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AN ELECTRIC CLOCK. 
Mr. 8 . A. Kennedy, of New York city, has in¬ 
vented and perfected a clock which is moved solely 
by electricity. It has been exhibited to a number of 
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So simple a clock never was invented before. Its 
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the dial face. Springs, weights, and windingupare 
dispensed with altogether. The pendulum is kept 
in movement by two wires connected with the earth. 
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reaches the ground; the other passes through a 
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the coil ou its side of the pendulum. Accordingly 
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made to swing back toward tbc other side, where it 
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as it has performed its office of repulsion, and lets it 
on again as soon as the repulsive force is once more 
needed. 
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currents from the earth. The same pair of wires 
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going by a stationary battery, if from any circum¬ 
stance it should be become difficult to connect the 
wires with the earth. 
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time that they will last, will not be among the least 
of their recommendations for common use. 
THE LIFE OF IRON. 
A scientific paper has the following on a subject 
daily growing of greater importance, as suspension 
bridges, and others constructed of iron, are more 
and more coming into use: 
It souuds a little oddly to hoar of the life of an in¬ 
animate thing. But it seems to be pretty well 
settled, that things inanimate, as well as animate, 
have life periods, varying according to circumstan¬ 
ces. Thus, iron itself, when wrought into various 
useful things, has a period beyond which it canuot 
he said to have life sufficient for the purpose for 
which it was wrought. It is not simply liable to be 
used up by wear and tear, but also to lose its tenaci¬ 
ty anil elasticity, and to be disintegrated :uul weak¬ 
ened—in short, to lose its life and become useless 
long before it is worn out, and even when not worn 
at all. For example, a wrought iron girder bridge 
can bear only a certain amount of daily use without 
rapid depreciation of strength. It must have sea¬ 
sons of rest from strain, just as an animal requires 
rest, and its life depends on these. If subjected to 
a heavy strain, often repeated, with little interven¬ 
ing rest, its life will be proportionately less than it 
would be under other circumstances. 
The Engineer has gone into certain calculations 
to show how long a bridge of wrought iron may be 
expected to live, under given circumstances, and 
comes to the conclusion that such a bridge, subject 
at intervals to a dynamical load not exceeding a 
fourth part of its powers of ultimate resistance— 
that is to say, not subject to this strain moro than 
one hundred times in twenty-four hours—may be 
6afe to travel for about 328 years. But, as many of 
the hardest^worked iron railroad bridges are subject 
to twice, or even thrice, this number of daily 
strains, the conclusion reached is, that a girder 
bridge cannot bo safely counted on for more than 
about one hundred years. These calculations, if 
reliable, (and we see uot why they may not be,) are 
very important for all uses of iron subject to heavy 
strains. They tend to show that a thing may be as 
strong as the best Iron cau make it, and yet be sub¬ 
ject to loss of strength and life even without wear. 
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BLEEDING AT THE I NOSE. 
There are two little arteries which supply the 
whole face with blood, one on each side; these 
branch off from the main urteries on each side of 
the windpipe, aud ruuning upward toward the eyes, 
pass over the outside of the jaw bone about two- 
thirds of the way back from the chin to the angle 
of the jaw, under the ear. Each of these arteries, 
of course, supplies just one-haif of the face, the 
nose being the dividing line; the left nostril is sup¬ 
plied with blood from the left artery, and the right 
nostril from the right artery. Now, supposing your 
nose bleeds by the right nostril, with the end of the 
tore-finger feel along the outer edge of the right 
jaw until you feel the bcatiug of the artery directly 
under the finger, the same as .the pulse in your 
wrist, then press the finger hard upon it, thus get¬ 
ting the little fellow in a tight place between your 
linger and the jaw bono; the result will be that not 
a drop of blood goes into the side of your face 
while the pressure continues, hence the nose in¬ 
stantly stops bleeding for want of blood to flow; 
continue the pressure for five or ten minutes aud 
the ruptured vessels in the nose will by that time 
probably contract so that when you let the blood 
Into them they will not leak. Blocdimg from a cut 
or wound anywhere about the face may be stopped 
in the same way. 
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Nutmegs.— Nutmegs are the fruit of a beautiful 
tree which grows in the Molucca Islands, and in 
other parts of the east. All the parts of the tree 
are aromatic, but Only those portions of the fruit 
called mace aud nutmegs arc marketable. The en¬ 
tire fruit is of an oval form about the size of a peach. 
The nutmeg is tie innermost kernel. It is surround¬ 
ed by a skin, which peeled off, constitutes the mace 
of commerce. The tree yields annually throe crops. 
The first one, which is gathered in April, i 3 the best 
The others are gathered in August and December. 
Good nutmegs should be dense and heavy and free 
from worm holes. An attempt has been made to 
cultivate nutmegs in the West Indies, but without 
success. 
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Good but Not For Eating.—A wealthy bishop 
congratulated a poor priest on the good air which he 
breathed in his parish, to which the latter replied, 
“ Yes, my lord, the air would be good enough if I 
could only live on it.” 
NATIVE O UN ALASKAN AND SEAL DOG. 
Above is portrayed a native of Ounalaska, which 
Island forms part of the Alaskan Territory recently 
acquired by the United States. The Ounalaskans 
are of medium size, brown complexion, and fine 
physical development, much exercise in rowing giv¬ 
ing them broad chests and sturdy arms. They are 
ingenious mechanics, showing great Bkill in carving 
wood, bouc and ivory, and in manufacturing various 
implements, making boats, etc. Their “ baidar- 
kas,” or skin-covered canoes, are remarkable speci¬ 
mens of aboriginal workmanship. They are very 
symmetrical; generally from sixteen to eighteen 
Hhmfius 
NAMES ON THE HUDSON. 
In the Appendix to a work entitled “ Legends 
and Poetry of the Hudson, ” published by P. S. 
Wynkoou & Son, New York, we find the derivation 
and signification of some of the most important 
names on the Hudson River. A fewjof them are as 
follows: 
Brooklyn— breukeleji, Broken land, from the un¬ 
evenness of the surrounding country. 
Ncwburg, settled by the Palatines, signifying 
New Town. 
Yonkers, Yonk-herr , named after the young lord 
or yotmj sir of the Phillipsie manor. 
Sing Slug, called from the Chinese city Tsing Tsing, 
a name given to the place by a merchant who traded 
with China. 
Poughkeepsie, Indian name Apookeepsing, signify¬ 
ing “ Safe Harbor.” 
Hyde Park, named in honor of Lady Ann Hyde, 
afterwards Queen of England. 
Rhincbeck, some say, a combination of two 
words, Beekman and Rhine, a family from the 
Rhine who fl-st settled there. Perhaps the better 
derivation Is the resemblance of the cliffs to those 
on the Rhine, beck, in Dutch, signifying cliff. 
Kinderhook, signifying “ Children’s comer.” 
Po-can-ti fo) was the Indian name for Tarry town. 
Coxsackle and Nyack are both of Indian origin; 
the latter meaning Tailing, leaping or flowing waters. 
Oreetibush , ffet Create-Bosch, the Dutch name for 
“ The Pine Woods.” 
Albany, ouce called Bever-wyck and Williamstadt. 
A fort was erected in 1623, and the place was some¬ 
times called Fort Auranta. Its present name was 
given in honor of the Duke of Albany, in 1661, on 
the surrender of the fort to the English. The In¬ 
dians called it 8haunaugh-ta-da, or “ Pine Plains.” 
Troy in 1786 was called Ferryhook. In 1787 called 
Renaselaerwyck. In the fall of 1787 the settlers 
began to U3e the name of Vanderhydeu, who once 
owned a great part of the ground where the city 
now stands. January flth, 1786, the freeholders of 
the town met and gave it the name of Troy. 
The river was called, for the first lew years after 
its discovery, by some of the settlers, the “ Manhut- 
tes,” after a tribe of Indians living at its mouth, by 
others the “Mauritius” and “de grotte” River 
(the groat river); afterwards called the North River, 
not so much from its course as to distinguish it 
from the Delaware, which they called the “8outh” 
River. The Indians called it the “ 8hatemuc.” 
The English gave it the name of the Hudson River, 
by way of continual claim, as Hendrick Hudson was 
of English birth. The Spaniards called it the “ River 
of the Mountains.” 
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THE TWO TRAVELERS. 
There is a little German legend which suggests a 
useful moral. It is the simple story ot two peasants 
who started to travel round the world. One made 
great preparations lor his journey, resolving to have 
things in readiness for any emergency. He carried 
thick clothing, lbr It might be cold, and light cloth¬ 
ing, for it might be warm. He provided himself 
with various stores of medicine in case of illness; 
and then remembering that there might be robbers 
in the way, had a suit of armor made, not daring to 
trust to his good sword alone, for h* had resolved 
to convert his little hut and garden plat into gold, 
that he might take that also with him. 
The other gave a poor neighbor the use of his 
cottage and garden, and all the milk from two fat 
kinc, while he should be away. He had no gold to 
carry, so he needed neither sword nor armor. He 
dressed himself comfortably, leaving the control of 
the elements to Providence, in whom he trusted 
also for the same good health which had been here¬ 
tofore vouchsafed him. 
feet long, and weigh but about forty pounds. Both 
sexes arc proficient in their use. The women are 
rather pretty,—a rare thing among native races; and 
BOme of them have very expressive faces. Seal fish¬ 
ing is the chief employment of Ounalaskans, and in 
prosecuting it they manifest considerable tact, using 
a dart with a false point well barbed, to which is 
fastened a string connected with the wooden shaft. 
When the animal dives this talse point separates 
from the dart aud remains in its body, while the 
dart itself acts as a flout to direet the pursuer’s at¬ 
tention, and the prey is easily secured. 
They set out together, but the first soon fell be¬ 
hind. His armor chafed and fretted him, his cloth¬ 
ing and stores weighed him down, and he was In 
constant fear lest robbers should come upon him 
unawares and take all his possessions. The other, 
light ot heart and light of limb, strode fearlessly on 
his journey, thoroughly enjoying everything he saw 
each day, happy In the brightness and the sunshine, 
without ever stopping to wonder if it would he cold 
or dark on the 'morrow, or be should be ill, or the 
plague Bhould destroy his kine, or the fiames fla¬ 
vour his cottage. And so he journeyed round the 
w T orld, keeping his face always to the light, and 
dwelling iti perpetual sunshine. 
Arrived at home he made inquiries for his fellow 
traveler. No one had heard aught of him, and so 
he started on in pursuit of him. But ho had not 
far to go. Scarce ten leagues away he found him 
overcome with fatigue, bis clothing heavy and soiled 
with the flirt through which he had been compelled 
to drag it—for he could not carry so much weight 
on his shoulders; his sword broken at the hilt, from 
having been caught iu the wall, where he had hid¬ 
den to be secure from robbers, and his gold, and his 
armor, and his medicine weighing him down, so 
that he had no heurt for enjoying any of the beauti¬ 
ful sights; indeed, it took him all the time to look 
out for his burdens ; and he had no time to look up 
to see if the sun was shining, because of his many 
cares, that kept his eyes always on the earth. 
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TO JERUSALEM IN AN OMNIBUS. 
The Yankee is irrepressible. The London Times 
says that a macadamised road has been made from 
Jaffa to Jerusalem. Jaffa Is the Joppa of the New 
Testament, and is the only convenient landing on 
the entire seaboard of Palestine. The road having 
been completed, the honor of starting the first pub¬ 
lic conveyance has been appropriated by an Ameri¬ 
can resident in Jaffa, who drives a small omnibus 
daily between Jaffa and Jerusalem. 
We have known English travelers, entirely unac¬ 
customed to horse exercise, aud portly withal, as 
many well-to-do ladies and gentlemen are, having 
undertaken the journey through Palestine in iguo- 
rauee of what was before them, to have undergone 
little short of martyrdom before their trip was half 
over. The stony tracks along which you have to 
travel, the Syrian saddles, not made for dainty 
riders, and the horses with backbones in a long 
sharp ridge, are not suited for a majority of Eng¬ 
lish townspeople. But when you can avoid all this, 
aud go comfortably—that is, comparatively so — in 
an omnibus not worse than the diligences on the 
mountain rotuls of the south of France, leaving 
horsemanship for a short and optional side excur¬ 
sion here aud there, the number of visitors to Pales¬ 
tine will soon increase enormously. Greatly to the 
astonishment of the Arab and Turkish population, 
a steam-mill is now in course of erection at Jerusa¬ 
lem, and this will soon be followed, no doubt, by 
various other inventions of the West. The tradi¬ 
tional immobility of the East is gone forever. Not 
Palestine only, but the entire Turkish Empire, 
must heforo long yield to the resistless march of 
Christian civilization.— X. IF. Christian Advocate. 
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The Escuuial — The Escurial Is the palace otthe 
Kings of Spain, one of the largest aud most magnifi¬ 
cent in the world. It was commenced by Philip II, 
in the year 1562, and the first cost of its erection was 
6,000,000 of ducats. It forms a vast square of 
polished stone, paved with marble. It may give 
some notion of the surprising grandeur of this pal¬ 
ace to observe that according to the computation of 
Francisco dc los Santes, it would take moro than 
four days to go through all the rooms aud apart¬ 
ments, the length of the way being reckoned thirty- 
three Spanish leagues, which is above one hundred 
and twenty English miles. There are fourteen 
thousand doors aud eleven thousand windows be 
longing to the edifice. 
CHILDREN, BEWARE 1 
Children and youth, beware, beware, 
The wluc-cup'B withering smiles, 
Lest round yotir feet bo spread the snare 
Of Satan's choicest wiles. 
Then, step by step, a willing slave, 
By guilty pleasure led, 
Yoa’ll early find a drunkard's grave, 
With terrors round your head. 
Oh I shun the demou’s hateful power, 
Which spreads destruction wide; 
And hasten to the beauteous bower 
Where Temperance doth preside. 
LOST AND FOUND. 
Some years ago two boys, while playing upon a 
cliff near the sea, found a young sea-bird which 
a dog was worrying. It would have been killed 
but for them. They drove away the dog aud car¬ 
ried the bird, nearly as largo as a goose, safely 
home. There it was shut up in a coop, like the 
hens and chickens, fed and kindly cared for. It 
soon became quite tame, ami manifested constant 
affection for its lifclic masters, who felt quite proud 
of the result of their care. 
And thus weeks and months rolled on. In the 
fall of the year the bird being very tame, the coop 
was occasionally opened and the prisoner permitted 
to go to the coast, near which the boys lived. But 
it came regularly home at night, receiving its sup¬ 
per along with the rest of the biddies, and crept to 
its nest to repose. So the cold winter passed away, 
and spring came. One night the bird which had 
been cared for so well was missed. It did not come 
home. The next day and the next went by, and 
still the coop was empty. 
The fact was, the boys’ bird had been coaxed 
away—I cannot really say into bad company. But 
it had joined a flock on its way north, and flown 
with the rest. Presently the boys began to com¬ 
prehend the difficulty, and as a matter of course 
they had to have a good cry about it. They had 
really learned to love their bird, and to part with 
it, for them, was a severe trial. That iB ull very 
natural, for kindness, no matter upon what creature 
bestowed, ever begets kindness, aud to part with 
an object that we luve is ever painful. 
Borne of my readers will, no doubt, anticipate the 
end of my story, for many similar events are record¬ 
ed. One cold, autumn day, as the boys were at 
play in their yard, they saw a flock of sea-birds 
coming towards them. Nearer and nearer they 
came, until at last, to their infinite surprise, the 
whole flock settled upon the ground close at hand, 
and the largest waddled along toward them, quack¬ 
ing most curiously as she came. It was the bird 
Which had flown away in the spring, now returned 
with her young ones to claim hospitality for the 
winter! You may imagine, if you can, the delight 
of the boys, and indeed that of their parents, at this 
instance of affection. Words cannot describe it. 
You may uiuke up your mind that the flock was 
not turned adrift, though for a long time the young 
ones were pretty wild, and did not take as kindly 
to the boys as the mother did. Ah, well; they did 
uot know them as intimately.— Casket and Playmate. 
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THE EXACT TRUTH. 
Two young masons were building a brick wall— 
the front wall of a high house. One of them, in 
placing a brick, discovered that it was a little thicker 
on one side than on the other. 
His companion advised him to throw it out. “It 
will make, your wall untrue, Ben,” said lie. 
“Pooh!” answered Ben, “what difference will 
such’a trifle as that make ? You’re too particular.” 
“My mother,” replied his companion, “taught 
me that 1 truth is truth,’ and ever so little an untruth 
is a lie, and a lie is no trifle.” 
“O,” said Ben, “that’s all very well; but lam 
not lying, and have no intention of doing so.” 
“Very true; hut you make your wall tell a lie; 
and I have somewhere read that a lie In one’s work, 
like a lie in his character, will show itself sooner or 
later, and bring harm, if not ruiu.” 
“I’ll risk it in that case,” answered Ben, and he 
worked away, laying more bricks, and carrying the 
wall up higher, till the close of the day, when they 
quit work and went home. 
The next morning they went to resume their work, 
when behold, the lie had wrought out the result of 
all lies! The wall getting a little slant from the an- 
true brick, had become more and more untrue as it 
got higher, and at last in the night had toppled over, 
obliging the masons to do ail their work over again. 
J ust so with ever so little an untruth in your 
character—it grows more and more untrue if you. 
permit it to remain, till it brings sorrow and ruin. 
“EVERY BIT OF IT.” 
One evening, at prayer meeting, many newly con¬ 
verted persons, both old and young, arose to tell 
what God hud done for their souls, aud their deter¬ 
mination to love and serve him Among the rest, a 
little girl about seven years old jumped up, her face 
beaming with happiness, and straining her childish 
voice to speak as loud as she could, she said: 
“ I have given my heart to Jesus, every bit of it. n 
Was not that a beautiful little speech? I wonder 
if all the elder people who had risen before couid 
&ay what she did: —“I have given my heart to 
Jesus, every bit of it.” 
An fl [s not this what Jesus wants ? “ My son, 
give me thine heart,” is the command of the Bible. 
And will he be satisfied with having only a part of 
it ? No, indeed; he must, have every bit of it. 
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In the Days ok thy Youth.— James Parton 
writes in Packard’s Monthly:—If yon would look 
into the early life of truly helpful men, those who 
make life easier or nobler to those who come after 
them, you will almost invariably find that they 
lived purely in the days of their youth. In early 
life the brain, though abounding in vigor, is sensi¬ 
tive and very susceptible to injury—and this to 
such a degree, that a brief aud moderate indulgence 
in vicious pleasures appears to lower the tone and 
impair both the delicacy and efficiency of the brain 
for life. This is not preaching, boys—it is simply 
the truth of science. 
Prize Your Mother. —“ I have discovered (said 
Gray, the poet, In a letter to a young friend) a thing 
very little known, which is, that in one’s life one 
eun never have more than one mother. You may 
tbink this Is obvious, and what you may call a trite 
observation. You arc a green gosling! I wua, at 
the saiuc age, very near as wise as you, and yet I 
never discovered this—with full evidence aud con¬ 
viction, i mean—till it was too late, it is thirteen 
years ago, and it seems to me but as yesterday, aud 
every day I live it sinks deeper into my heart!” 
