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Transient atiVertilwrisrlita payable in athititte art ethers due after the And Insoitton., Clare Courage to Say ~No.” You're sterling to-day on lire's journey, Alone on tlrt hi.thway of life; You'll meet with a thousatel temptations; Each city with evil is life. This world is a stage or excitement, There's dan4or wherever you go ; But if you aro tempted to weaknorr, have courage, toy Loy, to say "No." The iiyron's sweet song may allure you; Beware of her cunning and art ; Whenever you see her approaching, Be guarded and haste to depart. The billiard saloons are inviting, Decked out in their tia, , el of show; You may he invited to enter, Have courage, my boy, to bay "No." The bright ruby wine mny be °fillet/ No matter haw tempting it be, From poison that stings like nu adder, My boy, have the c o urage to flee. The gambling hells am before you, Their lights how they Banco to and cro, II you should be tempted to enter, Think twice, oven thrice, ere you go. In courage alone lies your safety, When you tlio long journey begin, And trust in a good moral training, Will keep you unspotted froth sin. Temptations will go on increasir,g, As streams from a rivulet flow, But if you are true to your manhood, Have the entira,ge, my boy, to say "No." SEE MEW 'WINGS; OR, Jededialt Junlper'm Interview WWI NCW York. Ev ',wove MOIL `Git aout!' Tarriagv, sir? Lego you right up !' 'ltit moult, I say Magna Ea 11. %mow yeou du go on, and follow a feller amount] I 'speet a to darti'd lazy, or to proud, to bang un to 6ia own bundle ?' 'llut if you are going up,' continued one or the Jarvies— 'loin' up ?' echoc , the Wdcvilol Yaukco, freezing to hi. 4 air, up to a hotel.' 'A hotel? Cit aunt, poll darn ye!' 'Vex, sir, whit yul rijit up ; here's my coach.' 'llere's your canine, right away !' ciie another. `3l6ter take my climh ; that other feller 11 charge you double Etre.' 'llia fat:CU 4”vitel:e you t' Echoca au• other. 'And you'll rob a hen root!' is the ready answer. 'O, you go long!' roplies the i hallun ge d Jarvey; 'you're just out the Toeuibs Vvr stealing a bridle!' 'And you cone out u' Sing Sing last ui lit where you was put fee stealing a bridle midi a horse to it !' 'You're a notorious thief 'You're noted for lying; choked yourself trying to tell the truth l' 'You lie I' 'Do 1, take that!' 'tie in ! CI iVe it to him !' yeli 0,n1.4.3; 'Fight!' is the echo, 'Ltt up !' 'Give it to him!' urder-r.r !' Tall the police I' Now the lighting becomes general, some fifty of the carriage and cab drivers, with a Jarge sprinklin g of thieves, dock loafors and idlers of the various caliber:4 found is the vicinity of a New York steamboat landing. But where was our Down East friend, amid this general and sudden 'revolution' of the aenguinary republicans. Gone, double quick time, of course. No, there he is, in the very midst of combattants I Ilow they rush around hint I How they hit and hustle one another, and ho seemed to e. cape wound, scratch, or Sear 1 And the quiet observer might discern rather en odd expression mantling the rfte of each psnedo pugilist ; for now and then, as they tossed one another over our Yankee friend, and cried out in brave tones, 'l'll give it to you 'Call me a liar?' 'Take that; VII pepper you They grinned and leered and actually seemed to have a jolly' time of IL Down Bast wan nut idle ; legs and lungs were in motion. 'Let go•o-o I Coll darn yeou, let me aout-t-t 'Call me a thief!' cries one of the artful dodgers, making aftial at a 'ootomporary' and hitting Yankee. sout44 '&►id I was a convict, did yer ! Take Gall' yells another. 'And thak !' says a third, making a miss• hit, and smashing the Down Rot gentle man's shect•iron looking hat tightly over the Yankee's orbs of light. tree-a•tioti ...- ' . ....„........, ... . 1 A.T O• U 0 . . . MSB . ... , . . . ' -.'f- , i. • A p„ , . ~. I. :. 1 , . ,1 ot '...!' • 1_ _ .. ~.,.,,,,„, G A,... . :' ', ..i f. ~. ........*.:0.. ''..,.,..' . : ~,,,,'.............................. ..... ...-.. .... . 'llO in, letnons l' shouts tip crow d. 'Let to ivy hat! what in die sin aro you 'bout-t4? Let go, gull darn ye ! yeou'll tear my hat all to tlioders!' 'Call the peer-iv:o' trios ono of the thiuvus. lien's a feller raisin' a fight 1' yolld the carriage driver. 'Murder-r-r ! A filler's got ivy watch l' `Loa out for Oa -pockets I' shout the loafers and thieves. 'Lot me :tout ! Let go my pockets, Toll dam ye! What are yeuu ? liit :tout o' that! Murder!' cries the poor victim. A bustle takes place, the crowd scatters, somebody' tries that pickpockets are about and the 'per-lees' are coming! 'Dello here, what's all this about ?' es claims the rod-faced policeman, coming up to poor Duwn East, who has finally man aged to extricate his.head front his hat, the exertion putting him all in a foam of pres pitution, as well as tumbling up his hair like quills upon the fretful porcupine. 'What's all this row'en?' MEM `11aow? Goll darn ye Yoou ono of the follor's been pitehin into me? Jest say so, and I'll be darno.l if I dant je.At wallop yeun aout of yocitir ceow skins, or my name's not Jedtaliab Jumper, uuw 'What ?' cries the policeman, "Are you the Ibller's been raring all this muss?' the filler, Nitta Perlcestnam' says one of the coachman, coming up to the scene again. 'Ycou're the darnel skunk as bit me !' crier Jumper, thiowing his bat and coat in the most heroic fashion, and and evincing orb m symptoms of 'going in.' drunk ! Taku him off !' cries a loafer. 'lle's been raising a fight here all the af terneou 1' :•ays another, coming up with more 'lle's ilcked my ;rocket, the thief !' cries tined the raFeshg„ ~tule my watch r chimes in another `You eternalolouble.a 11d-twisted skunk.+, yeou,' gaAped poor Jumper, now writhing in the hawk of the tbrocious policeman, 'you pic.minetin,eowardly, sitrpints, yeou've stole my watch, yeou've hooked my pine, 'Come along !' roafthe virtuously indig ncnt otheer. : ,`Como along, you rascal! Want to let on you've ken robbed, ell?' `Him robbed ? Hal ha ! ha I' 'You're a pooty faller to be robbed ! Ha! ha ! ha!' shout the thiereo. 'Come wit!► me, you scoundrel ! I'll phew you how to conic !►ere : n ►d kick up a row among olcevnt, honeNt people, just to get a chance to pick pockets! I:h'' `Me pick pockets? Urea-a•a.t kingdom !' 'Come along !' cries the policeman. 'Give MO my coat ! Sa , ay, look where! Fete!r b,iek nsy eual ! Stop that feller tot• hat ! Sa.a y. look n'heo. "Come alorg with tae !' .And lettl,:,:" and coath,:s, Sflll.l purse and watch, poor Jedediah Jumper was rushed off to the p o lice station, valise in hand, which he had beenja t ulnae enough to retain, by hook or crook, in spite of all the exertions of the thieves t..) t•elY.o it. Thu policeman made a firnaidaLlecharge msaimt jun i per, he had been drunk, lighting, molesting 611- lbei,V.o in tlna discharge of their respect ful avocations. and picking pockets. 'Lori: e, Ptiquire,' exclaimed the outs a4cd Jumper -Ilc,fd your tomme you rascal !' `Want to know if that feller's a•g o in' to rip into me that way and I stand here wal• loin' liis goll darmd 1125 and you listen to eta'?' givt.yon thirty days on the rair, the inftwkiatt;, 11 . yoll don't hold your jaw. Now, floe you five dollars and cosh-, and give you two hours to leave the IBM 'Ycoy du?' sap; Yankee. 'I du ; and if you don't pay the floe, send you up tar thirty days, you rascal calculate, 'e quire, yeou call this mighty spry town?' `What's that ?' Teat Fellers at orowlin' strangers 'Will you bold your jaw?' %mat on grbbin' a Tiller's watch !' 'Do you kar Inc?' 'Stealin' a feller's puss!' continues the imperturbable. `Mr. Clark, the rascal's fine soma dul lars!' 'Hold on, ho•o•old on, Squire lot us see how much the (lamp is nuow, great gravy I What, moving dollars tine fbr gittin' robbed, coat gone, hat hooked, watch stole, puss grabbed, a,a•a-nd evorlastile sin and misery if yeou don't heat creation and the speckled Jews,—two dollars and a hall' for loin snak ed up here by this feller I Nino real dollars and a half I Well, I gums I've got as much as that and a lodic 'nor.' Opening his valise, Jed jerks out a cap, which ho socks upon his head, slips into a bob-tail coat, hunts up an old wallet, from which he extracts a ten dollar bill, and hands over with, `Thae's the document—call it square— and if I ever gin pour darned, eternal town another call, yeou can bet on fining me my hull•pile and stealin' my shirt and bouts I' 'Commit him to jail,' cries the magistrate. 'And if I ever catch yeou down aour way, yeou old pisen sarpont, I'll lather yeou till yeour hide won't hold pea•pods l' Whether it was Um shortness of Jed's coat tails, or the want or haste, the ()glair didn't grab the prisoner, who was off like shot from a shovel, a victim to the force of circumstances, and.pm danger and u'affoil besetting pera-lig*ln pursuit of novelty in Gotham. BLOOMSIIURG, PA., WI,IDNEPAY, DEVEMBER 30,1868. The nible. Who composed the following deenriplion of tile Bible we may never know' It was Eland in ‘Vestiniuister Abbey, namulees and dateless : A nation would be truly happy if it were govereued by no other laws than those of this blessed book. It contains everything needful to be known or done. It gives instruction to a senate, authority and direction to a magistrate. It captions R witnem, rcquires nn impar tial verdictnt ajury, and furnishes the judge with his sentence. It sets the husband 116' the lord of the household, and the wife us mistress of the table—tells him how to rule, and her how 4o manage. It entails honor to parent., and enjoins obedience to children. It prescribes and limits the sway of the sovereign, the rule of the ruler, the author ity of the master—commands the subjects to honor, and the servants to obey, and the blessing and protection of the Almighty to all that walk by its rule. It gives directions o f weddings and bur ials. It promises food and raiment, and Undo the use of both. It points out a faithful and eternal guar dian to the departing husband and father— tells hint with whom to leave his fol h odess children, and whom his widow to trust— and promises a father* the former, and a husband to the latter... 4 ' It teaches A man to set his how in or der, and to make his will ; it appoints n dowry for his wife, and entails the right of the first born nail shows how the young branches shall he left. It defends the ri , ' or all, and reveals vengeance to every denulter, over-reacher and trespasser. It is the first book, the tied book. It contains the choicest mattcr —gives the best instruction—affords the greatest pleas ure and tattisfactinn that we ever enjoyed. It contains the hest laws and most pro found mysteries that were ever penned ; it brings the Lest of comforts to the inquir ing and disconsolate. It exhibits life and immortality from ever lasting, and shows the way to glory. It is a brief recital of all that L to (some. It settles all matters in debate, resolves all doubts, and eases the mind and consci ence of all their scruples. It reveals the only living and true God, and shows the way to him, and sets aside all other Gods, and describes the vanity of them, and all that trwt in such ; in short, it is a book of laws to show right and wrong a look of wisdom that condemns all folly and makes the foolish wise ; a book of truth that detects all lies, awl cola , all et rot.;, and a Look of lily that shows the w;:y front es, alas ti ng death. It contains the most anelf stmige evuits, wuwierfnl vek,ramnoes, he roic deeds, unparelkied wars, It dmribes the celestial, terrestrial, nod infernal worldo, and the origin of the angelic myriads, 'human t;ihes and It will instruct the accomt.lidlud mechan ic and most profound critic. It teaches the butt rhetorician, and ex cercises every power to the most ?kin' ow ithmetician, unaes the wisest anatomist and exercises the wisest critic It is the best covenant that ever was a Atoll on ; the Let kW that ever wa, seal ed ; the best evidence that ever was produ. , ced ; the best will that was ever ?igloo'. To understand it is to be wise indeed ; to be ignorant of it, is to be destitute of wk.. dote. It is the king's best copy, the magistrate's IsA rule, the ln,u.ewilifs Igst guide, the scrvant's best dietatory, eta the young luau's beat companion kis the schoolboy's spulling book, and the learned man's was terph It contains a ehoiee gramma for a novhe and a profound mystery for a sage. It is the ignorant man's dictionary, and the wise man's directory. It affords knowledge of witty inventions for the humorous, and dark sayings fur the gave, and is its own interpreter. It encourages the ,vise, the warrior, the swift, the overcomer ; and promises an eter nal reward to the excellent, the conqueror, the winner, and the prevalent. And that which crowns all, is that the author is with out partial;ty and without hypocrisy, A Umpired Wears lo Come. No one ever appears to think how soon ho must sink into oblivion—that we are one generation of millions. Yet such is the fact. Time and progress have, through countless ages, come n u ►rching hand in hand—the ono destroying, the other build ing up. They seem to create Huh: or no commotion, and the work of destruction is as easily accomplished as a child will pull to pieces a rose. Yet such is the float, A hundred years hence, and much that we now see around us will have passed away. It is but the repetition of life's story ; we are born, we live, wo die; and hence we will 'tot grieve over those venerable piles, find ing the common level of their prototypes in nature, ultimate death. We all within our graves shall sleep A hundred years to come; No living soul tor ua will weep A hundred years to come; But other men our land will till, And other mon our totiveta will fill, And other birds will sing as gay, As bright the buntline as to•day, A hundred years to come. THE Lira OF AN OUTCAST. A few weeks ago, thero was buried in the City Camotery a women who appears upon the books of the Sexton as Bose Dohnondo. This of itself is nothing stitange, but them is something behind the name, related to us by ono who was present at the doath•bad _ scene, so mysterious, sad and sorrowful, that we publish it, as an incident, not often occurring any where, much less in such an even-tenured place as the capital of • Ala bama. Humor has it, and in this case rumor same to bo true, that just after the war, there came to Montgomery a beautiful, sprightly and accomplished women of some 20 years of ago. She stopped at one atilt) principal hotels, anti being alone attracted marked attention. She had a tall command• ing, splendidly developed figure, fine dark eyes at,d jetty, waving hair—and as she swept into the brilliantly lighted parlors and dining reheat, with all the grace and seeming dignity of a queen, every one paid to her, that which true manhood always pays to beauty—the homage of a sigh. She remained in luxurious quarters fur some tell days, during which time never ceasing goti" sip was busy with her name. At length she suddenly disapeared, it is supposed with a cotton agent uf the U. H. Treasury Pm pertinent, well known itt busbiess circles here, and was not heard of fir a long time, by and by she returned, but instead of oc cupying sumptuous (tauten as before, she became an intimate of a leading bagida in the city. Here her true character was re viatica. She became a queen of the floni monde, and was courted, flattered and car. well its a I . 4volitc by all who visit those pe• oilier haunts. It was not often that she appeared upon the streets and promenade; but when site did, she was knowu, noted and remarked upon, for her stately beauty and handsome personal appearance. Who she v a or what she was other than a WO man uneocionm!y propossesaing, and outcast a "poor unfortunate," no one knew or Amami to care. She still went by the name of fuse Delnion•le, and although to the um tutored eye she might have appeared us other woman did, still the seeds of chic had been Hewn, and that fate, which God has surely naked out, for all who transgress his moral law had Lust its shadow before and could not be averted. It was not long 'arc she commented hard drink—sunk into the midst of midnight revelries and dissipa tion and thus atop by step deeentled the Vor tex of shame, until the ckistie step of youth had pa nett away—her beauty was gene fur ever, the bright sparkle of budding woman hood had melted from her eye—and the ti n t t ,p t h e rosebud had faded from her check, and when our informant sailed to see her, she a poor, wan, emaciated woman, shunned as a titAiletice and inhumanly tic• serted by her summer ft iends alter fernier ingenues days. line our story properly begins : Some weeks sinec a all was made upon a professional gentleman of this oily to visit a woman. Ile went and found the subject of this notice, lying in a dingy little room in a house of an old negresa. When he enter ed the room, be soon sow the patient was not lung fur this world, as she was then in the la-t stages of consumption, br,od g ht on doubtless. by exposure and excessivi. di...i llation. As he entered the door, the patient us yet unknown, called him to her bedside and asked, "Doctor, can I live?' She seemed to put this usual interroga tory with so ouch of tender feeling, that our friend, possessing as he does the benev olent soul of a learned minister to bodily and mentally suffering evasively replied, "I hope so." This reply was not satisilietory, however as she said Sir, only tell nw, how long I VW live 1 Will I have time to send for my ist ,, ther? " With this she burst into tears, and there in that hut of poverty, the poor dying oncost wept as it her heart would break, as galling memory reverted to the happy scenes of her childhood, where in a bright and joyful home she had listen ed to the soft and gentle 1141aby of a moth er's song. The physician seeing her condi tion, administered a soothing opiate and when she slept ho retired, promising her only attendant, the old negress, to return on the morrow. Ile kept his promise, and on returning found her cool, self possessed and perfectly rational. She again called hint to her bedside and related tv hint in substance the follwing intelligent, but sad and myste dons story : "I know that I must die. • * The world calls WO Hose Dolmen& My true name is Charlotte ,Myfather is dead. My mother and only brother live in Utica, New Yark, No.—street. lam twenty-three years of ago. During the war I formed the acquaintance of Lieutenant George—, of the 2tl New York cavalry. He was well educate d, a man of pleasing address and fascinating manners. I loved him. With me that love was beautiful in sanity. I thought of hint by day and dreamed of him by night. He proposed to mo and I accepted. My brother opposed the twitch, and importuned my mother to make the Lieutenant cease his attentions.— She yielded and ordered him to visit me uo more. tweed never to see him again but oh I lovo him still. Ile was absent some six months, and on his return wrote me a letter, saying "ho adored me, that his life was desolate without me" and impor tuned me to fly with him. I consented.— We were married. My brat) IF forliNee tuo the house—wy mother *media notice me but oven thou I never ceased to love her.— We wont to Chattanooga, whore his roe mot was stationed. Wo lived Lappily tether until he was killed. Ile left me penniless. I wrote home for means to ro• torn. It was refused 11341 I tried to work but could find none, and at last, as G o d will bear mu witness to keep from starving in this Christain land, I plunged myself into crime, into "ruin and despair. No one knows of my where-abouts. All that I made by my life of shame is gone ; everything, in fact, except this little locket which mother gave me. It contains a leek of hair. Send It to her, and ask her to forgive MO ; tell her that I never ceased to:love her, and that the last prayer of her poor, sinful child, WWI for mother and for home' She mimed to speak. A strange dreamy listlessness stole over her, and the wayward spirit of the once beautiful Rose Delmondu has as cended to God who gave it. * * * s * * Mulder, this is her plaintive at. reveal ed and known to none before- She is buri ed in a pauper's grave, at the public ex pense. Thu little locket, containing her pie tore in the days of it:noel:me has been for warded as directed, and this brief para graph in the Journal is the only notice pos- sibly that will ever be taken of beautiful Rose Dultnonde, who, romped though she was in sin and crime, still had a woman's heart. May we not hope that lit) with her was but a page in the book of Time, and that death will ho a now leaf in the book of an liternity to her bright and joyful. "Plant the green sods above her, Tl►e last that ever will grow, For the wild rank weeds will corer her bed llefore the coming of snow , And when the snow flakes have melted away. And the flowers of spring are seen, Where is the tongue that even can tell Where her lonely grave had been." laviriage and She Death• Rate. It is a curious and instructive fact that out of every 100,WO married perms (in cluding widowers) at the ago of 20, 020 the before attaining the age of 2.;, while out of a similar number of persons unmarried at the same age, no less than 1,231 die before attaining the age of 25. The following ta ble, founded on the vital statistics of Scot land, abows the comparative death rate of married and unmarried maleslrom 20 to VI: Ages. lluabanda and Widows. Unmarried 20 to 25 6.25 12.31 25 to 30 8.23 14.31 39 to 35 8.65 15.94 35 to 40 11.67 16.02 40 to 45 1407 18.35 45 to 50 17.04 21.18 50 to 55 19.54 26.34 a to 60 25.14 28.51 60 to 65 35.63 41.54 65 to 70 52.93 60.21 70 to 75 81.56 102.71 75 to 80 117.85 143.91 80 to 85 173 88 495.40 Dr. Stark, the ltegistrar-General of Scot land, itit4s, from these figures, that "bach elorhood is more destructive to life than the most unwholesome trades, or than residence in an unwholesome house or district where there never has been the most distant at tempt at sanitary improvement of any kind." We do not question the opinion that matrimony may in a thousand ways ex• ercise a healthful influence wit the human race, by ennobling its habits and unt4cing sobriety, &e., but we think Dr. Stark ex ceeds the legitimate conclusion consequent on the premises. It must be remembered that married men are generally of a more robust and healthful constitution than bach elors, who frequently are deterred by ill health from undertaking the support of families. This important clement in the calculation has been forgotten by Ur. Stark and roamers of his class. A Lova Ti for to Ilis Stew/mart, a Jim' tornaker :—"Rermiant of my hopes. May Ibe ripped from the butler of your esteem and never be buttoned to the loop of your kindness, but I nm strongly seamed to them by your beauty. May 1 never lose a thimbleful of your fa vor, but you have entangled the thread of my undemanding with that pretty outside of yours. Udd bodkin I I our surely yours —every inch of me—and my needle follows you. Therefore, blunt not the point of my endeavors, but lot we baste myself to your kindness, that I may sit tighter to your a ft:diens. I love you beyond measure, but it is so hard to cabbage ono sweet look from you that I almost despair of having enough to finish my suit. Pray put a favorable construction on this, and for the same I shall always sit cross/egged for your sake, being my deer little ilouncor, your WORTII TELLINO. —As is generally known, the late Maj. Win. Fry, decd., of our city, was a great whit and humorist, and rarely got otf anything in that line that was not pronounced "good." We have heard tell of one of his jokes that is worth putting in print. During tho war a rolling-mill iu which one of his neighbors was largely in terested, was obliged to suspend work on MP. count of stagnation in business. Coming up town one morning, the Major called to him across the street, requesting him toeurne over, and added that he had an idea to give him in regard to his rolling-mill that might make in very profitable. "Very well," said Mr. P—, if you can give mo any suggestion that will be val wade, lohall feel very gratentl. You go to Washington—call at the War Department—you are a good, loyal man— lay your case before Mr. Stanton and got a big contract to roll out noodles tbr the A l:fyy. I tell you, sir, you can wake your Allentown &stoma Western Correspondent. LINDEN, Michigan, nee. 12. 1805. Dew Sig.—As the town of Vassar, from its location and surroundings, may be of 801110 interest to your readers, I will attempt a short description of it. There is u settle ment of Pennsylvania in Tuscola County, about twenty or twenty live miles distant from Vassar, some where in the vicinity or which is near the County Seat, and I take it that the people are pleased to hear from the County in which their friends arc Willed. Vassar is a pleasant little town situated on either hank of the Cass River, but the principal part of the town is situated on the right bank, extending up quite a side hill, which most travelers think detracts some• thing front the pleasantness of the place.-- It is about seventy miles from Port Huron, and on a State road nearly opened frmn Port Huron to Saginaw, the latter being sixteen miles from Vassar, which part of the road Was planked last year and the lbrepart of this. There are two Ssw and a Grist or Vlour Mill, the latter of which and ono of the former arc driven by the waters of the Cass, but the other Saw is driven by steatu. There are also three hotels, four dry goods stores, two cabinet shops, a wagon and two blacksmith shops, a drug, book and static cry store combined, a Radical press, which sends out a sheet tilled mostly with advertisements and the blackest kind of radicalism, There is a Presbyterian church (frame), of long standing in the place, and a Methodist church in course of erection, which is being male of brick, also a Union or Graded school building, in which ant three schools taught. Vassar at ono time wax the scat of the lumber trade, but is riot so much so now, in consequence of the Wm her having been mostly taken off*, which takes considerable business out of the place. It is not as ir general thing a farming coun try, still there is some as good fanning land in the vicinity as anywhere in the State.— Crops, as a general thing, were better than most people expected they would be. Prices have been lower than usual this fall, but they are now on the rise. Wheat is worth nearly $2.00, and other things in propor tion. We have had a splendid run ofsleigh• iug of about two weeks. Yours, very respectfully, A FRIEND. Definitions of Mble Terms. A day's journey was thirty-three and one filth miles. A Sabbath day's journey wan about an lingl►sh Ezekiel's reed was eleven feet, nearly. A cubit is twenty-two inches, nearly. A hand's breadth is equal to three and five eight inches. A finger's breadth is equal to one inch. A Shekel of silver was about filly cents. A Shekel of gold was Vs &O. A talent of silver was 8538 32. A talent of gold was $l3 SIPI A piece of silver, or a penny, was thir teen cents. A fat-thing was three cents. A Feral was one cent. A mite w. 13 one cent. A homer contains seventy-five gallons and five piuts. A nepha, or bath, contains seven gallons and five pints. A bin was one gallon and two pints. A firkin was seven pints. An omer was six pints. A cab was three pints. To DAY AND To-MonarAw.—To-day we gather bright and beautiful tiowers—t., mor row they are faded and deed. Today a wreath of leaves shade us—to morrow, sear and Calm, they crumble be neath our tread. To-day the earth is covered with a carpet of green—to•ruorrow it is brown with the withered grass. To-day the vigorous stalks only bends be fore the grain—to-morrow "the land is tak ing its Sabbath after tliti toil." 'lb-day we hear sweet songsters of mead ow and forest, the fuzx and hunt of myriad insects; to-morrow—breathe softly—all na ture is hushed and silent To-day a stately edifice, complete in flu ish and surroundings, attracts the posscr by—to-worrow a iscup of ruins mark the site. Tu day there are cattle on a thousand hills —to-morrow they fall in slaughter. Thu fashion of the world passcth away. But let Christ dwell within us, and though wo may puss away like the tided leaf and the sapless stalk, wu shall "arise to newness of life," Where everlasting spring abides, And never wintering flowers. UA]UTAUB." Ctrni Nom —The parents of young children are apt, at this season of the year, to be anxious in regard to croup. An ex change publishes the following reccipe for the relief of croup, which we publish for the benefit of yoUng mothers : Take one ounce of sweet oil, and add to it half an ounce of gum opal. Apply to the chest, under the arum, the palms or the hands and hollows of the feet. It will generally fo llow) the most severe oases of croup in five minntes. Remember to use externally, and give the patient plenty of cold water to drink. IF cranberries ON gilled n short (WO lu the sun and placed in bottles tilled with them, Bud then closed with waling-wax, the hurries will keep iu aced condition for bey et al years. N UMBER 45. All BerlN of Items, —Thu youngamt Tiot!an. Eugland Is of ele►cn years. ...A rresh novelty 1' a nr rn tr aschct.who accompanies pulp) tunes uti ...A fat ox io to be preoenteil to °rant.— Ox enters his wouth and hove comes out of it. ...ltrigiim Young is anxious to get rid or this year's crui) of 36 inarrilgeablo Jamb tem. The official nicjolity in Oregon for Sey mour it twenty-throe—the &must election in tho .. New York, a church is said to pro pose having a full bra.,s and string hand, ni acin' of no organ. ...1f brevity i 9 the .soul of wit, what an immense amount of fun and frolic there must be in the tail of a fashionable coat. ...Lorenzo Dow defined death-bed repen tames to be burning out the candle of life in the service of the devil, and blowing NS Nita in the face of heaven-, ...A surgical journal speaks won who lived five years with a ball in his head. A waggish friend of ours hays he has known ladies to live twin ! !!!! long with nothing but balls in their heads, —"Remember. who you are talking to, ir!" said an indignant parent to a fraction* boy; "1 ani your father, sir I" "Well, who's to blame for that?" rail young im pertinence ; ''tain't mu I" ...Gov. IVisv's farm, in Princes► Annu county, Va., has been restored to him by the Government. Thu owner of Libby Prison is also to be paid three j'eurs' rent fn. the use of that building by the United States authorities. —Gen. Grunt, in, his annual report, Rays: "'Troops arc still more() in the Southern States." What for? We thought his elec tion was to "let us have peace," but troops are only indicative of war. ...The Senate special committo on Rail roads has decided to report favorably on granting charters for new railroads between 11'ashington and Now York, and between Washington and Cincinnati. ...At Quincy, 111., is a German with curious blood mark. It is a perfect deer about the size of a silver dollar, and on his right cheek. The form and outline of the deer are as perfect as could be drawn by an artist, and show a deer in the act of leap ing. ...They tell a story abolit a man out west who had a hair lip--upon which ho per- Cormed au operation himself by inserting into the opening a piece of chicken &sh— it adhered and filled up the space admira bly. This was all well enough until in com pliance with the prevailing fashion he URI. dertook to raise a moustache, when one side grew hair and the other feathers I An cld ncxro nan►ed Pete WAS very much troubled about his sins. Perceiving hint one day with a very downcast look, his mas ter asked him the cause. Ile answered that he 'was afraid oh do debbil."llut, Pete,' said his master, 'you are foolish to lake it AO much to heart. You never sec me troub led about my sins.' I know do reason, mama,' said Pete; 'when you go out dithlts shooting, and kill ono dock and wound anoder, don't you run idler the wounded duck ?" Yes, Pete,' and the master wonder ed what was coining nest. 'Well massa, dat is do way wid you and me , de dobbil has got you sure, but as he am not sure ob me, he chases dis chile all de time.' PtTamil the war, a Georgia soldier, while in camp near the bowie of his sweetheart, sent her a boquet with a card attached, upon whiett was the fellowlug poetic effu sion "A Iteopt this ladmy from a feller W oft 11:14 Hurd la 110114 be for ; Has listental to the Mil:li torten, And holptal to duo a heel, of shooter ; Has seen the war don& darkly rise, Like fifty buzzards whoa thoy tliz, Who now is bigger than his dad, And wants to marry mity bad.' "CliArm" ox Tur, LlANns.—ldany per sons, especially ladies, are victims all thro' the cold sea-on to chapped bands. An effi cacious and agreeable tented) , exists; what is more, it costs nest to nothing. A small jar, tilled with equal parts of honey awl glycerine, costing a shilling, will last all winter. Apply it idler washing to' hag& still wet ; then rub one hand with the other in Lady Illacloctlt style until nearly dry; then complete the wiping with a soft towel. None of the ralleiCut.-mtmod oushatics aro half us good as this. A Drraum.ts "THICK great admirer of De Wilt Clinton, who was then Governor of NoS York, visited Penn sylvania, where he wet a Dutchman, who was equally enthusiast'', in his Kelso of Governor Snyder, thun chief magistrate of the Keystone State; The New Yorker, in hid laudations of his govordor, said dill Do 'Witt Clinton w 11,24 a very shrewd and long headed man. "Veil," replies the Dutch man, "Gournor Schneider hasn't such a bery long head, //e4 it is Iszj tick!" • =1=1: A DREADFUL DalOity 6.0) , was Thad Stn., runs. A Currespffidebt, of th© Albany Ar gtot ihtimato that h o the father of eleven illqithaate Oak., a. 13=113 ltlin:r w“;11..J, It I‘ aliagede alliWAr s Weat I yard. +if c,dian, and dinaly a,4 'Lmy dollat.; wuttli of
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