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Through bending boughs it flickering falls. 
It glinteth on the garden walls ; 
Then through yon green arcade askance 
It darteth with a lightning glance ; 
And then its forked arrows break 
In golden shivers o’er the lake, 
Sending a shower of brightness down 
Amid the clinging weeds and fern. 
It tarries not a moment there, 
But o'er the distant meadow fair 
It glides, and tints yon ruined mill 
Under the bosom of the hill, 
Touching the old wheel from its quiver 
Until the waters laugh and shiver. 
0 angel with a golden plume. 
Awakening earth to life and bloom, 
Thou comest from those 
fields above 
Where God is life, and life 
is love! 
Hans Hathaway. 
a look, the sanctity of that tranquil home. I am 
told that Mme. Lind-Goldschmidt, as she styles her¬ 
self, is very eccentric and peculiar. She still in¬ 
terests herself in music, being the leader of the Bach 
Choir, a private association, to which some of the 
first ladies in Loudon belong; and so severe is she in 
her requirements, and so strict in demanding their 
fulfilment, that her high-born pupils are often tempt¬ 
ed to rebel .—Philadelphia Telephone. 
THE BUSY BEE. 
THE AUTOPHONE. 
Prof. Gai.by, of New York, has just completed a 
very curious and wonderful musical invention, which 
enables those totally unacquainted with music to 
execute, either on the organ or piano, the most diffi¬ 
cult piece with the precision and expression of skil¬ 
ful performers. In this device, called the autophone, 
the keys of the ordinary organ or piano are furnished 
with a very sensitive apparatus for moving them by 
Verily the insect deserves the name when we 
consider how much work it has to do in storing up a 
pound of honey. Mr. A. S. Wilson, in the London 
Chemical JTeivs, gives the following as the amount of 
sugar in nectar of 
Fuchsia per flower, . . . 7.59 milligrams. 
Everlasting pea, . . . .413 
Red clover per head, . . . 7.93 “ 
“ « floret, . . . .132 “ 
Thus 1 100 heads of clover will yield about 0.8 of a 
gram of sugar; 125,000 will yield 1 kilogram, or a 
trifle over two pounds. As each head contains about 
60 florets, 7,500,000 distinct flower-tubes must be 
sucked to obtain this amount. Honey contains, 
roughly, 75 per cent, of sugar; thus we have 1 kilo¬ 
gram of honey equivalent to 5,600,000 flowers, or say 
2,500,000 visits for one pound of honey. 
A GLIMPSE AT 
JENNY LIND. 
And, before I quit the || 
theme of song and sing- |g 
ers, let me mention a 
glimpse that I caught be¬ 
fore leaving London of 
one of the celebrities of 
the past. On leaving the 
home of Mme. Albani, I 
crossed the street to look 
at the dwelling of Jenny 
Lind. The house stands 
back from the street, and 
a garden that must in 
summer be a very bou¬ 
quet of flowers and ver¬ 
dure extends in front of 
it. A bust of the great singer, life-size and in marble, 
stands in the large bay-window that fronts the garden. 
And beside the bust sat an elderly lady in a white mob- 
cap and white cashmere shawl, engaged in partaking 
of the afternoon cup of tea that forms so prominent a 
feature in English social life. She was talking to 
some one in the room, and as she turned to the win¬ 
dow I saw again the face that I had last looked upon 
crowned with roses and lighted with inspiration, on 
the stage of Tripler Hall, twenty-eight long years 
ago. Under the disfiguring cap the fair hair, now 
plentifully streaked with gray, was seen rolled back 
in precisely the same fashion as that which set all 
the girls in America to twisting back their tresses 
in those bygone years. In other respects Jenny 
Lind has greatly changed. Few could have recog¬ 
nized in the pale, worn lineaments of the elderly lady 
the well-nigh angelic countenance of the greatest 
singer of our day and generation. I permitted my¬ 
self but one glance, not wishing to violate, even by 
A PRINCE IN THE 
KITCHEN. 
Young Folks’ Sociable—Presenting Flowers. 
means of a puff of air furnished by the bellows. The 
music, instead of being printed in the usual manner, 
is prepared by puncturing in a strip of paper a series 
of holes which correspond to the desired notes. This 
strip of paper is coiled on a roller, placed inside of 
the instrument, and slowly unwound by clockwork. 
As long as the paper is unpunctured no sound is 
heard, but the moment one of the holes makes its 
appearance it allows a little puff of air to pass through 
which, striking on the moving apparatus, causes the 
note to sound. The autophone is said to be espe¬ 
cially adapted to the organ, as the paper can be made 
to work the stops as well as the keys .—Christian 
Union. 
A Good Word for her Last Place. —Young 
person (applying for housemaid’s help) : “ A 
young lady as lived with you as cook, mum, told 
me as you was a very nice woman to get on 
with.” 
They are telling a 
good story in court cir¬ 
cles of Prince Peter of 
Oldenburg, Chief of the 
Russian College for Girls. 
At the Smoling Convent, 
which is. under his juris¬ 
diction, eight hundred 
girls are educated, and he 
had received anonymous¬ 
ly and otherwise several 
complaints about the 
food, which was pro¬ 
nounced execrable. “ I 
will see to this myself,” 
said the prince, and one 
day, a few minutes before 
the dinner hour, he pre¬ 
sented himself at the end 
of the passage leading 
from the kitchen to the 
dining saloon. Here he 
met two soldiers carrying a caldron steaming hot. 
“ Halt!” The men obeyed. “ Put down that ket¬ 
tle.” The kettle was at once deposited on the floor. 
“ Fetch a spoon.” Here Russian discipline wavered. 
One of the men had the audacity to begin a protest. 
“ S’death!” exclaimed the prince; “ hold your tongue 
—fetch me a spoon.” “ But,” stammered the sol¬ 
dier. “ Another word and I place you under arrest.” 
The spoon was brought. The prince dipped it into 
the caldron and swallowed a quantity of the liquid. 
“ I thought so,” he said. “ Do you call this soup % 
Why it is dirty water.” “ It is, your highness,” 
answered the soldier who had been threatened with 
arrest; “ we have been cleaning out the laundry.” 
A Beautiful Custom.— In Germany there is 
beautiful custom, whenever a person is confirmed : 
his church to present a young tree, and these a: 
planted as memorials. At one service lately ov. 
one hundred trees were planted. 
