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!v "'"! ':; B. T.SAGE. '
Xzi&ce r said &aperiotenJ t
;The Practical Lover;
I did not purchase for my bride
Rich jeweled rings and cosil j fans,
But what , I thought 7ould be her
pride ; . 4 .i; L.jJ'v'.
A set complete of pots and pans. .
I would not win Bweet Jennie's love
By golden gifts of niagic power j .
If (Biie a proper wife should prove ;
She would prefer some bagsofdoar.
I did not play with Jennies her.rt
Nor tiy to irx it 'were ' it fickle,
But atmt mistrusting modern art ,
A side of pork for her to picklef
I did not give her rubies red, , J .
To lend her '.raven hair relief,
But what would charm -when we were
.'"' wed ; ; '' :y..- - f!
A good supply of potted boef.
I did hot wanton,with her love
rtiat pined to nestle oniuy .breast,
j t M drOOpin g, fired dOVe
But sent a couch where it could rest.-
I di 1 not when the moon was .bright,
Take Jennie but for trmqail walks ;
Bat took her what would more de
- . light; ' .; I . ' i '
. A dozen each, of knives and forks.
1 did not send her I flowers bright,
"Whose brightness, ah, so quickly
"" wanes, j ' S .-
But sent her in the darkest nijrht,
A set of sheets and counterpanes.
"I :
nrl-EO ct last our little store
-Would furnish well our en vie 1 cot,
But then I should have said be or
She jilted me and kept the lot.
-, : j . , . .
Mrs. Washington,' to whom fell
the hon'or first, occupied tae euvle .1
place for eight years, jand her ! hi3to
iy is perhaps better known than aay
of her descendants, Bipgrapiiers ttu i
historians, stimulated with, a desire
to secure her memory from the ilust
of years, ha-v'S boon indefatigible iu
flioir Jahnrfsl' n.ml Riifl it iiprhatvif mira
hihlv venm-ated than anv of the
many women who liavo succeeded ;
her.. 5 . ..'.'..
To Mrs. Adams properljr balons
the ingest place of houar iri the
American heart, because her pbsitioa
was more diiilcalt, her duties more
arduous, a lirt Wcau &e elie v.asi, stron
ger mentally and more thoroughly
' i j v t-i u 1 '
ceeded Ler. bhe became tUq occa-
i e . i 1 3 l t i i.
pant of a place held to be almost sa
r.. i u
cred, because of its newness and the
,? , .u yx7 .
and his wire. To succed the former
V ... u i
was a diuicu.t task for her husband
to penorm : to occupy1 Mrs. Vash-
mgtous place was an amposjbihty.
T ji Tk r 4 2
But Mrs. Adams was gifted with
. i i
great strength and courage, with.
.- - - -, 1 i u t : i
rare powers of mmd and hpart, and
fi i i . i ; i ....
was the best representative of the
, , . . ... r. ., x
best type or American women ot that
v v i- j . i v
class " wnose hie history naSxbeen
111! VI 14.10 i UUWU US. i
. t. , 1 , x I--,
Mrs aetierson had xbeed dead
. .. .1 .3 : .V y
nine teen years befoxe hr husband
became President of the United
States, but forlhe octasicnal L visits
of his two married dunghters, and the
frequent presence of jftirs. Madison,
the White Houses diuih ' the eight
i years of Ttomas JeHersou b stay,
woma nave Deen enureiy witnout &
social hisCory. .
. r 1 Vt V - i
most popular woman of her day, and
but ior the uutortiuiate war; 1812,
, i j-.-
' and the disturbed condition of tne
I country boll, bulore and alter tau
! unfortunate event berudininiatration
ice i wi,- f tV,,, Wi;i i-r..,iU.k ..,1
v i i.u i - .
have bean tha moz bnhiaat o an?
. . , ; ' Ti
rccoiti in the aniaus of wie social
history of the country. 1
MrX Monroe was a timid, dehcate
j , . - , ,
woman, unhtted by nature and habit
for the place sii- ueid, and at tne ex
ixr, i. i i- x. - c
office ixiodlv retired witaiiim to taeir
II nil Wilt f IT llMf IliKIVIMil u lit 111
Virginia home, where, V in 1830, she
died- r-' -
Mrs. John Quoicy A lams was a
r,K i a . . 4ii.a k - -
Maryland Nvoman, und wno tided her
semi oxhciai posiuon wua, dignity
anMi-s Jackson died before her has -
band succeeded to the Presidency.
Mrs. VaiTSfcaren had been, dead
seventeen yeawen;tlier-hiisbaiid
I - . l -
: u.c-tjvx vuuci . X4-b ' iaut u;, . uaa
her daua hter-in-la w, a lady
renement, was n istrcss
Jeave her; western ho ne when the
news of her husbands . death reached
htr.
Mr. Tyler, who filled the xinexpir-
: ! i .1 t
od Urm, lot hia wifa duiingdho atay
in the White .HouseJ and subsequent
ly ! married - jMisr Gardner,- of New
York, eight moitth-srhefbrtt the close
of his admiuUtr.itioi. Vf.
Mrs. James K. PjIU,- of Tennessee,
was the second bouthern ladyv who,
as .the wife of the President lived
in t:ie Executive, mansion during the
r Mikes ; Tiiylor heartily disliked 'iJie
formanity of Washihgton society and
retired to her; Loiusi .nna home im
mediately aftir her husband's death.
lilrFilmore, whpj sesrved put Gen
eral Taylora term, had a noble wife,
.nd she and her ' efciughier are re
niemberod as two of the most calti-T
vted rehned and attractive ladies
ever in the White House.
Mrs Pierce was always' an invalid
and aftarj the death of her only child I
a promising uoy, neiv neaitn gave
way entirely ; and" her position as
hostess, was. a most uhdesif able ' one
to her. ' ...... . '
- - Jill i .
. Mrs. Harriett Lane made her un
ci's admisistration famoiis for its so
cial attraction. ; ?3he was One of tthe
most beautiful women, as well as
one of the truest, and kindest of nie
ces, an 2 St?. Baca ma a wis paciliu
iy fortuaate in his social , relatio as.
tiioau he lived and died a batche-
Mrs. Lincoln's career was checker
ed from the tir's and ha awJul tra
gedy that closed her life at : the
White House secured for . her the
sympathy oi the people. ,
Mr.--. Pattarboa" was mistress of
the White House :dur lug President
Johnson's adaiistration, her mother
bein. a coaiirnmei invalid. Tie
family- great y endeared the.nseivei
to rtnp people by taerr simpH ty ciii l
refined unassuming mlnliers.
Mrs. tyrant, tae preen t acoapant
of ills W-aite House, le t ivS a quiat,
retired life, seems iirciinod to a void
all publicity, and spends most of her
i time in, .tanooiat c or her chiiuren
an .i in tim..te relations.
Tile GLioKt Coio.t.
V -Jnst one hundre 1 years ago a new
CQinet was discovered by Moutiigne.
It waj so faint and dim' cult of ob-
servation that no time could be, fixed
for its return. In 1823 a comet was
found by Von Bieal, an 1 on co.nput
ing tae oiroit it pro val to be id ;nti
cal With tuat ot 1772. Further in
vestigation showed that it was also
! oosiA-ved m iSJa. bap was not
v . . f . Tt
i.reco mzeJ as tae saai3. It
thia
. i r , -
i thereiorea periodical comet, and tna
- 1 - it- Vx.,. i
p 3iio a of its revolution was loan a
was
tne.
, . : u J , o- tv.
; has since been known as Uiela s corn-
, ,- ,n,.,. r.
, , . . ,
f .. , e tio r Vj that ifc
1UX lLo tUOCl tXLilJIl, DVJ t licit b lu Wit's
. . . ' -, , . ,
not aain satistactoniy detected till
T. sr- u i
184o. It was seen m November and
i u u
December of that year by a number
u i J i
of observers, w no noticed nothing
, , . f . f
imusual; but m Jan u iry it wa found
to have suffered an accident such as
i , . i
was never bctre known to happen
.. i . i i tf . .r
to a heavenly bod', and of which no
fciojj nas
- ' '
ever been given. It
was spilt in two, an i for some months
waso0servedas two comets. In 1852
it appeared again, and now t i-it we
were nearly two miiiion miles apart
Tney disappeared from view about
tne end o Sejiteinber, and have
- never been seen since, although tJiey
! mast have returned in 185J,' anl
ain in 18Jii and 1872. (Tne return
; , - w
, . , , , -.ri ,
aiiuoau me most, powenuir-xeie
, x J -
rcuej toe aU wa m
1 Utf :metltid vanished from
tae neaveus.
lne earth crossed the orbit of
. vw
this comet about the end oi ovein-
, t . - v L - . .
(f Pressor ew tan thus
1 lcv.to4 V,in though lost : to
sijjht the fragments of the comet
t . 9 . . - . -.
uu -u.
in the atmcsjuerea58xiootn-sUr&
.
hls Pcaon was
luily eriiied.by
tne event
On the evening of No
. ve.abjr 2 J bet.Yisen the hours of six
. - - . ... jL
mtej.-s wa3 oh33rved,; tae astronor
mers ofV Na ? i observatory
. i telfut-
! thdr' of .
S "ff 3
ot , ;
In o inov in irmo t.Iia AVsichin.Ttiin na
. -.Zr rsir-T,.
AXTlJ XkMuU Ul X44rucr4 UUUUMfl
f
r - iluA
The
ieA4iguta Jlerala hasitorJt!
motto
o a prouiineni nne asioiiows:
, 4 Two Almighty Dollars a Year.?
41,4;i:.'.,.i.T.,J nV.j,.W,n f .ILfu.l ..lit I ll-4 114 tri44 Itlltl4 tli:it
.V caasedbj tia eirta's ineatihi tiie I Iiiiliciit in soHtude' forget mv
Gramma r iu It ii yum
makeverrprs iff speech
L!Three little ords yoti' often sec, i
, t ;Are articles, a, a and f , r
j 2. ;Anonn the; riame of janything;
. as $c&?ot or oar deny horn or stoma.
x?" V ' V" ifWIMIj TJTVMTt tCfltlV Or
. , : , oroicn. '
4' Instead; bf'houh's the 'profcothis
;;-nt'-rts't5ird- - ' '
ij:,Her head,'4; face, your arni, my
T
hand.
51 Verbs tell of sometiiingbe deme,
, i-. TJ read, count, urig, la ugh, j ump,
G. iHow( things are don3 the adverbs
. , , telV ' . r-x'
Ks slowly, 'qxilckhjy ill or well. ''
7. Conjunctions join the words to-
" : . : gether, ' " . " .
As'men and wain en, wind or weath--;
v'v er. - :
8. The prepositions stand before
' A noun,' as of or through a dbon,
9. The interjection shows surprise,
.. As, Ah : how pretty Oh I how
wise.
The whole are called nine parts of,
speech,
Which realing, writing, speaking
teach.
A lTUAGE Is J VE STO ItY.
No me to Loce A Ncio York
Jeicclers Ucr Disappointed
iri-Lor a Hermit in. the
, Minnesota FoYests.
' Hie Duiijth (Minn.) ffrrM of
tlio 28th ulr., irives a roauvntic
account !' the finding in the pine
forests- cm" Cloyiiet River, two
i f V i. ., o. r..i..
elrv store. It api'urs that a par
' .
tv of cxplon-rs. while at supper,
iicanl a uWlodious voice Hinintf ..i
No one to love, none to caress."
For a few non.eiits tbe were
at a "oj to discover from whence
the in.Modv came, but on peering
through a thicKot, whudi lay to
the north of them, thev discover
ed a youmr man apparently about
five ainl. twenty vears old, apv
pro-acltiiiir. Tlnr tall, slender and
rather d looking f How wore
a f ackinuc coat, fur cap and Her
man socks aiid iiuccasius. On
column up to them he : passed the
compliments of the evening, jand
v s about to. "pass w hen tbe ex
plorei s ijski-d him if he wouldn't
srp and rake a mpot lofiee. At
first .lie declined the civility, but
the request heing urged he final ly
'.consented to acc ;pt '
Tit is singular recluse, on being
pr -scd fr a re t-i! ti tor liis strange
liiode r life, stated :
1 belong t Ncv Vork City, and
my parents now reside on t hird
avenuefAroui,two years ago I
made Truqnaiu tail cent" a Mis Ilen
dcrfn; an actress, who plavs tin
der an assumed name. IS he was
abtiufjis sweet a girl, so far as
biok-s wcMit,'hs ever the Klin shone
upon. . It is needless tt tell you
that, atter a year's courtship, she
consented t be hiv wile. All tlie
.... - - - -
preparations tr our , niarnasre
were made, - but just one week
prior to the day on "which we
were to be united a lady.' friend
informed my mother that I was
kbont to be' most tern bly diiip
poiated. Beinir askttl in what
w ;iy,tbjdady handed a note from
Miss Henderson to -.jniy, m thr,
fii;'' wliici she (MiM llenderson)
ail i ! i i 1 1 e 1 fa 1 i i i ig f rr'.iii vi rt u so i n
three years before, and begging
niy inoihcrto diHchse it dv me
timngh Uiy hither. The letter
further stated that she, my be
trothed; vould never again see
me.. This dreadtul news, . of
ei ui rse, ea me to my ears iu a very,
short time after it had bfii im
partil to my mother. 1 knew
i iiitiat do tlo, and .final ly i wan-
liOi
I Iiave hvetl in this region
tor. iieariv, :. it'ii r ; iiKintiis,. aiuiosi
vnoji.sustaiHiii uirseii uyniy
gun urtishipg rod. - .fr
- lie thcfii velit in to Bay that Iii.h
tent was about three inile from
com jiij . ti !iitri;iry: tin . foiUv-vin x
linVf, and tliehtlvVy ; never need
the spot whre lie was beinr rV
jfaled : th it he d'd liot know- how
long hb sl ould roirinih ; bur that,
after.- having j hU j hopes : in lite
blasted, haiifehdedi tK live aWar
troni the inures., of both man aiul
wiitnaiikiiid. As fr as could be
rleanedrfnrm ionio denltiVry re
marks made by him before leav-
iiiirithe eSlonnr camp, which he
did jut at. twilitrbt, this disap-
tfonie ivelrVi
etalficiirmeut.,6ii
Broadway; Jew York.
r-
liuporlaiit
H:tnkrilj:t
idOii r
Deci-
The Greensboro Korth State says ;
t4Hon. Robi P. Bick, Judge of the
United States District- Court for the
Western District of North Caroling
has dehvered an opinion in the
matter of Ei A Vogler "and A R
?fohl, binkrupts, in which he holds
that . the Homestead . and, . Person
al prapirty i5s3aiytion3 provided for
in Art. X of the Constitution of
North CaroUnay are gov! as a linst
pre-rexisting as well as subsequently
contracted debts and must be . al
lowed in the courts of bankruptcy
bv tue of the provisions of the Act
of Congress of June 8th, 1872, amend-
in2 the Bankrupt Law, ; The deci
stoni in ine case oi nm vs. nessier
by the Supreme Court of North,Car
lina, is c j asi 1 3r3 1 an 1 d ullyuatain
ed. . ; " y - y;
Homesteads abready allotted wher0
there is no fraud, are to be recogniz
ed and allowed in bankruptcy. Where
they h ive, not ;bsen set apirt "previ
ous to the commencement of pro
ceedings in bankruptcy, the allot
ment .will be made by i the assignee
under the directions of the Court
Where the land and personal pro
perty has sold and the fund is uu
! the proceeeds arising from the sale
01 me iana wm oe anowea m ilea 01
the homestead, and the value pf the
rATArsinnirv int.p.rKt. in nrpdifrira
W1n be accerfciincd and adjusted by
faa Court The $500 in monev aris-.
j ingl from the sale of the personal pro -
; perty (will be allowed as personal
personal
i property exemption,
Mirkiiia tu ia Coiitract.
A sea Captain, in the vicinity
of Boston, -was about to start on i
a Itiiitf vovae, and entered iiito
a contract with a builder to erect
him auom'modius house duriuar
his absence. Eveiythi ng was to
be done Hceordltii' t the contract
no more, lio' less which the
captain caused to be drawn uj
with great care. A large ?um
was to b forfeited by ' the ; builder
if he should fail to observe any
of the stipulations, or attempt t
tut in his notions where the eon
tract made.no provision for them.!
Tlie captain saikd, and returned
His bouse stood in ample ami im-
;:osing proportions before his
siiTiit, ana tie vtiutesseu Jiiinseit
delighted with the exterior. 15at
when he; entered .and attemited
U ascei id to the sect ul fior " 4t
the building, lie found no stairs,
and means ot ascent were to be
had till ladders' v re Kent for.
Til; Ciiptaiurfelt -that he was trill
ed wMiiyaiHl a bit of nautieui gait?
seemed brewing.; But thin w-ts
quieted ly, the opening of the
written contract; and there was
found not the least pri visions tor
stairs in any pari of the houe.
Jive nie y'imr JiaiidV sir," sail
the hoble wiptaiii .''all riht!
You've stuck to the contract, and
IIiM.it;,;3:'V-; k ' '.s.0.
I Tae stairSvfwere subsequently
at a great expe se, put in, a.(d
the captain often lemarked . that
one of the pie asa n test tilings
abon t hia vb'gau t ; rjideiiee xvm
the remembrance of one man
who could stick to the very terms
of a contract!
The Khple ifGetirgia, in point
of energy ainl good - sense, aVe
ahead icif aiiy Vther pepe in the
iSoutlu To encourajfe home in
dustrylthe Legislature has parsed
a daw L exempting irm taxation
torten years all capital ? in vested
in cotto'u, wchjIIcu mills and iron
millsj The leading -iiien if the
Empire State are alive to the im-
poriance oi suinuuting uouie in
, dustry.
32ciiriii3 Cl'i lllsbf of TreS.
'Jit the last Ariuriccrn Agrkitltuf
?Via an illjstiatcd article decrib
Ifitf the iiMe; of ascertHi iilnif the
hijrht oftreesl Thf thbdalll'igu
quite Kimple, is not r al wayn at
riaiMl wlieii hiopt wanted, itu J re-
inent ; nd the extrenie Iriglit of
true' is I4w frequently-luph'ed to '
be fou t id 1 y fa n tie in" who wish to
jL;ut -a stick of timber to sonic : de !
sired leuta from the timber
vt)t)(Is. : A more simple methoil,
and One that can lm put. in pruc- 1
tice'at any time and place, when
one Itart only a measuring rod and
has the experience of the 4 vriter,
is as. follows: A stick of timber
is dusiredf say tffty feet 101(2;; se
lect your tree, uieasiire fitty1 feet
i a direct line from tho fvxit of
t ie tree on a hear, level, jeniand
its piMible ; now cut a stick ;.tli6
exact bight of the observer and
stick it in the. rmid -exactly '
penletidieular; nowdet the obsei"
vvr lie flat on Idsoaek, hU feel
against the stick and head in liner
of tree and stick ; and look directly
overhe nop of the stick, and
where the line ot vision sirikea
the tree u ill be the length of stick
fifty feet, desired. It the ground
is int level the measure will not
be exact, but allowance intUt be
made-
1 'i
Lead Peiic Is.
Ia the manufacture of lead oftn--
cils there is more than one thinks.
The lead is einipwedtplumiM'
go, which w mtained ii Spain,
Scotland and FeniHylvama, The
crude material c.oines jn the cn-
XII IM XV 'l iMJJlpa, UilU nwm
after it has heed free" trmi extran
eous materials must, be ground to
a line dust. It i then moistened
and tia ns ferret I to a vessel whose
only outlet from below is a small
1 holeJnastilitl brass die, the j
j haviiiir the shape of the'c
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liole
U ffi J J
seetam of the lead to be ton nod.
Iiito this vessel enters a fol kwer
which exerts is iininedtatelyseert
111 the issuance troni the die of a
slender threal ofpluntbagii. Tne
fol iovycrs- enter very slowly, but
the thread comes oat with con
siderable celerity. . In this soft
and " adhersive couditiou tu
thread is lint up in- liort atrips
and baked, after which the lead
are ready tor use.
Trea tin en f of . b c Hai r.
"What shall I do for iny hiirTH
is a question that com is to oar saas
tuan froin various quirters every
i inonta. : anl wereas convenient t
engraft artificial hiir to insert artiH
cial teeii, hair doctors waatd bs as
; pientyas dentists. No one is to be re-
pri nanded for desiring a . brilliaat
and vigorous grota of tae Jiir, for it v;
indicates a good vital condition ; nor !
f Oi envying a wavy or corhng dispo
sition of the natural heal covering,
for it is useful as. well as orauneat
aL But tne health of tae bodily ,in
tegument and appendages are derel ;
opad jfroai the organs within ; all :
vital structures are devalopal' froay
the centre to tne circuoifereace,
hence tae normal condition and in
tegrity of tne hair, avi well; as taatoX
tht saan anl1 noils, depaad pa tae
general health. .1 i 1
Sum iutiag vianl3 anl irrititinj j
coadinidnts tne excessive, use of salt, '
pickies, sjleratas, ect, predispose t to
disease of tad scalp aal baidnssa.
Mihy young - persons injure' and
fiaaUy klestroy tiie roots of tae-hair '
by frequent, , washes or oily prepora-
tions. - Tnese miy produce a sjft, "
glossy apparonca for i a time,'! bat
prainature decay is thesore and not
very remote resoit of tueir -ejaplo-;
meut- Jfron Science of Health.
A witness describing certain
even ts said the person I saw at
the head of the stiirs wan a lii
vitli oue eve, named Jacob ATilk-
Ills.'
; Yhat was the name of his
other : eye ?! spiteful ly asked j tho
PP.l?",i? icouusel.L t Tite witness
was disgusted by the levity of the
audience. v '
The most likely thing tibecoma
ia woman ' Why. ahttle iniL