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Professional Pards.
ALLEN, A»torvpv at L w. Thom
* M,on i Ba. Will practice in the counties com
ji i'ing the Flint -tudicial Circuit, and elsewhere l»y
•I'-' ia! contract \ll business promptly attended to
Oflice In Cheney’s brick building. inchil-ly
IV\ I R KENDALL offers hi - * prnfos
services to the citizens ofThomastou and
It ?' lln ' lo2 country. May be found dnrin■> ti e day at
Hanlaway’s itore, at night at the former resi
dence of Charles Wilson. jan 14 ly.
E REDDING. Attorney at Low,
* BavnesviPe, Pike co, Ga. Will practice in the
runties comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
,*^ e hy special ontract AW imsiness promptly
lin s'!' to ' * n Rider's building, over Chamber’s
r, ‘ aug6- y
T" OVUS BHALL. Attorn pv at Low,
ndt WiU P«otlee in the Flint Cir
nm swi elsewhere by special contract a»g27-ly
\\ '■ WEAVER. Attorney at Law •
Conns of <la * Will P ra ctioe in all the
contract ° * Ult (^lrcui . t » and elsewhere hy special
_ iune2s-ly
fTst L»w m Attorney arid Counsellor
the y'Hnr />,. , Practice in the counties composing
„3 I In the Supreme Court of Ueorg»£
Northern' l" !" 01 i’ourt of the United States for the
Thlm\ nd §J m,ber n Districts of (Georgia.
_ h mitßton -Qa-, June 18th. 187<‘-Iy.
JOSEPH 11. SMITH. Attorney and
!' ’ °nnsellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall and
’ft-o stieets niini,;; Ga. Will practice <n 'he Su
r'r:"r Courts of Coweta and runt Circuits, the Su-
PCourt of the State, and the United States’ Dis-
N CiLngrt, All com Minications addressed to him at
lj nta will receive prompt attention. aprii9-ly
AN PERSON & McCALLA. Attorneys
-tx. &t Law, Covington, Oeorgia. Will attend regu
‘ r .b and Practice in the Superior Court* of the
••-unti.-s of Newton, Hutte, Ifr-nry, Spalding Pike.
™°aroe, Upson, Morgan, DeKalb, Gwinnette and Jag-
declO-ly
.1 AMF.B M. MATHEWS, Attorney at
" Ga., will practice all the counties
Chattahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by
*^Umt ract declO-ly
\V l }2£k WILLIS. Attorneys at Law
boiiDM, n!.. ot i 0 . n ’ '»»• Prompt attention given to
ei * 10 "Ur hands. declO-ly
H l!l U t r TRIPPE, Attorney at Law
»nd i a n v“} Will practice In the Btate Courts
®* T »nm.h P B State*' District Court at Atlanta and
—dec 0-1 y
*) t *),. HUNT. Attorney at Law, Barnes*
Flint (?;' <l4 "Will practice in all the counties of
cult 6n< l Supreme Court of the State.
MiSV BET HUNE. Attorney at
f °antieß G&. Will practice in all the
° e Chattahoochee Circuit, and Upson and
— _ counties. dec(B-ly
oof *EKS will continue the practice
Store. ' v I( ' De - Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug
- decH-ly _
IIaNNMI. is pleased to
practice » chliensof Upson that he will contlnrre
n 4 “ e slclne fn fts various brnnehes at
‘ ,a ~ . declß-ly
J TALKER Attorney at Law
State an it* practice in Circuit Courts o
0 *“ e United states District Courts.
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The systems of liver
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IU 1 ill ill V 11 and I Sometimes the pain is in
| I the shoulder, and is mis
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nej bowels in general costive, -ometlmes alternating
with lax. The head !s troubled with naln and dull
heavy sensation considerable I.** of memory, accom
panied *,th painful sensation of having left undone
something which ought f t have been done. Often com
and iow spirit* Soroe
times, some of the above
1 §■ w *r p n I symptom* attend the dis-
I li I 1/ Fin l an <i at other times
I U 1 V Li U I very few of them; but
1 I the Liver is generally the
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fever, nervousness, chills, diseases of the impuHty
of the blood, melancholy, or depression of spirits, heart
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fever and ague, dropsv. boil*. p*in «n back and limbs,
asthma erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis
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Gen. W. s. Holt., President, S. W. R. R. Company;
R - v J. Fdder, Perry, Ga.; Col E. K Sparks, Albany,
Ga.: George J Lunsford. Fsq., Conductor H. W R. R.-
C Masterson, Esq, Sheriff Bibb county; J A. Butts’
Rain bridge, Ga ; Dykes As Sparhawk. Editors Floridian,
Tallahassee; Rev. -I \V. Burke. Macon. Ga.; Virgil
Powers Esq.. Suj erintendent S. W. R R ; Daniel Bnl
lard, Bullard’s Station. Macon and Brunswick R. R,
Twiggs county, G.a ; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory.
Macon. Ga; Rev. E F. Easterlinn. P E Florida Coh
fererce; Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor
Mac n Telegraph.
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Cincinnati, Jno. Flemming, New Orleans, and nil Drug-
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or, THE UNWRITTEN WORD.
By Daniel March. D. D., Author of the popular
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r IU!TS master in thought, and lan£rua<re
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VOLUME FIFTEEN.
A First-Class Democratic Newspaper!
THE Campaign which will soon be innu
curated, an J which will culminate in the election
of Congtessional and Legislative Representatives in
November, promises to be one of the most important
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view of this fact, it is the duty of every person to sub
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a reliable and efficient newspaper, and each issue will
embraces fair epitome of the week’s news, both foreign
and domestic.
As heretofore, the local news of this and the adjoining
counties will be made a specialty.
The Advertiser Is published in a very populous and
wealthy section, and is one of the most available
ADVERTISING MEDIUMS
in Middle Georgia. To the merchants of Macon and
Atlanta, it offers superior inducements for reaching a
large.lntelligent and prosperous class of people. Terms
of advertising liberal Address,
JAMES P. HARRISON,
sept!7-tf Box 79, Forsyth, Ga.
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THOM ASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1871.
pOET^Y.
Gen. Lice's Favorite Hymn.
The following was Gen. Lee’s favorite
hymn, and it has been a soufc* of comfort
to Christians ever since it was written,
which was about 1785, by the Rev. JohD
Kirkham, an English Methodist. It was
bung over the remains of the dead hero just
prior to their commitment to earth— “dust
to dust—ashes to ashes.”
How firm a foundation ye Saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your Faith in His excellent word!
What more can lie say than to you He hath said,
You who unto -Jesus for refuge have fled?
Fear not, I am with thee; O be not dismayed!
I, I am thy God, and will still give thee aid ;
I*ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand.
Upheld by my Righteous, Omnipotent hand.
‘•When thro’ the deep waters I call thee to go,
The river of woe shab not then o’erflow ;
For I will be with thee thy troubles to bless,
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.
“When thro’ fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,
My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply ;
The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.
’E’en down to old all my people shall prove
My Sovereign, Eternal, Unchangeable Love;
And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn,
Like lambs they shall still in my bosom be borne.
“The soul that on Jesus still leans for reposo,
1 will not, 1 will not desert to bis foes!
That Soul, tho’ all hell should endeavor to shake.
I’ll never, no n&rer, no never forsake."
yVIISCELLANEOUS.
A VIRGINIA SONG IN FRANCE.
“Oil, Carry me back to Olrt Virginia”—
How Mozart Adopted it.
A lady correspondent writes from New
York to the Washington Patriot:
Almost thirty years ago a gentleman from
Boston was traveling through France in one
of the old stages whose compartments were
onlv obtained at considerable expense, and
met as his fellow-pas-enger a gentleman
whose trenera! knowledge and easy chit
chat rendered the journey most pleasant
When the stage arrived the Bostonian dis
closed his nationality, and M-zart eagerly
asked him about the negro melod es, which
he had till then vainly searched for. The
gentleman w’as about leaving fur his own
home, but promised to bring Mozart all that
he could gather of this music on his return
to France. He kept his word, and during
the winter after his arrival the masquardes,
just befure Lent, were given with all the
elegance which distinguished them at that
time; for the nobility, and even members
•>f the royal family, frequented the gay sa
loons where M zart led the orchestra. On
fi»iH evening, *t the end of the season of
184 , anew strain, full of tender pathos,
seemed delicately iDterwuven with the over
tun. At first light and graceful, the music
was charming, and then a wail that seemed
to express a wild passionate heart-cry,
sounded, and the whole a-semhly, wild with
enthusiasm, turned to Mozart, and, with
one shout of applause, lifted the thone-tnast
er from his stand and bore him in triumph
round the room.* Is there a S mtherner w’ho
can ever forget this air, or a Virginian who
would require to be taught the notes of “Oh,
Carry me Back to the oid Virginia Shore ?”
This old song of the the south had charmed
the maeetro, and, grafting it upon his own
individuality, he had thus inspired the bril
liant circles of France.”
Ait Interesting Memento of lufaYit Geor
gia.
We saw at the auction room of Messrs.
Ellis So Spencer, yesterday, a map of Geor
gia executed in the pear 1818—morn than
fifty years ago. It was one of a number of
the same maps for sale there. We under
stand that a rather excentric book-seller of
Savannah boxed up these maps abont fifty
years ago, and has preserved them until
recently, when they were sent in the same
box in which they were originally packed,
to Messrs. Ellis Sc Spencer. Their excel
lent preservation shows th.it they have
never been hung up or used for reference.
This map was drawn for Eleazer Early, by
Daniel Spurges, and is a much handsomer
specimen of such wrk than we had thought
to find in maps of fifty years ago.
All of this part of Georgia wa3 at that
time an Indian country, as is shown by the
map. There were no counties laid out west
of the Oemulgee river, or in all North-west
Georgia. A portion of extreme North
eastern Georgia was also unorganized and
inhabited by Indians. It is hardly neces
sary to add that this was also the case with
the country between the Chattahoochee
river and Montgomery, Ala , and that the
falls city of Columbus had never been
thought of.
We find,on this map the derivation »of
the name of our river. The name was
formed of the Indian words Chatto and
Hochee— Chatto meaning a stone and II »-
chee fl owered So the compound word
Chatto-Ilochee meant a flowered stone, and
this name was chosen because of the dis
covery in the river or bunks of stones pre
senting on their surface the appearance of
flowers. The name as Anglicised on the
map is Chatahouchy. We believe that
other and very different translations of the
word Chattahoochee have been given, and it
may be that this one of the maps is incor
rect. But it is at least a pretty conceit
that the s ones in our river, which cause
their valuable falls, will make this land to
“blossom as the rose” when our great
water power shall have been fully utilized,
and the manufacturing industry of this
region shall equal in importance aud pros
perity its agricultural production.— Col'
unibus Sun
Usages.
The custom prevails in England of com
pelling lawyers, when practicing in court,
to wear a huge white wig. A more absurd
clinging to useless usages of a bygone peri
od can scarcely be imagined. Among the
lawyers now practicing in London is one
“Oftlonel” Chester, a black man, who form
erly lived in Philadelphia. The effect of
clothing the head of this very black man
(for he is full-bl coded) in a verv white wig j
is described as both ludicrous and “sensa
tional.” The English lawyers treat him
with great consideration, but do not like
b-kr “style,” vfhicb is/ aobordingto no-
News Items.
Chicago calls her colored men “tinted
citizens.”
Northern bridal parties are in favor of a
trip to Florida and back.
A Memphis hotel rids itself of mice by
meant > J a corps of trained owls.
A man named Sheets,in Indiana, is fath
er ofjuet enough little ones to make a quire
—24. 1
A traveling piano-player undertook to
whip an Illinois editor, and when he got
through he had only one ear for music.
The day of fasting and pray for the de
livero"'*e ; r Holden was duly observed by
the C\rtd ina negroes.
“I a* i.*ve in go'uvg to the bottom of
things. ’ as the school-ma’am said when
she laid a refractory pupil over her knee.
Worth, the Parisian man-milliner, is said
to con-emplate setting up in business in
New York
A Keokuk girl discharged her lover be
cause he would court on Sunday nights in
stead of going to meeting.
Loudon dispatches say that Queen Vic
toria * unpopularity has never reached such
an alarming point as at present.
The young Queen of Greece has taken the
place of the French Empress as the arbiter
of fashion in Europe
A Montgomery, Ala., young man of
-ealth and family, drove a dray all one
week, on a bet of S2OO that be daren’t do it.
An lowa man was kicked to death by a
mule the day after he refused to go to a
fair. Moral: Go to fairs and take every
‘ chance” off-red.
A N°w England court decision goes to
show that a bummer is a man who will not
pay his taxes, and stands on the sidewalk
and spits.
An Illinois newspaper appears with three
blank columns headed “Special Notice:
These columns are reserved for those mer
chants who ought to advertise.”
The New York Star aptly describes
“those pleasing resorts where fruit in front
and rum in the rear proclaim the cheering
sample room.”
The choir sang “Come, ye Disconsolate.”
at, a recent wedding in Lafayette, Ind. The
bride, who is thirty-two, says she isn’t near
so disconsolate as she was.
A bootmaker in North Bridgewater,
Mass., last yaar lasted 15,025 pairs, an av
erage, omitting holidays, of uearly 49 pairs
a day.
A Cincinnati theatre was enlivened the
otbee evening by a fight on the stage be
tween a dog And a cat, not down in the
bVffefc
A Presbyterian Chinaman lately had his
daughter babtised by a name, which, trans
lated. means. “You-ought-to-have- been-a
boy. Kampou.”
A lot of five hundred house sparrows has
been imported into Louisiana, in order to
try them as exterminators of the cotton
worm and caterpillar.
A learned doctor has given his opinion
that tight lacing is a public benefit, inas
much as it kills off all the foolish girls and
leaves the wise ones to grow into women.
A Detroit burglar while in a hallway on
a thieving expedition, being asked “What
do you want?” cooly replied, “Oh, noth
ing. I’ll help myself.”
A little girl coming to Newport, and
seeing the willow phaetons, common there,
for the first time, exclaimed : “Why, mam
ma, everybody rides out in their clothes
baskets here.”
A bill is now pending in the Massachu
setts Legislature whereby divorced persons
will be prohibited from remarrying until
three years have passed after the divorce
has been granted.
A natural cave has been discovered near
the Truckee mine, Nevada, into which a
man has been" lowered two hundred feet
withont seeing any signs of bottom. It is
lined with coral-like stalacties.
There is a righteous law in Ohio, under
which a family of children in Zanesville
have been awarded S3OO damages against a
saloon- keeper who sold whisky to their
father.
Jim Fisk proposes to appear in anew role
next season, as manager of professional base
ball nine, with which he is going to “knock
spots” out of the Mutuals and other big
clubs.
A certain New York paper has had an
obituary notice of Santa Anna in type for
sixty-five years, and now the old man is
jti*t talking of going to war with Juarez, to
conquer Mexico.
A Mobile paper is indignant at a eontem
porary for announcing that “Mobile is the
fourch coffee pot in the country ” Investi
gation proved that “cotton port” was meant,
but things got mixed.
The Philadelphia Press says if our Con
gressmen, after a sham debate, do not em
brace their opponents, an French Assembly*
men do. they ask each other to drink, which
is just as affectionate.
A North Missourian recently entered the
dining-room of a first-clsss hotel at St. Jo
seph, and, on being presented with a bill of
fare, said he would “eat his uinner before
taking a read.”
Rochester is lucky. The city is to be
lighted with gas from a well off at
Bloomfield. The gas works are subterran
ean, supposed to fi** located at—well, that’s
not essential. Infernal gas ought to be
cheap.
A lady correspondent who has lately
traveled over the Central Pacific Railway
thinks G >d must have made this country
late on Saturday night, for it is confusion
and magnificence throughout, helter-skelt
er in delightful abandon.
East India prays for lady physicians,
since men are not permitted to visit or see
women, and only prescribe for them after
viewing the tip ends of their tongues
through a We in the bed curtain ;
wbtcbto vrtjbta ill sefl dfb ftb'm
The Supreme Court of tile United States—
How It* Uusliirw Is Coudurtcd.
In a recent lecture to students. Hon. Hen
ry R. Gillet, of New York, gave an inter
esting account the Snpreme Court, as fol
lows ;
The Supreme Court of the United States
is the highest judicial tribunal in our coun
try. It has a Chief Justice, and has num
bered from five to ten, and now of Dine.
They dmss like other people, except they
wear a long, loose silk robe, when in court,
much like an Episcopal clergyman. These
tend to produce a dignified appeafaflce.
Let our theories be what they may, dress
has much to do in forming our estimates of
mankind. When Bishop Dubois visited his
Indian Catholic people at St. Regis, no one
wonld recognize him as such in hin eitiz mi’s
dress. Bot when he exhibited himself in
his official robes, the untutored Indian kuelt.
to touch his garment. Throughout the
world officials are deemed to be more dig
nified in certain costumes, than in common
dresses. Hence, this high tribunal deoms
it a duty to follow in the footsteps of their
illustrious predecessors, aud adhere to the
graceful silk robe.
On the first day of the term no business
is transacted, but the court and its officers
make an official call on the President, as
the head of the government. Subsequently,
at eleven o’clock in the morning, the Judges
assemble in their room, robe themselves,
and, with the mar-halos the District of
Columbia at their head, proceed to the court
room. At the entrance door the latter an
nounces in a loud voice : “The Chief Jus
tice and associate Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States.” The Chief
Justice takes the centra seat, the oldest in
commission on his right, the next oldest on
his left, and so on in strict military fashion,
the youngest associate occupying the ex
treme left. On their entrance every person,
out of respect, rises. When the judges are
all in position they bow to the bar and
spectators, and this salutation is respect
fully returned. When seated, the Crier, at
the instance of the Chief Justice, opens the
court by saying in a loud voice : “Oh, ye !
Oh, ye 1 All persons having aoy business
before the Supreme Court of United States,
draw near and give your attendance for the
court is now in session.”
The first case is called, and if counsel are
ready, the Clerk hands each Judge a print
ed record and briefs on both sides giving a
short statement of the case, with the points
to be discussed and authorities to be relied
upon. Without special permission of the
Court, no counsel is allowed to extend his
argument beyond two hours. Not a disre
spectful word is allowed to be spoken of
any one, present or absent. The Court pro
ceedings are designed to be as and
agreeable a« in the most refined social cir
cle. The Judges never interrupt or cate
chise counsel, or otherwise embariass them
They are patient listeners Have ever heen
gentle and kind. Many years since, a
young counselor with his first cause became
embarrassed, and was about failing in his
opening. Chief Justice Marshal Hiking
intently and kindly at him, seemed to he
forcibly struck with something he said,
seized tiis pen and appeared to make notes
of it. This he continued to do for some
time, when the young counsel recovered
from his embarrassment and made a splen
did argument. The unusual course of the
Chief Justice attracted the attehtion of the
observing Clerk; who on the adjournment,
Boughtto see what the venerable Judge had
noted down. When lo! Not a note, or
oven a letter was found on the sheet before
him. He had made zigzag lines over it,
and nothing else and clearly done so to restore
confidence to the young counselor. Such
kindness shows the true hearted gentleman,
and is worthy of imitation by all in posi
tions of authority.
The discussious of counsel are often ani
mated, but seldom, loud. Some pursue the
conversational style. This was always the
ease with the late Chief Justice Taney.
William Wirt was seen one morning in his
room walking to .and fro, rapidly, and on
being asked what was the matter, said that
a certain cause vVas to be argued that day,
and that Taney was his adversary. To the
inquiry, whether he did not consider him
self hia equal, he replied. “Yes : but it is
difficult to contend against that Apostolic
manner of his.”
After arguement, each Judge in his own
room examines the case, and then they all
meet in their consultation room and ex
amine it together. The Chief Justice asks
the opinion of each, beginning with the
youngest. After arriving at a conclusion,
the Chief Justice selects someone to write
out the opinion for the Court. This when
prepared is submitted to another consulta
tbn, aud w-beo made to conform to the
views of a majority, is read in open Court
by its authov.
In reading the opinions, the youngest
Judge reads first and the Chief Justice
last. The Ja ter always announces practice
decisions. These opinions are printed and
corrected by the writers before they go to
the Reporter. Those who dissent prepare
and read their opinions, which are publish
ed as a part of the reported case.
Nothing can be more dignified or orderly
than the proceedings of this court. The-e
considerations largely contribute to the re
spect which is paid to its decisions. All
suitors feel that they have had a fair hear
ing ; that they have been patiently and
respectfully heard—even if disappointed
in the oooolusions of the Court, This Court
iff the last and trusted anchorage under the
federal government. Corruption may stalk
abroad, and even wind its wav through the
other departments, but suspicion has never
pointed here. Even its errors 'have not
shaken the confidence of the masses of the
American people.
When this tribunal breaks from it moor
ings and floats in the eddying currents of
politicians, among the cands and rocks of
partisanship, then farewell to our constitu
tional, to our representative republic.
When the session is finally closed, the
crier announces in a shrill, clear, voice,
that “this Court is now adjourned to meet
according to law.” Thereupon there is a
shaking of hands and leave taking by the
Judges and Bar and each goes his own way,
as we shall s on do.
Severe,
Mrs, Swisshelca is rather severe cm Lin
coln for not emancipating the women when
h‘t> fffd
Poiiioulng by Vaccination.
Tt 18 becoming a Serious question among
scientific men, wether the attempt to ward
off emaif-pox by vaccination does n >t intro
duce another lamily of diseases, or certainly
aggravated and intensify tfa old ones, in
Comparison with which it were much safer
to run the risk of the contagion first dreaded.
I hat vaccine matter, the beet of it, is im
pure, all men who know anything about it,
are satisfied ; and tho explicit testimony of
distinguished practitioners shows that it
can scarcely be employed at all except to
contaminate and poison its innocent recipi
ents. Dr. Rioord. in 1865. did not hesitate
to declare the reality of such poisoning be
fore the Acadamy of Paris. Dr. Epps, who
vaccinated one hundred and twenty thoue
nnd persons during his directorship of tho
d**J nit*,. Iluspitul iu >r>, b<hf -o U«^tk
declared after a quarter of a century’s prac
tice, that vaccine is n p ison • be says “it
penetrates ae such and effects all organic
systems, so that it acts represively on tho
smail-pox ; it paralyzes the expansive pow
ers of the body, and the pox poison is re
tained in the mucous membranes.” Since
vaccination came in, it is averred by the
highest authorities that new diseases have
invaded the internal coating or aggravated
existing diseases, such as croup since 1810,
abdominal typhus since 1810. cholera since
1830 and dipthcritis since 1854. Children
do not, to be sure, die of small*pox, but
they die of measles, scarlet fever and simiL
ar diseases, which the means for expelling
small-pox have made more intense. These
allegations certainly challenge tho closest
investigaii >n.
The Wonders of u Watch.
There are very few of the many who carry
watches who ever think of the complexity
of its delicate mechanism, or of the extraor
dinary and unceasing labor it performs, and
how astonishingly well it bears up and
does its duty under what would be consid
ered very shabby treatment in almost any
other machinery. There are who
think a watch ought to run and keep good
time for years, without even a drop of oil,
who would not think of running a common
piece of machinery a day without oiling,
the wheels of which do but a fraction of
the service. We were forcibly struck with
this thought the other day upon bearing a
person aem.ark that by way of gratifying
his curiosity, he had a calculation of the
revolutions which the wheels of the watch
make in a day and a year. The result of
this calculation is as suggestive as it is
interesting. For example: Tho main
wheel makes 4 revolutions in 24 hours,
1460 in a year; the second or centre, 24
revolutions in 24 hours, or 7760 in a year ;
the third wheel, 102 in 24 hours, or 60,080
iu a year; the fourth wheel (which carries
the second hand,) 1440 in 24 hours, or 525,
600 in a year; the fifth or scape-wheel,
12,064 in 24 hours, or 4,728,400 revolutions
in a yesr ; while the beats or vibrations
mane in 24 hours are 388,800 or 141,812,*
000 in a year.
Eating at Night;
As the day closes, we all become weary,
and the body yearns for the repose and rest
which only the quiet chamber can fully
give. The whole system is weak—feet,
fingers, arms, everything. There is not a
muscle in the body which does not partici
pate in that tiredness. The stomach is a
collection of muscles, and these are called to
work at each meal ; and to dispose of that
meal is' a work of four or five hours.
The more that is eaten, the more work
has to be performed. Any one can see,
then, the striking absurdity, of giving a
weak stomach four or five hours’ work to
do at the close of the day, of giving rest to
the body by sleep, and yet keeping the
stomach hard at work until near daylight-
Its repose, then, is the repose of exhausuou,
and it does not wake up for breakfast any
more than the body would if kept out .of
bed long past midnight. Not being waked
up, it does not call for food, and there is no
appetite, (no “seeking,” as the word literal
ly means) for food.
Tlte Sleep of Flowers.
Almost all flowers sleep during the night.
The marigold goes to bed with the sun, and
with him rises weeping. Many plaDts are
so sensitive that their leaves close during
the passing of a cloud. The dandelion
opens at five or six in the morning, and
shuts at nine in the evenifig. The goat’s
beard wakes at three in the morning, and
shuts at five or six in the afternoon. The
common daisy shuts up its blossom in the
evening, and opens its “day's eye” to meet
the early beams of tine morning sun. The
crocus, tulip, and many others, close their
blossoms at different hours toward evening.
The ivy-leaved lettuce opens at eight in the
morning, and closes forever at four in the
afternoon. The night-floweriog cerus turns
night into day. It begins to expand its
magnificent sweet scented blossoms in the
twilight, is foil blown at midnight, and
closes never to open with the dawn of day.
In a clover field not a leaf opens until after
sunrise.
Didn't Persist.
The following anecdote is told of one of
our most careful aod sedate druggists—a
gentle man of the old school, who for fifty
years has occupied the same corner, and in
all his dealings, medicinally, is a very scro
pulous man. Not long since a person of
not particularly liberal practices, and withal
a close mao, came into the ‘Good Samaritan*
with a recipe that he wished put up, and
the man of drugs proceeded at
onoe to attend to it. While engaged in
weighing out the compound, the customer,
with a smile, intended to be childlike aDd
bland, 6aid to him: ‘Now, doctor, be sure
afad give me good measure.’ The doctor
paused, holding the scale at rest, while he
looked over his spectacles at the man before
him. ‘Sir,’ said he solemnly, ‘it I were to
give you the merest grain more than this
iecipe calls for, you would be in hell in five
minutes.* The buyer didn’t insist.
W oman.
A celebrated writer says: “No woman
can be a lady who can or wonld mortify
another. No matter how beautiful, how
refined, or bow cultivated she may be, she
is in reality, coarse, and the innate vulgari
ty of her nature manifests itself here.
Tniformly kind, courteous and polite treat
ment of all persons is one mark of a true
NO. 17.