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'l‘hcrcis no tinmlikc the old time, when you and 1 w are young. ”W'hcn the buds of April blossomed and the birds 01'sp1-ingt‘imc sung! The gm‘den‘s brightest glories by summer suns :u'e nursed, But, on, the sweet. sweet, violets, the flowers thutvopcncdiir I \Vhorx- we, lift (7i'll)<;1:‘.m'n, c milkwvnitu lm': ~11; 1 [mm Hm clinging m‘ . “'hcrctlu: (lvzu' u u glib-tune will look on us no more! m From Thvre is no mam: ‘u'kc the old plm'c, where you and I warn Inn-n, There is no fii< mi like the 01d flicnd, who has shmod 0m- mominf' din“ N0g1‘("}i.)\§§]iku his, “Ll omc, no homzwv like hi pmiq; Fume isthe soontims sunflower, with gaudy (Town of gzoid But. Friomkhip ia Iim breathing rose. with sweets in cry fold. Thom is no love like the old love, that. we courted in 0111' pride. ‘J'hou'rh our lom‘c‘ um falling, falling. and \vu‘h: fading <i<lc h idc; '.l‘hcr0:u‘u blossnmx‘ nil ”round 11s, with the mum's: of on? nluwn. And we live in borrowed sunshine, when our dayfitm' is wiL‘mhuLwn. There are no Mums like the 0M Limcsathcy shall never be forgot! There is no plan-c like the 01d placcwkcep green the dear old 51101,! Them an: no fx'ivmls like mu‘ 01d friendsâ€"«may hcm'cn prolong their lives! There are no loves like our old lovesâ€"God bless ourloving wiv s‘. Samuel’s mistake : “And are the lamp of God went nub in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, Samuel laid down to sleep. And the Lord called Samuel, and he answered, Herc am I E And he ran unto Eli and said, Here aml, for thou callcdstme ! And he said, I called not, lie down again.” I. SAMUEL iii, 3-5. The life of Samuel, the father and founder of the Prophetic order, is one of the grandest and most romantic records to be found in the history of humanity. From the lirst page to the last of his wonderful biography there is not a page that is not worthy of careful study. As the judge and ruler of a great people, who as yet had nothecome consolidated into a nation, he commands the reverence of the world. As the prophet of God with words of thunder on his lips, we stand in awe of him. As the founder of the schools of the Ext-Ophklfieuuelieu;Ir him asatheiirst, great which he girds the brow of Saul with Israel’s first Kingly crown and then retires unmur- muringly into the quietude of private life presents an example of dignity of character almost unequalled in the history of the ages. But we are just now concerned with a familiar epi- sode of his early hoyhood. The child Sum» uel was, in a special and significant sense, what we call a child of prayer. All the world knows by heart the beautiful story of the yearni g,prayerfulmother. 'l‘hemusie of her songs of joy when Samuel was horn ever breaks through all the years, and the tender gracious consecration: of her child of (Rod nas inspired the hearts of mothers the wide world over w1tll a similar spirit of gentle fove. The story of the annual visit to the aemple with the newly hroidercd coat is as beautiful as an angel’s dream, One night in ahe sacred silence Samuel hears a voice call- ing him by name, and thinking this was Eli’s voice, he goes to the venerable priest Mid says: “ llere em I.” And Eli says, “ I called thee not my child, go lie down again.” A second and a third time Samuel nears the voice, and goes to Eli. At last it dawns on Eli that (Rod is speakingr to the :hild. The rest of the story we know. How fiod in wonderful words revealed to this :hild what should mum to pass. ’mt let us r)ause here a moment, Samuel made a misâ€" kc, he thought it was Eli calling when, 1n fact, itwas (led. \Vhat could bemore nat‘ aral '! This lioy V'as accustomed to be rous- ed lly Eli, and was he not ever ready when that voice broke the silence to hasten and Jhey? \Vhat boy, however devoted to the service of the temple, would expect to hear lied calling him when the High Priest was near at hand 7 If we read carefully the Old l‘estament we shall find how ever and over again God lays his hand upon the youngand apeaks with solemn commands to more boys. Jeremiah was but 15 years of age when God sailed him to confront a sinful and perverse generation. \Ve should teach our children that they are never too young for God to call them. Never too young for His sacred ser- vice. Samuel thought it was Eli calling, out he was mistaken ; (lod was calling. God aften calls when we think the voice is an- other’s. 1n the common and ordinary ex- periences of life we make these grave mis- Lakes. (led is speaking to us through the voices of our loved ones. Our fathers and mothers are often the medium through which God is calling. The voice from the pulpit is very often the voice of (Red. Through all sorts of experiences of health and sickness, of joy and sorrow, (led is calling and we know it not. Samuel’s mistake was correctâ€" ed. He wu-s‘ in Lhe line of duly. He was the boy of the listening em‘ and the obedi- ent mind. And it/ is to the listeners, to those who watch and wait, and who at the first call are ready to obey, that God g unts the revelations of llis will ; and to such He appoints the noblesb destinies 01' Sacred SCI" vice. It is exceedinr'ly dillicult to understand the 0111150 ofthis \ 11,1101' itsre'mitednicreasc; but we inc line to bolime th11t while it 1 in 11 few 11 sort of disease it is in the 1n11jo1ity nothing b11tleow fo1111 of selfishness, e111â€" 111110 only by punishment, “hether the natural punishment of starvation or an artificial one. The 1111111 1111th the selfâ€" sup piession im 01\ ed 111 \10rk, just 115 11 savage docs ' but he can suppress himself if he chooses, 1111111111111 111hly does choose, if for any reason he pas 11" under the terrible though avoidable 11seipline 01 11 convict prison. lhe compulsion which usually falls upon the idle takes the form of bad food, had lodging and .ant of tobacco 11nd beer, 111111 it is not sufficient. Such wants 8.1131111 horrible things, but ther,111‘c none of them so horrible 11s steady \ 0111, which presses 11nd tortures 111111 almost maddens the really idle, inst 1151 ch ilimtion, which in its essence is 11 multitude ofs1111111iestraints, does the mvage. They will not put up with the suffering for the iiine necessary to teach them that it is endurable, and will SUNDAY READING. N 0 Time Like The Old Time‘ The Vic»: of Idleness. The Life of Samuel. [OLIVER \VENDELL IIULMES. ()IH‘ clids on L110, splnnd In" u :1 g! ~11; {hub warmed us, . s that bore, 1011941 o'er us, that The Vice is nearly incurable and we do not know that our ancestors were unwise when they reckoned it among Ihe greater sins, devised the many sayings which condemn it, and held it to be deserving of (my pun- ishment short of the gallows. \Ve cannot rvsnri to the old methods, at least, until socieLy has grown hzmler, but we heartily wish Gen. Booth could be allowed a certain measure of compulsory pnwer like the superâ€" intendent, for example. of :L reformatory; for he would not, hesitate L0 use it, and it might make men, say of 10 per cent. among his least hopeless patients. As it is, he will, we fear, in nhonL three years, feel justi- fied in turning his energies to another field of labor, with this conviction well engraved into his mind, that, there are tendencies in man which, in their consequences to his soeizil wellheing (Xi: all events, are as injuri- ous In him as tendencies to \‘ice. rather break away into the desert, often a street, where there is only bread to eat and water to drink, and 1m shclter, but where also there is no work to do. “That was a fine passage between the Executive of Kentucky and the wife of the condemned mun, who went to Frankfort last Friday to ask for it pardon. She had presented her papers and sat breathless whilst the arbitrator of her fate perused them; and, us she waited, a mastifl", the playmate of the Governor’s little Sonâ€"~1L beast not given to strungersâ€"uncoiled him- self from the rug, where he had been lying, and came up in that friendly way which only dogs know how to ztfiect with perfect sincerity, and, seeing suspense and pain in the agitated features of the poor woman, he put his pews gently upon her knees and be gun to lick her hands. The Governor fin- ished the papers and the petitioner was about to speak when the grim old soldier said: “It is not necessary, madam ; the dog has spoken for you,” and straightway signed the document which was to release a dying man from prison and enable him to go to his grave from his own home. “0er touch of nature makes the whole world kin, and it is hard to say which moves us the more, the spectacle of that bravo gentleman and soldier, whom it is a delight and pride to lmil as our Chief Magis- trate. stirred to the depths by the silent elo- quence of in dog, or the thought of that noble brute, inspired by we know not what to become an irresistible plemler for mercy before the highest UourL. “ The (lovgruor felt that, if he followed the lead of that dog’s 1,ity and love, he could make no mistake. Aml he did not; and, then and there, the angel than writes in a "01'1be dim"maywntgvhi?(unzu'k {cl-,Lhaw Gov- Journal. Once in the early morning, when the (laws were not at dry. In tire In summer morning, or ever the sun was hxgh. Am] Lifcfclt, loohcuvy a burden, and I so weary and worn. Weary hofm-cl had labored, and longing for night, atmorn. “‘cm‘y before 1 had labored; but; labor has brought me rwl‘. And now I am only eager to do my work with the bes‘b. Ishali be “c at even, and 10st will the A11(11):c\:<c:‘. \« in peace be to them that hmc won the \ it‘loxy! Butnowh zhvtimc for hauler-mow I would .strn'c with Lhcbest; Now xx 11th (mmfurlszOX‘;h01‘cuft,er romainoth res ‘. As! has lifted the world into t! L sunshine of hope and into the promise of heaven. It has levelled society by lifting the downtrod- (lenmlevellml it up. It "Jill/UN lowliness loftiness, Ineeliness might-inane, and gunâ€" tleness greatness. (luimt s s that ‘(Tln'istianiw has carried repentance even into the souls of nations,’ Pagan anti» quityknow nothing of these awakenings of the public Conscience, Tacitus could only deplore the (l ,e'iy of the ancient rites of ionic, and Marcus Aurelius eoulnl only wrap himself up sorrowfnlly in the stoeiul isola- tion of the sage; there is nothing to show that those superior minds suspected the great crimes of their social SliLlC even in its best days, or aspired Lo reform them. The world’s hope in every relation in life is in this old gospel. It must have its place in every social circle: it must throw its rzulir nneeover every home; it must be in every workshop and counting house, in every home and heart. ” Rostwill bc s~\\ cot, in the m cning, when the an)" ' long] 1mm" 1s done~ Now, I must b0 up and doing, for my work is s u‘cc begun! Death hymul by will be welcome, if 1 have been f'“!hf111;111d lx‘uo Now there, L»- life L0 be, lived. and I have so mm-h to do ! 1L have I m be weary. when my work Arm begun '3 What. nght have I m be wcm-y. while aught rcmuins‘ 1011;,- done? Peace may be dear to the veteran, grown “H‘ill' \' 0f\\'-\1’ ‘- (HDJ' m»! Bubnqw 1m longin" 101' battle, the clash and “ If the Lord left any serpents in Pa ‘mlise they took the shape of the man who is a con- firmed cynic mid/pessimist. The man who has no faith, no enthusiasm, no candor, no sentiment. The man who laughs at the mention of good in the world or virtue in women. or honor among men. The man who culls his wife a, fool because she teaches his little children to saw thei‘r prayers, and curls his lip at any belief in a, world beyond the grave. The man who never saw anything worth admiring in the sky when the (lawn tonehesit, or the stars illumine it, or the clouds sweep it, or the rain folds it in gray mists of silence. The man who lives In this sparkling, shining world as a frogr lives in a pond or a toad in a cellar, only to crook and spit venom. The man who never saw any- thing in a rose aglint in the sunlight or in a lily asleep in the moonlight, but a species of useles: vegetable, the inferior of the cabbage and the onion. The world is overfull of such men, and if l had the right sort of broom I’d sweep them away as the new girl sweeps spiders. ” looked along the road whereby lmust prwcntly go, saw how great was the journey, how ficn'ely the noon would glow. the clam; 0fm-fixs! After the Battle, Rest. “ Christ’s Incarnation The Cynic. Pity. The late Miss Marianne North was one of the most notable of English women. About twenty years age, being rich and indepenâ€" dent, she went alone to India, China, Japan, Australia, California, the South Sea ls- lands, and the \Vest Indies to study the native flora. She penetrated where few men had set. foot, and in iwelve years 01 explora- tion mad 2 a pricelesscollcurien of plants and drawings, which she deposited at ch Gardens, in a museum built at her own ex- pense, and presented as a free gift to the nation. Miss North was not only a natural» ist, a linguist, and an explorer, but an artist, a musician, and a most brilliant talkâ€" er, as well as a noble-hearted woman. Monsieur Charles F ‘aneois L'elu, the famous armless painter of Flanders, pro- nounced the greatest living copyist, and eminent also as a portraifyainter, has late- ly celebrated his .5 i tieth birthday. Born without arms, but early showing artistic in» stinets, he was taughtby his devoted mother to use his feet almost as nimbly as other children use their hands, and he owes her not only fame and fortune, but a cheerful spirit which has made him hosts of friends. D. Rose \Vright Bryan, of New \rolk, has established something new 11111101 the sun. This 19 a. eupeptic lunch- -room, where the dyspeptic may gr) and be happy. '1 his rcfuge1s called “ The Ary an, ’ is found at No. 20 East Twentieth Street, and is fâ€"m 11ishcd with such foods only as nature, i11- terpretcd by Dr. Bryan, intended mankind to eat. Miss Sahry Scamzms, of Factoryville, Penâ€" nsylvania, a, thrifty householder, seventyâ€" three years of age, does her own domestic work, keeps a. large hennery, takes care of her garden, weaves hundreds of yards of mg carpet every year, and works out her road tax with shovel, hoe, and wheelbarrow, and with an honest thoroughness that makes the heart; of the road-master to rejoice. Mrs. Frances Fisher \Vood, well known for her successful attempt to prepare sterilized milk on her New Hampshire farm for the use of New York babies, has been sifting statistics to ascertain whether college-bred women are indifferent mothers. She finds that nine-tenths of their children survive infancy, a record never before equalled in any class, age,or country. Mrs. \Voodishcr- self a graduate of Vassar, a trustee of BELF- nard, a strong writer, a steady and brilliant speaker on social and reformntory topics, apower in society, the scientific secretary of her husbendAa well~known physicianâ€" and a. model mother. 11'11d them for (road behavior by teaching them to play fmnilizu‘ a.i1s with one {inrrLr on he1 piano, and sinU‘ them to this accompaniâ€" 11101111. She 1elales of her expeiinients with much delight, that one young g11tte1 snipe was heard to render “ Rule, Britannia. ‘ Britannia. rules the wave 1” as follows : “Rule 111 itallion! B11111l on ruinslthc whales. 'l‘1’1103c‘111'1ml Brnons Never, never FlIELll be slain." 'l'wo pretty stories are just now told about Von Moltlm. One is that on taking out his 1111150101413] a e11l11111111 after arather long ride, the lealmidn Stu xted his home, 01 ied out, “ No, no; it 11115 been 11 g1 (.1111 honor for me, Herr held-1112115011311,’7 and drove off, to re- ceive next day the (,‘ount’s photograph, with the words, “ To his euhwlriver.” And the other is that 1111 Ameri 11111 lady, with :1 young daughter, stayin" at the hotel when: the grout soldier \sz s attending a ieunnental banquet, sent him 11 pho'ogmph of himself, which she 1naked him to Sign, and so ghe 11101 L '1le1ts1i1e to the (Vixl on her seventeenth bi1th1l11y than all her presents had done In 1‘0,le mother and dwnghter were invited to the supper- room, \\ ere heated by Von , Mol1Le with the kindest hospitality, and I re ived the photogrgtph, on which was written, “ I have been young, and now I am old, but I have not seen the righteons for- 51111911.” 1 l In looking up the peculiar names given eachof the twelve months of the year, it he- comes necessary for us to go back to the 01d Romans who have imposed upon us a. set of names equally as uhsm d as those which the N01se1nen, Scandinavi' [HS and Saxons appli- ed to the week, says nu exchange. u. “v. .uw~wuu w .. 1,“ “.11, "1. EUJ uAvAw‘; and amodel mother. New \IIME \IEA AT A LA Rmummqrnâ€" Mathematical honors multiply for women. Take 0119 “11‘1“ 111111 pounds "1 191111. beef Miss Julia Rappieourt, of Melbourne, Ausâ€" and 5111119 (111(1111'113’ 01 S1101- “”109 111101371 Malia. took honors in Greek and French at Add allSPice, 0130 0111109: ' “111119111011, 01““ NOW, at the age of 1')memgfifmzmgfiixgm» l half ounce; cloves, three 1111:11tels of an tion for the clerical division of the Victoria ‘ 0f 3' 0110(1 F'USIHS all“ ‘lmuuifil‘fi‘ $91111 991111.95 civil service, with one hundred and ninety» 50 Buldwm aPPICS» Limp all finely and mll six competitors, the diligent young lmly so. 1 them to the 011-” 111i’led10111S,WWW” cures 49‘1mzuks out Of a possible 500 in 1 with one pint of best lrench biandy, one matheniuticsâ€"«the hixr‘wst rank ever taken pint 0f W111“? wine, 1119 311109 011111 orange in such a competition. She. hopes to take ; and a lemon, two and one half pounds of her degree of M. A., and to study law, 2" sugar, and four ounces of Citron. This will Mrs. Henrv M. Stanlcv. When M' Dm i be found a. most delicious minccmeat BITS? Henry M. Stanley, when Miss Dor- othy 'i‘emmnty, was almnst the first. lady in London to practice “ slumming.” She used to befriend 1iLtlc street vagabonds,‘ and re- J zmuzu'y is named from Janus, the god of doors and gates, because the month opens the your; some say that he is a two-faced god and could lock back on the lawn year and forward to the cumin February is from Februo, to purify. March was originally the first month and was named for .\1 11‘s, the god (If wzu‘. April is from upcrirc, to open, bcczmsc Lhelmds open in that, month. May is Main, :3. gmldess. June is from Juno, the patron of marriage, and is, therefore, the favorite month for weddings. September, October, November, Deccm» bel‘, are so called hcc'msc they were orig- inally the seventh, (1 gleh, ninth and tenth monthsof the year. The names are now inappropriate and rank misnomers as now applied. Michael Dumont, nephew of the rcdoubtâ€" able Gabriel, was fatally stabbed at Nccho, North Dakota, in a drunken row. July was named for Julius Caesar, and Auuust for Augustus (1113211. Orizrinznlly August had but thirty days and Pain 11u1y L“ cnty- nine in the common year and thuty Anguisms was jcahms that Julius’ month should have more days than his own, there- fore took one from February and added it to August The following advertisement appeared re- cently in a Parisian newspaper : A lady having 1L pet dog whose hair, is of rich maho» gany color desires to engage a. footman with whiskers to match. ll] Sn‘ Julian Pauncefotc, British Minister at “'zishington, maintains that the Behring Sea dispute is quite susceptible of settleâ€" ment by arbitration, though the President and Mr. Blaine apparently refuse to admit; that much. flow the Monlhs was Samoa To give new recipes for Christmas dishes is not so easy a task as the uninitiated might imagine. There are certain dishes that have long been considered sacred to Christ- mas, and no new ones, however excellent, that the most transcendent culinary genuis could devise, can ever hope to displace them. Mince pie, for instance. Ever since long before that famous hero of song and story, “ Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner eating a (,Jhistmas pic,” that dainty has been one of the principal features of every Christ mas dinner menu. Probably no delicacy has evcrbecn the subject of much controâ€" versy or has occupied so prominent place in history as has this delicious edible. Even its very name has been a. subject of fierce contention. The English l’uritaus of Oliver Cremwell’s time insisted that it should be called mince, and not Christmas, pie, and at length positively prohibited its concoction and consumption, devoting a great deal of superfluous energy to “ putting it down ” in a prohibitoryâ€"vnot a gitSZI‘OnOI’IIlC--SODS6, and being bitterly lampeoned forthvir pains by the satirical poets of the time, one of whom thus delivers nimself : “All plums the prophct‘x‘ sons deny, And spice broths are too hot ; 'I‘reason‘s in a December pie, And (loath within the p01.” Another rhymes on the same subject, as follows : “ The high-shoe lords of Cromwcll’s making Were not for danties, roasting, baking ; The chicfest food they found most good in \Vas rust y bacon and bag pudding ; Plum broIh was Popish. and mince pie~~ Oh, that was flat idolatry.” But the Puritans were not alone in their 0 position to mince or Christmas pie. The Quakers also fought against it, and at length many good people of the Church of England began to think thatclergymen should abstain from it, against which foolish notion the clergy stronglyprotested, and oneof the most prominent wrote against it a remonstrance in which he said : “ The Christmas pie is, in its own nature, a kind of consecrated cake, and a badge of distinction, and yet it is often forbidden the Druid of the family Strange that a sirloin of beef, whether boiled or roast- ed, when entire is exposed to the utmost de- predations and invasions, but if minced into small pieces and tossed up with plums and sugar it changes its property and, forsooth, is meat for his master.” Selden, the antiquary, tells us that Christ- mas pies were formerly baked in a coffin- shaped crust; to represent the cratc‘n or manger in which the infant Jesus was laid. “Near where we live,” said \Villiam Greig, of Trinidad, West; Indies, ” is a pitch lake. It’s at La Bren. It covers about ninety acres and it is soft enough to take the impression of your shoes as you walk over it, but take up a bit of it and strike it sharply and it breaks ofl" with a conehoidal fracture like a lump of anthracite. I don’t know where it comes from, but I do know that iL is awfully hot, there. The sun pelts down like fun, and the black pitch absorbs all the heat“ All down to the coast and under the sea and across in Venezuela there is a streak of this some fornmtion. The British (iOVGI‘IUIlCll‘u owns the lake, and a monopoly pays a royalty of not less than £20.0UO 2» year.” Men suflering from a superfluity of cash have strange hobbies. Some men delight in collecting expensive pocket hamllcex‘chiefs. At Harboi‘row‘s, in Coekspur street, they told me that this was the hobby of many of their customers. They showed me a couple of dozen handker hiefs made of the finest handâ€"woven umnbi'ie, that they had just fin- ished for a young swell. The handkerchiefs were a guinea. apiece, and the young gentle- man’s monogram was elaborately embroid- ered in the corner of each one. Such ex- travagance is almost incredible, is it not '3 It is very galling to us poor women who think a, guinea a long price f0 ‘ a, hat. The British crown is one of the costliest baubles in the world. In the lower circle there are twenty diamonds worth $7500, two large diamonds, each worth $10,000, and fifty-four small diamonds, echh worth $500. The four crosses, above the circle and between the arches, are composed each of twenty-five dimnonds, the value of the totulnumher heing $00,000; a large dia- mond, worlh 535000, is on top of each cross. Twelve large stones in the {leur (le lis, with eighteen smaller diamonds, are collectively valued at $60,000. In the upper cross are twenty~six stones of magnificent luster and valued at $6,000, while bestowed in vari- ous cornm‘s of the crown are 141 small diav monds, valued at $25,000, and about 300 pearls, the Value of which is $15,000. The value of the precious stones exceeds $500,000, while the gold employed and the cost of the worknmnslnp would considerably increase that sum. As oceans cover three-fourths of the earth’s surface, it is interesting to know certain facts regarding them. The “’{LLCI‘ at; the bottom of the ocean is much colder than at the surface, and in many places the water freezes below befo re '. < ( ( .s 4 l t \ ( At the depth of 3,500 feet waves are not felt. The temperature is the same, varying very little from the poles to the equator. Waves are deceptive ~Watel‘ does not travel ; it stays in the same place and the motion goes on. Sometimes, in storms, waves are forty feet high. The base of it waveâ€"the dis- tztnee from valley to valley on either side at the bottomâ€"is reckoned fifteen times the hight. A wave twenty feet high, for in- stance, has a. base extending over 300 feet. A mile down the water has in pressure of a, ton to every square inch. Taking the average depth of the ocean to be three miles, there would be a. layer of salt 230 feet deep if the water should evaporate. The force of waves breaking on the shores is said to be seven- teen tons to the square yard. Her Majesty s Crown. A Luke 01' Pitch. (DH-an “'0 rulers. A (him-r Hobby. 0n fliucc Pies l k The brightest blaze of intelligence is of nuulculably less value than the smallest park of ulmrity.~-â€"Lchins. \thn the girl enters the world after her education is “ finished ” she does not always find it what she expected. The schoolroom is one thing, the world another. She may Vhave been popular with her teachers because she was a diligent scholar and carried off the honors of the school. But she finds that book knowledge does not, make her popular 01' successful socially. Some of the most intellectual people I have known have been among the most dis- agreeable, writes Ella \Vheeler \Vilcox in the Ladies’ Home Journal. A woman whose intellect, is aggressive, who parades her k110w]cdgcbeforc those of inferior intellect or education, is an object to be dreaded. Mere learning in a woman is never at- tractive. It is on the contrary, ofl‘ensive, unless coupled with feminine graces. School- learning should sink into the character and (lcportment, and only exhibit itself as the perfume of a. flower is exhibitedâ€"in a subtle, nameless and unobstrnsive manner. A wmnnn‘s knowledge of grammar should not make her talk like an orator in daily life it should simply make her conversation gracious and agreeable. V M2Ltiiciilatic§should render her mind clear and her judgments true; her geographical studies should teach her that the world is too small for falscness to find a. hiding place, and history should impress her that lite is too short for unworthy ambitions. Never did any soul do good, but it came readier to do the same again, with more en- joyment. Nevex \V'L 3 love or g1 ratitudc, or bounty practiced but with incxezising joy, which made the ping-Liver still more in love with the fair act. ~[Shsztcsbury. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of vil- lainy,afl"ectation part of the chosen trappings of folly ; the one completes a Villain, the other only finishes a fop. Contempt. IS the only proper punishment oflefectation, and den-station the just consequence of hypoc- y .-~{Joh1zsen. Troubles spring from idleness, and griev- ous mils from needless ease : Many without alwr would live by their own wits only; but they break for want. of shockâ€"[Frank- 1i11. The time between the sehoolrnom and the alter should be not a mere harvest time of pleasure, but a. sewing time for all the seeds of kindness and self-sacrifice for others, and 01 unselfishness and benevolence, which alone can make her a successful wife and mother. He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a part;- nex‘ship with honesty.~[Lava.ter. Hun “Hun“, “hm. -ngu.n-v-~ distinctly iium tcf'hfiw separation line between man and the lower animals. It would appear f mm a. paragraph in Stanley’s new book, “ In Darkest Africa,” that this distinction can no longer be claimed. The famous black hole of Calcutta was a. small room, 18 feet square, in which the English prisoners, 146 in number, were plac- ed by Surajah Dowlah, Nabob of Bengal, when Fort \Villizim was taken in 1856. The room could contain the prisoners only while they remained standing, and the heat of the Indian summer being scarcely supportable under the most favorable conditions, such crowding in a room with but one snmll gratr ed window in the door was equivalent to a. sentence of death. In 105‘ than an hnm‘sev- eral of the prisoners were dezirious, and be- fore the fifth hour haul passed, most were frantic or insensible. Eleven hours after the imprisonment begun the doors were opt-nod and the survivors brought out. Only twenty- three lived to emerge from the terrible pri- son, and these were all ill of fever, from which a number of them died. He that calls a mum ungrateful, sums up all the evil Lhat a man can be guilty of.â€"-â€" [Swift On page 423 of the first volume of that work the author says that among other natural history notes which he gleaned from Emin Pasha was the iollowing: “ The forest of Msongwa is infested with a large tribe 0f chimpanzees. in summer time, at. nighty the)" they frequently visit the planâ€" tations of Mswa tntion to steal the fruit. int whutis ren-arkahlc about this is the fact that they use torches to light the way ! Had I not witnessed this extraordinary spectacle personally I should never have credited that any of the Silnians understood the art of making fire. ” Probably the most striking sight in Eu. rope to-day is the annual inspection of the Paris catacombs; yet for all that, under- ground London is for more wonderful than underground Paris. Take, for example, its 3,000 miles of sewers, its 34,000 miles of telegraph wires, its 4,500 miles of water mains, its 3,200 miles of gasâ€"pipes all defin- itely fixed. VVluLt can be more marvellous than the harmony of these things as viewed when a street is up and one is permitted a. furtive peep at the bowels of London? Yet not even these compare with the vast cellar- age area. beneath the feet of the pedestrian. In Oxford and Regent Streets alone the capacity is said to exceed 140 acres. Cloaks of soft wadded silk have taken the place of (lush cloaks. Szecl trimmings are in great, vogue in cords, gallnons and bandcaux. The London Daizg/ Gray/lid Home corre- spondent says : The pope approves of the Irish bishops untH’urnell nmuifcsto, but he declines to make a public Statement on the disscnsion in the Irish party. 7 - ' w“. . {wag fill ‘l‘IIlH(‘,Y‘S - with- out some one of 81680 (Telec é; no 1min W111 behave himself in for wanL 07 experience, or what in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.â€"~[Swif[. “ My dear,” said the caller, with a, win~ Hing smile, in the little girl who occupied the smdy while her father, the eminent literary man, was {Lt his dinner. “I sup- pose ymi assist your papa lvy entertaining the bores. ”A,“ Yes, sir,” replied ll“: little girl, gravely, “ please be seated.” A knowledge of @he usq of fire and arti Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are London Underground “’ondel From School noon! to Altar. The Black [[010 of Calcutta. @2343”: been remap? w Animals Using Fire. Aphoriu In.