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- *■ Upon that aummoir day,
"Aheaviness dispirit,
■ABa-aameleaBi'iisaof min.    „
SiBatrasgtea tiarjnSTianliili,
BHt #trugglo4 all In train.
SSeffroway rehooKrofwo nuifmu*
Hp heard, and, tnWa trance.
TO potr his school wero watching
BWaeq with Blealtliy glanco.
Ho feaow, and, for a moment,
BoTotised hlmaoll again,
Sohattlaoffthostupot    '
tjltat enisUed hia weary brain,
lajtiia, toy, with the effort
.   Hia heaa dropped on his breast,
Hiahrcath came faint and fainter.
And toon be sank to rest.
And then ajroso an uproar!
Acd boundless was the gloo
A jnong those littlo scholars
The schoolmaster to see.
•
Mi all tho Httle urchins,
Ana maidens shoitta with Joy;
And, •srilh a tear of laughter,
Cry nrhttt a funny boy [the dunce].
An hour now was passing,
And still the tnostor slept,
And greater grow tbe tumult
These little scholars kept,
Until a littlo maiden,
Who watched tho haggard face,
With grave concern and wonder,
Btoio softly from her place,—
Stolo softly to the mantor,
And gently touched hia head,
Andotartedbackln terror—
Tho schoolmaster was dcadl
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AWWMW   SPOUTS.
Xhe boy ttood on tbo chestnut tree,
Whence all bat htm had hopped;
ajMsbnrra lay thiekly on the lea.
Where they had lately dropped.
Tho honest yeoman camo that way j
Tha boy—oh, where was he 1
In horizontal jose ho lay
Across lho farmer's knee.
Hark I  Howiho blows aial.nhricka tpsgttyd
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s^.. j-- a^oflrin antiuish cried.
"*Hot tin 1 ha\o thy jacket tanned,"
Tho husbamlman replied.
Ho beat the thieving youth full pore,
And smiled iu horrid Rice.
" I think," ho t]tioth, " thou nevermore
Wilt rob my chestnut tree."
Then merrily the farmer Bald:
"I'll gath°r these mjae'f.''
Tho bjy ?   Ho cats hia daily bread
Prom off the pantry-idielf!
'SQUIRE BLAKE'S LOSS.
Mrs. Blake was house cleaning. With
tho assistance of Deborah, n colored
■woman, sho had beon hard nt work for
nearly n week; to-day they hail come to
the family sitting room, which besides
being cleaned wns to bo nowly papered.
At this point the 'Scpiiro hnd mildly declared thnt ho "didu't seo the need of
turning everything upside down, if thoy
wera cleaning boxes."
Tlio room opening from tho sitting
room was lower in tho walls thnn that,
thus giving space for two small closets,
ono on each sido of the chimney. It had
been thought hest to hnve these papered
over, they wero too high for frequent use.
Mrs. Blake had a plot in her mind regarding them, nnd that wns to fill them
with somo old books wliich wero now
"only lumbering np tho house," in her
■viow, though if the Sipiiro hnd boen told
of this, his opinion might have been
quite different for ho set-incd to hnve a
mnuin for second-hand books, nntl bought
nil ho enme across.
In tlio 'Squire's family lived a boy by
tho name of Archie Turner, who wns n
child of a neighbor of thoBlakos. About
a year before our story begins, his parents j
VOLUME III
Both looked very sober; it was hard
to behove that tlie boy thoy had known
bo long and who seemed to tliem. almost
like their own, should be guilty of what
thoy feared.
"Well," sftid the 'Squiro, "I pupposo I
may as well speak to him about it;" so
after breakfast, whieh Amy ond Arohte
alone enjoyed, ho called the latter back
after tho others had lef ti the room. The
boy camo .back and stood expectantly
be'foro him, while he looked uneasily
about him as if for some way to escape.
At last he broko the silence by saying,
"Archie, I can't toll how sorry I am to
say this—to think it; but wo can not
forget that you wero the only one in the
room whero the money wns loft, so we:
think—thnt is—no doubt it wns a great
temptation, but tell ns the truth, that
will be the best for ns nil."
Archio stood silent n moment; tlio
eolor Jefii his faco, ns ho stood looking up,
O, you don't thinlcl—I stole it!"
mM&, BXCHia^, FRIDAY, OCTOBER a»;c 1S8Q.
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look—'
Mrs. Blake entered tho room just
thon. " 0, it isn't likely it would 1*
among his things now," she interrupted,
speaking more sternly than usual; probably being conscious of lier own carelessness iu the matter, sho was more willing
to blamo some ono else.
Archie's eyes filled with tears, and he
turned with a mute glanco of nppenl,
thnt touched tho henrt of ono, nt iensfc,
of his accusers, bnt tho 'Squire left tho
rooni. Ho talked with the boy nfter this,
but nothing could mnko him confess his
guilt.
The timo pnssed, and it wns decided that
Archie should go to Cheltou; n placo
was found for him, and ho, poor boy,
wns glad to get away from tho reproachful faces of his former friends, for Amy
alono believed him innocent.
" I jnst know you didn't tako tho old
money, so there I"
After he was gone, though sho missed j m_ oil, beaten together until it IooIcb
herplayinato at first, it was tho 'Squire j liko butter melted to dress vegetables
THE FAMIL1 DOCTOR.
For a Couoh.—for a tight, hoarse
cough, where phlegm is nofc. raisojl, or
with diflionlty, take hot water dfton-5-ns
hot as can be sipped. This will give
immediate and permanent rehef. Don't
fail to try this remedy because it is simple.
For a Sprain.—The white of an egg,
into whioh a piece of .alupr* about the,
size of a walnut lifts ficfta 'stowed until
sprains. It should be lnid over Uio
sprain on n piece of lint and changed ns
often as it becomes dry.
Catarrh.—Tho bost way to deal with
tho disease is not fco havo it—to keep
clean, to ont wholesome food, to ,live in
clean, well-voutjlated houses, to dress
warmly with flatinols nextthe sldn, aiid,
aboye nil, to keop the feet warm and
dry.   Cliildren sitting -with damp shoes
to the dog and, as she wns about to tnke
hold of his chain, ho sprung at hor nnd
knocked her down. Her father waa returning, frenn ft field at that moment nnd
saw thev'aftack of the dog on his daughter, Beforo oither ho or Wallaco could
interfere the dog hnd torn tho girl's
tliroat open, lacerated her bosom and
torn tho flesh off her limbs. Capf.
Shearer ^hpt nnd killed the dog. His
daughter" eit'me to..-ntle^ »hehjE carried
,     ..,_,.....—„     hito the hoijse, lm£4H$n.4fi£r.wflrd wns
it  formssa.'jelly, is n fine remedy f&fWDWif ifito violeht?^onvhlsions.    She
*  "     died on Saturday,—Bradford {Pet.) Cor.
JSTew York Sim.
Spoiling- Women's Names,
Mauy, if nofc a majority, of tho nnmes
Of 800 or 900 girls frow the publio
schools examined for admission to the
normal collego ;!giveltus tfie impression
thnt tliey belong te riiere household pets
rather than to young women who aro.ap-
-.       _ ordinarily
not moro thnn half clothed, and it is
little wonder that catarrh is so prevalent among thom.
TnE Ear.—Dr. Boosn, in a lecture on
the ear, said thnt no small amount of
trouble in tho ear was caused hy too
frequent syringing and boring oujt with
a twisted towel or handkerchief,  not to
mention hair-pins, bodkins  and other
metallic instruments.   In his opinion, j
ono shoidd never put anything in tho
ear smaller than the littlo fiugor, al- 1
though   ono   writer   said put  nothing 1
smaller thnn tho elbow.    The avoidanco }
of many ear troubles was to be assured
by taking care not to duck tho head hi
cold water, or to syringe tho deoperpart I
without the order of a physician, or in- j
trodnco any body whieh can push the
wax lower down in the drum.
Burns.—The best application for a
burn ia a liniment made of limo water 1
who felt his absence most. As for his
wifo sho hardened her heart ngainst him,
declaring they were well rid of tho littlo
thief.
There was no moro talk of adopting a
boy. Occasionally they heard of Archio,
aud the report was always a good ono.
pains to adopt them iu Ehair signatures.
j    In so doing, the public school girls aro
I not exceptional among our young wo-
j men, for it iH quite tho fashion now-a-
j days for them to grow so eunmonrcd of
tlieir nugscrv appellations thnt they cling
to themips their fixed nnd proper nnmes.
■Thoy nifty ufen be offended when they
nro addressed by their correct names,
which  they imagine less  pretty  than
these xiet diminutives; and some grave,
grown-up  women will  put Hattie  or
(Juhsie, ilfamio or Sallio on their cards
as if they were in jnnnfores still.
The fashion is American; but our pa-
I triotism can not mako us grow fond of
j it The nicknames which appear in po
largo a shnro of these iniblic school girl's
1 signatures would do very well for pets at
S a dog-show. When they nro ■used to oppress tho nffeotionnto regard of near
j friends nnd relatives, they nlso may bo
I pretty and appropriate, but thoy look
; very silly iu a formal signature, and
. surely do not befit tho dignity of woinuu-
t hood.
!    Wo find, for  instance, among theso
I 800 names scores of Minnies or MauiiiB,
Wrap tho burnod part in fine [ and only here and thero a Mnry, a much '
ered with   tliis mixture, and   more euphonious and digiiitied name.
UHJVEKSAL STATISTICS.
■M^A^M .Imliutrlon.  Oetrmnn m>« I>I«-'
«**«•»* About lho r,lTe« Mnrt HnblU ol*
•tirnttl*.    •
■Jt London rkper condenses the follow-
iilfifacta from a book of universal Rtfttia-'
th*hy Bftron Gi T?. 'Kolb : Among Uik
ltHgu&gefl of civilised iiations English is,
tltemostttidelyspronfl: Itistho mother-i
t4Stfg'tio-of about 80,000,000 pooiiltr; Qert
mijfi tf.befcwcen 50,000,000- 'and 80)000,*
000,' .Fronfch of between '40,000/000 iind
50,000,000 .-'Spanish of 40,000,000;.Itt^
ianof 28,G00,OQ0, ondlhissinof Jjtjtwceu
5fr(KX>,0q0 aud(30,000,Q00,' T«o general
The warmth is gradtolly inctt'asetl until
WQ degrees ia reached., Tlie homo
swouts copiously, ahd hand-rubbing of
two attendants brings out a mass of
lather, .ThS pperatidn performed,' the
hovse hiulypjipQoed with coldwater, and
led iii to thei fresh air. The cold-wnter
troatmonfz oloso% tho pores Of thoBkhi
nnd thwarts the danger of taking cold.
Although tho Turkish bath for horses is
quito commonin'England, this isx>rob-
' ably jho only 0140 in America.
FIGURE OF THE EARTH.
cowhtkm of (he massps of a nation is Jth$
,„„JV        „A „„w       inert valuable elementinnaturalprogress
girls frow tho  publio . or*'gehpnioy{ and BarouKolb' phttws
*~- '■ thai the reppoductivo -.capital, exhjtog in
"iration ..far   (Sxcoo'dif flio
tl>Mt]ritol.   'Every uitctL-
t*:tj>e	
t*:.fa'ito___wi£y_ ol,
Wily- condition  of tho
I'liynlcnl Forces Which Produced tlio
.    .  .      4'rvMeiit JShai>«.
The «.«Coniptes Bendns" qf the French
Academy contains a remarkable paper
• by SI. ifnye on Uio physical forces which
hnvfl produced the present figuro of the
eirtll.   •After' rerrturkiiig; cat tho wef:o£:
popuh.
for the table.   It matters not whether
common limo or tho chloride of lime is
used, and either sweet or linseed oil will
answer,
linen cove
cover thickly on tho outside with raw
cotton to exclude the air.   Open it but
Iu course of   timo the lost money was j onco in   twenty-four  hours,  and then
forgotten by oil hut those whom it mostly concerned.
Ten yenrs hnvo passed sinco tho day
Farmer Stevens called nt 'Squiro Blnke's
and left tho money which so soon disappeared, and ogatu it is house cleaning
_ carefully soak off tho rag with lime water '
i and oil, so ns not to injure tlio tender
I sldn that may bo forming on tho wound.
' Bathe well with the liniment, and put ;
! on a clean dressing of rags wet with tho i
liniment, and cover with cotton ns at
time;  there   are   several rooms   to  bo j first,   Whero limo cannot bo had, tho
papered this time, aud among them tho
sitting rooni.
Amy is now a young lady just out of
next best dressing wo kuow of is soot
mixed with lard, well melted and strained
to get out the particles of soot   In tliis
"chores," hnd taken him to livo with
them, wliere he was considered as 0110 of
the family; his sister found a homo with
some friends in the neighboring town of
Chelton.
'Squiro Blnlco wns not o poor mnn„ and
,; tlirra Sf&ttKBsottiftlilifia HO, «S the neigh-
- bora said, "quito a fortuno to* fall to
somebody." So Archie was considered
to bo very fortunate in having a home
here, for tho 'Squire and liis wifo had
often spoken of adopting a boy, their
ouly child beiug the little Amy, a girl of
eight or nino years—and now it looked
as thought Archio might bo tho boy
whom thev would adopt
But while wo have wandered from the
scene at the beginning, the cleaning has
progressed finely; Mrs. Blake has ealled
thougli
put on
"Why! " sho exclaimed, as ono piece
camo off, "what is this, a littlo door?"
"Yes, don't you remember the closets
wo had papered over years ago ?"' said
iteriuotherv *_ . , r «
Her curiosity regarding them was not
satisfied till sho had climbed some steps
and had with difficulty pried open Uio
doora of one.
"Why, it's full of books I" she exclaimed.
"I have good renson to remember
when, they wore put in; it was at tho Umo
Archio Tumor stolo that money of your
tathcr'a," said her mother.
Amy stood looking over tho books
when suddenly, with an exclamation of
surprise, she sprang down the steps and
NCJMBER 2G.
Indians' Ipvo for Their Children.,
A.yenr or two rtgb, tho daughter of an
Indian chief, who had been educated in.
1 New York, returned iv the. Beserwtioa
I ns a teneher. .'Hhe tribe were roused to
envy when, they saw one of their own
number thus mado, to all appearance,
the equftlof the "whites, .
The Indians ni'o .passionately fond of
their children; and.-in. every wigwam,
fathers aiid.Siothors's'clloined how, th.ey
Bhbuld gain likO advantages for their boys
nnd- girls. - Just Ut th{s tiinej tlio proprietor of a traveling cirous visited the
.Reservation wilh his miserable wprn-out
horses and performers) aitld being struck
by the bright, eagpi' faco and fearless
riding of a young fjirl of fourteen, wont
toher father nnd Offered to educate her-
in- the Ensl' hnd is'end \\cx home a lady if
lui -svypulil plltfW War" to' go with jlum, ■   •,
TU£ cwh'ihnis Indian aMBffltcg., Thfc
Arclwto go with her-to the attic to help j wc„t aft^r j,er*motw who had loft fho
books which have been   _„,,„,
bring down some
crowded out of tho honse.    She selected
some, volumes, and taking an arnifid, left
Archie to do the same, and went down
stairs.   As she entered the sitting-room
slie was met by Mr. Stevens, a wealthy
farm»r.
"HoVd do, Mrs. Blnke," said he;
"cleaning* house, I reckon; well, I won't
hinder you long. I couldn't find the
'Squire anywhere's round, so I just dropped in to leave that money you heard i
him tell of, very likely; if he hain't to
home no matter. Gues3 I can trust it to
you;" and with a good-natured "ha, ha,"
m appreciation of tho joke, he produced
a generous pocket-book, and taking from
it a roll of bills, counted out Uio sum
wanted, and handed it to Mrs. Blake.
"Tlio 'Squire understands: thero is no
need of a receipt," he saidj then, with a
"good day," he was gone.
Mrs. Blake stood a moment with tho
money in her hands—one hundred dollars—when she was starUed by hearing a
cry from Deborah; hastily droppiug the
bills, she ran toher assistance, nnd found
her swnying mournfully back nntl forth.
"It's dono gouo'n broke my arm now
fo* sure," she wailed. Mrs. Blake helped
her to a more comfortable place than the
kitchen floor, and ascertained the fact
that sho had fallen down some steps. _
Tho broken arm proved to be nothing
more serious than a sprained wrist; that
wns bad enough, however, in Deborah's
opinion, thongh it " might ha' ben wuss-
er." she confessed.
Mrs, Blake bathed her wrist, nnd at
length she was in a condition to go home.
Meanwhile, Archie had packed the books
•"a-«««#f^!*tiwoy in the closets and hnd busied him-
r self out of doors.
It had tnkon some time to "straighten
l things out," ns Mrs. Blake expressed it,
after Deborah's accident, and the money
was not thought of again until after ten
when suddenly Mrs. Blake exclaimed,
"Land sakes, Beuben, Mr. Stevens was
here to-ilay and left that money; bless
me, I hain't thought of it sinco. I'vo
been so hurried."
Tho 'Squire turned a few loaves of
his book. "Well, where is it now, I
wonder?" but his wife-had gone to the
sitting-room.
"Bring a light, Reuben; Tin suro I
left it here." A light was carried in. but
no money was to be found. They
searched carefully around that and the
other rooms; Amy. and ArcMe joined
them, but without success.
"Deborah wouldn't take it, of course,"
said the 'Squire, doubtfully.
" No, indeed," his wife answered, turning her pocket wrong sido out. "No;
besides it was when I heard her cry that
I lef t it hero and went to her."
"And was no one else hero after that?"
"No one, except"—Mrs. Blake hesitated—"no one but Archie."
Neither of them spoke for a moment,
bttt tho same thought was in the minds
of both, and later, when the children had
gone to bed, they talkdd the matter over
ond made a search, which proved as
fruitless ns the first. .        "-.fi
"I can't-think Archie would take it,"
said the 'Squire.
" I don't want to think so, hut where
has it gone ? And you know, Bueben,
how anxious he was t» go to Ohelton,"
li was agreed,  however,  not to say
anything to Archio for a few days, "for
it may come out yet," they said.
;, Biit the daya passed, and the money
cJiAnot come out, so it was thought thssfc
i^oWe 8M0fi l^o-pr Something oboufc it,
room
"I have found it!" she exclaimed,
excitedly.
"Found what, child?"
For nnswer, Amy opened a book and
held it beforo her mother, disclosing tho
lost money, nicely laid away wliere it
hnd been undisturbed since the day Mrs.
Blake liad unconsciously dropped it beforo going to attend Deborah.
WThen the 'Squire camo homo thero
was quite a story for him to hear. After
it was finished, he sat a moment wiping
his spectacles, Uien putting thom on, remarked, "Bless tho boy, I never could
quite believe he took it."
Of courso Arcltie must bo acquainted
with the discovery, aud the 'Squire suddenly remembered that he had business
in Chelton tho next day. Accordingly
the morning saw him on his way; the
yonujj law student was much surprised
by this tall from the 'Squire.
"You don't know how hardit has beeu
all thi-s time, to Uiink that you believed
that I had taken the, monoy," ho said
after the story was told.
"Bnt I know it has been hard to believe it," was the reply.
Archie gladly accepted an invitation to
visit Uio Blakes, where ho was welcomed
by all, and tho friendship between him
and Amy was not less than it had been
in their childhood. But it came to pass
in tho course of a few years that he became the son of 'Squire Blake, though
not by adoption.
Jraie ii transformed usually iuto Jenny
C\ii't>Hm> into Carrie, Ellen to Ella,
Elizabeth into Lizzie nud Bessie, Kath-
erine into Katie, Martha into Mattie,
Mnrgai'tt into Maggie, Anno and Anna
into Annie, and Harriet iuto Hattie.
Sueh nlisiirb mimosas these appear quite
frequently: Chattie, Lillie, Millie, Til-
lie, Kittie, Eosie, Nettie, Bibbie, Aggie
and Maggie.
The great aim seems to bo to manufacture a name which ends iu ie, and in accomplishing it the finest appellations for
ned in po-
t and mn-
  , -~xx 1- into child-
the rags put raw cotton, to exclude lho , i8h diminutives.    They convoy an idea
> air and keop tho part from being rubbed. > of pt-ltiness, and do not b.-long to girls of
------      —       •    — [dignity and character—girls liko thoso
I American Incomes. j who are going to the normal college, so
Thero is no table of the average dura- j many of whom will havo their living to
I tion of fortunes ^but tho statwtiM oticarn*, Aiul yet tUeats gij-1* tliittk itis <
i business .failures iff the tftimtry sfoco1 pratty to "bo known by such pot names,
18GG bIiow that the average pearly fail- j nnd so discard, an ugly and old-fashioned,
! ures ranged from 1 in 103 in tho year »the nnmes by whicli thoy nro christened.
; 1871 to 1 in 75 in 187G, How manybuei- What would'they thiuk to ace a collego
J ness men in a thousand fail, onco or register which give the young men's
i more, during their business lifetime, I   nnmes ns Jiminio, Billie, IJobbio, Tom-
ennnot lenrn.    Tho proportion used to ' mie, Chnrlie, Snmio and Dickie.
j be estimated for New England nt 97 lier j    This fashion is extending among wo-
; cent.   Thnt is probably too high n fig- 1 men, and girk are oveu nnmed with nick-
ure for the business of to-dny, conduot- j names only, as if thoy were always lo bo
; ed, as it is, upon much shorter credits ; nothing moro than nursery puts.    And
: than formerly.   But the proportion.of ; yet this is a period when w^men aro con-
trnders who fail is probably not lower , tending for higher corfsid'eration as ra-
than 75 per cent, of tho wholo number.     tienal  beings,  and when   tho rango of
.     How many of  our peoxile live upon ; then- occupations outside of tho domestic
' their invested means ?   In 1806 our in- , circle is eouhtnntly widening and grow-
eome-tnx returns   showed   771,000  in- ; ing in importance.—iV) J". A'un.
,    apl>«£rethe
story reached 'the agent animissionary,
whosohfcfor fhegirj's/ather, nnd toldhim
how hohntl tjeen duped hy tho showman,
whose purposo was undoubtedly to train
hor for'tho ring. The Indian stood silent for a-' moment; then, raising both
hnhds'to heaven, ho cried,—
" 0 God, yisit not my ignorance on my
child!"
Without another word, ho started iu
pursuit. He hnd no horse, nor -money to
pay his fai# on th&railway; He traveled
four hundred miles on f opt beforo ho recovered his child, unihjured, though
worn to a skeleton from exhaustion and
hunger, . * . .
We, to whom education, as a rnlo,-
comes as freely as air or .sunshine, can
have little conception of tho hungry despair with which i/theso copper-colored
brothers in Indian wigwams covet !the
oppurtunity which wo hold so cheaply.
Thero is no sight moro pathetic than a
humnn being struggling vaiifly for thnt
knowledge which will.nialce a man of it
instead «f a brute.
An Omaha teacher tells us that tho
children of that tribo enme Inst winter
to school, walking from two to six miles.
Tho limit Inst yenr failed, and they had
no moc'nssins. Their bare feet marked
thoir wny on the ice and snow with
bloody prints.
How many white children woidd do
this of their own accord ? Two schools
nt tho East aro now open to Indinn children under the caro of tho' Goverment,
ono at Carlisle, Pa., and tho Industrial
Training School at Hampton, Va. It is
tho object of tho Govennentto send back
these educated youths as teachers to
civilize and elevate their tribes.
Sensible Advice.
A distinguished writer, speaking of the
duties which parents owo their children,
says: "A mother makes a great mistake
when she does not constantly court Uie
confidence of her daughter. Tlio daughter shoidd sharo nil her secrets with her
mother. Many of a homo has been
blighted, and shamo has come to many a
household becauso tho mother was too
„   . -     - must, iw»uiiu-w u ugmura „„„«  viiiw^o:,    busy'or too   careless to keep herself in
^^^K^^Si^M,ISkS?'■ .betorijth*WHuentei^nd~tlmtrjtt-«)it^- ,^on»tanks.<piUHitb,y„ with *her daughters.
Mjaoi-drngto sex for cndimonth, j trnct£g> lhese tUckei portions exercised I The snmo is Irue of fhe father  and sou.
a pressure upon the fluid nucleus tending to elovate still further tho couU-
uents. Tho hypothesis, M. Fayo thinks,
j will, moreover, explain the unequal distribution of land and sea around tho two
.poles, the general rise and fall of conti
pr^vi'd • tb be, a £qijmifle'r-
Itig of arg»tion'a'wealth. Every;'advance
made hy;» peoplo in m.orali(,y, in profitable and healthy employlneufc and m&fnj
knowledge?, brings it nearer to thc idea I
—lho groatebl natural tenure of }ife.'
Domestic virtuo also tells favorably oh
the health and woallh of a -population.*
Thus iu3Bavaria, oufc of 1,000 children
born olive, Uiero died, of legitimate
children,'218 boys and 212 girls; o'f illegitimate. 3G1 boys and 312 girls. Out
of 100 childrea sucltled by thfeir mo tilers,
only 18£ "died during the first year; of
these nursed by wet-nnrses, 29.83 died;
of thoSe.artificially fed, 00 died; of
thoso brdiigh t up in institutions, 80 died
tho 100.' The influouco of prosperity
Or poverty on mortality is also
shown by Baron Kolb. Taking11,000
well-to-dp persons and another 1,000 of
poor porsons—after live years Uiero rife
maincd of. the prosperous, 913 ; of the
poor, only 055. After ten years thtfrp
remained .Of Uio prosperous, 057 ; of the
poor, 282 ; nt seventy years of ago there
remained 285 of the prosperous, nud of
tho poor, 65. Tho average length of lifo
among tlio well-to-do was 00 years, and
and among tho poor 32 years, a fact that i
ought to ho noted by Lord Carnarvon I
and the advocates of national insurance.
The elfoqts of profession and trades on
mortality aro great, the term of lifo varying from 65 years 11 mouths for clergymen to iO years and ten months for lithographers and copper engravers. In 1
England the duration of lifo has been
found most defective nmouff tho steel j
workers, polishers, and grinders; and j
next tofheso collier's life is least secure,
owing greatly, no doubt, to the occurrence to accidents in mines.
One ofthe moat potent shortners of
life is Uio anxiety of providing for bnre
subsistence. Tho lack of sanitary cort-
ditionsfi also shortens man's years. Idleness, as compared to intense industry,
outweighs—prejudicially outweighs—all
the advantages of ease and abundance.
Of aU jjpttn tries in the world, England
shows jipiro-eniinence. in abstention from
suicid«s,',While in Franco they increaso
with   Mvanciug years.   Taking   1,000
di«JMl»B''aeaQi^
it is curious to note tho effect of long autt
short days. In January, G8 men nnd 53
women killed then selves ; in February,
75 men and 70 women; in March, Si
men and 78 women ; in April, 91 men
and 93 women ; in May, 90 men aud 92
women ; in Juno, IOC men and 110 women ; hi July, 99 men and 106 womon;
in August, 82 men and 106 women ; September, li. men nnd 78 women; in  Oc-
ments pf Ih'e'iitonsity and direction o!
tho gravitation forco at different pnrta of
tho oat-lj^s surfaco, ho draws ^atteption
to tho vovj^qiujiQii^laet thi^fc'.wliile tho
dircotion antl 'intensity of gravity are
afl'octcd perceptibly by tho presence of
hills sueh ns Sehichallion and Arthur's
Seat, or oven by .masses as small ns the
great pyramid of tho Gizeh, gigantic
mountains such as the Himalayas,
and "great elevated "plateaus and table
lands, do not aft'oot the pendulum indications in any sensible manner, oxcopt
in certain cases where, upon elevated
continents, thero appears, to be a veritable defeat of attraction instead of the
oxcess wliich might be expected. Indeed, the observations aro sufficiently
striking to seem to point to tho supposition tliat under tho whole of every largo
continent thoro are enormous canities.
Moro than this,' the attractions at the
surface of all the great oceans appear too
great to agree, with the distribution presumed by Clairant's formula, which is
exact enough for most purposes.
■> Sir G.'Airy's suggestion that the base
of tho Himalaya range reaches down into
the denser liquid interior, and there displaces a certain amouufc of thnt liquid,
so Unit the exterior attraction Ls thereby
lessened, is One which, inherently improbable), fails to havo any application
in explaining why the attraction abovo
tho seas should he greater than over tho
continents. M. Faye propounds tho
following solution to the difficulty : Under tho oceans tho globe cools more
rapidly and to a greater depth than beneath tiie surface of the continents. At
a depth of 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) Uio
qcean will still havo a temperature not
remote from 0 deg. C, while at a similar
depth beneath, tho earth's crust tho temperature would bo not far from 100 deg.
0. (allowing 108 feet in deptii down for
tin increase of 1 deg. in thomternal temperature). If tho earth had but one uniform rate of cooling all over it, it would
ho reasonable lo assume that the solidified crust would haye tho samo thickness and tho same average density all
overifc. It is therefore argued that below tho primitive oceans the eortli's
crust assumed a definite solid thickness
Tho youngman who spends liis evenings
fromhome, and feels that it would be
robbing him of his manly independence
if ho should tell whero he goes, is banking against every iutercst iu tho future.
 ..._    Fathers and mothers should never allow
Dents beiug" de'tormined "by the excess ' themselves to grow so old that they are
of density of Uie qrnst below tho oceans,
aud hy the lines or points of leastresisi- j
anco to internal pressure being af the
eomss of S50Q per yenr  nnd over, and 1
6,000,000 incomes of less thanS500. But j
these were not incomes   from   capital ;
they were   mostly  earnings or wnges.
Will Education Yield Subsistence J
An educntion, yes; but whnt sort of
t>.. -1 .1.1.      1   „  -•      1   --r„"i „* ii7„„,* 1 an education?   A bricklayer's education,
Probably not one in a hundred of these nl.tisan.B n former's, would, indeed
smaller incomes, and not over 10 per cent. ^,,    ,.     .'      _,     .ni_„     J online,!.
of the incomes over  §500,  represented 1 S^'&Hi^lft $£_*£
vantage, but it would not, in itself, increase his chance of earning a living; it
would rather diminish it.   For, as was
Lofty Towers.
The crown of William Penn'a hat,
Which is to qdom his thirty-six foot
statue surmounting the lofty tower of the
now Philadelphia public buildings, will
be just 535 feet from the pavement. This
is higher than any other tower yet constructed. Trinity steeple, in "New York
City, wluch seems so imposing with its
height of 284 feet, shrinks iuto insignificance in comparison With the lofty spire
which is intended to be the crowning
glory of Ponn- Square. The highest
towers which have yet been constructed
nre those of the Cologne Cathedral, whioh
have at present a height of 524 feet 11
inches, or 10 feefc 1 inch below Mr.
Bonn's proposed hat. As, however, tho
Cologne towers aro still unfinished, and
aim at an ultimate altitude of 576 feet 9
inches, tho Penn Squnire Tower may
never enjoy the distinction of being tho
highest in the World. ' Thp following ore
the heights of somolpf the chief lofty
buildings: Tower of St. Nicholas, at
Hamburg, 473 feet 1 inch; cupola of St,
Peter's, Eome, 469 feet 2 inches; Cathedral spire at Strasburg, 465 foet 11:
inches; pyramid of Cheops, 419 feet 5
inches; tower of St. Stephen's, Vienna,
443 feet 10 incheS; tower of St. Martin's,
Landsh'itt; 131 fflet.B inches; Cathedral
spire at Fri&bnrg, 410 feefc 1 inch;-
Cathedral at Antwerp, 404 feet 10 inches;
Cathedral at Florence, 390 feet 5 inches;
St, Paul's, Lbiidonr 365 fact 1 inch; ridge
tiles of Cologne Gathethid, 300. feet^
inches; Cathedral'towcrat Mndgebtirg',
339 feefc* 11 inches; tower of the new,
Votive Church at Vienna, 314feotll
inches; tower Of the Etithhaus at BerUp,
288 feet 8 inches; and tho towers of
Notre Dame at Paris, 282 feet 11 inches,
—Philadelphia Press.	
' A00OBPW6 to, iv Viennese statistical
jourhal, Austria ia hetter provided with
P»hli^bjrogiiJ4Bft,4# O&gjyjph&teJ
}8 Enfope,
tho  interest    upon    investments.   In
: France, ten years later,  the census re-
[ turned no less   than   2,000,000 people,
j rentiers, who  live   entirely updn their
I invested means.   In 1877 7,000,000 of
i people, one-fifth of the population, wero
' enrolled  as rentes-holders or  savings-
j banks depositors ; but it must be added
that the savings   banks do not often fail
in Frauce, and that sooner or later they
I are apt to fail with us.    Most of these
; do, osits nre small  ones.   But  no less
j than 2,000,000 of  the  French can say
with Petrarch, Parva sed  apla mild :
" It Ls littlo enough, but it will do for
me."
Thus, in spite of tho resources of the
country, in spite of.Uie almost universal
search for wealth, and in spite of tho
fact Uiat we have a great many rich
men at any given time, wo still do
not havo a largo class of permanently
rich men; we do uot oven have, like tho
French, a largo class of persons who
havo a permanent though small competence. Tho rich American's wealth
is extremely volatile ; in nine cases out
of ten it is "fairy gold." The old
lwid-owners form the chief exceptions
to the rule; especially in our largo cities, whero the increaso of.yalnes has
been great.
But if our chiaa „pf .permanently
wealthy people is small, so also is our,
class of destitute people. We are fortunate in having no such immense and
harmful inequality of fortunes as We fieei
in modern England. Our ill fortuno is
this, thafc our class of moderate competences is also small, thafc so fow of us,
in spite of our opportunities and our labors, have seized the good of even a
small assured competence. Tho land is
full of people who have not, on the other
hand, and who aro not likely to havo,
any assured competence, however
moderate, but who have nothing to expect bufc labor to the end. Tliis is, indeed, the appointed human lot for the
majority in any.community; but need it
be, in a country of resources liko this,
so nearly the universal lot? Might not
many of us avoid it by a greater caro for
a moderate competence, a lessened ambition for fortunes ?—T. M. Coan, in
Harper's Magazine,
£Yl7 meT^flTrmi ^ in j ™™* °£ continents or at the margins of
December, 62   men and 62 women were   oceans-	
suicides    As Mr: Buckled argued, sia- Tho Earth,g j^p,,^^,,.
tistics show that thero is no exercise of .   . '
wiU, 110 act iu   Uie entiro   compass   of I    Inthduowi issuo fNo. 6) ol Bohin and
men's dealings, which does  not fall in i ^ajrncrs Well-known " BevolkertiUg der
Killed by il Btdhtyg..
Capt. dblk'6H6arei^-6t.^ortLBcaver,
purchased a large "bulldog recently.
Tho dog being very ugly, he kept ifc
chainedfn the \yta&. It had tahen d
great diatikoSto.sfohhliVall&yi a young
man who was a frequent visitor of the
Shearer family. On Thursday last Wallace went to tho houso. Thero was no
ono homo except Capt. Shearer's 16-
year-old daughter. Sho told Wallace
that tho dog had broken his chain and
was loose somewhere about tho place,
nnd that he. (Wallace)' mjist bo, on Ijis
pointed out hi an interesting paper
j lately published in this magazine, our
j colleges do not, like tho French and
\ German universities, instruct a young
j man in the broad-winning pursuits ; tho
j American colleges are, on Uie contrary,
institutions for general culture. I do
not tako up the question hero of the
I amount and valno of the culture they
t supply. Tlie point for us to noto is thafc
j the educated young American who has
j not a special education as a bread-win-
j ner is worse off, as to his money prospects, than tho young American who has
no college education at all. Dig ho cannot, and to beg ho is ashamed. Two of
Uitf.fcrofcsaions at least are fatally overcrowded. The United States, with a
population not greatly larger than that
of tho German empire, graduates every
year five times as many physicians; for
the German empiro limits the number
of its doctors, and we do not limit that of
ours. Very many of our physicians not
only wait years for practice) but nevor
get into practice at all. It is much the
same witii tho profession of law. li
both professions there aro prizes for a
few> and -failures, moro or less complete,! .for. tho many. The engineering,,-, „mliunjg,. and other srafentiflif
profeasiops "offer a_ somewhat better
Chance, and publio life, almost neglected
as a profession, will attract a better class
of young men from year to year. But
upon none of theso, savo in favored and
exceptional cases, as where a son succeeds to his father's practice, can a
young mnn depend for a fortune, or even
for immedinte support. They, too, offer
a certain Bocial dignity. But as a rule
it is the laborer, artisan, or tradesman
that has the better chanco of supporting
himself; it is the educated man that
has, moro frequently, id wait beforo he
can pay his way. If, therefore, wo educate our sons, it is all tho better reason
why avo should provide, not indeed for
their independence, but some-said during
tho years which* £h6/.areVlikely to spend
in waiting bdOl-e, theycan achieve their
position.
It is to he iei^omhered, too, that
these years of waiting may become, with
such .aid, years *>f scholarly or scientific
nocbmphffihfehiy if not of money-
making; years of strengthened preparation; years that might introduce and
brighten, fi, cftreer, iirstead :%f wasted
years. tliitt,.tldud -qn;,.. spgii'jij.— T. M.
Coan, in JTarper's Magaiine.
within the linesof an absolnte-regularity.
Of all human actions, marriages seem Io
bo most arbitrary, and out of tho'region
of fixed laws. Yet tho registers prove
that it is especially in marriages the
greatest steadiness and regularity obtains ; taking three quinquennial periods,
it will be found that Uio following pro-
| portions exist:
Bachelors marriod to widows....351   251   371
I Widowers to spinsters 9S2   937   934
I-Widowers to widows 320   223   810
I Erdo " there aro several points   of fresh
I interest    Sinco the last issuo, nbout two I'
; years ago, the population would seem to I
j hftVe beoiriiicreased by about 17,000,001, '.
j the present population of tho earth, ac-
eord'mgto Behm and Wagner, being" V ■
I 450,000,000, asngoinst 1,439,000,000 two !
] years a&o.   This, however, can notto j
sol-down to be alisoluto natural increase, i
j much t?f tho addition being, no doubt, .
L the result of now nnd more nccurato Bta- '
tistics.- The-new issue hns, for example,
to tako account of several  now census,
soma of .tiieartj in jcbuutries
guard,  'Wallace rtaiaintjd at tlf$S house
nfowmi^u^s.^ Jest as; '
away tho milfdog entered thoyaid
Miss Shearer, called Wallace hack into
tho house fifidlsM him to -remain there
ttnttt she cfcaiuecl the dog,  She went up
Andrew Johnson and his brido were
on their honeymoon journey.  Ho awoke
her in a sleeping-car on the New York
Central raihoad, and told her to take
care ofliis revolyer, as he did not liko to
liave it within jfench,. Sho -pnt it into
im iiu uq, Liuuas Is* "tffikS1 m4 0l asleep,«o  he again
She V& Koinp 3|rotfsed when/hor husband, lulled him-
eiwl   ilm-™*,f-'*e«'.    "   . ?■  '-'    t.    o£  x.
Someijody with a head, ior figures hn«
found 6ttfc - thftt "tes'lffta D2,O0O,OOC
horees 3a the vorld,
Marriages of men undor 30 years of I soma of .theaiu in icbuutries where the
ago to women of 60 and over occurred i»piUation hasnotbeen accurately conu-
twico in the first period, and once in eaeh i ted for many years, if; at all. We have,
ofthe others. Statistics provo that, in \ 'vr oxaniplo,thocensus of Spain in 1877;
countries where Consanguineous' mar-j Portugal, 1878; Greece, 1879 ; Bosnia
riages aro permitted, there aro to bo and Herzegovina, 1879; New Zeland,
found a greater number  of deaf mutes   1878 ; Peru, 1876 ; Denmark,  1880, be-
"--  sides several smaller places.   Tho  total
.population is divided among tho continents as follows : Europo, 310,929,000,
,or the ratio of 32.0 per square lulomelro;
Asia 834,707,000, Qrl8.7 per square kilo
and idiots than elsewhere.
Telegraphic Blunders.
A gentleman  who  had   gono to the
country to find a summer location for his • pietre; Africa, 203,679,000. or  6.9 per
famdy telegraphed to hiswife.    "Homo   square kilometre; America,  05,495,500,
to-night," and so tho wife posted iuto
the conn try at once,whilo tho hucbaud
.wasannldhghis way in a contrary direction.
Not long since a message camo to tho
principal of a business house in this city
trom his traveling agent, who had
readied Philadelphia-—"Am at Continental Hotel, Send somo hash by ifla^."
The agent did not intend to reflect on
the food at tho hotel, but wanted " cosh "
seirtT^rdaiL
Au affectionate uncle was informed "by
^telogl'fl^h :•" Mary is to be buried on
Wedriesday. Come sure." Mary, who
lived in Chicago, was his favorite niece,
and, as ho had not heard of her illues3,
the sttd intelligence gave him a severe
shock. ^ Ho dressed himself iu deep
mourning, aud made a hurried journey
to the west to find a jovial party assembled afc Mary's wedding. The wireB had
arranged for her to bo "buried " instead
of "married."
Probably Uio worst blunder evor made
was one that occurred hi the caso of a
St. Louis merchant, who, whilo in Nov
York, received a telegram informiug him
that his wife was ill, He sent a message
to his family doctor, asking tho natmo
of the sickness and if thore was aiiy. danger, Mid received promptly tho answer:
" No danger. Yoiir wifo had a child.
Ji we can keep hor from having another
to-nightsho will/lo well." Tho mystification of the agitated husband was not
removed until a second inquiry revenTed
the fact that his indisposed lady had had
a "chill."—From the Hour.    .
Turkish Baths for Horses.
A novelty hi tho mothbd of treating
horses aiBieted with rheumatism, influenza, pleurisy, filled legs, coughs, etc.,
has been established at a horso infirmary'
in New York city. Tho ftuimal receives
a Turkish bath, similar■ to thoso given
hiimiut beings, and, it is claimed, with
the same beneficial effect. Tho bath is
a square room, about ten feet by ten in
size* tho floor being of stono. A furnace capable of emitting att intense de-
greft of heat is attached to the^ "room,
liiieS underneath the floor conveying it
into tho apartment "When the ollliefced
horse enters the temperature Df the
jrosto in fihout SO degree Mireaheit,'
or 2.0 per square kilometro; Australia
and Polynesia, 4,031,000, or 0.4 per
square kilometero; the remainder, 82,-
000, belohg'tothe north polar region,
mostly Icelahd and Greenland. Although
•tho Census of tho United States has boen
•htkensomomonths since, and afow< of
•the date oozedoilfcinan irregular fashion,
Herren Behm and Wagner have nofc
mado any statistics., Thoy calculate that
tho census ought to'gjvo -nresult of Jit
least 47,000,000. The editors have also
mado a fresh planimetridal calculation pf
the area of Africa, .yielding a result of
29,383,390 square kilometres. Of .Uiis
=*nrea about six and a third millions are
forest and culture loijd, the same area
savannahs and scattered woods, 1,500,000
hush, 4,200,000 steppe, . and 10,500,000
desert, . The last item .seems appalling,
tnrt'jt should ho remembered that much
of this desert may ho reclaiinable, and
that it includes largo areas of fertile
oases. A now plnniipetrio .calculation of
the area of South America yields tho iSe-
sillt of.l,7,732,l?aff<lttaro kilometres,.differing greatly froni the Sum of the 6fli<?ial
al'ens jgivon by Uiet South Americnn gov-
citimOnlk.~-rPaU Mall. (IntPltc?
. ,A Ludicrous Blunder,
. The Duke- of Wellington was onco
sorply puzzled. • Ho received a letter
froni a fndyto whom he was undor soqM
o"biigatio*ns,*rfiquesting the" gift of a pair
pf-hig Waterfoo Breeches. He read the
'letter.with augment. What could the
Ifulyhethinkipg of? Ithafcuso coidd
sha"jx><Mbly have,for liis old, ."breeches?
Wtttf she •collecting n, museum of curiosities, and wished this "memento of a great
hattlo? He consultodisome of her friends
as to her mental sanity, hut. they could
recallait>;.iMdd&e#iJf eie&itrieifcy iu her
previous lif e< - They were As mftch puzzled as,ho afc the jpddness of }iec request.
,Tho .Duko. however, histntoted his
ijiajOF-domo to look, np his old clothes,
andseeif anything roinrtine'd from the
Waterloo, campaign.... But, ns nothing
£?ft}lCl be found, he sent.nnotft to.tho
fady>" With regrets that, the hroeehes were
desfci-oyed, littt; begging hpr W ask any
other favor "tiitbin his power to grant,
Her perplexity equaled his own, for she
liafdiiiteHdeaio iujk for Waterloo dcechen,
a how kind of orij^ntttl tree .which, {ho
Puke had introduoe^'pnhiseitatft      *
not interested in all that interests their
children and their young peoplo, Homo
comforts, aud homo amusements, aud
tho best society of young people should
bo sought with more care than choico investments in stock and bonds; for one
pays dividends only for a fow years, the
other will go on compounding*its interests long after you aro gone. Young
peoplo Crave recreation and amusement,
and will generally have it; how much
belter that ifc should be enjoyed in the
homes of tho laud, and directed by loving hands. Your wild boys and thoughtless giris aro mainly recruited from
homes whero enjoyment is not to be
found.
"The parent who sees the boys and
girls of tho household full of fun and
I frolic should not grow ausions tliat he
j does not seo more tears and solemn
. faces. These come soon enough amid
i fhe aifxieties and perplexities of life.
| Make home tho happiest placo in all Uio
! world—so that your sons and daughters
j as they go out iuto the great world to
bulfat witii its trials and temptations,
! will in eve»y quiet moment hear the echo
j of its loving words and remember its
( tender admonitions, and thus be strong
1 to conquer in every honorable pursuit."
] , «-.; ^aiad!a?Sli<JcK. ,
I "Yfe8,'"!Str.il M&s6nger replied;-in answer to tho young lady's remark, "he
was. rather fond of bathing, very fond
of it, in fact, but ho received a terrible
shook a few summtirs ago whilo in the
water, and he has never recovered from
it." "My," Bhe exclaimed, "did a snako
bite him? Oh, dreadful I" "No," Mr.
Messenger said, "it Wasn't that." "Did
Jio conie near, drowning, then?" she
wanted to know. ""No, ho said, ''it
wasn't that exactly, iSut, just as he was
about ready to como out Of Uie river, ho
saw a tramp going up over tho hill,
abtiut a qniG-ter of a mile away, with
his hat, his pocketbook, his vest, his
watoh, his handkerchief, his stockings, his cigar-case, his shoes, his
gloves, lus collar, liis necktie, his stiirt-
stud and collar-buttons, his s-s-suspend-
ers, his cane, and well, in fact, his
trousers. And there was -a Sunday-
school picnic ouly half a milo down tho
river, j£*adUally coming nearer, and he
lounged around among the willows all
that day, and walked home alone in the
starlight. And the fact wns, _ he had
nover; been nblo to enjoy a swim very
inuoh    iince  that   time.'-'—Burlington
Ilawl>Eyc.       '_	
Interesting Statistical Deductions.
Apart from their value to Uie successful operation of "friendly societies," as
thO£ afo called, in England, some
statistical laws recently discovered by
Dr. Farr, of tht? office of tho Begister of
hirths, marriages and deaths, and by Mr.
A. G. Finalison, the GovernmenfcAotuary,
hnvo a direct interest and significance
for everybody connected with hfo assurance. In Hie preparation of his well-
known English mortality table, Dr. Farr
liaid considerable attention to the ques-
tionof theamolmfc of sickness prevailing,
aud finally propounded tho hypothesis—
shice recognized as a law—that tho nnm'
her of persons constantly sick in.any
given town is equal to twice tho annual
mortality. The main featnro oi Mr,
Finahsou's inquiry took the shape oi
discriminating between light aud heavy
labor, with or without exposure to the
weather, .respectively. The results may
be summed up hi a few words. Those
engaged in light labor, while less liable
io sickness, experience, wheu sick, attacks of greater duration, and die in
groBtorproportions, Honoetbepby&ically
»'ealtflfprot)a;bly,tj'BystonJftti(S!dly select
light lti)ov,*~X<Qnd.on paper,    T
The hog clMgra still rages in Ktd a
mnssoo and CidhOTKUSDunties.
The current pxpemfeu^iof tho poor of
Citlhouii -county for tho past year wero
■&.t-$mmr-
Tiij:iorty-/i{tIi annual sessionNif the
Baptist State Convention was helirlHet
week, at Jackson, with between, 300 antl
400 delegates present,
Maj. Dake, the Marshal of Arizona
Territory, is a Michigan man. Ho has
recently accomplished tho arrest of Martinez, the notorious freebooter.
Duping the month of September Uiero
wero shipped from tho nort of Alpena
to Detroit 450 tons of fre'sh flsh. This
is the largest shipment of fresh fish over
mado from any one port on that shore
for a single month.
The hunters have como into this
county at a fearful rate for tho past fow
days, as many as fifty getting off tho
train at West Brmich daily. Somo of
them are from Indiana, New York and
Chicago,-+-Q£'<3»tatii County Herald,
Tub Springport Signal says that threo
men out hunting onoday recently found
eighty boo trees within a distance of flvo
miles in length and one and one-half in
width, fchijt thoy cut do\^x seven, and
obtained 150 pounds of honey.
Foun largo ico houses, belonging to C.
D. Comfort &'Co.,'of St. Louis, Mo.,
burned' afc Cadillac lately. They contained 12,000 tons of ice, Loss-from
S8.000 to SlOjOOOj insurance Jor §4,000.
The lire was undoubtedly incendiary, as
everything wnp covered witb snow and,
ice.
Tnis" grocery 01 ,
Ui»^re»4eae«/ *
as follows': Loss on- store, ''$8,200; "»•
simince, §2,000. Loss1 yn. Contents of
store, -£9,~000; insurance, §4,000. X9S3 '
nnljousn and contents; 34,000; JUimr-
uaco, &),50O. Total loss,-$16,2Q0; iu-
surancej §9,000. A portion of the contents of tho store w.is sltvet].
Suit has been entered in Saginawj
county against Newell Barnard antl Ahol
A. Brookway, for §100,000, the alleged
valuo of timber .out by them on what
are known as the German-American Seminary lands in Gladwin comity. The
Saginaw Courier says ifc is tho most important one as to the amount involved
over commenced in tho "county. There
are many points involved, but it is
understood the. inaiu one arises upon iho
construction of a contract which Mr.
Barnard holds.
The following circular has been addressed to fruit growers throughout tho
State :
MiOHiOAM Statu rowoLooioM. Soojstv,!
KECHKTAItX'S Omen, OllAXll ItAlUDR,     >
Oct 10,1880.       J
J[y Dkau Kin tTrexidrut Kiidzie, or tho Stato
Board ot Health, is inaMtig .1 careful investigation of the nutvtion, "Dojs tiie.diKOeo known
ns'yt'llowK alTcctlxmchciiso as to uiuko tliu
fruit deleterious or poisonnua when taken into
tho hnmiin siyi-tcni'/ If you know nny facts
concerning BielnicBS canned l>y eatiug cuHcaseil
peaches, plcatio confer a favor by CDramumcat-
niS tliem at once to Dr. II. C. Kedzie, Lansing,
Midi., or to me, and thus lend your aid to tbe iu-,
vcHtigation.
l'om-ii truly. Ciiab. W. Gaukield.
The Stnte Bonrd of Agriculture has
appointed the series of Farmers' Institutes for 18S1 to be held as follows :
1. Ionia, .Tan.l 1 and 12 -Profs. Johnson, Beal,
Carpenter and Hcwtnry liaird.     K^'"\j »™»
2. Ilaugor, V»u Buren county, Sua. "f-^f
11 -Profs. Kedzie, Osok, line Kwnu, Secrt^ _i'
Bjird and Mr. Frank H. Kedzie.     *
li. HudhOn, Lenawee county, Jan. IS and 19—
Secretary Baird, President Abiiot and Profs.
Johnson and Beal.
•1. Battlo Creek, Calhmm comity, Jan. 20 and
21—Profs. Beal, Mac Bwnii, Johnson, President
Abbot and Mr. Cassidy.
5. Oxford, Oakland county, Fob. 1 and 2—
Profs. Carpenter, Cook, Kcdzio and Mr. Cas-
sidv.
(J. Vassar, Tnseolft county, Feb. 3 and 4^-
Profs. Cook, Carpenter, Abbot, Dr. Kedzio and
Mr. Latta. __^__
Scltool JbM.w.
- -Official Tulhigff *nWTtlecisiqhsf*nndejr'
£ho School law havo been compileH'njy*'
tho Lansing liepublican, ns follows :
1. In all elections of district officers, ill Biad-_
edaswellaa priu,ar>'-sc'iool districts, tbo eice-'
bun must be by ballot. Au informal voto by
ballot, followed by a formal voto by acclamation, will not eonstiluto a. legal election.
2. R •hool-dislrict officers cannot legally bo
cloetp'l by unit re plurality vote, but only by a
majority "of nil the votes east. Iu electing ofll-
cers a f chool dislrict hi ts in its corporate cap-icily, t.n-1 no eorponto action can be had
without tlie concurrence of the mtjority. In
case of the election of county aud Stato ofiicers
the constitution anl the statutes ba^e mado
ijpc'cpl provMon that thn person rce<'irfii{,-<tho
givutest number of votes cast sliall bt, jleentiaJ
riveted, but there is no s'niilar provision iu rotation to school-diitnct olTieers, and tbo failure
ou the part of tho Legislature to make such w,
to siv the least, signtllcant.
3 Votes taken at a school-district meeting,
directing the bjard to employ a certain teacher, or specifying tho grado of certificate tho
teacher must hold, or naming tbo wages to bo
paid the teacher, must bo considered merely as
advisory, cud not obligatory upon tho District
Boards.
4. A school-district meeting has no authority
lo voto that there shall be uo school maintained
dnring the year, and when mieh a voto has been
taken it must bo regarded as void.
6. It is tho po-ulivo duty of tho District
Board to make provision for a legal school in
oa h year, and if members of a board neglect
oc refuse todi this they aro eaoh liable to fino
and removal from ofiice.
0. No district moneys can bo applied to tlio
maintenance of any school of a sectarian character, whether tho samo bo uuder tho control
of a religious society or mado sectarian by tho
District Board. The fact that tho teacber 01a-
1 loved holds a legal certiiieato will not legahzo
.-itch n school.
7. Tho law gives to DistrictBoards tlio power
t) preieribo and require a uniforniity of text
hooka, but no authority to purchase, at tho expense of tho district, text-books for all tho.clnl-
dren who may aliend school, but only for such
children 6S aro too poor to buy for themselves.
Jfot Up on Goat-i.
The goat is an every-day sight, and
tho nlfyi who does not study hini and
loam his ways and habits has only himself to blamo. Saturday forenoon a
•"'William" was quietly feeding on Columbia street when a load of household
goods went past. The owner kept paoo
with tho wagon, carrying under his arm
a fine mirror aboufcvfivo feefc long. Ab
ho ciline opposite the goat he mot a
friend, and of course ho had to stop and
tell, why ho was changing locations and
how much he expected to be benefited,
Tho glass was lieavy, and he naturally
dropped one end to the walk to rest his
arm.
Had this man been a closo observer ho
would have seen the goat and wished ho
had a brickbat. Had he mnde goat nature a study he woidd have known bettor than to lower the glass. But he was
a man who despised tho trifles of life, and
he was telling how many tons of cOol
the new house would save him Uiis Winter, when tho goat, whohad been getting
mad for two long minutes at sight of a
riviil in the minor, went through the
glass like a thunderbolt, and jumped
into, the street with the frame clinging
to his shaggy sides, _ All thafc ripping,
and raying, and cussing—all the opening of front doora—all tho inquiries by
an excited crowd, coidd have been saved
had the citizen but beckoned to the smallest boy on the steeet and asked him to
give away a few points on goats. —Exchange. 	
A ^Ewxsa machine agent, in driving
through Monroe County, Kentucky,
drew- Up before a cottage and asked a
beardless sixteen-year-old boy, standiug
in, the yard, if his mother was at homa
"Shew, but she don't live here,"he
"answered. " Fm the head of this house."
Finding tho boy married, the ngenfc went
inside and encountered a child, who said
she was the hoy's wife, and. that When
she was married she was not eleven years
old. "What on earth did you marry
for?" asked the agent. " "What do other
folks marry for?" the child replied. Tho
boy said ho intended to buy a sewing
roauhine for his wife when she got old
tincaigh to sew. "Oomo around in three
of- foitr-yetti's," lie sfoid, "w^I'Utttkji
mat-"
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