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Year: 1865

"Our Young Folks" the new Bos-
ton Magazine for Juveniles, just pub
lished, under the editorship of J. I.
Trowbridge, Gail Hamilton and Lucy
Larcom, gives the following advice to
girls Oh the use of their arms in walk
ing:


The first time you are walking with
your arms at liberty, stop moving
them and hold them by your sides.
You will be surprised to find how soon
your companions will leave you behind,
although you may hurry. twist, wig
gle and try very hard to keep up.
One reason for the slow walk among
girls is to be found in this practice of
carrying the arms motionless. Three
miles an hour with the arms still is as
hard work as four miles with the arms
free.


have seen the queens of the stage
walk. | have seen girls of queenly
walk and bearing, walk in the street
and drawing room. They move their
arms in a free and graceful manner.
Could this habit become universal
among girls, their chests would be en-
lsrged and their bearing be greatly
improved. See that girl walking with
both hands in her muff. How she wig-
giles and twists her shoulders and hips |
This is because her arms are pinioned
Give them free swing and her gait
would soon become more graceful.


You have seen the picture of our
muscles. Those Of the upper part Of
the body, you remember, spread out
from the shoulder in all directions, like
fan. Now if you hold the shoulders
still, the muscles of the chest will
shrink, and the shoulders stoop and
the whole chest become thin and ug-
ly.


But some girls will say. Swinging
the arms must be very slight exercise =
1t is very slight if you swing your
arms once or ten times, but if you
swing them ten thousand times you
will obtain more exercise of the chest
than by all other ordinary movements
combined. Indeed, if ] were asked
what exercise thought most effective
for developing the chests Of American
girls, lshould reply at once, swinging
the arms while walking.
Year: 1865

It was very sensible piece of advice that
the philosopher of the Tribune gave to Bar
mum, when asked whether he should con-
tinue his business and rebuild The Museum


Take the rest of your life easy" said
Greely Ego fishing. I've been wanting to
go fishing for the last thirty years, and have
not had chance yet The advice is none
the less sensible that Barnum didn' act up
on it. When men have been long in bust
ness and acquired competent fortune-and
we mean by competent, fortune sufficient,
if well invested to return revenue sufh-
Gent to support its owner comfortably-he
also acquires certain habits that he finds it
difficult TO throw off. Very few men retire
from active life In the possession of the fac
ulties of enjoyment. They postpone the
day they want to amass a few more thou
sands; they want to figure as largely as their
neighbors In the income list; and SO old age,
decrepitude, and infrmities are upon them
before they retire from business. Then, in


tead of enjoying life and fortune, their time
is employed In postponing the visit of that
stern messenger who knocks with equal force
at the door of the rich man palace and the
poor man S cottage 1t is philosophical adj
vice, that of Greely. Go fishing. If you
have secured q competence, give way to
young men who are pushing forward Tor the
same end. Retire from business from the
confinement of the counting room, the per-
plexities of the office, the strife of political
life, the cares of state. Seek nature in her
loyeliest forms, in the mountain and the val
lev, in the forest and by the river side. There
is world of happiness TO be found by those
who wisely search for it, and go after it. But
it viii not mix with business nor is it to be
found In tha rnarts of commerce. Given
moderate wealth, good health, contented
mind, coInpanionable friends, readable books,
and the pleasures of rural life, and a mans
old age may be happier than his youth.
Cinciaadttl Commercial
Year: 1865




NEVER MIND SooFFs.-"I'll splash that
duck all over! III make it as wet as
sponge in the water! I'll soon take out all
the shine from its green and glittering
reck!"


So cried little Guy, as with both hands
he flung water at the beautiful bird. But
calmly the duck swan on; its rich plumage
was dry, not drop would rest upon it;
and bright as ever in the sunlight shone
its green and glittering neck.


81 shall pelt it with water from my
squirt cried Guy; | shall certainly wet
it mt last, and make it's feathers like those
of the dead pigeon which | found yester-
day in the brook"


Yet calmly the duck swan on; it's rich
plumage was dry, not o drop would rest
upon it; and bright as ever in the sunlight,
shone its green and glittering neck


Why was the duck never wet, though the
10y in his malice threw so much water up.
on ii? Because nature has given it oil on its
feathers, that throws off the moisture at
once. Even when the bird dives in the
stream, it rises unwetted aud unstained


When We are pelted with SCOTS and
words of unlindness, let the oil ofpatieace
keep our temper unruifled, and then they
have no more real power to harm us than
water to injure duck. There are those
who laugh and mock at others, Tor refusing
to Join them in evil. Are not such acting
the part of Guy? Let all who are laughed
at for doing good, go steadily on their way;
shame cannot rest on them, nor dim the
brightness of a character that will shine
but the more clearly for such vain attempts
to blot it!
Year: 1865

TAKE csreof your health and take plenty
of sleep. Let no enc work in pain or wear
mess. When man is tiled he should lie
down until be is fully rested, when, with
renovated strength the work will be better
doue. done sooner, and with self sustained
aiacrity. The time taken from seven or
eight hours sleep out Of each twenty y-iour
is time not gained, but time much more
than lost; We can cheat ourselves. but We
cannot cheat nature. A certain amount of
food is necessary for healthy body. but if
less Than the amount be furnished decay
commences the very hour. 1t is the same
with sleep; any enc who persists 10 allow
ing himsef less than nature requires will
only hasten his arrival to the mai.house or
the grave.
Year: 1865

1t is a plain but faithful saying, Eat your
brown bread first" nor is there better rule
for young mans outset in the world. =
While you continue single, you may live
within as narrow limits as you please; and
1t is then you must begin to save, in order
to provide for the more enlarged expenses
of your future family. Besides, plain,
frugal life is then supported most cheer.
fully; it is your own choice, and it is to be
justified on the best and most honest prin.
ciples in the world, and you have nobody
pride to struggle with, or appetite to mas
ter but yeur own. As you advance in life
and success. it will be expected you should
give yourself greater indulgence, and you
may then be allowed to do both reasonably
and safely.
Year: 1865

What becomes of a man after he is
dead, is not a matter of the slightest i'm
pertance to himself. His lifeless remains
have ceased to be any longer conscious of
respect or Of dignity. The only right
which civilization comedies to the dead,
is the right to be put out of sight; how
this is to be done is question alone for
the living. In general the bodies of the
dead, even those of executed felons are
admitted to belong to their friends; and
often the demands of science has been re-
fused, in favor of the claims of affection.
Respect for the inanimate bodies of the
deceased among people, has been deem
ed an evidence of civilization and refine
ment-of the meliorating effects of the
divine spirit of the Gospel; and the fact
that we the people of the United States
have abandoned the barbarous practices
of our ancestors, and ceased to insult and
mutilate the bodies of malefactors, has
often been alluded to as proof that we are
nobler and more merciful than they.


The treatment accorded to the remains
of the assassin of tho President, seems to
negative these claims to superiority. AS
there is 40 proof, nor even ground for a
presumption, that the family of Booth
were in any way implicated in his crime,
the refusal of those in authority to allow
them the possession of his body stands in
the light of an unmerited and vindictive
injury. 1t is step in progress toward
the old rule of barbaric despotism, which
included the relatives of the criminal in
his guilt, and for the act of one swept off
Q generation. What was done with the
body of Booth is not publicly known; But
it is known because it is avowed, that it
was intended, by the mode of its disposal,
in some way, to add to the infamy which
had fallen upon his memory We sup
pose the act was dictated by persons high
in authorityj for none in low positions
would have ventured to refuse, to those
whose title by every rule of custom and
humanity was perfect, the possession of
that upon which justice and revenge are
alike impotent.


1t is no! an act of magnanimity to in
suit corpse. 1t argues nothing of a
sense of justice. 1t proves that they who
do it, think and act upon low plane of
humanity. What We regret is, not so
mucn tnat lt mas peeu uone, as Iuat tbe
doing of it seems to have been in accord
ance with the spirit and feeling of those
who claim to represent the best side of
our civilisation-the refined the religious,
the conscientious of the people. Plans
for the disposal of dead body have been
elaborated in our pulpits, and in our
newspapers. What to do with the body
of the assassin was scarcely secondary
topic to the act of assassination, or its
probable consequences; and had the views
of the most tender-hearted and philan-


thropic been allowed to govern, the re-
mains of the criminal, in the place OF
sleeping in some obscure corner, would


have been dragged about the streets OF
our cities. or carved IN pieces, or set up
TO horriiy passers along the highways.
Year: 1865

Over the river they beckon to me
side;


The gleam of the snowy robes see,


But their voices are drowned by the rush
l3s ing tide.
There's one with ringlets of sunny gold,
And eyes, the reflection of Heavens own
blue,


He CROSSED in the twilight gray and cold,
And the pale mist hid him from mortal
view.
We saw not the angels that met him there:


The gate of the city we could not see.--
Over the river, over the river,


My brother stands waiting to welcome me-!
Over the river the boatman pale
Carried another--the household pet;
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale
Darling Minnie I see her yeti
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,


And fearlessly entered the phantom bark;
We watched it glide from the silver sands,


And all our sunshine grew strangely dark.
We know she is safe on the further side,


Where all the ransomed and angels be;
Over the river. the mystic river,


My childhood's idol is waiting for me.
For none return from those quiet shores


Who cross with the boatman cold and pale;
We hear the dip of the golden oars,


And catch glimpse of the snowy sail,
And 10! they have passed from our yearning


heart,


They cross the stream and are gone for aye;
We may not sunder the veil apart


That hides frcm our vision the gates of day.
We only knew that their barks no more


May sail with US Ger life's stormy sea,
Yet somewhere, know, on the unseen shore,


They watch, and beckon, and wait for me
And sit and think, when the sunsets gold


Is flashing river, and hill, and shore,
shall one day stand by the water cold,
= And list for the sound of the boatmans oar;
/ shall watch for a gleam of the far ping SAIL


1shall hear the boat as it nears the strand
I shall pass from sight with the boatman


pale,


To the better shore OF the spirit land.
/ shall know, the loved who have gone before,
And ioyfully sweet shall the meeting be,
Whenever the river. the ,peacsfnl river.


The ngef CT death shall carry mel
Year: 1865

Coon ADvIcE.-Says an exchange
"Never buy goods of dealer that don't
advertise. You can be sure that he is
close, stingy, and lacks sufficient energy
to take advantage of the markets and buy
cheap. In fact it is very safe rule to
set down that you will have to pay twenty
per cent. more for goods to merchant
who don't advertise than to one who does
Year: 1865

s To DRIVE AWAY RATs.-A cSrrsspou-
dent of the Canada Farmer succeeded in
expelling rats from his barn BY dsposit-
ing small bundles of wild peppermint
along with his grain as put away in the
the NOW. Ho thinks it will have this
effect every time.
Year: 1865

\ New York editor has issued a carte
Blanche to his friends, in the following
terms:


Our table is broad one Come in and
see US. We can write while one man is
singing, another whistlng. and another
dancing aud shouting hallelujah. Pay
us visit. Require little elbow room on
the table cant $50 it" if elbow-r room is
little cramped- When you come, lie on
the table, particularly if you have the
ague and fever. We are never busy
have plenty of time to talk and say ori gi-
nal things about the weather. Drop in.
When we are blessed with your accepta-
bic presence, turn over the exchanges,
and put the Oldest one at the top of the
pile. Borrow the shears, and put the
paste brush in the ink bottle, Tell the
last joke and sing the newest version of
John Brown. Swear like a rebel, aud
find out the latest news by telegraph
And SO on-you know the rest. BY all
means come and see u.s.
Year: 1865

OF late we have had various kinds oi
weddlngs-wooden at the end of five years
from the commencement of matrimonial
life; TIN in ten years; glass in fifteen; chi
Ma or crockery in twenty. silver in twenty
five; gold in fifty; and diomohd in seventy
five. 1t is not to be supposed at this age
anybody will live a century of married life
and therefore no provision is made fol
the hundredth year. On Monday eve
ming glass wedding, the first we ever
heard of in this city, came off at the house
of Mr.. Augustus parson, on Boardman
street, quite party of friends having as
sembled for the celebration. In the com
pany was the Rev. DIR. Spaulding, who
made some appropriate remarks upon the
thread of III irriage as we'll as life, but
hoped that the present couple would live
happily through the chains of matrimony
to even their goldend anniversary. After
passing from labor to refreshment and
partaking of the latter, the company were
shown into a room brilliant with glass
presents, very beautiful and some OF
them very valuable. 4 large table was
lighted with three wax candles-re
white and blue-on glass candesticks;
and stacked around was every variety OF
glassware desirable in family. for use or
ornament. The evening was happily
spent, and after singing "Auld Lang
Syne, and the usual kissing OF the bride,
the company retired Newburyport Her.
aid.
Year: 1865

The Cincinnati Enquirer, in noticing
the order for the execution Of Messrs Mil
lean. IIorsey and Bowlcs, truthfully say:


There was the form-if We do not make
a f1aprant misuse Of terms in calling it even
the torm of a trial. The parties were
brought before that which called itself a
court. and something which received the
title Of evidence was offered against them.
Upon the nature of that evidence we have
commented before, and have nothing to
rcneot or retract. Without hesitation. we
saw this: that before no legal court or i'm
partial jury, upon such testimony, would
these men been found guilty cfany crime
to which the death penalty is by law at
tached


Now that the foundation for even pre-
tense Of national danger is broken up,
there should be an end to party vind;c-
tiveness. Let these men be brought to
trial; let them enjoy the advantage Of that
benign presumption upon which civiliza-
ton insists, that they are innocent until
they arc proven guilty; let them have the
assistance of unhampcrcd council, and
of those rules which the experience of
AGES has devised to eliminate the false
witness from the true, and the illeg mat,
| from the legitimate; and it then, by al
unbiased pannel Of their fcllow-citizens
they were found guilty, let them be pun
ishcd. This is what humanity has Il righ
to demand. 1t is what governments we're
made to secure, and what the party il
power will gain nothing by refusing. The
blood of those done to death unjustly will
cry out from the grave against the muir
derers. There is no neod OF haste In
sending these men to eternity. The coun
trv can well afford to wait ages rathe,
than witness deed of injustice committed
in its name.


We appeal to our contemporaries of th,
republican party. We present it as &
matter Of party interest. DO they want
this thing done? DO they want the blood
of these men in the skirts of their party
Do they want the memory of a great ac
of injustice to hang over them and al
with whom they are, in party bonds, con
nected p? They have some influence in
this matter. we have none. 1t is more
their interests than it is ours.


Tie execution will make more enemie.
to power than it will extinguish: it vii
excite more hatred than terror But ar,
either hatred or terror things which the
welfare of the country now requires? We
are aware that there is a cry for BLOOD
abroad in the land. The spirit of revenge
is awake. and grasping everything which
can afford the means of additional excite
Year: 1865

ment But is it honest, is it even safe,


blindly to fall into this current, or active
ly to feed this flame, which none know
how soon, may get beyond control, and
erect memorial for future ages to shud-
der at AS We said above, VIC present
this to the consideration Of the organs of
the party in power, and, as they shall re-
spond. CT fail to respond, the public will
gain the means to know how much they
can be relied upon to cast their influence
against the dangerous ami cruel propensi-
ties Of the times.-[Cincinnati Enquirer
Year: 1865

Gerrit Smith is an honest, noble hearted
man, with wrong principles. This We
have always said and still believe \
letter from him to President johnson is
Just published. in which he mikes an
earnest plea in favor of generosity, mag
nanimity aud Christian charity and for
bearance in the adjustment of terms Of
peace with the South. Having glanced
at the painful consequences ola harsh and
unfair treatment OF our conquered cnc~
N.Y." he says: ''But how blessed would
be the consequences of wise and kind
treatment of that enemy! The whole
world would be blcst by the termination
Of this most hOrrid war in peace SO full
of reason, justice and love. Christianity
would be honored and advanced by peace
made SO strikingly in her own spirit. In
that spiri. We cannot shed one drop of the
blood Of our subducd foe. Ii possessed
of it. we shall forgive and forget the
wrongs done to the North. and shall feel
that the South has suffered enough, and
that she deserves to be soothed and COM
forted, and no more afflicted by US" In
another place Mr.. Smith is fair and just
enough to speak as follows:


But there was another and no less
conclusive argument for conducting &c
, contest with our enemy Oh the most lnor~
al and humane principles. Il was that il
is reasonable as we'll as charitable to con-
clude, not only that there must: in order
to move such vast numbers, be their sim
cere belief in their cause, but that, con-
sidcring how many wise and good men
there are among them, their cause, how
ever lacking it may be iii soundneSs, must
have strong scmblancc Of soundncss.--
And such it. in fact, has. The constiiu'
tional right Of secession which is their
cause, has from the first been extensively
believed in. Even Jefferson and Madison
favored it more or less directly. Nearly
the whole South had come to believe 1t;
and no small part Of the North. 1t is true
that the American people have now put
their final and efiectual veto upon this
doctrine Of secession They have done
this. not only On the battle field but at the
ballot box also = = Neverless, not to
let the extended conviction at the North
as well as at the South, present as vel! as
past, Of the truth of the doctrine, mti>
gate in some degree the crime OF the mad
clinging of the Southern people to 1t, Is
to betray great and guilty insensibility
to the claims Of reason; candor and charl-
ty. lie is not right hearted man who
can read without sorrow for General Lee.
and without some measure Of excuse for
him. the accounts of his hesitating be
tween the Claims OF his country and OF his
Virginia to his paramount allegiance
Charge the general with guilt for choos-
ire Calhoun instead of Webster for his
expounder Of the Constitution. But ad-
NIT it to be his misfortune more than his
guilt that, in respect to State sovereignty
he grew Up nnder the teachings of Jeffer-
son and Madison instead of those Of Wash
ington and Hamilton and Jay. Candor
will allow the like plea even for Jefferson
Davis. Let him who is without sim
this sin of taking as political authority
not Calhoun merely, but even Jefferson
or Madson-:let him first cast i stone at
jefferson Davis.
Year: 1865

THE REAL AND THE IDEAL.-It is the
lue admixture of romance and reality that
best carries man through life The
quality variously designated romance or
enthusiasm, poetry or ideality, is not to be
despiscd as the mere delusion of heated
brain; but is to be valued as an energy
impaired to the human miud to prompt
and sustain its noblest efforts We would
urge on the young especially, not that they
should repress enthusiasm, but that they
.hould cultivate and direct the feeling
Unprincipled romance deals in vague as
pirations after something better and more
beautiful than it has yet seen; but it is apt
to turn in disgust from the thousand
homely details and irksome efforts essens
tlal to the accomplishment of anything re-
ally gooG, to content itself with dreams of
glorious impossibilities. Reality, priding
itself on steady plodding after moder-
ate tangible desideratum, laughs at the
a'mless and Improbable visions ofromance;
but the hand cannot say to the eye, L
have no need of thee ~ Where the two
faculties arc daily blended, reality pursu-
es a straight rough path to desirable and
practicable result; while romance beguiles
the road by pointing out its beauties, by
bestowing deep and practical conviction
that even in this dark and material exist
ence there may be found 4 joy with which
stranger intermeddleth not-a light that
shineth more and more unto the perfect
day.
Year: 1865

E In bis reception speech at Alba
ny the other day. General Sloeum said
that the people Of the SOutbern States
have (and ho spoke from personal
knowledge) manifested an entire willing
ness to comply with every demand made
on them BY the President"
Year: 1865

~Tke Ravenna Democrat reports
case Of little girl OF that place. who Eve
pears ago-she then being year and q
bali old--swallowed a diaper pin two
inches in length. with head upon i, of
the size of six penny nail. Although
various efforts were made, the pin could
not be removed. A few days ago. in a
severe coughing spasm, the child threw
up the pin. which showed no sort OF evi.
dence of having been in her person for SO
long a time. il was as perfect as when
first swallowed, The child has always
been troubled with cough, caused it is
thought by the irritation produced by the
presence OF the pin-otherwise she bas
been very well. Medical men differ in
opinion, we believe.as to the place where
the pin had SO long remained.
Year: 1865


a half hours search for a policeman. a
brace of those WORTHLESS were found
They informed him that the, woman Was
an habitual drunkard, and was we'll
i known to them. They said she had re
eeiyed an excellent education, spoke
several languages. and belonged to a
respectable familS,, who had discarded
her, and that rum had brought her TO
this fearful condition. One of the officers
went in search of a hand barrow, in
which TO convey her TO the police station
Such sights are not uncommon in the vi
cinity of these low groggeries 1t was
a few days since that respectable look
ing woman, dressed in mourning, was
carried away from the same neighbor-
hood in heaStly state of intoxication.
Philadelphia ige