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E. X. KEITH A B. F. BENNETT, Editor*.
“ EQUALITY IN THE UNION OB INDEPENDENCE OUT OF IT.”
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TERMS—TWO DOLLARS a-venr, ia AdvSneOV
VOL. 11.
CASSVILLE, G V., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
8, 1859. -
TSTO. 34a
isctllantons.
Orwnar.
Nine part» of tpeeeh keep well in view
As I describe them each to you;
1. The Article*, first, you wish to see,
Are little words: a, an and the ;
2. The Noun* come next, to name each
thing.
As home, and hook, and horse, and atting.
3. Adject ire* tell the kind of noun:
As hot, and coll,small,great and brown;
4. Pronoun» instead of nouns appear:*
Hi* face, her fan, my nose, your ear.
5. The Verbs tell something to be done:
I ride, or laugh, or walk, or run.
The Adcerbs tell how things are done:
1 loudly laugh, 1 quickly run.
7. Conjunction* join words and things to
gether.
As cat and dog— sheep and bell-weather.
8. P re,posit bait coine before a noun:
Through a white robe—to a black gown.
It. An Interjection loudly cries:
Oh ! how funny! Ah ! how wise 1
These nine, my son, are parts of speech;
Beyond these few, no tongue can reach.
General Oglethorpe—Shall He Have
a Monument 1
We extract the following from an Ad-
dress delivered recently by Rev. Charles
Wallace Howard, before the Young Men’s
Christian Association, at Koine, Geo., and
invite special attention to the subject:
•• There is perhaps no prominent char
acter in modern times to whom such par
tial justice has been rendered, as to the
t ion. Oglethorpe. As a people we, in this
particular, have been deficient in duty.—
There are grown men in the State, with
some degree of education, who hardly know
the name of its founder. There are youths
in our academies and colleges, familiar
with the lives of 1‘elnpidas and Epaminon-
das, and other heroes of antiquity, who
sc ireely know an incident in the life of
the hero of their own State. It is a re
proach to our system of education—it is a
shame to us as Georgians. If there was
a character in the history of either Massa
chusetts, or South Carolina, who so stood
apart from other men, as does Oglethorpe
i.i our history, or to whom the people of
those S ates owed as much as we owe to
Oglethorpe, his name and his deeds, would
he lisped by little children, and would he
household words in every habitation in
either common wealth.
“ After Washington, the character of
Oglethorpe is perhaps the most perfectly
rounded, symmetrical and complete of any
of the characters developed in American
history. The remark is made with delib
eration. and enquiry into its correctness is
fearlessly invited.
“An exalted position was assigned to
Oglethorpe by his cotemporaries in Eng
land. Hannah Moore, than whom a more
sagacious or competent observer has not
lived, pronounced him to "be “ the most
remarkable man of bis time.” It was the
good fortune of him who now addresses
you, some years since, to meet with three
of the distinguished women, who made
part of that intellectual circle of which
Johnson, Burke and Oglethorpe were or
naments. It was a strange pleasure, con
versing with those whom, in childhood, I
had been accustomed to regard as belong
ing to a former generation, and hearing
them speak of historical persons as com
panions, and of events in history as inci
dents in their own observation. The es
timate formed and expressed by those em
inent women, concerning the character of
Oglethorpe, coincided with that of Hannah
Moore. Their competency to form a just
judgment will not be doubted, when it is
mentioned that they were Miss Burney,
the authoress of Evelina, the Countess of
Cork, and that extraordinary combination
of masculine strength of mind, and depth
of fcmeninc tenderness in a fragile body,
Miss Joanna Bailie. It was also my good
fortuuc to meet with two of General Ogle
thorpe's domestics, husband and wife, both
nearly a century old, who had grown gray
in his service, and who, with faculties un
impaired, spoke with almost idolatrous
reverence of their former master. His
memory in the village of Cranium was
cherished as of a great and good man.—
As a native of the State he had founded,
it would hare given me pleasure to have
been able to bring away some relic of 0-
glcthorpe. But Cranhaaa Hall, the man
sion he occupied, had been destroyed by
fire. The property had passed into the
hands of a sporting Baronet, a pupil of
Mendoza, who had not preserved a papa 1
or record of his illustrious predecessor.—
All that was there left of him was his
grave in the little parish church. The
character of the life of Oglethorpe, gave
good reason for the high estimate of it by
his cotemporaries. At 22 years of age he
**s an ensign in the British army then
one of the stall of Prince Eugene, and
Bbuthg in the dangers of the terrible ca
PMgns against the Twks, of that great
captain—at 34 he became a member of men of Georgia, might be incited to ren-
Parliament, notwithstanding, his youth at-; der a more perfect justice to his memory,
tracted the attention and commanded the ; Why does no statue of Oglethorpe adorn
respect of that distinguished body by the
purity of his life, the soundness of his
judgment and the force of his remarks.—
n advance of Wilberforce, he originated
.bat great reformation, which has wiped
away a stain from the English law. To
carry out his plans of benevolence, he
abandoned the hope of distinction and pre
ferment at home, and although offered a
King’s sh$, entered the crowded vessel of
the Colonists, landed them at Savannah,
built Frederica, defended the infant settle
ment against the overwhelming power of
Spain—passed unprotected, through 300
miles of dangerous wilderness, to secure
the friendship of the Indians at Coweta,
and having established the colony, return
ed to England receiving the honors of his
countrymen, and the praises of its poets.
“ Having been offered the command of
the British army against the colonies when
the Revolution commenced, the w«gds of
his refusal should be engraved upon the
memory of Americans, “I know the people
of America well—they never will be sub
dued by arms, but their obedience may
be secured by doing them justice.” It may
not be amiss in this connection to hazard
the remark, that if the British Govern
ment had been equally fortunate in the
appointment of the governors of the other
colonies, as in the first and last governors
of Georgia, under the British rule, altho’
the separation was inevitable, that the
bloodshed of the Revolution might have
been spared. This remark naturally leads
to another. The censure which has been
passed upon the colony of Georgia for the
reluctance with which it entered into the
Revolutionary struggle, is not only an in
justice. but this reluctance should be sub
ject of praise rather than censure: Thank
less must have been our ancestors, if they
could have forgotten their obligation to
the mother countiy. Stern, indeed must
have been the sense of duty, Roman the
virtue, which at last induced them to take
up arms. I have ventured upon this mo
mentary digression to do an act of justice
to the memory of our forefathers, as in the
history of that day the peculiar isolated
position of Georgia, is not sufficiently re
membered.
“ To return to Gen. Oglethorpe. As a
military man, his genius is undoubted.—
As a man of letters the most distinguished
in tiie world of letters have assigned him
a high rank. As a philanthropist, what
greater distinction than that conveyed by
l)r. Johnson, who says, when giving an
account of his first interview with Ogle
thorpe, “ I was not a little flattered to be
thus addressed by an eminent man, of
whom I had read in Pope from my early
years,
“ Or, driven by a strong benevolence of soul,
Will llv like Oglethorpe from pole to pole.”
“ It is seldom that so many admirable
qualities have been united in one man-
soldier, scholar, statesman, philanthropist
and Christian.
“To do honor to the unusual excellence
of this character, the proprietor of the
“Gentleman’s Magazine, ’ offered as the
first of four prizes to be given for the four
best poems, entitled the Christian Hero, a
gold medal, having on one side the head
of Lady Elizabeth Hastings, and on the
other, the head of Oglethorpe, with the
motto, “England against the world.” It is
worthy of remark, that both these illus
trious persons, selected from two sexes, as
the brightest instances of moral excellence
in each, should have chiefly attained this
distinction through their active interest in
the then remote and obscure Province of
Georgia.
“Even during his life it was deemed ap
propriate to engrave upon gold, the name
and features of Oglethorpe, to assist in per
petuating the memory of his noble deeds,
and to invite others to imitate them. Time
is usually required in order to do justice
to the character of distinguished men.—
The querulousness of petty complaints,—
the sallies of peevish temper, the designs
of interested rivalry, cease to. affect the
public mind, and it is able to judge justly.
In tlfe. accomplishment of the wise and be
nevolent plans of Oglethorpe, the little
colony planted by him has grown into 3
great States, now controlling by means of
their chief product the monetary affairs of
the Kingdom, to whose philanthropy it
owes its existence: More than a century
has elapsed since the settlement at Savan
nah. The character of Oglethorpe is now
matter of history. However strong the un
usual appreciation of it by cotouporaries,
posterity has not done justice to it The
prophecy of the poet is unfulfilled.
“Tby great evple shall thro’ ages shine,
A favorite theme with poet and divine;
People unborn thy merits shall proclaim.
And add new booors to thy deathless name.”
It remains for this generation to verify the
prediction.
“While prr—ti»g4he Bfc of Oglethorpe
as an illustration sf Turn Manlmwn, and
hksxampla as ana 4a ha imitated, it has
also here with Hw hops that the young
the grounds of the Capital 1 Do Massa
chusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania and South
Carolina, owe more to Webster, Jefferson,
Franklin and Calhoun, than we owe tf
Oglethorpe ? Is Georgia poorer or les.
grateful than those States ? Will not the
Young Men’s Christian Associations of the
State, take measures to consummate this
act of becoming homage, to the memory
of the great man, whose life was an illus
tration and an embodiment of those virtues
which it is the purpose of these Associa
tions to diffuse and perpetuate ? Will not
co-operation in a design so grand, tend to
bring these scattered Associations more
nearly together, and thereby, augment
their effective power for good ? Will not
the Association which I have the honor to
address, take the initiatory step ? There
is a fitness and propriety in the sugges
tion, that the young men of Rome should
lead in the movement, to erect a statue
to the Romulus of Georgia.
“ The moral effect of such a testimonial
would be admirable. It would exhibit the
model by which the young men of Geor
gia desire to form their own manly char
acters. It would proclain to our youth as
they are attracted towards our Legislative
halls, the noble elements which are need
ful in Georgia History to make men im
mortal. Fronting the Capital, it would
daily meet the eyes of our Legislators, and
the calm excellence of the character, thus
exhibited, its entire consecration to the
best interests of man, the impress given by
it to the policy of the State, “ Non *ibi
ted alii*," would rebuke the selfish ambi
tion of the demagogue, soften the asperi
ties of party strife, awaken a general em
ulation in noble deeds, and exert a pow
erful influence towards the production of
an enlarged patriotism.
“What office more grateful to the young
men of the several counties of the State,
than to furnish massive blocks of the rocks
peculiar to them, as the base of such a
structure? What purity of character in
tnan more suited to the snowy marble of
Carara ? What subject more worthy the
genius of Powers, than (surmounting the
whole,) a collossal statue of the Christian
Hero, who gave liberty to the prisoner, a
defence to the persecuted and existence to
a great commonwealth.”
A Reporter’s Joke.
Morgan O’Sullivan, an Irishman, and a
celebrated Parliamentary reporter, attach
ed to the London Morning Chronicle some
fifty years ago, was as remarkable for his
humor as his professional ability. When
ever any one offended Morgan, or got out
or favor with him, he invariably retaliated
in the way of some practical joke, that
generally placed his antagonist in a very
ridiculous position, and afforded the hu
morist satisfaction. In this way he once
“ got even” with two individuals at the
same time, who had excited his ire, name
ly, the celebrated Wilberforce, then a lea
ding member of the opposition in Parlia
ment, and one Jack Finnerty, a parlia
mentary reporter of the Morning Herald.
Finnerty was fresh from Tipperary, and
quite unacquainted with the characterist
ics of the different members of Parliament
but he received a good deal of generous
professional assistance at the outset of his
career, from Morgan O’Sullivan. On the
occasion now referred to, Finnerty came
into the reporters’ gallery, at a period of
the night when the debates seemed to have
slackened ; he concluded to take a doze
on one of the benches, and requested his
friend to wake him up if anything lively
came before the bouse, and thereupon
went off to sleep. Presently, Mr. Wilber
force got upon his legs, and addressed a
very thrilling speech before the house.
As he progressed, a mischievous idea
seized Morgan O’Sullivan, which, as soon
as Wilberforce sat down, he proceeded to
put in practice thus:
Rousing Finnerty from his slumber on!
the bench, O’Sullivan exclaimed, “Jack,
Wilberforce has just made an extraordina
ry speech.”
“ What about f returned Finnerty,
rubbing his eyes.
“ About the potato; the effect of it on
national vivacity,—the great virtues of it
as an article of popular diet; proved that i
the finest kind of men were’ reared on it, j
far superior to the English.”
“ Wilberforce said that, did he?” ex*I
claimed Finnerty; “ come let me take his
remarks in full from your notes.”
“ With pleasure, my dear fellow,” re- •
plied' O’Sullivan, who commenced as if’
reading from a note book, whilst Finncr-j
ty eagerly wrote alter him in the follow- j
ing vein:
“Mr. Wilberforce then emphatically !
remarked, that it always appeared to him i
beyond question, that the great cause why |
the Irish laborers, as a body, were so much j
stronger, and capable of fotigne than the j
English arose from the surpassing virtues i
of their potato. . 1
“ That’s what I call eloquence,” inter-j
ranted Jack PimwKv. (
Morgan resumed. “And I have no doubt I
(continued Mr. Wilberforce) that had it
been my lot to have been born and rearedj
in Ireland, where my food would have I
principally consisted of that inestimable
root, instead of being poor, infirm, shriv
elled and stunted creature you, sir, and
honorable gentlemen now behold me, I
would have been a stout, athletic, hand
some man, able to carry an enormous
weight
“Well done, Wilberforce,” cried Jack,
rubbing his hands in high glee; “go on
Morgan.”
O’Sullivan then proceeded in the same
vein of pathos and absurdity, but adroitly
keeping within the bounds, that Finncr-
ty’s credulity would swallow, until he had
placed a most whimsical speech in the
mouth of the grave and earnest W ilbcr-
force. Finnerty, with many expressions
of thanks to his brother reporter, started
for the Herald office.
On his way, turning into a tavern close
by the House of Commons, where a num
ber of reporters of the different morning
papers were regaling themselves, here
Jack furnished them all with copies of
“ Wilberforce’s Speech,” and the hoax
found its way the next morning into eve
ry paper in London, with the exception
of the Morning Chronicle, to which, as a
matter of course, the correct report was
furnished by O'Sullivan. The public were
astounded at the extraordinary speech
which, according to all the papers, Mr.
Wilberforce had made, and the general
opinion was expressed that he was a can
didate for Bedlam. The following even
ing, on the speaker taking the chair, Wil
berforce rose and claimed the indulgence
of the house.
“ Every honorable member,” he observ
ed, “ has doubtless read the speech which
I am represented as having made on the
previous night. With the permission of
the house I will read it” (Here the Hon
orable gentleman read the speech amidst
deafening roars of laughter.) “ I can as
sure honorable members that no one could
have read this speech with jnore surprise
than I myself did this morning, when I
found the paper on the breakfast table.—
For myself, personally, 1 care but little
about it, though, if I were capable of ut
tering such nonsense as is here put into
my mouth, it is high time that, instead of
being a member of this house, I were an
inmate of some lunatic asylum. It is for
the dignity of this house that 1 feel con
cerned, for if the honorable members were
capable of listening to such nonsense, sup
posing me capable of giving expression to
it, it were much more appropriate to call
this a theatre for the performance of far
ces, than a place for the legislative delib
erations of the representatives of the peo
ple.”
This was only one of the many instan
ces in which Morgan O’Sullivan paid off,
to his heart’s content, members of Parlia
ment and other potential personages, who
had, in some manner or other, provoked
the waggisli propensities of this incurable
humorist
Dieadfol Accident to a Lion.
The Cleveland Plaindcaler tells of a fear
ful accident in Van Amburgh’s menagerie.
Some of the new keepers commenced to
torment the lion. Wishing to hear him
roar, the brutes spit tobacco juice into his
eyes. This thoroughly maddened him,
and his frenzy was terrific. The lion made
a tremendous dash against the cage bars
—they gave way—he cleared the cage
with a bound, and sprang for the affright-
c<kwretch on the pole. In the blindness
of his rage the lion missed the man, strik
ing his own head against the pole, and
splitting himself from head to tail. It was
done as evenly as though he had been
sawed by an experienced mechanic. The
uproar brought Mr. Van A inburgh to the
spot The emergency required prompt
ness. This was no time for reflection or
argument Seizing the cleaved parts of
the lion, the “ great tamer” clapped them
instantly together. They stuck, and the
lion was soon restored to consciousness.—
But imagine Van’s agony when he saw
that he had put the lion together in the
wrong way ; that two of the animal’s legs
were up and two down! But the lion got
well, and seems to enjoy himself better
than ever. When he gets tired of walk
ing on two legs he flops over on the other
two. He is said to be a curious looking
lion.
How to Train a Prize Fighter,
Australian Kelly is in training for a
prize fight at Coney Island. A sporting
paper shows how the man is physically
trained to make a brute of himself It is
interesting as a sketch of muscular devel
opment :
In the morning Kelly rises exactly at 4
o'clock, proceeds to the sea shore, (not 50
yards from the house) and takes a bath;
returns and goes to bed for three quarters
of an hour. Up again at 5 o'clock, wash
es ^ut the mouth with cold water, par
takes of the usual sherry and egg, walks
three quarters of a mile—returns home at
8 o’clock, gets rubbed dry and is sponged
from head to foot with spring water—an
entire change of clothes is put on and he
decends to breakfast at half-past 8, which
is composed of either calves-foot jelly, beef
steak or mutton chops, with water bis
cuit instead of toast, as the latter dries up
the blood. Water gruel is substituted
for tea on account of its nervous tendency
and sugar as promoting bile—tea and su
gar also create thirst, while gruel does not.
An hour’s rest is then enjoyed, alter which
he starts on a fourteen mile walk—seven
put and seven in.
In walking, he carries the newly intro
duced lead plugs, two pounds weight,
grasping them firmly and keeping the
arms well up. The object is to strength
en the muscles of the arms, and to enable
him to keep his in position without fa
tiguc. In a protracted fight it is general
ly from weakness, or inability to use the
arms with any force that the battle is lost
To avoid these things, it is as necessary
to attend to the most minute points as it
is to Jhe more important ones. At 12J
o’clock, after being rubbed, sponged and
re-dressed, dinner is ready; it consists of
beef or mutton with water ^biscuit. In
place of the water gruel, beef tea (made
from a shin of beef without any mixture)
is taken with the dinner. It serves eith
er for food or drink, some never taking
anything at all with it Another hour’s
rest, and the afternoon is employed with
the dumb-bells (which weigh from 6 to 14
lbs) fighting the bag (this, together with
the bells consumes three hours every day)
and gymnastic exercises.
Changed, rubbed, and sponged again,
when the supper is read}'. For this two
eggs are allowed, with water biscuit and
gruel. Another resting spell and an hour
or two’s rowing or four-mile walk, and
jumping the skipping rope generally ends
the day’s work. In some days more work
is performed than others, according as the
gentleman feels inclined ; but the average
walking is from 21 to 24 miles a day.—
The meals are served to the minute, and
a certain quantity only allowed at each.
At precisely 8 o’clock he retires for the
night, to rise at 4. His sleeping apart
ments are kept pure and healthy by the
sea breeze continually passing through,
and the house itself and surrounding coun
try for 20 miles, seem adapted by nature
for training purposes.
When Mr. Kelly went into training his
weight was about 168 lbs. It is now re
duced to 156. His fighting weight will
be about 148.
The Lover’s Fizzle.—To learn to read
the following, so as to make good sense,
is a mystery.
I thee read see that me.
Love is down will Fll have -
But that and you have you’ll
One and up and you if.
When the words are properly arranged,
it reads thus:
I love but one,
And that is tbee;
Read down and up
And you will see
Itett Til have you
I? won’!! hare sae. ,
Secrets of Masonry.
Freemasonry, I admit, has its secrets.—
It has secrets peculiar to itself; but of
what do these principally consist ? They
consist of signs and tokens, which serve
as testimonials of diameter and qualifica
tion, which are only conferred after a due
course of instruction and examination.—
These are of no small value; they speak
a universal language, and act as a pass
port to the attention and support of the
initiated in all parts of the world. They
cannot be lost so long as memory retains
its power. Let the possessor of them be
expatriated, shipwrecked or imprisoned;
let him be stripped of everything he has
got in the world, still these credentials re
main, and are available for use as circum
stances may require. The good elects
which these have produced are establish
ed by the most incontestible facts of his
tory. They have stayed the uplifted band
of the destroyer; they have softened the
asperities of the tyrant; they have miti
gated the horrors of captivity; they have
subdued the rancor of malevolence, and
broken down -the barrier of political api-
mosity and sectarian alienation. On the
field of battle, in the solitude of the un
cultivated forest, or in the busy haunts of
the crowded city, they have made men of
most hostile feelings, the most distant re*
gions, and the most diversified conditions,
rush to the aid of each other, and feel spe
cial joy and satisfaction that they have
been able to afford relief to a brother me
son.—Benjamin Franklin.
EF“Do you retail things here!” asked
a green specimen of humanity, as be pok
ed his head into a store door.
“Yes sir,” replied the clerk, thinking
be had got a customer.
“ Then I wish you would retail my dog
—he had it fait off about a month aga"
And greeny strolled dwra street with
ore are dosed.
The Education Most Heeded.—Learn
to Labor.
The question is often asked, why is it
that so few people are successful in busi
ness, and why property finds such an un
equal distribution ? This man, they say
received the advantages of a good English
education, and that man was educated at
Hifalntim.
Perhaps the following may not amuse
cither yourselves or your readers, but it
did me. In our drug store I have a fellow-
clerk, somewhat celebrated among his ac
quaintances as a conductor of puns and
the utterer of dry jokes. He is a boyish-
looking youth, and officiates—when his
one of our best colleges. Both have been services are required, behind thesodafoun-
industrious, honest and economical and A few mornings since, a fashionably
yet neither of them has been successful in : dressed, poetical-looking young gentleman
business. Why is it? asks the New York entered, and sealing himself on a stool in
Express; and that journal proceeds to l ro,lt °f the counter, in a choice selection
point out the cause, and in the course terms requested the clerk to prepare
its remarks observes : a *edlitz non der. i he following eon-
The idea too commonly prevails that a 'ersaticn, rid eiih.us in its earnestness, ra-
mere knowledge of books is the beginning suited :
and ending of education. The sons and * ^ lt * 1 s . vru P *
daughters, especially of the rich, grow up *- l, -'* t °mer (slowly and methodically)—
with this notion in their heads, in idleness ( * require it not as a refreshment If the
as it were, with little idea of the responsi-j s - ru I > Vlt ‘ i, “ : 1:1,1 ** lc ‘-•fleet of the com-
bilities which await them. Their natures ! 1 KH1IU ^ S ’ •' ou 1,!:1 . v mingle with it such an
revolt at the mention of “labor,” not j a,,lo,ll| t the Mibstance as will render the
dreaming that their parents before them l” >t: ' l ' <,;i palatable. Or. to be better un
obtained the wealth they arc now so proud j t J L ‘‘
of by industry and economy. How many! blork (Interrupting)—I comprehend
young men college bred though they may !3 0U perfectly. Permit me to assure you
be, are prepared to manage the estates l * lat tendency of the syrup will be
which their fathers possess, and which it
may have required a lifetime to acquire ?
How many young women, though having
rather to enhance tiian diminish the pur
gative virtues of the drug.
Customer—< I ndignant at observing that
acquired all the knowledge and graces of; * s affected by the other)—Then
the best schools, know how to do what
their mothers have done before them, and
which the daughters may yet be compell
ed to do at some period of their lives ?—
The children of the poor have to labor or
starve, and as far as that goes they are ed
ucated to be practical.
The education that scoffs at labor ami
encourages idleness is the worst enemy
for girl, man, or woman. Instead of cno-
bling, it degrades; it opens up the road to
ruin. The education whicli directs us to
do what we are fitted to do, that respects
labor, that inculcates industry, honesty,
and fair dealing, and that strips us of self
ishness, is the education wc do need, and
proceed, miracle of medical literature and
wisdom !
Clerk—\\ ith dispatch, confoundcr of
fools.
Customer—Then, if not struck motion
less, use haste.
All this was so quietly, so politely said,
that, although amused beyond expression
at the conversation, we started in wonder
at the parties. The clerk evidently felt cut
at the last remark of the other, but mixed
the powder, which the stranger triumph
antly swallowed, paid for, and started to
leave the store, when—
Clerk—Should you feel any uneasiness
in the region of the stomach within the
that which must become the prevailing j * °f lifiec.i m.n r.es, illustrious pat-
system of the country before we can be as
people either happy or prosperous.
Searing Children.
It is a great fashion among many class-
ses of people, and especially with mischie
vous boys and girls, to frighten children
for the purpose of laughing at them in
their terror. This is one of the most in
jurious ordeals through which the inno
cents have to pass on their journey to
manhood or womanhood. The prepara
tion of their minds for these evil conse
quences, begins as soon as they have mind
enough to understand words. .Stories of
witches, ghosts and goblins, are the main
food of.the budding mind, and the little
body quakes before the story begins for
fear of what is to come. This fear being
implanted in the tender soil of childhood's
ron, attribute the cause to the accidental
introduction into the draught you have
just taken of some drug of vigorous effect
and painful consequence.
Customer—(a trifle frightened)—If Ido,
d—n you, I’ll punch your head !
Clerk—I thought I’d bring you down to
plain Englisii; but I guess you’ll find the
powder nil right. [Exit customer, with
coat tail standing straight out. j
London and Faria.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia In
quirer, in speaking of London and Paris,
says London is much the largest city at
the two, and much the richer in the ag
gregate; and while its population, the
suburbs included, amounts to about three
millio s tl a of Paris is es:imatcd at little
more tiia.i one million. The area enclosed
within tile walls of the latter city is eight
fancy is filled out in all its horrid propor-; lhollSillld Kve hlIII(lred E „gli*|, llliles> , nd
tions ia the nursery. The banc of happy j from |lf)rtll t0 S()llt , lu , a , urcment b
boyhood is the white sheet behind the j ihrw allJ a y r IBilW( uhile from ^ to
pantry door, and the poor innocent girl- j ivcst it ; s , lt , u . |v /ivo llliIes . Xhe lengfh of
child stands appalled to sec the “long j thc w;lI1 cnL . 1( , dM .
Paris, as built by Lou-
nannic,” with red eyes and dreadful mouth J,, is foiirtosn nli |es, and the cir-
glaring at her on thc door-step. Many a | cllit of thc fol tiHcations is twenty-three
little one has lain herself down wit!, every | miles . X!iis . structurCi although erected
fibroin her little frame trembling. lest j atl imroclbie cspens e, is now considered
some hideous raw-head and bloody-bones j of , illt , jtUe nance, except in the
should leap upon her from the bosom of j cvent inv:lsioll . j Ls ol>ject a t first
the darkness ; and many are the hours of was to chcck ,. on . rol a insur .
unresting sleep that frightened children j recti()I1 I)ut sucU i( ; c t is ri diculcd at
pass, dreaming of some midnight devil the proscIlt time . Xhc citv lies in a vast
dragging them from home and mother to
a ghastly cave of skulls ami bones. To
see the child standing statue like, with
curdled blood, vacant ghost like eyes, and
plain, considerably above the level of the
sea, and is watered by the .Seine. There
are six great reservoirs for .the purpose of
rcccivingand distributing water, and there
rigid limbs, the victim of some devilish j ;ir enq less tiian twenty-three bridges over
imp s propensity for fun, is enough to ; dlL . three of. which are suspension
stir the heart of the most cruel murderer, i l,rid-'es.
Often have children been thrown into ] •
convulsions, and not a few into the grave ! Brownlow OU Long SerinOUS.
clothes, by such fiendish wickedness.— j To si: nmv . an, l hwed for one hour
Thc painful impression which is made up- j ,in< ^ a l ,!, lf- or t''-'- 1 hours, by a man of tal
on the frightened mind, acting through j "l tin- delireiy ol a single sermon, is
thc nervous system, constringos the arte-! preposterous, buF t ) be l has bored by a
lies and sends the blood rushing like a j inan moderate talents, .is an outrage
cataract, to thc bounding heart, and pro-1 " hich no congrcgatii n ought to submit
duces syncope, and even death. Why. j ta formerly, in many sections of the
then, do parents allow nurses, brothers of j p, ” ,ntr - v , " chad preaching once in a mo.ith
greater age, or any one, to frighten their :in '* t ' Kn * 01, S Sl - nn ' ns " tre tolera'ei
little ones, when they are certain to bo-
rendered timid for life—turned into idiots,
or killed outright ?
Remember that the health of the child j a sermon reaches beyond 45 min
is injured by repeated attacks of fear upon | utcs ,U»c audience ought to leave the house..
the nervous system, and that it is done ! A man of extraordinary ability and feme,,
upon the principle above stated. Parents ; n,a y preach longer in a town, but let a
will see that we have done our duty to "one-horse preacher cut short thc work
them as public hygienists, when we have ‘ n righteousness !
celled their attention to the above fact, j Pressvteiiiax Statistics.—Adding to-
end pointed out the remedy; which is j gether thc statistics of both New end Old.
nothing more than positively forbidding i School, thc fallowing is the result:
any each practices among children at home ; “Synods, 56; Presbyteries, 276; Min
er at school, or anywhere, and for every i ; s t e rs, 4122; Churches, 5019; Licentiates^
violation of the'law the application ofa re-, 4.3p ; Candidates, 863. Total Comamw-
primand addressed to the judgment of the I cants, 419,920.”
offender,and in case that feils, a good hick
ory switch addressed to his corporal indi
viduality.—Medical and Lit. Weekly.
Now, we have it once a week in most
neighborhoods, and in towns two or three
times every week. Therefore, in towns,
^Antined Pike’s Peakcr says he
lived ten days ou the flesh of his dog !—
j disagreeable dog days they sust hava
been.
I “Joe, why were you out so late
last night?’ “It wasn’t so Very late* only
a quarter to twelve.** “How dare you sit
there and tell me that lie ? I was awake
when you catne, and looked at vaj watch
—it was 3 o’clock.” “ Well, isn’t three a
1 q-iarter of ?“-e!re ?'