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Year: 1870

treat them with discourtesy and has
no inclination 10 do 80 Bot be thinks
that hint or two as 10 the policy oi
shor; yisitson business, especially when
others require fair degree Of atten-
ton. would not only prove serviccahlo IN
bis case, but in general sense ike
wise. The error alluded 20 is serious
one. There ATE some people who fan
ey that others have little or nothing 10
do, They stop them in the street dur.
ing business hours, and attempt 10 get
up long conversation on trihing mat
ters-they visit their stores and lounge,
on their desks and counters they re-
peat silly stories that haye been told q
dozen times before and still worse,
they pry into matters with which they
have no concern, and thus not only an
noy and vex, but inGict absolute inju.
ry. Another rural storekeeper informs
US that he has lost quite a number Of
customers in consequence OF the almost
perpetual presence of idlers and loung-
ers, who stare with rude impudenee.
and who will not take any Of the many
gsntlemanly hints that he has ventur-
ed to give them. He does not want to
turn them out absolutely, but he as
sures us that he not only suffers in his
feelings, but his business Some of
them may mean no harm, but the effect
is none the less pernicious. A man Of
common sense, and q gentleman, could
readily imagine the indelicaey Of stand
ing beside the counter OF bookseller,
with lady making application for pub
lications. Nay, We have heard OF
case in which u young man who kept a
store for the sale of books, was abso-
lutely ruined in the manner described


He lacked the moral courage 10 send
away the idlers who infected bis estab-
lishment, and the consequence WAS that
all his customers left him. As gem
eral rule visit Of business should be
brief, especially when other parties are
10 be consulted with or waited upon
When, too, any matter, private or con-
fidsntial, is in progress, everything like
curiosity should be regarded as Ill
timed or iInpertinent 1t is quite a
common occurrence for an idler to step
into a room, and exclaim, Are you en-
gagged :" seeing at the same time two
or three persons busily occupied, and
hence such question being altogether
unnecessary. But even when an affir-
NATIVE answer is given, he will take a
seat coolly, pick up newspaper, and
attempt to all that is passing He will
even venture, ever and anon, to throw
in remark, as il he were the party
concerned But enough for the pres
ent, though the subject is fruitful
one. Mechanics Journal.
Year: 1870

BEHAVIOR IN CHURoH.--Mr. Betcher
is making very lively paper Of the
Christian Union. Here is paragraph
on behavior in church, which has sec
ular application +: I'VE may classify the
petty inciyilities in church lie thus :-
l. Smells Violent perfumes, especial
ly those containing musk, are disagree
able TO most persons, and to some posi-
lively distressing. There is no smell
80 universally pleasing as no smell
Never scent yourself when going into a
crowded assembly. The same is true
of the residuary smell Of tobacco which
hangs about the garments and afllcts
the breath Of those who habitually
smoke. But tobacco almost Invariably
makes men self indulgent and regard
less Of others convenience. More bru
tai yet, are they who go to church reek-
ing. like a Dutchman's soup, with the
smell OF onions There are scores Of
people who have lost all profit Of aSun-
day service by the sickening smells
which surrounded them.


Sounds. Whispering in church dur
ing the service is IN affroDt TO polite
ness. Much Of the coughing which
goes on in church arises from the pois.
onous gasses and personal etlluyla
which exist in unYentilated churches.
Bnt the power Of the will over the mus
cles which do tho coughing is very
great 4 needless person will cough
twice as much as is needful-will cough
at the worst time possible, will cough
plump upon the necks Of those before
him, instead Of embalming the sound
in his handkerchief, as, with a little
skill and politeness, be might easily do,
We would not forbid men who cannot
sing to make joyful noise"-bnt it
should be a softly noise. In al cases
when it is a mans duty TO sleep in
church, il is his duty also TO snore with
the soft pedal down.


Sight Every one likes to see the
minister. II cannot be done through
your body. True, you cannot help be-
ing before somebody unless you are on
the back seat. But with a little thought
you may very much help those behind
you. Any conduct which shall divert
the attention Of those from the service,
such as ostentatious playing with a
watch, or opening and shutting il,
reading books or papers looking about
inqaiGtiyeiy, is impolite.


Many churches have the Ten Com
mandmeuts ID sci up on the wall, in
sight Of the whole congregation al
though not one Of tho sins reprobated
therein is likely 70 be committed 10
church time Would il not be well u
hsYe another tablet enumerating the
sins which men are prone 70 commit ID
church time.
Year: 1870

He that would rest must work.


Religion is not an art, as a matter
Of dexterity and skin, but new nature
God sits uron his mercy seat, aud
will pardon and save all who approach
him Alright.


TO have good opinion OF yourself,
think IL you were rich, how much you
would give away


Men are said to admire that which
they look up TO- and love that which
they look down upon.


Death may remove from us the great
and good, but the force of their actions
still remains.


Most Of the shadows that cross our
path through life are caused by our
standing in our own light.


Deliberate with caution, but act
with decision; and yield with gracious
ness, or oppose with frmness.


The Christians privilege is the
prayer Of the apostle: THAT ye might
be filed with the fullness Of God"


Envy pursues its victims through
life it ceases to gnaw only when the
graye-worm, its brother-reptile, begins.


"A firm faith is one Of the best di-
whites; a good life is the best philo.
sopbyi a clear conscience the best law
honesty the only true policy; and tenn
porance the best physic.


--Talkative persons seldom read
This is among the few truths which
appear tho more strange the more we
reflect upon them. For what is read
ing but silent conversation ?


Value no man for his opinion, but
esteem pim according Ms his life cor.
responds with the rules Of piety and
Justice mans actions, not his cen.
ceptions, render him valuable


The chief secret Of comfort lies in
not suffering triAes to veI one, and in
prudcntly cultivating an underground
Of small pleasures, since very few great
ones nre LET on long leases.


Our trying to love an Objects like
cur trying 70 laugh when we arc not
pleased the more we try, the less
shall We succeed The trying part oI
the process implies it is thing we Dc
not prefer


God loves 70 have US pray with
esrnestness The best proof Of earn
ssiness Is simplicity Better in Gods
sighi are tho broken but heartfelt ut
terauccs of q child than the highaowr
nttersnecs of some who think them
selves wonderful in prayer.
Year: 1870

We were travelling on ground we had
no right on. The only excuse was like
that of military necessity-it was far
better fishing through the farms where
the trout had been preserved than In
opon lots where all could fish.


was early in the morning. We had
risen at three, ridden ten miles and
struck the creek as the trout were at
breakfast. Looking for sheltered
place to hitch our horses, we slyly kept
behind fences, ETC., till we reached the
part of the steam not generally 1ish-
ed. A farm house stood not quarter
of a mile away. We saw the morning
smoke curling lightly from stove pipe;
saw man and two boys come out to DO
chores: saw woman bnsy about the
door: and a ferocous bull dog walking
about the yard.


If ever we fishcd close, it was them
Not whisper to disturb the birds or the
owner of the land We crawled through
the grass and lodged behind clumps OF
alders, lifting large speckled beauties
out of the water until our baskets were
full.


This was tie time to have gone; Out
the trout were SO large and bit SO readl'
" that we could not Withstand the
temptation, so we decided to string and
hide what we had, and take another
basketful.


So at it we went. No sooner would
the hood touch the water than we hao
q trout. We forgot the house, the man
the boys and the dog.
Year: 1870

The shadows OF the mind are like
those Of the body. In the morning OF
life they lie behind us; at noon we
trample them under foot; and in the
evening they stretch long aud deepening
before us
Year: 1870

A number of our brave friends, the
modern Gauls, were terribly frightened
on the 9th of July. The incident is told
by a correspondent of the London Daily
Times


THE novel sight of hippopotamus
swimming about in the Seine was wit
messed yesterday with almost as much
alarm as wonder by hundreds of people
on the river, in the neighborhood of the
Point d'Austerlitz. The water draught
has so reduced the water supply in the
cisterns of the Jardin des Plantes that for
some days past the hippoPotamus has
not been able to take his bath in the
gardens. His keepers take him on a
low wagon, drawn by two horses, to the
bank of the Seine, and let him go into
the river as far as the length of a strong
iron chain attached to his neck will al
low. The hippopotamus grew so strong
upon his healthy swimming that yester-
day he broke his chain, struck out, got
into the middle of the stream, and pro-
duced a tremendous panic among the
boats, which his whale-like hulk threat.
ened to upset. In his frolic he lifted his
nose to the height of paddle-box of a
steamer, and set all the passengers
screaming. His approach cleared in a
| jiffy a washerwoman' barge and the
Austerlitz bathing establishment. Half q
dozen boats went in pursuit of him. Sew
eral keepers succeeded in getting on his
back, but he got rid ofthem by plunging
After long hunt one Of the keepers gol
hold of link of the broken chain which
remained attached to his neck, slipped
a strong rope through it, and then go


sufficient assistance to haul him ashore.
Year: 1870

w z have had eur Banner on the
outer wall, with PRICES SO Low that
no hrm in the State of Ohio undertook to
meet Us. We have driven our foe to the
wall, and occupy the field without fear.


We have sileneed all men who years ago
assumed some power Of competition. They
are now willing to confess eonhdentIally
that there is no use trying to meet or beat
US in prices, because we are game on a
Clothing "set-tO." Their only hope is in the
ignorance of their customers, who will not
look around to see the difference in our
prices and theirs, which amounts to at least
Year: 1870

l remember Harriet Mar,ineau tells
how, when she had grown TO be quite a
girl, a little one was born in her home /;
and as she would lcok and ponder, not
knowing what was to become OF it, she got
a great Terror in her heart that the babe
would never speak, or walk, or do any
thing that she could do, because, she
said, how can it, seeing that it is helpless
MOVIE But she found, when the right
time came, that the feet found their loot
ing and the tongue its speech, aud every
thing came along in its right time and
then, instead of the babe, she had noble
and beautiful brother, who was able to
take her part and teach things to her,
who had taught him. So the babe be-
came an illpslration when it came to
manhood, of very common latent fear
in the hearts, not Of sisters 50 much as
fathers aud mothers, that the lite that
has come to them, and is their life over
again, will not scramble or grow or
wrestle into its own place, as theirs has
done. They have no adequate belief in
the hidden manhood OF womanhood that
is folded away within the small, frail ma
ture, and that the man will walk among
men and talk with men as man and
50 they often spend the better part Of
their time in trying 10 order airesh what
our wise mother Nature has ordered al
rcady.-RObeyt CoHyer.
Year: 1870

An old bachelor says that giving the
ballot to Somen would not amoupt to
anything practically, because they would
keep denying they were old enough to
vote until they got to he too old tv
take any terest in ilics.
Year: 1870

A Scottish reporter thus describes a
recent FIRE at Dnmfries, and for it claims
the championship: THE sky was clear
and unclouded, and the stars shone
quietly down, but their pearly light grew
faint and feeble in the wild glare that
shot and palpitated in and abont the
burning pile. Thetall old lines, stripped
oftheir garniture of leaves, stood nakedly
out in the fitful glare like the grizzly Ter
ror of the Northland Scalds. The build
ing itself-it seemed in very truth


"A dungeon horrible on all sides around


As one great furnace famed


Hungry tongues of FIRE burst through the
windows and roof, dancing along in mad
delight, charring the wood and stone with
their hot and cruel breath, and splitting
forth showers of sparks into the air, and
out upon the ancient lime trees, clothing
their limbs and branches with a corusca-
ton of fiery powder, and like the volnp-
tuous lips Of pleasure, as the fable tells
us, breathing destruction in their burning
kiss f"
Year: 1870

The Nation objects to the detention Of
the steamer Chicora, at the Sault Ste, Marie,
on the broad ground that nations and gov
ernments ought not to make asses of them
selves unnecessarily. This objection is 30
general in its character, and is capable of
SO wide an application, that We hope it
| will not be insisted upon.


It might be applied, for instance, to the
policy Of acquiring "outposts" to
| strengthen the country in time Of war, it
being ~eal Anuwu t1.at uurposta gonera1Ey
contribute surplus Of military and
naval strength to defend the country
in time of war, in addition to defending
themselves.


It might have an unpleasant and inyid-
ious bearing upon the policy OF making do
nations Of public funds to steamship COM
panies to enable them to carry our freight
as cheaply as foreigners are carrying it.


It might reflect upon the policy of nego-
tiating loans at per cent interest, in
market where 6 per cent is freely offered on
the same security, without first improving
the credit Of the borrower.


In fact, the objection is of so homogeneous
nature that it is likely to loss its force
when confined to SO Heterogeneous SUBJ
ject as the detention Of the Chicora.
Year: 1870

The New York Herald publishes the
following from Captain c. F. Hall:


l have been engaged for most of the
time during the last ten years in the Arc.
tic regions searching for survivors of Sir
John Franklin's expedition. During that
time lived with the Esquimaux and be-
came fully accustomed to the dress, food
and general life of that people.


From information gained of the Esqui.
maux and from what / discovered my
self, at least (so late as the spring OF
l860) / became fully satisfied that not a
man of Sir John Franklin's expedition
survived, and thus the great motive OF
my mission was cancelled. However, |
sscertained beyond all doubt on my mind
that there we're survivors-smong whom
was the heroic Crozier-down to 1856
and 1857.


/ now have returned to my country,
determined to devote my hard earned ex-
perience in the Arctic regions to making
one more voyage, and this for the special
object of geographical discovery from
latitude eighty degrees nerth M to the
North Pole, by way of Jones Sound, or
Smiths Sound, purposing, however, to
make trial first up the former.


My plan, in brief, ia to have two small
vessels of about $50 tons each-one a
steamer, the same to be sailing rugged, the
other sailing vessel, and each officered
and manned by twelve men.


My purpose is, on getting into the
Arctic regions, to lose no opportunity of
acquiring the fresh provisions of the
country, which course will insure my
command against ell possible danger
from that curse to Arctic expeditions,
the scurvy. As general thing my
staple diet, aud so Of my company, will
be as formerly-rsw meat and train oil


confidently believe l will be able to
reach the North Pole and return in three
years; but should find that it would re-
quire one or two additional years to COM
plete the object of the voyage and travel
/ will continue that time.


The whole civilized world is deeply in
terested in the subject of geographical
discovery to the North Pole, and expedi-
tions have really, from time to time, been
trying to reach that point for over three
centuries


truly believe that if Congress and
Government will aid me in the small ex.
pedition required land / am about to 60
to Washington to try fer this aid) the
stars and stripes of my country will soon
have the good fortune and honor of dis
covering and possessing new world,
embracing all the meridisns Of this great
and glorious globe, the whole of which
was, 10 truth, the gift of God to man over
six thousand years ago, and for man to
subdue. Q. Il. HALL.
Year: 1870

TIE FRENCH EMPEROR HEARS THE NEWS


His Msjesty was hunting at Rsmbouil-
let Yesterday. When the train returned
to town about $50 p m.ithe Prefeet of
Police was 10 waiting at Montparnsssa
station to communicate the distressing
intelligence. When the French Emperor
heard of it he became extremely pale
and ordered the Prefect to let the law
pursue its usual course.
Year: 1870

Look up The world is radiant with
light, is great and beautiful. and God is
everywhere Let those who toll their
bells yonder worship him in their way
we cannot do so churches are but little
chambers in the Temple of the universe.
They shall not come to me and crowd the
Highest into revelation or rite. God
is great and holy everywhere and it is inn
possible not to find him. We have Him
here beneath the wide arch of heaven, and
we have Him in our hearts. Whoever is
breathed upon by this eternal breath lives
a holy life ."-Auer6ach's Vi2ld Eden.
Year: 1870

In these days OF heavy weights, when fat men
pull the scales at 275 pounds a clean WomeHs bai'
Is certainly something that cannot be despised.
There was one last night at No. 1o3 HowerY, but
whether IL justified It's title Is a1esion which the
spectators present were at loss to answer to their
own OF anybody else's satisfaction. There were
many who certainly were lean, some even cadaver-
Gus, tut there were also many who would not have
attracted attention account OF the sparse carnai
covering or their bones III any ball any yWhere. Is
may be that the really lean females who abound In
the metropolis, ana who might have been there had
they seen at, were rather TOO bashu to undergo tho
ordeal OF q pubic exhibition; and 1t may be that
many OF them were known 10 their friends as "fuii,
round ana buxom,' and Who, Ia order to
atteDa en- 39gte, would have been CON-
PEELED to dyest themselves OF various things winch
nature DID not give them, but which shopkeepers
know who did. The festyity, however, was not
without its attraction and the fat and the lean and
rare and the medium mascanes who graced the
ball with their presence enjoyed themselves as best
they could What the gross weight OF the lean folks
there would have maze Is a mystery as the scales
were not much used, and nobody seemed Inclined 70
make the test.
Year: 1870

THIS popular association held its ball at the Ger
mania Assembly Rooms last night, ana the affair
was one OF considerable joihty and fun. 1t has al
ways SINCE It first began to dance the light fntas
tic, won good name for the way II has managed
It's reunions and the festiyity Of last even
ing was By no means an exception 10 the
general rule. There was q goodly attendance
of ladies and gentlemen, and everything passed or
as smoothly and ns harm0ni0uslY as could be de.
by the most fasdous gdtete lover In the world.
Every body who went TO the ball went TO make the
most OF II, and the hllarity and enjoyment OF the
entertainment were as a matter OF course, immense
The Coy DANES did not go home ti the zee hours Of
the morning.
Year: 1870

The opponents Of the sale or tho easteriy portion
OF Prospect Park are out with a card inviting a
public discussion OF the question at the meeting to
take place at the Academy OF Music tonight.
Year: 1870

gious liberty by preserving the great
principle of selfgovernment and lib
erty which was established by our
foreiathers here The Uuion as es.
tabished by our fathers was dear to
Gen. Lee, as it was to everybody
in the land except the negro. equaliz-
ing revolutionists now in power.
They were and are the real enemies
Of the Union. They, and not men
like Gen. Lee, were the traitors TO
tho great American principle Of gov
ernment And We have quite as lit
tie respect as patience for that by no
means a small number of Northern
journals who fully understand this
question, who know that the obstruc.
tions to the lasting peace Of the Union
are even now as they ever were, not
in the South but in the North, and
yet most culpably fail in rebuking
the impudent, noisy, senselcss public
farrago, which would regard men like
Lee and Jackson as traitors, and men
like Ben Butler and Stanton as pa
triots. Shame Eternal shame -
There is not single leading statesman
in the South, nor indeed a single
Southern man, who is not a believer
in and admirer of the principles Of
the Constitution and the Union. Bat
there is not a single leader of the
Northern faction now in power who
docs not hato and who is not laboring
to overthrow this principle. Disuuion-
ism, T. C., cnmity TO the principles Of
the Union, is at this moment confined
to the Northern States. Here it
scowls and snecrs, and mumbles its
Internal incantalons in the face and
eyes Of honest patriots, and there are
not twenty editors to be found in all
the country who have the pluck or man
hood to strike the false covering from
the foul and seditious monster. They
venture to utter some timid, doubtful
protests, but they leave monstrous
usurpations, the shameless fraud, in
full possession Of the field When
every honest Democratic editor and
speaker will speak out his real
thoughts and say boldly that he be-
lieves men like The illustrious Lee 10
be patriots, and men like the execra-
ted Stanton TO be seditionists and
traitors, there will be moro honest
men in the land than there are now,
and there will be a better hope for
liberty, for our country's listing peace
and honor.


Gen. Lee, was in all respects model
Americana bis life pure, ennobling,
and valuable lesson for the imitation
Of all who seek 10 be truly great and
respected members Of the country
As a humane christian general, he had
only imitators, no suporiors. As a
man and christian, and truly patri-
otic citizen, he was prominently
successful. That he failed in estab
fishing firmly the great principles Of
Washington and the fathers, was no
fault Of his. lie died, mourned by all
whose tears would 10 respected At
any honorable grave Unlike the vaun-
ted Turgot of the North, Stanton, who
died. Well, he is dedi.
Year: 1870

A WAR Picrunr-A Berlin letter
gives a graphic picture Of the distress
which prevails everywhere through
out Germany. The whole nation is


literally in mourning Special SER
vices are now held in many Of the
churches on week days, having as
thdr sole object TO comfort tho
moaruors. Ore cannot talk with
woman anywhere Eve minutes with
FONT hearing the most disIrcssful COM
plants and often seeing her break in
TO tears over Tho war. One cannot
cntor a private house without seeing
marks of sorrow. All llhappincs seems
TO be driven from The social circle
The men in the clubs and restaurants
show less concern, but even there the
war casts It's heavy shadows.