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Year: 1866

HUNTING FOR CODA young man from
town was seen in q village at evening look
ing about attentively in the gutter. " What
are you looking for ?" said the man whose
shop was vis-a.vis. Some pieces OF gold"
"Oh, will assist you," and out he came
with a lantern. The nelghoors all came
with lanterns, and were busily groplng, IN
the gutter at this news. After time, du-
ring which the young man let them rum
mage by themselves, the first spokesman
said "Are you sure you lost the gold
pieces here !' Il said nothing about los
ing any money WANTED TO mad some
that's the difference" He WAS careful tc
make himself scarce after this practical
Joke.
Year: 1866

A gentleman AYERS that, from six years Of
experience aud trial, the soles of shoas are
not only made waterproof, but will last
three times as long if coat of gum copal
varnish is applied to the soles, and repeated
as il dries until the pores of the leather
are filled and the surface shines like po-
lished mahogany. @
Year: 1866

SKATING.-On Saturday and yesterday
the ice on the Basin and Dock and the neigh
boring ponds to the city was thick enough
for skating, and the young people had a
lively time of it, gliding gracefully over the
smooth surface. Yesterday there was
quite number of skaters, who scrupled
not to enjoy themselves on Sunday on the
Basin during the entire day.
Year: 1866

ATTEMPTED RoRBERY.-An attempt was
made late on Friday night to break into
the tobacco factory Of Mr.. John X. Chill
drey. The party did not succeed, how
ever, but left such evidences OF his p0r-
pose as to lead 10 the belief that he was
frightened off before etlecting an entrance.
This was the second attempt within few
days, the robber the first time getting into
the building, but left without taking any
thing away.
Year: 1866

as he can, and there grasping the rope, with a
bodily effort raises it up to nearly arm s length
over his head the second assistant is then pre-
pared to make his grasp as low down as he can
reach, and does the same, and so on, two alter
nately, and by fathom or more at time, and
with great rapidty, bring the anxious diver to
the surface A heavy blow from his nostrils,
to expel the water and exhausted air, indicates
to his comrades that he is conscious and
breathes. A word or two is spoken by one of
his comrades to encourage him if he seems
much distressed-as is often the case and the
hearing of the voice is said by them to be a
great support at the moment of their greatest
exhaustion. A few seconds rest at the sur
face, and then the diver returns into the boat
to recover, generally putting on an under-gar-
ment or jacket to assist the restoration of the
animal heat he had lost and to prevent the loss
OF more by the too rapid evaporation of water
from his body.


Such is the trying life of Lcvantine sponge
diver; and doubtless there are very few of US
who have any idea Of what a fellow-creature
has suffered i'll procuring that little which has
become a necessity Of our toilet table and the
luxury Of our morning ablutions. .-SproH $
IrdreLS IN Crete.
Year: 1866

INTELLECTUAL CULTURE.-ln view of the
vast superiority of mind over matter of the
many stupendous results already accomplished
and yet attainable by mans genius, it seems
strange that so many persons should neglect
the proper cultivation of the intellect and suf-
fer the God-glven powers the mind to smOul-
der undevelOped, or to be submerged in a vor-
tex of selishness and sOrdid passions. Judg-
ing from the conduct of many persons, it would
seem as though they were hardly conscious OF
the fact that they have any intellects to be de-
veoped, any mentality to be nurtured into the
accomplishment of practical results They will
freely spend time and money for the gratitica-
ton of animal prOpensities, but never stop to
consider that they have higher nature whose
wants demand attention. 1t is dcplorable to
think how much precious time is wasted upon
matters of no importance and OF injurious ma
ture, to utter neglect OF intellectual training
The proper development of the human mind is
not only duty which every one owes to his
Creator himself and his fellow beings, but it is
source of the purest enjoyment, toreshadow-
ing that higher state of existence for which
man was created The unthinking sensualist,
whose ideas Of happiness never rise higher than
the fumes Of his " tOddy' or the smoke OF his
segar, knows nothing of that pure and ennOb-
| ling pleasure which forms prominent ingredi-
ent in the life of the intellectual man nor will
society ever be benefited by the circumstance
of his having an existence in this mundane
sphere. Intellectual culture is as obligatory
upon every rational being as are his duties to
his family or his country and he who ignores
the claims of his mentality is unworthy to be
called man--nOt to be entrusted with the
momentous responsibilities pertaining to this
life.
Year: 1866

MIsCELLANY.-Ev one who takes news
paper which he in the least degree appreciates,
will often regret to see any number thrown
aside for waste paper, which contains some
Interesting and important articles. n good
way to preserve these is the use OF a scrap
book. One who has never been accustomed
thus to preserve short articles can hardly eSti-
mate the pleasure it affords to sit down and
turn over the pleasant familiar. pages Here
a choice piece of poetry meets the eye, which
Won remember you were SO glad to see in the
naner, hut which you would of long since have
iost had it not been for your scrap-book-
Tbere % IS a witty anecdote-it does you good to
laugh over it yet, though for the twentieth
time. Next is valuable recipe you had al
most forgotten, and which you found Just in
time to save some perplexity There is sweet
little story, the memory of which has cheered
and encouraged you many time, when almost
ready to despair under the pressure of lite's
cares and trials Indeed, you can hardly take
up single paper without reperusing. Just
glance over the sheet before you, and see how
many valuable items it contains that would be
of service to you a hundred times in life. A
choice thought is far more precious than a bit
of glitterihg gold. Hoard with care the pre-
cious gems, and see at the end of the wear
what rich treasure you have accumulated.
Year: 1866

The mode OF operation preparatory to dive
is very peculiar and interesting. The diver
whose turn it is takes his seat on the deck of q
vessel, at either the bow or stern, and, plac-
ing by his side large fiat slab of marble,
weighing about twenty-five pounds, to which
is attached rope of the proper length and
thickness lone inch and half he then strips,
and Is lett by his companions to prepare him
self. This seems to consist in devOting a GER
tain time to clearing the passages of his lungs
by expectOratiOn, and highly initiating them af.
terwards-thus oxydizing his blood very highly
by repetition OF deep inspirations. The Ope-
ration lasts from five to ten minutes or more
according to the depth and during it the one
rator is never intertered with by his companions,
and seldom speaks or is spoken to- He is sim
ply watched by two of them, but at little dis
tance, and they never venture to urge him or
to distract him in any way during the process.
1t seems to spectator as if the diver were GO
ing through a sort OF mysterious ceremony or
incantatiOn.


When, from some sensation known only to
himself after these repeated, lOng-drawn and
heavy inspirations, he deems the fitting mo-
ment to have arrived, he seizes the slab OF
marble, and, after crossing himself and utter
ing prayer, plunges with it, like a returning
| dolphin, into the sea, and rapidly descends.-
The stone is always held during the descent di
rectly in front of the head, at arms length
and so as to offer as little resistance as possible
and by varying its inclination it acts likewise as
rudder, causing the descent to be more or
less vertical as desired by the diver AS soon
as he reaches the bottom he places the stone
under his arm to keep himself down, and ther
walks about on the rock or crawls under it,
lodges, stufing the sponges into netted bag


with hOoped mouth, which is strung arOunC


his neck to receive them but he holds firmly
to the stone or rope all the while as his safe


guard for returning and for making known the


signal at the time he desires it.


Now let us notice the proceedings of his com
. panions in the boat floating some twenty O.
thirty fathoms above him. The two men who


were nearest to him previously to his making


the dive, but who systematically seem to plac


themselves so as to prevent him from conceiv
| ing the idea of being impatiently watched b!
them while undergoing the preparation, sprinI


10 their feet as soon as he disappears, and rusl


10 the rope, which one of them holds in hi


hand, veering it out or shortening 1t in, as tn


diver moves about upon the bottom, and a
!. soon as the signal indicative Of his wish to re


turn is felt, they commence hauling up tn
/. rope with great energy and earnestness, and Y
o a way calculated to insure the greatest expedl
tion of ascent, since the overstray OF few sec
d onds may be point of life or death to the dl
e yer.


|; s The hauling up is thus effected: The assist
y ant who has hold Of the rope, awaiting the sig
" nal, first reaches down with both hands as Ia
Year: 1866

A correspondent writing from Mobile, says:
While on my way to supper, walked up street
with an old gentleman who is engaged in the
printing business, or in foremanizing others
who are, and he told me that he had just re-
turned from visit to one of the cemeteries of
the city. - went out there great many
years age" said he, Ito help bury a printer,
and remember that his grave was the tenth
one there Now, instead of ten, | find there
at least ten thousand and when | looked
abroad this evening over that little wilderness
of green hillocks, and thought of the MANY
tears and breaking hearts that have been since
| stood there at the burial of that poor printer,
long years ago, it made me feel badly. and /
was tempted to say | would not swear any
more. | replied that the thought was rath-
eer solemn one, and if it should cause him to
break himself of the ugly habit of swearing,
his visit to the cemetery would turn out to
have been the best Sunday evenings work he
had ever done.
Year: 1866

NECK-IWISTING IN CHCRCH.-A good story
is told Ofan old person who was soreIy annoyed
by habit his people had acquired (and which
prevails by the way in all other churches, even
now and hereabouts, to some eXtent) of twist
ing their necks around every time anybody en-
tered the door, and passed up the aisle of the
meeting house, to see what manner Of persons
it might be.


Wearied with the annoyance, the old man
exclaimed on Sunday


Brethren if you will only cease turning your
heads around whenever the door opens, and
will keep your attention on me, | will promise
to tell you, as preach who it is comes in


Accordingly he went on with the services,
and presently made stop as one OF the dea-
cons entered, saying


That is Deacon--, who keeps the gro
Gerry opposite.


And thus he announced, in turn, the advent
of each individual, proceeding the while with
his sermon as cOmposedly as the circumstances
would admit, when at last stranger came in,
when he cried out


A little old man in green spectacleS and a
drab overcOat-don't know him-yOu can all
turn round and look for yourselves this time.


1t is hardly necessary to add that the good
man carried his point and there was but little
neck twisting seen III his congregation after
that day.


FANTASTIC MARRIAGEs.-A widow lady of
Danville, KY, took an orphan to raise, quite
small and when he arrived at the age of Is she
married him, being then in her 5Uth year
They lived many years together, happy as any
coup pie Ten years ago they took an orphan
girl to raise Last fall the old lady died, being
% years of age, and in seven weeks after the
old man married the girl they had raised, he
being sxty-eight years old and she eighteen.
Year: 1866

for wages, viii do better to try Placerville, PIo
neer city, Idaho city or any of these places hrst'
and if they can get from four to FIVE dollars per
day, they had better stay and work in preference
to travelling over hard road all Summer and
running the risk of getting no employment at all.
If one man here happens to "strike it" you may
be sure to hear about it all over the country
while ten men out of employment and out OF
money pass unobserved.


Legal Tenders are taken everywhere in this
country at 90 cents and often at their face value


The McIrwin theatrical troupe are performing
here and doing we'll The building used is a
we'll fitted establishments the best have seen
for long while.


Helena, as a whole, is not the place imagined
it to be. There are some good buildings and
some good business houses here, but the town
proper, is an irregular up-and-down concern
full of people and distractions. would rather
cross the Blue mountains with an ox-team than
travel here with a one-horse buggy through the
streets of this place. In fact, in some places it
is impossible to proceed at ALL All the bridges
OF the Jefferson and Beaver Head rivers have
washed away, andFteams are kept out from this
section perhaps for weeks to come. The waters
have been higher this Spring than they were
ever known to be before.


Mr.. Van Dykes teams from Walla Walla have
not yet arrived.


Having given you all the items worthy ofnote,


remain, Yours, &C.,


CHAs r
Year: 1866

WENDELL Philips PoLIcY.-This con.
sPiouous leader among the radicals thus an.
nOunces the policy for the crisis He has
bOasted that he despised the old Union and
did all in his power to make it odious and
break it up, aud that the Federal Constitu-
tiOn is disgrace to civilization" Here is
his programme:


"our efforts should be to avoid any settle
ment we should rejoice to recognize that
the epoch is not ended, and that we have NOT
yet reached dry, solid land. Our true policy
is this. Let Congress plainly announce its
belief that no State lately in rebellion is ft to
be readmitted' to Congress. Let it lay down
the principle that 20 one State shall ever be
admitted except it establishes universal or at
least impartial suffrage; and then let Con-
gress adjourn"
Year: 1866

III. That any person depriving any citizen Of
any Of the rights enumerated in the bill shall
be punished by fine and Imprisonment
". That final appeal in any case that may
arise under this bill may be taken to the So
preme Court of the United States.
This is a step in the right direction toward
securing and maintaining the great republican
idea Of equality before the law. 1t now re-
mains whether, the measure will secure the
approval If the President.


Your truly.


r. DUNDEE.
Year: 1866

IMPATIENT HEARERs.-One Sabbath
morning the Rev. Richard Watson, when
engaged in preaching, had not proceeded
far in his discourse, when he observed All
individual in pew just before him rise
IRON his seat, and turn round to look at
the clock In the front Of the gallery as if
the service were weariness to him. The
unseemly act called forth tie following re-
buke: "a remarkable change" said the
speaker "has taken place among the peo-
pie OF this country in regard to the public
service of religion. Our forefathcrs put
their clocks on the outside of their places
OF worship, that they might not be too late
IN attendance. We have transferred them
10 the inside of the house of God, lest we
should stay too long in the service. A sad
and an ominous change"
Year: 1866

"A justice in an Eastern town, better
versed In law than GOSPEL, not long since
married a couple in this way: "dold up
your hands You solemnly swear that you
will faithfully perform the duties of your
Office, jointly and severally, according to
your best skill and Judgment, so help You
God That's all-fee one dollar
Year: 1866

How SALT FISH SHOULD BE FRESH
ENED.-Many persons who are in the habit
Of freshening mackerel or other salt fish,
never dream that there is a right and
wrong way TO do it. Any person who has
seen the process Of evaporation going on
at the sat works, knows that the salt falls
to the bottom. Just so it is in the pan
where your niackerel or whitetish lies
soaking; and, as it lays with the skin side
down, the salt will fall to the skin and
there remain, when if placed with the
flesh side down, the salt falls to the bottom
of the pan, and the fish comes out fresh
ended az 1t should be. In the other case,
1t is nearly as salt as when put in. If you
do not believe this, test the matter for
yourselves.
Year: 1866

WITH man love is never passion of
such intensity and sincerity as with wo-
man. She is a creature of sensibility,
existing only in the outpourings and
sympathies of her emotions; every
earthly blessing, nay, every Heavenly
hope, will be sacrificed for her affections.
She will leave the sunny home of her
childhood, the protecting roof of her
kindred, forget the counsels of her sire,
the admonishing voice of that mother
on whose bosom her head has been pill
lowed, fOrsake all she has clung to in
her years of girlish simplicity, do all
that woman can do consistently with
honor, and throw herself into the arms
of the man she idolizes. He that would
forsake woman after these testimonies
of affection is too gross villain to be
called a man. The wrath of Heaven
will pursue him, the brand of Cain is
will ranklc at his heart. Unrequited
love with man is to him never q cause
of perpetual misery; other dreams will
flow in upon his imagination the alb.
straction from business, the meteor of
ambition, or the pursuit of wealth will
win him away from his early infatua'
ton. 1t is not thus with woman. Al
though the scene may change, and years
long, withering, and lingering years
steal away the rose from the check of
beauty, the ruins of a breaking hear
cannot be amalgamated the memorie
of that Idle vision cannot be oblitcratcC


from the soul; she pines, nerves hcrScl


anew with pride, and pines away again


until her gentle spirit bids adieu to tn


treacheries of earth, and fits away int


the bosom Of her God.
Year: 1866

1t is an irritating feature about most
Of the good advice which it Is mans
misfortune to receive, that it is given by
way of satisfaction to the donor, quite
as much as TO benefit the recipient. Pco-
pie get into vague way of thinking
that 1T is their prerogativc to go through
life doing good" No term is so COM
monty or so abominably misuscd. 1t
means in the mouths of the majority
of those who use it, th" employment of
their imperfect moral judgment upon
their ncighbor's business. This yearn-
ing to have finger in every moral or
spiritual pie is seldom disinterestcd.
1t is dictated less, perhaps, by wish to
benefit ones species than by wish to
crafty ones own cravings after influ-
encc and missionary work. A similar
phenomenon Is often seen in more world
ly matters. a morbid desire to interfere
with or to influence others Is more light
~ excused by ones own conscience if
one is able to argue that, after all, the
interference Is meant to be exercised Cor
the advantage of those on whom we
force it. The consequence of this is that
half the good advice pressed upon us in
worldly matters is purely bad advice.
People begin to advise without qualify
ing themselves for the post of adviser.


y cynic might not unnaturally come
to the conclusion that no gratuitous adj
vim nt oil ts n
man wants it he can always ask for it
and if the doctors and lawyers were
animated with a passion for advising
gratis, their counsel would be given
with less sense of responsibility, with
less discrimination, and therefore to less
purpose. Doctors and lawyers, howcv-
or, have this merit, that they have at
least studied the questions on which
they offer their opinion. Amateurs,
whether in theology or business, cam
not always say as much. There are two
pieces of good advice which might per-
haps be offered in return to all those who
are about gratuitollsly to give good adj
vice to others. The first would be not
to give it. This recommendation, how
ever, will never be followed until the
moral character of the would-be advis-
ers is permanently reformed. 1t would
be too distastctul to be popular. The
second is, not to give good advice until
one is quite sure that one has it to give,
and that one is not preaching to per-
son who knows more already about the
matter than we can tell him. Polonius,
in virtue of his parental dignity, had a
right to give Lacrtcs as much advice as


he could carry. Polonius, however, OF


indeed Polonia, in a railway-carriage OF
in drawing-foom, gratifying his or her
ambition to be of some influence in the
world, is Of less service to society than
Polonius or Polonia would bear patient.
ly to be told.-LOadOnS SdtWrddy Reciew
Year: 1866

A MACEDONIAN soldier, who had
often distinguished himself by his ValOr
and received marks of Philips favor
and appreciation, was once wrecked by
II violent storm, and cast on shore, help
less, naked, and scarcely with the APP
pearance of life. In this condition he
was found by Il stranger residing near
the coast, who, with the utmost human
itv and concern, flew to his relief, bore
him to his house, laid him on his own
bed, revived, cherished, and for forty
days supplied him freely with all the
ncccsSarics and cOnVeniences which his
languishing condition could require


The soldier rescued from death was in
cessant in his professions of gratitude;
and being furnished with sum of


money to pursue his journey, helelt his
benevolent host; but no sooner did the
wretch return to court, than he obtain
ed from Philip grant of the land of his
bcncmctor, whom he Immediately drove
from his settlement. The poor man,
stung with such an instance Of base in
gratitude, addressed Il letter to Philip,
representing his own and the soldier,
conduct in n lively yaud affecting manner


The King was fired with indignation
he ordered that justice should he in
Year: 1866

A GENTLEMAN troubled with a short
memory having acquired the bad habit
Of turning down leaf Of book so as
to remember where he left Oft, writes TO
say that he never can rccollect Il street
that he's only been in once. How is he
to remedy this defect? Very simply;
let him do as he does with his books
turn down corner,
Year: 1866

Nothiag would prove more useful in re-
storing the prosperity Of The war-stricken
South Than the establishment Of manulac-
lures. They would furnish home market
for agricultural products. render the unde-
veloped wealth of forests and mines avail
able. and provide profitable employment
Tor all their population, not otherwise en-
gagged, who are willing and able TO work.
A lull cotton crop can be sold for a large
sum. but the value Of raw material, in that
or any other form. is but slight compared
with that conferred upon il by skilled la
bor aud machinery when it becomes man
ufaciured fabric. When the Southern
States diversity their industry and fairly
begin to reap their shares OF the profits
which other communities have derived
from converting their great staple into
muslins and colicoes. they will be on the
highway 10 solid wealth.


Philadelphia Prtss.