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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. BY REDWINE & ESTES. TEEMS : -Si A-Year, in Advance. OFFICE Up stairs iu Candler Hall building, north-west corner Public Square. Agent* for The Eagle. J. M. Bih. Blairsville, Ga.; J. D. Howabo, Hi was* •ee, Ga. • W. M. Handebro** Haysvlllo, N. C- KiT The above Darned gentlemen are authorized to maae collections, receive and receipt for subscription to The Eagle office. * GENERAL DIRECTORY. Hon. George D. Rice. Judge 8. ('.Western Circuit. Emory Speer, Solicitor, Athens, Ga. * ** COUNTY OFFICERS. J. B. M. Winburn, Ordinary. J. L. Waters, Sheriff. J. J. Mayne, Clerk Superior Court. N. B. Clark, Tax Collector. J. 8. Simmons, Tax Receiver. V. Whelchel, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Coroner. Samuel Lesser, Treasurer. FRATERNAL RECORD. Allecfiavy Rotal Arch Chapter meet? on the Sec ond and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. J. T. Wilson, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, If. P. Gainesville Lodge, No. 219 A.\ F.-. M.\, meets on the First and Third Tuesday evening in the month W. A. Brown, Sec’y. J. E. Rkdwimk, W. M. Air-Line Lodge, No. G 4, I. O. O. F., meets every | Friday evening. C. A. Lille, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G. Gainesville Grange, No. 34d, meets on the Third Saturday and First Tuesday in each month, at one clock, p. m. J. E. Rkdwibe, Master. E. D. Cheshire, Sec. Morning Star Lodge, No. 313, 1.0. G.T., meets ev ry Friday evening. w. S. Piclbell. W. S. Jno. T. Wilson, W. C. T. North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS., meets every Ist and 3d Saturdav evenings, a* Antioch Church. F. S. Hudson, W. C, T. W. E. Bolding, W. 8. THE FOST OFFICE. Office opens from 8, a. m., until 12>£, p. in., and from lKf P- m., until 5, p. m. Sundays from 9 until 10 a. m. Atlanta Mail elosea at sp. m. M. R. ARCHER, P.M. RAILROAD GUIDE. SCHEDULE OF THE Atlanta & Richmond Air-Line R. R. LIGHTNING EXPRESS—THROUGH PASSENGER. Pass, train going East, j Pass, train going West, Leave Atlanta.... 7.30 pm! Leave N C It It J’nG.lo a m Arrive Goodwin’s 8.06 “ Arrive Charlotte....o.2l ** “ DoravilJe.. 8.19 “ “ Garaba1d1.,..6.59 “ “ Norcross... 8.32 “ “ Ga5t0nia....7.24 “ “ Duluth 8.40 “ King’s M’t’nH.o7 “ “ Suwaneo ... 9.01 j * Black’s 8.47“ “ Buford.... 9.17 “ | “ Gaffney's.. .9.13 “ Flo’ryßr’ch 9.37 “ \ •• Cowpens.. ..9.46 “ " GaineavillelO.o2 “ “ Hpart’burg.lo.l6 *, “ Bell ton 10.38 “ “ Wei ford... 10.53 “ •• Longview..lo.ss “ “ Greer’s... .11.19 • " Mt. Airy ...11.13 ** Greenville..ll.srt •* “ Toccoa 12.01 ami “ Easley 12,38 pm " Westm’st’r 12.57 “ ; “ Central 1.20 “ “ Sen’ca C’ty 1.24 “ “ Ben’a City. ..2.20 • *• Central 2.04“ | “ Westminßt’r2.4B • “ Easley 2.40 “ j * Toccoa 3.43 “ “ Greenville..3.l9 “ | '• Mr. Airy 4.20“ “ Greer’s 3.57 “I “ Bellton 5.05 “ “ Wellford... .4.18 “ “ Gainesville..s 44 “ Spartauburg4.sl “ “ Flowery 8.. .0.10 “ “ Cowpens 5.18“ I “ Buford 029 “ “ Gaffney's.. .5.49 “ j “ Suwannee....o.4B “ " Black’s 0,10 “ “ Duluth 704 “ “ King’s Mt’nO.s2 “ i “ Norcross... .7.19 “ “ Gastonia.... 7.28 “ j “ Doravllle. ...7.52 “ “ Garabaldi....7.s2 *• “ Goodwin’s...B.o4 “ “ Charlotte.... 8.24 “ “ Atlanta 8.45“ “ NCIt It J’nß.3o “ JOHN B. PECK, Master of Transportation. Professional and Business Cards. I.TSTKS & BOYD, Gainesville, Kail Cos., Ga. C 1 J. WELLBORN, >• Blairsville, Union Cos., Oa. SAMUEL C. DUNLAP, Attorney at law, Gainesville , aa. Office in the building of Prater A Stringer, S. W. Corner Publio Square. aprfitf. J W. K. WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, I . Clcwhind, Wkiln Cos., will j.cut.ttco in the Courts of the Western Circuit, and givo prompt atten tion to all biiKiuess entrusted to his care. June 12, 1874-tf WIER BOY D, Attorney at law, Dahiamega, an. 1 will Practice in the enmities of Lumpkin, Dawson, Gilmer, Fannin, Union and Townseomities in the Blue Ridge Cireuit; ami Hall, White and Rabun in the Western Circuit. May 1,1874-tf. b. r. won <md, Attorney at law, Homer . Ga. Will execute promptly, alt business entrusted to his care. March 21,1874-ly. * JAMBS A. SuTT, Attorney at law & land agent. BinirmUc Ga. Prompt attention given to ail business entrusted to his care. , june 2,1871-tf BEV, A. MARTIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlonega , Ga. July 21,1871-tf S. Iv. ( IIIUSTOIMIEB, “ Attorney at taw. mmsux, Ga. Will oxocuto promptly ail business entrusted to his care. novltitt J. J. KIMSEY, Attorney at law, Muwsce, aa ., Will givo special attention to all business en trusted to his care. May 9, 1873-tf. THOMAS F. GREER, 4 ttorney at law, and solicitor in iY_ Equity and Bankruptcy, Etlijay , Ga. Will prac tice in the State Courts, and iii the District amt Cir cuit Courts of the U. S., in Atlanta, Ga. June 20,1873-tf •P. F. LANGSTON^ ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gainesville, Georgia. Jan. 1, 1875-1 y JOHN T. OSBORN, A TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Elbcrton, Ga —Will practice /Y in the comities of the Northern Circuit, Banks, Franklin and Habersham of the Western Circuit; will give special at entiou to all claims entrusted to his care. Jan. 29, 1875-ly. J. J. TURNBULL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Homer , Ga —Will practice in all the counties composing the Western Cir cuit. Prompt attention given to ail claims entrusted to his care. Jan. 1, 1875-ly. BANK OF HANKH & IIUOTHEU, IV. E. Corner Public Square, Gainesville, .... Georgia. /D OLD, Sliver, Exclxmge and Gold Dust bought aud VI Hold; collections made; deposits received: ap proved paper discounted. Interest will be paid on deposits, if left for a specified time. sep22tf tw .T. Mi OWEN, DKALF.U IN Dry Goods, Groceries. Hardware, anl General merchandise, BBLjtjTO.TSr. G-JV. HE sells Goods cheap for CASH, arid furnishes tho : traveling public with a good, square meal at liis Hotel ou living terms. Call ou him. [apr 18-tf. JORDAN & PERKINS, 46 Whitehall Str.i Atlanta. I >ENTISTS. Üb'Oii'v “New York Store,”*in front of Dr. liapo s Denial Depot. uovfiwly Riclimond House. —AT THE DEPOT — GAIXKSVILI.B, - - GEORGIA. 171 ARE THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY. Rooms elc . gaut and comfortable. Attentive servants and reasonable charges. HUNT .V BRO. novwCuitwlt J. If. & T. A. DANIEL, WHOLESALE ami Retail Dealers to 3D 1*37" G-OOdS, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Hats, Caps, Bools, Shoos, &c. COODS DELIVERED To city customers, free of charge. Nor side of the Public Square, Gainesville, Ga. Jan. 22. U. The Gainesville Eagle. DeVOted to yolitfcota, rv< W* of tlie Day, Tlie Farm Interests, Home Matters., and Olioioe Miscellany. VOL IX. MISCELLANEOUS. IVliat is bevel ness ’ It is not in pearl powder, nor in golden hair-dye, nor in jewelry. It cannot be got in a bottle or a box. It is pleasant, to be handsome; but all beauty is not in prettiness. There is a higher beauty that makes us love people tenderly. Eyes, nose, hair, or skin never did that yet; though it is pleasant to sec fine features. What you are will make your face ever for you in llio end, whether nature has made it plain or pretty. Good people I are never ill-looking. 'Whatever their faces may be, an amiable expression atones for all. If they ean be cheerful also no one will love them file less be cause their features are not regular, or because they are too fat, or too thin, too pale, or too dark. Cultivation of the mind adds another charm to their faces, and, on the whole, if any girl is desirous of being liked by many and loved by the one, it is more in her power than she may believe to accom plish that, object. Cosmetics will not accomplish it, however. Neither will tine dress, though a woman that does not dress becomingly wrongs herself. Forced smiles and affected amiability will be of no avail; but if she can man age to feel kindly to everybody, not to be jealous, not to be cross, to be hap py if possible, and to encourage con tentment, then something will come into her face that will outlast youth’s roses, and gain her not only a hus band but a life-long lover. Disobedient Children. “Have you seen my Tommy ?” asked Mrs. one Satuiday just before diu ner-time. “He has not been in the kitchen sinco morning.” At the dinner table she was asked if she had found him. “No; but I presume he is playing with some of bis school-acquaintancos; he will bo around by and by. I am not concerned at all about his doing any thing wrong, for ho is afraid of going to jail?” Sitting at the table was a little child who never in her life had been whipped or threatened with punishment, yet who was perfectly obedient, truthful, confiding, dutiful; who lmd no fears of scoldings or of jails! who could outrun that boy, tire out half a dozen like him at play, outwork him in the house or out of doors, always overflowing with fun and laughter. No wonder she smiled her ludicrous best, at the idea of a boy being afraid to do wrong lest ho he sent off to jail! But tlie mother did not see the serio comicai expression on the face and in the eyes of the little gill, and after a few minutes she respnieiLilie conver sation. “Tommy goes to school quite steady, now, she said, “hut there was one time last summer when he did not go a single day for three weeks, and I sup posed he was in school every day ! Ho would come to his dinner regularly, and I never suspected he was deceiv ing me.” “How could he for so long a time?” was asked. “I was so busy I never thought about liim or his school, supposing everything wan all right.; but one Sat urday I asked him why ho did not bring bis book homo and show me bow be was getting along? ‘I will some time,’ was bis reply. The next Satur day I asked him again. He said, ‘Mother, I havn’d any book. I bavn’t been to school for ever so long! ’ I never was more astonished in my life! I went at onco to his guardian, and he told mo unless ho went to school steady, lie should send him to the House of Correction. He’s been a better boy since.” i Subsequently, however, he ran away, , and it took miles of travel to find him ! I Some would blame that boy for be ' coming vicious! j Acusti.m a bright, active, ambitious I child like him to live upon sweet-meats, pastry, highly seasoned dishes; allow him to drink tea and coffee at every meal; then deny him the joys of a true home-life and the warmth of a mother’s love; teach him to be deceitful if not to lie outright; and is it any wonder that “Tommy don’t go”—right ? llonics or (Senilis. Genius is no aristocrat.' Slie does not seek marble palaces or turreted castles to dwell with king or noble; but loves rather to linger in the hum ble borne of the peasant, among the unknown and lowly. Of course, there are exceptions to this, as to every other rule, and many of tho rich ami titled have become famous, but gene rally the favorites of genius are those who have no long line of ancestors to look back upon with pride, no coffers whoso golden contents are never ex hausted. One of tho trials, coming hand in hand with the successes which ever attend men and women of genius, is the curiosity of tho world. Their pri vate life must he fully unfolded to the public gaze, and they, patiently or not, must submit to the rude scrutiny.— This curiosity, to some extent, belongs to every one; we all have a desire to know what Shakespeare did when a hoy, what he said and how lie acted; if .Milton was happy in his home life; if Mozart ever quarreled; if Michael Angelo ate and drank like other men; aud a thousand similar questions pre sent themselves to every mind while thinking of the lives of the great and famous. We should not seek to raise the veil which shields a home from envious outsiders; but since it has been al ready uplifted, there surely can be no impropriety in taking a peep beneath. In an old-fashioned country village among the hills of Yorkshire stands a quiet parsonage, whore dwelt the au thor t>f “Jane Eyre.” The house Is oi , gray stoue, strongly roofed with flags, in order to Resist the winds which , sweep lifeecnlyt across tho moorlands.— The church is on one side, the school i house on the othsr, while the purple j moors stretch far away beyond. Un der the windows of the parsonage grew a few plants, hardy ones, for such only could enduro the cold and rigorous climate. In this dreary and desolate place lived, wrote and died that woman of true genius, Charlotte Bronte. The bad roads cut off all communication with the surrounding country, and all the intellect and education of the Bronte family were far superio: to their neighbors; their lives, one might say were bounded by the home circle. Their father spending all of his time in bis study, and the mother an inval id confined to her room, the brother and sisters early learned to depend on themselves. After the death of her mother ami two elder children, Char lotte supplied their place to her young sisters, and the cares incident upon such a position caused her to become old and thoughtful beyond her years. Such were the home and circumstances of “Cnrrer Bell,” and both had their influence upon her works and charac ter. The bleak, cold winds infused some of their own vigor and strength into her writings, the purple heath some of its fragrance and beauty; her isolated position, so unusual for a young girl, gave her an originality and freedom of thought that made her fa mous. Yet, when we think of her small circle of acquaintances, her in teresting and desolate surroundings, it seems truly wonderful that one thus situated should have given to the world works of such thrilling interest and power as “Jane Eyre,” “Villette,” and ‘ Shirley.” The homo of Mrs. Browning, one of the world’s favorite poets, was in Eng land, but more beloved than her na tive soil was the land under Italia’s sunny skies. For Italy’s freedom she wrote and prayed, and it is truly filing that the last, homo of this “soul of fire enclosed in a shell of pearl” should be in beautiful Florence. “Where olive orchards gleam arid quiver Along the bunks of Arno’s river,” she now sleeps, with tho bright Etrus can roses bending over lier, and the 3weet music of the golden river to sing her requiom. A clay-built c-.bin in Ayrshire was the birthplace of Scotland’s greatist poet., Robert Burns. Ho was a simple peasant boy, but nevertheless, genius had endowed him with that immortal fire which few possess. He deserted tho plow for the pen, and the Scottish rustic became the renowned poet. His fame, however, brought him no pros perity ; feasted and flattered for a time, he was soon neglected and for gotten, and died in obscurity and pov erty. That genius is not always so fickle and cruel to her favorites, is shown by the life of Washington Irving. His last days were spent,'in his beautiful residence, Sunnyside, on the banks of the Hudson, where tho “Soil is rich with fauey’s gold, And stirring memories of old,” and around which cluster historical stories and romantic legends. There seems to bo ringing in our cars the familiar strains of “Home, sweet Home,” aud wo think of its au thor, who never experienced tho de lights and comforts of which he sings, never knew what it was to have a home, A wanderer all his life, lie died at last in a foreign land; but we wish that all men aud women of genius be their homes in poverty or wealth, so live that it could be said of them as of John Howard Payne: “True, when thy gentle spirit fled To realms beyond the azure dome, With arms outstretched, God's augel said, Welcome to Heaven’s ‘Home, sweet Home.” Summer Complaint. The time ot year has come when adults and children will have diarrheea. I say will have it, because they will live so badly as to have it. If they wish not to have it, it is not difficult to avoid it. I will give them the follow ing formula, to keep it oil', and will guarantee that it will prove effective in every instance if thoroughly fol lowed : FOR ADULTS. Ist. Whatever your calling, do not begin your day’s work till sunrise, and bo sure to quit at or before sundown —working harder before 3 i*. m., than after that hour. 2nd. Eat no salt meat, and fresh meat but once a day, and this always at breakfast. 3rd. Let all green vegetables, except peas and beans, alone. 4th. Eat plentifully of ripe small fruits, more at dinner or supper than at breakfast sth. UK but little butter—and this as free from salt as possible and have it relishable, and persistently avoid ’spices. lith. Drink no spirituous liquors in any form, aud if tea aud coffee are to be drunk let either be used only at breakfast. Tho bowels can be kept vastly healthier without either of these beverages. 7th. If costiveuess is a habit, tepid water injections are far better than any purgatives. Take these when the stomach is full because one’s bowels are much more apt to Vie active when tho stomach being full presses from above downwards than when it is empty. Bill. Keep the skin clean by at least tri-weekly ablutions. !)tk. Eat very light suppers—none, at all would be far better, once used to two meals a day; and let your food be of unleavened bread aud skimmed milk with fruit. FOR CHILDREN. 1. Feed no meat, nor butter, nor salt if you can induce them cheerfully to go without the latter; the value of salt is greatly over-estimated, the in juriousness of it very much under-esti mated, as regards children. 2. Keep them on unleavened bread, ripe fruits, cream and sugar, aud good fresh milk. 3. Keep away ail vegetables but peas, beans, and old (not new) potatoes, and not much of these. Bread and milk and ripe small fruits constitute a healthy aud nutritious diet for children. GAINESVILLE, GA., FELD AY MOENING, MAY 14, 1875. That ‘“Miserable Bread.” Good wheat bread is said to be the staff of life, which is as emphatically true as the saying that poor bread, sour, bread, soggy bread and bread of any other quality in which the element of “good” does not preponderate is one of death’s surely fatal weapons. Sour aud unhealthy bread of any sort sends to premature graves more vic tims who have dragged out a miserable existence than war, peatilence and famine. We can look to the days of boyhood, to the period of youth, early manhood and maturity and call up im mense numbers of friends and associ ates who sickened from no other cause than the slowly operating and fatal influence of unwholesome bread, and who died for want of good bread. Un told numbers of our most estimable citizens scarcely know what good bread is, and a much larger number still who esteem themselves as makers of good bread never have known how to make good bread, even when they are sup plied with the best of flour. Wife and the writer once went to visit a distinguished author and au thoress, his wife, who had written a book on domestic economy. Notwith standing all the excellences of the book it lacked the simple direction to enable one to make good bread. This author ess supervised her own domestic af fairs and always made her own bread, which her friends and neighbors aver red was always sour. When we paid them a visit the bread was so unwhole some that it was exceedingly difficult to eat a small piece. Soon after we commenced keeping house, a lady cousiu, who was noted for making soggy and sour bread, reproved wife for “fussing so much with dough.” She averred that she “couldn’t afford to spend so much time fussing with the dough. She worked at her dough only when no other duties required her at tention.” We were wont to visit them periodically for twenty years, and we were always treated with that same sour, soggy and unwholesome bread. Those friends were laid in their graves long, long ago. They were built to live ft hundred years, and had it not been for this insidious influence of bad bread they might have been alive to-day. If the Hour is of prime quality, eve rything will depend on manipulation and management. For thirty years past wife has made our own bread, and during all that period not a single loaf of poor bread has been produced. Our servaut cook will take flour of the choicest brand and produce bread that will give an alligator the dyspepsia. Wife will take tho same sort of flour, the same domestic appliances, and bring out the beautiful, almost snowy white and spongy wheaten loaf which is a delightful luxury. Our kitchen servant will maflago the golden cream from the milk of our one thousand dol lar cow, and produce butter -that ap pears more like lard than any other substance. Wife will manage the creatn the next week, and in the same pantry, tho same pans, the same churn, butter-bowl and ladle, bring out as beautiful gilt-edged butter as can be found in tlie market. These facts go to prove that certain stereotyped prac tices in making bread will spoil flour, of the best quality, for human food. The best recipe for making good bread is to find some person who nev er makes a poor loaf. Then let the learner go to his or her place and take lessons in tho peculiar, careful and dis creet manipulations and management, of the flour and dough until she can produce bread that is fit to be called the start' of life.” If it required six months to learn the lesson, let the task be completed. ffakiui; friends. Friendship is a combination of affec tion and confidence. It extends from the common attachments of masterand servant to tlie highest order of human reverence. The secret of making friends is a gift of nature. With some, it re quires months and years to become acquainted, while others are bound by a bond of sympathy that often lasts a lifetime. It has been urged by many that, to some, tho marriage relation is loss sacred than tho liner feelings of pure friendship, and that the latter reaches even higher than happy marriage. Bo this as it may, there is always room for each in connection with the other, ami few are so selfish as to hope for a monopoly of all tho is pure and lovable. Kindred experiences of people thrown together under peculiar cir cumstances often lead to enduring friendship. At such times, it only needs confidence to cement the affections of a whole company together. “For,” says Chesterfield, “they who tell all,and they who tell nothing, will alike never be trusted.” I’m ily in Itoys ns well as (fills. The Aay some people have of talk ing and thinking that boys do not need to be treated as gently and con siderately as girls, is productive of wide-spread mischief. If we treat our children as if they were honest, truth ful, pure-minded, in all our intercourse, wo appeal to their highest feelings, if we expect nothing which is not res pectful and noble of them, wo shall keep a high standard before them.— We should, in look and word, carry 1 ourselves so they will feel sure we have no thought or suspicion of anything low or mean. We do this in our treat ment, of tho girls; and is not that one reason why they are purer and nobler, because they are shielded from wrong, so hedged in from things that are vile. Boys are spoken of, aud to, as if they were expected to bo rude and uuman : nerly. I notice even Sunday School superintendents speak harshly and se verely to the boys, when the girls are whispering and making quite as much noise, and no notiee is taken of it.— Would it be so, think you, if the mo thers were superintendents, instead of the fathers? I think not. Mothers have, as keen a sense of justice toward their boys as toward their girls. The se JX~ : justice in small boys is hurt hv Li treatment; but soon they learn to behind the feel- is no use trying to behave well, nobody expects it of boys. Thus little by little the standard of excel lenee and delicacy which they have, until they have got beyond childhood, is marrdd and destroyed. Even mo thers contort themselves by saying: “Boys must come in contact with the world, “meaning with other boys and men, wm have had their best impulses bluirteiiand seared by just this same process* until to be manly does not imply jd-1 that is grand, noble and true iu a htfttan being. The standard of manliness in heroes and'poSis is not the one we find as we mix and mingle in this busy world— exceptions there are enough to prove the class not extinct. How many thousand hearts have ached, find are aching, because their idols are all broken. This ought not so to b*. Men should be as pure, as clean, as noble and high-toned as wo men. There is no way to make them so except to begin with boys. As long as boys must go to an unclean closet in aids of our academies, aud are shut out of all our best places, and treated as if they were culprits, that long Liey will be just what they are; which' is largely the result of their training. Until a different course is shall have bad boys and bad inen. If society was anxious to have tuem bad, it could not devise a surer way of doing it. Make the stan dard for the boys as high as for the gills. If this could be done for fifty years. M the mdleninm would dawn upon the world —[Sirs. O. F. Sl’Cune. A hood Appetite. Ascertain seasons, as in spring and summer, the appetite of even the most robn.it is apt to fail, and the relish for meats and heavy food to wane. This is all right enough, for animal diet in warm weather heats the blood, tends to headaches, and is generally un wholesome unless sparingly used. On the other hand, fresh vegetables, ber ries, fruit and bread are cooling, cor rective aud what the palate most craves, Don’t be afraid to go without meat for a mouth or so, and, if you like il, live purely on vegetable regi- We warrant that you will lose no more strength than is common to the time, and you will not suffer pro tracted heat as when dining on the regulation roast. Many persons regard a hearty desire for food as something unrefined, indel icate, and to bo constantly discour aged. That is a greater or more harm ful mistake than that of coaxing the Appetite. It is just as necessary for who works only with his hr !>(■• Uanf .and mutton as for who labors solely with hands. That stomach and the brain are twins; tho former being the elder, and having prior right to care. Let that, be well provided for, and it will sustain its brother. The people who strive to check a wholesome and natural appetite are the people who regard dinner merely as a feed, not the centre of an agreea ble social custom and as the domestic event of tho day. We are sorry for them, as they must regard eating at all a prosaic duty, obligatory on them, because they have a bias in favor of living. We all ktiow that we must eat to live; but we by no means live to eat simply because we enjoy what we eat.. We are not gormands because we relish chops nor are we invalids because we want strawberries. A good appetite is a good thing, but not if it is to be worried by urging or by neglect. The Value of Health. Horace Mann says somewhere: I am certain I could have performed twice the labor, both better and with greater ease to myself, had I known as much of'tlie laws of health and life at twen ty-one as Ido now. In college I was taught all about the motions of the planets, as carefully as though they would have been in danger of getting off the track if I had not known how to trace their orbits; but about my own organization and the conditions indis pensable to the healthful functions of my own body, I was left in profound ignorance. Nothing could be more preposterous. I ought to have begun at home, and taken the stars when it should come their turn. Tho conse quence was, I broke down at the be ginning of my second college year, and have never had a well day since. What ever labor I have since been able to do, I have done it all on credit instead of capital—a most ruinous way, either in regard to health or money. For the last twenty-five years, so far as it re gards health, I have been put from day to day, on my good beflavior; and dur ing the whole of tiffs period, as an Hi bernian would Ray, if I had lived as other folks do for a month, I should have died in a fortnight. Food. An intelligent sea captain sailing out of New Bedford says: I have made several voyages to St. Petersburg, in Russia. The people of Russia generally subsist, for the "most part, on coarse black rye bread and garlic. Tbo bread is exceedingly coarse, sometimes containing almost whole grains, and it is very hard and dry r . I have often hired men to labor for me in Russia, which they could do from sixteen to eighteen hours,and find themselves, for eight cents a day, the sun shining there sometimes twenty hours a day. They would come on board in the morning with a piece of their black bread, weighing about a pound, and a bunch of garlic as big as one’s list. This was all their nourish ment for the day of sixteen or eighteen hours’ labor. They were astonishingly powerful and active and endured se vere and protracted labor far beyond any of my men. Some of these men were eighty and ninety years old, and yet these old men would do more work than any of tlie midale-aged men be longing to my ship. The Mysteries of the Human Throat. Dr. Frederick Fieber, of Vienna, like the little boy with his drum, not con tent with enjoying the melody of Mad ame Pauling Lucca, has made a close scrutiny of the throat whence tho sweet sounds issue, and publishes the result of his investigations. The mechanical apparatus which is the instrument of the mental faculty, appears in the Mad ame Lucca’s case to bo beautifully per fect, the result to some extent, pet haps, of congenital fitness, but also doubt less, partly of the scientific training to which the young artist has been sub jected in early youth. Examined un der the laryingroscope, the larynx ap pears small and well shaped, its several parts being marvelously developed and perfect. The true strings are pure snow white and possess none of the bluish tinge common among women. Although shorter than usual among vocalists they are stronger in propor tion and amply provided with muscle. V hen at rest they are partly screened by the false strings; but Dr. Fieber, who watched Madame Lucca’s throat through his instrument while she was singing, noticed that as soon as a tone was struck, they displayed themselves in their full breadth and strength. The aid given by a suitable form of mouth to the production of vocal mu sic is a novel and interesting point brought out by Dr. Fieber. On being admitted to a view of the artiste’s mouth he was at once struck with the spaciousness and symmetry of its hol lowness, the otherwise perfect symmet ry being impaired only by the absence of a tonsil, which had been removed, as well as with the vigor with which every tone produced raised the “sail” of the palate Dr. Lieber is of the opinion that the natural conformation of her mouth accounts in a large meas ure for the wonderful power Madame Lucca possesses of raising and drop her voice alternately. The sound waves are naturally strengthened in so favorably shaped a space, while the muscles of the palate appeared to have acquired exceptional strength and pliability by long practice. f'olomon’s Song. Popkius is a moral young man. We call him young because he is not old. He is also a very proper man, and a regular attendant at church. He owns property by inheritance, and pa s lib erally toward the support of his min ister. Popkius is musical. He has a tine piano, a violin, a flute, a French horn, a cornet, and one of Stepan fetchit’s best parlor organs. He does not profess to be a professor—only an amateur. He parts his hair in the middle, wears kids, and never appears in company but in the latest fashion. Toward the middle of a Monday forenoon not long since, Popkins en tered Ditson’s music store, and ad dressed one of the attendants in wait ing: “Aw—have you got Solomon’s Song ?” “What, sir?’’ asked the clerk, think ing that perhaps he had not heard aright. “Solomon’s Song. ” “N-no,” the clerk answered, with some hesitation; “I don’t thing I have heard of such a piece of music.” “Aw —vewy likely;” said Popkins, tightening the wrist of his kid upon the right hand; “It may not be out yet. Our minister spoke of it yester day as a divine affair—a production of genius and beauty. I would like to see it.” The clerk, with an effort, maintained his gravity until the amateur had de parted, and then there was a burst up and down the whole house. Victor Hugo anil Woman’s Rights. Victor Hugo has taken his stand in favor of woman's rights. In a recent letter to the French Society* for tho Amelioration of the Position of Wo men, he said that all the efforts of his life had been to secure a better lot for women, and added: “Man has been the problem of the eighteen ceDturv, women is the problem of the nine teenth; and to say woman is to say child, that is to say the future. The question thus put appears in all its gravity. It is in its solution that lies the supreme social appeasal. Woman can do all for man—nothing for her self. The laws are impodent to make her so feeble when she is so powerful. Let us recognize that feebleness and protect it; let us recognize that power and direct it. There lies the duty of man; there lies also his interest. Ido not tire of saying the problem is put; it must be solved. Whoever hears a part of the privileges. Half of the hu man race is outside equality; it mast be made to re-enter. It will be one of the great glories of our great centu ry to give the rights of the women as a counterbalance to the rights of the man—that is to say, to put laws in equilibrium with the customs.” The Toledo Blade tells a story of a married pair who set out on their wedding trip from that city, with the understanding that ou their return they should board in a hotel. When they got back the husband suggested that before going to the hotel they should call upon a friend of his. They were accordingly taken to a neat dwelling, where a servant ushered them into a pleasantly furnished par lor, with a fire burning in the grate, and everything cosy and homelike.— The wife sat down, and the husband said he would go into an inner room to look for the gentleman of the house. He came back shortly alone, and the lady of the house was also not forth coming. The young wife wondered at her husband, and thereupon the husband informed her that the house was hers. This surprise party is rep resented as having been exceedingly pleasant. There are trees in Wisconsin so tall that it takes two men and a boy to look to the top of them. One looks till he gets tired, anil another com- I mences where he left off. A weather man in New Haven has been searching among the records for a colder winter than the past has been. He announces that 1741 was colder, and we will not dispute his word, as we do not have a distinct remembrance of that soason. However, it is on re cord that in 1741 the whole country was covered with snow as early as No vember 9, and that when April came the fences still were covered with it. It is stated in the annals of Lynn, Mass., that “Francis Lewis, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, drove his horse from New York to Barnstable the whole length of Long Island Sonnd, on the ice.” The ice extended into the sound as far as could be seen from the town of New Lon don. And as late as July 17 there was snow in a mass nearly four feet thick in the town of Ipswich, Mass. We suppose if there had been any “Glorious Fourth” that year, the boys would have fired snow-balls instead of Chinese crackers. Speaking of spiders, Professor E. S. Morse says: “Only the female spiders spin webs. They own all the real estate, and the males have to live avagabond life un der stones aud other obscure hiding places. If they come about the liousr so often as to bore the ruling sex, they are mercilessly killed aud eaten. The spider’s skin is unyielding as tho shells of lobsters and crabs, and is shed from time to time in the same way, to accommodate the animal’s growth. If you poke uver the rubbish in a female spider’s back yard, among her cast-off corsets you will find the jackets of the males who have paid for their sociality with their lives—tro phies of her barbarism as truly as scalps show the savage nature of the red man. All the people in a Paris house were startled one night by a tremendous noise made in an upper apartment.— Rushing to tho doors, they saw a man coming down four steps at a time. He was arrested, half dead with fear. He was a thief, had made his way in with a false koy, and feeling his way about the apartments from room to room to find valuables, bad como upon some strange, soft, movable, upright thing in the middle of a room Ho felt of it, passed his hand higher and higher, and felt a face cold as ice. Frighten ed, eager to escape, he could not find his way to the door, anil in his flight upset every article of furniture in the apartment. Then they all w'ent up stairs, and found tho tenant of the fourth floor hanged iu his room. Whatever there is of terrible, what ever there is of beautiful in human events, all that shakes the soul to and fro and is remembered while thought and flesh cling together, all these have their origin from tue pa sions. As it is only in storms, and when their com ing water is driven up into the air, that we catch a sight of the depths of the sea, it is only in the season of per turbation that we have a glimpse of the real internal nature of man. It is then only that the might of these erup tions, shaking his frame, dissipate all the feeble coverings of opinion, and rend in pieces that cob-web veil with which fashion hides the feelings of the heart.—[Sidney Smith. “Bob, did you ever stop to think,” said a Michigan Avenue grocer re cently, as he measured out a half peck of potatoes, “that these potatoes con tain sugar, water and starch ?” “No, I didn’t,” replied the boy; “but I heard mother say that you put peas an’ beans in your coffee, an’ ’bout a pint uv wa ter in ’bout every quart uv milk you sold.” The subject of natural philoso phy was dropped right there.—Detroit Free Press. Professor Blackie, of Scotland, in a recent lecture said—“A woman is nat urally as different from a man as a flower from a tree; she has more beauty and more fragrance, but less strength. She will be fitted for the rough and thorny walk of the masculine profess ions when she has got a rough beard, a brazen front, and hard skin, but not sooner.” We can hardly imagine the possible dignity and value of our lives, unless we consider their probable bearing ou other lives. A word of cheer, an act of passing kindness, a trifling sacrifice, may be just the help required to give vitality and permanence to good re solves, which lead to high endeavor and to generous action. Ice two inches thick will support a man; at a thickness of three inches and a half it supports a man on horseback; five inches of ice will support an eighty pounder cannon; eight inches, a bat tery of artillery, with carriages and horses attached; and, finally, ico ten inches thick will support an army—an innumerable multitude. A man may conceal his name, his age, the circumstances of his life, but not his character. That is his moral atmosphere, and is as inseperable from him as the fragrance of the rose from the rose itself. In the glance of the eye, in the tone of the voice, in mien and gesture, character discloses itself. We ought in humani'y no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for tho<o of the body, when they are such as he cannot help. Were this thoroughly considered, we should no more laugh at one for hav ing his brains cracked than for having his head broken. We are sometimes apt to wonder to see those people proud who have done the meanest things; whereas a con sciousness of having done poor things, and a shame of hearing it, often make the composition we call pride. It is not isolated great deeds which do most to form a character, but small conterminous acts, touching and blend ing into one another. The greenness iof a.field comes not from trees, but [ blades of grass. ALL SORTS. | “A skin game”—the fur dealers. I A heavy business—importing ele j phants. j The fellow who took offence has not i returnt and it. ts t ;d interest—money in the waist -1 coat pocket. I When a hog roots in a snow bank i its nose knows snows. The first thing a man takes to in his life is bis milk—the is his bier. He who sins against man may fear discovery, but he who sins against God is sure of it. The barber who dressed the head of a barrel has been ongaged to curl tho locks of a canal. Cakes of toilet soap and two-dollar suspenders are beginning to reach Ne braska sufferers. There is a man is New York so fat that a child was recently killed by his shadow falling on it. In what ship, an 1 iu what capacity, do young ladies like to engage? iu court-ship, as mar^-ners. An Englishman proposes to run street cars by clock-work. Only two hands will be required. Do not be content with swimming on the surface of divine truth—make it your element—dive into it. Success is said, by a western sage, to greatly depend upon the possession of three qualities—grit,grip aud gump tion. None are so easily acquainted, so closely knit together, and so much en deared to one another as real Chris tians. NO. 20 Mr. Smith has electrified humaniiy by the discovery that much sickness in New Orleans is occasioned by bad health. The Richmod wh'g nominates Colc nel Albert R. Lamar, of Georgia, as a candidate for Clerk of the House of Representatives. It is our nature to rejoiee when all within and without is undisturbed; the miracle is to rejoice iu tribulation, and this miracle is continualiy wrought as the believer is passing through the wilderness. At a recent meeting of a society com posed of men from the Emerald Isle, a member made the following motion: Mr. President—l move ye’s whitewash the ceiling green, in honor of the old flag. An Irish coachman, driving past some harvest fields during summer, addressing a smart girl engaged in sheaving, exclaimed: “Arrah, my darl ing, I wish I was ia jail for stealing you.” When a bank suspends in Kansas, they take the manager to a neighbor ing tree, and servo him in the same manner. “A simple remedy, and we believe iu its efficacy,” says a local pa per. A boy found a pocket-book contain ing some money, and returned it to its owner, who gave him a five cent piece. The boy looked at the coin an instant, and then handing it reluctantly back, audibly sighed, as he said, “I cui’t change it.” We must glean knowledge by read ing, but the chaff must be separated from the wheat by thinking. Knowl edge is proud that he has learned so mhch; wisdom is bumble that sho knows no more. When we are young we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old wo perceive it is too late to live as wo pro posed. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in wheat: pleasing to those who came only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it. A boy will learn more true wisdom iu a public school in a year than by a private education in five It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world. The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully rela ted for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of so ciety better than the most elaborate dissertation. There are hopes, the blooms of whoso beauty would be spoiled by the tram mels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should be only known through tho sympathy of hearts. Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky, with its motherly, rebuk ing face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long pr evail. The clergy are at present divided in to three sections; an immense body, who are ignorant; a small proportion, ! who know and are silent; and a minute minority, who know and speak accord ing to their knowledge. When ambitious men find an open passage they are rather busy than dan gerous; and, if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch themselves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction. If you devote your time to study, you will avoid all the irksomeness of this life; nor will you long for the ap proach of night, being tired of the day; nor will you be a burden to yourself, nor your society insupportable to others. Be fearful only of thyself, and stand in awe of none more than thine own conscience. There is a Cato in every mas; a severe censor in his manflers, and he that reverences this judge will seldom do anything he need repent of. A gun factory in Upper Austria is making 250,000 rifles for Germany. It has delivered 180,000, and has received a further order for 75,000. A Vienna firm is reported to be executing a Ger man order for 30,000,000 c irtridges for delivery in June. Waterloo, of the St. Louis Republi can, gives this touching account of the way in which he came.to be mar ried : “She was small footed, but very plump; lie was large footed, bnt gaunt; and ho’ bad bis boot legs made to fit. H 9 wagered her a pair of gloves that she couldn’t get his boots ou. She gazed scornfully at his splay feet and greedily I accepted. Aud then she tried to get I the boots on. And then bo didn’t j have to get the gloves.”