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pp�q SS IN 111111 -OCEAN, halm him. For a time we thought he hail
tiIPA A ' . lost life t .asnn, mud t believe he hail a close
tet n roup a o• tot , how-
Piet,:1,f;• Up a Brig With. Only One Saul
Aboard,
On the Gtlh da of April, 18:13, the London
Thome lead about twenty litres of matter 011
the straw ge raise of the brig Little Queen of
Sydney, Australia, It woe stated that sato
hd been abandoned in New Zetland waters
and Seized n + hy the book Union of Mel.
patinae, but no particulars wore given. 1
purpose to give trent to you now, and to tell
you an intereetmg story just its it 00.
.caned,
In November, 1853, I leas mate of the
bark Union ell u voyage from Melbourne to
New Caledonia. She was commanded by
Capt, Thomas Davidson, end was n snug,
stanch craft and well found in all partieu•
lars. I had made two voyages fu her front
Australia to New `Zeeland, and no railer
could ask for a better berth. We were now
filled up with dry goods, groceries, hard-
ware, seeds, boots and shoes, and other
goods in demand by the islanders to the
northeast, and were to maks a trading voy.
age.
When I sante ou deck at midnight ou the
night of Nov. 20 to relieve the second state,
I found the bark drifting about like a log.
There wasn't a breath of air moving, and
the ocean was quiet except for the ground
swell, which is ever at work. It was a star-
light night, and yot there was n haze whish
darkened the stars and ciroumsoribed the
vision. The man at the wheel had nothing
to do, and though the lookout WAS wide
awoke, as i convinced myself as soon as I
wale •'
arge of the deck, there was no reason
to b': i:et e that anything short of a sudden
breach by a whale would put us in danger.
I had killed about half an hour's time when
I was hailed by the lookout. As I went for-
ward he said:
"Mr. Haskell, it seeps to me that I
catch queer sounds over the starboard bow,
and I wish you would listen with me."
" What do you mean by queer sounds ?" I
asked as I went forward to the heel of the
bowsprit with him.
"Why, sir, it's like a man crying out for
help, only he is a long ways off. I heard it
as soon as I acme on watch."
All the others In my watch had tumbled
np when I did, but with the exception of
relieving the wheel and look out there was
nothing to be done, and the others wore
sleeph,g as they sat with their banks against
the bulwarks.
I listened intently -for four or five minutes,
but caught no sound, and was about to tura
away when the lookout raised his head in
warning, and I plainly heard the sounds fee
had referred to. As there was no air stir.
ing, it was difficult to locate them. As they
came but faintly, it was hard to judge what
caused them. On shore you might have cal-
led them the cries of night birds or the
croakings of frogs. At sea,when such sounds
come to your ears, you instantly think of
wrecks drifting about or people (lying of
henget and thirst in small beats. I remain-
ed right there until theeou u e were repeat-
ed twice over, and then I agreed with the
outlook that they came to us over the star-
boardboll'. Beiug satisfied that the cries were
from some one in distress, I called the Cep-
tain,and he ordered me to send 1(p two sky-
rockets and burn a port fire. These things
would be a reply to the castaways, and if
they were on a wreck and could not reach
us they would feel assured that we would
stand by them and begin a search as soon
as daylight came.
All the men in my watch were aroused,
and all gathered iu the bows to listen for
any further calling. Tho sounds cone every
few minutes, and in about an hour it was
evident that the oestaways were caning
nearer. In fifteen minutiae more we could
make out a man's voice shouting: "Bark
ahoy --ahoy! Fm God's sake, don t go
away and leave mo 1"
I now burned another port fire, and be-
fore my two hours were up we could faintly
make out a craft of some sort to the west of
us, while the voice of the man sounded. al-
most as plain as it he were aboard of us. He
shouted the same thing over and over, and
I finallyatawered him and asked him to be
patient for an hour longer. We might havo
lowered a boat and made an investigation,
but to tell you the truth every one of us
was nervous aud the thing had an uncanny
look. We didn't propose to run into any
trap in the darkness. After my answering
the man became quiet, and we heard no
more from him for a long time.
Although my watch was up at 2 o'clock,
not one of us turned in, and the old watch
• also kept the deck. Wo wanted to see
daylight cone and investigate the situation.
Between 2 o'clock and daylight the strange
craft we had sighted through the gloom ap.
preached 118 so near that we could have
thrown a stone aboard; that is, the two
crafts approached each other, drawn to.
gether by that peculiar magnetism of the
salt waters on two wooden bodies which men
of science cannot explain. I have seen the
same thing in the case of two water casks,
two small boats, and even of two dead and
floating human bodies,
When daylight filially came, there she
was, only 300 feet away, broadside on, but
her bows pointed the contrary way. She
was a small, snug brig, with all her canvas
properly stowed and everything alow and
aloft in trim condition, A loan was leaning
over her low bulwarks, looking full at us,
as we were at him, and not a word was
spoken for five minutes, From the moment
we caught sight of hien eve decided that he
was all alono on the brig. By and by Capt.
Davidson called to 111111 from the quarter
dook :
Brig ahoy! What brig is that?"
No answer from the man leaning on the
n'aih
"Brig ahoy 1 What's the matter ?"
The man moved a bit, but never opened
his mouth to speak,
As the brig had too signal of distress fly-
ing, and was apparently all right, the con-
duct of the man struck 00 as most singular,
.After a brief consultation with me the
Captain hailed again
You there, on board the brig -what do
you want? Have you gond daft that you
cannot understand and answer one?"
If the man had boon a atone figure lashed
to the rail he could not ilav° remained more
quiet, so far as we could see.
"Lower the boat and board him, Mr.
Haskell ?" snapped the Captain as be lost
his patience. He's the queerest sailor
aud this is the queerest adventure I've had
to do with. Bettor take your revolver
along,"
In ten minutes wo were under the bows
of the brig. As soon as W° loft the bark the
man suddenly disappeared. As I caught
her chains and began climbing up ho appear-
ed on the bows with a capstan bar to oppose
me. However, when I covered him with
my revolver he retreated, and as I readied
the deck he disappeared clown tho compan-
ionway. 1 called up two men and followed
him. They armed themselves with beleyin„
pine, and after a search of the main cabin
wo found the fellow stowed away in the
Captain's etatcreom. He made no rosis-
j. tatl00, 11111 w0 no Horner had hien m11 than
1 Ile began evicepinig and begging of us net to
call fur it.if 1 t hours rs
ever, during which all of us treated hint
with the at most kindness, he Legal to mend,
and beforo the day was ovor we had the
mast of kis story. Pat for filo peoef0 at
hand ,v„ oh, ul,? *1100 passed it by as a yarn
to amuse sailors,
This was N, i'ernher, as I 11100 told you.
Eight mouths previously tate brig had sailed
out of Sydney on her salty to NOW Zeeland,
After leaning her port .she had not even twee
spoken, e n 1 c'o'lts before 300 tonna her she
was listed as prehalylost, Everything want
fairly well aboard for the first week out,
though tho winde were light and contrary.
Then dao urate of Ude brig, who, from all ac-
counts was a htttlal fellow, began knocking
the mon about in a way ts'htclt liven a (1110
tiny. Tho leader of the mutiny was pee -
traps haying fur *0,13,le, and perhaps he
schemed to'bring it about, having plans of
bis own to farther. At any rata a mutiny
took piney, lint without bloodshed, The
Captain end mate wore adrift in the gig,
having feud and orator to last them for two
weeps, but provided only with oars. They
were never board 0f again.
The Kismet' mate knew a little something
of navigation, and though he was not the
leader of the mutiny he joined in with the
area and was afterward made Captain. The
idea was to have " a good time, and the
brig was headed up for the Feejeo Islands.
There ware live mon a
and the cock
boy,
in her anew, and tho�lireb mei after secur-
ing possession was 10 50(05 out runt. It Wats
nothing short of a miracle that tato craft
was not lost. Some of her men were more
or less intoxicated all the time, and dis-
putes and fights were of daily occurrence.
Unless there seemed to be positive danger
of disaster the sails were not handled at all,
and much of the time rho brig took cavo of
herself while the mon ate, drank, anal play-
ed !ands and ended up in a tight. bails
were sighted now and then, but none pass-
ed near enough to identify hen
About two weeks alter the mutiny the
lender, whose name was Ross, who had
come oat to Australia as a convict, derided
that the apprentice boy, who was oaly 14
years old and on his first voyage, would be
a dangerous witness against them in case
they were overhauled. He had said to ono
of tho men that he would tell the truth 1,f
opportunity was given, and often 110lain0
a council over his ease it was agreed that
he most begot rid of, It was at first decid-
ed to kill him, but two or three of that crew
opposed the murder, and he was turned
adrift on a small raft with it limited quanti-
ty of provisions. Tho weather was very
fine and the sea calm, and he was in sight
for hours. Ono of the singular things in
this story is the fact that the boy was pick.
ed up two days later by a French sehoolehip
and was landed after some months at the
Cane of Coed Hope.
After weary weeks the brig reached the
islands and gave out that she was a trader.
She did little trading, however, and when
the suspicions of the natives on one island
became aroased she sailed for another. At
every stop two or three natives were picked
up to do the work aboard, and sometimes the
whole crew lived ashore for a week or two
and let the brig ride at anchor and take care
of herself, She was at anchor at ono of the
Friondlygr0upnanled,Joseph Island, and the
crew wore camped on shore, what one of
them, named Hastings, went aboard after.
something. Being half drunk at the time
he fell asleep, and when he awoke it was
night and the brig was adrift, Her cable
had been weakened by grinding on the corals
and had finally parted. This was the elan
who stood looking over the rail at us when
we sighted the brig on that November morn-
ing.
The craft drifted to the east with wind
and current, and finally entered the south
Pacific. All sail had been taken in, and
Hastings could do nothing to 01100111 her
drift.. She drove as the leftists and currents
happened to catch her, but mainly to the
east. Time and again the lane elan con-
templated suicide. He no longer cared for
rum, and as soon as night had conte he was
afraid of this own company. •nThera
was
never a night when ho olid not hear the boy
on the raft hailing him and begging to be
taken aboard, tlnee, driven to distraction
by the loneliness of his situation, lie leaped
overboard, bot the thought of bring do.
veered by a shark brought about a reaction,
and he rescn5d himself. He clearly re-
membered the clay and date when the brig
went adrift. He had been afloat jastsixty-
three days when we sighted him. During
the first two weeks he had watohed the
compass and noted the general direction of
his drift, but after that Ile lost all interest.
Ile must have gone to the southeast or be
would have brought 11p among some of thb
islands of the Penman group. With a
change of wind end current are had been
slowly returned south of his track. He
wasoing to the west when We found hint.
Whim asked if he had sighted no sail in.
his long drift, Hastings replied that he had
seen half a score, but all afar off. The brig,
having no sail set, could have beau passed
very close without being noticed. Once a
ship passed him within two miles, but as all
the flags htaken ad been a
1 t o ashore to decorate
the camp he coital not sot a makeshift sig-
nal until too late to attract attention. Now
and then ho made a flare at night, but noth-
ing ever carne of it. Igo finally gave up ell
hope, and a weep longer would doubtless
have driven him to insanity.
We took the brig into port and made a
nice bit of salvage money by it, and, as in
duty bound, !aimed Hastings over to tho law
to deal with, Ho died, however, before go-
ing to trial, and so far es I know 0001 01
the other mutineers were ever found and
punished, though scare)) was made for them
by a man-of-war for several months,
Breaking Through a Buie.
A gentleman while walking with two
ladies through one of the principal streets
of London saw a beggar approach. One of
the lilies, who had evidently soon the
mendicant before, said: "This is the moot
singular man I ever heard of. No matter
how much money you give trim he always
returns the change and never keeps *note
than a penny."
Why, what a fool loo must be 1 return -
oil the gentleman. "But I'll try Mtn, and
put hint to a little trouble."
So saying the gentleman drew from his
pocket a sovereign, whistle he dropped into
rho beggar's hat.
Tho mendicant turners the oofn ovor two
or throe times, examined it closely, and
then, raising his eyes to the Onuitenanco of
the benevolent man, said: " Well, I'll not
adhere to my usual olston in this cos°. I'll
keep hall this time. But deft do it again."
The d0Otor opened his eyes in astonish•
ment and passed on, while the ladies smiled
with delight,
Old Oheoso.
Mahan--" What's the matter, fay
pal ?"
Litto Pot•--•" My tongue huts tellable,"
Miunmso-c' Did yen iota it ? "
Little Pet . " do in ; zoo ohecee bitod it,"
THE 7311TTSSLS POST.
YOUNG iJ,LV. G FOLKS..
How to Throw a Base Ball.
Every one has what may bo called a
mttnval way of 1111°wiug the hall, but this
eo•,alled " natural way" usually meatus 1,L
perverted method required tlu•ougll eawhets.
nese of attempt to throw ten laird 101010 tlhe
arm is Oullieieltlyaucttstouledto the'''111.
As a result of this, there are few boys or
college men who may nut learn a groat doe!
in the nuttier of throwing by earef1l atten-
tion for a few weeks to ono or two points.
The first barn to whom altentina ehiwld bo
called is tate man who dices a hal, okip,aed
jump before rho lets 1110 bald go. No man
can ting fast enough to heath thrown ball,
and, consequently, it talon lougor10 carry
the ball part Way and throw it the rest than
it does to throw it all the way. Therefore,
the first thing for the moat who has !beguiled
this trick to do is to 511ud still when be
gels the hall, and then thiow it. The oppo-
tide fault to this is that of leaning away
when throwing, A man gots a sharp
grounder, and throws the hall before he has
recovered his balance, and the force of the
throw is thereby greatly diminished. While
tide is not nearly so common tee the otiose
Melt, it is quits as ditlioult to correct. The
hippy mention between the two is the man
who receives the ball and, quickly straight-
ening himself, drives it while loaning for -
wised war,l ;and, as it leaves the heed, takes iris
single stop in the direction of his throw.
So much Inc the feet and body, nolo for
the arm, hand, and wrist.
Tho beet and most 001 3101, throwers me
talose who continually practice what is call -
ad a "short -arm " throw. To get an idea
cif the first steps toward the aegnisition of
this method, let the player ttdco the ball in
his hand, and, bringing It back just level
with hie ear, planting both foot firmly,
attempt to throw the ball without ming the
logs or body. At fleet the throw is awkward
and feeble, but constant practise speedily
results in moderato speed and peculiar me
emery. After steady practioo at this until
a pace is acquired, the man may be allowed
to use his legs nod body to increase the
speed, still, however, sticking to the
straight, forward motion ot the hand, wrist,
and the arm, The secret of the throw is,
of course, keeping the hand in lino with the
arm and not swinging it out to the side and
away from the head, where much of the ace
curacy and some of tho gnicl11ness is lost.
Certain catchers have brought this style of
throw to sech a pitch of perfection as to
get the ball away toward second almost on
the instant it strikes the hands. They aid
rho tbrowiug by a slight lariat of the body.
The quickness of this method of throwing
is, of course, due to the fact that there is
no delay caused by drawing hack the arm
past the head or by turning the body mound,
which loses so 1110011 valuable time. Its
accuracy is doe to the fact that it hi easier
to aim 01 an object with a hand in front of
the eyes tbau when it is out beyond the
shoulder. One o0n easily ascertain this by
comparing the ease of poietin„ the index
finger at any object when the hand is iu
front of the face with the difficulty of do-
ing so when the arm in extended out si lo -
ways from the body. Still further, in the
aluloet round -arm thro0ieg, whiolh many
players a -e the hand describes an aro, and
the ball mast be let Go at rho proper point
to go true. If let go at any other point in
the swing, the throw is certain to be wild.
In the other method, that of a straight-arm
throwing, any variation is far more likely
to be a vat'tatio 1 in height only, and In that
respect the variation may be greater with-
ont serious error. A. straight-arm throw
sends a ball much enis00 to handle than
the side-arm style. '.Chu latter is like-
ly to curve, bound irregularly, anal be more
inconvenient for rho baseman. Infield
throwing should be on sa lino as much as
possible, and there at fee distances to be
covered there that require any "upandover"
throwing. In getting a ball in from a
deep outfield, the distance is sometimes so
great that none brit professionals or excep-
tionally strong throwers eau drive the ball
in except by giving it quite an upward c1i•
ruction ; even then, however, one should be
careful to keep the ball fairly well down, as
it is far better to have it retch the catcher
on the bound than to go sailing ovor• his
head. "Loop down" is it cardinal rule
when fielding to the home plate from the
field. If a low ball is thrown, it is easier
for the catcher to torch the canner, who in
a tight place hill invariably slide as close to
the ground as possible. A high throw gives
the catcher almost no chance to recover and
put the ball on the man, whereas a low
throw brings his hands in the most advan-
tageous position for toughing the runner.
The sons is, of course, true in the case of
the catcher's throws to the second or the
other bases to put out the runner.
The position of the fingers when throwing
a ball is a point upon which there are 01-
divicloal differences of opinion ; bet the ma-
jority of the beet throwers fn the country
use principally the forefinger and middle
finger in giving direction to the ball. Fur-
ther particulars regarding special throwing
will he noted in a later article upon the in-
dividual positions.
The Blaok Swallower,
What a terrible, horrible animal a tiger
would be were it elate at one meal to swallow
from eight to twelve times its own balk I
With suuh a power even the comparatively
small omnivorous animals would become
greatly feared. It seems impossible that
there can be any creatures able to do this,
and yet, far down in the depth of tho South.
8,•n aeas, there lives a fish known as the
Blank Swallower (ohtasmodan niter), which
can swallow whole a fish eight to twelve
times larger than itself.
Happily for rho other inhabitants of the
sea, the ohiasmodon nigor as rare, there
being but three known epoOimeus in tho
1111100ums of the world.
In appearance the elliasnmoden niger is a
slender, elongated fish of uniform thickness,
from eight inches to a foot in length. '.Cho
skin is without soales, the heard somewlhat
cone-shaped, narrowing forward. Its fins
end le apinea, thus preventing it from be.
coming a dainty morsel for other fishes.
The mouth is that of a monster ; it is very
deeply aloft, extending behind rho oyes, and
mural with many long sharp -pointed, aud
movable tooth. Such is its appeara us° with
an empty stomach,
Going about in search of food, it espies
another fish many times larger than itself,
but which, nevertheless, may be managed.
It darts upon this fish from behind, seizes
the tail, and gradually climbs over the
struggling victim with its jaws, using fleet
ono and then the other.
As the ! aptivo is taken in the stomach
and intcgtments stretch out, until et last
the entire fish is passed through the mouth
into rho stomaoh. Then the (lista-vied belly
appears ase great bag, prOjeatiug out both
far backward and far forward. Over Odie
horrible bag, and resting of it, the swallower
scrams to lies the lower fins appoar dfelocat-
ecdawl lie fa' away from their usual poet-
11011,
:Che wane of tie stonau:b aud belly have
been so stretched than they aro transparent,
and the apeclen of rho fish within can bo
discerned. S,nioliou's .- (1150 tinges at
least ---such rapacity is ache than tioeap-
tor itself eau stand, At length the lash
within the dimwit begins In decolnposu and
gee le created. 'Pio Ohhtsulo.bm fa fumed
over upon lis bent, whoa the imprisoned
gats, ae in a bailout, tastes it upward. from
the depths to the snrfaeo of the son.
Thus 11 INCA 1311( 1111W 9101,1.11.113111 been found
la oiling on 1110 All 6500, thousands of fathoms
above thele tine Moults. In each inetatlme
the lisle fu t.ho ol,unteli 1100 been twice as
long its 00 swallower, anti from six In
twelve tinges bulki011.
Tho
Genuine Friendships of Life.
o
To ho rich in friends is 10 bo poor in
nothing. It is to possess flint infinite res-
ervoir of What may be, for want of a letter
tom, denominated interest in life, 111 obit
ft rpr1ro lelsrnllues etlreess ill whetevol flue of
achievement one may choose to worst. A
range of warm and strong frienships creates
the impale atmosphere that vitali'ree
ovary 0101110/11 within its influence, s0 that
it is not that social enjoyments and aOmpeo-
1010411ps aro in may sense interruptions to
specific work, however imporinnt, but tint
they yield instead the very elements out of
which it is hest create(. The genuine
friendships of life are largely discovered,
not acquired. We find them rather than
snake them, They aro predestined rotation.
ships, and aro recognized intuitively. " We
meet -at loyal those who are true to their
instincts meet -a succession ot persons
through oar laves, all ot whose have sono
peculiar errand to us," writes Margaret
Fuller. " Tho.'e is an enter circle whose ex-
1st00c5 w0 perceive, bat with whore 14.0
stand In n0 real relation, They tell 0a the
news, they act on us in the offices of society,
they show us kindness and aversion ; but
their influence does not penetrate; we are
nothing to t,01m, or they to us, except ars a
part of the world's furniture. Another cir-
cle within this are dear and near to us. We
know them and ot what kind they are.
They are not to us mere facts, but intelligi-
ble thoughts of the (divine 0110d, We like
to see bow they are unfolded ; we like to
meet them and part with thein ; we like
their notion upon us, and tho pause that
succeeds and enables us to appreciate its
quality. Often wo leave them on oar path
and return no more, but we bear them in
our memory, tales which have boon told,
nod whose meaning has been felt, But yet
a nearer group those aro, beings born antler
the sante star, and bolted with us in a com-
mon destiny. They menet mere acquaint-
ances, Mere friends, but when wo meet aro
sharers of our vory existence. There is no
separation ; the same thought is given at
the sane moment to both ; indeed, it is
born of the sleeting, and would nut other-
wise have boon called into existence at all.
These not only ]snow themselves more, blit
are more for having met, and regions of
their beings which would else have lain
sealed in cold obstruction burst into loaf
and bloom, and song. The times of these
me0111130 aro fated," she goes on to .say,
" nor will either one be able ever to meet
any other persalt in the same way." It ii
ono of the paths to success aud happiness in
life, or rather, it Is OW000Ss and happiness
in itself, to bo swiftly responsive to impres-
sions of his character, to recognize the
angel when ho draws near. Dickens touch-
ed the deeper truth in this relation when
he wrote that the people who have to do
with us, and we with them, are drawing
near; that our paths from whatever distant
quarters of the globe they start, are con-
verging ; and thltt all that is set for them
to do for us, and for us to do for them, will
all be clone,
The Easter Bride.
All the Easter brides that follow the Eng-
lish wedding customs will have an early
afternoon wedding, followed by areception.
Very quiet is the wedding not followed by
a reception. The bride's mother issues the
invitations to her relatives and friends.
When the bride is motheaess they are is-
sued in tate father's mane, and if the father
is also dead a sister•, either married or single,
sends thele out.
The bridegroom gives a list of the
relatives and friends he wishes to invite,
or invitations are given to him to direct for
himself. Those who have received invita-
tions should leave cards with the bride's
mother within a week after the wedding
has taken place. The hoer at which the
reception is to commence is not nand, as
it is understood that the guests will arrive
at the house immediately after leaving the
chinch.
The bride's parents receive the guests in
the drawing room as they arrive, and they
lefty° the oburoh directly after the bride
and bridegroom for this purpose. At Eng•
loth weddings the bride and bridegroom do
not stand at the door with the parents, nor
do they stand together to receive the
guests' congratulations. The length of
time they remail at the reception is regula-
ted by the hour of their departure. ]f time
permits, they lead the wary to the dining
room for luneber n or tea,whiehsver is given.
Both aro considered in good taste. If the
former is served it takes place immediately
f • the arrivalof h guests, who fel
after the e into
the dining room, as space permits after rho
relatives. The guests stand during the
lnoal. A tea does nob involve as much
trouble or expansions a Intwhcon, It is ar.
ranged on similiar lines with a smart at
home tea. Th° wedding party precede the
guests into the tea r00n1 whore all formality
i ensed with. Speeches are not made
is dispensed p ,
and healths are not proposed except in a
quiet way among intimate friends. Tho
hostess allows the guests to fad th0fr ay
to the tea room as they platen, tend halloswdo
not wait to be taken in by gentlemen, as
the fair sex usually preponderate in large
numbers at a wedding. The bride does not
return to the drawing room, but takes leave
of ]ler friends in the hall as she goes out,
Buttonhole bouquets for the gentlemen
and corsage bouquets for the ladies of white
flowers are given out at the church immedi-
atolyaftor rho ceremony, and worn to the
reception. Andwhentho happy pair are driv-
en away from tine house 801n0 000 throws
after them a slipper ot flowers instead of
the traditional shoo for good luck.
No Need of Being so Particular.
A clerk was standing behind the eonn'o'
of a telegraph When all 0 largo town, iv on
an old farmer came in and asltod for "ono
of thorn pieties of paper what folks sends
telogranls on," q.ha clerk showed hien whoro
ho would find pencils and forms,
The old man went off, and when helmet
completed his message he hauled it oval.
the counter with the remark"How muck
all that stand us in, mister?'
' I.igl tpenco," replied the clerk,
Ho paid the money and was going off
whon lis was raked by the olorlc to explain
two or throe words, as ho was unable to
make them out.
Tho old marl turned back and in a very
storm voice replied, "Look lure, young man
don't you ha impertinent; t110m as that is
going to ant know
Greta Britain boasts 10,000 teetotalers
among its railroaders.
Pussy Wants a Cornier.
'chis 11fe le lila, it Intn1NtV0115 Piallk
(.1111, In In l,l•O,'call N,lllilllf,
All !e'en led t'rcll of 11011(, mea,
.lad nu'cr a foot of railing.
'1'lmro, all are stru tg,anging for the bosh,
:11,14 inch one IO Ids iotIon ;
101 Ills groat .1 niggle often. some
Are pushed 011111 the °coon.
Aod nmo0 will find the hwlr' plum,
lake little durkcy Varner;
Sons. envoys NI ru;tgl0 for a !ice 1
For pussy mints a corner;
Some hare the mewl to hold on tight,
Moraine. rough the salting;
And hued 11.0 plank/110051011 all rho 11g11t,
With mom rt Not of falling.
Some things are very light to boar,
delight no ocoau httbblos
ti's, bear 0'1111 greatest fusillade:
"1'15 other people's troubles.
501,11 get a very liberal :Omsk ;
1'hoagh you may deem 1t fanny,
'TIN very easy 10 be rice
with other peolde n money.
11.0 often got Ido In airy plum.
'l'brough some aloe' brother's sorrow;
The failure Ito endures to•llay
Brings you 0110008s tsanorrow.
'Tin such a complicated world,
\Viler° you and 1 are staying,
11"c feel inclined to think a bit;
Now, brethren, lob's be praying.
Oh, youwho've fouPun,
Like
the lucky nm,
Lille littleJackoy Berner,
'Slake room for ,40:11c poor starving ono;
Poor pussy wants a corner 1"
yl. A. Sa't'r'IN.
Pittypat and 'Tigl,ytoe.
All day long they coeur and go -
Pit typal; mal 1.11,N -too;
Footprints up and clown the hall,
Playthings seal.terod on the 1100r,
Aringer,onri,, alongi•, 1110 wall
7 oll-tala slroaks upon tam door --
By those presents you Khldl know,
Pittypat and 'I'111pytoO.
Ilow they riot at their playa
And, a 11011011 time 14 day.
In they troop, domandingbrond-
Only buttered broad will do
Anil that bettor must bo spread
Inches thick with sugar, too!
Never yet have Isaid :"10,
PIttvpat and TIppytoo!"
Somotilnos there aro griefs to sool'te-
Somobliecs ruined brows le smooth;
For -I mush regret to sity-
Tlppytoo and Pittypat
Sometimes interrupt their play
With au internecine spat;
3101 oh, 001 to quarrel Ko,
Pittypat and Tlppytoo I
011, the thousand worrying things
Every clay recurrent brings!
Bands to scrub and hair to brash,
Search for playthings gone amiss,
Many a murmuring to hush
Many a little bump to kiss;
Like's indeed a fleeting show,
P1ttypat and Tippylool
And when day is Int on end,
Thyro aro little <Inds to mend;
Little frocks arc strangely torn
Little shoes great holes roveals
Little Luse but ono day ,v0rn,
Who but you could work such woo,
Pittypat 1111(1 '.1'ippytOo 1
But when comes this lholght to ale
"Same there are that childless be, "
Stooling to their little beds,
With a love I cannot speak.
Tenderly- 1 stroke their hoods,
Fondly hiss each velvet cheek,
God help those who do not lalosv
A.Pittypah and TlppytooI
On the floor, along the hall
Nudely traced upon the wall
There are m'oo s in every Kind
Of the havee they have wrought
And upon Illy heart you'd find
Just such trademarks, it you sought.
Oh, how glad k nal 'tis se,
Pittypat and Tippytoe!
Scold, Saold, Scold,
Freta fret! fret!
No wonder the nrors goes wrong •
Worry, and 1000, and fume and Prot,
With 'never a change in the song.
And rho husband mutter's with scowling Paco
As ho enters his limo and takes his place,
nth, surely mile ie n 11 1111111 (1008,
For my wife does nothing but fret,"
Scold1 scold! scold!
Anel the voice to Sharp and thin!
Tho oyo is hard and rho hand is quick,
And they spare neither lit nor kin;
While the neighbors mock at the vixen's
tongue.
And the husband goos whore tho drunkards
throng,
And drowns his WOOS with a glass and song,
Because his wife is a scold,
58(111), 804030, 581105,
.Smilol smite smile!
For a magic power is this,
What <t wetoeno Immo to a weary elan
Are smiles and a wifely iisa
For smiles in n cottage most sunshine make,
As over the kindly lips they break,
Who would not work for the dear moot sake
UL a wife with a sunny smile 1
Level love love!
Whatever the trouble bo,
Remember tbat lova is a brother fond,
That Is baht for adversity ;
Though heavy the burdens maybe to boar,
Of Poverty, wenrio,t toil, and cure,
'rho lowliest 11e110 may be bright and fair,
If itis but the home ok 1000,
Three Words.
Thorn aro three 1eeeon01 would write. -
Throe words as with a burning pen
71( tracings of eternal light,
Upon talo hearts of men:
Have hope. Though clouds environ now,
And gladness hides dor face in scorn,
Put thou Ido shadow from thy brow -
No night but ]tall its morn,
]love Faith. Whoro'or thy bark is driven -
The calm's dosport the tempest's wrath -
Know then; 110d 00)05 511e 1105t5 of heaven,
'rho inhabitants of earth.
Have Lora. Not love alone Per one
Bttb man, as man, thybrother call.
And scatter, lilts the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.
Thus grave theso lessons on tidy soul-
llope, Faith, and Love -and thou shalt find
Strength, W11011 Liko's surges rudest roll,
Light, whoa thou olso wort blind.
-tSoldiler,
When is a Woman at Her Best ?
The question of woman's most attractive
ago was recently discussed by an artist, au
author, and a woman of society, Tho ar-
tist said he did not like to paint the pot,
traits of those between the ages of 25 and
40 years, Before 26 the face ]las an expeot-
auoy which charms. It is looping forward
with joyous freshness aud hopo, ail it is
full of puzzling promises. At 40 years the
character is formed, and the lines of the
5ollnt0nan00 are stronger in rho painter's
study ; but in intervening yews the face
has lost its expoclaansy, is apt to be 'Jidda
orout, and has no partionlar interest.
Tito author differed. He lilted to stttdy
W0111011 between the ages of 00 and 40, They
had then the experience of the world and
the joyousness of youth. In those years
they wore brightest and most innovating.
Tho society woman thought that it was
impossible to give genal answers to tato
question, as individual woman differ in re-
gard to the most attraotivo ago. Sumo aro
most charming ab 60 years, 3(11110 others
have passed their prima at 20. At 30 or up-
ward the best nature of a woman will show
to every alvahtaa,n, lett probably rho balenco
of opinion terns in favor of 18 or 20, Tisk
fug everything into consideration, rho beef
answer would lac that women axe alwayshi,
torooling to tato blonde who novo them.
Anal. 20, 1802
HEALTH.
House Plants as Puriiiors of the Atmos -
)1101'0.
It is apleasing cllarnoteristin of o(11luled
people gonocally tdhat they seek to adorn
their human wild green plants and flowers.
Place le willingly viola for them In tho
favorite rounds whew the warm and life•
giving rays of the stat can 11101 an entrance,
hspe i illy in winter, when fautastio 'Holes
hang farm the window -frames, awl forest,
field and 11101145W slumber under o rumple
et then', there is no more pluming anal
grateful 0aenpat'On for the lover of flowers
then through oaeoful tending, of 0110100
plants in his comfortably warmed rooms to
summon ;'tpring,sts if with an enchanter's
ward, and ghicdden heart and senee with
the beauty and perfume of leaf and flower,
For the chamber eoneervato'y ft is usual
to select frac.blooming or orromnental-fuli-
aged plants, whish should be annually trans-
planted in ar freed smuly loath, ermi bed
with htunn0, or the surface should get a
light mineral dower -dressing. Fertiler re-
quirements aro a tnotlorately-warmed roan,
with a sunny exposure, and the plants
should stand near the window whore the
full sunlight con sirens upon thong. (liven
theee oolditions, nothi0g 111o0e is wanted
thou 55.11 occasional light sprinkling from a
nyater•pot to ensure the unfolding of leaf,
and bel, and 110378,'.
There is at very general impression, mores
over, that growing plants exercise an im-
portant sanitary nth mince, purifying the at-
mosphere of the chamber, by absorbing the
noxious gases of animal respiration ; but
this is a theory which will hardly bear close
lnh'sstigation.
Nlen and animals gis'e off carbonic acid
gas by respiration and through the pores of
the skin. A grown man talzee in about a
pint of air at every breath; the oxygen, or
0 portion of it, passes into tiro arteries,
where it taken up by the red corpuselos
and utilized by the uoulbustlon of fat and
the albumen of the tisanes. In this process
of combustion the oxygen unites meth the
carbon to form carbonic acid, which passes,
over to the venous blood, whi011 carries it to
the lungs, whence it is exhaled.
In Imre mountain or sea air the propor-
tion of carbonic acid is only 3 parts in 10,-
000; the respired breath contains four to
Hee per cent. of carbonic acid; that is 000r
a hundred times es leach as pure air; the
atmosphere of a close room is quickly pollut-
ed by the presence of a person in it; not
merely by reason of the carbonic acid,
whi011 is deleterious enough, but because, at
every respiration impure, watery vapor,
carrying decomposing organic matter, is
given off along with it. It is this latter
which generates the offensive odors in a
close, crowded room.
The respiration of plants iv olosely analo-
gous to that of animals, every part of the
plant -leaves, root, stein, flowers, and fruit
-absorb oxygen, and give oat• cerbonicaofd,
and this process is 501110400318 clay and night,
but in tho process of assimilation whtoh
takes place only under the influence oflight,
the plant draws from the carbonic aeid of
the atmosphere all the carbon required to
build up its substance. The ground -work
of the common notion that plants purify the
atmosphere of occupied roans dnriug the
day, although they vitiate it to a certain
extent at night is, hence, intelligible
enough ; but, as a matter of experiment, it
has been determined flat a grown man in-
hales about twenty-four quarts of
oxygen an hour and exhales an equal
amount of carbonic arid, or as mach
es a square metro of leaf surface could
assimilate in a anm0Or day of fifteen
Lours. 1t is, hence, evident that the in.
finenoe of plants it, absorbing the respired
carbonic acid of occupied rooms is very
slight, while its respects the removal of the
Organic: impurities, and, in 50010 Oases, 1n -
factions germs, it is of no appreciable ac-
count.
Indeed, under certain conditions, chamber
plants may bo directly instrumental in
vitiating the stir. This is sometimes due to
the vapors exhaled by tate soil of the pots
especially when it is enrieln with decom-
posing animal manures, such as bone -meal,
blood -meal, rotten manure, etc. There are,
moreover, known instances in which the soil
contains the germs of malariaparasites. In
soot eases, the warm chamber, with the
ocoasional watering, furnieh all the condi-
tions favorable to the development of the
malarial poisons in the pots, and oases of
intermittent fever lav° been directly traced
to the influence of chamber plants.
While admitting that flower -culture in
the house is one of the most toslhetic, in-
structive, and grateful000up0lions that the
members of the family con be engaged in, I
must, nevertheless, contend that thepopular
opinion that the pints purify the atmos-
phere hi an erroneous oue. There is one and
only one means of purifying the atmosphere
of the house, and that 15 frequent change or
the air either by artificial ventilation, of
partially opened windows.
Perfect Health.
Dr. A. Wilson says : " The possession of
perfect health is the firstreat essential for
happiness ; it is equally the first essential
for the perfect exercise of mind ; and it
therefore forms the first item for our consid-
eration when we ask the question, Is life
worth living? To the healthy man or wo-
man who takes care of the body, all things
in the way of advance and enjoyment, physi•
sal and mental, aro possible. Conversely,
with a body weakened, no matter dhow or
why, most things become impossible, or, it
not actually unattainable, they axe at least
achieved with difficulty, and through pain
and tribulation of spirit. Sound health is
the first condition for enjoying life ; and, if
we reflect upon the common onuses of life's
failure in a social ammo, we may easily prove
that mush of the want of success is clue to
physical incapacity to enjoy oxistouco.
This incapacity, again, largely arises from
the lank of knowlodge about health and its
laws."
Ho Had Some Peeling'.
One Billse, a bon•year•old, not one thou-
sand miles from Toronto, is about the worse
youngster anrecorcd, and, strangobo say, his
fond another doesn't seem to know it half as
Well as the neighbors do. No long ago elle
opened out on a mal who had spoken his
mind voty freely to William, ,
" Did you Unity SOU to go to rho had
place ?" she asked with a flash in her eye.
No, ma'am, I didn't," was the prompt
oontradietiol.
" Did you say ho would go there some
three ?" she continued.
" No, initiate, I didn't," and the man lies
canto hot. ",L suppose iso told you l did,
but it isn t true, 11111050 t mush respect for
talo bad place, maho, but I've got enough
sympathy for it nob to wish it such bad luck
as that."
:Chen ho got around the corner quick.
Count do Lessons, projcotor of rho Pena -
nm. canal, is charged by tiro courts of France
with moulting and 15reaolr of contrast.
Many leading Atnoriean friianciers will be
examined as witnesses in rho tend,