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VOLUME XIX
Po3zlTst7.eoca.
[The following poem, evidently cut by her 'from
a newspaper, was found among a child's playthings,
after she' was dead, by her mother. It came as• a
soothing balm to a stricken heart.]
EIIILDBEN IN HUM
Ids - of - Heave]
In the immortal bowers,
iroad - fraH
Dwelling by life's clear river.
Amid the undying,flowers,
Myriads of beauteous spirits,
Fair children of the earth,
Linked in bright bands celestial,
Sing of their human birth,
They sing of earth and heaven—u
Divinest voices raise.
In thanks and praises, unto Rim.
Who called them to the skies.
.The golden-haired, the bluo•eyed,
That lighted up our life,
And folded were, with our hearts,
from out the world's rude strife;
,The_blessings-of-onr-bosoms, -----
The stars upon Our sky,
The flowers up-springing in our path,
Too belxutifu lAO die.
They are all there in Heaven,
Safe, safe, and sweetly blessed;
No cloud of sin can shadow '
Their bright and holy rest.
.8211ING.
The yellow skies at eventide,
The morning's crimson glow—
The bare brown rocks that peep above
The swiftly less'ning snow—
The swelling'buds upon the trees,
The mellow heat at noon,
Are sweet and subtle prophecies
That - spring is coming goon.
The sparkling brooks freed from the ioe
That bound their' gentle
fiow—
The stars as soft as eyes of love—
The Southern winds that blow—
Like the sweet air of J une—
Speak unto us the welcotiVtruth,
That spring is coming soon.
The early robin on the elm,
&he blue bird in the hedge—
The rippling of the forest spring
Adown the mossy ledge—
The purple haze that sails by night
Between us and the moon—'
All, all suggest the pleasant thought
That spring is coming soon.
21EXEIC73111X,Ma ILN lir .
COULDN'T TELL BY HIS DRESS
Some years ego a wealthy carriage maker
residing in Philadelphia, was very much an
noyed by calls of hackmen, coachmen, omni
bus drivers, etc , who, under pretense of
wishing to purchase would put him to con
siderable trouble in showing them all the
various vehicles he had on hand and telling
them-the difference, the very lowest price of
each; aril would leave with the consoling i•
des that they would "think of it" and if they
concluded to purchase, "why they'd call a
gain to-morrow." But it so happened that
•they never called again the second time.—
The daily inquiry we say, had become so an
noying that the owner, in self defence, had
resolved, on not paying any attention to a
customer, unless he came well dressed.—
About this time - the owner was one day
standing at his door, when up came a rough•
looking man, well bundled up in his over
coat, wearing coarse unpolished boots, and
carrying in his band a whip, who thus ac
costed• him.
"Good day sir. lire you the owner of
this establishment."
"Well, I am," replied the other, with a
look which seemed to say," Now you want
to try it don't you ?" .
• "Have you any fine carriages for sale ?"
inquired the stranger, apparently not heed
ing the boorishness of the other,
"Well, I have."
"At what price ?"
"Different prices of course."
"Ah I yes. Can I look at them ?",
"You can do as you please, stranger.—
They are in there."
The stranger bowed politely, and passed
in, examined the vehicles for a few moments,
,returned and said :
"There is one I think will answer my pur
pose," pointing toward one. "What is the
price ?"
"Twn hundred dollars, air."
"Is that the lowest?"
"That is the lowest."
"Well, sir, I will call , and give you my de
cision to morrow;" and the stranger walked
away.
"Yes, you'll call to-morrow I 0, yes, cer
tainly," replied the owner in a tone of irony,
not so low-but that the stranger heard him;
bat he kept on his way, taking nel 'outward
notice of it.
The next day came, and with it came the
stranger also.
"I have come according oo promise," :said
I eeo you have, sir," replied the owner, a
little ashamel •
"I will take , that carriage, sir, -- " , and to the
aitonisbn4ent'ofioe licher, he pulled out -an
old wallet.well stuffed with bills, and delib
irately counted out two hundred dollars.
PmA4lrfron:t-syrk, ,- tti
The owner was completely staggered.
Here's something new, a cabman with 'so
much money! He took the money, looked
at p it, and then at . the stranger, eyed him
from head to foot and examined his boots
attentively. , Then he counted his money o
ver and held up each bill to the light to Bee
if it was counterfeit. No! all were good.—
A .thought struck him. He would find, out
his name!
"I suppose you would like a receipt!" said
he at length to the stranger.
• "It may be,as well."
"Yes sir. What name?"
"Washington Irving."
- sr," said — the othery—aetually—starting
back with amazement, "did I understand
your name was—"
'Washington Irving' replied the other, an
almost imperceptible smile hovering" around
his mouth.
"Washington Irving—sir—my dear eir,"
stammered the owner, confusedly,
—really, sir, beg ten thousand pardons sir,
but pardon mel—but I mistook you for a
cabman, air! -- r did indeed!" •
"No excuse, my friend,' replied Irving.
"I am, no better than you took me for. You
acted perfectly right" and having at length
succeeded in getting his receipt, amid a host
of apolo g ies , he politely bade the humble car
riage ma ker "good day," and left him to the
chagrin that be had mistaken for a cabman
a man whose_lofty_genius—had—oommanded
the admiration of the whole world. •
The friend who related this anecdote, as
serted that it was a fact, and told to him by
the veritable owner himself. It doubtless
proved a lesson to him not to judge men by
their dress.
An Unseen Witness
There is a little machine wade something
like a clock, which can be fastened on a car
riage, and in some way connected with}he
motion of the wheels It is so arranged
that it marks off correctly the number of
miles that the carriage runs. A stable keep
er once had one upon a carriage that he
kept for letting, and by these means he could
tell just how many miles any one want who
hired it of him.
Two young men once hired it to go to a
town some ten miles distant. Instead of
simply going and returning, as they promis
ed to do, they rode to another town some
five miles further, making the distane they
passed over, and coming, some thirty miles.
When they returned, the owner of the es
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,sing po ale
young men, glanced upon the face of, the
measuring instrument, and discovered how
many miles they had traveled.
'Where have you been?' he .then asked
them.
'Where we were going,,' was the answer.
Have you not been further than that?'
'O,. no, they answered.
'How many miles have you beef! in all?'
'Twenty.'
He touched the.spring the cover opened,
and there on the face of the instrument the
thirty miles were found recorded.
The ydung men were astonished at this
unerring testimony of an unseen witness that
they had carried with them all the way.
Thus has God placed a recording witness
in our hearts. Wherever wa go, we carry
it with us. He keeps it Wound up and in
order Without our thinking of it, it re
cords all our acts, all our words, and all our
thoughts.
"We sometimes seek to deceive our friends
but the truth is recorded in our hearts. By
and by God will touch the spring, and all
that is written there will then be seen.—
Many things we do we should not, if we
.knew the eye of another person were look
ing upon us. '
We always carry a witness with us. 0 .
A little boy was urged by an older person
to do an act that was wrong. He was told
that no one would know of it. "Yes BUM
body will," said the little fellow, 'myself will
know it.'
We cannot dismiss the witness God has
fastened it to our minds It is our con
science and whatever our lips may deny, it
will always tell the truth. If we should at
tempt in the great day when God judges the
World, to deny our action there, upon our
hearts they will appear, written down, when
we will not know it, by the unseen witness
that God has Made to accompany , us every
step in our life.
Think daily little readers of that instru
ment which we carry with us, out of sight
on which is written everything we do sod
say.
Think how we.will feel when God opens
it; that its records may be seen by all the
world. .
To REMOVE STIIMPS.—A correspondent
to the Rural Register states , that Mr. John
Barnes, of Baltimore, removed a trouble
some stump from near his house on the fol
lowing manner:
'Last fall, with an inch auger, he bored
a bole in th centre of the stump ten inches
deep, and into it put about a half a 'pauud
of oil of vitriol, and corked the hole up
tight. This spring the whole stump and.
roots extending through all their ramifica
tions, were so rotten that they were easily
eradicated."
If true, the above would be a Cheap me
thod of removing-stumps. The sulphuric
acid can be bought for about ftve cents per
pound. '
DER ITETO.—One of our Gorman fellow
citizens says the Elmira Gazette, got agita
ted on the President's veto messago, the oth
er day, and thus relieved himself : "I clinks
der Bresident is — right. Dese eight years
and petter, haf I gebt house, and nefer
had a ppreau in-mine blue+) yet, and I got a
long abust as good as if I have one. Now
,dey wants all de go?ored peoples to haf a pu
rean and dair de poor white people bay for
Nita. I s'hands by der Brosidont.
WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAT 11, 1866.
e Angel in the Block.
is related of Michael Angelo, that
w .I,malking with some friends through an
obscure street in the city of Florence, be
discovered a fine block , of marble, lying ne
glected in a yard, and half in dirt and rub
blab. Regardless of his holiday attire, he
at once fell to work upon it, clearing away
its filth, and striving
. to lift it from the slime
and mire in which it lay.. His companions
asked him, in astonishment, what he was
doing, and what he wanted of .that worthless
piece of rock. Oh, there's an angle in, this
stone,' was the answer; 'and I must get it
out.' He had it removed to his studio; and
ittr-patient-toil-,--wit-h-m: • •
let the angel out. What to others was but
a rude, unsightly stone, to his educated e •
was a buried glory of art,. - andle - discovera
at a glance what might be made of it A
mason would have put it into a wall; a cart
man would have used it in filling in, or to
grade the sieets; but he transformed in into
a creation of genius, and gave it a value for
ages to come. _
And so it is with time: Some see it only
as rubbish to be disposed of, Others know
no use for but to fill up gaps - of - toil or
pleasure; but the trained eye of the devout
student of Protidence, sees in it the sleepino ,
-or-buried angel , and knows that if by the
grace of God, he handles it right, he can
b rin that_anael-out,—He - carretwfreit - into
ev-7
the roims of the angelic service, he can shape
ichWa life of holy devotion, till, like that
which Theodore Parker admired in the mis
sionary Judson, is worth more than 'a -tem—
ple like the Parthenon.'
Without religion it is almost inevitable
that one should be eonbtrained to exclaim at
last, like one of the great marshalSof France,
'My life has been a failure.' But with it,
time will be transmitted from the rough
block into the glorious statue, or rather, the
living form. ,Corsecrated aims will make it
at once useful and blessed—a patch of light,
but a pathway, too, to angelic glories in a
higher sphere.
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Hot Feet—Cold Head
Action is life; inaction is death. Life in
the human body, is warm. Death is cold.
Vigorous bodily action causes the blood to
circulate throughout• every part of the body.
The want of action causes it, so to speak, to
stand still. The blood goes most freely to
those parts of the body or brain most exer
cised. If we swilla L
-theme'-
,Q plac smith, or - climb the ropeslike the
sailor, we get large and strong arms and
hands. if we-row a boat or swing the scythe,
it is the same. But if we use the brain
chiefly, to the exclusion of the muscles, we
may have more .active minds, but weaker
bodies. The better condition in which the
entire being, body and brains, is symmetri
cally developed, requires the harmonious ex
ercise of all parts, in which there will be
happy equilibrium with no excesses, no de:
fleieney, no hot headache, no cold feet.—
Headache is usually caused by a pressure of
blood on the brain : .cold feet by a limited
circulation of blood in those extremities.
There is an old adage which says, "Keep
the feet warm and the head cool," which
was no doubt intended to counteract a ten
dency the other way. Certain it is that those
who suffer with hot beads usually have cold
feet.
One cause of cold feet is wearing tight
gaiters which interrupt the free circulation
of blood. Another is the wearing of tight
stockings and tight shoes. Still another cause
is using the lower limbs so little that there
is not enough blood in circulation in those
parts to keep them warm.
Callous Oriental Customs
There are many traits of character and
customs, in which the Arabs and Turks are
our antipodes. They shave the bead, but
not the chin, and we the reverse. With us
the uncovering of the bead in the presence
of another is a mark ,of respect; with them a
mark of disrespect When they go into a
place of worship they keep on the hat, and
take off the shoes and sliprers; we do the
opposite. They mount on the right side of
a horse, and we on the left. They write
from right to left,'and t we from left to write.
We show our good breeding by taking the
outside when we pass persons on the street;
they by passing nearest to the wail. They
do the honors of the table by serving them
selves first; we by serving ourselves last.—
If a friend inquirers after your wife, you re
gard it as a compliment; to inquire after
theirs is an insult. Their mourning dress is
white, our's bla•ok. They finish their wood.
en houses from the top downward;• and we
from the foundation up. The men wear
frocks, and the women pantaloons. We wash
the hands by dipping them in water; they
by having water poured upon them.—.Buns
man's Sinai and Zion.
THE SABBATH A NOON.--It seems to me
that we put Sabbath keeping generally on
too low a ground... We call it duty when, it
should be privilege. The Sabbath is a feast,
and not a fast. It is less a command than a,
boon. It is granted to us, above and beyond
being imposed upon us. It is our great rest
day, given us that we may not faint from
overmuch weariness After a week?s : toil . •
body or mind, or both, God in his fatherly
love and tender care, presses upon us this
great gift that our scuts may live. He stays
the sweeping, tide, that we may take . our
sounding, reckon our latitude and longitude,
fiud where we ate and whither we are steer
ilia In the dizzying whirl-of life we need
—ah, how 6 estly du We coed, and how sore
1y do we suffer without it 1--titia regularly
recurring interval' of quiet, that 'we may
look grfttefully — liaTA over all — the way which
the Lord our God hath led us, and trustful:
ly forward' through all the future till the'end
comes.—.'rumbling B/Ocks.
Wornait's piss"
ROME AND FRIENDS AROUND US.
No! there's a power to Make each hour
As sweet as heaven•designed it;
Nor need we roam , to bring it hOme,
Though few there ne to find it.
We seek too high for things close by,
And lose what nature gave us, .
For life bath here no harms . so dear
As home and friends around us. ,
We oft destroy the present-jo
And future hopes, nor praise them,
While flowers as sweet bloom at our feet,
If we'd but stoop to raise them. ,
ings_o_f_tall :renter are •
, When youth's bright spell hath bound us;
But soon we're taught that earth has naught
Like home and friends-around-us
The friends that speed in time of need,
When hope's last reed is shaken
Do show us Still, that come what will!,
are not quite forsaken.
Though all were night, if out the light;
From friendship's altar crowned us,
Twould prove the bliss of earth was this—
Our home and friends around us.
Neck-Twisting in Church
parson, who was sorely annoyed' by'a habit
his people bad acquired. (and which pre
vails, by-the-way, in all other churches, even
now and hereabouts to some extent) to twist.
Ing their necks around every time anybody
entered the 'door, and passed up the isle of
the meeting house to see what manner of
person iemight be.
'Wearied with 'the annoyance, the old man
exclaimed, — one Sunday;
"Brethren, if you will only cease turning
your heads round, whenever the door lens,
and will keep your attention on me, I will
promise to tell you, as I preach, who it is
that comes in." •
Accordingly he went on with the services,
and presently made a stop as .one of the dea
cons entered, saying,
"That ,-is Deacon
grocery opposite."
And thus he announced,.in turn, the ad
vent of each individual, proceeding the while
with his sermon as composedly as the cir
cumstances would admit, when at last a stran
ger came i
"A little old man in green spectacles, and
a drab overcoat—don't know him—you can
all turn round and look for yourselves this
time."
It is hardly necessary to add that the
good man carded his point, and there was
but little neck-twisting seen in his" congre
gation after that day. •
WORT/I KNOWING —Last spring I took
a small quantity of seed corn and soaked it
in a solution of saltpetre, and to test it plant
five rows through the middle of a naturally
moist piece with seed thus prepared. Now
for the result: The five rows planted with
corn soaked in the saltpetre yielded more
than twenty rows planted the usual way.—
The five rows were untouched by the wire
worm,
while the remainder of the field suf
fered badly from their depredations, and I
should judge that not &single kernel satura
ted with the saltpetre was touched by the
worm, while almost every hill in the rest of
-the piece suffered more or less. The worms
are a little kind of squeamish in regard to
eating anything that comes in -their way;
hence I wish to lay the fact before the agri-
Cultural reader, and hope it will be carefully
tested the coming season, ae the cost is com
paratively nothing when put alongside of two
or three acres of corn nearly ruined by these
pests. All moist lands are more or less fill
ed with them, and many farmers dare not
plant corn on them, for they say the wire
worm will spoil their crop; hence they will
let it lie unimproved year after year,•When it
might be made to produce a bountiful crop.
,Tnflonborough, J L. lIERSiY'
Germantown Telegraph
What Whiskey Doss.
It meets many a luckless traveler on . the.
great, turnpike of life, and robs him of
character and friends It intrudes into hap
py families, saps the foundation of their
pence, and driveS them homeless ; wretched
and forlorn, to subsist on the cold charity
of an unfeeling world. It meets a mechanic
and causes him to neglect his busines, drives
away his customers, and reduces him to a
state of wretchedness and misery. It meets
a farmer, and soon briars cover the face of
his farm, his fences are broken down, his
habitation becomes leaky, and the windows
stuffed with rags Finally it sells his farms,
and whiskey sellers pocket the money,
while the heart broken and sickly wife, with
her little children around her crying for
bread is turned out of doors. But where
is . that once thrifty . farmer, kind hisband
and affectionate father? YOnder in the street
a miserable :wretch; wandering from gro
cery_ to, 'kroctotty p timing' his Coat for whir
key. And,. the vampires, who hide them
selves behind screens and blinds, are willing
to take the last Cent: and then kick , their mis
erable viotim.ititais the street because -he has
no more money..
, ,
'A cellar which opens a dwelling
should be kept as cletin as any other part of
the house, because its atmosphere is con
stantly aseenci,ing, eta impregnates every
room in the house with its many odors. In
reality; there ought not to be any Cellar un
do auy dwelling.
- Pa STony---Tbe last-dog story is from
Yatikee land,•of, °curie, where afarmer's dog
has .bean detected in going to the hog_pen st
night, and bitiog.ono of the hogs till he gets
up,. when Tiger lies down in the warm place
And . goes to sleep. • •
joint resolution proposing an amendment
to the Constitution of the United. States. ..
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of,
Representatives of the 'United States of
merica - in' Congress assembled, two•thirds of
both hmises concurring. That the following;
article be proposed to the Legislatures of the
several States as an amendment to the Con
stitution, Which, when ratified by three
fourth's 'of the said legiilatures.
Article.—Section state shall make
or enforce any law which shall abridge :the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any State " deprive
any person of life, liberty or property with
oitrdtterprocess oi law, nor deny to any 'per
son within its jurisdiction the equal proteo
tion of .the laws.
Soo. 2. Representatives shall be appor-
tioned among the several States which may
be included within this Union according to
their respective numbers. counting the whole
number of persons in each State,. excluding
Indians not taxed. But whenever in any
State the elective &nobbled shall be denied
to any portion of its male citizens not less
than twenty-one years of age, or in any way
abridged, except for participation in rebel
lion or other crime, the basis of representa
tion in such State shall educed—in—the
- pr - dff ion w i ich the number•of such male
citizens shall bear to the whole number of
male citizens not less than twenty-one years
of age.
Sec 3: Until the 4th day Of July, 1870,
all persons who voluntarily adhered
,to the
late insurrection, giving it aid and comfort,
shall be excluded from the right to vote. for
members of Congress and for electors for
President and Vioe President of the United
States.
Sec. 4. Neither the United States nor
any State shall assume or pay any debt or
Obligation already incurred, or which may
hereafter be incurred; in aid of insurrection
or war against the United States, or any
claim for compensation for loss of involunta
tary services or labor.
See. 5. The Congress shall have power
to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the
provisions of this article.
A bill to provide for the restoration of the
States lately' in insurrection to their full
political rights.
Whereas it is expedient that the States
, who keeps the
day consistent with the future peace and
safety of the Union be restored to full par
ticipation in all political rights,
And whereas the Congress. did, by joint
resolution, propose for ratification to the leg
islatures of the several States, as an amend
ment to the Constitution o f the United
States, an article in the following words, to
wit : [The constitutional article recited above
is here inserted ]
Now, therefore, he it enacted, efo., That
whenever the above recited amendment shall
have become a part of the constitution, and
any state lately in insurrection shall have
ratified the same, and shall have modified its
constitution and laws in conformity there
with, the Senators and Representatives from
such State, if found duly elected and quali
fied, may, after having taken the required
oaths of office, be admitted into Congress as
such.
And be it further enacted, That when any
State, lately in insurrection shall have rati z
fled the foregoing proposed amendment to
the Constitution, any part of the direct tax
under the act of August sth, 1851, which
may remain due and unpaid.in such State,
may be assumed and paid by such State,
and the payment thereof, upon proper assu
rances from such State to be given to the
Secretary of the Treasury of the United
States, may -be posponed for a period not ex
ceeding ten
,years from and at ter the passage
of this act.
.4
bill declaring certain persons ineligilde to
office under the Uovernincnt of the United
Be it enacted, &o ' That no • ponson shall
be eligible to any offioe under tho govern
ment of the United States who is included
in any of the following classes, namely:
First. The President and Vico PreSident
of the Confederate States of America, so cal
led, and the heads of departments thereg.
Second. Those who in other countries act
ed as agents of the Confederate States of A
merica, so called.
Third. Heads of Departments of the Uni
ted States, officers of the army and navy of
the United States, and all persons educated
at the military or naval academy of the Uni
ted States, judges of the courts of the Uni
ted States, and members of both houses of
the thirty-sixth Congress or th e United
States who gave aid or comfort to the late
rebellion..
Fourth. Those who acted as officers of the
Confederate States of America, so called a
bove the grade of colonel in the . 'army or
master in the navy; and any one who, as gov
ernor of. either of the so called .Confederate
,Stator, gave aid or comfort to the late rebel
lion.
Fifth. Those who have treated officers or
soldiers or sailors of the army or navy of the
United States, captured during the late war,
otherwise than as prisoners of war.
•ENJOYMENT OF OCCUPATION.—The mind
requites some object on Oriel' its powers
must be exercised, and without which it
preys upon itself and becomes miserable.•;--
A. person accustomed to a' . life 'of •activity
longs for ease and retirement, and when he
has accomplished this purpose finds himself
wretched.• The pleasure of relaxation soon
is known only to those who have regular and
interesting occupation. Continued relaxa
tion soon becomes a weariness, and ,on this
ground, we may safely, ars:rt hat the great
est degree of real enjoyment belongs not to
the luxurious man of-Isrtalth, or the' listless
votary of fashion; but to the middle crass 'of
society, who, along with the comfirtsof life
have constant and important occupation.
IMPORTANT REPORT
THE B4EssED. - -'-=;43lessed is he who dose
tint make a cent, for he will have no' in-'
Come tax to p ay. ,
2., Blessed is the bald-headed man, for
his wife cannot pull his hair. -
8 Blessed is•the homely man, f , ,r the girls
shall not molest him;• yea, thrice blessed is
he, far. when he shall ask a lady to dance,
she will answer him saying. "I sin- engaged
for the next set.'
4 Blessed i 4 he who polishes his ' boots
and not his morals, who maketh clean the
outside bat neeleeteth the inside thereof,
far nll the girls 'shall rise at his coming and
call him beautiful.
5. Blessed is the man who bath no
brains, but brass in abundance, for he shall
be the ladies favorite,
6. Bles
Ned is the young man who _giveth—
many and costly presents to young ladies,
for great shall be, his reward—in a 'horn. •
7. Blessed •is 'the than who is always flat
broke, fot no man saivh unto him, lead mo
five dollars.' .
8. Blessed is the Digger Indian, for liltoei
Malin) wan presented' a subscription paper.
A Monica's Loy.E.—Some of our read
ers may recollect a thrilling ballad which
was written_oit_the-death—of — a woman who
perished in the snow drafts of the Green
Mountains of Vermont. That mother bore
an infant on her bosom and when the storm
waxed loud and furious, true to a mother's
love; she rent her own garments and wrapt
them around her babe. The morning found
her a stiffened corps, but her babe survived.
That,babe grew to manhood, and became
the Speaker of :he Ohio Senate. flow thrill
ing must be 'his thoubgts of that mother,
if he be a true, large hearted man. How
deep a mother's love. How_many a _mother
is' there who would die for her son, if called
by providence to do so. Let sons, when
far away from home on the land or on the
sea, when the eyed no mother is upon them
remember her love, and be restrained by it
from entering the paths of fiFe.
low long 'a - horse eso livC - without food is
decided by experiments.' made recently in
France. It was ascertained, by cruelmeans,
that a horse can live for twenty-five days .
without solid• food, merely drinking water.
He may live seventeen _day.
60
_
o can only live five days
when consuming solid food without drink
ing. After taking solid aliment for the
space of ten days, but with an insufficient
quantity of drink, the stomach is worn our.
The'•above facts show the importance of wa
ter in the sustenance of the horse. A horse
which bad been deprived of water three days
drank eleven gallons in the space of three
minutes.
A nice young man, a little worldly mind
ed, walked to church once with a very pious
young lady. Arrived at the church door,
worldly-minded young man declined enter
ing. Whereupon, the pious lady seized his
bat, and placing it i under her cloak, sailed
into church, leaving th e worldly-minded
young man standing at the door minus his
hat, The last heard of the worldly-minded
young man, ho was wending his way down
the church aisle as demurely as if nothing
had happened..
'lf you marry,' said a Romaia consul to
his son, 'let it be a woman who has judg
ment and industry enough to get a meal of
victuals; taste enough to dress neat; pride e
nough to wash before .breakfast;
. and souse
enough to hold her tongue.'
A German, being required to. give a re
ceipt in full, after much mental effort, pro
duced the following: "I ish full. I wants
no more monish. John Swaehammer.
A western "local" acknowledges the gift
of "two bouquets, smiling in their paper
frills as do girls' faces within their laced
night caps." That man is too imaginative
to be kept on prosaio "items." .
Petroleum V. Nasby says of the 'Presi
dent—"Androo started out to be a Moses
and he is one, but I think he's changed his
Israelites'
'Madam, said a cross tempered physieian
to a patient, cif women were admitted to Par.
adise their tongues would make it a purga
tory.
'And some - physicians, if allowed to priay
tice there,' replied the good lady, 'would
soon mike it a desert.',
A boy going to markSt, buys 30 eggs, 3.
for a cent. Again he buys 30 eggs, 2 for a
cent; and sold diem all at 5 for 2 cents.—
What did. be make or lose?
There, is not a stream of trouble so deep
and' swift-ru'n'ning' that we may , not cross
safely over we have courage to steer
and strength to pull..
Beautiful. was the reply of a venerable
man to the 'question, whether he was still
in' the land of the !Meg:. "No, bu.t.l am al
most tbere.'l •• •••
There are two directly opposite reasons
why a man sometimes 'cannot get credit --
Ono is•because he is not known—the other
because be is.
Moore had the,petroleum fever when he
sung, "Oh, hit! I some sweet little isle of my
,
own. '
An Trishrnan:ehnrged with..whipping his
witel,.defended*.hitoself on the ground that
he was 'bating a Dui:maize.
• W hat is die ,worst:sdara man can sit On?
. - •
•A spendthrift's purse,
.like an uneasy
thundercloud; is
,alwaypiligheuing.
Or "Zeiar
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