Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 February 1871 — Page 2

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FARMING IN THE FAR WEST.

A Woman's Story of Pioneer Life. The Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin publishes the following from a lady contributor:

It isn't an idle thing to pioneer. It looks easy enough, una idle enough, no doubt. A man coming from the rocky, taciturn noil of New England, where an acre has to be tickled, not only with the hoe, but with guano and "mack and 'ard worrk," before it laughs with a harvest, seems to expect that the prairies of the West will afford him spontaneously grain crops, orchards of fine fruit, and all the vegetables of the temperate xone.

I knew one much ^fpeeting pioneer who took it very hard of the west that Ayrshire cows and Chester-white pigs were not to be found running wild, and to be had for the mere lassooing. The native a/iimals struck him sis a direct insult from the region to which he had so fondly emigrated. "What can be expected of a country where the pigs' noses are two feet along?" he tragically asked. And with an injured air lie repacked his valise and returned to his stone-fenced acres in New Hampshire.

We had a good laugh at him, or rath er after him, and we take much satanic pleasure, even now, in sending him re ports of our thousand-bushel wheat crop, while he is buying his family flour at fourteen dollars per barrel.

The moral of this is whoever permits the nose of a mongrel pig to frighten him from the path of progression, had better never undertake pioneering.

A STORV OF A I'lO.

Next to possessing no pig whatever is possessing one with a two-foot nose Because there was no other class of pig to bfl had Will bought one of this kind He was a young animal and did not liavo a two-foot nose, for the simple reason that his entire length amounted to buttwonty-foiirinches. But his nose promised well. His ears were stationed precisely in the centre of his twentyfour inches. From thence ho sloped on one hand into nose and on the other into tail—a tail devoid of curl for the native pig in his struggle for existence has too much rooting on hand to pay much regard to his personal appearance.

Our pig, whom Tena straightway named "Ichabod," was rather slimly built, and his legs were indicative of speed and agilitv rather an of ham. But Ichabod had*a line appetite, and he knew how to lift up his voice at lunch time in a stylo that argued well for the future regularity of his meals. Will made a pen for him in the centre of a romantic group of oaks and because ho was so appealingiy small, and the dead grass had been "eaten for a wide space by lires, Tena and I gave him a generous bundle of straw from our own plethoric bed.

Wo regarded him, :is he stood with his forefeet in tho trough, eating with artless eagerness his first dinner, and speculated upon tho breadth his narrow shoulders would soon take on, and tho speed with which his lean form would soon ho converted into sugar-cured hams and spie.-d sausage. Tena thought it was cruel to regard liim in this wa}'. Tena has that element of sweetness and tenderness which is very lovely in pioneer lifo, when combined with healthy common sense, and I told her so.

Weeks passed away, and Ichabod, in spite of his amplo fare, could still seo out of his eyes, and never for oneo thought of sitting down in that helplessly fat mannor exhibited in the pigportraits of the agricultural papers. But any one could seo that his nose grew famously and his appetite continued so tine, and thero was such

twinkle of vivacity in bis hazel eves, and his voioe rang

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out so famously-

mainlng so tenaciously "loan. "Ho has a capital constitution, anyhow," said Will,"for what ordinary pig could stand on his hind toot and call for refreshments in such a sonorous voice for the length of time he does without sensibly falling away I can't seo that he is one whit thinner than he was the day I brought him home." "And then he's so knawing!'' exclaimed Tena, "the moment ho hoars tho door open, up comes his noso to soe if any one is bringing his dinner. And ho always watches you out of sight, when you go away."

Oh, very knowing! such a head! such brains!" responded Will. "I only wish I had lime to teach him to play cards, I am perfectly sure ho would bo more of a

in that lino than in pork."

"Sausages need not bo very fat," said f. "And if Ichabod's health remains unimpaired, maybe, by next 'tirist mas, we"— "We will be certain of a couple of spare ribs at least! Don't count on anything more. Let our expectations bo "moderate, and then our disappointments will never bo severe," said Will with a look ot wisdom.

Even spare ribs will be pleasant after so much bear!" said Tena. "So much bear!" Why, child, we have not had a mouthful of bear for two day* said 1—tho chief cook—indignantly.

TOO MIV1I TO IIK A If.

It had been a now sensation in our cmi.mmc—this barrel of bear! lie was a fat little four-hundred-pounder \yhom Will found loafing about a bee-Iran on Crystal Creek, lie was fat and happy but then* miirht hare come tune when honey had leoii scarce, and boar had been lean and wretched so Will put a bullet lotween his eyes, and ««av

Salted Ixiar is not quite so good. It is inclined to bo hard, and the salt takes tho "gamlneew" oul of it. But with relief of prairie chickens, a Sunday megs of trout, the portable bit of ocean that lies en wrapt in codfish, and the perspective sausages flrom ichabod, wei

found occasional salted boar very en-

In selecting cattle, a farmer should be sure to chose those that have a well formed head, with a full, mild eye.

Tea of red-oak acorns will cure scours in calves.

Young Folks.

NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

I am composed of 22 letters. My 12, 20, 9, 5 is a place of invention or fabrication. Mv 2, 8, 13, 16, 174s a kitchen utensil, Mv 7, 4, 14,18 is What serpents do. Mv 19, 22, 15, 10 is *tt»at we all should be. My 6,1. 21,13 is a lied. W\ My 11, 3 is a pronoun.

Mv whole is familiar adage. E. C.

CHARADE.

My first a pronoun is, And a royalist my next My whole you learnt at school With mv second in its text

DOUBLE ACROSTIC.

'4 A printer's ever-useful aid In it the type is nicely laid

A Latin adverb first "is seen 2. And then a river far away 8. Another thing by printers used 4. A bird quite large and fond of prey.

TRANSPOSITIONS.

1. Transpose an animal into a sense. 2. Transpose an animal into a buttress. 3. Transpose a fish into a pillow. 4. Transpose a crime into a mineral.

sanspieds. 'K.

Curtail the names of several girls and leave, 1, a musical instrument 2, a deep line 3, a verb 4, a place for sleeping 5. another verb 6, another name 7, a measure 8, to peel off, and 9, a eonjunction., ... Ct .*•'*»

ANAGRAMS.

1. No, fear not. (5. One riper bliss. 2. Gave ears. 3. Ten dun mice. 4. Nose on him. 5. I met no rise.

7. Dress pope. 8. Roscoe fled. 9. Once liars. 10. Inside clip

ADDITIONS.

To a consonant prefix a vowel and make a preposition again prefix vowel and you will seo what we all do now prefix a consonant and you will have what all bodies possess another consonant and show an evil another consonant prefixed will make a star.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, CHA RADES AC. IN LAST WEEK'S PAPER.

Problem No. 1.—133 miles and 33(5 feet from Earth. KljL'AHK-WORD KNIfiMA.

O E A O N O -i-Ji A O E I) OWE

Kiddle.—Okefinokee (Swamp, Gn.)'•"" Word Puzzle.—Illinois. Problem No. 2.—A pays $335,50% pasy ?1,505,50% pays $1,95(5,93%

Kkei* Down TmcWeeps.—"You must keep down the weeds, darling," said grandpa as he raked in the garden, "and give the flowers plenty of water. Did you never think, Lino. dear, that your mind was a garden

My mind, grandpa?," And Lina set down her watering pot and looked up into the old man's face. "My mind a garden she repeated.

Yes, dear. Your mind is that part of you in which you think and feel. Good thoughts and feelings are the flowers and fruit that grow in the gardens ot our mind, and feelings the weeds, Now-, suppose I were to let tho weeds grow just as they liked all over this garden, what do you think would happen?"

Just what has happened to neighbor Orton's garden," replied Lina. "Tho weeds would grow faster than tho good plants and flowers, and cover them over, or kill them out.

T[ggif „1P jrifcfri n"jry"\ has or his children. In their gar

dens the weeds have grown faster nan tho flowers." They are bad boys, know," answered Lina.

T" Because the father neglected the gardens of their minds, and did not pull up or keep down tho evil weeds."

O, now I understand, grandpa. And do wo all have weeds in the gardons of our minds?"

All ot us darling—the weeds of selfish thoughts and feelings—and whenever wo discover them wo should pull them tip by the roots. God will make the flowers of love and mercy, of kindness and good-will, of patience, and self denial, and all heaven-born graces, grow richly in our gardens if we but keep down the weed."—Children's Hour.

Rkai. Mkan.-A little girl of eight years came home from school one day, ami saidjin great eagerness to her mother "Ma, what do you think of Minnie She says something dreadful!" "What is it?" inquired her mother. "Nothing. I hope, but what, a little girl's mother may know."

The child then told how she had been urged to join in some mischief she had been especially forbidden to meddle with, saving: 1 told her. ma, that God would be displeased if I did so—my mother says He would and then she answered, 'Oh. 1 can ask God to foririve ine when I get throuirh!' but I told her I should bo ashamed to ask him, if I knew beforehand it was wrong. And ma, wouldn't it ho mean to do a wicked thing, and then think God will foririve you just because He is so good I think its real mean."

Mean, indeed! Little Laura, you are right. It is a great shame to venture

uj»on any wrong thing, and th«»n pro-

od him at once and forever from the fu- sumo upon forgiveness. Besides, God lure's ungucssed suffering. never forgives in that way. He is not Boar is good. Bear steak is very so easy wit ti a sinner as iiat, and whogood. In tho mere fact of eating boar, ever supiK*»es such a thing does not there is something robust and vigor- know God aright.— Little Pilgrim. mis. Will was tranquil, but I know -mm th.it in his innermost soul he ml her en- A Poi.itk Boy.—At one of the stations joyed asking Tena and I if we would on a railroad, an old gentleman entered "have anothwr bit of the boar." a crowded car, and was looking around

We had roast bear, potted bear pie, I for a seat, when a boy of ten or twelve broiled lear, hashed bear, cold broiled years rose audsaid: "Take niv seat, ttoar, and every form of boar kno\vn sir." Tho offer was gladly accented, and unknown to established cooks, and and the old gentleman asked, "Avhy asido from these dishes,therewasabout did you give mo your seat?" "Betwo hundred pounds of bear salted cause you^are old. sir, and I am a boy," down in a barrel. It was this salted was the quick reply. bear to which Tena hud alluded. 'm

Tkk Who no Woman.—a surgeon was called, the other da\ to a houso up town to amputate the leg of a young woman.

He is a near-sighted man, and when he reached the house he got into the a nil calmly sawed off the

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durable, and I never shall just come over two days before. whenev. tho tone ol reproach with which she al-/ ,k« I hided to it.

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Pretty soon, before long, tho old vendor of things came into his houso and saw what ruin his frail had wrought, lie said: "Mein Gott! Fran Shrimpetiffel, what for you make a ruined man of me, 1 guess not? You make wipe away all dein name and figures what I owes dom fellers what's going to pay me before dev got readv, and I lose inore as swei hundred tollar!"

His frau left the room in fear and disgust. When she returned, he had recovered tho head-board with marks. She said "Hans, you have make dom all right again, don't it "Well, mein tearer frau. I make iho figures al' right, but I put down some pettor names as dem old fellows vot you wiped out!"

A l'B.'fMAii sensation is felt in dropping a letter, especially if it is one of value, into the box of apostoffice. One leels a sort of revulsion, as if a part of himself, as it were, had fallen into an unfathomable abyss, never to bo recovered. This act strikes the heart like destiny, irresistible forever. Ifany error has occurred in tho letter it js entirely beyond correction if any thing happens at the instant, as there sometimes does, which ought to make a change, there is no help for it. What is done is done, and past redemption. No repentance will avail. You would have something otherwise, but it cau not be. It is too late. The missive has passed away, and is no longer yours, or subject to your alteration or control. Beware, therefore.

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overheard one of the loys. in a heat of passion, cursing every one on the says to him "Here er yon have anvthintr to sav

Mils. Pautinoton says she likes go- "P. and pointing to theHbog, said: on

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TKRR F.-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. FEBRUARY 4,1871.

HOW TO CATCH AN ALLIGATOR, Our conversation in tho railway car riage turns on the subject oJTalligators. We have, at least, sixt|j||nrclel|i in the carriage, and amonjpcrheipJa^lady who is anxious to tives aitcMllhe aBiga" what §rowsilthey a tlema», seated in ft teersapme infbrmatij "TBiy are gen %y tidRingTOein," Savs he. "How very extraordinary!" exclaims the lady. "Pray, explain how these nasty creatures are captured. It must be a singular operation." "Very singular, indeed, inadam," re plies the gentleman closing one of his eyes as he speaks. "Them/alligators are queerly-made critturs, and they have queer fancies. If you look at one of them, you willsee that he hasliard spines upou his tail. Examine them spines, and vou will see the last one at the end of the tail to be the largest, to be very sharp and strong, and curved back toward the head of the crittur, like a hook. Now, alligators, madam, are very sleepy things always a-going to sleep in the mud. The brown-skin-ned gentlemen, who live hereabouts, go out to catch them with a cane and a long pole. When they see one asleep, they tickle the point of his tail very gently with the cane, so as not to wake him. The alligator feels it, and turns his tail away from the tickle. Then they tickle it a little more, and it turns it further away, curving it sorter round as vou see. They go on tickling, and the* crittur goes on oending his tail, till he gets it right opposite his mouth. Then they give it a hard tickle. The crittur wakes, opens its mouth, snaps at its own tail, gets the point of it between its jaws, and the hooked spine driven clean into its palate. It has just made itself into a ring, you see, and can't help its tail on again. The natives have tickled it enough. All they've got to do is to put up the long pole through the ring the crittur has made itself into, hoist the two ends of the pole on their shoulders, take the crittur home, and kill it quietly. It's a scientific sort of way of catching them madam, but its very satisfactory.

HOW TO STOP UELLING. The Duke of Brissac, adopted a strange but successful device in putting down dueling in his regiment. He pretended to countenance the proceeding, but requested that his officers, before fighting, which thev did almost every day, would report tho circumstance to him. They agreed to this joyfully. Next day two'made their appearance. The Duke inquired the cause of the quarrel. As usual, it was a niero matter of foolish contradiction. "Certainly it is worth while fighting for such a matter," observed the'Duke. And he gavo them their conge. The next morning at parade, the two officers were present. "What!" said the Duke "the affair had no results then?" "Excuse me, Colonol," said one holding up his arm in a searf, "1 have received a sword wound." "Pooh! a scratch. And a question of etiquette, too! You must fight it out."

So the officers had to fight again, and one of thom received a wound th»t kept him confined three weeks to his bed. In the interval, several others ipplied for permission to fight, but the Duke would not grant it they must wait, he said, till the first quarrel was settled. One day he met the wounded officer, taking fresh air, and leaning on the arm of a friend.

What!" he said "on foot again? Capital! To-morrow you can fight again, and let this affair be fliiMPed with."

Tho two officers met again, and fell dead. The Duke .then before him those who had permission to fight, and said ptfthpin'UjeirujyigJ 10 WfTs "Ikwnftniiifctl to settled as in the instance that had occurred. The lesson had its effect. Tho Duke had no more requests for permission to fixsht.

HOW A DUTCHMAN GOT EVEN. Once on a time, there lived a jovial Dutchman, whoso first name was*Hans Yon Shrimpetiffel. He had a wife. He also had a little grocery, where beer and such personal property was sold. He gavo credit to a parcel of dry customers and kept book with a piece of chalk on tho head-board of the bedstead.

One day, Mrs. Shrimpetiffel. in a neat fit, took it upon herself to clean house and things. So she did, and she cleaned the head-board, and with soap and water settled tho old man's accounts by wiping away every chalk mark.

HOW WE HEAR AND SEE. Helmboltz, the best liying authority on the subject of sound, says that, connected with the acoustic nerUb are 3,000 strained microscopic fibres,ealled Corte's organ," and tnat it jf every sound that tfie those chords nl vib§»tion that at pathetically timed tfr it, just as will set In vibration thaae ftrin piano that ai$ strekiied to fwodi same tone. These different vioratiorts are recognized by the mind by its connection "aith tllfi nrrrr and brain.

A simillar niechanism probably exists in the eye. The retina of the eye, which is the extrimity of the optic nerve, is covered with exceedingly mihute bodies, called "rods and cones." These, it is rery probable, have the faculty of vibration under different influences. The red'light is produced bv vibrations of about 430 quadrillions of waves per second. It may set in vibration any "rods and cbwes*' that are tuned to such a vibration, while those that are sympathetic to the 760 quadrillions of waves of violet light will be set in motion thereby.

This suggests that, just as ears differ in their sensitiveness, some hearing a shrill sound that is utterly inaudible to others, whose nerve-cords are not attuned to them, so it may be in light. The arrangement of the "rods and cones" may differ in different persons. And so it is. It is a familiar fact that some persons are "Color-blind." They cannot distinguish red. That is, their "rods and cones" have not the right length or elasticity to vibrate sympath etically with a wave-length as large as those at the red end of the spectrum. And it is a fact that some others can see colors in the ultra-violet end of the spectrum to some distance beyond what is visible to most.

Now if we were to extend this variation a little, we may suppose that some animals may be able to distinguish as light by their differently constructed eyes a vibration that is quite insensible to our eyes. It would reqaire as slight change in the eye to make tho dark heat rays visible as is tho difference between the eyes of a man who can see only from the violet of the spedtrum to the orange, and the eyes of him who ©an see also the red. In fact, the prominent eyes of the molluslcs, at the utterly dark depths of mid ocean, may be useful, for aught wo know, in seeing by means of rays of heat of a low temperature. Even the modified heat ©f the currents of 32 degrees Farenheit may give these animfkls abundant use fo*r their eves.

».... j&IT WAS POWDERt-i f»« Recently a young man, employed to overhaul a quantity of paper, cards, and other printing material in a job print' ing-ofiice on Market Street, San Francisco, California, discovered a quantity of stuff that had tho appearance of powder. "That looks like powder, and I shouldn't be a bit astonished if it was powder," said tao young man "I've a good mind to try if it is powder. But,

saw, cometothink, what could powder doing in a printing-office? No I guess its black sand. That's more than likely. Sand is used to dry ink yes, it must be sand. But there's a big' lot of it almost a key. Now, if it should only happen to be powder, I could make a speculation by selling it, because the hunting season is coming on. Byjimini! 1 guess I will try a handful of it."

Having resolved to make the experiment, the young man caught up a handful, carried it off some twenty or thirty steps, and deposited it upon the floor. He then took a piece ot paper, and, having lighted it, tossed it upon the black substance. The paper burned brightly for a moment. "Oh, pshaw! it ain't powder, after all! It won't burn. Just my luck I never find any thing that is worth shucks." The paper

muig tnat is

Lad burned down._aud. .a iiimr TfFains dropped along arkling flame

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had been a few the floor, and a bright, sp flashed along the floor like athwart dark horizon, and indseconc more there was a terrific explosion. Theoldvalis, containing the powder, was hurled through the roof, and tho cards and papers were scattered in every direction. Tho room was filled with smoke tho yonng man was spread flat on his back, but, fortunately, not hurt A number of persons rushed in to see what was the matter. They assisted tho prostrato youth to rise, and asked liim what was tho matter. IIo looked at the wreck about him, and heaving a sigh, said: "By jingo, it was powder after all.'

II«w Rain is Eohmkd. —To understand tho philosophy of this phenomenon, essential to tho very existance of plants and animals, a few facts, derived from observation and a long train of experiments, must bo remembered. Wore tho atmosphere everywhere at all times, at a uniform temperature, wo should never have rain, hail or snow. Tho water absorbed by it in evaporation from theseaand the earth's surface would't descend in an imperceptible vapor, or cease to bo absorbed by the air, when it was oneo fully saturated.

The absorbing power of the atmosphere, and consequently its capability to retain humidity, is proportionally greater in cold than in warm air. The air near the surface of the earth is wanner, than it is in the region of the clouds. The higher we ascend from tho oartli, tho colder we find the atmosphere. Hence tho perpetual snow on very high mountains in the very hottest climates. Now, when, from evaporation, the air is highly saturated with vapor—though it lie invisible—if its temperature is suddenly reduced by cold currents descending from above, or rushing from a higher to a lower latitude, its capability to retain moisture is diminished, clouds are formed, and the result is rain. Air eondeiures ns it cools, and. like a sponge filled with water and |compressed, pours out water which its diminished capacity cannot hold. How singular, yet how simple an arrangement

earth.

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steamer on the Ohio River. As was the I custom, the crew had a hoe running

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hc mid nothing until the operation about any one on this boat, I want veil reeley at a nartv but they are as can be put on bills so minute and perwa* complete, bccause she thought it to except the Captain." •44,, Piri-V« fi_„

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biscuit at}d l»oy on the deck. He got f»jght. If von are very much in lovo

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the infernalest, meanest hog I ever take her to the beach and sec her in her »tain look-

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OiRKN Bathing.—One of the bathing place gentry writes: "Did you ever see a thin girl take a bath in the surf, and come out with her bathing dress sticking tight to her like a poor woman's plaster? Funny, wasn't it? Well, it's nothing to a fat girl in the same iish.' I do think, of all the comical

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TR UELO VE AND LOVE OF LO VE, Many women suppose that they love when, unfortunately, they l^nrenot the

beginning of an idea what me explain ffk to you, Losing tyb^ admired ^y

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lady

loving to bo edby these of pimply ldves to

be flattered, praised, caressed, coaxM. as a cat likes to be coaxed and stroked and fed with cream, and have a warm corner.

But all this is not love. It may exist, to be sure, vl»ere there is love:"it generally doos. But it may also exist where there is no love. liove, my dear ladies, is solf-sacritice it is a life out of self and in another. Its verv essence is tho preferring of tho comfort, the ease, the wishes of another to one's own, for the love we bear them. Love is giving, and not receiving. Love is not a sheet of blotting-paper nor a sponge, sucking in everything to itself it is an outspnnging fountain, giving from itself. Love's motto has been dropped in this world as a chance gem of great price by the loveliest, the fairest, the purest, the strongest of lovers that ever trod this mortal earth, of whom it is recorded that He said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

Now, in love, there are ten receivers to one giver. There are ten persons in this world who like to be loved and love love, where there is on who knows how to love. That, oh my dear ladies, is a nobler attainment than all your French and music and dancing. You may lose tho very power of it by smothering it under a load of early self-indulgence. By living just as you are all wanting to live—living to bo petted, to be flattered, to bo admired to be praised, to have your own way, and to do only that which is easy and agreeable—you may lose the power ol self-denial and self-sacrifice you loso the powor of loving nobly and

worthily, and become a mere sheet of blotting-paper all your Ute.—Pink mid W/iite Tyranny.

GENERAL JACKSON—HIS FAITH IN WOMAN. He never spoko an impatient word to wife, child, or servant and under his own roof approved liimsolf the gentlest and tenderest of men. "There were two Jacksons," quaintly writes a biographer "Jackson militant, and Jackson triumphant Jackson crossed, and Jackson having his own wav Jackson, his mastership unquestioned, and Jackson with a rival near the throne." He had loved his mother living, and all his remaining life revored her dead. He loved children, and they loved him he loved horses ho ought to have loved plants and flowers ho must have loved pets—evory true-hearted man and woman does love them. Before a blazing fire, on a raw and stormy night in February. with a child on his lap,. and a lamb between his knees, Benton found and announced to him his first hope for military position and glory.

But foremost among tho milder, yet nobler characteristics, was his delicate chivalrous absolute faith in the virtue of woman. "In tt.-is," said one of the earliest and most intimate of his friends, "ho was distinguishable from every other person with whom I was acquainted." And said Benton, "It was innate, unvarying, self-acting, including all womankind!" Vory rare and very exalted is this faith. Want of it is the beginning of immorality. There is no public, and there can not long be any privato yirtue whc#5 jtdoes not exist.

Thk Maurikd Like.—The .universal expectation of all youngpeople is ittat. their married Hvcs'wilL^lB happy one^f Deluded dreamers I Tpeyitnagine that they ftro .different-fr»' raaYHMMf!*M will ever be their attendants. "Sue! ones, had better, by far, consider them# selves tho same as others, but form iron resolutions to do differently from other married people—resolutions that will keep them from tho dangerous coasts on which so many have been wrecked and ruined. Unhappy marriages depend upon many causes. In this fast age there is too much deceit practiced by the young of both sexes. Previous to marriage, many try to appear inoro intellectual, more amiable, or more accomplished than they really are. Depend upon it, that lovo brought into existence by a moonlight stroll, strengthened bv deceit and fashionable displaj's, and" finally consummated through the influence of intriguing friends, will fade in after life almost as fast as the flowers which compose the bridal wreath.

OllNITIIOUXIICAI, I NKHItl KTY.—Good temperance people will be shocked to learn of what a sot—no milder term can be used—fh" mocking bird makes of himself in Florida. His special weakness is the berry of thePrido of China tree, upon the juice of which he becomes as drunk as a lord. A flock of tipsy mocking birds is a funny sight. They fly around in a most comical manner,'" hic-coughing and staggering like real men. mixing up all sorts of bacchanalian songs, and interrupting each other in tiie most impudent manner, not like well behaved birds. It is even said that they will fly out promiscuously, intrude on domestic relations, forget the way home, and get into each other's nests and families, just like the lords of creation. Itisnotimprobahie that also, like the lords of creation, they become very penitent after tho season is gone and the yearly frolic is over, und that they mako»uiauy good resolutions, join the temperance society, and keep sober till the next season comes around, and the berries are ripo oneo more. As they are "mocking" birds, it is not out of the way to suppose that they are only imitating human beings.

and I've seen

don't think men look any but we don't expect grace and in our sex, and can stand the

a girl, and want to break the spell,

toggery. If that don't kt ock the

imminent men present, and a lot of, ing at him, he added: "Except the Upooncv out of von, you'd bettor marry sence of selfishness in onr intercourse Bnxr Kmkksox,tho well known burnt crickets from the newspaper. Captain." her anl call it square." with society of all classes. I cwkist, is playing in San Francisco.

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naught and dust in'the balance" along- feet that the foreer can neither perceive side of a fat woman in

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bathing- nor iiniUUe it, but, the bank clerk or! other (lay

ftoggerv. If that don't kt ock the an habitual benevolence, and an al-,

HINTS TO MECHANICS. Civility costs nothing, great deal. We sometj" persons who are eitherj aphorism, or put vtj it. Mech to make to their assured that tablished

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"The most extraordinary machine in pleased, has

'posish.' I do think, of all the comical sirumcm ne can copy the entire Bible °^.Vbrno doubt tha't^the l^r" Mfthta in the wide world, the funniest twenty-two limes in the space or »1' Vdnc^s Louise to the

around on deck. One .lay, Capt. is a fatgirl when she comes out of the inch. The Astor 'uis of l^ne. to ^llow which a British leat of! .mirf. I have seen puppv dogs with could bo transferred to a sheet of note j' boat, "t,jue ribbons on their taiN, and neatly paper. Practically it will be of great boy, embroidered flannel shirts on their dear service in preventing forgeries. With

rule

Horace oue of these machines, a private mark J°y accordingly

from

art, can "tte" made with impunity, any good contracts have been forfeited, and profitable jobs lost, by derelictians of this character. We are led to make some remarks on this topic, on occasional complaints of correspondents, who assert that mauners have

changed as well as moons, and that eertaiu good customs have strangely gone out of fhshion. They assert 'hat mechanics come to their'bouses to do odd jobs, and sometimes by their behavior frighten the ladies and insult th,e servants, and thus do discredit to their occupations. They go thundering through a privato resioonco as if it were a barrack they never take off their hats they neglect to clean their boots they dirty up the floor or coal scuttlo with their tobacco juice they litter up the whole place with their tools ana make themselves so disagreeable that they are certain never to have a second job from the same person.

Some correspondents also complain^ that in repairing a pieco of work the mechanic occasionally does more harm* thau good. He brings with him an ignorant, boorish apprentice, and tho patching and ineiKung is So fiungliugly made that it has t£ tak^n out and done over again, oil en at no inconsiderable expense. Now this is simple dishonesty. It is stealing the money of the person who has the job done, and is hardly less reprehensible lliau it. would bo to take money out of tho till. No person ever has nioro thau one job of this character, so that ho is sure to loso in the long run nioro than he can yain by a little temporary dishonesty.

It is sometimes asserted that there" are no longer apprentices, but that even.^ the beginner claims to be a journeyman workman bo fore ho is out of his teens. This may account for tho bads?* work that is sometimes charged to tho account of tho mechanic, when, in fact,^ it is due to tho bungling of persons who claim to bo what they nro not. "There is cheating in all trades but ours," which accounts for false ropro-. sentations on tho part of a few medianics, who would be condemned by their mates if they could bo found out. Wo recommend" the oxamplc of George*1' Washington as worthy of imitation, who, when lie took off his hat to a nogro who saluted him on tho street, on being asked why ho did so, replied, "You would not have mo outdone in ^politeness by a negro?"—and tho nffty of the father of his country is |as worthy«of-imitation as

nothing, but T?fworFh~"a great deal, a? honesty is notoriously tho best policy. —tS'cicnliflc A merican.

Fit A Nf1!? AN Eno r, aN o.—Coinpareany date in French history during tho last four or live hundred years with tho same date in the history ol England, or in that of any nation that now stands exalted, and it will be scon that Franco was always moving in an unfortunate political track. When King Charles IX. sat at the window of the Louvre, with a fowling-piece in his hand, tiring at stray Huguenots in tho street below, Queon Elizabeth was laying the foundation of the modern greatness of England, and offering help and encouragement to Holland struggling courageously against the tyranny of Spain. Jusi then the dukedom of Prussia was getting itself

We are aware that our correspondents put the case pretty strongly, and do not believe that any of the enlightened readers of the Scientific A merica?i are over guilty of such misdemeanors but as tney may some of thorn be aolt quainted with mechanics upon whom the coat will fit, they would do well to givesuch persons a hint that they make nothing by rudeness, but, on the contrary, risk the loss of their situations and of their support. It is just as easy to take ott' one's hat in the presence of the ladies of the household as it is to rudely keep it on. Tobacco chewing ist a dirty habit, under any cireunistanccsg but if a mechanic, in an evil mouiPntM has acquired tho appotito for tobacco,™ let him practice a little self-denial and leave his quid at home. It is a greats feather in the cap of a mechanic to osMf tablish such a good rtpntation thit the®* family will be particular to say, when, they leave an order at the shop, "Please send tho same young man who did the" last job, ho was so neat and eivil!" The? employer is much more apt to keep. rh a hand than he would be if an op- j. posito rcq ucst were to. ba uutde. «.

joined

to the

electorate of Brandenburg. Both Great Britain and the country of the Ilohenzollerns were making themselves strong by siding with the religion of the future. In tho year when England expelled James II., and welcomed the Prince of Orange, Louis XIV. sent an army across tho Rhine, burnt half a dozen great Gorman cities, and so 1m-

iroved his own exchequer that his noand clergy had to coin their plate into money. I'he cause in whiWi Franco then spent her wealth and blood was a failure the movement in England was the inauguration of the birth of political liberty.—Ucnllniuin'it Magazine.

h. Lovk Match.—The United States have abolished slavery Franc.* has overthrown the empire and now Groat Britain takes a step forward in allowing a princess of the royal family to marry a subject nobleman. The advance may seem to American ideas a trivial one but it implies the sacrifice of a vast amount of prejudice, and tho establishment of a new precedent which may lead to important results. If republican vouths and maidens have ever been inclined to envy the lot of the scions of reigning family in England, thoir luxuries and privileges, the tuought of

MiNt'TK Machinkrt.—A correspond- this limitation ot their liberty, that ent, writing from London, savs: they might not "I"rry

been

the exhibition is, beyond question, the I their splendors of I'ving. J»" -1 This en-1 ture is the same, in Windsor or In Balmoral and mingling treelv as tiie

one for microscopic' writing. ables a person to write in the usual wsy, and to duplicate his writing a million times smaller, so small, indeed, that it Is invisible to the nnk»"d eye. yet with a powerful microscope become* so plain that every line and dot can be seen. The inventor eLairns that with this instrument he can copy

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sufficient

Queen's children have with tho young members of tho aristocracy, there must have lieen attachments tie- sacrifice of which seemed too dear a price to pay for all that royal blood can command. Whatever doubt there may be about tho

With tUIH if|. iiiiit »vi u"wov».. -J —r

MaJ-

had to bo disregarded, is a lovo match and wo wish the young pcoplo

A STHEKT

i)roker,~know'ing"whcre to look, can at knives and balls about, iKxauso he did once delect that a bill is genuine.

The I

oliteness of the heart consists in

not feel in the vein.

machine is the invention of Mr. Po~' "In what vein? asked a bystander,® tcrs.'

tho tho

ekt juggler complained that lie couldn't throw

weakly. "The juggler vein, of course, stupid was the answor.