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THE LOST CREED.
14 1 LOVE OSLY YOU."
Love only yon? "Tis asking more,
Believe me, as I live,
: Thau Constancy has got in store,
Ot faith knows how to give.
J Toe daisy fair, the talp tall,
i The lily bright with dew —
I What! slight the whole—rose, pink, and all—
-1 Ar.d love but only yon?
! As fables say, iu days of yore,
When Love vritlt Beauty stray ed,
Ihe it. j.; believed the vows be swore.
The youth believed the maidr
But neither now the book can find
From which fond trust they drew.
And both have lost from heart and mind,
The creed "'I love but you."
Of houri hearts, an hundred score
Are iB the Moslem heaven;
Tbe priest had never less than four,
The prophet less than aeven;
t When but lor one the patriarch prayed,
Kind fate assigned bim two;
I'd be afraid, my charming maid.
To love but only you.
'"Still only you Was ever man
Perplexed like this before?
By Jove! I'll love you ail I can,
And who can promise more?
I'll call you mine, dove, dear, divine;
But. honor bright and true,
I do declare, 1 dare not swear
To lave but "only v. n."
THREE WORDS OF STRENGTH.
There are three lessons I would write —
Three words as with a burning pen —
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men.
| Have hope. Though clouds environ now,
And giu lness hides her face in scorn,
Put then the shadow from tby brow;
No night but hath its mom.
. Have faith. Where'er thy bark is driven— j
The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth— j
Know this; God rules the host of heaven.
The inhabitants of earth.
Have love. And not alone for one,
But man, as man, thy brother call;
And scatters, like the circling snn,
Thy charities on all.
Thus grave the lessons on thy soul —
Hope. Faith ami Love —and thou shall find
Strength when life's surges cease to roll.
Light wbeu thou elae wero blind.
pfoccHanwus.
EMPRESS AND EMPEROR OF THE
FRENCH.
BY BURLEIGH.
Tl; u; A popular lady in France, without
. qu"-; Em press. She is benignant
I i : i • ar.'i handsome. Her beauty i
a f Tit will not fade. She is really a
1 : talent. She is the wisest and
:. . it ti :. of the Imperial advisers. She
:s i Urn-... Hoard, and discusses
with tl. ministry matters of State. She
ha • ;• ; presided a- Regent, iu the absence
if tlr IT tor. She ispromptand effi
siect, pn-i its with great tact, and holds
the Imp rial Senate sharply to the questions
her husband wi-hes liiscussfcd. In appear
iTv-e. she in marked contrast to the nobility
af Fr.tnee. She i tall and genteel in form,
a complexion of alabaster whiteness, and a
peculiar taste in dressing that the word Ele
gant fitly represents. On the other hand,
the French ladies arc short and fat, with a
dumpy kind of look an untidy way of wear
ing their hair, and an expression of coarst
ne-s on their features. They have great
-aric for ether people, but very little for
themselves. Were she dressed as plainly as
a governess, aud bore no insignia ot royalty
about her, the Empress would be at once
selected in the midst of a thousand French
women, bv her personal appearance and her
ta*te indicated in her dress. She is aD ac
tive friend toali forms of want: she goes the
rounds of tbe hospitals, private as well as
national. Fhe never goes empty banded,
but, in the humblest abode, leaves some
token of her kind heart. Her heroic con-
Juct during the late visit of the cholera will
never lie forgotten. There was a panic in
Paris, and even paid nar-se* fled from the
r • dsi ie of the ffitffercrs. Ifressed in the
simp'. -• garb, the Empress went through
1 all the cholera wards, administered cordials,
mt'iicio. and-delicacies with her own hand;
shamed the timid, called ont the brave, al
layed tit pun;.-, and became the idol of the
nation. Sue understands the temper_ of
: France, and d - mm h towards keeping
down the di-ritent which always exists to
some extent in the gay capital. The work
men mast have work, or tbe Throne is
insecure, ihe lovers of pleasure —and they
■ are counted by tens of tbonsands —must
have their am i- tnent*. or barricade fill the
streets. The gay promenade from the gates
of the Tuilcr e* to the Triumphal arch,
known a- tl. • Champ d'Kiysee, is filled every i
day by an immense throng, who occupy
the chairs that fill the entire pathway. On
one side of this avenue are booths, and tents
and gardens fall of hobby horses, toys, mimic j
theatres, pantomime, .and cheap amuse-
I ments for the million. Along this Boule
vard roil the carriages of the nobles and
S officers of State. Every day, the elegant
cortege of the Emprc-s can be seen rolling
up and dowv- this brilliant thoroughfare—
soiueUui's the Emperor by her side, some
times the Prince Imperial, often alone.
While the Emperor sit* crouched in the
corner of Lis carriage, scowling look of
discontent and annoyance, the Empress is
kind and complacent to al!. Her forehead
is broad and high, her look benignant, but
searching. To the humblest sweep or work- •,
man who lifts his hat to her, she returns a
gracious bow. On the day the Exposition
wa- pfßffil. he -c-emed to enjoy herself like
a seli- cl-girl. Chatting with tbe exhibitors ,
rla> ping her hands in ee-tacy over some
is,ar \ i-1 6f invention, tarrying behind while
her "iietit he-band strode on, running to
•v rtok • him. tiarting into this alcove and !
then i .that, visibly excited at the hearty 1
cheer* I'roui the English and Americans —
who -joined to give the royal pair a warm
recept; n, —drinking in the full enjoyment
of tlf- a-:- n, and taking no core to con-,
al it. A devoted Catholic, tbe has a
Pro!. -1: t governess and tutor for the
Prince Imperial.
I The Emperor is stout and heavy. Those
A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, INDI CATION, UTKRATUHE AND MOUALS.
who talk of his breaking, and of his sickly
and declining appearance, know nothing ot
what fhey speak. His took is that of talent
and mental strength. No portraits do him
justice. He is a bad walker. His legs are
short and very disproportioned to his body,
which gives him a diminutive h k. He is
fond of horseback riding, bee LsO he sits
well and is a good rider. But he is seldom
now on horseback except at reviews. Hia
favorite horse fe a bright hay, brought from
j Hungary. This horse is stout, strong and
• intelligent He understands the movements
of the army as well as the General-in-Chief.
I No money could buy hita. The Emperor
: seldom rides, except in state with Lb pos
tillions and outriders. He dresses very
plainly, u-uaiiy in a black suit; latterly he
affcets the gray coat of his uncle. As a
I man he is not popular; he b cold, austere
j silent, and soiien. L . -situde and imps
j tience blend in his dominion. He has the
i appearance of being tired, lie b greeted
with very little enthusiasm when he ap
pears in public, partly from the fact that
he pays no attention to the shouts of the
populace. In his afternoon drives he comes
out in state in an open carriage, and rides
; slowly, that the populace who never tire of
; looking on the imperial eortege, may be
; gratified. _ .
In the Great Exposition there is a chapel
fitted up for Protestant worship. It was
i dedicated by the United Protestant (.'htlTeh.
The Earl of Shaftesbury, a peer of England
presided at the opening. Bibles transla
i ted into every language are for sale, aud
Protectant books in every tongue. France
lisa Catholic country. Great efforts were
made to prevent this feature of the cxhibi
i tion from taking place. But the Emperor
j said that this was an exhibition for all na
! '.ions, and every religion should be equally
i re j-re-Anted and have the fullest freedom,
i The Empress, as a friend of toleration, had
| much to do with this arrangement. No
man in the world, probably, devotes more
hours to business than the Emperor. He
lis the State. The ministers and senators
i are mere clerks to do hb bidding. A por
tion of the day is devoted strictly to the
•affairs of government. A part oi the Tuil
■ ties b the office of state. Guards tramp
. around; couriers come and go; the whole j
-cene is lively and exciting till three o'clock,
j when the offices close, and the imperial car
: riatre drive* up for the usual ride.
The Tuilleries, now united with the ;
: Louvre, form a vast quadrancle. The pot- j
; tion fronting on the Champ d'Eiysee is the ;
imperial residence, it is shut off from the
I great square inside the quadrangle by a tail
iron fence. Opposite the great gateway i>
i the Arch of Victory erected by Napoleon
i the First, under which the Emperor's ear
! riage drives. Tbe rest of the palace is a*
little like the abode of royalty a3 can be
imagined. There is no privacy about the
| palace. A narrow strip of ground, in which j
is grass and flowers, is shut off from the !
garden of the Tuileries by a low iron ten -t
--fhe main entrance to the palace is in fob
view of the multitude, where men tramp al; j
the day long, and vans, cabs, omnibuses, j
butchers' carts, and grocery wagons, cro -
and ruorooK all the day What are called 1
the elegant gardens of "the palace are -.in!-!-
a vast plot of ground inclosed within the
iron gates without a *pear ofgross anywhere
hard and coarse gravel meeting the eye in
every direction, with immense >itu tret's
growing up out of the hard unwilling soil
A sickly fountain, not over clean, does its
best to mellow the hard aspect of the place.
In joining the Louvre with the Tuileries,
the emperor has erected a gallery to his
own name. lie calls it the Gallery of Na
poleon the Third. It b one of the most in
teresting spots in Barb. It is full of the ;
trophies of the Idol of France, Here are
seen various dresses of the emperor, from j
the garb be wore when, a subaltern, he saw
the mob attack the Tuiiler e-. and lead Ijoui*
NYI. forth a prisoner, to tbe dress he wore !
at St. Helena. Ills camp stools and sad
dles—his ehrir a- consul and throne as em- j
peror—the rube u which he was crowned [
—his court dresses and royal saddles—tbe
bed on which he slept—the cradle and court
dress of the King of Home. Hours can be
spent with great interest in this gallery. It
is usually filled with soldiers. Their love
for the emperor is very touching. The iron
fence that surrounds the Column \ or. do me
is hung thick with garlands, which the sol
diers place and renew from time to time.
With uncovered head and silent tramp, they
may be found in great numbers at the Tomb
of the Great Captain whenever the public
are admitted.
All the acts of Napoleon betray a sense of
insecurity, and indicate that the tenure by
which he holds his throne is not firm.
When he became emperor hb first act was
to remove the pavement in front of bis pal
ace. The good work he has kept up till the
stones have been taken from all the streets
and boulevards, and the McAdamixed path
way substituted. Immense boulevards, all j
radiating from a common centre, where- can
non can be planted if need be, have replaced
the narrow, dangerous streets, where
crowds defied the authorities and harkrd
down huge stones on the soldiers. It was a
long time before the Emperor felt safe in
the Tuilieries. He does not even now u-c
the state carriage. It is too rnaguifieent,
and has too many unwelcome associations
connected with it to be in common u-c. It
i- notjeven kept in Para, but is on show at
Versailles. The Erv,peror rode in it at his
marriage and at the christening of the
Prince Imperial, but it b too suggestive for
daily wear.
The Prince Imperial b a lad of about a
dozen summers. He is handsome and
manly. He has his mother's beeuty. but
bear- about the same relari n to f * father
in talent that the young King of Rome did
to Napoleon the First, He ha* been tapebt
self reliance, and does not regard himself as
a boy. A toy carriage was made lor biui
|by one of the great builders of the city. In
its way it was quite a gem. With the car
riage came a couple of miniature ponies not
much bigger than cats. The Prince turned
away in disdain from the bauble, and order
ed it to be placed in the stables on exhibi
tion, where it now remains. He i the
President of the Exposition. He l;;t- a
complete establishment at Altuy a- Hr Ap
parent to tbe thioue. He has fifty hor-ss
j and ponies, and a complete set cf carriages
j and outriders, all in imjierial style. He is
; quite a soldier, is a member of the Imperial
(xuard, and can put abattallion through the
! exercise equal to aDy drill-master in the
army.
m
A Woe strolling with a friend throogh a
' country church-yard called attention to a
' grave, tbe stone of which bad no came or
inscription on it. "This," said H., "is the
j grave of the notorious gambler. Mr.B . ;
J Yon observe that there is no name recorded
1 on the headstone, but I think I could saggest !
an appropriate epitaph.,,
"What- would you suggest," inquired his
j friend.
I "Waiting for the list trump. " was the
1 reply.
A NOOSE TAPER— A marriage certificate.
BEDFORD, Pjv.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1868.
AN EXTRAORDINARY INVENTION, j
A Steam IMan.
The following story of a remarkable tne- i
chanical invention is told by the Newwark j
(N. .J.) Advrrtiktr.
"Mr. Zadoek Lcddricb, a Newark ma- |
chinist. has invented a man; one that, •
moved by steam, will perforin some of the
mo-l important functions of humanity: that
will, standing upright, walk or run, as he is
bid, in any direction, and at almost any rate
of speed, drawing after biui a toad whose
weight would tax the strength of three
stout draught horses. The history of this
curious invention i as follows. Six years
ago Mr. Deddriek, the inventor who is at
pre-ent but twenty-two y ars of age, con
ceived the novel idea of r,i ii-trueting a man
that should receive its vitality from a per
petual motion machine. The idea was'bas
ed on the well-known oaechanktl principle
that if a heavy weight be placed at the top
of an upright slightly inclined from a verti
cal, gravitation will tend to produce a hori
zontal as well as a vertical motion. The
project was not successful. However, by
observing carefully the cause of the failure,
preserving and perfecting the man-form,
and by substituting steam in place of per
petual motion machine the present success
wa attained.
The man stands seven feet nine inches
high, the other dimensions of the body be
ing correctly proportioned, making him a
second Daniel Lambert, by which name he
is facetiously spoken of among the work
men. He weighs five hundred pounds.
Steam is generated in the body or trunk,
which is nothing but a three horse power
engine, like those used in our steam fire
engines. The legs which support it are
complicated and wonderful. The steps are
taken very naturally and quite easily. A--
the body is thrown forward upon tbe ad
vanced foot, the other is lifted from the
ground by a -pring and thrown forward by
a spring and thrown forward by the steam.
Each step or pace advances the body two
feet, and every revolution of the engine is
capable of making more than a thou-and
revolutions n minute. As thi- would be
working the legs faster than would be safe
j on uneven ground, or on Broad street eob
| file stones, it is proposed to run ;he engine
!at the rate of five hundred revolution per
minute, which would walk the msn at the
! modest speed of half a mile a minute,
i The fellow is attached to a common Rock
t away carriage, the shafts of which serve to
j support him in a vertical position. These
-hairs are two liars of iroa. fastened in the
usual manner to the front of the carriage,
and are curved so as to be joined to a circu
lar sustaining bar. which passes around the
waist, and in which the man moves so a* to
face in any direction Re-rides these mo
\ tions. machinery has been arranged by
i which the figure can be thrown backward or
j forward from a verticle nearly forty-five de
i greet-. This is done in order to enable it to
! ascend or descend all grades. To the soles
] of the feet spikes or corks are fixed which
i effectually prevc-nt slipping. The whole
affair is so firmly sustaiped by the shaft
und .that two
men are uoahie to push U over, or m any
way throw it down. In order to enable it
to stopqnicfclv. it is provived with two ap
pliances, one of which will as before stated,
throw it backward from the vertical, while
the other bends the knees in a direction op
posite to the natural position.
"An upright post, which is arranged in
front of the dash-board, and within easy
reach of tbe front seats, -astaios two minia
ture pilot wheels, by the turning of which
these various motions and evolutions are
j directed. It is expected that a sufficiently
: large amount of coal can be stowed awa .
i under the back seat of the carriage to work
i the engine for a day, and enough water in a
: tank under the front s-at to ia-t half a day.
"In order to prevent tbe'giant' from
I frightening horses by his wonderful appear
; anee. Mr. Deddric-k ir.r ndsto clothe it, and
I civeit. as nearly a-r pf'-.-ible, a likeness to
the rest of humanity. The boiler and such
parte as are nece=-ariiy heated will be encas
ed in felt or woolen under garments. Pant
loons. coat and vest of the latest styles, are
j provided. Whenever the fire? need eoai
imr. which is every two or three hour?, the
driver stops the machine descends from his
seat, unbutton- 'Dani' lV vest, opens the
door, shovels in the fuel, buttons up tbe
vest and drives on. On the back between
the shoulders the steam cocks and guages
are placed. A-these would cause the coat
to s-1 awkwardly a knapsack has been pro
vided that completely covers the®. A
blanket neatly rolled up and placet! upon
top of the knap-ack perfects the delusion.
The face is moulded into a cheerful counte
nance of white enamel, which contrasts
. well with tbe dark hair and moustache. A
; sheet iron bat with a guagc top acts as a
i smoke stack.
' "The cost of this 'first man' is £2,000,
though the makers, Messrs. Deddriek i
Gras*c, expect to manufacture succeeding
ones, warranted to run a year without re
pair, for s.>oo. The same parties ■ ,-t
ta construct, on the same principle, horses
which will do the duty of ten cr twelve or
dinary animals of tbe same species. These
it i* confidentially believed, can be used
j alike before carriages, streetcars and plows.
1 The man now constructed can make hi- way
J without difficulty over any irregular surface
whose ruts and stones arc net mire than
j nine in hes below or above tbe level of the
j road."
A TRAVELLER.— Mr. Christian Friedrieh
j Schatfer, a German traveller, arrived in
Melbourne, having come > overland from
i Sydney, the greater part of the way on foot,
Mr. Sehafer is of dwarfish stature, from the
effects of an accidental injury tu the_ spine,
received in youth; but in spite of this pliy
sieal drawback he has. during the last fifteen
years, travelled ovet a great part of the sur
face of the world, and mostly as a pedestri
an. He has in this manner passed through
every country in Europe, through Asia
Minor, Syria. Egypt, North Africa, and
across the width ot North America.from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, on foot, and alone.
I He has, in the eourse of hi- wandering?,
compiled a large mass ol ebservatiofis on the
customs and character of the various popu
lations throueh which he has passed; and,
moreover, carries with htm a book of cre
dentials, in which his passports are attach
ed, and in which he has an assemblage of
autographs of potentates, embassadors, gen
erals, governors, consuls, mayors and nian
j dirios, which, when hi? tour ;s Completed,
I will be a unique and most interesting eolioc
: tion. He proposes to make a complete
j tour of these colonies, and to pass through
Eastern A-ia (India and China), fiuL-bing
j his long rambling? by a bold journey on foot
| through Russian Tartary back fb his home.
THF. Portland Prt* says that present in
dications are that the constabulary law, at
least will be considerably modified next win
i ter. if not altogether abolished, and that the
' action taken will meet the full approbation
{ of many of the leaders in the temperance
' reform.
TIIE CHRISTIAN WORLD.
! The Rtformtd Church Monthly is the
! title of a new magazine ju*t commenced at
! Philadelphia, under the editoxal control of
. Rev Dr. Bomberger, Prof. J. It. Good, ami
Rev. J. H. Klein. Its protested aim and
; character, are indicated i>y its name. IVe
copy from it the following etottsrieo;
A general n view of the statistics of
Christianity at the present time will be an
appropriate preface : o facts of a more spe
cial character. The figures will be regarded
of eourse, a- presenting the closest known
approximation to fact-.
The population of the world may be set
down at 1,2- VXjC,OOO. In a religions view
these are classified as follows:
Nominally Christian,
This iuetndea:
Th Kvangtlical Cathoßr Church,
[m-.stlv memberf.V.t't.S.VS.ltga
The Romish Church, (population,}... 182,641,000
The Greek Church, 7 j.hoa.tto-o
N. ll.—ln the Kotnish and Greek Uhur
ebes the whole population is given. Iu the
Evangelical Churches only tbe actual mem
bers are commonly reckoned. Hence the
apparent numerical difference.
The Evangelical Catholic Church may be
classified under the following head?:
Reformed, numbering 15,200,000. This
includes the following branches:
1. Churches bearing the general title Re
formed, as that of Germany, Switzerland,
France, Holland, Hungary, etc.. in Europe,
and tbe Reformed (Dutch) and {German)
Reformed Churches in America, 13.300* —
000.
2. The various branches of the Presbyte
rian Church, in Scotland, England, Ireland,
America, and mission stations, numbering
in members, 1,900,000.
Lutherans, numbering 57.5b4,000. Under
this title are included the Lutheran Chur
ches of Germany proper, Sweden, N'orwav.
and other European countries, and of Ame
rica.
Episcopalians, including the Church In
Great Britain, the Canada?, the fjnir' i
State.?, etti, numbering 14.200,G0T
Methodists, of all tranches, in the United
States, and other countries, member.-. 2.91 <*•
Baptists, member-, . fall branches in the
United States, etc., 2,500,0"'1.
Moravian-, m- oiL; re, 10V.000.
Congregations;it*t.-. members, 1.420>' •
In the preceding cia-.-itieation, the tit.e
K'-'jnc/tCc'il Cof/Wii- Ch celt, has been in
tcotionaity used to de-ignatc what are eom
ajonty called Prclextern' Chtircket. Tab is.
indeed, a somewhat r.w term. But it is -o
obvioo-ly proper on h Tories! and di><;riua
ground.? that no defence of it* use will fe
required. In compuris n with the Romish
and Greek Churches of Christendom have
the best claim to true Catholicity, a- well a
all other < -jutial attributes of the troe
Church of the Loid Jesn- Christ. Of
c ursc, open and half-d.'-gnbed advocate*of
Romanism wiii.-mer at tl.i- a* an unwarran
ted innovation upon long established U-ac".
But their motive in any such rid! uie, i
sufficientiy apparent. They are an willing to
relinquish the pre-lice of the Catholic nam-.-
as.-uuvwl to; *"• t—sxiOiowd Church of
n , ,o. Let them prove our use of i't.-a titL
to be wrong. Until then this monthly will
continue to call the various branches <
Evangelical Protestantism the Evangelical
Catholic Church.
AN IMPORTANT FEAT! RE OF THE
PAST YEAR CLTLSLNKAL
COL -M ILS.
EIGHTEEN HLXDBED AND SIXTY-SEVEN
will, in many respects, occupy in tbe church
bi-tory oi the nieetc nth century a promi
nent place, but it will be chiefly noted for
the number of important eu Tesia-ftcal as
?t-uibiie:> w'.i-h were held during the year.
In all jstrt- :v:,i in ail division- of the Chris
tian woili there is an irresistible tendency
i ward a more cc-mj.kte union, and a more
perfect organization of those who are bour.d
together by the same doctriu d view.?. In
the Protestant world this universal desire
fed io another g- neral m- rir.c of the Evan
gelieal Alliance, which wa- he'd at Amster
dam, and wa- attended by delegates from
all parts of the world. The interest in thc
organaatioo and the objects of tbe AUianc.
is obviously increasing in all the evangelical
c-hurcbes, and the common conviction that
there sfc >aid be periodical councils of dele
gates from all the evangelical churches of
the world, is likely to secure soon a better
organization of the Alliance, and a more
general participation in its meetio^
One of the largest denominations of
Christians, the Anglican Church, held, in
lhfT, the first general meeting of all ifo
bishops. This first "Pan Anglican Synod"
is to be periodically followed by others, and
wa? intended to be the first step toward the
consolidation o! the different branches of the
Church into one coin man ion with one com
mon government. Iha Lterarchtal charac
ter of the Synod, which consisted ot bishop*
only, gave great offence even to many mem
bers-I'the Church: but the idea that na
tional barriers should not cause an absolute
separation of members of the same creed,
cannot fail to meet with both approval and
imitation among other churches, fhe _eir
cQoistaocc that tbe Anglican Church is in a
slate of transition r. -. party in it claiming
a Protestant character for the Church, and
the other disowning any cotutuuni-.n or sym
pathy with Prote-unti-rn. and desiring a
closer union with the Oriental churches —
ctves to the "Paii-Anglican .?vnod a spe
cial importance. Many, both in the Angli
can a ii in the Oriental Churches, expect
that the Pan Anglican meetines of Bishop*
will, in the course ol lime, he fob wed by
joint meetings of Anglican and Eastern
Bishops.
In tbe Church of Lome, the I ope _ha.-
dccmed it neces-ary, iu view of the serious;
dangers threatening hi? temporal power, to
call an assembly of all the Bishops o! the
Church of Rome. A- the proceedings of alt
i these meetings in the Church of R .me are
: secret, the inten -t in them is chiefly con
fined to the inq >dDg ceremonies with which
i they are held, flhe meeting this tear do
; rives a somewhat greater importance from
| the fact that both the Pope and tbe Bishop?
j expressed a desire fe.r the speedy convoca
j tion of a regular (Ecumenical Council.
' which it is thou-lit may meet in the course
| of the year loo?.
FEMALE ATTIRE. —It women would only
let their own hair be just bound down asa
natural covering to their heads when om of
doors, would clothe their bodies senaiWy
without pinching themselves into hideously
unnatural shapes, would wear well-shaped
boots in which they might walk comfortably
arid taste the pleasures of exercise, there
! would soon be an end to that representative
class of the female ?;-x about whom doctors
know a great deal. The race of chlorotic
girls, of aiiing wive? *o 1 inefficient mothers
• would be improved. The ,-croful is, con
sumptivo, dyspeptic, pimpled women who
; : crowd the physk-utna waiting-roouis. aud
! fiw&How every advertised renicdy, from
I j Parr's pills te Pancreatic emulsion, would
i no loDger need medicine. — Lancet.
VOI,I ME 41: NO. t
THEY WON'T THOI BLE YOU Lose.
Children grow up—nothing on earth grow 0
solaetas children. It was bat yesterday,
and that lad was playing with tops, a bouy
unt boy. lie i- a man. and gone now! There
is no more childhood tor him orfor ua. Life
has claimed him. When a beginning is
to. •:, it is like a raveling stocking; stitch by
itieh gives way till all are gone. The honse
has not a child in it—there is no more
noise in the hall—boys rushing peilmeii; it
i- very orderly now. There are no more
skates or sleds, bats, balls or strings left scat
tered about. Things are neat enough now.
There is no delay for sleepy folks; there is
n i >ncer any task, before yon lie down,
<•1 looking after any body and tucking up
the bedclothes. There are no disputes to
w. tti , no body to get off to school, no corn-
I'hint. no importunities tor impossible
things, no rins to mend, no fingers to tie up,
no faces to be washed, or collars to be ar
ranged. There was never sucb peace in the
house ! It would sound like music to have
some feet to clatter down the front stairs!
Oh for some children's noise! What nsed to
ail us, that we wer hushing their loud
lau.:h,_ cheeking their noisy frolic, and
re pro vim- their slamming and hanging the
doors?
We wish our neighbors would only lend
us an urchin or two tomake a little noise in
these premises. A home without children!
It is like a lantern and no candle; a garden
and no Cowers; a vine and no grapes; a
brook and no water gurgling and gushing in
its clianeh- We want to be tired, to be
vested, to be run over; to hear children at
work with aH its varieties. During the secular
da . this i- enough marked. But it is the
S .bbath that puts our homes to the proof.
That is the Christian family day. The inter
val- : f public worship are long spaces of
; s"€. The ft,rally seems made up on that
la;. Tito children are at home. You can
lay your Lands upon their heads. They
- :u to recognise tie greater and lesser
1 v to God and to ftiends. The house
i i ful, but not -till. There is a low
in tr, ions thrill of children in it. But
its S th TIK - too still now. There is
a -dei that aches in the car. There is
t :> tit. .. room at the table, too much at
the 1. ar:K The bedrooms arc a world to
re i- too much leisure, and
• > lb:' c ■ Alas! what mean these
th - ? 1■ - embody crowing old? Are these
-An- end t kens? Is life waning?— Henry
: i.'.K A- ; ; ites. The Philadelphia
.V J ~ contributes another batch
if - of the members of the bar.
which wo reproduce;
A ' rated lawyer of this city once said
th the thr : tup-t troublesome clients he
i •r h i v -re a young lady who wanted to
:rt /. c married woman who wanted
a an old maid who didn't know
• -he wanted.
Mr. i- a very presentable young
| >n, sail a fashionabie lady to Mr. B.
I "{ .-rtaitiiy, s=aid the latter, '7/y a grand
-
A attorney had furni-hed the brief of a
laikt > COTUBSti, LLC counsel Lmvinrr
laiined if. made the following indorse
ut : ' The defendant has no rate —abuse
j■j 'twtij}."
At. a fatuous bar dinner, where the gen
icti were Ireely toasted, a famous puns
■ r crank "To the Lee* of the Philadel
a Bar." which a lawyer of the name of
L •' iiok in great dudgeon, and it led to a
lasting feud. I
A rmsn applied to Judge Stroud to be
-• hi-ved from sitting upon a jury. "What
-> ■ ■urexcus'.-.-aid Lis Honor. "I can't
*k Kr . lish," was the reply. "You
i ,ve nothTig to do with speaking," said the
Judge. "But I can't understand go>>d
' That's no excuse," replied
the Jimlj !. "YOU are not likely to hear
co-d Enriish at this bar."
I'mine the trial of Hadway fortreason
!• re Judge Gricr, many of the jurors ap
phed to t excused, at which the Judge be
came a litl" annoyed. Finally, Mr.
applied in behalf of a highly respectable
•A d teacher. "Tut! tut!" said the
Judge, "can y u give any possible reason
why lAw l discharge this man? ' "Yes."
said Mr. B. "My reason is a proverbial
reason" — " That th< schoolmaster should be
abroad, II- was di-charged.
In a ease <•> great irritation, one of the
counsel, usually a mild and amiable gentle
man, became so much excited as to seize a
-heet of paper and threw it violently against
bis adversary, exclaiming, ' 'There, now sir,
consider yourself struck. "Very well,
replied the other, with imperturable com
posure. "I do, and you will please to consid
er yourself shot.
HOW A FRENCH OFFICER MAR
RIES.
An officer in the French army finds it no
very simple matter to get married. He has
first to make a formal request of his Colonel
or r nr-siun. He certifies to the condi
tion in lite and moral stand of the bride
. ket Tlsa Colonel sends the demand to
the Genera! commanding the department,
who?- - it t> the General commanding
dtvi-i a. If the bride lives in another
district, he write- to his fellow-officer of the
divi.-if nin which she does live. The de
n-r !tl n dts : nd? tbe scale from the Dt
vi-i 3 Genera! to the Brigadier, who writes
to |f„; '..1 de place, who consultsa
conimi— ; iter ol police and a mayor: then
tb" ma- >r and commissioner reply to the
, la I dace who re plies to the
Pi n Geo; ral, who sends his answer to
hi r :'cre. ihe demand then goes to a
marshal, and if he does not exact any
<r ther information, he proposes to the
NT 5 ■ sterol' War to ratify the permission;
.-nniing from the hands of the postman, the
packet is ensealed by a clerk, who adds a
. .ii. a -übordinate reads it, sends it to
another clerk, who puts a number above
and records the number on another sheet of
r,, r. with an analysis of the affair: thw
. is then signed by achief and sub-chief,
then coo? to a director, who sends it to the
c de I reav, he gives it to his deputy,
t; aan orderly clerk reinscribes the num-
U-r f the packet, registers it, and sends it
to another, who makes a report of the anal
v-i.-. The three members of the last bureau
then record tbe whole, the chief then signs
it. submits it to the director, who submits
if to the minister, who accepts or refuses,
lt'th- bride and groom are still living when
t':o arrancements are concluded, and think it
v. rth while to get married for the little
time they have to live, the marriage is con
summated.
Mr. T. P. BARK AS states that the sur
£u* of the suo Las become much disturbed,
and that there i? at present upon his disc
-pot.<f remarkable magnitude and dear
tic.-.-, The approximate length of the spot
i? siM><-'i and its width 30,000; and so
treßd-fined is it, that it can easily he seen
by the naked eye when protected by colored
gk. The spot forms a beautiful object
for telescopes of very moderate power.
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TOBACCO AJID " HARD TUBES."
Now a days bow often do we hear people
complaining of hard times! They are poor;
they find it bard to provide for their daily
wants; they have nothing to give to the
caufiu of God. And yet how much of thia
want and destitution arises from their own
bad habits! Just read the following para
graph:—
A merchant of New York, lately on a vio
iting and collecting tour in Diinoia, waa dis
gusted and shocked at the enormous tobso
co chewing and smoking, which he day by
day witnessed. It seemed to him a practice
almost universally indulged in by youM and
old, in every rank and condition of life.
One day this same merchant, while travelling
from one place to another, on a railroad, re
solved to find out how many persons in the
car m which he was seated used this filthy
weed. There were twenty-two men ana
two women present, and eighteen men of
the number admitted that they used tobac
co. at a cost in an aggregate, of three hun
dred and eighty-seven dollars per annum.
Each man made his own individual esti
mate, which was given and put down in a
memorandum-book, and the total footing
was as we have stated. Now this would be
an average of about seventeen dollars per
individual. That would be too high an av
erage estimate, of course, for the whole pop
ulation of the State. At only three dollars
for each inhabitant, the total would be three
million dollars. Now, that enormous amount
of money distributed in Illinois, would make
easy times. We won'tgo into the subject of
drinking, in this connection, further than to
say we believe that it will cost Illinois two
million dollars in rum, whisky, etc, to wash
down, or wash out, the effect of the three
million dollars thus wasted in tobacco.
WINTER IN CALIFORNIA,
There are two kinds of winter in Cali
fornia, a wet and a dry winter. The present
season has been a wet one, and its phe
nomena are peculiar. This wet winter opens
with a 6evere rain-storm in December, which
interrupts, mining and travel in the interior,
floods many of the valleys, and does more
or lesser damage to shipping and building
along the coast. During this storm there
falls upon the great water shed of the Sierra
Nevada from twenty to thirty inches of
rain, which is thence drained into all its
gorges, and poured at last into two principal
valley channels of rather narrow and shal
low dimensions. The flood that follows ia
simply inevitable. The flood of the present
season has not been quite as disastrous is
that of some previous winters, but the
destruction has nevertheless been consider
able. Probably thousands of square miles of
bottom land along the Sacramento and Sau
Joaquin rivers and their largest confluents
are under water, and will remain so lor a
considerable time.
The mountain streams have risen from ten
to tweDty-five feet, and many bridges
destroyed and mining claims filled up. The
experience of former seasons has taught the
people of these regions to adopt various
precautions against disaster. Houses and
cattle haTe been saved on mounds, and
town a protected hp lev*** That of SaCTlc
mento has proved a complete defense this
season, and other towns have also escaped
the flood through the same means. So that
taken altogether, there is reason to hope
that the present winter, though nearly as
wet, will not be nearly as destructive as
those of some previous years, notably those
of 1861-1862
A SrcrEXDOCS Ttnnel.— The most stu
pendous mnnel enterprise has lately been
accomplished at the silver mines in the Ger
man Hartz Mountains. The mines were over
3,000 feet deep and the scaroeity of fuel pre
vented the use of steam for pumping, wnich
was done by water wheels, aided by tunnel
drains. But the great depth reached in
1859 precluded further progress in that
manner, and a tunnel was commenced for
deep drainage which is just now finished.
This tunnel is 22 miles long; two mil
lion cubic yards of solid rock were excavated,
ten thousand pound* of powder used, and
the linear extent of blasting holes drilled is
18" miles. Naturally, on the successful com
pletion of this collossal work, thirty two thou
sand miners, whose livelihood is now assured
for twenty years, celebrated the event with
grand rejoicing. The mines can be worked
until 1887 without steam.and they have been
operated since the year 926 in continuous
production. _
A GENTLEKAX called on a rich miser and
found him at the table endeavoring to catch
a fly. Presently he succeeded in entrapping
one, which be immediately put into the
sugar-bowl and shut down the cover. The
gentleman asked for an explanation of thie
atuerolar sport. "I'll tell you," replied the
miser, a triumphant grin overspreading hie
countenance as be spoke. "I want to see
if the servants steal the sugar."
' BILL, did you ever go to sea ?"
"I guess I did; last year, for instance, I
went to see a red-headed girl, but I only
went there once."
"Why so?"
"Because her brother had an unpleasant
habit of throwing boot-jacks and smoothing
irons at people.'' _
PAYING THE DEBT or NATCBJL—NO; it
is not paying a debt, itis rather like bringing
a note to a bank to obtain solid gold for it.
In this case you bring this combrous body,
which is nothing worth, and which you
would not wish to retain long*, you lay H
down and receive for it, from the eternal
treasury, liberty, knowledge, rapture.—Pot
ter. m <
A CBRTAIN deacon, being accustomed to
snore while asleep in church, received the
following polite note: "Deacon Smith is re
quested not to commence snoring to-morrow
until the sermon is begun, as some persons
in the neighborhood of his pew would like
to hear the text"
OPEN your heart to sympathy, TAT close
it to despondency. The flower which opens
to teceive the dew, shuts against rain.
TRCE goodness is like the glowworm. It
shines most when no eyes except those of
heaven are upon it
A LIVE tarkey would seem to be less
noisy than a dead one, for one makes only
a din, the other a dinner.
WHAT bird is that which is absolutely
necessary to make a dinner, and yet need
neither be cooked nor served up? A swal
low.
WHT is a selflsh friend like the letter Pf
Because, though the first in pity, he is the
last in help.
"WE SEE," said Swift, in one of his most
sarcastic moods, "what God thinks of rich
es, by the people be gives them to."
MEN of genius are often eclipsed in soci
ety by men who talk gay nothings.