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WHA TIKNO W ABOUT FARMING, I have read Greeley's "What I Know About Farming" through nine times, twice backwards, and once standing on my head! Have mastered it at last, and condemned in milder shape what I know sboat running tbe thing into the ground.

Young man, be a farmer. Young woman, be a farmer! Buy a billiard table, dust your clothes on the top of it, sprinkle on a little dandruff, and go to work. Never think of beginning with less than afield of green 6x 10. Spread on your earth all over the billiard table evenly, to tbe depth of one-sixth of an inch, Irrigate with a sponge, and sobsoil to tbe depth of ten feet. If you have no billiard table, buy a piece of land if you can't get a whole one, and go to work.

The best way is to staiv about in the shade or hire out to bold a chair down in a saloon while tbe old mau does the work.

If your farm is stony pick out the stones before they are ripe and throw them into the road. This will cause others to McA-Damize your streets. Never think of plowing less than nine feet if your mule will pull it. It you have no team wait until winter, them drill and blast. This will pulverize the earth, elevate your land, warm it and you will be able to report before your slow neighbors.

Run your creeks up hill and wash sheep only in warm weather. Pick geese on Sunday and set the eggs on fence-posts, out of the way of garter snakes.

When turning grindstones to edacate scythes, never turn the handle backwarn, or the early ^rass will wilt before the color comes to it.

In breaking colts use a club—it is better than a crowbar. A sled stake will answer.

Feed all hogs with cup custard, except politicians. Drive fence-posts with the butt-end •I down, so the boys won't sit on top of them whon arguing so long without coming to the point. $ Strawberries should be threshed in

May, and straw saved for tbe bees. Butterflies should never bo milked or churned the day they are slopped,

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lest the young milk be spoiled but ice cream cows shonla wear skates —the heel corks scratch the calves so.

Hydraulic rains should be butchered before sunshine, and the pelt saved lor company.

Put a swivel on your scythe so that it will cut both ways. Canary seed should be sown in drills, go that tho young birds will browse early.

In planting string beans never use yarn—when once in the throat it is so Iiard to come up. The same with artichokes and pips in chickens.

Pitchforks should bo sorted and paoked in sugar, tho juice boiled and skimmed before running in tho cakes.

Pumpkins should liar.g on trees till frost comes, then should be picked, not shook off, and packed in sweot oil.

In stulling your sausage do not stuff too much into your stomach, or you'll have a feline in your category, and feel that you have incurred something you hate to meat.

Dandelions should be worked in pink rather than bluo worsted—thoy will wash bettor.

Ordinary shoes will do for oxon when at farm work. Use slippers on them only when going to church. 1W succotash tho young corn and potatoes should bo sliced and planted in tho samo hills tho year before. Then take care not to injure the pods when tho fruit is ready to tassel out.

Old rags aro hotter than glass to stop holes In windows—the neighbors can not so© in so well.

Beech nuts should nover be eaten with tho skins on—thoy chauge the complexion so.

Young bod quilts should never be taken out of tho ground in tho salt till the beds have been well spaded for t»he next crop.

In hatching suspenders, care must be taken that tho old hen does not have her nest near the gallows, or the young birds will hard to catch.

Ijook out for protection! I^et tho biff hogs oat tho little ones, then thore will be more room in tho pen, and less oxponso for barrels. But in salting the

never uso rock salt on a stony rm, but feed them with lino salt from a spoon, if Butler is not in that vicinity. Use Epsom salt exclusively for horses.

Never put spots on pigs backwards, except they are for army use. Sweet corn is the best to corn beef, though old cows used to the business will eat the common rod glalxo if the hired man docs not yellow at them before they get into the garden.

I'so peach leaves to color blond, and this is nil I know about fanning. Furrowilv thine,

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ytA ELEMENT Oh SUCCESS. It is no exaggeration to say that health is a large ingredient in what tho world calls talent. A man without it may bo a giant intellect but his deeds will bo the deeds ot a dwarf. On the contrary, let him have a quick circulation, a good digestion, tho bulk ami sinews oi a in:ui, mid the alacrity, the unthinking confidence inspired by these and though having but a thimbleful of brains, he will either blunder upon success or set failure at defiance. It Is true, especially In this country, that

number of contours in every oomtnunity—of men in whom he oncelntelloots are allied with bodily constitutions ns tough as horses—Is small that In general, a man has reason to think himself well off in the lottery of liro If he draws the prise of a healthy stomach with a mind, or a prime of a healthy stoniach without a mind, or a prise Of a fine intellect with a crary stomach. But of the two, a weak mind In a herculean frame is better than a giant mind in a cra»y constitution. A pound of energy with an ounce of talent will achieve greater results than a pound of talent with an ounce of energy. The first requisite to success in lite is to be good animal. In any of the learned professions, a vigorous constitution is equal to at least flay per cent, more brains. Wit. judgment, imagination, eloquence, all tbe qualities of tho mind attain thereby a fore© and splendor to which they cnuld never approach without It, But intellect in a weakly body, is'Mike gold in aspentawlmmer% pocket* A mechanic may have tools of the sharpest edge and highest polish but what arv these without a vigorous arm and hand? Of what use ia it that

vour mind has become a vast granary of knowledge if you have not strength to turn the key?

A KSIIRO in Charleston stole a wbU« dress, muslin spencer, and undergarment from her mlstrwm to be baptised la on Sunday last. She was afterward rw »vy

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Young Folks.

GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. I am composed of letters seventeen: They'll soon be known provided you are keen. In 1, 5,9, a Scottish river ken. E'en now reminds it me of Mow. My 2, 3,16, 7, 5 is found In Iceland where't's at times the terror round. My 12,8,14,15,16, 10. A city, in my whole so fair you 11 ken. In Naples you will find 'fore 6, 15. My 13, 4, and last or 17. Eleven mine begins both flag and furl-

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My whole's '-the one great landscape of the world." FOURTEEN.

CHARADE.

My first Is gathered in its prime, And stored away for winter time. My second is both tall and grand, And never seen except on land. My whole is valued very high, For we shall need it by and oy.

MILLY.

HIDDEN CITIES.

1. O, Allon do not do it. 2. Will you allow Ellen to pass? 3. Be early on Sunday morn. 4. If you are mad, riae out. 5. Tell the same x, I come. 6. My dog Carl is bone eater.

E. W. B.

SQUARE-WORD ENIGMA. My first is a beverage My second is that which cuts My third form a valuable article commerce My fourth is that which many people need, but will not stop to tako.

GEOGRAPHICAL, PUZZLE. A lake in the Western part of New York arose one morning, and found that during the night the mountains in Africa had fallen after eating a breakfast of bread and a river in Montana, he started for a lake north of Minnesota, taking his gun and dog in search of a lake in the central part of British America, where be met an ocean south of Asia with a country In Europe on his back that he said he had just killed. After bunting along time without killing anything but a bay south of Massachusetts, and getting tired, he started lor home, tilled with the southwestern cape of Washington Territory. When he reached home he ate for his supper a river in Idaho, baked, and some soup made of a river in New Brunswick, seasoned with a river in Vermont. He then retired, and slept soundly until awakened by a river in Russia running across his face. He was not disturbed again till morning. II. A. C.

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

Botanical Enigma.—Antennariaplan-taginifolia—Mouse-ear. WORD-SQUARE ENIGMA.

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Cross-Word Enigma.—Darling. PUZZLE.

RELATIVE RANK OF CITIES. The cities of Now York, Philadelphia and Brooklyn maintain the same relative rank as to population that they did in 18(50.

There has been considerablo shifting of places, however among thoso that now constitute tho remainder of the twonty loremost cities of the Union.

During the last decade, St Louis has ascended the scale from tho eighth to tho fourth.

Chicago, in a similar proportion, changes from tho ninth to the fifth. Baltimore, which in I860 was the fourth, retrogrades to the sixth.

Boston pursues tho same direction, from tho fifth to tho seventh. Cincinnati retires a step from the seventh to tho eighth.

Now Orleans fulls fack from thesixth to the ninth. San

Francisco,

taking a noble forward

leap, vaults from tho fifteenth to the tenth. Buffalo lags behind from the tenth to the eleventh.

Washington makes astride from tho fourteenth to tho twelfth. Newark, New Jeney's thriving metropolis, drops, nevertheless, from the eleventh to tho thirteenth.

Louisville, twelfth in rank in 1KS0, is now assigned to tho fourteenth. Cleveland four steps forward, mounts from the nineteenth to tho fifteenth.

Pittsburgh alone retains the same relative rank now as then, the sixteenth. Jersev City rises from tho twentieth to the Importance of seventeenth.

Detroit recedes from the seventeenth to the eighteenth. Milwaukee from the eighteenth to the nineteenth.

Albany, which was ten years ago the thirteenth, now takes tho old place of Jersey City, the twentieth.

CORNKLL UNIVERSITY deserves congratulations. Fortune has smiled upon it from tho first. Now in addition to all Us other princely gifts and endowments, Hon. Henry W. Sage pro poses to give a quarter of a million dollars to equip and endow a department for female students. It is said that he is willing to add $100,000 to his gift provided attendance at mottling prayers shall l)e made compulsory. WhichTunwis« thing it is exceedingly hard to believe that such a generous far-sighted, public-spirited gentleman would do. Compulsory prayers are always hateful to trie compelled, and we imagine it would ret)ni re more than $100,000 to bribe the Almighty to listen to, much lesa to answer prayers that are wrung from prayerlesa hearts. In fact the quickest and surest way to expel all prayer from any healthy human soul is to compel that soul to prayer listen to prayers.—Golden Afff-

IIAVR SO*K IiKSr»CT FOR TUB Bri.i.!"—A genuine down eaater waa lately essaying to appropriate a square of exceedingly tough beet at dinner in a Wisconsin hotel. His convulsive efforts with a knife and fork attracted the smiles of the rest lu the same predicament with himself. At last patterns* vanished under ill success, when laying down his utensils, be burst

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trrrr-HATTTK SATURDAY EVKNING MAIL. SEPTEMBEK 23,1871.

THE PROGRESS OF THE NEGRO. No candid person in the South will deny that the general experience of the negro since emancipation has been progress that in nearly every respect of his life he exhibits some improvement from that date.- Southern men are not very ready to advertise this to the world they would probably confess it with reluctance to a Northern commission of inquiry but in private conversations among themselves, where no pride of controversy interposes, they freely admit it and wonder at It. The negro moves. He is showing the greatest eagerness for knowledge and education attested by the fact, for which examination is challenged, that in the free schools of the South, where he has eqnal admission, there are more black children than white ones In proportion to the population of eacu race in the given community. So far from becoming the idle vagabond that the pessimist theorizers would have him after emancipation, he is exemplarlly industrious attested by the fact that to day the negro represents nearly all the labor of the South, and admitting this test, that of persons in equal condition of poverty and of necessity of work there are far more poor whites than negroes who are idle in the South. Oft vices that wore to assail and destroy the negro in his new estate of freedom there are no proofs The terrible vice of intemperance, which has been the usual scourge of weak races, and the almost unfailing incident of a precocious civilization, is comparatively unknown

the Southern freed-

nien. So far from being improvident the wonder is how the negro economizes, gets so man}' good clothes and real comforts out of his very scanty wages. As a voter he has shown a discretion and independence that have nonplussed the wisest of our politicians. There were white wiseacres who some time ago supposed that the negro's vote might be procured by the merest solicitation, a mere wink from his employer and a common joke in the South on the Fifteenth Amendment was that the disfranchised white man might buy some cheap old negro to do his voting for him. Never was such disappointment. The spectacle has not been uncommon in the South of a negro who paid a deierence to the white man scarcely less than ho had shown in the days of slavery, who possibly yet said "Mas'r," who did his work in all humility and with all subjection, yet going openly to the polls and casting his vote there against the partv ol his employer. Such an instance of self-respect and moral courage is to be admired even by those against whom it actsTheRomance of the Negro," in October Galaxy.

AN appreciative correspondent says: "Your description ot the Colt Memorial Church in the September Galaxy reminds me of a story told about the Church of St. Lazarus in Memphis, which was organized just at the close of the 'late unpleasantness' by the Rev. Dr. Rogers, then an eccentric High Chur hman, afterwards a Ritualist, and finally a pervert to tho Catholic faith. It was intended lor a memorial church to tho martyrs of the lost cause, and its attendants were almost entirely composed of that class of unreconstructed and unrepentant rebels who were unable to worship in the other churches, because ot the presence of so many Yankees by whose side they were obliged to kneel, and whose society even in worship was not to be, endured. One Sunday, shortly aftor the

of Federal officers stationed at Memphis were chatting in the rotunda of the Oyerton Hotel, M'hen Dr. Rogers and his new church became the subject of conversation, and much wonder was expressed and conjectures made as to why it should be given the unusual name of St. Lazarus. One suggested that it was because it was intended for a lazaretto for incurable rebels another that its members were in hopes they might thus get into Father Abraham's bosom when they came to leave this vale of tears but ono officer, who hitherto had taken little part in the conversation, said none of them had given the right reason, which was that they thought they had jmt been licked by dogs. No further reasons wore considered necessary."— Galaxy.

MR. BEECIIKR'S HABITS OF COMPOSITION.—It may interest many readers to know something of Mr. Beecher's habits ot composition. He writes with inconceivable rapidity, in a large, sprawling hand, lines wide apart, and words so thinly scattered about that some of his pages remind one of the famous description of a pago of Napoleon's manuscript—a scratch, a blot, and a splutter. Writing so hastily, he writes with some inaccuracy, and, as he finds correction very irksome, he hands his manuscript over to some ono familiar with his handwriting, to bo prepared for the press. It is then set up, the rough proof corrected, and a fair revise handed to the author. This ho reads with extremo care, and makes so many corrections, erasures, and additions, that it is sometimes cheaper and less l.ilwjrious to reset tho whole than to "correct" from hi* proofs. A second proof is then prepared for him, and sometimes a third and fourth, before his critical judgment is satisfied, and the stercotvper is allowed to cast the plates.

Is THERE lo no no end Of bubblebreaking? Every day or two one of the things we have brooded over as historic facts is picked out from under our credulous wing and shown to be a fiction, as an egg is taken from biddie's nest and shown to be glass. We reluctantly parted with Tell and his Apple then Washington's Hatchet dropped away as a pretty myth, costing ns a patriotic pang. Now Mr. Frederic Knapp caps the Iitnax of our infelicities by dispelling many of the illusions respecting the Great Frederic's dealings witn the United States, and among others the storv of that famous sword which history declared the great monarch sent to Washington. Frederic did no such thing, but some some other dutchman did. And so another article of our childhood's religion goes overboard. Still we are inclined to snspect Knapp who, since his return to Prussia, has shown considerable spite toward the country which so generously befriended him. He onght to undergo literary decapitulation.—OoWtn Age.

IT costs seven hundred million?* of dollars annually to keep the peace of Europe and three hundred millions more to preserve order in tbe rest of the world. More than half the money raised by taxes in this country goes tor military pnrpoees. And the worst of it

At last Jonathan's is, the Very armies and navies maintalned by such frightful expense to preserw* the peace area constant temptaticJL and incitement to war. »be l*of nnivenwi peace have politi\nomy as well lis humanity on *. and interest pleada with re-

Haat* tr republic of nations.—G*tdAU work

WHES PROMISED. O. J. RI

A 8E VERE REPRIMAND. The criminal courts of New York are composed of one presiding judge and two justices of sessions, so called, who are chosen from the

Justices

of the

peace of the county. Their presence OQ the bench sometimes lends dignity to It', and sives tbe oourt the appearance of being balanced but their judicial functions aie very limited—to such an extent indeed that the following anecdote passes current as illustrating them:

I sat on the bench as justice of the sessions four years," one of them remarked, "and the presiding judge never consulted me but once."

What was that about, squire?" I was sitting alongside of old Judge It was one day while that terrible long-winded lawyer was boring us all, and the judge leaned over and whispered to me:

I say, Squire, is not this bench confounded hard?' I told him I thought it was, rather. And that was the only time I was ever consulted in that court."

But what I was going to tell is about old Squire a harmless septuagenarian, who, like necessity, knew no law, and who used to sit up on the bench with an expression on his rosy fat face which betokened a hopeless ignorance of the meaning ot everything that was passing. Upon one occasion a Srisoner had pleaded guilty to an inictment charging him with the larceny of a dozen chickens, and the presiding judge requested the squire to sentence him. The squire essayed bravely to do it, beginning after this style: "Prisoner, stand up! You are convicted, upon your own confession, of a most hen-ious offence."

There were very few in the courtroom who heard the remaindet of the squire's remarks before sentence, although he delivered them in a loud to'ne, wholly unconscious of having said anything remarkable. A titter of mirth rippled through the room and it was not checked wnen the presiding judge slyly beckoned the district attorney up to"him, and said in a stage whisper:

True, every word It was a very fowl proceeding."—Club Room of October Galaxy. THE MINISTER AND BUMBLE

BEES.

Mississippi rejoiced in the possession of the rude talents that distinguished a backwoods preacher known as Uucle Bob. On one occasion Uncle Bob went to the spiritual wants ot some 'brethren' who convened semi-occasion-ally at, a little out-of-the-way church known by the classic name of 'Coon Tail' Inspirited by a crowded house, Uncle Bob turned himself loose in tbe most tragic style. He beat, stamped and vociferated terribly. For some time previous the rude pulpit had been unoccupied. Invited by the apparent securify and quiet of the place, a community of 'bumble-bees' had built a nest beneath. Uncle Bob's peculiar mode of conducting the services had disturbed the insects, and just as he was executing one of bis most tremendous gestures, an enraged bee met him halfway, and popped bis sting into the end ot Uncle Bob's huge nose. He stopped short, gave sundry vigorous but ineffectual slaps, when he heard a half-suppressed titter from some merry youths in a far off corner of the house. Turning towards them with ill-concealed rage, he exclaimed, 'No laughing in the house of God I allow no laughing In my meeting. I'll thrash the first that laughs, as soon as the service is over!" JThis threat checked the incipient merriment. Uncle Bob regained his composure, forgot the bees, and soon warmed up at a two-for-ty lick. But again in the midst of the most impassioned gesticulation, a bee struck him full in the forehead he bowed, dodged, and beat the air frantically, until a roar of laughter arose from the congregation. Uncle Bob looked at them a moment with mingled feelings of rage and disgust, and then shouted. 'Meetin's dismissed! Go home! Just go home every one of you! But as for me (taking off his coat. I don't leave this bill as long as there's a bumble-bee about the house.

MARCH OF SCIENCE.

At an Agricultural Society out in Ohio, the committee asked the man who took the prize for the finest grapes, if he would be kind enough to inform the society of tho secret of his method of cultivation, by reading before it a paper on Grape Culture. The man said ne would. So, at the next meeting, he related that his grandmother had died early in the previous spring, and, being a managing sort of a man, nedeterinined to realize on her. He planted her at the foot of his grape-vine, and leached her with wood ashes, and dug the soil well around her, so as to dovelop all her good qualities as a fertilizer. That accounted for t'ie size of his grapes.

One of tho members inquired if nobody but a grandmother would do in such a case. He regretted to say that thus far he only had two, and he saw no prospects of obtaining a larger supply. 'The man said it was not essential that It should be a grandmother any relation would do. Ho had know maiden aunts and mother in laws used with excellent effect. Undertakers aro getting very little business from that society now. Every member, when any of his relatives die, seems to be anxious to bury them in his own ground, so as to have the remains of the beloved one near home.

What a strong inducement to bo virtuous.

AMERICANS find themselves a little swamped in English newspapers. There is no column of well and widely selected news. You gettho editor's digest of the various matters that commend themselves to his attention, which sustains about the samo relation to a historical record of facts as the various catechisms do to the Bible. Or, liko jfroblems in permutation, every new, combination shows a different result. Now, the American won't take tim*» to read several pages of leaders more than this, he has learned to deal with lacts for himself, and he wtouts to see the meaning and bearing from his individual stand-point of interest. Miss Field says "the English do not know what a newspaper means." I doubt if the English have that quick scent of coming events that half-intuitively sends the American into every nook when something new is being born. Moreover, London is itself so immense that it would require a frightfully big sheet to attempt to gather in all the local interest. as we expect the papers of our American cities to do. But, with all due consideration lor London "bigness," it is still surprising to me that, what we in America should call portentous, and hence momentous, events do not get into tbe London papers at alL.

JKROXK BONAPARTE ol Baltimore, aged forty, and Mrs. Edgar, a beautiful Monde of New Orleans who owned Daniel Webster as a grandfather, were married on Saturday week.

AN ARCTIC STORY.

In the spring of the year 1840, a whaling vessel sailed from the port of London, upon a voyage to the Polar Seas. Nothing material is said to have occnred until their arrival in those solitary regions, when It became the duty of the crew to keep a perpetual look-out upon the horizon in search ot fish Whilst thus occupied, it was fancied by one of the seamen that a sail was discernible, as for to the northward as the eye could reach. As the course of the whaler was

toward

the supposed vessel, a mast

became gradually distinguishable amidst the mountain of ice, which appeared in that quarter to bound the sea. It was now summer, and the afternoon unusually calm,whilst the whaler gradually neared the object in view, the supposition being that it was a vessel engaged in operating upon the blubber in a bay which would open to the view upon approaching nearer to the ice.

Upon arriving, however, at the spot, it became clenr that the vessel was a wreck embedded in the ice, and could only be approached by a boat. This having been lowered, the captain and several of the seamen landed upon the Ice and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be a brig. The sails were furled, very little appeared upon the deck, and all the anaugements were those of a vessel laid up for along period ot time. Descending to the cabin, the first object that was seen, was a large Newfoundland dog poiled upon a mat, and apparently asleep. Upon touching the animal it was found to be dead, and the body frozen to the^ hardness of a stone. Entering the cabin, was next seen a young lady seated at a table her eves were open, and gazing with a mild and steadfast expression upon the new comers to that solitary spot. She was dead and in that apparently resigned and religious attitude had been frozen to death. Beside her was a voung man, who, it appeared, was the brother of the lady, and commander of the brig. He, too, was dead but sitting at the table, and before him lay a sheet of paper, upon which was written the following words:—"Our cook has endeavored, since yesterday morning, to light a tire, but in vain all is now over."

At the other side of the cabin stood the cook, with flint and steel in his hand, frozen to a statue, in the vain endeavor to procure that fire which alone could save him and his companions from the cold arms of death. The superstitious terrors of the seamen now hurried the captain away from the wreck,the log-book alone being brought away and, from this, it appeared that the ill-fated vessel was a brig, which had belonged to the port of London, and had sailed for the Arctic region more than fourteen years before.

A SOLDIER'S YARN.

Our evenings aro cool, and when the days march has not been too fatiguing, the soldiers gather around a cedarwood camp fire, and, in their way," indulge in camp gossip. I listened to "a discussion last evening on the comparative merits, or rather demerits, of the various military posts at which they had seen service.

Which was the coldest post A candidate from Rouse's Point presented its claims, who was distanced by another from Detroit, who was, In fact, ignominiouslv routed by a cavalryman who had wintered at Pembina. "Which is the hottest post?" was logically and meteorologically the next question.

Tampa Bay, Key West, and Point Isabel, were all warmly advocated but the discussion was thoroughly— indeed one might say hermetically— closed by a three chevroned veteran, who, with a homeric wave of the hand, imposed silence. "All were attentive to the warlike man, When rising from his couch he thus began: "Bovs did any of you ever hear of Fort Yuma?" Not one of them. "Well, Fort Yuma is clear over beyond Arizona, near the Gulf of California, where nothing grows, nor flies nor runs. Its tho hottest post, not only In the United States but In creation, and I'll prove it to you. You sec I was ordered there six years ago, and hadn't been there two weeks, in tho month of August, when two corporals died. They had been there ever since the post was a post—in old Hoffman's time. Well, they both died, and where do you think they went?'

No one could possibly imagine. "Why, I'll tell you, they both wont straight to h—11!'

Profound astonishment in the auditory. "Yes, but they hadn't been gono forty-eight hours—hardly time to havo their descriptive list examined, and be put on fatigue duty down below—when, one night, the hospital steward was waked up in a hurry, and there ho saw tho two corporals. "What do you want," said he—you know them hospital stewards aro always surprised at a soldier's even wanting anything. "What do you want savs he. "We want our blankets," says they.

After that you needn't talk to me about any post being hotter than Yuma!"

The auditory separated In silence.

THE FIRST NEWSPAPER.—An ingenious physician of Paris—Kenaudot by name—rather more than two hundred years ago hit upon a good idea for "cutting out" his more learned brethren, which he was not long in putting into execution, to his own no small advantage, and tho great chagrin of his brother professionals. His plan was an extremely simple one, for ho obtained hi# popularity by the very innocent expedient of collecting Information, and then circulating news sheets among his patients, for their especial delectation and amusement. But inasmuch as the seasons were not always sickly, and he iound he had plenty of time on his bands, he was encouraged by his success to devote his attention more exclusively to Journalists, by providing tbe public at large with news and accordingly, in 1031, be succeeded in obtaining for himself and family solely tbe privilege of publishing a newspaper called the Gaxette of France. Such, at least, is the account of the origin of newspapers given by Ie Saint Foix.

GRX.'UHRICH, the defender of Strasbourg, replied to the Alsatians of New York who presented him a sword: "This weapon shall take Itti place by the side of the diploma of citizens of Strasbourg which has been given me, and will leave its scabbard only the day when we shall attempt to reconquer our sister provinces, effacing in a grand victory our recent humiliations."

Vinttit EMXANCKX is already panning tbe reconstruction of Rome. Th* ancient city is to be cleared of unsightly excresences, and modern Rome is to have widened streets, covered markets and a thorough overhaallng. In fact Rome la to be eleaned and put In complete order a civilised European capital of tbe nineteenth century.— Golden Age,

[From Scrlbner for September! CO-EDUCATION OF THE SEXES. Mr. Somerville, Mrs. Stowe, and a host of others have taught the world that women can excel in science and literature, and men have learned by experience and observation, that there is more danger of being hen-pecked by an ignorant virago than by a well-edu-catea lady. We nave lived and learned in vain if education does not refine as well as strengthen the mind, and if the education of the sexes in the same school and in the same studies does not stimulate their intellectual progress and polish their manners. This is the natural, normal mode of education. If God bad desired the sexes to be trained up seperatelv, he would have ordered all the children in one family to be girls, and all those in another to be boys. The very fliet that they are placed together in that first and best of all schools, the family, is a strong argument in favor of their continning together in the whole course of their education. Occasionally, but in very rare instances when the family is as large as it ought to be, we find all the children of one sex. We never see such a family without a feeling of compassion. The boys are very apt to be coarse and rude, all strength and no polish, and the girls to be refined and polished till there is little strength left. In all such fomilies there is a terrible one-sidedne8s. The male or the femalo influence predominates, so that the family is not well ballasted, but lurches like a ship with its cargo all on ono side. A vacuum, Which nature dreads. Is felt to exist. The boys feel the need of a sister, and the girls have a yearning after a brother. Why should not tho same want and the same yearning be felt in the boarding-school and tho college They are felt, and every dlscriminating teacher of a boardingschool designed exclusively for boys or girls, and every professor in our colleges must have noticed it. We have had some experience in a boys' board-ing-school, and have been painfully conscious that the absence of female Influence Is the great want of such a school. Our circulars are headed with the taking caption "Family BoardingSchool for Boys," and we endeaver to have the school partake of the character of a family as far as possible but unless there aro some girls mingled with the boys, It is a terribly up-hill work to engraft the characteristics of a family upon such a school.

It Is not only in the commencement of a career in a boarding school, but all along Its course, that the wint of the inciting and restraining influence of girls is painfully felt. Some fear that the incitement will bo to evil as well as good. We have never found it so. With proper effort and just discrimination, boys may be stimulated to a laudable ambition for excellence in learning and virtuo among themselves but it is ordained of Hoaven that the approbation of woman is undeniably tho great stimulus fortnan. The restraint of girls is no less powerful than their stimulus. Boys accustomed to tho use of Jprofan and obscene languago among themselves, will never swear In the presence of young ladies, nor indulge in ribaldry. Every teacher of a boys' school has felt the difficulty of keeping his pupils up to concert pitch in habits of order, personal neatness, and gentle address among themselves. Let a few tidy, genteel young ladles become members of the school, and tho effect on dress and manners of tho boys is magical. No arbitrary rules, no dally inspection of hands, heads, and foot rare longer necessary. ,,

THE genus homo and the genus horse have a double privilege of refrigeration, while all other animated beings have but one. You may be surprised to learn that no other beings swoat,! except men and horses: and lionco no other beings can cool themselves, when hot, by perspiration through tho skin. The confirmation of this fact is ftfhnd in the whole range of comparative anatomy, where nature has furnished examples, on the most extended scale of magnitude* in tho whole animal world, in the largest as well as tho smallest of beings.

In all the pachydermata, or thickskinned animals, except tho horse, aro found no pores in the skin that oxhalo heat by perspiration, the onvelopo of these animals being only a secreting surface like others of tbe same character in the Internal surface of tho body. All the cloft-feet species, including those presenting feet, with toes rounded ana unprovided with claws—tho elephant, rhinoceros, bison, mammoth, mastodon, butlalo, ox, Bwino, deer, as well as the lion, tiger, bear, wolf, fox, birds, squirrels, dortnouso, oppossuni, raccoon—all alike offer the samo examples as tho dog, that they have no other means of cooling themselves, when hot, except bv the medium ol the lungs —by respiration.

A T.ATE letter says: "There Is no civilized country where work is so poorly paid as in (iermany, or where the earnings are in such disproportion to the expenso of living. Tho average earning of a workingman is about four tliaiers per week (a thaler is OtiK fcents of American gold), while it requires for a family of six members at least eight thalers. The professions aro all very poorly paid. An university professor rarely gets more than SfrtX) a year."

A THRIFTY citizen of Lowistown l^fe., saved a dollar the other day by unscrowing and returning the handles of his wife's coffin.

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