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FOREIGN soNo-BiRps.


The English birds are more domestic and
familiar than ours; more directly and inti-
mately associated with man not, as n class,
so withdrawn and lost in the great void OF
the wild and the unreclaimed England
is like continent concentrated the
waste land the barren stretches, the wilder
nessess left out. The birds are brought
near together and near to man. Wood birds
here are house and garden birds there. They
find good pasturage and protection syery-
where. A Land q naglSpp PRESERVES sr 1iS and eli.
mate fraa from, s.,iala,,t avtrannas--uuhaI a
stage for the birds, and for enhancing the
effect of their songs How prolific they are,
how abundant If our songsters were hunt
cd and trapped, by bird-fanciers and Others
as the lark, and gold-finch, and mavis, etc.,
are in England, the race would soon become
extinct. Then, as rule, it is probably true
voice than our have, or certain qualities that
make their songs more striking and conspc-
uous, such us greater yiyaeity md strength.
They are less bright in plumage, but more
animated in voice. They are not SO recently
out of the woods, and their strains have not
that elusiveness and plaintiveness that ours
have. They sing with more confidence and
copiousness, and as il they, too, had been
touched by civilization.
Then they sing more hours in the day,
and more days in the year. This is owing
TO the milder and more eqiable climate. l
heard the sky-lark singing above the South
Downs in October, apparently with full
spring fervor and delight. The wren, the
robin, and the wood-lark sing throughout
the winter, and in midsummer there are per
haps three times as many vocal Threats as
here. The heat and blaze of our midsum-
mer sun silence most of our birds.
On the other hand, there are certain as
poets in which our songsters appear to adj
vantage. That they surpass the European
species in sweetness, tenderness, and mel
ody have no doubt, and that our hooking
bird, in his native haunts in the South, sur
passes any bird in the world in compass,
variety, and execution is highly probable.
That the total effect Of his strain may be less
winning and persuasive than the nocturne of
the nightingale, is the only question in my
mind about the relative merits Of the two
songsters. Bring our birds together as they
are brought together in England, lot all our
shy wood birds--like the hermit thrush, the
geery, the winter wren, the wood wagtail,
the water wagtail, the many WARRIORS, the
greenlet, the solitary vireo, etc.--become
birds of the groves and orchards, and there
would be burst of song indeed. John
burroughs, IN Century.
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BEGINNINGS OF BANKERS.

The primitive kind of banking was car.
ried on by this Jenny Wood in Westgate.
street, Gloucester. He kept a shop which,
In some respects, was little better that
common chandler's shop; but, as in the
case of the modern emporium every
thing was sold, from mouse-trap to
carriage" He carried on his business MS a
banker at one end of the shop, and the
whole establishment was managed by him
self and two clerks or assistants. Many are
the celebrated banks that have arisen from
the most lowly beginnings In primitive
times the landlord of the inn often turned
his bar into kind of clearing house for the
convenience of his customers. The rise of
great banking house in the north is identi-
fled with the history of Mr. Thomas Mot
tram, who kept house of call on Cockpit
Hill, Manchester, or rather was his wife's
bank. People used to call it, not Mr., but
Mrs. Mottram's. Whenever customers came
in they always went direct to the lady, who
kept the keys and took charge of the mon
eys. Mottram, a small, quiet, easy-going
man, always stood with his back to the fire,
and his shoulders against the mantlepiece.
He and his wife lived to drive down every
morning to his own bank, in his own car
rage, drawn by a pair of beautiful bays.
There has been an interesting picture of the
interior of very famous bank AT no
time, perhaps, did the famous old place pre-
sent an aspect more thoroughly ingenernte,
self-contained, and characteristic than in
the depths of winter, when lighted up, as
was the custom, even long after the general
eeaeleB@ssetup fcanunes, standing each in a
sort of thin pyramid filled with sand" The
history of the rise of the firm of Smith,
Payne x Co. is very similar to that of the
Mottrams. There was draper in the mid
land counties who had large connection
among the neighboring farmers. It was in
the vicinity of Sherwood Forest and there
was Mt this time great deal of alarm, not
ill-founded, on the subject of highwaymen.
The farmers used to leave their cash with
draper, who, with fine natural instinct, hit
upon the first principles of finance-of buy
ing with ready money, and of giving accom-
mediation, on security, to those who wanted
it. When he began to allow interest to his
depositors money largely flowed in upon
him, and Mr.. Smith became a regular bank
er. He opened second bank at Lincoln,
and then third at Hull, and forming a
connection with Mr.. Payne, of London, es-
tablished an immense business in that city.
The Prime Minister made the head of the
house peer, and wog, visiting his seat at
High Wyconbe, chalked on his door,
Bobby Smith lives here
Billy Pitt made him peer,
And took the pen from behind his ear"
London Society.
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FUTURE OF MoRMoNISM.

In the Century Magazine, the Legal AS
poets of the Mormon Problem are discuss
ed by Arthur G. Sedgwick, who concludes as
follows
The failure of the attempt to break up the
Mormon system by Congressional legislation
does not by any MEANS show that the Nor
mon system will ultimately prevail in Utah.
The operation of natural causes is certain,
in the long run, TO sap the foundations of
polygamy. The railroads have already
brought the Territory into communication
with the rest of the country, and the devel-
opment of the mines must ultimately bring
in large Gentle population--almost alto
gether male. A strong tendency in the di-
rection of marriages between Gentle men
and the daughters of Mormon parents must
spring up. Indeed, this is said to show it.
self already. There is no surplus of women
in the West from which to recruit polygam-
ous households; the births of the two sexes
are always very nearly equal and the Nor
mon population is no longer being rapidly
increased from abroad, as il was in the times
of the early persecution Of the Church II
is now stationary, or nearly So, and being
rapidly hemmed in by community having
a social system which all experience shows
is the only one permanently adapted to
modern industrial life. As the Territory fills
up, and the Mormons are brought more and
more into relations with the rest of the world,
one of the strongest internal causes of disin-
tegration will unquestionably be the sense
of shame operating upon the younger fe-
male generation. In the natural course of
things, some of the daughters of Mormon
householders must marry Gentiles, and 9TH
ers, who do not marry outside the church,
will be made keenly aware that they are sur
rounded by community which regards
their position as degraded one. As long
as they could keep themselves separated
from the rest of the world, this Gentle feel
ing was of very little consequence to them.
II did not effect them in their daily life; il
was something remote from them, which
they did not even disregard. This cannot
continue forever, and indeed change must
begin, IL it has not begun already, as soon as
the surrounding monogamic Gentle system
of marriage has fair opportunity to enter
into competition with its rival. Under these
circumstances, there is nothing to be done
with the Mormons but to let them alone.
Persecution has been tried, and has only
served to strengthen and increase them.
Law has been tried, and has proved of no
use, because it has not been enforced. From
the circumstances Of the case, it cannot be.
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NECESSITY OF WORK.


2 Man was put into the world TO work and
cannot find true happiness in remaining idle
30 long as man has vitality to spare upon
work it must be used or it will become q
source of grievous, harassing discomfort
That man will not know what to do with
himself, and when he has reached such Q
point as that he is unconsciously digging a
grave forhimself and fashioning hisown cof-
hn. Life needs steady channel to run in
regular habits of work and sleep. 1t needs a
steady, stimulating alma tendency toward
something. An aimless life cannot be hap
py or for long period healthy. Even if a
man has achieved wealth sufficient for his
needs, he frequently makes an error in re-
firing from business. A greater shock can
hardly befall . man that has been active
than that which he experiences when having
relinquished his pursuits he finds unused
time and vitality hanging upon his idle
bands and mind The crrrent Of his life is
thus thrown into eddies or settles into a
sluggish pool and begins to die. When the
fund of vitality sinks so low that he can fol-
low no labor without such draught on his
forces that sleep cannot restore them, then
it viii be soon enough to stop work.
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WANTED AN INQUEST.

While Captain Paul Boyton, the great cold
water man, was floating down the Arkansas
River in sort of leisurely, holiday way, he
was discovered by IN Arkansian, who sprang
into canoe and padded out to him.
"Say there what's the matter with
your"
Nothing" replied the Captain.
whats your name ?"
"Paul Boyton."
"Where are you going?"
"Down to the mouth of the river"
"How much win you give, to take you
down in wagon?"
"Don't want to go in wagon. Want to
go this way
wall, look here, / am the Coroner of
this county and it is my duty to hold in
quests over all foaters. Come out here and
wait till hold an inquest over you"
But I'm not dead"
"That don't make no difference you're
floater, and I'll get just as much for you
ns il you was dead. Won't come, Ell? You
are the most unaccommodating man I ever
seed. Go ahead, then. First thing you
know you'll hang up on my trot-line. Then
I'll have you foul Bet a hundred dollars
this is some Yankee trio ."-Listte Rock
Gazette.
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CALIFORNIA LADIES.
characteristics of the Women Of the Pacific
Const.


The feminine Californian is apt to be stun.
ming. She is generally well developed phys
ically perhaps too WELLS extremely frank.
independent, unconventional, loves dress
and ornamentation, and is somewhat bar.
barrie in her tastes She is prone to be very
worldly IN her views; she is incense, eager,
demonstratiye and usually the opposite OF
ingenious. She, too, is fond of California
and Cali ornianisms, though less SO than the
masculine Californian. In way she is
broader, for she often expresses Willingness,
even wish, to change her residence to the
Atlantic coast or some other part Of the
country. Fully as individual as he. she il
generally more unmistakable. Any student
Of femininity would know, to see her In
Commonwealth or Fifth avenue, that she
did not belong there-that her habitat
must be a long distance away. She fits into
Montgomery street or Van Ness avenue, and
breathes freely in the cool winds that blow
the sand from the hills of the golden capital.
The social customs here are as respects
women, materially different from that of
any other Ameriean city. They reasonable
the customs of the European continent, par
ticularly of France, inasmuch us they are
apt to give freedom to wives and widows,
and Withhold it from maidens and spinsters.
The reverse of this is true in the republic at
large. Why this Old World rule was pre-.
served here it is hard to say, unless it be the
vast preponderance of men in the early days
coarsened the tone of the community and
subjected unmarried women to suspicion
This suspicion continues, though in less de
gree than formerly. have heard attractive
prudent girls say they would never stop in
the street to speak to masculine friend
lest they might become subjects of gossip
or comment. A married woman, they would
add, may do SO; may, in short, do almost
anything with IMMUNITY, the mere fact of
having husband being her protection. Not
withstanding that unwedded women are
denied here the liberty they are permitted
elsewhere, they often take it to the fullest.
California respects audacity of any kind
and is disposed to accept success virtually as
justification thereto. In no other city
this is one of the towns many contradictions
---.can women whether married or unmarried,
violate so many eanons of behavior without
suffering severely in reputation. If they
have the courage to defy societys edicts and
can make their way in the face of its forms,
society grows lenient to their Oddities Pro-
vided they are picturesque, much will DO
forgiven them. -Boston Herald
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I'll A-TAsTlNo.
How Coed Qualities of the Beverage Are
Distinguished.


The tea brokerage business was begun in
a small wav forty years aoo and has baan
constantly increas;no until n hos hecomo a.,
in,mense snaoioItv T,ha oor,,,,;ss;o,, i
half-cent nound and tba smallest ano,,nt
that a broker viii soll IL t,va roctaoae uo
obtains SAMPLES FROM, ,ha ;,ono,,or ora
oives his custonar an o,,,,o,t,,n;,r &c oaro
fuliv testing tba art;cla Hence 4, 90,
broker,s oftica tho Lo,tla i ai,,,o,,s ,,o,;,,o.
and the centre table hos ;ts extended array
Of teacups. The drawing z cayafnllv
WEIGHED and zach ono ,,,,,st ,,,, 49,,
half dime th;a he;no tho ,s,,al ,ve;o,t Ca,
orally q score Of samrlea arc tasted ~ tha
same time n order h, mako ! cor,,,a,;so,,.
The ten traders fyxt ~ tl,a aroma a,,d t,,a,,
sip Il in order 10 oct the favor what ,,;catv
Of taste must be reou;red q AZ valnas 4, ti;a
rapid manneri An exnart toa .tastor how
ever, win not only DESIGNATE the pr;co Int
often specify the part Of China in which the
crop was grown. Tea.t tasting ;s said to ba
a gift. and some cam never succeed vh;le
others all at once display skin. 4 good
faster saust DO Of a rather neryous sterns,erar
ment because tea appeals to the nervous
systan', and tle basi,.ess 10, tierurure, one
in which the latter is severely tried and some
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HUMAN NATURE III OREGON.

In his book upon life in Oregon, Mr..
Nash says
The BARRIERS shop was, and is, useful to
o., al well as amusing. The values and
productiyeness of farms for SALE the worth
and characters of horses, the prices of cat
tie, the best and most likely and accessible
places fos fishing, and hundred other
things useful for us to know, we picked up
here, or "siting around" the stoves in
one or other of the stores in the town. An
other good gained was that thus our new
neigh5ors and we got acquainted. They
found we were not all the Lords" they set
us down for at first with the exclusiveness
and pride they attributed to that maligned
race in advance; while we on our side found
vast amount of self-respect, of native and
acquired shrewdness, of legitimate pride in
country, state, and county, and fund of
kindly wishes to see us prosper among our
roughly dressed but really courteous neigh
bors
The Oregon women have as much curios-
ity, probably, about new neighbors as their
Eastern sisters There was good deal of
feminine curiosity displayed on either side,
by the natives and the newcomers. When
we went to church the first Sunday after our
arrival there were a good many curious wor-
shippers, more intent on the hats and bonnets
of the strangers than on the service in which
we united We heard afterward how disap-
pointed they were that the stranger ladies
were so quietly and cheaply dressed. We
could not say the same when callers came,
which they speedily did after we were set
tied in our new hoine--such tight kid gloves
and high bonnets, and silk mantles 1t was
constant wonder to our women folks how
their friends managed to show as such gay
butterflies 1000 miles on the western side Of
anywhere.
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POETRY
THE OLD STORY.

was weeping, sad and weary,
And the night was long and dreary,
Endless seeming TO my child heart
Longing for the morning light.
Rain and woe full sore were DER me,
And the shaded lamp before me
Seemed to mock my bitter yearning,
Long ago one winter night
Till my mothers soft caressing
Fell upon me Ike a blessing,
AS she told of one who SUFFERED
Bitter tEroes on calvary;
TIL hushed my sobs and crying,
On her gentle bosom lying,
While she told me of the Saviour
And his head upon tho tree.
Told me DER and DER the story
OF the Christ child and His glory,
ofthe shepherds wondrous vision
And the star of promise bright;
OF the h mble shed and Manager
Grading the holy stranger;
OF the angels, praises singing,
- Long ago, one winter night
Stiller grew my hearts quick beating
AS she told me of the meeting
At the tomb, one Sabbath morning,
OF the angels fair and bright.
Then, at last, the story ended,
Up to God prayer assembled
All, II all comes back SO plainly
10 my reseieu Urafn'cu-nfgntf
AS upon my couch languish,
Soothingly upon my anguish,
Like q star that breaks the darkness,
Or a ray OF morning light,
Comes the thought OF that sweet stony
or the Christ child and his glory
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OWNED TO HIS RECORD.

The editor was sitting in his revolving
cane-bottomed chair when Tornado Tom,
the travelling terror of Texas, came in and
demanded retraction OF the statement that he
had swindled an orphan out of $i.
cts lie clear through" said the Terror,
striking the table with his fist. I'm as
good man as smells the atmosphere in this
section"
"Pe,haps you are BETTER" said the editor,
meekly.
"My recordl compare favorably with
yourn, said the Terror with sneer; per
haps there are little back rackets in your
life, sir, that wouldn't bear microscopic in
vestigation.'
"Oh, SIR" said the editor, visbly agitated,
"don't recall the past; don't recall the
memories of the tomb; | know I've led
hard life--I don't deny it. ] killed Shorty
Barnes, the Bowery boy of New York l
have atoned for them thousand times. l
blew mans head of at log-roll in Ken
lucky, and bitterly have / repented of my
folly. I slew lot of inoffensive citizens of
Omaha over paltry four-d dollar pot simply
because got excited OH could but
cheat the tomb of the men I placed in its
NAV would be happy. But it was all
owing to my high temper and my lack OF
early training. know that have been
hayward, wicked, and you have right to
come here and recall those unhappy memoir
les but it's mean for all that. Nobody
with heart would treat a man as You have
treated me. Don't leave, stranger: I'll tell
you all / sawed mans head off with an
old army sabre just for" The Texas
Terror was down stairs and half way around
the corner, while the editor taking fresh
chew of rattlesnake twist, continued his
peaceful vocation quietly as iaw-abiding
citizen. Salt Lake Tribune.
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BURNING THE WHITE DOG.
How the Ononduga Indians Recently Gath
cred Around n sncrinciaI Pyre.

The pagan rites of the unchristianized
portion of the Indians at the reservation
were witnessed by number of persons from
this city, who disregarding the unpleasant
weather, went to witness the burning of the
White Dog, as sacrifice to tho Powers of
the Air. At precisely twelve o'clock the
door opened and in stalked tall aborgine
with the White Dog slung over his shoulder
by strap attached to the animals neck.
After receiving instructions he turned in
silence, and followed by two or three others
left the building. In short time they re-
turned, one bearing the dog, another a bas-
=. = .,'srooo The canine, decked with
pant, beads and ribbon, was placed ON a
iRey 9afdRetParJaiafla af tia. s,oa.p--sua
sion, chanting something in the Indian lan-
guage. We were told that he was asking
that the dog might carry their sins away to
the Spirit of the Air. The strange ceremony
having been finished the dog was lifted up and
the procession filed out, followed by the en-
tire crowd that had filled the room.
They proceeded to where fire had been
built between the council houses, and in the
drizzling rain the chief priest removed his
head decorations and commenced ha-
rangue. Then he started doleful chant,
and as he ceased, consigned the dead dog
to the flames. A disagreeable odor was
soon waited to the nostrils of the bystand-
ers, and the basket, filed with tobacco, was
laid gently and solemnly upon the fire.
While the funeral pile burned on young
Indian stepped forth from the circle and
walked up and down before it, crying and
in loud voice. There was,
without doubt, some sincerity in his per-
Torrance, Us the tears soon began to flow
down his dusky cheeks, and he retired into
the crowd weeping profusely. The almost
consumed carcass sank with dull crush.
ind sound deeper into the fire, and the dark
faced throng moved away Syracuse Stand
xs,d
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THE RESTLESS BOY IN CHURCH.


How he turns and twists,
And how he persists
In rafting his heels;
How uneasy he feels,
Our wide-awake boy in church,
First he brushes quite Hat
A fine lady's hat.
Bowed low In devotion,
BY quick backward motion,
This restless small boy In church,
Then, earnest and still,
He attends with viii,
While the story Is told,
OF some old hero bold;
Our dear, thoughtful boy in church,
But our glad surprise
At his thoughtful eyes
Is turned TO despair,
AS he witches the hair
or his little sister In church.
Still, each naughty trick flies
AT look from the eyes
OF his mother so dear,
Who thinks best TO sit near
Her mischievous boy In church.
Another trick comes?
Yes. His fingers he drums,
Or his handkerchief is spread
All over his head,
And still we take him to church,
He's troublesome? Yes,
That I'm bound 70 confess,
But God made the boys,
With their fun and their noise,
And He surely wants them in churchi
Such children, you know,
Long, long years ago
Did not trouble the Lord,
Though disciples were bored;
SO wen still keep him near Him In church.
Mrs. j. ii. Brand
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An ODD SORT OF ERE-PLAcE.-
learn that q gentlemen in Barnesville initi-
ated colored man as a servant recently.
The negro was instructed as one Of the first
orders to make fire in the CRATE in the
parlor. He armed himself with fuel and
proceeded to the parlor. After examining
the room for Fireplace in which to raise
the fire he discovered the open space in the
organ occupied by the pedals as the only
thing resembling fireplace. He fixed in
the fuel and was about to introduce the fire,
when the gentleman who gave the order for
the fire happened to walk into the parlor. We
viii not tell what ensued. Bdyuesoins
(Ga.) Gazette.
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The ORIGINAL HArcHET. CHARLES Ball,
of West Swantzey, VT, while digging
around cherry tree in his yard short time
since brought to light badly rusted hatchet
which bore on one side the initial letters
G. W., and on the other side the figures
l74l. There is no telling what can't be
found in Vermont when you dig for it.
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NOTHING TO BRAc ABOUT. =" Sir" began
q creditor who met one of his victims on
Grand River street yesterday, 81 sent you
bill in June" eyes, sir "And again in
September" "Yes, SIR" "And again in
December" "Yes, sir. And presume
you received one the other day? ?" ibid,
sir" "well, sir; well, sir ?" fiustered the
creditor. "Well you needn't feel SO stuck
up over it," replied the other, as he lighted
twenty cent cigar. "There are firms In
this town who send me bills every two weeks
IN the year, and they never stop me on the
street to Drag about it either. detest such
egotism, sir. Good morning, sir."--D Detroit
Free Press.