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Year: 1859

" Rot the admiration of the whole Court
Who made the Old Bailey Judge of beauty?
She was golden-haired doll ?"


"Do you know Sydney" said Mr.. Stryver,
looking at him with sharp eyes, and slowly
drawing hand across his Aorid face: " do you
know, rather thought, at the time, that you
sympathsed with the golden-haired doll, and
were quick to see what happened to the golden
haired doll ?"


" Quick to see what happened! If q girl,
doll or no doll, swoons within yard or two of
q mans nose, he can see it without perspec-
tive-glass. | pledge you, but deny the beau ty
And new I'll have no more drink I'll get to
bed"


When his host followed him out on the stair
case with candle, to light him down the stairs
the day was cotdly looking in through its grimy
windows. When he got out of the house, the
air was cold and sad, the dull sky overcast, the
river dark and DIM, the whole scene like life
less desert. And wreaths of dust were spinning
round and round before the morning blast, as if
the desert-sand had risen far away, and the first
spray of it in its advance had begun the over
whclming of the city,


Waste forces within him, and desert all
around, this man stood still on his way across q
silent terrace, and saw for moment, lying in
the wilderness before him, a mirage of honora-
bic ambition, sclf-denial, and perseverance. In
the fair city of this vision, there were airy gal
lerles from which the fruits of life hung ripen-
ing, waters of Hope that sparkled in his sight.
A moment, and it was gone. Climbing to a
high chamber ina well of houses, he threw him
self down in his clothes on a neglected. bed, and
its pillow was wet with wasted tears


Sadly, sadly, the sun rose upon no sadder
sight than the man of good abilities and good
emotions, incapable of their directed exercise,
incapable of his own help and his own happi-
ness, sensible of the blight on him, and resign
ed himself to let it eat him away.


TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1859

entered upon his duties wfth afablity, but sald
that two ladies who accompanied the party
could not proceed with it, and invited them into
IL reception room. What the rest saw is thus
told:


q" The main building, in the centre of which
is u magnificent marble entrance, leading by
many steps to the chapel, is about five hundred
feet in length and three stories high, with wings
of equal length running from each end back
wards and across the rear, forming large en-
closure, into which open the cloisters, or dwell
ngs of the monks. Each monk has his own
apartments of couse, for solitude and silence
could not be fully enjoyed without them. They
consist oil a kitchen, a sitting room or study a
sort OF working room, and bedroom. 10 each
is also added small garden, in which we saw
some oranges ripening, and various Towering
shrubs There is also little hole or rather
closet, in the wall, opening upon the area,
within which their food is placed by an invsi-
BILE hand, so that they may have as little
communication as possible with each other, and
prolong to the utmost their enjoyment of the
unutterable pleasures of silence. In the main
building, to which we were first introduced. we
traversed know not how many apartments,
handsomely furnished, with large beds, which
our guide informed US were for the use of
strangers In former years it had been the
usage of the convent to give any strangers who
called, a lodging for single night, but now he
said they We're not rich enough to continue the


practice As it had been discontinued. mar.
Year: 1859

1t was once remarked in the hearing Of
little girl of thirteen, that all things came by
chance, and the world like mushroom, sprang
up in a night. @ should like to know, sir, y
asked the child, where the seed came from p
Year: 1859

told, to preach at leasrc!Sl


and believe, it is among the U
their order to visit the sick and dying
mainly by silence and separation fron>
world that they hope to guard themselves n
ehectually from the temptations of the worlSll
the flesh and the devil, and thereby best COM
mend themselves to the Author of their being"
Year: 1859

HENRY A. HULL NXTOULD announce to the citizens of Litchfeld w and vicinity, that after an absence of ten years he has returned for the purpose of prosecut- ing the TAILORING BUSINESS in all its branches and trusts that by faithful attention to business he shall merit the confidence and share in tile patron age of the public.

 Particular attention paid to the cutting of

 JUVENILE DRESS Thanking old friends for their kind demonstra- ton in his behalf he invites them, and all in need of work in his line to call at his rooms over the post office in South steeet.

 Litchfeld, Oct. 20, 1858. 26
Year: 1859

THE BURIAL OF MOSES. And He buried him in Valley in the land ( Moao, over against Bethpeor i; but no man knowet of his sepurchre unto this day y''-Dea. 34: 6. By Nebo's lonely mountain,

 On this side Jordan's wave, In a vale in the land of Moab

 There lies lonely grave. And no man dug that sepulchre,

 And no man saw it eer; For the Angels of God upturned the sod, And laid the dead man there That was the grandest funeral That ever passed on earth; But no man heard the tramping,

 Or saw the train go forth. Noiselessly as the day light

 Comes when the night is done, And the crimson streak on oceans cheek

 Grows into the great sun; Noiselessly as the spring time

 Her crown of vcrdure weavcs, And all the trees all the hills >Open their thousand leaves; So, without sound of music,

 Or voice of them that wept, Silent down from the mountain crown

 The great procession swept. Pcrchance the bald old eagle

 On gray Beth-peors night, Out of his rocky cyrie

 Looked on the wondrous sight; Perchance the lion stalking

 Still shuns that hale wed spot For beast and bird have seen and heard That which man knoweth not But when the warrior dieth

 His comrades in the war With arms reversed and mufaed drum

 Follow the funeral car; They show the banners taken, .. They tel the battles won, And after him lead his masterless steed,

 While peals the minute gun. Amid the nobles of the land

 Men lay the sage to rest, And give the bard an honored place,

 With costly marble dressed. In the great minster-transept

 Where lights like glorics fall; And the choir sings and the organ rings Along the emblazened wall. This was the bravest warrior That ever buckled sword, This the most gifted poet

 That ever breathed word, And never earth's philosopher

 Traced with his golden pen On the deathless page truth half so sage As he wrote down for men. And had he not high honor!

 The hill side for his pail i; To lie in state while angels wait,

 With stars for tapers tall; And the dark cl-pines, like tossing plumes, Over his bier to wave, And Gods own hand, in that lonely land, To-Day him in the grave In that deep grave, without name, Whence his uhcotfined clay Shall break again, most wondrous thought, ,- Before the judgment day; And stand, with glory wrapped around, On the hills he never trod, And speak of the strife that won our life, With the incarnate Son of God. Oh, lonely tomb in Moab's land

 Oh, dark Beth-peos's hill Speak to these curious hearts of ours, And teach them to be still God hath his mysteries of grace,

 Ways that we cannot tell; He hides them deep, like the secret sleep Of him He loved 50 we'll.
Year: 1859

From rare book, printed in 1868, called
Sylvia Sylvarum. or Natural History by
Francis Bacon, Lord Ferulam,) | copy the
following extract, touching u plant with which
in this age we are all familiar. IL.


Tobacco is thing of great price. II IT
be in request: for an acre of it will be worth
las is aftrmed) two hundred pounds by the
year, towards charge. The charge ofmaking
the ground and otherwise is great, but moth
ing TO the profit. But the English tobacco
hath small credit, as being too dull and ear
thy: nay the Yirginian tobacco, though that
be in hotter climate, can get us credit for
the same cause; so that q trial to make tobac-
co more aromatical and better concocted here
in England were thing of great profit
Some have gone about to do it by drenching
the English tobacco in decoction or intu
sion Of Indian tobacco; but those are but So
phistifcations and toys, for nothing that is
once perfect and hath run his race can receive
much amendment. You must ever resort 10
the beginnings of things for melioration. The
way of maturltion of tobacco must, as in 9th
er plants, be from the heat either of the earth
or of the same. We see some leading Of this i'll
the musk-melons, which are sowed upon
hot bed lnanured below, upon a bank turned
to the south sun, to give heat by reflection,
laid upon tiles, which increaseth the heat,
and covered with straw to keep them from
the cold. They remove them also, which
addeth some life, and by these helps they be-
come as good in England ss in Italy or Pro-
vence. These and the like means may be
tried in tobacco Enquire also Of the steep
ing of roots in some such liquor as may give
them vigor to put forth strong"
Year: 1859

There are some facts connected with the ! rise and fall of the Mississippi River that are not generally known. One of these is that the volume of water below Cairo on the june tion with the Ohio is not increased proportion ably to the rise at Cairo. At Cairo, the diff ferences of level between high and low water mark is fifty feet at New Orleans it is only twelve feet. The width and depth of the riv CT between Memphis and New Orleans is moi increased in proportion to the volume of water that, in freshet, rushes past Cairo, without taking into consideration the numerous branch es on both sides of the river, especially on the west below the Ohio. What becomes then o all this water It does not reach New Or leans, if it did, the whole lower part of the river would be one immense lake and New Or. leans and almost the whole of Louisiana be swept into the Gulf. If, thirteen feet differ. ence between high and low water mark pro duces such floods in the Lower Mississippi as was experienced last year, and may be this, what would fifty feet accomplish What then becomes of the water

 Here we are met by a theory lately started that the soil of the valley of the Mississippi below, say the Tennessee line, is-s porous in its character as to absorb three-fourths of all the water that rushes by Cairo in freshet, ard thus relieves the land on the lower part of the river from utter annihilation. In speaking of this theory, writer says in proof of it:

 " If we'll is sunk anywhere ill the Arkan- sas bottom, water is found as soon as the wa ter-level of the Mississippi is reached. When the Mississippi goes down, the water sinks &C., cordingly in the we'll The owner of saw mill some twenty miles from the Mississippi, in Arkansas dug we'll to supply the boilers of his engine, during the late food When the water receded, his we'll went down till his hose would no longer reach the water, and, finally, his well was dry. He dug ditch to an adja- cent lake to let the water into his we'll the lake was drained and the we'll was dry again {; having literally drank ten acres of water in q week. The inference is, that the whole val ley of the Mississippi, from it's banks to the highlands on either side, rests on a porous stratum which absorbs the redundant waters, and thus prevents that degree sof accumula- tion which would long since have swept New Orleans into the Gulf but for this provision of nature, to which alone her safety is attribu- table,"

 But for this character of the soil, at every season of freshet, the greater part of the low CT Mississippi would be but a part of the Gulf of Mexico. Had the soil been like that contiguous to the Ohio River, New Orleans could never have had an existence The DO. rous substratum of rock or soil carries off the water by absorption and transmission to the Gulf of Mexico, and thus the lands are ren- dered cultivable and inhabitable.

 Hartf Couramt.
Year: 1859

A PROPOSITION FROM BRIGHAM YoUNG.-- It is said that Brigham Young has submitted Q proposition to company of capitalists to sell

 all his right, title and interest to Utah Terri tory, for reasonable sum of money, and to leave the Territory within specified time. Some of the company are said to be in Wash ingtoD, consulting with the Administration.

 The matter has been kept thus far g profound secret. They desire the aid of the government in carrying ont this praiseworthy undertaking, and it is highly probable that the government will lend them all the aid in it's power. If it cannot be effected in any other way. the sub ject will Dc laid before Congress at its meeting.
Year: 1859

In view of the poor crops of last year and the probability of war ill Europe, the New York Tribune remarks to farmers

 We say, therefore, to the few who have made the inquiry, and to whoever may think our opinion worth hearing, there is positive and signal deficiency of grain in the country at this moment, and you can hardly SOW and plant too much. We do not mean that man should plant or SOW twenty acres when he has only help team and fertilizers to cultivate ten thoHsnghly but we do say, put in the crops i; put them in well, and as large an area as you can fully take care of. There is great Eu- ropean war looming on the horizon-it may or may not break out this year, but all the craft of diplomacy, all the pleadings of Christian ity, cannot prevent it. That war will create an immense demand for our provisions but even were it to be ultimately averted, the im- mense preparations of the prospective bellige- rents. their musterings, marchings, and con centrations of troops their diversions of skill and labor from productive industry to fortif- cations, cannon-casting, the riling of muSkets, the manufacture of powder, &c., must create all extra deE:and for food. And not only is there much less grain now in the country than usually at this season, but we hear complaints from various quarters of the scarcity of fodder also-caused, in part, doubtless, by the defi- cient grain harvest last year. Let the hus- bandman prepare, therefore to double in '59 his grain crop of '58, in the confident assur- ance that the fruits of his labor will command liberal recompense"
Year: 1859

Too FINE FOR UsE.-The New York Times has some sensible comments upon the lack of comfort in many of the dwellings of modern times. The writer truly says that too many houses in American cities are so fine that the people who own them are afraid to use them. The following parlor sketch is well drawn:

 Call in at any brown stone front, above Bleeker,' at any time, except on the occasion of a great spread, and it has the air of very nice old maid in morning gown and curled pa- pers-a cross between iron precision and pain. tul desolation. Everything exists in state of baggIncss. The sota is mute inglorious corpse ill dimity winding-sheet. The chairs are put away in aprons and pantalcttcs. The chande- Her wraps it's night-gown around it. The shut ters are closed to keep from fading the carpets, and only here and there, through the cracks, a little bit of sacred light peeps in and looks around, in tremulous way. Everything smells of brown Holland, and everything looks as if it considered you fearfully impertinent for daring | to come in and disturb its elegant uselessness and brown linen repose. It is very much like going into family vault after an epidemic, and having lively time with a party of corpses in fresh grave clothes. In fact, you feel decided ly like asking the mistress of the house why she doesn't complete the picture by putting mp the clothes line in the parlors, and hanging up the weeks wash.

 Soberly, this show-shop arrangement, which makes home nuisance, and drives father and son out of doors for that comfort which their own house is far too fine to afford them, is q growing nuisance. and lies at the bottom of half the social evils. When man comes home after the fatigues of business he doesn't want a show-wife nor 8 show-shop house. He doesn't want an invisible palace but visible home. He wants something made to wear and use, and allowed to be used after its kind. He wants chairs that he can lean back in and carpets made to be walked on and house alive all over and wife and children whose daily thought is how it can all be made happi- est, cheeriest most thoroughly comfortable for Gm." a%e
Year: 1859

SWALLOWING A BuLLKT-A Highland shep-
herd while mumblIng small bullet between
his teeth, unfortunately let it escape from them
and slip into the windpipe. He caughed inces
sanity for two hours. after which he had slight
Inconvenience. beyond little occasional dry
cough till the middle Of the following day,
when he was attacked with shiverIng. head
ache and deep pain in the right SIDE OF the
chest. HE shIvering and headache ceased, but
the pain continued. and he was excessively
drowsy. On the evening of the third day he
was seen by Dr.. Macraf who, being satisfied OF
the bullet, directed the man to be STRAP ned
securely To n common chair. that he might be
easily suspended from the rIfters of the root
with head down ward, in order that the chest
might be easily shaken by a rapid succession of
sudden smart Jerks and that the weight of the
bullet might favor It's escape from Its seat IN the
lungs He kept suspended aa long as he
could endure such uncomfortable position.
and then placed IN the horizontal position for a


few minutes To rest. When sufficiently recruit
ed he was hung mp again. Upon being taken
down the first time he described the pain III
his breast As moved nearer Ia the top OF his
chest, and during the third suspension he JOY
fully excl Imed-.' ThanIg-ai thauIg-ai G. 1t
has come, it has cornei" in the Gaelic language
Immediately after a smart shaking, and fe"
convulsIve Fetchng coughs, he spat the little
bullet from his mouth.
Year: 1859

GRAFTtNG AND TRIMMING FRUIr
TREES. An experienced cultivator IN
Duchess county n. Y, writes as follows
on these subjects:


Scions for grating should be cut in
February, which is the right season to in
sure their living and dong well ; they
should then be housed in cellar until the
time for inserting them arrives, whichwith
you might be the las, week pri or fisrl
OF May and during the latter month. They
should be put only into healthy vigorous
branches, such as you would not care 10
remove from the tree, and thus you will
have an artificial tree that Will oe ready
for bearing IN about three years.


BY removing too many branches from q
tree inlnry may be done. Careful atten-
ton should be given to this point in Iop-
ping the branches preparatory TO grating
IN order that the sap may pass into the re-
malnlag branches and keep the tree heal
Thy and growing. give you these ideas,
knowing that fruit trees are often injured
by those who go about the country making
ii their business TO set gratis IA April and
May, setting as many scions as they can.
and getting pay for those that live, thus
uoIIS Siedt udilAdSe 10 tIie tieeS


Many farmers IN our county have / think
a wrong idea as 10 the time of pruning
their apple trees, saying it is of li,tle con-
sequence when the tree is pruneG, if it
only needs pruning. This, | am ready
to say. Is sad mistake, for a, all seasons
when the sap Is down it is entirely wrong.
The first or second week in June is the
only fit season for pruning the annie tree
Then the sap is in full flow, and the wound
made by cuuig of a bough begins to heal,
and grow over Immediately"
Year: 1859

An OURASG-OUTANG IN CHURCH.-Faiher Car
basson brought up Ourang Outang. which
became fond Of him that it seemed dcsirouS
OF accompanying him wherever he went and ii
became necessary to shut up the animal In Il
house when the service at church about 10
TO b per ormed. On one occasion the Father
surprised and confounded by seeing that
the whole congregation were laughing He Sc
verely rebuked them for their misconduct, but
to his astonishment and griefthey laughed again.
In the warmth of his zeal he redoubled his vo-
cifcratIon and his actions but far from the
desired effect being Produced. the laughter now
reached its greatest height The mystery by
which be had been greatly perplexed was
not 10 be unravelled until friend stepped up
he pulpit steps and gave him the solution
The ourang had unhappily escaped from his
prison, and following the + ather To the church
he silently mounted the sounding board above
the pulpit, where he lay perfectly still till the
sermon began. Creeping now to the edge OF
the board, and overlooking the preacher, he, IN
the most grotesque manner initiated all the
Fathers actions, increasing their number and
earnestness in proportion to the excitement of
the preachers feelings, and giving them, as they
reached their acme the greatest force As Car
basson left the pulpit and looked upwards to-
wards the sounding board, such the arch
deneanor of the ouraue that 1t WIS with extreme
difficulty he preserved sufficient gravity to iii
rect his servants to take the animal away
Cassets Popular Natural History
Year: 1859

DEATH OF TIE GIANT PoRr.R-Tbe Iouisville
(hy.) Democrat gives an account of the death
OF the giant Porter In that place. The Demo
crR says he was the tallest man in the world
Mr. Porter was born near Portsmouth, Ohio
and was brought to that city by his parents IL
the following year, since which, except for a
short time when he was on the stage lie has
been living in Louisville He was feet inch
es in height. and when in perfect health weighed
Bearly 800 pounds 1t is remarkable that for
the first ii years Of his life he was quite small


for his age, so mach so that he was often en-
gagged to ride races on the old track where the


Elm Tree Garden now is. At II he was APP
prenticed at cooperIng, and his remarkable
growth commenced. 1t Is stated that the most
he ever grew In one week Vas one inch. 1t was
his habit while growing to measure every Sat
urday night, and his own testimony and that
of his family and friends are evidence of this
remarkable fact. He soon got So tall that it
was impossible Tor hlm to cooper barrels, and
he was employed on hogsheads. This however
became equally impossible, owing to his remark
able height, and he was compelled to abandon
the business. He then engaged in keeping and
driving hacks In the years 1896 and 1887 he
went East and appeared on the stage in
two pieces written especially for him. He
turned TO Louisville. and few wears later
bought the coffee house which he was keeping
at the time of his death. Several annecdoteA
are told of him. One of these we viii relate
At the time that Charles Dickens came to this
country there perfect furor to see Boz. -
As he passed through the canal at Louisville he
sent messenger 10 Porter, intImatIng a wish
10 see him Porter replied to the messenger
that 9" II Mr.. Dickens wishes TO see more
than | to see him he will come to me-" Mr.
Dickens took the hint, and ii was during the
con- ersation that Porter told the novelist that
while he was growing his mother had TO sew 4
foot on his panialoons every night.
Year: 1859

An ITEM FoR Bovs.-It is one of the
besetiing sins of the young men of this ex-
travagant age, to endeavor to get rid of
work-to seek lazy empIoyment-and the
consequence is that many of them turn out
TO oe worthless vagabonds. Boys, avoid
this whirlpool as you would a plague spot :,
Danish from your min! forever the dam
gerous desire TO live without work, La
Dor is honorable, and dignlfied it is the
parent of health, wealth and happiness );
never consider IT a burden aud a CURSE
Shun idleness and sloth pursue some HON
est calling and be no, ashamed TO be useful