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DIO FOR IT XT HOME
Would yott have the shininfj metal ?
D® Hot o’er the wild world roam.
Following a fleeting jihantoii—
Stay and dig for it at homo.
Do not hoed the luring story
, Tr> usures distant hillsides hold;
Ten adventurers, disappointed.
Stand for every ounce of gold.
Wishing still for something better
Many fancies youth will rear;
Mountains of the yellow mica,
In the distance gold appear.
And the longing is contagious, -
Drinking from s leaden eup,
For the mesne of grander living.
On highways to pick it up.
Hut dame Fortune is too fickle
. In her train afar to roam.
Would you win her golden treasure.
Stay and dig for it at home.
-"I loci Wi -i „
In the land that lies before you
Find youir Wealth by honest toil;
Never vitary disappointed,
Kightly sought the generous soil.
t>nlv faint, wedk heart’s repining
Cast Bway the good At hand;
Fortune’s arnilc will htVWy ferowft theth
Sought for in a distaht land.
fiVt success Vkfrs on before ybin
, XJVapple it and you will win ;
®d.l e’en now, the mists are rifting
Ahd the tides ore rushing in.
Let no foreign expedition
Lure your restless steps to roam.
Gold is nearer than the mountains,
Stay and dig for it at home.
MISCELLANY.
NOT THE SEA SERPENT.
In* THAT caw. c*obston saw bpot-
INB IN LAIC MKHIOAN.
[From the Milwaukee Wiieondn, Feb. 14.]
CapU Wil iam Crosaton, of the scheou
r Medius, relates the particulars of a
novel see*-* ami novel fish, or serpent,
that lie saw the other day while walkiug
along the lake bluff in the vicinity of
North Point. The day was so bright
and b anti till that the Captain took a
*troll in<he neighborhood, talcing along
with him a largo and very fihe marine
glass, with which to observe whatever of
interest might offer itself.
While gating off upon the lake, in
specting the floating ice, the Captain's
attention was riveted by a peculiar mo
tion of the water, at a distance ol per
haps a mile from shore. The water
teemed to heave as if from some active
cause directly underneath. Putting the
full force of his glass u|>on the spot, the
Captain waited developments.
Suddenly a black object appeared for
an instant and then sank quietly out of
sight. Again the object appeared aud
disappeared.
The Captain thought it’ probable that
it was a huge cask, halt submerged,
rising and falling with the swell. In this
he was soon undeceived, for while he
carefully watched, lie saw a monstrous
serpent, half fish swiltly dart from the
surface, and leap with tremendous veloc
ity upward and forward, forming a curve.
Which very clearly showed the size and
shape. Long after the head had again
disappeared beueath the waves the curve
Was exhibited, showing the animal to be
extremely long. The water was lashed
to a foam and seemed to be colored with
blood, as though the serpent fish had
Wen injured in tome manner and was
bleeding.
The Captain waited long and anxious
ly for a reappearance of the huge mon
ster, but nothing more was seen of the
new visitor.
The Captain's description of the set*,
pent is very distinct and vivid, notwith
standing the shortness of the time
granted hitn to take observation. He
said the tread was formed of something
like a fish, bat More like a serpent—
having a huge mouth with a double row
of teeth. The Captain has frequently
seen whales (having commenced his
nauttoal career as a whaler.) and he avers
that coyer has tie seen such a mouth
before. The body was built closely up
to the head—and in size appeared to be
folly as large as an ordinary hogshead,
preserving its shape throughout, with
the exception ot the tail, which was like
that of a fish.
The strange mixture had great fins—
three in number—on either side, and as
he shot Up into the air these fins waved
like large flags. They appeared vari
colored, and, as the Captain asserts,
Showed red. white aud bine. The appa.
rent patriotism was owing to the sun's
rays, doubtless. But the Captain dis
tinctly asserts that he saw these colors,
as it in a flag, net only on the tins, but
in stripes on the body. In fact, ho
makes the serpent out to be a sort of
animated bather pole floating around,
watting for July Fourth.
Thie fact which was forgotten in the
qhqve description is that the animal
ttpiauted water like a whale, throwing a
huge column at least thirty feet high.
HOW DVKEB AND PRINCES LIVE.
[John Paul in the New York Tribune.]
As for the noble'swells themselves,
from what I've seen ot them (though
perhaps one can very little judge of what
people actually are by simply meeting
them in court circles, and the glare ol
fashionable drawing-rooms) I should
say they are not a bad lot, generally
speaking, and that in the main they are
well behaved, less given to putting on
frills than one would sir pose, consider
ing all the fuss made over them. Their
houses, as a rule, are not all the palaces
which an ardent republican imagination
pictures. The Duke of Marlborough’s
doesn’t begin with the house I had in
Brooklyn. The liishop of Brookiyn’6
residence would put the Bishop of Lou
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don's to the blush were the brick of the
latter not so dingy thftt its red is invisi
ble brown. The Duke of Norfolk's
town-house you would inventory as but
a cheap boarding-house iu passing it
casually by. Apsley house, famous lor
the Waterloo banquets given there in the
duke of Wellington's time (bloody good
dinners they ought to have been), is a
sort of sarcophagus externally, and I
wotjld about as soon think of trying to
be jolly in the EKtish Museum, among
the Abyssinian antiquities. EVen Buck
ingham palace, where the blessed queen
eats her royal luniton, has no point of
architectural beauty to liahg a reecollee
tion on. Marlborough house, Wales’
wigwam (what you cau see of it), has
rather a jollier face, and, passing by it
the other day, I saw “Ich Diet)” Written
ou the gate. Supposing this meani that
the prince was at dinner, I didn't go in
to disturb him ; but i have since learned
(the newspapers let it out once to a
while) that he was and is in India.
Wales, by the way, seems a great favor
ite with the peo| le, notwithstanding
that he owes something more than a halt
million pounds, lie is a good fellow
tdra kjiemis Lis money freely, they say.
And th'eVe is uot one of his specially ap
pointed frig-makers or pandowdy bakers
probably frlio would refuse even now to
trust hill)'. But the duke of Edingburg,
who I had fibpposed was anchored deep
ly in the popular heart, has ho hold
there at hlh As the “Sailor prince,” a
majestic lah, he was once in excellent
o lor : bill nbw that they have him on
shore the saVor is less sweet iu the nos
trills of his Commonalty, and they ac
cuse him tif being “mehta"—parsimoni
ous iu his tnode of life. Certainly he
comes of thrifty parentage enough, the
private fortune of the queen mother,
accumulated by saving, being estimated
at some millions ot pounds—four or five,
I think; With this money oil band, and
employing very little, ol it in busiuess,
one Would think the good lady might
dower off her daughter as occasion
makes necessary, without calling bn their
uatiuu to do it.
GENERAL SHERMAN ON EOOMOMf:
In his address before the Washington
University at St. Louis last week, Gen.
William 1\ Sherman said: “There is
another thing I would impress on the
prolessors ol this institution—the science
aud practice ot economy. University
education, like many other things in this
country, inis grown to le very expensive;
yea, extravagant— beyolld the reach ot
most parents, and this presents a barrifet
at the very threshold) Cue important use
ot science is to impart a knowledge o!
the laws of nature to the mechanic, so
that there shall bo no mistakes in the
application of power, and waste of force.
The same is the ease with money, whlbh
represents human labor, lie who wastes
a dollar loses a day’s labor: he who
borrows money on his own credit mort
gages his future ; and whosoever is in
debt without the certain means of repay
ment is simply in a state ol bondage.
Interest never sloops, but runs on ot
u'ghts, Sundays, and holidays, while
man needs rest trom his labors. Ot
course, borrowing and lending may be
done lawfully and lightfiilly, with mutual
advantage and profit to both parlies j
but it should be a matter of mathematical
calculation. I would not check the nat
ural tendeucy of young men to be liberal
and generous with their own money, but
they should be certain that it is their owu
and can be spared ; aud all I mean to say
is that those who depend on their own
head and bauds for their future career
should be warned against the temptations
of the credit system. We see about us
to day some of the dire consequences in
the wrecked of individuals—
yea, of States, counties, cities, towns,
and corporations. Better to allow ones
business to grow and increase more slow
ly by natural laws than to stimulate it by
a misuse of credit and borrowed capital.
There have been in the past, and doubt*
less will be in the future, periods of great
depression in business and also of greal
exultation, as the mony of the country
flows to excess in oue direction or the
other, but the great mean moves on with
the regularity of a law, and he who com
prehends ibis law can profit by it.
THE WRECK OF A STERN ENDEAVOR.
Two old prospectors—‘Chloride Joe’
and ‘Bedrock Bill'—cabin together in
the northern part of this city, says the
Virginia (Nevada) Chronicle.* They
have no woman about their establish
inent. They do their own cooking,
washing, and mending. They spend
most ot their time in the mountains
looking for veto* of silvet and gold.
When the weather is good they are
among the hills. In bud weather they
remain indoors and sttend to household
affairs.
‘Chloride’ tells how old ‘Bedrock'
played quite an amusing joke on himself
the other day. lie had two pairs of
pantaloons made of the same material.
Both were a good deal dilapidated, but
‘Bedrock’ thought that out of the two he
might make one pajr of tolerably sevice
able pantaloons. His plan was to cut
the legs off one pair for use in patching
the seat ot the other.
lie sat down dat upon the floor with
old pautaloons, scissors, needles, thread,
and beeswax, lying about where be
could put his bauds on them without
moving.
014‘Chloride’ was writings letter to
the folks at home—“back yander in
Pike ; ’ —so nothing was said for over an
hour.
At bst ‘Bedrock’ cried out"! 1 here,
! by the Ffoly poker! there is as neat a ; ob
las cou\t) iuve been made by. any vyouia.i
on toe (’onqitook range !’
“Got ’em mended ?’ asked ‘Chloride’
looking up from his literary labors,
“At Inst, thank heaven ! and a Imlly,
good job I've made it, too. Look here I’
and ‘bedrock’ held up to view the re
paired breeches iu order that his partner
might see them,
“Ha ! ha ! ha 1 laughed old ‘Chloride.’
“What’s cut you loose t* asked ’bed
rock.’
“Look for yourself,’ sud Chloride.
“bedrock’ turned the newly mended
pantaloons this way and that loses what
was wrong, and finally let his eye fall
dbfrtt tilong the legs. He turned red
thcri pale, fill’ h Single. glance showed
that lie had made a tefiible bthnder.
He had done a good job in repairing the
seat ot the pantaloons, but, to his con
fusion, he found that ho had cut the
legs off the same pair and used them for
patches.
“by the everlasting’—began ‘Bed
rock,’ as he took ia the situation; then
checked himself and wound up with : **l
can’t do tilt bhso justice. I’m like the
teamster, when he foil fid His apples
strewn over a mile of ground;’
Old “Chloride' say?) it was “a devilish
provoking thing/ aud every miner will
agree with him.
ANCIENT MAR It I AGE CUSTOM&
When the Anglo-Saxons settled in
Britain, the patriarchal system was in full
force. The lather was absolute master
of his family ; he sold his daughter in
marriage, his son in slavery. When St.
Atignstine landed in the island, the maid
en was a simple article of property, her
price fixed at so many head of cattle.
The primitive mode of procuring a wife,
this; When a youth bad fixed his choice
upon a maiden, he went with a band of
friends and carried her off, probably with
her secret connivance. the relations 10l-
lowed in hot pursuit, a feud belwieu the
two families ensued, and wjs only ap- j
[leased by the lover agreeing to pay the
value fixed upon by the father lor retain
ing possession ot the maid, lie giving a
“wed” or security for the porfonnanoc of
the contract —hence the word “wed-
ding.”
This custom of stealing ttie bride is as
ancient as the-Spartaus, and is still kept
tt[3 ili Brlttainy, where it forms one of
the maffinge festivities. The bargain
made tllfi amount, of the “morning gift”
Settled tipbf); the contracting parties, took
each other by tiifc ttihwi) and proclaimed
lliemseitbß utau and Wife j the ring was
placed otl tills left hand ; and the father,■
having received the purchsuMnoney de
livered his daughter.cfver td her husband.
Thfe transfer of nttthority was made by a
tfytilbolicfil gift; the lather delivered the
bride's Shoe to the bridegroom, and the
latter touched Met 3 dver her head with it
—a ceremony which todk it's origin in
the custom ot pladititg the foot on the
neck of a slave, and was typical of the ,
wife's subjection to her husband—a cer* •
emony still preserved in the popular cits j
tom ot “throwing the shoe," The day
after tile wedding, the bridegroom gave
the “morning gift”—supposed to be Vol
untary, but according td tile faille Stipu
lated! It \Vrts gfetierdl airtougthe Teuton
race, and Often of smile Value
were tints bestowed. When Athelstau’s
sister, Eadgirth, married tlie Bmperor
Otho, his “morning gift” was tile city Of
Magdeburg.
BELKNAP'S PLAN CfF ESCAPE:
It is now ascertained beyond a doubt
that Belknap contemplated ascapiug from
the country and was only prevedted front
carrying out his well laid plan by the ex
treme watchfulness ot tbe Washington
detectives. It is stated that a fast sailing
vacht bad been secured, and was to cruise
In tbe vicinity of Point Lookout, on the
north shore of the Pot- >mac river, and at
the confluence of that stream and the
Chesapeake bay. It was then proposed,
at a suitable moment, for the ex.Seere
tary in disguise to leave his residence un
der cover of tbe night, to take a carriage
drawn by fleet horses, and to leave the
city by the Auacostia bridge. By the
river road the distance liorn the navy
yard to lioiut Lookout is about sixty
miles. Beaching here, it was proposed
to embark again under cover of the night.
Once aboard the yacht detection would
have been impracticable, as hundreds of
vessels of a similar class are constantly
plying up and down the Potomac river
aud Chesapeake hay. It was then pro
posed to pass out of the bay under cover
of darkness. Ouce clear of the capes it
was arranged to sail for the island ol
Bermuda.
SHAM NOTORIETY.
The rage for notoriety rages nowhere
more outrageously than in Washington}
says a correspondent. It infects every
body, from dignified Senators, and aus
tere’Justices ot the Supreme Court, to
girlish debutantes. It is dischraling to
worshipers of heroes and women to ob
serve the vulgar greediness with which
they seek for and gulp down praise.
There is in the corps of female
correi-pondents in VVaehinglon ono who
is at the head of her profession in the
word painting ot toilets and physiques,
and in the superlative flattery of every
body aud everything, not omitting the
eyes and mien, the hands and feet of
Seuators. No writer is so popular as
she. The varriagt sof statesmen whose
names are familiar in all parts of the
country are before her door, and her ta
ble is literally covered with the cards of
distinguished personages and those of
their wives who have tasted her dainty
praise, while her portfolio ccntaius ful
some note* from others who have been
titillated by her rare confections, and
have replied in kind.
THE FREAKS OF FASHION.
Cream is a fashionable color for the
coining season.
Basques and corsages fit like a glove
to the figure. Few trimmings arc seen
on them.
All the imported spring suits have a
pocket in some lauciblo shape u one
side, rather low down.
l’oufs aud paniers are not worn, but
all the draperies are thrown back tdgive
the required bouffant etft ct.
Arelmngel lace is the new name given
to all the cream colored Cashmere, An
gora fleece, find wool lnoes ol tile sea
son.
The new chip huts for spring wear arc
cream-colored, and are trimmed with
cream ribbons and laces, and very few
feathers.
Tunics, lubbers, and polonaises are
equally fashionable. Many bows ami
hooped sashes of broad, soft ribbon give
effeUt to the draperies.
The fashionable sitings tor all bonnets
are of a cream-colored Brussel net,
hemmed oh one side, and the other side
tritihued with Archangel lace.
The new Valenciennes laces arc made
cream color by artificial means. They
are used to a great extent for trimming
bonnets by French milliners.
The most lashioiinlild Shapes tor spring
hats are either pokes, capotes or bouuets,
with brimes depressed at the sines, broad
ou the top. aud narrow behind.
Three shades of white trills flc shown
for wedding dresses—dead white, rosy
white; aud cream white. They are
very heavily fepped, but are also very
suit.
Mosses and grasses gone ta seed arc
the fashionable trimmings for rOilgli
straw bonnets for early spring. They
are mingled with cream ribUdnii juld
cream laces.
WHEN PLANTATION MANNERS RULED IN
WASHINGTON. j
Iu old times, says the Boston Post,
Mrs. Madison and Mrs. Monroe lived in
I Washington as Presidents wives, just us
, did Mrs. lolm Q. Adams and Mrs. Tay
; lor, but none of the ladies are rainem
i bered now for their magnificent toilettea,
the costly dinners they gaveor the jewels
i they wore. Even the young and beauti
: iul Harriet Labe, who presided over the
White House with tlie stalely grace of a
queen, is|not recalledjnow fertile expense
ot the toilettes she wore. Mlje had a
crown diadem greater than could he
valued by the milliners.and dressmakers
in her royally fine and tin affected man
ners, and with this attraction she won a
place never matched by any succeeding
lady in a semisdfficiul place ot any kind
in Washington. So might bejmeiitionod
the popularity of Mr. Van Buren’s lam- :
i!y and of the ladies sent to Washington
from Tennessee and Ohio and other
Slates in tiie days of simplicity {aud
■honesty befdre t' e war. Never peilmps
has the White House been more gruoo
fully aud brilliantly adorned than it was
in Honest Andy Johnson’s time. The
ladies of his hbtlsclldld tyere social
queens in the highest sense of the term,
hflt their tollßttrtJ uever attracted inten
tion. It has Ufeetf BoTiiilioiily remarked
in Washington during the past three
fifontht that society has Showil no signs
of the hard times. The sedsdii just
closed has been one df the iiiost brilliant
on reoofd; aiid tllb ladies of the Cabinet
have displayed at the parties and recep
tions more costly dresses than hate be
fdre bfeert defen; ait least iti the Wat five
years. The wiVes of thorie tiffloials who
were anppbded to have no income except
their official salaries have not been out
done in this extravaganfee:
A QUEER story from Cau.lijA.
An extra . ordinary occurrence was
brought to light at an llfqilest held on
the body of a man in South London. In
a work-room, where many young girls
wore at work, a mouse suddenly made
its appearance ou a table, causing, of
course, ‘considerable commotion and a
general stampede. The intruder wes
seized, however, by a young man who
happened to be present, but the mouse
slipped out ot his hand, and, running up
his sleeve, oame out between his waist
coat and shirt at the neck. The unfor
tunate man had his mouth open, and the
mouse, ou the lookout for some conveni
ent place of concealment, entered the
man's mouth, and be, in his fright and
surprise swallowed it. That a mouse can
exist for a considerable time without
much air has long been a popular belief,
and was unfortunately proved to be a
fact in the present instance, for the mouse
began to tear and bite inside the man’s
throat and chest, and the result was that
the unfortunate fellow died after a short
time, in great agony. Several witnesses
corroborated the above facts, and medi
cal testimony as to the cause ot his death
having been given, a verdict ot “acci
dental death” was returned.—Toronto
Globe.
The father of all newspapers is the
venerable Perkin Gazette, which is over
1,000 years old. It is a ten page paper,
with a yellow cover ; has no stories, no
“ads,,” no marriage or death notices, no
editorials, no subscribers. It simply
contains the official notices of the Gov
ernment.
It is stated iu a special to the Balti
more GazeUe that when Montgomery
B air called on Judge Jeri. Black to re
ta n him for the defense of Belknap, die
Judge bluntly said he saw nothing to
defend, and declined to be retained.
177'! -f-Vb 1870.
11 c* r o is a plum and practical device
for a jgi and national banner which should
be hung out in front of the grand en
trance ot the IVnlomtiul Exhibition at
Pliibultdphin, to mark the exact progress
whieli we have made in one hundred
yeans of existence as a united people;
'Pbe spirit of ,17^0 —“Jam not a rich
“man, hut poor as I am, the King of
“Greixt Brittain is not rich enough to buy
me.”—Rood, ot Pennsylvania, to
the lirMish OolHntissipners.
, T'lic spirit Of 1870—Wife must
have lliaaiputis and laeu# enough to shine
at Long branch and Washington. Pay
me, t lierefofe, SIO,OOO down aud SO,OOO
a year, and you shall luve the exclusive
right, to sell sunplies to the soldiers of
tho YI nited Stales on the frontier at your
own rates."—William W. Belknap, Sec
retary- of War under Grant, to a “post
trader" at Fort Sill.
TANARUS k Fastest Uunninu Ykt 1 tell
you vvat’s a fact, men ; none ot you huiut
never seed no ranitiu’. I seed a dyeer
run wunst. Hit war a spike buck, an’
he war stretched out whell be waru’t
biggper’n a shoo string. Talk about mov
in' ! 'X'he shudder on a buzzard a drnppiu'
to ky ain haiii't nowher 1 I had a blue
speckled houn’ what bad a teteh o’ gray
houn’ in him, and he war arter that
dyeer. He'd upped ’ini iu the thick, an'
here ho conies a fairly limberin’ through
tlieirl flat piltey woods. 'Fore God, nit
took my bredtlt tnvay to look at 'lm.
He'd a cotoh tlhlt dyeer too, shore, but
jist as be got agiri life lie struck a whalin'
i hi $5 piue plum oenterlyj head foremost.
I lie st pvo bis splintered bones three inch
!es in ter the wood! The lidk jarred the
pints straw olfn the top limbs ? When lie
struck, Insliiuti legs flopped 4’oun' the
tree ah' 1 hearn the toe nails \VHat jerked
out :i rattlin'agin the .pines tltt)' yards
ahead! Hits a God’s fact.” 3TAd>nas
oille ( tin.) Times.
Ilichard 11. Dana, jr., has been nominu
toil lav the President to succeed Solienck
as NI tnister lo England. Tlie nomination
is :i diart'iicetul one. Mr. 1 >anu is a
clever mini, but lie lias no better oharao
tor than (Jen. Shenck. Mining stuck is
not. his particular vanity, hut Ice does not
disdain either falsehood or perjury, His
of Nations" was a pirutical ediiioii
ot I Lawrence's Wheaton, in which ho not
only stole the notes of that accomplished
eri t tor, as was established in the courts,
but undertook to protend lie didn’t,
winch made I lie —Ttl alter wor so. Could
Mr. .Secretary Kisfi insist upon sending a
oleaii, nnsiuirched and capable man to
the Court of St. James, Just once?—if.
IT. World.
JVliss Mary E. Smith, a Jirooklyn belle,
is clear. She is a very expensive luxury,
if 3be.bringing much at public auction
as she rates herself at. Sho wont into
ter Million’s floral depot to buy a nose
gay. Mallon, the florist, supplied her
with one and offered to pin it on her
sacque. While doing it he, with his
natural taste for flowers, couldn't help
entwining Miss Smith in his arms and
kissring her. The lady indignantly tore
off* liio nosegay, dashed it on the floor,
and swept out of the depot in a rage.
Slit.* bad'Mallon arrested for assault, and
has since instituted suit for $5,000 dam
aiders. Mallon had the use of Miss
Sm i tb's lips a second, and she thinks it
was worthss,ooo. Dear Miss Mary E.
Smith! Mallon will of course try Id
prove she is not worth such figures, aud
her i- true value Will be adjusted at public
auolion. '
A. Man Who tiitpw Guay in a Nhiiit.
yVbotjt six years igy a violent cyclonß
strxiek Mr. Jasper Parder’s plantation in
W i 1 kinsou comity and almost entirely
dentroyed it. Bis land was prepared lor
the crop when the tornado came, and he
looked upon himself as a ruined man,
atf il ill a night tlliile spots ot jray hairs
appeared undo Ilia head and beard. Ho
w.-t.-s then thirty years old.— Jrvirujton
( Soidll'crMr.
People who expect to spend the 4th
ot July in Philadelphia) will have to lie
carefu 1 shout hurrahing lor Gefefge
VVaashingtrm loci boisterously. “The
CJerntennial nlanugfei's arc making efforts
to Dave a court for the summary trial
of offenders held upon the Exposition
grounds.”
"When old Jerry Black speakfl in the
S i> rope Court, all the other counsellors
are in the habit of leaving their )iats
outside the bar, When the divine flatu
lenee is on the eloquent Jerry, lie don’t
know a seven abd a half beaver from a
cufspadore, and |ie expectorates‘like Ve
suvius.—Washington letter.
What is that which lias three feet but
no legs, is all body hut no limbs, has no
toes cu its feet, no head, but moves a
gresat deal, and never uses his feet for
thes purpose; lias one foot at each end
anl the other in the center of its body!
T‘l is is a queer creature in some respects,
and is very popular amdng the ladies
aii'J some men. It never walks out, bill
g<vs with one foot Where its head might
ho, drawing tho oilier foot behind.
T'l*ee feet have nails bit no toes, no
heel and no bone iu tho foot--—a yard
stick.
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Tli us talks an old farmer about his
boys :
jfroin sixteen to twenty, they knew
pi ore than I did ; at twenty five, they
kut?'.v as much; at thirty, they rcro
wl l ling to hear what 1 had to say; at
th i rty-five, they asked my ad vice ; and I;
t.ink when they gw t& Jorty they will!
acknowledge that the' old tww floes'
k no v .something.
ISTrimber. 34r*.
It 10 L IGIOUH.
Join of Are's canonization stilt hangs
liko the cannon tHat. goot oil slowly,
bishop Diipnnloup; Oileans, has succeed
vd in removing objections ou the ground
of her having been condemned to death
by the Bishop ot lJenuvalit It is said
that tlns English tiishdpit bijjcbt on, the
ground that she was hot a nmrtyf of pU
ety, but of patriotism. > 1
The iSSgll&h Episcopalians aye Vciy
much disconcerted bgciuise the late de
cision ot the Court ot A mbps admits the
right of disSenters to bo called “rever
end." The lbrnlor wttnt now to discard
that title altogether, and to tie knowif
hereafter as Hector and V irtrtr. ♦
During the hist thirty yearfl fJi'.OOf!
Sunday schools have been organised,
aided and visited iu tlm Valley of the
Mississippi, by the agents ot tlio Ameri
can Sunday school Union.
It is said llint about forty-three per
edift. of die families of St, Louis are
destitute of the Bible. The biole Soci -
ety of that eity is making n strong effort
to remedy this extraordinary boiiditioir
of things.
A itpm'ier of the F.iiglish sect called
Hie ‘’Pehitlmr People have boon commit
loo to triiil tilr failing to l ave median 1
attendanoo tor a child, who died of
whooping cough. This sect behoves
ouly in anointing vyith oil and prayer, as
a means ot iestoring the sick. Several
similar trlilH of members of this order
liuvc occurred within the last few years.
Tho*whole number of Popes, frrirtt sf;
Peter to Pins IX, is 257. 01 theffe 82
hv mentioned ns mints, not only because
.ot their holy lives, blit on account ol her -
lain miiaclrs which it is claimed they
had been able to perform ; 83 have nat
tered ninetyWoin ) 104 IhOc Been Ho
mans, ami 103 have-been iisltlveaot other
parts off Italy ; 13 have been Trendlfmen;
ti Greeks ; 7 Germans ; 5 Asiatics; 3
Africans ; 1 was a Hebrewl was ati
Englishman.
The foitowing is the value ot church
property ill this; country,.-aeqording to
the.bedsits of 1870: Methodises, SG9,-
Hjlojial i Presbyterians, $33,0*24,fi 11 ;
Udlliolics, $60,982,556; Baptists, 611,-
608,198; Episcopalians, $36,511,495 ;
Congregitlionalmls, $2.'),069,9153.
The UfiltatliH clench at Brookfield,
Mssaelit>sfettJ: have saWHilled water for
wine at the rfdminUtralion bf the Lord 'a
Sifpper.'
Tho Holy Synod of tho Greek chmvji,
has issued a circular warning the Gr£fe¥#
against tho “sou/ destroying and impiouft
heterodox teachings" of the Presbytoriair
missionaries.
Prof. Phelps, of Andover, in a letter
to the Cos tig re fffti idfUUitts, favors tlioj
merging of the Congregational and
Presbyterian oilUfelled nifo one organic
boJ >* - r
The Itev. Ariifcfthiack .Murray said iti
his sermon a week or two rfgo; “Heaven
is not populated with nidging thieve*, or
piltn-benring bankrupts, who s -ttls with’
their creditors at twenty “five ceutif >dti
the dollar Wednesday, and ride toohurcll
the next .Sabbath in a thousand dbllai
coach, with a roan In livery on tho box
The Pfotestanl Episcopal Bishop t/uin
ard, of Terfnessee, now in England, was
requested fly tho. ipeumhent of one tho
parish ohtirfchea to confirm some children
hi that church. The consent of. the
Bishop of London had first ta.be oUlain
ed. It was ask(‘d under the irripreftsion
that it would be £ rent-fed withffut d-iribt.
To the surprise And mortification of "the
curate, and the American Bishop it was
promptly refused. ,
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vtt last f.ht* Judicial UommUtfe'a of the
l’fivy Cotfficil have given final jffagment
in fbe catfo tif the Methodist qpjnister
who vfds forbidden by the vicar of his
parish 16 put tip a tomlmtof/fe at hf
danghter’s (ffave -with tho title “Rev.”
prefixed to Ilia dame. The Court de'oid ul
that “Reverend” prefixed, to a -clefgy
maiTs name is; and always has been, a
mark of cotfftesy simply, nuu never an
offielal title, and that under the law of
England every man may take il who can
get it.
The P resbyterian Synod of Texas lias
increased in the last five years from 41
ministers to 66, from 79 to 112 churches,
and from 1,994 to 4,298 members. Its
growth .within the last )(in,o months has
been as rapid as at any time, and ten per
cent, ahovo these figures would probably
fall below the present strength of tho
Church there.
Asa part Of their Centennial work,
the Sontllef n Hapf.itfts are exert frig them
selves-energetically to seeure tire full en
dowment of tint Southern Theological
Seminary. The seminary will he Remov
ed (o Louisville. Ky., if the snmof ssoo,
flWd'is raised in the State. Tn:s sum
will, it is said, be secured by tfre Ist of
next may. There will remain' S2OO-,000
te lie raised In other .Southern. States to
eomp'efe the coutettplateJ andWimmS,
$500,000.
_ a
The choir wbioh ashisf* in Ole fe|igious
lecvioeff •t<!er the charge of Messrs.
Moody and Satufeey lit the Hippodrome
iiurnLei's about owe thousand two hun
dred and fitly ; of these, aqont sir hun
dred are sopranos. The singiug is a very
intereslirtg and important part <4, ,th
exetjeises atjihese meetings.