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Year: 1873

A SPECIAL correspondent Of the
Tribune at Vienna, speaks of the
preparations making for the Exposi-
ton, writes April l9-Here men are
very busy: gangs of sailors are haul
ing and heaving; masons are plaster
ing. while women carry mortar, sift
and gravel, and do all the lowest
manual labor. Here goes a line Of
these women with boxes of mortar on
their heads another with boxes Of
sand. and others again with little
wheelbarrows Of q quaint and anti
quated form, carrying tiny loads Of
brick or other solid material. and file
ing into and along the building like
ants Like ants, too, they are in
their unintelligent meandering. mo
ticed one line going from the mortar
pit to the hall, and having to cross a
temporary railway track on which
was standing line Of empty freight
cars, they all elimed up on the plat
forms, crossed and decended on the
other side, no one having thought far
enough opush two Of the cars apart
so as to make an opening between
them. The Austrian lsboring men
are not much better One man | saw
yesterday splitting three-inch plank
with hatehet, the plank lying fat
on The floor, and being sundered by
hacking down through the middle,
one hand only being used. At anoth-
er place three men pushing and pull.
ing at huge plane. joining a plank
10 or IL feet long. while at the most
critical points, where time presses
most the men stand in gangs and
discuss how G thing must be done,
and what is done seems to be done so
rather by the dint of habit and num-
bers than by intelligent appreciation
OF force.
Year: 1873

A Coon MovE.-The Delaware S. Il. L. Co,
proposes to sprinkle Market Street, the coming
Summer. providing merchants on that thorough
fare are willing to contribute sufficient amount
to pay the expense thereof. Committees are now
soliciting subscriptions for the purpose and we
hope they will be successful Each store on the
street is asked only 10 pay % cents per week.
which is a small amount if the sprinkling be well
done, as we have no doubt it will be.
Year: 1873

ers of express and other wagons, corner of Third
and Walnut streets, have just completed a fine
wsgon for Gottleib Khefuss, baker of this city. =
The wagon is built in a strong and durable man.
ner and is provided with a large bread box, which
can be readily taken out and in, from the rear. -
There are also sliding doors iH each side. The
body and running gear are painted in light yel-
low and carmine, aud the curtains are handsome
Iy painted. The vehicle presents very fine ap-
pearance and is an excellent specimen of the
quality of work turned out by this firm.
Year: 1873

Be very careful not to pull down your
shirt sleeves, or up your collar, or, in
fact, to do anything to your costume as
YOU enter the ball room. It implies
nervousness or uneasiness with yourself
to do so 4; and your one great endeavor
in all societies, should be TO thoroughly
at your ease, and satisfied, without van
ity and coxcombry, with your dress and
appearance. Do not stand idle but do
not dance overmuch. The one implies
a small number of friends, the other
wastes valuable time, and prevents your
keeping that constant lookout all around
you which is essential to success. Be
introduced to movable people quietly !;
there is no necessity to advertise to by
ISLANDERS that you did not know them
before. Never talk much to a woman
you bave only Just made the acquaint-
ance of nor eagerly. She may be al
lowed to suppose you wished to know
her, but not that her acquaintance is
any particular acquisition to you. Above
all things, my dear boy, entreat you
not to stand in the doorways, nor herd
with other men upon the landing. It is
simply advertising yourself a failure.
Tie yourself to the veriest wall flower,
gossip with the dOwdiest mother, dance
with the most disappointed of the
maidenhood, rather than sink to this.
Sitting in the corners comprises g very
large subject, or. rather, array Of sub
iects. To know how to sit IN the cor
ners well and prudently, requiresa vast
experience and steady head; 80, until
you have much extended your acquaint-
ance and your knowledge of humanity,
I would recommend you 70 avoid that
most agreeable of the pleasures Of ball
going. It is not for novice at once to
penetrate to the inner depth Of fashions
mysteries, and I shall, therefore, put of
my advice on this subject until I come,
in a future letter, to the great subject
of flirting, which, of course, comprises
the art Of sitting in corners- London
Society,
Year: 1873

There are hundreds of young men


that should be married who are not


married. To marry early is discreet


and wise. And when men and women


are of a manageable age, think it to


be, In general, true, that il Is whole


some for them to be married. It is not


necessary that they should remain sin


gle because they stand in poverty; for
two can live cheaper than one, if they


live with discretion, if they live with


cooperative zeal, if they live as they


ought to live. If the young man is


willing to seem poor when he is poor ;
if the young woman, being poor, is will


ling to live poorly; if they are willing
to plant their lives together like two
seeds, and wait for their growth, and
look for their abundance by and by,


when they have fairly earned Is, then It
is good thing for them to come early
into this partnership. For characters
adapt themselves to each other in the
early periods of life far more easily
than they do afterward. They who
marry early are like vines growing to-
gether, and twining round and round
each other; whereas, multitudes of
those who marry late in life stand side
by side like two iron columns, which,
being separated at the beginning, never
come any nearer to each ether. There
is no school which God ever opened, or
permitted to be opened, which young
people can so i'll afford to avoid as the
school of care and responsibility and
labor in the household and a young
man and young woman marrying, no
matter from what source they came to-
gether, no matter how high their
fathers have stood, one of the most
wholesome things that they can do, hav-
ing married for love, and with discre-
tion, is to be willing to begin at the
bottom, and bear the burdens of house
hold life, so that they shall have its
education. tell you, there are pleas
ures which many young married people
miss. I would not give up the first two
years of my married life for all Rave
now. I live in a big house, with a
brown-stone front, and very fairly fur
nished; but, after all, among the
choicest experiences of my life were
those which passed through in In
diana, when I hired two chambers up
stairs ; when all my furniture was given
to me, and was secondhand at that
and when the very clothes which had
on my back had been worn by Judge
Birney before me. We were not able
to hire q servant. We had to serve
ourselves. It was a study every day
how to get along with our small means,
and it was study never to be forgot
ten. I owe many of the pleasures
which have run through my life to be-
ing willing to begin where had to be-
gin, and to fight poverty with love, and
to overcome it, and to learn how to live
in service and helpfulness, and in all
the thousani ingenuities which love
sweetens and makes more and more
delightful -Beecher.
Year: 1873

clear, sound vision of the truth, Wis
dom at once piercing and eomprehen-
sive, the nobless and divinest achieve
ments of the reason, demand serenity
of soul as their imperative condition.
Passion clouds the mental eye; emo
ton disturbs the organ of discovery /;
as the astronomer can only rely upon
his observations when the air is still
and the telescope isolated from all the
tremulous movements of terrestrial sur
roundings, so the thinker can only see
justly and penetrate far when all that
could agitate his spirit is buried deep,
or laid eternally at rest.-G. r. Grey.
Year: 1873

Now we have been studying this fnan-
cial business over and we think we
understand it. Have read the quota
tions, eight columns solid nonpareil,
every evening just before bedtime. If
we wasn't dead broke we'd be broker.
Our half that wears a redingote woke
up the other night and, being little
restless because we had no funds with
Jay Cooke & Co., asked what they
meant by saying gold was weaker.
Here was our opportunity to show that
the eight columns solid nonparel had
worked. Turning over and planting
our feet against the footboard, we COM
menced at the beginning, and, review
ing the spirit of the times, explained
how money was required to move grain,
remarking at some length on the expe-
diency of an early resumption of
more substantial circulating medium,
and winding up with the present strin-
gency when every thing is tied up in
worthless and depressed stocks, and
showing how, while petroleum was easy
and whisky steady, and gold very much
down in the mouth, all that was neces-
sary was plenty of currency to move
grain, you know, and it was all right
Hgain. But women never can under
stand finance, though my wife knows
q dollar when she sees it, as quick as
anybody. Then we took a supposi-
tious case which we thought sufficient
ly near the point. "I draw my salary,
for the time being, 1 am long on cur
rency. Then 1 pay board and wash
bills, and by borrowing little manage
to buy very decent overeoat. I am
then short. Nothing could be more
simple. When my paper has matured
I go into the street and run all over the
treasury building for a loan. I bull
the market and throw out more paper
to cover my shorts. I bull it because
am not in a condition to bear it. Not
having any available securities, as a
gold watch or a diamond pin, fail to
cover. am panicy. Then my wife
duns ME for money to buy a cordof but
ton-moulds. Then 1 suspend. Per
fectly plain. Now why do 1 fail ?"
What do you suppose she said 2-No;
the fact is, she was asleep ali the time.
But she intimated the next morning
that had talked too much.-DaRbugy
Nes0S.
Year: 1873

TIE Boston Globe Is yexed to sec the
statement going the rounds of the press
that beetle is capable of lifting 315
times its own weight, while a man of or
binary muscular power is fully 100 times
feebler. Why should a mVn forever, it
asks, be brought into unfavorable com
parison with beetles? Has it ever struck
anybody how many beetles q man can
lift? We are also told for the thou
sandth time that the flea, scarcely
three-hundredths of an inch in height
manages to leap without difficulty over
barrier fully 500 times its own alti-
tude. For a man six feet is an unusu-
ally high leap. Imagine him jump
ing 5000 feet, or nearly three-ffths Of
a mile" We shall imagine no such
thing. 1t is well enough for flea to
Jump. He never does anything else,
except to make dogs life burden to
him. He never leaves his footprints on
the sands of time, or sounds the light
guitar. he never hired himself out to
turn a derrick in Chicago, or gave US
the least assistance during the great fire.
He has done nothing but jump 500
times his own altitude ever since he
was first created, and he viii continue
to do nothing else until his race becomes
extinct. It is inexpressibsy painful to
us to be continually taunted with the
fsct that mankind are not heas. ants,
beetles, or something Of that sort.
Year: 1873

SERENITY OF sOUL--Peace Is necessa-
~ to all the higher intellectual opera
tions. Great feats may be done while
the soul is tempest-tossed great nights
achieved-no poets may strike out
splendid passages, sparkling with a pas
sionate beauty and a sort Of gorgeous
and turpid inspiration, and orators may
astonish us With brilliant flights of
power and pathos redolent of the ex-
eitement which gave them birth; and
ali this may be done while the heart Is
torn by internal CONFLICT. or by Wild
emotion, or yearning with unanswered
love, or sick and faint with passionate
desire; nay, it may be done while the
conscience Is heavy with the load OF re-
cent sin. or distracted IN 81 danger
wherein il sees no hight and Is ooneious
Of 10 strength, But thought. insight,
Year: 1873

THE two cigar steamers of Mr.. Ross
Winans of Baltimore make frequent
trips in the British channel, although
their officers taken pains to prevent any
knowledge of their capacity for speed
from becoming public. One of these
steamers was built at Cherbourg and
the other on the Clyde. The latter is
about 400 feet long, and is built ON a
different plan from the original cigar
steamer, which now lies at her wharf in
Baltimore. Instead of a wheel in the
senter the vessel has two propellers at
the extreme points of the cigar. The
cigar portion of the hull is submerged,
and an eyewitness describes the whole
appearance Of the vessel as he saw it re-
Gently in the hsrbor of Southampton as
'"that of an ordinary ocean steamer
pearched ON the back of a whale. Mr..
Winans hopes TO obtain a speed of
twenty miles an hour by propulsion
alone with his strange craft
Year: 1873

THE grumbler-oh, who can describe
| him? There is no language which can do
| justice to hlm-nO supernatural foresight
which can predict where his next thrust
| will fall, from what unexpected corner he
will send his next arrow Like death, he
| has all seasons for his own; his ingenuity
is Internal. Whoever tries to forestal or
appease him might better be at work in
Augean stables, because, after all, we must
admit that the facts of life are on his
| side.


1t is not intended that we shall be very
comfortable. There is terrible amount
of local depravity in animate and inani-


mate things From morning till night
there is not an hour without its cross To


carry The weather thwarts us; servants,
landlords, drivers, asher-women, and
bosom friends misbehave; clothes don't
fit; teeth ache; stomachs get out of order;
| newspapers are stupid, and children make
too much noise. If there are not big
troubles there are little ones. If they are


not in sight, they are hiding. have won
dered whether the happiest mortal could
point to one single moment and say, AT
that moment there was nothing in my life


which | would have had changed" |
think not


In argument, therefore, the grumbler
has the best Of it. 1t is more than proba-
bic that things are as he says But why
say it? Why make four miseries out of
three? If the three be already unbearable,


so>much the worse. If he is uncomforta-
able, it is pity; We are sorry, but We can't


change the course of nature. We shall
soon have our own little turn of torments


and we do not want to be worn out before


it comes by having listened to his; proba-
bly,, too, the very things Of which he COM
plains are pressing just as heavily ON us


as on him-are just as unpleasant to every
body as to him.


Suppose every one did as he does. I'M
agine, for instance, course Of grumble
from ten people at a breakfast table-all
saying at once, or Immediately after each


other, This coffee is not fit TO drink"
Really, the attendance at this house is in
sufferably poor" | have sometimes wish
ed to try this homeopathic treatment in a
bad case of grumble. 1t seems as if it


might work a cure. If you lose your tenn


per with the grumbler and turn upon
him, saying, "Oh do ROT spoil all our


pleasure. Do make the rest OF things, or


at least, keep quiet!'', ''Xou do not sure


ly, suppose think you are responsible for


it, do you:" with a lofty air Of as:onish-


ment at your Unreasonable senai.iveness


or course, we do suppose he thinks we


are to blame; we do not take MIN TO be
fool as well as a grumbler. But he speaks


to US, at us, before us, about the cause ofhis


discomfort, whatever it may be, precisely


as he would if we were to blame; and that


is the one thing which makes his grum-
bling so insufferable But this he never
can be made to see And the worst OF 1t
is that grumbling is contagious. Ii we
live with him, we shall, sooner or later,
in spite of our dislike for his ways, fall
into them. There is no help for this; /
have seen it again and again. ! have
caught it myself One grumbler in q fam
ily IS as pestilent thing as diseased an
iral in herd: il he is hot shut up or
killed the herd is lost
Year: 1873

ply, "the entire tendency of your labors
proves the force of your last words The
women of the land have cause to thank
you for the common-sense views you have
disseminated


Every mite is of avail, l am aware
but hitherto my field Of action has been
so small that the fruit of my efforts can
scarcely have spread very widely through
Year: 1873

as she stood there in the soft light of
the moon, and heard her say;


ellis sister! and, q, God in heaven!
thought myself his wife! can not
bear it, and | will not" She ran
noiselessly down the stairway, when
something--I know not what--made
me follow her.


After | reached the yard, | could just
see lier white night wrapper flutterlng
through the trees toward the lake. An
awful fear came upon me, and as fast
rs my trembling limbs would allow
me, ] ran after her. AS | came into
the open space just beside the border
of the water, ] saw her pause one mo-
| ment and then throwing up her arms
she ran swiftly forward, and sprang
right into the lake, ] screamed out Nv
my horror, and turning ran back to the
house, and soon they all knew that
Birdie was under the water.


Captain EnnIsly rushed to the edge
of the lake. and throwing Off his coat
sprang into it, just Mt the spot where
Birdie went down, very near the place
where I had seen Carleton kiss her 10
tenderly such little time back. At
last the Captain came up to the surface
! alone, then dived again out of sight.
Three times he went down before he
found her, and we all stood in breath.
less suspense watching him, The third
time he held her in his arms, and
swan toward the shore, We wrapped
her In blankets, and bore her back To
the house, while he staggered dripping
ut her side.


We carried her into the library and
tried every means to bring back life,
but in vain, Poor little Birdie May
was dead. .'ss.s.


Well, they buried her here by the
lake, and gave her thie marble mpnu-
ment for the wrong they had done her,
1t was n long time before we dared let
the mistress know of her death, and
when she did find it out her agony was
dreadful. She never came to her right
mind, but was subject, as long as she
lived, to fits of violent madness. From
her rawlings learned who Birdie was,
and why she lQnkel 50 HNph Hike Cap
tain Ennisly, for he was her father and
Mrs. Ennisly was her mother. She
was the child of their love, before their
marriage, and most bitterly did God
punish their sin. f.


Captain Ennisly watched her and
cared for har lanstuntly, allowing no
one but himself to take charge of her
for four longyears, when she died; and
in one short month they laid him
beside her, for he never held up his
head afterwards.


1t is sad, sad ending, child, to Q
Wonderful story, hut there they both
lie, not far from. the child whose soul
and body they destroyed.


Master Carleton died two years after
ward, In Italy. We never SAW him
again. Then your father bought the
place and came here TO live, and |
staid here and served him, for loved
the old house, and shall never leave
il till the Lord calls me. The dew is
falling, child, Let us go in,
Year: 1873

Perhaps no State IN the Union en-
joys greater advantages than Texas,
vet In the matter of education she APP
pears much behind the other States.
This is not as ii should be, for to arouse
great people, the interest, care ana
attention should be bestowed on her
trimming. Ever since the world began
we have noticed that in proportion to
the spread of education, 80 did that ma
ton thrive and prosper. We look back
to the historylof Ph9nicia and Car
thage, and discover that, according as
they bestowed attention to their train


ing, so did their greatness increase.
They first discovered the art of writing,
and although il was of n primitive,
rude kind, it gave them an advantage
over their neighbors which they did
not fail to use. They became the great
est traders in the world, and are the
inventors of many useful articles, OF
which glass is the most important.
But rs soon as their attention was
wholly bestowed on trade, and their
education neglected they lost their
power, and degenerated into four II
class nation, and to this day are only
know as an ancient and extinct race.


We have met with the greatest ignor-
ance in this favored State, and have
wondered that a people enjoying so
many advantages should mar them
by lack of sclf-culture. Eastern
Texas, perhaps, is worse off than any
other portion of the State, and in con-
nection with it, it might be well to
mention Van Zandt, Wood and Smith
counties. Here it might almostbe said
that they have not enough sense TO
pound sand. In many eases we FOUND
large families of whom not one was
able to read or write. Neither are the
farms In this locality in 80 good and
fourishing condition rs they are in
neighboRhoods where the blessings of
an education are appreciated. The
reason OF this is, that upeducated peo-
pie live kind of animal life, with
nothing calculated to elevate their
minds, and dead to all the noblcr in
stinct of human nature. In other
words they become hardened andindo-
lent. The time has now come when
education must become universal and
thorough. She must go hand in hand
with successful legislation and trade,
and all lovers of their country will lose
no time educating both their minds
and intellects.


Let the women, especially be well ed
ueated, for they exert good and salu-
tary influence Oh the world; therefore
their education should be commensu-
rate with their influence. In the COM
pletion of social life woman is mis-
tress of that which decides its hues.
Let her, then, be trained to WELD this
fearful power with skill and principle,
and for the salvation of social man.
Cato said, at is the Romans who gov
ern the world, but the women who
govern the Romans" TO the superior
perceptions and education of woman,
too, is due the discovery of this great
country. Christopher Columbus had
been turned away by Ferdinand of
Spain had not Isabella recalled and eX-
erted her influence in his behalf. For
the love and honor of our homes it
then behooves us to bestow the most
liberal culture on the female mind.
Year: 1873

GENERAL BUTLER states that there
was on every leading committee in the
House a newspaper correspondent,
sometimes the editor himself ~ clerk,
getting SS a day during Congrtss and
writing letters for what he could get
out of the newspapers beside. What
they got out of the newspapers was but
little in comparison TO the amounts
they obtained for lobbying,
Year: 1873

Convey thy love to thy friend, as
the arrow to the mark, to stick there.
not as bali against the we'll, To re-
bound back to thee that friendship
will not continue TO the end that is
begun for an end.-[Quacle.
Year: 1873

In our legislative reports we lop off all the
superfuity possible, and give only the main
features of interest. The reports are dry
reading at best, yet they have to be published
and perused. But some of our readers have
informed US that to wade through them in their
unabridged form Is more than they can stand,
therefore, to spare their patience and our space
we give merely the gst of legislative business


This, with our Dover letter, will amply suffice.
Year: 1873

Even Professor Tyndall will have to ad-
nit the efficacy Of special prayer in this
case, told If in late exchange:


A clergyman in Columbia, Pa, recently
tested the efficacy Of prayer by introducing
into his supplication the words, 80 Lord,
bless and enlighten tho young man in tho
pink necktic and tho maiden in the blue
bonnet and gray shawl, who are profaning
the sanctuary by kissing one another in
pew number 6s;" and We have eminent
authority for the assertion that the kissing
inuaediately stopped.
Year: 1873

The hunting season is around once more.
and the rabbit skips lightly over the stub
blc-eld. To become notorious as u sports
man. push back the hammer Of your gun
with one foot and blow into the m,,zzlc oi
the piece to see if is loaded. \ brief obit-
uary is pretty certain to follow in a day or
two under the caption of "Anotller Sad
Warning"