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Year: 1872

The time OF the existence Of the exhibition at the
Academy IS rapidly drawing to an end In fact,
after to-day 1t will gradually disappear from the
general eye. owing to the number OF works TO be
sold 1t will take ve nights to dispose of them by
auction, and the managers have resolved to keep
the exhibition open during the week only, with
drawing the pictures to be sold each day. This Is
the last chance that the public and those in.
tcrested in art will have an opportunity OF seeing
the entire collection, and as 1t Is very remark
able the opportunity of seeing 1t ought not to
be allowed to pass. There are such number of
works that deserve notice that we are compelled
to pass over them almost without mention. We
shall take leave of the collection with regret for 1t
was really peasurable to saunter through the
rooms OF the Academy where even the most fas-
tidious could find somet thing on every hand to ad-
cabinet picture (3o2) by Casanova won a promi.
nent place. It represents the interior OF O guard
room in Rome, where q soldier, who has grown
gray @ IN harness, Is busy trying ga TO thread needle


OF subdued fun. The execution is equal
to the conception, and is marked by minute and
exquisite finish. 1t belongs to the modern Roman
school, and has all its brIancy Of color. one Of
the best pictures in the gallery belongs to this
school. 1t Is from the easel OF Fornarl and Is at
once brilliant and rich In color and admirable in
perspective. Two ladies', In the costume OF the
seventeenth century, are descending the steps;
cavalier Is in the act of kissing the hand OF one
OF the ladies. The scene is quiet and perfectly
natural. There is such All air OF reality about it
that one can almost imagine the figures were in
motion and that 1t would be possible to walk
up the steps. The atmospheric effects arc
also admirable. We wish we had space to dwell at
strong example Of the same school, "Holdily
Councilv 100), by Corrodi-but we are Obliged %
pass over works Of merit by Cortazzo, Castlgllone
Year: 1872

Right Rev. DR.. Gregg, Bishop of
Texas, preached a sermon at New
York church, selecting for his text the
words, " Is it well with the child" tlken
from fourth chapter Second Book of
Kings, XVI. verse. In clear and
forcible style the reverend divine
described the natural affection existing
between the parent and the child-an
affection so strong and enduring that it
ignores all sacrifices, disregards all ad


verse opinions and criticisms, and is
strongest and brightest even in the
presence of shame and disgrace. From
the time that Rachel wept and would
not be comforted because of the loss of
her child down to the present day, in
every race and in every land, it has
been recognized as the tenderest of
loves. and instinctively suggests the idea
of its divine origin. Earth cannot pre-
sent greater picture of desolation than
the afiiction of mother over the loss of
her child. To her mind the universe is
worthless beside the remains of the dead,
and no sacrifice which the imagination


could call up would be too great If its


resuscitation could be procured, Yet


how few mothers prepare their children


for the dread uncertainty. for the terri


BILE trial which follows dissolution. Tc


enable him to meet the struggle OF this


life is her constant solicitude, and in hel


every action she exhibits her purpose


But where does she manifest her anxiety


in regard to his spiritual welfare ? The


worldly minded mothers never endeavol


to influence his course of life with view


to his eternal salvation. They desire
indeed, that he should be regarded b,
men as of good moral character, bu
they fail to educate him in the tru
Christian doctrines which will rende
him acceptable in the sight OF God
They do not consider the words O
Christ, what will it profit man t.
gain the whole world if he lose hi
immortal soul p but in securing bi
: success in life they see the fulfillment
: their maternal obligations. 1t was Ia
: mentable to witness the education G
I the young in our days. 1t was the edu
: cation of the mind, not of the soul
. education TO fit for this life and not to


the next. This was thought tc


virtuous mothers beside which all Other
4 were of no importance. He counselle
J. them to see that the education OF the
i children were based upon Chrlstal
/. foundation, and that no matter VII,
d else was neglected, that this should
e faithfully attended to. Thus would the
| hest serve their children and themselve
Q and fulfill Gods purpose in imposir
h upon them the holy obligation OF m
)" ternlty,
Year: 1872

KEEP STRAIGHT AHEAD.-Pay no at
tention to slanders and gossip mongers.
Keep straight on in your course, and let
their backbiting die the death of neglect.
What is the use of lying awake nights
brooding over the remark of some false
friend, who runs through your brain like
forked lighthing2 What's the use Of get
into worry and fret over gossip that has
been set afoat to your disadvantage, by
some meddlesome busybody, who has
more time than character. These things
can't possibly injure you, unless, indeed
Won take notice of them, and, in combating
them. give them standing and character
If what is said about you is true, sci
Yourself right at once; if it is false, let il
90 for what it will fetch. If bee sting
Won. would you go to the hive and de
stroy itY Would not thousand come
upon yon9 1t is wisdom to say llttl'
respecting the injuries you have received
We are generally losers in the end, II w
stop to refute all the backbitings and gos
sipings we may hear by the way. They ar
annoying, it is true, but not dangerous s.
long as we do not stop to expostulate an
scold. Our characters are formed am
sustained by ourselves, and by our owl
actions and purposes, and not by Others
Let us always bear in mind that "calum
niators may usually be trusted to tim
and the slow but steady justice OF PuDil
! opinion"
Year: 1872

DIR. 5. W. Mitchell, in LipPllooif's
MaguEiss, writes an article about "Phan-
tom Limbs" and thus speaks Of the
sensation Of lost members Of the body,
absent in fact but present in nervous
consciousness:


There is something almost tragieal,
something CHASTITY, in the notion Of these
thousands Of spirit limbs haunting as
many good soldiers, aud every now and
then tormenting them with the disap-
poiDtments which arise when, the men,
ory being Of guard for a moment, the
keen sense Of the limbs presence betrays
the man into some effort, the failure Of
which Of sudden reminds him OF his
loss.


Many persons feel the lost limb as ex-
isting the moment they awaken from the
merciful stupor of the ether given TO de-
stroy the torments OF the knife others
come slowly 10 this consciousness in days
or weeks, and when the wound has
healed; but as n rule the more sound
and servicable the stump, especially If an
artificial limb be worn, the more likely
is the man TO feel family the presence
of his shorn member. Sometime blow
an the stump viii reawaken such con-
sciousness, or, as happened in one case,
a reamputation higher up the limb will
summon it anew into seeming existence.


In many the limb will be recalled by
the man by irritating the nerves in its
stump. Every doctor knows that, when
any part of nerve Is excited by a pinch,
a tap, or by electricity, is an alto
gether harmless means-the pain, If it be
a nerve of feeling, is felt as if it were
really caused in the part to which the
nerve finally passes.


A familiar illustration is met will


when we hurt the "crazy bone" behind


the elbow. This crazy bone is merely


the ulner nerve, which gives sensation


to the third and fourth fingers, and in
which latter parts we feel the numbine


pain of blow on the main nerve. /


we were to divide this nerve below the
elbow the pain would still seem to be in
the fingers. nor would it alter the cast
were the arm cut of.


On one occasion the shoulder was elec
tried three inches above the point wher
/ the arm had been cut off. For two year.
, the man had ceased to be conscious o
the limb. As the current passed, although


ignorant of its possible effects, he starte,
up, crying aloud, "Oh, the hand, th
handw and tried to seize it with the livin


grasp of the sound fingers. As the cur
> rent was broken the lost part faded agai
only to be recalled by the same means
With others it is presence never absen
: save in sleep.
Year: 1872

GROWTH OF CoRALs.-An interesting
fact has recently been observed respect
ing the growth of corals. Somewhat less
than two years ago Captain McGregor,
of the steamer Kilauea, moored buoy
in Kealakekua Bay. Last week he was
ordered to hoist the anchor and examine
the condition of the chain. The latter,
which is heavy two-inch cable, was
covered with corals and oyster shells,
some of which are as large as mans
hand. The larger corals measure four
and hall inches in length, Which repre-
sents their growth during the period OF
two years that the anchor and cable had
been submerged. The specimen which
we have seen shows the nature of its for
nation by the little coral insects more
distinctly than any we have before ex-
amined. When taken out of the water,
it had small crabs on it. A query arises
whether these crabs live on the coral in
sects, or whether they simply seek the
branches of the coral for protection. The
popular supposition Is that corals are OF
extremely slow growth. Here we have
formation equal to more than seventeen
feet in century.-HonQtxIu Gazette.
Year: 1872

LIFE PREsERvERs. - Life preseryers
are worse than useless, unless they are
securely fastened close up under the
arms. If they slip down to the lower or
middle part of the body, they will cause
the head to fall under the water, and
produce instant death by drowning.
MANY of the passengers of the Metts who
were drowned had life-preservers, but
they we're often found to have slipped
down to the hips, or even to be tangled
about the lower limbs.
Year: 1872

So much space is occupied by our full report
n. tle Democratic Convention and Ratification
meeting, that we are unable to comment on it,
a, length, to-day. It will be seen that Greeley
WAS not endorsed by the Convention, nor were
the Electors instructed to vote at their discre-
Year: 1872

Oh, for one hour of youthful joy;


Give back my twentieth spring;
I'd rather laugh bright haired boy,
Than reign q bearded king.
One moment let my life-blood stream
From boyhood's fount of flame!
Give me one giddy reeling dream
OF life, all love and fame.
My listening angel heard the prayer.
And calmly smiling said:
IF but touch thy silvered hair,
Thy hasty wish hath sped.
But is there nothing in thy track,


To bid thee fondly stay,
While the swift seasons hurry back
To find the wished for day?'
All, truest soul CT womankind,


Without thee what were life
One bliss cannot leave behind;
I'll take-my-precious-
The angel took sapphire pen


And wrote in rainbow hue,
1.-The man would be boy again;
And be a husband toor'
=. And is there nothing yet unsaid
Before the change appear?
Remember. all thy gifts have fed
With these dissolying years"
Why, yes; for memory would recall
My fond paternal joys;
l could no. bear to leave them ali
I'll y-girls-and-boys
The smiling angel dropped his pen:
"Why, this will never do;
The man would be boy agaiu,


And be a father too!'
And so laughed-my laughter woke
The household with its noise
wrote my dream when morning broke,
To please the gray-haired boys.
Year: 1872

exchanceable value. Labor is the
talisman that has raised him from the
condition of the savage; that has chang
ed the desert and the forest into cultiva-
ted fields; that has covered the earth
with cities, and ocean with ships; that
has given us plenty, comfort and ele-
ga,ice, instead of want, misery, and
barbarism.


~ We must stand OF fall by our
own actions.


MUTTON THE BEST MEAr.-A great
many tillers of the soil drag out misera-
BILE days, simply because they will per-
sist in eating salt pork, hams and
shoulders in spring and summer,
when dish of good mutton would give
them new life and strength. We mean
to repeat thousand times, or at least
till what we say has some effect upon
our countrymen, that q pound of lean,
tender, juicy mutton can be produced
for half the cost of the same quantity
of fat pork; that it is infinitely healthier
food, especially in the summer season;
and that those who eat it become more
muscular, and can do more work with
gseater ease to themselves, than those
who eat fat pork. We know nothing
II, nEa Ea1 r,arttny,
hams of Southdown breed of sheep.
Tenison itself is not superior. By
smoking portion of the flesh of a
sheep most families can dispose of the
four quarters in an economical manner
before any part of it would spoil.
To KEEP TOMATOES FOR WINTER USE.
"A correspondent sends the Rural Ne,o
Yorher the following: AS the tomato
season is now here, can contribute
one way for keeping them for winter use
that may be new to some of your read
ers. ate them in February, sliced aud
seasoned with sugar and little vinegar,
that seemed every way as nice as toma-
toes fresh picked from the vines. They
were preserved IN the following manner:
Dissolve teacup of salt in a gallon of
water. Pick ripe tomatoes, but not
over ripe, leaving little of the stem on.
The tomatoes must be well covered with
the brine, and they will keep till spring
OF over.


To TEST EGGs.-The following comes
from a housewife; of course in itself it
is nothing new: Put the tip of your
tongue to the broad end. This end is
always warm, compared with the point
ed end If it feels cold. the egg is un-
mistakably bad.


- If your potatoes are watery, put
a piece of lime about as large as ahen's
egg in the pot, and boil with them, and
they will come out as mealy as you
please. So says an exchange.
q Much hay is saved by foddering
with pine boards, said one; aye, true
as pine boards keep out the cold, which
would otherwise have to be expelled
or provided against with grain and hay.
Keep stock warm, but not too warm, is
our advice; also provide for ventilation,
both for stables and sitting rooms.
Year: 1872

Bread.-Bread again? Yes, bread
again-for can a subject of such vital
interest be discussed too often? No
mistress of a house, nay, no woman in
whatever sphere, ought to feel herself
thoroughly educated for the conduct of
life who can notat least superintend the
process of bread-making in such style as
to produce the resultant of fair and
fiaky loaf with which to grace the family
board. With the following recipes, pre-
viously tried by her own hands, house
keeper has, in the course of one year,
successfully taught five raw, untutoted
servants how to make beautiful breed.
One of the cooks thus taught is at pres
ent the pride and treasure of a large
boarding establishment.


Yeast.-Take large handful of home
gathered hops, or two-inch square OF
the pressed article of commerce. and
boil it to a strong tea. At the same
time put into another kettled eight large
peeled Irish potatoes, or enough small
ones to make one quart when done
boil these rapidly, and when sufficiently
tender, mash up fine, of course taking
them out of the water in which they
were boiled; to the potatoes add half
pint of sifted meal, half pint of flour
one gill of sugar, and one gill of salt
Over these ingredients pour the hoptea
Year: 1872

return the whole mixture to the kettle,
and let it come to a good boil. Pour
the yeast now into large tin bucket or
earthenware jar, provided with a close
fit ing cover. If wanted quickly, pour
in cupful of old yeast, and set it in
warm place to ferment. If no such
haste is needful, fermentation will follow
of itself in longer or shorter time, as
the state of the temperature must de-
eide. When well risen, pour the yeast
into carefully cleansed bottles, which
only half fill, and cork tightly. This
yeast will keep sweet and good two
weeks in summer, and as long as it
lasts in winter.


Light Bread, or Risen Biscuit.-For an
eight o'clock breakfast make a sponge
thus: The day before, at eleven o'clock
a. m. in winter, or at three p. m. in
summer two large Irish potatoes, boiled
and mashed fine, Lwo tablespoonfuls of
-four, and two tablespoonfuls of fine
brown or coarse white sugar !; mix
smoothly with one pint of boiling water.
When cold, add five tablespoonfuls, or
one gill, of good yeast. Make up your
bread with this sponge, in winter, at
four o'clock in the afternoon, with two
and half quarts of -four, two eggs, well
beaten, and one spoonful of lard and
butter mixed. If simple bread is pre-
ferred, the eggs, butter, and lard may
be omitted. Put the bread to rise in a
moderately warm place, in a vessel
covered, but large enough to admit of
swelling. In the morning work well at
halfpast five o'clock, set it to rise for
for one hour, and then bake one hour
in regularly heated oven.


M,s6fns.-The incest mullins are made
in this simple fashion: Early in the
morning take off piece of light bread
| dough, say what has been made from
one quart of -four, for a family of eight
persons. Thin this to the consistency
of batter by the addition of sweet milk.
After beating it till smooth, let it rise
| all together for an hour then on deli
cately creased griddle drop the batter
from a spoon, and so soon as lightly
Drowned on one side, turn on the other.
To be served up hot, and torn open
instead of cut with knife.


Chaney's Thin Biscuits, or Notions. Take
one pint of -four and make into dough,
as soft as can be rolled, with sweet milk,
a salt-spoonful of salt, two ounces of
butter, and two ounces of lard. Roll
out with the bread-pin into round cakes
nine inches in diameter, and of wafer
like thickness. Stick well with fork.
In baking, do not allow them to brown,
but remove from the oven while they
retain their whiteness, yet are crisp, and
will melt in the mouth.
Year: 1872

There was a doll bride and doll
bridegroom, and dozen or fifteen little
girls in the neighborhood were invited
to bring their dolls to the wedding. So
they came along, some of the dolls be-
ing brought in the girls arms, and
some, more stylish. coming in carriage
without any horses. Though the weather
was cold, the carriage had no blankets
or fur robes to cover the dolls, which
was certainly great oversight on the
part of somebody. However, they all
reached the place in safety, and we be-
lieve none of the dolls took cold.


The bride was a tall, styGsh-looking
doll, made of wax. Her dress was of
white Swiss muslin. She had a satin
sash, long veil, and wreath of flow
ers on her head, and held lace hand
kerchief in her hand. AS she was not
able to stand alone, there was a stick
behind her which held her up, and her
feet were fastened to thin, fiat piece
of wood. With these helps, she man.
aged to stand up pretty we'll, though
some thought she looked little stiff.
Perhaps she was proud of being bride.


The bridegroom had once been rather
nice-Iooking young man, but his face
showed signs of bad usage. In fact, he
looked little dissipated, which is bad
thing for any young man, especially for
bridegroom. He couldn't stand up
straight, and part of the time was ac-
tuaIly living on the floor in one corner
Of the room. He had on a black velvet
Jacket and trowsers, with gilt buttons.
He also had little shirt, and pair of
shoes; but as one of his feet came off
before the party ended, he only needed
one shoe. The bride didn't seem to
care much for him, nor did he appear
to care much for himself. That's the
way it is sometimes.


The invited guests-that is, the dolls
who came to the party-were variously
| dressed. One had on blue silk dress,
| with white lace overskirt, looped up
with rosebuds. She had a watch and
chain, a bracelet, necklace, and car
ried a lace handkerchief The dress OF
another was trimmed with white lace
and blue velvet. Another had on red
| merino dress, and a white apron. Still
another had white Swiss dress, trim
med with red silk. She had string of
| beads around her neck. One baby doll
had white long-clothes, and a red sack,
with a veil and wreath. There was one
unfortunate doll in the party that had
at some time met with one of those ac-
cidents which will occasionally happen
| to dolls She was a sister to the bride,
and had once been very beautiful; but,
sad to say, her face one day got smashed,
SO that eyes and nose and mouth all
went to pieces, leaving only the back of
the head. Now, such an accident, hap
pening to child, would have killed it
dead right on the spot; but it didn't
kill the doll deadl The doll doctor
made a new face for it out of bit OF
white muslin, and made new eyes, nose
and mouth with black ink, and the doll
never knew the difference


The little girls had fine time play
ing with their dolls and with each other.
They had a nice supper, and all went


home happy. None of the dolls got


sick from eating too much. How it was


with the children, we don't know.
Year: 1872

The Golden Rule was long since read
out of politics, but seems to be nowhere
so thoroughly ignored as in Texas. A
week or so ago, a Democratic paper in
that State had its Office completely de-
st1oyed by fire. The editor of its Re-
publican rival is evidently a new conner.
Not understanding the approved Texan
method of conducting political combats,
he offered the burned out journalists
the free use of his presses, type, etc.
The offer was accepted, and there was
no interruption in the publication of
either periodical. The man of generos-
ity soon realized vividly that virtue is
its own land only reward. From the
whole Republican press of the State
there arose howl of reproach for his
violation of the great Texan maxim,
Never to give aid and comfort to fallen
foe. He was denounced as a traitor,
and was threatened with being read out
of the party; but he maintains his po.
sition manfully, and shows no sign Of
backing down before the illjudged zeal
of his accusers.
Year: 1872

Each player must be provided with
pencil and paper. Let one of the party
read aloud, distinctly, and not very fast,
and, as he or she reads, let the rest
each make dot for every word read.
"Easy enough to do that"-is it? Try.
Probably at the first trial not one of ten
bows or girls will succeed in following a
moderate reader accurately, even for a
single page. When the page is read,
count the words, and then let each
player count his dots, and see who has
been accurately up to "time."
Year: 1872

Nothing drearier can be imagined
than these log huts, with roof of
boards and often but a single window
which seem dropped without the least
order upon the bare plain. Though
sometimes miles from any town, they
had often no apparent shop O any kind,
nor street, nor winding path, nor tree,
nor shrub, nor window flower to relieve
the hard monotony. The poorest High
land shieling has its gorse and heather
and its mountain setting; for the Irish
cot there is the little garden and the
encirclng green; over the mud hut OF
the Egyptian the palna waves its plumes;
but neither nature or art cheers these
mean abodes which subserve only the
rudest necessities of existence. Enter
them, and you see but few clumsy ar
ticles of furniture of the PEASANTS own
manufacture, with nothing to raise the
thoughts above groveling cares but the
little picture of the Madonna, or some
patron saint, hung high in the farthest
corner of the room, before which lamp
is suspended, and kept, if possible, al
ways burning, and to which all the
events of the humble household are
made known. Yet as the prison cap,
tive finds world of delight in the un.
folding of the tiny flower or the weav
ing of a spiders web, so, doubtless
| even here the loving human heart sees
much to make life sweet and desirable
"A Russian Journey, By Edna Dean Proc
tor.