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though greatly pleased. I looked, and
there was a little mouse-iust the pref
test mouse you ever s~aw-running to-
ward the window, along the side of the
room. He and the bird played with
each other-sometimes "Bo-peep," and
sometimes running after each other una
der the book cases and table. Eviden.1j
they were old acquaintance.
Presently the mouse ran up the string
of the window shade, jumped into the
parsons cage, ran along the perch, put
his head into the cup, and took a good
drink of water. Then he ran to the OPP
posite side of the cage, put his head into
the other cup, and went to eating the
birds seed. Wasn't that cute? Par
son flew on top of the cage, and looked
at the mouse all the time.
1 kept very quiet and watched the
whole with great interest and pleasure.
While the nous was eating, 1 rose and
went to the cage. What do you think
the mouse did? Run away? No. He
just turned round and sat in the cup,
and looked at me out of his two little
shining eyes, and with a little tremble
about the mouth that seemed to say,
"Please do not hurt me; l was very
hungry"
And I could not find it in my heart to
hurt the little thing.-Selected.
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| have a canary bird. He is a splen-
did singer and very tame. He is al
lowed to leave his cage every day.
When he is hungry or thirsty, he goes
back, eats and drinks, then ont
and flies and hops about the room.
Sometimes he hops on my knees, and
sometimes on my head. He is very
fond of getting on my table and pecking
among my papers. He comes so close
to my pen at times, when 1 am writing,
that 1 have to push him away, which he
does not like al all. He knows me and
will sit on my hand for several minutes
when l will let him.
His cage hangs by the window.
When the shade is pulled up, the tassel
of the string lies on the floor, and the
string runs up past and close by the
cage.
One day I was writing. The bird,
whose name is "Parson," was hopping
about the room, and everything was as
quiet as quiet could be.
Suddenly the bird began to run very
fast toward the window, chipping a:
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TEMPLE B.iR'S D

The London correspondent uf the
Chicago Journal says: 81 suppose
that NJ n OF the many lions of
London is better known to Americans,
whether they have ever visited this
metropolis or not, than the historical
and world-renowned gateway known as
Temple Bar Marking the western
boundary of the old city limits, it has
always played n conspicuous part in
civic and even in national history. To
this day the Queen never passes under
the venerable arch without formally
demanding and receiving permission
from his superior majesty, the Lord
Mayor, who is, it appears, eastward of
that boundary more powerful than her
self. On the occasion Of a royal visit
to the city the otherwise open gates are
closed and locked, and q court official
humbly asks the functionary on the
other side that her Majesty may be
permitted 10 pass. OF course this per-
mission is always granted, cut the
necessity for the ceremony still exists
in order to preserve and maintain GER
tain corporate rights which would other
wise expire. 1t is, I think, within the
memory of living men that the decapi-
tated heads Of political criminals were
exposed to the public gaze on Temple
Bar, and it is impossible not to wonder
at the taste of the generation of En-
glishmen who could endure such a
CHASTITY and filthy exhibition. For
many years past the considerable room
over the gateway has been used by an
eminent clearinghouse a a place of
deposit for its numerous account books
not in constant use, and as a capital
lookout for the friends of the estab-
Gshment on days of royal or civic pro-
cessions. But the glory of Temple Bar
has long since departed, and it has been
every year becoming more and more of
a nuisance, from the fact of its con-
tracing the roadway so as to present
an obstacle to the increasing traffic.
Several attempts have heretofore been
made to effect its removal, but every
body has a sort of natural affection for
the old relic of the past, and hitherto it
has been impossible to obtain the con-
sent of the authorities or the people for
its demolition. Just now it appears
likely that this really desirable end will
be obtained without any e%xtraneous eff
fort. Since the excavations at the site
of the new law courts, Immediately ad-
jacent, the north wall has been steadily
settling down, and architects say that
DETECTION will soon become SO great
that the arch will split at the top, and
the whole mass tumble down in shape
less ruins. Under these circumstances,
as it is impossible to know exactly when
the catastrophe may occur, and in order
to guard against accidents, it is now
proposed to pull down the Bar and,
once down, it is pretty certain that it
will not be again reconstructed. We
shall miss the old fabric, but it is best
it should CO."
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within boys sphere, and not that if it
interferes with the hours of play, which
health demands boys should have, viz. :
Between Z o'clock in the a. m. and 9 in
the p. M, with the necessary intermis-
sions for meals.
Fourth-And be it enacted that straps
I'D taws and cowhides nor yet slippers
will have any effect in this rebellion. If
they try that game, it will be good-by,
John, for errands, and we shall ever
pray. That's the kind OF hair pins that
we are.
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are on duty in the flooded district, under Gen.
Pearson, and. in conjunction with the police,
guards have been placed across the streets,
and gangs of laborers are at work clearing up
the debris and searching for dead bodies.
The Board Of Health and Mayor Fleming are
at work with ak and pick, like other laborers.
This afternoon the citizens in this city held a
meeting, when some 81, 500 was subscribed.
The suffering among the victims will DO great
and it seems as though other cities will have
to be appealed to for aid. All is still confu-
sion, and business is virtually suspended.
From the surrounding country the reports
keep coming in as to the damage done by the
flood. which increase in their estimates of
the loss of life. The CHARTERS creek for its
whole length has not a bridge left across it.
In some instances 10 feet of dirt and drift
wood has been covered over the land in this
vicinity. In many places the lots, as well as
the houses, have been literally washed away,
and the street lines entirely obliterated.
A later dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa, says:
''The work of digging among the debris of
DuScHeIS run lor inc DOules OF ounuay
nights victims still continues. Tie dead
animals are being removed rapidly. some
nine bodies were taken ont Of Butchers run
to-day, and the list as footed up tonight
shows the number recovered to be 102. There
is but little chance of any additional bodies
being found in Saw-Mill run, they having been
carried into the Ohio river. A child WAS
found this morning in its cradle floating IN
the Ohio river, at the head Of Montgomery
island, 30 miles below this city. 1t was alive
and kicking"
The Pittsburgh Chronicle says that one of
the understandable circumstances connected
with tho great flood disaster Is the fact that
no list Of injured appears. The alternative
seems to have been ''sink or SWIM"
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THE PENNSYLVANIA FLOOD.


Especial to the Chicago Tribune, Jaly 2S.l
The scenes presented at the ruins and
Debris Of Sunday nights flood are utterly
h5sscribable. / do not believe that the
Eorst Of the loss Of life has yet
teen told. The ruins present a scene
Of devastation unparalleled. A storm
Ike that of the fatal Sunday night
Vas never before known. The Mill river
asister dwindles in comparison with this
one. For two days and nights l have been
ever the ruins yet l cannot realize the fear
ae1tent Of this last calamity. 1t seems as
though there was no end to the ruin. The
Hnd cannot picture anything no utterly
hArtrending as this scene presents. Yet
NihAi there is no realization by the people
generally Of the loss, neither is there much
sympathy expressed for the afflicted. Whole
isnlies were buried to-day. The sight was
easof sadness-funerals all the afternoon,
OAs tolIing. and children who had lost their
PARENTS weeping, while parents who had lost
e4laren mourned and would not be COM
i'Hed. There were not enough hearses, and
osn wagons carted many bodies. to their
As' resting place, while in some instances
mere was no minister to ofticiate. Now and
Nasn some unrecognized corpse was hurried
WHO the Potter's field, neither friend nor
tsAaVe following to the grave. The Catholic
0uafch took care Of its own dead. Crowds
ssaered around the churches and under
"Aefs shops, but they were curiosity-seek-
~ nothing more. Twelve more bodies
.ee recovered to-day-six in Allegheny, two
woods run, two at Saw-Mill run, one in
NC Allegheny river, in this city, and a body in
sohio. Two little children were rescued
a'~ Inc ruins alive. One, a little boy, was
1Oaaa In a pile of rubbish on East street,
GARY exhausted, life just being dis
,e'aoie. He was taken by a lady
.a cared for. The other was a little
sh' found id'the attic Of a house on the
sue street, and was brought out. Though
u emaciated and nearly dead. it is thought
ihese children Will survive. The militis
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INDUSTRIOUS r

A writer on Jean Paul Marat in the
CornhiN Magazine says: Sat forty
eight years of age Marat is described
as having been less than FIVE feet high,
and with a head enormously dispro-
portionate to the size of his body. The
upper part OF his face was handsome,
but the lower part, beginning with the
nose, was that of a wild beast. The
nose was fiat and large, with nostrils
that quivered !; the mouth huge and
filled with black, jagged teeth ; the
chin square, and generally ill-shaved,
covered with a stubble of several days
growth. Naturally unclean in his per-
son, Marat cultivated sloYenliness for
the purposes of inspiring greater con
fdence to the dregs of the populace.
He seldom wore a hat, but covered his
head with a twisted handkerchief, red,
yellow and greasy. His linen was wory
than dingy, his shoes stringless, his
stockings torn and down at the heel,
and his brown coat covered with stains,
ink FLASHES and flakes of dry mud. In
constant terror of his life, he never
ventured out alone, but was always at
tended by a tattered mob of ruffians
who called themselves his body-guard,
and piled cudgels about them to clear
him a passage through the street
crowds. Women when they saw him
trembled and turned their heads aside,
children ran away from him ; at the
| Convention House his entrance was the
signal for a general silence, and often
for a dispersion of half the number
present. Marat, who was eaten up with
a bilious vanity. gloried in the ~univers-
al repulsion which he excited, and he
had a grim, vicious way of smiling
when fixing his eye on any member
whom he disliked, saw the man turn
pale and crouch. Such was the man
who by means of all the scum of Paris
kept the convention in terror, and
through it governed France.
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business Before Pleasure.

Business Before Pleasure.
"Put the young horse in the plow,"
said the farmer and very much pleased
he was to be in a team with Dob
bin and the gray mare. 1t was a
long field, and gaily he walked across
it, bis nose upon Dobbin's launches,
having hard work to keep at SO slow a
pace.
"Where are we going now ?" he said,
when be got to the top of the hill.
"This is very pleasant"
"Back again." said Dobbin.
"What for" said the young horse,
rather surprised but Dobbin had gone
to sleep, for he could plow as well asleep
rs awake.
"What are we going back for" he
asked, turning round.
"Keep on" said the gray mare, "or
we shall never get to the bottom,
and you'll have the whip at your
heels"
Every odd, indeed" said the young
horse, who thought he had had enough
of 1t, and was not sorry he was coming
to the bottom of the field. Great was
his astonishment when Dobbin again
turned, and proceeded at the same pace
up the field again.
Glow long is this going on ?" he
asked turning To the gray maze.
keep up, l tell You, or you'll have
me on Your heels"
When tie top came, and another
turn, and the bottom, and another turn,
the poor Young horse was in de-
spair he grew quite dizzy, and
was glad, like Dobbin, to shut his
eyes, that he might get rid of the
sight Of the same ground SO contin-
ually.
well" said he, when the gears
were taken of, "if this is your plow-
ing, l hope 1 shall have no more of
it." But his hopes were vain /; for
many days he plowed, till he got
got-not reconciled to it-but tired Of
complaining OF the weary, m~onotonous
work.
In the hard winter, when comfortably
housed in the warm stable, he cried out
to Dobbin, as he was eating some de-
licious oats, 81 say Dobbin. this is bet
ter than blowing /; do you remember
that field? l hope l shall have
anything to do with that business again.
What in the world could have been the
use walking up a field just for the
sake of walking down again? It's
enough to make one laugh to think of
it."
Glow do you like your oats ?" said
Dobbin.
delicious !" said the young horse.
"Then please to remember, if there
were no blowing, there would be nc
oats"
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THE LITTLE FOLKS.



On a heap OF autumn leaves,
Brown and gold and flaming red,
Lying with her dimpled hands
Clasped beneath her head,
Little Patty, with her eyes
Brown and soft and sleepy, said,
"Tell the incest story, Pierre,
That you've ever read"
So he told her Of q queen,
On a throne of red and gold;
And he told her of a knight,
Beautiful and bold.
But the queen was very proud,
Though the queen was very fair;
And the knight, the brave and good,
Languish'd in despair.
Till the knight upon a day
Boldly saved the lsdy's life;
Seeing him so brave, she said,
81 will be your wife,"
Then, within the palace gates,
Bells were ringing clelr and loud,
He no longer languishing,
She no longer proud.
$50, you see," said little Pierre,
81 shall be 4 soldier bold
! shall save a lady's life,
Wbap Tn, stropg and old -
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FROM all appearances the country is
becoming infested with a force of first
class brigands. In Philadelphia they
abduct a child, and coolly demand
$40, 900 for its return, and a late dis
patch reports an attempt to waylay a
paymaster's car, bearing $50, 600, on
the New York Central railroad. 1t is
time they were put down.
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JOHN PAUL" ON HYDROPHOBLA.
"John Paul." who has haddiversiied
experience with dogs, writes from his
home to the Tribune. He mentions
that he was once bitten on the ear by q
canine, since which time he appears to
have suffered much, not from the bite,
but from Mrs. Paul. He says, "She
begged that 1 would send for the doc
tor at once and have my ear cut off, de-
claring that if I did not she should not
have a moments peace. Arbitrarily,
perhaps brutally, 1 declined to crafty
her. In consequence have not yet had
the bliss of knowing what it is to bound
gayly through life with a leather ear.
1t may be that the experience is still
destined to bemine, however !; for, since
this mad-dog excitement reached its
present height, Mrs. Paul frequently
asks me if 1 feel no symptoms. 1 can
not scratch the back of my head without
her placing a bucket of water before me
to see if 1 show signs Of boiling"
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ACCORDING to the census, there are
only two men in America who make a
specially of the manufacture OF hand
organs.
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WITHIN the limits of Boston there are
FIVE Washington streets, three Wash
ington places, nj Washington court,
one Washington park, and one Wash
ington avenue, and the wonder is how
one city can father them all.
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Boys Declaration OF independence.

Boys Declaration OF Independence.
Pittsburgh boys have held a meeting
and resolved to have larger liberties.
Here is their declaration of sentiments
and purposes
ResOiUed, That We put our best feet
foremost in the great cause, and fling
to the roaring hurricane our banner i'll
scribed "Free Vacation and Boys
Rights"
Second-We will go in swimming
whenever we darn please, and won't
come any extra %shenanigan about get
ting our hair dry to sell the folks at
home, and that we will have shirts to
wear so that the big fellows won't laugh
Mt us when we are undressing and max
ing our toilets by the sad river waves.
Third-We are willing to do the
square thing by our parents, but ant
cut for tending to babies, and we won't
do any manual or girlual labor about
home hat does not properly come
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The Leisure Time of Boys.

The Leisure Time of Boys.
We would suggest to the many pa
rents who are perplexed with the diff
Guilty of finding the w~herewithal to
amuse and interest their boys, to give
their lads every opportunity Of acquir-
ing a mechanical trade. The industry
andingenuity of a boy of average ability,
says the Scientific american, may easily
be made to furnish him with a never
failing source of amusement of the best
order. The boy who can produce or
make something, already begins to feel
that he is somebody in the world, that
achievement of q result is not q reward
reserved for grown people only. And
the education of mind, eye and hand,
which the use of tools and mechanical
appliances furnishes, is of 4 great and
real value, beyond the good resulting
from the occupation of leisure time.
Having nothing to do is as great a snare
to the young as it is to the full-grown /;
and no greater benefits can he conferred
on youths than to teach them to convert
time now wasted, and often worse than
wasted, into pleasant Means of recre-
alton and mental improvement. The
boy, whose time and mind are now &C.
cupied with marbles and kites, may be
n Watt, a Morse OIL a Bessemer, in en-
bryo and it is certainly an easy mat
ter to turn his thoughts and musings
into n channel which shall give fall
scope to their faculties. And to most
boys the use of mechanical tools is the
most fascinating OF all occupations. AS
logic and mathematics have a value be-
yond accuracy in argument, and the
correct solution Of problems, in that
they teach men the habit of using their
rejecting powers Systematically; so car
pentry, turning and other arts are of
high importance. These occupations
teach boys to think, to proceed from
initial causes to results, and not only to
understand the nature and duty of the
mechanical powers, but to observe their
effects !; and to acquire knowledge by
actual experience, which is the best way
of learning anything. All the theories
culled out of books, leave an impression
on the mind and memory which is
slight compared with that of the prac-
teal experience of the true mechanic.
Our advice is to all who have the great
responsibility of the charge Of boys !:
Give them a lathe or a set of carpenters
tools, or ever blacksmith's tools. Give
their minds a urn toward the solid and
useful side of life. You will soon see
the result in increased activity of their
thinking capabilities, and the direction
of their ideas toward practical results /;
and, still more obviously, in the avoid
ance of Idle mischief AMI nonsense Ito
degradation), which are, to too great all
extent, the pastime of The generation
which is to succeed us.
Boys Declaration OF Independence.
Pittsburgh boys have held a meeting
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IT costs New Workers 80, 600, 900 per
years for summe pleasures.
, 1874-04-07
WISCONSIN.

Special Dispateh 70 Tho chteaao Tribune.
:EosD nj LAC, Wis, April 6.-FQnd du Lao is
= ~witnessing such temperance revival as was
I never before known In this par. OF the country.
Tho women ara thoroughly organized into a
: praying band, and preparing for outdoor work.
There wero two immouso msss-meotipgs In tha
c'sy L. on Sunday afternoon and evening; Over
2,h}D attended tho meeting at Amory Hall in tho
afternoon. Short uddrossee wore mado by tho
Hon. =. oolman, B1rB: Con. Dc aroat, Miss FL
len Mitchell, Col. Q. Disso}l, AID. Lowss Col.-J:
II. Watrous, and Mrs. Eycrdell. A largo num-
Ggne Se we5 pGhass hss srra rho mo9pg s q the %
wa Addressed BY tito Rev. Arthur Little. and tho
Re. r, T. Kitchen. Tho Catholic Total Absti-
nane p. Society has Increased ita membarship
With u tho past month from $40 to 624, and Is
rapid, Y growing.
At MILWAUKEE.
S peefa! DisRateh 10 1he chfcago Tribune.
MIN AuKEE, WiB.,. april 0.-The temperance
sss ay rors ss s {; ssss t4ss Hs
wards Tho olootion Of such candidates as arc
most inclined towards temperance, md the con-
version Of tho press to the good oausp. Their
grand masstmeeting is postponed until auita-
ble hall can bo engaged.
At oaIIKosII.
Special -Dispatch to The CHICAGO Tribune.
osu&osrr, Wis, April 6.-Tho temperance
meeting At MoCourt's Ha'l labt evening was at-
present at public meeting In the. year. Adj
slreaaos we're mado by resident ninlatorH, and a
pledge circulated in tho audience received /
large number of signaturoA.
AT APPLETON.
Spertal Dispatch to Tho Chicago Tribune.
APPLETON, Wis, April G.-The temperance
question il crontng considerable stir IN this
city,, Several nldotings were hold last week, and
= ladios' appeal issued to the yotora asking thom
to elect oilicors WHO would refuae to grant IL
ceneos. It was attempted TO make tho qaostion
Ell tsauo In to-morroW'a election, but nothing
practicable has resulted, To-day tho ladies
started out on praying tour among tho Ha~
though great excitement wna occaaloned by their
movements. Nothing has yet resulted from,
their efforts In this direction. In tho meantime,
oiher laaas we1e circulating total ahstinonce
lures wero obtained. Tho crusade is to be con-
sinued. and tho ladies are sanguino Of ultimate
,1ueueas.