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Year: 1867

Waterfalls were bad enough, ,-hoop-skirt
| -tIiters--are an invention OF the devil. low
necked dresses are deadly enemies to man ;


morals, but with a pocket full of tracts. and


the nerve to close one s eye when necessary.


fellow might possibly reach heaven by
running the guantlet Of female fashions
But the latest freak in the hair dressing line


caps the sheef Fancy lard-keg wrap-
ped about with horse hair and covered with


colored minn0w net strapped upon the
| back OF ady's head Yet we daily see


ladies on our streets wearing en- They
| think no doubt, that it enhances their bean
| ty. so do the Caffir niggers, from whom
the taahion is stolen. The abomination
ought 20 be called 'Cafirs It's their


proper name. IT. an ugly word No pret-


ty woman should wear one. Long hair in a


woman IS an excellent thing-an ornament
| than which no other ornament is more be-


coming. And to fancy that which God has


given her to be plated and twisted until it
! protrudes from the back of her head like a


horse toll plated up to avoid the mud.
1t enough to make a fellow forswear the
society Of the sex that is fast tending to the
worship of but one God-Eashion. We
verify believe that if some enterprisinq
French lady, an acknowledged leader of the
'V.', nVIC ~ appear On tue streets OF HarIS
with her head closely shaven in less than
three months every woman in America from


the mistress IN the parlOr to the scullery


maid in the kitchen, would glory in hairless


heads. Throw aside the monstrous things.


ladies', and try to look becoming, pretty.


charming enhancing once more. Leave.


outlandish distortions of your most beauti


tul natural ornament to outlandish women


Throw your "Caffirs' to the Cafirs. and


show Fashion that you will not blindly fol-


low whithersoeyerits senseless and tasteless
capriees may lead Give folly the go-by,


and let sense and judgment dictate your
fashions. Oittge is a good word, when an
piled to that which is the reverse of lovely.


but 1t is a proclamation when loveliness is
made synonymous with oltfre.
Year: 1867

1t is said that in a dockyard of England,
a ship of many thousand tons was once built
and large multitude had assembled to wit
ness the launching. The wedges were
knocked away, but the immense mass re-
mained motionless Before feeling of dis
appointment began tomanifest itself, little
boy ran forward, and commenced pushing
against the vessel. His efforts excited the
ridicule of the spectators; but he turned in
dienantly toward them saying, i can push
a pound, aud continued his exertions.
They we're all that were needed to overcome
the friction and soon the huge ship, yield
ing to his pressure, gracefully glided into
the waves. So many great and noble
cause stands motionless, when perhaps the
efforts of child would have overcome the
obstacles that hinder its progress. A single
grain will turn nicely balanced scale. a
single word or action, or glance OF the eye,
may be fraught with inestimable eonsequen-
ces. We cannot be the judges OF the
amount Of our influence. We know not
how much it accomplishes. We cannot be
aware through what wide circle it may
spread. Hoathly Rel. Mag.
Year: 1867

Truth is an eternal element 1t is an
essence of divinity. Man must grasp this
essence; he must press it to his soul; it must
be his spiritual life, and rule Ibis thoughts
and actions. Truth must ever be with him,
continually abiding with him. Only in this
way can he be natural. Only so can be re-
semble the Redeemer. To be like God is
to be unnatural. 'Tis true, opposites exist.
Light has its shade, cold is opposite to heat;
hate Is antagonistic to love Truth Is op-
posed by error But with one path, one
genuine course remains for him TO follow
II Is the path of right, of Truth, Of fjustic, of
love. and of unswerving fidelity to God
Only 50 can the soul live out its noblest
attributes, and harmonic with the purposes
of the Creator. Moral purity can only
qualify US for this mission.
Year: 1867

The silent, holy Sabbath pervades city
and country, hamlet and village; in the
crowded haunts of men, where the corroding
and selfish cares of the week are banished.
but for one single day, and beneath the
umbrageous canopy of green groves in the
fresh and yernal country, where the more
unsophisticated children of this teeming
world meet on each recurrence of the day,
to offer up their simple prisons to the Most
High. What a source of contemplation it
is that almost at the same hour, through
the whole broad land, so many thousands
are engaged in listening to the words which
drop from the lips of God appointed agents
on earth.


In the dim and holy precincts of the city
church, where the fretted light falls with q
anu necks tnetnrOhg dI w0rsdIppers1 ana
the man Of God, who is ministering at the
alter; and in the rustic church of the country
where the broad and yellow light of the day
falls upon all alike-everywhere the lord
is in his holy temple"
Year: 1867

RRThere are many people in the world
who make it practice to sponge the read
ing Of newspapers without any expense to
themselves. This has often been noticed
and commented upon. They are not con-
fined to any particular locality, but are found
wherever the newspaper goes, An exchange
from Maine thinks there are more of this
class there than elsewhere, while the ". H.
Gazette believes the Granite State is infested
with them to even a greater degree. 1t
says: We have known men OF means to hang
around store where the proprietor takes
paper for the mere purpose of reading the
paper, and getting the news without its cost
ing them anything. There are scores of
families whose parental heads spend enough
in bad rum and tobacco weekly to pay for a
dozen newspapers, and Still persist in spon-
ging what little information they get of what
IS going on in the world, from their neighbor.
Any man who can afford to indulge in rum,
beer, cider, or tobacco, can abundantly afford
to subscribe and pay for newspaper for
tie benefit of himself and family. Is not
that SOP
Year: 1867

The excellent washer women of Holland
and Belgium, who get up their linen so
beautifully white, use refined borax as a
washing powder, instead of soda, in the
proportion of one large handful of powder
to about ten gallons Of boiling water They
save in soap nearly one half All the large
washing establishments adopt the same
mode. For laces. cambrics, &c, an extra
quantity of the powder is used for crino-
lines, requiring to be made stiff, a strong So
luton is necessary. Borax, being neutral
salt does mott in the slightest degree injure
the texture of the linen. Its effect is TO
soften the hardest water, and therefore it
should be kept on every toilet table. To the
taste it is rather sweet T; it is used for clean
ing the hair, is an excellent dentifrice aud
in hot countries it is used, in combination
with tartaric acid bicarbonate of soda, as a
cooling beverage. Good tea cannot be made
with hard water. All water may be made
soft By adding teaspoonfui Of borax pow
der to an ordinary sized kettle of water, in
which it should boil The saving in the
quantity oftea used will be at least one-fith.
- Drp0gists Circular
Year: 1867

The following description of an Arctic
sunrise Is extracted from Dr. Hays's "OFen
Polar Sea. After the long winter of con
tinued darkness, DR.. Hays in company with
two companions visited the outer point of
his winter harbor, on the 18th of February.
on which day it was calculated the sun would
appear Their calculation happily proved
correct


"Aud now we were bathing in the atmos-
phcre Of other days The friend of all hone
full associations had come back again to put
a new glow into our hearts He had return
ed after an absence Of one hundred and
twenty six days to revive a slumbering
world and as l looked upon his face again,
after this long interval, | dil not wonder
that there should be men to bow the knee
and worship him and proclaim him The eye
Of God The parent Of light aud life eY-
erywhere, he Is She same within these sol-
tudes The germ awaits him here as in the
Orient but there it rests only through the
short hours of Summer night, while here
it reposes for months under shcctof SHOWS.
But after a while the bright sun will tear
this sheet asunder, and will tumble it in
gushing fountains to the sea- and will kiss
the cold earth, and give it warmth aud life :;
and the flowers will bud and bloom, aud will
turn their tiny faces smillugly and gratefully
up to him, as he wanders over these ancient
bills in the long Summer. The very glaciers
viii weep tears Of joy at his coming. The
ice will loose its iron grip upon the waters,
and will let the wild waves play in freedom.
The reindeer viii skip gleeiully over the
mountains to welcome his coming, aud viii
look longingly to him for green pastures.
The sea fowls, knowing that he will give
them a resting place for their feet on the
rocky islands, will come TO seek the moss
beds which he spreads for their nests and
the sparrows viii come on his life-giving
rays, and will sing their love songs through
the endless day
Year: 1867

WHAT A Coon NEWSPAPER MAY Do
Show us an intelligent family Of boys and
girls, and we will show you a family where
newspapers and periodicals are plentiful.
Nobody who has been without these silent
private tutors can know their educating
power for good or evil Have you ever
thought Of the innumerable topics of dis
cussion which they suggest at the breakfast
table the important public measures with
which, thus early, our children become fa-
miliarly acquainted great philanthyopic
questions of the day, to which unconscious


II their attention is awakened, and the gen
eral spirit of intelligence which is evoked
by these quiet yisitors2 Any thing that
makes home pleasant, cheerful and chatty,
thins the haunts of vice, and the thousand
and one avenues of temptation, should GER
tainly be regarded, when we consider its in
fluence on the minds of the young, as a
great moral and social ight-Emerson.
Year: 1867

REWhat right has any person, endow-
ed with an ordinary share of intellect, and
blessed with respectable share of good
health, 10 despond? What is the cause of
dependency? What Is the meaning of 1t?
The cause is weak mind and the meaning
is sin. Providence never intended that one
of his creatures should be the victim Of
desire to feel and look the gloom of thun-,
der cloud. Although We cannot expect all
our DAYS and hours TO be gilded BY sunshine
we must not, for mere mOmentary grlets,
suppose that they are to be enshrouded in
the mists of misery, or clouded by the opac-
ity of sorrow and misfortune.
Year: 1867

BARNUM says he never patronizes the
men that don't advertise, 'for the reason
that invariably get cheated if | no, The
penurious principle that prevents man
from keeping his business before the public
will prevent him from selling cheap. 1t
is certainly safest to Bug of the men who ad-
vertise If man does an honest business
he need not fear to have 1t made known that
the public may Judge Of it. Besides, in this
age of newspapers people expect the differ
e5t 5t Candidates "a for their patronage to make
known their claims to il. If those claims
are real, publication cannot help but be an
advantage to them
Year: 1867

s4~The world is full of trials and annoy
ances, and will be to the end. But better
world is coming, where there will be no
more trials, no more sin forever. If VIC
would obtain an inheritence in that world,
we must learn to bear meekly and patiently
the trials of this. That inheritance is
promised only to the oyercomer. Let us,
then, try to pray, and keep trying and pray
ing that Ged will help us to overcome.
Year: 1867

Good night! have to say good night
To such host Of peerless things
Good night unto that fragile hand
All queeniy with its weight of rings
Good night to fond uplifted eyes,
Good night to chestnut braids of hair,
Good night unto the perfect mouth,
And alI the sweetness nestled there


The snowy hand detains me, then


III have to say good night again
But there will come a time, my love,
When, if read our stars Alright,
shall not linger by the porch
With my adieus. Till then, good night!
You wish the time we're now? And I
You do not blush to wish It so
You would have blushed yourself 20 death
To own so much a year ago


What both these snowy hands ali, the


I'll have to say good night again
Year: 1867

e.


The BEAUTIFUL SNow;-A dis
gusted Southerneri In Canada writes
the following ode to the snow and
frost of that country T--at'E7s


Obi the frost, the freezing frost.
biting our nose as we go; all sense
of feeling is utterly lost, and our
zest for the beautiful snow. The
Northern king a atribute has wrung,
in the shape of pearly tear, which
q moment ago like a dew drop
hung, from the point often graced
with a sneer. Oh! the frost, the
delectable frost that finds us
wherever we go, wrapped in its
fearsome shroud like a ghost, and
conveyingfor our meridian blood a
thorough disgust for those senti-
mental donkeys who hypocrltical'
ly prate Of the beautiful snow:
Year: 1867

A New Orleans letter to the
New York World, says:--L..a Z


1t is said, and ! have reason to
believe it to be true, that the case
of the succession of A. j. Butler,
before the Surrogate In your city,
is to be made the occasion for le-
gal overhauling of the transactions
of the two Buffers in regard to
their little business transactions
here, in which Andrew Is alleged
to have employed the military au-
thority of his brother to make
money! r-zyg


Several cases of this kind have
been made up and sent forward to
be presented, in the nature OF rec
lamations against the estate
There are assurances given that
the Probate Judge will give tull
opportunity for q fair inquiry into
such facts as may be brought IN
proof before him. t.7
Year: 1867

BACK AGAN.-Messrs. Cook & Ayres, who
for about thirty years occupied store in Ex-
change street, until burned out last July, have
got back again on the same spot, except that
thoy have taken the beautiful and commodious
chambers instead Of the lower floor. They
are over Princes Express Office.


They will be supplied with all the choice
and fashionable goods in the market for cloth
ing which they will make up in the latest
styles and in the best manner. Every body
knows that Cook s. Ayers are famous for turn
ing out superb work. 80
Year: 1867

This subject appears to have excited con-
siderable attention within d few days. Our
City Council holds a meeting this evening, ;Id
it is to be hoped that such measures will be
adopted as will save our beautiful Eastern
Promenade, and save saddlng upon he city
untold bills for expenses and damages. - q
Year: 1867

To ORoASIzg. The National Democratic
Committee met in New York on Tuesday eve.
ming last, and decided to call no National
convention until the regular time next year
but measures are 10 be set on foot for the
thorough reorganization; Of The party
throughout the Union.
Year: 1867

We learn that there is now subscribed 10 the
capital stock af the Ottawa Hotel Company the
sum OF St,, 400. with promise of $1,000 more,
making s45,40O.


Under the charter the company cannot organ
ize until $4,000 is subscribed. The sum of
$4,000 is therefore yet to be raised, and one
would think it an easy matter to get this sum
subscribed by our business men; but the com
nittec having the matter in charge have been
steadily and faithfully at work for the last three
weeks, and they now report to us we go to
press that their race is Iun,-that they cannot
get any more subscriptions.


In looking over the lis, OF names We see that
many have subscribed generously. To them We
feel like taking of our hat but we fail TO see
names of some, of whom the people reasonably
expected the largest subscriptions-those whose
property will be most benefited by the enter
prise.


/ l. this hotel business TO be another fat out ?
/ Are the people OF Ottawa willing 10 have it
said that there is not enough spunk and enter
, prise among them to build $4,000 hotel ?
! I. is very uncomfortable TO those who have
subscribed literally TO know and feel that they
are paying money indirectly into tie pockets of


large property-holders, worth much more than
they are, who will not subscribe anything.
/ The truth is. the men of wealth ought 10 den-
tify themselves with the interests of the place or
else leave the town. that willing men of small
! Ter mean, viii not be measuring ther conduct
and libcrality by them.


Let the nowsboy, and apprentices of the town
club together raise the balance of the stock, and
SO put the men of capital to shame.
Year: 1867

Because We have said nothing about this road
lately, il by no means follows that the enterprise
is sleeping. The road is being pushed ahead
with energy, and part of it is actually under
contract. From Wenona to the Vermilion coal
fields the contract for grading and superstructure
was signed over week ago. and the road will
certainly be in running order by November
From Ncrmilion to Ottawa, the road ought also
to be under contract, but for an unexpected
hitch. in the shape OF project to bend the road
from Wenona of towards Seneca, Plainfeld &C.
II is clearly not the interest of the Vermilion
Coal Company to 20 to Chicago and forego their
direct route up the Valley of the Fox towards
the pinerie, Of Wisconsin; yet the apparent in
difference of Ottawa and the region Immediately
north has seemingly caused the Coal Company
to hesitate about a choice OF route


On the northern end of the road, rs at the
southern, all is life and energy. From Aurora
southward for twenty miles it has been decided
to commence work soon as the subscription OF
stock reaches $1,000 per mile, and that figure is
very nearly attained A meeting of the direc-
tors of the Company was held at Chicago last
week, and resolution adopted TO 90 ahead with
all energy, on the whole line.
Year: 1867

Some families always on the go. The pa
triarchal head can never find anything to do and
Is going to leave; or, that same individuals
81 failing health and must needs seek in some other
locality a saluberious climate; or having had
good offer for his house and lot, his head swims
at the thought of getting such pile of leash in
hand" and he must realize" on his little home
and go where he can start anew.


Others get ambitious in their business and
think, as Chicago is a larger town than Ottawa
that they will 90 to Chicago and swell ont to the
dimensions of great city A fine house on Mich
igan Avenue, and q seat in first class church.
and a chance for Betsy Jane to see the Opera and
have Major General Squash call on the girls; it
would be so nice!


ability is aching for your business hege Go to
Chicago, and settle ON some Horse Railroad five
miles out or three miles out Only three miles.
Nothing like living in the town. you know Of
course it might be little ioconvenient at times
to get to the theatre; or the first class church:
or to the city; still you would shave facilities"
for shipment and for getting workmen and stock.
Only think OF the railroads


Some men never know when they are well 0
are never satisfied with good business, or vita
having all they can do or with being prudent
If they could handle more money by doing twice
their present business would they be better
off; Well, would they; Would thev have
happier home: Any better education 4. u train
ing for their families: Could they do any more
good: Would they be any more respectable,
live any longer, have any more or better friends,
keep any longer after they are dead. be any IL re
missed after they gone


! If man can earn few more hundred dollars
/ by changing his business, and if he feels he ought
| to work and make himself slave, for the sake of
his tailor, or butcher, or carpenter-if he can
eat enough, wear enough or work hard enough
then go. Illustrate the epitaph of the Italian
| gentleman


81 was well, and would be better took physic
and died" Health Is no consideration, or long
life. Live fast and hurry on A home, pshaw
who cares for home: Better sell ont and leave
All the rich men made their money in that way.


Slow and steady, never did any body any


good; never made fortune--or fool
Year: 1867

Myself and wife had concluded TO quietly
spend Thursday. the 18th inst, at our home, in
commemoration of little event far more inter-
esting to us than anybody else in the world-an
event which occurred twenty-five years ago.


From no evil surmsiings we are compelled
10 believe that small circle of our friends have
entered into a conspiracy to peacefully dis
turb the quietnesS of this little domestic arrange
ment, we suppose some vainly thinking they
might fall upon


SILVER WEDDING.


We regard the marriage rite as too sacred to be
trihed with by way of sham or mockery. But
we take this opportunity to say to our friends
and all that would spend the evening with us,
our house will be open, and it will afford us
great pleasure TO entertain YOU at our house OH
that occasion.


There are some whose years and infrmities
forbid their being present in the evening, and
Others from the country that cannot spend the
evening with us. We shall esteem it great
pleasure to entertain all such from / o'clock A.
NJ to o'clock T.. NJ.


All others will find the latch string out from
q to 10 Z. NJ. Our friend and noighbor, Prou'
has kindly placed his noble residence at our com.
mand for the occasion, which so nearly united
with our own will afford us ample room to re.
ceive all, both old and Young, that will favor us
with their presence.


Let itbedistinctly understood, Iuant no miStak,
up0n that poiat because we do not favor the ared
ding portion of the arrangement it is not becaus,
we have any conscientious scruples regarding tht
| siirer or grehJack part of the affair.
| Trusting we shall have the pleasure of @oiat
or hearing from you on that occasion alluded to
] am very respectfully yours,
H. COLMAN
Year: 1867

1t is usual about this season, to say something
handsome and poetical about spring, but our
poetry machine won't get in motion. The fact
is, the spring thus far is not quite the thing
lacks the essential element of oaloric-in short
is failure. What is there to inspire poetic ideas
in an inch of snow and a fierce nor'wester on the
9th of April: 4 node" to Zero is outside of
our poetic compass
Year: 1867

New GooDs.-It will surely create buzz in
town, particularly among the ladies, to learn
that REDDICK u GILLEN's new goods have ar
rived. Dress goods, piece goods, spring shawls,
any thing and every thing the handsomest in
Ottawa, and at prices that bring one back to the
good old days of gold and silver--well, they
have them in LOADS, you must go and see them
to realize how Handsome goods can be made
Year: 1867

The largest and best stock Of Wall Paper in
the city is at the Bookstore and News Room of
OsMAN & HAPENAS. Let others blow as they
please, mis- Is tho FACT All ask is that peo-
pie shall compare our stock with any other in the
city, before making their purchases, and then
decide for themselves