Year: 1874

than punctuality.


Nine million horses in the United


States; value, $3.50, 000,0G0.


People who are always wanting some.


thing new should try neuralgia.
Country boys now walk around under


apple trees, looking for the ball that


they lost.


Bored, yet happy-a girl with her


first pair OF earrings. She was at the


camp-meeting.


Talking of oarsmen, John Paul says


it's great thing nowadays to be "a
gentleman and a sculler."
On September .. the volcano Etna,


IN Sicily, was in violent eruption, which


showed no signs of abatement.


The intellect of man sits visibly en-


throned upon his forehead and his eyes,
and the heart of man is written upon
his countenance,


L regard the progress of opinion
toward absolute, universal Justice, as
the one great end which hallows efforts
NN NS-fShoSS stSAAiASc- uCs


Greetsy.


Genius is nothing but the desire.
power and persistence for lofty work.


The eminence of great men consists al
most altogether in activity superior to
the general.


\ New York law journal argues that
lawyers as a class, are very poorly paid,
and that it is only by the force of an
indomitable will and extraordinary tai
ents that one of them occasionally
rises to wealth and fame.


A Columbia naturalist in an excur-
sion among the Andes, found in an old
mine petrified vicuna, much larger
than the species now living, and pet
rited condor whose skull was larger
than that of man, and had painted on
the frontal figures of the sun and moon.
These discoveries we're made in Iniuy,
one of the states of the Argentine Con
federation.


No girl should be Indifferent to her
personal appearance. God meant wo-
man to be attractive, and it is one OF
her duties to carry out this design
But that dress is to be all is more than
We can believe. just because we love
to see girls look well, as well as to live
to some purpose, We would urge them
on such a coarse of reading and study
as will confer qualities which no mod
iste can supply.


A well-known author once wrote a
pretty essay on the power of education
to beauty, that it absolutely chiseled
the features that he has seen many
clumsy nose and pair of thick lips so
modified by thought awakened and ac-
tive sentiment, as to be unrecognizable.
And he pnt it on that ground that we
so often see people. homely and unat-
tractive in youth, bloom in middle life
into softened Indian Summer of good
looks and mellow tones.


If man is hurrying within an hour,
more or less, after a regular meal, he is
dyspeptic beyond question, and it shows
that the stomach is not able to work up
what he has eaten, so as to get nourish-
ment out of it but, to eat again, and
thus impose more work, when it could
do nothing for what it had already been
eaten, is an absurdIty and yet all dys-
peptlcs who eat whenever they are hun
cry DO this very thing. and thus aggra-
vate and prOtract their sufferings.


The secret of the liberality of egg
laying displayed by French hen lies,
according to Consul Hotham, in the
quality of the soil. The French hen
remsved from her native land does not
hot oil
which distinguishes her at home.


Wherever silex abounds in the soil,
as at Calais and Amiens, hens are re-
markably prolific. The French egg
dealers do not feed their poultry, but
allow them to run about and pick up
for themselves in the fields.


From the lips of woman, every infant
hears the first accents of affection and
receives the lesson of tenderness and
love. For the appreciation of woman,
the grown up youth will undertake the
boldest enterprise and brave every diff
ficulty of study, danger, and even
death itself. To the happiest of wo-
man, the man of mature years will de
vote the best energies of his mind, and
from the afTectionate regard of woman,
the man who has become venerable III
years derives his chief consolation in
life's decline.


A strong mind always hopes, because
it knows the mutability of human af-
fairs, and how slight circumstance
may change the whole course of events.
Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself it
IS not confined to particular objects,
and if, at last, all should be lost; it has
saved itself its own integrity and worth
Hope awakens courage, while despon-
dency is the last of ali evils it is the
of good-the giving up
of the battle of life with dead nothing
ness. He who can impart courage In
the human souls is its best physician


The manager of French provincial
theatre has set Wholesale example,
which the profession might do worse
than follow. Having received so many
from his patrons about the
enormous height of the ladies' hats, he
issued notice in large letters on the
play bills reading thus 1.-The mana
ger begs that all good-looking ladies
will remove their hats for the accom-
mediation of the rest of the audience.
The aged, the bald, and the plain-look-
ing are not expected to comply with
the request. From that night not
lady's hat or bonnet was to be seen in
the theatre.


The London Art Journal is response
BILE for the following story A some
what curious circumstance occurred
lately, which is strangely illustrative
of modern manners. A nobleman pas
sing through a West End street saw
fine but very dilapidated picture in
brokers' shop. He purchased it. and
inquired the painters name, but was
unable to discover more than the ini-
tiais. Confident that the picture-a
seaside view with a rocky shore-was
modern, he was anxious to discover the
painter. In vain he tried all the picture
dealers. They knew the style and the
initials, but were unacquainted with
the man. They were confidant that the
painter was alive, but they knew moth
ing of his home or his haunts. The
riuued AT beiuU so baked