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Year: 1866

Two painters were employed TO fresco the
walls OF magnificent cathedral; both stood
on rude scafolding constructed for the
purpose, some eighty feet from the floor.


One OF them was so intent upon his work
that he became wholly absorbed and In ad-
miration stood off from the picture, gazing
at it with delight. Forgetting where he was
he moved backward slowly, surveying criti
cally the work of his pencil, until he had
neared the very edge of the plank upon
which he stood.


AT this critical moment his companion
turned suddenly, and almost frozen with hor-
ror beheld his imminent peril: another In
slant and the enthusiast would be precipita-
ted upon the pavement beneath; II he spoke
to him It was certain death-if be held his
peace, death was equally sure. Suddenly
he regaIned his presence Of mind, and seiz-
ing wet brush, flung it against the wall,
spattering the beautiful picture with
unsightly blotches of coloring. The painter
few forward, and turned upon his friend
with terce impTeeations: but startled at his
ghastly face, he listened to the recital of
danger, looked suddenly over the dread
space below and with tears of gratitude
blessed the hand that saved him.


80 said preacher, we sometimes get ab-
sorbed In looking upon the pictures Of this
world and in contemplating them step back
ward, unconscious of our peril; when the
Almighty dashes out the beautiful images,
and We spring forward to lament their des-
truction-into the outstretched arms of mer-
cv and are savedf
Year: 1866

The relative merits of whiskey and news
papers are thus happily given by one who
can appreciate the latter, and eschew the
former;-A glass of whiskey is manufactured
from perhaps a dozen grains of corn, the
value of which is too small to be estimated.


A glass of this mixture sells for dime, and
if Of good brand, is considered well worth
the money. 1t is drank in a minute or two.
1t fires the brain, sharpens the appetite,
deranges and weakens the physical system.


On the same sideboard on which the delete
rious beverage is served lies q newspaper.
1t is covered with half million Of types; it
brings intelligence from the four quarters OF
the globe. The newspaper costs less than
the glass of grog-the juice Of few grains
of corn: but it is no less strange than true,
that there is a large number of people who
think corn juice cheap and newspapers dear.
Year: 1866

So sweet she is, so sweet and fair,
Such glow and glory grace her hair,
often used to wish she were


A little more divine.
sadly wished in her to see
A little less Of giggling glee,
A little less of coquetry,


And pertness, and design;
wished that she had learnt at school,
Not how to win men and to rule,
BY making wise ones play the fool,


And foolish ones adore
But, how to use the charms she had
In cheering hearts that else were sad,
And making one heart always glad,


And blest forever more.
/ wished-but wishing is trade
For boys and simple maidens made;
And, if l tried it, I'm afraid


| could not set her free.
From all the tricks and trumperies,
That keep her nature in disguise,
And will not let her cast her eyes


On quiet folks like me.


ARTHUR MUNBY.
Year: 1866

There is no country in the world, says the
st. Louis Republican, where the newspaper
is so universal necessity as cur own. To
everybody it is as indispensable as his daily
food; yet few are aware of the labor and ex-
pense involved In the preparation of the con-
stantly recurring meal. The Philadelphia
Ledger lately announced that the loss on its
circulation alone amounted to 800, 600 in
twelve months, which will seem startling
statement, and may be received with more
or less incredulity by those not engaged in
the business, and, therefore, unacquainted
with the mysteries of newspaper publishing
The Philadelphia Telegraph has some re-
marks upon the subject which the initiated
everywhere know to be true 1t declares
that there is not now single daily paper
printed in this country of which the cost to
the publisher is not greatly in excess of the
price for which it sells The question may
be naturally asked, how newspapers, then,
are supported? The answer is, that the
publisher is only saved from ruin by the ad-
vertising sources of income. Neither the
subscriber who takes the paper only to read
it, nor the advertiser who uses it as prof
table means Communication with its read
ers, separately sustains it. Both conioined
are necessary to that end; and while one
complains that the price of the paper is too
high, and the other that he is charged too
much for his advertisement, the publisher
is continually struggling to adjust the just
claims of each. In other words. he is gov
erned by the same principle which governs
men in every other kind Of business He is
too wise to impose prices on the public which
they would not long pay if found to be exor-
bitant; and competition in this, as in every
other sort of business would soon expose
and correct any such exorbitance. All
things considered, the public are getting the
benefit of the daily newspaper press at a
very cheap price, and publishers realize
profit quite inadequate to the service they
render, and the labor and care they incur.
Year: 1866

''You see, grandmamma, said young
Miss just from boarding school, we perforats
an aperture in the apex and corresponding
aperture in the base; and BY applying the
egg to the lips and foreibly inhailing the
breath the shell is entirely discharged OF its
contents BLESS my soul, cried the old
lady, what wonderful improvements they
do makeI Now in my younger days we just
made hcle in each end and sucked,
Year: 1866

A taste for reading will always carry yoa
into the best possible company, and enable
you to converse with men who will instruct
you with their wisdom and charm you by
their wit; who will soothe you when fretted,
refresh you when weary, counsel you when
perplexed and sympathise with You at all
times,
Year: 1866

In a certain school during the parsing les
son the word ''waif occurred in the sentence
The youngest, who was up bright eyed
little fellow puzzled over the word few
minutes and then bright idea struck him,
II can parse positive waif comparative
wafer, superlative, sealingwax.
Year: 1866

The ENJOYMENT OF OCCUPATION. The
mind requires some object on which its pow
ers must be exercised, and without which it
preys upon itselfand becomes miserable A
person accustomed to a life of activity longs
wretched. The pleasure of relaxation is
known only to those who have regular and
interesting occupation. Continued relaxa-
ton soon becomes WEAKNESS, and on this
ground, we may safely assert that the great
est degree of real enjoyment belongs not to
the luxurious man of wealth, or the Hstless
voteary of fashion, but co the middle class
ofsociety, who along with the comforts of
life. have consent andimportant occupation
Year: 1866

HI NEELA u Il OE u
There is in every heart a grave,


A secret, holy spot,
Filled with the memory of one


This busy life knows not.
Low down and deeply dug it lies,


This cherished grave unseen,
And years Of blighting care that pass
Make not this grave less green.
With jealous love We keep it fresh
Thre' many wintry years;
And when the world believes US gay,
We water it with tears.
Not for one cause alike to each


Their sacred sorrow bear,
Perchance some mourn living death,
Yet still a grave is there.
There is within my heart shrine,
All wholly given to him;
No dearer treasure e'er can make
It's lights burn low and dim.
OH there are things within this life
Which strangely, deeply thrill;
In music softest, sweetest notes,
We hear voice long still.
We deem the act a wanton one


Upon a grave to tread,
We pass in silent reverence


The resting of the dead.
Then on the sacred, hidden spot,
Let US not press too near,
Rem embering that to every heart
Its secret grave is dear.
Year: 1866

If men did but know what felicity dwells
in the cottage of virtuous poor man-Ahow
sound he sleeps. how quiet his breast, how
composed his mind, how free from care, how
easy his provision, how healthy his morning
how sober his night, how moist his mouth
and how joyful his heart-they would never
admire the vices, the diseases, the throng
of passions and the violence of unnatural
appetites that fll the houses ofthe luxurious
and the hearts Of the ambitious.
Year: 1866

The New York Herald, in speaking of some of
the late conversions to the Presidents policy,
and aludng to the fact of many of the leading
Republicans having lately come entirely over on
a sober second thought, thus comments:


esTo read the papers of the last two or three
days one would suppose President Johnson had
no opponents exec ept few crazy fanatics in Con-
gress who ought to be in an asylum. These po-
litical gyrations, all within such short space of
time, are very comical spectacle. They show
clearly the strength and impregnable position of
the President, and that each and all of the old
decaying parties and partisans endeavoring
TO cling to him to save themselves. He can look
calmly on and smi lie at these Jim Crow wheelings
and turnings of expiring factions, for he is the
nucleus around which the new constitutional par
ty will form and cry stalize''
Year: 1866

IF ONE should give me a dish of sand and
tell me there were particles of iron in it,
might look for them with my eyes and search
for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable
to detect them; but let NE take magn ct and
sweep through it, and how it would draw to
itself the most invisible PARTICLES by the mere
power of attraction! The unthankful heart,
like my finger in the sand, discovers no
merees but let the thankful heart sweep
through the day-as the magnet finds the iron
so will it find in every hour some heavenly
blessings; only the iron in Gods sand is
gold.-O " Holaaes.
Year: 1866

HAIR BRUsHEs.--To wash hair brushes never
use soap. Take piece of soda, dissolve it in
warm water, stand the brush in it, taking care
that the water covers only the bristles. It will
almost Instantly become white and clean. Place
it in the air to dry, with the bristles downward,
and it will be as firm as new brush.
Year: 1866

Don't let any druggist or ieslc- urge upon you a
different article, a. there Is No preparation in the
world like this Beware OF any article purportug 10
be the SINE.


Try HALLS HAIR RENEWsR according TO Direc-
tions. and you viii use other.


II not sold al druggists IN your town, a trial bottle
will be sent you by express upon receipt Of one dol
lar by mall thus giving you 10 opportunity at
once of testing its excelsnt qualities
Year: 1866

In HURHY.--A curious marriage is report
ed to have occurred some days since near
Bay City, Michigan, which reads like this:


1t seems that farmer lost his wife by
death, and that the said wife died carly in
the morning. The farmer did not appreciate
being left alone in the world, and ere his
wife's eyes had hardly closed in the sleep
that knows no waking, he decided to marry
again. Hitching up his team, he takes iu
his servant girl and goes to Bay City to buy
garments for the dead. While there, he
married. the girl and returned to his home
the same night with his second wife, so that
by actual count, he was not a widower
twelve hours. The new wife appeared at
the funeral t. he next day in deep black, and
was one Of th principal mourners over the
body of the fl rst wife.
Year: 1866

vest of her hopes. Our experience O.


nature tells US that the object of mater.
nal love and solicitude must become
/ from that moment inexpressibly deareI
/ to the mothers heart We could not
/ suppose for a moment that all that active
interest " hich for many years she had
| taken IN her daughters welfare would
suddenly cease. It's utterly impossible
that the aftectlOnate activity of the moth
er's love could suddenly disappear under
the gulse Of passive spectator. And it


is quite as impossible to suppose that she
could lmperil her daughters happiness


by displaying her love In so oficious a


manner as to excite a divided interest


where there should be but one.


1t must, however, be admitted that 10


some cases. through over zeal or possibly


through selhshness. this result is brought
about. 1t may be that the mother-in-law


owes to the too anxious discharge of her
duty the uuiattering position She occu


pies IN our current literature 1t is her
interference with " the young people"


that the young people resent. True, she


may have been wanting IN tact occasion
ally in the exercise of her Office, and her
sOn-in-laW and daughter were not slow
to convict her for her indiscretion of
speech in some little detail of the genera
supervision which she has, in all good


faith. exercised over their happiniss
and they may have done their best to de


prIve themselves of the truest friend by
furnishing all her acts with the color Of
one little piece of impOlitic interference.
We are not blind, of course. TO the in
stances which have occurred. and too
frequently occur, of mothers trafickinr
IN the market, and afterward becoming |
positive nuisance to their son. .in-law. |
Men are justified indeed in being wary
Of marrying into family whose female
head is of this despicabie type. But the
exception does not destroy the rule. IfI
we once encountered a Muller In a rail- !
way carriage we do not expect to meet
with his counterpart every time we take
the train. The true aspect of the case is
evident If mother has loved her child /
and persevered in loving her up to the
day of her wedding. is 1t not a matter OfI
certainty almost that she will love her to
the end with the same disinterested love
which she manifested toward her before
she left her uOther's roof? If Robert
and Emily, then, are tempted to tar the
grandmother of their children with the
same brush with which so many mothers /
in law have been tarred, II will be well /
for them to look back and ask themselves
whether the thing they mediate would
not argue an act of ingratitude on their
part toward one who has been their most
faithful ally, from the possibility of the
like OF which being reproduced in their
own children they would recoil with hor-
rOr. Let this test be brought to bear
upon mothers-in-law and they need not /
fear the result.
Year: 1866

" NATURE, through all her depths, is
full OF mUsic-varied In its tones and
rich in its melody. There is a music in
the stiffness of the twilight hour IN the
voice of the balmy breeze, as it sighs
amid the stirring leaves the starlit grove
or sleeps upon the calm bosom Of the re-
posing waters in the bubbling of the in
land fountain, and the thunderings of the
foaming cataract in the ripplings of the
mountain rill, and the majestic voice of
the storm stirred sea. There is music In
the glad symphonies of the joyous song
sters OF the grove beneath, and the NUT
terings of the thunders above 4; in heav-
en- on earth IN the OutspTead skies and
the invisible air in the solitary dell, and
on the mountains 8 clOudVeiled top, where
human footsteps have never left an echo;
in the deepest cells Of the passiOn-stirred
heart, and the inanimate depths Of the
material world /; in the dim rays of earth
and the beams Of those celestial lights
which gem the high armament and hight
the angels to their evening prisons in
the tones Of WOman's voice on earth, and
the devOtiOns Of the pure spirits Of a bet
ter land IN all, through all, and over
all, and forever vibrating, the rich music
of universal harmony, and the deep tones
of undying melody. Thousands OF invisi-
bic haTps are pouring their united melO-
dy through the depths of air and earth /;
millions ofarchangels touch their heaV-
en-strung Tyres, and send celestial har-
mony through the vast halls of the tenn
pie of the living God. It is the air Of
earth it is the atmosphere Of heaven.
The uubOunded universe is one sleepless
Tyre, whose chords of love and hope and
purity and peace are famed into q drea-
my and mystic melody by the breath OF
the invisible God
Year: 1866

A satirical rogue insists that love is as
necessary to a Woman's heart as a fash
ionable bonnet to her head. Indeed. we
think, rather more so for nothing less
than large measure of love will content
her, whereas, the present fashion shows
that she can be satisfied with a very little
bonnet. tits undoubtedly a scandalOus
observation, but a modern philosopher
has remarked-and we give the aphoTism
for what 1t is worth-that love IS so es-
sential to the very life of a woman that
in eelibacy she is unhappy without low
er, and after marriage, if she Is so unfor-
tunate as not to love her husband, she is
pretty certain to love some one else y
Year: 1866

A wise man will never rust out. As
long as he can move and breathe, he will
do something for himself, for his noigh-
Dor or for his posterity. Almost TO the
last hour Of his life, Wellington was al
work. So were Newton, Bacon, Milton,
and Franklin. The vigor OF their lives
never decayed No rust marred their
spirits. 1t is a foolish idea to suppose
that we must lie down and die because
we are old. Who is old Not the man
of energy; not the day laborer in sci
ence. art or benevolence but he only
who suffers his energies to waste time,
and the spring of life to become motion
less, on whose hands the hours drag
heavily.
Year: 1866

"A correspondent of the Army and
Navy journal says the experiments at
FORTRESS Monroe prove incontestibly
what was well known to practical naval
officers before, viz: that no monitor in
the navy would stand, for any length of
time, the hammering from a solid ff,
teen-inch shot; and it is doubtful whether
they would stand more than three or -four
blows
Year: 1866

There is not q civilized country
on the face of the earth that would not
Joyrully accept the Southern States as a
part OF its dolninions and grant them
equal rights with their own people
Boston Post
Year: 1866

The only instrument necessary is q
measure with feet and inch marks upon
it. The girth is the circumference OF
the animal, just behind the shoulder
blades. The superficial feet are obtain
cd by multiplying the girth and length.
The following are the rules to ascertain
the weight of the animal:


If less than one foot in girth, multi
ply superficial feet by eight.
If less than three and more than one,
multiply superficial feet by eleven.
Ifless than five and more than three,
multiply superficial feet by sixteen.


If less than seven and more than five,
multiply superficial feet by twenty
three.


If less than nine and more than seven,
multiply superficial feet by thirty-three'


If less than eleven and more than
nine, multiply superficial feet by forty
two.


Example: Suppose the girth of bull
lock to be six feet three inches; length
five feet six inches; the superficial area
will then be thirty-four, and in accord
ance with the preceding table, the
weight will be seven hundred and eighty
two pounds.


Example: Suppose pig to measure
in girth two feet, and in length one
foot nine inches. There would then bt
three and half feet, which, multiplied
by eleven, gives thirty-eight and hal
pounds as the weight of the anima
when dressed. In this way, the weight
of the four quarters can be substantially
ascertained during life.
Year: 1866

black and grinning associates. wheth-
er the expectation of such honors moves
MN to emigrate we cannot say, but We
DO think, since the election of the ne
groes, that Boston is the only place where
the distinguished individual to whom
we have alluded will ever be likely to
attain position as legislator again.
We used to think that no other legisla-
ture than that of West Virginia would
suit the representative of "the loyal
people of Ohio county," but now we
are satisfied that Massachusetts, is the
place for him; let him go to Boston; and,
prithee Mr.. H, do 90 at once.
Year: 1866

Sheep or cattle that are intended fol


the butcher, either late in the fall ol


during the winter, should be pushed


with grain while they are eating grass


in the months of October and November


1t is economy to do this. And more


flesh and fat can be laid on with one


buShel of corn during these months than


in the cold winter with dry hay, instead


of grass, for the balance of the food


What is gained at this time of year can


be cheaply kept until the period of mar.
keting arrives.


Fattcning stock frequently suffers and
declines in weight and condition for
lack of sufficient food during the seven
or eight weeks preceding the time OF
yarding or stabling for the winter.
Grass is neither so nutritious nor plen-
tiful as it should be for their good; pas
lures get bare very quick because there
is no growth to replace what is eaten.
The winter weather constantly in
creasing in severity as winter approach
es, sharpens the appetite of the animals,
which on the frost bitten grass they are
scarcely able to satisfy. They are con-
sequently restless; they take much ex-
tTClSc, anu tuelT cOdtS lOOse tHelT sllOOtn,
glossy appearance. They want richer
food. If it is not given thoy will shrink
a great deal when changed on to hay,
and it will take a month or two of win
ter feeding to bring them to th"


weight they had on faIiidant the grass


No nnttcEo period in the autumn we
,nsye I'VE Indicated, it will pay richly TO
feed OH grain. Sheep will lay on fat
fast with some grain at
this time, and they will go into the
Yards without shrinking, and be far in
ADVANCE by the first of January of those.
hat have had the same amount of grain,
,ut have eaten it wholly in the yards
md with dry fodder.


A flock of wethers might hardly hold
heir own during the last sixty days of
pasturing on ordinary grass without
,ther feed, with certainty of shrink
ing and remaining stationary for some
weeks when yarded and put on dry
oood; but If n half bushel of corn per
head were given them during this thno
md under these conditions, they would
zach gain at least fifteen pounds on 1T.
Every feeder can figure the cost of the
yrain and the price of the mutton, and
satisfy himself whether such feeding
would be a paying operation.-Rnrdt
Ner Yorker.
Year: 1866

An editor in Illinois recentlyi saw q
patent clothes-washer. 1t was in the
shape of a wheelbarrow. The revolu-
tions of the wheel put in motion crank
that moved plunger that pounded the
clothes. The body of the box was
mounted where the load is in a wheel
barrow. On the top of the box was q
wringer. A lady can put ner clothes in
her machine, pick it up and 60 out call
ing, the longer her list of friends the
further she will have to wheel her bur-
den, and the better her clothes will be
washed. Calling will then be of some
use, and an eternal gad-about will be-
come a first-rate washerwoman.
Year: 1866

A YOUNG fellow entered church and
took his seat with his hat on. An elder
noticing it, stepped up and requested
him to take it off. His request not being
complied with, he came to the young
man a second time, and seeing he still
hesitated, the elder gently lifted it OFF,
when, to his chagrin, out rolled quart
Of hickory nuts, making more noise than
was consistent with decorum. MAN."
quietly said the youth, "See what you
have donew