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CHINESE TEMPLES.
Scenes in Places of worship in China.

There are more than a hundred temples
of heather worship in Canton, writes cor
respondent. Among them we will mention
four -
Tho Temple of the Five Hundred Gods"
founded in A. d. $40, and rebuilt in 1775.
In this temple are 500 life-sized images,
seated in long rows, and representing that
number of noted disciples of Buddha, now
deified. Each image is finely carved and
richly gilded with gold. Some of these gods
are in rich garments and some in rags
Some wear shoes, others are shoeess
Some are laughing and some are weeping.
Temple of the five Genii" According
to Chinese tradition, away back 800 years
before Christ one day five genii came riding
through the air on five rams. They stopped
on the spot where Canton now stands, and
said to some people who stood there, "May
famine never visit your markets" After
delivering this benediction the five genii de-
parted, but the five rams were turned to
stone. This temple contains the images of
the five genii and preserves the five stone
rams. The old name for Canton is "City Of
Rams"
Temple of Horrors" SO named from the
fact that there are ten rooms in which the
torments of the Buddhist hell are represent
ed by life-sized, clumsy horrid-loolsing fig
ures. In one room men and women are be-
ing transformed into animals, according to
the Buddhist doctrine of transmigration.
In another room the devils are grinding a
man in mill, while the blood is flowing out
between the stones. And SO on, from room
to room, some are being beheaded, others
thrown into eauldrons of boiling OIL with
devils to stir them round in the burning
bath. Here man is being beaten terribly
with bamboos, and there man is being
avn asunder lengthwise. In one room u
man is pounded in n mortar. in another one
is sitting under great red hot bell.
Temple of Honam," grandest and most
famous of all, with its magnificent gateways,
lis grand shaded avenues, its colossal Budd-
has, its vast monastery with fifty monks, its
beautiful gardens with dwarf trees and rare
flowers, and finally its cremation furnace,
where the dead monks are red gsed to ashes.
II is doctrine of the Buddhist faith that
every one should do what he can TO prevent
the taking of any life, human or animal.
Hence the monks have places ON these
grounds where they have for years preserved
sacred pigs, hons, ducks fish and goats, un-
til they die natural death. Troy Times.
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a QUESTION OF INFORMATION.

The only time Sam Cox was ever squelch-
cd, not counting the "shoo fly" of Ben
Butler, was when Owen Loyejoy, of Illinois,
did il in 1862. Mr. Cox had been making
long and exhaustive 3peech in the House ON
The tariff The members we're all tired. In
the middle of the speech the solemn form of
Mr.. Loveioy arose, got the eye of the Speak.
er, and said:
"Mr. Speakerl"
"Fhe gentleman from Illinois!" SAID the
Speaker
~ arise Mr.. Speaker" said Mr.. Loyejoy,
"to question of privilege"
"Does the gentleman from New York
yield the floor2" asked the Speaker, address,
Ing Mr.. Cox.
~ will yield for question of information
md not otherwise" said Mr.. Cox.
az do desire to ask q question for inform
Ation," said Mr. Lovejoy.
every well, Mr.. Speaker" said Mr.. Cox
NJ yield to the gentleman from Illinois,"
"The gentleman from Illinois now has
the floor" said the Speaker.
Mr. Lovejoy now arose slowly and majes-
tically. "Mr. Speaker" he said slowly, II
arise for information. wish TO ask the
gentleman from New York question"
Mr.. Cox" Let him ask it."
az WISH" said Mr.. Lovejoy, "to-ask-the
gentleman from New York if he has got
most-through loud laughter all over
the House, when Mr.. Cox moved an ad-
joupnment. Chicago Tribune
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MISCELLANY.
MEMORY UNDER EXCITEMENT.

Excitement frequently produces curious
effects upon the memory. Thus cornship-
during a heavy gale, hoisted q signal of dis
tress, and the officers and crew with much
difficulty were rescued by a craft which
came to their relief. In lawsuit to re-
cover the insurance, all who had been on
board testified that the vessel was breaking
up when they abandoned her, and that they
observed the corn being washed out be-
tween the disjointed planks. After ver-
dict against the insurance company, the ves-
sci was boarded and brought into port with
both vessel and cargo in perfectly sound
condition. Undoubtedly the testimony had
been honestly given.
In Boston, while the Chickering Piano
Establishment ON Washington Street was be-
ing destroyed by fire, some years ago, lady
who was boarding in the Adams House, OPP
posite, with her three children, became
greatly alarmed. She chung frantically to
her offspring and wrung her hands in agony
for the safety of the fourth. Her fellow
boarders, having never observed but the
three, inquired whether the missing one was
boy or girl With very great embarrass-
ment she acknowledged that she could not
tell
So also excitement prevents some people
from calling to mind things that appertain
to their daily routine of duty. Thus when
certain cotton mill in Massachusetts, was
on fire, the man who had charge of the
FIRE apparatus for fifteen years, and had
continuously inspected and operated the APP.
pliances was SO greatly excited by the re.
sponsibility of his position, that he could
not call to mind where the MIGRANTS and
valves were located.
A young sportsman who had chased only
small game went on dear-hunt. lie was
30 astonished aud excited to have fine buck
bounce by him at easy rage, that he pointed
his well-loaded rifle towards the deer and
cried out Bung ~ like a child.
No more amusing stories are told than
those where the memory in relating them
fails in giving the point. One of the last of
these is one of the best A man in street.
car was pitched mediterranean into ladys
lap, and being called "a perfect indian,
admitted that he was paw-knee or lap
lander The relator in describing Ii as the
best pun he had ever heard declared that he
acknowledged that ne was Cherokee,-
Youths Companion.
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vLurHEs FOR THE OCCASION.

A reporter recently interviewed tailor
and asked, Glow do men generally act
when they como to rent suit ?"
Well, sir, you would laugh if you could
see some of them. When they come for the
first time they usually begin by telling me
that they have just come on from New York
or Philadelphia 10 visit with friends, and
have been invited to party; owing to the
nearness of the date they cannot possibly get
their dress suit through by express, and they
want to hire one. Another man will saw.
I'm in fix, and want you to help me out.
I've got to attend party tomorrow night,
and my taior-hem, isn't going to have my
suit ready. Have you got anything that will
fit meP Another will say, I've Just come
down from Portland, where I've been visit
ing, and | find that there's to be q party at
my uncle's tonight I left my dress suit
up in Oregon, and if you can accommodate
me with an outfit for the evening I'll be
much obliged After man has been here
two or three times he will come in with his
head up and say, I've got to go to party
ON Thursday evening of next week can YOU
let me have the same suit had at the H
party in Deeember?' You see n man gets
used to it after while and talks business
from the word go.
How do keep them clean3 Lord bless
you, that is the easiest part of it. When
young fellow is getting ready to go to
party, he never omits bath, Then he puts
on clean underwear scents himself all up SO
that he will smell sweet when Lucinda hangs
on his arm, and finally dons one of my suits.
As you will notice, the armholes of the vests
are surrounded with large patches of rubber
lining, aud no perspiration can ever reach
the CLOTH My suits nearly always come
back rs fresh and nice as they went out;
then have them brushed and pressed ready
for the next customer. When n suit be-
comes slightly worn or soiled sell it to some
young man at sacrifice, and supply its
place in the wardrobe with new one. ANY
twenty men who appear in my suits an any
party or entertainment will look better than
twenty others fitted out by different talors.
You see I'm an old hand ut the tailoring
business, and understand it, My customers
never have to wear wrinkled clothes to a
party; that's why my suits are SO popular"
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PIONEER COURTSHIP.

Counting, or sparkling, in the early days
Oh the Western Reserve, in Ohio, was not
filtration, but an affair of the heart, and was
conducted in the natural way. The boys
and girls who were predisposed to matri-
moDy used to sit up together ON Sunday
nights, dressed in their Sunday clothes.
They occupied usually corner in the only
family room in the cabin, while the bed of
the old folks occupied the opposite corner,
with blankets suspended around it for Cur
tains. During the earlier part of the even.
ing the old and young folks engaged in q
common chit-chat About 8 o'clock the
younger children climbed the ladder in the
corner and went to bed in their hunks under
the garret-roof; and about an hour later
father and mother retired TO bed behind the
ers" sitting Mt q respectful distance apart,
before a capacious wood fireplace, and look
ing thoughtfully into the cheerful flame, or
perhaps into the future. The sparkers,
however, soon broke the silence by stirring
up the fire with wooden shovel or poker,
first one and then the other; and, every
time they resumed their seats, somehow tho
chairs manifested unGsual attractions for
closer contiguity. II chilly, the sparkers
would sit closer to keep warm; if dark, to
keep the bears off Then came some whis.
pering, with hearty smack" which broke
the cabin Stiffness and disturbed the gentle
breathing behind the suspended blankets sd
as to produce slight parental hacking
cough.--Uar0ey Riee.
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MAKING SHOT.

A shot tower is an immense brick structure
$50 feet high, resembles lighthouse more
than anything else. Visitors are conducted
up spiral staircase inside, to the top, where
q fine view is obtained for miles about, but
the view down the inside is not so pleasant
Theopening where the shot descends becomes
narrower and narrower, until nothing is seen
at the bottom but darkness At tho top of
the tower are the furnaces for melting
From these, lead is poured into pans, set in
the tower, with perforated sheet-iron bottoms.
The melted lead comes through these holes
and enlarges on the otherside, forming into
globules before it falls down to the well be-
meath holding several feet of water. The
arge shot drop the whole height of the tower
TO the bottom, but the smaller size only
about half as far. One peculiar thing is,
that the small shot generally expands in fall
ing, ami the largest sizes contract. Very
great care is necessary in mixing the metal,
AS it would run through the holes and drop
in strings if not Of the proper proportions,
and no shst could be made at oil.
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Much ADO ABOUT NOTHING. -An Ohio
girl had lover whose cravat insisted upon
dancing about his collar aud fixing itself in
positions calculated to give the young man
q ridiculous appearance. She offered ono
evening to pin the cravat fast. She pinned
through the collar and into her own finger
She was aware of what occurred at once and
she screamed. She was blessed with five
feet and o half father and two six feet broth.
ers. These gentlemen heard her scream
and they came in to see what the row was
about. The lover looked guilty and sheep
ish and there were tears in the eyes of the
girl. When the lover picked himself up at
the foot OF the stairs he entered into an ex-
PLANTATION OF the occurrence with the gentle
men, who were standing at the head of the
stairway. "Why didn't you say 30 before p
growled the father; call this fuss about
nothing"
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POETRY
THE TWO GLASSES.

There sat two glasses, filled to the brim,
On rich mans table, rim to RIM
)ne was rudy and red as blood,
Andone as clear as the crystal flood
Said the glass Of wine 10 the paler brother,
let US tell the tales OF the past TO each other
can tell of banquet and revel and mirth,
And the proudest and grandest souls on earth
Fell under my touch, as though struck by blight
Where was a king, for ruled in might,
From the heads OF kings have torn the crown,
From the heights OF fame | have hurled men
down;
thave blasted many an honored name;
have taken virtue and given shame
have tempted the youth with sip, taste,
That has made his future barren waste.
Far greater than king am /,
Dr. than any army beneath the sky;
Ihaye made the arm OF the driver fail,
And sent the train from the iron rail.
have made good ships go down at SCI,
And the shrieks of the lost were sweet to me,
For they said, Behold, how great you be,
Fame, strength wealth, genius, before you fall,
For your might and power are over alll
Hoi no pale brother" laughed the wine,
'Can you boast of deeds as great as miner"
Said the water glass, 4" 1 cannot boast
OF king dethroned or murdered host,
But can tell of a heart, once sad,
BY my crystal drops made light and glad
OF thirsts I've quenched, OF brows I've layed,
OF hands have cooled, OF souls have saved;
have leaped through the valley, dashed down
the mountain, H=4
Flowed In the river and played in the fountain,
Slept in the sunshine and dropped from the sky,
And everywhere gladdened the landscape and
eye;
have eased the hot forehead of fever and pain,
I have made the parched meadows grow fertile
with grain;
can tell of the powerful wheel OF the mill
That ground out flour and turned at my Will;
| can tell OF manhood debased by you
That lifted up and crowned anew,
cheer, help, l strengthen and aid;
gladden. the heart OF man and maid;
! set the chain-wine captive free,
And all are better for knowing me
These are the tales they told each other
The glass of wine and its paler brother
AS they sat together, filled to the brlm,
on the rich mans table rim TO rim.
From the Plttsbuig Post
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WILD DUCKS ODDLY ERTRAppEp.
How California Ranclman Rids His
Fields of Pest on Wings.

Wild ducks are mora dastyr,tiva 70 o,,.o;,,
than are the oeese WbiIe tbo aaoso g. u
more or less dur;ng the dov tho Sro1,o o 49,
fine their denredations 70 n;abt No., a.,
darkness ,ravo,,ts t,,o hor;,a.s g.,
fully warning against them cborlos Cbar
man has baen r,,o.,,,, .,.,,....,
his grain has suffered - oo,,s;,o,..t -,
tent. But Charlie has b;t mon en avro,;o a.
that is not only nrotactiro, H. -, -
threatens to annihilate the duclx family IL
stretched Eve strands of barbea fence w;ra
from the top of his harm 10 a most t,va,,tr
five feet high. placing the v;rea ahort a;o1,.
inches apart. A hair.triguer sbotorr Ioad
ed, was fastened on the sida of tre most :.
the top. the muzzles no;ntino a,ono ,ha
wires. From one az tla latter : sn,aIs 49,
RAJ, 70 the tr;ooar ~ a. -. .r,,:-
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THREE KINDS OF PUDDING.
somc Recipes That May be of Use 20 tho
Progressive HouseiSccper.


A cottage pudding is an inexpensive dish,
and If these directions are followed in maxi
ing it the pudding will be light and inviting
Beat two eggs very light add half cup Of
sweet milk one tablespoonful of butter, one
cup of sugar, one teaspoonful of baking
powder and one pint of floor; flavor with
spice or with lemon; bake for half an hour
Serve with sauce made thus Let the
yellow peel of lemon boil for fifteen min
utes in hall goblet of water; when cool
starch or arrowroot, which you have first
rubbed smooth in cup of sweet milk then
put it back on the stove add lump of but
ter; do not let the sauce boil, but let it heat
gradually to the boiling point; just before
serving add any flavor You choose; little
wine is pleasing addition.
"Favorite" pudding is made by beating
three eggs very light tho whites and yolks
together; flavor with the juice and grated
rind of lemon and n half teaspoonful of
grated nutmeg to this add one cup of
grated bread crumbs, ono cup of finely
chopped apple, one cup of English currants
and ono and a half cups of sugar; stir those
vigorously till well mixed, then put in q but
tered pudding dish and boil for at least two
hours and half Serve with any good
sauce or with cream and sugar alone or
cream and sugar with wineglass of sherry
stirred in.
A plain tapioca, suitable for delicate
stomachs, is made by boiling half a teacup-
ful of tapioca in half pint of water; when
tho tapioca is entirely dissolved or melted,
add gradually half pint of milk just be-
fore taking from the fire (and, by the way,
this should not be done till the milk is thick
ened with the tapioca) add n well-beaten egg
and sugar and flavor to suit your taste.
This liz nice, either warm or cold. -NeU
YOrk Framing Post.
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MOUNTAINS UNDER THE SEA.-At tho en-
rance to the Bay of Biscay from the south a
remarkable inequality in the ocean bed has
been discovered. A few miles beyond a
sounding of 1000 feet the astonishing depth
of IL, 200 feet was found, and only thirteen
miles further on bottom was reached at 1850
feet, an irregularity scarcely to be paralleled
by the highest chain of mountains.
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Boston Boy WHO WAS PoLITE.--A
South End boy who went round to apollo
gize to an elderly maiden lady for torturing
her cat to death when he didn't know it be.
ionged to her, is now busy trying to coax
the skin to grow on his nose where it was
scratched off, and is doctoring his eye and
the place on his head hit by a poker, and
the places on his legs that suffered when the
hot water was thrown at him, and he says
they needn't tell him that it pays to be po-
ite.-Boston Post.
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Z GmL's FACE FRIoHTENs FERoc1ous
Doc. "A Hartford girl, pursued by fero-
eious dog, turned and faced the animal cour-
ageously and the brute turned tail and fed
Her friends asoribe the result to her nerve in
facing the brute, but the owner of the dog
says it was her looks that broke up the ami
maI-B0st0n Post.
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AN OLD BACHELOR Who Is Too Coon TO
LIVE. -Voluntown has an old bachelor Of
nearly seventy years, who never was sick,
never drank tea or coffee or chewed tobacco,
never ate cake or pastry, and who never
walked rod with woman since his mother
turned hira loose. Hartford Coaira'at.
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A WARNING TO MAIpESs VINO ARE WooEp.
"A New York lover stabbed o girl because
she rejected him. This should warn the
girls that the safest way to reject man is
to leave town and send him postal card
Wrchdnqe.
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A CAPE Cop CARPENTERS LuoK.--A young
man from Cape Cod recently left Boston for
Q growing railroad town in Arkansas.
He was a carpenter by trade, and had full
chest of tools with him and like prudent
Yankee, he probably had some money with
him for "a rainy day" Two days before
his arrival large portion Of the town had
been burned, and he found the people much
demoralized He reached there in the fore
noon, and before night had contract to
erect new buildings had bought lumber and
helped haul it upon the building site, and
with eight men employed, was engaged in
framework. That young man won't be
home-sick
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RESPONSIBILITIES CAUSED ny THE BABY
One of experience says there is probably no
time in a woman's life more trying or when
she is more heavily laden with the sense Of
responsibility than tho first time she is left
entirely alone with her first baby.-C Chicago
Inter- Ocean.
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C.. Il. Dc C.. III. SKILLMAN,
AtfOru eyS.af-I,aw.

SOUTHEAST COR BRIDGE AND UNION SITS,
LAMBERTvILLE, N. J.
Collections and all legal business Entrusted to
our care will receive prompt and faithful atten-
ton.
G. A. SKILLMAN, Z. Ii. SKILLMAN,
CounSellOr-di- Lac. .lh0rney-dt-LaT
July 2, 1879.
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gonel could drive you there myself if
Thunder was only here" said Tilda.
. Thunder What fine name for q
horse / wish he was here. And to be
driven by 80 beautiful a young lady!" and
he stared at her pretty face.
az named him after the colt driven to
death by the mad Duke of Argyle" said
Tilda, growing insensibly more aud more
confidential.
"Ahl / might have known you were
something superior to the farmers daueh-
tiers in this region-that is, judging from
those have seem"
And l seem to forget that you are a
stranger" said Tilda, blushing with pleas
ure. "If you were not friend Of my
" Certainly, one in whom he has the ut
most confidence; and talking of strangers, I
knew rich young fellow who fell in love
only last summer with pretty girl in log
cabin. He was hunting. The father would
not allow his daughter to say much to him.
But upon my word, if you'll believe me,
they were married in three days after he
first saw her. He took her off ON fast
horse, and the old man chased them with o
yoke of oxen. Fact. Did you ever hear
anything more ridiculous? Now they are
living in fine style in Paris"
splendid just like story p said Tilds.
But then, would go to the ends of the
earth with one / loved"
All, then, my sweet girl, go with mel
am rich and wellconnected, and-but come
to think of Tiny money and my watch are
gone, and my mother is sick waiting for
ne.n
"Of course l would not go with YOU
under any circumstances, said Tilda, mild.
y.
But if come again to WOO, perhaps to
win you 10 the regular orthodox style--per.
haps you would not object?"
Tilda, with averted face, blushingly replied
that she could not tell.
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MATTHEW ARNOLD.

Matthew Arnold among us, entertained by
the best literary society and lecturing tc
large and cultivated audiences eau no, but
exert wide and controlling influence.
While We pay him due honor as man nc.
cording to the prcc' of the apostle,
Honor all men, and receive him with
courtesy as distinguished stranger and
guest, the degree of respect due him from
us is measured not merely by the rank
which MIR. Arnold holds as n man of letters
and culture, hut as) by what he holds aud
so persistcntly teaches on revelation and re.
vealed religion, Indeed his teaching and
writing on revealed religion and the things
fundamental to the Christian faith, this it is
that has given him his notoriety, this rather
than any advances he has made in letters,
science and art makes his position
unique In the practical social life
OF the citizen aud the State Mr.. Arnold has
hardly risen up to the highest plane and be.
come the advocate of most phalauthropc
principles. This his pleas against the dis
of the church of England and
for the compulsory use Of the church service
at burials in the parish church yards show.
lie considers the English church AS framed
by those "who seized it, to satisfy the
wants of the English people that it sets
forth It's formularies as truth presented