Show miscellaneous A TEST or CHARACTER the use of money has become in modern Bo society clety the test teat of character As men use money they use everything and every body if it they are honest and equitable in that they will be honest and equitable in other things if not not in the intense and universal pursuits of society it follows that men will manifest in it what manner of spirit they are of the eagerness with which they pursue eursue the man chance absorbs all other feelings t and desires evea erea the internal laws and anil ordinances of god which have been established as a bulwark against the mad a of human passions are no lramer to the master passion it may be that test comes cornea in the matter of mills or if tf millions but whenever it comes and however voge loge 1 rge or small the tran transaction action is how few comparatively out of the immense multitude engaged in business can lay their hand on their hearts and say 1 I have not cot overreached or taken advantage or put a cent into my pocket that was not honestly my own how few have so scrupulous a bene sene of honor and honesty that they would no more inore ov overreach erreich the government than their own brotheim for beside bebide the atna aina amazing zing ambition of getting rich another feeling comes into play to gain the better of a man in in a bargain is counted smartness toe the fi 11 ip of a greater intellectual keenness is added to the love of money there is 13 something peculiarly fascinating in being quicker earlier brighter faster than your neighbor it is not that you care fo to much forthe for the filthy lucre 0 no but you are resolved rot not to be beaten in a trial of wits thus it is that false intellectual pride often joins in the dominant passion of riches to frampie trample the golden rules of honor and fair dealing under foot but in spite of at all solicitations soli citations how beautiful beyond cm compare pare is is unswerving uprightness nessi christian enquirer CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT WATER the extent which bich water mingles with bodies apparently the most moat so solid lidis ia very wonderful thet thel the glittering opal which beauty wears weara as an or dament il ia 8 only flint and water ot of every twel twelve v e b hundred adred tons of earth which a landholder holder hoider has in his estate four hundred are water the sno ano adov v capped summits of snowdon and ben nevis nevia have many million ton too of iva wa ter in a solidified form in every plaster of paris statue which an italian ca canles canies 1 I through our s breeta for sale bale there ia is one pound of water to every four pounds of chalk tha tb air we breathe contains five grains ot of water to each cubic cabic foot of its bulk ibe the potatoes and the turnips which are boiled for our dinner have in their raw state the one leverty hive five per er cent the other ninety per cent of water rif if a man weighing hing bing ten stone were squeezed flat in a hydraulic press seven and a half stone of water would run out and only two ana and a half of dry residue remain A man is chemically speaking forty five pounds of carbon and ni nitrogen troge diffused through five and a halt pails ful of water water wager in plants we find water thus min ming ing no less wonderfully asun A sunflower evaporates one and a quarter pints of water a day and a cabbage about the same quantity 1 A wheat plant exhales in a hundred 21 red and seventy two days about one hundred thousand grains of water an acre of growing wheat anthis on this caien calen calculation lation draws and passes out about ten tons tona ot at water per day the sap of plants is the medium through which this mass maes of fluid is conveyed it lt forms a delicate pump up which the watery particles run with the rapidity of a swift stream by the action odthe ot the sap eap various properties maybe may mav be communicated to the growing plant timber in france is for instance d dyed ed by various colors being mixed with water and poured over by the root of the tree dah lias has are also colored by a similar process THE EARTH MADE COLD BY HEAT professor agassiz lately delivered a course of three lectures before the smithsonian institute washington and the greater part of the last one was devo devoed ed to a description of the phe phenomena nomina which indicate that the continent of 0 north america had bad at one time been overlaid b by anae and unbroken masses of ice moving mos g from the north to the south the traces of such an agency are found in the peculiar drift deposited on the surface of the continent from the he arctic to the or parallel of latitude being in its nature and composition such as would be deposited by immense cakes of ice pushing forward the debits of the soil coil over which they moved and arid bearing on their top the irregular masses of slone elone which are found in the region designated that the directions direction direct iono lono I 1 this moving ice was from north to south is proved bythe by the abrasion of bills having an acclivity facing toward the north where the southern descent descents Is ls without such characteristic marks atter alter stating the grounds on which the earthquake theory was inadequate to ex plain the phenomena of this thia drift prof agas biz siz biz siz estimated that the ice which deposited this drift and produced its other attendant phenomena must have been five or six thousand feet thick but whence came the cold which produced such a thickness of ice this was answered by supposing that ihal there ba had d been ejected into the sea from the subterranean fires of the earth below it a vast mass of melted material thus generating an immense vo volume lurne of vapor which ee caping escaping for years into the upper air and was condensed and fell in the shapo of snow enow and hall bail by this mass of 0 snow and hail the temperature of the earths climate wab waa reduced from the comparative warmth which preceded lt it even eyen in arctic re gons giong and the world entered on the cold period ad which it was wag the object of the lecturer to describe and anti to account for while describing prof A aggasid gasiz said that this period was the winter welch wilch which preceded mans advent in the world sc scientific lem lew american AN OPIUM HELL heln IN JAVA what spirituous liquors are for the european opium is in java for the Maho and chinaman A european of the lower classes may bit sit it in bis his taproom tap room and debase himself by bi hib his sot ti but be does it with an uproar uproarious Ous merriment which would make ene one think he was really happy spite of tr t e headaches and delirium trem ins he may know are in store for him but butin in an opium hell bell all is as still as the grave A murky lamp spreads a flick ering t light through the low roofed locating suffocating room rom in which are placed bale bales or rough wood wooden e n tables covered with course and divided into compartments by means of bamboo reed wain waln the opium smokers men and women lost to every sense of modesty throw themselves languish languidly on the matting and their beads supported supported by a greasy cushion prepare to indulge in their darling cief A small burning iamo lamp ia is placed lon ion on the table so as to be easily reached by all the degraded degraded wretches who seek forgets forgetfulness ulness or elysium in the fumes tamea of opium A pipe ot of bamboo reed with a bowl at one end to contain the opium is general generally lv made to do service to two smoker smokers 3 A bit of opium about the size of a pea costs sixpence a days wages but is sufficient to lull b by y its fumes the sense of the smoker these fumes they inhale deliberately retaining them in the mouth as long as they can end end then allowing them gradually to exhale through the nostrils after two or three inhalations however hal hat ever the opium is consumed and the pipe falls from the hands bands of its victim at first the smokers t ilk to each other in a scarcely audible but they soon become still athe as the dad their dull sunken eyes fradua gradually I 1 ay becoming bright and sparkling t their hollow cheek 3 eaf berin serin m to j I 1 aa as ume a healthy roundness round ness nesa a gleam of satisfaction n my lyp lys of ecstacy lightens up their countenances as they reveal ia imagination in those sensual delights which are to constitute aber Mabo yataka se neiva ted atea languid emaciated as they are in fact tact they beem and feel for the time regenerated and though they ue ile there the shameless alil and impassive slaves of sensuality and lust their senses are evidently steeped in bliss aroused however from their dreams and delusions the potency of the charm ex exhausted bausted driven from their hell bell by its proprietor see them next morning moraine walking with faltering step eyes dull as lead leac cheeks hollow as coffins to their work INGENIOUS CLOCK we once saw bays the st louis republican a clock in a factory at cincinnati which abich performed the remarkable teat feat of reporting in the morning every half hour the watchman may have devoted to sleep during the previous night instead of looking after the interests of his employer the factory was five stories high and the clock was in the lower story around its face just just juat outside its figures is a a circle of pins jutting out from the dial and capable by means or of machinery of being drawn in even with the dial outside of these is an index which points t to bac each h 0 f mese weis pins consecutively every hait half hour at the expiration of each hait halt hour the index owing to the broadness of the head ot at the pin re requires q atres five minutes to pasq pas over thua thus aoun aban allowing Z the watchman that length of time to remove the pin which luty luvy duty la is made I 1 obliga obligatory tory torr upon him to effect thie fhle BO so ingenious and complicated c lap tap ica fea tea ted led ja is the machinery he has first to ascend to the fifth story then pull a wire which prepares the machinery for the next move and then descend to the third story and there pull another wire connected with the clock below which removes the pin from the face of the clock in the first story tin tais s must be done at the time pointed out by the index before alluded to or else the pin cannot be rushed in until the index has traversed the whole circle and returned to the same point again which would be sometime during the next day consequently if the watchman is neglectful the dial in the morning will point out each half hour of bis big delinquency during the night it will be pere perceived ived also that he lie will be compelled to go over the whole shoie building once every half halt hour VAST ARMIES AND THEIR MOVEMENTS there have been vast armies and grand movements before these days here is a record of some of them the bible tells us lost in a single night men by the destroying angel the city of thebes had a br indred hundred gates and could send out at each gate fighting men and chariots in all men and 2000 chariots the army of therah king of ethiopia consisted of men and chariots of war Se king of egypt led against his enemies men cavalry ci valry and 27 sc scythe the armed chariots 1491 before christ Ha milica went from Cart carthage hage bage and ard landed near palermo ile he bad a fleet of 2000 ships and small vessels and a land force of men at the battle in which h he e w was 3 s defeated were slain ninus the assyrian king about 2200 years before christ led against the Boc triana his liia army consisting of 1700 foot horses horbes and chariots armed with scythes semiramis employed men in build in ing the mighty babylon she took prisoners pr loners lonero bonera boners at the indus and bank sank 1000 boats A short abort time after the taking of babylon the forces of cyrus consisted oe of foot horses and 2000 chariots armed with scythes an army of cambeses Camby ses strong was buried up in the desert bands sands of at africa by a south wind when xerxes arrived at thermopylae his land and sea forces amount to ex elusive of servants eunuchs wom women en antlers anglers sut ant lers etc in all numbering so say herodotus ro plutarch and lacerates the army of artaxerxe a before the battle of amounted to about ten thousand home and foot fell on the fatal field of lasus lasua when jerusalem was taken by titus perished in various ways th the e army of tamerlane is said to have amou abou amounted n ted to and that of his antala antara antagonist Baj ezet EMINENT WOMEN madam roland could prepare her husbands meals avith her own hands ard at night delight the most literary company of france by h hr r brilliant powers mrs washington the mother ot of the general always attended to ber her domestic adf aff affairs tire even in the presence of at the most disteli distinguished guesta guests lafayette paid her a isit before bis his departure for europe in the fall fill of 1781 he was waa conducted to her manson manson by one of her grandsons there sir air is my grandmother 1 said he be as they approached the house lafayette looked up and saw at work in in the garden clad in domestic made clothes and her gray head covered with A plain straw hat ithe the mother of his hero she gave lafayette a cordial welcome observing ah lab marquis diar Alar quis you see an old woman but come I 1 can make you welcome to my poor d du elling telling without the parade tf of changing my lay cress I 1 mrs martha U V ashington hington ag the wife of the general was no less distinguished for her management of hou behold affairs she was a good ess a good cook and a good mother 21 sie understood every department of domestic labor and wab waa ever ready to do what was required mrs troupe the ascom pi hed ald wife of 0 a captain or of the british ri tish navy once I 1 visited her and she gave the following 0 ac count account of mrs s appearance aeu evl ell I 1 will wil you I 1 uever bever was so ashamed in all my lue hie you seep sees see sep macatee and madame and m boelt thought we would visit vi sit ait lady washington and as she bhe was said eaid to b BO so gnand grand a lady we thought we must put a 0 t our beat biba bibs and bands so we dressed ourselves in our most elegant rallies and silks and were intro to her ladyship and dont you think we found her knitting and with a check apron oni ont she received ce ua us very graciously and easily but after the compliments were over she resumed her knitting there we were without a stitch of work and sitting in st state ate ite but general wash ing tons tona lady with her own hands bands was knitting 0 stockings stockings for her own bisba husband nd TH THE E E everyday every EVERT ve erday er DAY DAT live LITE OP or A NEW yore politician trl tri the e counselor 12 sends us the following pen and ink poi trait who is the original few persons living outside of the city of new york have any idea what kind of a life a ward politician in the empire city of the empire state leads from day to day well the first hns be he does in the mornin morning after waking is to swallow two or three bouie bourbon cocktails or else brandies and soda before be he leaves his bis bed as his bis nerves are not hot steady enough in the morning after last ni ites ats to dress himself without be lie ta takes a tew few braces brates in the shape of whisky cocktails or brand brandy smashes ema anes anea having dressed he makes lis kis his way aay to the barbar shop where be geta gets shaved and has baa his head well rubbed with plenty of hair tonic and bay rum and then feeling with the help of a few more bourbons bour bons bona pretty good he tries something to eat generally a little broiled mackerel or a few bardi bardl sardines nes and a cup of coffee with a giatis glatis glass of brandy in it satisfies him as bis big appe ite its is not very good in the morning as it is now almost noon he takes a conveyance and rides tides down |