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A Strange Story of the Sea.

The London Times, of Saturday, the
18th of July, says: "a private letter
received yesterday, in Sheffield, from one
of the crew Of the iron ship Glance, of
London, which arrived in the Thames
from Adelaide, on Thursday gives in
telligence of q terrible event which re-
Gently occurred at sea. On the 9th
ultimO the Glance passed an outbound
vessel, bearing the name of Jesse Os-
borne, and was hailed by the captain of
the latter ship, who reported that one
of his crew had gone mad !; that for five
days the maniac had stationed himself
aloft, and that nothing could induce
him to return to the deck. The cap
tain further reported that the mad
man had armed himself with a large
chisel, with which he was cutting the
ropes, and that the boatswain had tried
to bring him down. The maniac, how
ever, threw a block at tho boatswain,
knocking him on the deck and breaking
his arm and leg. AS a matter of safety
to his vessel and crew the captain OF
the Jesse Osborne considered that it
was necessary to shoot the maniac,
and after some consult alton that course
was decided upon. The crew and Off
GERS of the Glance were requested to be
present as witnesses, and in their pres
me the man was shot with a revolver.
In consequence of the way in which he
moved about the rigging three shots
had been fred before he was fatally
injured. He fell dead on deck, and
his body was eventually thrJ wn over
oard."
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Musical Kites,

In Central Asia the amusement of
flying kites is as popular as in Europe
or America, but It is made TO Weld n
double qualification. It delights the
ear by an emission OF soft melodioua
murmurings at the same. time that IL
Pleases the eye with its graceful, bird
like motions. Each kite is so construo.
ted as to produce the effect of aaoatinp
Aolian harp, and thus the flight and
the sound of winged wafbiers are both
initiated in the winged plaything. Mai.
Abbott gives a description Of these
musical kites in his Narrative of a
Journey from Herat to Khiya :" Each
kite is a square formed upon two dag.
onals of light wood, whose extremities
are connected with a tight string, form
ing the sides of the square. Over the
whole paper is pasted. A loose string
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Changes in the Earth's Surface.

1t has been proved that the whole
Pacific coast, especially California, with
all it's mountains, is perpetually rising,
and that ut a comparatively rapid rate.
The land containing its bosom our great
American lakes is slowly sinking !; while
| southern Indiana, K~eDtucky, and the
surrounding states are rising. GeoIOgi-
cal Investigations prove that n great
lakes, except Ontario, had formerly a
southern outlet until, by gradual
northern depressions and southern up
heavals, a northern outlet was formed
from Lake Erie into Ontario, about
forty thousand years ago, This outlet,
| the Niagara river, is still wearing away
the watershed south of the lakes
and the Mississippi valley, has
since that time been steadily travelling
southwark and when Chicago recently
turned the waters of Lake Michigan,
through the Chicago river, into the
Mississippi valley, the old state of
affairs was a~rtiicially re-established.
New jersey is sinking, with New
York City and Long Island, at the es-
timated rate of about 16 inches per
century. The coast of Texas is ascend
ing at a comparatively very rapid rate,
some observers stating that it is as
much as 30 or 40 feet in the last half
century.
Combining these observations with
the results of the recent deep sound
ings of the United States steamer Tus-
carora in the Pacific ocean, We 1nI that
the bed is evidently q sunken continent,
Astounding in volcanic mountains some
II, 1000 feet high, many of them not
reaching the surface of the ocean, and
others which do so forming the number
less islands of the Pacific. The study
of the coral rocks proves that this sink
ing has continually been taking place
during several centuries, and Observa-
ton of the coast will undoubtedly
reveal the fact that it has not yet
ceased.
The most eminent German biologists
and ethnoIogists now maintain that the
locality of mans's primitive origin, the
seat of the so-called Paradise, was in
the Pacific ocean south of Asia, whence
the race slowly difFused itself northward
toward Asia, westward to Africa, and
eastward to Australia. When the great
Pacific continent slowly sank, 50 that
the ocean commenced filling the valleys,
retreated to the mountains, which,
by continued sinking, were transformed
into islands, and now form the many
groups of Polynesia. The insularity of
the thus preserved races was not pro-
ductive Of civilization, which requires
conflict, in which the superiors in the
end gain the victory over the interiors.
In those islands, the inferior races were
preserved for want of this conflict,
hence their savage condition even at
the present day g.; while primitively the
greatest advance took place at the spot
of The most intense conflict, the con
tinent of Southern Asia Scientific
american,
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The Story of Pearl.

Arsene Houssaye writes from Paris tc
the New York Tribune Here is a
pretty story which has been quietly told
so long that I think it time to tell it to
you aloud. A certain ieweler has a pink
pearl which is the joy of all eyes, but
never goes into the world. Why does it
dwell in perpetuity in the showcase of
the jeweler? There is in Paris a lady of
shadowy fame who thinks herself O
woman of the world because she is very
pretty and has a court of s%uitors. Her
means of existence are not known. She
came out one fine day from Poland,
saying that her husband was a prisoner
in Siberia. She is still yQungRrs
his absence gaily. VIII lad
in love with her she d E q
celebrated actress, ne.
jump out of the window III Ills
you, eff you love me SO much ives M
the only thing I want on earth. Tt il an
Incompatible pink pearl which I have
seen at a jewelers., for which I thirst
like Cleopatra" She takes her lover to
the jeweler. He ishimself charmed with
this wonder, which seems to have fallen
from the breast of Venus after having
rested there 3 little longer than the
other pearls. How could SO beautiful a
woman be denied a thing so beautiful ?
Especially as the pink pearl costs only
ten thousand francs. No man dead in
love could refuse it, especially as the
Jeweler accepts a check as readily az the
cash. So the pearl is bought. A few
days afterward the ardent aspirant is
npfnnTGhnI IN roTcd - e.. II i >
neck. "Ah," she says to him, ST have
written to India to order one like it,
and then / shall have two pendants wor,
thy Of o queen. Please keep nav secret
till l haye then both"
And while she is thus talking to one,
she is saying in the strictest Confidence
to another, "My friend, if you really
love me 80 much, do me q favor, There
is a pink pearl at my jewelers. worth at
least 100, 900 francs, which he world
give me for 10000, but my dresses have
cost 30 much that I've nothing on hand
for Jewels. Help me buy this, which is
indispensable to my happiness" Size
leads him to the shop like a lamb TO the
slaughter. SIS it not of the ~Ioyliest
Or1entT Old Homer's Aurora never
AuGE OuBb among the roses |
which she scattered from her fingers f"
Naturally the second does as the frst.
captured by the poetry and the mirage
the thing. 1t is always the same with
third, the fourth, and the fifth.
IS Above all, keep my secret till Che
other comes from India" Giving a pearI
ike this to q woman is not like giving
money. 1t is unlocking a altar from
5he sky it is cutting a rose from the
'aiiph's garden. This whole little cosa-
Is so we'll managed chat
1leton imagines his gift
Who would not be hapn
light to those beautifu
# poetic dreams !?
So that, in short, sin N
n Paris, how often ~ you4ms5
ne JeWeier has sold lis pink pe 4
times Total, 210.O00 fraTse.
which the noble Potander from Che
Poland has levied on the love of
,ar nai rbhor
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The Cow Theory.

Speaking of the COW theory-that is
that q man with five acres of land cal
maintain himself, his family and hi
cow-a writer in the Farmers Magazine
for last month has the following
On Sir Baldwin, Leighton's estate il
shropshire, England pauperism is al
most extermiuated by means OF the COW
it being the rule rather tran the exoep
ton for a laboret to have s1Qs varying
from G2O to ESQ pat in the savings hanl
out of the proceeds Of the sale of Tltter
l have seen the Doors with the sNm'
entered to their credit. Most noAA9gei
have two or three small fields ATTACHED
to the holding, mostly laid down il
grass. The COW, however, is only
second string to the laborer's bow, and
does not in any way interfere with his
| giving efficient service to the farmer, as
the COW can be looked after by the wife,
who makes the butter and sends it tC
market by the carrier.
We have frequently called attention
to the great boon a good COW is to the
poor man, and the large profits Of a good
dairy. This is especially the case where
only a few COWS are kept, and are well
cared for.
A friend of ours, with three grade
short-horn cows, has realized no less
than ninety dollars from the product of
each COW in a single season, besides the
milk and butter used in the family. But
these favorable results depend upon two
conditions, one or both of which we
frequently see overlooked or disre-
garded, to wit First, That we have a
good COW, good in form-that a profta-
Die disposition may be made r0fsthe
carcass for beef, when the cos mo
longer wanted for the dairy, Eb-
eral and steady mixer. 1t is are-
hensible to us that q poor. COS I'D
ever be- used, when good ono be
obtained ak 80 small IN adT pom
the common price, The II especially
true where feed is high, and the animals
kept with a view of supplying milk and
butter for the family or market. In
deed, inferior COWS should not be kept
for any purpose, but should be slaught-
cred for beef as soon as their inferiority
is discovered. To keep an i'll Horned
COW, or a poor mixer, for o breeder, is
worse economy than for the dairy,
as in this way we perpetuate and multi
ply Improbable stock.
The second condition for success with
the dairy COW is that she have plenty to
eat and the best and kindest treatment.
All farmers understand the Importance
of crowding hogs designed for slaughter
it takes half as much to make an
animal "hOld its own" as to keep up
highest degree of gain, and that,
therefore, if we only half feed, what is
consumed is q dead loss ; so it is when
we merely keep alive young cattle or
other stock. But in no instance does
full pasture, or n proper supply of
other food in winter, or when pasture
s short, pay better than, in the manage
nent of the dairy COW, this more plenti-
nj the food the greater will be, not
only the yield, but the absolute pre- fit.
G. D., IN National Live Stock
Journal,
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upon the upright diagonal receives the
string by which the kite is to be held
and the tad is fastened to its lower ex-
tremity. The transverse diagonal or
cross.Btick is then bent back like a
strong bow, and fastened by q thread OF
,catgut. Of course every breeze that
passes the kite vibrates this tight cord
and the vibrations are communicated to
the highly sonorous frame of the kItc,
And, as numbers of these kites ere LETT
floating in the air all night, tho effect is
that Of aerial music, monotonous, but
full of melancholy interest.
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THE Suttee.-Another case OF suffice
lately occurred in a small village in
Lucknow, India. The following are the
details of the case Having bathed and
dressed, the suffice went to the burning
place, accompanied by her relatives and
a number of low.caste H;ndoos, who
were in charge of the dead body. Wood
being scarce, the funeral pile was in
part constructed of other fuel. which
was heaped around the woman as she
sat with the head OF her deceased Inns.
band in her lap. The pile was then
covered with straw. her nephew handed
the suffice a lighted torch, and in q mo.
ment the whole mass was on fire. the
Chowkeydar and the policeman, when
they arrived, found only a heap of ashes.
About thirty persons, including the viii
lage headman and the woman's relatives
bave been committed to the sessions on
tue charge of having been directly OF
indirectly guilty of murder.
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CHARLES GREvILLE wrote There was
nothing discussed of which / was ALTO.
getheF Ignorant, but / felt as If a Ian.
gaage was spoken before me which I
understood, but not enough to talk ID II
myself. have not the familiarity with
we poets OF the historians which en-
soies me TO discuss their merits. and A
painful sense came over me of The diff
iereEee between one whu has super
LEGALLY read, and one who has studied :.
4 who has laid a solid Foundation in
early youth, and one who las / have
donel has huddled together q quantity
OF loose reading, as variety, curiosity,
ana not seldom shame, impelled. One
must pay Tor the follies OF ones youth.
Reelection of this sort makeg me verv
uncomfortable, and L am ready 20 cry
with vexation when / think Of my mis-.
spent life,
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OFFICERS and soldiers who served in
the army, physicians, surgeons, and eminent
men and women everywhere, join in recon-
mending JOhnSon's Anodyne Liniment to be
the best internal and external family medi-
cine ever invented. That's our experience,
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A LONDON architect has submitted to
the municipal authorities of that city a
plan for a gigantic pyramidal metropolis,
which is to cover five acres ofgro und,
and yet be capable of holding, in it's
vaults, %, 600 corpses.
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The capacity of sorrow belongs to
our grandeur and the Hottest Of our
race are those who have had the pro-
foundest grief, because they have had
the profoundest sympathieg.
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ALL the year round, 6heridam's Cdv-
airy Condition POa0ders should be given to
horses that are Kept up" To horFes and
cattle that Craze in summer they should only
be given in winter and spring.
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DR.. Tutt'S Improved EEair Dye is in
general use throughout the whole country. 1t is
superseding all other hair dyes,
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PIeTURE &.

l.
"A food Of eunli hit through a rift
Between two mounds If yellow sand;
Three sca-gu'Is on a bit q drift
SLOW surgtng inward toRard the land" Z
H.t
"Au old, dumb beacon, alIayry,
with orahbled sea-wced rOund lis feet; s
A ptar-like sail against the skv, @r
Where sapphire heaven and ocean meet y
nj.
"ThiE, with the waters BEirliug DER
A shifting stretch Of Fand aud shell,
Will mako, for him who loves the shore,
A picture that may please him we'll"
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2 4 ht Of passions-Wak out in
w open atr you may speak your mind
70 the winds without hurting anyone.
or prcotaiming yourself q simpletop.
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HEFzA 'olumbus discovered America,
81 an = nut 1t has been found that the
ri S only economical shoes for
schiidren are the celebrated Sill
- yer tipped. Never we r 0ut
- at the lOe, and ore wor Ii TIVE
pair without tips. All Dealers
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them, and the result is an intem
of light, so dazzling that the eye %
person within the lantern cannot FSst
upon them for al instant without In-
tense pain. AS observed from a distance
of several miles, this light is go bright
as to cast a well-deined shadow upon
the deck of a vessel. .. r.r..~ q
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even the sunlight itself cannot penetratt
an ordinary dense fog. The, eIa
light established at Souter Point
sidered to be equal in power To {
standard candles, being eight tim
powerful as the best American q
lights. Tire electric spark ps
tween pencils Of carbon, Whi
themselves consumed at the rate ol
about one inch per hour. The eloqtFic
current is geneE We of Ept.
Holmes patent &c
machines, driven oi
six-horse power. 3
lutions made by eacl s1
minute, and u, So n,
ute when both
These sparks al 20
rapidly that the eye does e
them, and the result is an inte4m
IF Irh+ ca Ioz1Iirr tbpt the ava M a
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IKE end-man in a minetrel troppa
gets more salary than 8 village elerge-
man, but then, he perspires more.
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Asthrn""nd C"t"rrh-seo D. Langelrs adv,t
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SO long as the folly of the fashiorabie
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the children are not seen at Watering
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but at Viehy, Trouvilie or Dieppa. And
IN England any dress but the planned
is neve bought for them.
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an walk out
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