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Year: 1865

CHILDREN.-The " headaches" of early
childhood are on the increase; medical men
are more than ever alive to the fact that chill
dren are over. excited in the nursery, and,
but too often, too early, and far too hard
worked In the school-room they are %. fore
ed, as gardeners would say, for too carly
exhibition in the drawing ROOM They pass
too much of their early life cramped into a
a sort of orderly, by drill attained manners,
utterly destructive of the sweetest most
healthy characteristics Of true children. For
ever, from the earliest moment they can be
taught anything, they are bidden "not to be
rude, but to behave pretty" as if, in real
truth, the prettiest feature of child life was
not sort of ofrudeness-the exuberance OF real
nature. Martyrs to the vanity of our day,
they are limb hampered by the folly which
makes them mere dolls for the exhibition Of
their dresses and the ingenuity of their nur-'
ses in dressing their hair. Taught deport-
ment IN character with their costume. they
become. but too often, vain little puppet imi-
tatlons OF men and women, all the winning
artiessness proper to their age being thus for
clbiy taken from them they strut about,
pretty pictures, when they had far better be
tumbling about with the abandon natural to
their age, but which would at once destroy
the claim to that sort of prettiness their care.
full "get up' had given them. This preco-
cious training in the nursery has its fruit in
that great amount of butterfyism of which
we see 50 much in after life, in those stately,
artificial, variegated specimens ofyoung-l lady
flfe OF which every watering place gives such
cloud. Much real goodness is there in some
of them; but there is the same sad sense of
out to, be looked att stamped upon their
gait and adjoining, only Of an older kind, as
that with which at froom four to seven years
OF age they entered the drawing room to Wis.
itors or the dining room to dessert.
Year: 1865

THE IRISH PREss.-The following is an
extract from the Dublin, Irishman. an Irish
National journal with an extensive circula-
ton:


The rebels will not treat of peace save on
the basis of disunion, and the Federals are
resolved to exhaust all the means at their dis
posal rather than submit to a dismember-
ment of the nation. The one party fights to
destroy-the other to preserye-a Govern
ment whose existence up to the present
has been fraught with nothing but bless
ing to mankind. In the year 1868, there
was little distress in Ireland as well as Eng
land. A Relief Committee was organized in
Dublin for the purpose of collecting funds
from all quarters of the earth. Who were
the foremost contributors? The people of
the North. In the free, North our people
found prosperous homes while slavery shut
the Southern door against them. They
could not live long after landing there with.
out labor, but neither work nor wages were
to be found in the South, save-ditch digging
IN mlasmatic swamps or steamboating-
work that calculating planter would not
allow his negroes to do, lest he should lose
them. In the free North, our kinsmen have
made their homes, and from there they have
often sent us needful succor. To the North
we owe much. To the South we owe moth
ing absolutely nothing. Slavery has kept
our countrymen out of fifteen of the most
fertile States in the Union, and would, if
allowed to extend, drive them out of the
rich mineral territories of the West, but thank
God its race is run. Those fifteen States will
soon be thrown open. Freemen will there
find homes and remunerative employment
Before another year, the slaves will be set
free, the cause of justice and humanity will
be advanced, and matters of vast importance
to the whole circles of nations, will be no
longer left in the hands of few whimsical
statesmen. Such are the sentiments of the
working classes throughout the British Isles.
Year: 1865

ADMIRAL PORTER remark that Fort Fish
er is 6 stronger than the Malakoff, u is calcu-
lated to create unjust impressions, as the in
ference is that small force of Americans
did better than was done by large French
force. The Malakoff was taken bv surprise
and the terrible fighting of which it was the
scene WASH consequence ofvigorous attempts
made by the Russians to recover what thev
had lost. According to a French account
but one French column out of five maintained
its ground against the Russians, but that
suficed to give victory to the Allies. The
fight in the Malakof was of the same length
as the fighting in Fort Fisher, that is, it
lasted between six and seven hour in each
case. As respects killed and wounded, prob.
ably the loss on both sides at the Malakoff,
was eight or ten times greater than it was at
Fort Fisher, and the force employed by the
Allies was by far the more numerous.
Year: 1865

To CoNsUMPTIvEs.- You want air, not
physic you want pure air, not medicated
air; you want nutrition, such as plenty of
meat and bread will give, and they alone;
physic has no nutriment; gasping for air
cannot cure you monkey capers in gym.
nasium cannot cure you. If you want to
get well, 90 in for beet and outdoor air, and
do not be deluded into the grave by the
advertisements, and unreliable certifers.-
Halls Journal of Heath.
Year: 1865

WHEN the monitor Patapsco was blown
up in Charleston harbor, she was dragging
for torpedoes. She had been abreast Of Fort
Sumter and returned, and was on the way
up again, drifting in with the tide and appar-
emily going where she had already twice
been, when she struck the torpedo and in five
minutes was out of sight. She sunk about
eight hundred yards from the fort carrying
down seyenty-two persons.
Year: 1865

INTERESTING EXPERIMENTAL short time
since the long talked of experiment of explo-
ding a submarine torpedo in an oil we'll, to
to enlarge its producing capacity was tried
in the Ladies Well, on the Watson Flats,
just below Titusville. The torpedo contain
ed eight pounds of powder, and was applied
at the depth of four hundred and sixty-threo
feet. The explosion caused the oil and
water to spout out of the well some thirty
feet into the air, and made the ground groan
like great monster in the agonies Of death.
The flow of oil, water and paraffine contin-
ued for some ten minutes, when the distur-
Dances subsided gradually, and oil appeared
on the surface as fast as it could be dipped
out with sand pump.-Nev York; Tribune.
Year: 1865

Away with false fashion so calm and 80 chill,
Where pleasure itself cannot please,
Away with cold breeding, that faithlessly still
Affects to be quite at its ease
For the deepest in feeling is highest in rank
The freest is first in the band
And natures own nobleman, friendly and frank,
Is a man with his heart in his hand.
Fearless in honesty, gentle, yet just,


He warmly can love and can hate,
Nor will he bow down with his face in the dust,
To fashions intolerant state;
For best in good breeding and highest in rank
Though loWly or poor in the land,
Is nature's own nobleman friendly and frank,
The man with his heart in his hand.
His fashion is passion, sincere and intense,
His impulses simple and and true,
Yet tempered by judgment, and taught by gooC


sense


And cordial with me and with you
For the finest in manners is highest in rank,
It is you, man or you, man who stand
Natures own nobleman, friendly and frank,
man with his heart in his hand.-TUPPER.
Year: 1865

INsTNcT.-The most remarkable instance of
preservation from death, the result of an uner-
ring and uncomfortable instinct, occurred in
this way. Napoleon was inordinately addicted
to the luxury of snuf-taking. On one occasion,
being suddenly called out Of Paris, he left the
sale daudience somewhat abruptly, forgetting
his favorite snuff-box which was lying on the
mantel-piece. Business of Importance detained
him at Fontainbleau for several days, and on
his return to the Tuilleries the first object that
attracted his attention was the forgotten snuff
box, which lay precisely in the same spot where
he had left it. He took it up, seemed to hesitate
little, and then turning to an aide-de-oamp,
who was standing few PAGES from him, re-
quested that officer to open the box alleging in
ability.to perform the act himself. The officer
complied with alacrity, and upon the lid flying
open he fell dead upon the floor. A subtle
poison known only to the most abstruse and
experienced chemist, had been introduced for
the purpose of destroying the life Of the Empe-
rOr, who escaped by the inhuman sacrifice Of
an innocent person. After that memorable &C.
casion, Napoleon was never known to carry
snuf-box again, but invariably used his vest
pocket as a depository for the pulyerized arti-
Gle
Year: 1865

The RULING AssIoN.-Bonaparte died in bis
military garb, his Field Marshal's uniform and
his boots, which he had ordered to be put on a
short time previous to his dissolution. Angus
tus Caesar chose to die in a standing position,
and was careful in arranging his person and his
dress for the occasion. Siward Earl Of North
umberand, when at the point of death, quilted
his bed and put on his armor, saying, "that il
became not man to die like beast
moro remarkable instance is that of Maria Their
esa, of Austria, who, short time before she
breathed her last, having fallen into slight
slumber, ono Of the ladies in attendance re-
marked that her Majesty seemed to be asleep
"No, said she, ~ could sleep if would in
dulge in repose, but am sensible of the near
approach of death, and will not allow myself
to be surprised by him in my sleep; l wish to
meet my dissolution awake" Such are the ef-
forts of poor expiring mortality-still clinging
to earth-stll laboring for the breath of poster
ity, and exhausting itself in efforts to rise with
"gracefulness at the last"
Year: 1865

MIXED RELATIONSHIP. "A correspondent Of
Harper's Drawer is involved in domestic per-
plexties He writes


I got acquainted with a young widow, who
lived with her step-daughter in the same house.
married the widow; my father fell, shortly af-
ter, in love with the step-daughter of my wife,
and married her. My wife became the mother
in-law, and also the daughter-in-law to my
father; my wifes step-daughter is my step
mother, and I am step-father Of my mother-in-
law My step-mother who is the step-daughter
of my wife, has boy; he is naturally my steps
brother; because he is the son of my father and
my step-mother; but because he is the son ofmy
step-daughter, so is my wife the grandmother of
the little boy, and am the grandfather of my
step-brother My wife has also a boy; my step4
mother is, consequently, the step-sister Of my
boy, and is also his grandmother, because he is
the child of her step son; and my father is the
brother-in-law of my son, because he has got
his step-sister for his wife. | am the brother
of my own SON, who is the son of my step-moth-
er; am the brother-in-law of my mother, my
wife is the aunt of her son, my son is the grand
son Of my father, and am my own grandfather
Year: 1865

A husband as willing to be pleased at home,
and as anxious to please as in his neighbours
house, and a wife as intent on making things
comfortable every day to her family as on set
days to her guests, could not fail to make
home happy.
Year: 1865

Sailors are improyident rascals Many Of
them in the service are receiving large amounts
of prize money, but they squander it recklessly.
A petty officer lately received $1,000 in New
York. He walked away from the bank with
this amount in his hat at noon one day, and
next day at daylight was locked up in the sta
ton house dead drunk, and the possessor Of a
single ten cent bill.
Year: 1865




F1aHr Your WAY UP.-The many who have
to take the world rough and tumble are prone
to envy the few who roll through it unjolted, in
cushioned vehicles on patent springs. The toll
er as he stumbles through its thorny thickets,
and limps over its foot-blstering gravel, is apt
to curse the i'll luck that placed him on such
hard road and to sigh for a seat in one of the
splendid equipages that glide so smoothly over
Fortunes macadamized turnpike. Born with q
pewter spoon in his mouth, he cOvets tho silver
one which was the birth-gift of his do-n0thing
neighbor. The moro fool he. Occupation is
the immediate jewel" of life. 1t is true that
riches are no bar to exertion. Quite the reverse,
when their uses are properly understood But
the dscontented worker, who pines for wealth
without being willing to labor for it, regards
the idleness in which it would enable him to live
as the acme of temporal happiness. He has no
idea of money as great motive power, to be
applied in enterprises that give healthful employ
ment to mind and body. All that he desires is
to live feather-bed life-to "loaf' luxurious
ly. We have no sympathy with such sensuous
longings. People who indulge in them never
acquire wealth. They lack the energy to break
their way to the worldly independence Of which
they yearn and whine. They don't know how
much more glorious it is to fear affluence from
opposing fate by main strength of will and in
hexibility of purpose, than to receive it as a
windfall There is infinitely moro satisfaction
in conquering a fortune with brain and muscle,
than was ever experienced by "lucky heir"
in obtaining the golden store that some thrift
er hand had accumulated. Your accidental
Cr9sus knows nOthiug of the pride of success
of the honest exultation with which the self
made man looks back upon the impedments he
has overcome, and forward into the far future
which he has earned the right to enjoy.
Year: 1865

Strange incidents occur on railroads some
times-so strange that they are really amusing,
Among the strangest is the manner in which
pockets are picked-and the pockets too Of la
dies. Now what more audacious act is there
than putting q hand in lady's dress pocket,
but the pickpocket is an audacious fellow as
well as a thief An incidentlately occurred on
the railroad between this city and Boston which
is well worth relating. A lady had suffered from
the enterprise of one of these chevaliers deaaus-
frie, and friend of hers about to take the same
route was cautioned to be on her guard, es-
pecially against any we'll dressed, prepossessing
young man who would take seat by her side,
and that TOO, Just before entering the long tun-
mel ne ie, this city. The cautioned lady took her
seat, hooked nervousy abouther She did
did hot SAe "a4y prepossessing young man" just
then, but as the train stopped at Springfield,
one such entered, and, with much politeness


took the vacant seat by her side. Of course the
nervousness of the lady increased, and especial
ly as the young man offered her his paper to read
which she declined, and to his remarks she res
ponded only in monosyllables. She was deter
mined to keep him at his distance which, how
ever, was limited in those narrow seats. At
length they approached the fatal tunnel, and the
caution she had received took sudden hold of
her already greatly excited mind. AS the train
entered the darkness, she made sudden plunge
Tor ler pocket IN WHICH Sne udu u6f pOfVe mon
naie. But the folds of her dress were somewhat
dsarranged and she did not at once find her
pocket; still she nervously persevered diving
first into one fold, then into another, until at
length she found an opening, when, what was
her horror to find the hand her ''prepossess-
ing companion" on the seat was already there


She convulsively clutched the hand with all her
might, but she was so frightened that she was
unable to use her voice. She held on to the
hand thinking to expose the thief on emerging
into the light and though it seemed that the
train would never reach the end of the tunnel


still she held on with the grippe of vice. Her
companion made no effort whatever to release
his hand-whether through fear Of exposing
himself, or rather liking the soft, velvety pres
sure, is not known But daylight at length
came, and with it the fact was revealed that the
lady in searching for her pocket, had inserted
her hand into the pocket of her ''prepossessing
companion, where she found, properly enough


one of his hands. 1t is needless to add that the
lady presented very confused appearance, gent
ly relaxed the hand, glanced out of the car win
dow, and left to her comparion the task of fill
ling in the meaning of her strange conduct.
Year: 1865

The Internal Revenue derived from direct
taxation this year, will reach the enormous
sum of over TWO HUNDRED AND
NINETY MILLION OF DOLLARS.


Who tDots the JiUf


Manufacturers pay a cetain per cent. tax
upon all goods manufacturedb by them which
per cent they add to the price of the goods,
thus clearing themselves entirelY-they do
not foot the bill. Retailers buy the goods
with the per cent. added, and add there to
the taxes with which they are chargcd-so
by the time the consumer gets hold of them
he has to ray the taxes Of every individual
through whose hands the goods pass.


Tie consumers poy he tares
Who arc the principal consumers of the
country?


Farmers and laJorers, THEY FooT TIE
BILL!


This is the Revenue Tax. How is it with
the tax on personal property?
United States Bonds are exempt from
National, State, County, Township and
Municipal taxation.


Rich men Unrest heirnloneyin these londs,
and while they draw 80 interest per an
mum on their money, THEY PAY No TAXES


Who pays the interest on these bonds


Men of moderate meanS-EARMERS AND
MECHANICS


The Withdrawal of the capital invested in
Bonds from the Tax Duplicate throws an
increased burden upon the remaining Per-
sonal Property aud Real Estate.


who owns the greater part Of the Real
Estate in the country?


FARMERS! They pay the taxes which
should fall upon the capitalists.


To collect the Revenue Tax there are EN-.
ployed a host Of Assessors, Collectors and
Commissioners, who receive large salarie,
for their services.


Their salaries are paid from the hard
earnings of the Farmer and Mechanic.


Their labors could be performed by State
and County officers at less than one-thrd
the expense, and thus greatly reduce the
taxes.


This oppressive system of taxation was
originated and legalized by the Abolition
party, who propose to make the men OF
moderate means bear its burdens, while the
capitalists are exempt, thus creating an aris-
tocracy based on wealth.


The Democratic party proposes to make
every man pay his proportion Of the ex-
penses OF the Government, according to
his means. They do not recognize the right
or justice of creating privileged classes, to
be supported upon the industry of the land.
They are opposed to the present expensive
machinery of collecting taxes, by which q
large proportion is eaten up by office hold
crS.


IF you are opposed to paying taxes for
men better able to pay them than you are
if you are opposed to the present expensive
and unjust system of taxation, make it
known at the polls by voting against those
who have laid this heavy burden upon the
work ing classes -(UjWicOfLe IdvcTtiser
Year: 1865

Windsare put in horizontal motions Their
Influence is most beneficial. Were there no
winds the vapors that rise from the sea
would be returned back from the clouds in
showers, to the very same places in the sea
from whence they came. On an earth
where no winds blow. we should neither
have green pastures, still waters, nor running
brooks. Air is more liable to pollution and
corruption than water; staGnation is ruin
ous to it. CcaselesS motion has been given
to it: perpetual circulation and informing
ling of its ingredients are required in it
The necessity ofventilation in our buildings,
the wholesome Influences of fresh air are
universally acknowledged. The cry in cities
for fresh air from the mountains or the sea.
reminds rs continually Of the life-giving
virtues Of circulation.


It is the laboratory for the whole animal
and vegetable kingdoms. The carbonic
acid with which our hreathings fill the air
to-day. tomorrow seeks its way around the
world. the date trees that grow round the
Falls Of the Nile will drink it by their leaves;
the cedars of Lebanon will take it to add To
their stature The Oxygen we are breath
ing now was distilled for us. some short time
ago. by the maGnolias Of the SuSquchanna,
and the great trees that skirt the Amazon.
By the winds the superfuous water is car
ried off and removed to other lands W here
its agency is required or it is treasured up
as the material ofcloudS in the crystal vault
Of the armament, the source when the fit
ting season arrives, of the showers which
provide for the wants of the year.
Year: 1865

A poor laborer died. after long illness,
and presented himself at the gate of Hea-
ven, where he found that he had been pre-
ceded by rich man of the same locality
who had just died, and having previously
knocked, had been admitted by the apostle
Peter. The laborer who stood waiting with
out was enchanted with the ravsing sound
of rejoicing and sweet music which appeared
to hail the entrance of the rich man; and
having knocked in his turn, was also ad
mitted Great was his aStonishment at
finding silence, where seraphic sounds had
so lately been joyously uttered.


How is this?' he demanded Of Peter /;
when the rich man entered / heard music
and singing; is there then the same dis
tinction between rich and poor in Heaven
as on earth. ~


Not at all, replied the apostle; ''but
the poor come to Heaven every day where
it is scarcely once in hundred years that a
rich man gains admission.
Year: 1865

Marching in a very hot day, an old gren-
adler dropped down, exhaused. Restora;
rives were administered by a surgeon, and
a man was detailed to carry t he old soldier ;
load But being still weak, he asked to lie
down for few minutes. \ young ensign
coming along. in rough language ordered
him to move forward The king heard il,
and with a sharp reproof to the officer said;
"My men shall be treated with humanity. y
He then ordered the old soldier to be set on
horse and the young officer to be sent out
of the regiment. On another occasion, a
cannon stuck fast in the road, and while the
men were doing their best to get it out, an
officers struck one Of the men, Frederlck
in passing, saw the act, and ordered the
officer and some of his own attendants to
dismount and give assistance to the artillery
men. The next morning, sending for the
officer he said to him: My army is com
posed of men, You are monster. You
are cashiered. Go to the devil y
Year: 1865

We copy the following from an Irish
journal; Tramp on the buds of Il goodly
number of the largest plants in the spring,
and place on the buds teaSpoonful of salt,
then turn your hogs on them. They will
eat the roots of the salted plant first, and
will thus acquire a fondness for them, and
will continue to eat them daily as long as
they can be found. Ii but one hog be edu-
Gated in this way, he will teach the whole
herd to eat them, and they will eXtcrminate
all on the farm.
Year: 1865

Take Of the juice ofelderberry one quart
boil it to one pint; strain and add two
pounds of double refined sugar; again place
it over the fire 50 soon as it shall have
boiled, remove it from the fire, and when
cold bottle for use, taking care to have it
well covered With less quantity Of sugar
there will be danger ofits becoming mouldy.
As u gentle purgative, this syrup is an ex-
cellent medicine, ofvery pleasant taste-and
is peculiarly serviceabe to children who arc
The dose for an adult is a wine glassful,
Year: 1865

A florist of many years experience sends
the following receipt for preserving boquets
the american ArtiSun' "When you receive
a boquet, sprinkle it with cold water; then
put it in a vessel containing some soapsuds,
which nourish the roots and keep the flow
ers as good as new. Take the boquet out
of the suds every morning and lay it side
ways in fresh water, the stalk entering first
into the water; keep it there a minute or
two, then take it out and sprinkle the tlow-
ers lightly by the hand with pure water.
Replace the boquet in the soapsuds and the
flowers will bloom up as fresh as when gath
cred" "