f r - ' , ' ' - ' .... HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher , ELK COUNTY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Two DottAna van Akmxjm. VOL. I. RIDGWAY, FA., THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1871. . NO. 15. .- , A JUNE JOCKNEY. BY LAURA D. MCnOLS. Would you put your soul Into sweetest tune ? Take a railway ride In the heart of Juno. Go without company, go without book, Drink In the country with long, loving look ; Care, business, politics, leave far behind, Aud let nature's sweetness flow ovr jour mind. Scores of wild roses, as pink as sci-shclls, Skirt the rough pastures, and flush the deep dells; Seas of white daisies, with wide-open eyes, Smiling so honestly up at the skies ; Brooks o'er their stones babble sweet the old tunc, As we ride through the country la blossoiny June. (roups of mild cattle stand under the trees, Chewing their cud in the sleepiest ease ; Grazing or lying or standing midstream, The sober old cows are so used to the scream And the rush of the train, they scarce wink at the sight, But the calves madly plunge in their ignorant fright. Now, acres of clover, the red nnd the white, Like rustical beauties, so healthy aud bright, Fragrautly bending in every soft breeze, Hummed o'er and plundered by armies of bees ; Here too are buttercups yellow as gold, And great starry dandelions jolly aud bold. Thickets oi elder In generous bloom Well I remember the faint, sweet perfume Of the fat, creamy clusters, suggestive to mo Of grandma's "herb-closet" nnd "elder-blo'-tea." Next come bitter yarrow, and chiccory stars blue, With sturdy St. John's-wort, bright -orange in hue. Great rafts of logs on the Mcrrimac ride, Trees that once towered and waved in their pride, Helplessly bound, now they float near the shore, And the free, lonely forest shall know them no more : Yet perchance, as the masts of some queen of me seas, They shall yet stand erect and exult in the breeze 1 Now, a still lonely pool where the bluo flag's in bloom, Where the wild whito azalea wastes sweetest perfume ; Where floats the queen lily, so pure and se rene, A star, o'er whose beauty tall bulrushes lean ; Where turtles are basking, where frogs croak and croon, As we dash through the country in musical June. With whistle aud scream, through a village we fly, Stores, churches, and dwellings, like phantoms flit by ; A little red school-house, tho children run out, For a "ten minutes' recess," they scamper and shout, Toss up their torn hats in salute to tho train, Then return to their rough, rustic trolics nsuiu. 'Neath the ardent June suu how the fertile fields lie, Here striped with potatoes, there rustling with rye; How sweeps the brisk breeze through the bil lowy wheat, O'er round-headed cabbages, purple-stemmed beet, O'er feathery carrots, o'er peas aud beans tall, l'umpkius, parsnips, and lettuce, there's sun shine lor all 1 For strawberries ripo that hide under their leaves, For swallows, that twittering build 'ucalh the eaves ; For tho currants' clear globes, that so prettily swing, Like little red lanterns, all strung on a string ; For every soul that's with nature in tune, There is rest and delight In a journey in June ! Master Charles. HIS SURPRISING ADVENTURES. At exactly half-past 9 o'clock on the morning of Saturday, August 28th, 18G9, Master Charles Suniinerton, aged five years, disappeared mysteriously from his residence on Folsoin street, Ban Fran cisco. At twenty-five minutes past nino he had been observed by the butcher amusing himself by going through that popular youthful exercise known as " turning the crab," a feat in which he was singularly proficient. At a court of inquiry summarily held in the back par lor at fifteen minutes past 10, Bridget, cook, deposed to having detected him at 20 minutes past 9 in the felonious ab straction oi sugar from the pantry, which by the same token, had she known what was a coniin' she'd have never pre vinted. Patsey, a shrill voiced youth from a neighboring alley, testified hav ing seen "Chawley," at half-past 9, by the butcher's shop round the corner, but as this young gentleman chose to throw out the gratuitous belief that the missing child had been converted into sausages by the butcher, his testimony was received with some caution by the female portion of the court, and down right scorn and contempt by its mascu line members. But whatever might have been the hour of his departure, it wus certain that from half-past 9 A. II., until 9 p. m., when he was brought home by a policeman, Charles Summer ton was missing. Being natufally of a reticent disposition, he has since resisted, with one exoeption, any attempt to wrest from him a statement of his whereabouts during that period. That exception haj been myself, lie has recited to me the following in the strictest confidence : His intention on leaving the doorstep of his dwelling was to proceed without delay to Van Dieman's land, by way of Second and Market streets. This pro ject was subsequently modified so far as to permit a visit to Otaheite, where Captain Cook was killed. The outfit for his voyage consisted of two car tick ets, five cents in Bilver, a fishing line, the brass capping of a spool of cotton, which, in his eyes, bore some resemblance to metallio currency, and a Sunday school library ticket. His garments, admirably adapted to the exigencies of any clime, were severally a straw bat with a pink ribbon, a striped shirt, over which a pair of trousers, uncommonly wide in com parison to their length, were buttoned, striped balmoral stockings, which gave his youthful legs something tho appear ance of winterarreen candy, and oopper- toed shoes with iron heels, capable of striking nre front any flagstone. The latter quality, Master Charles could not help feeling, would be of infinite service to him in the wilds of Van Dieman's land, which, as pictorially represented in his geography, seemed to be deficient in corner groceries and matches. Exactly as the clock struck the half hour the straw hat and short legs of Master Charles Summerton disappeared behind the corner. He ran rapidly, partly by way of inuring himself to the fatigues of the journey before him and partly by way of testing his speed with that of a North Beach car which was proceeding in that direction. The con ductor not aware of this generous emu lation, and being somewhat concerned at tho spectacle of a pair of very short twinkling legs so far in the rear, stopped his car and generously assisted the youthful Summerton upon the platform. From this point a hiatus of several hours duration occurred in Masfer Charles' narrative. He is under the impression that he rode out not only his two tickets, but that he subsequently became in debted to the company for several trips to and from the opposite termini, and that, at last, resolutely refusing to give any explanation of his conduct, he was finally ejected, much to his relief, on a street corner. Although, as he informs us, he felt perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, he was compelled under tho circumstances, to hurl after the con ductor an opprobrious appellation, which he had ascertained from Patsey was the correct thing in such emergencies, and possessed peculiarly exasperating proper ties. We now approach a thrilling part of the narrative, before which most of the adventures of the "Boy's Own Book" pale into insignificance. There are times when the recollection of this adventure causes Charles to break into a cold sweat, and he has since its occurrence been awakened by lamentations and out cries in the night season by merely dreaming of it. On the corner of tho street lay several empty sugar hogsheads. A few young gentlemen disposed them selves therein, armed with sticks, with which they removed the sugar which still adhered to the stave joints, and con veyed it to their mouths. Finding a cask not yet preempted, Master Charles set to work, and for a few moments re veled in a wild saccharine dream, whence he was finally aroused by an angry voice and the rapidly retreating foot steps of his comrades. An ominous sound smote upon his ear, and the next moment he felt the cask wherein he lay uplifted and set against tho wall. He was a prisoner, but as yet undiscovered. Being satisfied in his mind that hanging was the systematic and legalized penalty for the crime he had committed, he kept down manfully the cry that rose to his lips. In a few moments he felt the cask again lifted by a powerful hand, which appeared above him at the edge of his prison, and which ho concluded belonged to the ferocious giant, Blunderbore, whose features and limbs he had fre emen tlv met in colored pictures. Before he could recover from his astonishment, his cask was placed with several others on a cart nnd rapidly driven away. The ride which ensued he describes as being fearful in the extreme. Rolled around like a pill in a box, the agonies which he suffered may be hinted at, not spoken Evidences of that protracted struggle were visible on his garments, which were of the consistency of syrup, arid his hair, which for several hours, under the treat ment of hot water, yielded a thin treacle. At length the cart stopped on one of the wharves, and the driver began to unload. As he tilted over the cask in which Charles lay, an exclamation burst from his lips, and the edge of the cask fell from his hands, sliding its lato occupant to the wharf. To regain his short legs, and to put the greatest possible distance be tween himself and the cartman, were his first movements on regaining his liberty He did not stop until he reached the eorner ot X ront street. Another blank succeeded in this vera- cious history. He cannot remember how or when he found himself in front of the circus-tent. He had an indistinct re membrance of having passed through a long street or streets, which were all closed, and which made him fear that it was Sunday, and that he had spent a miserable night in the sugar cask. But he remembered hearing the sound of music within the tent, and of creeping upon his hands and knees when no oiid was looking, until he passed under the canvas. His description of the wonders contained in that circle, of the terrific feats performed by a man on a pole, since practiced by him in the back yard ; of the horses, one of which was spotted, and resembled an animal in his Noah's ark, hitherto unrecognized and undefin- ed; of the female equestrians, whose dresses could only be equalled in magni ficence by tho frocks ot his sister s dolls ; of the painted clowns, whose lokes ex- cited a merriment somewhat tinged by an undefined fear, was an efiort ot lang uago which this pen could but weakly transcribe, and which no quantity ot ex- clumation points could sufficiently illus trate He is not quite certain what fol lowed. He remembered that almost im mediately on leaving the circus it be came dark, and that be fell asleep, waking up at intervals on the corners of the streets, on front steps, in somebody's arms, and finally in his own bed. He was not aware of experiencing any re gret for his conduct. He does not recall at any time a disposition to go home ; he remembers distinctly that he felt hungry. He has made this disclosure in confi dence. He wishes to have xt respected He want tJ know if you have five cents about you. Bret liarte. Among the MalW. A correspondent of the Geneseo Itepuh. lican, who has evidently " been there," thus graphically describes his experience as deputy Postmaster t I was sworn in and entered upon the duties of the office on the first of July, 18. Yes, I was sworn into the office, and for fear ene oath would not answer the purpose. I swore in the of fice every day for a year ; at the end of which time! had become to profane that I Bworo myself out of office without any difficulty. 1 shall never forget that first day's ex perience. It was as hot as an attio sleeping-room, and the office about as large. ijails wore in from Slangville, Talk Town, Blow-on-Valley, Lip Creek, Gab Hill, Buzin Flats, Clackfield, and Shouting Hollow. Mails were in from the east, west, north and south. Way mails, side mails, catch mails and through mails all slung at you like bundles of wheat when you can't mow them away half as fast as they are slung. I stood in the midst of that mountain of mail matter, ao helpless and dumb founded. I didn't know what the mat ter wa9. I was as weak and limber as the limpsiest bag in the pile. I octually did not know myself from the Bides of sole leather that lay about me. In ten minutes the mails went east and west, in fourteen they went north and south, and already a half dczen sorrel whiskered, raccoon-capped stage drivers were shouting " Mails 1" " hurry up there," " d d slow this morning," and I heard one shimbly-shambly, grass fed mulo director say to another, " I guess the new deputy is a better hand on sorting taters than he is letters." I knew I wan't much of a sorter that day, nor much of a fighter any day, but 1 did sorter want to get at mat miserable skinful of revilement, and show him my proficiency as distributing clerk, but I wa9 otherwise engaged. Frantically I seized the mail key, and the first thing I attempted to do with it was to wind the omce clock, t inaliy l succeeded in getting the mail bagsopen, and all emptied into a huge box in the centre of the office. As near as I could guess there must have been about fourteen bushels of un assorted mail matter. If it had been about fourteen bushels of beans to be handpicked, the task would not have seemed any more form idable. Slangville letters went to the right, Talk Town letters went to the left, Blow-on-Valley went over the right shoulder. Lip Creek over the left, Uab liill went obliquely to the leu, cilack field went directly over the head, and Shouting Hollow between the legs ; the space directly in front being reserved fo Bottleford. I was a little particular at first not to make any mistakes, but the grumbling of those waiting for their letters, and the shouting ot the drivers without, warned me that my time was nearly up So I just threw them around like deal ing whist, gave eaeh a fair proportion reserving the biggeBt pile for Bottleford, Then I stalled the mail bags, and jerked them out of the office door, and it was wonderful to see how all the hurry and impatience of those miserable drivers vanished as soon as they got possession of them. One, the noisiest of the lot, the one who had made the un dignified and d-tered comparison as a torter, actually hung around for half an hour, staring at me through the win dow, and laughing at my perplexities. He said he would have me reported at headquarters. I made my mind if I ever got a chance, I would report at hit headquarters, and land too, lor the matter ot that. The stage drivers disposed ot, a more formidable and more impossible task presented itsolf. Three hundred and fifty letter boxes to be hunted up, each with the owner s namo in fine hand, written on its upper margin. My boss, the P. M., told me I must find them out myself, then I would always remember where they were. He was a man who had far more con. fidence in his Judgment than I hod in mv memory. 1 recollect (and very sur prising it is that I do) when I was first put upon tne multiplication table, mat solid square table, as constructed in the days'ot Daboll and Willot. I remember how dim, how uncertain, how unintelligible its twelve ranks of figures looked, beginning with 1 and ending with 144. Just so that parallelogram ot hollow squares looked to me at mat moment. It seemed as if each individual owner was gazing with blood-thirsty eyes upon his number, and unless he received a letter he would go for the deputy. In a fit of desperation I seized a large pack age of letters. Alonzo Flummer was the nrst name. Where was Alonzo Flummer's box '( If the name had been written on it in letters as big as horseshoes, I could not have seen it. I slammed it mta the nearest box. I did so with all the rest. Every box had a letter as far as they went, and then I raised the slide. A rush was made for the opening. " No. 9, No. 77, No. 00, No. GO, No. 102, Sir, No. 240, if you please: anything for Storkesr anything tor Bilger r No, 319, No. 18a, anything for bhellgrave i anything for Piokletop r" And so it went, every mouth belching forth a number or a name. I shoved out the letters indiscriminately aud iui partially, without regard to age, sex nationality, color, or previous condi tion. Everybody got letters, but not one in fifty got their own. " Here, Sam," says oue, " is a letter for you in my box." " Yes, and here is one tor you in mine. "What's this doing in my box? savs another. Ah yes, excuse me, a slight mistake. belongs to Mr. Bangs." "Bangs, did you say V I just asked and you said there was nothing for Bangs." With my pencil I marked on it the number of the box from which I had taken it, and handed it out, remarking in a tone of injured innocence that it was a mistake of the sender, and not of mine." What la lttf. naufv Pftllv Trias' Ittf- ter doiu' in my box," screamed a rural swaiuess on tne rigm oi vue atiacaing column. " Mistook your name. Mad' am though it was politeness. , But the greatest pests of all were the school children. As soon as school was out, there was one wild raoe for the poet office. They began to enquire as soon as they came within snooting distance. They would enquire tor themselves, and then for anybody that lived within five miles of them. " Anything for any of the Murphys 'r"' yells a little freckled-facad, yellow topped potato mound, with nationality so strongly developed that you could smell it. .... ........... " Anvthintr for Jane Murphv ?" No. "Anything for Ann Murphy i" No. "Anything for Tom Murphy r" No, nor for Pat Murphy, nor Dennis Murphy, nor Pete Murphy, nor for any Murphy, dead, living, unborn, native or foreign born, naturalized or otnerwise, male or female, why created He them? The Murphy family disposed of, the Fitz Ger alds, aud Fitz Patricks and Fitz Moon leys were thrown at me until I caught them myself. I had Fitz chronic, and I could tell every day when they were "coming" on. Children came to the cilice to en quire tor letters, so young that they hadn t strength to carry home the week ly Tribune, and who didn't know the difference between a letter and door plate. .Not weekly nor semi-weekly, nor dai ly, but hourly, ns often as they could think of it. I have often seen them hang around on the outside waiting for their hour to come and enquire for letters. Ctreat strapping girls came every day for weeks aud inon.hs who had the mea sles oftener than they had a letter, but they might have come to see the depu ty, which was better than the measles, if not quite ns good as receiving a let ter. Ono man came every day for three weeks, and made a terrible rumpus every time he came about the careless ness and inefficiency ot the mail service At last his important letter ariived, and it proved to be a patent medicine al- mauao of last year, but he had got hi- teeu or twenty dollars' worth of labor and information out of me for nothing, and he was accordingly satisfied. I like an enquiring mind. It shows research and progression. It is the spirit reaching out tor some thing by which to draw itself higher, and it gets hold of a soft thing when it grabs a deputy postmaster. lie can get more civil answers out ot nim m one minute, than no can blast out of all the railroad conductors in Christendom, and he gets it for nothing, which is wrong. . . It the government would charge a farthing for every NO that is given in answer to the enquiry, " Is there any thing in the office for me r"' it would pay off the national debt in six weeks ; and another great advantage it would be, their deputies would not be required to NO so much, which would give people ot ordinary minds and women a chance to display themselves. Personal Appearance of Laura Fair. The New York Sun gives us the fol lowing accouut of the personal appear ance and character of Mrs. Laura Fair, now convicted at San Francisco for kil ling Judge A. P. Crittenden: Mrs. t air is said to be one ot the most fascinating women that ever destroyed the peace ot a family, bhe is above the ordinary height of women, symmetrical in form, graceful m carriage, and in fatuating in manner and magnetism lier hair is a dark chestnut, her eyes dark brown, and her complexion as clear as that of a child of three years. Her hands and feet are small and elegantly moulded. With the exception of her liason with Crittenden, she was always wary and cunning, and the terror of married women wherever she went. It was evident that she never did anything that could call tor rebuke, sue was smouldering volcano, and not averse to a warm flirtation. Men thronged around her wherever she went, and wo men hated her with inexpressible viru lence. bhe had the entree to the best society in Kentucky and New Orleans, She is not a thorough-bred, but viva cious, sprightly and magnetic, and when she entered a saloon or ball room, the gentlemen would desert other ladies to gather around her and compete for her smiles and recognition, bhe bad mania for stock speculations, and an immense gift for luring bankers and merchants into her schemes. Her tern- Eer is exceedingly violent, and she has een known to break the head of a ser- vunt with a chair. She is fond of cham paigne, and sometimes takes too much of it at dinner. In short, she is a beauti ful, heartless, fearless, terrible tigress. who loves and hates like a wild beast, and is always ready to murder anybody who crosses her passions. How Women arc Fattened, The Loudon Court Journal tells about the very curious mode of fattening for tne imperial baiera practiced in Moroc co. You take a plump young damsel of about 14, with a tendency to obesity few Mooresque girls are destitute of such a tendency aud you shut her up in a room of which the windows are carefully darkened by heavy curtains ot green silk. You cause your plump young daiuEtl to sit cross-legged ou a divau, and then, having by her side a bowl full of covscousou, or moistened meal rolled into balls, you cram her during certain number of hours every day with as many of these balls as she can conve niently swallow. Well crammed, the Emperor of Morocco will pay an exceed ingly handsome price for her. That nothing may interfere with the due con. duct of the fattening process, a black nurse stands behind the incipient fa vorite with a matrank, or big stick, much used in Moorish domestic economy, and if the patient manifests any reluctance to swallow the balls of eouscoutou she is Jin- mediately and unmercifully thrashed, 1 BOTH acted festivities. A young woman in. the States is threatening to get a divorce on the novel ground of "protracted festivities." She says her husband celebrated his marriage by getting drunk, and has kept up the fes tival ever since. Domestic Life In Norway. As a general thing tho Norwegian peasants, both mon and women, retire to rest without undressing, merely remov ing their heavy wadmal, or shoepskin jackets, and sometimes the woolen worsted nightcap which torms tho usual covering for the head. I often entered .Norwegian sater, or tarm, in the mid dle of the night, and the occupants of the bed or the best bed, it there were several would immediately vacate it and offer it to the guest, themselves re tiring to continue their broken rest in the barn or on the floor. On entering a Norwegian country house the visitor will observe a number of wooden boxes, of all sizes, placed all round the room, and serving, in many instances, also as table, chairs, sofas, bedsteads, eto. They are all painted in gy and glaring colors ; a rod ground, with blue and yellow stripes, and bouquets in green and pink, seem to be the favorite designs. On each is painted, in large letters, the name of the maker and proprietor, as also the date and year ot its manufacture. This is invariably the case, and from these dates it would seem that most of these boxes are very ancient and much valued heirlooms in a .Norwegian family, The oldest box I ever saw was in a sater on Doorefield. It was a tremendous affair fully three feet by six, and four foet high in which the budeier, or girl in charge of the sater, kept all her Sun day wearing apparel, change ot linen, and nadbrod, Iresn butter ana oia cnoese, It bore the inscription, " Gunhilde Oluls- dotter, A. D., 17 U," and was, according ly, more than a century and a half old, In these boxes, which serve the purposes of the bureaux and chiffonieres of less secluded (though not by any means more civilized) countries, are kept the holiday dresses, table linen, extra linen and homespun cloth, and also the silver spoons and saved-up " specier" of the whole family, and it must be indeed a grand occasion when any of their boxes are opened aud their contents displayed Hardly a .Norwegian tarm-bouse is without an immense old-fashioned loom, upon which all tho cloth and linen used in the family is woven. Tailors and shoemakers are unknown in rural Nor way, every article of wearing apparel being made at home, from the raising of the flax aud clipping ot the sheep, to the last stitch of extra embroidery and the finishing spangle ot a bridal out-ht. Jn a corner of the shelf will be invariably tound the -tools and utensils tor shoe' making, which are iu steady request during tho long winter evenings when new shoes are made for the whole house hold, and the old worn-out ones repaired. If there is no more of this work to be dono, carving in wood is resorted to to kill time and in this art the Norwegians are wonderfully proficient, equaling the peasantry of the Tyrol and Black Forest, whose carvings are known and for sale all over the world. Every man always carries a short knife in a sheath attached to his belt, and the wooden handle of this tollekuiv is often a perfect specimen in the art of beautiful and original carv ing. Wooden spoons, tankards, bowls, walking sticks and boxes of all kinds are in this way manufactured, many of which are bought as souvenirs by the tourists or sportsmen who visit the country districts. letter to Evening Post. One's Friends. Money can buy many things, good and evil. All the wealth of the world could not buy you a friend, nor pay you for tho loss of one. " I have wanted on ly oue thing to make uie happy," Haz litt writes, " but wanting that, have wanted everything." And again : " My heart, shut up in a prison house of this rude clay, has never found, nor will it ever find, a heart to speak to." W e are the weakest ot spendthrifts if we let ono friend drop oil' through inat tention, or let one push away another, or if we hold aloof from one for petty jealousy or heedless slight or roughness. Would you throw away a diamond be cause it pricked you? One good friend is not to be weighed against the jewels of all the earth. If there is coolness or unkinduess between us, let us come face to face, and have it out. Quick before love grows cold! "Life is too Bhort to quarrel in," or to carry black thoughts ot friends. It i was wrong, i am sorry ; if you, then I am sorrier yet, for should I not grieve for my friend's misfortune 'f aud the mending ot your fault does not lie with me. But the forgiving it does, aud that is the happier office. Give me your hand and call it even. There 1 it is gone ; and I thank a kind heaven I keep my friend still I A mend is too precious a thing to be lightly held, but it must be a little heart that cannot find room for more than one cr two. The kindness I feel for you warms me toward all the rest, makes me long to do some thing to make you all happy. It is easy to lose a friend, but a new one will not come for calling, nor make up for an old one when he comes. An Effectual Rebuke. On his way home from his last tour in Ireland, ltev. Rowland Hill was very much annoyed at the reprobate conduct of the captain and mate, who were greatly addicted to the uugentlemanly habit cf swearing. First the captain would swear at the mate, and then they would both swear at the wind. "Stop, stop,' shouted Uill, "let us havo fair play, gentlemen ; it's my turn now." " At what is your turn ir" asked the captain. " At swearing," replied Hill. After waiting until his patience was exhausted, the captain urged Mr. Hill to be quick and take his turn, for he wanted to begin again. " No, no," said Hill, " I can't be hur- ried. I have a light to take my own time and swear at my own conveni ence." "Perhaps you don't intend to take vour turn." responded the other. " Pardon me," said Hill, M but I do as soon as I can find the good of doing so." The rebuke had its desired tnect there was not another oath on the voy age. Offensive Breath. The popular term "bad breath" is a very significant expression for this un pleasant condition. What is more offen sive to the acuto olfactory sense than a fetid breath Y It engenders a feeling of aversion and disgust, which is not readi ly overcome. Ureal care should be exercisea in Keep ing the mouth free from all extraneous substances. After each meal, a quill or ivory toothpick should be used to remove any aliment that may have become lodged in the tcetn during tne process, of mastication, and the mouth rinsed with tepid, soft water. Every night, previous to retiring, the teeth should be cleansed with a soft tooth-brush and water. As a rule, tooth pastes and pow dors should be eschewed as harmful agents. If a dentrifice is desired, a lit tle fine toilet soap, or charcoal reduced to an impalpable powder, may be used. This is all that will be required. De cayed teeth are a very prolific source of mephitio breath. As soon as it is ascer tained that a tooth is affected, it should have immediate attention from some competent dentist. Carious teeth are often the source of serious functional and general disturb ance. It sometimes occurs that persons with a number of defective teeth are constantly ailing with either gastric or nervous troubles, when, upon a removal of these unsound members, all the un pleasant symptoms promptly disappear.. It may be well to give a word ot cau tion in regard to diet ; by irregularities in eating, the digestive functions be come impaired, and for want of pro per digestion, the aliment undergoes zymotic change, during which process noxious gases are evolved, aud cause a foul breath. When cases arise from dis ease, it is either of the stomach, lungs, or the respiratory passages. In these cases a physician should be consulted at once. Many substances are in vogue to sweeten the breath, and to disguise any unpleasant scent, as of spirits, tobacco, etc. With the vulgar it is customary to use some pungent aromatic, as cloves, etc., but this savors too strongly of the drinking bar to be used by any but tip plers. The following, used as a mouth wash, will be found excellent. Take chlorate of potosh, three drachms, and dissolve in eight ounces of rose or other medicated water. As an article with which to flavor the breath, there is prob ably nothing equal to the Wild winger (Asarum Canadensis.) It is used by chewing a small portion of the root, or if in powder, it can be mado into a lozengo. It imparts to the breath an agreeable, spicy aroma. Dental Register. Man or Woman The authorities of St. Louis are just now in a quandary over some sort of a being that is capublo of transforming itsult into both man and woman (to all outward appearance), at pleasure. This remarkable personage represents both a man and a woman, as occasion or con venience may require. His (or her) ad vent in St. Louis began with renting elegant apartments for himself and sis ter. The next day tne Bister was tound iu the room, but was not seen to enter. She said her brother had gone out, and would be in towards evening and pay the rent. Watch was kept for the com ing ot tne brother, but no came not. During the vigil of the landlady the brother was seen to go out, who inform ed her that he had given the money to his sister, but ipon repairing to the room no sister could be found. Still later the brother came in, and tho sister was seen to go out, she telling the same story of her brother, but no brother could be tound in the rooms, neither could the parties be found together. This kind of farce was enacted for several days, when the lady of the house think ing she had been bewitched applied to the police for succor, but they could not find the brother in, and failing in get ting her rent, the landlady caused the removal of her mysterious tenant. She next turned up at a hotel where she "sponged" dinners one day as a young man, and next day as a woman. He, she, or rather it, was then arrested and subjected to a medical examination, but oven that tailed to solve the mystery, The doctors looked wise, and shook their heads, declaring their inability to give correct information in regard to its sex. The matter is still being investigated ; in the meantime he is allowed to don such apparel as she chooses, license being given it to that tnect. Moral Influence. The influence of a good example is far- reaching; for our experience and con flicts with the world lead us at times to indulge misanthropio sentiments, and charge all men with selfish and impure motives. The play of pride, prejudice, and passion, and the eagerness manifest ed by the great majority ot men to ad vance their own interests, often at the expense of others, and in violation of the golden rule, cause us to look with sus picion on the best intents of others. Ar rogance, hypocrisy, treachery, and vio lence, every day outrage justice, till we are almost disposed to distrust human nature, and become discouraged. But amid all that is Bad and disheartening in this busy, noisy wo; Id, now and then there is presented to us a lite of such uni form virtue, that we recognize in it I character that brings hope for the perfect development ana ultimate regeneration of our race. Such characters are pre cious, and such examples should be held up to the world for its admiration and imitation ; they should be snatched from oblivion and treasured in the hearts and thoughts of all who are in process of forming habits and maturing character, The Young Men's Christian Conven tion in Washington has decided that it is inexpedient for it to meddle with the subject of the use of tobacco and the question of woman's work in the church. It rightly believes that there are other subjects of much more immediate im portance than either of these the first especially. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Milk in trood for babes. Curd is not ; neither Bhould you let them have their whey. Twenty-six thousand children erenow learning music in the Boston public ( schools. Fifteen thousand of them are so far advanced as to be competent to take part in a musical festival. " What is your consolation in life and death V" asked a Sabbath school super intendent of a young lady in the Bible class, who blushed and said, "id rather be excused from speaking his name." Of the editors of the Cornell Era, just elected by their fellow students, one is a waiter at asoadula place, ana ono, lor merly a member of the Maine Legisla ture, is now working his way through college. A fond mother in Kingston, N. Y., keeps an old-fashioned rocking-chair sitting in a corner as an ornament, be cause in it she has rocked ten babies, all of whom grew up to be men, and are now living and married. The present partners of tho Eoths- childs number some 70 in all, and are the fourth remove from Mayor Aneelm Rothschild, the founder of the great family of Hebrew bankers. In the Friendly Islands, where fifty years ago there was not one native Christian, but gross and unbroken dark ness, the regular attendance on public worship now exceed 30,000, and contri butions to religious objee ts are over $10,000 a year. The Emperor of Germany h reported to be a practical printer. All the mem bers of the royal family of Prussia ate required to learn some trade, aud Wil liam chose typography as the most desi rable craft, and spent three years at the case. An estate' in Germany, valued at $1, 500,000, is said to be seeking, as one of the heirs, Frederick .William Keyser, who served as a Union soldier during our war, and who, when last heard from, was a paroled prisoner, lying seriously ill at Wilmington, N. C. The fortune of Miss Burdett Coutts, recently raised to the peerage by Queen Victoria, is estimated at 10,000,000. She has given to charitable purposes not less than 5,000,000, and will leave large bequests to benevolent institutions after her death. A Chicago German made quite an ad vance toward blotting out his name and memory, the other day, by burning down his house, corn crib, and stables, including 1,500 bushels of corn and three horses, and then cutting his own throat. A clergyman who was lately depict ing the alurminsr increase ot intemper ance, astonished nis hearers by exclaim ing: "A young man in my neighbor hood died very suddenly last Sunday while I was preaching the Gospel in a beastly Btato of intoxication." The Empress Augusta has been in a state of profound mental distress, for a year past, at the disappearance, period ically, of her most valuable articles of jewelry. None of the police could dis cover the thief; but, a few weeks since, one of the Empress s little grandchildren was found to be the culprit. The child had taken the jewels for the benefit of her large family of dolls. From Watertown, Wis., a correspond ent writes to tho Cincinnati Volknreund that, with the exception of a place here and there, the whole of Southeastern Wisconsin is now almost entirely Ger man, and that in tho other portions of the State the native American element is regularly and rapidly retreating. He says that the especially Uerman dis tricts are already too much overpeopled for agricultural operations in the Amer ican method, and a strong tide of emi gration has already set in for Minneso ta, Nebraska and Iowa. The younger sons of farmers are furnished by their parents with money to found homes in those States, and the small farms are bought up by the extensive landholders. Meanwhile immigration from txermany continues and contributes to keep up the price of land. ' A New Orleans paper relates a deplor able circumstance connected with the recent hanging of two Spaniards in that city. The merchant from whom was purchased the rope wherewith the dread sentence of the law was executed, was induced to witness the scene, which made a deep impression on his mind. An hour or so after he returned to his house the evening papers appeared, and while he was reclining in an arm-chair his wife read to him a detailed account of the execution. Suddenly he inter rupted her by exclaiming in a frightened tone, " O, I see them I I see them I" and scarcely had those words escaped when he dropped dead. It is stated that tho deceased gentleman had for some time been afflicted with heart disease, and the impression which the scene at the scaffold made upon him had evidently hastened his death. Mr 8. Jane Swishelin is in favor of men as oooks, and by way of illustration, re lates the following : "I sever knew the significance of the impulse which leads all boys to want to bake griddlecakes, until I saw a French half-breed from Selkirk, beside his ironless cart, on the open prairie, preparing his evening meal. He had a large fish broiling on the coals without any intervention of a gridiron. His batter and his ' flapjacks' were in a bucket. He heated and greased a long-handled sheet-iron frying-pan, poured in enough batter to cover the bottom, set it over the bottom, kept on terenely attending to other matters, aa though no 'flapjacks' were iu danger of being burned, as it would have been if any woman had set it to bake ; but just at the right moment he came up, looked into the pan, took hold of the handle, shook it gently, then with a sudden jerk tent the oake spinning into the air, caught it as it oame down square iu the centre, with the other side up. The cake was turned aa no woman could have turned it, and with an ease whiou showed that the man was ia hit proper sphere."
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