Year: 1874




they have done by the good they intend
to do, and are only virtuous in the pro-
spective.


A good thing about the coffee-and-
cake saloons. You can't get any liquor
at them; and the coffee is not strong
enough to hurt anybody.


A Mrs. Hayden, of Sharon, Vt. has
peony root in her garden that is over
eighty years old. She has seen it bios
som seventy consecutive years.


The wife of man in Paw-Paw, Mich,
who left home, threatening to commit
suicide, will probably soon be discov-
cred to have only been to her papa.


Two young ladies in Michigan have
done all the homework of their homes
and supplied themselves with handsome
new winter dresses by picking sumac.
| If a man would keep both integrity
and independence free from temptation,
let him keep out of debt Dr. Franklin
says, ut is bard for an empty bag to
stand upright"


To read the superscriptions on coins:
Lay your coins upon piece of hot iron;
the dates will be so visible as to be
plainly read. The iron must be red hot,
and the coins must be read while hot.
Seraphinnis is Russian monk who
latterly founded society to which wo-
men were admitted on condition that
they cut of their hair. The beautiful
appropriateness of this will be per-
ceiyed when it is stated that his brother
was an enterprising hair-dresser.


Jones was thrown into a state of won-
der by the sign ladies felt slippers"
which he discovered when passing a
shoe store. He can't understand it. He
says children felt slippers in his day
often enough, but ladies generally wore
them, except when they were removed
for cause.


garden, caught his gardener asleep
under tree. He seolded him soundly
for his laziness, and ended by telling
him such a sluggard was not worthy TO
enjoy the light of the sun. cit was for
that reason exactly" said the gardener.
THAT l crept into the shade"


Mistress (inding the housemaid for
the third time hanging about the draw
ingrOom d9or)-"Mary, what are you
here listening at the door for? Haven't
you any work?" Mary-"Oh, if you
please'm, 1 don't mean no 'srm-it's
that 'evingly musici" y. b. The man
was only tuning the piano


The San Francisco Chronicle declines
to answer a correspondent who asks
where Cain got his wife, because, "Cain
died some time before many of US were
born, and such idle curiosity regarding
the family affairs of deceased person
we regard as rcprehensible, and calcu-
lated to offend the sanctities of domes-
tic life."


We hear good deal of an elastic cur
rency, but nothing that seems to more
nearly meet the requirement than that
suggested by correspondent to the
Journal Of Commerce, which is at once
simple and eficacious it is this-print
all the money on India rubber. No one
can say that we should not then have
an elastic currency.


Anthony Trollope made q speech re-
Gently IN presenting prizes to the sue
cessful students of the Liverpool Insti-
tute In which he stated novels to be
the sermons of the present day, or, at
any rate, the sermons which were lis
tened to with the most rapt attention.
They are the sermons in the hands Of
all-young and poor, rich and old.


The whaling fleet on the Western
coast has had successful season in the
Northern Pacific, where there are about
40 vessels engaged in whale fishing.
Thirteen vessels have returned to San
Francisco with $3.50 barrels of oil, 100,-
900 pounds of bone, and 10, go pounds
of ivory. The average take was 800
barrels of oil, 5000 pounds of bone and
800 pounds of ivory. The success or
failure of whalers is largely dependent
upon the season, and the extreme OPEN
ness of the Northern seas during the
last season not only secured safety for
the vessels, bI. enabled them to follow
the whalers into the higher latitudes.


The reason why an assembly for dan
cling is called ball is now believed to
be found in an old German custom, long
since obsolete, and from a German pa
per We make the following extract:
''This custom consisted in the assem-
bling in the villages during the Easter
holidays, of all the manageable mai
dens, in order to present to each new
made bride at whose wedding they had
danced, beautifully ornamented ball.
When this ball. after being borne on a
gaily decorated pole In solemn process
sion through the village, had been pre-
sented to the young bride, she was
thereby laid under obligation TO furnish
free music for the evening to all who
might wish to dance. From this fes-
tive custom is derived the expression
10 give ball.


Persimmon coffee is much preferred
to the burned bean variety, in Georgia.
A gentleman Of that State has taken out
a patent for making it, and describes
his process as follows: my mode Of
preparation consists of steaming the
fruit for half an hour in a boiler, and
after crushing them, | throw them into
a tank of water, and the seed are easily
washed out, as their own specific grav-
ity carries them to the bottom, and the
pulp can be fioated of. The seed should
then be spread out In the sun TO dry for
three or four weeks, anil then psrched
and ground similar to any other coffee
care being taken to have them parched
sufficiently to grind easily. The seed
by this process can be obtained where
the fruit Is plenty, at cost of two cents
per pound, and if properly prepared are
equal in all respects to good Java
coffee"


The New Bedford Mercury tells the
folio wing wonderful tale of college haz-
ing: "It occurred, if we remember cor
rectly, in 1862. 1t was noticed by some
sophomores that two country boys had
begun their housekeeping in a room on
the ground floor of one of the college
halls, with a miserable apology for
bed, no carpet, no table, and only two
chairs as the sum total of their outfit.
1t was learned, also, that they proposed
to board themselves, and had only
few dollars for their food during the
term. On this hint they acted. One
night the poor, trembling youths were
summoned by 'soph,' who was not