seiiK > 8,Isinglass ; H, Caustic: Hi, Calamus 
gaits: 12. Colt’a-fooi. la, (Castor oil: 14, J 
nip; i.'i, Antimony ; 1G, Nut-gull. 
444 
THE 
SEPT, 4 
In strength, because a whale couldn’t keep him 
down .”—New York Graphic. 
ACTING CHARADES. 
A word la chosen ot two or more syllables, each 
of which syllables forms a complete word In Itself. 
Each syllable la represented by a scene, and then 
the whole, word la acted. Rome charade actors 
Introduce the word verbally Into their conversa¬ 
tions, while ot hers think It only necessary to act 
the word. For an example the word “ Infantry ” 
shall be taken. The first scene might be an Inn 
—travelers arriving and ordering dinners, teas, 
suppers and beds. The obsequious landlady, the 
officious waiter, the active chambermaid, the perl 
barmaid, the busy boots, arc characters which 
might be Introduced. The second syllable "fan,” 
might be represented by an evening party of 
ladles and gentlemen; this, though seemingly 
commonplace, may be made very entertaining if 
wigs and whtskerB, curls and moustaches are 
assumed, and a tew distinguished foreigners 
make their appearance- The last syllable " try,” 
could he exemplified by a dame’s school. To 
represent the whole word an old soldier might 
beg for alms from the spectators, and tell his tale 
of the war and his wounds; or If It happened that 
no actor was able to sustain that, part, the scene 
might be a tent hospltat, the soldiers being 
attended by lady doctors, as well as lady nurses. 
In order to make a charade successful, a few 
hints should be remembered and followed, which 
are those.*—bet one person be chosen to organize 
and direct the band or actors. Tike choice should 
fall on one who Is quick to decide on the .solu¬ 
bility of words and scenes. The scenes should be 
of short duration, the conversations kept up with 
spirit, the risible muscles well under control. If 
the number of actors will allow 01 two pajtlbB, let 
them act alternately, for long pauses between 
the scenes weary the spectators. The more 
complete the transformations the greater the 
fun. 
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LADY DOCTORS. 
Why should not women practice, the healing 
art? This is what, Truth (London newspaper) de¬ 
sires to know. It defends the lady practitioners 
in a manner that Is far more than usually effect¬ 
ive. Eloquently It, asks: 
Why should a woman be less womanly because 
she playrully adjusts the bandage, or prescribes 
the harmless necessary pill v Is she to forswear 
all charming consciousness or her own beauty be¬ 
cause she knows how the sterii-uclcido-mastoiilpuK 
aids the graceful pose of her head; will she deny 
her lover the kiss, since she Is aware of the action 
of the orhim/JarlA oris during that " tenderest, 
pledge of soft affections V” Will she be a worse 
sister, daughter, or wire, because she has a right 
to put M. D. after her naam? Shade of Hippo¬ 
crates forbid! Rather will sue echo the words of 
a brilliant operator and sound anatomist, who 
made his heroine sing as follows: 
"O Medulln,” he cried, " O thou light of my life 
Thou pith of my nkeleton’* ow«n.” 
And 1 burled my bead, like a dutiful wife, 
in my huebaud’s subclavian fossa. 
CONFUCIUS ON WOMAN. 
Moreover, that you have not In this life been 
born a male Is owing to your amount of wicked¬ 
ness, heaped up In a previous state of existence 
having been both deep and weighty, you would 
not then desire to adorn virtue, to heap up good 
actions and learn to do well! so that you now 
have hopelessly been born a female! And If you 
do not, this second time amend your faults, this 
amount of wickedness of ynnrs will be getting 
both deeper and weightier, so that it Is to be 
feared in the next state of existence, even If you 
should wish tor a male’s body, yet ir, will bo very 
difficult to get it. You must know that, for a 
woman to be without, talent is a vlrtuo on her 
part. N'o one desires that your " nature! ” should 
be Intelligent or your abilities of a high order. 
They only wish that your disposition be mild and 
obedient, and mat in looking after matters you 
be diligent and economical. Wives! ye cannot 
but Impress these words upon your memories. In 
the male to be firm—in the female to bo flexible 
Is what reason point* out, as a proper rule. 
The New York World says that the other day a 
lady was deploring the death of an acquaintance 
with one or the latter’s most, Intimate friends. 
During the course or their conversation the son 
of the deceased gentleman entered the room, and 
conversation hi came general, on his departure, 
however, tree and personal comment was passed 
upon him. Said Lady No. a, •' That boy has got 
his mother's eyes." “Yes," subscribed No. 1, re¬ 
flectively, "and I noticed that, he had got Ills 
father's umbrella." This remarkable description 
has stuck to him ever since, and he ts known as 
“ the boy with his mother’s eyes and his father’s 
umbrella.” 
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Birds which nestle in holes, as woodpeckers, 
wrynecks, robins, swallows, etc., have eggs of a 
shining white. Pale green or pale blue charac¬ 
terizes the eggs of the starling, flycatcher, hedge 
sparrows, etc. The nuthatch, titmouse, and chim¬ 
ney swallow are parti-colored with a white 
ground. Others not white are larks and singing 
birds. 
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The uselessness ol' the study of what is called 
English grammar Is shown by the fact, that none, 
or nearly none, of the great writers and speakers 
of English, berore the present century at least 
were at all instructed In that by pedagogues’ 
much-vaunted "branch” of educutlou.— /tic/iard 
Grant WMt f. 
pairing for % f)onwi. 
THE DESSERT. 
With the apple* and the plums 
Little (’arollna wines, 
At th<* time of the dessert, she 
Domes aud drops her last new court’sy 
Graceful eourt’sy, practiced o’er 
In the nursery before, 
What shall wr compare bor to * 
Like the dessert itself will do. 
Likr preserves she's kept with care. 
Like blanch'd almonds hIic is fair, 
■oft as down on peach her hair, 
And so soft, so smooth is each 
Pretty cheek as that same pnaeh. 
Yet more like in hue to cherries. 
Than hej- lips, the sweat strawberries, 
Caroline herself shall try them 
If they are not like wheu niirk them ; 
Her bright black eyes are black as sloes; 
But I think we've none of those 
Common fruit here -and her chin 
From s round point does begin. 
Like the small end of a pear; 
Whiter drapery she does wear 
Thau the frost on cake, and sweeter 
Than the cake itself, and neater. 
Though tiedecked with emblems fine 
Is our little Caroline. 
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PROOESSIONAKY CATERPILLARS. 
While out for a walk.the other day, we came 
across a curious Incident in natural history. At 
Cap Martin, about two miles from Mentone, our 
attention was attracted by something by the 
roadside which looked at a little distance like a 
long, thin serpent,. At first we thought it best not 
to go very near; but curiosity prevailed, and upon 
closer Inspection, wc found It was a long line, con¬ 
sisting of ninety-nine caterpillars, crawling In 
single file close after ouc another, our curiosity 
led us to remove one from the middle, n little dis¬ 
tance from the others, and wo found Ids place was 
soon rilled tip; but he crawled back to them and 
edged his way Into the line again Then we re¬ 
moved the leader; this brought them for a time 
to a standstill. After a little while, they began to 
move on, and then we put the original leader In 
Ills proper place, but this brought, thorn again to 
a standstill; and from the way they moved their 
heads from side to side, a great deni of talking 
Boomed to be going on, and they decided their 
original leader was not lit to lead, and they chose 
another, while he had to make his way In the line 
lower down. A little farther on we saw another 
line of forty-four coming up lu the opposite direc¬ 
tion, and we were curious to see what would hap¬ 
pen when they met, Imagining they might per¬ 
haps have a fight. But such was not the case ; 
they Joined the others by degrees, and so made a 
much longer line and marched on. 
We have since heard that they climb some par¬ 
ticular kind of trees, and make their nests in 
them, which has a very Injurious effect, and often 
kills the trees, unless the branches are cut off 
which hold the nest*. 
In an Interesting little work on “ Insect Archi¬ 
tecture,’’ published Iti isse, mention 1s made of 
these social caterpillars, the construction of their 
nests, and their procesMlnnary habits. The writer 
says:-"It Is remarkable that, however far they 
may ramble from their nest,, they never fall to 
find their way back when a shower of rain or 
nightfall renders shelter necessary. It requires 
no great, shrewdness to discover how they effect 
this; for by looking closely at their track, It will 
be found that It ts carpeted with silk, no individ¬ 
ual moving an inch without constructing such a 
a pathway both for the use of his companions and 
to facilitate his own return. All those caterpil¬ 
lars, therefore, move more or less In processional 
order, each following the road which the first 
chance traveler has marked out with his strip of 
silk carpeting." 
Further remarks are. made of t.wospedes "more 
remarkable than others In the regularity ot their 
processional marchings.” "Tnese are found in 
t he south of Europe, but are not, indigenous In 
Britain. 
The one named by Reaumur the processlonary 
{Cnfthocnmpa procesetonea) feeds upon the oak; 
a brood dividing, when newly hatched, Into one 
or more parties of several hundred Individuals, 
which afterwards unite In constructing a com¬ 
mon nest, nearly two feet long and from four to 
six inches In diameter. It Is not divided into 
chambers, but consist* or one large halt, so that 
It Is not necessary that there should be more 
openings than one; and accordingly, wheu an 
Individual goes out and carpets a path, the whole 
colony Instinctively follow In the same track, 
though, from Immense population, they are often 
compelled to march lu parallel tiles from two to 
six deep. The procession Is always headed by a 
single caterpillar; sometimes tho leader is imme¬ 
diately followed by one or two in single file, and 
sometimes by two abreast, A similar procedure 
Is followed by a species of social caterpillar which 
feeds on the pine In Savoy and Languedoc, and 
their nests are not half the size of the preceding; 
they are more worthy of notice from the strong 
and excellent quality of their silk, which Reau¬ 
mur was of opinion might be advantageously 
manufactured. Their nests consist of more cham¬ 
bers than one, but are furnished with a main en¬ 
trance, through which the colonists conduct their 
foraging processions. 
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PAPER BARRELS. 
A firm at Syracuse, New York, are now manu¬ 
facturing a novel flour barrel, nicer, lighter, and 
cheaper than wooden barrels. The barrels are 
composed of straw paper pulp, which is run into 
a mold made In the shape of one-half of a barrel 
cul vertically. The pulp Is subjected to a power¬ 
ful hydraulic pressure and when reduced to the 
required thickness, the ends or the halves are cut, 
off at the ends. TUe pieces are then placed In a 
steam drier, and the sides trimmed evenly and 
the substance thoroughly dried. It comes rrom 
the drier ready for making up Into barrels. There 
are three heavy wooden hoops and two hoops 
fastened together; aud Into grooves cut Into 
tho staves, tho paper halves, which have an aver¬ 
age thickness of three-sixteenths of an Inch, arc 
slid. The ends of the barrels are made of paper 
or a similar thickness, constructed upon the 
same principles its the slides, and protected by 
heavy wooden ones. The advantages of these 
barrels over wooden ones are lightness, cheap¬ 
ness, durability and the prevention of flour alftlng 
out whllo In transit.. They are constructed en¬ 
tirely by machinery, and the halves are cut so 
true that any pieces ot the some size will readily 
fit together. They will not cost more than one- 
tblrd the price of wooden barrels, are lighter and 
fit so nicely In the grooves that there Is no chance 
for flour to sift through, which loss Is quite a 
heavy per centage in the use of other kinds. 
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MANNERS. 
I used just now that word, manners. Let, me 
beg your very serious attention to It. I use It-, 
remember, In Its true, It* ancient—that Is, In Its 
moral and spiritual—sense. I use it as the old 
Greeks, i he old Romans, used their corresponding 
words; as our wise forefathers used It, when t hey 
said well, that "Manners rmikyth man;” that 
manners are. at. once the efficient cause of a man's 
success, and a proof of his deserving to succeed ; 
the outward and visible sign or whatsoever In¬ 
ward ithd spiritual grace, Or disgrace, then: may be 
in him. I mean by It what our Lord meant when 
ho reproved the pushing and vulgar arrogance or 
the Scribes and Pharisees, and laid down the 
golden rule of all good manners, " He that is tho 
greatest among you, let, htm be I,he servant of 
all.” Next, I beg you to remember that all, or¬ 
al most all, the good manners which wc have 
among us courtesies, refinements, self-restraint, 
and mutual respect—all which raises us socially 
and morally above our forefathers of i.eoo years 
ago—deep hearted men, valiant and noble, but 
coarse and arrogant anrl quarrelsome—all that, 
or almost all, we owe to Christ, to the influence 
of His example, and to that. Bible which testifies 
ol Him. Yes, the Bible has been lor Christendom, 
In tho cottage as much a* in the palace, the school 
of manners; and the saying that he who becomes 
a true Christian becomes a true gentleman Is no 
rhetorical boast, but a solid, historic fact. 
<Jlif $u$fr. 
HIDDEN RIVERS. 
1. Why cumber land with weeds? 
2. Oh. 1 only took one pill to-day! 
3. Orion tine is a good dentrlflce. 
4. The material velvet; the color a dove, 
s. Pity nevpr disgraces manhood. 
a. Four eggs make an omelette. 
7. Shall I show ye the way ? 
8. Do on the other side the same. 
9. Jesse, 1 noori a period of rest. 
10. Fjo, I respect but do not love him. 
11. The flower fades, Nathan. 
12 . Wo servo dinner at six o’clock. 
13. While In Malta, Gussle grew better. 
14. My son’s ode rhymes perfectly. 
15. Lamo, sell Ella’s new silk. 
lfl. If the barrel gets a slam, oil leaks out. 
17. in farming, tons or guano are used. 
18. I shall see them some day. 
I tr~ Answer In two weeks. Little One. 
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CROSS PUZZLE. 
1. A river of France. 2. A bay of Michigan. 
3. A bay of the Mouth. 4. A large body of water. 
5. A State capital. 6. A city of France. 7. A vast, 
body of water. 8. A river of Virginia. 9. A Ter¬ 
ritory. 10. A river of Spain. 11, A river of Asia. 
12 . A river of Africa. Centrals form a Northern 
lake. 
pr Answer In two weeks. Dr. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS.-Aug. 18. 
HIDDEN Drugs.— 1, MagneMU ; 2, Carboy; 3, Cara- 
C robs- wo it r> Enigma.—P atjip ico. 
Drop-letter Puzzle. Luy not up for yourselves 
treasures upon earth, whore moth and rust doth cor¬ 
rupt, and where thieves bteak through and steal; 
but layup for yourselves treasures in heaven, where 
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where 
thieves do not break through nor steal. 
Double Acrostic.—P rimals, Quebec; finals, Ot¬ 
tawa. 
Pyramid Puzzle.— 
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BOG 
B 1 B L E 
imc it n i t 
RE CKO KING 
NINKTYBEVEN 
Circular Puzzle.— 
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ialihtl Stalling. 
SIMPLY TRUSTING. 
My God, 1 do not, fear 
To trust myself to thee, 
However strange thy will appear. 
It. must be good for me. 
O Father, kind, »nd wise, and strong, 
Thy will can do no creature wrong. 
Tho little babe at rest 
Becomes my minister; 
It lies upon its mother’s breast, 
And leaves Itself t* her. 
Ah, foolish babe, if it should dread 
The heart that, throbs beneath its head, 
1 do not fear to trust 
My little all to time; 
Thy every motion must he Just 
To all the world and me. 
Will as thou wilt—my Joy be still 
To kiss thy sweet and Sacred will! 
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CLERICAL THROATS. 
If you wish to ruin your throats, you can speed¬ 
ily do so; hut If you wish Id preserve them, note 
what Is now laid before you. I have often com¬ 
pared the voice tea drum, ir the drummer should 
always strike on one place on t he heart of a drum, 
the skin would soon wear Into a hole; but how 
much longer It would baVe lasted him If he had 
vai led Ills thumping, aud bad used the entire sur¬ 
face of the drumhead! So It Is with a man’s 
voice. If he uses always the same tone, he will 
wear a hole In that part, of the throat, which Is 
most exercised In pronouncing that monotone, 
and vory soon he will suffer rrom bronchitis. I 
have beard surgeons affirm that Dissenting bron¬ 
chitis differs from the Church of England article. 
There Is an ecclesiastical twang which Is much 
admired In tho Establishment, a sort ot steeple- 
In-tbe-throat grandeur, an aristocratic, thcologlc, 
parsonic, supernatural, infra-human mouthing of 
language, and rolling over of words— Spurgeon. 
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INAPPROPRIATE HYMNS. 
L ttkr thoughtlessness Is sometimes manifested 
In the announcement of unsuitable hymns. On a 
blight, Sabbath morning a pastor gave out the 
expressive evening hymn commencing: 
“ Saviour, breathe an evening blessing, 
Ere repose our HpiriU seal." 
During the preaching of a farewell sermon by a 
clergyman, tho people were so melted down with 
emotion a nd tho speaker was so much affected, 
that, he was scarcely able in proceed. Calling 
upon a ministerial brother to close the service, 
the latter announced the hymn : 
*'Jesuit, we lift pur souls to Thee, 
Thy Holy Spirit breathe . 
And lei this little infant be 
Baptised into Thy death." 
In some churches choirs are permitted to sing 
their own voluntaries with which to close the 
service. At the. funeral of a distinguished gentle¬ 
man of Massachusetts, the singers saDg of their 
own accord : 
" Believing we rejoice 
To see the curse removed.” 
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THOUGHTS FOR THINKERS. 
Twenty Christians can light heroically where 
one can suffer greatly aud be strong and be still. 
—Dr. Cuylpr. 
A laugh to be Joyous must flow from a Joyous 
heart; but without kindness there can be no true 
joy.—Julius Hare. 
The wealth of a man Is the number of things 
which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and 
blessed by .—Carlyle. 
The more enlarged Is our mind, the more we 
discover of men of originality. Your common¬ 
place people see no difference between one and 
another.— Pa seal. 
He only Is great who has the habit* of great¬ 
ness; who, after performing what one in ten 
thousand could accomplish, passes on like Sum- 
son, and tells neither father nor mother about It. 
—Lawler. 
There is a* much reason why we should keep 
the Sabbath holy with our tongues as with our 
hands. If it be unsuitable to employ our hands 
about common and worldly things, is It not as un¬ 
suitable to employ our tongues? The Sabbath Is 
a thermometer of the spiritual state of the soul.— 
Jonathan Edxoards. 
What we want In Christ we always And In Him. 
When we want nothing we nnd nothing. When 
we want little we And little. When we want 
much we nnd much. But when we want every¬ 
thing, and got reduced to complete nakedness 
and beggary, we find in Him Cod’s complete 
treasure-house, out of which comes gold, and 
Jewels, and garments to clothe us, wavy in the 
richness and glory or the Lord.— Start. 
St. Paul speaks of his visit to the third heaven, 
and Mahomet makes out seven. Tho rtrst is of 
sliver, the second ot gold, the third of precious 
stones. In which there Is an angel so large that It 
Is 70,000 days' journey between his hands; the 
fourth heaven Is of emerald, the tilth of crystal, 
the sixth like lire, and the seventh is a delicious 
garden, with lountalns ol milk, honey and wJne, 
and with apples whose kernels turn Into the 
most lovely females; and it Is guarded by 
angels, one of vast size, with a cow’s head, and 
another with seventy mouths, each speaking 
seventy languages. 
