More egtailing.
WE CAN MAKE HOME HAPPY.
Though we may not change the cottage,
For mansions tall and grand,
t
Or exchange the little grass plo
Fur a boundless stretch ofla d--
,
Yet there's something brighter. deem,
Than the wealth we'd thus command.
Though we have no means fo purchase
Costly pictures rich and ra4—,
Though we have no silken htNings
For the walls so cold and bare, l t
We can hang them o'er with garlands,
For flowers bloom everywhere.'
We can make home very cheerful
If the right coutte we begin
We can make its inmates happy
And,their truest blessings win ;
It will make a small room brighter
If we let the sunshine. in.
We can gather 'round-the firesid%
When the evening hours are lo g
We can blend our hearts and voices
In a happy social song ;
We can guide some erring brother,
Lead him front the path Of wrong.
We may fill our homes withmusic
And . with'surishme brimming o'er,
If against all dark intruders
We will firmly close the dog ;
Yet should the evil shadow on jer,
We must love each other more.
There are treasures for the lowly,
Which the grandest fail to find ;
There's a chain of sweet affection .
Bringing friends of kindred mind ,;
We may reap the choicest blessings
From the poorest lot assigned, ,
ABOUT THE OLD FOLKS
,
9 Do young people ever think that 'they will
be old ; that they will soln feel that the grass
,
hopper is a burden, nod fiar is in the way ?
Only a few !Mort' years ago, that aged man 'and
feeble woman were youug, strong, and full of
life ; their loving hearts were gushing with
tenderness and care for the little ones,who now
stand in their places. Do not Jostle that aged
couple out of your pathway,- but, rather, lift •
them with tender care' over the rough, declint
ing road. You may have forgotten how c.are-'
fully they kept your tender feet froth stumbling
and with what care they watched your advan
eing steps. But they have not forgotten, and
the time will come when you will be reminded
of it, by the love you have for your owr, little
ones. W ill they ever hand you the same bitter
cup to drink that you now pour- Out for that
aged father and stricken mother ? Verily,
"with what measure ye mete, it shall be Meas
ured to you again." Think of the anxious days
and nights your mother has watched by your
sick bed ; remember her loving care; her pa
tience and long suffering with your fretfulness,
and then let the blush of shame dye your brow
that you should be impatient or unkind lto, her
now she is old. Old foil& are such a trial !
Yes, they know it ; they feel. it ! and so will
you be just such a trial to your children In the
days that will surely come; aye, and you will
remember too.
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SPEAKING OF TILE CUM?tIODORE.
The Rochester Democrat says . Commodore
Vanderbilt is worth $40,000,000. Daniel Drew
says the Commodore is worth $100,000.900.
The New York Sun says the Commodore is
the richest man in America. Asa draw back'
to all this we find the Commodoie 82 years , of
age. - Would any poor young man take the
Commodore's years for his money ? Doubtful.,
If that be so, stop growling at Fortune, The
Cumthodore with all- his A:Fealth has not been
able to purchase one day of perfect, health in
twenty-two 'years. Every hod carrier in the
State can show a better record than this. To \
be rich. without having health to F.atch, is
very, much like owning all the , food the
world with only an appetite for oat straw and
molasses.
ANOTHER. 'MAN INSIDE. .1
Only another man inside. The world moves
OD Jag the same as ever; The s liew York com
mercial Advertiser remarks-:
The late A. T. Steivart died April 10th. To-'
day the, same carriage and the,same span of
bay horses, at the same hour in the afternopn,
come - down Broadway and circle round the
marble store into Charnbers street, there
wait . at the door precisely as formerly, when
the great millionaire was in active life. - The
only difference is • that now another man s gets
inside and there is another man on, the hox.--:
The world moves on as usual.. "Another man
inside" tells the whole story- Such is;
Absolute, peremPtory facts 'a e bait* and
those who keep company with Ultra are apt i to
get a bullying habit of:mind. : I . . .
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Drink water. From water. Venus was hnrn.
It is the mother of - beauty, the guile of earth,
and the marriage of nations, - I
There are more eorrOws of women: 'than of
!lieu. just as in heaven, there are more. eclipses
of thelm.on than, ot the atm.
Look Fell into, thyself; there is,,-,' tt. - .#9l3re
Which will alway;spriiik nil if t4ou 1441t,411
Ways search theri.: • •
•
To the old nnitt,ilieieis. in the hole. of 'Apse
or a violet the frng . rarltHeetici OfgeOres.ofAeadi
SillilLr,s
)lerit readily recognizes tnei eat 81 ,U
he Cannot have it who doesn' knoW, when .
stes it.
The momenta Min 4 . ,satTvfied*ith , :lii sell;
everybody else is dissatisfied-with bun.
4*,
Zippiness gross at, Qui ow ti trosiaes, ./*
not to ve pleked in a stranger's, gtirdeia:
.VEGITATIO . AND
The English Gardener!. Magazine says : Our
'instincts lead us to - delight in flowers. Thir
beauty and perfume have irresiatible attractions,
for us, We have little dreamed \that we were
thus led to 'surround ourselves with objects
which most powerfullY conduce to health. No
doubt there are certain members of the vegeta
ble kingdom which are exceedingly deleterious:,
far, not to speak of the much• dreaded upas, the
West Indian manchineel, and some species of
the Ainerican rbus, there are some of our com
mon-Wed-scented flowers, such as theme
_zere
on, which has 'very injurious proPerties. But
recent investigation has proved that those
adornments of o ur gibrdens for the preience of
Ls n . •
Which We so crave, are, asee,endowed with
health preserving qualities. '
Oxygen,when highly electrified ands() ren
dered\ especially vitalizfrig, has in recent times
been distinguished by the name of ()Zone.--
This is orie of the chief elements of a
: healthy
atmosphere. Now,centuries _w
ago it as known
that certain plants acted as , powerful - disinfee•
tants. Thus Herodian tells us that,_when in
the second century the , plague ,raged in Italy,
the i p i hysicians 'recommended that those who
crowded into 4ome to go to Laurentum,
because there the\sweet-bay tree (Laurus nohil
is) grew 'in great abundance, and ' the Inhalation
' of air impregnated with its odors Was‘a strong
preseryative against infee.tion. Anti the deci
pies of Empedoeies were wont to gro waromatic,
and balsamic herbs around their siwellings,trom'
the belief ,that they were ihus guarding them-
Selves against fetters, Roues and such like. 'Has
not, too, among us the tradition of its fever
dispelling power given ;he name of feverfew to
one of ths strongest scented of .the cotnpositte ?
'Recent investigationi, espedially those of Prof.
MontegazzN of pagua, and Dr. Cornelius Pox,
have ihos - n that these old ideas were based on
scientific truth. I,lt is now ascertained that the
quality of ozone is materially increased by the
. exposure to the' rays of the sun 'of various
plants, among which the most common are the
lavender,
ayender, musk, cherry, laurel, clove, fennel,
narcissus, heliotrope, hyacinth, - and mignon
ette.
. It is interesting to know that the sunflower,'
which will groW . -alknost anywhere, and could
be turned to' various useful purposes, Is one of
the most vain* of sanitary agents, since not
only is It ozoniparous. but also destroys delete,
rious miasmata. It should be noted, as a fur
ther proof of the good infbielace of plant' cul
ture on liealth, that, while the manufacture of
ozone:is an independent work carried on by
the floWers alone, the green leaves are perform
ing their sanitary function by extracting car
bonic acid gas , from the atmosphere, and help:
ing to reserve that proportion in its elements
which makes it healthful.. More remarkable,
perhaps, taan all is the encalyptus, of which
we shall soon know more. Thus the cultiva
tion of flowers is a work not merely delightful
and humanizing in itself, but one which, in a
way most. beautiful , and picturesque, confers a
positive benefit on society, so great that it can
hardly be overrated, especially .in large towns,
where there necessarily be so much to
poison and deterioate the air we breath. It
may be adde4 that the sunflower thrives even
ln the heart of l l,ondon, and, that it. is readily
propagated fry seeds sown in _March or April.
It is nearly all to the common Jerusalem ar
'tichoke, whicl also,' grows in the smokiest a
districts.
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Ca.NY,ERSATI.ON.
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The fact ofrt man \ being a . . good talker pre- ;
supposes a good andience. and a , good audience
ie becoming daily more di ffi cult to obtain. The
reason may lie'easily understood by the reader
of Roswell:. . Jhnson, we may fairly. assume,
was the best of all English talkers on record.—
Now, Johnson, l as surrounded by a little court
(1 .,
of familiar frie ds. each of whom 'sustained a
well underskooLl character. A . party such is
Johnson. Burit4, Reynolds, Goldsmith, Garrick,
and so on, was j like a company of actors each
of whom understands the poiver of all his col
leagues, and is able , to co-operate towards the
general effect. They could understand' each
other ; the hum n
Orist was In o danger of being
taken to speak seriously ; the ' man of special
information wimild not , have his peti subject
snatched out of his mouth ; the tender points
of the irritable man were thoroughly under
stOod, and his . ;friends could. avoid giving him
unnecessary offence. On the other hand, there
w4s i Sufficient amount of Variety to save the
members of the little circle -from boring each
other too much, Some new comer was always
turning up w o could introduce new . topics
from the wort of art, or politics, or literature,
or travel. And it is on the fortunate balance
•
between these tiro elements that the power of
producing good c.;nversation depends. There
'should be a nucleus of sufficiently intimate
friends who'shOuo form, so to speak, au organ
ic
,body, instead of , a mere
, collectiOn of inco
herent atoms,and.set the circulation of:; its con--
etituent parts 4hOuld he sapid enough to pre
serve a'eertalp freshness of interest. Now, the
difference between; the society of to-day and the
society 'of a century ago is , precisely that all
these, little oldies have
, been swept into the
main stream. The rush of the 'torrent is too ,
furious ta allow of the formation of those pleas.
'ant little coteries in which alone good conver,
sc.tiOn can be originally fostered. There bays
been great, talkers since the days of _Johnson,
but Men like. 141ackintosh and Macaulay seem
to'have been rather lectdrers than conversers.
because they could not come into the same :
close personal.lsolation with the crowds Who
were for A time fellow oeetipatits of the game.
room, and'others who have hail some talent of
the Theodore look kind. were rather actors in
a private theatre, than, in any proper sense of
, the word, talker' s.
Do gqod for thine own, ea tisfaetion, , and cme
not what iolloWs. pause pot gray liain to any
olke nevertb4less, for' the, truth, even gray
..4airs are to be disregarded:
Indiatis charge nothing for shaving.
ABOUT BEDS.
As w l e snuggle between the sheets, and lay'
our heads on a aoft pillow some cold winter's ,
night, 4 sometimes seems as it nothing but a
luxurious couch 'of this sort 'could be worth
callingn bed. Yet a; large\ part of the ' world
could not enjoy it if .they had it. Our own an
cesters lreposed hi much ! less luxurious fashion.
In'Eastern countries people commonly spread'
a net M i l the flat t!oof of their houses,!and make'
thht their bed. in Russia the top of the stove
is the bedstead. iln both cases . the sleepers do
not uniiress theMselves.' , .
! ~
In ancient ELOp—as still in China and Japan
;
--woo en pillows Were in Vogue, hollowed out
to tit t e shalie of the head. "Buy the ancient
Egyptians,` while; on 'Recount of the, heat and
vermin, they preferred hard , pillows, are said to
have considered ;their comfort at night in the
inien4on of spring mattresses. These were
Made uf strips hf ! b bamoo crossed over each
other, 'lnd must ' have been as cool i if not quite
as softtand yieldng, as 'the webbing of twine,'
stretched over a frame, on which the nat iv esof
India l
rest. • •
Thellsrallites Used•sheep and goat skins stuff
ed for pilloWs, and in early : times , the, same for
bedding ; but their bedsteads, at a later,period
at leaf% mu3t hive been very ;costly. The
prophet Amos speaks of couches of ivory. s
Amhng the Aesyriansi and • afterward among
the R4mans, couches of gold and silver were
poSse#ed by tli t e rich: The , reason fur this
spkndor was partly that the beds • were not
kept in vparateltooms, but in the same'room'
occupied by day; and were used for sitting on,
and reclining oq at meals. At Roman feasts
the 'Opts all reelined, and sometimes each per
son occupied a'separate couch. , '
The anglo Salon ancestors were, not at all re
fined tin limit sleeping arrangements. 'Their
beds iconsisted o.whoden boxes, filled with a
bag of . straw. 1(11 an old illustrated manuscript
.there its A picture of a king going to bed. He
has a. ) ; crown on his head (a very uncomfortable
night!cap)'but Was no night dress,
144 Henry VIII of England is said•to live
slept noon a straw bed; while his servants lay
upenlrushes strewn on; the floor of the royal
kitchen. The king's Ird was not what we
e. hould call luidrious, but so much ceremony
was Used in
.;oing to it, that seven chamber
inns were einployed in undressing the royal
perso'nage, turning" down the bedclothes, ete.,
One [indispensable Practice was to thrust a
sword into the straw to' See that no person was
conciiakd in it.
It ; may be ientioned in 'connection with
beds,ithat n strange suPerstition was once com
mon in the"south of England, in a belief that a
person cannot dte while lying on pigeon's feath
ers. 'dying person bas often been removed
from a leather bed to the bare floor, artier the
notion that the !death Struggle was prolonged
owing to the prksence in the bed of a few pig
eon feathers. In Englind it is still customary
to surround the:bed with curtains. Americans
havebsdoptedtl# more sensible French fashion
otaliowing a fi t ee . circulation of air about the
sleeper.
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'OCCUPATION.
HO, many r i rearm there are in this world
who'entirely igpore the goldenaeareh for gen
ial * npation They are - almest constantly
striving after i,omething which is entirely . dif
ferent from \whit they are capable of enjoying..
We are not opposed to enterprise, but it is the
habit of constantly changing from one thing to
another against which we protest. There are ,
tboVsands of aen, and' women too, who are to-:
'day last approtching the grave, an who are
striving and toeing to keep soul and body tip.
gethr until the; last hour, because it -has f bed i n
their habit all tfirough life to, he discontented
In tiler time thOy have tried perhaps one bun
dro' different nnd all with little or no
success ovhile,[if they bad chosen one pursuit
and devoted th4ir time and attention to it ex
clusively , they ivfould 10-day - ,in all probability,
be spending their declining years in ease. sur
rounded smith !all the, wants and comforts of
life,lfor there islscarcely a single pursuit that, if
tollgwed with Some purpose, will not yield a
;
golden future.
The discover
-glass was no doubt, in, the
•
first instance, laccideritnl. Whether - credit - is
given to the 'statement of Pliny in regard to its
origin or not, it is scarcely conceivable that in
the manufacture of pnttery,anil some others
known from the earliest periods, the materials
of *hich glasti - is composed should not have
calorie together! and have been fused so ea to
have become ghtss. His account is that glass
waa discovered Iby mariners, Who, compelled to
seelS the shore its a refuge from a severe temp
est discovered glass •in , :the ashes of a fire with
which :they had cooked their food. Whether
this; event everlhappened or not, it is quite cer
tam; that it might have happened, as the-sand
of many beaches. with the a - shes of some kind
of fuel, would, 'when fused together; inevitably
•
forM glass, as Nyill be Seen upon a consideration
of composition. , •
OR GIN *OF 3 31A.tiOGANY. FURNITURE.
.
Albout the eighteenth century a; West India
Captain brought some mahogany logs as ballait
for iris ship, an gave' them to his brother, Dr.
Gibbous, an eminent ' physician, who was:then
building a bowie._ The wood was thrown aside :
as t i bo bard Mr the workmen's tools. Some
time afterward his cite wanted a candle box.
Tinf doctor thought of , the. West India wood.
and f out.of that We DOX was made. Its color,
unit polish ternioed the doctor tti have a bureau
'made .O 1 the [same ! material, , and this, was
thought'so beatittiftd that it was shown to all'
ir
his irrfends. ,T e Duchess ofßuckingham, WilQ
canie to leolt at it, beAgyd wood
. enougjt,to,
mal4t,tinother ITureau for herself.,.,. Then the'de
maild arose, for 'more, arid, I.l.9nduras mahogany ;
healmitt a common artiple of trade. . ,-.. _
It was 'throtiii Oa; leeling 0f40440,11;5t
ylnOw and St 'grit bgati to OldlcisOp4isp,, •
E 14, 1876.
GLASS.
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The attention of the . seeders of the. itiataMAT. is tailed to the - fait that
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116?.1T...ta5k::1?..0e).,-*'::.-I.l.cl!Ot,pilot,,.:f.lllllr.ttili:of‘:,4ll.,,;:lit
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at the above named "place, and alto tO the' tact that' gaol* bought In' thte way
will prove satisfactory because, • • • - •
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TOR CO BE BOUGHT CHEAP WON WU IS ONO.
, - .
The long continued depression in business Circles call for cash transactrone by ManufactUreis. and goods
bought close for cash can be sold at low . prices. To satisfy yourselves of this fact, when at Binghamton t 011111/114
examine the general stock `of Furniture and prices at 16 Chenango Street.
May 81, 1876.
t.CD
H. :'4k., W. T. .PfUffiri.,ll,4o;
os x mar ro umr•
CLOTHING, OATS, GENTS' RIIINISHIIIi GOODS,
TSI .4 MI .M OS*
Which will be sold as CHEAP as any fair and honorable competition will warrant.
Conses nentl • we have. no bad debts' to "make n• foi in the wit of
extra
. . •
girt Please call and iee us, and decide for yourselves In regard to G ds and PA*. We also have the
agency for Mu. DIMOIABEIT'S BILLABLE! PATTILEINIL - '
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13, H. W. T, DICKERMAN. '
New Milford, May 10. 1876.—tf I .
GREAT EXCITEMENT
WEEKS,
DRY GOODS,
CILOWEDT CO&
Sates ist23.d. Bootee
and ~hoa+~.
at prices lower than ever known before in Susquehan
na County. Not excepting prices before the war.
NO . REMENENTS
Everything New and Fresh at Popular
3600 yards of best prints in market, sold daring the past
two Weeks, at 6 . p '
s. ice per yard, and still there is more
Follow. ,
Don't be Ideceived s by, others in -trade who represent
on r goods of inferior quality but come and examine
for yourselves. Prices peat)) , reduced but quality
m a i n t a ined. Montrose, April M. 1876. ,
F'CIRNITURE.
At W. W. Sthith & sOrt's
ftxtintsi. eFuin I trt r6W.a r noom
4 01 i ler 111110 the largist
FIRST CLASS A'blD COMMON
pimp .1V: x w-crEtim
•
To be found in . thloiection of the country, of his owa
manufacture. and at 'prices that cannot tail to give satin
faction. They make the very beat
E!iT . ENSION.,TABLS
In the Country, and ;WA R.R/t *IT thein,
X 7 r) he• 1 t o's•
.0C ell It' ndt done in the neeteet atastier.
z=l.. IRt.. x 3E) oes
• OP VARIOUS
PURE NO.I MATRASSES,
AND COMMON ‘MhaRASSES
-: -,- :::W R - I)'' F::.R..IT,j-A-:-1(-1::..N,.:G
- The anbscrlber wilt nereatter maim ndertaiiiiig it
specialty in • his business. I Having_ just: completed
NEW and the mat elegant REABSE In the fitate t ull;
needing his tier/leen will be attended to prinaPtlyand at
sai,isfactory chaps. , , : • • •L:
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HAVE A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
Just Received From New. York City !
WE MAKE A. SPECIALTY,
ercen =e. Our ex
Our Motto CHEAP ! CHEAP
Store
*ev7
MEUIUISH:: .'84t.,.::-.Cltt
Prices,
„at
stock of ,1
: .
=MIME
AVERY CROUNSE.
nsea are
IN MONTROSE
AT THE
and New Vin):l.
The Largest Stock of
SILVER iWARE.
WATC.II,gB',ANI).:PMAL
Kept in Northern, Pennsylvania,
And at the Lowest Prices.
TABLE, CUTLERY,
POCKET KNIVES, POCKETBOOKS,
VIOLINEL, stßlNgs,
*atches, Jew° &b., relmtUwt by
13 211E310X44317X033EC.
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Pracitial Watchmaker and Jeweler, successor to Isbell
& hielhnisb. We have a large stock of Matertal;',Oew
part!, Ic.,ivhich enables us to do wog more plAtted
and promptly than ever. . ,
M . UNTROSE
• STEAM MILL
OATS TOIL SALE BY THE- LOAD
at the . STEAK MILL.'
FRESH GROUND GRAHAM FLOUR \
for gale at the STEAM. MILL.
Any : 0 - nifty of MEAL &FEED of the
best'quality. at the STEAM MAL.
- • -
FINE WHEAT MIDDLINGS. Rtv , tet
STEAM MILL •
WHEAT BRAN 'sale at the
•
WHEAT FLOUR, FIIES4 . GROUND
at thel STEAM: MILL.
;
OLD; - IVESTgRN dORN:. for seWing... •
Owitecount of the ' poor of new,
"dorii i it necessary tolienre'goo4 old etoik
fox - . leed ; 200 bki, atile wrtAbrmlLL,,
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