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Ho Heads All Ilia m.tIdc. Home tot'nlaa aod ImpovrrUhca this

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Loe Angelos Star: "One of the causes ofLard times, which, just now, when the taxesare to te paid, oucht to strike the peoplevy forcibly, is th;s stme 'heathen Chinee."WtrkiEKrnea are jcmetimes accused ot harp-inf- ?

ton much on this coolie string. But letus look at the sulject a little and see if it isnot worth while to harp. There ore nearlyone hundred thousand Chitiatcen in theState. Suppase these earn daily above theirexpenses an average of twenty cecta a dayeach. This would be just twenty thousanddollars earned daily. Now, the Chinamanmakes no investments here. He does notbuy or improve real estate. He builds nomanufactures, no houses. He makes no per-manent improvements. He sends his entireearnings to China. He does not send themin the form of commodities of commerce. Heconverts them into gold or tiiver dollars, andthese he sends home. That i to fay, theChinese of this coast send out of the coun-try a daily average of twenlv thousand dol

lar. This is. of course, but an bd- -proximate estimate of the actual amount.It may be above or below. But it mustbe plain tn one who will etCD long enoughto reflect that this cause is of itself sutiicient

. .tf TroHlie a fi 1 - i ;r '...viiii iirrruic. DUl Wlist 10worjl about it. it does not carrv within itselftne seeas ot its own core. Ordinary financialpressures cure themselves by introducinggreater economy and an increased exporta-tion of cemmercial corumoditif . But thiscause, on the contrary, is constantly operat-ing. There is no let up to it. Kvery China-man employed to labor anu eVery vegetablebought oil the Cbincso truckman represent somuch money sent out of the country, and acorrtsponaing increase ot tne baancial pres-sure. It we have tnaie too hich an estimateof the earnings of the Chinaman, let us re-duce it one-hft- lf or three-fourth- s. Even inthe latter case, it will aggregate in the yearone million eight hundred anH. twenty-fiv-

tnousana duiiat-g- . ihm amount, added tothat necessarily spent in the course of trade,is quite enough to keep the Pacific coastfctaus in a constant state of financial depres-sion. The teader will see from tbe abovebgurea that the opposition of the woikingmento the importation of Chinese is not the outgrowth of an unreasoning prejudice, but, onthe contrarv. it is trecit.elv the conclusionthat would have been arrived at by Adamamitn, jean mptiste Say. icbn Stuart Mill;or any other1 of thb rroloundest thinkers onthe subject of political economy. It lJverypiain mat tne ininaman is a very costly lux-ury and we cannot afford to keep him. Hemust go. We, of course, do not propose thathe shall be hurried Dell-me- ll into 6hips, with-out regard to law or humanitv. But the im-portation of coolies must not only be 'checked.'as senator Jtfooth hn ttj but stopped alto'gether, and those how here receiva such cen- -

tie hints to depart that they will soon hnd itto their general interest to go.' In the meantime, seeing the effect o Chinefe labor oa ournuances, it becomes a sort of crime againstthe country to emdoy them. As comparedwith other countries, as well as with easternStates, we have, financially speaking, theproduct of the whole Chinese labor arainst.us. All this labor in other countries is paidlorana circulates m tne immediate n?nhhnr- -hood in which it is earned, while in Californiaand the t'aeihc States it is sent abroad. Tfour people could be persuaded to discontinuethe employment or patronage of the China-man, he would. ;oon disappear. Americanlaborers would tako thtir piacej, and thewhole country be benefited by the change."

Attacks on Hneen Victoria.Since that morning in June, 1S37, when

the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Marquis of Conyngham, then the lord chamberlain, reached Kensington palaci at fiveo clock, knocked, rang tind thumped for aconsiderable time b.efor they could arouse theporter at, the gnte." and finallv pht.of the Princess Victoria rising lovely and dis-heveled trora such a "sweet sleep that the at-tendants did not venture to disturb her," until ine uigEitarif 8 sternly said, "We are cometo the queen on business of state, and evenher sleep must give way to that." her maiastvhas several times been alarmed by threatenedor attempted assaults, which have almost in-variably been the act) of lunatics. Oa thetenth of ilay, !S;j9, when England was fever-ish with bind times. Chartist and rental .imitations and the like, a madman ere.t up tome garaen steps ci iSacKinguatn palacethreatening to murder the queen because noProtestant should be allowed to sit on thethrone of England. He was promptly seizedby the sentinel, and afterward sent to Bride-well. Yet another lunatic turned up afteran interval at Windsor, and, climbing overthe inclottures, demanded admittance to thecastle as the lawful king of England, and onJuly 17th, in the same year, a commercialtraveler was arrested and sent to prison fortwo months for persisting in crossing theroad in Hyde Park before the queen, wavinghis hand and placing it on his breast. Amore serious affair was the attempt of a potboy, h,dward uxtord, to shoot the queen andPrince Albert on the eleventh of June. Is4i).They bad left Buckingham palace in alowcarriage, passing by the garden gate openingfrom Constitution hall, when Oxford, a youthof (seventeen, preBPnfed a pistol and fired di-

rectly at the queen, then drew a second pis-tol with his left band from his breast, and,resting it on the one he had already discharged, fired that also, with deliberate aim,before the byBtanders could rush upon him.At the whistle of the ball the queen rose, butwas pulled down by her husband: she wascomposed, though exceedingly pale, and,rising again to show that she was unhurt.ordered the postilions to drive to the Duchessot Kent s residence, J ngestre house. When.soon after, she returned, a cortege of gentle-men and ladies met her in the park and es-

corted the carriage home. Oxford was calmand collected when arrested, and when examined before the privy council admitted hisact. After 1 hied Ihe hrst shot, he said,

Prince Albert got upas if he would jump outof the coach, and sat down again as if hethought better of it. Then I fired the secondpistol, mis is an i snau say at presentPowder and shot were found at his lodging.and the rules of the "Young England" se-

cret society, which prescribed that everymember should, when ordered to meat,

be armed with a brace of pistolsand a sword and a black era docap to cover his face." The Dublin Pilotcharged the offense on the queen's odiousuncle, afterward king of Hanover, and de-

clared that "as soon as her majesty was an-nounced to be enceinte, Orangeism and Cum-berland plotted to murder the queen." Onthe eighth of July, 1840, Oxford was broughtto trial. He had previously written fromNewgate to his counsel to ask Lord Norman-b- y

"for Jack the Giant-Kille- r, Jack and theBeanstalk, Jack and His Eleven ff'ires, JJuLittle Tom Thumb, The Arabian Night's En-tertainments, and all such books from suchcelebrated authors;" also, whether, as aprisoner ot war, 1 may not be allowed on aEarole of honor; and on what grounds, ask

he detain one of her majesty's subjects?" In court Oxford wore a littless smile,and played with the herbs strewn in front otthe dock. The defense showed that hisfather and grandfather had been of weakmind, and that the threatening letters andregulations found in his possession were allwritten by himself. The jury found him

.Not guilty, on tbe ground ol insanity, andhe was given over to a lunatic aByluni for life.The affair made a great excitement at thetime; we read ot members ct parliament ap-plying for locks ot Oxford's hair when ic wascropped. The next, sensation was "the boyJones" William his name was, and thewits dubbed him, o JoneB, because ofbis pertinacity who on the secondof December, 1840, gained access toBuckingham palace, and continued secretedhere several days till at last Mrs. Liltey,

the nuss," of Thackeray's poem the prin-cess royal was then two weeks old spiedhim under a sofa and had him dragged out.Joned gave the privy council several contradictory accounts ot the way he got into thepalace and of his intentions, and he wasfia.'.l'y sent up for three months as a rogueand vagabond. On the fifteenth of Marc';,1841, the same enterprising youth enteredthe palace again, but was seized almost iui-m- e

diately by a constable. The magistratedid not send him to prison, but induced himto ship on a man-of-wa- and that was tbelast of Jones. Oa the thirtieth of May, 1312.John Francis, son of a machinist at DruryLine theater, lor some months out of employment, fired at the queen as her carriagawas dashing down Constitution hill at therate of twelve or thirteen miles an hour

Kally Constitution hill should change itsname into Shooter's," Hood wrote andmi.-se- d her, of course. Francis was imme-diately seized by a constable and a soldier.The queen behaved with her usual calmness,and at night attended the opera, where shereceived an enthusiastic welcome. Thistime the Orangemen had their inning, andfrom Birmingham sent up an address of con-gratulation, concluding with a prayer thatGcd would continue to protect the queen from"popish machinations." Th'i prayer thahome secretary declined to present. Frani.who bad maintained a dogged sileno? a? tohi motives, was, on the seventeenth of Jane

- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22,found guilty, and sentenced to death bv Chief- -

Justice Ticdal. On hearing the sentence,which was couched in the terrible old terms.and included being dragged to tbe place ofexecution on a hurdle, drawing and quartering, t rancis tainted and Had to be carriedaway. His sentence was commuted to trans-portation for life. On the third of July ahalf-witte- d hunchback named Bean leveled apistol at the queen as she was Dassiner to theChapel lioyal. The pistol was loaded, butdid not go off, and when the youth wascaught the capital charge was abandoned andho was punished for misdemeanor. He wasnot caught, however, till some time after theattempt, and in the interval the police sta-tions cf London and the suburbs were filledwith hump-backe- d boys arrested on suspicion.A tew days later Petd's "bill for the betterprotection of the queen's person against mi-nor offenders" waa passed, which providedseven years transportation or imprisonmentwith whipping, as the punishment in suchcases. At was effectual, for it was not tillMay 19, 1349, and under a severe stress ofpolitical passion, that the queen was againalarmed. This time, as her majestywas driving down Constitution hill,at the point where Sir Robert Peelthirteen months later was thrown from hisborse and killed, an Irish bricklayer namedHamilton fired a pistol loaded with powderat her. The Hon. William Smith O'Brien,undo of the present Lord Inchiquin, hadbeen epelled .rora the commons the day be-fore. On the trial Hamilton pleaded guilty,and was puCICed to seven J"ar? transport-ation. On the twenty-sevect- n u7 -- I av180, as the queen with her children and" a

was passing out ot the gateof the Duke of Cambridge's residence, inPiccadilly, Robert Pate, an ofthe Tenth Jussars, who thought himBelf in-jured by tiib war oITce, struck her on thehead with a cane, bruising her cheek andciusbing her bonnet. He was promptlyseized by a bystander and handed over to thepolice. July 11th he was sentenced to trans-portation for seven years, the whipping be-ing omitted in consequence of Baron Alder-eon- 's

belief in his insanity. Since then, withthe exception of some mysterious rumorsabout a Fenian plot to assassinate the queenjust before her visit to Switzerland, in 1868,there has been no public mention of anyoffer of violence to her majesty.

IS THE PJPSTII.KKCK.MRS. B. MAKT HARLAN.

Would I In loftier strains could tellThe praise of heroes true and bfavaWho by the fearful fever fellWith those they vainly tf ld o save:'ihelr deeds so roble anu tilvln?Are far above these tones ot mine.

Perchance some or that brother bandWith generous souls and vigorous formsla coulllct gained tbe strength to standLike oaks, contending with the storms.Till In the deadlier contests swayTheir noble lives were borne away.

who with all aboardEmbers, dangerous waters o'er,wreck and struggleo ha-- d

Through wind and wave to gain the shore.Sought their more lasting wealth to gainThan what was lost beneath the mala.

Others from friendship unreturned.Or unrequltted love, may be.In adverse schools hard lessons learnedOf purer love and sympathy.Their friends and brothers lives to saveTkelf own a willing offering gave.

And lh?re were those from christian love,A Joy and healing to bestort.With better treasures safe above,Who freely ventured ail below.Where love lhat even death outbravesVovnd recompense in martjr's graves.

And one, a living martyr iiere,By ut through years so sadly known.Lies butted down In silence there.To sleep without a name or stone.Who on that burning altar laidA weary lire all that he had.

Kaeli motive to the same goal led.No matter what the offering cost;flow well tbrough ttorm or contest stood.Their victories whether gained or lout;Their toblest deed of life the lastA hi'lo sheds 'er all the past.

Earth's blghet notes ot meiodyAud honor are not their award.Deeds done for immortalityWill rise and gain their own reward;The glory of an endless day.Tbe crowa that fadeth not away.

Where the Christinas Toys ComeFrom.

Few children know how many weary handshave made their Thr'slmas toys in Oermanvand France and Knland, where hands in-stead of machinery are employed; and prob-ably they don't care terjr much. But par-ents may be surprised to learn that compara-tively few of the playthings which are scat-tered about so many hearths and nurseriesare made in America. Nearly everything inthe toy line is imported. Every year sameold principle gets presented in a new form.and frequently something entirely new underthe sun is offered to the toy-buyi- public;but as the years go by, and new children areto be amused, the old toys, the dolls of allkinds and the Noah's arks, hold their ownamong the new contrivances, with which ittakes time to make the little ones acquainted.Dolls, from the rag waif to the waxen belle,continue to be popular above all other toysfrom New York to Texas, for which latterState as many toys are sold by New Yorkhouses as for the west and east. Of thedoll?, the handsome wax ones come fromFrance, and the china dolls, and those withchina heads and limbs of cloth cr leatherfrom Oennany, from whence alfo travel thecomposition or papier-mach- toys, woodenwarehouses, stables, villages, lumring-jack- s,

and all hand-mad- e wooden toys; but allturned wooden toys are made in this country.Tin trumpets, jewsharps and harmonicascome from Austria. In this country aremanufactured all tin, iron and pewter toys,and all toys containing clock-wor- and inthis line American excel. Themetalopbones and zithers which in formeryears were imported, and accordingly wereexpensive, are now made here, and are be-

coming common. This year they are sold ingreat numbers. America also excels inmaking tbe toy drums, in beating which theAmerican boys also excel. This autumnand almost too late for the trade a Yankeeinvention of a stem-windin- self-runni-

and loud-tickin- g watch was put upon themarket, the price being twenty-fiv- e centsapiece. Immediately nearly fifty thousandwere disposed of, and the supply was ex-

hausted. This is the first time that a toywatch has been made to run, even for threeminutes, as this one docs.

Why the South Is Hoi id.New York Herald: "The south has been

so perfectly united only by resistance to acommon danger. When President Hayes socordially declared his purpose to respt local

in that section, he was metmorn than half way by responsive southernfeeling. But when it was discovered that theRepublican party did not indorse his policy,and that he was reduced to a state of politi-cal isolation, the south felt that its rejoicingwas premature. Had Mr. liayes been sup-por- td

by the Republican party, the southwould have abandoned its united posture ofresistance, and its white citizens would havebeen split into opposing political factions.This would have been the best security forthe political rights of the negroes. With twoparties ct white men soliciting the negrovote, each side would take good care that itsown colored supporters had their rights, andbetween the two all colored citizens would beprotected. There is really nothing to unitethe south and make it politically 'solid' butthe attitude of the Republican party, whichrepudiated the generous policy with whichPresident Hayes began his administration.The old motive the protection of property inslaves has become obsolete, and the agricultural south would naturally unite with theagiicultural west, it tomentors ot stnte, likeSenator Blaine, would keep quiet. The elec-tion.- of

a liberal and patriotic southern citizento the Presidency would, perhaps, do more toharmonize and strengthen the republic thananything else that could happen. The southwould regard tucn an event as a full recog-nition of its political equality, and, once re-

lieved from the badge of inferiority, it wouldforego its spctional narrowness and becomenational. If it should so happen that, in thenext Presidential ejection, an eminent anduniversally respected southern citizen shouldbe run on one side, and General Grant, withhi views ripened and liberalized by tima,experience, and study of foreign institutions,should be run on the other 6ide, the very con-test between two such candidates, no matterwhich might be elpeted, would sooths andmo If rate, and go far toward extinguishing,the sectional passions which Mr. Blaine isendeavoring to stir up."

Vetting Dowa to the Koota.A Virginia paper tells a story of a young

Bedford man who. crossing the Blue Ridsreon foot, lost Lis way and wandered untilnifcht. Afraid to sleep on the ground, hoclinbed a chestnut tree which had beenbroken off by the wind, and, seeing that thehollow top was filled with leaves, crawledinto it. The tree proved to be holiow to theroots, and the young man went plump to tbebottom, a distance of forty feet. The onlyaperture through which he could breathe wasa small hole not larger than his hand. He atonce began to e nlarge it by picking off tbewood with his fingers. Shortly before drkon the following evenin? be picked his wayout,

TWO L.ITTI.E AVAIFS.

Fatherless and Sfotherless, and Workloc their Way from Ueerzla

to IlalTalo.

New York Sun: "A bright, black-eye- d

nine iciiow.ciaa in rough but warm clothing,and looking clean and neat, entered the Temperance dining-room- s in Market street. Newark, on Friday evening, and said to Mrs.Brothington, the proprietress: 'Missus,will you give me and Liz something to eatlor a quarter? When Mrs. ISrotbington in-quired who he meant by 'Liz,' the boybrought a little girl into the room and said:'Here she be.' She was a wee thing, andher large blue eyes and gold-cokre- curlyhair attracted the attention of the customersat the tables. The boy said that she was his"ister. that she was seven vears of noi andhe was ten. His name was Robbie Hurd andshe was Lizzie Hurd. They were born inBuffalo, but their parents moved to Savan-nah, Georgia, when Lizzie was two vpnra ofage. Two years afterward, their motherdied, and their father, who was a porter in astore, had a hard time of it in caring forthem. Robbie helped him a little after hewas seven years of ase, selling papers andblacking boots. After their father died, fivemonths ago, the children were left penniless.Robbie rememberad that he had fiienda inor near Buffalo, and he resolved to make hisway to inat citj with hi? sister.

"Some good" folk." said Robbie, ' thev givenlo ?pme money an' fhey give Liz some newclothes, an' we got as far as Raleigh allright. Then we got off, an' I sold fruit andblacked boots there tor a'most nothin', wherewe stayed until a man sent us to Baltimoreon a ship. The christian women kept by usat their piece for some time, an' then we justgot on the cars an' tha eonduTtor took us toPhiladelphia, an' there we stayed sellin' pa-pers till Turd'1'. when wo started for New-ark. We begged on u'iO way, an' we wastook up some ways on the raiiroad, but wehad to walk trom Elizabeth.

"What we gom' to do now? Why, we'sa goin to New York, and I'm goin' to blackboots till I get money to go to Buffalo. I'vesaved four dollars an' thirty cents, besidesthe quarter for supper. Afraid of NewYork! No, manv- for we'll, make our way.an' we'll be all right in Buffalo."

Then the girl faid with pride that she Ladone dollar ard. forty-tw- o cents saved, andthat she would aeip "obbis. Mrs. Brothing-ban- i

gave the two wails a good 8upp:r, andtold them to keep their money. A purse oftwo dollars and fifteen cents was made up,and the littie ones started tor New York.

IMnlnx with Dnke Humphrey.The phrase of dining with Duke Hum-

phrey f. e. going dinnerless originatedthus: "In the old S1;. Paul's cathedial,London, was a hiie-- nod conspicuous monu-ment of Sir John liauohamp.buried in 1:?"8.This, by a vulgar prror, came to be calledthe tomb of .'iuraphrcy. duke of Gloucester,who was, in fact, buried at St Albans, wherehis magnificent shrine may yet be seen. Themiddle aisle of the cathedral, or Paul's walk,as it was called, was the most frequentedpublic haunt in the town, and full of hungryloafers among the rest. Their practice oflounging about the tomb, supposed to beDuke Humphrey's, at dinner time, led to theexpression.

The Washington Female Clerks.The first female clerks in the national

treasury were appointed in 1862 by SecretaryChase, who placed them in the office of thecomptroller of the currency at at hundreddollars a year. Tbey cut and trimmed theUnited States notes issued in sheets, and didtheir work very well. As soon as they badbeen appointed there were many other appli-cants, and their number steadily increased,many of them securing places through thepecufar ener-r- and perseverance which willrefuse to take no for an answer. There arenow more than one thousaQii three hundredwomen in the depr.rttaents at Washington,the majority employed in the bureau of en-

graving and printing and ia the governmentprinting-office- . They excel as counters, theirslender, sensitive fingers turning notes withgreat rapidity and exactness. They detectcounterfeits, it is said, quicker than men,though they do not succeed so well in ac-

count, as the average feminine mind haslittle natural love of figures. Counters andcopyists receive nine hundred dollars a year;cither women one thousand two hundred toone thousand four huudred dollars, severalof one thousand six hundred dollars, and onein the internal revenue one thousand eighthundred dollars. Most of the clerks are welleducated and re6ned, and many have seenmore prosperous days. A number are wid-ows and Daughters of army and naval of-

ficers who lost their lives iu the civil war.Very few of the young women or widowsmarry or resign, and consequently the hun-dreds who are constantly Reeking places nWashington have very slender prospect ofsuccess. The most untiring, obstinate place-seeke- rs

at the Federal capital are women.

I'rof. Ilnxley on Psychology.London Time: "The London institute

was opened with a discoutse from Prof. Hux-ley, V. R. S., on 'the elements of psychology.'Starting from the trite observation that manis composed of body and m'nd, theught andemotion being referable to the latter, whileto the former belong form, sensation andmotion, he said that if we follow common ex-

perience doubt may often arise as to wherethe line is rightly to be drawn between whatis mental and what is corporeal. There are,however, certain bread and ineffaceable dis-tinctions, and we soon learn, for example, todistinguish between two kinds of pleasureand pain. Nobody would describe a tooth-ache as mental distress, nor would the pleas-ure derived from eating a good dinner bespoken of as an intellectual one. Though agood concert affecls the ear and a fine pic-

ture the eye, yet all would agree that theyappeal also to the artistic sense of the mind.Language is thus found to be ambiguous,and in order to distinguish clearly betweenmenial and bodily phenomena theymust look closely to the facts,lie would suppose a man to be walking alongthe highway and to be thrown into con-sternation by having a pistol suddenlyfired. The wayfarer would say he heard aloud sound, started and felt alarm. A scien-tific physiologist, whom we may supposestone-dea- f, would give a somewhat differentaccount of the matter. He would speak oftbe air between the pistol and tbe man's earbeing thrown into a state of vibration; thiswould affect the mechanism of the ear, causingfirst a finer sort of vibration to be communi-cated from the drum of the ear to the audi-tory nerve, and at length setting up a molecu-lar motion of the muscles, making the hearerstart. The tidings passing to the brainwould account for the emotion of alarm.This physiological series of movements wasobjectiV", and could be made palpable towell-tru- i- e.l observation. But parallel andcontem :neous with these objective phe-nomena l other subjective processes,which v.e could' know iu no other way thanthrough the testimony of individuals experi-encing them. The scientific investigation ofthese subjective phenomena was the provinceof the psychologist, just as phjsiology an ;anatomy dealt with the parallel series of

facts. Of the strange obscurity thrownaround the study of psychology, or thescience of mental phenomena, by excessivespeculation and complicated hypotheses hawould try to keep clear by sticking to theeimle terminology of Hume, who pro-posed to call all phenomena of consciousness,"perceptions" or "states of m'nd." TheseHume subdivided into the original impres-sions made upon the senses and the repro-duction of such first-han- or fres'u impres-sions through the faculty of memory. Prof.Huxley would not discuss whether Hume'saccount of mental phenomena was an exactor exhaustive one. But there could be nodoubt as to what the philosopher meant bythe terms he employed, and in this respecthe had a great advantage over more modernpsychologists. It was clear that some account must now be taken of the muscularsense, in addition to the five known to theancients, and Prof. Huxley was himself pre-pared to add relational perceptions to thetwo subdivisions proposed by Hume. Per-ceptions of relations arose from the coexist-ence of seutations. For example, from thecoexistence of certain sounds arose the per-ception of harmony and the pleasure thuscaused. So there was a harmony of colorappealing to the sense of light. We couldeven speak of a harmony and melody of tbepalate, with which the culinary art had taileal. Betides the coexistence of sensations,relational perceptions comprehended theirsuccession, and their likeness or unlikene-s- .

Prof. Huxley was disposed to think that theprimary perceptions or states of conscious-ness caused by first hand sensations mightvery likely be the only ones known to beingsin the earliest stages of animated life. Buthigher up in the scale there was a power ofreproducing sensations, which might betermed ideation. How many ideas, for in-

stance, were suggested bv the word 'rosey'He himself was wont to recall the flower'sform, eobr, and even the pricking of his finger by the thorn. They would be astonishedon trying the experiment to find how manything might be suggested by the word which

1878.symbolized the rose. The cans called upthe thing, and the thing the name, by nmaple law ot association wnicn, nowever dif-ficult to explain, none the less gave a trueiiaiemeni oi me lacts. trot, uuxley thendiscused. the theory of our beliefs as to both

i r lpui anu luiure events i. ., our remem-brances and our expectations. It was de-clared to be a fundamental and principallaw ot psychology that all beliefs asto the past must rest on experience.So, too, with our belief of expectations, aswhen A hurned rhiM Jrea.fa thA Ura TT,

lecture concluded with a comprehensive sur-vey of the borderland connecting physiologyand psyciology. He rejected the CartesiannvDOtnesM wnirn inrernninrpf iiptviwn tiAobjective and stiKierfive nhpnnmnno on im.material somermng without form, shape or

reason for adopting Leibnitz's hypothesis ofconcurrence between the two upriea he.tween two clocks set by external power toKeep the same time, tie thought that, as aworking hypothesis, at least, the materialisticWftjl Ihe bewl. nlthnnorll lie ho rt maana of.firmed that it was free from serious difficulties ot its own.

Portland Press. 1

AX OPET O 31 AHE.Ctl IT AN RKDIT.

Tellus o mare, de armls moftl, tellus,Cdtilce uto roor J nltor trltu?Canl disslmulatas mane mendoT

Idero puppes!

Nooo superbo, ne ml mare, arno,Feblllttatus. vexus anattactus.Stillaa ml stare erto radtute

Ilia prehendu.

Ardulscomu? nomen dare aspersu.1111 cum s uum an beatum mite,Telum assuraa. lam nota raucus,

Nouo notablL

Itnplus carmensemen Titan nautoe,Ingens and asses allatus tu blrtus.Boas egregliu tener mora species,

Cmtls a boi!Al!r?ce mare, fere nota a mite,Ailudo mo!!! mini opes cecit,AUldo Is to trltu plaoto niont.

Cantl ml mare.'

Wages and the Cost of Living.tfciextific American: "Comparing the

present market prices of all the articles ofnecessity and luxury that go to make up tbeco:-- t of living, with tbe prices that obtainedwhea wages were higher, it will be seen thattfaes taii'l hold their own. And if menwill mnke the sanls Mraparison with regardto men's earnings and purchases twenty. Cityand a hundred years ago, they will see that

thanks to cheaper and more rapid means ofproduction and carriage through mechanicalinventions in every element of living, inhoisinf, clothing, food, luxuries cn4 therest, the woJrten ofto-da- y has infinite ad-vantage over his filter, grandfather, orgreat-grandfath- And he eS.Vrys a multi-tude oj privileges and benefits, in stable gov-ernment, personal liberty and protection,gratuitous education for his children, freemedical attendance, pure water, lightedstreets,- find other untaxed advantageswhich his ancestors never dreamed of orhoped fur. His wages are higher, andbig moiiey Will buy more, dollarfor dollar, than his father s would. We donot eay that tbe real as well as relative cottof living is not advanced by every stop forward in civilization. For ten days work anEast India Islander, according to Wallace,can manufacture or earn sage cakes enoughto last him a year; and less labor will keephim supplied with the limited clothing here,and a greater fariety of food j yet when itcomes to the absolute necS'sities of men Jiin --

imum cost of living a very small portion of aman's yearly wages will keep him alive andcomfortable. Thoreau built him a shanty inW aldon Woods and lived a year in it at atotal cost of twenty-seve- n dollars, and neverapproaced either squalor or starvation. Theexperiment is of value only in that it provesit possible for a man to get as much bareliving for a given amount of labor as a Poly-nesian can. If one wants more and veryproperly most men do want more one martwoik for it; and our civilization happilytffrrs at once more opportunity lor labor, andinfinitely tnore to be had for tbe proceeds ofsu: h labor, than have been attainable in anyother land, uuder any other social or indus-trial conditions. And we doubt whetherthere was ever a time when indstry and econ-omy using the term in its true Bense ot ju-dicious management would or could havecet with a surer or more generous rewardthan in our land

The Urandear or Ancestry.Burlington Haickeye: " Speaking

of relics, just before we reached Portsmoutha man entered into conversation with me. Hesaid:

" 'You ara from the west?" I murmured something about tbe vast

illimitable, etc , and the man said:loursisa new country; a new coun- -

tiy: a country." l es, 1 told him it was new, out it was

the only one we bad, and accordingly wewore it Sundays and week days alike, workedand went to parties in it, and it would soonlook a thousand years old.

" We. the man Baid, "come down tromthe venerable mists of antiquity, it is a glorious thought.'

" Yes, 1 said, but it wasn't pleasant. Iwas in Boston tour days and it east-winde- d

and rained three of them. It was mistyenough, but it spoiled the prospect.

" 'My ancestors, he said, ' came over intbe Mayflower. Bat yours ? And helooked at me with a rising inflection.

" I tried to slay him with a look of silentscorn, but she missed are.

" 'Your ancestors, I take it, said theman, 'did not come over ia tne Maynowerr

"And then I turned upon him. 'Sir, Iremarked, 'this Mayflower, I take it, was asailing ship?'

" 'she was. be said, vainly endeavonne tostifle his emotion, 'she was a sailing ship.'

" Then, 1 said, haughtily, "most assuredly my ancestors did not come over in theMayflower. It has never been the misfor-tune of my family to be compelled to take pas-sage on any ship of the merchant marine.My ancestors came over in a uunard bteamer,first cabin, no steerage passengers canted,only ten days from Liverpool, and the mia-ut- e

they landed in New York they wentstraight ud to Mrs. Astor's tavern, and tookfront rooms on the parlor floor.'

"1 thousht 1 had crushed that man, butmay 1 be blessed if he didn't look as thoughhe pitied me.

.o More Colonels.Louisville Ecenina Xeics: "Few of the

minor results of tbe late war cling more tenaciously to every-da- y life than the militarytitles, then and since acquired by numerousgreat and small men. Mr. Hayes, the veryprince of fraud, wears no more spurious atitle than do many men in private liteThere be trenerals witnout number who neverset a squadron in the field, while of makingcolonels there seems no end. It is safe to saythat not many more than one man in a hun-dred who y answers to the latter titleeve- - bore an actual commission conferringsuch rank. It has been ironically said thatthe privates of the armies, which fought thebattles of the north and south, were all killed,the officers alone surviving, andof them thereremains no lieutenants, few captains, andonly an occasional major, while upon theshoulders of the colonels and generals rest allthe weighted honors won upon the tented field.Soon after General Breckinridge returned toKentucky from his exile, he offered a motionin the Bourbon circuit court that no at-torney should bo addressed ia court bya military title, and such an order wamade sind entered upon the record. 11 whappy a thought it would haie b'et lnJthe press entered a similar order to the efl'ectthat no man should appear in print holding arank to which he had never been entitled,tbe crop of would-b- e heroes would have beenwondrously thinned out ere this, and spurioustitles would have grown as scarce as real onesaro to-da- The writer of this has sufferedfrom the 'colonel infliction through no taultof his. In actual war, when he would havebeen proud to wear the title, he did not gainit. row that peace has come, it is absurd toextend an empty honor, which, to a soldier,is ridiculous. The Xetcs pleads guilty to offending, together with its brothers, in thepast; it will not do so any more, save by acci-

dent. The press, if it follows the Xeies'splan no colonels need apply, unless theyshow their commissions."

Longevity or the Horse.Rondout (N. Y.) Courier: "At Rochester,

in this county, there died, recently, the oldesthorse on record tor a number of years. Hewas the property of the famous Doniel D.Bell, of legal as well as gold mine notoriety.He was known by the name cf 'Gumbo,'and in his day was a noted stallion. Manycitizens of Kingston and of Ulster countyremember tbe horse when they were boys.At the time of his death he had attained theripe age of forty-fiv- e years and six months.He retained a remarkable vitality to the lastand for three-quarte- rs of an hour before hisdemise; he stood upon his lees, proud andmajestic as in his younger days. He hadlong been the property ot Mr. Bell, who haddriven him manv thousands of miles in bislifetime, he having owned him a perioloftwenty-seve- n vears and a half, sinoa he was

I eighteen roars old. If anybody can beatthi let him speak out." tjaUi&

A TEKKIBLFi D EATII BEDSCEXE.

The Fate or a Ulrl In Newark BaoDies Caning Negro whom MheCharges with Her Bali.

New York Herald: "In a room occupiedby Mrs. Jennie Malvin, a colored laundry-woma- n,

at No. 70 Mechanic street, yesterdaymorning, about one o'clock, an intenselydramatic scene was enacted. There werethree persons iu the room at the time Mrs.Malvin, colored, a colored man named Dick-son Gardner, and a white woman". The lat-ter was on her deathbed, witLin an hour ofher final dissolution. She had been employedas a domestic in a boaruinghouse on Parkplace, one of the fashionable streets of New-ark, here Gardner, also, was employed. Heis a coal-blac- k Virginia negro, and, as is al-

leged, betrayed the white girl over a yearago. Two weeks ago she gave birth tu achild, while stopping at a friend's house onFair street. On Monday night, while still ina feeble condition, she was removed to Mrs.MalTin's, the object being to get her awaytrom prying eyes. That night it rained furi-ously, and the removal, though only a

distant, told heavily on the unfortu-nate mother, who gradually sank, until itwas manifest on Friday that death was creep-ing on her slowly but eurely. Thateveninir uhe sent for a priest,one of the clergymen attached toSt. John's, in Mulberry street. He came andgave her the iast consolation of her religion.About ten o clock toe same night, as Aunt vMalvin states, Gardner entered tbe place andsat by the sick woman's bedside. At firstshe seem- d pleased at his presence, but sooochanged her looks and tone and began totalk angrily to him. Midnight passed andshe seemeil to revive. She stared fiercely atGardner, and after a long look and a longpause finally burst out at him after tms fashion: 'lou devil: the curse ot oou on youlYou're the one that brought me to this toshame, to ruin, to degradation and to death.How do you expect to be pardoned? Howcan vou dare sit there and look me in the face.you black devil incarnate? Oh, my poormother and father in heaven, what must youthink of me?' At this point the distractedcreature sprang up in the bed, caught thestartied x.egro by the throat, and with eyessnapping and voice quiverin? with angershneied the terrible words: 'You devil! nowI've got you, and I'll drag you down withme down, down, down to the perditionyou've sent me to! May the God that's inheaven shut yuU out and let you go whereyou belong to hell! You devil! may thecurse of God forever rest upon you! Thewretched woman sank back exhausted by hergreat exertion, and Gardner fled from thehouse. Soon after she was a corpse. CountyPhysician Hewlett held a post-morte- m examination- - and found death to have resultedfrom natural causes, superinduced ty exposure and ovei-exerti- i he woman s onlylivics relative, a brother in Newark, willtake care cf the funeral. Gardner, who is amarried man, coslrt not be found yesterdayby the authorities, and hii wife and childrenare stopping with Policeman Dickerson, acolored man. A warrant has ieen issued fcrGardner's arrest."

The Small 11 or "Has Some Fan."Rochester Express: "lie was naturally

cruel, and he told an acquaintance one daythat he had a new trick to play on the pub-lic something entirely new. He had a longstring and a lrss key tied to the end of it,which he said was th instrument of torture.Over the front sidewalk maple tree Bentsome pretty strong branches, making a seathidden by leaves. Into this, af ter ibtrk, theboys cbinbed. 'Now wait,' says the prin-

cipal, 'till the first victim comes, and don'tmake a noise Pretty soon an crdina.-il- y

diessed woman came along, and just as she-ha-

passed he let drop the key on the hardsidewalk, immediately pulling it up again.Both now watched developments. The wo-man came to a sudden stop, began fumbling:in her pocket, and wondered what it was shecould have dropped. She started on, buthad not gone far before she came back, im-pelled by curiosity, and began a carefulsearch of the walk. Meanwhile, the boys inthe tree stuffed their fists in their mouths tokeep from scaring tbe game, and daredhardly look below tor fear of laughing out.A sympathetic sister came along, and to-

gether they picked up stones and turnedover all the chips on the sidewalk. No money,no key, nothing did they find; and so wenton to their homes, perhaps to worry all night,or perhaps a giggle m the tree turnedtheir look of disappointment to a very cheapsmile, and a laugh from the same place madethem have awtul wicked thoughts aboutboys. Oae victim found a piece of tin, andlaying the cause of the noise to that, wassaved from a great deal of worry. Butwhen she picked it up and threw it down totest the sound, the boys nearly fell out of thetree. A man, when caught, would slap allhis pockets, glance around a little, but itwas seldom that he was brought to a hard-pa- n

search. When any one saw the trickafter searching half an hour and saying allkinds cf little things for the amusement ofthe boys, he simply went away hurriedly.The was ua remark to make, no name to call.To get out of sight as soon as possible seemedto be most desirable. The trick is harmless;no one breaks a leg or loses an eye in its pro-cess. It might be recommended to consti-tutionally tird boys as a good way to sweepthe walk. The victims will throw all thechips and stones into the street by curiositpower, as it were."

Do Children Bead Too Much.With the Ereat development of interest in

literature, the marvelous increase of book sand periodicals, the improvements in the art tot printing and illustration and all the otherinfluences that have so greatly extended thecircle of readers and swollen the total of read-ing, one result is reached beyond the limiwhat is to be desired. TLia is that a sroomany children have come to read tco mnch.The boys, now, who have access to librariesand there are very few, except ia sparselysettled localities, who arc not within reachof one run through "story books" and talesof adventure at a most reckless aud unpro-fitable rate of speed. In a report i f theHartford library association of recent date, itis mentioned that in six mouths one buy hadtaken out, and presumably read, cne hundredand two story books, while iu the timea girl took out one hundred nni twelvenovels. This was at the rate of four a week,which, with school stuJies, must be con-sidered very rapid and doubtless viry in-

jurious woik. A large pat t of the '"series' 'books for joung folks are of the class thatencourage this rapid perusal, and, per-sonal observation of tbe way in which theyare read in our circulating libraries, we arequite convinced that most of the boys whorun throuch them derive no advantage whatever from the excursion. So long as heselects books of value, the person who readstoo little will be rauci better off at the endot the year than the one who reads too much ,and in the case of children, the volumes sup-plied them ought to be something more thanmere narratives of travel and adventure.easily and quickly skimmed over, and incapable ot leaving any vaiuaoie impression.As we have said above, we repeat it withemphasis, the present tendency with childrenis to read too much, and the literature sup-

plied them is, to a large degree, utterlyworthless.

A. Convenient Laad Measure.To nid farmers to arrive at accuracy in esti

mating the land in different fields under cultivation the following is given:

Five yards wide by W long contains oneacre.

Ten yards wide by 44 long contains oneacre.

Twenty yards wide by "J4a long contain e

one acre.Forty yards wide by 121 kng contains one

acre.Seventy jards wide by b'l'i long contains

one acre.Eighty yards wide by C'?!i long contains

one acre.Sixy feet wide by r2b leng contains one

acre.One hundred and ten feet wide by 43 long

con' ams cue acre.One and th.rty lee. wide by Mb

loaf contains cne acre.Two hundred and twenty feet wide by

181 long contains one acre.Four hundred and forty feet wid? by 99

Ion? contains one acre

Ingerttoll as a Confessor.Washington correspondence ot the PLila-dehih- ia

Time: "1 have a new joke fiomColonel Bob Ingersoil. I met iiim this loom-ing and greeted him as my fatber-confesso-

He told me that while in Chicago recently, astiff-necke- d Presbyterian called on him forthe purpose of getting into a religions dis-

cussion. Several gentlemen were presentwb-M- i the Presbyterian accostel him.

'"You are a bishop, 1 understand,' sai lthe visitor.

'"Yes, sir," answered Ingersoil." 'And can forgive tin?' asked the Presby-

terian." 'Yes. sir,' returned the infidel." 'Could vou forgive my sirs?'"'Certainly,' said Ingersoil; '111 forgive

your sics for one dol'ar, and I'll bet it willbe the nastiest job ever undertaken for theBionay.' "