Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 June 1871 — Page 2

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MILK.—The Irish Far

mers' Gazette has the following, which at least goes to show that cows should be milked oftener than twice a day, for some time after calves are taken away from them, if they are allowed to suckle until thev are weaned "Regularity in the milking of cows is of as much importance as regularity in the feeding of them. In a state of nature the cow is relieved of its mi'k a great many times a day. A calf allowed to remain with its mother will help itself to the lacteal fluid seven or eight times a day. Under such circumstances the udder of the cow will

remain

and if allowed to retain the milk secreted during twelve hours, feverish symptoms are likely to be produced. The practice of milking cows more than twice during the twenty-four hours causes the capacity of the udders to be greatly increased, and, probably, helps in maintaining the lacteal secretion long after pregnancy has taken place. "When, however, by an artificial system the cow has been enabled to retain its milk without inconvenience for twelve hours or

HO,

it ought to be milk

ed regularly every day at the same hours. When time for milking arrives the udder generally becomes distended to its utmost capacity, and it the bo not wpwdily removed, the animal

suffers

considerable pain. Cases of fe

ver, the result of allowing animals to remain too long unmilked are, indeed, by no means of mi frequent occurrence. It is especially necessary to attend to

this

point for some days after tho animal nan brought forth its young, for during that period very little irritation of the lacteal organs is likely to bring on that most fatal of maladies, puerperal fever. If the milking be too long delayed, nature will try to help the poor animal. An absorption of milk into the blood will, to some extent, take place, and that which remains in tho udder will become deteriorated. When neglect to milk a cow at the regular time is repeated several times, the secretion of the fluid is permanently checked and there are many cases where by such neglect an animal has become "dry" in less than a month. "In these countries and in North America, cows are milked only twice a day except in some cases, when for some'time after calving tho operation is repeated thrice daily. I» niost continental States it is, however, the general practice to milk dairy cows three times a day, at regular intervals of eight hours. Now, would it not Jo

worth

while determining the question

whether an interval of eight or twelve

hours

between milking is the best?

This point could be easily decided at some such institution as the Glasnovin Farm or the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. We incline to tho opinion that a cow would yield more fluid if milked three times than it milked twice daily but the former number would involve great trouble to the work people. In Germany and Holland tho cows are milked at 4 o'clock,

a'elock

M.,

A. M.

leai our

dairy-niaids would consider hc.se lioiu too long tor a day's Work." \VINTKII KVK

KOK

PASTruns.—The

Farmer says: On Mr. Riser's

inriti, near this city, we saw an illustration of the value of winter rye as a ^rf^for earlv soiling or lor pasturage dioary seasons good pasturage for "Hives, or cows that aro thin and do not seem to do well on drv feed, very early in spring, and may fio pastured to a eonsiderablo extent without serious injury to the crop. Or it can be cut and 'fed to stock at tho stables, furnishing a large amount of good feed earlier than almost any other crop that can be grown for that purpose, Mr. Kiser had sown a small crop of winter rye, and detailed the surprising amount of service it had done, in furnishing good pasturage early in tho spring, yet it gives promise of yielding a fair crop of grain.

HKATKD MII.K,—

A correspondent of tho Rural Home says: When the dam is used in hot weather upon tho farm or road, so as to heat her blood, the colt should never bo allowed to suck until she has fully cooled ofl'. l^et him fill himself before the mother is put into harness, and if it is important that ho should accompany the dam, tie him at her shlo so that he will bo unable to draw milk until he is liberated for it is much bettor that ho should go hungry a few hours than to take his food while It is in a fevered state. If the mare is to make a long distance in a hot day, and return at night, it is best to leavo tho colt at homo and draw the milk from the udder by hand onca or twice during tho day, and then upon returning allow tho colt to till himself gradually ns tho milk is secreted.

TK^AH STOCK.—The

Drowr. of Kansas City, says: So far the arrivals of cattle in this city have ln*en light, but their quality, if it may lo taken as an index of wnat will be the condition of the stock to be shipped this season, is a good omen. Some of the lots which havo been shipped through this city havo been a quality ran'lv equalled, while, with very few exceptions, they have been more than ordinarily good. Now all Texas or Southwestern cattlo can be put in this condition by a little extra care: and we hold that it should be Jone. Should a course bo pursued by which tho condition of cattle intended for tho Eastern market would be improved, it would not be long before its benefits would bo lelt. Or {'/V1

FOOD ron BUKKOINU Sows.—A writer in the Michigan farmer says in relation to how he keeps bis breeding sows Their food for most of the time has been turnips—the Sweet Russia or Jennv Linds, as thev aro called hero. This was their food"during ihe latter part of the winter, and until grass grew, when thev were turm»d Into the clover. They eat'them readily, and thrive on them. I consider corn very injurious to breeding sows, especially to the finer broods. Potatoes or slops from the house are also good. I consider sugar beets very valuable for feeding breeding sows, and store hogs, and I. shall raise an acre for that purpose.

If you have a screw rusted into wood, or a nut or a bolt that will not readily turn, pour on a little kerosene and let it remain in a short time it will penetrate the interstices, so that the serew may be easily removed.

SPHKAD your manure as you draw It, and draw ft as it is made, if possible, if pm would get the most strength out of

THE Emperor of Germany Is a practical printer—which account® for the vein of piety so ootioable in his war bulletins. All his ftunilv are obliged to have some trade, lie chose the "art preservative of ajrta," and worked at the case tor three years.

Young Folks.

ANAGRAMS.

(The letters in italics, transposed, will name a poet, a novelist, and a painter.) Two friends conversing on the FrancoPrussHn

war,

small

one was heard to remark,

love peace, and I ask, can or will One army make it it they don't, my friend A. A. Dean will starve in Paris." "It is very true," exclaimed the other, '•that France is in a deplorable state and recollect, Ephraim, many will revel, and soon die, in that unfortunate city.

F. J.

PORTEIT.

ENIGMA.

In mathematics I am often used, Yet held of little substance by its friends. I'm crossed when the fair bound of mirth's abused

And you will find that I have got two ends. I am at the edge of every deep, dark river

I am in every book, some way or other All things that have a substance have me ever

I'm on this page, and likewise many another. In rivers I am put against the law

And if you murder anybody ever, Jack Ketch upon you soon will lay his claw,

And give you me, and you will find "him clever. To end my story, and myself you'll see, Like matrimony, many noosed by me.

G.J. BELLJUII.

REBUS.

Intact is my foremost part. That everybody knows full well Mv second is an auction mart.

And now my whole I'll briefly tell: Of letters nine I am composed, And if the trutli you'd have me say, I am a word that is opposed

To trade that's in a petty way. My 1, 2, 7, 8, and », Will name the largest thing alive My 2 and 7, my 4 and «J,

Will clearly health and strength deline. My a and 1, likewise my 8,

A bird of night will designate. My 1, and D, my 7, 4, The rich enjoy, but not the poor.

In dance and feast, guests passed the time away. And so continued Without a pause, till all were wearied. 5. On many sat at load

Tho demon of tho night he walk'd abroad. G. The cause was (so I've heard),

They ate lo freely of this dainty bird. WINDOVKK WORKMAN.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, CHARA MS etc:. IN LAST WEEK'S Puzzle.—999. 9 9-9.

Hidden Cities.—1. Rochester 2. Erie {. Baden 4. Naples f. Cork (!. Utica 7. Long Island, (a new city on L. I. 8. Cleveland 5». Cheraw 10. Raleigh.

Cross-Word Enigma.—Verandah. Miscellaneous Enigma.—Tho Polar Sea. ...

FA NN A NA USCHEK— THE FA MO US HERMAN ACM ESS. Tho steamship Rhcin, of tho North German line, carried among her passengers from tho port yesterday to Europe, Fanny Janausehek,the onco faUious German actress, but now us celebrated and successful as an actress in English. Her professional career in the United States is, perhaps, more remarkable than anything we know of in hisrionic art. She came here two or threo years ago with tho highost European reputation, but a stranger unknown in America, and not speaking a word of

English. She performed in German at tho Academy of Music and impressed the public with her extraordinary dramatic talents, and afterwards gave a successful round of performances in the same languago at different cities throughout the United States, realizing, as we understand, forty thousand dollars during the season. Her unsurpassed merits were universally recognized by the press and public. But sho saw that her success was limited by performing before the American people in a language they did not understand, and resolved to master tho English language, with a view to perform in it. She had the ambition to becomo as great an actress in English as she had been in German. Many donbted the result, and not a few sakl it was impossible she could succeed. But she is a woman not to bo deterred by difficulties. Her resolution and perseverance proved equal to her genius. Sho mastered the English, as many who saw her perform at the Academy of Music again in our language are "aware, and has since been morasuccessful than she was while perfoming in German. During the last fall and winter season Fanny Janausehek has, under her own management, netted over all expenses nearly fifty thousand dollars. Her profits at St. I/ouis alone for a short season amounted to near ten thousand dollars.—New York Herald.

IN these days, when five thousand dollars arc paicl tor a dress and twentyfive hundred forja shawl, and the rent of a decent house in a desirable street is six thousand dollars a year, it is refreshing to read of the simple habits of our grand-parents. Peter Parley relates that his father, a clergyman,"with a salary of three hundred dollars a year, brought up his family respectably "sent his sons to college, discharged every obligation in life, lived to a good old age, and left a handsome competency to his descendants. That was in tho iron age, before greenbacks. Fifth Avenue, Delmonico's, and French mantua-ma-kers, were invented but the iron got from the conditions into the constitutions of the people, who were of a tough and heroic type. Perhaps a little more of their iron, and a little less brass and paper., more of their got and less of their spend, would improve the quality of their descendants.—(JoUien Age,

AN Illiterate negro preacher said to his congregation:—"My brethren, when de fust man, Adam, was made, he was ob wet day, and set up agin the palings to dry." "Do you say," said one of the congregation, "d*t Adam was made ob w*t clay, an set up agin de palings to dry?" "Yes sar, I do." "who made de palings?" "Sir, down, sar," said the preacner sternly, "such questions aa dat would upset any system of theology." 4*,.

rich

J. C'.

DOUBLE ACROSTIC.

Read down tho primals and the finals here Each will present a period of the year. 1. I woo'd her for my bride.

She gave me this my fate it did decide. 2. And thereupon I went.

To out from whom I ask'd and got consent. 3. The wedding bells peal'd gay

VFP.BRR-RAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JUNE 24.1871.

MORAL DISEASE.

The Nashua Telegraph speaks Jn terms of unsparing contempt of a comparatively rich physician in Hillsboro' county, Mass., whose meanness

teems almost unparalleled. This mant having occasion to make a professional visit to his own mother, a poor old woman nearly ninety years old, exacted from her the full fee, even though knowing that she must spend many a weary night in knitting socks lor sale to pay it. Nor was this his worst mercenary depravity for at his mother's death, after she had been compelled to seek the support of another son, a farmer in straightened circumstances, the wealthy doctor presented his poor brother with a bill of 93—"to horse hire for conveyance of myselt and wife to grave"—Jilthough the horse was his own! Such meanness certainly revolts all that is respectable in average human nature but does not its very extravagance, by indicating that it is a natural moral disease, rather than ail acquired artificial trait, entitle it to something like pity? Some years ago the culminating-mean descendant of a long line of notorious rich skinflints, in a neighboring State, was sick so near unto death that the attending doctor and the doctors called in consultation virtually gave him up. At this crisis an old ancl excellent phylivinir near the sick man, but mv iciiL

whoso friendship and professional services had been alienated for a number of years past by some despicably mean act'of the rich miser, heeded the despairing cry that called him to the bedside of his former patient, and, by some happy resource, rescued his enemy from deat h. For this he utterly refused compensation, though,^ in an hour of exceptional humanization ot soul, the man whose life he had saved ottered it liberally. In a few months thereafter the physician had occasion to call at the same house on other business. His only cow had strayed into a field belonging to his

neighbor and late patient

and he went to offer—compensation! "IIow much shall I pay you for the damage done?" he asked, shamefaced at his own question. The answer, after a pause, a suppressed sigh, and a nervous twitching of the lips, was—"Nothing." But in the manner and tone of his answer there was something to make the doctor draw from his pocket a half dollar, and extend it towards his neighbor saving: "You must at least take this'." "The man of score thousands, with all their inherited melinness for generations aud generations, thrust both his hands fiercely into his pockets turned red and pale alternately looked at the coin, then tried to look away from it choked stammered something incoherently drew one hand from a pocket, and—snatched the coin like a wild beast! "I can not help it he sobbed, and cried aloud like a child in utter shame and conscious iResistible degradation.

ASTONISHED CONDUCTOR. Get aboard, old limpy," said a pert railroad conductor to an aged, plainly dressed man, standing on the platform, waiting for the signal to depart "get aboard old limpy, or you'll get left."

At tho signal, the old gentleman quietly stepped aboard and took a seat by himself. When the conductor, In taking up the tickets, came to him and demanded his fare, ho replied

I do not pay faro on this road."

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A FIRE TO POKE.

How can a person be attached to a house that has no center of attraction, no soul In it, in the visible form of a glowing fire, and a warm chimney, like the heart in tjie body? When you think of the ola homestead, if you ever do, your thoughts go straight to the wide chimney ana its burning logs. No wonder that you are ready to move from one fire-placeless house to another. But you have something just as good, you'say. Yes, I have heard of it. This age which imitates everything, even to the virtues of our ancestors, has invented a fireplace, with artificial, iron, or composition logs in it, hacked and painted, in which gas is burned, so that it has the appearance of a wood fire. This seems to me blasphemy. Do you think a cat would lie down before it? Can you poke it? If you can't poke it, it is a fraud. To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than anything else in the world. The crowning human virtue in a man is to let his wife poke the fire. I do not know how any virtue whatever is possible over an imitation gas log. What a sense of insincerity the family must have, if they indulge in the hypocracv of gathering about it. With this center of untruthfulness, what must the life in the family be Perhaps the lather will be living at the rate of ten thousand a year on a salary of four thousand perhaps the mother, more beautiful and younger than her beautified daughters will rouge perhaps the young ladies will make wax-work. A cynic might suggest the motto of modern life this simple legend—"Just as good as the real."

Then I will put you off at the nex^ ^TH^cSndWtor ... senger, who had seen tho transaction? said to him

Did you know that old gentleman?" "No, I did not." "Well, it is Mr. the President of this road."

The conductor changed color, and bit his lips, but went on and finished taking up the tickets. As soon as he had done he returned to "old limpy," and said "Sir, I resign my station as conductor." "Sit down here, young man. I do not wish to harm you but wo run this road tor profit and to accommodate the public, and we make it an invariable rule te treat every peYson with perfect civility whatever garb ho wears, or whatever infirmity he suffers. This rule is imperious upon every ono of our employes. I shall not remove you for what you have done, but it must not be repeated." "That conductor afterward never saw among his passengers another "old limpy."

THK unpopularity of Jefferson Davis in the south is a fact to which northern travelers in that section bear witness, and which finds other and ampler confirmation in tho out-spokenness of the southern press. Of courso Mr. Davis, like all other fallen leaders, still has his partisans, but these are no longer legion, but only a few. The Richmond Dispatch calls his speeches "foolish." Tho Louisville Courier Journal says, "lie had better let his spectacular business alone." The St. Louis Republican says,"We havo a right to ask him to abstain from any participation in a political controversy which he is unable to comprehend." The Montgomery Mail says, "Silence alone can protect him from misrepresentation." The Memphis Avalanche says, "His views, whatever they may be, are not to be regarded with "any more respect, or more importance to be attached to them, than those of any other prominent citizen." The Richmond Enquirer says, "He exhausts our patience. The southern people do not intend to follow Mr. Davis. Thev have not got the slightest idea of it."" The Augusta Constitutionalistsavs. "His recent utterances have worked mischief." Many other journals in the South have not hesitated to speak in a similar strain of condemnation. From all which we are inclined to the opinion that the lost cause is pretty thoroughly lost.—Golden Age.

BRIONOLI'S MATRIMONIAL SQUABBLE. —A New York letter says it is whispered in social circles that Brignoli, whose private marriage last July with Miss McCulloch, at Montreal, excited some comment, made an attempt to ignore his marriage, evidently imagining that he was able to free himself from the shackles of matrimony, whose chains had become irksome to the haughty tenor. In thin he "reckoned without his host," or hostess, rather, for Mrs. Brigrioli proved equal to the situation, and so plainly demonstrated to her other half the impossibility of a separation from her—and the twins— that after a fbw frantic efforts, he has now subsided into the gentle and quiet Benedict, and, learning a lesson from the past, will in the tatare keep in the usual tenor of his way, cdntent to float without struggling on the turbid sea of matrimony. i*

But I am not a cynic, and I hope for the rekindling of wood fires, and a return of the beautiful home light from thein, If a wood fire is a luxury, it is cheaper than many in which we indulge without thought, and cheaper than the visits of the doctor, made necessary by the want of ventilation of the house. Not that I have anything against doctors I only wish, after they have been to see us in a way that seems so friendly, they had nothing against us.—From

Back Log Studies," by Charles D. Warner Scribner's for July.

PROUD POVERTY.

A worthy curate residingin the county of Kildare, Ireland, some time ago, related tho following anecdote of his neighbor:

In his millynrd was a gander, which had been there forty years he was the finest and largest bird of his kind I ever saw." said the curate. "His watchfulness was excessive no dog could equal him in vigilance, or be more fierce in attacking strangers or beggars he followed his old master wherever he went, and at his command would fly at any man or,beast, and with his bill, wings and feet ho could hurt severely. When my neighbor paid me a visit, the gander always accompanied him, and I was liberal of oats, having one or two geeso in my yard he would, besides, come up and give me a gratuitous call before his master rose in the morning but neither the oats nor the blandisements of the feathered fair ones could keep him long away, and ho soon solemnly stalked back to his proper station at the mill, ear after year I perfected my friendship with 'Toby,' the gander, and certainly had a share in his esteem, when, one winter, after having been confined to the house by a severe cold. I inquired, in passing through tho millyard, for my friend, whom I could nowhere see. uuw-1 mvH mini in tho mill, w«o nad been anotu. i*mg as Toby himself, 'Toby's gone' 'Gone whfcre?'" "'Oh, he's dead.'" 'How dead 'Why, sir, wo ate him for our Christmas dinner!'

Eat him I think I have seldom in my life been more astonished and shocked positively I would have given a fat cow to be eaten, could I have saved poor Toby but so it was. Upon inquiry, I found that tho poor man had not the means to buy his Christmas dinner, that he was too proud to go into debt, and as he wiis to give his people a moat dinner, poor Toby fell a sacrifice to proud poverty."

SUNDAYS.

I think, with a shudder, sometimes, of what lifo would bo without Sunday, —if day after day tho great wliee^of tho world went round with its ceaseless clatter, never a rest in motion, nerer a pause in sound. These are here secular essays they do not aspire even to the dignity of lay sermons. What am I that I should dare to write otherwise than as a worlding? I speak of tho Sabbath only in its original meaning, as a word that signifies rest. And in this sense it is by most men, and ought to be by all, esltocnied as the very greatest of all the blessings which the Almighty benevolonc'o has bestowed upon man. The worst Sabbath-breaker of all is the ingrate who is not thankful when the Sabbath comes round. He may goto church threo times a day, and beaustero in all outward observances, but he breaks the Sabbath in his heart if he rejoices when it is over. There are many kinds of worship, and lam humbly disposed to think that thegivingofthanks is not the least acceptable of them. If it be true that laborareest orare, we are praying during six days of the week, and itiaydevole tho seventh to .praise. He who thoroughly enjoys his day of rest lives from morning to night in a state of thankfulness to the Almighty the incense of praise is continually rising from his luart. I do not envy the man who does not hail the advent of Sunday, and iSjoice in tho Rest which it vouchsifes.— Essay of an Optimist by John William ICaye, f. R. S.

AN OUTLANIISH JOKK.—In Williamsport, Pa., a swbrd-swallower has come to grief in the host extraordinary manner. He accejted a wager to swallow and umbrella, md soon had its ferule in his stomach No sooner was this accomplished nan the base wretch who made the bet sjized the umbrella by the handle anc^opened it all the way, clinching it onthe catch. He then fled. Of course all efbrts to close the umbrella and remove it, have been utterly useless, and the pior sufferer walks about with his persot distended in a manner that is inexpfesibly painful. These

Sbr

who is now a mine

A Harvard graduate, swinging a sledge-hammer in in Utah, writes home that he believes that the days of Mortnonism will be short, and that the Mormon girls particularly are down on polygamy, manifesting a willingness in all cases to marrv a Gentile rather than a Mormon.

tracllcal jokesare very wrong. Just the sake ofk moment's amusement, this man obiged to carry that umbrella with hiti to his grave.

APROFT7AB|HSTUMP.—A New Hampshire paper nafs that a maple stump in Newport vieUed the past season, two and one-naif barrels of sap. It was about two 5ee| in diameter, and shows no signs of liftexoepting when tapped. The wind badblown off the entire top, and much of tk body of the tree while the forlorn oil stump was left to drop two and one-felf barrels of tears for the loss of Is tir proportions.

MRS. Gidln|, o*Suffolk, England, has founded ainew religious sect, the chief feataie ofwhich is that the members are reruiod to salute each other with a holy kli. The young men and maidens tunic it is a" much sweeter thing than mxjiot.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE HAIR. Straight, lank, stringy-looking hair indicates weakness and cowardice.

Curly hair, denotes a quick temper. Frizzly hair, set on one's head as IT each individual hair was ready to fight its neighbor, denotes coarseness.

Light auburn denotes intelligence, industry, and peaceable disposition. Coarse, straight, black hair denotes a sluggish disposition, with but little ambition, and a love of ease, with a disjjosition tofind fault and borrow troub-

Black hair, very little inclined to curl, with a dark complexion, indicates personal courage, especially when one is cornered, with a wonderful degree of pertinacity, and a disposition to hang on until whatever is undertaken be accomplished.

Red hair, if straight, denotes ugliness and a haughty, domineering disposition.

Lightish red hair, somewhat given to curl, if it be fine rather than coarse, indicates ambition, but deceit, treachery and a willingness tosacrificeold friends for new ones, or for personal advancement.

What is called sandy hair indicates a jovial disposition, without much energy or powers of calculation for bargains. Such persons are generally good fellows content to work for others more than themselves.

Brown hair denotes fondness for lifo, a friendly disposition, ambition, earnestness of purpose, capacity for business and reliability in friendship, in proportion as the hair is fine.

Light brown hair, with clear skin, is a very certain indication of courage, ambition, reliability, and determination to overcome obstacles. Nearly all the best business men of the country have this kind of hair. The finer and more silken the texture, the finer the organization, and the more touchy and inflammable the disposition. If such hair be straight and fine, it indicates an even disposition, a readiness to forgive, with a desire to add to the happiness of others.

Persons with fine light-brown or auburn hair, inclined to curl or friz, are quick tempered, and are given to resentment and revenge.

Light-brown hair, inclined to redness, with a freckled skin, is a certain indication of deceit, treachery, and a disposition to do something mean by a friend when that friend cannot bolonger used to advantage.

Straight black hair, crisp and glossy, indicates great powers of endurance, indifference to danger and a strong predisposition to revenge wrongs or insults, real, or fancied. Tho coarsor such hair, the longer will the person having it nurture his revenge, till conies a sate chance for its gratification.

Hair that is inclined to change its appearance with the weather with a sort of recklessness as to its style, indicates a corresponding recklessness, or rather independence, as to the speech of people.

A DEFENSE OF THE PERSONAL COLUMN OF THE NEWSPAPERS. I confess that I liko the personal column in our journals. Of course I do not mean when it is frivolous or scandalous. Nor when it simply records the arrival of unimportant army officers, obscure clergymen, and tho mayors of our small towns at our city hotels but I like it when it shines and sparkles with tho movements or sayings of notable people. What is the harm of this names? Suppose Sydney Smith and Charles Lamb were now alive, and were members of a conversation club, would it not be a delight occasionally for the outside public to hear astray witticism reported from their lips, or to know what they thought of the last new book, or to enjoy the sarcasm which they let fly at the last piece of roguery in tho Legislature? Human lifo cannot bo all dignity. As we are persons ourselves, so what is personal to others must always have a peculiar charm to us all. Biography takes great hold of large classes oi' persons. Boswcll deserves his immortality. Jenkins, too, has claims to our interest. Of courso we disapprove of his writings,but we never theless take pains to read his gossipy stufl. There aro a thousand young A mericans of whom all the rest of tho American people would like to seo some personal chit-chat every day in the public prints. Suppose Gen. Grant goes trout fishing. Is it any harm to want to know what luck ho had? Supposo Charles Summer receives for kis public services an elegant purple velvet, gown. Is it guilty in mankind to desire to know which of his many admiring lriends, male or female, sent it to him? Suppose Horace Greeley leaves his overcoat in a railroad car. Is it not interesting to know that it is identified because it lias twelve different packages ef clover seed in it? I confess that I was pleased to hear that the Princess Louise walked to her Wedding in No. 5slippers. You and I would take it for granted that she would wear slippers the interest, of course, is not in tho slippers, but in the exact size and I maintain that tho recent newspaper paragraph giving the shoe-maker's measurement of her dainty foot (which I suppose to be fat and Germanic^, was a fragment of piquant reading. I wish you, therefore, to understand (as I intimated before) that while I totally disapprove of such flippancy in the public press, 1 am sufficiently childish in rny intellectual tastes to relish just such froth. And I hereby distinctly say that I would not subscribe for a newspaper which did not Contain a personal column.

NEW RULES

KOR

GOINO

SLEEP.—1.

Fix the thoughts on some one thing. If you can't do that, fix them on two ihings. Fix'em! You can easily unfix thern after you once get to sleep. 2. Don't go to sleep with your head down against the foot-boara, or your feet dsngliug on the floor. It disturbs the electric fluids. 3. A writer recommends to suspend a base-drum over your bed, within your reach, and pound on it with your fist. It will induce sound sleep. 4. Rolling the eye-balls is good, except for blind people. Rolling out of bed may be substituted in such cases. 5. The danger in falling asleep lies principally in the distance you fall. Those who are subject to such should have a rope-ladder convenient to climb back on. 6. Dining late in a poor way ot anodvning. In order to fall asleep with dispatch, don't eat any thing the day previous.

A lay speaker, in a Methodist Conference down East, illustrated his read19

iness to fraternize with his Southern brethren, by the story of two men that would not speak to each other but one, having been converted at a camp meetip

ing, on seeing his former enemy, held out his band, saving: "How d'ye do, Kemp? I am humble enough now to shake hands with a dog."

Mr.«w Mix.-an JOXES, a Genesseo school-marm, whaled her uncle during school hours, the other day. The "uncle" was unruly.

GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN I EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The growth of this' great communiofn in the United States within the past ten years has been remarkable. Nearly fifty bishops will meet this year at the .. great Triennial Convention, to be held

Baltimore in October. A few years ago less than one-half of this number were present on similaroccasions. The great States have had to bo divided— New York into five dioceses, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, into two and three ea"ch.

The growth of the Church in the Western States and new territories, and on the Pacific coast,almost exceeds that of the East. On the line of the great Pacific railroads, hardly a hamlet or way station of any importance can be found without itsEpiscopal church. The zeal and energy of the Western missionary bishop among whom the most prominent is Bishop Randall, formerly of this city, are overcoming all obstacles. Dotted all over these new regions are neat little churches, with their Sundayschool, all erected and established within the past five years.

In the first missionary tour of Bishops Randall in Colorado, he came one Sunday morning to a mining village that hardly knew by auy religious services when it was Sunday. That morning had witnessed the murder of a man in a drunken or gambling quarrel. One year from that day a regular parish! church was in full operation with a settled minister, and a tino Sunday-school in which all the children of the village were gathered every Sunday for religious instruction. Similar instances have occurred in other places in those remote regions.—Boston Traveller.

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. The ancient baths were frequented indiscriminately by persons of all ranks, says a writer in the College Review. The noblest and richest persons there found themselves mingled with the poorest plebeians. The following anecdote, related by Spartan, leaves no doubt upon this "point. Tho Emperor Hadrian, he says, frequently bathed with a crowd of people. One day he perceived an old soldier, who, having no person to cleanse his skin for him, contrived a substitute by rubbing his back against a wall, lladrian, who had known him in the field, inquired why he did this. He replied because he iiad no servant. Tho Emperor immediately ordered him some slaves and a pension. The news of so benevolent an action, performed beforo so many witnesses, quickly spread into every part of Rome and tho next time Hadrian came came to the public batlis, several old men did not fail to bo tho'/e also, and and endeavored by tho samo means to attract the notice and generosity of the prince. But tho

Emperor, who had remarked tho contrivance, far from treating them as ho had done his old companion in arms, caused strigiles to be distibuted to them, and ordered them to employ them by assisting each other.

THE DOME OF THE CAPITOL. Tho dome of the capitol, at Washington, is the most ambitious structure in America. It is 108 feet higher than tho Washington Monument at Baltimore, sixty eight feet higher than that Bunker llill, and twenty feet higher than the Trinity Church towerat New York. It, is the only considerable domo of iron ill tho w»orld. It Is a vast hollow spnero or iron weighing 8,000,200 pounds. IIow much is that? More than 4,000 tuns, or about the weight of 70,000 fnll-grown people, or about equal to 1,000 laden coal cars, which, holding four tons each would reach two miles and a half.

Directly over your head is a figure in bronze, America," weighing H,!)8.r Itm. The pressure of the iron dome upon its piers and pillars is 12,477 pounds to the square foot. St. Peter presses nearly 20,000 pounds more on the squaro foot, and St. Genevievo, at Paris, 00,0000 pounds more. It would require, to crush tho supports of our dome, a pressure of 775,270 pounds to the square foot. Tho cost was about, $1,100,000. The new wings cost ?6,.5(H),000. The architect has a plan for tho rebuilding of tho old central part of the Capitol and enlarging the park, which will cost about $.'{.200,000.

CITY GIRLS'.

Tho girls of tho principal citics in this country aro noted as follows: Baltimore, tho handsomest.

Boston, tho most intellectual. New York, the gayest and most expensive in dress.

Washington, the most airy and superficial. Philadelphia, the most refined and lady-liko.

Chicago, the fastest and most dissipated. Toledo, the biggest feet.

St. Louis, tho most reckless. New Orleans, thomost traveled. Cincinnati, tho groatest flirts. Louisville, the proudest. Detroit, the wildest. Cleveland, the most graceful and entertaining in conversation.

San Francisco, the most indifferent, Richmond, the most anxious to bo loved.

Mobile, tho most liberal entertainers. Hartford, the best musicians. Buffalo, the dullest. Rochester, the longest hair. The girls in tho country for making the best wives.

As old traveler, at present sojourning here, tells a pretty tough story abou1. being lost in the woods with his dog. where he could find nothing to eat, and had to cut off his dog'H fail, which ho boiled for himself, ami afterwards gave the dog the bone! Wo would rather borrow $.V) than believe that story.— Indianapolis Mirror.

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