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Year: 1869

THE HOME OF TASTE. How easy it is to
be neat to be clean How easy to arrange
the room with the most graceful propriety


How easy it is to invest our houses with the
truest elegance Elegance resides not with
the upholsterer or the draper-it is not put
Up with the hangings and curtains-it is not
in the mosaies, the carpetings, the rosewood,
the mahogany, the candelabra, or the mar
BILE ornaments; it exists in the spirit presi-
ding over the chambers of the dwelling.
Contentment must always be most graceful;
it sheds serenity over the scenes of its abode,
it transforms waste into garden. The
home hghtened by these intimations of
nobler and brighter life may be wanting in
much which the discontented desire; but to
its inhabitants it will be palace, far outvy-
ing the Oriental in brilliancy and glory.
Year: 1869

section l. The chief executive power Of
the State shall be vested in a Governor,
who shall hold his Office for four years.


sec. 2. The Governor shall be elected
by the qualified electors of the State
The returns ofevery election for Govern
or shall be sealed up and transmitted to
the seat Of Government, directed TO the
Secretary OF State, who shall deliver them
to the Speaker Of the House Of Represen
tatives at the next ensuing session Of the
Year: 1869

Section l. The powers Of government
Of the State of Mississippi shall be divi
ded into three distinct departments, and
each of them confided to separate body
Of maeistracy. to wit; Those which are
Legislative to one those which are Ju.
dicial to another and those which are
Executive to another.


Sec. 2. No person or collection Of per-
sons being Of one Of these departments,
shall exercise any power properly belong
ing to either OF the Others except IN the
instances hereinafter expressly directed or
permitted.
Year: 1869

SECRETARY BOUTWELL, Is engaged in pre-
pairing his annual report and will probably be
here about the 18th instant, when it will be
placed in the hands of the printers. His close
application to this important task prevented
his attendance at the funeral of the late Secre.
tary Of War
Year: 1869

MR.. A. b. MuLLKrT, Supervis Architect
OF the Treasury, left here last evening for
California, to examine the custom house In
process of erection at San Francisco. On his
way out he will stop at Chicago, to examine
the work on the marine hospital now under
construction, and will also stop at Omaha to
select site for the custom house building to be
located there.
Year: 1869

A lady and gentleman are now living
in this city who were engaged to be
married more than thirty years ago,
and who are still anxiously waiting the
day when they shall be made one. In


1910 they had been engaged for some
time, but did not marry because each
had mother dependent upon them for
support. The two mothers refused to
live together, and their children would
not leave them, but decided to postpone
their marriage until one or the other
should die. Both mothers are still liv-
Jog, and the gentleman continues to
visit the lady, their filial duty still
keeping them apart. The man has had
the consumption for several years, aud
doubtless ere either Of the now very
aged mothers shall take their departure,
he will have gone to his last resting
place. Every day a trembling old


Romeo leaning heavily on cane, with


feeble steps, wends his way to the house
of Juliet, a withercd maiden lady,
whose hair is silvered by age and trou.
bls. Truly they deserve happiness if
any couple ever did,-Hartford Post.
Year: 1869

FEMALE Soc1ETY.-Thackcry tells
q young friend :.sOnc of the great
benefits a young man may derive from
woman's society is, that he is bound to
be respectful to them. The habit is
Of great good to your moral man, de-
pend on it. Our education makes of
us the most cminently selfish men in
the world. We fight for ourselves; !;
We push for ourselves; We cut the best
slices out of the joints at club dinners
for ourselves; We yawu for ourselves
and light our pipes, and say We wont
go out; we prefer ourselves aud our
case; and the greatest good that comes
to man from woman's society is that
he has to think Of somebody besides
himself-somebody to whom he is
bound to be constantly attentive and re.
spectful." "cr
Year: 1869

An agricultural paper recommends
to ladies to take a large-sized :pumpkio
seed, carefully cut out the meat on the
under side, put narrow strip OF fur
around the edge, aud fasten the strings
to the sides, aud they will have = bon
net 10 the pink Of fashion. The broad
end Of the seed should be in front, to
keep off the wind and sun.
Year: 1869

x new series Of postage stamps is
in course of preparation by the Post
Office Department. They will be
smaller than those now in use, but Of
handsomcr finish and design. On the
two cent stamps is an engraving Of 4
post-5oy on horseback and the three
cent a locomotive under a full head of
steam. The FIVE cent stamp contains
head of Washington, and the ten-cent
stamp picture of the Declaration Of
Independence. On the twclve-cent
stamp an engraving of an ocean steam
ship is seen, and the tkirty-cent stamp
Is decorated with the surrender of
Burgoyne.
Year: 1869

The moon above the eastern wood
shoue at its full; the hill-rangs stood
Transftured in the silvery food,
Its brown SHOWS flashing cold and keen,
Dead white, save where some sharp ravine
Took shadow, or tho sombre green
OF hemlocks turned to pitchy black
Against the whiteness at their back.
For such world and such q night
Most fitting that unwarming light,
Which only seemed .xhere'er it fell
TO make the coldness visible.
Year: 1869

it were the old merchants money,
papers and pocket-book. With
the money was found the bill, and
the word "Canal" written across
it.


It was not long before the men
confessed their crime. The old
man had been murdered and his
body thrown in the river.


The daughter accomplished her
mission. She had carried out her
design, and traced to their hiding
place the proofs of the murderers'
crime. tits useless to relate what
followed. Long years have fed
since then, and the young Meme
sis is yet among the living. Beau
tiful still, there are many hearts
glad at her smile, and share with
her the joys of the home she
charms. But this strange incl
dent in her life will never be eff
faced from her mind, or fade from
the memory Of those who saw her
then.
Year: 1869

We have information from al
most every county in Tennessee,
and we have not yet received a
single unfavorable report concern
ing the wheat crop. While this
favorable prospect is very crafty
ing, we are aware that it will be
taken advantage Of by the specu-
lators to try to beat down the
price, under the cry of surplus
crop. Farmers may rest assured
that there will not be a surplus
crop of wheat in America within
ten years, sufficient to justify It's
sale below 81 Is per bushel.-
Dirie Farmer.
Year: 1869

"Halt! Your money or your life.
Throw up your hands !" exclaimed
a stranger stepping out from the
shadow, while accompanying the
words might be heard the sharp
click of a pistol. The person ad-
dressed was a weary newspaper
man vending his lonely way home
ward in the outskirts Of the city at
about three o'clock the other NOR
ming.


ooh, yes, certainly, I'm in no
hurry. Only walking for exer-
else. Just as soon hold up my
hands as not. I'm not armed
Please turn that pistol little to
one side. 1t makes me nervous.


Gland over your cash !"


"Haven't nary red with me-
You see they took that all away
from me when they entered my
name on the books"


"Where did they take your mon
ey from you p


ooh, yes, why at the Pest
House. You see I'm a smallpox
patient; just out for exercise
They wouldn't let me walk about
in daylight with my face in this
condition, so l have to go it after
dark and late at night when the
streets are empty. By the way,
stranger, the wind is rather in
your direction and unless you amt
particular about it, it might be just
as we'll to stand on the other side.
I've got my old silver watch
though. If you like it come and
take it. You're perfectly at liber-
ty to search me if you like, only
don't point that pistol this way,
it's uncomfortable, Dye want
the old watch 2"


"No, thank you," said the rob-
Der, backing away and around to-
wards the other side. II couldn't
take anything from a man as un-
fortunate as you are. Here
There's half a dollar for you, poor
fellow. Go get something to
drink" and he threw the coin to-
wards him still backing off,
"Now," said he, 'Fyou turn back
and go round the block the other
way, AS you're only walking for
exercise it won't n'tincommode you"


"Oh, not a particle, I'd just as
soon walk with you if you desire it.
Either way though, it's all the
same to me. Thank you for the
half. Won't you join me and
drink to my recovery ?"


"Well, you go round the block
the other way and as l haven't
hurt you, say nothing about hav-
ing met me. l guess I'll go this
way" and then watching till the
supposed smallpox patient turned
the corner he started off on full
run in the opposite direction.


Mr.. Newspaper man proceeded
on homeward undisturbed, and
slept the sleep of one who enjoys
the consciousness of having done
good thing, and four bits better
off for having met high-wayman.
Golden Era.
Year: 1869

Il REMARKABLE INcIDENT.-Yester-
day morning, says Western exchange
of the 18th ult., blind horse wander
ed into the river near the national road
bridge, and getting beyond his depth,
swan around in a circle in his efforts to
find his way out. His distress attract
ed the attention of horse near by on
the bank, who instantly went to his as
sistance. He first went to the waters S
edge, and attempted to direct the blind
horse by neighing, but finding this
proceeding Intellectual, he boldly took
to the water and swan out to his re-
lief. After swimming around with
him for nearly quarter of an hour. he
finally got the blind horse to under
stand his good intentions, and in what
direction the land lay, and the two
horses came to shore side by side, amid
the cheers of upward of one hundred
persons, who were interested spectators
of the scene.
Year: 1869

packages of letters which he had stoler
from the mailbag and slowed away ii
his pockets.


He swore and threatened, and prayed
out we paid no attention to his blar
ney. Lougee got some stout cord, and
when we had securely bonnd the vii
lain, we tumbled him into the pung.-
l asked the old man if he would ac-
company US to Littleton, and he said
'Of course" So be got his overcoat
and muffler, and ere long we started
on.


reached the end OF nv route with
my mail all safe, though not as snug as
it might have been, and my mail bags
little the worse for the game that had
been played upon them. However,
the mail robber was secure, and with
in a week he was identified by some
officers from Concord as an old of
fender, and l am rather inclined to the
opinion that he is in the State prison
at the present time. At any rate, he
was there when last l heard from
him.


That's the only time / ever had any
mail trouble; and 1 think that, under
all the circumstances, came out of it
pretty well.
Year: 1869

The REAL GEETLEMAN.-Not he
who displays the latest fashion, dresses
in extravaganza with gold rings and
chains to display. Not he who talks
the loudest, and makes constant use of
profane language and vulgar words.
Not he who is proud and overbearing--
who Expresses the poor, and looks with
contempt on honest industry. Nor he
who cannot control his passions, and
humble himself as child. No; none
of these are real gentlemen. 1t is he
who is kind and obliging-who is
ready to do you favor with no hope
of reward; who visits the poor, and as
sists those who are in need; who is
more careful of his heart than the
dress of his person; who is humble and
sociable-not irascible or revengeful;
who always speaks the truth without
resorting to profane or indecent words.
Such a man is a real gentleman,
wherever he may be found. Rich OF
poor, high or low, he is entitled to the
appellation.
Year: 1869

WONDERS AT AKRoN.-The editor of
the Akron Beacon had huge egg pre-
sented to him. On opening it perfect
egg of ordinary size was found inside.
the space between it and the large shell
being filed with white only; the yolk
being all inside of the inner egg: The
editor has also been to see two-legged
colt which is living and doing well, be-
ing able to walk some distance the
legs being the two hind ones. The colt
is quite Intelligent and promises to be
one of the greatest curiosities, and,
with proper training, show horses in
the country.
Year: 1869

MUNoHAusEN.-A man named L. T.
Hart, living near Brownsville, Ten
nessee, is said to have on his farm
rather remarkable COW. She has Eorns
on her back all the way from the with
ers to the loins. The horns are four
and a half to FIVE inches long, very near
each other, and turned down on each
side so as to make complete roof to
the spinal column. This is the same
farm where they see the big snake
twice q wear.
Year: 1869

CHARAcTER.-The old blacksmith
gave utterance to the teachings of a
wise and wide observation of men and
things, when he responded to the at
torney who urged him to bring suit
for SANDER: young man, / can ham
mer out better character on my anvil
in six days than l could get in the
courts in six years"
Year: 1869

ABOUT the oaly good result that we
can see in the general introduction OF
Chinese in this country especially in
the vicinity of Washington would
be their annual cleaning out of
devils. They would have an ample
field to make his Satanic Majes-
tvs imps "skip like tail rats" in the
Radical camp.
Year: 1869

ASTRONOMERS are uncommsnly busy
of late in studying the sun. Those VINO
place implicit confidence in all they say
will be interested in knowing that the
atmosphere of the solar orb is just now
',in a highly excited condition." and
that ait is predicted that before the end
of next year some terrible effects will
be experienced from a column of mag
netic light" which already extends
half way to our planet, and is rapidly
ceming on. 1t is supposed that when
that column reaches US, something or
somebody will be electrified.
Year: 1869

Without any special complaint, except grad.
ual declination of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEYIGoR AS RE
FRESHING AND EXT HILERATING AS
A POOL IN 1HE DESERT TO THE SAND
-SCORCHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1869

Do you know what your habits are about
talking? Doyou talk a great deal too much?
Do you say a great many things heedlessIy?
Do you indulge a great deal in out-swelling
words Of pride? Are your words Ike sparks
Of fire, or are they Ike drops of oil? De you
make life sweet with your tongue wherever
you 60, or is your tongue like the tongue Of
a serpent, carrying terror whenever your
mouth opens and it comes forth? How Of
ten do you think Of your speech? Do you
know anything about II? I venture to say
that every person in your neighborhood
knows more about it than you DO.


Did you ever think what q volume your
talk would make If it were printed? Ifev-
erything that some persons say in single
day we're printed, what a volume it would
makel Aud if all that they say in a year
we're printed, what library it would makel
| pity the man who should have to read the
one or the other. Aud yet all their sayings
from day to day. and from year to year, are
flying in every direction, producing their
effects on those on whom they fall. The
exaggerations, the over -colorings, the mis-
representations, the lies (for we all lie con
tinually) which escape US when we are
speaking about ourselves, about cur chill
dren, about our property, about our neigh
bors, about everything that We have to do
with-what must be their influence upon
the world? Still how few there are who
know anything about the use of their tongue,
which Is forever on the move il man
might as well undertake to keep an account
of what goes out of his chimney, Of smoke,
and gas, and cinders, as to keep an account
of what goes cut of his mouth of wondrous
influences for life or for death. And there
fore how vastly important it is that we
should examine ourselves in the matter Of
sueecb - Beachcr.
Year: 1869




lst. Our answer to this question is as
follows: No, when performed in a proper
way Yes, when performed in an improper
way. Any pupil in school, or any man or
woman out Of school, who labors more than
four or FIVE hours day at hard study with
out recreation or relaxation, will find it in-
furious to health, and to shorten life. But
the hardest student may live to extreme Old
age if be viii observe the following rules, Of
which this is the


First Mingle labor with recreation.


Second. Never study, or apply the mind
closely, Immediately after eating. There Is
but SO much blood in the body, and when
the stomach is digesting food, a larger Dor.
ton of it is there than at other times. So.
when we think hard or study, more blood
flows TO the brain than at other times. But
who does not see that there cannot be more
blood than usual at all parts Of the body at
the same timer


Third To be healthy, never study under
the influence of stimulants. Many have
written and produced wonderful compost
tions under the stimulus Of alcohol and OPT
um, and other poisonous narcotics But
such a course invariably shortens life Men
may study if they win only live right.
Year: 1869

4 letter to an exchange paper gives some
interesting facts about the locality where
griudstones are procured, and the method
of their manufacture The English grind
stones are quarried a, Newcastle on-Tyne,
and near Sheffield These quarries are
worked by hand, and all the grindstones are
made with the malIet and chisel Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick stones come from
sandstone formations everything the coal dis
tTiets on the Bay Of Fandy aud crossing the
Province Of the Gulf of ST. Lawrence.


These immense deposits contain a great
variety of grits, known as the Nova Scotia
grindstones. These quarries are generally
worked by the French people known as
'Acadians, from the name they gave this
country, Acadia and are the defendants
Of the 'Huguenots, who were driven out
of France by religious persecution.


They are a very industrious and simple
minded people, and the females retain to
this day the style of dress brought over
from France By their ancestors.


The tides Of the Bay Of Fandy rise and
fail from GO to 20 feet every twelve hours
and these people avail themselves Of this
power to work the quarries, which extend
from high bluff on the mainland down to
low water mark in the bay.


at low water huge mass OF stone is lgos-
ened fiom its bed, and heavy chain is pass
ed under it and over a large boat, which Is
placed alongside. As the tide rises, the
stone attached to the bottom Of the boat is
foated into a sand cove at high water, aud
made into grindstoues after the tide recsdes.
This work is done with malet and chisel,
the rough parts being first chopped off with
heavy axe. Machinery has been recently
introduced, and the small grindstoues are
now turned in a lathe by steam power. The
sandstone deposits Of this country, which
are made into grindstones, are found along
the shores of Lake Erie, and extending for
considerable distance east and west Of
Cleveland and inland as far as Marietta, on
the Ohio. They are also foand on the
shores Of Lake Huron above Detroit.


These deposits are of a different character
from the foreign stone. and do not seem to
be the overiying strata of coal formations,
but appear to be later formation, as the
qaarries look as though this part of Ohio
had once been the bottom of the lake, the
sand of which had become solid and been
up heaved by some CONFUSION Of nature.
Nearly all the Ohio grindstones are made by
machinery driven by steam power.


The blocks of stone. being loosened from the
quarry bed, are roughly hewed out, with a
square hole in the centre. This is placed
on a heavy square iron shaft furnished with
9-inch collar, against which the stone Is
securely fastened by means Of another collar
keyed against the side Of the stone. The
shaft and stone peing driven by steam pow
er, two men on opposite sides of the stone
turn it of perfectly true By means Of soft
iron bars about feet long and by 3-inch
thick, which are drawn out to a thin point,
which is curved upward This was former
ly very unhealthy occupation, owing to
the shaft dust being inhaled by the work
meu, but this difficulty is nov obviated by
means of blowers which drive it away.
Year: 1869

or right Of profession against all human visi-
tors From every crevice there seemed to
come hiss. The rafting, too, was sharp
and long continued The whole rcek vas
evidently alive with rattle snakes In every
party that ever entered into a country In
Tested by rattlesnakes are some men who
derive great pleasure in killing every snake
that may show its head or sound its rattle.
a loud shout Of Snakesl rattlers!' brought
out the band Of cxterminators but such
number Of snakes came upon the field that
it was clearly beyond the power Of our
snake haters to carry on the combat with
any hope Of final victory. They gave up.
and abandoned the locality to the serpen.
tine tribe, which win probably retain the
ownership for period Of tine indefinite and
unlimited


The water Of Pyr5mid Lake is clear,
sparkling, and very saity. II abounda in fish,
among which are the eoaaeg, sprigbtly fish,
having flesh the color Of salmon, and quite
as game In weight this fish ranges from
three to twenty pounds, and an occasional
specimen rises to the Ay that viii scale
quite twenty FIVE pounds. Besides the
eouter there is an abundance Of trout, not
precisely the speekled beauties Of the Lake
Superior region; neither do they bear a
very close resemblance to The sluggish,
black, spotted trout of our more Southern
States 1t is a trout, nevertheless, which
rises readily to the artificial fly, and is a
pleasing morse for the epicurean palate.
Cooked in the various styles known to the
campers, this fish will compare fayorably
with its eastern brethren. Other varieties
of the fnny tribe abound in Pyramid Lake
but these are the ones which viii be most
sought after by any courageous disiple Of
Izaak Walton, who leaves the cacs Of the
Central Pacific Railroad where It strikes
the Truckee, and who ventures down to its
outlet in this curious lake-T r. Darts,
IL Harper's Magazine for September
Year: 1869

Few Of US are aware Of the deleterious ef
fects of impure water, or how prone water
is to imbibe the impurities of the air. Ma
ny ofus think If the water is clear and cold
it must be perfectly pure, though it has
stood 10 close bedroom twenty -four hours;
but this is far from true. If pitcher Of
water be set in room, for only few hours,
it viii absorb nearly all theTespired and per-
spire1 gases 10 the room, the air Of which
will have become purer, but the water ut-
tay filthy. The colder the water is the
greater ihe capacity to contain these. gases.
At Ordinary temperature a pail Of water can
contain a great amount of ammonia and car
boDic acid gas; and its capacity to absorb
these gases is nearly doubled by reducing the
water to the temperature Of ice. This plain
" shows us that water kept In room over
night is totally unfit for drinking purposes,
and should not be used to gargle the throat;
also that a large pail of water standing in a
room would help TO purify the atmosphere,
but should be thrown away next morning.
It also teaches US the season that the water
from a pump should always be pumped out
in the morning before any of it is used We
are lameutably ignorant Of many Of the pro
perties Of air and water, two Of the most
important elements Of our nature.