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An English Story Of American Act


On one occasion Mr.. Edwin FOREST,
then a young man, gave a tremendous
display of really powerful acting. He
was supposed to represent a Roman
warrior, and to be attacked by six min
ions Of a detested tyrsnt. At the re-
hearsals, Mr.. Forrest found q great
deal Of fault with the supers who con
descended to play the minions. They
were too tame. They didn't lay hold of
him They wouldn't go in as if it we're
real fight Mr.. Forrest stormed and
threatened; the supers sulked and con
suited. At lene th the captain of the
supers inquired, in his local slang,
g Yer want this to be bully fight, ell %
I do" replied Mr.. Forrest. "All
right, " reioined the captain and then
the rehearsal quietly proceeded. In the
evening the little theatre was crowded,
and Mr.. Forrest was enthusiastically
received When the fighting scene oc-
CURED, the great tragedian took the
centre OF the stage, and the six minions
entered rapidly, and deployed in skir-
mishing order. at the cue seize him %
one miniOn assumed a pugilistic atti-
tude, and struck a blow straight from
the shoulder upon the prominent nose
of the Roman hero, another raised him
about six inches from the stage by
wel-directed kick, and the others made
ready to rush in for decisive tussle.
For a moment Mr. Forrest stood as
founded, his broad chest heaving with
rage, his great eyes flashing fire, his
sturdy legs planted like columns upon
the stage. Then came few minutes of
powerful acting. at the end of which
one super was seen sticking head fore
most in the bass drum in the orchestra,
four were having their wounds dressed
in the green-room, and one, finding
himself in the flies, rushed ont upon
the roof of the theatre and shouted
g Fire 4" at the top of his voice while
Mr.. Forrest, called before the curtain, /
bowed his thanks pantingly to the ap-
plauding audience, who looked upon
the whole affair as part of the piece,
and chad never seen Forrest act so
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TIE MrRAcEz or GExIus.-Te can
never prophesy the exact limits 81 intel
lectusl power. History warns ua against
doing 80. The genius Of Plato was
naturally evolved from the capacities Of
the PeIaszic race. But who IN Homer's
time could have conceived the possibili-
ty Of PIatouismg II would have been
. reyelation-asrsuge enouRh-in the
heroic age. Cultivation prepares the
way fer him. however. and Plato comes.
the perfection Of Grecian genius aud. By
q singular Law. at the declining moment
Of Grecian inspiration. Il uouid have
been unwarFantable presumption in the
time Of Copernicns - havs dsaied the
possibility Of an inteliect Ike Feztonss.
Eyery genius i sd impcasibility TIL be
appears. There sre never fac3s enough
IN human experieneo 10 serve - . basis
for safe Induction Is 10 The ulaHtaI ca
pacity Of man. We eennot reach the
Law that governs the deyeiopmant of
geniuA TEo centuries before his time
Shakespeare was q poetic miracle be i
3 poetic wcnder still. Prem me average
povszs Of boya q ten, Il would ssem
monsLrous that there eboula Be heads
like those Of zerah Colburn and young
saifoFd. They appoar like neW planets
taking a wider sweep in ths universe of
mind and the limits Of human nasase
are carried out.-T. sS3ayz. Kfsg.
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Innocent Rural Bows.

a... ~ .4uHOcSnI mural boys.
1t is mistaken idea to suppose that
the small boy of the city is more
wicked than the rural lad; that he
is, in fact, such bete nOir that when
placed beside his country cousin, the
latter appears shining saint. Such
an opinion has obtained fora time. and
possibly will for all time to come. But
it is a libel upon the children- of the
street, and has no foundation in fact.
We intend to explode this bubble and
have Justice done to our !gan1irls, It is
true that they are very wicked, and they
! play IN the cutters, pick pOckets,- ge- in
swimming from the pier-heads, throw
stones at each other, break windows,
steal mats, get up behind cabs, and per-
form many other freaks of like nature.
But is that any reason why we should
paint them with the sombre brush of
condemnation, and pat the boys of the
fields upon the head, and hunt in our
pockets for pence to bestow upon them
| The popular idea of the rural boy is very
pretty asa mental picture. He is indus
trious, and carries his little hoe a-field,
with which to touch up the sprouting
| corn. He is studious to fault, and it
is favorite habit of his to sit up all
night and read Latin books on astron-
omy by the light of pine torch. We
never witnessed this operation, but have
it on good authority that it is looked
at as the correct thing for the country
boy to do. No sluggard is he; but
when the first flush crimsons the eastern
sky ne bounds from his bed, pulls on
his jeans trowsers and rawhide boots and
goes TO work in the stables, or at chopping
wood. In the winter he walks ten miles
through the snow to school and draws
his little sister upon his sled. In time
he comes to own farm, then he marries,
builds church, becomes a justice of
the peace, dies, is buried in the village
church yard-a hundred dollar tomb
stone informing passing world, in a
very expensive manner, of his many
virtues. This is what the country boy
is supposed to be, but we know the
statement to be a swindle. As we have
often seen him, he was an adept in all
sorts of mischief. He could steal eggs,
and then deny the accusation with a
nerve that Schuyler Colfax might envy.
Dog fights are his delight; circus his
heaven. To get into the circus he viii
appropriate money that was intended
for the conversion Of some Iittleheatben
boy and, that scheme failing, be VIII
crawl under the tent. It is a grim salts
faction to know that he isoften punished
for this sin. In one instance the per-
forming elephant acoideutly stepped on
three little boys who were squirmingin in,
and mashed them so that their different
parents we're at loss to tell which was
which, and so had to shake their names
up in a hat, and draw for it. When
such sad scenes are possible, is it well
to claim moral superiority for the boy of
the country 2-FFdslk Lesslis's Igltbstsr-
ated Newspaper.
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PERHGPs no greater injury has ever
been done IN hortieulture than the
recommendation by inexperienced wri-
ters of chip manure as a dressing. Its
danger arises mainly from its ready dis
position to spread fungi, which inevita-
bly, arise in soils naturally little moist
and tenacious. When once formed,
such fungi spread with astonishing ra-
pidity, totally preventing growth, and
finally killing the plants. HortScltItu-
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Pearls.

The story of the dissolution of Cleo
patra's pearl in vinegar has been told
for nineteen centuries and since mod
ern chemistry can easily manufaeturs as
acid or vinegar capableof dissolving
the pearl and since history is very pos
tive about the disposition Of the mate
to the one drunk by the Egyptian queen,
We may as we'll accept the story as true.
This mate, it seems, 2 fell into the hands
of Agrippa, the favorite of Augustus.
VIII divided it itno. two equal parts, .
and with them adorned the ears of the
statue of Venus, IN the Pantheon and
even TINS divided, it was the marvel Of
Rome. In modern times we have had
an exhibition of ostentaEieus -sxasoer
quite equal in bad taste to the act of
Cleopatra. This was the grinding to
powder and drinking of a pearl worth
fifteen Thousand pounds bySir Thomas
Gresham, in order to awe the Spanish
ambassador with the wealth and devo-
ton Of Queen Elizabeth's subjects.
Pearls are among the most delicate
and unsatisfactory of gems. Even the
acid and other materials of the perspi-
ration IN certain persons will change
them and greatly decrease their bril-
hancy. Formerly they used to be
cleaned by making pigeons swallow
them, but it was found by Redi that,
after tEenty-four hours Of such treat
ment, they lost third of their weight.
Nine. de Barrera, in her ''- Gems and
Jewels" says that the discoloration of
pearls may be prevented by keeping
them IN magnesia-powder, and the ex-
pertinent is worth trying. The eause of
the lovely iridescene of the pearl was
among the ancients attributed to tile
deity that dwelt within it but it is now
known that the nature of the pearls
substance has nothing whatever to do
with its color. five take a waxzcast of
any pearl, we find the same sheen ap-
Pearing on the wax; for It is due entire
" to the shape of the surface which,
being very finely corrugated, causes the
rays of reflected light to "interfere'
Glass ruled or scratched with very fine
lines, will produce the same effect.
To this day we are ignorant of the
cause of the formation of pearls, though
they are of the same substance and Sc
creted by the same organs as the nacre,
or mother-of-pearls, which lines the in
terror surface of many shells. Ft@is
generally believed that the pearl depos-
it is formed around some foreign irri-
tating substance for nuclus, as a grain
of sand but, then, many pearls are
without this foreign nucleus, and the
pratice of introducing pearl-provoking
nuclui into the mollusk's shell does not
seem to be attended with very certain
or satisfactory results. This has, how
ever, heen measurably successful in GER
tain cases. In the fine Chinese museum
in the Louvre, there was exhibited some
time ago collection of tiny Chinese
gods all incrusted with pearl. The re-
fections was irresistible that the pearl
oyster must be very complaisantto to adorn
these fat, unsightly monsters with so
regal dress.-A HO1UJa7d.
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EAREcE-oAUGEs passenger cars, as
generally constructed, stand thirteen
inches nearer the rail and have about
hfteen inches less overhang q the side
hence the center Of gravity is considera-
bly, lover than o. the standard gauge,
making The car ride very gtesdily, and
with less oecillating motion than Is Rsa-
ally observable upon the wide gauge.
The seats. thirty-six 70 car. ara arran-
ged double on one side and single on
the other. with the order reversed mid
way Of the car, ,'to distribute the weight
equally.
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THE CHILDREN

By THE LATE CHARLES DICKENS.
When the lessons aad tasks are all ended,
And the school Of the day Ia dismissed
And the little ones gather around me,
To bid me good-night and be kissed;
the little white arms that encrcle
My neck in q tender embrace;
o the smiles that are haloes OF Heaven
Shedding sunshine Of love on my face.
And when they are gone, I sit dreaming
OF my childhood too lovely to last;
OF love that my heart viii reInenbar
While IL wakes to the pulse Of the past,
Fro the world and its uieEsdness made me
When the glory Of Goa was about me-
And the glory Of gladness within.
my heart grows weak as a woman's
Ana the fountains Of feeling VIII how,
When think Of the paths steep and stony,
Where the feet Of the dear ones must 20:
OF me mountains Of sin banging Ger them,
o there's nothing earth half 90 holy
Az the innocent heart OF child
They are idols Of hearts and Of households:
Ihey are angels Of God IN disguise;
His sunlight stil sleeps in their tresees
His glory stin CLEANS in their eyes,
. those shouts from home and from Heaven,
They have made me more manly and midi
ana I know now how Jesus could hken
The kingdom o. God 20 a child.
ask not life for the dear ones,
All radiant, as others have done:
But that life may have just enough shadow
To sleep In the glare OF the
would pray God 10 guard them from evil,
But my prayer would bound back to myself,
Ah seraph may pray FOR q sinner.
But q sinner must pray for himself
The twig IA easily bended,
I have banished tins rule and the rod,
have taught them the goodness Of knowledge,
They have taught me the goodness Of God.
Ny heart Is a dungeon Of darkness
Where shut them for breaking q rule;
NV power is sufficient correction;
Ny love is the law Of the school.
shall leave the Old house in the autumn
To traverse ifs threshold no more:
All how shall sigh for the dear ones,
That meet each morn at the door
shall miss the "gOod-nighta" aud the kisses
And the gush OF their innocent Rlee,
The group ON the green, and the hOwers f.
That are brought every morning to me.
shall miss them Al and at even
The song in the school and the street
shall miss the low hum of their voices
Ana tue tramp OF their delicate feet.
When the lessons all ended,
And Death says, " The school Is dismissed
May the little ones gather around
10 bid goodnight and be kissed
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Glaciers-Icebergs.

In other zones and mountain regions,
the moisture born in the atmosphere
congeals and falls in snew. Partially
thawing and again congealing, yet ever
and ever aocumulating, the mass be-
comes a glacier. A glacier is a frozen
riyer-frozen to its lowermost bed fro
zen frem its source to its mouth. A
river on whose surface no breezes chase
their ripples nor wild-fowl float along
whose banks no lovers loiter, nor over
hanging willows droop to glass them
selves in dimpling currents. But yet a
river, wide, and deep, and mobile; for,
warmed beneath by the earth's internal
heat, and impelled to lower levels by
gravitation and the downward pressure
of an ever-increasing volume, it moves
forward, imperceptibly but surely, up
heaving the rocks and rending the hills
in its inexorable movement.
In the elevated regions of the arctic
zone such a river has its embouehure,
like other great rivers, in the sea.
Nor do its journeyings cease when, jut
ting at length over the long-sought
shore, it falls in vast fragments into the
ocean. These fragments are icebergs.
They often tower more than hundred
feet above the water; and yet we know,
from their specific gravity, that eight
ninths Of their bulk are below Che sur
face. Far down are hidden currents
that rush against their huge proper
tions and thus they float away to dis
tant seas and gradually dissolve and dis
appear.
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DIR. McCormae real at the recent
meeting Of the British medical associa-
ton paper urging the sznploymsnt of
an8sthetics in slaughter-houses to rem
der animals unconscious before killing
them for food. The only question is
whether the graduei administration of
chloroform would not be more disagreea-
bic to an unreasoning animal than an
Unforeseen blow on the head which i'm
mediately stunsit. H
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Railway Speed.


The London Engineer states that the
highest railway speeds in the world are
attained in England, and that the high
est Of all is reached on the Great Wes-
tern railroad, the speed on the latter
being given roundly as fifty miles an
hour. Instances are given, however, of
sixty-five and seventy miles an hour,
and the engineer thinks it would be pos
sible TO lay permanent way so well, and
to maintain it in such excellent order,
that trains might travel on it with per-
feet safety at one hundred miles an hour,
indeed, mites upon miles of such track
are now to be found on most the great
main lines, but nowhere can one hun
dred consecutive miles of permanent
way in perfection be found and, as a
chain is no stronger than its weakest
link, so few hundred yards of bad
track would spoil, for the purpose of
travelling at one hundred miles an hour,
a whole line. The really important
question, argues the Engineer, is, given
the line end the cars ft for it, what
shall the engine be like, and is it possi-
BILE TO construct an engine at all, which,
with a moderately heavy train, will at
tain and maintain avelocity Of one hum
dred miles an hour, on a line with no
grade heavier than say one in three hun
dredP After thorough examination
of the question in all it's bearings, the
Engineers figures prove that it is abso-
lutely impossible to obtain speed Of
one hundred miles an hour on railway
if the resistance is anything like one
hundred and twenty pounds per ton.
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st PAY taxes" said she to Judge
Dwinelleef San Francisco; - I a1n amen
dable to the law IS mach as you-then
is there a4yireal diherense between you
and me?" "I can't conceive," said, the
the judge, why there is a differences,
but there is q Difference.
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We have referred to the surviving
human pride which exists IN some epi-
taphs. We must except one at Cupar-
Angus, on "Mr. Thomas Bell, come
dian, who is styled ga respectable
preformer," but then the poor player
does not say so of himself; the memorial
is put up by his friends of the Dundee
Eccentric x society," They probably
told the truth-a thing lost sight of in
these later days, when merely "respec-
table performer" in other parts of the
drama of life are magnifed into angels
and archangels by ecclesiastical snob-
bishness. The Athen0un1.
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4 happY uIe-anu H0Der 100
A thing that all men ought to dc"

We fear that, at least in the time
when 'drouthy neebers'' got as drunk
as Tam O. Shanter, they died in their
tipsy pride Will Rymour, the malt
man of Dalgetty, was, perhaps, one of
these, or he would never cry from his
grave such an absurd cry as this -
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Scotch Epitaphs.

Il death were not fact of Eterrible
solennity, epitaphs might Justly excite
as much laughter as a well-turned epi-
gram. Often, indeed, inscriptions meet
the eye which seem intended to make It
triumph with a sort Of dreary gIee.
There are others which are so spitefnl
in their spirit, such mocking element
Of 'sI to-day, but you to-morrew, that
sympathy is chilled We acknowledge
a truth of which we do not require to
be reminded. Now and then the facts
are simply put with a certain air Of
philosophy about them, and they are
received with more equanimity. Such
an instance is to be found in the follow
ing from the parish of Stirling:
aour life is but winter. day:
Some only breakfast ana away
Others to dinner stay,
tHrta ISIS And are fun fed.
The eldest man but sups
-,8 &. And goes to bed.
Large is his debt that fingers out the day.
a1 t.r rs He that goes soonest
Has the least to pay
The philosophy of the above is of the
uncomfortable sort, but it is hardly to
be gainsaid. On the other hand, we
come upon an example of pride in the
parish of Strathblane :'' Here lies in
the same grave with Mary, countess of
Angus, sister of King James I. of Scot
land, from whom he is lineaIly de-
scended, Archibald-Edmonstone, ESQ.
- : who adied 1883, aged sixty-one
years. The sister of King James, and
daughter of Robert Ill, married a Sir
William Edmonstone For this reason
their descendant Archibald, two centu-
ries and half later, had himself de-
posted IN thesane grave with his royal
ancestress. BE probable thought, "For
Of such is the kingdom of heaven" A
touch of romance meets us in the par
ish of Clackmanan, in " the Maid, MS
stone" which commentaries Martha
Wishart. who was loved and betrayed,
=" about the year 1449," by a priest
named Beaton. At her desire she was
buried at the door by which her faith
less lover usually entered the church
and it is to be hoped that Peter Beaton
never passed it without 97lea c,tLpai
If some of these matters led to repent
ance, others suggested reformation.
Barns has flung halo of pleasantness
around the tippiers who
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IT has long been belief among
astronomers that there is neither air
nor water on the surface Of the moon.
But a closer observation shows that
some Of the rocks are sedimentarT, (. g. f,
made mp Of material washed from other
rocks. This proves that water once ex-
listed Ia the moon. Baw theory has
been invented 70 account for It's disap-
pearance. On the earth the water ali
tends TO sink beneath Che surface. But
the internal heat turns Il to steam, or
drives it outward. On the moon tEis
heat has long since escaped, and there
is nothing to hinder the water from
penetrating inward, and being absorbed.
As this process has been going on for
ages, no water can nov be found on the
surface. The air may. perhaps. be
absorbed in a similar way. AGtEono-
aners think The earth is fastening % q
similar fate. though il may be post
poned for many ages.
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In AN advertisement of a bakers
business for sale. the following appears /:
q Death the sole reason for leaving
proprietor gone where ovens are not
needed.
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n Is proposed % hold convention
q IL s.Iitors ind lilishsfs of Florida
newspapers IN Jacksonville on the 18th
Of October. 70 .orgenizs state Pres
association.
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GEz'n--J -JAealsoS's idea Of govern
ment, Is defined b5 Jack Downing, was
+" One big wheel, and that a smashsr.'
And the idea appears to be as popular
now as It was then 1858
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MANY yoEng people believe them
selves natural when they are only inn
polite and coarse.-RocheJaitcaula.
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TIE life Of an honest man is a beauti-
fni poem npd every hunan being who
reads IL feels better, stronger, more
hopeful for t.
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How is it that the poets have said 50
many fine things about our first love, so
few about our later love9 Are their
first poems their best2 or are not those
the best which come from their fuller
thought, their larger experience, their
deeper-rooted affectionsg The boys
hute-like voice has its own spring
charm but the man should yield a
richer, deeper music.
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TIM idea seems 70 prevail that an era
Tor. Ike a poet. is born, not made.
whilst the fact is elsar that real ora
tor Is the most artificial producs Of hu-
man education. Not more 80 i fhe
splendid pie Of 81 Peters ct Rone-
6. = dsa4as.
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UPHoLD truth when thou eanst, and
for her sake be hated but know thy
individual cause is not the cause Of
truth. end beware that they are not
eonfounded.- Goethe.
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There is q livery-stable keeper in
Albany who never lets a horse without
exscting promise that the lessee VIII
drive slowly. One day, last week, 8
applied 70 the livery man for horse.
Ny friend. you can have one If you'll
agree to drive slow. . Wei. see here.
I'm going to a funeral, and Tn bound
to keep MP with the procession if It kills
A southwestern man. recently for
warded TO W7ahinEfon eieht tesn Emfti-
lated three-cent postage stamps, and
mOdestfy asked the p0stmaster-gene
10 either send him good ones in return,
or make it night" by giving him an
appointment OF some kind.
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AN Indian lady Of an original turn
of nind bases her application for q di-
vorce on the circumstance that her hus-
bands legs sre too long for her to keep
step with him when they take walk
together