Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 August 1871 — Page 2

Rural.

S WHA TI KNOW ABOUT FLO WER8. An essay read before the Terre-Haute Horticultural Society by Mrs. L. 8. Boole,

Fruit Ridge: 2 As we have had many unexceptionably fine reports, on flowers esthetically considered, I will only mention a few lavorites, and with reference to their ^influence in "Materia Medica." The most prominent, earliest, and latest in my mind, are the dandelion, peony, hollyhock, sunflower, and poppy. The dandelion or native primrose, (so nam©d by President Scott,) grows spontaneously on most parts of the globe, in field, grass plot, and along roadsides, flowering from the commencement of spring till late in tho autumn. There are seveial species named by botanists, but are probably mere varieties of this one, and possess the same physical characters. The young leaves of this, "Harvey D. Primrose," are much used as salad, or greens the flower is used by children, to put under each other's chins, to tell whether they love butter, and the general indications are, that they "mostly do." The root is tho officinal part, but is not powerfully therapeutic. Tho root was quite extensively used during our late war as a substitute lor "store coffee," and should have been called primrose coffee. The hollyhock is a very gentle, amiable flower, and though, apparently ostentatious, its mild virtues redeem it from any protense, it being roally valuable medicinally, and commercially, for the quantity of mucilage it yields.

The peony, is a native of Southern Europe, and is cultivated in gardens in the United States, and elsewhere, for its beautiful flowers. The seeds taken night and morning, are said to bo a remedy or substitute for the nightmare, and ono of the first things I can remember, was seeing an old lady grating a brownish root into war in sweetened water in a tea cup, and wanting to know, "what is it?" I was curtly answered "piny root," and when I wantod to taste it, was told It was baby stuff, I know then it was good, becanso tho baby always had tho best of everything, and then, somehow, I knew experimentally.

The sunflower is a native of South America, though quito extensively cultivated jn this country. Under favorable circumstances it attains the hcighth of fifteen or twenty feet, and when the loaves all radiate, it is majestic and boautiful, and is medicinally valuable in pulmonary affections. I believe it is sometimes used as a "break" against tho aguo, being planted on tho homesido of low, marshy places. It is also said the leaves when carefully dried, may bo made into sogars, very much resembling In flavor that of mild Spanish.

Gentlemen, and all victims of nicotine tako notice 1 would like to say right here, that I havo seen tho statement that tho bark of tho beautiful magnolia treo has boon successfully used as a substitute for tobacco by tho most invrterato chewers, and as I am only writing a substitute for a report on flowers, I shall put in all tho substitutes 1 can think of. It is just possiblo that magnolia bark and sunflower leaves aro Just what is wanted to inaugurate a much noedod reform.

Now I como to my last, though not least favorite, tho poppy, supposed to lo a native of Persia, though found growing wild In tho south ol' Europe. At present, It is very extensively cultivated in India, Egypt, Turkey and several parts of Europe, on account of its seeds, capsules anil opium. Though found in this country only as a garden plant, yet there is good reason to believe It would prove a lucrative branch of Industry, not only from the opium it yields, but from the oil to be had from its seeds which Is extensively used as a substitute for olive oil for cull miry purposes, and is also used for painting, burning, and the manufacture of soap.

Opium is procured from tho unripe capsules, and though the process is simple, it is tedious. An incision or incisions an» made In the capsules horIxnntullv, a few days after the flowers have fallen, earo being taken not to penetrate the cavities, a white, milky tltii«l exudes, which is left for twentyfour hours, and then scraped ofl with large dull knives and plac«»d in small earthen vessels and IsNiten, leing ocea slonallv moistened with saliva. It is then wrapped in dry leaves for sale. Tho supply of opium In commerce, is chieflv obtained from Persia, llindostan, Egypt and Asiatic Turkey. That from Turkey Is the most esteemed, and IN the kind principally used In the United States. It Is imported direct from Smyrna, or indirectly through various European parts. Tho uses and influence of the |stppy are greater than any other flower or all other flowers combined. Then1 Is no other drug In the world which enters so largely into all the combination* of remedies for disease as that obtained from the poppy it has seventeen or twenty constituents, and some one or more of these const Ituents are employed with other remc-I dies in nearly every symptom or dis-l ease, and in many instances I know it Is used as a substitute for all the Ills ll«*sh Is heir to. It is only fifty-four] years since m»rphia was discovered in the poppy, and of its twenty or so constltuents" morphia I* Its most important principle, and Is there one family in ten that has not known by expert-, once the good, or ill effect* of this most wonderful and powerful narcotic, and there arc latent powers yet to be developed. The knowledge of this famous flower is yet in Its Infancy. though it would take hours to recapitulate what is already familiar. Judiciously used, it gives ease lor pain, rest for weariness, and hope tor despair. Injudiciously used, it has just the opposite effect and the opium eater is among the most wretched of human being*. Thousands of dollars are vearly paid to foreign nations for this Indispensable drug which might lie manufactured here, and if 1 ever go into the woman's right'* business on my own account, i( will be In a large Held of poppies with a sunflower hedge. jn conclusion, 1 would like to put in

.-HAUTE

a preface, to "what I know of flowers," wnich is simply nothing experimentally. The only flowers I ever cultivated were the "flowers of the family." I have planted a few seeds and they remained planted, never coming up to letter mv name or expose my stupidity I confess that I stand speechless in the presence of the tiniest flowers but with heart bursting with grateful thanksgivings for all these beautiful gifts. The lesson they teach is that the useful and beautiful are inseparably united

STIMULANTS AND NARCOTICS While the taste for these evidences of the depravity existing in appetites is gradually growing less and less, and each generation exhibits a smaller proportion of those addicted to the use of liquor and tobacco, it will do us no harm to reflect on how general these habits have been in generations past.

M« A. WAARTLA A? FHO

The greater mass of the people of the various quarters of the globe have been familiar with their use to an extent exceedingly detrimental to true development and progress. Some ancient nations used a preparation of rice, some of cocoa, others of hemp, while the use of tobacco and opium, as well as tea and coffee, is almost universal the ancient Greeks and Romans used wine, but no ardent spirits. When the art of distillation was discovered is not known, but like everything else the Chinese claimed the discovery of this also. Coffee has been used for centuries, and tea In China a thousand years. They were not introduced into Europe, however, until the seventeenth century. Every narcotican stimulant, no matter how mild, contains a certain amount of poison. The active principle of tea would kill iust as surely as any other poison, and so with coffee, tobacco, and spirits. The effects of stimulants and narcotics are different in different partsof the globe, and upon different persons. Some persons cannot use even the weakest form of tea or coflee, but this might be said of other articles of food. Upon some persons tiio efleet of a single strawberry is injurious. Some persons stimulants and narcotics stupify, and others they influence to greater brilliancy. It is wonderful the effect that articles of diet have upon different people. Stimulants and narcotics are best adapted to the people of tho climate of which they aro natives. Tea is best adapted to people of temperate climes, and coffee to those living in warmer temperatures also, they could bo better u^d in moist climates than dry ones. The whole question is complicated with considerations of race and climate, and they have less effect upon older people than upon youth. They can be

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reat benefit upon certain occasions, ut young people do not need them they influence tho nervous system, and their operation seems to bo entirely upon the brain. Drunkenness is a disease, and exists mainly among the lower classes and education is tho great preventive.

THE IMPORTANCE OF PUNCTUA TION. Tho

grave

importance of studying the

subject of punctuation by all, and especially by thos intending to take oven tho least share in literary pursuits, is patent to all who havo ever had anything to do with deciphering matters all huddled up together like a bourding-houso Irish. Very illegible writing can often bo made out if punctuated properly but, where bad writing is supplemented by bad or no punctuation, it is much more difficult to decipher. A gentleman who was lately in Edinburgh had, while there, an opportunity to examlno all tho manuscripts of tho Waverly Novels, whose author, Sir Walter Scott, was wholly deficient in even attempting punctuation, arising, probably, from the fact, that, when an apprentice to his father, a lawyer, ho was compelled to copy a great many legal documents. It may not be known that in Great Britain the rule is that such documents, whether written or printed, shall bo without any punctuation whatever, and to this day, every Act of Parliament which has force in (Jueen Victoria's dominions Is without comma, colon, semicolon, or period. Much litigation has arisen out of this silly persistence in a senseless custom. A notorious case in Dublin is quite to tho point. A man under arrest for robbery was confronted, at trial, with his confession, taken down at his arrest, when In danger of death, by a policeman, which was simply "Siangan said ho never robbed but twice, said It was Crawford." The punctuation here is very slight—such as a not very well educated policeman might have used. Tho meaning tho polieoman put upon it was as punctuated above, but the counsel for tho defence belli that the sentence was no confession at all, but a persistence in his innocence, reading it, "Mangan said he never robbed In.t twico said it was Crawford." The judge, taking the same legal view of the case, directed the jury to acquit the accused —which was done, very much to his own surprise most probably.

A CINCINNATI dentist, who had become nervous by frequent burglaries in his vicinity, was somewhat startled, recently, by having a man como at the same hour each evening and sit on his doorstep. He finally suggested that, if it would be all the* same to hitn, he would be pleased to havo him divide his attentions, and sit on some neighbor's doorstep a while.

Hut it wouldn't be tho same," shouted the visitor in return, "norany thing like it. You are a dentist, and I have an infernal aching tooth that I haven't the courage to haVe pulled. I come here every afternoon trying to make up my mind to have It out, and as soon as I come In sight of your house it stops aching, and as long as I sit on your doorstep, where the confounded thing knows it can get pulled if it gives trouble, I have some rest, Now, if you want me to go to another I dentist I will." "Oh. no," was the reply "under those circumstances stay by'all means, my friend."

WHAT IS not 'IIARITT.—It Is not charity to give a penny to the street mendicant, of whom nothing is known while we haggle with a poor man, out of employment, for a miserable dime. It Is not charity to beat down a poor seamstress to starvation price to let her sit in her wet clothes sewing ail day I to deduct from her pitiful remuneration if the storm delays her prompt arrival.

It is not charity to take a poor relative into vour family, and make her a slave to ali vour whims, and taunt her continually with her dependent situation. It is not charity to turn a man who is out of work Into the street, with his family, because he can not pay his rent. It Is not charitv to exact the utmost farthing from the widow and orphan. It is not charity to give with a supercilious air and patronage, as if God had made you the rich man, of ciffenent blood "from the shivering recipient, whose only crime is that he is poor. It is not charity, though you bestow vour aim* bv thousands.

Young Folks.

CROSS-WORD ENIGMA No. 1. My first is in woman, but not in girl, My second is in gold, but not in pearl My third is in you, but not in me, My fourth is in land, but not in sea My fifth is in stone, but not in rock, Mv sixth is in safe, but not in lock My seventh is in horse, but not in dog, My eighth is in board, but not in log Mv ninth is in cream, but not in milk, My tenth is in satin, but not in silk My last is in halt, but not in lame, My whole is a place of ancient fame.

ISOLA.

CROSS-WORD ENIGMA No. 2. My first is in mouse but not in rat My second in dog but not in cat My third in ibex but not in goat My fourth in written but not in wrote My fifth in bird but not in gnat My sixth in bug but not in oat My seventh in bread but not in cheese Mv eighth is in cough but not in sneeze My ninth is in bush but not in tree Mv whole is a city over the sea.

T. B. LENOIR.

WORD-SQUARE ENIGMA. My first is what few ladies do My second is a small water craft My third is a garden vegetable My fourth is the plural of an aquatic bird My fifth is heavy. O. P. Q.

PROBLEM.

A lady, dying, left a sum of money to be divided among her children. Now, if there were two children less, each would receive £100 more and if there were four more children, each would receive -CS0 less. Required the number of children, and amount each received.

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

Eslsy Enigma.—All that glitters is not gold/ DROP-R.ETTER PUZZLE.

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If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, Five things observe with rare, Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,

And how, and when, and where Missing Cities.—1. Islip. 2. Knox. 3. Forks. 4. Sing Sing.

Cross-Word.—Christmas. Hidden Mountains and Towns.—1. Atlas. 2. Hecla. :i. Andes. 4. Snow. 5. North. 6. Oxford, Newark.

ANIMAL LIFE.

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What is animal life? This question has perplexed the world for ages, and is still in dispute. If the medical faculty could solve it, they would have a key to tho origin of all diseases, ar.d need no longer treat us by guess, is they too frequently do now. "Tho life is in the blood," we are told on hith authority but the grand problemin medical philosophy is not where is it— but what is it? Tho priests of Ckuldca and Egypt consulted the stars upon the subject but obtained no answers of any practical value. Tho Greeks stiilied tho laws of nature thoughtfully, but failed to fathom the great secret. Modern doctors have argued tho point veiy learnedly, and given us a multitude of theories*thereupon, bihfc the comuitn sense of mankind is not entirely satfctied with ajtiy of them* Neither tie subtle logic of tho metaphysician nor tho knife of the anatomist has been able to determine positively what animal life is.

Pythagoras, and most of tho ancient sages, believed tho vital spirit to be invisible fire. Epicurus—who, by the way, was a man of immense mind, and not, as many suppose, a two-legged pig who groveled in tho mire of sensualism—insisted that It was compose! of heat and gas. Among tho modems, John Wesley, Dr. Priestly, Sir Hunphrev Davy,*Abernethy, and many others, maintain that electricity or nngnetisrn is tho animating element. Hie late I)r. Metcalfe held caloric or latmt heat to bo the basis of vitality, ajid supposed electricity, its emanation,to be the active vital principle.

That atmospheric heat is intimatdv connected with this principle, is erfdent from its influence in tho prediction of innumerable forms of aninal and vegetable existence.

Of tho million and a half of aninal and vegetable species which the eaith is estimated to contain, probably threefourths inhabit regions where there is no winter. The whole tropical ocoin may be said- to bo alive, whilo witkin tho* arctic circle life is scattered, and what there is of it is comparatively sluggish. Summer in all latitudes' is tht nurse, if not the parent, of myriads of existences, and it is obvious that if the world were deprived of solar h*at, every living thing would die. Ve know that when the vital spark has been apparently extinguished in f.sh and reptiles bv the cold, It can bo rekindled by the application of heat. Fish that have been frozen stiff, and have remained in that condition for twelve months, may bo thawed back to life. This feat has been accomplished by a professor, who is now soliciting permission to congeal a few criminals condemned to death. He says that after keeping them under tlieseal of Jack Frost for a year or two, ho could warm them up arid set them going again as ood as new. Of course, nobody beicves him. It may bo possible to recall a frozen tadpole to life but it is beyond the power of science to summon back to its earthly tabernacle a departed soul.

Th he sum and sulistanee of the whole matter is, that although heat and electricity are apparently essential to the development of anini.il life, and to its revival after temporary suspension, its principle is beyond the'scrutiny of man. The lairs of life and motion we may Investigate and de'ermine, buttheir Is a divine mystery which reason can not penetrate."

CHALLENGING A TT.4?. Previous to the abolition of the custom of fighting duels in New York State by law, a member of tho State legislature challenged a brother member to "mortal combat," for offensive words which he had used in relation to him. in the course of an exceedingly anjrry debate.

The challenge was at once accepted but as the choice of weapons and place rested with the challenged party, he chose broadswords, and the parties were to stand one on one side of the Mohawk and the other on the other side! "That is simply absurd replied the "friend" of the challenger. "I can take back no such ridiculous proposition as that to my principal." "Very well what do you say to pistols?" "Obviouslv the most convenient, common, ami gentlemanly weapon."

Pistols be it, then," said the challengee "and as to the place, I'll decide that when we meet—say to-morrow morning at the foot ofSugarloaf Hill."

The second reported and the next

morning the parties met, as had been stipulated. Where is our ground asked the challenger, "and in what way do we stand upon the field?"

I've not chosen a field at all," said the other "if I fight at all, we take position on the top of Sugar loaf."

This was declared impossible for the hill was a round, sharp cone, scarcely ten feet accross at the top.

How can we fight there asked the challenger, beginning to be aware of another evasion. "How can we stand, and how shall we take our positions?"

Back to back," replied the other, in the usual way than each march forward ten paces, turn, and fire at the word, between one and three."

But that would take us out of sight of each other!" exclaimed the challenger, and our fire would be lodged in the sides of the hiil!"

So much the better for both of us!" said the other. "Sir," replied the challenger, "you are a coward !—a coward, sir! Do you hear, sir?—a cowardl"

Well, what of that You knew I was, or you wouldn't have challenged me!" was the finale of this sanguinary engagement for the challenger and his friend had left the field, in a very high state of disgust.

DIED FROM GRIEF.

We have read of life offered for life— where friend has begged to die for friend—and admiration has oftentimes been raised to veneration while viewing the sacrifices which have been made when prompted by the strong affections of the human heart, ana even now, in our day, the ties of affection are the same as when Pythias bared his manly neck to receive the deathblow for his friend and halved-heart, Damon. Almost two weeks since, we noted the death of a colored man, whom we erroneously named Johnson, but whose true name was George Bowser. He attempted to get upon the car while in motion, but one of the crossties, with which the car was loaded, slipped, and he was crushed in a terrible manner b3r falling on the track and the wheels of the entire train passing over his body. He had a friend named Joseph Hall,*an intimate acquaintance and associate for several years, who, with a brotherly caro, attended to the last sad duties, saw tho funeral rites performed with proper respect, and then, very singular to relate, he returned to his home, retired to bed, pined and grieved himself to death over the untimely fate of his companion and friend. Hall was a robust, stalwart Kentuckian, with sinews like a giant, but true affection was implanted in his gentle heart, and the silken chords were easily sundered by the unexpected blow, nor the strong muscles, nor the iron frame could repel tho keen anguish which pierced his kind heart. The facts as related hero aro in every rtspect true, as we 'earned the particulars from a gentleman who was intimately acquainted with both of them, and lives near tho scene where the deaths occurred.

AN OPINION ON WAR. I put the following question at Omaha, among a group of officers, and tho reply folio wed as ensuing.

Which was the greatest action fought by tho western armies in the War?" "The battle of Franklin. That is generally admittwfeo be Davids.Stan•lev's battla^nowJEvy»»Z o* Ujp twentysoconfr lTVfln'rFV. 'rJff'WTbseqxirtTTt YHK tory of Nashville was an easy corollary to it. But the most plucky, extraordinary, anil wonderful detached battle which we had was Corse's defence of

Allatoona. Corse is now in Chicago—a small, wiry, badly scarred man. He marched all night his command consisted ot 1,044 men. The prizo was a million rations stored there, and the attacking party was about a third of Hood's army. Corse fought all day, tho odds four to one, lost 700 men and beat the energy and confidence out of tho whole rebel army. Summoned to surrender at the outstart, to prevent tho needless effusion of blood, he replied

Wo are prepared for tho effusion And having killed and captured more rebels than his entire command numbered, ho sent the news of the battle to Sherman in these words "1 am short a cheek bono and ono ear, but am able to whip all hell yet ."—George Alfred Townsend.

THE English census returns show that, after duo allowance lor soiaiers, sailors, and absentees, tho female population exceeds the male by7I8,51fi. This disproportion raises uncomfortable reflections in some matter-of-fact minds. They are no! troubled, like a recent woman writer, because so much wowinhood runs to waste, but rather by the consideration of what is to become of these women for whom nature has provided rto husbands. Tho number of unmarried women is rapidly increasing, and this facts stimulates the discussion of woman's rights. The conservatives wonder why theso surplus women do not emigrate to America, Australia, somewhere, anywhero, instead of staying where they are not wanted and disturbing the community by their agitations. Somehow these extra women are a most nnaceomodatingset for instead of taking themselves quietly away, leaving jnst one Eve for every Adam in that old British Eden, they insist on staying in Paradise and having a voice and hand In the conduct of its affairs. And moreover, trom present indications it is not improbable that at no distant day they will carry their point .—Golden Age.

AN Onn PREDICAMENT.—One of the queerest cases in the long list of legal unanswerable conundrums has recently transpired in Hartford, where a man died, leaving a handsome property, and also a handsorte widow, tho latter childless but ex {feting to become a mother. He also fcft a will, duly executed, in which it was provided that if the expected childfhould prove to bo a boy, two-thirds oflhe property should go'to him, and on«-third to the widowed mother. If howtver, thechild proved to be a girl, only cne-third of the estate was to go to her, aid the two-thirds to the mother. The "esultof tbeexpected Interesting event las astounded everybody and pnzzed all hands. The widow has becoml the mother of twins and what greatlj heightens the perplexity of the eas^ the twins are a boy and a" girl. The perplexity of the mother, her frienls and the lawyers, Is said to be cxtitme. It is claimed that there is a clea- solution ofthe case bnt we haven't setn it. The case certainly Involves srtne very knotty legal points.

G«T HIM THKRH—A Rome, Georgia, scholar made the bllowing reply to an examining schoolcommissioncr. "At what period did France produce her greatest gene*!?" "At what period?" pausing and scratching his lead—"at what—ah! you've got me th»te!" "Well, was it bob re or after Christ?" "Be—fore or al-ter Christ. Before or after. Well, ofl boss vou've got me again!" I

THE NOBLE RE VENGE. The coffin was a plain one—a poor, miserable pine ooffln. No flowers on the top no lining of white satin for the pale brow no smooth ribbons about the coarse shroud. The brown hair was laid decently back, but there was no crimped cap with neat tie beneath the chin. The sufferer from cruel poverty smiled in her sleep she haa found bread, rest, and health. "i want to see mother," sobbed a poor little child, as the undertafc er screwed down the top. "You cannot get out of the way, boy —why don't somebody take the brat?" "Onlv let me see her one minute!" cried the helpless orphan, clutching the side of the charity box, and as he gazed into thorough box, agonized tears streamed down the cheeks on which no childish bloom ever lingered. Oh, it was painful to hear him cry the words: "Only once let me see mother, only once!"

Quickly and brutally the heartless monster struck the boy away, so that he reeled with the blow. For a moment the boy stood panting with grief and rage—his blue eyes distended, his lips sprang apart, fire glittering through his eyes as he raised nis little arm, with a most unchildish accent, and screamed "When I am a man I'll kill you for that!"

There was a coffin and a heap of earth between the mother and the poor forsaken child—a monument much stronger than granite built in the boy's heart to the memorv of the heartless deed.

The court house was crowded to suffocation. "Does any one appear as this man's counsel?" asked the judge.

There was a silence when he had finished, until, with lips tightly pressed together, a look of strange intelligence blended with haughty reserve upon his handsome features, a young man stepped forward with a firm tread and kindly eye, to plead for the erring and friendless. He was a stranger, but at the first sentence there was silence. The splendor of his genius entranced— convinced.

The man who could not find a friend was acquitted. "May God bless you, I cannot," said he. "I want no thanks," replied the stranger. "I—I—I believe you are unknown to me." "Man, I will refresh your memory. Twenty j'ears ago this day, you struck a brokenhearted little boy away from his dear mother's coffin. I was that boy!"

The man turned livid. "Have you rescued me, then, to tako my life?" "No. I havo a sweeter revenge. I havo saved the life of a man whose brutal deed has rankled in my breast for tho last twenty years. Go, thent and remember the tears of a friendless' child."

The excited preacher commenced "peeling off' his outer garments. "Hero, brother Cole:' shouted he, "hold my coat—I've found the lellow that soaped that horn!"

ELEPHANTS REVENUE AND URA T1TUDE. Tho elephant, with a sort of humorous justiee, is given to return injuries or insults in kind. In Madagascar, an elephant's cornao, happening to have a cocoanut in his hand, thought fit, out of bravado, to break it on the animal's head. The elephant mado no protest at the time but next day, passing a fruit-stall, ho took a cocoanut in nis trunk and returned the cornac's com-

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iliment so vigorously on the head that killed him on the spot. If vindicative, tho elephant is also grateful. At Pondicherry, a soldier who treated an elephant to a dram of arrack every timo he received his pay, found himself the worse for liquor. When the guard were about to carry him off to prison ho took refuge under the elephant and fell asleep, ills protector would allow no one to approach, and w.tched him carefully all night. In tho morning, after caressing nim with his trunk, he dismissed him to settle with tho authorities as best he could.

Both revenge and gratitude imply Intelligence: still more does the application of an unforseen expedient. A train of artillery going toSerimcapatam had to cross the shingly bed of a river. A man who was sitting on a gun-carri-ago fell in another second the wheel would have passed over his body. An elephant walking by the side of the carriage saw the danger, and instantly, In aalnglc row.

without any order from bis keeper, lifted the wheel from the ground, leaving the Esllen man uninjured.

AoroRDijro to the New York Mail, ,, "(ne's first impression of Vanderbilt is j11 J0*1111**

that he Is a man of steel, and there Is a steely light in his grayish blue eyes that reinforces tho impression. Ills face is Grecian in Its cuttings, and as cold, impassive and fixed as a cane— and sternness, even to the climax of the imperative, marks every word and motion—crops out in the put down of the foot, as well as in the set expression of the rather thin lips. Talks very little and walks with a firm, elastic lit."

AS A HATOOA girl say* that tobacco hav-

ing killed kissing the season is a failure, & JOXKS have ii.

THREE.

The following article was going the rounds of the religious press in I860: In all ages the number three has had much mysterious significanco, and it is said that the Arabio character 3 signifies in that language the Trinity in Unity.

However this may be, the eharacter holds a high position in many of the secret orders of the present day, and one of their penmen has given tne following deductions, principally from the ancient Scriptures: "When the world was created we find land, water, and sky, sun, moon, and stars. Noah had but three sons Jonah was three days in the whale's belly. There were three patriarchs—Abraham. Isaac, and Jacob. Abraham entertained three angels. Danial was thrown into a den with three lions for praying three times a day. Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego were rescued from tho flames of tiie oveo. Job had three friends. These famous dreams of the baker and butler were to come to pass in three days and ElHah prostrated himself three times on tne body of the dead child. Samson deceived Delilah three times before she discovered the secret of his strength. There are three conditions for man—the earth, heaven, and hell. In mythology, three Graces Cerberus with his three heads Neptune holding his three-tootched staff the Oracle of Delphi cherished with veneration the tripod and the nine muse* sprang from three. In nature we have morning, noon, and night. Trees group their leaves in three. There is tho three-leaved clover. Every ninth wave is a ground swell. We have fish, flesh, and fowl. Tho majority of mankind die at thirty. What could bo done in mathematics without the aid of the triangle?"

The eye of Artomus Ward caught tho article, and ho wroto the following extenuation of the same subject:

The abovo is going tho round, and tho "sacred historical writer" has spoken well and wisely, but has committed tho sin of omission in mentioning tho mystic throe. Thore aro other reasons wnv that character is held sabred in this country as well as in others. A man lives to the age of three scoro (and ten In playing brag, threo cards are dealt. In tho beautiful but uncertain game ot poker, threo of a kind boat two pair. Threo meals a day aro all the Europeans or white folks eat. Three is all you can get into a bed with comfort, unless you reposo spoon fashion. A female hen sets threo weeks except when sho sets on goose eggs. Threo persons just make a trio. Threo dollars (or more) will buy a bottle of wlno. Red postage stamps cost three cents, unless they are blue or green. Knives are made with three blades. On tho cars you can purchase three npples for a tiiino. Three girls aro better company than two oi--Tour for then to tho odd ono you can bo making lovo. Three parts whiskey makes tho nicest of rum punch. Thero

Tho man bowed his head in shamo, and went from the presence of magna-' t^eo branches of government nimit as grand to him as incomprc- House, Senate, and laro Bank! Ihr htmothiA wheels knocked out of a buggy, If yi hensible.

OUR readers havo all heard tho story of soaping tho clergyman's tin-horn at camp-meeting, so that when he went to call tho congregation together, ho blew tho "soft soap" over his brother clergymen, and how ho excla.med: "Brethren, I havo served tho Lord thirty years, and in that timo have never uttored a profane word, but I'll ho if I cnnT^ttsJpttnrman who soaped that horn!"

Our readers, we say, havo all heard this, but havo perhaps never hoard the sequel, as given to us by a gentleman who was present.

Somo two days after, a tall, swarthy villainous-looking desperado strolled on tho groHiids and leaned against a tree, listening to tho eloquent oxhortation to repent, which was being made by tho preacher. After a while ho became interested, finally affected, and then, taking a position on tho anxious seat, commenced groaning in "tho very bitterness" of his sorrow. Tho clergyman walked down and endeavored to console him. No consolation—ho was too great a sinner, ho said. Oh, no— thero was pardon for tho vilest. No, ho was too wicked thero was no mercy for him. "Why, what crime havo yon oinmitted?" said tho preacher. "Havo you stolen?" "Oh, worse than that!" "What! have you by violence robbod female innocence of its virtue?" "Worse than that—oh, worse than that!" "Murder, is it?" gasped tho horrified preacher. "Worse than that?" groaned the smitten man.

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have a girl in it riding with you, causes tho darned thing to upset. Threo teeth knocked out of a man's upper jaw spoils his looks as a general thing. Let a strict temperance man indulge in threo gin cocktails in tho morning, threo brandy smashes boforo dinner, tliroo rum punches boforo tea, and threo sherry cobblers prior to going to bed, and lie will soon^ get in the habit of tnking drop too inneh. Then it take throe eggs to make custard and nine tailors inako a man. Threo times ono mako threo and three times three mako nine. Funny, ain't it? Then men often havo three wives. Houses have threo stories and stories have three chapters. Again, sotno kind of ships havo three masts. Ladies often wear hoops, havo three skirts, and the samo number of lovers. Duellists always count three boforo shooting. John Wentworth has been elected threo times. Judas got thirty pieces of silver. Threo pieces of silver (two quarters and a half) will make a dollar, and threo babies mako a triplet. Threo fatal stabs in the vitals will seriously hurt an ablo-bodicd man, and three kicks in tho rear from an indignant boot will breed trouble between tho lover and his intended father-in-law.— G«lixy.

HAPPV HOMKS.—1Tho homos of people aro tho landmarks of civilization. They aro a standard by which wo may meet their moral and social greatness. What is a nation but a laruo family possessing rights and duties, interests and privileges? Tho influence of oaeh memborol that family for good or evil, is reciprocal. As the shock of electricity vibrates and expands, so the influence of tho human action is diffused from the centre to tho circumterenco of human society, llcnec, now- cold that heart must bo which does not beat more quickly at tho mention of tho word! What delightful associations and recollections aro coniieetcd with that sacred spot. It is here that the virtues and charities, the blessings anil realities ol human life are enjoyed. Hero tho sympathies of the heart and affections of tho mind arc nourished and developed, and all that is good and great in our nature is brought'to maturity.

"BKWARK of bilious saloons ami bowel alleys," was tho good old Boston lady's advice to her son who was Just starting for sinful New York.

D. G. Croly, managing editor of tho New York \Vvrhl says: "My wife is the ablest associate I ever had in journalism."

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