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Year: 1873

1t six men of IndOstan,
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
tThOush all OF them were blndJ
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind
The FIRST approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl
God bless e!-but the elephant
Is very like wall !!
The second feeling of tho tusk.
Cried, 'Ho what have we here,
So very round and smooth and sharpr
To me It's mighty clear
This wonder Of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!
The third approached the animal.
And. happening to take
The sQuirming trunk within his hands.
Thus boldly up and spake:
Il see quOth he. the Elephant
Is very like snakeP
The fourth reached out his eager hands,
Aud elt about the knee;
What most this wOndrous beast is like
Is mighty plain quoth he;
'Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like treer
The fifth, who CHANGED to touch the ear.
Said. Fen the bindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!
The sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to RrOpe.
Than, seizinR on the swinging tail,
That fell within his scope
I see,' quoth he. the Elephant
Is very like a roper
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong.
Though each was partly in the right,
Aud all were in the wrong.


MORAL.
So, oft in theolOgic
The disputants, l ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
or what each other mean.
And prate about elephant
Not one OF them has seen!


JOIN G. sA
Year: 1873

A writer in New York journal seriously
advocates return by ladies to the ancient
Greek sandal, as being far more comfortable,
having handsome appearance, and less likely
TO iniure the foot
Year: 1873

An affecting incident is told of the re-
cent foods in Virginia. A mother and sew
eral children, living on narrow neck Of
land lying between the James River and
the canal, were trying to escape, when they
discovered that the bridge, their only means
Of safety, had been carried away. They clung
to the abutments till nightfall, the water
rising every hour, and no assistance near
them. They had been in this condition for
some time, when one Of the children felt that
her strength was gone, and, with cry of
terror, she exclaimed. Kiss me, mother, for
can't hold on any longerl" And with the
warm pressure of that mothers lips upon
her cheek, she was swept away and seen no
more.
Year: 1873

Misunderstanding briskly with an ex-
citing object or pleasurable interest ahead
is the most healthful of all the forms of
exercise, except that of encouragingly re-
munerative steady labor in the open air !;
and yet multitudes in the city whose health
urgently requires exercise, seldom walk when
they can ride, if the distance ia mile or
more. 1t is worse in the country especially
with the we'll to do; horse or carriage
must be brought to the door even if less
distance has to be passed. Under the con-
ditions first named. walking is bliss it
gives animation to the mind, it WHITES the
circulation, it paints the cheek and sparkles
the eye, and wakes up the whole being,
physical, mental and moral We know a
family of children in this city who, from the
age OF seven had to walk nearly two miles
to school, winter and summer; whether
sleet, or storm, or rain, or burning sun,
they made it an ambition never to stay away
from school on account of the weather, and
never to be late y and one of them was
heard to boast that in seven years it had
never been necessary to give an excuse
for being one minute behind the time, even
although. in winter it was necessary to dress
by gaslight. They did not average two days
sickness in year, and later they thought
nothing of walking twelve miles at time
In the Swiss mountains Sometimes they
were caught in drenching rains, and wet to
the skin; on such occasions they made a
point to do one thing-le let it rain-and
trudged on more vigorously until every
thread was dry before they reached home.-
Halls Journal of Health.
Year: 1873

The manufacture Of false eyes is a business
Of considerable Importance in Paris. The
average sale OF glass eyes is four hundred
per week. The ordinary charge is about
80 for an eye.
Year: 1873

L notice you give my opinion of the
nature of scratches on horses your
readers will find | am not far from right,
although mercurial ointment does not al
ways cure. A careless and ignorant
groom will use too much, which acts as
poison instead Of curative, and he will
not use care about catchin,, cold. As an
Offset to the last sentence of your article,
let me tell you some more simple preven-
tives and cures. a horse which knaws
his manger, neck-yoke or halter can be
furnished with something which will bite
back, by mixing cayenne pepper with
syrup. 1t dries on and is not easily
rubbed off, except with water, and is
always ready to give bite for bite


Many horses are called little found
cred, when it is only little stiffness of
the cords of the neck and shoulder,
caused by the check-rein. You have
often seen a horse step back in his stall
after he had been out to show off his best
points, and put his nose down to the
floor? The groom, with wise look,
will remark, 1.-The old man gave him a
hard one to-day" while in fact the horse
was only stretching out the cords of his





worse, the ignoramus ties the halter still
shorter, so as to 8 make him stand up in
his stall. That action was an error, for
if you gag him up" and then refuse to
let nature restore the equilibrium, you
will in short time create contraction
in the cords Of the neck and shoulders,
and the horse shows a stiffness, which
appears TO be Il founder. My preventive
is TO feed from a manger on level with
his feet, and not over twenty inches in
front This lets horse feed as he was
made to eat horse never was made to
eat like girafee.


Another objection to high managers
and | never saw anything in their favor
is, they irritate the throat and wind
pipe, and create tendency to heaves. If
horsemen would use more common sense
they would need less medicine.
Year: 1873

Now that there il so much discussion
about ladies' dress, the following from the
Pail Mall Gazette may prove Of interest:


DR.. Johnson held that a man could live
on three pence day; t~o pence, we be
lieve, for bread, aud penny for milk. a
humorist, too, OF the present time, has
shown that it is quite possible to exist on
shilling day, by breakfasing and dining
with friends, and keeping the shilling for
cigars. A book WAS published a year or
more ago TO teach the art of Keeping house
on two hundred year; and now lady has
come forward with "A series of Instructions
on the mystery Of dressing on El5 year.
Whatever may be thought of the means by
which this end is to be attained, there is
something very practical and straightfor-
ward in the reply the writer makes To
those of her readers whom she imagines OBJ
jectiug to her at the outset, that on El5
year the thing cannot be done. For such
the book is not written: and she admits, in
any case, that it would be better to have
twenty, or five~an1-twenty, or fifty, or
hundred to dress upon. The problem,
however, Is to dress upon Els year, and
the lady, we think, makes out her case, that
with good will and determination it can be
managed- To decide the point absolutely a
jury OF matrons would perhaps be neces-
sary; but the project looks feasible enough
to put forward in the little volume. Ii is
sad to learn that the chief obstacles to
dressing upon fl5 year have hitherto





ly, who are ready enough to complain if the
the ladies of the family spend too much
money on their toilette, but the first if
they really endeaver TO dress economically,
TO accuse them OF dowdiness. The dresser
on els year seems 70 get good many
dresses for her money in the course OF the
twelvemOnth; and though she cannot ex-
pect, on such a moderate outlay, to qualify
herself for appearing at balls, she can at
tend dinner parties arrayed in black silk,
which must be trimmed from time to time
in new and various ways, so as to escape
recognition. Her wardrobe is organized,
however, with special view to pic-nics-
archery meetings and water parties. Apart
from the useful black silk, the costumes of
the lady who is to dress on fI5 year are
uniformly of a light and cheerful 'charac-
ter, which, indeed, is to be maintained ia
spite of everything. Thus, If any member
of her circle dies, she must not go into
mourning, or, if she does, there is the end
Of her dressing on Els year.
Year: 1873




Somnambulists often get themselves
into unpleasant scrapes, but seldom into
a less enviable one than was achieved by
student of the French College of Ste
Barbe Being missed by his room mate
in the night, and his partiality for this
kind of exercise being known, search was
instantly made for him with the result of
finding him comfortably reposing in the
gutter on the roof, four stories from the
ground, with one leg dangling over the
edge. The morning bell was about TO
ring, the noise would surely awaken
him, and only the courage and presence
Of mind of one of the ushers saved the
luckless sleep-walker from a cruel death.
First directing the students to pile their
mattresses in the courtyard beneath the
spot where the sleeper lay, the brave
usher slid down the gable-roof, at immi
nent risk of going over, cautiously woke
the slumbering boy, and dragged him
back into safety. 1t is pleasant to read
that this gallant exploit was rewarded by
a commemorative medal, purchased by
subscription among the students, and a
more solid but possibly less gratifying
testimonial among the faculty.
Year: 1873




One of the most interesting features of
the oranges is, that not single one can
be organized without the companiOnship
of the ladies. No charter will be issued
to organize grange, even if hundred
of the best farmers want 1t, and ask for
If, unless a certain number of ladies join.
Their assistance and influence are needed.
Their companionship will have a refining
and elevating effect upon the stern
er sex. They are equally interested with
their husbands, brothers and sons in the
good that can be accomplished. What
aids in giving relief to the farmer, will
give relief to his wife or daughters. They
give tone and elevation to the proceed
ings of the oranges. They furnish so
cial feature to the oranges which will
give permanancy and stability to them.


Each grange meeting will be a social fes-
tival, and neighborhood visit, green
spot in the Sahara of the farmers life.


BY all means let every grange encourage
the attendance of the ladies. Let there
be as many lady members as male mem
bers. 1t will increase the interest In
them and help to elevate our noble pro-
fession to that high standard we desire to
reach. With woman's influence with US
We shall have no such word as fail. Her
influence is for good, and We are glad to
know she viii exert IL in behalf of those
who are nearest and dearest TO her. Fem
Year: 1873

From the Boston Advertiser (Administra-


ton paper.


Sentiments like these have been express
ed in conventions all over the West; and it
is safe TO say that no man who voted for the
obnoxious till will hereafter present him
self for public office there without finding
that vote an insuperable obstacle To his am
bition. Outside of the Essex district, we
believe il will he so in New England also.
The father of that measure aspires to he
the Governor of Massachusetts. His district
has adopted him and sustains him in spite
of his principles. 1t may continue to do SO
rs long as he requires its support. Bnt to
the Republicans of the State his principles
are odious, and the day their party adopts
them will be the day of its dissolution.
Year: 1873

The Supreme Court Of Ohio has decided
that q local school board has right to ex-
elude. not only the bible, but singing and
religious instruction from the schools under
their CHARGE and no. court can interfere in
the matter. This is broad decision, and
has created widespread interest In the
State.
Year: 1873

On Sunday evening about o'clock VI


II. Baker and wife left their residence on
Washington street locking the front door
but leaving one Of the back doors open
for their servant girl whom they were ex-
pecling home, aud went to Dir. S. r.
Kings residence but two doors away.
Shortly after~ ard on looking out of the
window they saw light in the upper part
of their house and Messrs. Baker and
King went over to ascertain the cause of
il. They unlocked the front door and on
going up stairs We're confronted by a
burglar, with mask over his face and q
cooked revolver in his hand and pointed
directly at them. as neither of them was
armed they were obliged to retreat down
the stairway when Mr.. King guarded the
front boor and Mr.. Baker ran to the rear
door and fastened it. Coming back he
encountered the bun glar again and had q
struggle with him for the possession of the
revolver, but the burglar succeeded in get
ting loose and walking backward with the
weapon drawlI ON Mr. Baker, unfastened
the door and got away. He came in
torough the door which had been left un-
fastened and going directly to the room
where the light was seen, secured guam
tity of jewelry. some ten dollars in money
and the revolver used to such good advan-
tage, leaving in its place another revolver
which is believed to be tie same one
which was taken from W. L. Kizel resi-
dence few nights ago. Mr.. Bakers re-
volver was wort.l about $50 and had only
been purchased by him short time since.
This is the most daring Of the many bur
glaries we have recorded of late. 1t is to
be regretted that the gentlemen who en-
coun.ered him were not armed so that they
could have given him his just deserts
South Bend Tribune.
Year: 1873

Force is indestructible" There is al
ways hope in man that actually and
earnestly works. In idleness alone is
there perpetual despair mo one de-
serves the character of being good who
has not spirit enough to be bad"


Here ar. three very suggestive texts up
on which propose to base brief dis.
course. Did it ever occur to you, stern
disciplinarian, that you could break a
boys neck more easily than you can
break his will. And then, did 1t evei &c
cur tc you that boy with broken neck
Is better, safer piece OF humanity than a
boy with a broken will? Havn't heard
you say, "I will fog it out OF him 2" Now
let me say, yours is not the business 70
be trying to break the boys will /; you can
not fog anything out of him his will was
not formed 10 be broken; nothing was ev.
&C put into him, that may not be got ont
of him. You are ready enough to say
that you cannot furnish grain of brains
or capacity for the boy, and you should be
as ready to confess that you cannot take
any away from him. Every child that
comes into the schOol-rCom is an organ
ism through which force manifests itself
just so much and no more.


The teache may do much in directing
this force in its operations; he cannot add
to ii or subtract from ii. What a grand
achievement, it he could take even one
half OF chat force that acts through the
boy. the result of which is mischief, and
so dilect it that it would appear in multi
pllcation tables learned, and spelling les
sons made perfect" What if the boy
has stubborn will? Why. just set it
against the greatest common divisor or
the least common multiple, and see what
a treasure the BOY has had bestowed on
him.


Suppose your boy is really uicious--he
swears cheals, stones innocent cats, and
chews tobacco. If you could convert the
force he maIifests in swearing, into prop
er emphases in his reading; the ingenuity
he exhibits in cheating, into processes for
solving difficult problems; the muscular
force he puts forth in stoning cats, into
removing weeds and orick bats from the
school yard; the fortitude he exnib:ts in
masticating the filthy weed, into stoical
endurance Of the bad odors and unpleas-
ant sights be might encounter in the prsc-
Year: 1873

Staring is lost art. There is your
bold unwinking, unhlushing starer whom
no allopathic dose of shame would ever
put TO want. You are Miss Sarah Smith
and he knows il, and he means other peo.
pie shall know that he knows it. He
takes an inventory of your dress on that
particular occasion, of your party if you
are with one, of your conversation. He
mentions to his friends all the little items
he knows about you, and great many
more, and though you were never intro
duced to him, he tries to verify his asser-
ton that he is particular friend of yours
by bowing to you.


And there is your itermiient starer,
who pauses between the acts, and would
fain appear deeply absorbed by some
other object, to throw you off your guard,
that he may have better chance. Then
there is your starer who speaks to yoa on
some trivial pretext, holding you in con-
versation for the benefit of some third
party, who sees Miss Smith for the first
time, and who wishes to settle once for
all, the vexed question of the shape of
the nose, or the color of the eyes, or the
existence of the bump OF Imagination.
There is also the gentleman, stranger to
yourself, who has known your brother
and is possessed with the idea that poet
ry, like the measles, runs through the en-
tire family, and who, after spending an
hour or two in probing this matter to the
bottom, concludes that his theory is
mistake.


All these are novices in the art. These
and all other questions proper TO be ask
ed respecting person Of note can be in
vestigated wit hout violating any rule of
modesty, reticence or politeness. There
is way of looking at person without
appearing to look, known to the initiated,
but open to the study of all. | have seen
persons conduct this scrutiny while hyp
ocritically pretending to read paragraph
Az thO III" ntiNc Sctll announcer
perform the same feat while enacting ,lex
ferrous connoisseurship over painting.
Il is sometimes not amiss TO stop the ob
ject of your admiration in the street, and
politely inquire the W j to another. A
solicitation for charity concert is known
TO have been successful. but in this, as
in everything else, tact, lad es and gentle
men, tact rules the world There are
coarse questions which may be put to at
tain this and kindred objects, to which no
degree of imperiinent answering will do
justice. The person thus questioned, in
my view, is fully justified, not only in
this, but in departing SO widely from the
truth as to render it impossible for the
hoodwinked questioner ever to find his
way back.
Year: 1873

The November number of DEMoREsT's
MONTHLY MAGAZINE presents its usual
rich display of Fail and Winter novelties,
illustrated with numerous engravings,
among which is one full page, miniature
of the celebrated Chrome. Home, Sweet
Home" The Chrome is one oil the series
given to each So Yearly Subscriber to this
model monthly. How so large and beau.
tiful picture can be given away is oneof
the marvels of the day, for it must be re-
membered that these cannot be classed
among the usual Chromos given as premi-
ums, but are veritable gems, richly deserv-
ing their high reputation for beauty and
artistic excellence.
Year: 1873

DEATH OF AN OLD CIrIzEN.-We are
called upon this week to announce the
death of Mr. jeremiah Banning, which
occurred at his residence this week. He
was one of the early settlers of Northern
Indiana, and did business in Goshen and
South Bend IN almost different genera
ton from the present. He was good
old man, and after long and useful life,
has gone to join his friends on the other
shore. AT the time of his death he was
over 81 years OF age.-GOSheA Democrat.
Year: 1873

tical stady ofcomparative anatomy-why,
you wculd make man Of the boy. The
boy, even the bad boy, must do something.
Steam is up; the throttle valse Is open {;
now wIst are you going 10 dos You
can't "let down the steam YOU can't
"slow the fire" You cannot abate one
jot or title ofthe force that is acting you
can only direct Ii. The machine is bound
to run but whether on the track or into
the ditch depends. somewhat at least, On
what you do.


Isn't there such thing as shutting up
the escape-valves Can't you prevent the
boys doing what you would not have him
do, and nothing more Yes, think you
can, but IL is dangerous business. Better
let the steam out somewhere to act
somehow, than to have the boiler "bus-
ted" and the machine ruined. Or, as
Lowell has it.


Far better, almost he at work In sin,


Than In brute inactiou browse and sleep.


The question is not what shall we do
with the boy as we would have him, but
what shall we do with HIM as lIe is. The
greater tie manifestation Of energy, even
though that energy does not always ex-
hibit itself in purely angelic forms, the
greater the possibilities of greatness and
great goodns sss.


Innocence is not virtue. Goodness
that comes Of Incidence or impotence is
of the cheapest. weakest, meanest sort
Innocence alone will not make men of
boys Have patience with the bad boys
try 20 keep them on the track.
Year: 1873

A painful rumor held the town in sus-
pense for an hour or more last evening
to the effect that the President had been
assassinated. To say that our public
was unusually alarmed, and that deep re-
grets at such an event and maledictions
upon the head Of the assassin were freely
expressed, is to say only what was the
general feeling. Opposed TO General
Grant as we are, and to the political
party that supported him, we
cannot afford that the good name
of America shall again be tar
nished with a crime foreign to all our
ideas Of fair play, Of submission 20 the
viii Of the majority expressed at the bal
lot-box, and Of the openness, candor and
manliness that are distinguishing traits
Of our race. And We are glad to say
there i not even foundation for the ru-
NOR, which, after diligent search, has
been traced to the conversation of tele-
graph operators, lone in Memphis and
the other in a neighboring city, touch
ing the possibilities or eventualities in
case OF the repetition of such an event
as that Which robbed the South Of the
friendship and good offices Of Abraham
lincoln and increased the sectional hate
he had allayed by his example and mod
Grafton. We trust his assassination viii
he the last, a. it is the first crime Of the
character on the American calendar.
Year: 1873

MIscoNbUcT-IAst evening, in the gallery
of West Presbyterian Church, number of
young women and men, and several small
boys, kept up an inCessant whispering, talking
aud Riggling to the ETeat annoyance OF the or
derry people vino sat In their vicinity. IL 10
questionable whether such parties would not
do better TO stay away from church altogether.
They 60 for no good, and their presence is al
ways a source OF annoyance to those who at
tend from good motives.