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A Golden Sentence.
We have spoken several times
against too stern a government in
the family. But there is another
sort even more objectionable. contentious It is
what one might call a that
government. There are part nts
contend with their children in a sort
of parental willfulness over every
point which concerns their right. It
is not that they are not affectionate, it
is not they lack a tender sympathy
with their children, it is not they simply are
arbitrary ; but that, they are
a little over exacting, a litttle too
contentious, and that certain evils are
almost sure to follow this unhappy
sort of management.
In that admirable work on the
education of children, published
nearly half a century ago, and crown¬
ed by the French Academy, and
crowned by the suffrage of the most
discriminating judges from that day
to this—in Madame Guizot’s “Lettres
de Famille sur “ VEducation * is a
sentence .that should be impressed on
the mind of every one who has to do
with children, a sentence worthy to
be written in letters of gold. The
fact stated is no discovery of Madame
Guizot’s, perhaps ; at least it corres¬
ponds with the discovery of every
wise parent. But though the ob¬
servation lias been made in many
shapes, wc know not where it can be
found so well stated as in these force¬
ful words of the first Madame Guizot:
u Lea longues brouill cries dahlia
sent mains i'emjnre qu'ellea ne de
truissent Vintimite.
No English can say it so well, but
let us try : “hong disagreements (be¬
tween the parent and child) serve
less to establish authority than to
destroy intimacy.*’ Now, let us mark
that last word. Intimacy between
parent and child will seem strange to
many a father and mother. You
know that a child should respect you,
you know that a child is in duty
bound to love you, as you arc to love
the child. But you have novel
thought of the propriety, of the
necessity for intimacy between parent
and child. Since the days of Solo¬
mon, and since, the ages before Solo¬
mon, writers on morals have fully ap¬
preciated the necessity for obedience
to parents j but how lew have ever
understood that the parent is bound
in duty to be the intimate friend ol'
the child 1 And yet a grain of in¬
timacy is worth a hundred-weight _ ol
authority. Bet us not underestimate
authority either. We are no advo¬
cates for the weak indulgence that
lets the child go without restraint.
But intimate and confidential friend¬
ship is worth infinitely more than all
authority. When manhood comes,
the authority must cease. But the
parent who has the confidence of his
child has an influence over the child
that lasts forever. The strong man
never outgrows the restraint of the
parental influence', it only the inti¬
macy has beeu kept up. should
While, then, a parent never
from mere idoleuee overlook a iault
that may grow to something worse,
whiBi a parent should never from
mere feebleness yield to a child, he
should seek to bring every disagree¬
ment to a close as soon as possible. It
you must curry your point, do s inflict * as
soon as possible ; if you must Get
punishment, let it be soon over.
back on to the footing of a good
! understanding' as soon as may be
There use cases in which hours are
necessary to bring a child to under¬
stand that you are right and lie is
wrong, but do not prolong the at
titude of antagonism one minute
longer [than is absolutely needful to
the child, remembering how precious
a thin % intimacy -—the state ol loving
confidence—is to the best results in
the development of a child.
There are many enemies to this
intimacy—a lack of sympathy on the
part of the parent, a lack of forbear¬
ance and charity for tliechild’s natural
faults, a stern and forbidding manner,
and, in short, everything that repels.
Some parents newr make an end
When a child has committed a fault,
they never have done with reproving
it, but keep a rambling fire on the
subject for days and days. Which is
an admirable method of destroying
intimacy, and rendering the child as
hateful as the parent in such a ease
makes himself.— Hearth and Home.
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About Quicksilver .—One of the
most curious properties of quicksilver
is its capability of dissolving, or of
forming amalgams with other metals.
A sheet of gold foil dropped into
quicksilver disappears almost as
quickly us a sow-flake when it falls
into water. It has the power of sep
aralingor readily dissolving those re¬
fractory metals which are not acted
upon by our most puwerlul acids.
The gold and silver miners pour it
into their machines holding the
powdered gold-bearing quartz, and
although no human eye can detect a
trace of precious substances, so fine
are the particles, yet the liquid metal
will hunt it. out, and incorporate it
into its mass. By subsequent dis¬
tillation it yields it into the hands of
the miners, in a state ot virgin purity.
‘Several years ago, while lecturing be¬
fore a class o! ladies upon chemistry,
we had occasion to purify some quick¬
silver by forcing it through chamois
leather. The scrap remained upon
the tabic after the lecture, and an old
lady, tninking it would be very nice
to wrap her gold spectacles this in, aj
eordingly appropriated it to she pur¬
pose. The m xt morning that came the to
us in great alarm, stating
gold had mysterious disappeared, and
nothing was left but the glasses. .Sure
enough, the metal remaining in the
pores of the leather had amalgamated
with the gold, and entirely destroyed
the spectach-s. It could was a mystery,
however, which wc never ex¬
plain to her satisfaction.— A a hot a
Fireside Sidew ■€.
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the subscriptiou ol the AoRicui.TiRisr
will be fifty eeuts per annum Ali
wh * subscribe before that time will
be furnished at tiie old price—twenty -
five ceil Is per annum.
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Formerly J. A. ANSLEY & 00. ( Augusta. Ga.
general
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Will give special attention t<> tbe sale of
Cotton, Tobacco, Grain and Fertilizers,
Ami is now prepared to offer to tbe Planters of North Georgia the well
known FERTIL1ZEUS imported and prepared by Wiu ox, Gums A
Co., of Savannah and Charleston, viz:
Phoenix Guano,
Wilcox, Gibbs & Co’s Manipulated Guano,
Guano, Salt and Plaster Compound,
Peruvian Guano,
Dissolved Bones, and Rock S t, for Stock.
Orders for the purchase ol (’Ol ION, GRAIN ANI> 1*A( ON will
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Inks.
Writing inks have opend a fine the
field for bumbuggery, owing to
fact that they can le made at but,
little cxocnse, thus affording the
manufacturer a handsome margin
for profits. A bottle of black ink,
selling for ton cents, seldom costs
the maker half a cent. The bottle
costs something, of course, but wc arc
talking about inks, and not bottles.
Without deeming any discussion
of this subject n- cessarv, we shall pro¬
ceed to give recipes for three ot the
most important inks, in everyday use,
to enable any person desiring to do so,
t<> make them for himselt. Oar
formulas are not intended for the
cheapest inks, hut the best •
BLACK.
Extract logwood, pulv......2 ounces gallon
Hot water................1
Simmer over water bath one hour un¬
til logwood is dissolved. Put into a
bottle.
Bichromate of potussa.... 100 grains
Prussiatc of potassa...... 40 grains
Warm water........... 1 ounces
Shake until dissolved, then pour
into the logwood solution, sur well
together, strain through fl mri- I, and
when cold add
Qorosive sublimate.. .....10 grains
Warm water.............. 1 ounce
Shake them in a buttle uutil united
before putting with the above. Lastly
"
add
Carbolic acid in crystals.... 1 drachm
This makes the best black ink in
the world, and to a druggist the cost
would be less than ten cents per
j gallon.
BLUE.
,
j Prussian blue............1 ounces
j ()xalie acid..............A ounce
Grind together, and then add —
Mucilage gum Arabic.... S ounces
Gold water..............lfi ounces
Mix well together, and then add—
Gobi water..............7 } quai ts
This makes you two gallons of the
best blue writing ink.
RKD.
Most of the red inks now arc simply
aniline red dissolved in water ; hut a
good ink may be made as follows :
Brazil wood..............1 pound
Diluted ac-tie acid ....... 2 quarts
Pi>lil!ed water...........- quarts
Simmer three or four hours in
water bath, then strain. Add four
ounces p >wd red alum, and simmer
down to two quels. Set of! and add
two ounces p wderod gum Arabic.
When cold add halt an ounce «*t
proto chloride of tm, and it is ready
for use.— Mobile Ilq/ist/r.
The Florist and Fomobjrjid says
that a soldiiou recommended by M.
Gi »oz, of the Jar lin du Museum,
Paiis, for destroy itig pi mt-li *o and
other insects, is made as follows:
Three and one-half ounc s quassia
< chips an 1 five drachms.stave-acre seeds,
m powder, are p ac din seven pints of
1 water an 1 boil' d down to five pints.
j Wfieu cold the strained liquor is ready
for u<e. an i io <y 1>*‘ applied * itie r
with a wateriug-pot or syringe.