ae FOOLISH PARENTS. The Upbringing and Education of Children Discussed, CHICKENS THAT COME HOME TO ROOST, Nature does not always do all things well, nor are ber instincts unerring. She entices obildren to eat poison berries ; lets girls fall in love with scamps aud boys give their trust to coquettes; she permite untimely storms to destroy the harvests she herself has caused to bloom and blossom; and when she makes parents of men and women she often forgets te add even a modicum of common sense and right reason to help in the guidance gf the young lives she bas committed to their care. Now she intpires them with ideas of discipline which make the days long acts of torture to the over- tasked brains and coerced bodies 80 cruelly and so ignorantly dealt with ; and now she fills their hearts with so much weaknets of pity as causes them to abandon all dis- cipline altogether, and leave to chance and evjoyment only tLe education of those who have to make theirown way ina world where eyery one is taxed and trained to the utmost—and only the best win. She allows women to be motbers who have not the smallest moral qualification for their office, and who, physically, can bequeath only weakness and disease. She makes fathers of men who never give a thought to their duties as fathers, and to whom tleir children are mercly playthings while they are young, aud nuisances when they are older. In a word, the parental instinct, of which we make so much account, is ro} universal to begin with, and it certainly does notinclude common sense as part of its inalienable furviture. And nature, who, it is the fasbion to say, does all things wel, does undoubtedly bere make trips aud slips, which go near to spoil the whole affair. We have known, in our own personal exper- ience, mothers who have not the faintest shred of affection, instinctive or reasonable, for their offepring—motbers who looked upom their children as hindrances to enjoyment and diminisbers by 80 m of the general fund—motbers who tried to forget that they were mothers, and who kept their little ones out of their sight, as they had already, frcm the begin- Py closed against them their hearte— mo who never forgave their children the orime they had been guilty of io ocming into the world atall, and who, to the last, spoke «{ their maternity as « cruel, personal wrong for which there was po atonement. And we have known mothers who were as fierce as, and no more reasoning in their instincts than, 80 many tigresses in the jungle—vho, like hens wih a callow , lived in oa perpetual state of alarm and defence where no aggression was intended—who sawshawk in every passing wren, and who never knew an hour's true peace of mind from the first moment of the birth to the last of their own lives. Between the two we would ask, Where reason is to be found? Where has common sence ber stand? and, What was our Mother Nature about when she let these two opposites undertake the most sacred office of the human race, or, having undertaken it, that she did not teach them their duty better? For the upnaturalness of certain mothers, fashion and pleasure are chiefly to blame, A child's gweet caress does not rank witb these women for eo much as the flattery of a fop or the envy of @ rival beauty. A new frock ora gay dance is far beyond the delight of noting how well baby begins to walk and how sharp it is in knowing this and that. The world overshadows the cradle, aud the ball-room is more attractive than the nursery ; and so these fashionable mothers ignore their duties as completely asif those duties did not exist, and are deserters of tbe flag under which nature called them to serve. If the little ones are not pretty and not available for public parade, they are not dressed picturesquely and they are not taken out. rown older, the ill-favored children of a handsome mother change, but do not drop, the burden of their sorrows. A woman with » still youthful and pretty face, trim waist and delicate shoulders, whe is the mother of a rudely hewn ungainly girl, bas her own self-made troubies which she takes care to pass on. If she can marry her to a man going to India or the colovies, she is thoroughly content. Then she has got rid of her ; and haps, having got rid of her, she softens in her sentiments and speaks with friendli- ness of her dear daughter. But the old habitues and intimate acquaintances smile when they hear her, for they know the “ underneath of the cards,” and how the irl was first thrust to the side and then Hustled away, and never at any time treated like a daughter or even as a friend. Then there are the parents whose method of education is one of excessive intellectual severity and moral coercion. However delicate the child may be, he is forced to learn more than is good for him, and is hounded to his tasks as ruthlessly as a slave-driver hounds the field hands to theirs. Sick or sorry, he has those diffioult sums todo. Pale cheeks, tearful eyes, aching head, all are of no avail. His father bas set his heart on making him clever; his mother insists that he shall be good. Between them the routine is one of oon- stant impoeition, detention, punishment, and overwork ali round, The boy's nerves and health give way under the burden of his tasks, and with his nerves and health his temper suffers. Then he is ished, and punished again, till bis spirit is broken into fragments, and he has no more manli- ness left in him than a plaster.of-paris image has of form after it has pounded in a mortar, When such a boy as this grows up awkward, a @ pedant or a fribble, the parents are to , but he gets the punishment. The girls who —_ at bim, the boys who thrash him, the world which politely smiles behind its band or brutally ignores him—none of these stop to inquire, Who has sinned? The result is all with which we concern our- selves, aud the fons et origo malorum is that with which we have nothing todo, There are houses where it is real pain to go, from the evident terror of the children and the harsh coercion manifest in the parente’ rr. with them, T are treated like partan slaves. 0 weakness natural to their age is suffered to express itself, If they are a they must not ory—if they do they flogged, to teach them to bear pain without . Then at the other end of A WONDEGFUL OPERATION, the scale stand the parents who do not cbeck, still lees coerce or scold, their cbil- dren. From the beginniog nature is sup- posed to be absolutely mght in all her promptings, and human reason bas potbing to do beyond taking care that the little creatures do not fall into the fire, nor tum- bie downstairs, nor choke themselves when they are eating, nor harm themselves in any way preventible by nurse and mother. Bat for the rest they are free as the swallows skimming over the still lake, aud no more pressure is puton them than on the lambs frisking in the meadows. “ Those horrid lessons!” says the mother when the sun shines, and the boys want to go rambling up the mountain side and nct to school—when the day is cloudy and they want to go fisbing—when it is wet and they don’t like the rain—when it is frosty and they do like the ice. Just as any stick serves wherewith to beat the typical dor, so apy excuse is sufficient for that playing of truauvt in which the mother herseif aids and abets ber boys. The parents have the ultimate satisfaction of being surrounded by a horde of rough, healthy, ignorant boorr, who can do nothing with their heads ut a good deal with their hands, and who are fis for no office where education, man- uers, self-discipline or smartness is wanted ; boors who, only workingmen as they are in calibre, have yet not even a workman's specialised abilisics wherewith to make their bread. This is the result of mdul- gence without stint—of the instinct supc- rior to reasou.— Queen. ae Features of Teheran, Teheran, the capital of Persia, isa place of antiquity. It was Aga Mahomm«d Khan, the founder of tne present dynasty, who firet adopted it about a century ago. A mud wall sur- rounds the city, but it would be a mistake to say thatthe place is fortified, in the modern sense of that word. The wall is distinctly pre-Vauban inits tracing. As a police boundary, or « mething of that sort, itmay serve some purpore ; but as defence to the city, if it were attacked by a modern army, it would be useless, The supply of water is brought into the town by what the Persians cail kanauts. This is the same as the kareez of Afghanistan. These are tunnels simply cut through the soil, in partgat some depth, and by this meane water is found, wuere all is dry above, and brought for large distances to irrigate fields. Holes have to be made o» «regular distances to bring up Muscle From a Dog's Leg Gratted on a Laundress’ Arm. (N. Y. Herald) The Bellevae Hospital pbyticians are just now exchangiog congmmtulaiions over the successful result of a remarkable opera- tion in “ musole-grafting,” the first of the kind ever attempted in thia country. The operation consists in transferriug a bunch of muscular tissue from a dog or other apimal to any member of a human frame that may be incapacitated through the want of such tissue. At Bellevue Hospital the dog was a mongrel and the patient a laundress. The latter seriously injured her right arm while at work in the laundry, aod five weeks ago went to the hospital to be cured. A large section of the muscular substance between the elbow and the wrist was dead, and the sufferer could hardly rawe her arm avd could not use her fingers at all. Dr. Halsted, visiting surgeon of the hos- pital, saw that the injury could not be cured except ty the operation of muscle-grafting. lu was announced, therefore, that the operation would be attempted, and at the appointed hour a crowd of students were present in the amphitheatre to witness it. The dog was put under the influence of ether. The ekin of the wounded arm was luid open and dissected back. The ends of the divided muscles were then found and cut off 80 as to freshen them. Meanwhile one of the dog’s hind legs had been ebaven, and as the arm was ready @ section of muscular tissue about four inches long and two inches wide was cut from the dog's leg The skin of replaced aod sewn divided ends of the muscles. the arm was then together. The operation lasted about half an hour. Three weeks after it was per- fcrmed the patient found herself able to use ber fiogera with little difficulty. Since then she has improved so much that the doctors say she will leave ths hospital iu o few days quite cured. WOnREN WHY PLAY POKER. A Story From Washington Which May Make the Hair stand on End. The craze for playing poker has broke out among fashionable ladies in Wasbing- ton. The doings of the Army Poker Club, where the lives and reputation of so many officers have been blasted, are a matter of eneral — and gossip, _ during excavating hess nt, when it was so wicked to danoe, the kanaute, and their direction can be fair dames have consoled themselves with sed oun the clatter of the chips and the excitement ae —_—> Tule mode of inrigntion ot “the draw.” It is stated that one young existe all the way from this place to the | *clety belle recently lost over $200 at five Khyber. The making of these tunnels is a | “*¥28*- oe oe > Sa ae 2 8 regular trade, aud there are wise men who oe pibise 4. ae The te jove 25 cente was have a reputation for being able to find the — meson ledi etree ~~ ne underground source from which the supply |° Bore “i , i” This . — of water isobtained. Some large extents | *” josh ay fined Ps jedi = of ground in Persia would be @ desert were re — = me ited 4 ae Ln it not for these kanauts. The supply of | (8° Uy io on ge TT ae ro water brought into Teberan by them is amount of pin money each week, but there large, and the quality is said to be good is said to be s heap of fun for the specta- The hossere are arched over with sun. | Or Very few gentlemen are admitted to dried bricks, which is the usual building this game. A much more reficed and material hereabout. The object of this is oe — : amusement has 1 to keep out the sun. This makes them |*tsblished for their enjoyment. _ dark, but it is highly picturesque. In come|P)k#t Partios, where both sexes play, places they are painted with figures ana not use vulgar chips or still more vulgar ornamente, and at one place, where two | ™°eey i that would be carrying the thing lines of bazaars cross, the seat of the kedi|*° ‘*f- Elaborate and costly favors are was pointed out, and with a cell provided—paid for, of course, by the gen- below for prisoners. Here cases are tlemen—aud then the entire party site tried before the public, and punish. down to the game of “freeze out.” This is ment is inflicted—a very wastern and|* Very popular and entertaining style of primitive mode of administering justice, | SUSSOR™ and is played quite exten- At one part of the bazaar we noticed sively. Pr ams of the lady players bave nothing butshoemakers. Passing them we a opt . the game. One of the found nothing but bats being made ; a little | ™* cae ee Dg wor re in town distance further it was tailors, then brass. |T°eoUy Geteated an © 0 a ae workers. This grouping of each trade bes party given ata certain fashionable resi- many advanteg:s, and it is not so mary dence, aod when, a few evenings later, he mone { eines it was eocomen in some towns | °° back for his revenge, she won evough as home. Kabob shope, or eating-houses, | *i4 gloves to last her a year.—-Washingion and tea-houses are to be found scattered | “¢é/er in Boston Traveller. about the bazaar. In some of the tea. houses men were sitting smoking kalians, while story-tellers were amusing them. The Constantinople be zaar has loug ceased to be Oriental. Auy one wishing to see a place of this kind in a still purely Eastern condition might come to Teheran, We visited the old residency in the centre of the town, where Sir Henry Rawlinson and other early British representatives lived. It is at present undergoing a complete repair. The new legation is on the vut- skirts, near the gate of the road leading to Gulahek. It is perbeps the best building in Teheran.—Tcheran Cor. London News. Curious Injuries to the Submariae Cable. The sunfish has repeatedly injured the submarine cable between Portugal and Brezil and along the east coast of South America. Splinters of bone have been found thrust into the cable through the several coverings so deep as to affect the electric wires. A small species of marine animal also appears to devote its special attention toward boring and destroyiog cables. A short time ago the cable in the Persian Gulf ceased to work. Examina- tion was made, and it was found that a whale, which was entangled in the cable, had broken it. The animal was oovered over with parasites, and in its efforts to tree itself of them by rubbing its body against the cable the cable was broken, and one of the ends then ocoiled around the whale in such a way that it was unable to free itself, and suffocated. ‘ eC Cr A Determined b xplerer, Vambery, whose writiogs have been frequently quoted of late, was a heroic explorer. He disguised himself as a dervish, and wandered for many months as a religious mendicant among the fierce nomads and fanatioal races of Tarkestan. His talent for languages enabled him to assume the role of a Turkish dervish, but he knew that if his disguise was penetrated it would cost him bis life. His ambition to promote philological studies made him content to live in the dirt and privations of mud huts; led bim to Bokbara, where Stoddart and Oonolly, England's first and last Ambassadors, bad been cruelly done to death, and carried bim to Khiva, where & few Russian only representa’ = oe ae ao Until quite recently the tory o! egainst both Nepoleon remarkable travels over twenty years ago the Great and Napoleon the Littie—in | ia. been the chief source of information se oe -— He also — the | with regard to the people and countries in leawig- tein campaign an eo war : 2 with Austria in 1866. Central Asia that Russia has subjugated Pedro I. of Brazilis the Doyen among} The Perfume of Religion is the overpower- crowned heads, having had 44 years of | ing title of a paper just started in Zacatecas sovereignty. Mexico, 5 Such is the universally charitable nature} Qharles Gounod is at work on a new of women that when she finds a man who| oratorio, the subject which he has selected has no mind of his own, she is always will-| for treatment being the life of St, Francis ing to give him a piece of hers. sis A negro brought suitin a Mitobell county! « Sanitate! Sanitate |" is the paroxys- justice's court for possession of two shoats} mal but timely editorial outory of the = & sow and pigs, and gained PF, Memphis Appeal, awyer, a8 soon as the case was decided,’ bven after Middleton's expedition reaches settled the fees for himself, Squire A., the , lawyer on the other side and the court. oe kan Will etlll be 48 miles trom “ Well, Joe, 'Squiro A. will take one of the 2 shoate, I'll take the other one, the jadge| It is reported in London that a branch of will take the sow and pigs and you've Delmonioo’s celebrated restaurant is to be gained the onse.”—Macon (Ga ) Telegraph, *hortly opened in that city _ An Animal A pple-Gatherer. Gathering fruit is a frequent practice of animals, and yet there is a stratagem attri- buted to that’ walking bunoh of tooth- picks” called the hedgehog, which is curious enough to deserve ® mention. It seems that fruitis frequently found in the hedgehog’s sleeping- ment, and ite presence there is explained in this remark- able way: It is known that hedgehogs often climb walls, and run cff upon low boughs, and instead of scrambling down in the same manner, they boldly make the leap from the top to the ground, sometimes ten or twelve feet. They ooil into a ball in the airstrike upon their armor of spines and bound away unbarmed. In taking the jump, they have been seen to strike upon fallen fruit, which,thus impaled upon their ines, was carried away by them; and is bas given rise to the opinion that in some such way they may have stored their winter homes. Gen. Vogel von Falckenstein, recently deceased at the age of 89 years, fought in transferred to her arm and fitted to the | ves in the jail were the | P®2Y Farm Gleanings. A good, large, thrifty yearling is worth more ip spriog than @ poor, stunted two year old, and one cow that bas been properly wintered than two that aré thin in flesh and hide-bound. - Make the change of cows from dry feed to pasture very gradual. Give salt to pre- veut injury from over-eating of succulent geass. Bring up early, and feed hay with roots, and give bay in the moruing, before they go to pasture. Feed the ben well with all she will eat ot corn or dough before giving the chickens their first meal of crumbs and boiled eggs, otherwise the hen, who will be very bungry, will leave but litsle for the chickens, Keep tbe hen as quiet as possible for a day or two, antil the chickens get a little stronger. A merchant who should draw out half bis bavk account once a quarter and throw the moneyinto the gutcer would be looked upon as a lunatic, But ia the farmer any wiser whosvffers bis manure heap to be exposed to all weathers, and its most important elements to evaporate or leach away? He is simply throwing awsy his capital.— Vt. Watchman, Grass lands should be put in order for the mower by rolling; pick up fallen branches aud whatever rubbish will obstruct the machine. No sensible farmer will pas- ture bis meadows in spring. A hundred pounds of aitrate of sods to the acre will be & profitable application, as will be a bushel or two of plaster to clover. Alter a winter's rest, if horses have been idle most of the winter, it requires care in beginning to work them. Aon excellent farmer ovce remarked that the first day or two of Spring work he only wanted bis men to do half a day's worleper day, but to be all the day doing it. Frequent reste and pulling back the collar to admit air to the spice will often save much loss from galled shoulders, No such failare of winter wheat cver so | extensive a territory has ever been known, embracing, as it does, twenty Statee. Every circumstance seewed to favor it up to the lst of January, with the exception of heavy snows in the month of February, since which time everything has gone against it, and the almost certain outcome will be, compared with 1879 and 1880, not more than balf the acreage, and three-fourths of that half wiped out of existence by dry, cold, frosty and windy weather.—Jilinois Corres- pondent of Country Gentleman, When the hens become broody, they may, with care, be moved after k to secluded neste provided for them, where they will be away from the sound of other fowls and be in partial darkness. Make the nestel fine bay, cut straw, pine needles, or any soft material, a little soil being placed in the bottom to keep the shape; many seatter on flour of su/pbur to keep off lice. Bet but few eggs, nine or ten at the most, until the weather is warmer, then the usual number of thirteen will be quite safe from injury by chilling. Be careful to select large, well-formed eggs, and tap them together lightly, to make sure of the sound- ness of the shells. Do nct now leave all the responsibility with the hen, but look after her each day. them with lukewarm water. Delaware Peach Crop Sate. See that she leaves the nest regularly, for food and drink, and at the same time, if the eggs are not clean, wash JEWisw LONGEVITY. Hew the Gbeervance of the Mosaic Law Has Preserved the Viger of a Race. In enumerating the causes which have made the Jewish people so strong and | Vigorous, particular mention must be made of their observance of the 8 th. This day was appointed forthe double purpose of securing # set portion of time for the ; worship of God and »ffurding rest to the body wearied with its six days’ labors. , Obedience to this primeval law is held by | the Jews to be as strictly binding on them as apy otner religious obligation. In Christian countries where the Sunday is kept sacred or observed as a holiday, another day of rest iv addition to their own Sabbath is obtained, thus fortufying them against the crusbirg toil and nervous strain of moden ife. The lose accruing f:0m this j ob forced abstinence from business worries | more than counterbalanced by the gain in nerve power with which periodical ces- sation from any haraseing employment is compensated. This is doubtless one of the factors which have helped to invigorate both mind and body, and to develop im them those bigh qualities for which they are justly dittinguished. Tosum up: the longevity of the Jew is an acknowledged fact. Io bis surroundings he is on a par with bis Christian neighbor. If the ioealisy in which he dwells is unhealthy be also suffers, but co a leas degree. If the climate 1s ungenial, igs influence tells on him, too, bat with less injurious effect. His vigorous health enables him to resist the ouset of disease to which otbers succumb. These advantages are for the most part owing to bis food, bis temperate babite and the care taken of him in sickness and poverty. No doubt he 18 epeciaily fortunate io inberit- ing & CoOnsiitution which has been built up by attention for many cen- turies to hygienic details. His meat is drained of blood, so by that means mor- bid germs are not likely tobe conveyed into bis system. Itis also most carefully in spscted 60 as to prevent the cousumption ot what is unsound, hence his comparative immunity from scrofulous and tuberculous forms of disease. The Bible is regarded by some scientists as un old-fashioned book; but its teaching in relation to bygiene, even they will confess, bas not become antiquated. It must be credited with having anticipated and recorded for our instruction and — doctrines which are now accepted as beyond dispute in this department of knowledge. In the Mosaic law are preserved sanitary rules, the babi- tual observance of which by the Jew, from generation to geveration, bas made him -uperior to all other races in respect of bealih and longevity.—Leisure Hour. ‘The Dry Geeds Bill. Nothing seems more unreasonable than the dignified superiority of the busband or the brother who firet preaches the unim- portance of dress, perhaps consistently for- tifying bis words by bis own example, and then turns to criticise his wife or daughter fcr being lees well dressed than some fair neighbor who gives ber wbole mind to that absorbing department. Does he really suppose that # woman can be bien mise by giving to it three-quarters of eu hour in the epr.ng and three quarters of ap bour in the sutumo, which ure all, as James Par- ton boaste, that a man now needs to devote to his tailcr? Let the wife neglect what bas been called the * gospel of good gowns " as completely as the bu-baud disregards We congratulate our readers over visions | ‘8? of good hats, for instance, and of peaches and cream in abundance next Never bave our peach-growers united in more favorable prognostications summer, than those we published to-day. From all quarters of the Peniosula comes promise of a full crop; the only apprehension expressed beiog for the late yellow varieties The crop is not yet in some localities. entirely out of danger, but there is no good reason to apprehend any further damage.— Wilmington (Del.) Every Evening. Want Mr. Gaetz. The trustees of Zion Church, having failed to seoure Rev. Mr. Ross, of Oatario, owing to him pot being transferred to the Manitoba Conference, are now endeavoring to secure the services of Rev. Leonard Gaetz, formerly of Oatario, but now of Red Dear, near Calgary. It is not yet known whether or not he will accept the appoint- ment.— Winnipeg Times. The Men Whe Are Promoted, The young men who receive promotion are the men who do not drink on the sly. They are not the men who are always at the front whenever there is any strike, nor are they the men who watch for the clock to strike 12 and leave their picks hanging in the air, They are not the men who growl if they are required to attend to some duty after the whistle has sounded. They are the men a who pay the closest attention to the details of their busi- ness, who actas if they were trying to work for their employer's interest instead of to beat him at every crook and turn. They are the men who give the closest attention to every prectical detail, and who look contivually to see whether they can do any better. This class of men are never out of a job. They are soarce. They never strike, they never loaf, and they do not ask for their pay two or three weeks before pay day.—Manu/facturer’s Gasette. She Wanted Time. “Itis my unalterable decision, Clara,” he said finally; “I cannot walk on the avenue with you if that poodle is to accom- us. You must choose between him and me, It reste with you, Clara, if our engagement shall be broken off.” “ Ob, George |” the girl replied, and her face assumed an ashen hue, “this is all so sudden. You must give me time to think it over. One week, George, and you shall have your answer." —Ingleside. A oorrespondent of the Cleveland Leader, who is journeying south- ward, notes that white men are seldom seen working in the fields, The negroes stili do the work. The piovur- esqueness of plantation scenes bas not altogether departed. Negro women were ploughing, hoeing and planting, and the gay colors of their head-dresses—handker. chiefs cbiefly—and the laugh and joke of their awarthy fellows of the other sex, gave the impression of another land as the cars whirled by. Rev. Von Schluembach, “the German Moody,” is journeying in the Southern States. ® let bim see bow he likes it. Bat whether be adopts the indifference or not, let bim at least | be consistent, If we hold it the duty of intellectual women to be well dressed women also, let us give them full credit for doing the double duty. If, on the other band, we make no each demand on them, let us omit all the jeers at the faded “ water proof’ of the literary woman and the dyed and turned dress, and even the short hair —out cff, let us charitably suppose, to save time for study or for work. in the same way, if the husband expects his wife to be | well dressed, let him not sneer at the time | mercilessly spent in shopping, or even groan | @t the bills when the results of shopping }come in. Let him not complain, as I heard & young busband the other day, that two women when they meet always talk about drese, when perhaps the very point under discussion was the question how to dress as their husbands wished without it costing those husbands to much money.—Harper's Bazar. policy of —_—___—_— Ao Extraerdinary Bill. The following Bill, read a second time in the Quebec Legislature, and is likely to be carried, is worth printing in full : Ao Aot respecting oaths and the adminis. tration of oaths. Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows : 1. In all Her Majesty's Courts of Justice in the Province a crucifix shail be placed ia a conspicucus place, opposite the witness box or the place in which witnesses stand during examination, and such crucifix shall be of the size determined by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Couneil. 2. Every court, judge, magistrate, pro- thonotary clerk and other person entrusted with administering oaths shall, before a witness be allowed to swear and give his testimony, call upon him to lift bis right band iu front of the cross and to place his lett hand on the book of the Evangelists, and to cause bim to swear before the cruci- fix and upon the Holy Evangelists to teil the truth and the whole truth in the cause in which he is to be heard as a witness. 8. Every sberiff shall place or cause to be placed a crucifix in the manner above iudicated in each and every of the court houses within the limits of his district under a penalty of forty dollars for each day in which he neglects 80 to do. 4. Bach — shall be recovered from such sheriff by any person suing for the same before any circuit court of the dis- trict in which the cffence has been com- mitted and shall belong to the prosecutor. Trousers with two legs are a pair ; a shirt with two arms is only one shirt. Philoso- phers bad better give up trying to fiad out whether the moon is inbabited with spooks and clear up some of the dark mysteries of his life, A gentleman who was making a drawing in his sketch-book in Central Park, New York, the other day was informed by a pohoeman that “sketching is not allowed without a permit.”