Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1878 — Page 3

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The Great BptaiD \Y7HICH VEGETINE haa attained In all TT paris of the country as a Great and Good Medicine, acri the large number of tmUmonlala which are const* tI, IH-lng recelred from perjora whohare been curedbj Uh use. are oonclualve proof or Its real value. It la recommended br phnlcUim and apothecarle*. As a BloodPurlfler and Health-Bestorer It baa no equal. VKGETINE Is not prepared for a fancy drink made from poor liquors, which debilitates the system and tends to destroy heal lb instead of restoring It Am not the many testimonials Riven far the different coin plaints satisfactory to any reasonable persons suffer Ing from disease that they can be curedT Bead the different teetlmonlsls given, and no one can doubt In many of these cases the persons say that their pain and suffering cannot be expressed, as In cases of Scrofula, where, apparently.the whole body was one mam of corruption. If ViCGKTINK will relieve pain, cleanse, purify and cure such diseases, restoring the patient to perfect health after trying different physicians, many remedies, suffering for years, Is It not conclusive proof. If you are a sufferer, you can be cured? Why Is this medicine performing such great cures? It works in the blood. In the circulating fluid, it can be truly called the (treat Blood Burner. The great source of disease originates In the blood; and no medicine that does not act directly upon It, to purify and renovate, has any Just clsltn upon public attention. When the blood becomes lifeless and stagnant, either from change of weather or of climate, want of exercise. Irregular diet, or from any other cause, the VEGBTINI will reoew the blood, carry off the putrid Iramon, cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels and Impart s tone of vigor to the whole body. The convlctiou Is, In the public mind as well as In the medical profession, that the remedies supplied by the Vegetable Kingdom are more safe, more successful In the cure of disease, than mineral medicines. TEOKTINK Is composed of roots, barbs and herbs. It Is pleasant to take and Is perfectly safe to give all infant. Do you need It? Do not hesitate to Crylt You will never regret It VEGETINE CANNOT BE EXCELLED. CHABLBSTOWN. U. It. ffrBVBNB: Dear Sir—This Is to certify that I bare used your “ Blood Preparation” in my family tor several years, and think that, for Scrofula or Cankerous Humors or Rheumatic affections, It cannot be excelled : and as a blood purifier and spring medicine It is the best tiling I have ever used, anal have used almost everything. I can cheerfully recommend it to any one In need of such s medicine. Yours respectfully, 1188. A. A. MNSMOHE. 10 Bussell Street. VEGETINE WHAT IS NEEDED. Boston, Feb. 13, 1871. H. B. Stktkns, Esq.: Dear Sir—About one year stnoe I found myself In a feeble condition from general debility. VEGETINE was strongly recommended to me by a friend who had been much lamented by It* use. I procured the article, and, after using several bottles, was restored to health, and discontinued Its use. I feel quite confident that there Is no medicine superior to it for those complaints for which it Is especially prepared, and would cheerfully recommend It to those who feel that they need something to restore them to perfect health. Respectfully yours, U. L PETTINGILL, Firm of 8. M. Pettlngtll it Co., No. 10 State St., Boston. VEGETINE. All Have OitaM Belief. SOUTH Berwick, HE, Jan. 17, 1872. 11. R. SnrvgNS, Esq.: Dear Sir— l have had dyspepsia In Its worst form for the Inst ten years, and have taken hundreds of dollars' worth of medicines without obtaining any relief. In September last I commenced taking the VEGETINE. since wdilch time my health has steadily Improved. My food digests well, and I have gained fifteen pounriH of flesh. There are several others in this place taking VEGKTINJE, and all have obtained relief. Yours truly, THOMAS K. MOORE. Overseer of Card Boom, Portsmouth Co.’a Mills. , VEGETINE PREPARED BY If. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. Vegetine is Sold by All Druggists. MB* iM fi JTX . • afiead? for Service. Open lor Dress. GRIST and FEED MILLS Warranted Greater Capacity, Lee* Bower. Cheaper Price than Any Other JYJII, What "they bay” op them: PgDKJHTON, ILL., March 14th, 187 ft lnc?Mm"lrel* per hour with only 4-horre gower^2o- - ILL., March 0,187 ft Rlactr bushels per hour on aBO Inch mill. An “ Old Miller” talks. F. B. BACKETT, Miller for T. Doty & Co. Orrr Grain Elkv., Dayton, 0., Dec. 14,188 ft Your EO-Inch mill ** beats” our 4-foot •tone, on either wheat, meal or feed. J. DURST, Prop. .. Paris, Texas, Dec.il. 1*77. ' The “ PO-lneh mill'’ Is doing finely ; all admire It Give figures on 24 and 80 Inch Immediately. H. M. McCUTSTION. 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The Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER. - INDIANA.

IF SHE WERE HERE. If only she were here, who know The aecret paths of fields and woods. And where the earliest wild-tiowers through Ooui mudaoepnah their dainty hoods; .. . Whose voice wise litre n mother s call To them, and bade them wake and rise. And mark the morning's splendors fall In mints of pearl from tender skies— If only she were here, to see The landscape freshening hour by hour, And watch in favorite plant and tree The bud unfold in leaf and tlowar; To welcome hack from sunny lands The bluebirds tbat have tarried long. Or feed with her own loving hands The bright, red-breasted prince of song— If, brightening down the accustomed walk. She came to welcome friend and guest. To share our light, unstudied talk. And sparkle at the rising jest; Or leaaing on to nobler themes, In art and science play the sage. And rapt, as in prophetic dreams, Foretell the wonders of the age— Could she return, as now the spring Returns in robot of green ana gold, When lovo and song are on the wing, And hearts forget that they are ojil How bright were all the days! how fair This miracle of life would be! Whose pulsings thrill the glowing air And quicken over land and sea. And shall we doubt thy presence here, Bnirit of light, because our eyes. Veiled in this earthly atmosphere, bee not the heaven that near uh lies? More living thou than we, who stand Within the shadow of the years, Whose glimpses of a better land Are caught through eyelids wet with tears. And so in hope we wait and see The springs return and Hummers go That bring us nearer unto thee Who art beside us; since we know Whatever range thy flights may take, its step" thou aurely will retrace— Love binds with cords Death cannot break. And draws thee from the realms of space! —Cincinnati Commercial.

JUST A FEW WORDS. Juat a few words, but they blinded The brightness sll out of a day; Just a few words, but they lifted The.shadows and cost them away. Only a frown, but it dampen'd The cheer of a dear little heart; Only a smile, but its sweetness Cheek'd tears that were ready to start. Oh! that the rules of our living More like to the golden would be! Much, oh! so much more of Bunshine Would go out from you and from me.

ALWAYS BEHINDHAND.

Slipper was ready and waiting. Our guest had not arrived, but there was another train an hour later. Should the family wait for my friend, or should I alone, who was the personage especially to be visited? My father paced the floor nervously, as was his wont when he felt disturbed. He had the evening papers to read, and he never opened them until after tea. This was a habit of bis. He was very fixed—or, as some express it, “ set”—in his little ways. It was Bridget’s evening out, and she had begun to show a darkened visage. ■ Bridget was no friend to “company,” and it was policy to conciliate her. So the family seated themselves at the table, and I sat near, waiting until Brother John should be ready to accompany me a second time to the station?'" '

“ What about this young lady friend of yours, Nelly?” asked my father. “Is she one of the unreliable sort—a little addicted to tardiness, that is?” “ I am obliged to confess, papa, that at boarding-school, where I longest knew Jeannette, she was inclined to be dilatory; but that was jears ago. It is to be hoped that she has changed since .then.” „ “ I should wish to have very little to do with a behindhand person,” said my father, shaking his head very gravely. “Oh, papa!” I remonstrated, “you will not condemn a dear friend for one single fault. Jeannette is beautiful and accomplished, sensible and good-tem-pered. Everybody thinks she is splendid.- ' _l__ “ She may have very pleasant qualities, but 1 tell you, girls,” he added with sudden emphasis, “ that a want of punctuality vitiates the whole character. No one is good for much who cannot bo depended upon; and what dependence is to be placed on a man who is not up to his engagements? In business, such a man is nowhere; and in social life Aetawdling, dilatory man or woman is simply a pest. But mind, my child. I am not characterizing y our friend; we cannot tell about her till wc see.” The latter train brought my friend. She was profuse In her regrets; she had been belated by a mistake in the time; her watch was slow. As she was pouring forth a torrent of regrets and apologies, I observed my father bestowing glances of evident admiration at the Fair speaker, while the rich color came and went in her cheeks and her eyes kindled with animation. Truly, beauty covers a multitude of faults. Sister Bell, who was as punctual as ray father, was appeased, and promised to take care of the tea-things and let Bridget go out. My father good-naturedly offered to regulate the halting watch by the true time.

To her chamber we went together, to talk as girls do talk when they meet in this way, after a long separation. Folding mo in her arms, she told me all about her recent engagement to George Allibone; showed me ner engagement ring, and her lover’s photograph. It was a noble head finely posed, and a most eng wing face, and my ready and cordial admiration was a new bond of sympathy. It took until nearly midnight to say all that we girls, aged twenty, had to say to each other; and this, in addition to the fatigues of travel, was accepted as an excuse for Jenny's tardiness at breakfast. She really had pies nt to be early. But this was only the beginning. Throughout the whole three weeks of her visit, she was scarcely punctual in a single case where time was definitely appointed. She was late in rising, late at meals, late at church and for excursions, and. to our profound mortification, late for dinner appointments, even when parties were made especially on her account. She seemed sorry and mortified, but' oh each occasion she would do the same thing over again. “What can she be doingP” my mother sometimes asked in perplexity, when and I were ready and waiting. * ———-■.-r-,—. ' ‘Doing her hair, mother,” we answered, “ and she will do it over until it suits her, be it early or late.” “Oh, these hair-iVojrksl” sighed my mother. “ How much tardiness at church and elsewhere is due to overfastidious hair-dressing! What is' that line of good George Herbert’s? ‘ Stay not for the other pin.’ I think he must have meant hair-pins.” My sister and I sometimes fig reed between ourselves to compel her to readiness by standing by to help her in her preparations; but in vain: She must write a letter or finish a story before making her toilet. Why not accomplish

the toilet first, to be sure of it—any time remaining, for the other purposes? She didn’t like to do so. No philosopher could tell why. It is an un&ocountable, mysterious something, rooted deep in some people's natures—this aversion to being beforehand. I have seen it in pther people since the time when it so puzzled and troubled me in Jenny. It marred the pleasure of the Visit most miserably. I was continually fearing the displeasure of my father and the discomfort of my mother. The whole household were disturbed by what seemed to them downright rudeness. “ Now, Jenny,” I would plead, “do be early, dear, when papa comes with the carriage. It annoys him dreadfully to wait.”

She would promise to “try.” “But pray, Jenny, why need you have'to try? It is easy enough. For my part, I never will make any one wait for me. Igo without being ready, if need be, or stay behind.” I had come to talk very plainly to her, out of love and good-will, as well as, sometimes, from vexation of spirit. For the twentieth time she would tell me how truly she had meant to be punctual in some given case, and that she should have been so but that she was hindered when nearly ready by some unforeseen occurrence. ~p“But, my dear, unforeseen "-"tindrances will often occur, and you must lay your account with them, and give yourself extra time. You will run the risk of meeting some great calamity by trusting, as you do, to the last minute.”

And the calamity did befall her. Mr. Allibone spent a day with us. We were anticipating with great pleasure a second visit, when a telegram arrived requesting Jenny to meet him in Boston on the succeeding morning. A business emergency had summoned him abroad very suddenly; and lie was to embark for Liverpool in the evening. We all sympathized with Jenny in the startling effect of this sudden announcement, and offered her every sort of help when the hour for her departure was at hand. She hadonly to compose herself and prepare for the journey. Sister Bell would arrange her hair and bring her dress, and she would be spared all effort. She seemed grateful, but was sure she could be ready without troubling any one. She dreamed not how much she was, even then, troubling us, for we were beginning to tremble lest she should somehow manage to be late for this, her only train. She kissed us all twice over when the hackman arrived at the door; but, suddenly glancing in the mirror and observing how ashen was her usuallybrilliant complexion, she declared against wearing the gray cashmere in which she was dressed, of a hue so like her face. George must not meet her thus. She seized her black silk, with which, in spite of remonstrances, she proceeded to array herself. There was time enough; the carriage must surely be too early. Alas! for the ripping out of gathers, in the violence of ner haste, ana for the loopings of her skirt, not to be dispensed with! Horses could not be made to do the work of five minuteS in three. She saw the cars move off without hari ■ - '~~~r~ No words were called for. My mother carried a glass of elderberry wine to the poor ' girl, and left her alone to her tears. They would do her good. We oprselves needed-, rest, after the troubled scene of hurry and excitement, and we sat down, feeling as if a whirlwind had passed. “It is beyond my comprehension,” said my father, when he came home to dinner. “ I can understand tardiness,” he continued, categorically, “as the result of indolence. Lazy people dread effort and postpone it. There is in my employ who continues to work sometimes after hours. The men tell me that he is actually too lazy to leave off work and put away his tools. But Miss Jeannette seems active and energetic.” “She miscalculates, papa,” 1 said. “ She al ways imagines there is plenty of time until the last minute?’ “ But herein is the mystery,” persisted my father. “ Whence this uniformity of dereliction? Why not sometimes too early and sometimes just in the right time, instead of always and everywhere late, and making others late?”

“ Poor girl!” said my mother, whose compassion was uppermost. “I pity her with all my heart; yet it is not a case of life and death. This trial may be attended with beneficial results. We will hope so.” I am sorry that this hope was apparently not to be realized. The lesson failed to be read aright. Jeannette recovered her serenity, and resumed her tardy ways. A yet severer lesson was needed, and it came. The steamer in which, after an absence of ten or twelve weeks, George Allibone was to embark for home, was lost, and not a passenger saved. My father took me at once to my Eoor stricken friend, in her distant ome. Pale and dumb with grief, yet with tearless eyes, she let us take her almost lifeless hand. From her bloodless lips came only the low, anguished cry, “ If only I had said farewell!” What comfort in wordsP We offered none. My father’s eyes brimmed over, and my heart was breaking for my poor Jeannette. But relief came speedily. The joyful news was received that George was safe, having, made a necessary change in his Slans, and would arrive in a fortnight. eannette came up from the depths. What should her thank offering beP She made the resolution to become at once faithful to her appointments, prompt and reliable. It was not that she would otry— she would speak the commanding words, “I will.” She has kept her resolution. Writing to me, after a lapse of years, she sain! “You will hardly know your dilatory friend. I remember and practice your advice of former years, to be first ready for my appointments, and to reserve other work for. the interval of watting after lam ready. It is surprising how often I find not a moment left for waiting. Still, I feel the old tendency to procrastinate, and I ant obliged stead* fastiy to resist it. * Delays are dangerous/ as our old writing-copies used to jam; the sentiment is hackneyed, but oh, how true! George says he owes you ten thousand thanks for your faith--ful counsel, and we shall spoak them when you make us the visit of which we feel ko sUre t because your promises, as I well know, are faithfully kept.” SI. Nicholas. \ >mm -rii i .1 * • | The Dallas (Tex.) Herald recognizes Northern grit and enterprise, and speaks in praise of the colonies from the North, who“ fling themselves with impunity beyond the line of our utmost settlements, and wrest new territory from the clutch of mature and the savage.” : - v

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Fried Bread for Breakfast.—Take one egg, one teaspoonful of salt, beat sufficiently, add one cup of water, dip your slices of bread in the' mixture, fry in meat drippings; have ydtfr spider hot when it is put in. --Potato Soup.—Peel and slice three or four good-sized potatoes, put them over in nearly two quarts of water, cook until they break to pieces. Season with salt, pepper and butter, with an even tablespoon of Dour well mixed with cojld water. Some prefer to season it with a few slices of salt pork, not very fat. —We believe it is conceded that neither the full-developed Colorado potato beetle, nor tho egg of the same, live in the ground over winter. But the last eggs which are hatched in the fall produce the larvae, which is the shape the seed is preserved in. When spring comes, the warmth develops this larva; into a full-developed bug, which goes forth to eat potato vines and make men sin.— lowa State Register,

—The Western Stock Journal gets in the following full chapter of advice in a short paragraph: “Tne royal road to higher agriculture lies not alone through the advantages of selection and breeding, but through tho domain of tho attention, care and food. Do you wish to encourage better stock P You can do so without investing a dollar by commencing to take better care of what you have and persevere. This we call the first step.” —Unless in a sandy soil, stirring or moving by spade, plow or harrow, when wet, tends to compress and compact its particles, when the object is or ought to be to pulverize and make mellow. “Good tillttge is manure,” and stirring of wet soil is only allowable in a brickyard. No implement, that we know of, is capable of again opening lumps of earth to atmospheric action and influence after they have once closed up by compression and become externally hardened. Any one can observe this by molding a lump of damp earth in his hand, when it becomes the consistence of putty. When exposed to the air it becomes nearly as hard as stone.— Scientific American. —The habit of punctuality in a young man has a most important bearing on his success in life. It is a sure index that integrity of character belongs to its possessor, and is of the utmost value. Punctuality in meeting all engagements should become the rule of the young man’s life. Even if it is a great inconvenience to fulfill an engagement that has been made, let the inconvenience be submitted to, and suffer any sacrifice rather than break a promise that has been made. A young man’s word should be as sacredly regarded as his note of hand. If it turns out that the habit has cost you a great deal, still it is worth to you even in dollars and cents all that it has cost. A young man who has this habit can be depended upon. “What he promises he will do.” This is what every one says of him; and as he advances in years, this habit of punctuality will be a “ key which will open for him every man’s purse.” He will know nothing of the perplexity which fills the hearts of thousands that have no punctuality.

Cultivating House Plants.

To those quiet people who pass the burden of their lives in-doors, the culture of house-plants is no less an occuSation than a pleasure; a sunshiny winow filled with them furnishes a daily entertainment and interest to the possessor. Who knows what freakish and foreign flower this strange slip may evolve from its inner consciousness? at what supreme moment the night-bloom-ing cereus may think fit tojinfold its creamy petals or dispense its odors? or the mysterious aloe, with its sword-like leaves, bristlipg as if to protect some hidden treasure, fulfill its purpose? Is there Dot a very appreciable delight in watching the little buds expand, the great calla uncurl indolently? to see the gay lantanas change their hues like the chameleon, the Mexican sage hang out its ragged colors? When a sickly little plant consents to hold up its head and repay one’s care with ever so pale a blossom, isit not as though it smiled thanks? and when we have coaxed a rose to blow, does it not seem as if we had performed a miracle? All our geranium slips are so many very interesting riddles; who can predict in what garments they will appear, whether pink or white, scarlet or cherry, variegated or plain, double or single? Those who truly love flowers will not find it a task to tend and wait upon their caprices; to follow the winter sunshine from room to room, in their service; to remember and shield them from cold snaps stealing into the house, in “the dead middle of the night,” with the stealthy tread of an Indian in ambush; to study their conditions of growth. What a companion an ivy is in the room! how gracefully it adorns the barest walls! It is a picture in itself; it gives to the poorest apartment an air of refinement and elegance. Added to the quiet happiness of administering to house-plants, of watching them grow in grace and stature, of counting their blossoms, enjoying their fragrance, the tender green of their leaves, the exquisite coloring and marking of their petals, the variety in their shapes, x>ne has always a bouquet at hand to send a sick friend, to touch up the family table, to surprise a neighbor. With many the’ culture of plants is an inborn talent. It sometimes seems as if such fortunate people had only to look kindly upon slip or shrub, and it blossomed in response—as if they knew some incantation that would draw the sleeping flowors from their sources, as the lyre of Orpheus drew rocks and trees to follow him.— Harper's Bazar.

Cost of Barn-Yard Manure.

If any farmer reckon the amount of produce in his barns and stocks in the fall, the value of his stock then, and its value in the spring when feeding ceases, he will have tne data for deciding how muoh his manure pile has cost him. Whoever does this will be sure prised at the expensiveness of homemade fertilizers. In a large majority of instances barn-yard manure, as it is hauled out in the spring, costs fully one dollar per or fully as much as is eharged for itwom city stables. If this manure is kept a year and partially decomposed, its cost per load willDe twice or thrice as much. Farmers are asking themselves whether they can afford this expense. So near the City of Rochester as this, tfiere is always a market for oven the coarsest produce, so that there is no necessity, except for manuring the soil, to feed it on the farm. But the salable value of almpst everything is great#* than- its manurial value. A load of straw that will sail for $6 to $8 wiil*hardly make *tl worth of manure.

The difference is even greater with meet other articles of farm produce. Whenever it can be done, the advantage is almost always in selling whatever will sell and maintaining the fertility of the farm by liberal purchases of manure. The failures in farming always come from buying too little fertilizers and never from selling too much produce. On every farm there will always be some manure from work-houses, from fowls, and from the cows needed to supply butter, or at least milk for the family. This should be saved as carefully as if it were the main dependence. But the bulk of fertilizers must be obtained in some cheaper way. We cannot afford to keep large stocks of cattlo, sheep and horses mainly for the manure they will make -unless this irthe only resource for fertilizing the soil* We had better do almost any thing rather than let the farm deteriorate. In my opinion commercial manures arc the best substitute for those which the farmer himself can make. Care most bo taken to get those which are what they profess to be, and this done, they may be used in much larger quantities than even the most liberal farmers have ever attempted. It may seem foolish to many to apply a few hundred pounds of fertilizer with the expectation of

realizing as much benefit as from several tons of barn-yard manure. But it is not the bulk which tells. Analysis' proves that the phosphates and nitrates in a large load of coarse manure may not be greater in amount than those elements in a dressing of superphosphate or guano. If the manure is mainly from straw, its fertilizing properties will be very slight in comparison with any reliable concentrated manure. The bulk of most stable manure, especially if unrotted, consists of carbonaceous subtanqes in which few soils are deficient. Carbon needed for plant-food is supplied in abundance by the carbonic acid of the atmosphere. It is pretty well established' now that plants derive through their leaves from the air all the material for starch and other carbonaceous matter which they contain. What the farmer needs to do is only to supply phosphates, lime, potash and nitrogen and to keep the soil in such mechanical condition as to make these elements available. A large crop takes from the soil only a few pounds of these precious elements. It is entirely reasonable to believe that the restoration of an equal quantity will make good the loss. This is not mere theory. Messrs. Lawes & Gilbert, of Rothamstead, Eng., have proved by carefully conducted experiments that fertility may be kept up for a long series of years with continuous cropping solely by the application of concentrated manures. This subject is one of great and increasing interest to American farmers, who must more.and more depend on the chemist’s laboratory rather than on their barn-yards for fertilizers. —W. J. Fowler, in Rural New Yorker.

Names of Vehicles.

Among the medley of names at presenter recently given to pleasure carriages some are unintelligible, while others defy all etymological scrutiny. The landau is named from a town in Germany; it is a coach that may be used open or closed at pleasure. The landaulet. as its name implies, is a lighter and smaller landau. The barouche, a favorite open carriage in summer, is of French origin, as is the barouchet.—- The britzschka was introduced from Russia about half a century ago. Why the phaeton is so named we cannot pretend to say; but the vehicle so called belongs to the barouche and britzschka group. The cabriolet is French, and so is the vis-a-vis. Droitzschka came from Russia or from Poland —an odd kind of an affair, modified in England into a vehicle fitted for invalids, aged persons and children, with its formidable name shortened into drosky. The curricle is one of the few kinds of two-wheelers with two horses abreast; while the tandem is a straggling affair with two wheels and two horses, but one of the horses behind the other. The cab (short for .cabriolet) is a handy bachelor’s vehicle; the gig is about the lightest of all, being little more than an open-railed chair, supported on the shafts by two sidesprings: the dog-cart is a gig, with a space underneath to contain either dogs or luggage; while the tilbury, named after the coachmaker who invented it, is a modified cab. The stanhope, named after a noble Lord, is another of the family of single-horse, two-wheelers; and so is the sulky, for one person only; and so the buggy, and the jaunting-car, and the whisky. The dennet, we are told, has three springs peculiarly arranged, and “ was so called because the three springs were named after the three Miss Dennets, whose elegant stagedancing was much in vogue about the. time this vehicle came into use.” The French misanthrope, for one person, was probably the origin of our sulky. The fly is a roomy carriage let out to hire; whv it is so called is not quite clear. The French fiacre neither denotes a particular person nor a special origin; there happened to be a figure of St. Fiacre in front of the building whore the first lender of these vehicles kept them. When we consider how readily the name hansom has come into use among us, as the designation of a vehicle, we need not marvel at the French having adopted fiacre. Victoria, clarene©, ham, are so many proofs of the ease with which the names of persons are given to new forms of carriages.—AU the Year Round.

The jEtna Lifk Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn., with its assets of $24,141,175.20 and its clean surplus of nearly four and a quarter millions of dollars, and its well-known economical management, has recently received a well-merited indorsement from the Special Commission appointed by the Legislature of Connecticut a year ago, to investigate all the Life Insurance Companies of that State. The Commission say of that it is “ not only solvent, but financially sound, and under the management of officers and Directors of large experience, sound judgment and unblemished character, and entitled to the entire confidence of policy-holders and|he public.” During the year 7,892 lodgings were fiven free at the Bowery Branch of the bung .Men's Christian Association; 210 garments were given away, 33,470 meals were furnished, and 25,441 meals were sold. The meal-tickets given to business men amounted to 10,750. There were 623 applications for employment, 119 of which were successful. The aggregate attendance at all the ipeetings was 66,574, and 149 hopeful conversions were reported. About three-fifths of the jury trials in this country include at least one man on the jury who ought to nave been born a mule.-^Detroit Free Press.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Richard H. Dana, third, was offered the post of Secretary of Legation at London last summer, but declined it The son would not go as a subordinate where the Senate would not let his father go as chlof, m —Mr. Larkin Turner died in Meriwether County, Ga., on the 28th of February,.at the age of 110 years. When he felt the approach of death he settled himself firmly in his chair, refusing to lie down, ana he died sitting erect and without a struggle. During his long life he had butone short attack of fever, which came upon him when he was 100 years old, ana up to that time he had never taken a dose of medicine. —Ben Wade’s wife was the social antithesis of her husband, bsing very shy. She was a lady of wide though not remarkable accomplishments, thoroughly posted on passing literature and political gossip, and in personal appearance sweet, graceful ana commanding-look-ing. She had ono particular charm—her wonderfully-beautiful and luxuriant golden hair. She conducted nearly all of the Senator’s private correspondence, and read up ana prepared most of the materials tor his speeches, that sort of labor being especially distasteful .Jo him. Chicago Tribune. —The following story is told to show the ingenuity of Edison, the electrician. The telegraph office in Boston was greatly infested with cockroaches. Mr. Edison tacked several zinc strips to the wallß at- intervals of an eighth of an inch, and applied the positive and the negative poles of a battery alternately to the strips. He next smeared the walls above the strips with molasses. The vermin came up, and as they stepped from strip to strip they “closed the circuit, received tns electric shock and dropped dead by scores. Water pails put at tne proper places received their bodies as they fell. We distinctly credit this story to Boston.— N. Y. livening Post. —Senator Blaine was suffering with an acute attack of gout when an invitation was received to dine with the Russian Minister., An invitation to dine with a diplomat is as obligatory as an invitation to the Executive mahogany. Mr. Blaine was assisted into bis claw-hammer, white choker, and, more painful than all, his neatly-fitting dress-boots. The agony was dreadful, bpt a public man cannot succumb to gout when duty demands martyrdom. Mr. and Mrs. Blaine drove to the Legation and painfully ascended the long terraced steps from the sidewalk to the door of the house, which is one that the Board of Public Works left fifteen feet above its original level. The mansion was dark, and, in answer to a ring of the bell, a servant without gloves opened the door. The guests observed there were no lights or evidences of an expected feast, and learned to their disgust that they had anticipated their invitation by a week. It is useless to state tho feelings of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine.— Washington Cor. Chicago Tribune.

A Debatable Question.

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