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Year: 1871

Ot all the memories of European hours,
none is more vivid or more delightful.
than the out-of-door music of the cont,
nent. Indeed, music and life in the open
air have much closer relation to each
other than is generally imagined. The
most musical people in the world are
the Germans AMI Italians, whose two
schools are acknowledged as the only
standards of musical taste and culture,
and the Germans pass most Of their time
ont -oi-doors during the summer, while
the Italians OF the city live in the open
air for the greater part OF the year. Mu-
sic is cheap with them, because it is
part of their being, and it is excellent,
because their taste has been so highly
educated that they will not tolerate
medlocrlty in composition or perform
ance


The increasing attention paid to music
IN this country, especially among the
summer concerts, which is in great
measure due to the large German ele-
ment in our population. is a very graft
flying fact. The climate of the United
States from May to October invites us
to the open air for the enjoyment of the
pleaSaDtest hours OF the twent y-four in
the late afternoon, and parks have come
very properly to be regarded by all our
municipal governments as indispensable
adjuncts TO cities. But the park with
out music is the rose without perfume,
life without love, world destitute OF
color. Hamlet with the Prince of Den
mark omitted, Given park there must
be music. And what so conductive
to innocent e9joymsnt, to the public
health, to the Improvement of the nation
al taste ?
Year: 1871

Reflect that g. sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubia
huppincss, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes a weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly durkens to tho view, the mind
becomes shudowcd with despair, and filled with
the me 'ancholy reflection that the happiness OF
anoth. 5 blighted with our own.
Year: 1871

Dr. L. respectfully informs the public that for
twenty years ne has givcn especial attention to
the preservation of the natural teeth, and will
continue to do so, and invites those who wish to
save them to call on him, knowing that many
treatment might be preserved and mado useful
for life. Artificial teeth inserted only Us Ap-
PROVED by PROFESSORS AND COLLEGES. no2O-tt
Year: 1871

Loose ideas ON the subject of bust
ness will not answer. Tt must be
reduced to something of science. To
embark in business without this pre-
paratory knowledge is to set sail
without an acquaintance with navi-
Observation-Disclosures that insure
slinWreek,
Year: 1871

A servant girl who had just been
admonished by her mistress to be
very careful in washing up the
best tea things, was overheard short
ly afterward, i'll the back kitchen,
indulging in the following soliloquy
while in the act of wiping the sugar
basin: ''If | was to drop this 'ere
basin, and was to catch it, / s'pose
I shouldn't catch it i; but if I was to
drop it, and wasn't to catch it, [
reckon [ Just should catch it,
Year: 1871

a traveller, we are told, being in
a wild country, where he could find
no provisions for himself or dog,
cut off the dogs tail and boiled it
for his own supper, and gave the
dog the bone.
Year: 1871




Gail Hamilton has her ideal Of do
nestle life, and the man in it does not
look so shoTrid' to her as to some We
men who have reduced matrimonial
ideas to practice. We fear she has
fallen from the grace she enjoyed
in the days when she riddled and de-
molished the old fOgyisn Of the Rev.
DR.. Todd, for now she can write such
placid pFecepts as the following:


In every known sense Of the word,
woman owns the man who loves
her, more than be owns her. Her
love is perhaps as great, but it is not
so absorbing. She sees the situation
where he sees only her. She IS as
strong as ali his strength, because bis
strength Is hers. With whatever OF
power or wisdom or renOwR he is en-
dowed, she also becomes possessed,
and no enlargement Of his borders di-
lmiBishes one iota Of his dependence
upon her for the ability to enjoy them.
If there is any difference, the supreme
control, the court Of last resort, ID
hers. Civil codes may reach state
Of absolute perfection, doing equal and
entire justice to man and woman, and
a husband will still be able to hector


his wife to death, and the wife her


husband and, as between the two,
one is inclined to think she does it
best. A woman has rather more pow
er TO make a home steadily and un-
mitigatedly uncomfortable than has 3
man.
Year: 1871

Physical Training in schools.


The Philadelphia Press favors phys
ical training as well as mental in the
public schools of that city. It is
strange, with the results before the
ewes Of educators in all those institu-
tions which make exercise a part Of
the system, that il is not more gener-
ally adopted in schools. Agood stomach
and spine are more essential to success
10 life than a disciplined mind, and q
large proportion Of students. lose both
these before their education is finished.
Exercise is especially essential during
the development period, and should
be as systematically given as the men
tai exercises taken in our schools and
colleges. The walk to and from school
is Of course exercise, but It is not suf
&c en-. and does not develop the whole
body. TF


We are In danger now OF danger
Gus reaction against exercise. Prize


sighting, base bali playing and rowing
have been pushed TO such excess in
tie past few years, that between dis
gust and doubt, the public are in dan
ger Of going to the other extreme and
arraying themselves against physical
training. But one of the best means
Of regulating exercise and introducing
lit generally and systematically among
the people, is to make it an essential


part of the training received at our
schools and colleges.
Year: 1871

There is great deal Of theology in the
idea of the little girl who wished she could
be good without obeying her grandmother
She said it was easy enough to read good
books and pray, but it was pretty hard to
mind grandmother.
Year: 1871

A country doctor is so penurious that
when he goes to make visit in the coun-
try he takes hen in his gig to eat up the
oats his horse scatters while eating. The
hen knows her business 80 we'll that she
gets right out and goes to work without
being told.
Year: 1871

When the water gets low we are go
ing to have a sensation from Steubsn-
vile, Ohio, where eighteen boxes Of
nitro-glycerine repose calmly on the
bottom of the river, emptied there by
a drunken skiff not long since. Steam
boats say their "Now I lay me" every
time they pass that spot.
Year: 1871

PAPER COLLARs.-An exchange
says Look out for paper collars that
have been prepared with a prepara-
ton having arsenic for one of its iD-
gradients. The perspiration Of the
neck causes the same to be absorbed
into the system. Several severe cases
of poisoning by this means were dis
covered last summer. a
Year: 1871

At late hour Yesterday afternoon Captain Burden Dstec


tive Hagsn and several officers Of the Twenty precinct
made descent upon the notorious panel house by
Nehe Hey at 104 West street. arrested
the propnetress four female
sequenty arragned before Justice Coz a Jefferson Market
and the inmates discharged The proprferess held
bail In the OF S500 10 appear for examination Captain
Burden reports this Of the most dangerous houses
IN his and staes there scarcely the
doors but robbed that scarcely night but
visits the station honse report having been robbed
On Thursday man stopping st The Fifth Avenue Hotel,
from Michigan robbed In The house Of S32 the acs
which appear In another column of this The Cap
tain as lays In his power Is determined drive this
class of people from his precinct
Year: 1871

The farmers in this State generally take
too little care and pains for their sheep,
with the idea that sheep can be made t"
bring in more profit with much less work
than any other kind of stock. Such may
he the case with some tlocks, but it is ~
old and good saying Slightly altered
that "Whatcvcr it pays to raise at all 1t
paws 20 raise we'll" Now let US see to il
that oar store sheep are selected, not only
from The best breed, but from those we
may have, good care should be taken il
theiI selection, dispo>ing those that are
old, which generally die when nearly win
tered through, especially when large
hock5 are kept together, and this is often
the ease. Forty sheep are enough for
one flock, and rs many aS should be
housed and GcA together. Otcntimes
what appears TO be old and poor sheep,
taken from large flock, will thrive and
10 well lortoo or three years, and with
but little more care when separated into
small hocks. Sheep, unlike cattle, will
do much better in open sheds, thereby
having good amount OF air and light
which is very essential to u strong and
Thrifty flock They should not be con.
fined in small yards and pens but allowed
to have abundance Of room, AMI in early
winter let them roam about in the field or
pasture, laking care to yard them when
the SHOWS become deep; and in the spring
time they will 90 much better it allowed
10 20 ont little every day rs soon as tho
ground becomes bare Sheep do much
better Oikc all stock) with clean pens
and good amount oI straw or poor hay
for bedding, which helps TO make The best
ofdressing. A good supply OF pure water
is very nece sary Ior sheer rs well as
cattle and they should not be without it.


Boiled potatoes will help to make sheep
! 10 well, and is not only change ot food
from grain, but saving of hay. Do not
keep poor sheep and get little profit from
them, hut rather well selected flock we'll
cared for, with good profit in the end.


- Cor. Maine Farmer.
Year: 1871

Comm'ncing LIES Journey on the


Baltimore and Ohio Railroad


The Cincinnati Times and Chronicle
of the 18th ult, has the following ae-
count of an interesting occurrence:


1t is not often that the "true life" of
one so young as the hero of this sketch
is written. Nor is it usual, we are in
clined to believe, for heroes generally
to present so many claims upon public
attention as in the case we are about TO re-
late


On Tuesday of the present week a
lady and gentleman physician of some
note, and his wite-took passage at
Baltimore on the fasttrain running to this
city over the Baltimore and Ohio rail
Year: 1871

There was a terrible disaster near
Mobile, on Sunday evening last A
steamboat, containing a large number
of men women and children were re
turning to the city, from an excursion,
when the boiler bursted, killing and
wounding some sixty persons. The
scene Of the accident was heart-rending
in the extreme, the cries of the wound
ed and dying women and children be
ing sufficient to pail the stoutest hearts
As a matter of course, the accident was
occasioned by defective boiler
Year: 1871

Christmas.


What Christmas box Congress might
have given to the South and to the nation
on Thursday, by passing a general Am
nesty bill If, like other people, Congres-
men feel their digestion improved and
better all over for doing a good act, how
much more they would have relished their
Christmass sdinner, and enjoyed the whole
festival day, had they adopted the title of
Buffers bill, granting full grace, amnesty
and oblivion, and thrown the rest of it
into the waste basket But this was not
to be and the last lingering bitterness of
the war remains. with Its legacy OF hates
and revengee--not to be banlshed, we
fear, by the present Congress, and likely
to last far into the next. Meanwhile In
the South, we observe a Christmas feeling
prevalent among the sufferers from this
unrelenticg policy. Witness for single
example among the many, the language OF
the newly elected Senator Vance, of North
Carolina, in a letter to the Washington
Chronicle. the principal portions of which
we published Oh Saturday. He says-"I
earnestly desire the unity and perpetuity
of the whole country, its prospsrltys and
honor" and ''fervently pray that every
atom of the wealth of it's bosom, and every
spark of the genius of its children may be
devoted to the common welfare henceforth
and forever" These are the right senti-
ments, frankly and honestly expressed
We wait to see whether in like spirit Of
forgiving and forgetting, Congress will
purge this valuable citizen of his d'sa-
bilities, or remembering all the grudges
against him that should now be put for
ever out of mind, will persist in an exclu-
sion which deprives the nation of an able
and honorable legislator, and the Repub-
lican party of glory which they seem de-
termined to reserve for their successors.


n. Y. Jour. Of Com.
Year: 1871

A negro having complained to Forney's
Press that be had been excluded from a
Philadelphis theatre, that paper, which
would have pronounced the exclusion a
great outrage if it had been made in a
Southern State, consoles the darkey rs
follows


SAT all events. it is not very material
issue for our colored friend. lie had far
better be qualifying himself for the use
and enjoyment Of his new franchise by
some other means than going to theatres.
No race or class ever yet raised itself In
such way. If the colored people of
Philadelphia were kept outof every circus,
saloon, or theatre in the city, they would
probably be all the better for it. The
white folks who educate themselves in
places of public amusement. whether It be
the free and-easy' or the opera, are not
the class for our new Citizens TO emulate
or copy after. -
Year: 1871

A correspondent of the Geneva (Kane
county, Ill.) Republican says:


AS paris green will undoubtedly be
made use of to considerable extent for
the purpose of destroying these insects,
we wish to lay down few rules to be
observed:


1t is now universally known that this
is very poisonous substance, composed
of arsenic and copper, and being fine
powder 1t readily floats in the air and is
liable to he inhaled If not used with
caution. The first rule in using it,
therefore is to stand from the side from
which the wind is blowing. There are
various ways of apply ing it; either from
\ dredging box, of an oyster can punch.
ed at one end with small holes, of from
a gauzs bag tied to one end Of pole -four
or five feet in length.


The common error in using Is to make
it too strong. 1t should be diluted with
at least ten times the quantity of flour ol
ashes; and there are experiments on re
cord which go to show that it does moi
lose its efficacy by being reduced will
fifteen or twenty times the quantity o
the inert powder.


Flour is generally preferred to ashes
because If applied, as it always. should
be, when the vines are wet with dew oI
rain, it forms paste which prevents it,
blowing off.


Another important precaution is no
to use it on vines near where children
will be likely to resort.


The same podwer has been used sue
cessfully agains the cucumber bugs, ant
other leaf eating insects.


1t is safe precaution not to use it il
and case where 1t will como in contac
with the fruit. Its application to cur
rant and gooseberry bushes therefore, a
late in the season as the present, is no
recommended.


I am now experimenting with
poisonous water which runs off in tn
manufacture of Paris green, and hicl
is much cheaper and safer to handle
But have not yet had sufficient oppol
tunity to test its efficacy, to be able
report satisfactorily upon it.
Year: 1871

and felt just ~ easy close to the roof Of
the large old barn, a. on the floor below,
and great was his joy when he had sue
ceeded in constructing rude steps from
which Rover could leap from the hay
NOW to the scaffold. But to-day the
child's foot slipped on the great beam,
and he fell to the floor. Mrs. Carlton
heard the cry, but before she could get
to the door, Rover was at her feet-poor
dumb creature trying frantically to tell
her what had come to Fred!


When she saw him lying there, bruis.
ed and senssless, the terrible memory Of
her last words to him smote her to the
earth. Had the Almighty heard her
peevish words, and laid him still forev-
er: A low moan from the child's white
lips brought her to her feet again. That
cry Of pain was music now, for it spoke
Of life. i


What was done during the next hour,
she never knew distinctly, but few
minutes after the accident, the noble
dog fell painting at his masters feet in
the village two miles away. A note
fastened to his collar, told Mr.. Carlton
the sad news. Mr.. Carlton and the ply
sician scarcely hoped to find the child
alive. But the brave boy smiled
through his ain, aud said,


Don't cry father, the doctor will cure
me-"


For long time his hold on life was
slight, and when at last the physician
said the worst was over, he had to add
the pitiful truth, "But he can never
walk any more"


Poor Rover pined for his little play.
fellow, and when at last he was allowed
TO see him, seemed almost beside him.
self with joy.


Mrs. Carlton learned good lesson in
this school of atfiiction. She never
scolded any more; and 1t cut her to the
heart when the little fellow said one
day,


II know now why 1 used to be so
noisy, mother. God knew had only
six years to be noisy in, end so he
made me feel like running all the
time! !!


When the pleasant days of June came
round, they used often to draw the little
fellow out under the old elm. He would
sit there for hours, propped by pillows,
reading, playing or talking to Rover,
who never was happy without him. A
touching proof of this dogs love and
wisdom, was his habit Of biting OIL
weeds to bring to him, as Mrs. Carlton
brought him flowers. Freddie always
thanked him, aud never hurt the poor
dogs feelings by laugh.


A great artist spending few days in
the village, Glanced to pass one day
and noted the high spiritual beauty OF
the child. In after years when people
praised the genius that could create the
wondrous loveiiness which shone upon
them from pictured face that alw ways
graced the artists studio, he would re-
ply,


ut is only u copy from the Great
Master! 1t il a face which God made
perfect through suffering, to show vi
how the angels look ~ II. J. A.
Year: 1871

1.-THE fact is" said an elderly wife, "a
man does not know how to straighten
up things. He does not know how to
commence. / don't WONDER" she res
marked IN conclusion, "that when God
made Adam be went right to work and
made a woman to tell him what to do.
Year: 1871

It is q bad practice to send money
through the mail, particularly bullion,
Some heavy gold bars were found in the
mail at Omaha, the wrappers Of which
were so worn that the directions were
illegible.
Year: 1871

The JeUre dx terminus which has been
seriously affecting the east side of the head
of the Sound. has shifted over to the west
side, and those who have made the malady
a study say it will rapidly approach the
foot on that side, and when it arrives at
that point it will cease to be an affection
and become permanent.
Year: 1871

who lived virtuous lives, and by following
in their footsteps. you will hear Of fewer
divorces, witness less misery, enjoy more
unalloyed pleasure than it is possible for
those latter day strong minded women to
experience. unless they very soon reform.
have only to say wish you all a kind
adieu." BARNEY O'RAGAN.
Year: 1871

LOOK OuT FOR TRICKs.-Our Central
Committee made a fair proposition to the
Republican Committee to print the two tick
cts alike, on white paper, black ink and in
the same type; spread so that the voter
could have his choice as to who he votes for,
and vote secret ballot, as the law contem-
plates; but this fair proposition was declined.
This justfes us in saying look cut for frauds,
fraudulent tickets and every species of small
tricks that low cunning can devise TO rob the
voter Of his free choice. What do homes.
Republicans think of such lenders?
Year: 1871

Two PRoPOsITIoNs. There are two Ques-
tons to be voted on at the State election
aside from candidates. One is to refund and
consolidate the State debt at lower rate of
interest and longer time, which will reduce
taxation, simplify the various funding bills
and save money. Those voting for this law
will have written or printed on their tickets
"Refnnd the debt-Yes," j." and those wishing
to vote against it will have on their tickets,
"Refund the debt-No."


The other proposition is an amendment to
the State Constitution, as follows:


Article l, Section %. The Legislature shall
have nopower to make an app oprianon OF none J
for any purpose whatever. ior n longer period
than two years


Those who are in favor of ratiIying such
amendment shall have written or printed o,
their ballots For amendment TO article l OF
the Constituton-Ies.


Those who are in favor of rejecting such
amendment shall have written or printed Oh
their ballots For amendment to article l of
the Constitutiop-No.


Both are good measures, and should be
voted for by all reters.-
Year: 1871

FAIR PLAY ON THE TURF-How
THE LAW MAY INTERFERE.-On the
Goth of May last, at trotting match at
Breeze Park. near Philadelphia, a man
named James Fleet threw a coat at
i" American Girl as she was coming
down the home stretch, in the lead.
Fleet was arrested, and charged with
an assault and battery on Benz. Daniels,
the driver. Judge Allison, of Phila.
delphia, in his charge to the jury, said:


" In this case it is not pretended that
the coat thrown did come in contact
with the driver, but that it did come in
contact with the horse. If the inten-
tion was to strike the horse the act
would amount to an assault and battery
on the driver. IL this driver had been
thrown out Of his sulky and killed, the
defendant could have been indicted and
convicted of murder, and it might prob.
ably be murder in the first degree. II
the defendant went out from the crowd
| Of spectators on this occasion, and threw
the coat or other obstruction at the
horse, the horse, buggy and man, being
the same and indivisible, an assault and
battery on the horse amounts TO an as
sault on the. man driving 1t. II the
coat struck the horse, the battery or
the horse Is battery on the driver /
the hourishing of the coat affected the
progress Of the horse, SO as to cause the
latter to swerve or jerk the sulky from
Its true course, and TO rudely jostle OF
disturb the driver, then the defendan


was guilty OF an assault and battery"


The jury, under this charge and testi
mony, rendered a verdict Of guilty
Sentence postponed.
Year: 1871

THAT PHANTOM SHIP AGAN.-A Lower Califor-
MIA correspondent of the Siglo XIX, Of Mexico
City, gives the following interesting particulars
of vessel found upon dry land, and miles away
from the sea- it being mystery worthy of solu-
ton by savans how and when she got into her
present position;


4" In the bed of dry and ancient lake, some
one hundred and twenty miles from the mouth
of the Colorado river and ninety-three from the
Pacific coast, at point of the desert equi-dis-
tant from Los Palmas and Martinez, and living
upon what must have the sea coast on a
level sixty feet lower than that of the Pacific
Ocean, was recently discovered Il vessel of large
dimensions $3.50 tons approximately, construct
ed Of timber of the East Indies, called by the
English teak, This vessel is an eloquent wit
ness Of terrestrial commissions. Was her pres
ent site once part Of the Pacific coast, or did
there once exist some bay or inlet that reached
what is now a dry, burning desert2 Persons
who have seen the vessel calculate that she has
been in her present situation three hundred or
more years. Scientific men here having failed
to account for her legation, let the archives of
Mexico be searched to see whether they will not
give some light upon the subject. The state of
preservation of the vessel is as perfect as the
mystery connected with her is absolute.