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Fresh FLeIdS for the Heroic.

HerOism consists essentially in having
the GOODNESS, courage, and unselhshness to
attempt and do what very few would ven
ture The object should be better more
over, IL must be laudablc. \ burglar runs
great risks, but we do not dub him a hero
Now we venture 10 suggest a few quite
accessible situations, Id which, as the
notices say. " euterprlsing persons of both
sexes " can distinguish themselves, and
benefit the community ia greater or less
degree, according TO circumstances. The
list of openings can BE extended infinitely.
j Let all youthful, smokers conquer the
growing habit a.l -uuffar- reserve their
noses for their original uses and all mas
ticators OF the weed spare their mouths
ana public highways IL is unnecessary
to discuss here the propriety OF otherwise
OF these lndu'genccs. 1t is enough that
the victory over them demands c1J.uess
and courage, to which many are NOT equal
, Let all young men who have begun
to enjoy a " friendly glass" t0rego it at
once, even though it be presented by the
tairest hands, on the gayest holiday. or
urged with varied bantering and entreaty
at the most brilliant table
b. Let all ladies whose taste aud
judgment revolt against absurd fashions
gnore them. Why should free Americans
be ruled by the caprice- Of few modiStes
OF ordered how to dress by magazine
writer whom they would not Invite TO
lunch, if known Spartan sumptuary
laws were in favor Of economy. Yet it
submits in grumbing discomfort to ire
ruinously costly. Why should Mrs Smith
be required by fashion to drag silk, at
FIVE dollars a yard, through the mud, while
poor Mr.. Smith is at his wits end about
the grocer's bills2
4. Let young ladies dare to 20 home at
rational evening hours. Their color,
health. spirits. lives in some instances,
will be saved by such courage. We do not
sympathize with the cynic who approves
Of this absurd inversion Of night and day
on the ground that the silly women who
practice it are thus killed Oft, to the gain
of society. Many who are capable of good
things suffer in the multitude. Here Is a
fine occasion for feminine courage to res
cue endangered lives. Where are the
Darlings who viii display it2
20 A~-L FDlAii- AlCii H~ht Ntt4 = lOs N-s ltAl,
and coat till they can honestly afford the
new. 1t requires uncommon courage, but
it will have good results. Men sehooled
to such deeds Of hcroism will refuse to
indorsc bad bills, will not vote for scamps,
nor knee in the mud to scoundrels who
give lavishly what they have gained law
! lessly. nor take with pride the hand of a
villain, however exalted.
8. Let men refuse their names to all
papers, the contents of which they can not
personally youch for including testimonials.
Any man actually out of Sing Sing can
get a testimonial and you may see a doz-
en- names to the testifying excellence of
one whom each Of the dozen signers will
own to be worthless. How are they caught ?
BY being taken one in detail and each
told what the rest are going to do. No
one likes to be the one to refuse. Here is
splendid field for heroic deeds BE the
one DR. Jain Hall,
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StingIeSS Honey Bees.

In many parts of South America, but
more particularly where the ant bear ran
ges, there are industrious honey bees with
out stings They usually take possession of
hollow trees, in which they construct rows
of wax cups, nearly the size Of half an
eggshell. When full of honey, they are
capped over to exclude air, which preserves
the contents in fluid state. When one
pot is finished, they proceed with another,
and thus store up an immense amount of
delicious food, of which they are invaria-
bly, robbed, without the power of offering
resistance.
At the exact season when ants eggs are
deposited, nature has so arranged that the
ant bear which subsists almost entirely
on ants, avoids those hard clay pyramids,
the homes of ingenious Insects, climbs the
bee trees, and thrusts in its long whip
lash tongue, feeds sumptuously on honey
till the new crop of ants are grown large
enough for food. just as the honey Is ex-
hausted, their wants are amply provided
for Thus alternately animal aud vege-
table ahment is secured by an unaiterable
law. so that ants are kept within control
" numerous TO destroy the source from
whence their own necessary food Is derived.
Thus the race OF ant bears are sustained
during a particular period necessary for
the preservation of the race Of ants-and
the poor bees are instrumentaIitics for sus-
tanning the law without any apparent com
pensation tor their unceasing labor. beyond
the privilege of slipping nectar from the
flowers and enjoying uncestrajned liberty
on the wing.
Who does not discover in the foregoing
relation, an exact reference of means 10
ends 1t is an illustration of the admir-
able adjustment of cause and effect, which
secures the perpetuity of species, demon
strates beyond question, the existence of
an omniscIent Law Maker-6ecause such
laws DO not make themselves.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-07-11

PCLQUE-Ihe great plantations, OF
haciendaS, in the States of Mexico. Hid
algo, Morelos, Puebla, and Tlascala, are
almost wholly devoted to pazqls produc-
tion. The maguey plants are inspected
daily during the season, and when the
head has formed and the bloSsom-stalk
is about to put fourth. the center Of the
plant Is cut out with n large sharp knife,
and a reservoir capable of holding a
couple of gallons or more formed. Into
this reservoir the sap which would have
gone to form the giant blossom-stalk
flows freely aud every morning two
men visit each plant to gather it. Oae
carries a pig-skin-ta6en off whole-and
the other long calabash with q small
hole in each end Thrusting one end of
this calabash down into the reservoir, he
applies his lips to the other end, and sucks
away until 1t is filled with the Juice,
when he covers the upper opening with
his thumb to keep the sap from running
out at the bottom, and transfers the con
tents to the pig-skin. This process is
repeated at plant after plant, until the
pig skin is filled. Then a small quantity
of old, sour pulqlte, to act as yeast, Is
added, and the opening in the skin Is tied
UP. The skins, looking now like so many
fresh-dressed hogs carcasses, are exposed
to the sun for day or two. and the
Dulq1le Is then fit for market. 1t is thin
milky-white fluid. not unlike some kinds
Of small beer in appearance, very nauseous
to the uneducated taste, and highly intox-
icating, or rather stupefying, in its effects,
when drunk by the quart or pailful, accord
ing to the custom Of the country 1t IS
said to very nourishing in its properties,
and is recommended by resident physicians
to consumptives, people with weak stom
achs, mothers nursing their infants, and
others requiring mild stimulant. Thou
sands of pig-skins of this liquor are
brought into the city of Mexico daily on
mems backs and special railroad train
known as the q Pulque Train, runs down
to Apam daily, coming back loaded with
it. Pulguertas in Mexico take the place
of wine and beer-shops in Europe and the
United States, and, the liquor being sold
at about three cents a quart, is consumed
in almost unlimited quantities by the com
mon classes.-The Overland.
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AN INTELLIGENT HoRsE.-Brute sagac-
ity, as developed in the dog and in the
horse, is so near akin to human reason
that the line of demarkation is undiscern-
ibe. An example of the knowingness of
the latter animal came under our own OBJ
seryation a few days ago in one of the
corrals where the freight teams plying be-
tween here and the mining districts put
up. The huge freight wagons employed
in that business have large barrels attached
to their sides, in which water Is carried
for use in crossing the arid deserts they
are compelled TO traverse. One of these
wagons stood IN the center of the corral,
surrounded by embarrassed horses and
mules. One of the former was evidently
thirsty, for he proceeded to the water bar
rels, grasped the plug at its base, and with
few energetic tugs drew it out, liberat-
ing, of course, its contents. He then
dropped the plug, applied his lips to the
bung-hole and drank to his hearts content.
At this juncture he was discovered by
his driver, otherwise we verify believe that
the horse would have put the plug back
himself.-LoS angeles Ne,CS.
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Having charged an officer of the gov
ernment with dishonesty, he was required
by Parliament. under a heavy penalty,
publicly to retract the accusation in the
House Of Commons At the appointed
time be appeared with a written recanta-
tion, which he read aloud, as follows : 81
said he was dishonest, it is true; and
am sorry for it. = This was satisfactory
but what was the surprise of Parliament,
the following day, to see the retraction
printed IN the papers thus " said he
was dishonest; 1t is true, and [ am sorry
for it.. By simple transpositiOn of the
comma and semicolon, the ingenious SIAN
derer represented himself to the country
Dot only as having made no recantation
but even as having reiterated the charge
in the very face of Parliament
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PUNCTUATIoN.-There is great careless
ness, if not ignorance, in the matter Of
punctuation, whereby much misunderstaud-
ing arises. Many persons emulate the
ancient writers IN leaving out all marks or
divisions of any kind, like the barber who
wrote over his door, /" What do you think
1 shave you for nothing and give you a
drink, " which was interpreted By some to
imply an easy shave aud a morning tippe
to be got for the asking. Such, however
was not the meaning Of our worthy tonsor
who, on being arraigned before the nagis-
trate for what seemed a clear case of deccp-
tion, exclaimed, " What do you think [
shave you for nothing and give you a
drink p
Points were first used by Aristophanes.
a grammarian Of Alexandria, 200 B. c.,
but were not generally used until the mod
ern system was introduced at the begin
ming of the sixteenth century. by a learn
ed printer of Venice named Manutius
Punctuation not only serves to make an
authors meaning plain, but often saves it
from being entirely misconceived. And
there are many cases where a change of
points completely alters the sentiment
The following anecdote Of an English
statesman, who once took advantage of
this fact to free himself from an embar-
RAISING posi- tion, is an amusing illustra
ton
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QUARRELING.-If anything in the world
will make a man feel badly, except pinch
ing his fingers in the crack of door, it
is unquestionably a quarrel. No man
fails to think less of himself after than
before. It degrades him in the eyes of
others, and what is worse. it bunts his
seusibilities on the one hand, and increases
the power of passionate irritability on the
other, The truth is. the more peaceably
aud quietly We get on, the better for our
neighbors. In nine eases out of ten the
better course is, if a man cheats you, quit
his company; and if he slanders you, take
care to live so that nobody will believe
him. No matter who he Is, or how he
misuses you, the wisest way is to let him
alone for there is nothing better than this
cool, calm and quiet way of dealing with
the wrongs we meet.
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The sun itself is only a spark, which
seems lost amid the eighteen millions OF
stars which HerscheI's telescope discerned
in the Milky Way; the latter, an immense
agglomeration of suns and planets, which
looks like broad streak of light round
the whole universe, is in reality, nothing
but a nebula that is a cloud OF stars re-
sembing a mist, which would be as moth
ing in infinite space. Beyond our own
sky, other skies stretch far away into in
6nity and others beyond these, so that
light, Notwithstanding its prodigious rapid
ity, takes eternities to cross them. How
small the earth seems in this fathomless
abyss of stars Individually, it may seem
immense to US; all too vast, for in our
.littleness, we have not yet succeeded but,
as compared with the whole sidereal COS
mos, it Is less than a grain of sand by the
side of mass of mountains, or an at
mospheric particle composed with aeriel
space
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How To FIX TIE CLoCK-The Country
Gentleman contains the following When
the clock stops, don't take it to the repair
shop till YOU have tried as follows Take
off the pointers and the face take off the
pendulum and its wire. Remove the
ratchet from the tick wheel and the clock
Will run down with great velocity. Let ii
90 The increased speed wears away the
gum and dust from the pinions-the clock
cleans itself If you have any pure sperm
oil, put the least bit on the axles Put
the machine together, and nine times in ten
it will run Just as well as if it had been
taken to the shop. In fact this IS the way
that most shopmen clean clocks. If instead
OF a pendulum the clock has watch escape
ment, this latter can be taken out In an
instant without taking the works apart, and
the result IS the same 1t takes about
twenty minutes to so clean a brass clock
and saves a dollar.
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A GooD DRIvER-A simple but significant
scene occurred in Devonshire street, yester-
day afternoon, which was witnessed from
our " sanctum " window A heavily loaded
wagon, drawn by a pair of large horses,
stopped for a moments rest. The driver,
rough hardy looking man, went about the
animals, lifting the broad harness here, and
adjusting it in another place, spreading the
head-stal binders, and shifting the saddle
bearings. 1t was a warm day, and the horses
were very wet with perspiration. lie patted
them about the head kindly, first one and
then the other, and there seemed to be
perfect understanding between man and
beast. We felt little annoyed to see the
heavy load-too heavy-but the driver had no
iohip, and when he was ready and spoke to
the horses they responded with all their
power, and the great weight was moved
steadily along to its destination. This
teamster was so different from the style OF
men generally seen in our thoroughiares
that we were attracted TO his manner OF con-
Quoting his team, and would like to give
his name if we knew it.-BoSton Globe.
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Jean IngelOW.
by DORA GREENEwLL.

\ CLINT, slimmer, gleam,
The gold of the furze, and the bloom ofthe heather
The breeze, and the bird, and the stream,
fnat sing, and that sing together.
The muunur of drOwsy bees
In The purple ioN glove bells,
4 breath of the clover leas.
\ wail from the birchen dells
\ Hash on the cottage pane
From the sun ia its westward burning.
4 sound Of steps IN the lane,
And Of voices, home returning.
The warmth of "a downy nest
With the cushat's COO above It,
Earth az its faire-t, best,
With its COL % bless and 90 love o..
ST. PGtr, ur.9stHs.
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Chicago advances new claim to consid-
eration-this time 5 a place of summer
resort. One Of its journals lay down the
proposition that there is no other city in
the United States which offers such in
ducements to summer visitors as Chicago.
and mentions among its attractions an un-
limited and unfailing supply of pure water,
pure air, beautiful drives, and last, but
certainly not least, unsurpassed facilities
for furnishing the table. To add to these
attractions, the summer resident in Chicago
% has the whole country at his feet" and
can find hundreds of places of interest to
which he can make short excursions with
out losing the comforts of his city home
This IS certainly an inviting catalogue of
advantages. and that it contains good
deal of truth is proved dy the fact that a
large number of families from Tennessee,
Kentucky, Cincinnati and St Louis spend
the summer months In Chicago, and that
the numbers is annually increasing. so that
the city hopes, ere long, to become the
great ceutral point of summer travel.
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In a Detroit barber's sbop the other d,

In Detroit barber's shop the other day,
a pur-blind negro arose from his seat to
take one of the barber's chairs, when look
ing at one of the pier glasses, he saw. as
he supposed, another gentleman about to
take the chair. The old darkey at once
apologized for rising out of his turn, and
was about to sit down, when he noticed his
image about to do the same. he again
rose, and the mysterious stranger followed.
This was repeated two or three times much
to the darkey's disgust, and he finally
yelled out: If it's your turn, why don't
you sit down ? amidst shouts of laughter
from the rest of the customers.
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A correspondent from the burnt district
in Wisconsin gives a pleasing view of the
situation. The crops are looking finely
and the people are contented and hopeful
The relief committees have ceased their
labors, provisions having been distributed
to last till harvest. One dark feature in
the condition of the people is the suits
brought by the Rock River insurance
company against great numbers of farm
ers, on their notes, and, the actions being
brought in Milwaukee, the poor people
could not defend, and judgment with costs
was entered against them. Many have
sold their last COW or horse to pay these
claims
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The CHIEF OBJECT" Happiness,
says Froude, Is not what we are to look
for. Our place Is to be true to the best
which we know, to seek that, and to do
that and if 10y virtue its own Ireward
be meant that the good man cares only to
continue good, desiring nothing more, then
it Is q true and noble saying. But if
virtue be valued because it is polite, be
cause in pursuit Of it will be found more
enjoyment aud fewest sutf5rings, then 1t Is
not noble any more, and 1t Is turning the
truth of God into lie Let as do right
and -letter happiness come or zabapplnesS
# js 10 rcry niytty matter. If it come,
life Will be sweet fit do not come, life
Will be bitter-bitter, not sweet, and vet
TO be borne. On such a theory alone Is
the government Of this world intelhgibIy
Just The well-bsing of our souls depends
on what we are. and nobleness Of charac-
ter Is nothing else but steady love of good,
aud scorn Of evil. Happiness may fly
away, pleasure pau or cease to be obtain
able. wealth decay. friends fail or prove
uuzird. fame turn to infamy; but the pow
er to serve God never fails and the love
Of him is never rejected.
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The EARTH AND THE UNIvERsE.-Ihe
earth in which we dwell IS one of the low
est in rank among the heavenly bodies. If
an astronomer in some other planet were
exploring the immensity of space, our
earth, owing to its small size, might
readily elude his intelligent view. a mere
satellite of the sun. the volume of which
is 1,255,000 times greater, the earth IS
but point, as compared with the immense
tract of either traversed by the planets in
their courses round their central globe.
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4 LIVE FIsH Frozen UP.-A Nevada
paper says that small fish, imbedded IN
ice, was found by some workmen engaged
in making ice from the Huu'boH to fill an
ice-house. The little fellow was solidly en-
cased in ice as clear as crystal, and when
placed in water and the ice gradually melt
ed from it, its rigidity left, the tail culver
ed, and after turning over a few times, it
swan away as if nothing had happened
How long it had been thus housed is not
known, but probably not less than two
months.
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All Sing is still at his ways that are
dark A company Of Celestial hsner-
men who catch trout in Lake Tabor, CAL,
feed the fish with so much scrap iron from
the Central Pacific that the stomach weighs
more than all the rest of the fish, and San
f rancisco dealers have learned to be care
fuI in buying of the heather.
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3ftiscEllanu.


r.s seasons come and pass away. The
.r-.r--t.me Of yesterday loses itself IN TO-
fs--- summer. Now and then queries halt
,-.--. Why aIl this2 Why all these bright
.---- I.rs VIXEN eyaryt ling seems full of
lii. -r4 Thanksgiving. and the dark rainy
rrr.rr we are forced to live at home.
u,r- arise. I say. for so much Of earth
t- sr,grl 50 much serves to draw
s...- .rr ri-in- better thoughts, that it Is
-.- OCCASIONALLY rHer gain the mastery and
r.-.-. 4 .r.-ri.n our inner selves: hut
~ -...- ,r.--s arc so strong. 20 forci-
--.-. ....,, -6e voice. even if we
INK I.-,- ~ire them hearing, and
'...-[ -. -t.. -ao.ia.. # such can be found
-- -la fathers and friends
'--' t.r- IL crowned with blessings
t.. --4 ,,av wlv have these days
-...t. in a mere Flav-
been gwen tL,
dave Is rs 90 -ra" e]la aA' GUILE
..- +s-, +-- .E--u qy.- nearly latent
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MAKING PEOPLE H4prY.-A poetical
writer has said that some men move
through life as a band of music moves
down the street, tlinging out pleasure on
every side, through the air to every one far
and near, that can listen Some men fill
the air with their strength and sweetness,
as the orchards in October days fill the air
with the ripe fruit Some women cling to
their own houses ike the honeysuckle over
the door; vet ike it, fill all the region
with the subtle fragrance of their goodness.
How great bounty and blessing is it so
to hold the royal gifts of the soul that they
shall be music to some, fragrance to others,
and life to all 1t would be no unworthy
thing 70 live for, to make the power which
we have within US the breath of other
mems JOY to fill the atmosphere which
they must stand in with brightness which
they can not create for themselves.
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The ex-empress Eugenie's jewels-Or as
the London papers style it, {" the splendid
personal ornaments belonging to distin-
guished lady, whose name will be readily
guessed, though it is requested it may not
be made known on this occasion were
sold recently BY some London auctioneers,
and attracted great attention, no display
approximating it in extent or value having
been seen in London for long period.
The collection realized over S250,OOO.
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