Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 September 1870 — Page 2

Rural.

I rrioation.—Unless we entirely misapprehend tlie growth of public opinion upon the subject of irrigation, there will be considerable attempted in that line within the next twelve months all over the older settled States.

The fall is the best time to make preparation. Across every brook that h.ts in any of its windings an altitude above any other portion of the farm, build a daiii, which shall be so constructed that the pond thus formed can bo lowered one foot if it is large, and two feet it it is small, in a .short space of time.

The theory is this: Few streams on ordinary farms will s«ifu-c to keep constantly wet (were it desirable) any very large portion of land. Wetting twice each week, or three times, is better than nothing and if you can accumulate sufficient water to make a stream that, will How to the cud of your channel, and thoroughly wet all the sections ntended once in forty-eight

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once in twenty-four, it is far better than to have the little stream spend itselt 011 the ground contiguous to the dam ana adjacent to the two openings the

11° h'a"t can be done in the dry season is to prepare tho (lam. I his c.111 made probably

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stone is abundant by digging a anywhere from two to four teet lde, as 'the bight of the dam is to be, and then in this trench laying a solid as mav be, slanting lrom he bottom to the top or both sides, :ind then tilling in the

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side from four to six ieet

with gravel. If the water is to 1)0 taken out both sides,, little Humes must be inserted in the wall, winch, around .their outermost edge, will need a s-lioet of boardpiling to prevent the water from working under, and thus doing damage.

Where there aio no stones, earth will answer, if the overllow is guarded by a Hoction of boards laid on the top of the dam with a board at each side, exactly in the shape of a wide spout. The upper end of the platform must be piled to prevent the water getting under it and carrying away tho structure. \Vhen the early fall rains come, and the pond is full, trace your ditches, giving alxmt six inches fall to sixteen feet. The water let into a little furrow made with a corner of a hoe will indicate the proper level, which, when accomplished, the plow and tlie sho.\ol will finish the ditch, and tho work is done.

JIA ItVKSTI NO POTATOES. lfoWCVOr early potatoes should be dug as soon as tiie vines are dry. Thero is nothing gained by lotting thorn lie in the 'round unless thoy have been prcviousattacked by disease. In this ease we liavo always found it better to leave them in the hill until tho diseased ones have decayed. It often prevents them from imparting the rot to tho sound potatoes. They should be placed in Leaps in the field after digging, to sweet and cure, giving them sufficient covering oi straw and earth to prevent water from soaking in. Ventilation, however, should by attended to. This may be accomplished by placing good sized wisps of straw extending from tIve ground above the apex of the heap. I11 digging by hand, throw two rows together, and when dry enough to put into heaps, pick up the merchantable ones lirst, and small ones afterward,

sale very materially. If potatoes are scarce, the small ones may be planted, if you have been in the habit of saving seed only from choice ones. Our plan is to select only medium sized, smooth fair potatoes for seed, and plant the small ones in time of scarcity with the market crop. By this means yon will not only improve the yield, but the quality of the tubers also. Potatoes for eat ing, should never be exposed the light, but should be kept in a dry, (lark, cool condition. But for seed we have found thorn better for considerable exposure to the air, either in the Fall or Snring. II one has four or more acres to dig each year, it is cheaper to buy an implement for throwing them out by horse power. There aro now several plows for digging potatoes, that are really efficient—ranging in price from twenty to thirty dollars—with the land dry and in good condition fo working, and tho crop should only be gathered when the land i.s in condition They mav bo gathered, with a good dig. per,"for about one half what it eosts to do it by hand ulone.—in/cn'or.

CtTisE FOR iI ARi- Mu.KINO 0ow.—We are olten called upon for some cure for hard-milking cows, and we haveknown many a valuable cow to lo sent to the .-butcher simply because she milked so hard. It seems not to be a very difficult matter to operate tinon tlie teats of a cow so that they will not hold the milk with such force. Farmers frequent ly take a sharp penknife and insert it so as not enlarge the aperture too much, ifat all, thus cutting a slit on one side of the little tube in the end of the teat. This causes a little blood to flow, a soreness which is soon oyer, and relives the ctilliculty. There is danger of cutting too much, however, and so doing real damage. A little implement suggested to us years ago by a cor res pondent, may be used with entire safety. A piece ot No. It} steel wire about four inches long, is taken and hammered at one end to a Hat, (liamnnd shape, in its cross seeion, leuving about threeeighths of an inch round nml smooth, tho length of tho flattened portion being aliout the same. The edges «:f this portion aro then tiled, honed sharp, and tempered. The little knife is inserted in the tent, gradually workin! past the the tip without cutting, then, the thumb and linger pressing close to the end of the teat the knife is shoved quickly upward and outs a little gush on each side, which will not bo ex|osod to the air. More than two gashes may bo cut if desired, but two well cut, will probably Ik*enough. The operation should l»e "performed at tho close of the milking, but milk should be repeatedly strii|cd from the teats ring the nex I -4 hou rs.—.1 turint.

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K»:i:iMNn Gu vrns kou Wintku I'sk. If von desire delicious, fresh grapes in winter or even up to the next spring, they can bo had bv a very little care ami expense. Pick the bunches only in a dry, warm day, and placo them in a cool, shady place for at least three days: then commence to pack them in paper boxes that will hold about ten IKHinds. Between each layer of grapes place a single thickness of newnpajer the boxes should not contain more than threv layers in thickness. Then place in a cool, dry room—uot In a cellar, for the naturtil dampness there will cause mould and dway. In this way tlie past very damn unfavorable season we kept Concord, iMawarc, Hart ford and Diana, the last being in good condition in March.

nKJFSVKR you doubt whether nn intended action bo good or bad, abstain from it.

Young Folks.

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KnlRriui No. 14 the The fruit-can Mope.

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Knife No! ^-Th"'^^ to"si^ht to mem ory dear. WORD Pl'ZZI.K.* „.f iS in (Jt-oitfc, but not in John, "^ml is in yani, but not in lawn. My 'third is in learn, bat not in know., My fourth is in come, but 11 at in go. fifth is in mean, but not in 1I1

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is in father, but not in child.

Vvcnth is in wander, but not in roam. \t whole is a well-known book I ve «ot 1 horn- JULIA Gl.KNN.

IMSltljS ENIGMA No.21.

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I ai'it "composed of 31 letters. Mv 1 1", means destiny. My :i' 1V», 0, It, 23 is a parting word. My s! '£10, J, means courage. My U, 21, Hi means fuel. My °0, 22, 21 is a nocturnal animal. X, 2S, 2«, 7, 12, -J. 18 is the faculty of sight. My S,'ll, 10, 22, 25 is to rot. My 15, 31, 30, 4, IS means harmony. My 27, 4. 15, 5 means acid.

CHARADE No. 5.

Whene'er my fir it was sent to watch my second,

Out of the way the idle rascal stole, Although he knew that011 hiseare we reckoned,

And in the .cosy barn, would read irholr.

A PROP-LETTKR I'UZZLK os 11 1) E pa us II a a Id 1 11 li 11 \i.. G. I'llA.

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Tin: Company Plan.—Did you c\ ei notice, dear boy 01* girl, what an amiable, pleasant feeling steals over you when you aro visiting and 011 3'our "good behavior?"—how willingyouare to overlook auy thing that interferes with your comfort how anxious to please, and how ready to take an interest in all that is going on? At these times your face lights hp unconsciously your voice grows sweet and cheerful* your very movements become graceful. "Whatpleasant persons these friends are!" you say to yourself and they very naturally-consider you quite winning and delightful. So tar, so good. It is just as it liould be.

Of course, when you go home, you take all vour pleasant ways with you. If these'friends who haveknown you but a little while, and who care for you merely as friends, Lave so much power to brighten and sweeten you, of course, when you return to jour own relatives, who love you deeply, you'll be brighter and sweeter than ever. wJL EexUapa.JtJs., Butjf b^ sour or surly or indifferent at home, thinking any tone of voice, any glum look, and any careless word good enough for "the folks"—I'm sorry for you, that's all. You lose a great deal of comfort, and you miss a great opportunity of making others happy. But it is never too late to improve. "Suppose you try the company plan. Be polite, sunny, and charming at home. Com monce to-morrow—110, to-dav. It i.v only a visit, after all, for no family can remain together always. Whilo you stay, please and be pleased. Always in your heart of hearts let these blessed words dwell like swoct music:

Be ye kindly alfectioned one to a other in brotherly love."

DosiNd AN Emophant.—Some of vou, children, may now and then be given a dose of medicine (though, I hope, not often), ami probably whenever you do take a dose, you consider it a very large one. Now, just, for the sake of comforting you with the contrast, I'll tell what doses a poor sick elephant was made to take, some years ago. Ho was a superb animal, and, for a time, delighted crowds at Cross's Menagerie in liondon by his wonderful intelligence and dignitv. But he fell sick at last, and what do you think his keepers gave him? Twenty-four pounds of salts twenty-four pounds of treacle, an ounce and a half of tartar-emetic, six drachms of powdor of Gamboge, as much cro-ton-oil as could bo given to sixteen men, and six ounces of calomel, or enough to supply doses for twelve hundred human beings!

All these were taken within two days and the next morning they gave• the poor fellow six pounds of melted beefmarrow instead of caster-oil!

What do vou think of that Kh? Yes, the elephant got better.

TmrntS.—The tiger, like most other quadrupeds, is a capital swimmer. It will take to the water with perfect readiness, either in search of prey or to escape from an eiiemv.

It is said that before a tiger jumps in to a stream, if he has time, he will deliberately place his huge paw in the water so as to ascertain the direction of the tide or the current.

In India, tigers often leap on the roof of a native's hut, tear up the slight covering, and spring into the room below. Sometimes the inmates have time to rush out of the doors and bar Mr. Tiger in and then, if they are brave they climb up to the roof and shoot their visitor through the hole his own claws have made.

IdTTi.K birds in their nests »rce probably because, if tbev didn't, tVv a

Mothkrs used to provide a switch for their daughters Troiii the nearest bush but now the daughters get their own switches from the hair-makers.

Hkorok Aror-STTS Sai.a has been studying the philosophy of drunkenness, and argues in a late magazine article that the spread of cigar'smoking is one of the chief causes of the decline of intemperance in respectable and refined society. He admits that this looks like a paradox, but asserts that it is not, and supports his assertion by saying: "A drunken man can not enJoy a cigar at all and a sober man can' not appreciate any wine save thin claret while he is smoking."

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Wk all need resistance to our errors on every side. Woe nnto us when all men speak well of us and vro unto us when ail men shall give way to us!

J'Kit Pxi OEM A.D UCEM.

1JY ADEI.A 1 UB I'ROCTOK.

I do not ask, O Lord,.that life may he A pleasant road I do not a-sli that Thou would'st take fioiu nic

Au^'ht of its load. I do notask that flowers should always spring •Heiicath my feet I know 100 well th. poison and the stin

Of things too sweet

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Kor one thing Lord, dear Lord, 1 plead, Load me aright— Though strength should falter, and though lu art should bleed— ..

Through peace to light.

not ask, O buixi, that thou shoiiM'st shed Kali radiance here Give hut a ray of peace that I may tread

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Without a fear.

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ANAGRAMS.

1 Moon starers. Golden land. 2 Comical trade. 3 All great sin. 4 Sly ware. 5 Spare him not. (i March 011!

8 Nine thumps. 9 Best in prayer. 10 Nay, I repent it. 11 Rare and mad frolic 12 To love ruin.

13 Great helps.

I do no! ask my cross to understand, My way to sec tcr in darimessjust. to feel I ay nan 1

And follow thee. joy is like restless day but. in.ace divine like quiet ni-^ht Lead i'»e, O Lord—till perfect day sililie,

Through peace to light.

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WESLKY'sPitKAruixa.—"It

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lieve, in October, 1770, and not long before his death, that I heard John Wesley in the great round meeting-house at Colchester. He stood in a wide pulpit and 011 each side stood a minister, and the two held him up, having their hands under his armpits. His feeble voice was hardly audible. But his reverend countenance, especially his long white locks, formed a picture never to be forgotten. There was a vast crowd of lovers and admirers. It was for the most part, pantomime, but the pantomime went to the heart. Of the kind, I never saw anything comparable to it in after life."—P. 19. This incident was never forgotten by llobinsoiu He often related it at his own table, with the addition, that so greatly was Wesley reverenced, that the people stood ui double lines to see him pass through the streets on his way to the chapel. In •1 letter written at the time to one ot his brothers, he gave the following particulars of the same occurrence: "At another time, and not knowing the man, I should almost have ridiculed his figure. Far from it now. I look upon him with a respect bordering on enthusiasm. After the people had sung one verse of a hvmn, he rose and said: 'It gives me great pleasure to find that you have not lost your singing. Neither men nor women—you have not lost a single note. And I hope that by the assistance of that same God who enables you to sing well, you may do all other things well.' A universal Alien followed. At the end of every head ot division of his discourse he finished by a kind of prayer, a momentary wish, as it were, not consisting of more than three or four words, which were always followed by a universal buzz. His liscourse was short—the text I could not hear After the last prayer he rose up and addressed the people upon liberality and sentiment, and spoke micli against refusing to join any congregation 011 account of the difference of opinion. He said, 'If they but fear God, work righteousness, and keep jus commandments,we have nothing to object to.' "—Henry Crabbe liobinson.

like the stream1of a miglrfy 1rIver."\Tur boat at lirst goes down the tiny channel—through tho playtui murmuring of the little brook and tho willows apon its grassy borders. The trees shedtheir blossoms over our heads, the flowers on the brink seem to offer themselves to our young hands we are happy inhope, and grasp eagerly at the beauties itround us the stream hurries on, and still our hands are empty. Our course in youth and in manhood is along a wider,'deeper flood, and amid objects more striking and magnificent. We are animated by the moving pictures of enjoyment aiid industry passing us we art "excited by our short-lived enjoyments. Tho stream bears us on, and joys and griefs are left behind us. Wo may lie shipwrecked, but we can not be delayed for, rough or smooth, tho river hastens toward its home, till the roar of the ocean is in our cars, and the waves be neath our feet, and the floods are lifted up around us, and we take our leave of earth and its inhabitants, until of our further voyage there is 110 witness save tho Infinite and Eternal.—Bishop Herberts Farewell Sermon.» mf

Somktimh"—it is the sweet, sweet song warbled to and froamongthe topmost boughs of the heart, and filling the whole air with such joy and gladness as the song of birds do when the summer morning comes out of darkness and day is born upon the mountains. Wo have all our possessions in the future which we call "sometime." Beautiful flowers and singing birds are there, only our hands seldom grasp the one, or our ears hear the other. But 0I1, reader, be of good cheer, for all the good there is a golden ''sometime when the hills and valleys arc all passed when the wear and fever, the disappointments and sorrowsof life arc over, then there is a place and the rest of God. Oh, liomcste.id,over whoso roof falls 110 shadows or even clouds and over whose threshold the voice of sorrow is never heard built upon eternal hills and standing with the spires and pinnacles of celestial beauty on high, those who love God shall rest under thy shadows, where thero is no more sorrow nor pain, nor the sound of weeping—"sometime."—/Vcnftee.

Fatkku Knows."—A gentleman was one day opening a box of dry goods. His little son was standing near, and, as his father took the package from the box, he laid some of them upon the arm of the boy. A young friend and playmate of the merchant's son was standing by looking on. As parcel after parcel was laid upon the arm of the boy, his friend legan to fear his load wais beto.ning too heavy, and said:

Johnny, don't you "think you've got as much as you can boar." 'Never mind," answered Johnnv, in a sweet happy tone, "father knowshow much I can carry."

Brave, trusting little fellow He did not grow restless or impatient under tho burden. There was no danger, he felt, that his father would lay too heavy a load 011 him. His father knew his strength or rather the weakness of that little arm, and would not overtask it. More than all, his father loved him, and therefore would not harm him. It is such a spirit of loving trust in Him, that God desires all his children to possess.

If misfortune come into your house, be patient and stnile pleasantly, and it will soon stalk out again, for it can't bear cheerful company.

IIopb is the sweetest friend that ever kept a distressed toul company it beguiles the ted:ou8ness of the 'way—all the miseries of our pilgrimage.

THE EAllIj OF CLARENDON^ By the common consent of those who who are acquainted with the society of England, Lord Clarendon was regarded as the most finished genticinan, the most charming and gonial companion, mid the most accomplished foreign minister, of our times. IIis person in rlv life was singularly handsome, ile had tho air of refinement which Vandyck was wont to give his portraits, and which seemed as much the inheritance of George Villiors as his name. Even in age, when tho hair grew thin and the face blanched with toil, his eye had lost none of its brightness nor the figure anything of its unstudied elegance. His manners to men of every degree and every country had a charm which unbent the most rugged antagonis and inspired confidence alike in the timid and the suspicious. It has been well said of him by a .Spaniard that his was the "poetry of politeness." llis ringing laugh and ready repartee enlivened the formality of courts, and gave a charm to tho gravest political discussions. His conversation, playful, witty, and unconstrained, had not the slightest trace of pedantic authority or self-consciousness. IIoseemed over to bo uttering what came uppermost in his mind, and he said it with a thousand familiar graces, sometimes homely, and sometimes ingenious, that sent the thought he wished to convey home to the mind. Sometimes, such was the felicity of his diction, lie hit upon a word or an expression so just and descriptive that it became proverbial and will remain in history. With these gifts, which are supposed to be the growth of an excessive cultivation and unbanity, he combined an entire sincerity and a truth of heart which were the real secrets of his power. He could, and did, say to men of all ranks—including that rank which absolute truth most seldom approaches—all he wished to convey to them, and all ho thought of the matter in hand but he said it with so light a touch, and so cordial an expression of good-will, that he conciliated even when he differed and condemned. His promptitude in master ing details, and his industry in making himself acquainted with them, were almost inconceivable. Scarcely a dis patch arrived at or left the Foreign Office without his direct participation. His habits of work were such that he literally turned night into day and often, after having been the life and center of tho gay and brilliant circle that clustered round him, he would retire at midnight to his library and his boxes, light a cigar, and spend all the hours till dawn in continuous labor, not unaccompanied even then by her who shared through life all his confidence and his cares.

Although Lord Clarendon aspired to no place in literature, and probably never composed any thing with a view to publication, he was one of the most copious and facile writers of his time His stjde was at once correct, forcible, and abundant. His dispatches are models of just reasoning and neat expression, and they were written by himself with inconceivable rapidity and readiness. But his private correspondence probably surpassed in amount his dispatches.

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his colleague, the prime

minister, he wrote on the state of foreign affairs once, or even twice, every day. To most of the diplomatic agents of the government, who were also his personal friends, he was in the constant habit of addressing letters of so intimate and informal a character that they

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dential intercourse. He had 110 reserve from anv one whom he liked and trusted he desired his whole mind and intentions to bo clearly known and understood. But, in addition to this semi-official correspondence, lie lived in daily communication, by writing, with a vast number of persons abroad and at home. His pen llowed 011 without rest and without haste, and, down fo the minutest incident of daily life, an appointment or a dinner engagement, nothing was ever left without a reply.

In the midst of the most weighty cares and tho most exciting occurrences, Lord Clarendon had always time for a joke, a passing word of kindness,and, above all, for the most cordial and unbroken intercourse with those ho loved. His children, his wife, wefre always about him. Ho lived in the midst of them. Their concerns and pleasures were his. Xo secrets existed in that charmed circle, which had grown up in mutual trust and regard 110 interests which engaged his thoughts were strange to them. It would be hard to find two pictures of tho domestic life of English statesmen more striking than Lord Derby translating the "Iliad" in tho drawing room at Knowsley's with all his family around him, or Lord Clarendon at The Grove, who, when he was not tho great and laborious statesman, was the friend and playmate of his daughters. Hard work and frequent attacks of gout had not robbed either of theso buoyant men of tho exuberant spirits which forsook them not on the verge of the grave.

Titk Boundary of tiik Rhine.— Startling as it may appear, the historical fact of a Rhine' frontier is 1,400 years old. It came in with the Franks when they overrun tho Roman Province of Gaul in the fifth century it was established by Clovis, the first of Frankish kings it was restored and then overleapt by Charlemagne, the "Emperor of the West," three centuries later: the great Philip Augustus made, in the be ginning of the thirteenth century, forty years' reign glorious by ruling over aterritory that extended "from the Rhine to tho Pvrences. Louis, the saint, retained the Rhine boundary, and added Provence and Languedoc, while Louis Quat-orze, "the groat monarch par excellence," convulsed Europe at the end of the seventeenth century, by his efforts to regain the provinces on the left bank of the Rhine, whieh had been wrested from his predecessors Napoloan I. only filled a national aspira'ion when he made Flanders, Luxembourg and other territories between the Rhine and the sea, an integral jiorlion of the First Empire, and Napoleon III. was perfectly well aware that he would cover his name with imierishable glory by making the Rhine, the Pyrenees, the Alps and the ocean, the boundaries of modern France.—New York Time*.

Peculiar Jocrnax,im.—We have received a copy of the Trenton (N. J.) Senfltud which represents a peculiar and interesting phase of American journalism.

The Sentinel is edited and published by the convicts in the New-Jersey State prison, and although badly written and wretche ly printed, presents quite a unique appearance, and shows that the unfortunate men who edit it means to do well. They deserve encouragement. Of course the circulation is at present limited, but we trust the efforts of the owners to give it a wider field will be succcssful.—N. Y. Standard.

A certain way to stop a dog fight is to cause th:* brutes to innale chloroform,

EASTER IS LAN

In the middle of tho Pacific Ocean, three thousand miles distant from the nearest continent, rises the mysterious Easter Island, ubonn*.ing with the reinains Of remote antiquity, which greatly interested and perplexed a party of durante who recently visited them. Tho island is about forty miles in circumference, barren, without trees, destitute of resources, inhabited by a few savages, who lead the most miserable existence imaginable. But upon this narrow strip of land, so barren and unproductive, the astonished eye of the explorer beholds a forest of gigantic stone statues, about the origin and meaning of which the race dwelling around them knows absolutely nothing. The smallest of these "statues measure twenty feet in height, while many measure thirty feet, and a few attain the incredible dimensions of fifty feet. Some repose upon long platforms constructed in the cyclopean manner the greater portion "of them wear crowns about six feet in height, formed of volcanic tufa, which have evidently been placed upon these statues after their erection. The foreheads of tho statues are retreating and the mouths prominent, which indications may prooably reveal the race who constructed them. As regards the workmanship displayed upon them, it is rude and clumsy, although not destitute of character and expression.

The questions concerning them, presented for solution, are, what do they represent? whose handiwork are they? and how came they there? There are no metals in Easter Island, nor even silex only a few hard species of stone are found capable of being fashioned into axes, with which perhaps those mysterious statues were hewn. The stone of which they are composed is found neither upon the island nor upon any of the surrounding islands their number, dimensions, and character, forming a strange contrast to the narrowness and poverty of the place whereon the3r are constructed. How could this barren island have nourished a race of men capable of raising such monuments? where is this race? and what country do tlicy still inhabit?

I11 replv to these speculations, several scientific men of great authority hazard the opinion that the island in question is only one of the summits of the submerged continent which geological evidence proves at one time to have occupied tho whole of that part of the Pacific which is now called Polynesia. Several also show grounds for believing that the statues in question present a Mexican physiognomy, and may have been the work of one of the kindred races of that people. Several of these monuments aro now on their way to the British Museum, where, it is hoped, additional light will be thrown upon them

LONDON AND YANKEEDOM. How apt are people who visit foreign countries to interest themselves exclusively with the material works of men, instead of observing man himself. In gazing at cathedrals, castles, palaces, they are prone to forgot that right about them is tho most curious sight of all—a eomunity whoso manners and customs, in littlo things, are new to them, and should be most interesting.

To my mind, it is far more interesting to ride, 011 the top of an omnibus, in London, from Kentish town to Charing Cross, than to wander through Westminster Palace, or to climb tho

ever varying and shifting panorama, which shows you in turn the many-sid-ed phrases of the London c^i raeter.

Here are the cockney, the shopkeeper —what tho French call le penple—en masse. You see a thousand faces—all unmistakably English, ruddy, hardv, straightforward, and practical—yet faces which tell talcs of widely divergent traits, and for each of whom you may compose a separate history. IIow different they are from our own Yankee physiognomy—and how different from the sallow, sprightly Frenchmen and women!

Tho shops, too, have great interest, with their inexhaustable varioty of wares, many of them quite unfaniiliar to the Yankee eye. And here lot me note that of late you see more Yankee nicknacks and inventions in the London shops than you used to. "The last American wonder!" stares me everywhere in the face as I pass the great advertisement boards 011 the IIolborn Viaduct and in Farringdon stroet here and there my eye falls upon "The great Y'ankoe invention—the patent gridiron!" "American bar-room—and tho last New York mixed drinks!" "Real American negro troupe—consisting of former slaves of tho Southern States"—and so on ad infi litum.

You have no idea of tlio interest which the Londoners of late—since tho war— take in American affairs. American books aro sold everywhere you find American papers in every newsroom and hotel Members of Parliament tire constantly quoting America as an illustration of this or that policy and American jokes form the staple of threequarters of tho "fun" columns of the weekly journals.—George M. Touie, in Boston Commercial Bulletin.

THE NA TIONA TA XES. The following statement of tho provisions of tho law of July 14th, in regard to sources of revenue, is compiled from official sources, and should be kept for reference

Special taxes, including those on bankers, will ceaso May 1, 1871, excepting those connected with fermented liquors, spirits, and tobacco.

Taxes on gross receipts will cease October 1,1870. Taxes on sales will cease October 1, 1870, except those on sales of tobacco, spirits, wines, and those paid by st imps.

Taxes on income, including salaries, will be 214 per cent on incomes over 92,000, instead ot 5 per cent on incomes over $1,000.

Taxes on legacies will cease October 1, 1870. Taxes on passports will cease October 1,1870.

The use of stamps will cease October 1,1870, for promissory notes for less than $100, for receipts, and for canned and preserved fish.

The receipts from these sources in the fiscal year 1870 were estimated at $83, 010 000. The reductions have been offlci illy estimated at at £.V,000,000.

Where are the Boxapaiites? There are nine princes of the houso of Bonaparte, but not one of them is with the French army, or taking any part with the French Republic. Young Bo-naoarte-Patterson is with his regiment, and is the only member of the family who seems willing to take any personal risk to defend the honor of his house and race. The Bonapartes seem to havo become enervated, luxurious and weak. Their present position will bring upon them the just contempt of those on whose treasures they have lived, and to whose generosity they are indebted for every honor and distinction.—N. Y. Standard.

FEMALE INVENTIVE TALENT. The question of what women can do and what they cannot do well, is one which hxs been much debated of late, audit is safe to say that facts and arguments l. id before the public in the ccurs? of the dhcassion have done much to shake tho belief, once so universal, that women are adapted to do nothing well but the donv. stie duties of the household.

The characteristics of women in their most perfect, and, to men, most attractive development, tend more and more from the rude, coarse types of women as found in savage life, ami in the lowest class of civilized races. Among these characteristics gentleness, both in disposition and manner, is a thing indispensable to a refined masculine taste. Any occupation which is likely to decrease this feminine quality, wiil be repugnant to men in general. 0110 shrinks in disgust at the idea of female soldiers and coal heavers, and tho average American farmer feels indisposed to see his wife and daughters at work in the harvest field, as was com 111011 in tlie days of yore. Wo do not like to think of women in connection with dirt and the sweat of physical toil, and the desire if not tho tendency of modern civilization nas been toremove women as far as possible from all that is coarse, from all that gives hard, stern outlines to body or mind, and to cultivate in her a deiicaev of form and feeling corresponding to the masculine ideal. It is true that tho cultivation of delicacy in women has been so injudiciously directed as in many cases to engender debility and disease. A certain amount of physical labor is as necessary to the health of women as men and the neglect of proper exercise, and errors in diet and dress, aro chargeable with having weakened the physical constitution of women to a degreo far beyond the limits of that refinement which men demand in the ideal woman.

Men also shrink from seeing women in positions and occupations which in their nature call for tho exercise of courage, in*rrpidity, the faculty of conibativeness, or exerciso of keen satire, as at tho bar or in the forum. Such occupations call into active play a groat varioty of qualities, which are summed up in tho meaning of tho slang word "cheek," and which engraves tho lines of character on the faces of women, and develop peculiarities of mind and manner, which arc littlo admired by most men.

But there is a great variety of occupations which women have begun to claim as fields for individual effort from which no intelligent, refined man, who views things as they really are, would seek to exclude them. These occupations in no way injuriously alfect the qualities admired by the other sex. They may and ought to bo made as rcniune ative to women as to men now engaged in them and their effect upon men is- to cultivate effeminacy rather than that superb masculinity, which should bo the pride of man as it is tho admiration of woman.

Then there is a middle ground 011 which they both may meet, and work with equal benefit, so far as the cultivation of those qualities which each admiro in the other is concerned. This iniddio ground comprises all tho finer creative or imitative arts which call into play tho faculties of construct!voness and ideality, and give scope to the iniagination. Among the creative* arts must bo classed mechanical invention,' and it may not prove uninteresting, as uourinu upon ttie question of women's natural capacity, to give tho results of our experience of woman as an inventor. 111 our practice as patent solicitors we have frequently been called upon to prepare applications for fomalo inventors, and to correspond with them in relation to various inventions and we can say to those who are unbelievers in regard to the powerol'women to achieve, as a class, anything higher than a pound-cake or a piece of embroidery, that tho inventions made by women, and for which they solicit patents through our agency, aro generally found to bo in their practical character, and in their adoption and selections of means to effect a definite purpose, fully equal to the same number of invention's selected at random from among those made by men.

Only last week wo illustrated an improvement in sewing machine noodles, and the method of securing them in tho needle arm, invented by a woman, which certainly would not do discredit to tho most experienced and ingenious male invontor.

This is 110 isolated case. Every now and then a women comes into our office and modestly prefers her claims, evidently shrinking from tin* idea that sho will bo thought stepping out of her sphere, but, believing fully in the merits of invention, desiring to sccuro some pecuniary benefit by patenting it.

Our experience teaches us that women havo as much natural iuventivo talent as men, and that the circumstances under which most of them pass their lives only prevent an equal manifestation of this talent oil their part.— Scientific American.

CHINA GOING BACKWARD.

The collcgo which was founded inPekin, a few years ago, for tho purpose of introducing among Chinese scholars tho sciences of tho west, and which, tho government, in a spasm of liberality, tilled with French and English professors, is pronounced a comploto failure. It has never had the sympathy or supof the literary classes in China, the goveminent has not given it cordial support for a long time, and at last part of the foreign professors havo been supplanted by natives, and the foreign professors that remain have 110 pupils, The progressive party was in tho as- si ccndant in China, a few years ago, as tho establishment of this college and tho sending out of the Burlingame em- I bassy abundantly proved. But the failure of the college, the recent massacres, and other indications show that the old fogies aro again in tho ascendant, and that thero is no wish for improvement. Tho national sentiment was correctly voiced by the "Han Lin," tho center of intellectual pursuits and national scholarship, which answered, when invited to co-operate with the effort to introduce foreign learning: "We learn from foreigners! Teach them, you moanand as long as the Chinese think that their antiquated institutions and stereotyped education are the best in the world, it is but natural that they should decline to adopt the ways of foreigners.

Cement for Leather.—A good waterproof cement or glue, for holding wood or leather, may be mado by dissolving lino shreds of india-rubber in warm copal varnish. Tho material to be united should be made clean, and be perfectly dry at the time of applying the con.cnt

Charity is never lost. It may be of no service t* those it is bestowed on, yet it ever does a work of beauty and grace upon the heart of tho giver.