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Year: 1871

We often wonder, says q writer in
the Richmond Wing, where the poor
go to church. When our blessed Lord
delivered that matchless address on
the Mount" We can not conceive of
the possibility of there being any
charge. Those precious utterances-


"Blessed are the poor in spirit;n
"Blessed are the poor in heart :"
"Blessed are thespeace-makersn- flow
ed from those divine lips free as the
bOunteOus air, lavish as the all-per-
yading light. And 50 we can imagine
the proto-martyr Stephen proclaim
ing, not only Before the Sanhedrim,
but to all the people Of Jerusalem,
without money and without price,
''HOwbeit the Most High dweileth not
in temples made with hands" There
would be something shocking to our
ideas of the lOftiness and elevation
maintained by the early missionaries
of the Cross to associate with their
preaching such a thing as reserved
seats' or "a dress circle"


And yet we have these things in our
modern churches. There are paTticu-
lar churches which are recognized as
fashionable" There is nOneed there
70 apprehend anything that will shock
the most thoroughbred persons. PeO-
pie are expected to be well-if not ele-
gantly-dressed. The latest bonnets


the most dazzling silks-select them
as the fittest theatre for their eXhibi-
ton. OF course these privileges have
20 be paid for. The "best people" are
to be found in a certain portion of the
church. People who have large fam
lies and small incomes get pews near
the door and to the right and left of
the side aisles. People who have no
incomes-they sit in the gallery, or,
most likely, stay at home. It is posi-
lively an expensive thing to hear the
gospel in our towns.


It is a matter Of sOmes surprise to
us that some Of the more attractive
city churches do not set the example
of charging an admission fee-say n
dollar a head. People who have mon
ey are, we take it, just as willing to
spend it at church as at theatre, for
the same entertainment. 1t would at
all events be good idea to combine
the two features of rented pews and
sale of tickets for single performances.
Strangers with money of course) Of
ten want to go to church, and do not
wish to intrude into q private box
and such are perfectly willing to pay
seventy five cents or a dollar to hear
good music and see the elite Of the
city.


There is another recommendation
we would make to the church, which
is this. We would recommend TO
them to build a number of free
churches in the plain quarters of ev-
cry considerable town for the use of
the people. There are plenty of peO-
pie with souls to be saved, who never
have a chance under the present sys-
tenn. They have nowhere to sit, or if
they have, they have no fine clothes.
They are not willing when they go to
church to be reminded that they be-
long to the poor people. The church
is no place for distinction of classes
1t is a dead level.
Year: 1871

Our readers know that there are two
kinds of respiratory apparatus - lungs
which inhale air, abstract oxygen from
it, and give, in return, chiefly carbonic
acid and gills which absorb the oxygen
dissolved in water, and also give off
chiefly carbonic acid, which is more
readily dissolved in water than the oxy-
gen. The apparatus is possessed by
mammals, birds, etc., the latter by
fishes; and as lungs are incapable of
taking oxygen out Of water, and gills
cannot take it from the air or, in other
words, as lungs cannot breathe water
and gills cannot breathe air, animals
with lungs are drowned In water, while
fish are drowned in the air. A small
number of amphibious animals, how
ever, possesses both lungs, and can,
therefore, breathe either air or water,
and thus live in both. 1t has been,
however, observed that musk rats and
other winning animals with lungs
could travel considerable distance
under ice without reaching any breath
ing hole on the surface, and it was
long time problem how they succeeded
in living so long and travelling SO far
without having access to the atmo5-
phere. The problem has been answer
ed by S. Newhouse, in work called the
Trapper's Guide" from which we eX-
tract the following:


Musk rats have a curious method Of
travelling long distances under ice. In
their winter excursions TO their feeding
grounds, which are frequently at great
| distances from their abOdes, they take
in breath at starting and remain under
water as long as they can. They rise to
the ice and breathe ont the air in their
lungs, which remains in the bubbles
against the lower surface of the ice.
They wait till this air RECEIVERS oxygen
| from the water and ice and then take it
in again, and go on till the operation
has to be repeated. IN this way they
travel almost any distance, and live any
| length of time under the ice.


"The hunter sometimes take advant-
age of this habit Of the musk rat in the
following manner:


When the marshtS and ponds where
the musk rats abound are first frozen
over, and the ice is thin and clear, on
striking into their houses with his
hatchet, for the purpose OF setting his
traps, he frequently sees whole family
plung into the water and swim away
under the ice. Following one for some
distance, he sees him come up to renew
his breath in the manner above de-
scrihed


After the animal has breathed
against the ice, and before he has time
to take it in again, the hunter strike i
with his hatchet directly over him, and
drives him away from his breath. In
this case he browns in swimming few
rods; and the hunter, cutting hole in
the ice takes him out Mink, otter and
beaver, travel under the ice in the same
way and hunters have frequently told
me of taking otters in the manner


have described, when these animal


visit the houses of the musk rat lol
prey, y,n-AdniyacttTer and Builder.
Year: 1871

LAZY BoYs,-An exchange says lazy
boy will make a lazy man as sure as q
crooked sapling will make a crooked
tree. Who ever saw boy grow up in
idleness that did not make shiftless
vagabond when he became a man, I'M
less he had fortune to keep up the
appearances The mass of thieves,
criminals and paupers have come to
what they are, by being brought up in
idleness. Those who compose the bnsi-
ness part of the community, who make
our great useful men, were taught in
their boyhood to be industrious. Boys
take those pipes ont of your mouths and
think of this.
Year: 1871

Some men are like cats you may
stroke their fur the right way for
years and hear nothing but purring !;
but, once accidentally tread ON their
tail, and ali memory of former
kindness is obllterated.
Year: 1871

A correspondent OF the Indiauapo-
lis Sentinel, writing from the Indiana
Northern prison, tells the annexed
incident: sss


awhile we were sitting in the office
of this Prison North this morning, n
large, stout man entered with u small
cadaverous little boy, rigidly hand
cutfed, and presented him 70 the
warden as new convict. Even to
the officials of the prison the sight
was more than disgusting. The poor
little consumptive-eyed child stood
with his hands pinionod together, -
if he vas nearly scared out of his
wits, and before the matter OF bis
commitment WAS maie known, the
clerk exclaimed, "My Lord sir,
what do you want done with that
little boy Z" OF course, the officer
who brought him was only perform
ing an official duty, and we canno.
blame him, but then when a little boy


only eleven years OF age is sent up to
u place like this for petit larceny and
that too, from the capital OF the


State, where you have an Orphan


Asylum and a Young Mems Christian
Association, and many other profess
edly redeeming societies, even the


humanity OF this prison house turns


pale before such scene. The hand
cuffs were at once taken Off the
poor little fatberless child, aud the
kind hearted Warden said TO him,
aCome bub, along with me. The
| little fellow started To follow. while
his eyes filled with tears, aud the
great door of the prison in q moment


hid him from our sight.
Year: 1871

Charles A. Dana of the New York
Sun, says Grant, in addition to his
other disqualifications for President,
is mean. There are plenty of men
who think just as Dana does in this
matter, but unfortunately for them
Grant has stubbornly refused TO give
them office, hence their opinion Of
him.


'.Na rogue ever felt the halter draw,


With no opinion of the law"
Year: 1871

uese very interesting 8uu V0lud-
BILE neighborhood gatherings are be-
coming more and more popular, Is
experience demonstrates their use-
fulness. II half dozen farmers
meet together and confine their con
versation for an hour to the subject
Of corn the preparation Of the
ground, time Of planting, distance
apart, manner Of cultivation, hoeing,
curing, &c., each one will be wiser at
the conclusion than at the beginning.
Although it has been the business Of
his whole life, he will get some new
ideas that may be useful in the fu-
ture. And so Of tho culture of any
other grain or grass the curing Of
hay-the most profitable kind of
stock for that Observation-Disclosures
to buy, and when to sell. These and
a hundred other questions connected
with their business, will be discussed,
not only to the advantage, but to the
pleasure of each member.


Meetings may be had weekly or
monthly. The monthly would be
preferable, as the weekly would sue
ceed each other too rapidly, and thus
lose their interest. In the summre
they can be held in the afternoon in
the winter in the evenings. Mem
bership should not be confined to
men, because household matters are
so intimately connected with sue
cessful farming, that they can not be
separated therefore, husband and
wife, sons and daughters, all should
participate in these discussions.


Much has been said and written
on the subject of cooperation, and
the matter has been recommended
to the attention Of farmers. cannot
see how they would be benefited by
such system better that every one
buy what he wants, and exercise his
own Judgment in the selection, and
bargain as the price. So in selling ]
sell what he has to spare, and get all
he can for it at the best and nearest
market. But / do think that much
will be gained by farmers meeting
together frequently to converse about
their own business. Its branches are
SO numerous, and the process OF ac-
tion, SO varied that much wisdom
would be evolved by multitude of
counselors.


The meetings oan be held from
house to house amongst the members
of the club. Essays may be read and
discussed, either In a formal, or in.
formal manner; members will thus
be induced to think more about their
business than they had before. This
thinking will bring to the surface
new views that had lain dormant in
the brain, and now see light for the
fret time, and the more they are
rubbed, the brighter they will shine.
A new thought expressed by one
member ofthe club, may cause ripple
that will be left in the mind OF every
other member. These new views


will lead to new aGtions.-these will


lead to new results, the value oil


which is incalculable. The expert.
ence of any one individual, is Of great
advantage to others in the same line


OF business, and this is just the way
to bring out that experience, and


make it useful.


Another advantage is, the socia


enjoyment of their meetings.; thi,


will pay as 1t goes, for every membel
! will carry o portion of it home with


him or her for these clubs to be o


the greatest advantage should ID


clude both sexes. ] repeat this Il


impress it more deeply.
Year: 1871

The Chicago papers are down on
Insurance adjusters who wear big
watch chains, and who value risk
at $4,000 when they take it, and
only at 5000 when they come to
pay for the loss of it by fire.
Year: 1871

M. Theirs received on the Goth ult.
the members of the Council General of
the Departments of the Seine-et- Disc,
upon which occasion he spoke as fol-
lows;


"You have all of you we'll understood
me when | say that ain not q man of
party. | am a Frenchman intrusted
with the task of helping the country to
emerge from cruel crisis. I am not
the author of the Republic, but | have
received it as trust. | am q man of
honor, and that trust shall not perish in
my hands nor through any deed of
mine; but the mistrust which the Re-
public inspires in many demands from
all Republicans strong attachment to
the cause of order. The Republic has
need to be wiser than a monarchy, and
to show that it can exist side by side
with order and respect for the laws.
The Government was energetic and
resolute in the war which | was forced,
although with bleeding heart, to wage
against the insurgents of Paris. 1t
wishes now to be moderate, but it will
not allow any one to disturb order, since
public peace is indispensable to liberate
our country. We must inspire conf
dence in foreigners, and prove to them
that France is recovering, so that they
may go and free our soil. We have not
been able to regain our glory at the
point of the sword. We must hasten
our liberation by work and ORDERLY
efforts and sacrifices on the part of all "
Year: 1871

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette has some odious things to say in
favor of what he chooses to call "Men's
Rights" 81 am," he says, "a bachelor,
81 years of age, in sound health, and in
receipt of salary of $1,000 per year,
and, therefore, a good match for any
woman, no matter who she may be; yet
| remain unmarried from principle, and
will remain single until the laws are SO
altered as to make me master of my
own home. ! am the owner of real
estate acquired by my own labor. | do
not mean to allow any woman to con-
troll me in the disposal of that property
simply because she should happen to be
my wife. She would have done moth
ing toward earning that property, and,
therefore, have no moral right in its
sale. Any law giving her dover third
is simply fraud on me, the more so as
the law does not give me any dover
thi.I in her property. And then the
ceremony nowadays, called marriage,
does not give me a wife it merely gives
me a woman who can leave me when
ever she pleases. l cannot keep her
against her wishes. She may 60 back
to her father or elsewhere, and / can't
compel her to come back but should l
leave her for any reason she can have
me arrested and compel me to support
her. Such a thing is one-sided and un-
fair. A woman held by such loose tie
is not, in my opinion, wife in the holy
way decent man has shrined in his
thoughts. The laws have degraded her
into a concubine.f
Year: 1871

That the skin of the Ethiopian is
tolerably secure from change has ever
been an undisputed fact, yet according
to the most recent revelations of science
such is the case no longer. A San
Francisco doctor has discovered pro-
cess by which a white man can be
transformed into a negro, which is GER
tainly no less remarkable than that the
African should be converted into a
white man. The surgical operation,
that has become SO common since its
recent discovery, of transplanting
portion of skin from some other part of
the body, or even from some other per.
son, to an ulcer, for the purpose of start
ing new growth of cuticle, was per-
formed upon the arm of a white man
of 25 wears, and ruddy complexion,
the borrowed cuticle having been taken
from the arm of full blooded negro.
The experiment was success, so far as
the ulcer was concerned, but to the
horror of the victim the black skin is
spreading rapidly, and the pleasing
probability is that he will soon become
negro. OF course a corresponding
operation on q negro might go far to-
ward making him what our Southern
friends call Caucasian"


THE mystery of the frozen well' at
Brandon, in which water remains fro,
zen during the hot months of the sum-
mer, has never been satisfactorily ex-
planned. 1t was supposed that the
freezing was due to the dissolution of
some material in the water, or to elec-
tricity, but it is found, by chemical an
alysis, that the water holds nothing in
solution which would account for its
temperature, and the electric needle
fails to show any current of electricity.
the opinion is that the ice in summer
is caused by the freezing of the gravel
bed during the previous winters, and
that the cold gets fastened in, in some
incomprehensible manner, and the ice
just stays through the summer.
Year: 1871

CHICAGO, June D.


A cyclone occurred near Mason City,
Illinois, last Friday morning, An inky
hued cloud or smoke like column, was
observed gathering near the earth's sur
face, on an open prairie, six miles from
that place, and from this column soon shot
out three narrow and spire like cloud col.
umus, which continued to ascend rapidly
until they reached and seemed to attach
themselves closely to passing cloud
above, This irightful apparition moved
slowly towards Mason City, but finally
changed Its course, much to the relief Of
the people Of that place, A mile away
from its track, an odor much like that OF
burning sulphur was inhaled by several
persons. A gentleman who stood but a
hundred yards from the Cyclone when 1t
passed, says that small flashes of cleCtrci'
ty were constantly Visible in the storm
column, passing from tue earth to the
cloud above, and that rapid popping and
cracking reports were heard, reminding
him most forcibly ofan infantry regiment
in battle, firing their muskets as last as
possible The pathway of the cyclone
was nearly three miles in length and from
twenty to eighty feet in width, and in that
pathway not u spear of grass, not stalk
Of corn or wheat, not a shrub, not u par.
ticlc of vegetation was left alive. For
some distance the earth was literally
plowed to the depth OF six inches The
column Of whirling air must have been
intensely hot, rs every green thing in its
path WIS literally drted toH4hes. Another
feature ofthe cyclone was that while It's
rotary motion must have been Of inCon.
ceivable velocity, its progressive motion
was not above the rate of six miles an
hour. The outlines Of It's pathway were
so well defined that five feet from the
outer line of the total destruction OF veg
citation of every kind, not vestige of It's
effects could be seen. Fortunately no
houses stood in the tornados line of
march
Year: 1871

w ASHlNtlONi june u'


The general western agent Of the Union
Steamboat Company, was at the Treasury
Department on Saturday making inquir.
les about the bonding OF all vessels be.
longing to that Company to carry dutiaOle
gOOdS from Buffalo To Duluth. 1t appears
that in the opening Of the spring naviga.
tion this year there has been a remarkable
emigration from Eastern Canada to Red
River country, and Buffalo has been
fixed upon as the eastern shipping point.
To accommodate NIL this class Of travel
and the commerce generally arising there
from, the western terminus Of the route
will be Duluth, and from thence TO Penn.
bina. Goods will be sent by such convey
ance as may be agreed upon
Year: 1871

A MEETING OF the stockholders of the
Gas Company is to he held this afternoon
at IIornhrook's Hall. The question
whether the Company shall contest or oc-
ccpt the award Of the arbitrators will be-
considered and probably determined.
Year: 1871

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes Il weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkens to the view. the mind m,
becomes shadowed with despair, and alled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is blghted with our own.
Year: 1871

: The symptoms of Liver


Complaint are uncasiness
and pain in the side. Some


times the pain is in the


shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The Stom-
ach is effected with loss Of
appetite and sickness, bowels


in general costive, some
stimes alternating with lax
d with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss


of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation Of hav-


ing left undone something


which ought to have been


done. Often complaining of
weakness, debility and low
Sometimes many of
Year: 1871

THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs. order
of the ''Knights of Pythias" is becoming
80 widely spread and prosperous that the pub
lie have a reasonable curiosity to know some,
thing of its character and purposes. The ritual
was first written and the order worked during
the war as bond Of union between army Of
6cers After the wars close it was rewritten,
modified and thrown open to the people, and
has spread rapidly, particularly within the last
two years, and in the Eastern States. Its work
and intent are very similar to those Of the Ma
sonic Order Founded on friendship, with the
famous tale of Damon and Pythias as their ex-
ample, the members aim to relieve the suffer
ing, succor the unfortunate, care tor the SICK,
bury the dead and give their sympathy and
material aid to the widows and orphans OF
each other. The complete regalia consists OF
military hat, with plumes scarlet yelvetee,n
sash with silver fringe an apron OF black vel
vet, handsomely trimmed in silver with the u.
emblem of the order a knights helmet with
the visor down, the letters K. P. and the lnl-
tials Of the officer, if the wearer be an officer,
and a sword with elegantly wrought hilt and
scarlet scabbard, the hilt and trimmings being
gold for the officers and silver for the knights,
and each blade bearing the name Of the wearer.
Charlottesville Chronicle.
Year: 1871

A POLITICAL "REMINISCENCES. odd
years ago when portions of Western New ork
were about equally divided between Wings and
Democrats, many times great efforts were made
10 get the news of an election from the differ
ent towns of a county to the county seat, where
the politicians of the village on the night OF
election were usually assembled at one OF the
hotels for the purpose of receiving the courlers
as they came in.


Railroads and telegraphs not being so numer-
Gus in those days, the returns were usually
sent in charge of some Jealous politician Of the
victorious side One dark and rather stormy
November night an elderly man, quite rat
tle-headed politician, started from the village
of Liyonia for Geneseo with the election news
On he sped, astride of old Highlander, heet
horse, making good time through the splash
ing mud. When he reached Lower Lakeylile
he might have stopped and wet his WHISTLE
he could, if he chose, have stopped at the Up
per Lakeville House mile beyond, and taken
another drink or two.


At Hills tavern, mile out of Geneseo, ne
could have drank again if he had been com
pelled to arouse the obliging landlord from his
slumbers to get it. All these contingencies
could have been in those days without rufhing
the temper of the most fastidious. Arrived at
the hotel in Geneseo at good place, ahghted
as Quickly as his trembling limbs would permit,
gave the reins to the hostler, and at once went
into the reception room, where the county nota-
hles were in anxious expectancy. wv hat 8 the
news 9'' we're the first words that greeted him.
'IIiyonia has gone one hundred and forty ma
iority-(taking breath )-Livonia has gone one
hundred and forty-( (hesitating give my
farm if I could recolect which way y He was
put on the retired list from that date.
Year: 1871

Why, or how, I cannot tell, says a
writer in London Society, but the
DUtchman has managed to get into
his head two notions, which just now
comfort him exceedingly. The one
that Prussia has, and can have, no
idea Of cOveting Holland; the other,
that if so strange a notion should
ever enter her head, nothing will be
more simple than, by just cutting
few dykes, TO drown Immediately the
whole German army. What is to be-
come Of the HOllauders themselves
during the application to the invader
Of this heroic form of cold water cure,
1 have not been able satisfactorily to
ascertain. Those I have consulted on
the subject assure me positively that
they are not web-fOOted, as is COM
monty supposed elsewhere, nor yet
provided, under their vOluminOus
neither garments, with the natural
waterprOOfing Of scales or feathers
they have sometimes been supposed
to be constructed expressly to con-
ceal. But they seem to reckon quite
confidently on padding about some
how while the invaders drown, and
drawing of the water afterwaTd, in
time to get on with the ordinary busi-
ness Of the season.