Show THE PEEP O’ DAY— A LITERARY MAGAZINE ft gradually down till from the pdakfon where I stood I could see that he aimed at his heart His hand was now motionless as if it were marble— while his eye riveted on his antagonist seemed to jjx on one small spot as though his whole vengeance was to he glutted there Never was suspense more dreadful and I stood breathless in theexpecta-tio- n of the fatal flash when with a jerk of his arm he threw up the pistol’ and fired above his head and then with a cry of “ Mein brader ! mein bru-de- r !” rushed into Muhryarms and burst into q torrent of tears The scene was ipejeed a trying one and few could witness it unmoved As for me J turned away completely overcome j while my heart found vent in thankfulness that such' a fearfuj beginning should end thus happjjy “ Yes” said Eisendecker as we rode home together that evening when after a long silepGe he spoke: “Yes I had resolyed to kill him but when my finger was even on the trigger I saw a look ypon his features that reminded rpe(of his earlier and happier days when we had but one home and one heart and I felt as if I was about to become the murderer of ppy bother” Nveed I add that they were friends for £ver after heart-rendin- v g Jwaa mul gu't r - — for Hardena native of Rus- New Process Timber— ing sia lias discovered a process by which tfmbor though newly felled pay becQiie &q bard as 1° resist the influences of the njost trying climate for a almost indefinite period The most curious part of the invention is that it does not involve the use of chemicals qf any sort such as steeping in creosote &c and tlpt the process is applied to the tree while growing The inventor is now njaking ‘arrange ments fop the supply of Jp® timber to railway contractors in England and will npt require any remuner ration furtliep than the amount 'which would foe paid for ordinary timber until the period should hay c elapsed fyeyond which the ordinary railway sleepers telegraph-pole- s &c requirp to be replaced The best railway sleepers require renewing at intervals of from four to fix years but the inventor of the new process of ptpjoaring timhpp asserts thaf he will supply an arr fielo which need ppt ftp disturbed for fifty yeqrs guwte Sqwvtment RAL PHENOMENA mal bion Sept 1 9lh : A man that is young in years" 'may he old in hours if he have lost no time but that happeneth fare- ly Generally youth is like tho( first cogitations not so wise as tlie second for there is in thoughts as well as in ages and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old and imaginations stream into their minds better and as it were more divinely Natures tliatTiavo much heat and groat' ancl violent desires and perturbations arc not ripe for action-till they have passed the me- A : ridian of their years to are fitter men invent Young than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and fitter for new projects than for settled business for the experience of age in things that fall within the compass of it directetli them but in new things abuseth them The errors of young men are the ruin of business but the errors of aged men amount but to this that more might have been done or sooner Young men in the conduct and manage of actions emi brace more than they can hold stir more than they can quiet Men of age object too much con- suit too long adventure too little repent too soon and seldom5 drive business home to the full period but content themselves with a me--1 diocrity of success — Bacon"' Let a man live in an old quiet' place and' the wine of liis soul which has been kept thick and turbid by the rattle of busy streets settles apd as you hold it up you may see the sun through it by day and the stats by night I'fp power in the human soul sh ould ever he weakened — one can-- j not repeat this too often — only its counterbalancing povrer strength- ened in squirrels the upper row of teeth often grows painfully long hut only when tfto lower one is lost Sir Charles Lyell’S addr ess to the British Association (at the an- - ing commentary on the growing imperfection of our theories of the adpast ages of geology every dition to our knowledge only serving to show that “it has never been a part of the plan of Nature to leave a complete record of all her works and operations ” for the enlightenment of aftep ages — Al- of thought YOUTH AND AGE SIR CHARLES LYELL ON NATU- meeting at IJath) on AVed- nesday was less discursive and more strictly scientific than usual but by no means too technical for general apprehension It was perhaps the best the association has ever heard Its most interesting portion was a discussion of the gyeat effept produced on the temperature of different parts of the earth’s surface by depressions or elevations of other parts' lie told the' association of the manifold 'proofs that the greater part of the African Sahara has at no very distant geological period been beneath the ocean and the high coast of Barhary so insulated from the body of the continent and probably in unbroken connection with Spain Sicily and South Italy and he illustrated his theory by explaining the probable effect on tlie climate of Europe of the elevation of this vast sandy plain The hot sirocco he said which Aylien it blows now melts so rapidly the snows on the Apennines and Alps as to cause the most dangerous floods aqd to ' exhibit a visible rise n the snq'vv line even in Switzerland from day to day attains this great heat front the burning tropical sand of the Sahara over which it passes At the time when this Sahara was still beneath the sea tips wiipT lyoukl have been charged with the ocean’s moisture instead of with dry heat and on striking the Alps would have been driven up by its comparative warmth and lightness to the higher regions of tlie atmosphere where it would have deposited its moisture in the form of snow and instead of melting the glaciers have derreatlv increased them This alone Sir 0 Lyell thought might have been sufficient to account for the Alps having been in tlie glacial period as much as 2000 or 3000 feet according to Carpenter higher than they are now Sir C Lyell concluded his lecture with a strik- 681 ' -- ’ ! ' Persons Resident in the Coun- on enclosing- §200 to Harris son and Tullidge bp 147 Great i Salt Lake City will have the pa- per sent to them weekly for one (piatter of a year try v ' “ IT uiy fertile county” said a Leicestershire man “you could turn a liorso and the neit into a field new-mow- n morning the grass would be grown above his hoofs” — “Pooh! that’s nothing” said a Yorkshire man “You may turn a horse into a field in Yorkshire and not - A he able to find bjm next morning I |