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Year: 1875

ed. and if he shall care to very much
exceed il ut any time. his gift is credit
ed to him as far into the future as il will
extend. His deficits are equally plain
An envelope. property printed on the
outside, is placed in each pew. When
one has overpaid, this envelope is omit
ted. When he is behind, he will not
fail t. see this indicated on his envelope.
until his dues are fully paid. Accuracy
and watchiulness in the treasurer are
necessary. for no plan will work itself.


There Is but one feature to be added
to this plan to make it very goOd-per-
hapS as nearly complete as possible.
The pews should he entirely free. At
present very many are owned on the
unfortunate system in use when this and
many other houses of worship were
built. A majority of these owners would
now he willing to give their pews to
the society, but quite Il number are not
willing. SO the society's pews are rent
ed. But we hope before many years to
be entirely free to charge no price for
tn privileges of tie sanctuary, and to
leave the sum every one shall give for
I he gospel work on earth, entirely to
his own cOI science
Year: 1875

other articles are extras and can be
dispensed with if yOu desire. Another
inexpensive and yet equally pretty ar
iahSement can he made from tidy lace
wrought with linen floss in some pretty
pattern and make up over cherry silk
or thlbct or even cambric-the effect
being about the same in either clse-
ana furnished with some simple pat
tern of German lace.


There are many handsome designs
Tor worsted hoods which you can pre-
pare very easily. Lctter-caSes of .spat-
ter-work' aie acceptable gifts when
they are neatly done. Or perhaps YOU
have Il fancy for jokes: here is some
thing for your uncle, the flour dealer.
Procure one of his business cards and
f;,stcn tiny bag of meal on the back ::
then make some mice of apple-seeds by
running brown thread through, leaving
two knots at one end for the ears, and
Il respectable length of cotton ut the
other end for Il tail. You will be sur
plIsed at the very natural appearance
of the whole affair.


| have known children to discard the
finest Paris doll for a comical old lady
prepared from a walnut. And as for
paper dolls, they are an infinite. source
OF pleasure to little girls; YOU can
make and dress Il whole army of them
III an afternoon.


Thus You see how easily You can
have the pleasure of giving as well as
receiving. truly hope you will en-
Joy the merry, merry Christmas the
better for 1.-THE Christian Union.
Year: 1875

GONE OFF WITH THE FUNDS OF saw
INGS BANK.-A dispatch from St Louis
ings Bank in that city has absconded with a
large amount of money, but beyond the facts
that the bank closed its doors, that IL
had debt of So 600 against it in the clearing
house yesterday morning and that the cashier
had not been at the bank yesterday, little is
known. He left letter to the effect that he
had used the funds of the bank i'm private
>pecuiations which had been unfortunate,
and that the bank was in jeopardy.
Year: 1875

IN TIE FRENCH ASSEMBLY. yesterday.
some progress was made on the constitu-
fiOual bills. Al amendment providing that
the president >hall not be conmander-in-
CHIEF of the army was rejected. after il had
been stated that President McNIahOn would
resign if such bill should he adopted. An
amendment giving the president the power
TO dissolve the assembly, with the consent of
the senate, was discussed and referred u a
committee. who subsequently reported in
favor of giving the president the power to
dissolve the assembly without coasultin. the
senate.
Year: 1875

A gentleman of this city gives an
interesting account of a recent at
tempt by an eagle to carry off eat,
which occurred at farm on the bay
shore of Kent county, Maryland. A
young, medium sized cat was treading
leisHrely along in a potato patch,
when large full-grOwn eagle swOOp-
ed down, and, catching her in his tai
ons, bore her up. Pussy wriggled and
mewed piteOusly for some moments,
but suddenly seeming imbued with
courage, she began determined ef-
fort to obtain hold on her oppress-
or. So great were her struggles that
the eagle was unable to fly longer, and
kept up constant tapping of its wings
TO keep aloft. After much exertion
the cat succeeded in its object, and
obtained firm grasp With her claws
on the breast OF the eagle, which made
every possible eEdeavOr to free itself
in vain. 1t tapped its wings. shook
its body, and appeared to heartily re-
gret having meddled with pussy in
her peaceful ways. Finally, as if in
despair and exhaustion, it spread its
broad wings and fell slowly to the
bay, over which the struggle had
been going on. Immediately upon
touching the water the cat lOOsed her
hold and swan boldly ashore, while
the eagle, upon being freed Of its
troublesome burden, shot upward and
sped rapidly away.
Year: 1875

The advantages of oatmeal as an
article OF food are getting to be tolera-
bly, well understood, and all persons
who have commenced its regular use
will agree that its nutritious and
health giving properties have not
been overrated. Chemical analysis
shows that oatmeal is richer than
wheat In starch and the heterogeneous
compounds the first being fat-form-
ing and the latter flesh forming con-
stituents. As compared with barley
and corn, oatmeal Is found to be still
richer in these elements As food It
sits lightly on the stomach and IS ex-
ceedingly digestible. 1t Is one OF the
best articles Of food to give to growing
children, and Is especially valuable
also TO persons who do brain work. A
little outmeal mixed in water makes 3
cool and refreshing drink, and farm
ers and contractors who provide their
laborers with it will find it far better
than any form of stimulant, aud in
the long run more satisfactory to the
men themselves. Oats grown in far
northern localities have larger and
plumper grains than any other, and
It Is for this reason that Scotch oat-
meal ranks so high. Excellent oats
for mealing, however, are produced in
Canada
Year: 1875

A lady going to Worth has nothing
upon which to calculate as the proba-
BILE sum Of his bill, for his charges are
altogether arbitrary, and have no ref
erence whatever to the cost of ma
terials or labor employed. An Amer
lean lady lately gave an order for 8
black silk dress to be made in the
scaDt style of the First Empire now
worn, In which ladies give no impress
sion that they glide, as in the days OF
more ample draperies, but prove con-
clusively, especially when the wind
blows, that they are bipeds, as are
angels and men. The dress was sent
home very plain, very scant, and evil
IDENTIFY made of so little material that
the fair owner was completely as
founded by the magnitude of the bill
that came with it. Indignant at such
high-hsnded imposition, she went to
Worth and sxpostulated. But the
king dress-maker took lofty grounds
and informed her that she paid not
for labor, or for style, but for the un-
speakable glory of wearing his
name.n She went home and wrote
him q note, saying that, as the honor
of wearing his name was too expen-
sive luxury for her purse, she would
cOuntermand an order for several
thousand dollars worth OF dresses
concerning which she consulted him,
and would advise her numerous
friends to seek q conscientious mo-
diste. That same day she received
from Worth an elegant lace overdress,
in value far exceeding the silk cor
cerning which she had demurred,
with a note saying that the modiste
had concluded that he must have
been mistaken in the value Of the
black silk robe, and now sent the
overdress to make it worth It's price
Year: 1875

The colt is born with twelve grind
ers- When four front teeth have made
their appearance the horse is twelve
days old; and when the next four
come forth, it is four weeks old.
When the corner teeth appear the colt
is eight months old, and when the
latter have attained the height of the
front teeth, it is ore year old.


The two years colt has the kernel
the dark substance in the middle Of
the tOOth's crOYn-grOund out of all
the front teeth


In the third year the middle font
teeth are being shifted, and when
three years old these are substituted
for the horse teeth, the next four teeth
are shifted Ia the fourth year, and the
corner teeth in the fifth.


At six years the kernel is worn out
of the middle front teeth and the bri-
die teeth have now attained to their
full growth.


AT seven years a hook mas been
formed on the corner teeth of the up
per jaw the kernel of the teeth next
at the middle fronts is worn out. and
the bride teeth begiu to wear of.


At eight years OF age the kernel is
worn. out of all the lower front teeth,
and begins to decrease in the middle
upper fronts.


In the ninth year the kernel has
wholly disappeared from the upper
middle front teeth, the hook on the
corner tooth has increased in size as
the bride teeth lose their points.


In the tenth year the the kernel has
worn out OF the teeth next to the mid
die fronts of ths upper jaw and in
the eleventh year tue kernel has en-
tirely vanished from the corner teeth
of the same jaw.


At twelve years old, the crowns of
all the front teeth ia the lower jaw
have become triangular, and the bri-
die teeth are much worn down. As
the horse advances in age, the gums
shrink away from the teeth, which
consequently receive long, narrow
appearance, and their kernels have
metamorphosed into q darkish point,
grey hairs increase i'm the forehead,
the chin assumes the shape Of an
eagle.
Year: 1875

The crops in Southern New Jersey
are said to have been greatly damaged
by heavy frost on Sunday night.
1t is to be hoped that 1875 is not to be
made unpleasantly memorable by
having frost every month in the
year, as was the case in 1916. The
very low average of the temperature
during that year, throughout the
New England States, ruined the pas
turage id many localities, and made
not few farmers believe that the
climate was growing permanently
colder. This greatly stimulated emf
grafton to Northern Ohio, so that the
loss of one section proved the gain OF
another.
Year: 1875

A correspondent OF the Ohio State
Journal tells an astonishing story as
related to him fifty years ago by an old
Maine hunter, who used to go on long
trapping expeditions far up the Ken
nebee river.


"One night" said be, latter l had
retired to rest in my bed, composed OF
blankets and furs of animals, and sur
rounded by trees and thick brush, /
happened to look up overhead at the
branches of the tree which formed a
sort ofrOof to my rough sleeping-plaee.
1 discovered large panther secreted
among the thick branches and eyeing
me very narrowly, as il to say. GAS
soon as it gets dark enough | will
make short work of you" Then,
thinks /, this is not so good a piece
as l thought it was. So / carefully
slipped from under my coverings, and
went into the woods a short distance
and cut a dozen stakes, and made
them sharp at both ends, and return
ing to my bed drove them down in
tne ground, with one sharp end
pointing upward, and covered them
with the blankets, then carefully
slipped away TO await resslts. Sit
ting down by a tree soon fell asleep.
ana did not wake till morning.
then got up aud went back where /
left things the night before, and
found the panther with several stakes
driven through his body, and quite
dead. He had made the unlucky
leap upon what he supposed was me,
but found out his mistake too late" "
Year: 1875

They tell = story Of member Of the
City Council Of Wilmington, which il
forcibly suggestive of the broadness with
which Sam Houston regarded official life
and its rules Of social bearing. The MEM
Der in question was to meet with others,
proceed to the depot and take the train to
meet the remains Of the late Vice Presi-
dent Wilson. When the time came the
member was not on hand. The rest .sro-
ceedsd to the depot and found hiv. there
sitting in a car in his shirt s'.eeyes, and
smoking short clay pipe. He was the
hsppiest councilman of t..,em all.
Year: 1875

THE Jury j. what ia known as the
Townsend , .urder case has had q truly
hard tire of it. They have been out se-
vera days, denying themselves the fresh
air, looking at each other, talking politics.
touching occasionally upon the jury sys'
ten and winding up On Saturday by filing
into court, and the foreman telling the
Judge that one Of the number had said he
would not convict any one upon clrcum-
stantial evidence. This one Of the jury
men, said he thought alluded to himself
and it was false. Then the judge packed
them all hack into the room from whence
they issued. And If they wish to see then
families at any time this side OF Chris'


MAS they must agree upon verJict.
Year: 1875

There is an eastern story of a Sultan
who oversight himself so as not to
awaken at the hour of prayer. So the
devil came and walked him, and told
him to get up and pray. Who are
you?" said the sultan. go no matter, "
replied the other, "my act is good, is
it not? No matter who does the good
action, so long as 1t is good" Yes, F"
replied the sultan, 3" but I think you
are Satan. I know your face; you have
some bad motive" "But," says the
other, " I am not so bad as am painted.
You see I have left off my horns and
tail. am pretty good fellow, after
all. was an angel once, and still
keep some of my original goodness.
''That's all very we'll, >" replied the sagac-
ions and prudent caliph, 'but you are
the tempter that's your business and
I wish to know why you want me to get
up and pray" Well, said the devil,
with hirt of impatience, elf you must
know, I viii tell you. If you had slept
and forgotten your prayers, you would
have been sorry for it afterward and
penitent, but if you go on, as now, and
do not neglect a single prayer for ten
years, you will be so satisfied with
yourself that it will be worse for you
than If you had missed one sometime
and repented of IT. God loves youI
fault, mixed with penitence, more than
your virtue, seasoned with pride.
Year: 1875

A short Dip Int Natural History.


One sunny morning IN summer, down
the pathway, still sparkling with the
dewy moisture, came stealthily moving
the long, 1.-the form of a mink. Her
fur looked worn and rusty when the
sunlight struck her as she skulked be
tween the tussocks of grass. Occasion
ally she hslted to look about her, alert
for anything eye could see or ear could
hear; but hearing nothing but the
sweet notes of a soDg-sparrow and the
complaining cry of cat-bird among the
alders, she again moved on. As she
reached the muddy edge of the brook,
she trod more daintily, then, winding
among the pickerel- l-weeds, swan down
stream, hardly Disturbing the water,
only making long, wedge-shaped wake
as she stole into the shadowy edge Of
the brook. Suddenly she came up,
struggling with something that swayed
and pulled her about, disturbing the
quiet stream, and sending q muddiness
down with the current. But she bore
the almost unmanegeable wriggling eel
Gor this it was) to the stone wall. and
drawing herself and burden up ont OF
the water on the large stone, read
Iusted her hold, and seized the creature
back of the head. Then bracing her
self to suck the blood, the thrashing,
struggling eel grew gradually weaker
and weaker, until it looked perfectly
limp and lifeless. Then she jumped
from the wall. dragging the eel longer
than herself, up through the grass, tax
ing a different and more concealed way
than the one by which she came, and
soon disappeared altogether.


In the thick-banked wall of this barn
on the hillside she had her young and
after they grew large enough to require
something more substantial than natures
first provision, the mother used to bring
them fish of different kinds-eels, ducks
and like prey. So slyly and stealthily
did she keep herself, that she was not
seen until the young were half grown,
and looked like little fawn-colOred wea-
sells; when she betrayed herself by
bringing this food, which impeded her
movements. By travelling the same way
so many times she grew bold.


These mink are very destructive 20
fish; and when the brook Is low they can
be tracked for g long distance by the
dead eels, pickerel, sinners ard some
times trout, lying along the hank, the
mink only sucking the blood and leav-
ing the fish unmutilated. One autumn
some small sinners, meant for bait in
pickerel fishing through the ice, were
kept in an old tub set in the spring
near the brook, and one night all these
fish were killed by mink, who left
them laid in a row on the ground. They
looked precisely as if some person had
so arranged them. But through the
back of each fish, near the head, were
four tooth-marks, this being frequently
the only mark the mink makes on his
victim. Old and NeaU.
Year: 1875

on his account. I now advertise the
public that the same Thomas Hutchins
came as fortune-teller into this town
about year ago with q recommends
ton which, with some artful falsehoods,
induced me to marry him. OF the
four wives he had before me, the last he
quarreled away how the other three
came by their deaths he can best inform
the public; but caution al widows or
maidena against marrying him, be
their desire for matrimony ever so
strong. Should he make his advances
under a feigned name, they may look
out for q little, talkative, struttine,
feeble, meagre, hatchet-faced fellow,
with spindle shanks and little warped
in the back


g THANKFUL HUTOHINs"
Year: 1875

The pencil marks yoa see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that youT sub
soriptiop is ont or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure IN eztends
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you VIII comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


81 We enter no new names on our
books without the money IN adv7eoe-
Year: 1875

Don't be afraid Of a little fun at
home, good people Don't shut up
your house, lest the sun should fade
your carpets and your hearts, lest
hearty laugh shouid shake down some
Of the musty old cobwsbs there If
you want to ruin your sons, let them
think that all mirth and social enjoy
ment must be left on the threshold when
they come home at nights. When ones
home is regarded as a place to eat,


drink and sleep in, the work IS begun
that ends in gambling houses and reek-


less degradation. Young people must


have fun somewhere. If they do not
find il at their own hearthstones, It


will be sought In other, and, perhaps,
less profitable places. Therefore, let
the FIRE burn brightly at night, and the


bome-nest made delightful with all the
| little things that parents 50 perfe city


understand. Don't repress the bouy-
ant spirits of your children; half an
/ hour OF merriment round the lamp and
freight Of home, blots out the remem.
/ brance of many a care and annoy yance
during the day, and the best eafeguardl
/ they can take with them into the world
is the unseen influences Of q bright little
/ domestic sznctura.
Year: 1875

JUVENILE PENETRATION They were
seated in the parlor conversing in the
softest accents, and little Louie was
seated statue-like in chair near by,
listening, and looking as well as the
chastened light allowed her. Still they
spoke only on the ordinary topics OF
conversation, the Exposition, and the
weather particularly, avoiding that
which was nearest to their hearts, and
which they ardently desired to talk
about. 1t was growing late, and before
he would take leave Of his inamorata
he would, if possible, breathe few ac
cents of love in her willing ear. But
little Louie was as immovable AS when
she took her seat an hour and hall
previously. He would use some de
vice to cause her to absent herself. Ht
requested Louie in the gentlest tone,
to bring him certain piece of music
from the adjoining parlor, knowing
that she would have To search for som,
time before she found it, if at all, an,
tostrengthcn the request, as he thought
he added, "And will kiss you sweetly.
What was his astonishment when tn
child answered, 80 never mind me
! you can kiss Carrie
Year: 1875

POPULAR LUXURY IN Cu1NA.-Two
thugs struck me in China, the universal
smell of musk in the kingdom of flowers
and the enormous consumption of melon
pips, which are what nuts and oranges are
to you English, and what olives and prunes
are to US Gauls. The scarlet and yellow
melons are in some places grown for the
seed only, and are piled up by the side OF
the road for the use of any traveller who
will scoop out the seed for the proprietor.
On the rivers 1 have seen whole junks
laden with these seeds. In the loniiest
place you can procure them, when al!
other food Is scarce. The three hundred
millions of Chinese all eat them. When
friends meet to drink tea or rice wine,
there is always an accompaniment of melon
seeds. They are piled up on every dinner
table. They are eaten while travelling IN
the PaiaBqaias, they are picked at zsile
discussing bargains. If a workman has
few copecs, he does just what his child
would do-buys melon seed. They are
an amusement and food-as a cigarette is
to the Spaniard and the betel nut to the
Hindoo.-The Kingdom of FlowerS.
Year: 1875

THE CHURCH, FROM WITHOUT AND FROM
WITHIN.-I have met with an illustration,
l think in one of Cardinal Wiseman's
works, which admirably expresses the diff
ference between the Catholic Church as she
appears to those outside her pale, and to
those who have been admitted within it..
1t is that of a painted window as seen from
without and from within the sacred build
ing which it adorns To the external OBJ
server it presents nothing but confused
mass. without distinctness of outline or
variety of color. From within, on the con-
trary, all appears orderly and beautiful.
The mass develops into religious subject !;
the dingy hue clears up into coiors of the
most surpassing brilliancy and the most
precious compositions which are reflected
in rainbow tints upon the marble pavement
beneath them. There was, even from
without, certain shadowng forth-a dim
augury-of the glories within but to those
alone who have passed the threshold does the
work reveal it's wonders, or even disclose
it's signfticancy. 1t is thus that the Church
of Christ must be entered, in order to be
understood and appreciated.-Canon OAK
eEey.
Year: 1875

GERMAN ScHooLMAsTERs-Th Berlin
Correspondent of the London Telegraph
tells Us that the trade of schoolmaster in
Germany is not lucrative. The majority
of highly educated teachers, even in Berlin
and the large towns, receive salaries of
from sixty to ninety pounds a year so
that unless they supplement their Govern
ment avocations with such as are specula.
tive or private they find it impossible to
live. The Germania states that a school
master, being threatened by an inspector
with dismissal from his honorable Office, re-
piled that Gin that case he should become
hodmau, and should certainly be delighted
with the change )" while a schoolmaster in
Pomeranian village, having run away
from his educational post, subsequently
turned up as stone carrier, a pursuit
which he found more remunerative. The
youths who are educated by these teachers
suffer proportionately and sympathically;
for since their teachers cannot give them
much time, through being obliged to per-
sue private speculations, the youths are
compelled to teach themselves, and to do
much of their learning at home. The evil,
says the correspondent, is serious one,
and is likely to leave its mark on the
rising generation, which is both over
worked and imperfectly taught.
Year: 1875

The soil is of a rich sandy loan and free
from alkali. There are two or three small
pieces of alkali ground on the tract, but they
will be pointed out to purchasers so that they
may know what they are buying. The char
acter of the soil is more like the warm mesa
lands of the country, than the low, damp corn
lands
Year: 1875

A Public School building, to cost over $4,000
is now being erected and will be completed
before the second sale. The percentage of the
last sale devoted to the erection of this build
ing amounted to over $4,000, and the same
percentage 90 per cent. on town property and
21a ereeilt. on farm property Will be given
for the same purpose from the proceeds of the
next sale.