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VOLUME XXVII.
..§rlnUcl JVtnu
LEISURE.
IJY JEAN INGELOW.
Grand is the leisure of the earth ;
She give her happy myriads birth,
And after harvest fears not death,
But goes to sleep in snow-wreaths dim.
Dread is the leisure up above,
The while He sits, whose name is Love,
And waits, as Noah did, the dove,
To wit, if she would fly to him.
He waits for us, while houseless things,
We beat about with braised wings,
On ths dark floods and water-springs,
The ruined world, the desolate sea:
With open windows from the prime
All night, all day. he waits sublime,
Until the fullness of the time
Decreed from Ilis eternity.
Where is our leisure? Give us rest!
Where is the quiet we possessed?
We must have had it once—were blest
With peace, whoso phantoms yet entice.
8 rely the mother of mankind
I. uged for gardens left behind ;
1 rwe still prove some yearnings blind,
Inherited from from Paradise.
ALL ABOUT A BONNET :
OR, THE I.AW OF DIVORCE.
Not many miles from Springfield, 111.,
there lived, and, we presume, there still
lives, a couple who one liue day fell head
over heels in love with each over; and noth
ing would satisfy them—Henry Wilson and
Mary Spencer—but that they should wear
the same name, live under the same roof,
and drink out of the same teapot, for the
rest of their natural lives.
Wilson is a well-to-do farmer—peculiar
ly independent of the world ; and his wife,
the daughter of a stock-raiser, who is not
without some hundreds of dollars in Uncle
Samuel's five-twenties aud ten-forties. Each
felt quite independent of the other in mone
tary matters—which, in this world, is not
always the ease.
Henry met Mary at a Lull, and they lik
ed each other so well that they polked,
mazourked, and waltzed together through
the night, and finally parted with the un
derstanding that they were excellent part
ners in a dauce.
Waltzing is productive of a good many
things besides scandal. In this instance,
it led \\ ilsou to propose to Maty, and Mary
led to marriage. But—how happy this
great, round globe of ours would be if those
conjunctions but and if were not in any vo
cabulary ? They never stopped in their
ardor to speculate upon or philosophize
about "incompatibility of temper," and
hence the rock on which they split.
The honeymoon was, as honeymoons gen
j erally are, redolent with the perfumes ex-
I tracted from those exotics—"my dear,"
"my love," "mv darling," and it lasted
even beyond the usual phase of corkscrew
journeyings of Luna around her master
Earth.
In fact, it is related of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
son, that for the space of one whole year
not a cloud darkened the atmosphere of
their matrimonial heaven—that all was se
rene ; but it was neither noticed nor known
that the barque in which they had taken
passage should always float on the connu
bial sea without encountering storms or
contrary winds.
Well, the tempest did come. It came up
-11 them suddenly, and entered abruptly in
to a law court; aud it was about a bounet,
i hich didn't suit the complexion of pleas
ant faced Mary, but did exactly hit the fan
cy of her " lord and master."
Henry had some business in Springfield,
which transacting to his satisfaction, he
concluded he would look around him and
make a note of the fashions. While saun
tering along, thinking of nothing in partic
ular, his eye chanced to fall on a bonnet,
not in a milliner's window, but on the head
of a lady, who was strolling through the
streets, taking her usual " afteruooning."
" What a nice hat 1" ejaculated Henry.
By some chance the person who wore it
heard the comment, and not at all displeas
ed, turned her head until her face confront
ed that of the critic ; and then out of as
pretty a pair of violent eyes as it is possi
ble to conceive in woman, beamed her
thanks, while her rosy lips wreathed them
selves into smiles that set the heart of the
young Benedict, who ought to have kuown
better, palpitating at the rate of one hun
dred and ten to the minute.
For a time it was all over with Henry.
He forgot all about his Mary, and his eyes,
being expressive ones, somehow informed
the lady that she had made a momentary
conquest.
" You admire my bonnet ?" said she, in a
low, silvery voice, with a chirrup in it that
sounded like bird music heard at a dis
tance, in the cars of the infatuated man
" Yes'm—Miss," he answered tremulous
ly, removing his hat as he spoke. " I—l
like it very much indeed. I thought how
very nice my—my wife would look in one
just like it."
A light, a very light cloud passed over
the face of the lady when she heard the
word " wife," but instantly her eyes bright
ened and her lips became radiant as it was
possible to make them, with good nature.
" \s ell, sir," said she, " as I have nothing
particular to do, and as I like to assist peo
ple out of difficulties, if you have no objec
tions I will accompany you to my millin
er's, where I have 110 doubt you can get a
hat made precisely like mine in a few
hours."
Henry was delighted—charmed at the
condescension of the fair stranger. He
could not think of words sufficiently point
ed to thank her.
As .a matter of course, he could not de
cline an invitation so gratuitousl}* extend
ed,and at once, escorted by the lady,march
ed to the milliner's. There he found a bon
net that was, if anything, even an improve
ment on the one worn by his new acquain
tance ; but it could not be got ready for at
least half a day. This was unfortunate, as
it would, it he purchased it, detain him in
Springfield over night.
He finally resolved on possessing the bat,
delighted with the '.ea of the surprise his
Mary would have. Ho left the store of the
milliner accompanied by the aflable lady,
TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., NOVEMBER 2D, 1866.
who hinted that her husband was at home,
and she would be happy to receive him at
her house.
Could any woman be more agreeable,
thought Y\ ilson,as he parted from the pret
ty stranger who had so kindly—putting all
coi ventioualities aside, and utterly regard
less of the fro a us of Mrs. Grundy—assisted
him to the purchase of a fashionable bonnet
for his young wife?
Now, although there was something ex
traordinary in the conduct of the lady, so
unsual from the course ordinarily pursued
by her sex, Henry forgot not his loyaltv to
nor his love lor his Mary. He could not, it
is true, obliterate from memory the sweet
eyes, or the bright, inviting smiles of her
who had done him so agreeable a service.
r l his simple act on the part of a strange;
was the cause of u storm which he little
dreamed at the time.
Had he turned his eyes back but once 011
the path he was pursuing, while by the
side of his fair cicerone, he would have
seen, closely following him, a gentleman
who had been deeply enamored of Mary
Spencer, and whom he (Henry) had, with
out an effort, "cut out." The fact is Wilson
is handsome, and iius a nameless way that
is exceedingly attractive with women. The
rejected instantly resolved 011 revenge.—
That very night he wrote to Mary, in a
feigned hand, an exaggerated account of
iier husband's intercourse with a lady. Ma
licious hints were thrown out to excite the
poor woman to frenzy ; long before Henry
had returned she had worked herself into
such a fit of anger that it was dangerous
for any one to speak to her. It was while
laboring under this unreasonable lit ol pas
sion that her husband made his appearance
with a bandbox containing the precious
bonnet.
" Mary,my dear," he said, "I've got some
thing nice for you."
"For me !" she cried sarcastically; "for
me, Sir ! Y'ou can't have anything for me!
It's for that woman—that tinny you were
seen with in Springfield !
"Y\ hat are you talking about ?" asked
Henry, in utter astonishment. " What do
you know about a woman in Springfield ?"
Mary answered him by going into hys
terics. When she recovered a little, she
sprang at the box, tore off the lid, and seiz
ing the delicate fragment in her hands,
placed it for a moment upon her head. An
gry as she was, she saw at a glance that
it ui<l not exactly suit her features or her
complexion—il it had,probably there would
have been no catastrophe—and this added
fuel to the all devouring fire of jealousy
which was consuming her. Instautly she
threw it on the floor, and jumping upon it,
trampled flowers, ribbons, laces, etc., into
an undistinguishable mass. This accom
plished tn her satisfaction, she gathered up
the ruin she had made and threw it into her
husband's face, telling him at the same
time, to go back to Springfield, and present
it, with his wife's compliments, to the huzzy
that he got it from.
It was now Henry's turn to get angry,
and the result was a matrimonial storm,
that raged for hours with unabated fury.—
The rain (tears) descended in never-ceasing
torrents, the lightning flushed, the thunder
rolled, and the winds shrieked through the
cordage of the matrimonial barque, which
was permitted to drift nearer to those
dreadful rocks which are said to be found
partly submerged everywhere in the sea
of matrimony, where it stranded, a mere
wreck.
When the storm had somewhat exhausted
itself, Mrs. Wilson sprang to her feet, and,
with an injured air, which would have set
well upon Mrs. Siddons or Fanny Kemble,
as Queen Catharine or Lady Macbeth, de
clared she would seek a divorce—a separa
tion—death, even—rather than live anoth
er day with so perfidious a wretch as he
was.
" Very well, said the husband ; "as you
please, ma'am, I'll gratify you."
Without auothcr word Henry returned to
Springfield, there employed a lawyer, and
almost before his wife had dried up her
tears, returned to his home—no longer
home, in its purest sense—and handed her,
signed and sealed, the judgment of the
Court.
She opened the paper and read that she
was 110 longer Mrs. Wilson, but Mary
Spencer.
Her anguish was painful. It was with
difficulty she could command her feelings.
" I am ready to go, Henry," Mrs. Wilson
said, in her saddest tones. " I didn't mean
what I said, but was betrayed into it.—
I thought you 110 longer loved me. It
was that odious George Gane that did
it all. I found out that it was he who saw
you with a woman walking the streets of
Springfield, and he was determined on re
venging himself on you for marrying me."
" It is too late for explanation," sighed
Henry, " You had no business to get mad,
especially when 1 tried to please you by
buying the handsomest b mnet I ever saw.
The lady who was so kind as to assist me
in getting it for you was a cousin of yours,
although I did not know it at the time. She
knew me, but from sudden freak of fancy
refused to make herself known—Sarah Ad
ams."
" Sarah Adams !" exclaimed Mary, "why,
it was she who got me this hat," and the
divorced woman ran into another room, and
returned with a bonnet that was in every
particular like the one which had so pleas
ed Wilson, and which in her frenzy, she
had trampled into a shapeless nothing be
fore him. " I bought it," she sighed, " and
intended to wear it because 1 thought it
would please you."
Something stuck in the throat of Wilson.
With an effort he got it down. When he
found the {esophagus was more clear, he
said in a voice that went to the heart of
the woman—
" Mary !"
She looked at him, and with a choking
sob, answered—
" Oli ! Henry !"
The next moment her head rested on his
bosom, and his strong arms were wound
around her, as if to protect her from some
imminent danger.
"Y\ hat a fool I have been !'' he at length
said, as he seized the judgment of the
Court, and flung it, seal and all, into the
fire.
" And how jealous, how cruel, was I !"
sighed Mary.
"\V e'll mend that," cried Henry, with
sudden energy, as he seized his hat, put it
with a jerk on Id's head, and disappeared
through the doorway.
REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER.
In five minutes he returned, having at
his heels one of the J. P's of the county,
who at once proceeded to re-bind them as
fast as the laws of Illinois will permit a
man and women to be tied to each other.
1 have not since heard that, having en
joyed the blessings of divorce once, the
plaintiff or defendant in this case care to
experience its pleasure- a second time.
And now, having told my story, I would
like to know of what possible worth or use
is a separation, a vinculum matrimonii, bas
ed on a childish quarrel about a woman's
hat, in even the liberally disposed State of
Illinois ?
FOB THE REPORTER.
THE TIPPLER'S VISION.
IN a neighboring State, nestled tinong
the hills, which like grim giants stand
guard over the merry, sparkling river, are
a few, cosy happy homes forming the little
village of Glenbnrg. One little cottage
you would notice particularly, because of
an air of comfort and refinement which
floated around. The yard was well filled
with choice vines and evergreens tasteful
ly arranged ; and the interior of the cot
tage was in harmony with the beauties
which Nature had lavished around.
One bright starry evening, in the sum
mer time, you might have seen a young
man, of prepossessing appearance, enter
the cottage, and throw himself upon a sofa,
in his own room. Near by was a table,
upon which were seen glasses and several
empty bottles, showing too plainly, what his
habits were.
Suddenly he heard his name called, and
hastily rising, and passing again into the
street, he saw before him, the Empress
Pleasure, with her attendant satellites, gor
geously attired, beckoning to him but llee
ing as he approached, His brain began to
reel and everything to change, around him.
The beautiful summer night, with its
balmy breezes and odorous flowers, —the
silvery moon, " hung like a gem on the
brow of the sky," light, crystal clouds—
had all disappeared.
In the new, strange country, into which
he had entered, were only rough, rugged
hills and fruitless valleys, or filled only
with noisome nettles, among which ser
pents hissed and crawled. He looked tow
ard the sky, expecting to see light, but the
moon had sunk behind clouds of leaden
blackness. He paused to think where he
could be, and wonder why he had come
thither, and looking back he saw two lights
—the one of his father's counsels, the other
his mother's prayers—but they immediate
ly vanished, and looking a second time all
was dark.
Gazing into blackness and despair, bis
heart sunk within him. As he reviewed his
past short life, how little of good, how
much of evil he saw, and looking before
him, he saw the blue flames which the De
mon Wine was burning around an open
grave. The wretched man could no longer
endure the agony but wept aloud. Pres
ently he heard a song, low and thirilling,
and again staring around he beheld a
beautiful cherub, which was like the form
of a little sister, that he had seen years be
fore, with the sunny curls pressed gently
back from the pure, pale brow, the light of
the laughing blue eyes, put out forever,
and witli white rosebuds in the dimpled
hands folded lovingly over the sinless
breast—laid to rest in a cold narrow bed.
Nearer she came and the song was still
more sweet. "It is surely little Elsie come
back to me," he said. Coming so near that
he could discern the waving wings and
golden harp, she sung to the wretched man
of a new life, high and holy—free from the
fetters of sin and the gyves of intemper
ance. Instinctively he arose as she de
scribed in ecstatic strains, the triumph of a
human heart over sin, and kneeling us she
told of the great joy of the reward, and of
the perfect bliss of the redeemed soul—he
fervently prayed for the power to begin
life anew—to strive once more to meet and
overcome temptation.
Aud his prayer was answered, for this
was but a dream which had visited the
slumber of a youth who was just entering
the downward road—and by it was saved.
M. 11.
ECONOMY IS \\ EALTH. — There is nothing
which goes so lar towards placing young
people beyond the reach of poverty,a3 prou
er economy in the management of house
hold affairs It matters not whether a man
furnishes little or much in his family, if
there is a continued leakage in the parlor,
it runs away, lie knows not how, and that
demon Waste cries "More !" like the horse
leech's daughter, till he that provides has
no more to give. It is the husband's duty
to bring into the house ; and it is the duty
of the wife to see that none goes wrongful
ly out of it.
A man gets a wife to look after his af
fairs, and to assist him in his journey
through life ; to educate and prepare his
children for a proper station in life. The
husband's interest should be the wife's care,
and her greatest ambition to carry her no
farther than his welfare and happiness, to
gether with that of her children. This
should be her sole aim, and the theatre of
her exploits in the bosom of her family ;
where she may do as much toward making
a foitune as he can in the counting room
or work shop. It is uot the money earned
that makes the man wealthy, it is what he
saves from his earnings. Self-gratification
in dress or indulgence in appetite, or get
ting handsomer furniture, or entertaining
more company than his purse will allow,
are equally pernicious.
"THERE are ties which should never be
severed, ' as the ill-used wife said when she found
her brute of a husband hanging in the hay-loft.
[Corrtspondeii of the N. Y. Herald.]
GREAT MASTODON DISCOVERY.
fBO Y, N. Y„ Nov. 11.
The scientific world is likely to be thor
oughly aroused by the recent discoveries in
the domain of natural history at Gohoes,the
manufacturing village immediately adjacent
to this city. During the process of an ex
cavation some weeks since, on the site ola
mill to be newly erected, a mammoth jaw
bone was found about one hundred feet from
the banks of the Mohawk river, embedded
at a distance of sixty-live feet below the
surface of the earth, uud being taken up, at
once excited the attention of the naturalists
uot only in this vicinity, but likewise far
and wide. The length of the jaw was thir
ty-two inches, twenty inches in width, and
weighed somewhat more than forty-six
pounds.
On Thursday last the remains of a com
plete skeleton of a huge mastodon were dis
covered eighteen feet further down in the
same excavation, and the attendant natur
alists of Yale and Union colleges and the
ltenssalaer Polytecnic institute of this city,
are lully confirmed in the opinion that the
frame can yet be made quite perfect. The
remains have been carefully gathered to
gether in the mill of the Harmony company,
cleaned and oiled, and it is expected that
they will be viewed and pronounced upon
during the coming week by Professor Louis
Agassiz, the learned naturalist and savun
of Harvard University The jaw of tire
I mastodon is four feet nine iuches in length
from the mouth to the cranium, to which a
portion of the backbone and jaw are still
connected. The cranium rises very like
that of an elephant. The two tusks each
measure eight feet in length, and their true
position is well marked on the upper jaw.
The hip bone is five feet long, and weighs
one hundred pounds, while the bhoulder
blades measure ten feet nine inches, and
weigh about fifty pounds each. The under
jaw already alluded to as having been found
some weeks since, precisely fits the upper
jaw now exhumed, and the ribs are found
to be four and a half feet in length, and, as
before stated, the fossilists are of the opin
ion that the completed frame will form a
most essential and grave contribution to
the science of natural history.
The measurements show that the animal
must have stood at least fifteen feet in
height, and have been a little upwards of
fifty feet in length,independent of the tusks
already stated to be each eight feet in length
Professor Marsh, of Y ale College Scientific
School, gives it as his well grounded opin
ion that the remains discovered are those
of a great North American Mastodon, com
paring in all its parts l'ully with the descrip
tion ol the animal given in the scientific
works, as follows : "The animal has the
vaulted and cellular skull of the elephant,
with large tusks in the upper jaw and hea
vy form. From the character of the nasal
bones and the shortness of the head and
neck it has been concluded that it had a
trunk."
Whenever similiar remains have been
discovered 011 this continent, the fact has
never failed to awaken the deepest interest,
not only in this country but in Europe.—
Fragments were first discovered as early
as the year 1705, and in 1801, the first com
paratively complete skeleton of a mastedou
was fouud somewhere in Orange county, 1
am told, and immediately transported to
London, returned and kept oxl exhibition in
Philadelphia for some years. Dr.Warren,of
Harvard College,is said to be in possession
of a large part of another frame, and in
18-15 it is stated th at a large and valuable
collection of mastodon bones were found 011
the banks of the Mississippi river, and hav
ing been wired together were exhibited
through the country and in London as the
great Missouriam. Harvard University is
also in possession of a mastodon skeleton,
independent of that belonging to Dr. War
ren, and it is alleged that specimens of the
primeval specie.-- have been found in sever
al of the States,but in no instance anything
like as perfect as the one now developed at
Cohoes. Scientific investigations upon this
controverted subject have been widely ex
tended and marked by great industry, aud
as this event shows, they have been char
acterized by much success and truthful
ness.
One author says : "The food of the mas
todon was entirely vegetable, as is proved
by the remains of twigs of coniferous trees,
and other vegetable matter found between
the ribs, and the animal was doubtless fond
of resorting to marshy or boggy places in
search of succulent plants, where it was
often in the very places where the remains
have been extracted during the nineteenth
century." Another writer remarks : "The
geological position of the remains of this
species (mastodon) has long been and still
is a subject of dispute among geologists ;
in a few instances they are said to have
been found below the drift, in the pliocene,
and even in the roiocene ; but they have
generally been obtained from the post pito
cene or alluvial formations at a depth of
five to ten ftet, in lacustral deposit, bogs,
and beds of infusorial earth. Some have
thought that the mastodons became extinct
since the advent of man on the earth. Ac
cording to Lyell, the period of the destruc
tion, though geologically modern, must
have been many thousand years ago. The
same causes probably acted in their extinct
ion, as in the case of the fossil elephant,
perhaps partly climatic changes, or more
probably, some great convulsion on the sur
face of the globe at an epoch auterior to
man." A distinguished natural historian
says : "One of the principal deposits of
mastodon bones appears to have been the
Big Bone Lick in the north part of Kentuc
ky, near the Ohio, whence the mastodon
has been called 'the animal of the Ohio.'—
None of the remains have the appearance
of having been rolled, but seem to have
been removed since the death of the animal ;
and it is worthy of remark that those which
were found at the river of the Great Osage,
which runs into the Missouri a little above
its confluence with the Mississippi,were in a
vertical position,as if the animals had been
bogged 01* buried in the soil."
Parkinson, in his Organic Remains,adds :
"The country in which these remains (mas
todons) are found, is like an immense plain,
bordered on every side by mountains. On
diggiug into the morasses, where those
bones are found, the following stata are
generally met with : One or two feet of
peat, oue or two feet of yellow marl, with
vegetable remains, about two feet of grey
marl, like ashes, finally a bed of shell marl.
per* Annum, in Advance.
jii the grey marl the bones are generally
lound."
The soil in which the discovery at C'ohoes
was found answers Parkinson's description
in the above quotation exactly.
It thus appears that a great and perma
nent contribution is about to be made to
science, and that in the bosom of the State
of New York has been found the most im
portant discovery tending to elucidate nat
ural history made in many, many years.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS- THE DANGER
OF NEGLECTING GOLDS.
Colds are generally considered but sim
ple things, and, as a natural consequence,
are too much neglected. How often do
you hear the remark. "Oh, it is only a
cold !" True, only a cold ; but what is
being done for it? Frequently nothing.
Many a long and dangerous,and sometimes
fatal, fit of illness might be prevented by
paying that proper attention to a cold
which it so seriously demands. Most of
the causes of consumption come from cold
being in tire first instance neglected. To
many other diseases does it also give rise.
In u climate like this, where we have some
times two and three changes in a day, it
it is impossible to avoid taking cold, un
less due precaution be observed. Persons
should clothe themselves as much as possi
ble in keeping with the temperature of the
atmosphere.
With the thermometer above zero cloth
ing should not be so warm as at or below
zero, as by so doing tho pores are opened
to an undue extent, sometimes profuse per
spiration induced, and as a natural conse
quence cold is taken. Draft, in every way,
Whether in or out of doors, ought to be
avoided. Too much importance cannot be
given lo this, but yet we see it daily neg
lected. How often do we see persons in
this city, on one of the bleakest days stop
ping to talk at the corner of the street in
a draft of wind. This, too, is generally
the case after walking fast and becoming
heated. How is it possible, under *such
circumstances, to avoid taking cold ? And
yet persons will so innocently tell, "1 don't
know how I could have taken cold. I have
not exposed myself in any way."
As important, also, is the mode of life
in-uoors, for on this much depends. Ladies
are very apt to dress for going out, and
then sit in a warm room for half an hour,
perhaps more, if something delay them, by
which perspiration is pruduced, aud in that
state, from the warm house into the cool
air they go. It must be remembered that
to the corresponding temperature of the
atmosphere do the pores close or open ; a
uniform temperature should be observed,as
by so doing the circulation is regularly
maintained. Any one leaving an atmos
phere ol eighty degrees, and going to one
of sixty degrees, experiences a great
change, and if they wish to avoid cold,
should be clad in such a manner as to make
up for the proportionate difference in the
temperature. For this reason great uni
formity in the temperature of the house
should be observed. Change the atmos
phere in the house frequently by admitting,
as often as possible, during the day, fresh
air.
Every house should be thoroughly ven
tilated the first thing every morning, so
as to allow the atmosphere of the previous
night to escape. This can be done by first
airing one part and then another. By do
ing this a house also can be more easily
warmed. When there are many persons '
collected in a room, care should be observ
ed to keep a few inches of the window
open from the top, every one avoiding sett
ing close to or under it as, after a time,
when there are many collected together,
the atmosphere of the room becomes im
pregnated with their exhaltations, and the
air is thus rendered impure. By perfect
ventillatiou there is a uniform amount of
oxygen which is the vital part of the at
mosphere, and which is necessary to our
very existence, maintained. Who has not
noticed the disagreeable feeling produced
on going from the fresh air into a room
with many persons in which the ventila
tion is imperfect ?
At night, also, fresh air should be admit
ted into the room, for it is, if anything,
more necessary that there should be a plen
tiful supply of oxygen, We have often
been asked the ridiculous question, if en
ough air did not come in through the key
hole. Certainly not. That is not fresh air.
Make it a rule always to sleep with part
of your window open from the top, avoid
ing its blowing on you. Fresh air never
hurt any one, for by it wc live. It is the
want of it that injures. Persons seem to
forget that they spend one-third of their
lives in their bed-rooms. AYe frequently
see a man building a house bestowing all
his attention on the p an of the parlors,
while the bed-rooms are, to a great extent,
and in some instances entirely neglected.
It had better be cice vcrta.
Another thing to which we wish to draw
attention is that of neglecting to change
shoes and stockings after being out on a
damp or rainy day. Though they may nei
ther appear nor feel damp, yet they should
be changed, care being observed to keep
the feet always warm, As long as one is
walking, the circulation is kept up, no mat
ter how wet the feet may be, but the in
stant you remain quiet it is checked, un
less the stock ugs and shoes be changed.
Holding the feet but a few minutes to a
fire or over a register, is not sufficient, as
yon only by that dry the external part of
the shoe or boot. If the feet are cold they
should be rubbed thoroughly with a rough
towel until warmth has been restored,when
they might be, it desired held for a short
time before the fire. Jumping out of bed
and walking about on the carpet, as too
often done, should be avoided. A pair of
slippers can be so placed by the bed at
night, when retiring, as to be accessible on
rising.
It is the duty of each member of the
Mt. Holyoke F. male Seminary to write an
annual letter stating whether she is mar
ried or single, how many children she has,
and other particulars concerning her status
and progress. A young lady of the class
of 1861 has just written to the class secre
tary that she is not married, but that she
thinks she can see a little cloud that arisc
eth out of the sky of the future, like a man's
hand.
ANGER is like a full-hot horse, who being ,
allowed his own way, sell-metal tires him. j
TUF. BENEFIT OF BEING 1" NOCKED AEOCT IN
THE WOKI.I).— It is a good thing for a young
man to bo ' knocked about the world,"
though bin soft-hearted parent* may not
think so. All youths, <>r d Hot ail, certain
ly nine teen-twentieths o' th • - in (total,
enter life with a surplusage oi : ell-conceit.
If, in measuring themselves with wiser and
older men than themselves, they discovar
that it is unwarranted, and get rid o! it
gracefully, of their own accord, well and
good ; if not, it is desirable for their own
sake that it be "kuocked out of them."
A boy who is sent to a large school soon
finds his level. His will may have been
paramount at home ; but school boys are
democratic in their ideas, and if arrogant,
he is sure lo be thrashed into recognition
of the golden rule. The world is a great
public school, and it soon teaches a new
pupil his proper place. 11 he has the at
tributes that belong to a leader, lie will be
installed in the position of a leader ; if not,
whatever his own opinion oi his abilities,
lie will be compelled to fall in with the
rank and file. If not destined to great
ness, the next best thing to which he can
aspire is respectability ; but no man can
either be truly great or truly respectable
who is vain, pompous and overbearing. By
the time the novice has found his legiti
mate social position, be the satnc high or
low, the probability is that the disagree
able traits of bis character will be soften
ed down or worn away. Most likely the
process of abrasion will be rough, perhaps
very rough ; but when it is all over, and
lie begius to see himself as others see him,
and not as reflected in the mirror of self
conceit, he will be thankful that he has run
the gauntlet, and arrived, though by a
rough road, at self knowledge.
Upon the whole, whatever loving moth
ers may think to the contrary, it is a good
thing for youths to be knocked about in
the world ; it makes men of them.
NUMBER 27.
AFTER THE GUILLOTINE. — Four men were
executed by the guillotine at Brest. The
evening before the execution every medi
cal man in Brest received an invitation
from Dr. Duval, director of the Board of
Health, to meet him in the ampitheatre of
the hospital at six on the following morn
ing. Precisely at that hour all the men of
science beluuging to that city assembled
around four dissectiug tables covered with
white cloths. As the clock struck, the four
culprits were ushered into eternity. At
<3:20 the hospital vau was seen to cross the
court of the Pupilles de la Marine at a hand
gallop, and in a few moments lour lifeless
trunks were thrown on the dissecting ta
bles, precisely eight minutes alter they had
ceased to exist. The sight was indeed
startling. The bodies : ppeared shrunk to
the si/.e of that of a child—the neck utter
ly disappeared, and in its place a trightlul,
gaping wound. Next to the bodies, rolled
up in napkins, were four livid heads, due
work of dissection commenced instantly.--
The nerves quivered, and the flesh was
still warm, flic continued contractability
of the heart was proved, as well as in the
aorta, where sensibility was extreme. The
contractability was manifested on simply
touching the part, and of course was still
more apparent when subject to electric cur
rents. The muscular contraction was so
intense that, even after twenty minutes one
of the doctors, on applying an electric cur
rent, made the four heads grimace in the
most horrible manner. A pencil was plac
ed between the teeth of one : it was bitten
through and smashed as though it had
been made of glass.
A LUNATIC IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. —At
Hanwell, England, recently, a young lady
was put into a train alone to go to London.
As the train was on the point of starting, a
gentleman rushed up and got in. Shortly
after the train had started, the gentleman
jumped up and exclaimed : "This carriage
is too heavy, aud it must be lightened ;'
and straightway his carpet-bag disappeared
out of the window. He sits still a few
minutes, when he begins again, and this
time his coat and waistcoat follow his bag.
After a little while, he said : "Let us pray
for the Duke of Gloucester." Down they go
on their knees —the poor girl, only 17, too
frightened to do anything but obey. \\ lien
that wa\ done, they prayed for the Duke of
York, and then for another—in fact,through
a whole string of dukes ; then they sat
down, the young lady frightened out of her
senses. Alter a few minutes, he begins
again : "It won't do ; 1 can't stand it ; the
train is too • eavy, either you or I must get
out ; I don't want to, so you
The girl, in despair, says : we have
not prayed tor the Duke of Northumberland."
"Ah, no more we have." Down they go on
their knees, when luckily the train stopped
at a station, and the young lady called the
guard,when it was discovered that the gen
tleman was a lunetic escaped from Han
well.
VALUE OF INSECTS. —Great Britain pays
annually $1,000,000 for dried carcasses of
that tiny insect known as the cochineal ;
while another—also peculiar to India—
gum shellac, or rather its production, is
scarcely less valuable. More than 1,500,-
000 human beings derive their sole support
from the culture and manufacture of the fi
bres spun by the silkworm oi which tin
annual circulating medium fcis said to he
$200,000,000. In England alone—to sac
nothing of the other pa:ts of Europe—
s.soo,ooo are spent every year in the pur
chase of foreign honey, while the value of
that which is native is not mentioned, and
all that is the work f the bee ; but this
makes no mention of 10,000 lbs. of wax im
ported every year. Besides all this there
are the gall-nuts, used for dying and mak
ing ink ; the ear.tharides, or Spanish fly,
used in medicine. In fact, every insect is
contributing in some way— directly or in
iudirectly— in swelling the amount of our
commercial profits.
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEM. —Let the business
of every one alone and attend U> your own.
Don't buy what you don't want. Use eve
ry hour to advantage, study to make even
leisure hours useful. Think twice before
you spend a shilling—remember you will
have another to make for it. Buy low, sell
fair, and take care of the profits. Look over
your books regularly, and if you find an er
ror, trace it out. Should a stroke of misfor
tune come upon you in trade, retrench,
work harder, but never fly the track. Con
front difficulties with unflinching persever
ance, and they will disappear at last
though you fail in the struggle, you will
be honored, but shrink, and you will be de
spised.
SST Man is like a snowball. Leave him
lie in idleness against the sunny fence of
prosperity, and all that's good in him melts
like butter ; but kick him around and he
gathers strength with each successive rev
olution, until he grows into an avalanche.
To succeed, you must keep moving.
ADVICE to ladies with stingy husbands :
Set up bawling alleys, and y >u will be sure to get
plenty of pin-money.
THE gravest events often come with no
more noise than the morning star makes in rising.