Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 September 1871 — Page 2

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Rural.

Artistic Treatment or Small Farms.—It will never do for us to •sanction the divorce of landscape from our humbler rural intentions else the great balk of our wayside will be left without law of improvement. JTofc only those broad ana striking effects which belong to a great range of field and wood or to bold scenery to come within:the domain of landscape ait, but those lesser and orderly graces that may be compassed within a stone's throw of a man's door. We do not measure an artist by the width of bis canvas. The panoramas that take in mountains are well, if the life and mists of the mountains are in them but they do not blind ns to the merit of a cabinet gem. I question very much if that subtle apprehension of the finer beauties which may be made to appear about a given locality does not express itself more pointedly and winninglv, in the management of a three or five acre lawn, than upon such reach of meadow and upland as bounds the view. The watchful care for a single hoary boulder that lifts its sacrecland licbened bulk out of a sweet level of green sward: the audacious protection of some wild vine flinging its tendrils carelessly over a bit of wall, girt with a savage hedged growth—these are indications of an artist feeling that will be riotous of its wealth upon a bare acre of ground. Nav, I do not know but I have seen about a laborer's epttage of Devonshire such adroit adjustment of a few flowering plants upon a window-shelf, and such tender and judicious care for the little mantlet of turf around which the gravel path swept to his door, as showed as keen an artistic sense of the beauties of nature, and of the way in which they may be enchained for human gratification, as could be set forth in a park of a thousand acres.—Iloura at Home.

The Cost and Profit OP Grape Culture.—Hearth and Home, in a late issue, gives an account of the cost of growing and selling the production of grapes from 2.73-100 acres of vineyard, sa Tho cultivator puts down the cost of •s cultivation from the time of gathering 5 the grapes tho previous autumn to the commencement of picking them this :s year, at $233.51. This includes culfcivst lng, hooing, and pruning, and eight a hundred pounds of ammoniated super phosphato of liino applied to parts of tho vinoyard. The cost of picking, packing, and marketing, including freight and commissions, and wear and toar of cratos, he gives at $287.8S, making tho total cost for the year $471.39.

Mis crop ol grapes was 14,500 pounds for which ho received $1,0U6.75, so that ho reoeivod $035.37 profits. In this he doos not make any charge for rent of land nor taxes, nor for taking the grapes from the vineyard to tho railway station. Ills vineyard contained 2.000 vines in bearing and 250 youngor vinos. They are mostly Concords, a few (about one-tenth) Delawares, and )tno Ilarlford Prolific^ Diana, etc. llis first Delawares sold at twenty cents per pound his first Concords at ten cents his Delawares falling to ten cents, and his Concords to six cents, before the close of the season. He had about 12,(WO pound.i of Concords, and about 12,000 pounds of Delawares, tho romaindor bcliii* divided bv some eight or nine other sorts. By this time it would seem that it cost him about three and one-fifth cents to grow and ^markot a pound of grapes that the avorage grosH receipts wore about seven and a half cents per pound, and the net proceeds about fonr and one-t hird cents per pound, or $232 per aero. These grapes were marketed in tho city of

Now York.

Kkkp tiik Cattlb Orowino.—'The most successful breeders of horses, cattle, sheep, or swiuo, know from oxTporlonoo that although they may possess tho best breeding animals, they will not bo successful in producing ..superior stock if ii continuous growth of the young animals is not kept up.

In order to begin in timo at this indisponsablo preparation for success, tho brood mares, sows, ewes, and sows are most carefully aiVI suitably fed, and us soon as the young animals make their appearance, they are taken tho greatest care of, tiio datn being suitably ft'rt whilo Ruckling, and when the young ones are weaned they aro not supposed to want for food or drink a single hour. By this means a continuous or rapid growth is kept sup, and tho animals attain a large size sand weight at an early age. When ^breeding animals are not properly fed and comfortably sheltered in winter, the bad effect of such treatment is not confined to their own condition—it is shared bv their progeny, and can never

Ik» remodtod. When young stock are not well fed and comfortably sheltered in winter, their growth becomes stunted, and no subtoqoent amount of good treatment cm repair tho damage.

young animals may suffer for want of fT

(provender in summer and autumn, as ,|oll|i

?pons

•well as in winter, mid when this hap- „u, ,n „,nftdenro. I

it stops continuous growth and ,ar

prevents ultimate success the object

of tho breeder.

Tiik Sklkctionok Skki.—Nearly all the varieties of the cereals

,sMveprincipal

been originated from a few ears of

extraordinary sixe and quality gathered

by intelligent observers a harvest time

ami pnm ig iuslfnnn until la^quan-

titles of seed were obtained. 1 he pota-

to oats, which turned out to le a most

Valuable v.triety. was originated by a

uentlemon of norland England,,

t.uo field The most approved varieties

of wheat Ix-arth.- name of some intel-

Ihrent fanner who originated them

The ho aller b.ule\, a nios. excellent

T? i, '"T-

Young Folks.

CHARADE.

My first, like a button, is shaped small and round My second in every large forest is found

Through my whole by the farm-house the whole year is seen, If alive it most surely leaves there the spring. -A. Savtnwe.

CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.

My first is in cambric but not in silk, My next is in water but not in milk My third is in wren but not in dove, My fourth is in hand but not in glove My fifth is in branch but not in root, My sixth is in head but not in foot Mv whole is the nameof a kind of fruit, .rr- a C. L. S,

GEOGRAPHICAL PUZZLE. I am going a journey and expeet to isit K, I A the APIX, IIK and to sail upon 5 1,000,000 bay and TtKk lake. Starlight.

COMPARISONS.

1. Positive, a pronoun comparative, time superlative, a concoction. 2. Positive, a color comparative, an animal superlative, to sew.

Max Maurice.

3. Positive, a story comparative, a musical instrument superlative, margin of cloth. 4. Positive, to reward comparative, a fruit superlative, dough.

Hedwig.

NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

I am composed of 10 letters: My 4, 2, », 7, 8, is what few can do well, My 4, 5, 3, 8, gives name to an order of vegetation.

yeg

My 4, 2, lj 8, is a primitive habitation. My 0, 10, is a pronoun. My whole is un island of the Pacific.

Kate Berry.

WORD SQUARE.

1. What every one needs. 2. A preposition. 3. An article of food. 4. Formerly. Pearl W.

SYNCOPATIONS.

1. Syncopate an animal and leave an article of clothing. 2. A great division of land and leave a smaller one. 3. Part of the body and leave an ani mal. 4. Part of a ship and leave a household article. 5. Lengthy and leave part of a tree. ii. Not lengthy and get a kind.

Starlight.

PI.

Therom's radsling rea tub pom-silk shore.

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

Anagrams.—1. Fundamental. 2. Parentage. 3. Inhabitants. 4. Personification. 5. Outrageous. 6. Malevolent. 7. Ambassadors. 8. Mythological. 9. Unhappiness. 10. Christendom.

Square-Word.—Upon, pine, once, need. Riddle.—Because it is tho letter E.

Geographical Suggestions.— 1. Morocco. 2. Chili. 3. Brazil. '4. Arkansas. 5. Italy. 8. Kansas.

Decapitations.—1. Swallow, waMow, allow. 2. Splash, plash. 1 *Tfarisposltions.—Items, times, nrkes. I. Laity, Italy. 3. Stint, tints.

Decapitations (No. 2).—Mowing, owing, wing, gin, in, I.

LA ROCITEFO UCA VLIVft DESCRIPTION OF HIMSELF. Ambition does not weary me. I fear but few things, and I do not fear death in the least. I am but little given to pity, and I could wish I was not so at all. Though thcro is nothing 1 would not do to comfort an afflicted person, and I roally believe that ono should do all one can to show great sympathy to him for his misfortune, for miserable peoplo aro so foolish that this does them the greatest good in the world yet I also hold that wo should be content with expressing sympathy, and carefully avoid having any. It is a passion that is wholly worthless in a wellregulated mind, which only serves to weaken tho heart, and which should be left to ordinary persons, who, as they never do anything from reason, have need of passions to stimulate their actions. I love my friends and I love them to such an* extent that I would not for a moment weigh my interest against theirs. I condescend to them, I patiently endure their bad temper. But, also, 1 do not make much of their caresses, and I do not feel great uneasiness in their absfcneo. Naturally, I have but little curiosity about the majority of things that stir up curiosity in otn

... other men. I am very secret, and

hlivp

,0s!,difllenlty than most men in

1V lHr IIS (o whHt ls toid

i'ig iiiv tongue

most particu-

aj| to my wori, nml would nevcr

wlmt,Ver

though

noun«vd

W»,u n^°,r|astonished

M. he nlier, a rcnch agriculturist,}.sensible people who can occnpv their who originated it tv selecting the finest ears in afield of barley at harvest time. A vast improvement of seed and a consequent Increase of acreable produce might very easily effected, if farmers would annually select the best ears of the cereals at harvest time and propar»te from them. The aereablo produce I of regulations for the government, or of all kinds of crops mav bo greativ! German diplomatists In foreign counIncreased bv selecting and using the

best seeds, messengers for the delivery of deI spatches. They will receive and forHk iNOKrKNDKM.—Heaven help the ward communications to their own man who imagines he can dodge ene- Government, and will receive and demiea by trying to please everybody! If liver communications from Germany such an individual ever succeeded, we to the government near which they arc Hltould l»e glad of it—not that one to express nt» opinions upon any of the lioukl lie gx»ing through the world matters which pans through their hands

trying In find V.un* to knock and ilmitip his head against, disputing :n.in's opinion, fighting and elbowing, tud crowding all who diitfer from him. Hi at, again, I* another extreme, oilier people have their opinion—«o have vou don't fall into the error of *np posing that they will rcwpect yott more for turning your eoat every day to match the color of thoim. Wear your »»\vn colors in spite of wind, weather, •storm or sunshine. It costs the vacillating ami irresolute ten time* the1 itible to wind and shuffle and twist that It does honest, tnanlv indcj«*n-j humbugs of diplomacy, and •ienco to stand Its ground. I hope that he will hit 'cm again.

might bo the conse-

quence, to do what I had promised and I have made this an inflexible law

during the whole of my life, I keep

i* ™,} i! the most pnm tilious civility to women.

not have ov

tj,,ng

£r

itefore them which could cause

*annoVanee. When their intellect

iscuUivat0-4, f,,r Uloir 80clc,v to

{hHt of 0„lc lh find„ ft nd_

ness one docs not meet with anionc uuv inn? uirrv nitu uuivii

ourwivcs aiKj

|t gtcms tome beyon

lh,„ (hnt thpv PXprMW

from a single plant of an extraordinary ,nor„ neatness, and give a more agreeasi«e and weitfM found growing in a po-

b,„ ll|rn

,he«nsclves with

,0|{)0'

|hl

thev talk about,

A„ for lllrtat!on f?rmorfv

indulge.] in

Rlit|l now 8ha„ (lo no

more,

I am still young. I have re-

all flirtation, and I am simply

that therfe are still so many

time with it.—IM Rochy'oMcaidxt&JiefleeAcw Trnntfatirm,

A SKXSIULE CHANGE Prince liwnwck appears to be a reformer. He has promulgated anew set

trien-

henceforth to be mere-

Next to getting rid of diplomatists al together, this is the best reform that could be attemted. In his age of almost instantaneous communication it ia not necessary to maintain a~diplomatic corps. With railroads, steamships* and the electric telegraph, governments may just as well deal directly with each other upon all ordinary business nnd when there is any matter of importance pending, special commission* can be sent to attend to it, Bismarck is a Wiseman. He has struck so effective blow at the old fashioned let us

And woman will be no less woman than man through all the process of lt

broader culture and of grander opportunity. No creature, cramped ana fettered, can be so noble, so true to its own inherent self-hood, as that same creature uutrammeled, using its best faculties in the atmosphere of intellectual and spiritual freedom.

If I have great faith in man as man I can have no less in woman as woman. No opportunity of change or of proression has made man less distinctiveman in his habits or pursuits. Equal opportunity, equality in the race, cannot, make woman less womanly. No matter what we say or do, man's work still remains man's, and woman's woman's. With here and there an exception, till our star goes out, doubtless man will remain the organiser of this world's affairs, and woman its ministrant. I say nothing against the demand for legal eqnality and equal opportunity for it underlies the highest fulfillment. But in the struggle for material power, let no woman forget that, after all, to the end, her supreme kingdom must lie the spiritual."

Mirthttt. Menamd Womkx.—Itis a real blessing to have one in the family who is sensitive to the ludicrous. There are enough to reflect the s*d side of life, and its irritable side. We need one or more to«show the mirth that often trembles just below the surface of painf05 things. A real impetuous laugh dissipates many Illusions, sweeps the twilight out of our imaginations, and Drings honest daylight. But it must be real. No dry, hacking langh. It should be spontaneous, out-bursting, irresistible, infectious. We have seen men fall to laughing who had not hesrd the cause of mirth, but only had eanght the contagion of other men's laughing. It is bard not to Isugh with men who are in earnest about it.

A oolorkp clergyman of Maryland struck terror into the heaits of the weaker members of his flock by burving a deceased backslider head downwards. ./

TKB.R.R-HATTTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL SEPTEMBER 2,1871.

HOW TO BECOME BANKRUPT BY MANUFACTURING.

Not a few, adopting the maxims we are about to promulgate as rules for conducting a manufacturing business, have succeeded in being conspicuously unsuccessful. If an other wish to follow in their illustrious footsteps, let them adhere strictly to the advice we shall give, and we will guarantee the desired results.

Let them branch off into many kinds of manufacturing, or, if manufacturing any particular class of goods, confine themselves as closely as possible to making as many different varieties of wares as the class will permit of. The first is a better and more rapid road to ruin, but the latter will do, provided that:

They so keep their books that they cannot tell how much or little they are making or loosing upon each variety of articles they produce, or whether there is either profit or loss on their entire business except when the annual balance sheet is made up. We have known persons who were so foolish as to employ skilled book keepers to keep them informed as to the state of their liabilities and assets. It is rare that such men fail so conspicuously as to ac quire public fame. Their example should be avoided by those ambitious to become noted bankrupts.

Let those who wish to fail, also hire as much by the day or week as possible, and eschew the system of "piece work." It is astonishing how much this will grease the wheels of financial disaster, especially if, they leave everything in charge of a salaried superintendent, not above having his favorites among the employes, who become favorites by seeing that he does not want for a gold watch at Christmas, or cigars to regale himself with during the rest of the year.

Finally, having got things in this way well in train, be sure and take no care of remnants. Let them take care of themselves. To become a bankrupt, one must not respect economy. Economy has stood between many a man and the debtor's prison or the alms house. Therefore, have nothing to do with it. I^et scraps rot, and material run to waste. Spend as much time as you can with fast horses, in shooting, fishing, etc., leaving business to the superintendent. When a pinch comes, borrow money, having full faith that it will be easy to nay it when due. So shall you find smooth sailing and fair breezes to waft you swiftly to a port where you will find no lack of congenial society.

THE BOA. CONSTRICTOR. "John, undo his tail! There, ladies and gentlemen, is the wonderful boa constructor, so called because he constructs many pleasing images with his serpentine form. The constrictor is a long animal, as you will perceive, and is very long lived. He lives a hundred ears* or more if he don't die beforeand. He is of the worm species, and worms himself along the ground with legs. He is capable of climbing tho highest trees, in which he is fond of concealing himself in the branches thereof, that he may impose upon the benighted traveler or other beast whereby to satisfy his hunger.

He makes his vittals before he eats and then swallows 'em head first. The sea-serpent is much larger, yet I think tho constructor could lick him, for he is full of pluck. Prick him,J and make him hisfe. \Vhen he hii he% very angiy^jH^fe-cs vjary 1 "what becor#1 because he is very*""#^ has a small head. Ho nas, however, a large belly, and when it is full he is very good-natured. He has a very lovely skin, but is very ugly tempered. He is very sulky and lazy, and ho is so spiteful it is a mercy ho can't talk. I have took care of this mighty snake for three years, but he shows no gratitude, he is a glutton, and likes to stuff himself ancl then go to sleep. If John didn't stir him (stir him again, John) he would never wake up except to his vittals.

I don't know as I ought to blame him, though, because nature is nature whether in Boston or the rude valleys of Bengal. I have an uncle living in Bengal, and a brother who has never been there. My uncle tells me ho has seen ten thousand boa coustructors frolicking in the forest, and eating each other up. ^Iy brother does not believe it, but then he has not seen it. My uncle may be depended upon. lie sold rum and sugar to the Injens. He is the only man in the world who ever sold liquor to the boa constructor. This is the ono he gave it to. He first rot it tight, and then boxed him up. The boa will never forgive him,

IFOJ/zlAW, IDEAL.

Mrs. Mary Cletnnier Ames has the greatest faith in the instincts and des I tiny of her sex. She well says: "From the universal awakening of womanhood must dawn at last a higher and liner development for the entire human race. Unerring nature will adjust itself to larger and purer conditions.

THE AT

GREAT RICE-FIELDS THE SOUTH.

the rice

A Southern correspondent of Syracuse Courier writes of the lands: "There is a belt of land stretching from Virginia down the coast to the Gulf of Mexico, and most of the distance it lies low, very little above the level of the ocean, and some of it is covered with water by every high tide. The greater portion of this land may properly be called swamp land—not altogether given up to the domain of the water, but always damp, and too wet for any grain except rice. It is not every swamp or wet piece of land that is fit for the cultivation of rice. The alluvial swamp lying along the banks of rivers, having a deep soil, composed of decayed vegetables, is best fitted lor the purpose, but it must be so located that it can be overflowed at high tide, or it is useless for the purpose. The lands must also be protected from the salt water, and from the rapid currents occasioned by treshets. South Carolina is the great rice State, more being cultivated than in all the LTnited States beside. The rivers flowing down :rom the table land of the interior reach this low land, knd force themselves to the sea, spreading and forming a broad deep channel. There is volume of water sufficient, so that the tide will cause it to set back for many miles. Along many of these ravines, the land is as level as the sea, and it can be flooded at pleasure. Gates are constructed through artificial embankments along the banks of the river, and when the tide is high the water is let in, and the land flooded and the gates closed. When it becomes necessaiy to draw the water off, the gates are opened at low tide. Some of these fields are very large and interesting when being prepared for a crop, and are very beautiful when the rice comes up through the water and shows its needle4ike spears. These fields must have a secure embankment'along the river, and must be thoroughly drained by artificial channels, so as to take the water entirely away when necessary. In large fields some of the channels-have capacity enough to float a flat bottomed boat, which is used to convey the harvest to the place of storage. "The land is plowred in winter, and in the first warm days ot spring is flooded. The preparation of the ground commences in March. Tho ground is made as mellow as a garden. The seed is sown in trenches about fifteen inches apart. It requires about three bushels of seed to an acre. The seed is tightly covered with tho soil, and the water let in, to remain about a week, by which time the grain sprouts, when tno water is drawn off but when the grain is a few inches above the ground, it is again flooded for four or five days, and then drawn off, and the grain is then allowed to grow for four or five weeks, when it is cultivated and the ground thoroughly stirred and then the water is let on, aind it is flooded for a few days, and then gradually drawn down and again cultivated and after the second cultivation the water is again let on to remain till tho crop matures, which takes about two months, when the water is drawn off, and it is harvested very much as wo harvest buckwheat. Tho crop in a favorable season is a profitable one. The grain is threshed and cleaned in mill. It is frequently sent to market before the hulls are removed. There are extensive mills at Liverpool and New York tor hulling the rice, and thev enable the dealer to put it on I the market fresh and white. There are mills itfr SavrfWfcffh and Charleston, where the rice is hulled for the local market. The best hulling machines cost from glo,000 to $18,000, and have very intricate machinery. The rice, before being hulled, is called poddy. The machine takes off the hulls and assorts the grain. After the hulls are removed, it is moved out on inclined screens, which are fine at first, and all the small and broken rice passes through, and then a little coarser, and the rice called 'middling rice' drops through, and last the 'Prince rico.' Tho latter quality is passed through another screen, which is called polisuing, and in that process is swept clean and bright. Rice is cultivated in all the warm countries of the world, and is used for food by more people than any other cereal except wheat. It is cultivated very extensively in the East Indies ana along the coast, where the lands aro marshy, it is the only crop raised. It is a staple cropin Africa, the south of Europe, North and South America. Ceylon produces a large quantity in excess of consumption. There are several varieties, somo of which grow on dry land, but the Carolina or water-rice, as it is called, is as fine as any in the world. It grows very rapidly, and is often six feet high. When it is sufficiently high to cover and hide the water, it presents a beautiful sight." t'

JONES' EXCURSION PARTY. The "Trans-Continental Excursion" party which left here on the 21st of last month for California, arrived safely at San Francisco, numbering 210 persons. It is hardly fair to credit Indiana with the miscellaneous crowd made up from nearly all the States, but that is what tho A Ita-California does in the following paragraph:

Ft is said by those who should know, that the Chicago party whoso "liberality" was duly chronicled whilo here some two years ago, arc completely "crowded down" by the Indiana party, now in this State. The Cheyenne papers say that as cigars there cost two bits each, theso liberal gents cut them in two to enable thein to have a smoke for each bit. On their arrival in San Francisco they found they could go to Portland and return for less than the cost to Yosemite, and at no expense for grub, and though not in the original programme many of them went. Some eight of them, however, said "darn the expense, we're going to the Yosemite," and go they did. After a pleasant trip thev found themselves at Inspiration Point. The view filled their souls with admiration for the grand and majestic. Twas spread, by Nature before their visual organs, and all at no cost. Finiilly their thoughts, too long restrained, found vent in words, "I^et's go back, we've seen enough, and darn U, if we go in the valley we can't see any more, and it will cost like blazes. They gave one last lingering look, counted their change, turned their horses' heads, and so bid adieu to Yoacmite.—Iwdiampoli* NCKH.

Tub Rothschilds are said to be such firm believers in luck that they will never employ any one In any capacity who has been nnfortunate. They always ask the man who applies to them fbr a situation, however humble, "Have you ever had any bad luck?" and if the r»ply be in the affirmative, he is objected without further discussion. To this apparently severe and unjust mode of dealing they attribute much of their extraordinary sucness in business

Ax English scientist has published a book on the cheerful conundrum,!

|*ill the earth become a sun-spot «his permanent residence.

CHINESE WOMEN.

The women of China are divided into two classes—the bound-footed, who are the ladies, snd the large footed, who are the common class. The latter carry the burdens, do all the drudging and out door work, while the husbands do nothing. When a little girl is born, the parents think the gods are angry with them, and they hold a consultation whether she snail be allowed to live or not. If she is, when she arrives at the age of tour years they hold another consultation whether she shall be a bound footed woman. If she is chosen to be a bound-footed, she is not permitted to do anv-thing but, if otherwise, she has to be the family's slave. I have seen a woman with four children strapped to her back rowing a boat, wnile her husband lav in the cabin smoking his pipe. Girls have no choice of their husbands the young girl is sold by her parents at the highest price tliey can obtain for her. She never sees her husband, nor he ber until after they are married. If he chooses he can be divorced from her for talkiug too much if he becomes poor, or gets tired of her, he sells her again. In the coldest weather the largefooted women are not allowed to wear stockings, and cannot dress in any other colors than black and blue. The manner in which they make their feet small is by binding the four toes under the foot, which they keep bound up for about eleven years, when the foot becomes neat. "I have walked through the streets when the women would brush against my dress so as to see mv feet, so they could tell to what class belonged. I would say to them,

I will show you my feet, but do not

Full

my clothes, as it is rude." When would expose my feet to them they would exclaim: Why, have you no real ladies in America And the only way that I could make them believe that we had, was by telling them that the woman read books like the men, which utterly astounded them, as the real Chinese lady is brought up in the utmost ignorance, and they only marry in the rich families because they know and do so little, and need so much waiting upon, that it takes a rich husband to support them. If you ask a Chinese woman how many children she has, she will give you only the number of the boys. She has to be asked the second time how many girls she has, they are thought so little of that, in many cases, they are killed ns soon as born. A large-footed woman told me once that her first child was a little girl, and she described to me how she loved the little one. "My husband went out," she said, "and brought in a tub of water. I begged him to spare its life, but he took the little oue and put its head in the water and held it there until it was dead." Her second babe was a daughter, and it was served the same as the first the third child was a boy he lived until he was about four years old, and then the gods got angry and killed him "then my husband died and if I eat anything that is nice, and if I wear good clothes my relatives become angry and treat me harshly." Even in Christian churches, in China, the woman are not allowed iu the same room with the men, but aro partitioned off in a lattice-work room.

The first six months of a child's life is too uncertain to base any calculalalion upon. On the other hand, after the expiration ol the first year, the chances are even that the child will live to the age of thirty-three betwepn ten and fifteen years of age life is most secured, and tho probabilities are even that be will live forty-throe years longer.

Of a million people, 573,400 will be found to bo between the age of fifteen and sixty and as nearly one half of them aro men, this number of inhabitants could on an emergency, furnish 250.000 men capable of bearing arms, even if an allowance be made for the sick, the lame, etc., who may be supposed to be among that number. This will explain the capacity of such countries as the United States and Prussia, where the volunteer and militia system is fully developed, for putting such vast numbers of fighting men In the field when necessity has required them.

It has been proved that the number of males that are born exceeds that of the females this a striking instance of the wisdom of Providence, which lias provided for the preservation of the human race. Men, in consequenco of tho active life for which they are naturally destined by their strength and courage, are exposed to more danger than the female sex war, long sea voyages, employments laborious or prejudicial to health and dissipation, carry off groat numbers of the males and it tnence results that if tho number of the latter born did not exceed that of the females, the males would rapidly decrease and soon becomo extinct.

WHY CIRCLES PLEASE THE EYE. Professor Mullor, in a course of lectures in Berlin, offered a simple and mechanical explanation of the universal admiration bestowed on these curves. The eye is moved in its socket by six muscles, of which four are respectively employed to raise, depress, turn to the right, and to the left. The other two have an action contrary to one another, and roll the eye on its axis, or from the outride downward, and inside upward. When an object is tho first act is round conon of the circumference upon the most delicate and sensitive portion of the retina. Now, if figures bounded by straight lines be presented for inspection, it is obvious that but two or three muscles can -be called into action and it is equally evident that in curves of a circle or ellipse all must alternately be: brought into action. The effect then is, that if two only be employed, as in rectilinear figures, those two have an undue share of labor and by repeating the experiment frequently, as we do in childhood, tho notion of tedium is instilled, snd wo form gradually a distaste for straight lines, and are led to prefer those curves which supply a more general and equable share of tfork.

Skxhibi.k Anvrrp..—A Chicago paper has a word to say to the thousands of voung men lust graduated from colleges. which despite its satirical flavor, is sensible advice. This ls the point of it: "Hut as a further preparation for an honorable career, his first duty is to quit being a college graduate. When the floral tributes that applauding maidens finng at his feet on that imposing commencement occasion have withered, let him address himself to his task. Let him conceal as far as possible from those around him the fact that he is the wisest man of bis time let him postpone his elevation to the presidency as long as he thinks the pressing demands of his fellow-citixens wi'l permit, and with an air of wellaffected meekness 1st him go to work at his chosen avocation."

SETTLING AT "THE CAPTAIN'S OFFICE." All dem passengers as has not settled deir passage, will please step np to de captain's offis and settle."

There were many passengers, and of course, as usual, a great crowd gathered around the "Captain's offls, each

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uietly awaiting his turn to pay. Suda tall robust young man elbowed his way through the mass ot people uj» to the window, and stretching out his money to the clerk, said in a very loud tone:

Take my fare sir What name, sir said the clerk, as he received the bills.

Captain Victor Henry Digamma,sir, Captain Digamma, ana lady, of the Younited States Awmy, sirwas thereply, in a very pompous and conceited voice.

This was too much for our acquaintance, the horse dealer, he passed rudelythrough the crowd ana loudly addressed the clerk, while the captain of the awmy yet stood by,and the people seemed to be thinking whether to lynch hint or not.

Take my fare sir?"

What name, sir?" inquired the clerk, meekly. Ivorp'ril John Barstow, Korpril John Barstow and horses, sir, of the Connecticut Milishy, sir!" wis his answer, delivered in a most comical but pompous tone.

How bjank that army captain lookod, and what a good naturea crowd that was immediately after his answer, only those can understand whose imagination can picture reality. f'

HASTE AND HEALTH. It is not at all wholesome to be in hurry. Locomotives are reported to have"been moved a mile in a minute for short distances. But locomotives have often come to grief by such great rapidity. Multitudes in their haste to get rich are ruined every year. The men who do things maturely, slowly, deliberately, are the men who oftonost succeed in life. People who are habitually in a hurry, generally have to do things twice over. The tortoise beats the liare at last. Slow men seldom knock their brains out against a post. Foot races'are injurious to health, as are all iorms of competitive exercises stead}' labor in the field is the best gymnasium in tho world. Either labor or exercise carried to exhaustion or prostration, or even to great tiredness, expressed by "fagged out," always doosmoro harm than tno previous exercise has done good. All running up stairs, running to catch up with a vehicle or the cars, are extremely injurious to every age, and sex, and condition of life. It ought to bo the most pressing necessity which should induce a man over fifty to run twenty yards. Those live longest who aro deliberate, whose actions are measured, who never embark in any enterprise without "sleeping over it," and who perforin all the every day acts of life with calmness. Quakers aro a proverbially calm, |uiel people, and Quakers are a thrifty folk, tho world over. ,.

A WISE WOMAN.

When I wo8 a girl my mother taught me every varioty of domestic work, leading me on from simple to difficult processes in this manner: "My daughter," she would say, "now if you niako this shirt very nicely, you shall make next a shirt for your ftither, and he shall know that every stitch was set. by your fingers," How eager 1 was to learn 4U10 mysterios of slnrt making, and how patiently my mother taught me to sef the stitches in tho bosom, to baste in tho gussets, and to stroko the gathers! How many buttonholes worked on odd scraps of muslin bofore sho could quite trust me to make those on the bosoms and wristbands. But that shirt was my apprenticeship to the needle, and sinco then, tnilinory, dressmaking, tailoring even, havo had no terrors in my imagination, for if 1. could make a shirt well, I could learn to make everything. In the samo way he stimulated my'industry and ambition in culinary matters. ''When you have learned to wash and wipe dishes very nicely," she would say, "I will lot you make somo biscuit." Then I was ermitted to rise a step higher, to tho ignity of bread-making, and tho concoction of cakes and pies. I really thought in those days that I lovod to do housework, to cook and sweep ond iron but sinco then I have found that it was my mother's admirable management that made pastime of drudgery.

EuzAhettt Cadv Stantondelivered lecture in San Francisco a week or two ago, in which she proposed to mako voters of women uml cooks of men that is she demanded the ballot for tho former, and suggested that the men bo educated to do tho cooking. Hero aro her reasons for the latter: "Men aro adapted to this work. They can stand any amount of beat. They don't mind any amount of smoke. A dozen of thein will get together nnd smoke so at an a os if They like smoke, and cooking will give them plenty of it. Men are the best, cooks. The best book on cooking ever known was written by a man. The quickest cooking I ever knew was by a man on shipboard. He only had one spoon, which ho would dip into everything, and botweon flavors ho would lick it. A woman wouldn't have dono that—she would have dirtied a dozen towels, and consumed vastly morn time."

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