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i I J i i'i i I ui f:i lit I lf 1 1 ft 1. 1 & THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 21, 1883. Wand at Us roftsflu, CslsBtai. Xrt., m Ht etoM mUtr. CONTRARY MEN. Boau men do write when they do wrong, Aad some do live woo dye; And nm arc "short" when thor ate long, And Mud when they do lie. A man U aurly when be'a late; Is 'round when he Is square; He die early anddilato. And may be foul when "fair." a He may be "fust" when he is slow, Andlooje" when he Is "Uat," And "ahjti" when he Is very low. And heavy when he's "light." He mar be wet when he is "dry:" He may be "great" when small; May purchase when be won't go by; Have naught when he has awl. Ha may be alok when he is "swell," And hot when ho is scold; He's skilled so he on earth may dwell. And when he's young he's sold. Sorrlttiiwii Herald.' GIIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL'S EU LOGY UPON HIS WIFE. Recently, while in attendance at s Sunday-school convention at Washing ton, Mason County, in this State, was Invited, with several others, to dine with the family of the Hon. Martin P. Mar shall, a resident of the village. Mr. Marshall is one of the most gifted and cultivated men of the State. He was at one time somewhat prominent in public affairs. He is now advanced in years, however, and is living the life of m retired private citizen. He is a nephew of the Hon. John Marshal!, deceased, formerly Chief Jus tice of the United States, and was in the earlier years of his life a member of the Chief Justice's family. In conversation in regard to his uncle he spoke in terms of the warmest ad miration of his character. Daily inter course with him Jiftd taught him to re vere and love him. He dwelt particu larly upon the simplicity and beauty of his private life. He was his model of what :i husband should be to the wife of his bosom in respect to tho love which he should cherish for nor, the tenderness with which he should watch over her and nurse her in failing health, and the fondness with which he should think of her when death had taken her from his arms. Rising in the midst of his remarks, our host invited another gentleman and my self, who were listening to him. into his private apartment, and there opening a drawer he took out and read to us a pa per written by the Chief Justice on the first anniversary of his wife's death, in memory of bis love for her, and of the excellences of her iife and character. I asked him if the paper had ever been published. He said that it had not; that lie had kept it sacred as a private legacy, and had never obtained his own consent to let it be given to the public. I said to him that! thought that it ought to be published, as I believed that it would be read with interest and profit by all into whose hands it would come. Just then We were called to dinner. Afterward the conversation in regard Id tho p.iper was renewed, and before I left the house Mr. Marshall yielded his consent to have it published, and handed it to me for that purpose. A copy of it is herewith inclosed, with the belief that its publication will In crease the respect which the people of this country already feel for the memory of its author, and at the same time en hance their appreciation of the domestic virtues which were so beautifully and admirably illustrated in the life of the great Chief Justice. D. s. KsNTccitr, August Si. 1SS1. "DeCBKBKR M, 1KB. This day of joy and festivity to the whole Christian world is to my sad heart the anniversary of the keenest affliction which humanity can sustain. While all around is gladness, my mind dwells on the silent tomb, and cherishes the re Kembrance of the beloved object it con tains. On the 25th of December it was the will of Heaven to take to itself the com panion who had sweetened the choicest part of my life, had rendered toil a pleasure, had partaken of all my feel ings, and was enthroned in the inmost recess of my heart. Never can I cease to feel the loss, and to deplore it. Grief for her is too sacred ever to be profaned on this day, which shall be during my existence devoted to her memory. "On the 3d of January, 1783, I was United by the holiest bonds to the woman I adored. From the hour of our union to thai of our separation I never ceased to thank Heaven for this its best gift. Not a moment passed in which I did not consider her as a blessing from which the chief happiness of my life was de rived. "This never-dying sentiment, origin ating in love, was cherished bT a long and close observation of as amiable and estimable qualities as ever adorned the female bosom. "To a person which in youth was very attractive, to manners uncommonly pleasing, she added a line understanding, and the sweetest temper which can ac company a just and modest sense of what was due to herself. "I saw her first the week she attained the age of fourteen, and was great! v pleased with her. Girls then came into company much earlier than atpresjnL As my attentions, though without any avowed purpose, aor no open and direct as to alarm, soon became anient and assiduous, her heart received an impression which could never be effaced. Having felt no prior attach ment, she became at sixteen a most de voted wife. All mv faults and they were too niauy couid never weaken this sentiment. It formed a part of her ex istence. Her judgment was so sound and so safe that I have often relied upon it in situations of some perplexity. I do not remember ever to have regretted the adoption of her opinion. I have sometimes regretted its rejection. "From native timidity she was opposed to even thing adventurous, yet few fe males possessed more real tifmness. "That timidity so iuilueneed her man sera that I could rarely- prevail on her to display in company the talents I knew her U possess. They were reserved for her husband and her select friends. Though serious as well as gentle in her deportment, she possessed a good deal of chaste, delicate and playful wit, and if she enuitted herself to indulge this talent, told her little story with grace, and could mimic very successfully the peculiarities of the person who was the subject. "She had a fine taste for belle-lettre reading, which was judiciously applied in the selection of pieces she admired. "This quality, by improving her talents for conversation, contributeu not incon siderably to make her a most desirable and agreeable companion. It beguiled many of those winter evenings during which her protracted ill health and her feeble nervous system confined us en tirely to each other. I can never cease to look back on them with deep interest and regret. Time has not diminished, and will not diminish, this interest and this regret. In all the relations of life she was a Model which those to whom it was gives cannot imitate too closely. As the wife, the mother, the mistress of a family, aad the friend, her life furnished an example to those who could observe intimately which will not be forgotten. She felt 4eeply the distress of others, and in lged the feeling liberally on objects kebelieved to be meritorious. "Ss was educated with a profound TCTereaoa for religion, which she prt erved to her last moment Tbia senti ment Afuoar her earliest aad deepest impressions gave" character to her whole life. Hers was the religion taughc by the Savior of man. She was cheerful, mild, benevolent, serious, humane, in tent on self-improvement and the im provement of those who looked to hor for precept and example She was a firm believer in the faith inculcated by the Church in which she was bred, but her soft and gentle temper was incapable of adopting the gloomy and austere dogmas which some of its professors nave sought to ingraft On it. "Ihave lo3t her, and with her I haf lost the solace of my life. Yet she 4 they.argue tne necessity oi reuueuuu mains still the oomonnlon of my retijj they fail when it is to bo put into ex houra. still oeeu Die's mv inmost bo3ofWcution. Thev have SO framed this When alone and unemployed, my minfcY5MJLoJiocrea2he.duUescJtheJi unceasinely recurs to her. "More than a thousand times since the 25th of December, 1831, have I repeated to myself the beautiful lines written by Burgoyne under a similar affliction, sub stituting Mary for Anna: "Encompassed In an angel's frame Aa angel' virtues lay: How soon did Heaven assert its claJst, And take its own away! "My Mary's worth, my Mary's charms. Can never more return. What now shall flU these widowed arm? Ah met my Mary's urn Ah me! ah me! my Mary's urn." Harpy's Magazini. TheSseb Family. Mr. and Mrs. Snob and little Snob must have fresh air and recreation out of town. It is sometimes their pleasure to show their fine clothes anil diamonds at a costly hotel. But there are times when Mr. Snob wants to economize. He re flects that if he goes with his family to a lesser boarding house there is no law preventing them from sitting on the portico of the big hotel, airing their stylft and picking their teeth as if they regu larly paid their bill -to tha dirfnioud mounted hotel clerk. To pick their teeth in public is an uncouth and ungentle manly trick, but Snob does it in sight of all men, and is deeply conscious of his importance while he docs so. As he walks the halls of the popular hotel or lounges in its office or bar room, he con gratulates himself that he is putting on considerable style at small expense; When Mr. Snob mingles with his fellow-boarders at the less pretentious hos telry he carries with him the air of one who belongs at a much more stylish place. He. looks down on the rest of the company as of very little account. It is for him and his party that the house is managed and for their comfort and en joyment that the boats, the croquet sets, the best chairs and the choicest corners of the porticoes arc created. His family assert theirsuperiority over the others by gathering themselves into a little group and refusing to associate with anybody else. From behind the barricade of their own self-importance they shoot out the envenomed tongue criticism against tho raiment, the habits and the genealogy of those whom they dislike. At table they whisper severe remarks about others and show by the upturned nose, tho winking eye or the pouting lip that they are taking note of the sayings and doings of those who, instead of being made like themselves, or porcelain are made of or dinary clay. When Snob and his family go home there is a sense of relief at the boarding house. The rest of the boarders grate fully realize that they are no longer tho subjects of inspection or the victims of unfavorable criticism. They can wear what they please, without being annoyed by having it intimated that the goods with which Mr. Snob has provided his family are more costly or in better style. They can eat their meals in peace, with out worrying over the probability that the Snobs will take away their appetites by saying or doing something unpleas ant. Tne servants are glad, for the Snobs are difficult people to wait on, and are always complaining about some thing or other. Yet the family will al ways be more or less present at summer resorts. Their presence must be en dured, like that of the mosquitoes. tkiladeljtkia Times. m First Ceasing to Their Graataether. Relationships, of course, figure largely in novels. In the old romances it may almost be said that everybody turned out in the end to be everybody else's grand mother! One would suppose that every kind of discovered relationship had been already utilized to form a striking inci dent in novels. And yet we venture to say that the following "notion1' has hitherto been overlooked by inventors of plots, to whom we freely offer it. Imagine the bride and bridegroom, after innumerable trials and obstacles of every kind, to be at last at the altar and the marriage service begun. The offi ciating bishop (we will suppose the con tracting parties to be of such noble birth that it takes a Bishop to unite them) asks whether any one can allege any im pediment now, "or elsfe forever hold his peace." To the dismay of the wedding party, an old woman (the evil genius or fairy not invited to the christening) comes forward and explains what she alone has known the mystery in which the birth of the bride's mother, long since dead, was involved. Documents are produced which prove, to the satisfaction (or rather dissatisfac tion) of all present, that tho bride's maternal grandmother was the bridegroom's half-sister, nearly fifty years older than himself; "and, there fore," concludes the malicious old bel dame, "as a man cannot marry his niece, the marriage is unlawful!" Great sen sation, of course, ensues; but the Bish. op, who is well up in the Table of Kin dred, etc., quietly remarks: "A man may not marry his niece, but he may marry his great-niece," and accordingly proceeds with the service, to the discom fiture of tne ancient hag and the joy of everybody else. Such a marriage, indeed, would be quite lawful, for the relationship, it will be observed, is one of four degrees, and, accordingly, it is not one of the "forbid den degrees," Should such a marriage be followed by progeny, we should have the curious result that children would have their own mother for a "Welsh niece," and would be first cousins to their grandmother, and first cousins twice removed to themselves. A marriage in high life actually took Elace, a few years ago, in which the ridegroom was first cousin twice re moved to the bride. Her ladyship, there fore, became daughter-in-law to her own Welsh nephew; and when a son and heir appeared upon the scene, he figured as second cousin to one grandfather and as great-great-great nephew to the other, who was less than sixty years of age. London Society. Sedety Note. A coolness has arisen between Kosius co Murphy and Mrs. Hufnagel, one of the most fashionable ladies of Austin. There was a lawn party at the Hufnagel mansion. Mrs. Hufnagel showed Mr. Murphy over the grounds, and asked him what he thought of their arranre menL . "I am delighted madam." was there ply. "Wherever i look I see the foot prints of your genius." As Mrs. Hufnagel has a foot almost as big as a wheelbarrow, she supposed there. w.80mthimI Personal in thV re mark, bhe did not hint exactly that she was not glad to have him stay to supper, but she opened the gate, and pointed into the street, and Murphy, who is xery sen. sitiTe, strolled awaj Texas Sif tings. m m Robert Tawnev, a colored boy, al leged to have been oorn deaf and dumb, recently attended a camp-meetisur at Goldsboro, N. C. He stepped forward among the mourners and in a distfea voice announced his conversion, seyiag ba . waIji m44 BAaMniv kind . j Mate MIB TUMI MIU sWWIII UCUI 1TMb V J with spiritual free. N. T. 4u Ckrtataas la Cemtral Africa. Christmas is a delightful season la Christian lands, especially when the balance of presents and dinners is in one's favor, and the tin-horn crop amo g the children has been a failure. Very different is Christmas in heathen lands, where the uses of the stocking are un known, and Christmas-trees are hung with unfortunate travelers and unap predated missionaries instead of glitter ing and showy presents. Think of l3.-ttwc..ln thft rotrlnn nf ihfk TjlQrth inconsistency and incongruity. WhilU i Birthday or Decoration dav! Even more depressing7' is Christmas in Central Africa, as a distinguished English trav eler once discovered to his mingled sor row' and danger. The traveler was a good and noble man. He was engaged in discovering fresh lakes, new kinds of cannibals, and original sources of the Nils in the heart of Africa, and his only desire was to do good to the hunitn race, and to prove that the maps made by other travelers were all wrong. He had been three years in the Dark Continent, and. hav ing suffered incessantly from fever, starvation, the rude embraces of lions and elephants, the bites of deadly ser pents, and the cruelties of native Kings, was nearly worn our. He arrived late one afternoon on the shore of a mighty lake which no other white man had ever seen, and which was at least five hun dred miles distant from any of the various localities in which European map-makers had previously placod It He lay down under the shadow of the trees.f a:nt with all the various things that predispose a man to be faint in Central Africa, but exulting; in the thought that he would compel the map-makers to dace Lake Mjambwe where h& wanted t, and not where they selfishly im agined that it would present the most picturesque appearance. Suddenly he remembered that it was the 24th of De cember, and that Christmas eve would naturally arrive in the course of the next two hours. The thought saddened him. He glanced at his bare feetfor his supply of stockings had long since Eiven out and he thought of the happy omes in England, where the children were preparing to hang up their moth ers' largest stockings, while he must spend the blessed Christmas season among savage heathen and untrained animals. He felt at that moment that he would give his new lake for an hour in his English home, and he covered his face with his hands and sobbed him self asleep. When no awoke it was broad day light The woods were vocal with par rots who incessantly remarked: "Polly wants a cracker," and ostriches, and other tropical birds, each singing at the top of its voice. On the bosom of the lake floated immense native canoes bearing parties of excursionists, the music of whose accordions and banjoes came over the water to the wearied traveler. He was hungry, and fell in his pockets for his quinine pills, but they were all gone. He tried to rise to his feet, but he was too weak and iheu- matic to rise without help, so he sank oacJt. murmuring: ""lis 'ara. 'ard in deed, to die on Christmas among the eathen." The sound of women's voices roused him. Three native women, clad only with the tsetse &nd pombo worn by their sex in that part of Africa, emerged from the forest on their way to draw water from the lake. They saw the traveler, and one of them, moved with compassion, sang, in a low, mourn ful tone: "The poor white trash done come to Africa. He hasn't no mother for to fry hominy for him, nor no wife for to send to the store with a jug." Enfeebled as he was the traveler knew that this was wrong, for he had read Mungo Park's Travels, and he could not help remarking: "You women don't sing that song as it ought to be sung." ing it yourself, then," retorted the singer, in a cold, heartless way, and thereupon the women passed on. and left the wretched white man to perish. The cruelty of the women made the traveler so indignant that he resolved to make one tremendous effort for life. He managed to rise, after painful exer tions and the use of many scientific terms, and hobbled slowly toward a native village about a quarter of a mile away. He had scarcely reached it when he was seized by two gigantic canni bals and dragged to the king's palace, where he hoped that either death or breakfast, he did not much care which, awaited him. The palace consisted of one large room with an enormous throne extend ing entirely across one end of it. On this throne sat twelve native Kings in a row, each one with a musical instru ment in his hand. The one who sat in the middle looked fieroely at the trav eler, and demanded of his captors what was the charge against him. "Poor white trash, Mr. Johnsing," briefly replied the largest of tho two cannibals. "Mr. Bones I should say, prisoner," began the King, "what do you say for yourself?" "I am a white man," replied the traveler; "but 1 'aven't 'ad any soap for years, so I plead hextenuating cir cumstances. Besides, I am "ungry. Will you not give me some breakfast " "The King's face grew bright with rage for it could not grow any darker than it was and he turned to his brother Kings, and conversed with them rapidly in the Mjambwe tongue. They were evidently discussing the fate of the traveler, for presently the middle King ciearea nis throat, ana said: "Prisoner, you have forfeited your life, but we are disposed to be merciful. You ought properly to be baked alive, and afterward eaten, but we shall pro nounce a lighter sentence. You will listen attentively while we sing the opening chorus and the favorite planta tion melodies, and you will guess every conundrum and laugh at every joke. Say I not wisely. Brother Bones?" A unanimous "Yah! yah!" from the other Kings expressed their warm ap proval. "No! no!" cried the traveler, in an agony of fear. Give me some little show. Burn me, if you will, but do not torture me on this 'oly Christmas morn ing with your hawful songs and co nundrums. -I've 'eard them all at 'ome." And in his desperation the wretched man fell on his knees before the native King who had pronounced the dreadful sentence. That monarch, indignant beyond measure, raised his fuitar and struck the traveler a terrible low over the head. The whole earth seemed to reel, and the doomed white man became unconscious. When he regained his senses he found himself sitting on the shore of the lake where he had sat the night before. A young man neatly dressea in Euro pean clothes stood before him, and re marked, in a graceful way: "Mr. Jones, I believe." "And you are Mr. Smith, I dessay," replied the traveler. "'Ave you got anything to heat with you?" The young man had been sent to find the traveler. He had with him all sorts of stores, including canned plum-pudding and boned turkey. As he drew the traveler's arm in his. and assisted him to the place where breakfast was awaiting them, he said: "I wish you a merry Christmas!" It was the merriest Christmas the traveler had ever known, and when he returned to England with more new rakes and two private sources of the Nile, he said that all his honors could aot give him the delight which he had known during his last Christmas in Central Africa after awakening from his terrible dream of the twelve native Ktags, TT. L. Alden, in Harper' Mug-sine Dress aad dealt Trimming. Quite a revolution has occurred of late years in the ordinary methods of dress trimming. The cheap styles, the com mon varieties of braids and gimps aud fringes, have almost wholly disap peared, and in their place we find trim ming of the same, or a contrasting, ma terial, rows of stitching, a facing which suggests color wi thout really exhibiting it, and buttons which often have artistic value. These methods must be considered a great improvement on styles of 'orna mentation which added nothing to the real beauty of the edstume or garment, forecasts is enhanced by tho recent sig were easily defaced, and then made a ' nal failure of the London Meteorological really good material look shabby before Office to obtain a timely intimation by it was worn. Whatever is used as means of its barometric and other in mounting of course suffers more from strumental observations of the disastrous contact than the body part of the stuff, j Atlantic cyclone which lately visited En and ought to be more, rather than less, gland. This storm extended over a wide serviceable in its character. But this was rarely thought of in the selection of ordinary trimmings; and llimsy passe menteries, gimps, and fringes, fre quently cheapened and vulgarized an otherwise respectable fabric, and lower ed its standard of excellence in the minds of those who judged it from its inadequate attempts at ornamentation. Of late so many nice trimming laces have been produced, that efficient aid has been rendered in the finishing of ordinary silks and thin costumes, "while in the making up of wools, neatness has been found the most effective form that decoration could take, and one after another every addition in the way of trimming has been gotten rid o ex cepting the braids and bindings. This year there is a revival of the Hungarian cords and passementerie buttons, the "military" style as it is called, which trade must make in the direction of at tractive novelty, and costumes. -.-The real novelties and elegancies in trim ming are in the direction of the different kinds of open and solid embroidery, and the magnificent cloak trimmings in feathers and' chenille. In the produc tion of the embroideries upon cloth and other fabrics, Venetian models have been largely followed, and designs, some of which have been obtained from museums and collections of rare works. The beauty of design, and the exquis ite workmansh'p put into them, would elevate them into the region of art, if they wore executed by hand instead of by machine. Workmanship upon the material has given the key-note to the present styles of decoration. It is only the carrying out of the Enstlake idea in furniture, which j'ears and years . ago wo an nounced as a new departure, which was sure to have its following in dress and its adornments. The braided embroid ery upon cloth, which puts cloth upon cloth, and outlines the design with a narrow, thick, l!at, cord-liko braid, which is placed partly fiat, partly on edge, and often wrought in solid circu lar coins, or button-like forms, is an ex traordinarily substantial and effective method of treating handsome cloth suits, and really enriches them, as it should, for it is very expensive. But it is nothing besides the exquisite jeweled effects produced by the mixture of pearl, white jet. and silk embroidery on the tinted evening satins, covering en tire fronts, and forming vest, plastrons, panniers, sleeves, and other parts or additions to a rich toilet Much of this work is done by hand, all of that which is really tine and artistic and the simple front of an ivory pale pink or amber satin gown wiil perhaps cost a hundred and seventy-five or two hundred dol lars, before a yard of the rich fabric is added to it, which will form the body part of the dress, or a stitch put in to ward the making. DemoresCs Monthly. Matrimony and Match-making. It is recorded of an ancient sage that on being asked at what period of his life a man ought to marry, he replied: "When he is young, it is too soon; when old, it is too late." Discouraging as such an answer may be considered, it still leaves the question open as far as middle-aged persons are concerned; whereas the matrimonial aspirations of these, as well as of juvenile and hors d'age" would-be Benedicks are sum marily and uncompromisingly checked by the oft-quoted prohibitory monosyl lable, "Don't!" That marriage is a lottery more suggestive of blanks than prizes, is, we believe, generally allowed: and the possibility of this drawback bo )n: admitted, it would be unreasonable to blame the candidate for the happy state if he looks before he leaps and weighs well the pros and cons'of the undertaking ere he irrevocably com mits himself. Every one is not so fortunate in his choice as the painter Charlet, who tells us. that on his first interview with the woman destined to become his wife, he found her in the homely hut practical employment of darning stockings. "Mine are always in holes," ho rellected, and this reminis cence of bachelor discomfiture decided the matter. He proposed, was accept ed, and, as he couscientiously adds, "never had cause to regret it It Is moreover, a melancholy fact that young men of the present day are less (impulsive and more calculating than df traditional reports are to be credited ' they formerly wore, and are rarely in clined to barter their liberty for a pro portionate "quid pro quo.' Love in a cottage has long been an exploded myth, and the pleasant fallacy, that where one can dine two can, only re quires a few months' trial to be at once and forever disproved. We are grad ually although not perhaps without protest adopting the usage in vogue among our neighbors across the chan nel, and accustoming ourselves to re- fard matrimony as an " affair" not to e entered upon lightly but demanding the fullest and mature deliberation; like Talleyrand, we are inclined to distrust first impressions, although not precisely for the reasons ascribed by that astute diplomatist. Many young men who willingly succumb to the attractions ol a pretty face, and plunge unhesitatingly into a flirtation on every available op portunity, yel, however, closely they nfky flutter around the candle", take especial care not to burn their wings, while on their side, the fair ladies, we may be sure, are equally cautious as to the amount of encouragement thoy may safely venture to bestow. When we read in the Morning Post or Court Journal that a marriage has been arranged between Lord Fitz Ara rat and Miss Pamela Geldwechsel, only daughter and heiress of Ezra Geld wechsel, Esquire, of Lothbury and Mayfair, we may be morally certain that some match-making duenna has had a linger in the pie; and by her per suasive reasoning has induced the noto riously impecunious patrician to regard with a favorable eye. the somewhat shadily-acquired dowry of his affianced bride. Without her aid he would, in all probability, have continued to vege tate on an income barely sufficient for his "button-holes" .and cigarettes; while Miss Pamela, notwithstanding her half-million, would in equal likeli hood have forever remained outside the social pale, beyond which for an un accredited parvenue there is no passing. All the Year Sound. The law in Massachusetts makes professional gambling, a hazardous bus iness, and its provisions are such that police officials cannot protect the gam blers. If a loser ol money does cot sue for its recovery within three months any other person may do so, bringing the suit against the gambler or the owner of the premises, either of whom is liable in an amount three times the money lost In the case of Henry G. Cole, who lost $15,000 in gaming, his, brother has begun litigation, and the. only verdict thus far reached is for 7.500 on account of 12,500 lost ift fro bank. Cleads as Weather Stgaalh Mr. Clement Ley, the English meteor ologist, reports a recent incident of British weather which most strikingly il lustrates the value of clouds as storm signals. He states in Nature that recent ly a storm center passed over Scotland with a progressive velocity of forty-five miles per hour, and "indications of its progress were afforded by cloud obser- I vations at a distance of more than 800 ' miles in advance of the center, the ve- J locity of propagation being supposed uniform." The significance of this fact in its bearing upon the British weather area, sweeping away a -bridge os tne Great Western Railway and damaging many buildings. So that the London Times, two days afterward said: "The deluge which has overwhelmed the Brit ish Isles and sent the Thames surging over its banks causes the curious to consult more critically than usual the descrip tions or vaticinations of the weather which we publish daily." If the British meteorologists can get the barometers to give timely warnings of the hurricanes which sometimes rush upon their coasts, from the Central Atlantic with a pro gressive velocity of more than sixty miles au hour they can do more with that inveteratoly sluggish monitor than has ever been done before. Though its monitions are invaluable they can never be relied on for promptness and timeli ness. But the clouds which invariably precede a cyclonic depression, and often precede the vortex by several hundred miles, are both timely and trustworthy monitors, as in the cas'e reported this month by Mr. Ley. During the slow passage of last September's hurricane over the West Indies its approach was indicated at Cardenas, according to a report published iu the Signal Servia Review, by "small clouds moving rapidly along the horizon" over thirty hours before its center crossed the meri dian of this place, and the Havana re cords evidently show that that the clouc and rain indications announced the hur ricane's advance at least sixteen hours before its arrival on the meridian of Havanna. Had these places been in the storm's central track, and hence ex posed to its greatest force, they would probably have had still earlier and more emphatic cloud indications of its ap proach. Tho timidity with which me teorologists make storm predictions based solely on cloud and rain indica tions is excusable in the present very de fective system of observing and report ing these aqueous meteors. But if they were properly observed and telegraphi cally reported they would generally afford the data necessary for reliable forecasts, even when the barometric and other instrumental data taken alone were inconclusive. N. Y. Herald. Thrashing-Floors. It was in the north of China, that wi first saw the thrashing-floor of the Eas and of the Bible. When we were travel ing to some out-stations in Mantchuria. the road bounded on both sides by end' less fields of gigantic millet, there would come a farmer's house and farm-yard, ot a small hamlet, and on the skirt of it, the trodden spot of ground hard and smooth as stone. But it was not till some weeks later, as we were journey ing slowly up to Pekin, and the harvest was now gathered, that we saw it in use. The grain was laid on the floor, and a pair of oxen were driven leisurely ovei the ears, treading out the corn. Anothei form of thrashing was the stone roller, which was drawn over the ears by oxen or mules; and there was another still, where a fiat board furnished with some pro jections, was drawn in the same way, the driver or children, perhaps, sitting os the board to lend it additional weight. Sometimes the grain was piled up in t large heap in the center of the floor. unsifted and then men with tne winnow ing shovel (the Bible fan) would toss the grain into the air, or else into a flat basket from which the man who held it flung up the corn, and the wind carrying the chaff away filled the air with dust. One Bible phrase after another was re called to us. It was easy to see howths Philistines could rob the thrashing floors at Kcilah, those open spaces in the field on which the absence of any dread of rain induced the farmers to pile up theil wealth of grain; or how the open floor, open to the sky and smooth, became the natural place to test the dew upon Gideon's fleece while all the rest of the ground was dry; or how, when the twe kings. Ahab, of Israel, and Jchoshaphat, of Judah, summoned the prophet, the place to set the royal thrones was on the smooth and empty thrashing floor just before the gate of Samaria; or how no better place than this could be found on which to build the altar that David raised wlien he had purchased the site of the temple from Araunah, the Jebusite, and found in the thrashing instruments the wooden fans and boards and oxen poles the wood for the sacrifice. It would be easy for the oxen to stop in the midst of the abundance they were treading out and eat; and the merciful Jewish law provided that they should eat if they would; there should be no muzzling of them; "thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth on the corn." God Words. Science In the Workshop. The Commercial Bulletin truthfully says that when mechanics as a general body become more thoroughly impressed with the conviction that the way to ad vancement both as to personal position and monetary returns lies through the master' of science in the application of principles to their daily work, we may anticipate some joint movement on their own part to establish means for acquir ing technical knowledge. For instance, the laws of expansion and contraction, as applied to many castings, and even to the wrought iron and steel industries, would prevent much waste in the foun dry and at the forge from the effect of unequal expansion and contraction, and also occasion fewer inequalities in the quality of that supposed treacherous material, steel. It would also prevent many mishaps to boilers, engines and their accessories in cold weather. A knowledge among workmen of the principles of inertia, as affecting bodies in motion, would frequently prevent a breakdown in starting or stopping ma chinery suddenly. Forall connected with blast furnaces, the value of chemical knowledge is apparent, as enabling them to trace the cause of faulty results. There is scarcely a workshop of any import ance in which an acquaintance with geo metry will not be of value. In short, the value of science asserts itself every hour in the workshop. The soientifio mechanic never falls iate ruts either of thought or habit Working more intelli gently than others, he finds more pleas ure in his labor; his suggestive faculties are ever at work and he is ever alive to the possibility of mechanical improve ments, from which he may reap a hand some reward. The manufacturers whe have risen from the bench withost ac quaintance with technical science con stantly feel themselves at a disad vantage. As all branches of science hold soma re lation to each other, the acauiiitlon of any one portion of these will prove of value to the workman whatever sis vo cation. Scientific American, m They've found est a sew way te make humorists out west When an ed itor wants a funny article he calls in a college student, and asks him to write a serious article, and it's sure to be toe funny for anything. SomervUle Jour nai RELIGIOUS AHD EDUCATIONAL. The row census shows 92,65a Pra testnnt Churches in the I'nited States, w.ih 7 ..- miui ters and 9,01)3.080 mem ers. - One uuday-s'-ho d iu Kansas, or ganized by a missiuuary of the .meri can Sunday sc: ol l uiou. se- ort- that twen y-four me bers of the -oi.oo! have been lece.wd in o the church during the vear. The Living Church (Episcopal an alludes to the "liishop of Rome" hav ng issued an e cyclical le tor to the 'Latin Church." ho di g up Francis of Assisi as a model. 'the -Bishop of Rome" is Pope Leo XI:1. This is the testimony of an English journal "M-. Moody's evangelistic campaign wll not be orgotten while Scotlan 1 stands " It regards his work in that countr.- ns one o the greatest events in the history of Christianity. - The C r s'.nn 'n't'-ne-ice says that makiijf a frantic rush for the door the instant the minis'er has pronounced the Mial amen U a bit of indicre ion seldom eon in Episcopal churches, but too ire.uentlv witues-ed in those of other l'roiestaut denominations." - The following is a ve batira copy o a letter n-ce: ed by a Boston school teicher irom the pa-ent of a pupil: tcech r hat lie has gut the crop, and her throte is m bad she can not come to s ool and as s on as She gits ! utter i run ro ng to take her to new York forth whit r." - The Amurioan Baptist Home Mis sion ."o:iety has just completed fifty year ol its history. During that time "it has pa .1 $1.70000a-for a tual mis sionary services. $1,000,000 for eduea ional work among colored people and liutiatis. iud over 3 W. 000 have been loaned to ;5:il ihurches for the erection of :d lices. - Tlu wholi amount contributed by the churches of this country annually lor benevolent and congregat'onal p r-po-es is U , tii.UOO. Of this large sum the amount coKee ed for purely benevolent purposes is $31,839,140. The amount contributed for church purposes, meauitig thereby the main tenance of the church, sustaining the ministry, etc.. is $7i,52,866. Iu New Zealand the Presbyterians have a dash of worldly wisdom the er erc'se o which has made threo societies strong financially by the exercise of a wise bus'noss policy. In all new settle ments they send agents in advance to buv a plot oi ground before prices have advanced with settlement. Bv the time they are ready to build their church thev are able to sell a part of the pur chase for enough to pay for building. - The Presbyterian savs: " One of the bc-it missionary speeches wo have lead .or a lonr time wts made at the late moetii'rr of the American Board. When men of wealth were pledging thousands to meetthe increasing needs ot the Board, a ven -rable m n rose in the audience and said 'he had no money t g ve. and so he couldn't double on tiiat; and he had no more children to give, for lie ha i already given them all; but he would promise to double his prayers.' ' Christuius Eve. The origin of the celebration of Christ mas eve is hidden behind the misty veil wh ch obscures the dark ages and its history from tho ga'.e of the peoplo of the present day. In Germany Christ mas eve is for children the most joyous night in the year on that evening. Then they feast their eyes on the splen dors of the Christmas tree and enjoy the presents it bears for them. The tree is arranged by the senior members of the family in the princ'pal room of tha house, and with the coming of evening the children are assembled in an adjoin ing apartment, when at agi ven. signal the door of the great room is thrown open and the children rush iu eairerand han- py. There on a long table In the center of the room stanA the Christmas tree, every branch glittering with the little lighted tapers, while all sorts of gifts and ornaments are suspended from the branches, and sometimes other presents, too cumbersome and heavy for the slender boughs, are lying on the table, properly labeled with the names of the .respective recipients. The Christmas tree is a very ancient custom in Germany, and is prob ably a heritage of the luminous and ianciful pageants of the dark or middle ages. It is only within the last twenty years, and apparently since the mar riage of Prince Albert and Queen Vic toria that it has beeu introduced into E ngland, previous to which time it was unknown. S. T. Coleridge, in a letter from Ratze burg, iu North Germany, published in the Friend, and quoted "by Hone, gives the following description of Christ mas eve customs as practiced there: "There is a Christmas custom here which pleased and interested me. The children make little presents to their par rents and each other aud the parents to the children. For three or four months before Christmas the girls are busy and the boys save up their pocket money. What the presents are to be is cautiously kept secret. Then, on the evening before Christmas-day, one of the parlors is lighted up by the children into which the parents must not enter; a great yew-bough is fastened on the table at a little distance from the wall, a multitude of little tapers are fixed on the bough but not so as to burn it until they are nearly consumed, and colored paper, etc.. hangs and flutters from the twigs. Under this bough the children lay out the presents they intend for their parents, still keeping those intend ed for each other iu their pockets. Then the parents are brought in and oach E resents his little jrift. They then ring out the remainder one by one from their pocke's and present them with kisses and embraces. On the next day in the great parlor, the parents lay out on the table the presents for the children and a scene of more sober joy succeeds; as on this day, after an old custom, the mother says private ly to her daughters, and the father to his sons, that which he has observed most praiseworthy, and that which was most faulty, in their conduct." In our own land tho Christmas eve is the most enjoyable event of the season and the custom of the Christmas tree still retains its prestige in the greatest splendor. The little ones are taught to remember the festivities are in com memoration of tho birth of the Savior. So far as can be learned the custom of celebrating the day commemorating the birth of tho Savior had Its origin during the dark ages, of which time his tory fails to inform us of the complete record of events. Suffice it to say that the origin of Christmas eve, Kris Krin gle or Santa Claus, is to bo ascribed to Gennauy. 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