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Judies’ |3ort->folio. 
GROWING OLD. 
BY K.MMA HURT. 
Yes, the hair is white us winter, 
Thoughtless laughter ’a gone away. 
Taking with it witching dimples, 
Leaving only smiles at play 
Mongst the shadows, and the tracery 
Delicately cut in clay. 
flashing eyes no more discover 
What the pulsing breast conceals ; 
But they look with quiet wonder 
On the ways one life reveals— 
And they ask a silent question— 
And they say a word that heals. 
They perceive the outer changes, 
And they say, " I'm growing old 
And a sudden wail of Badness 
Sweeps the harp-strings of the soul— 
A certain boundless yearning 
For the things one may not hold. 
Then there comes a strain of gladness, 
" Age is riches manifold— 
Riches not of years, or beauty— 
Hearts that reach the world are gold ; 
Mighty thought and great endeavor 
Are the things that make us old.” 
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WOMEN OF BOMBAY. 
In private, the native treats the female mem¬ 
bers of his family with as much regard, kind¬ 
ness, affection and respect, us son. father, hus¬ 
band, as the tmn of any country, but in public 
disregard them entirely, as a matter of custom 
and etiquette. I have seen women stumbling in 
and out of ferryboats, In danger and discomfort, 
while their companions strolled quietly forward, 
without even turning to glance to sec bow mat¬ 
ters were. I havo seen men riding journeys, and 
women trudging behind them; men smoking', 
women grinding the churn; a Beloocboe girl 
holding the stirrups for her lover, as lie mount¬ 
ed for a fumy; a Kujjuck wife pitching hoi- hus¬ 
band's tout of black gout's skin. Such things are 
common, create no surprise, elicit no remark; 
but the re versa of the picture was altogether so 
new, so unexpected, tjmt when 1 one day saw a 
man of rank sheltering a native woman with an 
umbrella, my start of surprise at. the novel ly of 
the act ion was very great. 
I mel the woimm often afterward; for she was 
a neighbor, and accustomed to stroll toward the 
Bombay sands for air and exercise. She smiled 
when we met, and her dress being rather pecul¬ 
iar, as she was n Madrassee, i took a sketch of 
her ono afternoon, lu her pretty violet-colored 
silk Htu-eo, while she was good It u moredly nursing 
and playing with a little rosy English baby, t hat 
the ayah had brought down for the benefit also 
of the fresh sea breeze. 
These sands, online evenings, are a favorite 
resort of the Hindoo women in the neighbor¬ 
hood, who walk down with their servants ami 
children to enjoy the cool refreshment; leaving 
their delicate little footprints on the damp sands, 
to the envy of the female shoe, wearers who may 
be present—for Cinderella's slipper would soon 
have found a wearer, had the trial been made on 
Oriental beauties. The bright, clear colors of 
their sarees, too, are admirable; and the glossy 
braids of their flue hair, decorated with rich 
gold ornaments, or fragrant blossom*; and the 
figures of the younger women are so slight, 
graceful and clastic, so much like those we see 
cut on the eameosof old Rome, or on the froseo- 
printod wall of beautiful Pompeii— and the 
sarce, stirred by the evening breeze, floats in 
such graceful resemblance to the draperies with 
which tin* ancients loved to adorn t heir nymphs 
and graces, t hat when the chill air causes the 
rich crimson cashmere shawl to be cast around 
the head and form, ono cannot but regret that 
so much natural grace must be concealed, how¬ 
ever admirable in itself is the fabric that enfolds 
it. Many of the women or the Pun oe caste, 
whom I have met here, are very handsome, 
with an expression of intelligence, also, on their 
fine countenances greater than is usually soon 
in the face of a native woman, where softness 
and amiability an* genurally more apparent than 
intellect. These women, however, have a 
brightness of eye, a smile that sympatlzus with 
it, and a general lighting of the countenance, 
when engaged in conversation with each other, 
pleased, or amused in any way, that is very at¬ 
tractive ; and we forget the beauties of costume, 
the brightness of color, the richness of the orna¬ 
ment, and the brilliancy of contrasts, while gaz¬ 
ing on countenances often so expressive and so 
charming as those of the Purvoe women of 
Bombay. 
A BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENT. 
The following beautiful chemical experiment 
may be easily performed by a lady, to the great 
astonishment of a circle at her tea party. Take 
two or three leaves of red cabbage, out them in¬ 
to small bits, put them into a basin, and pour a 
pint of boiling water on them; let it stand an 
hour, then pour off the liquid into a decanter. 
It will be of a flue blue color. Then take four 
wine glasses; into one put six drops of strong 
vinegar;into another six drops of solution of 
soda; inton third the same quantity of a strong 
solution of alum ami let the fourth glass remain 
empty. The glasses may be prepared soran 
time before, und the few drops of colorless li¬ 
quids that have been placed in them will not be 
noticed. Fill up the glasses from the decanter, 
MOORE’S RURA 
and the liquid poured into the glass contain¬ 
ing the acid will quickly become a beautiful red, 
the glass containing the soda will be a line green ; 
that poured into the empty one will remain un¬ 
changed. By adding a litile vinegar to tho 
green, it wltl immediately change to a red, and 
on adding a little of solution of soda to the red, 
it. will assume a fine green, thus showing the ac¬ 
tion of acids and alkalies on vegetable blues.— 
The Methodist. 
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THE FEMALE DICTIONARY. 
In this valuable work the signification of a 
word is given in a feminine sense, as under: 
Marriage The only habit to which women arc 
constant. 
L«wr-Any young man but u brother-in-law. 
Clergyman - One alternative of a lover. 
Brother The other alternative. 
Honeymoon A wife's opportunity. 
I ton hi, Hideous -Terms of admiration elicited 
by the sight of a lovely face anywhere but in 
thti looking-glass. 
Alee, Deni Expressions of dellght.'ftt any tiling, 
from a baby to a barrel-organ. 
Appetite A monstrous abortion, which is 
stifled in the kitchen that it may not exist dur¬ 
ing dinner. 
Wrinkle- The first thing one lady secs in an 
other's face. 
Husband—A person who writes checks, and 
dresses as his wife directs. 
Duck (in on if Otology)- A trussed bridegroom, 
with his giblets under his arm. 
Brute A domestic endearment for a husband. 
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SELECTED PARAGRAPHS. 
The man who would shine in conversation 
must possess original ideas und strong sympa¬ 
thies—be able both to communicate and to lis¬ 
ten. 
The holy thoughts and memories that cluster 
around the name of mot her can never be bo well 
expressed as in the calm utterances of the name 
Itself. 
TnwSuperintendent of Public Instruction in 
Harvey county. Kail., is Mrs. Ellen Webster. She 
Is the first woman ever elected to a county o’filee 
111 Kansas. 
A lady excused tier extreme love for dia¬ 
monds and oilier precious stones by saying, 
“They are the only bright things which never 
fade on earth." 
The Princess of Holstein-Hoer, who is an 
American woman, has sued the relatives of her 
deceased husband for $.‘50,000,000, on what 
grounds is not, slated. 
The Mormon women dress so simply and neat¬ 
ly that odious comparisons are made by the un¬ 
prejudiced between their attire und the com¬ 
paratively flashy costumes of their Gentile sis¬ 
ters. 
The Bastrop (Texas) Advertiser announces 
that the ladies of that town have accomplished 
t he substantial enclosing of the cemetery, and in 
agustof gratitude exclaims: -“The women of 
Texas arc better than the men, by all odds God 
bless t hem," 
Women, under any circumstances, can scarce 
do more than dip the foot in the broad and deep 
river of thought ; they have not the strength 
to contend with the current. It la easy for 
women to tie heroic in action; hut when it. 
comes to interrogating God, Uu* universe, the 
soul, and, above all, trying to live down their 
own hearts, they dart down to their nests like 
so many larks, and if they cannot find them, fret, 
like the French Corlnno. 
English Girls.—T aine says some very nice 
things about the freshness am] modesty of the 
English girls, and one thing especially'’that, all 
American mothers should hear, which is us fol¬ 
lows : “They love and endure exercise like their 
brothers: with flowing locks, at six years, they 
ride on horseback and take long walks. Active 
life In this country strengthens the phlegmatic 
temperament, and the heart. Is kept, more simple, 
while the body grows healthier." 
Concern ino nothing do wo come to more 
false conclusions und make more false steps, 
than concerning woman's cheerfulness. Ah! 
how many of those affectionate creatures are 
there who pine unknown, despond smiling and 
wither jesting; who, with bright, joyous eyes llco 
into a corner, as if behind a fan, that they may 
right gladly break out into tears that oppressed 
them; who pay for the day of smiles by the 
night of tea rs -just as tin unusually transparent, 
clour and mist less day surely foret ells rain. 
The five ladies with the Japanese Embassy, at 
the suggestion of their Amorican hostess, recent¬ 
ly consented to be laced up and tied down, ruf¬ 
fled, panfered, flounced, and bowed and trailed in 
the “ style." Then they were powdered up from 
an orange-peel hue to a delicate Jommi, and pro¬ 
nounced perfect, as lar as dress goes. Half an 
hour later, however, their dismayed civilizers 
round them smiling and happy in t heir half-pet¬ 
ticoat, half pantaloon dress. “Too muchee," 
said the gentle Japanese. 
The influences of home perpetuate themselves. 
The gentle grace of the mother lives in her 
daughters long after her head is pillowed in the 
dust of earth; and fatherly kindness finds its 
echo in the nobility and courtesy of sons who 
come to wear his mantle uud to fill his place; 
while on the other hand, from un unhappy, mis* 
gOternCd and disordered home, go forth persons 
who shall makeothcr homes miserable, and per¬ 
petuate the sourness and sadness, the conten¬ 
tions and strifes and railings, which have made 
their own early lives so wretched and distorted. 
leading foi: the Dining. 
THE STORY OF THE RAT 
Who Renounced the World. 
FROM THE FRENCH OF I.A FONTAINE. 
*Trs told, 
In a legend old. 
How a certain rat, grown tired of strife, 
And tlie cures that beset his ratship's life. 
Wishing to meditate at his en.se, 
'Took up Ids abode in a Holland clieeso. 
He found 
This great round 
Have solitude, shelter, and plenty to eat, 
And by diligent use of Ids teeth and Ids feet, 
lie soon had a hermitage quite to his mind. 
Its walls and its floor with good victuals lined. 
This rat 
Soon grew fat. 
And he said to himself“ Gon blesses his own. 
My body would only he skin and hone, 
If 1 had'nt turned hermit. I really must say 
Renouncing the world Is the better way.” 
To his ehoeso, 
On their knees, 
Came some representatives from the rats, 
Haying" Itatopolls is besieged by the cats. 
We are going for aid to a foreign land ; 
Old neighbor, do lend us a helping hand. 
" We set out 
Without 
A dollar to pay the needful expense. 
Do give us a shilling, or at least a few cents; 
We ll bo very grateful, we’ll surely repay, 
If we live to return, on next New Year’s day.” 
The rat 
Hoid that 
He no longer had interest in worldly aff irs ; 
But for sake of old friendship his two longest 
prayers 
Wero at their disposal; what could hermit do 
more ?— 
He gave them hts blessing, and—closed his door. 
“ Oh the rarity 
Of charity ” 
Among the rat family ! If men live at ease, 
And the world is to them a great Holland eheose; 
When their friends are distressed and in sorry 
plight, 
Do they give only blessings, then dose the door 
tight? 
HOW TO CATCH BUTTERFLIES. 
“Cousin Johnnie," in a recent number of 
the Rural New-Yorker, expressed the wish 
that we would write of something else than 
where wo lived, Ac., so I will endeavor to tell 
yon wlAt I think Isa great, deal bettor method 
of kills ig butterflies and moths, than cither 
crushing' the thorax or wetting' with any liquid. 
I take a common fruit jar for “collecting bot¬ 
tle," put. two nr three drops of chloroform upon 
a piece of col ton, and place it In the Jar, instantly 
shutting the cover down to make It all'.tight., so 
as to confine the fumes of the chloroform. When 
I catch a specimen, I take flic thorax between 
my thumb and forefinger, and then unfastening 
the jar cover drop it. in, instantly closing again 
to prevent the escape of the fumes. 
Perhaps you think when one is put In it will 
flutter and harm those already in ; but. mine in¬ 
variably (in to steep before arriving at. t he hot- 
tom, if the chloroform is strong enough. A 
few days since a friend and myself caught over 
thirty In about throe hours. Ho far I have done 
up in papers one of each kind captured to send 
to the ItvnAL. I have not sent, thorn yet, how¬ 
ever, but will us soon as the box is full. I would 
like to have some of the young Rurallsts, or old 
ones either, tell me how to make a case to put 
my specimens in; perhaps “ Daily Rural Life" 
will. Young Kura list. 
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HOW GAS IS MADE FOR GAS LIGHTS. 
It must interest us to know the process of 
making an article so extensively used in our 
cities, and we herewith publish a sort of gas cat¬ 
echism, which conveys a good deal of Important 
" light" to the Juvenile mind on this subject: 
“How do they make gas?" 
“First, they put about two bushels of bitu¬ 
minous ooal lu a long, air-tight retort. This re¬ 
tort is heated red hot, and. of course, the coal is 
heated red hot, when the gas bursts out. of it, as 
you see it burst out. of lumps of soft ooal when 
on the parlor tire. The g.is passes off through 
pipes. A ton of ooal will make 10,000 cubic feet 
of gas. The gas, as It leaves the ooal, is very im¬ 
pure.” 
“ flow do they purify it?” 
“ First, white hot, it is run off into another 
building, then It Is forced through long, perpen¬ 
dicular pipes, surrounded with cold water. This 
cools the gas, when a good deal of tar condenses 
from it, and runs down to the bottom of the 
perpendicular pipes. This tur is the ordinary tar 
which you see boiling in Die streets for walks 
ami roofs. 
“They now wash the gas. They call it scrub¬ 
bing it. 
“This is done by filling a large vessel, which 
looks like a perpendicular steam boiler, half full 
of wood laid crosswise. Then ten thousand 
streams of cold water are spurted through this 
boiler. Through the mist and rain, and between 
the wet sticks of wood, the gas passes, coming 
out washed and cleansed, Tho ammonia con¬ 
denses, joins tho water and lulls to the bottom.” 
“ What next? " 
“Well, next the gas is purified. Ills passed 
through vats of lime and oxide of iron, which 
take out the carbonic acid and ammonia." 
“ What next?" 
“The gas Is now pure. It Is passed through 
the big station motor, then through the mains 
and pipes, tilt it reaches the gas jet, in your 
room. Then it burns, while you all scold be¬ 
cause it don't burn better.” 
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ROBINSON CRUSOE’S ISLAND TO-DAY. 
All who have read the story or Uohinson 
Chusok, will be glad to learn how Hint Island 
looks lo-dny. Prof. Agassiz has recently visited 
'A* He sayt: The Island of Juan Fernandez is 
more celebrated from Do Foe's fiction than from 
Selkirk's history. Fernandez discovered tho 
island in 17fl3, and Introduced goats here. In 1771 
an Indian was left here, and subsisted on tho 
goals three years before he was falcon off. in 
October, 1801, a Hootch sailor, Alexander Selkirk, 
waa left here, and taken off in 1*00, having lived 
here four years and four mouths huil.-solufosol- 
itiule, living like his Indian predecessor, mostly 
on goat’s flesh, lie told his story to Do Foe, and 
out of it grew “ Robinson Crusoe,” Tho wild 
goats are still numerous here, and lloeks of hun¬ 
dreds of them may lie seen upon Die mountains. 
The island is about ten nr t welve miles long by 
four in breadth; the shores mostly precipitous, 
and the mountain ridges 3,000 fen in height. The 
water around tho island Is deep, and the whole 
appearance Is as it there had mice been tin ex¬ 
tensive island with a splendid rugged chain upon 
it; that suddenly tin* bottom laid been knocked 
from under all except, this patch of ten miles by 
four, and all bur this patch laid sunk into the 
sea. Valloys and mountain spurs and gentle 
slopes are all cut off by Mi is precipitous edge, 
and there are but few places on tho island where 
you cun effect a. landing. There or© to-day 
twelve persons, Including several children, liv¬ 
ing on the island. They have good poultry and 
vegetables, splendid beef, and can get goats by 
climbing after them. Other things they pur¬ 
chase with the proceeds of their heel', milk and 
poultry, for which they find a market In passing 
ships, especially in American whalers. We spent 
May-day in rambling on the island and about its 
shores, gunning, fishing, herborizing, and col¬ 
lecting generally. Sharks, crabs, crayfish, 
shrimps, mollusks of various sorts, siur fish and 
sea urchins of divers kinds, a few Insects, some 
humming birds, etc., were among the fruits of 
our labor. Tint plants of the island bore u gen¬ 
eral reseinlilanee in muse of tho continent four 
hundred miles to the eastward, which surprised 
me, us both the prevailing winds and ocean cur¬ 
rents are opposed to any Iran ..migration from 
the southern part of the continent. 
ic Ipiisdcr. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. -No. 3. 
I am composed of 10ft letters: 
My i, :’K, 7, :t;’, 1.7, si, 23, 13 i* a bird. 
My 2, K, 10.', 70, fit), 30, 11 is a tree. 
My l, M, 50, 71, 01, toil, Is, 08,11, 20 is a mineral. 
My 5, 12, HO, ” 0 , 38 ,17 is an animal. 
My HI, 27, 3, 10, 30, Hi, Mi, 98, 72, 88 is a flower. 
My 31, 02, 81, 21, II, 10, 10, 12 is a fish. 
My 11, 33, 91, 100, 00, 01, 70, 46, 70, 20, 102, 8,00, 71 is 
a bird. 
My 18, 01, 8-1, 01, 100, 97, 64, 41 is an animal. 
My 00, 02, *13, 83, 00, 58, 10, 70, 27 is a bird. 
My 00, 00,70, 82 , til, 20,11, 17, 69 is a flower. 
My 70, 87, 28 , 12 , 70, 73, 07, 21 , 108 , 50, 00 , 85, 104 , 95 
is a plant. 
M.y 78, 23, 52, 0, 21), tl, 35, 21 is an animal. 
My 90, 48, 101, 98, 103, 31, 02, 77, 71, 0, 100, 88 is a 
flower. 
My 103, 90, 80,10,12, 70, 03, 10 , 91, 77, 75 is a bird. 
My 100, 80, oo, 107, 29, 93,70, 08, 17, 57 is an animal. 
My whole is a poetical quotatlon. Isola. 
Answer In two weeks. 
PROBLEM.—No. 2. 
A. anl> B. start from the same point at the 
same time, to walk in different directions 
around a circular park. A. walks 4*# and B. 4 
miles an hour; when they meet for the sixth 
time they will be 1,000 foot from the starting 
point. Required, the area of the park. 
^ . Wm. H. Hull. 
Answer In two weeks. 
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PUZZLE.—No. 3. 
1 have nine letters: — My first three make an 
animal; my last four another; a mother’s be¬ 
tween them. My whole is a. Grecian sculptor 
whose love bestowed the greatest gift on record. 
Who was it? 
S3 ST' Answer in two weeks. 
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PUZZLER ANSWERS-July 27. 
Illustrated Rebus No. 4.—Show us how* di¬ 
vine a tiling a woman may be. 
Miscellaneous Enigma No. 2. — Washing 
machine. 
Anagram No, 3.— 
Remember well and bear tn mind t 
A constant friend i« hard to Und ; 
But when you Und one kind mol true 
UlmngQ not the old one for the new. ’ 
Puzzle No. 3. The human, body-cyolids, 
knee-caps, drums ot the ear, feet, nails, soles 
muscles, palms. Hi (two) Ups, hips, n ,| vm ImW 
heart, lashes, arms, blades, veins, insteps, eves 
and nose (ayes and uoes), pupils, tendons 
