LINA AND I.—A TALE OF LOVE 
[Continued from page 332, this number.] 
“It was, truly, good for me," assented Tom; 
though it was a yirVs yoke, and 1 often chafed under 
it. But I tell you, I found the valae of mother's 
teachings out in the California and Idaho diggings : 
we would hare gone Bupperless many a time, but for 
them. I’ve laughed so heartily at Harry's astonish¬ 
ment at eeeiDg me ‘toss tip' a snpper,— quite a 
dainty one, too,— out of some poor little bird we 
had brought down, a squirrel we had treed, or a sol¬ 
itary fish we had caught. Then we always had our 
hard tack to fall back npon.” 
“I never realized,” continued Tom, “till I got 
out in that clean country, by the side of those clear 
streams, what an amount of labor we have here in 
Pittsburg to keep clean.” 
“ Ye6," assented Mr. Hills ; “ and the double 
amount of hard work the women have to do!—such 
slavish work! — the soot clings to everything. 
“Consin Doha was astonished,” said Lina, laugh¬ 
ing, "when we told her she must use soap in washing 
her face.” 
“ That was one of mother’s vexations,” said Mr. 
Hills, “hut she had to come to it, or her features 
would soon have been sketched in black crayons.” 
“I saw a picture of Pittsburg once,” said Tom,” 
in which the artist seemed to have laid out all his 
strength on the heavy streams of black smoke com¬ 
ing out of the chimneys; but, in fact, they are the 
most noticeable objects in town.” 
“Is there no way,” inquired Mr. Htlls, “of 
making Pittsburg a cleaner town?” 
“Yes," said father; “by introducing the new- 
fashioned chimneys they have lately brought into 
England. They consume nearly all this black 
smoke; turning it into fuel again. When I see a 
great, tall chimney in town vomiting out its black 
steam, I thick its pride will have a fall one of these 
days. By the year 1880 we ehall be purified. Let 
me see; how old shall I be then?" 
“Not so very oid, father,” said Lina, with a little 
loving look sent across the table to him. “How 
nice itwili be, to be sure, if it only is accomplished! ” 
“ Well,” said Tom, “ we can live on hope till the 
bright time comes. I am used to that diet,” he 
added, in a lower voice. Lina, who sat beside 
him, laughed a little, blushed a little, but spoke to 
Mr. Hills, instead of looking at Tom. 
“ How did you like our fire-places, last winter, Mr. 
Hills ? — were they not something new to you ? ” 
“Yes; and to tell the truth. Muss Brayton, I 
didn’t like them very much. Our parlor, however, 
is a large, old, rambling room; perhaps the fire¬ 
place hadn’t a fair opportunity; but I would have 
given a good deal for a Yankee air-tight stove." 
“With a wood fire, of course?” said Lina. 
“ 0, yes,— a crackling, clean wood fire, such as 
they have ou the Yankee farms at home. The only 
wood fires I see here are in the bake ovens.” 
“ How does your mother like them V " 
“Very much; she says the Dutch in Manhattan 
used to have them. They are a never-ending won¬ 
der to little Brother Willie; ‘the Idea,' he says, 
‘of having a little brick house a purpose to bake 
bread in 1 ” 
“I should think," said Lina, “a little fellow from 
the East would be highly entertained here, at first.” 
“O, yes; what puzzled him more than anything 
else was the money: I never shall forget his wide open 
eyes when they told him something he wanted to 
buy was three levies and a fipV 
“ What, deem that mean?” said Cousin Doha, “for 
/don't know.” 
“ Three and six - pence,” replied Mr. Hills, 
laughing: “they call shillings levies, here, and six¬ 
pences ftps. 1 ' 
“What names!” she said; “where did they come 
from? ” 
“I think,” said father, “levy came from the old 
eleven-penny silver pieces : they used to call those 
levies. When they went out of date, the twelve- 
and-a-half cent pieces took up the name." 
“And fip,” said Tom, “used to be 6hort for five 
pence , Isappose.” 
“ Very likely," assented father; and as we had all 
finished supper, Lina here gave a gentle signal to 
rise. I sat in my usual place, beside father at the 
table, and as the rest passed through the hall to 
the front poich, he said, “ Why, what is going to 
happen, when Ruth is so quiet! Did you speak a 
word all supper time?" 
“I believe not, father; I was interested in what 
you were all saying, and I was thinking, too.” 
“ Another wonder 1 ” he said, giving me a kiss — 
“that Ruth is thinking. A very deep train of 
thought, of course? What might it he about, if 
one might inquire?” 
“ Now, father,” — I gave him a little hug, — “one 
musu’t inquire.” 
Our visitors staid till after sunset, and then say 
ing that “ beggars never were satisfied,” besought- 
us to accompany them down the hill, which we all 
did, father and all, in a “ gay companie.” 
“ Cousin Dora,” said careful Lina, “yon had bet¬ 
ter put ou gams over your slippers: the grass will 
be all heavy with dew, iu a few minutes.” 
“ Gums! ” repeated Doba, “ what are they ?” 
“ Why, gum shoes, you know,—overshoes.” 
“I have India rubbers; won’t they do?” 
“Certainly," laughed Lina, “ that is what I mean,” 
and with another laugh at our differing vocabularies, 
Cousin Doha slipped on her India rubbers, and set 
out with our guests. 
I remember two incidents of that walk. We all 
stood waiting for the horse-car to come up the 
track, when Mr. Hills, who stood near me, turned 
suddenly, and said in a low voice — 
“Miss Kitts, when you have any spare time, you 
might, if you please, be laying out a plan for oar 
Indxpsndsnt Fourth Reader Containing a Simple, 
Practical. Comprehensive Treatise on Elocution, Illus¬ 
trated with Diagrams; Select and Classified Readings 
and Recitations; with Copious Notes, aurl a Complete 
Supplementary lodes. By J Madison Watson, Au¬ 
thor of the National Readers, Spellers ami Primer; 
The Hand-Book of Gymnastics; The Manual of Calis¬ 
thenics, etc, [12tuo,—pp, 210.] 
Ip reading books arc a necessity in schools.—which we 
greatly doubt,—then give us such as this, with selections 
fully in sympathy with youthful tastes and feelings. The 
old, staid, didactic chapters that have been repeated time 
and time again will not awaken a lively interest in the 
pupil. The Treatise on Elocution given in the present 
volnme includes instructions oh articulation, phonetic 
analysis and readings, sections on syllabication and ac¬ 
cent, and the most Important elements of expression. 
Blackboard diagrams are used to illustrate the important, 
divisions. Part Second contains a groat variety of read¬ 
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one important element of Elocution rendered prominent. 
Ample foot notes are given, as aids to the understanding 
of the text, and to proper pronunciation of the more 
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Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
THE BAT AND THE CAT. 
A ybry sleek and comely rat 
Once fell in a distiller's vat, 
And thus addressed a passing cat: 
Assist me out of this, I pray, 
O gentle puss, nor turn away!” 
Her feline nature bade her stay. 
Yes. I will help you cut," said she, 
If first. rny friend, you’ll promise me 
My willing dinner then to be.” 
The rat was sinking. Quick as thought 
He gave the promise, and was caught, 
And safely from the vat was brought. 
But fames from out the fuming vat 
Went np the nose of Tabby cat, 
Who sneezed, and sneezed again. At that 
The rat took heart and legs and fled, 
And reached a point safe overhead. 
Then ’tween her sneezes Tabby said,— 
For shame! (cache w 1) you said (cachew 1) 
You’d be my din (cachew !) ner. You 
Have lied to me.” (Cachew 1 and mew 1) 
True,” said the r it, “ ’tis even so. 
Bat I’ve exciite sufficent, though,— 
I was in liquor, then, you know 1” 
The lesson make your own, I pray: 
Those rats or men In liquor—they 
Cannot be trusted anyway. 
. r 
History op the American Civil Was. By John Wil¬ 
liam Dbapek, M. !)., LL D., Professor of ■ hemistry 
aud Physiology in T.be University of New York. Au¬ 
thor of •• A Treatise ou Human Physiology.” “ A His¬ 
tory of ttte Intellectual Development of Europe.” etc., 
etc. In Three Volumes, Voi. II. |svo. — pp. 514.1 
New York: Harper & Brothers. 
The first volume of Prof. Draper's History was mainly 
made up of theories concerning the causes of the War. 
The volume before us properly begins the historical nar¬ 
ration, Commencing with the inauguration of President 
Lincoln, March 4th, 1861, it embraces events down to 
the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation, January 
1st, 1863, which are treated of in seven distinct sections. 
It doeB not claim to he an elaborate record of battles and 
naval engagements. The details of these it does not 
often give; but the geuerat results, with their bearings 
on the Una! consummation, are well and folly stated. In 
style the narrative is vigorous, frequently nervous and 
graphic A mple side notes are given, and are a com¬ 
mendable feature. The letter-press is handsomely exe 
cuted, — large, open type, on thick, clear paper; while 
the binding is unexceptionable. The work should be in 
all libraries. Sold by Dewey. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
THE STARS. 
ADDRESSED TO MY NIECE, A. M. 
You have 6een many things; bat they are mostly 
grass-blades and stars. You have done well, how¬ 
ever, in these. You know the constellations, with 
all their .beautiful names and grotesque forms. They 
are as familiar to you as they were to the ancients, 
who named them. They still live, therefore, in your 
thoughts, though the forms that loved them are as 
though they had not been. 
And so will you depart, yet others will see and 
feel what you do now. The same swan will be there, 
spreading her wings, and pointing her neck to the 
south, as though the uorth were too uncomfortable 
for her. She is attended by her prince, Vega, with 
the most beautiful cluster in the heavens,—so say 
yon. But are they not all beautiful ? Even the least 
so have attractions of infinite importance. 
What, then, shall we say of Orion, and Taurus 
with his unparalleled clusters (Tfyades and Pleiades,) 
and Sirius, the king of all the stars, the terror of 
the ancients, and the admiration of the present. 
That is a brilliant part of the heavens, bringing you, 
as it were, nearer home, the home—nucleus—of our 
universe, so full, so lively, so benignant is the light. 
We say ow Sirius, our Orion, our Twins. Capella 
belongs to these; but lie is a more northerly Btar, 
and mates best with Perseus, Oasseopein, and the 
Great Bear. Beautiful Perseus ! brilliant with dia¬ 
monds, and marching in a path sown wfth them. It 
is fitting that he should have the contrast of Medusa 
with its wonderful star. 
And ^itere they go, ever go, these northern con¬ 
stellations ; when we see them, and when we do not, 
ever in presence. And to-night I am reminded of 
Arcturns, who now holds the realm. Of all the 
stars, this is the most significant, the most beloved, 
esteemed by the ancients, by the oldest antiquity, 
mentioned and admired as we admire it now, a 6tar 
of the first magnitude, second only to Sirius, and 
more chastened, yet equally pure in its light—the 
r/olden star of the universe, shining when few noted 
stars are seen. Alone above shines this sentinel, 
guarding night’s crown—beautiful circlet!—and her 
Virgin. Lovely is Spica below, the most lovely of 
all the stars—modest as a virgin should be. 
The Scorpion is now conspicuous and attracts all 
eyes to the South, where Saturn also holds his reign, 
eclipsing Antares, the Indian of stars, mate to Alde- 
baran in hue, but not so brilliant, not so beautiful. 
Aldebaran vies with all the stars, holding his “let¬ 
ter” and his daughters, and rich with the trophies of 
the East, the great leader of the hosts in the days of 
the sages. But this is not now. 
On these beautiful evenings there is a peculiar 
softness in the heavens,—not that clear, crackling 
brightness when winter shows his hosts. Now all 
is as tender as the flowers that look up to greet their 
sister lights. And it is well that the lesser lights 
should now be seen; that a fe w princes alone should 
rule the night from their solitary eminences. But 
Leo has hid bis last star; the Sickle will be gone 
for a long time, yet will appear again at its meridian 
(at noon of night) when the maple gives forth its 
sweets, and the woodman goes forth to his accus¬ 
tomed night labor. f. g. 
The Scientific Basis op Education, Demonstrated by 
an Analysis of the Temperaments and of Phrenological 
Facts, in Connection with Mental Phenomena and the 
Office of the Holy Spirit in the Processes of ihe mind; 
In a Series of Letters to the Department of Public In¬ 
struction in the City of New Yoriv. Second Edition. 
By John Hecker. [8vo,—pp. 227,] New York: A. S. 
Barnes & Co. 
While there is some curious theorizing in these letters 
to which we cannot subscribe, there is also much that is 
worthy careful consideration. Phrenology is taken us 
the true basis of education; but. Mr. Decker's idea of 
Phrenology differs, we think, from that most generally 
entertained. It assumes a new character of practicality, 
It recognizes more fully the spiritual in man, and assigns 
it a very’high place in education, as well as in religion. 
Classification by temperaments is the specialty which 
Mr. H urges, and every educator of youth may glean 
useful hints from the arguments presented. We are not 
converted to Phrenology by perusal of this book, but clo 
think more kindly of the so caUed science tnau we did 
before. Sold by Darrow. 
ANSON BXJRLINGAME, EMBASSADOR FROM CHINA 
Perhaps the greatest compliment ever paid to an 
American was that extended to Hod. Anson Bur¬ 
lingame, whose portrait we give above, by the 
Chinese Government, in constituting him Minister 
Plenipotentiary from China to all the Treaty Powers. 
It was a surprise to the recipient; it has not ceased 
to be a surprise to all the civilized world. That, the 
oldest nation should select its first representative 
abroad from the youngest, was an astonishing fact, 
for a time hardly credited. It waa a recognition of 
which the United States maybe justly proud. 
Mr. Burlingame was born at New Berliu, New 
York, November 14, 1883. A few years later his 
parents removed to Ohio, and not long afterward, 
to Michigan, lu the latter State young Burlin¬ 
game gained his education, Inking a collegiate 
course at the branch University of Michigan, es¬ 
tablished in Detroit. Subsequently he studied law 
at Harvard Law School, and opened an office in 
Boston. He was sooa elected to the Massachusetts 
Senate, was made a member of the State Constitu¬ 
tional Convention, and when but thirty-one years 
old was chosen to represent in Congress the district 
comprising Boston and Cambridge, in which capacity 
he served six years, During the political campaigns 
of 185fl and 1SG0 he cauvassed nearly the whole 
country, winning much popularity as a public- 
speaker. In 1801 he waa appointed Minister to 
China. His diplomatic course there is well known. 
He interested himself in the development of the 
resources of the Chinese Empire, in furthering the 
cause of education, and also in aiding mission efforts 
among the “ Celestials; ” and is now repaid by see¬ 
ing the doors of the long pent-np nation thrown 
broadly open, and himself clothed with authority 
to invite the world to enter. 
What Answer? By Anna K. Dickinson. [12mo,—pp. 
301.] Boston: Tickuor J6 Fields. 
When we learned that Anna Dickinson was writing a 
book, we knew the effort, like all other efforts of hers, 
would have an earnest underlying purpose. We have 
read her book with deep Interest,—haye found what that 
underlying purpose is. It is to plead for the black man, 
that he be no longer ostracized. Aud her plea is in many 
respects a powerfal one. Fe w who peruse it carefully 
will deny this, Miss Dickinson believes that color 
should not ban au/ man from society; she pleads elo¬ 
quently that it shall not. and of the world at large who 
may listen to ner she asks—” What Answer?” There 
will always be two opinions on this question. It is prob¬ 
able that the majority will still cling to the old and popu¬ 
lar one. But they will grant to this book much strength, 
much touching pathos. It has in it mach of the sad 
music ot its fair author’s own voice, and enchains atten¬ 
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much appraised by the Parisian epicures from their 
color and flavor, receive both wholly from that lo¬ 
cality where they are fed and fattened. Tnis is at 
Mareones. The white or common oysters are taken 
to this locality, and deposited in inclosures about 
one hundred feet square, made of svatei tight walls 
of earth. At very high tides, only, are these inclo¬ 
sures allowed to be flooded. Then the green ecnm 
of the foreshore, produced by the lashing of the sea, 
is admitted, aud us the oysters are fattened ou it for 
two yeai-9, they are both colored and flavored by 
this green sea foam. l, 9 . a. 
fatious IsJiufis 
Written for Moore’s Rural 
ALL ABOUT THE OY«] 
’ew-Torker, 
LOCOMOTiON.f 
Upon this subject, also, thl doctors disagree. 
All admit that when the young, minute oy6ter is 
sent adrift by the parent, it moves,—but as to means 
of movement they do not agree. One class of natu¬ 
ralists maintain that the moving is accomplished by 
the action of the water,—that it floats away, and 
that it does not move by any inherent power of lo- 
comotiou in the spat. Others assert that the flat- 
sums have a swimming apparatus, which drops off 
as soon as a lodgment is made. Dr. F. Buckland 
assumes that the swimming instrumentalities be¬ 
come the lung of the oyster, as aoon as they have 
served their first purpose. When once fastened to 
any substance the oyster has no power of detaching 
itself, and it has no need of any means of locomo¬ 
tion, therefore, after that. It is asserted, however, 
without coutradiction, that when by any means the 
oyster has been released from its rock or other sub¬ 
stantial attachment, and its position is changed to 
an unnatural one, as in planting, it is endowed with 
power “ to right itself up." But, truly, the ques¬ 
tions as to whether the oyster has the power of 
moving about, and when, by -what means, and 
where it ceases, remain for settlement at a future 
day by more persistent and careful investigations 
into its nature, habits and capacities, limited as the 
latter are. 
time of planting. 
Planting time, usually, in most localities, is regu¬ 
lated by law. However this may be, it is done ordi¬ 
narily, it may be said al waj s, duriag the mild months 
of the year, after the oyster season is ended, or be¬ 
fore it is begun. Much is done in May and June, and 
in August and September. They are taken from the 
natural beds in the Eounding sea. The oysters 
found in water of five or six fathoms deep are 
brought up by large iron drags, or rakes, or shears 
attached to ropes, which are fusioned to the smacks 
under sail, and as often as the implement is loaded 
it is drawn on board by means or a windlass. Five 
or six bushels of oysters are sometimes brought up 
at a time. Waen the vessel is loaded, the cargo is 
takefti to the planting locality, and cast overboard. 
Thus the business got6 on from day to day, until the 
bed is properly planted. U sually stakes are placed 
so as to show where oysters have been deposited. 
The artificial beds are located in coves, bays and in¬ 
lets about the mouths of streams, and up the streams 
as far as the water is sufficiently salt to permit the 
bivalve to flourish. Where the temperature is low 
enough to freeze, as it does in New Jersey, Mary¬ 
land and Virginia shore-oyster fisheries, care must 
be taken to plauc deep enough so that with the tidal 
fluctuations the oysters are never sufficiently ex¬ 
posed to be frozen. Frost will kill them. 
quality and flavor. 
The quality of au oyster depends upon its condi¬ 
tion, solely. A large, plump oyster has excellent 
quality; if it has flavor, w T hich is a circumstance 
contingent on the jicculiar conditions and proper¬ 
ties uf the locality where it has been fed. It is also 
excellent in that particular. A distinct difference is 
discernible between the seaside oybtcre, or those 
taken from the ocean, and these taken from the 
coves about the mouths of rivers and from the riv¬ 
ers themselves, where the water is freshened by the 
river water proper. The seasides arc salt,—too salt 
for 60 me palates,—while the cove and river oysters 
often need a little seasoning. If there are any other 
peculiarities in the feeding locality, the oysters will 
show them. For example: the green oysters, so 
A GOLD CARRIER, 
In the last number of Harper’s Magazine we find 
the following description of a Wall street character 
and a Wall street load: 
AU the bullion and coin of Wall street is carried 
about the streets iu common, open carts, precisely 
such as are used in carrying ordinary merchandise. 
For twenty-two years past one carman, John C. 
Barkley, best known in the street as “ Honest 
John,” whose three carts stand at the busy corner 
of Wall and Broad streets, has done the carting for 
the bullion dealers and bankers of the city, any of 
whom would trust him in their vaults with treasure 
uncounted. Tall, robust and ruddy, Honest John 
has in his countenance precisely the expression 
which we should expect to see in the face of one 
who for so many years has borne so honorable a 
name. He began in the street twenty-seven years 
ago, and, after his fifth year, he became the estab¬ 
lished carman of the coin and buUion men. It is 
his carts that go to the California steamers and con¬ 
vey their kegs of gold to the vaults to which they 
are consigned. His carts assist to restore the finan¬ 
cial balance between the two continents by convey¬ 
ing gold to and from the Canard steamers in Jersey 
City. He has occasionally carried for short dis¬ 
tances, down hill, a million dollars in gold, which 
weighs two tons: bat his opinion is that seven 
hundred thousand dollars is about as much as a 
humane man wUI ever permit his horse to draw 
over these rough pavements for any considerable 
distance. On a busy day he will have as many as 
twenty loads of precious metals. A load of gold, 
when it goes across the town, is usual ty accompa¬ 
nied by a clerk of the house to which it belongs ; 
but it often happens that Honest John is quite 
alone when he has as much gold on his cart as a 
horse can draw. For such service he gets higher 
compensation than when he carries an office-desk 
or a load of printing paper; and, indeed, he has 
the air of a man who could show a little gold and 
silver of his own if there were occasion. 
Comer's Navigation Simplified, A Manual of Instruc¬ 
tion in Navigation as Practiced at Sea. Adapted tc 
the Wants of the Sailor. Containing all the Tables, Ex¬ 
planations aud Illustrations Necessary for the Easy 
Understanding and Use of the Practical Branches of 
Navigation and Nautical Astronomy ; With Numerous 
Examples, worked out, by the American Ephemera's 
and Nautical Almanac for Several Years Ahead. Com¬ 
piled at (aiid expressly lor the Navigation Students ef) 
Comer's Commercial College, Bostou. [8vo,—pp. 112.] 
New York; Harper & Brotnurs. 
We judge this work to be a very nsel’al compilation in 
its peculiar field of .science. Besides the instructive text 
proper, there are 52 pages ol' tables which mast be ol' 
very great value to navigators and students of naviga¬ 
tion, For sale by Dewey. 
“1 won’t have to go and learn a trade, and be¬ 
come a common mechanic, will I, ma ?” said Geroge 
A. to his mother the other day. 
“ No, my boy; you can keep at school, and go to 
college and become a learned man,” was the mother’s 
reply. Then she began to tell him of some one 
whom she knew having been made an LL.D. by one 
of the colleges. 
Ah George! you will have to look out lest some of 
those boys who are learning trades, aud whom you 
despise, become educated, honorable men before 
you, with all your high notions. I read of an LL. D. 
very unlike the kind that George A. and many other 
boys like him hope to become. He never went to 
college, but worked hard most of his life at the trade 
of leather-dressing, yet found time at nights to read 
and improve his mind, so that he was called LL. D. 
®r the Lewmed Leather-Dresser. Aud well he might, 
for he not only was a skillful tradesman, whose 
leather commanded the best price, but was a truly 
educated, refined gentleman. When he died, this 
LL. D. left a library to the Historical Society of 
Massachusetts worth £’>0,000. What was better than 
all, he did not buy his books for display or to pre¬ 
tend to a literary taste, but read them himself; and 
to compensate for his lack of college training, he 
owned and read translations of all the Greek and 
Latin authors. 
Let those boys who have to learn trades and can¬ 
not go to college remember there is more than one 
kind of LL. D.— The Danner, 
The Golden Fruit. By Mrs. J. McNair Wright, Au¬ 
thor of “Golden Heart,” “Golden Life," “Oolden 
Work,” etc. [16mo. pp. 352.] Boston: Henry Hoyt. 
Parents may put this story into the hands of their 
children without hesitation. They may even read it 
themselves with profit. It teaches a lesson that is slow 
in coming home to Ihe hearts of mankind, that needs to 
be enforced aud illustrated and dwelt upon again and 
again: money is not the supreme good; atflictione are 
for a wise purpose. Indeod, the book is quite as well 
adapted to grown up people as to youth. The narrative 
is very interesting. It is gotten up neatly, as are all of 
Mr. Hoyt’s publications. 
The Works of Charles Dickens. With Illustrations 
by Gbokox Cruiksuank, John Leech and H. K. 
Browne. New York : D. Appleton & Co. 
Here we have Volnme the Sixth, aud last, of the 
“Library Edition” of Dickens. It contains “David 
Copper field,” of wfiich the author has in prefatory confi¬ 
dence said —“Of all my books, I like this the best;” 
•‘Christmas Stories," five in number; “A Tale of Two 
Cities,” and “The Uncommercial Traveler,” aggregating 
773 pages, in small but clear cut type, and induced in the 
very gayest of binding, handsomely gilt. To commend 
euch a volume is superfluous. Sold by Scrantom & 
Wetmore. 
Meteoric Show ers. — Meteoric stones have fal¬ 
len in unusual quantities during the past six 
months. Birmingham, iu England has recently 
been visited by a shower of those celestial missiles, 
which fell iu the streets of that city iu great quan¬ 
tities during a very heavy rain storm. They were 
about the eighth of an inch in length, and greatly 
resembled the meteoric particles that fell in similar 
abundance on the 12th of June, 1858. Prof. Loomis 
says 8,000,000 stars shoot through the earth’s atmos¬ 
phere every twenty-four hours, some of them very 
small, weighing 480 to the ounce. 
The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Lau¬ 
reate, Complete Edition, fiemo. — paper, pp. 244.1 
Boston: Tieknor & Fields. 
In this volume we have the complete works of a favor¬ 
ite author reduced to so small a compass as to be readily 
carried iu the pocket, yet so clearly printed as to be 
easily read. For a cheap edition it is very desirable. 
Sold by Dewey. 
Never enter a sick 
A Royal Spelling Match.—A test familiar to b 
our Yankee school children was recently tried by 1 
the children in the French Imperial family, of see- y 
ing who could spell the most correctly. The most 
difficult word6 were selected, and much amusement j 
was the result. None were perfectly accurate,— A 
Prince Mettcrnich having six faults, Baron Corvi- P 
sart eight, the Etnperor nine, the Prince Imperial g 
eleven, aud the librarian, to the great merriment of ® 
all, fourteen. jf 
The Abbott. A Romance. By Sir Walter Scott, 
Bart. [lOmo.—pp. Ifcl.] 
Another of the Scotch-plaid Edition of the Waverloy 
Novels is beie given. It is not as well known as some 
other romances from the same pen, but, it is hardly 
necessary to say, is full of intense interest. Sold by 
Scrantom & Wetmore. 
between the sick and the lire; because the heat 
attracts the vapor. Preventives are preferable to 
pills or powders. 
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is hon 
est must always be becoming. 
