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Another pauses —broken this time by the three 
calves in full and long-continued chorus. 
“Let’s go,’* we both exclaimed, starting up 
at once. And go we did, each w Lth a brimming 
pail in her hand, through the pasture and the 
lane to the meadow. The calves—almost grown 
they looked in the deceptive light—greeted our 
appearance with an almost deafeuing series of 
bleating?—plaintive, impatient, expectant, joy¬ 
ful and suffering by turns, They flirted their 
tails in the air, shook their heads, pitched for¬ 
ward against the fence, to the great detriment 
of their budding horns, anil reared backward 
and performed sundry other feats in gymnastics 
that were certainly astonishing, and would have 
been alarming to one not acquainted with the 
nature of calves as we were. There were three 
of them, and only two pails, so we called a coun¬ 
cil upon the best method of mauaging/jand con¬ 
cluded to serve them each In turn. Dache 
should let one drink, while I kept the other 
two away. The plan seemed teasible enough, 
and we opened the gate and went in. I set 
down my pail and stopped to (fasten the gate, 
while Dache advanced with hers. But how 
shall I describe the scene which followed! 
Those three monsters made a simultaneous 
rush upon her and her pail. They surrounded 
her, they plunged at her, they butted her, they 
pushed her this way aud that. I picked |up a 
stick and rushed to the rescue. 
“Keep those two away!” she cried, breath¬ 
lessly. 
I tried to keep them away. I shoo-ed them, 
and brandished ray stick at them, and pushed 
them, and made threatening gestures, and cer¬ 
tainly most alarming noises. 
“ Strike them,” she cried. 
“ I can't,” I answered. 
“ You must—T shall be devoured.” 
T summoned all my courage and struck one of 
them what I thought was a smart blow. But 
the creature might have been a behemoth for 
all the effect it hod. 
“Pall them away,” poor Dache again called 
out. 
In desperation I threw both nrni3 around the 
neck of the nearest one, and tugged with nil 
my might. But the shorn Samson was not 
more powerless in the hands of the Philistines 
than were we in the clutches of those calves. 
At last, by a masterly strategetie movement, 
Dache effected her escape, leaving the pail be¬ 
hind, and in a moment tile three heads were all 
wedged into the one pail, each one plungiug 
and kicking with all it3 might. We climbed to 
the top of the fence and looked down in silence 
for some time. But as they never once lifted 
their heads, we at last became thoroughly 
alarmed. 
“1 do believe their noses are wedged in bo 
tight they can’t get them out.” 
“ We must not leave them so—they’ll suf¬ 
focate.” 
We got down from our perch, watched our 
opportunity, and avoiding the heels, we Loo 
charged upon the pail, lifted it from the ground, 
turned it sidewise, and tried to pull it away. 
But they either could not or would not let go. 
As fast as we stepped back they stepped for¬ 
ward- Ab hard as we pulled they pushed. We 
had possession of the outside of the x>all, they 
At last, by a mighty effort, we 
Lecture? on Natural Theology— Or Nature and 
the Bible from the Same Source: given before the 
Lowell Institute, Boston. P. A. CuADBOtiRiB e, A. 
M., M D, of Williams’ College. G. P. Put u nm & 
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Origin of Life,—The Body,—Instinct,—The Atmos¬ 
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which are still kept up, and of which this book is a 
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his own words, " A course of lectures on Natural Re¬ 
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TEE CHILDREN AND THE SPARROW, 
CHILDREN. 
" You dear little, bird, you brisk little bird, 
What charming songs you sing 1 
Come dowu from the tree aud play with us 
We love you, you pretty thing.” 
SPARROW. 
“ Indeed my dear ehildreu, it will not do ; 
You see I must earn my bread: 
I’ve five little hungry birds in my nest, 
Aud all of them must. be. fed.” 
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The author, an eminent and able man, says in the 
preface“ I endeavor to show that the teachings of 
Nature and Ihe Bible are directed to t.bc same end, 
* * that the scenes and objects of Nature are the 
pictures by which these truths are illustrated, 1 have 
only plucked a tew stray ears from a rich and golden 
field:” and through flSO pages, with slgualfelicitynnd 
tine descriptive powers, lie moves toward this end 
in chapters on Ice, Grass, Earths, Teachings, Fading 
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W bat a nice time it will be to go berrying, 
some of these pleasant summer days. All 
through the week the boys and girls, in ever no 
many pleasant farm houses, will be up with the 
suu aud the birds, in the sweet, clear mornings, 
and help take care of the cows, aud horses, and 
pigs, and chickens, ftud ducks, and do all tin; 
little chores mamma wants done in the house. 
In good season, with dinner-baskets well-iill- 
ed, off to school, and some of them will have 
loug walks across the lota aud through the 
woods, and over the brooks, and along the 
quiet roads, where are grass and wild flowers, 
aud a squirrel sometimes scampers along the 
fence-rails, whisking his bushy tail, and sit¬ 
ing up such an odd chatter, just to say he can’t 
be caught. 
When Saturday eomes there’ll be a holiday, 
for it’s good not to ploy, or work, or study all 
the time, but to change from one to the other 
sometimes. It was wise Dr. Fhanklin, who 
lived in Philadelphia a hundred years ago, who 
said, 
“ All work and no play 
Makes Jack a dull boy, 
All play ami no work 
Makes Jack a mere toy.” 
If the weather is good, and father and mother 
think it best, ami you’ve studied and worked 
well, so as to earn a good play spell,—then for 
the woods aud pastures where the berries grow, 
.—great, juicy, shining, beautiful blackberries! 
Aud the delicious strawberries, too, peeping 
out, so rarelyj-cd, from the dewy grass ! 
Didn’t you talk it over, and fix It all up at the 
school house Friday? Of course you did, all 
about who should go, aud whoso wagon, aud 
where it should be, and what time. Aud didn’t 
you all try to sleep with one- eye. open, that ulght, 
and, at last all get sound asleep, and wake up 
and jump out of your beds ever so early? And 
waut you ready wheu the great farm wagon 
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and John and Sarah on the front seat, and a lot 
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John Is a tall young man and goes to see that 
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Dowu the road, over the creek, up the hill, 
History or the American Civil War. By J. W. 
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The author of this volume of travel says, “There 
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thoughtful American as England; finding there, ub ho 
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There are over 60,000 bound books, beside a 
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in the distance,—one of the finest views to be 
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The “Sketches” which gave Dickens reputation, 
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Beet-Root Sugar, and Cultivation of the Beet. By 
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A comprehensive review of the subject of Beet 
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KEROSENE — MA.KMFE OF USING, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker —We are seeing, 
every few days, most disastrous accounts from 
the bursting of kerosene lamps, which from my 
experience in their constant use for 11 years, is 
entirely and in every case but one owing to mis¬ 
management aud the want of understanding the 
philosophy of their construction and operation. 
Kerosene being in so general use over the whole 
civilized world, the experience of an old obser¬ 
ver may save some valuable lives and fearful de¬ 
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1st. The draft of the ebimuey, when burning, 
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of the top of the chimney. 
Ad. When any danger is feared, place your 
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6th. Never burn the lamp without a chimney, 
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Many of the globes are made of such poor 
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This story, by the great English writer, needs no 
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during his lifts, ami the Harpers are sending ont a uni¬ 
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quaint and thoroughly Elnglisk illustrations is a wel¬ 
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of the inside 
diaeng&gcd it from their nose#, and sent it flying 
over the fence, a white stream marking its pas¬ 
sage, and leaving traces all over our musliu 
6kirts aud white garabaldies. Then were they 
not furious ? They plunged at us, but educated 
human muscle was too nimble for brute force, 
and we gained the topmost rail of the fence in 
safety. How reproachfully and indignantly they 
bleated at as. But nothing cared we. Our 
hearts were hardened; and we were so happy at 
having escaped with life and limb, that now they 
might do their worst. So from our elevation we 
looked serenely down upon their discomfiture— 
hut not for long. They spied the other pail and 
made for it immediately. In an Distant the 
three heads were wedged in as immovably as at 
first, and the three tail? and sLx hind legs were 
again gyrating in the air. 
‘‘Let them he—the ungrateful creatures!” 
said wc. 
And so we left them. The house was fearfully 
still when we reached it. The moonlight 
streamed in through the open doora and win¬ 
dows — no longer looking soft, but weird and 
ghostly. 
“ Are you afraid? ” asked one of the other. 
“ N—n—yes, I am ! there’s the truth for yon. 
If anything should happen, what could we do, 
with no man anywhere within cal! ? We might 
all be murdered aud eouldu’t help ourselves.” 
“ But consider how unlikely it is that any body 
will want to murder us.” 
“ Unlikelier things happen every day,” and 
the two chairs hitched more closely together, 
and the voices died down to whispers. Thus 
we sat in the stillness, shivering at every sound, 
until the clock struck twelve; aud wheu with 
the last stroke was heard the welcome sound of 
wheels, were there two more thankful hearts 
beating in all the world than ours ? I trow uot. 
The uext day we asked the master if those 
calves iu the meadow were fed with milk every 
day. 
“Oh no!” was Die ansvrer, “they outgrew 
their milk some time ago, although I don’t sup¬ 
pose they have forgotten the taste yet.” 
“ But what do you feed them with ?” 
“ They teed themselves mostly. With a mead¬ 
ow full of grass aud a brook full of water they 
manage to thrive very well. Don’t you think 
so? Of course, upon Fourths of July and such 
On the BoiiDKn. By Edmund Kirks. Boston : Leo 
& Shepard. 
An historical story, made up from notes of Geu. 
Garfield’s campaign in Eastern Kentucky. The 
brilliant descriptive powers of the well-known author 
are warrant enough for Its interest and value, and it 
has more depth and weight than his former works. 
Sold by Harrow & Kempshall. 
History of the Panama Railroad, and Pacific Mail 
Steamship Company, anil Traveler’s Guide for 
Steamers to Europe. <fee, By F. N. Otis, M. D. 
New York' Harper & Brothers. 
Two hundred pages of illustration and description 
of these great enterprises, and half as much of a 
Traveler’s Guide,—racts of value to every traveler,— 
of Interest, to all. Sold by Steele & Avery. 
TnE Land of Thor. By J. Ross Browne. New 
York: Harper & Brothers. 
A book of travels iu Russia, Norway, Sweden, Den¬ 
mark and Iceland, by a writer full of California spar¬ 
kle and racy humor, yet instructive withal. It has 
good illustrations of places aud costumes. Sold by 
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Precious Stone. —The largest topaz known 
has been deposited in the Bank of France. It is 
of Brazilian origin, and measures seven mul one- 
quarter Inches in length, by four aud three- 
fourths inches iu width, and about the same 
in thickness. It weighs more than three and 
one-half pounds. However valuable this stone 
may be from its brilliancy aud size, it is still 
more so from its artistic merit, a? on one face is 
engraven a half-length Christ breaking bread at 
the Last Supper. This composition was exe¬ 
cuted with the burin and diamond dust by the 
owner of the gem, Andre Coriello, formerly direc¬ 
tor of the Naples mint. 
Wrtttcu tor Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
JUST SIGHT. 
Boys and girls don’t you think it must be some 
trouble to get the Rural just right. I think 
so, and indeed it's some trouble to do a great 
many things that foil to our lot. Perhaps you 
have thought it a trouble to obey your parents, 
and wished just for once to do as you pleased, it 
would be so easy. Yes, so easy to throw dowu 
your hat instead of hanging it up, so easy to 
drop your hoe just where you used it, so easy 
to loiter by the road and play rather than go to 
school aud learn your lessons, so easy to stay 
from church aud Sabbath school and all that. 
It may seem easier now to leave undone these 
and many more things; but wheu you are grown 
to be men and women how glad and thankful 
you’ll be that you learned to do things well. 
Don’t you think it must be a pleasure to the 
Editors of the Rural to know they arc doing 
good ? This is almost a “ long yarn ” you see. 
Neighbor’s Wives. By J. T. Trowbridge. Boston: 
Lee & Shepard. 
A tale of domestic trial, temptation, crime, for¬ 
giveness ami higher life, by a writer who always has 
a worthy aim, and a forcible and eloquent style that 
has held many a reader’s close attention to his pro¬ 
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Stephen Dane. By Amanda Docolass. Boston: 
Lee A Shepard. 
Life in a work-shop, affection misplaced, toil, con¬ 
quest, mistukes corrected, and the meeting, at last, of 
two loving hearts, tried and true, make up this book, 
which has much feeling, beauty of description, and 
insight. Sold by Darrow & Kempshall. 
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Commerce, records one of the most remarkable in 17.54, and is, therefore, 113 years old. It is in 
discoveries of modern science — a discovery of a perfectly sound condition. The wrought nail, 
more importance even than that of Daguerre, aud with which it was fastened, bad rusted but very 
of which the practical uses are almost limitless: slightly .—State Press, Portland , Jfe. 
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to find a method of using the photographic art is recommended for making a most excellent 
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Christianity and its Conflicts. By E. A. Morey, 
A. M. New York; Db Appleton & Co. 
A book ol’ 480 pages, ranging over a wide field and 
written with vigor and courage, biking ground 
against Puritanism, and for Catholicism as real Chris¬ 
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days, they expect to be treated to something ex¬ 
tra. Flue calves—aiut they?” 
We did not like his quizzical look, and so 
forbore to pursue our inquiries further. Wheth¬ 
er they suffocated iu the pail that night, or 
whether they lived until morning and were res¬ 
cued, we never knew. Indeed, tor aught we do 
know to the contrary, they may be there per¬ 
forming their evolutions to this day. But as 
for us,'we firmly resolved that when another 
Fourth day of July came around, we would cel¬ 
ebrate it in the most approved and patriotic 
fashion. 
We expect, and hope, and pray for a crown of 
glory, but we need not expect it without labor. 
God has scattered Christian duties, lilfe grains of 
gold, all through the sands of life, and wc must 
pick from the dust of the earth, one by one, the 
grains of gold from which to mould our own im¬ 
mortal diaaom. The more abundant the grains 
we gather, the richer wilt be our crown. He 
who gathers not these golden grains will never 
be a king. 
Henry VHI and Hi? Court. An Historical Novel. 
By Miss Mchlbach. New York: Appleton & Co. 
Onb of the valuable semi-historic works of this 
accomplished writer, which clothes the skeleton facts 
of history in the living habits of the time to which 
it refers. Sold by Adams & Ellis. 
