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Year: 1871

We once knew of Q little child who had stolen couple of figs off the dessert dish on the day of dinner party. The theft was discovered, and her father made her wear the figs on Q string round her neck the whole evening, with full explanations why. We heard the story when the child had grown up to be a woman, and from her own lips; and she said that to this hour she suffered from the shame of that evening; it was burnt into her, and made a wound ineffaceable for life. It was tremendous punishment for the fault;

 he fsult itself being in so young child as she was-fve years old only-one that might have been punished and reformed by milder measures. It seems to have been mistake, judging from the bitter ness with which the fathers character was spoken of-she said she had ceased to love him from that day--aud from the stern and loveless nature of the woman herself it seemed to have cast out all softness from her. And though, to be sure, she stole no more figs, yet she had learned her lesson of keeping her fingers from wandering into the region of for hiddeu dainties at too severe cost. The policy of humiliation is @ dangerous one at all times and on all occasions, and far more souls have been crushed by this than sins have been confirmed by over leniency. To destroy all self-respect is to destroy all healing power, and to pre- vent all possibility of rebound. In dealing with the faulty, however hard we may be on the sin, we ought always to reserve a way of restoration to the sipnor
Year: 1871

Gail Hamilton in one of her recent letters discusses the question of mans duty towards woman. Here is & speci- men of her mode of treating the matter "Looking at it without regard to spir- itual compensation, God is the most prr- tial of beings. He made one sex strong and the other weak and upon the weak he placed heavy burden, where upon the strong he placed none at all. Worse far than this, he made the burden of the weaker sex inseparable while the only burden of the stronger sex was so loosely and lightly laid that it could al- ways be shifted to the shoulders of the weaker, and it always has, to a greater or less degree, been thus shifted, so that the weaker has borne the load of the stronger in addition to it's own. With all this, he left to no one's choice whether to be male or female, or wheth- CT to be at all but of his own will he begat us. To man he gave not only strength but joy; to woman not only weakness but suffering. Man incurs suffering only through disease, the re- suit of folly or ignorance. Toman's 8 highest health and happiness comes through the valley of the shadow of death. The hardest law that ever man framed for woman is tender and benevo- lent compared with the irreversible nat ural law under which she lives, and moves, and has her being.
Year: 1871

HOUSEHOLD SINs.-Some cooks will throw out the water in which meats have been boiled, without letting it cool to take off the fat.

 Bits of meats are thrown out which would make hashed meat or hash.

 The four is sifted in wasteful man. ner, and the bread pan left with the dough sticking to it.

 Pie crust is lail by to sour, instead of making few tarts for ten.

 Gold pud'lings are considered good for nothing, when oftentimes they can be steamed for the next day.

 Dish cloths are thrown down where mice can destroy them.

 Vegetables are often thrown away that would warm nicely for breakfast.

 The scrubbing brush is left in water.

 Tubs and barrels are left in the sun to dry and fall apart.

 Nice handled knives are thrown into hot water.

 Silver spoons are used to scrape ket- ties.

 Cream is allowed to mould and spoil.

 Coffee, tea, and pepper and spices art left to stand open and lose their strength.

 The cork is left out of the molasses jug, and the flies take possession.

 Vinegar is drawn in tin basin and allowed to stand until both basin and vinegar are spoiled.
Year: 1871

A city is said to be buried when the letters that compose 1t occur Tn their proper crder in a sentence, but concea ed either as part of some longer word, or, better, as portions of different words. Thus in the sentence, "The best them selves err often," we have buried the city Thebes and the German city Ems.

 very pleasant game Is played by each of party in turn, either writing or speaking short sentence containing one or more buried cities then all try to solve it, and the first one who succeeds counts one on his score. The player who first wins ten, or any other number agreed upon, wins the game.

 Another way is for each to set to work at hurying cities on his own account. Let the group about the center-table take a list of towns in any given country or State, and see which can bury the most, and the most successful lv. A good deal of the art in burying cities consists in having them come in naturally, and in sort of connected narrative. If they are lugged in, the work will -haua an awkward appearanee, and they will be easily discovered. The cities should be generally we'll known, though it will do to have in one TOW and then more ob- scure. We have observed also that occa sionally some province or island will slip in among them. Of course any other names may be substituted instead of those of cities, as, for instance, rivers islands, authors, generals, or even the names of the persons present.

 In the following passage there are buried more than forty cities, and in one place there are to be found not less than seven within the space of eight words

 Others may write in somber lines or to humorous strain, may say their say or keep it to themselves, may write for sale merely, or vie to make their wares the best they can. The nobler mission are we called; worthier we remember never. We selrch for buried cities, owning post-haste the debt our sense historic owes thereto. Over dune raised yesternight, and over heath old as time, To we go to the land august of the far Coliseum or, angels have pity to where wars awful rage, oh art for devils cul- inmates in death. Not by steamer, with crowds that Jam her stingy cabins. The wrath untempered of winds or waves we do not brave. Nicely all on donkeys are we mounted. To cheer us in the morning, music, or in the evening, wha an we quit our work. So from out the deep arise the buried cities-where to be found we give to each guess.
Year: 1871

How TO ENJOY L1FE.-It is wonder full to what an extent people believe happiness depends on not being obliged to labor. Honest, hearty, contented labor is the only source of happiness, as we'll as the only guarantee of life. The gloom or misanthropy is not only 8 great destroyer of happiness we might have, but it tends to destroy life itself likeness and luxury induce premature decay much faster than many trades re- garded as the most exhaustive and fatal to longevity. Labor in general, instead of shortening the term. of life, actually increases it.. It is the lack of occupation that annually destroys so many of the wealthy, who, have nothing to do, play the part of drones, and like them, make a speedy exit, while the busy bee fills out its day in usefulness and honor.
Year: 1871

If only knew How to be bird, I'd fly away so fast As all my strength would

 last, To meet my love again On the wave. If only know How to be Q fish, I'd swim away so fast AS all my stren Sth would

 last, To meet my love again On the wave. If only knew That my lad was dead, would cease to wear white, in gown black as

 night I'd go into mourning For my love beneath the

 wave O'd Poern
Year: 1871

A HEALTHY BEVERAGE writer ill the London Stdndqrd makes the Ameri- cans out to be perfect Borgias. He de- scribes "a most successful mode of dragging in use over the American con tinent, which produces loss of strength and torper, and which, in the case of death resulting, defes the most acute medical analysis" :" He was himself once victim of this drugging. He drank one mouthful oe so-called brandy, and in ten minutes afterward he became gid dy, lost the use of his limbs, and then consciousness, and did not recover for seven hours sufficiently to enable him to work. He subsequently got acquaint- ed with man who had been employed at New York vault to enact the part of a drugger, and this respectable and no doubt reliable individual explained the dragging process. Part of Q bottle of any liquid is decanted and the space filled up by tobacco smoke, expelled from clay pipe, we'll impregnated with nicotine. The bottle is then well

 shaken and filled up again with the DOT ton before taken out It is then left to stand for week or so but if left standing before use for fortnight death will be the result of drinking.
Year: 1871

THE PURITY OF IoE-In addition to the fact that ice is lighter than water, which 'S many nsHep persons 9oD do not r perhaps know, namely, its purity. A lump of ice melted will become distilled water, Water in freezing turns out of it all that is not water-salt, air. coloring matter, and all impurities. Frozen sea water makes fresh water ice. If you freeze a basin Of indigo water, it will make ice as clear and as white as that made of pure rain water. When the cold is very sud den, these foreign matters have no time to escape, either by rising or sinking, and are thus entangled with the ice, do not make any part of it. ..
Year: 1871

Far well, farewell! our intercourse is ended,
Contempt and scorn now claim affections


place;


broken faith can neer, alas. be mendcd-
l curse the day when first saw thy face!
Igavo thee all my willing heart could give thee
a love whose wealth through loholy years had


grown;


Its long-c!oscd portals opened to receive thee,
And made its tenderost, purest throbs thine


own.


God knows It's fearful agony, this waking


TO find, dream-lIhc, lie's one great bliss has


passed;


might have known the Eden love was making,
Was far too bright and beautiful to last.
Had aught foretold that thou wouldst ever turn
From love that hung entranccd on thy breath;
Or that, as now, with loathing should spurn


thee.


would have prayed for madness or for death.
God only knows how true my soul was to thee;
To me love meant n bond while life should be
did not know what now can most undo me
That some can tire of even constancy.
Then fare thee well; love such as mine was
wasted
Upon light and tickle heart like thine;
Twas Fate's stern will loves bliss should but be
tasted
To make more sad this lonely lot of mine.
How often thy mock penitance has moved me,
When studied coldness stung me to rcbel
Would death had smttcn me ere had proved
thee
And found love mot wisely, but too we'll"
GAY GERALD.
Year: 1871

AS there Is much Misrepresentation, |
by means of garbled extracts and other


wise, Of The sayings of JEFF. DAVIS,


in a spec oh at Atlanta, Georgia, recent.
ly, we insert it at length, that every
one may judge for himself what he did |
say:


There are many things which 1 might
say to you to night, my friends, but
which l feel it would be imprudent for |
me to utter. If should speak to you !
of the past should speak of memories
that are sad. If should speak to you
of the present it would be to recount a
tale Of tyranny and wrong that we have
not the power to redress, and under


which, therefore, it is more manly and


noble for US to fold our arms and suffer


with quiet and patient dignity. If


speak of the future, then, am liable


to be misrepresented, and you held re-


sponsible for every speculation that


may chance to utter. But, my friends,


as stand here to. night and look upon


your kindly, honest faces, feel that


there are few plain words that may


be received by you as the expression of


my opinion in regard to the future.


Then, say, despair not Of your lib


erty. / despair not of the triumph of


liberty. believe that truth will live


eternally, and that wrong cannot al


ways endure. When Calico was bound


to the torture-rack for asserting his


theory that the world was globe, and
turned upon its axis, and was there
forced to recant, as soon as the screw


was relaxed he cried out of the deep


and Irresistible convictions of his soul,
But still it moves" And so the great
truths uttered by your fathers still live,
and the principles they enunciated,
and for which they contended, still
move, and will once more be felt, il
you will but be true to the right. Let
no one say that counsel recovery
and an enjoyment of these principles
by the red hand Of battle. l trust that
: l may not be represented upon this
D point. l shall die in the firm faith ant
d belief that the era of true liberty viii
= ere long dawn upon the South If they
e who carried the victorious banner and
d exulted in the strength of their triumph
e could have known, when you came for
n ward and said that you had given VI
st your arms and were now ready to sub
(" nit to the laws of the land, and coulC
j. have understood how true your wore
id was, how high were your principles o
Is honor, it would not have been neces
ie sary to exact harsh pledges and to pas
i'd oppressive laws to bind you. Peaceful


then, you are desirous of being to-day
ss peaceful you have been, peaceful yo
ne are ever. When human patience ha
lg sometimes given way, there are thos
ty who sometimas take the law into thei
,ss own hands, because there is no justic
of to be secured in any other way; br
Int these are mere accidental occasions
ee There is no organization in the South.
he there never was-whose purpose is n
lr- sistance to the government. "a vol
ID =" that's so." Though we are con
We PEELED to submit to the presence
ire power, yet our manhood and our Sc


respect can be preserved. Peace is VIII
Year: 1871

SCHOOL children who read the news
papers are found to be better acquainted
with geography, spelling, and the
meaning of words, grammar, and more
generally intelligent than those who do
not. This is significant but undoubt-
ed fact.
Year: 1871

OF course, all this appliance of wind
mills, water-pipes, tanks and fountains
is possible only in a country where they
have steady winds and no severe frosts,
With us the tanks would burst, the
pipes would have to be deeply buried
in the ground ; and the whole machin-
cry would be continually getting out of
order. Yet could not help seeing that
our common complaint Of rusty and
unpleasing lawns during July and Au-
gust be prevented, on the fine places
near New York, by the help of a wind
mill and a tank, which might be emp
tied in the fall, and housed over


The Californians seem to me to enjoy
all the advantages ofa tropical climate
with but few of its disadvantages
They have about here no malarious fe
Year: 1871

In nine cases out Of ten, says the
Hearth and Home, no mans life will
be q success if he does not bear bur-
dens in his childhood. Il the fond.
ness or vanity Of father or mother
have kept them from hard work if
another always helped him out at the
end of his row if, instead of taking
bis turn at pitching of, he moved
away all the time-in short, if what
was light always fell 10 hin, aud
what was heavy about the same work
to some one else; if he has been per-
mitted to shirk until shirking has
become q habit-unless q miracle is
wrought, his life will be failure, and
the blame will not be half so much
his as that of weak, foolish parents.


On the other hand, if a boy has
been brought up to do bis part, never
allowed to shirk any legitimate rs-
sponsibility, or to dodge work whether
or not it made his back ache, or
soiled his hands-until bearing heavy
burdens became a matter Of pride,
the heavy end Of the wood bis from
ohoice-parents, as they bid him
good bye, may dismiss their fears
His life will not be u business failure.
The elements Of success are his, and
at some time and in some way the
world will recognize his capacity.
Year: 1871

the Democratic orators as bringing the
military power into conflict with free,
dom of elections! They know, if fthey
are honest, that the sole object is to
protect legal voting from being over
come by ilIegalv6tlng-to prevent the
ballot box-the very foundation pillar
Of our nation-fom becoming the mere
instrument of the laWless mob, a mere
machine Of terrible energy, to be ma
nipulatsd by some Hoffman, or some
other New YORK politician equally I'M
scrupulous.


The restoration Of the Democratic
party to power, fhen, is simply a re-
lieying from all restraint and check
that rebelism which has yet shown no
disposition to acquiesce in the results
of the War-tO restore men to power
whose hearts are still burning with
feelings of hatred and revenge against
those patriotic men who defeated theiI
nefariOus schemes Of destroying the
National Constitution and building up
"a sectional Confederacy in its stead,
whose foundation should be perpetual
human slavery. MADISON.
Year: 1871

There is a good story told in Washing
ton about Chinese servant employed by
Admiral Porter, that on reception day the
duty of attending the door was assigned
to All Sin. Accustomed 10 the social
usages of his own land, where visitors
rank is indicated by the size of the card,
and where a huge yellow one meant the
presence of a prince, he treated the little
bits Of pastebosrd with contempt. While
nodding his head and tossing the bits of
paper uuceremoniously in the basket, the
gas collector happens to present his bill.
The long yellow slip took All Sin. With
profound salaams he bowed the astounded
gas man into the presence of the amazed
family.
Year: 1871

What am about to record may surprise
some people; but have always noticed
that in women who have an extremely
small mouth there is seldom observed that
amiableness of disposition and character,
which is 80 frequently found in those who
have handsome mouth of moderate size.
It would seem that too small mouth in
dicates a weakness which degenerates into
afectatiOn. The last mentioned quality
seems TO be so inseparably attached to
smallness Of the mouth, that even those
females who have an ordinary mouth,
when they are going to be affected, always
begin by contracting that psrt.-[Anon.
Year: 1871

Dr. Beecher declares il q real bless
ingtO have one in a family who is SEN
sstive TO the ludicrous. There aFe
enough to T, feet the sad side of life,
and its irritable side, and its sober
side. We need one or more to show
the mirth that often trembles just
below the surface Of painful things
A real impetuOus laugh dissipates
many illusions, sweeps the twilight
out of our insginations, and brings
honest daylight. But it must be real.
No dry, hacking laugh. It should
be spontaneous, outbursting, irreslst-
ible, infectious. We have seen men
fall to laughing who had not the
cause of mirth, but only had caught
the cOntagion of other mems laugh
ing. It is hard not to laugh with
men who are in earnest about it.
Year: 1871

1t IS known that in early life Sam
Houston abandoned a just-wedded
wife and the governorship of Tennes,
see, and for many years lived in vol
untary exile among the Indians. The
reason Of the freak has just been dis
covered. He learned within a few
hours after his marriage that his wifi
did not love him, but had been urged
into the match by an ambitious fami
ly, while loving another man. He a
once left the place and by his subse
quent exile gave the lady right t.
the divorce which she obtained.
Year: 1871

Some fellow writes to the Galaxy
asking if Prof. Agassiz has not said
that fish is good to make brains for
those who write. Mark Twain an
swers that he has, but that he, himself,
would not be able to tell how much
his correspondent ought to have, but
Judging from his last composition he
thinks a fair, middling size whale
would do!
Year: 1871

Life has been called a warfare
Blessed then is the periodical armis,
tice of the Sabbath blessed not mere.
ly as a day of rest, but also as a day
of retrospection. 1t is only in the
pauses of the fight that we can see
how the battle is going.
Year: 1871

Smiles that are given to every body
and everything, are obviously too
cheap to be worth anything. Some
thing Of PERSONS character may be
discovered by observing when and
bow be smiles. Some people never
smile, they merely grin.
Year: 1871

From the St Louis Journal of Commerce.l


We nave repeatedly urged, through the
columns of the Journal of Commerce, the
great Importance of improving our shipping
interests by the erection Of locks or quays
and warehouses along our levee front; but,
like all enterprises of this character, it seems
to require time and agitation to stimulate
the public mind up to that point where
action takes the matter in hand, and pushes
it on to completion.


The question under consideration, how
ever, is possessed of SO much merit thai the
shipping interests, by river can not afford to
do without it; and the various improve
ments that are being made at the leading
shipping points along the Mississippi river,
serve as potent and irresistible proofs, that
ouays and warehouses at st. Louis must
take the place of the present mode OF hand
ling freights on our levee. The completion
of the package elevator, at Vieksburg, by
our energetic townsman, Mr.. Dodge, late
superintendent of the East st. Louis eleva-
tor, is a step in the right direction, andfllus-
trates the fact, that the shippers of produce
and merchandise in the valley of the Mis-
sissippi are alive to their best interests.


The elevator in question is three stories
high, two hundred and thirty-fve feet
water front, fifty feet deep, and will store
three thousand bales of cotton on each





twenty men in loading or unloading is
three thousand packages per hour of mis-
cellaneous freight. One of the largest
boats. belonging to the ST. Louis, Memphis
and Vicksburg Packet Company, can be
loaded or discharged at this elevator, with
the assistance of ten TO twelve hands, in
three hours, while it takes from ten to
twelve hours, with the assistance of from
sixty to one hundred hands, to perform the
same labor at our levee. Here we have a
practical test of the two systems. Could
proof be more decisive and convincing upon
this question than this?


We learn that the commercial and ship
ping men Of Memphis are now beginning
to see wherein their best interests rest; and
Mr.. Dodge expects soon to commence the
erection of a package elevator for that
point. It is gratifying TO be able to make
a note Of these evidences Of progress along
the Mississippi; and trust that st. Louis
will be the next point of active operation in
the direction here indicated.
Year: 1871

This new article, constructed on scientific prln-
ciples, can be seen daily at the grocery of Clark
l. Maeder, corner of Common and Carondelet
streets. 1t is guaranteed to consume not more
than Fifteen Pounds of Ice in twenty y-four hours.
1t is the only kind made not to require the break
ing of the ice and it thoroughly separates the
warm from the cold air. 1t is now recognized as
the only refrigerator in which the contents can be
kept perfectly dry and cold without freezing. Even
matches are kept dry in it for any length of time.
See the Scientific American about FISHERS RE.
FRIGERATOR- ie9 I'm
Year: 1871

The great change Of late years In all systems OF
education has been In accordance with the spirit OF
our times, to substitute the real for the theoretical.
In the great cities of Europe the pupils OF their com.
mon schools enjoy advantages which are wanting
In even our well arranged system. To supply this
deficiency, and to furnish the schools OF New York
with even greater facilities Of becoming ac-
quainted with the works OF the Creator in
all lands, number. Of gentlemen have given
liberal subscriptions for the purchase Of specimens
OF natural history, which are now on exhibition in
the Arsenal building in the Central Park To afford
the students and teachers Of our public schools The
means Of examining the specimens already secured
Parks, and, as win be noticed, endorsed by an
unusually large number Of our prominent citizens,


we learn that the department have agreed
TO the request of the. Trustees VINO are
creased the o., obllga!ion already due to them
ground to every pupil VINO can present certificate
OF good conduct as member OF any one Of our pub.
lie schools New York has always been regarded Inv
those residing outside of her limits az merely al,
emporium for trade, but now q movement has been
commenced which, under such auspices, will tend
In time 10 make our metropolis an emporium Tor
science.