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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE C0X8TITUTI05 THE CNIOJT AXD THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor
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'oetry.
LEAKS TO KEEP 1IOISE.
Beautiful maidens aye, nature's fair queens.
Some in your twenties aud some in your teens.
Keeking accomplishment worthy your aim.
Striving for learning. thirsting for fame;
Taking audi pains with the style of 'your
hair.
Keeping your lily complexion tto fair;
Mine not this item in all your gay Uvea,
Learn to keep house, you may one dy be
wives-
Learn to keep house.
Now your Adonis loves sweet moonlight walks,
Hand clasjvs. and kisses, and nice little talks.
Thm, as plain Charley, with his burden of
care.
He must subsist on mure nourishing fare;
He will come home at the set of the sun
Heart sick and weary, his working day done.
Thence lei his slippered feet ne'er wish to
roam..
Learn to keep boose that you may keep homo.
Learn to keep bouse.
First in bis eyes wili be children and wife,
Joy of his joy and life of his life.
Next to bis bright dwelling, his table, his
meals.
Shrink not at what mv pen trembling reveals.
Maidens romantic, the truth wait be to!d.
Knowledge is better thaa silver and gold;
Then be prepared in the spring time of health
Ix-aru to keep house though surrounded by
wealth.
Learn to keep haae.
3Ia!tColl&lI13'.
AU.MH Old Maid.
When mv two children, Small Pica
and Long Primer, grow np so that they
can judge society as society should be
judged, I know they will reflect my
sympathy for oi l maids.
Never was a class of the human family
more studiously uialigued and abused
than the class denominated "old maids."
And yet I never could understand why.
What can le nicer than to ait down,
alter a hard day's work, beside an old
maid and hear from her how, daring
the day, Mrs. Francis walked ont with
that old dress on which she worn all
last year ; Mrs. Green came out with a
blue tie on her bonnet in the place of
the old pnrple one ; Turner's boy ran
away ; Carter commenced building a
new pair of front steps ; Miller's wife
tried to get trusted for a carpet ;
Anderson's daughter passed yonng
Dennison on the street without speak
ing to him, and the various other little
incidents of the day ?
There was l'olly Perkins ; everybody
said she was dying for a man, and they
somefully misstated her motives. I
took a little interest in finding ont the
facts and setting her right in my own
estimation. Where they stated that
she had walked 11 miles to get a fellow
to go home with her from protracted
meeting, I found the distance only 10
miles and the going was good at that.
There tbey had gone and put four miles
on to that statement, and were trying
to bias the public mind when the real
truth was as bandy to get at as a hat on
a peg. Then they said she boasted of
Laving refused thirty-five offers ; I in
vestigated and found that the number
was only thirty-four. One man on a
list of marriage offers makes a big
difference, but the gossips insisted on
perverting the truth.
There was Augusta KatUbone an
other quiet mild-tempered 6ingle fe
male. They said she had proposed
marriage to seven different men, when
the real number was only five. Then
they said she had once sued a man for
breach of promise, atd settled it for
nineteen dollars. This was another
mis-statement ; she got nineteen dollars
and a half. The gossips also charged
her with hiding under a shed for two
Lours to see if a certain man left a cer
tain house where there was a certain
pretty girl, at a certain hour. This
story went all over the village, much to
Ler detriment, until I went to work and
elicited the truth. I found that she
never Lid under a shed at all it was
nnder a one-horse wagon, and she got a
sore throat, and Lad to wear a red rag
around Ler neck for six weeks.
Let me also recall the sad manner in
which Symantha Evergreen was per
sistently maligned. They said she
went to protracted meeting for the sole
purpose of trapping the minister, who
was a single man. I went right to her
and got the truth she didn't care a
copper for the minister ; it was Deacon
Smith she was after. They said she
knew everybody's business in the town,
and I went to work to nail that lie.
Come to find out, she didn't know any
such thing. There was a new family
just arrived the day before, and all she
knew about them was that they had
four children, three dogs, two cats,
three cows, one horse, a wagon, three
bedsteads, seven chairs.an old-fashioaed
bureau, a lounge, a blue-edged set of
crockery, a stove, paper window cur
tains, two tables, twa feather beds,
three straw beds, aa ax with the handle
broken eff, an ingrain carpet, an old
fashioned clock, and that the woman
was a Methodist and Ler husband a
Baptist.
When I get to thinking over how
much abuse is constantly heaped upon
this class of forlorn females, I wonder
that they don't give way to dispair, and
kill somebody or something.
One' Chances or Living.
A medical writer of eminence Las been
collecting evidence as to the chances of
life which children have, upon being
born, in different countries. Out of
10,000 children born it is found from
official statistics that in Norway as many
u 7 nrronffhlv speaking, three out
of every four, live to be twenty years of
age. In England only C.C27 so live, or
788 fewer than in Norway. In the
United States bovs have nearly as good
chance of life as in England, while girls
bave not But in France only 5,022, or
scarcely more than one out of two, reach
twenty, while in Ireland no more than
4,855, or actually lees than one out of
two, attain that age. More surprising
still are the statistics regarding old age.
Out of the 10,000, for example, we
learn that in Norway 3,487, more than
one out of three, reach seventy ; in
England almost one out of four ; in the
United States, still men only, one out
of four a trifle Ligher than England ;
in France, 1,77(5, or about one of and
in Ireland only 8ol, or one out of 11 J.
If this table is to be depended upon, we
thus learn that of all countries in the
world Norway offeis the new-born child
the best chance of long life, while Ire
land offers the worst And France,
universally admitted to be so far as soil
and climate are concerned one of the
most favored regions of the earth, offers
but little better chance than Ireland.
The world uses 250,000,000 pounds of
tea and 718,000,000 pounds of coffee
each year. China furnishes nearly all
the tea and Brazil the coffee.
THE DlXtTrR-It IRRAV
OttL.
1MB rUKllEI WOUNDBQ OF
THH LATTER SCENES AXD INCIDENTS.
The celebrated affair of the Leopard
and the Chesapeake, the latter com
manded by Com. James Barron, resulted
in Barron's trial and sentence by the
court martial, in the proceeding relative
w wuicu is iB saia uom. Decatur took
an active part, and a duel was finally
the result, at Bladensbnrg. A corres
pondent of the Chicago Tribune de-
scn bes the affair as follows
When Elliott arrived at Bladensbnrg
little knots of boys and men, knowing
or guessing the matter impending, gave
interesting regard, a group of naval
officers particularly standing at the
tavern, walked out across the bridge to
ward me place ol meeting, and con
cealed themselves within hearing of
pistol shots. Almost every one of them
was a friend of Decatur, and among
mem was uom. liodgers and Porter, his
two colleagues in the Board of Navy
Commissioners. Barron followed soon
afterward, walking between his second
Elliott, and his friend Latimer. His
face expressed dignity and resolution,
lie walked firmly, and they three also
descended into the Valley of Chance.
Decatur and Barron bowed to each
other formally. Hambleton stood by
Decatur, Latimer by Barron. Bain
bridge and Elliott conferred together,
and the former, who had behaved fairly
and equitably throughout was appointed
to measure the ground. He marked a
line in the sod with his boot, and,
placing Lis toe to it, stepped out eight
times, a yard to the step, marking also
the last step as a base ; four times a
man's length, or across your dining
room that was the distance.
Each second now produced the pis
tols from a pair of cases low-barreled
duelling weapons, of fine finish and
bright steel silver -mounted. They were
charged and rammed in the old style,
and presented to each principal by the
second. During all this time no word
was said, except by the seconds.
In like manner Elliott and Bainbridge
tossed for corners. Bainbridge won ;
it was Decatur's usual good luck.
"Com. Decatur," said Bainbridge,
"which stand do vou select ?"
The axis of the two bases ran nearly
north and south, obliquely from the
brook. Decatur wolked to the north,
nearest the water, where he stood a few
inches lower than Barron. Both threw
off their cloaks, and stood confronting
each other.
"Gentlemen," said Baiubridges rais
ing his voice, "I shall give the word as
follows : Present one two three.
Yon are neither at your peril to fire be
fore the word one, nor after the word
three."
Com. Barron turned bis Lead, Lis
pistol hanging at Lis side, and said to
Com. Bainbridge :
"Hove you any objection, sir, to pro
nouncing the words in the manner you
intend to give them ?"
"None," said Bainbridge ; and he re
peated the formula precisely as he
afterward gave it
For the first time the antagonists
looked into each other's eyes. Stern
ness and the purpose to kill lay in both.
"I hope, 6ir," said Barron, "that
when we meet in another world we shall
be better friends than we have been in
this."
"I have never been your enemy, sir,"
exclaimed Decatur.
Here Bainbridge walked behind
Decatur and took his place twelve or
fifteen feet to his left, Hambleton as
far on the right The same positions
were reversed by Elliott and Latimer.
"Gentlemen,"said Bainbridge, "make
ready."
The antagonists swung around side-
wise, and looted at eacu otuer across
their right shoulders.
"Present "
The two arms went up, and each took
sight
"One two "
One report rang out The last word
was deafened by it There were two
puffs of smoke, and in an instant Barron
was down groaning.
Decatur straightened np lor a mo
ment pinched his lips, dropped his
pistol, and the color went out of his
face. He drew his right hand to his
side. He theu fell to the ground speech
less. The seconds of both were beside them
in an instant Decatur was moved by
his friends to higher ground, near by
Barron.
Ho opened his eyes directly, and said,
"I am mortally wounded, at least 1 be
lieve so ; and I wish I had fallen in the
service of my country."
Barron looked np to them all ; and
said ;
"Everything has been conducted in
the most honorable manner. I am
mortally wounded, Commodore Decatur,
I forgive you from the bottom of my
heart"
Immediately down the pathway to
the Valley of Chance came many gentle
men, all friends of Decatur Rogers
and Porter and Bolton, two doctors,
Bailey, Washington and Trevitt Gen.
Harper, and other friends or idlers.
There were anxious looks and utter
ances of "Tut 1 tut 1" or "Dear 1 dear."
The doctors proceeded to loosen the
clothes of the sufferers and ascertain
the nature of their wounds. The little
green valley at the breakfast hour had
became a surgeon's hospital. In it
were represented nearly all the naval
victories in the republic Tripoli and
Algiers, Lake Erie and both oceans ;
they held solemn congress in this un
holy amphitheatre.
Barron was struck in the nip and
about the groin. Decatur had caught
the ball on his Lip, and it had glanced
upward into the abdomen, severing the
large blood vessels there. The two
doctors exchanged glances; there was
ho hope for Decatur ; his pulsation had
almost ceased.
Now began on the ground, as they
lay upon cloaks spread for them, that
lying interview of mingled tenderness
and recrimination which Wirt has com
pared to the last intercourse of Hamlet
and Laertes. Each striving to clear up
his fame, and prove that this crime was
a mistake or the work of officious
enemies. Barron, certain that his hours
were numbered, wishes to beat peace
with his enemy that they might enter
the court of judgement friends. Decatur
was less relenting, but he consented to
forgive Barron, though not his advisers.
It was a sadder scene than Nelson,
Decatur's admirer, dying in the cock pit
during the battle, or Bay".
he had been compared, bleeding on the
I battle field.
The carriage came and they Dore
Decatur to it, Bainbridge kissing bu
,-wt- n had wrested Bainbridge
the Moors. Bain-
bri.lae in return, had measured
the
irronnd for him to stain it
with his
blood.
Rod era took Decatur's head upon
his shoulders, the doctor,
Trevitt,
seated with them, and the carriage took
lis painiui way oacx to me city. Bain
bridge and Hambleton hastened to the
navy yard, where the tug lay to take
them back to the Columbus, that ship
oi discard. At nail past xu o clock
Decatur re-entered his elegant mansion.
His wife and household, disturbed at
the breakfast table with the appalling
news, were driven to the upper part of
the bouse. Around the city the evil
news spread. Friends crowded around
the door, and into the duelist's dying
chamber. He signed his will, refused
to Lave the ball extracted from his
wound, and spoke affectionately of his
wife, whom he yet refused to see. After
one of the spasms, he said :
"I do not believe it is possible for a
person to endure so much pain as I now
The town was aroused, and his door
ways and pavements were crowded.
They stopped at the drawing-room at
President Monroe's. Uncomplaining,
in the midst of anguish, to the last, the
unconquerable soul of the "Bayard of
the Seas" yielded it self up without a
groan at half past 10 o'clock that night
The next day the little old National
Intelligencer came out with leaded
editorial head, saying that it would be
"affectation" to be silent upon the fact
that the duel had occurred, and that
the combatants were mortally wounded.
In a "postscript' it related that Decatur
was dead, and added, in the crude
apostrophe of the period. "Mourn.
Columbia t for one of your brightest
stars is set !" Three days afterward the
mail was robbed three miles from
Baltimore, the driver tied to a tree and
shot dead, and the mail-bags picked
over in the bushes near by. All this
while Decatur's body was going from
his residence, close by the White
House, to "Kalorama," an estate on a
hill overlooking Georgetown, and
while Barron lay in the city, writhing
with pain,listeningto the funeraL drums.
In Congress, John llandoph offered
consolatory resolutions, but they were
objected to. 'lhe tone of the press.
commenting on the duel, was respect
ful, both to the living and dead
antagonist but as sternly denunciatory
of "the code" as our newspapers now
adays could be.
Barron suffered dreadfully for many
months, but recovered at last and lived
down to 1851, surviving, I think,
Decatur s childless widow, who was re
presented in 1840 to be alive in the'
Georgetown Catholic College, 'in ill
health and poverty,' but hopeful of
securing something from Congress.
Barron went to sea again, and had
charge of several vessels, bat the shadow
of the duel lay across his life. People
forgot the apology for it in the eatas
trophe of it A new generation of boys
rose up who read of Decatur s valor.
and learned to regard Barron as the
assassin. The poor living victim could
not explain against a dead man. He
asked for a court martial on Decatur's
charge against him, and was exonerated
with niggardly compliments.
Decatur lies buried behind St Peter's
Church, Philadelphia, in a venerable,
spacious graveyard, under an elegant
monument His portrait is in George
town College. His name is centered on
many towns and counties in the country,
What he lived for he had obtained
glory in the eyes of his conntrymen.
Barron obtained 'satisfaction' little
more. Yet I think that th latter was
throughout the aggrieved spirit
The Work That Wiia.
If I can only impress upon the yonng
men the importance ot choosing one
thing for their life-business, and stick
ing to it, 1 shall not have written tins
article in vain. What is success but
the reward of persevering industry?
Oh, I dou't Lave anv reference to that
industry of some people, who no chang
ing about from one thing to another
during their whole lives. lhey may
be the business people in the world,
but they accomplish nothing. I mean
the well-directed effort that lays siege
to some particular trade or profession,
and comiiicrs and takes full command
of it, just as armies besiege and conquer
a strong city.
Oh, the desire to be brilliant! I think
it destroys more fine characters than
rum. It is a disease that often works
fatally among our talented young Ame
ricans, withering inherent genius by
pulling it from the particular soil where
it naturally grows, and transplanting it
wherever foolish fancy dictates. W hat
a pity it is that there exists, even in
our land, a spirit which looks dispar
agingly upon hard-working, slow-plod
ding mediocrity. There is a thousand
times more Lope for an honest shoe
maker, who does Lis work well and
sticks to Lis business, than for your
brilliant fellow who gallops over land
and sea, now scribbling a nice little
poem for a newspaper, again reading a
little of law, next rummaging medical
bonks, and next be will do the Lord
only knows. Continuity, like every
other quality of mind, is capable of
development ; but, like others, alas ! it
is sometimes largely inherent, and often
exhibits itself in a remarkable degree,
quite early in life. Show me a boy who
makes his kite fly in spite of its ragged
tail and a boisterous wind ; who works
tlav after day, and night after night,
at Lis problem, and gets it; who whit
tles till Lis fingers are sore and his
knife is dull, but finally succeeds in
making a top to suit liim, aud I do not
care if lie is "as slow as molasses in
winter." I'll wager my money on him
a hundred times in preference to the
bright, smart, little pet of the school
who gets his lessons in five minutes,
and lets his kite go to the dogs because
the tail breaks.
Continuity Is worth more than genius.
The two united makes John Milton.
The first fully developed, makes Wm.
Woidsworth; but a bright intellect
without a genius for work, makes the
villain wit who glorifies the American
eagle on the Fourth of July, and rolls
in thecornerot a Deer saloon on unnsi
mas day. United, they always perform
wonders; but the ability to persevere
in one course often performs wonders
anyhow, while genius, without Con
tinuity, 18 always uhuciuk auuui, hc
will-o'-the-wisp, deceiving people, and
constantly shining very dimly through
a mist
Oh, how many fine young men we
have seen of acknowledged talent and
finished education, who have had to
yield the palm to some plodding fellow
who was reckoned a blockhead in Lis
school-boy days!
Marriage la Hannah.
Marriage among the Burmese is a
most peculiar institution, and the "mar
riage knot" is very easily undone. If
two persons are tired of each other s
society, they dissolve partnership in
the following simple, and touching, but
conclusive man ner. I hey respectively
light two candies, ana, buuiuiik up
their hut sit down and wait until they
are burned. The one whose candle
burns out first gets up at once auu
leaves the house for ever, taking noth
inir but the clothes he or she may have
on at the time t all else then becomes
the property of the other party.
The sewers of Paris are visited by 500
persons daily.
The Mas Who Uvea l"p Stairs,
The man who lives nit Stairs ti-ia niii.l.
for which lie will have to give an ac-l
imut, eimer in in is world, or wtien he
shall Lave passed toe portals of the
Great Unknown. .
. We are not of a revengeful disposi
tion ; therefore, harbor no feelings of
malice toward him ; although at times,
our physical Organization Las been
racked with untold agony at Lis pecu
liar demonstrations.'
V e have endured all with meekness,
realizing that in the far leyond a sea-
sou ui rest awaits us, wnere we shall
evermore be free from the tantarara of
an upstairs tenant
Precisely at rive in the morning Lis
aiarm ciocit beats a devil s tatoo, rous
ing us from refreshing slumber to de
come an nnwillinglistenerto the variety-!
of sounds immediately following. After
a desperate wrangle with his Rtove, he
succeeds in removing the clinkers and
ashes; then with a broad-axe, or beetle
ana weage, ne manufactures a sutlicient
Quantity of kindling, starts the tire,
rops three or four stove-lids on the
floor, drums on the stove-pipe with the
pu&ci, iuru at iuc expiration oi twenty
minutes, frantically vociforates:
"Come, Maria, tea-kettie's bilinT
Instantly there is a frightful groan
from the bedstead overhead, as '.Maria"
with a heroic spring leaps therefrom
and alights on the floor with ajar that
shakes the house to its found ;itiin anil
causes the windows to rattle with sud
den terror.
We have iMjriio with much that is
annoying, and are willing to endure a
eeuerous share of this world's racket ;
but when regularly every week the
up-stairs-man brings home a quart of
walnuts and cracks them on a nail head
in the floor, driving bits of plastering
into our hair and eyes, ami racking our
nervous system with pangs unutterable.
tur indignation rises and we start to
our feet with a fixed determination to
visit the man above and demand a ces
sation of the unendurable nut-whanging.
pnee we ascended to Lis eyrie, ami
with livid countenance was alsiut to
annihilate him with a burst of wrath ;
but at the sight of his huge frame our
courage collapsed, and we could only
exclaim :
"There is a skunk trying to get into
your hencoop."
He thanked nsfor ourtrouble, offered
us some waluuta which we politely de
clined. Then, after a cordial invitation
to call again, we bade him adieu ; and
sought the seclusion of a ten-acre lot,
where we vented our spleen by indulg
ing in a few emphatic remarks concern
ing our pusillanimity.
About the time we generally retire to
our innocent couch, our up-stairs neigh
bor descends to his cellar and makes a
vigorous assault on an empty barrel,
which, after an indefinite uumU r of
sledge-hammer blows, is reduced to the
consistency of kindlings. Every night
he repeats the operation, and our ears
flap with drsgust and pent-up anger.
One day we vowed to out-general our
barrel-smasher. e ascertained where
he got the barrels, then went and en
gaged all that the concern Lad and was
likely to Lave forthe next three months.
The result was, that iu les than three
weeks every available space on our
premises was tilled high with wooden
ware. We felt that we had triumphed
over the up-stairs man, for he hadn't
smashed a barrel since we made a con
tract for them.
But what to do with the barn-Is was
the question. We had no use for t hem,
ami our ground was rapidly tilling up
with them in fact, they had ltccome a
nuisance. The milkman had stumbled
over them and wasted a can of his lac
teal merchandise, the iip-stairs-nian's
wife Lad torn Ler dresses by getting
them caught iu the sharp staves and
protruding nails. A inimlter piled
against the fence Lad fallen nHin a
small boy, whose father threuteued us
with prosecution.
One evening Jones, who lived near
by. came into our yard, and seeing the
stuff piled about asked what we inten
ded to do with the lumber. We told
him we didn't know; had loiight them
for a particular purpose, but was afraid
we should have no use for them after
all. He asked if we would sell them ;
we said. yes. He made us an otter;
consequently Mr. Jones iM-came the
happy possessor ot one hundred and
fifty barrels, of assorted calibre and
rapacity. e retired that night, se
cretly exulting on our good fortune in
getting rid of the cumbersome truck.
Hut we made nothing on our trade
with Jones. We merely accomplished
our purpose and got the lest of the up
stairs man.
The next night, as we lay on our
downy lied, just closing our eyes in
sleep, our ears were saluted witn a
terrific crash from the cellar of the up
stairs fellow. Thrice was the crash
repeated.
Heavens! there was no mistaking
that sound he had found a barrel !
Next morning great was our surprise
at seeing the up-stairs man tike some
of the barrels, and throw them into his
cellar!
We went out and asked him if he
knew to whom the barrels belonged.
He said he did.
We told hiiu that we Lad sold them
to Jones.
I know it" said lie. "and an Lour
after Le bought them of you, he sold
them to me."
Speechless with astonishment we
stood a monument of inexpressible in
dignation. What should we dot We
had no donbt of the up-stairs-mans
statement else he would not have dared
to take the barrels.
Thoroughly exasperated, we started
for Jones, but found he had gone West.
We were in lor it
The future was delightful to cou tem
plate.
One hundred and fifty consecutive
nights of unalloyed barrel-smashing.
May the gods protect us and enable
us to endure the ordeal with a fortitude
worthy of emulation.
Pausing Away.
ySt have often remarked the unconcern of
visitors to one of our beautiful cemeteries.
as they traverse the avenues and comment
on the good or bad tajte of the monuments
erected. The visit in most cases is one of
mere enriosity. Although every tablet and
inscription is a direct sermon to the living
Thou art mortal, and must die the appeal
reaches not the heart as a truth not to be
safely trifled with. The fact that all are
mortal is not denied, but its personal appli
cation is evaded. Death is regarded as re
moteit will come, but not for many years
"thus dies in human rjarts the thoughts
of death." The most impressive lessons are
set aside as not demanding immediate con
sideration, and are regarded as obtrusive if
they for a moment check the spirit of intense
orldhness. Toe solemn awe wnica for a
moment is produced by the entrance into a
family of a stern messenger, striking down
its head, is toon replaced by the eager cal
culations of worldly profit which the event
may bring in its train. It is not uncommon
that disputes arise about the division of pro
perty left by the dead, and the house of
mourning being converted into a scene oi
angry quarrels. So little is the voice of
Providence regarded. The obituary columns
of a newspaper, in which are recorded the
exit of the distibguished,instead of admonish
ing us of the vanity of human life, impart
feeble impressions, toon to be effaced. The
voice is silenced in death of one who figured
in the forum, the cabinet, the senate, or the
pulpit and after a few formal regrets, the
strife is who shall succeed to the place va-
I cited. Men, eager for wealth and honors.
ride recklessly over the graves of the dead,
not laying it to heart that the closing history
oi omers win soon Deoome their.
HIm Mayings.
Use time' as though you knew the
vaiua.
Value a good conscience more than
praise. .
The similitude of fools is a protection
to tne wise. At. Augustine.
I iction is a potent agent for good
in me hands or the good. Madam
Seeker. ... .
I take it as a rule of life not to be too
much addicted to any one thing. Ter-
The obscurity of a writer is generally
in proportion to his capacity. Q'lintil-
Han.
Foster the beautiful, and everv Lonr
tnon callest new Bowers to birth.
Svhillrr.
To be a great man it is necessary to
turn to account all opportunities.
isirnrioiicatu.
When impious men bear sway, the
post of honor is the private station.
cinaKexiware.
Man is the merriest species of crea
tion ; ail above or below htm are serious.
Addison.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
onaicexptare.
A siugle burst of mirth is worth a
whole season full of cries tnd melan
choly. Sfuiicre.
The worm of conscience is the com
panion of the owl ; the light is shunned
by evil spirits only. Schiller.
Let us not no man each other part
at once ; all farewells should be sudden
forever. Huron.
Miss not the occasion ; by the fore
lock take subtle power, the never bait
ing power. Wordsworth.
If every man works at what nature
fittod him, the cows will be well tended.
La Fimtaine.
Passionate persons are like men who
stand npon their heads ; they see all
things the wrong way. Plato.
The strokes of the pen need delibera
tion as much as those of the sword need
swiftness. Julia Ward Hoive.
As nightingitles do upon glow worms
feed, so poets live upon the living light
of nature and of beauty. BaiUy.
The more sand has eccaped through
the hour glass of our life, the clearer
we should see through it Ritchcr.
Fame is a vapor : popularity an acci
dent ; riches takes wings ; the only
certainty is oblivion. Horace Urcrlry.
blander, whose edge is sharper than
the sword, whose tongue ont venoms all
the worms of the Nile. Shakespeare.
His tongue dropped manna and could
make the worse appear the better reason,
to perpUx and dash maturest counsels.
Milton.
Yet I argue not against Heaven's
haud or will, nor bate a jot of heart or
hope, but still bear up and steer right
on ward. Milton.
The block of granite, which was an
obstacle in the path of the weak, be
comes a stepping stone in the pathway
of the strong. Carlyle.
I am a man of Peace ; God knows I
love peace, but I hope I may never be
such a coward as to mistake oppression
for peace. Kosxtith.
f erseverance is a tinman virtue that
wins each godlike act and plucks suc
cess even from the spear-proof crest of
rugged danger. Howard.
Pay not before thy work be done, if
thou dost, it will never be well done ;
and thou wilt have but a pennyworth
for two pence. Franklin.
Providence has hidden a charm in
difficult undertakings, which is appre
ciated only by those who dare to grapple
with them. Madame Suietc.hinr,.
Applause waits ou success ; the fickle
multitude, like the straw that floats
along the stream, glide with the current
still and follow fortune. Franklin.
The chief ingredients in the compo
sition of those qualities that gain es
teem and praise are good nature, truth,
good sense, and good breeding. Addi
son. The ancients had but one word for
morals. It might be well if the same
were the case for ns, yet with this
essential difference, that while they de
graded morals to the level of manners,
a higher culture would lead us to raise
manners to the level of morals.
Imaginary evils soon become real ones
by indulging in our reflections on them,
as he who in a mclaneholy fancy sees
something like a face on the wall or
wainscot can, by two or three touches
with a lead pencil, make it look visible
and agreeing with what he fancied.
No trait of character is more valuable
than the possession of good temper.
Home can never be made happy without
it It is like the flowers springing up
in our pathway, reviving and cheering
us. Kind words and looks are the out
ward demonstration ; patience and for
bearance are the sentinels within.
A pair of bright eyes, with a dozen
glances, suffice to subdue a man ; to
enslave him and inflame ; to make him
even forget ; they dazzle him so that
the past becomes straightway dim to
him; and be so prizes them that Le
would give all his life to possess them.
What is the fond love of dearest friends
compared to Lis treasure ? Is memory
as strong as expectancy, fruition as
hunger.gratitude asdesire? Tharkerg,
Consider what you have in the small
est chosen library. A company of the
wisest and wittiest men that could be
picked out of all civil countries, in a
thousand years. Lave set in the best
order the results of-their learning and
wisdom. The men themselves were hid
and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of
interruption, fenced by etiquette ; but
the thought which they did not uncover
to their bosom friends is here written
ont in trausparent words to us, the
strangers of another aga. Emerson.
Who nse Long Words.
Big words are great favorites with
people of small ideas and weak concep
tions. They are often employed by
men of mind when they use language
that may best conceal their thoughts.
With few exceptions, however, illiter
ate and half educated persons use more
big words than people of thorough ed
ucation. It is a very common but a
very egregious mistake to suppose that
long words are more genteel than short
ones just as the same sort ot people
imagine high colors and flashy figures
improve the style of dress. They are
the kind of folks who don't begin, but
always commence. They don't go to
bed but mysteriously retire, iney
don't eat and drink, but partake of re
freshments. They are never sica, out
extremely indisposed. And instead of
dying, at last, iney decease, xne
strength of the English language is in
the short words chiefly monosyllables
of Saxon derivation andfpeople who
are in earnest seldom use any other.
Love, hate, anger, grief, joy, express
themselves in short words and direct
sentences; while cunning, falsehood
and affection delight in what Horace
calls verba sciuipedaliamoT& "a
foot and a half long.
Life tii laelia.
The "Times" Calcutta correspondent,
describing the life of English planters
in India, relates the following incident:
"I met a planter who, far removed from
European society, has managed to write
and print (not publish, I think) a most
laborious book, for the purpose of prov
ing inai an me religions oi tne world
are traceable to a poetical or astrologi
cat oasis, ana mat i nrni is as much a
myth as Jupiter. Ibis he told me, in
his amusement. I found him in a Dak
bungalow reading Max Mnller with the
freshness of a boy and the closeness of
a man accustomed to hard thought.
Chancing to mention these facts to
another gentleman, he said : 1 es, but
gentle as Mr. So-and-so is. 111 tell yon
what Le once did. There was a band
of Dacoits in the neighborhood, and in
the daily habit of levying blackmail.
If the chief was paid a monthly wage,
the person so paying was secured in his
property. If not thieving was allowed
and he soon lost far more than would
perhaps Lave warded off the robberies
for years. Tbe Chief one day railed
upon Mr. , and professed to need
a sum of money. The Englishman said,
l es, i win give you notes,' and he ie
ceived the expected answer that the
mau did not want notes but rupees. It
was agreed, therefore, that the robber
should call again for the mouey, which
would ne provided against a certain
time. Tbe planter cou hi Lave called in
help, but the experiment was a danger
ous one, and Le resolved that Le would
not place any one else in the position
of suffering from the almost certain
retaliation, lie armed two ot his ser
vants. Sikhs, and when the robber
again appeared, pinned him to the wall,
tied him hand and foot, put him on an
elephant and carried him a consider
able distance te prison, where before
trial Le died of cholera. The act alto
gether was one of great during; the
captor, seated on another elephant.
held a loaded musket ready to shoot
the robber in case of an attempt at res-
rue, but that act of resolution broke up
tne gang, and Dacoity, lor a time at
least was at an end."
Aacleal Watches.
By the will of the late Ladv Fellowes
which was recently proved, tbe British
Museum will become enriched by the
possession of a celebrated collection of
ancient watches, which have more than
once been exhibited among the loan
collections at South Kensington. This
collection - was in the first instance
formed by her late husband. Sir Charles
Fellowes. who received the honor of
knighthood for archaeological discove
ries in Lyria and for his services in
removing the Xanthian marbles to the
British Museum, many years ago. He
died in IffCO, leaving to the nation one
watch only that of John Milton. The
rest of thecollection liecame his willow's,
and, with some few additions made hy
lier, will now be handed over to the
British Museum. Ijidv Fellowes. who
in emblazoning and heraldic drawing
was a consumate artist made drawings
of each watch, and these, in their accu
racy of detail and coloring, are only of
less value than the watches themselves.
1 hese drawings are left bv her to the
trnstees of the Koval Institute, Albe
marle street Lady Fellowes was a
member of the Koyal Arcluelogical
Institute, and a constaut visitor at the
monthly meetings, and she was also an
honorary nieiuler of the Fine Arts
Club, and was well known as a collec
tor of curiosities and for her extensive
knowledge of heraldry and antiquities.
Profitable Buniaes for Women.
One of the most profitable as well as
interesting kinds of business for women
is the earn of bees. In a recent agri
cultural report it is stated that one
lady bought four hives for $10, and in
five years she was offered 81,500 for
her stock, and refused it as not enough.
In addition to this increase in her capi
tal, in one of these five years she sold
twenty-two hives and four hundred and
thirty pounds of honey. It is also
stated that in five years one man, from
six colonies of bees to start with,
cleared 8,000 pouads of honey and fifty-
four colonies. When properly in
structed, almost any woman in the city,
as easily as in the country, can manage
bees and make more profit than in any
otber method demanding so Uttle time
and labor. But in the modes ordina
rily practiced few can make any great
profit in this employment It is hoped
a time is at Land when every woman
will be trained to some employment by
which she can secure to herself an in
dependent home and means to support
a family, in ease she does not marry or
is left a widow, with herself and family
to support American Woman'
Home.
Be m Jlaa.
Foolish spending is the father of
poverty. Do not be ashamed of work,
nor of hard work. Work for the wages
you can gel, but work for half price
rather than be idle. Be your master,
and do not let society or fashion swallow
np your individuality bat, coat nd
boots. Do not eat up and wear out all
that you earn. Compel your selfish
body to spare something for profits
saved. Be stingy to your own appetite, i
but merciful to others necessities. Help
others, and ask no help for yourself.
See that you are proud. Let your pride
be of the right kind. Be too proud to
be lazy ; too proud to give up without
conquering every difficulty ; too proud
to wear a coat that you cannot afford to
buy ; too proud to be in company you
cannot keep up with in expenses ; too
proud to Le, or steal, or cheat ; too
proud to be stingy.
Where the Saa Does Hot Met.
The ocean stretched away in silent vast
nesa at oar feet ; the sound of its waves
scarcely reached onr airy lookout ; away in
the north tbe hnge old sun swung low along
the boriion, like the slow beat of the pendu
lum in the tall dock of our grandfather's
parlor corner. We all stood silent looking
at our watches. When both hands came
together at 12, midnight the full round orb
hung triumphantly above the wave abridge
of gold, running due north, spanned the
water between us and him. There he shone
in silent majesty, which knew no setting.
We involuntarily took off enr hats ; no word
was said. Combine, if you can, the most
brilliant sunrise and sunset you ever saw,
and its beauties will pale before the gorgeous
coloring which now lit np the ocean, heaven,
and mountain. In half an hoar tbe sun had
swung np perceptibly on his beat the colors
changed to those of morning, a fresh breeze
rippled over the flood, one songster after
another piped op in the grove behind as
we had slid into another day. Mr. Camp
btltt yorray Travels.
aJve Trae.
He that pretends to a happy life must i
nrst lay a inundation oi virtue, as a
bond upon him to live and die true to
that cause. We do not find felicity in
the veins of the earth, where we dig for
gold ; nor in the bosom of the sea,
where we fish for pearl ; but in a pure i
and untainted mind, which, if it were
not holy, were fit to entertain the Diety.
He that would be truly happy must
think his own lot best and so live with
men as considering God sees him, and
so to speak, as if men beard him.
Pbkttt ScTEBSTmoNS. There is a
pretty superstition current that when a
honey-bee enters a room he brings
pleasant news, which seems to have
come down to us from the days of O . id.
who makes a hamadryad despatch a bee
to warn ner careless lover that she pined
in his absence.
Once, when a child, I visited an auo'
in the country, where an apiary had
been for years in a lovely green en
closure, under large, overhanging elms.
whose graceful branches cast a tender
shadow over the industrious, quiet
community. Though scarcely nine
years old, I was fond of taking a book
and stealing away to this secluded spot,
where only the birds, the squirrels and
the bees ever intruded. The latter
liked me, and perhaps the former,
more than I can tell just now ; for they
alighted on my shoulders or book as
they passed to and fro, and I imagined
I stood in beautiful relation to all God's
dear creatures.
There had been a sudden death in
tbe family, and as there was no one
who seemed to need my companionship.
I sought my moss-grown stone in the
apiary. Here, all was commotion.
Bees flying about in wild disorder, not
like swarming bees, but as if all were
in the air. Sjme one afterwards tied
black badges to the hives. I was told
that unless this was done at the demise
of a member of the family, the bees
would desert their hives ! Do not be
incredulous ; what power comes from
simple belief, based upon a sympathy
witn men in ail lesser creations I
tMzaheth Oakes Smith.
Torcmso AxErDOTK or a Spiiier.
Mr. Moggndge in his studies in Natural
History bad been in the habit of im
mersing, for preservation. Lis different
specimens oi spiders and ants in bottles
of alcohol. He saw that they struggled
lor a iew minutes ; Dut ne tnougut tnat
sensation was soon extinguished, and
that they were soon free from suffering.
On one occasion he wished to preserve
a large female spider and twenty-four
oi her young ones, that he had cap
tured. He put the mother into a bottle
of alcohol, and saw that after a few
moments she folded np her legs npon
her body and was at rest He then put
into the bottle the young ones, who, of
course manifested acute pain. What
was Lis surprise to see tbe mother
arouse herself from her lethargy, dart
around to, and gather her young ones
to her bosom, f jU heregs over them,
again relapse into insensibility, until
at last death came to her relief, and the
limbs, no longer controlled by this
maternal instinct, released their grasp
and became dead! The effect of the
exhibition npon him is a lesson to our
common humanity. He Las never
since repeated the experiment, but has
applied chloroform before immersion.
J adging from the above, the spider is
certainly superior to the human animal,
in the fact that alcohol does not destroy
her natural affection.
LrvR for Sometrinu Thousands of
men breathe, move and live pass off
the stage of life, and are beard of no
more. Why T They did not a particle
of good in this world ; and none were
blessed by them ; none could point to
them as the instruments of their re
demption ; not a line they wrote, not a
won! they spoke could be recalled ; and
so they perished, their light went out
in darkness, and they were not remem
bered more than the insects of yester
day. Will you thus live and die, oh,
man immortal ? Live for something.
Do good, and leave behind you a monu
ment of virtue that the storms of time
can never destroy. Write your name
by kindness, love and mercy on the
hearts of the thousands you come in
contact with year by year, and you will
never be forgotten. "Aol your name.
your deeds, will be as legible on the
hearts yon left behind as the stars on
: ,,:
the brow of evening. Good deeds will
shine as brightly on earth as the stars
of heaven.
HrxMi.so bikp's Umbrella. A writer
tells ns : "In front of a window where
I worked last summer was a butternut
tree. A humming-bird built her nest
on a limb that grew near the window.
and we had an opportunity to watch her
closely, as we could look right into tbe
nest from tbe window. One day there
was a very heavy shower coming up,
and we thought we would see if she
covered her yonng during the storm ;
but when the hrst drops fell she came
and took in her bill one of two or three
large leaves growing close to the nest,
and laid this leaf over so it completely
covered the nest : then she flew away.
On looking at the leaf we found a hole
in it and in the side of the nest was a
small stick that the leaf was fastened
to or hooked on. After the storm was
over the old bird came back and un
hooked the leaf, and the nest was per
fectly dry."
A Polish general, very benevolent
once sent a man on a message, and or
dered him to ride his favorite horse.
When the messenger returned be would
never ride that horse again, unless Le
could take the general's purse along
with it At every poor man asking alms
he met the horse would stop, nor would
he go on again until be either gave him I
something or pretended to do so. j barrels and shipped to Boston, where
The horse showed plainly the kind of , jt finds a ready sale at six cents a pound,
master he had served ; and, if he had Immense quantities are used by brewers
not learned himself the Christian lesson j getting ale, and tbe demand alwavs
of pity for the deserving poor, Le gave exceeds the supply.
A1 1hi;,?"J 8trDg hiDt f hU I ncient ballad which tell, of how
duty in the matter. Jobnny 8anda mnage1 to get of
I.vtelmgenc orT-Each antinidom,ti0Ifronb'e8 h." I '?iwd
an ant-hill knows his companions. Mr. I ennous illustration in an English court
Darwin several times earned ants from i Tte JJ
one hill to another, inhabited apparently I Bome dom"!'c troa1blesh"1., aTed to
by tens of thousands of anta ; but the suicide and on the day named
strangers were invariably detected and "nt jor.the purpose of ear-ti.:..v;-
.!.: v rying out their design. The wife threw
SV1X1CU. AUlUalUK wLiva O UliKUl MTJ
family odor by which they were recog-
mzed, he put some ants from a very
large nest into a bottle strongly per
fumed with assafcetida, and restored
them after twenty-fonr hours. At first
they were threatened by their com
panions, but soon recognized, and
allowed to pass.
"I wish I could mind God as my
little dog minds me," said a little boy,
looking thoughtfully on his shaggy
friend. ''He always looks so pleased
to mind, and I don't" What a painful
truth did this child speak !"
Tn tallest trees are most in the
power of the winds, and ambitious men
Q( the blasts of fortune. Penn.
The theory of a subterranean river,
connecting tbe waters of Lake Superior
and Lake Ontario, is revived. Some
people regard this as absolutely neces-
sary to account lor tne presence oi
salmon and herring in the lakes above
Like Niagara Falls.
Wanted a pig from the pen that
mightier than tbe sword.
VnT-ieties.
Drees
ding.
parade A fashionable wed-
The height
your word.
of adversity Pledging
Where to go when short of money
Go to work.
Orange Peel is often tbe power behind
the thrown.
What roof covers the moat noisy ten
ant ? The roof of the mouth.
When were there only three vowel
in the alphabet Before yon and
were thought of.
It is more difficult to frame an excuse
than an old painting, though they are
both works of tbe imagination.
"And did von bear him rail Ler my
dear, or anything like that?" askol the
lawyer. "No. sir, of course not. Why,
she was his wife !" answered the lady
witness.
Knowledge will not be acquired
without pains and application. It is
troublesome, and like deep digging for
pure waters ; but when once you oma
to the spring, they rise up and meet
you.
Sick people, a a rule, like to lie on
the side facing the light It's different
however, with a ran who conies horn
"sick" from the club. He'd jnet a lief
shove his head into a coal scuttle at
not
A bird upon the wing may carry a
seed that shall add a new species to the
vegetable family of a continent ; and
just so, a word.'a thought, from s fly
ing soul, may have results immeasura
ble, eternal.
An English writer advises young
women to look favorably upon those
engaged in agricultural pursuits, as
signing as one reason that their "Mother
Eve married a gardener." He forgot to
add that in consequence of tbe match
the gardener lost his situation.
To ascertain if a mineral contaius
copper it is only necessary to pulverize
a portion of it, dissolve it in strong
nitric acid (aquafortis), and dilate a
portion of the cleir solution, which
will probably b bine, until almost
colorless, then a Id ammonia carefully.
If copper ia present the color will be
come an intense blue. In another por
tion of the solution, somevhat diluted,
place a piece of perfectly clean polished
steel or iron ; in a few minutes the
copper will be deposited upon the iron
in a metalio sUte.
The popntatioa of Frauoe, consisting
of 30,000, 0;X persons, is a more com
posite affur than ia commonly appre
hended ; it is, indeed the rendezvous
of a large number of visitors and vaga
bonds from all parts of the world.
Alsatians, aud Lorrainers. Americans,
Englishmen, Belgians, Italians, Span
iards, Russians, Poles and Germans
form the principal foreign elements ;
but there are, besides, Dutch. Scandi
navians, Austrians, Hungarians, Turks,
Greeks and Asiatics in large numbers,
which, deducted from the gross popu
lation, would considerably reduce tbe
nation census certainly over a million.
An inexpensive but durable method
of painting 1 1 buildings is as follows :
r irst give them a coat or crude petro
leum, which is the oil as it comes from
the wells, and which can be procured
for about SI or $. a barrel. Then mix
one pound of "metallic paint" which is
brown or red hematite iron and finely
ground, to one quart of linseed oil, and
apply this over the petroleum coat
The petroleum sinks into the wood
aud makes a ground-work for the iron
and oil paint The color of the iron
paint is a dark reddish brown, and in
not at all disagreeable ; it is a color not
easily soiled, very durable, and is fire
proof. The inhabitants of Havre are making
a disgraceful use of their tine armarium
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JT ? if i V, T, !i
fight Crowds of people assembled the
other day to witness the disgusting ex-
hibition. It was a mere slaughter.
The octop.xl proved no match for the
agile and voracious conger. No sooner
did he perceive his antagonist than he
threw out tUe inky fluid which is his
chief resource in the hour of danger.
But the eel knew where to find him,
and a shocking scene ensued. The
congers seized this ten taenia of the
octopods, and dragged the hapless
cruatures round and round until their
feelers were torn off with a violent
wrench. They then devoured the bag
like bodies of their maimed victims.
Among the latest industries estab
lished in Maine is that of collecting
and drying sea moss, which is followed
in the town of Kittery. This moss is
collected in dories in the vicinity of
White Island and Whale's Back. Two
men go in each boat nd with rakea
made for the purpose tear the moss
from tbe rocks at half tide. It ia taken
then to the beaoheo, where large beds
are constructed by taking up all the
large rocks aid leaving only a surface
of small pebble stones. These bed
contain from ten to three hundred bar
rels. If there is no rain, sea water has
to be thrown on the moss and the sun
bleaches it from the dark green color,
first to a beautiful pink and then to a
clear white. It has to be turned ooca-
ainnaltv anil mada thn aam . . hmw
a fter it is thnmnohlv .irii it ;. .k.i
la is 1 . a .
r , t ' Z
backed out of the bargain after his
wife bad disappeared. The woman was
got out, but life was quite extinct
When brought before the magistrate
the prisoner made a statement to the
effect that he bad had a great deal of
trouble with his wife to prevent her
from drowning herself. She said she
was determined to drown herself, and
be said if she did be would. His Lord
ship told the jury that two persons
might agree to commit suicide, and one
of them, in tbe faith that the other was
doing tbe same thing, succeed in the
act This, by a rule of law, was willful
I nnf,1 Rnt if th iila of the aninida
emanated from the deceased, as in this
case it seemed to have done, and if they
believed that tbe survivor had not aided
and abetted in the act which caused
the prisoner's death, then they would
fiad the prisoner not guilty. On the
other hand, if they believed that the
prisoner Lad by any means been acces
ceasory to the deceased's death by s
proposal from himself to commit sui
cide, it was their duty to find him
ffniltv of willful murder. The
jury
I returned a verdict of not guilty.
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