9tii X If, K THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, JAN. IT, 1883. Xsttril t ttrr:it:fl:i, Ctlista. K- ueaa4 WINTER SOW. O, Summer has ita roses A ad U)e luugkinir Ibr ht south wist, Aud the juetry meadows lined Wita dewy, d&nciuff poaiea. But' Winter bas toe sprites And tbe witealny frosty ulffhta. O.'Pummer baa tbe splendor Of tbe oorn-iselda wide and dcop, Wbire acariet poppies sleep Anil wary sbaUows wander; Bnt'Wlnter nouls are ntre With diamonds everywhere. O, Summer has tbe wild bees. Ant tbe ringlm?, singing not In tbe robin's tuneful throat. And the ltftf-talk luthe trees; Hut Winter has tbe chime Of tbe merry Chrlstmaa time. O. Summer has tbe luster Of the sunbeams warm and brigtt, And fttlns that fall at uiht Where rueds and tithes cluster; But deep in Winter's sn.w Tue flres of Cbristmus flow. Susan llartiey, in St. A'Mtt. BEFORE AND AFTER. A Christina tnr ta Tws Cfcaftara. I. BEKOKE CHitlSTMAS. The g:rl3 ha-1 never liked Hetty.- It begau with her lirat day of school, that cool, October morning, when she ap peared in her pretty dress of blue cash mere, which formed so lovely a contrast with her fair skin and yellow curl. Nqas of the Cotton Hollow girls had curlfjzair except Hetty Jonas whose blacl cks kinked tip funnily all over heriead, aud although one or two of the younger children secretly admired the golden floss that tumbled itself into audi thirty heaps over the white fore head, or strayed down to play with its owner's apron strings, nobody hud the courage to say so after Sarah Graut had declared thatshe "would rather have no hair at all than such sozzly looking stuft as Hetty Northam's." Then Hetty wore dainty white aprons unlike the gingham and calico the school had always known, and the new schol ar's boots and stockings were altogether of a different order from Susan Cum nrags' or Gerty Smith's. When Hetty's father purchased the freat mills at Cotton Hollow, and took is wife and Hetty and Baby Dimple to live in the house vacated by the former mill-owner, it was decided that Hetty should attend the small school in the Tillage. Across the ravine a mile or more was a htrge school, to which the foreign jiortion of the mill-workers sent their children; but thu little school by the side of the church was madii up of a -dozen or more girls, and half as many bovs, mostly Americans, but all children of poor parents. So when shy, sensitive Hetty took her place with theother.s, and at recess did not speak-to anybody, but satin her seat musing oer her spelling-book, 30 un usual a proceeding was at once attrib uted to pride and haughtiness, and an unfavorable impression was created that was not easily effaced. Thus impression was deepened three days later, when Hetty answered correctly a question which the others in her class missed, and in consequence gained the first place which for months had belonged to Sarah Graut, the b-t scholar in school. This event roused all the tire in Sarah's nature, and although she regained her position a week afier she was not easily forgiven. During tht weeks before Christmas Hetty made almost no progress in ac-quain!niice-hi) with her companions. She surmised from their actions that they did uot care for her company, anil being an exceedingly bashful little girl, she drew more within herself, and watched their games fnui her silent corner on the window which overlooked the play ground, often wondering why nobody teetued to like her belter. Once, shortlv after her entrance into .school, Gerty Smith li id asked her to "i-ime and play tug," but Hetty, confused and abashed by to.: number of curious eyes bent upon her. hid abruptly declined the in vita-Jon. The next moment she was sorry .she laid not said Ves; but n )od asked h.'f again. One d iv at ftve-ss. wliou it wanted but a week of the happy Christinas time, Hetty was alone, in the schoolroom.- The la: i"-ho!ar had disappeared down the Mail-way. and Mr. Bacon the te.tciier, had gone down the street on his daily visit to the post-otliee. Hetty citis.- tliM loom, aud threw open the window, l lie uir inside was hot and close, and she stood for a moment breathing m the Ireslmess. and watch ing the cloud-shndowi on the opposite Ji.lis. tioiv while with their sparkling in. title of iiewlv-fa'len snow. Outside on the .steps below were huddled to gether a group of girls. As usual Sarah Grant was the -peaker: !roud. stuc.;-np thing!" she ex claimed, angrily. "Catch me bowinjr down to her la iyship! I don't s;e what she's rot to be so proud over, for uiv "Why. Sarah." Mr. Northam is awful rich. ..What if he is? Money aiu't every -filing, aud Metu Nortliam ain't any bitiartei than other foiki. She can't iiiiiae a seuieiiee right to save her life and he has no btisines- to dress, as she ;. wear.ug a mrcuKUC to SCIiooi: should be thankful to get anything keep me warm. There is pa workii dne-. wear.nr a tur cluak to school! 1 to pa workmir lor almost nothing, and he heard that nil J he mill hands were to have their wages vriit down next month. 1 say Mr. Nonliain hasn't anv right to screw us down o as to buy tine clothes for Miss lleitv.and I hale her!" Tne :r rls were used to Sarah's haran- fties. an i -non tired of them, so Emma 'orter ha-toned to say in a softer voice: Well never mind; let's sitdown here in the sun aud tell what wed like for hriMipas. I. for one, want a new pair of skates. What do you want, Sarah?'" "I don't k ow of anything I should like better than lots and lots of books, untes it was a good, warm shawl. I almost freeze in mine. Yes. I do know what I want most, thougha book with that -piece of poetry in it that Hettv Northaru spoke last week. O, it was beautiful! On the Friday before Hettv in her tnrn. aceording tn the custom of the school, had recited Poe's " Bells" and their strange music had charmed Sarah Grant; who, notwithstanding her blunt, sometimes coarse speech and hasty temper, loved poetry, and she longed to read fr herself the words which had so pleased her. "O, you are crazy about those -Bells.' " Mid Gerty Smith. "It was splendid, but there are other things I'd rather have for Christmas I wish I could have pounds and pounds of candy, just as much as I could eat for once, and a new doll. Beatrice is all worn out and mother says she shall not Tt me another,'' she concluded, mournfully, thipkiag.-of the forlorn darling with the torn .aros and shoeless feet. "Humph! you may have all the dolls. I want a sled so I can slide down hill with the JUoys," put in Katie Cohn. 1 i'.'So do. I want a sled, and a book full of rictares, and a bird, and a new dress, 4tid-oh. ever' so -many things." said little Hattie Morris, drawing a. long breath. "What do you want, Mary?" c:Tbe,)uitt,i gentle girl addressed aaf iwvred slowly : "I gness I--should rather have a new dress and shawl for mother than anything else." B V;Why, of course we'd like lots 0f things' for other folks, but just' for your self; what do you want most for yourself, Mary?" r "Well. I want a, piano dreadfully: hat 1 shan't ever have that, so Idida fi 'say jtxvpued-kUrj. i"WMsw j ft' U tJMV MjfHiekMWw hall get our thing. Do t yen think so, Sarah?" "Like enough." replied Srah. scowl; "I nevefSSJxpectto bavi Nobody dtwrin O)tton HolUsfcept whoevejSs the mills. ThatjpfThe way to kespoor folks; aayrfem down close, and put the money in your own pocket to buy for cloaks and blue cash mere dresses with!" "Sarah Grant!" whispered Gerty Sniith hurriedly as they rushed upstairs at the sound of the bell; "I do believe Hetty Xorthaa was at that window; I caught a glimpse of somebodv." "Don't care! Hope she heard!" was Sarah's response. II. AFTRB CHRISTMAS. Sarah Grant was tbe first in tbe school room on the morning after the Christmas holiday. Emma Porter and Gerty Smith soon made their appearance. Sarah met the newcomers at the door, flourishing two handsome books over her head." " If I didn't get just what I wanted!" she cried, excitedly. " So did I!" " So did I!" eagerly exclaimed both girls. " These lovely books! They are full of pictures--gilt-edged and all; just see!" Sarah went on. -Aren't they elegant?" "Yes, yes; but who gave them to yeu, Sarah? We haven't the least idea where our presents came from: have you?" "No," replied Sarah, "I haven't, and I don't know as I care, so long as I have them. O, they are so lovely! ' aud the excited girl hugged them close. "My skates are beauties," said Emma Porter, and Getty's doll " " A wax doll with real early hair," mt in Gerty," and lots of candy, choco ate, and cocoanut. and peppermint and everything just what I wished for that day it's so funny!" "Girls, girls!" burst ia Katie Cohn, running up to the noisy group, " I've got a new sled, and I don't know where in the world it came from! Mother says there isn't any Santa Clans, but I believe there is." "There's Mary! I wouderif her wish came true." "I've got a piano!" began Mary, as soon as site caught sight of the others. "You don't mean it, Mary Tucker!" "I do!" said Mary, half crying aud half laughing. A man brought it yesterday afternoon, and he wouldn't tell mother who sent it, only that it was for me. And besides, thero'was a beauti ful shawl aud cashmere dress came last night lor mother, and oh, girls! Here poor Mary broke completely down. "Whatare you crying for.little goose?'' exclaimed Sarah Grant. " Guess IJ wouldn't cry because I had a piano. Who sent it, do you suppose? Some of your rich relations?" "I haven't any, and I have been so afraid that the man made a mistake and would come aud take it away." " Well, I shouldn't want to give up my new shawl," said Sarah, displaying it 'proudly. "Just see how thick 'and warm! hut the best of all is, that Mr. Northam has raised pa's wages." " So has he raised father's!" said Emma. Porter. "And ray father's, too!" echoed the others in chorus. " He has?' Sarah stopped suddenly, and for a moment her face was a study. It wore a puzzled expression, as if she were trying to see her way out of a diffi culty. She turned in her quick way to Gerty Smith: " Do you suppose she heard? Could she have'sent ?" Sarah glanced to wards a desk iu the corner. Its quiet little occupant seemed to be studying; her eves were fixed upon her book. "I'll ask her I'll find out!" said Sarah Grant. There was no smile on Sarah's face. , as she crossed the room; instead, a troubled, set look about the mouth. Shestoppcd in frout of Hetty's desk. ""See here!" she said sharply, "ilidyou have any thing to do wtthodr Christmas things?-"-.my books, and Mary's piano? Ditl you?" still more sharply. Hetty hesitated; her face was flushed, aud the girl was fairly trembling ith exeitement. l-oV a moment no uuSwei came-, and then she took refuge iu the monosyllabic -Why?" "I want to know; did you or ditl you not?" demanded Sarah harshly. "Ye yes," stammered Hetty. 'fright ened at Sarah's sternness. ."1 1 thought ybu would like them." Do yoih mean to .s iy fhat ydu heard what we said that day vyhat I said about you?V" questioned Sarah, iu a ' queer, strained voiee.' i j "I heard joule I but- I'm not I proud a bit, Sarah; I vanted yvou to know it." ' i "And you gaVe me those' books! O, Hetty!"" i V There was a tre:nble fin the yard . voice, ami then Sarah (rrmt put -.her arms around Hetty Xofthaoi, aud hid -y- r ' By tlial time evervlmily was over by Hettv's desk, all talking at once. Mary thankiugHetty oves And over for bet share in tlie gifts, wlffle Hetty explained that she hail lately hail anew piano. ami she eouhhrrpojsihly use two. Tears were pletfteous. but after all smiles predominated. "What presens did', yon have?" somebodv asked if iletty Hetty ditl uot reply Tat once; shf blushed painfully. "Not much: some money" she said finally, as her questioner preWd her. Sarah Gran was quick to Link. "Hetty Northam," she sura, slowly, "did you gija up your Christmas for its girls? An 1 said I hated youand you heard me! V "Why.4've had a lovely Chqstmas, I wantedto do it," said Hetty, simply; "I had things enough." V Just jit this juncture the teacher ap pearedin the doorway, aud noting some unusnlil stir, "hastily .inquired the cause. Saah Grant was too deeply buried amid Hettv's ruffles to expl-tin, and some body else had to tell the story. Katie Cohn afterwards asserted that there were tears in Mr. Bacon's eyes as he put his hand on Hetty's head and stroked her soft curls, and ttob-nly else could see clearly enough at the time to contradict her. True to nature. Sarah Grant could not let the affair end without putting in a word: "Mr. Bacon. Hetty Northam is an angel!" To which he answered: She has given good for evil. Sarah and that is more than angelic; it is Christlike, Golden Rule. her face in the daintv white aorou. 1 De Brazza, the America Explorer. Truth thus describes Lieutenant dt Brazza, Stanley's rival in the explora tian of Congo: His is an Italian and has a very remarkable head. To the front view of his face. Euclid's deliui tion of a line (length without breadth) is applicable. "There arc, however, a pair of gleaming, intensely keen black eyes, the ironical expression of which must have been galling to Stanley. As to the profile, it is made up of violent curves. The forehead is bumpy and strongly modeled. A very high-bri-lscd nose (higher than the Duke of Welling ton's, but not so abrupt' vxmtlined,) yfps at the end in .a roundfl point, as far down as to be a,lmost hprizentaUjWh the mouth.. The chin ajVanees. iir another strong ?firve. tine, In"Leonar Florin- "Thelast oupper," aut-anu Ujs upon the s wno"Jbetr with a not, hpw-yrer. gleinni expressism of score Recent, is give re. tharftalinn pop- ulatiou o anuary 1, Wjms. 28,951.374, gaiu in ten years oi barly four mil ing the enor- lions, afid this notwit monsmigration. UtKza's heap i ujrs nic.tiirifi therois Teuch anii homuersH)f"S ktssJT Judawnas mgrevv? sjfdtan l:.2L r i X M -.i ir ironv. v jRtr AiTieeUaTsa It. is well. my. save oTvour stren. t waite it all. andsWoh't use it the pleasures ansbils and foil f vonth. Sar sonjwmit. Save a deal, of it In JisflRfressiye dialect of Arkansaw, risrht smart heap of it, and can use it rurht peart and still have a right considerable left ioryour old age. But save it principalJy from yoAdissipa- at ten, fSnsr thawowitUnjBm tldrink beer unll fcalf-Jsjone. f toy much sleep is iljarioiisjisx is truaawmt then fifteen hours sleep, will harm you les ! than six hours ot wine supper. Go slow on these things, my boy, and at sixty you 1 will have ten years of forty-five left ia brawn and blood and brain. But don't be so saving of your youth ful strength that you will have all of it left at sixty. Because you won't You mav save it, but it won't be there. It will waste by disuse. Just now is the time when ycu must work the hardest. I but as I told you a little while ago, hard ' work won't hurt you, i Improve your time, my boy. Put in every luiuute in honest hard work, or tranquil meditation, or healthful recrea-' tion. That is alii ask you to do. O, .. .. v. ... . "you believe you 11 select meditation as J n Ml1tia:inn " tliutl fir. trk!1 ' M I voiafBtt il"lasv vssVVto sit eh? fovM my bojfiyon thim;asy,Weu ha .atTich and chop wood. It isn't eas We don't think half so much as we want to make people believe we do. In fact? we don't think nearly so much as we think we do. Busy thought and aimless idleness are often very similar in external appear ance. Edison, sitting before his tireless forge, with his hands folded listlessly in, his lap. looking at nothing, may be ap parently as idle, even idler, than the man perched on the end of a cottonwood lo"j, watching his cork bob lazily in the viMlnw w.ttpr of a slncro-ish creek. But tJti'.'ra-Milta ara in niift instanejthrt tehwl plfoae aud the jJectprc tigJjjrfaridinJme d'thep' theagjre and agwsoft'-moujnied sucJter andsreat-fiahvfour inchdHoifg, The one dreams out marveloufr inveij tiojBUiatyrVthc jJjd witlflkonder gMmemwlie eVei waifBgyoild; oraTTeast Be sells XhMn to Jayould and Jay Gould sells them to tne'vorld, and the other contracts a malarial fever and gives it to his family. It is not easy' to think we waste more time than we use, and the hours slip away so noise lessly and easily, we don't know where they have gone. I have sometimes thought.Telemaehus, if a man could only have always present with him some constant reminder of the flight of time; if he could have in his room a great hour glass, ladetrwith just the equal and exact sands of his life, ifj he could every day watch the steadily dropping grains, and knew that when they all ran through the last grain would just complete his grave; if when 18 closed his eyes he Kiiew that all night long the priceless grains ran through; if in the silent hours of darkness when he awoke, he could hear them dropping steadily as the drip, drip, drip of a water clock: if when he came in from a journey he could see how much of the sands of his life had run out while he journeyed for pleasure or profit; Jf. sometimes, he could stand before it and watch the swift grains running away with his life: and h.' could feel that al wav and alwav. nis-hl and dav. sleenin" or waking, fasting or feasting, working' or resting, wherever he went or whaf , ever he did, no faster, no slower, stead- J ily, pitilessly, the sands run through, and alway every houi the IhV heap above fell away and the grave below piled ug and up; if he could realize that no thoucrhl or care, or skill or learning. could make them run more slowly by and by, or add one light grain to the measure meted out and scaled against his life by the ineStorable fates, I wonder how many of the dropping grains he would turn to gold by the alchemy ot his industry? Pshaw, my son, if you had such a glass the novelty of such a thing would wear away iu thirty days. Some night, when you came in late from a toiUome game "of "draw." so to speak, orjf walking match around a billiard table, I or some popular nightmare knowu as a brilliant spectacular drama, you would look at your warning hour-glass and say: "By George, it seems to me sand is getting distressingly scarce iu the upj per story. Je-rvw-salem! How these boots do hnrt my feet. I'd like to kill the man rthat made 'em." Ami you would be sound asleep iu twenty nun utes. Reminders? Why the world is. full of reminders th&tour lives are slip- ping away. Every, time you hear the clock strike ten, Jt is to' remind you that you may never heat it .strike eleveu. When the Egyptians of olden lime had the ghastly skeleton carried in at their feasts, did it cast a gloom over the community ? Not , a shadow. It made them merrier. "See what are you coming to." they shouted, aud ate anil drank like a poor relation at his annual dinner party, to'which he is invited to till up. Fill up the party 1 meau. You see, my boy, you can't afford to waste time just now. 'This is your work ing time. It may not seem fair. I know, that the world should judge you. ami youryouth and inexperience by the high est standard of humau success and at tainments, but it tloes, and we can't change the way of the world. You must, now no everything your best, and keep on your company behavior all the time. Is this the man with only one suit of clothes and a small salary, Tclemachus. wbtj at all times must" be polite and agreeable and a faultless observer of all points and forms of etiquette. The man worth $100,000 may trample over your corns, walk across your-wife's train, eat pie witb a knife, and take his soup with a swish and a swoop that soumb like a horse walking in the mud. aud his stand ing in society isn't affected by it. But on can't aflord these expensive luxuries bn your present salary, my boy. Thomp son, the poet, who wrote so much in praise of "early rising, rarely got out of bed before eleven o'clock, and wrote ' most of these very pomes, indeed, while lying in bed. He used to be seen walk ing, or rather lounging alxv.it in Lord Burlington's gardens, with bis hands crowded into his pockets, lazily biting off the sunny sides of the peaches. But when you can'tduplicate"TheSeasons." you may lie in bed till noon, all day, if you please, aud the world will still thank you for living. When you have ' written so much., so vigorous and so beautiful poetry as Mr. Tennyson has, my son, when you can command fifty ( dollars a line for your poetry, then j'oiii can afford to write as poor poetry as Mr. Tennyson now does. But don t try , it now, my boy. Unrlinglon Uaxok-Eyc. Anthony Foy, an old resident of Provideuce, wrapped kerosene-soaked bandages about bis rheumatic shoulders the other evening and sat down near the stove to get relief from bis pain. The beat set fire to the bandages, and the man was terribly burned before they eould be removed. Providence (?. .) Journal. The Montreal Star relates thatj a love-sick youth of that city drowned himself by bidding his head under wate. Well, that's the way to do it. He mignt have held his head out of water all day apd been no ne irer drowning at night than he was in the morning. Detroit Post Kocesalt dissolved in water is a sheap aud safe remedy for many of the akin diseases that afflicts animals. More destruction. A Montana firm aas ooatracted to deliver 1,000 pain of boaUdkoras. Detroit Post. , ttlMr to gtBLatwJr old age. HCJPDn B(..l 1,M res! alkflb in uSro jrreai aaafe'upa PTrOU BVttnlraa SnVhink, tfiwome-bettesTstaud yto think. The British Debt. The popular conception of the Nation al debt is that it amounts 011 a tough es limate to 800,0rj,0:i. aid that all efforts to reduce it have, lotieln: I only 5 small fraction of it. The accoitu's. how- ui'ni firttfiA tliif fiit tlis t! iitfii'litt sf it century-in fact, since the wlii-Iiife up of the charges of the Crimean War the reduction of debt has gone 011 stead ily from year to car. In 18"i7-'oK the total amount was -i:5J.OO ),0 rJ: in 1S:S '66, at the close of Air. Gladstone's most brilliant period of financial administra tion, it was brought down to 81."i.000, 000: in 18G8-'6!. when the Conserva tives had held oilice for three vears. it hadfallcnto 80;i.0X).0)0; in l873-'74. a greater advance had been made' and the debt stood at 78:.000.000: and in 1875-'76, the process having been unin terrupted by the change of Government, at i,772.0UO,000. At this point there wasa turn iu the tide, due mainly to the exigencies of foreign politics, and until the last financial year. 1881-'82. the debt never stood at so low a figure as in 1875 '76. Last year it was 7G8, 700,000. and for the present year thd ollicial estimate fixes the amount at 7C:1.000.0iH)' that is, 76.000.000 less than the debt as it stood five-and-lweuty years ago. This is not an inconsiderable reduc tion, even if the char.u ter o the burden were precisely the same as that to which the Nation was subject at the close of the Crimean war. But. as Mr. Huhbard has pointed out in on.? of his instructive letters which was lately printed on thi? subject, a large part of the debt created in recent years, which has diminished the apparent net reduction, is Repre sented by certain valuable assets unlike anything to be found on the rigktvside of theaccouut of 18o7. For exanple, the purchase of the rights and property of the telegraph companies by the Sttte involved the creatiou of nearly 11,000.000 worth of stock, but in ex change for this the Government has ob tained possession of a paying concern, at present actually yielding a profit equal to the interest on the stock created for this purpose, aud giving fair promise of a much larger return. Again, the money raised for the purchase of the late Khe dive's Suez Canal shares figures as a temporary increase of the debt in 1876; but the shares, it is admitted were al ways full value for the 4.000,000 which were paid for them, and arc now, if it were expedieut to part with them, worth a great deal more. M. de Lesseps re minded us the other day that the origi nal 500-frane shares are now worth about 2,700 francs each in the open market, and though of course the shares held by the British Government stand in a different position from the ordinary shares, because interest at five peT cent, is paid upon them by the Egyptian Gov ernment, and not by the company, and the regular coupons have been alienated for several years to come, it is still ob vious that they share in the increase of value due to the success of the enter prise. Another element in the debt which is rather apparent than real is the amount representing "loans recov erable," which Mr. Hubbard reckons at over :8,000,000. The official, return shows that in the quarter of a century the total decrease iu the debt, "not tak ing into account the amount of debt cre ated for special purposes," was over 119.000,000. But the "special pur poses" in question include such unpro ductive expenditure as that upon fortifi cations aud army localization, which, however necessary aud defensible, have procured the country nothing in the shape of a reali.abfe and recoverable asset. Taking, however the assets that may be properly set cfl' against debt the telegraph property, the Suez Canal shares, and the loans to public bodies there is a sum of not less than 48.000,000 to be subtracted from the 763,000.000, which is the nomiual amount of the debt at the present time. Air. Hubbard insists upon juiothprfpoiSsV in which, he maintains, the ;dicial figures unfairly exaggerate the burden upon the community. The amount of the ordinary .stocks is computed at par, anil certainly there seems to be no reason for assumiug that the Government will be able to extinguish their three per cents, below par. But besides the or dinary stocks there are the terminable annuities, which iu calculating the capital of the debt have to be reduced to cash value. It is an easy actuarial operation to determine the cash value of the ter minal annuities. But in the otliei.il re turn it is estimated as if invested in three per cent, stock at an assumed price of y.!.:l It is difficult to understand why this imaginary conversion is made at a price which has no practical relation to the present value of consols. If the Government had really to sell or buy three per cent, stock, it would have to deal upon the basis of a price ranging , within a fraction, one way or the other, j of par. Mr. Hubbard appears to be justified in his criticisms upon the incon gruity of lumpiug together in the com putation of the aggregate debt ordinary stocks and unfoundeudebt all reckoned as payable at par, and the capital value of the terminable annuities supposed to be invested at nearly eight per cent, below par. If the value of the termin able annuities be sunuosed to be repre sented like the rest of the debt.iy three ' per cent, stock at par instead of at 9:1.0, another deduction of oi over jfci'.wu.uuu . An.. ,. must be maue irom tne total, in mat .. . . . . . case, the actual burden of the debt will be found to be about 718.000,000, or 120,000.000 less thau the amount ow ing by the State a quarter of a century ago. London Times. O Flat Feet. The chief surgeon of the Swiss Federal army declares that the Swiss examining" surgeons are compelled to reject every year 800 recruits the strength of a bat talion for malformation of the foot re sulting from wearing badly-fitting shoes. Tiie human foot is in reality a now so elastic that at every step it expands and contracts, lengthens and shortens. A line drawn through the center of the great toe should intersect the heel. But, despite all tbe books which have, ever been written on the anatomy of the organ" in miftstinn those whose business it is to cover it act as if the foot were a solid piece of mechanism. They cabin, crib and confine the big toe, which requires room for lateral expansion, until it is forced ngaiust its ueighbors and is tor tured by corns, bunions, and sometimes painful inflammation of the joints. Flat-footedness is due to many causes connectel with improperly-made shoes; yet, if people would insist on their foot "rear beins constructed so as to allow the toes free action and the instep its due play, it would be quite possible to cure the mischief. A pair of perfect shoes, the Swiss Medical Colonel contends, should, when placed together, touch only at the toes I and heels: tne soles snouia ioiiow tne sinuosities of the feet, and to give room for their expansion, should exceed them l... otumt nna "at7 " Tito naMiliAr. by about one "size." The peculiar. awkward running gait of women and big girls is due to a weak-kneedness characteristic of the sex, owing to the different way the upper supports of their limbs grow as they approach to matur ity. This condition is well seen in pict ures and statues, and forces the woman ia running to move the knees around each other, and throw the feet out in sue-" cessijn of small semi-circles. In men, on the contrary, the knee-cap looks a little outward, instead of straight for ward, and their knees are quite free. The r4iilt of the hip-h-heeled. hio-h- legged boots now in vogue for women is to render the natural condition a de formity, and by throwing the weight of the body on the inner ankle, to hreak down the arch of the foot and produce flat-foot, or complsta evenness of one or DOtatfMt. MISCELLANEOUS. A contract has been let for the con struction of a suspension bridge across Niagara Kiver, lielow the falls, for the use of the Cauada Southern lload, to be completed next August. Reformed Pirate: What is the . difference between economy and mean- ncssr N eli, it a man squeezes to save a little money, he calls it economy; his neighbors call it meanness. It depends on who does the calling. Boston Tran script. At Knoxville. lenn., recently, a happy couple from Granger County were entennginecierKsomceior a marriage hceiise. when the br.de was so overcome uritn liuahftiliifcsa aha 1411 nft tin Alain Street. With the aid of two clerks she was headed off, caught and put through. Samuel Hall, aged fifty, for forcibly kissing a woman at whose house he hail called for a match, was fined twenty five dollars and costs at Brockton, Mass.. and in default of payment seat to jail lor four months. It is understood that the unfortunate man also failed to get the match. Chirnqo Tribune. A work on the diseases of elephants is being written. Their more prominent affections are stated to be meningitis, apoplexy, vomiting, colic, enteritis, he maturia, tetanus or lockjaw, pneumonia, anthrax and "foot and mouth disease." This is a book that no family should bo without. Boston Post. A man who died recently near Syra cuse, N. Y., made a provision for tbe disposition of $02,000 of his estate but made no disposal of' 150,000 worth of property in adjoining counties. It is supposed that he had carefully figured """ 1WWSHIV.HJ w out the amount of the lawyers' fees and left the larger amount for them. go Herald. GV.ii.-a- A desperate fight among horse traders attending the Scotch fair at Fay etteville, N. C, occurred the other night. Over thirty men were hurt, two mortally. Harvey Underwood was shot by the wife of a man he had attacked with a knife. More than one hundred persons were engaged in the fight, and the authorities are greatly worked up because of the affair. The riot started from a dispute between two parties. Philadelphia Press. John Grismer had always been poor, and when he put twenty dollars into the plate at church at Conuellville, Mo., there was thought to be some mis take, but he said that he really desired to make the contribution. The note was soon identified, by means of its number having been recorded, as part of 2,000 recently stolen, and then Grismer con fessed. What he had intended as a re lief for his conscience led to his detec tion. St. Louis Globe. In the matter of identifications the Norristown Herald is unrivalled. Here is its latest triumph: "A New York cor respondent says that in the course of an argument in" the Supreme Court, on Monday morning, Mr. Marks, a well known member of the legal profession, suddenly rose and struck the opposing couusel a violent blow in the face. A. well-known member of the legal profes sion, enr Ve should say so. tvery one who has witnessed the play of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' knows 'Marks, the law yer.'" A'. F. Graphic. English travelers, who write about this country, are usually surprised be cause the tomato is used' almost a' gen erally as the potato. Thomas .Jefferson brought tomato seed from France, where he saw that that vegetable was exten sively used as food for swine. Dr. Dio Lewis used to say that the too frequent eating of it by human beings produced salivation. The Italians have taught Americans that fine tomato sauce makes macaroni more palatable. But there are many poor cooks who hide their short comings by putting the tomato into every dish; so that one chef recently said of another: "O, heM put it into a church plate." N. V. Herald. One of the smallest dwarfs evenex hibitcd in this country was Dolle Dutton. who made tours up to about ten years ago. At that time she was eighteen years old and was said to weisrh only twelve pounds. The reason for her re tirement from public life was the diffi culty in managing her. She was a freakish little creature and sometimes would refuse to go o:i the stage at all, compelling her manager to refund the admission money. In 1875 she married a man of ordinary stature named Swain, but separated from him soon. Their only child died in infancy. The news of her being taken to an insane asylum a hopeless lunatic does not surprise those who knew her. Chicago Herald. The funeral of Joseph W. Butler was held in Fulton recently. Iu accord ance with a frequently expressed desire of the deceased muti, no minister was I present. The services were novel and interesting. A choir, composed of four j neighbors, sang the hymn "Nearer my I God to Thee," at the conclusion of which ' Mr. L. B. Babcock, of Volney, arose and in brief words paid a tribute to Mr. But ler as a man of honor and intellect, aud Lone who lived according to the dictates of honest convictions. Then 'Squire Tinker spoke of the exemplary life he had lived during his acquaintance with him for more than half a century. Other friends testified to his worth. His son. Jay S. Butler, then spoke of his father's Inuilin rv Y iHiit(iitt at nj ... Il..m -; .-.-. .,,...,...... ...w Cllii aid. Parsons' Pay" in England. While admitting, in the course of some after-dinner observations to which he gave utterances on Thusday evening at Ipswich, with a genial frankness truly 1 refreshing in one of his cloth, that clergy-j men are sometimes animated by human jias?iouM, uauie. 10 error aim even out. poorly off for brains, the Rev. Francis .Maude expressed his conviction that his professional brethren were, on the whole, too miserablypaid for their services to turn oui wnat, ne luiomaucauy icrmcu "a superior article." The church, ac- I cording to Mr. Maude, is the worst re- J numerated profession in the laud, and, ' as he unhesitatingly confessed, his own j experience of an ecclesiastical career ' has been such as to convince him that as j far as the good things of this world are j concerned it is much better for a voung -Mraan starting in life to become a butcher or baker than a parson, it is utilities- ' -tionably true that the subordinate clergy i of the h-itablisucd L htircn are, as a rule, ' L underpaid in proportion to the cost of ' their educational preparation for holy orders, and possibly to their private an tecedents, although their remuneration will be found to compare favorably with that of the working priesthood in cou- ' tinental countries. Nine English clergv- Pmen out of ten are foredoomed, when ' they enter the church, to live and to die ' in comparative poverty; but they are equally certain of wielding considerable i power and of enjoying both prestige and precedence, socially speaking, to a verv appreciable extent, what is the drawing-room status of an attorney s I clerk or doctor's assistant compared to that of a curate? In the world, Mr. Maude must remember.only a very few and 'those rather by the accident of birth than by professional assiduity can have everything that appears desir able to human ambition at one and the aune time. If, as the incumbent of Holy Trinity asserts, ministers of re ihrion do not nowadays occuov that r strong ground which they formerly held. it is due to other and mightier causes than their cheapness as a marketable commodity. The position of the clergy. like that of everv mundane institution. .s liable to change, and must follow the bent of the age Everv profess:on has its disadvantages as well as its advant ages, and it behooves a man alxnit to choose a career carefully to weigh and strike a balance between the desirable inil undesirihle before he make up his mmd. London Telegraph, SCHOOL A9f CHURCH A pow in Dr. John Hall's church. New York, sold the other day for $2. 600. A Massachusetts wo-uau h:i made a bequest of '52,0 ) ) to Boston University "for the purp of clothing worthy theological students." In Prussia they appreciate t'u valu of health and the necessity of exercise to maintain it. The minister of education has ordered that the boys in all the schools be made to plav athlctio game The "Singing Pilgrim' (Philip Phillips) aud his son, who now sins with him. are shortlv to return hom. ! afer a 8llccesqful toll oi mr through i . ...... .,7.... out the British Isles iir. runups au.i the West Indies his family will visit until April next. From March 1 to Novenber 1 the American Su idy S hinl Union estab lished 4i8 ue.v Sundav schools in the Northwest and brought 2.028 teachers and 16,12 ' scholars into them, besides aiding l,i!J old s.-iiooU. which have 5, 14 J ' teachers aud 41,109 selulars. Ciica'n Tines. Th.' First Presbyterian Church in New Alo my has a dc.i-oii. John Bush uell. who has held that responsible and houorahle ollk-e for fifty years. A few evenings ao the latiies f the church celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday ..as a mark of respect to his integrity and Christian character. ndmapoUs Journal. Tight laeing has n'ton been attacked as injurious to the lie.d-.h. hut u.iw it is said to be injurious to morals. A Phila delphia parson recently preached a ser mon on the subject, an 1 argued that th? divine truth could not find its way into a j heart squeezed and cramped by corsets. Pndnde'phia Pre. The teachers in the public schools at Indianapolis have b -en in the habit ol sending out pupils to ascertain the whereabouts of absentees. By enteriug houses where scarlet fever was raging several of the scholars contracted the disease, and now the Scho.d Board pro pose to put a stop to such u-e of the pupils. It is said that a curious old gentle man in New York has been collecting sermons until he now has about 12.000 of all sorts. He began nearly thirty years ago. He laid up bo-ind volumes at first, but later he preserved the ser mons he found in pamphlets or fully printed in periodicals. I n order that he might arrange his material, he learned book-binding, and for all these years he has riven his nights aud holidays to the work of arranging, indexing aud sys tomati.iug his material. iV. Y. Time. Chundcr Sen. the leader of the Free Brahmins iu India an almost Christian sect, opposed to idolatry and caste is a matt of unusual attainments. He is a graceful orator, both in English and Bi;ng;tle-e, aud a profound scholar iu the philosophy and scieuces of Europe. He has traveled much, having visited Lon don and been presented to the Queen. Personally he. is of striking aud hand some appearance, beiqtr more than six I feet tall, aud iu the prime of life. He is ! very wealthy, and at his own expense maintains a large church in Calcutta. aud edits and publishes a paper called The New DLsp-jnsatiou. POXtfEXT P11MURAPU9 A Boston dirt, on receiving an offer of marriage, rushed into the hall and called up stairs. "Mother, am I engaged to anybody now?" Metamorphosis extraordinary: A j'oung man who was supposed to be un commonly soft, has been found running away from his tailor as hard as possible. TfifJudje. That's a lovely necktie you have on," she remarked. "('lad you like it: I thought it rather neat mystdf." "Yes, it would look so well iu the silk patch work quiltj I am making." Elevated Uailroad Journal. The mushroom crop'is so scant this fall that gatherers think there is mush room for improvement. Meanwhile hasty pudding is a safer thing to put on your table. Hungry children have lots of mush room. Pittsburgh Telegraph. "How can I keep the cattle from breaking dowu the fence to get into my garden at niirht?" said an Austin man to a neighbor. "That's easy enough." "But how can I keep the cattle from breaking dowu the fcuce?" "By leav ing the gate open." Texas Sifting. The sting of a bee. it is said, when compared with the poiut of a fine needle under a powerful magnifying glass, is scarcely disceruable. But the trouble is that when a man gets a bee sting, he forgets to compare it with a needle; hence it always is discernable. and by a large majority. Boston Transcript. ""fis a poor rule that does not work both wavs. Yesterday I was at a diuner party, when a glass of wine was spilled on the table. Herr Meier put some salt on it anil no one said a word. Subsequently the salt-dish was capsized, and I poured a grass of wine on it, whereupon I came near being thrown out of the house. Fliegende Walter. Thesniallest county in Pennsylvania is the most modest. Its strong point is its Lack-o'-wanuaty. The iuost evenly balanced county in its profit aud loss ac count is Lose-earn. The rag-pickers' county is Alley-gainy. The most stal wart county is Arm-strong. The most disreputable county is Snider. The deadest county for education is Schuvl kill. Philadelphia Bulletin. An humble Sausage thus Addressed a haughtj' Seal Skin sack: "How docs it Happen, mv Friend, that you do Recognize me, when it was only ''. not Two Months ago that you useit to skid up a Tree whenever I approached?" To this the Seal Skin Sack saucily Replied: "Yon had None the Better of Me then, Mr. Sausage, for while I was Skinning up the Tree, you forsooth Were Sailing down the Street with a Tin can tied to your Tail." Denver Tribune Fables. Then you are thinking of build ing a residence next season?" sug gested Flub to one of our heavy pockets. "Yes I thought I should get up something in that line." "What style of architecture Gothic, or Doric, or" Corinthian, or ?" "O. a little of everything. My wife inclines to the Mary' Ann style; but I guess I'll put up a genuine Betsy Jane cottage, with a pizarro all around it. That'll suit me well enough." Chicago Times. Menneaite Village in Manitoba Said. There is trouble among the Manitoba Mennouites. Theae people own sepa rate lands, but, instead of building on their respective homesteads, combine to form a village, which they build on the farm of some one of their number. There are over forty villages on their reserve we of Emerson. Recently a Mennonitc living near the western end of the reserve, not many miles from Xeisuuville, says the International, made application to the Dominion government for a patent for his land, he having performed the necessary settle ment duties, and pending the receipt of the patent he sold his homestead to a Canadian farmer living near. On his farm is situated the village for that sec tion, and, of course, ia selling bis farm the entire village was included in the sale, as whatever, buildings are on the land belong to Je" The h,ead kaisers' of the reserve have beenendeavoung to have the guvernmeatfefuse tWpaUjnt for the plpce; butof course, lfthe Mennonire demaflrls it, the bverfiraent will be6bligedlr give it tophiiai' Mr. (Jeorge Newotne, formerly' Dominion land agenLjfT Emersonr has, "beea sent from Ottawa to endeavor tf. have the Mennmntes settlesjfte matter amicably among Uaatslv Torinto Qtohe. "CsTOTIOE! Chicago Weekly News. -AND C0LWE72, HEB, J07R1TAL FOR $2.50 a Tear Postage Included. The OBIOA.GO WEEKLY NEWS'is recognized as a paper unaurpaesed in all th requirements of American Journalism. It stands conspicuous among the metropolitan journals of the country as a complete News-paper. 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