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Year: 1867

In small city some well-disposed citi-
zens were sent by the magistrates from
house to house, in order to collect sub
sldy tor the impoverished inhabitants of
the city. Early one morning they came
to the farm of wealthy farmer.


They discovered him in front of his
stable, and, upon approaching him, heard
how he rebuked his servant for having
left the ropes at which the horses were
tied over night in the rain, and for not
having taken them to dry. ...


''Oh this is an avaricious man % said
one to the others "we shall not get
much here ~


Owe will at least try it." said another,
and they approached.


The farmer received the strangers verv
friendly, and while he accompanied them
to his house they brought forth their re-
quest.


How great was their astonishment as
he gave them considerable sum of
money, and promised to give them an
equal sum every year.


The citizens, in their grateful emotion,
could not bear to confess to the farmer
that his beneticence was wholly unex-
pected by them; for the rebuke he pre-
viously gave to his servant, on account
of so unimpOrtant trife, led them to
suspect that he was very avaricious
man.


"Dear friends" said he, Through my
being so economical with my property
at all times, l have arrived at the happy
condition to do good"


MoRAL-Do not be ashamed of econo-
my, and think it not to be avarice, for
you need only to be ashamed Of avarice
itself


Do not refuse to be beneficient, because
you falsely take benefcence for lavish
ness.
Year: 1867

Pigeons milk was referred to by
Shakespeare, which shows that in his day
the peculiar manner in which doves
nurse their young was well known
While the Matching process is going on
the esophagus or tube leading from the
mouth to the crop appears to shorten in
both parents. As soon as the little ones
leave the shell the father and mother fly
abroad and pick up grian which distends
the crop. A fluid is secreted in that re-
ceiving organs that softens it, and which
is so nearly Dissolved that the contents
appears like thickened milk. They then
perch on the edge of the nest, open their
bills, and the young helpless doves run
their bills quite down into the crop and
suck up the delicious food. In that way
they are fed several times day till they
become very fat. Under the name CT
soua6s they are sold in the market as
particularly appropriate aliment for lnVa-
lids.


When fully ledged the parents refuse
20 forage any longer for their lndolent
family They even push them from the
I;;@bt;na-stooi if they reside in a dove
nete or from the limb if in their wild
woodland haunts. By little and little
thew try heretofore unused wings, and
finally form a family establishment en-
tirely independent of the old homestead
The parents having been relieved from
their extra labor by weaving their brood
began very soon again de 'ao0o to rear up
another family, and so on for several sue
cessive years. They multiply very rap
idlu
Year: 1867

Borax Lake is About one hundred
miles north of San Francisco. Properly
speaking it is pond, being one mile
long and a half mile wide. 1t is situa-
ted on peninsula which juts into Clear
Lake, from which it is separated by a
mountain. 1t is, in brief, a crater OF an
extinct volcano, or at least presenting
that appearance.


Probably 10 white men ever saw Its
like-there being no other of the kind
save in Thibet. Before the discovery OF
Borax Lake, there were but two sources
of supply of borax to meet the demand
of the world-that of Thibet, and that
of firm in Liverpool, who manufactur-
ed the article by chemical process.


Iron coffer-dams, having chambers a.
bout five feet square, are sunk IN the lake
and the water is bailed out of the dams,
the mud in them being pressed by men
stamping on boards that cover it, and the
concrete mass taken ashore and dried in
the sun, the largest borax crystals being
picked up during the operation. Crys-
tails are found from the size of hens egg
to that ofa pea.


At the present time about four thous-
and pounds OF borax is obtained daily !;
ten to fifteen tons will be the daily yield
when the works are completed. The sup
ply may be regarded as illimitable, and
sufficient for the demands of the world.
1t is constantly forming, and soon there
will be no borax in use In the arts and III
medicine save that which the golden
State will furnish.
Year: 1867

The way not to be healthy or happy
is to keep up an incessant snarling. If
you want to grow lean, cadaverous and
unloyely excite yourself continually a.
bout matters you know nothing about.
Accuse other people of wrong doing in
cessantly, and you will find but little
time to see any wrong in yourself We
wish here and now to inform all men of
irritable dispositions, that they will live
longer if they will only keep cool. If
such men want to die we have nothing to
say; snarling will kill about as quick as
anything we know. We have had good
health for the whole period of manhood,
and attribute the most of it to the way
we take things.


Digestion is much better when one has
sense. We like witless people, if they
will only keep in good humor; but an an
CRY blockhead who cannot express him
self in an intelligent way, is pitiful
sight We like fat people, simply be-
cause they take things easy.


Melancholy men, whose noses are al
ways askew, as though they had fallen
upon an unsavory obstacle in their path
are to be stunned. Men whose eyes nev-
er see anything beyond the extremity of
their nasal organs, are the poorest kind
of guides. The best way for people who
do not know things, is to say as little as
possible about the unknown.


You can talk with comfort with folks
who cannot tell any thing; but it is ter
rible to be obliged to stay with dysPep-
tic growler who seems bound to keep
everybody as uneasy as possible.


If thing is mean say it heartily and
at once, but do not go round the world
snarling. Men who are just are char1ta,
able. The way to heaven is lighted and
peaceful.


A soul saved should be cheerful, mercl-
full and glad. Things are not SO bad as
some folks think. The church is better
than its enemies imagine, and the world
is better than cynical Christians.


If YOU will keep your own soul in fel-
Iowship with God, you will think better
of other people. Rejoice always.
Year: 1867

Gen. Butler has been relieved of the
office of President of the "National Asy-
lum for Disabled Soldiers" The act OF
Congress establishing that institution
provided that no member of Congress
should be a member. Afterwards, when
Butler was elected to Congress, the law
was changed so as to except him, but as
this was done after Congress came to-
gether, the Comptroller of the Treasury
decided recently that Butler became in
copetent to hold said office as soon as
ell, cted, and that the removal of the disa-
bility some time afterwords did not rein
state him on the office That decision
leaves him out in the cold, and will be
pleasing is the Executive, who don't for
get the generals wiping him down at the
last session for misap proprlatlng the
moneys that belonged to the institution.
Probably, however, if Butler wishes to
continue in the office he will manage to
avail himself of some way to do it. The
man who invensed contrabands as COW
er for Democratic interference with slav-
cry and pulled the stings out of the scor-
pions at New Orleans, who put a new In
depreciation upon the word residence, so
as to remove legal objections to his cleo
ton to Congress, will find some judicious
way to the post Of President of the Asy-
INN if he wishes to. 1t is, however,
to see the sparkling joy that
Eliminates the visages of his enemies at
this reverse stroke OF luck They are
for the smallest tavars OF that
Year: 1867

A Vermont butter maker writes to the " Y
Farmers Clob, concerning packing butter to
keep


Pack it in we'll soaked tubs or ferkins (;
put little damp salt at the bottom, and
place it in cool, dry cellar on a bench
of wood Is inches from the cellar bottom
and the same from the wall. Stone or
earthenware does not keep butter well,
as the moisture from the surrounding at
mosphere in warm weather, condenses
on such vessels and soon affects the but
ter. Put no salt on or between the lay
ers. Fill to within half an inch of the
top, and place clean wet cloth over the
butter, and pack the edges down with
knife, and then spread fine wet salt over
the cloth. Having made and dealt in
butter for some time the above mode of
packing and keeping butter will be useful
to many, and cause smile of delight to
the buyer.
Year: 1867

AN ELEPHANTS TRUNK.-One has been
apt to consider Nasmyth's steam hammer,
which can with one blow exert force of
two tons, and with another break nut
without injuring the kernel, as triumph
of human ingenuity, and so it is; but how
insignificant when placed in comparison
with the trunk of an elephant; for not
only can the latter strike blow of a ton
or so, and break an egg or a nut, but it
can pick up pin from the floor, or pull
down a tree /; project water with the
force of twenty man power forcing
pump, or uncork and drink a bottle of
soda-water without spilIing 4 drop.
Year: 1867

God will conquer-doubt it not
In the shadow of a thought:


All the plans of men may fail,
Blown as dry leaves on the gale;
But the lightest word of His


Rooted like mountain is.


Self is half of human might
He works but for Love and Right
He from all eternity


Lives, the Truth that maketh free;
And the hope unlit in Him
Is phantom'taper dim.


God Tin conquer-but beware
What his conquest leaves our share;
We shall win whate'er we seek
Blood, if we retengs would wreak;
Ashes, if we would fight for dust
Earth, for every earthly trust.
Dead souls cannot wage His war;
Lukewarm zeal he doth abhor;
Hosts that hate their brother man
Fall uucounted from his plan;
Plots to work unrighteous bale
Crush their plotters while they fail.
In the army of the Lord,


Point against thyself thy sword,
Rather than let one thought be
Traitorous to Liberty.


Self-pronounced is else thy curse,
Kissed throughout the universe.
God will conquer-when or how,
Well it is we know not now,
Der our crushed hopes it may be
He must ripe TO victory;
Ours to choose beneath his feet,
Or beside him in his seat
God will conquer-thcreis land
Peace shall cheer with breathings bland
There's a land where truth shall reign,
Justice. pure of every stain;
Best of sun and dew and Showers
Is that happy country ours?
Some new soil his reign may bless,
Yet uncuIsed with barrenness,
Sin, adopted and baptized,
Shall not there he recognized
States, strike deep your ploughshares, for
God will conquer in This war.
God will conquer-take his side.
And to certain triumph rideI
BayOnets and swords may fail;
Better than coat of mail
Is a soul to him allied =
He will cOnquer-take his sidei
Year: 1867

There are three things a woman can't
do. First, she can't sharpen lead PEN
Gil. Give her one and see. Mark how
jaggedly she hacks away every particle
OF wood from round the lead, leaving an
unsupported spike of the latter, which
breaks Immediately when you try to use
it. You can almost forgive the male
creature his compassionate contempt as,
chucking her under the chin, he twitch-
es it from her awkward little paw, and
rounds and tapers it in the most ravish-
ing manner for durable use. / wish to
hear no more on that point, because when
l once make up my mind, "all the kings
men" can't change it.


Well, then, Secondly: A woman can't
do up bundle. She takes whole news
paper to wrap up paper of pins and
coil of rope to tie it, and it will come un-
done at that. When l go shopping
which is sometimes my hard lot to do
/ look on with the fascinating gaze of a
bird in the neighborhood of a magnetic
serpent, to watch clerks do up bundles.
How the paper falls into just the right
crease; how deity they turn it over,
and tuck it under and tie it up, and then
throw it down upon the counter as if they
had done the most commonplace thing
in the world, instead of deed which
might-and faith does-task the ingenu-
ity of "angels p 1t is perfectly aston
ishing.


Thirdly-1 may allude to the fact that
a woman cannot carry an umbrella; or
rather to the very peculiar manner in
which they perform that duty; but 1
won't. | scorn to turn traitor to sex
who, whatever may be their faults, are
always loyal to each other. So l shall
not say as l might otherwise have said,
that when they unfurl the parachute al
luded to, they put it right down over
their noses-take the middle of the side
walk, raking off mems hats and women's
bonnets as they go, and walking right
into the breakfast of some unfortunate
wight, with that disregard of the conse-
quent gasp which to be understood must
be felt, as the offender cocks up cne cor
ner OF the parachute and looks deiantly
at the victim who has the effrontery to
come into the world and hazard the whale
bone and handle of her ''umberill p' "
Year: 1867

Bruce watched spider give spring,
His thread upon stalk to fling,


But fail. ......
Twice, thrice he tried it, as before;
Then all his ways and means ran DER
Tried it again for ten times more,
Nor from his purpose then forebore,


Nor yet turned tail
For twenty times at least he tried,
Then on the stalk his swing thread tied


Quite fast.


Says Bruce-''my model thsu shalt be:
A lesson thou hast preached to me
Let those who fail take heart from thee.
Year: 1867

THE REPORT that Sheridan is to be removed
is revived, and the order of removal is ex-
pected this week. A special dispatch to the
Boston journal says that the President stated
on Tuesday that he did not expect the sncee S.
or to restore any of the Louisiana officials dis
placed by Sheridan, and declared that his rea'
son for removing the Latter commander was
based on the ground of what the Executive
considers insubordination in disrespectful tele-
egrams and orders about the President.
Year: 1867

RAILROAD IRoN.-The iron for the extension
of the Portland & Oxford Central Railroad to
Hartford village has arrived at this port, and
will go forward to its destination this day
This is an important extension for the inter-
ests of this city as well as Of the interior rltsa
Year: 1867

LET ANY ONE take the trouble to enquire,
and they will ascertain that the engravings
now being given away by the Washington
Library Company of Philadelphia, to those
who purchase one or more shares of stock in
aid of the Riverside Institute, are worth more
at retail by fifty per cent, than what is paid for
the stock. Besides this, every share of stock
will be accompanied by a present at the great
Year: 1867

Can happiness on earth be found'
Go ask the rich and gay,
They'll tell you sorrow dwells around
Their dark and stormy way.
Go ask the man whose feeble steps
Are tottering and slow,
His long deep sigh and furrOwed check
Bespeaks heart of wo.
Go ask the poov and needy man


Whose locks are thined with care,
He'll tell you life is but span


And he Is not happy here.
Go ask the youth whose dimpled cheek
With rosy health adorned;
Her down cast look at once will speak,
Her path is strewed with thorns.
Go ask the child of tender years,
Whose heart is light and free,
Twill quickly answer, though in tears,
1t can not be happy here.
Go ask the gay and thoughtless crawd
~ vanity @.l $50,
And on their brow will hang n cloud
They have no peace within.
But 60 and ask the Christian, where
True happiness is found,
He'll point you to that heavenly star
Which is with glory crowned.
He'll tell you there's his only hope,
His trust when time shall end,
And there pure happiness and love
Can never, never end.
Year: 1867

Is there anything that comes nearer tbs
imploratiou of Naomi than the subjoined,
Then we have not seen it.-"Lord bless
and preserve that person whom Thou hast
CHOSEN ta be my husband; let his life be
lo1g and blessed, comfortable and holy
and let me also become a great blessing
and comfort to him, sharer in all his
sorrows; a meet helper in all the acci-
dents and changes in the world, make mo
amiable forever in his eyes and forever
dear to him. Unite his heart TO NE iu
dearest love and holiness, and mine to him
in all sweetness, charity and compliance
keep me from ungen;leness, discontented-
ness and un.easonableness Ct passion and
humor and make me humble and obedient,
useful and obser want, that We delight in
each other according to Thy blessed word,
and both of Us may rejoice in Thee, hav-
ing our portion in the love aud services Of
God forever-AmeE.
Year: 1867

n The Philadelphia Press IN its Newspaper


World thus dilates on the hydra.heade monster


Expense" which, with the Devil" has q con.


nection with every newspaper in the country: "a.


Scarcely any of the outside world, and not all Of
those of the inside, have any idea othe amount Of
money required to establish q. frst-class daily. It
might be done in Philadephia or New, York for
$3.50, 1000, but double the sum would not be too
great. It is said that once upon q time . young


man made bargain with sthe gentleman in black


to be supplied with as much money as he could
spend for specified number Of years, for certain
reward The young man went into all manner Of
extravagances He had new pair Of boots every
day; lived in the most sumptuous style; scarcely
ever wore the same suit Of clothes twice, kept fast
horses, had a steam yacht, and was extravagant
generally, but his friend paid all the bills, and said


that was nothing. Young man then abought oil
stock, and sunk wells and money. The wells did
not turn out well, and much cash was spent, yet
the banker was still complainant. The young man


was in despair and cudgeled his brains for an ex.
pedient. Finally he hit upon an idea Hestarted
q newspaper At the end of the first month he


took the bills to his friend, who paid them, but not
with such good grace as he had done before -
The paper was issued for another month, and the
bills were again paid. The devil thought them
very heavy, yet he handed over the money, but at
the end Of the third month he declared that be


would not be swindled any longer, and declined to
furnish any more money Tor such o scheme. So
the devil lost. ~ ,@f.si s-t<ss "7G !:
Year: 1867

Here is o letter from wife in Massachusetts to
her husband in California She don't intend 60
ing through world with the blues: -,.rI


"My dear Husband As it is now some time
since you left for California, suppose you would
be glad to hear how we are getting along in your
absence. l am happy to say we are enjoying very
good health on the whole. Just at present two of
the boys have got the small -pox Amanda Jane has
got the typhus. fever; Samuel got hooked by q
cow the other day, and little Peter has just chop
ped off three Of his fingers with q Ratchet Its q
mercy he didn't chop them all off With, these
tiaing exceptions, we areaa web and getting q
long nicely. -, 49,
You needn't be at all anxious about. us. 5 I al
most forgot to say that Sarah Matilda eloped last
week with a tin pedler Poor girl She's been
waiting for chance and I'm glad she's married at
last She needn't have taken the trouble to elope
though, for I'm sure was glad enough to have
her 60. She was great eater, and find baked
beans don't go off near SO fast as they did The
way the girl would dip into pork and beans was .
caution to the rest of the family. Thecow took It
into her head to run away, which was very fortu-
nate am sure, for the barn caught fire last night
and was consumed I was in hopes that the
house would go too, for it's inconyefient; but the
wind was the wrong way, so it didn't treceiye much
injury. Some boys broke into the orchard the
other day and stripped all the fruit trees I am
very glad of it, for If they hadn't i presume the
children would have made hemselYesil. r.
Year: 1867

The process of manufacture is nearly as follows
The leaf is stripped from the stem in large guam
titles, and steeped in water until thoroughly wet
It is then placed in kiln where it dries until It
is simply flexible losing all that crispiness which it
originally had From the drying Kiln it is taken
to strong screw press and placed In an oblong
box, where it is pressed until it becomes solid
block. This is done that it may present hard,
unyieldng surface to the knives of the cutter, be-
meath which it is next placed. 1t may be well to
state that each manufacturer possessing cutter
has to give security to the amount Of 5000 for
the payment of his producing tax. The tobacco
is cut coarsely by this machine, from which it is
taken to the drying floors above Here it is spread
in heap to ferment, process that requires about
a month to perfect. The greatest caution and at
tention are required while the weed is IN this state
to keep it from spelling like bread, however, the
nearer you can get it to spoiling without actually
doing so, the better it will be- It has to be turn
ed and moved constantly until it is thoroughly fer
mented, when it is taken down stairs again and
put through the mill This mill consists of series
of conica hoppers, called ''mulls,' in which are
placed four vertical iron rollers, which act as mill
stones in grinding the tobacco. The manufacturer
has to give security in $1,000 for each "mull' aso
to insure the payment of his tax to the government
The tobacco comes out OF the "mulls In the
shape of what is called 'coarse meal, the grains
being about twice the size of coarse Indian meal.
After being wet and manipulated this becomes
s'Rappee, snuff without further grinding, and is
the cheapest kind The whole mass is then put
into barrels in perfectly cool condition. 1t has
no smell nor flavor whatever. After remaining
in the barrels for short time it becomes heated,
and in the course of ten days or two weeks it is
taken out, with high favor and great strength.
The longer it is kept in the barrels the darker it
down and to keep it. IF "Scotch" snuff is de-
sired, it is made perfectly dry and ground in the
mill again to make it of finer grain. This is the
whole mystery of snuG-making.


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