Connecticut western news., 1877-02-16
YOUTHS COLUMN.


 as blue as usual, and his hair wasn't as golden, and instead of a bright smile, a cunning oh! dear, what am 1 say ing Y'-an ugly pout rested on his pret- ty little mouth. There he stood in the middle of the floor, baby fists on baby hips, feet very wide apart, the sweetest Il mean the mightiest- rebel that ever defiled mamma. Just think of it. only 3 years old, and defying mamma sternly. "No, mamma " replied John me. Mamma opened her .eyes-they were not as blue as Johnnie's-very wide. You won'tP' she said. No, ma'anl," repeated Johnnie. "Then," said she sOlemnly, ''you must be pun ished. Go into the store room and stay in there until you can say "Tes, ma'am.n Johnnie went, and mamma closed the door. expecting to hear the wished-for "Yes" shouted forth in- stantly. But, to her great surprise, she utes passed; utter silence. Ten min utes went by: not sound; and mamma began to grow mpatient-for, after the manner of mammas, she was longing to kiss and forgive her boy. "Oh the blessed darling," she said to herself, as the twelfth minute stole away; ''the punishment is too dreadful for him. How could 1 have been so ard-hearted To shut merry little thing like that in dark place; a baby, that shOuldnever be out of the sunshine except when he's asleep: it's too bad" And she flew to open the closet door. ''John," as his father calls him, looked up at her, his whole face sparkling with fun. The blue had come back to his eyes and the gold to his hair and the smile to his lips. In his chubby hand he held the last piece of what, just fourteen minutes before, had been a fine, brown, fragrant, fresh baked loaf of cake. Crumbs covered his face from chin to eyes, his cheeks shone, and sum- dry crisp fragments clung to his neck and bib. Good graciousw said man. ma. "Dood take r' said Johnnie.- Nudge Elliot im BaidW,n's Monthly.
 Tue Dipper aud its Motiom.-In order to see the dipper in its different posi- tions, and also in that portion of its course which in Decembe it traverses during the daytime, It is not necessary to keep a long watch upon the group, or to study the heavens during those "wee sma' hours ayont the twal' wherein the professional astronomer does the best part of his work. If you come out in the evening (saY at about eight) once or twice a week on clear nights, all through the winter half of the year, aud little later during the summer months, you will see the dip per and all the polar groups carried right round the pole. For though speaking generally, it may be said that they complete a circuit once in every day, yet in reality they gain about four hours, and thus get further on little m O afr nIpht-OnlpInC n on hours motion in about fortnight two hours motion in a month, twelve hours motion Cor half a complete cir cuit) in half year, until finally, at the end of the year, they have gained 8 complete circuit.
 It is because of this steady turning motion or rotation around the pole ot the heavens, that the stars of the dip per (say, for instance, the pointers, form as it were clock in the sky, by which the astronomers at any rate give 8 little attention to the matter can tell the hour within a few minutes on any night Tn the year.
 A few observations made in this way on few nights during the course oi the year, will give a clearer idea of the steady motion of the star dome (result- ing in reality from the earth's steady rotation on her aXis) than any amount of description either in books or by word of mouth.-St. .Nicholas.
 HoW q Pig Became HorSe.-A lady who has several grown sons and daughters, told me that when her first born boy was very young baby, a gentleman gave him half a. dollar. She told her husband that she would, with l hot thn fanD bride by the time he should be twen ty-one years of age. With the half dollar she bought pig. She fed the pig with such scraps, etc., from the kitchen, as would otherwise have been thrown away, for she had determined that her husband should not incur any expense in the plan which she had adopted to get the horse. In about twelve months, when the pig had be- come large enough to be fattened fol pork, she bought eight bushels of corn promising the neighbOr of whom she bought it that she would pay him when she had killed and sold tine hog. So in a few months the animal had reached such a size that he brought about four. teen. dollars. With fourteen dollars she bought calf, using the balance o1 the money to pay her husband all ex. pense of keeping the calf, except the grass which it ate i'll the fields. In the course of two or three years the cali had grown so we'll that it brouyh, thirty five dollars. This amount, afte, paying all expenses not before paid was quite sufficient for the purchase oi a colt, almost ready for to be put under the saddle; and by the time her little boy was six years old, his horse was ready for him; but he was net quite large enough to take a ride Chil. dreR'S Friend.
 What Made Them So o?-I must say it Human beings, considering how talent. ed they are, are very foolish. If not why do they make other living things afraid of them instead of teaching love and confidence by their own example Almost all animals who see men fol the first time approach them without fear.
 am told that when the naturalist Darwin, went to the Galapagos Islands he there found hawks that had never seen men, and they were so tame that he showed some of them gently off a branch with the muzzle of his gun while others came to drink from a pitcher he held in his hand. It is only because, for generations, beasts and birds have been so often deceived .and ! cruelty treated by men that they have become suspicious of them.-N. Nich- 0ldS.
 "Pa," said little Jimmie, II was very near getting to the head of my class to- day" "How Is that, my son '" "Why a big word came all the way down to me, and, if could only have spelt it | would have gone clear up."