STAR OP THE CAPE

HudeloMlrolupMlU. amtcrirfl to. cr For oo? ou« to know, Who hitb mt Imo jsM »- Oomtoltod tonU. HO* THE •' eCU.” WEST *0*1. Ben bed polled ble boot op on ebon end ewnbbcd it oat, so tbet his irife'e mew bine oelioo mieht not when they reached Uberk L Buwatme end took e tern et ■•ebbing, Sunday alothaa. Oonny (at on •end, niching him. ‘'Take the embe oat of the fo'enle, Dan,’' aha ordered.

The flmhermen were near the core, itching her, and whiipered together. _ne ot them went to tho Tillage and broaght down two or three women. Nenty Hepbam, who woe a friend of done Van Dor*.'*, went np to Oonny. •' Gome home with me. dear. 1 ' aho

Eoke* of., dead ' thing! it

m orab'a nigh

IntottejlHtobU^

■oft,” be laid.

aSSMJiSi

"Do yon think mu mother'! agoing " * ' a lot of ahedden and

_ jolded on, while Din n contentedly, ipiaili ' ' "

nd punched fail toee hOonny alwiyi had

m liaily into

oame“dOTnj ^

d kfra V

t off. '

i Dort

children did not heed their father', going, for be itarted to the Barnegat »ei b <Sk“«y2fdorAA'r- ■ til dark ; bat it wai a great erect for ' their mother to leave home. Twice a C ir Ben took her down to Shirk River, bay oalioo and .agar and .hoc* and

lyhdory. The

-e at her, .treking her

miringly at the*pink mein her bonnet. " Gome, bony in, Jane," called Ben. ' Will bare considerable of a blow be-

fore we reach Sherk'a River.”

Bat Jane ran book onee more to kin. Oonny and hag Dan. -She tried to any " Goa bleM yon. children r bat tho word! would not ooare. Only the min-

liter ought to oar iuc 1 - —’

01 '^So* would fcLk yon were going to be gone a year,'’ grumbled Ron.

yond the bat breaker.

It win a warm, door day. Thn "OaU” ■ ‘ erref the low, .parklinr werea, I a fanther. Oonny coaid Me the » of paint below bar taffrall,

ont quite into deep -fata

r,

"Beckon nihiito ^■^^htSdbS 1 ^ 1 ? No I He 1 , bib a-eoaing in bare every night ai ™ Mother hamt, then. It w

n I™

" Tb,, »f.'l .hi... util T. ... V

rrid thing! nwav, ■Oonny wanted to . "ttmite —

naa'bthe We at night," her bom with her apron. ■ ' with an air of

-VOL. VI.

notagirl The white cop. win all gone. The ■ea wm ooming in, in deep, dark iwelU, with a dull, threatening roar. Conny aaw all the Oihing-boaU flr the little cove, although it

aing down from the village men haul them up r4 qaiakly,—bm, people, without a word,—lowered the

Now we're all in.” laid Oap'n . wrecking.muter, ai the last pulled ap. - " Van Dort weren’t at Beak, to-day." "But he 1 , at Shetk'i River, with J, Nobody m twT i tho men looked at icfa other, then oat la eeo, and, „ lancing at Oonny, drew apart, and whispered. "&the • QoU' in danger, air r Bho paHod Oap'n Job', aleeve. He^ — look down at her. "Danger, nonaenael Yon ong_. _ in bed, ehild. Go to the honoe, and . Dan, Qo at once, I tell yon!" Jonny did not go. She aaw a anil, olbeed reefed, ont in the grey diitenoe,

which, fifty yean ego, had atrewe ■horea with wrooka aha clang t_ .par, in the sadden darkness and norm of aprey and sand that drovd ir her, catting hot hand, and fi It's a wlnd-aqaall; bat it cant hart mother—it can't hart mother !"

oataatrophe in II le, by which fear villagee daetreyed and ISO liven lent, is by DO •" wont of 1U kind which lea have witnessed. The similar disaster at Sheffield, England, in ISM, familiar to all novel reiderr through the powerful narrative by thi Put Yoareolf in HU Ptaoe,' lore de* tractive in iU effect!.

352, drowned handred people end swept

four million dollin' worth

of property. Loro*, in Spain, moliihed by the name eort of i dent in 18M, and the Iom ■ *

frightful hTTUnited Stales, flood and freahet common enough; bat a redden ige like that which has folic Maaaaehnsetti haa hardly any , * 1 — -iperienee. It stir, tho

hanger to a whole ,

" aoema stringo indeed Hat Wil-

ibnrg, and Hnydcnviile, and Leeds should have lived contentedly year after year, with the shadow of thU very catastrophe hanging over them, the danger daily before their eyes. Every man known the awful rink of penning ui a torrent among the hilU and holding it responded it tho held of i valley. Whenever that U done there is annn-

atrnggle between the treraencea of nature and the weak re-

ont yoado: ic girl'i eye

e of U

sdwmte belting, pnahing for ll

l ugly t

Oonny qnietly put down her bind. "I mint see the ‘ GnlT come

[othcr'l o-boird." Niaty looked at She wiped her —

. ,

then pat her hinds on Oonny’. shoal-

re wis l wiod-sqnill like thU

the ihipe within of the bir, not one lived Not the big ships, dear I

Are yon listenin’.

Oonny, after a minute, drew " I wish yon would go to Dai

,_.‘gL£iJ£&szbXdsa weight of mini Her lipa moved. Dan palled her by the skirt, after

awhile.

"Come away, Oonny," ho cobbed. “They any the ■ Gull' has gone down, id they re of card far yon to stay " It oonldn't go down. God wouldn't

tit. I've bln preyin’." Br' ‘ — •a like death oa she said it

The mist had lifted now. Under the pale twilight lay the vast angry south c waves rising ont of fathomless darkness. Oonny cannht Dan fiercely by the arm, and pointed ontward. Her

lipa were too parebed to speak.

"The • Gall I the • Gall T " ihonted

Thor’s no chance ther far a m boat," said Oap'n Job; " but for t -Id water-log Take them c fen awy, Nonty. Don't let 'em heir own mommy gw down. Tho wind beat tho mails of 'Gall" level with the water, ot

gain.

Oonny clinched Dan's hand in hei uiISiKi-'”' 1 “ ,,M ” A great wave lifted the "Gn_ taantingly into night, red then—it was gone I Only a block hnlk was washed '*•—' the yellow foam for an instant.

be sud, red carried h ionicbut it the door.

Id as she fell on her to her own 'io^r* 3

Nrety sobbed ont kind tb ad been very fond of Jane. ObUd, didn't yon eee the •

CAPE MAY CITY, X. J., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1874.

XO. 25.

firth, it nearly o

evasive drinking of ice-wster. We m fir mere ioe in this country then nied in iU the world beside. While wo ire inclined to boeet of thU u s’ luxury, we forget that, like many other laxnrlei, it does a deal of harm. The temperature of the itomeeh et which digestion tekea pliee, u from 98 degrefe to 100 degree! (Fahrenheit). Consequently. the offset of ewsllowing loowater,which mast for a while redooo the temperature from 80 degrees to 40 degrees at lent, cannot fail to be hurtful, red if habitually indnlgcd in, to

water, anyhow, red that you m certain quantity before

m its bounder!e« , .nd rushes down >niU seething tide

morning, t place* befc

lories, machinery, trees, bridges, rooks, dashing together red rolling over with mangled red staring corpses. Death in manifold appalling forms and devosta- " a Its most hid eons ospreU '

.Se^itfS^mc.. ■snL The man who begins with a pit day, will, before a great while, erer alf a gallon, red imagine that ho col

ot do with leu. Meanwhile, hU .huee to direct,

digestion will, in dne time,

_ nngusrded erevice on

bing at tho banka, washing sways little here red a little there. It presses open the barriere with a force thst almost de- " ' ' i, and whon it onoe

there U no power on •top it We ire told

that the dam above Williamsburg was tnspeeted long ago to be nnasfe. It had been repaired red strengthened, but It

freqnent n engineer n«

objection is not to water in any table quantities bat to the ioe s pat into it Water that is alto run for a while through pipe*, wn from a well, is as eooL even nmar, as is consistent with per-

-loalth. After drinking it for a time the palate will not oak for lee. It

' ' able to vary water with cold

, jej milk or lemonade, sinoo the interchange of these has a tendency to •'-Inilh the amonnt of liquid wanted,';

health generally is bettor preserved * v “ by large drinking of any

been willing to trust their liver, red i their entire iortnnM, under-

tottering avalanehe of water, our railway trains over rotten

rails and deqayed bridges. We build houses that ere only stand by leaning sgoinstone another. We go'

craxy ships. We sit over oriel *"0 lick Hie patience to i

^t^get 11 on. to win or to spend, erish histe takes no thought of oonnta it only uthe grest stik that ii played for s groat gain. Id) among ns after all Is nothing but speculation. The active American, whether ho bnilda a factory, or sets steam-engine, or runs a railway, oos a steamboat, is playing for a f no, with Death for his antagonist But whatever the explanation of I present oataatrophe, the duty of 1— hour la plain. The widow and the fatherless most be relieved, the homeless must be sheltered, the destitnte most be clothed, the starring must be fed. All throngh thst unfortunate region, which was so prosperous red busy, there Is now the most terrible distress.

Death is in every remaining

Hnndreds of sorrowful men red red children, who are groping among the ruins to find the disfigured re—■— of their lost, hive ao roof to them, no food to eat, sad no prospect of wages. We must help them qaiokly: * — greatly misjudge if the appeal ~w up from afflicted Hampshire

iwered with s befitting prompt-

.-Jf. y. IHbme.

rhioh goes n;

Health Hints. " Warm bread “ packs” Don't eat it Warmth, abstinsnr- end repose are three exoellent medicines. The nephew of tin. King of Siam is to

" onrl ” the

body. Avoid

Sleep sa straight as possible. Al

high pillows.

Never sit or sleep with A mixed diet of animal red vegetable food js the best; tho vegetable portion should predominate. .tegnlority of the time in eating hss

te cottage. D by tea fire, s:

log, by the fir

"God wouldn't takoth was preyin'," was all aho e And there oame then a g

red criea without, and the door rant open, red her mother was on the floor and had them both in her arena, sobbing red laughing all at onoe; red Bsn was talking to to lhs neighbors, with s

queer quaver in his voice.

" 'Gnll' want down f Tea, of course she must her. She sprnuk a leak as hoar afore the eqnall struck her, and I knew it waa no nu to try to bring her in, and Jus red I got aboard the

old boat aaoln' down." rood lack aa drove yon nigh r, Ben," said Oap'n Job.

. r—God." said Ben, taking d bat " Hitlo! give ns a kiss, tg nns," stooping to hide his

.—BsAeeea Hording ~

health. Do not eat 1

Water standing for some time in room becomes impure, by absorb! 3 noxious vapors from the air. , All aloeping rooms _should

* thoroughly v—*"■

should bo Oft

pi*

"soggy" bread commits iagainst his physical well being and matt POT the penalty. Thoroughly cleanse th< late It from without, I decayed vegetables naught by standing „ or doorway daring cold weather. The trenelHon of the * —j— -jireota hee aho 1 Why f , lbs rerf heat being carried off by Eeeentric eift A eolioitor oalled on re English lady of high rank to inform her that in the codicil of awBl inhis' pereoi of knowing. As t vet buried, she l Ini ct,'nin. and rc-

I After some eight hoars' session

ae ^bnl if he [^nriDg^lh^Sx. 1110 ibTtedy' , .. ». *na the acsipted Ms strange gift with becoming

Brigandage, in the southern part of lalTigliTfralTMfrt A Sicilian

aiy. u tress, sp and defiant as an was taken. dsylight, from his • not boon tae*cnongh to cecspe, would have hid, doubt, to pay roundly for his nnso

disorder so widely prevalent red s

rodnoed it to one-half thst amount. While awaiting its receipt from his brother, he was confined for tve opening high up x insoeesalhls ellfr Through the mouth of bis prison the luckless Baron coaid see the railway station, not Ire milre distant, and trains t ham added

bitter cold the first thing the waiter *“ ■— *- - goblet -* *“

the chief •

plays is in kseping the gobbet fall to the rim. Although he may not got win anything yon order, yon can depend on him for a bounteous supply of the

freexing liquid.

Immoderate drinking of any land is almost entirely dne to habit. This is particularly ten a of ire-water, which,

thirst.

ilri-

>y spontsn

Samuel Ferguson's stories of __io*tweif lh day tho Baron managed to moke his escape. Bat no sooner was he in safety, than ho sent u urgent telegraph dispatch to his brother “-g him to pay the stipulated ta though he were still in the the brigands. And even with ration, he hoi not ventured to . .j hi* estate. Nothing oonld forcibly Indicate the prevailing dread of those outlaws, or the little reliance that is placed upon the protection of the law. Indeed, with the abolition of the death penalty in some puts of Italy, red tho green ' -* juries there, as in Fi prompt travesty of just their favorite verdict ol

it finally re

lit in unhealthy id possibly distna moral faonl-

■ not inn

.. sneh of their victims as fail to comply with their renditions, red ss they Lave s playful habit of expreaaiiig their disapprobation of delay in tho payment

ransoms by olioing off in snooesaion e core, noses, red othsr sapernnmeraparts of their captives, the defer-

__ee paid to their wishes is by no means

English in the East.

Bayard Taylor, revisiting Egypt after i absence of twaniy-two years, notea is striking change. This is tho astonhing spread of the English language ithin the hut twenty years, resulting both from the numbers of English and American .travelers who visit tho East, and the use of the language by travelBur .ikr.isKS'la.i’-.sfe wu indispensable, has been slowly fading Into tlis background, red i» :1nsdyleu available than English for Italy red all the Orient. I waa a little surprised, in Rome, at being accosted ' native boot-black with, “ Shine np boots f” In Nsplos, every peddler luos, rend, photographs, ana shellknows at least enough to good bargain ; but this ia nol „ what one meets in Egypt. The brightwilted boys learn the language v"*amaxlng rapidity, and are ao ap guessing what thsy do not literally deratud that the traveler no longer

rjnirei an interpreter.

ipey'i Pillar to-day a ragged i dirty little girl oomo ont of a fellah and followed ns, erring, “Give m

All the .

for their bnsi-

•t of the ih the word

they'eee tliat yon ere acquainted with Itslisn or Arabic. The simple, natural structure of the English language undoubtedly contributes also to its extension. It u already the leading lugnsge of the world, spoken by ninety millions of people (doubling the number of Frenah-spesking race*), red so extending its conquests year by year, that its practical value ia in advance of that of

The Philosophy of Bala. To understand the philosophy of tl beqntifnl red often sublime phenon -o often witnessed red so very ——1 to the existence of plants red uimils/rt few foots derived frbm obegantion red s long train of eiperitemperatnre, we should never have rein,

. miles above Clarksville), 1 it had long been known thst there Indian graveyard. So soon oa the became known. Dr. Daniel F. V

eellent field for research. They fonnd, on reaehing the a,act. that several complete Indian skeletons had been exnnmed, together with a great number of detached bones red fragments of

wlich, however, the bones

__ were very imperfect, as is necessarily tho esse from the incomplete development of those bones in young children. Tho party brought home with them three of tho adult

skulls. Dr. Wright: ' ' *

which, „

strongly marked

scribed as follows ; Tho heads or

_id the bom forming the jaws red —it, projecting fr

|tt*swfasni

devotion of ioe, to that > implied in

ist of tho law is soaroely to b red at. And ss the briesnds

inbled with any re

the oasis of Sinooris, in Egpyt, are 104 towns with ISO.OOOinhabiA missionary writing thenre to Bcgiater says that most j—• —*— of tho in Uiis pure are many dyers. The town of Sihigh, as if bniH upon a Nearly all the towns red rent sT* thus located, and

s that ai

ho dwoSlin

g n Sut

Most ot tno a welling- —*“*

S— from the palm tree, and^oovoted which tho earth it packed. _ two honees fonushed with glass dows. The streets are narrow

poo?red thl.aTtoo5gett.«^ n 4 l 7 passes all other parts of Egypt in fertility red the varietiee of its prodno-

lions red richness of its gardens.

Oppression comes to them daily with its stern cat demands. Taxation is snek-

' the very vitals of all classes, letopay their taxoa the people given their lands, so that tbs

w , the two handred milliona now tinder enltevatioB, leaving only forty millioni - 'n possession of the peaeute. Th< i is a most distressing state ol s among the people. Tho moot . id destitution is revealed at ovary turn. Men, women red children upon the bore earth without bed o: ering, and the majority without mat A single dark bine tunie of thin cotton la the qsly garment of thoauads by day, and their only ooveri night Multitudes have not a oL „ of clothing, bat wear the same garment until it drops in rottenness from their bodies; of washings red cleanings Uisy know slmoet nothug. Those fellshocas

AS A5CIEST CE*ETERI.

speaking scientific-

is strongly msrkr' ot the dotioho’crphal

' ~n tho iof

they will

bftnO; —

prevented to the guest of the evening ■ handsome cane, which he hoped would taka the place of his two ordinary guide •ticks. Blind John slid thst slthoagh be wss sightless he was not senseless. He oonld hear if he oonld not eee, and ho heard enough to satisfy him thst " - ' * " empathy of his fellows.

h is about fifty yean old. In Paisley, Boo tl and, and

while engaged aa a boiler maker on board the steamer Dnke of Sutherland, in 1816, lost his leit eye by the flying of s chip from s rivet. In 1849 he esmo * T — York, red wss employed ss s Harriet Lane. It was while attending

rk in U.0 Harriet Lane that le Bight of hil other eye in

1856.

About this time he had completed tho mrchaao of a farm on Fort Edward's •land ; bnt a abort time afterward ho oat hio wife. Hie expenses for surgical attendance grew larger red larger _• fijjjjfc— —• -• *•

fonnd himself Ing ol iudegml

id tho jawa into jhly ' —

r features.

said inci-

tile type phrenological

imical, is generally

and

eiak_ blood-thirsty eharaoter. Orest numbers of flint weapons have .sen fonnd near tho graves, red some interesting specimens of pottery, irked on the exterior in a pattern *ely resembling the fineoorrugationa tho bark of the beech. Tho graves ! carefully red substantially connoted, each separate one being in•sed above, below, red on all eidoe, -j slabs of the elate atone, common in tho neighboihood. In ono instance * nr or five skeletons were fonnd with eir heads all cloae together, and their it radiating outwards from thorn, as —‘or radiating towards all points of

a the shoulder bones of. rtons. It had been flatI is densely covered with closely adherent bony matter; a eir. cnmatrece which goes to prove to the ra of any surgeon that thn ived his wound and lived for a n lus shonfder. The pottery 1 in a largo cavity filled with *1, ashes and fragments of bark Jr leas burnt. In this cavity was also discovered lamps of clay parl'.y baked, showing conclusively thst it was tho spot on which formerly stood their ovens for baking thoir vessels. Among the flint weapons fonnd were many in Is* and fragment* chipped off

charcoal, i

at ha saw the following dedne-

expedition,

which the association of nm

jooanted for is that they may how the victims of a great battlo. Bnl «... hypothesis ia exelnded by many considerations. For instance, the elaborate, substantial character ol thogl —id thoir systematic arrougementsj./eseneo of infant skeletons—th oinity of factories for pottery and flint ^Tho mode of burial after battle* may s witnessed in some of tho monads not far from this site, whore skeletons are found-in promiscuous piles wl'*—‘ order or arrangement, red no p tion except the earth piled ebovo i This, then, most bo the bnrial placa onoe attached to a permanent I"AI.» viUege. though at what period difficult to conjecture. The celebrated Daniel Boone onoe passed a wir'— : '

' [hborhood, red did not i during the whole is afterwards informed that

various villages os follows'; Williamsburg—3D families, consisting of 195 persons, wbooe loss in mined gftws^ destroyed hoosohold furniture, red other property is eotimsted at

earth’s surface, would descend in on im-

to be sbi once folly

KSKtTiK

saturated,

2. The absorbing power of the eti retain humidity, is proportionately mater in warm than in ooW alr^Tho ■mrmer than it is in the regions of the Honda. Tho higher we ascend from the earth the oolder do we find the nttaphero. Henoc tho perpetual raow very high mountains in the hottest Now, when from continued evaporem the air is highly saturated with por, tboogh it b* invisible red tho sky doodles*, if its temperature is sud doaly reduced by cold currents descending from above, or rushing from a higher to a lower latitude, by the motion of aiatnnted air to a lower latitude, ita capacity to retain moisture ia diminishad. clonda ore formed, red rain oompreteedj pdnre ont the water which ita diminiahad oopocity cam " " Burled Alive, A young married woman reaiding at Salon’ in the department ofLBoaohea dn Rhone, France, died shortly after her confinement in August last. The medical man, who was ha«M^ I *

of 122 persons, whose lose ia *48,200. Haydenville—41 familial, oomnatiui of ITS persona, whose Iom la *113,025. Leeds—88 familioa, consisting of 250 persons, whose Iom is *48,185. Total—146 families, consisting of arsons, whoso loan is *247,115. The Belief Committee hi

one little bey diate wants.

itarred. A Jew days since, the husband having ■ therm

It evidently 1 ness

erased to the mother 1m* been oo great

,

seasons aa banting grounds. If oonld only get rid of the bone-onco.,.. ballot before alluded to wo would trace red its now fogotten demi pro-historic ages of the itlnent, when the red man ocenpied it all. What otray don oonld have planted tins tcll„.lo ballet in the iboulder blade of this Indian now exhumed ? It ‘

been h • -

Donali InTei

hre/of some streggl settlements on the

the English settlements in Virginia or from tho Spanish fort* in Florida. Wo ere oome to no hlatorleal conclusion

qaent to ment m I

plaocs, and lhay refused to approve of the work. Tho proprietors apent about *10,000 in reptitlrs, red when the Oom- — 5 1 again viewed the reservoir, were stopped, everything _ _ right, red they formally oo-

'’tti'rial

_ th* Olritoir States JZThZinA? from diatriote in the British Isles algrants bom Kinoardineohire, Bootlred, recently arrived at Halifax, bound tor e Kincardine for mites with oat sesmr a honoe, red the tend la be poorly enttivatod. ■a a dog that will anddanly ke* llereo at- , inviaibls too, fMqnant-

BLIND JOHN BREITH.

THE CENTEKKIAU

The following ia the final red oonInaive decision of the International Centennial Commission and Finance ittee, which met at Philadelphia. — ‘ v - odjonm-

id alone, bo '-* hia feel-

deserted

How did yon manage to carry on ; trade >" asked a reporter. Well," aaid John, “ I first hired a bby to go with mo. I got along tolerably well; bnt after a while I found "tat my boy did not deal honorably bv -10. So I made up my mind to work by myself. After 1 discharged him I started on my ronndu alone." " ** 1 the reporter, " how did . _ to tell the newspapers "The Sun man always folded tho Sun for me, end that gave mo a atart. Then tho Tribune man folded the Tribune, end tho Time, man the’ Times, - ' -- 'ittlo by little, with the differis folds red the difference in the feel of the papers, I was cnsbled to distinguish between them at a' 1 ’’eporter-

Breithi

ihn—Yen. And I have a regular « beeidea. I serve from seventy to eighty customers every dsy at their This poor man, who is known to every .own town merchant in New York, has seldom been swindled. Once a woman passed npon him a newspaper slip fori

First—Bids

recta for thi

and Musenm

[pooled that tL_ cod shortly. Tho building is to - •l.SOJ.OOOi of which anm there has been sppropriated for that pnrpooo by ‘he State of Pennaylvania $1,000,000 id by the city of Philadelphia 3500,10. The building wUl cover over ono Second—The immediate erection of Conacrvatory Hall at a cost of *200,000, and for this purpose re appropriation haa been made by the city of Philadelphia, without any other in--■tractions than the requirement that he money ahull be expended for this milding. Tho plana cover a apace of me and a half acres of gronnd. . Third—Machine Hnll is estimated at n cost of 8800,000, which has been provided fer by a direct appropriation by the elnt Philadelphia, free from re-

roly available for the in this building will lonths hence, bnt in ■e it completed for use in. It will cover ten it a coat not to exooed

soil from a stand,

ample time to ha' by the Commissi seres of gronnd,

*80,000 per sc Fonrth—Tb

. is are perfected, am probably bo icoomplished by at of June, Thin building is to s space of about twenty acres, at i not to exceed 8100,000 per acre, aay a total of 82,000,000. To this work mWriptiona to stock tre applicable, rhioh, making dne allowance for losses, low amonnt to abont 31.800,000, leaving rat 8200,000 yet to be provided for this purpose. Fifth—An agricultural hall, to be provided for to cover abont fia

— in e»timt

nay 8875,000.

pondltures, cxclnsi

note, and a

nother time.

I go deposited for a paper has been in by a school-boy ; bnt as a rale, ays, his castomers respect his infirmity and take no advantage of it. Breitli is going to Bootlred to

’ " ' ‘ ‘ ocnlists

iwu food, mended h

ling his si

n blind borne, and still

Boys want to bo Mon, great, or good, vithont working for it. They think list learned, wealthy aniLHnilncntial nen are very fortunate—that they have sasily slipped into their ’ respective ipheros. They scarcely ever think that by hard work red dint of perseverance moat of these men have men to Uieir present positions. Idlers never rise ip tho world. God does not reward Isriaosa by “ riche, and honor." God did not make man to be useless and live at ease red reap without sowing.^When nJli .ben ore boys hope

marked influeneo

acquisition without working for it. splendid carriage rolls along tho ot. Boys look at it, and say to themselves, " He’s a fortunate mu ; . . , ,; mA }j e | Some dsy

rindfall and not bo

to become n

wo may have a win obliged to work fc rely dream th», «,<>

oostly vehicle was probably ■ boy, who worked herd for many *, winning the oonttdenoe of all around him by his induatrr, integrity red noble bearing. Had ho been — idle red loose M many boy* are, would not have owned the carnage hare been a millionaire. Many years of earnest toil, straggling to overcome obstacles, practising the most rigid economy, red bravely holding rat

ioeret to*G7*nccesi

Daniel Webster speech. Boys heard him red said.

established tho white race " " ea in Ken -

ont by the

[lor from the French

860,000 gold. They repreoent tha' were only permitted to leave alter difficulties in obtaining permission from tho Buaaisn Government, red onpay- . -•—Mmunaf money. They neighborhood of OdeoM, a in Nebraska or Dakota. When they left home the other member! of tho soot, in Southern Rauls, 3*4* only awaiting news of what trilege* will be granted by this Govto come

tot^gaot immigrant, who haa charge of this little flock, atated that all the 25,000 in Southern Ruaaiahcpe

Fonm.—There U a lady at Miel.ipsn, who aubaanbed for ■ 1885, and hoi

poison will live who aubscribea regularly and pays promptly for a good uewopapar. If the doctors would prescribe fewer piEi red mere papers, tbs world would be much healthier than it ia.

widow. of oenaihility there ia no pleasure like that of poaoeoaing ■ true The grregere^of MinneooU^ propose i great Napoleon in a celebrated of the dsy to hia soldiers, charocterixea anicide aa deaertion. A Brooklyn paper characterises the hen as the moat popular of females aa mgiged for every set rase to steal," as the rat observed trap. "And I aprlng to emrou, aa the trap replied to the t'Eale rec is new fairy stories

that the place for "pupils" U’under Cincinnati man is said to bo train, ing himself for hia approaching mar- ‘ ' passing several hours in a

"Digby, wfll yon butter ?" " Thank y ... I the tempo ran co society—osn't lything strong," replied Digby. _ she: Woll, it you havn't any you needn't beat the carpel. I snppose live like pigs a month longer .as io die, all that can be said " they lived In splendid driven in splendid eqni-

a;;

Total ex-

. . .Jt Gallery and Mn.enm, 85,625,000. of which the city of Philadelphia has appropriated -'irect red without reservation, except i designation of the particular bnililIgs upon which tho amount ahall be [pended, 81,000,000. Aotnal .ubscripons, 81,800.000. Total to be provided lor, 82,825,000, which amonnt the Board of Finance have no doubt of being able to raise from tho people red from the

general Government. The-'-' ‘-*~

!>y*h

;.of a

herotefore aabmitted

i were baaed on which wo* iu-

raudinga o

licated by tho Commissiox, ho present circumstances yonr eomnitteo deem it wise that the Iraildings

jhould be of a simple diameter, red on

that basis this report ia submitted. An Elephant Crosses ■ Bridge.

Tho Hartford Timee

depSreVEi ' iron* a bridgw.

" A crowd of nearly a thousand had issembled near the Great Bridge. The jroprietors, ’—'— " 1 '

aken 4

died, .in the

e gives this aos jiersnade'd to

t structure, had

iperation—with a view to having hei iwim across. Tho small elephen ' .uredly npon tlie bridge, bu

Urge one at "first refused to go upon it, and stood moaning red trumpeting on tho solid gronnd at tho entrance. Suddenly aho turned and made a dash —- Morgan street. Tho crowd quickly 1 in all directions. Her keeper got -, and then, to show her the iltornaB if she peraiited in refusing to go . jr tho bridge, walked her along the branch railroad track so aa to give hi esty a near view of the rii— —

choice of a plnnge into t ■es red a swim across or a ’ ... bridgs. She didn't like the)

of a pirn.go .red awim, red graciously accepted the bridga. Bnt to the 1"* ' refused to take the oonth track bridge, which ia the avenue rued by ties going east, red walked, tremb-

- »ho went, npon the north side, folly tested each plank before to it; but ahe wm in dno time the other aide. The bridge

company did not take toll of tho elephant—though they did of the wagons

so of this

atyle, we &“ ‘Good manners," says Swift, "is i art of miking thou people easy kea tho fewest persons uneasy is tha it bred man in the company. I reporter of a Nep York morning raeeeoded in witnessing the wed- . Ry clispusinK ing tho caterer at the breakfast table. Crematory age—" O, ma 1 ma I Johnly's got the urn and is spilling pa's ashes over tho floor 1'.' "O, what a naughty Johnny! Get the feather duster, and sweep yonr poor father right

to the barn is terrible, to the well ontbnildings sloppy, red it is almost impossible to go about m opting and fall withont getting wot feet. Woand children deserve better treat-

L

Sunday school teacher, desirous _. .raking the dormant powers of a scholar, asked tho question, "What are taught Ire the historic incident of ob wrestling with the angel 5" The lions reply came: “Dnnuo, 'xaotly, s'poso 'iwas .to tell ns that wo

m't rastlo."

. broughtbeforo the Mayor of Mont-C.'TA.-i&rSF.S'SE araised the river that brought tho wood. Tho Mayor thought it a good defense

ind discharged her.

In the course of experiments with

• ' ' ' "Idlsdelph'-

snti

ling a bon-

iliock of the translucent material. Every leaf and bloasom was perfectly visible, while tho brilliancy of tho opi-

lanufaetarod n

‘ er day, a cunons ana t was produced by ei

hron gb th

enhanced by the refraction

Kite-Flying in China. of tho greatest holidays- in China is kite dsy. This occurs on the ' h dsy of tho ninth month, when inhabitant! of tho cities go out i the hills red spend the day in flykites. Homotimca thirty or forty thousand people are assembled together on one hill, whore they engage ■11 day ia this beantifnl amusement. All clasoc* engage in it, we believe, from the Emperor down to tho refer. Taking thsir kites red going to tho hills to fly them on this day is called “aaoonding on high.” The kite* are of all sixes, and a great variety of shapes red color*. 8oi

3 circus—prefei take Ids own risk,

said, nearly

. to thirty

„ , are like birds, bags, butterflies, or qnadrapeds ; some n

Bailing throngh the ai

csr mitered their beads that hard work enablod him to do it. The first time he undertook to declaim in school room he broke down. Bnt pel revering indnatry overcame all ol stacleo. By hard atndy, year after year, red equally diligent " '■ became the diatingnisl ~ away a quarter of life, in which bo — «■- himself for his. profession, Saving —- Idle hours, red no " bed of down." red the world would not have known Daniel Webster. Boys should not forget this. Ho could make a great speech because ha worked for it. Boys, it is a good rule that nothing valuable, in this world ore be had without working for it. And the time to begin work is now.

called Bradshaw's, whil motion os to tho social •tending o: the oitirenj It ia remarkably hard c « young men red supposed-to-be wealthy batehelors. The young women all atndy it, and it is tho parents' vide —rum. BeyertfpraMmng mesalltanhivo bed prevented by “ informa-

feodnglla SaaghterT The party looked. " ■ ’ well, cut a tremendona flg- - —ipherio to a degree it in a hotel clerk. d: "Bed lot; no ; fond of liquor; plays eorda on Sunday ; has a wife and five children WtttV" ■ “ '■ bat got —— — — of the family." Bradshaw s candor must, indeed, be appalling. Hia introduction to New York might not be altogether unoatiafMtory to soma portire.

Twelve

been carted over t tliat waa on wheels, distribute tho weight thev ore take in safely

wooden bridge

hove, form’s, and in'queer ■

m soiling through the air;

eight-sued, in imitation of the eight diagrams invented-by one of "--i early Chinese Btoperoro. To in-

it a kite ia a signof genina in a ruler

statesman: On a fine day, when tuo air is full of these kitee, gaudily cnl-

re often

Seasonable Food.

The wbolesomeneoa of too. learly as much on the time i a on too quantity. We havi .uxnrioni in our physical ■ mental tastes, that we are i empted to eat things out ( Yielding to the temptation, a

do, wo pay tho penalty, soon - - •—i parity or chronlo derangement of ...■health. The meat which is excellent In cold, may not be desirable in warm weather; fish la beat during spring red early summer; vegetabl" and fruit are nutrition* when they a fully ripened by snn red aesaon, red —• —•ifieislly stimulated. Nature

hat she Is doing; she

latitude

now Virginia railroad, abont a mile from Weldon, toward Girryibnrg, have dug from the river’a bank a vaat heap of skeletons, Kri»"s,»' b 5ti" ”, bones, a lot of aharp stone arrows, rode mortars, red pipe-'bowls. Tho skulls were ne^ly an iich in thiekneas, the . .. large as those of a hone,

rplikel' '

effbet la very pleasing. Some of them ore adorned with the heada of dragons red tigers. Tho spectator sees in tho ’ what appears to be re immense bird, a groap of hawks. The Chinese iw great skill In keeping half adoxen ier hawks, going on one string. .*

stories sa the following, tha truth of which is vouched for by a Son _ journal, tend to restore o—

I incline to mo doiioi mat, airor an. reviled Indian’s eodo of honor and gallantry ia not nearly as black aa haa been painted ; Six weeks ego seven male Indiana red a yonng Indian woman itarted to oroaa Clear Lake, near the northern end, in a small boat, which waa oapeixed three miles from land. They righted it'bnt as the lake was ■i they oonld not bad it out, and .•-ii ~i —,ter it would not support person. —* held on to

Many a rich mu, in bringing n

sharp like

lag-boasa

up hi* etatureof those reo

■e of cannibals,

jeal fight it oi of them. | EX’ iiftiti