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Opium.

Opium is the dried juice Of the poppy.
It is prepared in Asia Minor. Turkey,
Egypt and India, in which country the
poppy is cultivated for the exclusive
purpose of making opium. 1t forms q
staple commodity of many provinces In
India, in which the following is the
mode of treatment commonly used. 1t
is an object of careful attention to keep
the plants at due distance from each
other. If the seed happens to be thick
Iy sown, some OF the young plants are
pulled up and used as pot-herbs, the
leaves of which when boiled have fla.
vor of peas ; but when they have attain
ed eighteen inches in height, they are
unfit for that use from their intoxicating
nature. The plant flowers in February
and the opium is extracted in March
or April, according to the period of SOW.
ing. When the flowers have fallen and
the capsules assume whitish color,
four or five incisions are made in them
with three-toothed instrument which
is drawn from the top to the bottom,
The incisions are always made in the
evening, as the night-dews, by their
moisture, favor the exhalation OF the
juice, and the opium is gathered Ene1t
morning. The wounds in each capsule
are repeated for three successive days,
and in general, fifteen days suffice to
gather all the opium in field. From
the incisions milky juice e1udes, which
thickens upon exposure to the air, end
is carefully scraped off with a shell, or
a small iron instrument previously dip
ped in oil. It is afterward worked IN
an iron pot in the heat of the sun, until
it is of consistency to be formed into
thick cakes of about four pounds weight.
They are then covered with the leaves
of the poppy or some other vegetable to
prevent them sticking together, and In
this condition they are dried and packed
away for expectation.
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How He Got the Sermon.

The Watchmaan tells this sermon
stealing story of young man who stood
before presbytery in Scotland asking
ordination. Principal Robinson was
moderator. The young man was rigid
ly examined, and asked to preach. The
examination and the sermon were both
satisfactory. The candidate retired.
and the moderator said: "I feel com
pelled to say that the sermon which the
young man has preached is not his own.
It is taken from an old volume of SER
mons long out of print. Where he
found it I do not know. I supposed
the only copy of the volume to be found
was in my library. and the candidate has
had no access to that" The young man
was called in and asked if the sermon he
had preached was his own. "No," he
frankly said. II was pressed for time,
and could not make sermon in season.
The sermon I preached was one which
Iheard Principal Robinson preach some
time ago. took notes tof it, and liked
it 30 well that I wrote it out from MEM
|ory, and have preached q IL to-day. =
Nothing was said thete EIIi pofhin9
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Removing Iron Rust and Stains.

A writer in the Country Gentleman,
says: "My practice for years is this :
Roll fresh lemon so the juice will e1-
press freely ; dampen the spot with the
lemon Juice, then spread thin coating
of fine salt over it, and lay it aside for
twenty -four hours then riEse off in
lukewarm soft water. This always
moves the rust, but it is rather lengthy
process. A friend told me another
method, that I have tried successfully
this summer, and it is less work and
care. Dampen the spot with cold rain
or spring water, and spread thin coat
ing of oxalic acid over the spot ; use
either a penknife or teaspoon handle
to spread it on let it lie either in the
sun or in warm place by the stove fif-
teen or twenty minutes then rinse in
pure water and the stain will be gone.
It will also remove the stains from
tablecloths and napkins, or ink spots
from clothing. It is always convenient,
and an ounce kept in a tightly-corked
vial will do a great amount in the clean
ing line. It is an important item to
have it carefully labeled and kept where
children cannot possibly reach it. Spir-
its of turpentine will remove ink from
thick fulled cloth and broadcloth, with
out damaging the goods, For removing
wheel-grease or paint, either kerosene
oil or spirits of turpentine rubbed on
the spot and left few minutes, then
washed off with hot soapsuds, will take
off the substance entirely. On goods
that will wash, apply lye soap to the
spots, after soaking few minutes in
the kerosene or turpentine, and it will
rub out without any trouble. For paint
stains, clear boiling water, poured on
the spot, will, with slight rinsing, re-
move them entirely. For grass stains,
warm sweet milk to soak in few min
utes, will take it all out; rinse in pure
water. For leather stains on hosiery,
spirits Of ammonia will be found very
efectual,"
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Words of Wisdom.

We become familiar with the outsides
of men as with the outsides OF houses,
and think We know them, while we are
really ignorant of all that passes within
them.
As when we are in prosperity we are
ready to think our mountain will never
be brought low, 80 when we are In ad-
yersity we are ready to think our valley
will never be filed up.
Honest and courageous people have
very little to say about either their cour-
age or their honesty. The sun has no
need to boast of his brightness, nor the
moon of her effulgence.
It is when our budding hopes are
nipped beyond recovery by some rough
wind, that We are the most disposed to
picture to ourselves what flowers they
might have borneif they had fourishad.
Every man takes care that his neigh
Dor shall not cheat him. But day
comes when he begins to care that he
does not cheat his neighbor or himself.
Then all goes well. he has changed
his market.cart into chariot OF the
sun.
The recognition of virtue is not less
valuable from the lips of the man who
hates it, since truth forces him to &C.
knowledge it; and though he may be
unwilling to take it into his inmost soul,
he at least decks himself out in its trap.
pings.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which
springs from the soul, and the heart OF
man knoweth none more fragrant.
While its opponent, ingratitude, is q
deadly weed, NOT only poisonous in it.
self, but impregnating the very atmo.
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The Home Circle.

The long winter evenings are here,
and the question of family amusement
and recreation is therefore practical
one. There are many ideas and opinions
what games it is wise and morally right
for children to play and on these and
kindred points, people of equal intelli-
gence and goodness will differ. But
upon one point there need be no differ
ence, and that in each family there
should be some sort of an entertainment
provided for the children. Books,
music, cards, checkers, puzzles, not to
forget nut:cracking and apple-eating /;
take your pick, friends, according to
your conscience and the degree of ig-
norance God has left you in but pick
some of them or invent something
equally good as duty you owe to your
children.
One of the very best games that can
be introduced into family of children
is chess playing. As source of mental
discipline it belongs to the higher
branches of mathematics. The slowness
with which it must needs be played, If
it is played we'll, makes it a game that
lasts the evening out, and often several
evenings. The chess-board and chess
men are comparatively inexpensive.
Nearly every family can afford them.
And the best of all, perhaps, is the fact
that it can be played in concert in
family of four children; father and two
of the children taking one side, mother
and the other two children taking the
other side. After the tea things are
cleared away they can gather to the
table feeling that before them is whole
evenings entertainment, of the highest
order. We have known a single game
played thus between six people-three
against three where both sides were
equally matched, and as result the
game was played cautiously, to last three
successive evenings, and the excitement
and pleasure to grow stronger and keen
er still, to the eliminating checkmate.
One of the good things in connection
with chess playing is, that it must be
played with the help of all the delibera-
tive faculties. Haste, impatience, reck-
less smartness will easily be brought to
recognize themselves in their true light
at the chess-table. The reckless and
hot-headed player will soon be taught
to realize what fool his impatience
makes of him. If there is anything that
can put the brakes on feverishness, and
teach wagging tongue the admirable
art of reticenco, it is the discipline of
this magnificent game. The game is
readily understood iR it's rudiments, and
has this further excellent quality about
it, that it never "wears out" as the
saying is.-GOlde7a Rule.
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A Complicated Case.

Herr Bohren lived in Switzerland and
married him wife. He afterward left
both her and his native land and came
to this country. The wife heard nothing
from him until word came that he was
dead. She then married Herr Zunlbrunn.
But few weeks ago Herr Bohren re.
turned and claimed her for his wife.
By the law of that country it was not
perfectly clear whether she was his wife
or Herr Zumbrunn's. Herr Zumbrunn
refused to give her mp, and she refused
to 60. A lawsuit was begun, but,
while it was in progress, Herr Bohren
armed himself with pistol and shot the
second husband in the arm and chest,
wounding him seriously. Thus curl.
ous situation may arise. A civil court
is engaged in ascertaining to which of
these two men this woman is legally
welded, and q criminal court will be
occupied with the trial of her first hus-
band for the attempted murder of her
second. In the event of her being de.
clared the wife of Bohren, and if, as is
likely enough, he should be coniemned
to imprisonment for life, she will be An
the unfortunate position OF haviag 0el
her second husband, and found Ter ~!
only to lose him, and without pos5ib| So
- HI--
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That's So.

The turkey is possessed of one giz-
zard, though sometimes it has been
known to have two, and in rare instances
three. This is accounted for on scien-
ti6c grounds, as follows: -.
1. The aggregation of bioplastic germs
evidence an irresistible tendency 10 COZ
relate their molecules in inverse ratio
tc the capillary processes OF differentia-
2. This differentiation, when inter
sociated with diatomic dephloglstlcation'
tends indubitably to atrophic degenera-
ton. Hence:
8. The formative processes are contra
acted upon by the abnormal retardatlon
of the: bathy protozoa; when =.
4. Crcumlocates and re-evolves IN
polyformous superfcies the corpuscies
in indurated and semi. .gelatinons matter,
it's functional attributes rehabilitated ;
and, therefore,
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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. G. BENET.
The Coming Of the Snow.

The clouds were copper.dyed all day,
And struggled in each others way,
Until the darkness drifted down
To the summer. forssken town.
Said people, passing in tho lane,
"It will be snow," or "Twill be rain y
And school BARNS, laughing in row,
Looked through the panes and wished fo'
snow.
The swollen clouds let nothing fall
But gsth'rirg gloom, that covered all
Then came the wind and shook his wings
And curled the dead leaves into rings.
He made the shutters move and crack,
And hurtled round the chimney-stack;
Then he swept on to shake the trees,
Until they moaned like winter seas.
Soon he went whietling DER the hill,
And all the trees again stood still;
Then. through the dark, the snow came
down,
And mumed all the sleeping town.
The keen stars looked out through the
night,
And flecked the boughs with fakes Of
light;
And moving clouds revealed the moon,
To make on eaith fairy noon.
Then winter went unto his throne,
That with million diamonds shone;
A crown Of stars was on his head,
And round him his rich robes were spread
At morn the BARNS laughed with delight
To see the fields and hedges white;
And folks said, as they hurried past,
"Good morning-winter's come at last.
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A Sorry Fellow.

Girls, will You listen to few words
of advice? Do not marry if you cannot
find suitable husband, for bad hus.
band is infinitely worse than none.
Never marry fellow who is ashamed to
carry small bundle who lies in bed
until breakfast, and until his father has
opened his shop or Office, and swept it
out who frequents taverns, bowling
saloons, prize fights, etc.; who owes his
tailor, shoemaker, washerwoman, jewel
er, barber, printer and landlady, and
never pays his debts who is always
talking about his acquaintances, and
condelnning them whose tongue is
always running about nonsense; who
thinks he is the greatest man in the
neighborhood, and yet whom every one
despises and shuns. We say never
marry a fellow with all or any OF these
qualifications, no matter how handsome
he is, or how agreeable he can make
himself on occasion. He will make q
bad husband.-Laiy's Journal.
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The Humming Of Telegraph Wires.

As to the cause OF the sounds fre-
quently heard TO proceed from telegraph
wires in the open air, it has been GUS
tomsry to accept the wind-producing
the sound by direct vibrations, similar to
those of the Eolian harp. A writer in
an Australian journal, however, calls at.
tention to the fact that one who gives
close observation to both the wire and
sounds will find that the latter make
themselves obvious likewise when there
is total absence of wind; and in quiet
morning in winter, when the wires ap!
pear covered with frost to the thickness
of the finger, they nevertheless carry on
lively vibrations and swinging, while the
air is totally quiet. According to this
writer, therefore, the vibrations are due,
not to the wind, but to the changes OF
atmospheric temperature, and espec1'
ally through the action OF cold, as 0
lowering Of the temperature induces .
shortening of the wires, extending over
the whole length of the conductor. A
considerable amount of friction is pro-
duced on the supporting bells, thus IN.
ducing sound both in the wires and tne
poles
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BabH Faces.

I passed pretty cottase on my homeHssd
path one night,
And its windows glowed like crystal nthef
mellow evening light; -
And between the crimson curtains stood snf
infant bright and fair, g
With my own dead darling's hazel eyes and
waving, sun, tipped hair.
Ipaused to gaze upon him, and my heatt was
filled with woe
At thought Of my dear one lying meath fhe:.
winters frost and snow; s
And longed to kiss the sweet lips that Hezss
pressed against the pane, 5s 81
For sake Of the buried baby-lips that neyssS:
shall kiss again.
Oh, babies with happy faces, and eyes 70.
tender and true,
May God in His mercy guide.you LIES devious
windings through!
May never shadow Of sorrow, and never as
thought of guile,
Chase the angel-light from your sunny e7ss
nor darken your baby.smile ~.
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friend TO pray with us Oh this dear day

friend to pray with us Oh this dear day
that Christ was born.
Then there came into the room a man
with brown skin and lusty growth-hls
hair was almost white, but his eyes had
familiar loving glow dear to the olden
time. I did not care to question who
he was or whence be came, but knelt
silently at the bedside while he prayed.
Bob's lips moved, but only with some
boyish memory, and hour after hour
went by. Tue day was at last waning
I was alone with my brother. 1 heard
the light breathing Of his children, and
mine now, in the room close by ; the low
voices OF David and Hulda reached me
once in while from the lower floor. 1
might have been hard and bitter
woman, but as at last the day went out
and took Bob with it, felt grim de-.
light in my sore and aching heart that
he was beyond the reach of the Marleys.
-,Harper's Magazine.
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Revised Cook Book.

Sea Bass-A bald.headed trombone
player in brass band.
Indian Maize-United States troops
advancing on Sitting Bull.
Hard Bake-Place your pastry IN a
hot oven and forget all about it.
Open Tarts-Insert your knife care
fully and lift up the upper crust.
Jam Tarts-Place your tarts in the
hinge OF the door and close briskly.
Honey Drops-Place your honey in a
colander and watch the effect from be-
meath.
Corn Dodger-Husking for red ears
to get kiss. See if you can make the
corn dodge her.
To Collar Beef-Watch your oppor'
tunity, snatch up briskly, and carry
home under your coat.
Preserved Pears-Two couple OF @
fifty-fve years vintage sitting alone
on the sofa OF night"
Sausage Roll-Carry your sausage
carefully to jhe top of the nearest hill
Emd ffandle ~ easily down.
s. 3rspe Pia ftof ihe frst sine1editn,
I 81 8 papes'
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a pink and gray leaf to suit him or her.
self, with pictures of animals, birds,
people, fowers-anything and every
thing that will be likely to please the
eye of the household pet. Sew them
together when completed, and fasten
them inside cover made OF three
thicknesses of the cambria pasted neat
ly together. Tie it at the back with q
bit Of pink ribbon, and you have a
book that the most destructive baby
that ever lived will find it next to i'm
possible to destroy. y.-Golden Hours.
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Brains Worth Once and Now.

Milton received S25 for "Paradise
Lost" Pope received $4,000 for his
translation Of Homer, by the popular
mode OF subscription. Tennyson was
paid SCI, 900 down and $15, 1000 year
to write exclusively for Strshan. Some
years ago Mr.. Bonner, of the Ledger,
paid Tennyson St, 900 fora single poem.
Edgar Allen Poe received $40 for "The
Raven" his most famous poem. Dr..
Holland has been paid $4,000 for his
"Bitter-Sweet," about SO. 900 for " Ka-
trina >" S., 900 for "The Mistress OF the
Manse." Dean Swift was paid $1,50O
for "Gulliver's Travels :" "Tbe Vicar
of Wakefield " brought Goldsmith $500.
DR.. Johnson was paid $500 for Ras-
selas." Fielding received $4,000 for
Amelia, which is said to have been
"the only work published in England
of which a second edition was called for
on the evening of the day on which the
first was issued" George Eliot is said
to have received $50.000 for Daniel
Deronda." Mrs. Radcliff was paid
81, 500 for "The Mysteries of Udolpho. I"
and Miriam Coles Harris made SO, 600
out of "Rutlege." Augusta Evans
Wilson. the author OF Beulah," has
made 800. 600 in eight years ont of her
novels. Fielding received 50 900 for
"Tom JONES'" and Mrs. Mary Agnes
Flemming $4,000 for "a Wonderful
Woman" Hawkesworth was paid $780,.
600 for his account of The South Sea
Expedition" and Stanley has already
received $4,000 for "Through the
Dark Continent" Murray paid Byron
S45, 900 for his poetical works. Sir
Walter Scott made $259, 900 by his
novels. Dickens received $l5, 900 for
the copyright on "Barnaby Rudge"
for six months; Goldsmith was paid
$500 for his Deserted Village" Bret
Harte received $4,000 for "Gabriel
Oonroy." Charles Lamb contracted to
write for two years for the London
Ma1ozine for $S50-not that much q
year, but that much for the two. Bret
Harte contracted to write for James r.
Osgood & Go. for $1S, 900 for one year,
if I am not mistaken. Let US look at
the remuneration of play.rights.
Shakespeare got $25 for "Hamlet.
Boucicault received $150,000 for "The
Shaughraun. Ben Jonson received
S55 for 1.-THE Page of Plymouth" Bret
Harte received $4,000 for "Two Men
of Sandy Bar" Gray received 1850
out of "The Beggar's OPERA" which
was one of the most successful pieces
ever produced; while Rich, the mana.
ger, made $40, 900. Thomas Haywood
Received $15 for ga Woman Killed with
Kindness" 81. j. Byron received
$5. 900 for the American right to "Oul
Boys" And 80 it goes. Literary re-
muneration is better nowadays than
when Jonson lived in the garret in
Grnbh street.
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An Artful Rascal.

A unique and thorough rascal has
lately been on trial in Brussels court.
His name is Eugene TKindt Roode'
becke, o young man who few years
ago started in life as clerk in the Bank
of Belgium. The crime he is charged
with is having embezzled or stolen nc
less than 81, ,600,00 He had not been
long in the bank before he found weak
spot in it's system. When securities
were deposited there no accurate note
was taken so as to enable them in each
case to be exactly identified with the
names OF the owners. It is related II
the Telegraph (Londop) that this young
man, with salary of $500 year, had
sole charge of these securities, amount
ing in value to many million pounds
sterling. When he wanted money, he
merely took scrip or any valuable secur
ity deposited in the bank. When de-
positor asked for the delivery OF scrip.
he blandly handed him scrip similar ir
kind and amount that had been deposit
ed by somebody else. As nobody took
note of the Numbers OF their shares, and
as the bank kept no record OF anything
but their amounts, nobody knew on
withdrawing his property that what ne
cot was not identical with what he had
lodged. One day tho bank was startled
by an eminent financier who complained
that 1858 shares of railroad stock be-
longing to bin, the numbers Of which
he had noted, had, without his knowl-
edge. been taken from the bank and de.
posted in another establishment OF
which he was director. But the young
clerk managed to recover the shares and
return them to the fnancier as If moth.
ing had been wrong in the transaction.
So we'll did he defend himself before the
directors and 80 artfully dwell on the
record of the bank, that instead of hav-
ing his accounts examined he was &C.
corded q vote OF thanks. But ne did
not deem it wise to remain in the bank,
and took fight, intending to come to
New York. At Liverpool he was cap.
tured with 81, 500, 900 of other peoples
money in his carpet bag. It never oc-
cnrred to his worthy chief, remarks the
Telegraph, as odd that a clerk with
$500 q year could live like lord and
enjoy life with tie prodigality OF a
prince: that he could have town house,
a rural villa, picture gallery, box at
the opera, racing stable, and all sorts
of expensive luxnries. Belgium is q q
cheap place to live in, and his chief
seems to have thought that his clerk had
a genius for thrift, aud could make the
income of a beggar goas far as the reve-
nue. of q king.
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Indy Doctors In Russia.

The emperor of Russia being an au.
tocrat, has right to lay down the law
on that, as upon other social difficulties.
Not long ago he granted charter to a
university for women, which has sue
ceeded 80 far that the Russian war
minister has now under his official con.
sideration a plan for training lady
doctors for the czar's vast armies. It
is stated that, during the terrible war
of 1877, actual demonstration was given
of the utter disability of the regular
(male) medical staff to cope with the
enormous number OF sick and wounded.
Instead OF commissioning an increased
number of doctors, it is recommended
to employ doctresses to the required e1-
tent. With the least possible delay, 80
the czar's command is understood to
run, medical and surgical classes are to
be Immediately established in st.
Petersburg for the instruction OF female
medical students, who, on the compile
tion of their term of knowledge-winning
ESQ the German phrase puts it) will be
regularly commissioned and attached TO
the army. If this be properly carried
out, the czar will be very popular with
the ladies. philadelphia Press.