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Year: 1871

The LUXURY OF LoAFING.-Idleness, pure
and unmixed, is one of the greatest luxuries of
human life. 1t is also luxury peculiarly APP
proprate to the holiday season. On the same
principle. | am very much in favor of lying
in bed late of morning. Theoretically hold
the latitudinarian principle, but practically
am a tolerably early riser. The more sleep
you give the brain, the better quality does the
brain become, and the better is the energy and
harmonious play of the whole system. Sleep
Us much as you can, and, in consequence, as
late as you can, but never lie in bed after you
AZ Q awake, ''thnking," as you are sometimes
pleased to term it. 1t is all a mistake. 1t is
the worst kind of debauch as bad as dram
taking do not believe that there is any real
quality of thought in such morning reveries.
similarly of the delights of idleness, the
pleasures of the castle of Incidence, some
Qualifying language must be used. | know of
nc greater pleasure than to saunter about for
whole day with ones hands in oue's pockets,
and with steady determination to think, wait,
and do nothing at all. In order to do this with
proper effect. man ought to be on tolerably
good terms with his own conscience other
wise some dark influences will begin to brew
iisquiet in his mind. But this idleness is
irst-rate clarifying process. Without any
settled, studious efforts of the mind, the sub
iccts that had troubled YOU will begin to take
shape and form. All kinds of matters, which
had been waiting for quiet hour of delibera-
ton, will gradually, and almost without a con-
srious effort, be satisfactorily disposed OF.
Moreover, your idle day, to be perfectly idle
and happy, must not be haunted by the cor
rodng recollection that there is something to
0e done. Such idle days are as rare as happy
days, of which the Caliph could only score up
eleven and ;t may be that the happy day and
the idle day are synonymous. l know of no
greater luxury than to wake up in the morn
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nine. l always calculate on feeling of in
tense vitality for that day, and an extra
amount of my very limited power of doing and
enduring ng.-Erchange,
Year: 1871




The game ct memory as practiced by the
0jibways and northern n ans has been found
profitable in schools, both rrecreaton and i'm
provement, as branch . object teaching.


The Indian chief or tsacher, in his rude
way, has from twenty u fifty, or more sticks,
cut, made sharp or poilited at the larger end,
and split at the top an inch or two. These
sticks are then planted around in circle, a
short distance from each other; then various
specimens of different substances "a single
specimen on each sticKat the top are distri5u-
ted around the ciIeIe, in order beginning on
the right hand Of teacher, and proceeding
around in the of6eS Numbers one, two, three,
etc.


The Indians. or ciass, are then allowed to 90
around the cir&le slowly and take strict and
scrutinizings3ook at each specimen in the or
der of the numbers, one, two, three, and thus
around the circle. This is done silently. The
sticks, or sRecimens, are then removed and
placed by tbe teacher, sand then the class, on
going around second time each one in order
is to tell the teacher, as far as possible without
mistake, what specimen, is contained in stick
number one, two, thsee, four, fve and so on
around the whole circle, if possible.


With the Indians the first specimen will
probably be birch bark to make canoes, the
second little tobacco, the third the fur of
beaver, the fourth bit of calico, the fifth a
feather of peculiar bird, the sixth the bone of





= the different stic.ss t1snted around the cir
Gle. The one who can repeat without mistake
up to the highest number receives the premi-
um or reward. The consequence is, the percep-
tive faculties are called into exercise, and each
individual will soon learn to discriminate so
sharply that they will be able to track a wolf
over dry leaves in the forest as we'll as a white
man can track the same animal in the snow.


You will ask, how they can do it? l reply
that they do it very readily by observation
and sharp inspection, by first noticing leaf
with holes in it, the middle hole, or holes, a
trile larger and in advance Of the other hole,
or holes, near the central holes The two holes
they know, by observation were by the toes
of the wolf, and they Immediately stick
down a leaf by the first leaf thus Marked
By these sticks in row they find the
course the wolf was travelling, and follow on
till they find were the animal drank at spring
perhaps, soon discover his den among rocks or
caves near by.


BY this mode of sharp inspection they be-
come acquainted with the habits of all the
wild animals, and also gain knowledge of the
different plants and trees, and turn the knoll
edge to good account for their individual well
fare. The writer has known a scholar, by
practicng this exercise, who was enabled to
memorze long lesson for Bible class, and
at the recitation, without the book, repeat it
backward as well as forward or give any par
ticuar verse called for; and hetrusts that may be
made available in our common schools as re
creative and profitable branch of object teach
ing Western Educational ReUie1C.
Year: 1871

the purity which they excite in the minds of the
pure but steady conviction of their in telectual
equality with men, and with this deep sense of


their social injuries Throughout life he SO in
variably sustained their cause that no indulgent
lbe,tine dared to hatter and humor, no skeptic
secure in the possession of power, dared to scoff
at the claims of women in the presence of Mar
shall, who, made clear-sigbted by his purity,
knew dhe sex far better than ether''
Year: 1871

rs This is the free love formula ofmarriage
ceremonies ave promise to love each other,
and live in some brown-stone front till we are
tired of each other and see some one we like
better"
Year: 1871

In Iowa resides James I. Anderson, aged 25.
Three years ago he died from his neck down
ward. His head, however, is alive and more
vigorous and active than before the body which
it once governed ceased to be vital. At the age
of two, James's father died, and his mother
soon married again. At the age of three he
was tossed several times by an angry COW.
Shortly afterward, while he was eating bread
and milk, rattlesnake joined him, and when
the two had finished, his snakeship made his
bow and retired. At five years old q horse ran
away with him, and made for stable, across
the entrance of which was bar. The horse
rushed in under the bar and his mother seized
him just in time to save his life. He grew up
active and strong, and was fond Of sports. He
became good gymnast.


James. at the time of the accident that left
him with dead body and living head, was
fine, handsome young man. He weighed two
hundred pounds, and there was not super
fuous ounce of flesh on his body


One afternoon, when on a visit to an uncle
at Glenwood Iowa, he was exercising on pole
placed from tree to another in the back
yard. lie had or pair of CATERS, tipped with
patent leather. He swung down from the pole
by his feet the leather slipped and he fell.
He struck his neck just where it joins the
shoulders.


He was bewildered, but perfectly conscious.
His body felt as though smashed to jelly. He
experienced horrible tingling and when
the doctor came he told him not to touch him,
as his body broken to pieces. His neck
was broken, inflammation set in, and all thought
his end was come. To the surprise of all, in a
few days he began to mend. lie was shortly
after removed to his step-father's house, where
he still resides.


Time hung heavily on his hands, and he re-
solved to learn to write with his mouth. He
accomplished this, and, as he says in letter
to Mr.. J. x. Nutting, he soon wrote tolerablv
good mouth. He is now trying to paint, and
hopes by this means to earn something for his
support. He has been, and still is, tenderly
cared for by his sister, herself cripple. and
speaks in the highest terms of his step-father,
who, though poor man, has shown him every
kindness.


His worst enemies are the flies which buzz
about his face. He holds leafy twig in his
mouth, however, and manages to twirl it about
in wonderful way and drive off his tormen-
tors. This case is without parallel, except
that of John Carter of England, who was in
jured in a similar way, and who became
CO.. iOro
Year: 1871

c0rdingly sees II windmill turning on
nearly ever hill. The beer-house is the
place OF general resort in The evenings,
for here both the men and the women of
the village get together TO chat and drink
in social unreserve To every five or six
villages there is a church, and generally
tavern. In looking over the land one
sees no fences, but the land OF one man is
separated from that of another by n strip
OF grass about twelve inches wide
Those who pasture flocks must always
keep somebody to watch them, though
all kinds OF stock arc mostly fed in the
stables. They cultivate the land too
closely To allow OF fences. This country
is mostly level, and tho general appear
ance is not unlike that of a prairie in the
west. have said that there are no sep
araie iarmhouses. There are not even
any country residences. Even the nobili
" and rich land owners. who sometimes
live IN the country or have their summer
seats there, do not, rs in England, have
yards and parks filled with deer or ex.
tensive hunting grounds; but their
palaces arc built in the villages (gcner-
ally in the larger ones on what we would
call small towns) and the land is cnltiyat'
cd close up to their doors.
Year: 1871

Our external lives are not made up of
great occasions, and our greatness is not
in superhuman and exhaustive effort, but
In gradual growth, and this is nourished
by TITLE daily acts and sacrifices and cf.
forts which call into exercise every facul.
ty Of soul and sense; and the lives which
most deserve to be called sublime, are
those of which the world and history and
poetry take little account The lives Of
men and women around us, are, for the
most part, commonplace, and we could
not afford to have il otherwise. Ii all
of them were reaching after occasions
of rendering themselves sublime. how
would the worlds work be doneP The
worlds work is tiresomc. perplexing, un.
congenial, and sometimes. and for some
people, of necessity. very disagreeable
and menial service, yet in the spirit in
which this work may be conceived and
carried forward 10 the end, there is o
sublime purpose and consecration, be the
end ever so humble.
Year: 1871

The arrest of nearly thousand keno GAM
blers on Saturday night forces painfully upon
as the ever-spreading growth of gambling, in
all Its countless forms, among every social
class of our people. As we subside rs
nation into settled state of society, and the
chances of rapidly gaining wealth by Legitimate
Industry become fewer and fewer, the taste
FOR Illicit speculation seems to grow stronger
and stronger. Quasi rich men frantically
gamble in Wall street, in the produce
Exchanges and at the faro table, and tho less
fortunate atoms Of the body polite patronize
with no less eagerness the policy shop, the
lottery Office and the keno saloon. Argument
is scarcely needed to show how baneful to our
best national interests are these feverish hopes
that are born of the thirst of gain by hazard.
There is not solitary sensible man through
out the length and breadth Of the land who
would seriously attempt to defend the princi-
ple of gambling.


The HERALD has already done its best to
repress this noxious vice, and the voice Of
legislation has been equally decided. But the
third grand guardian Of public morals, the
Church, though stanch enough in it's general
declarations of principle, has in this matter
been sadly derelct in action. The pulpit has
fhundered against the faro bank, but church
committees have at the same time, in common
with many worthy charitable societies, made
no scruple Of availing themselves Of the
same unhealthy taste for guilty specula-
tion by setting on foot all sorts Of
pious lotteries. The ministers Of Christ have,
on Sunday displayed in vivid colors the folly
Rnd the criminalty Of getting rich by tempt
tng fortune, and through the rest of the week
bave filled the church Golfers by the gains of
wheels Of fortune in 'building-fund" bazaars.


Such inconsistency must, in future, be sternly
avoided or the Church will be stained with
dreadful crime. No end, however good, can
consecrate unlawful means. And we are glad
TO SEQ that yesterday, at several churches,
sermons were delivered in which the guilty
dishonesty Of gaming, in all its Protean forms,
was denounced in healthily vigorous language.
If the Church viii but heartily come over to
The position already taken by the HERALD and
the law gambling may soon be effectually
checked.
Year: 1871

THE AGE OF COMMISSIONS. Ns.-Verily we are
in the midst of the age of commissions. Be-
sides the Public Parks, Public Docks, Public
recall how many more, commissions that
Dur city is now blessed with, 1t is refresh
ing to know that we are likely to have in
addition thereto Tax Levy Commission
(probably the richest Of the lot), Gas Com
mission and Patent Medicine Commission
Before taking the latter we suppose il must be
well shaken. At any rate it is pretty evident
that the city is likely to be well dosed with
commissions for some time to come.
Year: 1871

The British Commissioners Still Determined on
Basis OF Equivalents-The Fishery Question
to be Practically Surrendered in Order


to Secure an Easier Settlement


Of the Alabama Claims
Year: 1871

order shall be published for four con-


secutive weeks in some newspaper
1 published at the place where the or
der is made, or in such other paper


as the court or clerk may order.


10. Writs Of scire faeias, subpenas
upon bills Of revivOr and orders Of
publication, il issued or made in term
time, may be made returnable as the
court may direct; if issued or made in


vacation, such Writs or orders of pub


licatiOn may be maile returnable to


the first day of the next term, or to
any specified rule day in vacation;


aud in the latter case, after due pub


licatiOR of service of the writ, if no
defense be made, or cause shown
against the revivOr, the clerk may, at
any rule day in vacation succeeding
such return day, enter order reViVing
the cause.


Is. The first Monday of every
month shall be a rule day; and the
clerk shall keep a rule docket, in
which he shall enter all orders made
under these rules.


II. Motions to dismiss causes or to
dismiss appeals, appeals in error, or
Writ5 of error, for any cause, Will be
determined on briefs only. When
any such motion is made, it will be
entered on the minutes, and the party
making it will notify the opposite
side, furnishing to the opposite coun-
sci the grounds Of the motion; and
when briefs have been prepared by
both sides, the record, together with
the briefs, will be handed to the Court
for determination.


IS. Petitions for rehearing, before
being presented to the Court, viii be
furnished to the opposite counsel; and
after both sides have prepared briefs,
the record, together with the petition
and briefs, will be presented to the
Court, without argument. If, upon
examination, no good cause for re
hearing is found, the petition will be
If the Court determines
that the cause should be reheard, the
counsel will be so notified, and the
point or points on which re.argument
Is desired will be indicated, and the
time for re argument designated.


19. Decreea will be heard at any
time when tie Court is not engaged in
the trial Of a cause.
Year: 1871

fully frightened, and knew, or ought
to have known, that he had no claim
on this community to protect him.
He said if the citizens would guard
him to the railroad, he would leave;
this was promised him. Before night,
however, he mistrUsted that he would
not be safe with q
Year: 1871

reliable when st came to the test.


We are proud TO speak Of the order
ly manner in which our citizens con
Quoted themselves under the peculiar
circumstances they have been placed,
for the past few days.


To the gentlemen from Mayhem
and the western portion of our. cOun-
~, who, hearing of our anticipated
difficulties, came so kindly and
promptly to our aid, we return our
thanks.
Year: 1871

This man came here as a school
teacher and preached TO the cOlOred
people. and from the day of his ar
rival. has made them entirely and eX-
clusiveiy his associates, eating, drink
ingand sleeping with them, not even
seeking or attempting 10 associate
with our white pOpulatiOn-this was
a matter Of taste and his right-dOing
many things that were
Year: 1871

MANY SINCE THE FIRST, EACH ONE TELLS MY
M utter wretcbednes, only just received cling
my whole heart every token Wear the evidence
only love- truth and deviation. false true
and yours only. Say you love ToUJOURS.
Year: 1871

The Lewiston Journal says: Senator
Wilson sees but one way by which the
American people can be enlisted in the
temperance cause. The church must
take up the matter. And why should it
not? Why should not ministers give the
subject greater prominence in their pulpit
efforts? They must lead the people. not
wait TO follow.
Year: 1871

filled by promotion from the grade below.
also recommend that when the office OF
chief of a corps becomes vacant. the place
may be filled by n selection from the corps
in which the vacancy exists.
Year: 1871

More than six years having elapsed
since the last hostile Gun vas fired be-
tween armies then arrayed against each
other. one for the perpetuatiun and the
other for the destruction of the Union,
and il may well be considered whether it
is now time that disabilities imposed by
the fourteenth amendment should be re-
moved The amendment does not exclude
the ballot, but only imposes disability to
hold office upon certain classes. When
the purity of the ballot is secure. the ma
ioritv is sure to elect officers rejecting the
views of the majority. | do not see the
advantage or propriety of excluding men
from office merely because they were be-
fore the rebellion, Of a character lhsiiih-
cient to be elected to position requiring
them TO take Oaths to support the Cohst-
tuition. and admitting to eligibility those
entertaining the same views but OF less
standing in their communities. IL may
be said that the former violated an oath
while the latter did not. But the latter
did not have it in their power TO DO So
If they had taken this oath il cannot be
doubted they would have broken it az did
Year: 1871

For the operations OF the Army In the
past year, expense OF maintaining 1t, the
estimates for the ensuing year and for
continuing sea coast and other improve
ments, conducted under the supervision
of the War Department, refer you to the
accompanying report of the Secretary of
War. call your attention to the provis'
ions of the act of Congress approved
March 3, 1869. which discontinues promo
tons in the staff corps of the army until
provided for by law. recommend that
the number of officers in said grade Of the
staff corps be fixed. and that whenever the
number in any grade fall below the num-
Der so fixed, that the vacancy may be
Year: 1871

have been officially informed of tho
annexation of the States of the Church to
the Kingdom of Italy and the removal OF
the capital OF that Kingdom to Rome. In
conformity with the established policy OF
The United States have recognized this
change. The ratification of the new
treaties OF commerce between the United
States and Italy have been exchanged
Tha two powers having agreed to this
treaty that private property at sea shall
be exempted from capture in case OF war
between the two powers. The United
States have spared no opportunity of in
cooperating this rule into the obligations
of nations.
Year: 1871

Some little wrens, to build their nest,
Sought out place to suit them best.
And chose-'tis somewhat strange to tell
The pump that stood above the well;,
Said Dick, It's such a cunning place,
This cosy little open space"
" The very spot" said Nelly Wren,
And she few in and out again.
g But is it not quite dark below ?"
Said Dick, noticed it was so
But if we work. without doubt,
We soon can fill it to the spout.
| will commence this very day
To gather twigs and moss and hay.
Nor rest till in this sly retreat,
Our little nest is all complete"
And SO with merry chirping song,
They gathered treasure all day long;
Now flying here, now flying there,
Where there was twig or shred to spare
And dropped them down with some surpris,
Because their structure did not rise.
Said Nelly, Don't you think it queer?"
And Dick replied. Il do, my dear;''
Yet still they toiled, early and late,
Content to labor and to wait"
When Kate the water came to draw,
She pumped up many twig and straw,
Which throwing near upon the ground,
By Dick the treasure soon was found
" See, Nelly, this is fine indeed,
Behold the very twigs we need; -
And thus with less of wit than will,
They gathered up and dropped them still.
At last lamenting so much loss
Of time and labor at such cost,
We covered up their chosen place,
An act they ydeemed great disgrace.
You should have heard dame Nelly scold,
As to her mate the tale she told
Who said as plain as bird could say,
" For shame! to treat us in this way,
When we have toiled so hard and long:
They shall not have another song"
But to appease the little wrens,
And still retain them as our friends,
A dainty box was soon provided,
Where they have ever since resided.
Year: 1871

THERE is colored debating society in
Bainbridge, Ca, the last meeting of
which was devoted to the discussion OF
the question whether education or mo-
ney is the most beneficial to commu-
nifty. The advocates of the education
side of the question won the prize-S20
in gold. At the next meeting they will
decide whether it is to the interest
of the laborer to work for wages or part
of the crop.
Year: 1871

IcE-BoArING, it is stated, is becoming
every year more popular in the Hudson.
The boat is placed on runners and is
driven along over the ice with great
velocity, by the force of the wind acting
on the sails. An ice-boat from Pough-
keepsie, it is reported, ran a race few
days ago, with fast railroad strain, and
with the smooth ice and the wind in It's
favor made over mile a minute.
Year: 1871

The San Francisco !H0T1t11lg CAL says


Since our sparkling wines have come
to be generally inquired after, and our
manufacturers find it difficult to keep
pace with the demand, establishments
are known to exist where the 3rating
process is resorted to. A common white
wine is used as base, to which the
sparkle is given 10y an infusion of car
bonic acid gas, deleterious drugs, &c.
This obviates the necessity of awaiting
the slow process of natural fermenta-
ton, and enables the dishonest mer-
chant to turn his capital over two or
three times, while the honest manufac-
turer-although he must triumph in
the ends bound to await the matur-
ing of his champagne, and TO compete
with those who can undersell him with
a spurious article in the meantime.


"We must adopt some better means
of protecting this latter class against
the adulterators and fraudulent dealers
in our California wines. The wine in
terest is becoming of such Importance
as to demand State legislation to regu-
late and protect it. Let it be declared
unlawful to put an @rated article of
champagne on the market unless the
label so distinguishes il"
Year: 1871

FORGING LARGE MASSES OF IRoN.-A
paper was read by Colonel Clay, at the
Liverpool meeting of the British AssO-
citation, in reference to the mode of
overcoming the difficulties in the way
Of economical forging Of large and solid
masses of iron. Furnaces of the old
style of construction were said to be
most imperfect and unreliable, some of
them requiring renewing once a fort
night. Mr.. Slemens had introduced the
principle Of heating large forges by
means of gas, which attained intense
degrees of heat, and saved at least fifty
per cent. in fuel; but it was not until
recently that the principle had been
applied to heating large, solid masses of
iron. This had lately been done, how
ever, and proved completely successful


Reference was also made to improved
facilities for handling hot masses of
iron, and for affording more working
space for the men; also to the construc-
ton of a hammer with clear, unfet-
tered fall.