Opelousas Courier

OPELOUSAS : :LOUISIANA.

CANNIBALISM has existed among allsavage nations. St. Jerome says someBritish tribes ate human flesh, and theScots from Galloway killed and eat theEnglish in the reign of Henry I. TheScythians were drinkers of human blood.Columbus found cannibals in America.The aborigines of the Caribbee Islandswere cannibals and some South Amer.ican tribes and most of the natives ofthe South Sea Islands make it an openpractice to eat human flesh.

A NEW pamphlet from the OneidaCommunity, which professes to matemen and women according to commonsense, says: " There have been born inthe community since September, 1869,fifty-five children. Of the fifty whosurvived the perils of birth all are nowliving. There has been no death in thechildren's department for eight years.The department includes seven childrenbrought in by their parents in additionto the fifty born here. The communitynumbers in all about three hundred per-sons."

THE successful lawyer, as a rule, is onewho is always prepared to darken counselwith a cloud of words, to make the worseappear the better reason, never to havean opinion on any question until he isretained, and, of course, to take eitherside of a cause without regard to ethicalconsiderations. All these combined withan avaricious desire for wealth canhardly fail to blunt the moral sense anddeaden the conscience on all questionsof social morality. The new testamentcontains the most vehement condemnas-tion of lawyers as oppressors of the peo-.ple.-[Graphic.

FRox the Graphic's Paris letterA "French butcher has no idea of Ameri-can or English beefsteak. Ask for asteak here and he cuts it from the uttersmost and most incomprehensible parts ofcarcass. Climbs up to quarter of beefon a ladder. No bone. 'Porter-house'and 'sirloin' quite unknown. Theirsteaks are good and tender, no matterwhere they come from. Separate shopfor pork; ditto for liver. Suspicion of

'horse-meat at some inferior restaurants.Coarre meat, very red, no fat. Stewed,steaked and boiled. Horse, mule anduasses' meat publicly sold at a few shopein Paris. Legal permission necessary.Labeled 'prime horse, mule and asses'meat.' A perk steak is termed a 'cutet."NATuas never does anything without

an intelligent purpose. For example,the eve, as Dr. Paley has demonstratedat gesat length, and in the most conclus-ive manner, was made to see with. So,too; man was furnished with a mustachein order that the crackling noise madeby it when it takes fire from a matchwhile he is in the act of relighting acigar stump may warn him to withdraw1bip•s from the lames. In short, thee that nature always has a pur.poeina bhatever she does is o conclusivethat tauay be unhesitatingly assumeda..t wf~ ih abie endowed woman with a

lap and withheld that gift from man,she acted in pursuance of a praiseworthy

A *'nr in Science Gomsip observesthat all prraui raimals eat a greatquantity of earth. Earth seems com-fortable to their insides and it is certainthat they enjoy it. He used to ride ahorse; be ays, which, being regularlyfed on bay and corn and not turned outto gram, pined for a little dirt. "Find-log out this I sometimes let him go to ahedge-bank, slackened the rein andwatched him scoop out with his tongueearth enough to fill a pint pot. This, I

t I I the reason why a horse so oftenstis up the mud ins pond•ith his hoof.:blre drinking. Many horses wll pawthe water even when pasining a clearstream, giving their riders the fear that?they want to lie down in it."

A• MAes story of the sea b told by.9 , ia a just arrived at New York.HItvessel, the Allahabad, took ire when• weeks out bound for New York.

!autened down the hatches, soakedthe deks, and iade for the nearest port.

g e4 e f Oruef e A nally etinguisheds Is,,but the whole cargo had to be

Jdel outh , Whil, waiting there tobI) he received the captain of the

:esibd hew EnaHBah ship Glen Ericht,who had abandoned his vessel at sea on

-Sla After the Aliahabad set sal ageainnad was well on her voyage, she came

'wp with the G•1 Erld still alost withaB-er coas .i burning. She wasab andned in December and found in'April AU that tinm she had been44*Istgn i 'b he waste of the oea..

?ed psA. drifting yet. The wood.ese~ut l dsre bul the Iron hbull was

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ment who are rightly described as sav-ages. They have lived for about twenty-five years on their own farm of fortyacres, worth about $500 a year, in a de-plorably miserable tumble-down hovel,consisting of a single room, in which thewhole family of eleven persons eat,drinkand ;sleep. No decent-looking personcan appreach the place without beinp'assailed by volleys of filthy abuse, oftenaccompanied by mud, sticks and stones,and they hold no communication withthe rest of the parish. They pilfer androb in all directions, and are the terrorof the neighborhood. There have beenno fewer than fifty convictions recordedagainst them,but when they return fromjail they recommence operations. Allattempts to induce them to sell out havefailed.

AN incident of the camp-meeting atLake Bluff is reported in the ChicagoTribune. "While singing, Mr. Spencerthrew his arms around another brother,who cordially embraced him, and thislefreshing season of affection started aMiss Barr, of Emanuel tent, who brokeinto a series of hysterical cries. Hershrill screams penetrated every nookand cranny of the camp-greund, Hershrieks were pitiful, and her assevera-tions that the 'Lord has come' could beheard a mile. Several of the ladies triedto calm her, but the greater their effortsthe wilder manifestations, until hervoice arose to a prolonged squeal,and herappearance was frenzied. Some of themen were dumfounded, and all of thewomen were frightened. One of theladies explained to the Tribune reporterthat she had some doubt of the sincerityof Sister Barr, as Miss Barr had in themorning announced her intention ofstartling the multitude."

HEAT, says the Lancet, oppresses thespirits, lowers the tone of vitality, andpervades the whole body with a feelineof lassitude and incapacity. This con-dition points to a necessity for a reducetion of exertion and excitement whenthq physical world is overheated. In-stead, however, of complying with theplain teaching of nature, and lesseningactivity, people resort to various devicesto lessen the sensation of heat. Perspi-ration is a moisture which nature spreadsover the surface of the human body formuch the same purpose as an intelligenthousewife sprinkles water over her but-ter cooler. But perspiration is checkedby sitting in draughts, by wearing verylittle clothing, and by adopting lightcolora for dress. The remedy is takenfor the disease, and through impedingthe processes of nature, summer coldsand other allied evils are contracted." The conditions of health require that.within very narrow limits the tempera-ture of the human body should be thesame, whether the thermometer standsat 900 in the shade or sinks to a few de-grees below zero."

MECHIANICAL AND SCIENTIFIC.

v The sensitiveness of the microphoneise is said to have been brought into con-trol by Mr. A. Hadden. By Attachinga thin piece of elastic to the middle ofthe pointed graphite he makes the mi-crophone receive sounds of any givenintensity.

The Lancet warns parents and othersagainst boxing children's ears. A blowon the ear has not only ruptured thedrum, but caused inflamation of the in-ternal cavity of the ear, which, years af-ter, terminated in abcess of the brain.

According to recent observations byProlf. Cohn and Magnus, of Breslau,color blindness is much less commonamong girls in Germany than amongboys. Of 2,318 young girls examined,there was only one who had this defect,while of the boys 2.7 per centum wereaffected. In France M. Favre considersthat 3,000,000 persons are affected, ofwhom nine-tenths are males.

Rev. 8. J. Whitmore, in a paper on theethnology of the Islands of the Pacific,regards the Melanesians as the originalpeople. This black race had, he says,afMliations, more or leas remote, with theblacks found in the southern hemisaphere, and they formerly extended fur.ther across the Pacific than they do nowThe brown Malayo-Polynesian race, hefinds, had doubtless entered Polynesiafrom the west. A third people, differingfrom the others, are the Micronesians,who proceeded from the Phillipines orsomeother part of the Indian Archipela-go, and became mixed with Melanesianand Malayo-Polynesian.blood.

A Connecticut inventor has devised asafety lamp for railroad cars. A kero-sene-lamp ais placed outside the car atone end, throwing it9 light by a reflector .Into a tube a foot and a half in diameter,which runs alongside of the ventilatingdeck. At intervals the tube is "tapped ifor light, a pystem of reflectors distribut.-uIng the light through the interior of the

dar. An attachment is provided whichextinguishes the light the instant the dlamp is offits balance, so that in the aevent of an accident no fear of fire need cbe apprehended. The tube conducts the clight so admirably that ine print can beread at a distance of forty feet from thelamp.

Pr aies of the Sea.It is curious that this Idea of rest and

surcease from care is ever associatedwith beyond the seas. The road to theLaud of Nod line away over the mount-ing wave, and, though the bourne cannever be reaeh d, the end is none theless attained. Than the ocean voyagelthee is easelyo better restorative ofSbes bbel he menital br physical. Itis tleM teaas to relaxed energies and a

aothimngbalsa to irritated nrve. Atoe, m sn whes else*It1h possible to castof S•,r samsma the load of worldly care, In this nineteenth century, it soheary. olb IT passenger on

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THE CANNIBAL LOVES.

A SWINBUNIAN LYRIC.

lcaughtibut a glimpse of her face,As, wooed by the breezes of dawn,

A picture of beauty and grace,She stood on the emerald lawn.Tho' 1 caught but a glimpse of her face,The vision remains with me still,

And always most nrobably will,Tho' I caught but a glimpse of her face.

Then pamlon my soul overcame;Volcanic with love I arose,

I stised her with ardor alame,And bit off the end of her nose.

My passion my soul overcame,In spite of her blushes and fears,I ardently chewed of her ears,For my passion my soul overcame.

like lava my blood boiled within-She uttered a tremulous shriek-

I seized with my teeth her soft skin,And fed on her fair damask cheek.

Like lava my blood boiled withinUnheeding her tears and her sighs,I eagerly swallowed her eyes, '

For like lava my blood boiled within.

My heart wildly throbbed with delight-l'he rapture that thrills and exalts-

Her chin I removed at one bite,And pulled off her hair- which was false.

My heart wildly throbbed with delight,I laughed at her foolish alarms,And broke off her legs and her arms,As my heart wildly throbbed with delight.

My cannibal instincts arose,Her aspect my fury incites,

With joy that no Grahamite knows,Like the IGhoul in Arabian nights.

My cannibal instincts arose:I panted with fiercset delight,And gobbled her up in great bites,

As my cannibal instincts arose.

To memory often recurrlng,Comes back the deep bliss of that bour,

Within me I find something stirringWhich soothes me with marvelous power:

To memory often recurringReturneth that maiden so cherished,That dear one untimely who pe. ished,To my memory often recurring.

her WHO KNOWS?the The birds made such a racket in thethe honeysuckle vine outside my windowthe that I couldn't sleep. The moon wasrter still in the sky, but a veiled vet lumin-rity ous splendor in the east told that the

day was breaking-the day of June thatthe began my twenty-seventh year. Whenof I say that I was a woman, and add that

I was unmarried, and, worst of all, thatI had lost for good the requisite energythat held forth any promise in that di-the rection, it will naturally be thought thatand I shall make but a sorry heroine; and it

ing is just because of these discouraging factson- that I want to jot down this little expe.rience of a day, as a sort of consolationno' to that suffering part of my sex who

ien have latent hopes, long lingering, unfill.In- ed, at times at the last gap, then flicker-the ing up again with a sicaly tenacity most

painful to contemplate. But who knowsing what a day may bring forth? Whoces knows ?ipi- I went about on tiptoe, not to awaken

ids mamma; and I took it as a piece of in-for gratitude that when she came down tobfreakfast, and began to enjoy the toastant I had so nicely browned for her, and to

it- sniff the fragrance of a hunch of honey.ed suckles that I had scrambled for at the

risk of a sprained ankle and the cost of ary shower of morning dew upon my clean:ht calico--I thought it mean of mamma to

en begin about that church festival beforeng the day had fairly begun.

ds "I'm so glad its fine weather, Jane,"said mamma, with great urbanity ofd. tone and manner. " I thought I'd getat, up early, so that you could reach thera- church in good seasol and I wouldn't

he waste any flowers in the house, dear-

de I'd keep them all for your table."ds You know very well, mamma," I re-le- plied, "that I am not going to have atable. I've served my apprenticeship attables. Long ago, when I was youngand fair, I were white, with my haircurling about my shoulders, and had theflower table, and enjoyed it. Later on,is I put my hair up, and had a fancyn- table, and endured it with great resigna.

i tion. Last year I had recourse to aof switch to eke out my scanty locks, andwas compelled reluctantly to take theSpostoffice. This year I shan't have any-thing; in fact, mamma, I am not goingre to the festival."w Mamma put down her bit of toast I

ie and turned pale."- " Not going to the festival I" she said,f- mournfully.

" No, mamma," I said, beginning al-y ready to plead my case. "Can't I haveone birthday to myself ? I am twenty-n seve years old to-day."": Oh, hush, Jane," said my poor oldmother. " You scream so, the Huntersnext door will hear you, and blurt it alle over the place. I am not deaf. If you '8 choose to give up all chance of--of so.

f ciety, and neglect your duties, andrecourse, I have nothing to say, only I omust in that case go myself." a

"You !"I cried. "You'll be sick for ha month afterward; you haven't been iiable to do anything of that kind for cyears." t1

"I know it, Jane; but if you refuse to pdo these things, I must. I know I shall nbe prostrated with the heat, and my annerves will be shattered, and you are pyoung and strong, and still attractive wenough to compete with any young lady diin the place, and might, I verily believe, biif you were not so obstinate and head- tlstrong, be surrounded and admired as ofyou used to be, and you might, for my wsake, Jane, at least attend those enter- ittainments." t

Mamma put her handkerchief to hereyes, and I yielded; I groaned in flesh mand in spirit, but I yielded. After I tbhad tidied up the work, and settled ncmamma in the cool shady sitting-room, ofupon her favorite lounge, with a nice wibook in her hand, and a palm-leaf close fliby-for" the day was growing hot-I lotwisted up my hair before the glass, with demany a sour mocking grimace at the asdark, thin, discontented face therein, goput on an ugly brown linen dress, a tocalabash of a hit, and went off to the aschurch. hi

My mother looked after me with such flimisery in her face that I called back to wiher that I would wear something nicein ththe evening? ta

"Will you wear your rose-colored cocrape?" pleaded mamma . th

" Will I wear spangles, and jump patbrough a boop?" I said. "No,mamma; tI'll wear my black silk." tri

"Andl curl your hair ?" she caaxed. m'"There's a whole switch already curled ma

for me up in my bureau drawer," I re- eraplied. "It's nice this hot weather to deshave very littttle hair of one's own. e

"Don't seream so!" said poor mother, so'looking toward the Hunters' side win- amdows. a

As if the Hpmters didn't know all forabout my failing charms, and no doubt agetook an inventory ofthem half yearly fo yoasend abroad to the eldest son, who hadbeen away in Chiua these five years and coumore, and would likely never come back tha

g . At least he had written tome to otat ect wlte•Ji.went away. I had seltheold letter ~et in a secret recess of artithat old bl wherelay the con- ten

Te .. was "wbhen I needed no eurla wasO~a45um.on9aidapa acros the seas or fly

ameneI.Iwen. home material. I• $mP ,e~ p o~ra. Jaek Hunter beeea b fdthem Ed with his penknife

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but I'll keep this to remember the girlwho flirted and fooled away the truestaffection a man ever had for a woman."

He cut the curl from my head withhis venknife, and looked at me as if hewas half tempted to do me furtherbutchery; and God knows I didn't carethen if he had drawn the knife acrossmy throat; I should not have zesistedhim.

'! Don't go, Jack! I" I cried out at last,holding the edge of his coat. " Don'tgo, anyway so far as China; if you do, Ishall commence to dig a hole when youget there. They say that China is rightunder us, and I'll begin with a little pickand shovel as soon as we get news of yourarrival. Then you can begin on yourside and we'll meet each other half way."

He flung me from him with somethinelike an oath. "You would joke andlaugh over my grave," he said, and wentaway, not to come back again.

Who would have believed it possible?That the years would come and ago, thesweet summers' bloom and fade, theheart of the roses lose strength and failand fall away, to come almn as strong,as fresh as ever, and Jack, my Jack,never come back to me ? Yet he was notdead-nor wed. That was one goodthing. And he was out there amongthese women with narrow eyes andstinted feet, and he didn't as yet know aword of the language. He was growingfat, he wrote home to his people nextdoor, and bald, which didn't matter onthe top of his head so long as he couldkeep enough to cultivate a pig-tail.This was necessary, as he meant to setup for a Chinese mandarin, and wasalready embroidering a gown for thepurpose on spare nights. And I felt,when they read me the letter, that itwas Jack a turn now to make merry,when other hearts were sick and sad.

If he had only sent me one little line I!He showered gifts upon other people-chests of tea and parcels of silk, lovelybits of decorated china, big soft beautifulshawls of crape. He sent gewgaws andgold to so many others; if he had onlygiven one little word I

They must have told him I had beensorely punished; that my mischievousgayety had whiffed out like the flameof a candle ; that even the beauty ofwhich he had been so proud and fondwas gone-every bit of it gone. Sleep-less nights and useless repinings, long,wearisome days, endless years filled with 4wild yearnings for that which seemedforever hopeless, had robbed me of all.The old bloom of the heart took with itthe crimson cheek, the laughing eye, andthe light, elastic step. Even my hairfell out. Alas ! poor me, the flesh fell ]from my bones. As I hinted before, itwas not a very alluring object thatgreeted me in the glass on the morning lof my twenty-seventh birthday. "Aroint Ithee, witch !" I cried, and wiped awaywith the hand-towel some salt tears that afell upon the dimity bureau cover, and Iupon the grave of sad, sweet memeries. cThen I put on my ugly brown dress,and athe hideous bonnet to match, and went toff to the church, pausing at the portal tto look longingly at the cool, quiet Igraves of our old neighbors. A soft dwind stirred the long grass there; a few abirds hopped lightly and fearlesslyabout. tl

;et "How calmly. calmly smile the dead

he Who do not therefore grieve I"

" The Yea of heaven is Yea," I said,and went on into the church where thee. ladies were grouped around the straw-a berries that had just arrived. I tookat possession of a whole crate of these,

s• sending the young and pretty maidensif home to recruit for the evening.[e There were a few faint, polite remon-n strances when I declined to take any

active part in the evening's entertain-s ment. "We must leave that part to

a the young and attractive,"I said, andid there was a general buzz of acqu-iesence.

e I had the consolation of hearing several. remarks upon my extraordinary goodsense and practical capability.

I was graciously allowed, after I hadit hulled a whole crate of strawberries, tohold a step-ladder and some nails forMrs Smith, the apothecary's wife, whileshe hung some gorgeous drapery, and.otherwise deformed the cool gray walls*of our chapel, so that I was pretty welltired when I went home at nightfall.Mamma met me at the gate, and lookedd st me so dolefully that I burst out*,ij, !hing,

"Never mind, mamma," said I, "Iwon't look so cadavorous after I'm restedand dressed for the evening."

But ITm afraid I was rather a painfulI object for the gaze of a doting and onceambitious mother when I had donned myr black silk, and was ready for the even-

s ing. My hair was neither crimped norr curled. You see, I had depended upon

the switch, which was bought for pur-poses of that kind, and it failed me igno-I miniously at the last moment. My headached, and I could not bear many hair-pins thrust into my scalp; in no otherway would the obstinate thing be in-duced to stay on. Mamma was heart-broken, and I was perver-- at times. Ithought perhaps tite switch was grievingover a beloved and lost head of which itwas once part and parcel, and I forgaveit, and left it to its perverseness tromthat time onward.

When I reached the church I was im-mediately seized upon for somethingthey called the grocery counter-an in-novation brought about by the adventof a well-to-do grocer in our midst, awidower, a stock raisert and man af-flicted with many maladies, of which heloved to talk. He had generously sentdown from the city, in Found packagesand tin cans, samples of his availablegoods, and proposed this grocery cornerto the young ladies, which they despisedand would have none of. The grocerhimself found favor in their sight. Theyflitted about him, filled his button holeswith bouquets, his pockets with bonbons;they looked up in his face and tried totalk to him, poor children I as best they ccould. But they appealed te me to take ,the ugly counter, with its sordid pound r'packages for home necessity, and I took wit with an ill concealed avidity. Thetruth was, a kind of heart sickness seized tme when I thought that the eveningmust be passed in making myself gen- berally agreeable, and I felt that to wan-der about this place, distorted out of its csweet savor of godliness and quiet rest ,so dear to a weary soul-to wander about aamong the flags and wreaths and tentsand arbors, with a smile for one, a nod afor another-was like the protracted and 0agonizing pilgrimage of a lost so!ul be- ayond the borders of the Styx.

So I speedily put myself behind the ticounter, which comfortably hid more tithan half my tallgaunt figure, and was v,so glad of the shelter that I found my- toself,becoming interested in these despised searticles piled up before me. I de-termined, if I could, to make my missiona succs, so that I and other poor w

womery s might have this refuge to befly to In these gala seasons of misery. wiTh e-succeult. romer, who had not hebeen very well peed with the open in- Flrtitude for his bequest, took heart and ar

ebrightned up when he saw me giving -alair of smartnes to his goods. Be "1

extricated himself from a bevy ef young th

irl and fair ones, and came graciously overeat to help me. In sheer gratitude I began1." to praise his young colt that was pastur-ith ing in a field adjoining our garden, and

he he remained with me. Shortly after,ter when he found that a queer feeling inire his head agreed with the same discomfortsee in my poor craniun, he brought a chair

ed behind the counter, and in a low tender

voice he detailed to me the interestingst, diagnosis of his pet malady.

't On the other side of me the minister'sI son, who was home from college, andiu suffering from that period of egotismit which comes to young men of his kind,

ek remained during the entire evening, tour show his contempt for the young, theur fair, the frivolous. A few old married

." friends, whose wives were sick or away,ir hovered about the grocery counter, soaa that it really did happen that I was sur-

at rounded by men. The evening was pass.ing pleasantly enough. My dark corners? was well patronized, and every womanle who has to do with church entertain-ie ments will understand my gratification

il when I found it was ten o'clock and allwas well. At this time a letter was rutk, intomy hand by one of the post-office>t messengers-we always made a feature

d of the postoflice at our festivals, wherepink and parti colored missives, withdoves and other doting designs upon the

a envelopes, were distributed at extravaIg Rant rates of postage. I had just been;t favored with a liberal offer from a cus,n tomer, and, elated with my bargain,

d proceeded to put up my bundles, not1. giving much heed to the love letter from

it the neighboring booth. Truth to say,as I felt a little tingling of the blood at the

e idea of the mockery that might be con-c, cealed therein by one of those witty vil-t lage youths, and the letter lay there for

a full half hour, when somebody said, inthe most commonplace way.

I "So Jack Hunter is back from China."In a moment everything was black be-g fore me. I dropped my hands and my

I eyes to the counter, and when this sud-I den dizziness was gene, I saw upon ther little tawdry envelope Jack's scrawling

hand writing. Here was the little line I1 had coveted all these years, and this iss what my half-blinded eyes made out:

a "I came home because I was mad tof see you-because all these years, andI your old perfidy couldn't kill my love

for you. I find you just as I expectedto, in a space small enough to be filledoutside and inside with-men. You areI as beautiful and fascinating as ever, andas fond of admiration. I hear that youare about to be married to the grocer atyour elbow, who so engrosses your atten.tion that you do not care to look at thepassers by. God help him and God blessyou I have had my lesson. Now Ishall, perhaps, be satisfied. Good-by."Five minutes after that I was runninghome, without my hat, and with his notecrumpled up in my hand. The peopleat the festival no doubt thought thatmamma was suddenly taken ill. Theycould not have fancied I was runningafter Jack, because he had been there atthe church for an hour, and I had beentotally unconscious .f his presence.Dear heaven I how could it be that Ididn't know, that something didn't tellme. that I didn't feel he was near me?

But I did not. I went on talking tothe grocer about a remarkable operation sfor an ulcer that he had undergone, cwhen Jack must have been only a few vrods away ! I ran down the road, my Theart in my throat. Fortunately thevillage street was deserted. Every man, Rwoman and child were at the festival,except those who could not be outat all; Aso I ran on unchecked, a dim fear gain- iting weight with me that Jack had not isunpacked his trunk, and was offto China e(again within an hour. But when I 01reached his house, which was next coor ist~ my own, I saw him sitting out on the Fbalcony smoking a cigar, with his feet 0(perched upon the railing. But his face aIgrew very pale in the moonlight, and his thfeet clattered spee ily down upon the thporch when he saw me run in the gate. atThe cigar fell from his lips, the ashes mtumbling over his broad white waistcoat. N

"Why, thank God," he said, "this 11must be my own dear little girl. Now, Esee here, Jenny," be began, scolding, a 3,'minute after; but he kept tight hold of Ume, and trembled as much with happi- (1nee as I did.

Nothing can persusade him that I amnot a desperate flirt, as beautiful as anangel, and irresistingly fascinating. Ihave not the least doubt that half thevillage are laughing at Jack's ridicylousdevotion and jealousy: but the well.meant endeavors of his friends andfamily to convince him that I am a plain,faded, unattractive, and neglected old-maid he laughs to scorn as a conspiracyof envy or jealousy. And how can Iwonder at his delusion ? Mamma saysJack has terribly aged during theseyears of loneliness and exile, and looksolder and not so comely as our neighborthe grocer; but to me he is still thehandsome, alluring, in every way adora-ble Jack. He is walking up and downthe little balcony next door at thispresent moment, and hidden by ourodorous honeysuckle vine. I am listeningto him trill out the last words of hisfavorite ballad :

"So girls be true while your lover's away,For a cloudy morning, for a cloudy m-o-orning

Oft proves a pleasant day."--[lHarper's Weekly.

Not the Goose for Her Set.I was riding with Charles Dickens one

day when he suddenly woke the echoeswith one of his bursts of laughter. 'Onmy asking, with the smile of anticias-tion, what the joke was, he took from hispocket a letter just received from HarrietMartineau, who was staying at Tyne-mouth for her health, and who had notedthe following incident of life in lodgings.

In the same house as the authoresswere sojourning a good natured woman,comfortable in person and in circum-stances, and not a little vulgar, and, onthe floor above, a lady of delicate healthof straitened income,but of distinguishedconnections, as she proclaimed to theTynemouth world. As Mrs. A. belowwas sitting down one day all alone to hermidday dinner of roast goose, it seemedto the good soul that even her enjoymentof so excellent a bird would be increasedby participation with the solitary, sickly,and ill-fed Mrs. B. above; she thereforecut some delicate slices from the breastand sent them up between two hot plate ,accompanied by sage and onions andgravy and her compliments, by the handsof Betty, thenmaid. There was an omin.ous, an awful pause of some duration,and then Betty came down again, paler,with the luncheon untouched betweenthe two hot plates, and on the top ofthem a note, which was to this effect,verbatim: '"Mrs. B. will thank Mrs. A.to disseminate her goose in her ownsphere."--[L•ndon World.

Tan lamented X. left a charmingwidow and a daughter who grew up tobe even more charming. She grew upwith tearful rapidity, too, eapecially fromher mother's point of view. " Why,Florence, what a big girl youare getting to bel How old are you"'eaid, one day, an old friend of the family."Fifteen and a halt almost," repliedthe girl; "but don't let ma know."

Per The Earth's Population.an The fifth publication of Behm & Wag-

ad ner's well-known "Bevolkerung derErdo" is just out, asfew days too soon to

in contain the new arrangement in thert east. Since the last publication oftir these statistics the population of the

er earth shows a total increase of 15,000,-g 000, partly arising from natural growth

and partly the outcome of new andrs more exact censuses The total popu-id lation is now setdown at 1,4391145,300,

m divided among the continents as rollows :d, Europe, 312 398,480; Asia, 831.000,000;to Africa, 205.219,500; Australia andie Polynesia, 4,111,300; America, 86,116,-

000. The following table gives the latestresults for the chief countries in the

' world:EUROPE.

Germany, 1875 ..... ........ ... 42,727.360Austria-Hungary, 1876 ......... 37,350,000Br Liechtenstein, 1876 .... ........... 8,664Ln Switzerland, 1876....... ........ 2,759,8541- Netherlands, 1876 .................. 3,865,456

in Luxemburg, 1875................... 205,15811 European Russia, 1872.............. 72,392,770it Finland, 1875 .............. 1,912,647

Sweden, 1876....... .................. 4,429,713Norway, 1875........ ............... 1,8(7,555e Denmark, 1876..................... 1,903,00:)'e Belgium, 1876......... ............... 5,353,185

h France, 1876...................... ...... 36,905,788e Great Britain, 1878..... ..... 34,242,966

Faroes, 1876 .. ... .............. 10,600Iceland, 1876........................ 71,.300Spain, (without Canaries), 1871... 16 526 511Andorra................................... 120001, Gibraltar, 1873 ........ ......... 2i 143

t Portugal (with Azores), 1875........ 319,274n Italy, 1876 ..... ............... ..... 27,760,475European Turkey (beforedivis'n). 9,573,(00

e Roumania, 1873 .......................... 5,073,000Servia, 1876........ ............... 1.366,823Montenegro......................... 185,0,)0Greece, 187............ .............. 1,457,894

r Malta, 1873........................ 145,604a ASIA.

Siberia, 1873...................... 3,440,362Russian Central Asia..... ......... 4,505,876Turcoman Region .................. 175,000y Khiva ...... ..................... 700,000

Bekhara ............................. 2,030,000Karategin............................ .... 100,(00Caucasia, 1876 ..... ............. 5,391,744Asiatic Turkey ................. 17,880,000Samoa, 1877 ... .. ................. 35,878

e Arabia (independent) .......... ... 3,700,C00Aden, 1872......................... 22,707Persia.................................... 6,000,000l Afghanistan...................... 4,000,000Kafiristan.......................... 3C0,000Beloochistan ............................ 350,000China proper.............................405,000,000Chinese border lands, including1 Eastern Turkistan & Djungaria 29,580,000i Hong Kong, 1876 ............. 139,144Macon, 1871........................ 71,834Japan, 1874..................... 33,623,373British India within British Bur.

mab, 1872.......................... 188,121,264Native FStates ............ 48,110,200Himalaya States................ 3,300,000French settlements, 1875.......... 271,460Portuguese settlements, 18i5..... 444,617Ceylon, 1875....... .......... 2,459,542Laccadives and Maldives........ 156,800British Burmah, 1871................. 2,747,148Manipur........................... 126,000Burmah............... ................... 4,000,0 0Siam.......................................... 5,750,000 4Annam ...................... ... 21,000,000 1French Cochin China, 1875........ 1,600,000Cambodia..... 800,000Malacca (independent)..... 209,000Straits Settlements............... 308,097East Indian Islands................... 34,051.900

AUSTRALIA, ETC.New South Wales, 1876.......... 630.843Victoria, 1876..................... 841,938South Australia, 1876.................. 229,630 1Queensland, 1876................. 137,100 aWest Australia, 1876 ................ 27,321 aTesmania, 1876...................... 105,484 jNew Zealand and Chatham, 1876. 444,545Rest of Polynesia.................... 1,896,000

We have no space for details as to dAfrica. In 1877 Algeria had 2,867,626 8inhabitants. The population of Egyptis now estimated at 17,000,000, and theequatorial regions of Africa at 44,000,- tl000. Caffreland north of the Transvaal elis estimated at a million; Orange River AFree state, 65,000; the Transvaal, 275,.-000; Natal (in 1875), 326,959 inhabitants tiand Cape Colony, 1,148,462. In America C(the figures are but little changed from cthose of the previous issue of these clstatistics. Greenland (1876) is esti- ti`mated to have a population of 10,000; T

Nicaragua (1877), 300,000; Brazil (1872), he11,108,291; Guiana (1875), 342,300- 01Ecuador (1875), 1,066,000; Peru (1876),3.006,000; Chili (1875), 2,333,568; tUrueuay (1876), 445,000; Paraguay w(1876), 293,844. iI

The Philosophy of Strikes.Where are you going with the puppies

my little man ?" asked a gentleman of asmall boy yesterday whom he met witlthree pups in a basket.

"Goin to drown them," was thereply

I want a pup for my little boy to playwith; what do you say to letting metake one of them ? '

"I'll sell you one," spoke up the boy,with true American enterprise.'I'll sell you this yaller one for half a

dollar, the black one for 75 cents, andthe spotted one is worth a dollar.

"I think my boy would like the spot-ted one the best, but you ask too muchfor it. You had intended drowning allof them, but I'll give you 25 cents andsave you the trouble of drowning thespotted one."

"Twenty-five cents for that spottedpup!" exclaimed the boy; "I can'tstand it; taxes is high; rent is high;groceries is high; oil is down and goinglower-oh, no; I can't take less than adollar."

"But you intend to drown-""Take the black one at 75 cents.""My little boy wouldn't like the black

one.""Take the yaller one at half a dollar,

and he's dog cheap.""I don't like his color.""Well, then you'd better tell your lit-tle boy to play with your toes," and he

continued on his way to the river, re-marking that "no party can dead-beathis way on me these hard times."-[OilCity Dernick.

The Spirit World.The very grave is a passage into th.beautiful and the glorious. We haylaid our friends in the grave, but the'are around us. The little children whsat upon our knee, into whose eyes welook with love, whose little hands haveclasped our neck, on whose cheek wehave imprinted the kiss--we can almostfeel the throbbing of their hearts to-day

They have Daessd from us-but whereare they? Just beyond the line of theinvisible. And the fathers and motherswho educated us, who directed and com-rnforted us, where are they but just beyondthe line of the invisible? The assoclatesof our lives, that walkedalong life's pathway, those with whom we took sweetcounsel, and who dropped from our side,where arethey but just beyond us?-not faraway-it may be very near us, inthe heaven of light and love. Is thereanything to alarm us in the thought ofthe invisible? No. Itseemsto me thatsometimes when our heads are on thepillow, there comelwhispers of joy !romthe spirit land, which have cropped intoour hearts thoughts of the sublime andbeautiful and glorious, as if some angel'swing passed over our brow, and somedear one sat by ourpillow and communedwith our hearts to raise our affectionstowards the other and better world.-[Bishop Simpson.

FACtS AND FANCIES.g- THE Breakfast Table thinks trade isto looking up, because it is flt on its bile A fair Nebraska maiden spent twoof hours, circus, trying to get a bushel of

1e feet into a peck of sho(s.

IN the way of worship in hot weatherh a man thinks he is doin wellenoughr,d when he allows his wife to go to church

A CHICAGO critic, on being shown oD, landscape, said: "Yes, it smels like aIpaintg." The artist dropped the cur.

d LADY (giving an apple to a little boy):SGive this apple to one of us three heree whom you think the handsomest." Tb oy looked for a mom-ent t all rladies, took the apple and-ate it. thee;0 KANKAKEE, Ill., has a justice wo)0 beats them all in matrimonial ..lic.o4 with neatness and dispatch. Tslcing14 about the formula: "Have 'er?" "yhi6 "Have'im?" "Yes." "Married. 2."S CIssY--:Pa's going to bring us ho,,7 something to night; I wonder ght it

3 will be ?" Tommy• y.., buhat suppit5 he doesn't see anything?'" s,--"OpeI then he will bring something else,of

6 "What are you about?" angrily ex.o claimed a country editor the other die0 to his wife, who was touchin p her(omplexion before the mirror. n lyh3 getting up my 'patent outside,' dear"

4 was the reply. . . ear,5 "THANK heaven," said a tormente0 passenger "there are no newsboys in

0 heaven." "No," replied the newsboS"but what comfort do you find in that?'4 The man didn't say, and everybody else4 looked pleased.

A MAN ought to be too selfrespeetful2 to do a mean thing. Religion aside,S honor that is high. toned, and upright"D that can't be made to budge by threatD or bribe are qualities of character which3 make their possessor enviable.

A YOUNG man applied for the postionof humorous paraerapheron anew Paperand, when asked what qualification hepossessed for the duties, he replied thathe was born on all-fools' day, and sfereda great deal with the toothache. Hegot it.

The practice of filling up the holes ofmill stones with a mixture of lead andglycerine has resulted in producing s.rious cases of lead-poisining ino splaces in France, Norway and England.The French have prohibited the use oflead in that way.

Prof. Leviteux, a Pple of Warsaw, hasjust discovered a method of taking en-tire clay casts of the living body withtthe slightest injury. Hitherto suchcould only be had of corpses, and hencethe new discovery promises to be ex-tremely advantageous to sculptors.

A YOUNG man writes us asking if becan get a position as leader of a fluteband in our town. When our town be.comes afflicted with such a band weashallendeavor to secure our correspondentthe position to lead it-to lead it aboutforty-seven thousand milesoutoftowa.-[Norristown Herald.

Dr. John P. Gray, in the AmericanJournal of Insanity,disputes the pope,lar opinion that suicide is always an insane act. He admits that it is alwaysan unnatural act, but in the large ma.jority of cases he thinks that it is com-mitted by sane persons. A deficiencyof moral education, rather than mentalderangement, is the occasion of mostsuicides.

SOME of the "poor white" familiesefthe far west become exceedingly tobened by their exposures and hardshabp.A lady travelingamong them tookshelterin a hut during a rain storm, andoneofthe barefooted daughters of the familycoming in, who had been hunting for thecows, stood on the hearth to dry herclothes, to whom the mother said: "Sal,there's a live coal under your foot!"The girl, whose soles were as hard ashorn, merely turned her head and drawledout, "Which foot, mammy ?"

At Autun, France, recently, the sub-station master of the Creuzet Stationwas picked up in convulsions and foraming at the mouth. He exclaimed, "Bindme tight; a mad doz has bitton me sadI am mad myself." He was tied as de-sired and taken to the hospital whereseveral surgeons, military and civil,watched the case. They found a scar onone hand froml a dog bite. The scar wasthree months old. They came to theconclusion that he had not hydrophobis,but that his mind had been affected byaccounts recently published.

DowN in San Bernardino the heathenhas been indulging in his ways.thataredark. He keeps a store there. On arecent day he went about town, buyingup all the rice he could, and some of thegrocerymen thought they had struck apretty good thing in selling out theirstock at a profit. When they attemptedto replace it, howevw-r, they found thatowing to the drought in Chins. rice badadvanced $2.50 per sack, and John bada corner in rice. They were compelledto pay an advance on what they had soldfor. The grocers of San Bernardino renow willing to admit that "the Chineasmust go."--San Francisco Paper.

Women's Taste and Smel.iThe marked superiority ofwomen ovbW

men is on few points more remasrkblethan in their superior powers of smellingand tasting. A woman will detect thefaintest odor of tobacco when a mas,even though a non smoker, often fails tediscover any symptom of it. As withsmell, so with taste. Women are matvelously acute and :astidious in the mat'ter of sauces and all flavoringinlredientaThis faculty has been recognized in amost pleasing manner by the compos•'tion of the jury who are to decide inParis on the merits of the mustards ofvarious nations. The mustard congareis to consist of twelve gentlemen and saequal number of ladies. This arrange'ment, it is stated, is owing to a sugne'tion that the palates of the men are VTi-ated by smoking; whereas women, whodo not asa rule indulge in that permi'cious habit, are likely to be better quall-fied to form a correct opinion on themerits of condiments.-[Pall Mall GS(zette.

Rather an Ancient Planet.

The earth was a tolerably old neraewhen the mighty glacier pushed its wayover the spot where we now sitand enjoyourselves. The igneous rocks had beenground up by some tremendous force,orby the slow chemistry of sun and rain,and the lime rck, whose race i3 uolis

hedby the glacier, had been deposited in a sabottom where there was scarcely a signof life. The polished lime rock of Roch-ester, it we place it rightly, is of the Bi-agara group, the upper Sulurian age, theage of mollusks and club meas. Butthe earth was old then, hundreds ofthousands of years old. When the gbrcier passed, the lime rock had been de-posited for unknown centuries, and theglacier rested here over 100,000 yearsago. The earth is very old.- [RochesterDemocrat.