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The Pigeon,. Home Instinct.

one OF the most Strlk1nS powers possessed by
animals is that of finding their way home from
great distance and over a road with which
they are supposed to be unacquainted. 1t ha
long been question whether we are to attr1b-
1ntuitive perception of the animal Of the direc-
ton and the practicable route to his home, or
whether they are the results Of conscious
study OF the situation and definite carrying
Probably the most prominent example of this
wonderful power is the case of homing pigeons.
heT xftK spa e % W Rs
gree; for their peculiar "gift" has been made
Use Of since q time whereof the memory Of man
runneth not to the contrary" The principle of
thelesS, each young bird must be subjected to
severe training in order to fit it for those ardu-
GUS competitions which annually take place
among tirst-class birds. AS soon as the f1edg-
ling is fairly strong nitS wing, it is taken few
miles from the cote and released. 1t rises into
the air, looks about it and starts straight away
all-when it has attained the height of a few
yards the bird can see It's cote, and full of that
strong love of home which Is so characteristic
of its wild ancestors, the blue rocks, it hastens
back to the society OF its mates. The next day
the trtal-distance is doubled, and the third day
Is still further increased, until in few weeks
miles, which is all that bird-of-the-yea is
fit" to do; and when two years old, will re-
turn from two hundred miles, longer distances
being left to more mature birds. But all this
the first lesson was toward the east, subsequent
lessons must always be; nor can the added dis
lance each time time exceed certain limit, for
then, after trying this way and that, and falling
to recognize any landmark, the bird will simply
come back to where 1t was thrown up. More
over, it must also be clear weather, Looming
pigeons will make no attempt t. start in a fog,
or ii they do get away; Hundred chances to one
they VIII De les.. Nor do they travel at night,
out settle down at dusk and renew their jour-
ney in the morning. When snow DISCUSSES the
landscape, also, many pigeons go astray. None
of these circumstances seriously hamper
the sem1-annual migrattonS OF swallows or geese.
They journey by night, as well as by day straight
over vast bodies Of water and fiat deserts, true
to the north or south. Homing pigeons fly north
ward and southwark, east or west, equally as
well, and it is evident that their course Is guided
only by observation. Watch one tossed. On
strong pinions it mounts straight up into the
air a hundred feet. Then it begins to sweep
around in great circles rising higher and higher
until-if the locality is seventy-five or one hum
dred miles beyond where 1t has ever been be-
fOre-it Will 60 almost out Of sight. Then sud-
denly you will see it strike of upon Straight
course, and that course is homeward But take
the same bird there second time and none of
these aerial revolutions will Occur-itS time Is
too pressing, its inconsistencies too intense for
that; instantly 1t will turn its face towards its
owners doVe-cote.-lEiflest IngerSoU in Sefri6
nPI'tS.
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SMOKING IN PUBLIC CONFERENCE.-The ueS-
ton has been asked, have the managers of pub
lie conveyances the right and power to put Off
of their vehicles people who persist In smoking?
The answer is that the right and the power
generally exist in such managers to make and
enforce reasonable regulations for the comfort
of the general public, and the prohibition OF
smoking comes within the rules, until it Can be
proved that tobacco smoke is not noxiouS nor
offensive, and that the great majority of per-
sons are smokers. Smoking is an indulgence,
not necessity, and no man has right to pro-
cure his personal pleasures at the cost of 1ncon-
veniencing and annoying Others. But under
lying all this the point of gent1l1ty comes up.
WIN any gentleman insist upon smoking In a
public conveyance when he cannot help KNOW
ing that In doing so he is annoying both women
and children, and often causing them serious
trouble and nausea? Some fippant reasonerS
try to draw the line at a cigarette or mild
cigar, but the offence against good manners is
the same, differing only in degree. Tobacco
smoke is tobacco smoke, though some may only
make a lady sneeze, while some is strong and
rank enough to upset delicate stomach en-
tirely. A gent ,,eman is known, not by his style
of dress but by IS consideration for the feelings
and comforts of offers. The same applies to
tobacco chewers, who distribute their saliva in
public places to the injury IT Women's dresses
and the annoyance of all people OF de1cate SEN
sibil1ties. The difficulty, however, IN talking
about these matters with an eye to the public
comfort lies in the fact that persons VINO are
guilty of these habitual breaches of decoruI,
are not likely to heed any remOnstranceS no
matter how pointed and emphatic. -[BLittreore
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GEN. GRANTS TASTE IN AET.-The repairs on
cen Grants home In this city will be completed
this week, and the house win be ready for the
reception of the family on Monday or Tuesday
next. There is present but meager show In
the parlor and other rooms in the way OF deco
rations. In the f1rst-named apartment, in the
way OF wall-pictures. we saw photograph OF
the magnificent and costly cake presented to
Gen. Grant by the ladies of the Hebrew fair in
New York in 1868, also photograph of the
grand-stand in front Of the De Soto House, as it
appeared on that memorable day in 1865, with
upward of 10000 people assembled in Galena for
the purpose OF welcoming homaShe conquering
hero Beside these there are@&o handsome
mirrors, corner-brackets, etc. On the marble-top
comfortable is a basket which is filled with
cards of callers and visitors from abroad. In
the library the walls are decorated with four
plctures-a very beautiful emblem of the an
Gent Scottish knights, a present; steel engrav-
ing entitled Morning" a chrome representing
Grant in hoyhood, driving horse which is drag
ging behind large bundle of fagots gathered
in the woods by the youthful Ulysses; also a
CHROME representing Grant as captain during
the Mexican war, IN the act of heading his men
in chaIge.-[Gd1ef,o lIHJ Gazette
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How TO Grow Monuments.

Commissioner LIE Due, it may be observed, is
taking some interest in the Thomas statue
soon 10 be unveiled in Washington. This is al
together encouraging Commissioner LIE Due
has given so much attention to the cultivation
OF bamboo and bOnbons since he has been at the
head of the Agricultural bureau that there were
grave suspicious that he would overlook the i'm
portance of the statue and monument crop.
There has been great need of its development, as
only here and there has it been found possible to
raise statue or small-sized monument to some
distinguished man, and it had become evi-
cent that the soil and climate OF this
country were not favorable to the monu-
ment crop. There were few things so much
needing the attention OF the Agricultural
department, whose head official has accom-
plished such momentOuS results hitherto sup
posed impossible by adapting the soil and eli
mate Of the country to his purposes: There is
q great demand for monuments, which Is grow
ing year by year, and there really does not seem
to be any good reason why we shouldn't raise
our own monuments and in that way save
great deal of money that has been wasted in
getting up lot OF half-fnished and imperfect
affairs for everybody to poke fun at When the
obelisk which Is destined for this country arrives
Commissioner LIE Due will confer great favor
upon all who are in need OF monuments II he
will suggest some method OF grating which
viii prove successful and insure q kind OF monu-
ment that shall look finished and be pleasing to
the eye.1FRtld. Times.
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is LIFE WORTH LIvING-Life is quite worth
living TO all who find engaging objects OF pur-
SUIT, ana especially to those who win success In
their pursuits We repeat therefore that. by
almost unanimous vote, the human race
practically decides every day that.Iife is worth
living. Mr.. MallQck thinks 1t Is worth living
provided a man has faith In great church: and
Professor Mivar-a Catholic himself-thinks
LIES highest values are in the doing OF duty
and In love. We should be the last to claim that
happiness is the highest aim OF life and that.
unless that is secured, Life is failure and not
worth living. To do right, to sacrifice ones
self for love-these are better things than
things that paw. To be Conscious of nobility of
character and usefulness OF life; to be conscious
that our lives are brought into affection rela-
lions with other and harmonious life-what are
these but LIES highest values? What are these
put the highest SatisfactionS Of conscious be-
dng?-Sc77brse1's Magazine.
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II Is A MISTAKE.

1t Is mistake to suppose that man Is never
employed as conductor of horse car unless
he can bring the certificate OF respectable
physician testifyfng to his total deafness. 1t
only seems so to you because you happen not to
attract his attention when particularly DESTROYS
to take his car.
desires have any influence ON the Dispenser Of
weather. You should be thankful they do not,
II they did, Old Prob would go mad and your
fellow countrymen go madden.
1t is mistake to think your fnterlocutor Is
listening to what you say. He is thinking either
of what. he has said or is going to say, just as
you were and will be.
1t is mistake young man. when you think
the girls are just dying after you. 1t is only
you who are thoroughly In love with yourself.
one word mof Gr am
lengthens his discourse by so much, without
deceiving any one Of his hearers for an in
slant.
It is mistake to suppose. that everybody is
thinking about you. You do so much of that
kind OF work yourself that you exhaust the sub
ject.
1t is mistake to expect a direct answer from
politician. His life is given to lodging ques-
lions before election and giving evasive answers
after election.
ian perfect. He is very much like yourself.
II is mistake to suppose that your children
VIII be satisfied with your experiences. You
didn't accept your fathers, but preferred taking
a term in the same dear school.
1t is a mistake to suppose that men do not
mean what they say. There is but one man of
whom yeu can positively make that affirmation.
1t is mistake to suppose that the diSmally
pious man has had change of heart. The
change is in his liver, If anywhere.
1t is mistake to suppose that people go to a
concert to hear the music. They simply go
to exchange receipts for doughnuts and drop
cakes.
1t is mistake to suppose that your friend is
consumedly interested in your eloquent deScrp-
ton of your liver troubles. On the contrary, he
is excessively anxious to tell you Of his catarrh
1t is a mistake to wish the butcher would
remove the bones before weighing your meat.
How would you like to be weighed that way
yourself?
1t is a mistake to suppose that physicians
know how to treat your constitutional disorders
enough what is best for you, but you dislike to
undergo the proper regimen. You employ a
doctor, paying him for shouldeing the RESPONSE
bility OF your sickness, and handicap his efforts
with all your unhealthful habits and practices
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When they came unto the rivers side,
AND BINDING Ssa ts eT face
~ Lord thou art he, she said, who yesterday
straying amid the blossoms found a snake.
And the a tongue and opsnsd
he turned SO pale and stin. could not think
Why he should %. cease to play. and let my bresst
Of poison: and another ny He viii de Is SICK
But ]. who could not lose my precious boy,
Prayed a, Of them physic. which might bring the
5 Back e his eyes: it was so very small,
Il could not hate him, gracious a as he was,
Nor hurt him in his sport. And some one said.
L.! now he Passeth in lis i yellow robe
For For that eieh ais y WSereon came
aa to ass src IKE godn
frayns thee tel what smpes may be- rood oA''
And An thou great sir didst spurn me not but gaze
sea bseR h sayne
Thee arss. and him. il thou scouidss fetch the
Ter 1hgsy xh9 seek Physsisns bring to them
Black mustard seed, 8 tola; only mark
I hou take it not from any hand or house
a he
Thus didst thou speak I'm my y, Lord s,d. s,,.i
Exceeding tenderly. "Yea! sife sp s thus,
Dear pea !. Kissssgsotami! But didst thou find
l. he SeeQ!''
Il went, Lord, clasping to my breast
i he babe grown colder, asking at each hut
Here IN the jungle and toward the town
j fray you give me mustard, of your grace,
tola. black and each who had it gave,
For all the poor are piteous to the poor;
But when asked, In my friends household here
Hath any peradyenture ever died
Husband, or wife, or child, or slaye?' they said,
% sister! what is this YOU ask? the dead
Are very many, and the living few!'
So with sad thanks gave the mustard back,
And prayed of others; but the others said,
Here is the seed, but we have lost our save!'
Here is the seed, but our good man is dead!'
Here is some seed, but he that sowed it died
Between the rain time and the harvesting!
Therefore left my child-who would not suck
Nor snile-beneath the wild vines by the stream
To seek thy face and kiss thy feet, and pray
Where might find this seed and find no death,
If now, indeed my babe be not dead,
AS do fear, and as they said to me-"
MY sister. thou hast found, :" the master said,
Sc Searching for what none finds-that bitter balm
had to give thee. He thou lovedst slept
Dead on thou bosom yesterday: to-day
Thou know st the whole wide world weeps with thy
The grief which all hearts share grow less for one.
Lo! would pour my blood if it could stay
Thy tears and win the secret of that curse
Which makes sweet love our anguish, and which
drives
Der flowers and pastures to the sacrifice
AS these dumb beasts are DRIVEN men their lords.
1 seek that secret bury thou thy child"
EDWIN ARNOLD an the 'Light of asia"
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The OLD RED CENT.-As the old "red cent
mas now passed out OF uSt, and, except rarely.
history is a matter Of sufficient interest for
preservation. The cent was first proposed by
Robert Norris, the great financier Of the revO-
luton, and was named by jefferson two wears
after. 1t began to make its appearance from
the mint in 1892. 1t bore the head of Washing
ton on one side and thirteen links on the other
The French revolution soon created a rage Tor
French ideas in America, which put On the cent
instead OF the head OF Washington the head OF
the Goddess Of Liberty-a French Liberty-with
neck thrust forward and flowing locks. The
chain on the reverse side was displaced by the
olive wreath of peace but the French Liberty
was short lived, and so was her portrait on our
cent. The next head or figure that succeeded
her hair-came into fashion about thirty or
forty years ago, and her finely chiselled Grecian
features have been but slightly altered by the
lapse of time.
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ARCHIBALD FORBES, who, just as he was about
TO go and tell the Americans all about the
RusSo-Turk1Sh war, was hurried Off by the
Daily Neacs to Burmah, and then to Zululand
is too much In demand in England to cross the
Atlantic just now. His thrilling stories about
crowds, and he tells them with simplicity
and realism which are sufficiently impressive.
The audiences, however, resented some of his
remarks about Lieut.. Carey's desertion of the
prince in his first lecture, and he omitted them
from the next. The lecturer was made to I'M
derstand that the people here do not care
straw about Carey'S reputation, but what they
will not stand Is the assumption that there Is
anything more In his deserving the eX-prince
than In his desertion OF the humble English
men In equal danger. The masses here have
reached the conviction that the ex-prince was
the only man out there who went for his own
advantage and not that Of England, and they
are now irritated by any pathetic illusions to
him. The serious Englishman has come to the
surface once more. For the rest, Archibald
FOTbeS'S lectures, without such Intention, i'm
mat after all the defeat of the Zulus Is hardly
to be estimated as British victory. True,
Cetywayo is inCape Town castle the cniosss L..
signed treaty by which Zululand is to be d.
vided into sections, with supreme British
resident in each. But when the science and
wealth on one side are contraSted with the ig-
noran(::a and poverty on the other; when the eX-
pense In money and vaiiU;sa BILE life and the long
time spent are compared with Jno slightness OF
the results, 1t is felt that this page Of British
history is not one that can be written in YER
spect felt here for the captive Zulu King, and it
is probable that he will be honorably treated.
Not even the Daily Telegraph has thirSted for
his blood London Letter.
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THE AGITATION AGAINST VIvIsECTIoN has
taken deep hold in both Germany and Sw1tzer-
land. Numerous anti-vivisection leagues have
been formed, and the countries have been
flooded with pamphlets on the subject. SO in
tense degree of feeling has been aroused
against the leading vivfsectionists, and their
names have been so covered with opprobrium,
that thep have found 1t necessary to defend
themselves earnestly in public addresses. One of
the leaders in the movement against them Is
Ernstvon Weber, the South American explorer,
who wrote book in which he portrayed expert
mentS upon living animals In such forcible
cOlorS that thrill of horror ran through the
reading public OF Germany, and thousands were
straightway ready to take up arms in behalf Of
the tOrmented brute creation. AS Ernst Won
Weber is one of the most prominent figures in
the anti-yivisecttOn movement, so the dtstin-
guished Psychologist, Prof Ludwig of the uni
versity OF Leipsc, is the head and front of the
fraternity against whom the popular eXecration
Is directed. He and his associates diSclaim I'M
necessary cruelty, argue that vivisection is ne
cesSary to progress in medical science, and en-
deayOr to show that the discoveries made by it
have saved enough human life and suffering to
unQn hrllteS -
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As one by one along hfe's ninty way,
The hopes of youth fade in the heart and die,
And Of our prime the aspirations high
Remorseiess circumstances crush and slay:
Then Courage" to our fainting hearts we say,
Beyond this life the sunny uplands lie,
Where these shall all be ours, again to try
The bright ascent toward the perfect day.
oh, land of the hereafter, can it be.
When to thy sacred keeping we commit
All our best treasures SO conndingly,
Our dead, our hopes, our aspirations, lit
With quenchless fire. that immortality
And thy fair plains are all myth, a cheat!
-tChicdgo Tinses.
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Decadence of the White Shutter i'm
Philadelphia.

Ten years ago scarcely score OF houses could
be found In Philadelphia that did not boast the
proverbial white shutter with its black bolt. It
Is not SO to-day. In every direction there have
been innovations upon this old and long sus-
ta1ned rule. The white has been made to give
way to less glaring, neutral tnts, and the effect
Is certainly very pleasing and a decided Inn
provement. Housewives hail the change with
great satisfaction, as it saves them vast deal
OF scruDbtng; for the labor connected with the
cleaning OF white paint Is more than double that
required to be expended upon more subdued
cOlOrS Let us have more OF the dark cOlOred
[I'hiyQ. Star.
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es-" What are you puzzling over, Ponsonby?"
I'm trying to answer a note from the dear
duchess as you call her. She's done me the
nonor to write and ask II that st. Bernard pup
wen, biscuits, shouldn't it," 'Of course; but
S s1 spells biscuit with K, you see, and don't
IKE 10 spell 1t properly for fear OF hurting her
ABOUT That ! spell biscuits with k" s'Say
meat, then. "But she spells meat with two
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FB "A proper conclusion for the marriage cere-
mony in many of our fashionable society we'd
dingS would be:-"What commercial interests
have Joined together, let no ill-temper put
aSunder.'
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NATIONAL MUSEUM BUILDING COMMITS.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.


OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
WARRINGTON, D. c., October 81, lSlg.)
Sealed Proposals viii be received by the NaSonA
until IL NJ. ON NOVEMBER 20, 1873, for supplying.
delivering and setting up in complete Workng order
the FIRE. proof Building now being erected for the
National Museum. The apparatus to be constructed
cations copies Of which. and any additional In
formation, may be had at the ofice of Cluss q
Schulze Architects, Corcoran Building.
s. r. BAIRD,
For National Mus. Builains Commilion.
!. poYShVaH
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At HOLMEAD & CO.'S, 1343 street, opposite the
Ebbitt House. Ocl3
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CARROLLTON HOTEL,
" BALTIMORE LIGHT AND GERMAN STs.,
BALTIMORE, Md.
Rates reduced to SO and 90. 30 per day, according
to location of rooms. Extra charges for parlors,
baths and double rooms, according to size. The
most convenient and latest built hotel in the city
Elevator runs continuously to all the foors An
COLEMAN, Manager. Bait, Md, Oct. 10, 1879.