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e hospital Corps of the Army and resumed the prac
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NAPOLEON'S SENTINEL.
In Parisian print-shop witdowe may
still be seen occasionally a pictorial rep
resentation of a well known anecdote of
the First Napoleon, brought to a halt by
one of his own sentinels, in consequence
of his inability to give the pass-word. The
veteran who, in obedience to his orders,
was so near running his bayonet into his
Majesty, has been recently received at
Fontainebleau by the present Emperor,
who conversed with him a considerable
time, and, and among other questions,
asked him, "Though you did not know it
was the Emperor, would you really have
shot him?" To which the veteran replied:
"No, sire, I would only have wounded
him with my bayonet."
The name of this historical debris of the
Empire is Coluche, and the version he
gives of the celebrated anecdote in ques
tion is interesting, differing as it does in
some respects, with the long current story.
"It was," said the veteran, "in 1809, af
ter the victory of Ebersherg, that I was
posted at the entrance of a half-destroyed
building, in which t'lie Emperor had taken
up his quarters. My orders were not to
allow anybody to pass unless accompanied
by an officer of the staff. In the evening
a person wearing a grey overcoat came to
wards my post and wanted to pass. I
lowered i piy bayonet, and called out, 'No
body passes here.' chose were the words
I used, and I never added, 'even if you
were the little corporal himSelf,' as has
been wrongfully imputed to the since, be
muse I did not know I had the
Emperor before me. The person came
on without seeming to notice what I had
said, and I then brought my bayonet to
the charge, and called out, "If thou takest
another step I will run my bayonet into
thy stomach.' The noise brought out the
whole of the staff, the Emperor returned
to his quarters, and I was carried off to
the guard-house. 'You are lost, my boy,'
said my comrades ; 'you have committed
an assault on the Emperor.' Stop a bit,'
Lsaid, what of my orders? I shall explain
all that to the court-martial.' The Em
peror sent to fetch me, and when I came
into his presence, he said, Grenadier, thou
mayst put a red ribbon in thy buttonhole.
I give thee the cross.' 'Thanks, my Em
peror,' I answered, 'but there is no shop
in this country where I can buy the rib
bon.' Well,' replied the Emperor with a
smile, 'take a piece from a woman's red
petticoat. That will answer the purpose
just as well.'"
This is the story as Coluche recounted it
to the great Emperor's nephew and suc
cessor. It is known that the faithful sen
try continued to serve through all the
campaigns, when he was not confined to
the hospital by his wounds, till the con
cluding battle of Waterloo, after which
he was discharged, returned to his village,
and resumed his occupation as an agricul
tural laborer. On his recent visit to Fon
taiebleau, his only iutroductioa was his
portrait, engraved by Madame Viardot
Garcia, the distinguished singer. He was
received by the Emperor with great cor
diality, and by him presented to the Em
press, the Imperial Prince, and the whole
Court. Previous to his departure, the Em
peror asked him if he wished for anything,
to which Coluche replied, "I no longer de
sire anything. Now I have seen you all,
lam satisfied. I will only beg of you to
give me your three portraits," a request
which.the Emperor promised him should
be complied with.
Wei. C. LIN DUEY
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Execution of Teta Missourians.
Ten Missourians who had violated their
oath of allegiance to the United States
were executed at Hudson on the 28th ult.
A correspondent gives the following ac
count of the scene :—The execution ground
was about half a mile from the town, and
when 1 reached there 1 found the troops
drawn up on three sides ofa square, while
the fourth was Docupied by the condemned
and firing parties. After some time occu
pied in the preliminary preparations, each
prisoner was blindfolded and knelt in front,
of his own execution party. A. venerable
looking, gray-headed chaplain now step
ped out from among the staff, and in a
short, fervent prayer commended the
souls of these poor wretches to the mercy
of God, before whom they would shortly
appear. Everything was as still as death.
The perfect hush, if I may say so, was so
painfully distinct, and I could see, even
under the grave, stern face of General Mer
rill, a softening look, as if he was still
struggling between duty and mercy.
For a moment the silence was awful;
then came the clear tone of command of
the officer of the day:—"Ready, aim, fire,"
a rattling discharge; a puff of smoke; a
groan, and all was over. The ten had
paid the penalties of their broken oaths.
For a momont all was hushed as before,
and then you could almost hear the long
drawn breath of relief. The bright sun
shone as calmly and clearly as before, but
shone on ten corpses stiff and stark,
where the moment before were ten men in
the full flush of physical health.
• A surgeon stepped from the lima and
walked along exturtiaing each body as he
passed, then stepped up to the general
iistEttauttus.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1862.
with a stiff military salute, "they are all
dead sir." "Very well, sir." Not the
change of a muscle, not the slightest re
laxing of that outward sternness, the
same grim face, and yet, I thought, a mo
ment ago, you might have saved their
lives. Truly, here is a man whose sense
of duty would carry him through any
thing, and I felt disappointed that to ex
hibited no more feeling. But a moment
after, as he turned to mount his horse, I
heard him say to one of his staff, "God
in mercy spare me from such a duty as that
again, and yet mercy to those men is the
harshest cruelty to the whole people of the
State."
Kossath's Family.
Kossuth, who is now in Turin, is suffer
ing the deepest anxiety on occount of his
wife,who is so seriously ill that she is hard
ly expected to recover. Within thirteen
years be has lost several near relations,
and among them his only daughter ; and
while now anticipating the crowning ca
lamity he is, we understand, extremely
straitened with pecuniary matters. His
two sons have some employment in a pub
lic office in Turin, but the remuneration
they receive is two scanty to enable them
to render much assistance to the distin
guished patriot and their dying mother.
Disabled Soldiers
There is always a great crowd of soldier
at the office of the Paymaster General, at
Washington, who are being paid off
and discharged on account of disability.
Many of these look as if they were in good
health, but it is found in practice that any
number of persons are enlisted id
the North and receive bounty who
could not have passed anything like
the examining tests as to physical
ability which are insthuted at recruiting
offices of the regular army , hence, by the
time volunteer regiments get to Washing
ton, there are numerous applications for
discharge on account of physicial
_infirmi
ty.
Effect of a Flower on a Prisoner.
A recent writer on prison life relates the
ollowing : "I have a remembrance of look
ing through the 'inspection' of a cell some
years ago, and perceiving a prisoner, with
her elbows on the table, staring at a com
mon daisy, which she had plucked from
the central patch of grass during her
rounds--one of those rude, repulsive, yet
not wholly bad prisoners, from whom no
display of sentiment was anticipated. Yet
the wistful look of that woman at her stol-
en prize was a gleam of as true sentiment
as ever breathed in a poet's line. Six
months afterwards I saw that flower press
ed between the leaves of her Bible—a little
treasure I should not have had the heart
to have taken away, had there been any
laws of confiscation concerning daisies in
`the books.' "
SELF CONTROL.
A merchant in London had a dis
pute with a quaker respecting the
settlement of an account. The mer
chant was determined to bring the
account into court, a proceeding
which the quaker earnestly depreca
ted using every argument in his
power to convince the merchant of
his error: but the latter was inflexi
ble. Desirous to make a list effort,
the Quaker called at his house one
morning, and inquired of the servant
if his master was at home. The mer
chant hearing the inquiry and know
ing the voice, called out, from the
top of the stairs, "Tell that rascal I
am not at home!' The Quaker look
ing at him, calmly said "Weil, friend,
God put thee in a better mind."—
The merchant, afterwards struck
with the meekness of the reply, and
having more deliberately investiga
ted the matter, became convinced
that the Quaker was right, and that
he was wrong. He requested to
see him, and after atknowldgeing
his error, he said, "1 have one ques
tion to ask you: Ilow were you able,
with such patience, on various occa
sions, to bear my abuse?" "Friend"
replied the Quaker, "I will tell thee"
I was naturally as hot and violent as
thou art, I knew to indulge this tem
per was sinful, and I found that was
imprudent. I observed that men i n
a passion always speak loud; and
than if I could control my voice I
should repress my passion. I have
therefore, made it a rule never to let
my yoica rise above a certain key, and
by careful observance of this rule, I
have by the blessing of God, entirely
mastered my natural temper." The
Quaker reasoned philosophically,
and the mecrhant, as every one else
may do, benefitted by his example.
—British Workman.
Affecting.
A story is told of the veteran
Sumnor at the late battle of Antie
tam. His son, young Captain Sum
ner, a youth of twenty-one, was on
his staff. The old man calmly stood,
amidst a storm of shot and shells,
and turned to send him through a
doubly raging fire, upon a mission of
duty. He might never see his boy
main, but his cquntry claimed his
life and, as he looked upon his brow,
he grasped his band, encircled him
in his arms, n d fondly
kissed him.
mmy," "Good bye,"
father, and the.youth mounting, his
horse, went gaily on the message.—
He returned unharmed; again hie
hand was grasped with a cordial
"Row d'ye do, Sammy ?" answered
by a grasp of equal affection. The
scene was touching to those around.
THE AGE OF MAN.
But few men die of age. Almost
all die of disappointment, passional,
mental, or bodily toil, or accident.—
The passions kill men sometimes ev
en suddenly. The common expres
sion choked with passion has little
exaggeration in it ; for even though
not suddenly fatal, strong passions
shorten life. Strong bodied men of
ten die young—weak men live long
er than the strong, for the strong
use their strength and the weak
have none to use. The latter take
care of themselves; the former do
not. A 3 it is with the body, so it is
with the mind and temper. The
strong are apt to break, or like the
candle, run; the weak burn or.t.—
rhe inferior animals which live • tem
perate lives have generally their pre
scribed terra -of years. The horse
lives twenty-five years,the ox fifteen
or twenty, the lion about twenty; the
hog ten or twelve; the rabbit eight;
the guinea-pig six or seven. The
numbers all bear proportion to the
time the animal takes to grow to its
full size. But man of all animals is
the one that seldom comes up to the
average. lie ought to live a hun
dred years, according to this physio
logical law, fir five times twenty
are one hundred: but instead of that
he scarcely reaches an average, four
times his growing period. The rea
son is obvious—man is not only the
most irregular and the most intem
perate, but the most laborious and
hard-worked of all animals. Ile is
always the most irritable of all ani
mals; and there is reasons to believe,
though we cannot tell what an aui.
mal secretly feels, that, more than,
any other animal,man cherishes wrath
to keep it warm and consumes him
self with the fire of his own reflec
tions.
"THAT IS MA'S,"
Lieut. De Kay was dying in New
Orleans, of his wound received in
capturing that city. He had before
him a Bible, which his mother bad
given him. Ho was reading, or
rather gazing at some lines written
by her in the fly leaves. He was
asked what it was that pleased him.
He pointed to the lines written in
pencil : "Cast thy burden upon the
Lord, for he shall sustain thee."—
recollections scented to flash over his
mind, but he remarked only, "That
is
Many, many a mother has blessed
her dying son with her handwriting
in his Bible.
s,gritnititral
THIRTY-SIX MAXIMS FOR THE
FARMER.
1. Never get in debt when you
cannot see your way out again ;
when you owe, pay as fast as you
can, and promptly, according to your
promise.
2. Never enlarge your farm, when
half of what you now own is not
half cultivated.
3. If you own more land than
you can till well, are in debt, or need
funds to make necessary improve
ments, sell part of your farm, and
use the money to pay your debts
and make your ithprovements.
4. Never borrow money to build a
showy house, when a less preten
tious one would answer better; and
never lend money when you have
undrained or poorly tilled land to
i mprove.
5. Lay out a system of improve
ments for your thrm and buildings,
and as your means permit, carry
these ylans out.
6. Do not enter upon speculation
with other people's money or your
own, unless you see clearly that you
will make profits; and even then,
do not do it to the neglect of your
farming.
7. Do not mortgage your farm for
money to buy goods ; very few men
can enter the mercantile business
without training for it, and not be
come bankrupt.
8. Do not buy fancy stock and pay
fabulous prices, on the spur of the
moment, or without knowing why
you wart it, and you are to make the
investment profitable.
9. Do not keep poor stock, when
you can keep good at the same ex
pense, and with four times the profit.
10. Do not change your kind of
farming, because what you raise this
year is low-priced for that which is
high; ten chances to one, your crop
will be up next year, and that which
is up now will then be down.
11. Do not try to grow those crops
for which your farm is not well a
dapted.
12. If you have a good location, do
not sell out expecting to better it, be
cause you are offered a good price. •
13. Do not change farms often, for
by so doing,, ypu can carry out no
definite system of improvement.
H. Do not begin to improve till
you have a general plan of what you
wish to do; to do so would be like
commencing to get out timbers for a
house before you know its length and
breadth.
15. Unless your crops aro good
ones, sow less, and plow better.
16. Be present with your hands as
much as possible, otherwise little
work will be done, and that little,
poorly. No business requires the
masters oversight more than farm
ing.
17. Cultivate a little, well, rather
than much, poorly. Who does not
remember the story of a farmer who
had two daughters ? When the first
one married, he gave her one-third of
his vine-yard, and yet he had as
many grapes as formerly; when the
second married, she took half the re
mainder for her portion, and yet the
yield of her father's share was not
lessened.
18. Keep ahead of your work, or
your work will keep ahead of you.
19. Resolve that your farm shall
be a profitable one, if industry and
good management will make it so.
20. Invest your surplus earnings
in making such improvements as
will add to the profits, appearance
and convenience of your farm.
21. When you make experiments,
see that you keep within the laws of
nature. These are the farmer's helps;
make such experiments as appear to
be reasonable, no matter what your
neighbors say.
22. Be kind to those you employ,
and to all the animals you work.
23. Sell your produce when prices
are high ; and if you do not need the
money, keep it when they are very
low, unless it is certain they will re
main so.
24. Make yourself thoroughly ac
quainted with the principles of agri
culture, and be guided by them.
25. Perform all labor at the right
'season.
26. Do all jobs in the best manner.
27. When you begin one piece of
work, finish it before you commence
another.
28. Do not leave work half done,
expecting to finish it next year; fin- ;
ish as you go.
29. Take care of your tools when
you get through using them, and do
not work with poor ones, when you
can afford good ones.
30. Do not buy old wagons, bar
ness, plows, etc., at auction, because
you can get them cheap. Better ex
pend the money for books, travel, or
some needed improvement.
31. Do not keep more stock on
your farm than you have plenty of
pasture for.
. 32. if at forty-five you have a fair
property, do not work with your
muscles so hard as formerly, but sr:ye
the afternoon of each day for mental
and social improvement.
33. Give your children a good edu
cation, physically, intellectually,
morally and socially.
34. Take an interest in all im
provements that have a bearing on
agriculture.
35. Use machinery and horse-pow
er, where possible, instead of your
own muscles.
3G. In all you do, endeavor to get
hold of the long end of the leVer, in
stead of the short one, if you would
work to advantage.
TWO PHASES OF FARM LIFE.
Farming, like every other calling, has
its adtantages and disadvantages. The
farmer is the most independent man in ex
istence. With farming, as with every oth
er beanch of business, judgment, pru
dence, and economy are requisite to suc
cess. To the man who possesses these, an
agricultural life brings the pleasure of in
dependence. with all the charms of varie
ty. To such the fluctuations of trade, the
rise and fall of stocks, the rufilored pro
tests, or rumored bank suspensions have
little or no terror.
Life has charms for him which it has
not for other professions. He welcomes
the change of seasons at their approach;
he is not afraid of being behind-hand with
his crop—being overtaken by an early frost,
or disconcerted by an early spring. He
welcomes every change of the seasons be
ing always well prepared for their coming.
But with some it is far different—they
are never at ease—everything around
them goes wrong. With them it is too hot
or too cold—too wet or too dry. No mat
ter whether the market price of wheat is
50 or $1,50 per bushel—it is always too
low and the higher it goes up the less in
clined they are to sell. Their cattle and
their hogs are helping themselves to corn
at home or plundering their neighbor's.—
In this way they are continually in trouble,
and lead a restless, unsatisfied kind of a
life.
There is nothing more important on a
farm than system and order: Never un
dertake to do too much—do one thing at a
time and do it well. Lay down a plan of
the work to be done, and do that which
needs doing the most first and finish it be
fore you leave. Never put off what you
can do to-day till to-morrow ; delays are
proverbially dangerous. and to none more
so than to the farmer. Never exceed
your means by attempting to cultivate
more than you can do well and in due sea
son.
Keep a memorandum of your household
expenses, coat of labor, etc., and balance
with the income of your business. Under
such management you will, at all times,
understand the exact state of affairs. The
farmer should know hie profit and loss
just as much as the merchant. Observe
these few hints, and you will find less
rough corners in the routine of your farm
operations.
SELECTING SEED WHEAT.
We have before alluded to the experi
ments of Mr. Ballet, of Brighton, in Eng
land, in the selection of his wheat for
seed and the results which have attended
it. It is an interesting and important
matter with the farmer, and one which
we desire to press upon the attention of
our readers. Mr. Hallet commenced his
experiments in Sept. 1859. He then
planted one grain of wheat, and year by
year selected most carefully the produce
of the finest heads of seed for the next
year's clop, and improving every success
ive harvest, he has at length more than
doubled the size GI tbeoriginal heads, the
weight of the product has largely in
creased, and he is enabled to sow much
earlier than formerly. These are most
important considerations.
It will be remembered that at the meet
ing of the Board of Agriculture last win
ter, Mr. Haines, of Aroostook, stated that
he one year separated his seed wheat, so
as to have the largest, heaviest kernels
only, to sow. In this way he obtained
about one peek from a bushel. A bushel
and a half of this selected wheat was
sown side by side in another field, with
wheat uncleansed, and the former was
four times as good as the latter, and the
yield correspondingly heavier. The fields
upon which it was sown were very uni
form in character throughout, and this
difference in the looks of the wheat could
be distinguished as far as the field could
be viewed so as to see the grain.
The benefits of careful selection of seed
through a number of years, become so ev
ident that we think farmers can but prof
it from the experiments which have thus
far been made in this direction ; and
there is this advantage in it, that the
plan is open to each man alike, and with
but a small expense attending the opera
tion. To raise pure crops of every variety
of seed, is of the greatest importance, and
we wonder that it has so long been neg
lected.—Maine Farmer.
THE GREAT PLAGUE OF 1666 IN
SCOTLAND.
It was a fearsome time ! Whole
households died, and there were
none to bury them, neither would
any go near them ; and these houses
of the dead were avoided till first
the' thatch fell in, then the walls, and
then a green knoll covered all, giv
ing them a burial many, many years
after it had been denied them by
man. You see there Carradle Glen,
where the plantings are, and where
the river comes down from the
mountains. Well, sir, in that glen,
in the time of the plague, there was
a man who took the sickness ; and
hearing of what I've told you of the
people dying in these houses, lie feared
he should not be buried. So this fear
took such a power over him that he
prevailed on some of his friends to
dig his grave ; and he went and sat
by and saw it done. When it was
dug ho laid himself in the grave, with
his sword by his side, and presently
he died, and his friends covered his
body with turf. Mac Caog was the
man's name ; and they will show
you the grave to this day. "Uaigh-
Mhie-Caog" is Mac Caog."—Cathbert
Bede's "Glenereggen."
SUMMARY Or A NICE WIPE,
A husband (himself p3rfect of
course, thus sketcheg what he
deserves: "A woman whose intel
lect has field enough for her in com
munion with her husband, and whose
heart ask no other honors than his
love and admiration; a woman who
does not think it a weakness to at
tend to her toilet, and who does not
disdain to be beautiful; believes in the
virtue of glossy hair and well fitting
gowns, and who eschews rents and
ravelled edges, slip-sod shoes and au
dacious makes up, a woman who
speaks low, and does not speak much;
who is patient, and then intel
lectual and industrious; who bears
more than she reasons, and yet does
not love blindly; who never scolds
and rarely argues, but adjusts with a
smile; such a woman is the wife we
have all dreamed of in our lives and
is the mother we all worship in the
backward distance."
CIGAR SMOKING.
Listen to the opinion of an emi
nent medical writer:—"l have been
now twenty-three years in extensive
practice, and I never observed so ma
ny pallid faces, and so many marks
of declining health, nor ever knew ao
many hectical habits and consump
tive affections, as of late years; and
I trace this alarming inroad on
young constitutions, principally, to
the pernicious custom of smoking ci
gars. lam entirely convinced, that
smoking and chewing tobacco injures
ultimately-, the hearing, smell, taste,
and teeth. The practice of smoking
is productive of indolence, it opens
the pores of the bead, neck, and
chest, and then going into the cold,
your pores are suddenly closed,
hence arise disorders of the head,.
throat, and lungs."
air 'The next anniversary of the
Baptist Bible Union will be held in
New York, the 29th of Ootuber. It
is expected the revised New Testa
ment will be completed by that time
and -soon after ready for distribu
tion.
NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 21.
THEY ARE DROPPING AWAY.
It is melancholy to reflect in what
quick succession the old stock of
liquor dealers are dropping into the
grave. An extensive acquaintance
in other portions of the State, ena
bles us to keep run of the frightful
thermometer. There is scarcely a
week in which some familiar local
journal does not announce the death
of some poor man whom we have
known in his better and manly days
ero the awful curse of slow-torturing
death settled upon him. The good
hearted journalist calls it "apoplexy,"
"disease of the heart," or something
of that sort. But we know better ;
it was WHISKY—the blazing murder
fiend from the great crucible of hell.
Experience demonstrates that a man
can stand bard drinking about sev
en years—what is. called "moderate
drinking," that is, at first, three or
four drams a day, increasing as ap
petite is cultivated, up to thirty or
forty, before the doomed man is fully
aware that he is really a drunkard.
We know many worthy men whose
appetite can't be appeased by less
than a half a dozen glasses before
breakfast. They are good and noble
men at heart— that is the sort who
most commonly fall sacrifices. Slow
ly, but surely they 4 are going down,
down co the grave, which mercifully
opens for them before they become
habitants of the gutter. The ven
omousness of the poison, and the
peculiarity of the climate kill them
before they can run down the horri
ble grade of the drunkard's pilgrim
age. Looking among old-time ac
quaintances, one's heart sinks with
dismay. We are looking upon, talk
ing to, grasping the hands of dying
men—dying, Oh, horribly dying, be
fore their time, under the insidious,
the remorseless, the relentless cank
er. The cold, steady finger of a bod.
iless hand, is pointing them to the
lonesome altitudes which look sor
rowfully down on the village.-Bier
ra Co. News.
KEEPING POTATOES.
Owing to the fact that potatoes
generally command a better price in
the spring than in the fall, many of
our farmers would prefer keeping
them until then, but for "the trouble
of keeping them."
The main danger is of their rot
ting; but, if kept dry, this is not
chargeable to their keeping, for the
rot is in them when they leave the
patch.
Some take great precautions to
prevent them from freezing, •nd
these very precautions are too often
the cause of their destruction. In
this, as in many other farming ope
rations, we should endeavor to fol
low nature as much as possible. I
have often plowed up potatoesin the
spring which have remained in the
ground all winter, with but two or
three inches of dirt on top of them,
and yet they were as good as when
fresh dug.
I will hazard the assertion that
freezing will not injure potatoes, or
any other root or fruit it is thek
thawing which does the damage, and
not• the frecalcg, as is generally
supposed. Nor will gradual thawing
hurt them ; it is only when the
thawing is too sudden that they aft
i njured. •
If v,s3 take tw) frozen potatoes,
apples, or other fruit, and place one
under the stove and the other in
water, a little . above the freezing
point, we will find that the former
will be spoiled, whihrthe latter is not
injured, because with it the thawing
is done gradually.
Potatoes may be heaped up in the
patch, and covered with two or three
inches of dirt, well packed down,
and they will keep in spite of a
dozen freezings and thawings, if kept
dry-.
If kept in a cellar, it should be in a.
tight box with a lid, that they may
always he in the dark, to prevent
sprouting; for if they once begin to•
sprout, the starch which gives them
their mealiness is changed into other•
compounds more favorable to the
vegitation of the sprouts.
If, while the potatoes are in tr.:•
cellar, they should tI eeze, do not war
for them to thaw, but cover them
with. straw, old clothes, shaving% or
sawdust, and let them thaw very
gradually, and they will conic
good.
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This will apply to turnips or an?'
other root, as well as to apples fln
other fruits. The main Rein is to
keep them dry, and if buried to or.)-
vide drains to carry away the watct
from the heap.
ITEM FOR SOLDIERS' FRIENDS Al irtliri
—Send your soldier a little parcel ~ .;1 -
elute pepper and another of cloves. Tile
Government rations include no aromatic
and no conditaents but salt ; and the mod
erate use of these tends to ptevent scurvy
and to keep the bowels in order. A , •_l
also a little paper of larkspur seeds.--
Spirit, or boiling water, in which thny
have been soaked, will effectively de , ;troy
lice. The whole may go in a letter and-:
one postage stamp.
COST OF ISMOKING.--•-"/ only smae si:-
cigars a day," said a young' man to
his friend,— "they only coat thr.
pence a-piece." " Why," replied hi:
friend, "do you know , how much moncy
you are throwing away, besides injurfi;
your health ? In fifty years' time yo:I
will have puffed away in smoke neat :;•
two thousand prigJt guineas of gfild