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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-7-20, Page 7SUNNY-TBMPERED WOMAN, Site May Not Be Brilliant Bat All the Men Love Her, A WOMAN ON HE -WOMEN." Brazentraced Children—A, word for the Boys -A mother's Innuence-Whe Fred', gal -Not Your nhiadren. T HAS happened to rnelatoly, says "Bab,” to have been among quite a number of women. Anil I have theught of the great value of the pleasant -a, woman. Sim is the one who is never in a row. She doer' not N walk around with a la., chip on her shoulder, inviting whoever may come near her to knock it off; but no matter whab she rnay think, ehe has a smile and a pie:want greeting for everyone. And it isn'b because she is a fool, though I have heard her called that; it is beennee she thinks it muon easier to ride through life on *Easy street than to awkwardly trot through Crooked lane. She ie usually the recipient of the woee of all the other women ; but her knowledge of life has taught her Vitt while she sympathizes with all to take sides with one. The young woman who delights in saying that she has A TEMPER OF IIER OWN shows a certain scorn for her; and that other young wonaan who is oontbaually looking for enemies and not friends con - eiders her an idiot; but after they have I both expressed their opinions, they end up by : "Bob she is always very 4p1easant." • Men like her, for men are wise enough to like the comfortable side of life, and she is • ao comfortable. She doesreb carry stories, and she is always ready to do bile nice little thing. When I die I would rather have it on my tombstone, "She Was a Pleasant Womart"tlean "SheWas a Genius."Not that I think there is the slightest danger of the lent being put there. THE HE -WOMAN'S LOSS. Seeing women, there is another type that I have been interested in: that is the man - woman. I don't mean the tailor-made girl. I mean the woman whose sole object in life is to dress so as to attract the men; is to devote herself to them and to geb as many around her as possible. She has a vague idea that the bees seek the honey; so they do. •But don'b you know there are always two or three bees who are going to find the sweetest of all the honey, and they know that isn't what the neob runs after. She dresses to please men and she posea to please men'and she confounds ithe flying visit of the bee and the silly buzzing with what 1. an best friend for the sake of gobbing Id be absolute devotion. She would tenbion of a man, and the consequence is that women don't like her; and in time, curiously enough, men don't. For men are :lievenTABLy RULED B WOMEN. And when each individual man hears of the mean things that she has done to some woman who is close to him, he lets less knowing bees fly after that honey which any may have for the asking. Nobody wants honey that is public pro - /Kirby. The only honey worth having is that which it requires an effort to get, and which belongs exclusively to one -that is, if one is a gentleman bee. Another type of woman that one sees at fairs is that peculiar and diplomatic one •who does not work and tikes all the glory. She appears on the scene with a great deal of bustle, seta all her assistants to work, then goes off to have a GOSSIP WITH SOMEBODY else; and when the work is all finished ap. pears again, compliments the real workers, and takes a good attitude in which to re- •ceive the approbation of the general public. Being a bit lazy myself, I must confess I rather admire her diplomacy ; but, then, I •don't like her eelfishness. Women and children seem naturally to go together, and just here I want to say that I have been reading a book that had a lot of stuff in it about the way children take the downward path and who show e it to them. Judging from the precocious specimens hero in New York, I think a great many of them do not need any lead- ing, but, of course, fathers and mothers are to blame for this. Sooner than see a child of mine chasing around, selling ohences at o big fair, BEING BRAZEN AND IMPUDENT, would -well, I think I would prefer to ehloroform he. Fond mammas are having their offepring taught to do the skirt &now and to execute high kicks for the benefit'of their friend, and the result ie about as bad -behaved lot of young ones as you could wish to see any place. One seee riris of 10 yearn climbing upon men's laps, volunteering to kite them and doing Meek dance, starting in my mind a wild desire to do a deuce on them vrith a paddle. 1 don't think 1 should approve of a spank- ing machine, but a good old-fashioned epanking is a medicine thab le quite as de- sirable for children as motor oil. Botthtend ate cool the blood and make life seem more aeracticel. •• , A Word For the Boys. Our boys? Will you tell me the reason why our boys are inolitied to be more bon - arable than our girl children? A boy will do almost anything rather than tell a Ile •*het le going to hurt anybody; but our - littin girlie too many of them, calmly and woolly fib, and nobody seems to think much od it. I don'b like angel ohildrett ; I don't like children who never make miebekee, rbut I hate mean children'and Ole girl or ',thin boy, my friend, will have the right to turn to you or to me and ask, "Why did ,jou malice me whet I am ?" In the world as it is to -day, a mother maker' or unmakes her children, and it :your boy or your girl, my boy or my girl, • BECOME LIARS AND TICTEVES, dhave mean, nasty ways, are greedy and goselpy, who is to biome ? That was a beautiful white book of life when lb wae given to you. What have you lob your • tehild write bnab? It ibexes to me that that will be one ot the questions it will be diffi- -cult to answer. liner° le no neoeesity of talkitig new about hereditary trona'. Cer- •,6ainly your boy or your girl did not inherit lying and malice ancl greeffineee from you, and (Men if he had, when he was nothing o baby vett great influence oeuld have exteenibutted the valor' that, even if they were inherited, were not developed. I • sometimes wonder what mothere think tey 'were made for. Xthink that when the greals gift of a ohild cornea tit a womato a emnebbing born of har own flesh, and Whielt had 118 creatien In . a parted love, glee elatnild gab down on hor kneeand ask God how ehe is to care Io e thie greet Wearing, tie that 18 will not only be an honor to Hine, but a were° of joy to herself. Man vela roopmen ; ID has never seemed to me like a. mean thale Rio faults appear to have been those of great exuberance, rather than of premeditated vice. But, after all, while One may neve tender feeling for the prodigal, it is tae son or daughter whose Virtue' are even and who remaine with us who are our eomforts. You eau Make y ow child what you wieh-what is it going to be ? Badly -behaved, impudent, forward and tiresome, or a pleasure to those who meet ib, and a delight to your. self ? You ought to make your child have a good time while 11 is young, but its good times need nob interfere with ite proper training. This IS Not our child. Are you acquainted with the child who is more team auxious to play on the piano for your benefit and exhibit its varioue &mom- plishmente ? Most of US are, to our sorrow. Are you acquainted with the child who puha ab your clothes who asks embarrass - Mg questions, and Who wants to open your peafowl and try on your gloves ? Most of Ile are, to our PoITOW. Are you acquainted wibh the child who comes to opined the day with you, and whose coming is greeted with a sigh, while its departure ie welcomed with miles ? Most of us are to our sorrow. Are you Acquainted with the child who is permitted to make a noise, to scream at the top oe ite voice, to behave roughly and to be a general nuisance Moat of- us are, to our sorrow. There ie no use mincing the matter: when I see these children Deanne and revere Herod, and I think lb is a pity he can% come back and live here a libtle while. OPIUM CULTIVATION. How the Stair Is Grown and Gathered In British India. As the cultivation of tobacco is prohibited ID England, except under a Rectal Scenes from the excise authoriblee, so the oultivit- tion of the poppy in British India is for- bidden unless license has been taken out. When a cultivator takes out a permit from the Opium Deparbment to cultivate a certain area, (usually two -third e of an aore of his land) he receives an advance in money to secure his allegianoe, and he binds him- self to deliver to the opium agent, at a fixed price, ordinarily 5 shillinge a pound, what- ever opium may be produced upon hie lend, says Pearson's Freckly. When official supervielon is effieient ib is certainly very difficulb for a man to culti- vate poppy on a larger area than le covered by the licenee without detection. The cul- tivation cannot be concealed. It is a sorb of garden cultivation, the poppy plants being grown in heti° equares or beds, enter - sated by tiny water channele for irrigation whenever this is poesible. The growth of the plant is carefully tended, and at length the time comes when they bursb out into flower, and the fields look like a &eat as the white petals of the flowers glisten in the morning dew. These beautiful petals are the first pro- duct of the crop, for the women and children of the cultivators' families come forth and pick them off one by one and carefully dry them, so that they may serve afterwards as the covering of the manufactured cake' of opium. I eThen the poppies, with their bare capsule head's, remain standing in the open field until it is considered that they are ripe for lancing. The oulavatora then come forth In the evening, and, with an implement nob unlike the knives of a cupping instrument, they warily the capsules en its sides with deep incisions, so that the juice may exude. In the early morning the cultivators reap- pear with a scraping knife and their earthenware pobs and they serape off the ex- uded juice and collect it in their pets. And this is omde opium. Mrs. Oliphant on Swift. Betveeen1714 and 1726, for a dozen yearm Swifb remained in Ireland, without inter - minden, altogether aparb from public life. At the latter date he went to London, probably needing a changeof acme after the shook of Miss Vanhonerigh's death, and the grievons sense he mud have had that ib was he who had killed her ; and it was then that " Gulliver " was published. The latter portions of it, which the children have re- jected, we are glad to have no space to dwell upon. The bitterneee, passioh and misery of them are beyond paralleL One would like to have any ground for believing that the Hoziyhtihms and the rest came into being after Stella's death; but this was not the case. She was onlyewomannind wasnot, afterall, ofsuohvilelimporbancein the mares existence. Withdrawal from the life he loved, confmement in a narrow cipher°, the &appointment of a soul which felt itself born for greatneee, and had tasted the high excitements of power, but now had nobhing to do but fight over the choir with hie erchbishop, and give 000aSiOrt Tor a. hun- dred anecdotes in the Dublin coteries, had matured the angry passion in him, and soured the sweetnese of nature. Few paw ple now, when they take up their "Gulli- ver," go beyond Brobilinguag. The rest is like a succeesion of bad dreams, the con- fused miseries of a fever. To thiok that in a deanery, that calm seat of ecclesiastical luxury, within sound of the cathedral bells and the choristers' °haute, a brain so dark and distracted, and dreams so terrible, should have found shelter! They are allthe more bitter and appalling from their con - tomb with the surroundings among which they had their diesetrons birth, -Century. Rai Nourished Jan& The Japanese child hegira his tea drink- ing and rice eating at a very tender age, the first draught of tea being given as goon ao the child is weaned. Tete rice is served hob at breakfaet and at dinner, eta cold for supper with hot tea poured "on it. "No Nipponite mother of the old and really may ineereasting Japanese whoa," game a writer, "is able to coax herself to give the ohild of her bosom cow's milk, 'the Milk of a brute,' as she contemptuously terms the beverage." Dame netperience Hao convinced maty that to use any of the substitutes offered for the only eure-pep and paitleas corn euro le atneencled lash danger. Get always and nee tone other than Put- nanee ?Malone Corn Extractor, at drug- l'etile-enatett" stociriens. "Silk -plated" stockinge are now the correct thing for those wham means place them upon a middle ground between cotton and hinderer. The natne itself ghee oho a curioue nonagon of imitation and driving for effect without !reality, but it "amply means that the stoekinge are woven with a lige thread warp and a silk wooL The horns oome itblack and °ohne to match gowns anti fancy colored ghee'', and cod 45 cootie How to keep hut:bends Lab one le it peel:lora to which an neasteen teener le de- noting columns. As if bhe imehand who hes to be bribed, tasseled anol entreated to etay at bens° Weed werth thit linable. MURDER AS AN ART. The Perfection of Deviltry Attained in Paileengereoo 1tn eiefAtellia aamtkr Olt, MA41, from Panama, e a:amk 41rbe Brummer, strange ::5:17e 44Rtsia nb 11 oyetn and re; v births bet a neturalized American °blew, left his desk in the offiee of a New York meroliant about three emote ago to bry hie luck in Central Anaerion, He wan 000 - versant with the Soaunde longuege, and soon after reerialeg IsZioaragine he obtained a , lieuteuental conimiselon in the army. About a year afterward he resigned and took up a plantetticee. Wizen the reveaution broke out a few raenthe ago ho was em - pointed a colonel of the tome of the /near - gents under Cieu. Sevablas, who WAS one of 13rioneerar's beet friend& he dashing young colonel soon won con- siderable fame as a warrior. He also at- tracted the attention of Gen. Sentaguee who Invited him to his home and introduced him to his daughter. The young holy had bests of Ades/rem who looked upon Brat:liner as an intruder. Among the young lady's ad- mirers was Col, Perlobte, bhe commander of a cavalry regiment, who swore to kill Bran: - neer the firsb clamors he mate ailmmmer was advieed to he on his guard, but he only laughed and said he could take care of him- self. The first trouble came when the pair met at dinner in a hotel and were given seats opposite each ether. Brummer, who had been drinking rather Weevily, made some remark that the hot -banded Nicaraguan construed as an insult' on he etruok Brum- mer on 6he face with his open head. Brummer sprang to 'his feet, and before the astonished guests could realize what wits up, he had seized Perlotte, dragged him from the room and beat him until he was almost dm& It book the Nicaraguan some time to recover sufficiently to resume hie duties in the saddle. Be swore that he would be revenged. One night) soon after the attack on Rivas, where Brumnter won praise for his daring and bravery, he was on his way beck to laze qmarters after spending the evening with friends. Soddenly he WAS earrounded by armed troopers, thrown on a horse and hur- ried off into the mountain. He was closely guarded for two days, when CoL Perlothe appeared and informed Brummer that the time had come when he would have his revenge for the terrible heating he had re- ceived. He told Brummer thole a slow ling- ering deal& was to be his fate. Perlobte then spat in his vietines face and ordered him placed in a small cave, where he was bid on the floor with his hands and feet securely bound. Rocks were piled in front of the entrance, and Brummer was left to hie fate. Perlotto feigned to be as muoh simprised as anybody over his rival's &appearance, and spread the report that he had been killed. Brummer would never have been heard of again had not one of the troopers, who hated Perlotte, given information that led Gen. Vagtses to mend a Squad of men to the cave, where, on rolling book the stones, Brummer was found more dead than alive. Everyone expected that Brummer would shoot Perlotto on sight, but he did nothing, and Perlette's friends began to hint at s. faint heart and lesb courage. Bub Brummer was only waiting to clear the road for an escape from the country after hie vengeance ehould ID completed. One night, while going his rounds Inspecting the sentinel's, Perlotte WU suddenly seized, bound, gagged and thrown into a cart driven by Brummer. By daylight the foilowing morning he found himself a dozen wines from his quarter'', in a very sparsely settled part of the country. Here Brummer dragged his victim oub of the mere and informed hios of the fate that awaited him. Tide neat-iosz of the country is infested with a species of fierce black ants which build large mounds. "1 am going to a take you down and let the ants eat you," mid Brammer, as he out the cords on Palette's legit. Four stout stakes were taken frees the waggon and driven into the ground around one of the largest ant -hills, and then the oolonel was stripped to the skin. Perletbe screamed, cureed and prayed, but he had shown no mercy when he had lefb Brummer to die in the cave, and he received none now. Ten peons dragged him to bhe etakee, tied his hob securely to two of them, kicked the ant -hill to pieces, and thee. threw Perlothe on hie book and quickly bound his wrists to 6b.e other two stakes'. In an instant the writhing viobine was coverel with the terrible ants, and was being liberally eaten alive. Brumtner remained long enough to make sure his enemy was dead, and then, leapieg on a horse, he made his, way to the °eerie andescaped to New York an a. sailing vessel. Three days after Perlotbe had &appeared his skeleton was discovered. Every perbiole of flesh bad &appeared and the bones looked as if they had been bleached. An Expressive Inscription. In the town of Leominster, Hereford- shire, Eagiand, are a range of ahnshouees, twelve in number, built and eadowed by a wealthy citizen more than two hundred years ago. The tradition is still handed down that the founder of this noble °herby before his death became so reduced ID air- cutmetannee thnt ID ended hie days in one of •bhose houses he had so kindly bestowed on the poor. Before his death, however, bio admioistrenore and the parish sathorn doe consented to hem /melted in the wall over the principal entrance to the houses a Large freestone, on which was carved in bits - relief an arm upraised, with an axe in the right; band ready to strike, with this ID- acniptioll : HE : THAT: GIVES : evren : ALL BEFORE : HE re : ItEAD LET : : TARE : : THIS : AXE AND : OHOP : OFF : HIS : HEAD. The Boys That Barra N,leh Nen. Old Profeesor-My young friends, let aue give you a word ot &deice. Be kind to the dull boys. Young Teaelter--Oertainly, but if they Won't learn their ieseooe- " Be kind to theta, lint timm, make them your weimest friends." "No butt: about it. Win. their love if you can. Sem° day ie after years, sahera you are au old and beiplete ail I am, you erir.y leeed the useistanoo of wealthy men." "01 collie°, but-" "Well, the dull boys ere the °nee then' get 41111 Powerful Protector. 'She -I haye heard a good Macy tirnas about the terrible earl/minket: that take place on the,Riviarn, and I only hope thee) none will odour while we alto Wenn He-Dotat be unetroys ney love. Nothing eliall happen IDyen as long as I am With A petrified sondwich Wee famed On a Joe, say Mareit a few daye ago, lb is thought theta there nowt have beet a traffroad there air Mane time. he neWeeb &Mee are Afelteee CrOSS. ehrtpetl. S. MASSAGE FOR THE COMPLEXION Row lrou May Beeerne of Plump and Beau- tiful (Jountenanoe. CURE FOR PIMPLES ND BLACKHEADS. ASSAGB means rubbing, kneading, and mann pulating of the skin and the muscles Jering immediaeely beneath it. It is pre- ▪ oeribed for many ills. Ib etrengthens the museles and nerve-centreebypro- meting %steady dotv of blood to the pants exercised, and when applied to the whole body it equalizer' the circulation in a way that brings health and strength. Ib is aiways restful, if properly administered, and IS especially beneficial to nervous sufferers. A woman who ponsesses a bad or indifferent complexion ie usually glad to impeove in imperially if she can do rio without the use of cosmetiles, which every woman knowe are dangerous' and in the end injurioute to the ratin whichthey olefin to improve. Massage oletwe the skin. and reuncle the contour of the face in a simple and natural manner, eradicating the Variant, ills from which it suffera, not merely covering imper- fections only, in the end, to increase them. NO SECRET ABOUT IT. Every one has two hands, and there in no reason wily ;Me should nob use them in her own behalf, ae she can easily do, if she chooses'with almoat or quite the effect of a professional's treatment. She must be patient, careful and systematic in her self - treatment, for the beet effect(' are not gained in a s1012290, or a week. Being a naturra promise of toning and building up degenerated mueolee, weakened nerves, de- fective oirculetion, deadened cuticle, it takes time, like all of nature's processes. The objects of face massage, in detail, are to fill end round out the face by induct- ing a flow of bleed to the parte, thus etrengthening and enlarging the anuecles, toning the nerves and developing adipose tisane, This 18 an effete:eve preventive of wrinkles. Lines already in the face, if not too deep, will be smoothed out by the daily •rubbing. Black -heads, pimples, blotehes gradually disappear. Pallor gives way to a soft, rosy finale. In bum the whole face seems transformed. • HINTS FOR SELF-TREATHENT. Some praobical hints fer this home -treat- ment may be given here. They are drawn from the methods of the best profeeritonals, and may be followed without fear of injury, and with hope of deoid.ed benefit. It is understood, of course, that if bad complexion arises from any deramgement of the health, this will be looked to first. No treatmentof the face alone can wholly do away wibh the effects of a disordered stomach or liver. If more convenient, the work can be done firet before retiring for the night. First eXaMine the face carefully in a mirror. Note all defect'', even though the sum total may seem somewhat diecouraging. Observe how certain habits of expression draw the skin hsto wrinkles, and resolve to do your best to avoid these habits in future. The first step in the process is to carefully wash the face. The finest skin is full of grease and impurity, and hot water will remove ft better than cold. So take steam- ing hob water, if you can get it. If ib is at all "hard," put into 180 pinch of powdered borax, enough to soften ib thoroughly. Then with a sofb, linen cloth, or fine sponge, and the purest soap yon oan buy, wash the face. Do not outs 16 hard. Trust the hot water and soap to cleanse it. Rinse the face with clear, tepid waber, and dry b gently with a soft towel. nolf'W GROW 12011S7A011E5, GIRLS Now moieten the fingers witt memo gorb of fine, pure oil. Sweet almond oil, scented with a drop or two of attar of roses, is good and pleasant to use. Some recommend. vaseline, and it answers the purpose very well in many. oases. But if there is any tendency to au undue growth of hair on the face, lb should be avoided, am veneline pro- motes ite growth. Women whose skineare naturally oily should be speriog in the ulie of the oil, perhaps may do without it altogether. Rub the surface of the face and neck, chest also, 1/desired, with the ineide of the fingers held straight. Use both hands, and pull and steeteh the shin in every direction. Rub the forehead from the center out toward the temples eight or ten times, with firro, slow strokes. Rub up and down from hair to nese ; then from the root of the nose up and outward over the eyes,. Stroke gently but firmly under the eyes, where the " crow's feet" are wont to gather, passing the fingere close under the eyes and up toward the outer points of the eyebrows. Then etroke a little lower downofroin the bridge of the nose out ever the cheekbones. Most people sooner or later CONTRACT AN ITCHir wmenren running from th:3 side of the nose down rand outs to the cornter of the mouth. Attention should now be directed to this point, none the lase if the line has not yen made its appeerrance. The old saying that "anomie:0 of prayer:tiers is worth a pound of euro" In especially Applicable to wrinklee. Put the &Tent close to the nose on each eide, and rab outward into the cheek, It 1:abetter riot to rub hack and forth acroes the cheeks. Instead, rub around the cheeks from the point of the chin outward and bhen in before the ear, with the inside of fingers or hand. This helps to round the cheek. Proesare mad rubbing outward wouln ftatten it. The second "movement" conefats in pinching up bunehee of akin and muscle between the thtunb sod fingers:, The liagers ehould go deep ab poesible, proseing mly, but hob 'so hard en to cause pan. The whole eurface of face and neck 'should ID thoroughly manipulated in this way, hen, 1 1 desired, a few moments rest may be akma. THE PINCHING PROCESS. The next moveraeot is similar to thie, but ighter, smaller pineftes of flesh are token LL ; little mote that the akin receiving treattneub this time. After this another lent will not be out of order. Next, with tile ends of the Angets hgbbly setoke eeery part of the face. This ie sup. posed to he a gentle tonic for the Eddie and aloe to g:ve firemfts to the Murales, Care ehosild be used not 10 staike teener& Next, etreighten the hantls and press with the beside of the fingers on every parb of the face in turn. The preseure should be firm and hard, bet ehould riot be dontinueel toe long. Then may be ootaidered the Allen. ing to:aches. If much ell has boon toed, and the face veeram greasy, it they be bathed tigainitt tepid water in welch a little borax 'hem /emu &advert The tiumeage elnerid ocoupy at heat fif nese or inequity niineine, eed should bt: practiced cbttly for a tvolr on ten days, when e. vat:Mimi of e &ay oe two Witty lee taliem Theo the work et:mid begin attow. After a lete weeks the benefit) of this triton tient viral ID plahily eat, and then a then Ugh robbing two or three timeL a week will be euffirient to keep all in geed gassuli- tien, It theca) who underteke title treatment One and will spend some hour e of each day ID outdoor exercise they will find them. elvee rapidly improviug ID hOtb looks awe health. BIBIPLUS AND BLACH.HEADS. If the black -heads and plakPlos with which eo mum are afflicted do not reediim disappear durang the rubbing procelehaimPla washes mey be used to expedite their doped -urn For Bleolnheade.-Thirberain greens of etzberarbentate of oode in eigb.t ounce e of distilled wetter, with six draohnis eseenee of rose. Rub over the hoe with a sob cloth, For PImples.--Thirty-sier grains of bi- carbonate of soda, one draolun of glycerine, one oence epermarite ointment. Leave the mixture on the face fifteen or twenty minutes, then wipe it off with a sorb cloth - It is hardly seenessery to say that WIN' modes of all sorts ehould be strietly avoided +Addle the Lem le under treatment. They would materially interfere with its efficacy. Many of them contaM poisons. Even When fees teem theee ° they 0001000 and deaden the oldie by niing the pores and stopping their nature,' excretion' s and also by pre- venting a free peentge ofair and sunlight te the skin. For while great and continued exposure le injuries:se and should be avoided, it remains a fact that the skin needs for its beauty e plentiful sopply of both air and sunshine. DED WE INVENT ANYTHING The itnetent,s new Afore Than We Credit Them With. The modem inventions of the steamship, the railway locomotive, the hydraulic machine and flee diving -bell teem to be quite distinctly referred to in the following passage from the works of Friar Bacon, who flourished in the thirteenth century, long before the invention of printing. Ib is of very,onrione Interest "L will now," he says, 'mention some of the wonerful works of art and nature, in which there is nothing of magic, and which magic could nob perform. lustrionents Olin be made by which the largest ships, with only one man guiding them, will be carried with greater velocity than if they were full of senora. Chariots may be conetructed, and will move with inoredible rapidity without the help of animate. Inettumente of flying may be formed in which a limn, sitting in his ease and medittating on any snlajeot, may beat tho air with his artificial wings after the manner of birds. A small insteriment may ID fabricated by which one roan may draw a thousand men to him by force and against their will; as also machines which will enable men to walk at the bottom of sees or rivers without danger." We have certainly discovered --or revived, it may be -the steamship, the locometive,the hydrau- lic machine, the atmospherio railway, and the diving -bell: hub one old patent we have not yet succeeded in resuscitating, for we menet) yet fiy. innERING THE POLE. Hardships which Arctic Explorers are Obliged to Endure. The whole region le one of severe cold, and. the aim is frozen for the greater part of the year, land and water becoming ahneet indistiegaishable, but for the incessant movement and drift of the alea-Me. In summer tbe sex -ice breaks up into floes which may daft away southward and , melt, er be driven by the wind against the shore* of coatinents or islands, leaving lanes of open water which a shift of venni may oimage and close in an hour. Icebergs Launched from the glaciers ef the rand also drib with tide, current seed wind terongb the more or lees open wetter. Poseibly ati same tinies the pack nay open and a clear waterway run through to uhe pole, and old whalers: tell of memy a year when they believed that a few clays steaming would oemry ther.e to the end of the world, if they could have seized the opportunity. At other Wanes, routes traversed in safety time After time may be effectively closed for parte end all advance barred. Food in the fonn si mai or weirus in the epen water, reindeer, meek ox, polar beers or birds on the ;end, may efresa be procured, but these slot:rens enunot be relied upon. Adynce meet:ward me v be rcacle by water in 0 ship, or by dog sled. or on foot, over the frozen mew oe toe. Ensis method has grave draw- beoke. Anvance by se» le stopped when the reang foe form: in autatrm, and band eenettee 18 bee:leered by the long Arotio nigite entich et:form:a mouths of inaction, ntsee teeing sio health lima spirits than the *vorosb exereeme-nrcUitren. Succeeded fax Disking Diamonds. S. (1 ngenioes Feeech eheraist, Moineara by manes heft al lest succeeded in whet has bees: is. great object with chemists for a ounretry-the ,33enufsetere of real diamonds by elteseical mane. He explained his method to the French Soeiety in Aid of the Friends of Science and Actually produced erneeise and eavatitae, diamonds before the rap* of hie he:mem They were very small, inevev.r, mei he does nob believe that such caseID xvidim of eize enough to "inject leeine,. the entils of the owners of natural diemonds," as the old French phrase to Bub e later tame -list may find a way to maire grew, uove thet the method is ells- coveren for entail Ones. What lee Did. A Gentemer one read ia bile paper thatthe fennel Amid atJses :7* be the Beene of laughter mod: ene thet no raeal should be passed is the seemly etteace that so often eearectertees those ocoaSiOne. The Idea Strttufr itint se f Avorably that when his &may was getheee I round the table that eveoing ID euild-" Now, this sort o' thing o' iteeple,g so mum at trittale has gob to Mop. Yon hear me, you girls? You beginto bell stories, antilkeep up agreeable sort of talk like . end you, boys, laugh and bo jolly, or 111 ;eke end, duet your *kale with the strap till you oitneb 'tend. Now, begin 1" The glare blab he eenb round the table made 'the family resemble a funeral patty. No End to lalis Sermon. An. old Scotch lady, wlao at a con- eidetable dhtance from the, pariah church, WaS in the habit of driving over to the ser- vice. Her comontmen, when he thonght the omit:0 needy at an end, would blip out) quietly for bile purpose of having the car- riage reedy by the time the service was ended. Oae Sunday John returned to ehtirch, atd eater hanging about the door for some titae, beearne impatient, and pop., ping in his head saw that the minieter harangued as hard as over. Creeping doeWn the aide towaril his mistress he Whispered in her ear: "Is he no dune ,1,:fet "Dune ! hen dune half an hoer efface, bub he'll tao etep 1" eim answered impatiently. ttetweela. the Acts. MM. Cardamon (ftotfelly)-Surely, yotera riot) plug out egain 44r, Ciardemon (anazedly)-.-Why, you would:A onpeat me to otdbr A drink sent ID bolt, would you THE The Greatest storehouse or inaormatfortl the World. The British Museum hes often been called the fined etudy in the world -and it wed/ deserve:: the name, gay e the Minima. There It no place where the et:Ideal) can so easily and cerefortably avail himeelf of the world's beat literature. He efts down at a wen. furnished writing desk and, without saying It word, summons tomeo and treasures from the vast store' of book e with which thnt in- aiibutlonl* filled. The temple of tbe intelleet is a large wialtritroorkoso,m, Tlhineedee nitrroatni :koceree 0 18 fir oil I esaaf with desks for the aceeramodation of readers and shelves on which the Qatar- lognee of the museum are placed. Om entering this room the student is en- titled to take possession of any vacant met he may find, except the two rows of mats allotted to ladies. The seats malaise from the centre of the room in double rowe. A comfortable Muff -bottomed chair, a hat' rack, and foot bars are provided for each reader, together with two pens, an ink. bottle and wiper. On the thick, patent leather covered desk is a blotting book, and close at hand a paper knife for the readeen um. • On his right hand a. ehelf fans down forthe. purpose of holding his surplus volumes, and on his left an ingenious hookholder opena out at any angle moat convenienb to his poStUre in the chair. The floor of the room m marieeted with noiseless material, and an conversation ire not allowed it would be dif- ficult to study under more favorable condi= tions, When the etudent require!' a new book he consults the catalogue, writes the name of the book required on a slip, de- poalta the slip in a basket, and resumes his seat. TeD, Or fifteen Mintltea afterwards on attendant places the book on his deek. And what a vast giber° of boob' are at Ear disposal! People often ask how many hooka there are in the Britieh !Museum, but nobody meows eo know. In fact, there are as many fillet ib is trapossible to count them. Some years ago it was esti- meted by measurement that there were 2,000,000 beaks there. Since that estimate Wee made the number has considerably to • Under the Copyright Act publishers are bound to send to the museum every book, pamphlet, periodical or newspaper that is offered for sale in the British Isles.. Every week an enormous shoal of litera- ture is poured into the vaults of the museum, and, strange to say, ib never comes out again. Beaks good And bad, newepapers worthy and worthless, pamph- lets poor and paltry, all burry along in a ceaseless dream to the museum, to ba most religiously preserved in its cavernous depth lseaddition a large number of books are added mach year. Parliament grants a sum of money each year for the purobaee of desirable books that are not already in stock. Then extensive gifts of books are often made by enterprieing collectors.Tha Grenville Library, containing upward of 20,000 volumes is a notable example. It. was built up by Rt. Hon. Thomas Gran. ville, and consisted chiefly of the resat editions and the finest examples of binding which money could buy. . The magnificent library of George It is another instance of the way in which the muaeuin library has been stocked by goner. one donors. The library contains upwara of 65,000 volumes and 8,000 pamphlets, an& is placed in a fine grilery known as the King's Library. If all the books in the museum were closely placed side by side on one long shelf, the shelf would re- quire to be no less than thirty miles in length. The oetelogrie of this stupendous library is an equidlycoloasia affair. It is a library isa iteelf. Until its contents were cone pressed by printing the catalogue consisted of 2,200 folio volumes, each volume 17x1.2 inches in size and about two itches thick. Altogether the catalogue weighed five tenet The gigantic task of re-editing sad printing this manuscript, catalogue -is now in progress!, and it is computed that the work will not be completed for another five or eight years. No less than nines volumes are filled with the list of books which have been written b3r the "Smiths' of the world. The Word "Bible" is another important headirag, recupying no lees them twenty-one volumes. This will give a faint idea, of the large cod - Motion of bibles end portions of the Scrip- tures vadat the British museum posseseem The museum is rieh in works of beauty and rarity. The first book printed by William Claxton is to be seen there, also the celebrated /Niemen: Bible, which waa printed by Gutenberg and Faust in 1455, There is Mee the famous magna °baba of King John, Stated 1215, and the bull of Popo Leo X, conferring on King Henry the title Defender of the Faith. In one of the collections is the manual of prayer which watt used by Lady Jane Grey on tbe scaffold. It is bund in vellum, illumined with miniatures, and inscribed on the margin with her own notes and com- ments. The museum also poseesses a oopy 6o4, ft9h5echpaalter, printed on vellum in 1459, a copy of which was sold not long ago for Some !nappy Notion& The modern feehtoneble woman is a slave 18 bricaMerao ; but, so long at she is happy. in her servitude, why shoutel anybody else co al peon 2 Every man bbiake either tbab he is a drat - lass fitlet, or that. he would he if he only had the time to practice. Spelling with Sonte people is a gift ; with others it ie a &s -away. Ibis very bard for a girl who has been engaged once to behave with eha next young man jag!) ao if she rover bad. The average sportsman will begin to 1811 blie exact truth taboub Ins tlehing experience,: when it ge:s to be the regulet thing to conch salt mackerel ia Linke Ontario. The sculptor of The Three Graces" wily depleted them when they were entail- ing still, and nob when they were trying te run. It is ell very well to pray for What you want, but in moat calm ouch ptayent aren't answered unless you are wise enough to pray for aornething that you: know beforehand you are pretty sure to get. Thiel is a twiny world, but it's hard to be* Hove it sometimee when you are reading the professional funny papers. Realiern in novel -writing is undoubtedly. a groat help to novel Writerif who haven't any imagination. Hew He Knew. Blind Beggar (to old lady) --You aren't the kind to pees a poor blind fellow On tho street and not give him nobhin. Old Lady—How do you know, Blind Beggar -I esti tell by lookin ID your sweet, pretty fee°, ma'am. Aletlern Precocity. Baby (just weaned to nurse). -I1 halm bad e'er' reason to be eatiefied with your paet services, and shall not fail to temeate mend you to my circle of taequaintenicese Here'e a dollar for yeureelf. Adam was proudly consolous that Wen neer* Madre le Miriade° isa hio hoehoed.