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TT AtJr.E ..arNT.
The waltin, w, to. wait at her f. t,
And tOre d y ]d 'i n( 4 "d"' n " " 1 t. uinig t.
4tl .lm e. at her i,. ,.w. ault routd and sweet,
The rret r'.e tnirno lhk- a lamin a-light.
SUnder aist "ter the gray mlat 1.1.,
;id a ,*n a-] d"wu from the nlmisy eaves.
Awl down ft " the eycamrre ' long wild leaves,
The slow rain dsrlp and drops and drops.
Ah ne e.r hadl 'eeper a slep so fair:
A'nt the wal'intg women t!at wetp ar'und
Has.. aken the esobs from her g.olden, hair.
And it .lisdeth over her fice to the gru.nd,.
Ic' · i'.. I.'dd.ia the light from her lovely eyes
4.t 1 . , f' . tft,' . c"ve wh a re the moees grow
* . " - I. , '. .. 's1'w , s plow,
A1.,ts.. i 'L l t w.u.i rres anmd cri. and cries.
From h, r hand they have tsken the ahinong ring;
They ,a.e h ,r sight the I . her shroud to make;
(0 the Ilrk. she was never .w |, th ito ing,
Ant t,' morln he wasr never so ltth to awake !
Altl at their .e. inm th.y hear the raul
Itri-,;r T. drit-irop, over the eaves,
4nl ,srlr trop ,ts er the m ,yan,,re leaves,
Am If there would nuv.'r hb aant. ltue again.
The tn turning train to the grave have ag, e,
Awl the waiting women are here .,t.d are there.
With birds at t*ie ltnt ,tws and gleams if the s.un.
Mikitga the chtlu.r sof death to be fair,
Alid iunder and over the r.ta-t unlaps,
A.tld rtl.y and ametlhyt burn thr, :sgh the gray,
Alnd tr:est hasllhe. riw green with spray,
Aud ith dimpled water its glad hands clatm.
"l'The hav-r ,-f the syeamire dance and wave,
i tl.(! nlillrl" re put uff the nmourning showa,
At.rl ,ver the pIathway down to the grave
The Ihng p rtan hblows and blows and blows,
ALAi every sdrj-dop rounds t. a slower,
And lre in the heart of the young man springs,
And the thands of the maine a* shine with rings,
A* if al life were a fest.al! hour.
Atlantic Mosthly.
M1ADRID.
The City iad Ita Parka
Tht' climate of Madrid is such that
it has become a household word all
over Europe. "As hot as Madrid,"
A Ascold as Madrid." Alexandre Du
man says in his "Esquicses d'Espagne:"
"For the meanest climate on earth,
rectimmend me to Madrid;" sad Al
phonoe de Lamartine speaks of the
"horrors of Madrilene heat and the
distr.'ssiug chills of Madrilene cold."
Neverthele's, you must not talk to a
true childof Madrid about all this. For,
if ever people passionately loved their
native city, it is the Madrileaos. The
Napolitans invite strangers to see their
incomparably beautiful Pity, and then
die: the Viennese talk and sia about
there being but one imperial city, and
that the one on the banks of the beauti
ful blue Danube. The Russians sy
that Moscow is holy, and that St Pe
tersburg is the city o palaces. The
Swede calls his Stockholm the Venice
of the north, and the Germans point
with the greatest pride to the magnifi
cent city of Berlin. The iaxons may
well boast of their beantilfl city of Dres
den, which is, as they call it, the second
home of all Americans. But what is all
this in comparison with the extrarant
praises bestowed by the people f Ma
drid upon their belod city? Accord
ing to them, who has ever seen a more
magnificent metropolis than theirs?
Who has ever feasted his eyes on a more
magnifieent marble palace than the Al
cazar? Who has ever see finer galle
ries than those of the museum ? Who
has ever sauntered up and down a more
splendid avenue than the Puerta del
.Sl ? Who, finally, has ever recreated
himself better in any PLblic garden
parks of Mdrid. There a three of
thee public walks, the famous Prado,
nearly two miles in length, from north
to south, on the eastern outkirts of the
city, with superb and regular rows of
trees and several fountains of surpmw
ing beauty; the Pasom de las Deheia,
along the baLks of the Mansalares, on
the west side of the city, and the Been
Retiro gardens to the east, beyond the
Prado. Without these three gardens,
it is safe to assert, life in Madrid would
almost be intolerable; and none of the
monarchs of the unfortunate Iberian
peninsula not even those who seemed to
take a special delight in oppressing
their people, ever ventured to interfere
with the inhabitants of Madrid enjoy
ing themselves in their peculiar manner
in these three public resorts. But these
gardens you must never visit in the day
time. Then everything looks deserted,
the trees and plants hang their leaves
under the depressing inluenee of a piti
less sn; the very gras on the lawns
looks yellow and drooping, and in the
ponds the water, receding as it is al
ways, is covered with a mes Alm, in
dicative of aluggishneassand
Pedestrians you do not meea ywhre ;
only now ad then a lazy waier lolling
in front of a restaurant, whom you must
call fve times before he will answer you
with a " S, &wor!" At the end of a
Aifteen minutes' walk, you will ask your
self in rprise, "Is this the famous
Prado" re who would dare to com
re it witt the Prrisian Bais de Boa
lae, with Hyde Park in Lodem , the
Prater in Vienna, or the Thiergartes in
Berlin, woud abslutely aPe too
an idiot. But warit util -te bel of
the innumerable chrces of Madrid
have rang their espers, sad wait untail
the fery sn has sunk behind the bleak
.rests of the Sierra Gtuadarams, land
until the myriads of stars, with wdee
fl learness, sparkle in the u-ste
southeran sky, wait ~t t yhe, me oe
willid anew a ti ng ag
faeinating life y
night air im.fue ash
into bood of the hdalgs.
their belovd pr, nd
So'eloe L t throme with
sad fashio of the eapilal
haseoften so of the charm
the fair dAut r MaMdrid. INy
vant to amr them in all their ma
anesksd fathalae, ad raed sit
Mia such qta muc Ih
imless manure, sch sweet as s ents
of - of the nobest tugu at Pr
yljgms has ' tom a ind i But lo
met b eve ti eat y the hOserse of
Madrki is to be landal et ,s in
ngm the s.m eiL ther Ilte
whase e as Mlad ehad t
Imtle entmes the w hin who
'mudMe
ofU
Mail- (It
the watery deep can buy, for a penny or
two, a seat on the estrade, where ihun
dreds ,,f spectators feast their eyes upo,
those who, more fortunate than them
selves, navigate on the only decent
sheet of water in New Castile. For
three or four hours the scone in tile
Prado is animated. The rieh and the i
poor congregate there as if the society
of Madrid were the most democratic in
the world. That old gentleman, with a
lovely blonde girl on his arm, is the
Marquis de Medina-Si-loni, in whose
veins flows the blood alike of the an
cient grandees of Spain and of the
Moorish kings of Granada. The hand
some young fellow who passes him is
Sen' r Eacuviaz, the president of the
Internationalists of Madrid. At that
round table sits (Gen'I Daniel Sickles,
the ambassador of the United States.
The tall, bald gentleman, who jokes
with him, and who for the world looks
like grim old Bismarck, is nto ,;':,er than
Emilio Castetar, the foremtnt orator of
Europe, and the noblest patriot of his
own country. And then there is music,
not Spanish music thougnh, for, strange
to say, the Spaniards of o'ir times have
hardly any national music worth speak
ing of. The band plays the plaintive
notes of Verdi's Miserere from "Il
Trovatore;" and next follows "' The
Watch on the Rhine." Enthusiastic ap
plause covers the stirring German hymn,
for on must bear in mind that Spain
and Germany are fast friends, even
though the Emperor William has not
yet reeogn-zed the Spanish republic.
The air is fragrant with floral odors and
with the equally fragrant emanations of I
eigars; for one thing is certain, and that
is, that the nicotian weed is nowhere
smoked more fastidiously than in Ma- t
drid. The Madrilenos will put up with
any thing but bad ecigars. You may op- 1
press them, you may starve them, you
may quench their thirst with the most
abomminable wine, but never dare to
offer them a cigar that does not come
from La Vuelta Abajo. And, strangely
enough, everybody in the Prado smokes
good eigars, and the restaurants have
but one quality. It is near midnight,
and the crowd begind to thin out.
Lovers eseort their dlkkeyed Pepitas
and Juanitas home. The band plays
the "March of the Republic," the stars
pale away, the hum in the Prado ceases,
and Madrid goes to bed.--Appletons'
Jourla.
The Health of San Francisco.
The annual report of the health ofli.
cer of San Francisco contains some in
teresting statistics. For the last year,
ending June 30, 8641 deaths occurred
in that eity, bein a little more than
nineteen deaths m every thousand of
the population. This is a remarkably
lowrae for a city of the size and char
aeter o San Francisco, apd is much be
low the average death-rate of Americasn
or European cties, which is about 20 to
the thousand, Havan standing the
higheat, with the eoremons death-rate
of 45; MoYtreal ext, .with 36; and
New York followiag, with 32. Next to
San Freanisco, the healthiest city of
much pretension on either continent is
uoeinr whose annual death-rate is
0 to the t d. But San Francisco
is net satisfied with evr this favorable
exhibit, and explai away a part of
this mortality s not trietly chargesble
to it. First, it hows that the Chinese
inereame the death-rate by importing
disease, and by living in close and filthy
quaters. The death-rate among the
Chainee themselves, for the last year,
was 88 in every thousand of papulation.
This report will erte a new feeling
against the Chinese, and already the de
mand is made for stricter quarantine
and internal sanitary regalatios.., to
compel them to be more cleanl7 and
wholesome in their. mode of living.
While the average number of persons
in each house in San Francisco is only
six, that of the Chinese quarters is
about twelve, or nearlyas high as in
New York, and to this, together with
their habits of living, the extraordinary
mortality among the Chinese is attrib
uted. eond, San Francisco complains,
with a s t justice, that its death
rate from consumption does not, natu
rally, belong to it. It will snrprias
many that the po.portion of deaths
from consmption in that cit is almost
as large as in Brookltn or Philadelphia,
and larger than in CineainMti, for Call
fornia has been arccptet one of the
besrt aesorts for consmptives This is
edsily explaied, however, by the state
mot that of the death from consump
tion daring the past emere than
two-thirds were of foriers The
ft, undoubtedly, is that a lag nam
ber of invalids linger along with this
disease in the eastern states until exist
eas is notm m lo possible, and
tha go to Sm Fransco to die. Sub
trating the two elements of the Chi
nese and the eaoesmptive emigrants
hem the seout, therefore, San Fran
einmo elaimsa yearly deh-rate below
sevnte to tbe thousnd, cad this
wonld make it, probably, the healthiest
city of its sims an d commerial impor
tame in the world.
-Mr. Alfred 8mee, in a letter printed
the London Times, raises a question
w- pins.e la regard to the
I am - emas the -rep ison et
m u gha the hoil m becam bsee -
Ie Iexeri ment hes sn
bee. Mr . S es's drcton,
wi the - rel. thehe.
mlkett ces erom stbahe ftdaw it to
r ac id~ere whent at sin
wit- 't s sesemlts. Tme
! islB 'eamy the eor, fsd o this
.- hours aim , and the butter
t m , "beeaws badin day or
tw,4 a ar what ea. y be take.
in prepnri=t. If mlk isthus aseeaed
b s so ddt h Sw, the nre to
be s mowbhy the speal p
wihb may be lurking i the
ci ntS e ssamuanutede to
the ha if tfheltd(of sew
age in ainist second-hand,
is not met Irat-hand,
ed istiar
mn red?
In the Tower of Londo:.
IPr. "tiC 4 vt. frd's 'ett.rq t, t, ther n Iar'' -
: :i,. u.]
I made mn. fir- v: it to the twe,,r ,. a
London a few days since. Its a fear- +
fil risk I've run, that of r.-laijiner in k
London over a ye-ar and lnevter s,,eitec the,,
inside of the tower. The stairea:le s
are verry narrow. In a-ce.nlin; tia',: I ,
had m'. eye nearly ip,ke.l uit h1v ;tnl ,t.i
Am. rican gentleman ahol woui. t j-i I
I in carrying his umberella on hi., sloul
tier. The warnders who show thc. llt..
are arrayed scmlrewhat in the er,:tuean ,.
" Meta:nora." They take victor-s ablout
in squalds ,f twelve to a wardel.r. Ad
imittance one shilling. From eight g
hundred to a thousand visit the tower
daily. Al this rate the establishment tl
ought nearly to run a prince. Of Celrse, t
vou have sead all almut th kui:ihts ill r
armor, the guns and swords. Tl.e in
struments of torture, the heatdman.,,
block and ax, the spears ani shiehle, ,.
anti dungeons and names earved on the
wall, which are shown and explained to
you. I saw the crown jewel-. Tate
rusty, faded, soar looking women have ii
them in charge. One delivers the ex
planatBry lecture and the other take-sc n
the tickets and watches to see that noI
one runs off with the spoons. There are
spoons in the lot, gold salt spoons. The
crowns and other royal gimeraeks are
kept under a great glass case. It is",
merely a royal jewel show. When the. '
faded lady who looks as if she had hteen
dying by inches of envy anti cvetness, I tc
because of her inability to own any of
the vast wealth, besides which her daily
life is passed, and which Tantalus--lhke.
daily mocks her eyes ; when she sa.-, as u
she always does, at the close of her ora- I
tion : " And that's the crown of (Q-een:
Victoria and is worth a millioen ei,
pounds sterling," everybody is expected t
to go down on their knees. Reemmiber
this when you visit the tower.
"No gratuities allowed to atten- a
dants " is conspicuously posted up in i
the waiting room. This means simply 1
that they do expect a fee. Sixty-five
thousand stand of arms are stored in L
the tower-Snyder rifles, which in a few i
years more will probably be changed
into some more improved arm. They
arrange on the armory walls beautitul
designs in swords, ramrcls, muskets,
bayonets and pistols. For instance,,
there is a beautiful flower, all of trig
gers. The trigger flower, Order Bellin- t
gerentia; two stamina, six pistils.
There is also a blossom of bayonets, c
Order Langingenterio Apex Musketivus
up Guards and at Them.
The ax which cut off Lord Lovat's I
head, in 1745, looked to me unsafe to ]
rely upon for chopping a pumpkin in
halves at a single blow. There are
some interesting dents on the headet
block wheroon three English lords saw
the last of their own cranial termina- t
tions. I would like to have stelen the
dents, but could not do so without t
bringing away the block.
Henry the Eigth's armor is enor
mons. I think that Michael Reese and
Mr. Friedlander might both get inside ,
of it, and there still be room left for
some "live paper" reporter to smuggle
away in the helmet and watch whatever t
they might be up to.
they showed us one queer weapon of
warfare-a sort of rake, eighteen feet t
long, with carved claws, with which
footmen were in the habit of darting
out at horeemen and " raking them in "
or "raking them down." 1
Swimming in the Salt Lake. t
There are no fish in the great Salt
Lake. The only living thing beneath I
its waters is a worm about a quarter of
an inch long. This worm shows up
beautifully beneath the lens of a micro
scope. When a storm arises the worms
are driven ashore by thousands aid de
voured by the black gulls. We found
a pure stream pouring into thelake. It
was filled with little chubs and shiners.
The fish became frightened and were
driven down the brook into the briny
lake. The instant they touched its wa
ters they eame to the surface belly up
ward, and died without a gasp.
The water is remarkable buoyant.
Eggs and potatoes float upon it like
corks. Mr. Rood and myself stripped
mand went in swimming. I dove into the
lake from a long pier, which had been
built for the use of a small steamboat
that formerly plied upon the waters.
The sensation was novel The water
Swas so salty that myeyes auld ears began
to smart, but so buoyant that I found
no didlelty in floating even when the
air was exhausted in my langs As I
struck out for the beach ' felt as light
as a feather. In spite of all that I
could do my heels would fly out of the
water. I found it impossible to stand
upon the bettem. The lightness of the
water and the surging of the waves
forced my feet from under me. A per
son who could not swim miaht be esily
Sdrown in five feet of water. His head
would go down like a lump of lead,
while his feet would flyp like a pair of
Sducks. The wrater is as clear as the wa
ter of Benaea lake, so elear that the
bottom could be seeu at the depth of
Stwenty feet. Whn we reached the
shore and erawled out upon the sand in
the light tbhe ma our bodies weare
e aqily seted with alk We were com-
t pelldto go to the little streasm from -
w hieh we had lrive the ehubs and
I sbines amd wasi odr in mfr sh water be
fore we put oc our elothea. Our hair
was flled with grains of salt which
ouold not be washed out. The Mor
morns oesmsiomallv visit the lakes in
droves ftr the purpose of bathing.
Many of them say that their health is
inovl b leaving the salt upon their
d dressing without wipmgng
themselves with napkins.
a-One of the main muses of Napoleon
.II's popularity among the peasants
5 was the smeeession of splendid crops,
r which Sollowed each other year after
:ih teed r, matte r we ad when an
I sot p was imminat h took time
0 bya teomloka d d so ineh grain
i lrtd into rase that the pmr.is
a mamed stationary. During M. Thiers'
* irst year, grain rsoe in price, and the
Slaboers' loaf rsmm four soas in the
I, pound. The rieh harvest of last year
I, alone sred him from total disgraee.
r Although the pri, remained as he left,
Sit, thre was no complaint, but
Ly:ig in Bed.
It . cernvale.e, may be monarch of
a'i h, 'iuirvS aV lie. in bed, there 1i
are c. -C iln '.ici a Iw :' may le, the oe
slaive rathter than the sovereign in that pa
l;i.,;..1m, of St'(.,..,v HHollow. Rossini as
forui.!,, . a ee,' to lwint. Just sixty er
v"t.ers :l,'. 'n IMSl:. ile I.'lged in ia worst I th
,, " ,r-t r..1.;, iu Venise. lie was ge
'.i 'nine- !tl t"'v" t', 'uikn.,wn aind a.- pl
Il:tilolli, Is.) p', er. H" was composing ci
iae oe,,,.ra. to I ." ,il!ed "11 Figlio per p1
Azz:ard,,' inl wi::, r weather : and, to D
.e.vt* th.. e.ct of tire-, Rossini lay in bed m
He lh:1 ;,Jht tinisahel notilng a dust, cI
when tlhe ,' tvir slil off the sheets, and, al
gently a\I in:{., to the floor, were wafted ua
,ahler the, c,;n'uch. Rossini looked after hi
thllm, s're'tchedl out his arm to retch at
them, anil. fintling them b..yond his el
reaeh, he flune himself back, with an b
"A d;IQO',h e,,l d.tfo! I will note it ci
,,ve-r Laiti !" The vein, however, was tl
,.xohaust.,l : his memory failed him, and it
again he le,aked hIen, ath the bed at the tl
pauper cvrondl his reach. " It would be U
lnluekv t", pick. it up," he said, "since w
It has taliln. I wi!l compose another. at
If I ever grow rich, I will write my a
music as other crnnposers do in such a
weather as this." In brief, Rossini by
noted another duet, and had just fin- h:
,shIed it whent a frietrl entered the room. t
"A. ;.',," cerieel Rossini, "cast your w
eve on t!i,; ; t v it at the piano, and tell it
s'e what vona th1ink of it !"
The a ',ntie, did as he was told, and w
! exlre,sed himself delighted. a
'" Now." sa;d the composer, "put fi
yveur armn' nde.r my bed, pull out the oi
I paper th.it lies there, another duet is I
I neutel e,,'º t, and try that also." a
The friend oleyeeld, and he protested k
that the se end nduet was much to be tl
hprefe'rreeld to the first. Iiaini rejoined II
that what his trienl calledi the "second" w
was in reality the first; and he told the ts
story of hoer it had slipped off the bed it
out of his reach. The two friends-one P
in. the other .eaeted at the edge of the v
htdl-sang: the two duets; and they te
S.err- of one opinion, that the dent from ii
below the bed was the better of the two. o
After a little while, the friend inquired tw
what RIossini meant to do with the a
other. 9
" It is done." replied the young com- fe
por; " I haVy. by help of a few p
alteration", turned it into a terz'tto." a
Thus, l.y being too lazy to slip out of t]
hbed, he took the industrious pains to o
write two duets instead of one, and to o
i change one of the t wo into a ftersto. o
The philosophy which urges the ex- v
cellenee of early rising has been very i
rudely and succesefully shaken. Charles t
Lamb has shown that there is as much bi
excess in rising with the lark and lying f
down with the lamb as in the practice v
referred to in Moore's song, which re- a
commends a lengthening of our days by I
takin " a ft.w hours from the night, my a
,iear I" That phiiosoplhv was shaken in J
the early ,lays of the world by two 8
sleepy efildlren, who came under the re- v
buke of vigilaait fathers. s
1"My1 son," remarke a one sire, "I f
once found a piece of gold by rising v
early." a
"Ay," rejoined young hopeful, "but a
the man who lost it was up before you." a
"My son," said the other worthy 1
parent, " observe that it's the early bird t
that catches the worm." f
" 1 do, 0 my father !" replied the ex
cellent boy; " also that the worm was
caught by getting up earlier than the
bird."
It has been considered not beneath
the dignity of tie.ld-marshal the duke
of Wellington to hold rank among the
philosophers of the bed; and, as no
body knew that he had ever delivered
himself of an axiom or maxim illus
trating bed-doctrine, one has been stolen
for him, and his grace has been made to
wear it as if it were his ouw. '" When
a man turns in bed, it is time for him to
turn out' as the duke of Wellington t
need to say !" So we are tole, as if the
field-marshal were always saying it.
Now, the phrase was a favorite one with
our early archbishops, and it was pro
bably not original even on the lips of 1
the very earliest of the prelates to
whom it has been assigned by the dean 1
of Chichester.
The earliest illustration of the evils
of lyving late in bed, which some of our
older people used to receive when they
were children, come to them from Dr.
Watts. Who has not heardof thefa
mons lines, with their halting philob
phy ?
S"'Ti the' vice ,f the luggard: I heard hilnea I
' Yia ave waked me tie soon ! I nst smambi
SAle tila 4 r uo its hitbn,,b~Sbirbbi, e b
ulr' .t, and bhi shoulders, sad hi. bmsy
The door that turns on its hinges is dI
ing its duty as a door, let Sdomon and
Dr. Watts say what they will; and the
wild-brier, the thorn, and the thistle, 1
which grew broader and higher in his I
I garden, were at least satin. busily so
cordmg to the nature implanted in
them. And, after all, the so-alled
saluggard seems to have beesn more
harmless in bed than his omesurer, who
I left him, alter a impermtinent mission- 1
ary visit, with such an outburst of
Spheriesical pride as this:
SMsd I then to myI wearS 'mere'b anm for me!
That msa' but a pIture of what I might be;
iBut thankns to my frieLnds for their meaw a my
Who ave taught me by times, to loe workig
and redins!'"
SPerhaps if the slggard had had such
friends, and they had found him "work
to do," he would have risen to do it
'There was some reason in the young
fellow who, on being asked why he did
not get up, replied that he had nothing
to get up for ? We are not even suram
that Qum is to be severely cenared
in the part he took in the marnn dis
Slog(oe with bis'valet :
"John, what's o'loek ?"
"Nine o'clock, sir."
"Is there any mallet in the market
e "Then all me at 3i3 tomorisw,
Moreover, it doaes not follow that, be
e asse a man is in bed, his mind is idle,
Sor that he is areles of the wel iof
Shis felloweratures who are up
abrtad-
b s
measan a
Grand Bauilding.
The grandest building in Vienna is
St. Stephen's church, situated in the ti
center of the old city. It does not i'n- w
press the common traveler as strongly is
as it ought to, partly beeause it lies m
cramped in among other buildings, so B
that it is impossible from any point to e(
get a ch r sad full view of its outlines, al
partly because it does not oocupy a to
commanding position in the general' c
plan of the city. The church of Notre d
Dame in Paris, when seen from Mont- p
martre, is at once discovered as the d
church of the city; and when strolling is
about in the streets of Paris, it bursts A
upon one every now and then, towering L
high in the air and commanding respect ii
and reverence. But St. Stephen's t)
church, whem seen from the Kahlen- tI
berg, is only one among the many n
churches, and the traveler in wandering I
the streets of Vienna will not discover I
it until he almost falls over it. But to d
the architect it tells a whole chapter of n
the history of his art; and to everyone If
whose mind is not altogether without tf
asthetical education, it soon becomes a
an objet of exceedinginterest. It is s0
mighty pile, 345 feet las, ~90 feet A
broad, and liting it steeple 444 feet ti
high. It was built in the middle of the to
thirteenth century, and it is tolerably Ii
well kept. That however, which makes F
it one of the most interesting specimens y
of Gothie church architecture, is the
wonderful hormony between its exterior
and interior. We are nowadays quite
familiar with the forms and ornaments i
of Gothic style. A century ago, when 0
Goethe wrote his famous peron the
cathedral of Strasbrg, people began totv
look at these forms, and by looking at
them they became interested in them. a
Half a cmtury passed by. The forms
were explained, and when people began a
to understand them the interest grew I
into enthusiasm. Again half a century I
passed. The forms were iutrnoduced
into actual life, sad when people began f
to use them the enthusiasm settled down t
into a fashion. This is a common
course : to be born as an enthusiasm and
to end as a fashion. Indeed, fashion is
nothing more than the sediment of a
great enthusiasm, and nowadays Gothic I
forms are so fashionable that stylish
people even go to bed in them. Butin C
sbite of their popularity, 1 do not think
that they are as expressive of the spirit i
of the nineteenth century as they were
of the spirit of the thirteenth. At least
our efforts in the Gothic style are some
what apt to show a between
interior and exterior. It some
times that a modern ch presents,
behind a sreen of pompos Gothic
forms, a roomy airy, well heated, well
ventilated, anJ comfortable hall, but
i othig more, so that the visitor eannot
Ihelp teelie that the church shows a
mael to the steet. The hands are
IJacob's, but the voice is Ean's. In St.
Stephen's chureh, on the contrary, the
interior beams through the exterior as a
strong soul through a bhpa face. You
[ feel that a l ' spirit haslilted these
Svaults and raad thse walls; and man y
a timz, when Yeaisn a balad tale or
even a matter-off narrative from the
middle ages, St. Stephea's charh will
loom up in your rememrrance,
from those timee.-The Gelcsy.
A MtheiM Labor ebrmer. I
SJoseph A i A by this ime on his
way towards O da and the United
States. In both, hi peie l amision
will derive aid and iluaeace from his
Sreligious charater. He goe out as
prowdent of the Noal ,gric-ult
abore union ; ad ti het that he is
an saeredited preher of the gospel to
the poor in connetion with the mo
useful body of Methodist on the face of
the earth, b ms out before him.
Thit bodA secognised mitae
ritish m rc an in thes great repub
lie no set of l is more some
roes or more id antial than are
os bearing hs, e so me. On
both sides o therri al lie, wefeel
sure hewill meet with a hearty u
tierl reception; aot only from
those who bear the same ame, and had
the sme common origin, but also from
Ahl Amlriams, and sir ¶ille- -
s ord" ms mew the id's. abo.u
thas rsake o th d td million  d
this fellow pmatris, wh, with tbheir
wivse a4n familes, have bees to*o sag
as at mrcy of lanalordand employers
cosidersig them as sarfe, ad under
the nominal ee f regi teachers
who, living in luuIy, ha to the
ima part, repr tebathem with -
atit r ant t being atented to
slad starve s geesot to judge
Ibthe eighteof buios ow wbe ther
eard by the the ear, really
asbied On the ether of the Atlanti
ocean;and h pledge himself behl
hean that if hefini the ps rtobe
of their relative dui a tralatning
his felow-laborers to a soil whic in
vites the outlay of their honest snd in
dustrious tel ir ths sole benset of
themselves and heir familie.-Bee
-Fancy the feelings da Peamsylva
nia mother who observed that her child
(four months)l weebntng with at
f tics was the work of m
- it was diseoed tha "mting like
like a card, i' I was a ink.
-t wised old serpent pas s cosm isable
that it was with agod del
, whes he did sa,2sadofd ofp m like
takbs, e astiy into a
S-fay th ourieourjial: The
uCtan Tuaneript wans to knew whet
i ds Iot's wif, go bask upon tds old
man, and if sbe was diasonteeted with
Lot? At the tim e got oar big
for prlrct Baundiay *eho.a
I il- ~,
New Zealand Rural Luxury.
Mr. Bounderby's grim foreboding of
the time when the British workman 
would demand to be fed upon turtle n
soup, administered with a golden spoon, 11
may be nearer aeomllishment than the tl
Bounderby race and kindred political ii
economists susplect. A contemlporary p
at Auckland in New Zea!an d draws at- ea
tention to the fact that the laboring si
classes in that rnemote, btlt tlorishing, a
dependency have lbe.mn, for some time p
past, in the custom of ridling to their tl
daily work in carriages. The practice cl
is said to prevail in the proviines of p
Auckland and of Canterbury : and we C
are told that a party of men. employed tl
in making hay into hales throughout e
the Tamaki district, habitually revel in b
the luxury of being conveyed to hitai- I
ness in a trap "with cushione-d seats." c
These hay-balers are said to earn seveu g
and sixpence a day, but they are now
demanding ten shillings, "as they can- n
not keep up a horse and buggy upon
less." Mr. Bounderby may groan dole- I
fully at this statement, pointing, as it
seemingly does, at the rapid approach t
of the turtle Soup and Gold Spoon 1
age; after which, of course, will come n
the deluge; yet, after all, is there any- a
thing very phenomenal in the fact of a
laboring men riding to their work? ir
Postoffiee letter-carriers have, for many 1
years past, been conveyed in omnibuses a
to the verge of the districts where their I
deliveries commence; and tens of thou- f
sands of masons, carpenters and brick- t
lavers avail themselves every momrning
of the facilities offered by the " work- 1
men's trains" on the Metropolitan rail- t
way. Even those involuntary workers
whose lot it is to pick thefestive oakum,
or ascend the stairs of the jocund tread
mill, "ride to their work," and in one I
of her majesty's own carriages, too. 1
It is very easy to sneer at the New Zea
land husbandmen for availing them
selves of four wheels in lien of two legs
for transportation to the set-ne of their
toil; but it might be as well to remem- 1
ber that in merry England the seeds of
rheumatism, sciatica, rupture and pre
mature decrepitude, are commonly
sown in the frame of the agricultural
laborer, through his being compelled to
walk unconscionably long distances, and
often in wet clothes, to and from the
farm where he works. Perhaps, how
ever, it is "the trap with cnshioned
seats" that will stick most sorely in the
politico-economical throat. A spring
less wagon, with planks across; a jolt
ing chaise-cart, a costermonger's "shal
low," such vehicles might be tlerated
as beseeming the laborer's degree, but
a " trap with cushioned seats " can only
mean proximate revolution and ultimate
anarchy. Our best hope should be in
the "Conservative workingman," who.
if he were forced to take a ride, would
naturally, "knowing his station," care
fully remove the cnshions from the
seats of his traps, and dutifully submit
to be bumped, rather than indulge in
the luxuries providentially provided for
Mr. Bonnderv and his betters.-Lon
dos Daily 7e4eraph.
Veatrioism Easily AcquirdL
A writer in the Chicago Advance says
that "the ventriloquist's art is s easy
to learn as fallingoff a log. He main
tains that there is no didculty in ac
quiring the power. In the first place,
he says, speak any word or sentence in
your own natural tone; then open the
mouth and fix your jaws fast, as though
trying to hinder any one from opening
them further or shutting them; draw
the tongue bee' in a ball; speak the
same words, and the sound, instead of
being formed in the mouth, will be
formed in the pharynx. Oreat atten
tion must be paid to holding the jaws
rigi 1. The sound will then be found to
imitate a voice from the other side of
the door when itis losed, or undera
aoor, or through a wall. To imitate a
sound behind a door prtl open, the
voice must t be red from the
original note or pitch, but be made in
anotherprt of the month. This is done
by clermg the lips tight sad drawing
one emraer of the mouth downward or
toward the ear. Then let the lips open
at the earner only, the other part to re
main osed. Next, breathe, as it were,
the words out of the orifice formed. Do
ct spe the words ditinetly, but ex
wed, ad loud as posible. B~y so
doiag, you produce the illusion in the
minds of your listeners that they hear
the same rvoice which they heard when
the door was elsed, but more distinctly
and neMare o onant of the door being
The lips must always beused
e the ventriloquist wishes it to ap
pear that the sonud comes through an
obstele, but from some one elmoe at
hand,"
What the Garter Does.
Here is something from the Book of
Beauty that is strictly local here or
anywhre else. Women should read it :
" A handsome leg is a rarity, we had
almost maid an im pibility, among
American women. The reason of this
is the place where they wear the garters.
No French woman, no English woman
of cultivation, now-a-days wears her
garters below her knees. It is ruinous
tothe shape of the calf. More than
this, it has serious consequeneces of as
other kind. The principal vein of the
leg, vaasaphrenabrevis, runs just be
ath the skin until it nearly reaches
the knee, when it sinks beneath the
musles. Now, if this is obstructed at
its largest point b a tight garter,the
blood s checked mn its return to the
heart, the feet are easily chilled, and
more liable to disease; the other veins
of theleg are swollen into hard, blue
knots; become varicose, as it is called,
and often breah forming obstinate
ular. This is a pictre which ab i
ransees nearly every day. WI the
p- and deformity is avoided, bat it is
still better to wear no garter at all, ad
to eapend the abookings by tape MODd
the waist. In this eme, however, a well
ftting soeking is eeeed."
S-The Anchor line of stesmers is ex
porting onsiderable quantities of live
Sattle to lagiand, and arrangeaaments
w ae making to inerease their facilities
I for transportatin. Mr. Bell of Glee
gow. s, ext.nsivre dealer in cattle, is
~ engaged ir, :his en'terprise, anl. 'ho;,gh
i, eling lietter and cheaper meat : :.
t the English, he elaims to make tarly
P flrom eb eh metre, fter paig all
The Miserere at St. Peter's.
There is one grand and nll;n,' e. re'
mony, the Micsrere of St. 'te'r: . '': -
music is exquisite, the ,tffet ;uri'ri'-.g.
Rome saw. in the sdte.,tt ..ntury.
that Protestantism in the arts of paint
ing, sclpture, and arehite.tnvre. 'I.
prevent this inferioritst, l v., ,I.lr' IV
sollg it a master of 'ovn, :, t, ' ;"
sublime I'alestrina, the Mi, h -
of the lyre. '['hiw 1 IIlr t.rl, 1
prolucti'io n o his Ai- ".,i,.
that it -hoaul ,l I a. .! v :' , ti.t
church who'se i :t re . re' (v
pletelv in harimiy .h its  .
One day a nble ot hir 1. ,. . i .
the miserer'. T:hi- 'pothi, L~ . ,...
c ltll a the" I:,lai' . f ni siti . . -'I. r. dI
hIv heart, and divilveb' it t,, the or'id.
He was Heozart. The It rmilt .I
came to steal the secrets i thfu e,. It
genius in the .ete.rnal war ,. tawo ": !',!.,
races. No pen can descrinh, ti:.,'
nity of the, Mis",rer," ' Th.- :.! :t 1I
vaences. The l:asilica is i 1
Her alters are incoverel. '"lThr:: .j t.,"
open arches there pevetrat." le,- :1i'r, r
tain light of dnawn. wh  to
deepen the sha,i,ws-. TI'1,i 1 v'- tr,'r
of the tenehrario is )hidde."! 1,, :;r tih.
alter. The cathetlral r.s, rtl., - 1' !i ini
mense mansolelum. with the f . t " :. it
ing of fune'ral ;rehes in the.'rie t ".',( .
The music of the Misor'rv' is ni'' t, -'rn
mental. It is, a ,uhlime ci. ,.r '..:,r
bly combined. Now it c,:i:.-,. t 11:
far-off roar of the teimpest, . t! v 'lrv,
tion of the wind uponlt, the r il Ivr
among the cvpr s oe f of tmbs: :lain.
like a latentation from the d1,'tv,'. . f
the earth, or a m,arniing of h. v.i vns
angels breakir'g into sobs awl -rr.,,wful
weeping. The marble Mtn*n. tci'.utl:e
and of ,lnzrling whit,,n,' r, ,are. t ' :n
pletely hidden by the d.rkcnt, i1~. :t :i.
pear like the spirits of 1,:ast a ,'.. .,i .v,'u'
out of the -epulchers andI h. '!, th"'
shroud to join the i',t., ati',n of this
cauticle of despair. The whole ,.4 vrh
is agitatedl. ait.l vibraite' ao if wor,1T of
horror were arising from the . .
This profond and sunl,!i' l:me~ en'. thi s
mourning of bitterness liLve" a;vi i "t*,
airy circles. pi.netrat'e t1el h, art ,- t],,.
intensity of its sadti.es- : it is t , ,o. ..l"
Rome supplicating hear,'e: 'r: ' },, r
load of ashes :as if nd,ler 1,..E t:' '·.c h' :
she writhed in her deatth-;c',,v. T'o
weep thus. to, lamenvt .as "ie Tr .vnn, tis f
old by the banks of Enl'lr:,t"s. ,'" ".. s
the scattered stones of the t :m: ( ,., to
sigh in this snblime c,leie. h,,-eron,.
a city whose eternal vrrow hl4W , v
mare l'her eternal eanty. Thv; v i," is
I enslaed. David alone en 1. her , ,i t.
Her canticle is maje.ty v:ndl i"vn1'1"·tl ".l
Rome, Rome . thou art .-ran:l, th,. : r'
immortal even in thy d.esperntion :,, i
t abandonment ! The human heart h,11:il
he thy eternal alter. although th,. fa;th
which has been thy prestire shol,rvll| l.r
ish,as theconqunest tbia mnade thy er.ta
nest have leparted ? None of't' rhl. tlhe
of thy Godl-given inmm,,rtnaity. nh ;eh
thy pnntiffs have snstained. anw  al: "'
thy artists will forever presenrve'. -.''..
ilto Cfut.'lar.
The Spinning of the Silk-wormonn.
The silk-worms change their skin four
1 times. After the fourth monlting comes
a redoubled appetite. which permits
them to attain their full size in a few
days. Then other phenomena appear.
The caterpillar ceases to eat, and
empties itself entirely: it seems uni
easy, wanders here and there, avd seeksL
1 to climb. Warned by these s-mptonaIs.
9 the breeder constructs for it with
r branches a cradle or bower, into, a hiel,
a it mounts. It chooses a cor.n\v:n. pt
place, hangs itself by the hind feet. anuv!
soon, through the spinner of whic.h I
have spoken, we see come out a thread
of silk. This is at first east out in any
u direetion, an.l forms a onlleetio,n of
eords destined to fix the cocoon the:', is
R to be spun. Soon the work hb-enn s
regular, and the form of the coc,"':; i{
outlined. For some honrs we can .,l,,,
the worker performing his task a. ro-s
the transparent gauze with whiei, lhe
surrounds himself. By little and li1h'l.,
this gauze thickens, and grows ,npa-.,n,
r and firm; finally it becomes a ,ee.Nn
like these I place before you. t, the
- end of abshout 72 honrs the work is d,on-.
Oace it has given out its firt bit of v;lk.
a worm in good health never stops, an I
the thread onmtinnes without interl i,
tion from one end to the ethe.r. iY,,
see that the coo-on is in r:,;Itv a h:l1
wound from the outside in" ar.1. T'ie
Sthread which formnathis hall i. 11 v.les
Sin length; its thickness is ,iv ,ln,'
Stwenty-four hnnldreth of an in-.l,. It
is so light that '2 miles of it w'gt ,v:lyv
15\ grains. Mo that 2 1-l5 ts. of :"II is
more than 2,700 miles long. Let re in
aiatamoment on the prFodig;oau iuytivity
of the silk-worm while weaving its
cooon. To dispose ',f its nilk nluhn
spinning, it moves its head in : rII e
- t wns, and each movement is aht· ,l,..
sixth of an inch. As we know te. le,,gth
of the thread, we can calculhet- how
Smany movements are made in dil,,v~sl;r
of the silk in 72 hours. We eind en this
way that a silk-worm makes nearly :34",
000 motions in 24 hours, or 4,1;; an
hour, or 1,o per minute. You see that
Sour insect yields not in activity to any
wearer; but we must add that it Is
beaten by the marvelous machines that
tile industry of our day has produced.
Poplar ,*i, nee Monlhl'.
a zn P tPPER yoR INWCEr1.-A cTeres
e pondent of the Rural Press say : "I
Shave discovered by a practical test that
SCyene or red pepper (cupainm will
edestroy cabbage hoe or eabbage; ml
Idew. 1 have some 200) fine cHeisbges
a growng, and to my sorrow some two
aweeks see I founa them covered with
I, lie. I sprinkled them wherever the
Slie could be found with the capaicum,
. and am delighted to see my cabbag.es
a entirely cleared, save a few that I did
Is not sprinklethat I might contrast them,
is and that I can assure you is very evi
i dent or speaking, for those I so left are
d1 overed with the little destroyers. Now
1II am of the opinion that capsicum will
in the same manner destroy the fungi of
all plants, vines, fruits, etc., spoken.of
- in the agricultural report of1871, from
Spage 110 to 123. I also sprinkled a
s Immble-bee with it, and the result was
a death in a few minutes to the bee. Now
a-this might be applied to v win the
ai- i form of a a. litior : i unt for "