ONE TOCCII OF SATIRE.
My Bkotcli was finished, aud i turned to go,
Yet lingering for a minute to compare
The painted cottage in my folio
With that which stood within tlio landscape
there.
How feeblo was my picture, despite all my
care!
TJie cotter's wife was standing at her door
And Baw her husband coming down the lane,
Aud, eatchiug up her baby from tho floor,
Bhe hurried out to meet him once again,
Lavish of treasured smiles that were not
spent in vain.
Their meeting all liis weariness relieved ;
His drudgery to merriment gave place ;
Exchanging burdens, she, his tools received,
And he, the baby, nestling to his face.
Bo went they back contented to their dwell
ing place.
Weak was my sketch, and weak the matchless
hue
Which nature spread around on land and sea,
Jteside the beauty, or affection true
That simple meeting there revealed to me.
Nothing, on earth with human love compared
can be!
The " Fnuleiistraswe
,o it
THE SEVEN LAZY KROTIIEKS.
The name " fsulenstrasse," (» street in Bremen,)
hatl all Interesting origin, which in preserved by the
dory-writers of German?. The story is given iu Dr.
llurst'M " Life in the Fatherland " asfoilows:
Near where that street now stands
there was once a thick forest. The
trees were old, but very strong and
large. Just on the edge of the forest
there lived an aged eouple, who bad
seven song. The father was _an
industrious man, cultivated bis field
with care, attended to bis cow, and
supported his whole family by bis own
exertions. But it was very different
$ with the seven sons. True, they had
long legs, broad backs, very strong
arms, and well-formed heads, and were
able to do a gieat amount of work, a«d
relieve their father from all exertion.
But tbey were drones.
Their parents were very kind and
patient toward them. The neighbors
said of the seven lazy boys, that they
had been spoiled. By-and-by, every
body in Bremen—which in those dis
tant times was only a town
—became in a certain Way acquainted
with the sons of the old man, and many
persons made sport of them. Even the
ooys in the street would say, when one
of tliem passed, 'See there! yonder
goes one of the seven lazy brothers!"
The river Weser ran close to the field
of tho aged father. Often bis seven
indojent sons would go down to the
bank and lie there, under the shade of
an elm, and sleep many hours at a
time. In the course of a few months
the sailors found them out, and when
the boats passed you could have heard
the tars 'say, "Look under the tree;
there are the seven lazy boys!" But
the big boys did not like such expres
sions, and after healing them a great
many times ther left the river bank,
and found their way into the great
forest.
They thought nobody would see them
now. So they lay down in the thick
moss, talked a little while about difl'er
cnt useless things, and finally went to
sleep. They kept up this habit a long
time. Hut when autumn came, the
Itoys and girls went through tho forest
to gather acorns and chestnuts. When
they saw tho seven lazy sons—who
were almost grown men—they laughed
at them, and cried out, "Here are the
seven lazy brothers at whom everybody
laughs. The chestnute full right down
on them, but tbey have not energy
enough to brush them oil', or even hull
and eat them." So the brothers came
home again. One would have thought
that they would be ashamed to let
their lather do all the work. IJut they
never ottered to do a thing ; and when
they strolled oil'to lie on the ground
and sleep somewhere, they never came
back until their good mother had pre
pared their meal.
One day the eldest of the brothers
said to the others, "Just think how
every body laughs at us. We cauuot
go anywhere without even the children
coming up behind us aud pulling our
coats, and crying out, 'What lazy
fellows these brothers are! If every
one were like them nothing would lie
done.' Even school-teachers, when
they want to show their scholars the
evils of idleness, say, 'Look, how the
seven lazy brothel's live. Never lie
idle, for you might become as bad as
they are.' Let us gq to work ! Let us
do any thing honorable sooner than
permit our good old father to spend all
his strength for us."
All the six reuiaiuiug brothers roused
up, rubbed their eyes, and laujrfied at
what the eldest had said. Finally, he
w»>n them over to his side, and it was
concluded unanimously that they
should leave home, and seek a liveli
hood iu some other part of the country.
At the dinner-table they told their
father what conclusion they had come
to. lie luugliod ar them, aud said,
*1 ou have beciwdlo too long, I fear, '
to become industrious now. But if you
are really determined to do some work,
which is honest and worthy, 1 will give
each of you twenty-live dollars iu gold,
aud a new suit of clothes. But you
must give me some proof that you are
sincere iu your professions. 1 w ill giva
each one of you an axe aud a spade,
and you must carry the axes ou your
right shoulders, and the spades iu your
left hands, and walk thiougli Bremen.
The . eldest must go first, aud the
youngest must be last iu the proces
sion.' The brothers looked at each
other, and shook their heads. They
concluded that they could not do it.
Then their father-said, "If you are not
willing to make some sacrifice, aud
permit the world to Bee that you iutend
to be industrious in future, I can put
no confidence in your resolutions."
The sons consulted further, and
actually determined to walk through
Bremen with axes on their right
shoulders and spades in their left
bauds. 'Hie people came out of their
houses to look at them, with such
implements of work in their possession.
Some persons cried oat, "The world
mast be coining to an end!" Others
•aid. "That la the most wonderful sight
we ever saw." \
> On the Saturday of the following
-*eek tho old father gave his sons the
money and clothes which he had
promised them: and they started off in
procession. Their mother said, "They
will all be home again to-morrow.''
Their father replied, "Well, I am not
sure of that. They seemed to be
y determined to do work of some kind.
1 think they are resolved to mend their
lives and set an example of industry."
The brothers wandered far from home.
They hired themselves out to a manu
facturer, and worked with great energy,
y '• •'
They were very tired at first, and it
seemed to them that tbey could hardly
live; but they adhered to their resolu
tion, and finally conquered. Tbey
gradually rose from a bumble to a high
position, and acquired much property.
From time to time they sent hoiue as
much as several thousand dollars to
their parents.
One bright and beautiful May morn
iug every body in Bremen seemed to
be out of doors. The old town clock
struck eleven, and just then you might
have seen seven men coming into town
on foot. They were well dressed, and
had the appearance of gentlemen. In
one respect they looked like hard
working laborers; they had axes on
their right shoulders and spades in
their left hands. The people in the
streets said to one another, "Can they
be the seven lazy brothers 1 They are
evidently not lazy now. See how
briskly they walk, how healthy they
look, and how erect they hold their
heads! But they really are the sons of
that very old man who is now so ad
vanced that he cannot work. Where
have they been all this time f"
No one can tell what an excitement
the arrival of the seven brothers made
in Bremen, and how glad their old
father and mother were to welcome
them back to their humble cottage.
There was a feast in the little house,
which lasted several days. When they
bad been home some weeks, tbey said,
"Let us not live in this cottage.
There is not room to turn around.
Our parents are very old, and we
ought to provide better for them. We
have plenty of money, aud must build
a new house."
A beautiful piece of land was bought
half a mile from Bremen. There was
no road that ran through it, nor were
there any houses on it. But the
brothers had a splendid mansion
erected on the place, and built, with
their own hands, a road, though short,
through the piece of land. It ran right
in front of the house. "What shall we
call our street?" said they to one
another. After many fruitless attempts
to devise a name, one of the brothers
at last made the following'suggestion :
"Much of our life has been spent in
idleness. What we have lost we can
never get back again. Would it not
be well to warn as many young people
as we can from following our bud
example when we lived in idleness t I
suggest that we call our street 'Faulen
strasse'—LAZY-STREET." And no one
•aid nay.
The New Itegime In (jermany.
Since the commencement of the pre
sent year, says the Pall Mall Gazette,
the Frankfort Gazette , a German news
paper of strong democratic views, has
published from week to week, under
the heading "Calendar of the German
War of Enlightenment," a list of the
proceedings instituted under the vari
ous laws passed since the formation of
the new German empire for dealing
with ecclesiastical, press and political
questions. An analysis of this calen
dar for the month of January gives
some instructive results as to the lib
erty of speech and action which the
new empire has thought good to con
cede to its subjects. As might have
been expected, the ecclesiastical perse
cutions are the most numerous. The
list comprises sixty-six ecclesiastics
who have during the month been either
fined, imprisoned or banished for of
fences against the new laws; among
them are five bishops and several Pro
testant clergymen. The offence of
which the Catholic priests appear to
have been guilty is that of performing
their spiritual functions in contraven
tion of the May laws. Prosecutions
against private persons rank next in
point of numbers. In this category
forty-two persons were successfully pro
secuted by the government—a few lio
man Catholics for displaying too much
zeal for their religion, but by far the
larger number—many of'whom come
under the designation of social demo
crats—tor being too outspoken in their
political opinions. Journalists were
the subjects of twenty-seven prosecu
tions, each of which resulted in fine or
imprisonment. The newspaper ujion
which official displeasure seems to have
fallen most heavily is the Westphalian !
Mercury , whose editors, in the course
of eighteen months, have been senten
ced to two years and eighteen months'
imprisonment. In addition to these
prosecutions, twelve public meetings
were closed by the police, in several in
stances the s|teakera being seized; nine
schoolmasters or professors were re
lieved of their functions, and seven
domiciliary visits were made to persona
who were supposed to have fallen be
neath the cognizance of the new laws.
llt is worthy of remark that one head
schoolmaster, llerr Ulenbroich, of
Oberhausen, was dismissed for refus
ing to hang up in his schoolroom the
portrait of Prince Bismarck beneath
that of the Emperor. Prince Bismarck
—according to the calendar—is respon
sible for no fewer than twelve prosecu
tions, during January, of persons who
had presumed to criticise him too
freely; while the Emperor has but
eight actions of the kind to his credit,
one of them being brought against a
rag-picker of Darmstadt, who was sen
tenced to imprisonment for five months
and a half for speaking disrespectfully
of his sovereign. The foregoing figures
refer only to prosecutions which have
resulted in punishment; but the calen
dar published by the Frankfort Gazette
also gives the statistics of those which
ended in acquittal The punijftments
indicted by the courts are not, as a rule
very severe; but a list of which runs
close upon one hundred and fifty prose
cutions, entailing in the aggregate fines
amounting to about four hundred
pounds, and sentences of imprisonment
equal altogether a period of nearly
twelve years, to say nothing of other
repressive measures, indicates a toler
ably busy month for the public pro
secutor. ' _ __j
Bmlatfin.
Emulation, even in the brutes, is
sensitively "nervous." Bee the tremor
of the thoronghbied raoer before he
starts. The dray hone does not trem
ble, but he does not emulate. If is not
his work to ran a nee. - Bays Marcus
Antonius: "It is all one to • stone
whether it be thrown upward or down
ward." Yet the emulation of a man of
genius is seldom with bis ootempora
riee, that is, inwardly in his mind,
althongh outwardly in his set it will
seem 80. The oempetitors with whom
his secret ambition seems tone are the
dead.
1
AGBWTCLTCBAL.
THE BERKSHIRE PIO. —It Las been
created by skillful breeding on the
part of the English fanciers and has
been imported somewhat extensively
into this country. The old Berkshire
hog was held in very high esteem for
many years, centuries perhaps. It was
regarded as the best pig in England,
and was naturally selected as the basis
of the wonderful improvements which
have built up the reputation of the
modern Berkshire on such a basis of
intrinsic good qualities. It is po doubt
true that much o! the improvement is
due to the Chinese cross.
Sidney, a popular English writer on
swine says : "Among the black breeds,
by universal consent, the improved
Berkshire hog stands at the head of the
list, either to breed pure, or to cross
with inferior breeds. The Berkshire
was originally a large breed of a black
and white and spotted sandy color."
—The late Lord Barrington, who d'ed
in 1829, did a great deal towards im
proving the Berkshire breed, and the
improved Berkshires are almost all
traced back to his herd. They are now
considered by Berkshire farmers to be
divided into middle and a small breed.
If first-class they should be covered
With long black silky hair, so soft that
the problem of "making a Bilk purse
out of a sow's ear" might be solved
with a prize Berkshire. The white
should be confined to "four white feet,
a white spot between the eyes, and a
few white hairs behind each shoulder.
The Berkshire, now so far improved
of itself, has been extensively used to
give size and constitution" to other
breeds, to the Essex, &o. It must be
regarded as a great and desirable acqui
sition to our American swine, and we
were glad to notice so many liuo speci
mens at our fall cattle shows.
PINCHING KASPBERRIES. — A corres
pondent writes: The past season I
pinched off the top end of my rasp
berry bushes when they were about
three feet high, for the purpose of
making them grow slowly, and to spare
the trouble of setting poles to tie them
to. Those canes pinched off threw out
side branches, and the yield of fruit is
about double this season what the
bushes which were shortened in last
season in comparison with those which
were left to grow naturally. As the
currant worm has destroyed nearly all
our currant bushes, we can easily sup
ply their place in our garden with other
6mail fruits, such as strawberries,
blackberries, raspberries, which as yet
have few insect enemies. The best
dressing I find for raspberry bushes is
decayed chips or rottfcn wood from the
forest and ashes. In my berrviug days
of childhood I always found tne largest
raspberries and most thrifty bushes
growing round rotten logs and decayed
stumps in the pastures.
LIBERALITY IN FARMING. —In this art
and almost in this art alone, "it is the
liberal hand which maketh rich."
Liberality in good barns and warm
shelters is the source of health, strength
and comfort to animals ; causes them
to thrive on less food, and secures
from damage all sorts of crops.
Liberality also in the provision of
food for domestic animals is the source
of flesh, muscle and manure.
Thus it is in agriculture, as in every
part of creation, a wise and paternal
Providence has inseparably connected
our duty and our happiness.
In raising animals the condition of
success is kindness and benevolence
towards them. — Josiah Quincy.
WAX FOR GRAFTING.— Take three
ponnds of rosin, one pound beeswax
and four ounces tallow (mutton tallow
is the best), Put them in a kettle and
set it on the stove to heat, adding a
little water to keep the materials from
burning ; stir well nntil the articles are
all melted and mixed except the water.
When cooled a little, stir in a small
quantity of linseed oil. Now turn the
wax into a wash tub of cold water,
grease your hands with a mixture of
lard and tallow, and work the wax until
it will starch well. If it proves too
hard, melt and add more oil.
LUCERNE.— This can be sown in the
same way as clover, though we believe
that here sowing in August, and fur
ther South in September, would be
found more advantageous. It is use
less to sow this on poor ground, or on
land that is full of weeds, it stands
drought very well, but it does only its
best in seasonable years.„ To escape
weeds it is best probably to sow in
drills, so that it can be cultivated, but
if proper pains are taken it may be
sown broadcast and do welL
PASTURES. —When the ground does
not poach when a team goes on it, if
affords a good opportunity for apply
ing to grass lands a renovating mixture
of say 100 pounds fine bone dust, 4 or
5 bushels of ashes, 1 of plaster and 1 of
salt to the acre. When practicable it
will be well to harrow the ground first,
then sow this mixtnre and roll. Olover
•eed may be sown, if desired, when the
ground is harrowed.
SPRINKLING grass-plots, garden beds,
etc., with olear lime water, in damp
weather, when the worms are near the
surface, in moet cases several times, is
said to be destructive to the worms,
while it is rather beneficial than other
wise to the vegetation.
Imp .rtlag a fine Orange-Yellow
Tone to Oak Hood:
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According to Niedling, a beautiful
orange yellow tone, much admired in
a cheat ftt the Vienna Exhibition, may
be imparted to oak-wood by robbing it
in ft w«rm room witb ft certain mixture
until it aoqnires a doll poliah, and then
ooating it after an hour with thin
polish, ftnd repeating the coating polish
to improve the depth snd brilliancy of
the tone. The ingredients for the
robbing mixture are about 3 ounces of
tallow, { of an ounce of wax, and one
pint of oil" of turpentine, mixed by
beating together and stirring, r .—^
Ohoick Lionßß.—A facetious &rooer
announces on a placard at the door, "a
fresh ipvoioe of choice tickers," when
he receives a fresh lot of smoked tongues.
SCIENTIFIC.
UNHEALTHY PLANTS. -Whenever plants
begin to drop their leaves, it is certain
that their health has been injured
either by over-potting, ' over-watering,
over-heating, by too much cold, or by
applying such stimulants as guano, or
by some other means, having destroyed
the fine rootlets by which the plant
feeds, and induced disease that may
lead to death. The case is not usually
important enough to call in a "plant
doctor BO the amateur begins to treat
the patient, and the practice is in all
probability not unlike that of many of
our household physicians who apply a
remedy that increases the disease.
Having already destroyed the, so to
speak, nutritive organs of the plant,
the stomach is gorged with food by
applying water, or with medicine by
applying guano or some patent "plant
food." Now the remedy is nearly akin
to what is a good one when the animal
digestion is deranged—give it no more
food until it reacts. We must then, if
the roots of the plant have been injured
from any of the above named causes,
let the soil in which it is potted become
nearly dry ; then remove the plant from
the pot, take the ball of soil in which
the roots have been enveloped, and
crush ifbetween the hands just enough
to allow all the sour outer crust of the
ball of earth to be shaken off; then re
pot in rather dry soil (composed of any
fresh soil mixed with equal bulk of leaf
mold or street sweepings), using a new
flower-pot, or having thoroughly washed
the old one, so that the moisture can
freely evaporate through the pores. Be
careful not to overfeed the sick plant.
Let the pot be only large enough to
admit of not more than an inch of soil
between the pot and ball of roots. After
repotting, give it water enough to settle
the soil, and do not apply any more
until the plant haß begun to grow, un
less, indeed, the atmosphere is so dry
that the moisture has entirely evapo
rated from the soil; then, of course,
water must be given, or the patient may
die from the opposite cause—starva
tion. The danger to be avoided is in
all probability that which brought on
the sickness, namely, saturation of the
soil by too much water. Other causes
may induce sickness to plants, suoh a%
an escape of gas in the apartment, 'or
smoke from a flue in the greenhouse ;
but in all cases, when the leaves fall
from a plant, withhold water, and, if
there is reason to believe that the soil
has been poisoned by gas or soddened
with moisture, shake it from the roots
as before advised, and re-pot in a fresh
flower pot. Many years ago, when I
used smoke flues in my greenhouses,
some kindling wood, carelessly thrown
owthe top of one of them, ignited, and
the smoke caused the leaves of every
plant to drop. There were some 3,000
plants, mostly tea roses, in the green
house ; it would have been too much of
a job to re-pot all, but, by withholding
water for some ten days, until they
started a new growth again, very few of
this large number of plants were in
jured.
STOPPAGE OF CARRIERS IN PNEUMATIC
TUBES. —Although this accident is ex
ceedingly rare, yet the possibility of its
happening at all necessitates the dis
covery of a ready means for localizing
the position of the arrested carrier.
The method hitherto employed has not
given good results. It is to apply to
the mouth of the pneumatic tube a re
ceptacle full of compressed air of a
known pressure, which is allowed to
enter the tube. The resultant pressure
in the receptacle and the tube, as far as
the arrested carrier, furnishes datum to
estimate the carrier's distance. The
distances so measured have not been
approximately correct. M. Ch. Bon
temps adopts another method, based
on the law of the propagation of sound
waves in pipes. He fits to the month
of the pneumatic tube a kind of drum,
an instrument furnished with an elastic
membrane whose inflations or depres
sions are automatically registered upon
a revolving cylinder. A diapason like
wise traces, upon the same cylinder,
seconds and fraotions of a second. The
under part of the membrane is set in
motion by an explosion, say that of a
pistol. The blow raises the remem
brane, and its upward motion is at onoe
registered. The wave speeds onwards
along the tube with a speed of 363
yards a second, and strikes against the
obstaole ; thence it iB reflected back to
the membrane, and a second motion is
registered. It now only remains to
calculate the exact time between the
two registers, representing twice the
time the wave takes to traverse the dis
ance from the tube's mouth to the
obstaole. This arrangement is said to
be so exact that the possible error dees
not exceed 2 meters, or 61 feet.
SAGACITY OF THE PARTRIDGE. l
nstances ol the sagacity of the partridge,
woodcock, and other birds have often
been related. But the most singular
illustration of the deoeption practiced
by the first of those wily species to pro
tect their young is given by Mr. Hen
shaw, of the Government Bnrvey, west
of the one hundredth meridian. While
riding through pine woods, a brood of
partridges, containing the mother and
eight or ten young of about a week old,
was come upon so suddenly that the
feet of the foremost mule almost trod
on them. The young arose, flew a few
yards, and, dropping dawn, were in an
instant hid in the underbrush. The
mother meanwhile began some very
peculiar tactics. Rising up, she fell
back again to the ground aa if perfectly
helpless, and imitated the actions of a
wounded bird so suooessfully that for a
moment it was thought she had really
been trodden upon. Several of the
men, completely deceived, attempted
to eatoh her, but she fluttered away,
keening just out of reaoh of their hands
until they had been enticed ten or
twelve yards off; when she rose and was
Off like a bullet Her tactics had suo
oessfully covered the retreat of her
young.
To oxmbmt metal to glass, 'mix two
parts powdered white litharge and one
part dry white lead into a dough with
boiled linseed oil and lao eopftL The
metal is to be coated with the cement
and then pressed upon the glass.
Th* best way to use np scrap brass
is to melt it in with new brass, putting
it in with the zino after the copper is
melted.
DOMESTIC.
A WOBD TO MOTHERS. —Each mother
is a historian. She writes not the his
tory of empires or of nations on paper,
but she writes her own history on the
imperishable mind of her obild. That
tablet and that history will remain in
delible when time shall be no more.
That history each mother will meet
again, and read with eternal joy or un
utterable woe in the far of eternity.
This thought should weigh on the mind
of every mother.- and render her deeply
circumspect and prayerful, and faithful
in her solemn work of training up her
children for heaven and immortality.
The minds of ohildren are very suscep
tible and easily impressed. A word, a
look, a frown, may engrave an impres
sion on the mind of a child which no
lapse of time oan efface or wash out.
You walk along the seashore when the
tide is out, and you form characters, or
write words or names in the smooth,
white sand whioh lies spread out so
clear and beautiful at your feet, accord
ing as your faney may dictate, but the
running tide shall, in a few hours, wash
out and efface forever all that you have
written. Not so the lines and characters
of truth or error, whioh your conduct
imprints on the mind of your ohild.
There you write .impressions for the
eternal good or ill of your child whioh
neither the floods or storms of earth can
wash out, nor death's cold finger can
erase, nor the QIOW moving ages of
eternity can obliterate. How careful,
then, should each mother be of herself
in the treatment of her child. How
prayerful, how serious, and how earn
est to write the truths of God on his
mind—those truths whioh shall be his
guide and teacher when her voioe shall
be silent in death, and her lips no
longer move in prayer in his behalf, in
commending her dear child to her cove
nant (Jod.
PLAIN DlßT. —This is what children
ought on every acoount to be accustomed
to from the first; it is vastly more for
their present health and oomfort thai?
little nice things, with which fond
parents are so often apt to vitiate their
appetite, and it will save them a great
deal of mortifioation in after life. If
you make it a point to give them the
be»t of everything ; to tamper them
with cakes, sweetmeats and sugar
plums ; if you allotPthem to say with a
scowl, "I don't like this or that," "I
can't eat that," and then go away and
make them a little toast, or kill a
chicken for their dainty palates—de
pend upon it you are doing a great in
jury not only on the soore of denying a
full muscle and rosy cheek, but of
forming one of the most inconvenient
habits that they can carry along with
them in after life.—When they come to
leave you they will not half the time
find anything they can eat—and thus
you will prepare them to go chafing
and grumbling through life, the veriest
slaves almost in the world. Mothers,
listen and be warned in time, for the
tiig»'will oome when you willxepent;
seeing your sonß and daughters 'make
their homes miserable by complaint,
and raising their children up in the
Bame way.
TOOLS FOR WOMEN.— It pays well to
hare good utensils of any kind, good
tools to work witb. Sometimes the
work cannot be done at all without
them. These facts apply as well to the
culinary as to the mechanical arts.
Take, for example, the gem pans, as
they are called. Perhaps the gems
(batter biscuit) have been prescribed
by the physioan for some member of
the family out of health, or the de
cision has been made that it is desira
ble for all to use theiq ; the power that
be in theJutohen have learned how to
make them; the flour has been ob
tained, and everything is right but the
pans. They say, however, that this
does not make much difference ; they
will try them without, and if they like
them then they will get the pans. They
fail, of oourse, for the small pans are
indispensable to success. Let any one
eat the leathery, shapeless mass that
results from dropping the batter upon
flat tins, and imagine, if he can, that
they bear more than the remotest re
semblance to the tender, toothsome bis
cuit just bursting open with the light
ness and sweetness they oannot con
tain, and which are the result of baking
the properly-made batter in small pans
in a hot oven. ' ;
PICTURES. —No man, or woman either,
with artistic tastes, will fail to adorn his
home with pictures ; they are a cheap
luxury, a positive means of education,
and many a boy has caught the inspira
tion of a noble life from the study of
some scene represented in a simple pic
iure banging from the wall. Oar homes
may be rendered beautiful and attrac
tive to all, and become endeared to our
children by being adorned with bright
and pretty picture*. And that parent
who has the means, and who does not
purchase them, not only does a great
wrong to his own inner nature, but the
cheats his ohildrenout of the happiest
and most Innocent pleasures in what
should be a bright life. Hang pictures
upon the walls of your living rooms.
They need not be oostly oil paintings,
or set in elaborate gilded frames ; they
will be priced just as dearly, if they are
less expensive, if they but eonvey to
the mind noble examples and pleasant
Warns OKOBOI ELIOT :—"Our hab
itual life is like a wall hung with pic
tures, which has Men shone on by the
sun of many years; take one of these
pictures away, and it leaves a definite,
blank apaoe, to which our eyes can
never turn without a sensation pf dis
oomfort. Nay, the involuntary loss of
any familiar object almost always brings
a chill as from an evil omen ; it seems
to be the first finger shadow of ad
vancing death."
FBOSTBITTKN FHT. —Before going to
bed make a mush of corn meal, pour
boiling water on some tea leaves; place
the mush on a cloth, then plaoe the tea
leaves on it and bind up the fros
part Two applications will enti
relieve it.
A mown paper linincr will make an
ordinary ooat as aervieeaUe titan over
ooat; and aa under waiatooat of the
same material is equal to a flannel shirt.
nr MO nous.
A MAN living in the country, far from
any physician, was taken suddenly ill.
His family, in great alarm, not knowing
what else to do, sent for a neighbor
who had a reputation for doctoring
cows. "Oan't you give father some
thing to help him ?" asked one of his
sons. "You know more than we do,
for you can doctor cows. Now* what do
you give them when they're % sick ?"
"Wa'll I allers gives oows salts—Epsom
salts, You might try that on him."
"Huw much shall we-give him?" in
quired the son. "Wa'll, J give oows
just a pound. I suppose a man is
quarter as big as a cow—give him a
quarter of a pound."
owned a farm in New
Jersey. It had been long in the
Embarrassments compelled him to sell,
and the farm was put Up at auotion.
He felt so bad about the sale that he
could not attend it, but sent over his
head servant. On his return the master
said, "Well, John, was the farm sold?"
"Yes, sir." "Did it sell well ?" "It
went very low." "Who bought it?"
"1 did." "You, John ! Where did
you get your money ?" "I laid up my
wages since I worked for you." "Well,
John, I'll tell you what I will do. As
soon as you get the title to your
property I'll oome and work for you,
and buy the farm back."
A COUNTRY schoolmaster had two
pupils, to one of whom he was partial,
and to the other severe. One morning
it happened that these two boys were
late, and were called to aoconnt for it.
"You must have heard the bell, boys,
why did you not come?"' "Please, siT,"
said the favorite, "I was dreaming that
I was going to Hudson, and I thought
the school bell was the steamboat bell."
"Very well," said the master, glad of
any pretext to excuse the favorite.
"And now, sir," turning to the other,
"what have you to say?" "Please,
sir," said the puzzled boy, "I—l was
waiting to see Tom off!"
MADAME DE STAEL was a pitiless
talker. Some gentlemen, who wished
to teach her a lesson, introduced a per
son to her who, they said, was a very
learned man. She received him gra
oiously, but eager to produce an im
pression, began to talk away, and asked
a thousand qaestions, so engrossed
with herself that she did not notice
that her visitor made no reply. When
the visit was over the gentleman asked
Madame de Stael how Bhe-liked their
friend. "A most delightful man," was
the reply ; "what wif and learning 1"
Here the laugh came in—the visitor
was deaf and dumb.
AN Irish counsellor having lost his
cause, which had been tried by three
judges, one of whom was esteemed a
very able lawyer, though the other two
were indifferent, some of the barristers
were merry on the oooasion.
"Well, now," said he, "who could
help it. when there are a hundred
judges on the benoh ?"
"A hundred!" said a bystander;
"there were but three.".
"By St. Patrick," said he, "there
were one and two ciphers."
MABSHAT. CANBOBERT, of France, has
a grave aspect, but a waggish spirit.
At a recent soiree he remarked : "There
is a great deal of talk about stagna
tion ; look at these ladies and tell me if
they do not show that there is a great
progress in painting." jUluding to a
man who has been in turn an adherent
of all regimes, and is to-day a devoted *
courtier of Mac-Mahon and the Duo
d'Aumale, Ganrobert exclaimed : "Poor
Janus ! he had only two faces !"
HERE is a good thing on the "tater
bug." Three men comparing notes :
One says, "there are two bugs to every
stalk." A second says, "they have out
down my early crop and are sitting on
the fence waiting for my late crop to
oome up " "Pshaw !" said the third,
"you know nothing about it. I passed
a seed store the other day and saw the
bugs looking over the books to see who
had purchased seed potatoes."
THE BEST YET.— I The first prize for
the best oonundrum was awarded at the
conclusion of an entertainment the
other evening, It was this :—-'Why
was the Shah of Persia during his visit
to England the best card-player in the
world ? Because the swells gave up
their clubs, the workmen threw up
their spades, and the ladies were within
an ace of losing their hearts when he
came to show his diamonds." >
A WRITER in the March number of
one of our magazines argufes that the
Atlantic Ocean is gradnally drying up.
This will be pleasant news to those per
sons who want to go to Europe, but are
deterred by fear of seasickness. In two
or three hundred thousand years? per
haps, they can 'go overland. And
steamship codfpanies had better make
preparations to put wagon wheels on
their vessels.. '
"OH, ISN'T it beautiful," said Mrs.
Ponsonbj, of Chicago, as she leaned
out of a private box in a Chicago
theater ond night last week, and jaat
then she lost her balance and vent
crashing down into the bafie *iol in the
orchestra, while the man wfato agitates
that instrument gave one long dismal
whoop and disappeared under the stage.
This did not appear in the local papers.
SCENE at the end ef the winter.
Plumber presents his bill. Impover
ished householder looks over the items
and despondingly says: "Can't; pay
it. "lumber runs his eyes ever the
property and magnanimously repines :
"Well, I'll tell you what ITI do,* I'll
take your house and ten dollars to lioot
and call it square." ' \
"Mi SON," said f stern father to\a
seven-year-old hopeful, "I must dis
cipline you ; your teacher aaysyou ar& •
the worst boy in school. : "Well,\
papa," was the reply, "only yesterday
she told me I was just like my father."
SPIIIKINS, speaking of a®* old man
who stubbed his foot and fell head first
on the sidewalk, says be must have
been a knock too genarian.
THE most steadfast followers of our
fortunes—Our creditors.