more vividly than In his manner of portraying 
another’s. 
Rome, Italy, now spends $200,000 yearly on Its 
puhllc-schools, and at the beginning o£ this dec¬ 
ade they had none. 
In Sweeden nearly two thousand " school gar¬ 
dens” have been established as Instruments ot 
useful scientific education. 
lie who is false to a present duty breaks a 
a thread In the loom, and will see the defect when 
the weaving of a life-time Is unrolled. 
Prof. Henry Draper has stated facts which seem 
to point to the conclusion that It Is not Improbable 
that the planet Jupiter ts still hot enough to give 
out light. 
German manufacturers have found another use 
for paper. They make stoves of that material, In 
which the fire blazes cheerfully without the slight¬ 
est Injury to the paper enclosing It. 
No man should be so much taken up In the 
search of truth, as thereby to neglect the moie 
necessary duties of active life; for after all Is 
done, It Is action only that gives a true value and 
commendation to virtue —Cicero. 
No less than six nations are now engaged In 
Arctic explorations, chiefly hy means of advance 
stations. Denmark, Russia, Austria, the United 
states, Germany, and Holland all propose to es¬ 
tablish stations in the Arctic regions as a basis 
for future, research. 
our centennial year. What It was that Induced 
Nyctea nitea to make that visit In such numbers 
after the big show was closed, and the world’s 
folk had left, may be a question. Probably the 
commissariat was under consideration; In which 
case our snowy owl had grave reasons for hla 
coming. Winter is hardly a prime season for deli¬ 
cacies In the larval line, and the construction may 
seem awkward, yet it will bear assertion that 
these birds of Pallas were after grub. Though 
bold, Nyctea did not put on style. It was simply 
that sort of personal bearing which comes of Inno¬ 
cence. in the Northern cities he even perched 
on chimney-tops, and In rural places was familiar 
with men, eveD unto rashness. Our farmer friend, 
his family filling the large carry-all wagon, was 
on his way to church, when lo ! by the roadside, 
“ a sitting on a rail,” was one of these Arctic owls. 
No man Is himself at all t imes, and our good 
friend’s piety was sorely tried, for the strange 
bird actually ogled at him with its big brass- 
button eyes. He would have railed at the bird; 
ne was on the fence what to do. It Is Sunday. 
Shall he send Thomas baok for the gun? The 
wife suggests they’ll be late to raeettn’. The bird 
owes his life to that good woman. In the mar¬ 
kets of New York these owls were suspended In 
strings like poultry. Upon Inquiry, Terence was 
told that they were Spanish geese. "Sure then, 
for a goose, It has an uncommon knowing face.” 
To many a village "blrd-8tufter ”ln the Eastern 
States, that Winter ot ’70 brought a large Increase 
he said, gently. “ Heaven keep you from ever 
doing so l” 
“ i will never know it,” she said, with a strange 
little laugh. “ Recause-” 
« Because I shall never love 1” she answered, 
coldly.—To be continued. 
CONDUCTED BY MISS RAY CLARK. 
TRUE AND FALSE ECONOMY 
I think we often make a mistake on tbe score of 
economy In the matter of home-made articles. We 
are apt to congratulate ourselves on the great 
"saving” we have made In some such enterprise, 
when in fact. It was a pretty dear bargain. 
Passing by tbe vexed question with legard to 
the economy of rag carpets, I can’t help thinking 
my mend’s home-made, white counterpane was a 
rather costly affair. There was tbe first cost ot 
the materials used, coarse, unbleacnedmuslln, and 
balls of candlewlck—the sum would cert ainly have 
been half enough to buy a pretty Mar.-elllesjspread, 
which would have been handsomer and more ser¬ 
viceable and far more easily laundrled. 
Then came the long, tedious process ot making. 
If a woman's time has any money value, it would 
far more than cover the remaining cost of the 
bought counterpane. 
So the many pieced quilts, which so abound In 
country places—are not really so economical as 
seems at first glance, nor really so comfortable as 
good woolen blankets. 
Where they are put together as a pastime, they 
make very pleasant fancy-work for leisure min¬ 
utes. 
If anyone “takes comfort” in these homemade 
manufactures, then they become roally valuable, 
even though they are expensive luxuries. 
The way to take our recreation Is In the manner 
we like, not In the way that suits some other per¬ 
son. 
But young ladles, anxious to save time for self- 
improvement, would do well to buy, rather than 
make most of their fancy articles. It takes almost 
as much money to buy the wool tor a knit shawl, 
as to buy the article Itself; and everyone knows 
how nearly endless Is the task of kuittlng one. So, 
too, of the many trimmings wrought so laborious¬ 
ly with the crochet needle, you can buy prettier 
Hamburg edge at almost the cost ot the materials. 
A few neat coUars and cuffs bought at a trimming 
store, will have a style and finish that cannot be 
given them when manufactured at home and 
more real satisfaction Is gained and days of worry¬ 
ing saved. 
Learn to take the value of time Into the account 
In estimating the comparative economy of home¬ 
made articles over those you buy. 
What ts economy for one person, under some cir¬ 
cumstances, Is extravagance In another. 
Cases in point may readily be recalled. For 
some house-keepers with neither chick nor child 
to take up their time, it may be all very well to sit 
down day after day to the piecing ot silk quilt?* 
and chair and sofa covers, but for busy, over-tax¬ 
ed mothers, It would be too expensive a luxury. 
When working-women learn to buy ready-made 
clothing more generally, they will have taken an 
advance step towards their emancipation, and will 
no doubt, add years to their lives. Lois. 
MAGAZINES FOR OCTOBER 
Harper's Macazinr. -Contents: The Ascent or 
Fujiyama; Illustrations — Fujiyama, from the 
Otomitona Pass-The Crater of Fujlyama-The 
Morning Shadow of Fujiyama—Pilgrim’s Rest; 
Art-Needlework; Keats—A Sonnet; Reminiscences 
oi.Tohn James Audubon; A Romance of the Heb¬ 
rides; An Autumn Holiday; A Demon-Hunt 
with 8t. Hubert In Touralne; Does Farming Pay? 
A Poem; The Metropolis of the Prairies; White 
Wings—A Yachting Romance; The Throckmor- 
tons—A story; some Peculiarities or Turkish 
Politics; Washington Square—A novel; Is It all 
there StUl—A poem; “Bad Peppers.”—A story; 
A Buddhist vision—A poem ; Modern Bee Culture; 
Morning and Evening by the Sea—A poem ; The 
••Sophia Walker;” Editor’s Easy Chatr; Editor’s 
Literary Record; Editor’s Historical Record; 
Editor’s Drawer. 
A Romance of tlik Hebrides. —The world, even 
In its hero worship, Is a discriminating world. It 
Indeed loves all greatness, but It dearly loves suc¬ 
cessful greatness; and It Is not to the martyrs of 
" lost causes ” that It sings anthems and erects 
monuments. Even amoDg the ranks of this abor¬ 
tive chivalry It. exercises ft partial respect. The 
honorably born have more than their just share 
of honor thrust upon them; those ot humbler 
birth are often mulcted of even that fair propor¬ 
tion which they have l oo well earned. 
Such reflections as these, mingled perhaps with 
some indignation, must force themselves upon tbe 
hearts or all who stand once in a lifetime within 
the beautiful klrk-yard of Kllmulr. and look over 
“cloudy seas”and tne bold Islauds ot the Heb¬ 
rides. For here, on this lonely hill, without a 
stone to mark her grave, rests the bravest and the 
fairest of the Macdonalds; the devoted adherent 
of the Stuarts against the house ol Hanover In 
England; the eager partisan of the house of Han¬ 
over against the colonists In America. 
It was in lsail I stood within the ruinous family 
mausoleum ot the Macdonalds of KIngsburgh. 
Anxiously I pushed aside the high thistles to look 
for some remnant of a headstone that hersonsbad 
placed above her grave iu 1790 ; but every particle 
had been carried away by admiring pilgrims, and 
Its only guardian was the somewhat remarkable 
growth ot scotch thistles that not Inappropriately 
shook over it their purple blooms. 
"Why Is there no monument to Lady Flora?’- 
1 asked of the “ black Macdonald ” who was our 
guide. 
“ is it la stone ye mean, ma’am ? Ta daisies 
and ta thistles are a heap ponnler. Yes, lnteet.” 
But, for all that, It was Impossible to avoid con¬ 
trasting this ruinous plot and Its neglected grave 
with the splendid cathedral of 8. Rletro, In Fras¬ 
cati, where In a coffin ot cypress-wood, with the 
crown, sceptre, and sword of his race, rests the 
man whose life Flora Macdonald risked her own 
to save. For the Prince, the high altar of the 
cathedral, and a costly marble monument In St. 
Peter’s, Rome; tor the simple clanswoman, an un¬ 
marked grave on a Hebredlan hlU. 
But though Lady Flora Is gradually slipping out 
of history—In spite of Dr. Johnson’s prophecy— 
there Is a sentiment of admiration for her wonder¬ 
ful life and character which quietly passes on her 
name from generation to generation. 
THE GOLDEN MEDIUM 
No mistress who regards her authority can af¬ 
ford to treat her servants with undue familiarity; 
neither should she regard them as Inferiors; but 
there Is a golden medium to be obtained. Treat 
your servants with confidence and consideration, 
and do not suspect them of doing wrong. They 
must be trusted more or less by tho -whole house¬ 
hold, and trust, In most cases, begets a sense of 
responsibility. Require careful performance of 
their duties, strict obedience to your orders, tidi¬ 
ness and cleanliness In their persons, respectful 
manners and willing service, and make them un¬ 
derstand how much their good conduct adds to the 
comfort of the whole household. They mast have 
time to do their washing and keep their clothes In 
order, or they cannot be clean and tidy. Treat 
them with kindness, but never with familiarity. 
Don't ask unnecessary questions. If they are Bad 
and moody, take no further notlco of it than to 
suggest if (practicable) that the usual holiday 
hours should be taken on that day, ruther than on 
the one appropriated to them, Without whole¬ 
some Intervals of amusement, uninterrupted work 
becomes intolerable. For that reason, servants 
should be allowed to receive friends, and even 
lovers, In the evening, when the day’s work Is 
done. If you deny them the privilege of compan¬ 
ionship, you establish an unnatural condition, 
which Is a premium tor deceit and worse than de¬ 
ceit. Servants will have male Mends. Do not 
compel them to hide In areas, or to make appoint¬ 
ments, but let everything be honest and above¬ 
hoard. There are aud must be different modes of 
pleasure and enjoyment, and in the gratification 
of wants and wishes, but there is a common wom¬ 
anhood. Lot ua remember this gratefully, and 
feel how much it Is In the power or every mistress 
of a household to elevate those she employs. 
"Good mistresses make good servants.” 
Tub Eclectic Magazine.— Contents-. steel En¬ 
graving.—Robbins Reef Light, New York Harbor; 
Hours iu a library—Sterne. By Leslie Stephen; 
Feasant Life In Bengal. ByJ.Talboy Wheeler; 
Letters to and from Hans Christian Andersen; A 
Scandalous Romance; A Reindeer Iilde through 
Lapland; Eiclton, Fair and Foul. By John Rus- 
klu. II; The Carver and the Callpa. By Austin 
Dobson; Jelly-Fishes. By Andrew Wilson, F. R. 
S. S. Central Asia; The Meeting-place of Em¬ 
pires; Thoughts In a City Church; White Wings; 
A Yachting Romance. By William Black; Min¬ 
uets: Romance of Literary Discovery: in Memo- 
rla; Tom Taylor. By Thomas Hughes; Tbe Black¬ 
bird. By W, V\. Story ; Instances of Longevity 
Bitter-Sweet; Literary Notices; Foreign Liter¬ 
ary Notes: Science and Art; Varieties. 
DESTRtrernju.iTY of Human Bones.—A n instance 
of the readiness with which human bones disap¬ 
pear Is shown in the fact that the Dutch Govern¬ 
ment in 1843 drained off the great Haarlem Lake, 
on which there had been many shipwrecks and 
naval fights; and where thousands had found a 
watery grave. The canals and trenches dug to a 
considerable depth through the rescued land are 
estimated to have an aggregate length of thou¬ 
sands of miles, and yet not a single human bone 
was exhumed from first to last, some weapons 
and a few coins and one or two wrecked vessels 
alone rewarded the efforts and researches of the 
curiosity-hunters. Here, as In cavern deposits 
and river gravels generally, works ot art alone 
furnished evidence of the existence of man, even 
though no part of the deposit could he more than 
300 vears old, as l he lake was formed by Inunda¬ 
tion toward the end of the sixteenth century — 
Eclectic Magazine tor October. 
machinery for curing tea 
of business. In not a few parlors or my acquaint- Amonj 
ance, a snowy owl became a fixture, and was llsh Is t 
pointed to as an avtan prize. But our splendid tongue c 
bird has become unable to uphold Its reputation. tween 5( 
The tidy housewife charges It with bringing In 40 , 000.00 
that tiny reprobate, the clothes moth. Tinea favi- Russian 
fronkila, It of the yellow face, which after pluck- 
lng Nlvea In spots, finishes on the rep upholstery. ~ i k 
A young friend captured one ot these Arctic raid- „ l ' 
ers alive, so long as be was well supplied with 
mice, the bird was quite good natured, and even 
submitted to the caresses of Ills master; but the . 
young man found the demands of that hungry nan 
maw very exacting ; In fact that owlish stomach ““ 
was too capacious for him to fill, ao he killed the 
bird In order to have it stuffed.—Samuel Lock- 'f™. 
wood, Ph. D., in Am. Naturalist for October. „ 
INTERROGATIVE 
Did you ever hear a woman say that she found 
no time for reading, and then see the same wo¬ 
man fretting away her time on patch work and 
other silly trifles ? 
Did you ever see a woman lay In a good stock 
ot currant and elder-berry Wine; use older dully, 
on Uer dinner table, and then mourn over the 
slow progress ot temperance reform? 
Did you ever hear a man express bts aversion to 
" strong-minded” women, and situ snow a de¬ 
cided fondness for discussing polities and other 
current topics with an intelligent female Mend, 
to the utter neglect of his dear domestic angel, 
who doesn’t read the papers ? 
l)td you ever hear a woman deliberately lie to 
her little child, about tUe most sacred mysteries 
of life, and still caH herself a Christian mother? 
Did you ever hear a minister discourse beauti- 
The American Naturalist.— Contents: The 
Food of the Darters; On the Former Extent of the 
Trlassic Formation of the Atlantic Slates; Notes 
on Stone Implements Found In New Jersey ; Some 
Noteworthy Birds; On the Microscopic Crystals 
Contained in Plants; Editor's Table; Recent Lit¬ 
erature ; General Notes; Botany ; Zoology ; An¬ 
thropology; Geology and Paleontology; Geog¬ 
raphy and travels; Microscopy; Scientific News; 
Proceedings ot Scientific societies. 
Some Noteworthy Birds.— That was a memor¬ 
able event In the annals of bird loro when those 
Arctic owls made their remarkable raid upon us In 
VARIETIES 
The only way to Lave a friend Is to be one. 
Pre|udlces are like rats, and a man’s mind like a 
trap; they get In easily, and perhaps can’t get out 
ataU. 
Never does a man portray liis.own character 
