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Year: 1871

DREAMS are to our waking thoughts
much like echoes to music; but their re-
verberations are so partial, so varied, so
complex, that it is almost in vain that we
seek among the notes of consciousness for
the echoes of the dream. If we could by
any means ascertain on what principle our
dreams for given night are arranged, and
why one idea more than another furnishes
their cue, it would be comparatively easy
to follow out the chain of associations by
which they unIoll themselves sfterward,
and to note the singular ease and delicacy
whereby subordinate topics, recently watt
ed across our minds, are seized and woven
into the network of the dream. But the
reaso why from among the five thousand
thoughts of the day we revert at night
especially to thoughts number two, three,
four, five, instead of thoughts number two,
three, four, six, or any other in the list is
obviously impossible to conjecture. We
can but observe that the echo of the one
note has been caught, and of the Others
lost, amid the obscure caverns of the mem
ory. Certain broad rules, however, may
be remarked as obtaining generally, as re-
CARDS the topics of dreams.


In the first place, if we have any present
considerable physical sensation or pain,
such as may be produced by wound, OF
fit of indigestion, or hunger, or an unac'
customed sound, we are pretty sure TO
dream of it in preference to any subject OF
mental interest only. Again, if we have
merely slight sensation of uneasiness,
insufficient to cause dream, it will yet be
enough to color dream otherwise sug-
gested with a disagreeable hue. Failing
to have dream suggested to it by present
physical sensation, the brain seems to re-
vert to the subjects of thoughts of the
previous day, or of some former period Iof
life, and 70 take up one or other of them
as theme on which to play variations.
As before remarked, the grounds OF choice
among all such subjects cannot be ascer'
tanned; but the prediction of Morpheus
for those which we have not In our wax
ing hours thought most interesting, IS very
noticeable. Very rarely indeed do ouI
dreams take up the matter which has
most engrossed US for hours before we
sleep. A wholesome law ofvariety comes
into play, and the brain seems to decide
i have had enough of politics, or Greek,
or fox-huntipg, for this time. Now l VIII
amuse myself quite differently" Very
often, perhaps we may say generally, il
pounces on some transient thought which
has flown like a swallow across it by day
light, and insists on holding 1t fast through
the night Only when our attention tc
any subject has more or less tfsnsgressed
Year: 1871

If such generosity as that of Mrs. Prim-
rose, who gave each of her girls guinea
to keep in her pocket, but with strict in
functions never to change it, would satisfy
the greedy youngsters of our generation,
their parents would not object to its exer-
else. The children, however, of these
days are provoked by too many tempta-
tions to expense, to be contented with
being made the mere depositaries of mon
ey. They know too well the capabilities
of dollar to be satisfied with the ring and
touch of it. 1t is not possible to keep the
young in ignorance of that which fulfills
SO universal and important a function in
the relations of the world as money. They
must necessarily, from the earliest age, be-
come more CT less familiar with its power,
and it is desirable that they should learn,
as soon as possible, how to use it with dis
cretion. G.T


1t is prudent practice, we think, to
give children regular allowance of mon
ey. This, apart from the opportunity it
supplies of gratifying their small and in
nocent desires, and thus adding to their
happiness, affords parents and guardians
periodical occasions for inculcating discre-
ton in expenditure, and observing the ef-
feet


When children are somewhat advanced
in years, it is well to make the allowances
of money sufficiently large not only to pay
for the innocent enjoyments which are per
mitted, but for various articles of need.
They thus learn early to discriminate be-
tween necessary and unnecessary expeldi-
tuTe, and with the not infrtqu good re-
suit of checking the latter.


Parents should be, within certain pTu-
dent limits, as generous in their allow
ances of money to children as their means
will permit Lord Bacon says: "The il
hberality of parents in allowance toward
their children is a harmful error, and
makes them base, scquaints them with
shifts, makes them sort with mean CON-
pany, and makes them surfeit more when
they come to plenty; and therefore the
proof is best when men keep their au-
thority towards their children, but not
their purse"


The tendency of youth TO excess must
always be regarded as a reasonable motive
for keeping the supply of pocket money
within reasonable limits. No child should
have the means of inordinate indulgence;
and as his capacity of stomach for tarts
and sweets is only to be checked by the
emptiness of his purse, it becomes neces-
saEy to compensate for the boundlessness
OF the one by the smallness of the other.


There is negative advantage in the
pocket-money system which has been
proved in the course of considerable ex-
perience in the discipline of children.
The Withholding of the regular allowance
has been found, like the stoppsge of the
sailors ration of grog, or the prisoners
supply of tobacco, an easily applicable and
most effective means of punishment. We
have known many ayoungster, unterrifed
by the threats of the rod and the dark
closet, however imminent, subdued at the
least hint Of the possibility of losing his
pocket money.-HdrUer's Bdsdr.
Year: 1871

the bounds Of health, and we have been
mOrbidly excited about it, does the main
topic of the day recur TO US in dreaming at
night; and that it should do so, ought al
ways, 1 imagine, to serve as warning
that we have strained our mental powers
little too far. Lastly, there are dreams
whose origin is not in any past thought,
but in some sentiment vivid and pervad-
ing enough to make itself dumblY felt,
even in sleep. OF the nature of the
dreams so caused, we shall speak presently.
The subject of dream being, as we
must now suppose, suggested to the brain
on some such principle as the above, the
next thing to be noted is, How does the
brain treat its theme when it has got it?
Does it drily reflect upon it, as we are
wont to do awake? Or does it pursue
course wholly foreign to the laws of wax
ing thoughts? 1t does, conceive, neither
one nor the other, but treats its theme,
whenever i: is possible to do so, according
to certain very important, though OBJ
scure, law of thought, whose action we
are too apt to ignore. We have been ac-
customed to consider the myth-creating
power of the human mind as one specially
belonging to the earlier stages of growth
of society and of the individual. It will
throw, l think, rather curious light on
the subject if we discover that this in
stinct exists in every one of US, and exerts
itself with more or less energy through
the whole of our lives. In hours of wax
ing consciousness, indeed, it is suppressed,
or has only the narrowest range of exer-
else, as the tendency, noticeable to all per-
sons not of in the very strictest veracity,
to supplement an incomplete anecdote
with explanatory incidents, or throw
slightly known story into the dramatic
form, with dialogues constructed out of
our own consciousness. But such small
play CT the myth-making faculty is moth
ing compared to its achievements during
sleep. The instant that daylight and COM
mon sense are excluded, the fairy-work be-
gins. At the very least, half our dreams
(unless l greatly err are nothing else
than myths formed by unconscious cere-
bration of the same approved principles,
whereby Greece and India and Scandi-
naYis gave to US the stories which we
were once pleased to set apart as my
thology" proper. Have we not here, then,
evidence that there is real law of the
human mind causing US constantly to COM
pose ingenious fables explanatory of the
phenomena around us-a law which only
sinks into allegiance in the waking hours
of persons in whom the reason has been
highly cultivated, and which resumes its
sway again over their welltutored brains
when they sleep?-Frdneis P0Icer COBB, in
Mac AillaD's Magazine.
Year: 1871

Girls, take good care Of your health:
Don't think because you are perfectly well
now you can expose yourselves IN every
way, and because it never did hurt you,
that it never will. 1t is no light matter to
trife with ones health, for it is too often
blessing too little appreciated until lost.
know how you feel about such things,
for was once thoughtless girl too; and
although / had kind mother to give me
advice, which l have often wished had
taken, thought then knew best, and
only found out my mistake when IS was
too late. How often do you do as didE
Change thick and heavy clothing for light
er, and heavy shoes for thin CATERS, to go
sleighing, or to some party or Singing
school. Then have you not come chilled
through, and risen next morning with the
headache, swollen eyes, and generally
uncomfortable feeling? Don't do SO, girls.
Don't follow fashions that will make you
sacrifice your health. If you do, you viii
be old women at thirty, in spite Of all the
embellishments you can give your faces !;
for if your health is ruined, you viii have
little pleasure in anything else.


once knew young girl who was as
healthy and hearty as one usually sees,
who walked home from a party In tnln
shoes, through the dewey grass She
caught cold which settled on her lungs
and in short time carried her to her grave,
She is not the only one who has shortened
her life by her own carelessness How
MANY we see who are killing themselves
bv lscinp. think it is pitiful sight TO
see an unnaturally slender waist, and eyes
nroiecting from the head from the COM
preston, while the victims OF tneit own
rOurS UucS a. thew need, for fear their misery
WsiS 1TST he - more than they can bear. No SEN
sible itJI giri win do this, and no one ever
would if she could only know tne saner-
Tsxa advice. then; dress so that you feel
Comfortable, no matter how others do; and
nsver expose yourself more than you can
help, and you will stand chance OF srIoy-
ing healthy and hsppy old age-Wsst-
srn R,roL
Year: 1871

ONE of the most interesting questions
now discussed by astronomers, IS that
which concerns the possibility of the ex-
istence of q central sun. The vast extent
of the range of influence exercised by the
law of gravitation has suggested the great
probability that in the assemblage of stars
with whichour system is connec ted, there
is a centre of gravity around which they
revolve. As in the solar system such
priniple is found to exist, the inquiry
naturally propounds itself, why it should
not also exist over the broadest limit OF the
universe, and why, too, there should not be
some point or centre around which every
cluster and nebula may revolve.
Year: 1871

The highest farm in the world is said,
to be situated four miles from Sherman
Station on the Union Pacific Railroad. 1t
has an elevation eight Thousand feet above
the sea-Ievel. Vegetables and grain thrive
well on the farm, and two hundred young
apple Irees have been set out as an expert
ment
Year: 1871

A SUMNER boarder "a very close calcula-
tori recently astonished the landlord by
asking him how much he was going to
deduct from his board bill because he had
two teeth extracted. "
Year: 1871

HEREDITARY badness is supposed to be in
curaoie. All that can be done where it be-
gins to show itself is to put off the evil day
oy Inc judicions use Of some stimulating or
cooling preparation that shall create new
acuon in the glands or folicles, usually
called roots, and thus tighten the hair that
would otherwise become loose and fall OF.
Kings Vegetable Ambrosia has acquired an
snsiable reputation for this purpose, gem
orally but not invariably, proving successful
Year: 1871

GERMAN PEACE JUBrLEE.-Monday'
the 10th day of April 1871. has been
designated by the Central Committee for
the United States as the day to celebrate
IN all the cities Of the Union festival
and peace jubilee, in commemoration OF
the happy consummatlon of the great
war. fought by the Germans in Europe


ScuooL TRUSTEES ELECTED To DAY
The election for Common School Trus-
tees occurs to day. In each district let
Trustees be chosen who have time to
devote and who feel an interest in put
ting the school law into successful oper
stion
Year: 1871

Warmers Dyspepsia Tonic is prepared expressly for
Dyspeptics and those suffering with habitual cos
tiyeness 1t is n slightly stimulating tonic and
splendid appetizer it strengthens the stomach and
restores the digestive organs to their healthy state
Weak nervous and dyspeptiC persons should use
Warmers Dyspepsia Tonic. For sale by druggists.
Price a.
Year: 1871

A man will die for want of air in five
minutes, for want of sleep in ten days, for
want of water in a week, for want of food
at varying intervals, dependent on consti-
tuition, habits of life, and the circumstances
of the occasion. Instances have been
given where persons have been said to
live many weeks without eating a particle
of food but when opportunities have been
offered for fair investigation of the case,
it has been invariably found that weak
and wicked fraud has been at the bottom
of it.


On the 2Sth of August the captain Of a
Boston whaler was wrecked. For eight
DAYS he could not get drop Of water or a
particle of food. On the day of the wreck
he weighed one hundred and ninety
pounds, and when rescued, he weighed
one hundred pounds. A teaspoonful of
brandy was given to each sailor, but be-
fore they could be taken on board the
vessel which saved them, they became IN
conscious, and remained so for two days,
but all eventually recovered. Many per-
sons have been killed by eating too much
after having tasted for a long time. The
safe phn of procedure, and that which
every reader should bear in mind, is to
feel the way along, as persons who are
travelling in the dark and fear precipice
ahead. There can be no rule given, be-
cause there are 50 many modifying circum-
stances. Give a teaspoonful of hot drink
at a time, and, if there are no i'll effects,
repeat in five minutes. and the same
amount of soft food, boiled rice, softened
bread, or Cruel, for the stomach is itself as
weak as the sufferer in proportion, and
can only manage very small amount OF
food.


Wading in water, or keeping the cloth
ing saturated with water, even II II Is sea.
water. seHsibly sbates the horrors of
thirst.-.HaTs Journal of Health
Year: 1871

Nor only are toads harmless, they are
absolutely and directly useful to us, per-
ambulating our fields and gardens at night,
and devouring vast quantities of injurious
insects which could never be destroyed by
the hand of man. The mode in which a
toad takes its prey is very curious. The
singularly beautiful eye of the toad is as
quick as it is bright, and if within the
range of its vision an insect or grub
should happen to move, the toad is sure to
sect and nearly certain to catch it. First
the toad holds its head as high as possible,
so as to make sure of its prey, and then
crawls slowly toward it, preferring to get
under it if possible. When it is nearly
within reach, it gazes intently at the in
sect, its mouth being gradually brought
nearer and nearer. Something pink then
flashes from its mouth, and the insects
vanishes as if by magic.


The pink fash is the tongue of the toad,
which is formed in rather curious way.
The base of the tongue is fixed close to
the front of the lower jaw, and is long and
tapering, the tip pointing down the throat
when it is at rest When, however, it is
used fer catching prey, it is thrown out
with a sort Of flick" and the tip, which
is covered with a glutinous secretion, ad-
heres to the insect, and conveys it down
the tOadS throat Dtfpre the prey has had
time to make an effort for escape. When
the toad swallows its prey, it does it with
mighty effort, during which the eyes al
most disappear, the size of the insect hav-
ing little to do with the Vehemence of the
demonstration. Some INES when a large
beetle is swallowed it does struggle, but
too late, and for some time its struggles
may be seen through the thin and ribless
sides of its capturer; the toad sitting the
while in perfect compcsure, not in the
least affected by the scratchings and kick
ings that are going on in its interior.


Indeed, the stomach of the toad seems
as devoid of feeling as if it were of iron.
Moreover, the toad not only cares nothing
for the scratchings and kickings of large
beetle, but is equally Indifferent to the
stings of wasps bees and insects similarly
armed with venomous weapons, and will
eat them with marvellous appetite, as ii
the sting acted as sort of gentle aid to
digestion, like cayenne pepper with GU
| enthusiastically Magazine.
Year: 1871

brook; SO he did not try to be sly about !
but went boldly down through the gar
den and across the pasture tG the brook.
His mother saw him crossing tie pasture
with the rod trailing aftsr him, bus, as he
often went there to drive the calves about,
she thought the rod was big whip he halt
picked up.


The little chap seated himself ON the
bank, baited his hook, and began to fish.
He sat minute quite still, then jerked up
his line with the air of a veteran angler,
then dropped 1t again; and so on for half
an hour he sat patiently waiting for
nibble.


As he sat there, he had forgotten how
much pains he had tslsen TO teach lamb
that was in the pasture 70 butt; but the
lamb had not been so forgetful, and when
he spied Tiny Tim seated there, moving
his hands, he thought it was a dare for
him to butt and butt he did, sending Tim
off the bank, plump into the brook.


One squal as he went over the brink
splash, and he was down among the
fishesl


Old Obadiah Oliver happened to be fish
ing just a few rods further up the stream,
and, hearing the splash, ran down and
pulled poor Tim out of the water. He was
as wet as drowned rat.
Tim lifted up his voice and wept; and,
to comfort him, the old man gave him
| some fish he had caught, and set him over
the fence, and told him to run home and
| dry his clothes


Tim cried as loud as he could bawl, all
the way home; for he thought he had
| spoiled his clothes. OF course he had not,
but as his mamma had only that suit
made, he had either to put on his dress
again, or go to bed. He said he would 60
to bed; so he went up stairs.


He kept so still that they thought some
thing was going on, and Cora went to see.
She peeped through the crack of the door,
and saw Tin with a pair of Lucius' old
trousers on, and his fathers coat.
| The sight was too much for her, and she
burst out laughing. Tim slammed the
door, and no more was seen of him till
supper time, when he crept down in his


bed gown, 10 eat his bread and milk. He
could not be Coaxed to put on a dress
again, after the bliss of wearing trousers.
Young Folks Rural
Year: 1871

EXERCISE can kill as well as cure. To be
taken advantageously, it should be done
with Judgment. Sometimes a particular
part of the body needs exercise, but the
whole body is too weak to give it; in such
case, only the part needing 1t should have
it. But there is one rule which is applica-
BILE to all, never go against the instincts.
Many persons have hurried themselves
into the grave by endeavoring "to keep
up" when they ought to be in bed; and
they do "keep up" too, for so long time
that, when they do take to their beds, their
strength is so completely exhausted, that
the system has no power to rise, and they
fall into typhoid condition, and all is
lost. When anything serious is the mat
ter with domestic animals, they court
quietude and perfect rest. Sometimes we
feel indisposed to exercise from sheer lazi-
ness; in all loose conditions of the bowels,
debility, an instructive desire to sit down
and stay there is universal; in most of
such cases quietude is cure. But there is
one safe rule for all under all circum-
stances: if every step you take Is with an
effort, do not take another; go to bed; II
you feel the better for a walk, then walk
on; but stop short of great fatigue.-DT.
w w Hall.
Year: 1871

Let the person whose name you wish to
know inform you in which of the up
right columns the first letter of his name
is contained. If it be found in but one
column, it is the top letter; if it occurs in
more than one, it is found by adding the
alphabetical numbers of the top letters of
these columns, and the sum will be the
number of the letter sought By taking
one letter at time, in this way,
the whole can be ascertsined. For exam
pie, take the word Jane: J is found in the
two columns commencing with B and 81,
which are the second and eighth letters
down the alphabet; their sum ten, and
the tenth letter down the alphabet is j,
the letter sought The next letter, A, ap-
pears in but one column, it stands at the
top. n is seen in the columns headed B,
d, and II these are the second, fourth,
and eighth letters of the alphabet, which,
added, give the fourteenth, or n, and so
on. The use of this table will excite no
little curiosity among those unacquainted
with the foregoing explanation.
Year: 1871

BAD blood, too much blood, giving
headache, bad taste in the mouth of morn
ings, variable appetite, sickness at stom-
acb, chilliness, cold feet, and great suscep-
tibility TO taking cold; no one person may
have all these symptoms when bilious, but
one or more is always present.


Sometimes bilious person has yellow
tinge in the face and eyes, called "bilious,"
because the bile, which is yellow, is not
withdrawn from the blood; it is the bust
ness of the liver to do that, but when it
does not do it, it is said to be torpid, to
be lazy, does not work, and the physician
begins at once to use remedies which are
said to promote the action of the liver.


1t hes been discovered within a few
years that acids "act on the liver" such
as nitric acid, elixir vitriol, vinegar; but
these are artificial acids, and do not have
the uniform good effect of natural acids,
those which are found in fruits and berries.


Almost all parsons become bilious as the
warm weather comes on; nine times out
of ten, nature calls for her own cure, as
witness the almost universal avidity for
"greens, and "spinach" in the early
spring, these being eaten with vinegar
and soon after, by the benign arrangement
of Providence, the delicious strawberry
comes, the raspberry, the blackberry, the
whortleberry; then the cherries and the
PEACHES and apples, carrying US clear into
the fall of the year, when the atmosphere
is so pure AMI bracing, that there is gen.
eral good health everywhere.


The most beneficial and anti bilious
method of using fruits and berries as
health promoters is to take lhem at dessert,
after breakfast and dinner; to take them
in their natural, raw, ripe, fresh state,
without cream or sugar, or anything else
besides the fruit themselves.


Half q lemon eaten every morning on
rising and on retiring is often efficacious
in removing bilious condition of the sys-
tenn, giving good appetite and greater
general health.-Dr W. W. Hall.
Year: 1871

There is some advantage in being fat.
A few nights ago a bulky lady in Bridge
port, Conn.,, alarmed by the approach OF
burglars, leaped out of bed with such force
that she shook the house from garret to
cellar, awakening male lodger who slept
on the lower floor and frightened away
the burglars before they had time to Sc
cure anything.
Year: 1871

THERE was a little amusement in the
office of the Probate Judge of Cincinnati
a few days ago. An exceedingly corpulent
gentleman called, and perspiringly asked
for marriage license. The accommodat-
ing clerk, of course, seized the blank with
avidity, put down the date, inserted the
applicants name and then asked the i'm
patient lover the name of the prospective
bride. This was poser. The interro-
gated stared blankly at his questioner,
stuck his hands in his pockets, and finally
acknowledged thst he did not know. The
clerk told him that the name was essential
to the legality of the license, and the un.
happy man departed, saying that ne would
find out and call again.