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Year: 1873

The last swindler is the poor
clerk in an Eastern city who
wants to learn farming, who is
strong and healty, who will
work for mere nothing, but has
no money to pay his fare. If
money is sent to him he will be
sure never TO come.
Year: 1873

1t will probably surprise the reader
that M. About ranks medical men among
producers, and on grounds at least
plausible. He says: Do you grant
that among the things useful to man,
the most useful is man himself? Do
you accept the calculations of the econo-
mists who say that, commencing at his
9th year, the individual reimburses
the advances made by society? Doyou
think, like j. B. Say all who reason,
that the problem is not how to beget
children, but how to rear them to mans
estate? You ought then to acknow-
ledge that the medical art, by organic
ing a struggle against the destructive
causes which threaten us from our
birth, produces an incalculable amount
of utility on earth. Our life, according
to Bischat's definition, is the aggregate
of the forces contending in us against
death. Every hour, nature claims the
elements of which our body is compos-
ed; our existence is but militant loan,
necessarily continued and renewed; it
would be impossible to rate too highly
the fine medical industry which protects
the human being against universal
conspiring host. Among the men of
your acquaintance, are there many
whom science has not once rescued
from death? Starting from that point,
say whether the doctor of medicine is a
more paltry producer than the cabinet
maker or the stone-cutter.
Year: 1873

never emigrate. We infer from these


facts that, if not a happy people, they


are at least a contented one.


They we're a religious people when
they accepted the mikado, and gave


him their reverence. They must have


been a religious people, when they ac-


cepted from the mikado the teachings


of the Sintu sect; they must have been
a religious people, when the doctrines
of Buddha supplanted so generally the
dreamy mysticisms of the earlier faith.


Xavier found them religious people,
willing to accept the teachings of
Christianity. But the religious age in
Japan has passed. Confucian philo-
sophy has undermined all NEUROLOGICAL
creeds, and left the Japanese nation
of doubters. Government now makes
no provision for the support of religious
orders. Their revenues, derived from
ancient foundations, are diminishing.
The priesthood is as inoffensive as it is
poor. 1t may be expected that under
this toleration the Christian faith will
now, for the first time, come into pub
lie consideration in Japan in the way it
ought to come-that is to say, in con-
ton with the science, literature, and
art, and the political, moral, and social
institutions of the Western nations.


The Japanese are less an initiative
peSple than an inquiring one. They
are not, however, excitable concerning
the events of the day, but rather dill
gent in studying what is useful. All
their dramatic representations are di-
dactic; and, though they have fond
ness for legerdemain, they enjoy it not
because it is amusing, but because it
makes them think from power to pro-
duct, from cause to effect.


The most unpropitious feature of
Japanese society is the grossness of the
popular sense in regard to woman.
Among the common people neither sex
maintains decency in dress, and they
use the public clearinghouse promis-
cuously. In Japan, as elsewhere
throughout the East, there indeed is
marriage, but it is marriage without
the rights and responsibilities of that
relation. This debasement of woman
has tainted and corrupted the whole
state. We are obliged to conclude that
domestic virtue has not a prominent
place in the morals of Japan, although
some glimpses which we have had of
life in the upper classes have inclined
us to believe that among them vice is
not altogether free from restraint
.SesUdrCTs Travels
Year: 1873

Goethe's poetic sense was the mino-
taur to which he sacrificed everything.
To make a study, he would soil the
maiden petals of woman's soul to
get the delicious sensation of a reflex
sorrow, he would wiring a heart. All
that saves his egotism from being hate
full is, that, with it's immense reaches,
it cheats the sense into feeling of
something like sublimity. A patch of
sand is unpleasing; desert has all the
awe of the ocean. Leasing also felt the
duty of self culture but it was not SO
much for the sake of feeding at this or
that faculty, as of strengthening char
acter, the only soil in which real mental
power can root itself and find susie.
nance. His advice to his brother Karl,
who was beginning to write for the
stage. is two parts moral to one literary.
'Study ethics diligently, learn to ex-
press yourself well and correctly, and
cultivate your own character without
that I cannot conceive good dramatic
anthor." Marvellous counsel this will
seem to those who think that wisdom is
only to be found in the FOOLS paradise
of Roheuiai-L LOaDeU
Year: 1873

Man is progressive being only on
condition that he begin at the begin
ming. He can afford to wait centuries
for a brain, but he cannot subsist Sec
ond without a body. If civilization
sacrifices the physical hopelessly to the
mental, and barbarism merely sacrifice
the mental to the physical, then barba-
rism is unquestionably the better thing
so far as it goes, because it provides the
essential preliminary conditions. Par
barisJn is one-story log-tent, poor
thing, but better than nothing; while
such a civilization would be simply
second story, with first story too weak
TO sustain it, magnificent sky-parlor,
with all heaven in view from the upper
windows, but with the whole family
coming down in a crash, presently,
through fatal neglect of the basement.
In such view, an American Indian or
a Kafir warrior may be a wholesome
subject, good for something already,
and for much more when he gets brain
built on. But when one sees a book
worm In his library, an anxious mer-
chant-prince In his counting-room, tot
tering feebly about, his thin underpin-
ming scarcely able to support what he
has already crammed into that heavy
brain of his, and he still piiing in more,
one feels disposed to cry out, "Unsafe
passing here! Stand from underi"
Year: 1873

BIZ FLORENCE PERCY.
How strange it will be, lOve-hOw strange, when we
Shall be what all lovers become,
You, frigid and faithless, cold and untrue,
You thoughtless of me, and careless OF you,
Our pet names grown rusty with nothing to do,
loves bright web unraveled, and rent, and worn


through,


And lifes loom left empty-sh, hum!
M How strange it will bel
How strange it will be when the vitchery goes.
Which makes me seem lovely to-day;
When your thought of me loses its coatew de rose,
When you find I've cold eyes and an every day


nose,
And wonder you could for a moment suppose
was out Of the common place way;


How strange it will be.
How strange it will be, love-how strange, when we
with just chill touch of the hand!
When my pulses no longer deightedly beat
At the thought of your coming, the sound Of your
when 1 watch not your going, far down the long
When your dear, loving voice, now 50 thriIlinsly


sweet,


Grows harsh in reprosch or command;


How strange it viii be.
How strange it will be when we willingly stay
Divided the weary day through
Or, getting remotely apart as we may,
Sit chilly and silent with nothing to say,
Or coolly converse ON the news of the day,
In a wearisome, old married folks sort of way
shrink from the picture, don't your


All, me,


How strange it viii be.
Dear love, if our hearts do grow torpid and old,
AS many others have done;
If we let our love perish with hunger and cold,
If dim all life's diamonds and tarnish its gold.
If we choose to live wretched and die unconsoed,
Twill be strangest of all things that ever were told
As happening under the suni


All, me,


How strange It VIII be!
Year: 1873

In Great Britain royalty, nobility, and


the gentry are almost the exclusive


patrons of the turf, and with the ladies


of these classes q practical knowledge


of equestrians is considered necessary


part of their education. They are


tauRht TO ride in childhood, when the


will is strong and the body obedient 10


IL. The little miss" loves and fondles


her pet pony from babyhood, and 10 her


loving control he is gentle and dooile


as kitten. No one can fully enjoy


riding who does not both love and adj


mire the noble animal which she rides.


The quick intelligence and affectionnte


nature OF the horse often yield 10 the


gentle band and voice of a woman the


mastery he wolld contest with stronger
power The English girl fearlessly
mounts q strong, spirited horse and
rides through the wide, open country,
the bounding life within her sending
the warm blood blushing TO her cheeks
and tingling the very finger tips under
the exhilarating Influences of this health
full exercise. II quieter mood possess
the rider, she leisurely courses through
the enchanting lanes boardered on either
side with honeysuckle, hawthorn, and
the dark, clustering slough-berry.
Again, with a party Of hiRh-spirited
equestrians, in full hunting suit, she is
seen in eager chase, leaping hedges with
a successful daring, in some instances
outstripping her cavalier, who stakes
his reputation on the race and pays the
forfeit in broken arms and collar-bones.
The queen of England is a most grace
full and accomplished horsewoman, and
her children were all taught 10 ride and
practiced daily in the royal riding
school at Buckingham palace. her maies-
ty always seated at an inner window
watching the progress Of the lesson. IL
is worth journey across the Atlantic 10
spend an autumn day at Windsor. On
every afternoon of inviting weather the
rich and variegated scenery is animated
by party of ladies and gentlemen RI
ding for pleasure through the noble
avenue leading from the castle and
under the branches of the same grand
old elms loved by Queen Anne and her
ladies, who took their daily exercise
under their shadows, habited in close
bodied coats, hats gorgeous with feathers
and short perukes. Very different are
the habits worn hy these ladies-the
black coat-dress and princess Of Wales
high hat, a veil Of floating gauze, with
long Wellington boots always worn over
tightly fitting pantaloons- World.
Year: 1873

The rule of the Spaniards on this is
land may be very tyrannical, and one
can hardly understand how the rule of
that power can be otherwise; yet my
shOrt residence here has convinced me
that q more orderly city than Havana
does not exist within the United States,
at least. OF course my impressions arc
recent and probably imperfect as yet,
but / give them TO you for what they
are worth. The population is very
mixed, and yet have 10 see the first
drunken man, see the first disorderly
act, learn of the first quarrel, OF hear
the first profane word. IL is not at all
probable that the inhabitants are any
more moral than others, possibly in
some respects the reverse, yet each one
attends TO his own business, and re-
spects the rights and property of others.
This / attribute to the positive certain
ty among rogues that, for every infrac-
ton of the law there is n certain and
swift punishment, WITHOUT the shield Of
q sickly sentimentality. Out Of the
quick, excitable and possibly revenge
full disposition of the SpaniRrd, the
manner in which the law is here admin
istered has made n quiet, law-abiding
citizen. With these narrow streets and
numerous hacks and carts and collisions
and delays, personal assaults and mur-
ders would be Of frequent occurrence
in New York, yet the hackmen here
back up, turn around the block all good
naturedly. During the night, here and
there, one may see a serene, or apolice-
man may be seen with his lamp and
lance leaning against post, but seem
ingly a uselss ornament. Louvres and
casinos ar0 crowded till midnight, and
the chatter of the guests sounds like
the roar of the sea, yet no one drunk,
no one disorderly. Property, portable
and valuable, am informed, may be
left in the streets all night and not be
disturbed. No one will attribute all
this to the fact that there are laws pro-
tecting personal rights and private
property. No better laws than our own
exist upon these subjects. The differ
ence lies in the manner of executing the
laws. And while we condemn this tyr
annical government and heap our curses
upon despotism, and wish success TO tho
rebellion which has existed on this is
land since 1868, no one can find fault
with the order which reigns in Havana
Year: 1873

"A country minister OF limited ca
pacity" recently married for q second
wife widow Of some property. Reing
an ardent servant OF Mammon, a form
er neighbor asked him If he did not do
well by the second mrrriage. 80 yes,
indeed" he said with animation and
then, as an expression of reverent awe,
stole into his face, he added, "and
what is very remarkable, the clothes Of
my wife's first husband just fits me-"
Year: 1873

"A South American newspaper man,
confound him, has spoiled all future
items about very old people in the
United States by telling about a Bra
lillian nearly two hundred years old.
Thus does foreign competition ruin
home industry, and still the free-trad-
ers raise their barbaric yawp.
Year: 1873

After striving all day with the total
depravity of chairs and tables and bed
steads, which refused on any terms to
look hOme-like in new house, it was
comfort untold to rush out into the
avenue, in the dusk, and take sweet
counsel with myself, or, as quaint old
Herbert expresses it.
Year: 1873

To MAKE GREEN PICKLEs-A cores
pondent replies to the question chow to make
green pickles" as follows IF hard. green
cucumber pickles are wanted, salt down in
dry salt, putting layer of salt in jar, then
layer of pickles. and so on until full This
will produce pickles as green as they can be
made, but it is more costly than making brine.
II you have stock to feed the salt to- it will
be better than the old process. SouriDg may
be done in the usual way. OF course the
above process is not calculated for manufac-
turers for market
Year: 1873

COTTAGE PUDDING Rub into one mint of
flour two teaspoonfus of cream of tartar: rub
together one tablespoonful of butter, and one
teacupful of sugar. and add to the flour; dis
solve one teaspoonful of soda in a teacup of
sweet milk beat one egg to froth and add
to the milk then stir the latter briskly into
the -four. etc, turn into a butered pudding
dish and bake half an hour.in quick oven.


As sauce for the above. beat together the
yolk of one egg, teacupful of sugar, and
half teacup of melted butter. To this add
half a teacupful of wine and the same of boil-
ing water. While this is cooling bea. to.
froth the white of one egg, and then stir into
the same.
Year: 1873

PLIM DouGHNuTs.-Takeo one cup of su-
gar and Que cup of sweet milk. two teaspoons
fuls of cream>of- tartar and one of soda, the
latter dissolved in half cup of hot water, a
little salt and spice with nutmeg. Mix with
flour until hard enough to roll, and fry in hot
fat
Year: 1873

Every column of a newspaper contains from ten to twenty thousand distinct pieces of metal, according to the paper and the tppe. The displacement of g single one makes an error. Is it any wonder that errors occur? In the large offices professional proof-readers are kept whose practiced eyes, passing twice over every line of proof, detect most of the errors boy is also kept for that purpose at the same time read ing the copy aloud.

 Still mistakes are frequently occur ring after coming from such hands, and probably no book or newspaper was ever published without errors that might be detected by the merest novice. In book printing it is estimated that proof-read- ing costs half as much as composition.

 Desiring to prevent explosions in mines caused by the carelessness of to- bacco smokens, an ingenious person in England proposes to have tobacco smoke furnished in mines in the same way as gas or water is supplied to houses He would have earthenware jars of tobacco placed on the surface of the ground. near the pits mouth, the smoke from which is to be inhaled through india-rubber tubes running in side the mine. The approval of the miners has not, however, been assured for this singular plan,
Year: 1873

The year 1872 is gone. The old cal endar is torn down and clean one set up, which shall hang it's few hundred days and give way in trMn to another when we are all year older. The old almanac finds it way, with other rubbish. into the barrel in the attic, and its old jokes come in between new covers. The old diary has become history, the old day-book curiosity, and the old man an older man. It is a new year, with a pleasant power of change over our lives and in our homes, too, with many of us but in the homes of the very peor, which are no homes, the new year is not new, the same old story saddening in repetition and beginning in 1873 with the suffering and want of an evil winter. Most meet and timely then is it that out of his abundance the good citizen make plentious offering in charity, and open thus as far as may be credit side on his yearly account with heaven. "' He that giveth to the poor,'" quoted the reverend Dow, "'lendeth to the Lord. ''' Do not forget the adage, and practice it the present year. It will do good.
Year: 1873

The 51-hour per week system is about to be adopted largely in the Scotch iron trade, but the workmen are dissatisfied with the manner in which some of the employers proposed to work the system, which would, it is represented, divest the reduction of the hours of labor of all the advantages it possessed of @ so- cial and intellectual kind.
Year: 1873

All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one story men, Two story men compare, reason, gener- alize, using the labors of the fact col lectors as well as their own. Three story men idealise, imagine, predict, their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight. There are minds with large ground floors that can store an infinite amount of knowledge some librarians, for instance, who know enough of books to help other people without being able to make much use of their own knowledge, have intellects of this class. Your great working law yer has two spacious stories :; his mind | is clear because his mental floors are large, and he has room to arrange his thoughts so that he can get at them facts below, principles above, and all in ordered series. Poets are often narrow below, incapable of clear statement, and with small power of consecutive reason ing, but full of light, if sometimes rath- bare of furniture, in the attics. Poe, at the Breakfast Idbte.

 A California judge recently went tc San Francisco to seek relief from sin. gular malady which had baf1ed the skill of the physicians in his own town. The symptoms of the disease were very peculiar. The little finger of the right hand was first affected, turning green al the tip, and causing such intense pain that the sufferer was unable to sleer without the aid of narcotics. The same unacceuntable phenomenon appeared and disappeared successively from one after another of each of the other fingers on the left hand, passing afterward into the second toe of the left foot, and if nally seating itself in the extremity ot the middle finger of the left hand, al ways accompanied in it's eccentric re- movals by distressing sensations whicE rendeged everything like rest or repose not superindneed by drugs impossible
Year: 1873

IT IS WELL GET CLEAR of a Bad Cough or Cold first week. but it is safer to rid yourself of the first forty-eght hours-the proper remedy for the purpose being Dr. Jaype's Expectorant
Year: 1873

A MIpsUMMER-NIGHT HoRRoR.-
Joaquin Miller relates story horrible
enough to satisfy the most ardent of
sensation horrors. 1t is about mining
camp in lonely district in California
where the scurvy broke out. They had
no way of treating the afflicted ones,
when one of the miners happened to re-
member cure he had formerly heard of
called the H earth cure" So they dug
six deep pits in the shadow of huge
pine, and buried the patients up to the
chin, having first taken off all their
clothes. The earth was then shoveled
back and closely patted down about
them, and the six heads in the moonlight
had a ghastly look, 4" like men rising in
resurrection to meet the judgment" The
buried men, like all bard-working mi
ners, soon dozed off into a deep, stupor-
Ike sleep. Their companions who were
watching them, grew dozy too, and crawl
ed off to their beds and slept soundly
till morning, when they went to see how
their companions were getting on. They
found that the wolves had been down
and eaten every one of the six heads
level with the ground.
Year: 1873

Too Much CooL.-One of our citi-
zens called at an apothecary store yes
terday and drank glass Of soda, re.
marking that the soda was rather warm.
The clerk didn't see how that could be
as the tank was full of ice, yet at the
earnest desire of the customer the clerx
procured cor siderable quantity of salt
which he placed in the tank. OF course
the fluid was soon CONCEALED, and when
the clerk attempted to draw q glass for
the next customer the machine wouldn't
work. The perpetrator of the Joke stood
at safe distance and saw the fun. That
clerk says he wants to live long enough
to sell that salt cus(s)-tomer one more
drink, aud he will give him "suth'n :"
that will freeze bis "innards" into a
cake of iee.-HdrerhW Bulletin.
Year: 1873

gress to his friends.


Well, in due time the professor went
to the clerk for his license. The clerk
informed him that the law required a
bond and security in the sum of Sl,250,
to be void on condition that there were
no legal objection to the proposed union
of the two persons named. The profess
or very promptly replied "Oh. never
mind the bond, Mr. Clerk; | will pay
S1,100 down, and will ray you the bal
ance in a day or two.' After further
explanation by the clerk, the professor
soon complied with the law and obtained
his license.


At the appointed time the wedding
came off in the best style Of the city,
and the company enjoyed the occasi n
with the greatest zest. The hours flew
like hummiug birds. As the clock
struck twelve the professor picked up his
hat and started to his boarding house.
His principal attendants, surmising his
intention, followed him to the front door
and informed him that matrimonial ct
iquette required him to stay and board
ana lodge at the house of his father-in-
law until he and his wife wished to live
by themselves, that be would be fur
nished with a room adjacent to Sarah's
room, in order that, if she got thirsty,
he might be near to get her drink OF
fresh water


In the morning the bride and groom
we're greeted with smiles Of the family,
together with those of some early callers,
and enquiries were made if they had
slept well. Both responded that they
had never slept sounder in their lives,
he addinq with childlike simplicity, that
he was happy to say that Sarah did not
call for W. ter during the whole night,
That last remark was quite riddle TO
her, and she looked curious, but said
nothing, no one venturing to ask him to
rise and explain. He did not know that
it was joke played upon him until the
attendant told it as such to the company.


Finally the happy couple went to
housekeeping, and never were man and
wife more heartily congratulated or more
highly esteemed than they, who were
the favorites in the city. Never was wife
more lovely or husband more kind and
devoted, but be didn't know anything
about providing for the larder, only as
Sarah taught him. One little incident
may suffice to illustrate. She told him
one day to get some rice, he went i'm
mediately TO the store aud told the clerk
he wanted to get some rice. How
much p inquired the clerk. "Oh, not
much" said the professor. :" l reckon
three or four bushels will do for the pres
ent." The clerk was very sorry to say
they had not 50 much on hand, but that
they would have more. The clerk per-
suaded him to try to make out for few
days with some fifteen or twenty pounds.
Sarah and the clerk were not, the only
ones who laughed over the incident. He
never called for the three or four bush
els afterward.


If the professor and his wife are still
living they must be well stricken IN
years, and if they see this brief sketch
of their early lives, and find any errors
in it they will pardon the writer