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rhe 1nnuenes Of nollglou. rast..

a protracted fast when it is strictly OBJ
served, has a very different influence on
the lives of the rich and the poor. 1t is
much pleasanter to mortify the flesh by
a course of dinners composed of choice
fish and exotic fruit and vegetables than
to sit down to an eternal round of por-
ridge or polenta and potatoes, to which
hunger supplies the only sauce and a
cured pilchard the only condiment. In
deed such a diet, if continued for six
weeks, would probably prove unendur-
able to even the strongest stomach, and
so an ineXorable fate compels the cooks
Of all classes in the countries where
fasting is generally practiced to adapt
themselves to the unfortunate position
in which they are placed.
We all know TO our cost that even in
England it IS not every one who can
cook mutton chop or a boefsteak, yet
such n simple manipulation would seem
to be within the reach of most persons
of moderate intellect who bestowed the
necessary care and pains r3on it. To
tickle the dainty palates OF epieures with
q series of dinners from which for five
days in the week meat is vigorously ex-
cluded is a harder task; indeed it is one
worthy of the highest culinary genius,
and it increases our respect for the capa-
bilities of human nature to know how
often it is successfully performed d.-Eng-
lislI Magazine.
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HoRsE FLEsH AS Foop.

English Speaking People Do Not Take
! Kindly to the idea.
| English speaking people have never
taken kindly to the idea of eating horse
flesh, although some persons in this
country and many more in England
have, from time to time, strenuously ad-
vocated its use. The belief, however,
| that large quantities of horse meat are
fraudulently sold for more orthodox
meats in the latter country, has recently
provoked the people of Manchester and
Stafford to call public meeting and pc
tition parliament to pass an act to COM
pei butchers, who sell horse flesh, to
Label it as such.
In Paris, Berlin and Vienna, the popu-
lar consumption of horse flesh seems to
be constantly increasing. In 1877 there
were slaughtered for food, in Paris, 10,-
$40 horses and mules, and in 1878 the
number increased to II, ,319. In the win
ter seasons of these two years there
were slaughtered in Berlin about 5000
horses, the flesh of which was mainly
used for sausages. The central hors,
slaughtering establishment of Berlin
comprises an acre of land, upon which
are buildings for the inspectors, stables,
etc. Every morning the horses to be
slaughtered are mustered for inspection,
and such as appear diseased are con-
demned to the knockers. It is stated
that good horses are generally bought
for this purpose, the butchers buying
many young horses from the farmers
and breeders, which, for various reasons,
are not considered desirable to raise.
An enthusiastic French scientist de-
clares that the flesh of horses is more
digestible than that of other animals,
and it never contains the germs of tape
worms or other parasites which affiict
the human race. If physicians have to
prescribe raw meat, he thinks the flesh
of the horse should be chosen in prefer
ence, because it is "more healthy, palat-
able and nutritious than that of the OK,
81 eep or pig"
DR.. Billings observes that poor men
are often compelled by tyrannical law,
the result of sickly, disgusting senti-
ment, to sacrifice to the knacker, who
pays them nothing, horses that a few
weeks suitable feeding and rest would
make worth $40 to $50 for meat. Hun
dreds of so-called weeds" are yearly
born and raised by farmers and breeders,
to be at maturity, simply objects of tor
tl1re from their unftness for work, that
at to 8 months old would pay reason
able profit to the owner as horse veals,
for the expense of rearing and breed
ing"
The use of horse meat was at one time
an almost universal custom among the
pagan people of northern Europe and it
may be that the rapidly increasing popu-
lousness of modern nations, and conse-
quent difficulty of procuring food by the
poorer classes, may in time, swing the
custom round again. But it can never
prevail IN this. country while food is as
abundant and cheap as at present. Even
if it be wholesome and palatable, it viii
take generations to remove the feeling of
to its use.-New York
Market Journal.
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AN oLD-TIME scAooLMAsreR.
Rewards of Merit Which His Pupils Re
cetved-Nf,rIre,, WIN m A

Rewards of Merit which His Pupils Re-
ceived-SIarISed with an o.
A hundred and fifty years ago among
the German settlers Of Pennsylvania,
there was a remarkable old schoolmaster
whose name was Christopher Dock. For
three days he taught school at a little
place called Skippack, and then for the
next three days he taught at Stafford.
Whenever one of his younger scholars
succeeding in learning his A, B, G, the
good Christopher Dock required the
father of his pupil to give his son
penny, and also asked his mother to cook
two eggs for him as treat in honor of
his diligence. To poor children in a new
country these We're fine rewards. At va
lious other points in his progress, an in
dustriOus child in one of Docks schools
received a penny from his father and two
eggs cooked by his mother. All this time
he was not counted member of the
school, but only as ON probation. The day
ON which boy or girl began to read was
the great day. If the pupil had been dill
igent in spelling, the master, on the
morning after the first reading day,
would give ticket carefully written or
WIFI iiio OMI Illlh
read: "lndustrious-one penny" This
showed that the scholar was now really
received into tho school.
There We're no clocks or watches; the
children came to school one after an
other, taking their places near the mas
ter, who sat writing. They spent their
time reading out of the Testament until
all were there. But every one who sue
ceeded in reading his verse without
mistake stopped reading and came and
sat at the writing table to write. The
poor fellow who remained last on the
bench was called lazy scholar.
The funniest of Docks rewards was
that which he gave TO those who made
no mistake in their lessons. He marked
a large o with chalk on the hand of the
perfect scholar. Fancy what time the
boys and girls must have had trying TO
go home without rubbing out this Of
st. Nicholas
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10 rest ON another rock, OF wnIcn II
formed a part before its unfortunate
Journey, and that lower rock, as every
body knows, rests upon the imrnutable
principle of self government. The stone
lies too far from the water to enable
anybody to land ON it now, and it is pro-
tected from vandalism by an iron graf
ing. The sentiment of the hour was
disturbed by the advent of the mem
bers of base ball nine, who wondered
why the Pilgrims did not land on the
wharf, and, while thrusting their feet
through the grating in conmendable
desire to touch the sacred rock, ex-
pressed doubt whether the feet of the
Pilgrims were small enough to slip
through the grating and land ON the
stone. 1t seems that there is nothing
safe from the irreverence of American
youth.-Charles Dudley Warner, in Har-
pers Magazine.
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PrInee BIsmarek IS a sneaker.

Contrary to the advice of his physi-
clan, Prince Bismarck empties glass
after glass of water during the delivery
of his speeches in the reichstag. When
he rises to speak, his arms seem to look
for q support, and his hands, whose
trembling is almost the only evidence of
his age, nervOusly pluck at his beard,
his ear, or the cross which adorns his
breast. He never speaks in pathetic
manne--not even when dwelling on his
services, the emperor or the fatherland.
His speeches are rather in the nature of
%%<able-taills," but are much more en-
joyable IN print than in the delivery.
He frequently halts, stammers, and cor
rects himself. He has himself said: Il
am no orator; a good speaker is rarely
good stateaman." He shows his juridi-
cial training in his frequent Latin quo
tations, and borrows many an English
phrase from the language of the turf and
feld.-Berlin Letter.
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Size of a sulphur Rottom Whale.

The following are the measurements
of sulphur bottom whale, the largest of
the species: Length, 90 feet; length of
jawbone, 81 feet; length of longest ba-
leen, feet; girth, 80 feet; weight of ba-
leen, 800 pounds; yield of oil, 10 barrels;
weight of whole animal (calculated), 147
toas. One ninety-two feet long was
taken at Monterey, Cal, some years ago,
and the capstan that had rolled many
large animals was torn up, the falls gave
way and the body fell back. The sulphur
bottom is found on the entire Pacific
coast at all times, winter and summer,
coming well in shore between May and
September. 1t has a curious and some
what unpleasant habit of following ships.
and one followed the ship Plymouth
mouth from San Francisco to Realojo,
Central America, often passing under
the keel. Rifle shots and blows from
billets of wood had no impression upon
it, and it stood by the vessel until she
went into shoal water.-Chicago Herald.
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There is something strange about the
success of Kentucky as race breeder. 1t
is, of course, recognized and accounted for
thing that is not exactly explainable
by everybody, but after all there is some
about it. The bluegrass and the lime
stone come in justly for a great deal of
credit in their effect in hardening the
muscles and flesh, but there is something
outside of and beyond that. Take Miss
Woodford, for example. She was taken
there and came out wonderfully changed
and improved, being an entirely differ
ent mare from what she was when sent
there, being in better condition every
way and still weighing $50 to 200 pounds
less. Then Kentucky horses never have
bad feet. That is marked character
istic and one which is not easily ac-
counted for, but nevertheless remains pc
culiar to the state.-Co!. Jack Shinn in
Globe-Democrat.
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A New Musical Instrument invented.

A New Musical Instrument Invented.
The story of its first conception is one
of interest. When a child Mr.. Hamilton
was chosen by the queen as the compan-
ion of Prince Arthur, whose studies he
shared, and thus had the finest training
that could be obtained. He grew up
thoughtful, serious boy, full of vague as
pirations and lofty ideals-the tempera-
ment that is prone to dreams and visions
One day at a service in Westminster alb
bey he noticed, as he was coming out,
that the voice of a boy chorister pene-
trated greater distance than the tones
of the organ itself, and he fell to Won
dering why this should be; how 1t was
that the slender human mechanism
should possess a greater carrying power
than the massive pipes Of the great or
gan.
On this hint he set to work to devise
an instrument that should be similar in
construction to to the voX humana, and
of a series of experiments the new in
strument, the vocation, is the result. Its
arrangement follows closely that of the
human throat. And its tones are said to
emulate those of the voice. A trial in
stIument was shown in Music hall a few
months ago, and Mr.. Lang and other
musical judges gave it a high approval.
1t is said that a vocation of far greater
power than the largest organs can be Sc
cured for one-fourth the cost. The per-
lection of the experiments on wind and
pipe instrument viii be awaited with in
terest. The vocation combines the prin-
ciples of theEolian harp and of the hui
man voice.-Lillian Whiting in Inter
Ocean.
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The Record of Thermal Extremes.

The highest temperature ever observed
in the shade of the open air is 151 de-
grees Fahrenheit, which Capt. Rigaut's
self-registering thermometer recorded in
the land of the Tuariks in Central Asia.
NJ. de Nadaillac hence infers that the
range of mans endurance of extreme
temperature is 236 degrees Fahrenheit,
since the minimum recorded by an ether
thermometer in the sea of Kara was
little less than so degrees below zero.
In the highest latitude of the polar re-
gions a severe winter night, however,
exceeds even that frightful extreme, for
in the neighborhood of Irkutsk, not much
further north than the city of London,
Pumpelly once saw the thermometer for
a week between 60 and 20 degrees,
Fahrenheit. t.-Dr. Felix L. Oswald.
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webster and the Young Graduate.

A grizzly headed Boston lawyer, who
is a graduate of Dartmouth college, tells
a story of Daniel Webster, which has
probably never been in print. Webster
was present when this lawyer and the
others of his college class delivered their
orations ON commencement day. Know
ing that Webster would be there, the
young man in question prepared what he
considered a graceful compliment to
tickle the ears Of the great man. When
the time arrived for him to be heard he
noticed with qualification that Mr.. Web
ster sat in front seat. By the st&teman's
side was Mr.. Woodbury., also a graduate
of Dartmouth. The young orator, ir
order to drive home his compliment,
looked straight at Webster and bowed
repeatedly to him.
Among the sons of Dartmouth, said
the graduate, there is one whose fame
has extended throughout the nation of
the world. He combines Attic culture
with Roman eloquence, and with both
the unanswerable logic of the greatest
English orators There was more of the
same stuff, but Webster sat calmly
through it all. That night Webster was
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Reoogni.ed by 3 Pet Canary

Several years ago, when living with
my sister in Boston, one of my daily
pleasures was to whistle and talk to her
canary birds; the birds and were on
terms of the most intimate relationship.
We whistled in the friendhest, if not in
the most entertaing, way.
After an absence of two years or more
from Boston and my pets, I returned for
a short visit, arriving at her home after
%gas light" in the evening, when the little
fellows were asleep on their perches. l
never for a moment thought of going to
wake them up at that time in the even
ing, Just to see if they remembered their
old friend, but had not said more than
half dozen words, in an ordinary con-
versational tone of voice, when @Diclzy"
pulled his head out from under his wing
and began to chip in a right lively man
ner, and, before / could recover from my
feeling of gratitude and delight, the little
fellow was singing with all his might a
song of ingenious pleasure. There was
no dupicity in Dicky's song. 1t was
right from Dicky's heart, and as honest
as voice from heaven.-Cor. Detroit
Free Press.
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PAN AND sYRINx.

There was q secret vale in Already,
Wherein grew many a flower sweet to
smell,
And many pleasant shadow of tree
Darkened the slant sides of the cup-like
dell;
And day and night did birds make
melody,
And clear streamlet slipt through fern
and brake,
Singing until it ceased within lake.
And often when the drowsy summer heat
Had wrought q longing for some little
rest,
Here from the chase did Artemis retreat,
With bow unloosened and bare snowy
breast:
And maidens following with buskined
Trooped through the fern that bathed
them to the knee,
While the red staghounds leapt beside in
glee.
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Japanese Tea at a chicago show.

l visited the japanese village" the
other day, and came away in towering
passion. After visiting several of the
little booths nearest the entrance, saun-
tered away into the back part of the
theater, where a couple of little japanese
ladies were making and giving away
cups of tea. "Now," thought 1 to my
self, Il viii see for myself whether the
Japs and the Cinese know any more
about good cup of tea than the Amer
leans do"
AS 1 approached, the dainty little
matron stepped to the front Of her booth.
and in rather beseeching manner held
out 10 me a tray containing a half a
dozen tiny blue cups half full Of tea. /
gratefully accepted one. 1t contained
only a few thimblefuls Of tea, without
cream or sugar; but, ohl ye godsl what
tea! slipped and slipped until it was gone,
and then, having quickly made the cir
cult of the village, came back with a now
crowd, and took another cup. This fraud
was perpetrated over and over. and it
seemed to me that could drink that tea
forever. Chicago Journal.
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a Plea for Christian Prudence.

have no sympathy for slKin-fint saw
ing, but plead for Christian prudence.
You say it is impossible now to lay up
anything for rainy day. / know It,
but we are at the daybreak Of national
prosperity. Some people think it is
mean to turn the gas low when they go
out of the parlor. They feel embarrassed
If the door-bell rings before they have
the hall lighted. They apologize for the
plain meal if you surprise them at the
table. Well, it is mean if it is only to
pile up miserly hoard. But if it be to
educate your children, if it be TO give
more help to your wife when she does
not feel strong, if it be to keep your
funeral day from being horrible beyond
all endurance because it is to be the dis
ruption and annihilation of the domestic
circle-n it be for that, then it is mag
nificent.-Dr. Talmaoe.
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Henry Clax,s Appearanoe bal 1s4s.

II vividly recall" continued the
speaker, Mr.. Clays appearance on the
occasion of my calling on him at the
Astor house, which now think mis-
have been in the early spring of 1S4S.
When seated he did not look TO be tho
tall man he was, and appeared less dig
mined. But when he arose to his feet
dis full stature was revealed and the
courtliness of his bearing was apparent.
He carried no superfuous flesh on his
frame, and his step was firm and elastic.
He had an unusually high forehead,
prominent nose, large and flexible
mouth and moderate sized chin. He
was clean shaven, and wore his hair,
which was parted in the and almost COW
cred his ears, long. His eyes were ex-
pressive of gentleness and kindness of
heart, united with courage and firmness.
His voice was round and full and capable
of wonderful modulation.
His dress was plain and simple-a
black coat and trousers, and a waistcoat
of black silk or satin. Around his throat
was wound black silk neckerchief, tied
in large bow knot in front, and partly
supporting the famous shirt collar which
rose nearly to the tips of his ears. The
Henry Clay collar had a, national rep
utation, and all earnest followers of
Henry of the West adopted it. It was
part and parcel of the shirt itself, was of
most liberal dimensions, and, like the
bosom of the shirt, which was implicated,
was only slightly starched. and as rule
generally drooped over the neckerchief.
Boots and silk hat completed his at
tire.-New York Tribune Interview.
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PoIiution OF welIs IN New YorI..

AS Professor Walker has shown in sew
eral published statements, and notably
in an article contributed TO The Century
magazine, the geological formation of
Manhattan island is Of such character
that sewage and other Objectionable sur
face accumulations make their way
downward, even to the sources from
which the deepest artesian wells take
their supply. Even at the depth of 2, 600
feet the water Is contaminated. London
and Paris are in geological basins, and
deep artesian wells in those cities do not
encounter deposits of water polluted by
soakage from the settlements above. A
well 1000 or 5000 feet deep in Paris
supplies wafer that entered the ground
at points many miles from the city. But
water that comes from such a well in
New York began its downward journey,
in all probability, from the polluted sur
face in the vicinity of the wells mouth,
or from some point within the city
lmits.-New York Times
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The Poisonous Scorpion of Mexico.

AT a recent meeting of the Academy of
Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, DR..
Leidy read a communication from DIR. V.
Gonzalez, giving an account of the scor-
pions of Durango, Mexico, and the
deadly effects of their sting. They are
found everywhere in the city, and every
effort has been made to externinate
them, but without effect. A reward of a
cent and a half for males, and double
that amount for females, is paid by the
authorities, and the records indicate that
some years over 100, 900 are captured and
destroyed.
The sting, especially in the case of chj.l
dren, is invariably fatal; the victim, II
under 2 or years of age, dying ia
a few hours, and sometimes in a few
minutes, in strong general commissions.
No antidote for the poison has az yet
been discovered, and the assistance of
DIR. Leidy is asked by the writer i'll his
endeavor to determine some successful
mode of treatment. 1t was suggested by
Messrs. Horn, Heilprin, and Leidy that
the Mexican scorpion must differ from
the species found in Florida and Cali
fornia, as the sting of the latter is not
usually graver than that of a wasp
Scientific American.
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How to write Dime NoveIs.

have written dime novels-lots OF
them. The day of such literature is
past; driven out mainly, they were, by
the cheap juvenile libraries of the @Old
Sleuth" stamp; but eight or ten years
ago there was mint of money in them.
won't deny that wrote them for the
cash alone, and had no particular pride
in them as works of literary art. From
$50 to $50 apiece was the price 1 used to
get. My plan of work was to start out
on walk with a pocket full of good
cigars. 1 walked and smoked and
worked out the plot-what there was of
it. jotted it down with the names of
the characters on the back of an en-
velope or whatever came handy. By
the time got home it was done, and
began to write.
1t usually took about two days to
grind one out. Then 1 rested until got
hard up again. There were only three
other people in the business-one a
young man at Atchison, Kan, and two
New York Bohemians, who wrote in oc-
casional intervals of sobriety. Among
us we kept the market glutted. don't
think depraved very many youths by
my work, for 1 always punished vice
and rewarded virtue, but doubt not 1
got many a boy good hcking.-Cor.
Globe-D Democrat.
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rhatched Roofs In central America.


Most of the houses have thatched roofs,
rs indeed do generally all habitations in
this region. For this nature has made
n bountiful provision in a species of tall.
hard sand grass that grows in large
punches almost everywhere. During the
dry season it becomes very ripe and dry
and can then be burned.
1t seems TO be cultivated In some
places, but its use is the same as the in
digenous plant. 1t is cut off close to the
round hillock ON which les great body of
roots always rise above the grounds
bound into bundles of about three inches
in diameter and is then placed on the
bamboo poles that are tied with strings
transversely to the rafters-the bundles
are in like manner tied TO the poles,
and when well done the roof will last
eight years without leak even in the
fierce torrents which often burst from
the clouds. One would suppose there
would be danger from fire among such
closely lying rows of roofs, as dry and
inAammable as lint or tow, but no such
casualty is ever spoken of by the people,
and nowhere have / seen the sign of
burned building. - Guatemala Cor.
Kansas City Journal.