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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-5-13, Page 6NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS, The United Staten Senate bas agreed to. the appropriation of a quarter of a million of dollars for a representation of the country at the Faris laaternaiional Exhibition of 1889. through its refreshing iiaflnenee "keep agoin ' when others break down, by over- work and lose the power to sleep at all. Then they call it nervous prostration. Tillett We Sleep. It. will now be in order to enquire whether The moat noiseless, quiet aleeper Tare' it would not also be in the interests of Can- lies tn a per#eptly relaxed state, bodyan_ em oda to be represented there, limbs at ease. With au egotithat neem Even in England, which has always been. very liberal in matters of art, a demand oc- oei ionally Andrea itself heard for the en- couragement of native talent. A portion o£ the lauded press are attacking the. Birming- ham esti al committee tor again giving a commission to Dvorak when, as they say, all the ntusicalyoung blood in the country is waiting for a chance to blossom and ripen into composers of oratorio., cantatas and syncphouiee. A system of high license is much weeded in the State of New York if it ie tress as has been sa teddltin that there are 34,000 driokfng s4 its bounds, or about twice as y in proportion to population as the number reported in any other State. It oppeare that the Sultan. of Moroeeo has refused to aubinit to arbitration the question in dispute between hien and the United States The action on bia part will give the J. S. Geeernremit a pretext for testing the value of their anew acquisition, the new dynamite ember Veatevhus. . committee of the hIetbodist Episccl ai General Conference azNew Yorkbas report- ed adversely on the gneatian of admitting won;en as lay delegates, The report will, ne doubt, he adopted, tarot with the rapid advance of liberal epielons the admia4ion of woolen as lay delegetee is only a goestiea of a fear ,years. A writer in the very iinterestiug serkee publications unwed by the Ainerican 1,.on- oruio Aeaocietion tetitnatea that a cepital of 5260,900,u00 atande rsi the 'seeks of the gee oompanies<of'the Ideited. States; that the average price of gas, is $1.74 per theues ed ; eud th dead et this price paya the capital. a clivi• tea per c _.t. }Bur we leas than $150,000,000 of the capittai is 41 -Inter i' Saga the Loudon Times: "According to a parliamentary Asper just published, the number of agrarian offences reported he Ire- land during the first de menthe of the years 2882 end 14x67 were 1,04Q and 3O0 reep'c tively, tlueeteuing letters and notices being in tach gate excluded. These letters suet itoticesr are included in a further return%, Which sheen that the wheleinuwberaf agree rime closures it the #fret half of 1SS2 was thr,97 Ola xutrrders), its the second half 830 ill mindere), in the first half of l$S, the number was 4$4 (fear iuurders), and is the second half :1t0 (two reurdere)." The trustees et Simlzespeare's birthplace at Stratford ;te..'teen report that about 1G. - n u perertttts phi her -admission during the peat year. The vtertr; were of varions exotintriee and raatL.r.alitie , abowing that the univerrtai nature of Shakespeare's gotta iaresognired and that the whole world die- putes for possessionof him. The viaitorte thew amounted to X600 in tbo year, the money being used to keep in repair the relict* of the dead poet. air. Ignatius, Dounelly, the American now lecturing fu England on hie theory. that Bacon wrote the;p''e-s attributed to Shakespeare, will. tot be auy too delighted to know that among the viattors to Stratford on Avon during the year were 5,000 cltir.ena of the United Stateo s to be instinctive, most people endeavor to look one for themselves in sleep. They do not trust he the sett and willing support o the bed; they ding to it as if sante sudden and malicious sprang might toss them ort upon the floor. They bold their head; down on the pillows as if the feathers rpigh rise up and bonne° them of& Or, and this i* more common, they atifl'en the mus eke of the neck and hold their own head_ as if the pillow could not be trusted fo support. They clutch the bedclothes, and clin with tightened grip. They brace their feet against the bed rail or, by dexterous twist- ung, use themselves as a point d'appui. They draw up as for a leap. They crouch as for a spring. They tie themselves into snots, clasp their knees in desperation, cleneh their hands, and writhe, wriggle and swim. ovee the area of the bed. They set sometheir some grit their teeth, bury their heads, In brief, nerves and museles are kept in well a state ot unreasonable Undo* that waking becoutea relaxation to overcome the lath, ties of the night. No one, perbaps, has a clear idea of abso- lutely what antics one performs ha sleep, al- though though drearily cenaone of the effect on wat.-;iug, Bat almeet everyone bee aotae attitude e4aeotiel to plug to ales _. Otte would think that these, elle may cal them electise, pesitionss would be id the eaaieat, if riot the most graceful, for every one has not been tee hed as considerately as the childrets of a woman wham the writer once knew, who were taeieht to go to Sleep in graceful posit -lone, as the mother naively remarked, '"in case of fire." Oe the con, trary, the attitudes rteceaaary to sleep, after long and minute inquiry among le large surf• beg sis paatirle, are found to be uneasy, un natural, ungainly, distorted, pelufni. If any lumber. of readers undertake to Mime so their own peculiar habits of sleep they will doubtless be found uncomfortable. It la safe to nay that this state of Internet f t a r g uerveaa and nivaeular tension is never re- laxed during the might,, even:though the position be changed.The only exec tion to after excessive bodily fatigue. The body then flu:Tonle all .d'art, end, lies such a. dead heevy weight that it seems the bedtenet ache to aratsrin it. Sleep at lase perforins rte graeioue minion • And morning briuge Hast repair and refeeahtueut, that Sense of teat and energy to begin the day again width unties fife once more worth living. Chromefrom ineenula know well the wilco of fatigue. How much superfluous energy we expeud is the yerformauce of the moat: trifling not. Writing, for example, requires very little tnuucular exertion, but the pen is prnelresi ' mall the Angora ache, and the tunaelca of the mall hack of the head aro as tired as the lingers. Tho seamstress sows with her haat as surely as with her fingers. The school teacherrabaa +orf the blackboaerd with one hand and mimics the movement with the other, Nino people out of ten cut with their mouths when hold- ing the echelon. A1, woman with her, halide in her muff etaepa them with a grip that fatigues her mei mates them aohe. Even in. idle conversation people wiggle their fingers They are getting partleular about their and wag their feet as an seeoinpanimenr to their touguee, A prominent divine once could not preach without jingling the keya in hia trousers pocket. Fete people can aft in an easy chair without clinging to the arena,. Observe the passenger.. In a street car. They stiffen the muscles of the neck and hold on to their head with grits earneat- oee8, as if a sudden iolt mieht lose them, and in the confusion they would be difficult to readjust. This care soon imprints itself an our weary faces. It is thee habit of nervous exaggeration, so tyrannical and merciless to the maecles, that we take to bed with us, and that platys auch misehief with divine sleep. How to conquer it I Plainly it is with the working hours we must begin. In Beaton, where the au - proms' ego gets a completer development thea within sound of the collo of the roar of Broadway, there has arisen the science of devitalization that is directed to this very end. Devitalization in its highest sense, to speak in the language of its disciples, is the spiritual side of physical culture. Its great principal is embodied completely and brief- ly in these words, " Mind active, body pas- sive." Ita methods are based on the anion ot the .imagination with certain exercises of the body. The immediate physical result is the setting up of perfect independence among the various movements of the differ- ent members of the body—in detaching them, so to speak, from one another. The results of these exercises are, first. the calling into activity all the muscles of the body, many of which are comparatively un- used; second, rendering them perfectly in- dependent of one another; third, making them immediately responsive to the call trent the nerves ; and, lastly and chiefly, rendering them indifferent to anything but their own business. In this lies the great saving to the vitality, and that is what we are after. :Vow, how does this tend to better and -tore restful sleep ? In the trot place, by :caving trained the nerves and muscles to keep still when they are not wanted. Sur- render of yourself. Lay your burden down. God will take care of you, the bed will hold you, say the disciples of devitalization. Bat if the mind and body are not brought to this perfect state of obedience, the various exer- cises in devitalizing are gone through, be- ginning with the head. The different mem- bers are unlimbered, detached. They are, in fact, awfully funny. Then gat into bed, and, sitting upright, conceive of the backbone as a strand of beads held upright. Then let yourself down slowly without tension, bead by bead, until the un- limbered head 1 alis back inert on the pillow. Lie in that position, on the back, the arms helplessly lying on the bed, at the sides, each member divested of all responsibility, which has been assumed by the bed. If necessary. do this several times, and lie on the . bask if possible. If this is not possible, at least be- gin in this way and afterwards turn over on to the side preferred. - Such is the Boston recipe for wholesome, restful slumber—it is worth trying. A young man was discussing with more. spirit than was comely what he was pleased to call " brain food." He urged' that no article of food` furnished more brain matter than baked, beans. Just then an old man looked up and said —" Young man, eat all the baked beans you can get," beer in Englund. A, bin is now before Per- liement for better aeeuring the purity of the national beverage. Its object (says a Loa - don paper) ha to enable the public, to dis- tinguish between beer when it le brewed from hops and barley malt and when it is composed of other ingredieeta. .Everyone who wells by wholesale or by retail bear con- taining any other ingredients is directed by the bili to keep conapieuonaly posted at the Isar or other place of sale a notice stating what those ingredients are. For nor cone dying with thla direction the penalty is a tine not exceeding £5, and in the case of a neoond orsubaequent offence, £20, In every case half of this fine is to be paid to the in- former. The absence of any definite information regarding the movements of Stanley in Africa directs attention to the latest intel.i- Nonce received from the great explorer. A ew York paper says that the latest direct messaage from Stanley was brought by steam- er late in the autumn. Mr. Stanley, in let. tars dated August 8, wrote that he intend. ed marching to the mountains near Albert lake and sending an advance guard in a steel whale boat to Wadelai, but as Emin Bey's lettere of November were sent from the lake, evidently Stanley had not carried out this plan. Since that date, therefore, the movements of the expedition are un- known, and all theories' on the subject are based upon surmises more orless reasonable, It appeara that on the Pacific coast the preservation of game by stringentlegislation has become neceaeary. A Game Bill having been introduced into the British Columbia Legislature recently, hit was stated during the debate that the wholesale destruction of deer in the northern parts of Vancouver Island was going on, including the slaughter. ing of thousands of these animals for their bides alone, which would soon lead to their extermination. Among the arrivals from sea at Plymouth, Eng., on the 16th was the Shaw Saville and .Albion Company's steamer Ionic, from Wel- lington (New Zealand),. with 19,744 carcasses of sheep, 9,737 lambs, 600 pieces of beef, 3,- 412 legs of mutton, fifteen cases of kidneys and sweetbreads. And at the same port on the 18th the New Zealand Shipping Com- pany's steamer Aorangi, from Wellington, with 15,861 carcasses of sheep, 4,325 carcas- es of lamb, 541 pieces of beef, and 6,376 legs of mutton. There are 17,000,000 working people in. the'United States. Over 7,500,000 of these are engaged in agricultural operations. About 4,000,000 are doing professional work. Trade, transportation, mining, manufactures and mechanics employ the other five and a half millions. Admit the arguments of the Protectionists, and it still the melancholy truth that the system of Protection is a positive daily injaryto nearly ,12,000,000 of the workers of the Republic. --Ex. The business man who would be found asleep in his office in the middle of the day would be thought by moat people either ill or very indolent. It is a feet, notwithstand- ing, that a catnap of three, five, ten or fifteen -.minutes' length, after several hours of se. tare mental strain, will often set a mac on his "'feet again wondetfully reouperated. Scores of people who have learned the value of the catnap' are able to time themselves almost to the minute in its indulgence, and SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL. Where Materialists Fall. "Our dear and admirable Huxley Cannot explain to me why ducks lay, Or, rather, hew into their eggs $tuader potential wings and, legs With will to move them and decide whether iw air or lymph to glide. et ho gets a hair's-breadth on by showing That Something E:se set all agoing? Farther and farther back we push From Aiosesand his burning bush , Art thou there'!" Above below, Al nature mutters yes and nu ; `Tea the old weever; —we're agreed Being from Being roust proceed, Life be Lila a source. I might as well Obey the tueetiug-house's bell, A.ud listen, while Old Hundred pours. Forth through the summer -open doors. .train old and young. I hear it yet, Swelled by bass viol and elarionet, While the grey minister, with face Radiant, let loose his noble bass. If heaven it reached not, yet its roll Waked all the echoes of the sons, And in it many a -life found wings To soar away from sordid things.. Church pone and singers too, the Gong Stage to um voieelesa all night long, Till my lout beckons malar, Glowiog end trembling like a star. Will auy ecientidc *emelt With my were. strings achieve as much*" TRE Su swouat'h 0ecerautp'r Germ. Artifieiat talk is the latest diseuvery, end nand, from ms likely That the the eilkwortia oceupatlou will soon be gone, acid that he may retire to his eecoan and lament brs.. lest importance tri ailence. The new material le made, we are told, from a land .of concision), to which has Leen added perchforide of iron rind tattnio acid. The proem of rnaziufae• tore is somewhat comps eeted, but the re- sult Seems to be .all that mu he desired lit the way of preridiug a imbst gice preetie- ally equal to good silk. Electric rifles are the latest. Instead of the ordinary percussion firing device a dry chloride of olive; battery and a printery coil will, So it was lately atated'before the Amer-. lea, Iraatitute, dm the rifle 3;7,000 tinea without recharging. An electro-ma,;uet with a catrrying cepa,. city of &fist pounde is at.aebed to a crane xn the Cleeland Steel Work.; which readily ilicka up billeta and other maesea of iron without the aid of any otherdeviee. A boy ie thus enabled to do the work of a dczn' mens Four porta by weight of znsiss, two of beeawa; and one at tallew er lard, ruelted together over a slow tire, stirred to mix thoroughly, poured into cold water and worked like molasses Gaudy, win make a, first tato quality of graftlug wax. In work• ingest the betide shonhlbe grta;ed, se thele the wax may not adhere to them. In grafting, a moderately warm day must be chosen, as on a cold day tho wax will not work web. When the gust electric telegraph was ea. tablished the speed of trauamlation was from four to five words a minute with the f`ive- ueedle instrument. . In 1810 the average rate for newspaper messages was seventeen word* a menut�t�,, The present pace of the olectrie teleghsph between Loudon and Dub. lin, whore the Wheatntone lustrument is employed, reaches '162 words; and thus what was regarded aa miraculous sixty yeara ago has multiplied a hundred fold in half a century. "In spite of what our • Eliz Median fore. fathers said and did to the cuntrary," says The Hospital, "and notwithstanding the opinions of some eminent physicians of re - cont times, evening is the rational time to dine. There should only be two really sub- stantial meals a day, and those should only be breakfast and dinner. A solid and high ly nutritious meal ought to begin the day's work, an squally aolid and equally mstritloua meal should and it. What is taken in the course of the working hours may be such as merely to satisfy the appetite, and to main- tain in a cendition.of ;toady movement the ascending and descending course of the nerve energy. vie careful how you eat oatmeal." said a doctor recently. "Oatmeal le avery healthy ood if taken properly. No food is healthy if improperly used." " Bow should it be assn?" "If oatmeal is oaten in excess of the needs of the body for proper nutritionit overloads and taxes the system. It must ot be eaten partially cooked. Flour, corn- meal, rice and other approved articles of wholesome dies are not healthy if half cook - d. If an excess of sugar or other sweets is sod it will disagree with many people, arising indigestion. If eaten with an excess f cream it will not be healthy for some per - ons whose stomachs are too delicate to tend a rich food. Oatmeal is a healthy ood when not used for over -feeding, when ttffioiently cooked and when not used with n excess of cream ar sweets. Oatmeal hould be eaten without any sweets, ming a ittle milk or cream, a little butter, and sea- oned with salt as the Scotch do." In Harpers, Mr. Charles Dudley Warner has this to say about the danger of being a man or a woman Heredity is a puzzle. It items to be easier in this world to inherit ad qualities and traits than good, but both orte make such leaps and jumps, and are o inclined to go off on collateral lines, that the succeaaion is difficult to calculate. The ace is linked together in a curious tangle, o that it is almost impossible to fix the eaponsibility. Defects or vices or virtues will not always go fn a straight line. The hildren of deaf-mutes, for example, are not pt to be Beat -mutes, but the cousins of those hildren may be deaf-mutes, showing, it is aid, that some remote ancestor of hn-+ had ome mental or physical defect, ea tt has een transmitted to his posted' y • nought ot in the form in which he web ,flitcted, n cases we cannot do anything about t ; lee older our civilization becomes, the more complicated and intricate, are our rela- ions, so, that it has already become a danger. us businese to be a human being at all. 'It not always certain that if a man eats sour rapes his children's teeth will be set on dge, but the effect of the sour -grape diet ay skip a generation or two, or appear in collateral line. We .try to study this roblem in our asylums and prisons, and we et a great many interesting facts, but hey are too conflicting to guide legislation. lie difficulty is to relieve a person of re- ponsibility for the sins of his ancestors ithout relieving him of responsibility for is own eine. MAN'S EART,kfLY DURATION. The Human tdaee ifiay ne Starved Out VA less ilse i'resertt Rate of consumption o Coat andl'etroleuni 1s Wisely Checked lid rltorr sson eeOCTOR. That the periods by which the future lives alike of the world and sun are to be measured are tong may be regarded an. demonstrated by what we have learned from the earth on which we live. In other words, this greet earth record over which she races peopling our globe are ceaselessly moving, and into which during the last half century or so men have been, earaeetlyporing, tellsof tens of mil- lions of yearsduriug which the earth has been the scene of such proceaaes as are now going on and the abode of forms of lifefr•om whic the present forma of life upon her surface have descended, while they tell with epee' clsarnese of tens of millions of years durirg which the sun bas been at work even as at present, pouring light and heat, and with theta life, upon the earth and her fellow worlds within the solar system. As regards the probable future duration of the sun we .have no each evideece. We know only that he has steadily emitted light and heat in the past for tena of millioxta of years (duce any great thematic: or failing off' would undoubtedly have left its record very clearly), and that so far as we eon judge there is no reason to suppose that any great change will occur during periods of time to come akin to the pumas of time during which he has been at work in the past, H'e might, for, aught that science knows, undergo during the meat year or oven in a day, tame ohaenge akin either to that by which awn like Et* 4r; ire acid T Caron have increased hundreds of time its lustre or dwindled downs to less than oleo -hundredth ot their customary light ilut all that we know of his work fru the peat and of bis pre - mut eoncl}tioit sends tc gentian the belief that be will be a nun aitch as he is now far millions of years to comer Tris 1rt'liATlora OF Z,IFE. Now, when we acnt,ialer those vaeteperiod* which In the earth's one certainly, and the nun's ease probably, sep. rete us from the end of the possibilities of life, so far as they depend en the condition of the earth or on the emission of light sad beat upon the earth, what opinions Are we to forth in re card to the future of the hainau race itself ? G'ertaiu that the earth will bo a Si hone for ue during millions of years to conn, melees the nun should is the nsceawhile tile out, and *beast certain that the ,anu will a neither die out oar auddenly blaze forth with molt irrereeeed fervor as to dettory all life from the earth's aurfaoe, Iet us caueider to the necessities of human life lir its higher de• velorsnente, and inquire haw far they are provided for, and in whet way thaw is ming the supplies thug available for him. Mau, like the lower animate, eau live on the earth without employio ; the earth's buried stores. }rut even eavago raees do net ao live. Among the tools Web even' the bootee races of men employ are some which have been obtained front the earth by man, not brought forth by aura power from. the axil. Even stone impiemeute may be described au taken from t o eusnh'e atom. Where metal is need the cave is clearer, and it la more obvious that a process of exhaus• than is involved, seeing tnat metal maenad for making a tool of tiny sort is on eta way to being used up. It doea not, indeed, no vert to a condition chemically lose favor- able for use than before it was fash• Mimed auto a tool; but its parte aro gradually dispersed in each sort that ;hey can not be brought together again for renewed use. This process of exhaustion isnot worth considering in the case of eay. age races, though it aorioualy attests, in many instances, the supplies available to them, insomuch that they watch withgreet care the few tools they have oceaelon to fashion. l uewhen we turn to the work of civilized races we ace that the exhaustion of the earth's stores of minerals is going on very rapidly. It is not merely that the Absolute quantity of the earth's mineral wealth used up yearly by civilized races is largo, but that the proportion of this manual consumption to the entire store is extrema- gant, in view of the length of time over which the store ought to last, unless the future of our race is to be much briefer than we have any reason toexpeot. ExifaasTrori Or cotx,. Let us take man's use of the earth's buri- ed stores of coal and oil as illustrations of rte process of exhaustion. it has been estimated that beneath the earth's crust there lin about 3,000,000,000,- 000 cubic yards of coal at depths rendering them available for the use of man. In round numbers this would be a little over 7,000,- 000.000,000 tone of coal Of this atore Great Britain has, available for use, about a fiftieth part, or, more exactly, according to the best estimates, 145,000 millions of tons. This is an exceptionally large aupply for an area so small. Yet, Great Britain, which has not yet reached either the fuIIneae of its growth or the full development of its civil - nation, consumes already each year more than 150,000,000 tone of coal, a rate con- sumption which would fully exhaust her store inn little over 900 years—amere second compared with the duration of man on the earth in the past. Thus a people which may be regarded as typical of modern civilization, supplied by nature with a hun- dred timea more wealth in coal than the area of their country would entitle them to expect, are spending their share of this form of buried wealth (really buried life) at such a rate that the exhaustion of the region they occupy will be completed in lees than a housandth part of even that period (a mil. ion years) which science regards as the time unit by which the earth's future .is to be measured. It is not likely any other region f the earth will remain much longer stored with coal than Great Britain. Elsewhere here are immense supplies, and as yet where these large topples exist the human race is not so closely crowded as it is in Great Britain ; but wherever the earth is hue well stored the population is growing n density, and at rates showing that in less han two centuries the population per square mile will be greater than in England. So ar as coal is concerned, the outlook is that the earth's buried stores will be entirely ex aested in less than 2000 years. If we remember that the consumption of ooal is an index of the rate at which other mineral stores are being exhausted, the coal used not merely in the direct work of civilization but in procuring the materials y which that work is continued, we can net fail to see that other portion of the arth's stored wealth must be undergoing a rocess of rapid exhaustion, As a matter f fact, all other forma of stored wealth are t 0 r. t z f h is b e p 0 being exhausted atapend•thrift rates; many are being exhausted far more rapidly even than coal, and some are being exhausted so rapidly eche counted by yeara rather than by centuries. aLLIIAt. may bo mentioned al cel beneath cer* rust were millions ng, But where to get wealth for the first coiiaidera- g the oil regions) plumed before they s of exhaustion. Ora of the richer of lookfarwatd to at the rate at been worked is a who look back raider that area, understandingly heir of all ages, spendthrift, ex. es left to him (as race, not fora few hen we consider large, but• by far wasteful expenditure coon of deatrno- but enlargements times multiplied of steasliing westp- e, or making de• eget' sIaus,=hter- to save lifsa a develrptisenla the eavage, hide• are divided ba- �nu race r:hould be life said a feeling the race regard• rthy of tang du• sated longest Ira Atog beings have ilized oomxiutri• on to 4 man be. }y as strong and nearly as stub - Tasmania decd, use of hie liinba nt, Yet what look With interest when races of runts devote a Largo Ina largest part of tion to caantriv a rtiro far more any Taco of arae• ars the earth— awl of h year an ought nerltlanR, to bo Feud -me -Rot, EMEND. uuhcedfd grows, omoadadyapvt; y poral shows, breeze "Forget When site leavea on their coffin when. sitar they in the glade ; seams, for they or Ivymaatled priced, aro left they read, "ror• hero's brow with the bride's fair crown the minstrel for hie ay, press e'er thenoblo dead ; m sweet of constancy and etrength is by the Coder Hope and Peace above, sombre Yowls sorrow known ; no more our form is seen same loved and hallowed do aux memory still be see the Blue Forget-me-not. on, let the dainty flower soothe the an of mortal to Relieve the sadness of the darkaome tomb, And breathe the last fond wish—" Forget mo not." CSIL.TG Or SETT Among the last class coal oil. The stores of o0 tarn parts of the earth's c of years in the gathering, greedy man sets to work thein (for that hag been tion heretofore he working barely a generation has p have began to show sign The moat sanguine survey and busier oil regions don . half a century of aupply which these regions have the last t'yepty years. It is saddening for those over the past of life to co the first creature to live upon the earth ; roan, the would be living thus AS a ex - batwing selfishly the stor ie were) in trust for the generations only.. Bat w turther that not merely a the largest part of this is devoted to ttte, conatrtr tive implements which are and awpliticatious many the ersbbing, slashing and ons of the despised eavag feeeive epperatws (for isr; hart a atender, not as ilfe) which is bufa on a much enlarged acalo of hound shield, our thoughts tween regret time the livan� to weetoful of the means of of doubt whether, after all,, ed as a whole la quite so wo ration as some which have 1 liefe'a peat struggles, Reaso been arideriug that in eiv *lee attention elaonld be given cause lie chaneea to bit peas quite AS brutal as a gorilla, born es a bull dog. or the and almost As quick la the as a panther or a eatatnou wonder that man should On a Sayer or Sullivan wh ealliog eheursclvea civilized part of their energise and t their attention and risimim aures for snaking the huina; 'brutally deatruative thea insets that has ever lived up and this eat the wet- of Much the earth's buried stores sae rant, in fairness to future ge elected in a ceutcry. The Blue Fesrgd- ASrnir SED TGA l There is a delver which oft And blooms unnoticed la a Modestly it hides, nor gaud Bat whispers coyly to the me not," The bride ahauld wear it her home, The dead should bava it laid ; Dor friends most prize It roam, And find its tiny blooms They love its pale blue bla call to mind Some Woodbino.wreathed got Where those, most loved and behind. For in the floweret's eye get me oat." We wreathe the conquer}ug And$ wine the Myrtle for head, With Laurel And pleat the Cy The Rose is emblem love,. giant shown ;; The Lily tolls of 13 And by the Yet; when on earth To wander round spot, fay to dear fries green, Whene'er they Upon the grave, tit bloom, 'Twill Indite pang r t, home Politeness. A boy who is polite to father and mother is likely to be polite to everybody else, A boy lacking politeness to his .parents may have the semblance of courtesy in society, but is never truly polite in spirit, and is in danger, as he becomes familiar, of betraying his real want of courtesy. We are all in den. ger of living too much for the outside world, for the impression which we make in aooiety, coveting the good opinion of others, and caring too little for the opinion of those who are in a sense a part of ourselves, and who will continue to sustain and be interested in us, notwithstanding these defects of deport. ment and character. We say to every boy and to every girl, cultivate the habit of courtesy and propriety at home—in the kit- chen as welt as in the parlor, and you will be sure in other places to deport yourself in a beooming and attractive manner,—[Home Guardian. The late Legislature of New York passed a bill to change the method of capital pun- ishment; It provides for executions by electricity. The method is to place a band about the head of the criminal, and, send a current of electricity through it sufficient to send him into eternity in an instant. The act is enlightened in other respects. The death sentence is to leave the exact date of the execution in the hands of the prison authorities. Perhaps the uncertainty as to when death is to dome may produce inn the mind of the prisoner a constant dread, how- ever, which will be more, torturing than a state of certainty, but a' good effect willbe attained in removing from the mints of the curious` that morbid and unhealthy expect- ancy which makes public eseoutions of : to day so demoralizing.. The attendance on the execution is to be limited, and other precau- tions are to be taken to prevent, if possible, the tragic' event from being described in ex- tended and sensational accounts.