Physical Capital For Children

Every hour that a child sk-eps s jus so much invostnient of physical capita for years to como. Everj' hour after dar that a child is awakc is so much capita withdrawn. Every hour that a chile lives a quict, tranquil, joyous life of suc sort as kittens live on hearths, squirre' in sunshine, is just so much investment i strength and steadiness and growth of th nervons system. Every hour that a chil lives a lifo of excited brain-working, eithe in a school-room or in a ball-room, is jus so much taken away from the roservec force which enables nerves to triump' through the sorrows, through the labore through the diseasesoflife. Every mouth ful of -wholesome food that a eind eats at seasonable hours, may bo said to tel on every moment of his whole life, no matter how long it may be. Víctor Hugo, the benevolent exilo, has found out that to be well fed once in geven days for ono meal has been enough to transform the apparent hcalth of all the poor children in Guernsey. Who shall say that to tako once in soren days, or even once in thirty days, an unwholesome supper of chicken salad and champagne may not leavo as lasting effocts on the constitution of a child 'i - Indqenlent. A writer in an Bnglish nowspaper, who lias thoroughly cxplored and hunted through all the aecessible regions of the Itocky Mountains, says that the wildgoat found on the highest peaks tlioro is furnishod with hair of a quality admirably adaptcd for vroaving into toxtilo fabrics. Japancso art, ho suys, is to bo detected in tho articlcs made from it by the Indians, in whosc languago traces of Japanese are also to bc found. Several places havo claimed the champion mean man, but Canaan, Conn., can take tho bolt. A man there who employs his fathcr in his workshop lost a child, and naturally the grand-father wished to attend the funeral. The son permitted the old man to go to the grave, and when he got home docked tho poor fellow half a day lost timo. A London correspondent writes that an m Irish noble is spoken of for the next daughter of Queen Victoria. He is the oung Marquis of Ely, one of the walthiest men of the peerage. A disturbad preacher remarked: "If hat cross-eyed lady in tho gide aisle with ed hair and blue bonnet, don 't stop talkng, I must point her out to the congrejation." The census of Great Britain, which aproaehes completion, shows a large inro.aso in the population of all the prinijml cities. A clorgyman in tho West seoks damages f a journal whioh pulilished a report of lis lectarc. " Mind and Matter," undcr hj tead of " Wind aad "Wator." " Ijoano ytwa, my friend," said a tipsy cllovr oliaging to a lamp gosfc a dark ight; "lcava jom inia-oonditáo-n, not toiikö-ow of myself !Hio nerer. The MasBOchusetts snpreme cotirt bas warded $13,000 damoges against t!"! town of Ashtield in favor of J. II. Dyer for (crsonal injuries to tho plaiiffs Wife, ftused by defect in the highw&y. A bluut but honest preaoher recently eclared thftt some pcople cannot see tho ifference betwoen sounding tlio gospel rutnpet nnd blowing their own hom. A ministor in Wintcrset, Iowa, recontly tted in bis sermón that " the Bible was ie nioat important work that has yot leun published in the United Sfevtos." A young man who was caught strainng his sweetheart to his bosom the other ight, justifica himself on the ground lat he had a right to strain his own loney ! An Irish schoolmaster recently informod lis pupils that tho fominino gendyr should o applied to all ships and stcamors afloat, xcept mail tttamert and men of war. " Doar children - never fooi with powder,"were the remarks of an embffriwed man suddonly called on to addross a Pennsylrania Sunday school. Thon ho sat down - qnick.