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Year: 1873

To live simply. 70 master and control our
expenditure, is sore need in all classes.
The influences which surround Is, the ideas
in which we have been brought up, the
habits which we fall into as a second nature,
all sway us IN the same direction. Every
family and every class seems TO have caught
hold of the skirts of the one above it. and to
be desperately holding on. Well, as Mr..
Goodwin Smith says, the best thing they can
do is to let go-the only thing needed which
will give themselves any comfort or make
their lives of real use in their generation
The moment they will do so. and begin re.
solutely to live without regard to what their
neig Dor on the right spends on carriages,
or those on the left in upholstery, they will
find themselves rich for all good purposes.
From that moment it can no longer be
said OF us with truth that we dare not
trust our wits to make our houses pleasant
to our friends. and so we buy ice creams.
And this most needed of all reforms is just
the one which every soul Of us can carry
through for himself or herself. We can
not sweep our whole street. No doubt.
But every one Of US can sweep our own
doorstep, and if he will do it quietly and
regularly anon his right and lett hand
neighbors follow. and before long the whole
street is swept. And in this way, and by
this means, can almost all those social
tangles which we have been glancing at
casually this evening. be set right. Simple
llving! To it even the great household
question, at once the most ridiculou.
and the most harassing Of social troubles, :,
will in the end yield, will begin at once to
look not wholly insoluble and hopeless.
Speaking OF this sore question in the ma
ton, the other day, one of the wittiest Of
American essayists took up the cudgels
for Bridget against her numerous accusers.,
MY good friends he argued. what else
have you any right to look for The things
which American life and manners preach
to her are not patience. sober-mindedness,
faithfulness. diligence and honesty. but
self-asserton, discomfort. hatred of superb
ority of all kinds, and eagerness for physi-
cal enjoyment" and the words come home,
fear, with singular force to US islanders
also in these days. Let us hope that the
picture of the good coming time which he
goes on to draw may prove true for US also
Whenever the sound of the new gospel
which is to win the nations back to the an
cient and noble ways is heard in the land,
it is fair to expect that it will not find her
ears wholly closed; and that when the altar
of duty is again set up by her employers,
che will lay on it attractive beefsteaks, po-
tatOes done to turn, make hbations of
delicious soup, display remarkable fertility
in sweets, and extreme fondness for wash.
ing, and learned to grow old in one fami-
ly."-IhOmds Hughes.
Year: 1873

Science, in the comprehensive range
of subjects, has at last condescended to
direct attention to promoting the COM
| fort of the human foot, to pointing out
the deformities of the shoes we wear.
Mechanical ingenuity has exhausted
| itself in the construction Of machines
which turn out shoes automatically,


their sole object being rapidity Of pro-
duction after rigid models, to which the
foot is compelled, by painful expert


ence, to conform itself, corns and bun
ions TO the contrary Notwithstanding.
| Civilized communities wear the worst


fitting shoes, and suffer the most from
them. The Indian undergoes no suffer-
| ing from his loosely made moccasins,
nor does the Oriental cultivate corns in
his sandal. But the hard, rigid, tight
fitting shoe Of the European-Ameriean


has, from time iwmeworial, held its


place as an instrument OF torture. fet,
when compared with the shoes in use a


century ago, those of modern manufso-


ture, when made by hand, do give evil


dence Of some amelioration, though the


best of them are still deficient in


what the comfort Of the foot
requires. DR.. Hermann Meyer, a


Swiss philosopher Of the humani-


tartan school, has taken the


subject in hand, and presents sotae con-


siderations deserving attention from in


telligent men at the head of great Amer


lean shoe factories. He denounces the


workman who produces shoe that will


pinch, and demands the production Of


one which will afford to foot, distorted


by the pinchinG it has already under.
gone, fair chance of returning to its
proper shape, and the full possession Of
its power for carrying the body forward.


He places great emphasis on the proper
accommodation of the great toe, alleging
that it is of prime importance to keep it
free from all construction or distortion.
Upon this toe, in walking, the weight of
the whole body turns at every step in
natural foot; therefore, in such foot il
is in straight line with the heel. The
Doctor ascertains that a central straight
line drawn from the point Of the great
toe to the middle of its root, If continued,
would pass very exactly to the middle of
the heel But our modern mlshtting
shoes destroy this natural anatomical
arrangement so distorting it as to force
the point Of the toe inward and the root
outward. No shoe, for foot already in
iured By wearing such as are illhtting
or constructive, should ever be made of
the exact Size Of the injured foot.
Year: 1873

Halls Journal of Health says that
cold bedchambers always imperil health
and invite fatal diseases. Robust per
sons may safely sleep in a temperature
of forty or under, but the old, the infant
and the frail should never sleep in q
room where the atmosphere is much
under fifty degrees Fahrenheit.


All know the danger Of going direct
into the cold from a very warm room:
Very few rooms, churches, theaters and
the like, are ever warmer than seventy
degrees. II il is freezing out Of doors II
is thirty degrees-the difference being
forty degrees more. Persons will be
chilled by such change IN Ten mln-
utes, although they may be actively
walking.


But 70 lie still in bed, nothing to pro
mote the circulation, aud breathe for
hours an atmosphere Of forty snd even
fifty degrees when the lungs are always
at nineiy-eight, is too great change.
Many persons wake up IN the morning
with Inflammation Of the lungs who vent
10 bed well. and are surprised that this
should be the case. The cause may often
be found in sleeping in q room the win
dow Of which had been foolishly hoisted
for ventilation. The Waior-cure journals
Of the country have done.an incslculable
injury By the blind and indiscriminate
advice Of hosting the window 81 night.


The rule should be, everywhere during
The part Of the year when hres are kept
burning, 70 avoid hosting outsiss =ia-
dovs. Il is safer aad better to leave the
Year: 1873

That so few people know beans.


That one can never find any one in.


That so many people want to be Presi
dent.


That money continues to make the
Mayors go.


That boys. will smoke and chew and
chuck dies.


That men of smaller caliber should
be such great bores.


That we should have panics in the sea
son of picnics.
That Chatham street can't have It's
nose unlocked.
That, as q rule, the more a man reads
the less he knows.


That it is so easy for man to make a
donkey of himself


That there should be so many rats
about and so few cats.


That young poets should feel it their
duty to be melancholy.


That there is no process by which you
can make two and two FIVE.


That men will drink gin.cocktails
when they can ginger.coctails.


That "Old Prob" can't furnish us
with all the kinds Of weather we wish.


That there should be so much think
ing in the world and SO few thoughts.


That men should be born free and
equal and women neither equal nor free.


That our gentlemanly hotel clerk"
will not be satisfied with dollar jewelry.


That there should be smoking pews in
church as well as sleeping g-pews.


Thathusbands-the horrid creatures
will read the newspapers at breakfast.


That, humanity speaking, there should
be more early birds than early worms.


That people should drink to keep
themselves up when it only keeps them
down.


That there should be so many mere
lunatics out of the asylums than in
them.


That young girls will part their hair
on the side and the young men in the
middle.


That nearly every English author
should think he can come here and play
the Dickens.


That among men black should be
considered worse than white seeing that
neither Of the2 is a color.


That little wretchcs should be saying
to you every hour, Shine, sir2" when
you don't feel like shining at all.
Year: 1873

chamber door open, as also the fireplace
then there is draft up the chimney
while the room is not so likely 10 become
cold. II there is some FIRE in the room
all night the window may be opened an
inch. tits safer TO sleep in a bad air all
night with a temperature under forty.
The bad air may sicken you but cannet
kill you; the cold air can and does kill
very often.
Year: 1873

We do not say that every farmer should
have an experimental garden, but it is an
admirable practice to experiment more or
less on limited scale in the garden. No
brilliant discovery need be expected per-
haps, although such things have happened,
but experiments set us thinking and new
IDEAS come if not from the experiments,
from the thinking. Suppose our farmers
this year experiment with the nitrate of
potash and nitrate of soda, mixed IN equal
quantities, and dissolved in water, and ap-
ply as liquid tOp-dressing, making several
applications during the season. Extraor-
dlhary results are reported from this eX-
pertinent, and we are not aware that they
have been tried in this vicinity Numerous
other experiments readily suggest them
selves and are they not worthy Of attention ?
No vocation in the world, outside of finely
scientific pursuits, presents so wide and
interesting a field for experiments as farm
ing. A good experimenter always has
something entertaining to say to visitors,
If each of ten neighbors would have even
one going on each year, what community
of interest it would create, and how much
it would add to the attention Of usual pur-
SUITS
Year: 1873

All those who raise cabbage or caulifower
plants ia the open ground in the spring are
troubled more or less by the black fly
Fhey usually attack the young plants when
they are lust coming through the surface,
and destroy them at an astonishing rate
An excellent remedy, and one that is GER
Tam TO Nil these pests il applied in time, is
10 steep some tobacco stcmS-sav eight or
i~h pounds, that will cost three cents a
pound IN six or eight gallons of water
Adu 10 Tins two or three quarts of soft soap
and some urine When the flies make their
nrSt appearance on the plants take half a
paiiul al this solution, diluted with an canal
quantity of water, and syringe the plants
early in the morning, while the dew is still
on them. Then dnst them over with some
air slaked lime or little -four of bone,
-oon after watering. One such application
usually answers, but two will surely save
the plants. Scotch snuff is often recon-
mended for this purpose, but heavy dew
on rain washes off the snuff from the leaves,
and the flies win attack them again. With
the tobacco water, the soft soap makes il
otherwise, and it sticks to the leaves fOI
several DAYS.
Year: 1873

The winds low voice was silent,
The whispering trees were still,
When last we watched the sunlight, love
Our sunset on the hill.
You said its glow was shedding


Its crimson on my cheek,
And that my hair was tangled in


It's last, great golden streak.
Then, in some sudden impulse,


You drew me to your heart,
As if 'twere heaven to hold me so,
As if 'twere death to part.
Low sank the sun, and lower


And dark began to creep;
1t stole the gold from out my halr.
The crimson from my cheek.
Yet there together standing,


With hand now clasped in hand,
We watched the solemn night descend
Ger all the quiet land.
| called your eyes the starlight


Because the sun had flown
How selfish to be wanting, dear,


A starlight all my own,)
And then, like happy children,


Still clasping hands we went,
With loves too slow, unwilling steps,


Adown the hills descent.
O. lite's one golden evening!


live to bless it still,
When last we saw the sunset, love,


Our sunset on the HILL
Year: 1873

An old gentleman went one day with
his gun to shoot partridges, accompanied
by his SON Before they approached the
ground where they expected to find the
game, the gun was charged with a severe
load; and when at last the old gentleman
discovered one Of the birds, he took a
rest and blazed away, expecting to see
the game fall of course but not so did it
happen, for the gun kicked with So much
force as to knock him over. The old
gentleman got up and while rubbing the
sparks out of his eyes, inquired OF his son,
"Alphy, did point the right end of the
gun at the birds ?"
Year: 1873

CULTIVATION OF FISH IN DIrCHEs AND
PONDS. Much attention is now being
paid in Germany to the cultivation Of fish
in ponds and bitches, and it has been
found contrary to the generally received
opinion in reference to such localities,
that thay are more favorable for the pur-
pose than other large bodies of water, ap-
parently fresh and pure in their character
This is doubtless owing to the great abun-
dance OF animal life, rs well as to the
more decided concentration of vegetable
substances in the form of living plants Of
different kinds including the algn This
produces a constant evolution of oxygen
needed for the respiration OF the fish, and
allows q larger mass Of life to be crowded
together in Il given space. The produc-
ton Of the species is also unusually rapid,
and the young grow very quickly.
Year: 1873

PAINLESS DEATH. Chiet-.Justice Chase,


says the Boston Traveller, was fortunate
in death as he had been in life. The i'm


mediate cause OF his death was rupture OF
the cerebral artery, whence followed q
rush of blood to the brain: and as the
rupture took place when he was asleep,
he never knew pain, passing calmly away.


Mere dying, it is probable, never is pain
full, but the circumstances that attend
| death sometimes are very painful; yet


men suffer rs much in sickness from
which they recover as they do III those that
terminate fatally. A STRICTLY natural death
would make no more impression on u man


than was made on him by his birth. Ma
| ture is not such u blunderer as to make the


inevitable Il source Of pain that can do no
| good. What is disagreeable in dying is the
result of violations of natures laws. To


die is simply to sleep, death being the
| rounding of life, rs Shakespeare says: To
! the properly constituted mind, death is no


more horrible than sleep; hut then the


properly constituted mind has not vet
| been found. Even those who die calmly


on gladly, 10 so because they have found


life a Gordian knot which can be cut onle :


by the dart OF Death, and not because they
| nave phlloSophlcaily convinced themselves
| that it is Il matter of no moment. BE q


man the most confirmed of believers, ol
| the most confirmed Of unbelievers, he


must have some doubt-and where there
| is u doubt. be it ever so small, there


must be fear. So that when one departs


in his sleep he avoids the last perplexity


| that which waits on the death-bed OF the
! Christian rs we'll as ON the death-bed oil


the philosopher which was felt by Adam,


and which will be felt by the last OF


Adams descendants. Human egotism


has not yet reached to that point in which


death can be 4 matter of absolute indtfer-


ence, and probably it will never reach it.
Year: 1873




was then fully realized. We We're beyond
all hope of relief from stray vessels, for
we were out Of the usual track, and there
was no likelihood Of any vessels, only
those to which we were attached, visiting
the place. The terrors of the Antarctic
winter were also before u.s. We found a
self-registering thermometer at Potter's
Cove and the announcement that it had
been left by George d. Glider and James
M. Holmes. The date was given as May
., 1871. We had landed on May Is as
nearly as | could calculate, so that the
vessels had been gone eight days, We
found two casks Of bread lett by Captain
Benjamin Rodgers, of the schooner Golden
West These provisions had been left
because the schooner had four thousand
seal skins on board, which We're more
valuable cargo than bread. The finding
OF these casks allayed our immediate fears
of hunger, as we knew this would sustain
us for some time with proper care The
weather was terribly cold; our clothing,
although of the heaviest furs, was insult
ficient to keep us warm. Out of some
boards which we found a hut was built,
and we began killing sea-dogs for iuel.
We also laid in a stock OF penguin and
Year: 1873

He that irusteth in his liches shall fall: but
the righteous shall flourish as a branch.


Behold, the righteous shall be rocompensed
in the earth; much more the wicked and tho
| sinner.
Year: 1873

FREIGHTS.-The changes of rates
in freight during the week have been
few By coastwise the amount of ton
mage is about equal to the enquiry for
berths, but by foreign vessels they are
extremely high and wanted. Lumber
dealers are Offering full rates for char
ters, but produce offering shipment is
quite small.
Year: 1873

1t isa great pleasure even for one day
to note decrease in the mortuary list.
For the twenty-four hours ending at
noon to day, we find the number of
deaths thirty-one; nineteen Of yellow
fever against forty-four and thirty-five
yesterday. This is the lightest total we
have reported since the Both Of Septem-
ber and the lightest from yellow fever
since the I'd instant. We cannot dare
to hope for too much, but it seems to be
the concurrent report of physicians and
committees that nearly all the patients
are doing we'll Some new cases are re-
ported in Chelsea and South Memphis.
Surely there is some good reason to feel
more cheerful, and to hope that the end
is not far off. iI
Year: 1873

AFTER careful survey of the premi'
Ses, we estimate that only $4,000 peo-
Pile sleep every night within the corporate
limits of Memphis-half OF them white
and half colored. A large number OF
colored folks are away picking cotton
or from other causes; good many
whites are away ON business. About
10000 come in during the day, but stay
out in the country at night. A ride
around town reveals the fact that the
place is very thinly populated, and that
the resident population is about halt
and half black and white.
Year: 1873

The confession made by man in San
Francisco, who pretends to be the muir
derer of Mr.. Nathan, will hardly be re-
ceived with confidence. There is a sort
of haziness about the story which would
hardly be found in the narrative of the
real criminal if that individual should
determine to make clean breast of it.
This man does not know the names of
his confederates in the crime; he does
not state where the iron dog was
procured, although he processes to
know; he claims to have possession Of
some of Mr.. Nathan property, but re
fuses to tell where it is secreted; he de-
clares that his family live in New York;
but the location of their residence is not
given and finally he aliirms that he was
born at Sunnyside, and nearly related
to the family of Washington Irving. 1t
has been suggested that the motive
which impeled this man to assume the
responsibility for such shocking crime
is probably desire to obtain free
passage to New York city, where his
discharge is certain. 1t is very possible
that this is his object, unless, indeed he
is insane.
Year: 1873

most frequently fail, aud in which they
rarely rise above the level OF medioerity,
They all excel in history and literature.
The highest positions attainable at the
Cambridge examinations in modern
languages, natural science and mathe-
MATES, have also been reached; while
the advanced rules Of ordinary arithme'
tic seem 20 have been utterly neglected.
The conclusion, indeed, has been arrived
at by a high university authority in
Cambridge, that the subjects most easily
taught are these which seem to be the
most diligently neglected. while the
more complex subjects are carefully
handled, and great proficiency in them
is attained.


The general accuracy Of this opinion
seems to be beyond question when we
look at the facts upon which il is based.
But If it be true Of English education il
does not follow that the converse OF 1t is
true of American education. Never
theless, the points of difference in re-
suits in the two countries are curious as
showing the difference Of social instincts
that prevails. IL must be remembered
that the girls who form the bulk Of the
candidates at English university exami-
nations are taken from the best private
schools in the country; while our esti-
mates here are necessarily based on the
results of the best of our public schools.
Other features in the comparison will
suggest themselves, but not affect the
main conclusion TO which we must ar
rive, that while the highest branches OF
culture seem TO be the most attended to
on the other side, we look to the more
eminently practical. We might be led
into heightened consideration of the
causes that lead to this. The subject is
full of interest from both social and
national aspect.


But we must be content with simply
drawing attention to it for the purpose
OF urging the value of middle course
between the two extremes that are thus
presented. The education of a scholar
who obtains first class in Italian and
science, and who denies all knowledge
of common arithmetic, can no more be
said to be complete than that OF the girl
who graduates with head full of
mental calculations, and who can nei-
ther speak modern language fuently
nor explain the simplest of natural phe-
nomena. In England, clearly, the high
education of women, without descend
ing from its present elevation, needs to
be more substantial than first principles;
when in America, without departing
from the plan of making solid practi-
cal foundation, we should do well to
build up a superstructure showing some
OF that refinement which cannot but be
admired, and which we have hitherto
been justified in setting aside for the
more eminently useful. The standard
we indicate is high, but there is no rea-
son why it should not be reached. There
are no women in the world so quick wit
ted and clever as American women.
With the development of our society,
the time has come when the highest
standard ought to be reached; and,
therefore, while we do not commend the
Cambridge University examinations as
an example for close imitation, they
are, nevertheless, useful for pointing out
the dangers to be avoided and the higAts
to be attained if we would make the ed
ucation of women as complete as we
can.
Year: 1873

Only Sixty Thousand tickets will be sold
and one-half of these are intended fer the
European market. thus leaving only $1,000 for
sale in the United States, where 100000 were
disposed of for the Third Concert. The tickets
are divided into ten coupons or parts, and
have on their back the Scheme with full ex-
planation of the mode of drawing.


At this Concert. which will be the grandest
musical display ever witnessed in this coun-
try the unprecedented sum of
Year: 1873

rTILE FOURTH GRAND GIFT CONCERT


L authorized by special act Of the Legisla-
ture for the benefit Of the Public Library of
kentucky, will take place in Public Library
Hall Of I,ouisville Kentucky
Year: 1873

The County Treasures Quarterly Report
is published in this issue, and we call atten
ton to the tact that. although it was made
to the Board of Supervisors more that two
weeks ago, the Vallejo Chronicle, which is
under contract to do all the county adver-
tising, and is usually eager to be the first
to publish all such information, has thus
far withheld it from the public. What is
the reason ?-Solauo Republican
Year: 1873

The Springfield Republican says of Sen
ator Thurman after the result of the Ohio
election "that probably a surgical operation
will now be necessary to get the notion out
of his head that he is in danger of being
the next President