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Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-24

The corset had its origin in Italy, and was intro
duced from tina. country into France by Catharine
de Medicis Mary Stuart and Diana de Poiters did
not, however, follow the fashion, but it was at once
admitted by all the ladies of the French Court that
it was indispensable to the beauty of the female
figure, and was therefore adopted by them. The
corset was, however, in those days, in its infancy.
and it assumed more of the rough character of the
knights cuirass. The frame was entirely formed
Of iron, and the velvet which decorOted the exte-
rior hid a frightful and cumbersome machine. This
state Of things, so detrimental to health, and the
cause of so much personal inconvenience, not to
say turture, could not last long, and the artisans
of those days contrived to give more pliability and
lightness to the metal, and prepared the way by
degrees for whalebone. But as reforms are al
ways slow, the cold iron continued to clasp the
warm hearts of the fair wearers in its embrace
and even contrives to exist to the present day under
the name Of 6uSc-and who can blame the perth
nacity
The corset found favor in the eyes of Louis XIV.
In the following reign, however, the corset was
threatened with Punishment from the toilet
Fashion took a rural and simple turn, and was al
most guided by the painter of the day, Boucher, in
whose picture many of the court celebrities figure
as shepherds and shepherdesses. But when the
painter departed, fashion returned to the prime &C.
centricities of former times. During the Revolu-
ton the corset was again forgotten, aad under the
directory it was completely interdicted by the fash
ionable world. The bellies of the day took a clas-
sic turn and aped the Roman dress-the toga,
sandals, etc. The empire dethroned the classic
fashion, but without taking the fcorset into favor.
High waists were in favor, and la mode revclled in
a taste certainly the reverse of p~rudery. Every
thing has its days and its falls, and with the fall of
the empire fell also the waist and then came, as
a necessity, the return to the corset, which since
that time has continued uninterruptcdly in favor.
And certainly, when the fashion is followed in mo-
deration, and the last inventions and improvements
to the corset are adopted, it is rather, perhaps, ben
eficial to the health of the female, as it supports
the frame, and develops the anatomy in a right
direction while at the same time it gives grace
and beauty to the igure.-LOnd0n Cont Journal.
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OHIO CULT1yATOR FOR 1856.
REnEDr ZOE nHARp 7TNksD

... | LL". LLl I..LL L
The Eleventh Volume of the Ohio Culirator,
will commence Jan. LIST, 1855. The editors are
resolved to spare no pains to maintain the reputa-
ton and usefulness of the paper; and with the
benefit of ten years experience, and much travel
among the farmers of the West, they believe that
they can make the Cultivator for the coming year
of moro value to its readers than ever before, and
better adapted for tho soil and climate, and pro-
ductions of the region for which it is designed,
than any other paper of the kind.
AS A REMEDY FOR Guard TINES"
The Ohio Cultiyator will aim to impart knowledge
of improved methods of cultivation, how to avoid
losses by drouth, injurious insects, &C., the most
profitable kinds of crops, best breeds of stock,
condition and prospects of tho markets, &c. In
short, the paper will be devoted to the interests of
the elevation of Labor in all its legitimate inter-
ests; opposing q~uackcry and humbug in all their
forms, and filling the noble station of n true s
HOME PAPER OF THE WEST.
The Ohio Cultivator is published on the LIST and
18th of every month-l6 large octave pages, with
title page and index at the end of the year, max
ing a volume of 384 pages for binding.
TERMs.ESingle subscriptions 81 a year. Four
copies for So. Nine copies for Sc; and the same
price (6Gg cents each) for any larger number. All
subscriptions to be paid in advance, and to COM
mence with the year. Persons sending Clubs,
may have them directed to different Offices if they
chooses; and those having sent a smaller number,
may afterwards increase to nine, or more, ut the
Club rates. To any person seuding us a Club OF
Nine Subscribers and Sc, we will send, as a premi
um, q Package of Choice Seeds, nine or more va.
%rieties, post paid, or a complete Volume for any
previous year, in paper cover. Address
BATEHAM s. HARRIS,
CoIun7bHS. Ohio.
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UNCLE LUCIUS'
JUVENILE INSTR UCT0R.
Begins its EicvenM Yearly To1ume, January4 4, 1St

Begins its ElcgenM Yearly To1ume, January4 4, 1855.
10000 NEW SUBSCRIBERS
Were added in 1853 and 1854. If the testimonies
below are correct, i is not too much to say that
IT DESERVES 5000 MORE THIS YEAR.
Miss Lucy Stone, and other distinguished anti
slavery advocates, say, "there ought to be an anti
slavery child's paper" So say we, and more.
For ten years past there has been one, struggling
with the popular tide successfully, and just now
beginning to move up stream. Hear what they
say ...
The Juyeni1e Instructor, q mall semi-monthly
for children, published by L. G.. Matlack, at SYRIA
cuse, is a neat cheap readable paper. 1t is eleva-
ted in its moral tone and reformatory in its spirit.
-Iennsytcdnia Freeman.
Our anti-slavery friends will be glad to learn
that tits thoroughly right on the question of negro
slavery. 1t is the first juvenile paper in the coun-
try which is anti-slavery. Lett have a wide cireu-
lation.-Hortford Republican.
The Jceni1e Instructor is a most admirably con-
Quoted little paper for children, issued in this city.
We find it always welcomed by the little ones, and
we see, by CHANGING over its columns, that "Uncle
Lucius,' the editor, possesses in an eminent degree
the rare faculty of entering for the childish mind.
Syracuse Eeening Chronicle.
We are pleased with the tone of this juvenile
sheet, as we'll adapted to youth; and as teaching
useful and none but useful Oberlin Ecan-
geliSt.
this is decidedly the best publication for chill
dren that we have yet seen, notwithstanding the
constant Dragging Of the Little Pilgrim."-Ieo
pies Journal, Pa.
ns7g@The Juyenile Instructor is issued every alter
nate Thursday-Price per year. twenty-five cents;
or, where fifty are sent to one address, II cents q
c0py!! Each number is illustrated with engrav
ings, and an index furnished at the close of each
volume. Specimen numbers sent on application
to the publisher, LUCIUS G. MATLACK.
Syracuse, N. Y.
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INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF THE
LAST DAYS OF MISS MILFORD.


LONDON, January 20.
Mary Russell Milford, the amiable and accom-
plished authorcss of so many sweet and POPULAR
publications, died at her cottage residence, near
reading. Berks, on Wednesday week, having just
completed her sixty-eighth year. She was of al
corpulcnt habit, and had been long an invalid-s0l
much 30 that she was bedridden, and her latest
work was written by the aid of an attendant hold
ing the paper and dipping the pen into the ink for
her manuscript. That work and other ~circumstan-
ces have recently rendered Miss NJ. SO much a sub
iect of remark in all literary and periodical pro-
auctions, that it would be useless repetition tol
dwell on criticism or biography. Avery few mem
oranda may suffice. |
much to the exertions of Mr.. Francis Bennock, a
city merchant, a Scotsman from the local lane of
Burns and a Poet, who negotiated and procured
the issue of the volumes whose welcome by the
press shed q halo round her closing converse with
the world, grateful alike to the gentle ambition Of
her literature and her personal happiness. The
latest gliding of fame and the enjoyment of every
human comfort of which her condition was suscep-I
tible, were the fruits Of this warm friendship and
able service.
To Mr.. Fields, your own spirited publisher, Miss
Milford was also indebted, both for personal attcn-
tons and encouragement of her labors, during his
visit to this country but she was SO truly good
that it was a pleasure and delight to every feeling
heart to give what sympathy could to her suffering
and love and admiration to her most estimable
QUALITIES IL uo auy tHllS iOr hcr WIS ueeHeu +"
q privilege by those who knew her best and to the
individuals | have named | may add the Rev. Mr..
Harness, who, throughout her life, was her con-
slant friend and judicious adviser.
Himself endowed with fine taste and sound judy
ment, he has been distinguished for aid of literary
and patronage of dramatic talent--an eloquent
preacher and honor to his own sacred profession,
merit and genius in other lines have experienced
from him all that cordial humanity and kindness
could hcstow where counsel or help was needed
Miss Milford has appointed him her executor, = and
with the ~modesty of her nature, in her last hour,
requested that he, her medical attendant and two
servants, should alone attend her humble funeral
in the village churchyard.
*IIe was also the executor Of Charles Kemhla.
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PROFESSORS.

Never was there such a dragging down of lofty
titles as in this country. Every little paltry school,
dignited with a college charter by the Legislature
of the State-and such colleges spring up like
weeds in the West-showers it's titles annually
upon men who don't know the Latin words which
they represent. Crops of d. D., LII. D., come with
every annual commencement, until the whole thing
has become ridiculous, and but few worthy men
accept the ~profered distinction. This whole mat
ter OF comforting degrees has been "run into the
ground" so far,-if the expression is a pardonable
one.- that it is more a mark of distinction not to
be written d. d., or LII. d., than to have the com
mon handle follow the name. Bungtown College.
and Smuggleton University. out in iowa, or near
Oregon, make Rev. Mr.. Muggins, or Rev. Mr..
Whanger, in Hardscrabble, ID. DIS, and old Giyem-
fits, the member of Assembly, and Putemthrough
the inventor of a new c%ider-mill, become suddenly
wiser and greater with an Ill. D.. A man will
have to be very obscure to avoid these degrees, for
they come thick as leaves in Vallambrosa. The
most absurd term however, is that of Professor,
once honored in academic halls, and meaning an
instructor occupying a professional chair in a Col
lege or University. Nowadays the public are
informed that Professor this, or Professor that is
ready to give lessons in writing, phrenology, or
sleight O hand trick, in ~necromancy, or cards. The
whole rabble Of travelling showmen, vagrant ven
ders of universal panaceas, itinerant lecturers on
phrenology, spiritualism, biology, and mendicants
generally, are all Professors; an ;llustrious crew
certainly, and, though protesting much, poor spec
linens of mankind, taken in the aggregate. AS
for Generals, Colonies, and the lower military dig
nitaries, the militia furnishes an abundance Of such
titles, and you may find Generals in men of the
most unmilitary occupation, and perhaps q Colonel,
certainly a Major or Captain, to mix a cobbler or
make q julep at the next restaurant. Republicans
as we are, proud Of talking of our democracy.
titles don't come amiss, and if we don't ray "your
lordship," and your grace" we show our innate
love of titles in the more republican form of Rev.
Rt. Rev, Dr., General, Captain and Squire, :
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miscellaneous
For the Dugle.
WINTER MUSING.

When l awoke this morning l found the land
scape all covered with snow, and now as | sit look
ing from my window, the soft fakes are still fal.
ling dreamily on; how like they are to gentle kind
~ spirits, covering with their soft pure mantle
every rough, f~orbiding aspect of nature, and rs.
Stimulating all to their OWL likeness, how noiselessly
they descend like true charity, blowing no trum-
pet before them, but covering up and hiding, all
the, dark mass Of sin that so often shuts out from
the sufferer the kindly Offices Of those who only
work in masses; as if those who were not only suf-
fering physically but morally did not require more
sympathy and assistance. than those who are only
destitute of nutriment for the body; not to men
ton that to relieve tho distress of the body is very
frequently to assist in the regeneration of the soul.
Then as all kindly natures like to give pleasure,
no does the snow; witness the delight of the chill
dren as soon as the old woman in the skies begins
picking her geese, how many slcds are to be hun
ted from the recesses in garrett or cellar, in which
they have been stored since last winter how
many skates are to be mcnded, what n running out
into the storm for the pleasure of feeling the kiss
Of the soft flakes on tho head and cheek, what a
Joy to stand looking up into the snow and see the
light feecy things driven, now this way, and now
that, by the varying currents of air, till you try in
vain to decide from which quarter the most come,
then as the snow ~doepens, and all but acute noises
become mufed as with satin bands, how %joyfully
the merry jingle of bells, the sleigh crowded with
its laughing inmates, breaks on the ear, and if you
have mayhap passed tho age at which the prospect
of q sleigh ride, or ~asnowballing frolic could tempt
you to face the ice-king, clothed in his regal man
tie of white, as he goes forth from home in the
north on his stately journey, through all the realms
over which his power extends, you have but to send
the younger ones out in the well lined sleigh, and
ms their merry laughter dies in the distance, MS
they drive rapidly from the door, take the advice Of
the poet, and
Draw down the curtains,
Wheel the sofa round,
And while the bubling
q. And loud kissing urn
Sends up a steamy fragrance,
And the cups that cheer,
But not inebriate, wait on each,
500 So let US welcome peaceful evening in.
@ NJ. D.
C,v1,xy.rr Eob A 1SsS
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DRESSING FOR STRAWBERRIES.

Mr.. Charles A. Peabody, one of the editors of
the Southern Cultivator, who has become famous
for his skill in the Strawberry culture, says-"I
never use animal manure of any kind-nothing
but the leaf mould, and an occasional sprinkling of
wood ashes. The leaf mould keeps the ground
cool, moist and clean, and does not stimulate the
vines to runners. The potash and acids contained
in it are Just what the fruit wants. Should the
vines be disposed to spread, keep the runners down
by constantly p~inching of, and clear out the grass
and weeds with the hoe. A few years of this cul-
ture will check their disposition to run, and encour-
age them in fruit.
The bed thus once formed and cultivated, will,
to my certain knowledge, continue productive
twelve years and | have reason to believe, as much
longer as the culture is continued Should the
vines have taken possession of the ground in spite
of the efforts to keep the runners down, we go
in the fall with the hoe, thinning out the
plants to ten or twelve inches, leaving every cut
up vine to decay upon the ground where it grew.
We then cover with ~decaying leaves. When the
plants begin to bloom in the spring, a top dressing
of wood ashes will Se found beneficial. Ihave
tried strawberry culture with the plow, which will
give a greater number of vines, but give only one
crop of fruit. 1t is generally remarked that the
wild strawberry is finer favored than the %cultiva.
ted, but with this treatmen the latter retains all
the original flavor.
1t has been recommended to irrigate the straw
berry grounds by letting water on the vines: but
the strawberry, cultivated after the manner des
cribed, can bear rs great drouth as any other plant,
1t is not the vines and leaves that want the water
but the flowers and fruit; and the water might
come in the form of rain, through the clouds, from
an engine, or common watering pot.
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FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS.
by LONGFELL0w.

...# . ----s ..
When the hours of day are numbered
And the voices of the night 3D. b
Wake the better soul that slumbered,
To a holy calm delight:
Ere the evening lamps are lighted,
And, like phantoms grim and tall,
Shadows from the ftful freight,
Dance upon the rarlor wall
Then the forms of the departed
Enter at the open door,
The beloved, the true-hearted,
Come to visit me once more.
He the young, and strong, who cherished
Noble longing for the strife,
BY the roadside fell and persisted,
Weary with the march of life.
They, the holy ones and weakly,
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so mcekly,
Spoke with us on earth no more.
And with them the being, beauteous,
Who unto my youth was given,
More than all things else to love me,
And is now a saint in heaven /;
With a slow and n~oisless footstep,
Comes the messenger divine,
Takes the vacant chair beside me,
Lays her gentle hand in mine.
And she sits and gazes at me,
With those deep and tender eyes,
Like the stars, SO still and saint-like,
Looking downward from the skies
Uttered not, yet comprehcnded,
Is the spirits voiccless prayer,
Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,
Breathing from her lips of air.
0, though oft depressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
III but remember only,
Such as these have lived and died.
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SUMNER AND HoUsroN.-Wo learn that Mr.. Sum
ner will certainly lecture in the course on slavery
in the fremont Temple some time during the
month of March and so much desire has been
manifested to hear him, that his lecture will be re-
peated to a different audience in the place on the
subsequent week. Gen. Houston's lecture on slay-
cry will be delivered as originally announced, on
the 23nd Of February, and on the following eve
ming he will lecture on ''Texas," at the fremont
Temple, to another audience. These two will be
the only lectures that Senator Houston will deliver
in Boston during this visit.-Boston Journal,
Feb. 5. "
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London, 1854.

MAKING THE BEST OF ia Yankee went out
walking in Virginia, in July, and while to himself
a talking experienced a feeling strange, painful
and alarming, from his caput to his knees he
suddenly discovered he was covered all over with
bees! They rested on his eyelids, and perched
upon his nose they colonized his peaked face. and
swarmed upon his clothes. They explored his
swelling n%ostrils, dove deep into his ears. they
erawled up his %"trowsers," and filled his ewes with
tearsl Did he yell like a hyena2 Did he boiler
IKE a loonY Ne'er q one. lie wasn't scarf a mite /;
he never swoons-or boilers; but he hiyed them
in q nail heg tight, and sold them for two dollars
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-02-24

The following "Scene occurred in the Mayors
Court at Grand Rapids" Mayor Church presid-
ing.--Witness called up to be sworn by the
Clerk:
Olerk-"You do ~solemnly swear" t.
Mayor-(with dignity "Stop! The witness
will hold up his right hand y.
Clerk--1'he man has no right hand, your
Honor"
Mayor-With some asperity Let him hold up
his left hand then"
Clerk-"He has had the misfortune to lose
his left hand also, as your Honor will perceive"
Mayor-(savagely 'Tell him to hold mp his
right leg, then a man cannot be sworn in this
court without holding mp something
gentlemen, our dignity must be preserved" wit
ness sworn on one leg.)
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THE SILENT LAND.

Into the Silent Land ..s.
Ali! who shall lead us thither?
Clouds in the evening sky more darby gather,
And shattered wrecks lie thicker on the strand
Who leads us with a gentle hand,
Whittier, 0 whittier,
Into the Silent Land7
o Land O Land
For all the broken-hearted,
The mildest herald by our fate allotted,
Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand,
To lead us with a gentle hand
Into the land of the great departed,
Into the Silent Lind!
NoN SAILS Translated by Lonafe2ow.)
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