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Year: 1875

ONE OF THE RESULTS. One GU
rions result of the prince of Wales
visit TO India may not, IA correspon
dent says, be generally known. A
large amount of property is held
under.leaSe for lives in various parts
OF the country, and the life of his
royal hiehness has been, in very nu.
merous instances, selected for inser-
ton, the reason being that it can
never drop without the fact becom.
ing known to both lessor and les.
see. Lessons are in the habit fire..
quenty of effecting a policy on the
princes life to protect themselves
against the contingency of his death
avoiding the lease. have Just had
Il notice from an insurance office in
regard to one of these policies, to
the effect thas the princes visit to
India necessitales an additional
premium for extra risk, and which
had to be paid before he sailed. No
one can hnd fault with his royal
highness for going where he will,
and he is, of course, no party to
the use so freely made of his name,
or rather of his life; but it is an
unlocked for Occurrences that his
movements should uncOnsciously
have important pecuniary effects
on so many people, and operate as
no small windfall to the insurance
offices.
Year: 1875

New YORK, July 26.-Members of the
Committee on Gram of the Produce Ex-
change state that they have agreed with
railroad representatives upon the basis
OF system for grading grain, and are
now waiting for the approval OF the diff
ferent railroad officials.


The new system will cheaper the
expense incurred by shippers for litter
age on small lots will be avoided, and it
is expected that it will materially in
Grease the receipts Of grain here. The
new system will be similar to that al
ready adopted in Chicago and other cit
les.
Year: 1875

New Orleans, Sept. 21.-The latest
information from the west states that
the town of Matagorda was swept
away. There are only two houses
remaining standing. The town of
Cedar Lake was wahed away, and all
the people were lost. Information
received from East Bar states that
the suffering among the people is
terrible. Out of twenty-eight human
beings only five are known to be
alive.
Year: 1875

You can save feed and trouble by gst-
ting rid of your poorest stock now. This
is particularly true Of sheep. Get rid Of
the miserable, scrawny ones that you
know will not winter over, or if they do
will be worth nothing when spring opens.
Better knock them in the head and sell
the pelts than to feed them all tho winter
for nothing. It pays to keep good stock
but poor stock never.


In putting away winter apples, give
them the coolest part Of the cellar.
Every cellar ought to have partition in
it, cutting off space large enough to
store apples, and then keep this room at
a much lower temperature than that for
vegetables. Instead of stuffing straw in
the cellar windows or banking dirt over
them, put in an extra sash outside of the
one that is in, giving four to. six inches
space between them. If the outer sash
is fitted close with weather strips, there
is no danger Of freezing. and your cellar
is light enough TO 60 into without can
die or lantern. A cellar perfectly dark
is nuisance.


A correspondent says that, apples will
not dry up COWS if fed in small quantities
at first neither will apple pomace, nor
pumpkins, nor anything else. TIE great
trouble lies in feeding too much to begin
with: Any change in the feeding Of ami
mails should be gradual, don't caro- what
the change may be. We have found this
rule true in various cases; and have no
doubt that the notion Of feeding pump.
kins dries up cows had its origin to feeding
too largely on the start.


A good lubricater for wooden axles is
made of six parts Of clean tallow and
two parts Of fine smooth plumbago. An.
other is made Of five parts of tallow, five
parts Of soapstone, one part plumbago,
and nine parts rosin oil; the talIow and
oil are heated and mixed, after which the
soapstonc and plumbago are added.
Year: 1875

this continent are rounded on the northern
side, and the southern sides are more abrupt,
or angular-showing that the same agency
which transported the bouldcrs, grooved aud
scratched the surface rocks. The rounded
hills Of Vermont are beautiful examples Of
the operations Of the drift period, and the
low rounded hills are called moraines.


Time aud space forbid our tracing the diff
ferent life periods of our globe, and we have
only sought TO arouse an interest in the
minds Of the young readers, that shall lead
them to form habits of research and observa-
ton for themselves.


The accumulations Of the Silurian period
alone, are twenty or thirty Thousand feet
thick, and if We connect all these periods,
what an ocean Of time rolls up from the
mighty past


We boast Of wealth and power, and of our
cities and monuments; but we are only
completing another period Of time, and when
both our grandeur and ourselves shall be
come mere index of the past, that which
is really ourselves, will belong to other worlds
and other spheres.
Year: 1875

The habit of dissipatng every serious
thought by succession of agreeable sensa-
tions is fatal to happiness and virtue for
when amusement is uniformly substituted
for objects OF moral and mental interests,
we lose all that elevates our enjoyments
above the scale OF childish pleasures.
Year: 1875

A True LADY, was once walking a
short distance behind very handsomely
dressed young girl and as ! looked at her
beautiful clothes, wondered if she took half as
much pains with her heart as she did with
her body. A poor old man was coming up
the walk with a loaded wheelbarrow, and
just before he reached us he made two at
tempts to go into the yard of house, but
the gate was heavy, and would swing back
before he could get in.


Wait. said the young girl, hurrying for
ward, I'll hold the gate OPEN


And she held the gate till he passed in,
and received his thanks with a pleasant
smile, and she passed on


" She deserves TO have beautiful. clothing,
| thought, for beautiful spirit dwells
within her heart"
Year: 1875

Under some mysterious law of compensa-
tions, which run through many of the trans
actions of life the bad spoilers are to receive
their reward as well as they who won their
prizes at our recent spelling bees. The Pop
ular Science Monthly-one of the very best
of American periodicals quotes from Elizur
Wright, who some years ago said: "Of an
other thing | have no doubt at all, to wit
that learning to spell is discipline pernici-
Gus to good mental habits" and says "The
pupil who should spell word as reason die
tates, would be tlogged, or in some other way
disgraced, before the school. On the other
hand, the pupil that can bring his mind
into the most perfect harmony with an ira
tional system, can 20 on pcrpetrating absurd
tiles the longest without failing wins prizes
and applause" So the man who spelled
neighbor "nabor" may comfort himself with
the reflection that he was possessed Of a
more logical mind than the irrational being
who won the prize by spelling psychopanny-
chism according to Webster The Science
Monthly thinks that tolerable spelling is an
important thing, but that the mind should
not be dwarfcd or stupefed in order to gain
it. Let it be taught incidentally and in
suboidination to the regular exercise of the
higher faculties, and the end will be better
served than by trying to make it the prime
accomplishment of education.
Year: 1875

ANoMALEs.-Paper can be manufactured
from iron. If taliow candle be placed in
Il gun and shot at a door it will 90 through
without sustaining injury and if a musket
ball be fired into the water it will not only
rebound but be llattened if fired through a
pane of glass it will make the hole the size
of the ball without cracking the glass, Cork
if sunk two hundred feet in the ocean will
not rise on account ofthe pressure of water.
In the Artic regions, when the thermometer
is below zero, persons can converse more than
mile distant. DIR. Jamesan asserts that he
heard every word of sermon at the distance
of two miles.
Year: 1875

OUR AssoCIATEs.-Our characters and
habits are affected by our associates. five
live with the base and vulgar, their ways
and thoughts will be ours, while if we cul-
tiyate the good and refined, we will grow
into their likeness. The more, therefore,
we associate with the true and noble, will
we learn those principles andpractices which
elevate and adorn; and when we live near
God in larger and better sense, we will be
educated in that which is good, "When he
shall appear we shall be like him. for We
shall see him as he is.
Year: 1875

Nothing on earth can smile but human
beings, Gems may flash rejecting light, but
what is "a diamond flash compared with an
eye flash and mirth flash? A face that can
not smile is like a bud that cannot blossom
and dries upon the stalk Laughter is day
and sobriety is night, and a smile is the
twilight that hoyers gently between both,
and more bewitching than either.
Year: 1875

The price of Bible in the time of Ed
ward l, was thirty pounds, while the price
of a days labor was three half pence; at
which rate it would have taken over fifteen
years to earn Bible, We can not too
higly appreciate the privilege of cheap
books.
Year: 1875

FROM MR.. JEFFERSON TO MR.. ADAMS.


MoNTICELLo, June 1st, 1922 1t is very
long, my dear sir, since / have written to
you. My dislocated wrist has now became
so stiff that | write slowly and with pain,
and therefore write as little as | can. Yet
it is due to mutual friendship to ask once in
a while how you do. The papers tell us
that General Stark is off at the age of nine
ty-threc.
still lives, at about the same age, cheerful,
slender as a grasshoppcr, and so much with
out memory that he scarcely recognizes his
own household. An intimate friend of his
called on him not long since. 1t was diff
cult to make him understand or recollect
who he was, and sitting one hour he told him
the same story four times over Is this life
with laboring steps


TO tread our former footsteps? pace the round
The beaten track-to see what


To taste the tasted-U'cr our pallets descant
Another vintage.


1t is but most the life Of a cabbage, surely
not worth wish. When all our faculties
have left or are leaving us one by one, sight,
hearing, memory, every avenue of pleasing
sensation is closed, and, debility and
mal-aise left in their places when the
friends Of their youth are all gone, and a
generation is risen around us whom we
know not, is death an evil?
Year: 1875

Two of these dogs can drag as much as
one man. Nothing can be more exhilerating
than dog sedging in the Arctic regions on
fine day. The rafting pace of the dogs;
acknowledgement in choosing theroad through
the broken ice the strict obedience paid by
the team to one powerful dog whom they
elect as leader; the arbitrary exercise of
authority by the master dog, the constantuse
of the whip, and the running conversation
kept up by the driver with the different dogs
who well know their names, afford constant
enjoyment. However useful they may be,
these Arctic dogs seem to be deficient in that
afTectonate disposition which endears their
species so much to man. A traveller once
said that he believed the Esquimaux dogs to
be the most ungrateful creatures in creation.
He had travelled for several hundred miles
by sledge; and for six weeks i; was his duty
regularly to feed the dogs; put after only
few weeks absence, on the conclusion of the


journey, they would not recognize him in
the slightest degree. 1t is impossible to
domestcate these creatures, as under tender
treatment they sicken and die.
Year: 1875

IFrom the Count dc Paris new volume.l


On the 9TH of November, at evening, in
storm ofsnow early for the climate, Mcclellan
found himself under his tent with Gen. Burn
side, when messenger was announced from
the President. 1t was Gen. Buckingham,
an officer unknown to the Army of the Po-
tomac, who brought an order couched in
three lines and signed by Halleck, This or
der dismissed Mcclellan from the command
of the army and designated Burnside as his
successor. Such piece of news: fell with
the suddenness of a thunderbolt on these two
officers, whom an old and close friendship
united but the latter alone showed an emo
tion at the order which imposed on him a
responsibility to which he never aspired.
After Mcclellan had read the dispatch, with
out any visible feeling, he passed it to Burn
side, simply saying "You command the
army" Burnside resisted for some time All
his friends and his former chief pressed him
to accept; they overcame his scruples, which
the future was unhappily destined to justify.
On the morning of the Sth the Army of the
Potomac learned with astoneshment and
grief that it had lost the chief who had
formed it, who had first led it to battle, who
on the morrow Of great disaster had restor-
ed it to confidence in itself, and who at length
had just conducted it to victory. We will
not here judge the military career of General
Mcclellan. The authorities at Washington
took every kind of precaution to prevent the
soldiers Of the Army of the Potomac from
giving to Mcclellan proofs of their sympathy
which would have been too severe a criticism
of their decision, and the news Of his de-
cision, and the news Of his departure cansed
universal joy among the adyersaries whom
he had SO often encountered on fields OF
battle.
Year: 1875

Come with me, two or three of you p
cried the master. az think know who did
it, It's a miracle p


They hurried away to the home of the
half-witted boy The attendant met them
with her finger on her lips.


"The poor lad is in brain fever" she
said.


"Does he say anything in his delirum?'
whispered the master.


30, yes, he raves all the time about the
big bell-mold. Il hope it will fill hope
it will FILL he says"


The men exchanged glances 1t was in
deed true. The idiot had cast the great bell
of st. Johns. Just thon the physician came
out


Perhaps he will recover his reason by
this shock and Sickness" he said. "Such
things have happened"


"Do you think so? Pray Heaven he
may" solemnly calculated the master and
his men; and they turned away, deeply
moved.


Two months later the great bell hung
from huge derrick in the lathe-room of the
factory, and beneath it stood heavy truck
upon which it was about to be lowered. a
silence fell upon the group of workmen as
the pale face and feeble form of 'Inventor"
appeared, borne in on a small reclining chair.
He had recovered his reason, and was fast
getting back his strength. His large gray
eyes instantly fastened themselves on the
bell, that splendid masterpiece, whose max
ing meant so much to him. They had told
him the whole story of the casting, and the
disaster in the foundry, but it all sounded
like wild romance to him.


81 remember nothing that happened" :"
said he, shaking his head with smile. "Its
all new to me, all new and strange-so
strangeW


eyes" said the master, devoutly, "it was
Gods hand"


Every eye was turned on the invalid
Some of the men felt afraid, it was so much
like a resurrection to have him there among
them, the boy they had known so long under
witted, now young man keen and intelli-
gent, as if changed into another being.


81 should like to strike the bell once" said
he. Two men lifted him up, and put small
hammer in his hand.


lie struck one gentle blow. A deep,
sweet, mournful tone, solemn as the sound
of distant waterfalls rolled from the great
bell and echoed through the foundry. Tears
filled the eyes of the rough men as they heard
it.


"Ah," said the master, "there's hallelu-
iah in that, and it may well begin here
Long may this bell praise God He saved
it in the ruins Of the furnace by one wise
thought in the ruins of human brain. Our
furnace is rebuilt, and behold, this dear boy
has his reason again The bell and the boy
shall glorify God together!"


"Amen p murmured all the listeners.


Then the great bell was lowered, and as
the truck rolled away with its melodious
burden, the boy was lifted and carried after
it and both went out into the sunny day to-
gether, the rough men standing in the door
ways waiving their hands.


Little Inventor aiterward well proved
his claim to the title so lightly given him in
his unfortunate boyhood. His name is now
read on many a bell whose matchless rich
ness of tone his genius and skill in metals
alone created.
Year: 1875

DoN'r, GRTs.-Don't think that yards
and yards of ribbons, rullles and lace, will
add one particle to your real value. Don't
make walking milliner's shop, or jewelers.
store of yourselves, covering all that is of
true merit within you, with that which will
attract only the shallow-brained, Don't
think sensible people are to be deceived with
vain show, they look for beauty Of heart and
of mind. Don't fatter yourselves it is
smart to affect ignorance of manual labor or
to be ignorant Of it. Don't give the subject
of matrimony a single thought while in your
teens except to qualify yourself for the re-
sponsible position it places you in; you need
all that time OF your life to fit yourselves for
it. You need to study books, the laws OF
life and health to be well experienced in
the culinary art as perhaps the happiness
and health Of hundreds are depending on
your knowledge of this. Don't give your
time and talents to the world, or to seeking
the things of time and sense that perish with
their using God has created you for 9
nobler purpose, and made you accountabl,
for what he has given you, Don't sell YOU
birthright for mess of pottage.
Year: 1875

"Gen. Grant, "said Sherman, sis as good
an example ofthe American-born, American
bred standard man as this country can show.
He hast he wonderful gift ofretcience and he
had it during the war as much as since He
is generally just to his fellow officers. On
the battle field he displays common sence in
every extremity. He went into the war
with devil of bad staff, but he stuck to
the men around him because they had been
his friends in the days of his poverty.
After awhile he changed that staff, and there
was great improvement. R1ylins was a
smart fellow, but awfully rough. Now, sir,
it has been printed all over this ,. ~~
that Gen. Grant was drunk o..t u Io hattie Of
Shiloh. l saw him at nalf past Il and at
half past 4 that day, and he was as COO a
cucumber and straight - a string. l do. {
believe that Grant was ever trunk whel
there was any fighting to be done. ue has
rather sensitive temperament, and when
battles are off and there is an interval he
may require some stimulation. But the tale
that he was drunk on the main day of the
battle of Shiloh is libel. believe it could
be proved that he could get nothing to be
drunk on, and l know from contact that he
was sober"
Year: 1875

The race of mankind would perish, did
they cease to help each other From the
time that the mother binds the child's head,
till the moment that some kind assistant
wipes the death-damp from the brow Of the
dying, we Cannot exist without mutual aid.
All, therefore, that need aid, have a right to
ask it of their fellow mortals.
Year: 1875

There is something soothing and delight
in the recollection OF pure-minded woman's
affections it is the oasis IN the desert Of a
worldly mans life, to which his feelings turn
for reireshment when wearied with the un-
hallowed passion of this working-day world
Year: 1875

All great questions have been settled by
men in earnestly men who have been
pound by principle about their hearts
which they come to regard as "part and par
cel' of their being. Little, peddling, tenn
orizing policy never yet conferred a lasting
benefit upon the world.
Year: 1875

Some persons seems to forget that mere
talking is not conyersing; that it requires
two to make conversation, and that each
must be in turn listener, but no one can be
an agreeable companion who is not as will
ing 10 listen as TO talk,
Year: 1875

Judge not the workings OF his brain


And Of his heart thou canst not sec,
What looks to thy dim eyes stain,


In GODS pure light may only be
A scar, brought from some well-won field,
Where thou wouldst only FAINT and yield.
The look, the air that frets thy sight


May be a token that below
The soul has closed In deadly fight


Win some internal fiery foe,
Whose glance would sCorch thy smiling grace,
Ana cast thee shuddering on thy face.
Year: 1875

INsANE AsYLuM.-It is the intention
Of the Government, We learn, to close
the insane asylum across the bay, and
to erect in its stead, at New Westmin-
ster, . permanent institution. to be con-
structed of brick or stone. It is stated
that the mild, genial atmosphere Of the
lower Fraser is more conducive to the
health AID comfort Of the poor afflicted
patients IN our nidst, than the cold, and
often severe temperature, experienced
in the exposed building at present serv-
ing the usea Of an insane asylum in this
Victoria Stuhdord.
Year: 1875

OPPOSITION TO THE FIFrH-AVE. PAVEMENT.
OBJECTIONS FROM THE REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE


EAST TsIDH-CoNsTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS RAISED


lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE'J


ALBANY, Feb. 4.-Ihe' Assembly Committee on
Cities gave hearing this afternoon to Alfred Wag-
staff. ir who argued in favor of the bill TO repave
Fifth-ave. On Tuesday next the Committee will
grant hearing to the frieDds and opponents of the
bill when Mr.. Seward will be heard in its favor.
Considerable opposition TO the bill has developed
itself among members whose constituents reside on
the east side and are not the habit OF driving 10
Central Park They dispute the justice of taxing
thcir people for an improvement in which they take
no interest The question is alsd raised whether the
bill is not in conflict with the Constitution, as we'll
as with the provisions Of the charter IN respect to
the repaving of streets. Chairman DAILY expresses
every desire to meet the wishes OF the
New York officials in this matter, and is wiIlDg to
urge the adoption of an amendment to the chaPter
To provide for this special case, If It is finally asce


tanned tat the bill is in conflict with it's require
mcnts. aud il the Mayor and Common Council ask
for the construction of tho pavement IL such an
expression of opinion can be obtained, no doubt
members Of the Committee on Cities will abandon
their personal opposition TO the bills but from
present appearances its path TO successful vote
will be by no means an easy one The question az
to the consttutiouahty of the bill was considered
before il was presented and favorable opinion WIS
secured from Montgomery II. ThroOp, Chairman OF
the Commission to revise the statutes.
Year: 1875

We once asked an old Wimnebago
Squaw, how it was that she cured her
family 10y simply covering them every
day with fresh earth, leaving only il
breathing spot for their noses, and she
said: Earth our mother. Earth
make she, and Earth take good care to
make she papooses strong; squaw-
mother make she papo"Ses sick. Earth
mother make she pap0oscS well again.
She cant tell white Squaw any more"
Now this poor Indian woman was wise
according to her lights. Without
knowing why, she saw that the earth
WAS Il friend to her children. aud there
fore gave them to its healing embrace.
If the mother be fortunate enough to
live III the country, she has the cure
for many of her childrrn's ills quite at
hand. Encourage baby to play i'll the
fresh earth. preparing it properly for
its enjoyment and cure, with as care
tIl an eye to the comfort of the little
thing. us you would if it were to take
any other sort of il bath. If it has no
old dresses, make il Il suit of cheap
print. tie upon its head Il light hat, that
Will piOtect its eyes from discom-
fort and give il freedom to delve
in the warm, soft earth. where the sun
shine can comfort and invigorate it.
II it is Il city child and circumstances
forbid Il trip to the country for the sake
of the weak conva|esrent, have a sand
heap made on the warm side OF your
yard. Instinct Will leach it to dig, and
digging harden> the muscles and brings
strength to the bones. while from the
heart of the earth rises IL subtitle and
strong power of dealing that We can
neither explain nor understand for our
selves. though we have both seen and
felt its potency The .Hctopoiitan.
Year: 1875

large crowd of people viewed the re-
mains during the afternoon and wit
messed their removal. The face was
unrecognizable and every bone in the
body above the knees appeared to have
been broken into splinters.