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VOL. Ill
OXFORD, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1877.
NO. 20.
three wouos of streivgth.
(From Scliiller.)
Tliere are tliree lessons I would write—
Three words as with a burning pen,
Ill teiichiiigs of eternal light,
Upon the hearts of nieii.
Have Hope. Though clouds environ
And gladness hides her face in scorii-
Put thou the shadow from thy brow-
Ko night but hath its morn.
Have Faith. Where’er thy bark 'is
driv'Oii—
Tlie calm’s disport, tlfe tempest’s mirth;
Know this—God rules the host ot
heaven,
Th’ inhabitants of earth.
Have Love. Not live alone for one,
But man as man, thy brothers call.
And scatter like tlie circling sun.
Thy charities on all.
Tluis grave these lessons on thy soul—
Hope, Faith and Love, and thou shalt
iiiid
Strength when life’s surges rudest roll,
Light wlien thou else were blind.
Sf.^’GtlEARlTlES OF GREAT
ME.1X.
Sitetoneous tells us that, “Du
ring tlie winter, Augustus would
wear four tunics beneath a thick
toga ; to these were added a shirt
and a woollen under-garment;
his limbs were as carefully pro
tected. In suininer he would
sleep with both doors and win
dows open, and frequentiy even
under the peristyle of his palace,
where jets of water refreshed the
air, and where, moreover, was
posted a slave, whose duty it Was
to liiii him ; he could not endure
the sun—not even the winter sun
—and he never walked abroad
without a wide-brimmed liat on
his head.”
Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of
d’uscanv, who died in 1670, says
the Abbe Ariiauld, in his Meuioiis.
‘was the slave of health. 1 have
frequently seen him pacing up and
down his room between two large
thermometers, upon which he
would keep his ej'es constantly
fixed, unceasingly emploj’ed in
taking off and putting on a variety
of skull-caps of different degrees
of warmth, of which he had al
ways five or six in his hand,
according to the degrees ot heat
or cold registered b)' the instru
ment. Tills, I can assure you,
was a mighty pleasant sight to
behold, for there was not a con
jurer ill all his dominions more
dextrous in handling his cups
and balls than this prince in
shifting Ills caps.”
The Abbe de St. Martin, who,
in the seventeenth centurt-, ren
dered liiinselfso ridiculous with his
pretensionsandhismanias, always
wore nine skull-caps upon his
head to keep off' the cold, with a
wig over all, which, by the way,
was always awrv and disheveled,
so that his face never appeared
to be in its natural position. In
addition to his nine skull-caps,
he wore also nine pairs of stock
ings. His bed was made of bricks
underneatli which was a furnace,
so constructed as to impart the
precise degree of warmth that he
might require; this bed, had a
very small opening through which
the abbe used to creep when he
retired to rest at night.
The Jesuit Gliezzi, a writer of
the eighteenth century, used to
wear seven skull-caps beneath
bis wig. The learned Frencli
matliematician, Fourier, had re
turned from Egypt a martyr to
rlieumatism, and with a constant
sensation of cold, he suffered
dreadfull}' wlienever lie was ex
posed to an atmospliere lower
than twenty degrees Reaumur: a
servant followed him everywhere
with a mantle, in readiness for
a.iy sudden change of tempera
ture. During the latter years of
his life, exhausted by asthma
from which he had been a suf
ferer from bis youth, he kept
himself, for the purposes of writ
ing and speaking to liis friends,
enclosed in a species of box,
wiiicli permitted no deviation of
the body, and left at liberty only
his liead and liaiids. The Flor
entine sculptor, Donatello, who
died in 1466, among other singu
larities, had the habit of keeping
ids money in a basket whicli
hung from a nail in tlie wall of
ids room. Into this basket his
workmen and friends used to dip
at discretion. Reetlioven, tlie
composer, liad two imperious
habits, by wldcli lie was con
stantly swayed,—tliat of moving
his lodgings, and tliat of walking.
Scarcely was he installed in an
apaitnient ere lie w'ould discover
some fault in it, and commence
looking out for another. Every
day after dinner, despite rain,
wind, liail, or snow he would is
sue forth on foot and take a long
and fatiguing walk. TheFreiicli
astronomer, La Caille, liad con
tracted tlie wearisome liabit of
reading and writing with one eve
only ; tlie other eve was specially
reserved b}’ 1dm for the purpose
of telescopic observation. Rv
thi.s means, hoivever, lie succeed
ed in olitaining very interesting
re.suits; for instance, he was en-
ableil to discern with ease and
precision the height of tlie stars
above the liorizoii of tlie sea; an
observation generally very un
certain, on account of the diffi
culty of clearly distinguishing
tlie liorizon iu tlie obscurity of
night. It does not appear tliat
aiiv astronomer since ids time lias
sought to conform himself to so
difficult a practice.—iS'etecfed.
REESGIOJJS PERSECFTtO.'M AND
lADUSTKIAI. PROGRESS.
PRESERVING EGGS.
Tliere seems to be no natural
comection between the two, but
it is a Idstorical fact that tlie
persecution of tlie Huguenots in
France prov'ed of great and last
ing service to Englisli industries.
After tlie Revocation of tlie Edict
ot Nantes, it is said tliat 100,000
French exiles settled in England,
—10,000 from Rouen alone.
Hence arose the silk trade of
Spitalfields, and numerous minor
branches of silk and cotton man
ufacture. The making of buttons
and other small but costly arti
cles was introduced by the Hu
guenots ; and beaver hats, which
had previously been all brought
from France, were made in
Wandsworth, and, as Mr. Fox
Bourne tells us in the “Romance
of Trade,” hud to be “ bought
there for the Continental dandies,
who loved them as much as they
hated their makers.” Glass man
ufacture, till then hardly- known
in England, except in its simplest
and coarsest branches, was soon
turned by the Huguenot refugees
into a great produce. It was tlie
same with paper-making. Paper
had been made on the Dareiit
since the time of Henry' the
Eight, but the trade had never
assumed important pioportions.
With the ariival of the Hugue
nots it made a great advance.
Among those who followed this
trade was Ileni'i do Portal, whose
ancestors had been leaders of the
Albigenses and sturdy Protestants
for ceiituries. He set up a paper
manufactory at Laverstoke, and
iiiiinaged it so well that he was
chosen to furnish the peculiar
material required by the Bank of
England for its notes, and tlie
monopoly is still possessed by
his descendants.—N. Y. Observer
A writer in the English Me
chanic says: “In the year 1871
-72, I preserved eggs so perfectly'
that after a lapse of six months,
they were mistaken when brought
to the table for fresh laid eggs,
and I believe they' would have
kept equally good for twelve
months. My' mode of preserva
tion was to varnish the eggs as
soon after they were laid as pos
sible with a tliin copal varnish,
taking care that the whole of the
shell was covered with the varnish.
I subsequently found that by' paint
ing the eggs with fresh albumen,
beaten up with a little salt, they
were preserved equally well, and
for as long a period. After var
nishing or painting with albumen,
1 lay tlie eggs upon rough blot
ting-paper, as I found that, when
allowed to rest till dry’ upon a
plate or on the table, the albumen
stuck so fast to the table or plate
as to take away a chip out of the
shell. This is entirely obviated
by the use of the blotting-paper.
I pack the eggs in boxes of dry
bran.”—Seleeted.
If religious controversialists would
look more into the vocabulary of love
and less into Greek Lexicons for their
definitions, there would be more Chris-
lian unity in the world,
We have all sorts of laws to
meet all sorts of misdemeanors and
crimes,but one is needed to abate
scolding in our schools. It
should read something like this:
An act to abate a crying
NUI.SANCE. Whereas—it is known
that scolding is a crime and
cruelty, and ; Whereas—in school
it is equally' destructive to good
feeling, and consequently to good
health, and thus a means of short
ening life ; Therefore be it enacted,
—That whenever a teacher shall
be known to scold more than
twice in one day', or more than
six times in one week, be shall,
on the testimony of six pupils of
known good be haviour, be con
victed of a misdemeanor, and be
fined not more than fifty dollars,
nor less than one cent, and con
fined in the county jail for one
month, and be compelled to read
aloud to his fellow-prisoners, Oli
ver Twist, Plamlet, and Burton’s
Anatomy of Melancholy, Sundays
excepted, when he shall be le-
quired to do nothing. A law of this
kind, thoroughly enforced, would
soon tend to abate the nuisance.
—National Teachers' Monthly.
The (lead-head system is very com
mon now-a-days: there are many dead
heads even on the “old ship of Zion
but no public carriers are responsible
for damages that may happen to dead
head passengers.
JOHN FEOEGHMAN ON PER
FECTION.
Mr. Spurgeon, wilting over
his signature of John Plough
man, expresses the following
terse and homely views on the
subject of human perfection :
“ He wiio boasts of being per
fect is perfect in folly’, 1 have
been a good deal up and down in
the world, and I neither did see
either a perfect horse or a perfect
man, and I never shall until two
Sundays come together. You
cannot get white flour out of a
coal sack, nor perfection out of
liuman nature; he who looks for
it had better look for sugar in the
sea. The old saying is, ‘ Lifeless,
faultless.’ Of dead men we should
say nothing but good, but as for
the living, they are all tarred,
more or less, with the black brush,
and half an eye can see it. Every’
head has a soft place in it, and
every heart has its black drop.
Every rose has its prickles, and
every’ day its niglit. Even the
sun shows spots, and the skies
are darkened with clouds. No
body is so wise but he has folly
enough to stock a stall at Vanity
Fair. Where I could not see the
fool’s-cap I have, nevertheless,
heard the bells jingle. As there
is no sunshine without some
shadow, so is all human good
mixed up with more or less evil;
even poor law guardians have
their little failings, and parish
beadles are not wholly’ of hea
venly nature. The best wine
has its lees. All men’s faults are
not written on their foreheads,
and its quite as well they are not,
or hats would need wide brims;
yet as sure as eggs are eggs,
faults of some sort nestle in every
man’s bosom. There is no tell
ing when a man’s sins may show
themselves, for hares pop out of
a ditch just when you are not
looking t'or them. A horse that
is weak in the legs may not
stumble for a mile or two, but it’s
in him, and the rider had better
hold him up well. The tabby
cat is not lapping milk just now,
but leave the dairy door open,
and we will see if she is not as
bad a thief as the kitten. Tliere’s
fire in the flint, cool as it looks;
wait till the steel gets a knock at
it, and you will see. Everybody
can read that riddle, but it is not
everybody that will remember to
keep bis gunpowder out of the
way of the candle.—Selected.
It may be that she feels it to
make political capital out of it,
but that she is the head of this
order of Christians is an histori
cal fact, and no one can under
stand the present condition of af
fairs who fails to admit it. That
Russia dreams of possessing Con
stantinople and with the title of
Czar (wliich means Cesar) repos
sessing herself of the Eastern.
Empire.—This is a national idea,
too. Every Russian peasant sliares
it. For the glory of the Greek
Church demands it.
Now, in June, 1875, the Greek
Christians in Herzegovina being
cruelly oppressed by the Turks,
rose in rebellion. (Here it will
be remembered that the teiritory
now Turkey was a Christian
country and was conquered by’
the Turks, and hence a large por
tion of the inhabitants are Chris
tians y’et). The disturbance thus
caused spread into Bosnia, and
roused the strong sympathies of
the people of Montenegro and
Servia. Hence tliese jirovinces
as well as Bulgaria have been
seeking encouragement from Rus
sia which has been secretly
granted.
Germany’, Austria and Russia
have attempted to draw conces
sions from Turkey, and although
promises have been made, noth
ing efficacious has been reached ;
the second attempt to procure
peace was thwarted by England ;
but the third she joined in with
great earnestness. The offer
made by the Conference was,
however, rejected by Turkey—
in January last. These powers
proposed that the Christians
should have rights equal to those
granted to the Turks, and a de
manded reform in her civil gov
ernment.
The failure to induce Turkey
to accept these conditions led the
members of the Conference to
leave Constantinople; but Russia
is determined by force to compel
Turkey to carry out these condi
tions, and hence has declared war
against her.—Nets York School
Journal.
—Ttie Eastern war has begun.
And every school-room should
have a suitable map and the pro
gress of the contending armies
pointed out. Not only this, the
teacher owes it to his school to
point out in a clear and exact
manner, the causes of the conflict.
It is an historical problem that
should be clearly stated.
There should be a beginning
made at the time when Rome
governed the whole of Europe;
then there was a separation; then
succeeded the fall of the Eastern
Empire. Now Russia has ever
considered herself as the heir to
the Eastern Empire; her subjects
are all Christians of the Greek
Church order and she is in sym
pathy with those who occupy the
provinces under the sway of
Turkey. All the oppression the
Greek Church suffers Russia feels.
Time was when geology was
cited as a witness against the
Mosaic record of creation: perhaps
the time is not far distant whan
Moses will be deemed the
Great Geologist, the father of the
decree that demands “infinite
time” as its postulate. In a recent
conversation, a gentleman who is
a disciple of Darwin and an
enthusiastic geologist, made tliis
remark: “Geology and Genesis
agree so perfectly in the great
outlines of creation that I am at
a loss to know where Moses got
that information.”
An old Highlander, rather fond
of his toddy, was ordered by his
physician, during a temporary
illness not to exceed one ounce of
spirits daily. The old gentleman
•vas dubious about the amount,
and ask his son, a school-boy,
how much an ounce was. ‘Sixteen
drachms make one ounce,” was
the reply. “Sixteen drachms 1
What an excellent doctor!’’ ex
claimed the Highlander. “Run
and tell Donald M’Tavish and big
John to come doon the nioht.”
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