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Year: 1872

ADVICE To TIE GIRLS.-Ne have charity
for fast girls We have often found them
generous and warm hearted. and are fully
ready to believe that their disregard of con
yentionalities Is often the b0lduess Of inno-
cencc For example, in some families the
chamber of the sister Is the resort of the
brother in the first place then of the cou-
sin who is almost brother, and then Of the
brothers intimate friend who IS treated as
one Of the family When this free style of
living is transferred from the shadow Of the
family, TO the apartment Of 4 crowded hotel
or boarding house, itgives occasion for much
free speaking and free think; k;ng--for a style
Of Judgment that often does the v0ung Girl
great injustice We have said that our
Americans had thsir faults. The want of
conventional limits Of propriety between the
sexes IS one uf them. The Young French
girl IS kept secluded and never suffered to
see gentleman unmatched. In America.
from their early childhood, little girls and
boys grow up together-and on the whole it
is best they should But in order that this
liberty should produce good effects. parents
and guardians should ineessantly teach GER
tain limits of propriety. There are certain
places, times and modes Of intercourse, that





are certain other places, times and modes
that are improper, and il ought TO be a part
of the early training Of every girl TO teach
her this. Every approach on the part Of
young girl to any personal familiarity with
anv Young man, such aS she might most in
nocently take with another girl, exposes her
to misoons.ruction which it was the duty of
her mother TO prevent by timely warning. \
favorite author has said that such personal
advances, on the part Of women were '' I'M
moralitieS Of manner" even where the in
tention was innocent. So girls, take care
respect yourselves-respect Your sex, and DO
not give the enemy cause 10 speak repeoachill-
". Listen. all Of YOU. 10 wha; q man SAYS. Ii
/, out of some old-fashioned Fathers Legacy.
or some such antiquated book. He SAYS
- \ fine woman has q power over Us which
-he very little dreams, but little too near
acquaintance often diS-oyes the illusion and
converts the angel into very ordinary girl.
Let mother tell YOU, girls, that mothers,
when they send their boys into the great
world and its temptations hope much for
them from the influence of good women
Did you ever think Of this, when You tell
Young men that vou dote on smoking when
YOU urge wine upon them At parties? some
mothers, some sisters, NAV wish that you
would lead her son or brother 10 nobler,
purer conceptions Of life. Ought not some
higher motive to govern YOUR intercourse
with the young men of your acquaintance
than merely the desire to tasten their admi
ration on yourself-to please them AZ any
and every hazard BE sure that Young
man who Is pleased through the lower nature.
because YOU encourage his indolent and self
indulgent habits. and part with his last ele-
waited impulses, will think Of you by and by
only a, a part Of something unworthv,which
his better self Will seek to oatgrow.-Mrs.
H. B. Store
Year: 1872

The following story. which is going the
round of the Fgench papers, ought to serve
as useful lesson to practical jokers Two
diners. who were unknown to each other,
were sitting at the same table in restau-
rant in the Place de Chateau d'Eau. One
of them, joking with the mistress of the es-
tablishment. said, Il must have some fresh
lobster. otherwise | shall kill you. His
neichbor, young man of about twenty-five
years or age. then drew from his pocket
small revolver, which he handed to him,
SAVING in fan, - Here is something which
will enable You to accomplish your crime.
The revolver was examined and returned to
its owner. who, had scarcely time to remark
that il was loaded, when, owing to some
defect in its construction, one of its cham
bers exploded. fortunately without injuring
anv ore A crowd, however, collected out
side tie restaurant as though some tragedy
had iust occurred, the agents Of the police
came I'D. and the unfortunate delinquent
was carried off to the commissary OF police
TO give some explanation of the affair. In
the meantime, an individual present, who
had up to this time kept in the background,
but had perfect knowledge of the hero of
the adventure. ran to the lodging of the lat
ter. declared to the landlord a murder had
been committed by his tenant, and that he
himself was an agent Of the police come to
make thorough search of his rooms. The
doors were accordingly thrown open to him
Year: 1872

POWER OF COxPRElIEN ON.-lt was said of
Thoreau, we believe, thet he could take up
any given number of leld-penciis without
counting. a celebrated trapper once assured
us that he could tell how many balls he had
in his bullet pouch by placing his hand on it,
and without stopping to count them, and
added, - | can tell the number Of bullets in
stantly, without stopping, as you pronounce
a word without spelling it" SoUthey was
accustomed to take in the substance of a
bcpk in turning the leaves oyercontinuously,
glancing down the pages. Houdan, the ma
gieian, trained himself to quickness of per-
cebtion, when boy, by running past a show
window at full speed, and then trying to tell
what is in it. We once met man on
canal boat who was amusing himself by 90
ing from passenger to passenger and telling
almost every one where he had seen him be-
fore, on such train, in such a hotel,
I'M such a street, giving date and
place to people with whom he had never ex-
changed word. This training of the fac
ul.es in particular directions Is carried to a
marvellous extreme by backwoodsmen, trap
pers, and men who guess the weight of ami
mails. Perhaps the most remarkable inStan
ces are the markers who leap from log to log
at the mouth of a boom, standing on the
floating log and translating instantly an old
mark into new one, remembering what
equivalent TO give for each of hundred
marks, and chopping it upon the log in the
time that it floats its length. 1t is said that
Thoreau knew the relative order Of flower
ing of all the plants in the Concord woods,
and knew the note of every bird, and a
thousand out-of-the-way things heSides.-
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1872

A little nook Of wilderness


Between the meadow and the river,
When two erewhile together came.


And one will como 20 more forever
The rustic bridge, the narrow road.


The seat upon the fallen pine,
The whisper Of the Summer woods,


S. sweet, but not so sweet as thine.
A Little Wild-aower long ago


Among the tangled grasses grew
81 many things are dead since then.


How should not that be withered too
Here where we sat I sit alone.


Watching until the sun goes down.
For though tits summertime to-day.


Tomorrow viii the woods be brown.
Year after year, the poet sang,


Tea- after year the spirit sighs,
And summer-days will come again,


And suns viii set in Summer skies
But to his bourne Of wilderness


Between the meadow and the river
VIII sny come because We came.


And say,-they come no more forever,
Year: 1872

We insist that our Institution has been
and is school, and not prison We re-
eeive boys that are sent us, feed and eiothe
them well, instruct them to the full extent


of their capacity, set before them good ex-
amples, surround them with all possible in
ducements for good conduct, stimulate their
hopes and make their stay at Waterbury
compulsory only till they have received a
fair common school education, and have ac-
quired sufficient moral strength to resist
temptation. In every case the attempt is,
Year: 1872

e-Sick-FOrty Days
without Fire and Fifteen


Without Food or Water.
AN occurrence which makes
the very blood frer,zc within
the veins of the reader, came
TO light last Monday over in
Clifton, Calumet county Wis.
Thomas Downing, who for
some time has lived alone in a
small shanty, back from any
road, over in that locality, and
qnarried stone for a livelihood,
was taken violently sick at his
home on the 22d Of last Jan.
uarY with bilious fever, and
was confined to his bed from
that time until Monday, March
4th. During the long weary
days of his illness no one call
ed-no one to lend a helping
hand in administering to the
wants Of the sufferer; and all
because the location of his resi-.
dence was so secluded that he
had not been missed from his
daily round of toll. Last Mon.
day, however, came the good
Samaritan. A gentleman who
had sold MIR. Downing a guam
tity of butter last fall called at
his residence on Monday to
make a collection on the same.
Upon approaching the house
there were no visible signs Of
life, but from the interior en-
anated pitiful walls that were
most narrowing to the soul. -
An entrance was forced, and



the suffering man was found on
the bed with boots and clothes
all on, in which condition he
had passed the length of time
above stated, without the com,
fort of fire, and for the last
fifteen days without food or
water. In this condition he
was lifted from his cot, and
conveyed to the house Of a
near neighbor, medical aid at
once summoned, and, at this
writing, he is pronounced in a
fair way to recover.
Year: 1872

Almost as regular as the re-
volving of the earth around
the sun, does the stealing and
the robbery Of the Treasury go
on under the Grant administra.
ton, and yet the country is
told by those who have him in
keeping and profit by the
thieving, that no other man is
so fit to administer the affairs
of the government for the next
four years.


The last case Of defalcation
reported is that Of w. S. Coll.
ins, United States Pension
Agent for the District of Col
umbia, which amounted at last
accounts to $25,000; which
snug little sum further investi
gated may increase.
Year: 1872

The Memorial Diplomatiqus
states that the Sultan, in order
not to disturb the friendly re-
lation existing between Turkey
and Russia, has refused the off.
er Of the Envoy of the Emir
Of Bokhara to invest the Sultan
with the Suzerainty of Box
hara as q protection to the
Emir against Russia. The
Envoy has consequently left
Constantinople.
Year: 1872

A WORD TO STERN FATHERs.-It can
never be too strongly impressed upon the
mind that nothing releases parent from
his duties toward n child. No wayward-
ness, no disobediencc, no rebellion, no
profligacy can ever justify father in
casting son or daughter adrift. We
hear Of sons being forbidden their fathers
house, and without any exception, such
cases are proof that, OF whatever sins tho
children may have been guilty, the father
is even more guilty. No person can com
NIT against society 50 great crime as u
father commits who is thus false TO the
who thus thrusts Off from him the soul
which he called into being. A father
should be governed by no motive but his
child's best interests, and n child's best
interests can never be served by anything
but his fathers constant ard loving care.
| If "A child is so bad that his influence is
feared on the other Children n separation
between them may be effected. If it is
feared that money bestowed on him will
be for his injury, provision may be made
against that us in the case | have mem
toned. But when father in fit of an
ger, or as n reward for il-doing, disin-
herits or refuses to see his child, he COM
mits crime which the laws indeed do
not recognize, but whose guilt it would
take many legal crime to outweigh.
There should be absolutely no limit to
parental forgiveness and forbearance.-
Seven times and seventy times seven
should the father receive the prodgal son
who seeks his face, and if he never seeks
it, if he goes, stubborn and rebelious, not
one atom Of atherly care and interest
should he relax for the child is his child,
his offspring, born Of his will, and no
vice or violence can release the man from
his solemn obligation to guard and guide
so far as possible the life which he dared
to give.
Year: 1872

CRCUMsTANTIAL EvIDENCE.-About
twenty years ago there was case in ono
of the Eastern States where man was
tried, convicted and executed for murder.
1t was known that he slept with friend
who had some money-several hundred
dollars in bills which had been paid him
n few days before. In the night the
friend disappeared there was blood on
the pillow and traces of it all the way
from the door to tho river which ran near
the house bloody handkerchief be-
longing to the suspected man was found
near the river, and the marked money
count for the others disappearance, and
turned both red and pale when accused
of the murder. Could any stronger proof
be needed But after the execution the
missing man wrote to his parents an
nouncing his safe arrival in California,
and as soon as he learned what had hap
pened he explained all tho unfortunate
circumstances. He had determined to
go to California, but kept his intention n
secret except from person in neigh
boring town who was to accompany him.
Before retiring on the night of his dsap-
pearance he had exchanged money with
his bed-fcllow, because the bills he held
were not the kind he wished to carry.
He awolie in the night and found himself
bleeding at the nose. Selling hand
kerchief, which lay on the table, he went
to tho river to stop the blood. On his
way there he dropped the handkerchief
and just as he was returning to the house
his intended companion appeared and
urged him to start for the Pacific coast.
Fearing to disturb some one he did not
return to the house, but proceeded with
his friend, who furnished him with hat,
coat and boots rs soon as they reached his
residence. His bed-icllow slept soundly
and knew nothing Of his departure. Tho
explanation was clear, and established
the innocence Of the man who had been
convicted but it could not return him to
life.
Year: 1872

WoMAN's LovE.-An engineer on the
Boston and Albany Railroad had his legs
crushed, and when he was taken to the
City Hospital in Boston, young lady, to
whom he was soon to be married, hasten
ed to him, intending to nurse him with
that care which only love can inspire.
But the rules of the institution are rigid,
and only his wife could be permitted to
remain. Accordingly on Sunday after
noon, the Rev. j. ID. Fulton was called,
and in the presence Of the hospital officials
and few friends, the twain were made
man and wife. Two days after the injured
man died.
Year: 1872

She is modest, she is beautiful,


Free and easy. but not bold
Like an apple, ripe and mellow,


Not too young, and not too old,
Half inviting, half frepulsive,


Now advancing, and now shy;
There is mischief in her dimple,
There is danger in her eye.
She has studied human nature,
She is schooled in all her arts,
She has taken her diploma


As tho mistress of all hearts.
She can tell the very moment


When to sigh and when to smile,
Oh ! maid is sometimes charming,
But widow all the whilo.
You are sad. How very serious
VIII her handsome face become,
Are you angry she is wretched
Lonely, friondless, fearful, dumb.
Are you mirthful how hor laughter,
Silver sounding, will ring out;
She can lure, and catch, and play you,
As an angler does the trout.
All old bachelors of forty,


Who have grown so bold and wise,
Yo Adonises of twenty,


With your love looks in your eyes,
You may practice all the lessons
Taught by Cupid since tho fall,
But | know little widow.


" ho could win and fool you all.
Year: 1872

HUMAN GREATN Ess.-We cannot look,
however imperfectly, upon a great man
without gaining something by him. He
is the living light fountain, which it is
good and pleasant to be near; the light
which is enlightened and which still en-
lightens the darkness Of the world, and
this, not as a kindled lamp only, but
rather as natural luminary, shining by
the gift of Heaven-a flowing light foun-
tain, as we say, of native original insight
OF manhood and heroic nobleness, in
whose radiance all souls feel that it is
well with them.
Year: 1872

1t will be held to be dismal news by
many who think they are in the habit of
drinking champagne, that an authority
likely to be trustworthy sends lugubrious
tidings from Chalons about the crop.
This writer describes the harvest as
scarcely third of the average yield,
adding, and this, too, after couple of
years equally bad" A result of this
grievous state of affairs is, that wine is
sent out when only year old, whereas
it used to be kept till three, four or FIVE,
and, of course, suffers accordingly in
quality. The demand is enormously in
excess of the supply, Notwithstanding
that within the twelve months 100000
of bottles have left Epernay, The
present harvest is all bespoken,
and there is consequently every
reason why our local manufacturers OF
soidistant Cliquot should make prepara-
tons for an active and profitable season,
knowing as they well do that, as one OF
the fraternity expressed it, ANY thing
that pops" has well-wired cork, and a
good embossed label, does just as we'll
with many Of their connoisseur custo-
mers as though it had crossed the At
lantic. In one district along the banks
of the Marne, where until lately they
only raised cheap red wine, the failure
of white wines and the increased de-
mand for them during the past three
years, has induced the proprietors to
change the color of their vintage, and
the result has been enormously remu-
nerative.
Year: 1872

aristocracy, you know, and I'm sure
dressmaking is quite as high and honor.
able as any of them.


But the aristocratic world may 60
its length, from the dress. making aris-
tocIacy down to the whisky aristocracy,
for all US three small, busy housekeep-
ers. We only ask Of the poor lady
leafers, who strain their lives to the last
notch to initiate the rich lady loafers,
that they will kindly 60 about their
business and not interrupt our daily
work, obliging us to seem gay when we
are sad; TO keep up silly, hollow appear
ances which we detest; to lose our pre-
cious time and appear sweet-tempered
and smiling, all the while that we feel,
to put it mild, like an enraged hornet;
to make believe richer than we are; to
tell abominable lies and say that we are
glad to see EN-. when we wish they were
in Bungay to sit up in our little parlors
chattering like lot of poll parrots whez
we ought to be down in the kitchen
making bread; these feminine Stole
Moores who force themselves unwelcome
into our lives, making us for the moment
as idle and disconted as themselves, and
then going away and telling of our pow
erty, our little family jars and our mild
cdrtain-lectures. How would men look
packing up their traps and going visit
ing, travelling from house to house with
basket and band-box, roosting down
at your 6reside for week or two, and
then packing off and alighting down
upon some other freside week or two,
and keeping it up till they make the
round Of their acquaintances2 Do fancy
visiting man once! Oh, it is so in.
tensely aggravating to be visited by idle,
good-for nothing people whom you don't
want. We only wish these lady losfers
had to work as hard as we do, and be
worried as they very US. that's all.


Ought we to come out plain and tell
EN- how they torment us, and how we
don't want EN- ever to set foot upou our
premises again? Try it, ye who can.
We cant. We wouldn't for our lives.
We don't know what to do. Sometimes
we get just desperate enough to threaten
to up and actually go off lecturing-lec-
turing on lady loafers. They'd feel
dreadfully if we were to do that now. No
greater plague could be inflicted on this
poor, long-suffering world than for these
desperate, determined women to go from
place to place lecturing about their
Wronps."
Year: 1872

North. Nor will that vote go for Grant ;
but it win go to some third candidate.
A dissatisfied and indignant faction of
the party will make nomination of
their own" That will doubtless be the
end of it. Split into half dozen dis
cordant factions. without solitary COM
mon ground of union. the oppositi, q
will this year present the most con-
temptible spectacle exhibited in our
political history in the last fifty years.


The New 7 ork World now advocated
the nomination of Hendricks and Han
cock By the Baltimore Denocrotic Con-
vention. The Chicago Times, on the
CO .trary, ,intimatestlhe probability that the
Baltimore Convention will neither en-
dorse Greeley or make straight party
nomination, but will adjourn without
taking action in the matter leaving it for
a subsequent convention made up of al
the opposition to nominate ticket.
How pleasant it is to see brethren
dwelling together in unity"


From all parts of the country come
the strongest kind of an endorsement
of the Grant and Wilson ticket. The
South and East. as well as most portions
of the West are evidently as strongly
united for this ticket as they were for
Grant and Coifax in 1868.
Year: 1872

a RENEDY WORSE THAN THE DISEASE.
The Vallejo Recorder has the following
:. About one o'clock yesterday morning, as
we were vending our way homeward, we
were suddenly startled by the report OF
Gun. We rushed into the house from
which the sound proceeded, and found
matters thus \ certain husband living in
that neirhborhood has a habit of walking
in his sleep. and his wife got so tired OF
having him frisk around the house during
the silent watches Of the night that at last
she determined 10 tie him fast after he got
to sleep. She affixed a string to his ankle
and tied the other end fast to what hap
pened TO be the most handy, which was
her husbands doublc-barrelled gun, behind
the door in the corner of the room. About
/ I O'Clock the somnambulist arose for the
purpose Of taking a ramble around the
rooms When he had taken about SIX


steps. the artillery came out of its secluslon
I in the corner with a jerk, and both barrels


went off. the loads crashing through the
panels of the door. 1t soon brought both
parties to consciousness. Yesterday he
was busy putting a new panel IN the door.


which is far better than digging load OF
buckshot out of the baby
Year: 1872

\ e, ONE-LEGSEp Mans CoMPLAINr.-
An army officer, who lost his leg during
the recent civil war, has been so impressed
with the pecuIiarities Of his situation and
the novel adventures and incidents growing
out Of that situation that he has written a
book on the subject. EMIT ed q" ohm
Smith Funny Adventures on Crutch-
The author complains good-naturedly that
be is looked upon as public property, and
almost bored to death by the many inquisI-
tive strangers he meets in ms travels
can never, says he, " obtain d moment ;
rest in any public place. [ no sooner take
a seat in 4 car, restaurant or q lecture
room than some one near me, whom have
never seen before, introduces himself with
the stereotyped remark, | see you've met
with q misfortune, and on my asserting,
proceeds TO ask the following questions


Did you lose your limb in battle
What battle Did cannon-ball take II
off? \ rife-ball eh Did it knock i
clear off ? Did it sever an artery Die
it hit the bone Did it break it Die
YOU afterward find the ball Was i
crushed out of shape Did you fall whel
hit? Did you walk off the field ? WIZ
carried you off? Did you feel much pain


How long after it was wounded till it wa
amputated Who performed the opera
ton? Did you take chloroforn Did
put you to sleep And did MT you fee
the operation? Not even the saving G
the bone Could not your limb have bee
saved Was it taken off right where tn
wound was Can you wear an artificial
leg? Would the government furnish 20


one if you could Do you draw pen


sion? How much > How old are you


What is your name What did you d


before the war? Don't you often wis


you had MT lost your leg? How does
person feel with leg off? Does 1t ach


when the weather changes Would 20


rather lose a leg than an arm2 | hav
heard persons say that an amputated lin
still feels as if it were on is that so
How do you account for that ? "-Bosto


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