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The Exeter Advocate, 1889-3-21, Page 3YOUNG FOLES. lwer,,Oh A Bony Poem. Bow many hones in the human face? Fourteen, when thoY're all in Tlaca.• liow many bone* in the Iowan bead? Eight, my child, aa KV0 oftenaaid. .geW' Many hone% in the kamari ear Three in eleoh, end 'they help to heer, How many bones in the human sine? Tweitty-six, like a climbing vine. How many berme i,the human cheat? Twenty.four rib, an two of tae rest, llow many bones in the shoulder bind? Two in eh—one before end aehlnd. How many bones in the hurnan arm? In each nee, two in each forearm. How meny bones in the human wrist ? Eight in each, if none Are missed. Rowenany bones in the palm of the hand 'Ive in vac.% with many a baud. How many bones in the ngem ten? Twenty.eight, awl by jeinta they bend. Hew many berme in the burner. hip? Geeiu eeoh, like a dish they dip. How many benee in the human thigh? Gen in each, and deep they lie. How many bonen in the human knees? Opeein each, the kneepan, please. How many belies in the oracle etrong? Steven feeeeb, hitt none are long, Hew mouy belieti In the ball el the foot? Five in eoeh, as the pelotas were pet. Ifow many honest lzz tbe Mee half a ?Orel EVWenty•Sight, end there are no Moro, And 330W tategether these umey bongo ftte, „tega they moult In the body two butanett Med gig, And then we hew; the hn an mouth, Of tipper and Ceder thitty.two teeth. Arad now au el then have a bone) 1 should think, Theforme On a joint, or to fill up a chink, A aveaunold hone, or a vrormain, we call, And now we may met, for we've told them The By who tooiIe Naggiug. exnu, "There'a the risicgbell, lierberte" mother called through the upper halL "Yee." Herbert gave a sleeper grunt and turned his head on hie pillow. "Herbert'," ten minutest later, "don't go to sleep again." "No, utothott," "Gat up at °ace and then there will be no danger of it." "Yes, in a minute." The next eall was from tau foot of the stairs. "Herbert, Herbert, breeldinst is ready." Be rubbed his eyes and sat ne) guilts eleepily Around him. "Wbot a trial it is to have to get up. When I'm a man I'll atay in bed as long as 1 pieties)." Bub Herbert was eat reelly a lay. fellow and had con - eluded in his own mind, that a man who wee very feud of Deism in be would be a very poor sore of a one, by the time his matinee voice was heard again. "Herbert, ate you comieg "Yea, ma'am.He boundcel dawn the stews and reached the table when break feet was very nearly over, mede two or 6 three person e uncomfortable by grumbling at finding thirge cold, and then contrived to make a very good meal, after which he rush- ed out to the stable. "Herbert," called his mother a half hour Igen "Yee.4 ma'am," came in answer. 4' It xe time for you to go to school." "Yes, 1 know it" Ten minutes passed. " Herbert, you will be late. flerbert, Herbert." " coming." He dashed into the home. " Whore is my arithmetic And, oh, mother, do give me a clean handker• heef—and, do you anew where my sleeve t buttons are 1 took them out; when I piled t the wood last night." 44 0 I8 a fo ry Bt st a se se a a a le hi it pi oh ti on to ar be "Dram lb really trouble you, mother ?" Herbert: kissed her affectionately as he wont on ; "if it does, I'm goiog to etop.,i4V' "Do, my dear boy," she said. It would be a great happiness to me if you would cure yourself of ' trYeiall see," he add, kissing her again as he saki good night. But it is very much to be feared that Herbert was too sleepy to seek earnestly the help -which we all need in trampling down an evil habit. His resolutione, bssed upon bis own strengtb, stootl him in good literal for a short, time. He sprang up at the flare tinkle of the bell in the morrupg and went at MB duties on the first auggeetion, a eon. dition of things which bis mother found meet grateful and refreshing. But the fit passed away, And 'before long the old coax. - eng, urging and St nagging, according to Herbert, was again a familiar sound in the hotteehold. There came a day when it was not beard. The rising bell rang and Iferbeeb turned over and dozed for a while, a vague, :engem. (Waite impreolon weighing Imola his miroi that he ought to be gettieg up, yet etill with a half purpose of waiting for his tnothees call. But it did not came. Oen that be the beeakfest bell ?" He at length sprang up, wide awake. "1 do believe it is. And mother hasn't called me 11 And oho anew I had to be at trebool half an hour earlier to -day," . The injured exprepion wee very etrong as. he beefily Bung on bis clothes and burned to the lereakfeat room, wendering more and more that no one had /seemed to este para. °Wady whether he pre/rented himself there or not. "Mother—where's mother az Mother would not be likely to ponce herself meole about Rerbert'e MOVOEVaa ter Setae thIle to COM. She had heall an denly taken ill, Andel; Herbert but emerge fully over her he Nit in Me very heart th be would give 'mush OS IWO a little of t nagging at which he heti ee often complained Re went for his book-eto get aa ire from the etecyclo WI% saw something el whiobeintereeted hi.m Min speedily negate. ablenhed in it. "Nine o'clock I" Re ;star ed up in dummy. He heel been vaguely con. prompt diligence as would, forever put an end to all needof the nagging?" "Yes, of course it worad," add Herbert alth a sigh, "but how can I?" "In the only way in wield: we can oast out sin and bad hehits ; in theetrengtlt alone of Him who overcometh and will teach his Own to overcome. He wile has: said, See that ye abound in all diligence—that we shonld net be elothful in businessbet fervent in spirit, Serving the Lord," The Infinellee of Things. There was once a lady, sober in mind and sedate in manners, whoste plain dress eereetlw represented her desire to be incoespicuous to do good* to improve every day of her life in actions that should benefit her kind. She was a serious person, inclinea, to im Maine' oonversetion, to the reading of bound boeke that eost at least a dollar and hall (d(teen cente of which she gladly con tributed to the author). and she had a distaste for the gay ecieicsty which was mainly a flutter M ribbons and talk and pretty faces; and when she meditated, as she dicl in her spare moments, her heart was sore over the frivolity of life and the emptiness of fashion. She longed to make the world better, and without any prig. gishnesa she eat it en example of aimplioty and soberiety, of cheerful acquiescence In plainness and ineouepicuotienesa, One was in the antumn—thle lady had ocotwien to buy * new het From a greatuumber offered to her she: seboted a red one with a dullred plume. It slid not agree with the reat of her apparel; it did not fie her apparent character. What inn. Pulse led to thisseleetioo eke Mad not OX rE Ipisin. She was not tired of being good, but ammethtng in the jauntiness of the hat and d. the oder plearred her. lf it were* tempte. .1 ties), She did not intena to yield to it but at ram thQUOt AO would take the bet hem he and tey it Ferhape her nature felt the need of 4 liOtia warmth, The hot pleased In her etill more when she got it lAgree and put ee le on tend surveyed herself in the mirror. o Indeecl, there Were a USW eXpresidort in her t. face PAt Porre§vggled to the hat. She put et off and looked at tt, There was tounething elmest humanly winning and temptatiotte in It. in elserte she kept it, and when elm wore it abroad eile was net conscions of its ineougruity to herself or to her drew', but of the incongruity of the read of her apparel to the hat, which eeereed to have a Imre of intelligence of Ito own, at leaet* power of changing and eon - forming thinge to Dada By degrees one article after another in the lady's wawa robe WAS bid /wide, and another aubatituted for it answering to the demanding spizit of the bat In a little while this plain ledy WM not ?kin any more, but meet gorgeoure ly eiremed, and posseowel with the desire to be in the height of Whim It catne to tide that site had a tea gown merle out of a win- dow curtain with a fieneboyant pattern. Solomon in all hie glory would halve ban tudiarried of himaelf in her present:re. But tido was not all. Her diepotitiou, her ideate her wade life woo changed. She did not any Mere think of going about doleg good but of amusing herself. She read nothing but stories in paper eloyere. In place of being acelete and sober-minded she was e frivoloue to excess; she spout moat of her time with women who liked to "frivol." She kept; Lent in the most cap:rodeo way, e no as to ineke the improesion upon everybody that she was better than the extremeat kind of Lent. From liking the at:dearest company f aho passed to liking the gayeat society and the snob fierhionable method of gettiug rld of her time. Nothing whatever bad happen. ea to her, and she la now an ornament to t eozietee—Ellarper's Magazine. ---- edema of an expectation of some 9nci easing, "Herbert," "Herbert," in the old way, giviug bini the warning againet being late ou which he bad so learned to depend. Bnt no loving, careful voice had sanuded Where was his bat? No one was eeeing that hie thinge were ready, "Jane,"?he hurriedly said to a aervent, where a my bat I And eomebeelyaa put way thepapere I bad here last night." janelooked at him with a puteen expree. ;Ion of greet eurprime. "Ufa the email elellairen I do be leokbel after," she said. Jane was an obeeerving girl, and if *he quiet - /e, eujeyed Herbert's diecomfltart, it is net to be wondered at, Jane was eXpeOt.ed Oa keep lierbert'a olothee in order dunes hie mother's Mimeo. btxt ;he was not in the least given co melting after him and begging Mtn to brbg what be needed to her. So his buttons were unre- pieced and tears eunmended, until Herbed) could, not fled a garment which was in re- pair. No ono reminded Min of the time for Mw to come In and study, and he allowed his attention to be turned to trifles nntil his time was gout,. If he forgoe that Ss tea -bell rang, no oue inaleted on bis going to tea; and it he dewdlea until the table was eleertel, no 0110 acemed to eta° wbether h had something comfortable or note "1 wish you would mail thole letters,' said father one day at dinner. "One them be important See that you gee them in in time for the four ololook "111 be sure," said Herbert. Re fully utended it, as he alweyr did. Hie nogleo of the duty which lay near:lab never came of deliberation, but amply from the habit of ine ttentlen long indulged in. "I ought to take those letters fireb, and I will," he seta to himself. He took them in his hand and went out, but. passing through the garden, saw a bird fluttering, As if in pain, on the ground. Now this has been doze by some of those young ratesele with their Sling shootere," he exclaimed in great auger, for his heart was very tender towards all email, helpless creatures. 44 I'm going etreight Over to Gurley'a to tell thug boys thet if I ever see one of them about here nein with a ehooter 111 set the police after them." He 1a14 the letters carefully on a ledge in he woodwork of an arbour which atood near, hen went and gave hie message with an en- rgy which he thought the subjeot demand. d. On Ins retort:he met a boy who told im what ought to be done for the injured ird and came home with ttim to look at it. That ought to be kept in a cage till is gets ell," the boy said. " r v e got one. Come ver home with me and 111 let you have Ala Herbert, Herbert I why was there cot some one near to utter a note of warn. g? So many things of interest Turned up O the boy's house, that it was twilight be. re Herbert again oroseed the garden oar- ing the cage. "Oh, those letters 1" He started in dim aye as the *bought struck him like a blow, eizing them he hastened to the postoffice. hould he tell his father of the delay? It mild be the wisest, the only honest, raightforward course, he knew, to .pursue. tit how could he, after having been so rongly enjoined to prompt aotion in the atter? He decided to keep it to himself nd, for a few days, carried a burden on his ind, wondering, yet: not daring to ask, if is neglect would cause any misohief. "10 is strange that we do not hear from rofessor Harlow's friend," said his father, " Yes," said his brother Robert. "Bub s we do not, I'm afraid it's all up with my a voyage.» "What sea voyage ?" asked Herbert. "Profaner Harlow is going with some there on a scientific: expedition to Jamal. a," explained his father. "I was telling im about Robert's lung troubles the other ay and he gave me the address of a mem. er of the exp.edition who was needing a oretary, saying that if I applied at once, the time was very short, Robert might et she position. 1 did so, but have had no newer, so 1 must have been too late and obert must brave the winter here. pallet, good thing it would have been." "Father," said Herbert, "was it the tters you gave me laeb week ?" '• Yes." . - "I—forgot and did not mail them till exit day. Oh, Robert, can you ever forgive e?" "Yon had better wait to ask forgiveness ntil you learn.a little regard for duty," said father, sternly. "You negleoted what told you and then failed to let me know of . If you had, I could have made the ap- bation by telegraph:" • Herbert went up to the room where his other, much better, was sitting in an easy - air. "Oh, mother, mother," he said, alt. ng down beside her and leaning his head her lap, "aren't yon almost well enough begin at me again? I wish you would an and nag and nag at me, for Fro good for °thing without it." "My dear boy," she said, putting her arm ound him, "don't you think it would be tter for you to cultivate snob a spirit of After a few moments of confurnon, during which the entire family were astir hunting for the missing buttons, he darted out of the door. "Herbert," called his mother after him, "you have left your muffler." "1 don't need it." " Yes you do. You have a bad cold and it is damp." His little sister ran after him with it and his mother gave a sigh of relief as he die. appeared from eight For three hours no one would have to urge him to anything, unless it mighe be his teachers, but she rightly guessed that the strict routine of school aid not give much opportunity tor the constant lagging which made his home life such a burden to others. Late in the day Herbert: was playing tennis. "Herbert," said hie mother' " I think you had better come in and puton a warmer coat. It is getting cold as evening comes on," "Yea, mother, just as aeon as we have finished this game.' Bub the game was finished and another entered upon whenshe called 'gain. "Her- bert, come in at once." Yee, ma'am, we've almost got through. I'm not a bit odd." The game was finiehed and Herbert pass. ed into the garden, to o6ver some favorite flower which might suffer in case of frost; s then to fling a landbal of clover to his rata bits. The tea. bell eounded just as he stop. ped so gather some fine pansy seeds. "Herbert, where are you ?" he heard his mother call, "Here in the garden, mother:. I'm cone ing at once. "Herbert, it is your bed -time,"' said his mother two or three hours later. "Yee, mother—jest in a minute. I don't often have time for any reading, you know, and I just want to finish this chapter." The chapter was finished and, as mother did not Lhappen to speak at the moment, Herbert with a little qualm of conscience, Went on. "Herbert, go up stairs. Do you hear me? , The tone was nob to be misunderstood. He oloeed his book and looked at his mother with a half smile. "Mother, on do keep up ouch a nagging at me." It was not said disrespectfully, and elle smiled at the injured leek he put on. " Do ?" she said- "Web, 1 believe I do; but if I did not, what would you ever accomplish? I would be glad enough to stop It, for it is the burden of my life, this maiing and urging you to duty. Why can't you be prompt andready in your actions? When will you give, over this perpetual lagging and dawdling ?" FOREIGN TOPIOS. The guitar is becoming very fashionable in Euglana. Sir Morell ialaokeuzio, the Englialt elector, has a son who is acquiring fame as an factor, and will soon try starring. Fencing has become so popular among ladies upon the Continent) that many con. vents include it in their ourriculum. II: is amid that the Marquis of Lorne la to be Governor of Ceylon at 840,000 a year. Pcinesee Louise will go with him. The English Admiralty is experimenting with a system of electric eignalling between oommanders and engine rooms on war vends. Paris women now have a whitn for nat- ural flowers. They are worn on the should- er, epaulette fashion, where they are inno danger of being ornehed. The Prince of Wales wore pearagray gloves with black stripes ab a Paris theatre a few nights ago, and the Paris pepere announce that gloves are henceforth de mesr at the theatre. He Got Geed% "1 tall you what itis," said Tom Hardup to his friend Binks, "it has come to Me— 1 must have a new suit of clothes. See how seedy I am getting Now, my boy, I have hit upon a plan that' think cannot fail to answer." "What is it e" said Binks, looking some• what askanoe at poor Tom. "Well, it is simply this. You've got a twenty -dollar note in your packet, I know. Now, just lend 10 00 me for ten minutes. I intend to go to Raymond's store, where I used to have credit, but confound it, I look such a wreck nowI don't like to ask it. A few minutes after I enter the shop you stroll in and say, 'Hullo, Tom, old chap 1 can you let me have twenty dollars for a day or two 2" I'll say, 'Certainly,' and hand you over the note you lend me, That little transaction will at once substantiate my credit and and I shall be able to arrange things satisfactorily with the tailor." Binks was a cautions man, but he could see no harm or risk in thus helping his impeounious friend along. Acordingly Tom went into a clothing store and waelbusily engaged selecting a suit when Binks sauntered in. "Hullo, Tom I" said Binks in a loud tone "you're just the man I've been looking for. Can you lend me twenty dollare for a week or so?" Tom turned from the oloth and replied: "Awfully sorry, old boy, but 'pon my word 1 have not more than a couple of dol- lars or so about me." Binks' face grew visibly longer. He winked, and nudged Tom, whispering, "Confound ie, man hand over the note." But Tom was obdurate. At last Binks grew tired of the game and stood outside to wait for Tom. Tom, however, went ,,out ab a side door. There will be war when these two meet again. An oyster recently dredged up in Eng. lish waters measured 7 inches in length, the eame in breadth,. and 20 1-2 inches around the onteide edge, and weighed 3 1.2 pounds. A 3.year old boy was asked what he would do if his mother were to die. He said "1 would get another one," and when mated where, maid "Ont of 000 vinegar barrel." "Bay, Roney, lame re Kuo:97 de Lord?" BY Jo A. alOREISOR, The story is told of an eminent New England Divine, hew thee for paws he learcediv argued and discoursed on the truth of the theological tenets of the Bible; filiog up logical statement s and argon:ante, with the principal object; in view of convertiug to Iris opinions, and enauner of life a very gifted lawyer who eee0Piesi regularly a front seat: to his OE, gregation, and who appeared to enjoy—per- haps without being convinced by—the keen wit and eloquent* of the preacher. OnA. plea:mot wintry Suralay after000n a note /rote 'alb lawyer summoned him to reeidence, and Creat was the preaoheae deiighr to have hin,. repeat the question of the .Pailippien, jailor What meet 1 do ta'otabeo441 tvhea:141:0 tete eerr4:8Pet'ate81:2cPel,e aCCXdPlfaaaith" toward Gad, through our Lord afeens Christ, followed by a season of prayer and conse- oration found a aeneen made with the him. aeti rolled away, very _happy ha tbe Lord. The pthaeher then, to, the grateful Wide of the moreent, Propounded the queetion; a Will you please tell me what W048 isa mv muuuponornierryu ermoonaatittaatzafeerbenicbhlyinitemprweresestond• i vieelee of conscience ?" only to receive a re- ply that was ha De wise /lettering to his Va14 by. Indeed, sir, aince you ask ine, I AM tell you that it was nothing in your Serinen whatever. It Was * kindly queetion by *int Nancy, the oid, colored weeleerweenset whom I helped, dOVill the elippery church itepa and a short diatence along the street a a week ago, and who asked me at parting, with a kindly prawore of her old withered bead ore tue arm, "Say, honey, dega YO knew de Lewd?" I eeuldn't get rid of the ta ter; t4tu 40 vi* tille., 1 Q helped Me get A 'Satisia0- 111)'lee'atA dYe°'bklestalwewel aseintIpArl'jketerlet; -Wee ma know de Lord My honey? Sey 1 DM Ye' iDAQW de tenth Ilia heart is bery fuJI CA1 IRV 1044 ebery wetly weeper: D4eS kneW de Lord My houey? Sey 1. Daee ye' know de Lord? He was cradled- in a manger,— H's king ref Ileben—eteanger— Don't you rem ye' satire in &user If de lard should eall lb ; Now ye tink ite emeov and quiet, -- But ye antra A runulie riot, lie done gib Elia Ilf to buy ite duet to get It elar ob sin. Camas :—.Deea yea know de lierd My beney ? 113es yo' know de ZdAeia Jean Demi yo' knew de Lord MY hooey? Say I Doee ye know de lard ? Rab yo' he'rd de alasae Jams Cellin in de early mawnin ? Rab yo' bee de Lord My honey! Say I /lab yea herd de Lerd ? If yo' listen yo' can her Him &audio' out hie diteger warnin' ; 0, Eaten to de Lard My honey t Listen to no Lord? He's so pad when sinners bar him; When Ide cattle out, acute ye fear him 1 Ebery he:Arta:mit brinve yo' near Him Where He fain would tak' ye in Stranger! Listen to His callin, While:de dews ob amaee ; 11 yo' don't, twill be apaoallina Whim Recalls yo' itt yor sin. If yo' know de massa Jesus,— If ye knew Ilim yo' would Him I If ye Ituew de Lord, Meehoney I 0, if yo knew de Lord ! Ho is wawin' fo' earth sinful one To lift hie eye abeve him An' to see de Lord, My honey Don' yo' want th rree de Lord? He will be yo' soul'a defender, If yc' only willsurrender, For His love is true an' tender An' Ho longs to shut ye in Whar no trubell can oppress yo', Nor de ebil one distress yo'; If yo" come to Him He'll bless yo', An' pardon all yer sin. CROWS :—Den you'll kne de Lord, my honey I Den yon'li know de Massa Jeans, As the chiefest of ten thousand And be happy in His love. A Song of Sorrow. EY ERNEST m'oAritur.: I passed through the vale of sorrow, Where tear -drops fell like rain, And stood in the paths of trouble, By the hills in the land of pain; And a light flashed otte from heaven, While a voice rose sweet and strong, And down from the somber shadows Came the eoho cf a :tong. "0 ye who have known not madness, Nor walked ha the ways of dole, Ye lose the refining essence That will purify the soul: Have ye lived and nob to suffer? Why, then ye have lived in vain, For as steel by the fire tempered Is the heare made strong by pain." And far in the distance shining A vision came to me, Of Christ in Hie lonely vigil By the sands of Galilee : And the cross and crucifixion Seemed loss that Wag more than gain, While out from the mist above me Came forth in a clear refrain; "0 ye in the lowland roses Beneath unehadowed skies, The rose -leaves fade in a moment, But the thorns triumphant rise; • And those who will grasp them firttly Such souls shall never wane, For they fall not here by the way -side Who smile at the kiss of pain." And lo 1 by the stony pathway, Upon a barren slope, From the sterile earth upspringing Was the flower that men call "Hope)'s And out of a cloudless zenith, h Where the shadows erst had lain, i Came down in a lulling whisper, Like th9 rustle of waving grain: a "Aye !sweet 18 the•song of gladness, u Yee sung on heights apart, , Bub the ory of the sorrow -laden Has a home in every heare ; p And the minstrel's lips that tremble Shall sing an undying strain, For the song-ohorde throb forever That fall from the harp of pain." THE VIOTORIA NUGGET. An Eye -Witness of She Discovery Olv an Account or Me Wouderrul Ontl, A cerrespondent sends sas tae feltowin very intereating account of the Andieg this wonderful nugget: As I was presen at the time the &se large nugget w fennel there, thonmet perhape you or your reeders mania like to know a little moth about, it. /laving left Censiaboll'e Creek ahal low diggings, fairly heeled in January, 1853 with three eheme to try ourleek he deep sink. lag, we accordingly pe eked rep our dunnage and tools and started for Cenadien Gulley, or Gulch Bellerat, and took up claim about 150 yards or eo from th claim from which the famed Vieteri nugget was taken out. It was reported a that time to weigh 156 pound. The nente we given to the largest solid nugget over ye discovered IR A0,804116, or, I believe, fo that metthr, in any other country, I re eriember well the+ clay ip Few Ran, et eaa d 0 17. cousin, Frenk Neckleson, w one of the geld eounnissienera at this time The party of eix men owning and worth: the claim had been for a long One 90t 0 luck, in bet having to depend upon Mei neighhorefor grub, andhedoffered towslitheir cleine for four outagea. of gold Their dram AS far as I can recollect, was aboet 150 feet deep, and shout eia by eight feet wide, and many of us having just mph cheloss tout owa being 150 feet deep) whielt panned mit 001410g: eminfo,s pnrcbasers were /mane. However, one of the party, josb as they were about to abandon the cham, made the remark ; "I will bake off one more foot of dirt befoee I leave, and if don't emote to bed rock then let the otd claim go to Tophet." heel been at work A ellen time only when be etztok oemethiogwi:11 hie pick. ale knew by themm coaelon it was not a rook, and carefully cleaning Around he un- earthed the fammui Vietorie nugget, Weld ware at onee /mut down th the Governmeut camp about a Mile heieW, and my CeaRie and two unmated pollee came up to yam; and place he nuggot in the bends of the Government of • for aofety aud traremertatIon to Mel. bourne.aaW it when Stet tekem eat. JO was ahaped aemewhet like a c000mente Two weeeraeierhed emootb gold with the excep- tion of a etredi thread of quartz peseta:as about tbe 0044e:eyed lengthwaye, I well reineniber seeing the melentetionenede by thepiek rebout tbree Inches from tbe centre of the nugget It was afterward on exhibition iuMelbourue and Geelong, at tvienty.ave cents mbsion ; thence it wee taken to Elegleud end exhibited in leendon and the prinolpel cities and %fere the Queen. and is ART (III am nag mietokeet itt the British MUSSIDE. OAS of the lucky Andere beeame erezy through exceaelve miter:tent. I knew the ole perky by weuag them conetently going na returning fromerark previous to thew ding the great Victoria nugget-. I will After fieding the big nugget they big to ebeedori the elaim, when some miner suggeetel thet thew abould eleau up the Claim, when they found tome aiEty or venty pound' more of gold, among which eeollect a very hendaonee nugget weighieg ono four or aye pounds, Okla and House Linen, wag a good old morn for ae girl to pre pore houeehold linen for bend( as mu a else became old enough to sew latelligentl The aupply cif bousehold linen whiah the bride fermerly brought to jeer hurarinda: houee Is now often replaced by Army bridal gifts, mere costly but far lege useful. The old custom of keeping gide flowing for yearsQR household linen, knitting bege full of etookinge tu antioipetion of the corning hue band who never MIN has been rirliatlei till able are ban ethamed to own household linen of thew own making. While it 18cer- tainly foolieh to bring up a girl with the idea, thet marrlege is a neeerwity to her well being and bappiness, is is equally foolish to stultify the highest and mast womanly in - Abets of the growing girl by turning her thoughte away from home matters, Wher- ever the true woman comes, HOME IS ALWAYS ABOUND nEn. She inetinctively turne the meet barren attio.roorn into a semblance of or:Wore and rest. It is an exoellent domestic training for girls to have and prepare household linen se well as their own clothes, Even though they may never be married, they may yob have happy homes. DI boo longer neoessaty for unmarried women, to seclude themeelvee in an undesirable room in a boardmmlottee, where they aro given a grudgmg reeeptton. It is becoming more and more the fashion for women, who aro selasupporting to build up homee for them. selvage and these are some of the most de lightful households of our great cities. For the sake of dividing expellees, one or more women frequently nubs their incomes and keep house together. Thus it becomes evi dent that training a gtrl for domeatio life does not necessarily mean trainiog her for marriage, but simply for home life, toward which, the taste and ambition of the true woman will tend a bother she be married or single. • SUCH DOMESTIC TRAINING need not intertere with a training for a life's work, studying a profession, or anything else that a girl desires to do to make herself a .nseful, self-supporbing individual. The old way was a good way. It trained the girl for cooking, needlework and every branch of housework better than all the teolmical schools in -the world could, but it seems an impossible feature to introduce into the advanced idens of to-dey. Bute as fax as possible, let a girl took forward towards her home life and prepare linen as of old, owning her own and taking housewifely pride in it. There are blessed homes, where the unselfishness and gentleness of one sheds a heavenly glory on all who orosseher three. hold, and other homes 'where the selfishness and contention of two who should live as one make the life of every one around them a barren desert. "Home is a plsoe of peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, bat from all terror, doubt and division. For a noble woman it stretches fax around her, better than ceiled with wader; or painted with vermilion, shedding its quiet life far for those who were homeless."—(New York Weekly Tribune. HESE AND Tlf.013. " ,TasperStevenson, ;known throughout tha Penh -*1 Bogiand generally, and same - g for his breeding and feediug of black - 91 faced lateen, is dead. The move fotuedere of tho ,M,hrithue Pro- m - vusces eve forreed ileuslom,010 meet IIPPar provieee competition and prevent the Wan - !inhalant of new facterles. Canterbury, IT bee a Qeeker church thee wee built in. 1792, anot heel not. beau ehingled since thee tune, The slainglea then put on the roof were of heart pine, and Were fastened Ms With Weoden pegs. a Catherine Fender, aged sreventeen, a a LiVerpeei servant girl, reeently eloped with t the ten-yee,r-old aon of her employer. rhe a boy repeated after a few dap, deriarted her and walked home. Aer ehe Wok some artiolee r el wearingapparel belonging *ober (=player - With her she wee arrested and is new 00 fa, ad, aa At the -last preeentstion of "Adrienne Lecouvreur Sera Bernhardt, in Milan, g ahe was celle4 before the mertain at the end f to receive a, gold Medal, from the Drematia r Society of Hely. When about to eteeept the wan seized witb an atterek or hysteria/a, and for over an beer was in the band* of the doctors. The audience waited let a state of greet excitement. nntil 10 wag over. an Anetraie doctor has invented a proems for tke neamufaetnre of artilleid leather from zed beechwood. The treei from vrhielt the wool, to taken should be old—from after to sixty. years ref age—and tbe weed Atonal be cue m the eprzng aud worked up ianne- diatelg, Meer inadergoteg taweral pr000mee —eteeming, treatiug with ebemieele, oteeae Otto prepared wood re stibiceted heavy poweure. 4 irolid leather CAI be obtabeel, euperier neturel Enriching Life. The way to enrich life is to keep a reten- tive memory in the heart. Look over a period of twenty years, and see the all-oov- ering and ever -shining mercy of God 1 How Many special providenoes have you observed? How many narrow eocapes have you experi- noed ? How often have you found a pool in unexpected places? We should lay up ome memory of the Divine triumphs which ave gladdened our lives, and fail baek upon O for inspiration and courage in the dark and cloudy day. Go into your yesterdays o find (bit Setwoh for Him in the paths long which you have oome, and if you dare, leder the teaching of your own memories, eny His goodness, then betake yourselves o the infamous luxury of distrust and re- roach.—Joseph Parker. A rads gentlemen engaged a rao concert oompany 00 entertein hie eompeny at a re - Cobb reception* and laden* the evening was over A handsome baritone of 30 wen the heert of the vomeg lady of the twee, end eleped with her while the genteelly were at dinner. She wore only a mackintoela over eveeleg dreier, end bed, no money, white be owe* hie iandleay two weeke rent, anti debt: to all the neighborhood, bat neither of them, bas yet been heard, trent. The °Intone of ringing the curfew bell it stili obeeeved tax some Elglish towne; but are and muulle—willeh wrap, WO attpPOSes, inoiceo gas apI electricity—no longer came te Mannino ab its setetaneee. The municipal authorities, too, have taken the liberty of chaugleg the beer. At Orreskirk, 00 cubic% the belie are meg at eight in the winter end nine in the anteater, Heads of femillea there aro aAld to approve of this frieudly reminder te the yeaug people to go The greet; !welt of pletee 00 Itt fragility, awl the "tough" vadetiee of it have net been quite euenseful, 4. aolestitate for this useful meterlel itt windOWS and roefs hew Wert recently introdneca. It is plitut like !tether, but trauelneent, reed of au amber tint, Tile urethrae' ceesisIs of iron wire ent- ail; eraelosed in a verrdeh, ot whieh tile buie 18 %seed oil, It le mini* ire sheen: ecu bee y four feet, thus rendering jeints rare. It eau be cut watts acloore, end no glazier le mitred to tix it, tails being employed. Tbereeterial makes a coolawning isa aRPOIOer, as tbe ewes beat is aaid to pars through le th difileuity. TIM war tore refutes to teal.' Genera Resler, one of the old Southern men, haa been (peeking at Baltimore and is there re- ported as having deelered that "a Southern get:Vs:man could whip a Puriteulaal Yenkee any tune anti that the Santlx in the war yielded te: starvation only." The Northern papers eomment upon him severely for such utterance. Timm Governor Fitzhugh Leo, of Virginia, the "nephew of ids =dein (a, banquet in Notv York the other day inveigh- ed against colored rule, and remarked; "We contend tiro as white men founded this Government white men shall rule it." The outlook is not as promising as it rnip,ht be. The doller was adopted by Congress as the unit of tbe American eurrenoy, August: 5, 1785, It was to contain 375,64 grains of pare silver; but when the mint was Web. fished, In 1792, the requiremenb was re- duced to 37a25 grains of pure silver, The coinage of dollare began in 1794, The Amerion dollar VMS an Adaptation of the Spenish milled dollar, which had been in circulation in the United Seethe from bee fore the Revelation. It will be understood that the dollar was deeeribed as a milled one from the circumstance of its having the rim notched just as our present coins are notched. The practioe of notching the rho -EMS adopted to prevent the -clippers of coin reducing its size by taking off a shaving all around, as they need to do with English coins. "Havarti Weelay," says—A neva:paper paragraph has been going the rou ads te effect that General Lew 'Wallace claims to have received no less than sixty different re- quests for permission to dramatize " Sen- ator " and that to all he has replied with a negative, accompanied by the statement that he had himself prepared a stage version of his nove). The ingenious author of this pieoe of news further adorns it by saying that New York managers, [deer readingGen- real Wallace's drama, pronounced it incap- able of prodnotion, on the ground that he had not known how to make a real play of it, To all of which General Wallace begs to interpose by way of demurrer these facts He has not said that sixty different requests to dramatrze "Benaur "have been sent him. He has not announced that he was preparing oz had prepared a stage version of his novel. Up to the present time he has been opposed to the use of his book for any dramatic pur- pose whatever. Hoffman's Cadtclio Directory for 1889, which has just been issued at Milwaukee, Wis., gives the statistics of the Roman Catholic Church 'in the United States. There are thirteen archdioceses—Baltimore, Bos- ton, Chicago, Cincinnati. Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York, Oregon City, Phila- delphia, St. Louie, Ste Paul, San Franhisoo, and Santa Fe. Bach of these archdioceses is the head of a province which is made up of several sees. In the thirteen provinces there are sixty dioceses seven, vicariatea. apostolic and one prefecture -apo mike that of Indian Territory. The Church dignitaries of the United States are one Cardinaatwelve archbishops, seventy-two bishops, one pre- fect•apoebolio, and eight mitred abbots. . Those oharge of the seven vicariates- apostolio are bishops. They, with fittpeight oversees—two of the sixty dioceses being vacant—and seven who have resigned, make up the seventy-two bishops. In a general summary ehe Directory gives tha total num- ber of priests 'in the United States as 8118, Of these 2008 are members of religious orders and 6110 secular olergymen, There are 7353 churches, 2770 stations, that is, places where there are not resident pastors, and 1480 chapels. The Catholics have 199 orphan asylums, with 21,358 inmates; 32 theological seminaries, with 1570 students; 124 zolleges, 549 academies, 2799 parochial Jay G-ould beganahis business career by sohoolse with 597,194 pupils. The Catholic weeping ont a brokers' office. Subsequent- population of the United States is given as ly he cleaned out the broker. - 8,157,670.