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Original cop t 4- PF^BPAGB. • » < > '^' properly interested in the study of history. Its endless proces- sions of names and dates are bewildering to the average mem- ory, and desperate is the efTort to retain even the most important of them. Hut when we read of that devout hero-worshiper, Kleber, who, after the battle of Ahoukir, flinging himself upon the neck of Napoleon, exclaimed, «Oh, Napoleon! you are great as the universe!" in that much of history we are sensi- ble of a deeply sympathetic interest. It is manifest, then, that if science be tasteless, and history a burden, yet each of them may contribute incidents and facts, not only interesting, but often of fascinating interest. We do not care for the roast beef, but we will take a little of the dressing. Single incidents of brave soldier boys dying on far away battle-fields, and in hospi- tals, is all that half the people remember of a great war. There is another class of facts, also, in which we are even more deeply interested. When Christine Nilsson sings the "Jewel Song " from Faust, people clap their hands and exclaim "Splendid singer! What a remarkable voice!" and all that. When, in response to the applause, she comes out and sings " The Old Folks at Home," suddenly there is a great demand for 'kerchiefs, and a vast audience becomes conscious of an omnipresent heart-hunger which no amount of fine opera can ever satisfy. We enter the court where Thackeray, like an Eastern prince whose garments shower jewels at every step, appears with all his brilliant train; and we wonder and admire. It is a feast of the imagination. But Dickens' story of little Nell, and Paul Dombey, and the Marchioness, can never be read with dry eyes. Whatever is heroic, whatever is pathetic, whatever is truly eloquent, whatever, through any avenue, reaches that nature which lies deep and far below the worn and callous, and some- times, almost impenetrable mask which most men wear — all such things are eagerly read, and forever remembered. Now all this explains in some measure the kind of a scien- tific work, the kind of a history, and the kind of a biography. -» l » % "n gy" » i » ■> • » PP^BPAGB. •>-f-4- - , that this hook aims to he. There are whole ranges of imi)ort- ant suhjects that people as a ch.ss, are not interested in- bnt there are facts and incidents, and thin-s about things, that people are interested in, and forevermore will be. Such, this book aims to give. There is a frozen, abstract, scientific way of look- ing at the ocean, or the land, or the people; and there is a way a poet has of looking at those same things that is entirely differ ent. It is rather through his eyes that the author, in this book would have his readers look at men and things. * It would have been a comparativelv easy task to have roamed about the universe, and nicely inventoried all the won- derful things seen and heard. But that would not have been •. Bpecially noteworthy labor. It has rather been the author's pur- pose that at some point every notable thing—everything won- derful, or beautiful, should touch human life. It may seem selfish to mention the amount of labor that has been necessary in the accumulation of so much of what is be- lieved to be deeply instructive and interesting matter. There has not been another such ransacking of libraries in recent years. And this, thus seems the proper place to express how much the author is indebted to the leading scientific writers for the facts, and in many instances, the verv language herein o-jven Whenever it was possible, in quoting from an author, the" very words, and then the proper credit, were given. But in multi- tudes of instances, much to the author's discomfort, the facts re- fused to appear in concise and suitable form, and so had to be rewritt«>n, immensely condensed, or newly f^ishioned altogether, in which cases, it might sometimes have been unjust to^attach the original author's name; hence, no credit at all in such case is given. ' The plan and nature of the work have given the author an unlimited field; and he is culpable, if he has not given the reader a large mass of facts not readily accessible in other forms— if, in ' fact, he has not made the book rich and interesting. It is a book made by many men and women, most of them distin- I a t ri • >i < y^a 5V" 8 P^BPAGB. giiishcd, aiul all have contributed their best. Great care has been taken, especially in the poetic selections, to avoid the beaten path. Very many of the poems are new, but equal in all respects to the old favorites. And very many of the poems, also, arc the hoarded treasures of many years, cut out of price- less scrap-books, where thev had fotuul a secure lodo-ment. Doubtless all makers and lovers of music, will appreu.ite the advantage of having in such convenient form, the words and music of so many of the old tried and ever popular songs. Mention must also be made of the creditable style in which the printers have done their work. Not often, even in recent years, has there been a work of such typographical beauty and excellence. Philadelphia, Pa. L. N. Chapin. If -.0 t>-i".^--" o,"^ ^^^\,^e^ „ I*-- 4—^ -<>^ ■*•- ^-Hb- -^\ 'Hf" ^— H>- -^=^-H>-HJH t 1 1 -•♦- -•*■ -irSXi II (^i^KS^S^^ii IKD^:^. THE BEST POEMS. OLD FAVORITES AND NEW. Aspiration ^''^''' Angel Vision !!,'.'!!*.'.'.'*.'." r^ Agamemnon's Tomb ..*!!!!!!!!!! , Annabel Lee 1' Ainiof Life, The ^^ Again '23 Aged Stranger, The .' V, '^ Are the Children at Home ','.*.'.' .', ^§,^ Bedouin Love Song Battle Hymn of the Republic. . .'.".'.'. p B.rdSong ", 7' Be as Thorough as You Can.! .. "^^ Battle Bunny '§° Beloved City, The ^^7 Christmas Carol '^" Chiding Sea, The .'.'..'. ^'° Christmas Tree, The ^J^ City of Boston, The '? Chicago 96 Celestial Army, The ...........'. "'^ Change, A .'.'.'..'.*.*.'.*.'.'.' 'o^ Charles Sumner ".'•".".*.'.'.".'. ' Curious Literary Production.... '^3 Chambered Nautilus, The .'.'.' ' '^^ Dickens in Camp \ 393 Down on the Shore Don't be Sorrowful, Darling. .!!!!'! " ^-^ Don't Stay Late To-night. : / *°^ Don't Crowd . '°^ Driving Home the Cows .' . ' " -^ Drifting ^3^ ' • ii«.i.. 1^0 11 -♦»■ H^ — fe 12 INDEX. i i' ll Deacon's Prayer, The i68 Doctor's Story , i>jij Dirge for a Soldier , , igi Enchanted Island, The " 70 Eagle, The '. '.'..'.'.'..'. lii E'en Brings a' Hame, 1 he 162 Evening in Winter 102 From Elberon to Washington .* . ^^ Falls of Niagara, The , iu Farmer John 08 Fame ; '.'....'..'.. 107 Fair Inez 1^5 First Sorrow, The * jcg For a' That and a' That '. !.'..!!." 164 P>agment, A , 1^2 Ferryman's Song iqc God's Anvil .',...,'... ic Good Parting Advice y , Gradatim icq Guide-Post, The j4« Gone to the War !..... 166 God's Lilies iqS Good- Bye ,\ , 2co Homes of England, The 40 Highway Cow 126 Heaven 16^ Haunted Palace, The i>rA How Sleep the Brave 174^ Ivy, The ;:.. ■.■;;; i^ Justitia 215 June '.'.'...'. 128 Keys of Grenada .^8 Key to Thomas' Heart, The 86 King of Denmark's Ride, The 106 Lullaby -ja Last Flower of the Year 37 Lullaby, A [[ 62 Light. Last Leaf, The. Lion of Belfort. Little Barbara. . 67 88 94 114 Looking Seaward 124 Last Heart Beats i^i Lent * * ' jg t< ' '*p INDEX. mmmmmi ( I rAOE. Ancient Egyptian Mineb 240 All about Lead Pencils.. 256 Britannia Tubular Bridge, The 204. Brooklyn Bridge, The 200 Baalbec and its Great Stones 232 Behind the Armor 246 Bayard Taylor at the Pyramids 253 Broken Cable, The 26± Cincinnati Bridge, The 206 Chicago Tunnel .' 223 Chinese Method of Printing 255 Crown Jewels of France 258 Concerning Artificial Diamonds 268 Chinese Jugglery 270 Diking in Holland 222 Deep Mine, A 273 Dairy mple's Big Farm 274 Elgin Marbles, The 208 Egypt's M hanical Marvels 232 First Railroad, The , 229 Fifteen Hundred Feet Under Ground 238 Famous Horses of Venice, The 247 Flying Machines 254 Finding the Meridian 254 Famous Indian Egg Dance 266 Great St. Louis Bridge, The 204 Great Cathedrals, The 2H Great Wall of China, The 230 Great Nevada Flume, The 241 Great Cincinnati Organ, The 250 Great Strasburg Clock, The 250 Gigantic Garden, A 259 Great Washington Monument, The 261 How Some Great Cities Receive their Water Supply 215 How They Tell when it is Going to Rain 218 Hoosac Tunnel 223 How the Great Stones Were Moved 234 How to Measure the Speed of Trains 234 How We shall Travel in the Future 239 How Vast are the British Dominions 255 How Artificial Ice is Made ... 260 How They Drop Shot 269 Mow Soon Can You Count 2,500,000,000 271 '9*^*' r *" » l » I INDEX. IS • ••••• ^y ''^^^r^r'~~^t^/i International Bone of Contention, The ^'^'"'^ Interesting Facts 223 Irrig- • jn on a Gigantic Scale.! '. ". 261 Krup ■ s Great Gun Factory . , 273 Louisville Bridge, The .....'. 265 Laocoon Group,The.. 204 Lion of Belfort, The .'.".'.".' .'*.'." J 208 Liberty Enlightening the World!'." 209 Lofty Station, A * 210 Leaning Tower ot Pisa. .'.*.'.! ! ! ! 228 Largest Steamships, The!!.!!!!!! ^34 Musconetcong Tunnel ! 258 Mont Cenis Tunnel.... .!,'..!!! 224 Magnificent Ruins .' V. 224 Mechanical Marvel, A. ..,'..*,*. .'. 228 Marvels of Ingenuity !!'!.!'. 249 Most Remarkable Echo, The!.' 267 More Wonderlul Things to Foliow 272 Niagara Railway Bridge 276 Not yet Built 205 Pearls and Pearl Divers. ! ! !! ! ! !!.*.' 224 Population of Some of the Great Cities' ^-•'> Proper Dimensions for a Flag. . 259 Perfect Genius of a Machine 267 Queen of Lace, The !!!.""° 275 Rules for Working Interest... .'.'.'!.* " 227 Some of the Great Bridges.. .!'/.!!! 249 Some Famous Statuary !!!!!!! ^°^ Statues of Memnon '.'.!!!!! ^^^ Some Noted Lighthouses..".'.!!! ^°^ Some of the Great Bells ! 213 Some of the Great Tunnels'..! 219 St. Gothard Tunnel 223 Some of the Giant Pearls.. . . .'.* '.'.' 22^ Seven Wonders of the World..'.! ^'^ Some Big Guns ! ! ! ! 235 Smallest Steam Engine in the World ^^6 Shooting Hoosac Tunnel 245 Standard Weight, The.. 251 Story of the Cable *" 252 Some Fast Work 262 Thames Tunnel *.'.*..!'.".*. 272 Things New and Old... 224 TajMahal, The 231 Victoria Bridge, The !!!!!!!!!!" ''^S Venus de Medici 204 Venus de Milo ".!!!!! 209 Value of Comm'ori Sense','.'.'. 209 Valuable Table.... 237 Wonders of Man Found in 'v.;;ious' 'Museums' V. ^^^ Where Does the Speed Lie »cuiub 221 Where AH the Great Stones 'ComeFrom!!! "! ^^o Whispenng Galler 7 in St. Paul's -32 a"?? - ■ >i ♦ ■ — - . _ ■ m y I » ► w m Vh-^ ! w yff i& -H>- ^"HiH INDEX. abfi^id£*a*«j „. SOME NOTABLE THINGS IN HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. PAOK. An Actor's Triumph 280 Annual Incomes of Some of the Lf^ading Rulers 282 Anecdote of Henry Clay , . , 296 Anecdote of Rothschild 308 Assumed Names of Authors 311 Absence of Mind • 315 Attic Bee 330 Bismarck's Coolness 292 Boy's Courage, A 309 Bov's Journal, A 311 Brilliant Reception, A^ 314 Bridge of Sighs 331 Bloody Mary 331 Bride of the Sea 331 Black Hole ot Calcutta, The 332 Blue Laws 332 Brave Workman, A 325 Cliarge ot" the Light Brigade, The 298 Concerning Jay Gould 307 Concerning Roger Williams 319 Concerning La Tude 319 Carlyle and His Burned Book 319 Curious Things About London 321 Columbia 330 Cradle ot Liberty 330 City of Magnificnnt Distances 331 Discovery of Gold in California, The 304 Dark Day, Tiie 332 Early Virginians 4; 292 Eighteen Hundreu Years After Death 302 Eiiect of Daniel Webster's Oratory 305 Earthquake Terror of 1750, The 321 Emerald Isle 330 Eternal City, The 330 Few More Left, A ; . . . . 289 Great English Land Owners, The 287 Great Authors Often Dull Conversers 294 Great Expedition, A 305 How Franklin Tied His Money Up 291 Horsemanship in India 297 Hobson's Choice 327 In the Maelstrom 288 HJH-^ '^^- ^=^ 'i/h -^ss^— i« PHY. FAOK. . 280 , 2S2 . 296 , 308 3'S 330 292 309 3" 314 331 331 331 • 332 332 3-«5 , 298 307 319 319 319 321 330 330 331 • 304 . 332 , 292 . 302 305 • 321 330 330 , 289 , 287 294 30s . 291: • 297 . 3^7 . 2S8 Items *'AGK. Instances of Remarkable Memory 3^9 Instances of Great Strength . ^93 Letter of a School Boy.:...." 3°! Lecture Not in the Star Course.'! 295 Lincoln's Famous Letter to Hooker ^"^^ Magnificent Singing. ... 3^8 Man Can be What He Pleases'.'. 3'o Our Obelisk 316 Oratory of Edmund Burke." .' .* ' 293 One Hundred Years Ago 304 Popular Names of States 3o6 Pen and Ink Sketch of Heiiry clay ^^4 Presidents We Have Had, The . . 3i7 Power and Influence of the Orator The 322 Phalaris' Bull ' ^ ' 324 Queer Names ' 325 Rising Like Phoenix from"Her "A'she's 3i7 Singular Practice, A 329 Story of Laura Bridgmaii. ... .'.'.'." 297 Seven Sleepers, The '.'.'.'.'.. 30o Some Reminiscences of Lincoln 302 Submerged City, The .* 303 Sailing over Buried Nations ,*. ' 307 Salaries of Some U. S. Officers! The 3i8 Thrilling Incident at Niagara, A 323 Timidity of Orators, The. . . 290 Thrilling Incident, A ! ! 3^3 What Were the Crusades ., 32.? What Was the Reformation. . . ! • 279 Who Was Caspar Hauser * " 286 Yellow Fever Story, A. . ! " ' 299 327 '-Sl2-^.-J.2_^.ii-_«^_2ii_^^_i;i..5^_^_^_^ SOME NOTABLE THINGS IN NATURE AGE. 360 377 338 343 350 ^-+ Abundance of Life, The ^' American Wonders Breathing Cave, A ..!!."! ! Balloon Spider, The. ! ! ! * ! Bird that Turns SummersaulVs Burmese Elephants . . ^j- Breathe Pure Air Only . . ! 372 Biggest Flower in the World.* The 374 Bird Fish 382 m Beautiful Pleiades, The....!!.! 387 i ' 402 +-^^-*^V— ■ __^ . . y. ■"' ■■ ill..- ■ K. — < , .-y - '-a-* i II INDEX. • » VAOM. Collision with a Swordfish -,48 Curious Things About Bats .'..*.....'.'.' viS Cow Tree, The * %L Chambered Nautilus, The ...."!*..*. mi Center of Motion of all the Heavenly Bodies, The '..'!!*.! acu Dragon Fly's Flight, The .' ! " Is^ Deep Counter Currents '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'..'.'.'... 765 Diamonds of South Africa ,,, Devil Fish, The i' ElCapitan ft^ Fingal'sCave „6 Facts About Man „§ Flights of Birds ...........'.'.'.'.. iii First Glimpse of the Yo Semite i'cQ Fifty Davs' Storm of Sand, A '.....'.'.'.'.. ^60 Floating Island, A ^ Foot of a Horse, The ^L Fata Morgana, The ^i^ Flexible Stone ^,6 Faithful Dog, A ',[,',[[ ^§1 Fish that Builds Nestt, A '.*.*..*!*.'..*!!!'!!' 188 Fish that Gives Shocks ' ,Qr FreeRide,A .. *.*.".'.' 707 Giant Trees of California, The .". ,^( GototheAit ^76 Gulf Stream, The [,['[[ ^g^ Great Maelstrom as It Is ,6- Gift of the Nile, The '...'.'.'.'.'.'.'.".'.'.''.' ijo How the Chicken Grows in the Egg '.'.'..'.'.'. '.".," iir How the Eye is Swept and Washed. ,co Human Life the Thing After All ici How Large is the Sun ' . ' " ' ] ■ -g^ How the Spider Spins Her Web [ iJ\ Johnny's Essay on " The Tode" '.....'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'..'.'.' 746 Luray Caverns -'Ig Largest Cavern in the World, The ...!.*.!!....!!!.*..!! ^77 Lanterns in the Deep Sea .*..*.".'!!!!!!!!!. 700 Mammoth Cave .",'..*.*!'..'.'! 'ttc Magnetic Cave, A !!!!.!!! ^^6 Mountain of Salt, A '.'.'.',.. 776 Moon is a Dead World, The .'...'.!.'.!...!!...! ^86 Marvels too Numerous to Mention .....*!'..'.'!'.!!!*..'.".*!! 708 Norway Rats on a March ., i!.*.*.'!.'!!!.*."!' ' 740 Natural Bridge in Virginia .**.!!.'.!*.*..'.'..■ iel Nimrod Among the Fishes, A ,* ".*!.".!!".'" ^80 Our Yellowstone National Park ,,0 Oldest Timber in the World, The '...'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. i^ Oysters Growing on Trees ...'.'!!.'.'!!*'] tsa Order is Heaven's First Law * ,r« Plants that Eat Animals ^^ Petrified Forest, A ^2c Pigeons of Venice, The ''''[ ^^J Power of Niagara, The i.'.' ii !!i. !!!.!!!.'..'! ^66 —————— ———^ . - * - I i ■ 4/i INDEX Power that Lifts the Ocean. A Power of the Waves Power of Growth ' Portuguese Man of War Queer Tree, A ;.::; Remarkable Dav at Niagara, A Rose Gardens of France, The Reigning Beauties of the Sea' Ti^e Some Most Notable Caves ?^!"?'^''c^f^*2f''"^' of Precious Stones Spider's Silk Stronger than Steel Superstitions About Uees Spider's Appetite, A Some Tilings Concerning Grass' ".' Strength of Materials, The . Sand Columns and Water Spouts' Some More of California's Jewels Stmgmg Tree, The Scent of the Roses, The Ship of Pearl, The . . Sea Beauty, A Some Wonderful Velocities'.' .' Tailor Bird, The.. , . Things not Generally Kn'own..' '.'.'.'. Twelve Thousand Fold Sun, A Unconscious Influence. . I'niverse System at Last, A." .* " " " Velocity of Light Veritable Sea Bossy, A. Why Called Rosevvood "* S^trly?'»f'i(so■m;•L■„ge•sVD,«•m„„ds• What Burdens We Bear What Dynamite Is What Would Happen 'if im When the Heavens Shall Pa^s "Away! '. Wonders of the Universe. . . ^ What the Microscope Reveals Where is the Oyster's Mouth . w^^^*"* ',"J^^? S^'"'":^' Heavens. '. '. ". 4 Ckiwi^ 30 -^ ■<^»— -^ II InQ ' INDEX. BEJiT DEPARTMENT OF ALL. PAOE. After Dark 435 Being Sold out by the Sheriff, 407 Beautiful Incident, A 41a Be Faithful 4Ji Baby's Death, The 433 Busy Men 43O Business with Banks 438 Beautiful Words and Full of Comfort 439 Courage in Every Day^ Life 411 Childish Trust ' 428 Chinese arc Evidently Pagans, The 446 Danger of Riches, The 4.10 Definitions of Bible Terms 430 Dip it Up 442 Economy and Debt 417 How to Kill the Minister 437 Greater Love Hath no Man i 441 Ingersoll on Temperance 412 In Behalf of the Children 413 If I Had Leisure ..... 414 Keep Home Bright 424 Lost at Last 427 Life is a Campaign 446 More Sense than Nonsense, after All 40S Not Sebald, but Vischer 412 Napoleon's Estimate of Christ 419 Negro's Prayer, A 421 On Behalf of the Young Folks 444 Person of Jesus, The 416 Pretty Fancy, A 423 Principle that Holds Good in Work, as well as War, A 425 Psalms, The 430 Perishable Nature of Human Greatness 434 Respect Due to Wives 442 Stick to it, and Succeed 410 Something Nice from Emerson 413 Scotchman's Prayer, A 422 Simple Secret, The 423 Sermon on Patience, A 425 Success , 427 Success in Life 429 Shadow Visible from the Throne. 444 f r—j PAOE, INDEX. SI Iff Testimonv of the Aced '"'^oe. almage on Long Life. 4.'6 Unestimated Income of t!,c' F^PmeV. -l.H Vaue of Spare Moments. The 4'« ^V'lIl^n^' to Die for Mo. ..... . 437 Wiiy Some People are PcwV 407 Worth of a Conviction, The • • • 4<>« Woman's I nfluence. . . 41 S Work ') ,,r . . ^3'* Waterloo 44 1 Wages Abroad. .V.V.V.' '.." 4]^ Wise Parent, A 445 44 ^ [5>-co- «>---cS Problems, Paradoxes, Puzzles, and Plays, tm Arguing with a Lawyer. Buzzing Up Cannon Ball Problem So wl^1j^*f?''iPP* ^''^' f^"" "P Hill' Do We See the Sun Soon as it Rises. . . Double Header, The... Expression of the Eye " Famous Wheel Questions 'Tlie Ferguson's Mechanical Paradox S^rf? S^'I^FJ^^L^s Crocodilus,The' Heart and Strmg Puzzle, The How to Find a Person's Name No Such Thing as Motion Neck-tie Puzzle, The Problems ' Problem of Achilfes* knd th^ Tor'toisV ' " Riddle, A— The Letter H Riddle Worth Remembering. A Stupid Carpenter, A ' ■To ari^srxr ^ ° ^'^"^'- United Hearts, The. Variation of the Clock of St, Paul When is it Tuesday . . Where Does it Come *From ^^—BH i'^i INDEX. mi n&ii Annie Lawrie 464 Auld Robin Gray 495 America.. . . , ^03 C( nin' Thro' the Rye 470 Dearest Spot on Earth to Me, The 472 Gospel Train, TJie 50S Good-Bye, Brothers 512 Home, bweet Home 465 Kathleen Mavourneen 468 Killarney 484 Keep Me from Sinking Down 506 Long, Long Ago 471 Mignon'sSong 474 My Lord's Writing All the Time 510 Nancy Lee 498 Oh, Sing that Gentle Strain Again 479 Old Oaken Bucket 4S2 Robin Adair 494 Reign, Master Jesus 511 Shells of Ocean 466 Some Day 486 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.. 504 Steal Away 507 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer. 463 Those Evening Bells 473 There's Nae Room for Twa 490 Twickenham Ferry , . 501 Turn Back Pharaoh's Army c ,r, We Shall Walk through the Valley . . 51^ @* i^ -^- ^ a_ I, — i^y i,.. » ' ■/ " 1 ~r f'i-. mi — ^^^^-HDh M 11/ V w ^'^ «> ^^^f^^ITE^i^l^ I'^S ^IPgi i 'a^aswii -j'r™ . >■«> W|> *^ ^J|^ ^3'Qmwp t^ ^ g< Wi I ■ »| 4 "^ Hi .^■"/Vt ci • r ' "nrt ,v>'.-. M ^^S M ^fSl^'S ••,-• m -t .-. ;■»>{■<] ^^j^ M 7'^^i m- 1 1^ IS BT L N. CHAPIN. E^^RECT, to Stand a thousand years, The columned Capitol ap- pears; And underneath, where the peo- ple go To and fro, to and fro, From its lifted place in the sculp- tured wall A sweet, sad face looks down on all — Looks down on all, yet sees them not, — This sleepless sentry of the spot Looks down on all, yet sees them not. ^'^f^^^pS^^^^ '^^Z'3'71 '" !ll« "T ^'"y "«»• - tcpuon. The eyes are blindfolded! ^"'"•e^s Justice. The artist has adhered to the old con- " ' I __^^ ^ n ■>w t I -•♦- -♦->- ■i'ill I •liil I 7 ! '' S ' ~-'\, IPHE BBAUTIPULt, IFHB WONDBI^PUL, It is a tender woman's face, Inwrought with many a dainty grace, And fashioned full of tenderness To feel humanity's distress, — With bloom and beauty bruided there, Wearing their shining crown of hair. Yet tears have never stained that face. Nor "ght of sorrow dimmed its grace. For this is Justice, blinded so Lest some sight of human woe Should impair her perfect sense And estimate of evidence: — Lest judgment should be warped by Hate, Or Pity foul her sacred state. Sitting in darkness palpable, She weighs each doubtful balance well; Nor tears, nor face of friend destroys Her perfect mental equipose. Alas, that men should so much fear The weight of just one little tear. While these columns stand sublime. Towering on the heights of tim.e, Ah, how often shall these gates Witness scenes of loves and hates; — Loves that see their idols slain; Hates that hateful power regain ; Judgment sometimes just shall be. An i sometimes punish unjustly. And the prisoner, passing here Orestes like, pursued by fear, Gazing upward at that face. Of pity shall detect no trace. Here shall foe, and here shall friend. t-^ AND IPHE WISE. And rich and poor alike attend, And State and Nation congregate Their rights and wrongs to adjudicate. Ah, this face, so wondrous fair, With the glory in her hair,— Blinded to the evidence Of the most important sense, Blinded, lest her eyes should see Tears of forceful sympathy. Is a false and treacherous type Of Justice of divinest stripe. 'Tis.the vagabond outcast Of a dead and buried past, Plundered from some sculptured pile Stranded by the oblivious Nile. Justice should be Argus-eyed;— Every sense be opened wide, Giving just the proper weight To all things that extenuate. This mankind's most sacred trust; To be merciful is just. God is just, yet he can see All our tears and misery. He that is not merciful Lacketh much, yea, lacketh all. And Justice cannot justice be. In divinest quality, Which nothing but our sin can see. Lord, when before thy bar I rise. At the general, grand Assize, Bowed and broken with the curse. To confront thy universe. There to answer, one by one. u y i r t ■5s^$-H}h hJh-^ Hi IM ,■■ iii '1 ■*♦- -0^ •nHB BBAUItlPUIi, IPHB WONDB^PULi, ^X For the deeds that I have done, — Oh, then, let blinded Justice rise, Take the bandage from her eyes, See my grief, and hear my cries: — See the dominant force within — The overmastering power of sin — The ever-present, regnant sense Of harsh and hard environments — That oft destroyed my sovereign claim. And right of eminent domain: — See the multitudinous tears. And arid wastes and wars of years, .Across whose stretches I have come. Journeying to my eternal home. All these things let Justice see — Even Justice plead for me. Lost and ruined world of woe, Drowned in Sorrow's overflow. Needs not Justice half so much As Mercy's healing touch; And Justice cannot justice be Which nothing but our sin can see. lUSHING the clods of earth aside, j^ Leaving the dark where foul things hide, Spreading its leaves to the Summer sun. Bondage ended, freedom won ; So, my soul, like the ivy be. Rise, for the sunshine calls for thee ! il Ha—fe -♦■•- AND 'nHB WISE. Cliinbing up as the seasons go, Looking down upon things below, Twining itself in the branches high, As if the frail thing owned the sky; So, my soul, like the ivy be. Heaven, not earth, is the place for thee. Wrapping itself round the giant oak. Hiding itself from the tempest's stroke j Strong and brave is the fragile thing, For it knows one secret, how to cling; So, my soul, there's strength for thee. Hear the Mighty One, "Lean on Me!" Green are its leaves when the world is white For the ivy sings through the frosty night; Keeping the hearts of oak awake, Till the flowers shall bloom, and the Spring shall break ; So, my soul, through the Winter's rain, Sing the sunshine back again. Opening its green and fluttering breast, Giving the timid birds a nest; Coming out from the Winter wild. To make a wreath for the Holy Child; So let my life like the ivy be, A help to man, and a wreath for Thee. •t I 4 f. I ^^ -+ m ■*•«■ -•*■ III liiiilll !IIH '!l i 30 JHHB BBAUItlPUL, JPHB WONDBI^PUL, TMB WORLD'S FIRST SPRING. ^UT of the south, sweet lands, Borne over seas in bands, '^C^By strong sea-winds that blow — Home coming, ere the June, To set the north in tune From silence of the snow — Swallow, and lark, and thrush, the birds of a thousand springs With flutter of song and heart, and stir of a thousand wings. n V \ Over the silent earth A sweet, new song of birth Passes from deep to deep, Waking the echoes clear In mountain caverns drear Where winter stays to sleep. Swallow, and lark, and thrush, how many songs do you know. Learned in the land of the sun, where the red south roses blow ? Through all the east and west Glad birds now build their nests For love's sweet by-and-by ; Where, while soars and sings, One, folding happy wings, Shall brooding, cease to fly. Swallow, ai^d lark, and thrush, in the sun or the soft spring ra^n, Each m its way builds best, nor any shall build in vain. i 5 i » \ If < ■ V ill ■■^ T-^ — ^ »■»- AND THE WISE. 31 P'air grow the days and long, Sweet in the air and strong, With winds from hill and sea. Under the wide-arched sky. From dawn to dusk they fly, While earth holds jubilee. Swallow, and lark, and thrush, what do you know when you sing Of Time's dead years? To you this is the world's First Spring. i ■ »l -20_ BY BAYARD TAYLOR. « [^ROM the desert I come to thee, "'[(^T^On a stallion shod with fire; % And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desue. Under thy window I stand, And the midnight hears my cry: I love thee, I love but thee! With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold^ And the stars are old^ And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold! * Look from thy window, and see My passion and my pain ! I lie on the sands below. And I faint in thy disdain. Let the night-winds touch thy brow With the heat of my burning sigh, And melt thee to hear the vow Of a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold^ And the stars are old^ And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold! 0-^5- "VQJSr- My steps are nightly driven, By the fever in my breast. To hear from thy lattice breathed The word that shall give me rest. Open the door of thy heart, I I ■H-*- '^+^ ill I lilt THa BE&lSmFUh, THD Y;oriDEI^PUL, Ami open thy chamber door, And my kisses shall teach thy lips The love that shall fade no more 7/7/ ^/ic sun ^ro-MS cold^ And the stars are oldy ' And the leaves of the ytidgmcnt Book unfold! ■oS LULLABY, DV ALFRED TENNYSON. a>\ ^(§5=1- ,'ll^WEET and low, sweet and low, '^^t®! Wind of the western sea, ^ ^3!p (T Low, low, breathe and blow. Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go. Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest. Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast. Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest. Silver sails all out of the west. Under the silver moon ; Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one^ sleep (^^ fH ? I f i< - '- ^^Mh!.^« ANT . ..d WISE. GOD'S ANVIL, r^-l FROM Tilt OBKM.VN. •22- ^ T|AIN S furnace heat within me quivers, -1J-^J(- And all my heart in anj^uish shivn-s, And trembles at the fiery glow; And yet I whisper, As God willl ' And in his hottest fire hold still. --' Hecomes and lays my heart all heated, On the haru anvil, .niiided so Into his own fair shape to beat it, • With the great hammer, blow on blow : And yet I whisper, As God will! And at his heaviest blows hold still. He takes my softened heart and beats it The sparks fly „fF at every blow- He turns it o'er and o'er and heats it, And lets it cool, and makes it glow- And yet I whisper, As God will! And in his mighty hands hold still. Why should I murmur? for the sorrow. Thus only longer lived would be; Its end may come, and will, to-morrow. When God has done his work in me J So I say, trusting. As God willf And trusting to the end, hold still. He kindles for my profit purely Affliction's glowing fiery brand, And all his heaviest blows are surely ^ Inflicted by a master hand ; So I say, praying. As God will! And hope in Him, and suffer still. % 4 ■PI 5 I } ■^! 1;: 'ilk" f nil pi 'lilli! Ill ihili M IP iiiiiji i^ m •*-- -H^ 3e JPHB BBAUTIPUL, IFHB WOMDEF^PUL, -->y^<<- t ^ t^ TUB SILLER CROUK BY SUSANNA BLAMIRB. w||fe?fD ye sail walk in silk attire, J^|S| And siller hae to spare, (^♦g Gin ye'll consent to be his bride, ^Jor think o' Donald mair." 4 O, wha wad buy a silken goun Wi' a puir broken heart? Or what's to me a siller croun G\t\ frae my love I part? The Uiind whose meanest wish is pure, Far dearest is to me. And ere I'm forced to break my faith, I'll lay me doun an' dee. For I hae vowed a virgin's vow My lover's fate to share. An' he has gi'en to me his heart. And what can man do mair? i \ His mind and manners won my heart. He gratefu' took the gift; And did I wish to seek it back. It wad be waur than theft. The langest life can ne'er repay The love he bears to me. And ere I'm forced to break my faith, I'll lay me doun an' dee. I ■h • ^c — »-H- AND JPHE WISE, 37 - X^ Th@ Last Fiowar of BV IXCY LARCOM. ,HE gentian was the year's last child, Born when the winds were hoarse and wild With wailing over buried flowers. The playmates of their sunnier hours. The gentian hid a thoughtful eye Beneath deep fringes, blue and shy; Only by warmest noon-beams won, To meet the welcome of the sun. The gentian, her long lashes throuLJ f-. iiiPH 38 1IHB BBAUIIIPUL, IHHB WOMDBI^PUL, THE KEYS OP CRANABA. (|2>i^. BT SUSAN COOLIDGE. IS centuries since they were torn away, Those sad-faced Moors from their beloved Spain; In long procession to the wind-swept bay, With sobs and muttered curses, fierce with pain, They took their woful road, and never came again. Behind them lay the homes of their delight. The marble court-yards and cool palaces, Where fountains flashed and shimmered day and night 'Neath dusk and silver blooms of blossoming trees. They closed the echoing doors, and bore away the keys. Palace and pleasure gardens are forgot; The marble walls have crumbled lonjr ao-o: Their site, their ownership, remembered not, And helpless wrath alike and hopeless woe Are cooled and comforted by Time's all-healing flow. But still the children of those exiled Moors, A sad, transplanted stem on alien shore. Keep as their trust — and will while time endures The rusty keys which their forefathers bore; The keys of those shut doors which ne'er shall open more. The doors are dust, but yet the hope lives on; The walls are dust, but memories cannot die; And still each sad-faced father tells his son Of the lost homes, the blue Granadian sky. The glory and the wrong of those old days gone by. Ah, keys invisible of happy doors Which long ago our own hands fastened tight! We treasure them as do those hapless Moors, -^ — : ■ » ~ I ' \^ AHD fHHB WISE. < I 39 •<> Though dust the palaces of our delight, Vacant and bodiless, and vanished quite'. Keys of our dear, dead hopes, we prize "them still. Wet them with tears, embalm with useless sighs; And at their sight and touch our pulses still Waken and throb, and under alien skies We taste the airs of home and gaze in long-closed eyes ^^20. BY CHARLES KINGSLEV. fHREE fishers went sailing out into the west, ni Into the west as the sun went down ; Each thought of the woman who loved him best, feW^ ^"'^ *''^ ^^''^^'■^" stood watching them out of the town b or men must work, and women must weep, ^J And there's little to earn, and many to keep. Though the harbor bar be moanin^r. Three wives sat up in the light-house tower, And trimmed the lamps as the sun went down- They looked at the squall, and they looked at the' shower. And the night-rack came rolling up ragged and brown, l^ut men must work, and women must weep. Though storms be sudden and waters deep, ' And the harbor-bar be moanino-. y Three corpses lay out on the shining sands. In the morning gleam as the tide went down, And the women are weeping, and wringing theJr hands, b or those who will never come back to the town. For men must work, and women must weep. And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep,' And good-bye to the bar and its moaning. ■ — - — - — •—>•}-« — »;^ iiiirpw«!-a P!i I (i;H«"!i!!i ii m ?%■"« — *►-«-<- 40 llHE BEAUTIFUL, THE WONDBI^PUL, « >t 4 ot-j HOMES OF ENGLAND, T^I^HE stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tail ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land; The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny gleam, I And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream. The merry Homes of England! Around their hearths by night. What gladsome looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light, There woman's voice flows forth in song, Or childish tale is told; Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old. The blessed Homes of England! How softly on their bowers Is laid the holy quietness That breathes from Sabbath hours! • Solemn, yet sweet, the church-bell's chime Floats through their woods at morn; All other sounds, in that still time, Of breeze and leaf are born. :- ,*^:.i.^ ;mt The cottage Homes of England ! By thousands on her plains, They are smiling o'er the silvery brooks, "■'*?""▼" i AND IPHB And round the hamlet-fanes. Through glowing orchards forth they peep Each from its nook of leaves; And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves. The free, fair Homes of England 1 Long, long, in hut and hall, May hearts of native proof be reared To guard each hallowed wall! And green forever be the groves, ^ And bright the flow'ry sod. Where first the child's glad spirit loves Its country and its God. BY HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Low-anchored cloud, Newfoundland air. Fountain-head and source of rivers. Dew-cloth, dream-drapery. And napkin spread by fays; Drifting meadow of the air. Where bloom the daisied banks and violets, And in whose fenny labyrinth The bittern booms and heron wades; Spirit of lakes, and seas, and rivers,— Bear only perfumes and the scent Of healing herbs to just men's fields. i 3 m lUillllii ■iliilil lliillil! hJi- ^s ■ ■^^*— I^HB BEAUIUPUIi, THE WONDEI^FUL, — •^*|-« *Tmiii be Ail ihe Satu® in a Hundred Years, 'iSiy^rOi'^ WILL be all tho same in a hundred years! What a spell-word to conjure up smiles and tears! O! how oft do I muse 'mid the thoughtless and gay, - On the marvelous truth that these words convey! And can it be so, must the valiant and free Have their tenure of life on this frail decree? Arc the trophies they've reared, and the glories they've won. Only castles of frost-work, confronting the sim! And must all that's as joyous and brilliant to view As a Mid-summer dream, be as perishing, too? Then have pity, ye proud ones— be gentle, ye great! O remember how mcriy bccometh your state; For the rust that consumeth the sword of the brave Is eating the chain of the manacled slave. And the conqueror's frowns, and his victim's tears Will be all the same in a hundred years! 'Twill be all the same in a hundred years! •^ What a spell- word to conjure up smiles and tears! How dark are your fortunes, ye sons of the soil. Whose heir-loom is sorrow, whose birthright is toil! Yet envy not those who have glory and gold. By the sweat of the poor, and the blood of the bold; For 'tis coming, howe'er they may flaunt in their pride, The day when they'll molder to dust by your side. Death uniteth the children of toil and sloth. And the democrat reptiles carouse upon both; For time as he speeds on his viewless wings. Disenables and withers all earthly things; And the minister's pipe, and the scholar's book, And the Emperor's crown, and the Cossack's spears Will be dust alike in a hundred years! 4 AND rpHB WISE. ve won. 'Twill be all the same in a hundred yearsi O most magical fountain of smiles and tears! To th.nk that your hopes, like flowers of June, Which we love so much, should be lost so soon I Then what meaneth the chase after phantom joys? Or the breakmg of human hearts for toys ? Or the veteran's pride in his crafty schemesl Or the passions of youth for its darling dreams" ? Or the anr^mg at ends that we never can span? Or the deadly aversion of man for man? Whatavnilethitall? O ye sages say?' .-^ Ur the miser's joy in his brilliant clay? Or the lover's seal for his matchless prize- Ihe enchanting maid, with the starry eyes? Or the feverish conflicts of hopes and fears, It tis all the same in a hundred years? Ah! 'tis not the same in a hundred years, How clear soever the case appears; For know ye not that beyond the grave. Far, far beyond where the cedars wave ' On the Syrian mountains, or where the stars Come glittering forth in their golden cars, There bloomcth a land of perennial bliss Where we smile to think of the tears in this! And the p.lgiim reaching that radiant shore. Has thougiit of death in his heart no more But layeth his staflf" and sandals down, For the victor's palm and the monarch's crown And the mother meets, in that tranquil sphere, * The delightful child she has wept for here • And we quaff off the same immortal cup, ' WhiU the orphan smiles and the slave looks upf bo be glad, my heart, and forget thy tears, For 'tis NOT the same in a hundred years! ' I a 'I P 2 fmnrnKmaumy.*, t I ill I li 'PHB BBAUTIPULt, THE WONDERFUL, ASPIRATION. BT MARY A. LATHBURY. Wings! wings! To leave the level of earthly things; The dust of the under-world ; the din Of law and logic; the ghost of sin; The eyes of prisoners at the grate; The voice of beggars beside the gate; The sense of something averse to good — A warped intention — a vicious mood In the face of nature; a sense more keen Of lapse, and breakage, and death within; The self that stifles, n id clings, and stings ; Wings 1 wings! Wings! wings! To touch the hem of the veil that swings, As moved by the breath of God, between The world of sense and the world unsedn; To swoon where the mystic folds divide, And wake, a child, on the other side ; To wake and wonder if it be so. And weep for joy at the loss of woe; To know the seeker is sought and found ; To find Love's being, but not his bound ; O for the living that dying brings! Wings! wings! — I ■ »l ♦ -»rti| ■*♦- AND 1IHB WISE. FxoM Blbbron to Washington, BY L. J CHAPIN. $1 _4. T AST is the distance that divides The heart that waits from the heart that rides; But love is sw^ift, and love is wise, And pain is sharp, when 'tis love that dies;— Room for the flying train, make way! Love rides in sublimest state to-day. Stan 1 firm at your post, brave engineer, Let your heart be strong, and your eye be clear, Pull wide the throttle, and hold your breath, 'Tis a headlong ride and race with death. / On and on, with projectile force. The short, light train holds its sharp, swift course; But that cry of the river back to the sea Rings^in her ears incessantly. " The wheat fields bending beneath the sky, On the Jersey farms go hurrying by; The curves are rounded, one by one. When, the first long stage of the journey done, The flying train in its passage there Spurns the sluggish course of the Delaware. The ponderous engine rocks and reels. And clutches the track with its driving wheels; Deeper and deeper its long arms plunge, To pluck the power from exhaustless lungs. While its plumes wave dark in the bright sunlight. And it screams like an eagle in its flight, Rousing the echoes that slumbering hide In the fretted rocks by the Schuylkill's side. i t $ 4 1 40 i ; 1 * — — . ■ < ■ * :^BZ$— .-A- irHB 3BAUliIPUli, THB WONDBI^PUL, T Still on like a planet, rolls the train, 'Tis a guest that no city can detain ; And time is too precious by fur to be lost, When even one river remains to be crossed. From fields and woods, as the train goes by, The affrighted birds to their covert fly, As if it some mad assassin might be That would shoot them down in their liberty: For one of their number, tliey have heard, (Ah, how many hearts by the news were stirred). Is fluttering home with a ruffled breast. To its wounded mate in a blood-red nest. But see! the third long stage of the iourney done. And the broad Susquehanna rolls out in the sun. One little accident, only one. In the long hard ride since the race begun : When something snaps with the terrible strain; But quick hands are ready, and once again. The hot steam thunders against its dome, Courage, brave heart, you are almost home! How the engine lunges with scream and hiss, O God, was there ever such ride as this! But each drum-beat on that blackened dome, Is a shout to the river, I come! I come! And short now the distance that divides The heart that waits from the heart that rides. For lo! as the day goes out with the tide. The train rolls down by Potomac's side. O Love is swift, and Love is wise, And pain is sharp when 'tis love that dies. Faint was the prospect that death would delay With the best physician of all aviray; While loyal attendants are waiting around b-^l ly o » t 4. AND irHB WISE Hers the balsamic love that shall heal his wound And for the strong soul that was willing to take ' The one little chance that so many can make, The love that such marvelous skill can outpour bhall add to that one chance thousands more. The old earth rocks on its luminous way; The passions and factions of men decay, ' And this white bud reblooms on the summit of time ^,1. hat hate is hateful, and love sublime. ^y Room for the truth to be everywhere sown-- ^ That a nation's slrong love is a ruler's safe throne are O'er, BY SIR WALTER SCOTT. .3-^-r I^^OLDIER rest! thy warfare o'er, f® ^^^^P ^^^ ^^^^P th'^t knows not breaking; I ^ pi-eam of battled fields no more, ^^^ Days of danger, nights of waking. "■ In our isle's enchanted hall, Hands unseen thy couch are strewing, Fairy strains of music fall, Every sense in slumber dewino-. Soldier rest! thy warfare o'er, Dream of fighting fields no more; Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking. I "^^ c"0^0' •:6l5o- The Norik io ike Souta. BY ARTHUR DTBR, OF NEW YORK. ^@^(g?W__ ITH muffled roar the white waves fall On miles of yellow sand. And gently do the sweet winds blow Across the flow'ry land. Where, blessed I'y mild and mellow moons. ^ •H-«- riniiiil^ "^ AND rnHB WISB. 49 Beneath soft azure skies, And wooed by fervid, sultry nooAS, The lovely South-land lies. CHORUs-The lovely South-land lies. The lovely South-land lies. And wooed by fervid, sukry noons, Tne lovely South-land lies. If colder is our Northern clime, Our hearts are warm and true; Since we are brethren of the quill. What matters gray or blue? So, drifted past the storm of war To isles of peaceful calm, The lakes give greeting to the sea. The pine unto the palm. Chorus— The pine unto the palm. The pine unto the palm. The lakes give greeting to the sea, The pine unto the palm. Though states may sever, parties strive. And wide our difference be, Yet in the kin^do-n of the mind Opinion must be free; And, erefore, while the world goes round, In every season's stress, We'll cherish always, firm and strong. The union of the press. Chorus. -The union of the press. The union of the press, We'll cherish always,fii .a and strong, The union of the press. I vemro"„!'°'^^'""''°* "AuldLangSy„e"at th, r.c.nt Edit^^^^TE^Z i mil -iiiii 'ii'h! SO Mimr OIHB EBAUOtlPUIi, »FHE5 WOHDBI^PUli, Sr, Catharine Borfb by Angbls, UY HARKIST BEECHER STOWB. -/--N- j:i=». -/3c» ^^fep^(g^ > . , ^ ^I^LOW through the solemn air, in silence sailing, l^mt Borne by mysterious angels strong and fair, ^ She sleeps at last, blest dreams her eyelids veiling, ^ Above this weary world of strife and care. Lo, how she passeth ! dreamy, slow, and calm : Scarce wave those broad white wings, so silvery bright j Those cloudy robes, in star-emblazoned folding, Sweep mistily athwart the evening light. Far, far below, the dim, forsaken earth. The foes that threaten, or the friends that weepj Past, like a dream, the torture and the pain: For so he giveth his beloved sleep. The restless bosom of the surging ocean Gives back the image as the clouds float o'er, Hushing in glassy awe his troubled motion; For one blest moment he con)plains no more. Like the transparent golden floor of heaven. His charmed waters lie as in a dream. And glistening wings, and starry robes unfolding*,. And serious angel eyes fiir downward gleam. •Accordinjftothls leff end, Catherine was a noble maiden of Alexandria, dis- tinguished alike by birth, riches, besjuty, and the rarest gifts of genius and learn- ing. In the flower of her youth she consecrated herself to the service of her Redeemer, and cheerfully suffered for His sake the loss of wealth, friends, and the esteem of the world. Banishment, imprisonment, and torture were in vain tried, to shake the constancy of her faith; at last she was bound upon the torturing-wheel for a cruel death. But the angels descended, so says the story, rent the wheel, and bore her away through the air, far over the sea, to Mount Sinai, where her body was left to repose, and her soul ascended with them to heaven. AND THE WISE. •f> O resiles, sea! thou «,emest all enchanted By that sweet vision of celestial rest; SoTtirho' ""■"■' ""'' '"'' '"^ ■-«« 'h« haunted- t.0 shU .hou seemest, so glorified and blest I Aln sea! to-morrow, that sweet scene forgotten Dark ,.des and tempests shall thy bosom rear'- Shin","""?' •'"'"^ '*-"^'' "'"- -stiess mo io'n Shall toss their hand, in their old wild despah And makes a mirror there of breathless rest. For not alone in those old Eastern regions Are Christ's beloved one<; frJ.^ k T„ «, 1 "^*"^^a ones tried by cross and chain • In many a house are his electones hidden, ' His martyrs suffering in their patient pain. The rack, the cross, life's weary wrench of woe, Th. world sees not, as slow, from day to day, In calm, unspoken patience, sadly still, ^' The loving spirit bleeds itself away. But there are hours when, from the heavens unfolding And weMr ''' 'T'' "'^' '''' ^'^' release; ^' And we look upward, to behold in glory Our suflering loved ones borne away to peace: Ah brief the calm! The restless wave of feeling ^ Rises agam when the bright cloud sweeps by. And our unrestful souls reflect no longer That tender vision of the upper sky. Espoused Lord of the pure saints in glory. To whom all faithful souls affianced are, ♦ < <■ - nlliliiiiipiii:' y » t< > - > - i!li!ii!&^'^ iliii lilil I i I ill .Miiiiiiii « et UIHB BBAUItlPUL, IPHB WONDBI^PUL, Breathe down thy peace into our restless spirits, And make a lasting, heavenly vision there. So the bright gates no more on us shall close; No more the cloud of angels fade away; And we shall walk, amid life's weary strife, In the calm light of thine eternal day. .V*^ \ s .<»' .-0-'^ ^°V^ *'■- i'^ There they grew and there they stood Together, two and two. And some had hearts like a drop of blood. And some like a drop of dew; Down by the mill, down by the mill. Through all the summer hours. There they swung and there they swayed, \\ Like spots of sunshine over the shade; And over the waters, cold and still, My beautiful, beautiful flowers! 1 1 4 » M And some had slippers of yellow gold, And some had caps of snow, And some their heads held high and bold, And some their heads held low; And so they stood up side by side' Meek and mournful and motlest-eyed, Through all the summer hours; Down in the meadow, gay and green, " Like bridesmaids standing round their queen. My beautiful, beautiful flowers! O, to see them bloom and blush, Was the sweetest show of shows! The daisy under the lilac bush; And the violet by the rose! Down by the mill, down by the mill, ^ Through all the summer hours, Some so high and some so low. But all as fair as fair can grow, Down by the water, bright and still, My beautiful, beautiful flowers! O, the little maid of the mill. That dazzles and deceives, With a head as'bright as the daffodil. And a hand like the lily-leaves, She it is that makes them grow Through all the summer hours; They with cloaks of speckled dyes, And they with hoods about their eyes, Meek and modest, and high and low; She can tell, if tell she will, Why they dazzle down by the mill. My beautiful, beautiful flowers! '"i I' 1 1 1 II* ^i imllm mmm m mm |ii" 4-H 1 ■^h*- ^-nt- 54 IPHB BBAUltlPUL, WHB WOHDBF^PllL, " ^^^ TIfB SPHINX. {READ warder of an ancient land. Thou wondrous form of changeless stone, r ^ Reign ing o'er leagues of shifting sand, N^p^""* Unnumbered ages for thy throne; Pigmies, we gaze and pass away — I now, Cambyses, yesterday Dim mem'ries of forgotten things Haunt those large eyes ; the Shepherd chiefs, The victor's crown — the pride of kings. -A—fe E'en meaner mortals' lesser griefs: Canst thou recall old Menes* face? Hast bowed before Rhodope's grace? Those grand lack-lustre eyes perchance Saw Helen, like a goddess move; And Alexander's fateful trance That ruined Ilion for her love ; Didst hear stern Proteus quick dismiss The guest who marred a. guest-friend's bliss? -*^ ^^^ —£= ^'tTTT '^"'' ^^"-"° ^^••d '^^n^es thro' The hps' cold portals. Thou hast seen 1 he conq'ring Mede, the crafty Jew, Greek sages, Antony's dark queen : Is t to their ghosts in yon soft haze Thou turnst that everlasting gaze? Great Horus, answer—art thou mute? Hast no responsive chords for eve, Like Morn's old vot'ry_I salute Thine awful silence. Let me weave My puny fancies, knowing well Man may not learn the Inscrutable. What though thy buried secret sleeps In far Ogygian asone? Still The daily sunshine o'er thee creeps, And so for unknown ages will; And men shall view thy massive brow, And marvel at its calm as now. Eve's rich glow lingers round thy head And lights thy melancholy face, As loving all its gold to shed On the \'ist monarch of thy race- Slow fade the purple tints-farewelH Deep are thy thoughts-too deep to tell. ■'^msk: ill » !< > 66 5tHB BBAUIIIPUL, ^HB WONDBJ^PUL, •»♦-#— o»^i BY SUSAN COOLIDOa. -g* 3< — -H>- F I were told that I must die to-morrow, That the next sun ") Which sinks should bear me past all fear and sorrow ■(i\-^' For any one, i^All the fight fought, all the short journey through, What should I do? JL I ajU -»H<- I do not think that I should shrink or falter. But just go on. Doing my work, nor change nor seek to alter Aught that is gone; But rise and move, and love and smile, and pray, For one more day. And, lying down at night for a last sleeping. Say in that ear Which hearkens ever: "Lord, within thy keeping How should I fear? And when to-morrow brings thee nearer still, Do thou thy will," I might not sleep for aye; but peaceful, tender, My soul would lie All the night long; and when the morning splendor Flushed o'er the sky, I think that I could smile — could calmly say, "It is his day." But if a wondrous hand from the blue yonder Held out a scroll, * ^ w »| 4 % « • On which my life was writ, and I with wonder ' Beheld unroll To a long century's end its mystic clue, What should I do? What cou/dl do, O blessed Guide and Master, ' Other than this; Still to go on as now, not slower, faster. Nor fear to miss The road, although so very long it be, ^" Which led by thee? Step after step, teeling thee close beside me. Although unseen. Through thorns, through flowers, whether the tempest hide thee. Or heavens serene. Assured thy ikithfulness cannot betray, Thy love decay. I may not know; my God, no hand revealeth Thy counsels wise; Along the path a deepening shadow stealeth; No voice replies To all my questioning thought, the time to tell; And it is well I Let me keep on, abiding and unfearing Thy will always, Through a long century's ripening fruition Or a short day's; Thou canst not come too soon ; and I can wait If thou come late. V I 5»HB BEAU1IIPUL, IPHB WONDBFJPUL, Tub Rose op all the World. BY GERALD MASSSV. jLL in our marriage garden Grew, smiling up to God, A bonnier flower than ever ®7J^ Suckt tlie green warmth of the sod. ,^ O beautiful unfathomably ^ Its little life unfurled; Life's crown of sweetness was our wee White Rose of all the world. From out a gracious bosom, Our bud of beauty grew; It fed on smiles for sunshine And tears for daintier dew. Aye nestling warm and tenderly. Our leaves of love were curled So close and close about our wee White Rose of all the world. Two flowers of beauteous crimson Grew with our Rose of light ; Still kept the sweet heaven-grafted slip Her whiteness saintly white. I' the wind of life they danced with glee, And reddened as they whirled; While white and wondrous grew our wee White Rose of all the world. With mystical faint fragrance, Our house of life she filled • ^ -^im. AND IPHB WISE. 1 Revealed each hour some fairy tower Where winged hopes might build. We saw-though none like us might see- buch precious promise pearled Upon the petals of our wee White Rose of all the world. But evermore the halo Of Angel-light increased; Like the mystery of moonlight, That folds some fairy feet. ^' Snow-white, snow-soft, snow-silently Our darling bud up-curled. And dropt i' the grave-God's lap-^ur wee White Rose of all the world. Our Rose was but in blossom; Our life was but in spring; When down the solemn midnight We heard the Spirits sing: "Another bud of infancy, With holy dews impearled;" And in their hands they bore our wee White Rose of all the world. You scarce could think so small a thing Could leave a loss so large; Her little light such shadow fling, From dawn to sunset's marge. * In other springs our life may be ' In banner bloom unfurled; But never, never, match our'wee White Rose of all the world. •; ^^^^^^^ «//. '''^. I . • ■^^^--f AND IPHB WISH. e3 ^' Sorrowland, Moirowland, Drearyland, Wearyland, Baby and Heavenland lying between; Smile, then, in Motherland, Dream in the Otherland— Rockaby baby, thy cradle is green. The WOMAN'S Cause is Man-s," «}-(S=»r-*.»-TB=a>___«i,, °^' *^™«n TENNYSON. IH^ thou hast a helper, me, nat know filD "^^^^ ^""^^"'^ cause is man's: they rise and sink |^¥ Together, dwarfed or god-like, bond or free: l«lP;For she that out of Lethe scales with man Y The shining steeps of nature, shares - th man ^ His nights, his days, moves with him to one goal, ^ Stays all the fair young planet in her hands. If she be small, slight-natured, miserable. How shall men grow? but work no more alone; Our place is much: as far as in us lies We two will serve them both in aiding her— Will clear away the parasitic forms That seem to keep her up, but drag her down- Will leave her space to burgeon out of all Within her— let her make herself her own To give or keep, to live and learn, and be All that not harms distinctive womanhood. For woman is not undeveloped man. But diverse; could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference: Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; '4 ■i it-t^ 4-M- fii ■I 04 THE BBAUIJIPUL, IPHE WONDBI^PUL, - . She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care. Nor lose the childlike in the larger mindj Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words; And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by side, full-summed in all their powers, Dispensing harvest, sowing the to-be. Self-reverent each, and reverencing each, Distinct in individualities, But like each other even as those who love. Then comes the statelier Eden back to men : Then reign the world's great bridals, chaste and calm : Then springs the crowning race of humankind, May these things be. THE ANGEL VISION, ^^s- -H^ HISEL in hand stood a sculptor boy, With his marble block before him, And his face lit up with a smile of joy ^^11^ As an angel dream passed o'er him. He carved it then on the yielding stone, With many a sharp incision, n With heaven's own light the sculptor shone He had caught the angel vision." ^ % if: " Sculptors of life are we as we stand With our souls uncarved before us, Waiting the hour when, at God's command, Our 'fe's dream shall pass o'er us, If we carve it then on the yielding stone With many a sharp incision, Its heavenly beauty shall be our own, Our lives that angel vision.'* '■ » ' ! ♦ % 1^ I 9^ I^'U % ^~. Ml 'It • AND rnHB WISE THE OLD BY EUNICE E. COMSTOOK. What hath entered my loved woods And touched their ereen wifh Ta . What Is this last or nf::;iroor^"^^^^^^ That makes the roadside look so strange? Who blanched my thistle's blushing face AncI gave the winds her silver hair? t>et golden-rod within her place And scattered asters everywhere? Who splashed with red the sumach hedge,^ ir • f '^' "^''^ P"^PJ^ stain; ^ ' '' ^ave ivy leaves a ruby edge And paiirted all their slems again? Lo! the change reaches high and wide. Hath toned the sky to softer blue: Hath crept along the river-side, And trod the valleys through and through; Discolored every hazel copse, And stricken all the pasture lands; Flung veds across the mountain tops, ' And bound their feet with yellow bands. Is, then, September come so soon? Full time doth summer ne'er abide? While yet it seems but summer's n-on We're floating down the autumn tide. •WHi M\kv' rmx 00 »nHB BEAUTIFUL, THE WONDBF^PUL, ■■■■(" X^ ^ fVAVE Al rCR '^''AVB, ^ II \;y SUSAN CUOLIDOK. UT o, the botum of the sea, I From dim, rich c lastf ye m .y not see, '; ?*' By vabt and urging f rcv"s. blcr.«:, "^-^^ Untired, untiring and m ; ent, I'lie p'lad wAves speed them, one bj' ci\v ; i'ju L \ a' Mituucd and errand done, 'i ..-^ \i<-S: the sands and softly lave — Wr.'? after wave, wave after wave. A^ stirred by longing for repose, Higher and higher each wave goes, Striving to clasp with foam-white hands The yielding and eluding sands: And still the sea, relentless, grim, Calls his wild truants back to him ; Recalls the liberty he gave Wave after wave, wave after wave. All sad at heart and desolate They heed the call; they bow to fate; And outward swept, a baffled train. Each feels his efFori was in vain: But (ed by impulse lent by each The gradual tide upon the beach Rises to full, and thunders brave. Wave after wave, wave after wave. Ah, tired, discouraged heart and head, Look '"^ and be thou comforted ' Thy f effort may seem vain, '^ A^M^^I ■ Waited thy toil, and naught. hyp.i„ Thy br.ef.un quench itselftafhrdl Thy worthiest slrenwh be w.,.u r?flnr*k« . • ^ *sin oe wealcness made Yet still, thougl, baffled and denie'=. Lor ^r ■ » "'""«» mountain into caves Lof here .s Rome, and Nineveh, and Th^r" Ka-k, and Pyramid, and Giant'-, S.J„'''*'' Half.p,led or prostrate; and my newest Ih Older than all thy race. V Rl THE BHAUTIPUL, THH WONDBI^PUL, I ifif Behold the Bea, ^ The Dnaline, th- -' "^ ' nnd strong. Yet beautifpl r is . . in June, Fresh as th^: trlcLIiug rainbow of July ; Sea full of r^od, the nourisher of kinds, Purger of earth, and medicine of men; Creating a bweet climate by my breath. Washing out harms and grie' u Uwiaory. Anl, in my mathematic ebb and flow, Giving a hint of that which changes not. Eicn are the sea-gods: who gives gifts but they? TJi'-y grope the sea for pearls, but more than pearls. They pluck Force thence, and give it to the wise, I' or every wave is wealth to Daedalus; Wealth to the cunning artist w ho can work This matchless strength. Where shall we find, O waves! A load your Atlas shoulders cannot lift? I, with my hammer pounding evermore The rockv coast, smite Andes inio dust, Strewing rny bed, and, in another si ^e, Rebuild a continent of better men. Then I unbar the doors; my paths lead out The exodus of nations; T di.-perse Men to all shores that front the ' oary main. I too, have ai and borceries; Illusion dwells forever with the wave. I know wl 't spelli i .e made. I oave me tr deal With credulous anJ imaginative luan; For, though he scoop my water in '%s palm, A few rods off he deems it trems « > -^fr— o»-j3 AGAMEMNON'S TOMB. BY BMMA LAZABU*. J>0.^^ 1^ i PLIFT the poiu.erous, golden mask of death, 7WJ, "^"'^ '^* *'^® *"" shim- on him as it did N ^5r ?How many thousand years agone! Beneath ^7f\?) This worm-defying, uncorrupted lid, Beh 'd the young;, licroic face, round-eyed. Of one 'vho in his full-flowered manhood died} Of Lobler fnime than creatures of to-day, Swathed in fine linen cerecloths fold on fold. With carven weapons wrought of bronze and gold. Accoutred like a warrior for the fray. We gaze in awe at these huge modeled limbs, Shrunk in death's narrow houst , but hinting yet Their ancient majesty; these sightless rims Whose living eyes the eyes oi Helen met; The speechless lips that ah! what tales might tell Of the earth's mornmg-tide when gods did dwell Amidst a generous-fashioned, god-like race. Who dwarf our puny semblance, and who won The secret soul of Beauty for their own, While all our art but crudely apes their grace. We gather all the precious relics up, The golden buttons chased with wondrous craft. The sculptured trinkets and the crystal cup, The sheathed, bronae sword, the knife with brazen haft. Fain would we wrest with curious eyes from these Unnumbered long-forgotten histories, The deeds heroic of this mighty man, On whom once more the living daylight beams, -l-H- ■» !.< c - AND JHHB WISH. And Iho aby,. of centuries to span. Ye, could we rouse h™ from hi, blind r.po.e, &nce h« great day whom men called King of ^^■^V Kings, ^ Victorious Agnmemnon? How mi<,ht we Would v.ev/ us as a poor, degenerate race ^asc souled,«„u rnean-proportioned P Wh^eplv SeekZ h l^^""^^'-^^^ '"g Greek's heart-cry, ^ ^ ''^eekuig h.s ancent gods in vacant space. How of the Prince of Peace might he be told W.O knows tHest::r:t^^r;^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Humbly we gaze upon the colossal frame ''' And mutely we accept the mortal shame. Of men degraded from a high estate. ^^ (ill i -^s^ <•% WHB BBAU'FIPUL, JPHB WONDBf^PUIi, OWL SONG, BY L. N. CHAPIN. IHILDREN of the night are we, Dwelling in Obscurity. Where no sunlight ever rests, There we build our lonely nests; When the world is light as day. Hidden from the world we stay; When the world is all asleep, Darkness over land and deep. Then upon some ruined wall. Ancient kirk or pine-tree taH, All the lonely night time through We perch, and crone, " T'whit-t-whoo." Far above the Nile of time Runs the record of our prime. Ere the Sphinx his riddles told, Ere the pyramids were old, Egypt, ere a queen hadst thou, We were then as old as now. Countless ages are our own ; Crumbled empires are our throne. In league with Dust, and Change, and Fate, The world in ru: '» we await. o I ^ Willie, wakmg in the night. Hears that lone sv)und with affright Deep within the darksome wood, That cry so little understood, « T'whit-t'whoo, t'whit-t'whoo! You little boys, who cares for you?" Hides his head as well he may. To keep the dreadful sound away. - <} i^ ■»' .. . "tl m «i|lll ,^^1M' BIRD SONG, "V L. N. CHAPIN. -1- >■' -^jS. TV-*;^-- "■ir I- Children of the light are we Sporting in our liberty. ' S^"V;^«^"n in splendid state, Comes the day to coronate, Then about his throne we Lng. Flittmg by on joyful wing. ^' We are foes of every wrong, W Conquering by the power of I ^Vj song; \C ^u^Il^ ^1°'^°"^^ ""' the air, V^ Children's angels all are we, y Su ^^'"^ ^'^^ ^'th melody. I ^^^ Oh the Sphinx is old and wise, ^ust IS m his drowsy eyes, *- But we've seen the '!^'i-:LM,. nations creejfty And we've sung ^^■^•«r. ^^^"^ all to sleep. ^ When the world has gone to rest ,,, rhen upon the downy „est. ' ifc- 7,^r^ '^"^ ^^^" leaflcurtai^s swing Ppi? £^'^"^ •« ^«^h tireless wing. ^ ■fe;:. ■^''^'*^ ^joyous wa.^lers stay, •^ liiHis,.. bleep to sing another day. ■*W;'- ii!/: Baby, m his own bird's-nelT bleeps, and dreams.and take his rest Mother's love and mother's care Brood and hover everywhere '' When the sun ascends the skie<, Maybe he will ope his eyes. ' ^m;. rfe^ 5°^' ^^ °"^'^t to know, ^ The birds were up an hour ao-o. d ,# 5tHB BBAUiUIPUIi, IBHI WONDRI^PUL, » l < ot ■♦"-M' SAVIOUR! in my woe And in my grief, I breathe thy precious name, And find relief. Burdened with sin and guilt. By night and day — The Lord so great and high, So far away — I have no strength to bear My load to Him ; My feet are faint and worn; The way is dim; Then in my deep despair A star shines clear. Weaving in silver light, , "Jesus is near." "Jesus — the Suffering Heart, To know and feel : JesuS — the Loving Heart, To soothe and heal : Jesus — Redeeming Heart, Open to all : He hears His children's cry, •H-«- t ^ AMD JPHB WISE. n Their feeblest call. Tell Him thy sin and want. Thy every need : He at the Father's throne Will intercede, Bridging the space between The Lord and thee— Let all thy soul be tuned To minstrelsy." Jesus divine I Heart Sacred and pure! Saviour, with loving arms, Faithful and sure! Thou who hast known my grief, -f assion and pain. Aid me to follow Thee, Free from all stain. Orphaned and lone am I, The world is drear; Evil and sin abound, Ever are near; Guard from temptation's wile % night and day. And at the Father's throne Ora pro me. >s0 U 4-Jssss^ I* KJ^ m.'. m m m W 'W "nHH BEAUIPIPUL, IPHB WONDE^PUL, TMB CHRISTMAS TREE, BY WILL CABLETON. Where grows the Christmas tree — The green, deep-rooted Christmas tree? By what brave bil, in what rich soil, Can spring the blooming Christmas tree? Is it fiom prairies broad and deep. Where future harvests softly sleep, And flocks of acres, far and free, Lie level as a waveless sea? Or is it where a breeze-skein twines Between the lofty-plumaged pines? Or where sweet stealthy languor roves Among the Southland orange groves? Or blooms it best 'mid city homes. With wealth's unnumbered spires and domes? Or is it where, through changeful day, The mountain shadows creep and play, And swift a gleaming sun-flood rides Along the tall cliff's dappled sides? High grows the Christmas tree, The sweet, love-planted Christmas tree, Where'er extends the hand of friends; Wherever hea»'t-caressings be. What bears the Christmas tree — The bright, rich-fruited Christmas tree? What gather they, expectant-gay, '■"^H"* AND TTHB WISH. From!S-!h u -^ 'ove-mstracted art ^romoffthe branches of the heart Whara zephyrs fly, and sunbeams shine Wha e'er can brighten to our gaze The r b,,.„g dawn of childhood day,- Wnata'er can feed more dear an. h,gh The fl,„, „f y„„,,,^ ^^ gh TheboodofmanandwomanhoH O b,d old age ,ook smiling round M.^ehaswet,re:::r;ry"^"- Ru:h glows the Christmas tree, With ,^ ''^'•■■'-P'-otected Christmas tree- W..h tokens dear that bring more near God'searth-lentlovatoyouandma. i. •H 4 i.fl« BNCHAffTBD ISLANDS BY B. F. TAYLOR. .J. tl^cnderful stream is the River J^» °fy'"'U the realm of tears. m t t JV — » ft * ■ There's a magical isle up the River of Time, Where the softest of airs are playing; There's a cloudless sky and a tropical clime, And a song as sweet as a vesper chime. And the Junes with the roses are staying. - And the name of this Isle is Long-A-^o And we bury our treasures therel" ' There are brows of beauty and bosoms of snow; There are heaps of dust-but we love them so} There are trinkets, and tresses of hair. ■»> f< - »- 1 I h% i »f1 1 ..„ 1 , ^^^' ^"" then- adopt on tiiVrl topple the,„ ,„ thy soul with hooks oTJed' Of e„.„ee to a ^it" ^ ^7^- '''^-'' Beart that th- opposed ™aybewj:"',hee G.ve evej^v man thine ear, but few thy vo.-c!' Take each man's censure, but reserve ,h J Costiy thy habit as thy pLrse 0"^ ' ""'"'''"■ Fo r "'"'T'' " '''"'y-' *■'- "« gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man: '!« is4 ^Sn fi -♦♦^ JPHB BERUmPUh, 5IHB WOMDBI^PaL, •H^ And they in France, of the best rank and station, Are most select and generous, chief in that. Neither a borrower, nor a lender be: For loa.i oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing^ dulls the cage of husbandry. This above all— to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the nij^ht the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. SUAKKSPBARB. TIf£ FALLS OF NIAGARA, ^t^^ BY JOHN OARDINER CALKINS BKAINARD. — -jeKst- r% |HE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from hi- hollow hand. An •;': ig his bow upon thine awful front, A i .oke in that loud voice which seemed to him "Nha c?welt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, The s.find of many waters; and had bade The flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch his centuries in the eternal rocks. Deep calleth unto deep. And what are we. That hear the question of that voice sublime? O what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpets, by thy thundering side? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? — a light wave That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might. \ 4> O Lo^ ? er fexy. and fountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green, O er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim. Over ihe rainbow's rim, Musical chenr,, soar, singing away I Then, when the gloaming comes. Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be 1 Lmblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling. place, — O to abide in the d*sert with thee! ■if i .'iSNI ^.;i MICROCOPY RESOIUTION TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. : 1.0 ■ 3.6 2.8 ^ 1^ 2.5 2.2 1.8 ^ >IPPLIED IfVMGE Inc 1653 Eost Moin Street Roctiesler, New York 14609 USA (716) «2 - 0300 - Phone (716) 288- 5989 -Fax '4 n n^HB BBAUltlPUL, rpHE WONDBI^PUL, BY WILL M. CABLETON. -•- — 'i& \9to- ^t^a _ _ j^IDE with me, Uncle Nathan? ^ ^/NA/*. I don't care if I do, My poor eld heart's in a hurry; I am anxious to get through. My soul outwalks my body ; my legs are far from strong : An It's mighty kind o' you, doctor, to help the old man along. I'm some'at full o' hustle; there's business to be done , I ve just been to the village to see my youngest son. You used to know him, doctor, ere he his age did get. An' rf I ain't mistaken, yon sometimes see him yet We took him through his boyhood with never a ground for fears ; But somehow he stumbled over his early manhood's years. The landmarks that we showed him he seems to wander from. Though in his heart there never was a better boy than Tom He was quick o' mind and body in all he done and said; But a 1 the gold he reached for it seemed to turn to lead. The devd of grog it caught h.m, an' then he turned an' said, By^that which fed from off him he henceforth would be fed- An that which lived upon him should give him livin' o'er- ' An so he keeps the doggery that's next to Wilson's store' But howsoe'er he wandered, I've al'ays so far heard That he had a sense of honor, an' never broke his word • An h.s mother from the good Lord, she says, has understood That, If he agrees to be sober, he'll keep his promjse good. An so when just tins mornin' these poor old eyes o' mine .Saw all the women round him, a coaxin' him to si-n An when the widow Adams let fly a homespun pm^er An he looked kind o' wild like, and started unaware ' An glanced at her an instant, and then at his kegs o''rum »-hJh i n ^ J, AND JITHB WISE. 8Z I somehow knew in a minute the turnin'.point had come; An he would be as -ood a man as ever yet there's been. Or else let go forever, an' sink in the sea of sin. An' I knew, whatever efforts might carry him to fail There was only one could God help to turn the waverin' scale; And I skulked awav in a hurry-I was bound to do my part — ^ To get the mother, who carries the key to Thomas' heart. She s getting old an' feeble, an' childish in her talk; An' we've no horse and buggy, an' she will have to' walk- But she would be fast to come, sir, the gracious chance \o seize. If she had to crawl to Thomas upon her hands and knees. Crawl ?-walk?_No, not if I know it! So set your mind at rest. Why hang it! I'm Tom's customer, an' said to be his best! ^nt if this blooded horse here will show his usual power, Poor Tom shall see his mother in less than half an hour. SHE ALWAYS WAS TIRED. HERE was an old woman who always was tired. She lived in a house where no help was hired ; Her last words on earth were: » Dear fnends,'l am going iS) Where sweeping ain't done, nor churning, nor sewinC And everything there will be just to my wishes For where they don't eat there's no washing of 'dishes - And though there the anthems are constantly rinoincr ' I, having no voice, will get rid of the singing. " *'' Don't mourn for me now, and don't mourn for me never For I'm going to do nothing, for ever and ever." ' t ■*-H- ' ■ >!'»■ ■<^ ''0 ■ *»* hi IT it !!______j;^^^_^f^l^UL, mu WONDBI^PUL, '■^if^ BY OLIVER WEXDitLI. HOLMES. saw him once before, As he passed by the door; And again The pavement-stones resound As he totters o'er the ground With Ks cane. TJiey say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, A.nd he looks at all he meets' So forlorn ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom , And the names he loved to hear 3.ftfft,.t,,t. A^,± V*-(f'WT¥T ?:Mife*AAA ^"■^'n-'f:^ m J^p«^— i-4<*-.. AND JUKE WISE. Have been carved for ma.y a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said— Poor old ladyj she is dead Long ago — That he haH a Roman nose, And his cheek was hke a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And It rests upon Iiis chin Like a staff; And a crook is in his back. And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here, But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches,_a„d ail that, Are so queer! And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile as I do now At the old forsaken bough ' Where I cling. ^^5i Hi: .^31^ '>*-«— ^tig ^HB B BAU1IIPUL, ITHB WONDBI^PUL, SV III ^ BY WILHELM MUK1.LHR. ARK! the faint bells of the sunken city Peal once more their wonted evening chime I t rom the deep abysses floats a ditty, Wild and wondrous, of the olden 'time. A '^'^IfPJeS' towers, and domes of many stories - - 1 here he buried in an ocean grave,— Unclescried, save when their golden glories Oleam, at sunset, through the lighted wave. And the mariner who had seen them glisten In whose ears those magic bells do sound/ N.ght by night bides there to watch and listen, Though death lurks behind each dark rock round. So the bells of memory's wonder-city Peal for me their old melodious chime- bo my heart pours forth a changeful ditty Sad and pleasant, from the bygone time. Domes and towers and castles, fancy-builded, 1 here lie lost to daylight's garish beams,- There he hidden till unveiled and gilded Glory-gilded by my nightly dreams! ' And then hear I music sweet upknelling From many a well-known phantom band, Ami, through tears can see my natural dwelling t ar off m the spirit's luminous land! •M^^H^ I It.. I lbs and vi nes. Z4 ^URJY^ dozing humblebee! ' ^^1^-- thou art is clime for me; Let them sail for Porto Rique, rnr-oiT heats through seas to seek, I will follow thee alone, Thou animated torrid zonel Zigzag steerer, desert cheerer, Let me chase thy waving lines: -cep me nearer, me thy hearer, Insect lover of the sun, '^'"»!11- ^^^r shrul ' " Joy of thy dominion! ' _ Sailor of the atmosphere • ^.^^ Swimmer through the waves o72> , Voyager of light and noon, > W^ / X^ Epicurean of June ! ,>^ W Wait, I prithee, till I come -^K ^" ^'thout is martyrdom. When the south-wind, i„ May days W.th a net of shining haze ^ ^' fedvers the horizon wall; And with softness touchino- all Tnits the human countenance *' ' With the color of romance; And mfusing subtle heats Turns the sod to violets — Thou in sunny solitudes', Rover of the underwoods, The green silence dost displace With thy mellow, breezy bass. h \2^ 1 Si it***! Iff ■ !a £^£.« q^HB BEAumiPUh, mE wondri^pul7 Hot midsummer's petted crone, Sweet to me thy drowsy tone Tells of countless sunny hours, Long days, and solid banks of flowers; Of gulfs of sweetness without bound, ' In Indian wildernesses found; Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure. Firmest cheer, and birdlike pleasure. Aught I'lisavory or unclean Hath my insect never seen • But violets, and bilberry bells, Maple sap, and daflfbdils, Grass with green flag half-mast high. Succory to match the sky. Columbine with horn of honey. Scented fern, and agrimony. Clover, catchfly, adder's tongue, And briar- roses, dwelt among: All beside was unknown waste, All was picture as he passed Wiser far than human seer. Yellow-breeched philosopher; •M-^ -^ '-■ -€ Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet. Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and take the wheat. When the fierce northwestern blast Cools sea and land so far and fast, Thou already slumberest deep; Woe and want thou canst outsleep; Want and woe, which torture us. Thy sleep makes ridiculous. Sl^HwiHigm ■ >! <■ ^H-« AND IPHB WISE. DOWN ON THE SHORE + ,OWN on the shore, on the sunny shore Where the salt smell cheers the land; Where the tide moves bright under boundless li.ht And he surge on the glittering strand ; Where the children wade in the glittering pool« Or run from the froth in play; ^ ^ ' Where the swift little boats with milk-white wings Are crossing the sapphire bay. ^ And the ship in full sail, with a fortunate gale, Holds proudly on her way Where the nets are spread on the grass to dry, W And asleep, hard by, the fishermen lie, ^ 4> w r . ' *'"' °^ *'^^ ^^^"^ blue sky, I With the hushing wave on the golde; floor m I o smg their lullaby. Down on the shore, on the stormy shorel iieset by a growling sea. Whose mad waves leap on the rocky steep 1-ike wolves up a traveler's tree Where the foam flies wide, and an'angry blast Blows the curlew off, with a screech ; Where the brown seawrack, torn up by the roots Is flung out of fishes' reach- ' Where the tall ship rolls on the hidden shoals And scatters her planks on the beach. Where slate and straw through the village spin, And a cottage fronts the fiercest din. With a sailor's wife sitting sad within. Hearkening the wind and the water's roar Till at last her tears begin. ' €1 9^^ •lis* I »4| 04 -. There is no woman in God's world could say She was more blissfully content than I. But ah I the dainty pillow next my own Is never rumpled by a shining head; My singing birdling from its nest has flown; The little boy I used to kiss is dead. hi II CiHB BEAUltlPUL, JFHB WONDHI^FUL SHERIDAN'S RIDE, Jl -♦■•- BY T. BUCHANAN READ, ■P from the South at the break of day, Bringing to Winchester fresh dismay, The affrighted air with a shudder bore. Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door, The terrible grumble and rumble and roar, Telling the battle was on once more. And Sheridan twenty miles away. And wider still those billows of war Thundered along the horizon's bar, And louder yet into Winchester soiled The roar of that red sea uncontrolled. Making the blood of the listener cold As he thought of the stake in that fiery fray. And Sheridan twenty miles away. But there is a road from Winchester town, j)' A good, broad highway leading down; M And there, through the flash of the morning light- 4 A steed as black as the steeds of night, Was seen to pass as with eagle flight As if he knew the terrible need. He stretched away with his utmost sjjeed : Hill rose and fell— but his heart was gay. With Sheridan fifteen miles away. Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thund'ring south. The dust like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet sweeping faster and faster,' Foreboding to traitors the doom of disaster; The heart of the steed and the heart of the'master Were beating like prisoners assaulting their walls, Impatient to be where the battle field calls: -H>- 5^ AND IHHB WISE. 103 With bhendan only ten miles away. Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind • And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire. Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire ; But lol he is nearing his heart's desire- He ,s snuffing the smoke of the roaring fiay, With Sheridan only five miles away. The first that the General saw was the groups Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops; TltuZ-l :~'"'''' *^ '^-'-^ ^^^"- *°^d 1^'- both, Then stnking his spurs with a terrible oath. He dashed down the line 'mid a storm of hLzas, 11 e sight of the master compelled it to pause. By the flash of his eye, and his red nostrils' play. He seemed to the whole great army to say: •« I have brought you Sheridan all the way f-rom Winchester down to save the dayl" Hurrah, hurrah for Sheridan 1 Hurrah, hurrah for horse and man » And when their statues are placed on high Under the dome of the Union sky The American soldier's Temple of' Fame, There with the glorious General's name Be It said with letters both bold and bright. ••Here is the steed ihat saved the day p !!'"i?'"^ Sheridan into the fight Fro^x Winchester—twenty miles away!" ^1: !**■ ISM ' i' I I'!! I I If 1 1/ y « > H ' i 104 niHE BBAUIIIPUL, 1THB WOMDEI^PUL SOR ftOVf^P^^ BARt-'^^' « THE OLD OOUPLB (/• ' feSp ( ! hV" I • Itc p-i d. AKD IPHB WISE. iOfi IP J1*T' ■^ iJ^' vvvf ^ l^' ^ ^J^' i>^..<^> ^ ^ ^'^^^ ,^ ^^^ :..^^:^^^'.^ ^"^ .^\r.l^^t^ v^ i..t4 ar' , -^ xj.<^ 4 af ^2tK:i^^ jj>^* ,t^ ti^^^ >rCL.r^ ^ J. h iM JCB CAR^- r«e — ^"-i^ — » t < • 'r-^ If m r 109 WHS BBRl.rpiPUh, ItHB WONDBf^PUIi Thu King of jjenmark-s Ridb. «V CAROLINK NORTON. tJH" ' — #' !€ ■■ "TORD was brought to the Danish King (Hurry I) That the love of his heart lay suffering, And pined for the comfort his voice would ^ (OI ride as though you were flying!) ''W' ^®**^^ ^^ 'oves each golden curl m On the brow of that Scandinavian girl Than the rich crown jewels of ruby and pearl; And his Rose of the Isles lay dying. Thirty nobles saddled with speed; (Hurryl) Each one mounted a gallant steed Which he kept for battle, and days of need; (01 ride as though you were flying!) Spurs were struck in the foaming flank; Worn out chargers staggered and sank; Bridles were slackened, and girths were burst, But ride as they would the King rode first, For his Rose of the Isles lay dying. His nobles are beaten, one by one; (Hurryl) They have fainted and faltered, and homeward gone ; • His little fair page now follows alone, F »r strength and for courage trying! The .'-ni. looked back on that faithful child, Wai; w vU. *ace that answering smiled; They p/ijtc. \ ih- aiaw-brid^e with clattering din, ' ~ — ' ■ >! < » ■ .„ i « t -♦i I AND IPHB WISH Then he dropped, nnd only the Kin,,^ rode in. Where the Rose of the Isles lay dying. The King blew a blast on his bugle horn- (Silence!) No answer came, hut faint and forlorn A., echo returned on the cold gray morn. Like the breath of a spirit sighing. The castle portal stood grimly wide- None welcomed the King from that weary ride; For dead, m the 'ight of the dawning day, The pale, sweet form of his welcomer lay. Who had yearned for his voice while dying. The panting steed, with a drooping crest, Stood weary. The King returned from her chamber of rest. Ihe thick sobs choking in his breast; And that dumb companion eyeing, The tears gushed forth, which he strove to check ; He bowed his head upon his neck; «OI steed, that every nerve didst strain. Dear steed, our ride hath been in vain To the hall where my love lay dying.' -*>*- . » BKN JONSON. Her house is all of Echo made Where never dies the sound; And as her brows the clouds invade. Her feet do strike the ground. am iiii !!i i III VM ^ fi^ » 1 4- !£. 5IHB BBAU»niPUli, >UHB WONDI^PUL, ' *>i i a t NIGHT. The hearth of home is beaming With rays of holy Hjjht, And loving- eyes are gleaming, As fall the shades of night; And while thy steps are leaving The circle pure and bright, A tender voice half grieving. Says, « Don't stay iate to-night." The world in which thou movest. Is busy, brave and wide; The world of her thou lovest Is at the ingle side; She waits for thy warm greeting; Thy smile is her delight, Her gentle voice entreating, Says, « Don't stay late to-night." The world— bold, inhuman- Will spurn thee, if thou fall ; The love of one pure woman Outlasts and shames them all; The children will cling 'round thee. Let fate be dark or bright; At home no shaft can wound thee, Then « Don't stay late to night." rv: — ^ -» l < . » t ^ AND IPHB WISE. — "^ 109 ll BY J. O. HOLLAND. EAVEN is not reached at a single bound; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, X* "^^ """""^ *° '^' summit, round by round. 1 count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God,— Lifting the soul from the common sod W To a purer air and a broader view. A We rise by the things that are under feet; By what we have mastered of good and gain; By the pride deposed, and the passion slain. And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we trust. When the morning calls us to life and Hght, But our hearts grow weary, and, ere the night. Our lives are trailing in sordid dust. We hope, we resolve, we aspire, we pray, And we think that we mount the air on wings Beyond the recall of sensual things, While our feet still cling to the heavy clay. Wings for the angels, but feet for the men I We may borrow the wings to find the v/ay_ We may hope and resolve, and aspire and pray; But our feet must rise, or we fall again. Only in dreams is a ladder thrown From the weary earth to the sapphire walls; ■*^ I »•■••«' }i*«1 >4 I t HO ^HB BBAUIPIPUL, 5tHB WONDBI^PUL But the dreams depart and the vision falls. And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone. Heaven is not reached at a single bound; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. SOONER OR LATER. -1 •^-»»>- -e,^. OONER oi- later the storm shall beat Over my slumbers from Lead to feet; Sooner or later the winds shall rave ^ In the long grass over my grave. I shall not heed them where I He; Nothing their sound shall signify; ^ Nothing the headstone's fret of rain; Nothing to me the dark day's pain. ' ;, Sooner or later the sun shall shine With tender warmth on that mound of mine: booner or later in summer air Clover and violet blossom there. I shall not feel, in that deep laid rest, The sheeted light fall over my breast; Nor ever note in those hidde:x hours, * The wind-blown breath of the tossing flowers. Sooner or later the stainless snows Shall add their hush to my mute repose; Sooner or later shall slant and shift, And heap my bed with their dazzling drift. -^ w fe. ss -J f AND WHB WISH. Chill though that frozen pall shall seem, Its touch no colder can make the dream That recks not the sweet and sacred dread, Sh.oudmg the city of the dead. Sooner or later the bee shall come And hll the noon with its golden hum: Sooner or later, on half-poised wing, The blue-bird's warble about me ring. Ring, and chiri-up, and whistle with glee, Nothmg h,s music shall mean to me • None of these beautiful things shall Lnow How soundly their lover sleeos below. Sooner or later, far out in the night. The stars shall over me wing their flight; Sooner or later the darkling dews Catch the white sparks in their silent ooze. Never a ray shall part the gloom That wraps me round in that kindly tomb; Peace shall be perfect for lip and brow- Sooner or later_oh, why not now? m •^^^-v-v- rif£ BACLB, BY ALFRED TENNYSON. JE Clasps the crag with hooked hands; f Close to the sun in lonely lands ^m Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls. And like a thunderbolt he falls. f^\ {Mi ■*-!<•. H^ mUB BBAUmiPUL, THE WOMDEI^PUL, SUPPOSE, ■■^^ — V ^ 1 t I I «:^©N^ BY FHCBBB CAUY. ./9{-^'-Sr— (® S 19«-B^ UPPOSE, my little lady, Your doll should break her head, Could you make it whole by crying Till your eyes and nose were red ? And wouldn't it be pleasantcr To treat it as a joke ; And say you're glad 'twas dolb 's And not your head that brole? Suppose you're dreised for walking, And the rain ccmes pouring down, Will it clear off any sooner Because yo - scoiu una frown? And woulan't it be nicer For you to smile than pout. And so make sunshine in the house When there is none without? Suppose your task, my little man, Is very hard to get. Will it make it any easier. For you to sit and fret? And wouldn't it be wiser. Than waiting like a dunce, To get to work in earnest. And learn the thing at once? Suppose that some boys have a horse, And some a coach and pair, Will it tire you less while walking To say "It isn't fair"? .%; 5— < I J^ -IP ■i4t BIRD AROHITBOTDBB, tl And wouldn't it be nobler To keep your temper sweet, And in your heart be thankful You can walk upon your feet?. Suppose the world don't please you, Nor the way some people do, Do you think the whole creation Will be altered just for you ? And isn't it, my boy or girl. The wisest, bravest plan, Whatsoever comes, or doesn't come, To do the be*=t you can. -*^ ^-**- BO N'T CROWD, ^^•— 4:>B^ BY CHARLES DICKENS. pN'T crowd, the world is large enough For you as well as me: ^ The doors of all are open wide— The realm of tliought is free. In all earth's palaces \ oij are right To choose the best you can- Provided that you do not try To crowd some other man. Don't crowd the good from out your heart. By fostering ail that's bad, - But give to every virtue room— ^ The best that may be had ; To each day's record such a one That you may well be proud; Give each his riglit-give each his room, And never try to crowd. ^1 «'' -*4f 114 IPHB BHAUTIPUL, IPHB WONDEl^PUL ■»'^ > " LITTLE BARBARA, BY MRS, CLARA DOTY BATB8. busy spirit is Barbara, Little darlt-eyed Barbara, As there at the sunUt pane she stands, The half-knit stocking in her hands. The swift thread follows the fingers' play, As she holds it aloft in the German way, And the needles glitter, as if to say, " We're working for little Barbara." A gentle creature is Barbara, Little brown-haired Barbara. The smiles are constant on her lips, As the weaving thread at her finger-tips. And I know, as she follows loop and seam. In her girlish brain some tender theme Runs, stitch by stitch, into a dream That pleases little Barbara. What is it, little Barbara? The knitting dream, sweet Barbara ? I half surmise that you believe When comes the blessed Christmas Eve, That a step across the hearth will flit, And the very stocking that now you knit. Will be left with a wonderful gift in it — Kriss Krlngle's gift — ah, Barbara! Kriss Kringle does watch, Barbara; He loves a good child, Barbara; , — _ — ^ , • 1 AND THE WISE. He sees, thouo-h neither strong nor tall- feome service you would do for all • ' He sees your feet so quick to start,* Your hands so ready to do their part: And you know he has a large warm heart- bo knit away, little Barbara. Vk ,v CHICAGO, — •$©» BV BRET IIARTE. ^LACKENED and bleeding, helpless, pa„.i„g, piL prone, ^ ^' f% On the charred fragments of her shattered throne Lies she who stood but yesterday alone. Queen of the west I by some enchanter tau^^ht _i To hft the glory of Aladdin's court. Then lose the spell that all that wonder wrought. Like her own prairies by some chance seed sown. Like her own pranies in one brief day grown L.ke her own prairies in one fierce night mown, She lifts her voice, and in her pleading call We hear the cry of Macedon to Paul- The cry for help that makes her kin to all. But happy with wan fingers may she feel ^ The silver cup hid in the proffered meal- ^ Ihe gifts her kinship and our loves reveal &J-SO — ■!» f <— — .- » la •H- -•-H- -M-*- 116 I. h r^c IPHH BBAUiPIPUL, THE WONDHP^PUL, rjy^ OTHER WORLD, BY HARRIET BEECHXR OTOWI. T lies around us like a cloud, A world we do not see ; Yet the sweet closing of an eye J? Ma}' bring us there to be. Its gentle breezes itxn our cheek; Amid oin* worldly cares Its gentle voices whisper love, And mingle with our prayers. Sweet hearts around us throb and beat, Sweet helping hands are stirred, Ana palpitates the veil between With breathings almbst heard. The silence — awful, sweet, and calm — They have no power to break; For mortal words are not for them To utter or partake. So thin, so soft, so sweet they glide. So near to press they seem, — They seem to lull us to our rest, And melt into our dream. And in the hush of rest they bring 'Tiseasy now to see How lovely and how sweet a pass The hour of death may be. To close the eye, and close the ear, Rapt in a trance of bliss, And gently dream in loving arms To swoon to that — from this. -»-«■ • > if \ ^ i AND. THE WISE Scarce knowing if we wake or sleep, Scarce asking where, we are, To feel all evil sink away, All sorrow and all care. Sweet souls around usl watch us still Press nearer to our side, Into our thoughts, into our prayers. With gentle. helpings glide. Let death between us be as naught, A dried and vanished stream : Yourjoy be the reality. Our suffering life the dream. A^B^ HAMPSmME, ^ "^ THE Mountain Maid, New Hampshirel Her steps are light and free, Whether .he treads the lofty heights — . Or follows the brooks to the sea! Her eyes are clear as the skies that hang Over her hills of snow,; And her iiair is darJc as the shadows - That fall where the fir-trees grow^ The fir-trees, slender and somber, That climb from the vales below. Sweet is her voice, as the robin's, In a lull of the wind. qf March, Wooing the shy arbutus ' ■ At theroots of the budding larch; . And rich as the ravishing echoes lis THE BEAUTIFUL, THE WONDBI^PUL, On still Frauconia's Lake, When the boatman winds his magic horn, And the tongues of the wood awake. While the huge stone face forgets to frown And the hare peeps out of the brake. The blasts of the dark December 1 But deepen the bloom on her cheek, % And the snows rear her temples more glorious. Than goddess e'er won from the Greek. She welcomes the fervid summer, And flies to the sounding shore Where bleak Boar's Head looks seaward. Set in the billows' roar. And dreams of her sailors and fishers Till cool days come once more. Then how fair is the Maiden, Crowned with the scarlet leaves. And wrapped in the tender, misty veil That the Indian Summer weaves! While the aster blue, and the golden rod, And immortelles, clustering sweet, From Canada down to the sea have spread • A carpet for her feet ; And the faint witch-hazel buds unfold, Her latest smile to greet. She loves the song of the reapers. The ring of the woodman's steel, The whirr of the glancing shuttle, The rush of the tireless wheel. But, if war befalls, her sons she calls From mill and forge and lea. And bids them uphold her banner Till the land from strife is free; =1 £?io— >H- AND iPHE WISE. il» And she ' ew. her onk, into vengeful ships. That .^eep the foe from the sea. the Mountain Maid, New Hnmpshirel For beauty, and wit, and will, 1 II mate her to-day with the fairest That rules on the plain or the hill f New York is a princess in purple, % the gems of her cities crowned; Illinois with the garland of Jeres Her tresses of gold has bounds Queen of the limitless prairies Where the great sheaves heap the ground; And out by the far Pacific Their gay young sisters say, "Ours are the mines of the Indies And the treasures of broad Cathay" And the dames of the South walk, statelv, Where the fig and the orange fall, " And hid in the high magnolias, The mocking thrushes call • But the Mountain Maid, New Hampsliire, Is the rrrest of them all I WOMAN, A. HUX. First, then, a woman will, or won't, depend on'f If she will do-t she will; and there'l un"^"' ™' ' But iT she won't,since safe and sonnd your tr^st l Fear .s affront, and jealousy injustice. ' ■*+-« 9, Hi I gy ° > !<■ ■ — — J *^^_ ^[^ BEAUltlPUL, IPHB WONDBF^HUL, f THE WATER MULL. BY URIGADIER-OBNKRAI. M'cALLUM. , ISTEN to the water-mill Through the livelong day How the clinking of the wheel Wears the weary hours away. Languidly the autumn wind Stirs the withered leaves; On the field the reapers sing, Binding up the sheaves; And a proverb to my mind, As a spell is cast : " The mill will never g d With the water that is oast." Summer winds revive no more Leaves strewn over earth and main, And the sickle ne'er can reap The gathered grain again; And the rippling stream flows on ♦ Tranquil, deep, and still- Never gliding back again To the water-mill. Truly speaks the proverb old, With a meaning vast; " The mill will never grind With the water that is past." -»M— * *.w O the wasted hours of life That have swiftly drifted by! O the good we might have done I Gone! lost without a sigh! Love that we might once have saved By a single kindly word' "^ « » ■ >l < 9^ T. ZX x; Thoughts conceived, but ne'er expressed Perishing, unpenn'd, unheard I Take the proverb to thy soul— Take and clasp it fast: "The mill v/ill never grind With the water that is past ! " OI love thy God and fellow man, Thyself consider last. For come it will when thou must scan Dark errors of the past; And when the fight of life is o'er, And earth recedes from view— And heaven in all its glory shines, Midst the pure, the good, the true— ^hen you'll see more clearly The proverb deep and vast: " The mill will never grind With the water that is past." Take the lesson to thyself, Loving hearts and true; Golden years are fleeting by; Youth is passing too. Learn to make the most of life, Lose no happy day; Time will ne'er return sweet joys Neglected, thrown away. Leave no tender word unsaid, But love while love shall last— " The mill will never grind With the water that is past." * Work while yet the sun c ^th shine, J©j Man of strength and wih •^h-^ -**- ISS 5IHB BBALIIIIPUL, IPHB WONDBI^PUL, Never does the streamlet glide Unless by the mill; Wait not till to-morrow's sun Beams brightly on thy way, All that thou canst call thine own Lies in the phrase " to-day." Power, intellect, and blooming health May not, will not always last; " The mill will never grind With the water that is past." WHEN THE COMET STRIKES, BY I,. N. CHAPIN. HE comet is speeding- on its way; From stately heights in the sun's bright ray. And cloud-land piles of gold and grav. Where many a bright orb softly whirls, Its glorious bannered train unfurls. When the comet strikes this dark earth's ci'own, With holy fire from the sun brought down ; The giant systems of wrong shall fly, To avoid the bore of its nuclei, And the bittern of evil shall spread swift-sail, For fear of the rasp of its harrowing tail.jj" >-+ vV- ;^ fi) When the comet strikes, as strike it must, It shall grind the power of crime to dust, And the hate entrenched shall blanche and quake, To feel the reed of its power break. Ye?* «-^ . ^ -m£ -* ..^ HJh-^ -*•" ^~^h- ^-nih AMD »nHE WISH. ^--HH When the comet strikes, the thieves that rob Ihe temples of justice and of God Shall be driven thence, and made to flee. By the thousand-fold scourge of its nebula. When the comet strikes, the bolt shall fall On the treason that shams and betrays us all. On the lust of power enthroned in state, And the fashion of making a virtue of hate; On human tigers that hide their claws, And masquerade under forms of 'laws' On the planted heresy of poison seeds! And the hatefuler crop of hateful deeds. That day shall a bell be hung in the sky, To proclaim the hour of redemption nigh, And men shall be sweetly and hopefully humming That song of the bondmen f-ee • " ^l"";^; ^^ "°^ that the Kingdom's coming And the year of jubilee." ^ THE AIM OP LIFE, PHILIP JAMKS BAILEY. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the West • ww"farbio:r*r°" '"" ;•" ^^«- ^^ ^^^^ Mf^7 K ! ^^^^P' ''" •* «^'P8 along their veins Life IS but a meaiis unto an end; that end, Begmnmg mean and end to all things, -lood I The dead have all tho •»«**' i%.. 4-H. 11 liii m mUE BBAUllIPUL, IPHE WONDBI^PUL, ■»t 4 , oUa ii^€'iiii^^iiii^^iiii^^iiii^^iiij^#nii^^iii [ iw*— ——«■■■»-—■.■..■....— „„,-y„„--- ■■■■■■■■■■^■■■. [he fretted waters of the bay ^6^ Roll golden in the Y rising sun, And swiftly o'er the shin- ing way , The ships go gliding one by one. Athwart the hills that grandly lie, Dipping their bare feet in the sea, The sails, like white clouds floating by, Cast quaint, quick shadows as they flee. mf^^m Far out, where sky and ocean run To one bright line of light and foani. Those motes that glisten in the sun Are happy vessels bounding home. And here, amid the city whirled By toil and strife and. care, we stand, And look upon that ocean-world As souls look on the Promised Land Here, all things weary seem, and worn ; Our eyes are strained with dust and tears ; But there, whence those bright motes are borne. How pure and lovely each appears! ieirio— T— r* a AND JPHB WISE. I^^^SSHS^yn 'Tis so; for now, were we with those Whose eyes have, sure, a longing gleam On the far-coming ships, who knows How precious might this haven seem! What storms and perils hardly passed— What days of doubt and nights of fear- Have strained the hearts that now, at last Draw nearer home, and still more near! This is a type of all our days: For ever holding up the glass To gaze far off through golden rays On things whereto we may not pass. For ever thinking joys that are, Are sodden, dull and full of pain; And those that glisten from afar Hold all the gloss and all the gain! ^^ ^ f^B ARE FREE. TENNYSON -ilMW^ ^'"^s, as at their hour of birth, ll' 'iS^ Leaning upon the ridged sea. Breathed low around the rolling earth, With mellow prelude, « We are free." The streams through many a lilied row, Down-caroling to the crisped sea Low-tinkled with a bell-Hke flow Atween the blossom « We are free.'' 'imi, I "T***— ^ ^HB BBAUIIIPUL, JPHB WONDBI^PUL, THE HIGHWAY COW, -♦-^- — \/V»*<» HE hue of her hide was a dusky brown, Her body was lean, and her neck was slim, One horn turned up and the other turned down, She was keen of vision and long of limb; y With a Roman nose and a short stump tail, And ribs like the hoops on a home-made pail. Many a mark did her body bear; ft. .a had been a target for all things known; On many a scar the dusky hair Would grow no more where it once bad grown ; Many a passionate, parting shot Had left upon her a lasting spot. Many ana many a well-aimed stone, Many a brickbat of goodly size, And many judgel, swiftly thrown, Had brought the tears to her bovine eyes; Or had bounded off from her bony back, With a noise like the sound of a rifle crack. Many a day had she passed in the pound For helping herself to her neighbor's com; Many a cowardly cur and hound Had been transfixed on her crumpled horn; Many a teapot and old tin pail Had the farmer boys tied to her time-worn tail. Old Deacon Gray was a pious man, Though sometimes tempted to be profane, When many a weary mile he ran To drive her out of his growing grain. <> - ^O**' I c» ^ t AND IUHE WISE. r Sharp were the pranks she used to play I T° g^^' her fill and to get away. ^ ^ She knew when the deacon went to town: She wisely watched him when he wrt bv He never passed h - without a frown ^' And an evil gleam in each angry eve- He would crack his whip in a su^rlyJr;. And drive along in his "one-hoss shay!^ '^tml^r 'k""'''' ^'^ ^^^^^ t° call, L,ft„,g hjH bars with her crumpled horn- Nimbly scaling his garden wall, ^ "' Helpmg herself to his standing corn • Eatmghis abbage, one by one, ' Hurrying home when her work was done. His human passions were quick to rise. And stndmg forth with a savage crJ WuhAiry blazing from both his'eyeT As hghtnmgs flash in a summer sky. Redder and redder his face would gro^ And after the creature he would go. ' Over the garden, round and round Breaking his pear and apple trees; Trampmg lus melons into the ground. Overturning his hives of bees; Leavmg him angry and badly stung, Wishmg the old cow's neck was wLg. The mosses grew on the garden wall: rhe years went by with their work and play The boys of the village grew strong and tall ' And the gray haired farmers passllawa'"' One by one as the red leaves fall ^' But the highway cow outlived them all. 137 l » Then heaven irie, the carlh if i. be in .une Ami over „ softly her warm ear la« Wo hea l,fe murmur, or see it g|i„en • ■ Every clod feek,,,i,„f^^^^^'"'". ^H lllPtinct within i> fK„* P^*-« An7 ^ ''^-'^^^^ ^"'> towers, ^^. And grop.„g blindly above it for light * ' V ,r ^^^ '"^>' ^*^" be seen The cows^'^'f "' T'"''"^ ^"^ ^-^"^y^J wsnp starts in meadows green An?.Cr:t::vra?r'''^""'"''^ ''"''«. The,i.ibir.i.r^[,;r;^:,t^^^^ Ant ,hi,'n""'"™°"^"'=''-« W.,h the deluge of summer it receives- And the Wtiuber dumb breast flutS; and He sings^tolhe wide world, and she to her In the ;.e^ea.. of Nature, Which son, is ■T^. «. .»«' m I i THH BBAUTIPUL, IPHB WONDBl^PUL, RESIGNATION. BV HBNRY WADSWORTH LONGFKLLOW. ^)i^v5\^ — »»c ; ri • -v/^ fHERE is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair J The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead! The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted! Let us be patient! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise. But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death! What seems so is transition: This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our afTection, But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection. And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, n ID •Tfr " 41 i I AND rpHE WISE. n Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution i>lie lives whom we call dead. '.; Day after day we think what she is doing m those bright realms of air; Behold her grown more fair. Thus do we walk with her, and keen nnK.. b Tu^ V J , . , » """ Keep unbroken The bond winch nature gives Not as a child shall we again behold her; l*or when, with raptures wild In our emoraces we again enfold her, . bhe will not be a child: Clothed with celestial grace- And beautiful with all the soul's expansion. Shall we behold her face. And though at limes, impetuous with emotion And anguish long suppressed, The swelling heart heaves moaning like the ocean -That cannot be at rest,— . "cean, We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may not wholly stay; ^ Be ^lence sanctifying, not concealinc The grief that must have way. ' 1?, y 1 iC 9^. -•-M- 1 IPHH BEAUTIFUL, 'PHES WONDEi^PliL, DRIVING HOME THE CO WS, ' "*]1|UT of the clover and blue-eyed grass, He turned them into the river-lane; One after another he let them pass, Then fastened the meadowr bars again. Under the willows and over the hill, * He patiently followed their sober pace; "^,1^ The merry whistle for once was still. And something shadowed the sunny face. Only a boy ! and his fatiier had said He never could let his youngest go: **" Two already were lying dead ^ Under the feet of the trampling foe. But afier the evening work was done, And the frogs were loud in the meadow- swamp. Over his shoulder he slung his gun. And stealthily followed the foot-path damp — Across the clover, and through the wheat, With resolute heart and purpose grim. Though cold was the dew on his hurrying feet, And the blind bats' flitting startled him. Thrice since then had the lanes been white. And the orchards sweet with apple-bloom ; And now, when the cows come back at night, The feeble father drove them home. For news had come to the lonely farm That three were lying where two had lain; ■» H * ■ — ^"^ ■ t f «» (I t AND IPHH WISH. IM And the old mnn's trcniulons, palsied arm ^ould never lean on a son's again. The summer day grew cool and late; He went for the cows when the work was done ; But down the lane, as he opened the gate. He saw them coming, one by one,— Bnndle, Ebony, Speckle, and Bess, Sshakmg their horns in the evening wind. Cropping the buttercups out of the grass — But who was it following close behind? Loosely swung in the idle air The empty sleeve of army blue, And worn and pale, from the crisp ing hair. Looked out a face that the fither knew:— For Southern prison, will sometimes yawn, And yield their lead unto life again • And the day that comes with a cloudy'dawn In golden ^lory at last -.nay wane. The great tears sprang to their meeting eyes • For the heart must speak when the lips are dumb, And under the silent evening skies Together they followed the cattle home. ■ t ivm I m k >-^^ ^^^^^^^AUmPUh, .THE WONDBI^P"L, o£/^ omv, 1^ f-3 "^ MARGARET E. 8AN08TER. I liad known in the morning How wearily all the day The words unkind VVould trouble my mind I said when you went away; had been more careful, darling, Nor given you needless pain; But we vex « our own" With look and tone We may never take back again. For though in the quiet evening You may give us the kiss of peace, Yet It might be That never for me The pain of the heart should cease. How mrny go forth in the morning That never come home at night! And hearts have broken For harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right. We have careful thoughts for the stranger . And smiles for the sometime guest; But oft for " our own" The bitter tone, Though we love "our own" the best. Ah! l,ps with the curve impatienti AM brow with that look of scorn! Twere a cruel fate j Were the night too late •"^^->>^ To undo the work of the morn. ->^-4, • » AND THE WISE. ISS I UNDER THE VIOLETS, BV OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. ,ER hands are cold; her face is white; No more her pulses come and go; 1^ ^^"^ ^^^^ "''® *^"^ *° ^'^^ ^"^' ^'g'lt; A ^°^'' *^^ ^^''^ vesture, snow on snow, My And la- her where the violets blow. But not beneath a graven stone. To plead for tears with alien eyes; A slender cross of wood alone Shall say that here a maiden lies In peace beneath the peaceful skies. And gray old trees of hugest limb Shall wheel their circling shadows round. To make the scorching sunlight dim, That drinks the greenness from the ground, And drop their dead leaves on her mound. ' When o'er their boughs the squirrels run, And through their leaves the robins call, And, ripening in the autumn sun. The acorns and the chestnuts fall, Doubt not that she will heed them all. For her the morning choir shall sin.- Its matins from the branches high^ And every minstrel voice of sprmg, That trills beneath the April sky, Shall greet her with its eariiest cry. When, turning round their dial track. Eastward the lengthening shadows pass, Her little mourners clad in black, • r ^ -^ . .11 rj' i'i THE BEAaiJIPUL, IPHB WONDBI^PUL, "H^" The crickets sliding through the grass, Shall pipe for her an evening mass. At last, the rootlets of the trees Shall find the prison where she lies. And bear the buried dust they seize In leaves and blossoms to the skies, So may the soul that warmed it rise! If any, born of kindlier blood, Should ask what maiden lies oelow. Say only this: A tender bud. That tried to blossom in the snow. Lies withered where the violets blow. /^^/I^ INEZ. BY THOMAS HOOD. H, saw ye not Fair Inez? She's gone into the west, ^ To dazzle when the sun is down, ^S^^ And rob the worid of rest. She took our daylight with her, The smiles that we love best. With morning blushes on her cheek, . And pearls upon her breast. Oh, turn again, fair Inez, Before the fall of night. For fear the moon should shine alone. And stars unrivaled bright: And blessed will the lover be , That walks beneath their light, And breathes the love against thy cheek I dare not even write I 1 — , , m 4. h^' f—OS f! i ,f-wnt' i^imi h *l t** It -a •f BBHT id AND JFHB WISE. Would I had been, fair Inez, That gallant cavalier Who rode so gaily by thy side, And whispered thee so near I Were there no bonny dames at home, Ur no true lovers here. That he should cross the seas to win The dearest of the deai? I saw thee, lovely Inez, Descend along the shore, With a band of noble gentlemen, And banners wav'd before; And gentle youth and maidens gay. And snowy plumes they wore- It would have been a beauteous dream, " It had been no more! Alas I alas! fair Inez! She went away with song. With music w." mg on her steps. And shoutings of the throng; But some were sad, and felt no mirth, But only music's wrong. In sounds that sang farewell, farewell, To her youVe loved so Ions, Farewell, farewell, fair Inez, That vessel never bore So tair a lady on its deck. Nor danced so light before. Alas, for pleasure on the sea And sorrow on the shore I The smile that blest one lover's heart Has broken many more. m «f» ■>T| %i . — 4> AND IPHE WISE In lofty lines, 'Mid palms and pines, And olives, aloes, elms, and vines Sorrento swings On sweetest wings. Where Tasso's spirit soars and sings, I heed not, if My rippling skiff Float swift or slow from cliff to cliff;— > With dreamful eyes My spirit lies Under the walls of Paradise. Under the walls Where swells and falls The Bay's deep breast at in- tervals; At peace I lie, Blown softly by, A cloud upon this liquid sky. The day, so mild. Is Heaven's own child, With earth and ocean reconciled; The airs I feel Around me steal. Are murmuiing to the murmuring keel •mix i^i^Hfl j<* i' [ 148 WHE3 BBAUIPIPUL, JHHB WONDBI^PUL, ■*+-«— ^ --^ AND IPHB WISE. Yon deep bark goes Where Traffic blow8, From lands of sun to lands of snows; This happier one, Its course is run, From lands of snow to lands of sun. O happy ship. To rise and dip. With the blue crystal at your lip I O happy crew. My heart with you Sails, and sails, and sings anew! No more, no more The worldly shore Upbraids me with its loud uproarl With dreamful eyes My spirit lies Under the walls of Paiadisel r -KM" m fit III 14 IPHB BEAUltlPUIi, IHHH WONDBI^PUL, * »8 4 f^ f l SMOKE. »y UBNBY DAVID THORIAV. !2fi- ,IGHT-WINGED Smokel Icarian bird, M king thy pinions in tliy upward flight; Lark V ithout song, and messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Dai .vcning the light, and blotting out the sun; Go thou, my intense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. i#. :=$)K -JH}t^ A WOMAN'S QUESTION, BY ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTOR. ••o^» EFORE I trust my fate to thee. Or place my hand in thine, Before I let thy future give Color and form to mine, Before I peril all for thee. Question thy soul to-night for me. I break all slighter bonds, nor feel A shadow of regret : Is there one link within the past That holds thy spirit yet? Or is thy faith as clear and free As that which I can pledge to thee? ■4^-H" '} -4-^ AND »FHB WISH. Does there within thy dimmest dreams A possible future shine, Wherein thy hTo could henceforth breathe, Untouched, unshared by mine? " so, at any pain or cost, O tell me before all is lost I Look deeper still: if thou canst feel, Within thy inmost soul, That thou hast kept a porH .„ v.,^,^ While I have staked tfcH-hoie * Let no false pity spare th i But in true mercy tell rnc ow, I« there within thy heart a need That mine cannot fulfil? Oiie chord that any other hand Could better wake or still? Speak now, lest at some future day My whole life wither and decay. Lives there within thy nature hid The demon spirit, change. Shedding a passing glory still On all things new and strange? » It may not be thy fault alone,- But shield my heart against thine own. Couldst thou withdraw thy hand one day And answer to my claim, That fate, and that to-day's mistake- Not thou,~had been to bJame? W soothe their conscience thus; but thou Wilt surely warn and save me now. , "*4ff ►ijl— ^ g^ H m -•* JPHB BBAUIlIPliL, THE WOKDEl^PUL, ■ ^-=-^ -^y^ Nay, answer «o/, — I dare not hear; The words would come too late; Yet 1 would spare thee all remorse, So comfort thee, my fate: Whatever on my heart may fall. Remember, I would risk it all! AGAIN, [The remark of a friend is true: "There is no such thing as renewing old enthusiasms."] l-JgW-^v*— i- *^ |H, sweet and fair! oh, rich and rare! That day so long ago, Tlie Autumn sunshine everywhere, '^^ The heather all aglow, The ferns were clad in cloth of gold, 1 The waves sang on the shore; Such suns will shine, such waves will sing. Forever, evermore. Ch, fit and few ! oh, tried and true ! 1 ho friends who met that day. Each one the other's spirit knew; And so in earnest pl^iy The hours flew past, until at last The twilight kissed the shore ; We said, « Such days shall come again Forever, evermore." One day agaia, no cloud of pr"n A shadow o'er us casf, And yet we strove in vain, in vain. To conjure up *he past; H|K-^ ^ ■*. ^ » tf Like but unlike, the sun that shone, The waves that beat the shore. The words we said, the songs vvc sung, Ljke-unhke—evermore. For ghosts unseen crept in between. And when our songs flowed free. feang discords in an undertone And marred tile harmony, ' "The past is ours, not yours," thev said, The waves that beat the shore', ThougHLke the same, are not the s.me, Uhl never, nevermore!" P=**==4 — T/fB GUIDE POST. 'YE know the road to th' bar'l o' flour? At break o' day let down the bars. tm Till f ' ^'^^'^^-fi-W, hour by hour, ^ T.11 sundown-ves, till shine o' stars. Vou peg away the livdong day Nor loaf about, nor gape arou'nd; And that's the road to the tbrashi„4«or And mto the kitchen, I'll be bound! D' ye know the ^aa where dollars l^ys? Fdlow the red cents, here and the«: For .f a man leaves them, I guess, He won't find dollars anywhere. D'ye know the road to Sunday's rest? Jist don't o' week-days be afeard; ■ ;xjr-'7,r/Stim.:i ■^O' ^ ij i g ai ■- m 1IHE5 BBftUiPIFtUL, IPHB WONDBI^PUL, 11 i 1 i I H In field and workshop do y'r best, And Sunday comes itself, I've heerd. On Saturdays it's not fur off. And brings a basketful o' cheer — A roast, and lots o' garden-stuff. And, like as not, a jug o' beer! D' ye know the road to poverty ? Turn in at any tavern-sign : Turn in — it's temptin' as can be: There's bran' -new cards and liquor fine. i In the last tavern there's a sack. And, when the cash y'r pocket quits. Just hang the wallet on y'r back^— You vagabond! see how it fits! D'ye know what rosd to honor leads, And good old age? — a lovely sight! By way o' temperance, honest deeds. And tryin' to do y'r dooty right. And when the road forks, ary side, And you're in doubt which one it is. Stand still, and let y'r conscience guide: Thank God! it can't lead much amiss! And now, the road to church-yard gate You needn't ask! Go anywhere! For, whether roundabout or straight. All roads, at las* '11 bring you there. Go, fearin' God, but lovin' more — I've tried to be an honest guide, — You'll find the grave has got a door, And somethin' for you t'other side. X i ^ X I t AND JPHB WISE M^^r OF BEE. 8* CHARLES KINOSLRY. ^"^ c«» the cattJe home, And call the cattle home, Acioss the sands of Dee ' " 1T2 T'"' "" """ '■■"' *'•'"'' »"h foam And all alone went she. ' The creeping tide came up along the sand And o'er and o'er the sand ' And round and round the sand As faras eye could see; The blinding mist came down and hid the land And never home came she. • '^ '"^ '^"^- A tress of golden hair, Of drowned maiden's hair- Above the nets at sea? \^ as never salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes on Dee." ' They rowed her in across the rolling foam ' The cruel, crawling foam, ' The cruel, hungry foam— To her grave beside the sea; But ^tilljhe boatmen hear her call the cattle Across the sands of Dee. •- " rMi- ^ . :'i'' Jl ■ 'fe t> m m ■ :t;I -**o^i>.**>— \j_ -^%^!r il n « ISO !FHB BBAUiPIPLfli, HIHE WONDEB^PUL, a« Thorough as You Can, Whatsoe'er you find to do, Do it, boys, with all your might! Never be a little true. Or a little in the right; Trifles even Lead to heaven, Trifles make the life of man; So. in all things. Great or small things. Be as thorough as you can. Let no speck that surface dim — ■ Spotle^" truth and honor bright 1 I'd not give a fig for him Who says that any lie is white! He who falters, Twists or alters Little atoms when he speaks, May deceive me. But believe me. To himself he is a sneak I Help the weak if you are strong. Love the old if you are young. Own a fault if you are wrong, If you're angry, hold your tongue. In each duty Lies a beauty. 7\ ^mmi. \ fe.^ AND JTHB WISE. ISI m If your eyes you do not shut, Just as surely And securely As a kernel in a nutj If you tliink a word will please, Say it, if it is but true; Words may give delight with ease When no act is asked from you; Words may often Soothe and soften. Gild a joy, or heal a pain; They are treasures Yielding pleasures It is wicked to retain. Whatsoe'er you find to do, Do it, then, with all your might; Let your prayers be strong and true — Prayers, my lads, will keep you right. Prayer in all things, Great and small things, Like a Christian gentleman; And forever, Now or never, Be as thorough as you can. ^<^ x^ 'i. •J h-o^ >- . - ^ — *-e<- • m t&%o "» t<" < r^^ CEIESTIAL ARMY. BY T. H0CHANAN .KAD. STOOD by the open caLsment And looked upon the night, And saw the westward-going start; fj>* Pass slowly out of si;?,hi. Slowly the hr'i^ht procession Went down the gleaming arch, Ar»d in; soul discal march; Till the g«&'; destiai army, Stretthircr tar beyond the poles, Became the eternal symbol Of the mighty march of souls. Onward, forever onward, Red Mars led down his clan; And the moon, like a mailed maiden. Was riding in the van. And some were bright in beauty, And some were faint and small. But these might be in their great height The noblest of them all. Downward, forever downward, Behind earth's dusky shore They passed into the unknown night. They passed, and were no more. No morel oh, say not so! And downward is not just; 1 ! !. ^Ili -^^ H^—^^ AND IPHB WISE. iSS lliat looks through heated dust. Thue stars and the mailed moon, . «,.„ °"-'' ^^'"^y «««•" to fall and die, bt.ll sweep with their embattled lines An endless reach of sky. And though the hills of death May hide the bright array, The marshaled brotherhood of souls btill keeps its upward way. Upward, forever upward, I see their march sublime, And hear the glorious music Of the conquerors of time. And long let me remember That the palest, fainting one May to diviner vision be A bright and blazing sun TJm AGED STRANGER. BY BRET HABTE. If WAS With Grant"- the Stranger said; Sa.d the farmer," Say no more, ' VTS' Fort, ''r '"' "* "^ ^^"'-^^^ P-^^ !i hJi C" i'i'il; i» ^f "PHB BBArmtlPUL, »IIHB WONDEI^PUL, - «#■ ;cs^ - «* I was with Grant"— th -, ,n^er said ; Said tlie larmer, " 1. ,,,3 I prithee sit at my Irug^l oua.d, And eat of my humble store. « How fares my boy,--my soldier boy, Of the old Ninth Army Corps? I warrant he bore him gallantly In the smoke and the battle's roar!" « I knovr him not," said the aged man, « And ,as I remarked before, I was with Grant"— « Nay, nay, I know," Said the farmer, « say no more; «He fell in ba^le,— I see, alas! Thou'dst smooth these tidings o'er - Nay, speak the truth, whatever it be, Though it rend my bosom's core. « How fell he,— with his face to the foe, Upholding the flag he bore ? O say not that my bor disgraced The imiform that he wore ! " " I cannot tell," said il-- aged nan, « And should have 1 j marked before. That I was with Grant— in Illinois— Some three ye., i be!^ie l.he war." Then the farmer spake him never a wor<'. But beat with his fist full sore i That aged man who had worked Lui ra ^ Some three years before the war ~®^7"2^ "^1 ■ ■ "1* ■ f lH ^-^9H ►5^i^i^. THE TIVO BRIOBS. ♦ M'V\«- E two will stand in the shadow here, To see the bride as she passes by'; Ring soft and low, ring loud and clear, 1 e chiming bells that swing on high I Look J look! she romesl The air grows sweet And the flowers she treads beneath her feet Die in a flood of lare perfumes. She comesi she comes! the happy bells With their joyous clamor fill the air While the great organ dies and swells,' Soaring to trembling heights of prayer! Oh! rare are her robes of silken sheen And the pearis that gleam on her bosom's snow- But rarer the grace of her roval mein, Her hair's fine gold, and her cheek's young glow. Dain- -md fair as a folded rose, Fi IS a violet dewy sweet, Chaste as a iv, she hardly knows That there are rough paths for other feet: For love hath shielded her; honor kept Watch beside her by rht and by day And evil out from her sigi.t hath crept, Trailing with slow length far away. Now in her perfect womanhood, In aJl the wealth of her matchless charms Lovely md 1 autiful, pure and good. She yields herself to h^r lover's arms Hark! how the jubilant voices ring. t** ^ 136 iU t t ». ^«HB BSAtJ»IlIPIJL, TtHE WONDEI^PUL, ■^ ^ .^ ot. I Lol as we stana ni the shadow here, While far above us the gay bells swing I catch the gleam of a happy tear. The pageant is over. Come with me To the other sul^ of the town, 1 pray, Ere the sun goes down in the darkening sea. And night falls around us, chill and gray. In the dim chur. i porch an hour ago We waited the bnde's fair face to see; Now life has a sadder sight to show,— A darker picture for vou and me. * No need to seek for the shadow here; There are shadows lurking everywhere* These streets in the brightest day are drear, And black as the blackness of despair. But this is the house. Take heed, my friend The stairs are rotten, the way is dim, And up the flights, as we still ascend, Creep stealthy phantoms dark and giim. Enter this chamber. Day by day. Alone in this chill and ghostly room A child— a woman— which is it, pray?— Despairmgly waits for the hour of doom! Alasl as she wrings her hands so pale, No gleam of a wedding ring you see; There is nothing to tell. You know the tale,- God help her now in her misery I I dare not judge her. I only know That love was to her a sin and a snare; While to the bride of an hour ago It brought all blessings its hands could bear -<«Ha '~f ' "^ I H3 AND IPHB WISH. \n 1 I only know that to one it came Laden with honor, and joy and peace; Its g.rt» to the other were woe and shame, And u burning pain that shall never cease. I only know that the soul of one Had been a pearl in a golden case; That of the other a pebble thrown Idly down in a wayside place, Where all day long strange footsteps trod, And the bold, bright sun drank up the dew! Vet both were women. Oh, righteo.,,4 God I Ihou only can judge between the two! •*^^; MOTHER'S IVORK. ^«. BY MARGARET %. SANOSTIR. J|EAR patient woi^, o'er your children bending |/ To leave a good-night kiss on rosy lips, . O'- l'«t the simple prayer to God ascending Ere slumber veil them in its soft eclipse, I wonder, do you dream that seraphs love you, That ott their silvery pinions float above you. When hfe is tangled, and its cross-roads meet? So wan and tired, the whole long day so busy, To laugh or weep, at tmies,you hardly know. So many tnfles make the poor brain dizzy, So many errands call you to and fro. V +-J J6a I ^IHBBBAUWIPUL, IPHH WOKDBI^PUL, Small garments stitching, weaving fairy stories, And binding wounds, and bearing little cares, Your hours pass, unheeded all the glories Of that great world beyond your nursery stairs. One schoolmate's pen has written words of beauty, Her poems sing themselves into the heart. Another's brush has magic; you have duty; No time to spare for poetry or art. But only time for training little fingers, And teaching youthful spirits to be true; You know not With what tamine woman lingers. With art alone to fill her, watching you. And yet, I think you'd rather keep the babies. Albeit their heads grow heavy on your arm. Than have the poet's fair, enchanted may-bes* The artist's visions, rich with dazzling'charm. Sweet arc the troubles of the happy hours, For even in weariness your soul is blest. And rich contentment all your being dowers That yours is not a hushed and empty nest. T^B F/IfSr SORROm ,^^^''~^►^— «»♦•• aS^) .n?) «^ $SljEAUTIFUL boy! so still to-night; Little pale face, 'twas once so bright; Weary mother, with tearful eye. Patiently hoping he will not die. Oh, there is no grief so deep and clear. None springs from the heart like a mother's tear. =J— :^ o 1^ U-v>-^^ ^— rjh -H" li AND fPHB WISE. Why Wit thou leave the bright green earth, When the sunsh.ne and roses are bursting forth, When joy and plenty are on the wing ' Away to welcome the beautiful spring. And clouds of light fro.„ the crystal shore. Are ghduig ,n at the window and door? Why wilt thou go, my own sweet child? Is the world too cruel, too sin-defiled? Canst thou not venture thy spotless soul Where waves of the deepest color roll? Nor dare to launch thy little boat Sweet boy, on the waters unbound afloat? Ah I I have watched thee with jealous care And wafted thy name on the w/ngs of p'^'r- Have hstened thy tones with earnest joy ^ ' And caressed thy form, my angel boy. Heaven wills it, I raise this test above, W,th the faith and trust of a mother's love SOUF. AND BODY, BY ALGEHNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. ^W ^.^'^"'■^^^'"« t« the making of man d^W^ 1 ime, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell* Remembrance fallen from heaven, And madness risen from hell; 51*0 — »■ i»» - 160 I fe, i^y it*^ 5 4a» THE BBAUIPIPUL, WHE WONDERFUL, Strength without hands to smite; Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of hght, And life, the shadow o*' death. And the high gods took in hand Fire, and the falhng of tears. And n measure of sliding sand From under the feet of the years; And froth and drift of the sea, And dust of tiie hiboriiig earth; And bodies of things to be In the houses of death and of birth ; And wrought with weeping and laughter, And fashioned with loathing and love, With life before and after, And death beneath and above. For a day and a night, and a morrow, That his strength might endure for a span With travail and heavy sorrow, The holy spirit of man. From the winds of the north and the south They gathered as unto strife; They breathed upon his mouth, They filled his body with life; Eyesight and speech they wrought For the veils of the soul therein, A time for labor and thought, A time to serve and to sin; They gave him light in his ways, And love, and a space for delight, And beauty, and length of days, And night, and sleep in the night. His speech is a burning fire, 4 f f Hp 0SS AMD JPHB WISE. With his lips he travaileth; In his heart is a blind desire, In his eyes foreknowledge of death; He weaves, and is clothed with derision: Sows, and he shall not reap; Wis hfe is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep. ■«»^ I6i -K|>^ -' "^ — ^^^~- BY SUSAN COOLIDGK. 'HE day was hot and the day was dumb. Save for the cricket's chirr or the bee's low hum, Not a bird was seen or a butterfly And ever till noon was over, the sun Wared down with a yellow and ter- rible eye; Stood munching .he grasses, dry and sweet Than a single cloud rose up ta the west, W I, a base of gray and a white, white crest- It rose and .t spread a mighty wing. And swooped at the sun, though he did his best And struggled and fought like a woundld thLg, And the woods awoke, and the sleepeR heard Each heavily.hanging leaflet stirred ' ii s&H VHU BEAUmBUU, IPHE WOHDBl^PUL, With a little expectant quiver and thrill, As the cloud bent over and uttered a word- One volleying, rolling syllable. And once and again came the deep, low tone Which only to thunder's lips is known, ' And the earth held up her fearless face, And listened as if to a signal blown— A signal-trump in some heavenly place. The trumpet of God, obeyed on high His signal to open the granary, And send 'forth his heavily-loaded wains, Rumbling and roaring down the sky, And scattering the blessed, long-harvested rains. ^«HJh^iffe I OlB ,^W^; 'SS^s I a I PON the hills the wind is sharp and cold, The sweet young grasses wither on the v^old. And we, O Lord! have wandered from Thy fold; But evening brings us home. Among the mists we stumbled, and the rocks Where the brown lichen whitens, and the fox f Watches the straggler from the scattered flocks; But evening brings us home. The sharp thorns prick us, and our tender feet ^ Are cut and bleeding, and the lambs repeat Their pitiful complaints,~.oh, rest is sweet When evening brings us home. ^ — ^sz^ t '"";fi \ - . !--; r iC^''^i3H fess-- HOME BETUKNttTQ, r^ NO WaiLCOMiB. ^ 'W ^ > n . . - AND JPHB WISE. We have been wounded by the hunter's darts- Our eyes are very heavy, and our hearts Search for Thy co.in,, when the lighldeparts, At evening bring us home. Sist g^ir We ,y^-"^"\^^<^ ^^- one star VVithouf tT , '"'^ wandered far,- Without Thy lamp we know not where w; are: At evening, bring us home. . The clouds are round us inri tu^ j .« O .ho, .ea. ShepHe jr,ere'::„rr -Set""'"' In .he waste night, cur .arc, footsteps ,:;:!:::, At evening bring us home. ^^>-^^^ BV ELLA WHKELER. DOUBT not but to every „M of „,ortal, That Heaven m a different form appears Where God shall wipe away all bitted tCflrs. Seeth the mansion in a separate guise, And there are many heavens ,o ma„; eyes. To me it seems a world where all the sweetness The sub 1 h,,„,y ^„, ^,,^ ^^^_^ completeness A nat I have missed in life anH .„• • . The things that I have sou'^r^ta^:-!;-"'' And ,f I found, found mixed with pain and stnfc. i,- It'' ilffT't Ml I !!! « Tha ^tHB QUAUmPUU, THE WONDBI^PUL, -M-f- ■^ That rest, that mortal mind can never measure; That peace, that we can never understand; The keen delights that fill the soul with pleasure; These, iAcse I deem are what that blessed land Lying beyond the pearly gates doth hold,— Where the broad street is paved with shining gold. A total putting off of care and sorrow. As we put by old garments. Rest so deep That 'tis not marred by thoughts of the to-morrow. Or pained by tears, for never any weep. The love, unchangeable, unselfish, strong,— That I have craved, with heart and soul, so long. All these I hope, in that vast Forever, Of which we dream, nor mortal eye hath seen, When death's pale craft shall bear me o'er the river. To find in waiting on the shores of green. And in that haven, how my soul shall raise, Unceasing songs of gratitude and praise. J^OX ^- THAT AND A' THAT. BY ROBERT BURNS. *^S there for honest poverty Wha hangs his head, and a' that? The coward slave, we pass him by: We dare be poor for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Our toil's obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. •♦-H- ..•%E AND IFHB m.iE. What though on h- ^ely fare we dine, Wearhoddingr.y,anda'that? G>e fools their silks and knaves their wine, A man s a man for a' that. For a' that, and a' that. Their tinsel show, and a' that- Th« honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is kmg o' men for a' that. Ye see 3; on birkie ca'd a lord, Wha struts and stares, and a' that,- Though hundreds worship at his word, He s but a coof for a' that. For a' that, and a* that. His riband, star, and a' that; The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might,^ •truid faith, he maunna fa' that I For a' that, and a' that; Their dignities, and a' that. The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a' that,— ' That sense and worth, o'er a'' the earth. May bear the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's coming yet, for a' that,— When man to man, the warld o'er. Shall brothers be for a' that! ^-tai "M «^ -^ 1) '"• ' I6« IPHR aSAUmiPUL, WHB WuNDBI^PUIi, COJ\r£ TO THE WAR. BY M. C. A. \5K boy has gone to the war, Our home is dark and dumb, proudly he marched in the ranks, With bugle and beating drum. 1 sit with emptied hands ; • I listen, and gaze afar; Life shrinks to a single thought, Our boy has gone to the war. I pray as thousands pray For darlings as dear as he, Our boy has gone to the war, O what is his fate to be? O what is his fate to be; The death w nd, the battle scar, The hospital . the wasting march, Theglor% ^e of war I Our boy has gone to the war; I'm sorry the Spartan blood That should urge him bravely on, Runs low in my womanhood. I'm soriy the Spartan blood, Is fainting for life to live; Instead of the grand huzza, I'd only my tears to give. Our boy has gone to the war; In dream-hours long and lone, I lie and think on the soldier's beat, How the midnight watch has flown. > i^ AND Whn WISH. «.;?■■■ In the chamber cool I weep To know I'm the sheltered one, " under the piteous sun. * My -rodi he has gone to the war! He nwched away with the men; 'f,?*^""*^^""^ from my hand, I blessed ham, I J.i«sed him-and then y^e», the record's alone with God. Ihe sacrament of pain, The anguish which said: For the l«n^ We o,;.,^ 1 "•" • J^ or tne land we love We give our lamb to be slain. O the marching, moaning men, O the brutal, bellowing guns, W, h the blood of her slaughtered sons! How long, O Lord, how lon|, ^ How long before Thy Day? And bi others cease to slay? ' --•fiecr^SS-H-l^^^ggjj '>*©|-5J<2'2W»v»- VANiTY, fe??^~^^ BY HARRIW PRESCOTT SPOPFORn. :l^ ^-f \f» r- • 7 ' ^"^" ^'^ IS don > Grains of somber or shining sand, r Glidmg mto and out of the hand. S MICROCOPY RESOLUTIO ' TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) 1.0 I.I 1.25 Li US 15.6 2.8 13.6 ■ 4.0 1.4 1 2.5 2.2 2.0 1.8 A APPLIED IN4/IGE Inc S^ '65^ East Main Street rjZ Rochester, New York U609 USA ^S (716) 482 - 0300 - Phone ass (716) 288 - 5989 - Fax ill il \ i ,!.« ! isi ' SB .1 ^ 'S^B' :■ '1 ' 'in J i n-W Iff III ^^-^ 168 IFHB BEAUltlPUL, THE WONDEI^PUL, -^-^ And men go down in ships to the seas, And a hundred ships are the same as one; And backward and forward blows the breeze, And what is it all, when all is done? A tide with never a shore in sight, Setting steadily on to the night. The fisher droppeth his net in the stream. And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream, And what is it all, When all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes. lii^^^ii'^^^^'^i^^^ii^ mm^mmm mm^'^m% THE BEACON* S PRAYER^ Jl^iL BY WIUJAM O. STODDARD. %Ai: :. 1 -; N the regular evening meeting That the church holds every week, One night a listening angel sat To hear them pray and speak. It puzzled the soul of the angel Wh}' some to that gathering came, But sick and sinful hearts he saw. With grief and guilt aflame. They were silent, but said to the angel, " Our lives have need of Him I " While doubt, with dull, vague, throbbing pain, Stirred through their spirits dim. » t» -M-«- -]jl— ^ * • -•»- AND THE WISE. .*H>. 169 You could pee 'twas the regular meeting, And the regular seats were filled, And all knew who would pray and talk, Though any one might that willed. From his place :n front, near the pulpit. In his long-accustomed way. When the Book was read, and the hymn was sung, The deacon arose to pray. First came the long preamble, — If Peter had opened so. He had been, ere the Lord his prayer had heard. Full fifty fathom below. Then a volume of information Poured forth, as if to the Lord, Concerning his ways and attributes, And the things by him abhorred. But not in the list of the latter Was mentioned the mocking breath Of the hypocrite prayer that is not prayer, And the make-believe life in death. Then he prayed for the church; and the pastor; And that « souls might be his hire," Whatever his stipend otherwise, And the Sunday-school, and the choir; And the swarming hordes of India; And the perishing, vile Chinese; And the millions who bow to the Pope of Rome* And the pagan churches of Greece; And the outcast remnants of Judah, Of whose guilt he had much to tell •»»»«' ; -4 m ! i ! i i i , 1 ■ 1 I * ! I \m izo ^HB BBALtipiPUL, IPHB WOMDBF?P'JL. -<«H- 5^ 9 He prayed, or he told the Lord he prayed, For everything out of hell. Now, if all that burden had really Been weighing upon bis soul, 'Twould have sunk him through to the China side, And raised a hill over the hole. ****** 'Twas the regular evening meeting, And the regular prayers were made; But the listening angel told the Lord That only the silent prayed. UNFimSHEB STILL, BABY'S boot and a skein of wool Faded, and soiled and soft; Odd things, you say, and no doubt you're, right, Round a seaman's neck this stormy night, Up in the yards aloft. Most like it's folly; but, mate, look here: When first I went to sea, A woman stood on the far-off strand. With a wedding-ring on the small, soft hand, Which clung so close to me. My wife-God bless herl The day before, She sat beside my foot; And the sunlight kissed her yellow hair. And the dainty fingers, deft and foir, Knitted a baby's boot. .0 — *HK« AND JPHB WISE. The voyage was over; I came ashore; What, think you, found I there? A grave the daisies had sprinkled white A cottage empty and dark as night, * And this beside the chair. The little boot, 'twas unfinished still; The tangled skein lay near- w\!!l^T:' ^^"^ ^°"" ^^^>^ to rest. With the babe asleep on her quiet breast, Down in the church-yard drea.-. ■♦*■ TcjAs Before I dis. For SCO,, your silence will no more perplex me And soon your coldness will have ceased .o vex me And presently my heart will cease its grasping And presently my breath will cease its gasL? And I s^,all sink beyond your tardy clasping For I shall d'e. ^ Ah! you have left me who did never leave you, And you have slain me who did never grieve v;u But. I, at least, at least I can forgive yoS ^ ' Before I die. "^ ' 4^0 » g< «^ \h n \i 178 WHB eBALl»niPUL, JPHB WONDBi;{PUL, ■» ! 4 »' ^ BY L. N. CHAPIN. Hellas, many and many a year ago, Sat stately Athens on her lofty crest; ^2/-^ A sentinel height above the ^Egean flow Of countless nations nourished at her breast. Here rose the Acropolis, and there the Parthenon, ^^^s^t^J^^^- The proudest marble pile that the Attic sun shone on. While yonder, roundly blown into the solid stone. Afar the splendid Dyonisiac bubble ai shone. Hti-e learning, art and science found a seat; And vise philosophy enjoyed a favor- ite retreat. Wide o'er the empire of the mind Esthetic culture, subtle and refined. Held free domain, and -i**"?^'-^ broad intelligence Diffused its keen de- rl lights through every sense. Here, too, the lofty Powers that rule The formal policies of state and school — The gods that kept the inward state at peace. And ruled the glorious destinies of Greece, Thronged the broad halls, diffused through all the place, And lent to ancient Athens her most distinguished grace. »« • > * II - y ^ U M iiii »8 <" o^ I THE SNOW STORM. BV RALPH WALDO EMER80.V. .20_ -^"^ ^» ■■^-» NNOUNCED by all the irumpets of the sky Arrives the snow; and, d iving o'er the fields, feeems nowhere to alicrh j the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven. And veils the farmhouse rtt the garden»s end. The sled and traveler stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, inclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm. Come, see the north wind's masonry I Out of an unseen quarry, evermore FurnJ-^hed with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door; Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage; naught cares he For number or proportion. Mockingly On coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreaths; A swan-hke form invests the hidden thorn- Fills up the farmer's lane from wall to waH Maugre the farmer's sighs; and at the gate ' A tapering turret o'eitops the work. And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, kstonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone. Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow. i..-..-"*! t ^HB BBAUiPIPUL, rpHE WONDBi^PUL, MO^F SLEEP THE BRAVE. BY WlLUAM COLUNS. ,OW sleep the brave, who sink to rest IJy all their country's wishes blest I ^ When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Osr Returns to deck their hallowed mold, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy haqds their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall a while repair. To dwell, a weeping hermit there I ''^'^:Z I 4- •0^>" THE HAUNTED PALACE, BV EDGAR AliAN POE. r.rF^^. '""""^'"^ •"""" '"'' ^"^"y ''^«" mentioned as one of Poe's best It de,rrih« „ certiun dramatic exnen'pnm »..!»« * , • >- "i » uc a ocsi. ii aescribes a that experience ^ j;'"'"'"'^"' ''""^ *°° '^°""">°" »' the present day. Who can tell what N the greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted. Once a fair and stately palace- Radiant palace— reared its he;id. In the monarch thought's dominion- It stood there! Never Seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! -•^ I *-HJh AND »nHE WISE. Banners yellow, glorious golden, • _^'" '^« '*«of d"l float and flow. This-all this-was in the olden Time long ago. And every gentle air that dallied, ill that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A wmged odor went away. Wanderers in that happy valley. Through two luminous windows, saw bpnitsmovnig musically, To a lute's well-tuncd law Round about a throne where, sitting, i'orphj'rogenef In state his glory well befittinc. The ruler of the realm, was'seen. And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door Tl^ough which came flowing, flowing, flowing And sparklmg evermore, ^' A troop of echoes, whose sweet duty vVas but to sing. In voices of surpassing beauty. The wit and wisdom of their kin- But evil things, in robes of sorrow Assailed the monarch's high estate. Ah, let us mourn I-for never morrow bhall dawn upon him desolate I And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed. - m I "PHB BBAUTJIPUL, IPHB WONDEI^PUL, -H-*. -f- And travelers, rww, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows sec Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody ; While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh— but smile no more. •' i«~-^ ! ^~^:=:=^i I(3=T-0« ^ On the Death of a Favorite Cat. .3^.^- -r^^ HE died when earth was fair beyond all price, When hearts were warm as her own cait of silk ; When people's houses seemed the homes of mice, * + (&^ -^"^ ^^»e" J'^e's cup, for her, o'erflowed with mil'k. ♦^ Reared tenderly, she spent her few brief years, ^ Like cats in Egypt,— sacred, free from fears—' /f< Weep not for her! ? Weep not for her! she's had a peaceful time; She might have been a sausage long ago, A muff, a fiddle-string; but to her prime She hath arrived with an unruffled brow Shielded as if she had but one sweet life Instead of nine,~kept from all care and strife,— Weep not for her! Weep not for her! she's now a cat with wings; Perhaps a dweller in the m/iy-way; Purring with joy amid all purring things; No longer blinded with the light of day; 4t "■ ^' '$a.= "^ AND inHB WISE. i^*- i ll 4 J h IW Where boys are not, nor stones, nor tears, nor sighs- All dogs forever binished from her eyes,— Weep not for her J Weep not for Iier! her memory is the shrine Of pleasant thoughts, pure as a kitten's dream: Calm as her own washed face at clay's decline- Soft as the scent of catnip; rich as cream. ' Then lay her under ground all snug and nice, For, like the « Puss in Boots," she'll catch no mice- Weep not for her I Weep not for her! there is no cause for woe, ' But nerve the drooping spirit that it walk Unshrmking in this ratty worid below And bear life's ills; thy tears can't clll her bacTc. Thou It meet her when thy fleeting years have flown, With radiant whispers in that brighter home- Weep not for her I it' . »■ I'- THE DOCTOR'S STORY, BY Wli. , J I. CARLETON, i|^^0^ folks ever will have their way— |ftf ^°^^ ^^^^^ ^"^^^ fo»* it must pay. <^^ Rut we, who are here and everywhere ^ The burden of their faults must bear. ' We must shoulder others' shame- Fight their follies and take their blame ; ill Hi iZfi THE BHAUTIPULi, IPHEJ WONDBI^PULi, -^^-S$— Hh Pur;?e the body, and humor the mind; Doctor the eyes when the soul is blind; Build the column of health erect On the quicksands of neglect. Always shouldering others' shame- Bearing their faults and taking the blame! -t/ — Deacon Rogers, he came to me, ' " Wife is goin' to die," said he. " Doctors great, an' doctors small, Haven't improved her any at all. « Physic and blister, powders and pills. And nothing sure but the doctors' bills! "Twenty old women, with remedies new. Bother my wife the whole day through; " Sweet as honey, or bitter as gall Poor old woman, she takes 'em all; « Sour or sweet, whatever they choose! Poor old woman, she daren't refuse. "So she pleases whoe'er may call. An' death is suited the best of all. " Physic an' blister, powder an' pill- Bound to conquer, and sure to kill!" -t/- Mrs. Rogers lay in her bed. Bandaged and blistered from foot to head. 1 ^" * ••■ '— AND IHHB WISH. 1^9 niistercd and bandaged n-o.n head to toe. Mrs. Ropers was very low. Bottle and saucer, spoon and cup. On the table stood bravely up; Physics of high and low degree; Calomel, catnip, boneset tea; Everything a body could bear, Excepting light, and water, and air. I opened the blinds; the. day was bright, And God gave Mrs. Rogers some li^ht. And God g:ave Mrs. Rogers some air. Bottles and blister, powders and pill,, Catnip, boneset, syrups and squills- Drugs and medicines, high and low, I threw them as far as I could throw. "What are you doing?" my patient cried; Fnghtenmg Death," I coolly replied. "You are crazy!" a visitor said; I flung a bottle at her head. Deacon Rogers, he came to me; " Wife is comin' round," said he. "I really think she will worry through- bhe scolds me just as she used to do. "All the people havepoohed an' slurred- Ail the neighbors have had their word; ... vr: ■J' -]i >lli PP' ' 180 -W— • • THE BEAUTIFUL, IPHE WONDEI^PUIi, ^. " 'Twere better to perish, some of 'em say. Than be cured in such an irregular way." 4 « Your wife, ' said I, " had God's good care, And his remedies — light and water and air. " All the doctors, beyond a doubt, Couldn't have cured Mrs. Rogers with- out." (^ The deacon sftiiled, and bowed his head, «' Then your bill is nothing," he said. " God's be the glory as you say I God bless you doctor! good day! good day!" s If ever I doctor that woman again, I'll give her medicine made by men. -M-«- |HE hills are white that yester night, Stood wrapt in autumn's gray; And from the town comes gliding down, ^/l^' The summer-idle sleigh. On nimble heels the filly wheels T J shake her blood aflow. And nettled kine with bended spine, Range down the stanchion row. -t I ♦»-•■ ^^f~~-^ « » AND inHB WISE. The fog-line stretching o'er the fields, The brooklet's winding path reveals; And closer to his homeless breast, The vagrant draws his scanty vest. Across the Jake the breakers break The gathering icy fringe; And winter's door, o'er flood and shore. Creaks on its frosted hinge. .\mf^: '36^^.^.3-^r^p. I P V3: 4' 1 ACH day, when the glow of sunset Fades in the western sky, ...■^. ^"f *^^ wee ones, tired of playing, )^ Go tripping lightly by, M I steal away from my husband, T Asleep in his easy chair, I And watch from the open doorway. Their faces fresh and fair. Alone in the dear old homestead That once was full of life. Ringing with girlish laughter. Echoing boyish strife. We two are waiting together. And oft, as the shadows come. With tremulous voice he calls me, "It is night I Are the children home?" « Yes, love," I answpr him gently, « They're all home long ago;"-l 1 sifi^BriX T ' 18'^ I I 5JHB BERlSmPUh, fPHB WONDBI^PUL, -**- ^— ^ And I sing, in my quavering treble, A song so soft and low. Till the old man drops to slumber, With his head upon his hand, And I tell to myself the n^imber. Home in the Better Land. Home where never a sorrow Shall dim their eyes with tears! Where the smile of God is on them Through all the summer years I And I knoW ! — yet my arms are empty, That fondly folded seven. And the mother heart within me Is almost starved for heaven. Sometimes, in the dusk of evening, I only shut my eyes, And the children are all about me, A vision from the skies; The babes whose dimpled fingers Lost the way to my breast. And the beautiful ones, the angels. Passed to the world of the blessed. With never a cloud upon them, I see their radiant brows; My boys that I gave to freedom,— The red sword sealed their vows. In a tangled Southern forest, 1 win brothers bold and brave. They fell, and the flag they died for. Thank God, floats over their gravel A breath, and the vision is lifted Av.'ay on wings of light. f ^— ^ AMD IPHB WISE. And again we two are together, All alone in the night. They tell me his mind is failing, But I smile at idle fears; He is only back with the children, In the dear and peaceful years. And still, as the summer sunset Fades away in the west, And the wee ones, tired of playing, Go trooping home to rest. My husband calls from his corner "Say, love, have the children come?" And! answer, with eyes uplifted, « Yes, dearl they are all at home." 183 -Hjh BYJOHNJAMIESOV, M. D. EAD-and my heart died with him! Buned-what love lies there! Cjone forever and ever, No longer my life to sharel "Only a dog!" Yes-only! Yet these are bitter tears! Weary, and heartsick, and lonely, I turn to the coming years. Something that always loved me! Something that I could trust! Something that cheered anH c^^fi,.^ __ - "--vmcu me. Y 184 feo ^ Z <^ IPHB BBAU1IIPUL, JPHB WONDEf?PUL, '^ i « fr Is mplderin<^ here to dust! Gentle, and faithful, and noble — Patient, and tender,^Md brave — My pet, my playmate^y darling- And this is his lonely grave. I go to my lonely chamber. And linger before the door — There once was a loving welcome — I shall listen for that no more! I sit by my blazing hearthstone, And leah my head on my hand — The best of my wayward nature Lies low with the Newfoundland ! One plank— when the ship was sinking In a wild and stormy sea — One star w hen the sky was darkened, Was the love of my dog to me! A star that will shine no longer A plank that has missed my hand; And the ship may sail or founder — No watcher is on the strand. I stand on my sunny uplands. This beautiful autumn morn — The crimson-leaved maple o'er me, Fronting the golden corn; I hear the brook in the valley — It sings as it sang of yore — But the faithful eyes that watched it Will answer to mine no morel Over those sunny uplands, And climbing the breezy hill, I haunt the depth of the wojuland, •H-f- ( ' ■ U' <-».40' J KiiU-'M MASTER BUILDEBS. ':>' i \m t ^m% h||f~-^= AND »nHB WISE. Lonely and silent still—. Silent and lonely always, I know that this life may be- But in the unseen future What is in store for me? Oh, well may the Indian hunter Lie calm on his couch of skins When the pain of this world ceases, And the joy of the next begins! On the «« Great Spirit's" prairies, Under the blue skies of yore, Will not his stud and watch-dog Answer his call once more? Blue hunting grounds of the red man, ^^ Cannot I dream the dream ? Purely my old companion But waits till I cross the stream? Waits with a faithful yearning, Almost akin to pain Till in some lesser heaven He bounds to my feet again. 18fi BY ELLA WHEELER. *^T_S2- ^ ' ■ I. I I ■ AUGH, and the world laughs with you; ' Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth But has trouble enough of its own. Smg, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air. , I I 186 ^^ 1'HB BEAUmPUU, IPHB WONDBI^PUL, =^- The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure. But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends. are many; Be sad, and you lose them all; There are none to declme your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall. Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. Succeed and give, and it helps you live, But no man can help you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a large and lordly train. But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. -*^«4efi;®^@-<+|i=^^ «®5^l^3'3Wv«i. T/m MOUNTMNS OF LIFE, I '^^S- BY JAMBS O. CLARK. '•0>0. '^^A^rf ^ '''?'"'^ ^""^ """^^y^ ''"^^ ^he stars we are told, Where they know not the sorrows of Time- Where the pure waters wander through valleys of And life IS a treasure sublime- ^is the land of our God, 'tis the home of the soul. Where the ages of splendor eternally roll- Where the way-weary traveler reaches his goal, Un the evergreen Mountains of Life. gold. I AMD lUHB WISE. Our gaee cannot soar to that beautiful knd Hut our visions have told of its bliss A,Kl our souls by the gale from its gardens are fanned When we faint in the desert of this- ' And we sometimes have longed for its' holy repose When our sp.rits were torn with temptatio^.s .L loes From tl r' '"'" ^^ ''' °^ ''''-^^ '^- fl- l-iom the evergreen Mountains of Life. O! the stars never tread the blue heavens at night, Bu we thmk where the ransomed have trod,L And the day never smiles from his palace of light 3ut we feel the bright smile of our God • We are traveling homeward through changes and gloom To a kn.gdon. where pleasures unceasingly bloom, ^ ' Anc^our^ujcie rs the glory that shines through the tomb From the evergreen Mountains of Life. ' -- * -^ J>-*-«- \m „ .1' n if'- BATTLE BUNNY. BY BRET HARTE. ^f UNNY, lying in the grass, ' Saw the shining columns pass, Saw the starry banner fly, ^ Saw the chargers fret and fume, . Saw the flapping hat and plume; Saw them with his moist and shy, Most unspeculatiye eye, T Thinking only, in the dew, 'J ^i Y iSH If! THB BBAUIPIPUL, IPHB WONDBI^PUL, ■&->-«3- That it was a fine review — Till a flash, not all of steel, Where the rolling caisson's wheel Brouj^ht a rumble and a roar Rolling down that velvet floor, And like blows of autumn flail Sharply threshed the iron hail. Bunny, thrilled by unknown fears, Raised his soft and pointed ears, Mumbled his prehensile lip, Quivering his pulsating hip. As the sharp, vindictive yell Rose above the screaming shell; Thought the world and all its men, All the charging squadrons meant, All were rabbit hunters then, All to capture him intent. Bunny was not much to blame; Wiser folk have thought the same Wiser folk, who think they spy Every ill begins with "I." Wildly panting here and there, Bunny sought the freer air, 'Till he hopped below the hill. And saw, lying close and still, Men with muskets in their hands. (Never bunny understands That hypocrisy of sleep, In the vigils grim they keep, As recumbent on the spot They elude the level shot.) One— a grave and quiet man. Thinking of his wife and child t I -KM- '""*'«" H" Utiui i^3-«3^_o ■^ I AND IHHB WISH. 189 Far beyond the Rapidan, Where the Androscoggin smiled— Felt the little rabbit creep, Nestling by his arm and side. Wakened from strategic sleep, To that soft appeal replied, Drew him to his blackened breast. And— But you have guessed the rest. Softly o'er that chosen pair Omnipresent love and care Drew a mightier hand and arm, Shielding them from every harm; Right and left the bullets waved,' Saves the saviour for the saved. ' Who believes but equal grace God extends in every place. Little difference he scans 'Twixt a rabbit's God and man's. Th@ Virginians of the Faiiey, i^j BY FRANCIS O, TICKNOR. ■I>^ .,. HE knightliest of the knightly race Who, since the days of old. Have kept the lamp of chivalry Alight in hearts of gold; Tlie kindliest of the kindly'band, Who, rarely hating ease, Yet rode with Rale ,.h round the land. And Smith around the seas; ili ,'■3 — *j-»— *^__. I* ^ »HB BBA UmiPUL, THE WONDEI^PUU, SV V>. liu climbed the blue embattled hills Against uncounted foes, And pLinted there in valleys fair The lily .md the rose; Wiiose fragrance Hvr- 'n many lands, Whose beauty stars me earth, And lights the hearths of happy homes With loveliness and worth. We thought they slept! ^he sons who kept The names of noble sires, And slumbered while the darkness crept Around their vigil fires; But still the golden horseshoe knights Their old dominion keep, Whose foes have found enchanted ground. But not a knight asleep. TMB BELOVED CITY. -^r-^r-*- N the Beloved City f |( '^^^ S^ory doth abide; }M '^^^ ^^^ ^^'^^ summer of the year— ^ The height of summer-tide; ^L I* 's the long-lost Eden clime, T Whose beauty doth not die; f The palmy prime and flower of timf. Touched with eternity. Oh I the Beloved City, * That peace and justice bless! City of our solemnities! t — jass$- AND IPHE WrSH. 191 "^ Mourifain of holii,( s! The Zion ui the lofty One_ The hght of BcMrIah'8 Innd— There David's throne a.ul flowering crown Shall throuj^h the ages .stand I Hail to the Holy City, Passin- the Patmos dream* I he soul-desired city The New Jerusalem. ^f/^GS FOK A SOLDiBR, J/^ "^ OBOROK HENRY BOKER. LOSE his eyes; his work is done! What to him is friend or foeman, Kise of moon or set of sun, Hand of man or kiss of woman? Lay him low, lay him low. In the clover or the snow I What cares he? he cannot know; Lay him low. As man may, he fought his fight Proved his truth by his endeavor; Let h.m sleep in solemn night, Sleep forever and forever. Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow! What cares he? he cannot know: Lay him low! Fold him in his country's stars, Roll the drum and fire the volley! lit" w ma £^0 ♦ THE BEAU1IIPUL, THE WONDEI^PUL, What to him are all our wars? What but death-bemocking folly? Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow ! What cares he? he cannot know; Lay him low! Leave him to God's watching eye; Trust him to the hand that made him. Mortal love weeps idly by; God alone has power to aid him. Lay him low, lay him low, In the clover or the snow ! What cares her he cannot know; Lay him low! ■V •^ EVENING IN WINTES. BY T. BUCHANAN RBAD. ^^^^^^^^^•^-^ -o^.. -^ |OBED like an abbess The snowy earth lies, While the red sundown Fades out of the skies. Up walks the evening. Veiled like a nun, Telling her starry beads, One by one. Where like the billows The shadowy hills lie. Like a mast the great pine swings Against the bright sky. 44- i»fc» # .^ AND rUHB WISE. Down in the valley The distant lights quiver, Gilding the hard-frozen Face of the river. While o'er the hill tops The moon pours her ray, Like shadows the skaters Skirr wildly away; Whirling and gliding, Like summer-clouds fleet, They flash the white lightning From glittering feet. The icicles hang On the front of the falls, Like mute horns of silver On shadowy walls* Horns that the wild huntsman, Spring, shall awake, Down flinging the loud blast Toward river and lake! BV H. w. LONGFELLOW. :/* ■ f /l\ AR LANDS upon his grave, And flowers upoa his hearse. And to the tender heart and brave The tribute of this verse. f His was the troubled life, ^ The conflict and the pain 18 I if: -*•- ie|9l aiHB BBAU1IIPUL, fPHB WONDBFJPLfL, ■^*- »-+ The grief, the bitterness of strife, The honor without stain. Like Winkelried, he took Into his manly breast, The sheaf of hostile spears, and broke A path ,br the oppressed ; Then from the fatal field Upon a nation's heart Borne like a warrior on his shield! S6 should the brave depart. Death takes us by surprise. And stays our hurrying feet; The great design unfinished lies, Our lives are incomplete. But in the dark unknown Perfect their circles seem, Even as a bridge's arch of stone Is rounded in the stream. Alike are life and death, When life and death survives, And the uninterrupted breath Inspires a thousand lives. Were a st-^r quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still traveling downward from the sky. Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken. The light he leaves beyond him lies Upon the paths of men. •*-»"—■ f^-H" [The old Moravians sa„. ^^ '^ ^K ^ ^-t, other laboring hyZaf'bvth'^' '""""^' ^P'""'^^'. knitters" T"^ '?' '"^^'^ ="«' * " '" ^'''^^ '"=°P'^-" ^Ve append tw" fpednfen'r """'"' ""' ^SH^YMAArs SOATG. DOWNWARD current, I shall stem thee; In Jehovah's name restrain thee; Rushmg water, seek the sea, Yonder green shore lureth me. Banks of Canaan, JesusMand Where the singingangelsstand Downward current, vain to drat Injehovah'snamelstayme. Rushing water, seek the sea, I ^°"^^^ ^'•^^^ «hore lureth me. fDownward current, like my sin. j ning; ^ Out of thee I win my winning; Sinners seek the burning sea Heaven'sgreenshore lureth me; Bi -K — »t evinces glorious bottom, lown ; e. AND IPHE WISH. 197 Forgive our evil deeds, //f 7/ oft we do- Convince us dat'/y oUhcm, to our shame; Hdp us with Heavenly bread, forgive us, too, Recurrent lusts; a«^ «,.']! adore Thy name. in lhy>/-^/z;eness we as saints can die, Smce for us and our trespasses so high, Thy Son, our Saviour, died on Calvary. -*-4>g }K*-#- LENT, BY ROBERT HBRRICK. S this a fast, to keep The larder leane, And cleane ^ From fat of veales and sheep? Is it to quit the dish '4 Of flesh, yet still To fill * The platter high with fish ? It to fast an hour. Or rag'd to go, Or show A downcast look, and soure? No, 'tis a fast l 4- AND IPHE WISE. fl^en Shall m All Meet Again. ANONYMOUS. jHEN shall we all meet again? _,^ When shall we all meet W again? ■^ Oft shall glowing hope expire, Oft shall wearied love retire, Oft shall death and sorrow reign, Ere we all shall meet again. Though in distant lands we sigh, Parched beneath a hostile sky; Though the deep between us rolls. Friendship sJiall unite our souls. Still in Fancy's rich domain Oft shall we all meet again. :!• J- . ^ T fc/.^ ^-^-3 or,, Bet;:-^<^ob.t!^^^-e.e., ^-JJ-S^,, \ V "1^ ! I I 200 THE BBAUItlPUL, IPHEJ WONDEI^PUL, GOOD O E>tBR80N. L(Onft ^ ' roud -won", - I I III! "' jpTtl-%'-«r''^^ ^"^ T'l..„, to n,y "»"r?rs bye:FOudv,or.a --.„«, . ^1 —-^ ^ ', A^i (4.,, I, Sf ■»!!''■* ,.** :-.j^ ""MM ■mm t , va OI^ THE GREAT BRIDGES. [HE spanning of great rivers by means of K • , ? among the noblest enternrise. of / ^'"^^^'' '"^^ks cathedrals, have, in all Lib en ^h"''"- ^"' ^''^^^^ Hke l^iftoHes of nations have 'f 'al , w'hT'^ 'Y ""'''' ''^ m'Srhty rivers, ove- them hZT , "^ ""'^^'' ^^^"^ A^w of the nations'. Th:::^; , ^L' Zr ""'''' ^"^-"^« -«lI.ons of men have marched in wars tT' """ "^^'^^ way of nations. ^' ^^^^ a'e the high- In bridges, as in almost evervthJnc .1 o. • of the .orid, hav .„. a chain ,:;C /n le of"" ""*;''"'" "■"= '^' D. 65. But there a,e plenty of bri !",,?/ «o feet, built i„ A. nb„t,o„, of the earlier and the ^iddfe " wf f' "" '"= ™"- tlie Old London Bridge, built in i ,,fi f ^ *"" """ h""''! o' bloek of buildings, an! ;h„ Zl^'Z^^^ ""^ "'" """^ ""'■""<- of 940 feet, filled „p nearly ^^1?" "I';'''^ """-in a distance "Bridge of the Holy Trinitv " ,, ! K 'Z'! ^^'""'^ O' "f the over the Arno a. Floren^'^^ic .'orhl"' .T"'' ""•^"» ^'™«>« ..nrivaled as a work of art Who If , t! '" '5*»' '"•"* '"-day toric structure a, Venice, the R HU ' e ' Z T '""'■' °^ '"■•" ''«• and beneath which for ,J, v° ,f ' *^"^'' ''>' ^^''-^^ael An.-elo -nor of that other, ^Z^^^ ^T-f " '^ -"^'^ ^ondolfer Pj Sighs." to the ^emorialieing o wi ^^ f^f' ""^ '■"""°- " Bridge of lent a hand. ™ ""^ "Ses, countless poets have '[•03] ■I S04 VHE BEAUTIFUL, IFHB VONDBI^PUL, BBITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE Notable among the works of Great Britain is the " Britannia Tubular F3ri(lge." This bridge ik one of the most gigantic works of modern engineering. It crosses the Menai Straits. The entire bridge is formed of immense rectang- ular tubes of iron, 26 feet high in the center, 14 feet wide, and having an entire length of 1,513 feet. It is more than 100 feet above water. So great is the strength of the bridge, that a train weighing 280 ton8» running at high speetl, deflects the tubes in their centers less than three-fourths of an inch. The entire weight of the tubes is io,5cx> tons. Two of the spans are 460 feet each. It is said that the same amount of iron in a solid bar would not sustain its own weight, A similar English bridge is the " Conway," which has a span of 400 feet. VICTORIA BRIDG^E.— This wonderful bridge, the largest of its kind in the world, is of the same pattern as the Britannia — namely, tubular. It is over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, Canada. It is a railway bridge, two miles long, and cost over $5,000,000. It contains 10,500 tons of iron awd 3,000,000 cubic feet of masonry. In our own country the number of noble bridges is rapidly increas- ing. It is an age of giants in engineering. A remarkable wooden bridge is that across the Susquehanna at Havre de Grace, a railway bridge 3,271 feet in length, divided into 12 spans. And we must not in this connection omit to speak of the " Washington Aqueduct Bridge," whose arches are cast iron pipes; nor of those other bridges over the Mississippi at Quincy, Keokuk, and Burlington. THE LOUISVILLE BRIDGE Singular in iippearance is the great railroad bridge over the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky. Twenty-four stone piers sustain it in the passage from shore to shore, a distance of nearly a mile, or to be exact, 5,218^ feet. With the exception of two of the twenty-five spans, the iron truss work is all below the track, thus giving the surface a jjeculiarly bare and wind-shorn appearance. As this book is not a work on civil engin- eering, it is not over important to give the cost, which was $2,016,819, nor to say that it is ninety-seven feet above the water and twenty- seven feet wide. THE GREAT ST. LOUIS BRIDGE The iron work on the Keystone Bridge across the Mississippi, at St. Louis, was completed AKL iiHB WISE. •Of nmid great rejoicing. This bridge connects St. Louis with Ea«t St T , «n the Stale of Illinois. The river -.t thn^ "'* ^'^'^ ^^* ^t. Louis It is spanned by three arch^ o "oo ee Ln^th ' ' "^ '.''"l'^'^^ "'■'^• which th., rest. In its constructiorch: , Te ^1^ ^^ °" tensile .tn.in double that of ordinary steel Th.T • . "' " for railway and carriage tracks. entr 'st Loui^ ^' " T "'"' center. There is no draw in it for th.. r l "'"'' "' ^"""'=^'' l.ut about sixty feet above hi 'h Z T'""^^ °^ ^°"*^' ""'^ «« '^ '« ers can pass uLtltttI fowrni; :h r^hiZ""'^ ^ °^ ^"""■ mous structure. It is claimed u.Z .u '^""""'^«- ^^ '« ««' enor- tl. n^ost notable ra?ir:l7bl gVir h^ell^^T"'^ '\ 'T' approaches and tunnel, was about $.ocL^ i' Tl 7 '"'^ eering skill it takes the very first rank ^.'r^* / ," °^ ""«'"• ;t iMhe cry is raised agaL^t Ta^it ! tr^ ^ 1=' ^^T,^' largest steamers find trouble in passing, under it 1.^ u u '^ J V iiiaiiy years — tnere seems no other rnnrca tu r .i steamers to be built and fitted with rr, k / "*'' ^°'' ^^^ of their smoke stacks T. '"^'^hmery for the easy lowering ance by a g^acefrbot. ' '^ ^"^''^"^ ^'^^ '""^' ^^"-'^^^^ obeis' NIAGARA BAIL WAY BBIDOF TT«f t great s.,uce„re ranked firs, on o!fso„!f„LV;! ■ ,77 ^'"""^ *i^ suspension bridges. It leans the |Z k "^ ^ mcroasing list of Niagara River 'plows its :;t,::ThrF:, r"'I"'™"'•'^-'r'' •'-^ feet,whicl, seems trifling com nare^ w^th K uT" " ''"' ^" tween New York and ntZ^ t, o * " ^'"'e" "' 'h"' b^ was b„i,t, was : g:r :i^";o spr t; t:,:: r!;: ":: "-^ -^'t wa, trains to thunder over, than a m'uch greate wM h'a tTa^'rT for hghter purposes. Fourteen thousand five Tundr^H " 'h ^^ wres make up the cables, and their ultimate srenTtht b ". ""'^ tons, which load the Brooklvn u.:a If . "^th is but 12,000 bridge itself. The bridge ^5 fef'a'botl I '" ^" '" '"' neath. A heavy train sfanding'^ln he 'elr o^ Zt?, ""^ *"■ " sag" but three inches Tn ,Lr .k ,. , ^"''S''- "'"''^s '' a wonder has th s br L ten 'i'n t d '!"" I"'^'"*' '^'' «-"' with the Falls themsXes wUh the m '' ■ " •"" ""'''"' ''°"°" the tirst time. The brid^Lut t ^ !■-? "'""« ''"^'"•'' «" ,.•#' J* ;l .44 SO0 5IHB BBAUiPIPUIi, ^HHE WOKDEI^PLIL, Farther up, nearer the Falls, is a lighter bridge, but of greater span, and designed only for foot passengers and vehicles. Its sus- pended platform is 1,240 feet. THE CINCINNATI BRIDGE.— This is another of the many Roebling monuments in this country. Graceful in form, but massive in strength, it clears the Ohi) River at a single bound of 1,057 feet, the total length being 2,320 feet. Its cables, for it is a suspension bridge, are but two in numbc-r, it not being a railway bridge, and arc 121^ inches thick— a little larger than those of the Niagara bridge, and a little smaller than those of Brooklyn. The bridge is 103 feet above the river, and connects the city v^rith Covington on the opposite shore. It has a double wagon way, and outside this, walks for pedes- trians. It is counted one of the finest works of its kind in the coun- try. $1,800,000 is what it took to pay for it. Less than three-quarters of a mile up the river is a wrought iron and pier bridge both for railroad nd wagon way. It has eleven spans, the widest being 405 feet. THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE.— But greatest of all monuments of engineering skill up to the present time is the already famous sus- pension bridge which connects New York and Brooklyn. In every detail— the height of the towers, the length and diameter of the cabies, the weight of the anchorages, and multitudes of other features —it is simply immense. It was thirteen years and four months from the beginning to the end of its building, this calculation omitting five years of previous getting ready. To the memory of John A. Roeb- ling, chief engineer, who lost his life during the progress of the work, and to his son Washington, a worthy successor, no less to the living than the dead, this bridge is an imperishable monument. From the very gates of the sea, miles and miles away, where the ocean-going steamers make ribbons of cloud on sea and sky, the bridge is visible — by day a mere silken thread from shore to shore— by night a newly discovered constellation in the heavens, gleaming with brilliant and manifold lights. But it is from near eminences that one better com- prehends the magnitude and majesty of the structure. Once, during the construction, one of the mighty cables broke loose from its shore fastenings. At first, like a giant whip-cord, hissing and cutting along the ground, and slashing at everything within reach* then with The Longest. Largest. Costliest Suspension Bridge in the World, BfiTWfiKN NfiW -ORK AND BROOKi. AND IJHE WISE. soz fnghtful ve oc,ty leap,„g into .he air, it cleared the very summit of he tower at one bound, and plunged madly i„,„ ,he river iusT m ° mg feny and other boats loaded with people, but hitting „o;ot™m There are five parallel tracks on the bridge- Th, . ' , wagons, the .wo inner for cars, and above thl oLfo foot" gers commanding a superb view up and dolnThe Xer "'"'" Length of span between towers, 1,5955^ feet. Center of span above high water, 135 feet Approach on the New York side, 2,4925^ 'feet. Approach on Brooklyn side, 1,901^ feet. Hence, entire length, 5,9895^ feet. Diameter of cables, 153^ inches. Each cable is composed of 5,434 steel wires. Who e oad of bridge between towers, 1 1,700 tons. What the cables can hold and not break, 49,300 tons. Weight of towers above high water, 277 feet The New York tower reaches 78 feet below high water to bed rock : the Brooklyn tower a little less. ' ""tl'r'hV'" "''" '" '"^'°"' '" '"^-^-f ---nry wei^h- mg each 60,000 tons. ^ vvci^,!! Width of bridge, 85 feet. Cost of bridge, $15,000,000. The longest bridge in this country is said to be the railroad tre.fl. work across Lake Pontchartrain, near New Orleans. It I ^^^^^^ long. The piles average 60 feet in length, and are driven 40 feet Some Idea of its magnitude may be formed from the .tatZZTat «.e quant^y of lumber required, outside the piles, is over iT^ o^ feet, and the number of piles is 32,644. '^r 15,000,000 Iliiffiiffi':; !l f08 5IHB BEAUTIFUL, /PHB WONDBf{PUli, ,^ ^o^B Famous Statuary. f^TATUES OP MEMNON.-Of the famous st.tues of Mem- ^ .^ non, al TM.ebes, De Hass says: "They are the renowned Co- JOSSl nt A miirK-^^l- TTT -„ 1 1 . . k>ssi of Amunoph III., and but two survive a long avenue i § f "T •"■ f "'' *''"' °"'" ^""^^"'^ ^'^^ ^PP^^^-h to the grand ^ a temple m the rear. They originally were monoliths, but are m 'T' ^'°^'"' ^°°^^"^ ^'^^ ^^^^ '"^^ ^h« have outlived y their generation, and are quietly waiting their departure. He . are he dunensions of certain parts: Across the shoulders, i8 feet, 3 inches; the leg, from the knee to the sole of the foot lo feet, 8 mches; the foot itself, lo feet, 6 inches long, and the arm flom the top of the snoulder to the tip of the fingers, cj. feet % inches The whole height,dncluding pedestal, is about^ 'feet The' on ^ the north ,s the famous Vocal Statue of Memnon, which was said to greet h.s mother Aurora every morning at sunrise with a song of praise. It IS now m no musical mood. If the statue ever emit.od any musical sounds they were probably produced by fine wires, invisible from the ground, stretched across the lap from hand to hand." THE LAOCOON GBOUP.-This celebrated group of statuary was discovered at Rome in i5o6,and was purchased by Pope Julius II' and placed n. the Vatican, where it still remains. Few of us but have seen pictures of it-the dread serpents coiling themselves about a father and his two sons. The story on which the suggestion of this famous group .s founded is, that when Troy was being besieged by the Greeks, and the latter sought to capture the city by the device of the famous wooden horse filled with soldiers, Laocoon, a Trojan warned the citizens not to receive it, and boldly stuck his speai' into the side of the wooden mustang As a punishment it was said, for his impiety toward an object consecrated to Minerva, two monstrous serpents attacked him and his two sons, while they were worshiping in the temple, coiling about and crushing them. The in- cident of course, made a good subject for a statue. ELGIN MARBLES—This celebrated collection of statuary was taken from the Acropolis at Athens, and mainly from the ruins of the l-arthenon. 1 hey are so called from the Earl of Elgin, who, by per- AHD IPHB WISE. S09 s of Mem- lowned Co- on g avenue o the grand hs, but are \'e outlived departure, loulders, iH he foot, 19 2 arm from t, 3 inches, he one on vas said to J? of praise, my musical e from the •f statuary J Julius II., «s but have s about a ion of this isieged by '■ device of a Trojan, his spear was said, 3rva, two :hey were The in- :uary was ins of the 3, by per- years 1808-12. The cost of removal to Lord Elgin was i^.oooT which expense was entirely borne bv himself in f . •tSo.ooo, r.i T«JiA fV,^ n V 1 ^ ""'lit- ny nimselt, in the interest of art la 1816 the British government bought them, payin<. but i^.Voon and they are now in the British Museum. They co"rsist of ro 1 ,' s atue. and pieces of statues, bas-reliefs, fragm:L o^ 2^ r u:: e c. The wonderful thing about them is that they represent Grlek rt, when It was at its very highest perfection, and vvhrnTon^d s tinguished critic has said :_. It could no higher eo» M^nv f ^ statues are by Phidias himself th.r. ^ ^ "^ ""^ '''° lived Th.,V fl t ' '^^'°"' "" ^'■^^te^ sculptor never b,.ted Tnbune at Florence, I.dy. It h 4 feet, t.jz i„che h'S The face, .t .s said, ha. little beauty, the grelt me it of thT wo k 1 ■TL """■-'^ '" "' ""P""'""'- I' -- f-0 in .68™ roC nito eleven pieces, in the ruins of the villa nf M i • , "'^^°^«n Empero., near Tivoli. It is .aid to bl the wo" of "c, a ^°""'" Athenian sculptor, who lived .00 years be bre Chi Th ?!" '" .nd a portion of the left, could nof be found "^'" •■"■" .tlt^ndo MoTn's^raTr'^f''^''^^'"^'" "'' «"■*" ™ .eached the Waitriot reutTf^ir^rl ""'^'• ii :l a^Tnirfiir ^'s:°e:u>''%"'r/^"''''"''^ '- -^^^^^ mutilated, portions of thefts bli';-.™: ^'°'" " ^'°'''"" '' v-.r^fiirrnifTrws:?^;"!,'''^-'^---^-"- -__™e town that beirrLX-^X--—-! -.^.u .. ..arvea inco surrender to the Germans. When the t^reaiy "of »»4 I! If 'JL 5 210 ^HB BE&miPUU, rpHH WOKDBI^PUL, naturally desirpH fr^ ,>,^r«^ ,. ^" '-'/ -f r.mce. 1 he trench lu.aij^ utsirea to commemorate th s rermrL-iV.i« i r striking- and Ptirh,*-;,,,. . lemarkable defence ni some from a lymg position, as if aroused by the shot of ^ 1/ - ^ "^ ^.a.e. it is stin far !rL ^^''v^T^Z:^ 7 ''T' recal tlie eiiranfc hand nf o . . ^ « tors at the Centennial wi 1 Main Bunirand'-'l^^^chL X" ThlsT TTf ''"^'^" *^ cCossa. .a.ue e„Utl.d,. Libert^ E^nHg hji^ le w': ^ '". t erected „ Jedloe's Island, in New York harbo, w ' '°'"' it will be one of the most Lo-„l»rT ^'"'" '^'""P'eted foreigner on his arr^:^" ts' u'llTtir "V '""' ''''' "■" Allowing .„ feet for the height :^^:iZ^:t:^'2 "T^' tal IS to be loo feet high, and the stitce f„ th a ? ' P^''^^" feet. This makes theUh at t; "fee. ,boveTh 1 "^ I'f' "« It will be equal in height to the column l^nLpulv T ""= ''•■"^• .-.nd will be larger than the celebratrclssus :;7h:'f""'^ "' K""'' seven wonders of the world At nio-h^ ■! • '^'' °"° "' '^e jets of light shall radiate frl tlte t^mp e's IfZ"""' '"" ' "^"' "^ and perhaps the flame of the torch nZbe fl T""""' ^°''^'''' it may reflect the light of the sun blT ^f'""'"''^ '" "y^"'. so that object illuminated ly electrici " t'"^' "' ''""»'" ^°™ " g'""-? ...atvisitors„.ayasceLr Sayt^r/he a: T f ''^^ *'"^ surrounding the torch M R„,m m ?^ ™ '" "'« P'atforra . borne .oLly by Xlfr^ ^^^l^^ ^l^^ ^-^ , that Belfort The French tice in some ! plateau on :ulptor (the cted in New lid rock, and alf raised up w which is errible roar 'dinary man The whole be regarded lis remark- ense, for at II advanced ennial will etween the ?ed to the soon to be completed greet the ling home, the pedes- torch, 145 'f the bay. e at Paris, me of the a halo of goddess, al, so that 1 glowing he statue platform - expense AHD THE WISE. 211 Tm£ Great Cathedrals. IRST, largest, costliest and ■^ mightiest of all, is St. Peter's at Rome. Its foundations were laid in 1540, and not ^^ ^ a-,,^ >. until 175 years after was it dedicated ; and not until three and a half centuries had passed was it completed; during which forty-three Popes had ruled and passed away. It is hardly possible to tell what it cost. One Pope, Sextus V gave one hundred gold crowns toward It annually, and this is but a faint hint of what must have been the total cost Even now it costs 30,000 scudi per year to keep it in repair. All the great poten- tates. Popes and artists of those centuries including Michael Angelo aixl Raphael! had a hand in the work. Constantine may be said to have laid the corner-stone The cathedral is in the form of a Greek cross, 6131^ feet long within; length of transept, from wall to wall, 4461^ fegf height of nave, 1531^ feet, height of side' aisles, 47 feet The circumference of the pillars which support the dome is 253 feet, and the cupola is 193 feet in diameter. The height of the dome (for we Americans always want to Know how high anything is) from the pavement to the top of the cross, is^ 448 feet. There is a', stairway by which a -i loaded horse can go to the roof; Over its :^| chief portals are these ... J: I" '• sn MB BEAUOTPUL, UHB WOHDEI^FIUD. words "Matier and Head of all He 1^, C hurdles of tie City, and the World." After this it is lianlly worth wliile to spealc of otlwr cathedrals, and yet there are many nohle ones! -,*—,. - „ Strasburg, the highest cathedral in all France, reaches with it, cdebrated c ock-tower, 568 feet: its tower Jails a l' aT op™ fr.t-work of stone, bound together with iron ties; it is to hC two towers only one of which is yet completed. The bui Idil l«70- At Milan is a cathedral founded in 1,87, height ,-c fr.t .3 a noble building. The one at Florence was' ftu,: ed ^'. jS and covers 84,Soa square feet. The one in Cologne was begun in S m ddla of he th.rteenth century, and is hardly finished yetf it is o e of the „r.ost imposing Gothic structures in Europe. Wl,en finished ts 7Z:"T'7,r ''''■■ ^"'---•'^s'nin.j* a„dt H« n .503. Around the mterior are '■?"'-'. which has been at nbuted to Jan van Eyck. The Notre-Dame, at Antwerp, wa^ found^ ,„ ,35.. I ,5« it „,, ,^^,^, ^.,j ^^^^ P waa tms Rubens' celebrated picture, "The Descent from the Cross" Please not.ce the gre,aj age of some of these structures. The Notr;. Dame, at Pans, was founded iu ,,63, and is 390 feet long, though it .s only .a. feet high. Its organ is forty.five feet high, and has , .V! p.pes. Among the more modern ediflces, is that^of St Pau fat ba?. r;, r " 3'° '''' '''»'^- T''^ °- '" Salisbury, date back to the begtnning of the thirteenth century. England has many other notable churches. In America, St. Peter's a^d St. Pa„ 's a"^ Ph,Iadelph.a, was founded in ,846. Its dome is .,0 feet high Ite frescoes and altar-piecs are by Brumidi. The cathedral at Baldmotl - 13 190 feet long, 177 broad and 137 to the top of the dome. Its organ has 6,000 .stops. St. PeterC in f[14|r ^ /|^| New York, is 332 feet long and ^^^^i^ 132 feet wide. Its two towers are ' each 32S feet high. ^ The Notre- BS, with its e an open is to have lie buildincr Germans in t, 355 feet. 2(1 in 1398, egun in the t; it is one finished, its ind finished ' citizens of le buildino" I has been werp, was i. It con- le Cross." 'he Notre- , though it has 3,484 Paul's, at ury, dates has many Paul's, at liigh. Its Baltimore '^^ rocliil led6c runs fcr into the sea, ^nd on its outer point, some miles a-^ac/, T/:e ^i^htkovse lifts its massive rr^asonry, ^ pillar of fire by ni^kt, of clovd by day-^ LONGFELLOW. I ■AM AND »nHB WISE, Dame at Montreal is 2c:i: fw i '^^ 'o,ooo persons. It has two tovverTonef ?'^^^'^^^' ""^ will hold other a bell called the Gros BouZlZ] '""*""'"- ' ^''i'"e. and the In this connection it LfyZtZ t^.trf' ^°"^°^ P^-'- at Washington, including ^J statue f '""' "' '''' ^''•P'^^' Trinity Church steeple in NcV Vo; t't": f', '^", '"' '''^^^' Houen is at present the hi-hest in tU , ^ ^^^' ^'^^ «P"e at ai>-; but the spire of the new P bl L B^' ' "'^'""^ ^^3 feet in the completed, will be the hi Jllf ^ L "'';"r^;.'" Philadelphia, when 0^535 feet, but the height oTt" W'n'"''"^ '' ^'^ «^^'*"^<^ of the dimensions of a buildTng ^ '''^°"' "^ "^^-•' « '"-'•^ure The beautiful tower we t-l.ro Parliament inLondon. ^ °" ^''^" '"' '« °f the House of ^m^^'""^^ "^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^Ol^SBS f* stated bv Tosenhns ,h!t r u '"'=''' "'''' ''"'^ """ i' « ;«e.-wa.,. The seco'^^ t r;:?::--;^ '^ '--s bein, .U' ''y fi'o. And then was erected orih f ' ""'°''' """^ "^o'-sumed 1-s been considered one of t e Z ^" "!'°^" '''^^" " '""" "'"<=" I. was begun in ,,,6 "L fillT '■™"'-''""'= '''=•■"' "f engineering. "0 ' was t^e model ,h; to!" '^T ^'"' ^'"''- ^he trunk of "a " 33 feet at the ho to™ cTt^Tt: "1"'^' '°°'="''^-- ^'^ ^--'- Even this (i„ally weakenedV'''" """ '''^''"""i''''^ ""= light, erected in ,88, ^ ™™1'™'<'. and a second and a similar tower ,J ivna m m m I'HB BEAUltlPUL, THB WONDBI^PUL, situ!? H ^' T r^'.'""* '' '^' ■'"'">' "'^^'•«*«^ ^^^^'^ «f Cordovan, ? ettV" F '" "' '"''^ '" ^'^ ^'*>' "^ »'-">'• I^ - «^ «tone, rcl fee h,gh. Fo|,over ,00 years a fire of oak wood blazed every night on .ts owe.- There are four stories, of different orders of archifecture and adorned w.th the busts of kings. It is still in - service » of tlo"" "'" ^Tu "^'';*'^°"«^' "«• ^'^^ «««t coast of Scotland, is one of the many celebrated works of Geo. Stevenson, the English en- Tet h "^ I "V Stevenson, both of stone, and in the track of the gre.U ships, have been largely talked about by scientific men. whil th! a7 ^"u ''^^Y^ '^' '''''' °' ^'"' ^^^•">' Islands, against wh.ch the Atlantic beats; the Wolf Rock, near by; the Grea Basses near Ceylon, w.th its walls 5 feet thick, are marvels of engineerfng feet higt. °" ^^ '""'' "''' Bermuda, completed in .856. is 150 nf M' ''!' y"'/'"^ ^i^'""' P^'^'P' '^"^ '^'''' ^'^^^' lighthouse is that of Minot's Ledge, off the coast of Massachusetts, about 8 miles south il ^rTT T,'^ 'T'^^'^^^> «-'-^ in ^«49,was of iron. Some dea of .ts strength may be inferred from the fact that its i.on piles were 10 .nches .n d.amete.-, and that they we.e inse.ted in the solid rock c feetj and some idea of the fury and strength of the waves of the Atlantic m a storm, may be inferred from the fact that in April, 18^1 when the structu.-e was destroyed, all these immense i,on p les were' begun on the ledge, but so great were the difficulties encountered that at was two yea.s before even the rock, which was below water, could be prepared, and m the whole of 185 7 but four stones were laid. Still in XS60, the present stjuctuie was completed. M- '^l'"'-^ «/^ "^^--ly 700 lighthouses in the United States, though the M.not s ,s by n.r the most famous. Many are of stone, some of iron ome tal on the chffs, and some squatty on the water. On nothing else has the eng.neenng skill of the country been more concentrated. Somet.mes, wh.le .n the ve.-y process of laying the fou..dations, stones we.gh.ng tons would be swept away like pebbles. And sometime the .ce W.11 mass itself in mountai.is against them in winter. In the darkness of stormy nights, sea birds in vast numbers will dash them- selves agamst the lantern. The light which saves the sailor on the AND iPHB WISH. 9» sea, is a means of death to the fowls In the air AM ,.... r i .u — ^ — How SOUB GRBAT CITIBS RbCB/FB ThbiK ^ Watbr Supply. >"«"■• •; ^3's.em „, work, wa, completed which gave S to. an abumlant supply of water. Lake Cochituafe Iwemv m.le, west of .he cit^yand which drains some .rlo^^cref f was tapped, and water was thus brought in a br ciTondui ' H. a ca;Xf ":x:z;t,o~ :r r ^- ? also received from the Sudbur; Riv!r ''"''' '"''^'^ " Ro,:^Tat°!b";:!^nnis d^::i'-r T -"- '- Mount Ro,a. reservoir is ncaTl^e n^eUti^^f t ^ '"• canecU„?o^;jwl:'i„er:rf l^'^'V"''^'' '"' ^"'^'■^o '^'" >«« tunnel, sixty-twoiTcl hi and 7 , "^""-'^ -^y'i-'-af brick ...e M.4a.., and UsX-."^ Hi:;' -efi^r ^ trst frhigt::::t;::Hi!:rt:x:frf-^^^ - --- - purnp 7a,<, „,ooo gallo-,, dailv A, Vh ' I ,. :. T °"^'"' <^''» through a grated °ey;,„e,t'o'thf„„nekif ,""'"« "'"" in 1866. A second tn„„.l L This uuinel was finished under the city a„d t.sf r"*"'""^ ^''"''™''«' '» «'-d tunnels.) '' ""' '^""'"'''^ "" '"dependent supply._(See .unn'l^rn^n^^n^eT tt^B-f " ''^ ^^'^ -"'^ ^""^ ^ ''-" CINCINNATI.- Water is obtained fm^ fi,. ou:- -.._ ^. - •- -— Hiu iwivcr. iiie :-«l SIHH BBAUTIPUL, THE WONDBI^PUIi, "■■■own acoM the Cro.,m R- "f'^""^'''''"" ™""'5°.«».«>o increasing its Cer s,Ip; V'° "'' " """ """""^ ■»-"- '" f-her fl.t''irodu°e!'-r.li;'^fl'i;:r"- -^ "» Mi.si,sippi was became the purchasers :f th'e Z^Z^LZZ:^. '" ""' "t ^"^ of the dwellinss are «1.^ . , , . , • P"y'"e *'i3°o.ooo. Most rain water. ^ ° '"P^'"''' ""'" '«'«« <=«'«"» for holding Sch!wkiirS^,™iT'^''^ d'ys supplied with water from the There ^re ZtV:l rZl """"' T"' «•'"" *"= Delaware. Garden, the De,:::: hc^Lo^Mbe k "b '""f"'' "■" """"« twe v feet del whl i T '" "■ ^"'^° "'"'"'''"" ""^'^ "I'-'." sedimint. ' ' " " '"""""» '"'-'yfour hours to free it from nearT,:rrp°e;;;::„^:r--"t>'';^^'"'"™'--^-^^ supply Is about .o,o^ZtnZ ^^ ' "'""' '""'■ '''^ WASHII,OTOI,._W„sbing.„n and Georgetown are supplied AND 5IHB WISB. with water from the jrreat fn 11, ^r fi « 1"ct twelve ,„i,e, lo!;;"*^ ' , , ni'""""'^ "'"'™ "^ "" "que. conuininj, 3°o,«>o,ooo g„|,o ,, „ r^^'^'f '■'••'^'■™- '» capable „f only about a5,ooo.ooo gallons ;:e"d;,7° ""^"^ consump.io,. is FOREIGN CITIB8. CONSTANTINOPLE T . built by the Emperors HadrilTn.lTr''""''' "^ '"" ™'=^» '""ff. wafer. The „vL„<, iJ^-Z ,^°"'""""">-'. f""'i«l. >he city with orwhich re.., ..,„„ 33«rwrcirt :;;;': J;'"-'- '"' -' I.ONDON._While schema. '' '" " "-''"voir, increasing 'he water X;;,"" I^rr"' '"™ '■"■° '° '™^ f" Thames continues to be the Irea, T^ JT'" "™'"»' ""= ^ver pip- are not attached to ml „ wh cT H ''""''°"' "^"^ '"Pi"/ pressure, but >o smaller pir,L'r,?u. ''T"''"' " "'^"J" "" 'cr or two hours. '^ "^ ' """ "'"'^'' " » dai'y turned on for one thcT:::i?bors:;tr^^^^^ nver at the intakes is SooAooTgaUoI ^' "'"'^ """ "^ "- 68,000,000 gallons per d.ay-lhat is a ZT , companies abstract total flow. They posses^ ' '' "' ° ''"'" •""■'' "'»" one-cigh.h of the day. On the draiL^e ar^ The T mrThere 'n°°° '"""•" "" (mcludmg .00,000 in towns of upC^'of ri^""".^'?'°°° P^""'" upon .t there live 60,000 horses, ^60^ caT^ '"habitants), and 1 30,000 pigs. Their sewa..e ami J^ ' ^°°'°°° "''^'^ft "">" directly or indirectly. The° hTl thT "T 'T "" ''"'^"'™'' -"-r itself in its flow ha, been prlvX bo , " '^» '"" """°'' ^""'"^ is sent to London. I, is'con^L^,^ ^'""' "'"•""■>" '«» water removes 3S per cent, of the o'" im7 v'''^'"'^ '^''^ «"™'-" be supplied in solution to .h'c^ ^Jn'Tb """"^ '■■="""• "> gros^ annual income of i-75o,ooo£„;;hissup[,'; """"""'^ ""'«= " -^ pAT is known as the Signal Service Bureau has, in this country, grown to be of so much importance, that it is in- teresting to have at least a general knowledge of its work- ings. It is one of the notable things of this day and age. A very large proportion— probably three-quarters— of the predictions of the weather bureau prove to be correct. Scattered all over this country, at advantageous points, and equi- table distances, like the ancient cities of refuge, there are about 250 signal stations. Each of these stations is fully rigged with instruments that register everything important concerning the atmosphere. Three times each day, from all these stations, reports are telegraphed to Wash- ington, where is the central office. Now then, this is the way « Old Probabilities " makes up his famous predictions. As these various re- ports are received, he, with a map before him, draws a red line con- necting all these points which have the lowest atmospheric depression. The area within this red line is called a « storm-center," about which we hear so much. And the wise old man knows that from all points outside this circle the wind will rush in toward its center, because « low pressure " means less air, and on the principle that nature abhors a vacuum, the air outside rushes in to fill the void. Nearest the storm center the wind blows hardest. So this storm center moves over the country, and the ever watching and reporting telegraph faithfully re- CQids Its progress, and knowing all about the moisture, the temperature, the cloudmess, velocity of the wind, etc., « Old Prob." can very accu- rately tell when and where it will rain. Sometimes there are several rti Y'ifii^fmvT^^i-^f-ia^va ound water r from the n 1873, the urope. Rain, las, in this lat it is in- : its work- ^ and age. IS — of the rrect. and equi- about 250 istruments B. Three to Wash- vay « Old arious re- Hne con- epression. )ut which all points luse " low abhors a he storm over the hfully re- perature, ery accu- e several AND THE WISE 2fft storm centers "in session" at tlie samp »i,v,- • j— country, and of course .his ^^^Z^ZZ^T' ^T "' ** for the weather bureau at Washington "'"'''■ ""'' "'" for .lers^aTa:^^*:!;':"";:' '""V":" ''^"'■' -"- "« -»ged the ships lying in New ZVwL « f '" P'^*"^"""'- When from on top^f .he EquitabTelsln *B"iM"° " "-"' "" "' ""^"'^'^ «fci c«,^.,, above a red CT^Z f'"^ ' "*"'' ""^ «•*'* " 'Juare •t as the " Cautionar;!off IT S.VnaT»" T'"' "' '^"P"'"' '" ^"O" means that the storm^i^^rWe fs j, 't '■ '{'^'"^ ^'''""«- " or is coming. So at other norr A '" ""' ""ghborhood, for having the predTc.rns S i. '^"^"g*"'™'^ have also been made stations in.he~r J'=j'=^^^'"°'"-S '""" »» 'he leading even .he fanncs m ^Icnow whn^u iTaTr" '° '^ """" "P" ^° ""' .hing still pu.„es .he'weatLrbu^e'uirhe :;::": """'''■ °"^ so near, so pregnant with storms that alC The T T™ '"'■''""• can cor . „ telegraphic reoort, R. , I "'*' ""'' >"« '''■<'"■ " difficu; :.y soo'n b^ oveXel "''' ''"°"'' """ '"« -™ *» •«(ftM- ) ^hem of .he robe of If " i' " ■"="''""'<' "» "P™ «he w J great';^ xt rctrLirrerh" -^ "" rh^rdtw^jrad^rr r ?^- ^^^^^^^^^ hour for beginning an^tl^'iabo ° tI tf '^;",r— " '^^ to evening prayer Th^ P.- o „ ^P^'' ^^" ^^^ '^e call tolled whfnL/Lj,:^^^^^^^^^^ -"-• ^-- it w. Wnl! ""^!!:^ °' ^^^ C--^-- Bell was introduced in.„ P.n„,... u.. 22 It was rung at eight or nine in the evening 2,%Q 5JHB 3BAU11IPUL, HIHB WONDBI^PUIi, when all Hgrhts and fires were expected to be extinguished. This was to prevent fires. The largest Bell in the world is in Moscow— the City of Bells It was cast in 1653; is 21 feet, 4^ inches high, 22 feet, sV^ inche's in diameter, whe-e the clapper strikes, and weighs 443,772 pounds. His- tonans are m doubt whether this giant among bells was ever huno-. Dr. Clark says « The Russians might as well have attempted to sus- pend a hne-of-battle ship with all its stores and guns." But Bayard Taylor contends that it was both hung and rung; that it was rung by fifty men pulling upon the clapper, twenty-five on each side. In 18.7 the Czar Nicholas caused it to be used as a chapel, the entrance bein■ OIHB BEAUTIFUL, OIHB WONDBJ^FUL, Queen Victoria is in the possession of a curious needle. It was made at the celebrated needle manufactory at Redditch, and represents the column of Trajan in miniature. This well-known Roman column is adorned with numerous scenes in sculpture, which immortalize Trajan's heroic actions in war. On this diminutive needle scenes in the life of Queen Victoria are represented in relief, but so firmly cut and so small that it requires a magnifying glass to see them. The Victoria needle can, moreover, be opened; it contains a number of needles of smaller size, which are equally adorned with scenes in relief. In 1 69 1 a barrel was made at Sleideburg in Germany, which is composed of 1 1 2 solid beams, twenty-seven feet in length, is sixteen feet across the ends, and eighteen feet through the center, and contains 800 hogsheads; yet it was once drank out in eight days. — Troy Times. DIKING IN HOLLAND. N Dutch drainage-work the dike is a very important element. These vary, of course, according to the circumstances under which they are required. On the North Sea coast, where they '^^ are built to withstand tide rising ten feet beyond their average, and, lashed by storms, they constitute a work of stupendous ^ magnitude and cost. In the case of a holder of a few acres, they may be the work of a single man. Occasionally in their construction serious engineering difficulties are jresented; especially is this the ca where the dike is be constructed in the water. Here the two sides of the foundation, which must reach from the solid earth to the surface of -the water, are made by sinking great rafts of facines made of willow osiers, often from 190 to 150 yards square, strongly secured together, and making a compact mass. These are floated over the place they are intended to occupy, where they are guided by poles sunk in the bottom, and are loaded with stones or with earth, until they sink. Upon this first is a second or smaller one, and often a third, and even a fourth, always decreasing s. It was represents an column rjmortalize ! scenes in firmly cut em. The lumber of scenes in , which is is sixteen id contains ys. — Troy AND OlHE WISB. ^^8 built If «« dke istre™°re r"" ""•"^'"""' '"= <«ke is further proteceed b; ;«. LT: b"!,?' '° "T'"^ "•'"^'' " "- ^^ upon i,s slope, or b/riw of pilef ZT","""^' °' '^^ """''» P'-'^^d so-neti^es b, bric/wall-C ^' ^ Z -4' "'^" " "'""^' " H> Mediterranean with the RedT Tu '"/^^9). It connects the India by about 6,000 miles nc^lt^' t^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^(^V^ miles long, 2.0 feet wid. TT' "'°"*^' ^" ^'"'"e. It is vessels .0 ^^^ t:^ltl7:tZ. "'°^ "-' '"^^'' :ti t element; ces under here they r average, tupendous few acres, y in their especially he water. from the :ing great 150 yards act mass, py, where aded with a second lecreasing ,. ;„; history of the State itself T , .1 ''''°"'' "'"">»' 'h' I "M miles under the Hoosac Mo'"„„ "'t^'' '" ""'■'' '™S* "f 4Ji 4 ular vein betweeTNaw E„; r ::f rh'-r ''• ^"' '"'^^ 'capitalists and experienced t^rs toot fh J"'",, ^^"^ '=•'"' their fortunes, and quit. Finallv th. «! T u , P"" "' '*• *""!' wen, through. Finst estimated Lit r ! 'T'""'''' "'^ J*' ""d " Final cost to the Stat ,$~o:: T„ r^r' r^' '^^^''' ^350,000. H feet; height, .o fe^ m^.„lu j!"? ' '"'4'* ''^" "'•'*"'. tunnel wa, substantially finish^tTsyt '" "^^' "■" "" finisw!;''Z.Tr,^t-:I';i i"™f' ^^^ --^n m ,864, a„d ""'" "'=="7 ""' nnder Lake Michigan, ^^4 niHB BBAUiPIPUL, IPHB WONDHFJPUL, and through it the city receives its water supply. Its length is two miles, and its cost was $457,844. The excavation was only 5 feet in diameter. A second tunnel 7 feet in diameter, was completed in 1874, at a cost of $41 1,510. Both reach out to a well-hole, into which the water filters. This enterprise has attracted a good deal of attention both in this country and Europe. MUSCONETCONG TUNNEL— This famous puncture is noth- ing wonderful in length, but, on account of the difficulties sur- mounted, has justly been regarded as one of the boldest enterprises of its kind. It is on the Lehigh Valk , Railroad extension through New Jersey. It was begun in 1872, and finished in 1875. It is not a mile long, but floods of water impeded the work, and the syenitic gneiss encountered, was ,almost impenetrable even by the most improved drilling machines. NOT YET BUILT.— A tunnel constantly talked of since 1873, and for which a company was organized, and a route decided on, but which at this time, 1883, is not yet fairly under way, though its ultimate construction can hardly be doubted, is to extend under the English Channel, from England to France, a distance of 31 miles. It is roughly estimated the job will cost nine million pounds. MONT CENIS TUNNEL.— This great bore is through the Alps Mountains, and is the vital link between the world of France on the north, and that of Italy on the south. The work was begun August 31, 1857, the king of Sardinia himself firing the first mine. The boring was done simultaneously from both the north and south sides, and on September 26, 1870, thirteen years from the time of starting,' the workmen from either side shook hands at the meeting point; 39,482 feet, or nearly 8 miles, is the exact length of the perforation ; 3*000 men in winter, and 4,000 in summer, diil the job; which cost the good round sum of $15,000,000. The first train rolled through September 17,1871. It is a great work. ST. QOTHABD TUNNEL.— This enterprise must also rank among the greatest of scientific achievements. Like the Mont Cenis tunnef, it is also under the Alps; is 9 miles long, and took from 1S72 to 1879 for its completion. • THAMES TUNNEL— Fifty years ago this tunnel under the AND JPHB WISH. m Thames at London, was thniir,!,^ o .-epn in ,807. a„U Cnl. o,t;, ^ ;"'"<"•-' -<' was. I. „,, « but ,^oo fee. long. L„„. 1 l'^^ ''f^'^f " -'" ■%• I. »'= of X39o^ „ ;,i,^'" •''^'" •'"'' warcl,ou.cs,and that cose af.he * ^ . other pares of ,he Indian oL, pT ' "" ''=^'''"' ""'' '" «f the Indian fisheries were i, M K f '°"' '" '795 most of * became Brieish afte7 he .re,e ff ""' """''"' •="' ">ey Ceylon fisheries are so Jl ^„, t^ ° ,^,™e„s i„ ,So.. Th^ sometimes they are let to a contrlctor H / . ^"'"""■"ent, and of the season, a govern„,ent il L; of.h" " '""'■"^-"•ent order that the banks may not be II uT' '"'"'' P'-^^' '" fibbing. The fishing for ^he 'im! ,.""P°/'=™h>=d by too frequent >-ge bay on the north astco's^otl"" f "/f "' '''"'-• " mences in February or i„ M^r . I •'■'"'' ""^ <=''>''°"- ™m- tbU ground .50 bLts re "t'o L^' '^™'T' """^ ''''^»- Ui>on parts of the coast. At 'o at"i"ht ,tTl T' '"■" *«'^'™' 'bey put to sea, and, as s^n t Ihe d' T' °' " '«""' «■■". sufficient light, they comme°ce he d^". r""'"'' ""■•™ "^'b manned l.y ,e„ rowers a"dTe,.^ ^^ '"''°'- ^^"^l' boat is covers half the vessel 'rve 0^2^- """"^ *^ ''^=''' -"ch are gathering the pintadines, and e ,eh boTt-: """ "'''= "" °""'- "egro, who makes himself genera yusetl T^ V"'"'"" ^^^ usually about forty feet, and the bes( rftf ""^ , ''"^'^ ''"^«"'l water one and a half minutes To , '"" '"" ''"P ""*■• 'he at.ac.,.otheirfootasto„eof heshloeof ™'' f'"'' ''"^''" 'h^J' about fifty pounds. Arriving at the Am" '"" ""'' ^'^''^'^ "'^■S''^ wbich projects over the si e^of,, ta trn'Tb"'; \''-""^-"'«^. 'o each other. To the edge of this staJ; he d • ^ "^ ""' ""' U ^^ '"' '''"ng-stones are hung. :* i * III iM THE BBAUliIPUli, IPHB WONDBI^PUL, When a d.ver descends, he places his right foot in a stirrup, which is attached to the conical point of the stone, or he holds the cord which suspends the stone to the boat between his toes; with the other foot he carries a net in which the shells are to be placed, then, seizing i„ hi8 right hand a slgnal-cord, convreniently arranged for this purpose and, tightly closing his nostrils with his left hand, he plunges, holding hii self vertically over the sinking stone. Lest his descent should be in the slightest degree impeded, the diver is naked, with the exception of :» piece of calico round his loins. Upon reaching the bottom he withdraws his foot from the stirrup, and the stone is at once drawn to the top, ready for the use of another diver. He then throws himself upon his face on the ground, and, stretching out his arms, he gathers all the mollusks within his reach and places them within his net When he wishes to ascend, he pulls the signal-cord ,harply, and is rapidly drawn up. Ther« is always one stone for two divers; one rests and refreshes himself while the other is in the water. The time the divers ordinarily keep beneath the surface is thirty seconds, and m favorable circumstances, they can make fifteei, or twenty descents' in succession. But somtimes they are unable to go down more than three or four times. Even then, when they come up, water colored with blood comes from their mouths» noses, and ears. The work is very distressing, and makes sad havoc of the constitution; the pearl divers never reach old age. The fishing is continued until noon when a second gun -ives the signal to cease. The owners of the' boats wait on the shore to superintend the discharge of the cargoes which must be all secured before night, to prevent robbery. Formerly the Ceylon fisheries were very productive. In 1797 they yielded i:i44,ooo, and in the following year as much as ^^192,000. In 1802 the banks were let for i^i 20,000, but ever since they have been less and less valuable and now are not worth more than ,£20,000 per annum. SOME OF THE GIANT PEARLS. Of course there are giants among the pearls, whose size and value render them historical. Julius Caesar, who was a great admirer of pearls, gave one to Servilia, which was valued at a million ses- terses, nearly £48,000 of our money! Cleopatra had two famous pearls one of which the capricious queen dissolved in vinegar, and AND IPHB WISH. SSZ purchased .. Califf In .l^ne of The"' T "' ""' '"""'=' ''=<' nature i, reconlcd. A ™„ri from P ' "•-'-"ion. of .hi, b.ouKh, ,o Philip „., ki„f "/ sZ ^rhTp """"^ f ^•°°°' ""' »e»ed one fished up fro."- hif 'Z; wh^ch wT„: ,""^';: ""■ transparent thai he refused for ii ,hL ..^, f "'^'' •"" '° Museum at Moscow, there i, , nL„rl .t™',""'"' '" "'= Zo^e^na qu,.e semi-iucenti it kZ l^t , "" " ''"'""'•" *'''^'' » The Shah Of Pekia P™::^::.™* rpeTrfr^'oV' Vr" a» large as a hazel-nut; Iht •„ -e oC , ,-., ' "^ "'''"'' '' Pari. Exhibition in ,8„ P -^ 'r"""^;""=»«"'«''le! A, the Wbitcd so,ne magnifl :^f ptris-'and hL ; '^-'■•"f ^-S'-d. ex- 408 of the fines, ^ater, the^vle ;t''lr!'rrx:r '""'T"" have always been held in th^ hi , "^^ '""'^ ^''^^ i^2o,ooo. Pearls nations; inLed, they t^.e^" a fp^ rCrT ''« "° ^^""" and believed that their possession exerri 1 , '"''Sn'fi'-ent powers, ... their fortunes, and prLr^^^^ Xl ]^Z^::^fZ ^ii I- §:-»* |T is estimated that there are troorw^ i-^^ i whom nearly one-half are eml^dtVr" '"J"'"^' "' .> the latter work at home Of C p f , " Almost all of * u tbepoin. D-Aient::ihH: ts hirw^^itrr "■""* than two centuries, and ha< been s.yled the quern of ite^/"' '"T enhrely by hand, with a fine needle on a rarchm^ , !!' ' '"'"'' pieces, which are afterwanl united by invi! b e T^mf -^I"' «" ^'"'" and solidity of the texture are remarlable. Ho„ .ha'ir it ^ft """"" duced along the edge to give firmness Al,h„, t Vu " '""■"• or this .ace h. always bfe„ of .rbea^X^^LT thToS J '/■■'^'/..- ^2l« WHB BBAUWIPUL, THE WONDBI^PUL, ^ecunens were seldom copied from nature. This circumstance gave a and o h J„rT/°-*'' ^"" °' ^^"^^^^^' -^'^^ -P— '^d flow- and othe, natural designs with a high degree of accuracy. The defed rdmirlll Exposition of ,867 were specimens containing ierns. Owmg to its elaborate construction, this lace is feldom seen m large Pieces. A dress made of point D'AIencon, tL pX on of Bayeur, consisting of two flounces and t.immi.ig , was exl^b ed at the Exposition of 1867, the price of which was 85,;oo fran It required forty women seve.i years to complete it. »S — SI =^-:^_i^-S4 >!L^ A LOFTY STATION. [HE monastery of Saint Bernard has been for many years the highest bui ding in Europe, vi^., 8,200 feet above Ihe level of the sea. Now this claim belongs to Sicily, as upon the Etna MAGNIFICBNT RUINS. Yucatan is exceedingly ricli in remains. Uxraal is situated in tliis hsks with tlie tace and form of some deity carved upon eacli are hesu^™ ;• I •'^T'""' ''""'"■■' '"«' '»"' '^■•■•'"^^ besides lie summu wliicl, « over forty feet l^igh. Tlie lower terrace is five hundred and seventy-five fee. long, and fifteen fee. wide. Itlp c tan-is upon the s. ,,mit platform, with a fron. of .hrec hundrri ^ twen,y..w„ feet The sculpture upon .his .emple is among .Leric^ ^i "oi SM'-t 'I "% ^'f^ a nee gave a ted flowers rhe dcfed:, manufact- containing lasses and sldom seen production i exhibited francs. It AND THB WISE. feature, occur i„ ,he other rlTJiLT "' '"= -"•" °"»»- These but the conclusion is quite ce ." „ ,i^^^ ^^"""- °"^"'""^^' "' f-nJ. thnt portion „f .he cluine 'IV ,1:::,?' M™°'^ '"™P'«' ^" Central America. Palenque sill,?. .^ ^"'"'' ^'"'"'n «nd Chiapas, was the first extens"ve ruin T^ "" "? *'"''^'"' P^^ince of is supported by a platfo™ "l; TheX"/ ^'^ ""^"' '"""'■"^ blance to the others. Pain J IZ, f' T.'"' ""'' >««" » --esem ruins at Palenque. Mitla,"" h St ° of O '" T''" P""' "^ «« pie of massive remains. Portions ofl/f''''' '"""'^'' "" «"■"" ered with beautiful mosaics. ^^','1 7 foj."; "^"^ '" "^ years the e level of the Etna ?,200 feet !d in this It. Obe- each, are tmal is a 5 besides :e is five ^ temple !red and :he rich- T//S F/Ssr RAILROAD. [HE first railroad in sucpp««f.,i « \ ;;. England, of thirt" m irH^ -.-«' -j" .8^5, the famous Georse SteDlien.„„ " 'e"glh. This was built by 'iery laborer. 1° ,8 8^ "1 ^"^ '"^ '-" "' " ^^ -'^ _ and Ma„cl,ester_was colZ T!f "' """-"'' ^'^^T""! to« didn't begin to have ardeTof If ' ^"P."--"- The dfrec en.eT,rise wouM grow, for their "har, ' JdTT""' '" "'''""'■^'' carriages, or trams drawn by horses LrH .""^ ™° ""''' ■■"» ■nent of a small toll. But StLh "^ ° ™'''°"''' '•'*'^'- 'he pay. a PH« of X550 for an en J,?w;irsh':rd"' '"frJ-'—o o^r weight on a level road at I soeedTf , f ^'° "">'' "' "wn •he locomotive wa, to be IctiLr^'"'' '"'"'• The price of S'ephenson and his son to^^t1Z\^''''T '" '"'^ George "Rocket," which weighed o"; J tZ 7/°' "" ""^^ ''"'•" '^e of .4 n>iles per hour, ^his was tV Z '7,^ ">"' ■" "-e rate '.ve. S h,.,,„„g,,„„^,„;-. - «« ucc«sfu English locomo- ■oad ,n America was the Baltimore &nh- Passenger rail. the firet Ame,ir»„ i °"""o.e & Ohio, opened in ,8,0. A„j -v.„,„„v= was constructed by Peter Coo^*, ""■" ^80 5IHB BBAUWIPUL, JPHB WOHDBFJPUL, Where Does The Speed Lm? I ANY remarkable illustrations have been furnished of the fact that exactly counterparting a swift-going vessel will not insure speed in the duplicated one. Several exact models of the Mary Powell, the swiftest of the Hudson River boats, have been made, but none of them can go so well as the original. Another notable illustration is furnished by the scow schooner Randall, which outsailed everything she competed with some years ago on the San Francisco Bay. She was a mere square box, but although her lines are supposed to have been frequently reproduced by her builder, not one of the many scpw schooners made on her model have been any way notable for speed. The Randall was burned to the water's edge wWle carrying a cargo of hay, and was never rebuilt. H^; The Great Wall of China, » i< - HIS stupendous wall, which extends across the northern boundary of the Chinese Empire, is deservedly ranked among , th^ grandest labors of art. It is conducted over the summits K^^ of high mountains, several of which have an elevation of no less than 5,225 feet (nearly a mile), across deep valleys, and over wide rivers, by means of arches; in many part^ it is doubled or trebled, to command important passes; and at the u. stance of nearly every hundred yards is a tower or massive bastion. Its extent is computed at 1,500 miles; but in some parts, where less danger is apprehendcu, it is not equally strong or complete, am! toward the northwest consists merely of a strong rampart of earth. Near Koopekoo it is twenty-five feet in height, and at the too about fifteen feet thick; some of the towers, which are square, ar'e foity-eight feet high, and about forty feet in width. The stone employed in foundations, angles, etc., is a strong grey granite; but AND JPHE WISE. ^tt «s havmg been absolutely ascertained, and he a^I ,s Zf it °" ■sted for two thousand years In fhi. „ "f. "«'"'« 'hat it has ex- followed DuHalde, whoTfo^s „,*,:.:~ V^'" '" '"''' constructed two hundred and fiX. u , P'<"''g'<»» work was by order of ,he tir^tl^rXe^Z'tV'' ''"'' "' ""'''''' large provinces fro. the Luption! of r'^:.[J?' " ""'-' '"- who^e.'airrroporSnritTXrr "^ "'''' """^ -«». are seen. The wa.^surZn; n'! 'he 1 oV^LT' "'■ 1"'"= '^'^ «% feet high. This wall is sfxtv six feef.Lu'"/' "" l'"' """"S' «fty-four a. the top, and every tudr^vd, .her 'ar^""""""'' buttresses. There i« nrw «,„ r • J"*™*' mere are immense . .he wall. in™dr.h:;7of„"-rf ir :f^'r^';''^-"^'' around what is called the Imperial Ctv T„,n ,1 ' '" "''"'• around what is called the p'ohltee^'city.'trth „'"'•";'"*'"' dence of the Emperor. There are nmlf,!,! "^"'"", ""' " "»= '^si- cities in China, whose wills w[n r "^ ^ °"° "">"'""'' ^"""i twenty feet thkk I VlZ IT' 'wenty-five feet high and amount of w ,1 1 Clia^l: ..""'" "^' """ "■« ""ole feet high and ten ft "w I'a rU:! th!'' Tt"" ';"" ""' '"""'^ 5,000 men to work .=adi,y ^^Tl tb^llt.ir.r;^ ^ THINGS MBW AND OLD, 4 ^al principles of -ion ':^^r ll'IrS ^ ^l^,^^ r Enghsh patentees at various periods during the l4 T^ Thus also some dentist's tools, recently discovered .Vp •^!'''- recentlv be-" -o.^^.^j •_ t. „, . ^ discovered at Pompeu. have „. „,,.^..,,._^ ,j. ^„^._j.^ ^^ ^^^^ inventions. 1 M« WHS BERUmBUh, THE WOKDBI^PUli. BAALBEC AND ITS GREAT STONES. JHIS is what De Hass says about the ruins of Baal bee: "They . are m some respects the ruins of the sublimest works ever -^^^ ^^"'^"^"^ ^y '"«»• Nothing in Greece, Rome or E<.ypt ^^ can compare with them. Here on a vast platform, 900 feet long and 500 feet wide, standing 30 feet above the plain, and sup ported by a wall of immense stones, the largest 69 feet long "'feet 1 .ck, and .7 feet wide, are the remains of the temples of Baal and Jup.ter-the most perfect ruins in the world. Single columns 7. Tfeefl'oT' \l T ^".--•-^—, surmounted by" an entablaturf fh/r f 'rr ''''^"''"' workmanship. The eastern doorway to the tcnple of Jup.ter is 42 feet high in the clear, and 31 feet wide The key-stone of this portal weighs 60 tons, and on it is sculptured tonTth: : >P'^-;-P--- -^ dominion: An eagle soaring aj^ong he stars, graspmg an his talons the thunderbolts of Tove symbol '' ^B '''' Trt-'' l' ^"'* ^"""^^^ "^^ ^^^^" ^^^ '^^^ ^^ma^ symbol. —Buried Cities Recovered. WHEHE ALL THE GREAT STONES COME FROM. Back of Assouan, about one mile, says De Hass, you come to the gramte quarnesof Syene, that furnished the materia for all The enor mous statues and obelisks we find in Egypt. One huge Uo^Z, feet long by 11 feet square, partly dressed, from some cause lies stH in he quarry never having been removed, and is not likely soon to be disturbed. (Another writer tells us that in the ruins of an un- de^Cnedr ^^^ '""' ''^ "''' '^"' '" "''^^ "'^ ^^""^ ^^' EGYPT'S MBCMANICAL MARVELS, Wendell Phillips, in his lecture on the Lost Arts, makes the fol- ■ Taking their employment of the mechanical forces, and their AND UtHB WISE accomplished. In Boston mI]T 7 ^ "" "'° "™<'<"^ "«y weighing 50,000 .o„T°4 fee 17 '7'' '"°™' ""= ^'""'" "?'^' then we moved a who e block ohIT T "'■""'' '"' '" """ »'"=« we will „ri.e a book about tLtl '• "^ '"'" ' ""^ "° <'°'"« mi-.ico Fontana, of the rteenlh .. I " " ''°°'= '=""'8 ^ow Do- «t Rome on end i„ the P oac ' 'A ?' t "^ ""' ^S>'P''''" "'"^'-k Egyptian, ,„a„ied that ^L^^^ J; J^ ^^"'' ' ^'""^ ans brought it 750 miles and nZ ! ^ ""''='• """^ "'= Ro™- 'mon, of HartirdT wdk ,t with"; " T' "'°'" "■ M''- Bat. Thame, Tunnel, in Egypt afkelh \"""' "'^ "'=''''«' "^ 'h= chanical powe,- 'of theXptians Z T''' ^: '^°''^'" °' ">» ■»- Pillar, it k ,00 feet high aYd th, f , "'"'' ^''"^ '^ P<»"P=y'' something of a feat !CZ to no ^''^''t '"^ P"""-"'' l'^ and the few men that can do iM^^"^ ' '' "''" "^"^'S^t in the air, . Take canaU, for i^'tanee The S„erc: 77 ^P"^" ■"''"""- , in cleaning out the sand which fi^r -f '°''"' '"•"•"' "-"eipt, iknown whether it i, a pecut , cce^ '"ThT'' "" j' '^ "■" ^^ 'at right angles to ours, because fh!„t • """^^ •"■"' " "■"•' "> that direction, and thev knew ,! h"" " """"' ""' "" "P '' buUt were m„g„ificen; canal fn 're^ando/rr ' °"" "°"'''- ^•'-' -nged gates and sluiees. We have JnU ^tT ""'" P"*"'^ - ventilation properly for our iiouse vef f,/" ?"" '" ""•^"'''•"' "n^ids in Egypt sh'ow that thrE '; i rtoX'"'"'' ^'•,"" ''-'- the most perfect and scientiflc minner A ' ventilated in the ancients dressed and ioimed th, , ^S"'"' -^»™«>t is .nodern, for ings thousands of years Jd he tl f,T""'°'^'^ """ '" "■"■"- forced between them The t . ,' °^ " ^"^'''''' ="""<-' ^ has Claimed that .ryhaf; :ZfJZ'::t'' l'''^' ■ ^"^ been discovered of a shin full of m i • ^ pa.nting has pUhat the arrangemcL't of 't, I^ hi:::" Tnl 'HT ""'"'-' for by supposing the motive power to hZ h " " ""^^'''''^J acknowledges that he took the w" !, r \T ^'"™- Graham, ancient Egyptian pattern. De Toeouev l" T' '°* '''■'"" »" question that was not discussed .0 ral""l^!,T ""'= "^ "° -«.! i m «34 •JHB BBAUntlPUI,, mHB II^0HDBI5BUl^ HOW THE GREAT STONES WERE MOVED. Accordmg ,„ De Hasr,, a wide solid road-bed -v.,, „«ruct.d ftom .i,a quarnes to .i,e riv,:.,abo,« one mile, over wI.iA ~he,e p ' de,ou, Wocks of grar;te wer: moved on sledges or skirK wi.b rj',4 pUced beneath them, by direct physical force, thousa .d, of 'lave" bemg employed to move a single stone, Portions of th.'s roadwav may st.U be seen, and the whole process .nrthfully representedrS sculptures, even to the oversee., directin. .,.e work B„f Jul" how these .mmense blocks were ,inal!y elevated ,o t],.ir lo,™ p,^,"' ^d a*u«ed w.th nicety to -.heir posit™, no writer =.as .vet'b^.Hb et -«>» ~^1iSi^— -irt--^'^ -•^ Ffm iMAxme towbr of pisa. Thiscdebratoi tower is .79 feet high, and tips ., feet from a perpend,cular poridon. It was here that Galileo p, .ved to "he ncredulous doctor,, that a big stone and a little '^„,„ wol al le, t '" ''•'"" ""*"• '^'"= '""^^ i^ "ivded into eigh stones each „avmg an exterior gallery projecting seven feet #he summ,t .s reached by 330 steps. It, deflection was discover d Jur V.S- .t, erecon, and the upper courts were shaped, so as in a measure to counterac the deflection from the perpendicullr. The chimrS the seven bells at the top, the largest of which weighs ,.,coo pounds ar^so placed as .0 counterbalance, by their gravityfthe leaning of the HOW TO MEASURE THE SPEED OP TRAINS, A way to measure the speed of trains i,. to count the number of fish-plates passed m i^y, seconds in the case of ordin. ails 21 feet long, and m the case of steel rails, which average in . h ,0 feet 20J/. seconds-the nur^^.r of plates passed in -e H . . sLed JS equal to the number of es traveled per houn- ^W' .l/a/Tca^ AND WHE WISE. sa« ps : ;rf„-^r :s„;' jr "t -- •<> °-' ». pyramids of Effvnt ofwk.vi, v /^^'^e. •he largest of .hem auf ^t i t fel f™? "" °' ^'""''"> and including 20 feet at ,h„ '^ *" ">"'"'= ^' 'h= base, 500 feet high. (The ."o^er o„ 1 ZTciX' ^^ ''"" ''""'^^''' ' '■'ved to be the highest tow^r , 1 7, '"' "' P'"l«delphia, be- "■d contains 9o,o4ooo eubTc fJI o" nT" ' ' " ''= '""'■'> ^he p^ra- over ,3 acres, being larger than MadisoTr'''''"::? """" ="> --"of 'h-s pyramid, says the author o( BurZ'd r^ "^"""^^ ■"'•"'"'•' ■"" »» Washington, including all it, puto h T' '" ''""'' ■■■ '"^ "' '"ge 400,000 men were employed T" ''''"^'- """''o'"^ »="» us tomb of kings. '^ ^ " '" y'"" '" •"'"ding it. I, ^as the erect«i'"fn°H':r'lrt trimo'f T,'"" ""'" ^"-■'i' kmg of Caria. Concerning The tomb' ,',^'' ''"^''»"<'' Mausolns. b"' of Artemisia and of her exces^^ . "" '""'"' ""' """^h «or,es are toid, one of which is Tharh ''" ''" ''"^'"'"''. many great that she mixed his asT« ;,.! 'a'" «?! '"' '"' "aath was so 3- The Temple of Dianr F ''™'' "«=™ "« occupied „o yea„. Ti,e wUle ,e!r.h"T',K "' '"""*"« "' «'»ch and the breadth ,.o feet wi,h , "^^ "'^ '""P'" »-»' 4^5 feet Parian marble, each a Sgle^h'ft 1';" 7? "' "'^ '""'= "^'r, n 4- The Walls and H™!" P . ^^^' ""'' "■" «'" of a ki^ 337 feet, 8 inches high ^XCt^U^'C^y'^-- ThewallsweS walls was a second of equa, 1, Iht '"f %'"-d. Inside the outer were 400 feet square. They wefe Lrrfcd ' ''""S"? g^dens ""'■' "« height equaled that of tl'e "t "n™ ""■""' °''°^= arches -as made so deep that large tree o ,d ^r ' °" "" '°P "- -« 5- The Colossus at Rhodes ,!- IK , '■°°"" "• "velveyea.. in buildin. andll'r':!':^'"'.''™- ™age. It was " "' " '"'«=-■ """ " « popularly con- S3« 1IHE BEAUiniPUL, mHB WOHDBI?BUL,, srfered to have stood beside the mouth of the harbor, and that ,hi,» saded between ,ts feet. This, however, is doubtful. There we e f w persons who could reach round the thumb with both arlTa'l iu fingers were larger than most statues. The cost was about $3 L^^ .culptor l-h.d,as. The god was representc.l as seated on his throne and^l' r'''^/ ""''' """ ""= ««"■•' "- "-'f of ivory .J,d gold- ce"tl ofteT ;'"' :' r'' ™-^' P"P°"">"^ " »'"-« r'lached .he ceilmg of the temple, which was 68 feet hi»h Ils'ii<,M°™ uT " '«'"h'>"»' 550 feet hllhjat Alexandria, Egypt. Its l.ght could be seen ,00 miles out at sea. This tower waf de s.gned as a memorial of the King Ptolemy, who ordered hTs name' howevrfir: euTh •"''"""'• .^''-'^X ^oes that the archi.eT. noweve , first cut his own name in the marble, placing over it in stucco, the name of the king. In a few years the name of the ki,^ was worn away, leaving that of Sostratus, the architect, to blaze fo7 ever on the front of the unrivaled monument. AnJ yet not foreve as no vesfge of the monument has for ages been visible •^->- ^2:2^"«>-SV-=»-fe \#v^ «, 5(9^^ B/C GUMS. - -^ISITORS at Fort Hamilton, in New York harbor, have ^ exammed w.th a good deal of interest the enormous twenty! -?- • u ^°'^"'^" ^""' mounted at the end of the tier of fifteen- of . -/l , ^""! ^^'"'^ ^^'^"^« «!«"? the embankment for a quarter of a mile below the fort. A friend of the writer of this once crawled )^ " ^aX i;i;-\ ^^7-r^^« -6,400 pounds i™ teet, three and a half mches m length, and throws a projectile weiehin^ r. 00 pounds. The carriage for the gun weighs 36^00 pounds Th! whole rests upon a granite foundation. The ran|e'of th'e gun is b bur T p" 'k T "''"• '' "^^ '''' '' ^^^ F--' P'tt Foundry, Pitt process of the castmg a fire is kept burning on the outside of the fla k contaanmg the mould, and a stream of water is kept flowing nl> he id that ships ere were few irms, and its ut $317,000. the famous n his throne ly and gold ; reached the Iria, Egypt, 'er was de- ed his name le architect, over it, in 'f the king 3 blaze for- ot forever. bor, have Js twenty- of fifteen- a quarter e crawled is twenty weighing ids. The un is be- Iry, Pitts- uring the the flask into the AMD JPHB WISE. fi"l fi«. Fo,™i<,abfc , "it r'"' ""' '" "- ''°- becomes solid . weigh,, S.U1 i, i, a smooth b„etr/"""T"''^''"' '"''-•■"■J come ,0 the conclusion .hat.he ''1, ""'"""' ''■'" S.«d..ally nflci g„„. "'^' "«• Steat gun of ,l,e fueure will be a J^r ;ot:^ *:/^^^^^^^^^^^^ -«>«... co„.«, ..on. Arsenal, a. Woolwich: Their li" f"'' "■''""«>«"re i' , , ^le up. He then filled them all with water; then he cunc into the house, made out his bill, and said he would call next n.orning for his pay. Every one was much mystified. But in the morninar their astonishment was great. The water had frozen durin- the night, and in the • " i pile of scrap iron was found, as the freezing water had broken every bomb into at least a dozen pieces. — N. T. Observer. ^^!^- 4JOO Feet Under Ground in Nevada. ^T takes ou.y five minutes. You step on the stage, and the hand that guides the Titan at the surl ice touches the rein of his hlack monster, and you are plunged into the gloom. The c .■^•, stops, and you are more than a quarter of n mile below the busy cityi from the liusty way you have stepped into the work's grand( ' treasure-house, you have passed from the temperate to the trop- ical zone in a minute — you are in the Bonanza. It is no little thing to work a mine 1,500 feet below the surface. True, there are broad avenues; broad ti-nbers, .vhich, like Atlas, seem competent to support t worici; there ar. engines .-t work and cars run- ning; but every glim, of ihe men reveals the exertion necessar) to keep up this conflict with the spirits that guard the buried treasure below. The men ire ^'ri oed to the waist, tho:- brawny del vers, with perspiration bursting from every pore. It looks pleasant down there in the nvmic streets and'^nderth- lantern's glare; but before those streets were .penc 1 there wa-. in the stifling air a work performed thai ino )e calculated. Picks were swung, drills were struck, powder s bi aed, men faint 1 and fell in their places, but the work went on. So it will proceed in ^he future, ui I!., probably, after another sixteen years, they will be workin - 3 000 feet below the s.irface. ^ ' er down to to take the every bomb em all with ind said he h mystified. ! water had ap iron was o at least a A1\I0 (FHB WrtJB. im DA, id the hand >f his black c i-'j stops, ; busy city; 's grander* :o the trop- he surface. Vtlas, seem \ cars run- necessar} ;d treasure y del vers, under thf was in the *icks were and fell in ^he future, dng- 3,000 HOHT jvs Small Thmvel ,y thb Pvtvre. Aloft, In vast unpeopled realms of light The great ship moves majestic, swift and fair • ^"'"f«« '''I'd. J'et daring in its flight, ' Finding its luminous way along the untraveled air. A LONG LOOK AHEAD. a^'^aS^ ♦ I4m HE au-sh.p at first, will be used for the transn.i.<. . of the mads and hght express packages, and especially for tneir swift ^^ onveyance over sea; but soon the more advenLous and eso I lute, and finally, all classes of travelers, will avail the ,1, ^ luxur, of fl, Tht, experiencing thrills of wonder and ec -.cv nnH a sense of power, freedom, and safety, o which all f ' ^' a J'ghts of travel may well set , ame hv '"'^'' '^^■ SUdman, ^^ "^'^ ^^^^r,, - Edmund C. I -A ^40 5IHB BBAUTIPUIi. THB WONDfcJI^PUL, ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MINES, —^ - y> . [OME of the iro,. mines anciently worked by the Egyptian, I have recently 1 .en ,li«.„verecl anew by Engli.h explorer 3 and .earcl, .s to be instituted for other ancient minef of s".' expected th, , m the debr>s accumnlated in the neighborlvKnl of found »uft,c,e„ to make the working it over again profitable aI was made of the discovery, ,n the vicinity of Mount Sinai, of the .u.quo,se m„,es of the ancient Egyptians. The diseov^re an Enghshman, observed in water courses of that region, which in sum mer are dry, peculiar blue stones, which he soo^ ascertahn.7to be turqno,ses. This circumstance led to further research. We are now ...formed that, "aided by the friendly tribes he has taken , o hk pay, he has d,scovered the turquoise „, ,es of the ancient EgCian the rocks that they worked for the stones, the very tools thaf hey used, and thetr polishing and grinding places." The fortun te d2^ coverer has already sent to E„gla,.d some of the finest turquoises ever While searching for the turquoise mine,, the same explorer dis- covered the ancient lines of fortifications surrounding tr work and came upon the remains of vast i.on works, whifh must We employed many thousands of hands. Slag taken fron, the refuse heaps around these works contains as much as 53 per cent, of iron. The whole surroundmg district is well worthy of being thoron..hlv explored by the antiquary, as it contains many hieroglyphic insc'rii o;mei'i'ui;r""' ''°'""'"' """ ■""' "'"' "•"'" '''''"^ ^^y thjAll^^°''X7'"u ")''*""'•■•''"' -impulse will pass through the Atlantic cable has been ascertained to be between 7,000 and 0,000 mdes per second, ' *HD JntiB WIBB, J^ffS GflB^T NEVADA FLUMB. m fM,8""' Nevada flume: follow.ng account of th, ^' M„f„r„::!:i;t;.t:;i;::= "- '^« «'«- Nevada co«empl„,cd i„ ,ny vi,i. .o Vi° ™i7''''*"» ""' ™e of ,he thing, r"«.n to .ay ,h,„ eve,, if I ^.o!^''-'':"'' I" '» -«"<'ly witht, P^ce of residence-which fo,,„, tLrt J^,' "^^ <"""'"•-' <»° «nd $30o,ooo-if i. ha" ' W""'""'-". between $^oo,. same ,„ „,y estimation. It was Tuilt h "" " " ™"''' >« 'h" 'ha m,nes l,ere, principally the owl L ^'' T^""^ ""'■'»'«' i" g'-.a, California, Hale & Norcir T n "' ^""-'W"'"! Vir- <;her, ami Utah ,„!„«. The l™. , "" * ^""y^ »"»' & Bel. -J. C. Flood, Ja,„es G Fair ,rM°l''''°""" '" "-« "•■"« «ho co,npo,e without doub .'he l^^ih '^T'' ^- «• O'Brien, S'ates. Taking ,he stock of ,h r I •" "^ '" 'h' United ■" 'he board, the amount they ow,^ Tr!""''!"' "" P"'" <"'<"«'' '-h has a large private fortunTin addV """ *'°°-«».«>o. and - .,«x>,ooo fee. of lu.nber " month , "^'^ ""'"^ -•"^<' 40.000 cords of wood peryea.-.'^WoT, H ''™""''' '"■'' h"™ «.^acord,and a. market pri«s Mel r,"' .T"* '■''•■" *'° "> amount V"lhe: Z^ ' r/^^w" '^' T" '=''"- '^^ '~ of wood burned in the seve a, "1'"^ .'" '"^'-'able amoun, Mackay, who accompanied me wW "n ,"""'' ' ""'«' ^r. «rae from. ^ ""' "here all the wood and timber '-^''^:^w^"::::z'T '- '^^ «'—«>■ or «.v Wash. Lake, all Of Which is iril^tlX.:!"' '" '^' ^'='""' - __ How do you get it here?" I asked. -K a:nn^-:r- ^«- -r- ";- .— '-. mtee,. « - ' " " '-'""gni u/ the Virginia & fi 24S THE BEAUTIFUL, WHE WONDBI^PUL, m Iruckee Railroad to this city, about sixteen miles. You ought to see the flume before you go back; it is really a wonderful thing." The flume is a wonderful piece of engineering work. It is built wholly upon trestle-work and stringers; there is not a cut in the whole distance, and the grade is so heavy that there is little danger of a jam. The trestle-work is very substantial, and is undoubtedly strong enough to support a narrow-gauge railway. It runs over foot-hills through valleys, around mountains, and across canyons. In one place' It IS 70 feet high. The highest point of the flume from the plain is 3,700 feet, and on an air-line from beginning to end the distance is eight miles, the course thus taking up seven miles in twists and turns The trestle-work.is thoroughly braced longitudinally and across, so that no break can extend farther than a single box, which is 16 feet. All the mam supports, which are five feet apart, are firmly set in mudsdls, and the boxes or troughs rest in brackets four feet apart. These agam rest upon substantial stringers. The grade of the flume IS between 1,600 and 2,000 feet from top to bottom-a distance, as previously stated, of 15 miles. The sharpest fall is three feet in six There are two reservoirs from which the flume is fed. One is 1 100 feet long and the other 600 feet. A ditch, nearly two miles Ion- takes the water to the first reservoir, whence it is conveyed 3 1.4 miles to the flume through a feeder capable of carrying 450 inches of water. The whole flume was built in ten weeks. In that time all the trestle-work, stringers, and boxes were put in place. About 200 men were employed on it at one time, being divided into four gan-s It required 2,000,000 feet of lu -ber, but the item which astonishll me most was that there were 28 tons, or 56,000 pounds, of nails used m the construction of this flume. Mr. Flood and Mr. Fair had arranged for a ride in the flume, and I was challenged to go with them. Indeed, the proposition was put in thi^ way—tliey dared me to go. I thought if men worth ♦wenty.five or thirty million dollars apiece could aflford to risk their lives, I could afford to risk mine, which isn't worth half as much. t?o I accepted the challenge, and two " boats" were ordered. These were nothing more than pig-troughs, with one end knocked out. The "boat" IS built like the flume, V shaped, and fits into the flume. The grade of the flume at the mill is very heavy, and the water rushes AHD WHB WISH. 843 ing in ,„id.air without aupport^of If '"f "' « ''=«--^«- '""g distance of fifteen miles 1?^/, ? ^ ''°"''' ""'' "tending a -"es an ho,., whilt a m ITCr: " "" "" "' "^ ^"'^ road train. *^^'^ *^^ average speed of a rail- M,-. Fair in the stern! and Is of r,'"' '''""'""' ' -' ^^'-i water which broke o^. fhri hfrn f™'! '° '■'"' '" '"='P"'g 'he great deal of water also shipoed h. H T '" '»'''• ^'^'^^ -- ' I know Mr. Fair's br::drn,de*L.°"°'/'' '-^-'-gh. and in that memorable trip A, 1, '^ '^'■°'" '"""J' " «■=""? so furiously in front that jf' "'^'''»"'." S'-des. the water came in going, or Jha. w^a 'f ^ CtChln '" '"' T'"' "' -'' we were going at a three or foukmiLt "acl /"'° "" "«'" ™'' lishtful, although it was terrible '^ ' """' ™' ""y <''■ pa^ntly so fragile ...at Uo.^ o^yr:;:: ;"" '"hT"" ^"^ "P" which, high in the air, I was runn.C T <:hi.lk.mark upon One circumstance during Te rio 7l " "'^ ''"''"''^" '" '^^'o^^- -pidity With Which w:Lti trughirfliif 7 "' '"^ ''"""•= We had been rushing down at a frettv , f '"^ "^ °'*'- the boat suddenly struck someth nt P'f'^, '''''>■ ™"= of Veed when of wood, or some .ecure Tb! t " ^'<^ ' " ""''' " '"^'"^ ^'-'' •here. What was Te e^'rThe" rd'f^"' ""' '" -""^ >-- whirling into the flume ten feet ahead t ""'P'"'" """' ^™' face, and t found a soft lodgment o^ F ' 'S', ?'■<'=■?!*«'='' o» his that in a second's time I^r hl"'l, ^''"'\^'''- I' »«™. to me te.- by the scruffof the n«k and hid" """rf"' '"™' ''=*"'"'= -^f-- - not know that at this time Fa" r had W " 1 "" '"'° *" *"""• ' <•« ," boat and the flume. But we sld llo '"" """"^'* ''"-^"" 'h« -emed an hour before we arnCed t 5' '"'"'"" ""'"''' "'"'■•'• " -dyet Hereford tells me n:^e:! ntrrj^-' '" !>!= «-' I? 2U nfHU BBAUItlPUli, mm WOMDBI^PUL, I t:lr'Z t^lf '° '""'.''r '"^ "^^ +5 degree.- i„cli„a.io„. I„ ooking o,^, before we reached it, I thought the only way to rret to LXrtii:rr;.::eT Se't: r'r- "'"- "^"* ^^ '-='• iudcrment of fh. «" P''ice 1 allude to, my desire was to form some judgment of the speed we were making. If the truth must be spoken, I was really scared almost out of reason, but if I we e on I h LT °r'""'^ ' "^"^"^ *° ^"°- ^^-^ly ^o^ fast I went So I huddled close to Fair, .„d turned my eyes toward the hilir Evety n was Mountams passed like visions and shadow . It was with difficulty that I could get my breath. I felt that I did not wei" a hundred pounds, although I knew in the sharpness of intell crwhich Fi:c^^:;?M'H"T:;"'','r '''''''-' ^--'^ - ^- hundred Mr than tr !^"' ''^' '^'^""^'^ '^''y ''^''^^ «^^«'«J 'Minutes later tney had the full sweep of the water, while we had it rather -.t r Fltd ""!:''' '°^* '"^"^ «^^-^ -- -^h ^» terHb crash Wm '^^^"'.^V """ "P°" ''^ '^^•^' ^"^ ^'^^ --^-« flowed ove h.m. What became of Hereford I do not know, except tha oneX.""'^' ''' ^^^"^^'^"^ °^ ''' «"- ^^ -- - wett any This only remains to be said: We made the entire distance in less hme than a railway train would ordinarily make, and a portion of h w t^Tt Tar' r ^'^" '^ """^^ '^^'" ^^^' --^- F- -id w went at least a mile a minute; Flood said we went at the rate of a hundred miles an hour, and my deliberate belief is that we went . a rate that annihilated time and space Flo!^' ""fn ' ""'', 1°' "^'" ^' ''^'^'^ '^^ ^^'•"^-"^ of the flume. Flood said he would not make the trip again for the whole Consol dated Virginia mine. Fair said that he should never agin place Tm self on an equality with timber and wood, and Hereford sa^d he w" sorry he ever built the flume. As for mvself I tnWl ,u u that T hnA o^„ * 1 , . myseii, i told the millionaires that I had accepted my last challenge. When we left our boats we were more dead than alive. The next day neither Flood no Flir Was able to leave his bed Formvc^if t i, , Rflv fh.^ ^ u u / myself, I have only the strength to say that 1 have had enough of flumes iclination. In vay to get to is more than vent so fact. form some th must be ' I were on 1 went. So ills. Every ily see what It was with not weigh a sllect which ndred. Mr. linutes later loaded, and it rather at rible crash, lowed over ;xcept that ivet as any mce in less rtion of the air said we e rate of a ve went at the flume. le Consoli- place him- lid he was lillionaires boats we nor Fair rength to AMD IPHE WISE. /^^■' m SUNTAZ MAHAL E Ease Indian empero J" ha diX" r"' f ''"'^ J^''""' ""= "f .he , asro, and, at her dying request h I "" '"" ^""'^'^ year, mnen. ,o her memory uT "^^.f '"'"*' ''"'" " -^»«ly mon the bank of the Jumna River bouT "i """J ^'"""' ""d "on ^nd in the midst of a molt Wf , ""'" "^' °f "'» Agra fo™ "arble, almost entirely ww" "'^"f '' ^-<'-. The building if of » " marble poem." I. Lst abo'ut , 'e r'""'?' '""" " ""' "^^ ca Ld housand workmen seventeen ^ r to b''n '^°"'"' """ '»'' 'we y ha central hall lie the remai^of he e '^ '" '"' ''"'' ^^'o- tomb occupies the very center "„dhf T^!°' "'"' ^P^^'. Her made to fall directly upon ; ^i '^^l ""' '"'^- The light I beautifully decorati:,. '^n the hau'a"b ' °' """'^ '""''le, nd memory.- C.„' ^"'•liss engine "e '.ht and partly of'a^: ', r^tTT,'^ ^"' ''«'"•«» Pa«ly o^ who afterward gave his ^am anf " r'"'^-'-'""^ Petso/age, I".« .ee.h apa„, suffered .he e^.Ta, Th"' '" "'u'"™"- '° ""P ward tried on board of Fcder,l L ' u """' """? "■"» "fter- ".-h of .he u„p,ea.n. .ensa.L::J!;~r"" '"" '^^ ''-^ «a- r-.rLi.t;.ro n^re^t::::?- f r ^-t '- "-• are no horses there. How .h ^" ^"" ^^^"^ there when you want to visfa frtrr"^ '' ""^^ '^' ^°" ^'^-'<» steps of some old palace sten I^m '"? '^°'^" ''^" '"'-^'ble . ly and noiselessly a wa;fL'"'7 f^^^^^ along over the cobble-stones- ^J^T "' ^°^^'"^ ^^ ^"-^Ung ^ght.and hear the low plaTh of the oa7l„^h°"^ '^^' '^ "^-- tant voices of the boatmen singin. some " • T'''' ""^ ^^^ ^•- good as a play. ^'"^ ''''"^ love-sick soug-oh, it's as Of course there are no carf".. that he wa,..., f .he S'„HH 7' "'''""' ''^''"°*'«'sed Alexander, which gave .o ApeTlL ,h" , '"■"" '''""°'" '*c. „f P»*ait .oLy,i^p„,.,„.„f .-^P;^^ 'he sok ngh. of pai„.i„g his Pvrgo.e,es that of engraving i. p '"p!,^!? rjl^"^ ^'^'''' ="'' '» u» WHS BBAUIPIPUL, IPHB WOKDBI^PUL, Lysippus executed a group of twenty-five equestrian statues of the Macedonian horses that fell at the passage of the Granicus, and of this group the horses now at Venice formed a part. They were carried from Alexander to Rome by Augustus, who placed them on his triumphal arch. Afterward, Nero, Domitia.i, and Trajan, successfully transferred them to arches of their own. When Constantine removed the capital of the Roman empire to theanaent Byzantium, he sought to beautify it by all means in his power, and for this purpose he removed a great number of works of art froni Rome to Constantinople, and among them these bronze horses of Lysippus. In the early parf of the thirteenth century, the nobles of France and Orermany, who were going on the fourth crusade, arrived .t Venice, and stipulated with the Venetians for means of transport to the holy land. But, mstead of proceeding to Jerusalem, they were diverted from their original intention, and, under the leadership of the blind old doge, Dandolo, they captured the city of Constantinople. The fall of the city was followed by an almost total destruction of the works of art by which it had been adorned; for the Latins disgraced themselves by a more ruthless vandalism than that of the Vandals themselves. ^ But out of the wreck the four bronze horses were saved and carried in triumph to Venice, where they were placed over the central porch of St. Mark's Cathedral. There they stood until Napoleon Bon* parte, in 1797, removed them, with other trophies, to Paris; but a^«r Haroir"^''" *^^^ "^^'^ '^''°'^'^' ^"''' "' ^^'°" ''^' ^" "^^"^* " Before St. Mark still glow his steeds of brass, Their gilded collars glittering in the sun." Not the least among the wonderful things found in nature is the Bombadier Beetle. Turn over old rails and logs in the edge of the woods, and there will scamper away a little red-bodied beetle. V you listen you will hear a little discharge, as of a miniature cannor lollowed by a little puff of smoke. The insect is properly named. :atues of the ;, and of this vere carried lem on his successfully n empire to cans in his >f works of lese bronze France and at Venice, the holy re diverted le blind old The fall of le works of themselves mselves. ind carried tral porch Jon Bona- ; but srfle*- 1 "Childe nature is le edge of eetle. li "e can nor amed. A CENTENNIAL BF4UTY. AMD WHB Wise* 849 A MECHANICAL MARVEL, ' tiJ!'^"^** ^^^^' "' ^»"o". "- produced . curi. hundred and fo„ie.h '^^ TanT h" n wi'dTh '" ""'"'' "^ """^ ^""^ to the dot over the printed leter 7 Thf H 'Z T''"."''"'^"™*"^ enlarged by ,„e,„s offhe photojlh s» , . ""^ ""■'""«^ '"« ''«" .wo inches long by „„, tT7Z ZZIT^^' irV"^''' brings the words out legibly the n,„«b„ r ? photograph « the fineness of the orieinLl ° v n '"'" ''"'"S "7- Such the sn™e way wou d onlTcov r o / ''^'.^9;+3M58 letters written whole Bible, including ,L Old ,3^''"^'"'' °'«'''" '''''''''■ '^^^ 480 let.e,-s; therefore: Mr wthbco^d" ^'f^";'"'^' -"'-"S 3,566,. more than eight Bibles within the ? T "'^ '""■•' ™"'="'« of specimen plafes of th^ ml™ •"■" ""^ °"' ^'""■« '""^h- Two •he United' sLte, Museum" Tasr"? ''^'^ "^ ^^'^^^^ for The Webb machine, hovrrer'doTsttXal t IT "' ^^ ^''^'■• ■ng, or the perfection it has attained " ..^"'"' '" '?« ""eness of writ- of Mr. Peters, a wealthy bant T^/'lo 'dt" Tht "\"^ '"''"'■°" writing as long ago as iStc nearlv h° . """''""' Produced Webb.,. It w^as ^ompet! 'torngfa th'e eX" "^ " V"" °' "^• twenty-two U.es over, within thf Z^7:Z^::^^^' RULES FOR WORKING WTB coinpuM^gtZf 1: t::T^ "■°" ^^^"-'^ -^^^^^ "—" 'or by the nuLer of days. a'L Xiae-''^'-^- ^""'P'-^ ""= P"-'Pa' ;[«^^::s.sjs- Jr^::.o'-r.^-2^- -!-3.rce„..y,^ -. - ^ ^c, cent. Dy 0,00a If at lo per cent, by ,600 If a \\ ■It at 7 per cent, bv e t/i-j rr ot ..•"*^- 11 at 14 r , „^. ^^^yy, •^* *» i-* per cent, by 3,ooci per cent by 2,571. Der o»>n» u.. \ jB «<0 tHHE ^ElVmPUh, OIHB WONDBI^PUL, r/f£ GREAT CINCINNATI ORGAN [he organ in the Cincinnati Music Hall is the largest one ever , , built ,n this country, and ranks about the fourth or fitth in size ^ ,V in the world. It is 50 feet wide, 30 feet deep, and 60 leet high. There arc 6,237 P'pes, and 96 stops. We are informed that tl ,. design of the case was drawn by some of the most talented pupils of the Art bchool. To give an idea by comparison of the size of this instrument, we append the number of pipes and stops in some of the very largest European organs., Tl.at in the Albert Hall, London, is the largest m Parirxl' .1 ""f ''■^"'' "^ ^'°P^' 7,879 pipes; St. Sulpice, Tans, 100 stops, 6,706 pipes; Cathedral at Ulm, 100 stops. ^64 Cin?; • M° -^'u ?'"' '^'^^^P^'^^' '^ ^^°P^- '^^^^ interior of he Cmcmnat. MUS.C Hall is of tulip wood, finished in oil. It is 102 feet long, 1 ,3 feet wide, and 70 feet high. The stage is 112 feet wide by 56 feet deep.— 7:4^ Christian Union. ^ THE GREAT STRASBURG CLOCK 1 H^^^ remarkable clock on the great cathedral at Strasburg, was 3W ."'t '" '^^,^' ^' '"'^"'^'^' ''^ '^^ 31st of December the l^fc t '! J'^T; V'" ' ^'^'' "^^^ ^'^' °" '"^^ ^°^«r section -^^ shows the old zodiac; on the section above are four dials for Ih'.r"?'.?^'/' ','' "''''' ^''' "^ '''' "^^"^h' «"d the moon's phases. In the side alcoves are the figures of Time with his scythe and Justice with her scale. Above the dial is a keystone, with a' door in the center. Above, the top section represents a chapel, with a sma 1 door at either side, a large one in the center, Tnd over It a bakony Every half hour a bell is heard, the keystone opens, arui Death appears. Two or three minutes after, a chime of twenty bells is rung, and from the right-hand door of the chapel the Apostles appear, pass one by one in procession before the center *H0 THES WISE, m it one ever [itth in size > teet high. thi' design of the Art nstrument, ery largest largest in 't. Sulpice, ops, 6,564 rior of the s 192 feet t wide by burg, was mber the er section dials, for e moon's s scythe, , with a I chapel, Iter, and keystone a chime le chapel e center door, which al«o ope,,,, „„j ^h^^, „^ - doorway, to who,„ all the Apostles ^^J'""''"'J^'"">"'f! i" the .alutation the Saviour acknowTedgs" wLT"; .f ""' "'1 """^ aside, a cock on the ri„ht ^„„ . • , "•' "PP^"''. he tu- s the door in the blkonTabove Sa, " " "'""" """ • ''"'' '""^ ^ -ion of Apostles until they have en „e. u^T"" "' "" P™" of .he chapel, when he resLes his "s Th ?°!^ "" "" '"^ Judas, and on his appearance Satan agaTn l .» ^^JT *""" " SHOOTING HOOSAC Tm/VEL. . narrow, rockv defilp wV », ^'^ *'"'*'" «"t^'s a .^f icrackiiyofLe't:,;: 'tioirrndt": z ^r;'""'- VVwith your mouth and eyes suddenlv f„n T , °"' ''"^''• dm. You heat a hastv ,etrZ '""''^ "'^ '"" °f ™oke and cin- « the rear window. yoT.Ie.he'V"" ?"' ""''• '""'""" ■"" the entrance, and thedaln ^ I, f " °^ "'= ''"'"'"S «Sht at In a few -condslh I g rarthe^tlf '^^ "^ '"" "' '"^ '""-'• =peck,a„d after a few twinkle, r^ "^'^ '^ '"'"'• '''^"'n' sight, and you look a such M^ ''' ""= ^'°°'" '^"'""^^ >°^' '» the reflection of your own TcL inlj^ ''"■s ence_s„ch darkness that half awe.stricke,f expr«s"„„ a,^d T n """"°" ^"^^ "' >"" ""'" " had cut loose from ear hndlunf- Z I ""^''' ^^'^■" ""' ""^ "■»'■" passengers through thlreahnofM' ". "'" ^''"''"^ '" ''°"— ness. The sneed of ,h/ Nowhere over a track of Nothin... ■attle and clanklbou the IT "^Z 'r'""""' ^"^^ « " "arTh Why should anythin! make s, c," , ,' '"'" ""' ^='=™' "■""»' ""d. this? Flash' ThZ r " "'' "°''"= ""''^ " i^ »» dark as and 4t,j^z-::x:-zTJt7 r '" 'i^- "" "='■- >™ 4 y. 1 ney are the lanterns of the workmen. MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) 1 45 no US us u Kuu 2.8 3.2 13.6 1 4.0 »2.5 2.2 1.8 ^' APPLIED IM/^GE Inc 1653 Cost Main Street Rochester, New York 14609 USA (716) 482 - 0300 - Ptione (716) 288- 5989 -Fox '^lii'i sisJi THE BBAUIPIPUL, 5IHB WONDBI^PUL, Suddenly the conception of the tremendous work, the awful under- taking of burrowing five miles through the interminable rocks, comes across you, and you pity those lonely miners for a moment. Then you hear the locomotive give a hoarse roar, which is caught up by a thousand demon echoes and hurled back and forward from rocky wall to wall, till it dies away in the Egyptian darkness. A faint glow shimmering along the slimy sides warns you that you are coming to some light ahead; and in a moment you pass two lanterns, one sus- pended above the other. Near by you catch a faint but terribly sug- gestive glimpse of a rope ladder hanging from « the central shaft," which extends from the center of the tunnel to the mountain top. You are half way through. Eight minutes have passed since you entered the east end. Again the faint, inefficient gleam of the light dies away, flickering feebly in the distance, and you are alone with the subterran- ean night. The darkness is oppressive. One would think that he could perhaps catch a glimpse of the side walls at times, but his eflforts are only rewarded by an accurate reflection of the inside of the car. This is so oppressive that when you approach daylight at the western end you are quite rejoiced to see the bright and beautiful sunshine again. At first you begin to see faint shadows drift by the windows; then these faint shadows become dripping rocks; then tliey reveal themselves plainer and plainer, until, with a grand burst, which sets you to blinking like a scared owl, you emerge from the western end of the tunnel, and, looking back, see " Hoosac 1S74," cut in the granite coping which adorns the entrance. You have been about fifteen min- utes in coming through Boston Globe. The standard weight, among scientific men, is distilled water. It is a purely arbitrary standard, but selected, probably, because water is the simplest and most universal element that can be readily used for such a purpose. The weight of water being taken as one, the specific gravity or weight of other things is reckoned from it, being either „.c — I iji .c.„,. .,» ^.uD!c luvjt \Jt vvnici vvcigns sixty-two pounds and AND IPHB WISH. ^8S a half; of gold, twelve hundred and three pounds and five-eighths of a pound; of silver, six hundred and fifty-four pounds and four-fifths of a pound; of cast iron, four hundred and fifty pounds and nine- twentieths of a pound. • ——>£-<■— —o<5$-^>>->e»o ^ j< « Bayard Taylor at the Pyramids. « AYARD TAYLOR, in a letter from Egypt, says of the scene f^^ m the vicinity of the Pyramids : « Nothing could be lovelier Y^ than the intensely green wheat lands, stretching away to the %^ Libyan Desert, bounded on the south with thick fringes of palm. The winds blowing over them come to us sweet with the odor of white clover blossoms; larks sang in the air, snowy ibises stood pensively on the edges of sparkling pools, and here and there a boy sang some shrill, monotonous Arab song. In the east, the citadel- mosque stretched its two minarets like taper fingers averting the evil eye; and in front of us the pyramids seemed to mock all the later power of the world. Not forty, but sixty centuries look down upon us from those changeless peaks. They ante-date all other human records, except those of the dynasty immediately preceding that which built them. Hebrew, Sanscrit, and Chinese history seem half modern when one stands at the foot of the piles which were almost as old as the Coliseum is now when Abraham was born. -*►*- —•- The following table will be useful to those of our readers who may at any time deal in the articles enumerated. Every farmer should paste this in his scrap book : Article. Pounds. Firkin of butter 56 Barrel of flour 196 Barrel of pork 200 Gallor. of honey 12 Cord of dry maple. ..2862 Article. Pounds. Barrel of potatoes.... 200 Barrel of gunpowder, 200 Barrel of fish. 56 Quintal of fish 100 Cord of dry hickory . .4369 Article. Pounds. Barrel of onions 112 Barrel of beef. 206 Chest of tea 68 Bushel of charcc^. . . m £S4 "HE BEAummu, me wohdei^pul. 3 seven,! authors ihat th.f *'"''"' '■^'"'"»- H was related bv are .old of a certain 2.y n^ZitCl^::^ '^^ V"'" """ -= from the top of a tower in Sn»;„ ";""«""• who flew about a furlong S.. Marl<.s'steeple Tv nf^ td af ""' .;■ '''^'" ""^ ""^'P^^- «- " pair of wi„,3 a personrmld'oatt: "'l"'^""^^^'""'' "y ™eans of while amusing the citizens w th his LhfrVT '""'"''' "" "^^ •"" Mary's Church and broke his thith f, ' "" "" '"' '"P °f «'- Vinci, the great painter nracll Ifl • " "*"""' """ Leonardo da thenticated^owever cC ' ! "^-^e ™«^-fully. This is not au. ■• - the use of artificial wfngsTt ^ :te b d""' "" l""^""^ ''^''^■•"-' '■elli, a Neapolitan mathematician '" "'^'""'j'' <:™ be attained. Bar- withcareacomparisoto resTren'^Tof'tb • '"'"• ''™"" ^''••■"'"■«' of '. bird, it is impossible to fl v bTm- ^ ""' ' "'' " """' "> "«>^'' Under this view of the cas^^ L^T °/""'*' ''""™«' "> "« "^ly- s.eer a middle cou,.se,„e^heden?n/r *^'"' "' ""'^ -^^'v the other, but leaving to ,L ,~ "f °"° °" P°""™'^ ^->™in? what may be accomplished b;bo^p,'a7"'°"'"°"' '" ""'*-« '-« Mr. George W. Blunt, of New Ynrt ,. i, , bang a plummet. Observe the s ,or,e .k i '""' °^" "" ""'" .he sun will then be on the meridtr T '""" ">= P'"™™': circle, and that will be the tri mlr"l'- 7 ' ""' '" "'^ '^'"'^'- ^ the *e apparent time, or to c:;;:.h:rpr for Jatr. " '° --" ing has been s related bv cted an arti- lie Eniperor ter time we 't a furlong mpted from by means of d to fly, but top of St. eonardo da s is not au- ty of flying ined. Bar- examined an to those ) the body, lay safely assuming h we live ch about ing sim- ■ibe on it le center lummet; f cf the ■o mark AMD THE WISE. /fO^r V^ST M^B THB BRITISH QoMmWNS " Ihe 8„n nevm- 4: " ^™' '^"P"'- <>" '^hich it i, said AKKA In Europe. ... *^ milks. population. In Asia i '°°° 32,000,000 In America.* '. t^^^ 200,000,000 In Africa ^^°°'°°° 5.ooo,ooo In Australia:::.:. ••:;3.1^::: '.700,000 ■ j.Juu,ooo 2,000,000 These figures need no comment. The United S.n. k 50,000,000 inhabitants now but if Ko.i 1 ^ *^' ^^' ^"^X didn't have but 3,000 000 Thr, '''' ^"^'^^"^'' some when it Asi. don't countTTy Zl ^7'"^ f ^"^''^^'^ -W-ts in help pay taxes, just the same "^ ''' '"^ "' ^•^"'^^^'-' but they sia!!r ^'''''''*'' ^^^'""' °'' ^''^"'f^- type seer. » J„g S b 'A 17,?'":^'^ '""' ^^= "° or a plum tree. When drv ih. «o • ?, ^ ^''^ °^ » pear b^hina a,. i„ve«e.> i^lettfofThr civets 1" T' """ "'^^ now culs away all the blank .n„. \''"''™'='"»- Another workman the block, with the char te'st :h trr' "' " "'f" ^'''"' """ performs his work by hand Th! f ' '^^^ '° "'' ?""'='■ »ho careful about are, to^i „t"t Itl^Trn^'l^.-^- ^".^ -st -j-,,.y, aiuj lo avuiU tearing tf- 4M "HE BEAUWF.UL, ^HE WOBDE„Pm„ "" '"'P'-<'ss.on by means ot a br.„l, .• ■, P'-'c'd in the same ,«,,„, e, f""^''™'-"'™'. visiting cards, etc., are handbills and ndver.iseme . -fof^X'-T'"' ^'y "' P""'"'S smal ■mtead of wood; h„. .hey oo, !" M " T' ""^ "'"■•""-» '" »« hem is often almost illegft l F ' ' " ' T' ""= ?""«"? "-n 'housandsofslieetsean be printed ,17 ^°? '""^'•■" '''"'I' '"me »h^..-pc„ed „p a littJ-, it i, po b e'to o H y^ ^""""^ "••"- •=-" pre,s,ons. Tbey elaim to hav Icticed ,',"■ '°°°, *"• '°'°°° ■"<"•= i™" ■housand years ago, while we eomm '"'^"'°'' """•■« "'an four ""'>■ '" "" hlack lead of o.,r reader, are awa;! o.^ of treTr' f"',"""'- ^' ''' ^ ■"»' ::7as:-r^ -- --- -itora—bai^ "--r.,::r^p:::ji3::rv::t^^^^^^^^ horn masses of the pure gUue "hen '' ,:?/°™"'y --d out ™"e; but the only line^^noC fur 11^ '''''"' ^-"-'>ale he purpose, is in Siberia. At presen hi 7'^f '••"■•ge «.ough for ;'o are ground fine, calcined, ^d mi ed^^" ""^T"'^ "'^"P"" been prepared by diffusing t thro^lb P"'° ^'"y' '"hich has panicles to settle, drawing Iff he mdk r "■• ^ °"''"^ "" "''"'' 'e.e.ng it settle again. This TattC Z^' T' '""" "« '"P. «"<' plnsttc, and after being dried on 1 "fit « r'"*"?'/ "ne and - .be powdered graphite <» S^^^ ^t:: Jl ^J- ■ • RUD niHB WISE. degree of hardness required in ,1,.. „ •, "'^ g-phltc being used I a fine X;" ' "™ P"'' °f ^'^y «„ one of -ml intermediate mixtures for If «'"f'«l"^'' P""' for a soft one, "ftcr being „,i,ed are triturated Ir! ^ ft """"'''■"• ^he materials tl>e consistency of dough This df "'"' """^' ''" "^'^ -^ "f smooth board, dried in ,hi,„,olb;°' ",'"■'''■'' ''"'» S'^ves in a and balced in covered crueiWes, ,7 't ''*''''•''''=" '*'^" •>"' is compressed in a s.ron..- ret "rV, r"'!' ^°™«i"'« the dongh i,V 'h-ad of the sh:;e eqJir ; 1°T 7' '"""''■ ••' ™^" '->" The grade of ,l,e lead depend parHv " ?"" '""'"' "' "^ove. -Wcl. it is exposed in the fur ,ce "^r T-"" ''^='"' °' "™' '» worlc, lil,e architectural drawinr? u '""•'"'''^'* <""'• ''"y ""O "nmersed in belted wax or sult^' "''■""' "'''" "« '">'-i^> ""d ceaT^^t:: r.tt;:L;';tte?"f " "--"^ •■- -^ ^'"--da red ti>cn cut into pieees of Tl/p ^"^ttr l"'" f''^ "*" ^'"-■- "'"' by machinery, the leads are glfe , i„t„ I'^'""'' ^''='' '"■"' S™"™! °f the wood i. glued on. After b^' ' f °°^^' ''"'' 'b= other half rounded or otherwise shLned b^ ^2, V , T''"' P'''""^=> *^y »- then polisl,ed by another m .chhfe .td "" °' -""S-aeLe; by a third, which feeds the p ndl' 1^"" T" "''""^ "' ^-"^bed round under the brush At K !! "P^" ""^ ""■"' them ^hrough this latter p:t;ss,^Lf r ^^ished t' ^"T "'^ ^^ They are next cut the nVl,t len..th 1 ^' ""P'^ l^hshing. made smooth by a drop-kn feafferj^ tT'"'""''"' ■'""'' "^= -* hea^ddieand.enttotreparw:;:^' "°" ■-" '•-"•P'^'' with a The small leads for u ever noi,„„°." ' -, the natural masses of graphite If, ^ "''^ """''= '^"ber from cl-, prepared as alreS^d Lid L' uTT"°" °' ''"P^"" -"" Ciemisiry. ' ae.cnbed, and baked-^^^^ Journal of The maximum denth of fK«> ^ Soundings were obtained in the srhA-T """ •"="• ^»^°"-"«l- of 4S.OOO feet, or about ml „Lf The 'V'^^, to the depth has been estimate.1 as about .^ fa.hl^: """'"^^ ''^P"' "' "- "«an 17 .11 HQ IfHB BEAUJItlPUL, rnHB WONDEI^PUL. Tub CjfOH^AT Jbhtbls of Francb, II \- land, and only last week was it jndge- ''■»""'"''. 'he neari:,;^ ^ Ij uC' '"""'••■" ''"-k-knack priced at i. caif:,:;T;t x.i'r 't :■' rn°^::,:t// "^^ »°'^ «'--. on Augns. ,6, .75.. by a band of fol" WevL ^hr T'l TT lanrp posts and broke through a window oV. e gltoVe f *'" wretch was guillotined for this offence, whereof ,«™ as p'rftctlfiZ «n ; but one guUtless head more or less made sn-aH dS, "^ I - T^E LASGBST STEAMSHIPS. .hiptrir^dt: tte^Gt:: ir-'""^-: r ^'-^ '-^- '-- ■ong, 4. fit'to^d 'tht'CiT. o'r p];;i«t'°^ '"-^^^^.^ fee. STstf °.--46° re:t .o;g,4t'fertradi'rB'^^:;ro" broad; and the Bothni.?of "h Cunfr, "' ^^^'"^ '"'' '°"«' « '''' 4'« feet broad. """' ''""' t'S" •""». 4^5 feet long, t>h at Paris, lined to us. ^ed to Eng. 1 them. In ., they were lue. Since »nd the late n which is valued at imond, the c priced at [oly Ghost, /ere stolen imbed the A poor ectly inno- ference in -St steam- Jrnational it broad; ue River 423 feet svigation ttanic, of the City ■, 43 feet 2et long, AND ntHB WISE. Ag^ A GIGANTIC GARDEN, i l€'I!hf h"",""'" '"'•8'"' PoP-l'-'io" "f "".v country h, the world. . Y^ It has the longest an,l greatest w.,11 ever huilt; and it has also 9^ 'he largest and most fertile garden ever cul.iva.e.1. ' ,.,1, , ■ f Chinamen who walk over hridge, huilt 2,000 vears „.o who cultivated .he cotton plan, centunes htfore this couZ T heard of, and who fed silkworms before King Solon.on huilt hi, thro^ have 50.000 square miles around Shanghai, which are called the Garden of Chma, and which have been tilled for countless gen r ,tb„s Th,s area ,s as large as New York and Pennsylvania comMned is " H neadow land raised but a few fee. above L river-late rivV eanals, a complete network of water communication ; the Ian. ZZ he highest tilth ; three crops a year harvested ; population so d ' a «^a, wherever you look you see men and women in blue pants a" d and all hands have turned out for a holiday. Population op Some op the Great Cm ties, Berlin, Germany Canton, China ^i 22,385 London, England. ...*.' 1,500,000 Paris, France ' * ' • ' 4»764,3i2 Siangtan, China ... . 2,225,900 Sin-Gan-Foo, China . . 1,000,000 New York \ 1,000,000 TT ., ,„ , 1,206,209 Hence ,t wdl be seen that there are but seven cities in the wodd that^can boast of a population of ,,000,000, and that London lealthe «. /r°'^''p T '''°V" " ''""^" •'''^'^^••^•"^ to tne color of their dress «3 follows: Red, .2; dark green, 7; brown, 6; bluish gray. ^. iliii =1 ^ •W WE BBAUTIFIUli, SHE WONDEI?PUL, HOW ARTIFICIAL ICB IS MADE. \l/->faa— .zg?;?-^ i . .. ^N Mon.gom,.,.,. Ala., natural ice i, „o. k„ow„, nor snow, except ". flur,.,c,, mc tM,g „, fas. „, i. f„„,. a company l,as thCefofe been organue. or the manufacnre „f .hi, ,.of. nfcessary Inx nry J and so .ncccsful l,,,s it become ,ha, manufactured icel ,2 cheaper than u can l,e afforded when imported from the Northern ke The company was organized last year, and still some prejule exi .J "..:;::::'"" "■" '^-^y^-^^^z. itcet.: ; ^er of h , . r '"■ '"" " '""■'=■■ "'"'^'=- Tl.e gentlemanly mana- gor of the estabhshment received our party, very kindly, Ld ex plamed the piocess of ice making to us very ?ully. The w^, er is firs d,st,lled,that .s changed to s.eam, and then con'densed so th it s pe feet y pure. I. is .hen poured in.o tin vessels about twen.ylu at the end. There are a number of tanks or vats divided into cim partments m.tdc a little larger than these vessels, and havin. .he sp^e between them filled with a net-work of iron ^ipes. Wire, he t' vessels are lied with water .hey are placed in^hese com rtmC^ covered w.th a hght wood cover, and surrounded with s.ron.^ bri"e The freezn,g m.xture-ether prepared from sulphuric acid and'alcohoT and condensed to a liquid by immense pressure-is then turned ^it' enters the p.pes, where, upon being relieved from pres ure, it s'u" denly expands ,n,o gas, producing a temperature n.any degreeVbe low .ero. Th,s causes the brine which surrounds the pipes a^d in cal to become of the same temperature, and to freeze the water s^d about four hours, the brine remaining liquid. The cIs re .he" taken out and .hpped in hot water, when the cake of ice, as clear a^d as transparent as glass, slips easily out of the can. Th^ ice Irta "d mcold water and piled up, the pieces freezing together and maki^f sohd cakes about a foot thick. These are then hoisted into^ ice° house adjonnng, where they are stored until used. The chemica s u^' all recondensed and used over and over again. A forty-horpower engn,e ,s used in driving the machinery. About tweL tons ofle ; are manufactured daily. The net cost is .about three-eighth of .fc m a pound, and it .3 sold at seventy.flve cents per hundred AND IPHB WISH. 881 rifJf GUB^r tVASHINGTO^ MONVMBNT. ca.he.lral „. Cologne by f„,,y^rce fejf ' Thrr°''''r. "" ''""'°"» .>hed in ,8So, and it will be LZ r , ,■ '^"""''•"i"™ were lin- next 4th of J„|, i7 „i„ '""''^ '^"■' •■'^^'I'cation, i, ,-,, h„pe,l, by the it « 55 feet at e/ch o ^Irl; f"'f" ^'"^"^- At Ih/base of the cone is 35 fee, 71,^1 '' ^''°™ ""^ 5°°* foot each side f-in.. The upper portono7't, "■■'" ' "' ^"""^' "'"' » ■"-•"« marble. Sotne if the " b" h,v!^ "" "'" '" '"'■■'''y "^ «'"'= One is fro„ Greeee, 1 ht ^m TuV:."' T T''" ""'"'"" and Siam. Other stones a-.ai„ "Te Ims / ' """"^ '''°'" ^'"■"" Union. We should not b^d " fhe iT """' ^""'' '" "'' of our great men. Thev bono, ,rl .7 ^ 'P°'" °" ■"'"""■•Is noble n,e„ whose servITs thevL "'"'"""^"' '""'"^•■' •'"■'^ be one of the first th n^ , ' '^ commemorate. This structure will of our Capitol. I s sSn ed '".^ u"'"°'" ""'*" "^ ^P''^"'!"'' which the great whire~sh7 t "" "'' "^^ P°ton>.,c, from outlined agist .he b ue of the skv n""'' ','" ^''""''' ""'' ""' "^ ot the sky—Bcmorest's AfonUfy. MTBRBST/JVG FACTS. A flo"Vr::i:dre:t:tLtr.t"::f r, r-" '- """-^• hand, in horse measure, is 4 inche A ' |,h '"'' P"'"'' "">"■ A Scotch mile is .,984; 'a Germat ^S^fi" T^rM h': 6^ T"'^' " IS 1,840 square vards i f^r^f i , • ^inKisli, 1,626. An acre mne, : 76oVrds^e:ctv;;:rit t :: r T^t s- 1 r -- - Of .46 W, , Icinds of articulations o^; ^Z ^n^ con- es If fies IPHE BBAUTIPUlj, fHHB WONDBI^PUL, or llgatm-nN, 540 muscles or tendons, hcsules nerves, blood arteries, veins, etc. ThiMe are no solid rocks in the Arctic rejifions, owing to the severe frosts. The surface of the sea is estimated at 150,000,000 square miles. — Scientific American. • tl a ^^^ THE STORY OF THE CABLE. HERE is a faith so exptmsive and a hope so elastic that a man ?'mm. having them will keep on believing and hoping till all danger ^ is passed, and victory is sure. When I talk across an ocean 5^ 3,000 miles, with my friends on the other side of it, and feel that I may know any hour of the day if all goes well with them, I think with gratitude of the immense energy and perseverance of that one man, Cyrus W. Field, who spent so many years of his life in perfecting a communication second only in importance to the discovery of this country. The story of his patient striving during all that stormy period is one of the noblest records of American enterprise, and only his own family know the whole of it. It was a long, hard struggle ! Thirteen years of anxious watching and ceaseless toil! Think what that enthusiast accomplished by his untiring energy. He made fifty voyages across the Atlantic, and when everything looked darkest for his enterprise, his cour- age never flagged for an instant. He must have suflfered priva- tions and dangers manifold. Think of him in those gloomy per- iods pacing the decks of ships on dark, stormy nights, in mid- ocean, or wandering in the desolate forests of Newfoundland in pelting rains, comfortless and forlorn I saw him in 1858, immediately after the first cable had ceased to throb. Public excitement had grown wild over the mysterious working of those flashing wires, and when they stopped speaking the reaction was intense. Stockholders, as well as the public generally, grew exasperated and suspicious; unbelievers sneered at the whole project, and called the telegraph a hoax from the beginning. They declared that never a message h:id passed through the unresponsive wires, and that Cyrus Field was a liar! The odium cast upon him was boundless. He was the butt and the by-word of his time AMD IPHB WIBB. S03 It war, at this moment I saw him, ami I well remember how cowardly I actetl, and how coura}»eou8 he appeareil! I scarcely dared to face the man who had encountered such an overwhelminj? disappointment, and who was sufTerin}^ such a terrible dis<^race. Hut when we met, and I saw how he rose to the occasion, and did not abate one jot of heart or hope, I felt that this man was indeed master of the situation, and would yet silence the hosts of doubters whi> were thrusting? their darts into his sensitive spirit. Eight years more he en- dured the fxlium of failure, but still kept plowing acre the Atlantic, flying from city to city, soliciting capital, holding meetings, and forc- ing down the most colossal discouragement. At last day dawned again, and another cable was paid out, this time from the deck of the Great Eastern. Twelve hundred miles of it were laid down, and the ship was just lifting her head to a stiff breeze, then springing up, when, without a moment's warning, the cable suddenly snapped short off and plunged into the sea. Says the published account of this grea*; disaster: " Mr. Field came from the companion-way into the saloon, and observed with admirable composure, though his lip quivered and his cheek was white, ' The cable has parted, and has gone from the reel overboard!'" Nine days and nights they dragged the bottom of the sea for this lost treasure, and though they grappled it three times, they could not bring it to the surface. In that most eloquent speech made by Mr. Field at the Chamber of Commerce banquet in New York, one of the most touching re- citals on record, he said : « We returned to England defe^'ted, but full of resolution to begin the battle anew." And this time his energy was greater even than before. In five months another cable was shipped on board the Great Eastern, and this «;ime, by the blessing of Heaven, the wires were stretched, unharmed, from continent to con- tijient. Then came that never-to-be-forgotten search, in four ships, for the lost cable. In the bows of one of these vessels s^:>od Cyrus Field,, day and night, in storm and fog, squall and calm, intently watching the quiver of the grapnel that was dragging two miles down on the bottom of the deep. 1 '-'S i E 111 I f ^«« ^IHB BERUmPUh, mE WONDBI^PUIi, the spirit cf this brave man was rewarded T ei.oii u -d wep.r Others bX h a., anTrh:":'..?? ""'^ '''"' and following „, w,h their wi,h« a Jit lv"r, "th""' T^'' a whisper of God fr„„ .he sea, biddin,. ..e L'p Zn aid hopr» ° And now, after all those u ve?rs of nlm^cf I ^ and .hat o„e taomen. of a.^osVsu , Ihu^ :1 :'!tr„r'"'''''' .afeiy i„ch,de Cyru, W. Field a J„, .he lLt:V .,,: t.^alT "' —James T. Fields. THE BROKEN CABLE. Apropos of the above, we have thpf,^ii«.»- .ranspired in "- office .n. , he e^^erne^d of .^^^''"k' ""^ ""'"' cove,y wa, made of the lo.t cabTe '""'• "■''™ "^^ '•'^■ c. l^l^'tC^hnt Sr.rT ^^ "'""-"- given, and 'twice every dav tte who ft "ir^," "'"'^'^ ^iS"'-"^ - = two humhed and forf» .^ V T T^ ^^* "f wire, one thousand sulation. . T^l "•i;f'"'-n«-'ed for conductivity and i„. was of course not an evpectation of f" "^ '"'T'"' "'" ">" "^ ''S"' n expectation of a message, but simply to keep an AMD IHHB WISH. 16£ accurate record of the condition of tlie wire q. .- wild incoherent n^essages from the d ep" d^orbrth ''''"'^ mere V the results nf mo.- w . , » ""' *^<^se were wo„Js, and sometimes even sentence, of T «f.-"'«l.nary scnle before the mirror. sXn , Hst SaTu T""' "'"'" " " «™'""'^'' to 6 o-dcck, while the Hgiuta '£l t '«. 7;^ ^'m " T"'' served a peculiar indication about it wh^^ ted^fo^^;'!' " "''■ penenced eye that a message was at h->nd Zl, ' ^''" ward the unsteady flickering was d^an^d to it^cT:; w """■ ztat''::;rrt:e'rvrt,*''^^"' ^'='- '"'^^^^^^^^^ Human'p„rpr:;dr;s-::\?zris^^^^^^^^ but the mo«,y and often ddiriou mutte'rinls 5 'hT:! t" """'"^ over its alphabet in vain, the word, 'C^^nttncT'"'''""^ seemed like .he first ration 1 word uttLd bv ahth f """ ""^ the ravings have ceased and i,-""" ."^ " '"S'' f=vor patient when SfecM,r° ' ' ""scousness returns."-Z.„«i,„ KRi/PP-S GREAT GUM FACTORY. [HIS is at Essen, in Prussia Tn tQ,« rr F ten workmen In fsT, '" ,'*'° '^^PP "«"n™ced with :t Tl,evillagea,\l« t ft'ttbT """""P'°^'""9,ooom.n. day it has 50,ooo'inhab;;S' T e' i^rs":;^^."''"' '°""' "^ space of over .oo acres, and are sur,no™t:d bv .o^T '""' '"' workiiKT-men's citv w.-fi. „ ,^ i *"'^'"°""^^" ^Y ^oo chimneys. A which.;er::;:;:rfrr$^;r"fr;r''^'^":'='vp-™-- Essen 4,3 steam engines rtprestt/totdorrrr^'^'^u'"' ra;r-;;;^?^--ir:fr^^^^^^^ 30 miles of railw-,; 1\ I ' , 'f' , '°°'°°° ?"""<''• There are different partsoTtLlr "^^T 1 '"'=»"™P'' "^ -"-ting the " " ^"^ greatest gun factory in the iM 'HE BE^umT r .«i , w,.,e: The d.i„cer, drlsed rf ' ' " '' "«■"<=■) in this ^ cm-e, a wiHo. wheel 71':^:,:°^ ^^ "■" ™-^»'"'« skirt «ntelly upon the top of he^Tl I ''"'"" ''"'tened hori- Thus Tnf ! sI'P-noose. which is kenf ^"^ ^^^^^^ of the sh'n n«^ -^^ '^"» seizing an p«ycr t ' around "'c siip-nooses, and wifi, . ^ 8^§^» she nuts it ;„ dancer produces a centrifug.:, 1" °V 1 , ^'^ ™'« '"™ins of the -:^.t:t\hTer:^r"--:^^^^^^ mtti-^ I . '^Ss* ai^e thrown out ;« *u .. cncJe. One false step, the least ,v.e?ul»r,-f • ""oment is critical- th. ? ».ai„.. each other. Buf" 7,,: ' T' "" *' «^~ d S but one way-.hat is, ,„ reraLl "'' '"' ""PP'''? There t e^g- and remove it from the e fine display of nee of Machinery irs 2,700 rails, 150 shells; and in a aliber. 1^■L? WHB UTISE. S67 'me given it, a executed in this very short skirt, fastened hori- s wheel threads end of each of a glass bead, pectators with '"on, to prove strikes up, a whirl around 't in one of from her in rning: of the thread out circle. One 'S until they • Then the 'difficult to '1; the least vould daiih There is ivhich thev delicate of tion, exact from the noose. A single false motion of the hand fh. i . • . one of the threads, and the eeneral T ' '"terference with whole performanc;disasrou'y Id 1^^^^ the cessfully removed; the dancer LTf 7 . '" '^'^ ^^^^ ^'^ «"<^- the least diz.y ^ t^s"::z'^t:l^:;^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^n advances to the spectators with a fiTm Ln ' ^^ ^ *"'""'''' '^' eggs, which are immediately broken .?nT'^, ^''''"'^ '^''"^ '^^ is no trick about the perform^re^X;;i:^f ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^- ll ^c'feftir :; -bC^^ -n at the Lo.don &TWJ . "'uuion. -inus, a machme, oaned hv <;ir \A7Mi- t ^T Armstrong, the o-reat o-..n«,oi .'"'inea ay feir William chronometer sen. by thf Rlllr?^ « ' ''""'"''" instruments is the twice carried out bTcapt Cook f "■'" '""''"'"''"' "'^'^ "'» When tl,e crew o/theL„^tu^tTZ^' '""P*- °'''="'' '" '787- carried .„ Pitcairn' Wand^'r "^ ' r' "'""" ''■"^'''^'-- "- Adams in i8oS to an Am!," ^ ■ '"""""'■''' and sold by John i' in China, and t 84^^:"^:^" at V r"^'"" "■""• "-°" Herbert, talcen to China b-7him a„H » " /^'P''"'^" '>>' «■> Thomas in the Blenheim. "^ ' '' ''"''"^' ^'°"S^' '■"d' 'o England ^i^e?/*^.? DiMBm/om por a flag in their manufacture. Any 1?!" fi^dTh " '"'" "^ "''=="■''' ti>c following data: " The UnLTf- '^'''' under ordinary circumstances. So grlatlt'h? " '" *"' ^ ^^^ "h.8 liquefied gas that such crystals Ze' T''"' """" ''^ ago the bursting of a diamonrwas repo ^d u"^'' "1 ""' '""^ therefore, that many natural crvsll ha7h, , ''.'"'"'='" P^b^We solutions, and that some of heCL . K '^'"^^ ''"•" ««»''<»'' on cooling has conden^ o a lifu d a„d T"^'""" ''" "'™- '"'"' been removed since its formation', t elf,, '1^'''' T'"' ""' strain that a slight cause is sufKci^nt to lumi f '" """i " '''"" "^ fore, that if some solvent could be found to d '. ""'l *"'''"'• "'"''- under conditions of great pressme ,, 7, ° '""^'' "^enplaced artificial production Tdimo^ds wHT"'"^' "^' ""blem of the described how he searched for a oXttTn?!- r""" ""•""' vent. Hydrocarbon was first tried the le d " "^ "'"' " ^^■ bon by means of a metal wa/.r ^ ,. *''°'^'""'n "f Mrocar- submitting a hydrocaTbolrt,,e Xntirl':"'' ^""^"'""^' "^ to immense pressure and heat On T ! "'"-"genous substance the e^perimLts were per^oled^ m^ rfr! Lr™ T T''^ other words, crystalled carbon, were foun. ^te d:;::ire^"''V°h'e:: VM AMD WHS WISH. m little diamonds satic«ed evcrv te%t mnli.,] -ru in the polished surf. :e of sapphl 1 "^a , ; ^^'{'"'"'^ ''"'P gloves mond can satisfy. They arc «ke IhTdi "', "^ ""'"'"« •""""= "i^- lighl. It is thought, no" he IL?';''?''^ '""'"' P^'-'-J much larger stones may be prlfed^l'""'"" ■""°^"'''> "'■•" but that the great pu..^ of ^chem st hi aHairh""" T ''"'" "''*' ■n the dar., hnt by the following of l^Zi;^ '^l^- :^'^ -t onh?m^a;^^ro":^esr:r r-^^^ '"- <'--'^' - ers of that dtr^of h -'re.:.' of^^r °""' ^'"" '°- the mixing of the lead with , , • "'^ "•anufacture is per • f'^'r-/^ ™^"°"-crc:rCm7;™°:^b^ r- s.e:/":hicr'Lt:'rdr;''Tit'" -"""-■ -" "■ ti- lead would be moulded by th s ve L"°' 'n ^ '^""P" pencils instead of round shot."^ ^.1/;^^" 2f\ '°™ ""'" »re to be made, the lead is poured into a nan 5 ' 7 '"""""• correspoMing to that size. The htt le 1^^ . ^ "^ "'"■ "^^ a continuous shower.and fall into a Ink mt °, ^""""^ '''""" '» floor. In the descent of twoCd ed fef I "k "'•'""°" '^^■S"""'' firm and dense.and they artoTerab vcf 7^1° '"'P"''"'Vheres, although the s;ift concuiiLs t^kl'thela^ ? "'^'"*^ "" "«-• the water was boiling furiouX T^ ' u" '°T »"" '="'''"» as if if they should strike any hard subslt 1^ """" '^"" '" *"= "•^"■■' f<" knocked out of shape""^ To g;,' t"tt ^^^ '' *'^"™='' =•"•• they have been in the " weU » t tZ . '^1"'' P"''^"'^ ^'y "»=■• process of the whole manutctu e aZ f ""' ""' '"■""«-"« (very much like those used in flc!; mIIm "' u""" ™'"' '""^''^'^ they reach the bottom of .h "> we, " nd 2"''l I '■"" "" "= '"^ "^ feet above.the firs, floor. The water drT '^"" '" ' '""' *° .0 ..p. and not much is pourL^ne're^rar.rit!!'!:? 270 mn BEAmwUU, WHS WONDBI^Paii. Intended to be a sort of drippwijr machine Pr««, fi, permit, .he we, shot ,o o 1 o^^; down ItHe , "' k" T,'' "''"'' .he pellets become perfect d™ as .hevL ""'^' below, and iron. ^ ^ ^ P"*' ""^ "x' wa™ sheet ON- CHINBSB JUGGLERY. ■BN BATUTA, the Arabian, whose marvelous account has been hall r sl-o^llnT. roXhXX' -^ « --■• .rK, ia,in, hold of one 01 .hU,siui. jtttV.;?a :i:::::s that we lost s,ght of it altogether. (It was the hottest se^n^f.S year, and we were outside in the middle of the Palarcourn Th 5 am lie desired one of h.s boys who assisted him, to lay hold of it an. ttudV^b: :inhV:ixinT'r "-^-^^^^^^^^^^^ tt o?, kTZ whT ^'"""^ ■»— .-« I had an attack of "alp t SuZ. f T^ °"'''^""' ™ ™" •"«>■•« in 'h» presence of the Sultan of lnd,a,when he showed me something of the same kind They gave me a cordial, however, which cured th! atuck. The K^zi AND JPHS WISE i 271 AfkharudcHn was next to me, and quoth he " uraZ/aA / ». • there has been neither goin^ up nor com!, f ''« my opinion nor mending: 'tis all h^usrpTuspLT ^ r"' "^''"^ ''^^"^^ Magazine. *^ ^' '^' ^pcncer, in Harper's ^^oo« CAN Yoa COUNT .^00.000.000 f We talk of m.n.nnc ^ u„ ^ *^'^"' 'mmensity. words glibly, but the undemandinefaiut; J !,■" ""»•' """ ""= Take our own national debt Ta.fm.,.^'^ i"" ''"' «'S"'fi""ce. is large, but few have ever s'nedoH ^'"^'"^^ ■""■"' " ."de^ A rew calculation. wiUrttlinrX ''''"''"' '"''"'■ 5<»Xr t:; 'e xi tcr^-t-"*' "• "■ """'' """"«-. *^.- .Ms a. .L rate of .h.eedlverjfll,? " ""' '° '""""'"=' """''"g eight hours per day.th^ hund j davHrtr ' """ ^""^ '""'^'"'^ ab.,t «. ,.,^w y^.s to co:;teeTh:"ctr • " ''°''"' """ """ they wo\m :::chtrriyXf r' "'' "^ ""'• '""^"'"s -* °'h-. pave a highway the wShorourCh-""""'' '"' "°'"= '"^^ "<»■'<• o„ey loaded into carts IZZ^:^'^ rh" d'd""''"*' ^ '"^ one-third of the debt this nation no* A7^ 'II n i 1 ( 1 11 1 1 1 ■ ji WHB BEAU5IIPUL, fPHB WONDEI^PUL owes. If this calculation were applied to England and France, whose national debt .s nearly twice as large as ours, the result would be stUl more startling.— C/4/ca^(? Inter- Ocean. -•H-** — 'xaHl>>»s>o » !<■ w^^ THE MOST REMARKABLE ECHO HE most remarkable echo recorded is at the place of a nobleman withm two miles of Milan, in Italy. The build- '.^^ '"° '' °^ '"'"^ '^"gt*^ i" front, and has two wings jettin.^ m^ forward, so that it wants only one side of an oblong fieure About one hundred pdces before the mansion, a small brook glides gently; and over this brook is a bridge forming a communication between the mansion and the garden. A pistol having been fired at this spot, hfty-six reiterations of the report were heard. The first twenty were distinct, but in proportion as the sound died away, and was answered at a greater distance, the repetitions were so doubled that they could scarcely be counted, the principal sound appearing to be saluted in its pas.sage by reports on either side at the same time. A pistol of a larger caliber having been afterward dis- charged, and consequently with a louder report, sixty distinct reitera- tions were counted — C. C. Clarke. SOME FAST WORK. During the war the "construction corps," under the command of Gen. McCalum, became very expert in the work of repairing damage. The Rappahannock River bridge, 625 feet long, and 35 feet high was rebuilt in nineteen hours; the Potomac Creek bridge, 414 feet ong, and S2 feet high, was built in forty hours; the Chattahoochee bridge, 780 feet long, and 92 feet high, was completed in four and a half days ; that between Tunnel Hill and Resaca, 35 miles of per- manent way, and 230 feet of bridges, were constmcted in seven and a ^Si\i d-Ays.^Gen.McCalium's Report. AND IPHB WISB. S7S each, are lifted every day Th. ' "« '°"'' ">"» »f i^oal the whole weigh, of L tons ilhois'led iH.r ""''" \ "''""'•"' "'' a rate of speed that makes the head fwi^ A " ""■". " """"''' New York « Sun " describe, ,h. T '=°"''^P'""'ent of tl,e person n,aki„, .he deJ^ ro^ .he'fi::."^ ^^ ^"" "P"-"-^'"- "* - .ngthe'^rsyme^haV^ThV'"'"!' "°' ''-^^ '"' ""'"' "^ "'-nd. e...'L;txrn,::r.ct:atr ri r '^''""■°-'^= pressure, and the eyes s,.ZZZj^^''7e^°"''W''''' «e,„ ,0 dash upward only . foot or Two awV "' " '''" asonrday „er,es iLli ;tX.Tr:ta1^r JrrT^-^™ glow, gradually becoming dimmer and dimmer P'«'^P'">«^«nt aJdtV'cI'"'"'" ^°'" P^=^' -"> ^ ™- -d a sudden crash, .he it you step into a crowd of c,eatu Is w^h T\ " ^'"' '""' "'""S" 'he blackened faces, the g iar nJeyr aid' ^ u' ■"™' ''''' "'''> fiends. ^ " '^"^ ""'• «"'d Pliysiognomies of •Jfi! /«ie/C^7-/0;K OAT ^ c,c^;,r„c ^^rf^ can^. rwth™ri:%---:, -- ^^^ IT- ^- -•' - gate 3,000,000 acres, barren fh,^ It ,.^,"^"- ^"^^ ":'"" »'i» i"! t« =■■ ".^^ or water. Its dimensions tZv THE 3BAU1IIPUL., IPHB WONDBI^PUL, arc loo feet m w.dth at the bottom; levees ,5 feet high, and 8 feet wide at the top. The depth of the water will be 5 feet, with a fall of 18 mches per mile. The dam in the mountain canyon is 25 feet high 800 feet long, 140 feet wide at the base and 25 feet wide on top. It IS r.p.rapped on the inside wiiii heavy rock. The water is led in from a head.gate of heavy timber, 100 feet wide, 18 feet high. It is planked 80 as to make a bridge for wagons, and has wings to protect it from floods. The canal will carry 1,300 cubic feet of water per second. DALRYMPLE'S BIG FARM, CORRESPONDENT thus describes a visit he made to this big farm in harvest season: Dalrymple's big Minnesota farm of 30,000 acres is just ®(^ turning out its wheat crop of 1,300 acres. Nine self-binding harvesters are constantly employed, reaping and binding 180 acres a day. Mr. Dalrymple is harvesting his crop for about one-fifth the cost required under the system in vogue ten years ago. The yield will average eighteen bushels to the acre, and the net profit will be $7,000. Dalrymple has broken 9,000 acres for next year's wheat. During the breaking season, Mr, Dalrymple had as high as one hun- dred teams at work. The furrows turned were six miles long, and the teams made but two trips a day, traveling with each plow, to make the four furrows, twenty-four miles. Dalrymple commenced his farm- ing career by working in the grain fields at $10 per month. He saved money enough to buy forty acres, and kept adding to it until he owns a ranch. He was bred a lawyer, but left the bar to harvest wheat. — «- In a part of Egypt it never rains, and in Peru it rains once, per- haps, in a life-time. Upon the table-lands of Mexico, and in parts of California, rain is very rare. But the great desert of Africa, and portions of Arabia and Persia, and some other regions, never experience a shower. h, and 8 feet k^ith a fall of 25 feet high, on top. It ) led in from It is phinked >tect it from sr second. lade to this cres is just self-binding t8o acres a ne-fifth the The yield »fit will be ir's wheat. IS one hun- ig; and the , to make d his farm- onth. He to it until lie bar to once, per- J in parts ifrica, and sxperience ^fiPBCT GBNWS OF A MACHINE. ' SNAPPISH, voracious little dwarf of n «,o u- ever, and spring, p„,i„, Ifeh.l n^/'^^r^;; " ^^^ »""« they are dropped into a box. The pfns mr.hen "^ r\ "^'"'= very intelligent machine, rejee, every crooke,," ''^ I' "'" '"° aton assort, half a dozen length. ■'^^"°°''™ l'"'- Another antom- hang, the pins by thrhLi^rrnl: d^t o1 " ■"=^'"": by one movement sticks them all through ^ ^ ^'P^' '"'^ the paper, when the work is ^^iTllT.lC^T^' '"''''' '" The pin machine is one of the nearet. « u ^ ^'"' ^'^ '"^^^• Of the human hand that has ^^:::Z^T:f2Z T '^"^f ^ sewmg machine which it closely resembles. " ''"' °^ ^ Tas WHispBRim Caller y m St. Pauls CHVKCH. LONDOlt. in etVe'™!::!"'-!*::"? '': '"' '"'' ="™'''^- " '^ -40 yard, of the wall o; tlfe s d di .7' ''°''"' "'! ^"""^ -">ng the'foo. visitor en.ers,,e™al "4:; IrT''' ""^ '""^ "^ "''-'• '^e whieh the ;i,itor/befng Laed ,he L? "1^1 "'* '"^'""8' ™ whi,pe,., with the'nouth efo t the wrmrar^.h: d" '"' P"''^ tance of ,40 feet from Ih^ ^icif . u T ''°°''' "' ""= di,- -ninglylt his'e^r Ther ' hT tt^t^^r ^ 'd" """ """' to those on the opposite seat like violence ^f of thn'/^f"?; T" IS not so perfect if the visitor sits down h.t/ ^nunder. The effect the matted seat.and stiuts'/l^Z^ttr"" '"':''''''""'' h. ., the other side of- the .00.-.^ ^^"^^^r^t m •PHB l»j:?iUfIPr;L, fPHB WOHDBI^PLtL, 0*k hundred and ni„.ty.four cubic miles of water nre daily raised by (he sun fruuT the surface ol he sea. A hoop nut 'ndin^^ the earth would he ^ from a perfectly straiglU line about eight an I a half inches in a mile. ^ The noise of cannon has been heard a distance of more than 2^0 miles, by applymg the ear to the solid earth. Ar AGO has demonstrated that the duration of a flash of lightnin- does not exceed the one-millionth part of a second. The whole range of human hearing, from the lowest note of Ictavir ^^"""^ known cry of insects, includes about nine All the researches and investigations of modern science teach m J.r '^;f,""P"^^'^'^ '^ <^'^her create or destroy a single particle of Del^ alone ^°"" '" """'" '"^ '^''''°>^ "^'"^^ ^^^°"S« *« ^^^ There are living creatures so minute that a hundred millions of them may be comprehended within the space of a cubic inch. But la^urinrlr f " r" •'" P""" ''•" '''' '''''^'''y — gements for capturing their food, eatmg, and digesting it. -tr-'O^o.-/^ MOXB WONDERFUL THINGS TO FOLLOW, .nf^Ti"'?K^i7^''' *X^^"?o"s Belgian artl --, has one large picture, aT n T^^ ^"? °^ ^'^^ ^"^"''^ Regarding the Things oflh^ PaJt.- After all the wonderful things our race and age havf accomplishe:i, tins pamting makes us appear very insignificant. The man of the future IS represented as of gigantic and kingly propoitions-f or the rr.."! 1 %"'■'' "^ to be giants of civilization as compared with the people of our q -. He has gathered in his colossal palm certain nXf oA '^'^l"' ■ ' f— ^""-S thrones, sceptersfbattle-flags, arches of triumph, .tc, *t>.1 , regarding them with a face whi?h expresses curiosity, ir- m -nt, and . :r,rl of divine contempt. To that majestic gaze, k,w iru'ivitely smaii do all such things appear. dally raised :tly straiglit re than 250 ' lightning st note of ibout nins nee teach particle of gs to the millions of nch. But ;ments for K e pirttv-f?, h( »^.^ ,' nplished, m of the —for the ired with n certain ttle-flags, :e which ipt. To >ear. 60^^ e^^^^''^. ,#ir-^ j rr*"' h\ i ^^^^^^^^^^;-^=^:^^=^^=.^.^,^^.^M ^ONG long ago Chnsfans used to .nake pilgrimages to -Wid A ^'u^t "" '"'"^ P^''' °^ ^"'•^P^; but in the year ^ 1065 the Egyptian caliphs were overthrown bv the Tirrks T who treated the Christians in a most cruel mann;r. A great many peop.e m Italy and France, called together by a man named leter bv\ r ' " "\ '^' """^^ '^"^'- ^"*' ^^*b-Sh he was assisted by another army under Walter the Penniless, they didn't get any where near Jerusalem, because the Turks destroyed nearly all of them. Shortly after that an army of Germans shared the same fate, and th". an immense company of 200,000 from England and the Continent were a 1 destroyed still leaving Jerusalem in the hands of the Turks Bu al these efforts, you see, were made without any organization in particular, and were not at all skilfully carried out; but they opened he way to the first real crusade, which did not st^rt for some yeTrs after the other failures. The first crusade consisted of six splendid Zr'VT. 7. '^" "'"'^ ^''' ^"'^^^^ "^ ^"'•^P^' commanded by some of the noblest princes in the land. They fought their way suc- cessfully to Antioch, which fell into their hands after a long siL- six or seven months. They reached Jerusalem at last; but out o^the 60 000 that started only 40,000 had survived. They captured the city af^r a few weeks' siege (1099), and Godfrey, a virtuous and brave man, and one of the leaders from Germany, became king. The Chris- tians held the city against the attacks of the Mohammedans till the year , 144, when affairs looked so bad that a second crusade was an- nounced Two armies, containing 1,200,000 men, under Louis VII., King of France, and Conrad III., Emperor of Germany, set out. but Qu account oi the treachery of a Greek Emperor, Comneus, the cru-' [»79] !^«0 1»HB BEAUmiPUL, 5tHE WONDBI^PUIi, sade failed In 1 187 the Sultan of Egypt captured Jerusalenv, and a third crusade was organized, and after that a fourth and a fifth, and a sixth and a seventh, and in 1 270 the eighth and last. Sometimes the Christians were si^cessful, but oftentimes they were completely beaten by the Turks and their allies. But the Professor wants to tell you of the strangest thing of all. Have you ever heard of the children's crusade? In the year 1212 an army of 30,000 French children set out for the Holy Land by the way of Marseilles. They were unarmed, and chose for their com- mander a boy named Stephen, who lived in Vendome. At the same time 20,000 German children crossed the Alps at Mont Cenis and 20 - 000 more at another point. Think of iti Seventy ^thousand children on their way to deliver Jerusalem 1 They seemed to think th^t by some miracle they we.e to be the means of converting all their oppressors to Christianity. This crusade was certainly one of the strangest things in historv. Did the children succeed? It makes the Professor feel very sad to say that they did not. Poor children; some of them wandered back to their homes again, their little hearts discouraged and their little feet wearv with mai-ching, but nearly all of them perished-some on the way, some by drowning in the Mediterranean Sea-while all who missed a comparatively happy death were sold into slavery.- 7^4^ Professor in.^KX I I AN ACTOR'S TRIUMPH. INHERE was once an English actor so terribly in earnest with J '^W *''^ "^"''^ °^ ^''^ profession that he made a mark on his -en- ^^£ TT''^ "^''^' ^^^^^^'^^ by '-^"y other tragedian! He wtis a (57p httle, dark man, with a voice naturally harsh, but he deter- mined when comparatively young, to play the character of Sir Giles Overreach in Massinger's drama as no other man ever played it before. He resolved to give years of indefatigable industry in pre- paring himself for the part, and to devote his whole intellect to a proper conception of the character. In the whole range of English dramatic literature the character of Sir Giles is estimated one of the alen\, and a fifth, and a netimes the stely beaten tiing of all. sar 1212 an ind by the their com- .t the same lis and 20,- to deliver ey we.e to ity. This Did the o say that k to their eet weary the v'ay> 10 missed Professor. nest with his gen- Hfe was a he deter- Sir Giles played it r in pre- lect to a English le of the i 1 ! i W9 ■ i i . i 1 ! i H>\ jiu«> AETD JTHB WISE. ' ^| greatest pieces of effective villainy and unt^,r.nM. .rayed an. m..e Ed.und Ke.n s'e. 1,^7^^^. ZIZ IZ, ""'■ »..d -;rt::p::rrx: hI'IS ir ^rrrr- repeated refusak fr. fi,„ 'truvea. At last, after fj aicu rerusaii to the management, to anoear n« ^Jr r-i he was not ready yet ind m„cf c^Mi • ^^ ^'^''^' ^^>''"g *-""/ jci, ana must still orive more tima f^ fi, if he consented to have Hi*. r.lo , *"^ rehearsal, i. justice. And wha ;: SXT™:''.:' r ,'" '? "^ ^°"''' "° enthusiasm the presentation of 7 7 sensation and the fully ripe for 41^1^ ''' '^'''''''' P'^^uced, when Kean, y iipe lor tne occasion, came upon the sta "'e ful endeavor^ "'"'=• "-^ *ere wunessed such an exhibition of force- ouHng the i^eLfo-f^ ';:;:; z.,;" 'Tr™ "«^" -'^'^^ simok like 1 strong not • .u , ^ The great actor himself "s dispia.;: inTife :trn 'tr: ::; :,: ''•: "-'t- '-''-""' removed from the sta^e W A 'T , '' ^'^' ""'' ^'"=" '''= «■"» -f"ithatByro:.:„::etd;it' ::i::^;':j-rr- r^ r as death itself Ti-.« 0^1 -,, "^"""^^ ""^ and tell forward, pa e -am. oftrror;^o:tr: Halter;- ""- '-'""y Mrs. Glover in »ntr^.. c 1 «^"ery, the p.c rose en masse. vjiuvcr, an actress of Inno- «vn.o.-:« _- 1 . ---^ -.-.,,.,,,,,.^„ ^„„ ^j.g^^ talent, fainted n«^ J'-iP?jB h 5IHB BBAUIPIPIJL, IPHE WOHDBP^PUli, 4 < 4 outright on the stage; Mrs. Horn, who was also playing in the piece, staggered to a chair and wept aloud at the appalling sight of Kean's agony and rage. Munden, a veteran on the boards, who played the part of Marall, stood so transfixed with astonishment and terror that he had to be carried off by main force from the scene, his eyes riveted on Kean's convulsed and awful countenance. The actor that night was master of the situation, and profound and earnest study gave him the clue ^o his great achievement.— ^aj. T. Fields. Annual Incomes op Some of the Leading Rulers, iBGENTINE Confederation — The President elected for six years, and installed Oct. 12, has a salary of $20,000; the Vice-President, $10,000. Austria-Hungary — The Emperor-King has an income of $4,600,000; one-half of this sum is paid to him by Austria, as Emperor of Austria, and one-half by Hungary, as King of Hungary. Belgium — The reigning King has an income of $660,000. China — No account of the Emperor's receipts or expenditures is kept. Denmark.— The present King, Christian IX., has an income ©f $275,000 settled upon him by vote of the Rigsdag. Canada.— The Governor- General, at present Marquis of Lome, son-in-law of Queen Victoria, has a salary of $50,000. Egypt — The Khedive is allowed $750,000 annually, with a trifle of $350,000 for other niembers of his family. England — Queen Victoria has granted to her an annual allow- ance of $1,925,000 for the support of her household. Of this $300,- 000 goes into her Majesty's private purse; $156,300 pay the salaries of the royal household; $221,200 is for retiring allowances and pen- sions to servants, and $66,000 for royal bounty, alms and special ser- AND »nHB WISH. ^«3 v.ces,Ieavmg $r,iS ,500 for the general expenditures of the court rh.s, however, .s only a portion of Her Majesty's income Th also paid to her the net revenues of the Dull f T ^ " a..ou.ued in ,87., to ^^ss^^:^:!^:^::;:::^:^ ous sums ranging from $15,000 to $,2c 000 The h!?! the throne, however, who happens 1 fC.e I^^^ ThlTi:: l^f Wales, IS more fortunate than the rest, as he has .^tM.,l u annuity of $400,000, and has besides^ inlome "^^^^^^^^^^ Duchy of Cornwall, amounting to almost as much more Pranoe.^The President of the Republic receives a salarv of ^^ 000 francs, or about $ 1 20,000 per yea.^ ^ ^°^'' India—The Governor-General has a salary of $12,000 . allowances amounting to $60,000 more. *' 25,000, and Netherlands-King Wilhelm III. has an income of $4, 66, and an appropnanon of half as much more for the expenses ?f';fet;j iJ.T.tZ'"'''"-'''' ''''-' '-'' " ''' Governor, by Eng. New Zealand.-England pavs the Governor $2cooo and ^^ Inm an allowance of $12,500. *25.ooo, and gives fortunes ' ""' "' *'"^ '^'^^ ^° ^-«- -^^ ^-^e prfvate income ot the btate domams, amounting to about $5,000000 B.,t s.nce the establishment of constitutional governmenrTin„m ave become public property, and the incom^ ofTe^ ii^^"^^^^^^^^^^ and the expenses of his court, are met by appropriations, which so f a-t appears m the budgets, amounts to about $3,o75,c;,o But Ue of the revenue f.nr« J '"c^mes. The Emperor is in possession ineievenue fiom the crown domams r.«„c:.,*:„„ ..r „_ .. i84 »PHB BBAliiPIPUL, WHS WONDBEJPUL, milhon square miles of cultivated lands and forests; besides gold and other mines in Siberia, producing a vast revenue. The sum total of the annual net income of the Imperial family is $10,000,000. Queensland— The Governor, appointed by England, has a salary of $25,000. •' Spain.— The >nnual grant to the Queen was fixed by the Cortes m 1879 at $90,000, with an increase of $50,000 in case of widow- hood. Viotoria.— The Governor-General, appointed by England, has a salary of $50,000 — People's Cyclopedia. ' — * >^ 4 — c-NlN* — #-- K— ■ OF Sr^TBS. 'S'^ffTN, (ADQEB STATE._A name popularly given to the State of ' Wisconsni, on account of the number of badgers which form- erly abounded there. W Bay State.— A name given to the State of Massachusetts which, previous to the Federal constitution, was called the colony of Massachusetts Bay. Bayou State.— The State of Mississippi, which abounds in bayous or creeks. Bear State.— A name by which the State of Arkansas is some- times called, because of the large number of bears which used to in- fest its forests. Buckeye State.— The State of Ohio, so called because of the buckeye tree which abounds there. Creole State.— Louisiana, in which the original inhabitants were chiefly French and Spanish settlers. Diamond State.— Delaware, from its small size and great worth, or supposed importance. Empire State.— New York, the most populous and wealthy State m the Union, also called Excelsior State, from the motto on its coat of arms. AND »nHB WISE. S8| Ingiand, has a ^ freestone SU.e._Co„„ecHc.„, f,.. i. ,„„,„,. ,„,„,^^ ^^ ^,.^^_ iar,^;t:p:r;7^::if ""•"'■'^'^-'•■' "-'^" "^•' -— .., .o ^Ztr ''"'*-'''"'"• »-^'' "ft- ".. I..clia„ chief, once ., ,e„or "am« of .he .taet oX la, s?TT °' "" Co.,s,iu,.io„. If .he a^ch pe„„„,™„ w"nrxr;,::e-zL;r: '-™ - - ct.s~:'^H^r;:rE:r'-°" - -- -- .a^«. .he':rue!!':?^-,7;tSe'r '"'°""''"°" -^ '^"^^ '»"•■"•. w'^^h . Lone-star State. Tevic fi-«.« *i i . w««. i exas, from the device on its coat of arms peop^n'Cr.;-''""^''" -''-' •'■" P''-'P»' °-Pa«o::f .^e Dominion. "cpenuence. Also called the Old Wutmeg State Connecticut n/.f«^ r .■ . Pfflmmlar S.a.e.-F,o,ida, so called on account of shane wo,:rr^ «---Michi,an. because U fo^er,/ ahound!,": if H» "HE BBAUmPUU, „Ha WOHDEI^PUI,. . popular way. ^® '^^''^ ^^ ^^n give in a ^ j;r "cr.:.f t.r "t: r"^ ;^ "^-^ ^'-'^ ■■■ ">= »>=- Pro.e„.n,s.epara,eu H.! elves tm'h: X"'^'°"%-'""«<'". 'he «» worship and belief are concIrLT T n "" Catholics-so far besun by Marlin I.„ther X " }" ^'"^""y ">= movement wa, ge..ce,".„ich was a«ho: ■':, "^Xl ITx '''' T''' "'"""""- money to buiid St. Peter's Church at R?„!r . "'''"'^<' "«^ to the effect that the Pope had no ^""'" ''''"■ "P " -"«=- nailed to the door of the^chth n 17 u ^"' '°'^"' '"• """ '™» •>= This church, you must rememb "r la, r! ""''?"' '" ^'"™^--S- t.n,e there were no Pr„testaut7 " C^"'""'. fo-- at that -::z«^ris:;rVh:v:rsc'tr";"^^^ • Ro.e. but Luther refused. T nft sin . ^ ""? '° '°""= " ™« '» Emperor of Germany, called togXr at^vL '^" ' ■'"*= '^•• Rhnie, the famous Diet ^which m. . Worms, a town on the States). ,t which Luth / w as „rde:rd Z T'"'"'' "' '"^ «""■"" M«'t want him to go, but he a dt I'T'"- , "'= «-""' were as many devils in the city as .n« T ' "™ """"Sh "'ere and made so strong an impre I; tl t V" .''""''■" ""^ ""'-ded, soon the Roman Catholic Chueh It V"' "'"' ""=-' -- how the Bible, while his opponents had Tf T"T ^""'" '""' * "'h "■ lated the Scriptures, a n'd so^„ hfs fo ' u""' '"°P" ^■'*-- '""- word .. Protestants" came fro ' t^T.T ""f '"' ""■""»- Tl,e another Diet-one held at SpL t fr^^K """ "'■" ^'^'^ "' against the Reformation. Then came if, '-^^'" " """'"'"y ™'ed .5.^, preaching as a Protestan ^Xm^cr ^'t I'"' '^'^ "" """ ■" rap.dly. But the reformers were not „ .^'l° """^ eause spread -y. in .rauce the Ro^anr ^ied'r iolfor ^f ^1:1:; to tell something we can give jn a period in the six- s revolution, the Catholics — so far le movement was ! sale of " indul- •vho wanted the drew up a notjcii sin, and this he I in Wittenberg, holic, for at that up his notice it come at once to )2 1 aarles V., a town on the >f the German His friends I though there He attended, they saw how er had faith in Luther trans- nerous. The vas signed at majority voted o was born in cause spread rease without enced, which >IJcs in Ger- •s of Calvin, AND IPHB WISE. t87 Huguenots, and m ,572 the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day took f tch.^ --herous thing you all remember. It happencVbe k^h TT °^"S^'^'^^"" Catherine de Medicis was re^^ent Cathenne pretended to be friendly with the Huguenots, aud arraT, ' d a wedd.ng between a sister of Charles and Henr; of N™^ Many Huguenots can. to the wedding, for Henry had'alway^Leen a ProU^stant. It ,s said that Charles repented, and would have sZd :frd"'"TT' "' not Ctherine taunted him for being wr.T; coward The general massacre commenced Sunday mornin^ Au^^ust H, and contmued for about forty-eight hours. The numb rkUled m Pans .s not known, but is supposed to be about five thousa ' m the general massacre. Some authorities state the number o be as large as one hundred thousand. After the Thirty Years' War came the Peace of Passan. a town of Havana n, 1553 This secured to the Protestants libert; to wl" ship accordmg to their faith.- C>5r/^//a« (/„ion. •^^'O^O—J^ THE GREAT ENGLISH LAND OWNERS. HE New York World has compiled, from lists taken from the new Doomsday Book just issued in England, the follow- >1>=^ '"? A / ^'''' landholders of England and Wales ©^^ who denve, from lands alone in these countries, incomes of more than £50,000 a year. It should be understood that thisTo m many cases gives no accurate account of the total incomes of the persons mentioned in it, since it in no case includes incomes deriv d from any other source than lands in England and Wales, excluding London. Ihe Duke of Sutherland, for example, has an incomf rough, 3t.mated at £.00,000 from his property fn London, So land state T^Tk^fP^^r ''': ^'^-'^^ ''''''' ''-^ ^'^ E"g""' in ol 7 .^ T ^^^^^^^'-'"^ ^^^ ^-^f°rd have at least an equal ncome from their London property; and the Duke of WestmmLr, whose income from his London property is estimated at £400,000 does not appear at all in the front rank of rural En.n^h ^rLl^J "i » jlfl il ftsa "PHE BUAmimu, IPHB WONDBl^PUli, The Mnrqu,8 of Bute has a very large Scottish income which doe, gIJuT". ;", "".'""' '"'"^ ^'^'" ^'^'-''^'^'-^ proprietor, of O nt linta.nt.tled and untitled, do not fi,n„e in it at all. B„t taken as .t stands .t furn.shes a very striking picture of the immense devel- Z lair! """' ""''' °' ^"^'""^ ^""^ ^''^^ ^^P««» °^ ^^- £mo -!r"n'^"'°r ^''.^'^^^' Northumberland, £176,044; Bedford, ^•40047; Devonshire, £140,403; Cleveland, £91,785; Newcastle £79^.7; Rutland £73,990; Sutherland, £73,7.8; Po'rtla.ld, Ts ^ 5 Marquises—Bute, 41.85,7,0; Anglesea, £107,361. ^ Earl8.-Derby, £163,326; Dudley, £120,851; Fitz William £89 2.9; Brownlow, £85,076; Yarborough, £76,226; Durha.n, £7"' 672 Lonsdale, £69,960; Powis, £63,306; Stamford and Warr ngton ;t58,2i7; Shiewsbury and Talbot, £52,284 ^ ' £..?,Tn~^f'''"r 1,'"'^'^' '^•■'^^^^'■' •^'^8'4i8; Leconfield, *57»27i; Overstone,£5i,7S9. ' £109,275; Sir J. St. Aubyn, £95,359. Untitled.— Hon. Mark Rolle, £70,586. i^Pi^*^:^, /^ t:^^ maelstrom. HE following i. a description of Capt. Webb's fatal attempt . to swnn through the rapds and whirlpool, at Niagara, \n -M^^^ J"^^' '^f3; Webo protnptly removed his hat, handkerchief, S^A^ coat, and all his clothing save a pair of short red cotton trmiks around his loins, and, without a word of farewell, plun^^ed boldly ,nto the water at a point opposite the Maid of the Mist land- ing. A monient later, he rose gracefully to the surface, and, swi.n- m.ng w.th mhnite ease and power, struck boldly out. He cleared the water w.th strong and steady strokes, swimming on his breast, with h. head clear fro., the surface. He kept in the center of the s^ea.l and the strong edd.es wh.ch occasionally swhled past him seemed i. no way to .mpede or swerve him from his course. As he approached the old Suspension bndge, the flow of the current increased with ^mr )me which does proprietors of all. But taken immense devel- le repeal of the 6,044; Bedford, 55; Newcastle, land, £68,935. F'itz William, 3urham, £71,. d Warrington, 8; Leconfield, iwrence Palk, fatal attempt t Niagara, in handkerchief, rt red cotton veil, plunjjed le Mist land- !, and, swini- ^e cleared the breast, with »f the stream, ■n seemed in ! approached creased with tHD JPHB WISE. 239 remark hie rapidity. T? ere were about two hundred .«..*«* ^a. he was seen to reach the first furious billows of the r pIJs Onward he was swept like a feather in the sea Hi..h on ti . c a huge boulder of water, hi, head and Zdd "''.::„ 7;"' °' instant, and then were lost In „ .UrV , """f gleamed for an Acr..inh« '-"were lost m a dark abyss of turmoiling water .wiHin, e.e.e,.. .ee.ed .o ,LV.n;, ^r:'^:::f^ •oundmg the death-knell of the ill-fated swimmer n down the rapid, he was ,een, still .wtlnuZL.?"! """T T^ n,ing the secthln, wate,-,, with .arveTous sk![l ^2^^^:^ of be.„g hurled hither and thither, as might have been cxLed he was earned wuh fuHons rapidity onward, almost in a s ra gCotse waters, and st.ll he seemed to be riding the awful billows in sat-tv Infourmmutesafter he had passed under the old Su,pensirnb,Vg1fe' had been burned through the terrible rapids, and arrLd at tl e mo'utl' of the great wh.rlpool. Reaehing what seemed to be less t oleTa dangerous waters, he raised his head well above the surfac™] ^ he lugh bluff on the Canadian side. A second later he dived or sanl and was seen no more. "'vcuorsanK, A FEW MORE LEFT. It is the impression among some that it is now a rare thin^. to fin^ Read the follown.g from Explorations in Bible Lands: « The proces roTv: r."^ 7" T",r' •'^"^"^ ^'^^ ^«"^P^'-^ f- -ore than 2,000 years; and not only all natives, but strangers, captives and slaves were subjected to the rite: so th.f fh«.. .^..^tu.' .^, ^""^ '^^''^'' j9 ~" '""■""■ "^> «i tnc present time, mi y^O 1IHB BEAUTIFUL, JPHE WOHDBI^PUrx, millions, if not hundreds of millions, of these mummies hidden among the mountam ranges, or concealed by the ever-shifting sands of ^^> ^ Thrilling Incident at Niagara, ^ r TwM'^^^^ ^'^'^ '"""^P* °^ ^^^^ '^'^•••"^ swimmer, ■ Lapt. Webb, to swim the- rapids and whirlpool, below Niagara Falls, calls to mind the memorable passage of the steamer " Maid of the Mist," in 1861, over this same dan- gerous voyage, it being the only occasion when a human being effected he passage iu safety. The steamer had been sold to parties at Lewis- ton on condition that she be delivered at that place. Mr. Geo W Jriolley gives the rest of the story: "About 3 o'clock in the afternoon June 15, 1861, the en ^^i- neer took his place in the hold, and, knowing that their flitting would be short at the longest, set his steam-valve at the proper gaute and waited-not without anxiety-the tinkling signal that shoutd start them on their flying voyage. Mclntyre joined Robinson at the wheel, on the upper deck. Robinson took his place at the wheel and pulled the starting bell. With a shriek from her whistle, and a wh.te puff from her escape-pipe, the boat ran up the eddy a short dis- tance then swung .round to the right, cleared the smooth water, and shot like an arrow into the rapid under the bridge. She took the outside curve of the rapid, and when a third of the way down it a jet of water struck against her rudder, a column dashed up under her starboard side, heeled her over, carried away her smoke-stack, started her overhang on that side, threw Robinson on his back, and thrust Mclntyre against her starboard wheel house with such force as to break it through. Every looker-on breathed freer as she emerged shook her wounded sides, slid into the whirlpool, and for a monient rode again on an even keel. Robinson rose at once, seized the helm set her to the right of the large pot in the pool, then turned her directly through the neck of it. Thence, after receiving another drenching from its waves, she dashed on without further accident to the quiet bosom of the river below Lewiston, ' AHD OIHB WISH. g. iiuc wha. he h»d always i™a,i:T.::: rLi;::":!:':^ '^-^ bn-d in a downward flicrhf tint whpn fU • V ^ °^ ^ ^'"''g^'^ seemed to be struck fro n a 17 . ''"'"' ^'^'"'■•■^''' '^'' ^^^^ likeafiddle-stri„randl,tt 1 ir" n""^ ^''^' ^'"' ^'-^-^^^^ into atoms; that b^th he nd m/t^ ""'"^'^ ''^^''*>^ ""^ '^-P with all thdr strength bn^ f '^?'^'^ ^^'"^ ^^^^'"g to the wheel been two flL ' ' ' ^"'"^^' "° '"^''^ ^^"-^ ^^an if they had " Poor Jones, imprisoned beneath the hatches before th. I • furnace, went down on his knees, as he related afterwtr^' I "f a more earnest prayer was never ntt^v.A /"^'^'^'^'^^'"^"^l although still it seemed to'him prod g Is ; ^^''Tt l7 1'l T" ''""''^'^ Robinson was decided m^arked! T^ J ^! J.^^'/ '^ ^^P "Pon the writer,, twenty yea. older when Clel^^^^^^^^^^ ''' when he went out.' He sank into his chair Hk! "^ *''"" with weariness. He decided to abandon U wl """T" '"""'"^ more about the rapids Both h ' ''"'^ ''^"^"''^ "« changed. Calm a'd delibe t beforT^"^' appearance were serious afterward." '"' ^' ^""'^'"'^ thoughtful and i5rO«^ FRANKUN TIED MIS MONEY UP, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, in a codicil to his will IpfV w .• of Boston the sum of one thousand pot^ds to be L tT^^^^^^ married artificers, npon good security', and Z^ ^ ^^""1, the plan should be carried out as successfully as he expec ed hT , r.,?"„'l'\""*"'"' the regaining thirtyin. i::^Z..I """ "°'""' "^ P" "P™ ""^'-e^' '»■• another hundred year,, Tt'the ''fm ^9$ 5JHB BERUmPlSh, IHHB WOKDEI^PUL, end of which t,me the whole amount was to be divided between the city and the State. The bequest at the en'd of the first hundred years may not attain the exact figure he calculated, but it is sure to be a arge sum At the present time it is more than a hundred and eic^hty dt"d r I o '' '""^ '' ^'' '^°"' ''"'"''"" y'^'' '° ^""- ^^^"^l'« B^RLY ViRGmiANS, It is asserted by Bancroft, the historian, in speaking of the vaga- bond and dissolute character of the men who were being sent over to strengthen the feeble colony at Jamestown, and who were subse- quently killed oflf by disease and the savages, that « it was not the will of God that the new State should be formed of these materials,- that such men should be the fathers of a progeny, born on the Ameri. can soil, who were one day to assert American liberty by their eloquence, and defend it by their valor." — >J— 4- -«^-J<— BISMARCK'S COOLNESS. ^smarck is no orator, like Gladstone, in England, or the late Gambetta, in France. But he is always master of himself, and of the subject on which he speaks. He showed his perfect coolness at the very begmning of his public career. In his first speech in the House of Deputies, he hesitated and blundered, like Demosthenes in his first speechinthe Athenian Agora, and Sheridan in his first appearance in the House of Commons. The two latter gave it up, and retired in shame, with, however, a determination to succeed in the future But Bismarck would not confess himself beaten. He was deter mined to win success from the start. When the Deputies laughed at h.m hooted hissed, and tried to compel him to sit down, he remained standing. As the storm grew more violent, he looked round in abso- lute composure, took a paper from his pocket, and read quietly until order was restorec.. Then he resumed his speech and finished it having compelled the attention of the House. From that moment; all telt that he was certain to succeed. ■MfnesoewMaMnm^ AMD IDHB WISE. Sd3 OUR OBELISK, the Ilt^tlfanrit oT •'"?, ^" ''"^"^ ^^'^^ ^^^ ^°'-^' ^« °- ^^ oiaest extant. It onginaJIy stood in front of the Temnle of fh» inscriptions, ,.ecordi„. he dei IrJC" rrf T ~''"'='* "'"^ shaft a. He,iopo,i, a;a''Ltts "1^"^^ ° ^tT "" I^' latter reigned .,4,x, hundred year^ IZc^Z'^^lTZZ obel^k . qurte a relic. It and the one now in London werl' twln^" :IR WILLIAM HAMILTON tells some hcge stories in his . lectnres on Memory. Ben Jonson could not°o„ly pe « I-T- ^:,",'' 7- -•■"-. but wl,ole books he had read! 'if we cfthepuuins:::-! Dr::r:,:e^,rr:rfr '- °"^ having been lost, he restored i. roruZ r ollec. on S """"" plains of old a,e, because he cannot, as L Tc "^d rrepea ".70 tZ" sand names m the order they were read to him; and avers , ha, o" o occ.,s,on, when at his studies, two hundred' unconncXdvLes 'ep aTed tl" '"°"°""""' "^ '"''^^"' P"?"' °' ^s preceptor e .1 it" n 'invlalT^ " '""""r '""'""■^•' *""'> °f "-d' -d tie t/j " ;r ti! , "T'? ""' ■""^ "^ ''"'' '■^ °"j' °- "I'o will taKe lie panis. Theo v.*,! u«..,! a t^i ,. . - J -- "-- '"'^» " «vtt iJcdUi iiicy say Sd6 5IHB BEAUmPUh, JPHB WOHDBFJPUIi, they d pull my hair if it weren't for burning their fingers. Dorry said he guessed my hair was tired of standing up and wanted to lie down and rest. I wish you please would send me a new comb, for the large end of mme has got all but five of the teeth broken out, and the small end can t get through. I can't get it cut because the barber has raised h.s pnce. Send me quite a stout one. I have lost two of my pocket handkerchiefs, and another went up on Dorry's kite and blew away. -«* ANECDOTES OF HENRY CLAY. FRL :i anecdote of Henry Clay, or anv of the wise and witty men who were his contemporaries, is always refreshing. When General Jackson appointed Mr. Buchanan to the mis- sion at St. Petersburg, he inquired of Mr. Clay, at a party in Washington, what style of dress he should wear at the court of the Czar. Mr. Clay replied that as they were about of a size (Buchanan had not then grown so stout as he appeared later in life) the coat he wore as one of the United States Commissioners at Ghent was at his service. "But it has been w n, Mr. Clay," was the response to the offer. «Oh, that ,s nothing. You can turn it, Buchanan-you're used to it. Mr; Clay never let pass an opportunity for a fling at Mr. Buchanan, after the latter had written his famous letter, charging bribery and corruption in the election of John Quincy Adams to the Presidency of the House of Representatives. In the course of a speech in the benate, Mr. Buchanan stated that when a young man he joined a vol- unteer mihtia company that marched from Lancaster to the relief of Baltimore, when the Monumental City was threatened by the British dur.ng the war of 1812. Upon reaching Hagerstown, however, the troops learning that the invaders had been repulsed at North Point returned home without farther participation in the war. At this point Clay arose, and addressing the chair, expressed a desire to ask the speaker a question. " Certainly," was the courteous response. AND IKHE WISE. S9Z " I would like to inquire of the Senator from Pennsylvania," re- marked the Great Commoner, with that inimitable twist of his cat- fish mouth, "whether the gentleman marched to the relief of Balti- more because he had learned that the British had left, or whether'the British had left because they heard the gentleman from Pennsylvania was coming." • — ■» ! 4 — o:=#=!o— *-K« — . ^ SINGULAR PRACTICE. Some of the hill tribes in Northern India have a peculiar way of sending their babies to sleep, which is thus described by a correspond ent: "Near a hollow bamboo which se.ved as a spout, through which the cool water of the mountain stream poured forth in a jet was disposed the head of an infant, who was lying covered warmly,' and fast asleep. The bamboo spout wiis so placed that the water played upon the cro a of the baby's head, over a part which seemed bald of hair, a consequence, perhaps, of the habitual action of the water. The children (there were two of them) were lying on their right sides and perfectly still, one would fancy in a state of stupefaction. They had been lying for an hour and a half, we were told, and would be there till nine at night, in all between four and five hours. I felt the face of one of them and found it cold, and then held the wrist, but could detect no pulse. Yet the hill people are con- vmced that the strange practice, which is quite general, helps to strengthen the brain, and make the children not only healthy, but hardy and fearless." HORSEMANSHIP IN INDIA, Every one knows that tent pegging means riding at full tilt with a lance at a tent peg driven deep into the ground and carryin<^ it off, if successful, on the poinc of the lance. If any one thinks it is'easy to' do this from the simple description, let him try it at Aldershot or else- where, remembering, however, that Indian tent pegs are lar-er, longer, and stick deeper than those at home. The troopers dashed full gallop, one aftar the other at the pegs, which were replaced as i lien rupees were out on the tpnf rt^o-c f^ >■ X — to" *" fast as they were drawn. ^98 5tHB BEAU»IIIPUL, IPHB WONDBI^PUL, ^m \\M If: m be knocked off by the lance point without touching the peg That was done better and ortener than the succeeding exercise ofc^ ,ing o peann. oranges on the ten, peg tops. Handkcchiefs wee kid on the ground, and the troopers, riding hard, made swoops at therand missed thc,n, or caught them up. One man managed fo take thTee t succession m the same gallop. There were exhiWtions of hoLema" sh,pwh,ch mjght be described as or circus character, but for did if ference Ihe horses were not ridden at a regulation stride at a sk Ifuiv adjusted angle, but were ridden boldly about on the hard p .'raid everythmg was done by hand, bit, and balance.-C... Z. J.7C ••0^0«M^— rjf£ CH4RGB OF TUB LIGHT BRICADB. The following is the incident which occurred durin.. the memo rahles.ege of Sevastopol, in which Tennyson's poem is-foundrdT After the British troops had performed p odiHes of valor and h„d forced the Russians to desist from their atLks" L orde to advance as the L ght B ,g.ade." which numbered about 630 men. "Advance th gu"s ::: : '"T"- " ^"^^ '^ *= '"^'"' • -■• -" ">- me guns, was the reply. Six battalions of arlillery, six solid masses of cavalry, and thirtv heavy guns, d.rectly in position, were in front of them; on the rillu were the redoubts and their batteries which had just b en taken f^^m heir cowardly Turkish allies; and on the left were slopes lined w^th nflemen and light field pieces. And there was a mile 'and a hal7 o be traversed before an enemy could be reached. But the order had been delivered and-the order was obeyed. They rode the d stance through a perfect storm of murderous missiles, ,00k the guns cut their way through the infantry and cavalry, and then, after^-ea d ^J'^ banks of he Tchcrnaya, and finding themselves unsupported, tun d about and rode back When the gallant corps returLd, they w re not "the SIX hundred,"_only one hundred and fifty wheeled ata and faced the enemy with a cheer of defiance, and with the pre isiol of a dress parade. It has never been explained in what way the oZ came to be given. Capt. Nolan, the man who delivered it .C t first man who fell, ' ^ AND »nHB wisa iW ^^'^O WAS CASPAR ..AVSBRf " t"h!? '' '■■ ''"''"°." *"' '"" ^'^" '"''"'■^ " g'-"-' ">any time, . bu never sa.„fac,orily answered. On the .6.h ^f Ma! -^^ ^'^' " "'""" °f Nuremberg, while loitering in front of hi' himf!ai"oT'°:' "" ""'^"'"^ "'■ '"' '°-' -- "t'orin; toward The first .mpression produce] by his appearance was, that be w« some lunat,c or idiot, escaped from confinement He w ! 7 charge of by the police. His conduct was p culit hI sb 1 sr i^r^- bTut-rr-t ir ^-r--- -:: Befo. him. he wrote in a::i::;r",X: l^ll.'-^CtftatT.^ attracted to b,s case, and being utterly helpless, he was formdlv a opted by one of the German cities, and became not onll , ^Z clesand conjectures. As CaspaXL^al^K^p ri t^lt r^ able to tell a little, and only a little, of his former life °hT t^^at h h., ,, ,,,, ,„ ^^ ^^„^^^ .^^^^ ^^ hrcLcld"^ itTcar He had no recollection of anything previous to that lif. H " food and drink had been bread and^water. He nev sw but^h ' man who took care of him He alw-,v« S \ ^ °"^ his fee. stretched out before hi "^ trrdleTs: h Lfbr [JJL'; .ojnte h,s name, and had been made to stand on his feet se^Ltl In 1827 an attempt was made upon his life, which, however was unsuccessful. He was afterward adopted by the Earl of sT^' and removed .0 Anspach. In .833 a Lond'alllp^ ' nd , -s". t': successful one, was made upon his life. He was Lnd in .a note part of the c..y, stabbed to the heart. After his death, the dhc sio" as to who he was broke out afresh. Stanhope himself his btefactoT xpressed h,s be ief that Caspar was a fraud; while others eguallv d.sl.ng„,shed, giving a vast amount of laho, to the aolu" tllUIl tne rflWHi 800 WHB BEAUltlPUL, JTHB WONDBI^PUL, and tha he had been put out of the way to make room for some one else. It was even asserted that Stanhope's course pointed to his knowing more about the case than he was wilHng to tell The quesfon never has been solved, and doubtless never will be The whole story is a sorrowful and pathetic one. Caspar himself was a person ofpecuharly amiable temperament, whose singular and inter- estmg hKstory, so deeply involved in mystery, has engaged the atten- t.on of the whole world.- C..c/.W/..,« ^/W, Mon,^,/, ■ ^f - f '''°^-11!Ph!^ n ^ t<> Tub SioRY op Laura Bridgman. ^ ^=\ T has been said that probably there were not three livin- women whose names were more widely known than is that "of Laura Br,dgman. The story is full of pathos. She was the daughter .F of Dame, and Harmony Bridgman, and was born in Hanover, N. H., Dec. 21, 1839. At the age of two years, owing to a severe a tack of scar et fever, her eyesight and hearing were destroyed com- pletely,and she also lost the sense of smell and the sense of taste a.id because she was deaf she was also dumb. With her sickness and' he loss of her faculties, had faded out all remembrance of her former |fe. Only one sense was left her-that of feeling, and guided by this slender thread, she began anew the journey of her life. Her case early enlisted public sympathy, and among other visitors, of which she had many, was S. G. Howe, director of the Institution for the Bhnd, m Boston, who formed a theory for reaching a mind so nic osed, and gu'mg the child at least a passable education. When eight years old, she was accordingly brought to the institution, where she remained almost continuously for fifteen or twenty years, during which time she accomplished a thorough course of education in the i^nghsh branches, including mathematics, geography, natural sciences, etc. It is interesting to read the account of the manner in which she was at first taught the names of the simplest objects. Dr. Howe in writing of her at this time, said: "Her mind dwells in darkness and stillness as profound as that of a closed tomb at night; of beautiful n«faS3'fl>:#!?ix-: *HD IFHB WISE. M( sights and sweel sounds, and pleasant (xlors, she has no .„„ .■ nevertheless she .ee.s a, h.pp, „nd pla,',:, a, . bW TC"! Dnnng the course of her long education, she seems to hTv!T blessed with the ,nost pat,e„t and the wisest of iZ c or , d Ih^ develops ,„to a very lovely woman, in whom the spirit,' f 1, seemed to predominate. Almost incredible s.ories ha b n ol Tf he acnteness of her perceptive faculties. Her case engaged' ea^en pathetic i".erest._i,/j;;;;-:itr X::;Lr"'" '"' INSTANCES OF CHEAT STXEmTH n.rrm^u:c^r-irii^- s" r ™tiUi';teS'r r, '^c *~ "' ''— - a journey, he lifted his horse ove the tteand'TetT'" V°""^"'^ "" Other sidp On o fu ^ ' " ^^' ^^"" ^'^wn on the other side. On another occasion, he broke a rope fastened to the floor, that would sustain 20 hundred weight. He toorM rn bers, Vicar of All Saints, who weiohed -^7 .fl , " ""^ With one hand. One night, percri^tawI-Cn .IL^r^t ,t he ra,sed them both from the ground with the greatest eat .nd dropped them over the wall of the Tindall's buryiL Ground The a cocoanut, which he" cltedt wrhtl'ge : aTTthTb'f ^'''' the ear of one of the sailors wJfh fU ^ "'^' ^^°'^ *° would crush an ^.IJT'u:^^^'^^:;^:^:^^^-" an ox with his flst, and then carried it more than 2L f e He saved the life of his fellow-scholars and teacher pZ,.ol ^ porting the falling roof until they had time to e^cli T'tH ^ "P" .s mentioned, Who could raise 3c^ pounds by thTXles^oT .Lr wwie b "'''''' "'■" "^'"^ '■'°™ 7° '» 8° "«>»» its own weilt whde a horse cannot draw more than 6 time» hi, »»;„k. Zl'' 902 THE BBAUTIPUL, IBHB WOMDBI^PUI^, we.-h8 less than n grain, and will clear several feet at a leap The common dorr beetle, weij,.hing but 15 grains, has been known to heave a we.ght placed upon him amounting to 4,769 grains, or nearly 330 tunes h.s own weight— k^arious Standard Authorities. THE SEVEN SLEEPERS, " It would awaken the seven sleepers," is a common saying, but we venture to say that half who use it do not know its origin. The egend nms tl.at .even noble youths of Ephesus, during the persccu- .on of the Christians by Dccius, a Roman emperor of the third c.n- tury, fled, and took refuge in a cavern; and, having been pursued and discovered, they were walled in, and thus left to perish. They are said to have fallen asleep, and in that state were miraculoush pre- served for nearly two centuries, when, their bodies having been found in the cavern they were taken out and exposed to the veneration of the faithful. Then .t was said these holy martyrs were not dead; that hey had been hidden in the cavern, where they had fallen asleep, and that they at last uwoke, to the astonishment of the spectators EIGHTEEN HUNDRED YEARS AFTER DEATH, A correspondent of Appieton^s Journal, writ ng of excavation, at Pompeii, says: « Among the most interesting of the objects found recently are two skeletons, one of a somewhat elderly man, the other of . woman They were found in the Via Stabia, au.ung the ashes of the last erup* tion, evidently overtaken in their flight, ann saying, but origin. The the jjcrsecu- he third cc-n- pursued and I. They are culously pre- !^ been found eration of the it dead; that n asleep, and tors. BATH. tcavationi, at recently are >f a woman, ic last erijp. the cinders, he external vity, which, 1; and thus, glass cases ror of such 'n, I cannot lat man or THE TWO lilTTLII ORPHANS. AND »nHB WISE. 803 woman, had some prophet informed them that eighteen hundred years after their death their forms, and even as much of their <.ar ments as were nof consumed in the eruption, would be placed Tn a museum for inspection by a multitude of sight seers, some from lands the existence of which they had never dreamed. The poor woman is lying on her face, and even the form of her hair, put up behind, is seen. One arm shields her forehead, and she IS supported by the other. Her stony limbs are well formed, and traces of a garment are seen passing in folds around her. The man although placed on his back in the exhibition, when found, was turned on his side. One arm rests on his hip; the other is uplifted. The face IS somewhat distorted, but massive, and smoothly shaven. Even the form of the fastenings of the sandals around the ankle, and of the ong button higher up on the leg to hold them, is clearly seen. The hmbs are partly drawn up. The skeleton of a tolerably lar^e do^ also recently found, is in the museum of Pompeii, his whole form pre- served in plaster, in the same manner as those just mentioned He IS lying on his back, writhing in suffering, biting his hind Ic- The nngs and collar are plainly seen." " SOME XEM/N/SCEMCBS OP LINCOLN, Lincoln particularly liked a joke at the expense of the dignity of some high civil or military official. One day, act long before his sec ond inauguration, he asked me if I had heard about Stanton's meeting a picket on Broad River, South Carolina, and then told his story General Foster, then at Port Royal, escorted the Secretary up the* nver, taking a quartermaster's tug. Reaching the outer lines of the river a picket roared from the bank, « Who have you got on board hat tug? The severe and dignified answer was, « The Secretary of War and General Foster." Instantly the picket roared back, '< We've got Major-Generals enough up here—why don't you brin- us some hardtack?" The story tickled Lincoln mightily, and he to!d it till it was replaced by a new one. Anything that savored of the wit and humor of the soldiers was especially welcome to Lincoln. There was 4 story of a soldier in the Armv of fh*> p«f,.«,„ .-..j .. .. i> If ) V' Ir: ill tl I* Ji 1 1 1 1 I.L.i:&l I'.: SM "Ha BBAUWPUL, !nHB WOHDEI^PUIi, .^gir ,1^ -S'^rrr '"'' "':' --« " p-— "over. ville. whose „>g™e„, waiLg .ottni L; the fll^'""""""- toffee. The hero of the storv nuHn v. , '^'"' '^'" '"'''"S he had carried withinfiJte oaiTh ' u '^ ' "°"'''^ ■»«g.which rragn,e„ts, and left^ i., hldre ot ut J" Vt ^t ^ J" H m that direction, the soldier angrily growled ..T„h„^ ^"^ thataBainI" Lincoln r.l„- ,,^ ^"'"'' J°'">"}'> yo" can't do' seen,sLtherdeX„orl2fr otTd'"" TT 'o^""". -". "I' American soldier ."-LtTI/^ll^r "" '""' '"'"''^ °f ""' from every villae-e th«. m«« «p i 8 ^^ wun every hour, taking ^y viudge me men of courage and intfUin^^^^ ^i. ments of the eleventh ^^nf.,. u intelligence; the move- of a»cho„'bo;!'Tetrre^dV.7:?.*:;''r"'"'' '° '"^ p- ifornia, from all narts of th/l m * ""^ emigration to Cal- wartmen,footWfro°,01dWorid """ "■'?""'""='' ''' ^"^ »""- modes of life " ""™""™'.»nd resolved on new — tr-o^o*-/!;- ORATORY OP EDMUND BURKB, Among the most memorable displays of oratorv & familiar to the ordinary reader th«n ,lr. V- °'^^^°'^>' ^^^ are more trial of Warren Hastings nWe'^^^^^^^^^^ '°°^P^-^ ^"""^ the Burke, With an imaginLn almr^ieras^^^^^^^^^^^^ )ie-wonian hover- wed or pegged ?" e of Chancellors- §ght, was taking :kery mug .which ipaigns. A stray ed the mug into f'urning his head ^"yj you can't do' getber, said, « It ni humor of the ry, 1848, a time tnptied one-half tid the treasure y. The news, rith doubt, was a new crusade, ry hour, taking ice; the move- ed to the pace ^ration to Cal- jy 50,000 stal- ssolved on new few are more ice during the aid that when he depicted, AHD (BHB WIBEi. doti described, in words that will liye as lonnce sent forth to It is related that ^rite the name of one who visited wonder increased ne to his cell, the usion in the look te, he ever after AWD IPHB WISH. CO. : a cubic foot of No iron stoves ployed until Dr. still bears his jntry were done e hearth. Pine inter nights, and The water used by the creakmg 50 far as we can entury. There I of which a fire )on the hearth " arks would not >ugh the snow a «02 mile or so to borrow of a neighbor Oni,, was kep, .3™. „„,es, so™o T^lJy^l^l^rVJT''"'' .he.e„,per«urewa,atzero.a„y„ighJ„Ii::i,'" ""■' '"' -%-• o4o— '1^ 7»» SUBAtBRGBD CITY. over an oblong surface, near the middle of which i^alr"^ open, supposed to have been used fnr « ,,."''' 'f ^ "P^^e more eastern extremity lies a \!Z ^ ' assemblages. At the logical discoveries of our day." '' mterestmg archie CONCERNING '^4Y GOULD. the whole, the most incomprehensihle of New Yorkel H ' °" bodiment of the money-making facflly It wouU k , / "" ""• .0 tell what Gould i, worth. 1 know men who t^ ' '""'.<'"^»''°» the richest citizen in New York tT u ' *"= '" ^°-^'y he is no. worth over ^^JJZ::^ n^ot U^ r"="' rri rrtfyX-Lrzr- =-; -^ - "p.— r managed withoui;rsumsrdT:r„"r"' """'=""'•' •- quainted with his afiair, r,„; ". .*"'™'"^<' ™ ""e shall be ac ^ — -,,„ nsju ucrvco cautiot be other- i.'< lit m 308 5IHH BBAU5tIJPUli, THE WOMDBI^PUIi, wise than very wearing. It is said that he is troubled with sleepless- ness, and that many of his gigantic schemes are worked out in bed while he 18 lying awake. Occasionally he gets up at night, lights the gas walks the floor, and tears paper into bits. It may be remembered that Fisk testified on his investigation by the Congressional Commit- tee, respecting the transactions of Black Friday, that he observed Tav Gould tearing up paper, and throwing the pieces into the waste- basket, and that then he knew his partner had some work on hand. He scarcely ever smiles, and never lifts his voice above a conversa- tional tone He has no friends, so far as known; but a host of enemies. His life is in great speculations. His greatest crime in the eyes of his fellow-speculators is, that he succeeds in doing to Wall Street what Wall Street is perpetually trying, but in vain, to do to him — r^e Chicago Times. I ANECDO TE OF RO THSCHiLD. |fT is related of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, that, all day lonjr, at , ^ the Battle of Waterloo, he hung about the skirts of the two ^ armies, waiting to see how the battle turned. Toward night of T that memorable day, the clouds of smoke lifting, revealed the t rench army in full and disastrous retreat. Rothschild took in the situation at once. True to his instincts, he saw m the awful carnage only the shimmer of his gold. Chance had overcome the most heroic valor, the most stubborn resistance, the best- laid plans, and once more declared in the Hebrew's favor. He dashed into Brussels, whence a carriage in waiting whirled him into Ostend At dawn he stood on the Belgian coast, against which the sea was madly breakmg. He offered five, six, eight, ten hundred francs to be carried over to England. The mariners feared the storm; but a bolder fisherman, upon promise of twenty-five hundred francs, under- took the hazardous voyage. Before sunset Rothschild landed at Dover; and, engaging the swiftest horees, rode with the wind to Lo.,- don. What a superb special correspondent he would have made I The merchants and bankers were dejected; the funds were de- «HD 5IHB WIBB. pressed; a dense fog hun" over the ri.„. n , ._ their pockets. 0„ L .nlZl ^th^'jT '""'' '""■ '""'' '"•» Nathan appeared at the Stock"ELhan ° !' TT^ ""' «™P'"S He mentioned, confidentially, of co„re ^ hi. f ^'"'"' "' ^'°<""'- at the head of his vast armv of v^^ u . ""'""■' """ ^'ucher, Wellingtol^with his l;l iCe^tnlr' r"".'' "° ""'"= '-■ This was halftrue, and like an LTfMK ""disciplined force, to deceive. Rothschild wLt lade "Ir"?'!''""'"''^ ^""='"'"''' dolefid whisper spread as the l],! ^ "'''"'^ "'''^""''^ "'» The funds tumble!, ^e an llitf "^^m?""""'"^ "■"'"' "-^^here. before the simoo™ of cala Jtou '"epl. n'' T'! '''''"'■°" """'' pated in Lombard Street. The craftv' . T u""' ^"''"^ ""''"■ -ret agents, all the consols, bils nSltTrh' 'T:^'",'' "'""«h his Not before the afternoon of the It IT f ."'"''' ""^ '"°"'=>' ^'"■ battle-did the news of WdW oil '^ '"'^"'s''' """" "«" the the regular channels. R^h hX ,™te e" •' '"'"."'" ""■°''^'' before the glad tidings -vere ZZ V ^.'"^"""S^ half an hour crowd of greedy listener TteBo::^ '1"! '""""''" '"'" "> » went up more rapidly than it had gone doJn EnTli ^'r^""°" as well she might be-for she h«d!t„,„bl J";,„ h^ "" """ ''"PP^- in her history. When m„v.l„ 7 """'"• '"'° the greatest triumph Hebrew spec^ulator-^rrrdiroughtClr "'""'-"' '^ an unusual warmth of pressure It w " ^ ""' ""''^'■»'a"d- it was the imagina,T cLchZ'of ,L „ '"""""'' """^ '"= """""i AT,.- • 7D -^ "^"'"& *^*^ SIX millions more of o-niri --"» ■' f.i»te. ana rainL. L :^::::Tz:::::;^^::::;:''' --« ^ Bors yoURNAL. do„°°"'' " '"^' '" ^"■^ ""'• *-"' he win do as other men have andappt^t-^^dre :i^; ^trrrr^"'^'' r ""--. .0 sfh^:' "-^"^°' '*"'" *"• Jo"" »nd me saved our pie to tale Bib,^Ltr-Itt isf;:'5'i ^°" '''=, '"^ •"""-• ^'-oo-'i -y thinlc so mueh about thtags „ etc WiST '^ 1''" '■==°'^"' ""' •» perticler for tea. ^ "^"'' ' """' •■• !««" ^y- Nothing March 25— Forgit wliat did. March 37_Forgit what did. March 29_Played. March 3i_Forgit what did. April ,_Have dessided not .0 keep a journal enny more. • '*>! lift ^^'^^»-; f^ . j iii, g^ ASSUMED NAME OF AUTHORS. ASSUMED NA.MK. . , „ „ KEAL NAME. AclonBell a „ Agate „ ""^ ^'•°"t«. «'^ler of Charlotte. A L OE Whitelaw Reid. Americus..;; Miss Charlotte Tucker. Amv Lothrn.: I^r. FrancisLieber. ' '"■■■■■••" "*»6 Anna ij. Warner. «— -^ri^^^"'" ■ !h1 i;. li! ®^* '^"B BBAUltlPUL, »HHB WONDBI^PUIi. ASSUMED NAME. REAL NAMB. ' American Girl Abroad MUs Tfafton Artemu. Ward charles F. Browne. AsaTrenchard He.iry Watterson. t"" 5^*^ Maria J. Macin.osh. ^""^^"'•J' Mary A. Lathburjr. ^"■■""^'^ A.C.Barne.. Ben7ul """"" ^'*^"" ^""^•' P'"'^**'-- p!T" ^^" n * '. J Benjamin, Austin and Lyman Abbott ^,';"°P'^"« Samuel Austin AlMbone. ^'V^ Charles H. Smith. I'^^'^Z^ Thomas F. Donnelly. ^°«^°"^«'-'^ Roberts. Coffin. p7;"t; Charles Dickens. Brick Pomeroy Mark M. Pomeroy. b"'^^^ Rev. Matthew Hale Smith. ^"'^""^'°" Robert Saunders. Christopher Crowfield Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chrystal Croftangry , .sir Walter Sco't. J'^'"'''®'-- Mrs. Caroline Barnard. Country Parson A. K. H. Boyd Cousin Alice Mrs. Alice B. Haven. Cousin Kate Catherine D. Bell. ^"7" ^*" Charlotte Bronte (Mrs. Nkhols). ^°'°''" Miss Dickson. ^ Dunn Browne Rev. Samuel FIske. p^^" ^^ S; *, ^"' ^"""^ ^- E- N. Southworth. Edmund KIrke ja^es Roberts Gilmore. Eleanor KIrke Mrs. Nolly Ames ^"* • Charles Lamb ^JP,^''^''"; Matthew D. Landon. Elizabeth Wetherell Susan Warner. Ella Rodman Mrs. Eliza Rodman. ^"'«S«" Emily Bronte. Ettrick Shepherd James Hogg. Eugene Pomeroy Thomas F. Donnelly Falconbridge Jonathan F. Kelly Fanny Fern ^ife of James Parton and iister of N. P Willis tanny Forester Emily C. Judson. Fat Contributor A.M. Griswold Florence Percy Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Gail Hamilton Miss Mary Abigail Dodge, of Hamilton Gath, also Laertes ; George Alfred Townsend Abbott. N. P. WilUs. ill ton. AHD 5IHB Wise. tI3 ASSUMED NAME. r^AL NAME. Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving. ' St p ;°!^\ ^"- ^«'-'"" J^^^*" Cross. George Fltzdoodle WiUlam Makepeace Thackeray. Hr?Sr::::::::::;;:::-s^?^:;r^^'-^- Harry Hazell Justin Jones. Hesba Stretton Miss Hannah Smith. C"'^''"'*="» De Witt Clinton. UnlZm'; W,n. Geo. Vernon Harcourt Hosea Bigelow james Russell Lowell. „ ^"^•••. Mordecal Manuel Noah. Howard Glyndon Laura C. Redden. "yPf"°" Josiah Qulncy. l^^'^'y^^ Donald G. Mitchell. IZIT" Rev. S.IrenaeusS. Prime, D.D. f'****^ William Gilmore Simms. f'l"^' J. Hain Friswell. Jay Charlton j. q Goldsmith. iohn rinilf;-;, ^"^ J'""'« Cunningham Croly. John Challthill izaak Walton. JohnDarby J. C. Garretson J°hnPaul C.H.Webb. John Phoenix, Gentleman George H. Derby Josh Billings Henry W. Shaw.* Kate Campbell j^ne Elizabeth Lincoln. K.N.Pepper James M. Morris. b Tr^^'-', Rev. Lyman Abbott. ^"^ Jr^" Samuel L. Clemens. ^« A'^'er Charles H. Clark. Minnie Myrtle Miss Anna C.Johnson. ^'"^°°f Miss Mary A. E. Wager. ^•Q"^'^ Charles B. Lewis. Mrs. Partington B. P. Shillaber. JJ'J- J"° ••• Joseph Howard. S'^ ^"f "?" Edward Z. C. Judson. NymCrinkle a. C. Wheeler. " ?!i ^nt^^"*" G^°- W*"- C«rtl8. ^I^,^^'''"^' R.Watson Gilder. r,r ?.*' Francis Alexander Durivairc. °''^^'- ^Pt'<= William Taylor Adams. Ml THH BBAUmiPUL, IPHB WONDBl^PUIi, ASSUMED NAME. REAL NAME. Orpheus C. Kerr Robert H. Newell. Ou'da LouUa De La Rame. Owen Meredith Lord Lytton. Parnon Brownlow William Gunnaway Brownlow. Paul Creyton t. j. Trowbridge. Pen Holder lev. Edward Eggleston. Perdita Mrs. Mary Robinson. Peter Parley S. G. Goodrich. Petroleum V. Nasby D. R. Locke. Phoenix Sir Henry Martin. Poor Richard Benjamin Franklin. Porte Crayon David H. Strother. Private Miles O'Reilly Charles G. Halpine. Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B.Mcirtimer M. (Thompson Runny mede Lord Beaconsfield. , SaxeHolm Miss Rush Ellis. Shirley Dare Miss Susan Dunning. Sophie May Mrs Eckerson. Sophie Sparkle Jennie E. Hicks. Susan Coolidge Miss Woolsey. Timothy Titcomb Dr. J. G. Holland. Veteran Observer E. D. Mansfield. Walter Maynard William Beale. Warhawk William Palmer. Warrington W. P. Robinson. Warwick F. O. Otterson. #-#^ ^ BRILUANT RBCBPTION, It is well known that the late William H. Seward, in his journey around the world, was the recipient of many distinguished honors. Miss Olive Risley Seward, his daughter, and a member of his com- pany, gives the following account of their reception at Putteeala, in British India: The presentations being over, a multitude of servants, « that no man in haste could number," came, bearing silver trays on their heads, filled with India fabrigs of muslins, cambrics, cashmeres, silks, and jewels, and laid the whole at Mr. Seward's feet, the trays covering twenty feet square on the floor. The Prince, with infinite gravity, AMD IPHE WrSB. 8ti invited Mr. Seward to accept this "small and unworthy collection," ns a token of His Highness' respect and affection. Mr. Seward, having been previously instructed, touched with his finger the simplest article, a turban scarf of purple interwoven with gold thread. The trays and their bearers immediately disappeared, but only to be re- placed by a similar display, no less costiv and elegant. These treas- ures were laid at the feet of one of the ladies, who was asked to accept this "poor ^rash." In accordance with an intimation through an officer, she touched a cashmere shawl. The train and merchandise disappeared, and the third and equal presentation was made to the second lady, who in like manner touched a shawl. 1 h-., "rince, who had looked on with an air of supreme indifferenc to the ^ hole pro- ceeding, then said to Mr. Seward, " I have a great n-.-iy oU .:r things In the palace, wi.ich I should like to present to yv- but . will not take up your time to look at them." Then, thank...g Mr. SeWard and the ladies for having accepted these " unworthy trifles," he, in u loud voice, and with an imperious manner, directed that all the articles which had been thus displayed and offered to us, should be conveyed to Mr. Seward's palace, and delivered to his servants. For our part, we are quite sure that « these unworthy trifles " would have been sufficient to stock an Indian bazar in New York. ABSENCE OP MiND. Every one has heard the old story of the silent man, who, riding over a bridge, asked his servant if he liked eg^s? to which the sei-. vant answered, "Yes." Notliing more passed till the next year, when, riding over the same bridge, he turned to his servant and said, "How?" "Poached, sir," was the immediate answer. Sidney Smith cites two instances of absence of mind, which struck his fancy: "I heard of a clergyman who went jogging a.ong the road till he came to a turnpike: " What is to pay?" « Pay, sir, for what!" asked the turnpike man. " Why, for my horse, to be sure." « Your horse, sir? What horse? There is no horse, sir!" "No horse? God bless me," said he, suddenly looking between his legs, « I thought I was on horseback." Lord Dudley was one of the most absent-minded men SI« THE BBAUUIHUL, UHE WOHDBI^POIi, I think I ever met in society. One day he met me in the street and .nvued me to meet myself. "Dine with me to-day" said he T„nd1 w, ge S,d„ey Smith to meet you." I admitted'^l'be tcmpmtio™ he held out to me, but said I was engaged to meet him elsewhere. D Israel, says, it has been told of a modem astronomer, that one Z7f7'^ "''" ';° "" withdrawing to his chamber, the brigr ^ess of the heaven, showed a phenomenon. He passed the whole mght m observrng .t, and when they came to him early in the mom' mg, and found hm in the same attitude, he said, like one whThTd be « CO eclmg h,s thoughts for a few moments : « It must! thus but I w,ll go to bed before it is too late." He had gazed the en,"e' night in meditation, and was not aware of it. The Count De Brancas was one d.-,y reading in his study when a nurse brought in a little infant; he put down his book, took up "he ht 'rlTT' " ""■"■""g'y- A friend came in, and Brfncas threw the baby down on the table, thinking it was a book. A S crying announced his mistake.— .Se&c/crf. U^Jir CAN BB WHAT HB PLBASBS. The late Lord Beaconsfield, in an address before the Literarv and Scientific Institution of London, in ,844, his early life, gave ut er- Mcj to these impressive words: "Mancaa i« what hepleasef; every one of you can be exactlv We do not know what the position was that D'Israeli here refers o bat we do know that he attained to the highest position possible to any man >n England. He had much to contend with; he^ isajew' out, bv the mere power c; his will, he ejected the Jew blood from his' vems. and pumped the blue blood of England inl and u.en, w'h a dar.ng and subhme effrontery, he climbed into the seat next to the gr. . wh,te throne o^ the Queen herself. It may be interesting, to know whether, a^n the course of his long ad eminently succ^fid puolxc hfe, he had any occasion to modify the somewhat remarkable %%'' U.Y' AND OIHE WISE. 8tt statement he made in 1844. The following, taken from his very latest work, Bndymion, published in 1881, just before his death, shows that he had not: « I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being, with a settled purpose, musi accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence for its fulfill- ment." — O»»0^»«0~' QUEER NAMES, "Neal & Pray" was the title of a house in New England, of which both members were anything but religiously inclined. « Robb . & Steel " was another firm, in which both members were noted for their honorable character— quite as much as « Wright & Justice," who were their neighbore. « U. Ketchum & I. Cheatham " is a weu- known old incongruity; but the marriage of Benjamin Bird, aged sixty, to Julia Chaff, aged twenty, showing that «an old bird may be caught by chaflf," is not so familiar; nor is the marriage of George Virtue to Susan Vice. These collections of familiar names are « odd " enough; and so it is when we find in a newspaper paragraph that John Makepeace has been arrested for instigating a riot, or when Par- son Playfair is charged with cheating at cards. « Poor & Proud " is the name of a Philadelphia firm. PEN AND INK SKETCHES OF HENRY CLAY, In person. Clay was tall and commanding, being six feet and one inch in stature, and was noted for the erect appearance he presented, whether standing, walking, or talking. The most striking features of his countenance were a high forehead, a prominent nose, an uncom- monly large mou^h, and blue eyes, which, though not particulariy expressive when in repose, had an electrical appearance when kin- died. His voice was one of extraordinary compass, melody and power. From the « deep and dreadful sub-bass of the organ," to the '' "^-rr -j-i 113 iii^iiCBt xLcy, iiUtUiy a pipe Oi" siup was f it If )' ll' I**; L I I* .1 1 i SIS WHS BBAUWIFUli, 5iHB WONDBI^PIIL, wanting. Like all magical voices, it had the faculty of imparting to the most familiar and commonplace expressions an inexpressible fas- cination. Probably no orator ever lived who, when speaking on a great occasion, was more completely absorbed in his theme. "I do not know how it is with others," he once said, "but, on such occa- sions, I seem to be unconscious of the external world. Wholly engrossed by the subject before me, I lose all sense of personal iden- tity, of time, or of surrounding objects." When Clay had acquired a national fame, a plain old country gentleman gave the following toast at a Fourthof July dinner: "Henry Clay,— He and I were born close to the Slashes of old Hanover. He worked barefooted, and so did I; he went to mill, and so did I; he was good to his mamma, and so was I. I know him like a book, and love him like a brother."— Political Orators, ' i|'i I*' 4 SAILING OVER BURIED NATIONS, t i The whole channel of the Mediterranean must be strewed with human bones, Carthagenians, Syrians, Egyptians, Sidonians, Per- 8if.ns, Greeks and Romans,— there they lie, side by side, beneath the eternal waters, and the modern ship that fetches freight from Alexan- dria, sails in its whole course over buried nations. It may be the cor- ruption of the dead that now adds brightness to the phosphorescence of the waves. All toid me in the East that a superstition exists on this subject, which represents the spirits of the departed as hovering, whether on land or water, over the spots where ruins of their taber* nacles are found; so that in plowing the Mediterranean, we sail through armies of ghosts more multitudinous than the waves. These patient spirits sometimes ride on the foam, and at other times repose in those delicious little hollows which look lik excavated emeralds between the crests of the waves. It is their union and thronging together, say the Orientals, that constitutes the phosphorescence of the sea; for wherever there is light, the billows flash with the luminous- ness of vanished generations, that concentrate, as it were, the starlight on their wings. — Anonymous, AND >ItHE Wise. 919 CONCERNING ROCBR WIIUAMS. Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, was banished from the Colony of Massachusetts in i634,_driven in the dead of winter into the dense and desolate forests, by the Puritans, for contending for freedom of conscience in religious matters, and for other and similar heretical notions. « It is strange," says Ridpath, " that the very men who had so recently, through perils by sea and land, escaped with only their lives, to find religious freedom in another continent, should have begun their career with intolerance and proscription.'^: CONCBRNtNC LA TUDB. La Tude, a young Frenchman, for a trifling offence was seized and thrown into prison by order of the cruel and vindictive woman, the Madame de Pompadour. There he remained until her death, in 1764. Two years before (1762) he wrote the heartless woman as follows: « I have suffered fourteen years; let all be buried forever in the blood of Jesus." She remained inflexible. This young French- njan remained almost continuously in prison for thirty-five years. The story of his prison life, and his various attempts at escape, form one of the most thrilling chapters in French history. '—- «-4 — °» . » !< ■ ■ CARLYLB AND HiS BURNBD BOOK. When Thomas Carlyle, just now (i88i) buried under English sn' ^ and English holly, was writing his famous history of the French Revolution, and when he had the first volume ready for the printer's hands, he one day loaned the manuscript to John vStuart Mill, his inti- mate and admiring friend. This friend's servant girl, seeing the pile on the library floor one day, and wanting some kindling, unceremo- niously crammed the whole of it into the stove, and set fire to it. Thuc the priceless labor of many years was in a few moments swept away. When Carlyle heard of it, from the mouth of Mill himself, his spirit jjiv vv»»iWw aisa^ici. iSut iiis tears washed •— * ■*-"'w %vw «* *« %4**\9W«. « ru^tesijtatltl r 1 I,. 8S0 nJHB BBAU»niPUIi, ?nHB WONDBI^PlIIi. out his weakness, and with a brave heart he set to work to i;epair the almoht iireparable loss. He relates of himself that, when he first began the re-writing, and feeling still the terrible blow he had received, he was one day seated b}' the window, watching some masons at work on a building opposite. He noticed how, by simply putting one brick upon another, the huge structure finally rose. The thought gave him fresh courage, and so he pressed on, putting one line upon another, until the work was completed. And hence we have to-day the second creation of that important work, the French Revolution, really better than the first. .ii» MORE ABOUT THE BURNED BOOK. Carlyle gives us, in his own language, an account of what followed when Mill himself came to tell them of the great loss of the destruc- tion of the manuscript: How well do I still remember that night when he came to tell us, pale as Hector's ghost, that my unfortunate first volume was burnt. It was like half-sentence of death to us both, and we had to pretend to take it lightly, so dismal and ghastly was his horror, and try to talk of other matters. He staid three mortal hours or so; his departure was quite a relief to us. Oh, the burst of sympathy my poor darling then gave me, flinging her arms round my neck, and openly lament- ing, condoling, and encouraging, like a nobler, better self! Under heaven is nothihg beautifuler. We sat talking till late. ' Shall be written again,' my fixed word and resolution to her. Which proved to be such a task as I never tried before or since. I wrote out * Feast of Pikes,' and then went at it. Found it fairly impossible for about a fortnight; passed three weeks reading Marry att's novels, tried cautiously, as on ice paper-thin, once more; and, in short, had a job moie like breaking my heart than any other in my experience. . . . Mill was penitently liberal; seril me ^200 in a dny or two, of which I kept JCick), actual cost of house while I had written burnt volum' ; upon which he bought me ' Biographic Universelle,' which I got bound, and still have. Wish I could find a way of getting the now much macerated, changed and fanaticised 'John Stuart Mill * to take the £100 back: hut I tiear there is no wav." AHD 5iHd WISE. a^{ CURIOUS THINGS ABOUT LONDON. It numbers within its boundaries 4,764,3,2 people. It contains more country. born persons tiian the counties of Devon and Glr tester combined, or 37 per cent, of its entire population. Every four min- utes a birth takes place in the metropolis, and every six minutes a death. There are added to the population 205 persons every day, and 75,000 annually. It has mmy thousand miles of streets, and on an average, 28 miles of new streets are opened, and 9,000 new. houses built every year. It comprises upward of 100,000 foreigners from every part of tl>e globe. It contains more Roman citizens than Rome Itself; more Jews than the whole of Palestine; more Irish than Bel- fast; more Scotchmen than Aberdeen, and more Welshmen than Cardiff. Its gin palaces and beer shops are so numerous that their ' frontages, if placed side by side, would stretch from Charing Cross to Chichester, a distance of 62 miles. ^®e>- Tub Earthquake Terror op //j'o. jF the memorable incidents conneted with the Foundry, the earthquake of 1750 is still recorded. On the 8th Feb- ruary all London rocked to and fro with a strong convulsion, and the people rushed into the streets to avoid being buried in the tottering houses. A month later, when Charles Wesley was holding the 5 o'clock morning service at the Foundry Chapel, a far more violent shock passed beneath the city. The earth moved westward and eastward, and then westward again, followed by a loud noise like thunder. Wesley had just given out his text when the Foundry was shaken violently, as if the roof would fall. The women and children cried out, but the preacher, changing his text, read aloud, " Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be moved," etc., and soon filled his audience with his own unshaken cou-age. Tae general terror rose almost to madness when an insane prophet declared that on the 4th of April another earthauake would l«v.i i^ondon and Westminster to the dust. A wild excitement raged .! Ilii I ill 82S ^HB BBAU!inPUL. IFHB WOnDCI^FUIf, r through the city as the fatal day npp,. cried. Thousands fled to the country. Women and children ran .a.'ough the streets on the night before the 4th of April, weeping and lamenting. London looked like a city sacked and ruined. Every open space was illied through the anxious night with mjiiltitudes of the rich and pooi., awaiting the expected shock. The churches were crowded '-vith unaccustomed worshipers. Whitefield stood up in Hyde Park at midnight, under an inclement sky, and spoke with his ponorous voice to a a uncotmted multitude; and Charles Wesley, surrounr'.ed by immense throngs tit the Foundry, preached a "writ'ccn" sermon and chanted oia;; inspii- ing hymns. The next day passed away in quiet. The people came back to their houses, and Lorvdon has never sisice felt so un.versal a terror as that of the year of tha earthquuu;': — Eu^^ine Laiurence^ in Harper* s Magazine for February. 'i |i ^i ' !i H 1? Tim PRESIDENTS WE HAVE HAD, 1. George VV'ishington — 1789 to 1797 — 3 years. 2. John Adam^:— 1797 to iSoi- 4 years. 3. Thomas Jeffe.;-?n — iSoi to i(Soo — 8 years. 4. James Madison- 1809 to 1817 — 8 years. 5. James Monroe — 1817 to 1825 — 8 years. 6. John Quincy Adams — 1825 to 1829 — 4 years. 7. Andrew Jackson — 1829 to 1837 — 8 years. 8. Martin Van Buren — 1837 to 1841 — \ years. 9. William Henry Harrison — 1841 — i month, succeeded by the then Vice-President. 10. John'Tyler — 1841 to 1845 — 3 years and 11 months. 11. James K. Polk — 1845 to 1849 — 4 years. 12. Zachary Taylor — 1849 to 1850 — i year and 4 months. Dy- ing, he was succeeded by the tlien Vice-President. 13. Millard Fillmore — 185010 1853 — 2 years and 8 months. 14. Franklin Pierce — 1853 to 1857 — ^4 years. 15. James Buchanan — 1857 to 1861 — 4 years. Dying, he was fr» Ar>ril ._ — ^ tS/^C A vfinra nnrl t- AHD JTHB WISH, i 333 month. Being assassinated, he was succeeded by the then Vice- Prefiident. j;. .\ndr-w Johnsoii_i865 to 1869-3 years and 1 1 months. 18. Uly..!,cs S. Grant —1869 to 1877—8 years. 19. Ruthvrlord B. Hayes— 1877 to 1881—4 years, 3o„ Jim.: \. Garfield-1881 to July 2, 1881— 4 months. Being assassinated, lie was succeeded by the then Vice-President, 21. Chester A. Arthur— Twenty-first President of the United States. ki i SALARIES ^ OF SOME U. S. OFFICERS. The President, $50,000; Cabinet, head of each deoartment, $S,ooo; President's Private Secretary, $3,250; Vice-President, $8,000; United States Senators, $5,000 each, with mileage, 20 cents per mile, stationery, $125; franking privilege and expenses on committees; Speaker of the House of Representatives, $8,000; each Representa- tive, $5,000; United States Treasurer, $6,000; Chief-Justice of the United States Supreme Court, $10,500; eight Associate-Justices, each, $10,000. The highest salary paid to the Governor of a State is $10,000, which amount is received by the Governors of New York and Pennsylvania only; Michigan, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, each pays its Governor but $1,000 salary. f^nrs nnn T i THE TIMIDITY OF ORATORS, A writer of the Fortnightly Review asks whether artists, and especially orators, are peculiarly liable to the sensation of pain and to fear. He thinks that they are, and attributes it to an unusually sensi. tive organization. Peel is believed to have owed his death to being unable to bear an operation which a less sensitive man might have borne. An eminent operator described Bishop Wilberforce as a "bundle of nerves," and as the most sensitive patient he had ever known. Orators, as a rule, show a painful anxiety about their own speeches, and toilsome uneasiness seems a condition of their success. A ji.uiui cnuisel unce congratulated Sir William FoUet on his perfect 8^4 HIHB BBAU>KIFIUL, >IIHB WONDBI^FUIi, composure in prospect of a great case. Sir William merely asked his friend to feel his hand, which was wet with anxiety. The late Lord Derby said that his principal speeches cost him two sleepless nights — one in which he was thinking what to say, the other in which he was lamenting what he might have said better. Cicero, according to Plutarch, «♦ not only wanted courage in arms, but in his speaking also; he began timidly, and in many cases, he scarcely left off trembling and shaking even when he got thoroughly into the current and sub- stance of his speech." POWER AND INFLUENCE OF THE ORATOR. When in 1761, James Otis,ina Boston popular assembly, denounced the British Writs of Assistance, his hearers were hurried away resist- lessly, on the torrent of his impetuous speech. When he had con- cluded, every man, we are told, of the vast assembly, went away resolved to take up arms against the illegality. When Patrick Henry pleaded the tobacco case "against the parsons," in 1758, it is said that the people might have been seen in every part of the house, on the benches, in the aisles, and in the windows, hushed in death-like still- ness, and bending eagerly forward to catch the magic tones of the speaker. The jury were so bewildered as to lose sight of the legis- lative enactments on which the plaintiffs relied; the court lost the equipoise of its judgment, and refused a new trial; and the people, who could scarcely keep their hands off their champion after he had closed his harangue, no sooner saw that he was victoiious, than they seized him at the bar, and, in spite of his own efforts, and the con- tinued cry of "Order!" from the sheriff and the court, bore him out of the court-house, and, raising him on their shoulders, carrietl him about the yard, in a kind of electioneering triumph. When the same great orator concluded his well-known speech in March, 1775, in behalf of American independence, "no murmur of applause followed," says his biographer; " the effect was too deep. After the trance of a moment, several members of the assembly started from their seats. The crv, lo arms! seen^d to quiver on every lip, and glance from ever 3 V' ^•^- \^ t %/tftf\^i UTiU. X^T :ttvr AND IHHB WISH. as6 ji BRAVE WORKMAN. STORY of remarkable self-control is told by the London Builder^ of a slater named M. A. Karis, a Belgian. This man was engaged with a companion in fixing a lightning conductor on the summit of a church steeple at Ville-Sur- Ourthe, Belgium. Karis was supporting the other man upon his shoulders, and this workman accidentally spilt some molten lead upon the other's fore-arm. The pain, of course, was intense, but knowing that the slightest movement might precipitate his com- panion into the street, Karis remained motionless while it burned its way into the flesh. The men were at a height of seventy feet from the ground. PUALARIS' BULL, Perillus, an Athenian, cast a brazen bull for Phalaris, the tyrant of Sicily, which was constructed so that when it was heated and oflfenders put into it, their cries seemed not like those of human beings, but like the roaring of a bull. When he went to Phalaris, in the hope of being recompensed for so admirable a refinement of cruelty, the tyrant at once ordered him to be thrown into the bull, that he might show the excellence of his own invention. A THRILLING INCIDENT. The following incident occurred during a general review of the Austrian cavalry a few months ago: Not far from where 30,000 cavalry were in line, a little child,— a girl of not more than four years —standing in the front row of spectators, either from fright, or some other cause, rushed out into the open field just as a squadron of hus- iyi' 82a THE BEAUTIFUL, THE WOHDBI^PUL, ears can swccjiin^? around iVom tlie main body. They made the detour for the purpose of saluting the Empress, whose carriage was drawn up in that part of the parade ground. Down came the flying squadron, charging at a mad gallop,— down directly upon the child. The mother was paralyzed, as were others, for ther-^ \ • mo res- cue from the line of spectators. The Empress ff ,, ot hor- ror, for the child's destruction seemed inevitabv, -UmU such terrible destruction— the trampling to death by a thousaiu' iron hoofs. Directly under the feet of the horse was the little one — another instant must seal her doom — when a stalwart hussar, who was in the front line, without slackening his speed or loosening his hold, threw hii over by the side of his horse's neck, sc'zed and lifted the child, and placed it with safety upon his saddle-bow, and this he did without changing his pace, or breaking the correct alignment of the squadron. Ten thousand voices hailed with rapturous applause the gallant deed, and other' thousands applauded wh< n tiity knew. Two women there were who could only sob forth thei ;^M-atitude in broken accents,— the mother and the Empress. A proud aii(' happy moment it must have been to the hussar when his Emperor, taking from his own breast the richly-enameled cross of the order pf Maria Theresa, hung it upon the breast of his brave and gallant trooper. — Selected. A LBCTURB NOT IN THE STASi COITRSB, The following is a verbatim report of a lecture, given hy a colored woman to her young hopeful, on the street near the reside- re of the Hon. Charles Sumner: » Ephrahem, come to your mudiler, now whar y bin?" " Playi' wid de white folks' chillun." "You is, eh! See .jyer, chile, you broke yer ole mudder's heart, and bring her gray hairs in sorrow to de grave wid yer recklumness an' cjrryings on id .. m assoayshun . Habn't I raised you up in de way you should ought to go? " « Yes- sum." "Habn't I bin kine an' tender with you, an' treatcl you like my own chile, which you is?" " Yessum." « Habn't I reezenr' vid you, and prayed wid you, and deplored de good Lord to wrap y< in his buz/.um?" " Yessum." "An' ain't I yer natoral detecter an ir- AND IPHB WISB. ftSZ (leen foMe law?" "Ycssum/' "Weil, den, do you 'spoge r«e gwyne tohabyer morals ruptured by de white trash? No, sah! You git in de house dis instep; on' if I eher cotcli you mundicatin' wid de white trash any mo', fo» the Lord, nigger, I'll brealc yer black head wid a brick I" "Yessum." HOBSON'S CHOICE. Thomas Hobsou was a carrier at Cambridge, England, and own- ing horses, he used to let them to students. He was a very hun)ane mun, and made a rule that every horse should have a rcl 4 "1 11 ( a ^^-H- RlStNG UKB PHGSNIX FROM HBR ASHBS, There are few that have not heard this illustration manv times in sermons, poems, etc. Who or what was Phoenix? It is needless to say the story belongs to an age of fables. The story goes that the Phffinix was a bird about the size of an eagle, with plumage of mar- velous beauty, a coxcomb under its neck, and a crest upon its head. Five hundred years it lived; then the priest of the temple kindled a fire of spices, in which the bird, weary of life, alighted and was con- sumed. On the second day after a small worm appeared among the ashes, and from this, on the third day, the Phoenix rose again, more beautifiri than ever,— a symbol of the resurrection of the human body. All this was at Heliopolis, Egypt. Now you have the whole story. Stonewall Jackson's last words: " Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." On the famous monument of Luther at Worms, are carved these words, which were the declaration of Luther at the famous diet: « Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen." A country hardware merchant undertook to order from the city for his neighbor, the tailor, two useful implements. " Send me two tailor's geese," he wrote. That, he thought, was plainly wrong, and he tore up the order. « Sei^d me two gooses for a tailor," was his next formula. But after the letter was sealed and stamped, his mind misgave him, and he tore it open again. The third time he got it right beyond a doubt. " Send me one tailor's goose. Yours, etc., John Doe. P. S.— Send me another just like it." ,.,» 8S0 ^HE BEAUmFUL, IPHE VIOKDE^mh, CoBur de Lion._A surname given to Richard F .f T7 , , account of his dauntless courage, about A. D. U9I ' "^"''"'' ^" Emerald Isle.— A name sometimes P-iv^n f« t 1 1 England. Hastings, m 1066, became the sovereign of married her. "^ ""= ''""g'"" of a beggar, and immediate direction of the gods. '*'''''" ''"^ .«un,ly rosericed ,o the U.^Stl; """""^ °' *= '^™ '= fi-on,.hep;o„Har:::iLi„?fr„:-i,^^^^^^^ """"5*°- '- 4.0. a.ed beauty a„d i.vee.,.; o^W, ^Lt.lr ""°""' "' "= """^■ tion „f Athens in the J ', 'pH Ta^ "'" '^'"-"r '" '"^ ^"""- «:encrai piam of Attica, surrounded by hills or AND THE WISE. 331 lofty mountains on every side but the so«th,_where it is open to the sea~and to the gorgeous, rosy and pmple tints in which they are bathed by nsnig and setting sun. Black Monday.~A memorable Easter Monday in i^ci, very dark and misty A great deal of hail fell, and the cold was so extreme that many died from its effects. The name afterward came to be applied to the Monday after Easter of each year. Beatrice—The Christian name of a young Florentine lady of the Illustrious family of Portinari, for whom the poet Dante conceived a strong but purely Platonic affection, and whom he represents, in the Divuia Commedia," as his guide through Paradise. Bridge of Sigh8.-The name popularly given to the covered passage-way which connects the Doge's palace, in Venice, with the state prisons, from the circumstance that the condemned prisoners were transported over this bridge, from the hall of judgment to the place of execution. Bloody Mary._A name commonly given to Mary, a Roman Cath- olic Queen of England, whose reign is distinguished for the sanc^uin- ary persecutio.is of the adherents of the Church of England, no fewer than 200 persons having perished at the stake within the space of four years, for their attachment to the reformed doctrines. Bride of the Sea.-A poetical name of Venice, having its origin m the ancient ceremony of the espousal of the Adriatic, during which the Doge, in the presence of the courtiers, and amid Jrcumstances of great splendor, threw a ring into the sea, uttering the words « De. sponsamus te, mare, in signum veri ferpetuique dominiir (VVe wed thee, O sea I in sign of a true and perpetual dominion.) City of Magnificent Di8tance8._A popular designation given to the city of Washington, the capital of the United States, which is laid out on a very large scale, being intended to cover a space four and a ha f miles long, and two miles and a half broad, or eleven square miles. The entire site is traversed by two sets of streets from 70 to 8«| BJHB BBAUntlPUIi, JPHB WONDBI^PUL, loo feet wide, at right angles to one another, the whole again inter- sected obliquely by fifteen avenues from 130 to 160 feet wiilas Andrus), i^arliest Laws The ancient em and som- ipital Laws," f osaic law. ,>J y^ INCLUDING *l^j WJIR JREI6JVIIN6 BB^aWIEjS 0F 5FJJB jSE?!, AND WOJ^DEF(? IJ^ THE gTARRY HEAVEJ^g. lili I^^JBl^jjJ^^^^^^^^^jyjiiijim^^ it^^^;Sr£^c:j^{^:^^^^ SOME JPST NOTABLE GIvES. €-1 -a£3en9{» ^' ^ i^i lAMMOTH CAVE.— This is the largest known cave in the world. It is in Edmonson Co., Ky., on the left bank of ¥^p?^ Cicen River. It consists of a series of caverns, and has ^ fslfs^l been explored to a distance of ten miles. In this cavern is Echo River, which is crossed by a boat. Plenty of fish are found in the river, but the creatures are without eyes, there being not the least gleam of light within the cave, and hence no need of eyes. A voyage of a few hundred yards on Echo River, which winds and branches through the gloomy expanse, takes the visitor into a fairy land of labyrinths, Hashing in the light of the torches, and with stalactites and stalagmites of every conceivable shape. Throughout its whole length the cave seems a mystery of buried palace^ and magic haunts, not equaled in any other portion of the globe. Among Oliver wonderful features are th. .-^eserted Chambers, containing many deep and dangerous pits, the more frightful for the chaos of darkness that enwraps them ; also the Side-saddle Pit, and the Covered Pit, the latter 15 feet in diameter, and nearly covered by a thin plate of rock. By putting the ear to the edge, the sound of fallinPHB WOKDBI^PlHi, portion of them died, and the rest lived only a few days after coming out. From dwelling in darkness so long, it is said that the puoils of their eyes had expanded until the iris had become invisible. LUBAY CAVEBNS.— These marvelous subterranean caverns m Virginia bear numerous evidences of having been frequented by a pre- historic race; but whether they were Norsemen or Red Men, we have no sufficient means for determining, although many bones, and recently one whole skeleton of a male person, which may eventually throw some light upon the subject, have been discovered. The interior of many of the chambers are lined with smoke, and large patches of the stalagmites have been removed from the floor to make it smooth and more easily used. But everything indicates that a long, long period of time— perhaps many hundreds of years— have elapsed since voices resounded through those silent halls. The cave abounds in singular and interesting objects, deposited from the dripping waters. One stalactite, called the Empress Column, is a pure white mass of alabas- ter, 70 feet high, reaching to the roof. Another pendant formation, nearly equal to the Empress Column in length, vibrates for a moment on being struck, and one of the rooms, termed the Cathedral, has a series of 20 slender columns, which sound part of a scale on being struck successively. This is called the organ. FINGAL'S CAVE.— Who does not remember to have seen crude pictures of it in the old school geographies? and still the interest with which it has always been regarded, continues unbroken. This famous natural grotto is on the Island of Staffa, on the southwest coast of Scotland. It is a cave of the sea. The formation consists of loft\- basaltic columns, which look as if they might have been chiseled by the hand of man, in countless ages of patient toil, and fashioned and placed as here we see them. The cave extends inward from the shore line about 225 feet, and in low water is lighted from without through- out its whole length. At the mouth it has a breadth of 42 feet, whtch diminishes to 22 feet at the extreme end. The entrance describes an arlmost perfect Gothic arch, and the columns which form the sides are of enormous size. Between the numberless pillars are stalactites of wondeifui beauty. A MAGNETIC CAVB.-A California correspondent thus speaks after coming the puoils of le. n caverns in ited by a pre- den, we have , and recently tually throw e interior of Itches of the smooth and , long period since voices in singular aters. One ss of alabas- t formation, »r a moment ledral, has a ale on being B seen crude nterest with rhis famous est coast of sts of lofty chiseled by ihioned and im the shore ut through- feet, which lescribes an he sides are alactites of :hus speaks ASO IHE WISE!. 88{ of the cave which has recently been discovered in ,h« State, the wall, of which contain loadstones : As we entered the chamber, which is lined with a brownish black ore, all the party were more or less affected in a . diar way w ich son,e descnbed as a chill along the spinal column, .at wllh sc'mel to me n,ore like the ..aura" one feel, when he brings hL faeT, ' close proxn„,.y to an electric machine in vigorous acti'on. The e w ^ -at lea t so ,t seamed ,o me_a slight odor of o^one i„ the air, whkh cons,denng the current theory of the close connection of maCet sm w..h electncty might have been expected. I„ walking aloC h" rock ,„ such a way as completely to overturn it, bringin.. its south pole where ,ts north had been in contact with the norTh Lie j another It was nnraediately repelled_rebounded_to a distance of veral feet, w„h considerable force, but it must be remembered t, at .1- floor was sl,p,M=ry with ooze, which had all the effect of oil. 0„e of the party had taken a gun into the cave, which, of course, he carried w..h .ts muzzle toward the floor. Its ramrod was withdr wn by I e magnetre force, and, to the surprise of us all, stood upright on the ground When struck on one side it would fall over to U,e othe but mstantly snap back ; but it was easily taken up and replaced in pos ion The watches of all the party were found, on emerging from the av" ave stopped while in it A knife to.,«, to the Lf remained fixed there An expenment which I afterward wished I had tried would have been to feel the pulses of the party to see what effect, if anTthe peculiarity of the situation had on the human body. THE LAEGEST OAVEHN IN THE V/OBLD.-At the Hart- ford meenng of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Mr. Porter C. Bliss, late Secretary of the Legation in Mex co gave a description of the Cave of Cacahuamilpa, which, acco^HTto h^ statement is the largest cavern in the world. It includes a serie! ' of b oad and lofty halls, with lateral passages, extending upon the same ins TheTn""b*T'' '"i"" "" '''"' "' " '""^ "»«^ °f " ""'■ ams. The halls abound in colossal stalactites and stalagmites, of every conceivable and grotesque and fanciful form. At a depth of two or h.e hundred feet beneath theeave. the mountain is peneL.ed ^ytZ nvers of considerable size, which, at their entr«„r„ =,.. .u^... L7 ' s V: ■-niib.Tir~ 838 5IHH BEAUmBUh, mHH WONDBI^PUL, mile apart, and, after flowing a distance b> direct measurement, of five miles, emerge from the mountain in close proximity, and thence united form one of the chief affluents of the Mexicola. The chan- nels in the solid rock through which these rivers emerge are said by Mr. Bliss to be large enough to admit the Hartford State House. Fragments of timber and debris arc often floated through the mount- ain, but these subterranean river beds have never been explored. Myriads of bats and nocturnal birds seek shelter or make their abode in the mouth of the cave. A BBEATHINQ CAVE — In the range of mountains in Western North Carolina, known as the *« Fox Range," a most singular phe- nomenon exists. It is a "breathing cave." In the summer months a current of air comes from it so strongly that a person can't walk against it, while in winter the suction is just as great. The cool air from the mountain in the summer is felt for miles, in a direct line from the mouth of the cave. At times a most unpleasant odor is emitted upon the current from dead carcasses of animals sucked in and killed by the violence. The loss of cattle and stock in that section in winter is accounted for in this way: They range too near the mouth of the cave, and the current carries them in. At times, when the change from inhalation to exhalation begins, the ai s. filled with various hairs of animals; not infrequently bones and whole carcasses are found miles from the place. The air has becis ksvjwn to change materially in temperature during exhalation from quiic rjol to unpleasantly hot, withering vegetables within reach, and accompanied by a terrible roaring, gurgling sound, as a pot boiling. It is unaccounted for by scientific men who have examined it, though no exploration can take place. It is feared by many that a volcanic eruption may break forth there some time. Such things have occurred in places as little unex- pected. 0-.040MO— — — PACTS ABOUT MAN. If a well-made man be extended on the ground, his arm at right angles with the body, a circle, making the navel its center, will just take in the head, the finger ends, and feet. if n- III AND THE WISE. 889 The distance from top to toe is precise iy the same as that between the tips of the finj^ers when the arms arc extendcu. The length of the body is just six tin -s that of the luot; while the dist^uice from the edge of tlie hair on the forehead lo the end of the chin is one tenth the length of the whole stature. Of the sixty-two primary element, known in nature, only eighteen are found in the human body, and of these, seven arc metallic. Iron is found in the blood, phosphorus in the brain, limestone in the bile Inne in the bones, dust and ..,hes in all! Not only these eighteen human elements, but the whole sixty-two, of which the universe is made, have their essential basis in the four substances, oxyg hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon, representing the more familiar na. of fire, water, saltpeter, and charcoal; and such is man, the lord earth! a spark of ftre, a drop of water, a grain of gunpowder, an atom of charcoal — HaWs Journal of Health. Oi^^ Yellowstone National Park and ITS Wonders, ^HE Park is in the northwestern corner of Wyoming Terri- ' tory, and covers a surface of 65 miles north and south by 55 miles wide, of evident volcanic origin, and containing more natural curiosities than an equal area in any other part of the world, while within it are the sources of the greatest rivers of North America, the Yellowstone, Gardiner, and Madison, which form the Missouri, seeking the Atlantic; the Snake River, one of the upper waters of the Columbia, of Oregon, and the Green River, a branch of the Colorado, flowing into the Gulf of California, All of this region has at least 6,000 feet elevation above the sea, whild some of the peaks around it rise nearly 13,000 feet, and are covered with snow. Its Yellowstone Lake is the most ele- vated sheet of water of its size in the ^vorld, at 7,788 feet alti- tude, and covering 300 square miles surface. Out of this pretty lake flows th« Yellowstone River, through the Grand Canyon whose almost perpendicular sides, not over aootn cr^ ^r^rHc ^^^^ >:„„ ___ y"~ "^ ,; — j~ '^.-Jtii, not .jwW MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TESi CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) 1.0 I.I 1 4.5 15.6 2S m Ik 1^ lllllio Z2 i.8 ^ /APPLIED I^^^GE Inc 1653 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14609 USA (716) 482 - 0300 - Phone (716) 288- 5989 -Fox 3 : I i ^.JLi-lM i I 840 1IHB BEAUTIFUL, iBHB WONDEI^PUIi, feet, and are brilliantly colored; and the gorge, which is so steep that no one can descend into it, continues for twenty miles. You creep to the edge and look down this extraordinary place into which the river tumbles over a beautiful fall 360 feet high. Then there are hot springs and geysers of vast extent and limitless volume of power, surpassing anything elsewhere known. At least 5,000 of these hot springs have been found, depositing either lime or silica, and making the most beautiful colors and ornamentation in their deposits; while at least fifty of the geysers throw water columns 50 to 200 feet. The most of these geysers are coy and bashful, not exploding and spoutinsr ex- ccpting at irregular intervals, and you may watch them for days together without the waters being turned on, but the favorite and one of the most beautiful is « Old Faithful," sending up its enormous column of water, from which dense clouds of steam are blown at regular intervals of about sixty -four minutes. Then there are the « paint pots" and the " wash-tubs," the former being « mud geysers," where the different colored muds mixed up with water and steam keep up a constant commotion, the latter making one of the most curious developments of this strange region. The « wash-tubs" are basins hollowed out of the deposits, and each has an aperture in the bottom. Through this hot water comes, and in the tub you can wash your clothes, but great carefulness is necessary, for in a twinkling, \/ithout notice, all the water will run out of the bottom of the tub, and, if you are not quick enough to catch them, the clothes will disap- p ^ar also. The next time the water comes in, it may bring back the clothes or it may not; these geysers are very fickle about it. This ex- traordinary region has been known for the past three-quarters of a century. About 1807 a frontiersman named Coulter came in here, and when he returned to civilization he told such wondrous stories about the doings of these hot springs, wash-tubs, and geysers, that the borderers gave the place the name of « Coulter's Hell." Others visited it afterward and told similar tales, but were generally dis- believed. In 1869 a party of surveyors went through, but the first scientific exploration was by Professor Hayden's corps, in iS7i,his report leading Congress the next year to pass the law by which it was made a National Park and set aside as a pleasure ground for the people. J- ^' AND OIHR WISE. 641 1 IBS OF i-T^/a fHESE giants of the forest are found only along the western flank of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, within a distance of about two hundred miles. To the northward they are found ©>f^ in groups only. The trees in most of these groups have been counted. Those of the Calaveras group number twelve or thirteen hundred; in the Tuolumne and Merced groups there are less than one hundred; in the well-known Mariposa grove, about six hundred; and in the North King's River grove, less than half as many ; but the Fresno group, the largest congregation of the north, occupies an area ot three or four square miles. In addition to these we have the Dinky grove; but farther southward tiie trees stretch majestically across the\road rugged basin of the Keweah and Tule in noble forests, a distance of nearly seventy miles, the continuity of this magnificent belt being broken only by deep, sheer -walled canyons. These sequoia gigantea are the monarchs of monarchs— the master existence of these un- rivaled forests. The average stature attained by the big tree under favorable conditions is perhaps about 275 feet, with a diameter of 20 feet. Few full-grown specimens fall much short of this, while many are 25 feet in diameter, and nearly 300 feet high. Fortunate trees, so situated as to have escaped the destructive action of fire, which has ever been the formidable enemy of the sequoias, are oc- casionally found measuring 30 feet in diameter, and very rarely one that is much larger. Yet so exquisitely harmonious are even the very mightiest of these monarchs, in all their proportions and circumstances, that never is anything overgrown or huge-looking about them, and the first exclamation, on coming upon a group for the first time, is usually, « See what beautiful trees!" Their real, godlike grandeur in the meantime is invisible; but to the loving eye it will be mani- fested sooner or later, stealing slowly on the senses like the grandeur of Niagara, or of some lofty Yosemite dome. The most*" notable tree in the well-known Mariposa grove is the Grisly Giant, some 30 feet in diameter, growing on the top of a stony ridge. The tree, a section of which was shown at the Centennial, was 25 feet in diame- ter at the base. The age, as countcU by three different persons, is irom i m 342 THE BBAUTIPUIi, IPHE WONDBEJPUli, 2,125 to 2,317 years, the fineness of the annual wood rings making ac- curate count difficult. Some of the trees are undoubtedly much okier. A specimen observed by me in the New King's River Forest is proba jly over 4,ocx) years old. It measured nearly 40 feet in diameter in; ide the bark. Many of these mighty monarchs are known to the world at large by familiar names, such as « General Grnnt," « The Three Graces," « The Faithful Couple," etc. Through the erect trunk of one dead giant a passage has been cleft, through which the great stage coach thunders on its way. The California Indians have a say- ing that other trees grow, but the Great Spirit created the sequoias out of hand. It is the savage way of calling them miracles. And they are; for how a tree from twenty-five to thirty stories high, and with room, if hollowed, to shelter three hundred guests, and leave stabling quarters on the ground floor for ^ dozen horses, could have ) umped from the earth and inspired from the air material enough to build itself along without waiting, is incomprehensible Condensed from John Muir and B. F. Taylor. THE OLDEST TIMBER IN TMg WORLD, Probably the oldest timber in the world which has been subjected to the use of man, is that which is found in the ancient temple of Egypt. It is found in connection with stone work, which is known to be at least four thousand years old. This wood, and the only wood used in the construction of the temple, is in the form of ties, holding the end of one stone to another in its upper surface. When two blocks were laid in place, then it appears th;it an excavation about &n inch deep was made into each block, into which an hour-glass shaped tie was driven. It is, therefore, very diflicult to force any stone from its position. The ties appear to have been the tamarisk, or shittim wood, of which the ark was constructed, a sacred tree in ancient Egypt, and now very rarely found in the Valley of the Nile. Those dove-tailed ties are just as sound now as on the day of their insertion. Although fuel is extremely scarce in that country, these bits of wood are not large enough to make it an object with Arabs to heave off AND IPHE WISH. 343 layer after layer of stone for so small a prize. Had they been of bronze, half the old temples would have been destroyed long ago, so precious would they have been for various purposes. Dr. G. Lincecum giv^es the following interesting report of the curious little balloon-spider and its work : " I once observed," says the writer, « one of these spiders at work in the upper corner cf an open outside door-shutter. She was spin- ning gossamer, of which she was forming a balloon, and clingir.g to her thorax was a little cluster of minute young spiders. She finished up the body of the balloon, threw out the long bow-lines, which were capping and fluttering in the now gently-increasing breeze. Several minutes before she got all ready for the ascension, she seemed to be fixing the bottom, and widening her hammock-shaped ballooi; and now, the breeze being suitable, she moved to the cable in the stern, severed it, and her craft bounded upward, and, soaring northward, was soon beyond the scope of observation." — Atlantic Monthly. The queerest of trees must be the baobab, or monkey bread. It grows to the height of forty feet, " but its girth is entirely out of pro- portion to its height, some trees being thirty feet in diameter. An old baobab in Africa is, then, more like a forest than a single tree. Their age is incalculable." Humboldt considers them as " the oldest living organic monuments of our planet." Some trees are believed to be 5,000 years old. You can cut a good sized room into the trunk of a baobab, with comfortable accommodations for thirty men, and the tree lives on and flourishes. It produces fruit about a foot long, which is edible. As an example of slow growth in England, a baobab at KpvAf. f-'ronorh mnrfi thun pitrhfv vpare olrl hae r\n\\r ofjainfx^ " V.«;~U* --7 3 — ~*0 J J 7 «.--, «-.v« to the petrified forest in the desert of Northwestern Humboldt: « On the plain, about thirty miles from the Blackrock range of mountains, stands one of the greatest natural curiosities ever discovered in Nevada. It is a petrified forest, in which the stumps of many of the trees, now changed into solid rock, are still standing. There are no living trees or vegetation of any kind, other than stunted sage brush, in the vicinity. Some of these ancient giants of the forest, which flourished, perhaps, thousands of years ago, when the climate of Nevada was undoubtedly more favorable for the growth of lux- urious vegetation than at present, rival in size the big trees of Call- fornia. Stumps, transformed into solid rock, stand in an upright posi- tion, with their roots embedded in the soil, as when growing, that measure from fifteen to twcnty-six feet in circumference, and the ground in the vicinity is strewn with the trunks and limbs, which retain their natural shape and size. Mr. Rideout, determining to secure a section of one of these trees for the Centennial exhibition, with two other men, spent twelve days in cutting it from the stump. This was accomplished by drilling all around the tree and separating it with wedges. The specimen is three feet high, and eighteen feet in circumference, and its estimated weight is three tons." Gardeners in Japan display astonishing art. The plum, which is a great tavonte, is so trained and cultivated that the hlo-^^ioms are as bio" as those of dahlias. They have gradually succeeded in dwarfing the 8d« THE BBAUI'IPLIL, THE WONDBRPUL, 1 1 fig, plum, and cherry trees, and the vine to a stature so diminuative as scarcely to he credited by a European, and yet those dwarf trees are covered with blossoms and leaves. Maylon, whose work on Japan was published at Amsterdam in 1830, states that the Dutch agent of commerce, in Naganei, was offered a snuff-box, one inch in thickness and three high, in which grew a fig-tree, a bamboo, and plum-tree in bloom. 3F0HMI¥Y*S ESSAY ON "THE TO BE/' Todes is like frogs, but more dignity, and wen you come to think of it, frogs is wetter. The warts wich todes is noted for can't be cured, for they is cronick, but if I couldent git wel I'de stay in the house. My grandfather knew a tode wich some body had tamed til it was folks. Wen its master wissled it would come for flies. They cetches 'em with there tung, wich is some like a long red werm, but more like litenin, only litenin haint got no gum onto it. The fli wil be a standin a rubbin its hine legs together and a thinkin wat a fine fli it is, and the tode a sittin some distance away like it was asleep. Wile you are seein the fli as plane as you ever see anything, all to once it aint there. Then the tode he looks up at you soUem, out of his eyes, like he said wat's become of that fli? but you kno he et it. ft¥r- It has puzzled many people to decide why the dark wood so highly valued for furniture should be called " Rosewood." Its color certainly does not look much like a rose; so we must look for some other reason. Upon asking, we are told that when the tree is first cut, the fresh wood possesses a very strong, rose-like fragrance— hence the name. There are half-a-dozen or moie kinds of rosewood trees. The varieties are found in South America, and in the East Indies and neighboring islands. Sometimes the trees grow so large that planks four feet broad and ten feet in length can be cut from them. These broad planks are principally used to make the tops of piano-fortes. When growing in the forest, the rosewood tree is remarkable for its beauty ; but such is AND >ItHB WISE. 847 its value in manufactures as an ornamental wood that some of the for- ests where it once grew abundantly now have scarcely a single speci- men. Ill Madras the government has prudently had great plantations o. this tree set out, in order to keep up the supply. -8— How THE Chicken Groi^vs in the Egg. ■i(B:==.iHi.22_-^ _-^ ; but such is fHE hen has scarcely set on her eggs twelve hours before some lineament of the head and body of the chicken appear. The heart may be seen to beat at the end of a second day ; it has at ^^fv^ that time somewhat of the form of a horseshoe, but no blood yet appears. At the end of two days two vessels of blood are to be dis- tinguished, the pulsation of which is visible; one of these is the left ven- tricle, and the other the root of the great artery. At the fiftieth hour one auricle of the heart appears, resembling a noose folded down upon itself. The beating of the heart is first observed in the auricle, and afterward in the ventricle. At the end of seventy houi s the wings are distinguish- able ; and on the head two bubbles are seen for the brain, one for the bill, and two for the fore and hind parts of the head. Toward the end of the fourth day, the two auricles already visible draw nearer to the heart than before. The liver appears toward the fifth day. At the end of seven hours more, the lungs and the stomach become visible; and four hours afterward, the intestines, and loins, and the upper jaw. At the one hundred and forty-fourth hour, two ventricles are visible, and two drops of blood instead of the single one which was before. The seventh day the brain begins to have some consistency. At the cue hundred and nineteenth hour of incubation the bill opens and the flesh appears in the breast. In four hours more the breast bone is seen. In six hours after this, the ribs appear, forming from the back, and the bill is very visible, as well as the gall-bladder. The bill becomes green at the end of two hundred and thirty-six hours; and if the chicken be taken out of its covering, it evidently moves itself. At the two hun- dred and eighty-eighth the ribs are perfect. At the three hundred and thirtv-first- the spleen draws near the stomach aviA the 'un-a *■" t'"" I i \i 348 niHE SEAUlUniJL. IPHB WONDEl^PUli, chest. At the end of three hundred and fifty.five hours, the bill fre. quently opens and shuts; at the cn.l of the ei^.^hteonth day, the first cry of the ch,eken ks heard. It afterward gets n.ore strength and grows cont,nuaIly,tdl at length it is enabled to set itself free from its confine- ment — Sturm's Rcjiections. COLLISION WITH A SWORDFISH. HE 7>;«^^ofIndia in a recent number savs: « This morning -uj^m- ^^ were invited to inspect, in the Mazagon Dock, the %^\ bottom of the David Aughtersen. The ship had been ^^ stripped of her metal sheathing. On the port side, ri^ht onlhe floor, about four streaks from the keel, and about fifteen feet from the forefoot U a hole made by the Xiphias or swordfish. The sword was broken oflf and remained in the hole, leavin<. four mches projecting from the bottom. All attempts, howevei- to get, out fa. led, and they had finally to cut away the wood d loosen .t, and then they succeeded in breaking away a piece nine inches long. The point, which has pierced right into the timbers, still re- mains embedded, and, judging by the dimensions of the piece extracted, I IS twelve inches long. When it occurred no one on board can tell but from the appearance of the broken sword it must have been done some considerable time. The an,azing force of the shock may be im- agincd when it is sufficient to pierce through the copper, and for thir- teen or foui :een inches into the solid oak plank and timber. From the position of the hole the swordfish must have risen up right under the ship. It IS well known that it is in this way from beneath, that this fish attacks the whale. The Xiphias is of the mackerel family. No doub this was a case of premeditated collision, and it was not a case of either lights or look-out. It is well it struck on a timber; had it beTn fa^l"? " ^ ^''^' ''" *''"^''' *''' ^^^'' *° '^' '^^ "^'^^ht have The symbolic meaning of precious stones in Germany is- lon^v7'''^lTT^ f '^' P'"""^' '-''1"''^ marine, misfortune; agate, longhfe and health; bloodstone, courage and discretion; chrysolite, AND ntHE WISE. 849 preservation from folly; dinmoml, innocence; cmeralil, happiness; gar- net, HcJclity to promises; opal, liopu; ruby, oblivion and grief; sap. phirc, repentance; sardonyx, conjugal fidelity; topaz, friendship; turquoise, success. NORIFAY RATS OiV A MARCH, |ORWAY rats, to avert a famine, have a singular way of proceeding. When the time for the settlement'' of the ques- tion of partial extermination for the benefit of the race, or total ®^?> extermination by starvation, can no longer be delayed, they assemble in countless thousands in some of the mountain valleys leading into the plains, and, the vast army of exiles being selected, they pour across the country in a straight line, a living stream, often exceeding a mile in length and many yards in breadth, devouring every green thing in their line of march, the country over which they have passed looking as if it had been plowed or burned with fire. They march principally by night and in the morning, resting during the day, but never seek to settle in any particular locality, howeveT- abundant food may be in it, for their final destination is the distant sea, and nothing animate or inanimate, if it ci:n be sur- mounted, retards the straight onward tide of their advance. Foxes lynxes, weasels, kites, owls, etc., hover on their line of march and de- stroy them by hundreds. The fish in the rivers and lakes lay a heavy toll upon them, and vast numbers are drowned and :•'> by other acci- dents in « flood and field;" but the survivors, impellc i >jy some irresis- tible instinct, press onward with no thought of stopping, until they lose themselves in the sea, sinking in its depths as they become ex- hausted, in such numbers that for miles their bodies, thrown up by the tide, lie putrefying on the shore Tejnflc Bar. UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE. It is said that among the high Alps at certain seasons the traveler IS told to proceed vcrv auietlv. for an thp cfee«^ clo^o" fv,.-,.i,«-j i-u- B«0 •PHH BEAUmmu, 1.HB WONDEI^PUIi, «now hanffs so evenly balanced thnt the Hound of a voice or the r^rort of n gun,may.lcstioy the eqnilibrinm nn I . '^';'''*' ""^ the report nvalanchc that will olcv^lZ^t^Zu^ ^'"^ •'^" •"' ''"'"""'' D.th An,i u ''''^"*-"" e\crythineaking of the birds who Yet aftc, a 1, .t is upon the ground where difficulties are manv ond,t.ons vaned and where there is so much to call for contrivance' adaptation and mtelligence, that we must look for the highes type; back to the lower forms among the four-footed animals, in order ^o t.avel along the line of those that have conquered the ea th, and pre! pared the way for man himself." ' ^ • ■ >! « 8 - ^••i — » {< ■> SPIDERS SILK STRONGER THAN STEEL of Itirt'bafoT-'"''^"'\""'"°" '' ^•^'"P'^^^^ -^h ^hat of Ts \ f ''°" """^ '"'^ '" ^'"'"^'^•- ^'^ «"«tain a weight of 28 ons; a bar of steel 58 tons; and according to computation bn^ed upon the fac.^ that a fiber only one four-thousandth part of nTnch n diameter wall sustain 54 grains, a bar of spiders' silk an inch in d^ ameter would support a weight of 74 tons.^ In other words spde^' 8.1k has nearly three times the supporting strength of iron. THB DRAGON PLYS FllGHT. A dragon-fly, balanced on its wings at the side of a car sneedii,^ «s way over the rails at a rate uf forty miles an hour, al rst bf almost mottonless. But to keep up with the car its wings ZT2^. many thousand times a second. The eye cannot detecf t^eir up 11 down a^t,o„, so exceedingly rapid are the contractions and rr.^ti::^ ■•■ "- ".u«:.cs actmg upon them. All at once they dart off at a right 80) THE5 BEAUTIFUL, WHE WOHDEI^PUIi, i angle so quickly that the retina cannot have an impression remaining long enough to trace their course. Therefore, those same muscles, too small to be seen but by powerful microscopic assistance, must be urged to still more rapid action. Such intense activity far exceeds the vibration of musical chords, and therefore exceedingly perplexes en- tomologists, because the nervous system of insects is so extremely minute. The question is: How much power is generated for keeping a dragon-fly's wings in uninterrupted motion for many hours in Suc- cession without apparent fatigue? — Scientific American SUPERSTl'i IONS ABOUT BEES, l^l^fHERE '\re numerous superstitions connected with bees, 1^^^ which there is reason to think are relics of this savage % T^ state of thought, when all that existed were under the ^/f\S same conditions as man himself, capable of the same feelings, and subject to the same wants and sorrows. For bees are credited with a perfect comprehensioti of all that men do and utter*, and, as members themselves of the family they belong to, they must be treated in every way as human in their emotions. French children are taught that the inmates of the hive will come out to sting them for any bad language uttered within their hearing, and many of our readers have probably, at some time of their lives, on seeing a crape-covered hive, learned on inquiry that the bees were in mourning for some member of their owner's family. In Suffolk, when a death occurs in a house, they immediately inform the bees, ask them formally to the funeral, and fix crape on their hives; otherwise it is believed they would die or desert. And the same custom, for the same reason, prevails, with local modifications, not only in nearly every English country, but widely over the continent. In Normandy and Brittany may be seen, as in England, the crape-set hives; in Yorkshire some of the funeral bread, in Lincolnshire some cake and sugar, may be seen at the hive door; and we have read of a Devonshire nurse on her way to a funeral sending back a child to perform the duty she herself had forgotten, of telling the bees. The usual explanation of these customs AMD WHS WISE, 851 and ideas is that they originated long ago, with the death or fli-ht of some bees, consequent on the neglect they incurred when the'hand that once tended them could do r no longer. Yet a wider survey of analogous facts leads to the explanation above suggested; not to dwell on the fact that in some places in England they are informed of weddings as well as funerals, and their hives are decorated with favors as well as with crape — Cornhill Magazine. 5 j^-^ ^vS^^«®==«-*'* A SPIDER'S APPETITE, J@2_ N order to test what a spider could do in the way of eating, we arose about daybreak one morning to supply his fine web with a fly. At first, however, the spider did not come from his retreat, Vrb' so we peeped among the leaves, and there discovered that an earwig had been caught, and was now being feasted on. The spider left the earwig, rolled up the fly, and at once returned to his "first course." This was at half-past 5 a. m., in September. At 7 a. m., the earwig had been demolished, and the spider, after resting a little while, and probably enjoying a nap, came down for the fly, which he had finished at 9 a. m. A little after 9 we supplied him with a daddy-long-legs, which was eaten by noon. At i o'clock a blow fly was greedily seized, and, with an appetite apparently no worse for his previous indulgence, he commenced on the blowfly. During the day, and toward the evening, a great many small green flies, or what are properly termed midges, had been, caught in the web; of these we counted one hundred and twenty, all dead, and fast prisoners in the spider's net. Soon after dark, provided with a lantern, we went to examine whether the spider was suffering at all from indigestion, or in any other way from his previous meals; instead, however, of being thus affected, he was employed in rolling up together the various little green midges, which he then took to his retreat and ate. This process he repeated, carrying up the lots in little detachments, until the whole web was eaten, for the web and its contents were bundled up together. A slight rest of about an hour was followed by the most industrious web-making orocess, and. heforA davb'-«a'' o^««-i,-,- - — 1 1 1 ' -^ 1 s 1 ■ iii 1 ■ \ ■ I i 1 !' .HI: 1 ■ i ! i 1 '^n ^ ti -f-m-\Sl ! 1 : ■^1 J i 8fie »nHB BBAUIPIPUL, IPHB WONDBI^PUIi, be used in the same way. Taking the relative size of the spider and the creatures it ate, and applying this to a man, it would be somewhat as follows: At daybreak, a lamb; at 9 a. m., a young camelopard; at I o'clock, a dieep; and during the night, one hundred and twenty' larks. This, we believe, would be a very fair allowance for one maij during twenty-four hours; and could we find one gifted with such an appetite and such a digestion, we can readily comprehend how he might spin five miles of web without killing himself, provided he possessed the necessary machinery. — English Paper, GO TO THE ANT, ^^^VERYTHING pertaining to these little beings is fullof inter- ffll. est. Their general habits of life approach more nearly to those of human beings than do those of any other creature. ^{^ The little midgets have learned pretty much all that is worth learning from us bigger people — particularly all that is bad. In their little way they can do a good deal that man can do, and some things that he cannot do; for Huber, Gould, McCook, and others, who have made a special study of their habits, tell us how they build houses and cities, which they inhabit, surrounded by the royalty and splendor of ant-life, while others (the agricultural ants) are enthusiastically devoted to farm life. If they do not dress in equipage, nevertheless, like the Chinese, the Japanese, and other nations, they always observe the fashion of their race, and in all things are scrupulously clean and neat. Such a thing as a dirty ant it would be hard to find. Even the lazy ones (for there are plenty of lazy ones, notwithstanding their well-founded reputation for industry) gen- erally manage to make their slaves attend to their master's toilet. They can dis te and hold communication with their fellows, though just 'how they do it has puzzled all the naturalists to find out, and the ants themselves are wise enough not to tell. As nations, they go to war, sometimes like men, for trifling causes; but generally, like the United States and Mexico, over the questions of boundary lines; but their armies are quite as well disciplined, and fight on th« -|<& COii-k-tA r^(^Y\ . AMD WHB WISB. 8^7 eral prmciples as those of any civilized nation. They keep domestic animals, beetles, and other insects, living in their housL, vefy Ich 3 we keep cats and dogs in ours, and many of them lave elnsive danues of aphides, a milk-giving species of insect, whid. tl e I tenderly care for Some invisible bond makes all iJbor for th good of the whole. One of the principal rules in ant cities is for every mem ber to help every other, who needs help; so we see that in ToTe respects we are far behind the ants in civilization cont^'f r' T'u'' ^^ '"'' "'"''■ ^'^'^ t^^'-ther, and yet, in seeming cont,ad.ctK>n of th.s, you will sometimes find the red and black ant! hvmg m he same tunnel. The truth is. the black ants are the sla" of tne red, and have been captured in war. They do all the servile work abouUhe premises; in fact, the red ants are mL tyrannical t^s! blacks lug them about in great style. ; Perhaps the most interesting of all species is the agricultural ant of th.s country, which is a model farmer in its way, clel-ing a tnact of land sometm.es twelve feet across, with avenues running up to i f om about ,t the open court, which is kept smooth as any pavement and the clever httlemsect actually sows seeds, and annually raises a crop of ant-rice, which is its food. P Considered in any light, the habits of these little creatures their powers of reasoning, their language, political economy, and genera knowledge of « men and things," are wonderful in the extreme ^^^-"^-f^V-^ TMB ^rONDERS OF A FLBA. When a flea is made to appear as large as an elephant, we can see all the wonderful parts of its formation, and are aLnisC to fi d that ,t has a coat of armor much more complete than ever warrior wore, and composed of strong polished plates, fitted over each other each plate covered like a tortoise shell, and where thev n...^ K..„^....-' of strong quilis project, like those on the back of a poVcupinr an"d Ih i ■•««■• :5 ««8 I: Mm 1 1 1 11 P'l 11 II ii 'PHB BBAUTIPUb, 5IHB WONDHI^FUJL, hedgehog. There Js the arched neck, the bright eye, the transparent cases the piercers to puncture the skin, a sucker V drraZt he r adv' r °"^-J°'"^^^ •^^«' ^-- of which are folded on the breasVal ready at any moment to be thrown out with tremendous force for the e Z :. '?'? ""' ^'^'^^ '""^y -^"* '^ -*^'^ him, and a the end of each leg hooked claws to enable him to cling to whatever he ahghts upon. A flea can Jump a hundred times itf own length wh.ch ,s the same as if a man jumped six ht.ndred feet; and hltn draw a load two hundred times his own weight J-«I ^^^•=^-^^-5 /^msr GLIMPSE OF THE YO SEMITE p had blundered up into the garret dormitory where the mountams were lying down all around us in « the sixth hour sleep. The stage crept over a recumbent shoulder with- out waking the owner, rolled out upon the point where the drowsmg giant would have worn an epaulette had he been fi r u '". 7"^°'"'"' •"°v^'J « few steps farther, came to a halt, and there, hghted by the afternoon sun behind us, speechless, nea "r nothu.g doubtful, nothing dim, the Yo Semite awaited us withou warnmg, met us without coming. " Spectral white in the glancing of the sun, the first thought was that the gran.te ledges of all the mountains had come to resurrectbn and were standmg pale and dumb before the Lord. We had emerged m an mstant from a world of life, motion, and warm, rich color into U.e presence of a bloodless world, a mighty place of graves and monu! ments where no mortal ever died. It looked a little as I used to fancv hose Arctjc wonders looked to Dr. Kane, glaciers, icy peaks and tur'- rets, turned impenshable in the golden touch of a tropic sun. For ZTl ^T;"'''"'? ^ ''^ "°'^'"^ ^" ^^^^"- I had been makinc. ready f ,t for weeks; not reading such dull descriptions as my own; not readmg anythmg; only fancying, wondering, and here it tik me 1 am ashamed to say for one moment I w^s disappointed, for another '•"""•"""' ii . ii j AHD 5rHE WISH. U9 cl, for another afraid m another abounded. I had nothing to 8ay, nobo^ly had anv- th.ng to say, but a linnet that never minded it at all. The driver be gan to mtroduce the congregation to us by „a,ne. I thought a. firs he was about to present us to the eongregation-aud I got^out of h reaeh. I was much as if, when the three angels ra^de a call a Abram', tent on the plains of Mamre, the P„tria,;h had whipped o„ win^r "' ■""""" "■"' """'" ''''^" the length rf. heir Almost four thousand feet below us was the valley with its green meadows, ,ts neh foliage, and its River Merced. We looked down s.de of the wall, track under track, like the bow-knots of flourished boys us«i to cut under their names, when writing-masters nibbed he r pens, and boys ran out their tongues. We looked two miles acros the hlVTd T- ''\'""P'"/«' <■-'--- no man had made; saw a Irt heraldic sh.eM, bare of inscription, a thousand feet from the gro, nd Upon that shield the coa,-of-arms of the United States shou d bT n, blazoned. It would be the grandest escutcheon on earth I turned to it again, and began to see the towers, the domes the .p.res, the battlements, the arches and the white clouds of solid grl^te surgmg up mto the air and come to everlasting anchor till .. the moun-' tarns shall be moved • The horizon had been cleft and taken down to make room for th,s capital of the wilderness, and for the first time ringeVme in"" ■■" """"' ^'' °'" °' "' """ "'''' "«« '""' ^^^' EL CAPITAN. The most impressive granite wonder in the valley is the great rock El Capstan, gray in the shadow, and white in the sun. Standing out a vast cube w.th a half mile front, a half mile side, three-fifthf of a m.le h.gh, and seventy-three hundred feet above the sea, it is almost the crownmg trmmph of solid geometry. Thirty - Palace Hotels" seven stories each, piled one above the other, would just reach the han<.. ng -ves of E ICapitan; two hundred and ten granite stories by lawfd count Well d.d the Indians christen him 7u-foa.aJi.„u.la/-Great rro.„ insp.ra.ion Fuuu. «aa there been any fourteenth-story win- fl^ !l 11 ; 860 WHB BUAUmBUL, THE WONDBi^PUIi, dows, you would have looked squarely into them. When you reach the valley he towers above you on the left. He grows grander and more solemn every step of the way. When you stand beneath him he blots out the world. When you near the base he roofs out the sky; for, though the wall seems to stand upright, the eaves project one hundred and three feet, a granite hood fivo hundred feet thick, but in the vastness you never see it. Get as far from him as you can, he never diminishes. He follows you as you go. He is the overwhelming presence of the place. A record in the Grand Register runs thus: "A lady fellow-traveler, struck by the constant appearance of El Capi- tan in the valley, suggested that it recalls the Rabbinical legend, « The Rock that followed them was Christ.'" You never tire of seeing eastern sunshine move down the front, like a smile on a human face. You never tire of seeing the great shadows roll out across the broad meadows as the sun descends and rises, like the tide in Fundy's Bay, till the valley is half filled with night, and the tips of the tall trees are dipped like pens in ink. You never weary of watching a light from a moon you cannot see, as it silvers the cornices and brightens the dusky front, as if wizards were painting their way down without stage or scaffold. A dark spot starts out in the light. It turns into a great cedar. Pines that stand about the base resemble shrubs along a garden wall. They are two hundred feet high. A few men have crept out to the eaves of El Capitan, looked over, and crept back again. Little white clouds sail silently toward the lofty eaves and are gone, as to a dove-cote in a garret. And yet an earthquake in 1873 rocked him like a cradle, and the clocks in the valley all stopped, as though, when El Capitan was moved, then "time should be no longer." — B. F, Taylor. i i" i •ji ^, THE ABUNDANCE OF LIFE, The one great law which all living beings obey is to "increase, multiply, and replenish the earth," and there has been no halting in their work from the day when first into our planet, from the bo?om of the great Creator, was breathed the breath of life— the invisible mofi er ever taking shape in her children. Thousands of millions of of millions of AHD Th'^ WISE. 861 insects are born into the world every moment, which can never live because there is not food enough for all. ^ If there were only one single plant in the whole world to-day and It produced fifty seeds in a year, and could multiply unchecked, its descendants would cover the whole globe in nine years. In the same way one pair of birds, having four young ones each year, would, if all the.r children and descendants lived, and multiplied, produce two thousand mtlhons in fftecn years. But, since there is not room for tnem, all but a very few must die. Plants can live on water and a.r, but animals cannot, and if tliere were not myriads of plants and an.mals to spare, there would not be enough for food.-^,-a^^//a B Buckley. i«« SOME THINGS CONCERNING GRASS, fHE amount of the grain crop is something quite overwhelm- mg. The estimated grain crop of the United States for 1882 was as follows : Com, 1,635,000,000 bushels ; wheat, =510- 000,000 bushels ; oats. 470,000,000 bushels ; barley, 45,000,00^ bushels ; rye, 2o,ooo,ooo_Total, 2,680.000,000. This would be equal to 3,334490,740 cubic feet, which would make a pyramid with a base one mile square and 360 feet high Or It would fill 7,500,000 freight cars, making a train 5o,oo fill a trai. of 200,000 cars, exfending 1,300 miles. Besides 3II these, rh'o, another grass, is the chief food of the two hundred milUo»H or China, und feeds mo?o human beinj^s than any other single artkirt' 'tf food, its amount being utterly beyond the range of our estimation ; Mi fhnt grass still comes to th. front. When we let the imagination run over the countless and bound- less waving grain-fields of the Old World and the New, and think how each little rootlet, and stalk, and leaf, and flower has been busy drawing from earth, air, and water the materials which they have with marvelous chemical subtlety compounded into all this food for man and beast, we stand amazed at that creative wisdom, power, and skill which have so wonderfully endowed the grass-blades, and are ever enabling them to "work that ceaseless miracle of turning the clods of the valley into the dail\ bread of twelve hundred millions of human beings."— 7. W. Chickering, Jr. A REMARKABLE DAY AT NIAGARA. N March 29, 1848, a remarkable phenomenon occurred at Ni- agara. The preceding winter had been intensely cold, and the ice formed on Lake Erie was unusually thick. In the warm '^prdays of early spring, this mass of ice was loosened around the ^ shores of the lake, and detached from them. During the fore- noon of the day named, s. stiff easterly wind moved up the lake. A little before sunset, the wind chopped suddenly round and blew a gale from the west. This brought the vast field of ice back again with such tremendous force that it filled in the neck of the bke and its out- let so as to form a very effective dam, that caused a remarkable dimi- nution in the outflow of the water. Of course it needed but little time for the Falls to drain off the water below this dam. The consequence was, that on the morning .he following day, the river was nearly half gone. The America.! c ' -a>^ had dwindled to a deep and narrow creek. The British channel ; c . ot' to ^ ave been smitten with a quick u ' \ AND IPHB WISB. Mt consumption, and to be fast passing away. Far up from the head of Goat Ihlnml and out into the Canadian rapids, and from the fn >t of Goat I land out beyond the old Tower to the deep channel of the Horseshoe Falls, the water was gone. The rocks were bare, black, and iorbiddnig. The roar of Niagara had subsided to a moan. 1 his ex- traordinary syncope of the waters lasted all day, and night closed over the strange scene. But during the night the dam gave way, and the next morning the river wn. restored in all its strength, beauty, and majesty — Geo. W. UolUy. THE STRENGTH OF MATERIALS, .9. ^?-4$F^(5>i. [OLD may be hammered so that it is only i,36o,cx)o of an inch thick. A grain of iron may be divided into 4,000,000 parts. \^l^ ^*'" chemistry tells us that there are ultimate parts called '•^^ ''*°"™* ""■ '"•^'^'^'"•*^S' which are absolutely indivisible. These % ^ atoms are attracted to each other by the attraction of cohesion, and repelled by the force of repulsion. By the action of both forces the atoms are kept in a state of rest. The solidity of a solid depends upon the fact that each pair of atoms are in this state of equilibrium. These atoms are supposed to be of an oblate, spheroidal form. An iron bar would support its own weight if stretched out to a length of iVx miles. A bar of steel was once made which would sustain its own weight if extended to a length of 13 1-2 miles. Our ideas of great and small are no guide to be used in judgin^r of what is truly great and small in nature. The Bunker Hill Mo^'nu- !• ent night be built to over a mile in height without crushing the •"- ' atitsbi--. When bars of iron are stretched until they break, cnose which are the strongest increase in length less than the" weaker ones. A piece of wood having a breadth and thickness of three inches and a length of four feet, if supported at its ends, would be bent one- millionth of an inch by a weight of three pot uls placed at its center, and a weight of one-tenth of an ounce would bend it one-seventh mil- honth of an inch. Prof. iNorton described a machine for tesfino-^r^t-» NATURAL BRIDGE IN VIRGINIA. We used to read about it in the old school readers, but it is not so much talked about now. It is over Cedar Creek in Rockbridge Co, Va. The bed of the stream is more than 200 {qq^ below the roadway' which crosses the bridge. On the abutments of the bridge there are' many names carved in the rock, of nprsnnc «rK« i,™,,- «i:r-v--J -- i- > MID IPHB WISE. 86S as they dared on the face of the precipice. Hi-hest of all for nearly three-quarters of a century was that of George Washington, who, when a youth, ascended to a point never before reached; but which was surpassed in 1818 by James Piper, a student in Wasiiington Col- lege, who actually climbed from the foot to the top of the rock. uiucu us fHERE is a river in the ocean. In the severest drouths it never fails, and in the mightiest flood never overflows. Its banks -^■■^^ '""""^ *'''' bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. fe/K^ The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other flow of water so majestic. Its current is more swift than the Missis- sippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater. Its waters, as far as the Carolina coasts, are of indigo blue. They are so distinctly marked that the common sea water can be traced with the eye. Often one-half the vessel may be perceived floating in the Gulf Stream water, while the other half is in the common water of the sea, so sharp is the line and the want of affinity between these waters; and such, too, the reluctance, so to speak, on the part of those of the Gulf Stream to mingle with the common waters of the sea. In addition to this, there is another peculiar fact. The fishermen on the coast of Norway are supplied with wood from the tropics by the Gulf Stream. Think of the Arctic fishermen burning upon their hearths the palms of Hayti, the mahogany of Honduras, and the precious woods of the Amazon and the Orinoco. DB£P COUNTER CURRENTS, It is related that not long since the cable between Lisbon and Gibraltar became disabled. After some delay it was grappled in 500 fathoms. Tt had been supposed that at that depth the ocean was at •■ — ■'^' ^"^ z^^i^ Vvoo uiOugui lo inc aecK oi liie repair ship, 1 1 is ; i 3@d 5JHB BBAU^niPUL, IPHB WONDBI^PUL, it showed plainly that it had been chafed against rocks by some mighty power in motion in the ocean depths, indicating plainly the existence of an ocean current at a depth of 3,000 feet along the Spanish coast. In the Straits of Gibraltar, there is said to be a powerful current setting from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean, and the wonder was that with no outlets, the Maliterranean did not overflow. Ac- cordingly it is related that a sea-captain, suspecting the truth, lowered a basket of stones from the prow of his vessel when it was seized by a deep counter current, so strong that it towed the ship out into the Atlantic. THE POWER OF NIAGARA, *5=l ...S* |R. SIEMENS, some months ago, in an address which he then gave, referred to the immense quantity of power which flowed ready-made over the Falls of Niagara. In his Glasgow address "^ he again referred to the subject, in order to show how this gigan- tic source of power might be utilized to produce action at a distance. « When," he says, " a little more than a twelvemonth ago I visited the great Falls of Niagara, I was particularly struck with the extraordinary amount of force which is lost, so far as the useful purposes of man are concerned. One hundred millions of tons of water fall there every hour from a vertical height of 150 feet, which represent an aggregate of 16,800,000 horse-power. In order to reproduce the power of 16,800,000 horses, or, in other words, to pump back the water from below to above the fall, it would require an annual expenditure of not less than 266,000,000 tons of coal, calculated at an average consump- tion of four pounds of coal per horse-power per hour, wAich amount is equivalent to the total coal consumption of the world. In stating these facts in my inaugural address on assuming the presidency of the Iron and Steel Institute, I ventured to express the opinion that, in order to utilize natural forces of this description at distant towns and centers of industry, the electric conductor might be resorted to. Tins view was at that time unsupported by experimental data such as I have been able since then to o.c^X^c.tJ'' —^Nature.. AND IUHE WISE. 307 El powerful current I, and the wonder THE WHIRLPOOL, |R. HOWELLS, in the « Wedding Journey," speaks of the whirlpool as "the most impressive feature of the whole prodigious spectacle of Niagara," and his descrip- ' tion of it is worth quoting: « Here, within the compass of a mile, those inland sens of the North Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and the multitude of smaller lakes, all pour their floods, where they swirl in dreadful vortices, with resictless under- currents boiling beneath the surface of that mighty eddy. Abruptly from this scene of secret power, so different from the thunderous splendors of the cataract itself, rise lofty cliffs on every side, to a height of two hundred feet, clothed from, the water's edge almost to their crests with da-k cedars. Noiselessly, so far as your senses perceive, the lakes steal out of the whirlpool, then, drunk and wild, with brawl' ing rapids roar uway to Ontario through the narrow channel of the river. Awful as the scene is, you stand so far above it that you do not know the half of its terribleness, for those waters that look so smooth are great ridges and rings, forced by the impulse of the cur- rents twelve feet higher in the center than at the margin. Nothing can live there, and what is caught in its hold the maelstrom plays with for days and whirls and tosses round and round in its toils with a sad, maniacal patience. The 'guides tell ghastly stories, which even their telling does not wholly rob of ghastliness, about the bodies of drowned men carried into the whirlpool and made to enact upon its dizzy surges a travesty of life, apparently floating there at their pleas- ure, diving and frolicking amid the waves, or frantically struggling to escape from the death that has long since befallen them." ' ^\ THE GREAT MAELSTROM AS IT IS, Nearly midway in London Strait, a huge naked rock, which might fairly be called an island, lifts itself above the waters, breasting the conflicting currents caused by the winds and tides. Between this rock and the cape on Muskone is the famous masls*-;- i, w'uich fertile i 1 J:;!! iK if 868 ^PHiu BBAUTIPUL, THH WOHDBI^PUli, imaginations have clothed with many terrors. Its geographical posi- tion is such as to expose it to fierce tidal currents, and, when these are assisted by high westerly winds, they are, no doubt, terrific. The bottom of the strait is strewn with immense boulders, which are so arranged as to give the current a spiral motion, directed toward the isolated rock from the northern side, which is much increased in times of high tides and storms, when it whirls quite around the island rock. Then it is that it becomes really difficult for boats and vessels without steam power to keep clear of the rocks against which the wayward currents would dash them. While there are at times vast and powerful eddies, which give objects floating upon them a fearful spiral motion, there is nothing like a vortex produced by a subterranean discharge of the water, although the tumbling and boiling character of the spiral cur- rent may submerge, temporarily, objects drifting on the surface. No doubt, in the course of time, the action of the water has tended to level down the bed of rocks, some of which, we may presume, showed themoelves above the surface. This may have been the maelstrom much more terrific than it is now, and better justified the ancient fable. As it is, in ordinary times and in favorable weather, the fishermen do not hesitate to seek for fares throughout these waters, which, to strangers, are suggestive of the most terrible dangers.—"^ Sum- mer in Norway^'' by D. Canton. A POWER THAT LIFTS THE OCEAN— ALL ABOUT THE TIDES. Another more noticeable effect of the moon's attraction are the tides. Twice a day the earth, like every good man, attempts com- munion with the sky. Twice a day the bosom of the sea swells heavenward. The explanation is this : As the earth, in revolving on its : xis, presents all parts of its surface in succession to the moon, that body, by the attraction of gravitation, draws up the water in a ridge toward itself, at the same time making a similar ridge by drawing the earth away from the water on the opposite side ; so that we have two great tidal swells, convex toward the west, about twelve hours apart, apparently following the moon in its daily movement around the iLL ABOUT «HD UHB BISB. gg^ earth; checked somewhat in their movement by their own inerUa and fi.ct,on among the barriers of shores and irregularities of sea-bed" reflected .„ th,s d.rection and that, according to the lay and shape of It f \°'' "'" """ '"'"'''•"^ ""■' '"''"'y <■«' in 'orae confined places of pecuhar conformation, and then almost or quite dissipa"3 by shoals and other dispersive agencies. Thus it would stCI water „ the open sea m tne case of the tides. No European water .s rolled over to America at the -ate of a thousand miles L hjr I, — 46i— •- -j l ' * ■ / 9i' — -^ FIFTY DAYS' STORM OP SAND. F J^^v^lT'"'" r' '^' '^^"^ ''°"''^" °^*^« ^«««rt each year. I„ Egypt .t blows for twenty.five days before and after the verna" m flight and camels bury their noses in the sand. The people everv whe.-eshut themselves up in their houses, or burrow inrSsTade" for the purpose. It blasts whatever it touches. In 1805 a aravan cons,stmg of 300 persons and x,8oo camels, perished in the Simoom POWBH OF THB WAVES. Those who have never lived on a stormy coast, nor been to sea, can form no adequate idea ofthe effect that can be produced by the impact of a succession of waves, or of a single wave. What h». !,.„ penedat Wick, on the extreme northern coast of Scolnd w^i^^fa" breakwater has been building for .ome years past, may give I Mea of what .s meant by wave-power. It was founS that stLes of ten om we,ght were as pebbles to the waves, which have been measur^ tobe here forty-two feet from crest to the bottom of the trough. The outer end of the breakwater, where the storms beat most violfntly, was buU __..._ _ ^„,. ,,«,,„,-„ ,on 5^j,g3 ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ founda- I . se&ma^ \ tan iaitaa i i j i S70 5tHB BBAU^tlPUL, rpHB WONDBI^PIiL. tions; next above these wpr»* fii-^^ , , «pon this a mass o clcr" e b ,e onThT" ^^ "'''' "^^ ''°"^'' ""■ The end of .he breakwa r wL loJh .fbe """'"' T,' """"'=• natural rock • ve-t th. „ • . . """ght to be as immovable as the of the wavt r;:^ „:t:: tr::: r :' ^'z'j ^'^"' '° "'^^°- pier. It eave w J n^, / '^'^ ■'°"'''^<' """"• "«M« the Lnoli i t! 7 .J" "■"g'"'"'' but in one mass, a, if it was a monohth. The displaced mass is estimated to weigh about ..jsoTo^ ^^ — — « » ^iv « and fishing down through, as through thete in^l'^ ^^ " ""' r^S GIFT OF THE NILE. Did you ever hear that rivers made presents to the world ? I never heard ,t till to-day. But it seems that they do. The land of Egyp was a g.ft of the river Nile. It was in ^hi, way Once th, country now so fertile, was nothing bu, a barren desert.bke tha of the Great Sahara, which lies near it. The river Nile ha I 7„ fl through this desolate country to get to the sea, and eve^ ''blghT ^a^^;^i^gt^-c:^::--^::j;S nch sod that he would have more than he could spread on the sandv pla n. Th,s he would take down and drop into th"^ sea, u„t 1 at laff Lt.rnX:itx-^:;-r>;;r'T^^ .chpresent.otheworld.-.r.';;^!:'^:^;-,---. AHD 5IHB WISH. 37f DIAMONDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. "l! 76r ?"7? ^^^^'^'"-^^ --« "bout in this wise. fro.n the -T -^^'^ ? ''""-^' *"'^^ ^"'^ ^""^-•' - his way could have it, it was no diamond- if it wa. fU.r. i sad that ,f Nieke,k didn't object he would t;ke it with him to Cane Ir^ZZ I '" ~^"^' ""n ' " P™^^" '" "' °f valued woS g.ve h m half the proceeds. On the way down, a long journev he stopped at Colesburg, at the hotel, and showed th^ pebbTe s" a,li„^ w,th .t a pane of glass. His friends laughingly scratched ' ! wi^h a gun.fl.„., and threw the pebble out of Ihe ;i„dow, el i„: O'kd v not to ^ake a fool of himself. However, O'Reilly persevered go > to Dr. Atherstone, near the coast, who announced that it w.'!1L tmh h ro'ReiMv d'^^dT;^ , " "^ '""' '" *3'°°°- I - g' a t y h! ? ry '^"■'^ '^'"' N'^""*- The latter ■emembered ha he had seen an immense stone in the hands of a kaffir^vit h doctor who used it in his incantations. He found the felhra'" gave h,m 500 sheep, horses, and nearly all he possessed^ a^^d old i' the same day to an experienced diamond buver for S.fi nl„ ■rj was the famous " Star of South Africa." It weigLX;^ 'aral i'^ he rough, and was found to be a gem quite the rival of 1X1™ • X'Ea:i"?Dd, "'■',"'•■ ^''' """ ^-"-' iewas'iLu^;: by the Earl of Dudley, and it is now known as the " Dudley" diamond The nafves crawled over the ground, and found many m/re and tt .— grew at r,uei and Klipdrift, the opposite banks' of the 'st^Jam', !■; 111! m n$ THE BE&miBUh, mz WOHDBI^PUI^ Where diamonds were found plentifully, and of excellent quality, by sorting over the boulder-drift. Soon hundreds of cradles, like U^ used by the Australian gold-diggers, were rocking on th" dge o t^ stream, suppl.ed with the precious by a large force of diggers sievers :^ hT;r of?h7h tv'-"'^"^-^^ ^ ^^^^^ succesfTrz; vnth a turn of the hand, became rich. Hotels, bakeries, breweries dnnkmg saloons, and shops were erected, ^nd reaoed rewardHuTi as large as did the digger. It was a ma/velous sc ne a nTgt wh n lrbX;r^--^ '' "^-^^^ '^'^^^^^ througfr^:: WEXOHTS AND VALUES OP THE I.AKGE31 DIAMONDS ZN THE WO.LO. J^ame. ^,,^^,. ^^^^^^ ^^off 193 carats $ 500,000 T^-^^K • " 50,000 Koh-i-noor 10214 ^ 2,000,000 Sanci ^S « rv Ji ' 100,000 TheKh"^- .. '5^^^" 750000 The Koh-i-noor ongmally weighed 800 carats, but was reduced to 279 by the awkwardness of the cutter. It was r -cut in 85. and now weighs 1025^ carats.-Peop/e^s Cyclopedia. ^ ' BURMESE ELEPHANTS. Mr. Vincent gives an interesting account of the elephants employed m the immense timber yards at Maulmain. The power, sagacity Ld docility displayed by these trained animals, are wonderful. % hey are chiefly employed m drawing, stacking, and shifting the huge teak logs some of them weighing as much as two tons, which are cut in the forests upon the banks of the Salween, and floated down the river to timber yards. A log that forty coolies can scarcely move, the lie! phantwill quietly lift upon his tusks, and holding ft there wUhtl tt hui "; t '"• ; ^: ^"^ '^^"' ""'^^ *^""^' ^^^^' -d tusks, pile the huge timbers with the utmost precision. It is surprising to see xcellent quality, by f cradles, like those : on the^edge of the (Of diggers, sievers, success. Poor men, aakeries, breweries, aped rewards quite :ene at night, when J through the tent DS IN THE WORLD. Value. $ 500,000 600,000 50,000 2,000,000 100,000 750,000 3, but was reduced e-cut in 1852, and *ND THE WISE. 378 '5. ephants employed wer, sagacity and ierful. They are le huge teak logs, ch are cut in the iown the river to ly move, the ele- it there with his (^ard he may be !t, and tusks, pile surprisinc to see the Mgacou, ammal select and pick out particular limbers from the center of a large heap a. the driver's command. The elephZ Ire directed by spoken orders, pressure of the driver's feet, and .1 e I'd for the umber busmess. Sometimes an animal will break his tusks from bemg forced by an ignorant or brutal driver to carry an excess ve load, but generally he knows his own strength, and fefuses ,o -ft Tad T , V' ""' *"="• -'^''°""' "^=- "-="' off do- : t^ head, the elephant would die; if only cracked, they are bound wiA iron, and rendered as serviceable as before. »Olf TMB SP/DBK SP/trs HEX IVBB. . ^"^ '=?^'''""J' ""der her abdomen, and near the tip you will see ..X 1, tie n,pp es. Under these nipples, inside her b.^y, h^e a"a .pecal gland, m which a kind of g„m is secreted, and this dries when .t comes ,„t„ the air, and forms a silken thread, f: om which tl.espWe" hangs and out of which she forms her web. And now comes " almost mcredibe part of the stoi-v T»,«c^ • i ^ «-"mes tne "sDinneret." uS T ^"^ '^°'^- ^hese nipples, which are called spmnerets have not merely one opening, like a cow's teat, but each one tmy as .t js, is pierced with at least a hundred holes, and ^hen he spider begins her web, more than six hundred separate staZTJl make up a single thread, strands go to THE FOOT OF A HORSB, The human hand has often been taken to illustrate Divine wisdom --and very well. But have you ever examined your horse's Too^ IS hardly less cunous in its way. Its parts are somewhat mo e com Phcated, yet d.eir design is simple and obvious. The hoof iHot t TT : '^' ''''^'" '^^' '-^ '"^^^ l-"Pof insensitive bone fastened to the leg by a joint. It is made up of a series of thin layers?or aves of horn, about 500 in number, and nicely fitted to eacb ;rher and forming a lining to the foot itself. Then there .r. . layers, beloaein^ to «h«. ;„ ..n J .u_ '" i^'? "'^l^^ "^^^^ "»ore „ „ -- .„ ^„..^cl t"c " toran-Done," and fitted into ap; 374 WHB BEAUTIFUL, IUHE WONDBI^PUIi, th.8 These are elastic. Take a quire of paper, and insert the leaves t^ne by one mto those of another quire, and you will get some idea of the arrangement of the several layers. Now the weight of the horse rests on as many elastic springs as there are l.yers in his four feet- about 4,ooo_-nnd all this is contrived, not only for the conveyance of his own body, but for whatever burdens may be laid on him Some More of Caufornias jEWBts, Not to the tourist merely, but to the student of science does Call- forn.a present the greatest attractions. There are evidences of glaciers hat surpassed those of Switzerland; there are proofs of volcank revo- lutions that utterly changed the form of the continent; where its mountauis now rise once rolled grand rivers; out of their depths have been dug the bones of a gigantic race that lived further back in the ages than human life was ever before known; the State has diluvial deposits 1,500 feet deep, and granite mountains 12,000 to 15,000 feet hagh; silent craters are open upon many of her highest peaks; where Switzerland has one mountain ,3,000 feet high, California has a hun- dred; she has a waterfall fifteen tirpes as high as Niagara; she has lakes so thm that a sheet of paper will sink in their waters; other. so voracious that they will consume man, body, boots and breeches in thirty days; while her men are the most enterprising and audacious, her women the most self-reliant and richly dressed, and her children the stoutest, sturdiest, and the sauciest in the world.-.^a;w«^/ ^c^w/^. ■■ >l 4- — 0'g»o ■» {<■ BREATHE PURE AIR ONLY. According to Hopley, the number of air-cells in the human lungs amounts to no less than 600,000,000. According to Dr. Hales the dianieter of each of these may be reckoned at the looth of an inch It will be useful, then, to imprint on the memory that whether we breathe pure or putrid air, the air inspired is ever in immediate contact with an extent of vital surface. ample enough fof the erection of a large house. AND >IIHB WISB. 87fi THE FATA MORGANA. HO has not heard of it? How many times has it been mentioned m sermon and story and song? And what is it? The ancients had a big word - Nephalococcygia _ to th. V . T ""''y ^"''' ^y '^' ^°^°«« '" t'^^ c'°"ds. Well, the Fata Morgana .s a city built in the clouds-not by the cocoos but by the sun. It occu.s at Naples, and at Reggio, upon the S.aban coast. On certain calm mornings, crowds" of people on the shore gaz.ng mto the heavens, behold this wonderful spectacle. First may be seen, perhaps rows of lofty columns, as of gigantic errples; ,n the twinkling of an eye these lose half their heighf, and ta... the shape of arcades and vaults, like the Roman aqueducts. Inese soon fade, and give place to gigantic towers, which in turn dis- appear, succeeded by colonnades and windows; and lastly, pine trees and cypresses, several times repeated. All this upon the heavens above, passing m absolute silence, with only the sun and the atmos- phere as architects Of course, far ages, a superstitious people believed .t was the work of fairies; but a later and more intelligent scientific age knows it to be only an atmospheric phenomenon, repeated in many terms elsewhere. -^ The German Brocken, the famous circle of Ulloa, and the mirage of the desert, of which all have heard, and by which beautiful lakes, and groves of palm, with fountains danc -.gin their midst, are made tp^attract travelers perishing with thirst-all these are Fata Morgana — delusion? all. ^ fTif^r BURDENS WB BBAR. In 1640 the Grand Duke of Tuscany, having ordered the con- struction of fountains upon the terrace of the palace, it was found impossible to make the water rise more than 32 feet. The Duke wrote to Galileo in reference to this strange refusal of the water o obey the pumps. Torricelli, the pupil and friend of Galileo, gave the true explanation of the fact, and proved, by a series of exnerltpents, i 8ze 5»HB BBAUTIPUL, WHB WONDHI^FUL, that this column of water of 33 feet, was in equilibrium with the weight of the atmosphere. The surface of the earth therefore sustains a weight as ,f it was covered with a body of water about 32 feet deep and we who live upon it undergo the same pressure. Thus we all are the heaviest burden bearers, and yet insensibly so, as the pressure is alike within and without. -*-^r^- -•*- ^ MOUNTAIN OF S^LT. A mass of 90,000,000 tons of pure, solid, compact rock salt, located on an island 185 feet higii, which rises from a miserable sea marsh on the route from Brashear to New Iberia, up the River Teche, Louisiana. 18 one of the wonders of the world. How this island, containing over 300 acres of excellent land, ever came into existence in such a locality IS a matter of conjecture. Vegetation is prolific, and the scenery is beautiful and varied. Here is an immense bed of pure rock salt, whose extent is as yet only estimated, and scientific men are puzzled. -<^^^^»^3'*^'^B/i- CURiOUS THINGS ABOUT BATS. Says an eminent scientific writer: "Bats have been blinded, their ears stopped with wool, and their noses with sponge that had b'-en dipped '"camphor; and yet, thus without sight, hearing, or smell, they would fly between outstretched threads or tree branches with- out hitting them with their wings, and find their way into holes In the roof. 3y what unknown powers can they thus be guided? -o~.o^o<-<>- FLEXIBLE STONE, A great geological curiosity has just been deposited in the museum of the Hartley Institution at Southampton, England, consisting of a piece of flexible stone about two feet long, seven inches wide, and more than one inch in thickness, having the appearance of rough sand- stone, which bends with a slight pressure like a piece of India-rubber AND IFHB WI8I. Wt or gutta percha of the same size. This interesting specimen of geol- ogy has been placed in a glass cas. constructed for it, fitted with a lever, by toiichinj; ,e key of which on the outside of the case the flexibility of the stone is shown, .t was presented to the Hartley Institution by Mr. Edward Cushcn, from his relative, Mr. R. S. Mun- den, who obtained it from Dellii, India. In its natural position the stone .8 said to run in thin layers in the soil in which it is found, but is so rare in India that it finds a place in the museums at Calcutta. There is a similar stone, but not so wide as the one under notice, in the British Museum, and another in the museum of the School of Mines, but specimens are very rarely to be met with. Although the stone has a gntty appearance, no grit or dust is thrown o'^by the motion given to it when under pressure. AMERICAN WONDERS, JHE greatest cataract in the world is the Falls of Niagara, where the water from the great upper lakes forms a river '^£^ three-fourths of a mile in width, and then, being suddenly ^oj contracted, plunges over the rocks in two columns to the depth of one hundred and seventy feet each. The greatest cave in the world is the Mammoth Cave in Ken- tucky, where one can make a voyage in the waters of a subterranean river, and catch fish without eyes. The greatest river in the world is the Mississippi, lour thousand one hundred miles long. The largest valley in the world is the Valley of the Mississippi. It contains five hundred thousand square miles, and is one of tlie most fertite regions of the globe. The largest lake in the world is Lake Superior, which is truly an inland sea, being four hundred and thirty miles long, and very deep. The longest railroad in the world is the Pacific Railroad, over three thousand miles ia length. The greatest natural bridce in the world Js \\^e■ NaHnai p-.m~- 3?8 ^^Hl UHE BEAUmiBui,, ,hb moHDBI?PUL, in'wid^A L'^r", '" T'T"''"- " ="'""» — " -ha.m eighty fee. The largest deposit of anthracite coal in the world is in Ppnn sylvania, the mines of which simnl^ fi,« "le world is in Penn- annually. ^^^ ^^^ ""^"^^ ^'^^ '""^ions of tons S— «) ^^•t^.^-^ ^ ^p-~rf t. ^ifiMr DYNAMITE tS. are u^d to explode it '^ ^ ™*" "'^ """"'"'^ ^W-^h Boxes filled with dynamite have been thrown from cre.^ h.' u. with dynamite, the dynamite cartridgef are fT^r'n; ^ ^ '^' and o them i» inseLd another .ilTof'raX ^e, "tCim :' This cartridge contains a "detonator" wh.VK • ""^^ "'^ P'^^er. inch ,o„g, holding, a smal, ci^r^TZ2j'^lZ 'T'^' "" -..er ts attached a fuse.and when the fuse burnslw;:; the f^in^a^ 5 a chasm eighty feet h, at the bottom of Id is the great Red ee hundred and fifty iron ore, the largest ' world is in Penn- '^ith millions of tons AND IPHB WISE. 379 f modern criminals itro-glycerine with •mewhat resembles h weighing about tended with some Lire, it is compara- be materials which ion of dynamite is wder. A wooden : on fire, the only 3m great heights, 1 in railroad colli- tnite are brought [n blasting rocks essed into a hole, :alled the primer. I a copper cap, an er. To this pri- i to the fulminate m the detonator, ,t explodes ; and this, in turn, fires the dynamite, and shatters the rock. If the detonator is set with more than three-fourths of Jts length in the dynamite, the fuse may set fire to the latter and burn ,t away harmlessly before the fulminate is reached and exploded This accounts for many unsuccessful attempts to blow up buildmgs. TMB COW TREE. "Among the many curious phenomena which presented themselves to me m the course of my travels," says Humboldt, « I confess there were few by which my imagination was so profoundly aflfected as bv the Cow Tree. On the parched side of a rock on the mountains of Venezuela grows a tree with dry and leathery foliage. For several months m the year its leaves are not moistened by a shower- its branches look as if they were dead; but when its trunk is bored a bland and nourishing milk flows from it. It is at sunrise that the vegetable fountain flows most freely. At that time the natives are seen coming from all parts with bowls to receive the milk. Some empty their bowls on the spot, while others carry them to their children." i< s — ■* u rHOUGH the tropical scrubs of Queensland are very luxuriant and beautiful, they are not without their danger- ous drawbacks, for there is one plant growing in them that IS really deadly in its effects-that is to say, deadlv m the same way that one would apply the term to fire, as, if a certam proportion of any one's body is burnt by the sting- ing tree death will be the result. It would be as safe to pa^s through fire as to fall into one of these trees. They are found grow- ing from two to three inches high, to ten or fifteen feet. In the old ones the stem is whiash, and red berries usually grow on the top. It emits a peculiar and disagreeable smell, but is best known ^y its leaf, whJch is nearly round, and. having a nnJnfr «f fu» *^_ :- / ^ _,, 880 mu BEAummu, ms wonderful. "Sometimes," says a traveler, "while shooting turkeys in the crubs, I have entirely forgotten the stinging trea,«ll warned of s fmost of them. I was only once stung, and that very lightly. Its effects are cunous; it leaves no mark, but the pain is maddening, and for months afterward the part when touched is tender, in ;ainv weather or when it gets wet in washing, etc. I have seen a man, who eats ordmary pan, hghtly, roll on the ground in agony, after, bl" stu g; and have known a horse so completely mad,°afte get tng L": agrove of the trees, that he rushe >»- ' • ^- i ,__ a ill 1 Hi ^" ■ ■! 1 i i If! d8» JPMB BEAU^IPUli, »DHS5 WONDBI^PUli, reached the spot where he had rested. The poor dog had crawled, all bloody as he was, to the forgotten bag. When he saw his master, he still showed his joy by the wagging of his tail. He tried to rise, but bs strength was gone; and, after stretching out his tongue to lick the hand that was now fondling him in agony of regret, he closed his eyes m death. The Biggest Flower m the World ^1 -^^ '°'"^ °^ *^^ ^^^^ ^"'^''^ ''^^"'^'' ^^''^'^ '" "^-'^"y q"eer things ira grow, IS found a flower that measures a full yard across. Yet •^ It has only a cup-like center, and five broad, thick, fleshy petals. I been from a distance, through the dark green leaves of the vines among which it grows, the rich wine-tint of the flower, flecked with spots of a lighter shade, is said to impart a warmth and brilliancy of color to the ^/^ole surrounding scene. But the nearer the observer comes-all eagerness to see more closely so wonderful a flower-the less does he like it. Not that the color is less beautiful ; but who cares for beauty ,n human beings, when its possessor is malicious, disdain- ful, or untruthful? And who cares for beauty in a flower, when the odor IS disagreeable? So,notvv:d.standing its proudly brilliant color, and its great size, the raffleszactrldia will never be admired, for we are told that its "odor IS mtolerable, polluting the atmosphere for many feet around " Another bad trait of its flower-character is, that it is too lazy to sup- port Itself, buc lives upon the labors of others. In the forests where It IS tound, there are many vines, sometimes climbing up the trunks of the trees, and sometimes trailing along the ground. Fastening itself to a vine m the latter position, the unprincipled rafflesia grows with- out other trouble to itself than to draw for its own use, the nutriment which the industrious vine-roots are all the while collecting from the earth. The vine must be very amiable, you think? Ah! but the poor vine cannot help itself. It cannot shake off the big, selfish flower, and can only work harder than ever to collect supplies suffi- cient to nourish the odious hanger-on, and have enough, in addition, tor Its own branches and leaves SL Nicholas, AHD IPHB WISE. SS$ THE SCENT OP THE HOSES. The manufacture of the costly perfume, otto of roses, is largely carried on in the valley of Kesanlik, Roumelia, the annual production of the rose farms of which amounts to four thousand four hundred pounds of the otto per year. As it requires about one hundred and thirty thousand roses, weighing some fifty-seven pounds, to make an ounce of the oil, some idea of the extent of the plantations may be formed from the above given total. The flowers are gathered in the middle of May, and the harvest continues for three weeks. The blossoms collected each day are at once worked, in order that none of the odor may be lost. The process consists in distilling them in water, and then causing the water alone to undergo distillation, when the oil is skimmed from the surface. The labor is principally done by women and children, at wages of about ten cents per day. Geranium oil is used in adulterating the perfume. — '^•0^»»J%r* THE ROSE GARDENS OP PRANCE. The rose gardens of France are celebrated. Acres or acres oif roses bloom in them for the^ perfumer. Heliotrope, mignonette and other floral plants are also found side by side with them in dense masses. The air is heavy with almost sickening fragrance, and for miles around the breezes bear the svveet tidings that they "have flown o'er the gardens of Gaul in their bloom." But who has heard of an English lavender-field ? Few, certainly, in this country. Within thirty miles of London these lavender-fields have become an extensive and recognized industry. There is annually produced in England alone sufficient oil from the plant to manufacture thirty thousand gal- Ions of spirits of lavender, besides a large quantity, the total of which is unknown, to be used in the production of other perfumes with more pretentious names. This plant is at the best when between three years of age and seven. The harvest time is the first week in August. The flowers are then cut and taken to the distillery, followed by an innumerable number of bees, which insects are especially fond of them. Here the essential oil is pressed out, and is ready to be mixed with the j">^j-w njgivuicjiis S.V,- iuiiiiv iuvvnucr water. li^ I i. ««4 IHHS DBflUUtlFtaii, TTHE W0HDBI^.PUL, THE POWER OF GROWTH. There Js no human engineering which ca.i compare in power with he silent machinery of a growing forest. It has been estimated that the physical energy of the sap in the plant is fourteen times that of he blood m man. Professor Clark, of the Massachusetts Agricul- tural College, has recently succeeded in measuring the power of growth of a squash. He harnessed it in iron, put it in prison, and gave ,t a weight to lift. The squash, thus harnessed, was placed ma box in such a way that it could only grow by pushing upward, and lifting the long lever with the weights suspended on it. The result was that the squash steadily pushed its way upward, carrying the bar and wtig. ^ith it. On Aug. 21 it was lifting 60 pounds, Sept. 15 It was lifting 1,400 pounds, Oct. 18, 3,z2o pounds, Oct. ,1, 5,000 pounds. How much more it could have carried is not known, for at this point the iron harness cut into the rind of the squash, thus putting an end to the experiment. There is, to our imagination soniethmg grand in the thought of a force so vast, so almost incalcu-' lable, exerted without noise, and apparently far exceeding the ordinary exigencies of the plant. In every acre of well-cultivated ground a power IS silently at work which transcends man's mightiest machines, byahnost as much as the .finite transcends the finite.~///«.^^«/,rf Lhrtstian Weekly, WHEN THE HEAVENS SHALL PASS AWAY. The prophetic picture in Scripture of a day when "the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat the earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burned up, has recently received a striking illustration, possibly venhcation. A brilliant star of the third magnitude made its appear- ance suddenly in the constellation of the Swan. Previous surveys of the heavens have been so tnorough and accurate as entirely to preclude the idea that this star could have previously existed in its then apparent size, and have escaped observation. Examinations with the spectroscope have led astronomers to the hypothesis that it was a sun like our own «i«a» iiii WM« ii mnii««j> PUh, il. pare in power with 3een estimated that rteen times that of iachusetts Agricul- ing the power of It it in prison, and nessed, was placed r pushing upward, Jnded on it. The upward, carrying lifting 60 pounds, ) pounds, Oct. 31, ied is not known, )f the squash, thus our imagination so almost incalcu- ;ding the ordinary iltivated ground a i3:htiest machines, nite. — Illustrated S AWAY. len "the heavens shall melt with e therein shall be itration, possibly made its appear- evious surveys of itirely to preclude its then apparent t the spectroscope un like our own, -I ■ H m§ ¥ ■ , m !■ An-j THE WISH. 386 which, for some unexplained reason, suddenly blazed up with several hundred times its former luster, and with a degree : heat which must have consumed its own planetary system, if it were the center of one. We speak of this as a recent phenomenon ; but, though only recently seen, it probably occurred some ce.ituries a-o, the light of this conflagration having taken that length of time to travel from the burnmg system to our own. Of course this does not prove that a similar catastrophe will bring the world's drama to a tra-ic end • in deed, thus far these blazing suns have not been discovered h, our re-ion of the heavens ; but it at least illustrates .he possibility of a very lit^'eral interpretation of the Biblical prophecies concerning the world's future destruction. WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE, rHAT assertion will make one believe that in one second of ' time— one beat of the pendulum of a clock—a ray of light travels over 155,000 miles, and would, therefore, perform the tour of the world in about the same time it requires to wink 5M<» with our eyelids, and in much less time than a swift runner occupies in taking a single stride? What mortal can be made to believe, without demonstration, that the sun is over a million times larger than the earth, and so far from us that a cannon-ball shot directly toward it, and maintaining its full speed, would be twenty years in reaching it; yet the sun affects the earth appreciably, by its attraction, in an instant of time? Who would not ask for demonstration, when told that a gnat's wing m ,ts ordinary flight, beats many hundred times in a second? Or that there exist animated and regularly-organized beings, many thousands of whose bodies, laid together, would not cover the space of an inch? But what are these to the astonishing truths which modern optical inquiries have disclosed, and which teach that every pomt of a medium through which a ray of light passes is affected with a succession of periodical movements, regularly recurring at equal intervals, no less than five hundn^d mHU^^c ^f _:n:^„. -r.T_-. n_ - -- . ,,, iixiiiU/h^ ui lllliC3 «0 886 5JHB BEAUTIFUL, THH WONDBI^PUL, 1 $ m 5 § ivi: ii| 1 III ■. s ii!i 1 •■• i Wkih '- wi'l » in a single second? That it is by 8uch movements, communicated to the nerves of the eye, that we are enabled to see; nay, more, that it is the difference in the frequency of diversity of color? That, for in- stance, in acquiring the sensation of redness, our eyes are affected four hundred and eighty-two millions of millions of times; of yellow- ness, five hundred and forty -two millions of times; and of violets, seven hundred and seven millions of millions of times per second? Do not such things sound more like the ravings of madmen, than sober conclusions of people in their waking sense? They are, never- theless, conclusions to which any one may certainly arrive, who will only be at the trouble of examining the chain of reasoning by which they have been obtained. It is worthy of examination. r//B MOON IS A DEAD WORLD, Beautiful to the eye of the distant observer, the moon is a sepul- chral orb, a world of death and silence. No vegetation clothes its vast plain of stony desolation, traversed by monstrous crevasses, broken by enormous peaks, that rise like gigantic tombstones into space; no lovely forms of cloud float in the blackness of its sky. There daytime is only night lighted by a rayless sun. There is no rosy dawn in the morning, no twilight in the evening. The nights are pitch dark. The rocks reflect passively the light of the sun; the craters and abysses remain wrapped in shade; fantastic peaks rise like phantoms in their glacial cemetery; the stars appear like spots in the blackness of space. The moon is a dead world. She has no atmosphere — sS". ^S". Conant. VELOCITY OF LIGHT, Prof. Cornu, of the "Ecole Polytechnique," Paris, who has here- tofore made many experiments on the velocity of light, has recently perfected a new instrument for determining this velocity. This instru- ment has an electrical registering apparatus, and it is thought that more accurate results can be obtained with it than with the well- *KD ?IIHB WISH. 88Z known toothed-wheel apparatus of Fij^eau. Foucault fixed the vdocty of h,.ht w.th his instrument at ,85,.57 -ilcs per second. Conu, with his new instrument, fixes the velocity of li^ht at ,86,660 m.les per second, or 1,503 miles per second faster than Foucault. WHAT THE MICROSCOPE REFEALS, Mold is a forest of beautiful trees, with the branches, leaves and irui i« Butterflies are fully feathered. Hairs are hollow tubes. The surface of our bodies is covered with scales like a fish; a single gram of sand would cover one hundred and fifty of these scales, and yet a scale covers five hundred pores. Through these narrow open- ings the perspiration forces itself, like water through a sieve. Each drop of stagnant water contains a world of living creatures swimming with as much liberty as whales in the sea. Each leaf has a colony of insects grazing it, like a cow in a meadow. — Exchange. BIRB FISH, These little creatures are so well known that it is not important to s.iy much about them. Lovely little creatures they are, of the Pike family, which have taken to the open sea, where they rise with a stroke of the tail many feet out of the water, their bright purple backs and sides gleaming in the sun, as, with their long transparent a m.firvs outspread they fly for as much as two hundred yards before tney fall back, to spring up ag^in with another stroke. As one-half of creation lives on the other half, so these bird-fish have their special _mus, ot „«x^::, pcrnaps, ine iJoiauos, a larger fish, are chief. 888 i t fPHB BEAUTIFUL, IHHB WONOBI^PUZf, ld>» *r 5) HO has not heard of this wonderful little ^l}.*' " Ship of Pearl," which can frequently be seen in the Atlantic in large numbers, when the sea is calm, sailing jauntily along? It is much like a little globe partly ibmerged, with a projection on each side like a prow and rudder. On the summit is the sail, an elegant douhle-frill, sometimes white, sometimes bright Vermillion. From Ihe under side depend the tasseled-silk tentacles, which to touch is II' xt to death, for, like all the lasso-throwers, they poison whatever living thing they touch. It is easy to reach and grasp these beautiful sailors, but none ever attempt it the second time. All will be interested in the beautiful illustra- tion we give. . — ■ >! » o^ifo »■ }< ■ i ^ FISH THAT BUILDS NBSTS. Not exactly in the branches of trees, but in the beds of rivers, where he makes a little hollow in the ground, then builds it up with twigs and sticks just like a bird, cementing and making it all solid with a sort of slime which his own -•l«HMIM AND IPHE WISa. ggg body furnishes. Into this little nest ther the mother fish enters, hws her egsrs in bird-hke fashion, over which, the warm currents broodinfr they are presently hatched out. No inhabitants of the sea are more mteresting in their habits than these bird-fish. They are the stickle- S — a) - vl » * \^ ~x^-^ A NIMROD AMONG TUB FISHES. He is not a beauty. But surely we must not forget to mention hnti, bemg nothmg more nor less than a fish who fishes for a living He .s no better than his betters, who stand on the shore, and fish with a barbed hook concealed within some toothsome morsel- for although he does not use a barbed hook, his pastime is even more delusive and deadly to the fish themselves. See now where, amoncr he reeds, hes half concealed this always hungry vampire of the se.". It would seeMi that he does not need to employ any artifice to secure Its dmner. He is large enough and strong enough to successfully attack any ordinary fish, being fully three feet long, half that in duimeter. and has a mouth with a breadth and expansion of at least two teet. But he is too lazy to fight until he has ever^ advantage on his s..le. On top of his great head is a little ct something, like a fishing-rod, from which depends a little line, with a limpet on the end for bait. Gracefully this is permitted to wave in front of some unwary herring, or other fry, until, deoyed within reach, the .avern- ous mouth receives him in, to go n<. more out forever. This is the Angler or Fishing Frog. He catches and actually swallows fish as large as himself. OYSTERS GROWING ON TREES. This is not altogether a traveler's fable. In tropical countries abounds a tree called the Mangrove. It is in itself one of the mar- vels of vegetation. It is shaped and grows like any tree, except that »ts trunk IS sustained in air many feet by its roots. Thus you see its loots make a large tent under the trunk. Well. wh.„ fh« .;a^ „..> out, the roots and trunk of the tree are often found covered with oysters and other mollusks. Query: Does this make them vegetable oysters? Not much. ^ IIS I I «90 mu BBAUTIPUmpHB WONDBl^PUli, ^ VERITABLE SEA BOSSY, Nearly everybody has heard about the Sea-Horse but no. «« have heard of the Sea-Cow M«f , ' °* ^° "^^"^ our own shores nrethev"^' >^ ^ '"^ '^''''' "^^^''^ ^'"' '^''"^' the west coZ of Sn 7 A '' ' "^""^ ''^^ '''' '''''' "^ Africa and iic west coast ot bouth America are thev fonnr? Tk: i • j • , as M»„a,aes, while s.ill another kind edkd aI n " r""" in .he Indian Ocean and along ,he cot; s twn.a'^lher '°",f creatures do not live like othrr fi,l, I„„ '"■""""I'". These gentle •he sea, ver, ,„uch,ike ou ot, j';' i^HnVlTf "" '"T'°"^ "' har„,less. Some think that these SrCowT.e whalT ^"''.'"'■"=.- to .he popular s.orie. about mer,naids,r: r I'a BrvTrt"" m.lk.g,ver, and when, with her nursing baby cla ifto he b 7 Dug:„gs n,ui7havrn e tc rsiSi;:? :r: t: t ''"""*"' "-" of life have finally .ade thriT;!!'::" '''"'""' ^°"'"«™' S-«-^S..3^r 1!9— J L^MTBMMS IN r»£ BBBP SEA .r;l::r:;;is^;;::3--'^^^^^^^^ with a weight of n,a;:y' toIC a nd i^ o, of Z ^ ^"'"^ """ deeps with a weird and ghastly li^ht Thu tC T'"' '^' miners with lamps on thdr heads TherT !f '"?' "'""' ^''^^ Bombay Due, The Scope^an * thf B^Jr T J^^ *^^ the beautiful Ribbon Fish, twenty feet lom tTu c ' °' '"^""^ rows of gleaming lights 2112 v ^' " '''' ^'°'^'''''-^' ^^^^ '^^ 1" PUIi, >SSK rse, but not so many which beat against coast of Africa and rhis kind is known ^ugongs, are found »lia. These gentle ig the meadows of stures, and quite as lat have given rise ■a Bossy is a true ped to her breast, Hy unlike a human the Manatees and :hanged conditions s, dwell forms of lere, on the very :h gloom as we the waters press deep-sea rovers rst asunder with sea" dwell not them with lights ch illumine the move about like phosphorescent here, too, swims stomias, with its «)enx*>.fe We are permitted to make the following beautiful extracts from the works of Rev. E. F. Burr : ORDER IS HEAVEN'S FIRST LAW, JHESE are the systems, into which all the heavenly bodies are arranged: 1. A body, not self-luminous, has one or more like bodies revolving around it. There are many such systems, which we will call satellite-sy stems. Our earth and its moon are one. 2. Several of these primary systems form a still larger neighbor- hood, and revolve about a self-luminous body, like the sun. There are many such systems, which we will call planet-systems. 3. Several of these planet-systems form a still larger neighbor- hood, and revolve about a common point within it. There are many such systems, which we will call sun-systems. 4. Several of these sun-systems form a neighborhood still larger, and circulate about one point within it. There are many such systems, which we will call group-systems. 5. Several of these group-systems unite in a still larger neighbor- hood, and in revolving about a common point within it. They're are many such systems, which we will call cluster-systems. 6. Several of these cluster-systems combine into another system still grander, whose center of motion is also common to all its mem- bers. There are many such systems, which we will call nebula, systems. 7. Finally, all the systems of space, composing one great neigh- borhood that embrace all other neighborhoods, revolve around one ■ motion-center of the creation. ■ 3] is I399J 400 WHB BBAUIFIPUL, VHU WONDBI^PUL, \ THE YEARS OF THE PLANETS, OVV long are the members of our system in traveling around li^i ^'^^ ^"" ^ ^'^ ^"^^ **^® period of Mercury to be three months, ^ *1 °^ ^^""8 ^®ven months, of the earth one year, of Mars two ^/^ yeats, of Jupiter twelve, of Saturn twenty -nine, of Uranus e"nHB WISB. 401 eleventhou8and,thecometof 1680, at its fastest, eight hundred and eighty-four thousand miles an hour. We have wondered at the great pace of the eagle, of the winds, of the cannon-ball, of the moon, with her fifty.four thousand miles a day; and yet the moon, on her monthly journey about uf, is but an indifferent traveler compared with the most leisurely of the planets. They all seem as if on some urgent errand- some errand of life and death. When one is resting his weary body from a third to a half of his whole time, and happens to think of the tremendous and remorseless activity of those great revolving spheres, he is discontented with himself What miraculous fleetness! What if those flying orbs should, through some want of balance in the sys- tem, encounter each other in mid-heaven I -'' jt T1VELVE THOUSAND FOLD SUN. The Sinus system is equal in light to sixty-three of our suns ; the Pole-Star system to eighty-six. In each of these, the two stars com- posing the system differ exceedingly from each other in brightness, and the larger star must be credited with most of the brilliancy. Think of an eighty.fold sun I However, some stars are still more astonishing; Vega, for example, which blazes with the might of three hundred and forty-four suns ; Capella, for example, which blazes with the light of four hundred and thirty; Arcturus, for example, which blazes with the hght of five hundred and sixteen; Alcyone, for example, which blazes with the light of twelve thousand! As we have seen, our sun is no trifle. Its astonishing orb would nearly fill the whole lunar orbit; and would weigh down, eight hundred times over, its whole ponder- ous cortege of satellites, planets, and comet.. And yet it is only one of the lesser lights of space. Not the smallest, indeed— forbid it, little 61 Cygni— but still a mere rush-light and glow-worm as compared with many of the huge luminaries which pour their glories adown the immensity of nature. It could not remain visible a moment in the pres- ence of such golden-haired and majestic day-kings as even Sirius and Polaris, to say nothing of those huger monarchs whose eflfulgence '•»kAUl O paces. ii si I 26 ill ijll : i ^il *0« IPHB BBAUTIPUL, fPHB WONDEI^PUL, THE BEAUTIFUL PLEIADES, Look at the famous and beautiful Pleiades! Gathered about the brightest star of the group, Alcyone, the telescope sees fourteen con- spicuous stars. These are all creeping along the sky, equally fast and m the same direction. The calculus of probabilities assure's u.s that thechaPces are hundreds of millions to one against their being merely optically connected. They form one grand astronomical neighborhooc^ in space, .round who- center of gravity they all revolve; one grand company ofcelestial navigators, exploring their way by unerring, ui 8t.nct, without chart or compass, through trackic-ss space. The distance of this group-system f.om us has been determined by the determina- tmnofthe distance of Alcyone; and is twenty-five million diameters of the earth's orb.t. Were the Pleiades this moment blotted out of existence, they would still blaze away in the neck of Taurus for more than seven hundred years; for that is the time spent by light in pass- mg from that system to us. ^ THE CENTER OP MOTION OP ALL THE HEAVENLY BODIES, What 18 the center of motion of all the heavenly bodies ? Astron omers hav. sought to answer this question, and apparently not -n vam. By methods which can not now be explained, it is found that Alcyone-most beautiful star of the beautiful Pleiades-is the center of our motion; and that we are moving about it at the rate of more than thirty-three millions of miles a year, on an orbit whose diameter IS fifty million times larger than that on which we move about the sun As the distance of Alcyone is approximately known, we can find our period. It is only about twenty millions of years. Such is our sun's center of motion. 'And the celebrated Maedler has shown that it is also the center of a great number of other suns- m fact, that the proper motions of the stars in all quarters of the heavens conform to the idea that they are spurring in glorious cur- nculum around the same point. He concludes that Alcyone is the center of th^ whole nebulae. AND IFHB WISH. 403 ? HEAVENLY A WONDERFUL THING PASSING IN THE HEAVENS. A wonderful thing has been noticed in tuat part of the heavens that 18 now passing over our meridian southward from the zenith- the region occupied by Orion, the river Po. Sirius, and especially the Dove. It has been noticed that the stars in this region are gradually drawing together, just as the ships of a fleet would seem to do to on.- suhng away from them; while at the opposite quarter ot the sky the stars are gradually separating, just as ti.e ships of another fleet would seem to do to one sailing toward them. Great Hercules is yearly becoming huger and brawnier; his dub, and especially his bow growing every year more formidable. This has been goin<. on now fm a great number of years. Of course, there is buf 'nie explanation. Our sun, with its retainer-worlds about it, is saimg ..ay through space toward Hercules, on an orbit so vast that x le part >/ it which has been described from the date of the earliest k -crate oi nervations does not differ sensibly from a straight line. At last, i ^... ..er, we shall double the wondrous cape of our great ellipse; and then the dove will begin to expand and piume her heavenly wings, while champion Her. cules will dwarf behind us. ^HK^rzS^- A UNIVERSE SYSTEM AT LAST, Eighteen million suns belong to our firmament. More than four thousand such firmaments are visible; and every increase of telescopic power adds to the number. Where are the frontiers-the last astro- nom.cal system-that remote spot beyond which no nebula, no world glitters on the black bosom of eternal nothingness? Probably, some •me of those many nebulae just brought into faint view by the great reflector at Rosse Castle, is but another Andromeda ; which, thou^^h visible to the naked eye, gives no sign of being resolved into st^rs by an mshument of four hundred times the eve's space-penetratinp power. Thmk of the distance expressed by four hundred times the distance of the milky way of Andromeda-five millions of years as fl.es the light! Alas, how feeble are our powers! How they labor and bow under the weierht of such m\^v.t^ ^,.™u„>„ _...,. : . \Vi 404 ^HHE BEAUTIFUL, »FHB WONDBI^PUIi. Ga.'^al What wondrous chronometers those must be which would take fitting account of the ongoings of such far-off firmaments ! Could you stand, with a wand in your hand reaching to that remotest galaxy, and sweep it around you in every direction, what an empire fit for a^ Jehovah would fall within the embrace of those glorious circles I And yet who shall say that even this is the whole astronomical universe? What right have we to stop just where the power of our instruments happens for the moment to have stopped, and say, "This is the end— these are the Pillars of Hercules? Turn back, O adventurous ex- plorer— nothing but night and void in this direction— thou hast reached the last outpost of the kingdom of the Eternal ! NE PLUS ULTRA !» No ; thrice no. On, still through peopled infinitude, through reigning galaxies and tornado-nebula; and, while thou goest outward still through the charging, storming hosts of suns as long as thought can fly, or angels live, say ever to thyself, « Lo, these are parts of his ways ; but how little a portion is heard of Him 1 The thunder of His power, who can understand ?" "^ i^ SEa jw^ - iSaa afi a i s^ ^r'* )e which would aments! Could remotest galaxy, empire fit for a IS circles! And >mical universe? our instruments his is the end — adventurous ex- lou hast reached I NE PLUS pled infinitude, hile thou goest }ts of suns as :> thyself, «'Lo, heard of Him 1 gBSB6»Basa«S(«BW«»s« WILLING TO DIE FOR f(§b=i- _^3»to4o» I T is related of an ancient King, Tigranes, that on one occasion a subject was brought before him who had been the leader of a formidable rebellion. The prisoner was attended by his wife and aged parents, all of whom supposed that the sentence of death would be pronounced upon them. Touched by their grief, Tigranes said to the man : " What would you give, if the lives of your parents might be spared?" The man mentioned a large amount of treasure that was concealed in a certain place, and said that he would give the whole of that. « What would you give," continued the King, "if the life of your wife could be spared?" "To save her," said the man, " I would give my own life." The whole party were, however, pardoned, and when the King had retired, the man said to his wife : " Did you observe the magnificence of the King's apparel, and the dignity of his bearing?" "No," replied the wife, "I sa\ • only the man who was willing to die for ;«e." — Chaplain McCabe. B£//\rG SOLD OUT BY THE SHERIFF. The man hud not been able to nay his debts. The mortgage on the farm had been foreclosed. Day of sale had come. The sheriff st (xl on a box reading the terms of vendue. All payments to be made in six months. The auctioneer took his place. The old man and his wife, and the children all cried, as the piano, and the chairs, and the pictures, and the carpets, and the bedsteads, went at half their worthc When the piano went it seemed to the old people as if the sheriff were selling all the fingers that ever played on it, and whe i the carpets were struck off, I think father and mother thought of the little feet that had tramped them, and when the bedstead was sold it brought to I III ap7 408 5tHB BEAUmmU, IPHB WOKDBI^PUIi, m.nd the bnght curly heads that had slept on it long before the dark days had come, and father had put his name on the back of a note signing h:s own death-warrant. The next thing to being buried' and V' ; ^" "" ^'"''' "" ^"' °"' "^^" y- ^-^ I'-" honest, and tned always to do right. There are so many envious ones to I oH f ?.r"' > '"'* '°'"' '" '° ^""y >'°"'- ^^'•^•'^g^' blessing the ^n^-^VT "' '°'"' ^"'' ^°" *° ^^^'^^ «"d f°r them to ride.- J . Ue Wttt ralmage. Why Some People are Poor, I ILVER spoons are used to scrape kettles. ' Coffee, tea, pepper, and spices are left to stand open and lose their strength. X" Potatoes in the cellar.grow, and the sprouts are not re- moved until the potatoes become worthless. Brooms are never hung up and are soon spoiled. Nice handled knives are thrown into hot water ^'2)s ^r T ''^'f . '" ^ ^"'^'^"^ '"'""^'•' '-^"^ the bread-pan is left with the dough sticking to it. Clothes are left on the line to whip to pieces in the wind. Tubs and barrels are left in the sun to dry and fall apart. Dned fruits are not taken care of in season, and become wormy. Kags, strings, and paper are thrown into the fire. Pork spoils for want of salt, and beef because the brine wants scaldinof. Bits or meat, vegetables, bread, and cold puddings are thrown away, when they might be warmed, steamed, and served as good as new. ° — -»*-«— <"^«i8N-c' — «>-$<• — MORE SENSE THAN NONSENSE. AFTER ALL. Most people are like an egg, too phull ov themselves to hold enny- thing else. ^ There is nothing so delishus tew the soul ov man az an okasional moment ov sadness. ng before the dark he back of a note, J to being buried have been honest, ny envious ones to riage, blessing the for them to ride, OOH. ) stand open and routs are not re- bread-pan is left le wind. 1 apart. ;come wormy. the brine wants ngs are thrown served as good rBX ALL, res to hold enny- az an okasional AND IHHB WISB. 409 Cuiiosity iz the germ ov all enterprises— men dig for woodchucks more for curiosity, than they do for woodchucks. If i want tew git at the trew karakter ov a man, i studdy his vizes more than i du his virtews. Those who expekt tew keep themselves pure in this life must keep their souls bileing all the time, like a pot, and keep all *he time skimming the surface. What a Hlessed thing it is that we kant "see ourselves az others see us,"— the sight would take all the starch out ov us. Thare ia lots ov pholks m this wurld who kan keep nine out ov ten ov the commandments without enny trouble at all, but the one that is left they kant keep the small end ov. Thare iz lots ov folks in this wurld whom yu kan bio up like a bladder, and then kik them as high az yu plez. I have alwus notissed one thing, that when a cunning man burns hiz fingers, everybody hollers for joy. I sumtimes distinguish between talent and genius in this way: A man of talent kan make a whissel out ov a pig's tale, but it takes a man ov genius to make the tale. I kant tell now whether a goose sfands on one leg so much is to rest the goose. I wish some scientific man would tell me all about this. I had rather be a child again than to be the autokrat ovthe world. There is numerous individuals in the land who look upon what they hain't got az the only thing worth bavin. A fu branes in a man's hed are az noisy as shot in a blown up bladder. One man ov genius to 97 thousand four hundred and 42 men ov talent iz just about the right perporshun for actual bizzness. Ventilashun is a good thing, but when a man kant lay down in a 10 aker lot without taking down lengths of fence to let the wind in, he iz altogether too airish. I think that a hen who undertakes to lay 2 eggs a day must neces- sarily neglekt sum other branch ov bizzness. Thare iz menny a slip between a cup and a lip, but not haf az menny az thare ought tew be. The two most important words in enny language are the shortest, ;. V ,«^ u SJ^ »> 4(0 1«HE BBAUfHIPuL, OIHB WOHDBI^PUL, Rather than not hav fji^h in ennything, } am willing to be beat nine times out ov lo. I don't never hev enn) croubble in regulating mi own conduct, but tew keep other pholks straight iz what bothers me Josh Billings. * ■ T ='"^=*Hillih-^="'; ; - "I A BEAUTIFUL MCIIKENT. .j==, that she cried out: « My dear, ^re yc not afraid? How is it possible you can be so calm in such a dreadiul storm ?" He rose from his chair, dashed ii H he deck, .irew his sword, and pointing it at the breast of his wifs, «zdau:,\ed: "Are you afraid?" She immediately answered^ *•- No.** «V/hy?" said the officer. '' Because," replied the wife, « I know that the sword is in the hands of .^y husband, and he. loves me too well to hurt me." * Then,"" aaid he, « I know in whom I believe, and He who holds the wind in Hv> hand is my Father." STICK TO IT AND SUCCEED, Perseverance is the main thing in life. To hold on and hold out to the end, h tht, chief matter. If the race could be won by a spurt, thousands would wear the blue ribbon; but they are short-winded, and pull up after the first gallop. They begin with flying, and end in crawling backward. When it comes to the collar work, many take to jibing. !f the apple does not fall at the first shake of the tree, your hasty folks are too lazy to fetch a ladder, and in too much of a hurry to wait till the fruit is ripe enough to fall of itself. The hasty man is as Ke is like the ., aXixx as cold as ice at the end. !«* i '& Jfe tUIi, willing to be beat mi own conduct, (thers me. — Josh ul storm, his wife tvm for I he safety '.y and composu' >, ible you can be so w his sword, and sword is in the jrt me." id He who holds on and hold out won by a spurt, hort-winded, and V'ing, and end in vork, many take tree, your hasty h of a hurry to hasty man is as He IS like the AND IHHB VISE. VLK irishman's saucepan, which had many good points about it, but it had no bottom. He who cannot bear the burden and heat of the day, is not worth the salt, much less his potatoes. We oi!,;-ht not to be put out of heart by difficulties; they are sent on purpose to ity the stuff we are made of, and depend upon it, they tlo us a world ,>f ^ood. There's a reason why there are boijes in our n^eat, and utone v in our land. A world where everything was easy would be a nuisery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men. Celery is not sweet till it has felt a frost, and men don't come to their perfection till disappointment has dropped a half a hundred weight or two' on their '.0^%.— -Anonymous. COURAGE IN EVERYDAY LIFE, IORAL courage was printed in large letters and put as the caption of the following items, and placed in a conspicuous place on the door of a systematic merchant in New York, for constant reference : Have the courage to discharge a debt while you have the money in your pocket. Have the courage to speak your mind when it is necessary that you should do so, and hold your tongue when it is prudent that you should do so. Have the courage to speak to a friend in a «» seedy" coat, even though you are in company with a rich one, and richly attired. Have the courage to own you are poor, and thus disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. Have the courage to tell a man why you refuse to credit him. Have the courage to tell a man why you will not lend him your money. Have the couraare to cut the most agreeable acquaintance you have when you are convinced that he lacks principle; a friend should bear with a friend's infirmities, but not with his vices. I I 8 . 3ie V^ I U- .&2avw tiic courage to onow your rcspecr lor nonesty, in wnatever l,:« -m m wi 1 4I£ 'PHB BEAU5IIPUL, inHB WONDBl^PUIi, guise it appears and your contempt for dishonesty and duplicity hv whomsoever exhibited. ' "P"i-iiy, ny a.I.hC """"" '"''"''" """''"■' ""'' P™P""^'° '-"■''■••■" seek"rtao„rr°'' '; •••!^"°"''''"° ^™^ '=""--' ""-er than .0 seek tor knowledge under false pretences. c.X'la;.!!S7.^'l/r ^^^" ^"^^ ^'3^«f beingHdl. il^Or SEBALD, BUT VISCUBR. Swel?' '" .•''' '^^ ^''"''^ '^'''P'^ '-'^ Nuremburg, that the King of Sweden, pomtmg to a massive bronze statue, inquired: "And whose ^le great St. Sebald." «And who is the builder?" inquired the Kmgu Peter VUcher, the old Nurembu.g founder in Znl '' sl. ^«*^'- J'^-Jher. for h.s memory shall live long after the old Samt IS iox^oVt^nr—Scribner's Monthly. INCBRSOLL ON iNTBMPBRANCB, .J^Z^T^' !'""* '° '" ^"^''"' P'P"'*' ^°^' «-°b^'-' G. Ingersoll says that the only "temperance speech" he ever made, was in what rIlrr"T f,^""r-^ in Chicago, when he mU these few Zree r ' - ^^^^^--ntlemen, that alcohol to a certain Ifnkl; TTf"\I .^ make it, those who sell it, those who drnkit^ I behevethat from the time it issues from the coiled and poisoned worm of the distillery until it empties into the h.ll nf ...,-^.. T^fim^^SSk^ I^PUIi, AND fllHEl WISB 413 sty and duplicity, by ntil you can pay for prlety to fashion, i n ance, rather than to mt for your friends, our possession, and i risk of being ridi- I dishonor, and death, it demoralizes everybody that touches it, from its source to its ends. I do not believe that anybody can contemplate the subject without becomin''"P3thies were recently enlisted for Freddie, a lit- ^ tie fellow of five, who had been kept within doors during a f long storm. His mother, a gentle woman, sat quietly sew- ing, as she chatted with a friend. « Don't do that, Freddie," she said, as the child's whip handle beat a light tattoo on the carpet. The whip dropped. A block castle rose,— and fell, with a crash. « Don't make a noise, Freddie." The boy turned to the window, the restless fingers making vague pictures on the damp pane. " Don't mark the window, Freddie," interposed the mother; and « Don't go into the the hell nf /rltriH H hall," she added, as he onened the donr in famnf. Th« i( .4rtr.»f<=»» ^«»,_ ER. g, that the King of red: "And whose 5 to the memory of ler?" inquired the mder in bronze." ent is to the mem- ong after the old YCE. ibert G. Ingersoll ade, was in what ; made these few cohol to a certain sell it, those who m the coiled and «4 WHB BBAU»nrPUL, THE WONDBI^PUIi, tuiued at brief intervals. At length the smnll man, seatin^r' himself with a pathetically resigned nir, remained perfectly still for about -i mmute. Then with a long-drawn sigh, he asked, '* Mamma, is there anythuig that I can do? " Sometimes «.don't " seems . mere m^ " ,,rance, unheeded by the chdd, unenforced by the pan - . do that, my dear ; » and the httle g„l, tossing oV^er the fiuc .n^^ravings on a friend's table pauses an .nstant. The mother gc. on talking with her friend, the' ch.ld resumes her occupation, and no notice is taken of it, except after a while, the prohibition is carelessly repeated, only to be !..norecl' A forgetful mother makes a forgetful child. Authn . ,, wcuKened by reiterated commands. Too often the « donV are undeserveuld alter my stove-pipe, for I know it is not safe." But he did not find time and when his shop caught fire and burned dowii, he found leisure to build another. " If I had L'isure," said a mechanic, « I should have ,y rk done in season." The man thi.iks L . time has been all ...upicu, but he AHO >rHB Vise. 4i« was nof It work till after sunrise; he quit work at 5 o'clo( ;, smoked a cigar after dinner, and spent two hours on the street talking non- sense with at! idler. "If I had leisure" said a merchant, " I would pay more attention to my accounts, and try and collect my bills more promptly." The chance is, my friend, if you had leisure you would probably pay less attention to the 1 \itter than you do now. The thing lacking with hundreds of fanners who till the soil is, not more leisure but more resolution,^tlie spirit to do, to do now. If the farmer who sees his fence in a poor condition would only act at once, how much might be saved! It would prevent hreachy cattle creating quarrels among neighbors, that in many cases terminate in lawsuits, which take nearly all they are both worth to pay the lawyers. The fact is, farmers and mechanics have more leisure than they are aware of, for study and the improvement of their minds. They have the long evenings of winter, in which they can post themselves up in all the improvem. nts of the day, if they will take ably-conducted agricultural journals and read them with care. The farmer who fails to study his business, and then gets ;haved, has none but himself to blame. — Cor. JV. E. Farmer. THE WOa. TH Ui^ A CONVICTION. ^Tisa true on the 1' west plane of life as on the highest, that according to a ma. faith, viU be unto him. His power in the world— his power ovei msrlf, his power over others, his power over difficulties,— may almust unvaryingly be measured by his convections. V he believes something— believes it with all his heart— he ib a power in the direction of that belief. If he lacks con- victions; if he does not believe anything so positi v that his belief has posses-^ion of him,— that it takes hold of his whole mind and soul, and makes him ready to do everything, to endure everything, and to date everything in its behalf,— all the talents in the world will not makt that i .an a great man, or enable him to accomplish a great work in the world. PeCUliarlv is it' tVnt\ ffinf nnA'o r\r\\ueky kn •mA"'^'''^'^ ^4.U^- \\ m 9 *•• % ill I"'!'! «• THE BBAUTIPUIi, WHS WONDHl^FtUL, depends on the positiveness of his convictions. The lawyer who can most completely identify himself with his client in opinion and fcelin*., .8 most likely to be successful as an advocate. The statesman wh"o has profoundcst convictions is surest of brin-ing others to see as he sees on any question which he discusses before the public. An editor can never hope to bri.ig readers to his way of thinking until he has a way of thmking. His writings will never tell on popular thou-ht while they lack the warmth and energy of i great purpose in tlTeir presentation. No minister is a truly ellective preacher bevond his absolute convictions. Unless .. truth has possession of him, he cannot make it possess others. Without convictions u man can neither be a full man, nor do the full work of a man. With co victions he can be and do,-to the extent of his unwavering beliefs r.nd confidences. What do you beheve? Are you confident that God has set you to declare his truth to this people; to superintend this Sunday-school wisely; to lead this class (o Jesus; to train this child for a great work in his kin nr\ or!.] V.'.,. <— l.l_.l .„!._». i » . . — •" 6" -'■"' '"= iivuuicu siiin j snow mm wnai; io «! ' m 'I 4 Fll: WHB 3BAU»niPUL, THE WOHDEP^PUL, do wid his pore broken heart. Comfort de weepin' Rachels; let de weary Johns lean on dy breas'; hush de stormy seas of sin; b-l-o-c-k a-d-e de road to hell; s-a-v-e, Mastah, o-h, s-a-v-e by de blood of de" Lamb. When you hears de wailin' Marys, tell dem dare dead brud- ders shall come out'n de grave and live; tell de pore chil'n dare sins is all forgiven; tell de a-n-g-e-1-s to take up de harps and de trumpets of glory; fro w-i-d-e open de mansions of the New Jerusalem for de jubi-l-e-e over de one sinner who turns to de Lord to-night. j^|^@>^>^.'^- ''S PRAYER. •I AT do you think of this for a prayer at family worship? Adam Scott gives the following as a prayer once offered by a shepherd, and grandmother has herself heard prayers almost as plain, in their 'comments on the people around, from the lips of Scotch and Scotch-Irish folks: "We particularly thank Thee for Thy great goodness to Meg- and that it ever cam into Thy head to take anv thocht of sic a useless girl as her. For the sake o' Thy p„ir sinfu' creeturs now addressing Thee, ni their ain shilly-shally way; and for the sake of mair than we daur weel name to Thee, hae mercy on our Rab. Ye ken, he's a wild, mischievous callant, and thinks nae mair o' committin talked secret leaSd »: t d^y. ' uiT^lt T '"V"'''- '''^ at home with her boys in he plrio^'TdTh , ""T "f ''" '""""^ lady," they made calfs upon her She L Zt'X ^'^^ """'"^ Joubt for an instant tha^ swee lessonf t , ! ''"°'"" ^° '''' ""' highest gentlemanlines, J pohteness, purity, and that nlings?tai:rdur;\tr.^lIT r^!''-^^^^^^^ *' -""e BB FAITHFUL. ie.» than his best at'^niLTan-d rnCal/cLZstrr "f V" how wron^-fullv vmi o^^. ^i j , ^"i-umscances. JNo matter J ur own sake, afford to use anything but AHD VHE VISE. 48< your better self, nor to render anything but your better services; vou cannot afford to cheat a cheater; you cannot afford to be mean to a mean man; you cannot afford to do other than deal uprightly with any man, no matter what exigencies may exist between him and you. No man can afford to be anything but a true man, living in his higher nature, and acting from the highest considerations. A PmiaCfPLB THAT HOLDS GOOD IN WORK AS WELL AS WAR, Gen. Q. A. Gillmore in his article on « Harbor Defence," says- « Where a large gun is needed to deliver a crushing blow, no possible accumulation of smaller guns will ansv r instead. A thousand pounds of grapeshot, even if fired as one n olley, can be stopped by a one-mch steel plate; but if sent as a single bolt it will shatter the best twelve-inch armor r Nothing could more clearly illustrate the adv^- tages of concentration. A SERMON ON PATIENCE. |UT how much more uo we need patience in regard to the exi- ' gencies of everyday life! How long is a mother's waiting ^^ for the unfolding of her child I How many tears, half o^f ^ su*^i<*e and half of loving indignation before God, does she shed! «I>i€ fnot consecrate this babe to thee in the very womb, my Master? Have I not made myself sacred for the child's sake? Have I not watched over it? Have I not prayed with it? And wher^ore is the child given over, like the fox or the wolf, to lying or to stealing? Is this the saintly creature that 1 meant to rear for God. for men, for myself, and for himself?" But mother, have patience. It is a great thing that thou hast asked. It is a great thing that is to be given thee. You have need of patience after you have done the will of God, day by day, week by week, and month by month, until you have received the answer. A \ il ; I 4M tPHB BEAU5IIPUL, WHB WONDEl^PUli, mother has ;rearfai h, .he d dTat ha" "°""- " '"^ *'"'''• "'■ Krst o,- last, fo.na bad a 'ain P H ^°"° """^ "''" '^""''"'>'' will have need „f Z, , ^'"""^ "'"' ""' f"": but you ence-TspedanVf'^ "" ^™ ""'^' ""^^ " S---' Jea of pat,. .ha.Tharif.r'p::':::'':;^.::,;"' °/\°~^'"' -- n"t*i„ic child doneP Whylas fr ftwUhte^rti"^:-."' """ """ diiiously with vou and «„. . ^ V '' " °'"'"K "nu'titu- bu. one'^.tep i/,he' econ:!:;.:, ' 7- """" '" " ^''™="" " '' child's gooS, but for v^r^Ld ' " """^ '"' ""' ""'^ f-"- "» to vou It m»v h ^ over-measure, that affliction is sent out the proble'. of your^netll^^nl!^,;;^"'^;;! '" --"'"S therefore, judge God by single ..^...JuTlyZ. aZ""^' "'"' ^^^J^TmONY OP TffB AGED. T!f,? "'' '"!""^ ^"'^"^"P ""' •«!"? '^d 'o e flerv stake \ at the age of a hundred yea,., he was urged by some of the heatlien to renounce Chri« hv „«„,•• i word against Him, and'^to Ij hmj ^n"; The":' " °"^f . acrueldeath. But you remember hi , obi: swer-TE;:if and SIX years have I served Him anrl H. K answer, l^ighty but good all my life- and .h^n / "^'^'' ''°"" '"'^ ^"^th'^g WhPn T>wl S' ^" ^ """"^ renounce Him in my old a-e?" preaTliri^dfhTe^d' 7ht'ir "' '"^ ^^^" -mmfntafor °:as wo..,, /My yoke i^, and '^^ frden"' tU "r ''''W'' =:rwnix-k^d^-/'-— i^ there be any that ^^^^^^^T^^^^^ ^ v'hich is twined a of it ; he may go AND >nHB Wise. 487 you turn? Turn to whom you will, and they will all agree that they have found wisdom's ways pleasantness, and Christ's commandments not grievous; and (he added), I will here witness for one who through grace, has in some poor measure been drawing this yoke now above thirty years, and I have found it an easy . -te, and I like my choice too well to change.^'' »^>t » » ®=t- LOST AT LAST. On one of the first days of June a Norwegian ship, heavily fre.ghted and homeward bound, after many long months of absence, foundered, and was totally lost, with all on board, on the Atlantic coast off Ocean Grove. Thus many a soul, heavily and richly fre.ghted, and homeward bound on the voyage of life, is wrecked and . lost. U^ SUCCESS, *:ai^s^Ss ^OW eagerly we listen to all that is told of successful men- m what a mystery surrounds great firms, why are (hey success- ful, what .8 their secret, what the sure road to prosperity ;- T i;ow disappointed we are to find there is no royal road, no short and easy way, and that success during a long term of years in- stead of being the result of brilliant schemes, is due to hard work persistent and painstaking effort, vigilant attention to the little things' thoroughness in all. And how well it is illustrated by this glimpse of the inner workings of a great house in New York: "Toward customers be invariably polite and 'attentive, whether they be agreeable or disagreeable, fair or unfair, considerate or exact- ing, without any regard to their class or condition, unless indeed you ije the more obliging and serviceable to the humble and ignorant. 1 he more self-forgetting you are and the more acceptable you are to whomsoever your customer may be, the better you are as a salesman; « IS your highest duty to be agreeable to all. Show goods freely to all comers; be painstaking to match samples; be as serviceable as you can be to all, whether buyers or not. At the outset vou have to ,.„.« "i ill! 488 S CtHB BBAUfHIPUL, IPHB WONDBI^PUL, What grade of goods she wants, high-priced or low-priced; if you do not guess correctly be quick to discover your error and right yourself instantly. It .s impert.nent to insist on showing goods not wanted; it 18 delicately pohte to get to exactly what is wanted, adroitly, and on the slightest hmt. Do not try to change a buyer's choice except to this extent: Always use your knowledge of goods to her advantage if she wavers or indicates a desire for your advice. What we want sold is the precise art" cle which she wants to buy. In speaking of goods use correct names, say what they are made of if you have occasion, if you do not know and cannot find out, say so; sell nothing on a misunder- standing if you know it exists; make no promises that you have any doubt about the fulfillment of; and having made a promise, do more than your own share toward its fulfillment. See that the next after you does his share if you can." ■-^r CHILDISH TRUST. \ OME years ago a boy was discovered in the street, evidently I bright and intelligent, but sick. A man who had feelings o^ uh,daess strongly develooed went to ask him what he was iloifiav there. ' ' «« I am waiting for God to cors:;e for me," he said. "What do you mean?" asked the gentleman, touched by the pathetic tone of the answer, and the condition of the boy, in whose bright eyes and flushed face he saw the evidence of fever. « God sent for father and mother and little brother," said he, « and took them away up to His home in the sky, and mother told me When she was sick that God would take care of me. I have nobody to give me anything, and so I came out here and have been looking into the rky for God to come and take care of me, as mother said he would. He will come, won't He? Mother never lold me a lie " « Yes. my lad," replied the gentleman, overcome with emotion, " He has sent me to take care of you." You should have seen the boy's eye flash, and the smile of triumph break over his face, as he said : AHD VHB VISE. « Mother never told me a lie, sir. But you have been a long while on the way." What a lesson of trust! And how i e incident shows the effect of never deceiving children with idle tales. *t^.^ -•♦- SUCCESS IN LIFE. ^ »=] ENJ.vMIN FRANKLIN attributed his success as a public man, not to his taients or his powers of speaking — for th« were moderate— but to his known integrity of charact jL « Hence it was," he says, "that I had so much weight wi my fellow citizens. I was but a bad speaker, never elo- quent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in langu e, and yet I generally carried my point." Character creates confidence in mc in high stations as well as in humble life. It was said of the first Emperor Alexander of Russia, that his personal character was equivalent to a constitution. During the wars of the Fronde, Montaigne was the only man ai ng the French g ntry who kept his castle gates unbarred ; and it was said of him that his personal character was worth more to him than a rcvatch ^oly is God's watch. You see .r.T r"'"- N°-. "« h„ma„ face of the watch; bu. the beawt 'hit "' "" ""'"' ^<'" -^h" ;'7 Their sin kills them I i-., , ^°'"''" ^'^^ a verv short are aged people i„ .his house ,„d??' """ ''"'''"«''"«»• There ^-jy-five.vea,. ago b„, fo, .hrdtl:'" T"'" "-» "'"n did You have no more natural resi ',a„„ t"''! ""'' ^^^'Poise of religion ■n Greenwood and Mount Tutr" ' ^T "'r'^ '''' P-P'' wl- I « 'he,r own vices. The doctors made .t"'"' "'" 'O"""^. ^'ain by •» thej. could, and i. was 0^11^/ ""'^ "' ""'"l and pl-a^an^ snakes and the blue.Ries hL . ""S'^'™ "^ '!« b-ain- iTT 'he delirious pa.ien ^owS^'XT '' °T '"' P'"°- '" "' s^ . ^ 'he aged Christian man, wllk'd ^ If ,'"' T"" -"^ him. Yo^ yo" came ,» .he golden pill r of 7o t"*' '"^ """ ""fo'-'nate unm nghLhe went to .he left '"V.'^hnst.an life. You wen. to^h long life Willi satisfy thee."''^- **>"«' ^ght again: ..Wfth Th '^^ ^'^Srs DEATH. ■' was beating i,s las.. """^ '^'""^ """" his flnge,^ but he l^n^w He trembled for Elizabeth , i ■ pated him. '"^'""'- -") 4.«^>5/_You might haye sayed your powder for th. fall alone would have killed him. powuer, tor the Two Mississippi River darkeys saw for th^ flrcf .- cars. They were in a quandaryVlnil wtt kLT' " '"" '' was, so one said: what kmd of a monster it _.^_^^<.>A' Tkou,Ht-U is a dried up steamboat ge.«„g back into the ..fl^ ^'°''^"-" ' '^»""' -' " '-f <"■ b-"•"■» t« perroim all services rf rules .:x tcrit :"" r;:rr;oir ^ or, if pribt::sttTsT;t:^'' ■'"'J' .''''"'■*" ^ "'=-'<• jus. as the ba:;k is closing "'■' bus.ness.lika to rush in In depositing money, try and get it upside down and wron. .„H AKD QIHS WISB. 4<9 'hi\e walking to while pursuing n-ite, cultivaiintr liant authors of 1 languages and laimed, hut by ould steal from rian of Greece, on the subject, ' large volumes ighest English such by steal- Adams, to the ^o redeem the lid. « Time is ere forty-eight n all, if I had Petersburg, he I the civilities Ae IVorld. as postoffice any supposed i, expected to [1 all services re, adopted a he following IS with the 1 3 o'clock, e to rush in wronor end foremost, so that the teller may have a little exercise in straightening it up before counting it. It is best not to take your bank book with you, but call another time to have it entered. You can thus make two trips to the bank where one would answer. If a check is made payable to your order, be careful not to indorse it before handing it to the teller, but let him return it to you, and wait while you indorse it; this helps pass the time, and is a great pleasure and relief to the teller. You can generally make time when making a deposit by counting your money down to the teller, and you can always count more speedily and correctly than he can. If you make a deposit of one hundred dollars and give a check for fifty dollars, it is a good thing to call frequently at the bank and ask how your account stands, as it impresses the officers favorably with your business qualifications. Never keep any record of when your notes fall due, and then if they are protested, censure the bank for not giving you notice. Always date your checks ahead; it is a never-failing sign that you keep a good balance in bank; or if you do not wish it generally known that you are doing a good business, do not deposit your money until about the time you expect your check will be in. A strict observance of the foregoing rules will make your accounts desirable for any bank, and make you a general favorite with all the bank officers. •^ BBAUTiiVL Words and Full of Comfort, [EARLY beloved, do not be afraid to die. Do not be afraid to let your children die. That would be as if a mother rose- bush should be so enamored of the buds which it has carried all winter long, that when spring calls them, it should say: «'Do not blossom, buds; do not blossom." Let your children go when God wants them. There is no bosom so sweet, no cradle so dear, as tiie arms of God. There is nothing in this life so worth 440 ?nHE BEAUTtlPUL, -PHB WONDBI^PUL, ,- — — , havilltj .'is IiTl' (rn•■ m...l:;h:/;:;;:f ,;;;:;;;.;:;:;i-;;";^.,,^y;-; «=•';;« ---ly «. «... o,., KHcvcwhon I.-o. CU^ you. 7"uuZ:, V '",'" '^■' ->-'-ly lies Ilcuy War,l lie. it- "" f„ f ',"'i "''"^ ""•■ '"^'■""•' -.v, ■' ll.,-. your way home; s.a.ul wi.h you, fe , , ,, "", ^'^'''"' >'"" <"■ will no. hear anybody thac .L , ; aM'.^ iT' '""" ,""' ''"^ ' heaven. ^ ** ^^'^'^ '"^ inoutli toward No person can witness the hist cnri . n.med ove.. the re.nains o,' a L lt.r"r';: 7'f ^" ^^^■ unopcnahle hd; the lettin<^ down of ' , ""--^'^^' "'^^•'"'S down of the in. of the ,..een sod ove.- tt ^n c "V "^ "^^ '"^^ ^"'' ^'^^' ^''-- thincrs, and then turn away nru\Z\W: ^T'' "'"" ^'''"^'■^^ '^''^^ buried n.y ehild; I have ^^n-ld ::;',:ve "" ""' "^ "'^^'^ ^ ^^^^ God forbid that we should bury anything Th.. • can touch my companion. There is no e mh\. . '' "° '''""^ *'^'''* I wouUl fi.ht n.y little breath nl t." J T" ^""^'^ "^ '^'"'^• «^it any clod to touch them The , '^ ^''"'"^^ ^ ^°"'^' P^^'" jewel has dropped out of the' cask Zl I " k" ■''? ^■■"'"'- '^'-• the jewel. ''^' ''""^ ^ '^'"'^^ Juried the casket, not VVhen the apple tree blossoms, you lau^dv .nd v > when you pick the apple; but whJn m.n Wo ' '^^ "^' "'-^ then, when God pickJ the fru^, he cH . Wh^ '"'" '?'^^' "'"^' your child till you have lost him ThTwhi i ' ' ^""' ''^''^^ '^ "^'^ ;;;^out is that which you cannor^J '^W ' N^rr ^""^ ^^'"^ he slKdl is broken, and the birdlin. comes fo,.V , "''"' ^'^"^ later, it leaves the nest, and winces Tts w ., ' °'' '^^'"""'* ''"^« mothers do that when tUir chTid en . '' i """''' ''" '"''' ^'^'^ a better world. And ye L ly ^"a " /'"" ""^'' ^^^ ^^^'^^ ^' escape .om the clo, o^.is ^^^^^Z^^Z^l^^-^^ UL, that Is worthy to til (Iocs not know i» the mountain, -'Illy land art- the ••-"'ly to fro. One, not let anybody 1 tiill, and am 'and say, «t I [ere vill not lie there. • helped yon on 1 look up, foi- J mouth toward which are per- iigdown of the t; and the plac- > witness these 'y wife; I have s no earth that ouch my child, t-* I would per- ffi-ound. The the casket, not n do not cry 1 l;iiij?hs, and 11" chikl is not 5"t your arms id cries when when, a h'ttle e air. Only , fly away to rtal love that Beecher. tn 1 i 1 ( J i i: • I; 1 i I- I f^ AND THE WISH. 441 GUB^TBR 10 VB HATH NO MAN THAN THIS. Ill a certain district in Russia there is to be seen, in a solitary place, a pillar with this inscription : « Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend." That pillar tells a touching tale, which many of you must have heard. It was a wild region infested with wolves, and as a little party traveled along it soon became plain that these were on their track. The pistols were fired; one horse after another was left to the ravenous wolves, till, as they came nearer and nearer, and nothing else remained to be tried, the faithful servant, in spite of the expostulations of his master, threw himself into the midst of them, and, by his own death, saved his mas- ter. That pillar marks the spot where his bones were found; that inscription records a ^ble instance of attachment. But there is another nobler still. I.^ere is another pillar, and on it reads: "Herein is love, not tl^at we love God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." !■■■• II, s— ^ r^:..^ T&-J -*•- YOUNG man's interest and duty both dictate that he should make himself indispensable to his employers. He should be so industrious, prompt and careful that the accident of his temporary absence should be noticed by his being missed. A young man should make his employer his friend, by doinc^ faithfully and minutely all that is inti-usted to him. It is a great mistake to be over nice and fastidious about work. Pitch in readily, and your willingness will be appreciated, while the " high-toned " young man who quibbles about what is and what is not his place to do, will get the cold shoulder. There is a story that George Washington once helped to roll a log that one of his corporals would not handle, and the greatest emperor of Russia worked with a shipwright in England— to learn the business. That's just what you want to do. Be energetic, look and act with alacrity, take an interest in your employers success, work as though the business ill d4s ntHB BERUmBUh, WHS WONDEI^PUL, was your own and let your employer know that he may place absolute reliance .n your word and on your act. Be mindful ; have your mind on your busmess, because it is that which is going to help you, not those outsule attractions which some of the « boys" are thiuking about. Take p casure in work ; do not go about it in a listless, formal manner, but with alacrity and cheerfulness, and remember, that while working thus for others you are laying the foundation for your own success in lite. — Anonymous. *■! iiiil SHIP was sailing in the southern waters of the Atlantic when her crew saw another vessel making signals of distress! They bore down toward the distressed ship, and hailed T them: « What is the matter?" « We are dying for water," was the response. « Dip it up then," was answered. « You are in the mouth of the Amazon River." There those sailors were thirsting, and suffering, and fearing, and longmgfor water, and supposing there was nothing but the ocean's bnne around them, when, in fact, they had sailed unconsciously into the broad mouth of the mightiest river on the globe, and did not know It. And though to them it seemed that they must perish with thirst yet there was a hundred miles of fresh water all around them, and they had nothing to do but to « dip it up." . /r"l?"'??'' « If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink." "And the Spirit and the bride say, come, and whosoever will, let him come and take of the water of life freelv." Thirsting soul the flood is all around you; "dip it up, then 1" 'and drink and thirst no more — British Workman. • ' *t i < - '^^m >-i' ■ >! 4 — B RBSPBCT DUB TO WtVBS. Do not jest with your wife upon a subject in which there is danger of wounding her feelings. Remember, that she treasures every word yon utter. Do not speak of great virtues in another man's wife to AHD >IIHB Wise. >ur own success in m remind >our own of a fault. Do not reproach your wife with per- sonal defects, for if she has sensibility you inflict a wound difficult to heal. Do not treat your wife with inattention in company ; it touches her pride, and she will not respect you more or love you better for it. Do not upbraid your wife in the presence of a third party; the sense of your disregard for her feelings will prevent her from acknowU edging her fault. Do not entertain your wife by praising the beauty and accomplishments of other women. If you would have a pleasant home and a cheerful wife, pass your evenings under your own roof. Do not be stern and silent in your own house, and remarkable for sociability elsewhere. ^ the mouth of the _@ " ^fMI"^^ it possible that Napoleon should win this battle? We lllM ''"^^^''' "°^' "^^y- ^*^cause of Wellington? Because of .r^^ Blucher? No! Because of God. '^f^ For Bonaparte to be conqueror at Waterloo was not in tlio law of the nineteenth century. Another series of facts were pre- paring, in which Napoleon had no place. The ill-will of events had long been announced. It was time that this vast man should fall. The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the equilibrium. This indi- vidual counted, of himself alone, more than the universe besides. These plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world mounting to the brain of one man, would be fatal to civili-' zation if they should endure. The moment had come for incorrupti- blc, supreme equity, to look to it. Probably the principles and ele- ments upon which regular gravitations in the moral order as well as in the material depend, began to murmur. Reeking blood, over- crowded cemeteries, weeping mothers— these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from a surcharge, there are mysterious moanings from the deeps which the heavens hear. Napoleon had been impeached before the Infinite, and his fall was decreed. m iHHB SEAU^IPUIi, THE WOMDBI^PUL, He vexed God. Waterloo is not a battle; it is the change of front of the universe. — Victor Hugo. Tim Shadow Fisible from rim Throne, ~|f HIS planet moves through space enswathed with light. The - radiance of the sun billows away to all quarters of infinity Behind the globe a shadow is projecting; diminishing in- ^^ ueed, lost at last in the immeasurable vastness of ihe illumin- ations of the scene. The stars sing there; the suns are all glad. No doubt, if R.chter was right in saying that the interstellar spaces are the homes of souls, there is unfathomable bliss in all these pulsatin- uP^fathomable spaces, so far as they are regions of loyalty to God.' There can be no blessedness without holiness, and so there cannot be bhss where loyalty does not exist. Behind every planet there will be that shadow; and as surely as there cannot be illumination on one side without shadow on the other, so surely a record of sin will cast a shadow forever, and some part of that shadow will sweep over the sea of glass, and not be invisible from the great white throne- Joseph Cook. ON BEHALF OF THE YOUNG FOLKS. Don't be afraid of a little fun at home, fjood people! Don't shut up your house lest the sun should fade your carpets and your hearts- lest a hearty laugh should shake down some of the musty old cob' webs there. If you want to ruin your sons, let them think that all m.rth and social enjoyment must be left on the threshold without when they come home at night. When once a home is regarded -.s only a place to eat, drink and sleep in, the work is begun that ends in gambling houses, and reckless degradation. Young people must have fun, and relaxation somewhere; if they do not find it at their own hearthstone, it wil" : ^ sought at other and perhaps less profitable AND >IIHB WISB. U$ mt of the uiiiversc. places. Therefore, let the fire burn brightly at night, and make the ho" stead delightful with all those little arts that parents so perfectly uncjrstand. Don't repress the buoyant spirit of your children. Half an hour of merriment round the lamp and firelight of a home blots out the remembrance of many a care and annoyance during the day, and the best safeguard they can take with them into the world is the unseen influence of a bright little domestic sanctum. — JVew England Farmer. WAGES ABROAD, iXTY cents a day is considered good wages for a working man in any of the European countries, except Great Britain, V- where the wages are somewhat higher. In the Tyrol silk V *Y region and in Italy they often do not get more than ten cents. In the country in Germany ten cents is the common pay. Women there often get but five cents. In Sweden men often work from 4 o'clock in the morning till 9 in the evening, and do not get more. During the late war many poor women in Berlin were hired to knit stockings for soldiers for five cents. The profits of the poor who keep petty shops, sell trinkets in the street, or act as sutlers, do not average more than 3 or 4 per cent. Barbers in Berlin, since the raising of their prices, get five cents for hair-cutting and two and a half cents for shaving. Servants at hotels get from three to eight dollars a month. Servant girls in private families often get but ten dollars a year. Sometimes these classes cannot get work r.t any price. • — ^-J-^#- — oi-@=:o — ■#■ j< » — • A WISE PARENT. Sophronius, a wise teacher, would not suffer his grown-up sons and daughters to associate with those whose conduct was not pure and upright. « Dear father," said the gentle Eulalia to him one day, when he forbade her^ in company with her brother, to visit the volatile Lucinda — "dear father, you must think us very childish, if you imagine we should be exposed to danger by it." d4« 51HB BEAUTIFUL, THE WONDERFUL, The father took in silence a dead coal from the hearth, and reached it to his daughter. " It will not hurt you, my child, take it." Eulalia did so, and behold, her delicate white hand was soiled and blackened, and, as it chanced, her white dress also. "We cannot be too careful in handling coals," said Eulalia in vexation. « Yes, truly," said her father; " you see, my child, that coals, even if they do not burn, will blacken. It is even so with the company of the vicious." Genius rushes like a whirlwind, talent marches like a cavalcade of heavy men and heavy horses, cleverness skims like a swallow in the summer evening, with a sharp, shrill note, and a sudden turning. The Chinese are evidently pagans. They celebrate all their holi- days by paying their debts, forgiving their enemies, and shaking hands all round. The civilized people who have gone to China have not yet induced them to relinquish these old and barbarous habits. Life is a campaign; and if we are defeated in the field, let us retreat to the camp. And if we be driven out of the camp, let us fight our way back to the city. If we are besieged therein, and the walls ara broken down, let us retire to the citadel. As story after, story of the citadel is taken, let us go up till we can go no further. And when the spear finds us, let it find us upon the very roof. Let us get as near to heaven as possible. Let us not, for anybody's sake, go down into the dungeon to abide. — H. W, Beecher. PUL, m the hearth, and ^ a ♦ l » I r land was soiled and Is," said Eulalia in lild, that coals, even ith the company of es like a cavalcade like a swallow in I a sudden turning. ibrate all their holi- I, and shaking hands to China have not larous habits. in the field, let us of the camp, let us ;ed therein, and the del. As story after, can go no further, the very roof. Let for anybody's sake, :Aer. p I ^f ' Vr 'i' , J ^^si^-t!? > i^<> »-H" ■» l 4 't^ ,^Mzm$, paitado^ej, puzzle?, aqd piaifg. ?0:^»==3)(^'F^)(2==i*-«. ^@^ . I U F from the stern of a vessel which is sailing directly east, at the &Wi rate of 20 n^iles an hour, a cannon ball be fired directly west, and y ^ the ball moves with a velocity of 20 miles an hour, how far will ^ the vessel and ball be apart at the end of an hour? Answer. Twenty miles. As the mouth of the Mississippi River is two and a half miles higher than its source, does the river run up hill ? Answer. If by « higher" we mean distance from the earth's cen- ter, then the river certainly runs up hill. But taking into account the centrifugal force caused by the rotation of the earth, the course is downward. As it takes light 8 minutes to come from the sun to the earth, do we see the sun as soon as it has arisen, or 8 minutes later? We shall not attempt to answer this question. Let the discussion go on. Why does a long-handled screw-driver have more power than a short-handled one? Arrange the ten digits so that they will foot up one hundred. Here is the famous wheel question: Two wheels of exactly the same size, one fixed, and the other movable. How many revolutions on its own axis does the movable wheel make in rolling once around the fixed wheel? This question was started in the Scientific American in 1868, and for months the discussion was kept very lively by correspondents; the advocates of the one revolution theory and the advocates of the two 29 [449] 4S0 THE BBAUIPIPUL, THE WOIIDBI^PUL, rcvoluliou theory being about equally divided, and each party some- times using the otlier's diagrams in support of its own position. The paper itself maintained that one was correct. A storekeeper who had only a three-quart measure and a five-quart measure, received an order for four quarts of v.negar, which he promptly filled; but how did he do the measuring? If to my age there added be, one-half, one-third, and three times three, what is my age, pray tell it mej" If a person at the equator, with the sun directly over his head, starts on Monday noon, and travels Westward with sufficient rapidity to keep the sun directly over his head, when does it get to be Tuesday with him? ' A single mourner was seen following the remains of some person to burial. A stranger had a curiosity to know what relation the mourner could be to the deceased, and on inquiry of him received the following answer: "Brother and sister have I none, but this man's father was my father's son." Now what relation could the mourner be to the deceased ? THE STUPID CARPENTER, A carpenter had a board i ft. 6 in. broad, which he wished to saw _ A Ji^to two equal pieces. He commenced sawing at A and sawed through i ft. 3 in. in a straight line. He then turned the board round, and commenced at B; he again sawed through i ft. 3 in., in a straight line. He then found he had still 2 ft. to saw in order to divide the board into two equal pieces. Show how he sawed the board. _I VARIATION IN THE CLOCK OF ST. PAUL'S, If it takes one clock half a minute to strike six, and another clock twenty-five seconds to strike six, what difference will there be in the time it takes these two clocks to strike twelve? AND VHB WISH. 411 What would be the effect of an irresistible force striking an im- movable body? — is a problem to which we can profitably wait some time for an answer. and three times "7/ 1 1 / f. // // ^ ^ 1 <) 4i r^ ^-^ 2 ^ S i WHBRB DOES IT COMB PROM? We will suppose that the squares in the dia- grams given are inch squares. When the pieces arc arranged as in the first instance, there are 64 square inches; but when the same pieces are ar- ranged as in the second instance, there are 65, Where does this extra square inch come from? FBRGUSON'S MECHANICAL PARADOX. An infidel was once reasoning with Ferguson, the distinguished and devout mechanician, in the course of which he avowed his disbelief in the Trinity, and made the general statement that he would never believe in anything he could not understand. Ferguson's reply was, that again on the follow^ing evening, when he would he should call show him a mechanical contrivance whose movements he would be obliged to believe in, though he could not understand them. The infidel called as directed, and Ferguson showed him a little ma- chine consisting of five wheels— a small cog-wheel, which meshed into a larger and thick wheel, which in turn meshed into three thin wheels of the same diameter as itself. The last mentioned three wheels were all strung on the same shaft, close together, and the three combined were of the same thickness as the wheel which pro- pelleil them. When set in motion by the turning of the little wheel — of the three thin wheels, one revolved in one direction, another in *..^ ^j^?^Kj-a«i^ vixivuiiOti) nuu iiic uniu svuuu siiii, X Hc mhaei exainined .-.which, howover. L au.ho,i,„" 1 1''":,'"';' P"- "f ■"-h.n. -" twice as fas. a, .he .o:.!": ' I^; ™;--' ^chiile, can "...ma: .he star., he could never catch , ° "■" '" S''™ "'= Suppose, then. a. the star, "he ,0.!' "P" '""' " '"" ^ "> Proveu. "head; while Achilles is r' „l^r,r"' '",'"'' ""'"™'' >-"' five hundred. a„d while Acl si '„„ ;'"''»"" '"""'^^ '•'" ^n •oise can run two hundred dfiftV^rs^lT '^ 'r""' '"= '"'■ ever. After this perfectly lucid dem °'"'' ""'' '" <"" f".-- expected to heheve^hat A^il^ wtrrrc^tcr L^" "' "' '"' Th,s man Zeno, the founder of the school of <;»'^'k , ous humor in some of his reasoning H ""■ '""'' " P"-"*"' corn, or the ten-thousandtl/ '« '7: ° "T" '"'"='' '^ - S™n of would make an, noise, j^ Ctm^uTo/' "" '° '"^ ^^°'-"''- "sked if a bushel le. fall would makl . ' ""^ ""'• "= then eon.,e. He .hen retorted thasTn-. T, "r^'' ""'' "'^^ ""«< h™ "f tain definite number of grain 'i follow ,t "" ™'"P°'='' "^ " «- noise, or .he bushel didnT *"' "'"""■ *" 8™i" 'n«le a p.ove':;;i:XT; iXrtriir t^ ""''- - ™'- •<=" - wa, seized by a cracodUe Th '' l""«^ °" "" '=•••"'< "^ » -iver. isseil that for once he understand. We are >vel piece of mechan- it>r, and has always THE TORTOiSB, vented " by i.eno, of urius b( (l.re Christ. I race. Achilles can - were to give the t can be so proven, e a thousand yards lie tortoise can run 'c hundred the tor- lead, and so on for- our readers are all :h up. toics, had a ponder- isked if a grain of all to the ground, rse not. He then id they told him of omposed of a cer- •* the grain made a AND THP ;i"-J. 463 ODILUS. or rather left un- bank of a river, to its assistance, from the croco- tJilc (which, or who, was evidently of more than average intelligence), that he would give it bark to her, if she would tell him truly what would happen to 'X, On this the mother (rashly) asserted, ♦♦ Tou will not give it back.'''* The crocodile answer to this: " If you nave spoken truly, I can- not give back the child without destroying the truth of your assei tion; if you have spoken falsely, I cannot give back the child, because you have not fulfilled the agreement; therefore, I cannot give it back, whether you have spoken truly or falsely." The mother retorted: " If I have spoken truly, you must give back the child, by virtue of your agreement; if I have spoken falsely, that can only be when you have given back the child; so that whether I have spoken tru'v or falsely, you must give back the child." History is silent as to the i.siie of his remarkable dispute; but we hope the ir other got her baby. f®^ ARGUING WITH A LAWySR. Off the same piece, is this other famous di ilect problem : A young man, named Euathlus, went to study law with a famous pleader named Protagoras; it being agreed that a certain fee should be paid for instructions if the pupil were successful in the first cause he pleaded. Time passed on; the young man was admitted; put out his little sign, and was ready for business. But busii ess didnt come* so finally the old lawyer sued the young lawyer fc his pay, and it came into court; and the master argued thus: " If i be successful in this cause, O Euathlus, you will be compelled to p v, by virtue of the sentence of these righteous judges; and should 1 ven be unsuc- cessful, you will then have to pay me in fulfillment oi your original contract." To this the apt pupil replied: "If I be successful, O master, I shall be free by the sentence of these righteous judges; and even if I be unsuccessful, I shall be free by virtue of the contract." The story goes that this kind of reasoning staggered the righteous judges, who reserved their decision. i f i , i «4 51HB SBAUIIIPUIi, itHB WOHDBI^PUL, THE VHrtTBD HB^RTs. Bend wilh pincers two pieces of iron wire . bou. the six.ccn,I, o£ ..„ ^ ,n dia,no"e7 4' sh„w„ „e diagrams, only about .l,rceo"^.u times tl>e si^e. The .letails of tl,e ends „f ,h The bending of theretrm!'."^' ''^'T' "'""■' '"= "»'""' ^- >r> Mj,ies to the loop formed bv B in^tnnA ^f u ^ngr flat as drawn ThU o. °^ ^^^ ?oi...:o„ rather C ob':tl "Sntdlt^J''^ »ure of a pair of pincers snch! ' ^"''' """"'^ '" "«> P™' "ippers. The pui^^ s ; "k the he' fT"'!-^ ™""''""' «"h wire- to separate them. Pnz. es a,Vrule , T''"'' °''' "'ff''''"' ""ked. force. It is well to cautions o vet Z'Z ' " T""^ °' ^"^ «"'« they are very apt to force the wlrout "f si'a^^ " " '"""'"•^' «» L. ■> TME NECK TIE. This is a very similar puzzle to the last Th. • req^red, which are to be bent as sho;it thldllr^r "'" ^" The puzzle is to link take it off. on the man's necktie, or if .iven linked, to LIL, AHO OHE! ItflSB. 408 eces of iron wire, 'i in diameter, as bout three or four f the ends of the tlie natural size. ts will not keep 'ily to the pres- ined with wire- jf given linked, se of very little is necessary, as NO SUCH THING AS MOTION. We had always supposed that there was plenty of motion in the world until we read the following argument by Diodorus Chromos, who by it proved conclusively that such a thing as motion is impossi- ble. He argues thus: "Al^ that a body does must be done either in the place where it is or else in the place where it is not. Now, it cannot move in the place where it is, because the instant it moves it is no longer there; much less can it move in the place where it is not. Consequently it cannot move at all, and motion is impossible." It is related that the inventor of this sophism on one occasion dislocated his shoulder, and sent for a doctor. The doctor assured him that the shoulder could not possibly be out at all, since it could not be put out in the place where it was, and much less in the place where it was not. Another instance of fallacious reasoning is the following, which has the virtue of being purely American: "All rules have their ex- ceptions." This statement, being itself a rule, must also have its exceptions. Hence the proverb at the same time affirms that all rules have their exceptions, and that some rules do not, which is a little confusing, if not actually contradictory. es of wire are en linked, to THE HEART AND STRING PUZZLE. Cut a heart out of thin wood or very stout card- board, and bore six hoies in it, as shown in the dia- gram. Double a piece of string so as to form a loop Pass the ends downward through A, upward through B, downward through C, upward through D, through the loop downward through E, and upward through F. Tie the ends in a knot to a smaller heart, or bead, which is too large to go through the holes in the large heart. The dotted lines show where the string goes behind the board. Pull the string from behind through A, till the end of the loop comes in a straight line half way between D and A. Finally pull the slack through B, C, D, E, and F. i. Tie pu^^ic is to ^Kx tuc string on witiiout uiityliig or cutting it. Me WHB BEiUmpuu, ns WOHDElSPUl^ rOff DOl/SiS HB4DBR. of an inch square; size of nar 1 "„ '"^ T''' '"■'^e-quareers ing the I,oads) one-eigl,,!, of ,"1^ , "^ ^ ^°' "^ ™""«'- i3 a square. 0„e of the cross "litM" "' " ^'""'" °' ">e rod be three-quarters of an incl, Tie 'IV,';^ -™'" P-e (B) is to an inch in length, full. (By "f r s n^ \ ' "'""• «-"«h.hs of given length, but only a trifle) The b T "Z"'^' '" "'"'' "^ '^e eighth of an inch, fun. Thev a,!^t I ■ °^ "'" ''"' '» "> ^e one- The edge, of the double header aid Ifl"^';- ""^'"'° '"''' ""'"• finished. Rubbin, with fine sand papef Jm ^"'' "' "> "» ™»'"My ers or rough parts. The puzzle is ,T ""' ,'™°''« ""X 'itlle splint- •he slits. Having done ZshlVeZl "" '"""^ '''""'"» "'» What as in the di:gra„, a:, Ihen^^llret:."""' "'^ "'"''" ^''- TV car r^^^^ssss oar o. . ,,cr.„,,, WITH ONB STRAIGHT CUT Take a rectangular piece of thin pa- three, or ms,m,lar proportion. Mark off the paper at A B, so as ^ake Tl^Jl^U^'^. '\^ ^' -^ ^o,d as shown by the second dia-ram Vl , ""'""'^^ ^'^'^ ^ D, diagram. The part above the dotted line in V [PUU, AHD THE WISE. 45Z 3iece of wood one. cut out five pieces 3 ows: Length of id, three-quarters (or rod connect- ection of the rod ■ piece (B) is to 2I-, five-c-i^hths of in excess of the slits is to be one- les to each other. B to be smoothly any h'ttle sph'nt- ible headers into ey appear some- TANGLE ^ce of thin pa- four inches by ion. Mark off C D, and fold de with C D, dotted line in that diagram will now be two-fold. Next fold in half in the opposite direction, as shown by the third diagram. The part above the dotted line will now be four-fold, the part below will be two-fold. Two free corners will now be found at E, the paper forming each being two-fuld. Fold down one of these free corners, so as to make it coin- cide with F in front; and similarly fold down the other free corner, so as to make it coincide with F at the back. The paper will now appear as in the fourth diagram, the part above the dotted line being eight- fold, and the part below two-fold. Lastly, cut from X to Y. The paper is three inches by four, Y will be half an inch from the longer upright side, and one inch from the shorter upright side. Unfold the cut pieces. It will be found that there [— "H f" are five pieces, one being a cross. The other four '-'—''—'- pieces, when put together, will form a second cross of the same size and shape as the first, as shown. THE EXPRESSION OP THE EYE, They play at a game in France in which certain members of a company are entirely concealed, with the exception of their eves. Everything is hidden except the eye itself,— and then it is the business of the rest of the company to identify the concealed persons simply by their eyes. One who had played at this game told me that the difficulty of such identification is incredibly great, and that he himself was unable to find out his own wife when thus concealed. More than this, it happened that on one occasion, a lady celebrated for her beauty, and especially distinguished by her fine eyes (la Duchesse de M )> was drawn into engaging in this pastime, there being only one other person hidden besides Hterself, and this an old gentleman not celebrated for his eyes. The pair were duly concealed and ban- daged up, with nothing but their eyes visible, and the person— a lady — who was to declare to whom the respective eyes belonged, was introduced. Without a moment's hesitation, she walked up straight to where the old gentleman was placed, and exclaimed, « Ah, there is no one but la Duchesse de M who can boast such eyes as these!" She had made the choice, and it was the wrong one. — Macmillan's Magazine. 4^8 THE BBAUIIIPUL, IPHE WOKDEl^PUli, HOW TO FIND A PERSONS NAME. Let the person whose name you wish to know tell A b d n q you in which of the upright columns the first letter of c c £ i ii his name is found. If it be found in but one column, e r f j s it is the top letter; if it occurs in more than one column, g g G k s it is found by adding the alphabetical numbers of the i j i. i. t top letters of these columns, and the sum will be the K K m m u number of the letter sought. By taking one letter at a M n N n v time in this way, the whole name can be ascertained, o o o o w For example, take the word Jane. J is found in the Q u t x x two columns commencing with B and H; which are s s v z y the second and eighth letters down the alphabet; their u v v Y z sum is ten, and the tenth letter down the alphabet is J, w w w the letter sought. The next letter. A, appears in but y z one column, where it stands at the top. N is seen in the columns headed B, D and H; these are the second, fourth and eighth letters of the alphabet, which added, give the fourteenth, or N, and so on. The use of this table will excite no little curiosity amon- those unacquainted with the foregoing e^plaxMxtxon.—AgriculturisL \M'^^^^^^^^^^^^ «f the Scientijic American gives the m followmg, which is vouched for by plenty of good authorities: ^ " I am glad to see the 'buzzing up' process again brought to ^ notice. Fifty years ago the operation was to me a pastime ^5i^ bewitching and unaccounlible as now. It is not (?) animal magnetism; I know as much about that as anybody ,-_which is very little. I will explain the method of performing this most wonderful feat. A lies on his back on a floor, ground, or an open loun-e. B and C (two are as good as four) place their forefingers und^er the shoulders and hips of A. They breathe in concert by finger si-nal from A. At the first inhalation B and C lift, but they don't lift;%he least effort or grunt breaks the spell, and you begin anew. Thus A is breathed up, the breath lasting, if you are adroit, till you raise him JF^PUli, AND OIHB WISE. 4S9 NAME. low tell etter of :oliimn, column, of the be the ter at a rtained. in the ich are t; their et is J, in but A B D II Q C C £ I U E 1' F J S G G G K S I J L I, T K K M M U Ai N N N V o o o o w Q U T X X S S V Z Y U V V Y Z W W W Y Z seen in the columns h and eighth letters th, or N, and so on. riosity among those Xgriculturist, American gives the ' of good authorities •* ess again brought to as to me a pastime, t is not (?) animal ody, — which is very :his most wonderful m open lounge. B refingers under the ert by finger signal : they don't lift; the ^in anew. Thus A it, till you raise him as high as you can reach, when you must catch him, to prevent a fall. The head should be the highest, and then he will dome down on his feet. He will feel that the gravitation is out of him ; B and C lift only the clothing. He feels— have you ever dreamed of flying? That is it exactly. No need of a close or still room. It can be done out of doors, in a gale as well as in a closet. When you get the knack of it, — and it has once cost me three hours to teach a class, any two of twelve or fifteen years can toss up a Daniel Lambert like a feather. I do not know that any science can come out of it, but as an amusement, it is the richest thing I ever knew." ^<^ TO FIND A PERSON'S AGE AND THE MONTH JN WHICH HE WAS BORN. Ask him to take the number of the month in which he was born —January being counted as No. i— and to multiply this by 2. To the product he must add 5, and then multiply the amount by 50. To this product he adds his present age, and from the amount subtracts the number of days in the year, 365. You then ask hiin for the last result, to which you add 115. Pointing off two figures on the right for the number of years, you have on the left the number of the month in which he was born. Of course the person whose age you are to find out tells you none of his figures until he has subtracted the 365. A RIDDLE. 'Twas whispered in heaven, 4|was muttered in hell. And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest. And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed; 'Twill be found in the sphere when 'tis riven asunder, Be seen in the lightning, and heard in the thunder. 'Twas allotted to man with his earliest breath, Attends him at birth and awaits nim in death. Presides o'er his happiness, honor, and health, ^^< S 1 i { ; i fi *«0 >nHB BEAUWPUI,, mz WOHDEI?FtUI,. tne heaps of the „„ser 'tis hoarded with care But IS sure to be teto,, hi, prodigal heir. WU ft',": ri;'' 'T' '^'■^ '"■^^ " "■-' '^""d. wiiho n r r th"" """ "■■'" '""""^^'^ =' --»«'• iiic soKiici, the seaman may roam —^^ifi nondescript came to E..y„t withTh, , '"■ "'^- ^''^-''^ *'» 'h.t wallcs on four legs°f„' tlrT Irn """""" = ^^'"" ""'""I - " night? But this ,i™e^,^e slZh7' °" '"° ''" """' ""'' "-- •■>' 'he Egyptians used to bertrfrvlnl ° "" "■""» P'""' f™' answer wa., ^^«, who in his i„fi.„; "' guessing, and so their h;s hands and feet', in ^:::Z:^^Z:7^ "J 'f -"'' "P°" Ills old age, or evenin<^ of life I^,,,. , ' """''' "'='='> ""d i" riddle having been answer f;toSohr" J'" '""' '"^ "'PP""' ^hc he sand, and turned toltone "^ °"'''''' ''""""«<' "^^If in "bout 50 feet additional. The heLd i' t f7'™^ """''«' '" f""' just bacic of the neck, 40 feet through Trf"'"'' ""'' "" "^^^ from one solid chunk of stone r. Ju\ 7 ■*' "■''"''""^ ^"^ "" » i' is a part and parcel of lie L m 'f ' ™"^= '•°'^'' <"• 'he spot, lips speak, what severe.: t^eylouTretal! ' '^^ ''°'"' ''°^ "'^''' lis wealth, h care, ound, archs is crowned, im, home! ' be found, Irowncd. ^f be the ear, arine Fanshawe. iionster, the Sphinx used to visit differ- le people failed to ^^y- Finally this What animal is it noon, and three at wrong place, for sing, and so their f life, creeps upon ands erect, and in f>r support. The immured itself in ever worshiped, extended in front id, and the body, ':reature was cut rock on the spot, 'Ould those thick ii AND IPHE WISE. 'TIS THE LAST ROSE OP SUMMER. 4«.3 1. Tis the last rose of sum-mer, Lt-it bloom-ing a - lone; All her 2. Ill not leave thee, thou lone one, To pine on the stem; Since the 3. &o soon may I fol-low, When fiicnd-ships de -cay; And from 1^5 iEa r"q-n P m- sr: D- S*-tr-E q^; i ^^- W m Pl^^ 1-5,- .-- - — ^1 love-ly com-pan-ionsAre fad-ed and Rone; No flow-erof her kindred No love-ly are sleep-mg, Go sleep thou with them ; Thus kind - ly I scat-ter Thy loYe's shmmg cir-cle Thegems drop a - way iWhentrueheartslie withered And £ =t gH== "^^mp^m r s td= :=:): ■«- i^H^^ aveet home ; There's no place like home. There's no place like home" swee .sweet home! There's no place like home! There's no place Ike home: Bweet.sweet home I There's nojjh^ce like home: There's no place like horn!: :« SHELLS OF OCEAN. I . Onesum-mer eve, with pen-sive thought, I wnnder'd on the sea beat u. ^•^;;3^"P-°'» 'he peb-blystrund.To cull the toys that round me »l^^^.i^jS^il Mim^^= f=i=^ w^^m :fc*- shove.W here oft in heed-less infant sport. I gather'd shells in dnys before. I cather'd lay. ButasItooktheminmyhand.IthrAwthemonebyoneaway.lthrawihem ^ffigi plg^lii^if AND IPHE! WISH. ^^■j SHEL '^ OF OCEAN-Concluded. H- — ^J5::*:l-i _j':-^^~ shell, in .lays before.The plashing waves like mu-sic fell.Respon.iveto my f in-cv one by one a-way; Oh! tl.usl s.u.l. in ev-Vy stayej^ loysof Jan c 'isVe. 1-* — 3=^- -■^^~' ^m^n^^pt:px=fi-^-tt^^ fe /r« U W l-J— i. *z:^ y y-V— y- ^P^i^^l^ggE was a - gam a we leave them, like a wild, Adream came oer nic like a spell, Ithouglitl guiled.We gather shells from youth to age, Ami then we :tfil esprest. m^- Ad lib sen .'C^ /CN ^m^^Mmm^ child, A dream cameo'er me like a spell, I thought I was a pain, a-frain a child. chiUl.Wc- gather shells from youth to age.And then we leave them, leavethera like a child *-H-# — I— # — 1 ' — »-m- m - #Lg tS :: :; r-Sz~^ J J iSfei^gp,, ^"■^ j i \ 1 'i i ilt m 4«8 THE 3EAUTIPUD, 5IHB WOKDEFJPUIi, KATHLEEN MA VOURNEEN. •"/ ♦»/■ mf I. Kath - leen Mavoui-neen! thpamv ,!.,„„ ,v. i,.„..u T^-.^l ■ . T 2' K^ff " 1'"" ]^^-vo"'-n"n ! the grey dawn is break-hir''| he horn of the 2. k.uh - leen^a-vour-neen ! a-waUe fn.n. thy sLm-befs/l!:: blue mo "n »aL ^^\-l^_J:::::J:t-■^ -^r.ne.ula. ^y^ ke f.on. thy sl.m-bers.The blue moun-tains A-U ^ '^- ^' ^^. "V- ±2- 1;,"""'^' ,if "eard onthehill; Tl^ la.k — I,-!!!''^ '1Z-' ^^^ •'^"" s gold-en lioht ! Ah! where from her light wing the is the spell that once wj/" *^"'«''^ W''^^ '■^ be sung to the 2d. vcr'se still, , night, ^ ♦ •*■■ /P^CVn amote effeito. Kath - leen Mavourneen what slum b'ring stilL Or hast thou for- A - r.se m_thybe^tMy^__thou star of my^i gi.l.Mavou.tenSa- :rg Zr~:r 1 '.- ■" __ "'^ "' g"t.^'-'tavourneen,Ma- 111— iL.iiiz=i: 3. '■V't? --a- ES -«-•■ i^l ¥f 5t^:j ■*. — I- m le l>liiemoun-tains ir light wing the e spell that once rhatslumb'nng Ihou star of my r hast thou for- Cavouineen.Ma- AHD ItHE Wise. 4^^ KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN-Concluded. pot- ten ho^v snnn «?<» .micf eo..^, rw, i i •. .1 "^ "*"* * "♦ got- ten how soon we must sever, Oh ! hast thou ibr-gm-*n il^s v..ur-neen, my sad tears are fall-ing, To think that front E - rin and sl^ES" Slliz-^ip-zd f^^--7^'^E^ ■« ^^^S^S day we must part, It may be for years, and it may be for-ev-er, Then t"ee l must part, It m ay he for years, etc ~1 _n ■ •""•"^ i^""» j.i."i ajf lie lor years, etc. it^ll?^ ^-S-^-?^ ^ yg^? '^•S--*--;-'-;!: ♦:?':3.^ Sempre legato. . ±2- i*t • ISIZZ- ■«-.- 1*- Semplicc. mf _l. I N ,. , w»f Semplicc. 1 H- ?^e: hy art tho u si - lent thou voice of my heart, It may be for ... < t=E: -v- 3. 5 s » S=? brat -.-•- ♦•■^. -U?!!!!l^"** " maybe for-ev-er, Then why art thou silent Kath-Ieen Mavourneen iJ?. — ^ ( ^ 1 I ^ _ — _^^_ -i^j,-^* J TF TEr ~a« Ta«. "TV— ^WTr+ ^"•- — rail. dim. ^ SE ■•-«l— =t SPT3;;^i:x: • — 0- -4- d-T^n- •— a- ■r ^ -r T? . T? T? . "^ i I Ih! !■ 4^0 JPHB BEAUTIFUL, ^JHE WOMDBP^PUli, COMIN' THRO' THE RYE. 1. Gin a bo-dy meet a bo-dy, comin' thro' the rye, Gin a bo-dy 2. Gin a bo-dy meet a bo-dy,coi»in' frae the town, Gin a bo-dy 3. Amang the train there is a swain.I dearly lovemysel,Butwhat'shisnameor 'J: 3E^ m *- •-• • — j-:^_ — an: — L.j .,, -I — __t3ii — J :3iiSi= L^i^zrsili^i:?^----:. ai^zi^i^eitr p^f^i^^-^l^^ kiss a bo-dy, need a bo - dy cry? II - kalas - sic has herlnd-die, meet a bo-dy, need a bo - dy frown? II - ka las - sie, etc. where's his hame I din-na choose to tell. II - ka las - sie, etc. y^ St « — I 1 •a__i — I i—i — _ 1 — ^ — J^s, — J — 5 — 3__l ^^ -^ tfc ^Si^^ii^:^:^^ :^^— ^ r-«4>%=« t;=ifc nanethey say ha'e I, Yeta' theladstheysmileatme whencomin'thro' therye. :*=1= - -. ^ ^ » * f" ^ ■' * • -jjl^ '■»■ ^ i « « j \-0 ^ — . ci -'^ ±=f5=?: :-1-i f=3zzt HI ^^^ AND rPHB WISE. m Gin a bo-dy , Gin a bo-dy Sutwhat'shisnameor LONG, LONG AGO. |^^5_- s H ^/ H • = '■- ' 1. Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long a-go; Sing me the songs 1 de- 3. Do you remember the path where we met, Long.long ago, long, long ago; Ah, yesyou toklmeyou 3. Tho' by your kindness .my fond hope was rais'd , Long, long ago, long, long ago; Vou by more eloquent m Z^ ^— 1--?- :J=i=i i:3^3^i|3^-l|2=p ? 3 rzrt ^^^ 'i- :^4q:=45:^ light-edtohear,Longlonga-go, longa -go, ne'er would forget, Long longa-go, long a - go, lips have been praisd, Long longa4o,long a -ga. ^-^-^-^-- ::C:45: Now you are come all my griefs are remov'd. Then to all oth-ers my smile youperfer'd. But by long absence your truth has been tried -* ^'•'if-* >♦♦■#"•• ^ :^*--* "fi- ■•"»■■♦ "••■r-* ♦i-* -^i i: J==J: ^=3=Szz:di5 :;=t ¥^tr3E *— ^^ 3= -3^-^- ::t:; "K-r -•-*^— 4— 4-1?^ -^- -Ph- J- J -# - -*-f- *-j-?- -F-# ~m-±-it—i "1 — Hi Let me forget that so !ongyouhaverov'd,Letmebelieve that youlove as you lov'd, Long long ago long ago. Love when yju spoke gavea charm to each word, Still my heart treasures the praises 1 heard, Long, etc. Still to your accents I listen with pride. Blest as I was when I sat by your side,Long, etc. m y-^ B l^ri -a. -!*- tt3?^V^=-,=^f-^fl %—t ica: -»-?r^4- iz_— i;€_zxi iU ""' ^^*"^-BU.. .H, „o„,,^^,^^_ long to sBe. Is Horn... "' ^ — HPUb, rn IS HOME. ■ I;^«=arnedtolookwi,h mmm "'d tho sense ofhearm-I o'Ts are truly pl/ghtedr Ss =^=^5r::^- i?.C E^l sweet Hcmel sweet Home! AND 1IHB WISE. THOSE EVENING BELLS. W Thomas Moorb. 5^ # — I. 1 hose ev-'ning bells, those ev-'ning bells. How ma-ny a tale their mu - sic 3. Those joy - ous hours are past away, And ma-ny a heart that then was 3. And so 'twill be when I am gone. That tune-ful peal will still ring ^^^ l^^fa^=i^ £ B^ ^^^^ ■m — •■ *^^ 1^^^^^ tells. Of youth and home and that sweet lime, When last I heard their sooth . ing gay, With -in the tomb now dark- ly dwells, And hears no more those Ev on; While oth - er bards shall walk these dells And sing your praise sweet Ev uru-i L ' "">•'"'"""""■» "" "'ore mose i<,v - 'nine on; Wh ile oth ■ er bards shall walk these dells And sing your praise sweet Ev . 'nin- i§^^ .(»- f^^ ^1 i^^^ -v- t: ?eS^^^] kTw r" . °'"'^""^"'^''^"'"'"'='^'^'"'^'» ^ '''=*"l 'h'i' s-'oth - ingchim^! UM w''^'" '*"= '"-"b now dark-ly dwells, And hears no more those Ev - 'nine hells bells. While oth-er bards shall walk these dells And sing your praise sweet Ev - 'ning bells g^&=f :±g ---xia^^zii: -^ r^^- Mm 4n MIGNON'S SONG. (Hast thou e' Eng. words by John Oxbnpord, , Allegretto sostenuto. ^ /^, er seen the land.) Music by Ambroibb Thomas. \^MW. *~^ — * - ^ !!-L-^=:r:iir3r-»-=— y— i««-P| — zziq :fcfc!~ta?-'S=^^ .He rose b.ushe , .ost. f-bf-P— * __.J_:C\ — rt 1 -'"»<; uiusne: most. wheretheorangeisgolden. Wh ere the bird ,„Ht -. y nowhere the breezesn..,., „,., fp ti Pe5. ^Ped. i- 4: r seen the land.) : by Ambroibb Thomas. > rit. dim ■e the rose blushe : mosTT^ ••• • ♦ F^^3^ AIID VHB WISE. MIGNON'S SONG~Continued. 4^v :-|: itmpre dolce. Where afeust thio* the year by hoa-eybeesis hold -en, Where the boun - ty of ♦ 1 ^^""^ afe: ;f- ?^l!: Heav'n we on ev • 'ry side view, Wher-T- '^**i%i^g^. 5S^gg» 47^ ^^ MIGNON'S SONG-Continued. >nd for which, over Sigh, T'i, there. .I^.h::^ ^ -- -» ^ there, -tis .here, with thee I would wan-der Ther, mf:S: l^^^^^^ig§E=^':7EE^==B::i^-= /rs Allegretto, love, yes there love and die! 'tisth^r. -.u u . 1 J^ -* -^ -»- ' -t'>.ew.ththeerwou.dwa„der..tisthere. .h. .. there ^— ^— . --".=rc, ah, -tts there Andante. i?*5^^^p Hast thou e' ■fcnr=^-^j3zr erseen the house. That I re-raem-ber well^Th»...!i- i ^^" well- 1 he ceiling gleams with eold — ►fc^r;r=^-=:F5 Zn— r^ -■— ■"gg'eamswithgold.- ^^^ inued. 1 thee I would wan-der Ther-«. dance, ^and of •. ten Jn our boat Waft - ed a-cross the lake we hap - pi - ly would -i^r 4^8 liit) THE BBAUltlPUL. ?nHB WOMDEI^PUL, MIGNON'S SONG-Concluded. :=»:: r^mrr float __^/T\ Ah mel. . were wc to-geth-er yon-tler.Yon-der in thatfair • 4t -t — I — ifc5« * — -' ^^^2^- fl^- ISei:^ '^^i.^' f?* '^^^^^^iEi^g^^ land for which I ev - er sigh I T'i, there, 'tis there, with the= I >.ould wan-der. There ^^^^^^^mi^w0 :«— ■ J^ir 5t love, yes there love and die ! 'Tis there with thee I would wander, 'tis there. ah. 'Us there. -^' reJ.\ ^i^;^ t I M 3luded. ^£*ifc th-er yon-der.Yon-der in thatfair L^ 3 ^iH^ U thca I would wan-der. There 3;|:3::i: 5^ AND THE WISE. 4t^ OH, SING THAT GENTLE STRAIN AGAIN. ANUR.W M- Mak.n. Jo„^ e. Daker. p Rathfr slow. iii^mei^ n p ftai/itr Slow. I. O sing that j.4- ^. -E— ■'- that ■•t^ #-t-»^^ 2. O take thy ^-----L-_-|-.M 1 ±1 SSs^^ggS^i^^^ ==±; 3=^ J_^. « V- ■*• -r t^ itzzi*: -( H — H — - itrj ^::v:isi:*j: -• — •- ^^m gen-tlestrai..again,AndI will list the while Its notes will soothe my bosom's v-^i— 5— : ^dul^cetlute a-gain,And breathe its magic spell ; Its tones will soon my soul en- "^ ' i-j — \j m »— ? is£ tnztzrt iE nt •*■ TT TT ^^033 OH, SING THAT GENTLE STRAIN r .• pain.My aching heart be-guile • Fair „ "7 ti_J_-at:jj-3 If — ^v^i^zcczi •-^- -^^ • "-*=Ifct^-J2^^_^JIt^ ^music ssoothingpow'r. Oh, sing that Caze. I. vain it strives to soar abovei.L.^r,.:r::r^^-^^fc=^:=^ * * y IN-Continued. nli ~ ***" gen-tle strain again, Ami I will linnh. .kii. i. . , . : ;_ _Z 1^ '"'■ "" *•"''•"» "•''" »"' '""Hie By bosuni'i pais. |» .« " -Miif.ii. unci Dill (ooine By bosom I pais |» u -^ ''--*^*-*^-^#-^-g=g::;g:EiyG!Ed gen-tle strain airain.And I win i,., a..„L:.. ,._ . ... -"T^-t'-'^-H-- tV . 'M BJ^H'. i^m^^ ach - ing heart beguile TV — - — f. i=^-^'*" ' >^t^^— 5=-^^5=^=S=|= ach • ing heart beguile, I -H , -t.^ j t ■ f , f_ 3- 3i * "^— ^- I .1 WHE BERUmPUh, 5IHB WOHDBl^PUli, THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET. KlAllUARK. ^^^m. ="^^^^g^ i^^ ,, LI Ml ! I iTr nTrn I ii* I ■*•■•■ I ■ F ■ '»■ ^ - :rtz~ f I ! ! ! f - * - *"<• »o» far re-fflOfedfromths' ar - dent I ^mU^ ^^,^ ?^?3^^3^2=^ ET. KlAttUARK. nprflseatatlienitoTieff.Tlie reiurn'd from the field.l •e.cliii'Jtjnij|ip8,Nota niyii.fan-e/kn'w. hat na- tare eanyiell iat Ju - pi . ter sips. ? itream, the imti it mih • morcd from th» E?SI==2= 3 AHD IPHB wrSH. THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET-Coiicluded. 48$ ^'1 484 mu BEAUTIFUL. THE WOHDE^PUli, KILLARNEY. u M. W, Balvb. :=2Szz:z: No place else can charm the eye, ' WUh such& . . P^'^^-nj.' ^'gh, Mu - sic there for ech - o diells. fil^eath'^it'cu' haV:"' '""• Moun-tain paths a'^wood-land dells. Mem-'ry ev - ^r r a , But man's faith can ne'er de-cline S,.ri,r'Z. ," fonc^ - ly stray Ev-'ry rock that you pass ;.' V l°'e'bToT "d"' 'T " " Ma -ny voiced the cho-?«,swV 'Tni'Tfair t^ .^^ ,, . ,,, ing by.' bespiints, n ^ h ^ h ! it T-m M ^ — 3^ Boun - teous na-tiire loves all lands Cas - lie Lough and Gle-na Bay ' VvltV .T" '^""^ the green grass grows. With thecharm-ful tints be -low Beau - ty wan-ders Moun - tains Tore and Ev - 'ry morn springs Seems the heav'n a- iiid-ing bays, lass-irig sigh, a-iied tints, ar - n,o - ny, ? y — -#• — ' d-]y strays, t - iiig by. besprints, - ta • cy. 5_-*- V — ~— us Tore and '^ morn springs le heav'n a- AND »nHE WISE. KILLARNEY-Coneluded. - -^___ ra//. W mi~ir-^—n-^r-^-^—»—f^- m * f^ m <:'>"(i parte. . N '^^'ft- pp a tempo. ' — •->-»-c/ J^^-^— S^^jmsiizbfrzfii^ Cliro 1** 4.1, t h. . . . _ sure- ly there now at rest, frown a-vvay, in that sky, :SJ=t: (^S An-ge s fold their wings nnd rest, In ihnt F - den An-ges won-der not that man There woud Lnpro- An-gels oft - en paus-ing there, Douht if £ den W.n,sof An-gels somightshine, Glanc - ingbacksoft ^ — ^^ — ^ S.H -"cEi:?«-?'«— '•'B — N-r-F-^c-- S3::frd5ccrJ^r:t< ■ ^""*' ' pp a tentpoT * ■•••#• •«■. -^^ .--^^—t. of the west, Beau-ty's home Kil- Jar long life's spnn. Beau -ty's home Kil - lar were more fair, Beau-ty'shome Kil - lar lightdi-vine, Beau-ty'shomeKil-lar ■r n — — s—ft-' ney, ney, ney, ney. Ev- er fair Kil -lar-ney. Ev - er fair Kil - lar-ney. Ev- erfair Kil- lar-ney. Ev- er fair Kil -lar-ney. 5iX i|8'6 WHS BEAmiPUh, mu WOJIOBI^PUL, JMlLTOM VTELtlWOS. Words by Hca^i Conwat. ^^ME DAY. E*#^^ r. i * * ^^1=?^^^^^^^ ii ii'! know not when the davshallliA ti i<»--'-N- l/Z dayshallbe. I l«iownotwhe.eoureyfismay meet, What ^^i^^^ :-J^=:(=r=::j:zz::: ^^^^^^^^j accel.- welcome you may give tome, Or will yourwordsbesadorsweetjitmaynot ■1^ ■•■ S*"~*- 9iSkzz:«II-— :1 ^ — pg- — t r r-l^ f accel..~^gr. ILTOH WBLLniOB. tempo. — * m :i ^fcEJ ^^i^ J=|: J2. :^:fc=qrq ^^ li, I 1.^ Uj a tempo. •ZlZff t: s ■ou live; I ^-^■ i= jive.Butwhenwe -* — -• — • ^ lysee, And —-K. ±5:iz==iTzzr3 3": ifc^E!^ AHD IPHB WISE. SOME DAY— Concluded. 48& =»=?= -V — y — -^ ■ ^ l ^ ev - 'ry cloud shall roll a - way, ^-fe?3= That darke ns love twixt you and &E|Ei E=5==^ Appassionato. ^^ ^l^=i^ ^ :^E3* I l^!^E^^f?£EEi^£|i^klii^| me. Some day, some day.some day I shall meet you,Love,I know not when or how. I - ' j""i — •'-»•• «"iun uvunruou ui now, ^ tit. -N-V a tempo MEt^^^^^^mwmm^ Love, I know not when or how,On-ly this, on-ly this, this, that once you loved me. T ^r * ".ar.Ei i""""^ — ' • — ' — • • — • t:_«c*_i?_j ad lib. "*" ''■ ^ tefegii? * i r»., 1.. tV;™ Tl T 1 - ^ ^. y 11 On-ly this, I love younow, I love you now, I love you now fo//a voce.""^ "f- I r;V. §<*»• b* 5'*' Eb^: fc2i '^•-T : ^^33,5 Z- 'ceJ^ -r : rit. ^ V-*- I s:/ — r iS !■ i: 4^2^ VHE BBAUltlPUL. rPHB WONDEI^PUL, THERE'S NAE ROOM FOR TWA i|-l"!L'"j!!''"" ""' ^'y^^^'^^'-n-er leaves were sheen. Whe„ I and Kit-ty walked a - braid, An' Ja- mie walked a-tween. We glijitLzfi — ^3^*:^=^ ^=^-:r:zzn3: ^ ^ reached the brig o'er yon wee linn, Our bon nv K • -#._h__ N fJon-ny brig sae sma'; PP t & ea ^^^^^-^^^^Si^^ "Uh, TWA. /T\ ives were sheen, When W^^^l :=!iz ^ S}- /CN ^g^ tween. We ipi^ /7\ 3 AHD WHB WISH. 4M "^"^.r^:^ '^^^ «°°M ^°^ TWA-Continued. /'iK Lento. ^^ ^^^M, /t> (^ I'frrj/ Uttlt faster. \ 'Jenny,' saidjem/'maun walkbehin'.There' s nae room for twa, There's nae room for iL . tempo. * ■•■ •* 5 3 P t; 5 5 ""-J *3.— <==• 3J • 7 v«^ 5r 5 lfit::|!sz:Jt!::fc: - SS^ ^ o> ^^^^mwm^^m twa," said he,"There'« nae room fortwa"ni, Tam;„»„ j ^^ rooiB loriwa Uh, Jamie s words went to ir.y heart, "There's > ff ft, It — • • • J^ ^^ ^^ ^^ \^ M 3 5 fir N /g\ • ffcollavoee. 3 5 r ^5 g3^ sma'; ^==^P^F?=r:r -y — ^ li^ nae room for twa." ^y-lJpzlzd pii s THERE'S NAE ROOMJ^r TWA-Continued. ===»-r^^l*,-S*- * £ ^E=*;^&ir^*^^ Aweel a day '"yhea.-t leaped high. When wal^^^Th" sileT^^ wed-ded love There's nae room for twa TwT^ ^^^^ ^^-rf twa.There s nae room for twa, ye ken.There's at/ /it. ^^11 US<^- Verse Dro - ken hope an' a bro - ken hca. t,But it it~Tl ~ , ~^^ A— Continued, his bride, He In wedded life, an' twa, ye ken.There's id. 'snae room for twa, -gled Strang, Wi' a /7\ — • — AND JPHE WISH. 4»3 THERE'S NAE ROOM FOR TWA-Concluded. S/ow, tfe^^^^i^ii^^i^i thread o' life is a' but span.An' I maun gang a-wa', An' mould-er in the" clay cauld.ground Where's nae room for twa.Thcre's nae room for twa ye ken.Ther'l's llif^ft^ ziti—tr': nae room for twa, The narrow bed whereall maun lie.IIas nae room for twa. 4/ A. Verse. M u 41 n. Verse. 2r=:&S^JE?F?==-:=l='^:2z^ DearKil . ty. oi, >hy bo.. - me brow The sim-mer sua shall shine) While win - try clouds and win - ter's gloom Are gathering dark o'er mine. V\\ II: gie ■oGodmyli„gerin'hou,s,Ao7amied,i,ea.„a, For in Ihiswea-iy, fes^^gi^^^^i^^ wasMd hear. There's nae room for ,„a , There's nae room for twa^ye ken. Ttoe" nae room for twa : The heart fhnt's »,«>« t.> n„,j ._ j u - • . . ^ 5„ .. i„ ....^„ jjua asay s, nas nae room for twa. 4»4 ^'HB BBAUOiIPUl.. THB WONDBI^PUL, ROBIN ADAIR Arr. by P. K. Moram. I m«! l^'i" '!"'' '''"^" "^ '"'^ ? Robin's 2.Wbatmadeth■i3:8em^blV8hiSeVR^^^ What waV, i " yL.^^j__j__^ ' „^' " »t now thdu'r wish'd to nee, ^nll so fine? ' cold to nic, 1^ = :cK ^^^Lf!EEf^^[^t^l Whatwish'dto hear I Ro - bin was there. Ro - bin A - dair. 'tl so well Still in my •*-90- -it- ^^rf =?hE ^^fe^pS - dair. - dair. dair. f PUIi, "• by P. K. MoRAii. I wish'd to«ee. t^e Ball sofme? thou'rt cold to nie, ■ -y- iirth,l(adethi8Towna j'er.Wliatmademy well Still in my r? ffl^^ - dair. - dair. - dair. ^^ -=Xi AND UHE WISH. AULD ROBIN GRAY. W /"(•ri nattue. s: :b^-''--J When the sheep are in the fauld.And o' the kye at i^^^^^ 3i,i£S==^ ^^^^3^S^^1^^^^ The waeso' my hame. A nd 'U l.evearv warld asleep is gone- fe^^n^ ^^^ !^^^^^^^ "Seb fc^ 4 £ ^ heart fall in showers frae my ee, While my gude man sleeps sound by me. I|=^=^ ^^#s^ ■*• •*■ ^ m ^^^^pfe^ p Lento. ii. 9^l^rzsr=Sdi^a 4&« I. 2. 3. 4. mu BEAmiPUh. 5tHB WOHDBI^PUI,. AULD ROBIN GRAY-Continued. My father ari^uc.l sair ; n,y muher du na speS IJuJ S'' ''."^ f • ^ "'s'''''^"' •'>'='•• :5 i -5:--V~-" Gray ca«.e« i^^f?^^"^ -_:rS£22 &^3^g^^^^l T^¥=^^ m Bte^^ £nr [^ ' court - ing me. "Wae is me I" to mar-rythee!' kind to me. ^==^1 i,> I i 49-8 5tHB BE&miPUlt, 5tHB WOHDBI^PUli, NANCY LEE. FuBDBRicK E, Wbathbrly, M. a. 5 a: — — ..-gsa ^_ Stbfhbn Adami. 1 nr „ii .t H- — -J 5*Tk- ?"•-, '*>f wives as e'eryou know Yeo 2. The har - bor's past, the breezes blow Jeo 3. The bo' . s'n pipes ihewatch be-low ; Yeo ^o! lads! ho! Yeo fo-' lads! ho! Yeo no-' lads! ho! Yeo ^f^^^. '^^^^^^m ff #-? — i. rl --S15 4«-*- -T— ir ho:::: je"ho;'''?;fr*^''''^N^"-^y^«=« I «-v Yeo "u..... yeo no! Tis long ere wecomebackl know v ho?.... yeo ho! Then here's a health a-fore we go°.!:::::::::. So ' " """"a-.orewe go. Yco ^^^^ >■• t:t: ^^^^^m I»°; laf's! ho!.... yeo ho! ho Jads! ho!.... yeo ho! ho! lads! ho! ^=rp: .tB"iE See there shestands an' waves her hands, up. yeo ho! A long, long life to my sweet wife, an' ^^^^^^^^^^1 "-^ li, . lads I ho ! Yeo . lads ! ho ! Yeo ■ lads I ho ! Yeo m ^m fef^^ ^m t^tc ives her hands, up. norntillnight.my y sweet wife, an' AHD IPHB WISH. NANCY LEE~Continued. 4^9- x — r-f- ■0-i~ ^^^ ^^ :5=^ ^^^^^^^m "*' ^".'^^''•s-Pe'lo^^.when tempests blow, for Jack, at sea- V<.o An-Nanc/sface to bless the place, an' iel '. comereL Jeo sea, be, An may you meet a mate as sweet as N^n - cy Lee[ Yeo ^^^^m ho!.... lads, hoi.... yeo ho! The sai aP==^-: S^^^^ d^ lor's ^^ i i t,..- ■ ' 5(£>0- niHE BEAUiPIPUL. WHS WONDEI^PUL, NANCY LEE-Concluded. wife fUn coil .«.'»*. i^_ _v •! . Wife the sail -or's*star... shall be, Vco ho!... - -, o...... uc, leo noi..., we go a- §: #. #. ^: S f £«* — t r:r[ F— - ^^i^^ i^^^^^^^ cross... the sea The sail ^PH or's wife, the sail - or's star... shall S l^-£ -J— .^ iH^g^^ ."raix ■i -» :^ i Ss* :| ^fel^%g - | ^ » * *«^ — t: E ./Err; :?:: be, :^i] The sail - or's wife his star shall be. !Ed3 S r-.^ — «__i?L ^^M^tes'i m^i e go a- m - -•--—•- I s star... shall i^] AHD »PHB WISE. §©d TWICKENHAM FERRY. Thso. Marzials. fi , ^ > THSO. Marzials. 1. O-hoi-ye-hcHo-ye-hcwho'sfor the fer-ry? Thebri-ar's in bud. the 2. O- ho, -ye ho Ho.ye-ho,'Tm for the fer-ry? Thebri-ar's in bSd the ' ''"'•y^^"'"" ' y^" ^'^"^ '^^'^ fc^ the fer-r^? The bri - ar's in bud he ~^^^^^^m^^^ % ^^ £z: :t I ^ ^. -h*- 5 PI ^^^^^^^^^ sun go.ingdown,And I'll row ye so quick and I'll row ve so otP^H . a.,j sun go-ingdown.And it's late as it is and I hZn'f fl: ''' a"^ sun_g.i^.^^,e'sr^owfngqS^^^^^^^^ ^fe^ ^B 1^^^^^^^^^ E3 *-*- g^ *jr: m sEfezi; -.^— ^^ — /T> .— _ ta J ^f^z:©: 3^ -U_ ^^E^g^^S^- SJW-^ rrzq _-t^-____. ■ KSi*? iS 1 ; I~' ^™,™«™lj I '\ 1 1 t ) 1 ! 1 1 U ^jUtj 5®-? 5IHB EiMUUIPUL. BHB WOHDBI?PU^ TWICKEimAM FERRY-Continued. ^^^ ^^-^ Et^S ^^m B^==^^ :ic^-j ~ P i ~l-:j:•i•'■rr:r- ^ "1 is -3 =f= ^BEESk ^^^E^ ^==:::5;=: ^feS-i^^^ Twick-en-liam Town. Twiek-en-ham Town. Twick-en-ham Town. ^=^^i EI * •^ ♦ r — — * — "^ "* ■ ued. toijgue,And;ie'i> !wheai,WitIu)e? in Hin And with V— ♦■•■ pen - ny to I'rewelcometo n cross-ing to m &HD IDHB WISB. 5G^$ TWICKENHAM FERRY-Concluded. ' -w' — y — • 1^ — 1^ O - hoi • ye-ho, Ho - ye-ho. Ho - ye-ho, Ho! -2 — r***fci J g..- x:g: m-mi m — r« -f- AMERICA. S. F. Smith, 1833. of thee, Sweet land of try.thee, Land of the 1. My conn -try 'tis of thee. Sweet land of lib - er-ty, 2. My na - tive coun - try.thee, Land of the no - ble free, 3. Let mu-sic swell the breeze, And rinsj from all the trees. - 4. Our Fa - thers' God, to thee, Au - ihor of H . ber- ty, — g I ^ — 6 — f t r- t^ - g^ sg lee I snijr: Land where my fa - thers died. Land of the ■It- Of thee Thy name I lovi: I love thy rocks and rills', T"h7woods and Sweet free-dom s song; Let mor - tal tongues a - wake, Let all that To thee we sing; Long may our land be bright,\Vith free-dom's ^^^^liiM ♦_t. E i^^ pil-grimj' pride.From ey - 'ry moun - tain side Let free-dom rinirf tern -pled hills; My heart with rap - ture thrills,Like that a - bove breathe par-take, Let rocks their si - lence break, The sound pro- lon-r* ho - ly light. Pro - tect us with thy might, Great God, our King^l" ho - ly light. Pro - tec^ us with thy might, Great God, our Kingl !iii «»4 WHH BEAmiBUh, WHS WOHDBl^PUL, SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT. Swing low.sweet char-i - ot. coqiing for to carry me home.Swing low, Ig^ '?:l^ — - ^ sweetchari-ot, r ;„„r_ ' y ^ ?. U ^ ^ Com-ing for to car-ryme home. I. I ^g^^^i looked o - verjor-dan.and f 'in^ . • /°" 8*^ "''^'■e be- 3- Jhe bright - est day that ev- some - times up and 5' >^ ^^^m F^^^^^^^^ what did I see, Com-ing for fore.... I do, Com-ing for *"■ I saw, Com - ing for some - times down, Com - ing for =E to car - ry me home ? A to car - ry me home, T«1I to car - ry me home. When to car - ry mf home. But i^^^^^ ■-a.. >■ „ D. C. ^m dfmyfne"u]/lt ^om '"? tf .^S' ?-?"«[- to ca.-,-y me ho'me. Je - sus wash'd mv sT, T^ ' Com-,ngforto car ry me home. f :oT. »,sweetchar i-ot, r Jor . dan, and there be- r that ev- up and jme? A >me, T«1I )me, When me, But p. c. me home, me home, me home, me home. i AHD ihhb wish. ^^^ soi.n^^ ^^^^ PHARAOH'S ARMY. ^(JLO. Moderate. I. Gwineto write to Mas-s:. t- . „.., t^ . ' -■' I. Gwineto write to Mas- sa Te - sue t« - j J If you want your souls con:Vert!e,: Ylu^'d'^fAT le""' ''"'■'^'"' 3. You say you are a ^ol ,l!»r tJ. , .' °^ a pray-ing, 4.Whenthechil/drenwereinbotdae; Thev •^''V'"^ for your Sav^^iorf 5. When Mo.sessmotehewf.ffr rte^^^^^ ^°^^' 6. When Pharaoh cros;.f.J::a-S: ^ ^tl^c^L^r^^re';. CHORUS. Faster. o T""'"^^- master. To turnback Pharaoh's ar -my. Hal- 1^-1.. I t« . . , '' To turnbackPharaoh'sar-mv Sa .if: " It "n '»ck Pharaoh', To turn back Pharaoh's ar-niy, Hal - le - lu! To turn back Pharaoh's ar - my Hal - le - u He turn'd back Pharaoh's ar - my uf\- le - lu And turn'd back Pharaoh's ar-n.v Hn - e - S Anddrown'd ole Pharaoh's ar .,.;; Hal - le - lu ^^ To turn back, etc. To turn back, etc. He turn'd back, etc. And turn'd back, etc, Anddrown'd ole, etc ^ ^ t. ti V 1' "i-- *■ ^?. • ^2' To turn back Pharaoh's ti £ ±' * > '♦ *" . *■" ^^''^ Pharaoh's ar - my. Hal . le - lul To turn back Pharaoh's ar - my. Hnl . le". lu jah! To turn back Pharaoh's ar ■m\ j ; I ^^ fPHB BEAUTIFUL, fBHE WOHDBI^PUL, KEEP ME FROM SINKING DOWN. /r\ O. ^ord, O. inyLordl0.mygoodLordlKee''pmefrom8mkingditu. S:^^^^^ta ^ ■J y »— ^ — I '.= U^-4 ^_ ^^ ^^^^m '^^^'t^rr: S=F^=^ from sink-ing downi from sink-ing doWn: from sink-ing down: from sink-ing down : ^i? I mean , go to h.av-en too: K... „ . r ' _*I*^. ^ en too; Keep n.c I mourned and mo .rV.uTiU .'"go'/tW; K "J' rmgwmeto ju.!g-ment I,y -!, > - byj K«p see th. .au-gen,ecr;ni^o^U«fme S ^It!;! 2:;;; from sink-ing down. P me from sink-ing down. ^Sm^^m^^^^^^ -^ JT *~'^~* t^. ^~''** O, Lord, O, my Lorn ,ir ^d Lord! Keep lefrom .inks - ,fown. 'm WN. U }m sinking du«u, nk-ing downi iik-ing down: nk-ing down: tik-ing duwni Li).. > ~*~^ — i i s— N- m k-irg down, k-ing down, k-ing down, k-ing down. •--^-r-T m />T\ M iinki ^ lown. mm J .-v Stfal . AHD WHS WISH. STEAL AWAY. «;(^Y '^^^m^m^^ V £7-- ^m^^m «-^ I^^^^^^^^^BH f way. steal .-way home. I hain't got long to stay here. -0- -•- fe^^^^^^a^ 1. My Lord.... calls me. He calls me by thethun-d«- rt 2. Green rees are bend - ing. Poor sin - ners stand !t,embW- It I 3. My Lord calls me. He calls me by th; 1 TS.' rt i. T...,b-ston«arebtust.ing. Poor sin - ne.^ ar^ trS "li;^'; ^le N 1^ Li^=AjU ^^^^fc^ !!"!"!:!! ™!!! ?! jn i^yBoul; I hailf't goH long to stay her. trum.pe sounds it in n,y soul I i un't 1^ loT^ to ^^' " tr„m-pe sounds t in my soul ; I un't ^ot lonf to ny here trum-pet sounds it in my soul; I hain't got lonf to ay he-e' w Vb' m ^m Uhimh. WHB BEAU»niPUL. IPHP WONDH^PUL, THE GOSPEL TRAIN. •^^3:: Get on board, chil-drcn. Get on boa.l .XTL .t^* board, chil-dren, Get 4- This is the Christian banner. The niuito-s new and old, ^ balvation and Repentance, Are burnished there in gold. CAo —Get on board, children, etc. 5. She's Hearing now the station. Oh, sinner, don't be vain, ^"* con'e and get your ticket. And be ready for the train, i C:»<>,— Get on board, children, eft. 6. The fare is cheap, and all can go, ihe rich and poor are there- kt"^'^!!^ '^'''"^ °» ''oard the train. No difference in the fare. CAo.-^et on m>ard, children, etc. 7 -There s Moses, Noah an,i Abraham, And all the prophets, too; ' Our iriends in Christ are all on board. Oh, what a heavenly crew ! C/io— Get on board, children, etc. 8. We soon shall reach the station. w^u n°T "^^ *^^" **»''» sing. - W'Jh all the heavenly army, ^ We 11 make the welkin ring. "•"•—Get on board, children, etc. 9. Wf ^lishout o'er all our sorrows. ,.,*^7,f'ng forever more. With Christ and all his amy On that celestial shore. rA. /-•-i •jrci ua Doaru, viiiidren, etc. iL, If at hand, ™d the curve; » the Jine, ro' the land. " ' 'ry nerve, eft be - hind. -dren, Get on $ -tJ~t > and Abraham, ;ls, too ; are all onboard, ly crew ! « t^e^i^can-.„«siH„er,Lmev-.?Vh2;. S^^^^^^^^^ time, time, time, time. '*•• Oh, he sees all you do, He hearsall y°°7',%Lord'swritinganthetimej 'n^ff J^'-ft -.». b) • ^-fJ-PP- ^^^i Oh, he sees all you do, He hears all you say MvLrlrH". ? , J ^ ri'j ^ ^°"^ ' *"""g a" the time. y I r=t± IL, E TIME. s wnt-ing all the 's writ-ing all the s wnt-ing all the s writ-ing all the S5E fngall the time, 'ngall the time, 'ngall the time, •ngall the time. >ng all the time; 'T-i B all the time. AND ^HB WISB. REIGN, MASTER JESUS. m O reign, O reign, O reign, my Sav-ior.Reign.Mas-terJe-sus, reign! O '^^^1 ^^- ■«=^^^=*5^5 :15-:fc:Si ^^ reign sal - va - tion in my poor sou!, Reign, Mas-ter Jesus, reign! e^^^^m^m Solo. Choi-us. » le - fore, n Lord, ) - fore, J te I you now as I wld you be - fore. tell you how I sought the ' " ."'.*.: " shall for - get that look da;; any hands and my hands look'i ney • er felt siicit love be ,Master Je sus, reign. ^ t—^-tJt^:-^!. ^^^^ Solo. ^ Chor$u. I Say To the prom-ised land I'm «us washed my • u >i>HB BE&mimh. ms wondbi^pul, c^^^J^^' MASTER JESUS-Concluded. O reign, O reigi, O reign, my Say-ior. Reign, Mas-ter Je-sus. /^ ♦• *— -i- II -Ji — : ^^^^^^^m^m reign! O ^eignsal-va - tion in «iy poorsoUl,Reign,MasterJe-sus, reign. ?-y- GOOD-BYE, BROTHERS 'x;, ^"°^-*'r\^'°''-'"' g°°d-bye. sis-ters. If I don't see you a - ny more: im 2. We 11 partinthebody.we'll meet in the spirit.If I don't see you a - ny more , So j5 l?-)?-^^) — --1^ ^^^^^^^^^m. more. meet you in heav-en, in tlie blessed kingdom, If I don't see you a - ny i now God bless you, God bless you, If I don'tseeyou a - nym'ore' ^ JL JL 4L ^ JL m I — '—■ —- .«j -sus, reign. ^M -•• y more; I'll y more. So i i±C:±rfc I i - ny more. 1 - ny more. ^-