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TIKI WISDOM OF THE EGI.P-
TI.T.tS.

Tho modorns are accustomed to pooh
pooh good deal at people so unfortunate
as to live before this nineteenth century 4;
but just think what some of these remote
people and times did manage to find out
and accomplish for themselves. There was
Egypt-oldest and wsost of the nations
what record for her is deciphored, in the
last fifty years, of her past.
What did the old Egyptian know about
the oldest of the arts, about farming? lie
knew how to manage his great rver-the
one source of moisture and fertility in that
climate--so as to turn the desert beyond its
banks into a garden, and mako Egypt n
storehouse and granary for the surround
ing nations. lie built reservoirs so huge
as to retain sufficient water from the over
flowing river to feed it when ii subsided-a
lake four hundred and fifty miles around
and three hundred feet deep-and this fitted
up with skillful system of floodgatos,
DAMS and locks. These were water works
on a stupendous scale, truly.
As to what he knew about building, who
has not hoard Of his pyramids, those vast
masses, some of which were old in the time
of Abraham, and yet built with such faith
fulness and skill that the masonry Is still
perfect2 IIeknew how to quarry and move
hugo blocks of stone, ninety feet in length,
and then cover them with accurate and
beautiful chiseling. The whole land was
full of these wonderful statues, obellsks
tombs, aud temples.
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STRANGE SECRETS OF THE STOMACH
The following disclosure is creating great
excitement, at the present time, in all parts
of the country. Tho chemical connection
spoken of between tea and leather was
doubtless discovered by the coolies ut North
Adams:
"When We pour milk into a cup of tea or
coffee, the albumon of the milk and the
tannin of the tea instantly unite and form
leather, or minute flakes of the very same
compound which is produced in tho tex
turo of the tanned hide, and which make it
leather rs distinguished from tho original
skin. In the course of year tea drinker
of average habits will have imbibed leather
enough TO make a pair of shoes, if it could
be put into the proper shape for the pur-
pose.
"A great many things 60 into the mouth
This is not an original remark. We have
seen il somewhere. But it is an alarming
fact. We drink, every one of us, pair of
boots yearl We carry iron enough in our
blood, constantly, to make horseshoe!
We have clay enough in our frames to
make, if properly separated and baked, a
dozen good sized bricks! We cat at least
peck of dirt a month mo, that is not too
large an estimate. The man who carelossly
tins glass of lager into his stomach, little
reflects that he has begun the manufacture
of hat, yet such is the case. Tho malt of
the beer assmilatos with tho chyle and
forms kind of felt-the very same seen so
often in the hat factories. But not being
Immediately utilized, 1t is lost. Still fur
| Their, it is estimated that the bones in every
adult person require to be fed with lime
enough to make II marble mantel every
eight months"
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About manufacturing, he knew how to
weave linen so fine that each separate
thread was composed of three hundred and
sixty-fivo small threads twisted together.
He knew how TO dye IL in purple, and blue,
and scarlet, and how to cmbroidcr 1t. He
knew how to get iron and copper from
mines at Sinai, and how TO make useful
tools of them when obtained.
But what did he know about science?
lie understood geometry well enough, at
least for land surveying. lie understood
the rotundity of the earth, the suns central
place in tho solar system, the obliquity of
the ccliptic. lie could forctcll ccipscs, the
position of the planets, the true length OF
the year. lie had found out method of
notation-two of them, indeed, the decimal
and the duodecimal. As for chemistry, its
very name from Chemi, which means
Egypt,) tells us where 1t was first studied.
No wonder that the Egyptians got tho rep
utation, among their more ignorant neigh
bors, of being magicians. AS for books,
the old Egyptians made paper and wrote
on II, and we have now papyrus rolls made
in the time of the early Pharaohs but he
went on further to turn his buildings, his
obelislSs, oven his collins into books, in
scribing them with histories and biogra-
pixies, by representing on them, through
paintings and sculpture, all his occupations
and beliefs, his hopes and fears.
One asks in wonder where he got all this
knowledge. Ancient Greece went to him
for it, just as the American goes to Gorma-
ny. We can trace the germs, at least, of
ourscicnce and art in nations removed from
us by agos-r but whom did the Egyptians
| learn from? Were these sons of Ham the
first to develop to such marvellous degree
the arts of lifo2 Did they find out by orig
| inal observation what has been transmitted
to us? And through what remote antiqui-
! ty were they slowly accommodating the OK
porienco which qualified them to establish
such stable institutions, such settled tradi-
tons, such attainments in science and art.
No one can tell. At point beyond our
furthest tradition her records show her to
us rich, powerful, cultivated, skillful. OF
the long ages before she was able to record
her changes, time has long oblitcrated all
traces. The world has long forgotten all
about her, till the researches of the last half
century brought to light her long buried
life. Strange enough ii is to be brought
face to face with the monuments of a civil
ization compared TO which all European
history is but of yesterday-which was Ole
in the days of Abraham-and to find there
so much in common with our own.
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And Other Points as Follcwsi
NTANHooD: now LOST, now RESTORED

MANHOOD: HOW LOST HOW RESTORED
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Poetry.
TILT LIVE FR.vCB.

Old farmer Smith came homo in q milf
From his nold the other day,
While his sweet little wife, the pride Of his life,
Al her wheel was spinning away.
And ever anon, gay little song
with the buzz of her wheel kept time;
And the wrathful brow ia clearing now,
Under the cheerful rhyme.
"Comc come, little Turk put away your work
And listen to what say;
Whit can do, but quarrel brew
with the man across the way7
have built my fence, but he wont commence
To lay single rail;
Ills cattle get in, and the feed gets thin,
lam tempted TO make q sale"
''why John, dear john how you do go oni
I'm afraid 1t will be as they sayl"
mo, no, little wife, have learned that strife
In lawyers hand don't pay.
lie ia picking flaw to drive me to law,
I've heard that he said he would;
And you know long ago, the law wronged me so,
vowed l never should.
SO what can do, that will not rue,
To the man across the way7"
''If that's what you want, 1 can help you haunt
The man with the spectre grny!
Thirty dollars will do TO carry you through,
And then you have gained q neighbor;
It would cost you more 10 peep In the door
OF court and much more labor.
Just use your good scnsc-lets build him fence,
And shame such thoughts out Of the follow"
They built up his part and 1t scnt to his heart
loves dart, where the good lay mellow.
That very same night, by the candle Light,
They opened with interest letter;
Not q word was there, but three grcenbacts fair
Said the man was growing better.
CLYDE HAWTHORNE.
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tFrom the N. L. Homcstead.l
DRSBRTRD PL.ECBS.

In the eastern part of the central portion
of Windham County, Vermont, about six
miles west of the Connecticut river, and
running nearly parallel with it, is long
range of hills, or rather one continuous
hill, stretching from Dummerston to Rock
ingham, n distance of ~ or Is miles, and
rising from tho valley on either side from
one mile to three. From the summit is an
extensive view, reaching far into New
Hampshire on the east, and revealing for
more than so miles on the west, the promi
ncnt peaks of the Green Mountain range.
Conspicuous among these may be seen
the IIaystack of Wilmington, the rocky
hills of Jamaica, the mountains of Stratton,
of Dorset and Peru. The hill attains its
greatest height between the towns of Put
ncy and Westminster on one side, and
Brooklino on the other. Scattered over IL
and along its declivitcs are the deserted
homes of former generation. In every
direction we find the relics of an ancient
household; few dccaying timbers, an old
cellar and the crumbling walls of massive
stone chimney. The abandoned farms are
turned into out pastures for sheep and fat
tening cattle. On some of them the houses
are still standing, and the sheep lie on the
hcarthstonc and the kitchen floor.
A former resident of Putney, an octoge-
marian and an old school teacher, says, that
when a young man he taught Il school of 20
scholars in one of the districts on this hill.
In this district there is now no school, no
scholars, and only two houses inhabited.
In another district adjoining. in which
there is not single house now standing.
he taught school of 60 scholars. These
districts were both in Putnev. ON the east
side of n hill. Tho evidences of dosolotion
continue ON both sides of the entire range.
II ia nainful IN think how many long DAYS
and wear. of labor have been oxponded on
those dosertod homos Ucro are hugo stono
walls inclosing nearly all the fields, stand
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