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Year: 1871

Those who have studied and prac-
tioed SO indetatigably the art Of " hat
SAKE terms the "kangaroo fop,' are
Topping vigorously with the new ac-
complishment others, not few at
first, made ridiculous failures, and
caused many sarcastic smile from
the fortunate ones who came pre-.
pared with the sensation. Now,
however, nearly all have succeeded
in getting tho position and tho mo-
ton to scientific cxactness. But,
for the benefit of some OF the St.
Louis ladies, l will explain the nature
of the "kangaroo flop." The dignity
of the gentlemen of our noble city
cautions me not to try to inveigle
them into the mysteries Of the flop.
Therefore, gentlemen, this is not tor
you'll You are permitted to retire
until | have given lesson to the few
ladies who are dying to know how
to "do' the flop. First, you must
draw your shoulders up in your neck,
lean back rs far as you leaned for
ward when you did the Grecian bend,
pin your elbows close to your sides,
draw up the lower part Of your arms
in line with your chin now let
your hands hang gracefully (you
need fan or mouchoir in one hand),
and lean your head over one side tit
must be stiff loan) as you would do
if you had u bile on one sioo of your
neck. After you have succeeded in
getting into this position, affect a
silly expression, il you arc not fortu-
nate enough to have it naturally, and
walk with stagger--quite positive
swag, as il your hips were hung on
hinges. AS this art requires much
practice, | would advise you not to
try it on the street, or in public
dining room, right away. Some of
the ladies here do it beautifully, and
it is surprising what talent many
of the gentlemen have for affecting
the flop. Unless you have pretty
hands, with each of the right fingers
covered with diamonds, don't try the
dop.
Year: 1871

A city congregation was in search
of o minister. One of the elders
came us for aid in finding the right
man for the place. What sort Of
man do you want?" we asked.
+" Well, said he, +" our church is very
much run down at present we have
been without pastor for year or
moro, and we must have somebody
that will make a noise the fact is,
We must have ono who is great or
eccentric"
Year: 1871

The British postcard system is d
grand success. A person goes to the
post Office and inditcs a short mes.
sage on one sids ofa prepared card,
the address being on the other side.
The postage charge is but half PEN
ny. During tho first six months of
this postal experiment a hundred and
twenty-five million cards were de-
livered from the various post Offices
of the United Kingdom, realizing
9351,56 in the way of postage re
ceipts.
Year: 1871

A drunken woman appeared upon
the streets OF Mount Vernon, Linn
county, a few days ago, and acted as
badly as a voter. Whereupon tho
editor OF the Hawk Eye is constrain-
ed to say that the poet who said
that


He'll hath pofury


Like a woman soorned.
should have said


He'll hath no fury
Like q woman corned'
Year: 1871

To understand the philosophy of this
phenomenon, essential to the very exist
ence of plants and animals, a'few facts,
derived from observation and long train
sOf experiments, must be remembered.
Were the atmosphere everywhere, at all
times, at uniform temperature, we should
never have rain hail or snow The water
absorbed by it in evaporation from the sea
and the earths surface, would descend in
imperceptible vapor, or cease to be alb
sorbed by the air, when it was once fully
saturated. The absorbing power of the
atmosphere, and consequently its capacity
to retain humidity, is proportionably great
er in cold than in warm air. The air near
the surface of the earth is warmer than it
is near the legion of the clouds. The
higher we ascend from the earth the colder
we find the atmosphere. Hence the per-
petual snow on very high mountains in the
very hottest climates. Now when, from
evaporation, the air is highly saturated
with vapor-though it be invisible-if its
temperature is suddenly reduced by cold
currents descending from above, or rush
ing from higher to lower latitude, its,
capacity to retain moisture is diminished


clouds are formed, and the result is rain


Air condenses as it cools, and like Il
sponge filled with water and compressed


pours out water which its diminished ca
pacity cannot hold. How singular, yet
how simple, is an arrangement for water
ing the earth !-Sctentyfc american.
Year: 1871

There is art, the most consummate art,
in appearing absolutely frank, and never
telling anything which it is not wished
| should be known, in being pleasantly


chatty and conversational yet never COM


mltting ones self to u statement or opinion
which might be used against one after
ward-are celare artem in keeping ones


own counsel as well as in other things. 1t


is only after long acquaintance with this


kind of a person that you find out that he
has been substantially reticent throughout,


though apparently so frank. Caught by
his easy manner, his genial talk, his ready


sympathy, you have confided to him not
| only all yon have of your own, but all you


have of other peoples, and it is only long
| after when you reflect quietly undisturbed
by the magnetism of his presence, that
you come to the knowledge of how reti-
cent he has been in the midst of seeming
frankness, and how little reciprocity there


has been in your confidence together
You know such people for years, and you
never really know more about them in the
end than you did at the beginning. You
cannot lay even the point of your little
finger on a fact that would in anyway
place them in your power, and though you
do not notice it at the time, and don't
know how it has been done now, YOU feel
that they have never trusted you, and have
all along carefully avoided anything like
confidence. But you are at their mercy
by your own rashness, and if they do not
destroy you it is because they are reticent
for you as well as toward you; perhaps
because they are good-natured, perhaps
because they despise you for your frank
ness too much to hurt you; but, above all
things, not because they are unable. How
you hate them when you think of the skill
with which they took all that was offered
to them, yet never let you see that they
gave you nothing back for their own part
rather by their jugglery of manner made
you believe that they were giving back as
much as they were receiving! Perhaps it
was little ungenerous but they had the
right to argue that if you could not keep
theirs, and it was only kind at the time to
let you hoodwink yourself so that you
might not be offended.


In manner genial, frank, conversational,
sympathetic, in substance absolutely secret,
cautious, never taken off their guard, never
seduccd into dangerous condolences, as
careful for their friends as they are for
themselves, and careful even for strangers
unknown to them,-these people are the
salvation as they are the charm of society
never making mischief, and by their hab-
itual reticence raising up barriers at which
gossip halts and rumor dies.
Year: 1871

FUNERAL OF A BEE.-A correspondent
of the Glasgow Herald transmits the fol-
lowing: ''On Sunday morning last l had
the pleasure Of witnessing most interest
ing ceremony, which desire to record
for the benefit of your readers. While
walking near Falkirk, we observed two
bees issuing from one Of the hives, bearing
with them the defunct body of comrade,
with which they flew for a distance Of
twelve yards. We followed them closely,
and noted the care with which they select
ed a convenient hole at the side of the
gravel walk; the tenderness with which
they committed the body, head down.
wards, to the earth; and the solicitude
with which they afterwards pushed two
little stones, doubtless in memoriam'
Their task being ended, they paused for
about moment, perhaps to drop over
the grave of their friend sympathising
tear, and then flew away to their hive.
Year: 1871

At Leominster not long ago, strange
scene occurred at wedding, which really
proved no wedding at all. When the
Clergyman inquired whether any cause
existed why the marriage ceremony should
not be completed, the bridegroom remark
ed that six months before he asked the
lady to release him from his engagement.
She declined, and afterward stated that
her father would not consent to its being
broken off. He went on to say that coer
cion had been used to bring her to the
ceremony, and so he should marry her be-
cause he was bound by law to do so. The
service was then continued, but when the
bride was asked whether she would take
this man to be her husband, she replied,
emphatically, mo, / will notr' which
caused intense excitement in the chapel.
This, of course, brought the service to an
abrupt termination. The bride immedi-
ately left the chapel, and the bridegroom
(who seemed perfectly satisfied with the
resulD drove away, followed by an inn
mense number of persons, who cheered
him most heartily.
Year: 1871

vide that the race must be completed in nine honrs
according TO time allowance. The Dauntless and vess
lying at anchor In the harbop but will not enter Tor
either Of the contes The weather during the day ha,
been very pleasant, although suggestive OF calm; but
tonight the wind has sprung mp fresh and 1t generay
predicted that the breeze viii blow strong from the
north west tomorrow.
Year: 1871

Since the papers in the criminal charge
against Mayor Hall the Grand Jury nothing
has been matter which the authorities
TO make public II probable that the action Of the
Grand Jury will be known to-day, but on Saturday,
when District Attorney Garvn questioned
ing affair he appeared embarrassed and declined to
say ything about the indictment.
Year: 1871

The subject Of compulsory education that
Il being advocated by few radical papers
Of minor importance. is but scheme 70,
aggrandizing the national government .,
the expense of state dignity. The author.
of the movement see in it chance to force
the Southern States to submit to anothe,
condition, and thus delay the work of recon


struction, Is we'll Is to centralizs more
power in the hsnds of the ruling party and
place more patronage in the hands of the
President and Congress, which is now too
graat and watch is the great cause of the
corruption in politics. There can be
nothing but evil in the success of the meve-
msnt. The result must be to destroy the
present usefulness Of our public schools by
making the business Of party politics, which
all will admit are too corrupt to preside at
the intellectual and moral culture Of the


people. 1t would be another source of dis


eliminating taxation against the poor oy


making them pay ell the expenses of their


own education out of the means they cannot


we'll spare. The national government can


not carry out the scheme without money


and We would ask the advocates CT the


measure how they propose to raise the


money. IL lis also fac. that if the national
govern men undertake this work, the states


will do less and less ana in time it would
open the doors for a. much fraud, ssealings
and the employment OF as many useless
officials as the present internal rev.
enue system. Besides ali these
things it is contrary to the spirit of our
institutions and is q step backward towards
the tyranny of the old world, from which so
many of our adopted citizens fed. The
fact that l9 per cent Of those who should be
Supt. Bateman says, being an argument
that the state of Illinois is retrogrsding in
education, is q very lame assertion. The
figures may be correct but does not show


any retrogression, but on the contrary ve.y
fAssering testimonial Of the rapid Increase
in our foreign population, who n time avail
themselves of the advantages of our free
schools. Illinois to day occupies an advanced
position in the development of all educa-
,ional interest and to place our schools in
fhe hands Of politicians would be worse
than suicidal. Compulsion either in matters
of education or religion can only lead to
evil, and wherever you fnd al advocate of
the measure either on Insignificant Journal
or school officer you will hnd q narrow
intellect, bigotted and proscriptive, and men
who would force ell others to think as they
think, believe as they believe, and would
force all to vote as they vote. Mark the
advocates of the measure and it will take
no great stretch of memory to find them
exercising these same traits and character
istics. The day of prescription u passed
and the people of this country must fall
very low when they yield into the hands of
politicians tie education of their children,
ard make our schools the vehicles for
demagogues TO ride into Office. Religion and
schools ests blished by law is inconsistent
with the progress of liberal though through |
out the country, and especially the west.
Year: 1871

For informatio write TO any one of the parties
and they will cheerfully answer you. We give
you nsno and residence, together with disease
cured. 90 and see them and be convinced hat
g Medicine can be offered without being proved
to be a humbvy
Year: 1871

FASHIONABLE WoMEN.-Fash;on kills
more than toll or sorrow. Obedience to
fashion is greater transgression Of the
laws Of woman's nature, a greater injury
to her physical and mental constitution,
than the hardships of poverty and neglect.
The slave woman at her task still lives and
grows old, and sees two or three genera
tions of her mistresses pass away. The
washerwoman, with scarcely ray of hope
to cheer her in her tolls, will live to see
her fashionable sisters extinct The kitch-
en- maid is hearty and strong when her
lady has to be nursed like a sick baby.
1t is sad truth that fashion-pampered
women are always worthless for all good
ends of life; they have but little force Of
character, still less power of moral will,
and quite as little physical energy. They
see to no great ends. They are dolls, formed
in the hands of milliners and servants, and
to be fed to order. If they rear children,
what are they? What do they amount to
but weak scions of the old stock |? Who
ever heard of a fashionable woman's child
exhibiting any virtue and power Of mind
for which he become eminent? Read the
biographies of our great and good men aud
women. Not one of them had fashiona-
bic mother. ass
Year: 1871

THE ETIQUETTE OF HAT LIFTrNG.-In
passing lady on the street the hat should
be raised with either the right or left hand,
according to the side on which you pass
the lady. The rule is that when gentle
man lifts his hat to lady, he should not
place his hand between his eyes and hers ;
consequently if he passes the lady on her
left, he lifts his hat with the right hand /;
aud if he passes her on the right, he lifts
it with the left hand. Tice versa, h:s
hand would come between her eye and his,
and be would not sec whether she recog-
nized him or not.
Year: 1871

INTEGRITY way in which a man
of integrity will be successful, is that he
will win the confidence of man by his course,
so as to secure their patronage, in preference
to those who do not sustain such character.
Take two men side by side, in the same
business, and you would not hesitate an
instant, as to who should have your custom,
ifone had never willfully deceived you,
while the other always needed watching.
Suppose they are mechanics of any kind;
would YOU not willingly give more for the
same article, if you could be sure that it
was good, then if you had to risk its quality
on account of the dishonesty of the maker
Would you not rather shun him altogether,
and give your patronage to the other when
you could? It is so in all cases, and your
feelings towards dishonest man would
be shared by the whole community ; and
when the two made up the statement OF the
years business, the man ofintegrity would
be found to have made an addition to the
profit side of his account, which was owing
entirely to his known character for honest
Year: 1871

and formless shadow that seemed to dog
my footsteps, approaching me, from be-
hind, with cat-like and stealthy pace.
1t was then that / ran. felt a wild de-
sire to shrek aloud. Every succeeding
wave of thought overwhelmed me with
new terrOr-for alas! understood too
we'll that to think, in my condition, was
to be undOne. I still Quickemed my
steps. I bounded like a madman
through the crowded lIoroughfares.
But now the populace took alarm and
pursued. Then-then I felt the consum-
nation Of my Fate. Could | have torn
out my tongue would have done it.
But rough voice from some member of
the crowd now resounded in my ears,
and rougher grasp seized me by the
arm. I turned-I gasped for breath,
for moment 1 experienced all the
pangs of suffocation-I became blind
and deaf and giddy and at this instant
il was no mortal hand, l knew, that
struck me violently, with broad and
massive palm, upon the back. At that
blow the long-imprisoned secret burst
forth from my soul.


They say that spoke with distinct
enunciation, but with emphasis and
passionate hurry, as if in dread of inter-
ruption before concluding the brief but
pregnant sentences that consigned me to
the hangman ana TO Hell.
Year: 1871

the founder of the republic Of his dreams,
establish the idolized principles Of his
Rousseau, be the creator of a new order
of things, the great philanthropist of all
ages. He had been brought into collis-
ion with every phase of greatness
greatness of soul, Of intellect, and OF
station; conscious inferiority humiliated
him, and in such mind envy grew in
proportion to humiliation.


The growth Of egotism was 4 natural
sequence to that Of the other passions.
Although still believer in the princi-
pie of the abolition of capital punish
mentor this strange being never
forsOok a principle once fOrmed-that
principle was dwarfed into insignifi-
canoe beside the mightier ones that now
burned within his mind, filling him
with wild fanaticism, fixing his eye
afar of upon the future, binding him to
the present, hurrying him on with the
resistless fury of a demoniac. Sweep
away King, sweep away Queen, mobiles,
every enemy, every rival of Maximilian
Robespierre? Let every stone Of Paris
stream with blood; pile up cOrpses until
they crimson the face of heaven; deci-
mate the world, so that the great Ego
may triumph. Then for the millen-
mum, the reign ofpeace, equality, lib
erty, fraternity, eternal love and good
fellOwship-no more hunger, no more
crime, no more blood-spilling!


But this gigantic programme grew in
his mind only by degrees. The coward
ice of his nature would have shrunk
appalled,, even on the very eve of Its
realization, ut the vision of the Reign
of Terror. With the short:sightedness
of all great criminals, lie thought he
could stay his hand at any moment.
The King removed, the mobiles swept
away, and the bloody work was done.
How small sacrifice for SO grand an
end But it was the old fable of the
Hydra, IN this case multiplied humid
red fold; for, for every head cut of, two
sprang up in its place, which doubled
and quadrupled until the victims had to
be condemned i'm patches of fifty and
sixty at a time, until canals CT blood ran
through the streets-untl he was heard
to cry in his solitude, "Nothing but
blood-how much more, when will it
end ?n


But it was not the cry of humanity
Of that he possessed not a particle; hu-
man suffering touched him not at all
to that he was utterly callous. Amid
all the frightful butchery he lived
through, he never once raised his voice
to save one human life. There is an
anecdote told of him which will better
exemplify his nature than pages of
description.


A friend with whom he was most in
innate, and who was sincerely attached
to him, begged him to save the life of a
certain prisoner who was ordered for
execution. "At what hour is he to suf-
fer? ?" asked Bobespierre. "At eight, !"
was the reply. 'Twould most willingly
oblige you, but never rise till nine.
1t is impossible" answered the despOt.
The man was Temple Bar
Year: 1871




Berlin wool furniture covers have
been resuscitated.


Skirt supporters should not be worn
under the overskirt


Mandarin lawn is the fashionable
material for morning dresses.


The French young ladies in society
now refuse to dance the German


The newest watch charm is in the
form Of a compass, and about the size Of
a cent.


Thelatest sleeve button Of the week is
made like locket, and opens to re-
ceiye n likeness.


Lace shawls are worn belted at the
back and front, thus forming stylish
large loose sleeve.


Black cashmere sacks, tiimmed with
gold braid or with blue and silver, are
much affected for riding.


The most fashionable dresses are
made without belt or sash, the upper
skirt and waist being cut in one piece.


A bride nowadays starting ON we'd
ding tour wears the oldest black silk
dress she owns and an old bonnet and
shawl The practice Of starting of
with gray bonnet, dress, gloves and
vail, was equivalent to having q pla-
card round the neck, announcing to all
the world, ~ am bride,n
Year: 1871

! The welI-known electrician, Mr. c. T.


Varley, has suggested the novel theory


that earthquakes may be due to subteF-
ranean lightning. In connection with


this suggestion, he states that just be-


fore the earthquake which was felt il


England on the 18th of March last,
powerful positive currents of electricity
were rushing toward England through


the two Atlantic cables which are bro


ken near the Newfoundland coast. Har-
per's Weekly.


The 5criptural Injunction, Man shall
not live by bread alone Is probably
true in physical, no less than in q re-
Iigious sense. A series of experiments
by Gustave Meyer, of Oldenburg, con-
firms the view hitherto entertained, that
a great waste of material results from
feeding either animals OF man on bread
alone. To prevent the body from losing
flesh, an enormous amount Of bread
must be given, while there can be little
doubt that the use of meat is not only
more economical, but more wholesome
also.-Hdrper's Weekly.


If we bury thermometer fifty feet
below the surface Of the earth, the mer-
curry viii remain at the same point the
year round, in winter and summer,
showing that the influence of the sun
does not reach below that depth. If we
carry the thermometer fifty feet lower,
the mercury will rise one degree, and
will rise in the same ratio FOR every fif-
ty feet we go down. It can easily be
calculated at what depths all known
substances will melt. This would not
exceed fifty miles.


1t will thus be seeu that the crust or
solid part Of the earth is exceedingly
thin, in proportion to the diameter; not
30 thick as an egg-shell in proportion to
the size Of the egg. With crust so
thin, constantly cooling and producing
a pressure upon the internal masses, IL
is not strange that the bed of oceans
should be elevated in a single day, and
whole cities have been sunk in the
same space Of time. The side Of a vol
eanie mountain once broke away, and
livid masses flowed out forming a river
twelve miles wide, which in its course
melted down six hills six hundred feet
high, and spreading over a surface Of
eleven hundred square miles.-Dr.
Bog1tt0n.
Year: 1871

A revengeful traveller on a cer-
tain railroad packed a carpet bag
full of loaded revolYers, and hand
ed it to a gentlemanly baggag' :
smasl er who had ruined three O.
four trunks for him already. The
smasher flung the bag up against
the wall savagely, and then threw
At on the floor, and stamped on it
as usual. At about The fourth


jump, firing commenced along the
whole line. Forty-six revolvers
went off in rapid succession, G;ss GI;s
tIibuting bullets around the ear
with disgusting csrelessness of
the legs Of the smasher, vino was
shot in six places before he could
get out of the car. He rode upon
the platform during the whole of
that trip, and when he did enter
the car be encased his legs in
stovepipes, and ran an iron clad
snow-plUw in front of him to push
the baggage out with. He smash,
es perhaps fewer carpet-bags now
than he once did in the blissfnG
past-much fewer; and he is filled
with gloom. The only boon he
Graves is, that he may be present
when the carpet-bag owner calls
with his check. He says there
will then be conflict which will
make the European war perfectly
ridiculous.
Year: 1871

Follow THg RIGHT No matter who
you are, what your lot, Or where you live,
you cannot afford to do that which is
wrong. The only way to obtain happi-
ness for yourself, is to do the righ: thing;
you may not always hit the mark but
you should nevertheless always aim for
it, and with every trial your strength will
increase.