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Year: 1868

How A DIAMOND BRACELET WAS I,osT
AND WON.--A lady in Paris recently found
in her muff a bracelet Of great value-a
splendid collection Of diamonds and opals,
worth Thirty thousand francs How it got
there she could not imagine. Some even
ings after, at select party, she heard the
Countess b mourning over a lost brace
let, the description corresponding to that
which had been so maIvelously found. The
lady produced il, and the countess was en-
raptured At last she said II have no
idea how | lost it. / have been to the mil
liner's the glove store, the fur store
''The fur dealer p That suggested some
thing. did yon try on any muifs while
you were there ?" Yes, several. 'sW as
this one of them p and the lady exhibited
her own. Yes; and | remember the man
told me it had only been sent for repairs,
and was net foF sale, The mystery was
explained
Year: 1868

WY WE SHAKE HANDS AND KISS
a learned Theban gives US the solution of
this frequently conjectured problem. In
the first place it is a very old fashioned way
of indicating friendship Jehu said to
Jebonadad: ''Is thine heart right as nv
heart IS with thine heart? If it be, give me
thine hand 1t is not merely an old fash
ioned custom; it is strictly natural one and
as usual in such cases, we may find a
physiological reason if we only take paips
to search for it. The animals cultivate
friendship by the sense Of touch as well as
by the sense Of hearing and sight; and for
this purpose they employ the most sensa-
tive parts Of their bodies. They rub their
noses together or lick one another with
their tongues. Now, the hand is part of
the human body in which the sense oftoucb
is highly developed; and after the manner
of animals, we not only like to see and hear
our friend, we also like to touch him. ana
promote the kindly feelings by the contact
and reciprocal pressure of the sensitive
hands. Observe, too, how this principle is
Illustrated by another of our modes of gree
ting. When we wish to determine whether
a substance be perfectly smooth, and are
not quite satisfied with the information CON
veyed by the fingers, we apply it to the
mouth.
Year: 1868

EARLY JEWISH ScHOoLs.-Eighty years
before Christ. schools fourished through
out the length and breadth of the land
education had been made compulsory.
While there is not single term for
school to be found before the captivity,
there were by that time about dozen in
common usage Here are few of the IN
Vulnerable popular sayings Of the period,
betokening the paramount Importance
which public instruction had assumed IN the
life of the nation Jerusalem was destroy
ed because the instruction Of the young was
neglected. The world Is only saved by
the breath of the school children. Even
for the rebuilding OF the Temple the schools
must not he interrupted" " study is more
meritorious that sacrifice \ scholar is
greater than prophet. You should
revere the teacher even more than youl
father. The latter only brought YOU into
this world, the former indicates the way
into the next. But blessed is the son whC
has learnt from his father; he shall revere
him both as hi, father and his MASTER. anc
bic. sed is the father who has instructed hl
son. - Quarterly Repieie
Year: 1868

RUsTIc EcoNoMY.-A stout, hungry
lumber man, from the interior Of Maine
who had been deprived for several weeks
Of his usual quantum Of good things which
make up the principal daily meal, went
into hotel in Portland the other day
when dinner was preparing, and very
9eriously inquired the price Of q dinner.
what do you charge for a breakfast said
the half-starved countryman Twenty
five cents. well then | guess I'll take
a breakfast
Year: 1868

paired fuilness and accuracy, that We are
placed as adgantageously towards them as
the generation which hung on the lips Of
Jesus as be recited parable on the shores
OF the Gallilean lake. on those churches
which received from Paul or Peter one of
Their eplsties OF warning exposition.


1es. the river OF life. which issues out
from beneath the throne Of God and the
Lamb, may as It flows through so many
countries, sometimes bear with It the
eafthiy evidences OF its conquests, but the
great volume Of its waters has neither been
diminished, nor dlmmed in its transparency
nor bereft of its healing virtue. Ecchange.


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HUMAN DEpRAyuY. When a son for
sakes his fathers house when lie refuses
to comply with his entreaties to return.
when be chooses to endure all the evils of
poverty rather than return, we are ready to
suspect that his father must be q very disa-
greeabe, unioyely, or cruel character, since
his own children cannot live with him. Al
least we shall think this unless we have a
very bad opinion Of the son. We must con
demn one or the other So when God
own creatures, whom he has nourished and
brought up as children, forsake him, and
refuse TO return or be reconciied, it gives
other beings cause to suspect that He must
be very cruel, unlovely being; and they
must either conclude that lie Is so, or form
a very bad opinion Of US. Now, sinners
will not allow that the fault is theirs; of
course they throw all the blame upon their
Creator, and represent Him as such an IN
kind, cruel Parent. that his children cannot
live with or please him. 1t is true, God
has power to Vindicate His own character,
and to show the universe that the fault
is wholly ours. Bat this is no thanks to
rs. The tendency of our conduct is still
the same; it still tends to load its character
with the blaekest iniamy and disgrace. This
is all the return we make him for giving US
existence. Tins do you requite the Lord,
. foolish people, and unwise.
Year: 1868

BISHOP HEBER SAID 1T IS a fatal
mistake to suppose that there can be no
apostacy from Christ, where we are not sb-
solutely called on to deny His name, or to
burn insenee to an idol We deny our
Lord whenever, like that Dcmas, we through
love of this present world forsake the course
of duty which Christ has plainly pointed
out to US. We deny our Lord whenever we
lend the sanction of our countenance, our
praise, or even our silence, to measures or
opinions which may be popular or fashina-
bic, but which we oaselves believe to be
sinful in themselves or tending to sin. We
deny our Lord whenever we forsake a good
man in af1ietion, and refuse te give counte-
nance, encouragement, and support to those
who, for God 5 sake and for the faithful
discharge of their duty, are exposed to per-
secution and SANDER
Year: 1868

MONEY GETTING. Some people think
that u suecessary TO be mean and inisery
10 order to become wealthy There never
was greater mistake. ANY man Of com.
mon intelligence may be prosperous II he
chooses to labor diligently and faithfully in
a calling which he thoroughly understands


OF course prudence is indispensable to sue
eess-prudence, mind, not niggardy mean.
ness. The man, who commencing with lit
tie or nothing, has resolved to rise, must
also resolve to sacrifice nothing to appear
ance. He cannot gain one true friend, nor
obtain any popularity that will be really
useful to him in his efforts to achieve inae-
pendence, by endeavoriug to seem to have
that which be has not. The world is
shrewder than Pretension supposes it to be.
1t is a curious world-looks sharply into
peoples private affairs, and if an individual
makes a show beyond his means, soon dis
covers and distrusts him No one who has
fortune to make, or who desires to receive
even a moderate competence, can afford to
incur the world S distrust. Therefore, if
you are at the foot OF the ladder and want
to mount 90 up in your work day guise
aud don effect purple aud fine linen.
Year: 1868

THE PHILosoPHY OF ILL HEALTH.-
Sickness is veiy largely the want of will
Everything is brain. There is thought
and feeling, not only, but will: and will
includes in it far more than mental phil
osophers think. 1t acts universally, now
as upon mind, and then just as much up
on the body. 1t is another name for life
force. Men in whom this life or will
power is great, resist disease, and combat
it when attacked. To array mans
mind and will against his sickness is the
supreme art of medicine. Inspire in


men courage and purpose, and the mind


power will cast out disease. Nothing
ails her. 1t is only her imagination"
said the nurse to him one day. "Only"
the Imagination? That is enough. Bet
ter suffer in bone and muscle than in the
imagination. If the body is sick, the
mind can cure it; but if the mind itself
is sick, what can cure that ?-Norscood.
Year: 1868


give thee treasures, hour by hour.
lhat old time princes asked in vain
Ana pined for In their useless power
or died OF passions eager pain.
give thee love as God gives light.
N ASIDE from merit, or from prayer
Rejoicing in its own delight,
And ireer than the lavish air.
give thee prayers, like Jewels strung
On golden threads of hope and fear, !,
And tenderer thoughts than ever hung
In sad angels plying tear.
As Earth pours freely to the sea
Her thousand streams of wealth untold
so hows my silent life to thee
Glad that its very sands are gold
What care for thy carelessness?
- l give from depths that overflow
Regardless that their power TO bless,
Thy spirit cannot sound or know.
Far lingering on a distant dawn
My triumph shines, more sweet than late
When, from these mortal mists withdrawn.
Thy heart shall know me. l can wait.


Rose TERN.
Year: 1868

A TRUE LADY, was once walking
a short distance behind very handsome
ly dressed young girl, and thinking as |
looked at her beautiful clothes, | wonder
ed if she took half as much pains with
her mind !?


A poor old man was coming up the
walk. with loaded wheelbarrow, and
lust before he reached us, he made two
attempts to go into the yard of small
house; but the gate was heavy, and would
swing back before he could get through.


Watt" said the young girl, springlng
lightly forward, "Ill hold the gate
open,'


And she held the gate open until he
passed in, and received his thanks with
pleasant smile as she went on.


"She deserves to have beautiful
Clothes" l thought, for beautiful
spirit dwells in her breast. Little Cor
poral.
Year: 1868

One of the most prominent orchardists
tells us that in one of his orchards where
sheep ran during the season, the apple
crop was almost entirely unaffected by
the coddling moss. Next year his en-
tire orchard will be pastured with sheep.
This is an item worth remembering.
Year: 1868

THE VIoLIN.-Of all musical instru
ments that have ever been invented by
the genius of man, the violin is the most
complete, and the inventor deserves to
have his name handed down to posterfty
as benefactor to his race. Go where
you will, into the most remote portions
of the earth, and wherever you find civ
ilization, you will hear the sweet and con-
soling tones of the violin. It is alike
the favorite of the rich and the poor, and
may be heard in the palace and the cabin
throughout the civilized world. There is
no estimating the influence for good
which has been exerted by this magical
instrument. Every father ought to have
his sons taught to play on this or some
other musical instrument; for music is a
great civilizer, and ought to be cultivated
in every family. How delightful it is to
hear family of half dozen children
performing on different instruments and
executing all the parts of the music !! 1t
is calculated to give us a foretaste Of the
Joys of the better land )" and will add
materially to the joys of this g. vale of
tears" Then let this be an " essential
part of education, and be cultivated with
numbers, with science, with literature,
and poetry for it is intimately blended
with all these-is the spiritual expression
of them all. 1t should begin ere words
are lisped by the infant tongue, and be
continued through the whole educational
course, yea, through life"
Year: 1868

While President of the Texan Repub-
lie Sam Houston received u challenge to
fight duel with some person whom he
considered his inferior. Turning to the
bearer of the challenge, he said: Sir,
tell your principal that Sam Houston
never fights down hill J
Year: 1868

FRIEND SWAIN A writing desk in
the cabin or on the deck of beautiful
steamer on the waters Of Lake Erie is
not the most barren of thought which
might he conceived. is If the easiest
place to write one might find. There is
much to admire upon the waters but it
soon becomes monotonous, and the eye
and mind tire, as also the body. Feel
ing thus | determined to complete what
| had to say of Niagara after | left the
boat. My readers, many of them, have
visited the Falls in person and can better
describe them doubtless, than the writer,
Some, however, have never done so, and
will expect us to do the best we can for
their benefit. We will assure them that
if they ever visit the scene they will ac-
knowledge with the writer the truth and
force of the poets words:


But as for us-it seems
Scarce lawful with our broken tones to speak
Familiarly of thee-Methinks to tint
Thy glorious features with our pencils point





Were PROCLAMATION.


Thou dost make the soul


wondering witness of thy majesty;
| And while il rushes with dcirious JOY
| To tread thy vestibue, dost chain its step,
| And check its rapture with the humblins view
! OF its own n0thingneSs, bidding IT stand


In the dread presence Of the Invisible >,
| As if to answer to its God through thee


Thus does one feel inspired to speak as
NE for the first time rests his eye upon
the mighty rush of waters at Niagara.


Such grandeur, and such lifting of
ones self right out of the realm of the
beautiful up to the very crowning point
of the sublime in nature, we never wit
messed or experienced before. | pity
that man who can stand under the fall
ing spray of Niagara, which waters the
earth for miles around, and feel the ire
NOR of earth occasioned by the roll OF
those mighty waters, and not feel his
heart grow perceptibly within him. II
certainly makes one feel broader and in
every way greater man, to see such
works of God. Almost involuntarily he
repeats the poets words again:


" Flow onforever in thy glorious robe
| of terror and Of beauty-God hath set
| His rainbow on thy forehead, and the cloud


Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give


Thy voice of thunder power to speak OF hlm
| Eternally-bdding the life of man


Keep silence, and upon thy rocky alter pour
| Incense of awe-struek praise.


NV readers, nothing would give me
greater pleasure than adequately to de
scribe to you the scene of this might,
cataract as it is even in my own mind.
have seen some waterfalls before, bu
this is the climax of all. Not the slight
est tint of muddy water can be discover
ed above or below the falls, which add
| wonderfully to its natural beauty. A
Won stand on the banks below and lool
down into the bed Of the river, a dis
tance of hundred and fifty feet or more
and see the mighty stream rush along
and observe the pale green color of tn


water and its perfect purity from all SEQ


iment of any kind, you cannot do Other


wise than silently admire the scene an


adore the Great Maker of all worlds.


Perhaps l am off the track slightly 70


a secular newspaper article. If so m


only apology is the sublimity of tn


scene which we use as a text.


There are many attractive things col
Year: 1868




trout from his smaller ponds.


We have endeavored to describe in
eursory manner Mr.. Bridgman's preserves.
Any one desiring full and accurate ac-
count of the modats operandi, and at the
same time see the operation itself, ought
to visit him. Mr.. B. spares no pains to
make visitors acquainted with the habits
and peculiarities of these his pets, and
we came away rejoicing that sometimes
railroads make connections which are so
admirably calculated to give us chance
to visit such scenes of interest.


There is thought derived from this
visit; every farmer has spring on his
place yielding surplus water enough to
hatch trout in boxes, and by erecting
dam, at small cost, he could raise all
the trout his family needed, and few to
spare. They are very prolific, trout
weighing two pounds will furnish about
5000 spawn, and smaller ones in proper
ton; and they commence spawning when
one year old. Farmers try it.


PHILOSOPHY IN RELATION TO PIE
JUICE.-The time has now come for fruit
pies, and, therefore, for pie juice; and
we intend to offer a suggestion for "the
better arrangement of pie juice Some
people place an inverted cup in the pie,
thinking this catches the juice that
would otherwise boil over, but that is a
mistake, for though juice is found under
the cup when the pie has cooled, yet it
never entered the cup while the pie was
in the oven for this simple reason, the
inside of the cup was as hot as the inside
of the pie. The case Of inverting cup
in the pie does more harm than good, for,
as the heat cooks the fruit, it also ex-
pands the air in the cup, which air tends
to blow out the juice from the dish. But
if small hole, say quarter of an inch,
be made in the bottom of the cup, which,
of course, comes to the top of the pie
when inverted in the dish, the hot air
will escape into the oven, and leave room
for the juice to run into the cup, which
again, will descend amongst the fruit on
the pie cooling. Now, how are
we to make this small hole in the bottom
of the cup?" says the reader. "Listen,
and you shall hear" says the writer.
Take six inch flower pot, fill it with
dry sand or mould, then take your cup,
invert it, and push it down into the sand
or mould till only the top is just seen by
which means the inside of the cup is as
| full of sand or mould as it viii be ot
Juice when in the pic; then take sharp
! pointed instrument, like an old pair OF
scissors or a one pronged fork, and begin
to peck away little by little, and you will
soon have small hole, which can easily
then be made bigger before taking the
cup from the flower pot. The sand or
mould prevents the cup from cracking or
breaking during the chipping process
When the cup is used insert it in the pie
but take care that the small hole is free
from the crust" Here is very simple
contrivance that will soon prove itself
A grand plan is to make three pies. one
without any cup, one with cup, and one
with the cup with the hole in; then you
can see the difference Gardeners Mag
azise.
Year: 1868

A judicious wife is always shipping
off from her husbands moral nature
little twigs that are growing in wrong
directions. She keeps him in shape
by continual pruning. If you say any
thing silly, she will affectionately tell
you SO. If you declare that you will
do some absurd thing she will fnd
means of preventing your doingit. And
by far the chief part of all the common
sense in the world belongs unquestion-
ably to women. The wisest things a
man commonly does are those which
his wife counsels him to do. A wife is
the grand wielder of the moral pruning
knife. If Johnson's wife had lived,
there would have been no boarding up
of orange-peel, no touching all the posts
in walking along the street-no eating
and drinking with disgusting voracity.
If Oliver Goldsmith had been married
he would never have worn that mem
orable and ridiculous coat. Whenever
you find man whom you know little
about oddly dressed, or talking absurd
ly, or exhibiting any eccentricity of
manner, you may be tolerably sure
that he is not a married man; for the
corners are rounded off-the little
shoots are pruned away-in married
man. Wives generally have more
sense than their husbands, especially
when their husbands are clever men.
The wife's advices are like the ballast
that keeps the ship steady; they are the
wholesome, though painful shears,
shipping off little growths of self-con-
ceit-Church Union.
Year: 1868

There are many PERSONS who would
do almost anything rather than intro
duce persons to each other. Many are
so embarrassed in the attempt as to
suddenly forget the name of one or the
other party, oftentimes of both. There
are certain rules of etiquette in regard
to introductions which, if studied, would
lessen in great degree the embarrass-
ment consequent upon the performance
of the ceremony. To introduce persons
who are unknown to each other, is to
undertake a serious responsibility, and
always involves the Endorsement to each
of the responsibility of the other. This
responsibility should never be under
taken without first ascertaining whether
it will be acceptable to both parties to
become acquainted. Always introduce
the gentleman to the lady-never the
contrary. This rule is to be observed
everywhere, socially or otherwise. The
chivalry of etiquette assumes that the
lady is invariably the superior by right
of her sex, and that the gentleman is
honored by being presented. Where
the sexes are the same, present the
younger to the elder, the unmarried to
the married.
Year: 1868

We see it is stated that the New Eng
land States have united in the attempt to
restock their rivers with fish. Owing
to distractions made by dams, fish
which formerly were plentiful, have
been prevented from ascending to the
upper waters of the streams to deposit
their spawn. As they always return
to the locality where they were born, it
would do no good to remove the dams.
To meet these difficulties the spawn is
now introduced into the upper waters
by species of artificial process, invent
ed by Seth Green; and that the fish
may return, after being grown, to their
native grounds the next year, fish-ways
are built over the damsy by which they
can ascend in their journey from the
sea to their spawning beds, and they
can thus carry on and perpetuate the
enterprise. Meanwhile, proper laws
for protecting the works and in par
ticular to prevent the ravages of sports
men, are enacted, and it may be expect
ed that the extreme penalties will be
visited upon whomsoever shall be con-
victed.
Year: 1868

The present must be numbered
among the backward seasons which
have characterized the last fifty years.
An old farmer supplies the Boston
Journal with a record of some of the
backward seasons within his remem-
brance in Massachusetts. June 9th,
1916, snow fell in Salem, Mass, and
also in Vermont. In the latter section
it was a foot and half deep. In
August of the same year there was
severe frost, which pretty generally cut
off the corn crop. Though the present
is backward season, and planting late,
there is nothing in this to induce ap-
prehension that good summer crops
may not yet reward the labors of the
husbandman.
Year: 1868

Engravings shed their spirit over a
household. The calm portraits of the
great and worthy dead exercise great
influence over me. l could look on
those over my own fireplace, until they
seem neither absent nor departed, but
living yet Every good picture is the
best of sermons and lectures. The
sense informs the soul Whatever you
have, have beauty. Let beauty be on
the paper on your walls. 1t is as easy
to choose paper suggestive of the
lovely in form and color, as the uncouth.
Why should not every household object
be sanctifed with this grateful charm
Each chair, each table, each tes or
chamber service, and every object for
kitchen or parlor, for the home of the
poor man, artisan, or mechanic, l would
have them all worthy of home of
TASTE Sidney Smith.
Year: 1868

Mr.. Beecher's short, secular, sermons
in the Ledger, manifest good deal Of
sound sense. Thus, in some words Of
advice to young men, he says;


I hear a good deal of Yankee mean
ness-of the spirit of trade and dicker
of the stinginess and parsimony of
Northern men. But while the manner
of showing economy may be unfortu-
nate, the essential spirit of thrift and
economy is a thousand times nobler
than that free-handed squandering of
money which gives spurious reputa-
ton for generosity to people who are on
the road to bankruptcy, and who have
long spent money not their own with a
special gracefulness.