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Tatil'ATE OF THE BEIG 13.Edi IdeiM" wes rattily io my pewee or lied pee deft,
Ken. There reeted, the old lorig on ao even leeel,
eitses erearritte as 1`."1"
fait ever yards brewed as they were lett
Wow Me Mystery was Solved.
yeere before but the wills rotted and blowu
In the rooeth of dime, 1854, the Eughth away, and maey ropes broken and frayed,
bri g bee }lemma, Ceet. Jobe E. Clark. And areeming i he which
pima through the S notits Sumda, im her I had hewed, of her boa and had -read Reese
way to the 'adieu Oswalt, boiled for Mel, 16;02,00g ea related by the pepeee, me if
bonnie The crew, ell told, neitthered. eleven tette the pluck oat of me to find her there.
people, and the brig bed reiseelleneous Indeed I wee so ewed end overcome thee
cargo She eiguelled "Alt well " when got aid not dew, beard bee ebei, night, bet merle
Ing threugh the atraits, And that was the m bed en the and and env, wetted, tat
lest heeto of her for five mouths. Then a
eallor mimed Chwies Ranfoe &raved at Syd-
ney and told a very curious story.
About forty miles off the Waits the brig
fell in with a mall eaudal wood trader in a
;oinking couditiopi ehe was carryiug a lot
of natives from one of the isiends of Sumatra(
to some port in Silva, and had prung a
leak. The brig had either to Weald by her
or take her people off„ and Capt. Clark de-
cided upon the former course.
The brig hied struck a log or some other
oatiug obettuotion while imilipg dia a fest
rate, and had been bully damaged about the
bow, Thie occurred in the early morning
and it waa iust at comet that the brig came
up with bor. The Neared craft had been
meowing in for the Javawaste but as, wind
and ourreat were againet her elle had mule
very alow progrees.
Her pumps were so snout tha, they would
not throw cub what a quarteninoh hole
would let in, and orew mad passengers were
bedly retitled. It was a beeratifel evening,
with every prospect othoutinued good weath-
er, and the fleet mate and five of the men
went aboard of the trader to help him moke
repairs.
In the course of four hours they returned
aboard with the news that the email craft
was now tight and dry, and they biought
with them several bottlea of wine and some
dried fruits as presents from her Captain.
Capt. Cloak was a •kind-hearted man, and
as the men returned aboard he distributed
one battle of wine and a share ef the fruit
among the men. The brig and trader has
been slowly drifting of before a light wind
duringethe repairs, but now each hauled
back to her course and they were soon
separated. Renfoe buena been feeling well
during the day, and he wan the only man
who did not partake of the stuff Bent aboard.
It was his watch below after midnight, eine
he had been asleep about an hour when he
was.
morolog,
1 h4 aecurea my yawl when I drove in,
and es I came to examine it next morning I
found it almost free from beery, while the
mast and sail and tiller were emirs tattler
the Omuta By the time the gale Wee
over, and I was surprised to nee how far the
weter bad fallen away from tee beech.
lily twat move after imam:wing the yawl
was vo board. the brig, This was an essay
matter, as the water at low tide did not
remelt her foremast. I was desperately
afraid of facing a skeleton an I drew my head
above the ral, and I inade a lengthy survey
before I dropped to the deck.
There WAS a greet deal of litter' aletut, sud
muoll of the expoeed woodwork bad begun
to away, A more lonesome sight one could
not find, I moved slowly from team to
stern, and was relieved when no ghoetiy relio
of he deed presented itaelf, ' •
The brig ,had the old-faahioned fo'citethe
and I noticed thatehe elide over the openieg
was Neared. The cabin doors were aleo
shut. I dreaded to make a further inveeti-
gation, but hunger an& pewee of mind com-
pelled nee, and I finally entered the cabin.
The medicine chest was upeet in the main
cabin and eating room, and the bottles
weltered about the floor. There was a
spread on the table, but it was blaok with
mould, and, after a brief look, I had to re-
tire nail the fruit air amid drive out the
heavy odors. By and by I returned, and
when I had. looked into the berths and found
no moulderiegskeletons, a great; load wee
taken off my mind.
I had, however, to examine the foeas,stie
ewe, but, being encouraged by what I had
failed to find in the cabin, I made short
work of it. 5Tot a body had been left aboard.
Reath must have heaved the dead over.
board before he left the brig, although he
had no recollection of the not.
In the wok's galley I found everything in
good order, and when I looked over the
stores in the pantry everything pinioned and
tasted as wholeaome as if only a week out of
the warehouse. Within an hour from the
time I boarded her I was eating a breakfast
prepared in the galley and was feeling quite
at home. When I had satiafied my hutiger
I opened up the hatches and
AROUSED BY CONFUSTON ABOABD.
11.111111.1111011111111INWAIMMIIMMOINIML.
The rOOtpath.
In Englane tam may walk through a
gloxinia wl betels trembling the high road. The
winding byroad, with its bee ery sides, is
everywhere At our service, and everywhere,
too, we find the foatpeth, crowing private
groeuia, parttime, an menitieued by some
ere:ilea rieht of way; edging the litele river
and pawing it by the briage, width is OlIVOYS
to be found where needed; bordering the
farmer' 6elds, leading from one hospitable
gate or turnstile to another, an finding its
way to eveey attractive pare; of view.
Eogimid had been cultivated for no many
centuries that wane an acre eppeare wheel
the hand of man has ea pub, te eome sort
of service, while even in the most thickly.
aettled parte of Canada there tore many
tracts whieh are still elmost in their primttive
condition. Horses, too, are cheap with us
Lied dear in Eoglanci, SO the Englith rustic
to obliged to wale where the Canadian or
American may ride if he will. But to explain
why we have not no enemy footpaths as the
Mynah is not to coattail oureeives Belittled
with the want of them. lehr N there any
reaeoe why we ehould not have them in far
greeter numbers. It costs a good deal to
make !tread, but very little to make a foot
path, for, of ()Pura; we need merely a nar-
row path whith a- well-abod and sensibly -
dressed person eau *Anne with a ntoderate
degree of ornfort—not a grovel walix et for
slippers and muslin, game+. Often a couple
of planks across a brook, a few loada of
earth dumpial in a mashy spot, two or
three stones reet, aa steps against a wall or
mama and a little cutting away of tree
ranches and undergrowth, would open up a
delightful tract of country which now is al-
most iropossibleof approach. Nor dowethink
that the farmer's or landed proprietor's in-
terests would suffer by such trifling della
ties paid to possible pedeetrians. More per-
sons would cross his property, but those
who did crow would do it less damage.
The path might keep even boys' feet from
straying into leas dereintlole directions, while
those for whoae espeolal benefit; it was
formed would, of course, be limited by its
bounds. If even. the rudest, simplest paths
were thus generally fended in our rural
neighborhoods their influence wadi at
owe be felt in tbe village itself as well se
In the Summer colony. Ask any farmer's
daughter why she does not walk more and
the will &newer, like the city woman
"Whore shah I walk ? The road is meat!
tractive, the meadow and woods are al-
ways more or lase diffieult to cross and
often impassable." More paths and simple
bridges and stilesethe what we need, alike
in the interesterof healthful physical., deveh
opulent ad of healthful growth in the sen-
timent nature. ,
Every man on watch below was suffering
wIth cramps and vomiting, and he went on
deck to find the same state of affairs pee -
wallah. Captain and mates were down,as
well as the men, and the man at the wheel
fell to the deok end began rolling around
just as Renfoe wane on deck. While the
brig had all plain sail on her the breeze was
light, and, as the wheel was made fad, she
took oare of herself.
There was no doubt that the crew had
been poisoned by the Wine or fruit, though
the trader most have been entirely innocent
of any such intent atter the services they
had. rendered. Recourse was had to the
medicine cheat, but nothing seemed to act
as an antidote
. The agony of the men increased with time,
and by three o'clock in the morning four of
the foremost hands were dead. while the
others were 'without; hope. Renfoe was
dazed and helpless, and he could do nothing
but pity the poor fellows around him.
Half an hour after sunrise he was the only
living man aboard the brig, and as he saw
one after another pass away his feelings
were wrought up to mob a piteh that he
almost lost his min iiie squid not give a
•-tear
- *meowed. He could
n any whether he deserted the brig that
dey or a week subarquentiy.
He did not renter/Jeer whether be threw
the bodies overboard or left them where they
lay. Time was a blank to him for the next
ten dome, when he was picked up by a trader
two hundred miles below the straits and
twenty miles off the Java coast.
He was then afloat in the brigs yawl, and
had neither water nor provislons. His talk
was flighty and received little attention,
and he was carried to one of the eastern
islands and was there seriously ill for a month
-with fever. When he began to mend of
that the particulars of the tragedy came
back to him, but as ehe brig had yob berm
seen by any of the traders his story was not
believed.
He worked his way down to Timor
and from thence across to Port Darwin,
and he finally got ship from there around
to Melbourne.
The Ben Hammond had been reported
tomb in the Indian Ocean, but her fate was
considered a mystery. ?Weds which had
preceded and. followed her had met with
the most favorable weather, and there wee
much epeculation as to what had brought
Wooten her loss. Renfoe's story explained
A PORTIONOr THE WTSTSBY,
and aeveral crafts were sent out to search
for the brig. She could not be found or
beard of, and it was at lad concluded that
she had gone to the bottom.
In the month of Jane, 1865, eleven years
later, I pawed through the Straits of Sunda
on the English ship Prinoe John bound for
the port of Melbourne. We had scarcely
cleared the JAva cape when it came ort to
blow a gale from the west. The gale in.
created to a, hurricane tater a few hours,
and, although we kept the old reap abet,
she was drivera along ways to the east.
We had a terrific wind and sea for bus
days, and by that time our drift had carried
us well down to the eastern end of JAVA.
One morning, at about 9 o'clock, just after
hadrbeard the Captain say that the gale
was bielikking, we were boarded by a sea
which swept the ship from Stem to stern
We were lying to, you understand, with the
usual watch on deck.
Three of us were carried overboard by
thin wave, but I did not see either of the
others, 1 wan velobled mid over end aria
buffeted about until I thought I should
drown before I had nen the anthem, but
after a time I wan heaved up to daylight,
and I had no sooner got my eyes clear then
I sew otie of ow quarter boate does to me.
It had been torn tootle by the same wave,
and wee floating right aide np, but full of
water. I got bold. of it, and after resting
it bit I pulled myself in road Beamed my -
ea by a lathing to oue ot the thwerte.
Tee wa-the rats right over me at brief inter.
vele, but the weight of the wittier held the
boat clowe until elle drove like a log, and
she could not therefore tiptoe as she tamed
broWleide to the we
It Was, as 1 atid, about 9 °hawk when I
volt overbeerd. At about 4 in the after-
noon I eighted lama to the north* and set
hour later I bend myself driving between
two islands, half an hour later a (Await Set
me to the right, and I drove in for the land
add brought up at the head a a bay or inlet
hal a mile long and not ova to hundred
to Wide. Hard etwound at the head oi
title bay, with her boweriltit touthitig the
Moe on the shore, was the old Ben Hammond
g lost and Altillott forgetteti brig,
ve right in peat her, and Was heaved
male by the well, au& the first thing
to sib down and Weinda Whether 1
TRH °ABM SKYLIORT,
and then turned to and. reseed the deck of
mut* of its litter. Whea things looked a bit
more txim I went down and got the chart
showing tiae Sunda Islands, and after a little
calculation, I twitted my position as being,
on the west side of Lombale Island.
It was not the maiu bland, exactly, but one
lying so close to it that it went by the same
name, and was separated only by half a mile
of shallow water.
Ltmbitk proper was inhabited, but fin
many yeara peat the western end. of the
island has been avoided on acount of a
plague starting there and sweeping off
hundreds of nativee. It seemed strange
that some of the trading craft had not enter.
ed. the strait and caught; sight of the brig
and strange yet how the craft got, in there.
The chart medeit planer.
A westerly gale created a strong clement
through the straits, and one which made
its influence felt aeveral miles off the coast
In ordinary weather, with ordinary depth
of water, the channel was dangerous to any
sort of craft, manyleeiges and bars being
shown. I suppose the brig's sails helped
her along, and she got just the right slain
at the proper time to carry her into the
bay and beach herself, The spot was shelter -
ad by the trees, and. one would have had
to be very close to see her,
I got hold of the manifest and als
speoted the hold, and I teund e she
valuable oargo, and one which Moen
damaged. 810 worth. There were fou
five steam vaginae, a great lou of agricul-
tural tools, furniture in the rough, wooden
ware of all sorts, scores of °awe of boots
and shoes and dry goods, and enough in
fact, to make up a oargo valued at £27,C00.
The brig was as dry as a bone, and after a
little veatilation and disinfecting she smell-
ed as sweet as a peach.
I wais a week aboard of her before 1 de-
cided what to do. The small boat was in
good condition and I took on water arid
provisions andone morning ran down the
straits to !the north for the Flores Seas,
feeling math euro of meeting some British
vessel before crossing to Borneo.
I had scarcely left my island behind
when I saw H. M. S. the Dragon bound to
the East and by midafternoon was aboard
of her. After sending me back with a
guard to hold the brig, she returned to
Surabaje, on the north wrest of Java, and
reported to the Consul, and within a month
everything had been removed from the old
Ben Hammond and she was left to decay.
Her cargo insurance had been lead, but
everything wee recovered in snail fine order
that the loss was erifiing.
"Smith" in Thirteen Tongues.
It is a popular 'belief that Smith is the
most common name in the English language.
I am aware that when Fergus O'Connor's
famous Chartist petition was investigated
by a committee of the House of Commone
another name containhog the tame number
of letters was found largely predominating—
but we will let that peas just now, and hon-
or John Smith by doing him into thirteen
different tongues, when he 00131e8 out thus
—In Latin he is Joannes Staithus ; the bre
liens smooth him off withiGlovanni Smith
the Spaniards render him Joan Sraithus ; the
Hollanders adopt him as Has Sehraidt; the
French flatten him out as Jean Sweet; the
Russian sneezes and barks as he nye Ivan
Sraittowski. In:China he is known es Jaen
Shimmit ; in Iceland as Johne Smithson; in
Tuscaroras you torget all about Pocahontas
and Povvhatten when you hear them call Ton
Qua &rattle( In Wales they speak oihirn as
Jihon SOM Lad; in ALOX100 he is weal leginitti;
among the Greek ruins the guide speake of
him as Ion Smikton. and in Turkey he is ut-
terly disguised as Voe Self.
Re OWari Irp.
o leeplese day 1 0 Wrebohed day,
That ever 1 should ne
Abe, the years heve tneeked away
And all the ohauged but me 1
TEO I the power, 1 would rernaud
You to a eloont condign,
BM; here you've crept upon me and
pan thirty -rune I
Now, were I thirty five, I could
AsSuma a flippant Pose,
Or, were 1 forty years, I should
Uedoubtedly look wise;
For forty yore are said to bring
fiedatenata wuperfiine,
But teirty.nine don't mean a thing
bas with thirty nine
You healthy, hulking girls andloop,
What makes you grow so feet 1 ,
Oh I'll survive your lusty noise ;
I'm touch and bound to last I,
No, no, I'm old and. withered, too ;
I feel my powers decline.
Yet none believes this can betrue
Of one at thirty-nlne.
And you, dear girl with velvet eyes,
I wonder,what yon mon
Through cal our keen anxieties
By keeping sweet sixteen.
With your dear love to warm my heart,
Wretele were I to repine,
I was but jesting at the start,
I'm glad I'm thirty-nine I
So. little children, roar and raw
An blithely as you can
And, sweetheart, let your tender grace
Exalt the Day and Mao;
For then theee factors I'll engage,
All subtly shall con:bine
To make both juvenile and sage
The ono who's thirty-nine
Yes, after all, I'm free to esker
(Chat I rejoice to be
Standing an I do stand to-dity.
'Twixt devil and deep sea;
For though my. faoe be dark with oars.
Or with a gnmacie thine,
Each haply fella unto nay share,
Since e am thirty-nine!
The Oanals of Mars.
Through the !agency ot the leek telescope
the surface of the planet Mary has been
mapped out with additional clearness. The
0AnaiS, which can be very plainly seen, lie
In the torrid and warmer partite:la of the
temperate zone, rind extend from the
Northern to the Southern Oman. They are,
in general, 2,000 or 3,000 miles in length and
over thirty miles in breadth*. They are
generally arranged in pare 200 or 300 milers
apart, and so exactly parallel that usually
no deviation pan be detected, They out up
the continent surfed° so there is no apot
more than 400 milts distant from one of
these markings, There is still rauele surname
as to vehether these arimutied canals are
artificial or natural. It le argued that they
Mama be artificial, beamirie of their greet
width, bub, on the other hand, it is egitally
inconceivable that the faces �f nature
weld, by the laws of weidente have con
strutted etich weintrioate system of mark -
Inge arid observed an equal width in every
case. The late Ptofeissoe Neater euggested
that the canals are the diffatoted imegies of
rivers, produced by mists which hang over
the river beds.
Quite Humelorts.
The Vesuvius is a feline natne for a
dynamite cruiser, remarked MoCorkle.
4 Fahey t" welted MoCreekle.
ie Yee ; leveble, you how,"
Profit on Physic.
Another instance of the immense fortunes
made out of patent medicines well advertised
has just been made public in the announce-
ment that the proprietor of a certain
medical specific has eold the right to make
to a British syndicate for a millioepounde
ling, or say five millions of dollen). This
lot of money. It moms to be bigger
tri it really is when 15 15 borne in mind
that 'it represents nothing but medicine.
But bteind ebbe are the innumerable aches
and pains and complaints of a eundred
kinds for which people buy it and bike it.
Whet en army of complaining mortale they
would make if they could all be got together
eaela ,itith a bottle of medicine in hit hand,
In the abtence of any other weapon, tatting
out on a crusade to fight disease.—[Mentreal
Star.
'Tis passing meet ts make good cheer
And lord it like a king..
Since only once we witch „the year
That doesn't mean a ttiling.
0 happy day 1 0 graolous day 1
I pledge, thee in this wine I
Come let us journey on our way
A year, good Thirty-nine !
MEIGEITE FIBLD.
'Death of the Roses.
, Crimson, pink and snowy petals
Fall around me, and the air,
Full of sweetest perfume, greeta me
A From the dying roses fair.
Oh, ye tender bluabing roses,
Yielclbag sploy fiagranoe, sweet,
Fear nob I will crush your petals
As they fall beside my feet.
For I love them and can fancy
As I See them helpless lie,
They had rather since they're fallen,
Choose their own sweet way to die.
I will let the gentle breezes
Kies them as they pass along,
Let the little birds at twilight
Sing to theta their even song.
Let the deweirops give them moisture,
As they lanmush in their algae,
Let the stars look down upon them
In the silents heave of night.
A Land of Wild Frait,
Canada is a land of wild fruit. The earli-
est settlers did not even trouble themselves
to grow any fruit -bushes, but eonteneed
themselves with the wild straitberries,
gooeseberries, and entrants. Those they
found abundantly to hand. Dellains little
wild raspberries grow there that invite pink-
ing, and the Indian wild strawberre jam is
a gift that every one Who goes to stay in the
bush brings home to friends in town. The
bleaberry or huckleberry, with which all
readers of American books are familiar, is
larger than our whortleberry, but not so
rich in flavor ; While the quantities of all
these fruits make the picking of them little
trouble and worth the exertion.—{English
Paper.
Blood is Thinner Than Beer.
Magistrate—" °Maly, you are oherged
with anatilting and brutally beating Micheal
eleDooley at the reunion of the O'Rally
family yesterday. Have you anythirg to
O'Relly-a" Yes, ger honor.. The bloke'
an imposthor, sorr, and hasn't wa dhrop
tar the O'Rielly blood in his *kin, began,.
Niva laid my eyes on bim attire, yer Honor,
we' be hrank oop WI of the beer.'
Magistrate—" How is tble, MoDooly ?
Are you a kinsman of the prison& t"
MoDeoly--" VAIX, an' sure it is that am,
yor lima; hie grandfather woe Pethriols
ORiliy av Belfast, ani—"
O'Relly-wi Ale boded, phat do that prove,
yet worehip
MoDooly—" An' Pitehriek O'Rally'a dooh,
ter marriti Me own—"
O'Billy---" He's yer Honor; hoes
lying. Me grandfather never had any oiled -
&en ab all, at all, sae"
His Little Blunder.
thoompatibility of Temper,
Witch Lewyet—"Geratiorrien, the herihand
le beutal, violent, oholerto--"
Husbanda Lewyeeed "Gentlemen, tlus wife
is tealiajoila Paseloeittei orabited—"
Prizeled a utigee-"13tit, gentlemen,. Wilerb
the douse de you nod the ihoontptel,
Russian, Taxatien,
Ouriosities'of finiree4
The ',outdone of the peasentry are very A problem that at a glaase come enough
heavy. In Reath the Imparter clown tit joy to tempt Many A sohool•toy to apend a
many exemptione from taxation, and vire portion, a his vacation in an endetwor to
Public, revenue is taken leanly from the 001170 it, appeared xeoesitlyit a Maine) oureaii
peaeent theme. The annual redemption and is as follow ; 'fake tee puma_ 15.
money they beve to pay to the State be , Multiply le by tteelf and you have 225. l'i-Ott,
their land is a moat saltine obligation, and mulaply 225 by bolt and then ing1tiP4'
between one thing wee another the burdens that proebtot by iteelf, IN124 ea oa Until fifteen
en the land in a vest nuinlaer of owes exwea produots heve ewe meltipled by the neelthe
ite ;let return Ver,Y coneiderebly. Prof. Thun in turn, The aciestion rammed therelderahle
Oates that in 2,009 owee of lathy holdings eatereetamong lawyer) in Portland, end their
wheel had wound in the provinee of best mathematiolan, after struggling with the
1
NlosoOtv at the time he 'Wrote the average problem long enough to ewe OOVI/ taw* labor
rent received was only 3 rubles, 56 kopecks was entailed in the solutiop, mede thefolle w-
e)" "50u1" ()end thane) while the avetage '.ing discouraging report upon Ili ; "The
taxetioa was 10 ruble*, 30 kopecks. Stepniak i final 'product reeled for containsw,38,539
says that in the thirty-seven provinow of &wires, the fiat of erbioli are 1,442, iellow-
Enropeen Russia, the Olatis who were formerly ing three fi,geree to en bah, the ribewer
State peasants pay in mew of every de- would be over 1,070 feet long. To perform
soription no less than 92 75 per cent. of the the operation would require about 500,000,- -
average net produce ottheir land, and :that 00e figures,, If they oan be made et the
the claw who were formerly sods of pesetas awe ot a lirenute, a prim working ten hour
owners poy as much as (195.25 eer cent. of a dim for 300 days in each year would be
the net prodnoe of theirs, Land owning on twentgbieht years about It. If, inreuttiply.
these terms is manifestly, a questionable ipg, he should melte a row of ciphers, ea he
privilege, and the moulik pays hie land does in other Oguree, the number of figures
taxes as the &Mich crofter Amu sometimes would be more than 523,939,228. This
to pay his rent, not out of the produge of would be the tartrate number of figures used
his holding, but one of the wegee of.bis if the predate; of the lefehand figere in each
anxillary labor ; but the epotoh (weber, multiplicand, by eaoh figure of the multiplier
urider his system of inclividuel tenure, llUO was always a du& figure ; boa es it is most
one great resouroe whit% is wantipg to the frequently and yet not always, two figures,
other --he oat ;sewage out the knot of Ins the method employed to obtain tee foregoing
troubles by throwing up hie holding, if he result canna be acourately Applied. A. -
choses, and emigrating. To the Ruasien wining that the cipher tZ, used on an average
meant emigration brings -no relief. He is 0000 10 ten times, 475 OCO 000,000 approxii
orn a proprietor, and cannot map° the mates the withal number
obligation of his position wherever he rnaygo.
He may try to let his ground. --and in many
oases he does -abut as we tee, he cannot often
get enough rent to meet the duo. He may
leave his Nanette, if he will, bus his village
liabilities travel with him wherever lie may
settle. Re cannot obtain work anywhere in
Russia without showing his pass from his
own Coramune ; and since, under the
principle of joint 'liability that rules in the
Communiatic system, the members of the
Commune who remain at home would have
' to pay the emigranta arrears if he failed to
pay them himself, they are not likely to re-
new the pass to a defaulter. The Russian
peasants are thus 'Pearly ete meth actstripti
Odra as they ever were; they are now
under the power of the Commune as com-
pletely es they were before under the
power of their masters, and their difficulty
is still how ehey can poseibly obtain eman-
cipation. Sometimes they will defy the
Commune, forego the advantage of a lawful
pass, crowd ths make of that !age body in
Russia who are known an the "illegal men,"
and sometimea, we are assured by Prof.
Then, a whole village, every man and every
family. will secretly disappear in a body
and seek refuge from the tax oolleoter by
settling in the steppes. The natural right
of every man to the laud is thus,
in the
principal country where any atterapt is
made to realize it, nothing but a harming
peouniery debt.
Let them wither 'where they've fallen,
For by Nature's hand alone
They were formed, and by her nourished,
And she dame them as her own.
Thus shall your fair emblems perish,
Slowly fade away from eight—
Leaving eanh a sweet remembrance—
Blooming in the raem'ry bright.
For whenider a rose is mentioned,
Memory of its sweetness brings,
Luscious &apeman and like tendrile
°testify round the heart it clingy.
So, ye lying roses fear not
ROT your falling petals sweet,
Fear not I will thoughtless crush them
As they drop beside my feet.
Nay, 111 look upon them, thinking
What a feeling of repose,
Could we, dying, leave behind us
Memories fragrant as the rose.
--qtrOSEPHINE CASNING.
Gypsy Reli-!ion.
When a gypsy dies, that is the end, e
Every member of the MOO hes a horror of
death, because no gypsy lives who has faitla
in a hereatter. They cannot be induced to
contemplate it. No genuine gypsy ever
accepted Chrietianity. Borrow, in his many
years of Bible and missionary work among
them never olaimed to have converted one.
to ad countries, as le true of a goodly number
of other folk, they woasionally profess a sorb
of attachment to the reling creed. For
instance, we hear of a "gypsy exhorter in
Ohio, and the other day a good Bishop of
Delaware was enacted to christen a gypsy
child in a camp mar Wilmington. But these
little hypoorienes areal! in the way of gypsy
then The entire race belongs to the lowest
order of ageostios.--[Sprhigfield Republic, -
an.
• Babylonian Exploration.
Prof. H, V. Hilprecht, of the University ;
of Penneyliraniele expedition to liebylonia,
Is back in Philadelphia with a bop colleen
tion of antiquities dug up on the site of
Niffer, one of the ruined cities on the Euph-
rates. Between two bricks in tin wall of a,
temple the explorers found a duck's egg'
which must have been laid there at bast
1,000 years before Christ, What are sup.
posed to be the remains of the Tower of
leabel are 180 feet higliyett and the bricks"
Across the Wheat. at the top bear the ,itzscription weei I am
You mak me for the sweetest sound mine King isiebmhedneeele." Peet Hilprecht
ft
mug have over heard? was oompelled to prescribe for every sick
Arab he saw, tor the Arabs regard Franke
A sweeter than the ripples' plea& or Milling
as physicians. The only drugs he had with
Than taoipanbinirgd'of the rain drops upon the him were eamphor and quinine, but alternate
roof at night, doses of them seemed to fit every complaint.
Than tmheousingthainiughoefigthhte;pine train on yonder
for his hoepitaaity got angry and asked ;—
An Arab sheik whom he entre tried to pay
Do l
And I tell you, these are tender, yet never yen think I am a dog e The Professor
quite so sweet tried to tell the Arabs about the American
As the mermur and the cadence of the wind rallroads,•and especially about the elevated
across the wheats railroads, with the result that he won
among them the reputation of being a col -
Hare you watched the golden billows in a owal liar.—(Buffalo Courier.
sunlit tee of grain •
Ere yet the reaper bound the sheaves, to fill
the °reeking wain?
liavd you thought of snow and tempest and
the bitter wintry cold
Were but the guardian angels, the next
year's bread to hold.
A precimiouoisiot
tliinthge, suknyf
harmed by all the tar -
Jest waiting, growing, silently, until the
stam wenteby ?
Oh I have you lifted Up your heart; to Him
, who loves us all,
And listens, through the angel -songs, if but
a sparrow fall,
And then, thus thinking of HIS hand, WileA3
symphony so sweet
As the music in the long refrain, the wind
acmes the wheat?
Two Poets on Each Other's Birthday,
JOHN G. WHITTIER, ON' XIS EIGIITIETEBIRTFL•
DAL
Friend, whom thy fourscore winters leave
• more dear
Than when life's roseate eummer on thy
cheek
Burned in the flash of mo.nhood'e manliest
year,
Lonely, how lonely I is the snowy, peak
Thy feet have reached and mine have olimb•
ed so near
Close 00thyfootsteps 'mid the landscape
I stretched my hand thine answering grasp
to seek,
Warm with the love no rippling rhymes can
peak.
Look backward !From tby lofty heights sur-
vey
Thy years of toil, of peacieful viotoriee
won.
Of dreams made real and largest hopes out-
run. •
Look forward 1 Brighter than earth's morn-
ing ray
Streams the pure light of heaven's meet.
thy sue.
The all,nnolouded dawn of life'a immortal
day.
Orange Watingee Hovels.
0141Vta WE0DBLI4 rioL1ras,"01•T MS EIGHTIES'S
BIRTHDAY.
Nephew (trying 50 make A good imptere
isiottaa" IT facie, thie porn la eked -flank' 1Jnole
Well..1 eliould thilde reo; It le fifty yeare
N'ephevo--"Oy Jove, you don't stay eel
What A Wiper)) Witte it must have been
once 1'
To Make Marriage a flttboess.
Dolley—That seems to be a good rule
which Mr. Gladstone and Ms wIfo ol-rserve.
Cameo—what is
" When he instate hie wife eubnite ; Whea
she instate he tatbridts."
"Yes, that' a good rule, Me Wife and t
follow it, too—at letkat the lest peeled it.",
It hath the dulcet echoes, from many a hill.
aby,
Where the cradled babe is hushed beneath
the mother's loving eye.
It hath its heaven promise, as sure at
heaven's throne,
That He who Bent the manna will ever bed
Hire OWII
And, though an atom only, 'Int& the mount.
less hosts who share
The Maker's never ceasing watch, theFather's
deathleea wee,
Thee stone is as dear to Him se my dear
child to me ;
He cannot lose me from my place, through
all eternity.
You wonder when it sings me this there's
nothing half go sweet
Beneath the circling planets, as the wind
aceoes. the wheat I
Climbing thee path that leads back never-
more. •
We heard behind his footstep arid his
cheer;
Now, face to beet we greet htm, stand-
ing here
Deem the lonely eileatnit of Fourteere.
eVeloorrie to us, o'er whom the lengthened
day
Is dwelt
grow,
His genial
Following bb
Long be it e
For the 1
And Loa
thereat
Ills own. aW
forget
Waiting wL 13. him the call to come up
higher.
Life is no .1404, the heitvens are only
nigher
• ottet G. WHITTIER,
Suspending the judgment.
There are few powers of mind so necessary
to discover truth as that of suspending ehe
judgment. All scientists must exeroiee it, or
their work is veaueless. We demand is in
the mina -room and the jary-box, rend ueually
insist upon it when any very serious charge
is brought egainet a niem's character. But in
ordinary daily life it le not so. The most
orude aud unproved statements are put forth
without any apparent sense of injustice.
We hear thee earth a one is gloomy and
discontented, and another frivolous and vain;
that one man is supposed to be tricky in
business and another supposed to neglect
We fetidly ; that one woman Is extravagant
and fickle, and another selfith and inhospi-
table. Daily and hourly are reputations
thus retained and good names tarnithed al-
ways needlessly, and often enjuethe Hew.
ever berth imprensions may 'havelotion gated,
if they were dealt with as the atstronomer
would deist with his, if they were subjected
to candid and patient investigation Odom
they Were proolaimed, meaty a them would,
remain unspoken, and much finery and
sorrow be ptevented.
and the shadows deeper
terience like an afterglow
Mee just iithiehine away.
the Tables shall be ea
breakfast of the Airiteetat.'
epee, With mono and teats,
et days, that thee Audi not
A person who takes cold easily, says a
nrieeloel water:noway, hits a Weak digestio
Sn irritable coeditien of Sietintaeh and, sy
pathetically, of nauclens membrane inept r
parts of the body. he otrouletion le eedIlY
unbidanweeli the blood hiving a tended9 to
leave the surfeee and to Magmas Ltdtletnei
orgene. This coadition is to be rsntciiled not
bv local inediestion, not by "catar' anuffs"
or "pectoral balsams," but by careul study
01 the leers of health and obee two to
them, To bare When arid What ea )ievo to
sat; how th ditureienterciedi wed edit ; how
fa balente the ardelatiop-etheed re the
studied tehbe pursued if one Wishes leern
hoW toavoid " taking oold."
Russia has more holidays than any oiler
country, and yet the ROW= always objects
to a knouting.
An adder of a verwelatigerons species was
killed in Arran, Scotland, lately. It was 23
inches in length, and about 3 inches in cir-
cumference at the thickest part.
Lieutenant Kutin, of the Austrian Artil-
lery, has inveuted a new explosive, to which
he has given the IMMO of crash, and whioh
is said to have the greatest perietrating
power yet discovered. Is is sale to handle,
and does not decompose under atmcapherioal
changes. In the °these of some experi-
ments made near Vienna the other day, a
°resit shell went clean tbroagh the 5 inch
armour -plate a a brick tower, ana blew the
tower itself into a' wreck. "
A few dove ago, while one of the nurses
employed dd the Beladere Jlospital, Gies- '
gow, was walking a pathway leading to one
of the wards, the ground suddenly gave way •
under her tea, and she sank np toherarm-
pits, being completely wedged in by the
eubsiding toil. On assistance being obtain-
ed she was with some dif6.oulty extraoited,
when it Warefeund that the soil continued to
subside. •• Further examination brought out
thefact that the •woman had aotltally been
suspendby the ems . over the mouth of
ao old pit over 160 feet deep. Twenty
years age, when the hospital. Was in course
of erection, the pit was seer:shed for but in
vain. It seems that the °rifle° had been
merely bettered over with wood; whiah, in
cowrie of time, had become rotten, with the
result described.
The Prussian Princess, Meter of :'Emporor
whit 18 about' to he, married, is
having made for her thirteetepairit of very
splendid garters.- She does not Wan to add
all the eet to her trouseeau, though among
them ie tl3at traditional pair of new and blue
stockily umpire.= said to bring brides luck,
and this ono is the :thirteenth, made of
eilk and clamped with buokles set .
with large elieMonds. Atwater pair will be
pet away with ehe rest of the Hohenzal-
‘liernoolleatott of gators in the museum. at
Berlin, aid the rent will be distributed
among tlia noblee whoettend the Greek
Prinoe, her lambast& Tart IS a relio of a
very aeolentroustan that survieve nowhere '
now 'wive in the reigning family of Germany.
In frenker and reciter ages le Wee th be the
privilege of the beet man, when the bride
was about to retire, With her attendant
-middens, to unfasten her garter and keep it
as it trophy, , There was always sooefelhat
of it dispute about it, custom tegniringethat
the groan sio�ttld resist the attempt and that
the betel nate should 'nag upon hie privilege.
Y Lb1ho growth of more ' refined Mennen
thisemsterti naturally fell •into e einem, and
theeerily relio of it la, in the mamas opera of
ria Joffe Peerfumende," and in the marriage
eritiorne of the Getman royal 'fahilly. The
titeein
nipitttets with thern, however, is that
thould We prepared thirteen
pairs of garters, all of ahem having, buckles
With het initialetet in diamonele, and ofthese
she wears one pat herself, bathes one pair
an tee reigning sovereign eta diatributes the
other among her huthantlei attendante, the
eleven tof the highest rank getting this bitidal
favor. l'herei be a very palette collection of
these royal garters in the Berlln Mueeum,
• sem fitty ot obeli in all, Many of throne
eit*erriely rich and handebnie and some eery
queer aide leortz the past getieratious ob
erinoestee, Some &those deposited in the
reigns erfv!uredSeiricekii'doillaittrin
i111, uud 1V,
arem,
6banotioitotif*ri2/6..,e6 and are buckled With the