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THE R 
-YORKER. 
AUG. 25 
tells the following Incident, which Is still more 
curious than any of these: 
A young Russian has for some years been 
prosecut ing Ills chemical studies at the l Diversity ; 
of Lelpslc with unusual zeal. The young man, of 
an arlstoerailn exterior, made friends of all who 
cutnc In contact with him. Recently he passed a 
most brilliant examination, which was rewarded 
with the dignity of Master of Aria. 
Soon thereafter a young lady called on aim of 
this most prominent Professor- or t,uo University, 
addresslug the celebrated savant In the following 
words: 
“ i desire, Professor, before I depart from Lelp¬ 
slc. to express to you my most hearty thanks.” 
The Professor, who was perfectly astonished, 
observed: 
“ Thanks—but for what?” 
“ Listen, sir. I was married to the old Prince 
-. My husband died some years ago. lie 
died Insolvent, so that I was left even without 
dally bread. I resolved to seek the accessary 
means of subsistence In science.” 
The Professor then Interrupted her by saying: 
“ Yes, most gracious lady; nevertheless, I can¬ 
not see why you address your thanks to me.” 
The Lady continued: 
"Observe, then; it Is now more than three 
years that here In Lelpslc 1 have been a student. 
The student who lately passed the examination, 
and whom you considered worthy of distinction, 
is none other than myself.” 
SECRET SOCIETY OF SERVANT GIRLS. 
Tits Dubuque (lows) Times or i.he2d Inst, says: 
“A lady of I Ills city lias for some weeks past been 
endeavoring to re-engage a servant girl who 
worked for her a couple of years ago, and gave 
excellent satisfaction. Rut the gtrl resolutely re¬ 
fused to come, though she acknowledged that she 
liked Iter former mistress as much as the latter 
liked her. She was promised employment as long 
as she desired, even lor years, hut she still re¬ 
mained Immovable tn her refusal. Then the lady 
urged her to give her reasons for refusing so ex¬ 
cellent an offer of a permanent place with one 
whom she acknowledged she liked so well. Then 
the girl acknowledged that she was a member of 
a 4 ring.’ or soereL society Of servant girls, all and 
each of whom were pledged to bring from their 
employer's a given amountof provisions—meat, or } 
Hour, or butter,or soap, or something—each week, t 
and In return for this, when out of employment, ( 
the person to whom those articles were given ( 
supported them until they found, or she could , 
llnd for them, another place. Anrt tbeglrl refused j 
to re-enter the employ ment of her former mistress ( 
* because,’ said the girl, ‘ you were always kind j 
and good to me, and I cannot steal from you.’ , 
The girl Is one of four sisters who belong to this ( 
secret society.” ' , 
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HONITON LACE. ! 
•- i 
In England the manufacture of lace Is carried < 
on chiefly lit the counties or Buckingham, Devon, « 
and Bedford. The work is mostly done by women 1 
and girls at home. The best known Of the Eng- < 
lish hand-made laces Is the llonlton, so called 1 
from the town of this name In Devonshire, where I 
It was ilrat made. The high rank held by Ilonl- 
Wm lace In recent years. Is attributed to the fact 
that Queen Victoria, commiserating the condition 
of the lac©-workers of De vonshire, and wishing to 
bring their manufactures into notice, ordered 1 
her wedding dress, which cost £ 1 , 000 , to be made 
of this material, ller example was followed by 
two of her daughters and the Princess of Wales, 
and llonlton lace has continued to he fashionable 
and expensive. In making It, the designs, which 
often consist of simple sprigs, arc formed sepa¬ 
rately, and then attached to the ground. Tltc 
llonlton guipure has an original character, almost 
unique, and is said to surpass In richness and 
perfection any lace of Lhc same kind made In Bel¬ 
gium. British point Is an imitation lace, made 
near London. 
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A YOUNG WOMAN’S TRIUMPH. 
Our readers will remember Miss Elisabeth 
Johnston Ellis, as the young woman, who, after 
having been elected class-poet at the Wesleyan 
University, was obliged by a minority of the 
young men to resign. She has just demonstrated 
anew her ability as a student. Walter S. Carter. 
Esq., of New York, formerly of Hartford, estab¬ 
lished an annual prize of the value of $100 for ex¬ 
cellence In the critical study or English literature. 
The essays are submitted anonymously. There 
was a vigorous competition this year, but Miss 
Ellis' essay was adjudged the best. She has ac¬ 
cepted a position at Wellesly, with a salary of 
$500. 
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The second year of Wellesley College, In Massa¬ 
chusetts, was successtul. There were 330 girls tn 
attendance during the year. The new class will 
probably number about 100. The health of the 
students Is excellent, as the rule has been that 
feeble girls are rejected. Greek seems to be a 
favorite study, and the prospect Is that nearly 200 
girls will take the course, including Greek, the 
coming year. 
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Rosa Bonukuu Is conceded by most critics to be 
the Unest, pllntor of animals in lhc known world, 
living or dead. It Is told of the great Landseer 
himself that, on seeing her *• Horse Fair ’ for the 
lirst Mine, he raised bis hands In wonder and 
exclaimed: •• The rest of us must all go to school 
to this one!” 
JUaimta for flu Nonna. 
THE TEN LITTLE GRASSHOPPERS. 
Ten little graashoppOTB. 
Sitting on it vino. 
One ate too much green corn,— 
Then there were nine. 
Nine little terasHhormcr* 
Just the size tor bait. 
A little boy went flailing,— 
Then there were eight. 
Eight little grasshoppers 
Stayed out after 'Ieven, 
A white froatenipped one,— 
Then there were aeveu. 
Seven little gruBitboppers 
Dived between two bricks. 
There came a hurricane,— 
Then there wore six. 
Six little gTaHHboppere 
Found an old bee-hive ; 
One found a bumble-bee,— 
Then there were hvo. 
Five little grasshoppers 
Hopping on the floor; 
Pussy took one for a mouse,— 
Then there were four. 
Four little grasshoppers 
Found a green pea, 
Had a fight about it,— 
Then there were three. 
Three little, grasshoppers 
Sighed for pastures new, 
Tried to cross the river,— 
Then there were two. 
Two little grasshoppers 
Sitting on a stone, 
A turkey goblor passed that way, 
Then there was one. 
One little grasshopper 
Chirped good-by at the door, 
Said he’d come next summer, 
With nine millions more. 
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SELF CONDUCT AND GOOD MANNERS. 
’Tlsa rule of good manners, says Ralph Waldo 
Emerson, to avoid exaggeration. A lady loses as 
soon as she admires too easily and too much. In 
man or woman, the face and the person lose pow¬ 
er When they arc on the strain to express admir¬ 
ation. A man makes Ills inferiors Ills superiors 
by boat. Why need you, who are not a gossip, 
tell eagerly what the neighbor8 or the jour¬ 
nals say? State your opinion without apology. 
The attitude Is the main point, assuring your 
companion that, come good news or come bad, 
you remain In good heart and good mind, which 
is the best news you can possibly communicate. 
Self control is the rule. You have in you there a 
noisy, sensual savage, which you are to keep 
down, and turn all his strength to beauty. For 
example, what a senescal and detective Is laugh¬ 
ter? D seams to require several generations of 
education to train a squeaking or shouting habit 
out or a man. Sometimes, when In almost all ex¬ 
pressions tun Choctaw and the slave have been 
worked out of him, a course nature st ill betrays 
Itself In his conteiupiable squeals of Joy. 
The great gala Is, not to sit! no, not to conquer 
your companion—than you learn nothing but con¬ 
ceit—but. to imd a companion who knows what 
you do not,; to till, with him and be overthrown, 
horse and root with utter destruction of all your 
logic and learning. There Is a defeat that Is use¬ 
ful. Then you can see the real and the counter- 
full, and you will never accept the counterfeit 
again. You will adopt the art of war that has 
detested you. You will ride to battle horsed on 
the very logic which you found trreslalablo. You 
will accept the fertile t ruth, Instead of the sol- 
emu customary lie. When people come to see us 
we loolishly prattle, lest we seem inhospitable. 
But t hings said for conversa tion are Chalk eggs. 
Do not say things. What you are stands over you 
the while, and thunders so that. 1 cannot hear 
what you have tn say to thecontrary. 
A lady of. my acquaintance said, “I don’t, care 
so much for what they say, as I do for whatmalces 
them say It.” The law of the. table Is beauty- 
respect to the common soul of all the guests. 
Everything is unseasonable which Is private to 
two or three, or any portion of the company. 
Tact nover violates for a moment this law ; never 
Intrudes the orders of the house, the vices of the 
absent or a tariff of expenses or professional 
privacies; as wo say, wc never “ talk shop ” be¬ 
fore company. Lovers abstain from caresses, and 
haters from insult, whilst, they sit In one parlor 
with common friends. Would we codify the laws 
that should reign in households, and whose daily 
transgression annoys and mortifies us, and de¬ 
grades our household life—wo must learn tx> adorn 
every day with sacrifices. Good manners are 
made up of petty sacrifices- 
IGNORANT USE OF WORDS. 
We heard a speaker of some pretension, In a 
public meeting say, “ Such examples should ener¬ 
vate us to new effort, &c. “ Nerve us,” was what 
ho meant—exactly the opposite thing. Nothing 
Is more sure to give a showy man a reputation 
for shallow and sham acquirements than the use 
of words which he only guesses at the moaning 
by their sound. A contemporary reports a man 
addressing a Sunday-school as saying: “ I have 
been laboring for the extinction of the cause.” 
Ilo meant extension. An ambitious young can¬ 
didate used this phrase in ppe or Ills trial ser¬ 
mons: “ I am now going to elhninato the doctrine 
In this text. 
“ Why did you announce your purpose to strike 
out the doctrine ?” asked a deacon, after the ser¬ 
mon. 
“I didn’t,” was the reply. 
“ Certainly, you did; you said you would 
4 eliminate’ the doctrine, and that means to strike 
It out.” 
The minister was astounded. Ho thought It 
meant 44 expound," Homo people never use a 
word of two syllables If they cal) find a word of 
six syllables that will express the meaning as 
well. If you will use long words, be sure you 
know their true meaning. But short words are 
tho best,, one syllable of Saxon Is better than ten 
of Latin to tho ordinary hearer. 
JAPANESE THEATERS. 
When a 44 blood-aud-thunder’* melodrama Is 
produced at a Japanese theater, the audience In¬ 
sists upon having real blood and a thundering 
racket. A play which was recently put on the 
boards at a theater In Yokohama, was not want¬ 
ing In elements of horror, such as the successful 
simulation of wounds, but H afforded an oppor¬ 
tunity for a more amusing bit of realism. One of 
the most terrible scenes was supposed to take 
place during a storm. Tho stage-manager dis¬ 
dained to have recourse to the make-believe 
method oi pens and shot to simulate the sound ot 
the rain, lie must gLvc his audience real rain, 
and so, by means of concealed pipes, have a regu¬ 
lar pouring shower, continuing throughout the 
scene, deluging tlm stage and drenching the act¬ 
ors. The effect was really admirable, not only 
aiding tho mimicry of the scene, but In wafting a 
cool and refreshing moisture through the house. 
It Is suggested that, postal cards may be made 
the vehicle of the most confident la! communica¬ 
tions by writing upon them in “magic' 1 ink. A 
solution of nitrate of cobalt, chloride or cobalt, or 
chloride of copper, mixed with a III tie gum or 
sugar, makes an Ink that Is Invisible until It Is 
warmed, but which Is plainly visible when the 
heat of a caudle or match Is applied to it. Or an 
Ink may be used that requires a developer to 
bring It, out. 
<TI)C lujjUr. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 40 letters: 
My l, 4, 2(>, 32 is a certain portion of a sail. 
My fi, 35,12, 24, T, IB obtained from milk. 
My 33, &, as, 84, 18 not a talschood. 
My 1, Hi, 3,17 the name of an ancient city. 
My 15, 25, 25,22, 2i an article of furniture. 
My 10, Hi, 11 a female of the bovlue genus of ani¬ 
mals. 
My 27, 2, is, 21 not cheap. 
My 30, 80, 7, 11, 28, 16 , 27 the last name of the 
writer of this enigma. 
My 24, 11. 17, 23, 83, 35, 32, HI, 38, 1 hlS ago. 
My 5,10, 37, o Is 238,291 miles from us. 
My i t, 28 , is, 34, 39 originally drawn by horses. 
My 19, 40, 38, 5, 20 a garden plant much used to 
give a relish to seasonings and soups. 
My 20, 40 , 22 , 31 the name of one of the United 
States. 
My 3, 28, 16 , 21, 29 what bachelors should always 
do. 
My whole Is a solemn and Imperative command 
to the young. 
Answer In two weeks. J. f. 
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DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
l. A C 1 TV of India. 2. Business of publishing a 
paper. 3. A celebrated author. 4. Plighted. 5. 
Polite. 6. A French soldier. I’rlmal3 and finals 
form two loathsome Insects, 
tar Answer in two weeks. l. o. 
HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE. 
1 . A lady’s name. 2. Coloring matter. 3. Sor¬ 
rowful. 4 . A consonant. 5. A youth. 6. A small 
fruit. 7. A sort of vessel. Centrals form a river 
of New York. 
sir* Answer In two weeks. Md. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.—Aug. 11. 
Hi oden Gulfs.— 1. Ot>e ; 2, Onega : 3. Cambay ; 4, 
Fonseca : 5. St. Lawrence; 6. Niooyft ; 7, Georgia ; 8, 
Dulee: 9, Venezuela; l0, Darien; 11, Genoa; 12. 
Tunis; 13. Arts ; 14. Volo; 15, Dantzlc; 16, Contessa; 
17. Buigas- 
Anagrams or Bums —I. Flamingo ; 2. Heron ; 3, 
A LEGEND OF THE MASTER. 
No aarred legend or the Nazerene 
Makes glad with tender touch 
The heart that bleeds tliro’ sin, 
Or comes to plead with such 
Sweet uluijueoee to win. 
As that, rare passage where Magdalen. 
By subtle Scribe aud Pharisee accused, 
Stands in the Master’s presence all confused, 
With strange, unwonted tears her downcast eyes suf- 
fused. 
As silently the eastern morning steals 
Across Chaldea's plain. 
Within the stately walls 
Of ancient Salem’s fan- 
The chastened splendor falls. 
All pomp ot art its rosy gleam reveals, 
All grace and slreugth the elder world hath found. 
And ’mid n throng entranced in hush profound. 
The form of One who stoops and writes upon the 
ground. 
How vauntiogly those Scribes and Pharisees, 
Long-robed, displayed their broad phylacteries ! 
How swift and stern to name 
With cruel Jibes and Jeers 
The fallen woman's shame 
How clear upon ttielr i nrs 
Fell those swift words of flame 
That ever}’ pulse did stir! 
*' last him that hath do blame 
The first, stone cost at her." 
And each, convicted by accusing wrong, 
Leaves, as he steals the corridors along, 
The Magdalen, the Master, and silent throng. 
Then from His musing posture Christ uprose. 
The crowning sequel every sad heart knows. 
Full many a burdened soul' 
As time’s slow- ages roll. 
Like her of ancient years, 
Hooking to touch with tears 
His garment’s healing hem, 
Doth hear Him calmly say, 
44 O, women, where are they 
Tliat did aoouae tliee sore? 
Neither do 1 condemn, 
Go thou and it(n no more.” 
[ WntenHlU Mail. 
THE FLOWERS OF THE BIBLE. 
Strange as the statement may seem to any who 
has not explored the matter, especially with 
ihosebeaiitirul phrases In the mind, “Consider 
the Ulles of the field,” “the wilderness shall 
blossom as the rose," 44 1 arn the rose of Sharon 
and the lily of the valley,” no kind or flower Is 
mentioned in Scripture so definitely as to allow 
of certain Identification, By “Scripture,” of 
course, we mean the original text, the renderings 
made by translators are Often only conjectural, 
or to be understood In a broad and figurative 
sense. Most certainly ( herds no mention In the 
original text of tho flowers especially understood 
to-day as the illy and t he rose, and these, it will be 
found, are the only two Mower names which occur 
in the Authorized Version. The Hebrews were 
tint slow to observe the charm of flow era. Much 
ot the sweetest. Imagery of the poetical parts of 
Scripture Involves allusions to flowers. Like other 
poetic people, they did not care, however, to be¬ 
stow- particular appellations. Their custom was 
to make a few picturesque terms serve for the 
whole of l hc tinted and tragrant fantasy of bot¬ 
anical nature; terms of tills character alone 014 - 
cur In tho Inspired books; the flowers of Script¬ 
ure are simply what the floral graces of wild 
nature are to the child and to the Imagination of 
the poeto-a sweet aggregate of the. originally and 
perfectly beautiful. There the whole matter of 
the flowers of Scripture begins aud ends. When 
the translators used ‘-rose” and “Illy,” they 
abided by the practice ot all ancient literature 
and poetry, In whlcb. the names are similarly 
collective, and Indefinite. — Dublin University 
Magazine . 
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» STATUARY CHRISTIANS.” 
It Is sahl that when Oliver Cromwell visited 
York Cathedral, In England, he saw in one 
of the apartments statues of the twelve 
apostles In silver. 44 Who are those fellows 
there ?” he asked as he approached them. On 
being informed he instantly replied : 44 Take them 
down and let them go about doing good." They 
were taken down, and melted and put Into Ills 
treasury. There are many persons who, like these 
sliver apostles, are too still for service la much 
that the Lord's work requires. Home are too nice, 
some too formal, some disinclined. They stand 
orslt stiff and stately in their dignity, and .sinners 
may go unsaved and believers unoomiorted, un- 
hclpcd, tor all the effort they will make to lift, a 
hand so save them. They need melting down 
and to be sent about doing good, Statuary Chrls- 
talus, however burnished and elegant t hey may 
be, are of little service In the kingdom of Jesus. 
Oriole; 18, Owl; 1«. Crow: 20. Egrer; 21. Bitterns; 22, 
Kingfisher; 23, Curassow ; 24, Ortolan. 
STAB PUZZLE - 
L D Y 
U U A 
C N It 
JACKSON 
AIN 
N U O 
D K W 
Drop-letter Puzzle.—L ord have mercy upon 
us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. 
WOBD-SQUAltK ENIGMA.— 
SATAN 
ABASE 
T A P t S 
ASIDE 
N K S K I 
Name Pczzle.— Charlotte, Orllnda, Rosalie, Ada; 
Initials form Cora, 
PRAYER-MEETING RUTS. 
One bllghr of our prayer and conference meet¬ 
ings Is formality, common-place. We say not 
the thing that we feel, but the thing that we 
ought to reel, that our neighbors would expect us 
to feel- And out too often the remarks are as far 
removed from truth as they are from novelty. 
4 -1 would not give up my humble hope for a 
thousand worlds," No, very likely; and Satan 
does not offer him a thousand worlds, nor one; 
he knows it Is nor, needful. But does not the 
brother sacrifice Ills hope ror six-pence? Does 
He noli dim 11 , lor the Baku of l.vD'g abed one hour 
hiker in the morning y “ 1 feel that I am a great, 
sinner,” says the brother; but tic- never comes to 
particulars; he never buys, “I am prone to be 
selfish, to be passionate, to bP proud; and noth¬ 
ing would surprise him more, or gratify him less, 
than to have anybody take film at his word.— 
An tonal fiaptist. 
