Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 16, Brookville, Franklin County, 22 April 1870 — Page 1

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c. Office la the National Bank Building-, (TAtrrf Story) TERMS Qr SUBSCRIPTION: $2,50 FEU YEAK, ts adtasce. $3.00 " " F KOT PAID 1W ADTAKCE. No postage on papers delivered within this County. The Mystery of the Snow Hake. BT S. B. FEABODT, M. A. The winter night sets in clear and cold. A biting wind blows out of the northwest. The stars glitter in the frosty air. The nheel of a passing cart screams in the crisp and powdery snow. By morning the psvetuent will be covered with rime; the pond snd the brook with ice; the wiudowpanes with stars and crystal foliage; or the whole land will have clothed itself in a mantle of new fallen enow, white, pure and cold. When the fhow falls quietly without much wind, catch the great feathery flakes on your sleeve, and look at their chapes before thev melt. They are not always alike, but oftenest the flakes consist of little wheels having six spokes and no rim. They are clear, transparent- bits of ice, rather less than one fourth of an inch in diameter, and thin as paper. Several hundred varieties of these snow crystals have been observed, and their figures drawn, ind yet almost all show the same six-sided, or six-rayed form. All these forms are made from the same substance, frozen water; with heat all will dissolve into the same substance, liquid water. Now what do we know about water? The chemist procures a certain kind of ps which he calls hydrogen to save space and time let us say II, just as we speak ol Mr. A, or Mr. U. 11 is very light, so that it takes the upper place in anything which contains it. You can keep it only in an inrerted vessel; it is invisible; it will turn freely in the air, with a faint, purpleiluc light. Put a be'.l-giass full of it down over a lighted candle; the candle will go out, but the pas will light at the mouth vt the bell, with a pull, and will continue to burn there. As the bell is raised up the tad!e Hiay.be lighted -.gain by the burning gas. He also procure some oxygen, which we may call O. This is likewise a gas, invisible, a little heavier than air, so that it will net stay in an inverted jar, like hy-Jre-sen. It will not burn, but a candle

lowered into tt burns fiercely; a hit ot;gC!her. If, now, we take a solid block of turning ehatcoal fills a jar with showers jce wj,h Uo paraitel i8Ces, such as are l biilliaot sparks, sulphur burns with a j omed on the turlace of still water, and

lambent blue name; iton or steel wire ytatkles mote bit.lianUv and more abun dsntly than charcoal, and turns like tin

Jor; while phosphorus glows in a globe . hcatifui change. Ti e tas of heat in the filled with ixxgen, like a newly lisen sun. I sunf.p.iriC ate caught by "the ice, and at esc, tow, that wc l ave a tin tube : once begin to pull down the work done by nitie inches long and one inch in diame-j the cohesive lone, when the I. eat was beer. Let us fni three inches of the tube, lore withdtawn. The shadow of the piece with O, and tl e ten ail ii-g six inches with j of ice, after passing through a lens, may 11, and stop its mouth with a cork. The ; tall upon a screen, mid many persons may to uacs aic n ixed in the tubes, but are 1 see the result at once. Fir.-t, round spots net eon. fined, ll we t.meh (ire to them ' appear; then about theso dots, in six dill. rouh a s-niall ho'.e which we have made rcclL lis, branches begin to shoot forth, as h rti.e purpc. ihy combine at once with j the particles are melted down and lallaway an explosion; the cork is driven out with S from li e mass, one alter another, reversing ti.iich noise, if the vessel was large it the order in which they were builded tonight buisi; but if strong enough lo with- jgelher. stand the picssure and to retain the ex- ,t , 7T , .

t le.dinu i:ses, we .(, .1..,U Mi. ....... ' in i', a small qntntitv of water. We ii itst alvas co mbine two measures if 11 l reeiv ucasuieot O: two pints or , i , .si.. ii ii tao galh.us lor one I tnt or one uallon. If ,i - , ',. -., .. . ;., here is an v suit his 1 1 either, that w III re , - - .-, ( ttain oxer, uncon. hiued. Why" ! W s,.i rose lhat thn t i..t el O contains! II t ...... ! ..r ...;....., .,....:... - a Mvn H.UIIIKIUV CM 1.-...U.C I ilvlvl, ' multitude of minute which we call atoms, r.aeh atom is too small to te seen by the eye, or by tue microscope; it cannot ie cuvuiea; u ii frebahlv round or rounded. A pint of II it is supposed to contain an enal number of hydrogen atoms of the sinie size as Ihe etyteti atoms, and simiiaily shaped, but ruh II atom weighs sixteen tunes as much ; s an atom of ll. ! The atoms el O and of II have a great j iScction for each ether. A slight impulse j fakes them leap together and hold each j vthrr with the firmest grasp; but each atom ' ! O takes rosscssion of two atoms of 11. i He tire ems the necessary impulse to It nearest atoms; they communicate the f-ctctvent l, thoe next, and so it moves uh Ihe speed of lightning, until all r I roucht together. Now, it follows, of reurse, that when every atom of I) has utid its two atoms of II, any surplus of H tousi he left uueombined. Don't you that if there should be five gentlemen a c. even ladies in a room, and each gen'ia.an should walk out with a lady on arm, ihcrs would yet be left one lady .one by herself? or if there were six -fi! and four gentlemen, that there would ladies apiece for only three of the i(uen Tks combination of one atom of O lo atoms of 11 tonus one particle of ''cr. r Nvw, oe what all this has to do with .? fiest forms a snow flake. Put 'ttt toiut.l tl,;...- - .!... ... 1., ' f;Je hy side, as closely as you can, it iti.-v .1., . , i ue iiiree siae are equal, lor .""rre atoms are of the same site. Jo. y- ch particle of water like th S too small to le seen in anv way 1 a form iu .i.,..,o r i ', . . --- m t, jvuia me muuic v v i 1 11. u ,.-(. l .,..; T)... ! 1, " k'roe . i . t i t . Y . ?aiS, ,5K , i !T ber l I UA water, which is called coher ."vl Wltllllt,. I IIV1U l "HVlll . It r..... ' : .i .- r .i . i . ""ins many pariieica in me ,, """"i one mass. Uut there is nothcr force which comes between striving tii L-them asnn r. i . - - --- t - - - -- tUs force is heat. Heat i -. te sworn foes: as one or the other fcery the form of the substance ; 'SJ. If cohesion overcomes, ,he j ,r:(,i., ,,i .. . , - i i s el wair cling together with such 1 ta h. . i. i.:.i. i to become a solid nnsi which we ' ii hel I, "lis 'as almost, but not uuite. t ,.trJ ' water is fluid; if heat coo- j U . ricle By ftom each other in ! t Stbevfill l...- i .i.- i.. rtf is Ml of partic!eS 0r W4ter a ?it' '"i't or steam, uut tne coia 'it tke' nd Utcs ,uc lie,t wlliou :. ltlicie part, and the cohesion Plier them tosrether acain. Bit vlit rn a c'cb g itselt a certain way, which

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"THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS." VOL. 9, NO. 16J BROOK VILLE, TND., FRIDAY APRIL 22, 1870. WHOLE NO. 424.

they all very well know. How many euch equal sided triangles can you gather round one point? Just six, to be Fure, and they make together, a regular six-sided figure which we call a hexagon. From each of the six sides we may build out lines, arranging the triangles Eide by side, and by regular additions may make multitudes of beautiful patters, in each of which the corresponding parts shall always be alike. So it is with the snow crystals. The designs are many, but the lines which form them always make with each other the an gles of an equal-sided triangle, or the double of those angles. The air in a room is full of water particles. As they float against the window pane on a cold night, the heat is withdraw from them, and they join each other upon the surface of the glass. Each lies beside his fellow, making always the same angle, and so branching in never ending variety of graceful loliagc, or in Btarshaped patterns. The water in the bowl begins to chill; a ciystal of ice joins the side of the bowl; another follows, and ahother, forming a little beam of ice, which always adheres to the side at the angle of an equal-sided triangle. This beam shoots out further and further on the surface of the water, growing broader and thicker, as bit by bit the particles of water part with their heat, and are placed in order by the winning power of cohesion. Presently a second beam shoots out from one side of the first, always with the same angle; and then a third, branch after branch. Other beams have been laid from other sides of the bowl; the growing lines meet, join and strengthen each other. Pour out the re training water, and the bowl is full of interlacing rods of ice, delicate as needles, and crossing apparently in every direction. Different sets springing from different sides of the rouud bowl, meet at angles which differ from those described, but the several spikes of one set conform always to the law. Leave the water in, and soon all the particles will have joined the solidifying i mass, ana the wiioie ts irezen lightly to pass a beam of slrovg sunlight through the biock at right angles to these parallel !a.,f. t r.vntlv we Me a wonderful and ue wi.o cannot aouio u.e storm wun- . out uinciiing, lies down by the wayside to be overlooked or forgotten. . v- t i A cw Jersey grocer, when complain- , . . . i- i . cd to about selling bad eggs, said: 'At k. . ,. .? , - . , this time of year the hens are sick and of i i i ten la bavl H-- - i m ... . .... V r O II r ll 9 111 C l II k I H ll tl CS . O VO a O i mercy, on ine beans ot those you come In .. atui J0U wiU never be lor- j ol(cn vj..... :.. i ... v. v,i ri-.T in 1 1 1 v iv? v i i t ui n nc vi o t foruet ihc time when we wasn't much. It is just so with a frog on a jump: he can't remember w hen be was a tadpole but other folks can. The following sentiment is attributed to Napoicoo Itonanartc: "A handsome woman pleases the eye, but a good woman tresses the heart. The one is a jewel the other a treasure." A stump speaker exclaimed: "I know no North, no South, no Kast, no West, fcllow-ritiecns!' "Then," exclaimed an old farmer in the crowd, 'It's time you went to school and larnt jography.' A young lady who was rebuked by her mother for kissing her intended, justified the act by quoting the passage: 'Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do you even so to them.' Women are said to have stronger at-

tachmcnts than men. It is evinced in lit- and read the newspapers, so I can talk tie things. A man is often attached .to j about the things he's interested in, and an old bat; but did you ever know of a j try so hard to be entertaining. It's very woman having an attachment for an old ' strange." bonnet. i And then her oval face brightened into j sudden biillianee, and the sparkles stole Memory presides over the past; action ' into her eyes; for the quick ear had detecover the present. The first lives la a rich tej husband's footsteps on the stairs, temple hung with glorious trophies, audi The n.xt moment he came in.

uueu wuu hmuo?-, .--s i. , -.t . i .i. i ! but duty, and it walks Hie earin nae afui spirit. If you are a wise man you will treat the world as the moon treats it. Show it only one side of voursclf, seldom show yourself too much at a time, ana let wnar you snow j b oalm, cool and polsihed. But lock at ! . , j A every side ot ttie woria " A Boston writer comes to the defense j of women auainst the current notion thatj they are peculiarly addie'ed to gossip, al- j lB"R country croccry store. n'g "It fish, more goss. one evenmc that is i - ,7 . houses of the town. molasses and piles of gossip is talked by men in heard in all the farm i. mnmr titan arm like the rjpel? When it maketh clad the waist ' places. Th fallowing sentence will sho the importance of the position of a comma: 'Woman Without II r UiH i a m v 'v The word d e-b-t is composed of the initials of dun every body twice' C-t e d-i-t-e is formed or the initial lettert of 'call regularly every day 111 trust."

Popular Similes. As wet as a fish as dry at a bone, As live at a bird as dead as a stone; As (lamp as a patridge as poor as a rat, As strong as a borse as weak as a cat; As bard as a flint as soft as a mote, As white as a lily as black as a coat ; As plain as a pikestaff1 as rougk as a bear, As tight as a drum as Tree as the air; As heavy as lead as light as a feather, As certain as time uncertain as weather; As hot as an oven as cold as a frog, As gay as a lark as sick as a dog; As slow as a tortoise as swift as the wind, As true as the goppel as false as mankind; As thin as a herring as fat as a pig, As proud as a peacock as blithe as a grig; As savage as a tiger as tnild as a dove, As stiff as a poker as limp as a glove; As blind as a bat as deaf as a post, As coot as a cucumber as warm as toast; As flat as flounder as round as a ball, As blunt as a hammer as sharp as an awt, As red as a ferret-as safe as the stocks, As bold as a thief as sly as a fox; As straight as an arrow as crooked as a bew As yellow as saffron as black as a sloe; As brittle as glass as tough as a gristle, As net as my nail As clear as whistle; As good as a feast As bad as a witch, As light as day as dark as pitch; As brisk as a bee as dull as an ass, As full s a tick as solid as brass; As lean as a greyhound as rich as a Jew, And ten thousand similes equally new. The Best Wife in the World. BY AMT RANDOLPH. The best little wife in the world!" said Herbert Ainscourt. "Of course t dare say," responded Mr. Portcross. "But what's your exact idea of the best wife in the world? Jones savs 1 hts got the best wife in the world, because she keeps his stockings darned, takes bun to church three times of a Sunday, and never lets him have an idea of his own. Jenkins says Ae'a got the same identical article, but Jenkins wife keeps all the money, draws his salary for him, and makes him live in the back kitchen because the parlor is too good for the family to use." "Oh! but Daisy isn't a bit ogreish a little submissive, soft-voiced thing that hasn't an idea except what is reflected from me. I tell you whst, old fellow, I'm the master of my own house; I come when t please, and go when I please. Daisy never ventures on a word of reproach." 'Then, vou ought to be ashamed of yourself, larking around at the clubs as you do, dissipated bachelor fashion. "Ashamed! what of?" "Why, I suppose you owe some duties to your wife? "Where's the harm? My wife doesn't care." "Probably vou think so because she is quiet and submissive; but ifshawete to object "Objcctl I'd like to hear her try it." "Now, look here, Ainscourt, your wife may be a model wile, but you certainly are not a model husband. People are be ginning to talk about the way you neglect that pretty littte blue eyed gnl. "I'll thank people to mind their own business. Neglect her, indeed! Why, man, I love her as I love my own soul "Then, whv don't vou treat her as if I: Itl'l come, Tortcross, that question just I shows what a regular old bachelor you are. It won t u to make too muen or. J" unlc5S you want to spoil her. iMr. l ortcross shook ins neaa. 'That sounds selfish. I don't like the ring of that metal." And he went away, leaving Mr. Ains court to finish his irame of billiards at leisure. "What a regular old fuss-budget Portcross is," laughed the latter. "Always poking his nose iuto somebody else's business. There's one comfort I never pay any attention to what he says." Meanwhile Mrs. Ainscourt was sitting alone in her drawing-room, her two little white bands tightly locked in one another, and her fair bead slightly drooping a delicate little apple-blossom of a woman, with blue, wistful eyes and curly flaxen hair, looking more like a grown-up child thau a wife of twenty-one summers. "O dear!" sighed Daisy. "It is so dull here. I wish Herbert would come home, lie never spends any time with me now adays, and I ptactice all his favorite songs, ..,- . ... . .. i iveit, pel, now are you. wuu aiuayMuch ot her cheek, "lbere are some (.os tor you. here are my light nLil-M' "O Herbert! you are not going away again?' "I must, Daisy. There are a lot of fel lows coins to drive to Highjlridge, and 'm one of the party. Vou can go over to my notlcr Tor dinner, or endfor one of bje ruS!jl p lu in a j,,uee 0f a hurry.' nvl Qne oari,l093 k,83 pressed on ,tie (iujvetin? damask rose of a mouth that was lifted up to him, he was gone. Daisy Ainscourt neither went to her ,0therin-law, nor sent for one of her girl-friends. She spent the evening all alone, pondering on the shadow which was fast overgrowing her life. "What shall I do?" thought the little timid, shrinking wife, "Oh, what shall 1 do?" But child as she was, Daisy had a strong, resolute woman's heart within her, nor was she long in coming to a decision. "Daisy," said her husband te her the next day, "you haven't any objections to my attcuding the Orion Bal Masque?" " "Are masked balls nice places Herbert?" "O yes, everybody goesj only I thought

I'd pay you the compliment of asking whether you disapproved of not.' "Can 1 go with you?" "Well ahem not very well, this time, Daisy. You see, Mrs. Fenchurch really hinted so strongly for me to take her, that 1 couldn't help it." "Very well," assented Daisy, meekly,

and Herbert repeated wtthm himself the paean of praises he had chanted in Mr. Portcross' ears: "The best little wife in the world!" But notwithstanding all this, Mr. Ains court was not exactly pleased, when at tne selfsame Bal Masque, daring the gay period of unmasking, he saw his wife's innocent face crowning the picturesque costume of a Bavarian peasant girl. "Hallo!" he ejaculated; rather ungraciously, "jwm herel" "Yes,,; lisped Daisy, Nwith a girlish smite. "You said everybody went! And oh, Herbert, isn't it nice?" Mr. Ainscourt said nothing more, but Mrs. Fenchurch found him a very stupid companion for the remainder of the evanng lie was late at dinner the next day, but late as he was, he found himself mere punctual than his wife, and the solitary meal was half over before Mrs. Daisy trip ped tn, her cashmere shawl trailing over her shoulders, and her dimpled cheeks all pink with the fresh wind. "Am I behind time? Really, I am so sorryl But we have been driving in the park, and " "We! Who are tee?" growled her husband. "Why, Colonel Adair and I the Cotonel Adair that you go out with so much." "Now, look here, Daisy!" ejaculated Mr. Ainscourt, rising from the table and pushing back his chair, "Adair isn't exactly the mail I want you to drive with!" "But you go everywhere with him!" "I dare Bay but you and I are two different persons." "Now, dear Herbert," interposed Daisy, wilfully misunderstanding him, "you know I never was a bit proud, and the associates that are good enough for my husband are good enough for me. Let me give you a lew more oysters." Ainscourt looked sharply at his wife. Was she really in earnest, or was there a mocking undercurrent of satire iu her tone? But he could not decide, bo artless was her countenance. I'll talk to her about it sometime, was his internal decision. "Daisy," he said, carelessly, when dinner was over, "I've asked old Mrs. Barberry to come and spend the day with you to-morrow." "Oh, have you? I'm sorry, for I am engaged out to-morrow.'1 " i ou! here? "Oh, at Delmonico.s. I've joined a Woman's Rights Club, and we meet there to organixe." "The deuce take woman's rights!" ejac ulatcd the irate husband. "Of course I don't believe in them, but it's the fashion to belong to a club, and such a nice place to go to evenings. 1 am dull here evenings, Herbert." Herbert's heart Emote him, but be answered, resolutely: "I beg you will give up this ridiculous idea. What do women want of clubs?" "What men do, I suppose." "But I don't approve of it at all." ")om belong to three clubs, Herbert.' "That's altogether a different matter." "But tchy is it different?" "Hem why? because of course any body can see why it's self-evident." "I must be very bliud," said Mrs. Ains court. demurely, but I confess I can t discriminate the essential difference." Herbert Ainscourt said no more, but he did not at all relish the change that had lately come over the spirit of Daisy's dream. She did chance, somehow. She went out driving, here, there, and everywhere, lie never knew when he was certain of a quiet evening with her, she joined not only the club, but innumerable societies for a thousand and one purposes, which took her away from home almost continurlly. Mr. Ainscourt chafed against the bit, but it was useless. Daisy always had an excuse to plead. Presently her mother-in-law bore down upon her, an austere old lady in black satin and chestnut-brown wig. "Daisy, you are making my son wretched.' "Am 1?" cried Daisy. "Dear me, I hadn't an idea of it! What's the trouble?" "Vou must ask himself," said the mother-in-law, who believed sensible old lady in young married people's settling their own difficulties. "All 1 know is the bare fact." So Daisj went borne to the drawingroom, where Herbert lay en the sofa pretending to read in reality brooding over his troubles. "What's the matter, Herbert?" said Daisy, keeling on the Moor beside him, and putting her soft, cool hands on his fevered brow. "The matter? Nothing much, only I am miserable," he sullenly answered. "But why?" she persisted. "Because you are so changed, Daisy." "iyic am I changed?" "You are never at home, you bate lost the domesticity which was, in my eyes, your greatest charm. I never bava you to myself any more. Daisy, don't you see bow this is embittering my life?" "Does it make you unhappy?" ahe ask. ed, softly. "You know that it does, Daisy." "And do you suppose I liked it, Her bert?"' "What do you mean?" be asked. "I mean that I passed the first year of my married life in just such a lonesome way. Vou had no 'domesticity.' Clubs, drives, billiard playing, and champagne suppers engrossed your whole time. I, your wife, pined at borne alone." But why dido t you tell me you were unhappy?" "Because you would have laaghea at

the idea, and called it a woman's whim. I resolved, when we were first married, to fritter away neither time nor breath in idle complaints. I have not complained: I have simply followed your example. If it was not a good one, whose fault was that? Not mine, surely. "No, Daisy, not yours "1 don't like this kind of life," went 'on Daisy. "It is a false excitement a hollow diversion, but I nersist in it for the same reason, I suppose, that you did because tt was the fashion. Now tell me. Herbert, whether you prefer a Jathionable wite, or Daisyr "Daisy a thousand times Daisy! But Daisy can't get along with a theatregoing, club-living husband "Then she shall have a husband who finds his greatest happiness at his own hearthstone whose wife is bia dearest treasure who has tried the experience of surface and finds tt unsatisfactory. Daisy, shall we begin our matrimonial career anew?" And Daisy's whispered answer was, "Yes." "But what must you have thought of me all this timer she asked bun, after a little while. "I know what I think mow" "And what is that?" "I think," said Mr. Ainscourt, with emphasis, "that you are the best wile in the world." If You Should Ever Get Married. If you ehoutil eTer get married, John, I'll tell you what to do Qo get a little tenement, Jutt big enough for two! And one apare room tor company. And one ppate bed within it And if you begin love's life aright, Vou'd better thus begin it. In furniture be moderate, John, And let the stuffed chair wait; One looking-glass will do for both Yourself and loving mate; And BruFsels, too, and other things, Which makes a fine appearance. If you can bettef afford it, they Will look better a year hence. Some think they must have pictures, John, Superb and costly, too; Tour wife will be a picture, John, Let that suffice for you, Remember how the wise uiaa said, A tent and lore within it Is better than a splendid house, With bickerings every minute. And one word as to cooking, JohnTour wife can do the best, For love, to make the biscuit rise, Is better far than yeast. No matter if each day you don't Bring turkey to your tableTwill batter relish by and by, When you are belter abio Fvrall you buy, pay money, John Money that very day I If you would have your life run smooth There is no better way. A note to pay is an ugly thing If thinjt you choose to oall it; When it hangs o'er a uiaa who has No money in his wallet. And now, when you are married, John, Don't try to ape the rich: It took theui many a toilsome year To gain their envied niche. And il ynu should gain the summit, John, Look well to your beginning; And thou will all you win repay The toil and care of winning. When h a butterfly like in alights on tulips. kiss? When A white boy met a colored lad the other tr 1 - l ast 1 day ana acsea mm wuat no nad sued a short nose for. '1 sncct so it won't poke itself into other people' eopIe'a business.' A medical man lately offered to a publisher, in Paternoster Uow, a f reatise on the Hand, which the latter declined, with a shake of the head, saying, 'My dear sir, we have got too many treatises on our hands already. A party of Douglas Jerrold's friends were together, when one of them, who was something of a bore, remarked iu extolling a certain musical composition. 'That song always carries me away when I hear it.' 'Can auybody sing it?" asked Jerrold. In a duel between two negroes at Memphis the other day, both the combatants were shot ic he back, and the entire colored population are wou leriug 'how de debbil dem uiggas done shot darsclfs dat way." Dr. Franklin once remarked, 'When I see a house well furnished with books, newspapers and magazines, there I generally see intelligent and well-informed children, but where there are no books or newspapers, the children are often found ignoraut, if not profligate." Major Jones 'came the comether" over a Boston barkeeper lately. He stepped to the bar, and when the deluded dispenser slung him a glass and asked hiut what he would have, the Major replied that he was very thirnty, and would take all there was in the place; which he forthwith did, some $1,5U0 worth. A gentleman examining the helmet of the 'great giant found in t'ennsylvatua the other day discovered that some mysterious marks on the so-cailed helmet of the giant bear a striking resemblance to the trade mark of the Waterbury Brass Kettle Compauy. Hearts are not trumps in a great game of life. As a sentiment the heart is commonly regarded as pretty, but as a fact of little account. Is it quite the thing to splurge about the little beater, but the world really holds it in no more estimation than did Shylock. Money is the trump card, and to which all others in the pack pay homage. If any dispute this, let him open his eyes and look about him. The day before Washington's birthday,1 in February last, a lady teacher, in giving notice of the coming holiday to her pupils, said something about the good Washington, and then asked the question "Why should we celebrate Washington's birthday more than mic'' "Because he never told a lie! shouted a little boy. This was rather bard on the teacher, butj tbe boy did not see it.

Count Otto Von Bismarck. Harper's Monthly contain! the following graphic delineation of Bismarck: As a parliamentary speaker Count Bismark commands attention by the weight of his thoughts and the importance which his position gives to everything that falls from his lips. His voice, though clear and audible, is dry, bard, and unsympathetic; and his manner, lolling aud negligent, seems to express the thorough contempt be is known to entertain for par liamentiary forms. When addressing the Chambers he usually stands in a leaning attitude, twirling a pen in one band, and occasionally glancing at the papers on his j

desk, and speaks without gestures, in a halting, monotonous tone, often repeating himself, as if forgetting what he had just uttered, and frequently staaamering tn a painful manner. One who bas often lis tened to him saya: "He appears to struggle with his thoughts, aud the words clamber over his lips io a half-reluctant way. After two or three words he continually pauses, and one seems to hear an inarticulate sob." But when roused he some times closes with a well delivered and vigorous peroration. Upon occasions he can be terribly bitter and scornful, but he never warms into eloquence. In private life he is one of te most pleasant of men, genial, witty, and inclin ed to social familiarity. His conversation is sparkling, and few men tell an anecdote with better effect. His fondness for female society has given rise to several piquant stories at his expense; and so much scandal was occasioned recently by a photograph in which bo and a notad female singer were represented together, that he felt compelled to explain the circumstance in a letter which was published in the Lerman newspapers. But since the days of his youthful lollies, when he was known as "Mad Bismarck," bib private life has been without reproach. As a statesman, his career is open to the severest criticism. Arbitrary, self willed, imperious, impatient of opposition, and unscrupulous in the use of means to attain his ends, he coverns with the strong hand of absolute power, and crushes out every attempt to assert the political freedom of the individual or (he masses. His political ideas are those of a born feudalist. Connected by family, by tradition, by education, aud by early prepossessions, with the aristocracy of t russia, he has never sympathized with modern ideas of popular rights. To him they appear monstrous and subversive of law and order. He believes firmly in the absolute right of the king to rule aloue, and regards every check upon the royal will as an infrigemcnt of divine prerogatives and a step towards social anarchy. This explains his contemptuous and arbitary treatment of the representatives of the people in the Prassiao Chambers, aod his arrogant assumption of the right to carry out his royal master s policy without their consent aud in face of their opposition. It serves to explain, also, his attitude toward other Uermau States. He saw that everywhere in Germany except Prussia liberal ideas were making headway, and that tha military organization of that Stale alone offered an effectual barrier to their progress and ultimato triumph. He will make use of public opinion, when it agrees ,' with his own, to further his own designs, hu will neither follow it nor allow it to govern 1 him. From the Emperor of France he learned bow to cheat the people with the semblance of liberty and self-government, and to make universal suffrage the ignoraut and servile agent of absolutism.! How Judgess Morris is Making It Pay and Dealing with Her Victims. The following is extracted from a private letter to a young lady by Ler cousin in Wyoming (a lad of fifteen), son of Esther Morris, Esq., one of the newly appointed Justices of the Peace in that Territory: "You are informed by this time that your Aunt Esther Morris is a Justice ol the Peace, aud if not yet one of the 'eminent women of the age,' she is the first woman who has ever exercised judicial power, at least on the American continent. I am glad to say that my moter is perfectly at ese in her new position, and all our best citizens and the press are her open and declared advocates. I have just tiiiished reading 'Eminent Women of the Age,' and when I think what the first advocates of abolition and women's rights hud to endure of public ridicule, aud, much worse, were sometimes scorned, hissed at, and mobbed; the way fur their followers now seems comparatively smooth; and they who will finish the grand reform of equal rights, will no more realize the hard work, self-denial, aud suffering it required, thau the polisher who has glazed ibe statute which has euipl-jyed so many days' hard wort in quarrying and chiselIiug the rough marble to a beautilul lorn. I am mother's clerk: and siuce her appointment I have been busily engaged iu studying law and tbe forms used iu our new calling. I thiuk we will get along smooth ly, and the prospect of considerable busi- j ness, too, is flattering, for most of the profession have offered to bring mother their cases. From other sources the following additional in formation is gleaned: Mrs. Esther Morris is fifty-seven years old, the mother of three boos, and, although she writes for the Revolution, she never lectures. Uu her first court day she wore a calico gown, worsted breakfast shawl, green ribbons on her hair, and a green necktie. The female Judge of a Wyoming Police Court is reported as severe in her judge ments. If a man is up for drunkeones. be is given the lull extent ot tbe law, and ! no amount of pleading or pomises will softer the judicial heart. Then if a weak j sister is caught, there is an end of her sin- J ntng, for she is locked up bard and fast, i and kept in durance vile until she is ready ; to migrate to other tanas wnere no teutale ! ludjres are. Ine single miners seem to like their female judge.-, and pay great re spect to the court. The Laraiuie Daily Sisatiuel of March

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Tboae who, like ourselves, were so uu Torn ate aa to b on the last grand jury, will carry to their graves a recollection of the cold, smoky and filthy place in which, for our sine, we were compelled to spend a couple of loafr. weary weeka. But, presto! Now beheld, and a neat, snug, well furnished rooaa, with a carpet under foot, aud the walk neatly aud tastefully: ornamented with pictures, and every preparation for the comfort of the occupants, and eeore on for the refiniog influence of female associations, even in a jury-room." Our New Paper Currency. 1 n J uly, 1866, letters patent were issued, through the Scientific American Patent Agency to Jas. M. Willcox, bank notepaper manufacturer near Philadelphia, for an improvement in paper, to prevent counterfeiting. As this pecular paper has been adopted by tbe Treasury Department for United States aecurilies, anl reache.t the hand of everybody in the shape of greenbacks, a few words in explanation will be useful to all handlers of money. Protection in paper, as in engraving, consists in peculiarity and in difficulty of imitation; nothing elae. Many vears ago bank-uoie paper was made peculiar by the mixing of red, blue, and other colored silk shreds in the pulp before converting it iuto sheets of paper. This peculiarity was considered a te-it of geuuioenesa, and was so to a certain extent. Paper made in that way, however, came into the opea market, and could be bought by counterfeiters as well as by bauk officers and engravers. Mr. Willcox has added a new feature in the introduction of colored shreds, which makes a paper so peculiar that it cannot be made by band process, or by cylinder machine, but only by the better class or r ourdnuier machine. Evert here special machinery is required tolocata the colored shreds in certain parts of the notes and not in others. As this (machinery exists only in his owu mill, and the process is protected by patent, the paper is kept out of the market, and the Government and the publio have the advantage of its cxclusiveoes. The mill is guarded night and day by an armed force in the pay of the Government, to prevent robbery, aod there is ever reason to believe that this paper will be kept out of unlawful hands. It will be observed that a line of blue shreds cross the lrt-huml end of all lepal tender uotes (new issue) of the denominations of one, two, five, and ten dollars; and a similar line crosses the right hand end of all notes above ten dollars. Aa these lines are in -grain, aud cannot be altered, the alteration of a low note to a high one would be at once detected by the position of the localized shreds. . Aa these shreds are interwoven with tbe fibers of ' the paper, care should be used to make sure that they are neither entirely under the surface nor eutirely oh tht ittrfacetbut Loth. In the U. S. is carried out. fiber is mixed the pulp, and sheet. Thia a currency a double proceae In the first place a red indiscriminately through consequently through the done in the g inding eu gine. A second process (with special macbiuery) is carried out iu tbe Fourdrinier paper machine by the localizing of a blue fiber as the pulp is changed into paper All is interwoven together, and when tbe sheets are cut into notes the blue fiber find their position as described. The uew fifty cent note which tbe Department is preparing to issue, will be up' on paper of this de.-cription; the localised blue fibers occupying one end only of the no'es, while all the remainder will have the iudiscrimiate red. The double proeesa of manufacture will be rbown and the exclusive feature will be prominent. The thanks of the community are due. to the Secre ary of the Treasury for bia earnest and well-directed efforts to protect them from counterfeits; and their attention is called to a proper understanding uf thii now feature in protection. As it has been placed under the guardianship of the Department, it is believed to be effectual, aod we are glad to have had an agency in bringing it into use. Scientific American. married man iu New Hampshire baa adopted an origiual method uf economy. One uiorning recently, when he knew hie wife would see him, he kissed the servant girl. The house expenses were instantly reduced iUU per year. Chicago is a great city, noted for its religious newspapers, i's thieves, gambler and cut throat., it.- irjereacing divorce business aud a grout uuny other things of the same class. They do however go it Strang' whenever they they get at anything, and whether in preaching or divorcing, in telling the truth or iu getting up a first class lie, they as a rale do it op nuut." Education does not continence with tbe alphabet. It begins with a mother's look; a father s nod of approbation, or bis sign of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure f the haud, or a brother' toble act of f.rberaoce; with a handful of flowers in reen anl d-usy me4 )-; with a bird upt admired but nut touched; with pieant walks tn elnJ? lanes and wita i .i -i..-, .i: : . i l: ii.Hirudins unvwivuf rit pwuci fiu .iujij tones and words, to oiture, beauty, to aots of benevoieuoe, to derda "f virtue, ad tt the soured of all "ooi to GjJ biusteirt

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