Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 1, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 July 1870 — Page 2

SISIItlll

Agricultural.

Y'O EXAMINE HORSE?? EYES. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune savs:—"For the purpose of examining tiie eyes, the horse ought to be led into !i room which admits but verj little, or better, no light at all, on three sides, and is open on the fourth one in most oafses a stable, bam, iVc., the main door opened and all others closed, will answer the purpose. We have to lead the horse with his head toward the light, so that bv advancing or backing him wefan let fall into Uis eyes just as much or as little light as we please, and thereby

observe

the expansion and con

traction of the pupils, and as we have at the same time his eye Sufficiently illuminated, we are able to look into the interior of the evcball. In an open space, where the light cames from more than one side, this is impossible.?

To avoid mistakes, we have to examine all the different points of the eye, singly and collectively, and strictly to compare thoin with the corresponding parts of the other side, commencing with the auxiliary organs. Of course, a clear sky facilitates such an examination a cloud sky sometimes makes it difficult, and" foggy weather, a rain or snow storm, or twilight, renders it impossible. "(Jlittering or white objects being just opposite and reflected in the eves 'to be examined, or the approaching of persons with white dresses, white hats, glittering buttons, iV:c\, to the horse should not be allowed, for sometimes it is rather difficult to discriminate such reflections from white or opaque specks in the crvstaline lens, or its capsule. Weimistlic careful in examining the eves, when the ground is covered witli snow, or when white-painted houses, fences, Arc., windows with white curtains, or windows, ttec., reflecting the light, are just opposite. .Bridles with 1 (linkers should be taken off, as they prevent a close examination. "If the above rules are complied with, nobody who has a correct eye and a little talent for observation, Avill fail to detect even the slightest defects."

Thk J'rairic Farmer, in spenking of a boy's rights on a farm," talks in this truthful way: •'We are strongly inclined to the opinion that there" are no offices so poorlv appreciated as those performed by boVs on a farm. They seldom get aiiv credit when things go well, and ordinarily incur all the blame when the contrary is the case. If anything is lost, it is always the boy that has been neglectful. If the gate was left unfastened or the bars down, it is the boy who was to blame. If the hens don't lay, it is because the boy hasn't fed them. If dinner is late, it is for the reason that the boy did not prepare the wood in season." If the cow gives bloody milk, it is because the boy threw a stone at her, killed a toad in her path, or raced her in driving her home. Cattle get into fields because boys break down the fences in climbing over them. Roofs are leaky for the reason that thev have been running on them. Jf a pitcher is broken by some older member of the family, the cause is traced to a crack made by the boy the last time he used it."

All of which is sadly true. The most uninteresting work, sorting potatoes rainv days, witting out cabbages after a shower, turning a grindstone by the hour to grind (lull scythes and duller axes, running for wa,ter while the men rest their iijon legs, working with t,lio poorest tooth, such as dull scythes and old, worn-out hoes, manure forks with two tines, and like treatment with reference to almost every thing, is too often the lot of bovs who are expected to love fanning ami grow up to be farmers.

CI a i'Ks in Chickkns.—A correspondent of the Cincinnati Uazette. gives the following as a cure for gapes in chickens. The remedy seems so simple that we give it for the benefit of our readers: "To cure the gapes, put one tablespoonful of wheat into a vial, and pour on spirits turpentine sufficient to cover the wheat, and keep the vial well corked. Whenever you find symptoms of gapes in a chick, open its mouth and compel it to swallow one or two grains of the saturated wheat. Repeat the operation morning and evening as long as may be needed, and if commenced in time, it will cure nine times out often. The above has been a success in my hands and that of my neighbors.''

We have seen it staled that fowls affected with gapes could be cured by forcing down the wind-pipe a little sweet oil through a small glass syringe. The oil kills the worm and relieves the bird at once. A trial of either of the above simple remedies cannot prove hurtful to he fowl, if it does not elleet a cure.

Coi.lai Hoiks on Hohsios.—A "Veterinarian" writes to the Chicago Tribune as follows, in answer to a quest ion as to the cause of swellings and collar boils on horses: "The swellings and collar boils you complain of are not caused by feeding salt and ashes, though the latter seems to be useless. These swellings occur most frequently in spring time, and especially then, when the horse either is rapidly improving or falling off in llCsh. thus rendering the collar either too narrow or too wide. I lave the collar always well fitted to the horse's neck, keep your harness clean and smooth, and "take care that the traces or tugs are always exactly of the same length, and you will have no cause to complain. As long as the skin on those swellings is not sore, you may use cold fomentations. As soon, however, as the same gets sore, and the epidermis taken oil", you will soon effect a cure by applying three times a day, or when the horse lias to work, each time the harness is put on or taken off, on the sore places, a mixture of pure olivo oil and lime water, equal parts.''

1'itK.vknt Titk Decay ok Wood.— An English journal gives the following: "A process has leen discovered for ho prevent ion of the decay of wood. As the result of five years' experience, a paint is recommended, which at the same time possesses the advantages of being impervious to water. It is composed of fifty parts of tar, five hundred parts of tine white sand, four parts of linseed oil, one part of the ml oxide o'f copper in its nntivc state, andfinallv, one part of sulphuric acid. In order to manufacture the paint from this multiplicity of materials, the tar, chalkt sand, and oil, are first heated in an iron kettle the oxide and acid an1 then added with a great deal of cautiort. The mass is .verv careful Iv mixed, and applied AvhJle hot. \Vhcn thoroughly dry, this 3aint is as hard as stone."

8 Thk Amrriain Bee Journal allows a eorrosjxnident to say that fugitive swarms of l»ecs can lc stopped by •blinding them somehow by the use of a looking-glass all of which sterns to us the merest bosh.

Hanging Flowkr Baskets.—A very handsome hanging basket is made of the dried burrs of the Sweet Gum Tree. They are strung together into thodesirecl shape on strong twine, just as beads are, in the fancy baskets in the stores. The rustic appearance of the burrs is very pleasant to the eye—particularly in houses that have little or none of the ehanns of rural scenery about them. If dropped, thefy are not broken or injured in any way and if the twine breaks and some of the balls are lost, they can be replaced with others picked up in the next/' wjilk in the country. The baskets arc so simple in construct! »n that any lady can make them. The town in which I live is furnished by the poor, who make -them and bring them in at prices from twen-tv-five to fifty cents, according to size. —F. N., North Carolina.

Stripe i-on Carpet.—A very pretty stripe for rag carpets is made by taking two contrasting colors, or one bright color and white—cutting the rags in pieces five inches long and sewing the colors alternately. Get the weaver to be a little careful in weaving it, and make into clouds or steeples. I like clouds the best. It is very pretty when just woven in as it conies.

I think the fine prepared twine makes the best carpet war]). Looks lull as well. We have a carpet with such warp, which lias been in constant use for fourteen years, which has scarcely a break in it. I do not believe anv thread warp would wear like that. I think purple a very good color for carpet warp. It is colored with logwood and alum.—Loretta E. Etiapp, Ohio.

Hemlock Hedges.—The (lar doner's Mouth!)/ savs: "Some think as the hemlock is a large forest timber tree, it cannot be kept down as a hedge plant but summer pruning will keep the strongest tree in a dwarf condition ior a great number of years. The pruning has to be done just after the young growth pushes out, which is generally about yio end of May. It is very important the hedge should be cut with sloping sides, so that every part of the surface should have the full benefitot the light. No hedge with upright sides or a square top will keep thick,,,|itthe bottom long."

Why Apples no not Reproduck from Seed.—A. 15. Wheelock asks why a tree grown from the seed of an apple will not produce the same kind ol apple? For the reason that the blossom which produced the seed may have been fertilized with pollen from some other variety. Thus the seed becomes mixed, just as squashes, melons and corn mix when two varieties are planted near each other. In some cases the seed of the apple does not reproduce the same fruit. This is often the case where entire orchards of one variety are planted.

LEE'S SURRENDER.

The war has made a material change in tho character of the Southern people. Take almost any man you happen to meet, and enter into conversation with him, and you will probably find that his occupation has changed since the war, and that his views of life, and his whole existence in fact, have altered as well. The business spirit has sprung into activity with great suddenness. There is, despite a certain distrust of tho present, a deep hope for the future, which is, quite consoling. Nearly all those you talk with have been in the Confederate Army in some position or other,—ow at least claim to jhavq bpeu. One hears numerous narratives, which it is milch to be regretted cannot lie preserved. I talked for some hours with a gentleman who commanded a division in tho Confedcfate Army at Fredericksburg during Burnsiile's attack. It seems, from his description, that the obstacles encountered by the Federal Army were well-nigh insurmountable, and any renewal of the attack on the left of the Confederate position would have been equally disastrous. Another young man told me that he was in the'Con federate Army at the time of its surrender to Grant. He says that the men near Lee's headquarters had heard of the surrender, but could tret no statement which made the matter clear. At length they saw Lee come out of his tent, .mount a horse, and ride away. Iiis men, actuated by regard for their old commander, and fearing he was about to leave them forever, ran across the field to head him o(V. General Lee, divining their intention, tried to take another road and escape them but others of the mob, that had lately been his faithful army, stopped his new way also. Finding himself thus at bay, the General dismounted and stood' uncovered beside his horse, while his officers and men thronged in respectful sorrow around him. My informant told me that lie climbed a tree within a few feet of the General, and could see that his lace was verv pale tears were dropping over his'beard, and his whole frame shook with strong emotion. At length, mastering his feelings, he spoke in a calm strong voice to his men, telling them that he had sought to spare himself and them the pain of these parting words. They had been surrendered to an overwhelming force only after all resistance had proved hopeiess, and a brave and generous enemy had granted them the conditions of an honorable capitulation. He bade them go to their homes and take upon themselves again the duties of citizens, each with the assurance that he had done his whole dutv. When he ceased to speak, hie men pressed around him with great emotion, but directly Lee mounted his horse and rode slowly away.—N. S. Shaler, in July Atlantic.

Married Women's Rights.—South Carolina has taken a jump ahead on the women question. A bill lias passed to the third reading in tho Legislature, which provides that all real or personal property held by a woman at the time of her marriage, shall not be subject to levy or sale for her husband's debts, but shall be her separate property that a married woman shall have power to bequeath, devise, or convey her separate property in the same manner and to the same extent as if she were an unmarried woman that in all matters relating to her separate property and her separate contracts she may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and in every respect be entitled to and be subject to the same legal rights ami remedies as if she were unmarried nor shall any joinder of her husband as a party with her be necessary in anv action brought bv her or against her in matters relating to her separate property, or rising out of her separate contracts.

Poi.itkness.— Many a man raised from poverty and obscurity to wealth and honor can trace his rise to his civility. Civility will always reproduce itself in others, and the inan who is alwavs polite will be sure to get as much as he gives. No man," says Lord Bacon, "will be deficient in "respect towards others who knows the value of re*|»etjl to himself."

NOTES AND (JOSSIP.

—John Foster Kirk, aiiilior of "Charles the Hold," is the editor o&LippincoU^s Maga in

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—A man who was the valedictorian at Harvard about ten years sine.', now rings the bell t(ytart the horse cars in an Indiana town. fy—The subject of a colored gentleman's discourse at the fifteenth amendment celebration at Indianapolis was, "The white element in our midst."'

The Brenham (Texas) Banner says Dr. Mary Walker presented quite a "gentlemanly" appearance du:ing her recent visit to that city. A

Milwaukee female swindler induced a family to bury £2,000 in the yard to operate sis a charm for the discovery of incalculable treasures, and safely got away with it. —Ambrose Henderson, a colored member of the Mississippi Legislature, in an earnest letter to Governor Alcorn, asks the appointment of his former master to the Mississippi bench. —A gang of half-a-dozen convicts attempted to escape from the Illinois .State Prison at Joliet, recently, by running the guard at the gate. Four of them were re-cooped, and two were shot beyond recooperation.

—At Vallejo, Calilornia, a couple were divorced some time since, the children being given by the court to the care of the mother. The father has now purchased them at $575 apiece. —A Memphis correspondent says, not only Jefferson Davis, but his once richer brother, Joe Davis, arc in extreme poverty. The great plantation of Joe Davis is now owned by a colored man, formerly a slave in the family. —A .local paper says of an eccentric old lady who recently died in England that "an inquest on the body showed that the deceased was a daughter of a Spanish nobleman of high distinction." "What a wonderful tiling science is, to ba sure! —Two fanners in Kansas'recently had a lawsuit about seven pounds of butter. When the jury retired they took with them the butter, procured some crackers, ate them together, and returned a verdict of No cause for action." —The London Spectator reports that the crowd at this year's Derby was smaller and more blackguard than ever, and says that to judge from appearances, it will be, in a few years more, as bad style for men to attend the Derby as it is now for women.

—A Frenchman having frequently heard the word press made use of to imply persuade, as "press that gentleman to take some refreshments," "press him to stay tonight," thought he would show liis talents by using synonymous term, and, therefore, made no scruple one evening to cry out in company, "Pray squeeze that lady to sing." —A simple but ingenious enigma for the young people is the following: "In my first my second sat

My third and lourth I ate." The answer to which is, like Columbus' egg problem, very easy when one has learned it—Insatiate. —An irreverent lawyer having"' insulted Judge Pitzer of the California Bench, his Honor descended, seized a cane, aiijl ji3ministered to the attorney a severe* flogging.' The judge then JGP|*Ved Ws

—An engineer of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago road having reported that a man recently run over on that road appeared, at tho time of the accident, to be sitting on the rail reading a newspaper, tho Ohio journals are all publishing the item, and claiming theirs as the journal in which the unfortunate victim was so intently interested —A German telegraph operator has discovered a mode of sharpening, with mathematical accuracy, any number of steel or iron wires, by tho agency of the magnetic current. The discovery may be applied to the manufacture of pins and neoules, and do away with tho present

TF.R~R.fe-H A.TJTE SA#RDAY EVENING MAIL, JULY 2, 1870.

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—The latest novelty in the velocipede way is the invention of a stcain animal of this description: It weighs about 15 cwt., consumes its own smoke, and makes no noise. It carries two passengers, one of whom must be intelligent—that is, attend to tho machine. Tho latter qualification will prevent its introduction to a great extent. —Legal practice .pays when one reaches "the upper story." David Dudley Field received $'!'«(),000 fee from the Erie railroad. Jeremiah S. Black $1:55,000 from the new Almaden mine case. William M. Evarts lias a professional income of £125,000 and recently charged $5,000 for one speech which occupied eighty minutes. —A Rhode Island paper says: "Of Ida Lewis little or nothing is heard now-a-days at Newport the furore is over, and she is not likely to be troubled with guests and presents this year. This, without doubt, will be a relief to her, as tho burden of her complaint has been, owing to company, she was unable to get her washing out."

process

of grinding

the points, so injurious and extensively fatal to the workman. —Barn urn, on his trip to the Pacific, did not seem surprised at the boundless plains, broad rivers, and (lark gorges find canyons, but while at Kan Francisco he became quite interested in the sea lions in the bay, and remarks: "A country that can produce such monsters as these is certainly not a humbug but a people who ljavc such a curiosity at their doors and have not the brains to utilize it—adults fifty cents children, half price—are no higher in the scale of civilization than a Nantucket clam." —Count D'Orsav must have been flattered by this letter from Lamartinc: "My Dear Friend.—What hound you have sent mo!

a beautiful

I have always

doted oil hunting dogs. Do you ask why? For four reasons: 1st, because they are handsome 2d, because they are good 3d, because they do not trouble themselves about polities and lastly, because they are dogs. If men united all these good qualities, I should dote on them too but—happily I consider you an exception." —Mrs. E. H. Browning gives to the world the following:

I have three kisses in my life, So sweet-and sacred unto me That now. till death-dews rest on them,

My lips shall kissless 1k. One kiss was given in childhood's hour, -i.fi:Bv one. who never gave another,

Tnsfife arfct death I still shall fee-l That last kiss of my mother. The second burned inv lips for years,

For yens* my wild heart reel in bliss At every jiiemorv of the hour When mj lips felt young Ixjve's first kiss. The last ol the sacred three he

which e'er cali'niovc

of woman—it was pressed death lips of my love. have felt the dying kiss, the kiss of burning love, the d«vl—then never more ig should they think to move.

Had all

The heart pon tli When 11

And In kiss

—Poor Carlotta is getting worse. ,VJ —Texas has tifty-flve postmistresses. —Canada has just had her first colored Juryman. —Anna Story was recently married to Robert rihort. A very pleasant way of ilce. a Story Short. —A Cincinnati census taker, wh6--was also employed by the marshal In 1800, says m:ujy of the ladies have grown younger during the past ten years. —One of the larger openings observed in the sun is 187,000 miles in circumference. The earth rolled into this dark crater would be like an apple thrown into a bushel basket.

—Dickens is said to have given in Mr. Wilkins Micawber a playful and extravagant portrait of his father, Mr. John Dicliens, an impecunious clerk in tho Navy Pay Office, whoso overdue "notes" Charles collected and paid. -4 f', —The foreman of the Chinese shoemakers imported into Massachusetts, has anglicised his parental name into "Charlie." lie is a member of the Methodist Church at San Francisco, and conies duly accredited to the pastor of the same sect at North-Adams. —Kansas .City, Missouri, lias had an ordinance enacted against public bell-ringing as a means of attracting people, the law being employed to suppress a noisy auctioneer. Sufficient care was not taken in arranging the enactment, and the bell-ieose auctioneer lias now suppressed all the church belis. —On the tablet to the memory of the departed Jones, who had been a hosier, the bereaved Hannah caused the following couplet to be inscribed: "He left his hose, his Hannah, and his love, To go and sing liosaninih in the realms above.,' —In no country in the world is adultery so severely dealt with as in China. A married woman near Shanghai recently had formed a guilty alliance, and connived at the murder of her husband by her lover. The crime was discovered, and the woman nailed at full length on lier husband's coffin and left to die. —Blackwood liinti that we have not got through with "Lotliair" yet but that in a succeeding volume Mr. Disraeli is to pay some attention to the other eminent personages of our time, and that Bismarck and Lopez, Lee and Sherman, Blondin and Leotard, Heir Joachim, Patti, Lesseps* and Mr. Fcchter, will be all proved to belong to the most illustrious tribe of Disraeli. —A tliought-ful person thus muses on the story of Daniel in the lions' den: "How sad it was for those poor lions, when Daniel was dropped into their (Jen, to be compelled

go sniffling about him and think how nice a small chop from the calf of his leg would taste, and be denied the ltixury. It was rough ow them lions, but it taught them selfDaniel." —The tribe to which an Indian murderer belongs is known by the method by which the victim is scalped. The Clieyennes remove a piece, not larger than a silver dollar, from immediately over the left ear the Arapalioes take the same from ov6r the right ear. Others take from the crown, forehead, or nape of the neck. The Utes take the entire scalp,frowi ear to ear, and fro^ni feye? yhcadjlo nape of neck*..: —A^Piiite"Indian in the streets of Virginia Cl|y,Nevada,sfeized the handles

of an electri

cal'machine, quickly began a war dance, and cried out,

4iki-you,

whoa, you stopee

wagon, do'ii^-small." He vas released, and Tjreakfttfe ihAagfi tbejetawat, took hijhisclf to a safe distanq?, and then turned, drew himself up to his full height, and with great dignity remarked, "Shoo-fly." —^There are 200 piano-forte manufacturers in London, and they make 104,000 pianos each year. The London Figaro, in view of the fact that pianos are not exported thence to any cil-hs of the European continent or to America, wonders what becomes of these instruments. It is really a subject for wonder. Pianos last along while. They arc seldom destroyed, except in conflagrations, and it would seem as if there have already been constructed as many as would supply all the players in the world. —An incident is related of the early days of La/ayette, Iiul., and William Digby, one of its first settlers, how he and the Hon

John Petitt played cards ("seven-up") three consecutive days in the house which the former was moving a distance of half a mile. The arrangement between tho players was, that when Digby won tho house should go forward toward its destination, but when Petitt won it should go back toward its former location. The fortunes of the game being in equipoise during the first day and a half, the house, although constantly moving, made no progress, but Digby, getting the lead about noon of the second day, kept it till the house reached its new resting place.

—A cottage at Newport is not understood by everybody to be a substantial mansion The house of F. A. Barreda is quite tit for the home of a prince. It is on imposing bricl edifice, with sandstone trimmings, surrounded by twenty acres of ground, containin immense hot-houses and peach, grape and fig houses. The drawing-room is furnished with salmon-colored satin, and the (liningroom with the same material in crimson. In the hall are thirty-eight gas jets projecting from over niches in the wall, containing rare bits of marble or bronze. And these houses are built to be occupied but three months in the year. The cost of Mr. Bar reda's place was nearly $300,000. —It is said that a party in Paris, to take a lady out to dance with her, implies indifference to place yourself next to her, is interest but to follow her with your eyes in the dance, is love. Sav, which enjoys the greater blisses, John, who Dorinda's picture kisses, Or Tom, his friend, the favored elf, Who kisses fair Dorinda's self? Faith, 'tis not easy to divine,

While both are thus with ptures fainting, To which the balance should incline, Since Tom and John both kiss a painting the point decided. Nay, surely, John's the happier of the twain. Because—the picture cannot kiss again. —The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia is described as being a most remarkably handsome man. He is 22 years old. Tliecompli mcnt of his intended visit to the United States will lie appreciated when it is known that it will be the first time the son of a Russian emperor has visited a republic. He will probably reach America as early in* 1871 as possible, in order that he may visit congress while in session. He will attend that body in full uniform, and be presented by the Russian minister, also In uniform, for the Grand Duke is to come as the immediate representative of his royal father the emperor. Mr. A. T. Stewart of New York has offered his magnificent new house in Fifth avenue to be used by the Grand Duke during his stay in New York, and the emperor has been notified of this politeness on the part of the merchant prince, for he only can decide whether or not the offer shall be accepted.

.1 LIFE OF GOOD WORKS. It is seldom that si woman is placed in a situation to test lier business faculty and management of affairs. Those qualities are from the constitution of. society called into action almost exclusively iu the pursuits of men anil \vomen,"though they save their husband's money by nousehold economy, anil oc« casionail administer-tliofunds of charities, rarely go beyond, that limited sphere. An instance is before us, how^ ever, which shows that a woman may prove as judicious and successful in expending money lor public uses as anjr' of the other sex. Miss Burdett Cout® has done so much in the cause of lui-" inanity that we know our readers will be interested in a short sketch of her life and her benefactions. Many of tli facts are quoted from a recent* artic in the New York Observer.

Coutt's Bank" is one of the eelebr ties of London. It was started aboi 1750 by John Coutts, a Scotchman, an has ever since remained in the l'aniil It is confined strictly to the roceivin and sale keeping of money.

Thomas Coutts had a life prolong! far beyond the usual span of hunm existence. "His wife dieit when he eighty-four, leaving three daughter all of them married two to nobleme and tho youngest, Sophia, to Sir Frai cis Burnett. Three months after wife died tho old mail married beautiful actress, Miss Mellon. II family greatly disapproved of tl match, and for a time all intcreour: was broken off between the daughte and their father. Ho died at ninet one, bequeathing every farthing to If wife, who became by his will the ric* est dowager in England. :V. reconciiliation ensued between tl the mother-in-law and her daughter and four years after old Thomas death, Mrs. Coutts married the Duke \lbans. Angela Georgiana, tho younj )st daughter of Sir Francis Burdet

three kingdoms, and sent many sh jiea(j

loads

of emigrants to Australia. Wl the Cape Clear Islanders were starv for food, she supplied it when Spil fields was a mass of destitution, sue. ganized the Industrial Schools and duccd the Government to give tl" contracts, which are to-day liio lil that vast pen of weavers and Nova Scotia gardens were reeking fumes from gin-shops and nm-slii it was her money that purchased property, erected lodging houses aiMa market-place, and converted an Be and drunken population into oncf'bf the thriftiest in the suburbs oi'Lond

The spectacle of a life employe vast yet unostentatious charities is whicli cannot bo too strongly 0 mended to ail women who lind enj noss and triviality in their present suits, and are seeking blindly for sc thing better. Miss Coutts has efery temptation, to a life of pleasure Sail sellish expense. Society and the wild were at her feet. But with a stpdy determination, which owed nothiifc to impulse and nothing to desire of iptoriety, she has devoted lnfr life amBlier wealth to the relief and instructi'* the needy. We see that in a meeting of a Ladies'Club at Deli

co's, in New York, that tho members

became her step-grandmother's gro stay and prime favorite, and when tl duchess died in 1SJ7, she left the gi sole legatee of her grandfather's va estate.

Miss Burdett, or, as she has sin been known, Miss Burdett Coutts, came, then, at the age of twenty-thrc the richest heiress in England. Thei is no doubt she is so still, for the bus nessat Coutt's ever increases. She persistently declined all oli'ers of ma riage, more than one of which was pn eminently eligible. Into no inoi bountiful lap was wealth ever pourei Steadily, for three-and-thirty year neither diverted by love of commend tion nor chilled by love of self, this timable woman, without parade or tcntation quietly, lovingly, lias doi God's work, asking no praise .but Hi She writes no letters about her into tipns. a* 'fteyer makes no holocaust of begging lettei and then proclaims it to the world fact, though the income, it is said, more than £3,000,000 is distributed nually in charity by Miss Burd( Coutts, very little of details are know She has erected and endowed cliurcl in destitute places, endowed bishopr, in Adelaide, Cape Town, and Brui Columbia supported missions anio the Aborigines of the Antartic Islam .fdrnished funds for Sir Henry Jame topographic survey of Jerusalem, tablished 'common schools for comm

The trustees of her charities ark. Neivspapefs ji used'to announce h|ft* gilts! SI l'

things'to girls, in various parts oil

tho address have not

cided upon a definite object or objects to the attainment of which could give their energies, and the gin to realize the want of a apart from themselves, to qui them into permanent and tiscli tivity." Wo contrast with this coi sion the record of such a life as Coutts's, regulated throughout bvjjpiie unswerving aim, and that .the no possible to a human being and our readers whether, in a world sr of sorrow and suffering, there car be wanting, to those who sincere sire to make anything out of jjeir lives, the means and the opportu fey? The unhealthy desire to enter upo Jti.o peculiar province of men would (ely disappear, if women realized how and pressing is their own app work, both at home and in the lings of the poor.—(iotlcy for Jul

Th?: Madrid people are innocenl |Kot long since an elderly gentlema had his eves suddenly covered in the jfects by some one behind, who pla folly said, "Who is it? Guess!" He frcnt on guessing through the round his friends, when the playful being iind darted off, and left the old gent ipiaii of Spain still bewildered, and thl fang who it could be. He found out then he got home, and missed a pocket book with fifteen hundred francs in if nlso old repeater and handsome pbain

a and seals.

TiikEmperor of Brazil is a so fcible man. His people were about tn erect a statue to his honor, but lie de lined it, and recommended tlvat tho wnoy should ledevoted to primary fools.

MEMORIES.

The heart has memories that cj ueyt'r die. The rough .usage of the worid cannot obliterate ttan.p^b| agOj trembling on the .brinlt^ofyti grave, has them wheiv&verythlfig *elsS lias.tled away and beett^orgottehi TJicj arethe nicinorielj of hi§ue—(K*f|t1*^j|10 1 —the hods© where vi§ arq boan -J tno garden, with itstWraeg^&vfyefe^^e^obins made their ne^ti, Spring after spring, paying their rent in songs such as we dream of, but never hear of afterwards tho old elm and swing, where the children used to play, while flic mother sat by the window, her face beaming out occasionally from the folds of muslin curtains the same old house, with its pointed gables, quaint cornices and antique windows tho wainscoted chamber where we used to dream of all that the great, glad world had in store for us. Dear old home, with its gav dreams, and sunny hours, and cloudless skies, and visions of bliss and glorious happiness—cjone, all .gone.

The traveller, climbing the mountains of land not his own, amid all his jtoil and changes, reverts ever and anon the time when, a youth or schoolboy, ie roamed the lieids and hills of his fown native home.

It does not advance moneys ons curities, or enter the lists on Li oven mcnt loans, or speculate in the fund or dabble in foreign securities, or pu chase post-obits. It is simply a ban of deposit. It is the agent of no Go eminent, the referee oi no eorporatioi Itlie sea, or restiuu-at some foreign port, the guarantor of no enterprise, tl ijjivill run through the long lapse of backer oi 110 capitalists. The tact th Vears back to the house where, with it stands aloof from all schemes money-making gives it specialty. England there are thousands of mci parsons, country squires, gentlemen leisure, besides the landed aristocrat who, inheriting wealth and l'earii speculations, have large sums of moni lying idle. All this is paid in Coutts's. Outside of the Consolidate Funds (Consols) it is, perhaps, the on place in the United Kingdom where Englishman feels that his money perfectly safe."

The mariner, rocked bv the storms of

.^brother and sister, he frolicked the joy•pus hours of youth away. Neither change nor time, neither ago .oryouth, neither distance nor disease, ^neither guilt nor passion, can ever blot Jrom the heart the memories of the Spring-time of life. These memories jwill reproduce, on the verge of eternity,' the freshness of emotion, of life and desire, with which existence on earth began.

AMERICAN PEcrilARITIE&i An Englishman once related to us •little incident, which ceases to be litt when seen to be nationally charaetj istic. Oil the wharf of si town on hanks of the Danube he was watcj a stream of passengers embarking steamboat. Almost every other on them was tripped or snagged by a that projected from the plank of tiitf gangway and for some time not one sjjjU assailed turned back upon tho assmv ant, until a wiry, keen-eved man cam jnlong, who, without speoch, took istono and drove the nail deep out (reach of foot or petticoat. Tho belioljfing Englishman said to hiin:

Englishman, or an American

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Yoti

are right I am an American." Tho morai of the incident is, that only men who enjoy political freedom have th inward, self-propelling power to ste beyond the routines of life that onl.v such possess that largeness of feeling1 and mental courago that prompt to pri-

vat-o deeds for public ends, that personal spirit which projects a man beyond the beaten path. All the other passcnM gers were so accustomed to have livei] ied officials do for them everything exf I cept what was exclusively lnnividtia/l to themselves—and even in much pf this were constantly sensible of gov+ eminent pressure—that they would have felt themselves taking an unduo liberty doing an audacious thing nay, so drilled was each one to mind his own private business that no one felt the slightest impulse to remove, the nail, and when they saw one of theij# number remove it, most of them loold ji ed upon the man who did so as a bolu intruder while he himself felt that liei was then especially minding his own business.7-/or July.

IIitmXn Hair.—A magnilccnt piece of human hair—the largest, finest and most valuable in America—is now luing-f ing in the window of Thompson & Co. in Canal street, near Broadway. It is of dark brown hue, soft as silk, weighs, seven ounces, and is sixty-lour inchei in lenghth—five feet four inch a medium sized jvoinan this sweep the floor. The longest hair on record, exhibited at thoZI Exposition of 1851, belonged to RDoii Pellery, of Paris, and was seventy-two* inches in length. The story of thW one that measured sixty-four inches is

rath*er

romantic. It came from the.

swabinn peasant girl, Avlr?

had two suitors for her hand one poor farm hand, who earned six kreutf zers a day. and tho other a rich miller^ The miller owned the cottage wheroth Swabian girl and her niotlieiJK..^ and, being as selfish and iinsert|flpiUi. as he was wealthy, threatened to tur', his terumts out oft heir home unless hi' suit was successful, although they h:if, already paid part of the price demandedj for tho' cottage, and were'saving anOj working to pay the remainder. In thM emergency a travelling hair merchant appeared in the village and soone® than inarrv tho wealthy miller, or off the other hand have her aged moLlu\| driven from house and home, she cl termined upon the sacrifice of beautiful hair. It was taken to Leipsic annual fair,sold there for^l"! an American dealer, and from his han found its wav to its present owners, is valued at between and fc.iOO.

f()T so 1IER()1CS

"The church was densely crowl that lovely summer Sabbath," said tl Sunday-school superintendent, all as their eyes rested upon the sni.'t collin, seemed impressed by the po black boy's fate. Above tho stitln the pastor's voice rose, and chained interest of every ear as he told, many an envied compliment, Iiow the brave, noble, daring litt Fb Greer, when he saw the drowneaf) sweeping down toward the deep pari the river whence the agonized pare never could have recovered it in th world, gallantly sprang into the strcai, 3 and at the risk of his life towed tl' corpse to shore, and held it fast ti. help came and secured it. Johnn Greer was sitting just in front of A ragged street boy with eager e. turned upon him instantly, and said a hoarse whisper:

No, but did you though

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Towed the earkiss ashore s. saved it yo'self?.-

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Yes.'

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('racky! What did they giveyoii

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Nothing.'

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W-h-a-t!' (with intense disgia

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D'vou know what I'd a done X' anchored him out in the stream ^4 I said, Fire dollar*, f/eiit.i, or you 1IKIVC yo' nigger "—Mark Twain Jidy Calajry

Tjikiik are few persons who es to appreciate the truth of the follj from the great philosopher ofi tl century, Josh Billings:

Pitv in about tho meanest w^. man can offer another. I hajj have a ten dollar greenback t,. been torn in two twice.jtfid Pj^

get her than tew hev all the

ity

fs on the upper side of the eaj^ is nothing more than a quietku tion that I am better oph .1 am, and that I intend to kee|