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Year: 1860

E Japan boys become men at about
fifteen years of sge. They then receive
a new name and have their hesds shaved.
For every advance in rank, the name Is
changed for new one. This change of
name is carried to such an extern. that no
subordinate is allowed to retain the name
Of his chief; and when an individual is
appointed to high station, every one
under him who happens to Be his name.
sake, must Immediately change his name.
Year: 1860

The PHILADELPHIA MoNUMENT.-The trustees of
the monument in Independence Square, Philadel-
phia, IN honor of the sgners Of the Declaration of
Independence, report that they have not vet de-
clded upon any particular plan but that their gen
eral design "embraces structure of granite of
thirteen sides, resting on base of sixty feet; the
thirteen sides to be united by an entabIature, on
winch Will be craven the Declaration of Indepen-
shatt OF thirteen Sides each side containg a niche,
or space for the Insertion Of a statue
Year: 1860

A SNAKE IN LETTER.-A negress in Chicago as
tonshed the post Office loungers few davs ago
with series of most agonizing shrieks and screams
She had just received a small package from Marion,
and on opening it green adder was revealed to
her astonished gaze. The bystanders soon dis
patched the reptile, and the woman showed them a
letter which her husband had written, urging her
to kiss this dear little pet for me- and take it, and
sleep with it for Gods sake" He also informed
her that he was going to get bill of divorce as
soon as possible. Jealousy of course the origin
OF this domestic escapade
Year: 1860

Pope Plus TX. has granted particular jubilee to
the Sisters of Charity throughout the world, in
consequence of the two hundredth anniversary of
the glorious death of St. Vincent de Paul, their
founder. The jubilee will be celebrated in all the
chapels connected with the hospitals under their
CHARGE and will last three weeks.
Year: 1860

A Doc AND SNAKE SroRY-The Man
chester Mirror relates that George F.
Berry, boy thirteen years old, while out
berrying on Monday, Was attacked by a
"six foot snake of dark hue and rel
stripe around his neck" which wound
twice around the boys body, fastening
both his arms in bis coils. The lads dog
seeing his masters danger, rushed to his
aid, biting and tearing e strip off the
snakes back The boy got relieved from
the deadly grasp and took 10 his heels,
but the snake coiled around the dog, and
would have crushed him if be had not
fought like tiger.


Some DoG-A gentleman left Holyoke
on Friday afternoon for this city in bug
gy, taking a favorite dog with him. As
they progressed towards Wiiiamansett the
gentleman amused himself by psgmng
the dog till be had got the animal into a
state of complete worry. Present. y the
gentleman's hat blew off, and he Went
back after it, leaving the horse and buggy
standing in the road, then the dog took
advantage of his masters absence to jump
into the buggy and start the animal, who
trotted gaiIy toward the river, followed by
the gentleman yelling " whoa TO no pur-
pose. His faithful dog now took posi-
ton upon the seat, where he could keep
an eye upon his master and another Oh
the steed, to see fair play in the race =
They approached the Connecticut river
into which the waggish brute drove, and
keeping his seat, hoated ont behind the
horse, who swan, after getting beyond his
depth. They were seen, at this juncture,
by persons on the south shore, who put
off in a boat and got them safely to land
the dog in high gIee at his successful ex
pertinent in driving--and then went back
after their owner, who will no doubt leave
that dog behind the next time he goes to
ride. The best of this story is its truth
Springfield Republican.
Year: 1860

Every ytling seems to Indicate that the
financial crisis of 1858 is like the late
comet--its body has disappeared below
the horizon, and nothing now remains Wis
ible but small part of its tail. That,
too, will soon be gone, and we shall be-
once more sound as dollar and ready 70,
a new spree. Never before has nature
been so bouutitul in her gifts 20 the earth
The cutivators of the soil who are the
foundations of every nations prosperity,
have their cribs and their barns full, and
DO not know where to stow what is yet
maturing. To wheat there is hardly
limit when measured bv the bushel; and
to the corn in prospect, the memory Of
the oldest inhabitants hath no recollection
of the like. The oat crop and the h;w
crop are not behind that of the wheat and
corn and the potato and onion can keep
count with either while the fruit crop is
amply abundant for all home purposes
Nor is there any likelihood that these
abundant productions Of the soil are likely
to spoil for the want of consumers. or be
allowed to remain housed without purcha-
sers. The foreign demand promises to be
active, and already every avenue of trade
is becoming lively and animated through
the desire of supply and demand to keep
up an active correspondence. All branch
es of business feel the impulse the Immense
crops have impaired to trade. The ship
ping interest was never more lively, nor
freights better. Railroad horses are be-
ginning to feel oats again, and all branch
es Of mechanical pursuits are experiencing
an upwaId tendency; for when the farm
ing interest is prosperous every other
branch Of business shares in its success
As a natural consequence, money is be-
coming pentier, as the phrase is; that is,
there IS more of it in circulation, and it ia
easier to be got than before We heard
an experienced banker remark few days
since that money would be cheaper next
year than it had been for the previous
quarter of a century. Extravaganza and
speculation will Of course be the conse-
quence, and we need not tell YOU what
they will produce in the end. The advice
we give to all is, not to try to run down
the locomotive, but take it moderately,
and lay up something for wet day Gin.
Enquirer.
Year: 1860

ment passengers wild with fear; boat stop.
ped captain broke open state-room and dis.
covered little Peter, who had accidentally
set fire to vilianOus compound which he
had provided for the purpose Of smoking
out woodchucks in the country Peter
alarmed at demonstrations made towards
him concluded that discretion was the bet.
ter part of vaIor and took advantage of the
confusion to secrete himself matters being
explained, the boat was once more under
head, when every one was shocked by a
succession of wild aud piercing shrieks; lit.
tie Peter was again at the bottom (or rath.
er should say at the top of the trouble !;
Tor IN his ignorance Of the structure of
steam-engines he had selected as n place of
security the top of the walking beam and
there ne was performing an involuntary see
saw-haIt the time his head up and half
the time down in the engineers anxiety
to stop the engine he stopped it on the cen


tire, aud it was full half an hour after little
Peters rescue before we we're able to move:
captain furious; ;heataped to put us all on
shore but fually compromised by fasten.


ing Httie Ieter in his state-room. and pac-
ing the waiter who had Carlo in charge oy-
er MN as sentry thus killing two birds with
one. stone-i e. little Peter aud the dog
eight o'clock in the evening found us at the
aforesaid "lone farm house." which seemed
as near as could ascertain at that late
hour, to be situated in tract of country
the chief products of which were frogs and
mosquitoes; the family found consisted of
an old farmer and his wife, red.headed
daughter, and hired man who not only
suffered fearfully, but whose eyes had a
peculiar fashion of looking in every Other
direction but the one in which they were
supposed to look this phenomenon on the
part of the tired man proved a source of
great annoyance to Master Peter during the
time we remained, as he was never certain
when be was beyound the vision of those
outrageouSIy deceptive eyes.


Z. ST forgot to mention, that shortly
after our arrival at the farm house | over
heard little Peter, who had formed an ac-
quaintance with hired man asking him
why were the City Fathers of New-York
like the officers of the French army ?"
Hired man scratched his head and, after
cogtating for some time said


Because they were remarkable for dis
interested honesty !" Little Peter indignant
ly said mo !" Gross eye gave it up
when Peter Iirumphantly exclaimed. "Be-
cause they shared the Spoils.
Year: 1860




We are not aware that any philosophe
mas yet undertaken to discuss the moral
sentimental, or chemical affinities between
women and flower. Nor is it necessar,
tnat philosophers shall bother their brains
on any such topic, seeing that the poets
VINO are better judges, have often fuunC
that howers and women are mutually illus
trative of each other.


There are many varieties of flowers. inst
as there are of women. Some flowers are
beautiful merely to the eye and exhale nc
fragrance to the sense so, also, there are
some women of great personal beauty
| around whom there is no aroma OF virtue
or sentiment. Other flowers are exceeding.
ly beautiful and have delicious fragrance too,
reminding one Of those rare women whose
| exterior loveliness seems to be the natural
reflection of the virtues that beiewel their
hearts. Other flowers, again. are not all
beautiful to the eye, and yet they are full
OF the most exquisite odor These reminds
us OF those women of external plainness.
whose minds are adorned with the rems of
thought and sentiment, and whose hearts
are the homes of all those graces and ele.
gances that live long after mere beauty of
form and color has become dim and passed
away. Thus we might run through the
whole catalogue of flowers and find for
them the most striking resemblance in the
varieties of womankind.


Woman was originally placed in the gar
den, and the garden now seems to be the
most appropriate place for her She is al.
ways seen to advantage when she is seen
extending encouragement to plants that
are backward, and directing the conrse
which the more aspiring shall pursue. How
sweetly she attends the sickly plant which
droops its head beneath the MONDAY fer
vors and while she gives it the sweet per-
suasiOn of sticks aud props, and cup of
cold water it seems grateful for her genial
attentions and seems to try to look fresh
and cheerful once more. She scratches
and loosens the earth around the stem. and
takes therefrom every weed and blade of
grass that would suck up its lfe-blood. -
Then, again, how dexterously she teaches
the climbing plants how delicately she
assists them in their upward efforts, until.
step by step, they reach the topmost round
of ambitions ladder. What taste she ex.
hibits in the mere arrangements of her
plants She may have a group here and a
group there, but she more frequently re-
joices in combinations of starry beau
ties, in which all the colors of the rainbow
shall successfully be displayed 1t is true
that some cold blooded economists would
say that lovely woman thus employed in
making her home beautiful, wastes her
time but the sulky fellow might, with as
much reason, say that woman employed in
developing and refining the highest senti-
ments of her nature is wasting her time
Such employment of time is, in the noblest
sense, profitable and only she wastes her
time who neglects the beautifying of her
home in continual efforts to save dime or
to have surplus dollars in the locker.


LOWisriHe Journal.
Year: 1860

Tonics, stimulatiVes, medicines There's
nothing in the pharmacope half so inspir-
iting as a cheerful temper. Don't fancy
yourself victim Don't go through the
world with face half yard long ! Don't
persuade yourself that everything happens
wrong My dear sir, you are the only
person that is wrong, when you say that
this is world of trial and trouble | 1t is
a great deal better to be without an arm,
or leg than to lack cheerfuness What
if the globe does not roll round in the pre-
else direction you want it to Make the
best Of it. Put pleasant face on the mat
ter, and don't go about throwing cold wa
ter on the iresides of all the rest of man.
kind. If you are in want of an example,
look at the birds, or the flowers, or the very
sunshine on the grass Show us one
grumbler in all Natures wide domains =
The man who is habitually gay and cheer
ful has found the true philosophers stone
there is no cloud so dark but he sees the
blue sky beyond-no trouble so calamitous
but he finds some blessing left him to thank
Providence for.


He may be poor and destitute, hut he
walks clad in armor that all the mines of
Golconda cannot purchase. Snow and
rain cannot penetrate it-scorn and con-
tumely fall harmless from its surface.


The storm that sinks less courageous
craft can only compel him to trim his sails
and try again And somehow these peo-
pie that keep trying and always salute her
ladyship with a bright face, are the prime
favorits of Fortune. Who would be a
mere thermometer to rise and fall in spirit
with every change of life's atmosphere


Wherever we see a man signing, and
bilious, and respondent, about anything
and everything, we know it is not his bodi
ly but his mental health that is out of
gear" Cheerfulness is all he wants. Let
him put on the spectacles of his merry
neighbor, and it is wonderful what differ
ent complexion the world will wear No
matter how thick and fast vexations may
come-there's nothing like bright little
ray of the souls sunshine to dsperse them.
Counted in dollars and cents, your wealth
may be but paltry sum, but if you have
cheerful temper, you are rich.


Life Illustrated.
Year: 1860

Look thou upon the outward life,
The active, restless, seething sea,
The one tempestuous ceaseless strife
From which the world is never free
Look thou into the heart of man


When tossed and torn by wild desire
The toll to do what manhood can,
The aspirations pointing higher
Think thou upon his weary days,


His anxious watchful nights of gloom,
And see the wreath of witherng days
That crowns at last an early tomb.
Then, If single generous tear


1t wePt for him in grief sublime,
And thou doest deem it very dear
This need Of glory paid by time.
Still, still think not that thou hast known
The all n all this life should be
To toll, to mourn, to die, alone


Make not mans divinity.
Poor are the honors of the earth.
And poorer yet its paltry praise
And net for this does honest worth
Toll out its few but glorious days.
Its empty praise of brazen clown
Fit offering for the man whose ssul
Lived all ignOble passions down


And went to God uestained and whole ?
No-Heaven forbid his glance discerns,
Dim through the futures cloudy pail,
A higher, purer light that burns


Surmounting and eucircling all.
There is nobler life within,


A life OF soul, to which if true,
He tramples out the sparks of sin,


He seeks his God, aud meets him too.
Then hush the throbs of this poor clay,
Fit but to mouder heath the sod
Live firmly. nohly, gloriously


True to yourself and true to God
Year: 1860

STEAK WELL OF OrHERs.-If the dispo
sition to speak well of others was univer
sally prevalent, the world would become {
perfect Paradise The opposition is the
Pandora box, which, when opened, fll
every house and every neighborhood will
sorrow. How many enmities and heart
burnings flow from this source How
much happiness is interrupted and destroy
ed Envy, Jealousy, and the malignant
spirit of evil, when they find veut by the
lips, 60 forth on their missions like fou
feudS, to blast the reputation aud peace
of others. Every one has bis imperfections;
and in the conduct of the best there will
be occasional faults which might seem to
Justify animadversion 1t is good rule,
however, when their is occasion for fault
finding, to do it privately. 1t is proof
of interest in the individual, which
will generally be taken kindly, If the man
ner Of doing it is not offensive. The com
mon and unchristian rule, on the contrary,
is to proclaim the failing of others to all
but themselves. This is unchristian, and
despicable.
Year: 1860

TAKING CODA "cold" is not neces.
sariy the result Of low or high tempera.
ture. A person may go directly from hot
bath into a cold one, or into snow even, and
not take cold. On the contrary he may
take cold by pouring a couple of table
spoonfuls of water upon some part of his
dress, or standing in a door, or before a
stove, or sitting near window or other
opening, where one part Of the body is
colder than another. Let it be kept in mind
that uniformity of temperature over the
whole body is the first thing to be looked
after 1t is the unequal heat upon differ
ent parts of the body that produces colds !;
by disturbing the uniform circulation of the
blood, which in turn produces congestion in
some part. If you must keep partially
wet garment on, it would be as well per-
haps to wet the whole of it uniformly. The
feet are great source of colds on account
of the variable temperature they are sub
jected to. Keep these always dry and
warm, and avoid draughts of air, hot or
cold, wet spots on the garments, and other
direct causes of unequal temperature, and
keep the system braced up by plenty
of sleep, and the eschewing of debiltating
foods and drinks, and you will be proof
against cold and its results.


Halls Journal of HeuLth
Year: 1860

is shut ont Shut in rather. Here arc
the treasures after ALL and not in the vault
and not in the book--save the record in
the old family Bibe-and not in the bank


MAY be you are bachelor, frosty and
forty. Then poor, poor fellow, Saturday
nights are nothing to you just as you are
nothing to anything. Get wife, blue
eyed or black-eyed but above oil, true
eyed-get home, no matter how little
and little sofa, just to hold two, or two
and half, and then get the two or two and
a half in it on Saturday night, and then
read this paragraph by the light of your
wife's eyes, and thank God and take cour
age.


The dim and dusty shops arc swept up,
the hammer is thrown down, the apron is
doffed and labor hastens with light step
homeward bound


Saturday night = family murmers the
languishing, as she turns YEARLY upon her
couch and there is another to come =


Saturday night At last = whispers the
weeper above the dying and it is Sunday
tomorrow and tomorrow J."
Year: 1860

INTERVIEW WITH POLAR BEAR.-It seems
hardly right to call polar bears land ami
mails they abound here ITO geographical
miles from the nearest land, upon very
loose, broken up ice, which is steadily
drifting into the Atlantic at the rate of
twelve or fourteen miles daily. To remain
upon it would be to insure their destruction,
were they not nearly amphibious. They
by scent, and are constantly seen running
across and against the wind, which prevails
from the northward, so that the same in
stinct which directs their search for prev.
also serves the important purpose for guild


ing them in the direction of land and more
solid ice. ! remarked that the upper part
of bruins fore-paws are rubbed quite bare.
Peterson explains, that to surprise the seal
bear crouches down with his forepaws
doubled underneath, and pushes himself
noiselessly forward with his hind legs until
within few yards, when he springs upon
the unsuspecting victim, whether in the
water or upon the ice. The Greenlanders
are fond of bears flesh, but never eat the
heart or liver, and say that these parts
cause sickness. No instance is known of
Greenland bears attacking men except
when wounded or provoked they
never disturb the Esquimax graves. al
though they seldom fail to find cache of
seals flesh, which is a similar construction
of loose stones above the ground A ma
tive of Uppernavik, one dark winters day,
was out visiting his seal nets He found
seal entangled and while kneeling down
over it upon the ice to get it clear he felt
a slap on the back, from his companion as
he supposed but a second and heavier
blow made him look smartly round. He
was horror-stricken to see peculiarly grim
old bear instead of his comrade With
out deigning further notice of the man,
bruin tore the seal out of the net, and COM
menced bis supper. He was not interrupt
ed nor did the man wait to see the meal
finished. - Capt. McCHA.Ock.
Year: 1860




The Ruin IT WoRKs.-Years ago Wash
ington Irving gave to the world thrilling
portraiture of the effect of imtemperance.
His sketch was entitled The Ruined Fami-
ly." The depopulation pestilence that
walked at noon day, the carnage of cruel
and devastating war con scarcely exhibit
their victims in more terrible array than
the eXterminating curse of drunkenness.
| have seen a promising family spring up
from the parent trunk, and stretch abroad
its populouS limbs Ikea towering tree GOV.
cred with green and healthy foliage. / have
seen the unnatural decay beginning upon the
yet tender leaf, and gnawing like worm
in an unopened bud, while they dropped off
one by one, and the ruined shaft stood alone
until the winds and rains of many a sorrow
laid that too in the dust On one of those
holy days, when the patriarch, rich in virtue
as in years, gathered about him the great
and little ones of that flock, his sons and
his daugters. too sat at the festive board
l pledged thereon hospitable health, and
expatiated with delight upon the eventful
future, while the good old man, warmed in
the genial glow of youthful enthusiasm,
wiped tear from his eyes. He was happy
| met them again when the rolling year
brought the season round. But all were
not there. The kind old man sighed as bis
suffused eye dwelt on the then unocupied
seat. But Joy yet came to his relief, and
he was happy, A parents love knows no.
dimiuution-time, distance, poverty. shame,
but gives intensity of strength to that pas.
sion before which all Others dissolve and
melt away. A month elapsed. The board
was spread, but the guests came not. The
man cried :-"Where are my children ?''
And echo answered, "Where ?" His heart
broke-for they were not. Could not heaven
have spared his gray hairs this affection 7
Alas the demon drunkenness had been
there. They had fallen victims of his spell.
And one short month sufficed to cast veil
OF oblivion over the old mans sorrow, and
the young ones shame. They are all dead.
Year: 1860

THE WORKING MEN $ MEETING, last even
ing, was largely attended by an enthusiastic
crowd of mechanics and laboring men.
Reports from the various crafts, interspersed
with music, occupied the greater part of the
time. The treasurer made Il report, stating
the amount of money that had been placed
in his hands subject to order. The Presi-
dent of the meeting made some remarks re
lative to the action of the committees on
collection, WHICH were to the poin and APP
propriate. lie thought there had not been
sufficient energy manifested in the matter OF
funds, and hoped the committee would be-
stir themselves and be able to report and
pay over the amounts collected by the next
night of meeting. After some remarks from
Others present, the meeting adjourned TO
meet on Thursday night next.
Year: 1860

SARNIA, June 81, M.-Tbe propeller
Spalding of Buffalo, loading with lumber for
Rutalo at Forester on the Lake shore, was
burned early yesterday morning with lOO,-
600 feet of lumber on the deck. The Cap
tain and crew had a narrow escape, they
being asleep. The fire is supposed to be
the work of an incendiary