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AN IMPROMPTU.
Y OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
When Eve bad led her lord astray
And Cain had killed his brother,
The stars and Sowers, the poets say
Agreed with one another.
To cheat the cunning tempter's art,
And teach the race its duty,
By keeping os Its wicked heart
Their eyes of light, and bcaaty.
A million sleepless lids they say,
Would be at least a warning;
And so the flowers would watch by day—
The stars from night till morning.
On hill and prairie, field and lawn,
Their dewy eyes upturning,
The flowers still watch from red'ning day
Till Western skies are burning.
Alas I each hour of daylight tens
A tale of shame so /trashing,
That some turn white as sea side shells,
As some are always blushing.
But when the gentle stars look down
On all their light discovers—
The traiter's smile, the murderer's frown,
The lips of djing lovers—
They try to shut their saddening eyes
And in the vain endeavor,
We see them twinkling in the skies—
And so they sink forever.
gUsrrikncmi.s.
MONEY MAKING— BUSINESS TAL
ENTS.
We are taught in the Bible that the love
of money is the root of all evil. Day by day
we have illustrations ol this truth ; yet by
most men it is practically disbelieved. Very
few will admit that they love money too
much ; yet such people are more numerous
than is generally supposed. The rich, so
called, are not always the most guilty of this
sin ; neither are the poor the most innocent.
Loving money too much pre-supposes a
disposition to use improper means to obtain
it. One class of men will exercise their
bu-iness talents fairly and honorably to ob
tain money; another class will seek it by
fraud or dishonesty. Cost what it will they
will have money.
Because a man acquires wealth rapidly, it
does not follow that he loves money any
more than his neighbor, who earns hardly a
living.
A millionaire may be a very generous
hearted, benevolent man, and not love
uionoy a whit more than a pauper.
The man who works hard year in and year
out, and by great frugality secures a fortune,
cannot always be charged with an inordinate
love of money.
There is but one standard by which you
can judge men. By their fruits y shall
know them—their life, their actions, their
character.
Those who make money rapidly are gene
rally condemned by those who make it
slowly. The most wealthy are the the most
envied—and, of course are the most con
demned.
It is very easy to denounce a man for lov
ing money too much, and those who are the
most noisy on this subject are usually the
most at fault. In fact, the love of such men
for money is so great that few people will
trust them with it. Bring together a whole
regiment of these grumblers, and we show
you lazy men. shiftless men, envious meD,
narrow minded men, spendthrifts, and name
less others, alike unworthy of credit or con
fidence.
The difference in lurinesa men is remarka
ble. Some work as it Is said, "slow and
sure," others work rapid'y, but with equal
safety and success. Some men seem to have
been born with a wonderful amount of bu-i
--ness tact and ability. They can accomplish
more in one day than most others can in a
week. Such extraordinary men are always
in demand; and such extraordinary talents
always oommand a high premium. It takes
a broad headed, clear sighted, quick brained
general to command an army; and the same
sort of stuff is necessary for doing extensive
business.
Some men, by their remarkable capacity,
can rcall.. earn more money in a month than
others can in a year; and it is always econ
omy to employ such a ooe. He who wants
talent—either in a lawyer, doctor, general,
or merchant —usually finds that, in the end,
the best is the cheapest.
A man on trial for his life might retain a
pettifogging lawyer for live dollars to plead
his cause; but the verdict of the jury would
probably show that he had made a mistake.
A man might hire the Academy of Mu.-ie
and expect, by engaging a street organ
grinder with his monkey, to draw a crowd,
but after counting his pennies or looking at
his audience, he would probably discover
his error.
France or Eng'and might employ any six
penny broker, instead of the Rothschilds, or
the United States any sixpenny bankers, in
stead of Jay Cooke & Co., or Risk & Hatch,
to negotiate a loan of a hundred millions;
but some time before getting the money,
they would see their folly. A letter of
credit from Denkey, Brothers & Co., Lon
don, might be just as good as one i.-sued by
the Barings, hut the weary traveler might
possibly find, some day, in Russia or China,
that his bankers vcre unknown in such dis
tant latitudes.
A man may be rich and purse proud, and
condemned alike bv God and man, who is
not worth five thousand dollars; while his
neighbor, who is worth a million or more,
I may be a nobleman in the best sense of the
word, a blessing to the church and to the
world.
We need all the Jay Cooke we have, and
a thousand more. We want them because
they are a help to the present age; because
they use their money for noble, patriotic,
benevolent and Christain purposes.
Those who denounce so called rich men
indiscriminately like to call on such men as
W. E. Dodge for help to pay off the d"bt of
the American Board; they bless Cornell for
endowing a University; they praise God for
Peabody, when he pours bis money into
their coffers. .
The time is coming when millionaires in
this country will be counted by thousands
and tens of thousands. Let them multiply
indefinitely, and all become instruments ior
good.
A bank with a capital of ten millions of
dollars may be a great blesaing or a great
curse to any community; all depends upon
its management.
An individual may be worth an equal sum
BEDFORD, FA., FRIDAY, JAN. 22- 1869.
and do a deal of good or a great deal of
harm.
Shall a man endowed by God with great
business capacity stand still when he has
made a few thousand dollars, or leave off
work and go to distributing ? No. Let him
stick to his bu.-iness, following his trade. As
he makes money, let him use it in doing
good. By his business talent he may bo
able to supply the needy with cart loads of
tracts and thousands of Bibles annually.
There arc meD now doing bn-ines* in New
York, or who have retired fruui active life,
who could easily build and en low a college
every year.
In view of these facts, is it right, is it
Christian to inveigh again-t those who
honestly make money—even millions? No !
we say, most emphatically.
What is wanted now is more good men,
more God fearing, money makers, more
money in the treasury of the Lord, and more
hard work consecrated to the Most High.
Then look for the Millennium.
ARREST OF CONSUMPTION.
There is no malady which causes so large
a mortality as consumption. Statistics
show that, through the civilized world, an
average of one death in six, every six in the
lists of mortality may be attributed to its
agency. Though our own city shows a
smaller average from this scourge, yet it is
computed that even here it is the cause of
one death in every seven or eight. It was
formerly con-idered an incurable disease,
and was often left hopelessly to run its fatal
course unchecked; but modern investigation
anU science have proved that the turbercu
lar deposit, to which all its dread results
may be traced, will frequently diminish un
der suitable treatment. This is further
proved by post mortem examinations, where
death has occurred from other eauses, in
which the lungs, scarred and puckered, at
tested the healthy closing of two and even
three large turbereular cavities.
Few are aware how much the prevention
and even cure of this dread disease depends
upon their own efforts. An eminent Amer
ean physieiaD has recently declared that, 1
with proper precautions, by any one now in
health, consumption wiil be weil nigh an im
possibility, even though hereditary iuflu- j
ences may predispose him to it, and that ;
even those who are already under its grasp
may have hope of arresting its ravages.
The plain and simple principle, which in
this ca.-c is the essence of all-wise tscatment.
is to raise the physical system to the high- ;
est possible vigor. In company with this
one of the best curatives and preventives is
to expand and strengthen the lungs them
selves by deep inspirations or breathing in
of puie air. These inspirations should be
made as slowly as possible through -a small
tube, or with the mouth nearly closed, and
with the shoulders thrown back and down
wards. When the lungs or chest are filled,
the air should be slowly and giadually
breathed out. By continual practice it will
be found easy to take long and deep inspira
tions, and the chest itself will become per
manently expanded, so as to give the luogs
fuller play.
Where strength has begun to decline, of
course the efforts must be proportionality
milder. As the air at first enters the lower
part of the lungs it only fills the apex after
a long and sustained effort, and hence, the
neces.-ity of making the inspiraiion as low
as possible. Six times a day in the open
air is not too much for this exetcisc. In
deed, the great advantage of mild or dry cli
mates to consumptives is the possibility of
passing so much of the time out of doors.
Much is justly said of the pure and bracing
air of Minnesota, but those who go there for
lung diseases should remember that only as
they breathe the pure outside air habitually
can it prove beneficial. A lady with tuber
j cular deposits and severe cough wont there
i some time since, and a month spent in the
i ordinary way brought her no improvement.
, She then joined a camping party of la
dies and gentlemen, who started in an open
wagon, and slept in tents at night. After
I three days exposure to this open air she
manifestly improved, and, though frequent
; ly exposed in the evening, took no cold. The
; continuance of this mode of life restored her
health aud so strengthened her constitution
that in two months she could sleep with im
punity while the air was blowing freely
across her. Many similar, and even more
remarkable instances took place among the
' young men of our army in the late war,
; many of whom enlisted against the advice
i of their friends, and returned with greatly
improved physical constitutions. The ex
ercise thus induced is most essential to the
desired end.
Abundance of nutritious and wholesome
food, including fatty articles, is e--cntial in
the arrest of consumption. Most of those
who have such tendencies reject fat meat,
but its place may be supplied with butter,
milk or cream. Restriction in diet in these
eases is highly injurious. The dress is also
a matter bearing strongly on the health of
the iungs. Woolen fabrics worn uext the
skin, aud warm covering for the extremities
are all important. So also is the shape of
the garment which should allow full play to
the mu.icles. Relief from care and anxiety,
as far as it can be secured, is important, but
even when this is impossible, attention to
the other requisities, so simple as to be
within the power of every intelligent person,
will in many cases arrest the progress of this
most distressing of all maladies. — PitiUulrl
]>kia Lethjer.
SPEAKING broadly, and from (ho widest
standpoint of national characteristics, we
should say that the Italians, of all Europe
an nations, have most solid courtesy throuuh
j out; not a stately, but a good-tempered
courtesy —by no means chivalrous in the
way of the stronger protecting the weaker,
and for self-ropect keeping wateh and ward
over the fiercer enemies within the soul, but
rather deferential, as assuming that even
one is better than themselves. When an
Italian does give way to passion he is dan
gerous; but when he is in a good fair sailing
humor, nothing can well exceed the almost
feminine sweetness of his courteous de
meanor.
A LITTLE charity girl was a-ked by an in
spector of schools whther she could explain
the meaning of bearing false witness against
one's neighbor. "Please sir, when no < nc*
does nothing to nobody, and some one goes
and tells on'L"
THE proudest triumph in a man's life is
when he makes a friend of an enemy. The
joy is then akin to what angels feel as they
rejoice over a sinner that repenteth.
PERILS OF THE YOUNG.
Voung people, says the Philadelphia
Ledger, cannot bo too careful to avoid bad
habits. If a young man be idle, he will
make others idle. If he be dishonorable in
business, or extravagant, or does not pay
his debts, he saps that credit, confidence
and honor which is the life of business pros
pcit'y. \\ here these or other vicious prin
eijfles prevail among the youth of a nation,
it may sink intodegradatiou, and eventually
be destroyed. On the other hand, where
un industrious, orderly, just, and honorable
character pertains to the youth of a people,
it insures the welfare and progress of the
nation at large, la youth comes the crisis
of iife. Those who choose well, rise like
the morning sua higher and higher, but
those who fail at ihis cri.-is, sink among the
perils that surround them, often to rise no
more. At no time are passions and energy
so strong, and experience so weak, as at the
point whare parents and guardians relin
quish authority, and the young man as
sumes thtqresponsibiiity of directing himself.
It :s then that the mind and the body are
strong, courage, hope and enterprise ardent
and the appetites and inclinations powerful.
Passions, when latent in the breast, need
hut a spark of temptation to inflame them.
If they were all pure, and properly har
monized, the young man would perhaps
find in them that which would give strength
to his virtue, and an instinct, which, sup
plying the place of exjierieoce, would guide
him aright. But it is not so. He may.
have inherited the moral delinquencies of
the parent as much as his physical disorders,
lhe currents and fashions of prevailing
wickedness make it difficult for a young
man to keep clear of them. What avails
the skill of the mariner in,the midst of the
whirlpool? He may steer by his compass,
and set his sails, and seem to be moving
aright, while he is really drifting into the
fatal current. The young man, led by his
youthful associates into the haunts of dissi
pation, aud vice, is being insensibly drawn
into the fatal current. He may be amiable
and even innocent at first, but after a time
his face is flushed, and his brow contracted
with anxiety, for he feels that he is rushing
into the whirlpool of guilt that may end in
his destruction;
Good habits firmly fixed are the best
thing to guide the young through the jour
ney oi life in a wise aud honorable manner.
Money cannot do it; nor talents and educa
tion, nor powerful connections and fashion
able manners. Neither can philosophy, or
even innocence and amiability do it, All
these may fade before temptation, like snow
before the sun. Earnest and active devo
tion to duty, to virtuous principles, and the
practice of honor, honesty, morality and
justice, are ueeessary to combat the dangers
by which tile young are surrounded. Borne
habits should be checked; others stimulated
some need pruning, and others weeding out
root and branch. If taken in time, it wiil
be a pleasant duty to keep the garden of the
mind in order, but if the weeds get the up
per hand, the task wiil be one of increasing
ditSeulty. Prince Tallyraud took part in
thirteen revolutions, arid was always the
acknowledged leader. His plan was to
watih the tendencies of public opinion, and
always to take his stand a little way before
the foremost, so that they would seem to be
coming up to him. He once said that the
secret of his success in life was to set his
watch ten minutes ahead of the rest of'man
kind. Idleness is a common weed, but is
easily kept under, it indu-trious habits are
fenced in time, and he whose day begins
ten minutes sooner than that of those
around him, will find the benefit of Tally
rand's maxim. So, if a young man in his
business keeps a little in advance of what
his employer could reasonably expect of him
his reputation will be assured.
THE DICKENS SCANDAL IN A NEW
LIGHT.
The recent lamentable death of the repu
ted wife of Augustus Dickens, the brother
of the great novelist, raised, when the news
wa-tirst made public, a storm of indignation
against Charles Dickens. Ilis previous re
fusal to visit Chicago, where the lady lived,
and his evident disinclination to have any
thing to do with her, were brought forward
as instances of the long neglect which had at
last brought the poor woman to her grave.
But a few days have brought to light certain
features of the relationship existing between
Mr. Dickens and this lady, which put a very
different appearance upon the matter.
Augustus Dickens abandoned his wife in
England, and came to this country with
Miss Bertha Phillips. After obtaining a
divorce in Illinois, he mairied Miss Phillips
and dying, left her with three children. The
wife who was left behind is now blind and
h- Ipless, and has been since her desertion
supported by Charles Dickens. Now we
see why he would not go to Chicago, and
why, when many newspapers in this country
opened a fire of abuse upon him because he
neither visited nor assisted his sister-in-law,
he bore it all in honorable silence. He
would not tell his brother's tale of shame;
he would not say that there was a Mrs.
Augustus Dickens in England, and that on
his kindness she depended. No, nor would
he say that this lady in Chicago had been
the companion of his brother's flight. He
brought no contumely upon her nor upon
her children. He bore all the blame that
might he cast upon him, rather than that
he should increase the trouble into which
his brother had brought the mother ol his
children. Had Mr. Dickens gone to the
city in which she Mvt-.1. he nest have either
treated her as Mrs. ' -ki \to the injury
ard prejudice of the other Mrs. Dickens in
England, or he mu have avoided her, and
in justification for such a strange course,
have told her story.
It does not appear that the second Mrs.
Pickens was quite so poor as reported, but
she had sorrow enough; and well it is for her
that this sad history was not raked up before
her death. Society is by far too apt to in
terfere in private matters, and the press is
often far worse than society. Had not
there lived some persons who knew the facts
in this affair, the greatest novelist of the
age, the author of Pavid Copperfield, and
Little Nell, the father of all those delightful
people who have cheered and charmed so
many of us for so many years, would have
fallen from the eminence on which we had
placed him as a man, and become in oar
eyes the indirect instrument of a sister's
death. In cases of public scandal, the ac
cusation, the trial and the condemnation,
come all together, like a flash of lightning,
and happy is the man whose character is not
blasted by the fiery shaft. Charles PickeDS
to-day stands unscathed.
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
The reading correspondent of the Boston J
Advertiser writes to that paper that Eastern '
Pennsylvania has almost the charm of a for
eigh country. The country folks are thor- [
ouglily German in their look, their bearing j
and their dress. In the place of sharp Yan- j
kee English and the Irish dialect which are ;
heard everywhere in Boston, the streets of;
these towns resound with Dutch gutturals.
The shopkeepers and professional men;
speak Engli-h and German with equal facil- ,
ity, and glide from ono language to another
without noticing the transaction. One is I
amused to bear a conversation in the choicest j
Teutonic tongue, unconsciously varied by I
the insertion of the commonest phrases of
our own language—yes, no, well, you know,
of course, and the like. The 6ign boards
are half American and half Dutch. The
The market carts, which fill the principa]
streets at dawn and vanish before ten o'clock,
display great bowls of endless sausage, ap
petizing loaves of home made Lread, the
favorite varieties of Fatherland cheese, and
other commodities unknown to our own pro
vision store*. Very many of the farm hou
ses are of atone, and their huge and substan
tial barns of the same material tell the story
of good husbandry and thrift. The town
ship directors, from Auspech to Zwager, re
veal only such names as might fill a Prus
sian orderly book. There is probably no re
gion in the United States where the popula
tion have so long preserved the language
and the manners of their old country
ancestors. For two hundred years, all the
counties in this neighborhood have been
more German than American, and it is only
in this generation that the railroad has bro
ken in upon their close communion of race,
-and opened the way to a change ot habit
and of language.
One charming feature of the region is the
homelike tavern, which, in Westche-tcr,
Lancaster and in other places, has not yet
given way to the 'feed-and-sleep-by-coutract'
American hotel. You go from the depot to
the Green Tree, or the Black Horse' or the
Lion, or the Grape, and enter your name at
the bar, behind a screen which is covered
with notices of sheriffs' sales; you are shown
into a neat little room furnished in the plain
est possible style, but snug with spotless
linen aud fluffy with warm quilts and feath
er lads. A portly landlord carves his own
beef for the guests; his wife and daughter
serve it; the table smokes with the whitest
and mealiest, of potatoes, the reddest of
beets, the most savory of cabbages, and —
permitted luxury to a lonely traveller —the
choicest and most appetizing onions. No
bill of fare haunts one with its bastard
French phrases and its bewildering variety
of viands. You see your work marked out
plainly before you eat, and eat as you would
at home. Perhaps the chief triumph of;
the meal is in its pickles. You shall have j
choice of tomatoes, or walnut, or sweet
pickle, or cucumber, or that white curd
whose name sounds like smearease. And,
finally, having eaten and slept in wonderful
comfort, you cannot find a person in the inn
to receive any other fee than the moderate
board bill payable at the public bar. Sorne
-1 thing of the same kind you may happen up
on in country villages in New England, but
rarely in the cities.
TENNYSON AT HOME :
Drinking, Smoking and Reading His 1
Own Poetry-
A private letter to the Citizen says :
"We crossed to Cowes, and took a fly to !
Fairingford, distant twelve miles; a glorious !
drive across the Isle of Wight, between ivied
hedges and past gardens of laurel and lau
rustines. I found Farringford wonderfully
improved. The little park is a gem of gar
dening art. The magnificent Komaa ilexes
in front of the house are finer than any I
saw in ltally. Wc arrived about 3 o'clock,
and were Ushered into the drawing room.
The house has been refurnished, and a great
many pictures and statues added since I was
there. In a minute in came Tennyson, cor
dial as an old friend, followed by his wife,
as sweet as ever, but feebler and older look
ing. In Tennyson himself I could see no
particular change. We walked through the
park and garden; then he and I went up
on the downs and walked for miles along the
; chalk cliffs above the sea. He showed me
i his newly acquired territory—-among the rest
a great stretch of wheat fields bought for
him by Enoch Ardcn. We dined at six, in
I a quaint room hang with pictures, and then
went into the drawing room for dessert.
"Tennyson and I retired to his study at
the top of the house, lit pipes, and talked
of poetry. He asked me if I could read his
"Boadicea" I thought I could. 'Read it
and let me see.' said he. 'I would rather
hear you read it,' I answered. Thereupon
he did so, chanting the lumbering lines with
i great unction. I spoke of the idyl of 'Gui*
1 nivere' as being perhaps his finest poem,
! aod said that I oould not tead it aloud with
out ray voice failing me at certain passages.
; 'Why, I can read it and keep my voice, he
exclaimed, triumphantly. This I doubted,
and he 3greed to try, after we went down.
But the first thing he did was to produce a
magnum ot wonderful sherry, thirty years
i old, which had been sent him by a poetic
wine dealer. Such wine I never tasted. It
was meant to be drank by Cleopatra or
; Catharine of Russia,' said Tennyson. Me
had two glasses apiece, when he said, 'To
night you shall help me drink one of the
! few bottles of my Waterloo —1815. We
I will make a night of it.' The bottle was
i brought, and after another glass all round
Tennyson took up the 'ldyl of the King.
"His reading is a strange monotonous
chant, with unexpected falling inflections,
which I cannot describe, but can imitate ex
actly. It is very impressive; in spite of my
self I became very much excited as he went
on. Finally, when Arthur forgives the
Queen. Tennyson's voice fairly broke. I
found tears on my cheeks, and and Mrs.
Tennyson were crying on either side of me.
lie made an effort, and went on to the end,
closing grandly. 'How can you say, I ask
ed (referring to previous conversation),
'that you have no surety of permanent fame?
This poem will only die with the language
in which it is written.' Mrs. Tennyson
started up from her couch. 'lt is Irue.'
sheexelairoed, 'I have told Alfred the same
thing!' After that we had more therrv—in
fact, finished the Waterloo bottle; then went
up to the garret to smoke and talk. Ten
nyson read the 'Hvlas' of Theocritus, in
Greek; his own 'Northern Farmer,' and
Andrew Marvell's 'Coy Mistress.' We
parted at two o'clock."
VOL. 42: NO. 3-
FOREIGN CONTRACTS FOR AMERI
CAN GUNS.
The gun making ingenuity of Americans
seems to be appreciated in Europe almost as
much as that of the Prussians or French, if
foreign orders for American firearms are
any indication. The Remington Company
has recently delivered to the Danish Govern
ment 40,000 of their guns, and to theSwee
dish Government 30,000, and the Greek
Government has contracted for 15,000,
which have not yet been delivered. The
Remington pattern is a single cartridge
breech-loader, of superior make and effi
ciency, of which from two hundred to three
Lundredare daily turned Out by the com
pany. The Cuban Government has bought
upward of 20,000 of Remington and Pca
body rifles, the latter a firearm manufac
tured in Providence. The Cuban revolu
tionists have also been buying up a large
quantity of small arms, but of a poorer class
chiefly muzzle-loaders, being unable to pay
for better ones. They hope to achieve their
independence with the odds of breech load
ers against them. The Russian Government
has a contract with the Colt Firearm- Com
pany at Hartford for 30,000 Bertkn rifles,
which are an improvement on the Pru-rian
needle gun.
Besides the above contracts, shipments of
guns to other governments have been made
by American firms. The stand.rJ arm of
the United States Government is the
Springfield musket, converted into a breech
loader upon what is known as the Robert
plan. It is a beautiful and very effective
piece, and is admired by the Ordnance De
partments of foreign governments. The
regular army is now supplied with them.
The great quantity ot muskets which onr
Government had on hand at the close of the
war is being disposed of at auction and pri
vate sale.
The only repeating rifles now made in
this country are the Winchester at Bridge
port and the Spencer at Boston. The former
is an improvement on the celebrated llenry
rifle, carrying eighteen shots and can be fired
with great rapidity. The latter is a seven
shooter, and in Sherman's march through
Georgia six men on a picket post kept at
bay for some time aw hole battalion of the
enemy by the rapidity of their tiring. These
repeating rifles are used for hunting upon
the plains, and meet with much favor in
foreign countries. American gun-makers
regard the famous Prussian needle gun as
inferior in every respect to our best paterns.
CONNECTICUT NAMES.
Mark Twain writes from Hartford, Con
necticut, to the Alt a Califorman: Don't
direct any more letters to me at Hartford
until I find out which Hartlord I live in.
They mix such things here in New England.
I think lam in Hartford proper, but no
man may hope to be certain. Because right
here in one next we have Hartford, and Old
Hartford, and New Hartford, and West
Hartford, and East Hartford, and Hartloid
on the-Hill, and Hartiord-around-gencrally.
It is the strangest thing—this paucity of
names in Yankee land. You find that it is
not a matter confined to Hartford, bat it is
a distemper that afflicts all New England.
They get a name that suits them, and then
hitch distinguishing handles to it, and hang
them on all the villages round about. It
reminds me of the man who said that Adam
went on naming his descendants until he ran
out of names, and then said gravely, "Let
the rest be called Smith." I>owa there at
New Haven they have Old Haven, \\ est
Haven, South Haven, West-by-son-west
Haven, and East-by-east-nor'-east Haven,
and the oldest man in the world can't tell
which one of them Yale College is in. The
boys in New England ate smart, but after
they have learned everything else they have
to devote a couple of years to the geography
of New Haven before they can enter col
lege, and then half of them can't do it till
they go to sea a voyage, and learn how to
box the compass. That is why there are so
many more New England sailors than any
other. Some of them spend their whole
lives in the whaling service trying to fit
themselves for college. This class of peo
pie have colonized the city of New Bedford,
M ass. It is well known that nina-tenths oi j
the old salts there became old salts just iu
j this way. Their lives area failure—they
I have lived in vain—they have never been
: abe to get the hang of the New Haven geog
j vaphy.
COLORS IN DRESS.
A good eye for color is a rarer gift than is
usually supposed. Ladies who possess it
look better dressed than others who do not,
although they probably spend far less money
on their wardrobe. It is not possible to in
struct everybody in the arrangement of eol
i or?, but a few general rules may help most
I persons. Avoid, in the first place, llazins
j contrasts, such as bright red next bright
i green, or bright blue next bright yellow:
such contrasts are not harmonious: let one
of the two colors always be subservient to
I the other. It is not so much what color a
material is, but how that color is made to
appear. It is necessary to bear in unnd
' that all colors have their complementary.
which add to, or detract from, the beauty
of the adjoining colors, according to what
they may be. Thus, the complementaries
! of led are green, of blue are orange, of yel
low are violet. If you cut out pieces of
trray paper in an ornamental form, and stick
a piece on each of the three colors we have
named, you will find, in a shaded light, the
| gray will be beautifully tinted by the com
plementaries of these color*. But you can-
I not lay down precise rules. An experienced
artist can bring any two colors together by
i properly modulating them. And the hand
of nature never errs, whether it brings to
gether scarlet and crimson, as in the cactus;
scarlet and purple, in the fuchsia; yellow and j
orange, as in the calceolaria: or the colors in
the various plumage of exotic nirds the
harmony is always beautiful, ever perfect.
We will suggest a few contrasts; one, btack
j and warm brown; two, violet andyale green;
three, violet and light rose color; four, deep
blue and golden brown; five, chocolate and
bright blue; six, deep red and gray; seven,
i maroon and warm green; eight, deep blue
• and pink; nine, chocolate and pea-green, ten,
maroon and deep blue; eleven, claret and
| buff; twelve, black and warm green. Prac
tice, if it does not render perfect, will at
ieast, greatly improve the eye for color.
A FELLOW who has some "music in his
soul," says that the most cheerful and
soothing of all fireside melodies are the
blended tones of a cricket, a tea kettle, a
loving wife, and a crowing baby.
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GOOD SPELLING.
A pious but illiterate deacon, in a certain
town in Massachusetts, gave a stage-driver a
slip of paper upon which, he said, were
written the names of a couple of books,
which ho wished him to call for at a book
store. The driver, called at the store and
handing the memorandum to a clerk, said:
"There is a couple of books which Deacon
B wished you to send him." The
cierk. after a careful examination of the
paper, was unable to make "head or tail"
of it, and passed it to the book-keeper, who
was supposed to know something of letters;
but to him it was aho "Greek." The pro
prietor wu- called, and he also gave up in
de-pair; and it was finally concluded best to
send the memorandum back to the deacon.
It was supposed he must have sent tho
wrong paper, As the coach arrived at tho
village inn the driver saw the deacon stand
ing on the steps.
"Well, driver," said he, get my
books to-day?"
"Books! No! and a good reason why!
for there couldn't a man in Worcester read
your old ben-tracks."
"Couldn't read 'ritin? Let me see the
paper."
The driver drew it from his pocket, and
passed it to the deacon, who, taking out and
carefully adjusting his glasses, held the
memorandum at arm's length, and ex
claimed, as he did so, in a very studied
tone:
"Why it's plain as the nose on your face.
To Sa m B u-x' — two psalm books! I
guess his clerks had better go to school a
quarter.''
And here the deacon made some reflec
tions upon the "ignorance of the times," and
want of attention to books by the "rising
generation," which would have beeu all very
well if said by some one else.
TIIE MIND.
Of all the noble works of God, that of the
human mind has ever been considered the
grandest. It is, however, like all else crea
ted, capable of cultivation, and just in that
degree as tbe mind is rendered pure, is man
fitted for rational enjoyment and pure hap
piness. The jierson who spends a whole ex
istence without a realization of the great
ends for which he was designed: without
feeling a soaring of the soul above mere
mercenary motives and desires; not knowing
that he i? a portion, as it were, of one vast
machine, in which each piece has a part to
perform, having no heart heating in com
mon with those of his fellow men, no feel
ings in which self is not the beginning and
the end, may well be said not to live. His
mind is shut in by a moral darkness, and he
merely exists a blank in the worid, and goes
to the tomb with scarcely a regret Such
beings we have seen and wondered at—
j wondered that a mortal, endowed with so
i many noble qualities, and capable of the
\ highest attainment of intellectuality, should
; -lumber on through a world like ours, in
I which is everything beautiful and sublime,
i to call foith his energies and his admiration
— a world which affords subjects for exerci
sing every lively attribute with which we are
gifted, and opens a scene of the richest vari
ety to the eye, the mind and the heart, and
of such a diversified character, that we may
never grow weary. If, then, you would
wish to lire, in the true sense of the term,
cultivate the mind, give vent to pure affec
tions and noble feelings and pen not every
thought and desire in self Live more for
| the good of your fellow men, and in seeking
their happiness you will promote your own.
HOW All AMERICAN DID EUROPE
CHEAPLY.
A Mr. Keeler is lecturing in Boston cn
the subject of his undertaking to make the
"grand tour" of Europe upon the sum of
one hundred and eighty one dollars in
greenbacks, his starting point being Toledo,
Ohio. Mr. Keeler is evidently a Toledo
blade of great keenDess. He got a free ride
to thf seacoaat, bought a steerage ticket in
New York for London, got a glimpse of the
World's Fair in the great city, saw the
Emperor's fete in Paris, and at length ar
rived in Heidelberg, where he took lodgings
in a sky parlor at a rent of two gulden or
eighty cents a month. Here he pursued
his studies at the University, and sustained
a decently comfortable existence upon break
fast, four kreutzers, or three cents a piece,
dinners that cost eight cents, and suppers
that came to four cents for each one. Be
ing a graduate of an American college, his
tuition fees at the University were ten doll
ars the half year. He traveled over Ger
many in the disguise of a tradesman's ap
prentice, which seenred him a good fare at
the lowest possible cost. Three times he
was reduced to nearly his last sou, and three
times he was saved by remittances from
newspapers to which he had sent contribu
tions. One morning he found himself on
the Pont Neuf, in Paris, when he had not a
centime to bless himself with, and had eaten
nothing the day before, and was saved from
suicide only by fading in with an unfortunate
girl, who had reached the spot intent upon
her own destruction. He made the tour
triumphantly, and now he is at home.
SOKE employments may be better than
others: but there is no employment so bad
as the having none at all. The inind will
contract a rust and an unfitness for every
thing, anil a man must either fill np his time
with good, or at least iuuocent business, or
it will run to waste —to sin and vice.
TIM JOHNSON courts Susan Dunn. It
was Dunn when it was begun, it was Dunn
when it was haH' done, auj yet it wasn't
Dunn when it wes done—for it was John
ton.
WHAT thing is that which was born with
out a soul, and when it got it could only
keep it three days, and when it died, it went
neither to Heaven or hell?
Answei—The whale that swallowed Jonah.
A QUIET familyju New Hampshire con
tains six tee u esses of whooping cough.
How many in a case wo don't know, but
there must be "coffin" eneugh to start an
undertaker.
THESE is only the difference of a toss be
tween some vegetables. Throw np a pump
kin and it will come down squash.
YOUNG men are as apt to think them
selves wise enough, aa drunken men are apt
to think themselves sober enough.