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Year: 1869

The monument to the late President Lincoln
In front Of the City Hall, was this morning
trimmed with evergreens, the column being
handsomely trimmed with green and the base
by a beautiful wreath of natural flowers.
This was done under the direction OF the com
mittee Of arrangements. Last Decoration day,
it will be Iecollected, that a wreath of laurel
only was placed on the head Of the statue.
Year: 1869

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and efectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair as soon restored
TO its original color
NTH the gloss and
Jreshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1869

Every form and feature Of these prevalent and
stubborn disorders is eradicated locally and entirely
by the use Of this emolient; warm lamentations
should precede its application. Its healing quail
ties will be found to be thorough and invariable.
Year: 1869




The Valley Farmer says, the whole science of
hay-making consists in three things First, cut
the grass when in bloom second, dry it not too
much third, let II go through sweating pro-
cess before II goes into the barn. On these
three things depend the quality of the hay.
Hay should be grass preserved. The nearer to
the fresh, tender, succulent grass you get it, the
better. Grass. when in blossom. has its full
growth, excepting the seed. 1t is yet tender
in a measure, and il has one advantage which
no other stage of the grass posscsses-it deyel-
ops its sugar then. Especially is this the case
with clover, whose head, when in blossom, is q
globe of sweetness. The best farmers have de-
eidcl that the blossominS time is the best time
to cut grasses, especially the clover. When
grass is ripe, what is it good for? Certainly
not for pasture; and will il be better when it is
still farther dricd and made haril


The object should be TO save the grass as near
its original state when cut as possible. This
cannot be attained by drying ii under burn
ing sun for two or three days. 1t should be
kept in the sun just long enough to cxpel the
water, leaving the sugar and starch from which
II derives its nutritive qualities, intact, and it
will then be not only green, but fragrant and
nutritious.
Year: 1869

A sketch writer in California delivered Sun.
day School address, which Is better than any
thing Mark Twain can do, aud Of which the fol-
lowing is au example: "You boys ought to be
very kind to your little sisters. once knew
bad boy who struck his sister blow over the
eye. Although she didn't fade and die in the
summer time, when the June roses were blowing
with sweet wOrlsof fOrgimess on her pallid lip,
she rose up ani hit him over the head with
rolling pin, 50 that he couldn't go to Sunday
School for over a month, ON account Of his not
hciug able to put on his bes, hat"
Year: 1869

saver,, little girls at Lowell saved up
their Fourth of July spending money and
got up fair for a sick soldier, which real
lied $50, for the sick and destitute man.
The prudent young men who can afford to
watch and wait should not commit matri-
mony until these girls are grown women.
They will every one make good wife.
Year: 1869

Dress is alwaysa relative term; and
what Is Sunday-best to one person
would fall far below the weekday
worst of another. And vet line
somewhere there must be; and when


we come to speak of the classes
amongst whom dress is one of the
main concerns of life, we cannot doubt
that the majority Of chureh-goefs are
on the wrong side of it. They go to
church Over-dressed rather than dress
ed. Their raiment is for the benefit of
the congregation, and anything but
donned out of serious reverence for
the Creator and the sanetity of the
spot they are visiting. They make
Sunday pretext and an excuse for
OutdOing themselves in. extravaganza
of attire. Abundant evidence has
been given to prove that the most
severe hardships inflicted on millin-
ers and their assistants spring from an
exacting determination of fashionable
and would-be-fashionable women 10
have their new dresses, bonnets or
mantles home on Sunday morning,
in order that they may appear for the
first time in their new and gorgeous
livery-at church. Does any thought
of prayer or piety enter into such pitt
less calculations as these2 And is il
any worse TO turn the house of prayer
into a den OF thieves than to turn it
into vanity Fair?
Year: 1869

Bows whose lot it is to work on the
farm, often feel that they are bound to
q disagreeable if not a disgraeeful
drudgery. They think, "If I could
only get to the town or city and be as
the store clerks see there, who stand
at the desk and write, or who with
white hands, and nice clothes, stand
behind the counter and sell goods, /
should be all right. Almost anything
would be better than this dirty out
door work upon the farm" Boys, /
have lived upon a farm, have chopped,
plowed, hoed, moved, Graded and
done all kinds of farm work. ]
also lived in the city and done city
work. I have been a close observer Of
those boys TO young men who have
exchanged the farm for the city life,
and now let me tell you a truth; the
great majority of youngsters who
leave the farm and go to the city for
employment make very great mis-
take.


In the first place, the morals are
very apt to suffer, and bad habits
formed, and when one has lost his
good name he has not much more to
lose. Thousands have been utterly
ruined by going to the city, who il
they had stayed at home, would have
been saved to themselves and to soeie-
ty.


In the second place, the change
from the country to city life often in
jIres the health, and without health
one is untitled for either labor or enjoy
ment.


In the next place large proportion
of those boys who go from the farm to
the city never succeed in accomplishing
property.


l know, boys, that the city is very
attractive to you, but my advice is
that you stick to the farm, for it is an
honorable, safe, healthful, and may
be made profitable, employment
Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1869

We quarreled this morning, wife and L
We were out OF temper, and scarce knew


Though the cause was trivial and common;
But to look In our eyes you'd have sworn


that we both


Were a couple of enemies, spitefuI and


Not a welded man and woman.
Wife, like tragedy-queen in a play.
Tossed her sweet little head in as lofty way


As so little woman was able;
She clenched her lips with a sneer and q


frown,


While 1, being rougher, stamped up and


Like careless groom in a stable
You'd have thought us the bitterest tseeing
OF little women and little men.


You'd have laughed at our spite and pas
And would never have dreamed that storm
Would be raInbow'd TO tears by that sun


Till We talked in the old fond fashion.
Yet the storm was over in less than an hour,
And was followed soon by sunny shower,


And that again by embraces;
Yet so little the meaning was understood,
That we almost felt ashamed to be good,


And wore blush on our faces.
Then she, as a woman. much brayer became,
And tried TO bear the whole weight OF the


blame,


By her Kindness, her self-reproving;
When seeing her humble, and knowing her


true,


1 ali at once became humble too,


And very contrite and loving.
But seeing acted humble part,
She laughed outright with frOlic heart


A laugh as careless rs Cupid;
And the laumbtnT Wranalnd along nv lrafn
TIL IalmoSt felt in a passion again, ......


And became quite stubborn and stupid.
And this was the time for her arms 10 twine
Around this stubborn neck OF mine,


Like the arms or n maid round q lover;
And feeling them there, with their warmth,


you know,
/ laughed quite different laugh, and so


The storm (aS l called it) was over.
So then We could talk with the power to


please:
As, though the passing of storms like these
Leaves 4 certain felicity


OF getting easily angry again.
Yet they free the heart and rebulIe the brain.
And teach as rough humility.
You see we cannot love one another so well,
That we ind more comfort than you can tell
In jingling our bells and corals:
In the fercer fights Of a world so drear,
We keep our spirits so close and clear,


That we need such trivial quarrels.
In the great fierce fights of the world we try
To shield one another my wife and /.
Like brave strong man and woman;
But the trivial quarrels of days and nights
our souls from the great flerce


fights
And keep US lowly and human.
Clouds would grow in the quletest mind,
And make ff tinrneef 10 mix win itS kind
Were nature less wise as a mother;
And with storms like ours there must iut-


ter out
and doubt n
The excess Of our love for each other. 4
Year: 1869




FANNY FERN ON TOBACCO.-I hate
tobacco. am a clean creature, and it
smells bad. Smell is a mild word
but | use it, as am a woman. Ideny
your right to poison the air of our par
lOrs, or our bedrooms with your breath
or your tobaccO-saturated clothing,
even though you may be our husbands
Terrible creature! 1 think / hear
you say, II am glad you are not my
wife" So am |. How would you
like it, had you arranged your parlOr
with dainty fingers. and were rejoicing
in the esweet-seented migOnnettes, and
viOlets, and herliOtropes, in the pretty
vase on your table, forgetting in your
happiness that Bridget and Biddy had
vexed your spirit the greater part Of
the day-and in your nicely cushioned
chair were resting your spirits even
more thau your body-to have a man
enter and spoil it all? Or worse, light
a cigar in your very presence, as if it
were the very heaven to you that il
appears to him.
Year: 1869

John Bright, not many years since,
drew a word-pieture of the Great
Republic, which we reproduce as
follows: al have another and bright
er vision before my gaze. It may be
a vision, but 1 will cherish il. Isse
one Cast confederation stretching from
the frozen North Ia Un6rOken line TO
the glO1ciHg South, and from the wild
pillows of the Atlantic westward TO
the ealmer waters of the Pacific main /;
and l see one people, and one Lam
guage, and one faith, and over all
that wide continent the home OF
freedom for the oppressed of every
race and of every cline"
Year: 1869

A Falls River CNOrwieh) man has
whitfield out with a penknife most
curious and perplexing bottle puzzle.
He has taken an eight ounce vial and
set up in its interior perfect, key
about two inches long, with four
hoops in it, and both heads in; and
he stopped the bottle with a wooden
plug which fits perfectly tight, and is
keyed inside, the keg pinned and the
pin tOggled. The Workmanship is
excellent, and the way it was done q
mystery.
Year: 1869

The trade Of Portugal has fallen off
greatly during the past two years,
and is said to have been influenced
unfavOrably by the introduction of
the paper currency in Brazil, where a
large amount os Portuguese capital IS
retained, waiting for favorable turn
in the exchange.
Year: 1869

Henry Taine, the art writer, is
blind of one eye, and reads and
writes very little, lest he should lose
the other. He is married to the
daughter of a rich butcher, a gifted
young lady, who has a volume of
poems in the press.
Year: 1869

4 printers apprentice says that at
the Office they charge him with all
the Di they do find, and at the house
they charge him with all they don't
find. He does not understand that
kind of logic.
Year: 1869

We quarreled this morning, wife and L
We were out OF temper, and scarce knew


why,


Though the cause was trivial and common;
But TO look In our eyes you'd have sworn


that we both
Were a couple of enemies, splteful and


wroth-
Year: 1869

anu Wnere is your mother, boy ?"


On, she's gone to take home the wash
sir. Papa don't have SO much work as he
used to once, and we're very poor now, and
she has to help him."


And does it look so pleasant in here as
you thought it would, my child ?"


U, yes, it does, sir. | don't wonder
papa loves to come here so much, it's so dark
and cold at home. But should think he
would bring mama and me and little sis
Low she would laugh to see this fire and all
these pretty bottles, and those flowers with
lights In them. s. Please sir, - and he seized
the rough hands of the listener, 'please, sir,
tell me why little boys can't come here with
their fathers ?''


. For Gods sake do not tell him. Ban
croft, said deep distinguished voice. 'sHe
deems me pure and holy. Heavens what a
wretch | am My boy, my boy you have
saved me from earth's vilest heli Here
with my hand on thy sinless brow, | promise
never again to touch the cup have drank so
deep. And my brothers in sin, as you value
your SOULS salvation. tempt me not to break
my VOW. Help me Heaven-Help me, man.
SO as to live hereafter that papa may never
blush to take bis boy along-that if papa
goes there, Willie may 90 too'


Silently the door closed after them, and
silence dwelt in the saloon behind them
The teacher had been there in cherab form,
and crazy, loose, unholy thought, and light
and ribald jest was hushed. One by one
they stole away, and many a wife wore
smiles that night nor did the old bar ten
der even curse the little one that robbed him
of SO many dimes. Too deeply in his heart
had sunk the voice of the cherub preacher.


Don't you like me, papa Are you
cross at me?' asked Willie in hes.ating
tone, as they stood for few moments on the
pavement for the scene in the barroom
was an enigma to the child, and he feared
reproof


was thinking what mamma would like
best for supper" said the father.


WAS you? was you?" was the eager
question in gladstone voice "Oh, then,
know you amt cross. Oh, get oysters and
crackers, and tea, papa and candle, be-
cause there is only piece. And please,
papa, tell mamma not to be cross to me,
cause you know if hadn't gone as did
you wouldn't perhaps come yet and she does
love to have you home so much. Oh, l feel
just like crying, am so glad"


' And | feel like crying too,' said his
father, solemnly; and ere midnight he did
cry, and his wife, too, but they were holy
tears, washing his heart of the dust that had
gathered on its beauty and hers of the sor
row that had wrapped it as pail.
Year: 1869

The late Mr.. De Quincy wrote a curious
and elaborate paper on g Murder Consider
ed as one of the Fine Arts" Had he
lived half century later he might have
extended his inquiries so as to include
pocket-picking in that category; for an art
it has certainly become. Your artistic
pickpocket is gentlemanly looking fellow,
wears neat boots and gloves, always has a
neat-looking hat, and is altogether the last
man you would suspect of any sinister de-
signs on your pockets. He lives in first
class hotels and boarding houses, often fire.
quently the same house for years, totally
unsuspected, and remarkable only for his
quiet and gentlemanly demeanor He
carefully chooses four companions, equally
respectable in appearance, to form what is
called mob, each one producing certain
sum to make bank, to use in case one of
them falls (taken by the police), in order
to provide bail Or to pay his counsel fees
They then frequent railway stations, pub
lie meetings, Or any place they can find a
crowd. A victim is quietly selected as a
probable find. Two of the mob then place
themselves in front of him and two remain
behind, occupying, as it were, the angles
of square, of which the victim is the
center. These are called the front and
back stalls. The unfortunate victim is
then famed that is, his pockets are softly
padded to find out the one in which he
keeps his wallet; the sign is passed to the
operator, who is termed the wire, who i'm
mediately proceeds to work. He does not
place his hand in the pocket, that is fatal
error but with the two first fingers he
gently draws up the lining of the pocket,
to the opening, and with it the wallet, and
the trick is done This system is called
reefng. The wallet is Immediately passed
to .one of the back stalls, who quietly
though quickly leaves


The most dangerous place for money is
undoubtedly the pocket of the pants
Again, one of the front stalls passes his
arm before your face to touch the other
front stall on the shoulder, only to say,
" How are your" but the wire from behind
has your diamond pin in possession. If
possible they return the empty wallet to the
pocket to avoid detection in its possession,
or the dangerous necessity of throwing it
away. For instance, two gentlemen sitting
at one end of the car get into an angry alter
cation, high words ensue, the attention of
the other passengers is attracted to their
dispute, and the young lady who sat next
to the nice-looking man at the other end
OF the car finds. on arriving at Stewards S,
that her purse is empty. The angry gen.
tieman and the nice-looking man are simply
contederates. This they term wedding.
A correspondent of newspaper lost $500
In this way while riding in a Fourth street
avenue car.


Pickpockets are necessarily migratory
In their habits, finding long residence in
one place inconvenient This renders it
dlfhcult to make any estimate of their
probable numbers in New York. They
prefer locality for the scene of their oper-
atoms that has numerous lines of rail, to
enable them to separate in various direc-
TONS as soon as they have good swag, and
to meet again in some other town. These
men stand by one another in trouble, and
Year: 1869

are strictly square in their mutual transac-
tions.


A curious incident of I" honor among
thieves" is found in the following anecdote !:
The elder Matthews and Theodore Hook
on one occasion went together to the thea
ter; while ascending the staircase Mat
thews playfully took bundle of papers
from Hooks pocket, when he was touched
on the shoulder from behind by gentle
manly-looking man, who handed him his
own pocket book, apologizing for taking it
by saying " / didn't know you WIS one of
us" pertinently adding, but what a fooi
you must be to carry it there


Pickpockets, however, never save mon
ey, for they are all bitten with mania for
gambling, and, strange to say, are gener-
ally unsuccessful at it. Their language is
most peculiar, only to be understood by
that intelligent body of gentlemen who
hail from Mulberry street. Their depre-
dations on the public amount to very
large sum in the course of year, a con-
siderable portion of which is never recov-
cred, from the general inability of the vic
tim to give any description which might
lead to Identification; they never, if posi-
BILE, allowing you to have full view of
their face-N. Y Tribune.
Year: 1869

A lecture recently delivered in New
York by DR.. Lemercier on the "Gorilla,"
contained an elaborate and interesting COM
parison of the gorilla


Though not quite so tall as the average
man, the gorilla is far more powerful than
Heenan, having, according to Du Chaillu,
the strength of eight able bodied men
Only two of these creatures have been dis
sected in Europe, one by Professor Duver-
noy, and the other by Dr. Auzoux. No
live gorilla has been brought to Europe or
America. The difference between man and
the gorilla are very striking. The latter
cannot stand upright, owing to the struc
ture of his spinal column his arms are
longer, and his legs are shorter than those
of the human species in walking he COM
monty uses the backs Of his hands, placing
them fat upon the ground he has thir-
teen pairs of ribs, and the female fourteen,
whereas, man has but ten; he has seven
muscles which are not found in man he
has "bagpipes" under the arms, connect
ing with his windpipe and glottis and by
COMPRISING these with his arms he can
make noise more terrible than the uproar
OF thousand ragmen, and which can be
heard, according to NJ. Du Chaillu, at a.
distance Of three miles or more His hand
is greatly inferior to the human hand, and
besides, there exists a multitude of minor
differences in other organs.


But what places man far above the 90
rilla is the vast superiority of human brain
and head. The gorilla has better devel-
oped head than the lion, and when young,
his Uranium has a great resemblance to
that of a child But afterwards, though
there is an immense growth Of the bone,
there is no expansion of the cavity of the
skull, and consequently none of the BRAIN
The lecturer expressed himself at consid-
cradle length on this point, and in such
manner as to make it evident that he was
no believer in the hypothesis of Darwin
All animals have been made to meet the
wants of their material life, and are won
derfully contrived for thos, purposes. The
gorilla has been made savage inhabitaut
of the forest, and is adapted for rapidly as
cending trees. His chest and muscles are
marvellous, and if the animal had the wis
dom and cunning of man, the African race
would long since have been swept from
their native soil. In connection with the
gorilla's chest, DIR. Lemercier said that the
strength of any animal whatever is accord
ing to the development of the chest, and
took occasion once more to impress upon
his audience the benefit which resulted to
children from Strengthening their lungs by
gymnastic exercises.
Year: 1869

TIE PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-The Alta
has the following:


The Pacific Railroad contest appears to
be eliminating, and there is lively skir-
mishing all along the front-President
Stanford is at Ogden City, Utah, superin-
tending the operations of the Central Pa
cifc, and the grading of that road hes
already reached the point just named
The Union Pacific, on the other hand, has
passed that of the Central, coming west,
and is now at Humboldt Springs, fifty or
sixty miles this side of Monument Point,
which is at the head of Salt Lake. Ogden
City, near which the Central Pacific has
reached, it is not quite as far east as of
Monument Point as Humboldt Springs is
west oft, but the grading of the two roads
laps however each other by distance
nearly equal to one hundred miles,
Neither road can reach Salt Lake on
the direct line, but each is grading a
branch line to that city. 1t is understood,
that the Company that reaches Monument
Point first with completed road, will have
the privilege of using all the unpccupied
grading completed on the other side of the
Point by the other Company. The Union
Pacific has stopped grading already, but
the Central Pacific is still keeping on with
its work as though there was real inten-
tion Of making connection with the
Smoky Hill branch of the Eastern Division
of the Pacific Railroad, as has been intima-
ted would be the case The railroad men
keen their own counsel with great discre-
ton, and the general public can only guess
at the plans of those who control these
mighty enterprises.
Year: 1869

BURIED ALIvE.-Mrs. Crane, whose hus-
band is a book-keepcr in Flemming & Co.'S
drug store, Magazine street, New Orleans
died very suddenly last July, of what was
pronounced sun stroke She was a school
teacher, and resided on Dryades street. Her
body was inferred the next day at ten
o'clock and her mother went home almost
broken hearted. One night recently the
mother, after passing most distressing day
fell asleep late at night, and dreamed that
her daughter had been buried alive. She
jumped up in frantic state and rushed to
her son in-law's chamber, crying My
daughter is buried alive Oh my daughter
is buried alivel What shall | doW TO
sleep any more that night was ont of the
question. At length the proposition was
made to have the body disintered, just to
satisfy her. So early the next morning the
grave was opened and the coffin raised
The body, which had been placed IN me-
tallic coffin, was turned over, the glass cover
ing the face was broken to atoms, the ends of
the fingers being beaten and battered all to
pieces. the hair torn out in handfuls, and the
shroud torn in many places.