Few are the travelers to whom a word of suggestion in regard to thoughtfulness for others is superfluous. The wisest and the calmest are apt to think only of the proverbially selfish "Number One," when caught in the hurry and the crowd of a railway depot. Yet there are not many places where a little unselfish consideration goes farther than in traveling. If the seniors of a party are of a monopolizing spirit, the young ones are sure to be grasping and greedy. The difference between well-bred and ill-bred people is less conspicuous in a drawing-room than on a

railroad train.

There are two ways of behaving when on a journey, whether long or short,-one in accordance with the Golden Rule and the other in opposition to it. The loyal subjects of this ideal rule walk decently and in order to the train. There is no pushing and crowding for first places and shady sides. If by chance they are among the early comers, and the cool shade of the cars falls by natural right to them, they take possession of such seats with the delight that a benevolent person accepts a windfall of an inheritance, rejoicing in the ability and privilege of giving. He who secures the shady side is glad that it will now be his privilege to resign it to the first weary woman, aged man, or mother with a baby that arrives too late for such a luxury. The Golden Rulers, if compelled to take the sunny side, do it, cheerfully, knowing that some one must sit there, and that the exercise of self denial is good for old and young. If the journey is to be short, the sun will not hurt them; and, if it is to be all day, they will be rewarded by shade in the afternoon! The Golden-Rule papa, if he be addicted to tobacco (for, alas! some even of the best Golden Rulers have this weakness,) will have smoked his cigar in the solitude and quiet of his own home, and will not therefore deny himself the society of his wife for the sake of riding in that vile den whose outside label

warns off all tidy persons,- Smoking car." If he wishes to open windows, he will first inquire as to the desirability of it on the part of his neighbors. If the cinders fly, he will cinder-fenders, or, failing those, a handfull of take from his shawl-strap two or three patent shingles, which he will deftly fit into his own and his neighbors' windows, so that fresh air may be admitted without endangering one's eyes by showers of cinders.

The omnipresent and omniprovisioned train-boy does not think much of the Golden Ruler. His peanuts, prize candies, half-ripe and twice-high bananas, green apples, and pop-corn are ignored. Mrs. Golden Ruler has provided a proper luncheon, which is eaten at the proper time, decently and in order, with bibs and napkins, following by damp sponges and towels. Her children are not allowed to eat at all hours like sheep grazing upon a paddock. Neither does she entice other people's children to break laws of health and manners by offering at all times and seasons a "cookey to the "nice little girl" who sits in front of her, and whose mamma has never allowed her to taste a cookey in her life.

This Golden-Rule family speak in such subdued and pleasant voices that an Englishman, were he present, would vow they couldn't be Americans. But they are not too reserved to give a pleasant smile and a cordial word to their fellow traveling companions, if occasion requires; and they always try to be accurate in what they say. There is a great difference in people in this respect. Some give emphatic opinions without any authority behind them. Others carefully avoid expressing an opinion, unless they know. A mother was once traveling with her little one. Unforeseen delay made them late in reaching the breakfast-halt. The little one was hungry. The cars stopped at a way station. Would there be time to get a glass of milk for the baby? Several of the passengers sitting near heard the question, and with deep regret assured her it was quite impossible, although they took no pains to ascertain. A Golden Ruler among them-a complete stranger, but who afterward proved to be a Harvard professor-quietly left the car, spoke ten words to the conductor, and in a moment later returned with a brimming glass of delicious milk, and the words, "Pray accept the glass also," and the train moved on. The assurance from the conductor that there was time enough saved the baby four hungry hours; and, doubtless, the grateful mother still preserves the ten-cent tumbler as a memorial of the kindly deed.-Christian Register.

TRUST that man in nothing, who has not a conscience in everything.-Sterne.

SLEEP.

'Sleep gentle Sleep, how have I frighted thee?"

Personification of sleep has been almost as common in poetry as that of death; and they have often been called "sisters." This has been suggested, of course, by the outward resemblance of the slumbering form to that from which earthly life has departed. And when we think of the resurrection of that body "which shall be," the likeness of death to a sleep from which one awakens, is maintained. Looked at, however, as concerning our present bodily state alone, there is a great difference, even a contrariety, between sleep and death. The latter is followed by decay and dissolution; “dust returns unto dust." Sleep brings restoration of exhausted strength.

What do physiologists say of sleep? The precise nature of the difference between the sleeping and waking state, in regard to the minute structure of the brain, the " gray cells" of the brain substance, has not yet been made out. Two things, however have been ascertained. The flow of blood through the brain is less rapid during sleep; and yet the nutrition, the "rebuilding" or repair, of its substance, is chiefly then effected.

This last is the most important practical point in regard to health. Sleep is a necessity of life; it is as indispensable as food.

Some good people appear to fail to appreciate this fact; they regard sleep as a kind of depravity of the body," to be kept under and avoided as far as possible. Indolence is, of course an infirmity, whose indulgence to the neglect of duty is a sin. But the restoration of the energy of the body, and especially of the brain, is needful for the performance of daily duties. Its neglect is therefore wrong. No one should fail to secure a sufficiency of sleep every night, unless some peculiar emergency exists, such as warrants the risk of health. In ordinary life such emergencies are

very rare.

How much sleep is necessary for health? With children, nature regulates this, better than any rules. A healthy child never sleeps too much; when well rested, it will wake and want to be up and stirring. It is a great mistake to rouse young children at a set hour from sound, unfinished sleep. Some being of robust constitution, will bear it without apparent harm; delicate children may be seriously injured by it. Experience shows that an infant ought to sleep twelve hours out of twenty-four, best, ten hours at night and two near the middle of the day. A child of from six to twelve years should sleep every night not less than ten hours; then not needing the infant's daytime nap. Indeed, ten hours in twenty-four will not be an excessive amount of sleep for an

active young person during the whole of the growing period. Health and strength are promoted by such an one taking all the sleep that he or she wants. The demand for it (when not brought on by improper food or drink) shows a natural need.

It is true that poverty or other circumstances may sometimes make abundant repose impracticable. Then the adaptiveness of the human system comes into advantage, and many healthy people can get on tolerably with less. Some sleep "very hard" while they are at it, and others are, when not enough rested at night, only about half awake all day.

What are we to say, then, about the "midnight lamp," of which enthusiasts for learning used to speak or write? If by it is meant the cutting short of the hours of sleep for the sake of study, it is simply an immense mistake. Brain-workers are the very persons who need sleep the most; indeed the brain is the only organ which in sleep is absolutely at rest.

Sir Isaac Newton wrote to a friend, in a letter lately republished, that he needed his eight or nine hours of sleep every night. Yet his was one of the most powerful brains known in the annals of philosophy and science, Stories appear now and then, of great men doing with very little sleep. On examination, they are usually ascertained to be without foundation. If it were even true (which it is not) that Napoleon I, or Alexander Humboldt habitually slept but four hours of the night, it should in view of all experience, be regarded as a monstrous" (in the old sense of the word) or entirely exceptional thing. It may be safely said to be the rule, that no one can maintain good health and full strength for months together, with an average of less than six (better seven) hours of sleep every night.

Moreover, not only is at least an approach to a sufficiency of sleep a necessity even for life itself, but the working power of the brain is impaired by a deficiency of it. Here is where intellectual and studious persons often err greatly. They suppose that they can accomplish more by robbing themselves of the time for rest. True, they do get more working hours; but those hours are not worth so much. The instrument of their toil, the brain is not then in good order. It is like an axe that wants sharpening; it is slow in cutting down trees. The secret of doing much brainwork, and doing it well, is, giving the brain abundant rest; so that it may be always fresh, and capable of its best performance. The opposite of this plan may seem to succeed for a few days, or sometimes even for a few weeks but in the end it must always fail. It is like incurring a debt which runs up compound interest; unless paid off, some time it will exhaust our principal.-From Friends' Review

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NATURAL HISTORY STUDIES.

Monstrous Fungi.-Visitors to ancient winevaults or damp coal-pits are sometimes astonished by the curious fungi which drape the walls with gruesome tapestry; but every instance of this kind is thrown into the shade by the very extraordinary growths which have recently been discovered in some of the deserted Mexican silver mines of Nevada. The dank, warm timber galleries and drifts of these old workings, abandoned to themselves for years, have silently given birth to a monstrous brood of morbid vegetation, which, apparently, has no parallel in the regions of the sunlight and the upper air. In general, they are all of a snowy whiteness; and some of the hooded masses rise up several feet from the ground, like sheeted ghosts. Others, in the distance, take the form of bearded goats or sleeping owls. Here, great bunches of long, white hair hang down from the roof; and, there, huge, pulpy masses encumber the floor like brainstone coral. The latter appear to have sprung miraculously from something spilled upon the rocks in past days, while the former seems to have crystallized like hoar-frost from the atmosphere itself. Some of the rounded masses have actually lifted up from the floor blocks of stone weighing ten, fifty, and even a hundred pounds to a height of three feet. In the higher level of the mines, where the air is drier, the fungi are far less bulky than below, and much firmer in texture. The shapes here are, however, more elaborate and beautiful. One kind grows in a twisted spiral, like a ram's horn, to a length of five feet, and hangs from the rafters like a trophy of the chase, or rather like a serpent suspended by the tail. Another sort sends out a stem the thickness of a pencil to a height of one or two feet, where it blossoms into a bulbous knob something like a flower. Nothing like

the toadstool or the common mushroom is to be found, and the wondrous growths have all the aspect of being called into a special being by the peculiarities of their environment. -Christian Register.

THERE are in the United States in the

neighborhood of 100,000 natives of Bohemia. Wisconsin has the greatest number; next in number Illinois, Iowa, New York, Minnesota, Ohio, Kansas, Texas and Pennsylvania.

THE London correspondent of the Evening Telegram gives an account of a banquet to exPostmaster General James, at which cheaper postage between England and America was advocated.

THE first through freight train from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, over the inst., via the Eastern, Albany and NorthwestNorthern Pacific Railroad, started on the 17th ern Railroads. It consists of ten cars of canned corn.

AT a meeting of the stockholders of the Florida Ship Canal, held in New York on the 17th inst, the Directors were authorized to contract for the construction of the canal-the work to be begun at the earliest possible day. The canal will run across the peninsula at its narrowest part, and will have its eastern terminus in the vicinity of the mouth of Saint John's river. It will be 136 miles long, 230 feet wide and 30 feet deep.

THE formal opening of the new cable line to Brazil via Galveston, Texas, took place in New York on the 21st inst. There is now direct telegraphic communication between the United States and Brazil. By the old route to Lisbon messages had to cross the Atlantic twice before delivery.

AN electric tramcar trial was successfully accomplished recently in Paris by the French Electrical Power Storage Company. At three o'clock the vehicle, an ordinary three-horse tramcar, left the Place de la Nation, in the far east, and after traversing the capital through important thoroughfares reached the starting point soon after six o'clock. A distance of thirty English_miles was thus made in about three hours. The mute wonderment with which the soundless progress of the apparently animated car through the crowded streets was witnessed by the public may be imagined. There was not the slightest accident; not a single horse shied throughout the entire route.

NOTICES.

The Yearly Meeting's Committee on Temperance will hold a Conference at Abington, on the 7th of Tenth month, at 3 o'clock P.M. A general attendance is requested.

Friends are invited to the Religious Meeting at the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons, Belmont and Girard avenues, to-morrow, at 3 P.M.

QUARTERLY MEETINGS, ETC.

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PROFESSOR FALB, who has made a study of the subject of volcanic eruptions, and who is considered an authority on such matters, predicts that another earthquake will take place on the island of Ischia on the 15th of October.

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