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Year: 1869

A young lady just graduated from board,
ing school regards herself as the perfection of
mundane things. Ten years afterwards she
will realize that she didn't know half as much
as she thought. White bread and butter board
ing schools play queer pranks with the optics.
Year: 1869

Lord Palmerston was always very particular
to write nothing rashly. He wrote at stand
ing desk, and kept his inkstand at the other
end of the room, so that he had the time occu-
pied in crossing the room twice to reflect upon
what he intended to say. His own excuse for
this habit was that he obtained necessary exer-
else by it, ?. - '''''-
Year: 1869

During the war lady was distributing tracts
to the occupants of military hospital, and was
excessively shocked to hear one poor fellow
laugh at her. She stopped to reproVe the
YOU have given me tracs on the sin of dancing
when have got both my legs shot off.
Year: 1869

A certain insurance agent says married man
should insure his life for many reasons. But
the most important of all is that 1t would prove
a great help to his wife's second husband, and
might be the means of starting him in business.
Year: 1869

A Danish writer speaks of hovel so misera.
Bile that it didn't know which way to fall, aill so
kept standing. This is like the man that had
such complication of diseases that he did not
know what to die Of, and so lived on.
Year: 1869

dIJ6TUOOD


says the Cincinnati Gazette, under the tent


which is placed on the Asylum lot quite a


large audience was invited to witness the riding


OF little girl, who, it was announced, was only
| seven years old. Dan Rice introduced both


her and her horse to the spectators saying, as
| he did so, that the horse was somewhat unused


to the ring, and if it should happen that the
rider should fall, no one need entertain any ap-


prehension of serious accident, for the arena


was soft and injury would be impossible. 1t


was surely an assuring introduction for the


child, and calculated to inspire her with well


founded confidence. The child whirled rapid


ly round the ring two or three times, using


neither rein nor binding strap. She stood on


one foot, then changed to the other. After


this, she was called upon to jump stretchers.
Had her horse been we'll trained, the feat


would have been no very difficult one. But


she became entanged in the cloth, and fell to


the ground under the horses feet. She was


placed again on the horse, and compelled once
more to try the feat. Her fall had not given
her new confidence, and she fell a second time


Evidently much against her inclination, and il
! spite of her trembling and tears, she wa!
t tossed again to her place. But her nerve wa
: gone. She was completely demoralized. Judg
, ment of distance and faith in herself was lost
Again she attempted to execute the leap
e Again she fell to the ground, this time striking
! heavily upon her head. She rolled directl
S under the horses feet, and only by shee
4 chance escaped terrible death. The audieac
e more merciful than those within the ring
: by this time had become thoroughly arouse
r and indignant Cries and shouts were hear
Q from all quarters, Shame" "Shame.
s "That'll do," Take her out, " "Take he
e out" came up from every side. 1t would nc
/ answer to disregard such demands, and tn
v ringmaster went to the child, raised her frol
d the dust where she lay, and led her crying an
,e sobbing TO the dressing tent.
Year: 1869

than the money left behind by them. Its the
schoomaster will never do it. He may cram
certain amount of Greek and Latin into boys
head, but there he stops. He will never sup
ply the place of the father 1t is for the latter
to rouse in child taste for what is noble and
beautiful. Above all, youth should be time
for love, and peace, and happiness; for none
can say what shall come after Who does not
creep with pain at the cry of child? Let the
little ones, at all events, have happy child
hood to look back upon, and then let fate do
her worst, it cannot rob them of the remem-
brance of the past joys, which are their inheri-
tance forever London Reuieuo.
Year: 1869

Perhaps there is no truer thing in Shake,
spere then his division of the life of man into
so many ages, each of which is represented by


a separate player upon the world stage. 1t j.
not easy for any one in after life to realize the
fact that he or she was once, and not so very
long ago, damp, unpleasant baby. Of thai
first part of our existence none of US know
much but of our second part =
Year: 1869

There are those of such sanguine tenn.
peraments that they are continually look.
ing for the millennium. They anxiously
expect the day to dawn when evil shall no
longer exist on tie earth, and man releas-
ed from the thralldom of sin shall once
more be, what he was at first created, "a
little lower than the angels " Weshould
be overjoyed to greet such {. day but must
confess that so far in the dim future does
it now seem, that, in the pertinent slang
of the hour, zoe can tssee it. And others
of this class OF sarguine people are fully
in the belief that when Gen. Grant shall
take up the reins of government he will
drive the public cart safely past every dis
honest politician, every fraudulent scheme
for plundering the treasury and eventually
bring the people TO land of promise
where there are no heavy taxes to pay,
and no National debt to worry and distract
legislators. And from this class we beg
to be counted out.


We have great faith in Gen. Grant.
He is man of very few words but noted
for prompt decisive action. Of all men
he is the one We should select to combat
the crowd OF hungry, half crazed Office
seekers who are disgrace to the age and
the country they live in. He is gentle
l,,k ~ ho oh
with him certain impenetrable dignity
which confounds alike the high and the
low, the rich and the poor, and thus is
he left perfect master of the situation.
But he has a mighty work before him
now greater in some respects than ever
awaited a president before. Bands OF
men, of great wealth and no principle,
have associated themselves together, and
under the style of Rings seek to gain
control of the government. With their
gold they seek to influence the passage
of bills giving them valuable lands which
belong to the people, thus adding to their
wealth and power-this is the Railroad
ring-and legislators are hired to say
nothing about the frauds on the revenue
to an extent of many, many millions of
dollars annually-and this is the whiskey
ring. We might name others, but this
is sufficient to show the work that Is to
be DONE Can these monstrous schemes
of villainy be suppressed? Is Gen.
Grant the man to do it? We think they
eau be, and we think Grant is the best
| man for the business, though We are 10th
to believe that these giants can be oyer
come in an instant. 1t will require time,


and will require the assistance OF all


right minded men to annihilate these
heartless monopolies which are daily
growing more bold and grasping, and are
drawing in to themselves all the rich re


suits of the hardy pioneers Industrious
life. We would see these good thing:
more evenly distributed, as they certainly
will be if Grant succeeds in grinding the
Rings beneath his feet. Don't let us be
too confident that this will be done, but
let us hope.
Year: 1869

The Waukesha F3eenaeo does not take
much stock in the man whose name
stands at the head of this article. We
know but little of him but the principle
that because a man becomes murderer
we shall be kindly cared for all his natur-
al life by the State, is humbug "Whoso
sheddeth man blood by man shall his
blood be she'd is the doctrine we shall
always believe in. But read what the
Freenaen says:


This gentlemen has written long
letter to the New Y York Tribune, calling
calling upon the people of New York
rally and support his penal reform
tries to argue at length that the demands
of christian civilization, the welfare OF
society, and the laws of the Wise Great.
or, calls for total abolition of the penal
code. Whether we will succeed in con-
yincing the New York Legislature that
their penal statues should be abolished,
is matter of some doubt We believe
that the Statues of Blood as he calls
them, were some time ago, somewhat
modified wherein the sentence of death
was left discretionary with the jury.
a triumphant repeal of the statues
relating to capital punishment.


While we are at all times ready to ad-
vocate all philanthropic measures, we
must say that any attempt to make the
law powerless to punish as the exigencies
of the case demand, is stab at the very
vitals of civilization, and an encourage
ment to commit crime. We understand
Mr.. Bovee's position clearly, and we
have never heard HIM make ar argument
in which he showed that the experience
of any state or country was that under
the abolition Of capital punishment.
crime was lessened. When he fails IN
this respect, his whole argument falls to
the ground If our friend Bovee wishes
to build up truly philanthropic charac,,
the wise and good, let him return home
and labor for the suppression OF crime.
Here is roomsto work for the advance
ment of our people in wisdom and virtue.
Here is an ample field for his genius.
Here is room to work for the advance
meut of our people in wisdom and virtue
Murders are daily occurring around us
Within the past ten days, and since he
has been committed. Our good citizens
are being cut down by the hands of ass
assins. and he seems to stand unhorritied
at this remorseless triumph of wickedness
and crime. We ask HIM to come among
us, and teach our people not to commit
crime, and then he may. proudly, and
With good grace enter the field as a
worthy champion of Moral Reform
Until he shall have done this. we shall con-
siderhis everJ successful attemptte have
hanging for nt,rdsr abolished anincentive
to make still blacker the catalogue Of
crime.
Year: 1869

We have received a copy of the
report of the Board of Trade of
Evansville for the year 1869, publish
ed by the Evansville journal Com
pany. 1t is gotten up in good style
by the printer, and reflects credit upon
the enterprise of the business men of
that city. No city can do mercan-
tile business successfully without a
we'll organized Board of Trade, and
the publication of the reports of the
trade of city is valuable advertise
ment for its merchants.-Ne10 Albany


Te1Oey
Year: 1869

THE Evansville JOURNAL Company
has furnished us with a copy of the
Annual Report Of the Board of Trade
of Evansville, Indiana, for 1868,
which gives plain and concise ex-
hibit of the business in that city, and
is especially interesting and valuable
as book of reference for men who
have business transactions in that
place.


The mechanical execution of the
book is neat WarrioE Herald.
Year: 1869

AT the County Treasurer's Office in
Rochester, N. Y few days since, a
lady. elbowing her way to the desk
through motley crowd of men, sig
nificantly remarked that " though the
gentlemen protest against the impro-
priety and delicacy of a woman push
ing through a crowd of vulgar men to
deposit ballot, yet they fail to see
anything. indelicate or improper in
her doing the same thing in order to
pay the taxes which they impose upon
her
Year: 1869

TREATMENT OF CALvEs.-A calf should
be at t.ended to the nome 1T it is dropped. The
cold air strikes it and it is chilled aud for the
first time. This does it no good. Then if cold
milk is given it-made cold by having little in


the pail and letting IL stand tn, pail cold also,


and perhaps iced some-if this is added to tue


chill ali tnat strikes the calf, there will be a


double effect, inside and out, and your calfwil
get, perhaps, first the scours, then further
difficulty with the bowels, and suffer severely,
and perhaps die. But the suffering alone is
very severe hurt 10 the calf 1t will be puny


and never recover fully from it; that is, it will
never make the COW that it would have made


had it not been Tor this accident Have a soft,
dry place for calf to lie on /; it will appreciate
it it will thrive upon it; it will thrive upon kind
ness, as we see in all our blooded stock, and
our common blood in the hands of good farm
ers. This is the way to raise your calf--by good
treatment, always applied; by simple, but good


well adapted food and always enough of it no
starving, however little. Grain is bad for all
growing stock. 1t is not intended for it. 1t will
do to meet circumstances, where the food is
poor, and the right kind difficult ofattainment,
which, however, should never be the case.
There is or should, be no excuse at all to feed
grain of whatever kind Give the natural grass
and hay, tender,-aftermath is excellent,-and
the natural milk. This makes healthy calves
stout and growing into good, healthy bene-
| fetal cows But the treatment must be con-
tinued, all but the milk. II this is too much
trouble, do not expect to raise first quality
| cow; it cannot be done.-Corres. Rural
| Neto Yorker. .
Year: 1869

gentleman, after severe sickness, had lesion
of the liver. Every quick movement or sudden jar
gave hJn severe pain, often laying him up for days
Hence he was unable to follow any occupation with
regularity.


In this condition, he applied over the part
affected an ALLCocK's POROUS PLASTER.
AT first, it seemed to irritate, so it was taken
But the marked improvement he experienced after
ward gave him courage to try again, and he there
fore applied another plaster. In a few days some
thing gave way" slipped to use the gentle
mans own words. There was some soreness for
few days after, then his health was PERFECTLY
restored. Upon being sounded by his physician
the adhesion or lesion was found to be gone


Principal Agency, Brandreth House, New York.
Sold by al Druggists. jeee
Year: 1869

In lumbago they act like a charm. In few
hours violent cough is relieved by Plaster ap-
piled to the chest Many persons believe a cold
cannot be taken while Plaster is worn there !;
this do know, they greatly assist in the of
neglected cold, so often the iRtrodacer Of Goa
Suunt,ou
Year: 1869

The happiness we have here comes
in fashes-how, or whence we are fre.
quently unable tell. a cheerful word
spoken at home, sympathetic face met
ON the street, an ins piring stanza, or
paragraph read in book, or the san
shine Of a bright morning will some
times fill the heart with joy, and make
all the world seem beautiful aud friend
ly, aud cause US to wonder how people
are morose and miserable when there are
50 many things to make them happy
But these bright flashes 60 as they come
A leaden observation creeps over the
heart, and keeps out the omniprcsent
sunshine that floods all things else
The shadow is the colder and darker
because of the brightness and warmth
CHAT prevails so near to it-just as the
chill air on snow-topped mountains is
made more dismal and dreary by the
pictured valleys that smile at their base.
The cheerfulness of others seems ike a
cynical taunt; and the golden sunshine,
the flash of flowers, the placid repose of
green fields, and the murmur of flowing
waters. instead of soothing us into har-
mony with their own beauty, appear
like malicious mockeries of our wretch
edness. Human beings continually
cheat themselves with the delusion that
there is an exLaustIe>s sea of bliss some
where beneath the stars. They seek
it in success, in learning, in wealth, in
love. in marriage. But they never find
it, because it does not exist. Earthly
happiness is too scarce to be extrava-
gantly used. The supply is sufficient
for the purposes of life, but, like the
watprpools in the desert, it needs to be
frugally husbauded, and moderately en-
joyed, to make it last through the cheer.
less stages where mono is found st
Louis Home journal.
Year: 1869

There is popular prejudice concern
ing the evil effects Of night air, about
which word must be said In her
admirable writings on hygiene and the
management Of the sick, Miss Night
ingale has done much to correct this
mistake. 1t was formerly the universal
belief that the air of night was very
injurious But the fact is, that, except
under certain circumstances, it is as
healthful, or even more so than that of
the day time. The night air of large
cities, such as London, when the hustle
and commotion, which causes it TO be
loaded with dust particles, is compare
lively quelled, and the numerous fires
which contaminate it with their smoke
are mostly eStinguisked, is purer than
that of the day. Nothing conduces more
to healthy sleep than good ventilation,
and no more of ventilation surpasses
that obtained by opening a window at
the top, by which the influence of
draught is avoided, while the upper
strata of air, to which impurities ascend,
are constantly renewed But there is
still another reason for adopting night,
even in preference to day ventilation
In sultry weather it is common mis-.
take to open the windows instead ol
keeping them altogether closed, as is the
casa in very hot climates. But little
reflection will show that since the hight
of the thermometer in the sun greatly
exceeds that shown at the same time by
| another thermometer placed in the shade
by opening our windows we admit mucl
heated air into our room. The proper
time under such circumstances for venti
lation is during the night, when til,
external atmosphere is cooled down
By adopting this plan in hot weather
the temperature of room may Away


be kept down several degrees lower thai


if the opposite course is pursued.
Year: 1869

The man who has no respect-nay


who has not tender and profound


respect for women, lacks one of the
chief elem nts of noble and manly
nature. Coarse and surdid men are
the only males in creation who lack the
gentle Difference for the females of then
| kind. Even animals bear themselves
with gallantry toward the females


1t is only among human beings that We
find exceptions to this rule. A mans
remembrance of his mother and sisters,
if he have them, should inspire him
with loyal and respectful feelings to-
wards all of their sex-should bride
his tongue agains gross and vulgar Ian
guage to them and about them-and
should keep him on the alert to yield
them homage, and do them service.
There is certain class of young men
whv affect the despicable cynicism of
deriding the virtue of women, and speak
ing Aippant!y of them as beings un-
worthy the serious attention Of men
They will sneer at wives as incumbran
ces, and children as nuisances; they
will affect pity for married men as
poor fools who have imposed on them
selves lifelong servitude. and pride
themselves on selt-possessiol which
restrains themselves from such dis
astcr


Women are not angels some of them
are very far from it. But there is a
weakness in them that appeals to mans
stern.r and more ru- gcd nature for pro-
lection, with force which 10 true man
can resist. There is a sort of divine
or prophetic element in them that de-
serves mans reverence, and that all
honorable manly natures love to rever-
erce. There may be good reasons for
the bache!orllood of some men who
have never married; but they Do not
and cannot involve the integrity of the
other sex. He who lives life of cell
bacy, troff disbelief in female virtue,
or from the vain assumption that there
is no woman in all the world worthy
to bv his wife, is wretch whose lite
will bring retribution for his sordid sem
timents. He may pride himself on his
independence for family ties, and his
triumph over the weakness which cause
others to seek helpmates but, in truth,
he is contemplate and miserable Ten
chances to ole he will die miser, with
all his pinched affections centered on a
boarded wealth whose touch gives no
warmth to his blood, and which has no
embraces or caresses with which to IT,
ward his devotion. The element of
sublime aud unreasoning taith which
woman possesses makes her influence
ON man essentially elevating, ennobliDg
and refining, and the man who casts off
this influence rejects an agency that he
needs to keep him from sinking to
level with brutes. If man finds him.
self deficient in gentle regard for the
opposite sex, let him cultivate it. If
boy has it not, let him be- taught it.
Above all, let young men beware how
they neglect the society Of pure and
virtuous women, and surrender them.
selves to the misanthropic philosophy
which teaches to despise them.
Year: 1869

There is philosophy ip hand-shak-
ing as an Indication of character. 1t
gives expression to the degree in
which you are appreciated Or esteemed
by another. There is variety of meth
dds in shaking hands. according to tenn
permanent, disposition, or occasion.
Some seize your hand with an earnest
grasp-one foot extended-and holding
your eye with their own. Such is the
salutation of the jolly tar, ready to
"share the last shot in the locker" with
the stranger of the hour. Others, again,
seize your hand with much frenzy, and
may mean as well toward you but they
do not lock directly at you, but pass
your cheeks with eyes steadily set, as
if looking for some underlined ghostlines
beyond, and seeming to converse with
the same. Others give too great show
of fervency to the salutation, causing
your fingers to tingle with pain ; you
involuntarily glance at your injured
hand expecting it to be compressed into
one horrid, bruised, extended iudex-fn-
ger. Others add to this exhibition of
muscular power by swinging your hand
up and down-a sort of intlmatlon that
they are about to pump" you. A
few come SO close to you that you can
feel their breath upon your face, others
seem TO be- experimenting on the great
est distance at which the salutation can
be exchanged Some daintily offer you
the tip OF their fingers; it means either
that they consider themselves your su-
perior or that they are not disposed to be
especially gracious. The most agree
able shake Of the hand is that meaning
which stands guarantee to the sym2a-
thetic look and kinoly-spoken word


The most abominable hand-shaking is a
lazy, listlsss offering, giving no pressure
and aserse to receiving We have
shaken hands with such persons, and
the memory Of i. has annoyed us for an
hour afterward. Ezchange.
Year: 1869

A Milesian, born on The last day of
the Year, felicitates himself on his mar
row escape of not being born at all.
Be jabers," says he, land if it had
been the next day, what would have
become of me ?"
Year: 1869

Henry Ward Beecher compares the
different religious denominations to the
different pockets in a suit of clothes,
and says it is of little consequence
whether one goes to heaven in an out4
side or an inside pocket.
Year: 1869

JOHNNY is just beginning to learn ges
ography. He says that the Poles live
partly at one end of the globe and
partly at the other. He knows it is so,
because it is marked on the map.
Year: 1869

TO bring agriculture to better
paying points farmers must devote
more attention to the production of
manurcs TO this end the raising and
management of cattle must bo incrcas-
cd and improved. Few countries in
the ciYilizcA world have the resources
possessed by Georgia few, however,
avail themselves so little of these re-
sources. So long as the farmer will
give the best part Of his income to
the purchase Of commercial or import
cd manure, just SO long, will ho re.
main slave to hafd times, and the
mark "by the sweat Of his brow re-
main indclibly impressed upon him.
Year: 1869

less be continued from year to year and be
known as our great Memorial Day, to be cele-
brated with religious, civic and martial venera-
ton for those who gave their lives for their
countly's good. 1t serves to increase our love
OF country and its defenders, whose deeds live
after than
Year: 1869

THE following ingenious mode of
crossing a river was once displayed
by a Kaffir, who had stood watching
the vain attempt of q party Of SOL
diers to cross stream at time when
to ford il was attended with consider
able danger. After smiling at their
efforts with that sardonlc expression
remarkable among the sayages, he
quietly raised a heavy stone, and
then walked with perfect ease through
the torrent to the opposite side.
Year: 1869

A German wrote an obituary on
the death of his wife, OF which the
follow ing is copy: "lf mine vile
had lived until next Friday she wo'd
have been dead shust two weeks
Nothing is possible with the A1migh-
ty. AS de tree falls so must it stand.