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1862.
MERCHALNTS
Echo not an angry word;
Let it pass.
Think how often you have erred;
Let it pass.
Since our joys must pass away,
Like the dewdrops on the spray,
Wherefore should oar sorrows stay?
Let it pass,
Let it pass.
If for good you've taken ill;
WM. A. PORTER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domes.
!Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, kr., Main street.
Sept. 11,1861-11.
MINOR & CO.,
Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Oro
/CMS, Queeneware, Hardware and Notions, opposite
die Green louse. Main street.
dept. ii, ifitil—ty,
BOOT AND BEOB BEAM=
J. D. COSGRAY,
Dorn and Shoe sinker; Main street, nearly opposite
the 'Tamer's and Drover's Sank." Every style or
Soots and Shoes constantly on band or made to order.
Sept. 11, 1861—ty„
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JOHN MUNNELL,
Deem' in Wistarias and Confectionaries, and Variety
©gods Geangajiy. Wilson'. NtW Building, Main meat.
'Sept. 11, 1861-Iy.
VT . ATCZEIS AND 3DINTELRY
S. U. BAILY,
waist greet, opposite the Wright House keep.
always on hand a large and elegant assortment of
Watches and Jewelry.
IV - Repairing of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry wil
receive pro pt attention [Dee. 15, 1801—ly
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Try Again.
BY PK/KA COOK
Once Bruce of Scotland flung him down
In a lonely mood to think ;
'Tis true he was monarch and wore a crown,
But his heart was begining to sink.
For be had been trying to do a great deed,
To make his people glad ;
He had tried and tried, but be couldn't suc
ceed,
And his heart was sore an - 1 sad.
Ile flung himself down in sore despair,
As grieved as man could be ;
Aud as hour atter hour he pondered there,
"I must give up at last," said he.
Now just at the moment a spider dropped,
With its silken cobweb clue ;
And the king, in the midst of his thinking,
stopped
To see what the spider would do.
It soon began to cling and climb
Straight up with strong endeavor,
Bat down it caine, time after time,
As near to the ground as ever:
But, nothing discouraged, again it went,
And travelled a half-yard higher ;
'Twas a delicate thread it had to tread,
And a road where its feet would tire.
Again it fell and swung below,
But again it quickly mounted;
Till up and down, now fast, now slow,
Nine brave attempts were counted.
"Sure," cried the king, "the foolish thing
Will strive no more to climb,
When it toils so hard to reach and cling,
And tumbles every time."
But steadilp upward, inch by inch,
Higher and higher it past,
Till a bold little run, at the very last pinch,
Put it into its web at last.
"Bravo! bravo !" the king cried out,
"All honor to those who try !
The spider up there defied despair,—
He conquered ; why shouldn't I?"
And Bruce of Scotland braced his mind,
And, as gossips tell the tale,
Re tried once more, as he'd tried before,
And that time he did not fail.
LET IT PASS.
"Let formeztwiges pass."—SHAxsPEARE.
Be not swift to take offence;
Let it pass.
Anger is a foe to sense;
Let it pass.
Brood not darkly o'er a wrong
Which will disappear ere long;
Rather sing this cheery song—
Let it pass,
Let it pass.
Strife corrodes the purest mind;
Let it pass.
As the unregarded wind,
Let it pass.
Any vulgar souls that live
May condemn without reprieve;
'Tis the noble who forgive.
Let it pass,
Let it pass.
Let it pass.
Ohl be kind and gentle still;
Let it pass.
Time at last makes all things straight;
Let us not resent, but wait,
And our triumph shall be great;
Let it pass,
Let it pass.
Bid your anger to depart;
Let it pass.
Lay there homely words to heart,
Let it pass.
- Follow not the giddy throng;
Better to be wronged than wrong;
Therefore sing the cheery song—
Let it pass,
Let it pass.
Ladies, Paste this on your Mirrors.
"I cannot forbear pointing out to you,
my dearest child," said Lord Coiling
wood to his daughter, "the great ad
vantage that will result from a temper
ate conduct and sweetness of manner
to all persons, on all and every occasion.
Never tbrget then, that you are a gen
tlewoman, and all your words and ae
tions should make you gentle. I never
heard your mother—your dear, good
mother—say a hard or hasty thing to
anybody in her life. Endeavor to im
itate her. lam quick and hasty in my
temper ; but, my darling, it. is a misfor
tune which, not baying sufficient
ly restrainedin F l c - Ime 'veil me
-1 1 10,.*** We
ihms AidarlilinaMMlV
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, ONE 15, 1864.
Y isallatcono.
Important Requisites in a Wife.
A knowledge of domestic duties is be
yond all price to a woman; every one
of the sex ought to know how to sew,
and knit, and mend, and cook, and su
perintend a household. In every situ
ation in life, high or low, this sort of
knowledge is of great advantage.—
There is no necessity that the gaining
of such information should interfere
with intellectual acquirement or even
elegant accomplishment. A well-regu
lated mind can find time to attend to
all. When a girl is nine or ten years
old, she shoul Abe accustomed to take
sonic share in the household duties, and
to feel responsible for the manner in
which her part is performed—such as
her own mending, washing the cups
and putting them in their proper places,
cleaning silver, or dusting and arrang
ing the parlor. This should be done
occasionally, and not neglected when
ever she finds it convenient ; she should
consider it her department. When old
er than twelve, girls should begin to
take turns in superintending the house
hold ; making puddings, pies, cakes,
&c. To learn effectnally, they should
actually do these things themselves,
and not stand by and see others do
them. Many a husband has been ruin
ed for want of these domestic qualities
in a wife—and many a husband has
been saved from ruin by his wife being
able to manage well the household con
cerns.
An Incident.
A rebel prisoner asked for a clean
shirt for his young comrade whose fresh
but blood-stained bandages told of a re
cent amputation just above the knee.—
One of the Sanitary Commission gave
the shirt but said the boy must first be
washed. 'Who will do thatl"Oh,
any of those women yonder.' A kind,
looking woman from Philadelphia was
asked if she was willing to wash a re
bel prisoner. 'Certainly,' was her
prompt reply, have a son in the "Union
army, and I would like to have some
body wash him.' With a towel and
water in a tin basin, she cheerfully
walked through the mud to-the tent.—
Carefully not to disturb his amputated
leg, she gently removed the old shirt
and began to wash him, but the tender
ness of a mother's heart was at work,
and she began to cry over him, saying
that she imagined she was washing her
own son. This was more than she
could bear He, too, began to weep,
and to ask God to bless her for her kind
ness towards him. The scene was too
much for the bystanders, and they left
the Northern mother and Southern Son
to their sacred grief, wishing that tears
could blot out the sin of this rebellion,
and the blood of this unnatural war.
Time to Economise.
Economy, always a matter of selfz,
interest, is now so much a duty of pa
triotism that the movement inaugurated
by the ladies in various sections of the
country against extravagance in dress,
deserves the cordial support of all class
es in every community. It is desirable,
however, that the ladies will not limit
their efforts merely to a protest against
imported articles, for useless consump
tion of home-made articles is just as in
jurious to the public interests as a waste
of foreign articles, and should be equally
avoided. If the present movement has
the effect, as we trust it will, of inducing
habits of thrift among our people, and
arresting our national tendency towards
extravagant prodigality, the ladies who
have inaugurated It will have conferred
an enduring benefit on their country.
tar In St. Louis, last week, the corpse
of a Mrs. Meur was found in a room in
Vine street, four months after her death.
A scrap of melancholy rhyme, in Mrs.
Meur's handwriting and signed witb het
initials, was found in the room ; one
verse ending thus :
"The world at beet is selfish, cold,
Gold is the luring ray ;
Then let me die before Pm old,
Before thy locks are gray."
COWARDS JUSTLY DISGRAMD.—The
Alexandria (Va.) Journal says that yes
terday afternoon fifteen officers and
three hundred men, all of them skedad
diers from the army of General Grant,
were forwarded to Belle Plain, to be re
turned to their regiments. The officers
were marched in the rear of the men,
and a portion of them hand-cuffed to
gether. The Journal adds : "A sad
but just example."
se—The "Wilderness," in which the first
battle of the present campaign was fought,
embraces fifteen miles of timber land, thickly
stud4gd with undergrowth, making it at
some points utterly impassible. During
these battles our men were often unable to
see any object twenty-five feet distant from
them. It is from twelve to fifteen miles
from Fredericksburg.
ViirSpottsylvania, the scene of the
recent terrific battles, and which is now
in our possession, is a small village, fif
ty-five miles from Richmond, of the
railroad, but connected with the rebel
capital by good roads. The river ro
runs south of the village. The North
Anus river , to which I f ee is reported to
-have retreated, is abodt twelve
Seetth.
Finger Nails
The uses of the horny excrescences
with which Nature has armed and pro
tected the ends of our fingers and toes,
are obvious enough, one wound think, to
the meanest comprehension; but the
philosophers, who sometimes mystify
subjects that are essentially simple, have
assumed that man's nails afford a key to
the primitive nature and habits of the
race. Aristotle assumes that they were
intended to be used like the talons of
bears, for the digging up of vegetable
food. Mandeville also argues, in his
story of "The Bees," that the breadth
and comparative weakness of our nails
afford_ proof positive that Providence
did not originally intend us to prey upon
animaLs, but to scratch up a living, like
fuwls, out of the ground. A more stupid
theory could scarcely be conceived, since
it requires as strong and as sharp talons
to dig into the solid earth as to grasp
and lacerate a sheep or a deer. The
grizzly bear is a digger, and look at his
talons. They are more formidable than
those of the tiger. The old Rabinical
doctors had some odd notions about
nails. They held that the bodies of
our first parents were in the beginning
perfectly transparent, but that after the
Fall they became opaque, the nails be
ing the only vestige left of their for
mer lucidity. Origen had a somewhat
similar belief. His notion was that
Adam and Eve, previous to the Temp
tation, were beings of radiant light, and
that the coats of skins sebsequently be
stowed upon them were merely the flesh,
muscle, bone and ligament, on which
we, their offspring, "travel" at the pres
ent day. Judging from the avidity
with which some people graw their
nails, one might suppose that these ex- I
crescences were intended as rations;
while on the other hand, one not unfre-
quently encounters more elongated spe
cimens of a shape and hue well calculat
ed to destory the equilibrium of a sen
sitive stomach.
Onychomy, or divination by the nails,
was once a favorite branch of the art of
fortune telling, and we believe it is still
practiced by some of the charlatans who
profess to looked into futurity, The
"omens of the nails" are thus summed
up in De Paney's "Infernal Dictionary:"
The whitish specks foretell trepidation ;
the black marks terrors and dangers ; the
red, which are rare, sorrows and wrongs;
while specks of pure white are the hap
py forerunners of hopefulness and good
fortune. The "black marks" we may
aid, are the least rare, and can general
ly be removed with the aid of a nail
brush and some soap and water. We
have seen a fine miniature painted on a
thumb nail, and a handsome cameo fash
ioned out of the sheathing of a big toe.
Our own idea of finger nails is that they
were bestowed upon man to enable him
to pick up "unconsidered trifles." Pick
pockets say they find them of great use
in their more delicate manipulations. It
is asserted that the gentler sex some
times employ them as weapons of do
mestic warfare, but that of course is a
bit of slander.
A Subterranean Railway.
In the tendency of the population of
New York to move up-town, a great
difh"Culty is experienced on account of
the time required by business men to
go to and from their homes. It now
takes as long to go to the upper end of
the island as it does to go to the up
per part of Westchester county. To
remedy this difficulty, a company of
practicle and scientific men, aided by
wealthy capitalists, propose a plan
which would have startled the staid old
Knickerbockers, as it did at first their
more progressive descendants. It is
to construct a tunnel under the whole
length of the city, from the Battery to
the Central Park, to contain a double
track railway, on which stream cars
can be run. It is to have numerous
stations on the route, reached by stair
cases from the street. The expense
will be about a million of dollars a
mile. A light, airy, and pleasant road
of this kind, five miles in length, has
been built under the city of London, on
which the cars travel at the rate of
twenty miles an hour, with safety and
comfort. At this rate cars could run
from the Battery to the Central Park in
twelve minutes.
A NEW ENGLAND BIRD STORY. —A
Boston paper tells this little bird story
A pair of robins whose twitter enlivens
the groves of Newburyport, have man
ifested their love for "the land of their
birth" and their loyalty to the Union by
weaving into the fabnc of their nest for
this season a paper copy of the Ameri
can flag, "red, white and blue," and
inserting beneath it a brass thimble,
mouth upward like a mortar, doubtless
to serve for its defence. The nest, we
are sorry to say, was robbed of four
eggs and knocked from its perch by
some mischievous boys.
Singular.
A soldier of the First Pennsylvania
cavalry, in the Potomac army, was - a
short tune since found asleep near War
renton, Virginia, having slept twenly
four hours. He stepped up to his cap
tain and said : "Captain, I die to-mor
row at 4o'clock, and the war will end
in June. Yon have no more for me to
do." As the clock struck 4on the fol
lowing day he died without avroan.
PrrskYzating— --o.agef the arekthn"--au
rose. _ •
How the Credulous are Swindled.
The attention and often the cupidity
of credulous readers is attracted by see
ing flaming advertisements in the pa
pers, offering gold and silver watches
and various articles of jewelry, valued
from $2OO to $lOO, "to be sold fcr one
dollar each, without regard to value, stnd
not to be paid for till you know what
you get." The advertisements state
that certificates at twenty-five cents
each, or five for $l, of all the articles
are placed in sealed envelopes, and sent
by mail as ordered, without regard to
choice; and on the receipt "you will
see what you can have, and can then
send $1 and take the article or not"—
A gentleman in New York has recently
been at the pains and expense of inves
tigating this system, which, as might be
expected, he finds a gross swindle. He
sent letters to five separate firms who
advertise in this way, ordering certifi
cates, and enclosing $2O in each letter.
In reply ho received for his $2OO, 588
certificates, which, on the further pay
ment of $1 each, ,would entitle him to
receive goods valued at $2,153. He
now invested $lOO more to test the rep
resentative value of these certificates.—
He presented at the business places of
these firms a hundred certificates, select
ing those of the highest nominal value, I
paid the money, and received 211 sets !
of jewelry and five watches, the aggre
gate nominal value of which was $599.
He saw that the watches and jewelry
were nearly worthless; but to ascertain
beyond question their value, they were
all sent to the United States Assay Of
fice, when it was found that the actual
value of these articles, sold by these
five firms for gold and silver, was nine
dollars and sixty-two cents. By don-
Ming' the value of the gold and silver to
include the cost of workmanship, for
the $2OO invested $19,211 were received.
These swindling firms have done a large
business among the soldiers.—,Evange•
list.
Grease for Leather.
In smearing leather with oil we aim
not only at making the leather pliant,
but also at making it water-proof.--
Train oil is often used for this purpose.
but no Est gives more imperfect results,
for while no liquid fat is suited to ren
der leather permanently water-proof,
train Oil possesses this characteristic,
that after a while it dries up and then
the leather becomes brittle. Hog's lard
is admirably adapted to secure both ob
jects, pliability and impermeability to
water; it renders the leather perfectly
pliant and no water can penetrate it.—
It is especially suitable for greasing
boots and shoes; but in the summer sea
son an eighth part of tallow should be
melted with it. It should be laid on
when in a melted condition ; but not
warmer than one's finger dipped in the
mass can bear. When it is first applied
to a boot or shoe the leather should be
previously let soak in water that it may
swell up so that the pores , •an open well
and thoroughly absorb the lard. The
liquid lard should be smeared over the
article to be water-proofed, at least three
or four times, and sole leather oftener
still. Afterward the lard remaining vis
ible on the outside should be wiped off
with a rag. By this means you may
have a water-proof boot or shoe, without
the annoyance caused by most stuffs of
penetrating the leather and greasing the
stockings. An occasional coating of
hog's lard is also to be recommended for
patent leather boots or shoes, as it pre
vents the leather from cracking, and if
it be not rubbed in too strongly the
leather will shine just as well after the
grease has been applied.
Preserve Your Furs.
Furs should never be put away for
the summer and forgotten, as they so
frequently are ; and, next to being shut
up from the air, their greatest enemy
is damp. If from the wearer being ex
posed to the rain they become wet, they
should always be dried at a moderate
distance from the fire, immediately;
and in warm weather, when not requir
ed for wear, they should never be shut
in a box or a drawer for more than a
few days at a time, and every few
weeks they should beshakeu and beaten.
The more delicate skins require some
what more delicate treatment. The
best plan is, probably, not to pack furs
away, but to let them lie in a drawer
or wardrobe that is constantly being
openel, so that they meet the eye fre
quently, and thus at convenient oppor
tunities they may be taken out and
beaten, or at any rate shaken and toss
ed and exposed to the air. It is a
common remark that moths get; into
furs, as if the insect migrated from
place to place. Furs and woollens are
animal substances, whiclt develop living
organisms through the decoy of its ma
terial shape. Cleanliness and airing
are therefore absolutely necessary.
APPLES EVERY YEA,R. —lf you graft
part of a tree one year and the other
part the next year, your trees will bear
fruit every year. I have tried it, and
in almost every trial it was successful.—
The fact is that the branch put in is
put back one year. If the graft is vig
orous it will make leaf buds the fink
year, fruit buds the second year, and
bear fruit the third year ; at any rate,
it yow wet and. take talons from the
sone trees asid iraprt them two years
41141 3 9!**4.4,. ba pretty owe
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The Hard Way.
Bob Winslow was the worst boy in the
village. His father never checked him,
but let him have his own way, till he
had grown to be the terror of the neigh
borhood. He particularly loved to
make sport of old, lame, crippled per
sons. There was one poor woman,
bent down by age and infirmities, that
Bob used especially to make game of.
She came every day, leaning on her
crutch, to draw water from the well
near her house, and lust within the
play-ground of the school-house. Bob
would sometimes follow close behind
her, pretending to be lame, and bob
bling along on his umbrella for a crutch,
and mimicking her motions. "Only
look at her," he would say, "isn't she
like the letter S, with an extra crook in
it ?" One day, when he was doing
this, the old woman turnned ground,
and looking at him reproachfully, said,
"Go home, child, and read the story of
Elisha and the bears out of the woods." '
"Shame on you, Bob !" said Charles
Mansfield, one of the best boys in
school ; "Shame, I say, to laugh at the
poor woman's misfortune ! I've heard
my grandmother say she became a crip
ple by lifting her poor afflicted son, and
tending him night and day.
"I don't care what made her so,"
said Bob, "I wouldn't stay in the world
if I was such an ugly looking thing as
that. Do look !"
"Shame! shame on you!" said
Charles, and "Shame! ahame !" echoed
from each of the boys present. "You
may get your own back broken one of
these days, Bob—who knows 7"
Charles Mansfield sprang to the old
woman, and said "Let me help you,
"grandmother." Then he kindly took
her pail, filled it at the well, and carried
it home for her, and the boys made an
arrangement for one of them to come
every day, and fetch her a pail of wa
ter.
"God bless you! God bless you all !
dear boys," said the old woman, as she
wiped away the tears, and entered her
poor lonely home.
Bob Winslow's conduct was reported
to the master. He was much grieved,
and sentenced him to stay in school and
study, instead of going out to play at
recess, for a week. This was pretty
hard punishment, for Bob had very lit
tle love for study, but was prodigiously
fond of play, Yet this was a slight
punishment compared with what he was
soon to receive.
On the second day of his confinement,
ho sat near the open window, watch
ing the boys at their sports in the play
ground. Suddenly, while the master
was occupied in another part of the
room, he rose and jumped from the
window into the midst of the boys,
with a shout at what he had done.—
"Now let him punish me again, if he '
can I" cried he. As he said this, he
ran backwards, throwing up his arms
in defiance, and shouting, when sud
denly his voice ceased ; there was a
heavy plunge, and a loud groan burst
on the ears of his startled companions.
It so happened that a well, of which
we have spoken, was being repaired.—
The workmen were at a distance, col
lecting their materials, and had care
lessly left the opening of the well un
covered. As Bob was going backwards,
at the very moment of his triumph, he
stepped into the mouth of the well and
down he went. There was a cry of
horror from the boys. They all rushed
to the spot. Charles Mansfield, the 1
bravest of them all, was the first to
sieze the well rope. He jumped into 1
the bucket, and got the boys to lower
him down. The well was deep, but
fortunately, there was not much water
in it ; and Bob lay motionless at
bottom. Charles lifted him carefully,
and with one arm round his apparently
lifeless body, the other on the rope, he
gave the signal, and was slowly raised
to the top. The pale face of the wick
ed boy filled his companions with
horror. Without saying a word, they
carried him to the house of the poor
woman whom he had treated so cruelly.
She had seen the accident from her
window, and was hobbling along on
her crutch to meet them. Poor Bob
was taken into her humble home, and
laid upon her bed. The kind-hearted
old woman, forgetful of his ill-treatment
of her,
got out her bandages,' her cam-
phor bottle, and other things; and
while one of the boys ran tor the doc
tor, and another for their teacher, she
eat down by his side, and bathed his
hands and his forehead, as tenderly as
though be had . been • her own son. Af
ter the doctor had dressed his wounds, 1
he was curried on a litter to his own
home, surrounded . by his sorrowing
conventions, but still Inseneible.
A iew hours later in the day, a
group of hoes met on the play-ground.
They talked to one another in a low
voice. They looked pale and sad.
Presently Charlet, Mansfield came up.
"Well, boys, low is poor Bob now'
Have any of yin' laittrill"
' 0, Charles, •etehid: nevenkl tyt once,
as they gathered evaustd lum. "Oh !
don't you know 1 lieven't you heed 7
Why, be has *paned his eyes; mid is
able to speak ; but his beak is
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He couldn't speak for a while. At
last, with the tears still streaming down
his pale cheekc, but with a manly voice,
he said, "Boys, I hope we shall never
forget the lesson we have learned to
day. The Bible says : The way of the
transgressor is hard,' and poor B.,b's
experience proves how true that is."
Franklin and his Paper.
Soon after his establishment in rhila
delphia, Franklin was offered a piece for
publication in his newspaper. Being
very busy, he begged the gentleman
would leave it for consideration. The
next day the author called and .asked
his opinion on it. "Why, sir," replied
Franklin, "I am sorry to say I think it
highly scurrilous and defamatory. But
being at a loss, on account of my pov
-1 erty, whether to reject it or not, I
I thought I would put it to this issue—at
night, when my work was done, I
bought a two-penny loaf on which I
supped heartily, and then wrapping my
self in my great coat, slept veii sound
ly on the floor till morning, when an
other loaf and mug of water afforded a
pleasant breakfast—now sir, since I can
live very comfortably in this manner,
why should I prostitute my press to per
sonal hatred or passion for a more lux
urious living ?"
One cannot read this aneciote of our
American sage, without thinking of So -
crates' reply to King Archelaus, who
had pressed him to give up preaching
in the dirty streets of Athens, and come
and live with him in his splendid court.
"Meal, please your majesty, is a half
penny a peek at Athens, and water I
get for nothing."—Amer. Presb.
Frank's Canary Bird.
Franky Jones was a good little boy,
and you know good children have a
great many friends. His Aunt Fannie
loved him very much, and sometimes
gave him pretty presents. One day be
came running home from school, and
what do you think he found on the set
ting•room table? A book? No. A
picture ? No. It was a little yellow
canary bird with bright blaok
which twinkled so knowingly when he
looked at you!
Frank was so delighted that he danc
ed for joy. Atter admiring it for some
time he suddenly rememibered having
heard little Mary, a crippled child, say
she would be very happy if she had a
bird to sing away the weary hours.—
"Mamma,". said he, "don't you think:l
hed better give my birdie to poor
Mary ? She's so lonesome while her
Mother is out washing, and I know
Aunt Fannie will be willing."
"But won't you be in sorrow to4xtor
row, Fr.ink i"
"Oh no! mamma. I've so many
nice things ; there are my bat and ball
and top, and cart. riu sure I shan't
be sorrow. may I 1"
"Yes, my son ; it gives me pleasure
to see you thoughtful of others' happi
ness." So the heart of little Mary was
made to rejoice by the warbling notes
of the sweet,songster, and Franky's
was made happy by loving his neigh
bor as himself.— Tract Journal.
Ladies' Dress Reform.
The women of Boston are moving in
the matter of Dress Reform. A large
meeting has been held, and 'the oath'
taken by many of the most influential
ladies of 'the hub,' who agree to dis
pense with 'such foreign articles as are
not necessary for health or comfort.'--
Messrs. Rice and Hooper (members of
Congress from Massachusetts) have dug,
out the following facts in the Treasury
Department. There were imported last
year in value :
Silks,
Laces,
Embroideries,
Total,
Thirty-three million dollars' worth of
silks, laces and embroideries in one year !
This does not include cloths and articles
of gentlemen's attire, which would add
millions more to the above, nor isehion
able furs worn by the ladies. Let us
see what the gentlemen have to answer
for—of wines, spirits and cigars, there
was imported a trifle over $12,000,000!
It will be seen by these figures, that
there is plenty of room for retrenchment,
reform, and consequent greater real hap
piness among the mass of oar people -- -
Let it begin !
A Cure for Scandal.
Take of gOod nature one 0t.r..! . ; ,
of an herb called by the Indian 17.:.:...
your own business,' one ounce ,
with "a "a little cLarity for others" ;, '
two or three sprigs of "keel--r; :-
tongtte-between your teeth;" F . atr-- -
them together in a vessel called circ, , .....
speotion, for a short time, and it
be fit for bse, Application—The g -...
tom is a violent itching in the ti)
and roof of the mouth, which is
iably takes place when you are in
pany with a species of animals .
gossips, When you feel a fit of -i.... -
der coming on, take a teaspoon - 21'1'1- 4
the mixture, hold it in your :.1:::7,-.:-.,
whkix,you will keep closely shut t,...y.. 1
ftAt ilente, sod you will get a co:L.:elev.
lingtes %cob/ for api,..imd a : :, , A , rf.,-,
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4,500,000
$33,500,000
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