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.SHAWLS,
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at the
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The following lines, entitled ‘‘The
Old Year and the New,” which we dip
from an old publication, are not only
beautiful but very appropriate for the
present season. We knp v not the name
of the author, but bla production Is in
finitely superior to the vast majority of
fugitive newspaper poetry. TC will com
pare favorably with the best productions
of the eafly English poets. ~ „ . .
TIIK OLD TEill AND TUB NEW.
Toll, gently toll the passing bolU
For the year that dies to-day ;
Ring R ifely out a. last farewell
As It gasps Its life away.
m Slow.y and sadly it leaves alone,
. Joining the years that are post arid gone,
Sighing for work that it mlghtWe done
An! forjoys thatmlght hive been.
And now the Now Year ing In—
Quickly and merrily,
'Lightly and cherrlly;
Ere quite the dirge Is done
Be the new heal bfgun.
Lest the Now Year'ahouid know'
Aught of tho dead one's wo *.
Wreath Its young brow with Hope’s garland
green;
But, alas r for the Joys that might have been,.
OI brightly glistens the trackless snow
In the rays of the wintry sun.
And Joyous hearts in their youthfhl glow
Greet the year that has Just begun.
•’ But slowly the snow wrea hs melt away,
The ice-drop* from the leafless spray,
Ami the winter’s whltaglory Is gone, -
And the bleak wind* whistle and moan
Cloudily and dresflly,
Sadly and wearily. •
The shivering year rolls on
Tlie work that the old has done,
And a chill strikes to Its, breast,
With a strange, new fear oppressed.
Alas t tor the snow so quickly seen,
And alas! for the Joys that might have been.
Vain fears, vain sorrows; fop quickly see
Here comet,h the gentle Spring. -
And clothes with new verdure eanh leafless tree
And round her sweet flowers.doth fling.
Kindly she waketh the earth again.
And the earth Is glad of her Joyous reign;
.Then the rosy Summer comes In her train,
And the Autumn brings Its store,
Ajid'the blest year sighs no more.
. Joyfully, hopefully,
Gladly alul thankfully,
Bearing‘he harvest home,
See the tired reapers come;
And the Winter time btMhgs rest,'
Cold and dark, yet not unblessed.
Yet the year, as It die*, sighs the new one In
.With alas I for, the joys that might have been!
Thus for the work that has been done
And the work that might have been*
Earth bos but sjghs os the year Is gone
. That In hope and Joy cpme In.
*But the lost shall usher a glad year in,
Joyful and endless and free from sin;
Pleasure unfading shall then begin,
And tbe good seed that oq earth was sown
Shall be gathered all i Ipe and grown
Safely and carefully,
Gladly andjoyfully, '
Never to feel again
Earth’s wintry fear and pain;
And tuns the end shall bring
More than the'hopps of spring. *
Wreaths .of fair garlands than Hepe’n more
green— , .
More than the Joys, that on earth might have
been.
afUstcllamoiis.
COI.OSSAI. FORTUNES.
[From itie-Saturday Review^
We have often thought that It would
he very pleasant to possess a princely
fortune. There is a pleasure, well under
stood by novelists, In simply calling up
before our imagination vast sums of mo
ney and magnificent landed estates. We
always like the last page, in which the
v- rious couples in whom we have'taken
an interest receive their portions with
the boundless liberality of a good-natured
writer of fiction. We admire the young
lady In the model novel with five hun
dred thousand acres In a ring-ience in
Norfolk, a comity In Scotland, a castle In
Wales, a villa at Richmond, a corner
house in Belgrave Squaie, and eighty
thousand a year in the Three per Cents';
and we feel a sympathetic thrill when
Miriam de Mendoza takes a thousand
pnund note from a bundle on the piano
to light theextingulshert chibouk ol Cord
Codllngshy, If there is a pleasure in
meeting with such gorgeous millionaires
even lu farylaml, how pleasant it nous'
be to be ranked amongst their counter
parts in rear life. Of Course the moralist
has plenty of upophthegins Wherewith to
dampniirsiitisfaelion. There are Various
little sayings shout the blessings of me
dloorlty, the delight o( making an honest
living hy tl e sweat of one’s brow, ami so
on, which seem milter to savour of the
remark about.sour grapes. Could any of
these sev-re gentlemen withstand the
Infinite charms of boundless wea'lh, if
really wlihln their reach ? We admit,
indeed, that there is probably a certain
limitation even to the conveniences of
mri'-ey. We could he tolerably content,'
say, with a hundred thousand a year, and
can imagine a doubt whether the addi
tion of'an equal sum Co our annual in
come might irot, alter that point, begin
to give more trouble that, it was worth.
After one bad enough to satisfy every
possible want, to give free ploy to all
one’s tastes in arts, literature, or science,
to have tire most comfortable of houses,
and the best of ail possible eating and
drinking, we might, doubt whether an
addition to our wealth might not bring
more responslbi ity titan amusement. —
We have heard it said that a man who
resolves to spend all bis income upon
himself finds it very difficult, after ho
has passed u certain point, to find any
new way of employing his fortune satis
factorily. Of course it is always open to
a m>-n to mitddld away bis money, in
gambling or charity, to any conceivable
extent; but there is practically a limit to
the sum which can be spent directly upon
oneself. What that limit may be ti ls,
ofooutse, very dlfflcultto fix in practice;
but there is no great temptation to be so
rich that your wealth becomes a burden.
Putting this question out of sight, and it
is one that bus little practical lu tercet lor
most people, the natural expression of:.
Hie feelings of the unregetierule man Is
I hat summed up so forcibly lu Clough's
ballad: . -i
.S 3 15
. -I 56
How pleasant it is to have money, be)ghot
How pleasant It Is to have money I
And as much of it os possible.
Few, however, of the poorer classes
will consent themselves with this refleo
tlon on bearing of one of th».se vaat for*
tunes whose existence is occasional y
brought before us. We are, it may be, a
little too jealous, or possibly a little too
philosophical or too humaue, to look upon
them with that simple pleasure with
which we contemplate a work of art, or
with which ladles will gloat over the
stores In a Jewelerfa shop.window. We
are driven ro reason about It, and to ask
whether colossal foi tunes are, or can be
made, good tilings for the country in
which they exist. Our reflections pr* b
ubly take the f rra of a simple argument
.for demonstrating tin benefitsofequality.
It la plain that tlie sum of human happi
ness will he greater if a hundred men
have each u thousand if one
hud a hundred thousand a year hud' the
rest nothing. After tho flr*t lew thou
sands, every additional thousand accu
mulated upon a aliiL’le possession gives
him less additional pleasure than its pre
decolors. To raise an Income of twenty
to one of (wviiiy-oneUtioiiHund a year
gives very little extra gratification to tta
owner; he may keep another horse or
two, and buy a few more pictoies, but
all his chief wants Mug gratified, he can
at must add a few comparatively insigni*
CARLISLE, PA„ ’THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1870.
ficant luxuries to his stock. On the other
hand, the addition of the sain© Income to
a mau who was prevloiialyjln the depths
of poverty may lift him definitely to a
higher level, and make bla life one of
comfort, instead of one of constant toll
and- vexation. Tlie argument proves
conclusively that, given a certain total of
revenue In a country. It will produce
more happiness when widely distributed
than when divided Into 'very unequal
lumps; The ordinary .complaint about
the rich growing richer and the poor
poorer seems generally to Imply a lao.t
assumption of this kind. It is supposed
that there is only a certain ’quantity of
wealth in the country, and that, If one
man gets a larger share, It must neces
sarily be made up from thusedf his poorer
neighbors. If this were the real state of
.the case, It should be the greatest object
of philanthropists .to devise some means
by which wealth might be made to flow
uniformly oyer the whole surface of the
country, instead of gathering in Irregular
masses, and being spread thinly in one
quarter and thickly In another. ■
Without asking whether ibis is appli
cable to any particular Cases; It Is plain
that it omits one essential element of the
question. The assumption that the
whole nmmtni of wealth Is a fixed quan
tity Is the reverse ot the truth* Nothing,
.moreover, can be plainer than that a rap
id growth of wealth Is favorable to the
development of large fortunes, and that
reciprocally the possession of large for
tunes is in many ways favorable to a
rapid growth of wealth. Some of the'
most striking phenomena In American'
society are due to Ihe fl rst of these truths.
.There was a lime when the genuine
democratic, ideal was partially realized l
there, arid when, as it is said, every man
in Connecicut was rich enough to keep
.a one-horse chaise, and scarcely anybody
/101 l enough to keep a chaise with two
horses. 1 That halcyon period has long 1
gone by ; and It la plain enough that, If
American democracy levels even thing
else, It.lias af least no .tendency to level
fortunes. We seem to be approaching
an epoch when such men ds Vanderbilt
and Drew will be the most .prominent
flames in the great Republic. The
growth of such enormous commercial
centres as New York and Chicago In-,
evitably tend** to centralization of wea’th.
A shrewd speculator who. la at the cen
trr. towards which so .many streams of
fortune are constantly flowing has im
! rneut-e opportunities of growing rich, la
beyond'the dreams
of avarice. There is'uo probability that
the tendency will be diminished. The
difference between the democracies ol
'he future and the' bid-fasbioued nristo
cruilcies is hot that there wlll be greater
equality of wealth in the-democracies,
but .that fortunes will be more mobile,
and 'will not give rise to 1 famines per’
nianently raised above their neighbors.
We may look forward, in short, with fur
more confluence to a period of plg u tio
lortunes tliun to one iii which everybody
will be modefately comfortable.* The
dreams of socialists may be destined at
some future time to take concrete shape;
but so far as we can say from experience,
the reverse of the process for which,
they p'ruy. Is more likely to take plac«'
Not only will great landowners become
rich by the simple process ut sitting still
and looking, on at the development of
the country, but even if landed estates
should be. summarily cut up and distri
buted equally amongst the population,
some more radical change would be re
quired to check the development of h uge
commercial fortunes. We shall have
bankers, and muuuiu<-turera, and railway
proprietors, whose wealth would se»m to
us to be fabulous, even if the most strin
gent legislation should enforce ine mi
nute partition of the soil. Great for
tunes too, are the cause as well as the
oonsequen'ce ofa rapid increase of wealth;
No. way of getting rieh.lt Is well known,
is so certain as the -possession df a good
deal of money. ra tmiDy departments of
trade there is alhnarked tendency to the
concentration of fortunes, because (he
unity of management, the increased pow
er of organization, and other causes, give
a decided economical advanta e to tbe
possessors ol lu r ge capitals. Enterprises
become possible to them which require
long foresight and the power of waiting
for distant results, though they may be
ultimately enormously profitable. Nor,
however much may be dohe within a.
cert-tin sphere by co operation, has it as
yet given proof# of being able successful
ly to contend in any wide field with in
dividual management.-
If, then we assume that the world will
continue to grow richer, it is highly
probable that we shall also witness a
-teady accumulation of colossal fortunes.
Atid it is therefore wiser, instead of sigh
ing after a chimerical equality, to ask
in what way they mav be 'made useful.
If fortunes increase, the number of those
who regard them with envy certainly
does not diminish; and though the pov
erty of the multitude may be in no sense
produced by the accumulation of capital
it certainly makes it desirable fur capi
talists to occupy a position as little in
vidious as possible. Very rich men may
•be regarded with pleasure fiom a purely
artistic point of view; but there are u
good many paupers who do not care
much fur art, and have a very strong ap
preciation of the pleasure of getting u
slice of their neighbor's cake. A miser,
recording to political economists, is
probably doing a great deal of good by
his investments, whilst the spendthrift
Is damaging tbe world as well as him
self. But the spendthrift is the popular
character,, because tbe immediate and
an -ible results of his conduct are appa
rently advantageous; from which it may
be inferred that 'he miser would do wise
ly to UispeJ the popular illusion as much
as posainh*, and to make the good effects
of his saving tangible not only to the
philosopher, but to tbe vulgar mind.—
Otherwise the vulgar mind may get into
an uopbilosuphlcal state of irritation. -
The advantages, indeed, of a liberal use
of wealth are too obvious to require il
lustration
Everybody who boa any money to upend
. is glad to Insist upon the unanswerable
( reasons for spending It upon himself.
We are delighted >• demonstrate that
there ought to tie a retlued and cultivated
class in the community, and tun her to
decide that we, who have (be money,
ought to be the refined and cultivated
class. Indeed, if charity reached such a
pitch that everybody gave away all that
sirictly be called superfiuoi *, wh
should speedily become a nation of very
commonplace Bemii)!iuper<-; and the only,
though amply sufficient reason for not
insisting upon the practice oi spending a
Irrge part of our Incomes on iuxery as a
Bolenm duty, is that we are quiet ready
enough to do it without any sense of
ty at ail. When, however, ciir income
reaches above a certain point, it is dlfti
cult not to go to excess in the discharge
of this duty. What Is to be done then is
a question which concern* few people.
In an ideal state of things a man would
perhaps consider himself simply as an
officer intrusted with a large part of the
national earnings, to be spout fur the
world at large.' The late Mr. Peabody,
whose death we learn with siucere regret
as we write, seems to have discovred one
way of approaching to this conception ;
and people with small Incomes must of
t»n have thought that if they had a great
deal more than they Could possibly spend
upon themselves they would ehdeuvorio
rival so noble an example. When they
come to be tried, h they generally find it
hard to act up to the notion ; and Indeed
the difficulty of giving away l many
thousands wjihout dolpg more harm than
good Is so enormous that it is ftcarceiy to
lie desired, as it certanly is not to be ex
pected, that the example will olten be
literally followed out. W© can only hope
In a general way, that., the growth of
large fortunes and the ’increased public
ity of exp« uditure may gruduallvl genor
rm? Ull * uurea ®vd sense of responsibility,
there is one other circumstance which
tends in Dies we direction, and whose
action may bo lain iy observed in Ameri
ca. Ilia olten remarked that rich men
are there more liberal and public-spirited i
iu the use of wealth. This is partly ow*
Ing totheprincple that, what comes easily
goes easily • and that, In a country
where people are accustomed to sudden,
growth and equally sudden disappear
ance of large fortunes, a man learns to
care less about so transitory a possession.
It Is also due to the collateral result that
a man who has no motive for founding a
great family is without one powerful
motive for retaining wealth, A decline
of the old aristocratic feellnv Implies that
the son of a very rich man will be more
generally disposed to start on his own re
sources, and to look forward to a life ol
more or less hard work. There is both
good and evil m this result. A man per
haps Is more ofted hurt than hefieflted .by
Inheriting A large fortune; whist, on the
other hand, it is very desirable that
everybody should as a matter of course
look forward to life In a counting-house
orau office. Without entering upon so
large a subject, we need only remark
that the teude cy of which this Is an
example IsTuvbrab'e to a more generous
use of vast Wealth, as Weil as to Its fre
quent accumulation.
MASK TWAIN GETS HIS FORTUNE
'TOLD.
I had heard so much abouttho cele
brated fortune-telle'*, Madame , (I
decline to advertls i for her in this para
graph), that I went to see her yesterday.
Shelias a dark complexion naturally,,
and this effect is heightened by artificial i
aids which cost her nothing. Bhe wears I
curia, very black ones, and f had an im
pression that she gave their native at*
tractlveness a lirt with rancid butter. —
She~weurs a reddish check handkerchief.,
cast loosely ..around her neck, and It is
plain that her other one is alow getting
back from- the wash. 1 presume she I
-takes snuff. At any rate, something re- I
senibling it had lodged among the hair*. {
sprouting from a picturesque* mole on I
her upper Jip. f know she likes garlic—
I knew that as soon as she sighed. (She I
looked at me searchingly. lor nearly a I
minute with her black eyes, and then I
said: I
*lt Is enough. Cornel*
She started down a very dark and. dis
mal corrider, I stepping close after her.
Presently site said that aa the way was
crooked and so dark, perhaps she ban
better get a light. But it seemed ungal
lant loa’lowa woman.to put herself.to
so much trouble for me, and so I siyd: ‘
*lt is not worth while, madam. If
yon will heave another sigh, 1 think I
can follow it.*
So we got along all right. Arrived at
her official and mysterious den, she
asked me to tell her the date of my birth,
the exact hour of ,that occurrence, and
the color of my grandmother's hair. I
answeied as accurately as I could. Then
she said :
‘Young man, summon your fortitude
do not tremble X uni about to reve a
the past'
‘lnformation concerning the future
would be, in a,general way, more *
‘Silence! You have had much troub
le, some joy, some good fortune, some
had. Your great grandfather was hang
ed.*
‘That is all — }
Silence ! Hanged, sir. But it was not
his fault. He could not help It 1
‘I am glad you do him justice.’
‘Ah—grieve, rather, that the jury did.
He was hanged. His star crosses yours
in the fourth division, llfth sphere.—
Consequently vou will be hanged also.’
‘ln view ot this cheerful— ’
‘I must have silence. Yours was not,
In the beginning, a criminal nature, but
I circumstances chan ed it. At the age of
I nine you stole sug«i. At iiio uf fif
teen you stole money. At twenty you
stole horses. At twenty-five you com
mitted arson. At thirty, hardened in
crime, you became an editor. Since then
vour cfesent has been rapid. You are
now a public lecturer. Worse things aVe
In store for you. You will be sent to
Congress. Next to the penitentiary.—
Flnaily t happiness will come again—all
will be well—you will be hanged.
I was now in tears. It seemed hard
enough to go to Congress—but to be
hanged—this was too sad, too dieadful.
The woman seemed surprised at my
grief. X told her the.thoughts that were
in my mind. Then she comforted me—
tills blessed woman reconciled me, made
meconteuted, even'happy.
‘Why, man/ she said, ‘hold up your
head—you have nothing to grieve about.
Listen. You will live In New Hamp
shire. In your sharp need and distress
tile Brown family will succor you such
of them as Hike the assassin left alive.—
They will be benefactors to you. When
you shall have grown, fat upon their
bounty, and are grateful and happy,
you will desire to make some modest re
turn for these things, and so you will go
to the house some nigh* and brain the
whole family with an axe. You will
borrow funds from the deceased, and dis
burse. them in riotous living among ch£
rowdies and courtezans of Boston. Then
you will he arrested, tried, condemned to
be hanged, thrown into prison. Now is
your happy day. You will be converted
—you will be converted just as s..on as
every eft »rt to compass pardon, comma
ration or reprieve lias failed—and then !
Why then, every morning and every af
ternoon, the best and purest young la
dles of the village will assemble in your
cell and sing hymns. This will show
that assassination is respectable. Then
yon will forgive all those recent Browns
This will excite the.nublic admiration.—
No public.can withstand magnanimity.
Next they will take you to the scaffold
with great eclat, at the head of an irupos
i tier procession composed of clergymen,
officials, citizens generally, and young
laities walking pensively two and two.
and bearing bouquets and immortelles
You will mount the scaffold, and while
the great, concourse stand uncovered in
your presence, you will read your sappy
little speech which the minister has.
written for you. And then, in ihe midst
of a grand and impressive silence,.they
will swing you into per ,* Paradise,
my aon. Th‘*re will not be a dry eye on
the ground. You will be a hero! Not a
rough there but will envy you, Not a
rough there but will resolve to emulate
you.
And next, a great procession will fol
low you to the’HQibb—will weep over
your remains; the young ladies will
sing again tlie hymns made dear by
sweet associations connected with the
jail, and as a last tribute of affection, re
spect and appreciation of your many
sterling quulitie-, they will walk two
and two around your jbier, and strew
wreaths of flowers on it. And lo; you
are canonized I Thluk of it, son—in
grate, assassin, robber of the dead drunk
en brawler among thieves and carlotß in
the slums of Boston one month, and the
pet of the pure and innocent daughters
of the land the next! A bloody ami
hateful devil—a hewept, bewailed and
sainted martyr—all in a mouth ! Fool I
ho noble a fortune, and yet you sit here
grieving I*
‘No, madarae, 1 M said, ‘you do. me
wrqng, you do, indeed. I am perfectly
satisfied. 1 did not know before thpt
my great grandfather was hanged, but it
Is of no consequence* He has probably
cea u ed to bother about it by this time,
and J have not commenced yet. I con
fess, madam, that I do something in the
way of editing and leoturing, but the
other crimes you mention have escape l *
my memory. Yeti must have committ
ed them-—you would not deceive an or
phan. But let the past be as it was, and
jet the future he as it may, these are
nothing, I have only cared for one
thing. I have always felt that I should
be hanged one day, and somehow the
thought has aunoyed me considerably;
but if you oanonty assure me tout I shall
be banged in New Hampshire— *
‘Not u shadow of a doubt!’
‘Bless you, ray noble benefactress l—
excuse ibis embrace—you have removed
u! great load from my breast. To be
banged In New Hampshire is happiness
It leaves an honored name behind a man
and introduces him at once into the best
New Hampshire society in' the other
world.*
I then took leave of the fortune teller.
But seriously, is It well to glorify a mur
derous villain on the scaffold, as Pike
was glorified In New few
days ago? Is It well to turn the penalty
fora bloody crime into a reward? Is it
just to do U? Is it safe?
A ROMANCE IN BEAL LIFE.
I The remark is often made that u truth
is stranger than fiction,” hut its appiica-
I tioo was never more forcibly Illustrated,
I we think, says the New York, [Evening
I Mail, than by the brief history of two
persons, which culminated at the Aktor
I House in this city. It runs as follows:
About twenty.two year- ago, Mr. M., a
I northern gentleman, married Miss N., of
this State. To all appearances it was
I. what the world would denominate ‘*a i
I happy, marriage.”. Abont one year -after I
I this union, Mrs. M, presented her hns*
I hand with a fine boy, whose appearance
seemed to.be an additional living and !
breathing bond of affection. The “happy
couple” lived together forrfboutten years, I
when, by a reverse of clrcumtuncea in
Mr. M.*a business,-over which he had no I
control, he became quite poor* Passing f
over details, suffice It to say that a dl- I
vorce criminating neither party was eaal- I
ly obtained In apourtofo ..e of the Stales, I
wimse loose lows now offer inducements I
to the discontented to violate the solemn I
ord'uance of marriage with impunity. I
But this was not a trap sprung by one I
party without the knowledge of the other. I
it was a mutual divorce. I
I Mrs* M. was a healthy, fine-looking
I woman, and_lo a few years became the
I wifeofa well-to-do gentleman. This was
I a happy marriage throughout. The se-
I corn! husband died a little more than a
year ago, leaving the widow a small for
tune of nb* ut twenty thousand dollars.
During these eightor nine years of, life
with a second husband, the lady did not
loraet her first born ; nor the son loai
j sight of the. mother. The. affection in
•both was strong. The boy was the di
vine magnet which attracted the divorced
mother and tne wandeung father from j
his search for business and happinessin j
distant Costa Rica. At.the death of the I
second husband, the son had reached the
manly age.of twenty. Imagine his feel
ings us he came to realize the.real situa
tion of his lather and. mother. One u I
single man I the other a widow! .Ohean I
unhappy wanderer, still without sulfl- (
cieut worldly goods to make life.worth I
living for; the other the occupant of I
a husbaudless house. With a plentiful I
lardei: Ever present was the thoughi I
that one yet lived whom she had sworn I
before God to “ love and cherish.” He
was the father Of her sun. The son, who
loved his mother, loved..bis fa*her not
less* The mother could not gaze into,
the face of her only born, without behold
ing the image of his father. Time parsed.
The son brought his divorced father and
widowed mother together. They talked
over the past They agreed upon the fu
ture. The son was the centre of altrao-
J tiou. He was 'flesh of their flesh, bone
p»f their hone* The ties of nature w**re
( too strong for resistance. Like two drops
of; quicksilver the two hearts united.
Yesterday, in this city, the sou had the
happlueSs to celebrate the anniversary
of his twenty-first birth day hy the ex
I traordinary scene oi the marriage of his
own father and mother I This was joy
enough for one day. History does not
ufiotd the parallel of this picture.
and Mrs. M-,accompanied by their
son and several mends, dined at the As- j
tor House yesterday afternoon, and after- I
wards left- for Boston, on their bridal j
t«»ur. to enjoy his uecoud and her third
“honeymoon.’’ The sou, who is« prom
incut, fine-looking young man, is a tele
graph operator of excellent abilities; and
employed in this city. ■
Plants In Sleeping: iCeoms.
Though the air la dependent for there
newd of Its oxygen on the action of the
green leaves of plants, it must not be for
gotten that it is only in the presence and
under the stimulus of light that these
organisms deco pose carbonic acid. All
complaints, irrespective' of their kind or
nature, absorb oxygen and exhale car
bonic acid in the'dark. The quantity oi
noxious gas thus elminated la, however,
exceedingly small when compared with
the oxygen thrown ,out during the day.
When they are flowing, plants exhale
carbonic acid in considerable quantity,
and at the same time evolve heat In
this condition, therefore; they resemble
animals regards their relation'to the
air; and a number of plants placed in a
room would, under these circumstances,
tend to vitiate the air.
While the phanerngaroia, of flowering
plants, depend on the air almost entirely
for their, supply of carbon, and are busy
<luring the day in restoring to It the ox
ygen that has been removed by animals,
many of the inferior cr.yptogainia, as the
fungi and parasitic plants, obtain their
nourishment from material that has al
ready been organized. . They do not ah
r-orb carbonic acid, but oh the contrary
act like animals, absorbing oxygen and
exhaling carbonic acid at all times*—
It is, therefore, evident that their pres
ence in a room cannot be productive of
good results.
Aside from the highly deleterious ac
tion that plants may exert on the atmos
phere of a sleeping room, by increasing
the proportion of carbonic acid during
the night, there is another and more im
portant objection to be urged against
iheir presence in such apartments. Like
animals, they exhale peculiar volatile
organic principles, which in many in
stances render the air unfit for the pur
poses of respiration* Ev**n in tire days
of Amlroiiicus this fact was recognized,
lor he says, 1 iu speaking of. Arabia Felix,
that “by reason of myrrh, frankincense
and hot spices there growing, the air was
so obnoxious to their brains that the very
inhabitants at some times cannot avoid
Its influence.” Whut the influence on
the brain* of the inhabitants may have
been does not at present interest us. We
nave only quoted Che statement to show
tiiat loug ago the emanations from plants
were regarded us having an influence on
the condition of the air: and, la view of
oar present'ignorance, it would be wise
to banish them from our sleeping apart
ments, at least until we are better in
formed regarding their true properties.
t Galaxy.
The Hou. Benjanal* Tappan,
once a senator from Ohio, was on the
Bench when the Buckeye State was ad
mitted into the Union. Ue was famous
in his time for being very ugly, very
talented, very cross eyed, crabbed and
sarcastic. On one occasion he was hold
ing court in the wilderness, where pne
log cabin had to be uaed for court house,
tavern and bar room. The stable was
used pro, tem. for a jail. The judge had
just given some malefactors a very severe
sentence, when a rough baokwoodstnau,
who had been practicing at the other
bar, exclaimed i “That’s right give um
thunder, old gimlet eyes.”
“Who is that?” screamed the irate,
and.indignant Judge. <
“It’s this old boss,” answered the pi
oneer, giving his breast an approving
“lap*
“Mr. Sheriff,” retorted Tappan. “put
that old boss in the stable, and keep him
a week on bread and water.”
A New Orleans woman had her elop
ing daughter and unwelcome son-in-law
brought befo e the Recorder for separa
tion. She was Informed that It could not
be done. Taeold lady RUiveyeU the •ap
py couple a moment, and then sbeklng
her head disconsolately said, ’* Judge,
that girl areut fit to be married; she has
spoils 1“ “Has what?" exclaimed Ihe
Judge. “ Why, you see, Judge— 1 *
But before the old lady could proceed,
the d ugbter sprang to her feet and said,
“ Mother, there arent no use In saying
any more; I’m married, and if I arm** fit
I'd like to see the girl who are
VOL. 56.-- NO. 31.
PreT«ntloa of Scarlet F<r«r,
cartel; fever is a highly contagious
disease, and spreads from one person to
: another, and Is thus propagated In famf*
lies, towns, and districts. It Is therefore
highly desirable that every one should
understand the nature of this disease,
and the means of preventing its spread' j
(ng. It is always attended with a scarlet I
eruption on the skin, and is mostly ac*
companied by a sore throat. Whenever |
children have sore throats or eruption on
the skin, they should be separated from
tiie rest of the family until a doctor bus
seen them, or these symptoms have d leap
peared. There Is every reason to believe
that during the progress of this disease
unt only the eruption of the skin, but
everything* that Is thrown from the body
of the Infected person Is heavily laden
with the germs or seeds which are capa*
ble of propagating (he disease in another
person. The discharge from the nose
and throat are especially virulent* There
Is also reason to believe that the dis
chargee from the bowels are the same.
The kidneys are frequently dangerously
d Iseased i b scarlet fever, and the secretion
from tbeaeorgansisajso'p'robably highly
contagious; the'power of. Spreading the
poleou by means of these secretions la not
confined to their immediately leaving the
body, but continue long after.
It Isom this account that when these
secretions have found their way to the
cesspool aud sewer, they may still give
off poison to the surrounding,air, and
persons breathing it may become Infect
ed. Taking these things Into crtnsldera- '
tlon, it will he seen that it is necessary,
if possible, to destroy and annihilate this ,
poison before it leaves the room where ,
the person breathing it may'become iu- ,
fected. The following directions, drawn i
up by Dr. W. Budd, should in all coses t
be curried into effect:
“ 1. The room should be cleared of all
needless woolen or other draperies which
might possibly serve to harb ir ne poison.
“2. A basin charged with chloride or
carbolate of lime, or some other conve*
uient disinfectant, should be kept con'
stautly on the bed of the patient to spit
into
“S. A vessel, containing water
impregnated with chlorides, or with Con
dy’s fluid, should always stand in the
room for the reception of all bed and body
linen immediately on its removal from
the person of the patient.
“4. Pocket handkerchiefs should not
be used, and small pieces of ragemploye'i
Instead for wiping the mouth and nose.
Each piece, after being once used, should
be immediately burnt.
“ 6. As the hpnda of n.ursesof necessity
become frequently soiled by the secre
tions, a good supply of towels and two
basins—one containing water with' Cou
dy’s fluid, or chlorides, and another with
plain soup and water, should be always
at hand for the Immediate removal of
the taint.
“0- All glasses, cups, or other vessels,
used by or about the patient, should be
scrupulously cleaned'before being used
by others,
** 7. The discharges from the bowels
and kidneys should be received on their
issue from the body into vessels
charged with disinfectants.”
‘By these measures the greater part of
tne germs which are thrown off by inter
nal surfaces may be robbed (if their power
to propagate 1 the disease. Tile poisonous
germs that are thrown off from the skin
require a somewhat different treatment.
The plan recommended by Dr. Budd for
the purpose of preventing the poison
from the skin being disseminated through
the air is to put oil all over the' skin..
This practice is to Commence on the
fourtli day after the appearance of the
eruption, ana to De giQtiuuoJ wwaVjf dnji
uiuil tae patient la well enough to take
a wurra bath, In which (be whole person
is well washed with disinfectan t soap and
water. These baths shoufd be adminis-
tered every other day, for ft ur times,
when the disinfection of the skin may be
regarded as complete. Thin proceeding
should not, however, be adopted without
consulting the medical man who is in
attendance on the patient Speaking of
the plans above recommended, Dr. Budd
says:
“The success of this method in my
own hands baa been very remarkable.
For a period of nearly tweuty'years, dur
ing which ! have employed It in a very
wide field, I have never known the dis
ease spread in a single instance beyond
the sick room, and in very few instances
wUhin it. Time after time I haye treat
ed the fever in boust'serowded from attic
to basement with children and others,
who have, nevertheless, escaped infec
tion. The two elements in the method
are, separation on the one baud, and dis
infection on the other.”
Fat Men’! Ball.
The first annual ball of the “Fat
Men’s association of the City of New
York” took place at Irving*Hall last
evening. The Association now numbers
between 160 and 200 members^and con
siderably more than a quorum were pres
entat the bail. As no member is per
mitted to weigh less'than 200 pounds,
the aggregate of humanity represented,
entitles it to be called the largest ball of
the season. The fair partners of the fat
Terpsictioreaus were, as a general thing,
slim wuiaied and slender, which shows
that the Association pays due regard to the
lawof compensation. There were enough'
heavy weights, however, among these* to
vindicate the theory of woman’s rights
and prove'that women o<n compete
with men, even In fatness, if they choose
The fattest man present was Mr. J. A.
P. Flake, the President, by natural right
of the as'ociutiou. who weighs 358,pounds
and lhe fattest boy was Master' Thomas
Conway, aged seven years, who weighs
80* pounds. ' These two were the lions,
or rather the. Mon and the whelp'of the
evening. But for them, the uniformed
spectator would hardly have suspected
the peculiar adipose cuaracter of the en
tertainment'; for an assembly composed
entirely of fat men is like Uie big tree in ,
California—the uniform gigantic crowds
nut aft’'conception of the normal. The
dancing, or rather the ponderous move
ment of the Titans, commenced at half
post nine o’clock in tile evening, and
was kept up until two or three iu the
morning. The cotillion, the waltz, the
PC'Qitish, and other varieties of terpsi
olioreuii programme were performed
with as much regularity and conscien
tious zeal, as if dancing were the natural
avocation of tat men instead of a gro*
tesque attempt to defy nature About
11:30 o’clock tiie great mat <h took place,
and terminated iu the supper room,
where the fat men found themselves at
home, and Joined heartily In tbelr de
votions to tno vorauious deity from
whom they derived their inspirations
and their fat.
After this service the performance in
the Hall was renewed with redoubled
zeal and considerable additional weiabt.
Altogether it was an elegant affair, —AT.
Y- Times..
In Dresden- there fS an iron egg, the
history of which is something like this:
A young Prince sent this iron egg to a
lady to whom be was betrothed. She
received it In her Lands.and looked at It
with, disdain. In her indignation .that
he should send her such a gift, she cast
it to the eartb. When It touched the
ground a spring, cunningly .bidden in
tbe egg, opened, and a silver yolk rolled
out. Bhe touobed a secret spring in the
yolk, and a golden cblcken was revealed;
sbe touched u opting In tbe cblcken, and
a crown was found witbin ; sbe.toucbed
a spring in the crown, and within It was
found a diamond wedding ring. There
Is a moral to ibis story, ana that Is. It will
not do to trust “outward appearances.”
The woman rights excitement is fast
dyng out, inauy of tbe nest and moat in
telligent women in the country having
pronounced against the doctrine. Only
a few ancient dames, like Mrs. Stowe and
Luoretla Mott, continue to advocate'this
unpopular measure.
Rates foe 'SV&oertisin
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per line for each subsequent insertion* Quay*
erly half-yearly, and yearly advertisements In*
sorted at a liberal redaction on tbe above rates
Advertisements sboold be, accompanied by the
Cash. When sent without any length of tlai
specified for pabllcatlon. they wIU-bootmtlnna
until ordered out and onarged accordingly.
JOB PRINTING,
■s
CArfna, Hakduzlls, Oiboulabs, andevery oth
er description of Job and Oabx> Printing.
I , A Might in m Japanese Hotel
f Pumpeily, in Ills boob of travels round
tbe wor/d, givesthe following very cor
rect sketch of the manner of sleeping in
Japan :
Ab I was about to paaa my first night
n a Japanese bouse, I watched anxiously
he preparations for sleeping. They were
simp's enough; a mattress In the form
of a very thick quilt, about seven feet
long by four wide, was spread on the
floor, and over it was laid an ample robe,
very long aud heavily padded, and pro
vided with large sleeves, Having puftfh
the night dress, the sleeper covers him
self with another quilt, and sleeps, f. e.,
If he has some years?, practice in the use
of-hls bed.
But the most remarkable feature-about
a Japanese bed lathe pillow. Tbi. Isa
wooden box about four inches high, eight
inches long, aud two inches wide at the
(op. It has a cushion of folded papers on
the upper side to rest the neck on, for
the elaborate manner of dressing the hair
does not permit the-Japanese, especially
the women, to press the head on a pll
low.\Eyexv morning the uppermost pa
per is taken off from the cushion,exposing
a clean surface without the expense of
washing a pillow. .
I passed the greater part of the night
in learning how to poise my bead in this
novel manner; and rvben Iflnallyclosed
my eyes, It was to ua that I was be
ing slowly beheaded, sod to awake at the
crisis to And the pillow bottom side up,
and ray back resting on the sharp lower
edge of the box. During my stay in the
country, I learned many of its customs,
mastering the use of chopsticks, and ao
oustmuiug-my palate to raw fresh fish,
but the attempt'to balance my head bn a
two inch pillow I gave up I ■ despair,
alter trying iu vain to secure i ie box by
tying it to my neck and bead.
A. Woman of JPaahlon Rent\o the Pml.
tentlari*
A sad spectacle was witnessed in the
court of General Sessions, New York
city, Wednesday. Marla Smith, a mid
dle aged woman, was tried and convicted
of picking the pocket of another woman
in a street car, and stealing forty cents.
She was sentenced to three years, in the
penitentiary. Of her the Sun says:
But before leaving this poor wonjan to
her fate, aVd whfle she yet lingers on the
threshold of her living tomb, we will take
a view of her past career. Delia Leese,
(that la her name), was horn In Birming
ham. England, mid Is about thirty-five
years of ago. She came to this city with
her parents while very young. Doing
an only child, no mousy, no pains were
spared in her education. She lost both
her parents just when she was budding
Into womanhood. Thrown upon her own
resources for awhile, she 'accepted the
hospitality of some friends, and in the
course of a year or two married George
i.eese, who afterwards became a noto
rious thief, and finally abandoned her
altogether.
Being an energetic woman, in the prime
of life, and possessing rare charms, she
experienced no difficulty In obtaining
sufficient funds to establish a hotel, in
which business she was highly sucoss
ful, amassing a large fortune, estimated
at oyer $lOO,OOO. But her star at length
began to wane! Surrounded by a number
of admirers, all eager to supplant eaoh
other in her good graces, she forgot her
self, and became the paramour.of a man
who Is conspicuous in the politics of this
Deeper and deeper she sank into .the
abyss of dissipation, and at last all her
hard-earned money had been squandered,
and her beauty faded, and she found
herself a forsaken woman. Toe rest is
briefly told. Waut, exposure, and ranch
suffering Invited the malady with which
she is afflicted, and to buy bread she
made an attempt to steal forty eenla, was
detected, received a severe sentence, and
now goes to expiate her offence.
The friends of her better days assert
that she was exceedingly liberal to char
itable objects, sometimes giving a thou
sand dollars to a church or eleemosynary
InstltuUou.
In a Tranee for sixty Hours—Savad by
a Mother's I*ove,
The Pan Francisco Morning Call, In a
history or the life of Peter Bernard For
ster, one of the proprietors of that pa
per, relates the following incident,
which should be a warning against the
prevalent practice of burying persons
supposed to be dead without a positive
knowledge that such is the case :
‘■‘Prior to bis dissolution Mr. Forster
requested that a poet mortem examina
tion be made of his body. The reason
for bis desiring this,to be done was that,
when only about twelve years of age, he
had laid in a trance for sixty hours. He
had been ill for some time, and finally
fell into a trance, which was pronounced
by all those in attendeuce upon him,
with the exception of bis mother, to be
death. She, with a mother’s hope and
love, refused to believe that be was dead,
and resisted all suggestions os. to the ne
cessity of interment. She watched by
the side of her child for a period of sixty
hours, and then had the great Joy of dis
covering signs of returning life. Proper
means having been applied, be recover
ed his health. During the time be was
in the trance be knew everything that
took pioca in the room where he lay,
could near and understand all that was
said, but could not move a muscle or
make a sign. This caused him to ex
press a wish that be be not buried until
bis death was certain.’
A few days ago a very starchily
dressed Individual called at an out-of-the
way shop on Howard street, New Or
leans, over which swung the sign of Dr.
Jeflries. ‘‘ls tfie doctor in 7” be inquir
ed of a delapidated colored man who an
swered hissummons. “Hearn daf, sir!’’ '
was the smiling rejoinder. “Tell him I
think I have symptoms of small-pox,
and wish to consult him.” The whites
of the negro’s ey.s grew intense, and his
dusky complexion assumed rapidly a
creamy hue. “Golly, boss, what you
say?” “Tell the doctor I’m sick with
the small pox, and wish to see him.”—
The astonished African gave a wild leap,
and darting through an Inner door,
slamming it in the visitor’s face, cried
out. “Leave dis yer house; I don’t
wan’t no small-pox I” But the doctor?" '
“Golly, boas, I'so the doctor, hut I ain't
good at small pox.”—TV. O. /Picayune.
Every year a great number of Rus
sian families visit the German watering
places, and many of them become ruined
at the banka. A South German paper
announces that tbe Russian government
is now corresponding with the German
governments to which the various gamb
ling-hells belong, referring to the sad
consequences of these -institutions, and
asking them in the interest of moraiity
and humanity, to do away with the in
stitutioa altogether, otherwise the Rus
sian government will see itself compelled ‘
to heighten tpe difficulties In the way of
granting permission to travel, and to for
bid its subjects to reside in those provin
ces and countries where gambling banks
exist.
An inquisitive urchin, the other day,
says an exchange, while reciting a lesson
from tbe Bermon on the Mount, broke
out“ Ma, did Christ get $6,01)0 a year
for preaching?" “No, ray child, he did
not get anything-” “ Why didn’t they
pay him?” "Because be refused to preach
politics. The devil offered him a large
salary to do it, but he would not accept
the call.” " . " -
Youno lady (to Fred with thin legs),
“ Fred, I always admired your courage;
I knew when I first laid my eyes on you
that you were brave to rashness.” Fred,
(coming up smiling), “Ob, don’t my
dear. Why do you say that?” "Young
Lady—“ Why any man has courage who
can trust hlmselffor a long time on such
legs as yours I”