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Year: 1874

One Of the many different ways in
which composition can be made in
structive and interesting to young
pupils is q description Of some suitable
picture, bunch of flowers or any SINH
lar object. Let the teacher select some
picture suited to the capacity of the
class, hold it before them, asking them
to notice carefully all they can see,
and be ready to tell what they can
about it when you ask for information
AS soon as you think they have had
sufficient time for observation, hear
what they may have to say upon the
subject. Do not think when one has
described any particular portion of it
that that is the only thing necessary.
Have different ones give their version
of it, thereby getting as many original
ideas as possible, and compare one
with another. Often when pupil has
described any particular portion or
expressed all opinion, ask why he
thinks as he does, thus exercising the
power of reasoning more than would
otherwise be done.


After the picture has been fully de-
scribed, have summary; then give
Iut pupllS d CcIUd ttulC III WllCu W
reproduce the given description, or in
other words, write composition about
the picture. When they have fin
ished require them to read; then criti-
else their writing, spelling, capitals,
punctuation, arrangement, etc. II it
is not desirable to have all the class
write at once, let q portion write and
the rest have some exercise in oral
language until the others have finished
writing. eQGA~ oHf-15


With little good management and
skill on the part of the teacher, con-
siderable enthusiasm will be mani
tested by the pupils.


They are not only being taught how
60 express their thoughts correctly,
but their different faculties are being
cultivated to greater or less extent,
especially the power OF observation,
and we may very often appeal to their
esthetical nature, thereby cultivating
taste for the beautiful. M. I'll.
Year: 1874

The Centinela Land Company of
Los Angeles give notice that the
books for subscription to the capital
stock of their company, are now open
and ready for subscribers at the
Banking House of Temple & Work
man and at the Los Angeles County
Bank. ct
Year: 1874

How is it that the Peoples Palace is
so popular with the public? Echo an
swers Not alone do they charge very
low for goods at the Palace, but they
also offer an additional inducement by
presenting each customer buying SIS
worth of goods with a Christmas
present. In great many instances
the presents are more valuable than
$5, some ranging in value as high as
$50. d11:2w
Year: 1874

81 The tide oftvnmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is TO throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one OF DESMOND. They say there Is no
com pariSOn bet~een tho two. 2Iao
Year: 1874

Miss La Grange, editor of the Santa
Barbara Press, has been swindled by
the omnipresent vendor of pens, and
thus moralizes on the subject:


To buy anything you do rot want,
for charity. and then find it aswindle,
is furthermore unsatisfactory, all things
considered, than to give what you give
freely, with no pretense of receiving
an equivalent. Our experience with
fountain pens" has led us by thorny
ways to this conclusion. They Were
brought to us by a man with q family,
to support on wooden leg and "foun-
tain pens" Perhaps he drew on his
imagination for the family, but the leg
was patent, and very poor patent too,
and mechanically we fell to estimating
the number of pen-holders it would
make, as we jingled our pence in our
pocket. They were the last we had,
but our sympathy is always with those
who earn precarious living by the
pen, and we invested, uncomfortably
conscious that instead of lending our
last mite to the Lord, we'd only been
buying some pens; and that conscious
ness became intensified as we attempt
ed to use them. The amount of phys
ical force required to make a mark
was quite exhaustive, and they dis
tributed the ink in playful jets that
were very fountain-like. We resolved
next time to give what we had out
right and save the wear and tear of
temper.
Year: 1874

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.-Pe at
distance desiring information from this point can
address me. If the subject does not require much
investigation q few postage stamps will be sufh-
cient remuneration.
Year: 1874

A Boston correspondent of the New
York Tribune (who ought to take out a
patent for manufacturing mares nestsl
speaks tenderly and pathetically in be-
half of General Banks. He thinks that
popularity of the General is 'phenomi-
nal-perennial. OF course he ought to be
sent to Congress, for there is not men,
Der there who can boast of such attri.
butes. '.He dimes with the club called
after his name, every Saturday" is an
other reason why he is eligable. A good
dinner out is certainly not out of place
at Washington. Both of these evidences
of his fitness for Congress are undeniable
but not content to rest his case here, the
correspondent adds; "He is poor, too.
and without profession or occupation,
and needs the Office" We have seen 1t
stated that men have been sent to the
Legislature in preference to sending them
to the Poor House, as the more economi-
cal method of supporting them, but We
believe that for the first time in the his
tory of this State 1t is proposed that a
district which has thrifty and saving
population should send a man to repre-
sent them, who, having received more
money than the majority of the voters
ever possessed, now finds himself in the
peculiar position of having his impecun-
iosity made claim for consideration as
candidate for a high Office We re-
gret sincerely that General Banks is not
worth fortune. If We had spare one
at our disposal, we would place it in the
hands of trustees for his benefit. Rut
we do not believe that the spoor man
claim ought to be very powerful.-Bos-
ton Journal. e
Year: 1874

The Virginia (Nevadal Enterprise
furnishes this eminently Western sketch:


Recently at saloon on the Divide,
some men were discussing the shooting
afray which occurred during the morn
ing between two brothers-in-law, Fall
man and Ward. 1t was agreed on all
hands that it was shockingly bad shoot
ing-a discredit to Washoe. At last
Phoebe man bantered a Comstock man,
whom he knew to be a good shot with a
pistol, to go out in the back yard with
him and do some shooting, just to show
the ..boys" how it was done. In the
saloon was a box of eggs, and what the
Piocher proposed was that each shoot
two eggs off the bare head of the other
at the distance of ten PAGES, the one
missing to treat the crowd. The Com
stocker was bound not to be blufed by
a man from the other end of the state,
so to the back yard all hands adjourned.
Each man used his own six-shooter-
The Comstocker first "busted" his egg
on the top of the Piocher's head, which
exploit was loudly applauded by all
present. 1t was then the Piocher's turn
to shoot. and an egg was produced to be
placed upon the head of the Comstocker,
but when he removed his hat there was
great laugh, for the top of his head
was as smooth as billiard ball. For
full ten minutes all hands tried in vain
to make an egg stand on his head. 1t
couldn't be done. The Piocher then
taunted the Comstocker with having
gone into the arrangement knowing that
he was safe. The latter told him to set
up his egg and it was all right-he was
there The Pioeher went into the saloon.
and a moment after came ont with a
small handful of -four, which he daubed
upon the bald head of the Comstocker,
and then triumphantly planted in it his
egg, fell back ten steps, and then knock
ed it of. The Comstocker then told
him to set up his second egg and shoot
at it, as he didn't want to have his head
chalked twice during the game. This
was done, and the wreck of a second egg
streamed over the Comstocker's pate.
The Piocher now stood out with his last
egg on his head. The Comstocker rails.
ed his pistol and fired The Piocher
bounded a yard into the air. and the egg
bounced whole from his head. I've
lost" said the Comstocker. ..Let al
come up and drink. Bya slip I've put
half the width of my bullet through ths
top Of his left ear r and 50 it provec
upon measurement
Year: 1874

The PAsToR's WlRE.-Bet your pas
tors wife alone. Do not make her the
subject of criticism. Find no fault if she
does not work in the Sunday school. or
does notspend all her afternoons in visit
ing the families of the parish. DO not
forget that she has household cares that
are as important To her as yours are TO
you; that the interests of. her family de-
mand her presence at home, and that IL
these home interests prevent her from do
ing work as a Sunday school teacher, it
is very unjust as well as unkind to sit in
judgment against her. As to her visit
ing. she is not your pastor. but your pas
tors help and companion. His interests,
and the family interests, and the Sife's
personal interests are 10 govern the use Of
time, and rot the exorbitant demands of
the parish. Her duties are responsible
and arduous. Visit her 10 cheer and com.
fort her, not 10 criticise her. And when
she visits you treat her with sneh conf
dence and kindness as will secure for
yourselves a place in her heart Of hearts,
and will bring down blessings upon your
own souls.
Year: 1874

SocIABTnTY AMONG FARMERs.-There
is no class of beings where sociability
ought to be sought for so much as among
farmers. No one farmer processes to be
proficient in all branches ofhis business,
and as the plan Of operations is more or
less experimental to large number of
farmers, an exchange Of ideas seems al
most necessary tor the weIrare OF eacn.
But it is often the case that the duties
and position belonging to this class him
der their sociability. Scattered over hills
and valleys. often many miles apart. it is
not SO easy to keep up intercourse with
general society. Nearly all other classes
of business men concentrate in cities and
villages, where they can enjoya daily ex-
change of thoughts and opinions. and
greatly increase their fund of information.
In this way ambition is aroused. thoughts
are awakened, and much is added to the
general happiness of life. Such state
of things ought to be more prevalent
among farmers. The longer farmers live
in solitary way. the less likely they are
to change their habits. And is it not
often the case that this course of action,
If carried beyond its limits, results in an
ungenial, morose state of feeling9 The
most ardent and cultivated minds would
become dull and inactive placed in po-
sition that many occupy In this world.
The man who has access to large field
of thought and information. will accom-
plish more, and meet his designs better,
and with more ease and comfort to him
self. than the man destitute of informa-
tion. sqme
Year: 1874

sure you take phi at Pugborough.


The old gentleman could never Under
stand why the carriage door was dashed
with such violence, the whistle sounded
with such fendish yell, and Wilson
whirled into his carriage without being
permitted to take charge once more of
his masters pill-box.
Year: 1874

book. He seized the volume and veri-
fed his suspicion. The innocent note
that he had written was actually trans
formed, by the simple process of reading
it with the wrong column as Il key, into the
incoherent hlt obviously impolite letter
which had wrought such unhappy conse-
quences.


Pennington sank into his chair utter
lv overwhelmed. He called himself all
the choice names that old Morris had
applied to him, together with a large
selection of other epithots. He spent an
hour in this profitable occupation. At
the end of that time he had formed n
resolution which he proceeded to put
into immediate execution.


He rose up, and, going to his trunk,
took out his secret society emblems and
solemnly threw them in the CRATE. He
next sat down and wrote twelve separate
designations for twelve different lodges.
Then he wrote a solemn pledge never,
to the day of his death, to meddle with
cipher or any other mystery, and finally,
writing out a full history of the cipher
letter, sent it, together with the book
which he had used as key, his pledge
to solemnly abstain from mysteries, and
an humble apology, to old Morris.


OF course his explanation was accept
ed and Mary forgave him. Several years
have passed since that event, but if you
wish to make Pennington Smythe blush
with wretchedness, all that is necessary
is to ask of him if he knows of any
good, trustworthy cipher.
Year: 1874

Candidates for Congress are coming
out with the flics-and about as numer-
ous. it isn't 50 true as it used to be,
i'll politics, that the early bird catches
the worm. The people are doing more
thinking about these things than they
once did, and result of the thinking
is that they are doing more than they
once did in the way OF selecting their
own public servants. Perhaps aspirants
may infer something to their advantage
from this observation. We don't pre-
sume that all the names that have been
mentioned have been given prominence
through the efforts OF the parties thus
brought before scrutinizing public !;
but we presume most of them are like
Barkis, which is not saying that there
are not very good Barkises. The self
will of the people, however, will assert
itself, and We hope the prevailing indie
pendence of the present time may in
no case, through indiscretion, lead to
the sacrifice of the best man.-Siour
city Journ0i.
Year: 1874

There are men who honestly believe
that alcoholic drink is good for them,
yet there is no one of them who would
touch it except as Il prescribed medi
cine if it were not for its pleasant taste.
The delusion touching it's healthfulness
grows out of the desire to justify an APP
petite which may either be natural on
acquired. IF man likes whisky or
wine he likes to think that it is good
for him, and he will take some pains to
prove that it is so, both to himself and
others Now, alcohol is pure stimll-
liant. There is not so much nutriment
in it as there is in chip. 1t never
added anything to the permanent forces
of life, and never can add anything Its
momentary intensitication of force is a
permanent abstraction of force from the
drinkers capital stock. All artificial
cxcitements bring exhaustion. The
physicians know this, and the simplest
mans reason is quite capable Of com
pretending it. If any man supposes
that daily drink, even i'll small quanti-
tics, is conducive to his ealth, he is
deluded. -,Scri6nCr'S.
Year: 1874

A DANBURY widower is so afraid of
his wifes ghost appearing unto him
that he sleeps with pistol under his
pillow.


Mr.. JARED HENNEssY started for Col
orado, yesterday, for his wife's health.
1t is to be regretted that she could not
accompany him.


THERE is a time for all things. The
time for boy to run away from school
and go fishing, is when his folks have
company to tea.


FENCES along the Hudson River road
bear the inscription "No. Is cures
pain A great many people would save
pain by wearing No. 1Ss


A DANBURY man whose wife recently
died, subsequently confessed to friend
that " Nobody could pull down an un-
dercoat as neatly as Jane did,


How few sitting in comfortable cloth
ing in the genial heat of home fires
give thought to the poor gardener out
in the bitter blast sowing onions.


ANOTHER harbinger OF spring is the
man with his coat pocket full of wal
nuts, which he cracks ON the curb
stones and against awning posts when
you are speaking, and eats when he is
talking.


SPRING having sufficiently advanced
to thaw out the cobble stones, robbins
and the windows in vacant buildings
are receiving the attention of the youth
of The land. The only sure way to hit a
bird with stone is to first spit on the
stone and then aim three times.
Year: 1874

Once it was dangerous for the box to
differ from the bench, Il jury daring to
assert an opiuion of their own being
liable to find themselves thrown upon
the tender mercies OF the Star Chamber.
Instances, indeed, says Il writer in Cham
bers' journal, are not wanting of the
Judge taking upon himself to punish
iurymen for not following directions.
Penn, the Quaker, was instrumental in
freeing them of this terror. When he
and Mead were brought before the Lord
Mayor and the Recorder, in London,
charged with preaching in Grace-church
street, the jury were thrice sent back
to reconsider their verdict. and shape it
to the desired pattern. The last time
they were locked up for the night,
but the morning found them of the
same mind and "Not guilty was still
their award.


81 am sorry" said the irate Recorder
81 am sorry yo,l have followed your
own judgments and opinions rather than
the good advice that was give you. L
pray that my life be kept out of your
hands. But for this the court fines
you forty marks man, and commands
imprisonment till paid.


The four hundred and eighty marks
not being forthcoming, the twelve really
good men and true were consigned to
durance vile in Newgate. A writ OF
habeas corpus soon opened the prison
doors, and the case was referred to a
full bench of twelve Judges, who pro-
nounced the fining and Imprisonment
to be contrary to law. The jurymen
subsequently obtained exemplary dam
! ages for false imprisonment.
Year: 1874

When friend dies and is buried,
there's an end of him. We miss him
for a space out of our daily existence );
we mourn for him by degrees that be-
come mercifully less we cling to the
blessed hope that we shall be reunited
in some perfect sphere but so far as
this earth is concerned, there's an end
of him. However near and dear he was,
the time arrives when he does not form
part of our daily thought he ceases
to be even an abstraction. We go no
more with flowers and tears into the
quiet cemetery; only the rain and the
snowhakes fall there we leave it for the
fingers of spring to deck the neglected
mound.


But when our friend vanishes unac-
countably in the midst of crowded
city, or goes off on a sea voyage and is
never heard of again, his memory has a
singular tenacity. He may be to all in
tents and purposes Gead to us, but we
have not lost him. The ring of the
door-bell at midnight may be his ring !;
the approaching footstep may be his
footstep; the unexpected letter with
foreign postmark may be from his
hand He haunts us as the dead never
can.


The woman whose husband died last
night may marry again within a lnster
of months. DO you suppose week
passes by when the woman whose hus-
band disappeared mysteriously ten years
ago does not think of him? There are
moments when the opening of a door
must startle her.


There is no real absence but death
r. b .iidyich.
Year: 1874

A CIRCUIT court-The longest way
home from singing school,


Why do we speak of the silence of
sleep, when most of us sleep sound =?


The Rochester Erpress ascertains
that Nebuchadnezzar was the first
Granger.


WHEN is scolding woman most Of
fencive? When she's as deaf as post,
and rails.


"BoILED EGGs" is the name adopted
by the new Danbury baseball club to
signify how impossible it is to beat
them.


AN English wag asserts that ma
chinery is the most modest of all
things, since it almost always travels
in cog.


IF success in an undertaking was
proportional to the earnestness brought
to bear upon it, a hen could run about
1,SO0 miles day.


THIS is the season of the year when
the young girl who is just budding into
promising womanhood should squeeze
her nose for animalcules.


A SOUTH WINDSOR boy had two
cent piece lodged in his throat six
months ago, and the family physician
has been till now trying to change it.
The incident illustrates how meager
is the income of country physician.


SOMEBODY boasts in q Western news
paper Of being the happy possessor of
a new, tirst-class oreide watch which
runs an hour in forty minutes, and with
the assistance of two hands has gained
enough to pay for itself in three week.
A Boston paper wonders why a men,
Der of Congress who recently spoke
with so much feeling about the ebay
seed in his hair" and coats in his
throat" forgot to complete the dag
nosis of the case by alluding to the rye
in his stomach.


A TOMBSTONE in the Yazoo, Miss,
cemetery bears the following inscrlp-
ton ::


Here lies inferred Priscilla Bird,


Who sang earth till sixty-two;


Now up on high above the sky,


No lOubt SIe sing like sixty, too,
Year: 1874

The LATE PRESIDENT FILLMoRE Tt
seems, according to Burleigh, of the
Boston Jou1mai, that nobody was more
surprised than the late President Fill
more at his nomination to the second
official position i'll our country Bur
leigh says "In the old Whig times
Mr.. Fillmore was the favorite son of
New York. [ was standing by his side
in the Delevan House, Albany, when he
received news of his nomipotion for the
Office of Vice President. He thought
il was joke. But when satisfied of
the fact, he turned white as sheet and
said, you could knock me down with a
straw The whole thing was so unex-
pected that he sat down like man
fainting."
Year: 1874

The Chicago REvER.-This goahead
city spent some $3 900, coo a few years
ago in turning back the current OF the
Chicago river and making it tributary
of the Mississippi instead of the St Law
renee. The Board of Trade is now con-
,iderng a proposal to fill up the part
going through the city and substitute
therefor huge covered sewer. Bridges
and tunnels are found to be insufficient
for the immense and growing vehicular
and pedestrian trflic.
Year: 1874

The Herald Of He0Hh says That the
more young ladys waist resembles an
hour-glass, the sooner will her SANDS OF
life run out. Now just see what the
ladies can say of the men. they say
the men are so fond of their hour
glass" that half of 'em don't know
whether or not they have any waists at
all
Year: 1874

CURE FOR HEADACHE oil, one
once tincture of opium, one ounce, and
tincture of capsium, one ounce, These
t;nctures must be made of pure alcohol.
Rub well two or three times on the
head, and take internally from five to
twenty drops, according TO the neces-
sity of the ease.
Year: 1874

WE call upon every man to-day who


has any regard for the character and
commercial credit Of our city, to go to
the polls and show the repudiatOrs that
their attempts to ruin the character and
standing OF Memphis merchants, busi-
ness men and mechanics, is a failure.
There is more in this matter than mere
politics. TIE character OF our city is at
stake and her prosperity is endangered.
The election Of such a man as EtheridCe
would do more TO iBjure Mem.ohis
abroad thsu any other event that co,Ild
happen because We would be said To be
insensiJle.tD our public obligations. AMI
thus would cause the belize that we
would be insensibIe to prf yate obIi0s-
tions. This is the effect cf thisrepudiat-
ing doctrine.
Year: 1874

Remember that the ex-
ecuti re committee have
made provision for a sep
crate vote to be taken for
United States senator, by
separate tickets and bal
lot boxes under the con-
troll of competent persons
to be employed by them,
so that while strictly OBJ
serving the law, the sense
of the people as to the
best man for the place can
easily be had,
Year: 1874

Nj. T.WILLIASTsoN said in a pamphlet
this year that Tennessee must either
increase assessed values or raise the rate
Of taxation" What DO you think Of the
man who wrote thus last spring, and
now advocates reputation? Can you
trust him?
Year: 1874

LET no Conservative or Democrat fail
to go to the polls and vote for the regu-
lar ticket to-day. Remember that if yoz
do, you contribute TO the success Of the
Radical party, and are as culpable as if
you had voted that ticket, AMI are IS re-
sponsibie for all the ills and woes Of
Radicslism as if you were Of that party
and hsd voted It all y0nr life.
Year: 1874

N. L. WILLIAMSON said in bis this
years pamphlet that sit il generally
conceded that real property in Tennes-
see ls assessed at about half Of its true
value" This man is now a repudiator.