Valuable Advice.
Hints FOR BusiNkss Mex.—Be
polite to everybody. Give prompt at-
tention to all customers. Do not dis-
agree or dispute with customers. Give
marked attention in taking orders. See
that orders are executed and goods de-
livered promptly. Never dissappoint or
delay, if possible to avoid it. At-
tend strictly to "Dusingss; no useless
debate or trifling, Time is precious; |
do not waste it. Never allow social
converse to interfere with immediate
attention to customers. Keep stock in
order. Make memorandum of goods or
stock wanted. Charge first and make
invoice from the charge. Loan nothing
without the consent of the owner. Make
collections promptly. Keep fully
insured.
A Courteous MANNER.—Brusque
people underrate the importance of a
pleasant manner, Look beneath the
surface, they say, tothe roots of char-
acter; pay no attention to outward ap-
pearance, to voice or gesture, or
manners; they may be all deceptive,
and they must be all superficial ; it is
what is said or done, and how it is said
or done, that is alone deserving of no-
tice. On the other hand, there are
some to whom manner is everything,
Each new acquaintance has to
through the ordeal of criticism.
polished, courteous, graceful,
fied? Then they are
him without further question; he bears
the stamp of their order. Is he rough,
awkward or shy ? Then they care not
to examine the kernel that may be
hidden under so unattractive shell,
Both these are imperfect and
mistaken, though each contains enough
of truth to make it plausible. To de-
preciate or ignore fine manners is es-
sentially absurd. Their charm is
resistible. even to those who fancy
themselves proof against them. Yet it
is not so much in themselves or for their
own sake that they delight us as in the
promise of something better and deeper,
They are signs or symbols of character,
feelings, affections, thoughts; and it is
to this that they owe their value and
their charms.
tone
pass
Is he
digni-
ready to receive
a
views
ly
Orthoepy.
[hose of our readers who honor us
with a perusal of these short chapters
on mispronunciations, have observed
that we essay to give only
in common tse which are most fre-
quently mispronounced among average
citizens.
Bade--bid,
Badinage-
age.
Bantam-
Our list to-day comprises :
not bide.
bitd -ip-iizh, not
1 : Ad
spelled, ban -tam, no
as
ban -ty.
Bellows bel!
The plural is the
Besom—bé -zum,
18. not bel'-loz.
salne.
not bé'-sum.
be-troth
Betroth—be<troth’, not
ng
Blacking, not blackeni
Blouse—hlouz,
Bologna—bi-
Bona fhide--b
fide,
not blowss.
3 » 3 } ¥
lon -va, not Do=-io ~na.,
§
ot
bon -a-
wt 0-8], I
Bouquet--boo-Ka boo ki,
Ka. | Note — The MISPronun
word more often than any other betrays |
an affectation rather than a knowledge o
French. ]
Or not
Bourgeois—meaning type.
pronounced biir-jois’ ; when it means a
~itizen it should be
Brand-new—as spelled, not bran-new.
jreeches—briteh’-ez,
Britz -el, not pritz-el,
Brougham-—broom, not brid -am.
Burst, not bust.
Bursted, not busted.
Bursting, not busting.
We have given a few foreign words,
put only such as have become anglicized
and a part of the language.
The Man Who Buys his wife's
Things.
is ¢ orrectly
boor-zhwaw
not brié'.chis,
$
§
The happiest homes are. those where
the husband interferes never at all in
the household management, but turns
aver to the wife the money for the
house, and leaves the rest for her. 1
can appreciate the man who goes (0
market if he does nobgoout for economy
to get butter a cent or two less a
pound, or cheaper cuts of beef—but be-
cause he wants the best there is to be
had. Men are more skillful, more gen-
serous marketers, than women, They
are free with money when delicacies are
offered ; they will havethe first of the
season of everything, cost what it may,
And the market people seldom try to
pull the wool over their eyes, as they
sometimes do with women, and palm off |
upon them second rate articles at first-
rate prices, Men are not to be humbug-
: hen the stomdeh is in question,
i Satmtseting is not a magt’
The wife should control 8
should everything which
housekeeping. If, however, there is
i
Working Dogs.
‘1 once heard a gentleman say tha
during a long stay in Holland he never
sw a single dog idle that was old
énough and big-enough to do any work.
All sorts cof ‘barrows and carts are
buiit on purpose: for: them, and they
gallop along ab a great pace,
They are used to.carry the fish, wood,
vegetables, and anything else which
{ sold, and you think the poor dogs might
reasonably expect to go home with an
empty cart behind them, the master
jumps in and rides back in state,
Hh this * iB not the worst part-of the
~ fof a’ certatn’ amofmt of Work
never hurts any animal, any more than
it -dbes boys an girls ; but jt makes us
sade to. know tha, as a rule, the poor
dogs are niiserably Ted, and are often
driven-till théy'drop down fromexhaus-
tio. Stil they are wonderfully. patient
and persevering, and will lick their
master’s hands gratefully if he treats
them kindly.
In -Kamts¢hdtka. the dogs are’ the
only animals that can be used to draw
sledges. They are strong and active,
and tun over the snow at a wonderful
pace. A courier ance drove two hun-
dred and seventy tiles in less than four
days in a sledge drawn by dogs. There
até generally five to each sledge, and
are harnessed four with
ene for a leader. But in spite of all the
work they do, they are badly treated
ill-fed : they bate the work they
have to do, aud give a melancholy howl
when they are first harnessed. In New-
foundland the dogs are used for all
sorts of hard work, but they are treated
very kindly, and are so gentle and good
that ther will actually draw a load of
frogs the forest to the seaside,
wait for the cart to be unloaded and
then go back get ib filled, entirely
alone,
they abreast,
wood
a
He had Traveled Before.
A lot of Boston tourists were travel-
ing in a sleeping car, also 4 Nevada
traveler. In the morning, the
porter went round to collect his assess-
boot-blaeking, there was a
great commotion among the Boston
tourists, Some paid hima fiv
nickel, and those who had no nickels
when
ments
on
e-cent
All Ne
clothes,
while the
ordinary
the vada man,
sat reading his
When the porter rea hed
“Did
“ Yes,
never had my
my boots, sir?" sah."
“You did a splendid job |
lacked
Here 8
well before on this
$2." When the
the
looked up astonished,
SO
porter
Boston peopis
and presently it
Mad
was out
key
Enoch Strother
In
and
smoking -ros
was aboard of
a few min
he Nevada man the
by chance! in the
en does my sleeping tic
* Your up,
if von wants] to rid
tine was
boss, its sah.
right,
a drink out
Reno, all
traveler gave the darkey of
a black bottle. and
for
the porter
nine 8ecd mds
health,
Eeonomy is the road to wealt
as
drank the traveler's Six dollars
saved, bh.
dn
Oullings.
The man who waxes strong every day
the shoemaker,
It is no earthly use for 'a pickpocket
to plead that he did it in a fit of ab
straction.
The Shah of Persia
stable government,
dred horses,
believes in
He has four hun-
a
“ There goes one of our first settlers,’
as the cook said when she dropped an
egg in the coffee pot,
The young man looking for five dol-
lars wants to be let a loan. After he
gets it he wants to be let alone and not
dunned for it.
““ Yes." said the landlord,
to his block of new houses,
all full, ‘cept the one at the end ;
last. but not leased.”
Prejudices get into the mind as easi-
ly as rats and mice get into traps ; and
once in the mind, like rats and mice in
traps, they seldom get out,
One of the most notable country seats
is mentioned by Lady Dufferin in her
ballad commencing. “I'm sitting on the
stile Mary | py
“3% 1 hear the expression that the
* fire has gone out.” And it is said that
in some of our largest placed you can
actually see the fire escape.
A Western colporteur was once con-
versing with an Illinois man on his re-
ligious duties. Said he: ‘Do you at-
tend church regularly #"' * Oh, no; I
never go to church, but 1 allers make it
a p'int to attend all the funecals, . They
pointing
* they're
Near my*house there is a rocky pro-
montory jutting out some way into the
sen with a coral reef round its base ; at
high water there is some three feet over
this reef, and fish of all kinds come on
it feeding. From the summit of this
promontory—which is about seventy
feet high—-there is a capital view of the
reef, and as the clear water hides it no
more than though it were covered by a
sheet of plate glass, the fish and their
movements are plainly visible. From
this elevated spot, armed with a Martini-
Henry rifle, it does not
good shot to put 4 bullet over a fish in
the water below, It is wonderful what
destruction the conclusion of the bullet
with the water causes among a shoal of
small fish: I have killed ninety-eight
with one shot, The bullet only actually
touched one or two ; the rest were com-
pletely stunned, and several had their
eves forced out. These ninety-eight fish
weighed twenty, pounds, Mullet, that
come past in great numbers, and keep
on the surface, afford excellent
shots, and are my most numerous
tims. Sharks and other large fish,
sides turtle, 1 killed, but unless
they are near the surface, that they
get the full force of the bullet, it is use-
less firing at them,
having an excellent
trieves the dead fish
require a very
most
vic
be-
have
NO
I am fortunate in
retriever. who re
very well, though
he runs from
voung sharks,
some danger at times
MUnging rays toa
har-
atl
ETrow
that I
boat
great size out here, and one
pooned towed me in a small a
high speed.
A curious kind of worm,
of the thi
piece of ordinary string, rises apparent.
about
‘Kness
8iX
inches long, and of a
ly from out of the coral reefstwice every
They are called balolo,
their first appearance in October,
Year, and make
which
lailal
Balolo
the
quantity
numbers
month the natives call *
or * little
pear in only
balolo,”” as Worms ap-
They
about
a small
appear again in vast
November 25, and give that month
name of * Balole leyu” ‘ great
balolo.”” The natives ¢an tell almost to
the day when these worms will appear,
and, by keeping men on the
for a white and red which
pears on the walter before
balolo rise, rarely miss them, They
pear about low water, covering the
with a writhing,
he tide rises they
the
or
lox yk at
scum ap-
ust the
Aap
80
As
num
wriggling
drift in
and are
DIAKs,
great
ward, baled up by the
They
very
small hand-nets,
excellent eating, but rich.
I'he Fijians devour huge quantities and
in mind the
Fkua gona ni balolo, me
balolo pro-
na kua
if you don't
it will be a long
Ea
sara.’ which means, eat
be
time
FPunrniture.
Funeral
The following story ld be
if the
wot
facts had 1
s this week
the
Aurille
a Paris
Tribunal of
eine.
an alx
ordered of isterer named
up
a suit of bed-room furniture
for 2500 francs, delighted
with morming his
the back
eternals’
The effect
his bargain,
1
while dressing, read on
ots
“Hegre
marble
of the toilet table,
in the
led to further investigation of the furni-
ture. The marble top of a chest of
drawers was lifted, and on the under
side M. and Mme. Aurille read ‘Bon
bon All speculation
M. Distruit had
pere, epoux.’’
was then at an end,
gone to a cemetery for his marble
slabs. M. Aurille declared that he
would bave no such sepulchral memo-
rials in his house and asked the trades-
man to take back the furniture. The
latter having declined the architeet
refused to pay the bill, The Court held
that the marble was not less marble
because it had once been put to funera
uses. and ordered M. Aurille to pay the
account.
—-—
A Captive Ostrich Laying Eggs.
The question as to whet her ostriches
will breed in this State seems settled by
what has occurred at Woodward's
Gardens within the last few days. One
of the female birds at that resort has
commenced laying eggs, and bids fair
to continue in the work for some time,
The first was laid on Tuesday, and the
second yesterday. One of then weighs
34 pounds, is 4} inches in lateral di-
ameter, and 7 inches in length. The
ostrich lays every alternate day until
she has ninety eggs collected.
Those who have examined into o08-
trich farming are so confident of its suc
cess, that a corporation has been formed
for that purpose, with a capital stock of
$30,000, all of it taken, called the Cali-
Scraps.
A melancholy reflection-—The top of
a bold head in a looking glass,
LAY up something for a rainy day,
if it is nothing more than the rheuma-
tism.
A professor
peared in
sLone.
of petrifaction has ap-
Paris, He has an ‘art of
WHAT isan artist to do when he is out
He should draw on his im-
agination,
AN unhappy marriage is like an elec
tric machine—it makes one dance, but
you can’t let go,
THERE'S no time like the present,
gleefully remarked the boy who had re-
ceived a gift of a watch,
CHixA and Japan buy our dried apples
freely. Thus does American industry
help to swell the population of the
Orient.
Tury had quarrelled, and
waiting for him to begin the
length he said, ‘Jet’
yourself,’ said she,
still |
she was
peace ; A
“Shut it
and she is
adore,”
He did,
waiting.
AX indifferent ple
“Have
moving speech 77°
sader asked Catullus,
I not succeeded in making a very
“Certainly,” said he
“for most of yous
of court.”
audience walked out
ALL human
are human
ow
Men
hol-
things are hollow,
things..ergo :
It is contemptible to be hollow
they
possible,
men are
Cg stuff themselves as full as
the
and
msider it
Curie
FasmiosanrLe ladies
correct lect
None of
gathe I
thing to © 18
ancient
yet undertaken to
combs,
Y us,
let him
his tobacco
combs, them have
in the Cata-
man is a creature of habit, Once
habit begging
never buy another
contract the of
and he'll
onnce,
He,
delight to make
who loves to see others happy, will
them so,
SQUANDERED opportunities are
twice lost,
A French
Paris,
dog,
gifts
the
of
to eat pet
finishing exclaimed,
. how ke would have
during
driven by famine
lady, siege
her
she
as Was
“Poor thing enjoyed
picking these bones,’
It is related as a singular
men
fact that fat
crime. It
seem so singular when you reflect
never commit doesn’t
that it
is difficult for a fat
thing low.
man to stoop to any
hu of ice
Auburn pris
Three ndred and tons
will be stored for
next
Ah! Ne
fifty
cooling
ing
on summer, says a State paper.
a iv a jail is
The Washi:
sre?
inent
And
Origin of The Calender.
The
calendivwm,
calendar
ting
ths, which, inthe la
word * is derived from
£1
dend ie commence-
ments of mon guage
of ancient Rome, where called dies +
dar. or
which “calling out,
“ealo,”* It This
EADPPEATATICS
alens
Simply r calender ; 4. ¢., days on
from
took
the
at
the the custom
among those people who, as for instance
the Turks, reckon time from
recurring phases of the moon. This
was loudly proclaimed from the roofs of
public buildings by appointed priests or
seers, who were required to seek for the
in the evening sky
either two days after new moon, or four
or five days after the last appearance of
its light in the morning sky ; this, then,
was established as the beginning of the
month. the single days being reckoned
by counting backward or forward from
the night, or from the intermediate day
of full moon. The method of reckon
ing time from the revolutions and phas-
es of light of the moon has been long
practiced in those countries in which
the constant clearness of the heavens
énables people to determine with consi
derable accuracy the first appearance of
the moonlight, the so-called “new light,"
and, again, among those whose limited
intercourse with other nations afforded
no comparison of fixed standards. In
countries, however, where continued
clearness of the sky was not afforded, or
where the necessity was urgently felt
*should OoUCcur,
all,
the
“ealling out”
of
and
upon
after new moon,
present
day remains
wholly
moon's crescent
dates, the seers at length desired that
they be permitted to ealenlate upon
the basis of the past determinations of
the duration of the regular months, the
recurrence of the phases of the
moon for a certain time in advance,
Social Life.
Hints to Visitors,
Try, without being too familiar, to
make yourself so much like one of the
family that no one shall feel you to be
inthe way, and at the same time
observant of those
Kindnesses which
what the world
manners, Hegulate your
rising and retizing by the customs
the house, Do not keep your
sitting up later than usual,
be roaming about the
two before breakfast
are very sure
be
small courtesies and
altogether make up
agrees to good
of
of
friends
call
hours
aud do not
hour or
unless
presence in the
Write
place
A
keeping a
house an
time
that your
parlor will not be
in large
in your
visitor
you
unwelcome,
letters,
mind,
in a prominent
“Be Punctual,”
has excuse for
whole family waiting, and it
donable negligence not to be
table, Here to
HANNers, any manifestation
will noticed
Dao not be
likes
before
that
little
unfavorable
no
Is aupar-
prompt al
ig 1 1 t
is 4 piace tesl good
and
breeding here
of ill.
re-
to
be and
membered, too ready
express vour or dislikes for the
It is well
things which
to you
various dishes yOu.
fo remember some
seem of very imporsance
nay make an
upon others, in
impression
dif-
day
consequent i of
The
heard discussing
1
“
ference in training. other
two young ladies were
a gentleman who had a great many
pleasant
+ ‘he
eal
qualities, Yes,” said one
is
pie
no
but does
Take
recalled
handsome
with his knife
that Kind is
very he
Care
$ bona d
that
when people speaking of you
your friends mmvited vou to wom them in
an exeursion. vour pleasure and
readiness togo, and do not act as though
you were instead of
a favor
NO visi
who do not
conferring
FeCEIvVing one, LOIS are 80 Weari-
some as those meet hall
proposals that are made for their
If games are proposed,
will
pleasure.
do not say that
3}
you rather
look
and do
let foolish
you should 1
not play, or “would
on,” but join with rest,
Never
lest
he
the best Can,
a feeling of pride,
good ar
prevent
8
wt make
pearance as the others, your
noe
try ig.
Jute Culture in the South,
The people of India persist
and the
in grow-
ing cotton. people of the South
would do well to retaliate by beginning
eonid do to
tn +}
to 1]
to produce jute, This thes
general
for
he manufacture of sacks
ountry ; the
otber articles 18
there is
tion of t
in the
al effect on its price,
13
10
Ppro-
that the produ 118 toagl
and important tbre South would
have
Its use v
an mater
pouna i
aCe at
sandy or alluvial soil
onditions there is
its production in this cot
cwinned Yes TY wed i Yin
product o acre inn ule ! i ae
Is in
ey
The
market bring as much as t
LWo acres in cotton,
vating ess than the laber
that cott There are many
reasons why our planters should diversid
fy their agriculture with jute,
known why they should
All the evidence favors the culti
vation of this staple, which is in demand
fully as widely and imperatively as ecot-
toh itself in the Southern States, and
Georgia should do her share in starting
the promising work, — Atlanta Kr,
he product of
and the labor of eulti-
jute is much i
on demands.
and not
one
not.
reason
>
Rays of Mirth.
A man writes to an editor for four
dollars ‘because he is so terribly short,”
and gets in reply the heartless response :
“Do as I do; stand up a
chair.”’
There are three classes of men who
tell the truth-—one from foree of habit,
the second for a change, and lastly,
editors, who tell the truth because they
don’t know how to lie,
“Ia it law you're talking about ¥ Look,
now, when IT wae a saudger 1 shot
twenty men for the Queen, and she gave
me a pinshun ; but if 1 was only to shoot
one stray fellow for myself, bedad, 1d
be tried for murther. There's law for
yez.m
on
“Your future husband seems very
he has been stipulating for
all sorts of things,” said a mother to her
daughter, who was aboul getting mars
ried. “Never mind, mamma.” said
who was already
“these are his
She was asked whit she t} ght of
“
A tmosph ere at the Table.
It is impossible to estimate properly
the immense influence which is exerted
upon a household by the atmosphere of
the family table, If it is true that one
does not come out of a room the same
person he went in, the mind ever after
retaining the hpress of what affected
it there, what great results must
achieved from the meeting three thmes
a day in the meals, from the converea-
tion indulged in, and the sentiments ex-
pressed there, A neal, well-ordered
table is in itself a lesson to the children,
I have noticed that a
almost invari
be
sensitive child
better manners
when dressed in his best, and have seen
with surprise the effect produced upon
a certain small boy of my acquaintance
by
ably has
handsomely dressed
10
ladies who are
To the inviting table,
where there should always be som ething
attractive, however simple the meal
fren will come pre-
properly. It is really
e, and when philosophically
is a matter of great import-
all
work done before, and
after the and to allow
be discussed
of brooding
exhausting our-
over it in our minds,
idiously avoided.
polite him,
chile
pared to behave
worth whil
may be, most
considered,
ance to lay aside as far as possible
thoughts of hard
to be done meal,
no vexatious questions 10
The habit
work, and
at the time,
over oul
selves by going all
one to he st
There
¥ 3 %
nothing that takes from
one’s energy
more than this, and it is 4 a frequent
se of Insanity
Call
that
agreeable
Everybody knows food digests
It
pleasant
remark that
ild pass
as it gave
The poor child who
and is sent
his dinner half eaten,
the whole afternoon
with an undigested lump of food in his
stomach,
iter when in company.
was something more than a
which made a friend he
eould not have his wife and ch
the summer away from him,
grief
# this
= iif
as s table,
away from it with
and who suffers
is to be pitied, and it isa wise
plan to explain children that in
this way be punished for bad
conduct at the table,
It follows, then,
to the
they will
that pleasant sur-
prises in the way of preparing favorite
dishes, that good taste and much pains-
taking appoint-
ments the table and dining-room
mere ministering
istence, and
(sood
in arranging all the
of
rise above a to the
the
behavior and cheer-
fulness ought to accompany each meal
as naturally and un
The
distributes nervous
animal ex affect fine
issues of life,
as bread
wappy laughter whict
force, and calls
allowing
AYering
and butter
the
blood from the brain, the sio-
should be heard
NO
ane
mach to get share
a
more frequently at our tables,
one
onld feel at liberty to say word
ot Kk thoughtful,
withhold
HL sod
ind and any
a suff
fact
“ah »
wt
would
&
rH
oi i ese
consideration than
Ex.
mo veliad
aren
feCeive
Insanity In Criminals.
I'he opponents of capital punishment
in France just been furnished with
a new weapon. The last time that the
guillotine was set up in the Pls
Roquette ti
have
ace de la
criminal upon whom it
a youth named
who murdered a little girl
circumstances of appalling atroci-
{y about two years since. His conduct
was 80 abominable that even a Paris jury
could not discover any extenuating
circumstance for him, although it was
admitted that his intelligence was of
thelowest order. When, however, he was
dissected at the Ecole Pratique 4d’ Ana-
tomie certain cerebral lesions were
brought to light and those who wage
war against the guillotine declare that
he was not responsible for his actions,
This view has been greatly strengthened
within the last few days by the fact that
the convict’'s mother has become a
lunatic, It appears, moreover, that her
sister is also insane and that her father
committed suicide. These revelations
have given a new impetus in France to
the endless controversy respecting mental
unsoundnress in relation to criminal
impulse,
ie
was emploved was
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A Square Box.
A bushel box orerate of cranberries
according to the Jersey law, must meas.
ure inside Rix12x22 inches: a peck,
Rix6x11 inches. Barrels {inside meas.
ure) must have a depth of 268 inches ;
diameter of head, 16} inches; diameter
of bilge, 18] inches. The Massachu-
setts law requires the cranberry barrel
to hold 100 quarts, dry measure, which
is nearly equivalent to the New Jersey
standard. The Cape Cod boxes are
from five to ten per cent. smaller than
the New Jersey crates. An effort is
ming to secure legislation fn New
and therewith the regular succession of
the months, and to publicly record the
number and the method of counting
the days of the single months, Thus,
inplace of the public proclamation from
the house-tops of the observed appear-
one of lier neighbors of name of Jones, |
and with a knowing look replied : “Why:
1 don't like to say anything about my
neighbo, but as to Mr. Jones, some
I think, and then again I don't
a”, but after all, I rather guess, he'll
dence of Dr. C. J. Sketchley, formerly | ances, the calendar now came into use, | turn out to be a good deal such
uf Cagaiovs, $5 ue expusiouced ueich containing calculations of the ealling asort of a man as I take him |
farmer, —San Francisco Chronicle, ays, "Science Monthly, be.” bi
gv w # % $d 8 4 &
York fixing the standard measure for
coanberries in accordance with the
New Jersey law. This is necessary be-
eause some - unprincipled dealers are
be jest as solemn, and thar isn’t no ker.
anything to be said in favor of the man
ing | lections.”
‘who dag thie Tarkeitng, it is tmpossible
10 find excuses for the man who who does all
the family shopping and. relegates his
wil so poniion ue hots eh is
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fornia Ostrich Farming Company. A
tract of 640 acres has has also been
secured on the old Ael Stearn’s Ranch,
near Anaheim, in Los Angeles county,
which will be under the superinten-
wlinicasions ale a
An Indianapolis man broke two ribs
while making a boss blow on a lung
or allan yt What a blessing
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