beyond the dreamers, and the approach Iona or the Irish were not, perhaps, the Sfcakcspcaro at Sohpol.' of London, has recently proposed a what chance there would be in the to the infernal regions was neiir at hand. first tishers or oven forgotten colonists plan for the abolition of tho liver. It is citv for .him. The country seems small Froni various sources, contemporary & well-known principle of the develop­ to him; the city large. He feels the 3P The polar ico* snow and darkness were at that strange island. According to nndyquasi-oontemporary, we may form naturally supposed to be pretty near Tacitus an expedition sent by Agricola ment, theory that an organ or limb gqsjsip that-flutters ,about his ears to-be a/trustworthy -general estimate of which is notused-grMual&disappears. disgusting and degrading; and chafes the point where extremes meet. Turn­ conquered the inhabitants of the Ork­ Shakespeare's course of inatructioa. ing away from this awful country, the neys -And proceeded so far into the Thus; the ancestral tail of the human under ~the Bondage^ imposed -by Bis OHIO. during his school days. At that time, species disappeared affervprimeval man neighbors through .their surveillance'of Argonauts, with favoring winds, 'sailed Northern Ocean as even to see Thulo as we nave seen, boys usually^ went to into tha ocean of the west, passing (Icelandic a nlace of show and winjtry ceased tQ use it in climbuuzixaaa. ami JUxaLnrltlainm txrwcm^WlLUiaotuma Ha ror^somerea- the latesVsevenuyears or age, BJRTCTP »>M'>T» mj auuvuia -xatxm- vrnv xivsuu Pillars of Hercules (the Straits of Gib­ the land of the Sviones (SoandinavTans) the practice of cramping tnemvcogetn "— —1 hn tered at once upon the. Accidence. In er with iron shoes came in fashion. If Hons WUUIU *r-«v#*ij raltar). The strange darkness of the is a. sea strangely languid and; motion­ his first year, therefore, Shakespeare is. less known, and less cared for. ~ %IOK the earliest days of the Arian far North was believed to bo caused less, and that the light of the night is We accustom- ourselves to living with­ would be occupied with the Accidence. out giving any employment to the liver,, - There is still another class of country the march of enterprise has been somehow by the peculiar shadows of far greater than the luster of the stars. In his second year, with the elements people who long for a city life, and . J^s£Sa^ely .and steadily to the West great mountains. The darkness of the. The noise of the sun's Ught^when that wejnallJi(^_fedthat orgfta shrinking wh"Hft n*ni'iitti«Mift.M.iid- riignnsiliraagjtra ., £__^x3pQ5eil^^ muMTe^'^eMitenaWlre'asona^re^' naiof short phraser and TamuiaFuia- 1,w3 sctlvity and aiaoovery has now become led^the voyagers of ancient times to be? heard, and tho gods could almost be logues, and these, committed to memo­ onlyrem^m~8"to nW^ome^metnoa oircmnreuoro^^±rr^^ Ad- a oircJeV-BeWng^the earth. All mun­ lieve that an the farthest parts of the seen as they moved about crowned with ry, would be colloouially employed,"in. dispensing with the liver, and we shall [They arejnot so Tj^rtim^w.viSS^-TR^-- dane questions are answered or in hand ocean were shrouded in gloom; henco glorious lighj*^ Here we ha.ve a poeti- *i / - . -^^^xjiaraaasAnesffTjr"about wealffi^ot.do.they.care „»^» _^. —..». .—. - —— — — - iu ouiiuat.~ "m joiiFxnirfl om ttucuuiyt or tne aurora' noreaus, of yoke. ^efinitely_about• L -1 « .8uperio. - r socia• 1l privil• M­ year, if not. before, he. would take up Anatotni eges, or about^ih^jW?J^&.^^2^i^^ "xion&u' The poles alone now reserve I west of the pillars of Hercules was far the pecniiar rustling^ouad jpften Jieard CaWs "Maxims" and"2Esop's "Fa­ inform""iis that we have J •» "*~*^^r^^.>^^"^tp#~^yoMir*^jf"^6iji^^^c^tt^s^^^^^' '" during the most brilliant exhibitions of '5£m£&rt£htoklfcf ttan in "the country; ^Eveh-lnto the bles." In his fourth, wfege^ 1 pfcy8ic2©ndeaYor to reach andrev&i latter part of the-Middle Ages this idaa the phenomenon of " northern lights," '^Vt'-a^v ^dreiy ^'btnamenfcatr The They are simply gregarious. They like the "Fables," he wdula reaa tl Frenchman believes that, the ,. spleen Every high quality in man's constitu­ western Sea of Darkness pre- a suggestion of the remarkable bright- logues of Mantuanus," parts' of Ovid, a orowd, even if they have to live in a tion is demanded in the work that shall among geographers and naviga­ ness of the greater part of the Arctic auses the average Englishman to use "mess." Th«y are BO-fpnd'-ofiliving some of Cicero's '«Epistles," and,prob- strong language every day in the year, in a multitude that they are' willing to complete our knowledge of the world tors. Herodotus, called the "Father night, and the remarkable calmness of ably one of his shorter treatises ;'in his we'ltve on. The Polar regions are of HjstoryT^^hearing at least four hun­ the nerthernseas when sprinkled'with and to commit suicide every November, sacrifice many comforts to do it. Once fifth year he wonld continue the read­ but this is a mistake. The spleen is a in the city no.poverty will induce them now* as for «ges past, >he field of un­ dred and fortftfefi^e years before the floating ice. * ing of Ovid's "Metamorphoses," wjth finished research and adventure. Will Christian era of theiong nights at the Ptolemy (born at Pelesium, in Egypt, modest and unassuming-organ, which to leave it. They have no interest in^ the indomitable energy and efforts of Pole, could not believe that the people A. D., 70) in his great geography men­ parts of Vergil and Terrence; and in passes an existence of elegant leisure life outside of the city. These usually our age conquerthe terrible difficulties there could sleep for six months. tions Soania (Scandinavia). After the sixth, Horace, Plautus and proba- but there is every reason to suppose get to^the city in some way without and break through the obstacles barring Pytheas, a distingushed Greek navi- bly part of Juvenal and Fersus, with thalPwere it assigned any active duty it writing letters of inquiry. Ptolemy, in the second century, pre- s afcomplet© knowledge of the North ^ator, who lived at Marseilles, In pared his geography little was reported | BO?^J?C*!£! »{ e*l would perform it faithfully and well. Now,'it has probably surprised most lands and the Antarctic regions of the ^rance, when it was the seat of a flour­ hx regard to tie northern region/offH^ TraSedies- , 1x1. £oinS ^ugfa As Mr. Edmonds points out, the liver inquirers to receive uniformly discour­ S such a course, unless the teaching at is situated^>g.jjhe direct line of comma- aging answers to their questions. For<' 'world? A glance at some of the an­ ishing Greek colony, about S00 B. C, world for more than six hundred years. Stratford was exceptionally inefficient, cient voyages and later discoveries was perhaps the earliest known navi­ King Alfred of England, who reigned nica^jff* throag^whioh, the food from indeed, no man knows the trials of city the boy must have made some progress tjaSmomach passes-on its way to nour- life but those who have left quiet homes 'toward the North Pole, snch as may gator of the North Seas whose voyage from 871 to 901, translated the geogra­ in several of these authors, and ac­ not be generally well known, will doubt­ is now generally accepted as 'mainly phy of the Spanish monk Orosfus into $8jt£ xho body. The mraifcgeaes upon in the country and tried it. The great quired sufficient knowledge of the laujj •mis food, and by its means keeps itself trial that every man from- the country less be of interest The sea does not genuine. Pytheas sailed to Al-fionn the Anglo-Saxon language. Orosius guage to read fairly well at sightjpi? begin where we, standing upon tbe (Albion, the White Land, from its chalk prepared his famous work in the fifth in a state of .aggressive vigor. Over experiences on coming toihe city,even more popular poets and proseJpflSers, the same line pass the various medi­ supposing he has found employment, shore, seem first to behold a ship's cliffs,) and six days' sail beyond the century. Alfred added to his transla­ such as Ovid and CiceroTT^^masters faint and partial appearance at the dis­ farthest part thereof he reached Thule, tion of Orosius the narrative of a Nor­ cines oi which the liver is insatiable, or gone into business, relates to his of the school during tb^ftme Shakes­ and which are a source of such con­ home. His thousand dollars a year, tant horizon. The filmy and almost in the Northern Sea. There he found wegian noble named Other, who had peare attended itwpwfiS'seem, however, indistinguishable traco of the far-away fogs and wild coasts, and saw that made a voyage for discovery and wal­ stant and unsatisfactory expense. Were which in the country would give him a to have been at least of-average attain­ this line of communication to be out, snug littlehous'e and comfortable pro­ sails and th>m the blur of the rising the light of day did not altogether rus hunting to the North Cape of Nor­ ments and abRfty, as they rapidly hull are to theVeye as the myths and disappear for twenty-four hours. This way, and so along the coast eastward tbe liver would be isolated, and could vision, Would get him in a city only a gained pKjmotion. No fewer than neither receive food nor medicine. In smalLroom in a boarding-house. The traditions of tme world's prehistoric Thule was Iceland, at the most north­ to the White Sea. Other was a man of three hehl^tne post during the deoade period to the observer's mind, erly part of which the summer nights wealth and enterprising spirit, and held these circumstances, it would soon lose twp^thqusand dollars that would give from J57& to 1580. In the firsttw oit s size and strength, and, in the course m something more than a comforta­ are very light. The most northerly the North Finns under tribute. His yea$s>Walter Roche, for the next five, There is a period with undefined point of the island is usually laid down home in Norway was in the province of of a few generations, would become a-j ble home in the country, would give beginning crowned by the Homer­ the^most important in Shakespeare's merely rudimentary and entirely harm­ him in the city only a better boarding- within the Arctic Circle. Some dis­ Halgoland, or Helgoland, on the shores !ool history, Thomas Hunt, and dur- ic age, when the people about the tance beyond Thule Pytheas found him­ of what the northmen called (to distin­ less organ. / house. The three thousand that would easterly parts of the Mediterranean g the last three years Thomas Jen­ give him in the country a fair estab- Sea possessed a considerable knowl­ self unable to proceed on account of a guish it from the Baltic and the great kins, were head masters in the school. Mr. Edmonds' plan for bringing peculiar condition of the sea. It pre­ Gulf of Bothnia, at the east of Sweden^ about this result is to place/a tourni­ ment, with horses for his convenience edge of the northern /eas and About the time that Shakespeare's and amusement, would in the city only sented a barrier that was unknown to the Western Sea. Other's voyage ex­ quet between the liver and-the stomach, T lands of Europe. That age is semi- parents-would be thinking of Bending give him a small "flat' in aopowded historic, and is immediately succeeded him; it was neither air. sea nor earth, tended past an uninhabited region' at their eldest boy to school there seems, and at the same time to^place a power­ but seemed a mixture of all three. The the mouth of Halgoland to a placed then ful poultice between/the stomach and apartment-house,and the five thousand by one affording clearer statements. moreover, to havo been a good deal of in the country that would give him the We have, from the days of Homer, re­ substance had a viscid appearance, and frequented by whale fishers, theuce by local activity in relation to the build­ the spleen, and to/arouse the attention his ship could not penetrate it. These the locality of the present town/of Ham- of the latter with blisters. He main­ surroundings of a nabob, would only corded expressions of geographical 1 ing, the old school house having been knowledge. Some recorded by thestatement s of Pytheas about the sea merfest and around the No/tb Cape, put into thorough repair, and changes tains that after a-brief period a new pay Jherent of a house on Fifth avenue. poet relates especially to the northerly threw discredit upon his voyage for which he doubled at the end^of six days. made in the internal arrangement for line of communication would be opened The country rich man can live splen­ ages. "How palpably absurd," said From the region of the parent Vardal through, the spleen, and the liver would part of the world. Fragments of the or Wardhouse he sailed oiwterly for four the purpose of rendering it more airy didly on from five to ten thousand dol­ early accounts are clearly authentic. the critics, " is the story of a mixture and healthful. In the Chamberlain's become isolated. This is analogous to lars a year, while the city rich man Those and later 'statements by dther of earth, sea and air that stops ships in days, when he came to a sea extending accounts for the year 1568, mention is what Grant attempted to do at Vicks- the midst of the ocean P" Pytheas was toward the south. Thither he contin­ burg, when he tried to turn the Missis­ spends from twenty thousand to fifty writers Will be noticed. In the Hebrew ued his voyage untir he reached the made of sums expended for " repairing thousand dollars a year. City incomes Scriptures (Isaiah xiv.) the idea is ex­ puzzled, no doubt, for he had never the old scole," "dressing and sweep­ sippi through a new channel and leave look large, but relatively to city ex­ seen ice before, and had no name for it country of the Beortnians or Bjarnians. ing the scole house," " ground sellyngo Vicksburg without water communica­ pressed that heaven, or the mount of or knowledge of its nature. But it ap­ In tho White Sea O^ber and his crew of penses they are no larger than the the Lord, is situated in the North. the old scole, and taking down the sol- tion. Whether the plan is feasible or country incomes. The man who lives The Greeks believed the infernal re­ pears incredible that distinguished men fishermen captured about sixty horse lar over the scole," expressions which not remains to be seen. Mr. Edmonds who have written learned treatises up­ whales, now called walrus. By the bases his estimates for the work upon in the city has experienced the remedi­ gions were located in the remotest warrant the conclusion that there was less drain upon his purse of the life North. Men have thought tbey found on geography and voyages have been trustworthy relation of Other it appears not only a school house "existing in the the principles of the development theo­ so blinded by prejudice as not to recol­ that the whale fishery was prosecuted ry and the facts of anatomy, and he as­ whioh he lives, and feels that the risk both there—heaven in the sublime scen­ early years of our poet, but that it had which a business man runs of coming ery and the glory and beauty of the lect that ice existed in the- Arctic Seas along the coast of Norway a thousand even then considerable pretensions to sures us that the thing can be done in the days of Pytheas as in the nine­ years ago.—tf. T. Herald. safely and with very little inconveni­ into unknown circumstances is very Arctic summer, and the very gates of antiquity. We may reasonably infer great He feels that unless his coun­ the pit in the darkless and storm and teenth century. As specimens of the that, as itirad been put into repair in ence. At all events, it is worth trying, theories of learned men regarding the and a sooiety for the abolition of' the try friend knows just how to meet that bitterness of the p~olar winter. The The Czar Nicholas. the year1568, it continued in a state drain, he will be safer where he is. Phoenicians, who founded Trre and marvelous obstructions met by Pytheas available for uae until it was repaired liver and the improvement and utiliza­ in the sea beyond Iceland the following In the year 1844, when a piece bear­ tion of the spleen should be organized City life is naturally merciless. It has Sidon on the eastern shore of the Med­ agftin about the year 1694 or 1695, when to take care of itself, and has all it can iterranean were the boldest known nav­ are quoted from works published in ing the title " The Emperdr Paul" was the chapel of tho guild was temporarily without delay. England and America in 1833: announced for performance in Paris, do to meet its own wants. If a man igators of ancient times. They were used, as it probably had been more Even if Mr. Edmond's plan does not from the country comes into it, and the founders of Carthage, where many Nicholas wrote to the King, " If yon than once before, instead of the school prove feasible, some other scheme of "The calmness and sluggish heavi­ do not forbid the representation I-will house. The '* sollar" referred to in fails, he must go to the wall. Friends remarkable maritime enterprises were carrying out the same beneficent pur­ cannot save him. A city looks coolly projected. Cadiz, in Spain, was the ness of the Northern seas, which the send a million of spectators to- "bias it this extract was a small story, in many pose may be devised. If men'will only ship's prow could hardly cleave, were from the stage." cases a loft or garret, and taking the upon a catastrophe of this kind, for it seat of one of their colonies about a put in an earnest effort to get rido f is an every-day affair, and the victim thousand years before tho Christian era. remarked by Pytheas. * * * Per­ As the Emperor was ofice taking a sollar over the school house would, I their livers, the means to that end will At that time the Phoenicians had at­ haps the strength and complexity of walk he heard a man and a woman suppose, indicate that it was height­ knows perfectly well that he can not long be wanting. These are trifling neither help himself nor get anybody tained vast opulence by their commer­ our tides, which oppose serious ditliuul- talking loudly in the German language. ened and, possibly, newly roofed, as matters compared with the oppression cial enterprise. They overran much of ties to navigation along an indented Hearing the man declare that he would well as partially refloored. Shakes- and crime of which the liver is guilty. else to help him. So the city friend, the world, by land and sea for trade coast, may havo lent some countenance not quit the Spot until he had seen the Let us ridourselve s of this tyrant, and knowing the risks and the needs of city (and in piracy), as the Northmen in to prejudices founded in fable." Emperor, the~latter went towards him eare's father had been chosen town the malarious places of the earth shall life, dreads to see any country friend later ages overran Europe for the Tho supposition that the tides were and demanded who he was and what he Eailiff during tifft-year in which these blossom with tenants, and peace and undertake them. Then, too, the faith­ plundering of cities. Phoenicians were the obstruction met by Pytheas in his wished. The German, who did notimprovement s were made, and it would comfort shall be the possession of all ful records of city life show that the the pilots of all Egyptian ships, and navigation beyond Thule seems singu­ know the Czar, answered that he was be part of his official duty to inspect men.—N. P. Times. ohances are largely against financial taught the Greeks the act of extended larly absurd when it is remembered that an artisan from Hamburg and desired them during their progress, and see success in it. Pytheas was the first man known who to submit a paper describing a new and The man of society who is attracted navigation. That the Phu'nician sail­ that the work was well done. As a From Country to City. ors were Bemi-pirates may be inferred understood the tides so well as to cheap method of making shoe soles for prosperous burgess and magistrate, he from the country to tne city usually from Homer's declaration of their ascribe their cause to the influence of the army. " Why do you apply direct would be ' proud of the resuscitated The following article by Dr. Holland fails to calculate bis own insignificance " doing all manner of iniquity to men." tho moon. His theory of tides is essen­ to the Emperor?" inquired the Czar; foundation connected with the Ancient in tbe January Scribner was suggested when he encounters numbers. The These explorers were probably the first tially that generally accepted at tho " why have you not first addressed Guild of the Holy Cross and now known by a letter inquiring about the chance man of social consideration in the coun­ discoverers of Great Britain. Their present day. yourself to some one about him?" "I as the "King's New School," and for a young man in New York. It will try needs only to go to the city to. find policy was generally one of secrecy as Another learned author supposed fog wished to do so and called on the Chief would naturally regard with special in­ perhaps answer the questions of many so many heads above his own that he to the locality of the most profitable was tho translucent, solid substance of Police for the purpose," returned terest the renovated buildings where others who are turning their thoughts, is counted of no value whatever. " Who islands and countries. Hompr, both poet stopping the ship of Pytheas. He the man, " but his clerk asked me to his son was soon to feel the magical if not their faces, cityward: is heP" What is he?" and "What has and geographer, gives some very wrote- pay 300 roubles, which is impossible, touch of that lettered awakening which, It is presumable and probable that he done?" are questions that need to be marked points of knowledge of tho con­ "The thick and gloomy mists with as I have no money." "Then you in a thousand diversified forms, was there arrives in New York City every satisfactorily answered before he will dition of the -Arctic seas and lands. which the Northern Sea is often loaded might have communicated with the everywhere quickening the latent seeds day a considerable number of letters be accepted, and even then he will need This knowledge was probably derived might make a peculiar impression on Governor-General," suggested the of genius into fruitful life.—Frazer's from'the country, making inquiry con­ to become a positive force of some sort in great part from the Phoenicians. He one who had ventured into this unknown Czar. "Has he, then, no Secretary!" Magazine. cerning what it is possible for a coun­ in society to maintain his position. City considered the ocean a river, and it is ocean so far beyond the limit of former inquired the man. " If so, 500 instead try man to do here in the way of busi­ society is full of bright and positive men not unlikely, from a report of the great navigation. They might make him of 300 roubles would probably have ness, and asking advice upon the ques­ and women, and the man and woman currents that sweep through parts then been demanded of me." The Emperor, Physiological Philanthropy. prone to believe that he had arrived at smiling, said, •• Then yon should have tion of his removal to the city. - Every from the country bring none of their known to the Phoonicians and, it may the farthest boundaries of nature." There is no part of the human frame citizen of New York, with country asso­ old neighborhood prestige with them be, tho Greeks. Homer's relation of Could greater nonsense be uttered? one with your petition direct to the which is more unsatisfactory than the ciations, is applied to for information to help them through. the ends of tbe Arctic Ocean, where the How men, who had so frequently read grand Duke Michael Pawlowitsch." liver. No boy ever had any tun with and counsel with regard to suoh a To sum up what the city man really Cimmerians lived in gloom, where the about the ice in the Northern Ocean, *• To him! Go totha t scourge of sop his liver, and no man ever found his " change of base," ana the matter seems feels in regard to the coming of his sun was not seen to set or risk (the sun should forgot, as they did, that in an­ diers, the Grand Duko? Not fpr^tne liver a source of pleasure or a means worth the few words a careful and can­ country asquaintances to the city, it during the Arctic summer appears to cient times it sometimes rendered navi- world!'.' replied the man. " Wejl; my of improvement. The Turks, it is did observer may have to say about it. would not be far from this, viz.: sweep around above the horizon), indi­ 1st. The chances for wealth are as cates the possession of a knowledge of ation difficult and dangerous as it now fine fellow," said the Czar, y\L you true, belive that the liver is the seat of It is well, at the beginning to look at the long nights of very high latitudes. f oes, is simply astonishing. Geogra­ will only transact your business with the affections, and in their poetry and the reasons which move people to a de­ great, practically, in the country as in The platottcc or wandering rocks of the phers have disagreed as to the location the Emperor in person speak up, for I love-letters express their ardent desire sire to make the change. The first, the city, and the expenses of living and sea that he meTTGons were simply ice­ of Thule. Disregarding the positive am he. At this unexpected revelation to win the livers of desirable persons of perhaps, art) pecuniary reasons. A the risks of disaster much less. bergs. That Homer should rate the statement by Pytheas that be sailed six the honest Hamburger was so terrified the opposite sex. This, however, is man living in a country town looks 2d. The competitions of city life and polar as the infernal regions mnst seem days (into the depth of the ocean, as that, trembling -from head to foot, he one of the errors of the Mohammedan about him, and can discover no means tho struggles toge t hold of business and excusable to many aNorthern£explorer. some express it) some commentators fell on his kneprfT In doing so hiB bat faith. We know that to speak of two for making money in a large way. salaried work are fearful. No man Superficial critics of tho Homeric voy­ have maintained: that Thule was Jut­ dropped fronr his hand. The Emper­ livers that beat as one is a gross anatom­ everything seems petty. The business should come to the city unless he knows land, where a region is called Thy-land. or's dog, his almost constant compan­ ical error. [of the place is small, and its possibili­ what he is going to do, or has money ages should remember the length of the 1 Arctic day. The old bard understood Others have believed that part of Nor­ ion, seizing the hat began playing with The chief function of the liver, ac­ties of development seem very limited. enough in his hands to take care of him - something of the geographical truths way, called Thele-Mark or Tile-Mark, it. The Emperor contemplated tho cording to the best medical authorities, A few rich men hold everything in their self until he gets a living position or told in his story of Ulysses, though the was thejjhule of Pytheas. Men have scone with characteristic pride, hugely is to test the presence. of malarial hands, and a young man with nothing becomes satisfied that he cannot get facts were clothed in such poetic gar­ seemeSready to believe anything rather .relishing the fright of the poor artisan. poison in the air, and to protest againBt for capital but hiB youth and health one. Even to-day, with the evidences ments as to be unrecognizable by most than the simple fact that the great nay. At last he pulled the hat from between all sorts of palatable food. If there is and hope and ability, feels cramped— of renewed prosperity all around us, people in later times. igator saw Iceland. His descri the dog'8 teeth, and handing it, smiling, malarial poison within half a mile of a feels, in fact, that he has no chance. there are probably ten applications on clearly and unequivocally points to to the still kneeling Hamburger, said: man, his liver will promptly notify him His savings must be small and slow, file for every desirable place, and no - Iceland that argument seems ironoces- " Do not be alarmed, my friend; give of the fact, and if he eats anything ex­ and a life-time is necessary to lift him man living here could help a friends to The ancient tale of the Argonauts, of safy. No one appears to question the to a point where money wiU give him a place unless he cduld create one; me your Lpaper t ,; 1 will have it exam­ cept oat-meal and other repulsive varie­ a possibly later date thfin the age of fact that Gardner, Flokkq/Nadodd and ined. Meanwhile, come to the palace, ties of edible saw-dust, his liver will soon power. It seemB tohi m that if ho could 3d. That the social privileges of the Homer, and bearing the name of Or­others successfully visited Iceland in where you shall have a pecuniary in­ strike work and throw his whole in­ get into tho midst of the great business city may be greater, while the opportu­ pheus, affords some striking evidence later ages, before its^Bottlement by tho Norsemen. But ^Pytheas could not demnity for the fright you have suf­ terior into disorder. The result 6f this of the world he could* find his chance nities qlsocial distinction and the prob­ bf the possession by the writer of a con­ fered." On the day following the Em- reprehensible conduct is-that the liver for a quicker and broader development abilities of social.-consideration are siderable knowledge of the northern •reach Iceland .because he was not a Northman. eror invited the Grand Duke Michael is a constant source of'misery: it "1a of wealth; and in this connection, or much less than they are in• tbe~cbuntry. seas and lands. Few scholars doubt ?awlowitsoh, the Governor-General. an unfeeling tyrant, and embitters our with this fancy, he writes a letter to his 4th. That in^'many respects there is* the reality of the Argonautio expedi­ AristotleXborn 384 B. C.) possessed Count Essen and the. Chief of Police, lives with its impertinence and city acquaintance, asking for his advice nothing i£ the city, that can compensate tion. Many of the statements made in * large fund of -geographical knowl- Kokesohkin, to dine with him. He re­ arrogance. Without a liver a man upon the matter. for the. -pure pleasures of country scen­ the relation are geographical facts. edge./He knew of the existence of the lated to them the adventure he had had could live on Harlem flats without even Another is smitten by a sense of the ery and country life and neighborhood These were not purely accidental hits ~" " an Mountains at the North, and and enjoyed immensely their embar­ suspecting .the existence of malaria, dryness and pettiness of the social life associations. «f imagination— they are too peculiar had information of Ierne and Albion rassment and confusion. What came and could eat mince-pie or sausages he is surrounded by in the country, apol 5th. That a city man's dream of the to-be truths reached by guessing. The reland and England). He was the of the proposal does not appear, but the without punishment. Freedom and the small opportunities he has for per­ future, particularly if he ever lived in Argonauts (who probably used boats rst to call them, together, Britanicae. Hamburger himself went mad. At this happiness cannot exist in company with sonal satisfaction and development. the country, is always of the country hides and carried their light and porta­ Pliny (born A. D. 23) was ac-termination jolthe affair the Emperor a liver, and nearly all the ill-temper To be able to live among picture gal­ and the soil. He longs to leave the ble craft across xhterrupilhgylandi nainted with the situation of the was moved with__pompassioa ana al­and half of the heresies that have vexed leries and in the vicinity pi great, open: noise and fight all behind him, and go spaces) are said to have reached a gulf S[ebrides, at - the west from Scot­ lowed the family of the victim a regu­ the world are due to the malign action libraries; to—have the finest theaters back to his country home to enjoy the (the Baltic), extending to the Cronian 1 land, as well as the Thule, and be was lar pension.—Boguslawski $ Memoirs. of this tyrannical organ, and the most attractive concert -halls moneyjbgjma^^a.ve; won.,,T Ocean. They passed fortn by rowing the first to mention Scandinavia by nine days and nights ja the Cronian i. The Uver is also enormously expen­ at one's door; to be where the best name. He considered it an island of THE TJte reservation in Colorado is sive. It requires nroje'medicine and minds reveal themselves in pulpit and PARIS has ndw 1,600 metres of tubing Sea (the sea at the west of Norway), great extent. Several, mediroval maps about the size of Massachusetts, Rhode laid down under th§ main thorough­ which stretched along beyond the Ri- employs more doctors than all the oth­ on platform in public speech; where fares, for' the purpose of .unifying tha lay down Scandinavia according to Island, Vermont and Delaware com­ er organs of the body. Hippocrates competent masters stand ready to teach phean Mountains/ (These were proba­ Pliny's limited view. In ancient times time of all the public clocks and setting bly the great range between Norway and bined, the finest land in the State, and once remarked, " Lot me prescribe for every science and every art; to live them-aljby Observatory time....The"se the Gothic or Scandinavian people con­ enough to give every Dte man, woman the livers of men, and I care not who is among those whose knowledge of the ( Sweden.) Xbpy visited the Macrobi- sidered their region a distinct part of and child 4,000 acres apiece. neianatic clocks-will -also be placed ans, ft people.noted for longevity. The called in to attend to the rest of the worldis a source of constant satisfac­ i private -houses,' and in ^fntur'e the the world, an island of immense size. human system." It has been estimated tion and culture; to be at every, fount­ K // inhabitants of Central Norway are fa­ Some of the Norse sages represent the A STATISTICIAN computes that 2,690,- time of' day-will be laid on .just'as is mous for longevity in the present age, that the annual cost of maintaining a ain-head of the .intellectual, social- and done with gas. and water. ' ' great Scandanavian peninsula as the 000 watches, and 4,000,000 clocks are liver in this country is eleven^dollars politico-economical Influences , that and have been so from time immemori- northern. Jialf of the world. Norway '-. i •• ~± * • *• / al^dccording to Gothic history. The annually turned out in different parts per capita for every man, woinan, and 8weep over the country; to feet, the was called by Pliny}* Nerigon," and of tho world. _ child mentioned in the census/ When THK following sentence of only forty- jg^edltion nextreached'the «• People of he asserted that the people sailed as far stimulus of competition and example,, eight letters contains'all' the letters'of /Dreams.". J; Many of the Laplanders as Thule. If that was £he case, and THRjmonotoriy of a man's life is gen­ an organ thus taxes us, and in return and to live in an atmosphere charged! the alphabet'. • " John P. Brai&tf, lgitH nave -tram tlie^earliest times been vision erally due to the fact that he has no ives us nothing but suffering, it is with viial activity—all this .seepis ,«uch, me a black walnut box of quite a srr\aU there is no reason to doubt the ability g t seers. Some singular instances are re­ of the ancient Norsemen to reach Ice­ change. ', ' me to make a determined effort tb~be a contrastto the pettiness'and thinness JtK."' " .." . h-' ' ' ' corded by travelers there in the six­ land quite as well in the first as in the rid of it. and insignificance of village life,: that teenth century. The Cimmerians lived ninth century, the earliest monks of MOKE than $700,000 is realized in A leading physiological- phUalfthro- the young maW realizing it, sits' down ILLINOIS, as a State, expects to be -France in parasol making. pist, Mr. Cathcart Edmonds,-*". R. S., and writes to his cityiriend, mquiring free from debt January 1st, 1881.