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MY SONG. When tho sou Speaks to me,
Bare I may reply to it;
When the skies Catch my eyes,
I must amile a little bit..
When the treen
Try to please,
With their buds and blossoms now,
Shall I dare Not to dare
For a world no bright and true 1 ·
Earth and sky Tell me why
Sorrow ever comes between ?
la it you
Heaven blue? In it you, my earth so green ?
Is it there In the air
That you neither of you touch?
In the wind So unkind When I love its kiss so much 7
Lot it be
Earth or sea,
Skles or breezes as they move,
A COSSACK CHARGE.
chub, and riding along the road near this villago, when they found their passage bar red by two regiments of Turkish regular cavalry. Col. Cherkisaloff had but four squadrons with him, the other two being on flanking duty; but his orders were to clear the road, and the sturdy Cossack colonal
THE CHINA MAIL.
purpose I have indicated by means of an and precision. When in use its movements requiro machinery in their agricultural ingenious arrangement of reflectors are of course under the control of the operations to the same extent as people in As I have said; the ore of the observer astronomical clock, with which it is alec the western hemisphere, yet it was evident can determine to the fifteenth part of a tribally connected, so that it automatically that yesterday's experiments greatly inte- sebond the moment at which any star follows the apparent chango in position rested the Ambassadors and their malte, and crosses a portion of the field of the tele. produced on the star under observation by their Report may perhaps pave the way for the introduction of British agricultural scopo. The exact period of the star's the rotation of the earth.
On expressing a wish to dea something machinery into a country where every year passage has, however, to be calculated
[No. 4416.-Acoust 25, 1877.
ends me another poem, entitled “Des- pendency, in which he exclaims,
נן
"Oh, bary me deep in the ocean blno, -
Where the roaring billowa laugh; Olt, cast me away on the weltering sea,
Whero the dolphins will bits me in half." Now, Mr. Grady, you can find a com
I petent aasassin, I wouldn't make it a point
the weltering sea. If he can't find a rear- ing billow, Vil be perfectly satisfied to have him ohucked into a creek. And I dare say that it'll make no material difference whe ther the dolphins gobble him or the catfish and eals nibble him up. It's all the same in the long run. Mention this to your
**Ol sing to me, darling, a sweet song to-night;
While I bask in the emile of thino eyes, While I kiss those dear lips in the dark silent
FOOD,
And whisper my saddening good-byes."
The correspondent of a contemporary gives the following account of a charge of Don Cossacks, which occurred before Biela -
Early this morning (July 9) the 12th Don Cossack Rogt, part of the brigade commanded by General Stahl von Holstein, which forms part of the 12th Cavalry Divi. much more exactly than this. To enable through this wonderful instrument the the Emperor testifies to the importance of with him to oblige Mr Markley. I don't
a chronograph, as it observer directed my attention to a minute by is called, is provided. This is a most in-spot of light in the heavens, which he of a State ceremonial--Times, genicus instrument, constructed, on the informed me was forty-seven Tucane principle of the Morse telegraph, in which that is, the forty-seventh star in the con
THE BURLINGTON “HAWKEYE”. the message is indicated on a moving paper stellation to which Horschel gave that ribbon. The chronograph lies on a table name. It looked to me a mere spot of MAN'S FOURTH OF JULY ADDRESS, Why are we assembled here to-day? To near the observer, and is electrically con- light-a star of the sixth or seventh mag-
"Look here, then," rejoice that we are a free people, endowed nected with the astronomical clock of the mtado--and I said so. gave the word to his Cossack children to Observatory and the table upon which the remarked the observer, with a smile, turn with the inalienable rights of life, liberty murderer when you speak to him, will you? follow him with that end. The ground transit instrument is fixed. As the clocking the telescope towards the object.. and the pursuit of happiness in a long Now, 1' show you why this thing takes all work of the chronograph moves the paper looked, and saw the whole field of the range. To rejoice that the precious boon the heart out of me. In his poem entitled prevented the superior numbers of the Turks from undanking him, and with thril. ribbon along the table at each beat of the telescope studded with an enormous cluster and heritage of freedom is ours, bequeathed "Longings" he uses this language: ling hurrahs they rode straight at the mass astronomical clock a sharp pointed stylet of luminaries-suns upon spas, worlds upon us by the fathers who fought, oled and **Thousands of them," said I. died, that 1 and mine and you and yours in front of them. The Turks also advanced, descends and marks on the paper each suc-worlds. but at a trot, while the Cossacks came on coeding second. The ribbon is so-arranged Myrinds," quietly remarked the observer. might breathe the air of freedom. And we st a tearing gallop. There was a crash of that each of the panstared marks is about That which you mistook for a small star is rejoice to-day, we are proud and happy and lance and aworl, and the Turks recoiled; three-quarters of an inch apart. By the in reality a group of worlds greater in glad-glad that our fathers died for us bnt the Cossacks had not physical weight electrical connection with the stand of the extent than those which your unaided sys instead of compelling us to die for them. enough to put them to rout Novertheless, transit the observer is enabled, without can see around you. Again the observer They were great, graud men. In fact, they Now, you see how it is yourself, Grady,. don't you? How is ho going to sing to the two squadrons which charged frat bore taking his eye from the instrument, to set turned his instrument, directing it this time were many of them great grandfathers
towards the beautiful constellation of Orion, It is sweet to die for one's country, It him while he kisses those lips, and how is them back, and then the other two squa- the chronograph in metion by touching a drons went in, and pushed the Turks further break: circuit screw. He can also control and bade me look. There between the star seems to me that I, too, would gladly, oh, he going to whisper good-bye? Isn't that back, but these latter rofused wholly to the action of another stylet so as to cause which forms the belt and the first two or how gladly, add my name to the list of the awful slush? Now, isn't it? And then, it to descond and puncture the ribbon at three which form the sword I saw a sort of great and good, and die for my country if the room is dark, what I want to know is loso cohesion, and, the cause of their stub.
I was gazing on the of old ags,, I would die sooner if it was how he's going to tell whether her øyer are bornness soon appeared. They wheeled any moment. In this way the exact instant faint light cloud. and disclosed some companies of infantry at which any particular star is in the centre great nebuls of Orion--that group of un- thought necessary, but I havn't got time, siniling or not? Mr Grady, either the man and a couple of field guns that had come up of the field may be marked on the passing known luminaries which no human eye, I am too busy. But if any sacrifices are la insans or I am; and if your butcher is in support. The blood of the Cossack ribbon, and the time of its transit calculat-aided even by all the appliances of modern nested next Centennial, they may call on going to stab Markley, you'll oblige me by colonel was up, but he was not brave with-ed to the hundredth part of a second. All science, has yet penetrated, and of the me, and I will either come or send a hand, telling him that I want him to jab him Our fathers dled for us. They died will deep, and maybe fill him up with polson or out discretion. He sent back to General this and much more was explained by my number and magnitude of which conjecture Arnoldi begging that he would support him friendly guide as we stood in the room fails even to afford an estimate. As I ingly and gladly. But if they could come something to make it absolutely certain.
I know that when he sent me that with bis dragoons, who can, as already de- together silently watching the observer gazed, and the recollection of what I had back to-day and see what kind of crowd scribed, not as infantry. Meanwhile the eitling at the instrument and listening to soen before came over me, my brain fairly they died for, quarreling over the President's poom about The Unknown" I parsed it, indomitable Cossacks hammered away lus- the slow steady beat of the clock and the reeled. Thoughts of the insignificance of policy, wrangling over the currency, and and examined it with a mioroscope, and tily at the much superior force, delivering sharp tick of the stylet as it descended on earth, a mere unit in that vast assemblage some of them trying to pay a dollar's worth sent it around to a chemist's to be analyzed, several distinct chargos, successfully enga. the paper-ribbon of the chronogragh. So of worlde seen and museen, and of the power of debt with ninety cents worth of money, but hang me if I know yet what he's driving ging the attention of the Turks till Bilder-soon as the observation, which was proceed. and the goodness of the Great Architect talking politics twenty-three hours a day, at when he says, Little minds are too much wounded by/ling brought up his dragoons at a gallop, ing when we entered the room, was finished, passed through my mind, and interming and praying so seldom that our knees getThe fish spectral gleaming of that wild re Hittle things; great minds see all and are followed by a husser regiment. The dra- my friend determined that I should see for ling with them like a burden. or refrain the rusty, drowned out by rain, deronted by goons discounted, extended in skirmishing myself the possibility of observing by the words of the Hebrew singer What is grasshoppers, they would, if they had it to not even hart.-La Rochefoucauld,
order, worked on through the broken ground eye the minute lapses of time, of which I man that thou art mindful of him, or the do over again, live nine thousand years, The reward of a thing well done is to
had been somewhat sceptical. Accordingly son of man that Thou visitest him?" and only die then when they had to. he gave the instrument a slight turn, and Silently and subdued I passed out into the have done it ; the fruit of the good office is
I sat down placing my eye at the point of grounds, feeling like one leaving the portals the office itsel-Serieca.
vision. Before me was apparently a field of a church after listening to some solemn of darkness as if the window of the room service. Midnight sounded as I turned had been thrown open to the sky. Across homewards, and thus ended my night with this were stretched bright silvery threads, the stars. which were the wires. Suddenly a minute point of light came in view. This was a star. Eagerly I watched its entrance on the field of vision, and listened for the slow beat of the clock. Never before had I appreciated the enormously different rapidity of sight and hearing-nover before the actual lapse of time which we call a second. With jerky sort of motion the star seemed to pass before me, leapings as it were, from
Earth is awest
:
'Neath my feet, Ever zwester yet above ;
And the air
Ev'rywhere
In the sweetest of the three;
I will take
For their sakey
Anything they bring to me
It is not enough to have great qualities; we should also have the management of them.-La Rochefoucauld.
This thought I give you all to keep: Who soweth good seed shall surely reap. The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's lat sat nanda are its aanda ofgold, Life in itself is neither good nor evil; it la the scone of good or evil an you make it; and, if you have lived a long day, you have soon all-Montaigna.
eatd.-Junius,
enjoy all it can desire, would, notwithstand Ing never be content; so, on the other, wisdom ever acquicnces with the present, and le nevor dissatisfied with its immediate conditions-Montaigne.
The man who osunot jest is a poor wight at
best;
None poorer, save the man who taught
can do but justa,
jealous eyes;
liea-Ruckert.
Earnest is weak, that shunsa jest with And jest is weaker stil, in which no earnest He who will do his work aright will find that his first lesson is to know himself, and what is proper for him; and he who right ly understands himself will never mistake another man's work for his own but will love and improve himself above all other things, will refuse superfluous employ ments and reject all unprofitable thoughts and propositions-Montaigns. For these things tend still upward-pro-
gross is The law of life-man's self is not yet Man! Nor shall I deem his object served, his end Attained, his genuine strength put fairly
forth, While only here and there a star dispels
on both flanks of the Inrkish cavalry and infantry, and closed in just as the Cossacks and husaurs charged directly in front. The Turks would have no more of this kind of amusement. They fell back with precipita- tion, but the steadiness of their infantry covering the retreat prevented a rout or keen pursuit.
A NIGHT WITH THE STARS,
and value of its instruments may vie with
THE CHINESE AMBASSADORS. Their Excellencies the Chinese Ambar- adors, Kuo Tajen and Lion Ta-jen, having expressed a wish to inspcot some of the most improved English agricultural ma schinery in actual operation, accepted an invitation from Mesars Ransomes, Sims,
sounding clang Cams hooting o'er the margin of the dusky
moors that bang.
Like palls of inky darkness where the hoarse,
weird maven calls,
And the bhang-drunk Hindoo staggers en and
on until he falls,"
fan't that Well, now, isn't that just the most fearful mess of staff that was over ground out of a lunatle asylum 7'.
I have a wife and
*It's the awfullest I ever saw.'. ***Well, then, I got oighteen of them a week, and they madden mo. They keep my brain in a frenzied whirl. Grady, this man must die. Self-preservation la the first law of nature, children; 1 conduct a great paper I educate the public mind. My life le valti- able to my country. Destroy this poot, future generations will praite your name,
will know that he is dead. That will settle it. Good-morning,'"
Miscellaneous.
I
A FIRM of solicitora received the other
day & tatter from another well-known firm to this effect
**Dear Sira,--We are.
"Yours truly,
*LATITAT and Co."
A TOUGH FIRM.-Soven Chinamen, are
money could be touched.
ACCORDING to the Temps the military
issuing an order sanctioning the wearing of authorities of France have decided upon apectacles by the officers and men of the French army. In Germany spectacles have long been worn by both officers and men in the ranks. It is recognized as resential that an officer should be able to see his men, and that these latter should be able to clearly distinguish the target at which they have to fire; and therefore, unless spectacles or eye-glasses are permitted, every short-eighted man must be excluded a man to assist his defective vision by from the army. Consequently by allowing
And yet ours in a glorious country, A wonderful, magnificent country. It is AB a high nobool girl would marvelous, say, it is "pice." Look abroad over our land, turn the pages of history and see what the mighty genios of progress has wrought. But one short century ago the corner-stone of this mighty fabric was laid, amid the thunder of cannon and the rattle of musketry, canopied by the smoke of battle and cemented with blood. A little band of struggling, needy, patriots, hall Men who are unequal to the labor of
(Adelaide Observer.)
olad, poorly fed, with only a few dollars in discussing an argument, or wish to avoid
Many a night I had passed in the com it, are willing enough to suppose that much pany of stars, theatrical and otherwise, of
the National Treasury. To-day the sun of has been proved beautise much has been greater or less magnitude; but on a certain
one hundred and one years breaks upon svening not long since I wended my way
and Head, of Ipswich, and arrived in that the land--wherever it isn't sforming and As folly on the one side, though it should towards the Melbourne Observatory, where wire to wire. I listened to the clock, and town recently by the 10 o'clock express where do we stand? A billion dollars in When the poem cease to come to me,
for the first time in my life I was by the then saw that not only was it possible to from London. They were received by the debt!
estimate by the eye the period of the Mayor of Ipswich, Mr Cobbold, MP,
Our fathers died, but they had no rail kind invitation of the Government Astrono- fteenth part of a second, but without Mr R. O. Rancome, and Mr John roads. If they had they might have died
It is believed that the post must have mer privileged to pass a night with the stars difficulty I could note the moment of which Head, and drove drast from the station with less expense and trouble before they been warned by Grady, for the supplies celestial. The building stands on a portion the star passed the central point between to the trial field, situated about two got to the war.
Our fathers never knew auddenly ceased; and Markley in saving up of the Government Domain not far from the new residence of the Governor. It lies two of the bright threads of spiders silk, miles from the town. Here, after luncheon, the ecstatic pleasure of leaning out of a car his effusions for some other victim. An intelligent reader does often find out, in a secluded position at a considerable dis- thas marking the thirtieth part of that the first machines explained to their window and getting a redhot oinder as big in other men's writings, other perfections, tance from the road, and thus that absolute period-in other words, the eighteen hun- Excellencies were reapers, bay-makers, and as pos in their oyo before they could look They had no telegraph, and and invest them with a better senso and quiet and freedom from the tremor produc-dredth part of a minute; a thing to be other implements used in harvesting the at a tree. higher construction, and more quaint ex-ed on delicate instruments by the passing conceived rather than calculated
grain and hay crops. They afterwards never knew what a convenience it was to pression, than the author himself either traffic of a city which are so essential to
But still greater marvels were in store proceeded to a piece of land which had just pay forty cents to send a message fifty intended or perceived:-Montaigne. astronomical work are secured. Tho build for me. Leaving the transit observer to teen cleared to watch trials of the horse miles, and then have the dispatch come When a man leaves our side and goes to ing is not a very large or imposing structure his work, we passed on to the special object and bullock ploughs. They were shown lagging a day or two after the man had died the other side, be is a traitor, and we like that at Greenwich, but it is admirably of my visit, the greater telescope. This ploughs adapted to every species of soil and of old age. They had no kerosene lamps, grand instrument, as has been already stut
chmate, and were particularly struck with and never know what it was to light a kit- iw. ya felt that there was a subtle some adapted to the climate, and in the complote ed, is accommodated in a building apart the economy in horses and men effected by chen fire and make a balloon ascension out thing wrong about him. But when a man ness of its arrangements and the number from the Observatory. It is under the the use of Ransomes patent double and of the same can. They had no ulted. The recipients, after puzzling themselves leaves the other side and comes over to us, thon be in a man of great moral courage, the most celebrated observatories of the special charge of a gentleman already three furrow ploughs. The next machine States Signal Service, and never had forty for a long time over this laconic epistle, well known to astronomical circles, and inspected was an improved steam-thrasher, ve rainy days in a month, with a tornado remembered that they had written to know and we always felt that he had sterling staff world. In the centre building are the rooms in him.
devoted to the various gentlemen connected who, it is safe to prophesy, will make a with apparatus for shopping and braising every wash-day. Their wants were few whether L and Co. were instructed to with the institution and to the large and name for himself as a discoverer among the straw, This machine is apecially adapt and simple. They didn't need a great deal accept service of a writ on behalf of a client valuable library of astronomical works.
those strange starry clouds yclept nebule, ed for hot countries whore hay is not grown, of weather, and what they had was regu of theirs. And this was the acquiescence. which he is at present chiefly engaged in and where the straw is hard and contains a lated by the ground-hog, and that reliable Beneath the ground flour are two rooms observing and delineating. The telescope large quantity of silica and woody fibre, ren-
weather-bureau never made a mistake. partners in business in San Francisco. A These men have passed away. In their creditor, finding it hard work to collect a specially set apart for investigations, where house is ingeniously arranged with a mov daring a softening and braising operation the regulation of chronometers and other able roof, so that the instrument when necessary before it can be eaten by the simple habits, their sterling honesty, their debt, learned that the money was in the an equable temperature is required. Here
in use is protected from the weather, and a cattle. The beautiful precision with which granti patriotism, their unselfish devotion safe, that the safe had seven different similar work is performed. above stairs the room set apart for meteorologial obser comfortable apartment is provided for its the grain came out at one end of the to principle, they passed from life to eternal locks, that each partner had one key, and vations is situated, and also one for the guardian. When the telescope is at work, machine ready for the market, and, at the fame. The men of '76 are gone. I do not the firmu had to be unanimous before the equatorial. The magnetic and meteorolo- however, the roof, which runs on rollers, other the straw prepared for food, seemed know where, but they have gone some- gical instruments are numorous, and the is moved away, and the observer reclining to impress the Chinese, and it was admitted where: I do not see any of them here. If on his easy chair can direct it with mar that this system was the only one which there are any present they will please rise, best of their kind. As, however, they are such as are to be found in most observato-vellous ease to any portion of the heavens was, likely to suit Chius and India, when for I am willing to be corrected when I am
thrashing by steam cate into fashion in wrong.
The Fourth of July was invented by a man rier, and have already frequently been de he may wish to examine. scribed in those columns, it is needless again The telescope is one of the largest in the those countries. The mactrine which ap to refer to them in detail. To the left of world, being second in size to the renowned peared to claim the attention of their whose name is dear to all American hearts the main structure is a long low building, instrument constructed for Lord Rosse, Excellencies more than any other was one floorga W. Washington. By an ingenious in which reposes the great telescope, of and only squalled by other two-one in of Head and Schemicth's patent engines for arrangemont the Fourth of July was so which I shall presently speak,
Liverpool and the other in Malta. The burning vegetable substances, such as rica contrived by the inventor that it would On my arrival I was conducted by the construction of the instrument was under and wheat straw, cotton stalke, dry grass, always fail on a rainy day. It has missed genial and kindly Assistant Astronomer, taken by Mr. Grubb, F.R.S., under the &c. It was explained that these engines it only once in the past twelve hundred who had undertaken to be my guide and direction of Committee consisting of were largely used in the corn-growing years, and on that once it hailed all day. mentor for the night, to what is known Lord Rosse, Mr. Warran de la Rae, and districts of the East of Europe, where coal The Fourth of July was not the only in- as the transit-room, Here the valuable Dr. Robinson. The first question to be and wood cannot be obtaiced and straw invention of this great and good man. transit circle, by far the finest instrument decided by the Committee was the size of the only fuel; while in Egypt many hundreds invented a name that will fit two-thirds of of its kind in the colonies, is kept. A the reflector. Six feet was talked of, but of acres are irrigated by these engines, burn the boys of every generation in America. The darkness; here and there a towering transit instrument, as its name implies, is abandoned on account of the expense, and ing only the refuse stalks of the cotton. A grateful people never forgot the fact, and artificial means a large number of men wha designed for the purpose of calculating the four feet was finally selected. The Com-plant. It was explained to the Chinese that Washington, when at the zenith of his position of any given star in the heavens mittec niso recommended that the tube of these engines bad been used during the pre- power, was nominated by acclamation for by observing the precise time at which it the telescope should be of metal latticework sent year for driving machinery in some the capital of the United States. Washington passes across the field of the telescope, to lessen the disturbing influence of cur- of the factories in the tea gardens at Assam, was once discovered praying at Valley For the purpose of measuring this exactly rents of air in its interior. The speculum buraing only dry jungle-gras as fuel. The Forge, and from the great stress laid upon fine wires are stretched across the field of after sunset is in general warmer than the mill which was grinding the corn which had the incident by all historians, it is judged the instrument. These are not, however, air which is in contact with it, and therefore just been thrashed was next inspected, and that it was the only time anybody ever really wires of metal, as their name would heats it. The warm air of course rises, and the visitors afterwards turned their atten- caught him praying. He was a brave, good seem to imply, but exceeding slender threads in an ordinary tube escapes along its upper tion to the steam plough on Fowler's man, but he dressed too much like a member of spiders silk. Each of these wires is side, while a cold stream descends along patent which was at work on an adjoining of a bass-ball club to be elected President placed at such a distanco that the time the lower side to replace the ascending one. pisce of land, and they viewed with wonder in these days. occupied by the passage of a star between The two form addies at their common sur- the rapidity with which the plough turned any two of them fs about the fifteenth part face, and the result in a medium of irregular over large masses of soll, and the ease with of a second. The passage between the density very unfavourable to good vision, which the workmen handled the powerful wires is quite appreciable by the eye; then In the lattice construction the warm air enginee and six-furrow plough. Irrigation the sight becomes able to determine, a escapes through the openings almost as may be considered to be almost the key. period of time which would be quite ingen soon as it leaves the speculum, and thus stone of Chinese agriculture, and the Am-the chap I'm going to assassinate is a post sible to the hearing. The instrument in an equilibrium is kept up. Another advan-bassadors watched with much interest the a fellow named Markley. He has been Melbourne is seventy-two inches in focal tage the open work tabe possesses is light large volume water of which was delivered cending poetry to this paper every day for length, and the object-glass is five inches nessa matter of no inconsiderable moment by a powerfal centrifugal pump, and also a in diameter. It was constructed by an in so large an instrument. It was also double-acting steam pump manufactured he keeps stuffing it in as if he thought I hold and prevent the enemy occupying the eminent London firm under the direct per decided that the great speculum should be for Bombay, and it was explained to their was depositing it in the bank and drawing heights from Clamart to Montretout. At sonal supervision of Sir Richard Airy, the of metal and not of glass, as the Committes zoellencies that not only thrashing, grind interest on it. Well, ir, it's got to be so the enemy, advanced, the defenders were, Astronomer Royal. It le mounted on beau did not wish to run the risk incurred in ing, and steam ploughing, but irrigation bad that it annoys me terribly. It keeps however, rapidly driven back. A redoubt of tifal supports of gun metal, and is a most using the more brittle materials. It is of also, could be performed by the patent me awake at night. I'm losing flesh. That considerable strength had been constructed elegant piece of workmanship. Attached the Cassegrain constraction--that is, the engine which they had just inspected. man and hip poetry haunt me. I'm getting in haste at Chatillon to assist in the defence to the instrument is a transit cirole con- small reflector is conves, and the eye-piese Steam is generated in the boiler by such gloomy and morose. Life is beginning to of the heights; and General Duorot, seeing structed of gun metal with an outer ring of ie in the centre of the large reflector fuel er rice and wheat stram, cotton stalks, pall upon me. I seem to be under the in- that it was hopeless to attempt to withstand oliver, on which the finer divisions are in place of being at the side as in the &c., grown on the estate, thus rendering fluence of a perpetual nightmare. I can't the Prussian advance in the epen, determined marked. The circle is used for accertain- Newtonicu instruments. There are objec- the farmer independent of coal and wood, stand it much longer, bir Grady i my reason to throw himself with a few hundred men ing the meridian altitude or tonlth distance tions to this peculiar form such, for which are often expsanive aud difficult to will totter upon its throne. Here, only into the work and hold it to the last ex of the star which is being observed by the example, as the difficulty of obtaining low obtain. The experiments concluded with this morning, he sent me a poem entitled tremity, rather than abandon and allow the "Lines to Hannah." Are you fond of enemy to seize so advantageous a position. telescope. The mods of using it is rather magnifying power. This necessitater the an inspection of Messrs. Ransomes' now
The sub-intendent of the force was sent difficult to explain in plain language, but it eye-piece glass being of large dimensions, traction engine, which was drawing heavy poetry, Grady
Oh, I dunno, I don't care so very for, and dirested to provision the redoubt. is shortly as follows-When the image of and therefore of course costly. It possessse loads about the ground at the rate of
Large supplies of food had been already. The Ambassadors much about it." the star approacher the centre of the fold the advantages, however, that the tubo la three miles an hour.
Well, I'll read you one verse of the carried into it, when it was suddenly, and for of the telescope the observer adjusts the shorter and lighter, and that the errors of then visited the extensivo railway works instrument so as very nearly to bring the the small speculum tend to correct those of of Moser Ransomes and Rapier on the "Lines to Hannah." He says--to Hannah, the first time, remembered that neither was there any supply of water in the work, nor image of the ttar to the central horizontal the larger. The Instrument was begun in other side of the Orwell. This inanufactory mind you-
were any means provided for obtaining this wire. Thet, act as the star pantas the 1886, and three years elapsed before it was had naturally a special interest for their
necessary of life. The country round was middio vertical wire, he clampe the circle, completed, owing partly to a failure in Excellenclos, as it was here that the first
searched but neither brook nor wall could and reads off the poaltior inflected by the casting the first speculum. The total Chinese railway was constructed the access
be found. Colonel Corbin, the engineer pointer on the circle. The divisions of the length of the inbe is thirty feet, and its of the opening of which and its subsequent
officer on General Ducrot's stuif, was de circle are so fine that the aid of a talero-diameter is a little more then four feet, it progress were so closely watched in this scope is necessary for observing them being of course rather larger than the country. The machinery employed by this Now, you see, Grady, that is what is un-spatched to seek for water; but in vains: There are four of these instruments attached speculum. The weight of the tobe in firm in the wauufacture of treansils, keys, eating my mind. A man can't stand more. There was neither reservoir nor fountain nor to the circle in Melbourne. As all the obser- nearly twenty-four hundredweight, that of and other railway material was carefully than a certain santint of that kind of thing: stream near, no means of procuring water vations are conducted at night, it is of the speculum nearly thirty-two hundred-examined, and the party returned to town What do the public care whether he is for either man or horse. The day was hot} coures necessary to illaminate artificially, weight. The total weight of the instru- by the o'clock train, bigbly delighted with dreaming or whether he is drunk! What the men were already suffering from thirsti dos Hannah care Why, they don't care and, consequently, General Duorot was the circle, and also the field of the micro-mout is over eight tons. Notwithstanding their visit. Although the Chinese are mora scopes. This is effected by a single lamp its enormous weight, its suspension and all advanced in agriculture than any others cont. Now, do they i
**1 Not u red cant.” placed on a shelf attached to the instru the adjustments are so beautifully accurate nation in the East, and probably, with their mout, welch is made to serve the double that is cap ba moved with the greatest case teening population and fertile coll, may not
mind
O'erlooks its prostrate fellows; when the
host
Is out at once to the despair of night, When all mankind aliko is perfected, Equal in full-blown prowers then, not all
thon,
I say, begins man's general infancy. -Browning.
CHURCH RULES FOR THE LADIES. Drass hard all morning, auch is fate, Then enter church some minutes late. All eyes will then be turned on you, And will observe your bonnet now.
Lat humble modesty wreath your face, And take your seat with faultless grace. Let your thoughts be fixed on high, And rearrange your cardinal tle. Think how religion's prone to bless, And criticise your neighbor's dress, Let all your heart be filled with praise, And notice Mre, Miggle's laco,
Put from your mlad all thoughts of sin, And readjust your diamond pin. Think of how good religion proves,
And then smooth out your bottoned gloves
Catek well the precepts as they fall, And smooth the wrinkles in your shawl, Think of the sinner's fearful fate, And notice if your bonnet's straight, Pray for the influence ditine
That lady's baeque, mark the design. Let tender peace possess your mind, And criticise that hat behind;
Beflect on Christian graces deaf, And fix these curls behind your est. Let your heart warm with allent prayer, And low that horrid green silk there.
Reflect upon the wicked's ways See if your gold chain's out of place. Thick of the peace the good shall tad, And wonder who are sitting behind. Think of the burdena Christians bear, And notice those atranga ladies there, The leat words bear with contrite heart, And Ox your pull-buck when you start,
2
He
ace at present necessarily rejected will be- ÚNE of the defects of the forts round Kara come available for service in the ranks.
is said to be a scarcity of water. No water. at all, it appears, can be obtained within the detached works themselves; all that is re- quired having to be carried up with much labour from the river. The inconvenienes which is reported to have arisen from this deficiency of water recalls to mind an episode which took place during the first day of the fighting round Paris in the late Franco- German. war.
It is related by General Duorot in his work on the defense of Paris. On the 19th of September, the German armies were drawing near the capital of France, the oth Prussian corps approaching it from the southward. On the 17th General Duerot had been placed by the governor of Paris in eight months. I never printed a line, but command of a force, with instructions to
A PERSECUTED JOURNALIST,.
Between you and me,' said the editor,
"The Hitis birds sing swecify
In the weeping willows greed, The village girls dress nestly-
Oh, tell me, do I dream *”
obliged to relinquish his design and retira with his troops under shelter of the forty "Of course net, And yet, Darkley round Parta