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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Alex. kino. j.,
.4 T TO EXE r-A T-LA
BEDFORD, PA.,
All business entrusted to his care will receive
prompt and careful attention Office three doors
Sooth of the Court House, lately occupied by J.
W. Dickcrson. nov26
AND LINGENFELTF.R,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BXDFOBD, PA. \
llave formed a partnership in the practice of
the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran .
Church. [April 1, 1869-tf j
Tyj. A. POINTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BXDPOBD, PA.
Respectfully tenders his professional services
to the public. Office iu the Ixqot Kcßuild ing, ;
(second floor.)
2=9~Collcctions promptly made. [April,l'69-tf. ;
I7IBFT M. A LSI P.
11 ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEOPOBD, PA.,
Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi- j
ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and edjoin
ng counties. Military claims, Pensions, back
pay. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with
Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south
of the Mengel House. apl 1, 1869.—tf.
T R. DURBORROW,
f) . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BEBPORD, PA., S
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to j
his care. Collections made on the shortest no
tice.
lie >, also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent
and w U give special attention to the prosecution \
, "list against the Government for Pensions,
Back I ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac.
Office on Juliana street, one door South of the
Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the ' Mengel
House" April 1. 1869:tf
S. L~ RISSELL 1. H. LOSGENECKER
Russell a longenecker,
IVTTOP.REVS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
Bedford, Pa.,
Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi- |
ness entrusted to their eare. Special attention :
given to collections and the prosecution of claims
for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac.
JFgr-riffice on Juliana street, south of the Court
House. Apri l:S9:lyr. !
J* M'D. SHARPS E. r. KERR
SHARPE A KERR,
.4 TTORXE TS-A T-LA W.
Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad
joining counties. All business entrusted to their
care will receive careful and prompt attention.
Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col
lected from the Government.
Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking
1. use of Reed A Schell. Bedford. Pa. Apr l;69:tf j
PHYSICIANS.
B. F. HARRY,
Respectfully tenders his professional eer- 1
vices to the eititens of Bedford and vicinity.
Office an 1 residence on Pitt Street, in the building
formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. llofius. [Ap'l 1,69.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TACOB BBKNNEMAN,
t> WOODBERRY, PA.,
SCRIYESER, CONVEYANCER, LICENSED
CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE
OF THE PEACE,
Will attend to all business entrusted into bis hands
with promptness and despatch. Will remit mon
iy by draft to any part of the country. 17sely
Daniel border,
PITT STREET, TWO POORS WEST or THE BED
FORD HOTEL, BEI PORD, PA.
WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES. AC.
He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil
ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin
ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold !
Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
any thing in bis line not on band. [apr.2B,'6s.
DW. CHOUSE,
• DEALER IN
CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, &C.
Pitt street one door east of Geo. R. Oster
A Co.'a Store, Bedford, Pa., ia now prepared
to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All
orders promptly filled. Persona desiring anything
in bis line will do well to give him a call.
Bedford April 1.
p N. IIIC KO K ,
DENTIST.
Office at the old stand in
BASK BCU.DIXO, Juliana st., BEDFORD.
All operations pertaining to
S ury ical and Mechanical Dentistry \
performed with care and j
WARRANTED.
Ahfrelketict administered, tehee deeired. Ar- j
tijieial teeth inserted at, per set, SN.(IO and up. j
teard.
As I am Jetsimined to do a CASH BUSINESS .
o- none, I hare reduced the prices for Artificial i
Teeth of the various kinds, 20 per cent., and of
Gold rillings 33 per cent. This reduction will b
made only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such
will receive prompt attention. 7febS3 I
W M. LLOY D
TV . BANKER.
Transacts a Genera! Banking Business, and makes
collections on all accessible points in
the United State*.
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, GOLD, SIL
VER, STERLING and CONTINENTAL
EXCHANGE bought and sold.
U. S. REVENUE STAMPS of all descriptions
always on hand.
Accounts of Merchsnts, Mechanics, Farmers and
ali other solicited.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS.
Jan. 7, "70.
UXCHASBE HOTEL,
Hi HUNTINGDON, PA.
This old establishment having been leased by
J. MORRISON, formerly proprietor of the Mor- I
rison House, has been entirely renovated and re
furnished and supplied with all the modern im- j
provements and conveniences necessary to a first- !
class Hotel.
The dining room hs been removed to the first
floor and is now spacious and airy, and the eaam- j
hers are ali weli ventilated, and the proprietor
will endeavor to make bis guests perfectly at j
home. Address, J. MORRISON,
EXCHASBK HOTKI, '
Jtjulytf Huntingdon, Pa. j
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ITEMS.
A MORAL debating society out West is en
gaged in the discussion of the following
question : "If a man deserts his wife which,
j is the most abandoned, the man or woman?',
THE editor of the Alabama Strife Journal
1 modestly requests that some of his patrons
will present him and bis printers with a bar
rel of good whisky and a bushel basket of
eggs, as a slight token of their appreciation.
BANDMANN, who is playing tragedy to
Melbourne, stabbed the lady who played
j "Desdemona," one night, so hunglingly
that his sword made along gash in her back,
and instead of dying quietly, she made a
great fuss aboat it though it didn't, kill her.
A MAINE soldier has had his name re
moved from the pension rolls, saying he has
regained his health and does not need the
pension. Commissioner Van Aernaui wrote
him that his name "should go down into
history as a worthy example for the coming
generations."
THE consumption of horse flesh in Europe
continues to increase. The quantity sold
during September, October and November,
1868, was 226,000 pounds, being the pro
duce of .565 horses ; io the same period of
1869 it had increased to 273,200 pounds,
683 of those animals.
A NOTORIOUS assassin, who had frequent
ly escaped justice, was taken at last, having
just committed a most unprovoked murder.
"Why did you kill this man?" asked the
judge ; "he did not harm you, and the mur
der should do you no good." "Oh," replied
the prisoner, "it was only to keep up my
reputation."
IN one of the Cincinnati pork packing
houses 750 hogs perish daily. The carcasses
are cut up with the utmost celerity. A
portion goes out iu hams; another is trans
formed into sausages—ove! two tons per day.
All the lard is extracted by steam, and from
this a vast quantity of oil. The bristles go :
to brush-makers—about seventy five tons j
per year.
THERE is an interesting suit for divorce
pending in Chicago. The complainant,
Margaret E. McNelly, alleges that she mar
ried defendant at Kankakee, July 4, 1868,
she being then but thirteen years old. She
was visiting friends io Kankakee, atid de
fendant wooed and won her by representing
himself to be a rich man. when in fact he
was only a day laborer. The bill also al
leges that, at the time she was married,
"she was not lawfully able to enter into such
a contract."
THE latest method of curing consumption
is that practiced at an establishment on the
banks of the Rhine called the "gtape cure."
Patients have excellent quarters, plenty of
fresh air, aDd every day go into the gardens,
each one carrying a basket, which is filled
under the watchful eye of the doctor. The
patient then retires to a pleasant arbor, and
slowly sucks the grapes. A tine orchestra
enlivens the curing process with excellent I
music. It is claimed that permanent cures ;
are effected in from four to six weeks.
A LUDICROUS scene took place at the Tu- i
ilcries on Christmas Eve. There was to be
a children's party for the friends of the
Prince Imperial, and a very fine specimen of
the Christmas tree. All was ready, and the
Prince thought he should like to see the j
tree; so he entered the room. er.d, lo! he
found an uninvited guest already ihere— a
favorite monkey belonging to some one in
the palace had got into the room, treated
himself to all the prizes, eaten all the
"goodies," and, finally, having set fire to
the tree, was sitting down enjoying the fun.
THE brokers of New York, not satisfied
with their nnimjjeded schemes of gambling
in gold and stocks, desired to avoid the pay
ment of the small tax of one twentieth of
one per cent, on their transactions, required j
by the revenue laws. They protested and
in various ways sought to have their tax j
set aside, but at length have receded, and
concluded to do one hoDest act, pay the
Government tax. The tax was not heavy,
was a small affair, and did not bear onerously
on individuals. Still, it was resisted till
tbe brokers had exhausted all expedients, j
The receipts from this source will be about
ten millions a year.
CONGRESS, it is said, wants to investigate
the recent gold muddle at New York, with a
view tu finding a basis of such legislation a#
will prevent the occurrence of a similar one.
I his is moonshine. No law can be framed
of so close a web as to prevent ingenious
financiers from slipping through it. Laws
may be made to close up tbe path the
rogues moved iD last fall, but they will open
another path the next time. Besides, there
was law enough before to punish them if
the authorities had had the purpose to do
it. The chance to prevent another gold
muddle was lost when no punishment was
visited upon those who made the first.
THE Keutucky Legislature has passed a
very considerate bill "exempting ministers
from execution. It should be uuder.-tood
that this alludes not to the lynching of anti
stttvory mioiatcrs, not to tho hanging of
clergymen who may indulge in murder; but
to ministers who run in debt, and either can
not or will not pay up—in fact, to that lit
tle document which commands the Sheriff
to take the body, unless he can find satis
factory property. We trust that the Ken
tucky preachers will show their gratitude by
keeping out of debt, in which laudable ef
fort they will probably be assisted by the
traders of their respective neighborhoods.
WOMAN QUESTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
—South Carolina hastaken "a jump ahead"
on the woman question. A bill has passed
to the third reading in the Legislature,
whieh provides that no real or personal
property held by a woman at the time of
her marriage shall be subject to levy or sale
for her husband's debts, but shall be her
separate property ; that a married woman
shall have power to bequeath, devise or con
vey her separate property in the tame man
ner and to the same extent as if she were
\ unmarried ; that she may purchase any spe
cies ol property in her own name, and may
coutract and be contracted with ID the same
manner as if she were an unmarried woman;
! that in all matters relating to her seperate
1 proj crty and her separate contracts she may
sue and be sued, plead snd he impleaded,
and in every respect be entitled to, and be
subject to, the same legal rights and reme
dies as if she were unmarried; nor shall any
joinder of her husband as a party with her
be necessary in any action brought by her
or agaiust her in matters relating to her
separate property, or arising out of her sep
arate contracts.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY. JAN. 28- 1870.
§TOETNJ*
CLING TO THOSE WHO CLING TO
YOU.
There are uiany friends of summer,
Who are kind while flowers bloom,
But when winter chills the blossoms,
They depart with the perfume,
On the Lro&d highway of action
Friends of worth are far and few;
So when one has proved his friendship,
Cling to him who clings to you.
Do not harshly judge your neighbor,
Do not deem bis life untrue,
If he makes no great pretensions,
Deeds are great though words are few;
Those who stand amid the tempest.
Firm as when the skies are blue,
Will be friends while life enduretb,
Cling to those who cling to you.
When yon see a worthy brother
Buffeting the stormy main,
Lend a helping haisd fraternal,
Till be reach the shore again;
Don't desert the old and tried friend
When misfortune conies in view,
For he then needs friendship's comforts,
Cling to those who cling to you.
GEARY'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
FELLOW CITIZENS T— -Having been honor
ed, a second time, by the voluntary suffrage# j
of my countrymen as their choice for Chief
Magistrate of the Commonwealth of Peno
sylvania, I have, in the presence of God and
this assembled multitude, renewed the
solemn and binding obligation required of
me by law, to -upport the State and National
Constitutions, and to perform with fidelity
the duties devolving upon me as Governor.
It shall be my constant aim and most earn
est effort to observe the very letter as wel[
as the full spirit, meaning and intent of the
obligation I have just taken.
Deeply impressed with the most profound
gratitude, I can but express my most hearty
thanks to the good citizens of the Common
wealth for the generous confidence and
partiality they have reposed in me by re
election to the uio-t honorable and most re
sponsible position in their gift. But know
ing well their exactions and requirements of i
one who occupies a position so exalted, it is!
with extreme diffidence I agmo undertake :
responsibilities of such vast importance,
which even the boldest and mo.-t gifted
might he.-kate to assume. And however
determined may be my endeavors to re
alize the expectations of my friends in sup
port of the right, and to battle against
whatever, in my judgment, may be wrong,
still I am conscious of the necessity for some
sustaining power, and, therefore, I un
hesitatingly acknowledge my dependence
upon the enlightened support and patriot
ism of my fellow-citizens, and my firm re
lianee upon the unerring wisdom and never
fading aid of Him who controls alike the
destinies of individuals and of nations.
The settlement of the vexed questions
growing out of the armed conflict with
treason, devolves a mighty responsibility on
the loyol men of the land. Armed rebellion
was signally cru-hed by the force of armed
loyalty, and the government has triumphant
ly establLhod its ability successfully to sup
press domestic insurrection, however gigan
tic. The war itsell has served to stimulate
our people to fresh energies, and to the de
velopment of new enterprises. Our man
ufactories have multiplied, plenty has smiled
upon our fie'ds, and blessed the labors of
the husbandman. Peace has restored our
people to their homes, and cheered our fire
sides. The rates of taxation have been re
duced, and arc entirely abolished upon real
estate for the use of the Commonwealth.
Our State debt is being steadily and surely
liquidated. Immense sums have been paid
for pensions and other charities. The cause
of education has advanced, and the institu
tions for the support and tuition of the
soldiers' orphans have been liberally sup
plied. Railroads have been constructed,
and new material resources developed. And
thus our State and Nation are rapidly pro
grossing in the attainment of those elemenis
of greatness which have already placed our ;
country in the foremost rank of the powers '
of the earth. The great railroad which
binds our State to the Far West, and it in 1
turn to the oriental nations, has been com
pleted, and all our efforts to add to our
material prosperity have been crowned with
unparalleled SL -cess.
It was my privilege to announce from this
stand, three years ago, the principles which
would guide me in the administration of the
office of Governor. At that time I dwelt
upon and expressed my views in reference
to all questions then occupying a share of
public attention. I have since, from time
to time, ia messages to the Legislature, set
forth the condition of the State, recom
mended such mea-ures as I deemed ex
pedient and calculated to advance her in
terests, and expressed my views upon the
various topics of the day that were of State
or National importance. And having fully
reflected thereon, I am the more eonflrmed
therein, and know of no reason why I should
not endorse and reiterate them as fully, on
this occasion, as if I again promulgated them
word for word. And now, acknowledging
my responsibility in its broadest sense, as a
representative, to my o m.-lituents, and con
sidering the maguitude of the interests
which have again been committed to my
charge, I feel it is due to the people and in.
eumbent upon myself, to refer thcui to the
documents indicted, for au outline ol the
general policy which is iutended as a guide
for tbe incoming administration, rather then
encumber this address, or unnecessarily de
lay this audii nee with their repetition. I
have no new pledges to make, but confident
ly refer fo the record of my past life, as
evidence at least of my zeal and devotion to
the b st interests of my State and country,
and for the rectitude of my intentions. And
although the inability which I bring to the
discharge of such high duties may be limit
ed, I shall confidently rely upon the kind
I indulgence of nry fellow citizens and upon a
conscientious effort to uphold unblemished,
and transmit untarnished to my successor in
office, and to posterity, the fair fame and
good name of our magnificent old Common
i wealth.
Difficulties of no ordinary character con
stantly surround your Executive officer in
the discharge of the many duties devolving
U[K>n him. concerning each o' which there
may he conflicting opinion-. It being,
therefore, impossible to satisfy a!!, his on'y
safeguar- -to adopt, and act in accordance
with tb- terliog and bcnefic.'nt maxims
! 'o which the early fathers gave utterance,
which have been functioned by wisdom and
experience, and resulted in the rapid growth
and prosperity of our institutions, and the
liberty and happiness of our people.
The Constitution vests "the supreme
Executive power" of the State in the Gov
| ernor, and directs that "he shall take care
| 'bat the laws be faithfully executed." The
supreme earthly authority recognized by us,
therefore, is the law—the rightfully deter
mined will of the people. "No citizen is so
exalted as to be above, and none so low as
to be beneath its power. The Executive is
as much the subject of tbe laws of tbe State
as the humblest individual within its bor
ders-. In pursuance of these principles, and
in the execution of the laws, I have endeav
ored during my term of office, faithfully to
di>charge every official duty with a full
reference to my sworn obligation, and as I
shall answer at the last great day.
It should be our earnest effort to faith
fully discharge all our obligations and re
sponsibilities, both as citizens and magis
trates. We should cease to tolerate any
tliiug as "politically right that is morally
wrong," ami actively proscribe the corrup
tion which 100 frequently marks the admin
istration of public affairs—an evil to which
attention cannot too frequently or too for
cibly be invited. No sign more eertainly
indicates the downfall of free institutions
than the indifference of the people to the
moral depravity of those in authority. All
history warns us to hold to our integrity as
we value our national existence, Forcibly
impressed with these ideas, I call upon all
legislators, and upon all other good citizens,
and especially upon the conductors of the
public press—the ever faithful sentiments
el a free people— to aid in giving that tone
to public fentiment which shall purify our
State, and relieve her from the reproach of
even countenancing those who would make
a traffic of their offices in violation of their
obligations. Look to it well and closely,
fellow citizens, and begin at once to teach
your servants that the "public will" mu-t
be obeyed, and the "public weal" is tbe
first object to be attained in a free govern
ment. If you permit speculators fo en rich
themselves out of the public Treasury, and
at the same time to corrupt the law making
branch of the government, you pave tbe
way to anarchy, you set tbe example which
tempts to crime, and offer to the world an
evidence, most conclusive, that self govern
ment is a failure.
Owing to the many efforts made on the
part of the free traders for the abolishment
of the natural and wholesome protection
now afforded to our home industry and to
labor, I consider it a subject which claims
a portion of our time Snd attention. If our
national inJuGry and natural productions,
represented by thousands of factories, mines
and other sources of labor, are to be pre
served, there should be no reduction of du
ties which shall enable the underpaid and
overworked population of the Old World to
flood onr States with the products of their
mines and workshops at the cost of our de
struction. The articles thus admitted would
undersell the products of our artizans at our
very doors, and our factories would be clos
ed, as heretofore, by similar causes. This
will throw out of employment thousands of
industrious men, snd entail ruin upon them
and their families, merely for the benefit
and aggrandizement of foreign manufac
turers and capitalists. As soon as our in
dustrial arms are paralyzed and competition
is destroyed, the monopolist can command
his own price, and it is tbu- clear that the
policy of free trade can uever permanently
beuefit any country that will sanction its
adoption. Impelled by every feeling of in
terest, humanity and justice for our arti
zans and laborers, we should unhesitatingly
set our faces against this heresy. We
should, therefor®, not only earnestly legis
late for the hen' fit of capital, but for the
toiliug sons and daughters of our country.
It should be our constant effort to improve
their social condition, to advance their intel
lectual status, and above all to shield them
from the destitutions which is threatened
by the enemies of protection to our industri
al pursuits.
In my several messages fo the Legislature
I have taken occasion to refer to a subjoct
which I regard as of paramount importance
to the prosperity and even the stability of
our government. No nation can long exist
that attempts to violate any of its obliga
tions. Tne most prominent among these is
the faithful payment of all its indebtedness.
No good rea-on can be given for the repudi
atiou of a single farthing. I said in my
message of January, 1868, "Tbe pc-ople of
Pennsylvania, ever true to the I "nion, and
unswerving in their determination to pre
-erve its honor, integrity and perpetuity, are
proud and free to assert the saeredness of
the national debt, and that its ultimate pay
ment in full must he secured." In my mes
sage of 1869, I called attention to the same
subject, in these words; "The voice of
Pennsylvania, as well as that of a majority
of the States, has at the ballot box pro
claimed to the world that ali our national
indebtedness, no matter how heavy the
burden, will bo paid according bo the letter
and spirit of the agreements made and en
tered into at the time the debt was contract
ed ; and that in this, as in all other respects,
our individual and national honor must and
shall be preserved." These sentinfents, so
dearly expressed, I have taken frequent oc
casion to reiterate, aud it affords me great
satisfaction to observe that many who have
heretofore been hostile to, or silent on this
roost important subject, are becoming warm
in their advocacy of the principles here e
□uneiated.
Those who saved this government from j
the destruction designed by treason, are they j
who will perpetuate it as a blcs-iug for fu
ture generations. All that is asked of the
people is to strengthen and uphold the
hands of the men who have been called to
do the work ot reconstruction, and when ;
that work is finished in the spirit in which
it has been begun by the present National !
Administration, we will have a government ;
and a country mighty in their munificence,
glorious in their prosperity.
The preservation of the peace and quiet
oi our country, maintaining unsullied our
uationa! honor, and the harmony of the
Uuioo are among our highest duties. Let
us encourage every branch of home indus
try, advance the true interests of moral,
pby.-ica! and intellectual labor, and reach
ing forward to the priz.r of the manifest
destiny of our glorious Commonwealth, we
may hope tor ht r increasing prosperity, and,
above all, for ti c sniilts of an approving
i I'roviJeuce.
lea-mst'y invoke a cont'nuanre of the
blessings and favors which we, as a people,
have long enjoyed, that Pennsylvania may ,
be ever ready to extend her sympathies to j
those struggling for liberty, to succor the
helpless exile, and be an asylum to the per
secuted and oppressed, and thus forever
identify herself with the cause of equal
and with the interests of universal freedom,
justice and humanity. Then can we with
truth and pride proclaim, "Long live the
Commonwealth," whose guiding principles
are found in the motto of our State, "VIR
TUE, LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE."
THE CUTTLE-FISH.
Mr. L. L Hartt, in his "Chapter on Cut
tle-Fishes io The American Naturalist,
describes his encounter with one of these
octopodson tbe coast of Brazil, which wound
its loDg arms, covered with numerous suck
ers around his bands in such away as to
hold him prisoner for a short time. On re
linquishing its hold it dropped on the sand,
and, using its long slimy arms as legs, made
its way toward the water, looking like a huge
aud very tipsy spider. The cuttle-fi=h be
longs to the mollusks, a brauc-h of the ani
mal kingdom, distinguished for its mem
bers beiDg built upon the plan of a sac, and
to which Mr. Hyatt has applied the more
appropriate name of Saccata. It is distin
guished from all other mollusks, such as
snails, clams, &c., by having a very large
head, a pair of large eyes, and a mouth fur
ni.-hed with a pair of jaws around which
are arranged, in a circle, eight or ten arms
furnished with suckers. In the common
cuttle-fish or squid of our coast, the body,
which is long and narrow, is wrapped in a
muscular cloak or mantle, like a bag, fitting
tightly to the back, but loose in front. It is
closed up to tbe neck, where it is open like
a loosely-fitting overcoat buttoned up to the
ihroat. Attached to its throat, by the mid
die, is a short tube, open at both ends.
This tube or syphon can be moved about in
any direction. The animal breathes by
means of gills, which are attached to the
front of the body, inside the cloak, and look
like the ruffles of a shirt-bosom. By means
of these gills the air contained in the water
is breathed, and they answer the same pur
pose for the cuttle-fish that our lungs do
fur us. In order to swiui, the animal swells
out the cloak in front, so that the water
flows in between it and the body. Then It
closes the cloak tightly about the neck, so
that tbe only way the Water can get out is
through the syphon. Then it contracts
forcibly its coat, and tbe water is driven out
in a jet from tbe eyphoo, and the body is
propelled in an opposite direction like a
rocket through the water. This syphon is
flexible, like a water hose, and can be bent
so as to direct the stream not only forward,
but sideways, and backwards, so that the
auimal can move in almost any direction,
and turn summersaults with perfect ease;
and so rapidly do some cuttle-fishes swim,
that they are able to make long leaps out of
the water. Usually, however, the animal
r-wims backward, with its long arms trailing
behind. Our common cuttle fi.-h of this
coast has, in addition to its eight arms, two
long slender tentacles, which may be with
drawn into the body. The tail is pointed
and furni.-hed with a fin on each side. The
octopods to which the Brazilian cuttle-fish
belongs, have round purse-like bodies, aud
eight arms united at the base with a web,
and they swim by opening and shutting
their arms like an umbrella; in this mode of
swimming they resemble the jelly fishes.
The paper nautilus is nothing in the world
but a female cuttle-fish that builds a shell.
There was a very pretty story told of her
habits by Aristotle, tbe old Greek natural
ist, which everybody believed until quite
lately. He said she rode on the top of the
waves, seated in her boat-like shell, and
spreading her broad arms to the winds for
sails. But, unfortunately, the story has no
foundation in fact. She either crawls about
on the bottom of the sea, or swims quite
like other cuttle-fish, sheli foremost, only
occasionally coming to the surface. Strange
ly enough, she holds the two broad, hand
like extremities of tbe arms against her
body, and it is tbe inside of these arms that
secrete the paper like schell, which is only
a sort of cradle for her eggs. Not so with
the pearly nautilus, whieh is furnished with
a beautiful coiled up, pearly shell, formed j
on the outside of the animal. The shell is
divided into numerous chambers, and the
anima l , living in the outer one, buildsa par
tition across the hack part of it as the shell
grows. Cutile fish are sometimes used for
food by the Brazilians, and different species
may be seen in the markets, where one fre
quently finds them still alive. Sometimes
as we stoop to examine one, its body is sud- j
denly suffused with a deep pinkish gluw.
Before we have time to recover our sur
prise this color fades, and a beautiful blue
takes its place as rapidly as a blush some-
times suffuses a delicate cheek. The blue,
perhaps, is succeeded by a green, and then j
the whole body becomes pink again. One
can hardly conceive anything more beauti- 1
ful than this rapid play of colors, which is j
produced by the successive distention of
seta of little sacks containing fluids of differ i
ent colors which are situated under the skin.
Tbecuttle fi-h is also furnished with a bag
containing an inky fluid, which, when the
annual ts attacked or pursued, it ejects into ;
the water, thus completely blinding its ad
| ver-ary and effectually coveruiug iO refr-.it.
I It is frciu this fluid that the color Supia is j
made. Beside carrying an ink-bottle some
species of cuttle-fish arc provided with a,
long, delicate, horny pen, which forms a
sort of stiffener to the back. In souro spe- j
uies the pen is hard, thick, and broad, aud
; ih; cuttle fish bone of commerce is of this j
! kind. The -species found in our waters is j
i very small, and not at all dangerous, being :
! barely large enough to draw blood from the i
hand; but in the tropical seas they are very ,
j large, powerful, and dangerous. The cut-'
I tic-fish is the original of Victor Hugo's dev- j
' il-fish, so vividly described in tbe "Toilers I
;of the Sea." If the devilfish were a bene-;
ficial one, Mr. Hart says he should be sorry
j to destroy oar faith in it; but as it is, he be- ;
! lieves it will be rather a relief than other
wise to know that in some important res
pects Victor Hugo's stOTy of it is a fable.
The Krakcn was a mythical cuttle-fish of
fabulous size.
WE often suffer ourselves to be put out of
all our bearings by misfortune, not of the
most serious kind, which, looks very black
at the time, but which from its nature, ean
| not be lasting. WC are thus like ignorant
' hens that insist upou going to roost in mid
! day because there, is a brief transitory
; I eclipse of the sun.
VOL. 43: NO 4*
ON GOING SURETY.
Ought a man ever to go surety for aoolhe v
Why not? It is a moat friendly act. If pru
dently done, it may be of the most eminent
benefit to a neighbor. It gives Lim the
benefit of your good reputation when he is
not known. It lends him your credit where
his own is not sufficient. It puts liim in
funds which otherwise he could not com
mand. Such service to a friend is generous
and sometimes even noble. No better
can lie made of one's money than to help a
a true friend. We arc commanded to "re
member those in bonds as bound with them."
To be sure, this was originally applied to
bonds of a different kind, but with not a
whit more propriety than to pecuniary
bonds. A man who, by a few thousand dol
lars, can save his friend and perhaps his
family, from bankruptcy aud want, could
hardly spend his money in a manner which,
all his life long, he would remember with
more satisfaction.
But, there are certain moral and pruden
tial considerations which should always be
borne in tuind in going surety for a friend.
You should make up your mind how much
property you have, ami how much you are
wtlliioj to give away, absolutely, for tbat
friend whom you endorse. For no blunder
can tc worse than to endorse on the suppo
sition that you will not have to jniy. Never
indorse without saying to yourself, "Thin
may come round upon me. I may have to
pay it; and if it comes to that, lam able
and willing." Nine out of ten of the fatal
mistakes made by bondsmen arise from ta
king the opposite course to this. They con
sider the act of indorsing a friend's paper
as a mere commercial form. "There is no
risk. I sbali not have it to pay. He is
abuodantly able to take care of bis paper.
I shall help him without harming myself,
and he is a stingy man who will not do that." I
This is the calculation on which a manbind.-
tiim-clf to pay a friend s debts in case the
friend cannot pay them himself.
l>ut how do these things turn out? One
need not go far to ascertain! Every village
has an illustration. Tbe borrower was more
involved than you supposed, or, perhaps, j
than he himself knew, and his creditors closed j
on him and wound him up, and were over
joyed to find such a good name on his paper.
Or, the sanguine scheme on which he had
ventured, which seemed sure of success, al
most without possibility of failure, sudden
ly, like a loaded wagon, slipped off a wheel
and upset into the dirt! Or, just as every
thing was at the point of success, your
friend sickened and could not look after his
affairs, some critical matter was neglected,
or some dishonest person stepped in and
crooked matter.-; your friend died, the es
tate went into the executor s bands for set
tlement, was badly managed, warped and
crooked, and finally turned out insolvent.
And what became of you? Why, you were
surely for the full amount of what vou are
worth! In an hour you find yourself con
fronted with debt that sweeps away your
house, your farm, your little sum in bank,
and leaves you just where you began twenty
five years ago, with this difference, that then
you bad only yourself to provide for, and
now you have a wife and eight children.
Then you were twenty-five years old, and
life was ail before you, and now you arc fifty
years, and life pretty much behind you!
You have given away your children's bread.
You have not yet saved your friend, but
have ruined yourself! Perhaps your friend
had settled on liis wife a small 'property.
So much the better for her, if he had. Of
course she wiil divide with you, since it was
to save her husband, that you were ruined.
But, if she will not (and human nature is
made up of shaky stuff;! and her children
go to school, while yours stay at home; and
if they live in a comfortable house, pleas
antly furnished, while you are hiring a few
rooms in the cheapest quarter of the town,
then I suspect that you will chew the end of
a great many bitter reflection?.
W hen it is too late, you will be very wise.
You will say to yourself, it may be, "A
Ixl an is a fool who signs for any larger sum
than he can conveniently pay." Amen,
say I!
"Before a man puts his name down on
another man's paper, he should ask himself,
Am 1 willing to give this person as much
money as I sign for?" Amen, say I?
"To sign a bond on a supposition that it
is a mere form, and that you will havo noth
ing to pay, is to put one's head into a fool's
noose." Amen, again, say I!
There is no harm in signing for a neigh
bor if you Lave got the property; if you are
able to pay the amount without harming
your own household; and if you love the
man for whom you sign enough to be wilL
ing to GIVE him outright the sum covered
by your endorsement. Otherwise, to go
surety for a neighbor is a folly, a sin and a
shame.— Henry Ward Beecher.
WONDERS. —When a young man is a clerk
of a store and dresses like a prince, smokes
"foreign cigars," drinks "nice brandy," at
tends theatres, dances and the like, f won
der if he does ail on the avails of the clerk
ship?
When a young lady sits in the parlor dur
ing the day, with her lily white fingers cov-1
cicd with rings, I wonder if her mother'
doscn't wash the dishes and do the work in
the kitchen?
When the deacon of the church sells j
strong butter, recommending it as a good !
article, 1 wonder what he relies upon for
salvation ?
When a lady laces her waist a third less J
than nature made it, I wonder if her pretty
figure will not shorten life a dozen years or
more, besides making her miserable while
she does live ?
When a young man is dependent upon !
his daily toils for his income, and marries a j
lady who does cot know how to make a loaf
of bread or mend a garment. I wonder if he
is not lacking somewhere, eay towards the
top, for instance?
When a man reeeß es a periodical or news
paper weekly, and takes great delight in
reading it, and don't pay for it, I wonder j
I if he has a soul or a gizzard ?
| The first-born child of the Crown Prince i
r of Italy has been christened Victor Em-1
| manuel, Prince of Naples, so that this
1 famous name will be perpetuated in the
i royal line of Italy. The Neapolitans are in
ecstaeies over the little Prince and his lovely
mother.
DIPLOMACY may work as much calamity
as a battle; a few ink drops may cost a ua
lion more misery and exhaustion than a
river of blood.
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FEMALE PUVSKJIE,
The if itannui, speaking of the lack of
physical development of English girls, tells
thetn how to bring about a better state of
things: On the continent things are very
different. There are to be found numerous
gymnasiums in wlticb women are trained to
all kinds of athletic sports —where we find
fair damsels of ail ages, in elegant and tuit
able costumes, disporting themselves in doz
ens, under the superintendence of a trainer
or trsineress. But surely you would not advo
cate the introduction of such a system in
this country? we can hear the shocked Eng
lish materfamiiias say. The idea of any
modest woman being dressed in knicker
bockers, and twisting herself into all kinds
of positions in a gymasium! And why? we
ask. Is there anything half so horrible in
a woman being dre-sed appropriately, and
going through a "movement drill" which
wili bring into healthful play every muscle
of her body, give a bloom to her cheeks,
and develop tbe beauties of her form, as in
her going to any one of our theatres to view
j unblu*hmg!y~tba nakedness of modern bal
| lets, and listening to the barely-covered in
j decency of modern dramas? We know we
shall be called heretics. We know the
"proper young woman" of the day will read
th s article with abhorrence, but we also
know that we are working in a good caase,
and that the day will come ere long when
even the greatest prude will go to her drill
as regularly as nowadays she does to her
studies. Then,- and not until then, shall
we tee that mcst pernicious of all fashions,
tight lacing, receive its death blow. Eng
lishwomen will then see what a fearful de
formity a small waist really is. The practice
oi athletics will soon teach them what the
human form should be, and they will learn
to appreciate the beauty of nature far more
than they now.admire the deformity of
fashion.
THE VALUE OF ACCURACY, —It is the re
sult of every day's experience, that steady
attention to matters of detail lies at the root
of human progress, and diligence above all,
is the mother of good luck. Accuracy is
also of much importance, and an invariable
mark of good training—accuracy in observa
tion, accuracy in speech, accuracy in the
transaction of affairs. What is done in
business, mmt be well done; for it is better
to accomplish perfectly a small amount of
work, than half do ten times a3 much. A
wise man used to say—"Star a little, that
we may make an end the sooner." Too
little attention, however, is paid to this
highly important quality of accuracy. As a
man, eminent in practical science, lately ob
served. "It is astonishing how few people
I have met in the course of my experience
who can define a fact accurately. Yet in
bu.-iness affairs, it is the manner in which
small matters are transacted, that often de
cide men for or against you. With virtue,
capacity and good conduct in other respects,
tbe person who is habitually inaccurate can
not be trusted; bis work has to be done
over again, and he thus causes endless
annoyance, vexation and trouble."
How TO GET AN EDUCATION. —Boys say
to men. "We want an education; but we
are poor, and father is poor, and we can't
get it, so we are going to learn a trade, or
go into a store, or do something else." Now
let me say, e\ ery boy that wants an educa
tion, if he will bend his force to it, can get
just, as good a one as he wants. The way is
open. Education does not come through
academies, and colleges, and seminaries;
these arc helps; but it comes by study and
reading, aud comparing, and all the schools,
and colleges, and seminaries in tbe world
will not make a scholar of a man without
these; and with them a man will be one if
he never sees a college. And whst is true
of boys is true of girls, and what is true of
this pursuit is true of any other. The force
must be from yourself, and you must de
velop it. It is that indomitable "I can,"
that sets a man astride the world.
HOME CHEERFULNESS. —Many a child
goes astray, not because there is a want of
prayer or virtue at home, but simply be
cause home lacks sun-bine. A child needs
smiles as much as a flowei needs sunbeams.
Children look little beyond tbe present
moment. If a thing displeases they
are prone to avoid it. If home is the
place where faces and words are harsh, and
fault finding is ever in the ascendant, they
will spend as many hours as possible else
where. Lst every father and mother then
try to be happy. Let them look happy.
Let them talk to their children, especially
the little ones, in such away as to make
tbcm happy.
MANY rough persons as well as animals
have usually some tender spot in their feel
ings. A man once had a very fierce dog,
within the length of whose chain it would
have been dangerous far a stranger to have
ventured; hut notwithstanding hisapparent
ly savage disposition, a brood of ducklings,
reared in the yard in which he was kept,
became so fond of hira that whenever, from
his barking, they apprehended danger, they
would ru-h toward him for protection, and
seek shelter in his kennel.
WEALTH is not among the number of
good things; extravagance is among the
number of evils; sober-mindedness, of good
thing-'. Now, sober mindedness invites us
to frugality and the acquisition of real ad
vantages; but wealth to extravagance, and
it drags us away from sober-mindedness. It
is a hard matter, therefore, being rich, to
be sober-minded, or being sober-minded, to
be rich.
As that servant was grievously punished
who had received a talent and went and dig
ged in the earth and hi i it, even so such
Christians as have received any gifts of
God, and do not employ them to the profit
of the people of God, shall receive heavy
and grievous judgments of God.
IT has been calculated that, in actual
waste of tissue, one hour mental labor is
I equivalent to four hours physical exertion.
; If this is correct, and taking the eight-hour
j tcate— a day's labor for a journalist should
i only bo two hours.
CHRISTIANS, if you be poor in this world
i you should be rich in faith; and if you be
1 rich in this world, be poor in spirit.
TUE violet grows low and covers itself
with its own tears, and of all the flowers
yields the sweetest fragrance. Such is bu
i utility.