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x â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€", AGRl0lJLTURAL- Protecting Grape Vines in Winter. In cold parts of the Province it is the safer way to lay the grape vines down at the approach of winter in order to secure crops of fruit. By laying the vmes down the evaporation is lessened, and when the snow falls they are covered by it. and thus protected until it is melted. _ 1!: l3 the frost drying winter winds sweeping through the vine branches if left on the trillis that injure the buds, seemingly_ lowering the Vital force so that they push icebly, it at all, on the return of warm weather. The Writer has seen vines through which the sap ran freily, unable to burst a bud ; the buds were killed, though the wood was seemingly uninjured, . It is usually better merely to throw the vine upon the ground and trust to the snow for a covering, tlan to place strawy manure in which mice may harbor upon them, or to cover them With much earth, which in wet weather Wlll rot the buds. Apple Jolly. The wholesale manufacture of apple jelly ha become an important business, The process in one of the largest manufac- tories in the State of New York is describ- ed in the report of the State Agricultural Society, from which we condense :â€":The factory is located on a creek which furnishes the necessary power. The apples _as brought by farmers are stored in large bins by the side of the creek above the mills. When wanted they are discharged from the bins into a trough of running water, which carries them into the basement of the mill, discharging them into a tank of water. This process gives them a. thorough scouring and all refuse, litter. dirt, etc., is caried away by the water. The apples are hoisted by an endless chain elevator from the tank to the grinding room, the buckets on the ele- vator being perforated to allow the water to escape. They are carried to the upper story whence they roll by the force of gravi- ty to the grater. The cheese is laid up in strong cotton cloth instead of straw as in old times. The cider as it is expressed passes to the storage tank thence to the de- factor, a copper pan eleven feet long and three feet wide. It is here heated, at first moderately by steam pipes, till all impuri- ties have risen to the surface and been skimmed off, and then a greater degree of heat is applied to reduce it to a semi-syrup or boiled cider. From the defactor it passes to the evaporator, also supplied with copp _ steam pipes, and so arranged that the semi- syrupintroduced at one end is reduced to the proper density in its passage through, fiowrng off in a continuous stream, of a. con- sistency of thirty degrees to thirty-two degrees Baume. Great care is taken in all these operations to prevent absolute cleanli- ness, every part being thoroughly cleansed by hot water and steam each day. No ferâ€" mentation is allowed to take place in the cider before reduction. The jelly flows from the evaporators into large tubs, from which it is drawn while still warm in the various packages in which it is shipped to market. A favorite package for family use is little covered wooden buckets. holding five and ten pounds respectively, and which are familar to the grocery trade. The capacity of the factory is from 1,600 to 1,800 pounds per day. A bushel of fruit will produce from four to five pounds of jelly. Crab-apple make the finest jelly ; sour, crabbed natural fruit the best looking, and mixtures of all varities the most satisfactory product. The pomace is manipulated in water, when the seed sink and the lighter part flows off ; and it is said that the value of the seeds will pay the cast of all the labor employed. They are sold to nursery men for planting. New Y ork Observer. FARM ITEMS. Lack of pure and fresh water greatly in- terfere with the production of eggs during cold weather. Eggs contain a large amount of water, and hens need it for the manufac- ture of eggs. Galvanized iron pails for drinking water should not be used. The zinc coating is readily acted upon by water, forming a poisonous oxide of zinc. Do not leave any unoccupied land to grow a crop of weeds. When an early crop is removed sow at once any crop that will keep them dowu. Buckwheat and peas are good, and may be turned under before frost. By weighing a small sample of wheat, counting the number of kernels in the sample, and multiplying by the number of times the weight of such sample is contained in the weight of a bushel, it has been found that there are from 650,000 to 750,000 ker- nels in a bushel. In fruit orchards the trees are more im- portant than kany crop that can be grown under them. If they are not, cut them down. The hills of potatoes or beans close to the trees never amount to much, and it is not worth trying to save them at the risk of injuring the trees. A farmer who for years had his crops damaged by woodchucks, says :â€"”After the Woodchucks had retired for winter quarters and the surface of the ground was deeply frozen. I selected a cold night and shut every hole with earth, pressing it down so that the entrance and exist were hermeti- cally sealed, excluding the air. \Vith all their strength the woodohucks could not dig out of their prion, and died." There are farmers who have extra good butter cows and do not know it. They have poor pastures in summer and no shelter and indifierent feed in winter. In the house they have no convenience for making but- ter; the milk is set where there are no ar- rangements for keeping it cool in summer, and in the livingvroom, exposed to the odors of the kitchen, in winter; and neither the quantity nor quality, nor any index of what a cow can do is kept. «m _ __ The San Francisco reporter didn’t get anything new when be (taxed at Chinamon how the children of Confucius kept Christ- mas : “ Samee like Melican man,” was the rejoinder ; “ eat, dlink and gled dlunk.“ W.i a man enters a sample-room and sees a person there with whom he has sworn oh”, the man inside says he entered to warm his hands, while the othersays he just drop- ped in to ascertain the time of day. 9’ er‘ HONORING THE DEAD. The Folly and Ex;rnvagance ofCurrent Funeral customsâ€"411m Origin ol' costly Burial Ceremonies â€"Anolent Mortualv Practices “Amcng other things which are not as they should he,” a Greek tradegian i: fabled to Bay in an English crib, "I might rmntfofl the unbounded character of feminine (Wra- va.gance.” The unbounded chi meter of fun- ( l'tl arrangtmcnts is also mentioned among thrngs which are not as they should be. \Ve published, the other day. a letter on this topic signed by the archbishops of Canter- bury and Yi Hi and by other distinguished members of the church of England Funeral anrl Mourning Reform association. Accord- ing to this letter, our old funeral observan- ces "help to create a mistaken view of death.” What a. correct view of death may be it is perhaps not easy to ascertain. But the Writers pf the letter yrsbahly mean that our funeral pomp gives an idea of hopeless gloom, which is certainly neither bvautiful nor human nor consistent with either the hopeful Christian ('1' the resigned pagan theory of the close of mortal existence. The writers go on to point out that the bereaved are oftui unable to resist the tyranny of cusA tom or fashion. Tnese demand in :~ll ranks a heavy tax to Mr. Mould to be paid on the decease of a kinsman. Even when well to- do people have sensibly insisted on a plain, quiet, funeral, the poorer classes (especially the Scotch and Irish poorer claSs)often feel it their duty to expend comptrativcly large sums on "waking" and otherwise doing honor to the departed. The Homeric cus- tom of a funeral feast, though no longer fol~ lowed by athletic sports, prevails among the poor in many parts of these islands. Scotch tradesmen are not unacquainted with “burial port,” and the vintage served out at the funerals of the poor is neither old nor crusted nor expensive, though undoubtedly “very curious.” "The people at large,” say the reformers, “still cling to the old so- callcd ‘handsome funeral,’ with, in various parts of England, much feasting and treat- ing, entailing often absolute Want, and con- uucing to. permanent pauperisrii.” This is true, and lavish bad taste in these mortuary matters is not confined to the poor. Look at our funeral monuments in cemeteries and churchyards, look at our style of mourning in drese, look at our plumed hearses and abominable hearse-horses and mutes. Can anything be m ire hideous and degraded than the m u of our funeral art? Whilo people cont no themselves to fiOWers and crosses they can do little harm. But they aspire to veiled urns, broken columns, pho‘ tographs under glass on the tomb, and a crowd of incongruous allegorical images such as may be observed in Brompton cemetery. As to mourning rainient, the taste of most races, from that of the Australians, who daub themselves blacker, is in favor of black; white and yellow are the exceptions. Each is not unbecoming, but it is hot and heavy. Many women with large family circles are martyrs to pondirous, uncomlortahle, and expensive craps. For mutes and hearse plumes nothing can be said except that they are survivals from ages even more ecstly than our own in gloomy funeral arrange ments. They are like the horse led behind the soldier’s bierâ€"a survival from the time (not so very far distant) when the hirse was actually sacrificed and buried with the warrior, The touching relic of that sacri- fice, as it exists in certain military funerals, no one would abolish. But the reformers have plenty of work before them in teaching economy and taste. That they will help to popularize cremation, the must sanitary and the noblest manner of disposing of the dead, is more than likely. The great expense traditional at obse- quies no doubt arises from a wish to honor the dead. The old way of honcring the dead was to fill their tomb or funeral pyre With all manner of precious things. Thus when Hectors's body still lay in the Acl‘ as in camp his friends in Troy burned many of his costly possessions. The idea was that the spiritual forms of these objects, like the ghosts of the slaves slaughtered besides the pyre, accompanied the departed lord into nades. People had not learned that. as they entered this world naked, so they departed. They brought nothing with thorn, and car- ried nothing away. But the human spirit revolted against this inflexible rule. His slaves, his dogs, his horses were buried with the Greek, or Scythian. or Scandinavian prince; the child carried her toys in so the sunless gardens of Persephone. In the “Philopscudes” of Lucian (the report of a meeting of a Greek psychical society), one of the charactrri tells how he burned all his dead wife’s finery. But the unsatisfied shade of the dead lady haunted him, till he found and burned one of a favorite pair of gilt slippers, which had fallen behind a chest and so escaped the general conflagratiou Beliefs like_this have been of the utmost servrce to history, because we now find in the barrows and tombs of the dead examples of all the _ objects they prized in life. Chris- tianity discouraged and almost destroyed the practice among her early converts. By usurious inconsistency, howevr r, the (llg‘ nitaries of the church and the heads of the state were still buried in canonical c storm: or in royal robes, with croizers and rings. Other and humbler Christians have usually been buried with no sacrifice of portable pl‘J- party. Thus prevented from sacrificing to the honor of the dead in one way, the world clung to another ancient usage, and expend- ed needless sums of money in hideous trappings of mourning and in wakes and funeral feasts. “I dinna or re for your mar- riages ; gie me a good solid burial," said the old Scotchman, expresssing a sentiment which has a still stronger hofd on the Irish. All our funeral customs show a. gloomy, hopeless view of death which wiser peoples have not encouraged The northern nations have a curious love of p01ing on corruption, on skulls, skeletons, cross-bones, all the hideous emblems of country church-yards and of the Danae Macabre. There is hard- ly a skeleton to be found in all Greek fun- eral art. The wells, or pillars ovr r the dead, show us the departed as he was in this lifeâ€" the man about to mount the horse of Hades, the lady at her toilette. Some- times we find representations. as is supposed of friends meeting again in Elysium. The Etruscan dead are represented as lying at endless feasts, “enjoying each the other’s good.” The Egyptians were with Osiris in a peaceful and happy place. Such are the usual Pagan representations of death. But what did they really believe about death? There was no consistent or orthodox doc- trine. Hell was painted on the walls cf the Lasche at l):lphiâ€"-liell with a blue-black fiend, L‘irynomous, the color of a carrion fly, devouring the damnul. Other souls were at the endless tasks of Sisyphus, of Tan- talu, of the daughters of Uranus. Toe blue-black fieurl may still be soon on the painted tomb Walls of Enuria. Thus there was a. belief in a place of torment, cr )wded by demonslike those we see in old medimval missals and psaltei‘s. But “as the belief in such a place common? In the “Republic” one of the characters marvels at Sootates when he speaks ef a future life among just men made perfect. “These things are old wives’ fables,” says the skeptic, apparently an orthodox gentleman of Athena. S.)Crat6s’ myths of heaven came like a new gospel to his hvarers. a gospel attested only by the vision of No, the ancient Dante, who had be- held the homes of men departed. Again, the people of Greece believed (as the story of Cupid and Psyche shows) in a. home of future life exactly analogous to what Ojib- beways and Soloman islanders believe inâ€"a shadowy, formless place, guarded by mon- sters. There was thus no one orthodox view of death. Annihilation, immortality in our sense, purgatory, a survival of the hades of savages, a theory of absorption into the di- vine, all these notions had their disciples. But vague as his beliefs were, the Greek treated death, when he had to deal with in mortu‘ry art, with a manly pious resigna- tion, not hopeless, but devoid (f fear. Eng- lish mortuary art is far indeed from this ad- mirable “Maplesâ€"London, Daily News. «N4->OO-â€"â€"â€" WIT AND WISDOM. Tl'e best thing outâ€"Oitof debt. It takes a clever man to conceal from others what he doesn‘t know. Diamonds are a. good deal like hens. Much depends upon thLir setting, When a young lady refuses a marriage proposal, it is a. case of slight of harjd. Trufe am mighty, but use it in small doses, in criticising the acts of yo’ friends. The power to do great things generally aliens from the willingness to do small things. The amount of pin money required by a woman depends on whether she uses dia- mond pins or rolling pins. lt is in harmony with the eternal fitness of things that a man should turn pale when he “kicks the bucket.” There is no disgrace in being poor ; the thing is to keep it quiet and not let your neighbors hear anything about it. The man who says that woman has never invented anything should listen for a few minutes at the key-hole of the sewing so- ciety. The latest dude story is that a farmer saw a couple of these agonizing specimens on the street, and exclaimed: “Goslil what things we see when we don‘t have a gun.” Soâ€"commenced the study of music only when he was sixty. We recommend this fact to the young lady who lives in the op- posite house, and has begun practicing the “Maiden’s Prayer" before she is twenty. A Michigan youth, aged 19, had a flare- up with his girl, and out of revenge mar- ried the latter’s auntâ€"fair, fat and forty. It is the first time aunty has been utilized as a cure for a broken heart. 40% Weakly Children. N.) subsequent care can fully atone for ne- glect of proper physical training and de- velopment in childhood. Some parents are so tender of their children that they hardly allow them to go out of their sight. They keep them in school nine months in the year, and under more or less restraint and confinement during the other three months. The result is that neither mind or body reach their full development; and they are child- ion. at twenty. and weaklings the rest of their lives. The perfection of manhood is a sound mind in a sound body.” Most of the business of the great cities 18 in the hands of country-bred men, while those born and brought up in affluence in cities, are, as a occupying inferior positions, This condi- tion or things will not always remain thus; par‘e’nts are beginning to appreciate the cause and to seek the remedy. Early last summer I went up ainoi.g the hills of Sussex County, N. J., and stopped for a day or two with some friends. who reside on a large farm a mile from the beautiful village of Newton. A delicate lad of ten years of age from Brooklyn had been sent to spend the summer with this family. \Vhen he came he had but little appetite, his eyes wore Weak and he could endue but little fatigue ; but he uttered into rural life with great gusto, and when he run sent for at the end of a. month, he begged to remain longer. Anothcr delicate boy about the same age was sent up from the city later in the sea- son, aii'i the two are full of business; racing over the hills, riding-bare back or in the fal'll waggons, and developing hralth and strength a'l the time. I met one of the family in October, and was told that I would thin hardly recognize these boys, so brown and rugged had they become. It is reasonable to ray that this summlring has added five or ten years to the lives of these children. The family above referred to are people of education and refinement, so that the influences under which the children are brought are the very best. The children become greatly attached to the family who allow them much freedom, and thus the farm-house is known as “Liberty Hall.” \Ve wish there were many such summer re- sorts for city boys who are suffering for the want of fresh country air, and the fresh milk and butter and bread and fruits that abound here. If the thousands of people who visit the fashionable watering places, leaving their children at home in hot, dusty cities, or bringing them with them to be pampered by rich food and fatigued by late hours, would seek for them homes for the summer at farm-houses in healthy localities, permanint benefit would result. There are plenty of such places to be found; and among the recollections of a child’s life, none would be brighter or more ratisfac- tory to look back upon than his rural experi- ence. The highest joys and pleasures of childhood are lost in the walls of a great city. The drum we beet ourselves duzznt sownd so loud as the drum our nabur beets. STIFLING TIMES IN RUSSIA. The Social and Political Life of the rec- ple Ixtlngmshed by the Government. “Oh, this stifi'ng. horrible reaction!" gasp intelligent Russians. “We are dying for fresh air.” Meanuhile the government creatures are shouting: “Everything is all right in the czar's country, it is the nicest place on the globe.” For the time being there is no life at all in this huge countryâ€" I mean social and political life. Like school children, the czar‘s subjec‘s are constantly hidden to keep still. All the functions of the autocratic government seem t) be con- centrated on the hushng up process. I heard a witty Russian say that nowadays the (7. tr does not issue a ukase, but simply “Hush, No.â€".” Eirn your daily bread and cat itâ€"tliat is, if the imperial tax collectors do not snatch it from you. Such is the whole code of daily life for the Russians now. The czar as usual does nothing. He is merely a finurehead for his country. In order to fill up his time his ministers make him sign “bushes,” and give audience to civil and military office-seekers who pre- sumably come “to lay at the feet of his majesty their loyal feelings." There are thousands of regiments in Russia, and each regiment has its own patron saint. The patron’s day is the greatest holiday of the Rissiau soldier, and the present cur has made it his rule to give them a treat on that day. Besides vodka he gives half-a.- iouble to each man, a rouble to each under- (thcer, and a. dinner to the officers. And here ends the czar's “daily and nightly care about the needs and wants of his beloved country." The ministers are certainly less idle than their master. Each of then mu daily many 0rd£rs to sign and a. crowd or I dim-seekers to see. But what particularly keeps them busy is the competition in making up hushes or ukases. Queer, indeed, are some of these documents. Here, for instance, the miniâ€" ster of public instruction proposes to behead all the Russian universities by establishing a state board of eximiners, having sole pow~ or to confer degrees upon students. The trouble is that over threevquarters of the nihilists were university students. and the professors were satisfied with them so long as they were proficient in their studies. But the state exrminets would issue diplomas only to those who were undoubtedly loyal, and thus there would be fewer chances for nihilists to penetrate into the imperial ser- Vice. Then the minister of the imperial house. hold preposes that there shall be no nobles by the autocrat’s grace. According to Rus- sian law, all subjects who, while in the cztr's service, attain the rank of general or receive the cross of St. Vladimir, become ipso facto nobles of the empire, and all their, descendants preserve the title. Ac- cording to this new project no man, how- ever lJIlUCh he might deserve from his coun- try, could become a noble unless he pleased the czar or his government. Such a system would create a nobility which would be any- thing but noble. Next comes the minister of the interior, boasting that he had succeeded in beheading Moscow. During the last curonatioa the herd, or mayor, of the city of Moscow,Prof. 'l'ehicherin, made a speech in which he urged the new-crowned our to follow his late father in the way of reform. “Only substantial reforms can cure the gaping wounds of our fatherland,” he said. For that specch the mayor of Moscow was re- moved. From that day to this the ancient cztr’s capital has remained headless, for no new candidate elected by the city has suited the minister. This is the way the autocrat repays Moscow for her hospitality to him during the coronation. The minister of justice also shines with wisdom. chently a Russian, who was called before the court as a witness, refused to‘tako the formal oath, which begins thus : “I swear by lod Almighty.” “The bible forbids me to swear by God,” he said. “thouin I am ready to swear before God." The case was referred to the minister. Count Lao Toistoi, the foremost Rissian novelth of the day, being called to serve on a. jury, excused himself on the ground that his religious views forbade him to judge men. This case was also referred to the minister. The decision of the Russian minister was as follows: “Count L30 Tolstoi shall be counted among absent jurors, and, as such, shall be fined 100 roubles. As to the witness ob- jecting to the legal form of oath, it must be understood that the imperial gei‘ernment is not going to change the laws of the empire to accommodate individuals.” The chief precursor of the holy synod has recently ordered that The Religious and Social Measenqor. being too radical in its re- ligious views shall be submitted to religious censor. In compliance with this order, The Messenger sent to' the censors all its re- ligious articles, but not articles of a lay character. The journal received a new rcp- rimand, for in the procureur‘s order there was no discrimination made between ro- ligious and lay news. So now the reverend censors, who are all monks, are perusing even the financial articles of The Messenger in search of heresy. What can people do under such a. govern- ment? They can play cards and billiards, give dinners and balls, arrange masquerades, and go to the theatre, and so they do. Vodka and champagne are flowing, dancing parties and light music last through the night, ballets and low plays which have all ways the same theme, that “the lover is lovely and the husband is a. fool,” provoke thunders of applause, and above all this babel is heard the so-called Russian national hymn : “Boje, czaria. hrani” (God save the oz"), By the way the fiftieth anniversary of that hymn was recently celebrated here. On that occasion its origin and history were fully explained. Up to 1833 there was no national hymn in Russia, and the czars were usually contented with the Eu isb anthem, “God Save the King.” his trip, abroad, in 1832, the Czar Nic olauordored Mr. Lvofi, a famous Russian musician, to compose at once a Russian national hymn, for his majesty, while in foreign courts, hadr km’s . ‘r been much inconvenienced on account of the lack of one. Mr. [.voff set to work, and soon the music was ready. PoetJoukovsky furnished the words LThe hymn pleased the cztr, and in 1833 it was first layed in the Grand theatre of this city. Such was the origin of the hymn. True, its music is rather national, but the words are anything but the Russian peOpic‘s prayer : God sale the czar! Mighty autocrat, Reign for our glory, Reign for our enemy‘s fear. 0, orthodox czar. God save the czarl It in an Olllclnl hymn, and is not knewn at all to the majority of R-issians.~St. Peters- bin‘g/L Car. New Yovk Sun. 0%». Vigorous Exercise- A stroll for mental relaxation, or fJK‘ pure air, or for pleasant companionship, valuable as this is, is far from accomplishing the full object of physio il cxrrc se. Of course, such exercise is meant mainly for brain workers, for the sedentary, for those who do not find it in their employment. Now vigorous exerciseâ€"1nd exercise only when it is suffisiently vigorousnequalizes the circulation. It brings it to the surface and carries it strongly to the furthest ex- tremeties. It relieves undue pressure on the brain, and checks the tendincy to congest in the vital organs. It enab‘es the blood to pass freely through the almost invisible net- work (the caplllaiies) which it must all tra- verse in its passage from the arteries to the veins, and thence to the heart and lungs, with its load of accumulated impurities. It arouses to more vigorous action those mil- lions of tiny workers(the cells) by which all thetissues of muscle, nerve, membrane, bone, etc , are perpetually renewed. Such exercise also quirk. m the eliminat- ing organsâ€"those by which the bldy gets rid of its waste matter. One need not take poison to die of poison. Once at least every year the entire b)dy passes off as dead matter, and each particle is as much poison as if drank from an infected well. Now the lungs, with their fullerand deep- er inspiration induced by vigorous exarcise. throw off more effectively the deadly carbon, andtake in larger draughts of life giving oxy- gen ; and the heart sendsa purer blood will: a. fuller fl)W through the system. The huge liver, through which must pass for stillfurther purification all the blood of the body, is especially liable to congestion. It cannot hasten the blood, as dose the heart by its own contraction, nor as do the lungs by the aid of the muscles of the chest and diaphragm. It is now known that the successive col- lapse and inflition of the lungs greatly aid the circulation of the blood through the liver, and that this circrlation is especially helped by the deep breathing caused by vigorous exercise. Hence we say to all who walk for exercise, let your walk he brisk, with a full swing of the arms, and if possible let it include more or less of “up-hill.” p..- A Modern Prince. And so the Princess Frederick Ciarles of Prussia. has at length revolted against the swash-buckler tyranny of her illustrious husbandl We are here delighted at the public washing of family linen at Dissau. The red princ:, as florid English journalists are wont to call him, is a good military workman, but otherwise no credit to his house or country. He is not a monogamist, and the memory of his heart is a. short one. Nor (lees he like refined and cultivated wo- men. Tue fraulein who serves in an under- ground beer-house bat; the most chance of being “distinguished” by him. Perhaps it is because she does not think the worst of him when the numerous drink! he mixes stultify his brain and make his irascible temper violen:. As the Americans say, he soaks his liquor, and does’nt want to share it with anybody. In his most genial moods the Prince Frederick Charles is ready to tell disagreeable truths. His “sincerity in wino”â€"or beer, or schnappsâ€"is appalling, as he professes and uses the vocabulary of the first Prussian king of his ,race. \Vhen Prince Frederick Charles was in France, he used nightly to have a. kermesse in the chateau in which he was quartered. I shall never forget an oral account received from an old lady of the statein which he left a country house of hers near Montargis, and of the uses to which he had turned the choice furniture in her drawing-room. He condescended to play some practical jokes on her when he was her tenant ; they were heavy and not giod-naturei. Prince Frederick Cuarles is the double first cousin of the Crown Prince, who was an scrupulous in respecting the lares and penites in the French houses which be had requisitioned for his use as the other war. the reverse. Fritz did all that in him lay to mitigate the inevitable severity of war when he was a." Les Onbrages. Prince George of Sixony, at M irgency and St. Prix, showed himself a kind and high-minded gentleman, and left a good name behind him. He oc- cupied the chateau of Baron Divilliers, the famous collector of bric-a-braz and art cur- ios. An inventory of the furniture was made by the prince’s order, and his military secretary was told to see that every object which might easily \e taken away was lock- ed up. Nothing was missing when the bar- on returned to live in his house. At St. Prix some olii‘iers of Queen Elizabeth’s regi- ment moved to a cottage where they were quarle ed a piano from a. neighboring cha- teau. Butthe prince, to whom the fact was re- ported by the mayor of the commune, sent word to his suoordinates that they were to use the instrument as if it were their own, to return it when they were going away, and, when it wan in its place, to get it tun- ed. They carefully obeyed.â€"Paris Cor. London Truth. 'l‘he Duty We Owe to Ourselves. You have no more right to eat or drink what you know will disagree with your di- gestion than you have to drop a furtive pinch of arsenic, just enough to sicken him slightly, into your school-fellow’s cup. It is as truly your duty to eat regularly and enough of wholosonie, strengthvgiving food, wisely adapted to your needs, as it is to pray, “ Give us this day our daily bread.” Faith without sensible works does not bring about miracles in our age. There is the same sin , if not degree, in omittin your " con, ~ nal " walk to study a bar ~lessOn you; _ like to make sure of for to- morrow, t t there is in picking your neigh- 'et, 01' cheating in a bargain. Both 1 nest actions, and in the long but c run of justice. both are sure to be punishe Put yourselfgin thought, outside of y ody: make an'inventory of its ca- pab j‘pnd necessities. It is your soul‘s a. “lid r. so to it that the soul ides it as,’ ‘eflgrioa‘flarland.. ' . m.