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BY HELEN FOREST GRAVES "I don't like it at all," said Miss Esteott, "The flowers are vulgarly massed ; the feathers are hot-looking, and that rope of Roman pearls stretched across the crown is dowdy in the extreme." Madame Bassompierre, the fashionable French milliner, gave a little deprecating smile and courtesy at each one of these em phatically announced opinions. "But, Miss Estcott—" she ventured to insinuate, as the spoiled beauty paused fur breath. _ "There are no buts about it !" pronounced Victoria Estcott, dominantly. "The bon net is perfectly horrid, and I shall not take it. Pray, who trimmed it 7" At this question, Madame Bassompierre looked inquiringly at the tail, slender girl who had brought the box into the room. She colored deeply ; the tears sparkled out under her long lashes. "I trimmed it, madame," she faltered, a a tone that was almost inaudible. "Take it back again in the work-room !" said Madame Bassompierre, savagely.— "Miss Estcott is not suited with it; and.le‘ Mrs. Farley bring in some of those exqui site hats that we imported from Paris in the Belle Helene, last week." But, apparently, Miss Estcott was de termined not to be pleased with anything that morning, and she finally swept out of the show room without having made a choice. : ir.. . Madame Bassompierre followed her to . the door ' with the sweetest and most en gaging of smiles ; but the instant Miss Estcott was gone she frowned darkly. "Spoiled, arrogant thing !" muttered she, setting her teeth close together. "One need have the patience of Job to cope with a New York heiress ! Farley, send Mike Wrynde here!" . Once more the tall, slender girl, with, the hazel brown eyes, that were heavy with tears. and the pale cheeks, ,came into Madame Bassompierre's presence;" "You are discharged," , said madnme, sharply. "No, don't attempt to argue the question—indeed, it isn't worth while. A girl who can't trim a hat to suit my best custom, cannot expect to be retained in my employment. -Mrs. Farley will settle with you up to date!' "But, madame—" ga.Qpedili4ilOi girl, looking like a frightened lawn, into whose heart an arrow had entered Madame .Bassompierre lifted. a iwaraing finger. • • "Pray spare my poor ilerves,"'l4o she. "I am compelled to discharge you.. Be so obliging as to leave the room !" And Coral Wynde obeyed. . • Miss Eseott's claret-olored brougham rolled up to the door next day, and Miss Estcott, came in all smiles. "I'll look at that hat again, madame," said she. "Upon second thought,rve come to the conclusion that it was really very pretty. Only I was cross and out ortemper yesterday, and nothing looked right to me." Madame Bassompierre was very sorry— very sorry—but the hat had been taken to pieces, being. so unfortunate as to.. m,eet With Miss'Estcott's disapproval, anB=' "Then let it be trimmed again. By the same hand," said the imperious , young j l beauty, "and as nearly as possibla in the same style. That rope of Roman pearls has haunted me all night." "I regret that it is quite impossible," said madame, with a puzzled look: "I have discharged the young person wbo." "That tall, pretty girl, with the shining .brown hair and the dove like eyes ?" "Miss Coral Wynde—Yes."' "Discharged her ? And only because I was captious enough to find fault with ler work ?". cried Victoria, impetuously , "Was not that reason enough ?" obse quiously smiledMadime.BassOnipietie. "No," said Victora, "I don't think it was. Be so good as to give me her address. If I've lost her her place, it's only fair that I should try and do something to help ber. And to think that all this came from one careless word !" "I am very sorry," said Madame BO sompierre ; "but it is quite out of my power to give you her address. I have nor get it myself. I never had it. We have so many young persons in our employ that—" "And can none of your people obtain it for me 2" interrupted Misa Estcott. Madame did not think that they could ; and Victoria went away with a troubled ache at her heart. m. = 0 6.. -- .S, ~,, "Why can't I learn to hold my tongue r she asked herself, clasping her small, plump bands so vengefully together .that the sparkling rings- made red, angry dents on the fair, pick flesh. "Why can't I control my temper ? I shall never fOrget the tears in that poor girl's eyes, the quiver on her lip ! And I—to call myself a Christian woman !" HENTINGDON, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1878. Victoria Estcott went home in no en viable mood that night. It was scarcely a week afterward that Miss Estcott was crossing the Brooklyn Ferry, toward twelve o'clock at night. Miss Estcott on a Brooklyn ferry-boat was rather an unusual sight, but she had been spendiug the evening there, and in consequence of some misunderstanding be tween her own maid and the coachman, , her carriage had not been sent, as ordered, and St. George Fawcett, the brother of the youtig friend she had visited, had volun teered to escort her safe home. •Victoria didn't at all dislike this idea of his companionship. The night, early in April, was soft and balmy, and altogether, Miss Estcott regarded it in the light of a gipsey-like adventure. "Isn't it lovely ?" said she, looking brightly around—"the lights reflecting in the river, and the salt air rushing against one's cheek ? One never sees this cooped up in a carriage and—Good heavens ! who is that ?'' It was a face—the face of a, tall, slight young girl, wrapped in some dark, pall-like garment, who leaned upon the guards of the boat, and looking intently down into the,UatrOwy flight' of the waves. Victoria never would have seen her pale cheek, the t -oubled.,•dark. eyes, had it not been for the illumination cast on it by the lantern of a deck hand. Tho deck hand himself stopped, and looked irresolutely back. "Beg pardon, said he, "but you're in an unsafe place there. The board is slippery, and there ain't much to hold by, araif you should get a jostle—" The girl drew hack into herself with a petulent jerk, as if the words irritated her, and that moment Victoria Esteott recog nized Coral Wynde's pale face and large, g4,ttqiw; eye?. . She rose nervously to• her feet. Just then, the boat (washed against the floating piles of the pier, and the slight, slender figure made a rush toward the dark and lurid waves that surged below. flow she did it, Victoria Esteott could never afterward tell, but she sprang for ward and caught Coral Wynde in her arms, although the unpremeditated spring , nearly precipitated her, too, into the boil ing depths of the black tides. "Don't V' She cried. "For God's sake, don't throw away your life !" Coral struggled frantically with her rescuer for a second or two. "Let me go,''. she cried—"oh, let me go lam alone; lam starving ! Why do you not let me ,go ?" And then she fell fainting into Victoria Estoott's arms. All this happened when the April shower& were dimpling the waves, and the soft 'April green:was smiling up in all the parks ; and when Victoria Estcott was married, in June—married to St. George Fawcett, of course—a tall, pale girl was helping her with her wedding trunks and "marriage garments." 'And mind you're in the houie to wel come us, dear when we come back from Niagara,"''Say Victoria. "Because you are my sister now and home won't seem heme wiibOat And Coral Ws,n4e smiled back, ~vith shy, sweet eyes, wondering how it can possibly be that she is so radiantly happy —she was all alone in the world but a few weeks since. "It must 'be because God is good !" she ponders, to herself. But when Victoria looks at the sweet, dove calm face, and thinks what might have been, all through, her careless words,, she shudders and grows pale. 6butatinal .1: after. Our Common Schools. - We find the following excellet digest of' the report of the Superintendent of Public ItiMtiction for 1877 in the Altoona Tri budift : V Among the prominent topics discussed in the report is a revision of the school laws. As they exist at present, they are a mass of fragments, wanting in clearness, cumbered with useless vet biao e e and with out logical ,coberence. The basis of the whole is the act of 1834, but ever since that time new laws . have been passed mod ifying and supplementing that act, until we•new have a body of enactments some tithes' ineomPlete, Often inconsistent, and: always 'dilEcult , of interpretation The Su perintendent recommends the appointment of a commission by the Legislature to take charge of this unwieldly mass of laws and decisions,and digest the same, and report to that body in compact firm the laws covering the whole subject -of education in the State. In regard to school Organizations in cities, the Superintendent is convinced from wide observations of the workings of school boards, in this and other countries, that such organizations are most efficient with the following features : 1. A single school board, elected by the people on a general ticket,without respect to wards, no elector being 'allowed to vote for more than half the number to be elect ed, thus freeing the board from partisan influence. 2. A Superintendent, an ex pert in matters of education, as the execu tive officer of the board, with such assizt ants as may be necessary to organize the system, examine and instruct the teachers, inspect the schools, and perform such pro fessional work as may be assigned him. 3. The taxes for school purposes to be levied by the board,-collected in its name, and the money paid out on its orders. Prof. Wickersham thinks the cost of text books used in the public schools in this State is probably between two and three millions of dollars annually, and is an onerous tax upon the patrons of our schools. The question arises whether this burden can not be lessened ? There is no law al lowing school directors any discretion in the matter, though some have furnished books to poor children where parents have been unable to procure them, and also purchased them at wholesale rates and sold them to children in the schools at cost prices, all of which is of doubtful legality. After stating the advantage to be derived to our school system by allowing boards of directors to purchase books, as they do ap paratus and appliances, free to all pupils attending schools, and answering the few objections that may be interposed to the plan of free-text books, recommends the passage of a law giving school boards dis cretion in the matter. The condition of the normal schools of the State is discussed at some length. The State can spend the amount of money re quired for no other purpose that will bet ter subserve her higbest interests than in the Co.ttering care .of our normal schools. The importance of the election of superin tendents in the several counties and cities next May is hard to estimate. That is the best system of schools which is best super vised. and the parties to whom the watch , ful duty depends should have a sufficient salary so as to prohibit them from follow ing any other business interfering with its performance. The high schools are strong ly commended, and the objections to them very conclusively answered. The evil of children out of school Las grown no less, and seems likely to increase unless some measures be taken to check it. The pas sage of a law is suggested, embodying the following points : 1. Making it the duty of school boards to use all proper ' efforts to have every child of suitable age attend school 2. Giving school boards the pow er to order the arrest of children guilty of habitual truancy; Vagrancy,'n'r non attend ance at school. Providing for a fine upon parents, guardians or persons having charge of such negligent children. 4. Re quiring every county or district to estab lish and support a county home for friend less children, to be under the control of the school board or poor overseers,, and to be disconnected entirely from the alms house. 5. Securing the enthrcement of existing laws in reference to employment ofyouug children ab3ut mines, mills, shops, factories, etc. The. Superintendent dwells at considera ble length on the• importance of education for work, and is of the opinion that work shop schools are needed at the present time only in our cities and large towns. The establishment need not necessarily add to the expense of our system of public in struction. Boards of directors. now have, under our laws, full authority to establish schobli of this character. The Superin tendent couoludes with reference :to the history of education in this State as com piled by the E uperintendentivof - Old several counties and cities of the commonwealth, and asks the Legislature to provide the means for printing the same in a',apecial volume. The following statement, is a summary of our school statistics for the past year : Number of school districts in the State.... 2,145 Number of scho015..., Number of graded schools . .. 6,290 Number of school directors 14,120 Number of superintendents.. Number of teachers Average salaries of male teachers per month $37@38 Average salaries of female teachers per month Average length of school term in months 6.77 Number of pupils .... Average number of pupils 575,597 Percentage of at , eniance upon the whole number registered .74 Average cost of tuition per month for each pupil Cost of tuition for the year 54,817,563 35 Cost of building, pur chasing and rent ing school houses 1,276 578 55 Cost of fuel, contin gencies, dent and interest paid 2,389,237 54 Total cost for tuition, building, feel and contingencies Total cost including expenditures of alt kinds 8,583,379 44 Total State appropriatiou Estimated value of school property 25,460,761 75 If we add to the sum expended for com mon schools, as above $380,656.70, the sum expended for orphan schools, we have $B,- 964,036.14, the full amoUtit e.xpended by the State for school purposes during the year 1877. The changes in the most important items of our school statistics, as compared with last year, are as follows : Increase in number of districts-- 4,2 Increase in number of schools 286 Increase in number of graded schools. 333 Increase in numberof school directors. 160, Decrease in the average salary of mate teachers per month ....... $248 Decrease in the average salary of te- • male teaohers per month L3O Decrease in school term in months 08 Increase in number of Decrease in average number of pupils 3,121 Decrease in cost of tuition 530,325 58 Decrease in cost of building, parches- ing and renting Decrease in cost of fuel, contingencies, debt and interest paid — 82,653 36 Decrease in cost of expenditures of all kinds Considering the shrinkage in valuei, says Prof. Wickersham, ,it is not surpris ing that there should be -a falling off du mg the year of teachers' salaries, att,d . in other expenditures for Fchool purposes. It is much to the credit of our school boards and peOple that the falling off hasnt4 been greater. The leagth of the school tern), it will be observed, remains, within a very small fraction, the same as last year , ~cicct ticeUan+ As to Woman. SUGGESTED. BY. THE CONVENTION OF FE-, MALE S VITRA-GISTS, .I.istory is full of woman's ,indireet in, fluence for evil rn the direction of State affairs, and we believe that it can be safely said that no notable national crime has ever been perpetrated in which some woman has not participated. What a benign influence on themorals of the age was that exercised by Cleopatra, or that of Jouna, of Naples, or Catharine of Russia, or Catharine de Medicis, or, iu fact, any one of the lovely list, from Semen. amis down to the shameless wretch who was but recently driven from the throne of Spain ! What is their history but one long record of shame, crime, and cruelty ? The fires of Smithfield testify, to Bloody Mary's sweet influence in English affairs, and the bloody block on which Scottish Mary laid her head to the touching tenderness that "Good Queen Bess" displayed toward her rivals and subjects, and even the mush-lauded Isabella of Castile encouraged the estab• lishinent of the Inquisition, drove the Jews out of Spain, ' and, in violation of the stipulations of her treaty with the Moors, persecuted many of them. even unto death, simply because they chose to adhere to the faith of their fathers. Sacred history teems with records of womaa's crimes and cruel ties. That was not a very good influence that Mrs. Potipharsought to exercise upon the unsophisticated Joseph,and Mrs. Ahab's gentle disposition didn't tend much to the encouragement of longevity in prophets' lives. Ruth's experience on the thrashing floor with Boaz is not a very engaging picture of inodest conduct, nor avery,good example for young widows. • .• Jael treacherously drives a nail into the head of her sleeping guest, the fugitive Captain Sisera, and is extravagantly com mended for the act by Deborah, the gentle female who judged Israel in those days.— But why multiply instances ? Almost every page of history is stained with them, and the exceptional cases of good women who have figured in affairs of State, only prove the general rule of female depravity. The Salic law, which for a time excluded women from some of thrones in Europe, dimbtless had its' ,oilgin in. a, profound knowledge the se4 3?y its promulgator, the great Charlemagne.— Washington Post. Petroleum V. Nasby. SILVER AT THE CORNERS-MR. NASBY, FULL OF A FINANCIAL IDEA, ATTEMPTS, ONCE MORE, THE FINANCIALRALVATION OIigELE CORNERS. „ , [Prom the New York Evening Mail.] ' CONFEDRIT X ROADS, • (Wich is in the State of Keetnekj). lanuary 4, 1878. Ez a matter of course, the Corners is impecunious. There never wuz a time in the history uv this place, that it' wuz't in that state uv finanshel,helth ,The, disin clinashen uv the people to labor—the por ousnis uv ther clay with requires so much likwid fillip, and the loss of time resuftin, makes it extremely difficult foranything like accumulashen to happen,. Cansekently borrerin is the principal, industrial persoot, wich would be' well enuf of there wuzn't any payin. Payin is -Wat b'lites a man, and cripples his energies. Payin is slowly, but shoorly underminin the Corners, and sap pin its prosperity. I hate pain It robs a dollar of all its delito to know you hey got to pay it agio, after you hey spent it. 'Vat I shood like wood be to hey dollars wich reprodoose their selves. Ef two dol Lars cood only marry and bey large fami lies! That wood be suthin like. The Silver bill wich Bland is pushin pleases us here for several reasons. The Corners is largely composed of the debtor class. We are all in debt. That graspin Shylock, Bascom, hex furnisht us the necessaries uv life these twenty years, and hez kept on "char fain it up," when we didn't pay, with the remorselis accooracy uv a feend. He never could get no mort gage out uv me to secoor hisself fo'r the reason that I don't happen to hey anything to mortgage, but he does hold mortgages on Deekin Program's place, and also on every other place in the visinity,:fur money lent and supplies furnisht. Wat happens ? Why Bascom wants his pay. He sneer ingly sez that of we don't expect to pay wat do we drink fur ? "Kin I buy likker in Looisville, and sell it to you without pay ?" sez he Ah ! cf he only knows how pleasant it is to drink and how onpleasant it is to pay, he would change his mind about it. But there are very few large heartid men in the world. 20,652 Bascom wants his money and Bascom is consekently a Shylock. He is a oppressor, and a grinder uv the faces uv the people. We wood rise up in our wrath and mob him, but alas! there ain't one uv us which hez credit enuff fur a barl uv likker in Looisville, and so we hev to endoor him. Therefore when we heerd of this silver biznis we wuz rejoist. Ef silver is made a legal tender, and is only wuth 92 cents oa the dollar now, we rescood our selves from the grasp ttv this mercenary cuss wich wants his money, S cents wuth anyhow. And we .are satisfied it will go longer than that. When Sharon and Jones and the silver miners of Nevady hey got things fixed so that they can pay wat they owe in their own silver, they will hist it out to an extent which. will wake it ez cheep ez cool be wished. Then we will hey this yoosurer, which holds destruck ahen over us. Our land —I am speekin uv the other citizens now with hey land—will go up ten times in valoo. Land wich is now wuth $4O an acre will spin up to $4OO —in sliver—and we will sell An acre 'or two Oif our farms. . We, will sell .ennif to git wat we owe Bascom, and we will load a dart with it, and take it to that 'tinnier ci:ful creditor, and compel him to take and release us from his dominashen. 89 cts. I see in my mind's eye that deer, tk lightful old saint, Dekin Pogram, Makin a deed for two acres uv the hundred and fifty he hez. That miserable grindin Bascom lent him $l,OOO four years ago, wich hez bin runnin on interest ever sense, and he hez a bar bill uv $3OO or more, making in all perhaps $1.500 wich this Shylock holds agin him. There will be a speckilator from Looisville down to the Corners buyin land. "Deekin, wat will yoo ask me an aker for two akers off the east side nv yoor place" sez the speckilatoi. "Mirandy," sez the deekin, "wat do I owe that crooel, hard hearted Shylock uv a Bascom ?" "Oae thousand five 'hundred dollars," will be Mirandy's anser. • "Sir," sez the deekin, "you kin hey two akera far jist.sl,soo. I must git out uv the clutches of that mcaster with demands reinntselisly' the money he lent me Oh, the hard heartiduie uv this world'! Thank heaven I hey but a few more yeers uv it. Mirandy, send the jag to Bascom's, and tell him I'll try, to pay bii' suthin on ac count next week." And then the land will be sold (the two akers), leavin the deekin 187, with is enuff, and the deekin will load the silver in his cart, and will take it over to Bas coin's and dump it triumphantly down on the floor, and demand his releese. Then will he be free of this shark—he will sat isfy this cormorant—he will walk the streets erect, a free man. Then will every body do likewise, but me, and I persoom I will, fur silver will be so cheap that I kin probably borrer enuff.,to pay the graspin man wat I owe him. We held a meeting last nite and re solved that it was the sentiment uv the Corners that silver shoold be remonetized, and that resurnpshen shood be put off.— The Corners will alluz resolve to put off paying anythin. It was an enthoosiastic meeting, made up entirely of the debtor class. I made a stirrin speech wieh wood hey hed an immense effect but for one triflin drawback. I wuz dilatin on the "Dollar uv the Fathers," and said with a bust of elokence, "Look at this piece of money ! It wuz this kind of money which carried the country thro—" It wuz an unfortunit way uv gittin at things. Fur I didn't hey a piece uv silver in my pockit, and I appeeled to the aujence to hunt one-up that 'mite give pint to the flite, but alas ! there wuzn't a piece uv silver in the house, not even a dime l But I turned this to akkount even. I pride myself on hein able to pluck the flower Safety from the nettle Danger. Most men would have been disconcerted at this, but not Me. "My friends,",l, sed, "when we hey this silver bill past, I won't be caught in this awkward fix. Every man in the Corners will hey a cart-toad uv it. And they give three cheers fur the 4- ver bill, and adjourned. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, Pinanseer. P. S.—That graspin Bascom hez throwed a fire brand into the Corners. Ez silver is at a discount uv eight per cent., he hez watered his whisky jilt that amount. He sez of we want to pay him in debased cur rency, we hey got to take debased likker, Thai man will hey to be killed yit. A DAY of idleness tires more than a week of work. Two little souls, a boy and girl, Wandering on to the foot of the hill, Bushes of green and blossoms of pearl Laugh at themselves in the roadside rill. Crossing the lane a gorgeous jay, Bathed in the light of a flattering ray, Jauntily chatters, "Some day, some day !" Two sweet souls, a man and .a maid, (Beechen branches twisted above), Picking the daisies which sprinkle a glade, And trying their luck at a game of love. "This . year I next year !" What do they say ? And out of the beeches the curious jay Peeps out and chuckles, "Some day,some day Two old souls, at the end of the day Follow them borne to the foot of the hill ; One late gleam which has wandered astray Breaks trom a copse and dimples the rill. Autumn leaves are strewing the way, And hoarse from the larch the hungry jay Shouts out to the night, "Some day,some day I" Two poor souls in the dead of night, Side by side lie stiffened and And the winter's moon just softens her light, As it solemnly rests at the foot of the hill. Remembering the bees and the buds and the May, The summer gold and the autumn gray, And the warm green lane where the beetles play, In the crisp cold night the shivering jay Croaks out of his dream, "Some day, some day!" Law a Hundred Years Ago. , The Aiban . y Lau Jotblict?lAdrin History of Easternll4l;nont, r sonie*Oti'nnt: of the laws whioli were in.foree , a butuired. years ago : " "" "Burglary was punished, by: l a toftike with a B in the forehead, and nailing : one, of the offender's ears- by a post, and cutting it off, and whipping; for thOsetitiddffenee . there was the like branding,. and , nailing,. and eutting off of the' other ear; - .for , the , third 'offence the OhiSfiniehr Viff ., death; the offender being.4eemed,lncorriible.',' Counterfeiting was purrished-by enttimg oft the right ear, branding yrith'•C; 'and,per petnal punishment. .PeriUry,Was punished by a fine of £5O and imprisontnesit•foraiz months, but if the offender entild' Mit' pay I the fine he was Jet off by Sitting' in the pillory two hours, and having both ears nailed and cut off. Wilful lying, to public prejudice or private injury, or deceiving or injuring the people with false news or re ports, was punished by fine, sitting in the stocks and whipping, the punishment being increased with each repition of the offence, except in no case was the stripes to eiched the number of thirty nine. Theft was punished by compelling threefold restitu tion, by fine and by a sort of temporary slavery, the prosecutor being empoWered to dispose of the offender in service to any subject of the State to such time as he should be assigned to the prosecutor by the court. "Unseasdnable night walking," that is to say, after nine o'clock, was pro hibited, as was also the convening of per sons under, the government of parents,, guardians or masters after that untimely hour. "Tavern haunters" were punished' by posting their names at thedoor of every tavern, and ptohititing, , stire — ta.vern-keeper from supplying then] with anything in the way of strong drink. No clamorous dis course, shouting, hallowing,screaming, run ning, riding, dancing, jumping, swimming or blowing of horns, was tolerated on the Lord's day. Listeninc , outside of the meeting-house during th e time of public worship was not permitted. , Secular meet ings of any number, of persons, ,in . the street or elsewhere, on Saturday or Monday • evening•were forbidden, tinder penalty. - of' fine or stocks. ' • "Mr: Hall gives several hotable , . of popular legal errors prevailing ,in Ver , wont. One notion-was that if the•friends• of one dying 'in prison carried his , remains , beyond the o . undarieS' of:the jail yard ', they were accomplices in a t ia; ""escape," antl liable to satisfy tne jedgment,by virtue .of' which he had been , .confined. Another notion was that if one' should 'bury 'the body of' an imprisoned debtor,: he 'thereby . became admieistrator in his own, Wrong, and liable to discharge the debtor's ohli-, gations. In the case of Judge Chandler, who died while confined in jail for - debt, his interment became a serious 'probtem. In this predicament the jaitor• discovered. that by stretching the chain he -.could in, elude within •the jail liberties-a email, per, tion of the adjoining burying•grointi& A. grave was dug, commencing just - outside the graveyard fence, an . .d.j0.0, 36;ichp, ' „the jail yard, sloping under:thermic°, until_ a, sufficient depth and obliquitywasiebtaine So Judge Chandler' Warr berried' after- a!! christian fashion, and . yet 'he "escape was'' suffered," Treahnent of Inverted Toe-Nails. Lvery practitioner,,proba y, ed with this. affection. Every- .00q.keows, also, thavtbe•various , plans .ef • treabment3 Rgenerally pursued are very' unsatisfactory.. emoial of the . liail,•or Apart Ofi, to* generally considered, the .only Certain ,rein-. edy. . This procedure is,, to: say the least, barbarous. The purpose of that article is 4 however, not to discuss the aceepted . modes of:treatment,:4l# to iicoMMend a hoode of treatment that has been empl6yed. hy. the writer for about four years, .whiohlasteem highly satisfactory It is, simply to apply the muriated tincture of iron to' the 'Dail and the surrounding, ulcerated 'O4 'gtiinti lated surface, once or twice a., ;34,. camel's hair peacil. .. As ageneral- rule v to apply it once a day,ut bed-limo, will beseF ficient: The-Ulcerated Surface - heals with , . astonishing'rapidity; ,and the nail assrinieS its,normal appearance,, making.A OM:dote cure, in most cases, in .a few weeks., . . I commenced , asieg this remedy,- I. have done uothin i i else in such ' cases. Perirtt and Citttiog the corners of the Oaf! tisitia/ly ao.more 'harm thangood:'ticket temptito speak of the modus ope,randi, 4):f the remedy, the object .being Merely to recommend 'a trial of it to others.-4 Dr. W. ukill, Medical j cptcl Sikaiq . ..??etbrt 7 - ,er Phila. , WHEN the present Khedive of Egypt succeeded Said Pacha, his private'eitates .did not exceed tO,OOO , ficrfs...*t:tbe Kea ent -moment the,libectilys,is his qip, INP 3 O and• is that of! his Maher -and sehildsea,: owns upward of I:;ooo,ooo , ficres , --that , is, 'fully one-frfn'of the WhOleciiititible soil of Egypt. As THY deepest hate- may spring from 'the deepest love, ao the greatest ingratitude may arise from the largest benefits.'' It is said that Cicero was slain by oue,„wboM his oratory had defended when accused of his father's murder. , , WHEN a man is treating a' kaliing widow to oysters, and sees his wife Coming into the restaurant, about all he can do is to button his coat and hang to his chair, and trust in Providence. P. V. N. EXPEDIENCY is the science of exigen cies. A Picture. ir, : t f•i ..7 The Marvels of Man. While the gastric juice has a mild, bland, sweetish taste, it possesses the power of dissolving the hardest food that can be. swallowed. It has no influence whatever on the soft and delicate fibres of the living stomach, nor upon the living hand, but et the moment of death it begins to eat. them • away with the power of the strongest acids. There is dust on sea, on land, in the val ley and on the mountain-top, there is thing always and everywhere ; the atmosphefre is full of it; it penetrates the noisome dun geon and visits the deepest, darkest (*vs , of the earth ; no palace door can shut, it out, no drawer so secret as to escape its' presence; every breath of wind dashes it upon the open eye, yet that eye is not blinded, because under the eyelid there is incessantly emptying itself a, fountain of the blandest fluid in Nature, which spreads itself over the surface of the eye at every winking and washes every atom of dust away. But this liquid, so mild and so well adapted to the eye itself, has some aoridi ty, which, under certain circumstances, be comes so decided as to be scalding to the skin and would rot away the eyelids were it not that along the edges of them there are little oil manufactories, which spread over their surface a coating as impervious to the liquids necessary for keeping the eye ball washed clean, as the best varnish is impervious to water. The breath which leaves the lungs has ', been so perfectly divested of its life-giving properties that to re breathe it, unmixed ' with other air, the moment it escapes From the mouth, would cause immediate death by suffocation, while if it hovered about us a more or less destructive influence oyer health and life would be occasioned. But , it is made of a nature so much lighter than the common air that the instant that It es- • capes 'the lips and nostrils it ascends to the higher regions above the breathing , pint, there to be rectified, renovated sod sent back again, replete with purity and How ow rapidly it ascends is beautifully exhibited every frosty morning. But, foul and deadly as the expired air is, Nature, wisely economical in all her works and ways, turns it to good account, in its outward passage through the organs of the voice, making of it the whispers of love, the soft words of affection, the tender tones of human sympathy, the sweetest strains of ravishing music, the persuasive eloquence of the finished orator. It' a well made man be extended on the ground, his arms at right angles with the body, a circle, making the navel its +motes, will just take in the head, the finger-ends and the feet. The distance from tfp to toe is precisely the same as that between the tips of the fingers when the arms are extended. The length of the body is past six times that of the foot, while the dis tance from the edge of the hair on .tha, forehead to the edge of the chin is one tenth the length of the whole nature. Of the sixty-two primary elements known in Nature, only eighteen are found in the human body, and of these seven are metal lic, Iron is found in the blood,phospho rous in the brain , limestone in the bile, lime in the bones, and dust and ashes in all ! Not Only these eighteen human ele ments, but the whole sixty-two of which - the universe is made, have their-essential basis in the four substances of oxygen,, hy drogen, nitrogen and carbon, representing the more familiar names of fire, water, salt petre and charcoal. And such is man, the lord of earth ! A spark' of fire, a drop of water, a grain of gunpowder, an atom -of . charcoal !—Hall's Journal of Health. Honor Your Profession. It is a good sign when a man is proud of his own work; yet it is a common oe-. currence to hear men constantly finding fault with their business or profession, and deeming themselves unfortunate because compelled by necestity of gaining a liveli hood to stick to it. In this spirit men fret, and laboriously destroy all their comfort in work. jt sometimes happens that a man fails to life because he is tiot in the place he is fit ted by nature to fill. It happens ten times oftener that the failure results from neg lect and even contempt of an honest busi ness, and he would not prosper any hatter in any other profession that does not have its cares and vexatious.. No man• will es cape annoyance by exchanging from one occupation to another No mechanical, business is entirely agreeable. Commerce, in its endless varieties, is affected like's]] other pursuits, with trials, unwelcome du :ties and spirit-tiring necessities. Ne man 'should search out the frets and burdens of his calling, and give his mind to a taknaid eration of them daily. They belong to hu man life—they are inevitable. Brooding, then, Only gives them strength. On The other hand, man has a power given him to shed beauty and pleasure upon the hum, blest toil, if be is wise. Let a man adopt his business, and identify it with his life, and cover it with pleasant association . .. Heaven has given us imaginations, not alone to make some men poets, but to ena ble all to beautify things. Accept your lot as a man does a piece of rugged ground, and begin to get out the rocks and roots, to deepen and mellow the soil', to enrich and plant it. There is something in the most forbidding avocation around which may, twine pleasant fancies, out of which may be developed an honest pride. A man can impart to a business a flavor of lonor by his own conduct, which shall make 'it hereafter more creditable to any one who enters it Franklin left upon the printing office an impress which has benefited the whole profession of printers. Blacksmiths love to speak of the uneanonised Elibta Burritt. Once let a man convert his bus- • loess into an instrument of honor, benevo lence, and patriotism, and from that mo ment it is transfigured, and men judge its dignity and merit, not by what it ester. nally is, but by what it has done and can do. It is far better to stick to your.pro fession, snd by patient industry and hon orable enterprise crown it with honor, than to run away from it and seek prosperity ready made to your hand. It is not what amen finds that does him good, but what he does.— Quadrat. NOSE AND LIPS.—A sharp nose and thin lips are considered by physiognomist' certain signs of a shrewish disposition. As a criminal wa.: once on his way to the gal lows, proclamation was made chat if any Woman would marry him under the gal lows, with the rope around his neck, he would receive pardon. "I will," cried' a crackf3d voice from amid the crowd. The culprit Jesired the eager candidate for matrimony to approach the cart, which she did, and be began to examine her *counten ance. "Nose like a knife," said he, "lips like wafers. Drive ye, larva I" S 1:711 st an]: for the 10-LIINAL. NO. 4.
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