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Year: 1868

f KEEP WARM AND SAVE YOUR LIFE.
Within thirty days from to-day
there will be many deaths which
might be prevented by warm cloth
ing. Many fatal case.of dysentery
is caused by the want Of a wooden
undershlrt, or Of an extra blanket at
night. The sudden changes Of tenn
perature which occur at this season
of the year are very trying TO the
constitution. People with weak
lungs quickly feel the effect of them.


Frequently the thermometer falls
many degrees within a few hours.
Not only the feeble, but robust and
strong persons suffer from such great
variations of temperature. When the
weather grows cold rapidly, the pores
of the skin are suddenly closed, and
the result frequently is q bad cold,
which may hold on all winter and
terminate in consumption, or fatal
attack Of dysentery, or that dread
full disease, the typhoid fever.


II the day seems ever so warm and
bright, it is much safer TO wear plen-
ty of under clothing at this season.
In the evenings the deWs fall, and It
grows chilly very suddenly. At all
times, even when it feels The warm
est, one experiences the difference
which is so marked, between the au-
tumn atmosphere and that tofthesunl-
mer, There is something more than
the mere difference in temperature
it may be in the electricity. An Oeca-
sional fire in room dries the walls
and purlfies the atmosphere. A little
timely attention TO all these things
would prevent a great deal of the
disease and suffering TO whiehhuman-
ity is liable.


There are many Feady-nade eoffins
at the cabinet shops and undertakes
little, short, tiny eoffins-whieh
are going to be filled up soon by little
lehildren-some of them as sweet,
beautiful little children as anybody's
but your own and just to think oft
these collins might be left empty,
and the little children might be left
In their homes to play and frolic, and
make those homes bright, If only
warmshoes and stockings, which keep
little feet dry, and warm clothes and
soft woolen blankets were more plen-
ty.


DO not bother yourself to hunt up
a missionary. Be sure that when.
ever you send a pair of warm shoes
to needy little child, good enough
missionary, though you do not see
him, aIways travels inside of them.
In warming feet and warming bodies
you warm hearts also; and besides,
It warns your own heart to do this.


II the physician Of the Bonrd Of
Health would omit some of his tech.
nleal, scientific terms, and give the
people intelligible, timely advise on
these subjects, be might not appear
Jas learned as now, but would not his
services be more useful New York
Sun. s4 .a
Year: 1868

II there be those who doubt the po-
tency of the Democratic party and
its strength and capacity for any
task involving the freedom Of the
States and thepeople, they need only
to con over the figures showing how
Grants election was secured. The
following is the vote of the Northern
and Southern States =
Year: 1868

The Neao York Euening Post thinks
that school for revenue officers is much
needed in this country, to instruct them
in the law and the proper way to attend
to his duties. The revenue laws now, it
thinks, are too complex and too full of all
kinds of pitfalls and snares for frst-class
men to venture on their execution with
out long and diligent study.
Year: 1868

| EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHY Hans Patrick G.
Conner, formerly known by the nom de plum
OF Beau Hackett," contributed the followinl
| to the st. Louis Home Journal.


Never insure your life for the benefit of your
wife for greater sum than ten thousand dollars
A widow with more money than that is dan.
gerous legacy to leave posterity.
The game of life is very like game o1
cards. Time deals, death cuts, and eyerybody
is waiting for the last trump.


L think men drink in crowds because they
are afraid to drink by themselves. 1t requires
good deal of courage to stand up alone and
pour glass of whisky dawn your throat.


There are some inconsistencies in this world
that | don't exactly understand. Everybody
is anxious to go to Heaven, but nobody is in a
about about it.


If man is without enemies I wouldn't give
ten cents for all his friends The man Who
can, please everybody hasn't got sense enough
to displease anybody.


When an acquaintance says, "How are you?'
ana Fushes by you without waiting for q reply,
Wouldn II was in your place. follow him
more than mile to tell him was well.


"A convenient way of testing the affections
OF your, intended is to marry another woman.
Ii she don't love you you will find it out i'm
mediately


Do unto other men as they would like to do
unto you, and they won't have enough money
In two weeks so hire shirt washed.


The song 'Dear Mother, I've Come Home
to DE-" always struck me as happy illustra-
ton of American assurance. Our young go
abroad to spend the hard earnings of the old
folks, and, when they are dead broke, return
home to be buried at the expense of their i'm
poverished parents.
Year: 1868

The following suits us, and may suit some
body else, so we give it. The last line is real
" tinking cymbal, if not more so.
AIR-Let me KISS him for his mother.
Let me kiss her for her mother


The bewitching Polly Ann
Let me kiss her for her mother


Or any other man.
Let me kiss her for somebody,


Anybody in the world,
With her hair so sweetly auburn,


Aud so gloriously curled.
Let me kiss her for her "feller,"


And do not care a red
If he taps me on the smeller


With his billy made Of lead. y
Let me kiss her for her daddy


The pretty pouting elf
Or, if that don't suit the family,


Let me kiss her for myself!
Year: 1868

The Missouri Republican has a correspond
ent who undertakes the thankless task of de-
Tending mean men. He endeavors to prove in
/ an elaborate essay, the superiority of the


mean man to the "gOod fellow" of our
period And, in good sooth he comes nearer
to success in his task than it is polite to ac-
knowledge


One thing a mean man is remarkable for is
his reliability. Ask him to contribute to a
testimonial to Fodgers, or to subscribe for the
relief OF Smuggs He don't give cent. But
put the same appeal to the good fellow, 4"
and he says, Certainly, my dear boy. Put
me down for "" And you put him down
19r ", subsequently enjoying the privilege
OF making the subscription good out of your
own pocket. For good fellow" always
says yes, but never acts yes.


W no makes the better husband? At the
FISK OF bringing down torrent of maIedictions
on my unprotected head, l shall still adhere TO
tne man who is supposed to have no heart or
genuine human sentiment. The ''good fellow
10, I0r lover, the mean man " for husband
The latter will rob all creation to supply his
household; the former will rob his family to
accommodate his friends. Form all the mar
rIe4 women IN St Louis, in solid column nm
and down Fourth street, and if I lon't 0et
ninety nine votes out of hundred in favor of
my proposition, | will treat the drinking com
munIty to a barrel Of gin and water on the oc-
caslon OF the first election of a female Presi-
dent. Good fellow" all love ''mean man. %
all business. One takes his wife to the opera
IN four horse carriage, the other rides tri-
umphantly IN street omnibus. The good fel-
low never can be cross to any body but his
wife, for fear Of making himself unpopular:
the mean man is so sour with all the rest Of
the world that he has not particle of ILL tenn
pertto spare at home. ....


81 Love rules the court the camp the grave


Lor Love is Heaven. and Heaven is Love-"


But it won't buy beef Mean man seldom
gets : salubrious, he is too mean. His wife
Is never jealous. She knows all women hate
hlm because he is mean, aud she rather likes
IT, She laughs and grows fat Good fellows
drinks; too kind hearted to refuse and he
loves everybody. Good fellow wife pale and
cmaclated, decrepid with care and full of sor-
row.. Mean cuss S wife hale and hearty, fat
red-faced, and weighs q ton. Am / right?


DANGEROUS CUSHION. Some time since a
physician was consulted by young man who
received serious injury to his eye from its
coming IN contact with needle while he was
reclining upon the bosom ofa friend. The nee
die penetrated the eye, and caused so destruc-
tive an lntamation that the Doctor was unable
to subdue it before the vision was entirely de-
stroyed. Young ladies--rparticularly those who
have loYers.-7ta warning, and use some more
suitable repository for your pins and needles
thae the front of your dresses. And young
men who. will wooing go endeavor to seek
your Legitimate resting places at home and In
bed before the lateness of the hour will neces-
tate the resting of your heads upon SO danger
Gus pillow. o.|-...,.l
Year: 1868

A jOurneym1n mason, aged twenty-five,
committed suicide a few days ago, by jumping
from the top of house on which he was at
work. The cause of this rash act was a dis
covery he had made, on the day after his we'd
ding, that his wife had glass eye.
Year: 1868

WHAT IS AN OLD MAID.-Never be afraiC
of becoming an '' old maid fair reader An
old maid is far more honorable than heartlesS
wife, and "single blessedness is greatly SUI
periOr, in point Of happiness, to welded life
without love.


Fall not in love, dear girls, beware '' says
the song. But we do not agree with the song
on this question. On the contrary, we hold
that it is a good thing to get in love, if the
loved object be worthy one. To fall in love
with an honorable man is as proper as it is for
an honorable man to fall In love with vrtuous
and amiable woman and what could be a
more gratifying spectacle than sight so pure,
approaching in its devotion to the celestial ?
No, fall in love as soon as you like, provided
it be with suitable person. Fall in love, and
then marry; but never marry unless you do
love. That's the great point Never marry
Tor home or be party to such an alliance
Never sell yourself, body and soul, on terms
so contemplate. Love dgni6es all things; it
enobles all conditions. With love the mar
rlage rite is truly a sacrament
! Without 1T the ceremony is a base fraud and
the act human desecratiOn. Marry for love,
or not at all. Be an "old maid - if fortune
throws not in your way the man of your heart;
and though the witleSs may sneer, and the
Jester may laugh, you still have your reward
III an approving conscience, and comparative
pCdCClul Illes


For well-to-do old bachelors we have no
sympathy. They ought to be taxed nine
tenths Of all they are worth to support women
and children.


How THE SWISS MAKE MATCHES. 1t is the
general custom in Berne, says Swiss writer,
that the lovers father should play the woer to
the parents of the bride. He frequently goes
to them and says:


" My lad likes your daughter I suppose
you have nothing much against it, and it will
suit you?


Or sometimes he goes in more elaborate
fashion, as in the case of the father who
knocked one evening late at a window, begged
the old people to look out and then began:


" 1t is Gods will that my boy and your girl
should come together. | have had to make up
my mind to it, and so will you; but should
like to ask what dover you mean to give her
about thousand pounds fancy p


=" | approve the match" returned the other
party; but can't think of giving her more
than hundred pounds"


" You don't mean it 2" said the other.


Indeed do; not one half f-penny more, and
even that is too much. "


Then" replied the former, "iti not Gods
will that the two should come together. The
Lords purposes are untathomable, and His
ways past finding out. Good night. No offence,
hope"


Quite the reverse" said the other and
quietly closed the window.
Year: 1868

A young lady stepped into one of
the street cars the other day, and
dropped her handkerchief upon a
vacant seat, as much as to say, "taken"
while she advanced to the other end
of the car to deposit her fare. Mean
time a nicely dressed young man
jumped in aud sat down on the hand.
kOrchiof without observing It. The
young lady, after paying her fare,
turned back, discovered to her cha
grin her scat was occupied, and sat
down opposite, ladies making room
for her. But she did not desire to
lose her handkerchief so she looked
intently towards the place where she
had left il, hesitatiDg whether to ask
for il or not. Discovering the diree-
tion of her looks, all eyes on the
opposite side Of the car we're soon
bent on the young man. Finding
himself the object Of so much atten-
ton, he himself looked and discovered
to his horror something white on
which he sat, the end peeping out.
He mistook its character. To cover
it with his hand, aud 10 tuck it nicely
away was the work ofa few momnnts.
None in tho car bat the young lady
knew that the "something white
was a handkerchief, aud hesisating
still more 10 ask him, she lost il.
Year: 1868

SEA BIRDs.-The question is often
asked, where do sea birds obtain fresh
water to slake their thirst But We
have never seen it satisfactorily answered
till few days ago. An old skipper, with
whom we were conversing on the subject,
said that he had frequently seen these
birds at sea, far from any land that could
furnish them with water, lowering round
and under a storm-cloud, chattering like
ducks in hot day at a pond, and drink,
ing in the drops of rain as they fell They
will smell rain squa Il a hundred miles,
or even farther off, and scud for it with
almost inconceivable swiftness. How
long sea birds can exist without water is
only matter of conjecture but proba-
bly, their powers Of enduring thirst are
increased by habit, and possibly they can
60 without it for many days, if not for
several weeks.
Year: 1868

BEAUTY.-What is beuty after all
Each eye makes it for itself. You think
Smiths lady love raw-boned and hard.
featured. he calls her magnificent
woman, and wonders what you see in
your little angel with her baby face and
stature. So it is, the world over and
yet, we would each give something to be
beautiful after our own fashion. How
the powders and lotions which are to be-
stow upon poor bilious mortals skins of
satin and snow, and the hair dyes, and
pomades, and cosmetics of all sorts sell,
we need not mention. to prove the facts.
In France, old ladies are even being made
over, at the cost of half their fortunes.
Heaven keep me from ever catching o
glimpse of one of those enameled, dyed
and miserable old creatures after tho rem.
ovation, by the way.


Yes, we all want to be beautiful and.
if only our ideas of beauty were what
they should be, we might accomplish our
desires easily. Meekness and love make
all faces pleasant. Were we good we
should be beautiful.


We all feel this. There are plain fea-
lures SO charming with the sparkle Of
good humor that we love them. There
are blemished faces SO sweet that they
are pleasanter to look upon than the
most perfect. After all, it is in the ex-
preston that the actual charm lies. So
that were some one to promise the Secret
OF Beauty for twenty-five cents and post
paid envelope, he would scarcely be an
imposter should he return the golden
rule nth instructions to learn and prac-
tice it. lfw we only could do this earn
estly and truly for one generation, the
next might wonder whether it were not a
fable that such a thing as ugliness was
ever known upon old earth.--Emeltue
Palmer.
Year: 1868

"A BEAUTIFUL STREAM The Silver
Spring creek, near Ocala; Florida, has
waters clear as crystal, that delude the
senses, and we have leaned over the side
OF boat to pick up twig at the bottom
which IS seemingly only few inches
from us, but in reality is.twelve or four
teen feet away. This creek is very deep,
and IN some places the plummet was sunk
100 feet without touching bottom. In
the center of the basin the boat should be
lett tor time montionless, then it seems
to the senses as if we were resting on the
still air. The MONDAY sun and the
peculiar qualities of the water produce at
the lowest depths the pristine colors Of
the rainbow, which seem to gamb ol on
masses of FURNISHED silver, the whole re-
sembllng transformation scene in some
gaudy spectacular drama The tablets
away below, looking like masses of white
limestone, perhaps the coral rocks to
which Florida owes its origin. Here
debouches, from deep abyss, large
subterranean river, from where coming
none can tell Luxuriant and perpetual
verdure covers the shallow around the
spring, and seems to glide about rather
by more yolition than by any other effort
w hat would have been said and believed
OF the beauties and wonders of this spring
It it had only but once been seen by a
few Greeks of Romans IN the palmy days
of their old mythologies The river is
only twenty-five miles from the shores of
the Atlantic. 1854
Year: 1868

BEER VERSUS BREAp.-The amount of
nutriment contained in beer is generally
greatly over-estimated. Liebig asserts
that in one thousand four hundred and
sixty quarts of the best Bavarian beer
there is exactly the nourishment of an
ordinary two and-a-half pound loaf of
bread. This beer is about on par with
our best American beer. Instead of being
a condensation of the nutriment contained
in the grain, in just SO far as the liquid has
undergone fermentation, the nourishment
has disappeared Journal Of Chemistry.
Year: 1868

WOMAN Run OvER.-Mary Shea, young
Irish prostitute, met with serious accident
on Fourteenth street below Cary yesterday
morning. She attempted to cross the street,
and being intoxicated, fell beneath the
wheels of one of Bossieux's wagons, heavily
loaded with railroad iron. One of the hind
wheels of the wagon passed over her chest,
inficting dangerous, if not fatal injury.
She was placed in wagon by policemen
alms-house, surgical assistance having been
rendered by DR.. Parker. No blame can be
attached to the driver of the vehicle.


The unfortunate woman had been turned
away from home by her mother, who would
not let her enter the door in q state of in
toxication. She is good looking, and about
twenty five or thirty years of age.
Year: 1868

THE CLOVER HILL DIFFICULTF.-On
Tuesday last one or two negroes came to
Richmond and advised with the Bureau
officers about what to do in order to discover
the prepetrator of the alleged murder at
Glover Hill. Their suspicious have fallen
upon q negro who is said to have tracked
the deceased that night, and they were adj
vised to secure his arrest ut once.
Year: 1868

ANOTHER INFANTIcIDE.-The dead body
of a new born llulatto babe was found yes
terday morning in the gully on Ninth be
tween Leigh and Clay streets, near Webb's
garden. Sergeant Burlington brought Coro-
ner Little to the spot, but an inquest was
deemed unnecessary. The body was ordered
to be buried.
Year: 1868

STEAMER ADMIRAL.-A telegram from
Baltimore informs us that the steamer Ad-
miral on her last trip to Baltimore broke
down and did not leave that city on yester-
day on her regular return trip. No damage
was done to her cargo. The Kennebec will
leave Baltimore Saturday for the White
Ho,1ee
Year: 1868

CIRCUIT COURT OF RICHMoND-JUDGE
MEREDITH Observation-Disclosures


argument in the case of De Rothschlid Us.
The Commonwealth of Virginia for tobacco
stored in public warehouse and burned at
the time of the evacuation in 1868 was
heard. and the court reversed its decision.
Year: 1868

How OLE BULL Looks. WATSON S
New York Art Journal thus speaks of the
personal appearance and playing Of OLE
BULL, the great yiolluist, who has return
cd to this country after an absence Of a
little over ten years.


Time has dealt with him most unfavor-
ally, for it has denied him the usual priv
i:ege Of looking old. lie looks younger to-
day than when We last saw him, a dozen
years ago His massive frame is still tall
and erect-his step is firm and elastic, and
his intelligence as clear and vigorous as
when he made his first bow to an American
audience at the Park Theatre, twenty Gve
years. And, above all his smile is still as
true and genial as ever, proving that the
heart has lost none of those kind and gen
erat impulses which of old dictated thou
sand generous actions, which have made
him the man loved and respected through,
out the whole country. As man We hnd
him unchanged, save inasmuch as the
heavy troubles and Affections which dark
ened his life in the past being passed away
he is hundred times more hopeful, con-
tented and free in splrlt-mentaHy and
morally a new man.


'As an artist he is head and shoulders
above his former stature. His tone is lar
er grander, and power over the character
OF tie instrument is simply extraordinary.
There are really no difficulties in the violin
to him-those he mastered long ago-but
we End him now far more matured his
thoughts are more connected bis execu-
tion and intonation more clear and positive,
and in passionate expression his delivery is
broader, and more refined and intensified
His style is as fresh and vigorous as when;
thirty years ago, he followed Paganiui to
England, and won success after success in
the very footsteps of that marvellous per
former Such is Ole Bull TO day, and as
We listen to bis wonderful mastery Of the
soul OF the violin, we felt satisfied that his
career in thi, country viii be more brilliant
than at any period Of his most eyentful
L."
Year: 1868

WILL lie Do AS he SAYS "A Washing
ton dispatch says the President expressed
himself on Friday in the most positive man
ner respecting the revolutionary measures
now peing put through Congress, if Con-
gress so enacts as to deprive him Of any
portion Of his constitution authority as the
Executive, who was as directly elected by
and as directly represents the people as
Congress was and does, may be expected
to resist such an cncroachment with all the
power at his command His right and
duty as commander-in-chiefo Of the army, Of
which it IS proposed to deprive him in the
pending reconstruction bill, are smons the
chief prerosatives which Mr. JOHNSON
cons istently defend.
Year: 1868

b SCARE. On Saturday afternoon last,
were alarmed by the appearance Of about
ozen men coming into our office and ex-
! inning that the building was on fire. OF
! rse we hastily dropped our quill and
I,t out and looked, and cur fears was
bn quoted on beholding the chimney in
] front part Of the building only on FIRE,
h ne were very glad that it was
thing more. We are greatly obliged to
,sc who were on hand ready to render us


istanee if necessary, and for which they
4 please accept our thanks.
Year: 1868

PRCpOsED REDUcTIoN OF TIE WnIsET
TAX The draft OF a new whisky tax bill
will be completed in few days, a Wash
ington correspondent says, Indications are
that the tax will be greatly reduced. The
sentiment Of the House Ways and Means
Committee is in favor Of a new revenue bill
instead Of that now pending.
Year: 1868

R- The Philadelphia Press says
the Democrats have taken care to
nominate candidate for President
who is in favor of the late rebellion
against the Government, and a can
didate for Vice President who has
pledged himself in favor of the next
rebellion against the Government.
Year: 1868

case Of Timothy Desmonds. He expressed great
surprise that Mrs. Mullany had not been produced


The jury then retired to consider upon the verdict
After very brief delay they returned. Barrett was
found guilty All the other prisoners were ac-
quilted
Year: 1868

We hear of a Washington county. Ind,
Radical who has determined to run for
office, but is undecided whether he wilt
make the race in that country or buy new
carpet-bag and go South.