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Year: 1873

The following wise words of Theodore
Parker on Complete Marriage" " de-
serve repetition:


"Men and women, and especially
young people, do not know that it
takes years to marry completely two
hearts, even of the most loving and
well-sortedl But nature allows no sud-
den change We slope very gradually
from the cradle to the summit of life.
Marriage is gradual, fraction of MS
at time. A happy wedlock is n long
falling in love. / know young persons
think love only belongs to brown hair
and plump, round crimson cheeks. So
it does for its beginning, just as Mt.
Washington begins ut Boston Bay. But
the golden marriage is n part of love
which the bridal day knows nothing of.
Youth is the tassel and silken flower of
love; age is the full corn, ripe and solid
in the ear. Beautiful is the morning
of love, with its prophetic crimson vio-
let, purple and gold; with its hopes of
days that are to come. Beautiful also
the evening of love, with its glad re-
membranes and its rainbow side turn
ed towards heaven as well as earth.


" Young people marry their opposites
in temper and general character, and
such a marriage is commonly n good
match. They do it instinctively. The
young man does not say, My black eyes
require to be wed with blue, and my
over-vehemence requires to be a little
modified with something of dullness
and reserve When these opposites
come together to be wed they do not
know it, but each thinks the other just
like himself. Old people never marry
their opposites; they marry their SINH
lars, and from calculation. Each OF
these two arrangements are very proper.
On their long journey, these opposites
will fall out very many times, and both
get away from the road they will go by,
and become reconciled. He will be-
come nobler and larger associated with
so much humanity unlike himself, and
she will be a nobler woman for having
manhood beside her that seeks to cor
rect her deficiencies and supply her
with what she lacks, If the diversity be
not too great, and there be real piety
and love in their hearts to begin with.


"The old bridegroom, having much
shorter journey to make, must associate
himself with one like himself. A per-
feet and complete marriage is, perhaps,
as rare as perfect personal beauty.
Men and women are married fractional
ly, now a small fraction, then a large
fraction. Very few are married totally,
and they only, think, after some forty
or fifty years of gradual approach and
experiment. Such a large and sweet
fruit it complete marriage, and it
needs a very long summer to ripen in
and then long winter to mellow and
season in. But real, happy marriage
of love and Judgment, between a noble
man and woman, is one of the things so
very handsome that if the sun were, as
the Greek poets tabled, a god, he might
stop the world in order to feast his eyes
with such spectacle.
Year: 1873




The provisions of nature are strange.
Climate forces upon animals different
habits. Towards the end of December
the female white bear places herself in
a position where the snow will drift on
her, and cell is formed for winter
habitation. In this cell the animal re
sides during the period of accouche-
ment. The cubs are produced, and tho
mother remains secluded with them un-
til the month of March. The young are
very small at first, but as they grow the
heat of the bodies melt tho snow and
thus enlarges the cell. The warm
breath ascends upward, and makes ON
aperture for the admission Of pure
air. Before alternating, the bear eats
enormously of nutritious food, and be-
comes very fat, on which fat she exists
during her winter retirement. The pho
nomenon is all the more singular, as tho
female bear is compelled to give sus-
tenance TO her young as well ms to live
herself, and the surplus fat in her own
body is her only store of food. Pertinent
to this, DIR. Wood remarks:


{" 1t is worthy of notice that in tho
bears of the Old as well as the New
World, is found the curious phenome-
non of the 'tappen, n lrard concreted
substance, which plugs up the iptes-
tines and seems to be of service in re
tanning the animal condition. In Scan
dinavia, where the bears of both sexes
retire to winter quarters, and remain in
their hidden recesses for five full
mouths, the tappen is very seldom cast
until the bear leaves her den. In She
rare instances where such an event has
happened, the bear is said 10 have be-
come miserably thin and weak. "


The snow packs closely, and makes
warm bed. The caloric exhaled from
the body is not swept away by the wind,
but is conserved around the animal, and
sensation is preserved.
Year: 1873

It would be impossible with mere
words alone to convey any adequate
idea of the action of this newborn child
of the Artic forests. Think of a solid
lump of ice, third of mile deep and
more than half mile in lateral dia-
meter, hurled, like a mere toy, away
into the water, and see it rolling to and
fro by the impetus of the act as if it
were a football now down on one side
until the huge bulk was nearly cap
sized then back again then down the
other side once more, with the same un-
resisting force and so on, up and down,


and down and up, smashing to and fro
for hours, before it comes finally to rest


Picture this, and you will have an image
of power not to be seen by the action of
any other force upon the earth. The
disturbance of the water was incon-
ceivably fine. Waves of enormous mag
nitude were rolled up with great vol
lence against the glacier, covering it
with spray; pillows came tearing down
the ford, their progress marked by the
cracking and crumbling ice, which was
everywhere in a state of widest agi-
tation for the space of several miles.


Over the smaller icebergs the water
broke completely as if tempest was
piling up the seas and then heaving
them fercely against the shore. Then
to add still further to the existing COM
motion thus occasioned, the great wal
lowing iceberg, which was the cause of
it all, was dropping fragments from its
sides with each oscillation, the reports
of the rupture reaching the ear above
the general din and clamor. Other
bergs were set in motion by the waves !;
and these also dropped pieces from their
sides and at last, as if it we're the grand


finale of the piece-the clash of SYM


balls, and the big brass drum of natures
grand orchester-a monstrous berg
near the middle of the ford split in
tive and above the sound of breaking
waters and falling ice, this last disrup-
ton filled the air with peal that rang
among the bergs and crags, and echoing
from hill to hill, died away only in the
void beyond the mountain tops while
to the noisy tune, the icebergs of the


ford danced their wild ungainly dance
upon the waters. 1t was many


heurs before this state of wild unrest
was succeeded by the calm which had
preceded the commencement of it, and
when at length the icebergs that had
been born came quietly to rest, and the
other icebergs had ceased their dance
upon the troubled sea, and the waves
had ceased their lashing, it seemed to
me that, in beholding this birth of an
iceberg, had beheld one of the most
sublime exhibitions of the great forces
Nature. 1t was, in truth, CONFUSION.
Year: 1873

There is one blameless person whom
I cannot love and have no excuse fol


hating. 1t is the innocent fellow-crea-


ture, otherwise inoffensive to me, whom
I find I have involuntary joined on turn
| ing a corner. suppose the Mississippi,


which was flowing quietly along, mind
ing its own business, hates the Missouri
for coming into it all at once with its
muddy stream. I suppose the Missouri
in like manner hates the Mississippi fol
diluting with it's impid, but insipid cur
rent the rich "reminiscences of the varied
soils through which its own stream has
wandered. I will not compare myself
to the clear or the turbid current, but
/ will own that my heart sinks when /
| find all of a sudden I am in for a corner
conf dence, and cease loving my neigh
Dor as myself until I can get away from
him. These antipathies are at least
weaknesses; they may be sins in the
eye of the Recording angel. / often
reproach myself with my wrong-doings
should like sometimes to thank Hea-
ven for saving me from some kind of
transgression, and even for granting me
some qualities that if dared / should
be disposed to call virtues. 1 should
| do SO, 1 suppose, if did not remember
the story of the Pharisee. That ought
not to hinder me- The parable was
told to illustrate single virtue, hum
ility, and the most unwarranted infer
ences have been drawn from it as to the
whole character of the two parties. 1t
seems not at all unlikely, but rather
probable, that the Pharisee was fairer
dealer, better husband, and a more
oh FOL 10 fhn D711o


whose name has come down to us 'Tlink-
ed with one virtue" but who may have
been guilty, for aught that appears to
the contrary, of ga thousand crimes. !"
Remember how we limit the application
of other parallels The lord, it will be
recollected, commended the unjust
steward because he had done wisely.
His shrewdnesss was held up as an ex-
ample, but after all he was a miserable
swindler, and deserved the state prison
as much as many of our financial oper-
ators. The parable of the Pharisee and
Publican is perpetual warming against
spiritual pride. But it must not fright
en- any of us out of being thankful that
he is not, like this or that neighbor,
under bondage to strong drink or OPT
um, that he is not an Erie railroad man
ager, and that his head rests in virtuo1ls
calm on his own pillow. If he prays in
the morning to be kept out of tempta-
ton as well as for his daily bread, shall
he not return thanks at night that he
has not fallen into sin as well as that
his stomach has been filed? I do not
think the poor Pharisee has ever had
fair play, and I am afraid good many
people sin with the comforting, half
latent intention of shifting their breasts
afterward and repeating the prayer of
the Publican. Holmes.
Year: 1873

A writer in the London Ne1Os remarks
that the Red Sea is rather noted for
being hot, but the greatest heat is said
to be in August and the early days of
September. There are burning deserts
on each side of the sea, and the hot air
from them is most intense in this month,
and must come by whatever wind may
chance to blow.


Sleeping on deck becomes the fashion,
and every night increases the number OF
what seems corpses laid out IN rows.
At last, as we get in the middle of the
cabins below, and they have their beds
brought on deck. Wiping the perspira-
ton from the face and neck is the only
possible occupation. If you try to
write, great drops gather and come
down with a splash on the paper as if
from a thunder cloud. Men with bald
heads seem always to have crop OF
pearls coming up through the skin. All
the pores of the body seem like perpetual
fountains of water. The sight on the
forecastle is very striking Mt night.
There are the crew of Lascars, and the
seedy Wallahs, or negroes, who do the
stoking-poor fellows, they come up
from their fiery Gehenna gasping, at
times fa1ntlng IN TINS climate. 1ne
stewards also take refuge on the fore
castles, and it is the only place for the
second-class passengers, and among them
are two Chinese women, a Malay woman,
and a group of Ayahs from Ceylon,
Madras and Calcutta. There are two
Jews from Singapore, an English groom
in charge of horse, and few others, a
different class, who cannot afford the
pay frst-class fare; All come, on to
forecastle, except lady or two, who do
not like the thick crowding of the
sleepers, for the whole place is a mass
of human beings. The heat is far too
great for fun, singing, or even converse
ton. Everyone lays himself down to
rest, and remains there absorbed with
his own sensations, till sleep gives him
complete repose. Wherever there IS
spot where a man can put his body the
place is soon filed.
Year: 1873

Come, make for me little song


Twas so spirit said to me
And make it just four verses long,


And make it sweet as sweet can be,
And make 1t all about the sea.
Sing me about the wild waste shore,


Where, long and long ago, with me
You watched the silver calls that bore
The great, strong ships across the sea-
The blue, the bright, the boundless sea.
Sing me about the plans we planned;
How one of those good ships should be
My way to find some howery land


Away beyond the misty sea,


Where, always, you should live with ms.
Sing, lastly, how our hearts were caught
Up into heaven, because that we
Knew not the fiowery land we sought
Lay all beyond that other sea


That soundless, sailless, solemn sea.
Year: 1873

call her "Queen the lady of my love


Since, that in all one sceptreless may claim


OF true nobility to suit the name,
She is right royal, and 30 approve
My loving homage All that painters art


And poets fantasy delight to find


In queenliness is hers: the noble mind,
The stately bearing, and the gracious heart;


The voice most musical the brow serene,


And beaming benediction-like a queen;
And oh such peerless beauty, that 1 swear


[Recalling each fair face that loud Renown


Hath found or feigned beneath a jeweled crown
/ fatter queens to call her "queenly fair ~
Year: 1873

"A young lady at a recent fashion
able church wedding in New York seat
ed herself on the back of pew for bet
ter observation, but seriously interrupt
ed the ceremony by an involuntary SOM
ersault and attempt to stand on her
head in the pew Just behind.
Year: 1873

Poultry Show was huge bald eagle,
swinging in great circular cage sus-
pended from the ceiling in thE centre
of the room. His sole companion was
a plump hen, roosting comfortably on
the cross-bar on which the eagle was
standing, and apparently quite undis-
turbed by his frequent and fierce cries,
and by the Tapping of his mighty
wings. 1t was explained to interested
on-iookers that these two birds, 50
utterly unlike, have been some time
associated, and get on perfectly well.
Indeed, the eagle seems to have formed
quite an attachment for the hen, and is
careful to see that she receives no in
jury.
Year: 1873




Oh! she was maid Of laughing eve
And she lived in a garnet cold and high;
And he was threadbare whiskered beau. @
And he llvedin a cellar damp and low.
But the rosy boyof the cherub wing
Has many a shaft in his slender string,
And the youth beleFF- and Che maiden above .
We're touched with the flashing darts of love
And she would wake from her troubled sleep
Ger his tender billet dou1 to weep:
Or stand like statue bright and fair
And gaze on a lock of his bright red hair.
And he who was so tall and proud,
With his step 50 firm and his laugh so loud,
HIS beard grew long and his face grew thin
And he pined in solitude over his Gin.
But one soft night in the month of June. q
As she lay in the light of cloudless moon,
4 voice came floating soft and clear
TO the startled maiden's listening ear.
Oh, then from her ereaking couch she sprung
And her tangled tressess back she flung,
She looked from the window far below,
And he stood beneath, her whiskered beau.
She did not start with foolish frown,
But packed her trunk and geampered down,
And there was her lover tail and true,
In his threadhare coat of the brightest blue
The star that rose in the evening shade
Looked sadly down on the weeping maid;
The sun that came III his morning pride
Shed golden light DER a laughing bride.
Year: 1873

Under the name of a protest against the
funding bill passed on Saturday, there was
Yesterday presented to the Senate an argu-
ment in favor of some other mode OF pay
inc the Indebtedness of the State. We
take it for ganted that the protestants are
entirely sincere in the course they have
pursued, but it is extremely unfortunate for
them that some one of them did not intro
duce and urge the passage of such bill as
they now by way of protest advocate. Ii
their plan would have saved SO many mil
lions of dollars which ''they do not think
it lust to take from the people"
the people will perhaps wish to know why
they did not put their plan into the shape
of a bill and press lis passage. The fund
ing proposition has been constantly talked
about. written about and spoken about
Quite number of bills on the subject have
been introduced in each House, but never,
we believe, by any Of the protestants, ex
cept when Mr.. Smithson introduced nj:
sinking fund proposition, in lieu of the Sen
ate bill when it was on its third reading, ant
that was ruled out of order by the Senate
This looks little like what the Law books
would call "gross negligence" especially
as the protestauts "are opposed to repudls
ton ia any form or shape, and were willin
and ready TO assist in providing a sinkin
fund for the payment of the past due debt
and funds to pay the future interest on tn
outstanding State debt, or to assist in th
passage of any measure that would q
equal and exact justice to both the bond
holder and taxpayer.


Perhaps the holders of our past due bond
and coupons, whom these prOtestants desiI
to postpone for sixteen years, may nc
doubt the sincerity of this language. w
can not. Il is only mistake of judgmen
With all due respec5, the Protesf, as pre-


test, is rather ''thin."
Year: 1873

The nomination of the President and
prompt confirmation by the Senate of the
Hon. JAMES LYONS, for the position Of
District Attorney of the United States for
the Eastern District Of Virginia, although
unexpected to many of our citizens, and to
none perhaps more than himself. will be
accepted by the people Of the state as an
evidence on the part of the Administra-
ton to consult the wishes Of the people
more generally in regard to federal ap-
pointments than has heretofore been the
case since the close of the war.
Year: 1873

THE Baltimore American fears that
there will be reaction in favor of the
whipping post in Delaware after the sheriff
of Newcastle county finished yesterdays
work. Four professional Philadelphia
burglars, who attempted to rob a Whining
ton bank q few weeks since, barred their
backs to the lash at noon yesterday, and
The American says there are many tender
hearted people who would not feel at all
sorry if told that the sheriff was man of
mighty muscle, and that the Scat" which he
wields has nine cruel tails.
Year: 1873

CAsToRIA.--Is more than substitute
or Castor Oil. 1t is the only safe article in exis-
tence which is sure to regulate the bowels, cure
wind-colic and produce natural sleep. It is
pleasant to take Children need not cry and
mothers may sleep.
Year: 1873

THINGS THEATRICAL.-In conse-
quence of the stringency in the money
market theatrical affairs have gotten down
very low in New York all other cities
but re-echo the state of affairs there, Rich
mond included. The best talent won't
draw, because there is nothing to draw. 1t
is so in all the great centres Of fashion and
money. and recent experience has proved
its truth here to the sorrow of many q
poor thespian attache and his boarding
house-keeper. Mr.. Jefferson may have a
tolerable crowd at Assembly Hall Monday
night, because there are yet living here
many admirers of Charley Burke, but
that expiring effort to vitalize the drama
here will doubtless end the season.
Year: 1873

RELIaIoUs.--We learn that during the
present revival at the Second Baptist
church in this city eighty persons were
''brought by conversion to a saving
knowledge of the Gospel as it is in Jesus"
and that of this number about twenty
five have been baptized lii' sllfA
Year: 1873

To AID THE Poor. An attache of a
Richmond paper has been honored with an
appointment as chief secretary of the
Richmond Eleemosynary Guyamscutis.
One Of THE JOURNAL attaches had been
previously constituted principal adjunct
and grand X. X. to the main body. These
appointments were eminently fit to be
made. If there is anything that news.
paper attaches know more about thar
another it is the impecunlous strata Of the
population,
Year: 1873

At the general election last Fall the people
OF this state voted upon the question OF authorizing the
insertion in the levy OF 81 mills on the dollar to pay
the canal and general fund deficiency. The proposition
was adopted The Supervisors of Kings County refused
to put the amount apporoned TO them In the tax levy
alleging that the law was unconstitutional and the Con
troler sued out mandamus to compel the Supervisors
TO insert the amount required from that county In the
tax lovy. The Court OF Appeals sustained the point
taken by the Kings County Supervisors, declaring the
law 10 be unconstitutional. The Queens County super
vsOrs had previously ordered her quota 70 he inserted
AT meeting OF the Board held June Supervisor Bur
roughs OF Newtown moved that the levy OF New
town DO amended by striking ont that towns
portion. amO uniting TO S7,773 &c, and tho Board
passed a resolution referring the question TO County
Judge Armstrong for an opinion In the mean lime the
Supervsors received notice from the Controller that the
tax had been legazed by the recent Legislature ana
that counties where the tax had not been assessed
would be required 10 include the same IN the next an.
nual assessment with interest. Judge Armstrong mas
given an opinion that the Supervisors nave no authority
70 change the original levy but suggests That tue re-
ceiver might be Justified in collecting from the tax
payers required less the amount asked LOT the
canal and general fund deficiency. His views VIII prob
ably be adopted.
Year: 1873

II is mistake to expect to receive
welcome, hospitality, words of cheer,
and help over rugged and difficult passes
in life, in return for cold seltishness,
which cares for nothing in the world but
self
Year: 1873

JOB WORK.
Done at the RECORD office in the best style
known to the art; and must be paid for on de-
livery, unless persons having the work done
have standing accounts with the Office No de.
Walton from this rule.