, 1873-10-16

One MoRE CoNvEEr.--The Worceste
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
writes that Gen. Butler made this con
fession tc delegate ON the day precsd,
ing the convention: 81 ought not to
have run this year. 1t was bad judg
ment. but the zeal,of mine enemy hath
eaten me up" After the convention,
he said: g Grant dare not fight me any
way. My seat is secure in Congress
and can go back there and make mo-
ton to cancel the back pay measure,
and carry it. never needed the back
pay, if the President did" Doubtless
the action of the convention has con-
vinced the General that the people are
pretty unanimously opposed to the back
pay swindle, ana that he can best win
favor by urging its repeal. '''.' 81
w The Walla Walla Company have
now under consideration a plan for
bringing water into the city. The new
plan is to take water from Mill Creek,
about two miles above the town. and
bring it down in five-inch pipe to a
reservoir near Isaac Mill, and from
thence ca to town in pipes. 1t is said
that this will give fall of ninety feet.
With such a pressure, street and garoen
sprinkling would be easily done. If
this project be carried into effect, the
Company propose laying mains through
all the principal streets of tn city. -
How LONG SHALL WE SLEEP ?-The
fact is, says the Christian Advocate, that
AS life becomes concentrated. and its
pursuits more eager, short sleep and
early rising become impossible. We
take more sleep than our ancestors, and
we take more because we want more -
Six hours sleep will do very we'll for a
plowmar or brick~layer, or any other
man who has no exhaustion but that
produced by manual labor, and the
sooner he takes it after the labor is over
the better. But for n man whose labor
is mental, the stress of the work is on
the brain and the nervous system. and
for him VINO is tired in the evening with
a day of mental application. neither
early to bed or early to rise is whole
some. He needs letting down to the
level of repose. The longer the inter
val between the active use of the brain
ant his retirement to bed, the better his
chances of sleep and refreshment. To
him an hour after midnight is probably
as good as two hours before it, and even
then his sleep will not SO completely
and quickly restore him as it will his
neighbor who is physically tired. He
must not only go to bed later, but lie
longer. His best sleep probably lies in
the earlier morning hours, when all the
nervous excitement has passed away,
and he il no absolute rest. an .
az --L - D. , NJ
The Albany Democrat tells this; We
have just heard of an act of II heroic
women ofLinn, which ought to be handed
down to posterity as an example worthy
imitation. Harvest came on, her hus-
band was too unwell to attend TO bust
ness, SO she turned out and took charge
OF the harvesting business. superin-
tending the cutting and threshing, fire.
quently taking an active hand herself.
In this manner over 1000 bushels of
grain were harvest ed, garnered and sold
all by her direction and under erh
personal supervision. She, took, the
money home last Saturday and turned
it over to husband, who was thus en-
abled to come to the Fair this week and
all the shows and other amusements,
| leaving his wife at home to take care of
the children and barn Heroic wife =
Devoted husband O1)