Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-08-26
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That Dutch. = How can you r That's Swedish.
.sE1ow do you prespire?" That's Egyptian. sHow
is your stomach ~ .sHave You eaten your rice ~
That's Chinese. How do you have yourself That.
Polish 'sEIew do you live on2 That's Rnssians
MAY thy shadow never be less2i That's Persian
A QEAKRR said to agunner, Friend, I counsel no
bloodshed; be thy design to hit the little man
IN the blue jacket, point thine engine three inches
lower"
FRATERsAL affection finds rare illustration in two
brothers now residing ID Ken1ebunk, Maine, few
years ago both started for Cataforna bat one was
ken sick on the Isthmus and returned. His brother
went on, and in short time accumulated $780,
when be also returned and gave half of it to his
brother. They with their wives, live together, the
latter taking turns" IL presiding at the table
The Ere OF THE NEEDLz.--A recent traveller to
TIE Holy Land informs us thai there is at the side of
the principal gate of Jerusalum, small one, which,
Gpon occasions Of great urgency, opened for ad
mission of persons after the great gates of the city
size, called the Eye of the Needle and to get
camel through it all was no small tasktor loaded
camel to pass was an utter imp0ssibhty. With the
above fact before the mind, che can see that the
words of our Savior, when speaking of the 'sstrait
gate and the 'rich man, more literal than
many suppose And we see how, as the rich man
passes into the marrow way, the sides and the low
top of the strait gate scrape everything from him in
which he had before trusted. No one can take any
thing but himself through. Far easier is it to strip
camel of its burden, than 10 divest rich man Of his
trust in riehes.-Ch Christiaa Register.
PLANTS IN SLEEPING RooMs. s.-Daring the night
plants breathe out carbonc acid and absorb oxygen.
The breathing plants is therefore at nightlike that
of animals; but We must not Imagine that they con-
taminate the air to the same extent This is very
popular, and at the time very great mistake.
1t has been supposed that growing plants vitate the
air of a sleeping room IN consequence Of the amont
of carbone acid which they exhale and that they are
unwhoesome and ought TO be removed especially
from the apartment of patient. But allowing that
they give of carbonie acid and destroy oxygen yet
everything that does thisis to be expelled then the
lamps must be removed, the re put out, and all VS.
itors at the same time.
Now although plants do absorb oxygen give out
carbonie acid at night, yet in this instance the pro-
cess of eonsbustions is Slight Eat although evapor
alton has ceased, not the slightest heat IS produced
which is perceptibe to the senses, or even to the
most delicate tests which science furnishes. The alb
surdy, therefore, Of removing the plants is az once
seen. Let them alonei whether in flower or not
they doing no harm, and win do good if the pa
Gent is fond Of howers,-brln back the pleasant
memories ofthe bright sun, the clear blue sky the
healthy breeze of rambes IN the field and they are
nos foes, but friends. I love them They have of
ten driven away sad thoughts. They will continue
TO cheer me to the end Of e's Journey. They will
take up their watch by my head stone. No matter
if II is only little groundsel, chickweed, or moss
all are welcome, because all are beautiful Woven
by the magic chemistry OF Nature from earth and air
colored by the distant sun, each the work Of an
with the future of eternal universe and natural
lists viii puzzle themselves about the nature of Il cir
chemistry, and try in vain search out the gra nd
secrets OF their vitality for ages yet to come as
do now.-O1ace a Week.
INTERESTING ABoUT BEES Bees which, when
wild, make their nests in places totally dark as in
the holows of trees, in the habit when domesti
cated of closing every aparture that admit the
light into their hives, and will only carry on their
work in a dark place. Schnibler mas just made an
extraordinary discovery which, while explaining In
beautiful manner his characteristic ofthe beeadds
another to the many striking exampfctiens of that
inscrutable power OF instinct which which so often
transcepds reason to himself Schnibler found that
clear strained honey, whth kept IN the dark remain
ed unchanged, when exposed TO the light gradually
chrystalline and soldi6ed, undergoing, through the
influence ofthe light, some molecular change, similar
to that impressed upon the iedyne of silver of the
daguerreoype plate. The bee, therefore, in order
to preserve IN the fluid form the nutriment it stores
mp for its progeny, shuts it up in total darkness
QUIYIYE is now the king of medicines; and while |
every one regards as the most reliable and n7alua-
BILE of remedies, there many who think that with
qunine and opium they Great all diseases. The
demand is enormous and the especially if we
recall the rapdity with which this Younger son of
medicine has come into Its rights. Into this coun-
try bark found Its way for the first time late in the
seventeenth century and in France it won It's en-
trance into the pharaacoDeia by curing Louis XIV
being used then for him as secret remedy, and on
as pension, and the title OF cheYaEer. The COM |
munication between French and English physicians
was not then complete or intimate, and so this mag
nihcent price was obtained for Pallots remedy. |
which only ylnous tincture of quinine commonly
employed in England. Louis XIV ordered its adj
mission into the pharmacopoeia; The sources of
quinine are, however, gradually failing under the
pressure of the enormons demand; and although the
British government IN forming plantations of clncho
trees IN india have met with success import
ant degree yet the best kinds Of trees
ere said not TO have succeeded SO well as the others
London Lancet
The MARRIED LIFE OF JoHS WEsLEY.-Wben
Wesley settled ne said ''lt would be more useful to
marry BE married widow, who, through her
jealousy, led him life of wretchedness and misery
At last his spirit up, and he wrote to her-"Know
me and know yourself. Suspect me no more pro-
woke me no more; do not any longer contend for
mastery, for power, money, praise be content to
be private insignificant person, known and loved
by God and me- 1t was not likely that woman
would be pleased at being recommended to Be an in
Significant person. After twenty years of dissuiet-
ude she day left him. He bore it phosophical.
ly. He went even beyond it-he took his diary and
put the most pithy entry into It'll ever met with in
diary: mon cam reliqui, demisi, non reyoca. |
boz which may be translated thus II did NOT
leave her; did not send her away | shaa't send
for her back" Aud SO ended the married life oil
John Wesley.
THOSE RENARKABLE EISsTITUTIOKs-The great Pub
lie Schools of England have recently been submit
ted 70 the examination Of a Parliamentary. Commi-
sion, whose lately published report exhibits states
Of things curiously at variance with received notions
So far from the mass of English gentry who usually
are educated the other Of them being well
grounded in classical literature it appears that any
such requirements are exception to the gener
al rule. At Eton the most popular and weaIthiest
ofthe Foundation Schools, where eight hundred of
the flower of British youth are brought up and
where the emoluments of the head master are be-
tween thirty and forty thousand per annum. the |
best that can be said is that boy if studious, |
not Thought tee worse Of on that account; but all
real influence and distinction in the school are onlv
to be acquired by intense devotion TO rowing or erik
eting In fact the great majority of the Eaton bows
are said to lead easy pleasant lives, spending their
nme cGeny IN the playing and on the riyer and