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(At,: /. cIIARLES V. sropp. ya) }Meerlnnte and Shots, Ilot. Inel Len , be, nol euaiLov. •.1 • ol Work mad, L prier. tad re?.,11,11; I,IIIC ti.latrOig, 3403.1. /M. :c ' 1I svirtsu, , A,ND 11A01, Dan:, t Saop la the new roatoMte ballainz, where he wIII Ire fogad ready to attead all rel.., rney war. t anw WI and will . ' tz Than to snap the ilelieate silver the, ads Ot - ear curious live 11,0111 - ler : And then ILeav'n blame lor the tanzled ends, And sit to grieve an I won ler. cigimcs roc: TWO. it. D. Luis "Smokes, does he ? The abominable wretch exclaimed MN. Volant to her friend, !1l re. Washburn, a young, wife who had just gone to housekeeping. smokes, but he is not an abontina wtetch-wl am sure he is not." replied Mrs. Washburn, a little startled by the hard name applied to her husband, a horn she both loved and esteemed. "Not a wretch ?" "No—l ant sure he is not." "Yes, he ; any husband, especially one who his been married only a yeiir, and won't leifve off smoking uhen his wife desires it, must be a wretch.' "No you overstate the ease. lie is everything a husband ought 40 be—so kind, so devoted, so indulgent But then I do wish he would not smoke." "You must break him of it—the cruel monster! "Nay, do not call him such hard names. I lore bin' with all my heart, though he does smoke." "Well, I suppose you du; young wives are apt to be 1'0011;10 "Foolish r "Yes; he 6CTS, I dare say. that you 1011 , hirn.und so he takes the advautago of son." "Why, Mrs. Volanf, don't you lore your hnsbranl.?" “Well, suppose I ilo ; there is no need of telling him of it. I make him think 1 don't care anything about bin'. Why, I can manage him as c. 3 4, as I cottla kitten,” • "I don't like that;'l think there ought to be love and confidence betnoen wan and wife." . "Pooh!" "Yon.cannot be happy with hint" "I should not be, if I became his slave." "Not his sieve!" Amos lisnuata "Don't you believe it I When you have been married us long as I have,.yon will get rid. of some of these sentimental no tions, which answer very _well for the first year or.so. but beexne very inconvenient after that:7:- - "For my part., I always mean to love my haband us moth as I do' now, even if it is sentlinental."' "See; if. yon dot. Ilushalids must •be carefully...managel or they beecime - ty rAnts,, Now my-hopboul 'smoked : the first year After marriUge;:huktlien he:wtis Jul aliotit..b.rhigu; ..his cigar. into the house;:fcir..,l tolsl..him, up .111n1. down; I wouldult bardit." ' -• • - .. . , _ . . . "1 Etwald!antnictse . 1 10 irptila hare re belled?'" -- - . - • , • ... 'lie Aid,' littfaot- at ,liiat. Oiie night - 3 - Abodt a Year after we were married,.-he brotiOttlottie ,ra,!?wliiderbundle crtVare, and put them on the mantel-piece. Tait. l Mr. Washburn happened to glance at tag one,he coolly lighted it, and proceed. l her, but. contrary to her expectation, he c I to read the evening paper. ; manifested no surprise, mud Went on read " That's ;net the way icy husband lug the Teanseript. does." "So, so, Mr. Smoker," thought she, "I was downright mtd at his imps- i again, "yin] think f ant joking, do you ? dence, but did not say a word. The next I will son convince you :" and the lady day I bonk, , ht a monstrous great snuff•boa, took a paper, and applied a light to the and tilled it full of milet.. In the eve-' cigar. Ding he lighted his cigar, as before, but But Mrs. Washburn was rather box -110 sooner had ho done so, than I seated l perienced in the 'oodles operundi of light myself opposite to hint, mid drawing out ing a cigar, and she was unable to wake my snuff-box, I took a gmerous pinch,' It go. She lit another_ taper, and pulled snuf f ling the filthy stuff into my nostrils, away with all her might; but the Bagdad at the risk of sneezing my head off." was as resolute us the great caliph him "llow funny r self. She perseverAl till her extraordinary "My husband did not think so. Hot exertions again attracted the attention of looktta at nit with astonishment. 'You t Mr. Washburn. take snuff said he. LI do: at least. I 1 "Yon are fighting the wrong en d, my mean to learn,' I replied. 'lt is a filthy i dear," said he, with the utmost noitcha habit.' say s he. J.No worse than smoking,' says I. We debated the matter a long "Hose provoking he is r thought Mrs. tune, and al last he gave up the point, j Washburn, "why don't ho remonstrate?" and promised to throw away his cigar, if II" “you should bite off the twisted end, would throw away my snuff." land then put it in your mouth," contin "And lie never smoked any more ?" lied the husband, turning to the paper asked Mrs. Washburn, bombing. again. -yes, he ;w o n puce urter; but I took I Aided by these directions, thedady took to the snuff again, and he gave it up." another cigar, which she succeeded in "Are von sure be don't smoke now ?" lighting. The first taste of the tobacco "If lie doe,', he never iota me see him. smoke was horrible, but she had deter ' My sitting room is nut all smoked up, as mined to be a martyr for 'her husband's yours ii." i sake, and, taking her sewing, she contin it was a glo] ions trick." ned to puff away as she plied her needle, "That it w as, and I wonld adt ise you to till a certain nausea cumisdled her to try it upon Mr. Washburn." abandon the experiment for that e , inhlii't take a pinch of snuff any Casting the Bagilad into the grate. She more ilium I could swallow an eh-ph:vit. ! ' Bonn to wish she had not listened to Mrs. "Smoke, them There are some little Yotant ciga:s sold at the apothecary's made on ''What is the matter, my dear ? Wasn't purpose fir ladies. They are so mild that it a good cigar? Try mine; they are they wouldn't make you sick ; thongh. M etc Christi's of the first quality, 4 and et en if they did, you wouldn't mind, SO the impurturable Mr. Washburn off:red tiler care tour husband of smoking." her the choice from his case. "It s.-ents too -pad to play such a trick I "No. I think you, my dear; I 'will not upon him -he is always so kind. and in.r. smoke any more to-night." mils me to do just as I please, - said the I "But what's the matter, Mary? You 0. ndcr-beart, d Mrs. Washburn. are as pale as a sheet! !' "What (Ise' ceuld lie do ?" • "I feel a little font : I shall It," better in "It looks bind of mean to inn."' a nitumnt," and Mrs. Washburn was "Nut a (Al:g e st to I. are the room. '-1 don't 1,11.1 W as it wmihi Poor woman ! Shy was sick all ti.e ere tisc! lam sm... it %%mild. He Put the next day, Mrs. Volaid, nevi r ruin l l t yon 1.. r these has- who bail called to learn the success of band , 11 4 .1 . , an ascii' horror of impoprie- , the experiment, ads is,xl her to try again. tV in tht•ir %%jet s ." a--tiring ht•tt that it would not make 1]... • "Tin•n. lie 54 he has al s ays smoked, sick ;be evco:,.l time. mid c leaf": it or' CITIZEME MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY JANUARY 15, 1873. ' 11.V111:1 1 :1111 .I:ll! , )4teniptctl C.; it. " Ih.0041). th.l l . I •ht..iLlttl t." “Yto;•,r,z - i•.u3l, m v tir:ll* %Ir'.. \Vh. n was I,r.ken oil by the t‘hr.:; , t t• , ltr.ttwo of the "ett.dinin:tblc wretch - hint.re'.`”. 11 - :auburn roso he (.h t,r. (I, and, in of the nbonuuu -1 or,lor !hot. Iti> I.reat.i tn.tst ha% ex printed a kiss ui n hid tubaeco ,tztin..,lllll,g. the Itch "Srlla 113.1 been msrried curs' sae iiitqt,fted, and ante :t n•Ni• . . _ , 10..•roing the took lltr =MEE Mrs. Was]lhitrit was a jr,t tr. :Se:lion :oe, s 1 IL: . u! ,1 • e%:, wa, holitltl up in In r husband. as well it !night ; for never was a husband ,re (looted to his wife than lie was.,,To our uniul, she WAS a 1110•10 of corn - stormy vixent.4, that s , t their hearts iyon attaiunig a roiut, and will pull the lu•ttse &instil upon your head, lint they will attain it. Lt her e i', Mr. IVashborn hail only one and that was the villainous - habit of smoking, which all her eloquence hail been powerless to overcome. She didn't "put tier foot titian," as her friend, Mrs. Volant, hail done; for—poor. gel:Cc hearted creature—she ei.uld nut think of provoking a quarrel tt ith him, and had about concluded to make the bat of it, and let him smoke in peace. There was something so irresistibly fun ny about Mrs. Volant's plan, that she de termined to try it, and, accordingly, on the afternoon of the next. day, she sent the Irish girl to the apothecary's shop lor a hunch of -Bagdad" cigars. Disposing a few of tbeni in tie WOCk!a%to.t,tvady for the in omen tuns occasion, her Mind pie. hired the scene that would ensue %hen she should light one of them. It wag so funny that she laughed out load at the idea. Wouldn't he be surprised to see her. who hail teased bins so much to leave off, smoking. commence smoking herself—l Wouldn t his eyes stick.out when he! should sc.e her pulling a cigar at her sew ing, as he did when he read the evening I paper. She was so pleased with the plan that she could leave put it in execution, even if it had be.ll only for the sport it prom ised her, independently of any good. re. stilt which might flow from it. Wouldn't he be mortslied, and would she net win the day, and glory over his defrat ? Wouldn't lie be glad to promise her that he wouldn't smoke another cigar as long I as he lived ? She was so de hglited that she could hardly containherself. Mr. Washburn came home to tea, and, as usual, when ho entered the house, he gave her a kiss and a tender greeting,.— They were seated at the tea-talne; Mrs. Washburn was so WI of mirth that she Callle near scalding herself with the hot tea when she poured it out. Her merry, mischievous laugh rang pleasantly in her husband's ears, who, poor fellow, could have had no idea of the terrible ordeal through which he was dedmed, to pass. When tea was over, the astral lamp transferred to the light-stand, and Mr. Washburn had stretched „himself into a comfortable position in the large, easy rocking-chair, .with his legs lazily repes- Mg in another chair, the everlasting cigar was preduceirlighte ' d, and begun to ill& ihse its fragrunce.throughout the room. • , Mrs., Washburn could hardly Control her inclination to burst into a laugh at the mere thought of what she wasabout to4o. Seating herself . tit the side of -the -table, opposite her husband, she took from the work-basket, with an air.n.s grave and stile= as a judge, one of the ."Bagdads." Placing the filthy roll between her ruby lips, she &neel at her husband: • "Now, fir. Smoker," thought age-=it would have'spoilett.the joke to have said itattro, will see whether you dorallusn don IlfrOuojyAlibit.? • ' IMIMBEEP Mr. Washburn had a coriple of his in timate friends at his house to play a game f m hist the next evening. and the del ot re,olved to try the effect of a smoke in th.-ir presence. • When the party were seated, Mr. Wash burn passed round the cigar ease. - Won't you smoke, my dear r asked he, tetaleriirg the cigars to his war% -I trill; but yon know, Jus,ph, ihat never smoke your cigars ; they to nut snit Inv taste." ! was cool! Mis. Wash . :llm lit a Baoalad. . "biii it possible Yon smoke, Mrs. Wzish litiii It-k. 1.1 Mr. !tames, itstiiiislipd at 01 It woman plifling a w4y at a eigar. fur all the wuild lila' a 10,111•1 j!I a F,LF-rM3/11, -oera-hmalle. just to please my hos hand, ridied Mrs. Washburn, "it is more 4 , 0131de, you kioW, to have coinrilly when one smokes. We are generally alone in the el en ing, and she is so kind as to :mud:, with me. Ali l Barnes, teach your wife to smoke; it is so pleasant to smoke with one's wife." The lady was thunderstruck. Was it possible that he had no more respect for the proprieties of life than that? Site smoky„ :die had already acquired the reputation of Icing a smoker, without hating modueed any of the anticipated good results.. Mrs. Washburn threw the lighted Bag dad into the stove. She had almost cried withvexation. “Not smoke, my dear ?” said her bus "I "think you can be sociable to-night if I don't smoke." "Do o:nuke, my dear ; it gives me so much pleasure to eee you enjoy a good ci gar." -That's too bad, Joseph." Mr. Washburn laughed outright, and, thrun nag down his cards, explained the ev.nt or thu preceding evening. -1 '4;11 o•.vn up ; I did it to break him of the habit; 1 give it up." When Hs?! gentlemen had taken their leave, Mrs. Washburn explained by whose advice she laid adopted the "Mrs. Volant has the reputation or be ing a perfect shrew. Her husband 19 a laughing stock for all State street. She is a bad adviser." " how slick you have turned the joke upon uw," said Mrs. Washburn, laughing heartily. " To tell the troth, I overheard some of your conversation when the plot was " Oh, ho, you did ; no wonder. it failed, then," " did; but, Mery, arc 'you so very much against my sinokeing? I lore the weed, but I love you more:" and Mr. Washburn kissed her tenderly. " Nay, I will say no more about it.— Perhaps I was selfitth." I will lease it off, my dear, for your sake." "tio,no; I don't want you to do so. It' you are so very fond of fanokeing, I will never say another word about it," And Mr. Washburn, has smoked his cigar in peace ever since. Envy Phnished --o A Burmese potter, it is said, became envious of the prosperity of a washer mini, and, to ruin film, indncen the king to order him to wash ono of his black elephants white, that he might be "lord of the white elephant," which in the East is a great distinction. The washerntan replied that, by the rules of his urt, he -must have i vessel large enough_ to .wasit him. in. The king ordered the Totter to make lihn such a. Vessel. - When - - made it was climbed hv'the first step •of. the elephant ' in it. , Many times ,was, , ilits repeated ; and the potter was, ruined by the very scheme be bad intended - shinild crush his enemy. -• ; • . -;., • - je: the ktt9r ; Y:Nice,4 y9l.lng lady ?, *4lllBa. it p)444, pa ;pat.,. ri Harrfuac 1n rrautve ——o— To many of us there is something s' , ocking in the its , airs— with which French ilemde contract alliances ; bat, among the poorer— population, at any rate, the caclu lation, foresight, deliberiote preparation of a home, arrangement of the means of supporting it, mean life-long comfort, each of the contracting parties hating a due regulated share of the duties to per form. The only bit' of extravagance is the wedding dinner, followed by a ball. In a couple of days the duties of life are taken up, and the wife is busy with her linen and her saucepans. Mr. Walker describes marriage among English farm laborer,/ ; " Women, brought up in ignor ance of comfort, of course are careless abort the means of prov:ding for it. They are heetiless how they marry, and, when married, never think of the ditties of their situation. I recollect a young woman, the wife of a laborer in the country, once applying to me respecting some harsh treatment on the part of a shopkeeper to whom she owtd tanner. Oa investiga ting the case, I found that she regularly spent three shillings a week in sweet things and that she held herself entitled to pass the first year after her marriage in nom ( plate idleness ii a privaledge, I discovered, by no means seldom claimed. Of course the hal,it of the tiret year would become , in a great measure the habits of after life ! and the indulgence in sweet things would most likely be transferred in time to things less harmless." When Celestine married her antoine, who was a railway porter, she begged that she might return to my service for the few months She had to remain in Paris, before leaving for Italy, where her bridegroom had elfeeted . in. excellent engagement that would keep the pair in comfort. She' pleaded that itt this way she would not have to draw on her resources, all of which wentil he wit Ito(' for her installa tion in her new home. She was very proud, at o the sante t tm^, to beg that ray Wilily_ would taste the seine of her hus band's village, rrou it on the bit of had belonging to h i s family, in %Illicit he had a share. SO the Paris railway porter was an infinitely small wine-grower in his na tive plate, and the desire of his life was to edra means in the "capital of the tv,rld, to carry hack to the little property. Inlll:lrriage he looked Gera wile who would it II s!tand his n'SOClrees, and, at the same tone, add to them. I leave others to moralize and senti m:utalize ott the subject, I give the facts as tb ois conta under my eyes, and if I dwell upon them, it is because they ap• pear to to he very near the fevonla , tier of the difference there is between the domestic and social predicaments of the wage-earning classes of England and t'-destine could turn every liard of the f,anity income to the hest account; could make a thoroughly good dinner out of Hie ,I.gbFeet and cheapest materials, could kii,t her husband's hose, and spin the 11 .iv fur his linen chile the pot-an-feu! Nv,I S bubbling within ear-shot, and hay ; ing eultkakd the habit of saving all her life, and being among saving people,could : invest intelligently. Let the readers not . run away with the idea that my old cook the railway porter will ever become i rich people. They are thinking only of their oil and of a crust of bread to leave their children. They will never move out of the class iu which they were born. But the comforts of their degree they will command when they are old. They will grow their own nine and vegetables, tear their own pork and poultry, keep their own cow, and be able to give a Vin dhOlllteltr any day to the friend who may pass their way. And Celestine's is the ev ery-day marriage of the French working clauses.--All !ha Year trragth and Ilealth. It is quite a common idea that health keens pace with strength. There are people who really think that yon may de termine the comparative health or a com pany of men by measuring their arms-- that he whose arm measures twelve inches is twice as healthy 119 ono .who measures but sic. 'Phis strange. and thoughtless misapprehension has given rise to nearly ;ill the mistakes thus fir made in the phy sical culture movement. I have a friend who can lift nine hundred pounds, and vet is an habitual sufferer from torpid liver, rheumatism and low spirits. On the contrary, I have many friends who would stagger under three hundred— pounds, that are in capital trim. But I need not elaborate a matter so fiimiliar to physicians and other observing people. No test. of health would prove more faulty, than a tape lino or a lift at the scale beam. Suppose two brothers—bank clerks—in bad health. 'They are measur ed around the arm. Each mark exactly ten inches. They try the scale beam. The bar rises esact.y at three hundred pounds with each. Both &Tic health. John goes to the gymnasium, lifts heavy dumb bells, and heavy kegs of nails, until ho can put up one hundred and twenty-five pounds and lift nine hundred, and Warm reaches fifteen inches. Thomas goes to the. mountains, fishes, limits, spend - de lightful hours with the young ladies and plays cricket. Upon measuring his arm we find it scarcely larger than when 'he left town, while he can't put up sixty pounds nor lift five hundred. But who doubts Thomas will return to the bank counter the better man of the two ? John should be the better man if ' strength is the principle or most essential conditbp of health, A REEREstimo COUPLIKENT.-A 'Piny polytechnic institute - professor the:Wier day complimented a student. for note thing lie had done, as follows; "The eitY of Troy is the worst place in the world, and the. Itenssaltier institute is -the worst place in it, the ()lass of the worst In. the the institute, the second tlittision is the worst diyieion in the class, and there are eight young mon in that class who are worst:, thnh .the rest, and you; Mr. Smith, nre the worst ono of the eight." Mn. 1011 tl S. Clark, the comedian, is said to hare lost $OO,OOO , by the failarenf., the Bowles Brothers in-londeq. Why Silent —o— Whv am I silent from yctr to Yeart. Ifecris must I sin; 'CM thek bine March days? What will you soy, when I tell you here, That already, I hold for a little praise, I !Jaye paid.too dear 00, dear, in sooth, that henceforth I think I will keep, if I can, my heart loeked up, And tho world shall see, when I tip the brink, No deeper flown that IllaUtling cup • Than the hubbies wink ) 13nt the rich red title it shall not see; . And the spells beneath but few shall share; While the jewels that star the bottom shall be Not fora world which does not care, But fur them who love me! For it alwaya spans when 1 tell my thought, As though I tool flung it tbrever away, And the charm wherewith n dream is fraught, 'When feeret dies with the fleeting lay into which It is wrought. So, my butterfly thoughts their golden wings Shall rarely unfurl from their ehr}'sails; Thus I shall misfit my loveliest things, And the world, in Its worldliness, will not miss What a pod sings. —Snithern ..traysz:to, "The Brevity of Lite." To the young it does not seem short; it seems very long. To the boy of four (eon the man of forty seems a long way off, and ho of sixty removed by en age al most illimitable. But as time passes on, the aspect of life changes. The man of forty.thinka forty not nearly as old as he thought it when he was fourteen ; fifty years appears to him but the prime ,of life; sixty, far from aged. ll'hen, at length, increasing years admonish him that his life-work is ended, and that he can enter no new undertakings, and he looks hack to reflect upon what he has accomplished, he wonders to see it so lit tle, and is amazed to find the road so short in travelling which appeered so long in prospect. 71e then understands, as lie never did before, the meaning of Scripture simile. " Yes," lie says to "it is indeed true. Urea as a tale that is told, and us a dream when brie awaketh." A moment's careful reflection will suffice, however, to convince the thoughtful- that the old man's estimate is right, and the young man's wrong. The time is short, very shbrt, in which to— achiere anything for God, for humanity, or for ourselves. The average length or human life is stated to be thirty-three years. This average, however, includes , an estimate of all those who„die in in fan cy. The statement of the average life of a healthy man may be enlarged somewhat. But-it is perfectly safe to say that it is not over fifty years. Some live on to three ' score years, or even to three-score and ten, but more never reach the half con tnry. Of this fifty years, the first twenty are taken in learning how to live. Some thing the young can accompltshs but youth is the time for receiving, not im parting—for preparing to :mimeo, not for achievement. Thirty years may be fahly, accepted as the average limit of the work , ing life. But no Man works the full twenty-four hours. Best, rccreation,fsod, sleep, Sabbath, and the enforced idleness which occasional illness compels, reduce the period two-thirils. Eight hours a day are as many as the brain or, muscle can Ordinarily stand. Some work more; but few to the best advantage. Year in and year out, eiglit hours may, be taken to represent the working day, The working life, then, is not thirty years, it is but ten. And of nine ten years, how much is nec essarily absorbed by the drudgery of toil; by the gathering of grain that dies in the harvesting, and is never garnered into store houses? flow much in getting cloth- I ing to. be put on and worn out, in getting food to be consumed in use, iii building houses to crumble and tail into decay al -1 most as soon as their owners ? How much too, of this time.is lost in plans that come to naught, in sowing that never ripelis,in fighting battles that are defeats? When we have taken from our life what time is necessary fur preparation, what ei requir ed for rest and recreation, and what is ab ' sorbed in failure and in ransient success, he fragment that is lett is very small— svo, three or five years at the most. Curious Statistics of Slarringc. —o— To people of a statistical rather than a sentimental turn, the mathematics otmar riage in different countries may prove an attractive Theme of meditation. It.is found that young' , men from fifteen to twenty years of age marry young women averaging two or three years older than themselves, but if they delay marriage un til they . are twenty to twenty-five years old their spouses average a year youeger than theinselves ;'and thenceforward this difference steadily increases, till rin ex treme old age on the bridegroom's part it is apt to be enormous. The inclination of octogenarians to wed misses tullteir teens is an every day occnfrence, but it is sinus ing to find love matches-of boys that the statistics bear out the satires of Thaekeray and Balzac. Again, the husbands .of young womenaged.twenty and. under ay. erage.a.little above twenty-lice years, and the inequality of ago diminishes. thence , forward, till for women Whoihavo reached thirty .the respective ages are equal; utter thirty-five years, women, like men, mar ry those younger than themselves, the disproportion increasing With' age, till at fifty-five it averages nine years._ . The greatest number of marriags for men take place between the ages of twen ty and twenty.five in England, between twenty-five and thirty in France, and be tween twenty-five and,thirty-five.in Italy and Belgium.,Finally, in liquor", the whither of inividuals who marry is Sev enty-two in a -thousand each Sear; in England, , it is • sixty'-four ;., in Denmark, fifty-nine.; in France, fifty-seven, the city of Paris showing fifty-three; in the Netll•. ain't ds, fifty-two; in Belgintu,fortythree in Norway, thirty4ix." - - • • • - Widowera indulge:Monona - marriages three or four. times. as often •as widows. Per example; in England (land of Mrs. Barden) there are sixty marriages Of Wid. owers against tWerify-ime • of . widows ;• in Belgium there ara Terty;:eiglit Sixteen in Fmnpe, , _forty to twelve; Wel* ler's parential advice,' to 1)0*am:of - Abe NititlowEiroti,gtittitrely to bo supp)cmept .ed by a inaxim :to beware of "tvlaqwers.---- Lippe:voles Maga{ine, VOLUME XXX, NUMBER -1. Eiticutfotual Veneeilng, Vencaing is- a great. art. Makes things" go so touch further," and'thero is nothing an economist. ikes sp. much as to make things.hold out. Ouf ancestors were so foolish as to build sllidlnaliog any tables, bureaus, and . sideboards.' We know better. WO hive found, out that a piece of wood a: sixteenth f otnn inch thick will trinistomi .the common.; est wood iota Mahogany or rosewood. Andn so the honesiold. table ,and sldo. boards have given place to the sleek ibtr , eered ones„ .. which look -just its A monument should be. built to. the man who discovered' this wonderful art, for its applications are so numerous;,-- The crockery men sell imitations of china; they have learned the art of nearing.— The rogue veneers himself with tho.dress and manners of a gentleman. The cook veneers her dishes. The shaky broker veneers his credit by keeping up appear-, ances. The parson sometimes veneers his sermons with thin, layers of learning.— The doctor veneers his conversation with sounding . phrases. The politician veneers his thieving by-thin patriotism. The for tune-hunter veneers his cupidity - with professions of love. What a wonderful art' t isl. howbad ly we should feel if •theeneering were taken off and all our purposes, acquire ments and pretensions appealed • to' the' naked pine and popular which they aro: But when it. comes' to education, we wish veneering had never been • invented. And now that George and Maria are about to begin school, let us enter our protest against veneering establishments. There are schools for boys and hundreds - of schools for girls, where the wholwbusiness transacted is the putting on of a thin lay er of outward appearances. Everything is taught from a compond. Thstory boiled down to a strong depiction of facts and dates, and Ann Matilda 113 required td swallow it. "There were five thousand on ono side, commanded by General Brown. There were seven thousand on the other, core= mended by Gels. Smith. General Smith was , surprised . on Sunday morning, arid driven back withis loss of five hundred mon and three pieces of artillery.% This Ann Matildia, and Ann Matiltliii`o parents, and Ann Matil da's friends, fondly believe is history It is paid for as history, and labeled his tory, and must be history. But what ever there is of philosophy, of poetry; of, culture, of mental tliscipline in history Is - gone. This desiccated er:ract has no' nourishment whatever. Of the- pecan aritics of race, of the domestic life, of the . . underlying causes of history, Ann Maid% da learns nothing. She has swallowed' register, a gazetteer, but.ntit a history.-- But she has passeeher esalitination and graduated.' ller education is all right..; It has the seal of the proper authorities on it, and she call to in peace: , English literature is worse taught than history. It is a thing that cannot bo ' •learned from a compeud. .The very es-: • settee of the highest culture for wiplo who speak the language is English literature at second band. A miod English literature. But no one can learn. thorough knoWledge of the authors.there, selves in their works is the, only road to this culture. And all shortcuts are delu sions. Thc 13ostou'Itelief fund is e 313,10. Coal bas been discovered at- tho Oapo of flood llop,. A French gentleman, and' his will) are still taking ocean baths atTaiic-71.1ny. Of all things in the ivoild that aro."bet, ter late than never," going to bed certaii: ly ranks first; • • - . Foreign fashion writersay that jowela and flowers are used extensively for dreci.' ing the hair. Twelve Indians were hung id s row la Texas, recently, for driving off eurreptl- •-'' Lions beer.. After having their faces wash otl, eleven turned out tq be white men. t Somo San Francisco citizens with no. r• musio in their souls have petitioned the Word of Supervisors to declare the Or- , chestra of the Chinese theatre a dui sauce. The meanest man Into been fontal'st et. liv -lives in Ottawa, and ' cut to ieves iiiiio shirts left out to thy. by a Poor waslierwomau who had ofrende4 A young man of Newport, Ky., a pro l , , secutmg two charming girls and• their papa because they waylaid hint on Et lout ly turnpike and gave him a severe bat ing for maligning their character& • - - An English•clergyman has been arrest"; Od for.resurreeting dead bodies, Ant hi;.s the power of the spirit, but, with pick and sp.Rl,. according to thp utethol . . . . . From short bridal trips annonitho (ash!: , 1 onables the transition has bee'n rapi4 - tc.o: yi tone at all, the happy caliph, merely going • to somebody's • country-seat ~.:until. r-tl:4 -, - 4 novelty wears of .. - , ;,, ,-_. A Detroit man .had n . felt?, duritiu whioh he fregnently asked for pickles 0414 eider: When he had becomo soi7' fit •dultt his death was considered only a sAianstion Of a few hours, his' wife pro' brat th mach desired viands, nab° rocovercp Tho lades or Columbus; have tat solvi.td that foreign plaids aro"plaaout," und•tbo importation of obecka must bo olu.cked, unit accordingly pledgo them -11 M-cutter to only wear 010503 . TM.: terns of domestic. manufacture; . , Itecenti,V 'lit a trial' at 'considerable in; tercet Borne, where the court room liras • crowded. , the • pickpockets let loose 4-- trained which-. sailed. • around The heads of the audience, attincting there - attention; giving ample time kir the picks.% . pocketa to relieve the pockets of the Ands • . • • '•Part•ofa hyinn in use among the celoVl cd Carolinaus • • • • " "Come along. cbllo6n, lee go home •-• •• • - Come alone, childten. Itle go home , • -'• Coma cbililren; lea'go home, Come along, children; `get aboard Diu secondlasi - aboard (4 trala t No - difference In de cm.,"