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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1885-12-04, Page 6YOUNG FOLKS. A Jingle. There was a crusty sailor As % lie X could )3, Who at last quite weary grew Oilife upon the 0, He built bimeelf a cottage Upon the river D. Where he idly smoked his pipe And drank his eouobong T ; He wink'd his starboard I, He set his nose askew ; And said, if U asked Y— " Pray, what tett to UY" Wanting to Fly. " I don't care for swimming," said the young wild dunk, " I want to fly." It waa tke first day of leaving the nett, and the mother bird was very proud of the flourish• ing young brood just beginning life. The meat had been made in the coziest of corners beside the river, overhung by rooks, and with wild flowers and rushee bending down upon it. It was so cool and shady there through the hot summer days, except when, finite early in the morning, the sun's rays glinted down between the birch trees on the back. The pair had agreed it was time for the children to take to water—at loaet for some of them—so while the father bird remained in the nest with those who were hatched later, the mother turned out with the older ones. Two were already enjoying the water, but just as the other little duckling was going to make a plunge he happened to look up, send he caught sight of a dragon fly. As it hovered over him and then glanced away, its brilliant gauzy wings glittering in the sunlight, it quite turned his head. And like many another young orea'ure he fixed his mind on something he had not and for- got all about what he had. " Why can't I fly like that ? I want to lly," he said again. " Patience, my child," replied the wise mother ; " you will fly some day, but you have no wings yet—only lege. Yon must we your lege in the water as we are doing, and that will help you to grow properly. If you do your part in the present you will be preparing for the future. You have got to educated, yon know ; don't you see ?' But the young duckling did not :co and he would not listen. He only flopped his tiny stumps of wings and stared up at the aragon•fly. If he had been a child he would have pouted, but se it was he did whatever it is that duct's do when they are sulky, and he turned his back as his brothers paddled away, Day after day it was just the same ; he would not take to the water became he wanted the air. He moped and moped, and this was all his cry : " I want to fly ; I want to fly." Of course he could not grow. He was not using the means for developing himself, so he could not be a duel( all round. In long- ing for the future he lett the pretest, He got smaller instead of bigger, z n 1 would have dwindled down to nothing, I suppose, had not a prowling fox one night pounced on him—a poor starved duckling, and a very meager supper after all ! btia no good our longing for the future unless we arepreparing for it in the present. Because what we have now le always the training for what we are to have by and by. And ah ! it is no use our wanting to get to heaven unlesv we are employing the right - roam and making life the training pl • ce for eternity. Nature's Story Book, l,tra. Cortwright was reading, and smiled as she read, " What makes you laugh, mamma ?" leek - oil Ruth, "Listen, dear : And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying, ' Here's a storybook Thy Father has written for thee.'" That's pretty," said Ruth. " Are you sore you understand it ?" ask- ed ker mother. " I understand that—of course I do," an- swered Ruth, surprised that her mamma should doubt her. " Nature' meting all out -doors, and the story -book is about birds and trees and everything you see out there." "You darling child ! you do understand better than I thought," said mamma, giving her little girl a fond kiss. " 1'11 go out, now, I guess, and read in the story -book," said little Ruth, " All alone, dear? Don't yon want some one to read to you ?" for Ruth could not read printed books very well, and always asked mamma or Annt Lucy to read to her ; she said elm understood better so. "Oh, I can read easy lessons out -doors," tole said ; so her mother tied on the white sen -hat and the little girl tripped away into the garden. °r When she came in, a long time after, she boated herself on a little bench at her moth- er's feet : " Now, dear mamma, let me tell you about the stories. The first was ante : they made hills all along the walks, and were so busy every minute bringing grains a sand to make the hill higher ; and there wasn't 0110 that didn't work—not one little naughty ant that said 'I won't ' or ' I don't want to.' 11 " Then I saw bees—the bees that ' gather honey all the day from every opening flow- er ;' they were busy too," "Like the ants ?'' " They were better than the ants, 'cause they sang all the time—not like the birds, but they hummed and buzzed, and it sound- ed real nice, they seemed so happy, " Then there were the apples—the little. children apples—green and small and hard ° and sour, They are not good for much till They are big men -and -women apples—ripe and swept. The story -book said, ' Little children aren't worth much now, but let 'em be ; by and by they'll be grown up, and then they'll be good for something.' ' The mother milled : " I think your book waa very interesting, Rnthie, and you can read it better than I thought, Anything more ?" " There was a beautiful story about dpi- gies. When I was out this morning they were all looking over to grandpa's, but after dinner they lookea straight up to the sky, jnat as if they were praying ; now they are turning their faces this way, as if they were t:•orry to see the sun getting down lower and lower in the sky. They leaked gad, is if they had got to say, ' Good•bye,' and didn't Want to." "The daisies follow the r r," Paid nam• 1. ma. " just as we ought to keep looking to Jesus all the time." "' Fix your eyes upon Jesus ;' I guess that is what they were paying, only they did not speak loud enough for to hear," said Ruth ; " and then 1 laid down and let the great punkah -wallah fan me." " You gut er child 1 what do you mean ?" " Why, mamma, didn't you read to me about them the other day—the fans they have in India ? ' Funkah' means ' fan,' you said, and ' wallah' means ' boys' fan - boys. The fans hang from the ceiling, and the boys pull 'em up and down. The trees were my punkah -wallahs ; the branches were my punkahs, and the wind was the wallah, and they kept me to cool and nice I went to sleep. I like the old atory book, mamma." " I wonder if my little girl knows•,;tvho wrote it for her ?'' " God. That in why it's so nice," said the little girl, " and I think He helpa me under- stand it." " I am sure He does, my darling ; and it's better than any other book for this reason : you keep turning the leaves and never get to the end." DERE AND THERE At Acworth, Ga,, a few days ago, two persons, about to enter into the bonds of matrimony stood on a tombetone to be wedded. A church at Terre Haute has been built in just sixteen days from the time the stone was laid. It is "very beautiful, finished in native woods, with windows of sapphire and ruby glass," The Lancet stater that a German obrerv- er has found that cows milked three times a day gives much more milk than when milk- ed twice only, and that the proportion of it is the same in both cases. An attempt to punish an unruly boy in a Holyoke, Mast,, school last week, brought on euch a general fight that the police had to be called in to quell it, and the teacher and two pupils were marched off to the statiop hone. The Portland (Mo.) Baard of Health will place an officer on the Grand Trunk train, who will go out as far as Danville Junction and examine all passengers and baggage coming from Montreal, using a system of checks to prevent persons getting through, In Germany the inspection of pigs for trichina is more thorough than is generally supposed. The Medicinische Wochensclarijt state that in one year there were establish- ed in Prussia 20,636 official inspecting, stations. Oat of 4,000,000 of the animals examined, 2,000 were trichinous. The Germans have nearly stamped out small -pox. In thej years .1870.1874 the number of deaths from the disease per 100,- 000 inhabitants in London, Paris, Vienna, Prague, and St, Petersburg was 101,05. In Berlin, Breslau, Hamburg, Munich, and Dresden during the came period it was but 1,44. The painted rock of S luta Barbara coun- ty, Cil., is 150 feet high, and upon it are many color paintings in a good state of pre- servaticn that are thought to be the work of Indians. There are two caves in this giant rock, one at its base and another some six- ty foot up, and in each of these are pictures of animals, The French Government would like to give the army the privilege of wearing beards, but feels the necessity of first consulting sev- eralhigh millitary authorities, as the opinions on the subject are contradictory. Mean- while the press falls back on history, and finds that the conquerors of all ages were about equally divided between the shorn and tree unshorn. The French lady doctors have carried the day. Henceforth the female medical stud- ents will be mesdenoi eller les internes, and as such titer will be admitted to h:apitals on the same terms as their male colleagues, Sixty aepiran's to the M. D. degree are at in wont rejoicing iu the victory, among them a young negrees, who is said to be one of most zealous students is Paris. " Adirondack" Mnrray began a ecturing tour at St. Johnbury, Vt., tho other nigat, and after he had finished his diacourse lec- tured hie audience because a local newspa- per had cal'ee his life a wasted ane. He said he had graduated from the ministry, and for six years had studied to fit himself for another kind of work ; and that, instead of having o-0 dropped down and out from among forceful men," he propo3ed t oon to appear in a quite opposite character. There is in the extreme north of Utah a magnificent subterranean reservoir of first- class soda water, bubbling and effervescing out of the ground in such quantities that all America might be auplied. In the ex- treme south, on the road to Orderville, is an exquisite circular lakelet that is always just full to the brim with water as clear and as green se beryl. And wherever the water overflows the lake's edge it encrusts with a flue coating of limestone, so that the brim is growing higher and higher with im- p reeptible but cert aln gro wth of a coral reef, and in the course of generations the lake will become a concreted basin. The cave out of which Gen, Israel Putnam dragged the wolf is seldom visited, because it is in a stony mountainous forest in a re. mote corner of Connecticut. A picnic party this summer made the tedious trip, which involved several miles of rough walking, There are pictures in primers of Putnam en. tering the cave erect, with a blazing torch held above his head, Tho hole is really so small that it can only, be explored ;on hands and knees, and an adult cannot turn round in it. The length is 300 feet, and tradition ears that he followed the beast to the further end, shot him between the eyes by their own glow, and was drawn out with him by moans of a rope, Not many years ago the late Lord Strath. nairn was staying in a country house in Yorkshire. Among the guests in the amok- ing room one night were some young cav- alry offieera, who wore narrating tales of various skylarking adventure in which they had lately been engaged. The veteran for k himself off to bed, and, his room being over - hello, they shortly after heard the furniture in that apartment being moved about, The next morning some ono alluded to this at breakfast. "iia, ha I" said Lord S,. "I was not going to let you youngsters say you lied ` drawn' a Field Marshal, so I put the chest of drawers against the door," He was over seventy at the time, A Famous Triok. Robert Heller, the famous magician, who died a few years ago ueed to exhibit with delight one triok of whioh he was very proud. Ho would step to the front of the platform, holding out at arm's length a small bird -nage, in which hopped and chirp- ed a live sparrow. Extending the nage above his head, and grasping it with both hands, he would say,— " Ladies and gentlemen, sou eeethis cage. It is a real cage, isn't it ? You see the bird, It is a real bird, !suit it? Now watch me closely. The moment I snap my fingers, the cage and bird will vanish into thin air," He would the snap hie fingers, and both cage and bird would disappear, leaving not so much as a feather behind. Calvert, a F ench wonder -worker, having hea• d of the bird -cage tri k, determined to dia:over its sceret. He name to the per- formance one evening armed with a power- ful opera -glass. Just as Heller stepped upon the platform,with the o: gein his hands, Calvert palled out,— " Put the cage down on the table, or hold it out by one htind," Helfer made a reasonable excuse for not doing anything of the kind, and immediate- ly caused the nage t odisappear, ae usual. The next merning Calvert, who was on good hoteml. ters with Heller, palled upon him at hie " Ah, monsieur !" said the Frenchman, " I have discovered your great bird -cage trick at last !" " Have you ?" replied Heller. "Pray de- scribe it." " No. Come to my performance to -mer - row night, and you shall tee it." "Very well," said Heller. "If you can perform the trick, you are the only, living person, besides myself, who can do it." Heller went to the evening performance, and took a front seat. After the usual tricks with cards and pistols had been performed, Calvert came forward with a bird -cage, In which could be seen a small bird fluttering about. Holding the cage out at arm's length, ho said— " Ladies and gentlemen, you will see hero to -night, for the first time, the great bird- cage triok of the American wizard, Heller. I have had the honor to discover the secret of this trick, and I now perform it before you as my own, when I snap my fingers, the c lge and bird will disappear." Looking directly at Heller, with a smile, Calvert snapped his fingers, and the bird- cage vanished. At Heller's death the method of making the cage and causing it to disappear, was disclosed The oage,made of the finest and most del- icate wires, were separated into two com- partments by a thin partition, Those two compartments were held together by minute but powerful springs, which were made to open by pressing two wires, one on each side of the cage. The two wires were held by the performer between his thumb and finger, as he extend- ed the cage at arm's•length, Each compart- ment of the cage was so made that when the springs wh;oh held them together •were loosened, the compartments would colbpae, or fold up, irto a very email compass, Attached to each aide of the gage, close by the wires held by the finger and thumb of the performer, were stout elastic cords run- ning up the inside of Hellor's sleeves, and fastened at some point above his elbows. The bird ohcron for the cage wap one of the smallest varieties of sparrow, and he was placed in the compartment to which the partition belonged. Suppose the performer now ready to ex- hibit the cage. He steps out, holding it up at arm's-length. The elastic bands, being on the inner side of his hand's and wrists, are not perceived by the audience. He snaps his fingers, that is, he presses the wires which let the cage fall apart ; each aide col- lapses, and the fores of the tightly -stretched rubber pulls each section of the cage up the performer's sleeves. The bird is drawn up with the side in which it was placed, and, strange to say, is not often seriously injured by the operation. Every part of this trick requires the ut- most skill and the most delicato handling in every detail to make it successful. The fact that Heller performed the trick hundreds of times before attentive audiences, without betraying the secret of it, shows to what an extent attention to details may enable a man to triumph over the seemingly impos- sible. "Ladies." Cultivation alone will not make a Lady of a vulgar woman, nor a gentleman of a boor. Innate valgarity will manifest itself in spite of all forms of politeness and etiquette. To a certain class of persons, indifference is the te.t of high -breeding. If you educate a man or a woman to insensibility, he in their view is a gentleman, and she is a lady. A woman was one day brought before the judge of a police court. She said in her de- fence,— " Me and another lady, was a -having a few words, and shecalled me a ' hindowid- ual,' and I ups with a pail of water, and chuoked it all over her, and that began the row between me and the other lady." Me and another lady indeed 1 The following notice was once put'up over the door of a show : "No lady or gentleman admitted into this show in a state of intoxication." A hand -bill in St. Louis road,— " Ono hundred rats to be killed by one dog in ten minutes. None but gentlemen are expected to be present on this occasion." Tho advertisement of a dog-fight in a Western town read,— " Tickets admitting both gentleman and lady can be had for ono dollar." 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