Show miscellaneous tiie THE NEW YORK CENTRAL paric PARK more than trees shrubs and herbaceous pants plants were planted in new york central P sjirk last year the carriage drive now completed is aleut echt ei bt miles in length bridle road five miles and walks twenty miles over persona persons visited the park eu in j 1863 and I 1 in one day over ver carriages en the drives i ARTESIAN WELLS IN THE DESERT desfitt yio modern science is literally making the desert to blossom as the rose jn in the great deseri desert of shara sahara in in 1860 five artesian wells bad been opened around which vegetation thrives luxuriantly thirty thousand palm trees and one thousand fruit trees were planted and two thriving villages established at the depth of a little over five hundred feet an underground river or lake was waa struck and from two wells live fish have been thrown lip up showing that there is a large body 0 of water underneath i THE tite HUMAN VOICE the range of 0 the human voice is quite astounding there being about nine perfect tones but 17 1 different sounds thus 14 direct muscles produce sounds 30 indirect muscles produce while all in coope cooperation operation co ope ration tell the number already named and these independently of di Terent different degrees of intensity A mans voice ranges farm bass to tenor the medium being what is called baritone the toe female voice ranges from contralto to soprano the medium being termed mezzo soprano and a boys voice naturally is alto or between a treble and a tenor A MAMMOTH HOTEL the toe lindell hotel st louis is the largest hotel in the united states it is seven stories high exclusive of basement its height from sidewalk to cornice is feet beside marbe marble flooring and other flagging feet of flooring boards have been laid requiring feet of carpet to cover them thirty two miles of bell wire are used and ind three water tanks orresser or reservoirs in into to which gallons of water are taken up and distributed to all parts of the house rest upon the roof the whole property will cost nearly a million and a halt half of milars dollars RECEIPT RECEIPTS 13 AND expenditures OF THE UNITED STATES STATE an official announcement is made of the receipts and expenditures of the united states exclusive of trust funds from october lot to december by which it appears the receipts were from customs nearly twenty three millions and a third public lands one hundred ank ana seventy thousand five hundred dollars from internal revenue over twenty seven millions of dollars from incidental and miscellaneous sources two and a halt millions ard the remainder from bonds certificates of indebtedness indebted nessy and interest bear ing Tred treasury gury eury notes the expenditures were three hundred and fitly fity seven reven millions two hundred and sixty thousand dollars including for the war departments department one hundred and sixty three millions and a third for the navy De department twenty four millio millions nr for the redemption demp tion ion lon of certificates of indebtedness fifty seven millions and for the reimbursement of tempora temporary rv loans eighty 0 two and a half millions of dollars VALUE VALVE or gymnastics the french are showing allowing the world how bow to mount into a fort by bv an entire regiment it is effi eddi acted by climbing in el over a living ladder of six men one standing on the shoulders of the oher against the wall the english are taking warning and the idea of training their to g gemnas anas tic exercises has been seriously taken into consideration and there will at the commencement men cement of next year be a gymnastic school attached to every british regiment SNUFF DIPPING IN THE SOUTH B F taylor writes from rosecrans army the men are with the rebel armies and the women are starving all through this valley be the mise miserable inhabitants have no prospect of food for the coming winter but the bounty of the government ern ment these people are free to talk an and d to ailo alto allow that the yanks are not the terrible 11 huns ins they had fancied them if any hing ao BO light footed as fancy can be predicated upon anything so lifeless lif rif elees as those poor creatures they all indulge when they can in the practice of which BO so many discus disgusting tine tinz pictures have been made the practice called dipping 3 take a little stem of althea aithea chew it into a bit of a broom at one end lip dip it in snuff sweep your mouth out with it and leave the handle sticking out of one corner like a broom in a mop pi and remember all the while that it is a comans womans mouth and you ba haie baie e as much of the fashion as I 1 propose to describe jus here and now pow tobacco and not cotton is king hing negroes will sing dance and cry for it and the sittings ot of a soldiers pocket are eagerly scraped up bythe by the I 1 natives ana and the litt e brooms speedily raise a dustin it I 1 GOOD NIGHT how commonplace is this expression and yet what volumes it may speak for all future time we never listen to I 1 it in passing that this thought does not force itself upon us be the tones in which it is ut terca ever so gay the lapse of a few fatal hour houri i or mikules minxes may so surround and hedge it in wilh horror that of all the millions of words which a lifetime has recorded those two li ii tie tle words alone will seem teem to be remembered good night the little child has lisped it as it passed shilling sm illing to a brighter morn than oural ours the lover with bis his gay dreams of the morrow the wife and mother with all the tangled threads of household care still in her fingerr finc fing erf erp the father with the appealing eye of childhood all unanswered ver goodnight I 1 1 hat seal upon days past and days to come what nhat band hand so rash as to rend a ide the veil that covers its morrow the lowet elowe t advances to greatness are the most secure swift rises lisas are often attended led i with precipitate fa Is 1 and what is soon got is gen rally short snort in the pos ebston ile he that is truly polite knows bow to contradict with respect and to please without adulation adul aion alon and is equally remote fram an insipid complaisance and low familiarity famil arity A coultry girl com n ng from froal he be fi fild fild id was tod told by her er cousin that she looked as fresh a aa a a dalsy daisy da by kissed with dec dew der well it any feller by that name bit bit it was waa sieve jones that kissed me I 1 told him that every one in town would find it out because a man who into the grocery business is a grocer it follow that a man who goes into the horse business is a hawser |