Year: 1878

with only half nose, which you may see
sculptured on our columns.


TIE DANGER OF BOXING THE EAR
Scarcely day passes, we believe, without
some schoolmaster Cor schoolfellow, in natu-
raj imitation of his mastery. giving lad
smart boz upon the ear. Few persons would
be bold enough to choose the eye as part up
on which it was expedient to infict violent
blow by way or moral education; but there
is apparently, no end to the numbers who
select an organ upon which violence is liable
to be attended with much more dangerous re-
suits. For not only is deafness caused by
boxes, which rupture Gas they continually
do) the drum of the ear, but the Inflammation
of the internal cavity, which is so frequent a
result, may be followed years afterward, per-
haps, by disease of the bone, giving rise to
abscess of the brain, and having farai ter
aware how fruitful a source of suffering and
danger is represented by the box upon the
ear. We are informed, for example, Of two
cases under observation at the present mo-
ment, in which schoolboys have been victims
of such assault. Surely, school-masters ought
to have learned, long ere this, the danger Of
mode of personal chastisement that has
apparently usurped the place Of others, which,
if more disgusting, were not attended with an
equal amount of peril.-London Lancet.


Be SoMETH1NG.-It Is the duty of every
one to take some active part as an actor on
the stage of life. Some seem to think that
they can vegetate as it were, without being
anything in particular. Man was not made
to rust out his life. 1t is expected that he
should "act we'll his part" he must be some
thing. He has work to perform which it is
his duty to attend to. We are not placed
here to grow up, pass through the various
stages of life, and then die without having
done anything for the benefit of the human
race. Is man to be brought up in idleness ?
Is he to live upon the wealth which his ances-
tors have acquired by frugal industry? Is
be placed here to pass through life an autom-
atom? Has he nothing to perform as citi-
zen of the world ? A man who does nothing
is useless to bis country as all inhabitant. A
man who does nothing is mere cipher. He
does not fulfill the obligations for which he
was sent into the world and, when he dies, he
has not finished the work that was given him
to do. He is mere blank in creation. Some
are born with riches and honors upon their
heads. But does it follow that they have
nothing to do in their career through life ?
There are certain duties for every one to per-
form. Be something. Don't live like her.
NIT, and die unregretted.


par The longevity of the soldiers of the war
of 1925 is something remarkable. AL
though the war closed sixty-three years ago,
and youth of eighteen at that time would
now be eighty. .one years, there are great num-
bers of veterans still on the stage of life. Un-
der the recent act of Congress restoring to the
pension rolls the Southern veterans who had
been stricken off during the war of the rebel
lion, more than 81 900 applicants for restora-
ton have already come in from the surviving
soldiers, and 10000 from soldiers widows.
They are still coming forward at lively rate.
The act was measure of justice long delay
ed. There are few partisans so bitter as to
grudge these old men and women the So
month that they draw from the Treasury of
the country whose honor they defended.


sg A Frenchman is interpreting Indian
names He says the Sioux Indians name their
papooses after events happening at the time
Of their birth. As illustrative of this peculiar
trait, Red Cloud is known to have taken that
name from the fact that the western sky was
overspread with red clouds at the moment of
his birth; while the bringing in of captive
horse with spotted tail gave to another
chief the singular cognomen of Spotted Tail.
Sitting Bull received his name because buff
falo bull was, by a lucky shot, thrown upon
its launches in sight of his mothers resting
place at the natal hour while the struggles
ofa fractions pony furnished title for the
redoubtable Crazy Horse.


s9- The Secretary of War denies the report
started, it is said, in Richmond paper. that
the Southern Historical Society has been
rendered free access to the Confederate arch
ives in the War Department, or that Gen.
Marcus J. Wright, a Confederate officer, is in
charge of such records. COL R. N. Scott,
Federal officer in the war, has charge of the
archives. The War Department, in order to
secure certain valuable papers now in the
hands of the Southern Historical Society, has
arranged to furnish copies of certain records
of purely historical value to that society in
return.


I9- The old saying, excuse haste and a
bad pen," has been attributed to pig which
ran away from home.