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NIAGARA FALLS EQUALED IN INDIA 
GRATIFYING CHILDREN’S CURIOSITY. 
The curiosity of children is not n fault, 
and therefore we must never censure them 
for asking questions, or lead them to think 
that we consider the disposition to do so a 
fault on their part; but, on the other hand, 
this disposit ion is to he encouraged as much 
as possible. 
We must remember that a child, when his 
powers of observation begin to be devel¬ 
oped, finds everything around him full of 
mystery and wonder. Why sonic things are 
hard and some are soft; why some things 
will roll and some will not; why ho is not 
hurt when he falls on the sofa, and is hurt 
(’on. Haig, in his account of bis journey 
to discover the best road to Jugdalpoor in 
the llastor country, thus describes the falls 
of lndravati, which must very nearly come 
up to those of Niagara:—" The falls are 
certainly one of the grandest sights in India, 
though from their inaccessible position few 
will probably ever see them. The river was 
in llood within ten feet (according to the 
people on its banks) of its extreme bight. 
About four miles above t he falls (which are 
a mile below the village of Cliitrakotl the 
lndravati is joined by the Narnagi, a river 
of about three-fourths its size. The united 
BEFORE AND AFTER 
COUNT CAVOUR 
A THRILLING ROMANCE OF THE 
WAR FOR THE UNION. 
Count Camii.eo Benso hi Favour, the 
great Italian Statesman, was born in 1810 in 
Turin, the capital of Piedmont, that virile 
Province that has done so much towards the 
unity of Italy. Italians, and the world, will 
never forget the great genius who laid the 
foundation of that dream of the Italian poets 
and patriots, which has since become an ac¬ 
complished fact, the unity of the Kingdom 
of Italy. Some men accomplish marvels in 
a brief bit of a short life time. 
Favour was one of these. In 
1842 he returned to Italy after fllH 
profound and protracted study ; rl W J f! |i || 
in England. Ten years later, Hl iii||il|!S 
when 'thirty - H«M years of [Si I 
age, he was elected for 1 lie llrst BMM JUn 
time to the Legislature. Two Si’ * 
friend, 
Written Expressly for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
BY TWO WEI.I.-KNOWN AUTHORS. 
I.— The Coming Storm. 
[Continued from page 2(1, Inst No.) 
Margaret Heatiierstone was fast de¬ 
veloping into a firm, self-possessed, just 
woman; and yet. her relatives 
WliHlilKia|i ii had no more idea of her 
11 H 10 growth, no more thought that 
i‘ Dll the young mind considered by 
OTffl | I them so plastic and t horoughly 
mill | teachable, had, to all intents 
mm | and purposes, outgrown the 
years afterward his 
Massimo n’A zej.to, proposed 
to the kiug that he should join 
the Cabinet as Minister of 
Commerce. “Take care,” re¬ 
plied Victor Emmanuel. 
“ If Favour enters the Cabi¬ 
net ho will soon be master of 
it.” The king was right. 
One by oue, under the in¬ 
fluence of that great mind 
which, for a series of years, 
had been stored with State 
rrnft, the objects leading up 
to the aim of all Italians am¬ 
bition, were accomplished. All 
in all. Favour was t he greatest 
statesman of modern times, 
being considered even supe¬ 
rior to Bismarck. He com¬ 
bined breadth of view, mar¬ 
velous diplomatic adroitness, 
financial foresight, and execu¬ 
tive ability. He was a great 
worker, during tho Austrian 
war employing himself sixteen 
hours a day. While this war 
lasted he was the chiof of five 
departments, including the 
War and Marine, and it is 
thought his excessive labors 
shortened his life. There was 
uo Italian indolence in Fa¬ 
vour, at least,; ho was a man 
of the old Roman type. 
Only a few years have pass¬ 
ed over the grave of Favour, 
and the court of the king he 
served so well has been re¬ 
moved to Rome. His name is 
still fresh and green in tho 
hearts of his countrymen, and 
is honored and respected by 
all lovers of freedom in Amer¬ 
ica. Rome, by the great work 
Favour performed, Is now the 
home of freedom, and Italy is 
united once more. 
For many of the facts em¬ 
braced in the preceding sketch 
of Fount Favour, wo are in¬ 
debted to Ids countryman, 
Fapt. F.esar Moreno, the 
Asiatic Traveler and Navi¬ 
gator, now a resident of the 
United States. 
means, every slave i own m uiu 
world might have their liber¬ 
ty, for all T should care.” 
“ But. Isn’t there some other 
way, pat’* and every bit of 
color forsook Margaret’s faco 
as she waited for her father’s 
answer. 
“ Not for me, individually. 
The only way I could relievo 
myself from these crushing 
cares would be to sell out hero 
and go North, and sometimes 
L am almost tempted to do it. 
■, such a thing can't 
moment 
it. of tho trouble 
However 
be thought of for a 
v now, on accoui 
. ,^y that seems to bo fast approach- 
/ ing a climax. You see, Mag- 
GIE, the Northern Statos have 
I (jk no right to interfere with our 
ill 111 111 domestic institutions. This 1 
SfM 1 . i p. realize, and am prepared to 
fl«ht it out to the bitter end; 
stilt 1 am most infernally tired 
[l beg your pardon, little girl] 
- -^-'1 • of being rasped to death daily 
by a set of idle, vagabond nig- 
gers.” 
“ I should like, to go North, pa,” whispered 
Margaret. “ I wish you would sell out now 
before It is too late. I suppose you would 
have to sell the negroes, of course, but then 
you could be careful to give them a kind 
master, and wo could take Haxnujal and 
Fanny and Susan, and oue or two more 
house servants, and—” 
Now Margaret’s cheeks wore all aglow. 
She had never dared say so much to her 
father before, and now he was listening 
quietly, betraying not the first symptom of 
impatience. “Perhaps,” whispered Hope, 
“ You may bo able to carry out this scheme 
—and the excited girl went ori with her 
Northern air castle. Col. 11aTHERstone 
had heard but two words of the last sen¬ 
tences, and these were, “too late.” What 
could the child mean by these stiangely 
ominous words? And so occupied was he 
with the train of thought so vividly pre¬ 
sented that for a moment he entirely lost 
sight of the originator. Margaret kept on 
talking. Finally he said slowly, and as if 
awakening from a protracted dream: 
“ What do you mean by too late, Mar¬ 
garet?” 
“Too late? Did I say too late?” She in¬ 
quired. “How too late—what about too 
late?” And now the tones were full of an¬ 
noyance, as she clearly understood that liei 
father had not heard a word she had said 
about the North. 
GrLiA.NDMOTHEB’H LESSON.—(8»o page 43.) 
wators of the two, swollen by the heavy 
rains to n volume which T reckoned at about 
thirty millions on hie yards per hour, descend 
perpendicularly ahight of ninety-four foot 
over a ledge of sandstone rocks, about 500 
yards in length, and slight ly carved in place 
at one end so as to give tho fall something 
of a horse-shoe shape. The rich coloring of 
the water, varying from a reddish brown at 
tho crest of the falls to a brilliant ochre 
where more broken iu its descent, adds 
much to the beauty of the sight. The lower 
part of the fall is hidden by the clouds of 
spray, and in damp weather, immediately 
after a shower, when the air is loaded with 
moisture, these rise even higher than the 
crest of the falls, fill the whole chasm below, 
and even hide tho country on the opposite 
bank from view, disclosing only at intervals 
the final plunge of the immense mass of 
water into the gulf beneath; the scene then 
becomes one of the wildest and grandest 
imaginable.” 
when he falls on the floor; why a chair will 
tumble over when he climbs up by the 
rounds of it, while yet the steps of the stairs 
remain firm and can bo ascended without 
danger; why one thing is black, and another 
red, and another green; why water will all 
go away Of itself from his hands or his dress, 
while mud will not; why he can dig In the 
ground, but cannot dig in a floor—all is a 
mystery, and the little adventurer is in a 
continual state of curiosity and wonder, not 
only to learn the meaning of all these things, 
but also of desire to extend his observations, 
and find out more and more of the astonish¬ 
ing phenomena that are exhibited around 
him. The good feeling of the mother, or of 
any intelligent friend who is willing to aid 
him in his efforts, is, of course, invaluable to 
him as a means of promoting his advance¬ 
ment in knowledge and of developing his 
powers. 
Remember, therefore, that the disposition 
of a child to auk questions is not a fault, but 
only an indication of his increasing mental 
activity, and of his desire to avail himself of 
the only menus within bis reach of advanc¬ 
ing his knowledge and of enlarging the scope 
of his intelligence in respect to the strange 
and wonderful phenomena constantly ob¬ 
servable around him .—Jacnh Abbott. 
SCIENCE FOR WOMEN 
At Antioch, Oberlin, and several other 
American colleges, women have for years 
been pursuing the game class of studies as 
the men. Two lady members of the same 
class with the writer, took as high a stand 
as any of the gentlemen. The belief that 
women are not capable of the same intellec¬ 
tual development and strength as men is 
rapidly disappearing. It is found that the 
weaker sex have even more aptitude than 
the stronger for some branches. A class for 
the teaching of natural science has been 
formed at the College for Women, at Hitch- 
in, Englaud. Until very recently, classics 
and mathematics were almost exclusively 
the subjects brought under the considera¬ 
tion of the students, but a demand for the 
teaching of the natural sciences has arisen, 
and under the advice of Prof. Liveing. of 
Cambridge, the subject of chemistry has 
been taken to begin with. Mr. Hicks, 
Natural Science Lecturer at Sidney Sussex 
College, Cambridge, gives one lecture a 
week, illustrated by experiments; and Mrs. 
Whelpdale, a lady who has had experience 
in teaching the subject, also gives supple¬ 
mentary teaching once a week. She works 
under the direction of Mr. Hicks, and acts 
as a tutor preparing for the lectures. The 
necessary apparatus has been provided by 
the college. 
Alexis, the Grand Duke, indulged in a 
little joke at the navy yard ball at Brooklyn. 
He danced with two bulky dowagers, and 
then walked over to whore a young lady sat 
who possessed a sylph-like form* and solicit¬ 
ed her hand, saying:—“I desire to dance 
with somebody of my own weight. 
The effect of backbiting is a reaction; 
backbiters swallow their own words. 
Never jump at conclusions. It don’t pay 
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