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SONG FOR. THINKERS.
DT CHARLES SWAM
Take the Spade of Perseverance,
Dig the Field of Progress wide;
Every rotten root of faction,
Hurry out and cast aside; .
Every stubborn weed of error;
Every seed that hurts the soil;
Tares, whose very growth is terror—
Dig them out whate'er the toil I
Give the stream of Education,
Broader channel, bolder force;
Hurl the stones of Persecution
Out where'er they idoqc its course ;
Beek for strength in self-exertion;
Work and still have faith to wait ;
Close the crooked gate to fortune;
Make the road to honor straight I
Men are agents for the future;
As they work, so ages win,
Either harvest of advancement,
Or the products of their sin!
Follow out true cultivation;
• Widen Education's plan ;
Yrom the majesty of nature,
Teach the Mtjesty of man I
Take the Spade of Perseverance,
Dig the Field of Progress wide; _
Every bar to true Instruction,
Carry out and cast aside;
Feed the Plant whose Fruit is Wisdom;
Cleanse from Crime the common sod ;
So that from the throne of heaven,
It may bear the glance of God.
4ntertsting atisttilanp..
TEE GREAT MODERN BABYLON.
Think of what London is I At the last
census there were 2,362,236 persons of both
sexes in it; 1,106,558 males, of whom 146,-
449 were under five years of age. The un
marriednaeles were 6•70,380 ; ditto females,
735,871 • the married men were 399,098 • the
wives 49,731 ; the widowers were 37, 089,
the widows, 110,076.
On the night of the census there *ere 28,-
598 husbands whose wives were not with
them, and. 39,231 wives mourning their ab
sent lords.
Last year the number of children born in
London were 89,833. In the same period
56,786 persons died.
The Registrar General assumes that with
the additional births, and by the fact of sol
diers and sailors returning from the seat of
war, and of persons engaged in peaceful pur
suits settling in the capital, sustenance, cloth
ing, and house accommodation must now be
found in London for above 60,000 inhabitants
more than it contained at the end of 1855.
Think of that—the population of a large
city absorbed in London, and no perceptible
inconvenience occasioned by - it ? Rouses are
still to let; there are still the usual tickets
hung up in the windows in quiet neighbor
hoods, intimating that apartments furnished
for single gentlemen can be had within ; the
country still supplies the town with meat and
bread, and we hear of no starvation in conse
quence of deficient supply.
London is the healthiest city in the world.
During the last ten years the annual deaths
have been on the average 25 to 1000 of the
population - ; in 1856 the proportion was 22 to
1000 ; yet, in spite of this, half of the deaths
that happen on an average in London, be
tween the ages of 20 and 44, are from con
sumption and diseases of the respiratory or
gans.
The Registrar traces this to the state of the
streets. lie says: There can be no doubt
that the dirty dust suspended in the air that
the people of London breathe, often excites
diseases of the respiratory organs. The dirt
of the streets is produced and ground now by
innumerable horses, omnibuses and carriages,
and then beat up in fine dust, which fills the
mouth and inevitably enters the air passages
in large quantities. The dust is not removed
every day, but saturated with water in the
great thoroughfares, sometimes ferments in
damp weather ; and at other times ascends
under the heat of the sun as atmospheric
dust.
" London," says Henry Mayhew, "may be
safely asserted to be the most densely popu
lated city in all the world ; containing one
fourth more people than Pekin, and. two
thirds more than Paris, more than twice as
many as Constantinople ; four times as many
as Vienna, or New York, or Madrid, nearly
seven times as many as Berlin, eight times as
many as Amsterdam, nine times as many as
Rome, fifteen times as many as Copenhagen,
and seventeen times as many as Stockholm."
" London," says Horace Jay, " c'est une
province converto de maisons."
It covers an erect of 122 square miles in ex
tent, or 78,029 statute acres, and contains
327,329 houses.
Annually 4,000 new houses are in course
of erection for upward of 40,000 new comers.
The continuous line of buildings stretching
from Holloway to Chamberwell is said to be
12 miles long.
It is computed that if the buildings were
set in a row they would reach across the
whole of England and France, from York to
the Pyrenees.
London has 10,500 distinct streets, squares,
circuses, crescents, terraces, villas, rows,
buildings, places, lanes, courts, alleys, mews,
yards, and rents.
The paved streets of London, according to
a return published in 1856, number over
5,000, and exceed 2,000 miles in length • the
cost of this paved reading was £14,000 , 000,
and the repairs cost £1,8100,000 per annum.
London contains 1,900 miles of gas pipes,
with a capital of nearly £4,000,000 spent in
the preparation of gas.
The cost of gas lighting is half a million.
It has 360,000 lights; and 13,000,000 cubic
feet of gas are burned every night.
Last year along these streets the enormous
quantity of upward of 80,000,000 of gallons
of water rushed for the supply of the inhabi
tants, being nearly double what it was in
1845.
Mr. Mayhew says : If the entire people of
the capital were drawn up in marching order,
two and two, the length of the great army of
Londoners would be no less than 670 miles,
and, supposing them to move at the rate of
WILLIAM LEWIS,
VOL. Xlle
three miles an hour, it would require more
than nine days and nights for the average
population to pass by.
To accommodate this crowd, 125,000 vehi
cles pass through the thoroughfares in the
course of 12 hours; 3,000 cabs, 1,000 omni
buses, 10,000 private job carriages and carts,
ply daily in the streets ; 3,000 conveyances
enter the metropolis daily from the surround
ing country. Speaking generally, Tennyson
tells us :
"Every minute dies a man,
Every minute one is born."
In London, Mr. Mayhew calculates, 169
people die daily and a babe is born every five
minutes. The number of persons, says the
Registrar General, who died in 1856, in 116
public institutions, such as work houses and
hospitals, was 10,381.
It is - really shocking to think, and a deep
stigma on the people or on the artificial ar
rangements of society, by which so much
i poverty is perpetuated, that nearly one per
.]
son out of five, who died last year, closed his
days under a roof provided by law or public
A charity. It is calculated that 500 men are
drowned in the Thames every year. In the
first week of the present year there were five
deaths from intemperance alone. How much
wretchedness lies in these two facts—for the
deaths from actual intemperance bear but a
small proportion to the deaths induced by the
immoderate use of intoxicating liquors ; and
of the 500 drowned, by far the larger class,
we have every reason to believe are of the
number of whom Hood wrote :
"Mad with life's history,
Glad to death's mystery,
• Swift to be hurried.
Anywhere, anywhere,
Out of the world."
According to the last reports, there were in
London 143,000 vagrants admitted in one
year into the casual wards of the work houses.
Here we have always in our midst 107 bur
glars, 110 house breakers, 38 highway rob
bers, 773 pickpockets, 3,657 sneaksmen or
common thieves, 11 horse stealers, 141 dog
stealers, 3 forgers, 28 coiners,
317 utterers of
base coin, 141 swindlers, 182 cheats, 343-re
ceivers of stolen goods, 2,768 habitual rioters,
1,205 vagrants, 50 begging letter - writers, 86
bearers of begging letters, 6,371 prostitutes,
beside 470 not otherwise described, making
altogether a total of 16,900 criminals known
to the police.
These persons are known to make away
with £42,000 per annum ; the prison popula
tion at any particular time is 6,000, costing
for the year £170,000. Our juvenile thieves
cost us £3OO a piece.
Mr. Timbs calculates the number of pro
fessional beggars in London at 35,000, two
thirds of whom are Irish. Thirty thousand
men, women and children are employed in
the costermonger trade ; besides, we have, ac
cording to Mr. Mayhew, 2,000 street sellers
of green stuff, 4,000 street sellers of eatables
and drinkables, 1,000 street sellers of station
ary, 4,000 street sellers of other articles,
whose receipts are three million sterling, and
whose incomes may be put down at one mil
lion.
Let us extend our survey, and we shall not
wonder that the public houses, and the gin
palaces, and the casinos, and the theaters,
and the penny gaffs, and the lowest and vilest
places of resort in London are full. In Spit
alfields there are 70,000 weavers, with but
10s. per week ; there are 22,479 tailors ; 30,-
805 shoemakers ; 43,928 milliners ; 21,210
seamstresses; 1,769 bonnet makers; and 1,277
cap makers.
What hard, wretched work is theirs ?
There are two worlds in London, with a
gulf between—the rich and the poor. We
have glanced at the latter ; for the sake of
contrast, let us look at the former. Emerson
says the wealth of London determines prices
all over the globe. In 1847 the money coin
ed in the Mint was £5,158,440 in gold, £125,-
730 in silver, and £8,960 in copper.
The business of the bank of England is
conducted by about 800 clerks, whose salaries
amount to about £190,000. The Bank in
1850 had about twenty millions of bank notes
in circulation. In the same year there were
about five millions deposited in the savings
banks of the metropolis.
The gross customs revenue of the port of
London in 1849 was £11,070,176; sixty-five
millions is the estimate formed by Mr. Mc-
Culloch, of the total value of produce con
veyed into and from London. The gross
rental, as assessed by the property and income
tax, is twelve and a half millions.
The gross property insured at £166,000,000
and only two-fifths of the houses are insured.
The amount of capital at the command of the
entire London bankers may be estimated at
64 millions; the insurance companies have
always 10 millions of deposits ready for in
vestments ; 78 millions are employed in dis
counts. In 1841, the transactions of one
London house alone amounted to 30 millions.
In 1839, the payments made in the clearing
house were 954 millions—an enormous sum,
which will appear still greater when we re
member that all sums under £lOO are omit
ted from this statement. All this business
cannot be carried on without a considerable
amount of eating and drinking. The popu
lation consumes annually 277,000 bullocks,
30,000 calves, 1,480,000 sheep, 34,000 pigs,
1,600,000 quarters of wheat, 310,464,000
pounds of potatoes, 89,672,000 cabbages.—
Of fish the returns are almost incredible.—
Besides, it eats 2,742,000 fowls, 1,281,000
game, exclusive of those brought from the
different parts of the United Kingdom ; from
70 to 75 millions eggs are annually imported
into London from France and other countries.
About 13,000 cows are kept in the city and
its environs for the supply of milk and cream;
and if we add to their value that of the cheese,
and butter, and milk brought from the coun
try into the city, the expenditure on produce
daily must be enormous. Then London con
sumes 65,000 pipes of wine, 2,000,000 gal
lons of spirits, 43,200,000 gallons of porter
and ale, and burns 3,000,000 tons of coal;
and I have seen it estimated that one fourth
of the commerce of the nation is carried in
its port.
On boxing night it was estimated that 60,-
000 persons visited the various theatres and
places of amusement in London.
In London, in 1853, according to Sir
Mayne, there were 3,613 beer shops, 5,279
public houses, and 13 wine rooms.
And now, to guard all this wealth, to pre
serve all this mass of industry honest, and
to keep down all this crime, what have we?
6,367 police, costing £373,968; 13 police
courts, costing £45,050 ; and aout a dozen
criminal prisons, 69 union relieving-officers,
316 officers of local boards, and 1,256 other
local officers. •
We have 35 weekly magazines, 9 daily
newspapers, 5 evening, and 72 weekly ones.
Independent of the mechanics' institutions,
colleges, and endowed schools, we have 14,-
000 children of both sexes clothed and edu
cated gratis, in the National and British and
Foreign schools in all parts of London, and
Sunday schools.
The more direct religious agcncy may be
estimated as follows: In the "Hand book to
Places of Worship," published by Low in
1851, there is a list of 371 churches and
chapels in connection with the Establishment;
the number of church sittings, according to
Mr. Mann, is 409,184; the Independents have
about 140 places of worship, and 100,436 sit
tings; the Baptists 130 chapels, and accom
modation for 54,234 ; the Methodists, 154
chapels, 60,696 sittings ; the Presbyterians,
23 chapels and 18,211 sittings ; the Unitari
ans, 9 chapels and about 3,300 sittings; the
Roman Catholics, 35 chapels and 35,994 sit
tings; 4 Quaker chapels, with sittings for
3,151 ; the Moravians have two chapels, with
1,100 sittings; the Jews have 11 synagogues
and 3,692 sittings. There are 94 chapels be
longing to the New Church, the Plymoth
Brethren, the Irvingites, the Latter-day Saints,
Sandemanians, Lutherans, French Protes
tants, Greeks, Germans, Italians, which
chapels have sittings for 18,833.
We thus get 691,723 attendants on Divine
exercises.--Ritchie's Night Side of London.
The clock has just struck eight, (morning)
and while the housemaid is doing the last
brushing and dusting, I sit down to write to
you in accordance with your suggestion, a
few lines on "Housework Accomplished ;"
not that we always have our homework ac
complished by this hour; but, as we have
this time, I have consequently a little leisure.
As you remark, some people seem to suc
ceed much better in their household duties
than others. While some fail from real in
difference, and some from ignorance, many
others fail from want of tact or ingenuity ; to
such, the suggestions you ask for will be ac
ceptable and profitable.
You have seen—who has not?—that one
woman will drudge all day to do the same
amount of work that another will have accom
plished by nine or ten o'clock in the morning.
Now to the cause: The first, perhaps, rises
late, though possibly not—but there seems to
be a lack of energy and system in all her do
ings—she has no order in which things are
to be done ; the consequence is great fatigue
with little profit. The second rises early,
goes about her work with spirit and alacrity
—her heart is in it, and success is her reward.
A few practical hints on this subject may not
be amiss; and, as they are intended for farm
ers' wives and daughters, they will any in
detail only to country life.
In the busy season, the laboring man wants
his breakfast early; this, then, should be the
first care in the morning, except a few mo
ments judiciously used in toilet arrangement
and putting the breakfast room in order,
when circumstances are such as to prevent
doing the latter the evening previous.
Breakfast over, let your next duty be to put
your house in order ; in this, have system,
and do it well—it is far easier in the end.—
When your kitchen and pantry work is done,
let its aspect be such that an observer would
pronounce it tidy. And your sitting room—
let that be neat, cozy and inviting; let your
sleeping apartments possess an air of hospi
tality and comfort; it you have a parlor and
are able, you may have it elegant—but let it
too be like a cool bower on a summer's day.
If one room (as is often the case in a new
country) must supply the place of most or
all of them, then let it possess the qualifica
tions of all.
Do not think your work is done when the
broom, the mop and the dusting brush are
laid aside—spend a few moments more in
each room ; there are many nameless little
things that can be done to add much' to the
good appearance of all - see that the books
and papers are in order, they may be a
delight to the eye, instead of an ungainly
pile of rubbish ; put things to righs" on
the mantel—place your chairs and other
moveables where they will make the room
look best—let the lounge be tidy and inviting
—loop up the window curtains neatly—make
the fire look cheery, if you need a fire ; if
not, let the place for it, be it stove or hearth,
be clean and snug.
When all this is accomplished, visit your
pantry again, to see if your store of eatables
need replenishing ; if so, now is your time,
before the dinner hour arrives. While you
are baking the bread and pastry, let Maggie,
or Fanny, or Dollie, attend to whatever there
is aside—ironing, churning and the like—
days when there are none of these to be
done, you will have time perhaps to read, or
think, or sew, before dinner, but do not
leave work about home, till afternoon if it
can be avoided. When the sun is in the
West, have on your clean cap . and shining
apron, and take your easy . chair—you can,
generally, if you manage rightly.
One word about your table, and I've done:
Get up your dishes to suit the palate, of
course, but pay a. little regard to the eye,
too; do not throw that meat on so hastily—
keep the edge of the platter unsoiled—lay
that bread on the plate in order—put the
" cups and tea" on somehow—have a clean
plate for the butter, arrange the dishes with
care ; and now, if you will believe it, let me
tell you I am not a fastidious old maid, but
somebody's wife, and a HOUSEXCEEPER.r•-•••
Prairie Farmer.
aSpeak not ill of thy neighbor
HUNTINGDON, PA., JUNE 17, 1857.
Housekeeping---How to do it.
-PERSEVERE.-
Rules for Rome Education.
The following rules we commend to all
our patrons and friends, for their excellence,
brevity, and practical utility. They are -wor
thy of being printed in letters of gold and
being placed in a conspicuous place in every
household. It is lamentable to contemplate
the mischief, misery and ruin which are the
legitimate fruits of those deficiencies which
are pointed out in the rules to which we
have reference. Let every parent and guar
dian read, ponder and inwardly digest:
1. From your children's earliest infancy,
inculcate the necessity of instant obedience.
2. Unite firmness with gentleness. Let
your children always understand that you
mean what you say. .
3. Never promise them anything unless
you are certain you can give them what you
say.
4. If you tell a child to do something,
show him how to do it, and see that it is
done.
5. Always punish your children for wil
fully disobeying you, but never punish them
in anger.
6. Never let them perceive that they vex
you or make you lose your self-command.
7. If they give way to petulance or ill
temper, wait till they are calm and then
gently reason with them on the impropriety
of their conduct.
8. Remember that a little present punish
ment, when the occasion arises, is more ef
fectual than the threatening of a greater
punishment should the fault be renewed.
9. Never give your children anything be
cause they cry for it.
10. On no account allow them to do at one
time what you have forbidden, under the
same circumstances, at another.
11. Teach them that the only sure and
easy way to appear good is to be good.
12. Accustom them to make their little re
citations with perfect truth.
13. - Never allow of tale-bearing.
14. Teach them self-denial, not self-indul
gence, of an angry and resentful spirit.
If these rules are reduced to practice—
daily practice—by parents and guardians,
how much misery would be prevented, how
many in danger of ruin would be saved,
how largely would the happiness of a thou
sand domestics circles be augmented! It is
lamentable to see how extensive is paternal
neglect, and to witness the bad and dreadful
consequences in the ruin of thousands.
The Fort Madison Argun is out in the fol
lowing able article upon tattlers ; and while
we endorse every word it contains, we can
not help thinking that it is decidedly appli
cable to all latitudes
Every community is cursed by the pres
ence of a class of people who make it their
business to attend to everybody's business
but their own. Such people are the meanest
specimens of depraved humanity which an
all-wise Providence permits to exist on this
sin-cursed earth. It is well known that al
most every person is somewhat disposed to
speak evil of others ; and tattling is a sin
from which very few can entirely claim to
be exempt. But the object of our present
article is to speak of that distinct class of
tattlers who make tale-bearing the constant
business of their lives. They pry into the
private affairs of every family in the neigh
borhood—they know the exact state of one
neighbor's feeling toward another; they un
derstand everybody's faults, and no little
blunder, or misdemeanor ever escapes their
vigilant watchfulness.
They are particularly well posted upon
everything connected with courtship and
matrimony—know who are going to marry
whom and can guess the exact time when it
will take place. They watch every move
ment of parties suspected of matrimonial in
tentions, and if there is the slightest chance
to create a disturbance, excite jealousy, or
"break up" a match, they take immediate
advantage of it, and do all in their power to
keep people in a constant state of vexation.
They glide quietly from gentleman to lady,
from mother to daughter, from father to son,
and in the ears of all they pour dark, bitter
whispers of slander and abuse, and at the
same time pretend to be the most sincere
friend of those they talk to. Their black
and nauseous pills of malicious slander are
sugar-coated with smiles and honied words
of friendship.
Tattlers are confined to no particular class
of society. They belong to all classes and
operate in all. We find them among the
rich and poor—the " upper ten" and the
" lower million"—in the church and out of
it. They are people who hare no heart and
less brains—who have no higher ambition
than to be well-informed in regard to other
people's private business, to retail scandal to
their neighbors, and exult with fiendish tri
umph over the wounded feelings and bruised
hearts of their innocent victims.
Beauless old maids and childless matrons
make the most accomplished scandal mongers
in the world. They seem to take to tattling
from the promptings of a natural instinct,
and they prosecute it with an energy that
would do infernal honor to their great leader
—the Prince of darkness himself.
Our contempt for such graceless creatures
knows no bound, and we can find no words
in which to express its infinity. What pun
ishment they deserve we cannot know ; but
God knows, and as sure as his eternal justice
reigns, they will receive a retribution in pro
portion to the magnitude of their offences
against the laws of God and the interests of
humanity.
NAKED Pnorostriox.—The Elmira Adver
tiser, in speaking of fashion, says:
" Strip all the men and women of our vil
lage of their fine clothes, and what a change
would be. apparent."
LOVE. your friend so as to hate his faults.
A Crying Eva
Editor and Proprietor.
The Reading of the Young.
We once sent a Sunday school book by a
lady patient of ours, as a present to her little
daughter. On inquiring afterwards how she
liked it—" Indeed, doctor, I did not give it to
her, as I have not yet had time to read it my
self." That mother soon passed away, and
doubtless to the better land, and long years
have passed away also, but we have never
failed to admire that mother's heart as often
as the remembrance of her ceaseless vigilance
has occurred to us, accompanied with the
earnest wish, that all parents should emulate
that mother's care. Up to the age of fifteen
at least, and as long after as affection for the
parent will prevent the child from doing any
thing contrary to the known wishes of father
or mother, no book should be read by a child
without the parent's permission. Impressions
are made for life, for eternity, on the mind,
and heart, and memory of childhood—im
pressions which mould the character for aye,
or open up channels of thought which fix the
the destiny.
Untold mischief has been done to the minds
and morals of the young by reading books on
"Physiology" so-termed, causing apprehen
sions which have acted as a ceaseless torture
to multitudes, until by consultation with hon
orable physicians, the groundless apprehen
sions have been removed, which had been ex
cited by plausible falsities and brazen-faced
untruths.
Equal care should be exercised as to the re
ligious, moral, and miscellaneous reading of
the young. Very few of our daily penny pa
pers are fit to be read at the family fireside.
Certainly not one in a dozen of all city week
ly papers, not connected with a daily issue,
but is chargeable justly with being made up
with the veriest trash, to say nothing of their
frequent obscenity, their slang, their spiteful
hits at religion, its ministers, its professors,
and the Bible itself.
A drop of water will ultimately wear through
the solid rock, and drop by drop will empty
the ocean, and so is the influence of the re
peated exhibition of bits of sarcasm, and infi
delity, and profanation, which portions of the
press are steadily throwing out. Not only
are the minds of the young injuriously affec
ted by these things, but persons of maturity,
of intellect, of mental culture, will suffer by
them.
It is not long since that the death of Perci
val, the poet, recalled to many memories his
early promise, his later failure. How, with
a heart, a mind, a culture capable of achiev
ing great things for humanity, his light went
down in the night of misanthropy and almost
atheism! What was it that froze the heart
and made desolate the whole character of
that gifted man ? Reading in the spring
time of life, the obscenities of Don Juan, the
malignant diatribes, the ranting atheism of
Lord Byron. Had other books been placed
in the hands of this unfortunate man at that
critical period of his life—books which would
have cherished the better feelings of his na
ture, which would have invited out his sym
pathies towards his brother man, he might
have died a Howard, or a Harlan Page, about
whom sweet memories will arise for ages to
come, instead of dying as he is said to have
done, an uncomely oddity, a misanthrope,
and an infidel.
Parents 1 Have a ceaseless eye to - what
your younger children read.—Ball's New
York Journal of Health.
4° Good to Make Men Of."
A gentleman once asked a company . of lit
tle boys, what they were good for? One lit
tle fellow promptly answered,
"We are good to make men of."
Think of that, my young friends; you are
all good to make men and women of. We
do not mean—nor did that little boy—that
you are merely good to grow up to the size of
men and women. No, we mean a good deal
more than this. You are to make persons
that will be respected and useful—that will
help to do good in the world. No one, who
is not useful, and who does not seek to make
the world better, deserves the name of man
or woman.
You should not forget that, if there are to
be any men and women—any that deserve
such a name—twenty or thirty years hence,
they are to be made of you who are now
children. What a world this will be, when
you grow up, if ail only make men and wo
men! Will you not ponder this subject, and
"Show yourselves men?"
"Good to make men of." What kind of
men will our youthful readers be twenty
years hence? Will they be classed with the
intelligent, the respectable, the industrious,
the prosperous, the benevolent, the pious men
of the time? for doubtless there will be such.
It may require a little self-denial, and bard
study and hard work; but such a character is
cheaply purchased at that price—and such a
character we wish all our readers to bear.—
Youth's Companion.
Happiness of Working Men.
The situation or social position of the poor
—and by that word we mean the laboring
population—is by . no means so deficient in
the means of happiness and comfort as many
are led to believe. "The mechanics," says
Lord Byron, " and working classes who can
maintain their families, are, in my opinion,
the happiest body of men. Poverty is wretch
edness ; but it is, perhaps, to be preferred to
the heartless, unmeaning dissipation of the
higher orders." A popular author says, " I
have no propensity to envy any one, least of
all the rich and great : but if I. were disposed
to this weakness, the subject of my envy
would be a healthy young man, in full pos
session of his health and faculties, going
forth in a morning to work for his wife and
children, or bringing them home his wages
at night."—Lato Magazine.
GAPES IN OIIICKENS.—This disease is often
caused by feeding too liberally with wet In
dian meal, when confined to the coop.—
Chickens that are permitted to roam freely
throne' the fields, are seldom troubled with
the disease. The common Tucket, or pop
corn, is better than meal, with which to feed
chitens, as soon as they are four weeks old.
We believe thiS pleasant amusement for
boys and girls, and sometimes those of more
mature age-aorigitafted in Germany, where
it is called viel liebehen, Which, as it is spoken,
has the sound of piiiiipkinaaawhiell may have
been the origin of our word, to-which we have
given a Latin termination—pena, because it
infers a penalty or forfeiture exacted or won
by the tact or management of the winning
party.
With us, however, the thing is managed
clumsy, and quite without skill.
A person in company chances to find a
double-meated almond, and hands half the
meat to another, and says, or rather would
say: " Will you eat a philopena with me ?"
The other may say, "I'm afraid," and refuse,
or may accept one of the nuts, and eat it at
the same time the challenging party eats the
other: Thus they separate; and when they
meet again, the one that can think to say
"philopena" first to the other wins the for a
felt, and has a right to name what it shall bo
—generally ; among children, some trifle ; or
among young folks, some little present, suit:
able to the condition of the parties. Thus ;
a young lady who wins a philopena of a gen
tleman, may immediately add, "I wear No:
6,1 kids." If the parties meet in the street ;
the lady may say, "Oh, yes ; I see yon . notice
that my parasol is getting old. Well ; then ;
I accept.' But the gentleman mast never
allude to her want of an article, but exercise
his judgment as to what would be acceptable.
Generally, in our hot haste to win the phil
opena we forget propriety, and become rude,
in this land of thrift and harry.
The thing is far better and more pleasantly
managed in Gerarrany, and calls into exercise
some of the most useful faculties of the mind.
When a couple meet the next time after hav
ing eaten philopena ; no advantage is taken
of the other until one of them pronounces
the word "pbilopena." This is the warning'
that now the sport is to begin: Let me sera
pose that a gentleman calls upon a. lady; she
invites him in, but at the same time speaks
the talismanic word: If he accepts the offer
to take off his hat, he mast resolutely keep
it on ; if to be seated, he taint stand, or if at
table she should hand him any article which
he accepts, she wins the forfeit: At the same
time, he is watching to catch her off her
guard—for the first acceptance of any offer
from the other ends the game: Both are con ,
scantly exercising their wits to prevent being
caught, and the sport often goes on all the
evening. Perhaps the gentleman brings a
little present, and says, "`Knowing that I
should lose my philopena ; I have brought it
along—here it is." If she is caught off her ,
guard by this smooth speech,she loses, for
he immediately claims the forfeit: If neither
wins at the first meeting ; the sport is contin
ued at the second ; and it may happen that
half a dozen parties meet at the same time,
all anxious to win of their philopena part
ners—so that the scene often becomes lu
dicrously amusing.
How preferable is this German play to our
own ? And as the sport derived from philo
pena is very innocent and pretty, we com
mend it to the "young folks" of all America:
—Exchange:
NO. 62.
A LESSON TO UNNATURAL MOTHERS.-A
person in rather a high position has just ob
tained from the Civil Tribunal of the Seine,
France, a separation from his wife, with the
right of keeping his child ; ill Consequence of
the following circumstances:
The child had the measles, and its medical
attendant declared its life to be in danger,
but the mother, nevertheless, continued to
prepare her toilet for an evening party to
which she had been invited., "You cannot
leave the child who is dying," exclaimed the
husband. The wife replied that it was I'm;
possible for her to remain away . from the
party without breaking her promise and be
ing
.4 cguilty of a want of politeness. The hus
band again remonstrated with her, but itt
vain; she insisted upon vino. to the path, if
only for an hour. The husband then inform
ed her that, if she carried her intention into
execution, the door - a*old be closed against
her on her return.- The wife left for the
party, but on her return was refused admit
tance. The Tribunal has decided that the
husband was perfectly justified and has fur
thermore ruled that a wife who forsakes her
child in illness, forfeits her conjugal rights.
A BEAUTIFUL IDEA.—Away among the
Alleghenies there is a spring, so small that a
single ox, on a summer's day, could drain it
dry.lt steals its unobtrusive way among
the hills, till it spreads out in the beautiful
Ohio. Thence it streches away a thousand
miles, leaving on its banks more than a hun
dred villages and cities, and many thonsand
cultivated farms, and bearing on its bosom
more than half a thousand steamboats. Then
joining the Mississippi, it stretches away and
away some twelve hundred miles more s till It
falls into the great emblem of eternity. It is
one of the tributaries of the ocean, which,
obedient only to God, shall roll and roar till
the angel, with one foot on the sea and the
other on the land, shall lift up his hand to
heaven and swear that time shall be no lon
ger. So with moral influence. It is a
a rivulet—a river—an ocean, boundless and
fathomless as eternity.
A PRAYER CET SllORT.—Parson A.R.9
truly a pious man, and at the long gra,ces l
which usually followed the meals, he and the
whole family reverently knelt, except the
Parson's brother, (who being o'er much far
yble and overlooking the garden.) One day,
it was summer time, the Parson was unusual
ly favored; not appearing to notice the fidgety
actions of his brother, who kept t*isting
about, until finding no end to the thanks, he
broke in with—
"Cut it, Parson—cut it short; the cows are
in the garden playing h—II with the cabba
ges?"
BE CAREFIIL.—SeveraI anecdotes turn on
that inexhaustible theme for merriment—the
sorrows of matrimony. In passing through
the street, a bier was struck against the cor
ner of a house, and the corpse reanimated by
the shock. Some years afterwards; when the
woman died in good earnest, her husband
called to the bearers. "Pray, gentleman, be
careful in turning the corners."
I*r Housekeepers should know, now that
the season of pies and puddings is approach
ing and sugar inordinately dear, that the acid
in rhubarb, gooseberries and currants may bo
neutralized by putting a third of a teaspoon
ful of soda in the fruit and without affecting
the flavor. A less quantity of sugar wilt
then answer to sweeten.
gfirA child was recently born in one of
the Sandwich Islands, having four eyes, two
on the back and two on the front side of the
head. Its one of 'em.
BEAT IT WIIO CAN.—There is a man in
Germantown who is so fond of lying, that lie
would rather tell a lie on six months' credit,
than the truth for the cash.
Fhllopena,