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On the wings 0 protal'aMbition
We nlaY Sear te Jetty lleighti
Oa the page 0 workilYne,nout
Oft We strive Our names to write ;
But the blowsof adverse fortene
Soon Imre dashed them to, the ground,
Till of hopes <>nee fondly cherished,
Votu veatige now is found.
Or, with pencil and with paper
Writepur thoughts that own may read
And with impulse, good or evil,
Sow the ROO 0 evil seed.
Or upon the solid marhle
Write our llama With skilful hand,
Ohis.Nvords, that through the ages
Of enduring veers shall stand.
Still we're writing, though 11400TIVAOUti,
Every hour and every day,
And it either helps or hinders,
As we traverse life's rough way.
Every sinful thought we cherish,
Every idle word we say,
Stamps its impress deep and lasting
On the heart, or moulds our clay,
W b ore things we seldom pleasure,
iekly said, we think they've flown,
or 4 light as down of thistle,
The to fruitful soil have blown.
But c'e death, with ice.cold fingers,
Stops our journey o'er the earth,
They'll return in cruel vengeance,
Pierce the heart that gave them birth.
Oft a Word so quickly spoken,
Words of proud contempt and scorn,
Like an arrow swift end certain,
Leaves its Victim bruised and torn.
And Wine 139111 that late was 8triAng
Hard to rise to higher life,
Deeper sinks, from our infustice,T ,
With fresh wroncs and conflict rife."
What you've written, "you have written,"
Spend not tine in vain regret,
Life was given thee for labor, ,
Use It not to pine and fret;
From the ashes of past failures,
Rise to better life and true,
Live, that through succeeding ages,
Angels may write good of you.
ORIN ••••••••....
Berilardilla's Lover.
EY LonisE ALEXANDER.
" Well, what do you make of it 2" askec
Mr. Jack 3.da,under, as he laid down his
brush and palette and folded his arms, as
though to brace himself for the reply.
" Not much " said a very pretty young
lady, as she closed her book with a delight-
ful little yawn, and with both ruthless
hands rumpled her blonde bangs out of all
their smooth symmetry. " With the ther-
mometer at ninety," she murmured, " the
gifted herafne was a trifle fatiping ; we
are informed she is epigrammatic without
hearing any of her smart speeches ; then the
hero—evidently he is the long-haired poet of
the future—but with none of his poetry on
exhibition. By the way, Jack," suddenly
turning upon him eyes that were like blue
flowers, " what interest had you in the
book 2"
" None in the world," said Mr. Maun-
der, morosely, " except that I wrote it."
"Why, you clever old boy," exclaimed
the y Mg lady, rousing into animation at
4r
this Gement. "Then there must be
somethia g in it," she said, cheeringly, "else
they avoiild not have 1published it, would
they? You didn't have to pay them to print
it, djd ybu Jack ?"
But Mr. Maunder, under this soothing
criticism, was rapidly packing up his art-
ist's paraphernalia, with an accession of
gloom, patent to Bernarclina's blue eyes—
"clear windows where , observation sat
langhingly."
" I think you are not very polite, Mr.
Maunder," she said, with pointed. formality,
" to leave my questions unanswered, when
I have ihade myself quite stiff, posing for
" Tita ' 'a " 11 the morning."
,are always laughing at me, Dina,"
remonstrated the young fellow, in a tone of
sulky complaint, which produced an exag-
gerated appearance of penitence in the in-
corrigible Miss Ray.
" On the contrary," she said, with a
wicked little gleam of the blue eyes, "1
feef a sort of reflected glory in having the
honor of your acquaintance, you delightful
dilettante young man."
So Mr. Maunder pulled at his monstache
in a wrathful State of indecision, and swal-
lowed his resentment as best he might.
He was a tall, slender young gentleman,
with a sUfficient share of masculine good
Idoks to subjugate the average feminine
fancy—a course of conquest he had been
wont to pursue, until Bernardino, Ray had
revolutionized all his past experience. She'
was so entirely unlike every other day lady
he had hififerto encountered, with her deli-
cious, tormeating frankness, and gay spirit
of mischief. That she lived in a different
world from his own, was only an added al-
lurement to the already infatuated Mr.
Maunder.
What moments of intoxicating bliss he
had spent within that little vine -covered
cottage, where dwelt Bernardino. and her
widow.edmother ; or better Still, the hours
passed upon the grassy slopes out side,
while he painted Bernardina as Titania
among the fairies, but in reality she resem-
bled more a Dresden shepherdess in bisque,
with her intense blue eyes and finelygrain-
ed complexion.
Already Mrs. Maunder, whirling away the
summer days at Newport, had received faint
intimations Of her son's latest infatuation,
and- apprehension became confirmation
strong as proofs of Holy Writ, when Jack
boldly expressed hiS request that:Miss Ray
should receive an invitation to his mother's
garden ./de.
On the whole, Mrs. Maunder, with all her
exclusive patrician pride, concluded to con-
cede this card to Miss Ray, if only ae an ex-
pedient by which she might be enabled to
. criticise this rustic beauty.
Her son was undoubtedly an emotional
young man with an artistic tendency, and
a susceptibility to the charms of young
maidenhood, particularly alarming to the
mother who adored him. I
And if her maternal solicitude was of a :
aornewhat worldly. character,. ahe had prov-
ed her confidence in ,her only son by an al-
lowance so liberal, that obviously nothing
more pradtical could have been expected of
him in the way of achievement, that a few
paintings of dubious commercial value, or a
trifling little rhyme now and again for one
of the' magazines.
Mr. Maunder had displayed much di-
plomacy about obtaining the invitation to f
the garden party; but his sense of complac- 11
ent Satisfaction waif changed to something
very like dismay, when, he discovered there
Were futher obstacles ahead. I
"1 Oppose a faded late organdy; or a ;
White one of 'remote antignity, ;Would not I
be exaetly appropriate for yeti. mother's '
lawn V' Said Bernardiria,,with less than usual ,
of her gay good humer. Somehow that bit'
Of pasteboard had opened vistas of exhilara- i c
ping possiblilities.:to Bernardinit, Shut up in 1uis
her world of: book e and maiden dreams as
she had been, until' Vie . chance advent of
... dila deferential %Young prince a the gay
outer Werld,
He had Won over the qiiiet mother, by the.
. charm -e.d his frank.,yentliftilitesi and eotirte- ,
MIS bearing, and to. ])eritardina he had coins
•
aff reVelationl et yOUth. P43,4 eougenial
om-
adeship, .
'rhe summer days had ,drifted ea with
eyer•increasing cooOdeuees betweeii these
two, atid that peret' absenee qf eonstraalt
which a Mere COnYentional aCqaaintange
Might lieVe engendered, Searcely a day
asoed without their ineetina, and th-day
isir. Matinder WW1 intent Upen gaining his
point. Bernardina should ina to, the feu,
., Beauty is like a rich stone, best plain
set," he quoted. sagely, with his young eyes
looking unutterable things. tut Bernaraina
knit her pretty brows crossly. "Thanks,'
she said, ohortly, " only I should prefer
some a the baggage of virtue, once in a
way." And then Bernardino, looked as
though she were quite out of patience with
the "slings and arrows of outrageous for-
tune."
"Let me buy you a dress, Dina," said
Jack audaciously, but blushing the while at
his own temerity, "It would be a purely
business affair, I am sure you have wasted
enough time, posing for ' Titania'",—
" Thank you," said Bernardino., as if she
were not in the least obliged, however.
My self-respect is worth ever more to me
than a new dress, Mr. Maunder."
'But this loftly attitude was not natural to
Miss Ray, and she was already a little as-
hamed of her ill- humor.
"You are a good fellow, Jack," she said,
unbending into a smile, and extending her
hand with a graciousness which Mr, Maun-
der was not slow to accept with 4 servile
and abject show of satisfaction.
"1 have read about girls making them-
selves picturesque out of old window hang-
ings and their grandmothers' dresses,'
said Bernardino, after this reconciliation.
" Mother," as that gentle lady appeared in
the doorway'"Have you any ancestors,
or brocaded dresses, hidden away in your
trunks up -stairs 2"
" I fear not, my dear," said the mother,
smiling quietly, as her eyes always did
when they rested on Bernardina. " But
there are those dimity gowns, that have
been lying away ever since you were a baby,
Dina—if they would be of any use."
But Bernardino, was already away,
" Yon are worth a dozen ancestors,
mother dear," she cried gayly, as she disap-
peered.
Presently then, behold Mr. Maunder,
seated modestly beside the window with a
pair of scissors grasped firmly in his hand
and a mass of dimity before him, prayerful
ly anxious to be helpful in the work of de
• molition ; for as Bernardina grandiloquent
ly put, it, ''dispatch was everything."
That was a joyful week, with Jack an
Dina, running races down the seams, both o
them in the wildest spirits, while the piaci(
mother sat smiling as she sewed. What
would have been Mrs. Maunder's emotions,
could she have beheld her son at the mercy
of this young Delilah?
• • • • • • •
" Now be candid. with me' Jack," saic
Bernardino., upon the eventfulThursday, a
she turned slowly and seriously about fo
Mr. Maunder's Inspection. " Do I look
amateurish Have 1 a home-made appear
mice?" with a consuming anxiety in her
blue eyes, and an evident distrust of her
own charms. "1 have a painful misgiving
that it requires to be pulled tight in front,
to make it it right in the back ; and vice
versa," she went on, with a somewhat ner-
vous laugh, while Jack pulled at his mous-
tache, and looked profound.
"In other words, it fits too much,"
agreed Jack, with a suspicious readiness of
assent.
"Then you show very bad manners th say
so," said Bernardina'with some inconsis-
tency, but great spirit. But her indigna-
tion soon melted under the stress of weight-
ier emotions. "And I have a burning
doubt about the set of this off sleeve," she
resumed, returning to her anxieties. under
the exigencies of the occasion.
" Now, Jack, I put it to you, as a man
and a brother—is there not a suspicion of
bagginess in that sleeve 2" with a bewitch-
ing backward glance over her shoulder.
But Jack, having learned discretion, was
not to be entrapped a seeond time. He
raved over the success of their united ef-
forts, and appealed to Mrs. Ray to sustain
the veracity of his statements ; and when
he had exhausted his vocabulary, rather
'sheepishly he produced a slender parcel
and proceeded to unfurl a handsome sun-
shade.
But Bernardino. speedily relieved him of
his misgivings.
"Why, you delightful . creature !" she
cried, with her blue eyes smiling dark and
brilliant from beneath the lace border of the
parasol. " You have quite restored my
self-respect, and made it possible for me to
fancy myself one of Worth's confections."
So Bernardina ate her former words with
perfect cheerfulness, and was whirled away
to the fete in a state of complacency, second
only to Mr. Maunder's sense of satisfac-
tion.
Arrived at the scene of festivity, people
were not slow to discover this new beauty,
Who was the -obvious object of Mr. Maun-
ders devotion. If the ladies were inclined
te be critical abonttbe set of her gown; the '
men found no such barrier to their admira-
tion—and in point of fact, 13ernardina, did
look sufficiently charming in her simple
ceam-white gown, with folds of tulle caress-
ing the white column of her throat, and the
big bunch of roses beneath her dimpled chin
vying with the color in her cheeks. For
once at least Bernardina drained the intoxi- I
eating cup of social snccess,, with a gay and
whale -hearted enjoyment which some pro-
nounced the Perfection of art, and the mas-
culine element declared to be adorable.
But it was over; and next morning poor
,Tack had to hear his sister's criticisms at
breakfast.
"Fancy my feelings," said the eldest
Miss Maunder, with dignity, appealing to
ler mother for sympathy ; "when I show-
ed her Jack's picture of 'The Sylph,' she
asked me if mi did not think the legs re-
sembled champagne bottles—and
dozen people standing around."
If I .knew her better," said another
Miss Maunder, stifling a yawn, " I. should
advise her to change her mantuamaker,"
But this was too much for, Jack's equa-
nimity. Before his mental vision arose a
picture of Bernardino, with her pretty per-
plexed face and hopeful ; gayety, while she
planned and contrived the costume which
these weridlings now would criticise,
. " Mother and sisters," he said rising Man-,
idly to the occasion, ShOrild like. you, to. '
thew that the lady you are diiicitsein I
in-
tend, if possible, to make in's, wife.' And
then he wita gone, leaving this thiniderbOlt
behind MM. But his head was in a Whirl as
lie tookthe well-known road to Bernardifia's,.
He would tisk her to Marry him that VOrY
triorning,--his pretty darling,,, who was worth
dozen of thoSe Cold-hearted eonventional
creatures.; but he would 10 them See -,-he
eXaetly kin)* what, biit he ;:,kept ttp
resolution, he had ptiiired out his
heart at 13ernardities feet,
Thit ; Bernardina tOok , the reeital vor
"Should you feel j stified , Mar,
rying against your mother's ...wishes When
yon.are,dependent iipen' her bonnty she
deniatided a little soornfidly. "May
quire What other Means. you have 'Merry"
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open, Mr, 'under?" $he ed wi9t
Portenteus calm,
Bnt this Wee ak practical COR14104, `0114
i.11894)14tOd Meulider, and tend-
ed t� Pheck the flowery rheteric of his dee-
laration, He eVen looked a little foelieh'
'1 bame some sorbet # farm in Virginisa
hut I've neyer oven it," he achnitted sulkily,
after a aomewilat blank pause.
And then the storm broke -
°Then my adYlee to you is, J.44 Maun-
der," she said b1ing1, "to learn hew th
earn your own bread, before you invite io
wife to share it With you. Bo you think I
would thrust myself upen an unwilling
fainily, and ask to be supported? Not I,
Jack Maunder, Vfy. ourn poor mother pined
her whole life, by Just such a inarriaae as
you invite me to make; but because I have
been foolish and happyand lighthearted, I
am not altogether lacking in common-sense ;
and sooner than marry the way you ask me,
I'll live arid die and old maid, Jack Maun-
der." '
With which awful declaration Bernardino,
came th the end of her breath, with several
einphatie shakes of her head, and her blue
eyes flashing dangerously.
"At least you have not spared me any,"
said poor Jack, with his lips trembling boy-
ishly under his long, fair moustache; and
under the reproachful gaze of those 'miser-
able brown eyes all Bernal dina's scorn van-
ished.
• "Show -yourself a man'Jack," she whis-
pered , with her cheeks flushing suddenly,
"before you ask me to prove how well I love
you."
There was less danger of misunderstand-
ings now, with his fond arm about her waist
and brown eyes gazing deep into blue ones.
So they exchanged their views and vows of
deathless faith and constancy, and then
Jack went boldly forth, to wrestle with the
virgin soil of Manitoba. And when Mrs.
Maunder discovered that this astonishing
development of manliness and inde endence
in her only seri was dile to the influence of
the spirited young lady who would not
marry him otherwise, her opposition gave
place to a genuine good feeling, which time
and a dieser acquaintance have not altered.
Bernardino, and Jack have been married
now ten years. A little procession of. lads
and lassies go tripping about the old farm-
house, like miniature copies of their.' blue-
eyed mother.
• Jack has forsaken the fields of fiction for
- those of agricultural reform, and they are
- . very happy. They have all grown to love
- I their free, healthy home life, where Bernar- ,
• dina reigns, the " joyful mother of child -
1 ren." In her, Jack still retains unlimited,
faith and love—happy Bernardinal
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• (C014'IMIZD,)
Before. we begin talk about stone
bridge% let us name the dhferent parts of an
areh,• as nearly all our etone bridgee are
arehed,
The atenee rbieb the arch is made are
called vcassoirs, • The one at the top is Nal'
ed the keystone, and this point is called the
AV or crorm of the areh. The lowest
stones are called the ,Tringon. The large
three -cornered spaos above the sides of the
arch are called spandrels. The walls or
masses of masonry in the •water, on which
the arches are supported, are (Ailed piers.
Those which are against the bank are called
abutments. The low wall which is built on
•eath side cif the top of the bridge, to keop
people from falling off, is &lied the parapet.
The distance between the ends of the arch
is ealled the spun. When you read that an
areh is of fifty feet span. it means that a
straight line between its ends would be fifty
feet long.
An ordinary bridge must be prepared for
the attacks of four enemies ; hrst its own
weight; second, the stream that it spans;
third, the people who use it; fourth, the
weather.
It is sometimes a very nice problem to
plan a bridge so that the weight of the
stones wilirmake it stronger, and not weaker.
In order to be stron a an arch must have
something immovable to bra,ce its feet
against, and its crown must be as heavy
that it will not be pushed up into the air by
the pressure of the sides.
I• Suppose two boys stand back to back,
and spread out their feet, so that together
they make a sort of letter A, or arch. Sup-
pose they are near the side of a large room,
where the first •boy can brace his feet
against the wall. Heavill now find it very
easy to maintain his position so long as the
second boy can maintain his. But the se-
cond boy, with nothing to brace his feet
against, will find it very tiredome • no mat-
ter how hard he digs them into the carpet,
they will be in constant danger of slipping
away. But now we will put two more boys
in similar position, and place them so that
the feet of the second and the feet of the
third will come together and brace
against each other. This makes all the
boys comfortable except the fourth. We
will add another arch to our bridge by puting
in two more boys, and now they are sinning
except the sixth, who bites his lips and
wishes we would hurry 'up with the next I
arch. So we put in two more boys, and
then two more, till we have extended our
bridge entirely across the room, and the
last boy can brace his feet against the wall.
This makes everything secure.
But suppose one of these arches is made o
two small, light boys. Wtat will happen
Why pretty soon the feet of the small boy
will begin to give way and be pushed b
e feet•, o e large boys pressed agar's
them, till the small boys are brought n
standing, with their heels together as well a
their back, and the two arches of larg
boys will have settled down in the sam
proportion.
This will enable you to understand a dif
ficulty that is sometimes met in building a
stone bridge of several arches. Of course
the two end arches will each brace one foot
against the bank, which we may consider
CURRENT GOSSIP.'
Facts and Fancies Briefly Staled.
There are more than 10,000 deaf mutes in
Spain.
A green rose is one of the newest produc-
tions of botanical science.
I A pinch of snuff large enough th produce
- a good sneeze will cure hiccough.
I The mortality in the vicinity of the Chicago
slaughter -houses is 21 per 1,000 per annum.
1 It is said that no case of injury to the I
eyes from the incandescent light has been ;
reported.
1 A well -digger in Osco, found a hollow
log twenty-eight feet below the surface of
le ground, an in og a vigorous frog.
1 The valuation of Florida is $69,000,000
barely more than half the amount invested
in Boston's Back -bay in twenty years.
1 The Philadelphia Ledger estimates the
Quaker city's population at 975,000, and ex-
pects the million limit will be reached in a
year.
Philadelphia, has eight women physicians
who have each an annual practice of over
$20,000, and a dozen or more women dent-
ists who make large sums.
1 Five hundred million dollars were repre I
sented at the wedding of Miss Rita.Armstrong
and Mr. A. J. Drexel, the banker's son, at
Moron, the other day. Among the presents
was $500,000 to the bridegroom.
A New York scientist says that the earth's c
polar ice is penetrating the interior of the
globe like a wedge, and that as soon as it
reaches the furnace there will be an explosion
that will split the world into pieces too small t
for truck patches. t
1 Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich who has just s
returned from a three mouths' trip through t
the interior of Russia says : ' "The civiliza-
tion of Moscow remin'cls me of some wild In-
dian chief who, in his old age, puts on a pair '°
of epaulettes or a high hat It simply em -
a
When you drive nail With hanirner,
if yeti !ging the bonnier (IOWA, slowly it does
net drive ae far as when yoii bring it 41QWX1,
11 you make the hainmer twice a,s
heavy, Or bring it dOwn twice 41,0, it
strikes the nail tWlee as hard ; if yOn Make
the hamMer twice as heoxY, .044 hrioft" it
down twice as fast, it strike* the nail four
times as hard. Now, if the ap of a bridp
eguld be made absolutely' Onoeth, aeauramth
as glass, and if the. wheels of the 'a agene
were PerfeotlY sineoth and round, wonld
make no difference how • fast they might
drive. But this ean never be. The wheels
Mast always meet obstructions, Thom
may be the edges of pavii4stories, or • tbe
°Oda Of planks or the pebbles of gravel •
and whenever they do meet an obstruetion,
they first strike it and then niount and roll
over it. Every such stroke is like the blow
of a hammer on the bridge, and the effect
will be aecerding to the weight St the ham-
mer and. the rate at which it is •moving. A
ioaa a three tons ruovhig ten miles an hour
will strike six times as hard 08 a load of (me
ton' moving 'five ' miles an hour. Some
bridges are 50 heavy and strong that u
load which is ever likely to erosa them will
have any perceptible effect. But others
cannot be made so, and hence the sign often
seen, even on new bridgeo--" Ten dollars
fine for crossing faster than a walk."
(TO BE CONTIN171.1).)
SCLENTIITC AND USEFUL.
M. A. Samson, in the Revue Seientflique,
says that in France animal pow is cheaper
than steam. For mechaniea,1"geney 98 per
cent. is lost in the machine, against 68 in
the animals.
An English ligeor establishment has been
so distm•becl by bees that the bottler has
applied to the magistrate for protection,
though what the law can do against disor-
derly and intemperate bees cannot be under-
stood.
Chambers' journal says a joint of meat
may be preserved many days by wrapping it
loosely in a fine cloth wrung out of vinegar,
and hanging it in a draft •of air. If the
weather be very warm the cloth should be
moistened twice, or even thrice a day.
Berlin has an Electric Exposition, at
which the greatest curiosity is a mirror
which greatly improves the appearance of
all who look in it. It is the ladies' favorite
corner. Among the other novelties are an
apparatus for lighting cigars, a machine for
making tea, lamps in the shape of colored
liar:tars, etc.
Up th date 12,000 diamonds have been
found in the recent drifts in the Bengera,
Invereil and Crulgegang districts of New
South Wales. The principal minerals asso-
ciated with the diamonds are gold, garnets,
wood tin, brookite, magnette, tourents, air -
f can, sapphire, ruby, spar, topaz and quartz.
2 The largest diamond yet found weighed 16.2
g grains, or 5-3 carats.
y The beautiful white alloys now made of
t allummum and silver are said to be much
p harder than those from pure aluminum, and
s on this account they take a much higher
e • polish, and at the same time are preferable ,
e to the silver copper alloys, -for the reason;
; that they are unchangeable in air and retain
_ their white color. It appears that accord- 1
ing to the quantities of aluminum added the ;
alloys possess very varying physical charac-
teristics.
About two-fifths of all the farm-hands in ,
Saxony are women, two-fifths men, one- I
fifth of the whole number being minors of ,
both sexes, ranging from twelve to eighteen
years, who only receive their board for their ,
labor, or in the case of day laborers not even'
that, being taken afield by their parents to
aid them in the work. The heavier work,
such as plowing and mowing is done by men
but threshing, binding, sheaving, hoeing, I
etc., is done by women, or, at best, decrepit
old men.
immovable. The piers may be so thick and
heavy that of themselves they will sustain
the pressure or "thrust," as it is called, of
the other sides of the arch. But sometimes
it is necessary to make the piers so high and
narrow they cannot do this; and if one arch
were built at a time, its pressure would push
over the pier. If the arches are all of the
'saine size and form, and we build them all
at once, they can brace their feet against
each other and be just balanced. But some-
times the formation of the bed of the stream
is such that the piers cannot be placed at
equal distances apart, and so the arches can -
lot be all alike. Sometimes the balance is
maintained by making the short spans
ower arches than long spans. In a low
arch the pressure is more outward than
lownward ; in a high arch it is more down-
ward than outward. In our bridge of boys
you will find that if two large boys forming
an arch stand nearly straight, spreading
heir feet apart only a little way, while
he small boys forming the next arch have
pread their feet far apart and broualit
heir bodies nearer to the floor, the two
arches will balance just as would two equal
arches of equal -sized boys. You see every
ne of these boys is sustained by two things:
he floor, and 'whatever he braces his feet
gainst. The straighter he stands, the more
he is sustained by the floor and the less by
he wall or the feet of the next boy; the
ower he gets, the less he is sustained by
he floor and, the more by the wall or the
eet of the next boy. In other words, the
traighter he. stands (and consequently the
lighea arch he ma,kes), the more the thrust
f that arch is downward; when the lower
e gets, the more its thrust is outWard. In
he bridge we can also put an extra amount
phasizes savagery."
'John G. Whittier has made a contribution •
to the Charleston relief fund, and says :
" New England in this matter knows ne t
North and no South, and if here and there f
any old jealousies and resentments remain, 8
they should be swept away in the flood of 1
practical sympathy for our afflicted fellow- 0
countrymen."
Private information from Belle Plaine, Ia., t
f stone over the small arches ; but here we
must drop our comparison, for we don't
vent to.put any big stones on the head of
mali boys. -
Some -tithes an. arch must be very small, to
ake room for the water to ass in time of
opds and yet it is desirable 'to have the
op of the bridge as low as possible, so that
t will not be necessary for teams or trains
to go up or downhill in passing over it,
his Makes the masonry very thin and light
t the crown ef the arch, and the weight of
tone in the spandrels might throw up the
ey. Occasionally this difficillt3r has been
vercome by making the spandrels hollow—
hat is, by making large: round Or arched
olea through them. This not only
ed artesian well there does not abate, and ' o
pours forth ten million gallons daily. It has ' N
stopped seven springs in the immediate lo- ' s
cality. ' e water ows o withoutmug
.
any damage, and the supply may turn great- ' m
y town's a van age in e future. . fi.
A young min out of work began peddling t
leadpeneils about Norristown, Pa. He went i
into a manufacturer'eoffice, and, as the;pro-
prietor good-naturedly listened, praised his T
pencils and drew figures on a piece of paper a
to show how good they were. His method-, s
of drawing and precision of toudh led the k
manufacturer 0, question' him. He proVed 0
to be a designer Of ingenuity and skill, and t
before he went out had secured a place,
• lightens them, bat makes • additional
assage-way for thewater when it rises high.
very pretty example of this is afforded by
he Bridge of Pont -y Pyrdd, O'er the
iver Taff, in Wales. Of two bridges pre -
London Leads the World, A
London, with the single exception, possi-
bly, of Rome, is the only capital in Europe 1'
where the festivities of a court are to be V
enjoyed. Berlin was never very gay, and
now that the Emperor and Empress have f
become so very old the social elements of 0
court life have laecome extremely primitive, T
as well as formal and restricted. The h
haughty arigtocracy of Vienna decline to 0
receive at their entertainments anyloreigner 11
below the rank of a prince, even the at- ,
taches of the different legations having but w
a dismal time of it. Since France become a a
republic the social prestige of Paris has a
wholly vanished. •• et
Spam and Portugal are tee far Out of the to
beaten traek, 'Apecially th0 letter, and a
tlm stiff etiquette pervadhig at both courts in
renders them anything but popular. Since fo
Ring Humbert ascended tile throne of Italy to
he and his fair Wife have done Much 10 make to
Rome a brilliant and attractive social center. th.
But it is nova an undoubted fact that Lon- of
don, during the oeitsoni lias taken tile place p
which vvas occupied under the second em- w
pire by Paris in the affections of abeiety el
loVers n both SideS of the Atlantic. •th
-
A woman always tells a Secret 10 some
one because she Is afraid she might die and h
then there would he nO One left to keep it
musly erected at this point, the first was
arried away by a freshet, and the second
ell by itS OW11 weight, the masses of mas-
nry in the spandrels throwing up the key.
he present structure is a single span of one
packed and forty feet, and has three round
penings in each spandrel. It has stood
riirfor a hundred and twenty years.
The piers of a bridge must stand parallel
ith the current, and should be at narrow
s they can be with safety, so as to present
s small a mark as possible to its natural w-
ily, the stream. This is all the time trying
underinine them and to kneek them over,
nd during a freshet it often hurls logs raid'
wises of ice againot them with treinendous
me. For this reason they are made sha,4
t the up -stream end. Sometimes a sepal.-
te brat meter of rood or atohe is built for
e protection of each pier ; and these are,
ten placed at a little distanee front the
lets; beeause if they rested, against thom
liefiever they, WereetrOck byte,log ors cake
ice the shockwould''be ' Commuhicated to
e bridge, mut in timethis would 1001en the
•asOnry,
&pry load that is driven 'over a bridge
lts se terideney to shake it, down, ond the
ster it is driven the lodSuO effect it has,
THE LORD'S PRAYER.
(PARAPEIRASED).
1. "Our Father, who art in Heaven."
Father of Lights and God of Love,
Thrice Holy is Thy name;
Thou King of Kings, enthron'd above,
Thou ever art the same.
2. "Hallowed be Thy name."
Forever hallowed be Thy name,
By hosts in earth and Heaven;
In heathen lands make known Thy fame,
And saving mercy given.
2. "Thy Kingdom come.
Thy kingdom's; stretch from pole to pole.
Throughout earth's utmost bound;
Till gathered in each blood -bought soul,
That on the earth is found.
4. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in
Heaven.,"
Thy will be ours from morn till night,
Obedient to Thy Word;
Then shall our path be clear and bright,
And sin shall be abhorr'd.
5. Give us this day our daily bread."
That man shall nothing be denied,
Who truly seeks Thy face;
Our earthly wants are all supplied
With bounty, love and grace.
6. "Andforoive us our trespasses."
Our sins and -failures we confess;
On bended knee entreat ;
Thus, trusting to Thy tenderness,
We'll worship at Thy feet.
"4 s we forgive them that trespass
against vs."
And may Thy love our hearts incline,
To mercy bend our ear;
To pardon others who combine
To cause us needless fear.
8. "And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver 91,4 frOM CVa."
From Satan's tempting snares of sin,
Thy right hand shall deliver;
Our Goa shall keep us pure within,
Though Hell's fbaridations qUiver.
9, "For Thine is the Ktngdom, t e power,
and the glory, forever."
Thine arc the kingdoms of the earth,
And thine the glory ever;
This world did own Thee at her birth,
Thou everlasting Giver.
/0 " A Men!"
Amen 1 amen! o let it be,
God's counsel faileth never ;
The Truth of Goa is pure and free,
• And shall prevail forever !
TenorttO. —Jan
DRJLIMIIITSTSR/ES,
,Vmisuos or' $,GOal—Bkh; XX•1 41/..1,,A0Es rip
CP.44,4s-
The dream of the Prince or Conde is elle
that engages attention at, once, from the
;Amber of poincidences demanded to coin-
nlete its Verification. It Was during the
French , religiens war which. the Prinee
was the principal "PrOteetairt ebief, and Plat
before the battle of Dreux tinst be belield
the vision in question, He dreamed that he
had engaged in three euecessive battles, and
had gained as many vietories,. costing, the
livee Of hie three leading enemies of the Op,
positien—the, garAlua a $t, A,ndre, the
Duke of Guise, and the COnstable of
France.' He himself, Mortally wounded, ex•
pired among their corpses. The historical
fact is that St Andre perished at Dreux,
the Diike of Guise at Orleans, and the Con-
stable at St. Dennis, while the Prince of
Ccn le himself Met his death after thou at
the battle of Bass.
130. Janson, the careless, but graceful,
dramatist of the seventeenth century, used
to tell his friends with profound convietion
how a dream warned him of the death of a
favourite child. He was sitting at the home
of Sir Robert Cotton. in Huntingdonshire,
when one night a "Vision of his eldest son, a
ehild in tender years, who was at that time
in London, anneared to him with the mark
of a bloody cross on his forehead as if it had
been cut with a sword, The dream so wor-
ried Jonson that he -passed the remainder of
the night in. much anxiety, and early the
following morning hurtled. to lay the matter
before his friend William Camden, the an-
tiquary, who was stopping at the same
house, Camden endeavored to persuade
him, that it was merely the result of appre-
hension concerning his family, and that he
should not be dejected. The dramatist,
however, still remained uneasy in mind, and
a short tune subsequently received a letter
from his wife informing him of the death of
the child in question. Jonson afterward
stated that in the vision the boy appeared
:1he might be at the time of the resurree-
.0ont.la, manly shape, and of such a growth as
STORIES OE THE ERESE,NTEUENTS
of soldiers, in which they have been. warned
of an -approaching danger, are familiar to all
readers of history. Whether they are pro-
duced by the continued liability to injury
incident to the life of a man at arms, or owe
their existence to some other cause) is uncer-
tain; but that there have been cases in
which these presentiments have existed and
been verified is undeniable. And the same
may be said of dreams. During the siege of
Chio, in 1431, a Genevian named Grimani,
who belonged to the Garrison in the town,
dreamed that a huge serpent attacked and
endeavoured. to swallow him. In the morn_
ing he related this dream to several friends
They, thinking this betokened a violent
death, advised him not to go into the fight
that day, and, accordingly, when a sortie
was made during the forenoon, Grim= re-
mained behind. Thinking to view the en-
gagement and at the same time avoid dan-
ger, he concealed himself behind the ram-
parts, but curiosity getting the better of him
he stepped forward and glanced through a
loop -hole: At that. very instant a shot from
the enemy's gun pierced this aperture and
lodged in the brain of the luckless soldier.
Despite his caution his dream ha,c1 met with
verification.
The death of Henry III. of France, who
was so distinguished in the War of the Three
Henries, is another example cited as proof of
the reliability of oneiroscopy, or the inter-
pretation of dreams. July 29, 1589, the
King dreamed of seeing his royal ornaments
covered with blood and trampled under foot
by monks and the populace. This was just
after he had formed. an °Mance with Henry
of Navarre and the Huguenots, and when he
was advancing upon Paris at the head of
40,000 troops. Three days later, Aug. 1,
Jacques Clement, a fanatical Dominican
monk, under pretence of having important
tidings to impart, secured an audience with
the French monarch and assassinated him
by plunging a dagger into his body. The
murderer was slain on the spot by the Royal
Guard, and his victim fulfilled the prophecy
of his vision of warning by expiring the fol
lowing day.
• The Lotus.
Lotuses grow in the tropical regions of
Asia, Africa, Australia, and elsewhere, their
chief home being India, where they grow
abundantly, extending as far to the north-
west as Cashmere, where they are seen to
perfection. They not only bear the loveliest
of flowers; they also serve for very 'useful
pm -poses to both men and animals. Some-
what resembling a tulip, but much larger,
you can see them in full bloom after -the
rains in nearly all the lakes and ponds of
India, on the waters of which the smiling
pink or white flowers stand upright over the
large graceful green leaves. The lotus is a
large flower, four inches to ten inches in
diameter, with vinous smell; its petals are
elliptic, concave and veined. The fruiting
lotus is two inches to four inches in diam-
eter ; the ripe carpels vary from the size of
a pea th that of a small cherry. In some
parts the natives live on lotus -seeds, The
long fine filaments contained within the cells
of the flower are drawn out, and the thread
spun from the filament is used as wicks for
the lamps in temples and pagodas. The lo-
tus -leaves are very large and round, two
feet to three feet in diameter'inembranous,
cupped, and covered with a line bloom or
white powder easily rubbed off. Sometimes
whole lakes are entirely covered over with
them, so that you can hardly see the water
underneath. These leaves serve as plates
for very poor people, and elephants have a
great liking for them as food. In the remote
solitary parts of the country you can some-
times see several elephants, half hidaen
under the water, lustily devouring lotus -
leaves and steins. The stalks are three feet
to six feet high, full of spiral vessels, smooth
or with small scattered prickles. In hot
weather the stalks are commonly eaten by
the poorer classes, and boiled in their Mir -
ries. The root of the lotus is pierced kalgi-
tudinally with several holes. When boiled,
it is of a yellowish color and sweetish taste,
not unlike ternip, It is believed to be gond
and highly nutritious, and forms a tavorite
dish with the inhabitants of Cashmere. Tim
principal varieties of the lotus are the white,
the red, and the blue. The lotus is seen in
its greatest splendor in Cashmere. It is
very amnion on every expanse of water hi
that country. The lotus is highly venerated
by the Hindoos. It is the immediate attri-
bute of Vishnoo, who iiz Hindoo mythology
is represented es seated upon the lotto in
the midst of waters. The flower is a, favorite
offering at the Mule° temples, where it also
enters into all the ornaments of brass Vessels
used hi the eervice of the idols.
" 1,Vhat is the matter with the train con.
antor 1" asked to passenger ; "do you ex-
pect to stop at eVery creaaread t" " If you
don't like the wa3r this train is rutC,i' grOwl-
ed thn COndllet6r, " you can gat off an
, Oh I' ' t I " I
sval.k." " m ntrry salt
passenger,