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firo for thorn—you ho<?, they hadn't any beforo 
Dint and I'uoMimiKtre brought it down In a 
hollow rood, or cone. Of courso it was a very 
desirable and handy thing for the people of tho 
earth to have, but didn't Prometheus catch it, 
though 1" 
"Caught fire? Said Bob. 
“Worsts than that i ho was chained to a rock, 
and a vulture came and ato out his liver!” 
“Oh! oh ! ato out his liver: and killed him?" 
“Oh, doar, no; that was the worst of it. for at 
night his liver grew again, and so tho vulture 
kept gnawing for thirty thousand years.” 
“ oh, horrid! but i don't believe it’s t.ruo." 
“Well, that’s just as you've u mind,'' said 
Phil. 
“ But I do think matches are as useful as any¬ 
thing can be," said Bon. " I remember, lust 
THE QUESTION 
WHAT SHALL WE NAME THE BABY 1 
BY MARY I, A MB. 
OVER the roads nil rim miner 
White in the frozen snow, 
Hark I to t ho merry chime of hells, 
A s the sleighs go to ami fro ! 
Eyes that are bright and Joyous, 
Hearts that are warm with love! 
And over them all, with radiant face. 
Is the bright full moon above. 
“ I have got a new-born sister; 
1 was nigh tho llrst. that kissed her. 
When tho nursing woman brought her 
To papa, his infant daughter. 
How papa’s clear eyes did glisten ! 
She will shortly he to christen ; 
And papa has made the offer 
I shall have the naming of her: 
And l wonder what would pieuso her, 
Charlotte, .1 ului or I.oulra t 
Ann and Mary are too common, 
.loan's too f ormal for a Woman ; 
Jane’s a prettier Borne besidc- 
Bufc we had u .lane that died ; 
They would gay, if T«ns Rebecca, 
That she was u little (junker; 
Edith's pretty, but that looks 5 
Better in eld English books; 
Ellen "s left off long ago; 
Blanche is out of fashion now; 
None that I have named as yet 
Are ns good as Margaret, 
Emily is neat and lino- 
What do you think of Caroline? 
How 1 am puzzled and perplexed, 
What to choose or think of next. 
1 am in a little fever. 
Best the name that 1 now give her, 
Should disgrace her or defame her 
1 will leave papa to name her.” 
THE AMERICAN GIRL’S MISTAKE 
A coon story is told of George MacDonald, 
now visiting tills couniry, and u young Ameri¬ 
can woman whom lie met one evening. Wish¬ 
ing to appear familiar With (he works of I he 
celebrated writer, sho wrote u, friend in l lm city 
[lint who hud “been invited to meet Ibc great 
lecturer,” and begged her friend in send her 
Ids books, whatever they Jiiiplit lie. The friend, 
supposing that by lecturer she meant Professor 
Tyndall, Bent overall rhat learned man's works, 
(•nr beautiful little impromptu bluestocking 
did her level best in i-raiu for the occasion, ami 
read no much on light that her Hu in head grew 
dizzy, She mastered dm titles, however, and, 
fooling well armed for the encounter, attended 
the entertainment. SIio hail Mu: honor el hav¬ 
ing Mr. MacDonald presented to her, and on the 
first, favorable opportunity he opened on him : 
“OhI Mr. MacDonald, 1 am so delighted to 
meet you, 1 Imvo rend your beautiful books." 
George MacDonald bowed gracefully. 
“ l do think your * Pragmeni - * so lovely." 
George MacDonald stared Ilka a feuthcrlei-s 
owl. 
" But tho most thrilling of all i., the “Glaciers 
of the Alps." 
Tho poor pe.n-drlver could md, utter a word. 
Indeed he. seetncd to bo catc hing his breath, as 
if lie had received a blow below the bell. 
“ And how brilliant you are on 4 Light and on 
Sound!' Do, Mr. MacDonald, toll mo how you 
produce such beautiful thing !" 
The Englishman came to tile conclusion Hint 
•he little girl was dialling him, especially as 
some audible smiles In the immediate neigh 
borhood told him certain ponphr were being 
amused, no ho colored up to the hair, and fled 
the encounter in such eonfuHlon Dial, Ihe com 
puny feared lie was suffering front u relapse of 
liia late sickness. Hut, wo are happy in saying 
it was only a. alight attack of rwm infavlinii 
Amcricanum, and that ho Is now convalescent. 
WHAT THE EARLEY BOYS THOUGHT 
BY SlltS. UEOUGE BARTLETT 
Out from the curtained window 
Into the moonlit night, 
Elsie watches with oagor heart 
And blue eyes merry and bright; 
And softly her lips are murmuring,- 
“Should somebody come for mo. 
And somebody should a ijuestton as!; 
What shall my answer be >” 
Pun. had been a whole year in college, and 
talked In such a grand way that ho appeared to 
know a great deal; indeed, If only ho had had 
on spectaelea he might have been taken fora 
professor. 
“Well, for my part," said Bon, “I think the 
Mower hi the moat wonderful thing that ever 
wan Invented- though, to bo sure, thore'o the 
Oorn-ShoUcr and tho Patent Ituko.” 
“What do you think of the Spectroscope?" 
asked Pi in,. 
“And tho Cotton Gin?" said his mother. 
“And then, you know, there's gunpowder, 
and clocks, and printing presses," put in 
Jim.mv, 
“Woll, If wc go back to tho discovery of 
docks and printing presses, wo shall hardly 
know where to begin, or where to stop, rather. 
Even conllning ourselves to the inventions of 
Ihe last quarter of a century wo Uml an immense 
list.’* 
“I know what la tho greatest invention over 
made," exclaimed Harry. Why, don't you 
know that hammer the man came round to 
sell? ft said in the papers, any way, that It was 
the greatest invention in tho world. Why, It 
was a hammer, and a nut-eraeker, and a screw¬ 
driver, and ever so many things, all in one.” 
41 Pooh!" said .Jimmy, “that wasn't any thing. 
Just thinkof a big balloon, or tho Cardiff Giant. 
I say tho Cardiff Giant was the greatest Inven¬ 
tion that eve; was made—tho biggest thing 
out!" 
“Well, if you are discussing what la of tho 
most universal benefit. I really can't say I think 
balloons or Cardiff giants ns useful as some 
other things.” 
“Just think of the Sowing Machine," said 
Mrs. Parley; “what should wo do without 
that? But, then, so many things have boon in¬ 
vented within the last quarter of a. century that 
wo could hardly now do without.” 
“And I know of one," Mrs. Parley wont on, 
after thinking a moment, “that I don't bcllovc 
one of you will guess. It in useful to every¬ 
body. is used by everybody very frequently, and 
costs but a triflo." 
“Can everybody work it, did you say? ” asked 
Harry. 
“Yes, everybody; for my own part, I don't 
know what 1 should do without it." 
“Have you one, mother?" 
11 Yes. there is ono in this room, one also In the 
kitchen, and another in the bed room.” 
“Can't people do Without It?” asked Jimmy. 
“People did do without them till about thirty 
or forty years ago; but when wo went, on a pic¬ 
nic out to Plr Lodge, last Summer, 1 remember 
what trouble wo were in because we had forgot¬ 
ten to bring ono." 
••Oh, matches, mother! I remember nil about 
It; and how I wont to the little farm-house, nml 
tho woman said she hadn’t any, and then took 
down a little, tin box and showed mo how she 
sometimes struck a flint with a piece of steel un¬ 
til a spark came out; and the spark foil on some 
old rags, and so she lighted the lire. And 1 re¬ 
member you said that, wa.; the way people al¬ 
ways did before they had matches." 
“Well, how do you suppose lire came in the 
flint?” said Phil, who, l suppose, thought it. 
was time to show off a little of Ills learning 
“Howdid it?" 
“Oh. a long time ago, when Jupiter ruled the 
earth, PnOMETnBps, wishing to do mortals a 
good turn, went, up to Heaven and stole a little 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS.-No. 1 
The moonlight, shivers and shimmers 
Over tho sparkling snow, 
But tho two who stand ’nouth the silver light. 
Are warm with their young love’s glow, 
o! Elsie, with true vine eyes' 
O ! lover, with loyal heart! 
What question was asked,—what answer given, 
That both are so loth to part '! 
£57“ Answer In two weeks, 
WOMAN AND SCIENCE 
CHARADE,^No. I 
BY MART E. MTTRTFELDT. 
My first you'll always find is mad, 
And never known to yield ; 
My second, reversed, Is red as blood 
That Hows on l ho battlefield. 
If you should guess my whole, I bet 
You surely will tho madder get. 
Answer In two weeks. Alphemi 
pcriicua gianco over the history of woman's 
achievements— or non-ucblovemcnts— In this 
line, would seem to corroborate it. And yei, 
upon enumerating the celebrated “ exceptions," 
such as Caroline Hkrscuijll, Mile Lamarr, 
Mmo.Mr.miUN and her daughters. Lady Glan- 
ville, Miss Somerville Miss Mitchell, etc,, 
they aro found to bo far more than the number 
required to “ prove tho rule," and at least, they 
establish tho fact that women are not by mental 
constitution excluded from tiiosc pursuits in 
which their fathers, brothers and husbands find 
plcasuro and distinction. Prom tho zeal and 
success of those who hart ventured into those 
fields of learning, we gather courage to hope 
that, however little may have been accomplished 
heretofore by those means, the day is coming 
when women will no longer stand “few and far 
between” in tho ranks of their scientific breth¬ 
ren. 
It is very possible that their redundant ••sen¬ 
sibilities and imagination " for which science 
has no use t?)-may make their progress more 
arduous than it is for man; but if development 
is practical ly as wel I ns theoretically proven, who 
knows what a llttlo patient cultivation of thns« 
WORD AND PHRASE PUZZLE.-No. 1. 
Wood 
Mr. being at tlio . of king of terrors, they 
perfume for his Quakers and who, which, 
and what; and they penny for Dr. Ilouud Us 
ii who !l — to Dr. Ilay-proservers and little devil 
behold scarlet his assistance; but beforo he ar¬ 
rived the not legally good changed color and 
taker 
tho was ten mills for. f. m. a. 
837" Answer in two weeks. 
CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. No. I 
My first la In blue Jay but not In robin, 
My second’s in shuttle but not in bobbin; 
My third is In Venus but not in Mars, 
My fourth la in engine but not In cars: 
My fifth is In barley but not in corn, 
My sixtli la in trumpet but not In horn ; 
My seventh's In arrow but not in quiver. 
My whole is tho name of a beautiful ri\cr. 
Answer in two weeks. Fourteen, 
