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Year: 1873

ed with him. My plea to him will be that
there is moral TO his history which wish
to impress upon young men. He stated
one fact to me worth knowing. "When 1
was fourteen years of age" said he, ~ re-
solved 10 devote one hour to close study
every day. have done so until now and
what 1 have learned has been learned in
that daily hour, and my business has gone
on all the same"


VIII the young men who read this arti-
Gle, and the older men, lay this TO heart?
You have no time to cultivate your mind
that is your excuse for not being well in
formed. Now, there is scarcely any man,
in any business, who cannot give sixty
minutes each day to somescientific and lit
erary pursuit. Let 1t be tried. Let our
apprentices and clerks and porters, let our
merchants and bankers, try this expert
ment of one hours daily study of some
subject not connected with their business,
and sec what the result will be.


To C. c. Frost science has been its own
exceeding great reward and it would be
so TO all other men, according to their sew
eral capacities -Bdldwin's Monthly.
Year: 1873

"Bellevue hospital is often crowded to
excess with sick-so much that patients
suffer through bad air and inattenton.


at is impossible TO warm the Tombs, or
to keep it from being dark, unwholesome
Year: 1873

You may talk about skating, and seighing and dancing;
Proclaim the delights of the rod aud the gun;
Or the ride through the park upon seed gaiy prancng


The on the lake until daylight is done;
Praise the sports of the lands and the water. each one


The bath by the beach, or the yacht on the =;
But of all the pleasures known under the sun.


good" game OF croquets the sweetest to
To make 1t a good one there needs good ground,


The grass ciOsley cut and the turf smoothly rolled,
The mallets well balanced the balls thorough round.


And the bridges square, with true distances told
The players close Hlatched-about four to a side


Four sweet girls for partners. not less than three.
All playing in earnest-no trinng aside =;


In the crOquet arena flirting should be-.
For nowhere is flirting with such peril traught-


Not even in dancing Is danger like this
All we'll remember myself getting caught,


AT a croqueirg match by a croqueng miss
They called her the "CrOquet Queen NE sAIs QUOI


There were in the arena good players as she
But something about her-a look that gave Law


Ere the hall ended she "queened" it Ger me.
Her figure was fautess--uor tall, petite ..:


Her skirt barley touched the top lace of her boot.
We seen In my time more remarkable leet,


But never one equaling that little foot!
Its tournure perfect, from ankle to toe


PraKitees ne 'er had such model for art
No arrow so sharp shot Cupids bow


When poised the ball it seemed pressing your heart
1t crushed more than one, sadly remember
dozen at least in the sweet month Of May
And long ere the season had reached to September
1t numbered of victims dozen day.
As one on the list won't wonder, ween,


That warn gainst flirting while playing this game
You may meet, as did. some Fair croque'ing queen
VINO will croquet your heart till it feels all aGame
Year: 1873

A gentleman unaccustomed to the new
method of paying fare in the horse-cars in
Lawrence, Mass, was so fustered that he
threw tifty-ceDt scrip in the box. Finding
that he could get no change from the driver
ne began to take up fares he had to ride a
considerable distance past his designation before
ne succeeded in getting his change.
Year: 1873

Oh the snore! the beautiful snore filing
her chamber from ceiling TO aoorI Over the
coverlet. under the sheet: from her dimpled


chin to her pretty feetl Now rising aloft ike
bee In June; now sunk to the wall Of cracked
bassoon. Now, flute like, subsding, then
rising again, is the beautiful snore of Elizabeth
Jane
Year: 1873

A young lad in ConneautviIle entered a
sewer pipe twelve inches in diameter a few
days ago to recover a lost ball. When he
attempted to back out he found it impossible.
and he very pluckily showed himself through
the pipe the whole length, a distance of
seventy feet 1t was perilous adventure, but
he saved the ball. - "U'
Year: 1873

WOMEN WHO ARE LATE.--It is related of
distinguished lawyer, who observed that his
wife always delayed ten or twelve minutes be-


fore she came down to dinner, being loath to
lose SO much precious time daily he COM
menced the composition of work, which he
prosecuted only while he was thus kept wait
ing. The result was, at the end of fifteen
years, book in three volumes quarto, which
met with large sole and is much esteemed


An Old Bachelor" writing for the Pittsburg
Telegraph, quotes this little story, and pro-
ceeds to analyze the disposition which leads
to annoying delays. ut appears to me that it
is woman's chief study to be late. The
trial OF a mans patience is with them q mat
ter of the incest calculation. 1t is not for
mere sport they like to see how long an un-
fortunate husband will wait, great-coated and
hated, while they are adjusting their bonnet
strings; it is not that they take a wicked
pleasure in causing the poor man dinner to
cool and spoil before they will consider them
selves ready to come down and partake of it,
1t Is not for three reasons that they keep the
robust sex dangling it is only for the purpose
OF trying their consequence with the hapless
lords of creation. 1t would be most unwoman.
ish to be ready to go out exactly at the same
moment with ones husband He would not
know he had wife if she were to study his
convenience so far As for the trouble which
sisters and daughters inhict, it is all one
thing. The creatures are only trying on brother
or father the powers which they are ulti


matey to exercise in full yigor on a husband
The 'natur of tho critter' is to give trouble tC
mankind, and it matters little on what partic


ular kind OF relative the instinct operates"
Year: 1873

Our Democratic opponents have been criticis-
ing recent bill paid a member of the City
Council for repairs to the clerks office, or some
thing of the sort, amounting to s158 for which
no contract had been made. We regret to see
these little slips across the line of the ordinance
sin such cases made and provided, though it is
gratifying to note that our critics are rarely able
to 80 complain.


Apropos to the subject, we observe that this
vexed question whether a member of Counci |
should receive contracts for city work is once
more mooted in Reading. At the last meeting
of the Councils resolution forbiddjng mem
bers from being city contractors was offered and
voted down, and there is no little stir over the
matter. The Times, OF Friday severely reviews
the action, and some correspondents, in Satur-
days issue, rise to explain. A citizen writer
declares the vote Questionable and suspicious,
and a " clear indication that majority OF the
p" Common Council regard the City Treasury as
legitimate plunder." A member of the Coun-
Gil, however, asserts that the resolution offered
did not properly meet the case. and that when
one is proposed that does lit will be sustained by
a majority of the members. Perhaps he is right,
but we confess we hardly expect it. Let US see
how virtuous the Reading councilmen are.
Year: 1873

At two O'Clock yesterday the steamer Tigress,
which arrived at the Navy Yard yesterday, was
taken in tow by the United States tug Catalpa and
placed in the dry dock, and board or naval off,
GERS, consisting of Admiral Rowan Chief Engineers
w. w. Wood and G. Sewell, Naval Constructors
Hanscomb, Delano and Mintoyne, and Captains
Ransom and Ralph Chandler, proceeded to survey
her interior. Her machinery and interior arrange
ments were found in exceedingly good order, and
the Board OF Survey have 1t is reported, decided
to report favoraby on her and to advise her
acceptance by the Navy Department Owing
to the water in the dock not having drained
out OF the dock in time, 1t was found impossible
to examine her hull and bottom from the outside,
and 1t has been decided to complete the survey
to-day when the ship carpenters will take her in
Charge and her bottom will be bored and examined.


Immediately after the survey all the available snip
cakers In the yard were put to work recalking
and repairing her poop and deck seams, and force
o thirty-hve saimakers and rlggers Will be put on
ging In complete sea trim The boatbulders
are busily engaged in the construction Of
three whaeboats appropriate ice naviga-
ton, which are to be fitted with the
best apparatus and alright compartments through
the length OF the boats, and every requisite the
safety OF the crews. The provisions intended for
her cruise are nearly ready, as 1Orce oil men has
been getting them ready for the last two weeks


The Spanish irOn-clad Saragossa Is dschargng
preparatory to being .docked for repairs Since
her arrival twenty-eight men have deserted.


The Spanish ram Arapiles was towed to the Navy
Yard to-day from the Battery for general repairs.
Year: 1873

Press Report OF the Condition Of the


Parliamentary Parties and OF the


Nation.


The Perseverance, OF Rome, in the early days OF
June writing on the national situation OF Italy,
gave very unfavorabe picture OF the position Of
the government and the various parties in the
Italian Chamber, in the following w0rds:-


Parliament is totally incapable of coming to any
decisive resolution. The Deputies OF the Left
have become perfectly indifferent since they
have been convinced by the division
they are powerless to caffy out the One great aim
of their policy, which is with them an tdee fire,
that OF Overthrowing the government. They now
consider that the sooner the session is closed the
better. The indifference OF the opposition too has
proved a dangerous and seductive example for the
ministerial party Both sides are thus inactive, as
II the principal object OF The members OF the Cham
ber were not to make laws but to obtain power.
AS for the Ministry, 1t becomes more and more dis
united and internally weak, and is consequently
not in state to exercise any vivifying innu-
ence on the Chamber. Instead OF laying the
bills which have passed the Second Chamber be-
fore the senate and insisting on their being dis
cussed without delay, 1t allows the time OF that
body to be wasted with long discussions on an
abortive bill for the reconstruction OF the univer
sites.
Year: 1873

In Virginia CT Nevada, a gentleman


has placed on ealside of the gravel walk
leading from hi Font seat to his door a
handsome iron ffe, the top rail of which
is made of gas pk filed with small holes.
Before he thus feed his walk he was much
troubled by bOol gents, map peddlers, and
other persistent bple, but now all is love-
ly with him. WI he sees man enter his
gate with books her his arm, he simply
turns cock instantly a thousand
streams Of vat dart across the whole
length of the VIZ from side to side. The
book peddler rfats to the gate, gazes
wistfully up the k for a time, concludes
the man OF the hhe does not want to see
him, and then I'll bis, wondering what sort
of internal maehls people will next invent
for the diseourahent of honest industry.
This beautiful a1 useful invention is not
pltented. e
Year: 1873

A number of scientific gentlemen have
formed a fuel saving company in this city
for the purpose of manufacturing and sell
ing their "iefector," a cOntrivance by
means of which the gases which usually
escape and perform no service, are econO-
mized and made to assist in making steam.
Captain w T. Boardman has put one of
these dcfectors on the steamer Carrie A.
Thorn, and we have learn from telegram
that it works like charm. The combus-
ton is good, and the draft splendid. He
says it saves twenty per cent of fuel This
is something worth the attention of owners
of steam engines.
Year: 1873

THE LOUISIANA PAPER MILL.-We paid a
visit to this establishment yesterday and
found it in full operation, turning out a
very superior quality of printing paper in
large quantities. Messrs. Pemberton g.
Brown, who now own the mill, seem deter
mined to prove to the Southern people that
they can compete with the world in the
manufacture of paper, and judging from
what they are now doing, we think they
can. Our readers will also notice that they
also offer a home market for paper stock of
all kinds, which will open another source of
profit in a small way to the Industrious. See
their advertisement
Year: 1873

A short time since, in this city, q
brilliant and much admired lady, who
had been suffering for some time with
a trouble of the eyes, was led to fear a
speedy change for the worse, and i'm
mediately consulted her physician.
An examination discovered a sudden
and fatal failing in the optic nerve and
the information was impaired as gent
ly as possible, that the patient could
not retain her sight more than a few
days, and was liable to be totoally de-
prived of it at any moment. The
mother returned to her home, quietly
made such arrangements as would oc-
cur to one about to commence so dark
a journey of life, and then had her two
little children attired in their brightest
and sweetest costumes, brought before
her; and so, with their little faces lift
ed to hers, and tears gathering for
some great misfortune that they hard
ly realized, the light faded out of the
mothers eyes, leaving ineffacable pic
lures of those dearest to her on earth
A memory of bright faces that will
console her in many a dark hour.
Year: 1873

Many a sigh is heaved, many a heart
is broken, many ~ life is rendered mis-
erable by the terrible infatuation
which parents manifest in choosing a
life companion for their daughters
How is it possible for happiness to re-
suit from the union of two principles
so diametrically opposed to each other
in every point as virtue is to vice?-
and yet how often is wealth considered
a better recommendation for young
men than virtue How often the first
question asked respecting the suitor of
a daughter is this: Is he rich? Yes,
his clothes are purple and fine linen,
and he fares sumptuously every day;
but can you infer from this that he is
virtuous? Is he rich? Yes, he has
thousands floating on every ocean but
do not riches sometimes take to them
selves wings and fly away? And you
consent that your daughter shall marry
a man who has nothing to commend
him but his wealth? All beware, the
gilded bait sometimes covers barbed
hook. Ask not, then, is he rich, but
is he virtuous? Ask not has he wealth,
but has he honor? And do not sacri-
fee your daughters peace for money.
Year: 1873

/ COMPTROLLER s OFFICE, Nashville
May Is, 1973.-Your attention is called
to Section $3.50 and $500 of the Code,
which read as follows:


The Sheriff or other officer con-
veyIng a convict to the penitentiary,
shall make out his account in writing.
stating the number of miles on the
usual route from the place of convie-
tlon to the penitentiary, the number of
guards necessarily employed to insure
the safe conveyance of the convict.
and the distance each of said guards
may have travelled, and make oath to
the truth of the account before the
keeper of the penitentiary, or any
Judge or Justice of the Peace, who
shall certify the fact"


Upon presentation of the account
thus sworn to and certified, the Comp
troller shall issue his warrant for the
amount, as in other cases, if satisfied of
the correctness of the account"


You will see from the foregoing that
in making outan account for conveying
convictto thepenitentiary, It'll required
that you shall state the number of
guards necessarily employed to insure
the safe conveyance ofthe convict, and
make oath to the truth of the ac-
count.


You will also see that it is made the
duty of the Comptroller to issue his
warrant for the amount, if satisfied of
the correctness of the account"


[ find, since coming into Office. that
many of the Sheriffs of the State are in
the habit, when conveying convicts to
the penitentiary, of bringing with
them, at the expense of the State, as
many guards as convicts, whether
necessary or not to insure the safe con-
veyance of the convicts. Such is not
the law, and all Sheriffs are hereby no.
titled that l will issue a warrant only
for the mileage of such guards as are
absolutely necessary to insure the safe
conveyance of convicts.


JOHN G. BURcH, Comptroller.
Year: 1873

The National Board of Fire Under
writer's, at their late meeting in the
city of New York, resolved to raise a
fund of 100000 for the detection,
conviction and punishment Of parties
engaged in the nefarious business of in
cendiarism and arson. The Executive
Committee of that Board, at their
meeting on the 14th inst, carried out
the resolution and opened the sub
scription. u 1Dl edE


We hail this movement as a step in
the right direction, and commend the
action as one not only likely to benefit
underwriters, but also to protect the
public from wholesale loss. This ae-
ton is the more important when 1t is
remembered that the experience of the
large companies transacting the busi-
ness of fire insurance in the United
States, shows that the proportion of
loss to be attributed to the above causes
is not less than 80 per cent. Of the
whole, or a loss to the country of at
least twenty-five millions of dollars
per annum.-PkiSadelphio Evening
Bulletin.
Year: 1873

teri 1t will be said, will you not


make mistakes? I should think so,


when you make mistakes in everything.


The eye is considered pretty good tes-


timony, and yet there is not one man


in hundred that sees what he looks


at. Take ten men in court who have


all looked at the same thing and see


how differently they vii describe it /;


SO to say you must trust to reason; no;


not absolutely. but it may be trusted


as much as anything.


How much we are opposed to the
Pope at Rome. If We were half as
much opposed to the Pope at home how
much better we should be. We are
all fallible, and at the best see through
a glass darkly. So when men say you
must not use the reason but must take
the Bible just as it is, / say you can
not do it; at the last resort you must
take your reason. The priest says;


Here is where we have got you; we
have the voice of the church," but /
say, with all due Difference to you,
how can take the voice of the church
WtehOub uoAuS AuJ ICdcOul W ltu the
scientific man says the Bible is not to
be relied ON, say to him the Bible
does not consist in that; | think /
might also say you might take out of it
every vestige of historic fact, and leave
in revelation and Christ and human
destiny, and it would be sufficient. 1t
does not consist in the CHRONOLOGY, or
in its letter; it lives in its spirit, and
when the scientific man says, i do not
believe in your bible" | say, Perhaps
you do, more than you think.


If lwere going to bring a scientific
experiment of Farraday,s to a test, it
would not do for me to stand and
argue priori against it; no scientific
man would accept that. / should
have to take the circumstances just as
the formula lays them: down, and so
arrive at the result. So when a man
is pretending to criticise the Bible,
unless he has put himself into the prop
er conditions he cannot fairly give an
opinion. The world will never do
There is too much sorrow,
too much suffering in the world, and
there is no book so full of hope for the |
or relief for the suffering as
this book. Takeit, therefore, in this
way, and go on your way rejoicing until |
God shall speak to youno more in signs, |
but face to face"
Year: 1873

From Memphis to Somerville the
crops are in an almost hopelessly bad
condition. Rains that fell up to the
first instant prevented the coming up
of the cotton The seed rotted in the
ground, and if it came up the cut
worms destroyed much of that which
sprouted, There is not half a stand
over the whole country, and this is
siekly and weak because Of the unu-
sual coldness of the atmosphere and
soil. There is not supply of cotton
seed to plant again, and it is already
very late-too late for crop to mature
perfectly. The oil mills have secured
and consumed much of the cotton
seed, and the rest was used to. feed
cattle through the unusually long and
harsh winter. 1t will thus be impos-
sible to plant again, and we must con-
fess that the prospects of cotton-gr
ers in this immediate vicinity are
gloomy enough.-Memphis Appeal.
Year: 1873

THE article in the Edinburg Review
on Cookies Life of General Robert
E. Lee" occupies eighteen pages. 1t
concludes in the following manner:


The day will come when the evil
passions of the great civil strife will
Sleep in oblivion, and North and South
do justice to each others motives, and
forget each others wrongs. Then his
tory will speak with clear voice of the
deeds done on either side, and the citi
zens of the whole Union do justice to
the memories of the dead, and place
above all Others the name of the great
chief of whom we have written. In
strategy mighty, in battle terrible, in
adversely as in prosperity a hero in
deed. with the simple devotion to duty
and the rare purity of the ideal Chris
tian knight, he Joined all the kingly
qualities of leader of men. 1t is a
wondrous future, indeed, that lies be-
fore America but in her annals of
wears to come as in those of the past
there will be found few names that can
reach in unsullied lustre that of the
heroic defender Of his native Virginia,
Robert Z. Lee.
Year: 1873

Death from lightning is thought to
be quite painless. Owing TO the yeloc-
ity which the electric current moves,
it is believed that person struck by
lightning has no premonition Of the
blow which he receives. The nervous
system requires certain interval of
of time to become conscious Of pain.
The time of an electric discharge is but
a small fraction of this interval
hence, as a sentient apparatus, the
nervous system is destroyed before con-
sciousness can setin.
Year: 1873

A pupil of Able SieOrd gave the
following extraordinary answers


What is gratitude I? Gratitude is
the memory of the heart.
What is hope? Hope is the blos-
som of happiness.


What is the difference between hope
and desire? Desire is tree in Leaf,
hope is a tree IN flowers, and en-
joyment is tree in fruit.


What is eternity2 A day without
yesterday and tomorrow; day with
out end. u


What is time? A line that has two
ends-a path that begins in the cradle
and ends in the grave.
Year: 1873

The following anecdote has outlived
its early youth, but it still reads well:
John Phoenix tells the story that he
was one day leaving San Francisco by
steamer. Everybody else was taking
leave of friends-but he did not know
a soul in the crowd. Ashamed of his
loneliness, as the boat sheered off he
called out in loud voice Goodbye
Colonel y and to his great delight,
every man on the wharf took off his
hat aud shouted. Colonel, good
bye 70
Year: 1873

A city fop who was taking an airing
in the country, tried to amuse himself
by quizzing an old farmer about his
bald head, but was extinguished BY
the old man, who solemnly remarked:
Young man. when my head gets as
soft as yours, / can raise hair to sell.
Year: 1873

SARAH WALKER, seventy-three
years of age, reached Lowell the other
day aftera twenty mile walk, in search
Gf work in the mills. She stated that
her object was to lay up a little money
against the day when old age should
render her unable to perform hard la
Dor.