Year: 1874

Trance acknowledging IN ones
sleep.


Good place for matchmaking-Sul-
phur springs.


The best way to take a cool bath is
to take it coolly.


If thy-enemy wrong thee, buy each of
his children drum.


He lives long that lives well, and
time misspent is not lived, but lost.


We govern our passions but in gen.
eral We let the passions first have trial.


Cast your nets in the right water, and
they may take fish while you are sleep
ing.


Some people can't see why heap of
snow fast to the ground should be
called drift.


1t should not discourage us if our
kindness is unacknowledged ; it has its
influence still.


1t is with our Judgment as with our
watches, none go Just alike, yet each
believes his own.


Idleness is a great slough into which
the vices of the world drift and settle,
to rise again IN miasma.


An old lady, hearing somebody say
the mails were irregular, said ''It
was inst so in my young days-no trust
ing any of "em."


Teach child to lie, and then hope
that he will grow up honest better put
a wasp in tar barrel. and wait till he
makes you honey.


LAND and Water" says that the
shrubs which supply the mobiles of Ja-
pan with teas are reported to be 500
years old, the tea grown on old plants
being the best.


A farmer complains that hook and
ladder company has been organized in
his neighborhood. He states that the
ladder is used after dark for climbing
into his hen house. after which the
hooking is done.


Spilkins got home about , O. clock
on Sunday morning, Indignantly pro-
nouncing the eclipse fraud. Mrs. 5.
with a woman's intuition, at once IN
spected the color of his breath, and
ordered him to bed in disgrace.


Black ebony comes mostly from the
Indies and Madagascar, and is hardest
and heaviest, while from Portugal
comes brown ebony, softer and less
compact in grain. The African black
wood looks like ebony, but Is even
more solid, and inlaid with ivory makes
beautiful ornamental work.


The earliest print from a wood engrav-
ing, of which any certain information
can be obtained, was found in one of
the most ancient converts of Germany.
pasted within the cover of a Latin man
uscript. 1t is picture of st. Christie
pher carrying the infant Jesus across
the sea, and it is dated 1453.-Littie
Corporal.


The whistle blown from Cape Fou-
cher, during foggy weather, is distinctly
heard at the distance of seventeen
miles in calm weather six to ten, in
stormy weather; twenty mine with a
favorable wind six to ten, with con
trary winds. In the history of the
range of sound, it is a well known fact
that the cannouade of Waterloo was
heard at Creil, distance of one hun
dred and twenty-one miles from the
field of battle.


The fundamental cause of all unhappy
marriages may be found in the joining
together of uncongenial temperaments
and the sullen stubborness of either
sex in withholding mutual concessions,
which do so much to make married life
happy. Men and women should never
marry in haste to repent at leisure.
Better a long and tedious courtship,
that the man and woman may learn
each others good and bad qualities
than a married life of acrimony, re-
elimination, and regret.


Among the Chinese (says PiddingJ
no relics are more valued than the boots
which have been worn by an upright
magistrate. In Davis "China" we are
informed that whenever Judge of IN
usual integrity resigns his situation,
the people all congregate to do him
honor. III he leaves the city where he
has presided, the crowd accompany him
from his residence TO the gates,
where his boots are drawn Off with
great ceremony, tn be preserved in the
hall Of justice. Their place is supplied
with a new pair, which, in their turn,
are drawn off to make room for others,
it being considered sufficient TO conse-
crate them that he should merely have
drawn them on.


The Bessemer steamer system has
been applied by Mr.. Henry Giffard to
a hanging railroad car, which has been
tested with success on the line of the
Northern railroad in France. Seated
-. Iln
springs, the traveller experiences the
sensation of repOsing in a hammock,
free from the vibrations and bumpings
of the ordinary car. At times, the car
undulates as does a boat on a calm sea.
The movement is described as a very
gentle one, and the traveller is enabled
to read without fatigue and write with
ease. The principle of this car applied
to ambulances doubtless would be a
great boon to the wounded who may be
conveyed in them


The way to get credit is TO be pune
tual the way to preserve 1t ls not to
use it much. Settle often have short
accounts. Trust 10 man appearance;
appearances are deceitful, perhaps as
sumed Tor the purpose of obtaining
credit. Beware of CANDY exteriors !;
rogues generally dress well. The rich
are plain trust him, if any one, who
carries but little on his back. Never
trust him who flies into a passion on
being dunned, but make him pay
quickly if there be any virtue in the law.
Whenever you meet a man who Is fond
of argument, you will meet one pro
foundly ignorant Of the operations Of
the human heart. Mind your own
affairs. Let all the errors you see in
Others management suggest correct
ness in your own.


An ingenious proiectile, invented by
a Russian officer, is now claiming the
attention of military scientists. The
sezlroch, as it is called, is an elongated
shell, the head of which is completely
spherical round shell upon the end
of an iron cylinder. The two parts are
united by a comparatively slight thick
ness of metal. When fired, the seza-
roch leaves the gun Ike an ordinary