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gs, The Power of a Cyclone.

In discussing the two cyclones which
visited the Bay of Bengal in October,
1876, Mr.. Elliott, Meteorological Re-
porter to the Government of Beagal in
cidentally gives some idea of the cyclo-
mean forces which are developed by such
storms.' The average daily evapora-
tion :" registered by the Bengal instru-
ments in October is " two mcRes.'' The
amount of heat absorbed by the CONVEX
sion of this amount of water daily over
so large an area as the Bay of Bengal
is enormous. Roughly estimated,''
said MIR. Elliott, sit is equal to the con-
tinuous working power of 300, 900 steam
engines of 1000 horse power.n A SIM
pie calculation will show that it suffices
to raise aloft over $4,000 cubic feet of
water in twenty-four hours from eyery
square mile of the bosom of the bay
and transport it to the clouds which
overhang it. When we extend the
calculation from single square mile to
the area of this whole Indian Gulf, the
mind is lost in the effort to conceive the
force which, in a days time, can lift
30, coo, 900 tons! Yet it would be easy
to show that such figures, fabulous as
they seem, do not adequately represent
the cyclonic forces of a single storm.
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rEv UHTTE FLO WER'S STORY.

-.,t nnre flower, white as the snow without
lIps.s,nd blossomed in the scented air.
lgssss ssss,ssEaed full many dream of life and love
ppa.-d Toung lovers whispering all about,
Inq Inq1' '.honpht that soon |, too, should have my
snare.
- then opened out my perfect flower,
al'.;ltbe whole place owned its wondrous power
. "a. .oft sad eyes, watched nv lady come,
III anir = he drew me toward her heaving breast
n3aa.red INV time drew nigh to rec the world.
~. aorld of which heard the yoiceess hum
IN fore er with curious vague unrest;
s.S riier yet my pure white leaves unfurled.
H. H. lady wears me at the ball tonight;
,s.e =, shall see a scene of rare delightp'
F sth sbaking hand my lady cut the stem,
~ ~ rsrsssed me to her bps, and in her ewes
srfhe large tears slowly gathering there;
| II did not fall. She did not notice them.
.sd looked through mist beyond the pale blue
aif she saw mystic vision fair.
IN lsdy gives me. said |, whispering low,
10 hina to whom her sweet heart longs to 90.
qyxIy she carried me with tagging feet
isso smother room. There. on the bed,
I.r ~ suuething white and wonderful and grand
fssn The lips a lingering smile. so sweet
iEney that was with the blessed dead,
Sbose work was done, who could no longer
stand
viii weary eyes. watching the daylight die
no swift away across the winter sky.
yrl,dy placed me on th indicating heart.
b The crossed hands, and sighed with bitter
pain,
Ind vet methought she envied me my place.
n TUNED away then, as if forced apart,
In lips Just hreathed her lover S name again:
Il came no sign upon that silent face.
Tsss then khewit all-death is life's best,
nd he wins most who earliest goes to rest.
-Hdrper's BGzdr,
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Brain Work and Bad Habits.

BAD habits, impure air, unhealthfu]
food, neglect of exercise, the use of to-
bacco and whisky, have killed thousands
OF students, where hard study has killed
one. More people die,f I think. from
want Of sufficient brain-work than from
too much Of II. When schoolgirls die
from tight corsets, heavy skirts, heating
| chignons and other unnatural inflictions.
it is very kind in gentlemen to saw,
"Killed by hard study" but women
know better. Some years since had a
hired girl who suffered almost constantly
from headache, but she wore continually
a heavy chignon, supported by wire
pins in her hair. Her headache was not
caused by hard study. This same girl
often spent fo1ty niiin1 tssat hight put
ting up her hair, and as many minutes
in the morning taking it down again.
But the worst of it all was that after all
her care, she was sick, and conseuuent-
ly ugly. Young ladies can't safely study
during school hours and then spend the
hours allotted to exercise and recreation
in the exhausting labor of altering old
dresses into the latest fashion, or even
in embroidery or stitching ruffies. They
can scarcely afford an hour a day for
the crimping and frizzing of their hair.
1t is rather a curious, study..to notice
how women, In, all times and, countries.
have been bent on.changing themselves
from what God made then. In some
countries they blaeken the teeth, and
bandage the feet; in others they fiatten
the heads and paint the face; while in
Others they powder the .fsce, ,frl. the
hair and variously deform the form
divine. Now, ifalstliis was necessary
to make woman beautiful, it would be
labor and care well spent, for every
woman should make herself attractive.
if possible. But, is it not true that the
highest beauty, as well as art, is to be
natural? Were not our grandmothers
in their youth, though in plain attire,
admired and we'd quite as sincerely as
the present generation of girls are?
Good health, a good disposition and in
telligence are the best 'beautiiers. I
have sometimes thought a, a,colhctien of
the various styles of chignons, stays,
and other denominations of
woman apparel. would make valua-
bic and instructive addition to some of
our museums.-Cor Clereiaad (O)
Lea Ter.
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were taken from the paper, but still the
paper OF the size which the Rump Par
lament ordered for their Journals bears
the name of the water marks then or
dered as an indignity to Charles. An
English paper says: 1.-The, practice of
biulng the paper pulp had its origin in a
singular accident. 1t occurred about the
year 1890, at a paper mill belonging to
Mr.. Buttonshaw, whose wife, on the oc-
caslon IN question, was experimenting
the washing OF some linen, when acci-
dentally she dropped her bag Of pow
dered blue into the midst of some pulp,
IN forward state of preparation, and
SO great was the fear she entertained of
the mischief she had done, seeing the
blue rapidly amalgamated with the
pulp, that illusion to it was studiouslv
avoided, until, on Mr.. iButtonshaw's in,
| curing in great astonishment what it
was that had impaired the peculiar col
orito the pulp, his wife, perceiting that
no great damage had been done, took
courage and at once disclosed the secret.
for which she was afterwards rewarded
IN remarkable manner by her husband,
who, being naturally pleased with an
advance OF so much as four shillings
PEI bundle upon submitting. the i'm
proved make to the London market.
Immediately presented costly scarlet
cloak somewhat more congenial to
taste in those days, it is presumed, than
1t would be now, with much satisfac-
ton to the sharer Of his Joys" The
fashion OF writing on black bordered
paper is about 130 years old. and comes
to us from Italy. In s.Mann and Man
gners at the Court of Florence (174O-
1867 3 Mann writes to Walpole on jan
uary 2o, l745, on paper with a narrow
mourning border, as follows: "I believe
you never. saw anything like it before.
here everybody uses it but myself. /
begged a sheet for this occasion only
and another to keep it as. a curiosity.
Anne. Royale was very impolite to die
just at the beginning of Carnival, to
deprive us of all our diversions" Nine. b,
Royale was the mother of the Grand
Duke OF Tuscany. 1t is difficult to say
when paper was first ruled. The monks
OF the middle ages carefully ruled their
paper before they transcribed the man 1
uscripts which handed down the classics
to us. There are earlier traces of ruiz
ing; in fact, in different sense from
Its usual acceptation, the Latin proyerb. /
FNulla dies sine linea," is true. Ruling
machines were invented in Kingston, 4
canada, about twenty-five or thirty
years ago. - l''s
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~ Haven't 1'ime."

A great many people excuse them
| selves for their habitual or total neglect
of the finer and better work of life. by
declaring that they have no time to de;
vote to it. Others, they say, may read
the worlds best books, or store their
minds with helpful knowledge, or de-
vote themselves to good works among
the poor, or aid their minister in his
parish undertakings, or make kindly
calls upon the sick; but for all such good
works they have no time The daily
drudgery of life, for them, is SO con-
stants and pressing that they cannot
think OF adding to it those other tasks
which they would greatly like to under
take, if they only could devote their
unimpeded time. and their unburdened
lives wholly to their accomplishment.
Now it is proved by the whole expe-
rience of the world, in whatsoever de.
partment, of labor, that, the best work
does not come from those who have
nothing else to do, and whose whole
time is free to devote to a single pur-
pose. So complex is the scheme of
daily life in this workaday world"
that it is simply impossible for person
to declare that he will do but one thing,
and that, failing to give his whole time
to it, he will do nothing. 1t is true that
a man should have plan of life, or a
leading ambition, or an overmasterinS
purpose; but it is not true that he
has a right to sacfice everything to
it. The Master and his disciples
had the noblest purpose and the
loftiest life-work of any men that eyer
lived upon the earth; but they did not
preach, or teach. or heal, an the time.
They did whatever thing wastheir duty;
and though all things were performed
with the ultimate purpose in view, they
did not wait to be able to give up their
whole time to some one particular di-
vision of religious lator. And so it has
been ever since; the worlds best labor
ers in religion, and politics. and litera-
ture. and the arts, and philanthropy,
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Historical Facts Regarding Paper.

Ia ..s-V -Va'4.x e.
In ancient times, when comparatively
few people could read, pictures iof,eyery
kind Were much in use where writing
would now be employed. Every shop,
for instance, had its sign, as we'll as ev-
cry public house, and those signs were
not then, as they are often now, only
painted upon a board, but were invaria-
bly, actual models of the things which
! the sign expressed las we still OCCASION
ally see such signs as beehive, tea
canister or doll, and the like. For the
same reason printers employed some de-
vice, which they put upon the title
pages and at the end of their books.
Aud paper makers also introduced marks
by way of distinguishing the paper. of
their manufacture from that OF others;
which marks, becoming common, nat
urally gave their names to different sorts
of paper. A fayorite paper mark be-
tween 1910 and 1860 was the jug orpot,
and would appear to have originated the
term 't,pot" paper. The foolscap was
later device and does not appear to
have been nearly Of such long continu-,
arlce as the former. 1t has given place
TO the figure of Britannia, or that of a
lion rampant supporting the cap of lib
erty on a pole. The name, however,
has continued, and we still denominate
paper of particular size by the title of
"Efoolscap." Post paper seems to have
derived its name from the post horn,
which at one time was its distinguished
mar k. 1t does not appear to have been
used prior to the establishment of the
General Post-office Q67O), when it be-
came a custom to blow horn, to which
circumstance, no doubt, we may attrib-
ute its Introduction. Bath post, is SO
named alter that fashionable city. Ev-
cry kind of paper is known to the sta
toner by its name-quarto post, .8vo,
post, foolscap, etc. The term foolscap
to designate certain kind of paper,no
doubt has puzzled many. The origin is
not only amusing but historical. Charles
i. of England granted numerous morlop-
olies for the support Of the Government.
Among other things was the manu-
faeture of paper. The water-mark of
the finest sort was the royal arms of En-
gland. The consumption of this article
was great at this time. and large for
tunes were made by those who had
purchased the exclusive ii yht to vend
it. This, among other monopolies, was
S It aside by the Parliament that brought
|. to the scaffold. nd by way of
their contempt for he king they
0 'dered the royal arms to be taken from
the paper and fool with his cap and
bells to be substituted. 1t is now over
2oo years since the foolscap and bells
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When man of varied talents has
reached the age of thirty years without
having decided precisely what he will
be, he may as well settle down to the
conclusion that he is not going to be
anything in particular,
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Last year the Methodist Book Con.
Germ made net profit of $40, 600 on a
book and periodical business of $500.
900. $3.50 : .fa.s - III ~ :
+ Don j. A. Nunez, the Chilian Com.
missioner OF Education, is studying the
school and university systems of Boston
and her neighborhood. .f...,t 5.r. -
1t IS said that the present supply of
elementary teachers in England is very
lar IN excess of the demand, and in con-
sequence salaries have been seriously
reduced. .ga.ig. e.t-..-.. ...
Rev. j. Munro Gibson, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Church of
Chicago forisix years. has resigned and
VIII go to st. Johns Wood Church.
London, on a salary Of Fl, 200 per an
num- sJAIis III &f.k te..s..7rsif, ..
The Rev. DR.. VIM. M. TAYLOR, of
New York, win sail on June 2 with most
OF his family for Europe. His congre-
CATION have. voted him four months
leave OF absence, and also a gift of S2,-
900 to meet some of the expenses of his
journey.
During the 173 years of its exist
ence, the Congregational Church of
Madison, Conn, has had only six pas
tors, none of whom ever left the church
alter being settled over it until death
took. them away. In the village of
Over. England, the Congregational
minister who recently died had been six
tyyears in the service of the same church.
This church was his first as well as
hlsonly charge. He was buried under
the shadows of some tall poplar trees
which he planted fifty years ago. John
Marshall was this faithful and contented
PASTORS name. eH '.... N 1.Tl-1-s
The Bible and Prayer Union is an
Institution organized in London, in Jan
uary, 1876, under the following rules:
L. Each member to read one and the
same chapter daily, asking Gods bless
ing upon the word read 2. Each MEM
Der to pray every Sunday morning for
all the members. The Union began
with a membership of fifty, which in four
years has increased to more than 80, 600,
with branches in Germany, Switzerland,
Italy, Sweden, Greece, the Turkish EN-.
piIe, the South Sea Islands (using cards
printed in the languages of these coun-
tries), besides members of the parent |
organization in all parts of Great Brit
ain and Ireland, in North and South |
America, India, China, etc. 9sls II
-The opinion is growing among
teachers, says the Yoatth's Compilation, |
that it is not good to offer medals and
rewards for proficiency in study. It.was
found some years ago that the Franklin
medal did more harm than good to the
boys OF the Boston Latin School, and it
is no longer given. A few ambitious
boys half-killed themselves in their ef-9
forts to win it, while the great mass of
pupils despaired from the first, and
made no attempt Something similar
has occurred in Lowell, where Mr.. Car
1ey left a sum of money to provide
medals for competition in the High
School. The strife for these medals
caused oyer-exertion in few, jealousy
md heart-burning in more, and render
I'd the idle scholars even more lanouid
md Indifferent than they were before.
Che school committee has wisely abol.
she'd the edmals. H6 ,sa4i.aH.{ io3
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Putting John In.

"a The trial of an artist who undertakes
to paint picture 90 to order'' are MANY
and vexatious. 1t is related Aof a we'll
known portrait painterthat he received
an order to paint "family croup."
The family was large and the happy head
OF it wanted them all included, After
many consultations and weary inter-
views as to sittings, dress, accessories
and other details, the order was finally
given and the artist breathed freer, but
hardly had he ordered the canvas be-
fore paterfamiias arrived breathless at
the studio, and announced that he had
forgot al! about John.'' 10 E0ijhIisaIis
|gE'' Well," said the weary artist, land
whoEis JohnP'' Ia ,fs.. i ,'...7sa,r ,sT .,-.i
My son john said the patron, "as
went to the war, want him put In the
picture. - 55G@e5F II .arertf.f-.sr.,,t
The artist proposed that John be sent
to the Studio for sitting, to which the
patron of the arts responded, ,"WeI,
forgot to tell you Johns dead" Des-
,pite the gravity of the information, the /.
painter smiled and asked the father to
bring him a photograph or anything that
would give him an idea of the lost sons !
personal appearance. F""John's'' parent
scratched his head and said he would
60 home and consult ssMother.', antas
Before the artist had lighted his AFTER
breakfast cigarette the next morning,
the fond father made his appearance
accompanied by big bundle, which
being unrolled, displayed. to the aston
ished eyes of the artist an old pair. of
blue trousers. So
Mother said she couldn't find no
photograph nor nothin' Of john" said
the perplexed parent, "but she run
agin his sold army pants and thought
they might give, you an idea, and you,
could put John in uniform. - Boston
Journal Of Commerce. 9 N 5ro sd hflI
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!, Hufy People.

One Of the oldest things to- witness.
II not one OF the most disagreeable to
encounter. is the faculty: which some
people have for taking offense where
| no otense is meant" taking huff, 80 as
/ the phrase goes, with reason or without
l-and making themselves and every one
else uncomfortable, sfor, nothing deeper
than a mood or more than a fancy.
Huffy people are to be met with, of ali
ages and in every station,l neither, years,
nor condition bringing necessarily. wis
dom and unsuspiciousness but we ara
bound to say that the larger proportion
viii be generally found among women.
ana chiehy among those who are Of an
uncertain social position, or who are
unhappy In their circumstances, not to
speak of their tempers. Hufness. s
which seems to be seifasse~tion in what
may be called the negative form, and
winch the poSsessors thereof classify as
high spirit or sensitiveness, ACCORDING
as they are passionate or sullen. is in,
reality the product of self-distrust. The
person who has self-respect, and moth
ing to fear, who is of an assured social
istatusi and happy private condition, as
never apt to take offense. 'A h3sl5
Many and great are the dangers of
action with huffy people; and sure as
you are to founder into The bog with
them, while you are innocently thinking
you are walking on the soiidest espla.
! made, the dangers of speech are lust ,as
manifold. The dangers of testing are.
above all. great. 1t may be laid down
as un ABSOLUTE rule, which has no ex. y.
ception any where, that no huffy person
can hear joke good-humoredly, or take
it as it is meant. If you attempt the
very simplest form of chatting, you will
soon be made to find out your mistake: 10
and not unfrequently the whole harmo.
ny OF an. evening has been set wrong,
because thin-skinned, huffy person
has taken apleasant jest as personal
affront, and either blazed out or gloomed
sullenly, according to. his or her indi-
vidual disposition and direction of the j,
wind at the time ,'i'a ~ e(s5if -'i1T u
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Miss Hill sued Mr.. Harrison. at
Saybrook, Conn, for 81 0, 900, because he
failed to keep his promise of marriage.
She testified that she was twenty-oI1e
years old, and he sixty-three. she
loved him, she said. Notwithstanding
the difference in their ages, though she
was greatly shocked when she learned
how old he really was. She supposed
him to be about forty, until he took Of
black, curly wig, and showed small
remnant of gray hair. She tainted at
the sight, but afterward became recon.
ciled to him. Then he in turn grew
cold. -.-
Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-06

AOIR AOHNA9 sszAz. THE spacious room (5Ox18) on third floor of AESS Central Building, 75 Orange street, Just As5A finished. Well lighted all conven1ences, well adapted society club Also fine, pleasant of- flee second story. Apply to
 l.. B. BARTHOLOMEW, nh3O m 75 Orange Street,
Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-06
Ohio.

City EiectIOns-A Republican Victory.
 EVANSVILLE, April 5--The election to-day in this city resulted in complete victory for the Republicans. They elected all the city officers by majorities ranging from 54 to 637. The Republicans elect five Counoilmen and the Democrats three, with tie in the Second ward. This secures the Republicans ma jority in the Council. The Democrats carried Springfield township, the home of Hen. H. J. Jewett, by majority of a round hundred.
 TOLEDO, April 5.-It is impossible to. ar rive at any resultof the city election tonight other than 6 general estimate. The Demo- crats are supposed to have elected majority of their candidates by small plurality. Up to 12 p. m. less than half 8 dozen precincts had completed their counts. Scratching was very general, and party lines were kept out of sight Out of POO Republican tickets vo ted in one precinct there were but 25 straight ones. No returns have been received from neighboring towns up to this hour (12 p. m.)
 CINCINNATI, April 5.-The election returns come slowly, indicating a light vote in this city and State. The results in thirty three precincts indicate that the Republicans have elected the Comptroller, over which the great est fight was made, by about 800 majority. Springfield and Zanesyille report Republican victories
Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-06
Articles of Association

THE INTERNATIONAL SUBMARINE COMPANY. DE it known that we, the subscribers do hereby as- sociate ourselves as body polite and corporate, pursuant to the provisions Of the statute laws of the State of Connecticut regulating the formation of joint stock corporations and the following the articles of our association and agreement:
 Article 1et. The name Of said Corporation shall be 1.-THE INTERNATIONAL SUBMARINE COM PANY."
 Article 2i The capital stock of said Corporation shall be ten million dollars capital stock shall twenty five dollars each.
 Article 3i. The said Corporation is formed for the patent rights for Piies patent Prosthetc Arm and appurteDances and any patents and patent rights n- cdent to submarine wrecking and salvage operations with the right to manufacture and the same for submarine, wrecking and salvage purposes, and to sell the when manufactured, together with the right to issue licenses the and receive pay therefor also to buy, se mortgage and deal in real or personal property necessary convenient for the prosecution of said business and generally to do all things incident to said business and to the proper management thereof.
 Article 4th. The statute laws of the State Con necticut relating to joint stock corporations hereby particularly referred to and made part of these articles the oporation hereby ganZed and established under and pursuant to said statute laws shall have the powers and proceed accord ing to the regulations described and specified therein
 Article 9th. Each subscriber to these articles to take the number of shares annexed to his twenty-five dollars aforesaid and to be paid for by
 nstaments as the directors shall call in the
 Article 9th. The said corporation is established and
 located in the town and county of New Haven, in the l State of Connecticut.
 Dated at New Haven, Connecticut, this 18th day of | March, A. D., 1880.
 | Names of Subscribers, No. of Shares P. A. Corbin .......................... 10000 Siss A. George. 10000 stephen E. M Tasker. r.,..--..-............. 10000 EdWAI9 .: 1ones.- ..,..-....-.. 2OOG0 Chas F. Pike. 200GO Nelson F. Evans. 100000 J. w. McElWee 100 0c0