Bloomington Telephone, Volume 11, Number 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 16 August 1887 — Page 2
Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA. WALTER 8. BRADFUTE, - - PuBUSHKa Brr for the house fly, says ProfProctor, epidemics would carry off 1,000,000 people per year. Most of us would be willing to spare a million or two for twelve months' rest against the pest which is determined to bite nothing but the human nose in the early morning hours.
Fok suns troke the simplest remedies are a cold bath and ice applications ; for heat exhaustion rest and tonic axe the best remedies; for heat apoplexy any treatment aimed at drawing the blood from the brain is the most useful. It is best to take medical advice in order to obtain the most speedy recovery. It is amusing to see that in future the Indian pilgrims of Mecca will, by agreement with the Government, be in charge of a European agency. Tickets are to be issued at ail the Mohammedan
centers and the pilgrims will rendez
vous at Bombay, where the great tour agents will take charge of them and be
responsible for their safe conduct to the
tomb of the prophet and back.
Lord Stowell was eminent as a
judge but "near" as a man. In order
to save the legacy duty he, duriug his
lifetime, made over to his son William
the 20,000 intended for him. But the son, who died first, made a will, leav
ing the amount to his father, who was
thus obliged to pay the duty. His lordship bequeathed it to Lady Sidmouth and after hiswdeath the legacy was contested. There is a firm in Berlin that employs 200 girls who manufacture little bundles of Antiseptic dressing material, with whih all German soldiers are to be supplied in future so that they may be able to dress their own wounds in the absence of a surgeon. The girls are all dressed in white linen cloaks, and are strictly forbidden to bring victuals or anything else into the rooms where they work. There are many instances extant of great lawyers blundering in the making of their own wills, and there is one -case where a lawyer purposely left his will obscure. Sergeant Maynard, an eminent black-letter lawyer, had perplexed himself over some very fine points of law. He therefore left a will worded in such terms as would cause litigation to arise on the points he wished the courts to settle.
The Yezidis are the Kurdish "devil worshipers. " They have no ceremonial ablutions, or attach no importance to them, and are allowed to use nothing -colored blue. They will not sit down on a sofa having a blue tassel or enter a room containing an article of furniture covered with blue cloth. Their religion prohibits them from serving as soldiers, though there appears to be nothing to prevent them from cutting .throats on their own account.
Since Queen Victoria was first -crowned France has had the reign of Louis Philippe down to Feb. 24, 1848; 4he republic from Feb. 24 Dec, 10, 1848; the presidency of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte to Dec. 2, 1851 ; the empire from November, 1852; then the downfall; next the government of national defense on Sept 4. 1870; then the presidency of M. Thiers in 1871 until May 24, 1873; next tliat of MacMahon to the month of January, 1879; and lastly the republic of Preident Grevy. A cobrespondext of the New York Times writes : Pulled bread there is an edible that ought to be on every American table. It is designed to be eaten with cheese, and it is delicious. Take a loaf of freshly made bread, and while it is still warm pull the inside out of it in pieces the size of your hand or smaller. Put these into the oven and bake them a delicate brown. When cool they are crisp and as full of flavor as a nut. Eat pulled bread once with jour cheese and you will want it often. A most remaikable spectacular phenomenon was seen at Sandersvilie, Ga , one afternoon recently. The sun. Felting b,hind a western bank of cloud, threw a lateral reflection, of perfect symmetry, across the entire heavens, resting upon the eastern horizon, and widening at the zenith. Owing to the irregularity of the cloud's summit, other smaller pathlike illuminations were defined, all seeming to radiate from both horizons and to meet overhead. The sun appeared to have set in the East, also. The curious sight was noted with muca wonderment by many citizens, who did not remember ever Jlaving seen the heavens similarly panned before. Mb. Thomas Fobtcne, the editor of a colored people's organ, the New York JTreeman, proposes the formation of what he terms an 44 A fro-American league." The aim of this organization, in general terms, is the improvement of the condition of the colored race in the United States. Although plans have not yet been matured, the work of organization has already begun. Mr.
Fortune says that ward, county, and
State clubs are to be formed, and then
a national convention is to be held to
formulate a policy that will protect the
rights and improve the general con
dition of the colored people. The league, so its originator asserts, will take a hand in politics, but will try to hold colored voters to an independent political course. The frequency with which trains have been "held up" lately in the southwest by highwaymen suggests the necessity of measures for protection other than reliance on the local officers of the law, says the Railroad Gazette. The good old-fashioned precaution of a double-barreled shotgun here and there, handy for the trainmen to get at, would discourage the "agents" amazingly. About every tenth American male of middle age has nt some time in
j his life ridden through the Port Neuf
canyon (or some other) with a shotgun on his knees ready for tho "read agents." Is it possible that the alility to take care of one's self is passing away with the stage coaches ? A couple of short heavy double-barreled shotguns in the cab and two or three more in the baggage and express cars would stop the train robberies in short order. The "James boys" and their
kind thoroughly dislike buckshot. Revolvers have little terror for them, but they can't stand the thought of being filled up with buckshot. Cardinal Manning is described by a recent visitor as "weirdly impressive at night." Wearing his black cassock and scarlet cap, seated by the blazing wood-lire in his study, in which fifty couples might waltz with perfect comfort, his eminence will discuss any sub
ject, from the decrees of the Council of Trent to a paragraph in the society papers. No subject is too large, no topic too small, for him to converse upon. He is a teetotaler has been one for years as all know; and eats just as much as will keep the ma chincry of the boJy properly lubricated and no more. When he was made a cardinal, some seven years ago, some of his flock sent round the hat to en
able him to pay the fees (about $1,500)
without personally inconveniencing
himself. "I should like to see your
eminence riding in something better
than that shabbv old brougham," re
marked an influential gentleman. "Ah," replied the great man, with a laugh and merry twiukle in his eye, "when cardinals went about riding in line carriages they generally went to the devil. "
The versatile and volatile French
people are fond of lotteries, and laws designed to do away with that sort of
gambling are dead letters. A Paris letter to the New York Times refers to
schemes now being worked, as follows :
"The Loterie Lorraine for the benefit
of victims of hailstorms with a cam
tal of 6,000,000f ; the Loterie Colonial
for the construction of a harbor at
Pointe-a-Pitre 4,000,000f. ; th- Loterie
de Association des Journalistes Republi-
canes, 6,000,000f.; the Loterie de Tou
louse, 4,000,000f. ; the Marseilles Lot
tery of 4,000,000f., making a total of
30,000,000f., not to speak of a multitude
of petty lo?al provincial lotteries and
of the proposed 20,000,OOOf. scheme
in aid of the International African Association, instituted to arrange the financial affairs of Congo. " It does not
seem possible to put a stop to gamb
ling, at least that is the opinion of the French Government, and as lottery
gambling is thought to be about the best form of taking chances, the Government permits the people to take the chances. It is a sort of a high-license idea regulati& instead of prohibition.
The Anioy correspondent of the Hong Hong Daily Press tells the following story: Ths time the scene of disaster is a few miles farther away from Poh Hal, at the foot of a mountain called "Lam Thai Boo," in the lvang bay district. A few days ago four of the villagers, descrying a tiger carrying away a goat from the neighboring field, followed in his pursuit with arms. The t;ger took refuge in a cave at the foot of the mountain, and the villagers, thinking there was no other means of egress but the one through which he had entered, covered it up with brambles, thorns, and other wild herbage at hand. They then stationed one of their number on a rock overhanging the cave, and returned t tho village to procure additional assVance. In the meantime the brute fo nd some other loophole of escape from his confinement, and, suddenly confronting the man on the rock, tore him to pieces, and was nearly devouring him when his companions appeared on the scene. At the fourteenth shot the ferocious menstar was brought down, and the halfdevoured corpse of the ill-starred villager rescued from his claw3. This district cf Kang bay is infested with tigers, and it affords a good field for the go-called hunters who wish for a better object for their skill than the innocent water ducks and birds of the like species. Trichuriasis in Italy. Trichina has been discovered in a human body which was being prepared for anatomical demonstration at the University of Canierino, The man had lived for many years in a neighboring commune and died without the presence of the trichinae being suspected. Peculiar interest attaches to the case for the reason that it is said to be the first case of trichiniasis ever observed in Italy. Chicago News. The desire of fame betrays an ambitious man into indecencies that lessen hisi reputation; he is still afraid lest any of his actions should be thrown away in private. AddLion.
THE FAULTS OF 1'KEACHERS. Some ore too weak, e-ntl some are too strong ; Some ore too short, and Rome aro too long; Some are too stout, and some are too thin ; Some always out, and some always in ; Some are too good, and soma are too bad ; Some are too grave, and some nro too glad ; Some in their clothing are too exquisite ; Some never study, and some novor visit ; Some are too flm and some aro too plain ; Soma rreach tho aauio sermons again find again, Some, spite of whatever tiio critics may say, In the midst of their solomn sermons look gay; And some, howo'er pleasing tho f act they rehoarse, Are unable to smile, b1 t loo'- tirave aa a hoarse, borne in thoir busmen -nn - unions aro muffs ; Some cau't Ki-ep their ti apt r, but get into huffs. Some aro tov high, antf'soms are too low, And some in thoir first sermon toll all they know. Borne are to huvible, and some are too proud ; Some are toi i.,-,, and some aro too loud. Somo have n .nyfaults, some haye but one; But Tnover Ward tell of one that had none.
THE SAD LIFE OF A RECLUSE
-A. Story for Old nnd Young.
BY JAMES FRA3KLIX FXTTS,
The story of Old Crotty was the delight and wonder of my boyhood. Like my later communing with the Arabian Rights and Robinson Crusoe, it was
something that never grew old; and it
would be useless for me to trv to num.ber tho times that I heard it, at second
hand and from the original narrator. Tho latter was one of our neighbors,
Wesley Bender by name, a grave faniilv-
manwhen I knew him, with children of
his own but one of those hearty,
happy, young-old men, who always
have a smile and a cheery word for the
little men, and who love on occasion
to sit down with them, and lill their ears with what is marvelous and enter
taining. This story was his own, and as he always assured us of its truth, it
easily became our favorite. Iromhis
own age at the time ho used to tell it,
in connection with the chronology of
the story, I have supposed that he spoke of a time which must have been about the year 1820. Years have passed since Mr. Bender removed to Oregon, and whether ho is still living is unknown to me. The boys who used to stand at his knee in open-mouthed wonder at his tales are dispersed over the globe; but I am sure they have not forgotten Mr. Bender and his stories, and perhaps in far-away corners of the earth some of them will now gladly renew their acquaintance with Old Crotty. "There he goes!" "Hurrah for old Scarecrow!" "Let's after him, boys !" We quitted our ball-play on the green and followed the poor old man, shouting and calling him names; and I am ashamed to say that I was as rude and thoughtless as the rest. He paid no heed to us, but passed slowly on, leaning on his staff, his snow-white hair and beard waving in the wind, and his eyes bent on the ground. One of us, bolder than the others, ran up behind him and pulled the skirt of his long coat He turned suddenly; we all ran, with a shout ; and I fell over a stone. The old man seized me by the arm and held me fast. My companions looked on from a safe distance with horror in their faces; they evidently expected to see me killed on the spot. I know I expected something of the kind myself, and I blubbered after tho fashion of boys in such scrapes. "O please, sir, don't! I'm so sorry 111 never do so again !" I fairly shivered with fear, and looked up to his face as though it were that of an ogre. To my utter astonishment I saw his eyes regarding me with a very kind expression, while something like a sad smile flitted over his wasted and wrinkled face. "Don't be afraid, my lad," he said. "Ill not hurt you. What is your name ?" John Wesley Bender, sir." "Do you know where I live?" "Yes, sir." "Will you come up and see me tomorrow morning? I want to see you very much when these boys are not by." I promised; indeed I was so confused that I would have promised anything. "Good-by, then, John," he said. "I
shall expect you." He patted my head gently and passed on. When he had gone some distance the boys came crowding about me, anxious to know what the old man had said. I did not feel like talking with them, or like playing any more that afternoon; and, making some excuse, I went home. At supper, my mother noticed that I was looking serious, and asked me if I was sick. My little sister Alice tried in vain to get me to read to her after the table was cleared ; I could think of nothing but the incident of the afternoon. Evening came. Alice had been put to bed, and I sat with my mother by the evening lamp. I think I see her now as she used to sit with her swift needle, her grave, handsome face lighted with intelligence as she talked to me. Father had died live years before, leaving a slender income for the support of us three, and she helped it out by sewing. I was eleven years old at this time, and was growing able to helj her a great deal. As we sat there on this evening she suddenly put down her sewing and said : "John, something i3 the matter with you. What is it?" I could keep it to myself no longer, and told her all that had happened. She looked serious when she heard of our rudeness to the old man, and very much interested by the account of what followed. She asked many questions, and grew thoughtful. "What shall I do, mother?" I asked, after a moment's silence. "Old Crotty has lived here fifteen years, to my knowledge, " she said, slowly; "and during all that time he has never harmed any one. It was
very wrong and very thoughtless for
the boys to annov him ; but if he had
wished to punish you, he would have j
done it when ho had his hands on you, I believe you had better go and see him., John. You ought to wish to do him a kindness after what has happened ; and you may find a way." This excellent motherly counsel set my mind at rest; and after breakfast the next morning I set forth on my errand. On the way 1 thought over all that I knew about this strange recluse, and my knowledge oi him was all that any one else had. Nobody knew where he came from, nor what his real name
was. His queer appellation wan a qpntraction for the name, "Old Crotchety," which some one had given him. He lived alone in an old log-cabin a milo from the village, and remote from any other house. Ho sometimes visited tho village to buy the simplest necessaries of life, bn; would converse with no cue. When kj oken to ho would barely reply to tho Habitation, and walk on. He had no friends, no visitors, no employment bu; to walk about in an aimless way. Ho was generally regarded as a harmless old lunatic. Much of his time in fair weather was passed on tho bench in front of his cabin ; and hero I found him on this morning. He smiled as 1 came up, took my hand, and mado mo sit down beside him. "I knew you would come," he said. Then he took off my cap, and smoothed my hair away from my forehead, looking fixedly into my face; but presently an absent look came into his eyes, as the ugh His thoughts were far away, When he recalled himself ho asked my name again, and inquired who were my parents, and where I lived. "Have von a knife. John?" was his next question. Knives were scarce ir. those days, before Americans had
learned much of the art of working in steel; and my reply Iwas that I never had owned one. He took from his pocket an exquisitely-finished Sheffield pocket-knife with four blades, and placed it in my hand. 1 looked at him with amazement; such an article as that could not be found in the village. "I have had it many years," he said. "It is vours now. My heart was full; I broke down completely. "I don't deserve it, sir, I sobbed. "I treated you badly yesterday " "!S"ever mind that, John. You'll be kind to me after this. Tell your good mother that I thank her for letting you com', and sometime it would please mo to have you come again. Goodbye, now." He stooped and kissed my forehead. Itis eyes followed me as I went away; and until the trees hid him from mo I saw that he looked after me. I told my mother the particulars of my visit, and showed her my beautiful knife. She was pleased, and appeared
interested as well as puzzled; and as sho said little, I thought she was trying to find some explanation to all this. For several weeks after I neither saw nor heard of tho old hermit. Then, one afternoon, little Alice came running into tho back yard whore I was piling wood, and said there was "a funny old man" out by the gate. I went out, expecting to find Crotty; and ti ers he was. He smiled, took my hand, and held it while he talked. He said that he was going by here, and seeing tho little girl, he knew she was my sister by her looks; so he stopped, hoping to see me. Just then my mother came to the door, and seeing
who it was, asked him to come in and sh; down. He sighed wearily and shook his head. I could not holp noticing how much feebler he looked than when
I last saw him.
"Ihauk vou, madam, he eiaid, ''but
it's many and many a year since I have entered any dwelling but my own."
"I was just making a cup of tea,"
srfid my mother. "Won't you come in and have some?"
With tho hand that he still held I
pulled him jdong; and Alice, with an
unusual boldness, took hold of the
other hand. Ho suffered us to lead him into the house and place a chair fo:; him ; and presently he was drinking te,i from one of our wrillor-pattern cups. Mother tried to make him talk;
but he grew silent, and answered only
with monosvllables. He finished his
cup, refused the offer of another, and rose immediately to go.
"lhank vou. madam," he said.
"Good-bve, my bov and God bless
vou all!" Ho reached the door, and
turning toward U3, added with a voice of quiet sadness: "I feel that I am
gcing on a long journey soon."
e understood him; nor was ho mis
taken. This was his last appearance
in the village. Less than a week after a neighbor called at our house jut at
dark and informed us that Old Crottv :
was dying. He had been passing by tho hut and from curiosity looked in. The old man was lying on his bed, apparently in the last stages of physical weakness. Should he go for a doctor? the visiter asked. The recluse said no; he was dying of old age, and was well satisfied to die. Could the visitor do anything for him? Yes; he wished he would send Johnny Bender to him from the village. I looked inquiringly at my mother. "We will both go," she said. My moiher's way was always the same; she would quickly resolve what tc do, and then do it. Alice was taken to one of tho neighbors for the night; mother put a few articles which she thought night be useful in a basket I took the lantern and we wont forth on our melancholy errand. As we drew near the cabin we saw that it was entirely dark. I knocked at the door. "Who is it?" demanded a feeble vo ice. 'John Bonder and his mother," I replied, and the voice bade us come in. The light of the lantern hardly slowed the scanty furniture of the eaoin, and the form of the recluse on tbs bed. My mother lighted a small hand-lamp from her basket, and the poor, shrunken face of tho dying man was revealed to us. His eyes brightened as !.ie saw our faces; he held out hi hands for us to take, but his voice was gone. Mother gave him some cordial, and it revived him wonderfully. He did not refuse another spoonful which strengthed him so that ho could speak phunly. "Thank you both for coming, " ho said. ""Where's your hand,
John? let me hold it." He took ;
with some thlficultj'a folded paper from hifi breast, njid handed it to my mother. "Look at this when I'm goie," he conth uod, "and yon. won't be sorry that you've been kind to mo, But I s houldn't 'complain: I have repelled kindness for all these lonely, lonely years ah God, how many! I've been sick and weary of tho world and its people, anxious to get hone homo to my own! I did not think that I should ever caro for a Amman creature again, until, some woeks AgOt I met this dear boy, and.
then, O how the faces of my loveH and long-lost dead came back to me! You shall know my story, if I have life enough left to tell it. I was of the Quaker faith, and when the Revolutionary War broke out I was happily living with my wife and children near tho Connecticut River. Ono of those children was a littlo girl, like yours, madam; tho other was a boy, just like you, John, the same face, the same eyes, the same everything. Tho spirit of rebellion was at fever-heat; everybody around us was talking of arming and fighting, and I and mine were shunned and almost insulted, beca ise my religion forbade me from taking arms. I heard of the beautiful Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, which Connecticut peoplo had settled, and I thought it so far off that tho war could not reach it. There I went with my family, and again wo hud a happy home. In Juno, 1778, the bloodthirsty Tories and Indians burst into the valloy. All unconscious of danger, we sat at our table at noon, when a dozen rifles wero discharged through tho windows. My wife and little girl fell dead, and I was sorely wounded. The room was filled with painted savages; my poor boy ran to me for protection, and the fiends tomahawked him in my arms, with his white, scared face imp oring mercy. Johnny, your own face had a look like that the dav I caught vou on the green! I was left for dead, and barely managed to crawl out of the blazing house when the murderers had gone. I lay for weeks at death's door, cared for by some of our wretched neighbors who had escaped the massacre. My strength camo back slowJy but I was a changed man. All I cared for on earth had been taken from mo by tho most cruel of deaths. I became a misanthrope, wandering over the country, anxi6us for death., but always fated to live on in misery. Then I came here. This is my story." He paused, exhausted; but a little of the cordial revived him aga:n. "Poor stricken soul!" said my mother, softly. "Your burden has indeed been a grievous one. But were there no promises from above to sustain and succor you?" His glazing eye turned quickly toward her. "So it should have been " he
whispered. "I see with a clearer vision hi this hour. I should have easd with Job, "the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed bo the name of the Lord." Perhaps He will forgive my weakness, for Ho knows how I have suffered." "Shall I ask Him?" said my mother. Tho recluse was too far gone to speak; hut he slightly moved his head. My mother knelt by the bedside. I had hoard her pray often before ; but never, I think, from her or any other have I heard so fervent a supplication as that which sho offered up for this poor buffeted soul. When the prayer was finished we were alone with the dead. Two days later the remains of Old Crotty were laid at rest. Neither the paper that he had given my mother, nor anything that was found in the cabin disclosed his true name. 1 have sometimes thought that he had forgotten it, with much else of his painful
life. But tho paper contained something of considerable importance to us. It stated that the recluse had no kia whatever, and owed nothir.g, and thai: ho wished John Bender and his mother to have what he left, which would bo found in an old pocket-book under his pillow. The money, to our surprise, count 3d up nearly $500. It was a great help to us; and none of the village people, when they heard the w hole story as it is given here, were :lisposed to murmur at our good fortune. On the contrary, there were many who bogan to wish that they had treated the old recluse with more kindness.
Torture in Olden Times. There were three principal kinds of torture inflicted by the inquisition the rope, the trough, and water and fire writes John Burnley. In the first the hands of the accused wero tied behind his back, and then a rope was fastened to the wrists, and by this rope and a pulley he was raised into the air to a considerable height, and after being held suspended for a time he was suddenly let fall to within about a foot and a hali: of the ground, the sudden stop giving him a jolt that dislocated his joints and caused him to utter the most piercing cries of anguish. And this was repeated as often as the doctor of the inquisition said the man could stand it. To intensify the horrors of the sufferings tho torture was inflicted in a lurid subterranean vault in the presence cf persons completely masked in black. If the victim would not yield to the rope the water torture wa tried. A largo piece of timber, hollowed out like a trough, had a sharp iron bar across it. 'I he prisoner was placed in the trough, with this bar under his back, and his head and feet were fastened down by cords to the ends of she trough. The presence of tho bar and the tightness of the cords caused tho person to experience inexpressible agony. But this was not all. They stopped up his nost rils, nd, placing a piece of linen cloth ovtr hs mouth, which he was obliged to keep open, they poured a stream of water upon it from a considerable height. Thin forced the cloth deep into the throat of the sufferer and cut off his breath. When ho was nearly dead his torturers rested from then inhuman work for some time to give him a chance to revive, and then went at him again, renewing tho dose every time the doctor said he could si and it The torture by fire was tho most horrible. A fierce tiro was built, and tho prisoner's feet, anointed with lard aiad other penetrating substances, wero held clo.se to the flames. The pain was frightful. It often drove prisoners to confessions that were s.mply lies, an i after tho confession came tho auto-da-fe, dozens of victims being led to the funeral pyres and burned in tho presence of a holiday throng. The inquisition ceased to exist in France in 17i9, in Germany in 1754, in Austria in 177 1 j, and. in Swe.len in. 178(5. In 178a Iforty-eight gypsies wero put to tli$ reck in Hungary on on unfounded charge of cannibalism, New York Telegram.
POPULAR CD!XCE.
"SiXoiwoR" is a new explosive ten times tho strength of gt.npowder, e plod ing without smoke or noise. A llu sian invented it. A kecknt cor.iputation makes tho velocity oi the solar system in space only about 10,000,000 miles a year. By a different method another computer has determined the rate to be about 625,1500,000 miles in a year. To aid in an analysis of noise, Prof, drum Brown of the Boy al Society of Edinburg, hopes to be able to make a machine to give very loud imitations of vocal sounds. He expects the apparatus to his with thousand -man power. A large piece of meteoric iron has been found in a bed of tertiary lignite. Upper Austria. This is the first find of that sort in distinct geological periods, 2 proof that meteoric stones fell also in former periods of the earth's existence. An inclination of one inch in fifteen miles is sufficient to give motion to vater. An inclination of three inches per mile in a straight, smooth channel will givo a velocity of threo miLes per hour, while three feet per mile would produce & torrent. A leaf of the giant water lily (Fiotoria regia) has been known to measure twenty-four feet Oi inches in circumference, its weight being nearly four teen pounds. One of the flowers was four feet two inches in circumference, with petals nine inches in length, and weighed 3-J pounds. It has hitherto been supposed that the highest mountain in the world was Mount Everest, one of the Himalayan range, 29,000 feet high, but this honor is now claimed for Mount Hercules in New Guinea, which soars- to the tremendous altitude of 32,786 feet, or five times that of Mount "Washington in New Hampshire. The age of the earth has been variously estimated by geologists, astronomers, and other scientific men, the divergence of views on this matter being, in fact, very great. Sir William Thomson, investigating the theory of tho earth's having cooled from a fluid to a solid masH, arrived at the conclusion that the period of such cooling should be placed at not less than two hundred nor more than four hundred millions of years, with the probability that a hundred million years is the limit of geological history, and that pior to that time the earth's surface was in a condition unfit for the maintenance of anunal or vegetable life. According to Buckland and others, it is certainly millions of years rnnce the world was created, the only question being as to how many millions. The six thousand vears of
human history form, according to Hugh Miller, but a portion of the geological day which is passing over us : they do not extend into theyesterday of our fclobe, far less touch the myriads of )ges spread out beyond. language of the Eyes. Long almond-shaped eyes, with thick" skinned eyelid that cover half the pupil, are indicative of genius when they are found in conjunction with tv brow which is full over the eyebrows; and which has one perpendicular lino between the eyebrows. I have frequently noticed this combination in the
faces of distinguished literary men and artists. The almond-shajed eye, however, even without this ieculiar form; of forehead, always mean a a susceptible, impressionable ncture. Eye which axe large, open and very transparent, arid which sparkle with a rapid motion under well-defined eyelids denote elegance in taste, a somewhat susceptible temper, and great interest in the opposite sex. Eyes with weaklymarked eyebrows above them, and with thinly-growing eye-lashes which are completely without any upward ourve, denote a feeble constitution and a melancholy disposition. Deep sunken and. small! blue eyes, under a bony, almost perpendicular forehead, are indicative of selfish aad cold-hearted natures. Eyes which show not only the whole of the wis, but also some of the white both abo" and below it, denote a restless, uncertain nature, incapable of repose or of concentrated thought on any subject The oyes of a voluptuary move, slowly unde:r heavy lids. Bound-shaped oyeft are never seen in the face of a highly intellectual person, but they denote a kindly, truthful, and innocent nature.
Eyes which (when seen in profile) are; so ir otubernnt as to run almost parallel!
weak orgi taxation of tiio body and mind. Eyes rati Br close together denote ct ning aoi an untruthful disposition Eyes rather far apaat are indicative of frankness and simplicity of purpose an honest and guileless nature. Wha,. however, tho eyes are very far apart, they denote stupidity. Eye wttb. sharply defined angles, sinking afe tho corners show subtlety of mind: tho sharper tho angle and the more it sinks, the greater the delieacy of perception it denotes; but when very much developed it shows cdso craftiness amounting; to diaceit. Well-opened eyes, with smoouh eyelids and a steady and somewhat fixed glamee, denote sincerity. Lines running along tho eyelids from side-to side, and passing oub upon tho temples, dencoe habitual laughter a cheerful temperament, or, at aay rate, onj& in which tbie sense of fun is throng. She Saw a Sign. "No, ma'ana this house i&iw&ttorent, he replied raAJter savagely "Why did you think it. was?" "I saw a :agn on the fenaevT "But it des net read 'to. rent "I I thought it did." "That is a sign of 'post no bills. There's a great difference, ma'am." "Yes, sir, excuse me I ought to have seem the difference but the landlord gave us notice this morning tluA ho would neither paper, paint, fix tVe front steps, cement the cellar, repAif the roof, put in the broken glass, mtod tho bvll, sod the iront yard, or make an adiey gate, c.id I just pot on my bewanot nnd rushed out to find anothor house and spite him." Detro.it Frw rress. It is very much like striving for tho unattainable to wear a pair of tight boot and try to feel gootUaaturod Lc vk i w ithout prud¬t and anger is without counsel.