COXTKAST. There is happy sailing for others Adown life' calm, street seas. Whose boats are gavly dancing Before (he fragrant breeze; There are adverse winds and a billowy sea, And storms, and clouds, and gloom for me. Borne walk long paths all fair and sweet. Abloom with countless flowers. And scarce can tell which first to pluck In all lore's radiant bowers; I walk along a thorny road. Bearing a cross a beary load. Some bare their homes all bright with lore And Biases and fond good-byes, That only makes short absence sweet, And tearless, sparkling eyes; There's a dear one's graTa on the hill for me. And rest, sweet rest, beyond the sea. I, too, had countless treasures once, More than my heart could hold; Lore scattered its pearls down at my feet. And crowned me with its gold. My pearls were gathered by the demon. Death, My gold was taruuhed by bis breath. God. steer my boet adown the sea. Through all the murk and gloom; Help me to walk along the road Where not one flower doth bloom; Open the pearl-gates 'cross Death's sea And gire my darling back to me. Jomrphlar. BV R. W. CHALMERS. We lo not know of any event in liis torv that is so atfcctiujc or bo full if Jiatltos as the divorce of the Empress loM-pbiiie. The Emperor, Xapoleon I., (the Great Emperor) weary of incesaaut wars, thought if he could form a marriage alliance with some one of the royal families of Eiirop-, he mUht put an end to these nmrlicts and penietuate the order of ilinrs established in France. For a ion time he dreaded to KM-ak upon the subjet-t to Josephine, who had become aware of her impend ing doom, and whs overw helmed with erief. At la t thin fatal honr came wuen the emper-r was to make the dreaded announcement to the empress. It HIM at the palace of Fontaiubleaii, the last dav of Xovemler. WH9. Dark clouds obscured the sky, and a freezing wintry wiikI moaned thiouuu the towers of the castle. 1 he emperor and eiunress (lined aloue. Neither had the heart to wiieak a wold. As the attendants retiied at the close of the repast, at which it was said that neither could eat a mouthful, the emperor, J ale and trembling;, took the hand of osephine, and said : "My own dear Josephine, yon know how I have loved you. It is to you atone that I owe the few moments of happiness I have known in the world. Josephine, my destiny is stronger than my will. My dearest affections must yield to the welfare of France." The dreadful blow prostrated the empress, and she fell tainting to the floor. 1 he Count de lieaumont was called, and by the aid of the emperor. Josephine was Itorne, apparently life less, to her apartment. Queen Ilorteiise, her daughter, was summoned, she said reproachfully to the emperor: "My mother will descend from the throne as she ascended it, in obedience to your will. Her children content to renounce grandeurs which have not made them happy, will gladly go and devote their lives to comforting the best and the most affectionate of mot Iters." The emperor Kit down and wept bitterly. Then raising his eyes. Hooded w ith tears, he said to Ilorteuse, whom he loved with paternal loudness: "Xo, not leave me, Hortense. Stay by me with Eugene. Help to console your mother, and render calm, resigned and even happy in remaining my friend while she ceases to lie my wife. Eugeue (Josephiue's son) soon came from lfalr. He immediate) v renaired to his mot Iter's apartment, and, clasping her in his arms, they wept in mutual anguish. He then entered the cabinet of the emperor, and recoiled from the cordial embrace with which the cm peror would have greeted him, said : "Sire, permit me to withdraw from your service." "What 1"' said tlie emperor, sadly and with deep emotion, "will you, my adopted son, forsake me I"' "Yes. siie,n Eugene firmly replied. "The son of her who is no longer empress cannot remain iceroy of Italy. I will follow my another into her retreat. She must now tiud her consolation in her children." The emperor was deeply moved. Tears filled his eyes. "You know," said he, "the stern necessity which compels this measure. Will yon forsake me Whom, then, should 1 have for a son, the object of my desire and the preserver of my in terests, who w ill watch over the child when 1 am absent T If I die, who will prove to him a fat her f They both then retired to the garden, and. arm and arm, for a long time they walked up and down one of its avenues engaged in earliest conversation. The noble Josephine, with a mother's love, could not forget the interest of her children. She urged Eugene to remain faithful to the cmiK-ror. "The emperor," she said, "is your lienefactor, Eugeue ; to you more than father. To him you are indebted for everything. To him, therefore, you owe boundless oliedicnce." A fortnight passed and theday arrived for the consummation of this cruel sac rifice. It was the 15th of Iecemler. All the memtters of the Imperial family were assembled in the grand saloon of the Tuiileries. An extreme paleness overspread the face of the emperor. In his brief address to the assembled dig nitaries, he said: "The political interest of my mon archy, and the wishes of my people, require that 1 should transmit to au heir, inheriting my love for the people. the thioite on which 1'rovidetice has placed me. It is 1 1, is consideration I aloue which induces me fo sacrifice the dearest atlectious of my heart, to con sult only the pood of my subjects, and to desire the dissolution of our mar riage. God only knows how much such a determination has cost my heart. But there is no sacrifice too great for my courage when it is proved to be for the interest of France. Far from having any course of complaint, I havenothing to say but praise in the attachment aud tenderness of my Wloved wife. She has cmliellished fifteen years of my life, and the remembrances of tltem will be forever engraved on my heart. Let her never doubt my affection, or regard me but as her dearest and liestfriend." Josephine then endeavored to read her consent to the divorce. But tears blinded her eyes, and sobbings choked her voice. Sinking into a chair and handing the paper to Mr. Heynaud, she buried her face in her handkerchief, and remained in that position while it was being read aloud. Xapoleon then embraced Josephine, and led her, almost fainting, to her apartment, where he left heralone with her children. The next day the Senate met to sanction the divorce. The emperor, careworn, wretched, pale as a statue, leaned against a pillar. A low hum of mournful voices alone disturbed the gloomy silence of the room. There was a table in the center of the apart ment, on which there was a writing apparatus of gold. Josephine entered, leaning npon the arrant liortense. Her face was as pale as the muslin dress she wore. The daughter, not possessing the fortitude ot the mother, was sob - bing aloud. The whole assembly rose. Tears blinded nearly all eyes. Jose phine eat down and leaning her pallid forehead upon her hand, listened to the reading of the act of separation. Eugene and Hortense stood by the side of their mother, the daughter weeping convulsively. Josephine, as the reading was finished, for a moment pressed her handkerchief to her eyea, and then rising, in clear but tremulous tones pronounced the oath of acceptance. She then sat down and taking the pen signed the deed which sundered the dearest ties which can be formed on earth. Eugene fell fainting to the floor. His inanimate form was borne out of the room by the attendants. Josephine retired with her daughter. Xightcame. The emperor, utterly wretched, had just placed himself in the bed from which he had ejected his faithful wife, when the door was slowly opened and Josephine trembling entered. Her eye were swollen and her hair and dress disordered. She seemed scarcely conscious of what she was doing, as with hesitating steps she approached the bed. Then in a delirium of grief, all the pent np love rf her heart burst forth, and she threw herself upon the bed, clasped the neck of the emperor in her arms- and exclaimed, "My husband! my husband!" while sobbing as though her heart would break. Xapoleon also wept convulsively. He folded Josephine in his arms, and assured her of his undying love. For some time they remained in each other's embrace, liile mutual words ot tender ness were interchanged. The 'valet de chambre,' who thus far had been pres ent, was dismissed, and for an hour the emieror and empress continued in this their hist private interview. Josephine then departed forever from the husband she had so long and tenderly loved 1 Iter remained the best of friends until the death of the empress. And one of tfte last words of the emjtcror, as he was dying at St. Hclenawas "Josephine. Iatrodnetloa. To introduce everybody to every body is a peculiarly American custom. If yon meet Dusenberry in the street, at a hotel, at a party, or anywhere. Jjusen berry straightway introduces yon to all the bystanders. It may be that V. is being badly bored by somebody ; he introduces yon to him all the same indeed, be avails himself of the custom in order to shuffle off his bores. Not only does he not stop to inquire whether yon want to know epnggins or stiff' gens, or 1 oodles, bnt he actually intro duces yon to them because they annoy him, aud are people it is not desirable to know. In most cases these introductions are to persons yon have no sort of inteiest in ; whom yom wonld rather not know, and whom yon are nnable to remember. Bnt when yon meet them again each one introduces yon to another lot of his own sort, aud so yonr circles of ac quaintance are continually multiplying and expanding. Political conventions and the capitals where legislative bodies and politicians assemble, are places where the business of loose introduc tions is continually going on. So are drinking places. John Phoenix, the California hnmjrist describes the ope rations : Yon meet Brown on Montgomery street : liood morning. Brown. "How are yon. Smith T Let me intro duce yon to Mr. Jones" and yon forth with shake bands with a seedy indi vidual, who has been boring Brown for the previous bonr, for a small loan, probably an individual yon never saw before, never had the slightest desire to see, and never wish to see again. Being naturally of an arid disposition. and perhaps requiring irrigation at that particular moment, yon unguardedly invite Brown and yonr new friend Jones to step over to Parry & Batten s and imbibe. What is the consequence ? The mis creant Jones introduces yon to fifteen more equally desirable acquaintances, and in two mmntes from the first in' traduction, there yon are, with seven' teen newly formed friends, all of whom take sugar in their n at yonr expense, This is invading a man's quarters with a vengeance. But this is not the worst of it. Each gentleman to whom yon have been introduced, wherever you meet thereafter, in billiard-room, ten pin alley, pot-house, or church, intro duces yon to somebody else, and so the list increases in geometrical proportion In this manner yon form a crowd of acquaintances, of the majority of whom you recollect neither names nor faces. but being continually assailed by bows and smiles on all sides, yon are forced to avoid the appearance of rudeness, to go bowing and smirking down the street like a distinguished character in a pub lic procession, or one of those graven images at Tobin & Duncan's, which are eternally wagging their heads, with no definite object in view. These general introducers fancy they are doing the polite by making them selves masters of ceremonies everywhere and introducing everybody to every body ; but be who introduces one per son to another, without knowing that the introduction is mutually desirable. or without having some reason to think they onght to be acquainted, commits a rudeness which shows that he does not understand good manners. When the Prince of Wales was in this country, with his retinue of the high nobility, and met the free and equal American citizens at public receptions without any of the social reserve of their own order and of English man ners, this custom of introducing was exhibited in a ludicrous light. But perhaps the most remarkable experience they had in this line was not in this circulating style of introductions. but in an exclusive and distinguished one which took place at the ball to the Prince at Pike's Opera-house. A dis tinguished citizen impressed himself on the Duke of Newcastle, and then, as the common tradition has it, performed an introduction in the following choice terms : "JJnke, let me introduce yon to my wife, Mrs. Judge , the cousin of Airs. Abraham Lincoln and the daughter of Major-Oeneral , of Kentucky, who was brutally massacred by the British and Indians while glon onsly fighting for bis country at the Dattie oi ine tiiver itaieen. Albion's) fsmarrlej ITomra. There are said to be nine hundred thous- "ad more "omen thvi men in England i tai my iney cannot ail marry, ana those upon whom fortune has not smiled must of. course find their support in their own eier- lions. This fact would not so much matter if female labor was as high-priced as that or the males, l.ul it talis so far short of it i hat there is great destitution from actual want among women, aud deaths are so con stantly occurring from this cause that phil anthropy has begun to seek for tome mean of alleviating their condition. ISrigham Young declares that he can solve the problem, but respectability begs leave to decline. Lpon this snle of the water womm fare somewhat better. There are here many avenues open to her, through which sue can gain an honorable livelihood, that in Great Britain still bear the word "no thorough fare" above their portals. There is but one way out of the woods, and that consists in giving them their rightful share in the avo cations of lite, and let the compensation which they may receive be rated according to the work they may do, and the quantity of it, without suffering the question of sex to enter into the bargain at all. Of eonr-e woman herself is yet to be fully educated np to the point of considering it altog ther respectable the cant phrase to "work f..r a living." Hut then necessity, yon know, is a great educator, and were necessity met halt' way by concession, as it doubile a will be before the century is ran out, the refor ms ion would be easily brought ebuut Therefore, starve on, ye unmarried hosts, a little while longer, for your turn at the wheel will come by-and-by. Attention the Old. A little thoughtful attention, how happy it makes the old 1 They have ontlived most of the friends of their early youth. How lonely their hours I Often their partners in life have long filled silent graves ; often their children they have followed to the tomb. They stand solitary, bending on their staff, waiting till the same call shall reach them. How often they must think of absent, lamented faces ; of the love which cherished them, and the tears of sympathy which fell with theirs, now all gone. "Why should not the yonng cling around and comfort them, cheer ing their gloom with songs and happy smiles. AGBICVLTCB1U Thb Wat To Blanket Horses Bat few people, comparatively, understand how to blanket a horse to prevent him from contracting cold. We frequently see the blanket folded double, and laid across the rump and a part of the animal's back, leaving those parts of the body that need protection entirely ex posed to cold storms and entting winds. Those parts of the body of a horse which surround the lungs, require the bent fit of a blanket in preference to his flanks and rump. When we are ex posed to a current of cold air, to guard against any injury from contracting cold, we shield our shoulders, neck, chest and back. If these parts be kept protected, the lower part of the body will endure a degree ot cold far more intense without an injury to the body than if the lnngs were not kept warm with suitable covering. The same thing holds in the protection of horses. The blattk-'t shonld cover the neck, withers and shoulders, and be brought around the breast and buttoned or bnckled together as closely as a man buttons his overcoat when shielding his bosom. Let the lungs of a horse be protected with a heavy blanket, and he will seldom contract cold, even if the hindermost parts of his body are not covered. We refer more particu larly to blanketing horses that have be come unusually warm by violent exer tion or hard driving, and exposing them to a current of cold air while standing stilL Many of our best teams trera pro tect the breasts of their horses by a piece of heavy cloth about two feet square, hanging from the lower end of the collar. This is an excellent prac tice in cold weather, as the animal is shielded from the cold wind, especially when traveling toward a strong current. The forward end of the horse blanket should be made to fit as closely around the breast of a horse as our garments fit our bodies. Most horses will con tract a violent cold almost as soon as a man, if not blanketed while they stand still after having been exercised so violently as to produce profuse perspi ration. So long as a horse is kept in motion, there is little danger of his suffering any inconvenience from cold winds ; bnt allow him to stand still for a few moments while loading or unload ing, without a heavy blanket to protect his shoulders and lnngs, and he will take cold sooner than a man. Wht Not Cultivate Speed n Oxen ? Our agricultural fairs have been very generally turned into more horse races. in the rage for fast roadsters. Speed in horse flesh is to a large extent the mania ot the day. Oood draft horsei sound, steady workers, of fine form and powers of endurance have had to stand back and let the trotters occupy public attention. But we have scarcely ever seen the importance of cultivating quickness of movement in working oxen alluded to. And yet there are farmers who will follow a yoae of oxen aronnd a field, ploughing or drawing a load at a (nail a pace, now and then applying me gad witn a snout oi "go long," but making scarcely more than half a dozen rounds of a ten acre lot in the course of the day. Oxan are pro verbially slow, but they are capable of improvement in this respect as well as other animals, and more attention ought to be paid to cnltivating in them a quick step. In oriental countries es pecially in India, they are nsed exten sively lor tne road, in place of horses, and they may often be seen trotting on at a spanking gait. e do not need trotting oxen, but a fast walk is of great importance. Donbling their speed would double their value as work ing cattle. hy may not our agricul tural societies offer prizes fo the fast est walking oxen as well as for the fast est horses ? It would take some years to rear a race of good walkers, but it is worth an effort, and worthy of encour agement. One of the strongest object lions to tne use oi oxen on the farm is that they are slow. This objection can do and ought to be removed. A Fink Southdown Rax. The value of the Southdown sheep in America for tne purpose of crossing upon and lm provingour oommon sheep, is proba- oiy greater tuan lor tne purpose of per petuating tne pure race. There are few flocks of Sonthdowns that are kept np to a high standard without renewed importations, bnt there are many cases in which onr common sheep have been materially improved by admiztnre with this blood. Again, the Southdown is the basisjfrom which in England several cross-bred races of sheep have originally sprung, and these races have been since interbred, until a constant type has pre vailed, and a permament breed been secured.' Such is the origin of the Shropshire sheep, which is one of the most hardy and profitable race in Eng land. The Hampshire and Oxford Downs are also indebted to the South downs for some of their good dualities. and in fact it is as an improver of other races, ratner man as a distinct race. that the Southdown excels in this country. We need to establish Ameri can breeds of sheep, and to stop im porting with a view to maintain the standard of the English breeds. We need to do with other sheep, what has Deen done with the Merinos, establish an American race that suits onr climate and other circumstances better than any foreign race can. To do this for mutton sheep, snd for a certain medium class of clothing wool, the Southdown breed furnishes an admira ble groundwork. Pkeskbvtso Bctteb fob Fcttjbk Use. One of our exchange in replying to an inquiry, says : .Many ways have been proposed to keep butter, but we think that of suspending it in brine the most certain. Onr inquirer in that case wonld have to select such butter as is satisfactory to him in market, and put it into new packages. Use a good tapering oak tub with a head in each end. Take ont the largest head, hav ing packed your butter in a cambric sack of the shape of yonr tub, only two inches smaller, put it in the tub and re place the head, so as to be quite brine tight, ftow through a bole in the head pour the strongest brine to fill, plug, place upon the large end, the butter will float entirely in the brine and thus be excluded from the air and preserved for any length of time. This may also be done in a common butter paiL, by putting a small block of oak wood on the nnder side of the cover, so as to sink the sack of butter under the brine in the paiL The first method of float ing the butter in the tub is an excellent way of patting np for a distant market. Gais in Cattle. It takes eleven pounds of milk to add one pound of live weight to a calf, and an ox that weighs 1.300 pounds will consume 22 pounds of hay in 24 hours to keep from losing weight, If he is to fatten, he must have just twice the quantity. when he will gain two pounds a dav. This is one pound live weight to eleven pounds good hay. To obtain 50 cents a hundred for his hay, a farmer must sell fat steers at $5.50 per hundred pounds. How to Drt Off Cowb. The quick est and best way of drying off a cow so that she may immediately fatten, is to feed her four or five quarts of dry corn meal daily, and all the dry wheat straw she will eat. Two weeks ef this diet, milking so as not to let the ndder be in jured by over detension, dried off an Ayreahire cow that could not be dried off the ordinary way. So much snow has fallen this winter in France has not been seen ' there be fore for twenty years. At some points it is six feet deep on the roads. sciErnric. Fat in Foraob Plahts. To anyone not a chemist or a quadruped, the last place to look for fat would be a hay mow or a stack of straw ; yet it appears from reoent investigation that fat is not only an essential constituent of hay, and straw, and similar forms of vegeta tion, but one of considerable economic value. In the lower leaves of oats in blossom, Arndt found as much as ten per cent, of the dry weight to consist of fat and wax, the latter appearing as the bluish bloom so conspicuous on the leaves of luxuriant cereals. In fodder crops, generally the greatest proportion of fat is found in yonng and thrifty plants. Thus Way found early meadow grass to contain as mnch as six and a half per cent, of fat ; while in that of the same meadow, collected in the latter part of June, there was bnt a little more than two per cent. The proportion of fat is increased by nitrogenous manures ; the grass of a sewaged meadow at Rugby contained above four per cent, of fat, while similar grass, not sewaged, af forded less than three per cent, of fat. The nature of this sort of vegetable fat was investigated some b'ttle time ago by the German chemist Konig, who found that by treatment rsith strong alcohol the fat of grass and clover hay could be separated into two parts, one a solid waxy substance, the other a fluid fat, soluble in alcohol. At first he considered the latter to be a true glycerin, bnt changed his mind after the investigations of Schnlz, who proved that, though it contains the same proportion of carbon and hydro gen as fat, the fluid fat of hay is some thing quite different, since no glycerin can be obtained from it. Konig has sinoe confirmed these re sults and carried forward the investiga tion, showing that the fat of oats, rye, and vetch seed is similarly constituted. In all these forms of vegetation, hay, oat straw, the grain of oats, rye, vetches and possibly others, be finds oleic and palmitic acids, not combined with gly cerin but in a free state ; and as these acids in their combinations are well known as large ingredients of nutritive fats and oils, it is likely that they have a considerable influence on the valne of these plants for fodder. Konig also finds in hay and in oat straw the important ingredient of ani mal bile, choletterin; still further, cerotio acid, a waxy body which forms twenty-two per cent, of ordinary bees wax ; and two fatty substances new to Science, one fluid the other solid. They are distinct compounds, having the character of fatty alcohols. Another interesting discovery in hay is the pres ence of a hydrocarbon, the relations of which are not fully made out. In sev eral respects, it agrees with some of the paraffins. Scientific American. Occlusiox of Oases bt Ibos Wire. In drawing certain numbers of iron wire, it often becomes necessary, in order to continue the use of the drawing bench, to anneal the iron. This is done in a hermetically closed receptacle, so as to avoid, as mnch as possible, the oxidation of the metaL In spite of this precaution, however, the latter be comes covered with an ochraceous film, which it is necessary to remove by an acidulated bath. It frequently hap pens, however, that, subsequent to this process, the metal becomes so brittle as to render its further drawing impossi ble. M. Seroz, engineer of the Societe dan Forget de La Franche Comte, has examined into this phenomenon, and finds that the iron becomes charged with a condensed gas. On breaking the wire under water in a test tube, inflam mable bubbles were generated, which detonated in the air. The exact nature of the gas has not yet been decided, nor that of its direct action upon the metal ; bnt it is believed to be either hydrogen or carbonic oxide. Vklocitt of Combustion. Science has disclosed the fact that in combus tion nothing is consumed or annihilated. Combustion is molecular velocity. Matter is not continuous. It may be divided, yet there is an end to its di visibility. The ultimate particles are called atoms. Atoms unite and form molecules ; molecules unite with each other and assume a certain physical structure, in which they are never im pact, bnt are held near each other by virtue of their resultant force. In creased temperature forces the mole cules further apart, and when the maximnm distance is attained they fly off and form new alliances. The energy with which they fly, determines the velocity of their combustion. The molecular forces are exerted in different bodies, in different degrees, consequently each elementary body exerts a special velocity of combustion. Imitation Gold. An alloy having a very fine and malleable grain, suscepti ble to a high polish and impervious to rust (which, while closely resembling gold, may advantageously replace that metal in a variety of cases), is made of 100 parts pure copper, 17 parts tin, 6 parts magnesia, 3 b parts sal ammoniac, 1 "8 parts quick lime, and 9 parts bitra- trate of potass. The copper is melted first, and the magnesia, ammonia, lime, and tartrate are successively added in small quantities. The tin in small pieces is then placed in the crucible. and the whole brought to fusion for 35 minutes, after which the alloy is allowed to cool. Prizes fob Chemical Discoveries. The following prizes for chemical dis coveries are offered by the Societe t Encouragement, Paris : Disinfection and prompt clanfiication of sewage. $200, 1875. Ink not attacking metallic pens, SfJUO, ism. Jjonomicai produc tion and application of ozone, goOO, 1875. Fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. either as mtne acid, ammonia, or cyanogen, $100, 1876. Artificial pro duction of graphite, suitable for lead pencils, $000, 1877. Artificial prepara tion oi a compact black diamond, $buO, 1877. Industrial application of oxygen ated water, $100, 1878. It is said that if the eyes of the bat are put out and it is let loose in a room filled with cross lines of fine thread, the Dat will fly back and forth with its usual swiftness without touching one of the threads. It is not a bird covered with feathers, but a mammalia covered with very fine hairs, which conveys to the bat the increased resistance of the air on approaching one of the cross threads and thus shows its position to the sen sitive skin of the animal and its extra ordinary quickness of muscle enables it to avoid the apparent obstacle. Tee deepest musical wave note that can be heard by the human ear is pro duced by regular snocessive impulses of sixteen times a second, while the highest note which is susceptible to the ear is four thousand times a second, hence the range extends over eleven octaves. The human eye can perceive the difference between the red and vio let rays. The waves of the former are 1-40, 000th part of an inch apart, and of the latter 1 66,000th of an inch long about one octave. Hence the ear is eleven times keener than the eye. Jloscoe. A report on the paper manufacture in Massachusetts gives the list of 112 different materials for making paper. Among this list are enumerated aspara gus, beet-root, cabbage stumps, frog spittle, hop vines, hornets' nests, lily of the valley, leather-cuttings, mummy cloth, sawdust, thistles, and willow twigs. Eioht pounds of oxygen gas and one pound of hydrogen are combined in nine pounds of water. MiHrncL Home Made Rcos. There is in every household a great quantity of worsted and flannel pieces that are of small ac count, and can be of no servioe for garments, but if saved it can be rendered useful and beautiful in the manufacture of hearth rugs, or mats to lay before bureaus, sofas, or organs. Take a pieoe of hemp sacking, and draw some pretty design in the center a bouquet of flowers, a wreath, or some animal, mark a border with a chain or heraldry pattern ; sew the canvas into a frame like quilting frames, only smaller, so as not to occupy too much room ; have a hook made like a croohet; hook or needle : one can be manufactured easily by taking a parasol brace and filing the end into a proper form ; cut the strips of cloth into strips of half an inch in width if thin fabric make it wider. Pass the hook through the canvas with the right hand, have the eloth under neath the frame in the left hand, insert a loop on the hook, and draw it to the upper side about three-fourths of an inoh ; leave about two threads space and close in another loop. Regard the selection of colors, so as to shade them nicely, and keep the form of yonr pattern. It is very quiet, easy and fascinating work : work the figure first. and then draw in the filling up, or ground-work of some dark color black, brown, or drab. After it is completed, shear the whole surface evenly bnt not too close, and you have a fine, sub stantial, durable rug, that will last a life time, and do more service, and be prettier than an imported article that wonld cost anywhere from ten to thirty dollars ; and, best of all, it is home made. Hints. One ounce alcohol ; two drachms cayenne pepper ; one ounce kerosene oil ; let it stand twenty-fonr hours after mixing. It cures the worst toothache ever known. Kerosene oil is good - for removing rust from cutlery. Soft-soap should be kept in a dry place in a cellar, and shonld not be used for three months after it is made. Lard shonld be kept hard and white ; and that which is taken from a hog over a year old is best. To select nutmegs prick them with a pin ; if they are good, the oil will in stantly spread around the puncture. When a keg of molasses is bought, draw off a few quarts, else the fermen tation produced by moving it will burst the cask. Two small arteries branching up from the main arteries on each side of the neck, and passing over the outside of the jawbone, snpply the face with blood. If the nose bleeds from the right nostril, for example, pass the finger along the edge of the right jaw till the beating of the artery is felt. Press hard upon it five minutes and the bleeding will cease. The best way to enjoy things is to use them, and thus get the worth of our money ont of them. There is no sense in gorgeous parlors kept in darkness. The Domestic Growler. Look at him 1 he is a curiosity. He was pleasant enough an honr ago, as he sat in his office talking to Jones. With his chair tilted back, the toes of his boots rest ing against the mantel-piece, his month extended into a guffaw in reply to one of Jones' yarns, yon would have said he was one of the jolliest fellows in the world. But he does not look so now. He considers it bad domestio policy to come home looking smiling and cheer ful ; it wonld not only lower his dignity as master of the house, bnt it would encourage his wife and children to the asking of all sorts of favors, and the running into goodness knows what ex travagances. The ouly way, he be lieves, to keep up a proper system of household authority, and reduce house hold expenditure to its certain limits, is to always find fault, and never relax for a moment the system of domestio snubbing. Of course, the coming home of the growler is not looked for with joy. All pleasant influences take wing. The very atmosphere becomes charged with depressing or explosive influences. To Make Hard Soap. The following is a recipe for making hard soap, which is excellent and economical. Xeariy every family accumulates through the winter drippings from beef and mutton. These can be utilized for the grease by boiling in water, allowing it to cool, then removing from the water and boil ing till all the water is expelled. Of course the whiter the grease the nicer the soap. Take six pounds of sal soda, six pounds of grease, three and a half pounds new stone lime, four gallons soft water, half pound borax. Pnt soda, lime and water into an iron boiler ; boil till all is dissolved. When well settled ponr off the clesr lye, wash ont the kettle, and put in the clear lye, grease and borax ; boil till it comes to soap, ponr it into a tub to cool, and when sufficiently hard cut into bars and put on boards to dry. This is very nice for washing white flannel and calico. Spectacles become necessary when you first notice yourself going to the window instinctively for a better light, or when yonr eye gets tired by looking at any small thing near at hand, or a dimness or watering is manifested, so as to cause indistinctness. First pur chase Xo. 20 ; and as yon observe the symptoms above named, get Xo. 18, and so on. The glasses should be near enough to the eye almost to touch the lashes ; they should be washed every morning in cold water and carried in a pocket by themselves. Brazilian pebble makes the best lenses. Avoid reading before sunrise and after sunset. Read as bttle as possible before breakfast, or by artificial light ; do not sew on dark material at night, and use no other eye wash than pure, tepid, soft water. Babies' eyes are often injured by allow ing the glaring sunlight to fail upon them. Mkndtxo with Plaster. If you have a crack in the wall in the corner of the room, or anywhere else, do not send for the p'a t. rer, but get five or ten cent's worth of dry plaster of Paris; wet with cold water ; then take yonr finger and rub it into the crevice till it is smooth. Bad nail holes in the wall can be done in the same way. Should the top of your lamp become loose, take it off and wash it with soap ; wash the glass also, then pnt the plaster around the glass ; put the brass top on again, let it stand until hardened, and it is ready for use again. A lamp never shonld be filled quite full, as the kerosene softens the plaster. To Make Viveqar. Edward Smith, in his new work on "Foods," gives the following simple formula for making vinegar : One gallon of water, one and a quarter pounds of raw sugar, and a quarter of a pint of yeast, At a temperature of 80 degrees it will be sufficiently acid three or four days to be drawn off, when an ounce of cut raisins and the same weight of cream tartar should be added, and after a few weeks the sweet taste will entirely disappear, when it may be bottled. Bear tour own Sorrow. Very likely your trouble is grievously hard to bear ; your feelings are injured, yonr husband is unkind, your wife frets, your home is not pleasant, your friends do not treat you fairly, and things in general move unpleasantly. Well, what of it ? Keep it to yourself. A smouldering fire can be found and extinguished : but, when the coals are scattered, who can pick them np? At the worst, troubles are transient. raomora. a -nrix lsrlw hn tnashes in one of our Sunday Schools tried the other Sunday to give her class a clear idea of the construction of Solomon's Temple. Aa .vnlaininff it ibomnffhlv to theOS. OlKl iih"b -- o she asked a few questions to make sure - . . . . . , . 1 that she nad Deen tuioermoou. vut question was. "What was the root of A.. .nnu MnwoMil with V "Shingles." replied one of the scholars. "Slate I" shouted anotner. "iin, saia m hum. "Oh, no I" replied she, "none of those things. Why don't you remember what 1 told von? Something that we don't cover roofs with nowadays." "Slabs I" vociferated a "bud of promise. "in no ; some kind of metaL" "Oh I I know." aaid one who had not yet spoken, "copper bottom !" "So, no. no. Here, what is mis on my wrist r said the teacher, holding it out. "A bracelet," replied the chorus. "Yes, of course, but what is it made of?" "Brass I" shouted they; and since then the yonng lady has not worn bracelets to Sunday School. The Rev. Dr. M'Cnlloch, minister of Douglass m Clydesdale, was one day dining with a large party where the Hon. Henry Erskine and some lawyers were present, A great dish of water creeses being, according to the fashion of the period handed round after dinner Dr. M'Cnlloch, who was extravagantly fond of vegetables, helped himself mnch more largely than any other per son, and, as he ate with his fingers with a peculiar voracity of manner, Mr. Erskine was struck with the idea that he resembled Nebuchadnezzar in his state of condemnation. Resolved to give the minister a hit for the grossness of his taste and manner of eating, the wit addressed him with : "Dr. M'Cnl loch, ye bring me in mind of the great king Nebuchadnezzar ;" and the com pany were beginning to titter at the ludicrous allusion, when the reverend devourer of cresses replied : "Ay, do I mind ye o' Nebuchadnezzar ? That'll be because I am eating among the brutes, then I" "What are you digging there for ? "I am digging for money ?" The news flew the idlers collected. "We are told yon are digging for money." "Well, I ain't digging for anything else." "Have you bad any luck?" "First rate luck ; pays well ; you had better take hold. All doffed their coats, and laid hold most vigorously for a while. After throwing ont some cart loads, the question arose : "When did you get any money last ?' "Saturday night." "Why, how mnch did you get?" "Four dollars and a half." "Why, that's rather small." "It's pretty well ; six shillings a day is the regular price for digging cellars all over town." The spades dropped, and the loafers vanished. Dramatic scene at the reading of a will. A rich dame who recently died at an advanced age at Fontainebleau, left a will containing, among others, a bequest to her physician of all the ob jects contained in an olden oak chest of her cabinet de toilette, for "his enlight ened care and the sage instructions" which had enabled her to live to such an advanced age. There was great commotion among the heirs when this clanse in the will was read, and greater curiosity to know what treasures had escaped them. The notary handed the key to the doctor, who on opening the chest found all the drugs and potions tnat lie nad ordered for his patient during the past twenty years. The Saginaw girls of the Methodist persuasion having met together, con cluded to pray for the welfare of their lovers, but the first one bad not got very far along in her petition when it was discovered that they were all en gaged to the same man. The religions exercises were at once terminated and an indignation meeting organized, the result of which was that the gay de ceiver was obliged to leave town at a few hours' notice in order to escape the vengeance of male relatives. "Busted!" exclaimed a bewildered darkey ; "yon don't gwine tole me dat t reedman s bank bnsted ? "Yes, it's gone np." "Done claai gone ?" "Yes." Evidently the old man couldn't un derstand it, He mused deeply and sadly, and with a last, sorrowful look into the open but vacant room, turned away, muttering as he went : "Oat's whst always made me 'spise a bank." A gentleman was surprised daring the late frosty weather, to see his little daughter bring home from the Sunday school a grave treatise on "Backsliding." "My child," said he, "this is too old for you ; you can't make any thing of it." "1 know it, papa ; I thought it would teach me how to slide backward." Taking Picttrw, Somebody has found ont a new way of taking pictures, by which they can be taken better in the night than in the daytime. A pho tographer has missed several frames that hung by his door, snd doesn't approve of the plan. Counsellor Rcdd. of the Irish bar, was equally remarkable for bis love of whist and the dingy color of his linen. 'My dear Dick,' said Curran to him one day, you can't think how puzzled we are to know where yon bny all your dirty shirts.' Wren Shakespeare wrote about pa tience on a monument, did be refer to doctors' patients?" "No." "How do yon know he didn't? "Because you always find them under a monument." The obituary notice of a mnch re spected lady concludes with "In her life she was a pattern worthy to be followed ; and her death oh, how con soling to her friends." "I guess ITl take this book." re marked a Chicago lady to the clerk of a book store ; "it's got twice as mnch gold leaf on the cover as any of the rest,' What is the difference between a plan of the battle-field and a roasted pippin ? One is a war map, and the other is a warm apple. A lady was asked the other day, why she chose to live a single life. She naively replied, "Because I'm not able to support a husband." Mrs. Partington thinks that the grocers onght to hire a mnsio teacher to teaca them the scales correctly. What is the difference between a belle and a burglar ? One carries false locks and the other false keys. Wfrv la a vailmail tTw1nfti IiVa systematic drinker? Because he takes his punch at stated intervals. The young lady who thought she could make her voice clear by straining it, made a great mistake. If tou want your boy to make a mark in the world give him a piece of chalk. A Walking Advertisement. Limestoxb Spsixgs, S. C. Dr. R. V. Pikbci. Buffalo, N. X.: Dear Sir I am a walking advertisement for yonr Golden Medical Discovery, Purga tive Pellets and Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy they having eurtd me of Catarrh of nine years' standing, which was so bsd that it disfigured my nose, and, while earing it, yonr medicines also eared me of Asthma in its worst and most aggravated form. Be- .. T 1 I V.m M- daced in flesh rrom one mm - v- five to one hundred and urieen poanua, ..u f now weigh on. hundred and sixty-two peands. and am in better hedta than 1 have enjoyed for twenty years. ' roars truly. J. L. LCMSDEX. The abovs is bnt a fair sample of hun- i. !.,,.,-. which ars received by Dr. Pierce, and in the face of such evidence who can longer doubt that the Doctor s medicines euro the worst cases of Chronic Catarrh. TBS GESAT fAVOEITB WITH THB LADIES. Wm. Forsyth Bynum & Son. druggists, of Live Oak, Fla.. write, sept Jotn io.j. follows: "Dr. R. V. Piiacs, Buffalo, N. T. Tour Golden Medical Discovery and Pur gative Pellets seU very largely and give complete satisfaction, as numbers of our customers and friends testify with pleasure. Your Favorite Prescription is indeed the great Favorite with the ladies, and numbers can say with joy that it has saved them from eking out a miserable life or meeting with premature death, and restored them to health and happiness." Thousands of women bless the day on which Dr. Pierce's Favorito Prescription was first made known to them A single bottle often gives delicate and suffering wo men more relief than months of treatment from Ih ir family physician. In all those derangements causing back-ache, dragging down sensations, nervous and general de bility, it is a sovereign remedy. Its sooth ing and healing properties render it of the utmost value to ladies suffering from inter nal fever, congestion, inflammation or ul ceration, and its strengthening effects tend to correct displacements of internal parts, the result of weakness of natural supports. It is sold by all druggists. Dr. Pisbce's pamphlet on Diseases pecu liar to Women will be sent to any address oa receipt of two stamps. Address as above. - H. n. PETTESG1LL CO. The following, from the Saltimort Amen ta, is a deserved tribute to S. M. Petten gill & Co. Their branch ia Philadelphia, 70 1 Chestnut Street, ia managed by L. R. Hamieslt. Esq., who has been very suc cessful and energetic, and gives satisfaction to the public and the press: FETTESGILL'S APVEETIS1SO AGBSCT. The celebrated house of S. M. Pet en gill & Co., which has been doing business with The Amertcan for nearly a quarter of a cen tury, occupies one of the finest business lo cations in the city of New York. It is at 37 1'ark Row, directly opposite the new post office building. It is ra.y of access to business men from a'l parts of the city. It is one of the oldest and most complete es tablishments in the l.md. It bat all the ap pointments that can be desired for a swift, accurate and pleasant discharge of busi ness. The head of the house, Mr. S. M. Pettengtll, was trained to the busineas f advertising agency under the tuition of the Master of ibe Trade. He brought to h a work the knowledge he acquired as practi cal printer and publisher. lie possesses marked business talent, high moral charac ter, and stands at the head of his profession. Mis agency has been engineered by himself from the humblest beginning to its present mammoth proportions. So house is belter known through the country or more hon ored. The business of an advertising agency is a peculiar one. It demands talent, keen forecast, and indomitable energy. It pro poses to do for a business man wbat he can not do for himself. Through the agency a business mm can advertise in five tLousund papers with all the economy and exactness as if he visited each office and made a sepa rate bargain with each psper. A great in stitution is always more economical to do business with'than a mall one. The amount of business done by S. M. Pettengill & Co. enables them to afford advertising cheaper than the publisher will do it direct, lie often purchases a great amount of space at low rates. The publisher is sure or filling his columns, and sure ofliis pay. The cus tomers of the Agency have a share ia the reduced rates. This agency is an invaluable aid to men who wish to make the most of their money. In nothing is it easier for men to throw away money than in advertising. Unaided, unless a business man has great experience, he is quite sure to waste his funds. To make advertising a success, a man must se cure the be?t medium fur hi goods. lie must know whether to advertise in a coun try or city paper in a daily or weekly in a literary or political paper n a journal secular or religious. This Mr. Pettengill's long experience fits him to decide. 11 is es tablishment affords every facility a business man can desire to accomplish bis purpose. 9. M. fettengill a Co. s agency con fessedly leads all others in this business. In all forms of business some institution must come to the front. Prudent men who propose to carry a policy for a term of years do not select an insolvent or third rate institution. They do not deposit in a shaky bank. In an important law-suit they do not call in a second-class lawyer. Ele gant rooms, papers from all parts of the country, and facilities to use tnem, are at the disposal of his customers. Mr. Petten gill has many rare qualifications for his ex tended business. He gives personal atten tion to his customers and is accessible to all comers. Prompt and decided, no one leaves his presence without recognising the genial influence under which he has stood. The business of the agency is conducted on the strictest principles of honor. During all the long years of his business life he has hardly bad a dispute with a customer, and no one has found him other than prompt, honest, manly in his dealings. To condu.t successfully aa advertising agency, great judgment is needed, and thia Mr. Pettengill possesses. He can tell an advertiser bow to reach the public, how to keep np the stroke, what styles of business require lavish advertising, when and where economy should bo nsed. The excellent business judgment of this house nnderlies its f access. Men who expect to succeed in trade must adjust themselves to the popular style of doing business. One large house went oat of trade because it refused to con form to the present style of making its wares known. New establishments sprung up around it, attracted attention, and took away the custom. Men look to the press to guide them in business and in social affairs. They do not know whether to applaud a foreign artist or a strange order until the press bss spo ken. The advertising columns are as much read as the editorial columns. The heaviest advertisers are the most successful business mea. In this day no man Can afford to let the press alone, if he wishes to do a large trade, any more than s farmer eaa withhold his corn in the spring-time, or sow his grain with a sparing hand. It costs a busi ness man nothing to enjoy all the advan tages of retteogill's agency. He is unwise who ventures on an extended advertising expenditure without avaiUng himself of the long experience, cool judgment, and ability which tne house of 8. M. Pettengill 4 (Jo. offer to all. E. F. KwBkel'a Bitter Irea Vflae r has never been known to fail ia the ears of weakness, attended with symptoms : indis position to exertion ; loss of memory ; diffi culty of breathing ; general weakness; hor ror of disease ; we ik, nervous trembling ; dreadful horror of death ; night sweats ; cold feet; weakness; dimness of vision; languor ; universal lassitude of the mureu lar system ; enormous appetite, with dys peptic symptoms; hot hands; flushing of . L 1 , , ... . . .... in Douy; uryness 01 tne sem ; pallid coun tenance and eruptions oa the face,purifying the blood ; pain in the back ; heaviness of the eyelids; frequent black spots flying be fore the eyes with temporary suffusion and loss of sight; want of attention, etc. Tbee symptoms all arise from a weakness, and to remedy that, use . F. Kcsist s Bitter Wine of Iron. It never fails. Thousands are now enjoying health who have used it Take only . F. Kcieil's. Beware of counterfeits and base imita tions. As Kunkel's Bitter Wins of Iroa is so well known all over the country, drug gists themselves make an imitation and try to palm it off oa their customers, when they call it Konkel's Bitter Wine of Iroa. Kunkel's Bitter Wise of Iron is put np only ia $1 bottles, and has a yellow wrap per nicely pnt oa the outside, with the pro prietor's photograph oa the wrapper of each bottle. Always look for the photograph oa fore using your medicine. . the outside, and von ni .? . get the genuine article. " "nt t 8old by all Druggists and dealers where. Tahwow Rxjiovid Auvs Head an complete, ia twe hours. So fee tiU passes. Seat, Pin and Stemach Worm, moved by Dr. Kcsaxu X,.,. J- Strut. Advice fV r .t ,c 0Tn , TtMMmna Ant, K. . ' r .vuTiuceu H . evw SOMETHISO CeETAI AT Last Pie, not only one of the most painful of huma!? diseases, but professional mea had aim despaired of finding a remedy, nntil the traduction of AN AKESIS by I)e. Siuii and after an experience of liu.OU) case, five years, doctors agree that aa ibfaUibS remedy has been found. Sufferers will b preciate AXAKESISftertry;ngeverjtah e'se in vain and then experiencing the bl2 of instant relief and ultimate eure. pnZ $1. Sent free by mail on receipt of ri Depot, 46 Walker St, New York. i AiMr-w laa Sts, .Nr. 1, THE Gr IH EAT RUSSIAN SPECIFIC CURES RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA, Tbi sTTtt rvmIy an til res-wnflT. wm vukbrsr tbs Abmtku p-ft. ami is giTinc it pnm Mt plac w-fbr tho puM, wm t-t rU. M wMmuf other wsniHl h, ttt-u it vi.ti arw dmrmtm to whwm humanitf w ulert. tnt .Jo rUtm. mod ha. tb Mirors to pru. tlut h will iiruuiti CTU KHsa-HtTtsM ELftlitl. Infill? pTsalKMiw thM. iruta Ui aleak, gobi by Lrrnjc-:i rtjerajiy rriarip. Depot M y. ELEVENTH Pmuounu FAXON, CLARKE & CO. VICK'S FLORAL GUIDE FOIt 1875. Published quarterly. The January Num ber is now reaily. It eontaius over (Of pages, 500 illustration, and a de-tripum of 300 of th finest fintem and vtg'tahla; giving also direction! bow tn cultivate tliria. A colore I plate is added lo th- Ftoati Gcios. It is the mo-t ut-ful snd him) handsomely brought out work of thi' t ni Only U Cents per annum. It j-uh iiLe-1 ia Eng ian and German. Al.lre-, JAMES Vli'K, Ro.-he-ier. N. T. lis st FREDERICK SPIECKER, WHOLESALE DEALIB If Leaf Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes, Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, OF THE BEST BRANDS. 173. 122 FA13X0U2TT AVEIvUS, PHILADELPHIA. Only Agent for V. S. Solid Top Cigar Mould. Cigar Stores can be supplied. Ml-ly THAT COUGH! BY TAKING SINES' COMPOUND STBUP OF TAR, WILD CHERRY AND ECOH33IIOTTXD. For tht Curt of Cough. Whooping Cough Croup, Sort Throat, Jloartennt, Aithrxa, Inflammation of (As Lungt, I'atn m IAS Side and Breast. Bronchitis and oil disease tending to FILHDI11Y EQ1SDMFT1D3! Do not neglect that, which to you may ap pear to bo a trifling cold, or you too mr be added to the NINETY THOUSAND human beinirs who die annually in the CNITtl) STATES who are hurried to premature graves, by that dreadful scourg -. ri'inui asv cosscamos. The specified ingredients, vix.: Tr, vl'i'4 Cherry and llorehound, are so well knows, and so highly recommended, that the pre paration must come into general u-e fr af fections of the breast and lunus. It is rs msrkably pleasant to take, containing no thing to cause nauseating sensations which is a very important consideration as it is extremely difficult to prevail upon children to take a sufficient ouan'i'y of most medi cines la use to have the desired effect. lias been sold by Druggists and Store keepers for thirty years. Prica 25 and 53 certs per bcttla. Freparvd only br CHARLES NEHER, JR.. PHILADELPHIA. USE M. B. ROBERT'S EMBROCATION, BOB AIL BXTIBSAl DISEASES Of MAN OR BEAST. Price 35 Cents per Bottle. EVERY i SIA.1 WHO OWft A arwmt tt from rooting by anna HILL'S P.tut Ri.wia SI OU Kiaa par Uw iuenxm; Taamee HolSwa. tl 2s, by Mail, post-paid. Ir Sal Of Hardware Daalara. Cirealan Iraa. Asanas, r. w. mix cr.. saiatOt-asw Uccatwr, III- SHOW CASES! SHOW CASES! AO style. 811vr Moontod ana Walnut, new s4 aacond-hasd. Hacuralv col :aet tne abipoui. rjUUMTaUtS. BAB, SHKLVIU, rfioWl TURKS. o. ,. WJ HOURS AUD OrriOK rCHNITFKB all Etna Tne larxaat and beat aaauruil atoca, new ana esosd-band la tne Uuj. LKW1H A. HKO- 11 " lOtl. lag. ISO a f7 BISJWB TS- Pal' JOD PRINTING TBATX.T mourn) at'istoi oma 'ir . 7" .'- i '
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