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SOME QUEER STATISTICS.

Great wars or other national commissions are
followed by an increase in the rate of sudden,
violent and unnatural deaths. Oliver Wendell
Holiness soon after the outbreak of our own
civil war, predicted that deaths from heart
disease would, for many years, exceed their
old proportion in the total mortality, and the
result has verified his prophecy, which indeed
was based on familiar medical experience.
We incline to think that the careful statistics
would show like increase in deaths from vio-
lence and from self-destruction The fact is
well attested, so faras concerns suicides, which
in France, during the past year, have caused
a death record unprecedented and prodigious.
A calculation made for Paris alone shows the
almost incredible result of a, TT suicides in
1871. A detailed classification ascribes the
larger number, 1,377, as might be expected,
to arrangement of the brain. Next come 03C
suicides from physical sufferings "-the
strongest temptation, one would think, to defy
the 'cannon against self-slaughter, but one
more prevalent in France than in our land,
we judge. Disappointed love caused 701 sui
cides family quarrels are credited with 512
extreme restitution with 1888 fear Of punish
ment with %; while delirium tremens result
ing from the excessive use of absinthe, drove
no less than 2S2 victims to voluntary death
Looking at this last fact we may appreciate
that mot of Trelat, who, contrasting the two
stimulants, brandy and absinthe, declared
that if one was peau de eie, the other was peaa
de mort. France, like the Rome to which she
loves to compare herself, has always been .;ro
life of suicides, but the extraordinary record
of 1871 must be ascribed in some part to tho
disastrous and depressing effects of the war
--LippincoTs Magazine.
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Who CAN TELL ?--Insurance experts may
be enabled, in dealing with large numbers, to
make trustworthy tables of the average of
life, but the unscientiiic observer finds that
longevity can rarely be safely predicted in
individual cases. Twenty years ago every body
would have given Forrest the chance Of pro-
longed life over Macready, his great rival FOR
Macready was gaunt, feeble, excessively ner-
vous and irritable, and severe student. But
Macready lives at the age of sixty-six. Whea
the poet Bryant was thirty-eight, his health
was feeble. He was a sufferer from dyspepsia,
and gave premonitions of an early demise.
Who then supposed he would outlive many
years his friend Cooper splendid specimen
of robust health, and that at near eighty he
would be enjoying hearty old age, while SO
many of his compeers Irving, Paulding,
Halleck, Willis, Cooper, Ycrrlank- would DO
sleeping in their graves?
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MISCELLANY.
DIED YESTERDAY.

"Died yesterday" Who died9 Perhaps
it was gentle babe-one whose life was as
the gush of summer rils lettering in the bower
of roses-whose little life was u perpetual
litany, a May-time crowned with the passion
Of flowers that never fade. Or mayhap it was
youth, hopeful and generous, whose path
was hemmed by flowers, with not serpent
lurking underneath one whose soul painted
for communion with the great and good, and
reached forth with earnest struggle for the
gueldon in the distance. But that heart is
still now he "died yesterday"
"Died yesterday" A young girl pure as
the orange flowers that clasped her forehead,
was stricken down as she stood at the altar !;
and from the dim aisle of the temple she was
borne to the "garden of tie slumbers.' A
tall, crowned man, girt with the halo of vic
tory, and at the days close, under his own
vine and fig tree, fell to dust even as the an
them trembed upon his lips and he, too, was
laid 'where the rude forefathers of the ham,
let sleep" An ancient patriarch, bowed with
age and cares, even as he looked out upon the
distant hills for the coming of the angel host,
sank into a dreamless slumbcr, and on his
door-post is written, "Died yesterday"
"Died yesterday" Daily, men, women
and children are passing away, and hourly, in
some graveyard, the soil is flung upon the
dead As often in the morn we find some
flower that blushed sweetly in the sunset, has
withered up forever; SO daily, when we rise
from the bivouac to stand again at our posts,
we miss some brother soldier whose CHEEKY
cry in the sieges and struggles of the past has
been as fire from Heaven upon our hearts.
Each day some pearl drops from the jewel
thread of friendship-seme Tyre to which we
have been wont to listen has been hushed for
ever But wise is he who mourns not the pearl
and music lost for life with him shall pass
away gently, as an eastern shadow from the
hills and death be triumph and gain.
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From the two Spectacle glasses" which
formed the first telescope made by Hans mp
persheim, of Middlcburg, to he grand tele-
scopes of the present day, what Il stride has
been made! Galileos first Instrument mag
nilied "three y times, but a telescope has just
been put up which magniiies three thousand
times, that is to say, il draws the visihilitysf
distant objects like the moon three thousand
times nearer. The object-glass Of this instru-
ment is twenty-five inches in diameter, and is
said to be the largest in the world except one
now being constructed for the United States
which is to be twenty-seven inches. BY the
telescope already set up, the moon is brought
practically within eight miles Of the sight of
the observer.
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SOMETHING HoT.--Prof. Richards. the ponu
lar lecturer on Astronomy, thus illustrates the
heating force of the sun 1t is 10000 times
hotter than the noon temperature at the equa-
tor, and far surpasses the heat Of any focal
glass it is equal to that of $1,000 tons of
burning coal of Il, 900 six-horse power en-
gines it would melt ice halfa mile thick in
half an hour; burn a layer Of coal to cover its
disc 10 feet thick, or would consume IL miles
thickness of coal in year; to employ all tho
radiation of heat, ice must be darted into the
sun with the velocity Of ligbt--10o,oo0 miles
in second or it would melt an ice cylinder
1000 square miles at its base and 10000
miles high Some of these illustrations are
Prof. Tyndall's and somo Hersehel's., It's
light is equal to that of 1850 lime balls the
same size as the sun. How brilliant lime is
as source Of light was shown al the close of
the lecture.
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ANCIENT AND MODERN ALEXANDRIA.


Alexandria, in Egypt, has not had much of
a place in history for the last 1000 years. Her
main distinction has been that she perpetuates
the name of her founder, Alexander the Great,
and has been the godmother of numerous cities
of civilization born in her old age. Her library
and interesting objects of antiquity have en-
dearcd her somewhat to savants, but CONNER
cially she dropped out of sight for time, and,
having been forgotten, comparatively few now
know that she has arisen again, until it is said
of her by a recent investigator that no city east
of the Atlantic has made so great progress in
so short time. When NapoleonI |. went there
he found a miserable collection of old huts and
Notifications, and IA useless population of 1000
inhabitants. In 1912 that number had in
creased to 60,000 and to-day it is 800, 600.
Seven years ago there no gas in the city,
and only one paved street, but now every chief
street is paved and well-lighted, and the old
mode Of travelling on donkey back has given
way TO driving in hired carriages, which are
both cheap and abundant. Telegraphic and
railway communication also is as perfect as in
any European city, and with the grand i'm
provements now going on in the harbor, the
latter promises to be one Of the finest in the
world. The Objectionable feature is one incl
dental to all thriving cities-that house rents
are exceptionally high and the cost Of living
enormous
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BOOKS.

If man spend lavishly OH his library, you
call him mad, ga bibliomaniac,' but you
newer call any one a horse nsauaie, though men
ruin themselves every day by their horses, and
you do not hear Of people running themselves
by their hooks.
How much dc you think tha libraries, pub
lie and private, q England, would fetch COM
pared with its wine cellars, " ali compared
with its expenditures III laxufious living.
We talk Of food for the mind as Of food for
the body now good book contains such
food inexhaustibly.
The very cheapness Of literature is mak;nr
people forget that il book is worth reading.
1t is worth buying. No book Is worth any,
thing which is not worth much, nor is It SER
viceable until it has been read and re-rcad. ard
loved and loved again, and marked SO flat
you can refer to the passage you want in It,
as the soldier can seize the weapon he naads
in an armory, or the housewife briuss the very
spice she needs from her store.
Bread of flour is good but there is bread
sweet as honey in good book, and tic family
must be poor indeed which once in tEeir lives
cannot for such multipliable barleyle ayes pay
the bakers bill. We call ourselves gich, ard
are foolish enough to thumb each others
books out of circulating library Ruslia.
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Houses on streets running nearly north and
south are far preferable to those located on
those going east and west in sanitary esti-
mate. In the first, here at the north of the
equator, the sun shines brilliantly in the fore
noon on the front, and with nearly equal force
in the afternoon ON the rear. Thus dampness
is expelled, and the whole edifice is dry and
the air is far purer for its solar exposure. If
a house is on an east and west street. those
fronting north are decidedly the best for a
residence, because the suns action on the
yard, the kitchen and usual regions of neglect
ed accumulations purifes and modfes the
humid atmosphere that is sure to predominant
in yards and the back side of houses whose
rear is north of the street. Thus circumstanced
the back rooms are never SO pleasant, cheer
full or economically warmed in winter or ven
tilated in summer, as when on the south side.
Opening on the street, the frame on each gets
both light and air by reason of the frequent
swing of the front door. Here is law of
health in nutshell.
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The Chinese, it is related, have very Pc
cular method Of discovering the hour OF noon.
Clocks and watches are scarce among the
peasantry, whereas cats are numerous, and
the eyes Of these animals are said to serve as
time-keepers. AT the exact moment OF noon,
the pupil Of the cats eye is said TO become an
exact line, but as the sun declines it widens,
becoming of an oval shape at sunset, and
almost circular as midnight approaches, while
it gradually diminishes in breadth as the sun
rises, until it again becomes a thin line at
noon. Experience, it is said, enables the
Chinese to become very exact in telling The
time by this means.
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Paris correspondent argues that marri-
ed woman on the stage exercises less magnet
ism over an audience than single woman
does, from the fact she belongs to another
that her brightest glances, sweetest dimples
and most musical tones are for him, uncon-
sciously diminishes her influence and states in
illustration that there were offered in Paris
what were called Christian Nilsson watches,
which had great sale, and when she took a
husband their demand so sensibly diminished
that the proprietor changed their name.
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POETRY.
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
BY GILBERT LYON.

Yes, twenty years have rolled away,
Long years of pain and toll aud care,
And I've come back again. to-day,
To that old mountain school-house where
l labored YEARLY and slow
In learning, twenty yeats ago.
Oh how familiar is each sight;
The same road winds around the hill,
And by the willows, sparkling bright
Yon long-loved, long remembered rill
Still sings in murmurs soft and low
The tune of twenty years ago.
The same is every slope of ground
And every favorite waysde nook;
And all the hills and woods around
Like dear old friends and Kindred look;
And by the grassy pathway grow
Daisies of twenty years ago.
Within the house (ah hallowed place.
Each rough old bench remains the same,
And on the walls dimly trace
Full many hali-forgotten name,
In letters rude, inscribed to show
Who sat there twenty years ago.
How can II be that twenty years
Have passed since i was here before,
When everything see appears
All, all unchanged since days of yore?
And still my soul thrills with the glow
That filed 1t twenty years ago
But where are they who gathered there
In yonder seats, or by the stove2
Some dead some gone-I know not where
Upon the worlds broad face they rove;
But they and are changed, know
Children of twenty years ago!
Yes, there is change in twenty years,
However short the time may seem;
With swelling heart and falling tears
ponder Ger the sad, sweet dream,
While through my brain rush to and fro
The ghosts of twenty years ago.
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SPLEEN Oddly ILLUSTRATED.

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and expresses decided views political and social pro-
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THE SUNSET OF LIFE.

Resting in food of sunlight,
Where its glory kissed his brow,
Sat an old man on the threshold;
On his staff his hahds were folded
Thinking of by-gone-and now.
And he rested there his chin;
While his face with calm expression,
Told the peace that reisned within.
Still he sat intently gazing
Thro' the aisles OF arching green;
Out upon the glorious vista;
In the mellow distance seen;
Listening to the murmuring music,
OF the wind and distant waves,
Like approving ages calling
To the present from their graves
And the sun went smiling downward,
And his soul went nearer home;
Drinking deep of healing waters
Flowing from a heavenly dome;
Outward sense and scenes were fading,
With the suns last ling ring ray
But within the angels voices
Whispered of eternal day!
As the moonbeams softly slumbered
Where was once the sunlights fall,
Round the old man closed the shadows,
With growing sombre pail,
Till upon his shelf he rested!
Time was hnished-day was gone;
And with all its golden glory,
Earth was ended-Heaven begun.
--Ae@ Hdrea Ter
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A recent writer believes there are only three
things needed to bring about the millennium.
First, motive power to do all the work of
steam but require no fuel second, aerial navi-
cation, by which geographical and political
boundaries will be obliterated, and the whole
world become one nation and third, chemical
food, to be made in the laboratory without
either animal or vegetable substances, and pro
duced so cheaply that want will be unheared
of.
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cURIosIrIEs OF ANIMAL LIFE.

There can be no doubt that dogs feel shame
as distinct from fear, and something very like
modesty, while begging too often for food. A
great dog scorns the snarling Of a little dog,
and this may be called magnanimity. All
animals feel WONDER and many exhibit curl
osity, the latter quality Attending opportunity
for hunters todecoy the game into their power.
The faculty of imitation, SO strongly developed
in man. especially in a barbarous state, is
present in monkeys. A certain bull-terrier of
our acquaintance when he wishes to go out of
the room, jumps at the handle. Parrots also
reproduce with wonderful fidelity the tones of
voice of different speakers, and puppies reared
by cats have been known to lick their feet and
wash their faces after the same manner as
their foster mothers. Attention and memory
also are present in the lower animals, and it is
impossible to deny that the dreams of dogs
and horses show the presence of Imagination
or that a certain reason is also present. Ami
mails also profit by experience, as any man
realizes who sets traps. The young are much
more easily caught than the old, and the adults
gain caution by seeing the fate of those who
are caught. Tools are also used by some of
the higher apes. The chimpanzee uses stone
to crack a nut resembling walnut, and the
Abyssinan balloons fight troops of other spe-
cies, and roll down stones in the attack before
they finally close in hand to-hand encounter
The idea of property is common also to every
dog with bone, to all birds with their nests,
and notable in the cases of rocks. Nor can
certain kind of language be denied to the
brutes. The dog communicates his feelings
by barks of different tones, which undoubtedly
raise in his fellowrdogs ideas similar to those
passing in his own mind. --Edin5urgh Reeieso.
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1t is said that Signor Grafton, one of tho
engineers ON the Mount Gents tunnel, has
become insane from the use of mercurial hair
that helped to bore the Alps could not stand
the effects of hair dye, how can those hope to
preserve their equilibrium whose highest
achievement at engineering is to run tolela-
bly, straight dividing line over the Uranium?
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A plan for the strengthening of buildings
has been introduced in Boston by California
architect. 1t provides for the insertion of iron
uprights an inch in thickness, and one-third as
wide as the wall is thick, at intervals of ten
feet, in every front and side wall, with cross
bars holding the four walls together and run
ming through the floors, strap-iron being used
at intervals, and bound in with bricks.
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The spirit Of true religion breathes gentle
ness and affability it is social kind and
cheerful far removed from that gloomy,
illiberal superstition and bigotry which cloud
the brow, sour the temper, defect the spirit
and impress morcstv on be n,anneis.