Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1882, Page 6

INTs ABOUT FLOWERS—AROUT FLY POISON—HOW TO KEEP A LAWN—VARIOUS GOOD RECIPES. Noratve Takes From THE op Looxs of a foom more than a dusty and discolored chande- "Mer. and there is no need of having one in this condition when a few cents and a little time can ~ remedy the matter. If bronze powder ts mixed with copal varnish, it can be applied to the chandelier and will make it look like new again. About the proportion in which they shonid be mixed, ask the dragyist where you purchase them. ‘To Puntry Roows Arrer Stcgwess.—Wash the furniture, woodwork, floor. and walls (scraping ff the paper) with the carbélic solution and soap. Thenshut up tizht ot sulphur for every it contains, and allow t elosed room for * and windows <0 9s yen doors - freely for a week, nfection may gen- Marwine-INk Starvs.—Cyanide of potassium is the only thing that will remove marking ink from linen. It may be procured at the chemist’s if the rules for the purchase of poisons are com- plied with. Wet the stain with water.then with a@camel's-hair brush ap) of potassium, and, whe peared, rinse well in se: a mec natare of eyanic ft imperative that it sh the utmost caution. ‘Tue Best Way ro Distxrecr.—Bolling is the - Surest way of disinfectin< cont: ated cloth- ing, or it may be baked in an oven he: about two hundred and forts heit. After the disease is over. th should be kept isolated for about t > all the scabs fail off in sm: quamation (that complete in scarle his seclusion, daily baths, each containing one ounce of strong carbolic acid, should be gi and every square inch of the body must be thus earefully disinfected, ¢ the sealp, as the disease-poison is apt to linger among the dandroff at the reots of the hair. Door axp Prazza Plats y the solution of eyanid stain has PI The h le or aft f the ski for the last wee hs, Bitter sweet, which grows wild over the stone walls of New England roadsides, is a beautiful vine for deco- ation. Its berries have the colors of the nas- ceful door-piant. piazzas frequently son, when uite wet. Draw ‘ant of water a even ground near them is away the seil around each plant so as to form a basin; fill in with a bucket- ful of water, allowing it time to grad- and when the surface the x e wee ually soak away, dried a little draw in loosely it will do without water for applies to all plants wanti Tt wi % face, it is impact by the we water, and the harder the soil becom easier It dri i you give Whatever tHe house, do not use fy poison. the deceptive name of “Co with sweetened » toattract the fi Kills children «! lover it,and This it of the re is want old under rooms We have known of two dis- rom. thi and it s the powder not cobalt at a There should be this most destruc name of ~ “under not nthe shape the use it, Paper,” wit and keep it moi with the same de: more danger iy The sti ch “e made by melting together ft is not danxerous, and by-eruelly holding die. Q ‘ i Plates without fear of « strong gree. ica, well siveeten With regard to the destruction og that may eater the ase, W should be disposed to make atrial of the Pei sian insect pc 1 quan- tity of this burn om has been found to very mosquito. In France, pastiles made of this powder are used for this purpe The same end may be plished by sprinkling s @ few live coals on a sii sel. The powder insect life.— Agr Hrsts ror Gstits should be gathered, when possible, in fine weather. Iftaken in wet weather, or if water plants, the moisture should be shaken from them, and they should be dried a sible before putting to press. When thew is very warm. the yasculum (atin box for col- lectinz) may be lined with larg s. and its - eontents with fresh water. This will ‘nl gpd conditic exceed sixteen said that ets as Specimens led le specimens should d the entire plant, with be pre- served. If you will t you Will find that often th very much from the and maiy times only 3 or the one or o tell the kind of a plant. plant is so ¢ that it is venient to s je eo fit isnot p enough should be k ant. Specimens s! wer or fruit. In th: tin all of the root. ow the nature of the e either in n will often be d existing at the s: Teast two le: preser otherwise th Do not hold than fs ne- Specimens in the v. t Makea ‘@ slip of men before put- nts should lie wit at one end of .) should be pk containing, # se fresh a The bottles A small copie handle will x specimens from en rocks, which in i seoop-net « time for i ly in the ‘morning. S$ often contain cho: | ‘eld Botany. A Weit-xerr Laws. gested that the use of th mot be governed by a once a week, Tn mid-summ mowing too freq seldom. We would now c Weeds in the lawn. Wee are annual or pe Undesirable crasses or oth I weeds, is brought taken there otherwise. These time the mower is used. Roticed in the sp > mow ce, t We ha lawn mower should. such as “mow jon of the grass. ¥ result from ll attention to the s here, as elsewhere, and they ma; =, which w the rt themselves. nd others not before Roticed. will, in the short rest w e to the grass, make the mspicuous. The best treatment for such pe: lawn, is hand-we achisel-shaped “spud” the root, will allow t without disturbing the grass. they have a contrivance its, which places a few drops of oil of yitriol (sulphuric acid) on the center of each. ins. Along knife or We have not had occasion to try this, but | From the New York Sun. = those who make the experiment should keep tm mind the destructive eftect of the acid upon the clothinz, and the fact that it should not ANNOYANCE OF Pres in the lly keep the specimens | weeds, salt | ve already sug- | | uid be used with | ¥ | | ston LOST AND FOUND. ‘The Rights of the Finder Under the Law. Under the head of “Lost and Found” in the advertising columns of our daily pa pers are fre- quently to be found notices of articles lost and sometimes a notice of an article found. Most of the things that are lost are found by some one. Sometimes they are restored to the owner; perhaps quite as frequently not. Often the finder makes no effort to find the owner, and sometimes he is unable to do so, even after an honest and diligent effort.. The Detroit News says: A singular case of this kind happened here a few years ago. A young lawyer of this city after returning from the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, found among his papers In his valise a United States government bond for £500 or $1,000. He advertised it, but no owner appeared to claim It. Most persons are not so fortunate. It they are lucky enough to find anything valuable they are generally unlucky enough to also find something else—the owner. But until they do found. rs ago in the following case, which has, been owed ever sinc: A young chimney elry and took it to value. 5 Toll sweep found a piece of jew- a jeweler to ascertain its Under pretense of weighing it the jew- rv took out the stones and offered the sweep a trifling sum for it, which the lafter refused and insisted on having the jewelry Feturned to him. The jeweler returned the socket without the The sweep accordingly brought suit, and the judge told the jury that the jeweler was liable for the value ot the jewels, and unless he | produced them and showed they were not of the finest water the jury should give damages against him for the value of the best jewels, | which they accordingly did. j cle | Blanchard, a domestic servant in water through the | .” to be mixed | Quinn, a mi Nor does it make any difference where the arti- lost—whether in the street, Ina store, or in a private house; the finder is the owner of the property until the owner appears. Sophia hotel in Pa., found three $20 bills in the Like an honest girl she immedi- ok them to the landlord. Upon his sug- belonged to a transient guest of the house, she gave them to him to hand to the guest. It was afterwards ascertained that the guest did not lose the money, and Sophia demanded it from the landlord, who refused to deliver it. In the suit which she brought to re- coyer the money the landlord’s lawyers arcued that to allow servants to retain money found by them in their employer's house would encour- ¢ them to be dishonest; that an innkeeper was responsible for the goods of his guest, including money; that if money was found in a hotel the law would presume it belonged to a guest: and that as the landlord had to bear the responsi- bility he entitled to keep the money until er should claim it. But the court s: uuinption the mone ed nd that Sophia was entitled to the fhe law ought to treat all alike, and nts would be encouraged to fidelity by pro- them in equality of rights with others A somewhat similar case lately arose in In- ha, and was devided in the same wa Ellen of sixteen, was employed in a paper mill. While engaged in assorting a bale of old papers purchased by proprietor for manufacture. she found two 250 bills in an en- | velope. There was no mark to show to whom th y belonged. She handed them to her em- ployer to see if they were genuine, upon lis promise to return them. He kept the money and she sued him. He set up in defense that as the finder was in his employ asa rag sorter, what she found in such employment belonged to hin But the court said not so. He also i had bought the package con- aining the bills by weight, he had be But the court said he dia e in the package, and tha so small compared with their value tl not consider it. Lex de minimis non curat—the Jaw takes no account of little things. And the courts have decided that railroad conductors and omnibus drivers are entitled to the articles they find in their conveyances, and not the proprietors of the conveyances.’ The law, however, makes some very fine distinc- tions between when an article is ldst and when it isnot. If an article ig found lying on the floor of a shop or store, the finder and not the | occupant of the building is entitied to it, be- mnteh as pos- | her | | ward, th | from cutting too | al weeds, even on a| “Oh, nothin cause it was probably accidentally dropped there. But if it is found on a desk or table the occupant of the building and not the finder is entitled to it, hecause, says the law, it was yol- untarily left there by the owner in the custody of the occupant. In other words, placing a thing on a desk or counter and forgetting to take it away again is not legally losing it. nm while ina Boston bank for the par- making a deposit pocket-book, aapers, on one of the desks counters that banks are tomed to provide for the use of cus- Not knowing what had become of it he published an advertisement describing it as lost and offering a largereward for its return. It was found on the desk by a boy, who ri turned it to the owner and claimed the reward which the owner refused to pay. The court de- cided that as the pocket-book had been volun- tarily placed on the desk it was not lost, but lad been left in the custody of the bank, and the was, therefore, not entitled to the re- ‘0, where a customer ina barber shop found a pocketbook containing money ona ta- ble in the shop, the court held that the barber | yi and not the customer was entitled to it. e case was tried in Indiana a few Mr. Durfee bought 3 second-hand He offered to sell ith, who refused to buy left it with the blacksmith for sale, ion to use it. One day when camining it, he found be- iz and the lining a roll of 165. Mr. Durfe under the advice of a law- return of the safe and its con- mith promptly gave up the old safe but Kept the money, and tite court said he had a nt to. So Mr. Durfee lost both his nd the money found has the owner's name cn her circumstances show- ngs, the finder is guilty of it up with the intention of t.. ut If his intention at first was to n the artidle to the owner, but he after- ards makes up his mind to keep it, he is not lily a thief in most parts of the country, tever he may be morally. — ng Fun With a Deaf and Dumb Man. From the Whitehall Times. Quietiy entering a barber shop the stranger removed from his pocket wrove on it: “I want to be shaved.” A barber stepped forward, read the card, and, pointing to a chair, said to his brother artists: pat as a brass kettle and dumb ‘ts an He thet giving him pr Hav The man straightened himself out in the chair, when his manipulator began lathering his rac “This wal deaf cuss has a cheek like a stone ick a pin in him and see if he is entirely dumb,” said another. The vietim remaining undisturbed, the fol- lowing shots were fired at him by the delighted tonsorial artist He veeds a sham, poo, his head is dirtier than m with a stool leg, don’t spoil your or on that stubble.” racious, what a breath! It smells like a Duteh band ot music.” “He ought to rent, that nose for a locomotive to give | head-light.” &e. While all these complimentary allusions were ng about him, the operation of shaving was finished, and the man arose, put on his coat, and then turning to the astonished barber, sai How much for the shave and compliments?” ” gasped the astonished man, —nothing, call again, excuse” and, as the stranger left the shop, the diseom- thrust well down tocut | fited barbers swore they would never believe plant to be pulled up in a deat and dumb man again, until they In England | had. first fired a ten-pound cannon about his for killing such | ears. ———_-o-—____ ‘The English Sparrow. The saucy little English sparrow is getting to be unpopular here. It is charged with being a ome in contact with the fingers, etc. Annual | fraud and a nuisance, and it is said to be of so ‘weeds as a general thing are of but little conse. after the first year, as the frequent mow- One of the worst of these subdues the Isagrass, the “Crab-crass” (Panicum sangui naie) i- little practical use that it is not to be compared: in that respect to our native robin, in spite of the latter's depredations on the farm. There It appears late, and its prostrate stems | fe army worms and caterpillars enough in the close to the ground. taking root at every | country ‘This isalso kuown as “finger grass,” and | summer. rs its Mowers and see:isin a panicle that looks | cities picking to give all the sparrows busi pigs. the frame of an umbrella. Whenever the | swoop down on tl of this , the lawn should be | fowl, follow picnic ir 27 508 goer ripening of seeds, and it | to Long Island will be ed ot See mens, eke ri come back worst of all, out of the city. How it got there he did not know, | find the owner they are the owners of the thing | & ve learned of | is hat and coat and taking a card | t “he said, when a general laugh followed. | A PLEA FOR SLEEP. Why Americans Need More Sicep Than Other Folks. ‘From the Christian at Work. The truth is that the very rapidity of our life, the wakefulness and wastetulness of our times, the strain and drive of all pursuits, make longer periods of sleep necessary for us than people | living in more quiet countries and at a slower | rate. We get tired enough if we are well, and if we do not get tired enough to sleep all over and clear through, it is a sign of nervous dis- order. Sleeping is something more than a | luxury for Americans, though the very opposite | would be Inferred from our habits, There Is no | way by which the wear and tear, the drain and strain of American life can be neutralized but | by large feasts of sleep every now and then, and | & generous allowance every twenty-four hours. Four hours work of aman who is thoroughly | awake and vitalized, at the top of his faculties, | are worth more for all practical business or lit- | rary or social purposes than fourteen hours of Weary muscles and jaded nerves and flaccid im- pulses. The man at his best is worth one hun. dred per cent more than the same man fatigued, depressed and demoralized. If he has no vital lectricity playing throuzh him he is a weari- This was decided one hundred and sixty ness to others and a burden to his own soul, If | he is conscious of having one. And to keep at | this top condition of fiber and faculty he must | bea good sleeper and sleep well. When Mr. | Beecher was asked how he managed to keep his | congregation so wide awake at a second service he replied: “By taking a big dose of sleep in the afternoon. Itis my sleeping that keeps my congregation awake.” The time given to sleep | is not so much loss of life, but so much gained, | and at a doubly enhanced valuation. | _ It is easy tosay “sleep much and well; but | there are many unfortunate people who can- | not sleep much, and the little sleep they get isdisturbed and unrestful. How to sleep is a | question which, in some instances, it taxes the skill of physicians to the utmost to answer. Persons afflicted with insomnia are often great sufferers, and their lives are shortened by the disease. There are persons who require muah _ less sleep than others, and it is useless for them , to woo soft slumbers to their pillow, for they will not come. A peculiarity of constitution is not disease and should not be doctored. With the disorder known as insomnia we shall not venture to deal. But with the Ce | jority of people sleep is regulated by {nabit, convenience, whim. ‘They make it ‘yield to every other considera- | tion. “People who would not omit a meal on | any account will throw away half their allow— ance of sieep for the merest trifle. They do not | feel the importance of giving the system its fill | of unconscious refreshing, and hire entertainers | to clip off two or three hours from the needed | restorative in the evening, and set an alarm clock to cut away an hour or more at daybreak. They seem to think that they can steal from sleep with impunity, when it is pretty much the ly thing that punishes every pilferer of it as he goes along. Others destroy the possibility of sleeping well by carrying ali their cares and | troubles and griefs and ambitions to bed with them, and one might as well seek rest on a rack as with such bedfellows. The ability to lay off | cares and perplexities, like one’s cloth dismiss everything that can excite the brain or | disturb the emotions, may be gained by contin- , uous effort even when it is lost. = < Straw Lumber. From the American Architect. ‘There can be no question that straw lumber | is admirably adapted to many kinds of finishing work-barrels, table and counter tops, fine doors, and ornamental work; and we are ured that | it can be produced and sold in competition with the finer grades of pine or In competition with | wide walnut, at about one-half the price of the latter. The standard manutacture is in widths | of thirty-two Inches, a length of twelve feet, | and q thickness corresponding to that of surfaced | boards. Th dimensions may be varied to suit | such orders as may be given, and embrace an: | width, length or thickness. Unlike lumber, how ever, narrower-widths are the most costly. straw lumber may be ripped with the hand. | or the buz: y be run through the sticker for the manu of mouldings, and take nail or screw about as well as oak. It may be finished with varnish or with su ceptible to a high polish. Tt is pra ly water and fire-proof, being manufactured under 500 ees of heat, and we are assured has been | boiled for some hours without any apparent change of structure. Its tensile strength i greater than that of walnut or oak’) and ‘ite: weight about one-fifth greater than the former: when dry. It is made from any kind of straw, including hemp and fla ber—in fact from any material that will make pulp—and a ton of straw will produce 1,000 feet of boards. The puljfis rolled into thin sheets, a number of which, corresponding with the thickness of the lumbe desired, are placed together with a peculiar ce- ment, which is claimed to be water-proof, and are then rolled under a pressure sufficient to amalgamate them into a solid mass, which may be worked with a plane if desired. When it is remembered that it takes one hun- dred years to grow a tree to maturity, suiting it to commercial purposes—anda tree producing 32-inch lumber will require fully twice that time—while 20,000 feet per acre is a large yield under the most ‘orable circumstances, it will at once be realized that where 3,000 feet can be taken from an acre of ground for an indefi- nite number of years, the process which enables such a result to be accomplished, and which will ield a really valuable lumber, is one of vast | importance. We look for yainable results in the future in the manufacture of lumber from what. is practicaliy a was aterial, but which will be produead in endless quantities so long as the United States maintains its character as a grain- producing countr; saw - ee | How Baby's Picture Was Taken, | From the Hartford Times. | It was baby’s ‘off day,” still she was at Stuart’s gallery to have her picture taken. “Papa” was there, and so was “mamma” and so was “auntie.” The little one didn’t 1i surrounding, and she showed her di playing a little game of bawl. This annoyed them all except the artist. When he got ready he posed baby, who was still erying at the top notch of a good, healtiy pair of lungs. Mamma postulated Don't take bab | when she is crying.” “By no means,” chimed | in papa, and even auntie ventured to’ expostu- | late. “Oh, no; won't take her till she stops j ers 2,” good naturedly responded the photos- rapher. Baby was in the big. chair, the camera was aimed at her, the artist was ready, and still the little one’ was addressiig the crowd in an ahgry voice accompanied by facial contortion: that didnt in the least remind one of the trade- | mark of Williams’ Jamaica ginger. All hands et'to quiet her. Stuart whistled and drum- | med on the camera, papa was waitzing around with the artist’s two cats, one on each shoul- der; mamma was imitating a canary bird, and | auntie was going through the motions of ‘play ing on a’ banjo, still baby kept on crying. Di- rectly one of the cats which had climbed up on to papa’s head slipped, and as she went down | struck both claws sharply into the side of his | face, causing him to emit a yell that would have frightened an Indian. For an instant baby | stopped erying, as though trying to take in the | meaning of the war-whoop. and then set to again /ouder than ever. “I guess we will have to come with baby some other day,” said the | disappointed mother. “Oh, no,” remarked the | artist, “I have got a good picture of her. I | caught her with an interested expression.” And jin the front end of the procession all the A Sporting Editor as (he Mentor of a Young Woman Desiring ‘Tribune, Is this the place?” A good-looking young stood in the door of the editorial rooms looked carefully around the apartment, “I want to see an editor,” she continued— “the one that writes those lovely articles in the Sunday papers about, ‘satin de Lyon will be much worn this tall,’ and ‘Cape May fashionables do not consider striped bathing-suits fashiona- ble,’ and all those other sweet editorials about people who are going away this summer, and everything like that, you know. guess you are lodking for the society edi- | tor.” said the horse reporter. *‘He is out just now, but if you want to know when Goldsmith Maid trot! in_2:16!¢, or what the two-mile record was in 1872, I could tell yoa all about it. What was it you wanted to see the society editor about?” “ Well,” sald the young lady, ‘I really hate | to tell you about this matter, but mamma said the best way would be to go right to a news- paper and see what I had better do, because ever since papa died we haven't had any man to | put us right about such things, and mamma | thinks Just as I do, that in a case like thisa man would be ever so much more apt to decide | right on what was best to do, because women, you know, always let their feelings run away | with thelr judgment, and frequently make mis- takes if matters that perhaps affect their whole future existence. 1 told mamma that it seemed | awfully queer to me to talk to a strange man ; about any such thing as this, but she said editors were persons of great experience, and since dear papa was dead it would be a good deal better to tind out what some man of ex- perience thought about it before I went any further.” ee father must have left a large proper- “Well, he did,” replied the girl; “but what | made you think’so?” “Oh. nothing,” replied St. Julien’s friend, “only Ihave noticed that lucky men are gen- } erally rich.” | * Weil, of course, I don’t know anything about | that,” sald the young lady; “but anyhow mam- ma thoughtJ had better see some of you gen- tlemen about y affair. I am in loye, you know, with a young man, and we are corres- ponding right along. but he doesn’t seem to pro- | gress any about what I'am thinking about, you | Know, and mamma says that probably my let- ters aren’t quite tender enough, and it seemed | to me that an editor ought to know about anything like that.” “Did you ever try the blanks-between-the- | stars racket ?” asked the horse reporter. “The what ?” « The blanks-between-the-stars racket. That's a daisy, and unless this young fellow is pretty fly, the chances are that you will land him on | the first throw. I have nm some pretty wise | young men go against that deadfall and get | caught—not dry-goods clerks or any such tis- sue-paper ducks asthose you know, but boysthat j had been out after 9 o'clock for several con- | secutive nights, and were supposed to be right | time. 'm sure I don't know what you mean,” said the young lady, **but I will try this*—— “Well,” said the horse reporter, “the next time you write to Ethelbert, or whatever his name is, you just give it to him strong about the deathless passion that your heart holds for him—a heart that has never before known what | it was to be tortured by doubts and fears that | the one on whom the priceless treasure of it: | love was set might prove unfaithful to that love, unworthy of the trusting heart which gave it | birth. ‘This will wake him up pretty well, and then is the time to find out where he lives. | that without his love life would be an atid waste | upon whose burning sands lay the whited skele | toas of Love and Hope. That the days on which | no letter comes from him are as th K | tween the stars—seeming all the more dark heerless because of the brightness on either ide.” Do you think that would have the desired re- | sult?” asked the girl. | “If it doesn’t” replied the horse reporter, ‘you a are lucky to lose hin Common Sense About the Piano, | From the St. James Gazette. | Little girls fear the piano, and long for the | time when, having at last mastered its difficul- | ties, they will not be called upon to play upon Atany more; while numbegless great girls re- ;gard it as one of the many nuisances which ; they must put up with until they get married. Once, however, liberate younz women from | that piano to which, like serfs, they have so | long been “assigned,” but not “attached,” and some of them will take to cultivating it for its ‘own sake; while the rema 1 at least | spare both themselves and their friends a con- iderable amount of annoyance. normous difficulty of modern pianoforte sic constitutes in itself a reason why in the education of young girls the piano should not ¢ “dancing and deportment,” be made obii- ‘y. A woman can get through life so w without playing the piano, and for a few shil- | lings, or even in extreme cases for a single shil- , she can, if her lot happens to be east in London, hear from time to time the finest play- | ers that this great pianoforte-playing age has | ever produced. it is not because the piano is unworthy of her attention that woman should be liberated from the task-work imposed upon her in connection with it. It 1s because music, | like every other art, demands from its yotaries | special gifts and inclinations, and because }among women who are thus endowed it jis a mistake to suppose that the piano is the only instrument suitable to them. Let it be understood in the first place that it is no more a disgrace for a young lady not to play the piano than it is a disgrace for her not to draw, to paint, or to model; and in the second place, that if she does not mean to play some instrument it is a mistake for her to re- strict herselfas a matter of course to the piano. Next to the organ, the pianois, thanks to the orchestral effects which it can be made to pro- duce, the finest instrument in the world; and it is the only instrument for which every great composer writes as a matter of course, and for which every great composer's orchestral works | are arranged in reduced form. To praise at the expense of the piano the violin, which— isa very common thing, but it is one that we should not ourselves care to undertake. The violin to be effective ina truly musical sense must, like the human voice, be accompanied either by the orchestra or by the pianoforte, or by other members of the violin family. The pi- anoforte is (putting aside. of course,the too ¢ olos- sal organ) the only instrument which, for har- monic as well as melodic purposes, is complete in itself and which is really an orchestra in little. There ate good reasons, then, why ail who care much for music should study the piano, | but no reason why they should study the piano | exclusively. Often in the same family there are | two, th and even four pianists. How much | and how advantageously the musical domain of such a family would be increased, if, with or without neglect of thgspiang, the instruments of the violin family were taken up, with a view not necessarily to string quartets, but, at least, to the numerous pieces written by great com- posers for violin or yiolongello, and plano. “The violin—I include, always the viola and violoncello—is no doubt,” says Mr. Hullah in his excellent little work op- ‘Music in the House,” “q difficult instrument; but the difficulty of | DEATH NOT UNIVERSAL. Forms of Life that are Immortal. Whatever lives, we hear it said, whether plant or animal, must sooner or later die. It will, therefore, greatly shock many persons to learn that this is not etrictly the case. We wish here to give room for no misunderstanding, and, if possible, for no intentional misinterpr All animals may die, but death ts not in all de- partments of the animal kingdom an inherent absolute necessity. On the contrary, in one of the two primary divisions of the @nimal world, the protozoa, it is, though common enough, merely casual, the resuit of some accident. A protozoon may be swaliowed up by some larger animal; it may be crushed out of existence, burnt, or poisoned by “disinfectants” introduced into the water or other fluid which it inhabits. But it has no natural term of life, and, as we a oo see, cannot be spoken of as young or old. That this may be understood we must briefly compare the life history, and especially the re- production, of the Metazoa and the Protozoa In the former group—which includes all the backboned animals trom man down to the hum- blest fish, all the insects, mollusks, as well as lower forms of life which scarcely attract popu- lar notice—there is always a distinct difference between parent and offspring. The latter is certainly a portion separated from the body of the parent—from the female in ail those forms in which there exists two sexes—but it Is as compared with the parent minute in size, rudi- mentary in structure, and it has to increase in bulk and still more to undergo a process of development, a series ot transformations, be- fore it reaches the normal stature aud make of its species. When this point has been attained itenters upon the task of reproduction, and gives birth to one brood of young ones, or in the higher forms to several. Withthese it coex- ists for a longer or a shorter time, and then dies, the matter which constituted its body passing into decomposition. If we look at these very familiar facts in the life of Metazoon, be it aman oran oyster, we find that the ideas of birth, ot growth, of maturity, of parenthood, of 8 natural term of life ending in death, at once suggest themselves. If we examine such a Metazoon we can, in most cases, at once decide whether It is in the immature or the adult phase of its being. But ia the Protozoa—as Herr Butschli has not long ago pointed out in the Zoologischer Anzeiger —this is distinctly different. Let us suppose we are watching through a microscope one of these minute single-cell creatures. We see it expanding into an elli- psoidal figure, which becomes for a time longer and longer. It then begins to contract about what we may, tor the sake of popular intelligi- bility, call itsequator. It assumes tie form of two nearly globular bodies, connected, dumb- Dell like, by a narrow neck. This neck becomes narrower and narrower. and at last the globes are set free, and appear xs two indi uals in place of on What are the relations of these two new beings to the antecedent torm and to each other? W xainine them care; they are equal in size, alike in complexity, orrather simplicity, of structure. We cannot say that either of them is more mature or more rudimentary than the other. We can find in their separation from each other no analogy to the separation of the young aninal or the ez from its mother, or to the liberation of aseed trom a plant. either of them is parent, and neither offspring. Neither of them is older or younger than the other. Or shall we try to regard them as brother: sprang from the Same parent? If so, where i that parent? If living, let it be shown: if dead, where are its remains? No o Teed any other—matter was e two beings took th the body of the original ly included, in the of the two we sential ideas of the life of the hi, birth, growth, maturity, pareatage, brother- hood, teri of life and suecessive generations— have, if applied to. th humble and minute pings, simply no meani he process of reproduction, or rather multi- plication, must,as far as we can see, be rep in the samemianner fore Accidents they are immortal; and frequent as such ac: dents must the individuals whom they strike might, or rather would, like the rest of their community, have gone on li ii theinselve amining soria under the microscop to consider that these frail and tiny beings were living, not potentially in their ancestors, but i ns, perhaps in the Lau- This consideration opens up another ques- ion, ; "These beings are not y unconscious. They experience and reta ions, how- ever dimly and in how limited a sphe But when the splitting up of one individual into two @istinct personalities takes place, as we ha’ described above, we have then the curious phe- nomenon of two net and equal beings whose past life is one, who will remember the same incidents and the same such incidents have given ri phenomenon which we cannot reali: temporary and coequal beings, posse! a certain point at least, a common y Let us for a moment suppose that the propaga- tion of the higher animals took place in a simi- lar manner. We should see, e. g., the mature man split up into two equal and similar men, each remembering, knowing, believing and feel ing, up to the day of fission, all that the other remembered, knew, believed, or felt: each, too, it might be contended by ‘moralists, equally sharing the merits or demerits of the antece- dent form and each ata loss to say when his own personality took its rise.—Journal of eo Stimulants and ‘Tobacco, The opinions of médical men as to the use of stimulants as an auxiliary to intellectual work are, says Mr. Arthur Reade in Zes Monies, too diverse to haye much effect upon the habits of men of letters. Nor are they in much better agreement, he says, as to tobacco. That to- bacco is a poison is certain; so are many things used, not only in medicine, but in food. The influence of tobacco on brainwork has been the subject of interminable controversy, and the question has occupied all classes of society. One argument fs that smoke helps men to think (to dream, rather), and ft is asserted that the journalist smokes in writing, the man of science in solving a problem, the artist in painting, the cle in composing his seri that, in 'y man great in science, in literature, in arts, climbs the ladder of fame with a pipe or acigar in his mouth. Tennyson has composed, it is said, his sweetest idyils under the influence Carlyle has taught the world philosophy, smoking. Not the young only have these ideas. Ac- sto Andrew, Moltke is a great snufftaker, and it was due to snuff that Napoleon was so pitilessly expelled from Belgium. 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S17-tu,th,s-6m Burns, Scott, Campbell, Moore, Dickens, spoke, wrote and sang under the influence of coffee, that plant of mystic power. But for those who have recourse to tobaceo, he adds, their genius is generally but a lightning-flash or a meteor, involving too great mental tension, likely to drag reason from her throne and plunge it in the night of chavs, Another medical authority says that a moderate use of tobacco is as neces- sary to the brain-worker as moderation in the uge of alcohol. so he had. Instantaneous photography did if. | Still papa thinks that taking a good picture under such circumstances was a “‘scrateh.” ———__0—___—— French Marriages. | From the London Truth. | They are so unlike anything in the same couche | sociale in England. All the wrangling about | settlements is over, and happy couples and | their reiatives and friends lay themselves out to | spend the day as merrily as they can. A wed- | ding is in France a union of two families as well {as of two persons. There have been many | hitches and difficulties in the way of fusion; but now that it has taken place it is thorough. The fathers of the bride and bridegroom are comperes, the mothers commeres, all the con- nections are “allies,” and the relationship in which they stand to each other is really expressed in this word. It is an understood thing that Berare bound to render friendly services to” each other. The whole of the fortune with which the bride has been endowed may go, if her husband survives her, to his family; and all hig money may eventually enrich hers if she out- lives him. "It is also well understood that, shouid ‘commercial or other disasters newly-wedded couple, both families are incip!| them. The le of each land between young Frenchmen and cba ie Met Buea ev law gives to set life are, in the sonia to te ariatotatie than to acquiring a serviceable,amount of skill on it has been mueh exaggerate To. become a Joachim, a Holmes, or a Piatti, is the work of a life~ time, even for men gifted with equal aptitude and perseverance to these—turned to account under skilful gnidance and at the right time of On the other hand. the adversaries of tobacco regard the idea that smoking helps sound thought as a most mischievous delusion; they maintain, on the contrary, that it renders men incapable of intellectual labors. Tobacco leadsto physical and mental indolence. Mr. Reade con- siders that the use of stimulants is a subject life, and supplemented and encouraged by a thousand circumstances as impossible to take account of as to bring about and foresee. But there isan amount of skill heiow—very much below—that ot artists of this class which, if ac- companied by feeling, taste, ,and Intelligence, may contribute largely to the variety and agree+ ableness of music in, the house.” It may be hoped that in a few years, without the number of our domestic pianists being too much dimin- ished, that of our domestic violinists will be considerably increased. Some half-dozen lady violinists have appeared this season in London, at public concerts, who possess the very highest merit; and at a half-private, half-public concert given recently at Stafford House for the benefit of a charity, the chief attraction was a string band consisting of no fewer than twenty-four lady executants. The diversion, then, of temi- nine talent from the piano towards the violin, is nota movement which has to be originated; it needs only to be encouraged. +++ ____ It Came High, but He Hada It. From the New York Drummer. A certain young man brought his affianced down from the country to see the sights. One day, while they were passing aside. Zola’s pictures of | walked which should be examined in the light of the experience of péets, artists, journalists, men of science, authors, etc.. in Europe and America, M. Abbe Moigno makes the following remarks in rely. to Mr. Arthur Reade’s questions: “Though I cannot offer myself as an example, because my temperament is too exceptional, my experience nay have some di of usefulness. Ihave published already a hundred and fifty volumes, small and great; I scarcely ever leave my work-table; I never take walking exercise; yet [have not experienced any trace of headache, or brain-w: or constipa- tion, or any form of urinary trouble, etc., ete. Never, in Newport Items. ‘From a Newport Letter. d ‘The fine lawns in the vicinity of Newport DURING THE HOT SEASON. 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