man pists
who would have no elhn:ce of a hearg
from us. Still, the bst of ours is not
supremely good. Tennyson, in
Arnold, Roseetti, Swinbure, Morris.
A goodly array, no doubt. But they all
belong to what may be called the litera
ry class of poets. Now, it is a theerv
of mine that no poetry can live lam
which is not born in the open air. The
poetry of the study is a delicate and
perishable commodity. Browning is, in
one sense, the only exception to this
rule. Though the most studious of our
poets, he is the only one who manifests
the vital insight of a Barns, a Shak
speare or a 8eott; there is the dirset
patho, the breathing enery of life, in
"The Raing and the Book. It is iam
possibe, I thiak,that "The Ring and
theBook "eanlive. Yetitis, inmeany
work than anything w have had sin
Shaaspeare. It sator is elearly one
one of the grest mastersof the art which
purges the son by ety od trr. But
the pathos of the is not the
pathos which they have found in sli,
bnt the pathos whih they have f
inboolks. Itisrank heresy, no da4
yet I confems I prefer thie "MAue
d'Arthar," as a wote, to the " Idllsel
the King." An esotie, nursed n the
hot-hbouse, may be developed into el
rety perfection; bat the simple ad
modest wild owem native to the sro is
the hardier plant of the twa Whet
will they know of our a the
smnd years hemee? It .nI et sar
prase me very much to learn that the
whole of it had died out, eseept ir
Walter's "Proud Maisie is an the
Wood," and (perhap) Alligham
Morris is always hsrming; so
ly ehmin, in r ets tht a "
the lest oetre lh
fervid, some
Ta
mdaibh
CURIOUS AND SCIE- IFIC.
A Lova or Mowrr.-Science takes!
ogunizanee of mental as well as coporeal
euliarities. Anatomists show how the
muscles are arranged to move a fifth
1nger or a sixth toe where an excess of
meh organs exist. Those who treat ex
clusively of the mind ean not always
explain ecoentricities satisfactorily, how
ever suceamnful in recording singular
leviations from a normal standard.
Physicians entertain the opinion that
when any one portion of the brain isn
ntensely active in aparticular direction,
to the exelusion of such motives as gov
an well-balanced intellects, the indi
ridual thus distinguished is deranged.
Avarice, therefore, degenerated into an
ill absorbing love of money, is an in
Eurable form of insanity, intensified by ,
mosess in its sccumulation. Lord
Chancellor Hardwick, when worth $4,
K00,000, was as saving of half a crown
s when worthaly one hundred pounds.
The celebrated duke of Marlborough,
in the last stage of life, walked in a
-ark, cold night to his lodgings at Bath
o save six pence, learving more than a
million and a half pounds sterling to a
seapegrace relative who had always I
been an enemy. Sir James Lowther,
whose income was $40,000 a year, old,
lame and infirm, went some way back to
a coffee-house for a better half penny
that had been given him in change. He
looted about for an heir. Sir William
Smith of Bedfordshire, a vastly rich
Englishman, totally blind, agreed to
give an oulisixt inea if he re
atoed his vision. The operati4n was
museesful, but the old miser pretended
it was not exactly perfect, although he
ever after could read and write; he got
of with thirty. A rich New Yorker,
not many years in the grave, who left a
reputed fortune of $16,000,000, was in
the habit of buying a single muffin for
breakfast, which he earried home from
the baker's in a bit of newspaper.
A RrEnasKal F.ow~ s.-There is a
bower in the city of Constantinople be
longing to the narciasus family, a bul
boosrooted plant that has a most marve
lous flower. It is exactly in the form
aad color of a humming bird, so plainly
marked that a person at first sig't is
disposd to believe it is a veritable bird
at rest upon the plan. This wonderful
Sower is in the possession of but half a
dosen persons, ad they utterly refuse
to part with bulbs or seed. Its blkom
remains fresh for two or three days, and
is always replaced by another before the
first begins to fade. It does not con
tinue in bloom more than three weeks,
when the leaves fall and the stem dies
amy. to  throw up its stem with
the bird flowe the following year.
This most wooderful curiosity is repre
sented to have been found growing near
the eity named, in an old lot in an out
of-the-way place. The statements os
responsibe p s, who have seen this
wonder, verify all we have said of it;
and from a gentleman who has seen it
our statements are taken.-Cblmanas
Rural World.
THs Ecno or Lanox Rooms.-The
use of wires for correcting reverbera
tion in interiors has been subject to
some very recent ts in the
cathedral of St. Pia rCoark, Ire
land. Thesve of the athedral is of
exceeding height and very narrow. The
point whence the msound started, whereM
the d were, was at the intersection
of the nave anad the trmsepta. The
oran was in agallery at the west end,
sad the g there seated had always
been able hear more distinctly than
the people ait two-thirds the way
down the navse. Tha sitting dose to
the pills heard with spesl maditint
ss. These were the candities of the
Wires were frt strained at
of the triorium, but produced
no immediate ase A double course
of wires was then strained shabout the
pers of the eMal tower at the height
of twelve or aifteen feet, with the reult
of amidr ably ' m the acoustic
properties of the fMs The wire,
which be aso mnlate as to be scarcely
pe breaks the sound-waves,
od seets the reverberation.
Eraronrrr aAm Lan.--Beent
studie has done esasiderable to deter
min what the action of eletricity rel
ly i in the Meritation o muelar irri
tability in dead bodies eatimsus
earrent ems to t n muscalar iber
afterthemannes d Me. If dead
mar be exposed to old, the carrent
restores cotmisbna or a coasidemable
period,r bt Sully destrs it b indu
dpe t o nii treatin. If, on the
dead md dias left at
n ban tdhe cu ent
amd ly eMas pisd t irrik dam, il
mplately withe p thei
mind the fettm t the reatue hrs wita
liries.
me-einl says: In Westmoseleueond ,
several workme re ad e d sy-e
ws all was in a perfet state
pa LentLy me f same iseet an pe
,atssa lk Ubd pm s ro thel.
ided found sevryser equa
amm - aes, md  v ius
pin. in t te ten coierd i
aU- o *tem. ho ..
iis6 hum the *dis
W,345 to .328,742; Maine, 290,6040 to;
ŽM7,4:1 ; Marylaund, 363,546 to 342,'2Z- ;
N.assaichusetts. 68,l180 to .533,832; New q
Hampshire, 147,698 to 140,901; New tew
Jersey, 361,668 to 358,485, and New ear
York, 1,647,214 to 1,597,192. Virginia, sua
Vermont, Tennessee, both Carolinas, bril
Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio ald in
New Mexico show a like excess of female
population. In Utah there are more he
males than females, 28,94 to 27,11000. ma
A NEw ExPLosrvE.-- )r. Sprenlgel, an h
English chemist, intloduces a new kind So
rf explosive and a new principle at the ran
same time. He takes some oxidizing arr
agent and places it in the chamber pre- bin
pared for its reception ; he then adds fors
his fluid combustible substance, and a p
explodes the mixture with a detonating Pal
cap. Neither of the agents is explosive for
when they are separate; they become this
violently so after being united. Good mo
results are obtained by adding to 1001 is
parts of chlorate of potash 21) parts of ahi
bi-sulphate of carbon, or by mixing cal
nitro benaole with nitric acid. By fol- 1
lowing out the indications of Dr. Spren- as
gel's patent we have no doubt but ex- Pei
plosive agents of extraordinary power Sti
may be used by the miner or quarry- e
man with the utmost safety. tisi
InvslarntrrY oF PERnFrE.-No one Nis
has yet been able to analyze or demon- sia
strate the essential action of perfume. rat
Gas can be weighed, but not scents;
the smallest known creatures, the very .
monads of lift., can be caught by micro- i
scopic lens and made to deliver up the air
secrets of their organization, but what Th
it is that emanates from the pouch of e
the musk deer that fills a whole space
for years and years with its penetrating 0
odor, an odor which an illimitable num- ff
ber of extraneous substances can carry fil
off without diminishing it in size and th
weight; and what it is that the warm R4
summer air brings to us from the fow- de
ers no man has yet been able to deter- e
mine. wl
de
How to ead. bl
The first step to be taken in self-im- me
provement is to try as hard as the self- nm
teacher can to understand every word th
he reads, and, as a consequence of this, th
to put aside all books and all writers br
that he cannot understand. Such books sii
burden and fill the mind with useless or
lumber. BuSh writers themselves, too, ri,
it may be added, do not always express in
learly what they wish to convey, and p4
therefore are obscure, wordy and dry
to the humble student. The duty of as
the self-educator, therefore, is to seize
Peagerly that which he does understand, he
and to nourish his mind with it, and to th
reject that which he cannot compre- Ti
bend, to defer it till he shall be able to tb
master it. How to read a book is a m
much heavier task than many take it to he
be. From careless readers we have now ah
many careless writers; but where the ov
book is good it deserves to be well ru
treated. One may take it also as a fact, wi
that the reader really takes up a book ev
to use it, not to gallop through it. It is
well he should know what he is about;
that he should read and think over the qr
title-page, acquaint himself if he can th
with some little history of the author, es
some hint as to whether he is trustwor- ma
thy or biased. Then he should carefully yc
read the preface and master the idea m
that the author had when he wrote the fo
book. He should then glance over the DC
contents, look at the subdivision of di
chapters, and finally read the book if he re
choose to do so. This, which may seem as
a roundabout way to some, is in reality m
the shortest way. Some books, says _i
Lord Bacon, are to be tasted, some read pm
sad digested. Suppose the work is of o
the common class, without any thought t
in it. The self-improver will save all tr
his time by a preliminary study ; often- p
times the title will tedl him all e al
wants to know ; more often, the title,
the preface and table of contents will
sasure him that he has little to learn,
and he will put aside the book and pms s
on to worthier food. For books are hi
like men, sometimes their prefaces and e
addresses are bfar teworthiest parts h
of them. As e reader progresses in t
his studies and gains in experience, he hi
will Ad that there grows up to himal P
met an intmition, by which, hecan tell, m
ina wery ew p es at leit, a bad, emp" I
by psadbook tt omoe t
will sad readr him wiser. b
eAnu AreselL d
Th hatdis tO Worship I. tthe Iter
It is certain that worship stands in f
some eommsading relation tothe health
of man sad to his highest powers, so as
to be, in some manner, the source of
ieleet. All the great ageshve been b
ages of belief. I mean, where therwas
any extraordinary power of perform- g
ance when preat natiounal movements
bea, when artsappesutl, when heroes j
easted, when poems were madle, the
hmua soul was in earnest nd hab died
its thoughts on spiritual verities, with ,
astrieta grap sathat of the hands on 11
the sword, or the pencil, or the trowel.
It is true that genmus takes its rise out
of the mountains of reetitnde; that all a
beunty sand power which men covet are
somehow born out of that alpine dis- i
triet: that say extraordinary degree of ,
beauty in man or woman involves a t
moral charm. Thus,I think, we very
slowly admit in another man a higher
dcree of moral sentiment thabt our own,
a aer conscience, moreimpressionable,
ior which marks minuter degrees; an
ear to hear senter notes of right and
wrong than we can. I think we listen
very suspiciously and very slowly to
any evidence to that point. Bnt one
SMtisfied of such supernority, we set no
Slimit to our expectation of hais genius.
For such perss are nearer to the s
Seret God than others, are bathed by
waters; they hear notices, they 1
i see where others are vaat.
' We e that holiness coanfer a er
S iht, beeaue not by our private,
Sbut our publie lforee, ea we share
the nature of things.-- . W.
I musing anasers of the sonr of
a senator at West Point mere
Snto tw, at leasi.
r d ZI ;;" sad onbeiu g ubed
Swlatwsatheusesc thewe tin apis e
rah irI alebr mtluep uea
M s g, Mn wu.I7
Sitting Upon a Man,
tN'w i-rk Hierald.1
The Persian creditor having once de
termined to get his money calls for it
early in the morning and can not he ,' r
Auaded to go away till he is paid. HeR
brings his carpet with him and sits down
in his debtor's bed-room, eating, drink
ing, sleeping, and smoking the-re till
he is brought off. Some years ago, not
many, a Persian had, or fancied that hi
had, a claim on the English foreign office.
So one day he traveled away from Tehe
ran, and, after many strange adventures,
arrived i Iond(on, taking his carpet with
him, antifully prepared to sit upon the
foreign office, which he supposed to be
a person, till lihe was satisfied. Lord
Palmerston was secretary of state for
foreign affairs at the time. and took the
thing gool-hlnoredly ; but Mr. Ham
mond, the under secretary of state, who
is a sharp temlpered gentleman, and was
already high up in the office, was for
calling a policeman.
The practice of "sitting nlmn a man,"
as it it is called, universally prevails in
Persia, and it is not easy to deal with it.
Still it may he dealt with, and Sir John
MeNeill, a shrewd old Scotch diploma
tist, who was o-ce accredited to the Per
sian court, contrived to get rid of a Per
sian who l'ad tried to sit upon him by a
rather clever device.
At the new year, which is kept as a
great festival in Persia, religious medi
eants go about, not so much asking for
alms as insisting upon a fixed sum.
They generally tax a foreign ambassador
rather highly, and one of them, a dervis,
demanded an extravagant sum from Sir
John McNeill. The Scotch diplomatist
offered to compromise with him for any
reasonable amount, but his offer was re
fused, and as he would not give more,
the dervis proceeded to sit upon him.
He established himself in Sir John's gar
den just before his study windows, and
every now and then during the day andt
whenever he woke up at night this
dervis set no a horrible hullabaloo and
blew a cracked trumpet as if the judg
ment day was come. Sir John, who did
not like to have his rest disturbed in
this way, determined to put a stop to
the dervis' tricks and eject him by force ;
but he was solemnly warned by the Per
sian authorities that it would be danger
oI os to lay hands upon the dervis. "Get
rid of him if you can," said they, laugh
ing, as they are wont to do at a minister's
perplexity, "but do not touch him."
"Very well," said Sir John, dryly;
and he sent for a bricklayer.
"Build me a wall round that howling
beggar in my garden," said Sir John to
the bricklayer, "and then roof it in!"
The dervis looked on comlosedly while
the wall rose slowly round him. and
made more noise than ever: but when
lie perceived that they re.lly meant to
shut him up in a tomb, alive, he jumped
over the lowest part of the wall and
rushed away like a maniac. Sir John
was probably the only European that
ever got the better of a dervia.
-Weddings in Tangier are very fre
quent, and make night hideous with
their noise. All except the very poor
est are accompanied with gun-firing and
music. Wuen these luxuires are be
yond the means of the families, the wo
men shriek ten times more to make no
for the deficiency. This is a cheap
noise, and noise appears to be the great
disideratum at these celebrations. No
religious ceremony takes place, as far
as I coeeuld ascertain, in connection with
marriages in Morocco, beyondthe bride
groom saying a certain number of
Sprayers, in one of the mosques, previ
ously. The fattening of the bride is
the only preprati on on her part for en
trance nto the " holy state." For this
purpose, from the time of her betroth
al, she is confined to one room, not per
mitted to take any exercise, and com
led to swallow larg quantities of
evy day, syste, pur
sued steadfastly fur a few wee, bring
I her into a condition of what is consid
ered in Moroceo becoming. obesity. I
have heard of an intended bride so fat
that she was unable to stoop to pick up
her pocket-handkerchief when she drop
ped it, and who could with diiculty
move acrose the room without assist
snee. Another enrious custom observed
on these oceasioes is, that the bride is
not permitted to leave her bed for eight
days after her marriage; nor, thongh
she is visited all this time by all her
married female relation sad friends,
may she open her eyes or speak. On
the eighth day she gets out of bed
forthefruttime; her mash is put on
S(with this exeeption she has always ap
peared in full-dress); she opens her
eyes, speaks, and walks round her
hous. This oaesion is made a great
gIla of, and the house is thrown open
to every one, of course of the female
Ssex, who wishes tocome in.-Appleton's
* Journal.
1 A IAcUDaBL Amrmo.o.--I honor the
Sman whose ambition it is not to win
Slaurels in the state or the army, not to
I. be a jurist or a nturalist, net to be a
it poet or a commander, bat to be a master
II of living well, and to administer the
olfeies of master or servant, of hubasband,
* father and friend. But it reguires as
f much breadth of power for this a for ~
a those other functions, as much, or more,
7 and the reason for the failure is the
r same. I think the vice of our house
, keeping is, that it does not hold man
* acred. The vice of government, the
a vice of education, the vice of religion
d is one with that of private life.-Emnr
m on.
-e -An exchange says that the dying
wo wordsofa Delaware woman were: "Hen
a. ry, if you marry magain, remember that
a- it only takes a onpful of sluar to sweet-,
y quart of gooseberries." It is plinful
ey to think of a human being departing
. thislife with sneh a whopper on her
r- lips, when every lady knows that the
Le, more sugar you put to a gooseberry
re the sourer it becomes.
Ir voi'o ladies don't mmcke, what is
the reason they so frequenatly ha little
of round holes burnt in the fmart 6adth
re -of their summer dremese
Onae-s-week. We hboald thik it ithwed
#aely thk·dte s e dis bes d bee n
* aemong bt spar's u thy s sad an
bse more.