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Year: 1872

RELICS OF GIANTs.-They have found
traces Of a race of giants who dwelt in
Canada in some prehistoric age. Some
people digging in a field at Cayuga have
unearthed about two hundred gigantic
skeletons, some of which are said to be
more than nine feet in length. With
them are buried a variety of stone i'm
plements and ornaments. If we can be-
lieve all the reports that come to Us from
time to time, evidences are frequently
found of huge race of people who occu-
pied this continent, or some portions of
it in times long past. Why do not the
sages of Cayuga and other localities ia
vored with these giant grave-yards put
their heads together and reconstruct the
history of these American Titans just
as Prof. Agassiz will restore species of
fish from few fossil scales and frag-
ments of bones? 1t would be congenial
work for them, and interesting to the
rest of mankind. We are assured that
there were giants in those days" when
ever ''those days were, and would be
glad to know more about them N H.
Mechanic.
Year: 1872

The idea of respectable employment, "
is the rock upon which thousands slip
and shipwreck themselves, and all who
depend upon them. All employments
are respectable that bring honest gains.
The laborer who is willing to turn his
hand to anything, is as respectable as
the clerk or store-tender. Indeed, the
man who is willing to work whenever
work offers, whatever it may be, rather
than lie idle and beg, is far more respect
able than he one who turns up his nose
at hard labor; worries friends with his
complaints because he has nothing to do,
pockets their, ,benefactions without thank
fulness, and goes on from day to day,
useless lazy grumbler.
Year: 1872

A NEEDLESS EXPERIMENTAL face
tious individual not many miles from
Danbury, Conn, sought to draw his
wife OUT by pretending to be found
dead with an empty laudanum vial by
his side. And that lady was a good
deal shocked at first, but having read
that a needle introduced into the human
flesh would indicate on its surface wheth-
er that flesh was dead, and being wo-
man of eminent practicability, she at once
armed herself with a polished instrument
of nearly two inches growth, and with
throbbing heart and bated breath intro
duced good share of its length into an
appropriate portion of the deceased
What the surface of the needle really in
dieated was not learned, as he took it
with him as he passed through the sash.
Year: 1872

The annual report of the Patent Office
has been laid before Congress There
were last year granted thirteen thousand
and thirty three patents, out of nineteen
thousand seven hundred and forty two
applications therefore only five hundred
of the number going to foreigners. The
office paid into the Treasury more than
one hundred and sixteen thousand dol
lars, after defraying expenses. The
American system of patents is better
than the English, inasmuch as it not
only pays the government handsomely
but saves something to the patentees.
Year: 1872

HOME SUNsHINE.-Many a child goes
astray, not because there is want of
prayer at home, but simply because
home lacks sunshine. A child needs
smiles as much as flowers need sunbeams.
Children look little beyond the present
moment. If thing pleases, they are
apt to seek it ; if it displeases, they are
prone to avoid it If home is the place
where faces are sour and words harsh,
and fault-fnding is ever in the ascend
ant, they will spend as many hours as
possible elsewhere. Let every father
and mother then try to be happy. Let
them talk to their children, especially
to the little ones, in such way as to
make them happy.
Year: 1872

CHANGING THE GAUGE OF THROUGH
CARs.-It is said that the new sleeping
coaches of the Erie Railway Company,
which will soon be put on the road, will
run to Chicago without change, notwith-
standing the great difference in the
guages of the roads over which they are
to run. Over the Erie road they will of
course run on wheels of six-foot gauge.
At Buffalo the cars will run under a
hoisting machine. which will lift the
cars from the broad guage track. Should
this newest thing in railroading prove
successful, it will relieve the public
from many annoyances from varying
railroad guages, of which there are five,
including the marrow gauge" in the
country. The attempt some years ago to
make car wheels movable on their axles,
so as to accommodate different gauges, it
was thought at the time would fill the
requirement, but it has not been tried to
any great extent on passenger cars, but
has to some extent ON freight cars, the
shifting being done by running the cars
upon gradually converging or diverging
tracks until the narrow or broader gauge
is reached Then the wheels are again
| locked.
Year: 1872

A sad story comes from England. A
ruined merchant went to the South Af-
rican diamond. fields; gathered, as he
thought, untold treasures sold just
enough to pay his passage home then
tried to dispose of the others; found


they were worthless pebbles went mad,
and is now in the lunatic asylum. AS
an afterpiece to this comes the story
that Birmingham is sending sham dia-
monds in large quantities to the Cape Of
Good Hope, and that they are there Ell
ther sold to confding simpletons, ol
used to doctor piece of land. so that
it may bring fancy price in the market
Year: 1872

EVERY MIND HAS ITS SPECIAL CAPACI~
TY.-I am of the opinion that every mind
that comes into the world has its own
specialty-is different from every other
mind; that each of you bring into the
world a certain bias, a disposition to at
tempt something of its own. something
of your own-an aim a little different
from that of any of your companions,
and that every young man and every
Young woman is failure so long as
each does not find what is his or her own
bias that just so long as you are infu-
enced by those around you, so long as
you are attempting to do those things
which you see others do well instead of
doing that thing which you can do well,
you are so far wrong, so far failing of
your own mark. Everybody sees the
difference in children. They very early
discover their tastes One has a taste
for going abroad, another for staying at
home one for books, another for games !;
one wishes to hear stories, another wants
to see things done; one is fond of draw
ing. the other cannot draW at all. DuG
he can make machine This differ
ence, as you advance, becomes more pro-
nounced. You are more distinct in
your conception OF what you can do
more decided in avoiding things which
you cannot and do not wish to do
Now conceive that success is in finding
what it is that you yourself really want,
and pursuing it; freeing yourself from
all opportunities of your friends to do
something which you like, and insisting
upon that thing which you like and can
] do.-Emerson
Year: 1872

INGRATITUDE.-It is an old saying
that if you do a man nineteen favors,
and for any reason decline to do him
the twentieth. he will forget the nine
teen requests you have granted, and on
ly remember the one that you have re-
fused-and for that refusal he will hate
you forever afterward.
Year: 1872

Take care of the moments, and the
hours will take care of themselves" is
an old proverb full of meaning aud i'm
portance. Moments are like the golden
seeds which, when gathered. constitute
the wealth of an individual or nation.
The hour, the day, the year. and life it
self are made up of moments. and how
many of these are wasted We should
not think of wasting whole, months, OF
years, at once, but we spend the feeting
moments until months and years are
consumed. The moments wasted by
majority of the ignorant, might have
made them wise; and many who are
poor and worthless in society, might
have had competence and occupied posi-
tions of influence, had they devoted these
moments to e,.Ah-~- >..I,>'s.e


And hoac feeting are the moments of
life. How soon are happy children hur-
ried on through youth and manhood to
old age; and how many of the aged do
we hear mourning over wasted time.
We hear them say 'Our life-work has
not been what we intended. In youth
We were impatient to hasten on; in the
distant future we expected to accomplish
great things for ourselves and for the
world. But the fields which we saw in
the distance, ALREADY white for the har-
vest, have not been entered, and it is
now too late to realize our dreams And
why this failure and disappointment
1t is obvious that they were careless of
feeting moments had forgotten that
''drops of water make the mighty ocean,"
If we would accomplish great things we
must have proper regard to the small.
Newton-revealed to the world the law of
gravitation, by attention to the single
fact that an apple fell from its tree.
Let US then, heed this lesson, and en-
ploy wisely, the moments of our life
with the assurance that they will bring
to us wisdom, wealth, usefulness and
happiness.
Year: 1872

Oh! Heaven grant that I may never be
called to witness the dreadful reality of
such death again.


Dear Father, every year just about
Christmas, he took his .-annual spree, as
he called it, and what a cloud rested over
our otherwise peaceful home, when papa
was under the influence of king alcohol.
In his sober moments there was never a
more kind and indulgent husband and
father, but let MIN once taste the fatal
cup, all that was good, all that was noble
and manly fed, and he was turned into
demon.


He was taken violently i'll of compress
sion of the brain, and his friends whisper
ed whisky. No sooner had the word
been spoken, than he commenced 20 rave
for the cursed drink. The doctor said he
would die at any rate, and to give 1t to
him. 1t was procured for him. and all
the fends of hell seemed torturing him
with that horrible thirst; and oh, how
dreadful it was to hear his rawlings.


whisky whisky!! great God, give
me whisky 2 Thus it was for two days
On the morning of the third we knew
t0at 0eaIl was vel HOol. LIZ Ns'AANN "
water, but he said when he got it, 1t wa
too strong. Oh, how piteously he walled
for one drop of cold water. At last, after
tossing in the greatest agony, he sprung
up in the bed and groaned, Pm dying
Mother, Mother. clasp your arms arount
me. Oh cannot die. Come with n'
mother, it is SO dark, dark Ny mOthe
clasped her arms around him, and for
momen. he was calm. Then the mos
horrible oaths burst from his stiifening lips
and after three hours of the most intens
agony, he expired. But oh will never
never get the dreadful sight from M,
ewes? To see the dearest one on earth t
me. taken from me without any ray O
hope, and | made vow as L knelt at tha
bed of death never to give other than I
glass of cold water to any young man. an'
to do all in my power to induce all M
gentlemen friends to sign the pledge
And oh, my young friend, the cause
all this sorrow came from taklnw just ''on
glass of beer Young ladies, never offe
with YOUR white hand and winning smiles
tue fatal glass of wine; you know nc
how much misery it may cause and 20
not know what it may lead 30.
Year: 1872

Sometimes lightning produces complete
and instantaneous paralysis. The sup
preston of the movement In the victim
in these circumstances is so rapid that
those who have witnessed it might have
thought they suffered from some illusion.
Who would not think he was dreaming II
he saw an unfortunate creature, full OF
life and activity, petrihed motionless as a
rock in less time than it required to witness
the phenomenon Jerome Garden relates
that eight reapers, who were eating the,r
dinner under an oak tree, were all struck
by the same fash of lightning, the e12lo-
sion of which was heard faraway. When
some people passing by approached to see
what had happened, they fonnd the reap
ers, to all appearance, continuing their re-
past i: one still held his glass IN his hand
another was IN the act of putting a piece
of bread into his mouth. a third had hi'
nand in the dish. Death had come upon
them suddenly while in these positions
when the thunder-bolt fell. Azeral had
seized upon them with SO much violence
that he had impressed upon the entire
surface of their bodies the mournful TIM
of his black wings. One might have
taken then for statues scniptnred out o
black marble. The catastrophe was 81
rapid that the faces of the victims had no
had time to take any expression OF PAIN
I life was suppressed so lnstantaneousiy ina
| the muscles remained uDmoved- In
eyes and the mouth were open as IN iife


and had not the color of the skin been S


much changed the illusion would haV


been complete. 1t has been remarke


also that the features of persons struck D
lightning, instead of being contracted


usually assume calm. happy expression


and the conclusion has been drawn thu


thew enter without shock or pain into IL


presence of the Infinite Being. 1t hi


even been assumed that death by light


ing is the prelude of glory and happ


ness.-HdrpcrS' Weekly.
Year: 1872

40 mother mine God grant meier forget
Whatever be my grief or what my Joy,
The unmeasured uneXtingui5haole dcDt
/ owe, thy love, but find my sweet employ,
Ever through my remaining years 60 De
10 thee as faithful as thou vast TO me-


Mother! What tender thoughts come
back to us at the mention of that loved
nane-wlat hailowed memories rise be-
fore us upon the wings of fond recollection.
The youth and beauty of her form and
face may have faded her hair may be
white, and her features married and fur
rowed by the touch of time, yet, IN her
heart, there dwell the same tender love
and affection for US that guarded us IN our
helpless infancy, and watched over US In
guileless youth. The love of mother is
as constant as natures laws. 1t goes
with us through all our hours of darkness
and of gloom. Though adversely over
take us, and we falter and fall by the way,
she is ever ready to lift us to our feet again,
and to Gil our souls with words of hope
and encouragement to forgive our errors
and imperfections, and take US to her
heart again. A mothers love for her
child is no impulsfye passion-it Is the
most, unseIfsh attribute of feminine SOUL
and it is as Interchangeable as eternity.


When In the future, her earthly presence
may be gone, from us: when we miss her
tenderness and care: when our forms begin
to stoop and our steps to falter, her IN
fueuce shall move our hearts even then


to nobler impulses and better purposes, as


we linger on the invisible boundary that


lies between the present and the here
| aftor
Year: 1872

The eccentric III. H. Breekinridge, one
of the Judges of the Supreme Court OF
Pennsylvania, when a young man, was
challenged to fight duel by an English
officer, whom he answered as follows:


81 have two objections to this duel
matter-the one lest / should hurt you.
and the other lest you should me. / do
not see what good it would be to put a
ball through your body. j can make no
use of YOU when you are dead for any or
binary purpose, as would rabbit OF
turkey. am no cannibal, to eat the
flesh of men. Why, then, shoot down
human creature, of whom | could make
no use? A buffalo would be better meat
for, though your flesh might be young anc
tender. vet it wants the firmness which
will take and retain salt At any crate
it would not do for long sea voyage.


ssYou might make good ba rbecue, Il
is true, being of the nature of raccoor
or opossum; bat people are not IN the
habit of barbecuing anything that IS hu'
man now. As to your hide, is not wortf
taking of, being little better than two
year old calf.


so much for you. As for myself, l d'
not like to stand in the way of anything
hurtful. / am under the impression tha
you might hurt me. Ttis being the case
/ think it the most advisable to stay at
distance. If you meant to try your pls
tols take tree or a barn about my dI
mansions. Ifyou hit that, send me word
and 1 viii acknowledge that if l had beel
in the same place. you might have hi
mo ,,
Year: 1872

believed and leaning on his arm, Il fear
no evil Do not blame me for keeping
even all this from yon. How could 1
subject you, of all Others, to such sorrow
as feel at parting. when time would soon
make it apparent to youi / could have
wished to live if only to be at your side
when your time shall come, and pillowing
your head upon my breast, wipe the death
damp from your brow, and usher your de-
parting spirit into its Makers presence
embalmed in woman's holiest prayer.
But it is not to be. and submit. Yours
is the privilege of watching through long
and weary nights, for the spirits final
fight, and transferring my sinking hea d
from your breast to my Saviour's bosom
And you shall share my last thought, and
the last faint pressure of the hand, and
the last feeble kiss shall be yours, and
even when flesh and heart shall have fail
ed me, my eyes shall gaze on yours until
glazed By death; and our spirits shall
hold one last communion until gently
fading from yiew-the last of earth-you
shall mingle with the FIRST bright glimpses
of the unfading glories of the better
world where parting is unknown.


Well do know the spot, dear George
where you will lay me; often have stood
by the place, as we watched the mellow
sunset, as it glanced in quivering flashes
through the leaves and FURNISHED gold


each, perhaps, has thought that some on'
of US would come alone, and which eve
it might be, your name would be on tn,
stone But we loved the spot. and
know YOU will love it none the less whei
you see the quiet sunlight linger and pia.
over your Mary's grave. 1 know yoi
will 90 there, AMI my spirit will be witt
you then, and whisper among the waving
branches, L am not lost but gone before.
Year: 1872

Home is the sphere of woman's lnfiu-
enca-the temple I'm which she worships
With the zeal of her nature, and the fervor
inspired BY the beautiful image that fits
across her brain, when occupied IN the
cheerful performance of heraiiotted duties
It is a place where like divinity. she Is
bedged round by all that is calculated to
make life flow on to placid end, equabie
and happy. 1t is her hope, her joys and
IN rule it well, one of the highest objects
of existence. To her is given the an
swer to the pathetic question
.sTeU me on what holy ground


Nav domestic peace be found:


And her sweet reply is


..Ina cottage vale she dwells:


Listening 10 the Sabbath bells.


This noble destiny, in which love and
honor at her command, are BLENDED IKE
sunbeams in cloudless sky, Is one Which,
cannot be priced too highly by either man
or woman for. as they stand and fall to


oather. 80 should they learn that thell
denendence is mutual, and their RESPONSE
, b;i;t;es in measure and value alike. Bu
the charge of bone is more especially com
mitted to the keeEing of woman, and up


on her mental and moral capacity as
r wife depends the happiness OF herself an
: All by whom she may be surrounded. 1
: the household it is permitted to her to b
0 a bright planet, around which lesser an


larreT satallites move, to the music {


thai divine harmony which cortrols til


most latent fibres of the human hear


Adverse circumstances 1T is true, may ste
I, in and strive to darken the scene; b'
a there is always an angel shining within
S. when the wife knows how to dispense n
le native goodness, and prove to all tha
IS whether in prosperity or adversely, 1t
3 from her


THAT bosom spring of rapture nows.
r xvh,cb only virtue tranquil virtue, know
Year: 1872


BE not swift to take offense


Let it pass
Anger is foeto sense


Let it pass
Brood not darkly DER wrong =.
Which viii disappear ere long,;
Rather sing this cheery song,


Let it pass ! Let it pass
Echo not an angry word;


Let it pass
Think how oft you have erred;


Let il passi
Since our joys must pass away
Like the dew-drops on the spray,
Wherefore should lour SORROWS stay?
Let them pass. Let them pass.
If for good you've taken Ill,


Let it passi
Oh be kind and gentle still


Let it pass
Time at last makes all things straight
Let us not resent, but wait,
And our triumph shall be great;


Let it pass! Let it pass.
Year: 1872

THE TRUE MAN.-Nine-tcnths of the
alleged inhumanity OF mankind is owing
to their being deceived. If people are
sure. of an accident of calamity, crowds
hasten to relieve it. By veracity we charm
in conversation by sincerity We influence
opinion; by trustworthiness we render
friends loving and secure, add to the
general confidence of men IN men, and by
thus strengthening the foundation OF socfe-
ty, acquire the right to an analogous per-
soual sense of worth and 6rmness- Truth
gives a snese of securenesS to the feebles'
man, lying dose of insecurity to the
strongest.
Year: 1872

THERE is bnt breath of air and
beat of the heart betwixt this world and
the next. And in the brief interval OF
painful and awful suspense, while we feel
that death is present with us, and we are
powerless and he all-powerful, and the
last pulsation here, is but the prelude OF
endless life hereafter we feel in the midst
of the stunning calamity about to betall
us. ia It earth has no eompensating good to
mitigate the severity of our loss. But
there is no grief without some benehcent
provision to soften its intenseness. When
the good and lovely die, the memory OF
their deeds, like the moonbeams on the
stormy sea. light our darkened hearts, and
lend to the surrounding.gloom beauty
SO sad, SO sweet. that we would not, If we
could, dispel the darkness that environs
tit.-P1,cntice.
Year: 1872

Coon hunor IS the clear blue sky OF
the soul on which every star:.of talent Will
shine more clearly, and the sun of genius
encounter no vapors in his passage. 1t Il
the most exquisite beauty of a fine face
a redeemiug grace in homely one. IL
Is like green in a landscape, harmonious
in every color, mellowing the light. soften
ing the hues of the dark, or like lutte II
| a full concert Of instruments, soune
not at first discovered by the ear, yet al
ling up the breaksin the concord with 1t
deep melody.
Year: 1872

There is no anniversary whose coming is
productive of more beautiful thoughts and
kind and tender feelings, than the annual
custom of decorating the graves OF our
fallen braves. Above their silentremalns,
the north and south meet with bowed
heads in brotherly unity, while the lnylsl
BILE angel of peace hovers over them and
smiles c heavenly benediction. Those
lowly mounds. silent thoug b not forgotten
are the binding links that in the hereafter
shall hold our Union together. Ihe1
quiet influence will silence dissention and
bring the turbulent spirit to rest, when


sIIn the silences Of sorrowful hours


The desolate mourners go


Lovingly laden with flowers


Alike for the friend and the foe


Under the sod and. 1.-the dew


Waiting the Judgment day


Under the roses the blue,


Under the lilies the gray.
Year: 1872

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Year: 1872

CONCERT TOMORROW NIGHT.-The vocal
class of Mrs. Belle Fox's institute give a
concert at the Methodist Church tomorrow
night. They will be assisted by good mtsi-
cal talent. The programme is an attractive
one The object OF the concert is a righteous
one, and we trust to sec a large attendance.
Year: 1872

From the Farmers Union.


THE WHEAT CRoP.-During a residence
in Minnesota of twenty-thrce years we have
never known, at this season of the year, the
wheat crop so promising as it is at this
time. Good old mother earth is loaded
with the good things of the world in this
State. Should the balance of the season
prove as favorable, we shall undoubtedly
have much the largest crop of wheat ever
raised i'll the State. OF course there are
contingencies to be met, such as hail storms,
rust and a wet harvest. Ofthe latter there
is not much danger, if we judge the future
by the past, because we usually have line
weather during the harvest season.