Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 October 1886 — Page 7

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SCIENCE AND PROGRESS,

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SHOW ELECTRIC CABLES ARE LAID UNDER GROUND. r\

The Great lick Telescope for San Francisco—It Built at Cambridge port, KIM.-Silk Cult ore In America—Bundles of Cable Wire.

One great trouble ia patting telegraph and telephone wires under ground is the difficulty -of insulating them. In spite of utmost precautions and coating with extra tubing, the electric current from one will skip through the intervening air to another and confuse messages. It is doubtful indeed if there is -any substance altogether non-conductive.

A Pittsburg inventor, however, believes he has a scheme for practically perfect insolation- His invention is given to the public through an fleetric manufacturing company •of that city. By his plan he claims that telephone, telegraph and electric light wires may be placed underground without detriment to the clearness of the messages.

The method whereby electricity passes through the air from one wire to another is -xailled induction. This induction is as active above ground as under, with the difference that in trenches dug beneath the earth's surface the bundles of wire are necessarily nearer together than in the air, and the force *f induction is stronger.

LAYING UNDERGROUND TELEGRAPH. The picture shows how the electric cable Is ipjjt underground by the Waring method.

The cable is of heavy lead and

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tured of various sizes and put together in many shaped bundles. Mr. Waring claims that 1,500 telegraph or telephone wires may

bo laid in a Itox afoot square. It is said it Li easier to talk over a telcphono Minder ground than through the air. Wires beneath the earth will bo a great improvement. Neither cyclone, fire, hail nor lightning will force the news reporter to lay bofore the reader tho luckless words "Wires down." Nothing short of an earthquake itself will cut off telegraphic communication with outlying district*, and earthquakes do not come often.

UNDKUlillOl NIJ CAULKS.

At the bottom of the picture is scan tho stylo of cable used for electric lighting. Tho others show various ways of grouping tologruph and telephone wires.

Tho insulating substance coating the Waring wires is the one subject about which the inventor maintains a mysterious silencc. Ho claims that it is much superior to gutta pereho, its insulation in short, being upwards of 200 megohms j»cr mile. What in the name of sense i* a megohmf tho reader will ask. Welf, the ''ohm" without the "meg" is the standard unit which measures the force with which a substance resists the passage of electricity through it. The single ohm is about equal to the resistance offered by a piece of pure copper wire liV) feet long and 1-20 of nn inch thick. Megohm is a great ohm or a million ohms. Now you know. In New York, city there are so many wires over head that the rrwulting electric currents are said to interfere seriously with the correct running of watches. The air is full of electricity.

Asphaltum In ltnlldlng.

The use of asphaltum in building is stated %o be largely Increasing, principally as a prevention against damp cellar walls and underaground mason work, coating for cisterns, etc. The usual method of applying it is to mluoo \o a semi-liquid state, in a large iron pot over a good tire, sufficient asphalt to about twothirxls fill the pot, care being taken that the flame doe* not rise over the top of the pot and ignite the asphalt Tho wall is made as dry as possible, and the joints somewhat rough, to admit of the asphalt penetrating the pores and securing a hold tho wall is then covered with asphalt applied with a longhandled brush, while the material is hot, and brushed in well, a coating one-half inch thick being as perfect a protective as a thicker one. A barrel of asphalt, as found in the market, heated am! applied to vertical walls of brick will ordinarily cover about 850 square feet of surface and produce most lasting results.

Brightened Future of Silk CaKare* Some years ego Edward W. Serrcll, Jr., of New York, undertook to solve the problem of the automatic reeling of silk. It was a difficult one, but it appears that a satisfactory end has been reached after the expenditure of several years of labor and contriklerable sums of money. The outcome is a «tlk reel which is now being pot into opera* tion in the sooth of Prance through the cooperation of mme of tfo leading banking booses of Lyons. This machinery make* so apat a saving in labor as to largely subordinate this M»Je-of ibe question, and it is for this reason that the silk raiser* of our country hoped by its aid to bring their efforts in establishing silk culture to a successful termination.

If the experiment* contemplated are brought to a successful tane, the increasing ot the hocie market for cocoons may then be looked into with greater hope* for success. The market far the product of this «st*b Ushmeat is already an active ace, as we imported daring tho last fiscal year raw silk to the value of nearly tSM*10

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States agricultural depart «t fat now COftducting experiment* with sOk. Though the work mentioned will be the most important of the nature that the depart­

ment will carry out dnring the coming year, the entomologist, Professor C. V. Riley, who is charged with this branch of the department's labors, will continue the work done in past years of distributing silk-worm eggs and sericulturai information and literature. He has recently issued anew manual on silk culture, which is now being gratuitously distributed. This is a revision of the old pamphlet published by the department, to which much new material of a valuable nature has been added. The Women's Bilk Culture association of Philadelphia has received congressional aid and will probably purchase cocoons daring the coming winter.—Minneapolis Tribune.

The Great Lick Telescope.

The object glass of the great Lick telescope is now practically completed, and only awaits examination and approval by the experts who are to be appointed by the Lick trustees to test it As all our readers probably know, this enormous lens, by far the largest ever mode, is thirty-six inches in diameter, and has a focal length of fifty-seven feet. It is composed of two lenses, of which the front one (outside) is an equiconvex lens of crown glass, while the other is a concave lens of flint glass one side of this—the one next the eye—is very slightly concave, in fact almost flat the other, next the crown glass lens, is considerably concave, the curvature being somewhat deeper than that of the crown glass surfaces. The inner surfaces of the two lenses are separated by a dear tor space of about six and a half inches, and there are perforations in the steel cell which allow a free circulation of air' between them. The glass disks were made by Feil, of Paris, and they have been figured and worked by our own Clarks in their modest but famous establishment in Cambridgeport. The object glass weighs 730 pounds.—Popular Science News.

Sand Paper.

Sand paper is at present made with powdered glass instead of'sand. Glass is readily pulverized by heating it red hot and throwing it into water, and flnishing the powdering in an iron mortar. By the use of sieves' of different sizes of mesh the powder can be separated into various grades, from the finest dust to very coarse, and these should be kept separate. A strong papa* is tacked down and covered with a strong size of glue, and the surface covered with powdered glass of the desired fineness when the glue is dry the surplus glass is shaken or brushed off. Muslin is tetter than paper, and lasts much longer in use.

Inexhaustible Fertiliser.

Dr. W. J. Graham, of Dakota, who has been pursuing prolonged investigations of the alkali which is more or less abundant on the western plains, states that the basis of the alkali is common salt, derived from a rock salt formation underlying the region and by permeation to the surface it there undergoes the chemical reactions which give it its apparent form and composition. He believes that the alkali will afford a valuable and really inexhaustible fertilizing material. ',

Facts of Interest.

In China and other oriental countries the tax is placed wholly on land. This is the ideal state of the Henry George school of reformers.

Dakota and Michigan havo each recently f*tablished a school of mines and are perfecting arrangements for a thorough course of study under competent instructors

Paper roofs, which are fireproof and give promt of almost indefinite durability, arc now made.

It is paid now that the eucalyptus tree is of no good at all to prevent malaria.

WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?

Man'* House Coat.

Gentlemen's clothing is becoming more and more luxurious. They say at tho watering pi rices this summer the real "la-de-dah" chnngetl his garments four times a day with the regularity of a girl.

A man need"not l«5 a elude, however, to enjoy tho pretty and comfortable lounging coat in"the illustration. It in a measure tikes tho place of tne old-fashioned, loffg skirted, big flowered dressing gown, which dangled dt vvr to men's heels, and lookcfl like distress.

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COAT.

The coat in the picture is to be worn at heme, when a man is at his ease, and can lie upon a sofa or sit with his feet up. It is a moderately long sock coat, made of cashmere or light weight cloth. It may be lined throughout with heavy satin, and will fit well in this case. Fanner's sateen will make a good, firm lining. The cord trimmings and braid may either match the color of the coat or contrast with it. A gray coat with deep bine trimmings is handsome. Bottle green, wine color or deep brown are other becoming colors to select Such a coat would be a very suitable Christmas present

Mourning Millinery.

First mourning bonnets for widows ore made in very close cottage shapes, with bat few loops or bows, and some of the best orders have been made with plain fiat folds of crape around the entire edge, and no loops or bows of any sort. The veil should extend tothe feet in front and to the waist at the back, with the front hem eighteen inches in depth and the back hem six inches. Roll crape is preferred, and all veils are made from the piece. Veils with woven hantars are quite out of favor.

For other than widows the veils are not as long, many of than extending only a short distance below the waist. For parents or children a veil of medium length may be worn over the bonnet, whi should be very lampto in form, fw it is to arrange a veil satisfactorily over *nv sonof trimmini:. Bonnets made of Cannelite, with a veil of the same material, are preferable fa crape for many ocrasktas, aad art In quite general use for ordinary wear.

When the bonnet is to be worn without a

veil, a very stylish effect may be produced by the use of bows, loops or aigrettes of ribbon or herons' feathers for trimming. Plume" are not allowable for mourning only tho smooth bristling aigrettes are used. Young ladies .may wear hats that follow in general design those worn in colors, but there be no attempt at dressy effects. Severely plain mourning is the only kind that good taste sanctions.

For second mourning the bonnet may be of Hull «flk with jet, OT

At noon weddings in church, conducted in the quiet English fashion, only the bride and her maids are without bonnets, even tho bride's mother wearing a bonnet, made of the fabric of her trained dress. At afternoon weddings in church tho bride designates such of her friends as she wishes to como without their bonnots, giving the ushers lists of their names and of the seats assigned to them. Other guests wear visiting costumps of cloth, velvet, or of silk combined with velvet, to the church, and also at tho reception immediately afterward at the house. At evening weddings full dress toilete are most worn, but in this era of informality thoy ore not obligatory for ladies, as the^ nr6for men.— Harper's Bazar.

Monrnlng Jewelry,

In mourning goods there are many exceedingly beautiful designs. Somo of these ore carried out in black onyx, which, by tho way, like fine English crape, is always in fashion, and some of it is finished in black enamel. In tho exclusive lino goods, especially where floral jjattcrns nro employed, pearls and diamonds aro much used for the enrichment of the jewelry. For gentlemen's wear arc mourning scarf pins simulating a small flower in black enamel or onyx with a diamond quivering in tho center. Ball oar rings appear in onyx and jet goods, as do also bead bracelets and nocklttees. Tho Variety of designs and finish in queen chains for mourning affbrds a wide field for selection.—Jcwelers's Circular.

Engagement Rings.

"A solitaire diamond of from ono to two aud a half carats remains the favorite ornament for tho engagement ring. For those who like colored stones, a ruby or a sapphire (in preference to an emerald or pearl) is set with diamond diagonally, or "cross-head," as it is called. The bride now gives her fiance an engagement ring containing a cat's eye with a diamond each side, or else a sapphire between diamonds embedded hi tho gold in gypsy fashion. The wedding ring is a simple gold bond, not too broad—indeed, very much more slendc*^^ban that formerly worn it should bo ot \of eighteen or twenty-two carats, the first \ing harder and more durable, and the latter more yellow. «.*

For Cleaning Glove*.

Benzine or naphtha is excellent for cleaning gloves, but it is too strong for delicate colors. Those of light shades may better be cleansed by putting on the hand and rubbing with a piece of spn dipped in milk a little white soap may bo teed also. The greasy nature of the milk keeps the kid soft and counteracts the alkaline effects of the soap. Black kid gloves may be renewed by the application of a mixture of sweet oil and ink or the dressing made for ladies' boots. A crumb of stale bread rubbed over the glove will often remove much dirt

I* ASH ION LETS.

Invitations to a wedding or large party should be sent out quite two weeks before ti» event.

In entering a dining room at a dinner party the host loads the way with the lady who is to sit at his right hand, and the hostess brings up the rear with the gentleman whom she is thus to honor.

Elaborate designs of embroidery are not now teed as mnch as simpler rows of feather and brier stitching, done in white or red on blue wool, or Mae on white, for the collars, caflk, vesta and borders of morning dresses for the boose, and also for children's drwei and cloaks.

Fteatures in fall fashions are waistcoats of various kinds, long over draperies, long waists, short sbooider seairn, sleeves loose above tho elbows, fall skirts, ptfe panels, lilr tie or 00 looping to skirt draperies, many buttons, high tapering bat crowns, high uutffuies and very high dress collar*.

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gether. Second mourning millinery may bo as dressy as the wearer pleases, and stylish bonnets of gray and silver shades trimmed with frosted aigrettes are worn

Girls and children should not be pot into mourning at all—Demorest's Monthly.

Aataxnn Costume.

Here is a very neat pattern for some of the light weight wool dres^s of autumn and early winter.

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DRESSES FOB FALL.

It is suitable for all out-door occasions, or traveling. It (is of two kinds of goods. The lower skirt is of a bayadere striped .pattern and falls plain and scant The overskirt is of plain goods and is draped fulL It may be of any of the colors now so fashionable. Ladies must select their own colors. It may be said that dark blue and the deep rich wine color now so common suit almost every complexion.

The costume in the picture is draped rather full for very heavy goods. With draping slightly more scant the same model will serve vfery well for tho thick cloths of winter. The overskirt is arranged in cascado to show tho cross stripe panel down the side.

Chemisette, collar and tie of spotted percale complete the frock in the neck. It is cut shaped and is open at tho side*, the edge being scalloped to match the panel in the skirt Dark straw hat, trimmed with ribbou to match the color of tho gown.

Dress at Weddings.

THE FARM AND GARDEN.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME SPRING FLOWERING BULBS.

An Agriculturist Who Tells How to Make Grains and Grasses Grow in the South. Pea Tine Fodder—Something to Clip.

Hyacinths.

The most desirable of the spring-blooming bulbs are hyacinths, tulips, the crocus and narcissus and snowdrop. It is not yet too late to plant any of them in the open ground to bloom next spring. It must be done beforo the ground freezes.

The hyacinths will be the first favorite. Their variety is infinite. Beg spare bulbs from your neighbors, or buy them from a reliable florist, leaving him to select the kinds.

Have the hyacinth bed dug deep and thoroughly enriched with well-rotted barnyard manure. Set the bulbs six to eight inche? apart and four inches underground. Mingle the earth beneath the bulbs with a little dry sand. In the north and northwest a covering of leaves or straw should be put over the bed at the approach of the coldest weather and allowed, to remain till the plants peep through in spring. Plant different kinds together in the bed, so there will be a contrast of color. Some of the hyacinths are so deep a purple as to be nearly black. They range through the shades of red and blue. There are also white ones.

HYACINTHS.

The illustration shows two fine single hyacinths. That on the left is a bright pink, on the right an intense purple. Double and single hyacinths are alike beautiful and fragrant.

The hyacinth is a favorite flower for forcing into winter blooming. The white Roman hyacinth can be brought into bloom by Christmas. When the flowers are wanted to bloom in winter and early spring, Vicks' Magazine says each bulb should be set in a five-inch pot, with tho soil just coming to its neck. Water with a fine spray nozzle and put in a dark, cool, though not cold place for six weeks or two months. By that time the roots will be developed. Give them a little water from time to time if they are dry. Turn out the ball of earth carefully to see if the roots have filled it. When they have done so, bring your hyacinth into the light and to a slightly warmer place. It does not want to be too warm. Then it will bloom bounteously and fill the air with fragrance.

To bloom tho bulbs in vases of waterhyacinth glasses—the water should just reach the base of the bulb, and, as before, the bulbs should then be set in a cool, dark place until they have sent their roots to tho bottom of the vase.

After the bulbs potted in earth have been forced onfce, they will bloom again after a year's rest, by being planted in tho ground. But bulbs forced in water never flower again.

The picture shows a a a beautiful double tulip. There is no end of varieties of tulips with their brilliant, flashing petals of many colors. Have a little bed of them for early spring.

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DOUBLE TULIP white tulip. Vick's Magazine says: "In bedding tulips have the roil well enrichfed, and plant the bulbs from four to six inches apart and three inches deep."

Both the single and the double tulips can bo employed for bedding in figures or in masses of single colors. A large star shaped bed of La Candeur, seen from our office window this spring, remained in fine condition several weeks—a white star on the green

Tulips can also be forced, though not quite «o well as hyacinths. The^r are .seen in the large cities, however, from florists1 1 hothouses the winter through.

The narcissus, to which family belong the favorite jonquils and daffodils, is also a beautiful plant for both early spring blooming and forcing. There are single and doable plants of many varieties. The most popular POLYANTHUS KARCISSTTS. of all at present is the very interesting family of polyanthus narcissus. That in the illustration is white.

In setting into the ground, the narcissus Is to be planted like the tulip. In potting, bury the neck of the bulb even with the soiL The narcissus can also be forced in water.

The excellent authority already quoted says of the crocus: Only the snowdrop is earlier. These plants should be in every garden, as the sight of tbem hi spring is moot pk*stog.

They should be set about two inches deep and three inches sport in the garden border. Andooeoftbe best uses that is madeof than

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and snowdrops, which are treated alike, ts to set them promiscuously about in the lawn in the fall here they bloom as soon as the snow is gone and nearly ripen before it is necessary to mow. The different colored varieties of the crocus should be used, and they give an unexpected life to the lawn early in tho season. Both the crocus and tho snowdrop can be raised and bloomed in the house by potting them about an inch apart and keeping them in a cool, dark place to make roots, and afterwards giving them light and a little higher a

Clip This Oat.

Following is a table showing tho amount of seed required to be sown to the acre of almost everything the farmer grows. It is from "How the Farm Pays": Winter Wheat, broadcast S to S8V4 bushels. Winter Wheat, drilled 1 to 1$ bushels. Spring Wheat, broadcast 2J4 to 3 bushels. Spring Wheat, drilled to 2 bushels. Barley, broadcast S to 2H5 bushels. Barley, drilled

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Oats, broadcast 8 to 4 bushels. Oats, drilled 2 to bushels. Eye, broadcast 2 bushels. Rye, drilled 1 to bushels. Orchard Grass (if sown alone, though it never should be sown except in mixture) 3 to 4 bushels. Timothy or Herds Grass (when sown with grain in the fall. to be followed with clover in the spring) 18 to 15 quarts. Timothy, without. Clover........16 to 18 quarts. Bed Top, or Brown Top, broadcast 3 bushels. Blue Grass, broadcast 2 bushels. Hungarian Millet 1 bushel. pP' Golden Millet 1J4 bushels^V Red Clover, broadcast, after Timothy in the spring 10 to 12 quarta Red Clover,without other Grasses in the spring 15 to 18 quarts. Lucerne, or Alfalfa, broadcast. .15 to 20 pounds. Lucerne,or Alfalfa, drilled—..10 pounds. ..... White Clover, broadcast '. .8 pounds. Field Corn, in hills, small va- -fe rieties 5 to 6 quarts. Field Corn, in hills, large varieties 6 to 8 quarto, ,. Field Corn, for fodder, sown in jp/f drills 3)£ feet wide and 1 foot

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J. apart 2 bushels, -i, Oatfl and Peas, when sown together for fodder .2 bushels of each. Beets and Mangels, in drills always, 80 inches apart 0 to 7 pounds. Carrots, in drills always, 24 inches apart 2 to 8 pounda Turnips hnd Ruta Bagas, in drills 00 inches apart 2 pounds. Parsnips, in drills, 2 feet apart.. .0 to 8 pounda Beans, in drills, 2J^ feet apart... .3 bushels. Peas, planted alone without any mixture, in drills 8 feet apart..8 bushels. Potatoes, in drills 8 feet apart.. .12 to 14 bushels.

Grain and Grass in the South. Dr. W. L. Jones, the accomplished agricultural writer of Tho Southern Cultivator, believes with enthusiasm that the grains and grasses will grow in the south. They should be planted early, however, he thinks, preferably in September. A good, strong autumn growth will be to them in the south what winter snows are in the north.

On light, thin soils it is better to sow grass seed, without any other grain, and he insists on heavy seeding, with very thin covering, and the thorough use of the roller.'

Dr. Jones finds that what is called tho winter grazing oat of middle Georgia withstands cold and does not rust, as far as ho has had experience of it. His crop was sown Oct. 80, though that is rather late. With barley and rye his advice is as follows: To some extent barley and rye can be made to take the place of fall oats—barley on the richer and rye on tho ioorer lands. With these cover tho bare cotton fields during the winter and save them from washing and leaching. Simply harrow in the seed—don't break up the land and increase the facilities for washing. When green these cropB can be cut and fed to horses ond cowr. when matured they can bo harvested, threshed and ground and mako most excellent stock feed. Rye straw commands ready sale for filling in horse collars and other purposes, but the stalls and stock yards may well dispose of it all. Our soils cry aloud for humus—let us tako every opportunity to supply it. Some one has suggested that oats and ryo might be sown together— if the oats should be killed tho rye would not and the land would still be occupied with a desirable crop. Wo see no objection except tho unequal ripening of tho two crops, but as rye will remain standing without wasto for some timo after it ripens it could wait on the oats. Upon tho whole the suggestion strikes us ns a goxi one, worthy of being tested by trial

Pea Tines.

Aloft with a slatted or open floor is an excellent placo to cure this or any kind of forage. In the absence of abovo appliances tho vines may bo put in small cocks—narrow but high—and if tho weather is dry several of these may be thrown together into a larger cock on tho third or fourth day. Constant regard should bo had to avoid exposing much surface to sun or dew. Hence high and narrow cocks aro recommended. It is difficult to havo them properly made by ordinary hands this is ono of the things a farmer should personally supervise.—Southern Cultivator.

Spanish Ground Peas*

I fatten my hogs on them using but little corn. They are tho thing for farmers living in a stock law district. One acre will keep several head of hogs in good order. I plant them in the place of the common stock pea between my corn. They can be planted after catting oats and will mature by the 15th of September. They are pulled up with the vine and can be housed and picked on rainy days. All planters who raise hogs should get the ninety-day ground pea.—T. N. H. in New York World.

Things to Do and to Know. The early Ohio is the earliest good potato. Try it.

Black currants are delicious canned or preserved in sugar. There are 40,000 women belonging to granges in the United States.

Churn often. Dont let the cream stand till it gets tart and wheyey. The finest show of horses ever seen in Maine was witnened at the late New England fair.

The cobs from which sweet corn has been out contain considerable nutriment and will be greedily eaten by cowm.

Don't destroy the grain of butter by working. Experts say the best butter is that which has the least done for it all the way through.

In curing tobacco remember that rapid drying is not curing. The plant* want to be relieved of their sap and moisture very gradually, else the leaf will be injured.

Angora goats, which produce the mohair of the trade, are being introduced to some extent in the west and south, tt is believed they will prove profitable. They have been bred .in California nearly forty years.

The most extensive and snocenfol pooltrymm in New Jersey a colored man, James Tucker. He says: The colored man has kxig been credited with a great knowledge of raising chickens, bat always other peopled raise my own."

Don't say because wood ashes produce fine results on your land that they are the best of all mamma. Don't say because they show no effects tbey *re woctfafcat. In the one case your land may be rich in phosphoric acid and nitrogen, needing chiefly potash, in the other rich in potash.—Boral Kew Tartar.

YOUNG FOLKS' COLUMN.

FUN FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE IM SHADOW PICTURES.

Tiny Creatures Prisoned ia. Amber ft* Agea—Pnziles—To Make Shadow Ple^ ares—"Will Toa Beckon Me Ever,

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Dear little hands, I love the'm so! '0:1%? And now they are lying under the snow— Under the snow, so cold and white, I I can not seo them, or touch them to night They are quiet and still at last, ah me! How busy and restless they used to be! But now they con never reach up through tho. snow 1 Dear littlo hands, I lov^d them sob^

Dear little hanhs, I miss them so! All through the day, wherever I go— All through tho night how lonely it seems. For no littlo hands wake mo out of my dreams. I miss them all through the weaxy hours, I miss them as others miss sunshine and flowers} Day tune, or night time, wherever I go, Dear little hands, I miss them so!

Doar littte hands, they have gone from me now, Never again will they rest on my brow— Never again smooth my sorrowful face, .j.c :sNever clasp me in a childish embrace. And now my forehead grows wrinkled with cara^ Thinking of little hands, once resting there

The actors may bo dressed in various fantastic ways for instance, an old man may bo represented by a boy in his father's great coat, tottering along by nid of a stick an old woman may lie played by littlo Kate or Jenny in grandmothor's lonnot or shawl, and Tiny Toddles may bo made to appear as a miniature clown by means of a paper cap and a largo pair of knickerbockers with legs stuffed. In this way amusing scenes havo been performed tho more activity displayed by tho actors tho more fun. Tables, chairs, etc., may bo introduced, and much merriment is caused by one boy jumping ovor tho back of another and vanishing at oaeh jump. —Southern Cultivator.

1 An Amber Prison.

Amber is a very beautiful clear yellow subRtance. The ladies aro fond of it to make beads, bracelets, combs and breastpins. It looks something like the hardened, transparent gum of a peach tree, although it is much prettier. Indeed, amber is supposed to bo really tho gum of a cono-to?aring tree. But it was ii treo that went out of cxistcnco long beforo tho present race of man camo into existence. and so nobody knows much about it for certain. Amber is very olnctric. If you rub apiece of it briskly with a silk handkerchief it will drivo a bit of down beforo it all over a room.

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PBISOFFXD INSECTS.

It is found under and near the fioa, along with beds of wood and coal. Sometimes it is cast out upon shore by the sea, and again men flsh for it with nets. Mohammedans at Mecca burn quantities of it in their worship, and it gives out a fragrant smell.

But the oddest thing about amber is shown in the picture. When it flowed out from tha tree first it was soft and sticky, and fell in drops. If gnats or other insects were in its way, of course it caught them and held tbem. Then more drops fell and tho insect was at length covered all over and buried for ever. Then the gum hardened and tho insect was shut up within amber walls, to remain for ages, till some men of a new, strange race found it and treasured it as a great curiosity. I have seen a tiny Hzard prisoned in the heart of apiece of amber half as largo as a child's fist The creatures thus penned fast are of species unlike any now known upon th» glob*.

Amber is found on the coast* of the BaltS* sea, also in Siberia, Greenland and on the shores of Sicily. It .bos been obtained in pieces as large as ten to twelve pounds. But it is not so very plentiful any more.

F4£*rS£ Beheadings. 1. A word meaning to blossom—bebead, and leave a trord meaning to let down. & A word meaning flesh—behead, and And a wont meaning to take nourishment. & A word meaning at no time—behead, and find a word meaning always. 4 A word meaning* piece of furniture—behead, and get a word meaning can. 5. A word meaning autumn1 behead, and get a word meaning everything

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But I know inn happier, heavenlier clime, :.njgsvi. Dear little hands, I will clasp you sometime.

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Dear little hands, when the Master shall cfH, I'll welcome the summons that comes to us all— When my feet touch the waters so dark and so cold, And I catch my first glimpse of tho City of Gold, If I keep my eye fixed on the heavenly gate. Over the tide where the white-robed ones wait. Shall I know you, I wonder, among the bright bands. Will you beckon me over, oh! dear little hands? —Louisvillo Courier-Journal.

Shadow Pictures.

The shadow pantomime can easily be arranged in a largo room, across the center of which a sheet is stretched or better still, in two parlors. Across the opening between the two rooms, the sheet is suspended. The sheet should be damp, but not wet enough to allow the water to drip on the carpet. The performance takes place in the back parlor behind the sheet. the audience sit in the other room in front of the sheet. The andienca part should be in semi-darkness, while behind the sheet there should be a 6trong light from a lamp placed on the floor.

SHADOW RABBIT.

The actors come in front of tlaj lamp, and their shadows are thus shown vividly on tha sheet, their bulk increasing and decreasing according to distance. When they jump over the lamp from behind their shadows appear to descend from tho roof, and when they jump back again—that is, from the sheet— their shadows appear to vanish into tho sky.

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