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Litchfield enquirer., 1856-04-10
Midnight.

Huferiand, in bis treatise on sieep, has some
 curious as well as iorcible ideas on the necessity
 of deroting midnight to rest and sleep. Hecon. siders that the period of twentyfour hours, which
 is produced by the regular revolutions of the earth on it's axis. marks its infueuce most def- nitely on the physical economy of man. Dis eases show this regular influence in their daily rise and fall. Settled regular fever exhibits a twenty four hours Aux and refnx. In the health ful state, there is manifested the same regular influence, and the more hab.tual our meals, our l hours of exercise or employment, and our hours l of sleep, the more power is there in the system 1 to resist disease. In the morning the pulse is 1 slow and the nerves calmer and the mind and ] the body better fitted for labor As we ad.
 vance toSaras the evening of the day, the pulse l becomes accelerated. and an almost feyerish state is produced which, in excitable persons. becomes an absolute evening fever. Rest car ries of this fever by it's sleep, and the refresh. 1 ing opening of its pores which sleep produces Tn this nightly respiration there is an absolute l crisis of this evening fever, and this periodical crisis is necessary to every one, for it carries of
 whatever useless or pernicious particles our bod ies may have imbibed
 This evening fever Huferland thinks is not SHticty OHlliS tO tHt dcCtSStON VI new cTyN tO the system, but to the departure of the sun and of the light. The crisis of this fever, to be most effective by its regularity, ought to take place at midnight, when the sun is in its nadir, and ! then the Eody becomes refreshed for the early morning labor Those who neglect this period; either push this durnal crisis into the morning, and thus undermine tue importance of its regu- lar;ty CT lose it entirely, and arise to their la bors unrrfresled by sleep. Their bodies will not have been purified by the nightly crisis and the seeds of disease will have thus been planted:
 Nervous people are peculiarly subject to the influence of this evening fever, and think they cannot labor without it's excitement. Hence their mental efforts are performed in the night alone the important time for the crisis of their | nervous excitement passes over in &akrtulness, and no refreshing precipitation cleanscs the body or strengthens the nerves. Such people will wear out soon, unless they change their habits and seek rest when nature and the human con stitIt:on dictate.
 These considerations ought to be deeply stu died and regarded by all who are in the ruinous habit of turning night into day, aud of changing the functions of each
 X failure of health will soon manifest the truth of these remarks
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NONE STANDS ALoNE.--It is in the proyi- dence of God that none stand alone We touch each other; man acts on man, heart on heart i; we are hound up with each other hand is joined in hand wheel sets wheel in motion we are spiritually linked together, arm within arm we cannot live alone. nor die alone We cannot say, will only run risks with my own soul am prepared to disobey the Lord for srch pleas are or such gain, but do no. want to impli- cate others I oniT want to be ans&erable for myself. This cannot be. Each living soul has its influence on. others in some way and to some extent, consciously or unconsciousy each has some power, more or less, direct or indirect ; one mind colors another child acts on chil- dren servants on their fellow servants masters on those they employ ;parcnts on their children; friends % friends. Even when we do not de- sign to influence others, when We are not think ing in the least degree of the effect of what we do when we arc unconscious that we have any influence at all, when ~e do not wish our conduct or way of life to affect any but our selves, our manner of life, our conversation, our deeds, arc all the while having weight some where pr somehow our feet leave their u,pres- siou. though We may not look behind us to see the mark
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HAprISEss-To watch the corn grow and the blossom set, to draw hard breath over poughshare or spade, to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray-these are the things to make man happy they have always had the power of doing these !; they never riA have power to do more. The worlds prosperity or adversity depends upon our knowing and teaching these few things. but upoa iron or glass, or electricity or steam, in no wise. And am utopian and enthusiastic enough to- believe that the time will come when the world will discover this. It has now made it's experiments iu every possible direction but the right one and it seems that it must at fast try the right one in mathe- nautical necessity. l: has tried fighting and preaching and fasting. buying and selling, pomp and parsirnony, pride and humiliation every possible manner Of existence ia which it could conjecture there was any happiness or dignity and all the while as it bought, sold, and fought, and lasted and wcaried i.self with policies, and ambition, and self-ticniais, God had placed it's real happiness in the keeping of the little nasscs of the wayside and of the clouds of the frna mcnt.
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ssT- There is no department of the govern ment that so much needs an infusion of common sense and business tact as the post office de- pertinent. The decisions of it's managers. if col lccted would form one of the most femarkabla characters of official absurdities ever recorded The latest that we have seen is the decisions of the postmaster of New York city, that putting the words Postage on this circular always pre- paid" upon printed circular, exposes it to double postage A merchant had these words printed on his circulars to prevent the collection of postage from those to whom he sent them. which he found had very generally happened after he had prepaid it, and now he is obliged to pay double postage for thus endeavorine t6 protect his correspondents, with the probability still remaining that those who receive the circsS- lars will be compelled to pay the postage ovef again.
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\ SISTERS LovE.-The purity, truth and disintcrestedness and constaney of sisters love is Ike the sweet influence of the Pleiades" and strong as the bands of Orion" Sisters, that rnde bfc.her of yours, who apparently de lights to tease and to worry you from morning 'o night, looks upon you as the pride of his heart, aud TO to him that should offend against you iu his presence Many day sepre, and through many lowering tempest your sweet fate fiii shiue upon his soul as the face of au angel, and your voice will ring through the chambets of his heart waking memories of long pas: days, that will then be powerful Ike the voice of love calling him from the skies to the ways of truth and happiness.
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TIE Doc THAT HAD NO OwNER-We were travelling through Canada in the winter oi 1858 and after rery long dsy's ride. stop ping at the Lion Inn and the contents ot the stage numbering about nine person soon gathered together around the cheerful fire. .-- Among the occupants of the room we observed an ilElooking cur, who had shown it's wit by taking mp its quarters in So comfortable an apartment. After few minutes the landlord entered. aud observing this specimen of the ca nine tribe remarked
 Fine dog, that /! Is he yours. sir P appeal ing 10 one of ethe passengers.
 "No, sir"
 Beautiful dog! Yours, sir 7" addressing a sccend.
 "No," was tbe blunt reply.
 Come here, Pup-pcrhaps he is yours, sr?'
 No" was the reply.
 "vcr5 sagsc:ous animal-beIongs to you, suppose p
 "Then he is yours, and you have treasure, y (throwing the animal a craeker.)
 "No."
 "Oh! he belongs to you as a matter ol course then 2" addressing the last passenger.
 "Wouldn't have him as gift"
 Then you internal, dirty, mean, contemrti hle whclp, get ou: .'' and with that the host gave him such kick as sett him bowling into tho street, amid the roars of all the company pres ent.
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NEWSPAPERS, newspaper. the most iu- auential of all human works, is the creation of printing It has, Ike all the works of man, occa- sional imperfections, and perhaps the mostprom- inent are its too minute details of offences against public purity. But there is scarcely a newspaper in this age which would not have been regarded as triumph of ability in the last. In fact, the newspaper is the great rrac- tical teacher of the people. Its constant and universal teaching alone accounts for the supe- rior intelligence of our population. Schools, lecture-roo,ns, aud universities, important as they all are altogether fall behind it in public effect, or fnd that, to retain their influence, they must follow its steps. Those steps may now and then turn from tho right road. but their native tendency is forward and upward. This intellectual giant always advances, and carries the country with him to a height which TO oth- CT country, ancient or modern, ever attained, oi perhaps ever hoped to attain. Ii in an age oi foreign convuiso on England has undergone no eatastrophe-ii ill the fall of monarchies she has preserved her hereditary throne--if in the mingled inGdelity and superstition of the Con tinent (which, like the mingled frenzy and let tcrs of lunatic hospital, have in our day ex hihited the lowest humiliation in nature sh. has prelerved her freedom and her religioa-l attribute all, under God. to the vigor and in
 telligsnce of public investigation. the ineessan' urgency of appeal to the public mind. the living l organization of which the heart is the Press 0 EpDtarS
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CorRrrsY.-No man is a gentleman, who without provocation, would treat with inciviIty tho humhlest of his species. 1t is a vulgsrty for which no accomplishments and DC attain ments nor dress can ever atone. Show me the man who desires to make every ono happy sround him, and whose greatest solicitude is never to give just cause of offence to any one, and I will show ycu gentleman by rature and practice. although he may never have worn . suit of broadcloth. nor ever have hessdof-a lexicon.
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A MODEL MrssAaE.-The following Message of the Governor of New Jersey. in lil3. ought to De initiated by our present gubernatorial inr cunbents. For brerity, it is certainly sonud. while the reply is equal in pertinence .'I
 "Gentlemen: am heartily glad to meet yoa here. after so long an absence and believe you are not sorry to meet me in such good com pany" baa.
 Your EroelIency: It is with the greatest satisfaction we meet your Excellency in such good conpany now and hope we shall Do fa- vorcd with it often" at
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LrTCHFIELD, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1856.

1 en- S3y ten you S0oH nave iC TOT ten pounds. should like you to have that picture ,; its fine picture. mind and worth double the nnoney-double the money" .-.
 Fine picture, nonsense it's great lurn- being piece of rubbish. tell you what, Mr. Isaaes. wouldn't have it at gift" Eh, what! Not have that picture at 8 gift. Oh, hear him s'help me-" ] The gentleman said goodmorning, and left 1; but Isaacs was too indignant to take any notice of his valedictons.
 Time passed. and Isaacs' stock had under gone several changes, the Roman Emperor" however, still continuing to occupy it's old place when one day well-known customer entered the shop, and informed the dealer that he was in want of large picture ; any rubbish would do, so as it was cheap, to cover space on his dhing-room wall, where the paper had been damaged by the damp.
 You see, Isaacs," he said "I don't want to go to the expense of papering my dining room just now, and want something large and cheap to hide an ugly mark on the wall
 |" can suit you to hairs breadth, I war rant" said Isaacs. You may have the Ro- man Emperors there for five pounds The frame is worth all the money" % Five pounds 1" said the visitor |" oh dear, no, Mir. Isaacs, could paper my room for that. The picture Is large enough in fact, just the size; but want something cheap something cheap, Mr. 1saacs"
 Father Abraham p exclaimed the Jew i; " what would the man have? Eve been offered fifty pounds for that picture, aud now l will take five !'
 "Wcll, I can't help that, Mr. Isaacs you know whit want and if you've got anything about three pounds ten that's large enough, shall be glad Bat want it at once"
 "That's the only picture have that will suit you," said the lev but can't take less than five pounds, no, s'he!p me not a farthing"
 "Well, there's no harm done, Isaacs Good day dare say. shall find what want good day"
 Hi sir, stop r cried Isaacs, as the gentle man was stepping into the street. How much did yon say. What is the most you will gve?"
 Three pound ten not a farthing more"
 Say sovereign more .ay four pounds ten"
 "No.'
 Well. then, split the difference say four pounds, and it's yours"
 Four pounds well, will not be hard with you. Isaacs I'll give four pounds" The bar gain was concluded there and then, and the money paid. In ar hour after a van arrived at the door, and the Roman Emperors was trans ferred to new quarters namely to the house of the willy e.na0issur, to whom isaacs at first offered the picture for seven hundred pounds The " Roman Emperors' may be seen in the Jesuits' College at Stonyhurst It is there known as Murillo's celebrated picture of the Jesuit Fathers" and had the gentlemen who originally discovered i, in Isaacs' shop given the seven hundred pounds which the Jew asked for it, he would have had decided bargain !
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Tus Errscrs OF EArrsa HoRsx-MExf.- There Is professor in Berlin who has been . hippophagist for the last ten yeafs. Aboas two months ago he woke up bis vie m tns middle of the night by neighfng loudly. Ths ! wife expressed her surprise, and the surpfiss
 made the professor laugh but such . iaugh. it was decided horselaugh, that eliciteda . response from all the horses on neighooflng cabstand 1 In the afternoon, bis wife had tbe greatest difficulty in getting him past seed- shop, where quantity of oats in the window was spread out for sale. Soon afterwsrds his hair (which is of rich auburu) began to grow to tremenduous length, and to assume more aud more the shape of uiane. His face, too, became covered with hair, and he gave great amusement to the little boys of Berlin by ap-. bearing one day in the streets with . pair cf blinkers: Various other changes gradually came over him.. He would start as frighten- ed ut the crack of whip-the scream of Q railway whistle would set him of galloping at full speed-whilst the sound of a trumpet would make him prick up his ears and distend his nos trils iu most equine manner. It was noticed, also, that his ears of late had grown considcra- bly longer; pointing upwards to some height
 above his head. One night he was missed, and after considerable search he was found stretched at full length upon the straw in the stable.-- When his poor wife approached him, he began roaring and plunging in such violent manner that it was only by putting on the kickingstraps that he could be kept in the least still: Other curious symptoms s6on declared themselves. He could not be induced to keep on his boots and as it was found very uncomfortable to allow him to run about the drawing-ro6m barefooted,
 he was removed, and permitted to indulge In his eccentricities only out of the house. He would spend whole afternoons in the different stableyards his favorite associates were ostlefs and omnibus-conductors his favorite haunts the offices of the eii,sageas and the most fashionable beer-houses. Nothing pleased him so much as to sleep in stall: After awhile his feet began to hatdeh, and it was observed that hard substance, not unlike horses hoof, was form. ing over them. The same peculiarity became soon observable on his hands, From this time forth he refused to walk upright and one hos- ty morning he was found on all fours outside . farriers shop, stretching out one of his feet, as if he were anxious to be shod. Since that pe- riod te has been put under the care of vetef. inafy surgeon, who gives but faint hopes of his recovery.
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e6- The imperishable, inexhaustible. unau- proachable nature of love is shown in this-that all the millions of love stories that have been written have not one whit abated the immortal interest that there is in the rudest and stupidest love story. All the rest of the wretched thine may be the most dismal twaddle, but you can't help feeling a little interest, when you have once taken up the book, as to whether Arabells will ultimately relent in favor of Augustus snd whether that wicked creature, man or woman. who is keeping them apart, will not soon be dis. posed Of, somehow.
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WEsrERS ELoouENcE-" Teller citizens the time has come when the o'charged feelings ol aggravated human natur' are DO longer to be stood. Mad dogs are in tue midst of us-their sbriekiu' yells and fomy tracks can be beerd ou our prairies. Death follers in tber wake shal
 we set here Ike towards, while our lives and cur neighbors lives are in danger from thar dredful hirofobic caninety? No! it musD't be
 E'n now my buzzum is torn with the con6ietion' of wrath and vengeance funeral pyre of wild cats is burning in me :; ! have sheep and pigs
 and have a wife and chiTdfen and (fisine higher as the importance of the subject decpened in his estimation,) have money out at inter
 est. all in danger O being bit by these darnet mad dogs" S
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Coon IS E.ERYrHISG-Let us thank God for impartipg unto us poor weak mortals the inestimahlc blessing of vanity. How many hali-witted votaries of the arts-poets. painters. actors, musicians-liye upon this food, and drop from Pipson's eyes, and he eou!d see him. self as he is-f some malevolent genius were to mingle with his feeble brains one fatal particle of common sensc--he would just walk of Wa terloo-bridge, adiure poverty. incapacity, cold lodging, unpaid bakers bills, ragged elbows, and deferred hopes, at once, and for ever.
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H Etvm $. C. Jc,ix, Nas Ycrk. tt- 300 BROADWAY, N.
wisear's Halsau of wnd Cherry.

As . consequence of our variable and capTicious North American climate. coughs colds. and affections ct the lungs prevail amongst people to an extent wholly unkown in Europe and if neglected often as sums dAngerous, if not~incurable form. Many Inths New England States, the proportion is one in four or five In Boston, probably one in four
 Prepared and sold. wholesale aud retail, only by Sxrz w. FowIx. Boston. Mass, to whom all orders should be addressei. and for sale by A. c. Smith. Utchfcld Aivord Brother Woloottville Pheanix Co. Watertown. and druggists generally
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IMAGINATION rightly directed and wissly used, is the greatest gift and blessing of intellectual man. Whether he will or not, it miuge', more or less, with all his arts, and almost all his pleasures. But how it might be taught to elc- vate and purify all those enjoyments. would man but give, ,be due ascendency to the finer essence. aud suffer il 10 direct his cnrporeal energies How it might raise bis tastes! How it might sofaer his feelings How it might dignify his life How it might tranqalize his death !- For imagination Dust ever be an ingredient in that power by which we realise to ourselves "the substaEce of things not seen."
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Tims's Changes. l.

Isaw her once 70 froshly fair. That, like blossom just urfoldinS. She opened eo kfe's cloudless air,
 And Nature joyed to view It's moulding; Her smile, 1t haunts my memory yet
 Her checks ane hue disiaely glowing- Her rosebud mouth-her eyes of ies- . Around on all her light bestowiny Oh, who could look on such form,
 So nobly free, 30 softly tender, And darkly dream that earthly storm Should dim such sweet. delicious splendors For in her mien and in her face,
 And in her young stspss fairy lightness, Nought could the raptured ga1er trace
 But Beauty glow and pleasures brightness I saw her twice altered charm Still of magic richest, rarest-- Than girlhoods talisman less warm,
 Though yet of earthly sights the fairest; Upon her breast she held child.
 The very image of its mother; Which ever to her smiling smiled
 They seemed to live but is each other; But mstron cares, or lurking woe,
 Her thoughtless, sinless look had banished, And from her check the roseate glow Of g;rlhood's balmy morn had vanished; Within her eses, upon her brow,
 Lay something, softer, fcnder. deeper, As Ii in dreams some vanished we
 Had broke the Elysium of the sleeper 
 saw her thrice-Fates dark decree
 In widows garments had arrayed her; Yet beautiful she seemed to be
 As e'er my revcrics portrayed her; The glow, the glance, had passed away,
 The sunshine and the sparkling glitter Still, though noted pale decay
 The retrospect was scarcely bitter; For in their place calmness dwelt,
 Serene, subduing soothing holy, In feeling which the bosom felt That every louder niirth is folly pensiveness which is not grief,
 stiffness as of sunset streaming A fairy glow on. flower and leaf, Till earth looks like landscape dreaming 4 Last tiine-and unmoved she lay,
 Beyond Life's dim, uncertain river, A glorious mould of fading clay,
 From whence the spark had fled forevor I gazed-my breast was like to burst And as thought of years dcrarted-- The years wherein saw her first
 When she, girl. wss tcnder-hearted- And when mased on later days,
 As moved she in her matron duty, A happy mother. in the blaze
 Of ripened hope and sunny beauty, l felt the chill turned aside
 Bleak Desohtion's cloud came OCT me, And Being seemed troubled file,
 Whose wrecks in darkness swan before me.
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n5- Tomorrow is like a juggler that de- ceives ts-a quack that pretends to curs Ss, and thin ice that will not bear our own weirhis s It is fruit beyond our grasp c cIitass;6sf bubble that bursts and vanishes awav \ w;lE o'-the-wsp that leads many i1to the n,ifts snS 2 rock that many mariners have stfock an'l S-,}s fered shipwreck. It is an illus16n t0 aH .wKa neglect the present hour, and rsslity to th6esl only who improve to-day. -. -
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To SHaEE OFF TRoUBLE--Set about doing good to somebody put on your hat and go and visit the poor inquire into their wants, and administer unto them seek out the desc late and oppressed, and tell them of the cousola- tiop. l have often tried this, and found it the best medicine for heavy heart
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SYrLoeIsrrc REAsos,s6. Ephimenidcs 1sys: The Cretans are always liars. Now. he. him self. was Cretan; therefore. be lied; there fore. the Cretans are not liars therefore. Ephi menides has not lied therefore tLe C-etans ara Lars
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n@ Marriage k : dsts pricr to sin itssl z. the only relic of paradise that is leR us.-.6 smile that God let tAn on to esgtbss iuuooH11
 lingering and playipg still upon ifs sisl q y;Z age: Toe frst mari}sge wss celehrs1sI i 14 God hlnself, who filled. in bis own tl}soeE fSs othce os guest, witness, sud ptlsI T
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b@r Did you ever buy horse If so. vs.a have doubtless been struck with surptiss st ti& great number of horses just seven ysara oi8. 4 sbrewd Scotch jockey, as he exarEiped f]tS animals mouth, inquired Of the e Ter. artss old is he?" Seven years. "Ah," said JSfk ny. that seven years ago wss trsms6d16 6s year for colts." = --