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iLA,,fl v'rft the parlies Invited ? ' j
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Thrltf courtship was Utlious. for .seldom they met
7V-a4rfr(-while hmg centuries glided, i ,
5al "f aruith of his love she could hardly, forget,
.or- Chough distant af;ir h .would smile on her yet,
SAe -vlicu Iltrth the fair couple divided; i
UutAjhyjwatbe courtship so prolix, and why ; -
v jw stjwnxl so I)ng their ctnnect:on ?
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.s pa!ihii l - i acieu the t-ky, !
L.:ft tht l;ri Jo wai
Iishtc; ii.i -reported
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rcn iwiitu lorrttlfction; r :
their friends were all
vexed,
TLt- in4tdi -.-rs dectned. somehow, unequal :
And f hgii bid to the wedding each made some pre-
j text . - .
. To d-liie, till tho lovers, worn out
,'Wrfe compelled to elope in the se
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and perplexed,
sequel. . j '
' )r.t Jupiter never such business could bear,
Si;thev haughlilv kept themselves from it
iHers
rchcl;dwclt at
there; ;
uch distance he could not be
Saturii sent witS reluctance his ring to the fair,
Dy lie-hands of a trustworthy comet ;f ,
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Only tnc!dini, jle planet, of planets the least,
lride.-it:ndtti tlie. ntiptuals U honor; i-
' A ndhai seemed liki skulkiug away to the East;
y Smtta4rt It w: Mert urr, :u'ting Its priest ;
iHthe Vtous, a eeping shanie on her.
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EartR in; silence rejoiced as the bridegroom and
Irtlhtif nuptual emuracc wouUl linger, j
AYhiJr cutecring inn.ugn regions 01 iignt at nis siae ,
ShcDiiJnvil the bright ring, not "a world too
t wide, t ! -
For oonjugnl pledge, on her finger. i j
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nieiiqi foith shall these orbs, to all husbands and
h lieie, ; - . .: ;!f
.'. Shne a irtttcrns of duty respected ; ; i
-fAli lf splendor and. glory from him she derives,
lndhefhjws to the world that the kindness he
?I$ fa'fHj prjzcd and reflectctL 11
v jAKLYj LWEUTI0NS OF THE CHINESE.
Otter nations have outstripped the Chinese in the
cumt ofjm-iterial improvement, but to them bc
JongVtliqli'or of having led the way in many of
he irs'fl remarkable inventions, and of anticipating
w in'thr pssession of some of those arts which
ttinstitntf lue boast of. our nuniera civilization.
We ns!l briefly notice a few of thoe discoveries
bv w hit It thi-y havc established a claim to' our re
pect -ani gratitude. xTe:i deserves to head the list,
a tuhtintial contribution to human comfort, and
the Ifndfetg wtanleof an Immense commert-c that
f.lias reaulted in drawing China out of her ancient
i Mt liiM" Discovered by the Chinese about A D.
t::iu. it wis iMiodiicetl to the people of the West
,t!wuity e!turics ago as an, uncertain venture,
vriir f'c'i-4t ;ire in which our lea is served pre-
hTVl
riiulf ih-.v.m me eviuence or lis cnmese.on-i-t
tiun x.at'" came oninallv 'fmiu China:
j,i tiie lianieof pnxlain," given to it y the car-
-tliiucM- merchants, may Ih taken as proof
that Pot hi ng of the kind was at that time, manu-
facttmtl jn Europe. .Tlicy called it porcetUhti, be-
ennso thtV Miipiised it to be a cora)Msition kf egg
hheIlA fi!1, gl''e, and scales. The 'silks that glisten
In ou"? drawingMoms and rustle on our sidewalks,
if ni0nlPr,ul d'rccl' from China in the w;oven
fabric ot the row material, remind us of an obli
gation off n ddiT date. It was the Chinese who
tint iJarrJed to rear the insect spinner and to weave
its sb' uirij; web an art which they ascribe to their
fanvis empress Yuenfei. R. i 2tti7. Gunpowder, i
but p!vcl a potent auxilary. in the arts of peace, (
litem 1y Amoving mountains" from the pathway of
rhich uas noi only revoiuuouizeu me an ui m,
' hurotnilh-ogm.
was aiscovereu ty"inc -inaese
mint ' ce rituries before it was known in the West
fKogeMMco" was acquainted with its composition
Ja' Ai P. 1 270 ; bu the speaks ot it as already known
earlier. The currant opinion refers it to the Arabs,
rbut tcrejs reason to . believe that they were not
nut bey of the invention, but merely the channel
through. which it was transmitted in aword that
it foirnd &s way from the remote east along with
the By017? Oriental commerce.
Th heiviest item in the bill of. our, indebtedness
tlkO CbliMe is for the discovery of America. . On
. ffcC alfgl forage of a party of Rudhist priests to
he shortf of Jlcxico we lay no stress; but it is not
riirSctlt IP how that the discovery of the Xevr
World, bi Christopher Columbus was directly due
V1?thAfatBienceof China. China suppled at once
wiiivu iv liis voyage ana me lusiruuieii ujr
, I? r
11 '- irtaS-rT mtmcted Utm to tne west
i .tnrK lt was the magnetic needle, which origi
. Xd KKaTSchlnthat directed his adventa-
-VsSihit mysterious iogtrument which lias nn
1 K kedt toh trcHuresof tho ocean, and proved
h if -the dVeef commerce, its origin is vertainly
' helkeapolitan Flavio Gioja, who is reported
,luc?M ffSTit In A. D. 1302. Tbe French, the
1 h t arS the Syrians all possessed it before
' jK riiiMS? bad then been acquainted with it for
than! thousand four hundridyears. . The
vli rit pmnloved the mariner's compass on
t. adncse firtt employed
5 rrtoSf or I mandarin ta carry one in Ins carri.
ibe custom iot h ha may not be coine be-
ir.trbU native city.' It is inoonceiva;
yindiuof j - . . medieval travelers
i aios uv .. ,
;turned from China across the deserts
ifia without prouding themselves with
f uch fla UW8 S , nrfntin two arts more char-
rF:? l n7.Aetn civilization than
even
steam
and
i fcwtridtv, twre'areKirongjiTOoas
1 Fierrr2l Tim fomipp thav in-
tb?flS "cSturi.Twd'the latter at Wt
vented in iK'fbefore the time of GuUnberg
. -aA rears oetore ine
rF. b!cb: Prior, to the great discovery
WrI W'aa regard
as tne oesi proiecuon
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tba small-poT, was practiced
in China at a rery early period, and probably found
ita way to Europe, by the same secret channels as
those other- arts whose footsteps are so difficult to
trace. Western Europe obtained it from the Turks,
Lady Mary.Wortley Montague having! made the
first experiment of its efflcucy by inoculating ber
son while residing at Constantinople ' ' -f ; -f
Like the modern Greeks, the Chinese of the pres
ent day, content with the legacy of the past, hare
ceaseti to invent! but" without doubt thev weie
1
once among the most ingenious and original of the
lii habitants of the earth. ! p r .? f
The Chinese hare not gone back; and that is say
f
ing a great deal in their iavor; but in respect to
material progress, for ages' they ha v$ made no ad
raricemcnt. Four, centuries eo thev'were in ad
vance of Europeans jn every! thing that contributes
to tne,e;miort or luxury of .civilized life out
where are they now ? Authors of fthe-. compass,
they creep from headland to lieadland in coasting
voyages, never venturing o cross the ocean, or to
trust themselves'for many days out of sight of the
shore. Discoterers of gunpowder, they Bupply the
w or la with nre cracJeers. while their soldiers n?ht
wiih bows and arrows, wooden spears, and match
locks. Inventors of minting thev fbave not vet
ovianceu u uie umj ox meiaiic type anu uc power
press, but continue to enirrave each page on a block
of wood and to print it off by the use of a brush.
Sufficiently versed in astronomy to calculate eclipses
two thousand vears before-the "Christian era! thev
remain to this hour in the fetters of judicial astrol
ogy; ana among the earliest to make; advances in
chemical discovery, they arc'SUll under the full
sway of alchemy and nuigxcHarpef't Magazine.
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THE FAIL OF EICHM0ND,? . ' '
.Pollard's Life of Davis contains a jpowerful and
highly dramatic sketch of the evacuation' and par
tial conflagration of Richmond, after Lee's final de
feat ' We have room only for a part of it:
The morning of the 3d of April wis ushered in
with a congregation of horrors. The first grey
streaks of the dawn were broken by the - explosions
of the iron clads in the James River," blown up by
orders of Admiral Scnimes.' The air was rent as by
the report 'of a hundred cannon. jIen rushed
through the streets crying out that Richmond was
bombarded; but even the voices of j alarm could
scarcely be lifted abo'c thp rearing, ilie hissing and
the 'crackling of the flames ji's they leaped ,: from
hou.se to houi?, and licked :the-face of .the sw'iivinir-
erow'J?.-- Ry 10 o'clock when Feverulj thousand of
the enemy had already marched into the i city the
ecene had become fearfully sublihie; It was a scene
in which the horrors of a gre.tt confiLigration stran
gled for the f. ire-part or, the picture, while the
Grand Army, brilliant withtteeland banneis, break
ing into the circle of fire j witht passionate cheers,
and the crash of triumphant martial music, dazzled
the spectator and confouuded.hi imagination. The
flames had already .spread over tt he chief: business
portion of the city; brands were; flying towards the
Capitol ; and it seemed at one timd as if te whole
of Richmond would be destroyed that the whole
wicked city would rush skyward in a pyramid of
fire.
t.
All
that was terrible in sounds was added to all that
was terrible in sights. While glittering regiments
carried their straight lines of; steel through the
' smoke; while the masked robbers fought ;for their
plunder; while the lower streets appeared asugreat
: pit of fire, the crater of destruction: while alarmed
WuA Square, whose emerald green ! was already
strewn ith brands the seetls of Are that the mer
ciless winds had sown to the very doors -of the
Capitol: while the lengthening arms of the confia
gration appeared to a Imost.-reach around thoso-who
had fled to the nicturesoue hill for a hill for a
breath of pure air, sounds as terrible -and more va
rious than those of battle, assailed the car. and
smote the already over-taxed imagination. There
were shells at theCorifederate Arsenal exposed to
tlie nre, ironriue rapiu progress 01 uicu tuey
could no' longer be rescued, and for. hours the ex
plosions of them-tore the air and shook the houses
in their vicinity. . ! . Above
all these scenes of terror hung a great veirof smoke.
It nise- solemnly to the sky. and through it the
trimmed disc of the sun, "no.ujsrger tlran the moon,'
shone dull and ehastly. 'f . - . There
were crowds, mad with cowardice, swayinc: under
excitement, tramnlinjr on each other: there were
lurid fieures of pillagers .in ! the smoke ; and
flame: there were keen cries of : distress that
cleft the military music; and thus, on this throng
ed theatre, unnaturally illuminated, and in an .au
ditorium of almost unearthly sounds, expired much
of the pride, the luxury, the licentiousness ancFthe
cruelty of Richmond. i i ! ;i -x
IH THE DAEX j! ;':; ;
There come sdasons of darkness! in all our lives.
Who has not known them ? Times when there are
neither sun; nor moon, nor stars in the sky, and we
stand stilun fear or grope onward m trembling un
certainty. i
A few j-ears ago, there fell uponf my life one
of
these seasons, in which I coup sec
right hand nor the left A terror of
upon me.-
. One nicht I lay awake, thinking.
neither to the
darkness was
thinking until
mv brain grew wild with uncertainty. II could not
tee even a step in advance, and feared to move on
ward least with the next footfall I should plunge
into hopeless ruin. -Very - strongly was I tempted
to turn aside from the way-in which! I was going
away reason ana conscience appruveu us ngui:
but something held me back. Again and again I
toolc up and considered the difficulties of my situa-
tion, looking to the right hand and the left for ways
of extrication; now resolving tu go in this direction
ann nnw In that! vet - alwavs held awav from re
solve by inner convictions of right and duty, that
grew clear at the moment when I was ready to give
up my hold on integrity. ' J . : ; f
. So the hours went heavy-footed until past mid
night My little daughter was sleeping in j the crib
beside my bed. Rut now she began, to move un:
easily, and presently her timid voice jbroke faintly
the still air. - ". i'
"Papa ! papa V she called. . - , J;
- , "What is it darling f" T asked. : -
"Oh, papa I It is dark ! Take NeJIie's liand P
. I reached out my hand and took ber, tiny one in
my own, clasping it firmly. A sigh Of relief came
np from her little heart All. her loneliness - and
fear were gone, and in a few", moments she 'j was
sound asleep again. ;.. i.r.-f lit... HKS'lr)'-.:;'-1-,
"Oh; my Father in Heai-en V I cried, in a sudden,
almost wild, outburst of feeling : ,'t is drk, Very
dark. . Take my hand P Mt T
i A great peace fell upon me. 1 The , terror of dark
ness was gone. .''Keep hold of my ! hand, oh; my
Father 1" I prayed f erven tlj'; "and though I should
be called to walk through the valley ;aud the sliad-
owof death. I will fear uo evil.ri Lpt not my jfectj
wander to the right or to the left" ;i - ,
. "Sleep, that knits np the ravel ledleeve of care,"
fell softly on my eyt!it;L, and morning! broke with
scarce a seeming interval of time, j:.-;'. i - ..
I felt calm and strong The day was to be one
of severe trial A dark cloud of uncertiinty rested
over it Rut I was resolved to walk steadily through
its trials and its pains, holding; tightly. ;the hand of
my Father. '. . . j.r? ' ; -I :-' ' ; .
Oh 1 U not thfl Lord better to us, if we 1 will trust
Ulni, than all our fears? There came fierce as-,
saults upon my integrity. . I was lured by golden
promises I was threatened. with disaster and' dis
grace, but my band lay in the firm; clasp" of One
who sticketh. closer than; a( brother, and who is
strong to save. " .. '.. i '-J- ! .'; v ', ' .
In my rectitude I found safety. Ilad I swerved,
I would have gone down to '.hopeless ruin.. . Even
my tempters, who had hoped to gain through my
defections from honor, bore witness to my. integri
ty. And .now,- having, escaped the perils ot this
difficult and dangerous pass, a goodly hind opened
on my view, and I found possessions therein, which
i are held in peace and honor unto this day. Bat
the highest and .dearest, of all my., possessions is
mine integrity, which, but for the band of rrFa-
ther grasped, ta (Jarknesp, I should Have lost
I WISH THEE WELL.
I know but that your face is fair' -
So fair, it well might tax my wit -'
To write the sweetness smiling there ,,'
In utterance meet and music fit; i
i Your heart, I have no share in it;
1 ' Your home, I am a stranger there; :'
Yet think not that I care no whit-' v
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Cold were the heart that wished you less
Than smiling days and happiness. i f
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Youth fills your girlish path with flowers ;
May Age with blossoms strew your way ;
; sfUajf lie luievtr wiui jruu oinjr r f .
Young sorrows lightly fleet away j- - t; j
.Your rnra nm vpt hut A nril sliAyrfra ?-N
Mav Are's griefs no Tonser star t . 1
i.xor aaxitiier ciouu your evening nours.
Dear daughter, friend and girl and wife;
May Love home with you all your life.' j.f
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What more a pen can wish you here t
Of erood. may it you be eiven L i;
j A quiet mind, a faith sincere, -t
That makes this earth a lowlier heaven ;
j And when your age shall sigh for heaven,
j: And find this life nqlonger dear, j
i May hope alone to you be given, f -
1 And death for you have not a fear;
! An angel here, your exile past.
j Smiling, regain your home at last.
Yotmg Ladies' Dress. :
X o aavise a young jaayto aress nerseit with any
serious eccentricity from the prevailing fashton of
heir (day and class, is to advise her tq incur a pen
alty which may very probably be th wreck of Ttr
whole life's happiness, j A gurf begins, perhaps,
with some moderate and ireally rational piece of
originality; but it makes !her look 4odd." (She is
ess welcome in the drawing-room of her friends.
and less comfortable when' she fs thefer Men sneer
at her, and perhaps allow themselvs coarse jokes at
lerj expense, women are so ousy defending ber
ittle eccentricity, that they have no time left to es
trmate her positive merits She is j like .Gibson's
t fitted Venus. Every stupid spectator criticises the
tiiiti not. one in a thousand thinks at all iof the
loveliness of the siatue. fByand-bythe eccentrici
ties ;of our friend area little exercised. She cannot
abandon-them without a vast humiliation and con
fession that she was wrong; and as she is already
singular, she may 'as well t(e wholly feo. 'Id for a
penny, in-' for. pound." Unless shejbe more than
m6rtal, she soon feels a little isolated; and shrinks
from society. Then she is anno ved jin the street.
The women who stand this, and 'feels no cynicism
growing up, and remains weet and-rood -humored
and gentle and tender through life under such cir
cumstances, is ver' little short of a saint She has
seciired for herself the conditions under which such
virtues nre most difficult, almost unattainable : and
all for the sake of a more cjomfortable hat, a shorter-
skirt, or a stronger pair of poots. To any onewbo
regards the matter coolly "Le jeu nc vouv-fpas la
chandelle." , j I -. ls li
Rut it is only the fault of publicopinion than any
penalties at all follow innovations in themselves
sensible and modest. To-train this public 6pinkm
as the first requisteof beauty, sliould be the jium of
all sensibje-women. Can any thing be inj; worse
taste Jtban to wear clothes by which our natural
movements are.impeded and our purposes, of what
ever sort, thwarted by bur own habiliments, jf It is,
in the8trictestsense,carbaric,likeaChinese woman's
foot, to load ourselvs iwith long, trailing skirts,
when .we wish to take a brisk walk, or to runup and
down-stairs. To wear bonnets which give no shade
to the eyes, under a summes sud, and need;, to be
supplemented by the imperfect aid of a parasol at
every moment, is another; fallacy of taste. Still
worse is the follow of pinching the feet into thin,
tight boots, which permit of fatal damp and chill to
the I feet, and cramp the limb into ? a pitiful little
wedge of flesh, with the distorted extremities
crunched up under it Not one modern European
lady in five hundred could be looked at if placed
in an antique sandaL It is certainly a small esthetic
pain to lose tne neauiv or me unman umo no im
prove tho elegance of the shoemaker's manufacture
JVbrst of all. an evil for which no words lean be
found strong enough, is the evil of women a stays.
Why American and European women arc tormented
by these abominable machines, which the lithesome
women of the East have never born, it is hard to
i ma cine. If we desired to find a type of woman's
weakness, moral and physicial, its cause and its ef
fectj we could hit on no better emblem than ; a pair
of
stays. Putnam's Magazine.
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Taste in Dress.
"Take a Paris grisette," saj's a writer, "arid give
her three-quarters of a yard' of tulle and two yards
and I half xpf ribbon, and she conquers the jiworld.
But! an American woman, with the wealth of Cali
fornia in. shawls and diamonds, looks like a walk-
When will our ladies learn that a bright sweet
muslin, clean and fresh, is far more beautiful and
tasteful than a faded silk withjdingy trappings ? It
is so much better to buy cheaper fabrics and renew
them oftener, than to layout; all on one fine suit
that soon goes but of style and looses its freshness.
Nothing in dress can compensate for this last qual-
ty. ! A neat calico print, that is washed and beau
tifully ironed every, week, is in far better taste than
a rich poplin which has! lost its .first beauty. A
snowy linen collar, with a bright velvet bow;; at the
throat, is handsomer man any turn Died laces howev
er costly, even if fastened w;ith pearls and diamonds.
Next to freshness in dress comes taste, suiting
the different article and colors to each other. ; AH
velvet bonnet and lace mantle style is not so very
uncommon, or at least things as incongruous. it
costs no more when you are buying articles to get
those which correspond in color and are adapted to
each other in material. It reqmrforethought,
however, to do this.! Settle well in your mirid what
the prevailing colr of your suit is j to be, ' before
you set out on your shopping expedition' and tlien
. . . - " ' :- f - " i
do, not suner your purpose,io oe turned apom oy
this or that assurance of the shop-keeper, or by the
whim of the moment A very pretty dress by itself
may be entirely spoiled in effect by: an unsuitable
hat or coat I Do not make yourself a walking clothes
stand. There is a charm in snow wh'te collars and
pretty aprons, such as ' young ladies wear jno.w-a-days,
and in those little simple adornings that gp to
make up a neatly dressed person, that vou l do not
find in a gaudily dressed woman.
'ii
iiiguii ait
An extraordinary fallacy is the dread of mght
air. t What air can we breathe at night but Tright
air I The choico is between pure ; night air from
without and foul air rom within, Mostf people
prefer the latter. An unaccountable choice.! What
will they say, if it is proved to be true that fully
onerhalf of all '.the disease we suffer from is occa
sioned by people sleeping with their window's shut?
An epen window, most nights in the year, can never
hurt any one." This is ) not; to say that light is not
necessary for recovery In great cities, night air
is of ten the best, and purest air to be had in the
twenty-four hours, j, I could better understand shut
ting the windows in town during the day than dur
ing ,the night, for the sake of the sick. . Theabsence'
of imoke, the quiet, all tend to make night the best
time for airing tha patient I 1 ) : . - ' h '
One of our highest, medical authorities con
sumption and climate, has ; told me that the air in
London is never so good as after ten oclockat
night Always air your room then,! from the out
side air, if possible. 3"iudoWs ; are made to open,
doos are made totJJutfa truth, wjiichvstems ex-.,
tremely difficult. oJ apprehension. V," Every rooni
must be aired from writhouterery passage from
within. But the fewer passages t there are in a hos-
-! pital the better. Jrlorcnce jfigrLMsaie.
' . -.' : ASemazkahle Boaoal lOstress. - T'V
Dr. N. T.: Tru;;aehopI superintendent of Oxford
C&l Me,,, has .made a special report concerning a
acbool-mistress in that State, and, her work. I Ber
name is Vesta. Howard,, and she teaches, In the town
erf Bethel 'She is 53 years old, and has taught1 70
terms 'of private and public fechooL' Yet, says Dr
True, she is far in advance of. most young teachers,
tuqcau ox oemg anuquaiea. ,i iie rouvwiugare ex
tracts from, the account of the, school I j ' f . J
'She commenced her afternoon session hy saying
ma i sue aid not tninK it nest to set the cmidreu im
mediately to work upon their studies, because 'they
had been at play and were not in the best condition
tforsck)se application."' She therefore took ajsecdnd
progressive rejider-and TeaoTyas badly us she
could and" let them correct her' faults, j She then
read it correctly, and as one would talk, and all eye
were fixed 4ipoo br. Sbe-theo. vailed register of
scholars by numbers, who answered by ibeir names
and ages;? Among them "was a W infield Scott," Gen
eral Fremont, and other prominent names; and as
they were announced she had a word to say about
their history,! without scarcely stopping iher regis
ter, She then made them all take their j books" out
of their seats together, without noise, No slates
were to hit upon the desks, or books to be shuffled.
She selects a captain for each of the smaller classes,
who steps out and Calls the class out by numbers.
Rooks are all held alike.. This makes thorn execu
tive scholars. 1 j ' ': "-(''jf', - 4f; 'i'':r':H.)
tu reading, small children repeat the same. Words
till they can command it in the sentence, and then
they' read it in concert. In spelling they all fold
thcir 'arms,: with the book under thej left arm.
Sometimes she spells the words arid they pronounce
them This was a fine exercise, She made them
pronounce. correctly. cow, how, now, pow, row.
fl hey made a gracetut oow in leaving tor;cneir eais.
iacn class nas a qennue time ror sxuaying a lesson,
arid the teacher calls their attention to it at the mo
ment, i :'.-'i!s I'm ,-'- i . '. VM' nWhV-.'-
r They cime out to read wish foldedarms, read
with stronff emphasis, arid nuturkllv. ' i She makes
them look at her lips, arid, she pronounces words
round and full and makes them do the same after
herj While hearing a Class reading, if-a class is
studying - geography, she' will suddenly; call their
attention to . some pointjn the lesson, and then go
right on with the; reading. She will call up a schol
ar by surprise to rise and tell something! about the
lesson he is studying. .This was done with great
promptness This kept them on f lie alert , -j; , v
She has bouquets all aTound the room,! ana maps
and pictures on the walls, to make the rotsm ;loof
pleasant.- Her order is perfect JNot a oook orpen-
cu. is heard prominently. ' rl
. one quesiions mem on wuat iney uawreau.
soellin? thev cive familiar 'definitions m their own
language, and are required 'to pisofSbunce each letter
fully and forcibly."
Eqw to be Handsome
Most peoplelike to be haadsouiel ' Nobody denies
the greatern&oweri wnich any person may have who
has a-'good f ace $ and who attrapts you by good
IpoKs, even before a word has been spoken. And
we see all sorts of devices in men and women to im
prove their good look paints and washes, and ail
kinds of cosmetics, including a plentiful annoint
ing iwith dirty hair oil. f j ! I .
Now, not every one can have good features. They
are las God made them; but almost any one, can look
wyowUjWi pod health, lli is h aid to
will ddT-n'iJt tJ4-.!briel:.thsa
Keep clean w'SirTreeTy'ancl
universally :With
cool water. All the skin wants is
leave (to act free
ly, and it will take care of itself,
air holes must not be plugged np.
Its' thousands of
Eat regularly andsimpry. The stomach can
no
more1 work all the time, night
and t day,
tnan-a
horse; it must have regular work and regular rest.
(rood teeth are a help to good looks. JJrusu tnem
with a soft brush.1 especially at night I Go to bed
with the teeth clean. Of course, to lhave. white
teeth, it is needful to let tobacco alone. Every wo
man knows that I Any ixwder or wash should be
very simple. Acids may whiten the teeth, but they
take off the enamel or injure it. .! j. '.
Sleep in a cool room, iin pure air. No 6nc cari
have a clean skin who breathes bad air. But more
than all, in order to look well wake up the mind
and souL When the mind is awake, the dull, sleepy
look passes away from the eyes. 1 1 do; not know
that the brain expands, but it setemsltD. Think,
read-Unot trashy novels, but book that lhave some-?
thing in them. Talk with people
thing; hear lectures and learn by
This is one good of preaching,
and works, and tells us the result.
who; know- some-'
them.: If;!''
A j man thinks
Arid, if we lis
mind and soul
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ten,) and hear, and understand, the
are worked up.
If the spiritual nature is aroused, so much
the
better.. : ;'" - '! . j- ! - V
WC have seen a plain face real!
glorified by the
through it
love of God and man which shond
Let us grow handsome.
Men say they can't afford books, and sometimes
they don't even pay for; their newspaper. -'.In that
case, it does them little good ; they must feel so mean
while they are reading it ! V
Rut men can afford what they really, choose. If
all the money; spent in self-indulgence (in hurtful
indulgence,) was spent in books, i(in self-improvement.)
we should see a -change. Men ; would grow
handsome and women too. The isoul would shine
out through the eyes.
,W" e were
not meant to be
mere; animals.! I 1 : 1-
"if
Let us have books and read them jand lectures
and; hear them, and sermons a.nd heed them.
I
! iTaeDignity of thB Editor. If , I
It it be true that the.writersof history fill, in part,
the space of publia benefactors, then ought some
respectable tribute to be paid to the corps editorial
for they, more than any other men constitute the
daily laborers who furnish the inpiden ts in j detail,
of which all permanent history is biade. , ;! h Vr 4
rTbey sketch; the first drifts give the first Outlines
of all facts garner them for safe'transmission into
the hands of the public bistorianrj Indeed, they ale
in many cases the most industrious, as well as tfce
boldest prisoners of the historic world. TheyjNfct
onl3r racK anaexnaustineir Drain jo invent, tuoiigni
to give it an attractive form thatlit may bc'palatd
Die to me puonc, dui tney waicome universal iuo
steps of the whole world, -of their! fellow man, thf
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they j may give the news-pi tne day, raaKe sucn. r
cord of all public tacts as secure power to me pre;
and'furnish them with the means to keep it goingl
In academics and colleges, boys and men j lear
the sciences aud become- acquinted with languag
and letters, but in a printing, office the j very intel
lect is'quickeried the wits are sharpened, arid th
fifes of genius' find a genial hearthstone where thei
every blaze mav be made practical and appropriate
ornamental and beautifuL -i, : J i : -,
; It is not at airmarvellous that even the '.'devils"
printing oinces.piieii grow m vc uur.ucsianu wci.
philosophers. They, in' fact,', cannot well help it,
for jthe richest food of a practical intellectuality hs
always strewn around them, and the very types they
bandle; daily,; though bodily only mere dull lead,
havCjin'and about them a thousand times more mas
ter power of intelligence and tuition than a (whole
faculty of mere sheepskin professors.! Hence the
c hair editorial is to be likened to soine high and grand
observatory where intellect realizes life's greatest
advantages,-but where fools die early, land true ge
nius often finds its appropriate .destiny.. . ,
Even, in my boyhood I learned to have a wonder
ful reverence for an editor. As I passed to school
I often looked in on one of them, and thought, as I
saw him surrounded, by hecatombs of newspapers,
that he had the best chance to Vkriow it all' of any
man J:knew of.' j I thought he was a fee simple
owner of a grand Pandora box! of universal, knowl
edge,! which I could reverence, even if I went to
school I a ' thousand yisars."' , It "was not until long
years afterward4 "When a ' blundering misfortune
made ana an editor de facta', that I was prepared to
appreciate T the situation. - I then saw, however,
beautiful arid attractive the chair editorial might be
bet7 a looker-on in" Venice, the gentleman who
btfcL'ed!; it4 was'generally but a stray pensioner pn
- U& t tntjof a world which; lieth in wickedness."
li m!X'.a r , - "'ii' Cincinnati CtmraerciaL ',--
Men talk of the silver cord of friendship ; of the
silken ties which bind 'young lovers together: of
the pure affection of husband and wife, as if they
were auraoie as adamant, ana as pure as (he lore of
angels. But a hasty word, a thoughtless action, or
a misoonstructed expression, may break the first: a
slight neglect, someinconlsistehcyor; a trifling favor
denied, may sunder the 'second; and even the last
mav oe aestrovea. ror ine,eTeen-ved nmnntpr tnmv
find some entrance, and blight tke f airest flowers of
mis sweet eartniy paradise. , rb r
But there is a love which neglect cannot weak
en, which ininrv eannnt pf tintiish i Tt fa ihm nnr
gentle as the breeze of evening, firm as the oak
aridlceases oulyrhen.life8 lastly gleam goes.out in
death J During all the vicissitudes of this changing
woriu, in BiCJtires. ju sorrow, m me or in. ueaxu, in
childhood's halcyon days,, in r you th's jinfrou bled
hour, or in. manhood's vigorous prime unwearied
affection to her child. - Jt is the same amid i the
snows and frosts of Siberia, the temperate regions
of our own fairUud. and among the arid sands of
Ainca.: -i .-.' -. . f;'j' - ?u ',:. . '
The anxious cares and tender attentions, and oft
repeated -words of a mother's love, are not .without
their happy influence upon the lives and characters
of their sons.. The stern rebuke of a justly offended
father, may -check, for ' la season,' the rising and
Struggling passions of youth,; but the sacred lessons
learned from a mother's; lips are engraved on the
heart; and retain their power through life! in virtue's
paths, and even in the career of vice, they are con
tinually recurring to our mind, and bring with them
as further incitements to good, all the hallowed scenes
of childhood and innocence, i Hard Is the heart
that will not melt at the ' recollection of a. mother's
brayers; and more obdurate still the heart T of 'him
who. by a course ot vice, cari willingly wring ; hef
ovui niiii auuioui ouu 4 vu. uynu uti giarutLa9
VTbti yriB. Toa fika for'
It ' is said that' every mai
hasT his " price. Younir
man, nave you yours ? VVIU anything at all buy
you ? Will you even -Sjell yourself by a little deceit,
a little falsehoodby evading the truth 'to ; gain
somebody's, faydrftp rnisejypu in somebpdyis- opin
ion, qx to accomplish some? desired end ? Will you
even seiar forget yourself,1 your: manhood, . your
friend your position in society, your best interests,
as-o uius sen yoursen iorxiie iavor or another r .
IJoubtJess as youow spurn the thought, and yet
uave you iiovoxieu uoue r xe careiui, oe nonest
in reply. Answer only as the little voice within
Ini prompts. Remember that it is of daily . occurrence
with mankind. Others, wmo think; they are just as
good, just as strong in cliractci who valuethem
fielves Just as highly- as yob. lore; daily selling them
selresi ' ; j ; . - -jif; f ,'., -.j. ;. ,- . j
j' Will you prove yourself Ik man, and talk, and act
arid live like a man ? Will; you even .countenance
by yotur influence, by ybor patronage, that which
in . your heart you know to! be wrong, for ; fear of
by
days!, jwhere thts convivial battle ia freely I passed,
and hou are urged to partake'of an "Vxtra'V glass,
r -yr-r tv.Tw... 2r
to those whom you know tmnk better things of you,
say HNo ?"
Can vou evenwhere. Under all circum-
staricea of temptation, say HNo7" ! If you can: then fc
i : tits. .rszJA4rri ,l?ji;4a
iMwuwraoj-jwur-incHua oiiiei v icuu uxju you anu
f . Even those whose solicitations to evil you have
refused to accept will respect and-love you more
because you are" proving .yourself a man. ! They
wno sustain sucn a cnaracter are Duuaing upon! a
rock, and wul find themselves surrounded by
iricnus ..comprising ..me r Dest, ana nouiest or man
kind. ! -All love you because they know they cun
trust ou. Let your price be above earthly treas
ures i or ..temptations,- and yfu will thus gain not only
riobUity "of character and'soiillbut tho respect , and
ove of. an me pure aua good, i
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Tae Irish Tenant By8tm. ; .
The
editor of the Troy Itmes writes as follows to
tliat papert after a tour from: Killarney to Dublin :
On all sides we see evidences bf an impoverished
people1. Rags and beggary, at, the stations. Now
and ; then a lordly mansion; is seen by the way-side,
but the, abodes of poverty are numerous. . The land
is not properly cultivated?! in: many sections. The
pout iciiuu i,. paying six aouars or more per acre an-
uuauj-, uus uo lueeuuve toj improve njs piace wnen
he -is .liable to be taxed still rnore forihis own im
provements, and for, political or other reasons to .be
turned with his family into the roadway a beggar
any clay. He is a tenant atwill this is the condi
tion! jof leases generally irij Ireland.! So he is com
pletlv at the mercy of the landlord, who lives in
high life a, large portion off his time in London, and
only spends at most but a brief season at his coun-
l 1 : . i a. , - i . . v
try seai upon, ms estate, rernaps ne nas never seen
the tenant at all his business is transicted through
an agent, ana liis only interest is to extort everv
bound lie can from the toil and awit hf th 1hnr.
ing man. The Irish people are restive under op
pression, more so perhaps man any other European
peobleJ!. and their impetuous natures, smarting un
der ja sense of injustice, break forth in threatening
And i so the landlord becomes
wuiuattuu &uuiciiuie tu iieia ux lernuie retaliation.
the tenant's enemy,
beggary. It I is this
and the tenant is cast of in
awful curse of landlord domination and autago
nisui, jwith unmerciful exactions and frequent ejec
menta. that takes the heart put ot the people, paraly
zes j manly ambition, plunges them into degrading
Vices.i and fills the land with curses, lamentations.
discontent, distressing destitution-,: and all manner
of ieviL We see indubitable proofs .of the fact
throughout . this unhappyf country, the neglected
estates the dirty hovels,i the ragged and wretched
people,i making up the masses we see at most points
in the interior. H ' mI'I T I,1 N ,'. ' -: i I -i
- ? I- : ' !.'"' -s i'1-H- b-''- ! '; ' A - - .
':W-'1 ACure for li?wj Spirit
Exercise for the body,.. occupation for tlie j mind ;
tif"" ovn 111 1 n" 1 1 1 ' ' T '"'i nf lipiltn ,iQ1
, lYViWirnuj tin mtrnm
.Low. spirits "cannot exisf in the atmosphere of
bodily
and mental; activity.
'f
More Lfctt. I-
In 1887, a young French chemist 3lallet. devised
an extremely ingenious method,' in which, by a sin
gle! beating, the oxygen vas .withdrawn from Ibe
atnospheric air, passed intso a given body, and fin
ally istpred up in a gasometer. Upon this another
chenrlst, Tessie du Motay,jbas, a few nwmths since,
still -farther improved, by Charging simple potash
with the oxygen of the airj j This successful inven
tiori iwas at once encouraged by the authorities of
the; Empire, and practical experiments on si largrd
scale? were made at the Hotel de Ville in Paris, S
number of candelabra weris erected with five burn
ers: each ; these burners are double, having one for
bi-carbonated hydrogen arid another for oxygen,"
both! of which are varied, in their passage through
two 'very narrow channels;1 a small stick of mag
nesium is jn the.centre between them. ' .The Ijght
is magnificent, gaslight lookingpoor by its side,
and what is equally valuable, itretnains undisturbed,
by the. air, so that during a violent storm which had
put but every gaslight in t?aris; these oxygen llghta
continued to burn unmoved. nzm'4 Magazine. .
' Wjten Is a butterny like a kiss ?' When it alights
iriS lriiin,'-i 3 V4? TVi' 'tlOiS-iv,- ,.v. I,
om tulips.
ZotKelf?'
giving onence, tor tear of losing somebody's favor;
0r sutgecting yourself to soinebody cuttirig jest?
It surrounded by tho iovial associates of former
TU bmmrim Ttlm et at r.
It 1s hinted bf the New YorV r-vri tv. . .J.
very stylish weddina there
title of lord, has made a dupe of the tth and beau- i
tiful young lady to whom he was nnlcad rv,n,. '
reus evenis aunoac proved una oonsequenca. But
nothing serves to teach caution. Not lonjr ao-a
beautiful girl,' the daughter of a rich banker la
London, England, saw from the grating of the la
diesV gallery in the Houae of Commons a penalrft
Mahommeclan, His rich dress prodaimed him a
ooble. Ilia melancholy eyes showed that be had
been deDrived of hla ktimtnm vjt .v
hftart fit t)u wr j iMuruet, otcU auj
were married. The nobleman took hia mltm t na?.
cutta, where she was much amaxed to find 1 herself
driven to a wretched dwelling. In which three other
waves of her buiband amra aJmitdv In.r.n rt
ing a woman of some firmness and bouraxa she re.
turned to England by the ship which had brought
her to India. Her husband tnrnd
V3Ionshee',r-a teacher of languareaarning 60
rupeea (about $80 gold) a month, One roung wo
man at least has pot over all tlllv nntinna iW.t
romance of the Eastw for the rest of her life.
'.' Polios Coarta Exoapui I i
The mixed element of i Darti-colorwd rHmtn.t
who crowd the benches and fill the corridors of th
Recorder's Court,' New Orleans, war recently en
livened by a scene which was well calculated to
disturb the seriousness of nollf in
darkey was arrested for preaching on the Levta. It
was evident the court could not appreciate the sa-crednessof-thd
minister's mission, unleas they were
carriedon in Church. Re therefore Inquired of tha
qulprlf what he was doing on the Levea. 1 1
eachinMegolpeIfcsarp ! , 4 -yii i
- i nwMio place to preach It r f I
uByund to preach him ererywhar larr
No where but In chnrch. If 1 1 tit
this way. you'll be cbminir nn l. .ft -v,n a
preachingln my court" ; TlT i" :
. "uu, no, sar I Neper come here, sar-neber coma
herer ; ; . ; , -i i , t. ., ,
The Judge, amused at the old rir. .(
ncssj and thinking to extract a. 11 tt !jk ttvtvn f n am
of him, inquired why ? T pw 7
"'Cause do debbfl's In displace iure. sari and
ebbry time I sees you, J udge. I tinki of de old tar-
pent, niseir. witn great hp fltrr mi .t.ri -
forked tail like de sea sarpint ) 'iT! 7 !
It is useless to sav that the invMti
I'D orrxn thee this haad of mlaa 1
If thou buthad'st the dimaa ;
' But purses short and slim as thine
Won't An for thMA Ko-vl f i
leave thee in thy wrtchedness,
As one too poor to mate ; I
i or love you know, can only bless
W hen based on real estate.
A cardinal point to become Pope, If possible, j
When Is a young man's arm lik iiw. art-i
When It maketh glad the waist placea f
NnyEBrtell your secrets in a eorn.flpfJ forit k..
a thousand ears. . ; t . -. I i , ,
i . Wv ... i n
" 010 lu'Air"r lenoun always
sweet t Be
luc r" lasses.
r-'' , f.
luvuircu a iriut itaii, Are tneae ap
ples fit for a hog to eat?" "Try one and see," aufd
the woman. . ; , . I f j i . '
An old bachelor Is a traveler on life's railroad,'
who has entirely failed to make the proper connec-
.tions.... ' '. - . ... ' .' I . I ii , , f '
The following" sentence will showthe Importance
of the position of a comma: rVoman jwithbot her
man, is a brute." a' ' I '
Tha word d-a-b-t is composed of
thi Initials of
dun every body twice.". C-r-e d i t
is formed of
the initial letters of ."call regularly evory day I'll
trust" '; i " - ; . I . ,;.-;.'.. f : )' ' ' ,1 ,
Ak indignant orator, at a recent political meeting
in refnting an, opponent, thuftdered but:! "Mr,
Chairman, I scorn, the allegation, and I defy tho al
ligator." 1 . , i - I , '
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"Wkli, JonesdId vou sea anvthiagof oiir f AnA
UiUI KU
i es : 1 gone deranired"
"nas he?" I
" W.fl hriMHi Tia Anoint V !. '
from those of his neighbors!" I I i I . T i
A discussion recently ' took olace between two
friends on the eloquence of a deputy! newly elected.
! "He has talent," said one; f'but when you
hear him speak you feel convinced that he has no
heart." ' . Ml f i j
I "On the contrary," replied the other, "everything '
he says is spoken by heart V ! , J j I
i A modern writer gives the ! following enumera
tion of a female eye: "The glare, the. sure, the
sneer, the invitation, the defiance, jthe 'denial, the
consent, the glance of love, the flash of rage, the
sparkling of hope, the langulahment of softness,
the squint of suspicion, the Art of jealousy, and tho
lustre of pleasure." Nil '
I "Well, Patrick, asked the doctor! '-how do you
feelto-dayr . . l 1 t ! V
j "Och, doctor, dear, J enjoy very poor (health en
tirely. The rnmattcs are tcry distresstn' Indade.
When I go to slape, I lay awake alj illght, and ma
toes is swilled up as big as a goose hen's egg; to
whin I stand up I fall down immediatery.' j, j
I Am individual the other day went tojoneof tho '
drug-stores in Boston and called for a'ptnt of whis
ky, and claiming that he wasted to "put It on some
roots for medicine. He obtained thet whisky, and
immediately raised the bottle.to bis llpj and Imbibed
a grown peraors dose of the ardent! iTha drug
clerk remonstrated with the customed for his da
plicity, ttnd was informed that it was the roots of
his tongue for which he desired the jwhUky. r
eacher who used notes had the misfortune to
deliver a discourse or rather, as the sequel will
show, a portion of a discourse in a bree zy spot, of
which' rash act the consequence was that "thirdly'
was missing, . The embarrassed pastorrepcated aev
eral times; "Thirdly, my btethxen-Uhirdly," Tlds
lasted several minutes, till at last an'excitcd old la
dy rose from her seat, and exclaimed:) "Thirdly
went out of the window." - : - . .;; '
. I A servant girl in Altoona recently tried whisky
to "kill rats. She sweetened it with sugar, soaked
bread in it, and then left the bread io the cellar
wbeve rats ' most do congregate." IShe had been '
up stairs but half an hour when she heard laughing.
singing, and a general hullaballoo doWnj stairs. She
accordingly went down to see what was the mat
ter. Imagine her astonishment to fine about a dozen
rats gloriously fuddled, engaged In throwing pota
to parings at each other, and hauling lone another
up to drink. . ! ,' . -j j " - '(j-
j A PniLAPEi rniA editor carries the editorial "we"
i
so far as to say ottr gracious" for f'nir gracious.
Hi
The above brings to mind an Incident I which bap-,
pened a short tune since respecting a I nrettv llttla
girl of eight summers, who although riot edi to rally
connected, showed a marked perference for the
pluraL Her father was a partner! in the firm of
Young & Parker, which collocation had become so
iamuiar tuaif on oeing asaea in ounday-acijooJ,
Whose little girl are you f she prom Hly respond
ed, "Young &Tarker'." l ( j H
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j A little fellow has just begun goiri tp the publio
schools. His mother, to stimulate him to atteutioa
to his lessons, said td him the' other daj ' ; - ' - ; j
I i'Charley, if you ttudy hard . you j niay tome day
become Presideht of the United States, like George
Washington."':' rr"- "" r)r':"t'-ir
"! f Don't; talk: to .me about being Presldeat fV mx
claimed he; 'everybody' going to, be! president.
When we g6 to school the first thing! the teacher
does' f he calls the names of all ; the lidla bora, and
they all say 'President
I don'f; want
to b Pm(.
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