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A Problem of the Fnture.

The dredging operations off the Florida
reefs bring up many bones of the manatee
or sea-cow These are supposed to have
been carried into their present position from
the coast of South America by the current
which flows into the Gulf of Mexico from
the southwark, and which takes the name
of the Gulf Stream on passing out again.
Along with these bones are frequently found
cinders, which have been dropped by the
steamships which pass in and out Of the Gulf,
Suppose that the human race becomes ex-
tinct, and in ages to come the present sea-
bed be elevated into continent, and some
future biologists, of a new order of beings,
come upon the scene, what will they make
of the phenomena of these cinders scattered
along a certain definite track Happy will
be the famous discoverer of those days who
shall hit upon the idea that race existed
once, who had certain mind-power, with
which to come down upon nature and inter-
fere in its processes. But in these days
mind power as an interference, or as power
at all, has little account made of it by many
who claim to be philosophers Of the first
order.
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Seeing the Point.

A boy returned from school one day with
a report that his scholarship had fallen below
the usual average.
"Well," said his father, "YOu've fallen
behind this month, have you?"
eyes, sir.
Chow did that happen?'
"Don't know, sir.
The father knew, if the son did not. lie
had observed a number of dime novels scat
tered about the house; but had not thought
it worth while to say anything until fitting
opportunity should offer itself. A basket of
apples stood upon the floor. And he said:-
Empty out those apples, and take the
basket and bring it to me half full of chips,
Suspecting nothing, the son obeyed.
"And now, he continued, "put those
apples back into the basket"
When half the apples were replaced, the
son said:-
"Father, they rol off. I can'tput in any
more"
"Put them in, 1 tell you.
'But father can't put them in.
''Put them in! No, of course you can't
put them in. Do you expect to fill basket
half full of chips and then fill it with apples
You said you didn't know why you fell be
hind at school; and I will tell you. Yom
mind is like that basket. 1t will not hold
more than so much. And here you've been
the past month, filing it up with CHIP DIRT
dime novels"
The boy turned on his heel, whistled, anc
said, "Whew l see the point "
Not a dime novel has been seen In th'
house from that day to this.
Other and older persons might we'll SCI
the same point. A mind filed with fotior
hates and rejects truth. And persons read
ing history, art, science, or travels, may
grow wiser every day ; but man might rea(
fiction hundred years, and know no more
when he finished than when he began.
There is real sin, and sorrow, and suffering
enough in the world for US to pity and re
lieve, without wasting our tears over the
troubles of some fictitious Matilda Jane;
and there is work, and enterprise, anC
adventure enough in real life to engage ou
powers without resorting to cheap novels TO
inspiration and excitement. But untortu
nately the girls who will shed as many tear
over some heroine's fictitious sorrows as thei
mothers would while peeling pan of onions
are the very persons who would turn u
their noses at a suffering beggar, and leav
a sick person to strive unvisited in garrei
And the boys who wax heroic over the grea
doings Of some count, hero, or cut throat
are too lazy to earn an honest living, an
are to have their mothers wait on them an
black their boots while they lie in bed afte
sunrise, or smoke cigars, and swear, to prov
that they are men
Don't fill your apple-basket with chip dirt
THE Christian
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Longevity of a Good Deed.

Here is neat little story from Kentucky:
About twenty-five years ago, young man
from that State took a horseback ride to
Virginia, where his father came from, and
on his way he met a man and his family re-
moving West, so poor that they were almost
reduced to starvation. He had compassion
on the wrotched group, and gave them $40
bill with which to reach their journeys end.
In about fifteen years the young man re-
ceived letter from the man he had befriend-
ed, saying he was a prosperous merchant in
Southern Kentucky, and inclosing $50 bill
to repay his loan. After another ten years,
which included the great civil war and its
termination, he was elected to the lower
house of the Kentucky Legislature, and,
being man of talent and influence, was
chosen Speaker, in the contest for which he
had noticed that a stranger and one of the
other party was his strongest supporter
His curiosity was aroused by this, and he
asked the mans motive, as he never had, to
his knowledge, seen him before. "Sir, re-
piled the member" "you will recall, when
mention it, little scene that occurred when
you were boy on your way to Virginia.
1t was you who saved my wife from StarVa-
ton. She told me time and again that
never did morsel of food taste 50 sweet, SO
utterly delicious, as that you gave her then
She was just six years old at that time; but
when she saw your name, during the late
canvass, among the prominent probable can.
didates for Speakership, she laid down the
laws as to how I was to vote. This is ALL
Neither she, nor her father and mother,
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IN 1914.
BOOKS, STATIONERY, PIANO FORTEs
AND MUSIC!
Book Bindery and Blank Book Mandatory
PAPER BOX FACTORYl

Book Bindery and Blank Book Mandatory
PAPER BOX FACTORY!
The subscribers have had in operation for the last
twenty years, in connection with their Bookstore,
first class Book Bindery and Blank Book Manufac-
tory and within the last three years they have es-
tabished Paper Box Factory.
They are now prepared to furnish Banks, Bank
ers, Merchants, Insurance Companies, Judges, Law
yers, Clerks Of Courts, Treasurers of Counties,
Sherifs, Colleges, Schools, Registers, Assessors,
and all other persons,
BLANK BOOKS,
OF any style or size, made in the best manner, and
at reasonable prices. They are also prepared to
make to order at short notice, and in large small
quantities,
Paper Boxes of any Size or Pattern,
Such as are used by Tobacconists, Druggists, Con
fectoners, Grape Growers, &C.
We are making every effort in our power to build
up and sustain the trade and manufactures OF ouI
city-give employment to our own people, and keep
our money at home as much as possible. We there
fore feel justified in inviting all persons who need
any article in our line of business to give us call
assuring them that we will do our utmost to give
satisfaction, both in the quality and price of our
goods. Respectfully
oc l2-3m WO0DHOUSE & PARHAM.
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The presence of God turns every thing
into gold. When good Matthew Henry
came to die, he said-"The best of all is,
God is with me. This promise of the Sa-
viour was given Just as he was leaving the
world. How often his disciples must have
thought of those words in after years, as
they we're opposed and forsaken of men,
His essential presence is every where; but
his special, gracious presence is with his
church and people.
''T am s0it6 you'-in your religious en-
gagements, in all your efforts to do good.
Ny grace shall be with you to cheer you,
my Spirit to teach you, my arm to support
you.
"Alvqy III all times, in all places, un-
der all circumstances.
"Even unto the end Of the egorld." At
the last meeting Of the Synod of Virginia in
Lynchburg, which Father Turner of Bedford
ever attended, he preached a sermon of won
derful power on this very text. In that SER
mon he said that "the Lord Jesus Christ
had kept his word up to the present time,
and if he had been able to do 50 through the
past 1900 years, there was no danger that
he would ever break it to the end of the
world"
Let the Church-let all Christians learn
to trust the Lord, and never grow discOur,
aged, but "go into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature, as their as
cending Saviour commanded. "Amen."
OLD PILGRIM.
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Hints TO Builders.

One of the worst mistakes architects make
in constructing houses is the narrow stair
ways in the rear.
For instance, one almost invariably finds
the stairway leading from the kitchen to the
cellar or laundry only wide enough for one
person. If there is any part of house that
should have a broad easy stairway, it is that
part which is used the most, and where it is
necessary to carry bulky materials up and
down. 1t is good economy to have wide
8tairways all through the house. In nearly
all of our high stoop city houses there is no
water or water basin on the main floor, and
there is no reason for this defect but the in
conceivable stupidity of architects. If an
architect can find no other place for wash
basin, let him locate it in niche in the hall
anywhere so that he saves the family from
the miles and miles of unnecessary fatiguing
stair travel which they must otherwise suffer.
american Builder.
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Management of Hen Manure.

1 would say that in 1868, I took four BUSH
els of dry hen manure, turned it on the barn
floor, took common fail and threshed it to
powder; then took twenty-five bushels of
muck that had been dug eighteen months,
spread it on the barn floor and thoroughly
mixed it with the hen manure. A single
handful Of this compost was put in the hill,
and the corn dropped upon it. I had a
splendid field of corn. Planted one row
without the compost. That row could be
distinguished all through the season, being
about two weeks behind the rest of the field,
and finally it never did catch up with the
rest.
Ibelieve if farmers that keep from twenty
to thirty hens would save all the droppings
and compost it the way as above described,
or in some better way, instead of buying
fertilizers as many at the present day do,
it would be very much more to their ad-
vantage.-C0r. New England Farmer.
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Preventing nonld in Mucilage.

Solutions Of gum-arabic are very liable to
become mouldy, and while the introduction
of creosote, corrosive 8ublimate, etc, fire.
quently used to remedy this evil, is objec-
tiionabie on account of the danger of poison
ing, according to the Eadu8trie Blatter sui
phate of quinine is complete protection
against mould, very small quantity of it
being sufficient to prevent gum mucilage
from spelling 1t is quite possible that writ
ing ink might be projected by the same ap,
plication from a ike jificulty. The use of
ammonia for the samo purpose is also recon-
mended.
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Newspapers and Crime.

Scarcely any one thing in our opinion, is
doing more to demoralize the community and
multiply criminals than the publication in
the daily papers of the full details Of crime,
with long sketches and sayings of notorious
conyicts, and then the superadded account
of their execution. 1t famiharizes the popu-
lar mind with crime, and from many yield
ing heart takes away the horror with which
it is regarded and prepares the way for its
commission. This was one of the grounds
on which public executions have been so
generally abolished. Certain crimes seem
Occasionally to become epidemic, in the pres
ent state of human nature they are certainly
contagious, and the contagion is spread by
extended publication. For similar reason
we have always abstained from giving pro
minenoe to the announcement of suicides. 1t
is well known fact that the reading of such
accounts in detail has often operated on
morbid minds and led to the commission Of
the act.
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How to Give Children an Appetite.

Give children an abundance of out door
exercise, fun, and frolic; make them regular
in their habits and feed them only upon
plain, nouri8hing food, and they will seldom,
if ever, complain of lack of appetite. But
keep them overtasked in school, confined
closely to the house the rest of the time,
frowning down every attempt at play feed
them upon rich or high seasoned food, can
dies, nuts, etc, allow them to eat between meals
and late in the evening, and you need not
expect them to have good appeaites. On
the contrary, you may expect they will be
pale, weak, and sickly.
Don't cram them with food when they
don't want it, or have no appetite for-such
a course is slow murder. If they have nc
appetites, encourage, and if need be, com
mand them to take exercise in the open air
Don't allow them to study too much, and es
pecially keep them from reading the excit
ing literature which so much aboundS in oul
bookstores and circulating libraries. II
addition to securing exercise for the children
as above, change their diet somewhat; eS
pecially if they have been eating fine -four
change to coarse or Graham -four.
Sickness is the most expensive thing oil
the face of the globe. There may be in
stances where it makes people or children
better, but generally it makes them selfish
sad, misanthropic, nervous, mean, and mis-
cradle. The best way to make children
happy and good is to keep them well.-Bo8
tom Journal of Chemistry.
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Facts in Human Life.

There are about 1904 languages spoken
in the world, and its inhabitants profess more
than 1000 different religions. The number
of men is about equal to the number of wo-
men. The average of human life is about
80 years. One quarter die previous to the
age of 7 years, one half before reaching II,
and those who pass this age enjoy felicity
refused to one-half of the human species. 10
every 1000 persons, only 1 reaches 100
years of life; to every 100, only 6 reach the
age 65; and not more than l in 500 lives to
so years of age. There are on earth 1900
OO6, 900 inhabitants, and of these 80, 1873, 1888
die every year, 1884 every day, 1870
every hour, and so every minute, or one
every second. The married are longer lived
than the single, aud above all, those who
observe sober aud industrious conduct.
Tall men live longer than short ones. Wo.
men have more chances of life in their favor
previous to their being so years or age than
men have, but fewer afterwards. The nun
Der of ma riages is in the proportion of IS to
every 1000 individuals Marriages are more
frequent after the equinoxes, that is, during
the months of June and December. Those
born in the spring are generally more robust
than others. Births and deaths are more
frequent by night than by day. The nun
Der of men capable of bearing arms is calcu
lated at one. fourth of the population.
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THROUGH TRAINS leaves depot, corner Byrd
and Sth streets, as follows:
The DAY TRAIN daily at $50 g. m. Arrives in
Washington at 1915, Baltimore Except on Sundays)
at 2l5, Philadelphia at 6l5, and New York at 10:'
20 p. M, THE SAME DAY.
The NIGHT TRAIN daily Except on Sundays)
at 845 p. m.
The Day Train arrives in Richmond at 2:17 p m.
The Night Train arrives in Richmond Mondays
The ACCOMMODATION TRAIN between Rich
mond and Milford will be run daily Sundays ex-
cepted leaving the depot corner Broad and Eighth
streets, at 4;S0 p M, and arriving in Richmond at
| 8:42 a. m.
FREIGHT TRAINS leave on TUESDAYS and
FRIDAYS at 6:45 a. m.
THROUGH Tickets and through Baggage Checks
to all principal points in the Northeast and North
west
Apply at the CoMPAYYs OFFICE, corner of Broad
and Eighth streets.
Ticket office, corner Byrd and 8th streets.
j. B GENTRY,
General Ticket and Freight Agent.
Ed. L. D. MYERS, General Superintendent.
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THE OLD Man TO THE DANDY. My boy,
there is no place on earth for lazy man or
lazy boy, except the grave. Lazy people
may lounge along the whole three-scOre years
and ten Of their improbable existence only
to live unexpected and die uulameuted.
From the days of Solomon to the present
time, sluggards have been in exceedingly
slight demand; and from present indications,
it is not probable that the demand for them
will be greater than the supply. Wake up!
Keep awake Don't be sluggard Sun
dan School YORKER.
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WILLIAM B. ISAACS & CO.,
MIXERS,
Corner of Main and Fourteenth streets.
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COIN, STERLING, BANK NOTES, BONDS,
STOCKS, INLAND BILLS, &c.
COLLECTIONS made on all accessible points in
the United States, Canada and Europe.
STERLING BILLS drawn on Messrs. Barring Bros.
& Co., London, from FL upward.
EXCHANGE on Northern Cities, payable in Coin
or Currency, in sums to suit.
DEPOSITS received, against which checks may
be drawn as with the Banks.
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Central 4resbptuian.
Office No. 1915 Main street, nearly opposite
the Post Office.
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How the Factory Helps the Farm.

cit will cost you bushel of wheat to
send another to New York market, wise
one remarked to Western colonist.
owe don't intend to send our wheat to
New York, " was me reply, " se ate putting
op mills TO grindsR for home consumption.
These colOnists are on high road to sue
cesq They will not only make wheat, bat
at the same tine amarket, We at the South
should be willing to learn lesson from the
West in this matter We make cotton. Can
we not also make home market for it, and
thus make the factory help the farm? On
this point the following remarks from the
New York Tribune are worthy of thoughtful
attention:
"The introduction of manufactures into
agricultural communities brings together the
essential elements of wealth producing enter
prise, establishing the shortest circuit Of
communication. This is in accordance not
only with the laws Of political economy, but
of that higher order whereby Nature con.
ducts the commerce of the material world
The farmer and manufacturer each have
needs which the other supplies; and to bring
the two into such close connections that ex
changes can be made with the least possible
cost, is saving that must commend itself tC
the dullest mind. If our grain can be bar
tered for cloth made within sight of the field
where it grew, that is plainly better dea
than sending the same grain to Liverpool tc
pay for fabrics woven in Yorkshire.
"The factory adds value to the farm b.
afording home market A home market
saves the charges, risks and waste of long
carriage, the profits of intervening traders
and interest on delayed returns, and gives
merchantable worth,to products that will not
pay such charges. Better still, home mar
ket is sure market, little subject to The
fluctuations incident to foreign demand
Regular home consumption steadios prices
drives out speculation, and gives to intel
Igent forethought basis for reasonable
| calculation.
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l. The Edinburgh Review.
This is the oldest of the series. In its main fea
lures it still follows in the path marked out by
Brougham, Jeffrey, Sidney Smith, and Lord Hol'
land, its original founders aud first contributors
g. The London Quarterly Review,
which commences its 10th volume with the Janu.
airy number, set on foot as rival to the EDIN-
BURGH. 1t resolutely maintains its opposition in
politics, and shows equal vigor In Its literary de-
partment
8. The Westminster Review
has Just closed its ODD volume. In point of literary
ability this Review is fast rising to level with its
competitors. 1t is the advocate of political and re-
ligious liberalism
4. The North British Review,
now in its SD volume, occupies a very high posi-
ton IN periodical literature. Passing beyond the
narrow Journalism of schools and parties, it appeals
to wider range of sympathies and higher integ-
rity of conviction.
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
was commenced "a years ago. Equalling the Quar-.
has won wide reputation for the narratives and
sketches which enliyen its pages.
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Bessemer Cast Steel.

Mr.. Bessemer has taken out in this coun-
try five patents for the new process in the
treatment of iron and steel, construction Of
furnaces, &c. Of these, the most important
novelty, and the one which will add most to
Mr.. Bessemer's renown as an originator, is
the subsection of molten iron to atmospheric
air at pressure by which sufficient heat is
maintained to keep the metal in perfect
fuidity until it is poured into mouldS. This
intense heat is kept up by the aerostatic
pressure in the converter, which obviously
continues a large supply of oxygen to the
molten metal. A converter of great strength
is provided for this special purpose, the mouth
being made smaller than usual, and lined
With ring of well-burnt fire clay, or COM
position of clay and plumbago. A pressure
of from Is to 20 pounds on the square inch
is necessary, and will require to be varied
with the different kinds of iron.
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STANDARD PERIODICALS FOR 1871.
Republished by the Leonard Scott Publishing Co.,
40 Fulton Street, New York.
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INDISPENSABLE TO ALL DESTROYS OF BEING WELL
INFORMED OF THE GREAT SUBJECTS OF THE DAY.