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Year: 1869

Respect the body, dear men and women
speak of it reyerently, as it deserves. Don't
take it into unworthy places; give it sun
shine, pure air, and exercise. Be conscien~
tious as to what you put down its throat.
Remember what is fun to the cook and con
dictionary trades may be death to it. Give
it good, Wholesome food; let it be on init
mate terms with friction aud soap and water;
and especially dou render it ridiculous by
your way of dressing it.


Recognize the dignity Of your body; hold
it erect when your awake, and let it lie out
straight when you re asleep Don't let 1t
90 through the world with little mincing
steps nor great gawky strides; don't swing
its arms too much, and don t let them grow
limp from inactivity. Resolve to respect its
shoulders, its back, and its fair proportions
generally and straightway shall stoops, =
and wriggles, ana ''grecian bends be un-
known forever.


Respect the body--give it what it requires
and no more. Don't pierce its ears, strain
its eyes, or pinch Its feet; don roast It by a
hot fire all day, and smother it under heavy
bed covering all night; don't put it in a
cold draught on slight occasions, and don t
nurse or pet it to death; don't dose it with
doctor stuffs, and, above all, don't turn it
into wine cask or chimney. Let it be
warranted not TO smoke" from the time
your manhood takes possession.


Respect the body; don't over rest, or over
love it, and never debase il, but be able to
lay it down when you are done with it, well
worn but not misused thing. Meantime,
treat it at least as well as you would your
pet horse or hound, and my word for it,
though it will not jump to China at bound,
you Il find it a most excellent thing to have,
especially in the country. Hearth and


Home
Year: 1869

1t is said that there are in New York at
least seven thousand persons who wear false
eyes. The manufacture Of these eyes is done
entirely by hand, and is thus described by
the 4mericdn ArtisaA


A man sits down behind jet of gas flame,
which is pointed and directed as he wishes
by blow-pipe The pupil of the eye is
made with drop of block glass imbedded
in the center of the iris. The blood-yessels
seen in the white of the eyes are easily put
in with red glass while the optic is glowing
with heat like ball of gold. The whole
eve can be made inside of an hour, and it is
at once ready to put in. The reader should
know that it is simply thin glass shell IN
tended to cover the stump of the blind eye.
After being dipped in the water, this shell
Is slipped in place, being held by the eye
lids


The secret of imparting motion to it de-
ponds upon working the glass so that il
shall fit the stump. fit is too large, it vii
not move, if it fits nicely, it moves in every
particular ike the natural eye, and it is quite
impossible in many cases to tell one from tbs
other. The operation is not in the least
painful, and those who have worn them
number of years feel better with them II
than when they are out. A glass eye should
be taken out every night, and put in in the
morning. In three or four years the fals'
eye becomes so worn that's new one has t
be obtained.
Year: 1869

Much of the disaffectiou between the en-
ployer and employed which leads often to
acrimonious and unpleasant disputes, might
be avoided by more generous interpreta-
ton of the terms of the contract specified or
impGed between them. In many cases the
employer makes his concern disciplinary
school, the pupils OF which are to be drilled
TO become as mere machines as the insensate
mechanism they oversee or attend. A GER
tain set of iron bound rules, immutable and
Interchangeable as those of the Mades and
Persians, is made to govern and control the
help. with no opportunity for variation or
adaption to circumstances or person. The
honest, conscientious workman finds him
self, under this system, ranked with the
careless, unjust, and selfish man who would
feel pride in getting ahead of bis boss.


All this is wrong. Certain rules must, Of
course, be made and observed in order to
insure a uniformity of work and a proper
division of duties but the rule that is nee
essary for hirG who, having no standard OF
right in himself, bows only to the law oil
force, is not the rule for the coucientious
workman anxious mainly to protect and IN
sure the interests of his employers. 10 the
contriving of rules fer the governing of me-
chanical establishments, the character of the
men employed should be considered. Nc
man should have his sense of manlines;
crushed or injured by being subjected tC
rules fitted only for the inmates of pena
institution. It not only Injuries him morally
but it deprives his employer Of his best eff
forts, as he cannot and will not work COZ
apeore when he knows he is under espionage
or suspicion. Let employers treat their mel
as men and they will find it to be to thei
pecuniary advantage, Circumstances alon
generally give them an advantage over thei
1 fellows Scientific Anlerjco7t.
Year: 1869

ORIGIN or AN. OLD CUsToM Surely
tho custom among mcG Of touching their
glasses before drinking the health off friend
Tor on other occasions merely for ceremony
sakel merits some attention in regard 70 It's
origin. Possessing fondness for antique
researches ii affords an infinite pleasure to
communicate the wh7 and the wherefore of
the above mentioned practice. Several
years anterior to the time Socrates, it was
given out that any criminal condemned to
die the death by having the poisoned driak
administered was at liberty to consider his
life insured, If he could succeed 10 prevail
ing upon his friends to share the potion
with him even in such small quantities as
might prove innocuous to all and in order
to ascertain precisely the exaetness of each
ones allowance, they had resource to the
every day custom of touching glass with
glass, measuring in this manner their res
pectivo portions, pledging the health and
happiness OF the thus liberated convict, and
rejoicing that they had been made the me-
dium through which life was saved.
Year: 1869




Life is race, where some succeed,
While Others are beginning:
'Tis luck, at times, at others speed
That gives an early wishing.
But if you chance to fall behind,
Meier slacken your endeavori
just keep this wholesome truth in mind,
lis better late than never.
If you keep ahead, It's well,
But never trip your neighbor;
'Tis noble when you can excel,
By honest patient labor.
But if you are outstripped at last,
Press on, as bold as ever;
Remember, though you are surpassed,
'Tis better late than never.
Meier labor for an idle boast
OF victory DER another;
But, while you strive your uttermost,
Deal fairly with a brother
What'er your station, do yonr best,
And hold your purpose ever;
And, if you fail to beat the rest,
'Tis better late than never.
Choose well the path in which you run,
Succeed by noble daring
Then though the last, when once 'tiswon,
Your crown is worth the wearing.
Then never fret if left behind,
Nor slacken your endeavor
But ever keep this truth in mind
'Tis better late than never
Yet, would you cure this sad defect,
Repiuing's unavailing
Begin, at once, and now correct
This very common failing.
This day resolve, this very hour,
Nor cen a moment wait
Go make this better maxim yours
'Tis better never late.
Year: 1869

under $500 bail. Curiously enough. a
man whom Jack met in San Francisco last
summer, has since come to New York by
the overland route, and established him
sell as keeper of a sailors boarding house.
Ihls man and Jack recognized each other.
and the " King of the Cannibal Islands"
Is at this moment the guest of his ex-Cal-
lfornia acquaintance. Still more curiouslv.
the mate who was put ashore at Mazatlan
IS IS also In New York, intent or suing the
Captain for damages And, most curious
OF all, In the next boarding house stops an
ancient mariner who saw Jack in the Bay
OF Naples more than thirty years ago, and
distinctly remembers the little American
boy on board the g fruiter p


There is no doubt that Jack is technical
ly guilty of the State Prison offence OF
mntlny, but it is pretty certain that the
affair will be peaceably compromised, and
that no one will appear against him mex
week, Tuesday, the day set for his examina
ton. 1t would be hard for the Captain t.
find witnesses among the crew, who are al
down on him for his general meanness, and
especially for taking them to sea with sucf
short allowance of miserable food thai
they had to beg provisions from passing
vessels, during the latter part Of the voyage
too keep themselves from starving Ever
the carpenter has penitently offered Jack
money as amends for his own share in the
affray, and no one can doubt that in equity
if not in law, FIVE weeks incarceration in
prison scarcely more than half as high as
himself is punishment enough for his Of:
fnnca
Year: 1869

our latitude and the altitude of the Polar
star VIII be found to decrease in propor-
tion; H0.f-acay between the the Pole and
the Equator, fer instance, our latitude will
De TO deg, aud the altitude of the Polar
Star will be 40 deg. also; and if we travel
to the Equator there will be no latilulc


because we are no distance from it; neither
w!iI the Polar Star have any attitude, for it
Will be In this case on the horizon. This
simple and beautiful principle in geogra-
phy not only enables us, even in the mid
die OF unknown seas, to ascertain our nos;-
tion on the Earth's surface with regard to
the Equator, but it also furnishes - with
the means OF measuring the surface and
determining the magnitude of the Earth
Year: 1869

The following forid item is going the
rounds of the Eastern press:


AT one time woman could hardly walk
through the streets of San Francisco without
having every one pause to gaze at her, and a
child was so rare, that once in a theatre, in
the same city. where a woman had taken her
infant, when it began to cry, just as the or
chestra began to play, a man in the pit cried
out: Stop those fddles and let the baby
cry. l haven't heard such sound for ten
years" The audience applauded this senti-
men., the orchestra stopped, and the baby
continued Its performance, amid unbounded
Year: 1869

Established expressly to afford the afflicted
sound aud scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases, Cases
of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1869

1t is probable that the capitol Of the state
Of New York viii be removed from Albany
to the city Of New York. There will be a
pitisble slaughter of the inuooents' when the
country members are required to spend their
legislative lives in the metropolis of easy
sliding places for doubtful or anything but
irou.clSd virtue,
Year: 1869

MEMPHI5I May Z4'


On Saturday night an armed band OF
disguised men stopped a train from
Louisville to Memphis. and attempted
to murder Internal Revenue Officer
Holm, who had a prisoner on board,
arrested for running an Illicit distillery.
An assistant of Hohn's, name un-
known, Jumped from the train and was
fred on by the band and seen to fall.
Mr.. Holm fired into the gang killing
one of them. The others poured vol
ley into the train, fortunately without
mediately put in motion. The last seen
of the band they were making towards
the woods bearing their comrade. The
band is supposed to belong to gang
engaged in Illicit distilling, extending
from East Tennessee to Mississippi.
Year: 1869

soon get another lover to flil his place,
who would be more worthy of her than
be could hope TO be, and who would make
her happy. This but increased her sor-
row. She sank down upon the noor be-
side him, and cried aloud When he vss
becoming worse, and the doctor gave ths
emphatic opinion that be could mot live,
she started suddenly TO her feet, and rum
ming into another room, swallowed q
heavy dose of laudanum. which vss kept
there for the use of q young member OF
the family, who was sick IL vss some
time before she was discovered, and IL
was with the utmost difficulty she was
brought back TO consciousness. The first
words she uttered were, 30. where is he
Let me go to him; will be with him"
At the same instant the young gentleman
was resigning his spirit into the hands Of
its Maker, in the adjoining room. he
died about 10 o'clock She is still in q
precarious condition, and evinces symp-
toms of insanity.
Year: 1869

SERIOUS AcCIDENT.-About IL o'clock
yesterday forenoon, portion of the scat
folding at the new Catholic church fell,
precipitating one of the workmen, Mr..
James Tienan to the ground, breaking
both bones of the left forearm, and severe
ly bruising the left side Of the face, break
ing the upper jaw-bone and knocking out
several teeth. The jaw-bone was so bad
ly broken that several pieces of the bone
had to be taken out. The injury OF the
head was evidently done by stone fall
ing on it, and had the greater portion OF
the blow been one or two inches higher,
it would have resulted in instant death.
DR.. Fox was promptly called in and done
all that could be done to alleviate his
sufferings.
Year: 1869

SUMMERING AT NEWPORT, VT.-The
great hotel at Newport called the Mem
phremagog House has from seventy five
to two hundred guests daily. 1t was
taken" the other day by Boston artist,
and its patrons will carry off the counter
feits among their keepsakes of the region.
What with sails down the lake, and jaunts
on foot or in chase around the country,
the sojourners find ample appetizers, if
the rarified atmosphere itself were not
enough to make a man as healthy and
hungry as he could wish. And the time
does not lie heavily. 1t is year, almost,
crowded into balf day, to sail down the
lake and see all the grand sweep of seem
cry and when, on the return, dinner is
over, fishing parties are organized, and
their excursions by land or water are
often protracted till midnight Some OF
the summerers have fancy for staging
in the deep green country, and SO secure
seats in the North and South Troy wag.
ons. Some of them find a longing fol
rural sport and work. and merchants, OF
considerable importance at home, frater.
nize with the farmers, and stake turn
with scythe or milk pail; or, finding
old ideas Of gallantry revived. charter the
'go-to-meetin' buggy o Friday night
and post away to the neighboring district
to bring home the school marin. Among
the picturesque objects that greet the
travellers eye are the Canucks who ride
to the village in horse carts from over the
line, and the voyageurs who load and un.
load the lumber barges at the docks on
the lake, and pretty sight at the hotel
of1ise hall is the broad table loaded with
Shaker baskets and trinkets for sale BY
two Shakeresses from Maine settle.
ment.
Year: 1869

Left to the women-the wives, sisters and
mothers of those who have been ruined
by strong1drink-the most stringent law
would be rigidly enforced.


It is undeniable that the Maine law has
not realized the hopes and expectations OF
it's friends. Some law, regulating the use
and preventing the abuse Of liquor, should
find place upon our statute books, and
that law should be enforced; we know
the general complaint is that our present
law has never been enforced, thoroughly ;
we do not believe it ever will be, until
public sentiment is educated up to high
er standpoint.
Year: 1869

SALT LAKE.-The water at Salt Lake
is so dense that man cannot sink In IT,
The editor of the Corinne Reporter de-
monstrated this by standing upright in
the water, in which he found it impos-
sible to sink to the chin. He could lie on
the water, stand in it, take almost any po-
sition. and still he would float and could
not sink. 1t is necessary, after swimming
in this briny water, to rinse OIL with
fresh, for the salt of the water condenses
on ones person, and leaves one, when dry,
looking as if he had been powdered all
over with white chalk.
Year: 1869

LAY DELEGATION IN THE METHODIST EPIs-
CORAL CHURCH.-There Is a very sharp con.
tIoyersy between the Christian Advocate of
New York and the North western Advocates of
Chicago, on the lay delegation question. The
subject was submitted by the last General Oon.
ference OF the Methodist Episcopal Church 70
the members of the Church, male and female,


oftwenty -one years Of age and over, and to the
annual conferences. The members have voted,
but the vote cast is very small, being less than
one-nfth OF the whole membership of the
Church, much smaller proportion than voted
In 1861, when the vote was unfavorable to lay
delegation. Although the vote cast was about
two to one In favor Of lay delegation, the New
York Advocate maintains that the vote WAS
not decisive, owing to the large number who
did not vote at all, and that the question is
really thrown back on the ministry for the de.
cision. The North western, and most OF the
other church papers are with it, takes the
ground thai the vote of the members of the
Church is decisive, and that the ministry in


the annual conferences should give 1t their
sanction
Year: 1869

" The following remarks from the pen of
DR., Guthrie are recommended to the con-
sideration of our readers:


The calamity which stand in dread of,
and which, next to the withdrawal of the
divine blessing, is the greatest Church
can suffer, is that the rising talent, genius,
and energy of our country may leave the
ministry of the Gospel for other profess
sions. "A scandalous maintenance,
Mathew Henry says, "makes scandalous
ministry And l will give another,
equally true: "The poverty of the par
sonage win develop itself in the poverty of
the pulpit" / have no doubt about it.
Genteel poverty, to which some ministers
are doomed, is one of the great evils under
the sun. To place man in circumstances
where he is expected to be generous and
hospitable, to open his hand as wide
as his heart to the poor, to give his family
a good education, to bring them up in
what is called genteel life, and to deny
him the means of doing SO, is enough, but
for the hope of heaven, to embitter his ex-
istence.


In the dread of debt; in many daily
notifications meeting, perhaps, some old
acquaintance, whom he dared not ask to
his table, lest his prudent wife should
irown upon his extravagance in harrass-
ing fears what shall become of his wife and
children when his head lies in the grave ;
man of cultivated mind and delicate SEN
sibilities has trials to bear more painful
than the privations of the poor


1t is bitter cup, and my heart bleeds
for brethren who have never told their
SORROWS, concealing under their cloak the
fox that knaws at their vitals.
Year: 1869

ANSWERING A Fool ACCORDING TO HIS
FoLLY.-The Rev. Rowland Hill used to
ride to and fro from church in a carriage.
This gave offense to one at least, who
went SO far as to hand in among the no
tices, one requesting "the prayers of this
congregation for the pastor, who, yield
ing to pride, is in the habit of riding in
his carriage, not content like his Divine
Master, to ride upon an ass" 1t was
not until Mr.. Hill had read the paper,
and observed the sensation created, that
he noticed its import; and then, laying
it down, he said: at is true, brethren,
ride in my carriage; but if the author OF
this notice will appear at the door at tie
conclusion of the services, saddled and
bridled, l will do my best to ride him
home"
Year: 1869

SIOUX CoURrsHIP-CURIoUs SoorA,. cra-
TOMS OF THE ABoRIGIEEs. The Sismr are ~.
haps mentally, morally and physically the pss.
body OF Indians on the Plains. As wives tiejs
women are faithful, and ifa young woman h.
comes lewd they pass her out of the village
stake her down on the ground, where she Is
left for three nights, subject to outrage by the
roughs of the tribe, who can kill her If they
wish. She is, after this, made to carry wood,
water, and do hard labor infhe tribe, and Is
forever disgraced Polygamy is practiced In
the tribe, but not extensively. A man may
have as many wives as he can keep, but must
buy them. The universal price Of wife II a
pOny or for white man an American horse
"A sGuaw once bought becomes the immediate
property of the purchaser, but he must catch
her Men have bought wives and never been
able to catch them Most OF them, however,
are quite willing TO be caught,


An Indian several years ago took fancy to
an officers horse and tried in every way to
purchase him. but the officer would not part
with the animal. Finally the Indian onsfet
his sister, beautiful girl in exchange for the
horse. Fearing he would steal or main the
animal, and not wishing to offend him, the Of
fcer gave the Indian the horse, but declined
to receive the girl in return. The young
lady, however, was informed she was sold,
and SO the matter stood


After waiting long time for her husband
to come and claim her, she one day, as he
rode by the camp, put herself in the way,
when seeing he took no notice Of her. shs
naively asked:


why don't you catch me?"


The officer, who had never seen her before.
inquired what sha meant, when she roundly
told him that she was his wife, and not 1t all
pleased that he had not come for her. He
never claimed her, but she was regarded BY
her tribe as the white mans squaw, and at last
accounts was still single and waiting for her
Year: 1869

Our LIGHTHOUSE SYsTEM-It is lament
able fact that the United States, although far
ahead of the rest of the world in RAILWAYS,
telegraphs, printing presses, sewing machines
and thousand and one appliances of mod
ern civilization, should be almost as far in the
rear in reference % its lighthouse system.
One of the most urgent demands of the re-
form which we have often advocated in this
system is the. substitution of the electrical
light for the oil lamps which so Jimly illu-
inmate our extended and dangerous coast.
The Fresnel lenses and refect0rs were in
deed welcomed as vast improvement when
first INTRODUCED, but their Intellectual fires pale
utterly before the splendid electrical light
which is visible miles and miles away, even
during fog, and which has been so success
fully tested on the French steamer the Vile
de Paris. This electrical light should at once
be put in use in every lighthouse along our
coast, and particularly in the harbor of New
York. Shippers and insurance companies
are alike interested in the speedy adoption Of
the new and marvellous light produced by
electricity. it would be well if the impulse
which Admiral Porter has already given to
activity in the Navy Department were also to
quicken activity in that branch of the Treas
ury Department to which the lighthouses di-
rectly belong. The change which we recon-
mend would then be promptly made.-N. Y.
Herald.
Year: 1869

THE "L Asst MAN BROTHERHooD."-ln the
spring of 1856 thirty.three printers in Phila-
delphia founded a Last Man Brotherhood
founded on the suggestion in Blackwood
article published early in the century. In
this article we are told how twelve young
men, congenial companions of equal station,
agreed to meet and dine alternately at eacn
others houses on the first and last day OF
the year, SO long as any should survive; how
one by one they passed away; how the bois-
terods merriment of the early meetings was
replaced by discussions on politics, the state of
the funds, and the value of landed property;
how, in time, these topics gave way to whist;
how the membership was reduced to four
just enough for rubber; how, at the next
dinner, the game was played with three
hands and an open dummy; how, at the next
quiet game of cribbage between two was all
that could be had; how, finally, the Last
Man, seated solitary at his table, opened the
bottle of wine which had been first opened
and re-corked at the first dinner. drank to
the memory of his departed friends, and went
to join them from the Last Dinner.


The members of the Philadelphia Associa-
ton pay ten cents annually to provide means
for the last man TO take his solitary dinner
The last annual dinner was held February
10th. Nine members had died and most of
the survivors were present at the meeting.