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The BABy.-One of the sweetest Of

1dE DAB4. VI VIC SWtoteSt VI
Emerson's writings is the following:
"Who knows not the beautiful group
of babe and mother, sacred in nature,
sacred also in religious associations of
half the globe? Welcome to the parents
is the puny little struggler, strong in his
weakness, his little arms more irresisti-
BILE than the soldiers, his lips touched
with persuasion which Chatham and
Pericles in manhood had not. The small
despot asks so little that all nature and
reason is on his side. His ignorance is
more charming than all knowledge, and
his little sins more bewitching than all
virtue. All day, between his three or
four sleeps, he COOS like a pigeon house,
sputters and crows, and puts on faces of
Importance; and when be fasts, the little
Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet
before him. Out of blocks, thread
spools, cards, and checkers, he will build
his pyramid with the gravity of Pal.
ladio. With an acoustic apparatus of
whistle and rattle he explores the laws
of sound. But chiefly, like his senior
countrymen, the young American studies
new aud speedier modes of transportation.
Mistrusting the cunning of This small legs,
he wishes to ride on the neck and should
ers of all flesh. The small enchanter
nothing can Withstand; no seniority of
age no gravity of character-uncles,
aunts, cousins, grandsires, grandmas-all
fall an easy prey. He conforms to no.
body. all conform to him, all caper and
make mouths and babble and chirrup to
him. On the strongest shoulder he
rides, and pulls the hair of laurelled
heads"
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JOSH BILLINGS APHoRIsMs-The
CRATE fight il fust for bread, then butter
on the bread, and then sugar on the but
ter.
Be mersifull to all the dunn animals; !;
no man can git to Heaven on a sore
backed horse.
The CRATE mistake that most people
make IL, they think more ov their cum
ming than they do ov their honesty.
The CRATE sekret ov popularity IL to
make every one satisfied with himselffirst,
and afterwards satisfied with yu.
The unhappiness of this life seems
principally to konsist in Citing every
thing we kan and wanting everything we
hain't got.
I hav finally cum to the konklushun
that the best epitaf any man kan hav,
for all praktikal purposes, is good bank
ackount.
Paupers suffer less than mixers do-the
man who don't kno WHARF he il going to
git hiz next dinner, suffer- less than the
one who il anxious to kno how much it
IL going to kost him.
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Suez Canals the great eyent. Stanley
has; ;kepta psaisSexp plorasions andlis war
fare on tiie e bIscks, but has sent tis no in
formation of any account. The slave
trade dies slowly, but it has received
further blows during the year.
lii Australia the people are preparing
ior worlds fair, and are exhibiting the
fruits Of great cHergy and enterprise:
Looking the world over, VI find it be
gins the new year with better promise for
the welfare OF men than iebegan the last.
We have less than quarter Of this nine.
teenth century lett. May those who liye
to ,"e the twentieth century take part IN
Ia sill better era fur the Happiness of
man. We have Learned during this one
that the form Of government alone does
not necessarily give freedom OF take from
It, ard that the gyaatestj problems; OF
social order and emancipation remain to
be solved. There is plenty OF work left
to hc done by our descendants, and so it
vii! be until the time when some future
Sehelin,ann digs up tie obscure relics of
/ our buried civilization. .-Nep York Sun.
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- 1t may be counted as one of the
curious things of life that people who
need presents most get the least, and
those who need them least get the
most. 'ei
"A Maryland jury lately declared
that man had come to his death "by
an unknown wagon" About OH q par
with this is the Wisconsin verdict re-
specting a man who had been crushed 10
death in mill, when the jury remarked,
mo blame cen be attached to the ma.
chinery."
We learn from the Baltimore Ga
zette that Sergeant Bates is now living at
Ssybrook. Illinois, with his wife and five
children in great poverty, and is fire.
uuently dependent upon pablo charity
for subsistence. His neighbors consider
him shiftless, no account fellow, and
his aag-bearing achievements nave
earned for him the reputation Of being 8
fool. Such is the vanity Of humsS eS'
pecfatinrs.
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The Cattle for the Farmer.

Every farmer must keep some cattle,
and the cost of keeping good cattle is not
greater than sorry ones; yet the profit OF
the former is greater than the latter. In
cattle are three things that make them
profitable to the farmer. First, their
milk and butter qualities; secondly, size
for beef and work oxen thirdly, a hardy,
healthy stock, suited to the climate. In
country like ours where milk and but
ter enter so largely into the consumption
of every family, it is astonishing that so
little attention is given to milk COWS, and
while farmers have milk and butter in
summer, they let their COWS 60 dry and
have neither milk or butter in winter.
From neglect they have degenerated,
until many Of them are worthless for
milk and butter; they do not pay for
feeding and should not be kept. The
sooner slaughtered the better, but good
cow for milk and butter will not only
pay for feeding, but, will give a hand.
some profit in the surplus butter and
milk for market or for use in the family.
The farmer who raises corn, wheat and
hay, as well as cotton, can keep a good
COW very cheap by feeding equal quaint.
ties of corn-meai aud wheat bran and
cotton seed, and with good supply of
hay or fodder, is all that is necessary ex-
cept the spring and summer pasture:
Many years ago farmer, in speaking of
good milk cows, remarked, II tell you,
sir, if you want good milk COW you must
put food in her mouth" and many years
has convinced me that good feeding makes
good cows for milk and butter. Some
cows arc worthless for milk, and every
farmer should keep only such COWS as
are good mixers in quantity and quality,
as there is great difference in quality as
quantity. Two gallons of milk from a
good butter COW will turn out at least one
pound of rich, nice butter, when it will
take three gallons of ordinary milk to
make one pound. Therefore be careful
to keep only such COWS rs give good, rich
milk and plenty oft. Most farmers keep
too many milk cows, when a smaller
number we'll kept, will be much more
profitable. Then the farmer wants size
for beef and work oxen, for every farmer
should keep at least one good yoke for
farm purposes. He also needs hardy
stock, easily kept, and suited to the ci-
mate. To gain these desirable qualities
take our best common for grade) cows
cross them with the Jersey or other rich
milk stock, and for size cross with best
milk stock of the Durham or Short horns.
You must remember that there is not only
great difference between our common
or grade cows, but great difference in
the milk and butter qualities as we'll as
size among these improved breeds. Aud
YOU should look we'll to the sires from
which you breed, because many of them
are bred for sale without reference to
these qualities. Unless the dams and
sires from which they are bred are of the
best stock, they will not be much better
than scrubs. 1t is said by experienced
breeders, that our common or grade pro-
duce all the best qualities of the males to
which they are bred. Therefore look at
all-these things and you will soon have
the best farm cattle.-Soaahern Farmer.
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The Ashtabula Disaster.

The accident on the Lake Shore Rail-
road near Ashtabula entails the greatest
loss Of life of any railroad accident that
ever took place in this country, and per-
haps in the world. OF the ia passen-
gers OH the train, at least 100 have been
killed and reduced to almost indistin-
guishable ash. The Angola accident on
the same road only sacrificed about 70
lives, and the Norwalk disaster in the
early days of railroading, which has al
ways remained the unsurpassed New
England standard of railroad horrors,
only about SO.
All these supremities of havoc have
been associated with bridges, and it is a
singular fact that it was reserved for the
era 1ofiron bridges to suffer from the ac-
tual collapse of the structure. The
bridge at Ashtabula was of the Howe
truss pattern, one hundred and fifty feet
in span the stream was small, with only
two or three feet of water, but the favine
was apparently quite deep.
When the great western express over
the Boston and Albany, New York Cen
trail and Lake Shore lines struck this
bridge Mt a low rate of speed, near nine
o'clock on Friday night, eleven cars and
an engine went down, leaving one engine
standing on the verge of the chasm.
Those who could crawl out ut once were
saved, but fire wrought fearful doom
on those who were pinioued or helplessly
wounded. ~,
1t is almost vain to speculate about
causes :. and responsibilities, until the
coroner's jury shall furnish some data.
Amid such a wreck of matter it seems
well.nigh impossible to find the original
lesson to which the disaster was due.
Inferiority of material will still show it.
self, if it exists, and faults of construc-
tion may have been 30 abundant and
palpable as to survive the general ruin,
and appear now as evidence against the
builders. We fear, however, that so clear
a verdict will not be possible.
The effect of cold weather on iron SUBJ
ject to strains is not yet very satisfacto-
rily understood. The popular idea that
cold renders the metals brittle has been
scientifically disproved, but our worst &C.
cidents from breakage continue to distin-
guish the winter months.
The effect of low temperature must be
studied in two respects-to ascertain
whether it weakens the molecular CO.
hesion of the metal, and whether the
contraction dislocates joints and parts so
as to weaken the mechanical structure.
In the former case, the molecular debili-
tation of the iron, if it takes place,
would be accepted as q new and hitherto
unestablished fact. In the latter case,
the failure to provide for the well-known
exigencics of contraction and expansion
would be a clear default of mechanical
skill.
The great line of through travel which
has met with this terrible interruption
cannot afford to rest content with any
but the most searching investigation into
its causes. Experience is hard school,
and experience 80 terrible as this should
be questioned sharp that it may carry
commensurate instruction.
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"A venerable divine, who had been
dining out the night before, went into a
BARRIERS shop one morning to be shaved.
He saw that the barber had been getting
more drink than was good for him, for it
made his hand shake very much, and,
naturally little indignant, he began to
give him little moral advice by saying,
"Bad thing, drink" eyes," said the
barber, ait makes the skin remarkably
tender"
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"What's in that satchel" said a
New York police justice to blear.eyed
prisoner brought up before him the other
day. "That," said the victim, contains
the returns from all the States, including
Dade County, Florida, and the bull
dozed' parishes of Louisiana, and they
show that l am President elect of the
United States" 1.-TWO months" said
the justice, and the prisoner was escorted
out.
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CHARLEsTowN, MASS, Mar!h 10, 1869.
Mr.. H. X. STEVENS Dear Sir-IHs Is to Ger.
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Gtves Health, Strength and
Appetite.
BY daughter has received great benefit from
the use of the VEaETINE. Her declining health,
friends, A few bottles of the vEGETINE res
tored her health, strength and appetite.
y. Fl. TILDEN,
Insurance and Real Estate Agent,
No. 40 Sears Building, Boston, Mass.
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What ia Ye0etitae !?

1t is a compound extracted from barks, roots
and herbs. 1t Is Naure's Remedy. 1t is per-
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thon you viii say to your fri,nd, neighbor and
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yEoETINE for the complains for which it is
recommended, is having a largersale throughout
the United States than any othe one medicine.
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VEGE'IINE
Purifes the Blood, Re,a0v0tes
100 and I7aUig0rGtes the
Whole System.

Alternative, Tonic, Solvent and Diuretic'
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Disen.ea, Canlscr. Fnintness at ihe
aIonuch, and all diseases that arise from Inn:
pure blood. Acinsicn, lnhamDiRtOry and
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cont and Spinal Complaints, can only
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The remarkable cures effected by VEG ETINE
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own families.
In fact, VEoETINE is the best remedy yet
discovered for tue above diseases, and is the only
reliable BLOOD PURlFlER yet placed
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