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Year: 1859

EsaOur American aristocracy is characterised by
Rev. Dr.. Chapin, in his lecture the orders Of
nobility, as composed Of rather questionable mate
sials for aristocracy. The speaking is plain,
but the conclusion just: O.. aa1 ss.=s
I DR.. Chaplin opened by alluding briefly to the
men Of noble birth in our days. who look back to
more noble ancestry, as the source of their great
fness-the fountain of their hoaor-the mere ira
ditional orders Of nobility But essential nobility
manifess itself Ia three ways the nobility of work
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the worlds legitimate WORK, performs his task we'll
and does it cheerfully, not like the mule or the
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This is higher nobility than monarchs can make,
and yet in our times how much is honest labor
considered degradation. You may in sweat, and
write it carve it out with spade. but it is neverthe-
less better to be a negro than gentleman lOafer.


But let it not be supposed that professional men,
the brain workers. are to beclassed in this category


What would such men give for the sweet sleep of
the toiler with the hand? and yet how these profess
sions flooded with men who would have done
better if they had been casting iron or making
shoes. These men go into improved atmospheres
of labor because they think it more respectable
| than planning boards aud making cart-wheels.-
Idleness hence is always associated with gentility


The aristocracy of America consist in one man
having left off selling snuf-while the other des-
psed neighbor hasn't The very constitution of
American social life ignores difference in blood,
and hence the standard reared is wealth. Nobility
rests in the individual and what he does is the
only standard. All work is noble when animated
by duty and the most vulgar thing on earth is idle
ness. The young woman among us turns up her
nose at marrying mechanic, and makes up for it
by marrying profigate or fool. Among the
mechanics of the world stand forth the Guttem-
bergs, the Watts, the Fultons of the world, who
have sent forth the artillery of the printing press
among the nations and the pennon of the steam
ship, she cleaves the ocean wave.
Year: 1859

SIMPLE MoDE OF AscERTAINING INTEREST
The Detroit Advertiser gives a new method Of COM
putting interest on any number Of dollars, at six
per cent, which appears simple:


Separate the right hand figures by point and
the figure on the left hand of this separating point
will be interest in cents for six days-the figure
the right of the point decimals Of a cent. Multi
ply the whole amount by five to find the interest
for 80 days. and this sun by two for go days, three
for 90 days, &c. For any number of days less
than six take the fractional part of the interest for
six. Care must be taken to separate the right
hand figures of the dollars, whether there be cents
or mills in the given cum or not"


This is all very well, but a simpler and shorter
way, remarks the Philadelphia Ledger, is to multi
ply any given number of dollars by the number of
days Of interest desired, separating the right hand
figure, and dividing by six; the result is the true
interest Of such sum for such number Of days at
six per cent. This rule is 30 simple and so true,
according to all business usage, that every banker
broker, merchant, or clerk should post it up for
reference and use. There being no such thing as
fraction in it, there is scarcely any liability to
error or mistake. By no other arithmetical pro-
cess can the desired information be-obtained with
50 few figures .-. .r...F-... ..r-r~
Year: 1859

MARRIED L0vE.-The author of the extract fol
lowing must have tried love in all its phases he
talks Familiarity of it:


"The affection that links together man and wife
is u far holier and moro enduring passion than
the enthusiasm of young love. 1t may want its
gorgcousncSs--it may want its imaginative char
actcr but it is far richer, and holier, and more
trusting IA its attributes Talk not to us of the
absence Of love in wedlock No! it burns with
steady and brilliant flame, shedding benign
influence upon existence, million times more
precious and delightful than the cold dreams of
philosophy"
Year: 1859

LAGER BEER INSPECTING EX- -EplroR.-Gen. Al
lem the veteran editor is one of the wine and
malt liquor inspecting committee at the Marys-
Vile Fair. The Democrat says that on Friday
last while he was testing keg of lager beer, IL
burst, causing by ISLANDERS to leave with grea. ex
pedtion. As the sea Of foam subsided and the
vapor disappeared, the General was seen stand
ing by the keg, his mug in hand, with as serene
an air a. if nothing in the world had happened.
His GOODNESS and courage in the midst of such eX-
ueme danger excited the highest admiration.
Year: 1859

WANT THAT ISLAND The Victoria people have
had mass meeting, and memorialized Johnny
Bull" to drive the pesky Yankees from San Juan
Island. The document was transmitted to the
Home Government by the last steamer east.
Year: 1859

GoING IT YoUNG.-The Richmond Dispatch
tells of a most remarkable instance Of early de-
velopement in Frankand county, Virginia A
negro woman gave birth to a child at fourteen
years OF age The daughter improved upon the
example Of her mother, and gave birth to a child
at eleven years of age, making a difference Of
only twenty-six years between the ages of the
grandmother and granddaughter
Year: 1859

NERyE AND MUsCLE.-All the worlds a field
Of battle-reader, thou art in the fight show
thyself suu-born hero, battling bravely for the
right What, though storms arise around thee
what though hosts OF hell assail thee in the
matchless strength OF manhood in the frenzied
fire of youth, fight the furious hends of error
with tho batlebade of truth forward through
ihe dark army. nerve and muscle win the WAY
Year: 1859

whom hc may communica.e t. "A board OF engineers is
appointed and each Is required b give his individual
opinion and his reasons for IT, Often they are unli
meus sometimes there Is q single dissenting opinion
and sometimes they equally divided have IN no
case that an aware of awarded contract IN opposition
"a the opinion Of majority, although should feel a.


liberty 10 do SO. The contract given 10 Messrs Merick


Sons of Philadelphia ia regard 10 which letter from
Colonel Patterson to the President by him In the
usual course without ntimation of amy wlsh ON his
part referred 10 this department awarded TO them
apon the merits OF their plan and propossin accord
with the unanimous opinion Of the board Of engn-
their bid being lower than those of the other bid
ders whose plans were approved The President did not
in any interfere ia this case has he in any
other Of contract since have been in the d. part
ment In all the contracts made under the act Of The last
session. the department obtained absolute guarantee
of the number OF revolutions OF the propeller In minute


instead of the usual number of about forty the contrac
tors guaranty eighty, and, in instance II hundred
In contract that for the vessel under construction
at Norfolk awarded TO Messrs Murray Hazlchurst, OF
baltimore, there Is guarantee of the speed OF fifteen
statute miles hour under forfeiture of twelve thou
sand five hundred dollars to be deducted from the price
If the speed fall to fourteen miles per hour and hall that
SUM II it fall to fourteen aud q half miles.


In the contract for the vessel at Philadelphia awarded
to Mcssrs. Reancy Neale 4 Co. there is a gulranec
not only for huned revolutions Of the propeller per
minute but also for the speed OF sixteen statute miles
per hour under the forfeiture OF fifteen thousand dollars
to be deducted from the price il the speed fall TO fifteen
miles per hour and half that sum il fall to fifteen and
a halt miles. stringent and advantageous
tract for the government has not been made


The awarding OF this contract having been the subject
of comment, l will take the occasion to say that the
charge made against very competent and faithful Off
GER the engineer in chief by excited and interested
party fully investigated by and found to be with
out the slightest foundation, except in misapprehen
sion Of that party fully explained and that the contract
awarded to the lowest price 10 the best guarantee
to the highest experience in the construction of marine
engines against experience at ALL and in accordance
with the opinion OF majority of the engineers whom
consulted ON the subject


have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully your
obedient servant ISAAC 1OUCEl,
Secretary of the Navy.
Hon. JonN SHERMAN,


Chairman Committee Investigation &C.,
----- House Of REPRESENTATIVES,. ------
Year: 1859

When any one complains, as Diogenes. did
bat he has TO hunt the streets with candles
noon day to find an honest man, we re
lt to think that his nearest neighbor would
ave quite as much difficulty as himself IN
.aking the discovery.
Year: 1859

You've MEN AND Tree FRoGs The follow
ing quaint comparison Is forclble and true. 1t
would be well If our young men would note
the moral Of the terSe passage We quote be.
low:


"The tree frog acquires the color of what
ever 1t adhrres TO for short time; if il be
found OIL the oak, 1t will bear the color of that
Tree 1t on the sycamore or cypress, it will be
~hItlsh brown; and when it is found on the
growing corn, 1t is sure to be green Just SO is
with young men; their companions tell US what
their characters are; it they associate with the
vulgar, the hcent0us and the profane, then
their hearts are already attained with their
guilt and shame, and they will themselves be-
come alike vicious The study of bad books, or
the love of the wicked companions, is the broad
est and most certain road 10 ruin that Young
man can travel, and few well directed les.
SONS IN either will lead them on step by step TO
the gate OF destruction. Our moral and physi-
cal laws show how important it is 10 have prop.
er associations of every kind. especially in
| youth. How dangerous it is to gaze on a oic.
ture or scene that pollutes the Imagination or
blunts the moral perceptions, or has tendency
to deaden sense OF our duty TO God and man."
Year: 1859

EVERY editor knows the truth of the fol-
lowing, from the New Y ork Home Journal
1T is one of the hardships of our profession
that Its working wheels-brains and hearts
are not allowed to flag for sickness or stop
lor calamity or sorrow. The Judge may ad-
Journ his court, the school and workshop
may close shutters, the mourner may veil
features and turn friend and stranger from
the door, but the journalist must forget be-
lore tomorrow the sorrows Of to-day-must
write gally and freshly, as newsmonger on
the trifle of the hour, whatever burden has
been laid on that same hour, by Providence,
for his heart and brain as a man.
Year: 1859

Horse TALK.-A prominent member of the
bar yesterday, in arguing case before the
County Court, became impressed with the
belief that the Court would decide against
his client; and after laboring in vain to have
the Court view the case in different light,
he became excited and broke out in the fol-
lowing strain; "Your Honor, am talking
to the Court, and the Court is dead against
me; l feel like billy goat butting against
gate post. l know the case is going against
me; but if the horse is sick and bound to
die, we want to know what allied it, so that
we may doctor the next sick horse. Sac.
Standard
Year: 1859

MRs L. MARIA CmLD, in q note to the
Liberator. says "My thoughts are SO much
with Capt. Brown, that l can scarcely iind n d
have to save his life. Brave old man Brave
and generous, though sadly mistaken in his
mode of operation. Whether they put him
to death, or he escapes from their hands,
think this will prove the Concord Fight" o.
an impending revolution, and that a" Bunker
Hill Battle" will surely follow. May Goo
make us strong for freedom l would say
that evil days were Lear. were it not that M
days are evil which lead to good"
Year: 1859

Mr.. BRACKET, the Boston sculptor, has
been to Charlestown for the purpose of get
ting likeness of Brown, from which to
make bust for which he has an order from
some admirer of the hero. But he was de-
MED an interview with the prisoner, mainly
because he had brought a camera with him.
The officials probably mistook it for an infer
nal machine. SO Mr.. Bracket had to return
without his likeness of Brown.-Erchange
Year: 1859

In Baltimore, Judge Kemp of the Orphans
Court, who was on the American and Reform
ticket at the recent election, has written n
letter to the Governor, declining to accept
his commission, on the ground that the cleo
tion was so violated by force and fraud as to
afford no criterion whatever of the popular
choice
Year: 1859

CLEAR LAKE MARBLE-The specimen of
marble from Clear Lake, says the Napa Re-
porter, which we sent to a marble cutter in
San Francisco for examination, the other day,
is pronounced beautiful article, but withal
SO exceedingly hard that it cannot be worked
to any advantage. The best tools make very
little impression unon it.
Year: 1859

The Trustees of the Inebrate Asylum in
New York, have put forth an appeal to the
Clergy of America, for aid in carrying out
the object of the institution, which they claim
TO be the first of the kind that will have been
founded in the world.
Year: 1859

BOSTON, july ~, 1903.


Mr.. EBIroR:-The weekly Anglo-At
rican" has certainly made its debut Just in
the " nick of time" Judging from the many
complimentary remarks which l have heard
expressed by its many friends.


Business recently having called me to
visit the neighborhood of Springfield,
Mass, was much delighted to find quite
number of colored farmers enjoying them
selves so comfortably on their own free
soil, Their crops of corn, oats, rye and
potatoes, looked so thriving and encour-
aging, that it would be an easy matter to
induce your humble servant to step up
from his present occupation to that of
farming, for if one young man out of eve
ry, say three hundred, should annually go
out from the vices, pollutions, and follies,
of our large cities, and settle down on a
few acres of Gods earth, and, with strong
arm and big heart, manfully as well as
earnestly commence subduing and tilling
the soil, and plainly proving to the world
that we are unchangably resolved to be-
come useful men and women, never mind
ing who or what obstructs our way, who
dare predict what would be the effect of
such efforts and examples in the prospects
and influence of our people? 1t certainly
cannot be denied that agriculture is the
primitive occupation of man--the broad
basis upon which to build up a new settle
ment, or to developAthe crude organizations
of society and communities. SO let us
start, as it is never too late to learn, for
aside from the tiller of the soil" being
the first strata of society, as well as the
most important, in our case it more fully
enables us to practically and permanently
diffuse ourselves in and among the present
predominant race of this mighty nation


And again in turning our attention,
duly, practically, and generally, to agricul-
tural pursuits, we more easily fit ourselves
to properly establish that noblest of all ell
ements in civilized society, good home.
such home as will be attractive to our
children-such home as but few denizens
of large towns and cities are enabled to
present.


Owing mostly to legal enactments, this
State offers superior inducements for col
ored men to settle within its borders, and
although its soil cannot present such won
derful richness as the western prairies do
yet farmers can and do live and save
money here.


As this sheet is about filled, must now
finish in the old stereotyped way


Yours truly, SKINNER
Year: 1859




If he had lost again, nothing more
would have come out of that confounded
linen bag than the trumpery dollars" said
the other, savagely.


"Thats possible, bat you can't prove
it, returned the lookers-on. You must
pay"
"PIl be hanged if | do, said the gam
bier, furiously striking his clenched fist on
the table at is new sort of rascally
trick that they want to come over me with;
but they have got hold Of the wrong man.
won't pay


You have won a hundred dollars from
me in the last half hour" exclaimed tall
Kentuckian, pressing forward over the
shoulders of the others, and had to pay
up to the last cent, If you refuse to pay
him, you must fork that out again"


And mine too !"


And mine Y


And mine Y cried many voices to-
gether,


too have lost"


and l."


Il lost ten dollars"


Il lost fifty"


-


lost fve-and-twenty."


L pound of gold; out with it, if you
won't pay


A brother gambler now came up from a
neighboring table, and spoke in a whisper
TO his unlucky comrade, whilst the tumult
was increasing around them. The other
contended earnestly in the same tone for
some minutes, but yielded at length to his
persuasions, and they both took the money
to count over again, carefully examining
the bank notes as well as the bill, which
was drawn on one of the first banking
houses in the city.


There was nothing to be said against
either the one or the other; and whilst
the stranger, who had quite recovered his
equanimity, sat quietly looking on, as il
the hubbub was no concern of his, the gam
bier counted out to him the money he had
won, almost stripping the table Of the
heaps so ostentatiously piled up Part OF
the payment consisted of several packets
Of gold dust, which the stranger, before ac-
cepting, cut upen, examined carefully, and
then weighed at the counter just opposite,
where he also took glass Of brandy He
found all correct, and disposing of the gold
in his various pockets, he shook what re-
mained into the mysterious linen bag, put
the papers and bank notes into his breast
pocket, and courteously thanking his zeal
Gus supporters, who returned his greeting
with laundering cheer, he left the sa-
loon


His quandom friends laughed and talked
over the occurrence for awhile. Of all
present, there was scarcely one, probably.
who did not feel pretty sure that he
had played false-that he had his bank
notes and bill in the bag on each preceding
evening, ready to be produced if he should
win; but this they did not call dishonest
it was clever trick. The gamblers them
selves seized upon every advantage, fair
or unfair, that came in their way; and ev-
cry one who had his wits about him would
look out for himself Such is the morali-
ty of the gambling house Scenes at San
Francisco Translated from the Ger
man.
Year: 1859

ons there were no large towns in England, and
OF course no graveyards | shall have some
thing to say on that disputed question, as to
the existence of London when the Romans in
vaded Britain, in a future article. The old
Brtalns buried their dead here and there as
affection prompted, beside some gentle stream
let, or in the shaded nooks of the forest; they
seem chiefly to have loved small emnences.
The stranger wandering over the fields and
through the woods, would come upon some
nameless grave its loneliness, to those uncul-
tured and lonely men, may have been eminent
ly nteresting-a type of their life-a type Of
the silence, the mystery beyond the grave !;
but however strong the associations, which rise
to the mind from nameless grave, the silent
but peopled cemeteries, have sweeter more
Christening in1nence-we have baptiSed the
latter with beautiful names, City of the ST.
lent" City of the Dead" Often, in the long
hazy afternoons Of summer, have | fingered
in one of those cemeteries there was one spot
very dear to us, an old tomb, built of roughly
he%n granite, shaded by thick fir trees--it was
retired spot Few but those who loved to
mediate ever passed through the narrow walk


before 1T in it slept one of the old PuritanS,
long ago gathered to his fathers there, on
the stone steps which led down from it, we
rested-dreamed of the sleepers around us
talked of the dead and the living; of the sun
shine and the darkness till the large black
eyes of La Spirtuelle would moisten with tears


She felt that her path was soping downward
into some such resting place. Like one who
Is to be among strangers strives to forget her
old home and love her new, she strOve to love
that silent land Nerv tender are those re-
collections; very beautiful is her face in the
mirror of memory, seen through its mist of
tears f.
Year: 1859

it in your power to secure that object to a great
extent by securing to the actual settler choice
Of home on the public domain At present the
public lands are opened in large quantities, TO
to be purchased by the spcculator, who, of
course, seeks the best locations in the newly
surveyed districts, and the actual settlers are
thus pressed further into the wilderness, unless
they pay enhanced price. Secure to the actual
settler those lands nearer to civilization, aud
leave to him his earnings, with which to sur
round his home with comfort and make his fire
side happy, and yon will have overcome one of
the greatest obstacles in eeyating, purifying,
and ennoblng the race The man whose days
are dragged out in procuring a morSel TO suS-
tain life, and whose last prayer, as he falls bro
ken-hearted into his kennel Of straw. is that he
may never behold the light of another day, is
poor subject for the missionary Of purer
and better state Of existence


$50 say to the raging sea, be still


Bid the wild, awless winds obey thy will


Preach TO the storm and reason with despair


But tell not misery's son that life is fair


If you would elevate and reform, begin with
purifying the influences Of the domestic freSi,le
by first making it comfortable and happy. /
hope the motion to refer will be considered. and
that this bill may be put upon its passage |
therefore move to reconsider the vote by which
the bill was referred to the Committee of the
Whole on the state Of the Union and upon
that motion | demand the previous question.
Year: 1859

Elihu Burritt cultivated the manhood Iha5
was in him until his trPde and his blaeksmith's
shop ceasel 20 be useful to him. aud he could
get living in a more rongenial way.


1t Is not necessary that YOU should be
learned blacksmith but il is necessary that
you should he superior TO yonr occupation, and
that to attain manhood be the great end Of
your struggle with the world. s-.f
Year: 1859

found by that ever mobile liquid We fear we
should be accused of an attempt to put our
readers in pickle, SO we will stay our pen, hop
ing they will remember these bits of informa-
tion when next they say "The salt, if you
please - Scientific American
Year: 1859

On Squire j, of Addison Co. Va, was
famous for bringing to market better article
of cheese than any of his agricultural neghbors
which occasioned merchant to inquire how it
happened.


II think can tell you the secret of it,
said the Squire You may have noticed that,
when the milk stands a while in the pans, there
is thick kind of yellOa0 scum that rises on the
top of it. Now some women are so dreadful
neat that they skim all this off, but my wife
mint so particular, but strs it all IN together,
and really | think the cheese is all the better
fer it."
Year: 1859

THE LITTLE BOY THAT DIED.
am all alone in my chamber now,


And the midnight hour is near;
The faggot's crack, and the clocks full tick,


Are the only sounds hear.
And over my soul IN solitude,


Sweet feelings of sadness glide, =
For my heart and my eyes arefull when think


Of the little boy that died.
I went one night to my fathers house


Went home to the dear ones all
And softly opened the garden gate,


And softly the door Of the hall.
My mother came out to meet her son,


She kissed me, and then she sighed
And her head fell on my neck, and she wept


For the little boy that died.
I shall miss him when the flowers come,
In the garden where he played;
I shall miss him more by the freside,
When the flowers have all decayed.
I shall see his toys and his empty chair,
And the horse he used to ride;
And they will speak, with silent speech,
OF the little boy that died.
We shall 60 home to sour Fathers" house
To s'our Fathers house in the skies,
Where the hopes of souls shall have no blight,
Our love no broken ties. =.
We shall roam on the banks of the river of peace,
And battle in its blissful tide;
And one of the joys of our heaven shall be
The little boy that died.