Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 January 1872 — Page 2

ABOUT A WIDOW.

ir contributes to the Ipublican an article on "Tony Wijowi," tromimhicji we lowing:. 1

tract

4lady

~Jier fery eourtfcble widow was young

of Washington, Pa. She

became engaged to a young man named Robert in 1846. Her father, however, objected to this match with one of his clerks, and when the young girl received a tempting offer from a wealthy suitor, the parental influence soon effected a marriage, despite the previous engagement. In less than three months ner husband was killed by a kick from a horse. Robert was a second time a suitor, but delayed the important question until fltteeen months'had elapsed, when, to bis horror, she informed him that she was engaged. In a short time thereafter she was married. Two years elapsed, when the married couple moved to Syracuse, N. Y., where, among the victims of the cholera, when the pestilence swept that city, was the second. Robert again sought her hand, and when a year htd elapsed, was an the eve of a delegation, when, loT he received an invitation to her wedding! Her late husband's business WHS found in such a state that to avoid immense losses she married her husband's partner. Shortly after, she removed with her third husband to Detroit, Michigan. A few years elapsed when herself and husband were on the steamer that was wrecked near Buffalo. The husband perished, and the wife escaped solely through the exertions of a friend who was on board. His gallantry inspired such sentiments in her breast that she married her brave preserver a few months alter her third widowhood. The happy pair removed to Pittsburg, where the husband was engaged in mercantile business. Thither Kobert, Hill cherishing his lirst love, followed. One day as he was passing the door of her husband's store, he saw a terrible commotion. Rushing in, he beheld the mangled corpse ot that gentleman on the floor. A tierce of rice, being hoisted to an upper story, had fallen through the traps, killing bim instantly. Anxiously Robert inquired if any one had been sent to inform his wife, and was told that the book-keeper had just guno. Robert started for Allegheny city, where the deceased had resided, alt lie top of his speed. Tbd bookkeeper was just ahead of him, and from past experience knowing the value of prompt action, and apprehending that the clerk had designs on the widow, he ran for dear life, side by side. The race continued until they reached Hand street bridge, when the clerk was obliged to stop to pay the tolls, while Robert, a commuter, passed over without stopping. Reaching the house of the widow first, Robert told tho heartrending news, anil almost iu the same breath made a proposition of marriage. He was accepted. True to her promise, after a year of mourning she became his wife. As all her husbands had died wealthy, Robert was comfortably fixed, after all. This case is a remarkable example of what "pluck and perseverance" will do for a man, while at the same time it leaches a lesson on the danger of delay.

THE JAPANESE AND THE CHINESE LANGUAGES. A Princeton correspondent of the Newark Advertieser writes as follows. I find there are certain misapprehe. sions among us as to the changes thought of in Japan, respecting their language and the mode of writing it. The Japanese do not contemplate the adoption of our tonguo, but only our mode of writing. I should pity thein if they were to attempt doing more. Their own language is greatly superior to ours in sweetness, at least. Of its capacities for the expression of ideas in various styles of composition, I know nothing, but its softness and sweetness are excellencies not to be despised,and not likely to be exchanged for the comparatlveroughnossofourspeech. What thev think of adopting is our own alphabet, with some necessary additions, instead of the character now in use, which is mostly Chinese.

The Chinese, let me remark, has no letters and no mono syllables except as words, each being ft monosyllable, may lw put together, as, for example, we put together the words ink and stand to compose a new one. In the Chinese, however, the words (each having its own monogram,and every primitive word being theoretically a mono

syllable),

can never be made one as we

make them. Their monograms varying in tho number of strokes from I to 62, stand for words entire, and admit of no decomposition as ours do by the several letters. The Japanese have a syllabary of 48 of these Chinese characters for such single sounds as our long e(or shortened as in pin), a, o, aud syllables with consonants, as ra, ro, nia, etc. But this by itself is very incomplete for tho expression of sounds and combinations of utterance, so that a much larger list of characters and marks of variations in sound is actually in use, many of them Chinese or forms like them.'

A difficulty with this whole mode ol writing is it eau never te made a running hand (cursiv schrlft, as the Germans call it.) the strokes being such and so related as to make this impossible. An alphabet like our own, with some additions for peculiar sounds, will be a great blessing to Japan, and 1 trust may be ere long adopted. It is a mistake to suppose that the written languaue Is that of China. It has manv Chinese words introduced by the learned, Just as Latin and Greek words have come into our own. But these words are subjected to the laws of tho Japanese tongue, as common word« are dealt with by us.

TNK Woman's Journal gives this as a sketch from real life. It certainly illustrates a wrong that should be righted: When Ben and I were children I was taller. When we went to school I

studied

before

more than he did I graduated

he did I read more books than

he did if we got Into an argument I was prettv sure to get the better ot him—in stiort, I was ahead of Ben and I atronised him! But Ben got ahead at

ast. He studied aprofessrton I erimp-

ed and frlzsed and fussed. Ho went

int business: I dusted and arranged and beautified. He growing rich I am growing poor. He can travel If he chooses he ran Invite me to go with him if he chooses I can sit at hsine till I'm invited. He is independent I dependent. Ben is a successful bachelor, with the world before him: I an unsuccessful maiden, with no definite prospects. Ah, Ben, Ben. this will never do—just wait, sir, till I take •tart.

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A "CONTRABAND" who found his way to Boston with returning troops related his experience on the battle-field as follows: "Ye see, msssa, I wasdrivin' an ambulance, when a musket ball eotneand kill my horse and den pretty soon, the shell come along, and be blow mv wagon all to pieces and den I got off J"

GETTING SID OF A BORE. A fancy, highly-perfumed, young gentleman, dressing in the latest »tyle,

and

having nothing to do, has be«f boring the proprietor of one of our prominent patent medicine establishments by lounging in bis private offloe, smoking his fine cigars, and making himself generally at home. The patience of the man ot business was at last exhausted, and 'lie resolved upon ridding himself ftf- the annoyance. A friend had sent him two very fine apples, and he bad placed them in the pigeon-holes of his desk, intending to take them to his family at night Dut he bad reckoned without his host, for upon returning to bis office after a short aosence he found the fancy young gentleman tilted back in a chair, with his feet upon the desk, taking his finishing bite of one of the fine apples.

Ha. ha laughed the young man. "I've stolen a march on you. It looked so tempting I couldn't resist." great heavens! what have you done? You are poisoned exclaimed the proprietor. "That apple contained arsenic for rats."

O Lordy O Lordy! Save me what shall I do!" exclaimed the young man in the most pitiful tones, as he sprang to his feet and hopped around the room like a chicken with its head off.

The scene was most exciting, as the clerks gathered around in wonder and alarm, and the young man, perfectly regardless of his fine clothes, was rolling on the floor in horrible fright, exclaim ing:

Run for the doctor, run, run, run! save me. O, save me! A hundred dollars to the man that brings the doctor."

Run to the grocery for a dozen eggs," cried the proprietor "bring a box of mustard, too."

The young niau again broke forth most dolefully: Oh, I'm dying! I'm going! I know it these horrible pains. Can no one save me and then he poked his fingers away down his throat, in hopes ot bringing up the deadly mass.

The eggs soon came and the dosing began. They poured the dozen raw eggs down his throat they gave him patent medicines, pills, salts, castor oil, and put a great mustard plaster on his stomach, until it grew red as a lobster and tnen the doctor came and pumped him dry as a sand bank, after which they wrapper! him up in blankets, put a warm brick to his feet, and sent him home to his mother.

The joke got out, and though he has recovered, and the air is again redolent with the perfume he sprinkles upon himself, he gives our patcnt-medicine proprietor a wide berth. ..

IIOW TO LIVE LONG. Tl-ey live longest as a class, who lead calm and even lives, mentally and physically who are most exempt from the turmoils and shocks and strains which are incident to human existence and who are assured of to-morrow's bread. There is no one thing, aside from the blessedness of an implicit reliance on the Providence of God, which has such a direct influence in promoting longevity as an assurance felt to be well grounded, of a comfortable provision for life, for all the ordinary wants of our station. Not long ago a man died in a poor house in England, where he had been taken care of for ninety years he had no anxieties for to-mor-row's bread he had no quarter's day to provide against, In default of which wife and children would be turned in to the street from the doors of the elegant brown stone mansion. He had no notes to meet in bank, which if not paid by a day and an hour would involve protest and financial ruin. Ah, this load of debt, how it grinds one's manhood to powder how it agonizes the sensitive heart how it shames a man's honor how it has driven to desperation, to drunkenness, to suicide, to murder!

How

the anguish of it takes

the energy and health out ot a man, and'makes him pine and languish for weary days and weeks on beds of thorns, which pierce through the body, into the soul!

So, one good way to avoid sickness and premature death is to avoid debt as you would the devil,—[Hall's Journal of Health.'

SHCYI.BR COLFAX is a brother (figuratively speaking) to the coy maid who, "vowing she would ne'er consent, "consented." lie wrote, a year ago, a letter in which he asserted peremptorily and positively that he meant to retire from public life at the close of his vicepresidency. But now he writes a neat paragraph, in roundabout English, in the third person, in the characteristic Colfax vein, and communicated it to be associated press, to say or rather to intimate that while he does not wish, uo, not at all, to occupy himself further with the cares of state, yet if the great army of his dear friends, those for instance who have named their children after him, or who hereafter propose to do so, shall insist.on his serving one more term in the vice-presidency, why then he shall feel obliged, from a sense of duty to sarlfice his private wishes to the public good. ()Schuyler, you area clever rogue!—Golden Age.

AwFtrtXT dry times rage at Pontiac. Tho Circuit Court was recently in session there, and also a good jury attachment. Liquor selling is forbidden in that highly moral neck-of-the-woods, especially while the grand jury are around, and in consequence old oumuiers find it rather binding. They lounge about the railroad depots and look wistftilly at the side-coat pockets of the passengers who step off upon the platforms. As we passed through thai town lately, getting out to see around us while the train was waiting to exchange express goods, luminous old chap, with eleven red spots on his nose, came up and offered us 10 cents for chance to smell our breath. We took the change. The coroner's jury next day sat upon that old gentleman verdict died of delirium tremens.— [Ottawa (111.) Frte Trader.

THKPROTECTION PROBLEM.—A writer in the Atlantic Monthly says: We owe established the manufacture of furniture, so that our mechanics, working at S2 20 to |8 per day, yet supplied many foreign customers but we have taxed the wood, the varnish, the oil, the paint, tbe tools the fuel and the food of theae meb forty per cent, on all those portions which are ot foreign origin, and thus they have lost their customers. Privation of imports is prohibition of exports. Protection to the mechanic is to bo fonnd only in the appeal of bad taxes.

A MAX was seen to drop a letter In one of the lamp-post letter boxes up town, the other day, after which he lingered around In a way which excited the suspicion of tbe 'policeman on that beat. The offloer finally accosted him, and asked what he was hanging around in that way for. "I pots letter in that ere box," replied tbe aiaa, "tor my brother In Philadelphia, and I'm swaitin' for ths answer to It,"

Oressedcurls

TERRE-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. JANUARY 27,1872

MRS. WOOD HULL'S B&AUTY. Strange to say that if one, not knowing the merits or demerits of *ny of those seen ton tbe platform, ft Lincoln Hall last *eek had been asked to

pick

otat the most modest, feminine looking woman in tbeerowd, Victoria C. Woodhull would have been-that one. She is great disappointment in that respect. She is neither tall nor short, has a moderately good figure and a face expressive of some degree of refinement and decided intellect. Her features are clearly cut and well proportioned, her face is almost a perfect oval, her eyes and hair are brown tho hair is cut short in front and arranged in very

little around her forehead, very plainly, wearing at

all times at the convention a suit of navy blue serge, trimmed with black bands, a black saque, cloak of heavy cloth, and a bow of blue ribbon at her throat. There is nothing conspicuous in her manner neither of walking or speaking, but when she goes to deliver a speech the gentleness goes out of her face, and a harder look comes which is intensified by a hard, masculine voice. She has much wit, no little eloquence and ready command of language. She speaks always from written notes.

Believing in fair play for everybody, I could not help contrasting the woman who sang a Lincoln Hall on Tuesday night with the one who stood in the same spot to speak the succeeding evening. One was dressed to display her personal attractions to the greatest possible advantage, her white arms and shoulders bare to be gazed at by any one who could afford the luxury, and she did not disdain to attract attention to herself by- coquetting with her friends in the audience, casting arch glances here and there, very pretty and fascinating certainly, but in questionable taste. The other appeared to forget herself in her subject, and use no device to display her beauty of form or face. She vf&s there to speak, and she spoke, and that was all. The question of the immodesty of women speaking in public is never called in question. For my part, I cannot see where tbe nice distinction comes in. If we say the subject matter of song and discourse may make the difference, I must observe that it appears to make very little difference what is sung, and in the comparison I have made above the speaker certainly had the advantage of the singer, as far as the sentiments inculcated in the words used by each were concerned.

I write this because I was forsed to make the contrast in my own mind, when attending the convention on Wednesday evening. One woman is society's pet, the other society's butt justnow.—[LouisvilleCourier Jou» ual's N. Y. Letter.

THE SUN.

The sun is'not simply, as we supposed of old, a globe of incandescent matter. The light we receive from him comes, indeed, from an incandescent source, but it has been subjected, before reaching us, to a very characteristic process—a process, the traces and peculiarities of which there is no mistaking. From the incandescent matter which supplies the solar light, there streams forth light waves of every possible length between certain limits, namely, between the length belonging to the extreme red end of the solar spectrum and that belonging to the extreme violet end. But when the light reaches us certain wave lengths to be wanting. Tbe case corresponds to that ot a harp in which certain strings are missing here and there. Or, rather, if a harp were constructed with an indefinite number of strings increasing gradually in length between the usual limits, so that in striking the finger across them a sound would be produced changing by indefinite gradations from the gravest note audible to human ears to the most acute then if strings were removed here and there —and sometimes several close together —to the number of several thousands, the sound produced when the finger was drawn across the strings would differ from that before produced, precisely as the light received from the suffers from that which is actually poured forth by the incandescent central mass.—[St. Paul's.

THERE is an editor in Doylestown who has lost all faith in the luck of horse-shoes. He nailed one over his door recently, and that morning there came by mail three duns and seven "stops," and a man came with a revolver to ask "Who wrote that article But even he was fortunate when compared with an editorial friend of ours, for this man called one morning upon a female "medium," and she informed him that a rich uncle in Australia would die and leave him a million dollars, and that he would meet a fairhaired maiden who would be bis own. Well, that man went to his office, and in less than an hour his uncle from Australia came in and asked him tor a loan of ten dollars, and shot him through the leg six times when he refused. Meantime a fair-haired lecturess whom he bad criticised, called and knocked him senseless with a chair, and when he revived, he found a policeman waiting to arrest him on a breach of promise suit begun by the medium, who 8wore he had proposed to her during his visit*

THERE are some women who will do anything for their husbands, lending a helping hand on all occasions where their assistance is needed. A man in Illinois attempted to commit suicide by drowning in six inches of water, but he soon found it impossible to keep his bead nnder long enough to strangle. What did his wife do in this dilemma? Did she leave him to suffer? Not much. Like a true and noble what do you call It, she waded in and sat down on his head, and made it stsy by sheer foroe ot muscle. Tbst's the kind of wife to have if you want to die.—[N. Y. Daily Democrat.

A SERVANT girl in New-York saw a man in tbe house coquetting with the spoons. She went end told the owner thereof. He went and got a revolver and a policemsn. Tbe robber went and got out of the window. The owner and policeman went and searched the house. They fonnd boarder in his own bedroom. In the dark tbe policeman knocked down the boarder with his club, the owner drew his revolver and shot the policeman through, the boarder knocked down the owner with a chair, and they found out It wasn't any of them.—{Chicago Post.

LrrTt.it Johnny's mother reached for him with her slipper the other evening for hooking tbe jelly, and after dusting the portion of his pantaloons that bis sits on, she was surprised to see him laugh over it, and demanded the oattse of iu "I was thinking how I fooled you. It was Carry who booked the

A MA it arriving home at late hoar little the worse for. too mmh sapper, hstless and ooatless, wss aaked by his Indignant spooss:

44Where's

yoor hat

and cost T* "Sent 'em, my dear (hie,) to the CMeago snOerevs.** t?

LIFE IX A CALIFORNI LINO HELL,

7 T'ti

take

vnnr

GAMB- cannot stoop to learn tiff" details of journalism and It is in these^aetalls luietly that they shonl^ bemastered bysvery beeome aflcafPelass to wtjto

remtrk^"!^!^^®^ dSywra-^j to WSfta"leaders before they can eon paragraph! A lbw,of '^them prit their-dignity when they assume the editorial harness, and bewfii'«me but I think vou gin at the rudiments of the profession, as they ought but the majority sre too

nile if proud to do this, and fail disastrously.

^I^ »h^ wJrw«io tHk^U We do not mean to insist that a tbor Otigh knowledge of printing is indis Vmir mruiRv!" pensijble to an editor, but it Is exceedAnd in such case the words are accsom- jjsjv Jj*dp[jaLjth®*b^1"forrn'Mrof p»nM by quick ®4 v»lu" whe« Spared with the

aTl".™^°^T„nr"7bar.h?rp

around the table. In a moment a clear it is such an education that tells space is formed, in the midst of a still journalism circle offlashing eyes, compressed lips, tend clenched hanus. You may count twenty, deliberately, ere you hear a breath or see the slightest movement. "Well, sir?" "Well!" "Your money!" "Your cards!"

r,Do

vou believe in meekness and temperance?" "I believe." Answer me, hungry heart—you that have wandered from church to church, and have not been fed you that have tried pleasure and aspiration and ambition with out being satisfied: you that have become wearied and discouraged you that have listened to discourse on discourse, and enigma on enigma, and had spectacular views which purported to be religion, and have fallen off, wearily saying, Ah there is no religion in these things!"—is there no religion Do not you believe in religion? If you were to see a man filled with the fruit ot the Spirit, would you not believe in that man? "Yes," you say, "but there is no such man." But is that an ambition which every man may most worthily set before him, and press toward with all the power that is in him? Is not thai worth living for. And if men come together, and say, "We will bear with each other, and will uphold each other, and together we will press toward that high conception of man-

ward that highr conception of man-

in pleasure, or business or citizenship which is comparable in dignity ana worth to oomiug together bent on haviny the fruit of the Spirit as it is here depicted ?—[H. W. Beecher

ers, doctors, and lawyers, sre more numerous than good editors. The reason of the difference is to be found in the fact that all possible facilities sre offer

gSiOn"foundation*'KJd

—polished, curt brief, public schools the best education

•, A PERSIAN BRIDE. A Persian bride, when first bought, is a queer little body, tatted up with rice and sweetmeats for tbe occasion, and sadly besmeared with cosmetics. Collyrium has been put in her eyes to make them soft and languishing, and they are also elongated by some means, so that they may have the shape of almonds. Her hair is dyed of a coalblack bv indigo, or of a reddish brown by indigo and henna mixed with it, according to her own fancy, or that of the broker. Her eyebrows are plaster-

Up steps a bystander—some cool, steady veteran expert in tbe game, and versed in the law of difficulties—a man of awful nerve, whose tympanum, accustomed to the crack, no pistol shot alarms. "Gentlemen," says he, "try arbitra tion first on first." .. ed and paiuted so thickly that they look

Another quick change of inquiring

and responsive glances between the jnto

disputants.

Not a word, but the eyes of each say s0jne(j artificially by a thick line across plainly* "Agreed."

Both

throw them-

sefves back in their chairs, and with-

draw their hands irom the table, with gjjjny locks of hair, gummed together, the air of men invHing examination,

and resolute to abide the result. The veteran calls up two brothers ot the Green Cloth, competent to act as umpires and three minutes, fraught with mortal danger, are passed in deliberately counting the cards as thev lie on the cloth, and naming them slowly—like the tolling ef a bell, or the measured pronunciation ot a death sentence, except that there has been no noise but the simultaneous clicking of two pistol locks. The dealer and his young vis-a-vis are seemingly unconcerned for the event.

You are wrong, my triend," says veteran. "No card: was drawn here. Mistakes will happen to the most careful gentlemen."

From that decision theieis no appeal. His finger on the trigger after that would have cost the young fellow his life. So, pistols go back to their resting place, hands are shaken across the table, drinks for the company at the expense of the "bucker"—as he who plays against the bank is called—and the game proceeds with abetter understanding.—[San Luis Obispo (Cal.) Standard.

A CREED UNI VERSA L.

When I want to know whether a man believes in religion or not, I do not ask, "Do vou believe in Sunday, aud in ministers, and in the Bible? For a man may believe in all those things, and not believe in religion. And a man might not believe in religion. If I were going to question you to ascertain whether you were a Christian or not, I would say, "Do you sir, believe in love as the transcadent element of manhood?" Where is the man who would say, "No" to that Where, in the whole round of creation could be found a man who if the question were put to him, "Do you believe in the validity and authority and divinity of love?" would not say, "I believe?" The second is, "Do you^believe in joy, supernal, Ineffable, divine, bred in the soul of a man, and in tbe highest realm of the soul? Do you believe that all the faculties of man, like tue pipes of an organ, conspire iu ringing out sweet symphonies?" If the question were asked, "Do you believe in joy?" where is the man that would not say, "I believe?" "Do you believe in peace?'' "I believe." "Do you believe in gentleness?" "I believe." Do you believe in goodness?" "I believe?" Do you believe iu faith?" "I believe."

iHrg0 piece of court-plaster cut

arcj,e8j

Sence

THE EDUCATION OF EDITORS. -^ed But fifty-three ou The Record, journal devoted to the half cuvier had sixty-four dissemination of information especiala

ly interesting to tbe "craft,'f very

truthfully remarks that journalism

bas come to be recognised as one of the

learned professions and takes rank with theology, law snd medicine. It is,

with

theology, law snd medicine. It is,

indeed, learned profession, since it re-

rest, while journslism like shoe-mak- hJn|t

ing or any other trade, must be learned

by hard work. A college of

three years or less st a medicsl school

sre supposed to fit a msn for doctors

duties Wit there are no schools for the

Some fundamental principles underlie it, to be sure, but no one can instruct another in the application of them. The best editors sre made of raw mate riaL Puts smart boy into a composing room, and let bim work himself up, stsge by stage, snd be comes ont st tbe top, if he reaches that point at all, tbe most thorough editor that can be msde. College-bred youths, ss a rule, do not make good editors. Thev knew ana cherish so exalted so modi. Idea of their own Importanes that they

anj stuck upon her face,

gaya

large piece, becauce they are

the nose.

Sowery

Her cheeks are painted in

e2ccessively-

are 8'tucjt

bright colors, and two

flat

on each

side of them, in

the shape of number sixes placed the wrong way. Her hands and feet, fingernails, are dyed alight mahogany color with henna.

She

has no more shape or

figure than a bolster. Poor little tniug! she plays such tricks with herself generally, that at twenty she is an old woman with her skin all shriveled and burnt up by caustics and poisoned pricks of needles. This old, undersized creature waddles about the apartment of her new lord in the finest and largest trowsers possible. She puts on many pairs of them, and is as proud of tbe size of her legs as a British damsel is of the size of her crinoline. She wears a smart embroidered jacket, with short sleeves, and a pretty chemisette, of some light white silk material, embroidered with gold threads but her arms, legs, and neck are bare. She hangs upon her little person as many jewels, gold coins, and trinkets as she can possibly set at. She is especially fond of pearls and diamonds, but is not particular as to their beauty or value. A diamond is a diamond to her, whatever its shape oi color may be. She is very fine, but never elegant. Her mind is entirely uncultivated. She has neither education nor accom-

lishments but she- has a good deal of talk about roses and nightingales, with an undercurrent of strange, roundabout wit and drollery. There is an utter want of delicacy aud modesty in her conversation. She knows a great many things which she ought not to know and, child is in years, she would outwit the wisest man who ever wore a gray beard. ..

IT is said that Queen Victoria is a spiritualist. She has a firm conviction that Prince Albert is always present with her, and that she can hold communion with him. Her private rooms are arranged as they were when he was alive. His chair is placed opposite her own in the library, and tne books which he delighted to read to her are arranged lovingly, in order, upon the table. In some of her moods she will converse with hiiji for an hour together, conducting her own share of the conversation aloud and with the vigor and interest of old times. He had taught her bv his business enterprises —especially by his management of the Duchy of Cornwall—to superintend as much as possible all her private affairs herself to reduce all unnecessary ex-

'tiditures, and to forbid extravagance. the greatest simplicity is observed at the Queen's table, and she imagines that her husband looks on, well pleased. At times, when she is more than ordinarily impressed with a sense ot his presertce, it is said she will order a knife and fork to be placed on the dinner-table for him, every morning a pair of boots are cleaned and set down against the door of the chamber which he once occupied and at breakfast, when in Scotland, she will often sit along time in silence,* waiting for the Prince. if

DECLINE IN AMERICAN BIRTH RATB.— A remarkable diagram has been prepared by Dr. Toner, the statician, which gives at a glance the facts of each census in regard to the longevity of the two sexes also another curious table showing the number of children born to each thousand women between the ages of fifteen and fifty at each census. This table reveals the startling fact that what is held up as the peculiar shame

hood, fa ootthata ^ort£y ^^^thini her sister States. It is shown that only coming together ^ere anything

rtiou«urA or Im.incss or cltizenshio

^i^achQgetts Is equally true of all

one.half inanv

children are born to

e&ch thoU8and wome„

as in 1800, and

that there has been a regular decrease from one decade of years to another.

Bio brains seem to produces great variety ot results. Fisk's brain weighed fifty-eight ounces. Daniel Webster's rfirhed but fifty-three ounces snd ixty-four ounces and

half,

8prinff,

Abercrombie posses

whUeproj.

Abercron

B|xty-three.

who wag

Ruloff, the moraerer,

executed at Bingbsmpton last

had fltty-nine ounces of brain,

great brain Is likely to be something

other.

quires far grestersmonnt learning tbsn either of the others. Gobd preach- OITR friend Sweizlebaum has been on OUR friend Sweizlebaum has been on trip to the buffalo country. He says: "Dot buffalo vas a booty nice wenison to hondt. Ven yon see him coom by fact that all possible facilities sre offer- _0_ two, tree, tousand, mit afery one ed for the study of theology and the Jf

.... of the others. Gobd preach

ui, 8tlckln» ehdraidt

his pAC\i,

donder and bntBen

feelya8t

cra||htl-.

«t

a nire 8kvifrei

editor except the newspsper office. hondt you—Got in bimmel! Journalism presents one essential point of difference from other profes- .# anforcincr a irreat moral all "nraSlce ^HenST^ta^aln ^at P"**Pt Ifttle psper away up at Duluth knoSrlS^of^rSnno? Kcq'JfiS ^luth^r v'ou to'pu^ /oT^r fjrom "b°°kaSf in the «vater snd, pulling it out, look to writ* a text book on joarnalifim.

ofer pe-

und dose nose makin'

like tor tuyful, you

nke

dot

kJe

^bUf,

leedlodwinkle, dwin-

in tbe mornings

time. Py

Djn ofai

Dot baffalos pin

to hondt. But ven be

ann«ilv

vain to aunnoM

for a bole it is equally vain to suppose that, however large a space you occupy In yonrown ©atimatlon, tn© world will miss you when you die."

AT S social party, where humorous definitions was one of the games of the evening, the question was pnt: "What Is religion "Religion," replied one of the party, more famous ss msn of business than a wit, 'is an insurance sgainst fire in the next world, for which honesty is the beat policy."

MARRIAGE IN *1 A Russian marriage Is always weighty aflkir, thar^oeremony at tl church oo6suibing^st lesst two hour but that partbbeing the: climax of happy event, it is in nowise considei irksome. Ncfc

so,"however,

with the

preparatory srrangements. Tho trousseau arid the collecting of household goods aie affairs ot serious moment to the young lady's family.

Not only garments of every description by the dozen, or so to express it, by the gross, are required, but all manner of crockery, silver-ware, and household furniture in the bargain.

For a young couple, as in this country, to wait until after their marriage to fbrnish the house would never be countenanoed. The bride must bring everything with her as nearly as sho can. Among tbe indispensable articles are: The house linen, kitchen utensils, table services, and a piano, and in order to provide these articles parents ot limited means commence from their girls' earliest childhood to lay aside articles for that purpose, and often long before any attentton whatever has occurred undergarmeuts are made at odd times and reserved for the hoped-for event.

Among the wealthy the outfit is tremendous, the quantity of clothing, linen, and table-ware being sufficiently large to last throughout the lady's own life, and give some of her daughters, when their turn comes, a comfortable "setting up."

The husband elect, however, contributes his share in the way of jewels, ornaments, etc., and not unfrequently, in the old days of serfdom, witn a maid from his own estate.

After the marriage festivities are over and the young pair retire to their new home, the chattels following in the lumbering wagons peculiar to the country. Eighteen for tue bridegroom and sixteen for the

bride

are the earliest

ages at which a couple may be married, and eighty for a man and sixty for a woman the latest.

Fourth marriages are not lawful, and a third is considered anything but proper.

To belong to the Orthodox Church Is almost compulsory in Russia, and consequently every act of a Russian's life is more or less connected with his religion. Therefore a marriage must be religiously legal to bo legal at all.

A second marriage places the parties under a penance or two yoars, and intermarrying can only take place under special permission from the Archbisnop.

Marriage between kindred, however distant, even unto so-called fortysecond cousins," is against the law, and considered by all Russians as an abomination. Neither may a young person marry a God-parent, the latter coming under the head of "spiritual relations.

Priests marry but once, and although ^here is no law forbidding a priest's widow marrying a second time, it is by no means considered "the thing," and should the lady persist in becoming engaged, she may be sure of making a sensation among the clergy, if not in society generally. Divorces are unheard of, and secret marriages, that are in nine out of ten cases bigamies, are null and void, and also but seldom heard oi.

JAPAN is up to the timeson the woman question also. The Mikado says, in a late edict: "My country is now undergoing a complete change from old to new ideas, which I sincerely desire therefore I call upon all the wise and strong-minded to appear and become

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tood guides to the government. Dur-youth-time it is positively necessary to view foreign countries, so as to become enlightened as to the ideas of tbe world, and boys as well as girls, who will themselves become men and women, should be allowed to go abroad, and my country will be benefitted by their knowledge so acquired. Women heretofore have had no position socially, because it was considered they were without understanding but it educated and intelligent, they should have due respect. Six young Japanose women of rank will lie sent to America, in care of Mrs. DoLong, to be placed in some seminary of learning at the ex-

S'ive

ense of the Japanese government." of these ladies, princesses, are to go to Vassar College. The embassy which arrived at San Francisco by the America yesterday is said to be composed of the most progressive Japanese, dignitaries also of the highest rank yet sent from Japan. They are to confer with the Treaty governments in relation to a revision of the Burlingame treaty, and profess great friendship for foreigners. Truly Japan is proving its title to be called the Yankeedom of the East. It is making a millenial progress in this one ccntury.

THE SECRET OP CAPTIVATION.—Features of Grecian mould, a well-turned neck and beautifully rounded arms, are no doubt very nice things to have, and ladies who possess these charms have reason to be thunkful to Mother Natui'e yet, after all, the most captivating of all

womanly

8S-

charms is a pure,

fresh and brilliant comploxlon. This superlative fascination any lady may secure by using HAOAN'S MAGNOLIA. BALM, the standard beautifying preparation of tho present age. It altiers from all ordinary cosmetics in three most essential particulars, inasmuch as it contains no injurious ingredients, does not contract or shrivel the sir in as all the astringent "blooms," "lotions" and "powders" eventually do, but produces a lasting loveliness by improving the health of the skin. Under its operation the texture of the epidermis becomes finer, and the surface soft as velvet and Bmooth as porcelian. Features cannot be changed, but complexions can, and it is quite certain tnat a lady with no other charm than afresh and rosy complexion, will attract more admiration in company than ber neighbor with classic race but a sallow skin.

HERB is a pointed paragraph from tbe Cincinnati Commercial: Botts, the murderer of Pet Halsted, invented a story tbe other day that he had been married to the woman who was conspicuous in the case. She denied it however, snd poor Botts must hang. If tbe unchaste femaltf bad been married to him, the great American juror would have given the brutal scoundrel a permit to murder. Stokes, the murderer of Jim Fisk, ought to have managed to marry the fair Josie before entering into an

ambuscade

commit murder. He can't have his permit now owing to tbe informality of the omission of the ceremony of matrimony. A notorious female blackmailer shot a man In tbe face in a street csr in Utica the other day, because he was tirpd of buying her off, snd accidentally killed a stranger who was sitting by his side. We suppose she must go to the Penitentiary because she killed tbe wrong man. The position of the greet American Juror on the murder question is becoming difficult.

A DROVER, who sells his cattle by live weight, always gives them as much water as they will drink, before driving them on to the scales. "That," ho •ays, "is what I understanH by 'watering stock.'."