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TUSKS OF THE MAMMOTH. 
and long winter?, alternating with Uerooly hot 
summer#, which continued several thousand 
years In succession, and which was probably 
due to astronomical variations in the declina¬ 
tion of the earth's polar ails from the axis of 
the ecliptic or apparent circle of the sun's ob¬ 
lique path round the earth. Whatever may 
have been the cause of this amazing series of 
events, usually called the Glacial Epoch, which 
covered on r part of the world, as wc can seo by 
the plainest marks, with sliding glaciers and 
floating icebergs, big enough to remove moun¬ 
tains and scoop out basins for lakes, or valleys 
for the (low of rivers, cutting and grinding the 
hardest primeval rocks, there Is reason to be¬ 
lieve that a few species of the larger beasts sur¬ 
vived the stern ordeal, fitting themselves with 
a good thick hairy or woolly coat to endure the 
more than Arctic rigors of Its awful climate. 
“ Immense numbers of teeth and tusks of the 
mammoth," says .Tuke’s Manual of Geology, 
“are found In Siberia, and complete beds of 
them In Escholtz Bay, on the north coast of 
America. The whole carcass of the animal has 
actualy been recovered from a frozen cliff in 
Siberia, and was found to bo coated with long, 
coarse hair, forming a shaggy mane about, the 
neck, underneath which was a woolly soat, evi¬ 
dently a defense against the severity of a cold 
climate, and showing that, unlike our modern 
elephants, the animal is not tropical, but Arctic. 
Its tusks are largely exported from Siberia to 
be used as ivory, and some found in England 
have been thus used. They are longer and more 
incurved than those of either of the existing 
elephants, some <>f the tusks measuring ten 
feet In length ; while the transverse plates of 
the teetli were closer and narrower than In the 
Asiatic elephant, and very different, therefore, 
from the African, In which the plates of enamel 
thought this curiosity worthy of a Hketoh, and 
of the Illustration here engraved. Tho largest 
tusk weighs 20111m.; Its length being 10 ft. G ins.; 
hut if. has evident ly been longer. The diameter 
of the tusks at their base Is 6 ins. to G ins. on 
an average. Their Ivory la not equal in quality 
to that of the elephant, and some of it is much 
decayed by time. The best tusks, however, 
should be worth £00 to £70 per cwt., and the 
whole lot is valued at £50,000 to £60,000. There 
was a sale of seventeen tons of it on Tuesday, 
by public auction. 
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HOW DOES HE SLEEP 1 
A man who achieves any great thing in any 
department of human effort must have assist¬ 
ants In the shape of employes, lieutenants, 
deputies, marshals—whatever you may choose 
to call them, ffe has brain enough to furnish 
direction to the energy of many men. fils suc¬ 
cess or failure will bo due to the judiciousness 
of his selection. Ho must know his men. They 
must be capable. They must be faithful. They 
must have no bad habits. 
ThtB last brings me to what I wish to present 
to my readers. 
One of the most Important things to know 
about any man upon whom you are going to 
place any dependence Is, how he sleeps ? Sleep¬ 
lessness may sometimes be involuntary. There 
may have been some shock to the man's nerves 
which has made him inxonmolent; but sleep¬ 
lessness is more frequently voluntary. Men 
choose to push their studios or their work Into 
thuHO hours when they should bo asleep. It 
does not matter for what ouuso any man may 
do this; tho mere fact of not sleeping spoils 
his case. He may spend his nights in the thea¬ 
ter, in the study, or in the “ protracted meet- 
dent who is fast asleep at eleven o'clock every 
night, and Is wide awake at seven In the morn¬ 
ing, is going to surpass another student of the 
same intellectual ability who goes to bed after 
twelve ami rises before live. In sleep tho plate 
on which the picture is taken 1# receiving its 
chemical preparation, and It is plain that that 
which is best prepared will take tho premium. 
Mon who are the fastest asleep when they are 
asleep are tho widest awako when they are 
awake. 
Groat work*w» must be great rosters. 
Every man who has clerks in his employ 
ought to know what their sleeping habits are. 
Tho young man who is up till two, three and 
four o’clock in the morning, and must put In an 
appearance at the bank or store at nine or ten 
o'clock, and work all day, cannot repeat this 
process many days without, a certain shakincss 
coming into tho system, which he will endeavor 
to steady by some delusive stimulus. It is in 
this way many a young man begins his course 
to ruin. Ho need not necessarily havo been in 
bad company. He has lost his sleep; and los¬ 
ing sleep Is losing strength and grace.— Chew*. F. 
Deem*, D. D. 
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HOME FOR THE CHILDREN. 
Tith ties which bind a child to home are cre¬ 
ated not so much out of great as from little 
things. There should be a good many holidays 
in the home. I believe In anniversaries, and t 
love, by observing them, to connect time with 
events, and so give to both a deeper interest. 
The birth-days of a family should bo always 
noticed, and, In some way, celebrated. The 
busy preparation of the whole household to 
| make some present to father or mother, or »is- 
gone and other homes have claimed them.— 
A Ikma/n'a Life at. Home. 
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THE LESSON OF THE DAY. 
Thb Boston Advertiser remarks that it is now 
nearly ton years since tho rebellion was van¬ 
quished. There are young men now entering 
upon the responsibilities of citizenship, flushed 
with ambition to honor their native land by 
faithful living, who, when the conflict was 
waged, were too young to realize more than 
dimly Its momentous issues. For t hem Decora¬ 
tion Day affords a lesson of Incalculable worth, 
ilalf tho children In our public schools have no 
memory of the war itself. For them it I sal most 
as much an affair of the past, with which they 
have ho personal relation, as to us The War of 
Independence is. Some know that because of 
It they are fatherless, and others have heard, 
from fathers spared, the story of its hardships 
and Its horrors. Who can rightly estimate the 
power of The impression made on these young 
minds by the annual spectacle o t national 
honors to those who fell in the struggle? 
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TRIFLES MAKE PERFECTION. 
A FniXNn called on Michael Angelo, who was 
finishing a statue; some time afterwards he 
called again ; the sculptor was still at his work; 
his friend, looking at tho figure, exclaimed: 
“ You have been ldlo since I last saw you.” 
“ By no means," returned, tho sculptor. “ lhave 
retouched this part, polished that ; I have soft¬ 
ened this feature, ami brought out this muscle ; 
I havo given more expression to this lip, and 
more energy to this limb." 
"Well, well," observed ids friend, “but all 
these uro trifles.” “ It may bo so," replied 
Angelo, “ but recollect that trifles make per¬ 
fection, and that perfection Is no trifle.” 
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, TUSKS OF THE MAMMOTH. 
[London Graphic.) 
In a remote period of geological history, 
termed the Post-Pliocene Age of tho Neozoic 
or Tertiary Epoch of creation for this earth we 
inhahlt, there still lived many huge mammals, 
the offspring of those still more gigantic and 
terrible beasts which had thriven In the warm 
climate of the Miocene Age. But the condi¬ 
tions of animal life were greatly altered, in the 
latitudes of the best known countries of Eu¬ 
rope and Asia, by a visitation of extremely cold 
form lozenges on the upper surface. At Es- 
choltz Bay the cliffs arc said to be either ice, or 
coatod with lee: and on the top of them, em¬ 
bedded in, and partly covered by, tho boggy and 
sandy soil, are numberless bones that have lost 
but little of their animal matter, hair being 
dug up with them, and the whole island having 
aoharnol-hoHSesmell.” Itissnid tbnt in Siberia, 
not many years ago, the partly-decomposed 
flesh of a mammoth, which hud lain many 
thousands of years imbedded In tho loo, sup¬ 
plied a dinner to some half-starved and half- 
savage men of that forlorn country; hut we 
doubt the truth of this story. 
A quantity of Siberian mammoth tusks, Im¬ 
ported from Revel, In the Baltic, has been on 
view lately, upon tho floor of the ivory store¬ 
house at the Loudon Docks; and we havo 
ing.” It will make mo difference; the result to 
the body will be the same. The sleep was not 
hod, and for that the man must pay. One man 
may do with a little loss sleep than another; 
but its a general rule, if you want a clerk, a lieu¬ 
tenant, a lawyer, a physician, a legislator, a 
Judge, a president or a parson, do not trust 
your interests to a man that does not take on 
an average eight good, solid hours of sloop out 
of every twenty-four. Whatever may be hts 
reason for It, If he does not give himself that, 
ho will snap stmioMmos Just when you want 
Idm to bo strong. 
The Intellectual and moral connections of 
sleeping have, I think, not boon sufficiently ap¬ 
preciated. Mon and boys havo boon praised for 
“burning the midnight oil." Now, this “ mid¬ 
night. oil ” Is ajdelusion and a snare. The stu- 
ter or brother, on a birth-day or holiday; the 
workings in by-oorners and at odd times; the 
bundling of work out of sight as the step of the 
favored one Is heard; tho careful stowing of 
gifts away till the appointed tithe; and then, 
when the looked-for day has come, the presen¬ 
tations, the confused and merry voices, the 
lllled eve, t he choked voice, the heart, too full 
to speak In words, memory touched as with an 
angel’s hand, love that can only look Its thanks 
—all these 1 who can toll t.lioir sweet and 
mighty power ? A homo familiar to such scones, 
will It, can It lie one that children shall not 
love? No, no, from It, when tho Inexorable 
time comes to go away, daughters shall pass 
with aolis of sorrow, and sons with compressed 
lips and swimming eyes, and while mother lives 
it will bo a home still, home, though years have 
