Year: 1878

Painting jugs" The hand that rocks
the cradle" paints jugs, When we began
this we were going to say something real
mean and sarcastic about the concentra-
ton of all the womanly intellect and am
bition in the United States upon the labor
of painting vague atrocities on Jugs and
things, when we happened to remember
how many women's brothers and hus-
bands we had seen wasting their brain
tissues and devoting long, patient months
to the coloring of meerscham pipe no
bigger than cork. and we hastily dropped
into the lame and harmless conclusion
noted abovc.-Burlingt0n HaWheye,


Few of the persons who handle Bank OF
England notes ever think of the amount of
labor and ingenuity that is expended on
| from pure white-lnen cuttings, never from
rags that have been worn. They have
been manufactured for nearly two hundred
years by the same family, the Portals,
Protestant refugees. So carefully is the
paper prepared that even the number of
dips into the pul made by each workman
| is registered on dial by machinery, and
the sheets are carefully counted and book
ed TO each person through whose hands
they pass The printing is done by II most
curious process in Mr.. Goes department
in the bank building. There is an elaborate
arrangement for securing that no note
shall be like any other in existence. Con
sequently there never was duplicate of a
Bank of England note, except by forgery.
-Scientifc American


| A HORSE THAT WASN'T DEAD. "A curl
ous case of suspended animation occurred
in Dewittville the other day. A number
of teams were drawing bark to the tannery
whom suddenly cne Of the horses in the
leading team fell apparently stone dead.
The road was narrow, and in order TO let
the other teams pass, y rope was fastened
to the neck of the dead horse. and he was
dragged nearly u quarter of mile, and
left by the roadside. That evening a col
lection was taken up by the men engaged
about the tannery, for the purpose buying
another horse for the unfortunate teams
ter. and hearty sympathy and generosity
were shSwn toward the owner of the dead
horse. The next morning when the men
went 10 the stables to feed their teams, the
dead horse was found standing quietly in
the barn yard. He was apparently quite
well. with the exception that large patches
of skin were worn off his side in dragging
him along the road. EllenuilLe Journal.


The SECRET OF BEAUTY,-Persons may
outgrow disease, and become healthy by
attention to the laws of their physical con,
sttutons. BY moderate and daily exer-
else, men may become both active and
strong in limb and muscle. But to grow
beautiful, howp Age dms the lustre of
the eye, and pales the roses on bequty's
cheek; while crow-feet furrows. and wrin-
kles, and lost teeth, and gray hairs, and
bald head, and tottering limbs, and limp
ing feet, most sadly mar the human form
divine. But dim as the eye is, us pallied
and sunken rs may be the face of beauty,
and frai and feeble that once strong, erect
and manly body, the immortal soul, just
Hedging its wings for its home in heaven,
may look out through these faded win
dows, rs beautiful rs the dewdrops of a
summers morning, as the tear that glis.
tens in affections eye, by growing kindly.
by cultivating sympathy with all human
kind, by cherishing forbearance towards
the foibles and follies of our race, and feed
ing day by day on the love of God and
man which lifts us from the brute, and
makes us akin to angels.