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THE AERIAL TELE0RAPH.


Let no one say of new scheme Of telegraphy
however wild and absurd it may seem il
is noonshinoi" Our whole knowledge OF
electricity is but marginal. Beyond all our
present acquaintance with the mysterious
agency, there lies bonndless space for dis
coyerers and Inventors to explore. Dir. Loo
mis- Aerial Telegraph will raise laugh among
the unthinking only. An electrician, wise in
his own conceit, might prove, with the few
facts at his command, that connecting wires
cannot be dispensed with in telegraphng, but
even at the moment he thought his demonstra-
tion most complete, Dir. Loomis might be
sending and receiving them through the air
across the Atlantic. We will not record our
selves as disbelievers in the Aerial Telegraph
but wait meekly to see what the Doctor will
do with his brilliant idea now that both Houses
of Congress have passed bill Incorporating a
company for him. Congressman at least do
not think him wholly visionary and it is said
the President will sign the bill all of which
is some evidence that air telegraphy has an
other side than the ridiculous one. The COM
pany receive no money from the Governments,
and ask none. We like that to begin with.
As we understand the Loomis plan, it is some-
thing to this effect, and readers are cautioned
not TO laugh too boisterously at it, as also not
to believe IN il till demonstrated The in
ventor proposes to build very high tower on
the Rocky Mountains. mast, also very tall
will stand on this tower and an apparatus
for collecting electricity" to top the whole
From the loftiest peak of the Alps will rise
another very tall tower and ditto mast, with
its coronal electric affair. AT these sky pierre
ing heights DR.. Loomis contends that he will
reach stratum of air loaded with electricity ;
and we cannot say that he will not. Then es-
tabishng his ground wire connections, the
same as in ordinary telegraphy, he feels conf
dent that he can send messages between the
mast tops, the electrified stratum of air MAX
ing the circuit complete. The inventor claims
to have proved the feasibility of this grand
scheme on u smallsesle. We are told that
from two of thespurs Of the Blue Ridge Noun
tains, twenty miles apart, he sent up kites,
using small copper wire instead Of pack thread.
Then making the ground connections and ar
ranging his instruments, he completed the
electric circuit between the two stations and
telegraphed from one to the other. There
have been vague reports in circulation from
time to time of successful telegraphing through
being put forth which has carried weight
enough to gain the favor if not the confidence
of Congress. -Journal Of Commerce.
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ROOD.

An intelligent sea-captan sailing out of New
Bedford, says -" have made several voyages
to st. Petersburg, in Russia. The people of
Russia generally subsist, for the most part, on
coarse black rye bread and garlics. The bread
is exceedingly coarse, sometimes containing
almost whole grains, and is very hard and dry.
They would come on board in the morning
with piece of their black bread, weighing
about pound, and a bunch of garlic as big as
ones fist. This was all their nourisllment for
the day of sixteen hours labor. They were
astonishingly powerful and active and endured
severe and protracted labor far beyond any of
my men. Some Of these men were eighty and
ninety years old, and yet these old men would
do more work than any Of the middle-aged
men belonging to my ship. In handling and
slowing away iron, and in slowing away hemp
with the iack-screw they exhibited most as
tonishing power. They were full Of agility,
yivacity, and even hilarity singing as they
labored with all tue buoyancy and blitlcsome-
ness Of youth"
We Americans eat too much animal food.
In consequence, many of us are feverish and
prematurely old. During the cold season hard
workers need meat, but only once n day. Beef
and mutton are best. We think majority
will do we'll to take their meat for breakfast
We have now for few months been living
in the following manner, with great satisfac-
ton: We breakfast at seven o'clock, and fill
our stomach with solid beef and bread. At
one o'clock we take dish Of oatmeal or an
oyster stew, without milk or butter. Nothing
more till next morning. BY this plan we can
continue our mental labor during the after
noon with no more Inconvenience than in the
morning. With the accumulated vigor of the
nights rest and sleep, we can digest the hearty
breakfast without heayiness, even while we
are using muscle and brain. We have recon-
mended this plan of living to several editors
and other literary friends, and most of them
have reported to us perfect satisfaction. One
gentleman says, with enthusiasm, that he finds
in it gain in flesh and complete relief from
the headaches, heavincss and other discomforts
which had grown to considerable proportions
This all means that, with the large vital force
of the morning hours, we can digest strong
breakfast and at the same time carry on intel
lectual and physical exertion, but that wher
the vi@or from the nights sleep has been partly
expended and we come TO the dinner, a hearty
meal takes so much from the brain that dull
ness is inevitable.--Dr. Die LeDis.
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educators well entertainers of the public mind Tor
its popularity has been won by no appeal TO stupid
prejudices or depraved tastes-Bodon Gfoos.
The character which this Magazine possesses for variety
enterprise artistic wealth. and literary culture that has
kept with if it has not lead the times should cause It's
conductors to regard it with ustiabe compacency It
also entities them great claim upon the public graft
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ANTIQUITY OF THE SCULPTURES.

Few OF us ever stop to think how old the
Bible is. Yet g the Scriptures are believed by
candid critics TO contain the most ancient forms
of truth known to men," With the aid of
chronological tables, any one may easily make
profitable comparisons between the antiquity
of the books and that OF other writings and
events. The Scriptures contain the only au-
thentic history Of the world before the flood.
We find In the Pentateuch one or two stanxas
of poetry composed IN the antediluvian period.
The Hebrew statutes were enacted thousand
years before Justinian reformed the Roman
Jurisprudence. In the Bible we have the re-
cord of chartered rights secured to the people
more than thousand years before the Magma
Charta.
What a sensation would be produced if the
first chapter of Genesis shonld appear for the
first time in one of our newspapers tomorrow
Yet there can lie no doubt that chapter con-
tains the oldest writing, twenty-five hundred
years before the invention of printing. Keno
phon's record of the conversations of Socrates,
in his Memorabilia, seems an old book to us,
yet similar topics are discussed in Ecclesiastes
hsix hundred years before. The works of
Tacitus, Plutarch and Quintilian are not
are older than they.
As to the book of job its age is beyond
conjecture. Those who make it as modes n as
they can are compelled to place its origin at
least one thousand years before Homer When
Priam was king of Troy Job was of remote
antiquity The name of Alexander has no
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GETTING MARRrED.

Girls, don't you think you have reached the
sum and substance of earthly bliss when you
can write Mrs. before your name. To be sure,
it is all very proper, as well as pleasant, to
have house and husband of one's own, pro-
vided that one is old enough to take care of
the same; but simply to get married, is only
a small part of the plan designed by the Crea-
tor for our wisdom and happiness.
Most girls think their wedding day is a day
of emancipation from care joyful beginning
of now state of existence; Of life without a
shade of grief, or aught to mar its perfect har-
mony. 1t is pleasant to he the one idol of a
true heart; no wonder the young girl sees
everything through rose-colored spectacles
But, after all, It is as well to remember that
others before her have entered the lnatrimoni-
al state, and found it TO be one of care, doubt
and anxiety. And they were women as good
as the best.
II is this mistake that leads so many people
wrong at the commencement of married life.
They take no thought of their duties toward
one another. and forget that we are all eriing
creatures, and their idol no less clay than
others, only that their love has made it gold
They expect freedom from care in married
life, but they have only given up their freedom,
and commenced life's cares in earnest. Then
after the excitement of "the BRIDE" and
observed of nh observers" has passed away,
comes the settling down to real, actual life,
and the young wife must needs learn to eat,
drink, sleep, visit and receive visitors these
are part of Ker duties, as before while, in adj
dition to her domestic cares, she must learn to
adapt her temper and disposition to another's
views, and learn the beautiful lesson of self
denial If she expects perfect peace.
Poets may sing of loves young dream, and
love in cottage, but practical people will tell
you how much more is loves awakening and
comfortable mansion. 1t is this very dream
of love that breaks SO many hearts. If women
dreamed less of love, and accepted its wide
awake reality, there would be less disappoint-
ment and more real happiness.
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AS people grow older they come at length
to live so much in memory that they often
think with kind of pleasure OF losing their
dearest blessing. Nothing can be so perfect
willie we possess it as it will seem when re-
membered. The friend We love best may
sometimes weary us by his infrmities. How
sweet to think of him as he will be to us after
we have outlved him ten Or a dozen years.
Then we can recall him in his last mon 1T,
bid him stay with lis rs long as we want his
company, and send him away when we wish
to be alone again.--O. W. Holmes.
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MISCELLANY.
JOSH billings ON SILENCE

Silence IL still noise
One ov the hardest things for man to do,
IL to keep still.
Everybody wants tew be heard fust an this
IL jst what fills the world with nonsense.
Everybody wants tew talk, few want tew
think, and nobody wants tew listen.
The gratest takers among the feathered
folk, are the magpie and the ginny hen, and
neither ov them are of mulch account.
If a man amt sure he IL right the best kard
he kan play IL a blank one.
l have known menny man tew beat in an
argument by jst nodding his head once in a
while, and simply say, ''jess so, Jess So"
1t takes CRATE menny blows to drive in a
nail, but one will clnch it.
Sum men talk just as a French pony trots,
all day long in a half buslel meazzure.
Silence never makes emmy blunders, and
alwuz gifts az much credit az IL due it, and
oftentmes more.
When see man listening to me cluss i
alwuz say to myself, "look out Josh, that
fellow IL taking your meazzure."
l hav heard men argy a pint two hours and
a uhli anu cry iutHSl liOli WHSic bhty
started than a mule in bark mill, they did a
good deal of going round and round.
/ have sat on jurys and had a lawyer talk
the law, fakts and evidence ov the kase all
out ov me, besides starting the taps on mi
boots
hav bin tew church hungry for some gos-
pei and cum hum so phull of it that couldn' t
draw long breth without starting button.
Brevit and silence are the two CRATE kards,
and next to saying nothing, saying little IL
the strength ov the game
One thing il certain, it IL only the CRATE
thinkers who kan afford tew be brief, and
thare haz bin but phew volumes yet published
which could not be cut down two-thirds, and
menny of them could be cut clean back to the
title page without hurting them.
1t IL hard few find a man ov good sense
who kan look back upon emmy occasion and
wish he had sed sum more, but it IL easy to
find menny who wish they had said less.
A thing sed IL hard tew recall, but unsed it
kan be spoken any time
Brevity IL the child of silence and IL a great
credit to the old man.
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THE JOURNEY OF LIFE.--Ten Thousand be-
ings set forth together on their journey. AT
ter ten years one-third, at least, have disap-
pearcd. AT the middle point of the common
measure of life, but half are still on the road.
Faster and faster, as the ranks grow thinner,
they that remain till now become weary, and
lie down, and rise no more. At three score
and ten band Of some four hundred yet
struggle on. At ninety, these have been re-
duced to handful of thirty trembling patri-
archs. Year after year they fall in diminish
ing numbers. enc fingers, perhaps lonely
marvel till the century is over. We look
again, and the work of death is finished.
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POETRY.
HE4YTER THE cross.


Heavier the cross the nearer Heayen;s
No cross without, no God within
Death Judgment from the heart are driven
Amid the worlds false glare and din.
o happy he with all his loss,
Whom God hath set beneath the cross.
Heavier the cross the better Christian;
This is the tombstone God applies.
How many garden would be wasting, .a5.
3 u unwet by showers from weeping eyes
The gold by fire is purified;
The Christian is by trouble tried.
Heavier the cross the stronger faith;
The loaded palm strikes deeper root;
The vine juice sweetly issueth
When men have pressed the clustered fruit;
And courage grows where dangers come,
Like pearls beneath the salt sea foam.
Heavier the cross the heartier prayer;
The bruised weeds most fragrant arc; e
If sky and wind were always fair, e
The sailor would not watch the star;
And Dayids Psalms had ne'er been sung,
If grief his heart had never wrung.
Heavier the cross, the more aspiring;
From wales we climb to mountain crest;
The pilgrim of the desert tiring
Longs iorthe Canaan of his rest.
The dove has here no rest in sight,
And to tue ark she wings her flight.
Heavier the cross, the easier dying;
Death is a friendlier face to see;
To life,s decay one bids defyng,
From lite's distress one then is free;
The cross sublimcly lifts our faith
To Him who triumphed over death.
Thou Crucifed, the cross carry,
The longer, may il dcarer be;
And lest faint while here larry,
lnlplant Thou such h art in
That faith, hope, love may flourish there,
Till for the cross my crown wear.
--fr0a the German
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INFLUENCE OF A NEwsPAPER.-A school
teacher who has been engaged long time in
his profession and witnessed the influence of
a newspaper on the minds of family of chi |
dren, writes as follows
{" have found it to be a universal fact,
without exception, that those scholars of both
sexes and of all ages who have had access to
newspapers at home, when compared with
those who have not, are better readers, excel
ling in punctuation, and consequently read
more Understandings. They are better spell
ers, and define words with ease and accuracy.
They obtain practical knowledge of geogra-
ply in almost half the time it requires others,
as the newspaper has made them familiar with
the location Of the most important places, ma
tions their governments and doings, on the
globe. They are better grammarians for,
having become so familiar with every variety
in the newspaper, from the common place
advertisement to the finished and classical
Grafton of the statesman, they more readily
comprehend the meaning of the text, and con-
ssluently analyze its construction with
accuracy.
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% A Repository Of Fashion, Pleasure and In
strmction"
HARPER's BAZAAR.

The Bnzar is edited with contribution Of tact and
talent that seldom find in any journal ana the jour
nal itself the organ of the great world OF iasoh
Boston Trdreter. a.,
The Basar eommends itself 20 every member OF the
the children by droil aud pretty pictures
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drens clothes to patamas by its tasteful designs oi
brodered shippers and lux rious dressinggowns But
the reading matter Bazaar is uniformly Of create
cellence The paper has acquired wide popularity oI
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CHINESE LIFE.

A Chinese traveller says it is difficult to say
what we have not borrowed from the Chinese
The traveller in China cannot fail to observe
many contrivances in use which are considered
new with us, and may be as old as Chinese
civilization. Agriculture was one Of the ear
lest arts practiced in China. When we look
at the implements used, and notice their close
resemblance, or even identity with our own,
we are forced to own that we owe something
of our civilization and our appliances to those
mucll-despised Celestials, who in their tarn
owe the idea Of their tails to our common
ancestors. Their pillow, the mode of thresLing
grain, and winnowing, all resembles what
were in use among us half century ago.
Trades Of all kinds are practiced in the open
streets in China. There are travelling black
smiths, hiatt rs, joiners, umbrella makers,
thinkers, tinsmiths, cooks, confectioners, lapi-
diaries, BARRIERS, doctors, dentists, jewelers.,
clothiers, and cobblers. They all carry their
shops about with them. If customer wants
his shoes Dended, he will find his man at the
first street corner, strike bargain, take off his
shoes, smoke the cobbler's pipe, and wait
till he has finished. A few steps further he
may doff his coat, and hand it for repair to a
street tailor or tailoress. Should he be Attic
ted with toothache while he waits for his coat,
he. may have his tooth extracted by some
travelling dentist, who will place little pow
der in the decayed tooth, cause his patient to
sneeze, and it will drop out or, if desi ed, the
dentist will fix in new fang for about six
pence of O,r money!
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A LESSON FROM THE PooR.

One day poor English woman, without
home, or friends, or means, or strength, wan
dered in the streets of Brooklyn, and was
taken by a poor woman into her house. This
poor householder was working for her own
daily bread and yet, for six years, she took
care of this stranger as if she were her own
mother--though there was not drop of blood
between them, except Christ's blood She
had toiled for her, she had nourished her, and
she has clothed her in her old age and last
week the dear old wanderer passed away
Now tell me, where are your saints if such
households as that have no saints in them,
which, in their poverty, give all for others
through years? 1t makes me ashamed of the
way administer my power to hear and see
such instances as that. There are servant
girls that are saints Much as we levile and
ridicule the Brdgets, there are those among
them who toll night and day, and spend al
most nothing on themselves, that they may
help those that they have left behind in the
fatherland. There is stream of gold almost
as broad as the Gulf Stream, going across the
Atlantic ocean, to fathers and mothers and
brothers and sisters. There are girls who
work, ten years it may be. to support their
parents at home or brings out the "young
fry to this country. Is there no heroism in
this? Are We, in our spheres, doing as well
with our talents and our wealth as these SER
wants of the kitchen are? May it not be that
many and many a lady whom the servant has
let into the house will have to. be servant in
Heaven to let the servant in-for the last shall
be first and the first shall be last.-PlymouM
PuRas
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Musical Department.

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Special inducements to Churches Societies and Music
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