Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 1, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 July 1871 — Page 2

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THE POWKR OF FLO WEES. The following essay was read at a recent meeting of the Terre-Haute Horticultural Society by Vn. Geo. C. Duy:

The subject assigned me at our last meeting, is one of which so much can bo, and has been said, that I hardly know what to write. Inasmuch as I was not limited to any theme except the most comprehensive, as one might say, "flowers in the abstract," I have chosen the power of flowers.

Some author has said, "God's last, best gift to man was woman." I am inclined to think from recent developments that is a mistake in fact, and (in all reverence I say it) I think God's best gift to man was flowers. You may say fruits, but without.flowers, there are.no fruits.

What were God's thoughts when in His loving kindness He tinted the lily, shed fragrance upon the rose, and made all the flowers so matchless in their grace and beauty.

He might have made the earth bring forth Knough for great and Miiall, The oak tree «nI thf cedar tree

Without a flower at all. if 0 0 Kf

mr outward life requires them not. Then wherefore hud they birth To minlHter delight to man ti To beautify the

earth:

To comfort man, to whimper hope When e'er bin faith in dim For whoso careth for the flowers

Will much more wire for Him. No one can study flowers and not in--line to gentleness and mercy, nor be uninfluenced by an insensibly growing delicacy of taste and understanding of tho fitness of things, in all of which lies great power. However, flowers may "sport," there is invariably harmony both in form and color, hence their adaptation to dress and ornament.

And hero is truly displayed one power of flowers—dress copying flowers in color and grace—(not the present style I admit, but tho Turkish and Grecian mayhap,) and confiscated to the use of woman, to givo her power over tho •'ljord's of creation." l)o you doubt my assertion Go to a party, look around you on tho street, or even at meetings, quarterly meetings, camp mooting*, or tho most fashionable congregations of tho city. How aro tho eyes of men, find through tho eyes tho hearts of men influenced? Do they ask such questions as these, "can she bake brew and darn Is it her naturo to keep a tender watch and care over the loved ones of home?" Or do they think "how I could love her, how buoyant life's labors would be sustained by her truthful nature, her loving help?" Do not tho thoughtsoftonor run in this wise, "Deuced pretty girl, how a fellow would be envied with such a pretty wife. Tom's wife don't compare with her and he's proud as Lucifer of her beauty." Beauty catches the eye and ensnares the heart, when ten chances to OJIR, IT LOPPING to tho love of a -hat or the rose Hint of a ribooif chosen by some nature-loving littlo milliner. Here in a round-about way we discern the power t.f flowers.

Wero you ever sick? Near unto death? A friend sends a carefully solocted boquet, you seo her favorito boloved flower conspicuous. Is there not a spirit thrill from her heart to yours? And with the pleasureably quickening pulso comes strength, and tho power of love, through flowers, grapples tho life cords and holds until life grows strong again.

I believe no material objects exert so great an influence over the human mind, even indirectly, as flowers. What will stir a man's heart so intensely as th» sight or perfume of a flower familiar to his childhood I remoml»er as if it wen' only yesterday, giving Mr. Samuel Crawford a bouquet with ft sprig of Bloody Wall flower in it. The moment his eyes rested on tho Wall flower how they brightened. His mother's home in Ireland seemed to be presented most vividly to his mind, and smelling the flower, he said in loving tones, "thank you, this makes me think of my mother. It grew all around that wall and on the top of our ash house, it is hardy there, and blooms the first thing in spring. I love it."

Was there not a power iu that unattractive little flower, that brought to his great warm heart such tender loving memories of his old Irish home, as we wish our children to cherish for their homes here on Fort Harrison prairie, when they perchance are luxuriating in the more genial and productive slo|es of the Pacific?

A young minister, weary, nervous, languid and perplexed by the unexjMvted developments of human nature, where he had trusted the divine had IKHMI thoroughly engrafted, came down to strawberry Hill. While resting in the library ft luxuriant cluster of moss, nwebuds. cunningly peeping in at the open window caught his eve. Like tnigie the cloud passed from his brow, und in his mind's eye he could see his sainted mother curefdlly clipping the opening buds to adorn their table in their far-off New England home. With tbe remembrance of the rose buds .'nine also the remembrance of the blexsed oorvepts taught him by o«r,

HI are the

'lilwsed pure iu heart, for they *h»LL WH God." "ltlessod are the peace makers for thev shall be called the children of Ciod." and anmni with these precious texts, the spirit of de»pendency was exorcised* and be re­!lenUesslv turned to bis work, finding strong to with tbe devil and bis myrmidon*, tor mention: ear* polite). He bore away I literal supply of tbe moss-buos and other flowers, and while bis next 8nndi v's sermon was firm in It* denunciation of wrong, the tenderness inspired for the beam ami bloom of flowers, and a mother's memory, was so interwoven in IU texture that it would be dlilicoit to measure its influence. 1 ndlc**. almost, are the instances th.it might be brought forward for 11-

lustration. What po have over the minas of the Irish chieftains in using the shamrock leaf to illustrate the trinity, and how closely is the Irish heart attached to the wee flower. A little flower, Picclola. peeping up through the stones of a prison yard ^aved the mind and soul oi a celebrated prisoner. And we all remember the war of Tulips and how can you estimate the power of flowers when the staid Hollanders became such Tulipsmaniacs about such a stiff prosaic flower. One root, the Semper Augustus, was sold for 12,000 francs. A yellow crown for 1,123 francs and chariot drawn by two handsome boys, and a very middli

dling tulip, tbe viceroy, was sold for the following articles: 4 bbls flour, 8 of rye, 4 cows, 8 hogs, 12 sheep, 2 casks of wine, 4 of beer, 2 of butter, 1,000 lbs. weight of cheese, a bed with all the appurtenances, a bundle of wearing apparel, and a silver cup. At this time there might have been seen in the pub lie prints under the head of foreign intelligence such a paragraph as this: "Amsterdam. The Admiral Liefhans has flowered perfectly at M. Berghems."

Mr. S. S. Jackson, Florist, of Cincinnati, (one of the most interesting of men), I have heard, began life as a small farmer. He worked hard and made a bare living. He had a long attack of illness. During his convales cence time hung heavy on his handsdays seemed weeks, and weeks months, and while in this listless state his eye often rested upon a plant of Hydrangea some one had given him. He became interested in watching the flowers change from the dull green to the perfect roseate hue. A neighbor finding him so mncb interested sent him a geranium and a tea plant. Mr. Jackson watered, watched and enjoyed them, and when he was again able to work upon his farm he gave each blooming shrub and plant a place, and loving care. Flowers developed his geuiqe, for he certainly is a floral genius, and the power of that poor littlo Hydrangea in an old battered tin pail has been greater than I have words to express. Tho citizens of Terre-IIaute havo been made happy in as far as they have onjoyed the Prairie Queen, Baltimore Belle, George IV., Harrison, and mafiy other roses, the first of which came here from Jackson's.

Some years ago an earnest, thinking man, a true lover of nature and his follow man, was riding over a portion of the Grand Prairie, west of the garden city, on a glorious June day. His soul filled with such true inspiration as such a sceno and day gives to the great souled, either man or woman, for in such privileges woman's sight is equal to man's. As his eye wandered over the vast expanse it occasionally rested upon tho gems of the unbroken prairie, and the tender grace of their influence thrilled his heart. He was a practical man, and knew that where such loveliness flourished without mortal care, nearly every food that nourishes man would thrive. Tho subtle influenco induced him to make his-home there, and through his influence his father and brothers came also. They arrived at their western home, tho moment the young and growing city and countiy needed just such high-toned workers, to give character and tone to her iuture. Ho was ever in tho front, ranks for good, to the human race, and never, we hope, will Chicago retrograde from the impetus given by tho ardent enthusiasm of Dr. no. A.Koennicott and his brothers, who were drawn thither by a wee "love of a flower" blooming Wthe, Wilderness. Tho-Chicago poojftW'iri their Kgotisin think Chit aero. /»v»r»hnUoWr dhu -worM. Thorororo, bo Influence 4f Wild flowers blooming in June set in motion a power that the world feels.

Do wo appreciate the beauty and power of tho illustration, "Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed likv one of these?" How exquisite must be tho lily if all tho grandeur of Solomon did not equal it, and how beautiful is the lesson taught us. If God so cares for the frail delicate flowers of the forest and plain, how much more cares He for tho unfading flowers of the soul.

Your voiceless lips, oh flowers, nil living preachers, Knell cup a pulp" and each leaf a book Supplying to my fancy numerous teacheYs

From loneliest nook.

Were I, O God, inehurchless lands remaining

Far from nil voice of teachers or divines, My soul would find In flowers of thy ordaining S

Priests, sermons, shrines. STRAWHERRY HIM., June, 1871.

EDUCATION AND STFK KAOE FOR oMRN.—William Lloyd Garrison in a recent speech in Boston said: "That was certainly, a very cautions mother who forbade her little IMIV iroing into the water until he had learned to swim but her maternal anxiety was, in proportion to her good sense, as tho zenith to the nadir in height. It was not a whit more foolish, however, than is that conservative spirit which, afraid to trust the law of development, has in all ages resisted every effort for broader scope of religious thought and expression, and for a more equal distribution of political power among tho people and which is ever making conditions and requiring impossibilities, liefore this or that forward movement shall lie granted, qui'o as preposterous as those imposed in the ease here referred to. Claiming for itself oracular wisdom and absolute authority, it assumes that the down-trodden masses should not bo clothed with new responsibilities, nor summoned tothe discharge of new duties, until they have proved their ability to walk without stumbling. and to swim without going into the water."

THK views which we have expressed of the Commune have had a confirmation in the letter which Mr. John Russell Young lately addressed from Paris tothe New York Standard. Mr. Young, seeing with his own eyes, testifies that the animating purpose of the Commune was civil liberty and the good of France. Moreover he considers that the outrages committed by the Communists were more than equalled by the wholesale barbarities perpetrated by the Versailles Government. Justice will be done slow Iv to the worktngmen of Paris, but when it is done it will wash their names as white a*the bloodstained hands of their French enemies.— Got dm Agr- .tfSStif

I THK mild paternal Government of Russia ordains that the Hebrews must shave their beard*, ami the police reenforce the edict. It is expec4ed that the paternal Government

—I.K nu in vniiinous. 1 will next order all Russians to ash (TReg pardon tor mentioning him to VjJ

di nance were enforced.

GAS A* A MOTIVKPOWER.- A manufacturer In New Orleans lately sunk a drove well, ami at the depth of'forty-aix feet struck a supply of natural gaa, which baa since run an engine, simply by the pressure of the gas acting upon the piston.

TERRE-HAUTE SATURDAY KVKN1KG MAIL. JULY 1.1871.

Young Folks.

CRORMVORD ENIGMA. T~

My first is in Kthinx but not in a fiddle. ,*f My next is In quarters but not in the middle. Mv third is in you but not in me. My fourth is in apple but not in tne. My fifth is in battle but not in war My sixth is in squabble but not in ,aw. My whole is heard in the nursery, And not unfrequentlv known at se*.

WHIP-POOR-WILL.

AN AG-RAMS.'

(The same prize offered as in our Ust.) 1. He's rude. 6. Don't bite, cur. 2. Hire gate Never drop. 8. Trace uncle. 9. Only a duel. 10. Mint seed. .,

3. Crest rule. 4. Cross fee. 5. Should hoe.

CURTAILMENTS.

1. Curtail a signification of brightness and leave part of the human frame. 2. Curtail an animal and leave a title. 3. Curtail a coin and leave a weapon. 4. Curtail a flower and leave a wedge. 5. Curtail something recommended by the doctor, and leave what the patient seldom wishes to do.

PUZZLES.

1. The centers of five cities name a river. 2. The centers of five rivers name a city. 3. The initials of five cities name a river. 4. The initials of five rivers name a city. ADOLPH M. NAGEL. 5. Resolve part of the human frame into a person who is much disliked behead and resolve into a liquid.

CHANGED HEADS.

Complete I am an organ, change my hoad several times and make (1) a plank, (2) a vehicle, (3) where it sometimes goes, (4) what my 2 sometimes does, (5) up to the mark, (6) a black substance, (7) a river, (8) a propeller, (9) a conflict, (10) what the latters does to the face of the country.

ADOLPH M. NAGEL

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

Anagrams.—1. William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist. 2. Adrian van Ostade,painter. 3. Oliver Wendell Holmes, American lyric poet.

Enigma.—Line. Rebus.—Whole-sale whale, hale,owl, weal.

Double Acrostic.—Spring, Easter, thus: 1. SrnilE 2. PapA 3. RevelS 4. IncessanT 5. NightmarE G. GandeR.

WHAT FRA NKLIIf, DID. lie improved the printing press, invented stereotyping and manifold letter writers. He cured smoky chimneys of their bad habits. He amended the shape and rig of ships. He showed the sailors how thoy might take advantage of the Gulf Stream, to shorten their eastern transit of the Atlantic, and how to steer so as to avoid it on the westward passage. He told them how a few men might haul a heavy boat, and how they might keep provisions at sea. lie suggested improvements in the soup dishes of sailors, and in the troughs of horses. Ho introduced new (kinds of seeds, grass, turyfEs*# broom-' ", curious fvegetalSes an3H plants. Ho drained lauds skillfully, and gathered great crops from them. He reformed fireplaces, and invented the Franklin stove. First of all men he warmed public building. He had a fan on his chair, moved by a treadle,so as to drive awav the flies. He made himself spectacles, with two sets of glasses for far and near sight. He invented a musical instrument, and improved tho electricity of the same, proving it in the simplest, and deepest, and most satisfactory manner, by catching tho actual lightning, lie first discerned the difference between positive and negative electricity.

THK fact that our costly and finely furnished churches drive many poor people awav from religious worship, cannot be denied. The manners of pew holders—where the system of pew renting prevails—are oftentimes calculated to increase the embarrassment of those who visit the fine churches. The trouble exists in England as will be seen from the following, clipped from the Lont|n Telegraph of recent date:

The Bishop of Manchester concluded his sermon at tho consecration of a church on Tuesday with the following anecdote :—A few weeks ago they had in Manchester a week of special services. held in six churches in tho most densely popular parts of the city, and at these services all seats were free to those who chose to occupy them. One evening a gentleman at one of these meetings saw two working-men, and told them to go to any |iew in which they could get seats. They took their places in a pew, and soon afterward a ladv came and asked them, "What do vou want there? that's my seat." One of the men said to the other, "Come along Bill I.et's be ofl". I told you this was too swell of a place." lie (the Bishop) left his audience to draw their own inference.

LAUGHTER.—Don't bo afraid of a little laughterandjollity. "Good Health" says that there probably is not the remotest corner or lit tie inlet of the minute blood-vessels of the body that does not feel some wavelet from the great convulsion produced by hearty laughtor, shaking the central man. The blo»od moves more lively—probably its chemical electric or vital condition is indistinctly modified—it conveys a different impression to all the organs of the body, as it visits them on that particular mystic journey, when the man is laughing, from what it does at other times. And thus it isthatagood laugh lengthens a man's life, by conveying a distinct and additional stimulus to the vital forces. The time may come when physicians, attending more closely than they do now to the innumerable subtle influences which the soul exerts upon its tenement of clay, shall prescribe to a torpid patient "so many peals of laughter, to be undergone at such and sncli a time." just as they do now that far more objectionable prescription, a 1 pill or an electric or galvanic shock.! and shall study the best and most effective method of producing ths„required efTsct in ea«h patient.

IN the execution of a recent deed by a man and his wife, tbe wite, was t*ken aside before the acknowledgement was made by a commissioner, who in the usual form, asked, "Do you cxecute this deed freely and without any fear or compulsion of your husband?" "Fear of my hu»band!" exa if I a iv bands, and never was afraid of any off tbem!"

FEMALE EDUCATION. Tbe question of female,education appears to have been in vogue even upward of a hundred anil thirty »s we find It was discussed at that time.

rears ago,

But idey then were not so advanced as in the present more enlightened age for we reed that "the most beautiful woman in the world would not be half so beautiful it she WHS as great a mathematician as Sir Isaac Newton, or as great a metaphysician as the noblest and profoundest schoolman. Learning is so far from improving a lady's understanding, that is likely to banish the most useful sense out of it, making her know nothing at all of what she is most concerned to know. While she was contemplating the regularity of the motions of the heavenly bodies, very irregular would be the proceedings of her children and servants. The more she saw of order and harmony above, the more confusion and disorder would she occasion in her domestic affairs below. The more abstracted she was in her ideas and speculations. the greater stranger would she be to the rules and maxims of common prudence. Great learning in a lady is superseded by those charms that have a lustre in tliem which our highest attainments cannot equal." Our author evidently did not agree with the wisest of philosophers, Socrates, who has laid it down that "the female sex are as capable of attaining any art or science, of being every way as virtuous, and even as brave and valiant as we are."

MORMON MIRACLES.

Brigham Young told his hearers the other Sunday that ho had been blamed for putting too much faith "in the administration of individuals that now live and have lived on the earth in our day." But he put it to them candidly whether it was possible for him to disbelieve the evidence of his own eyes. He knew the latter day apostles possessed the same power and authority as the early ones, for he had seen them do the same works. He had seen them open the eyes of the blind, make the lame leap, cast out evil spirits, and raise the dead. It is probable that at this stage of the homily the fases of a portion of the congregation betrayed incrcduility, as Brigham hastened to qualify his assertion by explaining that the persons so raised were not really dead, but only apparently so, as was the case with Lazarus. Further, that these miracles were by no means successfully wrought in every instance, success being entirely dependent on faith. Brigham is certainly a lucky man. He has a son at West Point, untold millions in the bank, an army of miracle-workers at his beck, and the privilege which only less fortunate preachers can

fully

appreciate, of reeling

oti' the most vapid and nonsensical sermons to an audience which never tires of hearing him, and wlii swallows every word he utters as gospel truth.— Springfield Republicmi.

A LITTLE JUDICIOUS PRAISE.—NO heart is insensible to words of praise, or the kindly sinilo of approbation and none are above being affected by censure or blame. Children are particularly sensitive in this respect. Nothing can discourage a child more than a spirit of fault-findina And perhnps nothing can exert a more baneful influence upon both parent and child. If your little one, throughout tho day, has been pleasant and obedient, and you say*\to lyyj, V.My son, you havo been j^ood to-(lay| aiul jt^ tnukes^ ^nie nnisually affect idnato embraceiiyou say:

Good "night, my dear child," a throb of suppressed feeling fills his breast, and lie resolves on always earning this approval. If your son, or daughter have accomplished some difficult piece of work, rendering you essential assistance or have climbed sotpe step in the daily drill of study or have acquired some n6AV accomplishment, or added grace, or better than ail, have gaiued tho victory over some bad habit or besetting sin, acknowledge it, see it, praise them for it. Let theun see, by your added tenderness, tho deep joy and comfort it gives you. Thus you will create a great incentive to right conduct, and "lay a broad foundation for a character which shall be redolent with succulent fruit and fragrant blossoms.

RELIGION ASb ART.—Re^. James Freeman Clarke, in a recent sermon, made some excellent remarks on religion and art, and their respective mediuuiship in tho education and cultivation of the people. Religion and art, he said, hole! out the hand to each other, and no man is a complete Christian who is trying to do ripht merely to savehis soul. No man is a real artist who* works for money or for fame. To do vour work lovingly makes the Christian to do your work lovingty makts the artist. "The best definition ofar is, "to do a thing as well ns it can lie done." The Gothic cathedral is the expression of the religious sentiment of tho Northern nations. They wislnd for a place where they could worsiip God—not a beautiful building. But vhen U103* had built the best place to wrrship God—behold, the lieautiful buildng had also been crccted We as a peole, are not artists or lovers of art. Weai? tho children, in New Kmrland, ofa Gilvinistie theologj*, and Calvinism dtl not believe iu art. Romanism said, "We are saved by works." Calvanisrt said we aro saved by our faith." The or creates Intelligence, the other leant\ but we need both. Wo need truth "itid love too—tho inward strength and tie ortward grace—beauty and bands, obi. .tion and development. Anythtig in.»3* be turned into art bj* being tone well.

Moxau ns RETIRED FROM BUSINESS. —The Allowing is a list of sovereigns still livtig who have been deprived of their txones: Prince Gustave Wasa Sweden 1?*09 Count de Chambord,August 12 1830 Duke Charles of Brunswick, September 17. 1830 Count de Paris, rebrnar3* 24, 1S4X Duke Robert do Pana, 1 K.7.2 Grand-dnke Fedinand of Tuscny, 1S60 Duke Francis of Modena, 1$0 Francis II. of Naples, Feb1S1 th widow of King Otho of Greecc, Octobert"), 18ft2 Duke Adolf of Nassau, ]SfV» Klg George of Hanover. 1SG6 the El&or of Hesse, ISfifi Empress Charlott of Mexico, 187 Isabella of of Spaii»1869 Emperor Napoleon,IS70.

THE PRETTY INFLUENCE OF WOMEN.

Life becomes more harmonious, it beats with a keener pulse of enjoyment, in the presence of pretty women. After all, a charming little figure, a piquant little face, is the best remedy tor half the ills of existence, its worries, its dullness, its disappointment. And even in the larger ana more beauty of a Lady Dum a tinge of stupidity, there is, at any rate, an atmosphere of repose, a genial influence, moulding our special converse and habits into gentler shapes.

•e placid types of ibelle, if there is

It is amusing to see how the prettiness of women tells on her dress, how the order and propriety of her dress tells on the home. The pursuit of beauty, the habit of prettiness, give an ideal dignity to the very arrangement

In everv move-

of her bonnet strings. ment, in the very sweep of her ample folds, in the p*se of her langour, in tne gay start of her excitement, one feels the softening, harmonizing influence of her last look in the glass. She may be gay or sorrowful, quiet or energetic, but she must be pretty. Beauty exercises an imperceptible compulsion over her, which moulds her whole life into graceful and harmonious forms. Her dress rises out of the mere clothing of man into the regions of a science, of poetry, of art. A thousand considerations of taste, harmonies of color, contrasts, correspondencies, delicate adjustments of light and shade, dictate the choice of a shawl or the tint of a glove.

And as prettiness tells on dress, it tells on the home. Flowers, pictures, the gay notes of a sonat$, the cosiest of couches, gorgeous hues of Indian tapestry, glasswork of Murana, a hundred exquisite somethings and nothings, are the natural setting of pretty women. The art of the boudoir tells on all but the chaos of the husband's study. Around that last refuge of barbarism floats an atmosphere of taste and refinement in which the pretty wife lives and moves and has her being. And lrom this tone of the home grows the tone of society, the social laws of good humor, of propriety, of self-restraint, of consideration for others, of gentleness, of vivacity. The very hush of the rough tones that have thundered over Peloponnesus as Pericles bends over Aspasia, the little turnings and delicacies of phrase, the joyous serfdoms and idleness of the manliest and most energetic of men, tells of the triumph of pretty women.

ANECDOTE OF IIENR CLA Y. It is known that Mr. Clay was remarkable for his recollection of faces. A curious incident of this wonderful power is told of his visit to Jackson, Mississippi, in tho year 18—.On his way the cars stopped at Clinton for a few moments, when an eccentric, but strong minded old man, made his way up to him, exclaiming as he did no, "Don't introduce me, for I want to see if Mr. Clav will know me." "Where did I know you?" said Mr. Clav. "tn Kentucky," answered the keensighted, but one-eyed old man.

Mr. Clay struck'his long, bony finger upon his forehead, as if in deep thought. "Have you lost that eye since I saw you, or had you lost it before?" inquired Mr. Clay. "Since," said tho man. "Then turn tho sound side of your face to me, that I may get your profile."

Mr. Clav paused for a moment, his thoughts running back many years. "I havo it," said he. "Did you not give mo avel'dictas juror, at Frankfort, Ivy., ve^&TOk^ "I did! I did!" said the overjoyed old man. "And is not your name," said Mr, Clay, "Hardwicke?" "ft is, it is, replied Dr. Hardwicke bursting into tears. "Did I not tell you," he said to his friends, "that he knew nio, though have not seen him from that time to this? Great men never forget faofes."—Bench and Bar by L. J, Bigclow.,

GRACE GHKKKN WOOD'S VIEW.— I sometimes think that not only tho "heathen Chinee," but the "noble savage" will enter into the kingdom of equal political rights before us—that the Piegan and Sioux,tbe Flathead, the Blackfoot, the Pawnee, will pass from the council to tho caucus, from the war path to the stump, and vote and scalp and scalp and vote, on and off as may suit their dainty whim, while we. Christian women, who can read ana write, and are tolerably good spoilers, are denied all participation in the Government that rules over us,and taxes us, and are set down with the hands among the children and idiots. After ail, the spirit of those having authority is, in regard to us and the franchise, simply that of the school-boy with his cake:

You fellers that ask for it shan't have have it, and you that don't ask for it don't want it 1"

WORDS! WORDS! WORDS!—Pulaski county is "all tore up" by a religious discussion, and this is what "Rev. J. H. O'Brien" savs to the editor of tho Kewanna Times. This rather knocks the spots off tho "Cathedral question," and Dick Hollywood has a better chance of employment up north than in this latitude:

And you "editors" of that dirty, defaming rag, I warn you not to bring me out, or I will give you what you doserve to-day I have only given you a little scourging. Mention iny name again in that whangdoodloe secondhand, lying dishrag, and I'll fix you so that 3*o*u will have to go back to your old profession of "ditching" or "boarding round." And tell the old crow to pick his envious feathers in silence, and not to caw round me, or I may extract some of his elongated dentals.— IndiauapoliA Mirror.

THE PROOK-RKADER.—HOW few appreciate the

services

Youxfiadies are advised always to untie ant well examine any anonymous bo^juet or baskets of flowers which thf may receive. A lad3* was about thrwing*away some flowers, re-j JNreoomne cently, ail discovered a note contain- of life entailed by some occupations, it ing an oflt of marriage from a very must be regarded as a consoling, al-j bashful lder. moat a sublime fact, that labor, in gen- I eral, does not tend to shorten life, bnt

BRIOHA1 Young wears his hair in rather, by strengthening the body, to' ringlet*—ie old sinner and he got lengthen it while idleness and 'uxrovally dmk on his last Mrthday, #0 ury are productive of the same results it Is said, .magine the jolly old cod-, as the mgst unhealthy occupations. I ger singini"Champagne Charley—hie —is my nue," to his seventy wives* One of the neatest toasts ever giv^fi: and three km]red children, and bois- "Woman—the last word on our lips, terously am ring them that he "won't because it comes fr,m the bottom of go home tiknorning." our hearts."

of the individual

who examines the "proofs" of a paper before it is printed. He is one of the most important agents to tbe production of a correct literature, and one of whom no reader seems to think. His is the most thankless employment among men. Let him bring out a paper without a fault for weeks and weeks and weeks in succession, and nobody thinks of hirn. But let hirn allow mi error to go uncorrected, and imrnediatelj* he is known, to be censured, and his paper to be subjected to illnatured criticisms. He has no thanks for his labored patienee, but blame if he is not faultiest*. He is certain of one of two things—forget fulness or censure. —.V/.

MISAPPLICATION OF SHAKESPERAE. Hon. Beqjamin F. Wade and the late Hon. Joshua Giddlngs used to be constant competitors at the bar in "old,, benighted Ashtabula," their pises of residence. In the early part or his practice, Wade was defending a man against an action of slander, and after having concluded a very effectives speech to the jury, sat awkwardly leaning backward, his feet on the counsel table, facing Giddings, who was attempting to be eloquent in behalf of his slandered client. "Old Gid," as he was familiarly called, knew a little smattering of Shakespeare, and now determined to bring that great author to his aid. "Gentlemen of the jury," said be, with much ardor.

He that sleals my purse steals trash But he that robs me of my good name—'" (Ahem!) At this point, to his great discomfiture, Shakespeare deserted him. Here- :r peated: '"But he that robs me of my good nam*—•'" (Another pause.)

Takes that I never had," whispered Wade as if prompting him, ar.d so distinctly as to be heard by all in the room.

Amid the laughter and his own confusion, Giddings brought his speech tom such a "lame and impotent conclusion," that his client recovered but six and a quarter cents for his lost character.— Bench and Bar, bg L. J. Bigelow.

SETTLING THE "NEW NORTHWEST." The claim made by the promoters of the Northern Pacific railroad, as to tbe excellent character of the country traversed by that throughfare, seems, to be verified by the fact that settlers are moving to the line of the road in Minnesota and Dakota in unprecedented numbers. A late nntnber of the St. Paul Pioneer says: "The roads leading to the Red River Valley aro literally covered with emigrant wagons, with tholr usual accompaniments of families fnrniture and stock of all kinds. The wagon roads from Sauk Centre to St. Peter show dail3* accessions to tho vast caravan wending its way to the fertile regions of Northern Minnesota. The extent of tho great incoming tido of humanity can bo best estimated on the main road between Alexandria and Pomme do Terre. Two hundred wagons per day pass over this portion of the route,, northwest, and the camp-fires are seldom allowed to go out—a fresh train of emigrants arrives almost as soon as its predecessor has resumed its march. A' noticable foat.ure of this j'ear's emigration is its quality—tho wagons com* loaded with household goods and farming implements, and aro followed br herds ol cattle and other stock which in quality would do credit to anvcoun-R try."

SUNSTROKE.

Dr. Geo. H. Hope, M. D.. in his little work entitled "Till tho Doctor comes* and How tolfolp Him." givos tho following directions for tno treatment ol sunstroke until modical aid arrives

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SUNSTROKE.—This is a sudden prostration due to long exposure to great? boat, especially when one is much fatigued or exhausted. It coininonlyl happens from undue exposure to the seen

ppens from undue exposure to suns rays in summer, but I have soeiif ti, tnnw (nvtrccB irmlueet» nr tmier From the groat boat of tho bake room. It begins with pain in tho bond or dizziness, quickly followod by loss of consciousncssand complete prostration. Sometimes, however, tho stroke is as sudden as a stroke of apoplexy. The hoad is often burning hot, the faeedark and swollen, the breathing labored nndsii snoring, and theextoniitiescold. Take tho patient at once to a cool and shady place, but don't carry him far to a house or hospital. Loosen the clothes, thoroughly about his neck and waist. Lay him down with tho head a littlest raised. Apply wet cloths to the head, and mustard or turpentine to tho calves, of tho legs and solos of the foot. Give a littlo weak whisky and wuter if ho can swallow. Meanwhile lot some one go for the doctor. You cannot safely do more than I havo said without his ad-l

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PROLONGED VIGILS.

Leibnitz sometimes nnssed three consecutive da3*s and nights in tho same chair, resolving a problem that interested him an excellent custom, as Fontenello observes, to accomplish at labor, but a very unhealthy 0110. The Abbe de la Caille, a famous astronomer, had a fork invented in which he nd-« justed his head, and in this position passed tho night in astronomical observations, without knowing any other enemies than sleep and tho clouds, without suspecting that there could be any more delightful way of employing those silent hours which revealed to ?s him the harmony of tho universe. Thus he contracted an inflammation of tho lungd which carried him off in a short time. Girsdet did not like to labor during tho da3*. Seized in the middle of the night by a fever of inspiration, I10 aroso, lit tho chandelier suspended 111 his studio, placed uponhis head an enormous hat covered with candles, and in this strange costume he painted for hours. No one ever had a feebler constitution, or a more disorderly state of health than Girsdet. g?

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