Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 August 1870 — Page 1

Vol. i.—No. 8.

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The News.

DOMESTIC.

Whlttcmore has Issued an address to Ills constituents, formally withdrawing his name as a candidate for the Forty-second Congress.

General Lew. Wallace ^vas nominated by the Heventh District Convention of Indiana for Congress, |jy the Republicans at Lafayette, on Wednesday.

The Chicago /*.» of Tuesday evening, says that Mr. Kreelln«huvseii having concluded to decline the mission to England, President Graf it has offered the place to Senator Trumbull. It is understood that Judge Trumbull will not accept, preferring to remain in the Senate.

Chang arid Eng, the Simees twins, are at Taylor's Hotel, in Jersey City. They arrived on Saturday, accompanied by three of their sons. Chang is laid up with paralysis, and Eng, although perfectly well, Is forced to keep his bed with him. Their wives are at the larin In North Carolina.

Hon. James L. Orr published a letter announcing his adhesion to the Republican party in South Carolina. He says formally years to come that party must control the State. Opposition to it will only augment and perpetuate existing evils.

Admiral Farragut died Sunday at Portsmouth N". H., very peacefully, at 12 o'clock precisely surrounded by his family and friends, at the residence of Commodore Pennock at the navy-yard. His remains were deposited temporarily In a vault until the final resting place is decided upon.

A man named Thomas Houton, for soine time past engaged In the quarry and merchandise business at Sublctt's Station, three miles west of (Jreencastlc, on the lerre Haute and Indianapolis Itoad, was instantly killed on Wednesday forenoon, by the cars, on a switch of the Louisville, i:w Albany and Chlcngo Iload, at Greencastle Junction. Cause, Intoxication.

President Grant's attention having been

called

to a dispatch from New York, in Mondav morning's Chicago Tribune, stating that It was understood In Republican circles that hi'opposed the nomination of Mr. ruelev for lovelier of New York, he pronounces it

utterly

Th K.itp. at Chalom organizing troop 4. The main army Is concentrated at Elou, twelve miles west of Verdun.

The rumor that the Empress Eugenie has applied to the Itclglan government for permission lo tnivi r.»e that country on her wav to England, is eonllrnied.

The Times savs the French army received its nni.shlng stroke at Met/,. A decisive battle will be (ought at Chalons, alter which England Intervention will follow.

The Tim. says the E Iperor now knews how greatly he has been misled O.S to the war (-.L.ittiishnient, and how the public IIIOII. i».it tier-n sijnnmlereil. 11 il call uino see li'.w In- Iris been misguided as to the anti-Prussian feeling I'll Hanover, Havarla, Saxony, etc.

Experiments with the mitrailleuse at. Shoeburvness indicate that the Instrument Is a destructive one in close quarters but that troops dependent on it may be annihilated by the artillery before the mitrailleuse can lie got In range.

Advices front Paris state that a very hostile feeling exists toward Napoleon. Some feeling Is evinced toward the Empress from the recent ministerial appointments. Cries of VIvv la Rcpublique, are heard in all parts of the city.

At the English clubs and elsewhere, the feeling Is hourly gaining ground that Europe Is In danger from the military preponderance of Germany, and that England must be prepared to maintain her traditional policy of keeping the North Sea out of the control'of any preponderating military power whatever.

The Prussian Minister of War emphatically denies the truth or the French reports that'the German troops were defeated between Met/, and Verdun with a loss of forty thousand men. He says the battle alluded to in the report was not of a serious diameter The German troops received several checks, and were obliged to abandon their intention to cut off the line of ret real of the French army.

On Mondav a dt'spemte battle was fought between the French and German troops. The latter tried to obtain possession of the Metzand Verdun Railroad. In order tocut oil the retreat of the French main army under Ra*uin According to the French reports, the Germans were repulsed. The cautious statement of Count Paltkao In regard to this Important battlo shows that tin* lirst 1'ivnch dispatches about the engagement were exaggerated.

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untrue, on the contrary, he ex

presses himself quite favorable to Greeley's nomination, and thinks that no candidate can be put in the Held who can get more vote'-t, as against Hotl'man, than Greeley.

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The preparations for the defense of Parts, in progressing rapidly. The beautiful iron gateway at theentranceof Itoisde Houlogne, lit the end of the avenue tie l'Intperatrlev is removed. Mocks of litvs ha\e been cut down, and the wall of drcumvallatlon Is nearly Mulshed, uniting the two formerly open spaces, and is picree«l with loopholes. The great ditch is dug across the road, and the drawbridge ready to IH thrown across its earthworks. Also being thrown up in front ot what were the gates, anil will now be only entrances guarded by sentinels Instead of custom-house oftiivrs.

The following additional particulars of the second Imttle near Met*, were received in lierliit Tuesday night Ijito on the afternoon of Mondav. tite First and Seventh Prussian artuv corps vigorously attacked the French forces under the walls of Met*. A sanguinary conflict ensued, and the trench w« re at length driven within the city, with the loss of four thousand men.

On the same dav a grand recoil nolssa nee. under King William in person, inantiUned itself some hours within the Hues of the French defenses, without any effort on the i»art of the French to dlsloge It. This fact the utter demoralisation of the shows French.

The following Is a dispatch front King William to the Queen: HKNUY, August l."—7:.T0 r. M,—I have Just returned front the liattle Meld near letr» The advance of the Heventh Corps attacked the eiientr, who were Instantly relnforeeu from the fortress. The Thirteenth Plvlslon, nttd part of the Fourteenth sustained the advances. "The conflict wivs desperate, Involving the entire Hue. The enemy was repulsed at alt iHilnts, ami pursued to the glacis of the deinche* warks near the fortress, which enabled the enemy to give shelter to their wounded. Our wounded were Instantly eansi for. Hv daybreak the iroons returned to their Mrs', bivouacs. All fought with Incredible energy. have gone among them congratulated thent with all my soul. and

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s|oken to Generals Ntoinmetx, 7«nt* Manteutfel and Gix'ix^n."

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[For the Saturday Evening Mail.] .1 WAKE AT MIDNIGHT.

BY VIVIAN VASE.

All sleep the world's wi'd pulse has ceased Its beating! Alone in the still night I wander, all ungrected and ungreeting,

A restless wight.

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All sleep! the distant mill's low, leaden rumbling Is hushed in silence deep. And moonlit-waters drowsily are tumbling

Adown the steep.

All sleep! the lowly hut and marble mansion Alike no vigils keep. The very air seems but abroad expansion

Of waveless sleep'

IV.

Afar, the dreamy cock is crowing In wogone, sleepy strain.

All sleep!

And trees, and shrubs, and flowers, have left oir growing, To sleep amain. :*v v. All sleep! Old Time himself, as faint with s'umber,

Moves with a heavy tread.

And drowsy clocks forget, I ween, to number Hours that are dead

VI.

All sleep! all sleep! And o'er my clouded vision Mysterious .shadows creep. I droop —I start—hush!—and in dreams elysian

I sleep—I sleep!

Ore e:icastle, Aug. 15, 1870.

[For the Saturday Evening Mail.]

Adventures of a Wandering Jour. Printer.

BY GKO. C. HANDING.

My father was a printer before me. He married the daughter of a Tennessee lawyer, studied law himself, and practiced for a number of years in Tennessee and Illinois. Thorc was one difficulty in tho way of success. Iio was too absurdly honest for a lawyer, and after a series of years, during which he accumulated nothing to speak of save a largo family of children, with tho most astounding appetites for grub and a wonderful aptitude for tho wearing out Of clothing, bo nbsndonad tbo laW, and established a country newspaper.

WrtW'ft It was for many years a puzzling probMlnister Ilanerolt, been cheerfully accorded i__ ..i 1,1 ,i~ -in. permission, by the military authorities, to follow the campaign with the headquartcus of the King of Prussia.

The Pojv and his adherents In Robin are rejoicing at the successes of the Prussians over the French. They evidently believe that the days of the Second Empire are numbered.

The French Journals complain of the brevity of dispatches from the seat of war. Even the Constitutional. semi-ofHclal, says dispatches do not give a very precise Idea of either army.

lem to Jacob what ho should do with me. Ho gave mo as good an education as was obtainable in those parts, at that day. That is, I learned all that pedagogues could teach me, and then went buck and learned it all over again. It didn't amount to much, consisting of tho ordinary rudiments, with Kirkham's grammar and a little natural philosophy in my last term. But it was better than none.

The question of what I should do in lif.) puzzled 1110 no less than it did the paternal. I had no capacity for mathematics, and never could get beyond the Rulo of Three in Pike. Neither had I any mechanical ability—I tried once to make a bootjack and failed miserably. At one tinio ho entertained tho insane idea of making a lawyer of me, and Blackstone was forced on mo, as a dose of castor oil. I never took kindly to tho idea. I was fond of reading, but tho damnable reiteration of legal phraseology maddened me. lla\ing no capacity for public speaking, it was quite apparent to mo that the law wouldn't do. So Blackstono was religiously and systematically forgotten as soon us read." With a little experience ns a brickyard boy at four dollars a month, interspersed with farm work, the time passed. One summer's labor on a farm netted me a pair of boots. Then I ran away, in midwinter, walking to St. Louis, to lind the river frozen up and no chance of getting to the seaboard. An offer of returning in a wagon sent to St. Louis for goods was joyfully accepted, and a brief diet of adipose veal succeeded the husks of St

Louis. At last tho Governor luveded to a long-cherished desire to learn the dia bolieal business of printing, and an engagement was effected with Mr. Jesse Conard, editor and publisher of the WolxiMx Omricr. Judge Conard was at that time an exceedingly well-preserv-ed specimen of tho pure old Pennsylvania gentleman, wearing the most rigid shirt collar, and the shiniest plug hats, and conducting himself with an air of impenetrable dignity, contrived with polished gentility. About tho latter part of every week, as publication day approached, the Judge was liable to tits ffd fidgottv' fassiness, during which he made himself a dreadful nuisance. At some period of its existence anterior to the advent of any person at that time connected with theme clianical department, the \uricr had made its appearance several hours late on publication day, and the Judge's nervous system received such a shock that it never fully recovered Its tone, lie was eternally apprehensive that some week it would fail entirely, entailing upon the entire planetary system interminable confusion in consequence. The Young Judge, as wo called K. W., was the handsomest man in

town, and in good request among tho fairer sex 3 believe he is at present engaged in an editorial capacity on the Express, grown somewhat corpulent, but still retaining something of his good looks. He was not only handsome, but a most amiable gentleman, though it was suspected among us cubs" that ho was a little wild. If he ever did a positively mean trick, we never heard of it.

Isaac M. Brown taught mo to set type, and poor Tom Serrin, who handed in his checks some years ago, taught me various other matters, not legitimately a part of the printing business, but such as would be readily acquired by a country boy, with an active appetite for knowledge. Chalmers Sherfey who, I believe, is connected with an Illinois bank, also contributed to my education.

The Old Judge was publishing in tho Courier a series of local sketches entitled the Snigglefritz Papers," a little ponderous and mildly satirical of people and things about town. Taking a recrcation of six weeks, he committed the Courier to tho care of the Young Judge, and people soon began to take a more than ordinary interest in "Snigglefritz," who became, all at once, sharp, stinging, and as full of piquancy as a freshly opened bottle of Jersey cider. So matters progressed until the last week of the Judge's vacation. Several unsettled fights were pending, and the last "Snigglefritz" paper was on tho press. It was by all odds the best of the series. The Young Judge had exhausted himself. To the dismay of all hands, the Old Judge arrived, considerably shaken up with stage travel, and badly out of humor generally. He cast his eagle eye over

One day tho Old Judge and I differed in opinion about some matter of office management, -I forget whaf, But it bocamo apparent that. one( of us must leave. As I thought the readers of the Courier could get along better without mo than without the Judg§, I magnanimously yielded, and left. The_ paper continued to make regular publication for some time after that event.

My next engagement was with a party of tho name of Jones, who conducted a semi-occasional paper,called "The People's something or other, at Perrysville. Mr. Wm. Jones is tho particular Jones alluded to, and ho had a brother Dick. My engagement with

Mr. Jones lasted about six weeks. We split on financial questions. Mr. Jones had some sprightliness as a writer, plenty of ague, and no money. It he is still living, it may console him to know that ho is cheerfully forgiven the unsettled balance tho failure to pay which for long years rankled in my bosom. Mr. Jones' office was not well fitted up, so to speak. His types were bottle bottomed," and there was an insufficiencv of furniture. The paper was worked on a Stanberry press, requiring two impressions,and for leads we used strips of pasteboard, cut to suit. Water had a bad effect on these paper leads, and in distributing there was trouble. Mr. Jones did tho oral swearing, while I supported him mentally.

When I left Pcrrysville, I had a "long bit in money, and a shirt or two in a cotton trunk/ The distance to Terrellautc is forty miles, I believe. But the walking was good. I took a full breakfast before leaving Perrysville, omitted the usual twelve o'clock meal, and put up for the night at a farm house. It was a painful thing to explain to that honest agriculturist that had but twelve and a" half cents in the world, but I was most infernally hungry, and the nights were getting a little cool for sleeping out of doors. The hornY-hnnded yeoman informed me that lie never turned a hungry human from his door, and that I was just as welcome to his poor fare as if I had been rich as old Jake Early or John Watson. Provisions were cheap at that earlv day, but I dare say that my host thought,* as I reached for the twelfth biscuit at supper, that my bit of silver would fall a little short of remuncratng him for two square meals and a sleep. That night 1 went up a ladder, and slept in a bed in the loft, where about tirty bushels of buckwheat were stored in*a pile. After a hearty breakfast, I tendered my long bit," and it was'refused.

I believe the occasion of my leaving the IZrjyress office was the establishment of a widelv circulated country paper bv mv father, on which mv services were needed.

A man in Kansas mado a eorncrib of himself to the extent of twenty-seven ears, hoiled. The coroner has charge of his effects.

ATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20,1870

HO W TO LOOK AT IT. I wi9h I could ease all the burdens of the persons who write to me for sympathy and advice, more especially those of my own sex. No sorrow was ever so equal to my sorrow," is the wail

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One or two summers since I was sitting under the trees in one of our lovely New England villages, chatting and laughing with a merry party. Near me was seated a very little woman, whose pretty face I had been contemplating with almost masculine admiration. One of tho ladies called out,

Harry to her husband, who was a few paces off. The bright face clouded over, the red lip quivered, and softly I heard "Harry" repeated, as a tear dropped upon her cheek. What is it, dear?" I whispered. "Oh, that name sounds so natural she said, laying her head wearily on my shoulder^

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glefritz," and unhesitatingly condemned it as a little too frisky. The Young Judge reasoned and pleaded to no purpose. Tho autocrat was inexorable. I don't think I ever saw the Young Judge in such a rage. His fair, florid complexion was white with anger. Lifting out the article, he placed it on a galley, with a savage blow knocked it into inextricable pi, stove his hat hard down over his eyes, and strode out of tho office. We didn't see him any more for five days.

That was my husbands name and I always start when I hear it called, as if I were to see him." Then wiping her eyes, and trying to smile, she said,44 Do you know, Fanny—wasn't it ridiculous?—we used to dispute which should have the upper bureau drawer. Oh!" said she, with another shower of tears,

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I have ever cherished the

memory of that honest farmer, and I hope he now has cattle on two or three thousand hills.

Mv next engagement was with David S. Danaldson, publisher of the Express. Mr. D. still lives and flourishes like a green bay tree. Of himself and his estimable ladv I have always entertained tlie most grateful remembrance. Had I beetled the good advice ho gave me, it would have been better for me. David was a good writer, and at that time published one of the best weekly papers in the country. Mv old friend Brown had ljecomc attached to the Express. Ho had always taken a friendly interest in me, and taught mo all he could alxmt tho printing business. He was then interested in the construction of a (lying machine, which he was confident" would revolutionize travel. If he has ever succeeded in perfecting it, I have failed to hear of it.

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of all the unhappy. do you know? People pass

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you evory day in the street, with calm faces and erect forms, who are scarred and maimed in life's conflict, but yet will die and make no sign. I do not say this is well, because such repressions must be deadly to the soul hungering 'for sympathy. I only speak of it, that we should reeogonize other sufferers besides ourselves. Happiness!" We all clamor for that, forgetting that it is the rarest thing on earth or, if attained, so short-lived that it is only a mockery. There are living sorrows, and there are dead sorrows. Our dead are perfect. If they had faults, we had more. If we could only feel this way toward the living! If, when the rough word, or the neglect of a kind one, sends the rebellious tear to our eye, or the angry flush to our cheek, we could attribute it, not to want of love, but to some physical derangement which was even then preparing the way for the coffin and the shroud, how much more forgiving should we be how much more mercifui in our judgments! But alas! for us, he who made us only knows how rudely tho strings may be jarred, arid what discords may come of uninstructed fingers. Our dead aro perfect.

If he were only hero,

he should have the whole bureau if he wanted it." Now, I am not going to preach a sermon on this. It is a littlo thing, but it illustrates my meaning.

FANNY FERN.

How THE CHINESE COOK HICK.—The edltot of the American Grocer states *tliat he has Recently paid a visit to the Chines® af shoemakers, at North Adams, If-yuchusetts, and has obtained from thsfn the Chinese method of cooking rice. The process of boiling one pound of rice is as follows: Take a clean stew-pan, with a close fitting top, then take a piece of white muslin, largo enough to cover over the top of the pan and hang down inside too, but not in contact with the bottom. Into the sack so formed place the rice, pour over it two cupsful of water, and put on the top of the stew pan, so as to hold up tho muslin bag inside, and fit tight all round. Place the pan on a slow fire, and the steam generated fronj the water will cook the rice. E ich grain, it is stated, will come out of the boiler as dry and distinct as if just taken from the hull. More water may be poured into the pan If necessary, but only sufficient to keep up the steam till the rice is cooked. The pan must not be heated so hot as to cause tho steam to blow off the lid. The Chinese at North

Adams, if they look about a little will find Yankee vessels made of tin containing perforated shelves ot diaphragms for cooking rice and other articles by steam, on tho same principle as the muslin sack, and much more convenient.

AN HONEST QUAKER.—Many years ago during a severe Winter, Nantucket harbor was frozen over for four weeks. Tho coal in store had long been exhausted and th'. re was much suffering from want of fuel. Even the fences had been torn down and burnt to eke out the scant supply of wood. To the great delight "of the townspeople, the ice broke up one fine morning, and a schooner laden with coal was seen approaching. There was much cxitcnient, and before the craft was moored, a coal dealer boarded her and eagerly addressed the honest Quaker, skipper Gifford:

Wal, Cap'en, said he, "you've about hit it this cruise. I guess I'll 'Jcv

HOW SOME PEOPLE MARR Y. A young man meets a pretty face in the ball room, fulls in love with it, courts it, marries it, goes to housekeeping with it, and boasts ofhavingahotne and a wife to grace it. The chances are, nine to ten, that he has neither. He has been

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take v'ur hul cargo. Spose you 11 want moreen the usual ?7 a ton. Wal, I like to do the sqarc thing lnr a friend, and I'll give you ?1'2 a ton for it." 1'riend, said Captain Gifford, "thee can have one ton of mv coal if thee likes for ?8, but only one ton all must have a chance." Just then one of the richest men of the place joined them saying

want ten tons of your coal at your own price—name it. I have sunered enough for once." He received the same answer, and so did all—one ton for eac family, and $8 tis the price of each ton. No love of gain, no solicitation, no regard for individuals could move honest Captain Gifford.

LIVKI.Y FALL.—A Kentucky paper tells the following!

At the 1lant"®

house, the other night,

one of

the guests

sat down in a third story window lo cool off," and falling asleep, fell out In tho descent of sixty feet he through the roof of a wood shed, t» scattered tho wholo structure, on a porch, the floor of which he brt and rolling over, knocked over and badly twisted a tin gutter pip*- ^he P01"-®' man on that beat heard the noise, thinking that a safe had been blown open rushed to tho spot,

iounu l-ne geniieii»»" and yawning as if he had, just shing sleep.

from arefresnin officers to take

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found tho gentleman rubbing his and yawning as

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invited the

Mike a drink, and atter put

ting alxmt four ounces of old Bourbon iiuu aijuut luur v. down his gullet, he retired for the nig -thistimetobed. The next morning he appeared at the breakf^t t»b'9 as it nothing had occurred, paid his lull breakfkst, and took his departure foj the Gibraltar of Democracy.

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A. T. Stewart's advice to a policeman is to watch every man as a thief.

in and done for!"

Hor prettv face gets to bo an old story, or becomes faded, or freckled, or fretted, and as the face was all he wanted, all he paid attention to, all he sat up with, all he bar ained for, all ho swore to love, honor and protect, he gets sick of his trado, knows of a dozen of faces he likes better gives up staying at home evenings, consoles himself with cigars, oysters and politics, and looks upon his home as a very indifferent board-ing-house.

A family of children grows up about him but neither he nor his

face"

knows anything about training them, so they come up helter-skelter, made box of when babies, dolls when boys and girls, drudges when men and women and not one quiet, happy, homely hour known throughout tho whole household.

Another young man bee omes enamored of a

fortune." He waits upon it to

practice, dances the polka with it, exchanges billet doux with it, pops the question to it, gets accepted by it, takes the person, weds it, calls it "wife" carries it home sets up an establishment with it, introduces it to his friends, and says he, too, is married, and has got a home. It is false. He is not married he has no home. And he soon finds it out. He is in the wrong box but it is too late to get out of it he might as well hope to get out ofhis coffin. His friends congratulate him, and he has to grin and bear it. They praise the house, the furniture, the cradle, the new baby, the new Bib e, and bid the

fortune," and

he who husbands it, good morning. As if he had seen a good morning since he and that gilded fortune were declared to be one.

Take another case. A young woman is smitten with a pair "of whiskers. Curled hair never before had such charms. She sets hor cap for them they take. The lighted whiskers make an offer, proffering themselves both in exhange for one heart. The dear miss is overcome with magnanimity, closes the bargain, carries home the prize, shows it to pa and ma, calls herself engaged to it, thinks there never were such a pair of whiskers before, and in a few weeks they are married. Married! Yes, the world "calls it so, and so we will. What is the result? A short honeymoon and then the discovery that they are as unlike as chalk and cheese, iind not to be mado one, though all the priests in Christendom pronounce them so.

SECRETARY BOUTWELL made a short Speech to members of tho Shoo and Leather Exchange of Boston, on Saturday. On the subjeet of the revival of American commerce, he said tho iron vessels of England were monopolizing the commerce of the world, including the foreign trade of the United States, and that the monopoly must be broken down. Adverting to the national debt, he said the payments already made have advanced the national credit. These payments should be continued at the rate of at least fifty millions a year until the bonds of the United States are at par in coin, whether they bear interest at four or six per cent. This can bo done after one year, ho thought, even upon the reduced system of taxation. The interest account of the public debt should bo reduced to ona hundred millions a year. The reduction of the principal will accomplish this result, but a reduction of the interest will accomplish it immediately. He expressed himself in favor of refunding a portion of the debt at a lower rate of interest.

ERECT CARRIAGE.—An erect gait gives to woman a queenly appearance, and to men an air of manliness, integrity and fearlessness. To bend forward or "downward while walking, indicates debility depression or mental trouble, and always aggravates itself and promotes disease. Pads and supports are all pernicious, and are worse than useless, because they toach tho system to rely on them, an*d can not support one part of the body without causing an unnatural strain on some other part, There is always one easily available and successful method of acquiring an erect, manly gait, without any material effort, or feeling of awkwardness. Let the chin be a little above a horizontal line, which is easily done by keeping the eye fixed on the top of some person's or bonnet in front of you. The habit of this erect carriage may be facilitated by accustoming yourself, when at home, in the garden or other places, to walk with the hands behind, held in one another, and the head thrown up, as is done in smoking a

cigar or

singing a tune.—Hall's Jour

nal of Health

IMPROVEMENTS IN EPICAL INSTRUCTION.—Opticus and photography aro now employed with success in imparting medical instruction to students. Tho leading medical hospitals and colleges this country and Europe now regularly employ skilled photographers whoso business it is to tako photographs from tho patients of all peculiar manifestations of disease or surgery. Faithful representations of the general appearance of a patient, or of a diseased member, such as the limbs, the throat, the eyes, tho hair, are obtained. These may lc subsequently enlarged or reduced as desired, and reproduced on glass in the form of transparencies, then colored with transparent pigments. By moans of the magic lantern tho pictures are thrown upon screen and magnified so that minutest parts are rendered clearly visible to large audiences. For medi'cal instruction this method is of great value by reason of its extraordinary accuracy and distinctness.

A NEW DANGER IN RAILROADSLKEPIN(I CARS.—A Cincinnati correspondent, returning from tho cast, was about to file himself away in one of tho railway pigeon-holes of a sleeping-car, when the somnolent passengers were roused by the voice of a huge Kcntuckian, who, holding up a pillow between his thumb and finger, roared out to tho attendant:

I say, you boy, como back and take thus away*!"

What for, sail Because I'm afraid this thing will get in my ear."

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Price Five Cents.

THE OLD ADMIRAL.

For some days the demise of Admiral Farragut has been hourly expected, and now comes the sad announcement that ho is dead. He was an old man,known of the whole people and honored bv every son of the Republic, for his life had been consecrated to his country. In his death tho grief of tlioso who held him dearest will not be greater than of every American citizen who can feel a just pride in our great men.

Admiral Farragut will be succeeded by Vice-Admiral Porter, the son of the man under whom he sailed liia first cruise in his country's service. Fiftynine years ago he received his lirst wound. Half a century later the rebellion again called him into action, and he brought to the service of the Republic all the ardor and all tho energy of his youth. The wound he received in the contest betwoen the Essex and the Phcebe was his baptism of patriotic devotion. Unscathed ho passed through tho struggles of a later day, and yet the dovotion he so early learned may bo said to have been his deathwound, for he labored long and unceasingly for his country in her hour of trial, braved every danger, and risked his life and his health in her service when repose and peace were essential to both. Our columns this liioring bear ample testimony to tho value of his services, and show conclusively, wo think, that his death was indirectly tho result of his labors during tho rebellion.

Admiral Farragut was a very ablo man. His astuteness in naval warfaro cun be compared only with tho valor and discretion of General Grant in tho management of armies. Like Grant, he was free from any love of display, and the simplicity of his character was. only equaled by his bravery and his patriotism. Tho country has had fow such devoted sons, and none whoso memory will be longer or more fervently cherished. His death will bring tears to many eyes and grief to many hearts. The lesson of his life will be long remembered, and, like the dying words of Lawrence, tho simple story or his services and his sacrifices will continue to animato lie arm of the service to which he gave his best years. Ilia memory, like the memory of Washington'will be loved by our children and our children's children so loug as. the Republic shall continue to bo tho hope of liberty and the light of tho world.—AT. Y. Standard.

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RETICENCE.—There is the most consummate art in appearing absolutely frank, yet never telling anything which it is not wished should bo known in being pleasantly chatty and conversational, yet nover committing ono's self to a statement or an opinion which might be used against one afterward— aru celare artem in keeping one's own counsel as well as in other tilings.

It is onuy alter a long acquaintance with this"kind of a person, that you find out Ho has been substantially reticent throughout, though apparently so frank. Caught by his easy manner, his genial talk, his ready sympathy, you have confuted to him not only all you have of yourown. but all you havo of other people's and it is only long after, when you reflect quietly, undisturbed by the magnetism of his presence, that you como to tho knowlodgo of how reticent he has been in tho midst of this seeming frankness, and how little reciprocity there lias been in your confidences together. You know such pcoplo for years, and you never know really nioro of them at tho end than you did at tho beginning. You cannot lay your finger on a fact that would in any way place tliom in your power and though you did not notico it at the time, and don't know how it has been done now, you feel that they have never trusted you, and have all along carefully avoided anything like confidence. But you are at their mercv, by your own rashness.

SHARP PICKPOCKETS.—Tho "Boston .Journal says that during tho trip of tho steamer Providence from New York Fall River, on Sunday night, several .» passengers were robbed of their watches and money. The detcctivo employed by the company was informed of tho .. fact, and tho pickpockets

were

soon

trapped and arrested. They confessod

to having taken tho property, and said tho plunder was secreted on the boat, and if the detective would release them for a few minutes they would return with it. He was reluctant, but by tho advice of a Hoston detective the handcull's were removed after tho steamer left Newport for Fall River. They not having returned in the given lime, search was made, but they could not bo found. In tiieir state room woro found one suit of thin clothes, a hat. etc. Tho life-preservers were gone, and

it is evident that they had quietly .ropped themselves overboard when near.? Bristol Ferry, taking their booty with them.

A POPULAR FALLACY.—It is said that a lie well stuck to is as good as tho truth and a good illustration of this is furnished in tho almost universal be- glief that Horace Greeley, the veteran,editor, is addicted to profanity. Innumerable stories aro told, some of them very amusing, all of which go to show that his oaths aro as frequent as they'm, are shocking, and that ho can hardly speak without emphasizing ins lan-mi guage with blasphemy but tho public will doubtless no astonished to learn that it is not so. John Russell Young, of tho New York Standard, says: "Wo a® know of no charge that could be moro essentially unfair and we speak from the daily" and familiar intercourse of yoars when we say that Mr. Greeley always observed] the laws of that pure, direct, earnest and proper conversation -,5. which always denotes the gentleman. It seems to bo almost fin impertinence for us to make a statement which seems like offlciousncss but it is thotruth, and when slander fills tho air, it is nover untimely to speak what is true.

LAWYERS.—The bar is no longer tho resort of tho ambitious youths of our country. The mechanic departments? aro being preferred thero are thirty young gentlemen in this city, who havo received liberal educations, who aro serving their "tirno" as shipwrights, architects, carpenters, Ac. In a few

years

tho United States will have tho most accomplished mechanics iu tho .world.

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