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After Dinner Maps.

No wonder if half the world knows
how pleasant it is to take an after din
ner nap, and what a relief it is TO the
brain-or stomach. We
used to know lawyer who took his
nap every day after dinner on three
chairs, and that lawyer, if he continues
the practice, will die an old man. If
there is any one time when man Is
forced to exert himself, whether in
muscular or brain labor, TO work, it is
after the MONDAY meal. If all men
could only rest, not one hour but two
hours, and put the extra time on the
closing hours of the day, what an i'm
proyement would be made in their
health. Whether he be farmer or
mechanic, or professional man, a good
rest after dinner leaves the man in
better condition for hard labor than
even in the morning. We once worked
for a farmer in harvest, who always
made an agreement with his workmen
to work ten hours day, and from
twelve O'Clock to two no work was TO
be done unless in case of emergency, a
threatened rain or something that re-
Quired extra exertion. Didn't we
have glorious times sleeping under
trees after dinner. We always used up
three quarters of an hour at the table
and then slept one hour and quarter
during the heat of the day. The result
was the men were never overworked,
and the farmer got more labor from his
men than any of his neighbers, though
their men often worked twelve bours a
day. When two o'clock came the hands
were all in good trim, completely rested
out, and they could do double the work
with more ease than if they had COM
menced work at one o'clock. a single
hours rest at the proper time worked
wonders with them.
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ASubIime Egotist.

Vestris l.. the famous dancer, re-
mains on history as the most coloss-
ally, comicalIy vain of artists. 1ntoxi-
Gated with applause, he considered
himself the greatest genius OF his
time. There are but three truly great
men in Europe" he would say. my
self, VI. de Voltaire, and King Freder-
ick.r To his infinite egotism, his son
and successor Vestris H., added an
immense capacity for rebellion against
authority. Twice he was sent to pri-
son, the second time at the personal
desire of Marie Antoinnette. This is
how it happened. In his efforts to dis
play the height of his genius to the
people of England. he injured one of
the tendons of his right foot. The ac-
cident, though it did not betray itself
in his walk, was sufficient TO prevent
him from dancing with the grace. the
vigor and the perfection which placed
him so far above all his rivals. On his
return to France he found that the
king of Sweden was the guest of Marie
ht HttCh -" 40
desirous of exhibiting TO her visitor the
rlost distinguished of her artists. Ac-
cordingly she sent a message to young
Vestris, begging him to dance before
the king of Sweden as well as he could
-shc was aware of his aceident-if it
were only few pas. The young artist
returned reply that he could not af-
ford to venture his professional repu-
tation by appearing when he was not
at his best. The queen had seen him
at the opera and observed that he
walked with perfect ease, so she sent
him another orders third, to each of
which a similar reply was returned.
The upshot of it was that young Yes
iris was sent to the prison of La Force
and kept there till he had completely
recovered the use of his foot. The
news was announced to his father.
ala - said Vestris l.; "then our house
and the house of Bourbon are at last
face to face ! 1t shall be war :"
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What Il Lsie worth:

The precise monetary value of human
life in various parts of the world would
be All Interesting subject for careful in
vestigaiion. In Dahomey we probably
begin at one of the lowest rungs os the
ladder. A few beads or a strip of calico
there will purchase well-developed
specimen OF humanity. In China any
criminal possessed of SIS may procure a
substitute, who, having deposited the
money in the hands of his poor rela-
tives, will cheerfully undergo the oper-
alton of decapitation, Then, ascending
little higher on the allegor-
ical ladder, we come to slave-marts,
where often an elephants tusk is worth
four women. Ii is unpleasant to come
nearer home, and ask what some phases
of so-ealled civilized life are worth. A
German professor, who rejects Malthu-
sian doctrines, computes that, taking
the whole world for an average, a
woman is worth about one-eighth of a
man. lie thinks that there are at least
250, GOO, 600 unmarried women in the
world. Asa rule, out of Europe, horses
are more valuable than members of the
fair sex. However, Esquimaux women
ere scarce, and each one is probably
worth two men. in new settlements,
such as many in California, woman
rises vastly in neutrality-suspicious.
outvaluing seven men.
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bread. For the price of beer they
could procure a good portion of meat,
but they universally maintain that
they are best nourished with beer and
bread.
The Bavarian drinks to satisfy his
thirst, that beautiful German gift OF
God" II he is healthy, he drinks be-
cause it keeps his life juices in their
normal state; if he is sick and in pain,
because it is soothing and harmless
narcotic; if he is hungry beer is nOur-
ishment; if he has already eaten. be-
cause beer promotes digestion if he is
warm, because it is cooling and refresh
ing; if he is cold, because it warns
him; if he is fatigued, because it is a
tonic and sovereign strength Ienewer;
if he ia angry. because beer sOothes
him and gives him time to consider;
if he needs courage. because beer is ex-
actly the right stimulant. Where the
Americans fly to their bitters =" to tone
up the system and enliyen the secre-
tions,' the Germans resort to beer; and
many are of opinion that frequent
trips to the book stalls in the spring
are more healing than a visit toCarlsbad
or Baden Baden, where one drinks dis
gusting water. In all circumstances
and all moods they drink and are COM
forted The G1lGHU
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English Mothers.

1t is a marked lecture of social life
in England, and certainly one of its es-
peciaI charms, that mothers and
daughters are so uniformly seen to-
gether at their own home. NOt only is
the mother the first lady to whom you
are introduced at the house where you
visit, but mistress of the ceremonies
throughout not only does she preside
at the dinner table, but in the evening
party she sits as queen. Whatever
may be your first impression of such
an arrangement-if it happens that
your sympathies are with the younger
ladies-you will very 5000 learn to
think that the mothers absence would
be very sincerely regretted by the
daughters. AS a picture all must ad-
nit the arrangement to be perfect.
The portly form and matronly dignity
of the mother are an exquisite foil to
the Youthful beauty and maiden coy
ness of the daughters. And yOu Will
find nothing to mar, but everything
to enhance the interest of the picture.
The mothers presence never seems to
operate as an unwelcome restraint.
Between her and the daughters you
will mark the most joyous, playful.
loving freedom, without the sacrifices
of a little parental dignity and author
ity on the one hand. or of sweet grace
full tilial duty on the other. 1t may be
said of English families generally,
that these two things are eminently
characteristic, to wit, uniform parental
authority, and the most charming free
dom of intercourse between parents
and their children. . .-
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The German View OF Beer

Even in Beelland there are different
kinds of beer, like the federal union,
one in many and many in one. Be-
tween them are irreconcllable differ
ences, as for example. between the
white and ActieDs beer of Berlin. The
former is made of wheat, aud is exclu-
sively a summer beverage, and glass
of il is fondly termed 'kleine Weisse'
"a little white one), perhaps in irony
for it is served in eccentric mammoth
tumblers, which require both hands to
lift.
Then there is the Vienna Beer, the
antipodes of the Bavarian. The latter
must be drunk soon after it is made
while the former must lie many months
n the cellar before it is ready for use.
In Austria, that forcible union OF
States of clashiug interests and nation
alities, which is not nation, but only
government reposiDg on bayonets,
the population is divided between King
Gambrinus and those of Bacchus.
As little as an artist could maintain
that he was familiar with the works oi
the great masters when he had not
visited Italy. so little could a beel
drinker assert that he had seen beer
rightly drunk when he had not been
| in Munich it is the elixir of life, the
fountain of youth and happiness, 1t il
looked upon as nourishment by the
lower classes, who drink for dinner
two masses of it, with soup and black
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Novel Use for spiders Threads.

CObwebs have been applied to various
telescopes OF surveying instruments are
fine webs taken from spiders of species
that are specially selected for their pro-
duction of an excellent quality of this
material. The spider, when caught, is
made to spin his thread by tossing him
from hand to hand, in case he is indis-
posed to furnish the article. The end
is attached to piece of wire which is
doubled into parellel lengths, the dis
tance apart exceeding little the diam
eter of the instrument. As the spider
hangs and deseends from this, the web
is wound upon 1t by turning the wire
around. The coils are then gummed to
the wire and kept for use As required.
About a century ago, ROs of Langue-
doc, succeeded in making pair Of
stockings from the thread of a spider.
They were very strong, and OF a beau
tiful gray color. Other attempts of the
same kind have been made; but Reau-
mur has stated that the web of the spi-
der was not equal to that of the silk
worm, either in strength or lustre. The
cocoons of the latter weigh from three
or four grains, so that 2,04 worms pro-
duce pound of silk; but the bags of
the spider, when cleaned, do not weigh
above the part of a grain.
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Something About Insects.

An old friend of mine, an enthusias-
tic philO-apiarian, told ME that being at
a friends house one dry summer, when
all the field flowers were nearly scorched
up, he saw thousands of bees busy in a
field of clover then in bloom.
al wish my bees were here" said my
friend.
"Probably they are" replied the gen.
tleman.
"What, at forty miles distance" ?"
Eyes" said his friend. son your
return home dredge the backs of your
bees with -four as they issue from the
hives in the morning, and we shall see.
This was done, and his friend wrote
him directly: There are plenty of
your white jacket bees here in the clo-
yer,'
But whatever is the fact with bees,
ants follow their noses much more than
their eyes. In my garden | saw train
of ants ascending an apple tree; go up
by one track, and descend by another.
As in ascending they passed between
two small shoots that sprung from the
hole, l stopped their passage with a
piece of bark. The ants did not see this
obstruction with their eyes, but ran
bump against it, and stood still, aston
ished. Soon crowd of them had thus
been suddenly stopped, and were anx-
ionsly searching about for passage.
By various successive starts forward
they eventually got around the obstruc'
tion and reached the track on the other
side. The line of scent was renewed
and thencefOrward, on arriving at the
barricade they went without a moment:
hesitation, by the circular track. | ther
took my penknife and pared away {
piece of the outer bark on the open hol'
where the ants were descending. The
effect was the same. The scent beins
taken away, the ants came to dead
stand, and there was the same con
founded crowd, and the same spasmodi'
attempts to regain the road, which beinS
effected i'm the same away, the scent wa
carried over the shaven part of the bark
and the train ran on as freely as before
t-St. NichOlds.