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Self-On vermnrnt.
Education is St-lf-government. When
Horace says, "Sapiens sibi qui im/tiri*
osus ' —“ lie who in imperious over him
self i* the wise man," ho perfectly de
fines the educated man, the man who
has learned to govern himself, who has
energy, faculty, and propensity of nit
nature under his control. This includes
the acquired habit of concentration, the
power over one's self to keep the mind
fixed, at will, on one subject, and to ex
clude all thoughts ot other subjects.
This is the power to t tudy that wo have
already '!escril>ed ns a moral as well as
an intellectual virtue.
When Cffwar said, “Übi intendrri*
ingemum valet ” When you intend
your mind it is strong. And wliou Newton
•aid he made his scientific discoveries by
always intending his mind, they both
described the prodigious strength
added to the sound mind by this power
over one's self to c.mcoutrato the facul
ties. This constitute! the power to
learn ; the power to acquire knowledge.
Your business at school is to acquire
this power to get knowledge; to learn
how to learn.
There is knowledge in tbo objects of
nature around you. There is knowledge
in books. All the knowledge acquired
by man, worth preserving, is preserved
in books—in books of astronomy, in
books of chemostry, in 1 looks on the
mechanical arts, in books of agriculture,
in hooka of law, in hooks of medicine.
Books will teach the man who has ac
quired power to study and get from them
the knowledge they are always reiuly to
impart. The
indulgent idleness st school, has not ac
quired tliisjpower to study, learnn l>ut
little from books when iie reads them.
To him tbo “ Viy inti atinoroum lucu
f/ratloncs" nvail uotiiiug. Ho may ac
quire from his own personal olxervution
and failures knowledge sufficient to make
money by his profession, but because
his knowledge is restricted to tlio result
of his personal observation, he can never
attain eminence.
" Knowledge to bin eyon b*>r tinpln png*,
Rich with tin Hpoiln of tiuuo did ue’ev unroll- M
Bucli a man will never have that fond
ness for scieutiflo research connected
with his profession, nor that taste for tlio
pursuits of tlio cultured man that Hoixl
nays kept him from the dog pit, the ring,
and the pool and billiard saloon. The
young man who is too self-indulgent to
force himself to study at school will
never study anywhere sufficiently to ac
quire more tliau a superllcial knowledge
of any profession.
Acquisitiveness.
In the introduction to his pamphlet on
“ Ilew to Gioiv Rich,” Dr. Dhtml gives
the following definition and analysis of
this organ : “ The faculty or acquisi
tiveness is common to brute and man. It
is not an intellectual faculty, but a sol
fish instinct. Its office is to desire,
covet, long for, grasp, appropriate any
thing, everything that can in any way
minister to the physical nature. It is a
legitimate organ, whose I unctions are
necessary to the continued existence
alike of the insect, the animal and the
human being. It is devoid of mural
sense, as well as intellectual perception,
hence it has no recognition of the rights
of pro|s rty, nor any knowledge of Low
to get what it desires, nor yet any idea
of tlio le ative value of things. It is
simply the instiuct of acquisitiveness.
It is the controlling faculty in each. The
insect and the brute having no other
than a sensuous t xistenoe, their w.-uta
are limited to hx.) ami shelter. Man,
while alned to the animal kingdom, on
the sensuous plane, is lifted infinitely
above it by tlm fact of his being endowed
with reason, nnd crowned with moral
senso and spiritual aspirations. Dy
means of his superior intellect, man Is
able to subjugate the curth and all its
forces, compel lug it to yield its fruits
and treasures in rich and varied abund
ance to supply his needs and gratify liis
desires. Through the guiding wisdom
of his moral faculties ho recognizes the
brotherhood of lnun and tlio equality of
the rasa*, tbo foundation of the princi
ples of justice.” Acccptingthe.se propo
sitions as correct, it is clear that the man
whoso life is spent in the service of no
quisitivein ss is simply an intellectual
brute.— Phrenological Journal.
A London Dinner,
A la.ly well known in London literary
circles lias givou u Mliakspearean dinner
anil reception at her elegant and uriistio
hoime iu Chelsea. The fair hostess ap
peared ki Portia, and all lior guests re
sponded to her request and donned ap
propriate costumes. The effect of these
correct and artistic Sliokspcareau dresses
was very charuiiug. Nearly a hundred
guests sat down to dinner, and this was
the bill of fare :
Salmon with Aiayonaist Sauce:
" I’nu saininii’s tail.”—Othello, j., 1.
Boar's //rad:
■‘Tbs Boar's Head."- Homy IV., ii., 4.
Sirloins (Oul Beef o la mode:
"A piece of bei'f and mustard. ” —l aming of
the Shrew.
Pore Quarter of l.ambt
"Poor, innocent lamb. ' -klaobeth, iv., 1.
RihiU Veal:
1 Brutal to kill soeajnul a calf.”- Hamlet, iit, 8.
Ham :
“I pray yon, is not tin* pig great '/"—Titus Au
dronlcue, iv.. 8.
Mayomute of Chickens:
"Here's a foal without a feather." —Comedy
of Knurs, iii., 1.
Fenf and Horn Patties:
lacj ua ooiu uiutcu in a pie. —i'ltus Au
drouicus, v., 3.
Pin’xm Pies :
“Borne pigeons, l)avy."—Henry IV., v., 1.
/xdistrrs:
" 111-shaped fish.”—Borneo and Juliet, v., X,
Alayonaiee Salad:
"There is ssnee for it."—Henry IV., v., X.
Puddings and Sweets ;
“flwoets to the sweet."— liam.et.
Dessert:
“ Taato the fruit."— Pericles, i., L
M ines :
“ Good wine needs no bush."—As lon Like It.
The Prosaic Age.
We are becoming dreadfully prosaic ;
even the fashions lor weddings show it.
It is no longi r essential to conjugal bliss
to have the knot tied iu the presence of a
doeen bridesmaids in diaphanous rai
ment, the bride herself being pcrfoiee
in pure white mid docked in orange blos
soms. Then* is a growing tendency to
being married in w alking costume; lit aiy
velvets and plash replace the i lumot -of
tarlatan and luoe, and uowaduy* a bride,
dressed in rich velv< t and sat in, pr< -ce. ds
up the aiales on the ai m of her jianre,
and in a few moments r< turns a w ife 1
There is an element of coldnesa in these
nuptials which was not found in the old
fashioned regulations.— Sew York Mail
and Express.
Let no one suppose that by acting a
good part through life he will escu|>e
scandal. There will be those even who
hate him ipr the very qualities that
ought to procure esteem. There are
some folks in the world who are not
willing that others should be better than
tbemsetvea,
Thxrs is but one thing to do when an
adverse fate is driving you against your
will: take the bit in your teeth and turn
around and face your foes.
Onr Republic*
Wo rejoice that our land has become
the hope of the poor throughout the
world. Hero in our heaven-favored re
pin.he pauperism, with our laboring mil
lions, is tlio exception to the general
rule. But abroad, among those earning
their living by the sweat of their brow,
ixiverty is, alas, too often the common
lot. And hence, wherever you may go,
you will find the hearts and tho hopes
of the laboring poor turned towards
America.
Go with me to tli* banks of the Shan
non or the It.’line, t< the Thames or the
Neva, to the Seine or the Danube, the
Baltic or the Adriatic, and whenever you
find a jioor roan, longing to better his
condition, ask him to what country he
wishes to emigrate. Does ho answer
that he wishes to go to any of the nations
of Europe, with all their ancient and
historical renown? Oh, no ! All around
the world, as from realm to realm and
from continent to continent you ask this
question, tin- answer from those of every
creed and clime, from heart and lip, is
that their hopes and prayers are turned
towards tins great country where the
people rule and all are sovereigns in
their own right.
Let them come. If they will join us
to fortify and preserve the civil and re
ligious liberty of which we are so justly
proud—if they come to truly American
ize themselves and their families in heart
and soul,- —to forgot all other lands in
their lifelong devotion to the Nation that
welcomes them, let them come, and with
ns |H)okcsb and develop this goodly land.
Stretching from tlio Atlantic to the
V II 1 fiu las 4.1-- 4-—. -•• "kw XSZllv, Vtllioll
embraces nearly all the governing na
tions of the world, with its shores
washed by these two great oceans of the
globe; with a mineral area of nearly a
million square miles, Ix ing larger than
all tho mineral area of all the world
besides; with the Mississippi Valley
and our new Northwest, unparalelled m
their fertility by any other laud beneath
tho sun, and able to become, if neces
sary, the granary of the earth ; with
our commercial and manufacturing as
well as our agricultural and mining re
sources who can forecast, who can limit
the future of our Nation, to whose open
gates tho scores of thousands are flock
ing to-day? —Schuyler Colfax.
The Golden Jjxlilcr of Uharlfy.
There are eight degrees of steps, says
Miiimouidts, iu the duty of charity.
The Hist and lowest degree is to give,
but with reluctance or regret. Tins is
the gift of tlio baud but not of the heart.
The secoud is to give cheerfully, but
not proportionately to the distress of the
sufferer.
The third is to givo cheerfully and pro
portionutely, but not until we are solic
ited.
The fourth in to give proportionately,
cheerfully, and ovai unsolicited ; but to
put, it in the poor man’s baud, thereby
inciting in him the painful emotion of
shame.
Toe fifth is to givo charity in such a
way ilmt the distressed may receive the
bounty and know their benefactor with
out tiieir being known to him. Such
was the couuuct of some of our ances
t. rs who used to convey their charitable
gifts into pi sir people's dwellings, taking
care that their own persons and names
slum and remain unknown.
T e seventh is still more meritorious,
namely, to bestow charity in sucli a way
that the benefactor may not know the
relieved objects, nor they the name of
their benefactor; as was done by our
charitable forefathers during the exist
ence of the temple. For there was in
that holy building a place called the
Chamber of Silence or Inostontation,
wherein the good deposited seoretly
whatever their generous hearts sug
gesti and, and from which the most respec
table poor families were maintained with
equal Hecrecy.
Lastly, the eighth and the most meri
torious of all is to anticipate charity, by
preventing poverty; namely, to assist
tile reduced brother either by a consid
erable gift or u loan of money, or by
teaching him a trade, or by putting him
in the way of business, so that he may
earn an honest livelihood, and not be
forced to tlio dreadful alternative of hold
ing up his baud for charity. —After the
lalmud.
Hlmt I.luidin Sn Ul to Josh ua Speed.
Joshua F. Speed was one of Lincoln’s
oldest mid most confidential friends iu
liis younger days, and their friendship
Continued through all trials.
At cr the capitulation of General Lee's
army, Speed came from his homo iu
lambville, Kv,, to visit Mr. Lincoln,
and while iu Washington was invited to
an informal meeting of the Cabinet.
L’he question of the disposition of Jef
ferson Davis and other prominent Con
federates, after they should be captured,
was discussed, each member of tile Cab
inet giving his opinion, most of them
for hanging the traitors, or some severe
punishment. Lincoln said nothing.
Finally, Mr. Speed, addressing the Pres
ident. said: “Now, Mr. Lincoln, you
have invited me here, and this seems to
■*e u free fight. I have heard the opin
ion of your ministers, and would like to
hear yours."
" Well, Jacob," replied Lincoln, •• Unit
reminds ' n -* -a otory. when l w-as a
ooy, in Indiana, I went to a neighbor's
house one morning aud found a boy, of
my sire, holding a coon bv n string. 1
asked him what he had and what he was
i.oing. Ho says: 'lt is a coon. Dad
onteh six last night, and killed all but
this poor little cuss. Dad told me to
hold him until he camo back, and I'm
iifraui he’s going to kill this one, too.
A J, oh, Abe ! 1 do wish he would get
away.' ‘Well, why don't you let him
loose?’ ‘That would not be right, and
if 1 I t him go, dad would give me hell;
i ui ii he would get sway himself, it
would be all right.’ Now,” said Mr.
Lincoln, "if Jiff. Davis and those other
t< 11 iws will only get away, it will be all*
r.ph , but if we should catch them, aud
1 should let them go, dad would give
uie hell.’’
Xnmberof Kcbel Troops.
It baa been irnpoa We to obtain what
could be ea led < x n't statistic.-, of the
r.dvel force, except as giv ti in McPher
son'* "History of the Rebellion," as
follows :
Alston* 40.000 I Teiss 29.600
Ki0ni5........ 4,000 j Teunessoo .... 84,'X)9
Georgia M.OU6 , Virginia UiS.txiO
Rouvsians 5t.,000 1 Arkwiet 28.(100
Miesiwppi .... 40,000 j Ken tacky 20.000
Nortii Carolina. 25.000 j Maryland 20,000
(South Carolina. 96,000 !
Missouri 88,000 | Total 498.000
It is stated by the same authority that
“ the estimate of Maryland um.-t be
excessive.” General li* detra soys in his
“ Military History of Ulysits S. Grant”
(volume iii, page 689), that May 96, the
last organised ret >el four disappeared
from the territory of the United States.
Every man who had borne arms against
the Government was n prisoner. One
hundred and seventy four thousand two
hundred and twenty-thr.. e rsliel prison
ers were paroled." Chicago J liter-
Ooaan.
Little Things.
Life is made up of a great variety of
things that call for our attention, as we
pass along, nnd it is not strange amid
the hurry, bustle, and misconception of
life that many things are wholly neg
lected ; but while we see this neglect on
every side, if we study tile matt- r closely
we will find th.it the Tittle things of life
are more ircquently left undone than the
greater tlmigß.
While many are willing to grasp large
opportunities which seeur to off. r great
Inducements to riches, how few are
making us* of the common opportuni
ties that present themselves at every
step of life. If wo could always see re
sults before we act, how different gen
erally would be our line of action; for
the smallest opportunity, richly im
proved, often results in great aud lasting
good aud can not fail of some degree of
success.
How often we see the little things of
life ignored in tbo home circle, while
every wish may be gratified as far as
physical comfort is concerned, though it
may have cost groat labor; how often
wo see those things that go to make
homo happy grudgingly given. Kind
words are little things, but how often
do harsh, unkind ones take their place.
It is strange that we so often hear harsh,
thoughtless words at home from those
who are always kind and considerate to
strangers, but that this is true is an evi
dent tact.
Home, though filled with little things,
is a place of grand opportunities, and
ihat one who is conscientiously trying
to improve thorn, is doing an unending
work for good. Hearts are receiving im
wroßtnca.u o/vl or bad—are being made
happier or eadder, cacti oay, by tho ac
tion of those at home.
Parents, worried and absorbed with
the business of life, too often make home
unattractive to their children by making
them feel that they represent simply
burdens in the household. The hearts
of children are sensitive, and older ones
should always he considerate in their
actions toward them. They should be
made to feel that they are of some im
portance at home, in order that they may
become so attached to it that it will be
to them a safeguard and refuge from the
many pitfalls that beset their youthful
steps. Tho opportunity of parents in
this direction is of vast and immeasura
ble importance, aud if rightly improved
will more than repay in years yet to
come.
The children of the home circle, as
they grow to years'of accountability, are
not left without responsibility in this
direction. How often is the joy and
comfort of homo blighted by the unkind
and disobedient ucts of children who
wholly disregard their great opportuni
ties for good and heap dishonor on their
parents. But there are those who shed
light and joy wherever they go by their
uniformly kind words and ucts, whose
chief aim it seems to be to make
others happy ; and what centers of joy
they are in the home circle. Tho little
things that they have observed have
resulted in a grand aggregate of good
that is crowning their parents with
honor and making their own hearts hap
pier and better.
There are always men and women
raised up for the grander and greater
achievements of life, and while there is
much succe-s in this direction, it can
never accomplish the whole work for
life, for life is made up mainly of little
things, and it ia those that are most
likely to be neglected.
Wo may not all have equal opportuni
ties of doing good at home, but we have
something to do to make that homo hap
pier, and if we are doing it to the best
of our ability wo uro meeting ah that is
required. If in the daily walk of life we
would pay more attention to the little
things there would be fewer great
things demanding our consideration.—
Marjorie.
The Heroine of Matagorda.
The tempest lasted thirty hours, and
thirty-four rneu out of 140 hid fallen.
The fort was not more than 100 yards
square; and “ here,’’says Napier, “be
it recorded au action of which it is diffi
cult to say whetlier it was most feminine
or heroic.”
The action referred to, as detailed in
“ The Eventful Life of a Foldier,” won
the woman for long after the sobriquet
of “The Heroine of Matagorda.” She
was the wife of Sergeant Heston, of tlio
Scots brigade. Under lire she tore up
her linen to form bandages for the
wound! and; anil water being wanted, a
drummer hoy was ordered to draw some
from a well, but the scared child did not
loom much inclined to the task, and
lingered ftt the door of a hut with the
bucket in ins bund.
‘' Why don’t yon go for tho water ?’’
ask od the Surgeon angrily.
“ The puir bairn is frightened,” said
Mrs. Kenton, “ and no wonder; gio the
bucket toiue.”
And under all that dreadful storm she
proceeded coolly to the w ell, procuring
water for the wounded. General Napier
Bays a shot out the bucket rope iu her
hand, but she recovered it and fulfilled
her mission.
"Her attention to the wounded was
beyond all praise,” says Sorgcaut Oou
of ilie y 4th; she carried sand
bags for the repair of the batteries,
and handed ammunition, wine, aud
water to men at the gnus. “ l think I
see her yet," lie adds, “while the shot
and shell were flying thick around her,
bonding her body to sheild her child
from danger by tho exjxwure of her own
person.”
She died at an early ago, in Glasgow,
without other token to her merit than
that accord, and by the humble book of
her husband’s comrade. —British Hat
ties.
M. Roman, a French engineer, states
that tho cultivation of tho interesting
plait', the Soja or Sofia has been largely
developed ill Hungary and in various
parts of France. He thinks that it na\
iu the future beconio as in pm taut an
article of fixxi ft-- the potato. It grows
in any soil, even the driest ; and tho
plant is an . xoe lent fodder for eit I*.
The si-eJs are \i rv nnt itio.tx. an I have
the form of small kidney lie ms. An
agreeable soup may he male of them.
The Chinese ti-e th m for various kinds
of cheese, to make n condiment with oil,
etc. In Franco, the Mid* have been
roasted like coffee, aud M. Roman says
the decoction ot the Soja la au is \\rv
similar to that of average coffee.
A Fragment of Life.
When one breaks cutup in the morning
he turns baok again and again to see
what he has left. Surely he feels that
he has forgotten something. What is it ?
It is only his own thoughts aud musings
he has left, the fragment of his life he
has lived there. Where he hung his coat
on a tree, where he slept on the boughs,
where he made his coffee or broiled his
trout over the coals, whore be drank at
the little brown pool in the spring run,
where he looked long and long into the
whistiering branches overhead ; ho has
left what he cannot bring away with him
—the flame and the ashes of himself.
Originality in Style.
Charlee Lamb speaks somewhere of a
friend of his who protested that there
was too much reading done and that
many people were too busy con.-idcring
the thoughts of others to think for them
selves. Jle even went so far, Lamb
Says, as to quit reading altogether,
“ much to the improvement of his or
igiualitv.” i have often thought of
tliis; tfiat is to say the blighting of one’s
power of original thought by much read
ing. '1 he otnnivofous reader mistakenly
believes that he is only acquiring a
store of fact and theories. He does not
reim-rober that his mind is sure to be
tinted by every particular thing which
he reads, and that by aud by the natural
hue of it will be quite effaced. I have
often noticed with amusement and morti
fication that everything I read had an
immediate effect on manner of expres
sion both in writing and talking. It haa
been very humiliating to me to see how
little individuality I possess. 1 humbly
owu that I am mentally like the chame
leon, or whatever animal it is that takes
straightway the color of whatever it
eats. I remember in the English litera
: ture class at school, I have seen myself
skip lightly from Addison to Macauley,
from Macauley to Dickens, only to for
get him and find myself on Monday tied
i down to the limited verbiage and pom
pous sentences of the preacher to whom
1 I had listened the day before. I don t
i mean, of course, that style could
, ever in the remotest degree, approach in
j excellence toward any of the writers
' whom I read. T only mean that every
mannerism that I could catch and wrap
around my own thoughts, I instantly
| made mv own Rut once did I actually
. come near reproduction. Then I had to
; write a criticism of Pepy’s Diary, and
j discovered only when my paper was
finished and copied, that it was written
in a very fair imitation of the worthy
Samuel’s style.
Of course, if this always held true,
the path <4 the writer would bo smooth,
indeed. He would only have to sit at
home and diligently read liis Shakes
peare, to become a master of literary
composition. But unfortunately it
doesn't. You have heard the stage mimic
at cheap shows imitate the pig; and
then “a pig under agate.” It has al
ways seemed to mo that my Addison,
for instance was an Addison ‘ ‘ under a
gate.”
After all, Ia . iiol -uro that an orig
inal style in writing is to be desired. I
am quite sure it should not be striven
for; How, indeed, can a man be sure
that he has got liis own natural style?
How docs he know that he is not cramp
ing his own powers by affectation ? Peo
ple who try to walk differently from
everybody else generally are lived out
sooner. A gnarled, warped, crauk-sided
manner of expression may be perhaps
forgiven if it brings a line thought on
its shoulders, hut it is none the less re
pulsive.
Perhaps I am prejudiced, but I can
not get over a feeling that a writer who
has thoughts worth expressing does an
undignified thing when lie brings them
out iu eccentrio garb. And the more
elevated that the subject which lie treats
may he, the more should he strive for
clearness and simplicity.— Clarissa, in
Indianapolis Herald,
Whipping Children.
It is a significant sign of the improve
ment) of our racb, that the general feeling
to-day is against flogging as a means of
reformation or ] unislimeut. It lias been
abandoned, in a great measure, all over
the world in the armies, and it no longer
forms a part of the discipline of our
prisons. In tho schools it is fast going
out of favor, in fact, lias almost disap
peared.
Ami ns regards parents aud their chil
dren, flogging is fast becoming obsolete.
In spile of all attempts to palliate paren
tal brutality, the fact remains that itis bet
ter to rule by love than fear and that the
person who cannot succeed through love
is not fit to rule. There is no sentiment
alism iu this conclusion, for the accuracy'
of the principle lias been proved count
less times by experience, with beings
of far lower grade than children ever are
and of meaner quality of affection.
One phase of love explains the regal'd
of the masses for a political leader, a
feeling somewhat similar attaches a sol
dier to his favorite general, and the same
sentiment, though of far coarser quality,
makes a out*throat the faithful slave of
a pirate chief.
To say that the child, which is the
only auimnl except the dog that will kiss
the hand which strikes it. cannot be con
trolled through the feeling that keeps
turbulent men iu order is worse than
untrue —it is idiotic. The parent who
confesses to inability to control a child
without reeourso to force merely admits
lack of affection enough to enable
patience to have its perfect work, for
some one—often a person of no particular
intelligence or character—is sure not
only to find the child a heart, but to find
it healthy and of full size.
Motnt Ararat.
Ararat is divided into two peaks, Great
Ararat on tho northwest and Little Ara
rat on the southwest, whoso liases blend
while their summits are seven miles
apart, The summit of Great Ararat is
17,323 feet above tho level of the sea,
and 14,320 above its base; and for more
than 8,000 feet below the summit it is
always covered with ioe and snow. Little
Ararat is 13,000 above the sea level. The
apex of Great Ararat was visited by Par
rot October 9, 1829. Dr. Scliaff, iu com
mon with Smith, says that Ararat in
Scripture ri fors to the lofty plateau or
mountain—highlands which overlook the
plain of the Araxos. The same author
ity states that the mountains of Ararat
(Gen. viii., 4) more properly refer to the
eut re range of elevated tableland in
that portion of Armenia, and upon some
loner part of this rauge, rather than
upon the high peaks, the ark more prob
ably rested; and the following reasons
are given in support of this view : This
plateau or range is about 6,000 or 7,000
fei t high ; it is equally distant from the
Euxine and the Caspian Seas, aud be
tween the Persian Gulf and the Medi
terranean, and nence a central point for
the dispersion of tlio race ; the region is
volcano) iu its origin, does not ri.-e into
sharp crest-, but has broad'plains sepa
rate and by subordinate ranges of moun
tains; and the climate is temperate,
gra-s and grain are abundant, and the
harvests are quick to mature. These
facts, he believes, illustrate the Bible
narrative.
Tkaustatfo from The Omnibat.—
The Little Emma—“ The dead must it
very good have, dear mamma ;” Mother,
much struck “ And why so. dear
child?" Emma "Because the fleas
them not more bite !" Lady—" Marie,
go and see if the butcher calv sf. et
has.” Marie, back coming-—“Madam,
I know not. 1 have them not seo could."
Lady-—" What?” Marie—"lf lie calves
has. He has boots on.” Visitress—
“ Thon appearest vexed, dear Emma.”
House Ymmg Lady—"Oh, jus, tlr. k
oi it! Onr girl ha- suddenly out of the
service gone. Xow must my old mother,
with tne lheutnaUsw, the whole work
do.”
THE FAMILY DOCTOR-
Fob toothache, where a cavity exists,
there are many remedies in common use,
hut, savs an exchange, none seem to re
lieve as equal parts of hydrate of chloral
and gum camphor rubbed together.
Saturate a piece of cotton with the mixt
ure and put it into tile cavity of the
tooth covering it with dry cotton. Care
must be taken not to allow the remedy
to come in contact with the inside of the
mouth, as it may produce severe hern
ingi
An exchange says : “ I*t anyone who
has an attack of lockjaw taae a "
quantity of turpentine, warm it and pour
it on till: wotted, no matter where the
wound is, and reliet will follow in less
than a minute. Nothing better con he
applied to a severe cut or bruise t.ian
cold turpentine ;it will give certain re
lief almost instantly. Turpentine is also
a sovereign remedy for croup. Saturate
a piece of flannel with it and place the
flannel on the throat and chest, and in
evc-ry eas t hree or four drops on a lump
of sugar may tie taken inwardly,
Db. Ebrabd, of Nimes, states tha£ Eh
has for many years treated all his cases
of sciatic and neuralgic pains with an
improvised apparatus, consisting merely
0 f flat-iron and vinegar, two things
that will he found in every house. The
iron is heated until sufficients hot to
\ aporize the vinegar, and is then cov
ered with some woolen fabric, which is
moistened with vinegar, and the appar
atus is applied at once *o the painful
spot. The application may be repeated
two or three times a day. Dr. Ebrard
states that, as a rule, the pain disappears
in twenty-four hours, and recovery en
sues at once.
Balt in Diphthbria. —ln a paper
read at the Medical Society of "Victoria,
Australia, Dr. Day stated that, having
for many years regarded diphtheria, in
its early stage* as a purely local affec
tion, characterized by a marked tenden
cy to take on putrefactive decomposi
tion, he has trusted most to the free and
constant application of antiseptics, and,
when their employment has been adopt
ed from the first, and been combined
with judicious alimentation, he has sel
dom seen blood-poisoning ensue. In
consequence of tho great power which
salt possesses in preventing the pretre
factive decomposition of meat and other
organic matter, Dr. Day has olten pi in
scribed for diphtheritic patients living
far away from medical aid the frequent
use of a gargle composed of a teaspoon
ful or more of salt dissolved in a tumbler
bf water, giving children who cannot
gargie a teaspoonful or two to drink
occasionally. Adults to use the gargle
as a prophylactic or preventive, three
or four times a day.
How Voltaire Cubed the Decay ot 1
His Stomach. —ln the “Memoirs of
Count Segur ” there is the following
anecdote t “My mother, the Countess
de Segur, being asked by Voltaire re
specting her health, told him that the
most painful feeling she had arose from
the decay in her stomach and the diffi
culty of finding nay kind of aliment that
it could bear. Voltaire, by way of con
solation, assured her that he was once
for nearly a year in the same state, and
believed to be incurable, but that,
nevertheless, a very simple remedy had
rostored him. It consisted in taking no
other nourishment than yelks of eggs
beaten up with the flour of potatoes and
water.” Though this circumstance
concerned so extraordinary a person as
Voltaire, it is astonishing how little it is
known and how rarely the remedy has
been practiced. Its efficacy, however,
in cases of debility, cannot be ques
tioned, and the following is the mode of
preparing this valuable article of food
as recommended by Sir John Sinclair :
Beat up an egg in a bowl, and then add
six table-spoonfuls of cold water, mixing
the whole well together ; then add two
table spoonfuls of farina of potatoes ;
let it be mixed thoroughly with the
liquid in the bowi; then pour iu as
much boiling water as will convert the
whole thing into a jelly, and mix it well.
It may he taken alone or with the addi
tion of a little milk in case of stomachic
debility or consumptive disorders.—<S’ci
cntific American.
Self-Denial.
Who can look upon an intelligent and
well-ordered household without being
struck by the happy faces that surround
the family table or the fireside? Of
course there is much consciouus self
denial practiced by all, bat by far the
larger proportion of the right actions
performed aro pleasant to both doer and
receiver. In au enlightened community,
the numberless little acts which seem to
imply some slight sacrifices are really
the natural outcome of a gracious and
pleasant frame of mind, finding its own
happiness largely in that ot others. In
a good-natured crowd this may often be
seen. Instead of a selfish pushing and
elbowing, which would soon put the
strong in the front and the weak iu the
rear, tliere will be a mutual giving way
and waiting, with an occasional pleasant
word or helpful motion, implying sym
pathy aud good-will. To many persons
it would be truly painful to be rude or
unkind, and this is certainly a far higher
condition than that of one where every
act of politeness or suavity costs a self
denying pang.
Not for a moment would we underrate
self-denial. It has a noble mission to
perform—that of leading us gradually
from regarding duty as a hard and pain
ful task to considering it our highest joy.
Whenever any action is at once right for
us to do and yet unpleasant, there self-'
deninl should reign supreme. Yet we
cannot afford to overlook or ignore tho
large proportion of pleasant right-doing.
It is the flower of the plant we call duty,
the final result to which we may look
forward with hope and joy in all our ef
forts.—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
It is said that those who wish to do
any painting on or about their mills, will
find the following au excellent and cheap
recipe, which will last much longer than
any ordinary whitewash: Tliree hun
dred parts washed and sieved white sand,
forty parts of precipitated chalk, fifty
parts of iesin and four parts of linseed
oil are mixed aud boiled in an iron ket
tle. and then one part of oxide of copper
aud one part of sulphuric acid are ad
ded. This mass is applied with an ordi
nary paint 1 Hindi while warm. If it is
too thick it is diluted with linseed oil.
This pa nt dries very rapidly aud gets
very hard, but protects the wood excel
lently.
How She Snow fie Has Married.
First young lady—“Oh, who is that
vouug man going down the aisle ? Isn't
he handsome? Stranger, isn't he? Do
tell me who hois?’
Second young lady— “l do not know
who he is; but he's married.”
“Oh, pshaw! How do you know
that ?"
“ Why, don’t you observe how sub
dued and apologetic he looks r
“Yea. I noticed that, but perhaps has
lost a friend.”
“No. he’s married.”
And then the conversation turned on
the fact that the minister had got on a
■tasd-up collar.
The Wooden Shoe.
Woo( }en shoe, as we all know, is
quite a national institution of France,
2nd in Brittany more in any othe
part of that country | its “
heard everywhere ;peoplewea>>t alums
habitually there who would fight ol
it elsewhere, save on high days, holidayf
and en grande tenue, when there is
nothiug like leather. Hence follows
Uie necessity for a sufficiently large
brotherhood of sabotiers who, as they
Could not possibly live in towns or large
villages by reason of the cost of transport
of the rough materia! exceeding the
price of the manufactured goods, aie
forced to reside in woods and forests or
other places where suitable timber may
oilier lnaceo wucio ...
be available. Of the sabotier s house,
sr.cb as it is, the state takes no notice ;
the tax-gatllerev never comes near it;
the owner can shift it to another locality
when ho likes; the wood he has Pr>
phased in this spot worked up and ex
hausted, awe.y he goes to another, lie
buys a certain number of trees or the
requisite kind, sometimes m rore.it,
sometimes by the sides of fields, which
is Brittany are surrounded by loity wood
growth, id protect the crops from the
violent gales which there prevail, ihe
purchase, or rather the agreement to
purchase, concluded at some village
notary’s bureau, and the timber marked,
the sabotier comes to the place with his
donkey-halt loaded with the few poor
fittings and furnituie of his ancient and
much-soiled bedding, his rough sou
made cradles and cots, some well-worn
culinary utensils, and the tools of ins
. 1 * _*A . .ivnU OTV ll atIAVS
t t uiuay tnououo, *
: trade, to wit • felling-axes and saws,
I large-sized gouges, spoke-slntves and
knives. These arc his only movables.
For the rest the site on which he squats
provides him. At dawn lie comes ; all
day he is laboring with the sweat of his
: brow at his foof-tree; by night it is
finished, garnished and occupied. He
beats even a Loudon contractor ot
scamped suburban villas in rapidity of
construction. Then, if the material be
abundant, he may remain on the chosen
site for a year or two; if otherwise, a few
months’ location, and he seeks another
clearing. Ho is a regular Bedouin, tins
sabotier, and, like that nomad, can say :
“The rope which holds my tent has
seen all cities perish.”
The never altering end and aim of a
Bretoh wooden shoe-maker’s being is to
fabricate sabots, and out of this grove he
and fiis never run. Such os the father
is such is the son, and, for the matter of
that, the daughter also. Children, so to
speak, are to the manner born ot making
sabots, and at bo tender an age as five or
six vears they may be seen smoothing,
blackening, varnishing, stringing to
gether in lots the coverings which their
parents and other relations have cut,
shaped and hollowed out into c/taussures
for the human foot. When a sufficient
load of sabots has been completed at a cer
tain fixing, the sabotier goes with it to the
nearest village or town where his whole
sale dealer ri sides, and to whom he dis
poses of the lot. With the money thus
obtained, he replaces a few articles
absolutely necessary for his wants, and
with the residue pays for timber already
bought, felled and utilized. Money is
put into the purses of tree owner and
notary, but little finding its place in
that of the workman. Hiving no as
sociation with neighbors, abhorred by
farmers, disdained by townsfolk, these
Selkirks, in the midst of high civilization
around, live without further contact or
intercourse with society than that which
lias been told of, vi/.., to buy wood, and
to sell their handicraft. — London Globe.
American and European Girls.
In Europe every girl learns cooking as
au art, and that part of her education is
as essential as that of reading or writing.
Every restaurant and hotel lias a number
of these volunteers, who pay for the
privilege of learning under the tuition of
a chef, in addition to which they -do
work around the kitchen. No matter
how rich a man is, liis daughters must
learn in this manner, so that they can
supervise the household and learn to
cook well and economically. This
custom has been imported to this coun
try in a different form, and is now per
meating the East in the shape of schools
of cookery. In Europe the girls are also
taught cookery in the schools, and the
consequence is that they are wives in
fact as well as in name. When girls in
this country stop looking down on
housewifery as dishonorable, and begin
to learn cooking as an art, they will all
pass out of the state of single blessed
ness, but until that time the crop of old
maids will continue to increase alarm
ingly. The oft-heard remark that two
can live as cheaply as one, is rank non
sense. Any young man can live like a
fighting cock, dress well aud smoke the
best cigars on SI,OOO per year. He can
not marry on $1,500 and do the same.”
—Kansas Citj / Times.
A Chapter on Balil Heads.
A bald-headed man is refined, and he
always shows his skull, sure.
What does n bald-headed man say to
his comb ? We meet to part no move.
Motto for a bald head : Bare aud fore
bare.
However high a position a bald-headed
man holds, he will never comb down in
the world.
A bald-headed man never dyes.
Advice to bald-headers: Join the
Indians, who are tho only successful
hair raisers.
You never saw a bald-head man with
a low forehead.
Shakespeare says : There is a divinity
that shapes our ends.
Bald men are the coolest-headed men
in the world.
Women have a good time in Japan.
Gentlemen approach them with the
greate t cerem ny and veneration, while
the indies are not obliged to acknowledge
the courtesy offi-red them by so much
is a low bow or a smile, if they do not
ahoo-e. It is their due, and so much a
matter of course that the deepest rever
ence is scarcely observed by them. They
have the place of honor upon all occa
sions of ceremony, aud iu all grades of
society are treated with uniform respect
as socially superior. And now and then,
when an American woman accepts a scat
in a crowded horse-car, she shows Japan
ese proclivities.
The Prince of Gerol stein was hunting
a boar. At a critical moment, the
courtiers were surprised to find his
Highness perched in a tree. The bold
est of them testifying a little surprise at
this: "Ah!” cried the Prince with a
fierce air, “had it been a iion, now !”
Then iu the most contemptuous tone :
“ But onlv a pig I ”
A famous scientist says there is often
a marked personal resemblance between
husband and wife after they have been
married awhile. We have noticed that
fact. Some time ago a gallant man,
whose eyes were bine, married a jealous
black-eyed woman, and in less than a
year he bad black eves himself.
Ida Lbwis has saved two members at
a brass band from drowning. Ida's pop
ularity is rapidly decreasing since tins
itusli auk
pith and point.
A night- gown is nothing but a nap
sack.
Fbitz says he can’t eat oleomargarine
because it disagrease with him.
Aesthetes, speaking of asses, say
tlieir bi>YS are abrasions on the surface
of melody.
A Leadville journalist has shot so
manv men that he is how spoken of as
“the local leaditor.”
Out West the agents take care of the
Indians, and the Indians reciprocally take
hair of the agents.
To start a clock you wind it up,
And then it goes tip-top;
jßat when you wind your bußinei* up,
lt’e always sure to atop.
The man who stops his paper io econ
omize ought to cut his nose oS to keep
from buying handkerchiefs.
An esthete recently paid $6OO for a
couple of blue-china ginger-pots, and
the gentleman who owns a $350 dog
thinks the esthete an ass.
A ballet-dancer died recently at
Naples, leaving a large fortune. This
show's bow easy it is to accumulate wealth
when one dresses economically.
Bridget (who hail discovered tho
'Carpet-sweeper) —“Luk at the music
box, now, wid the long handle ! I wan
der how they plays on the insthrumeut!’'
The SB are three prominent phases of
a woman’s life ail visibly connected : As
a baby, she’s lugged; as a young woman,
she’s hugged; as a wife, slies hum
bugged.
The New Haven Register wants a
gospel-car attached to all railroad trains.
Y es just imagine the interior of such a
ear with the train two horns behind time.
—lfetroii Free Press.
Some recent exhumations in Egypt
have brought to light the supposed
statue of Potipliar’s wife, and competent
judges say that if the thing of marble
was true to life, Joseph was justified in
having his coat torn. — The Judge.
“Mv dear, yon really do smoke too
much,” says Madam B. to her husband.
“See you have just finished another
package of tobacco !’’ “ Excuse me, my
love, but do you happen to -know when
I begun this package? ’ ‘No. Well,
then?”
A small girl, who had been ponder
ing upon the question of the sunrise
aud sunset gun, which she heard daily
in the city, startled her father recently
with the inquiry : “ Does God shoot the
sun up in the morning and shoot it
down at night?”
“Don’t weep, my friend,” said the
pastor to the sorrowing widower, as he
stood beside his wife's coffin. “ Don t
weep, she has gone to heaven.’ “ Yes,
I know she has gone there, sobbed the
afflicted man, “and that is what makes
it so hard to bear. I know 111 ne'ver see
her again.”
The grand scramble for appointments'
under the municipal officers has just
begun, and one of them has already
hung up this sign in his office : “ Lady
applicants for clerkships will please weep
in the ante-room, as the Recorder suffers
greatly from damp feet.”— San Fran
cisco Post.
Two little girls, aged 4 and 0, bail
just had new dresses, and were on their
way to Sunday school. Said Etta, the
elder: “Oh, I have forgotten my
ters A ” “1 haven’t forgotten mine,”
replied the other, “it is, Blessed are
the dressmakers,” —Boston Transcript.
A well-known' public character had
iust passed through the initiatory cere
monies of a secret society, and while the
sublime moral teachings and ineffable
grandeur of the fitmunery were fresh
upon him, a friend whispered m hia ear,
“I say, , you are aa J>ig a f°°l as
any of us now, ain t you?
Hiram Green was lugging up coal,
when he stubbed bis toe and fell, caus
ing him to accidentally let slip a cuss
word. “Hain’tyou ’shamed of vohr
self ! Where do you expect you’ll go tor
when you die?” asked his wife. “To
a place where I shan’t have to lug coal,
by thunder!” and he continued on.—
Whitehall Times.
Contempt of Dfiugcr.
If dynamite balls were planted under
a Washington street crossing, at first no
onq knowing the fact would go over the
ground ; but should they remain there
for a week, the old way would be re
sumed by the people. Familiarity not
only breeds contempt in the social world,
but people living constantly on the verge
of danger, in time, come to regard it
with carelessness. The human race lias
always fought shy of the destructive
forces of nature and art at first, but
familiarity with them has reduced the
fears. Tlie New York Sun says: “ When
kerosene was introduced, there were
many fears in regard to its use, on ac
count of its liability to explode under
certain conditions, aud particularly when
a considerable quantity of it ignited
through the medium of its vapor brought
into contact with fire. Yet in a few
years thousands of people were using
this feared agent even for kindling fires,
and every day there is a fresh story of 0
house or a woman or a child burned up
from this careless practice. Precisely s<s
it has been with dynamite, which at first
was regarded with terror from its destruc
tive power. Yet the other day, in New
York, a house was blown to pieces by
dynamite cartridges hung on a stovepipe
to warm, and in Pemufjivama a miner
put a can of dynamite St his nook stove
to dry, and only fragments of himself,
his wife, aud four children,'and splinters
of his house remained to hold an inquest
over. It is the old case of contempt of
danger bred by familiarity with it; but
since the lives and possessions of a great
many people are imperiled by the habit
which a near neighbor may have of keep
ing dynamite cartridges in his house
and warming them on his stove, the laws
relating to this and similar explosives
seem to need revision."
A California writer says that the
redwood which is in demand there for
underground use is what is known by
the lumbermen as black-heart redwood.
It shows a dark color when cut with a
knife, the outer layer only becoming
seasoned. This species of redwood is ex
ceedingly heavy—too heavy to float.
One who has observed schooners loading
at chutes along the coast assures the
writer that a post of this wood which
plunges overboard never rises, and a
board lingers on the surface a moment
and then slowly slides down into its
depths. This is'the sort which is nought
for in the foundation of buildings, and
under brick walls is believed to be im
perishable. In this connection it is in
teresting to mention a fact concerning
the second growth of redwood. Shoots
from old stumps liave grown to three
and four feet in ‘diameter in forty years.
This would indicate reiterative powers
iu redwood forests which would insure a
future supply of the timber.
At fashionable weddings in Englanfl
a youthful relative of the bride be.*rs
her tram. He is fancifully dressed in
the styie of the old Venetian or Charles
L period.