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READING FOR THE SABBATH - ■■ A Prayer, How glad the heart beats, though earth has many a grave! Al), happy breath! iu spite of care and strife! Though lacking much, this only thing I crave:— Matte me love death, O Lord, as I love life! —Charlotte Fisks Bates, iu Century. Religious Notes. Someone calls the 101st Psalm the housekeeper’s psalm. A Christian Policemens’ Association has been organized among the policemen of London. There were only ten German Baptist churches in the United States in 1850; now there are 130. Cardinal Manning has accepted the presidency of the Society for Improving the Dwellings of the English Poor. The United Methodist Conference, sitting at Belleville, Ont., have decided to cail the new organization “The Methodist Church.” Bishon Glossbrenner, the venerable senior of the United Brethren church, who has been in feeble heaith, is again able to resume bis Episcopal labors. The Rev. Dr. Elbert S. Porter, for thirtysix years pastor of the First Reformed Church in Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, has retired from his public and official relations to it. Father Capel, who is a Protestant turned Catholic, is to be followed to this country by Father Hyacintbe, who is a Catholic turned Protestant. They should meet oil Luther’s birthday and have a debate. The friends of the late Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce have just placed over his grave, at Columbia, Ga.. a beautiful monument. It is seventeen feet in height. The base is of Stone Mountain granite. On the second base is the name Pierce. Martin Luther said: “I never work better than when lam inspired by anger; when lam angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament it quickened, my understanding sharpened, and ali mundane vexations and temptations depart.” Beneath a church belonging to some Franciscan monks, at Latrun, about fifteen miles northwest of Jerusalem, an ancient baptistry has been discovered. It is in the form of a cross, with curved ends. It is about five feet deep and ten feet long, and admirably adapted for immersion. As Rev. Dr. Bowman was about to begin his sermon at Ocean Grove recently, he remarked: “Many of you have never seen me before, and in all probability, many of you will never see me again.” “Amen!” shouted an enthusiastic brother. The minister smiled with the congregation. Tiie Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks returns this month to occupy his pulpit in Trinity Church, Boston, and will preach his first sermon to-morrow. Dr. Brooks’s social success in England has rivaled that of Mr. Lowell, according to ail accounts, while his teaching created a profound sensation in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury thinks it would be well to have “missions.” A mission resembles the old fashioned "protracted meeting.” “special services,” or a “revival” nowadays. The names of things vary among denominations, but the thing stays like tiie clouds that alter their shapes, but every day go sailing over our heads. Rev. Washington Gladden, LL. D., whose "Christian League of Connecticut” attracted so much attention in tiie Century last winter, will furnish to that magazine during the coming year essays on the general subject of "Christianity and wealth,” touching the application of Christian morals to the present phase of modern life, especially in America. Irish Christian Advocate: The prayer meeting should be a place of brightness and glad elevation of mood and feeling. The shadow of desponding gloom is oppressive to it, ar.d the tones of pensive sadness are abnormal to the spirit of true prayer. Genial faces, cheerful voices, hopeful utterances and an elevating faith, are the life and attraction of prayer meetings. Tiie Moravians in Dutch Guinea report freat success. In the capital, Puraniaribo, hey have 10,000 negroes in full fellowship. The chapel, which was built in 1820, was twice enlarged. The old chapel has given place to a large, commodious and comfortable edifice, wiiicii is capable of holdings,ooo persons, and is always full. A second edifice, to meet the growing demand, is about to be constructed. The arrangements for the church congress In England indicates the increasing strength of the Ritualists. They are largely represented among the prominent speakers, and tiie subjects chosen are of special interest to them, such as guilds, sisters, deaconesses, mission women, etc. Anew feature, too, of the congress will be an exhibition of ecclesiastical art, ancient church plate, embroideries, ivories, and a collection of photographs, portraits, and autographs of the leading tractarians. Montana, as a Protestant Episcopal diocese, is prospering under Bishop Brewer. At Missoula, in place of a temporary chapel, they hope soon to build a brick church which will be sufficient for their needs for many years to come. Tiiree thousand dollars have been raised and a few hundred more can be added. At Butte is a fine stone church, built under the rectorship of Rev. Mr. Tillotson, now of Santa Cruz, Cal. At Glendale reuewed interest is manifested, an'd a church guild has been organized. At Dillon a church has been built. Many other items of interest might be added if space permitted, showing that Montana has a live missionary bishop. Professor Fisher, of Yale, who writes in the October Century of “Martin Luther, after four hundred years,” says of the strength of his influence in our day: “Now that the period of Protestant Scholasticism thatlollowed the first age of the Reformation is passing away, the spirit of Luther, even as a Biblical jritic, whatever may be thought of the soundness of particular ntterances of his, is more justly appreciated. He stands in closer lympathv with the church of to-day iu its effort to recognize and define the human as well as the divine factor in the books of the Bible, than do the array of Protestant theologians in the century or two that followed him. whose orthodoxy was largely molded by the polemical interest, especially by antagonism to the creed of Trent.” The Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, though but three years old. entered upon work which had already been inaugurated in India. The society has now 28 stations and 60 Zenana missionaries. Besides these there are 29 assistant Zenana missionaries, 83 Bible women and 150 native assistants—a band in all of 331 workers, Tiia chief object of these missionaries is to reach the women in tiie homes where they are kept from contact with the outside world. Men never could reach these Zenanas, but English ladies are welcome there, and the poor women. who have little to divert their minds or interest them in any wav, are glad to see the foreign ladies and to hear their message of life and hone. The income of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society last year was nearly SIIO,OOO. It is doing great work for India, It was a pet idea of the late Dean Stanley that the monuments of men who had won distinction on tiie field of battle should be removed from Westminster Abbey to St. Paul’s Cathedral, which should be more or less exclusively reserved for military monuments. The remains of Wellington and Nelson rest in St. Paul’s, and there monuments have been erected to their memory. Since tiie death of Nelson it has been more and more the custom to find a place for military snd naval heroes in St. Paul's. Dean Bradley has now expressed himself as of the same opinion as his predecessor, and the likeliloud is tiiat steps will he taken without de-

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lay to have transferred to St. Paul’s some of the military monuments which now contribute so much to the overcrowding of Westminster. More space will then be left in the latter sanctuary for those who have contributed to the greatness and tiie glory of England through literature, art, science, morals and religion. The change will not lessen the attractions of Westminster. It will add to those of St. Paul’s. Conductor Harris, of Boston, is trying to raise a fund of SIB,OOO, to be placed in the hands of trustees for the construction and equipment of a mission car, to be used in evangelistic work among railroad men. The car is to be constructed after plans and models suggested by practical railroad men, and be so arranged as to furnish a room for meetings, and be supplied with cooking and sleeping apartments for those engaged in the work. It lias for some time been well known that tha church which Calvin founded and so tenderly nursed in Geneva had become largely the prey of rationalism. The form of the old Protestant Church remained, but the spirit had fled. Latterly matters have become worse and worse. It is now stated, on most reliable authority, that every minister of that church —elected, by the way, by popular suffrage—since 1874, is either an avowed agnostic or in some way, more or less direct, an opponent of Christianity, A local paper, called the Genevois, unbiushingly declares that nowadays people trouble themselves little about what is called the salvation of the soul: that men of well balanced minds rather give their thoughts to making the best of this world; that faith has had its day, and that religious belief is rapidly becoming a tiling of the past. This for Protestant, Calviuistic Geneva! Selected Thoughts. Sincerity is tiie way to heaven. To think iiow to be sincere is the way of man.—Mencius. Who builds a church to God, and not for fame, will never mark the marble with his name.—Pone. Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.—George Eiiot. 1 came frqm God. and I’m going back to God; and I won’t have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.—George MacDonald. Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. Have no friends not equal to yourself. When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. —Confucius. There is no great and no small To the Soul that niaketh all: And, when it coineth, all tilings are; And lt oomeib everywhere. —R. W. Emerson. When God has a great work for any one to do in the world he usually gives him a peculiar training for it: and tiiat training is just what no earthly friend would chose for him; and sometimes it is so long continued that there seems to be but little time left for work. To do God’s will—that’s all That need concern ns; not to carp or ask The meaning of it; tint to ply our task Whatever inav befall; Accepting good or ill as He shall seed, And wait until the end. —Margaret J. Preston. Resolve that nothing whatever, either in your feelings or circumstances, shall deter you from doing what you think you ought. * * * Be sensible that even the appearance of a wish to show kindness, the attempt to pay attention and do good, are valued, and that oftentimes a slight favor, of which you think nothing, will be highly esteemed by others. —Henry Ware. A Clergyman's Handbook. Now York Letter, A book of funeral addresses, under the title of “Memorial Tributes," lias been published by Treat, of this city. Such a volume ought to prove a great help to clergymen, who are frequently called on to bury the dead. One of the hardest of all varieties of ministerial work is to speak at funerals. The fulsome compliment of the deceased has largely gone out of fashion, as it should. What is wanted is a brief address of comfort to the bereaved. The temptation to most clergymen is to repeat themselves, and to utter well-worn platitudes in the house of mourning. From this temptation, the book ought to afford a way of escape. ALCOHOL AS A REMEDY, Some of the Evils of Its Use as a Remedy for Sickness, hr. Felix L. Oswald, in Popular Science Monthly. Ido not intend to deny that the use of miid alcoholic tonics, as a substitute for the frightful remedies of the mediaeval Sangrados, is a decided improvement, but, still, it is only a lesser evil, a first step of a progressive reform. Alcohol 'lingers in our hospitals as slavery lingers in the West Indies, as the witchcraft delusion lingers in Southern Europe. Has alcohol any remedial value whatever? Let us consider the matter from a purely empirical stand-point. Docs alcohol protect from malarial fevers? It is a wellknown fact that the human organism can not support two disease at the same time. Rheumatism can be temporarily relieved by producing an artificial inflammation; a headache yields to a severe toothache. For the same reason the alcohol fever affords a temporary protection from other febrile symptoms —i. e., a man might fortify his system against chills and ague by keeping himself constantly under the stimulating influence of alcohol. But sooner or later stimulation is followed by depression, and during that reaction the other fever gets a chance, and rarely misses it. The history of epidemics proves that pyretic diseases are from eight to twelve times more destructive among dram-drinkers than among the temperate classes; rich or poor, young or old, abstainers are only centesimated by diseases that decimate drunkards. On no other point is the testimony of physicians of all scnools, all times, and all countries, more consistent and unanimous. Is alcohol a peptic stimulant? No more than Glauber’s salt or castor oil. The system hastens to rid itself of the noxious substance, the bowels are thrown into a state of morbid activity only to relapse into a morbid inactivity. The effect of every laxative is followed by a stringent reaction, and the habitual use of peptic stimulants leads ton chronic constipation, which yields only to purgatives of the most virulent kind. Does alcohol impart strength? Does it benefit the exhausted system? If a worn-out horse drops on the highway, we can rouse it by sticking a knife into its ribs, but, after staggering ahead for a couple of minutes, it will drop again, and the second deliquium will be worse than the first by just as much as the brutal stimulus has still further exhausted the little remaining strength, In the same way precisely alcohol rallies the exhausted energies of the human body. The prostrate vitality rises against the foe, and labors with restless energy till the poison is expelled. Then comes tiie reaction, and before the patient can recover, his organism has to do double work. Nature has to overcome botli the original cause of the disease and the effect of the stimulant. Wliat Gloves Are to a Woman. Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. A critical observer makes this sensible remark: “A woman’s glove is to her what a vest is to a man.” Precisely. When a man is agitated or perplexed lie at once attacks his vest buttons, thus giving occasion for a certain very expressive slang phrase. A woman’s vest docs not admit of this sort of “pulling down,” but her glove is always a source of inspiration and u refuge from any embarrassment. She smooths on the fingers, rearranges the buttons, drags out tiie wrinkles, looks critically at the fit, and does a dozen little things with her glove that betray or allay nervousness and quite sustain the truth of the above quotation.

THE YOUNG FOLKS’ COLUMN. —— - ■ THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. [Every tiling relating to this deimrtinent must be addressed to W. H. Gniffaui, West Scarborough,Cumberland county, Maine. Original contributions and answers to eaob week’s puzzles are solicited from all.] Answers to Puzzles* No. B.3o.—Ducking-stool No. 831.—The wki3ky insurrection. No. 832.—Diu-ab. No. 833, WRAP RAPE APES PEST No. 834.—Dying is as natural as living No. 835. DABH ANNO SNIP HOPE No. 830.—Hedgehog. Original Puzzles. NO. 851. —HOUR GLASS. 1. Capable of being thrown back. 2. The discharge of a niece or ordnance v.’ith a loud report. 3. Characterized by keennessor epigram* matical smartness. 4. That which is thrown away as of no value. 5. Tv) have faith iu and reliance on. 6. A letter iu “Kit Carson Bunnell,” 7. An abbreviation. 8. Certain measures of length. 9. Calls for a repetition of a particular part of an entertainment. 10. A deepbine liquid obtained by dissolving indigo iu concentrated sulphuric acid. 11. Prognosticators. Left diagonal down —Has power over gain. Right diagonal down—Perpetuity. Centrals—Avowals. Amos Quito. Silver Lake, lud. no. 852.— cross-word. My first Is in vine, not in nettle; M v second is in vanity, not in mettle, My third is in cart, not in cab; My fourth isiu rake, not in rab; My fifth is in very, not in Mab; My sixth is in Vallejo, not in Romo; My seventli is in place, not in home; My eighth is in dyke, not in land; My ninth is in Sweedeu, not in Poland; My tenth is iu Spain, and also in Roland; My whole is the name of a towu iu Switzerland. Bloomington, Tnd. e. j. s. NO. 853. —PROGRESSIVE COMPOUND SQUARE. (To Plying Dutchman.) Upper Left—l. To reprimand. 2. A po9tottiee of McDoweil Cos., N. C. 3. Black. 4. A hard substance. Upper Right.—l. A hard substance. 2. Tiie plural of a susritute of a noun understood. 3. An abode. 4. An italiau cardinal (1179 1520) Lower Left.—Same as upper right. Lower R gut.—l. Italian cardinal (14791520) (Bij.) 2. A termination. Au aquatic fowl. 3 Sea eagles. Silver Lake Ind. Amos Quito, NO. 854. —DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 1 x X. 2. X X. 3. X X. 4. X X. 5. X X. 6 X-X 7. X X. 8. X X. 9. X X. 10. X - X. 1. A town of Maryland. 2. Reverberation of sound. 3. An abbreviation. 4. A city of South America. 5. t\ kind of course woolen wrapper. 6. An abbreviation. 7. A brave man. 8. One devoid of understanding. 9. A Jewish teacher. 10. A girl’s name.' Primals.—The name of a range of mountains in England. Finals.—A peninsula. e. j. 8. NO. 855. —CHARADE. If in music you are skilled, And in its parts you are well drilled, You’ll find my fi/st performs its part In making up this pleasiug art. If the Bible you’ll search with care, Yon’ll see my second recorded there; And if in searching you don’t miss, You’ll see ancient Heliopolis. You need not search, as for a sermon, To find a part of old Mount Hermon; On the west of the whole (which some call Zion), We find the valley of old Gibou. Uncle Will. NO. 856.— NUMERICAL ENIGMA. [Sixteen letters.] My 3, 4 Is the seventh harmonic. My 5, 11, 6is a river of the U. 8. My 1, 2. 9 is a man of genius. My 8,7, 14. 15 is a castle. My 10, 13, 14, i2 is a musical instrument. My 16, 4, 9 is an article of wearing apparel. My whole was a name given to Sir Walter Scott. Uncle Will. no. 857 —CROSS WORD. In sack', but not iu bag: In piece, but not in rag: In watch, but not in dock; In pigeou, but not in hawk; Iu history, bur. not in book; In mkinucr, but not in look; In bait, but not in hook. Whole, an interval equal to half a comma. (Ano. Mus ) w. H. G. Answers in three weeks. Our Prizes. 1. A book is offered for the first complete set of answers this week. 2. A pack of pretty cards for the next best set. 3. A popular magazine for the next. Puzzles Answered. By Amos Quito, Silver Lake: Nos. 830, 831, 832, 833, 83d, 536. B> r Faith, Indianapolis: Nos. 830 to 836, inclusive. By E. J. 8., Bloomington: Nos. 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 836. Prize Winners. 1. Faith —A book. 2. Amos Quito—A book for best puzzles Foot Notes. Pete.—Whore are you! Hope to receive some puzz e matter from you ere many days. Faitii.—We are glad to hear from you again after your long absence. Please visit us ofteuer. C. A. Det has not been heard from lately. We hope he has not lorgotteu the puzzle departlneur. E. S. J.—Thanks for the matter. Please be more careful in the composition of cross-word enigmas. Ned’s Suggestion. “Where did you buy her, Mammal” Asked three-year-old Ned of me, As he leaned o’er the dainty cradle His “new little sister” to see, “An angel brought her, darling,” I answered, and he smiled, Then softly bent his curly head, And kissed the sleeping child. But a Hidden change came over him And he said, "If I’d been you, While 1 was about it, Mamma, I’d have caught the angel, too!” —Louise It. Smith, iu October St. Nicholas. Kitchen-Garden Games. [We make the following extract from a little girl’s letter to her aunt, in the October St. Nicholas, about “The Kitchen-garden school,” at which, in the same manner as the lessons are sugar-coated with fun, it will be seen that games are but a cloak for instruction ] “My Dear Aunt Katie—l’ve saved the best part to the very last. It’s about games. We just have an elegant time when we do games. VVe have one after every lesson in kitchengarden. We have a skipping game, when we skip all round the room with a rope tiiat has pretty ribbons tied to it, and we keep time when we skip to a nice tune that the teacher plays on the piano. And we have a broom game that is just splendid! We all have nice brooms, with pretty ribbons on them, and we do ever so many things with them, and sing songs all the time we’re doing it. And then some of us make an arch with our brooms and tiie rest of us skip under the brooms all the way through the arch. And we hang up clothes-lines. You’d laugh if you saw all the funny little dolls’ clothes hanging on the lines. But it looks real pretty, too, I think. And we play waiting on the door. Wc have a big round circle of girls, and we skip around and we sing: “Here com os a crowd of merry little girls Who’ve lately c< me to school.” Then we ring a little bell, and we ask, “Is Mrs. Brown at home?” and we say, “Y’es,

will you plc-a&o to ’low me to show you to the parlor, and I will speak to her.” Then we go across the ring (we play that’s the hall), and the girls lift up their hands and we go under (we play that’s the door), and then we are in tne parlor, you know’. Then we play we have a card with our name on it, and we put it on a tray, and the girl that opens the door, she brings it to the lady, or else we tell our name. Sometimes “Mrs. Brown is not at home.” or else “She’s engaged.” Then we say, “Will you please to leave a message?” Then the other girl,—the lady, you know, —she could leave quite along message if she could think of one, but she doesn’t, very often. It’s a splendid game, Aunt Katie, and so is “Little waiting girls.” We all stand in a ring with trays, and we march and sing: We are little waitin z-iz iris, Just little gaiting-iHrls. We wait on tiie table As well as we are able For little waiting-girls. We pass the tray like this, we pas 9 the tray like that, Try to hold it, always hold it, very, very flat. It’s a real funny game. You just ought to see it, Aunt Katie. And “Jack and Jill,” we play that, too, and it’s “Jack and Jill went up the bill To get a pail of water, Jack fell down and broke Ills crowu And Jill came tumbling after.” And the chorus is: “Two should step at tiie same time— One should not go fusrer, Else they’ll surely, surely meet Witli Jack and Jill’s disaster.” Well, Aunt Katie, you ought to see just everything we do! I know you’d think it was lovely, and you’d be just as glad as we are that Miss Huntington thought about it. It don’t seem like going to school at all. It seems like play. Rut we all learn ever so much there. Mamma says I’ve learned a good deal about housekeeping already. Dear Aunt Katie: Mamma says I need not write any more because your eyes are so bad. 1 give my love to you, Aunt Katie; and 1 give mv love to Cousin Baby Grace, and to Uncle Howard, too. This letter is from vonr dear little niece. May Strong. The Youngest I)ruiumer-Boy. Ileuollectioiiß of a Drammcr-Boy, in St. Nicholas. But tiie Twelfth Indiana regiment possessed a pet of whom it may be said that he enjoyed a renown scarcely second to that of the wide-famed Wisconsin eagle. It was “Little Tommy,” as he was familiarly called in those days—the youngest druminer-boy, and, so far as tiie writer’s knowledge goes, the yottneest enlisted man in the Union army. Tiie writer well remembers having seen him on several occasions. His diminutive size and child-like appearance, as well as his remarkable skill and grace in handling the drum-sticks, never failed to make an impression not soon to fade from the memory. Some brief and honorable mention of "Little Tommy,” tiie pride of the Twelfth [ndiana regiment, should not be omitted in these “Recollections of a Drummer-boy.” Thomas Hubler was born in Fort Wavne, Allen county, Indiana, Oct. 9, 1851. When two years of age, the family removed to Warsaw, Ind. On the outbreak of the war, his father, who had been a German soldier of the truest type, raised a company of men in response to President Lincoln’s first call for 75,000 troops. “Little Tommy” ws among the first to enlist in his father’s company, the date of enrollment being April 19, 1801. He was then nine years and six months old. The regiment to which the company was assigned was with the Army of tiie Potomac throughout all its campaigns in Maryland and Virginia. At the expiration of its term of service, in August, 1802. "Little Tommy” re-enlisted and served to the end of the war, having been present in some twenty-six battles. He was greatly beloved by all the men of his regiment, with whom he was a constant favorite. It is thought that lie beat tiie first “long roll” of tiie great civil war. He is still living in Warsaw, Ind., and bids fair to he the latest survivor of the great army of which he was tiie youngest member. With the swift advancing years, the ranks of the soldiers of the late war are rapidly being thinned out, and those who vet remain are fast showing signs of age. “The boys in bine" are thus, as tiie years go by, almost imperceptibly turning into “tiie boys in gray;” and as “Little Tommy,” the youngest of them all, sounded their first reveille, so may he yet live to beat their last tattoo. THE MODERN ROY. Probability That He Would He Benefited by an Old-Fashioned Thrashing. Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution, Mr. Shakspeare says that a man lias seven ages, but to my opinion a boy lias about ten of his own. He begins with his first pair of breeches and a stick horse, and climbs up by degrees to toy-guns and fire-crackers and sling-shot and breaking calves and billy goats, and to sure enough guns and a pointer dog, and the looking-glass age when he admires himself and greases his hair and feels of his downy beard and then he joins a brass band and toots a horn, and then he reads novels and falls in love and rides a prancing horse and writes perfumed notes to his girl. When his first love kicks him and begins to run with another fellow he drops into the age of despair and wants to go to Texas or some other remote region and sadly sings: “This world la all a fleeting show.” Boys are mighty -smart nowadays. They know as much at ten years as we used to know at twenty, and it is right hard for us to keep ahead of ’em. Parents used to rule their children, but children rule their parents now. There is no whipping at home, and if a boy gets a little at school it raises a row and a presentation.to tiie grand jury. When my teacher whipped me I never mentioned it at home for fear of getting another. I got three whippings in one day when I was a lad. I had a fight with another boy and iie whipped me, and the school teacher whipped me for fighting and my father whipped me because the teacher did. That was awful, wasn’t it? But it was right, and it did me good. One of these modern philanthropists was telling my kinsman the other day how to raise his boy. “Never whip him,” said he; “raise him on love and kindness and reason,” and then he appealed to me tor indorsement. “And when that boy is about twelve years old,” said I, “do you go and talk to him, and, if possible, persaude him not to whip liis daddy. Tell him that it is wrongand unfilial, and will injure his reputation in the community.” The modern boy is entirely too bigity. I was at church in Rome last Sunday and saw two boys there, aged about ten and twelve years, and after service they lit their cigarettes and went off smoking An old-fashioned man looked at ’em and remarked, “I would give a quarter to paddle them hoys two minutes. I’ll bet their fathers is afraid of em right now.” Tiie old-fashioned man never was afraid of his. He worked ’em hard, but he gave ’em all reasonable indulgence. He kept ’em at home of nights and lie made good men of them. They have prospered in business and acquired wealth, and are raising, their children the same way, and they love and honor the old gentleman forgiving them habits of industry and economy. He was a merchant, and didn’t allow his boys to sweep out a string or a scrap of paper as big as yonr hat. Habits are the thing, good habits, habits of industry and economy; when acquired in youth they stick all through life. Ayer’s Ague Cure not only affords immediate relief, but. it eradicates the malarial poison which produces the disease, without leaving any injurious effect, us is the case with quinine slid many ot the ague medicines advertised. It is the only medicine iu existence which may he considered an absolute antidote lor fever and ague, aud kindred diseases.

FASHION’S FANCIES. The English turban is a very popular hat this season. Unglazed kid gloves are the most fashionable, of dark and medium shade for the day, medium or light shade for the evening. Spanish jewelry, showing large leaves and flowers tinted in their natural colors, and studded with tiny diamonds and pearls, is just now in liigh’vogue. Embroidered dresses in fine cloth and cashmere are certain, to hold their own. For one thing, they are too handsome to become common, and so they have taken their place among standard goods. The newest designs are so wrought that they appear as if raised. The pelerine or short cape of black velvet is now succeeding to that of black lace or of beads and chenille; it is worn witn any dress. Autumn costumes are also frequently made with pelerines of the same fabric as the dress, especially when this is some sort of fancy woolen material. Among new combinations may be mentioned Worth’s favorite blending of green and brown, dark bine and gold, red and gold and brown, dark plum with gold and light blue, and green in many shades with crimson and gold producing shot effects and hair lines of bright color. The new ulsters are tight-fitting or almost tight, and have Langtry hoods or collars, as the case may be. Some of them are very narrow at the bottom, fitting the wearer like an umbrella sheath does an umbrella, while others have fullness below the waist arranged in large, fiat box-pleats. The odd conceit of uniting two materials in the way of placing the figured fabric below and the plain above, will be revived, with also the fashion of wearing plain velvet basques witli a different skirt. Some of the new fabrics for the cold season, are excessively coarse and rough, like blankets. Wine stripes accompany the plain goods. One fashion which bids fair to be very popular is tiiat of a skirt of plaid cut on the bias ana kilted to the knee, with scarf drapery or short round apron, also cut on the bias, above the kilt, and worn with a jacket or jersey basque of cloth to match, either plain in the predominating color of the piaid, or else shot or in fine check to match a similar effect in the piaid. Plain velvet will be in great use for the autumn and winter. It will not only share a prominent part in millinery, wraps and costumes, but will obtain a prime importance in robes of ceremony, forming a distinguished component in the rich and elegant Grecian tea dresses now affected by the ultrafashionable, and besides its use for reception, evening and dinner toilets, will also constitute an important factor in handsome wedding dresses. From present indications it would appear that the greatest latitude is to be allowed in dress during the coming season. Bodices plain and bodices full, polonaises and basques, jackets and jerseys, yoke dresses and Russian blouses, zouave jackets and Swiss waists, plain tucked skirts, kilts with short drapery, puffed skirts with much-bunched tunics—long overskirts almost covering the lower skirt—all these are shown among new fashion-plates, and on recently-imported models. Hats and Emmets. New York Evening Post. Allusion has already been made to the great number of shapes in which new autumn bonnets and hats have appeared, the hats rivaling the bonnets in many caprices of contour and style in which they are | shown, both of which run through small, medium, and immense sizes, the bonnets developing through numerous modifications from the dainty French capote into the more pretentious Directoire, and ending in the long fashionable yet still popular poke. In round hats are many pretty styles, beginning witli the turbans in "Langtry” and "English” shapes. Then come the usual eccentricities, dear to the hearts of the erratic beings who rush after tiie latest novelties. These extraordinary and most grotesque creations are made up of the usual odd dents and angles, and the wild freaks in crown and brim are in keeping with the garniture, which is fantastic enough for the taste of any Indian girl on the frontier. Some of these have high pointed crowns and peaked brims, the whole hat being highly suggestive of witches, black cats, sulphur and broomsticks. SOME UGLY FASHIONS. How They Originated The Mischief Done by the Ex-Empress Eugenie. Fortnightly Review. Never perhaps in the whole history of female costumes has dress exercised a more powerful and widespread dominion than in tiie last half of the nineteenth century. More than one explanation may be given for this. It may be traced primarily to the influence and example of one beautiful woman at tiie head ot society and in the capital which from time immemorial lias been the center and starting-point of fashion. The ascendancy of the second empire was paramount in matters of taste, The Empress Eugenie swayed the social world of Europe more effectively than Napoleon 111 tiie nolitical. A single circumstance will sufficiently prove tiiis. Her adoption of a wide skirt at once reintroduced the fashion of hoops and brought about the reign of hideous crinoline. This is, so far, tiie last instance of the effect a single individual in high place can produce upon an imitative crowd. Social history, indeed, is full of such cases—of the patch first applied to hide an ugly wen; of cushions carried to equalize strangely deformed hips; of long skirts to cover ugly feet, and long shoes to hide an excrescence on the toe. The wellknown case of Isabeau lace may also be quoted here; the yellowish-white, dinaycolored lace (foreshadowing probably the coffee-colored lace of recent days), which Arcliduke Albert’s Queen made the fashion when she swore she would not change' her linen till Ostend was taken—an oath which must have cost her much, as “the siege, unluckily for her comfort, lasted three years.” The authority of the Empress Eugenie was not limited, however, to the popularization of the crinoline. It also developed enormously the rage for smart clothes. The Empress dressed magnificently and with lavish expenditure herself, and she expected every one about her to do the same. Like Elizabeth, Queen of Philip If. she seldom if ever wore the same dress twice. It was displeasing to her when people’s wardrobes were meager. Nassau Senior tells us in his “Conversations” that she had a wonderful memory, and often displayed it by remind ing some unfortunate woman that she had admired a certain dress already. No wonder that under this regime the most noted dressmakers fattened and rapidly grew rich. The artiste whom the Empress especially patronized made her fortune in a few years, and retired into private life, long before the empire to which she owed it tottered to its fall. Tiiis same period saw the foundation of several Parisian houses, which have now a world-wide reputation, one among them being that established by an Englishman, a native of Lincolnshire, Mr. Worth. - Tiiis excessive fondness for display was not long limited to France. It soon spread to other civilized countries. Tne United States was perhaps the first to surrender to its squandering and engrossing influence, probably because Americans have always been connected in very close ties with Paris, a reason, no doubt, too, for their generally correct and enlightened taste in dress. Two Monster Wedding Cakes. London Telegraph. The wedding cake of the Princess Royai was nearly seven feet high, surmounted by a dome of eight columns, inclosing an altar,

upon which two cupids supported medallions of the royal couple. Busts of the parents occupied the four corners of the upper plateau, festoons of jasmine linking the whole firmly together. All round the central plateau—a solid mass of a hundred weight of sugar and cake—were niches holding emblematic statues of th 6 virtues and smothered in orange blossoms. The lowest portion—the cake itself—displayed the arms of Great Britain and Prussia, placed alternately on panels of white satin, and between each escutcheon was a medallion of the bride and bridegroom encircled with bridal wreaths and surmounted by imperial crowns. Rows of pearls bordered and paneled the cake, and on the stand were a quantity of baskets and vases silver-gilt, holding artificial flowers. Another notable example of the modern wedding-cake was that of the Duchess of Connaught. It was nearly six feet in height from the stgnd, the general design being a Greek temple, with Corinthian columns and vaulted roof. At the four corners of the main portion—the edible portion —were emblematic figures of the continents, alternating with horns of plenty and Cupids charioteering 3 wans, while within tiie balustrades that encircled it stood a Cupid and Psyche, with the panels round them displaying the arms of England and Germany. ABOUT LEECHES. Something; of a Little Animal Tiiat Sticks Closer than a Brother. Detroit Post. Something mysterious tied up in a white jar attracted the attention of customers at a prominent drug store, and tiie druggist goodnaturedly untied tiie cloth and took out some black, wriggling worms. They were round or elongated at pleasure, and started off when touched with a pencil at a rapid pedestrian gait until headed off and dropped back into their damp porcelain pit. “They are leeches,” explained the druggist, “and came all the way from Holland. Twenty years ago, when blood-letting was in vogue, they were in great demand. Now they are only occassionally called for.” “In what class of diseases do they use them?” “Disorders of the head; if there is a numbness or pressure of blood on the orain, chronic headache, etc. They put them on the temples and let them suck the blood till they are full, when they fall oft. Salt is thrown on them and they disgorge, and are ready for use again.” “How often can they be used?” “A number of times. There is one lady in Detroit who keeps a pet leech. When her iiead aches she applies the reptile to her temple and sits down to read. When it falls off she drops it into a glass of salt and water, and if her headache is not relieved applies it again, until sometimes she has used it three or four times and has lost some ounces of blood.” A more convenient way of using the leech is now in vogue. It is slipped into a glass bulb with an orifice smaller than the reptile’s body. Through this it projects its head and fastens upon the human flesh, in which its banquet is waiting. Usually the patient is too ill to care for the repulsiveness of this remedial agent, whom Webster thus describes: “A cotyloid worm largely used for the local abstraction of blood. It is of a flattened form when elongated, thickest at the posterior end, has two suckers, and ten eves arranged in a horse-shoe form, and is of an - olive-green color, variously marked. It has a triangular mouth in the anterior sucker, at ■ h end of which there is placed a halfmoon plate set about the free rim with transverse teeth. By the retraction of these jaws a stellate incision is made, through which the leech sucks blood till it is gorgyd and then drops off.” There are plenty of leeches in the neighborhood of Ecorse and otiier river hamlets, and boys often collect fifty or one hundred and try to dispose of them to the drug stores, where they are refused as a usual thing. Then they offer them at the Chinese laundries, where they cook them with rice and macaroni. There are some specialists who use them for a valuable oil they arc s aid to make. In New York there are artificial ponds where the imported leeches are kepi. The wholesale druggists buy them in tubs of black earth packed almost solid. They only require air and moisture to keen them alive. When the cover is taken off their jar they swarm out as lively as crickets, and use their ten eyes to advantage in getting away as rapidly as possible. Boys call them bloodsuckers, and have a dislike to their acquaintance when fishing, as they fasten on their bare feet with a tenacity that allows no no chance of removing them till they have filled themselves with refreshment. ART IN ROME. A Trlncess Worth Millions, bat Almost a Pauper. P. R. Locke, in Toleilo Blade. The wonderful amount of art preserved in Rome, and for that matter, all over Italy, is due to the fact that in certain families plate, jewels and works of art are entailed the same as the real estate is in England, and cannot be sold and dispersed, which is a very fortunate thing for Italy, and a very unfortunate thing for the unhappy owners. It has kept their old palaces witii their priceless art treasures together, and makes in Rome a hundred museums of quite as great value as the best of the public collections —not iu extent, but quality. One noble family in Rome is the happy, or unhappy, possessor of a palace that contains 10,000,000 of lire, which is $2,000,000, worth of paintings, statuary and plate, and nothing else. There is not a dollar of revenue, not a dollar in money, not enough to light a single kitchen fire. The unhappy princess cannot breakfast on Corregios, or dine upon Michael Angelos, nor can she sell a square inch of the priceltss canvas and marble with which the immense palace is filled. So the palace is opened to the visitors and a raall fee is exacted from each for the care o. dines, umbrellas, and overcoats, which are presumed to go to tiie respectable-looking serving man who performs that office, but it doesn't. HerHignness keeps a sharp lookout on him, and every copper he receives finds its way to her. and from the proceeds of this exhibition she manages to starve, though she does ride in a carriage and keep seiv nts In livery. Being a princess, she must have 4 carriage and flunkies in livery, weather sue have money to support the style or iot. She receives, if the weather be good and the city thronged with visitors, as much asslOaday. and on tiiat she must live, for she ’as nothing but the art in the palace, and that she can neither sell nor mortgage. All this is very bad for the Princess, but very good for Rome. The family pictures bring \ isitors who spend money everywhere except upon the magnet that attracts them. What she is striving to do is to marry her son to a rich American girl, a girl whose father would be willing to pay SIOO,OOO or $200,000 for a title for his daughter, and her daughter to a rich American or Englishman from whom she might borrow money as occasion demands. With ail this wealth in her possession she is so poor that a meal ot cold victuals would he a charity to her, He Knew Ilia Brother. Wall Street News. When the stranger remarked that he was from Arkansas ohe of the passengers suddenly turned and asked: “You are, eh? Maybe you’arc from Crittenden county?” “1 am that.” “Perhaps from James Landine?” “That’s it, exactly.” “Then, maybe, you know my brother William Henry Jones, from Penn Yan. this State?” “Stranger, put it tliar!” exclaims .‘he Arkansas traveler, as he extended his Juiml and smiled ail over. ! "Bust mv buttons i: I didn’t help hang your j brother for cattle-stealing jist before I left home.”