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How to Keep Children Healthy.
The mortality among the children in
our cities, as well as in the country, is
sad to contemplate. Is there any nec
essity for this ? Are all these children
sent into the world to be thus early cut
down ? Are not nine out of ten of these
early deaths the result of ignorance !
What parents ever lost a child, except
by accident, without thinking :
had treated it differently, it would not
have died ?" The loss of our own three
first-born has led us to think much' up
on this topic, and three almost always
healthy living ones are evidences that
our studies on the subject have not been
ux .vain. A few hints on the topic may
not be without use.
Next to securing plenty of sound
sleep, or rather before it, we place the
proper preparation ot„food. The kind
of food they eat is not of half so much
consequence as the manner of its pre
paration. Give a child a hard apple
and let him swallow it iu pieces from
the size of a large pea upward. The
result will be, that the lumps will be
partly worn off by the
. coats of the
stomach, and partly dissolved by the
gastric jute ; but after a time, the re
maining portion of the lumps will be
forced down into the intestines and go
through the length of fifteen to twenty
feet, producing at least griping and ir
ritation all the way, if not diarrhcea or
dysentery. But first scrape or mash
the apple to a. fine pulp, and it may
then be eaten with impunity, and with
benefit, if ripe or nearly so.
Feed a child on boiled potatoes cut
up, or on potatoes coarsely mashed and
fried in fat, and you will be prety sure
to find more or less of lumps okotatoes
remaining undigested. How can it be
otherwise than that these lumps must
have produPPA irritation in the intes
tines I But mash' these sage potatoes
finely before feeding them, and then
the fine material will be digested and
afford nutriment instead of giving un
easiness and pain "under the apron."
The same holds true ofmost meats.
Cut up fine—as fine as shot almost—
they will be digested, and produce
nourishment; while if fed in coarse
views, they will lie in the stomach, like
a meat poultice on the out side, the
cause of uneasiness if not of inflamation.
Feed raisins and nuts to children, and
unless very strong and vigorous, the
chances are that they will induce imme
diate sickness or a weakened system,
liable to be affected by the first change
of heat or cold.
Chop these same raisins or nuts
finely, reducing them almost to powder,
and they may be eaten in moderate
quantity with impunity. These re
marks apply to all kinds of food, and,
In a measure, td grown people as well
all to children.
Many persons are over nice or ant
ions as to what their children eat, and
often reduce them to skeletons, or unfit
them for a vigorous resistance of colds
and malaria diseases, by feeding them
on toast or rice, weak gruel, &c. Give
them rather a good supply of food finely
reduced that it will be quickly digested
in the stomach, and they will grow vig
orous and be able to withstand the
changes of climate, and the exposures
to which they are ever liable. Mothers,
consider these things, and see it they
are not true and in accordance with rea
son.--,American Agricultur4t.
Curbs,
The shape of a corn is exactly similar
to that of a carpenter's nail, having a
crown or head, and a stem pointing
dowBwards, which, piercing, through
the true under-skin, irritates the nervous
fibres in this vicinity. To cut off the
head of the corn is only a temporary
relief ; a cure can *ly ha accoinplished
by cautiously digging out the stem,
which may be thus done by a sandy
hand : steep it in hot water and rub it
with a course towel, or, the finger nail
will not remoye it. Place a small quan
tity of oil on the corn, and let it soak
well in. Then, with a fine penknife,
or, what is better, a sharp bodkin, work
it out of its bed as you would a thorn.
Not a drop of blood shoed be shed da
ring the operation, and its success may
be tested by finding pressure unacoom
panied by pain. A small piece of
diach'ylon plaster, with a cessation of
pressure, will complete the eare.—
Should inflammation have been excited
—which may be known by the redness
prevailing around it—rest and emollient
applications, such as linseed poultice, or
a fig, will.be found hlneficial.
Freediim.
Who, then, is free? The Wise, who , well
maintains •
An empire o'er himself; whom neither chains,
Nor want, nor death, with slavish tear in
spire ;
Who tolly answers to his warm desire ;
eW "tqNtipati *nest gift despise ;
TM in himself, who m hoitat rasa ;
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coarse,
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WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1864.
The Young Tobacco-chewer Cured.
On board a ship one day, we were
stowing away the hammocks, when
one of the boys came with his hammock
on his shoulder, and as he passed, the
first lieutenant preceived that he had a
quid of tobacco in his mouth.
"What have you got there?" asked
the first lieutenant. "A gum-boil?
Your cheek is much swollen."
"No, sir," replied the boy ; "there's
nothing at all the matter."
"0, there must be! Perhaps it is a
bad tooth. Open your mouth, and let
me see "
Very reluctantly the boy opened his
mouth, which contained a very large
roll of tobacco-leaf.'
"I see—l see," said the lieutenant.—
"Poor fellow ! how you must suffer !
Your mouth wants overhauling, and
you teeth cleaning. I wish," continued
he, "we had a dentist on board. But,
as we have not, I will operate as well
as I can. Send the armorer up here
with the tongs "
When the armorer made his appear
ance with his big tongs, the boy was
compelled to open his mouth, while the
tobacco was extracted . with this rough
instrument.
"There now," said the lieutenant,
"I'm sure that you must feel better al
ready, You never could have any ap
petite with such stuff in your mouth.--
Now, captain of the after-guard, bring a
piece of,old canvass and some sand, and
clean his teeth nicely."
The captain of the after-guard came
forward, and, grinning from ear to ear,
put the unwilling boy's head between
his knees and scrubbed his teeth well
with sand and canvas's for two or three
minutes.
"There, that will do,",said the lieu
tenant. "Now, my little fellow, take
some water and rinse out your mouth,
and you will enjoy your breakfast. It
was impossible fur you to have eaten
anything with your mouth in such a
filthy state. When you are troubled in
the same way again, have no scruples
about coming to me, and I will be your
dentist."
It is needless to say that the affair
occasioned a good deal of merriment at
the boy's expense. He was, however,
completely cured of the habit of tobacco
chewing, by the occurrence, and doubt
less has no disposition now to complain
of the apparently harsh discipline which
accomplished so desirable a result. If
some such measure were adopted
.with
the many young and unfledged chew
ers and smokers that are to be met with
among us, they themselves would be
largely benefited, and society relieved
of a great evil.—Ti ask's Tracts.
Small Farms Better than Large Farms.
Another couplet,—no, it is a triplet,
—has as much good sense in it as the
one on which we discoursed last week:
A little wife well willed,
A little house well filled,
A. little farm well tilled
The great mistake which our farmers
make, East and West both, is in under
taking to cultivate too much land. It
seems that the more laud a man has, the
more he wants. When Farmer Dobson
was charged with this covetousness be
denied it, and said he wanted only the
land that joined on his farm. But
'when he got that, he found that more
joined on, and more yet, and he was
likely never to be satisfied till he reach
ed the seashore. His farm would then
be the whole continent. From time to
time we publish the results of farming
on a moderate scale, and they are al
ways satisfactory to show that it pays
much better to spend money and labor
on a small farm, and get the most out
of a little, than to work a wider area,
and leave it half done.
The principle is the same in almost
every kind of business. Anything
worth doing is worth dolling well.—
And the great profit in honest industry
is to be found in making the best possi
ble use of what we undertake. If a
man works at a trade it will be found,
in the long run, that it will pay better
to make a good article than to turn out
a greater amount of interior work. We
asked a harness-maker, last week, if he
used a sewing machine in his work.—
"No," said he ; 'just as soon as it was
known that I put that kind of work in
to my harness my business would be
gin to run down." He would do the
best kind of work, and leas of it, and in
the end would get bettor pay.
Some men, with a large capital, can
manage a great farm and make it profit
able, and this stimulates men of less
means to spread themaelves over more
surface than they can cover to advan
tage. They find, to their sorrow, that
it is not the amount of land, that pays:
And this is just one of the last lessons
that-a fanner will learn. And so it
comes to pass that many a man drags
through life till he wears himself out,
and his wife out, and diet worth little
or nothing more than he was When he
begun, and all his trouble springs from
the fact that he has been trying to do
too much, to manage too such land,
and he found, by experience, that a
“little land well tilled" woUld have
brought more money and more eomfort.
Impreventent.
Gook bright Isogrowonont, on Vie oar or
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"Careless People."
A few weeks ago a woman in an ad
joining county succeeded in getting a
pin into that peculiar position in which
a thing is sometimes said to be "sure"
fast in her throat, so that she could get it
neither up nor down. After a number of
unsuccessful attempts to remove it, a
city physician was sent for in view of
having it cut out, but who after exam
ination of the case thought it safer to
force the pin downward into the stom
ach, which he succeeded in doing.
What is the use of such carelessness ?
Why is it so common I An exchange
contains the following upon the sub
ject :
Only the other day our nerves were work
ed up to explosion point by an account
of a perilous surgical operation, by which
a woman's trachea was opened to remove
a silver clime which had lodged there.—
And how on earth did a silver dime ever
get into a woman's windpipe ? Simply
because she was careless and laughed,
with her mouth full of small coins. Was
there no other place where she could
keep her three cent pieces ?
We do feel sorry for a creeping baby
when it gets hold of the bars of the
grate by mistake, or cut its finger, •or
bumps its head, but with grown people
who suffer from their own recklessness
we have very little patience.
What is the nse of a woman's con
verting her mouth into a pin-eushen,
and then expecting our sympathy, when
a sudden sneeze or an unexpected cough
imperils her lite ?
What is the use of a man's balancing
himself on au oscillating chair, instead of
sitting up erect like a Christian! Are
we expected to find vinegar and brown
paper for the contusion on the back of
his head when finally he conies down
with a crash (and serves him right!)?
What is the use of a womaa i)icking
her ears with a long knitting needle, as
halt the women do, when a child running
against her would send the instrument
three inches into her brain, if she has got
any ?
"What is the use of a man's handling
a loaded eun as though it was a- broom
handle, and then %cense Providence be
cause the charge goes into his head
or foot, as he might have known it
would!
What is the use of a woman's buying
arsenic to poison rats, and puting it just
-Where the children will be sure to get
at it 7 What does she suppose her rea
soning faculties were given to her
for?
"What is the use of leaving children to
play by themselves in a room where
there is fire, or postponing the sweeping
of that dangerous chimney until tomor
row?
What is the use of endangering life
by the use of the fiend eaniphene as
long as anything else will give light ',—
Those who persist in this practice must
have a greater fancy for being burned
to death than the rest of the world !
In short, what is the use of careless
people I
A Chinese Crucifixion.
The following account of a recent
crucifixion in China, interesting because
of its resemblatice t 9, those mentioned
in Scripture, is by Mr. James Jones, of
Amoy, who witnessed the epcution„ on
the 28th'of October.
The victim was a well-known thief.—
On his trial before his judge, he refus
ed to criminate himself; although re
peatedly scourged until his back was
raw. If a female witness fails in giving
satisfactory evidence in a court of justice,
she is beaten with a leather strap across
the mouth. His wife, desirous of spar
ing her husband, refu sed' to give evi
dence, but after two or three applica
tions of the strap her courage gave way.
She confessed his 'guilt, at the same
admitting that two 'hundred dollars of
the money so derived was hidden in the
sea near the beach. 'Officers were sent
to search, and finding the dollars in the
place indicated, the prisoner was sen
tenced to decapitation by the Chinese,
the most severe of punishment, because
they imagine that if a man leaves this
world minus hie members, he appears
in the rianie condition in the next. The
culprit therefore prayed to be crucified
instead of being beheaded.
The cross was of the Latin form, the
foot being inserted in a stout plank, and
the criminal, standing on a board, had
nails driven through his feet, his hands
stretched and nailed to the civasbeam.
His legs were fastened to the cross with
an iron chain, and his arms boundwith
cords, and on the cord round his waist
was inserted a peice of wood, on which
was written his name and offenee,
similar piece on his right arm oontoioefi
his sentence, namely, to remain on the
cross day and night until he died ; an
other on his left arm had the name of
the Judge, with his- titles end officers.
The criminal was nailed to the morn
inside the Tenni% in the •presence of
the magistrate, and then carried by
four coolies to one of the principal.
thoroaghfans leading from the city,
whore he was left during the day, hat
removed at night inside the priscm, for
fear of his friends attempting to rescue
him, and again carried forth at days
in charge of two sokliera.
He was crucified fit noon on Nrolludb..
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the cross was laid down within the
jail compound. No one was allowed to
supply him with food or think, and du
ring the day there was quite a fair in
front of the cross, people being attract
ed from a distance, and the sweetmeat
venders driving a large trade. On Sat
urday he was still alive, when the
Taotal was appealed to by a foreigner to
put an end to the wretched man's suf
ferings., and he immediately gave or
ders that vinegar should be administer
ed, which it was expected would produce
immediate death ; but the result was
otherwise, and at sunset, when the cross
was taken within the jail, two soldiers,
with stout bamboos, broke both his
legs and then strangled him.
Weight of Brain.
Allusion has been made to the late Mr.
Thackeray's large brain. A medical
friend favors us with a note on the sub
ject : "The average weight of the hu
man brain," he says, "is 49 ounces in
the male and 44 ounces in the female.
In most instances, however, when the
individual has been distinguished by
great mental power, it has been known
to rise much above the numbers given.
The brain of Cuvier weighed 64 ounces,
Dr. Alexander Crombie's 63 ounces,
Lord Byron's 62 ounces, and Mr.
Thackeray's 58} ounces,. Iu contra
distinction to these may be placed the
brain of an idiot, given by Dr. Todd,
weighing 16i ounces, and the still more
remarkable one described last by Dr.
Gore, barely reaching 10 ounces 5
grains. Among these unfortunate in
dividuals, it is true, large heads are of
ten met with, but in such cases the fine
filaments and delicate Chambers of the
brain have been injured by disease, and
they are thus, from many of its parts
failing to act, or not acting in harmony,
converted into beings who live a mere
vegetative existence, and are guided by
dangerous impulses, but still more fre
quently by the gentler instincts."---In
rerun Courier.
The Wonders of a Watch.
There are very .few of the many who
carry watches 'who ever think of the
complexity of its delicate mechanism, or
of the extraordinary and unceasing la
bor it performs, and how astonishingly
well it bears up and does its duty wider
what would be considered very shabby
.treatment in almost any other machin
ery. There are many who think a
watch ought to run and keep good
time for years without even 6 drop of
oil, who would not think of running a
common piece of machinery a day with
out oiling, the wheels of which do but
a fraction of the service. We were
forcibly struck with this thought the
othgr day, upon hearing a person re
mark that, by way of gratifying his cu
riosity, he had made a calculation of the
revolutions which the wheels in an
American watch make in a day and a
year. The result of this calculation is
as suggestiie as it is interesting. For
example: The main wheel makes - 4
revolutitns in 24 hours, or 1,450 in a
year; the second or centre wheel, 24
revolutions in 24 hours, or 8,760 in a
year; the bird wheel, 192 in 24 hours,
or 69,080 in a ydar ; the fourth wheel
(which carries the second-hand f ) 1,440
in twenty-four hours, or 528,600 in a
year ; the fifth, or 'scape wheel, 12,960
in 24 hours, or 4,728,400 revolutions in
a year ; while the beats or vibrations
made in 24.houra are 388,800 or 141,-
812,000 in a year.—Lancaster Eaprea.
Staring at Ladies.
A very common form of vulgar im
pudence is the staring at ladies. To do
so in any public place is ungentleman
ly, but to avail oneself of a vicinity
which circumstances render unavoidable,
is contemptable. The. man who will
stare• continually at a. lady across the
church, at a hotel table, on the street,
or in an omnibus, deserves to be arrest
ed. Ignorant young men.frequently do
this, and impression that it is not
really disalfileable to the other sex, and
that they are in fact paying a species of
compliment. Could they know the
vexation and annoyance which is often
masked
,ander the air of , calmness with
which their inplence is received, they
would think differently. I have heard
at a hotel, of instances in which ladies
delayed their meals for hours; subject
ed themselves to many annoyances and
even left the house in order to avoid
the presence of some conceited puppy
who possibly imagined that be was rec
ommending himself to their good gra
oes.—Arf of Conversation.
Newspaper..
Small is the.-`sam that is required to
patronize a newspaper, and moat amply
remunerated is the patron. I care not
how humble and unpretending the ga
zette which he takes, it is next to impossi
ble to fill a sheet fifty two timed a year,
without patting into it something that
is worth , the subsoription price. Every
parent whose son is off with him from
school, should be supplied with a news
paper. I well remember what a differ
time there was between those of my
sebeehtuttas who had and those who had
not moms to newspapers. Other things
being el* the first debate and compow,
&in, at least. Tile 441/411 is plain ; .
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Politeness to Women.
In Mr. Hunt's lately published "Life
of. Edward Livingston," there is a pas
sage from one of Livingston's speeches
or letters in which he expresses his
pride that a woman may travel from
one end of America to the other with
out insult. And there is no doubt that
we are the most truly courteous of peo
ple, Jean Crapeau to the contrary not
withstanding. But it is perhaps no less
true that that courtesy is more soberly
tried by.the beautiful sex than in any
other land. Within two or three days
this Easy Chair has seen a woman
come into a car at Springfield, Mass.,
where the train stopped for dinner, look
around, and deliberately place herself in
the seat where a bag and traveling
shawl told, as plainly as if some one
had spoken, that some gentleman had
left the seat to dine, and would pres
ently return. In a few minutes he
came to resume his place, looked sur>
prised, asked the woman if she would
pleas hand him his shawl, which she
did, and then taking his bag, looked
around for a seat, and as I afterward
discovered, was obliged to push on to
the smoking car before he found one.
At another time a gentleman stepped
out of the car for a moment, leaving
his shawl, and, returning in less than
five minutes, he found a man-Roman
comfortably ensconced in it. Upon
his polite request the woman rose and
handed him his shawl ; but in neither
case has heard a single word of expla
nation or apology from any of the of
fenders. As the Easy Chair looked on
and saw the boorishness of the women
and the true courtesy of the men—for
in neither instance was there the least
apparent ill humor or abruptness upon
the men's part—he could not but wish
that his good old friend of the Berk
shire Hills had been 'there, who waited,
when his seat had been taken in a simi
lar way, until the offending woman
asked, curtly, "What are you waiting
for?" and then answered, with sweet
and noble courtesy, "I am waiting to
hear you say, 'thank you,' madam."—
For he did not mean that the fine laws
of behavior should be outraged in his
presence without a fit rebuke.
This is the very point of complaint,
that a seat in the car, however crowded
4.he car may be, and however convenient
the seat for a traveller making a long
journey, is held to be common proper
ty, however its possession may be
marked. thag, either of these wo
men—and. their name is legion,--who
may chance to read these lines, ask
herself how she would like to return
to a seat, in which she had left her bag
or shawl for the purpose of retaining
it, and to find it occupied without a
word or even look of recognition. We
do not indeed buy a specific seat* tAle
car, but common courtesy allots that
oue to us which we occupy or have des ,
ignated as ours.
A Parrot in a Law Court.
A man lately lost a favorite parrot,
which was discovered in the possession
of another person, who refused to give
it up. He was accordingly summoned
to produce the bird in a court of law.—
The real owner, on being asked how he
could prove that it belonged to him, re
' plied that the parrot should be his only
witness. It was then brought into
court, in a cage covered with cloth, and
begun to whistle the tune to "Take
your time, Miss Lucy," while some sub
ject was being discussed in court. Its
owner then put his face to the cage, and
desired the parrot to kiss him, which the
bird then did most affectionately. "He
will do the same to any one," said the
defendant, and putting his mouth to the
cage, the parrot seized his lip and bit
it severely, to the great amusement of
the court. Its Owner then took it out
of the cage and kept it on his hand,
when the bird answered several ques
ti&s put to it in a ready and extraor
dinary manner, and also showed so
much affection for its master that the
judge immediately ordered the parrot to
be restored to him, and the defendant
had to pay all expenses.— West Sussex
Gazette.
Pretty Good.
A subscriber to the Glen's Falls Mes
senger complains that the price of the
paper has been raised, and wants to con
tinue his subscription at the old rate of t '
one dollar per year. The editor agrees
to the offer ' and proposes to take his
pay in good cotton sheeting, at ten
cents sr yard, its old price.
That editor knows whereof he speak
eth. He will pass muster either on
oottou or newspapers. He is sound
and well knows that there is no article
that is produced which costs more in
piloportion to its selling price than a
newspaper with its hundreda of thou
sands of type, set every day, and after
all, furnished at only two or Gate
cents per copy, scarcely enough, in
these times, to pay the cost of the white
paper - on which it is printed.
*IWOn a very rainy day, a man en
tering his- house, was ameeteil by his
wife in the following manner
"New, my dear, while you sre wet,
ga aad fetch me it bucket of water."
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NEW SERIES.---VOL. 5, NO. 45..
The muscular strength of the inunun
body is indeed wonderful. A Turkish
porter will trot at a rapid pace and car
ry a weight of six hundred pounds.--
! Milo, a celebrated athletic of Croton,
in Itally, accustomed himself to carry
;the greatest burdens, and by degrees
became a monster in strength. It is
said that he carried on his shorldenEr k an
ox four years old, weighing upwards:of
one thousand pounds, and afterwards
killed him with one blow of his fist.—
l He was seven times crowned at the lir—
thian games, and six at the Olympie.-
. He presented himself the seventh time,
but no one had the courage to enter the.
list against him. He was one of the
disciples of Pythagoras, and to his un
common strength that learned precep
tor and his pupils owed their lives.—
The pillars which supported the roof of
the house suddenly gave way, but Milo
supported the roof of the building, and
gave the philosopher time to escape:—
In old age he attempted to pull up a
tree by its roots and break it. He par
tially effected it—but his strength be
ing gradually exhausted, the • tree,
where cleft, re-united, and left his
hand pinched in the body of it. He
was then alone; and unable to dian
gage himself, died in that position.-.-
Haller mention that he saw a man,
whose finger caught in a chain at the
bottom.of a mine, by keeping it fosei-
Hy bent, supported, by that means, the
whole weight of his body, one hundred
and fifty pounds, until he was dzawl:
up to the surface, a distance of 600 feet.
Augustus H., King of Poland could roll
up a silver plate like a sheet of papcn,
and twist the stougheA horseshoe asun
der A lion is said to have left elle
impression of his teeth upon a piece of
solid iron. The most prodigious power
of Muscle is exhibited by the flesh. The
whale moves with a velocity through a
dense medium, water, that would car
ry him around the world in less thaw a
fortnight; and a sword fish has beef
known to strike his weapon through
thd plank of a ship.
Reading Aloud in the Famil.
Books and periodicals should be an
gels to every household. They are
urns to bring us the golden fruits of
thought and. experience fkoin other
minds and other lands.. As the Emits
of the trees of the earth's soil are most
enjoyed around the family board, so
should those that mature upon mental
and moral boughs be gathered around
by the entier household. No home ex
ercise could be more appropriate and
pleasing than for one member to' react
aloud for the benefit.of alt
An author's ideas are energized' 'ltri
the confidence and love of the .teiser
affections, and every heart I
open . to the truth like the unfolded trnth
like the unfolded rose to receive tha
gathering dews. The ties of love be .
twecn parents, and children, and broth
ers, and sisters, are thus cemented year
more and more, and vaired charms anit
pleasures are constantly' open through
this medium to make a home a very par
adise. If parents would .intrcduce this
exercise in their families, they would
soon see the levity and gidiness that
make up the conversation of too many
circles, giving way to refinement and
chaste dignity. Read to your children,
and encourage them to read to you, inn
stead of reading. your papers, and books
in silence, and silence laying then).
away.
One of those extraordinary cases that
now and then shock the moral sense of
mankind, has just transpired in Scotland.
A farmer prosecutes his mother, ninety
one years old, for the cost of her board
with him for nineteen years past. It
seems that his aged, widowed mother
had been living with him, aiding. by
taking care of his children, eight or
nine in number, knitting stockings, &a.
The court decided that he "was under
a natural and legal obligation to main
tain his aged parent, and it is not aver
red that there was any - agreement or
understanding that she was to be made
liable for such support." The case was
therefore dismissed. Such instances of
total depravity are happily rare in the
world.
MarProfmor Johnston was oneAsy
lecturing before the students on miner
alogy. He had before him a number
of specimens of various sorts to illus
trate the subject, when a roguish stu
dent, for sport, slily slipped a piece a
brick among the stones. The profes
sor was taking up the stones, one atter
the other, and naming them. "This,"
he said, "is a piece of granite ; this is
a seipar," Ate. Presently he came to
the brickbat ; Without betraying any
surprise, or it changing the tone of
his voice, his," he said, hOtirmg it
up, "is a piece of impudence."
',Counterfeit• one hundred dolls'.
Treasury notes so near like the gezmine
have been circulated, that a number
have been taken in Washington. They
Vitre discovered at the Treasury De
partnient. It is said that ati °Mak kr
the West has taken a very large aCelim 4
of ttebiL
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