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Year: 1870

1t is the habit of too many Republicans to
absent themselves from primary elections aud
then growl at the nomination. They may do the
same in Lancaster county Pa, but not to the
same extent for we notice, that over 1000 Re-
publican voters participated in the primary cleo
tions in that county to nominate Republican
candidates for the Legislature.
Year: 1870

The Youngest editor in New Hampshire is said
to be Young man of twenty This is nothing.
We are perfectly convinced, from their produc-
tions, that some of the editors on the daliies OF
the great cities are not over fourteen years OF
Year: 1870

The city Of Ottawa has five artesian wells.
all in active operation. each sending up a
stream Of pure water, about four inches in


diameter, from an average depth of three


hundred and eighty feet. Several more are
to be put down next season.
Year: 1870

1t Is related Of Roman ruler, that af
ter eating hearty meal he would take
an cmetic in order to eat another. TSsis.
perhdps,is seeking for pleasure at dear
er rate than most people are inclined to
indulge in; vet the principle Of the thing
exists in more people than we are dis
posed at first to admit. II is very com
mon, as warm weather approaches, to
continue our usual allowance, though
there is less need than during the cold
weather; and we only feed the bad effects
after the stomach has been ovprtaxed
sufficiently long to cause headache, diz-
ziness, lassitude and general debility
Great varieties a. meals lead to it, be-
cause eating a little of great many
things will make great deal in the end,
and thus we often eat more than we real
ly need. Eating when the system is
weary will lead us into the same error,
for the very weakness existing in the
body, influences the whole body, so that
the stomach cannot digest what it other
wise would; and in its weakened condi-
tion 1t frequently presents inordinate de-
mauds, and we eat too mReh. Eating
bits at all hours of the day leads us into
the habit of eating too much for by this
habit the normal condition OF the stom-
ach is subverted, and while thus used it
cannot he faithful monitor the wants
of the system. Thus, the constant ten
dency of both adults and children is to
eat too much for health, and it is 10
doubt a fact that more people die from
gluttony than from starvation. The
multitudes ofdyspeCtics are not general
ly made so by short allowances of prop
er food, but by inordinate stuffing Of rich
viands, or by improper diet and imper-
feet nourishment. Thus the principle of
the Roman continues to work, though
we may not go as far as he did yet We
love to eat, and often love to cut too
much
Year: 1870

The Chinese are so quick toiearn, ant 90
fond Of appearing skillfull, that they will at
tempt things for the first tune, and do them
well, with the air of an old expert A friend
Of ours, who had q Chinaman for a cook, feels
sure that good many of the dishes that he
prepares are extemporaneous, but wonderfully
successful limitations that lie has never pre-
pared them before, but simply kept his bright
little eyes, at some time or other on the oper-
alton. This man-seryant is a marvel. He
keeps the kitchen Immediately clean, but the
lady of the house sarcely ever sees him work.
ing. And all his culinary operations are car
ried on without fuss, confusion or dirt. 1t is
almost like being in heaven.


Another friend, in illustration of the quick
ness of our Celestial visitors, tells us what he
saw at church in San Francisco. Two stran-
gers entered and took seat in front oF o
Chinaman. He had no book, but upon seeing
one of the strangers searching for the hymn,
he leaned forward, took the book from him.
turned down the leaves between his forefnger
and thumb, and in a twinklng opened il at
the right place, and politely handed it back.
The man was so surprised that he could hard.
ly sing. But he was destined to still greater
astonishment. for not having noticed that the
second verse of the last hymn was TO be omit
ted, lie began to sing it, and was tapped on the
shoulder by the vigilant Chinaman, who qui.
etly put his finger on the third stanza We
need not add that this time the stranger Lost
his breath entirely.


Cinnamon learn the language With wonder
full celebrity; and they are neat, industrious,
frugal and harmless. Surely, there IL room
for some of them in such roomy country as
this, where so many families are boarding In
great discomfort, and at high price with their
servants.
Year: 1870

A correspondent of the San Francisco


Bulletin writes as follows from Sitka =


1t may be unknown to your readers
that the Indians OF some portion of this
Territory have been in the habit of sac
rificing the lives of one or more slaves
on the death of any one of their chiefs
or medicine men. The custom is based
on the supposition that in the spirit land
the services of such slaves are necessary
TO the comfort and well being of the de-
parted, and to avoid the trouble of en-
ploying such in that happy hunting
ground. they dispatch one of his human
chattels at the same time the spirit of
the warrior chief takes its upward fight.
An instance of this occurred here three
weeks ago. About ten o'clock, the SEN


tinel on the palisade gate, leading to In
diantown, was attracted by the wailing
cry OF squaw. Inquiring the cause Of
her distress, she informed him that her
son was tied mp preparatory to being
stabbed-the usual mode of dispatching
them-for the purpose above mentioned.
The eommandant Of the post was notih-
ed, and an officer was sent TO rescue the
intended victim OF such barbarity. On
the officers arrival, strange sight pre-
sented itself On a bed lay the dying
chief; an intelligent looking boy OF ten
Year: 1870

or twelve years Of age, bound hand and


foot, looked the incarnation Of dispar.--
Around him with drawn knives, stood


tiie relatives Of the dying man, at whose
signal they would be buried in tho vitals
of the trembling yout,. The sombre
gloom Of the apartment, lit up 6tfuily
by the smouldering fire; the wild, un-
earthly sound Of the G1-tjn, and wailing
dearli-cry Of the tribe outside the house,
made up picture to be appreciated on
ly by witness Of the scene. The officer
Immediately released the boy and brought
him TO rhe GARRISON, where he was kept
until the family of the departed warrior
prosnised not 10 molest him in future.
This has been the second instance Of the
kind occurring here since our occupation
of the Territory.
Year: 1870

Thus is LIFE.-If We die to-day, the
sun will shine as brightly, and the birds
sing as sweetly tomorrow. Business
will not be suspended a moment, and
the great mass will not bestow thought
upon our memories. Is he dead win
be the solemn inquiry of few, as they
pass to their work. But no one viii
miss Us except our immediate connec-
tions, and in short time they will forget
us, and laugh as merrily as when we sat
beside them. Thus shall We all, now
active in life, pass awy, Our children
crowd close behind us, and they will
soon be gone In few years not q
living being can say, 81 remember him r.
we lived in another age, and did busi-
ncss with those who slumber in the tomb
Thus is life. How rapidly it passss
Year: 1870

] know of an instance, says a corres-
pondent of the WOn,d1's Journal, where
a fashionable dress-maker in New York
urged an economical young girl, about
to be married, to buy of her a costly
trousseau, or wedding outfit. "But I
have not the money!" said the maiden.
"No NATTER said the complainant tempt
er, Il will wait four years, and send in
the bill to your husband by degrees
Many ladies do it." Fancy the position
OF pure young girl, wishing innocently
to make herself beautiful in the eyes Of
her husband, and persuaded to go into
his house with trick like this upon her
conscience Yet it grows directly out Of
the whole theory oflite which is preached
to many woman-that all they seek
must be won by indirect maneuvers, and
not by straightforward living. .e
Year: 1870

II have brought your dinner, father"
The blacksmith's daughter said,
AS she took from her arm the kettle
And lifted it's shining lid.
"There is not any pie or pudding,


So will give you this"
And upon the tlme-worn forehead
She LEFT the childish kiss.
The blacksmith took off his apron
And dined in happy mood,
Wondering much at the SAVIOR


Hid in his humble food,
While all about him were visions
Full Of prophetic bliss;
But he never thought of magic


In his little daughters kiss.
While she with her kettle swinging,
Merrily trudged away,
Stopping at sight of squirrel,


Catching some wild birds lay.
And ] thought how many q shadow
Of life and fate we would miss,
If always our frugal dinners


Were seasoned with a kiss
Year: 1870

BoYs on THF FARM. - The Prairie
Farmer, in speaking of "boy's rights
on farm" talks in this truthful way:


"We are strongly inclined to the opin-
ion that there are no offices SO poorly
appreciated as those performed by boys
on farm. They stliom get any credit
when things go well, and ordinarily incur
all the blame when the contrary is the
case. If anything is lost, it is always
the boy that has been neglectful. If the
gate was unfastened, or the bars down,
it is the boy who was to blame. If the
hens don't lay, it's because the boy hasn't
fed them. If dinner is late, it is for the
reas On that the boy did not prepare the
wood in season. If the COW gives
bloody milk, it is because the boy threw
a stone at her, killed toad in her path,
or raced her in driving her home. Cattle
get into fields because boys break down
the fence in climbing over them. Roofs
are leaky, tor the reason that they have
been running on them. If a pitcher is
broken by some older member of the
family, the cause Is to be traced a crack
made by the boy the last time he used it.


All of which is sadly true The most
uninteres,ing work, sorting potatoes
rainy days, setting out caobages after a
shower, turning grindstone by the
hour to grind dull scythes and duller
axes, running for water while the men
rest their iron legs, working with the
poorest tools, such as dull scythes, and
old, worn out hoes, manure forks with
two tines, and like treatment with refer
ence to almost everything, is too often
the lot of boys who are expected to love
farming and grow up to be farmers.
Year: 1870

u Kansas is the State Cor the poor mar,
and the State for the working man, but wor-
king man viii! not stay poor very long here.
The chances for a competency are better here
than they can possibly be in other States.
Year: 1870

BY the China AMI India mail from Europe we
have the following newspaper details In report OF
the horrible events Indicated above and which have
been already referred to In our cable kilograms
Year: 1870

Natehez has new steam fire engine.


There is a great deal of sickness in
Pamela county.


The first bale of cotton received at
Yazoo this season was sold for twenty
cents a pound.


Meridian wants to be mapped. The
official map of the city was destroyed
in a fire two years ago.


The ScOoba Spectator wants the
county supervisors to enact game laws
for the protection OF deer.


The crop reports are very unfavOr-
able; the boil worm is doing cOnsidera-
BILE injury, and in many places the
cotton is shedding badly.


A correspondent of the Hazlehurst
miss C0piGhdR urges the establish
ment there of a FIVE hundred dollar
steam laundry, to be placed under the
management of some poor Confederate
widow.
Year: 1870

In company one evening when the song


Would were boy again was called
for, gray-headed " old boy" discoursed
thus -


"A boy again" Who would be boy
again if he could to have measels, itch,
aud mumps,t to get licked by bigger boys
and scolded by older brothers, to stub
toes, to have the belly-ache from swallow
ing cherry stones, to have chapped hands
and frozen toes, to slip upon the ice, to do
chores, to get your ears boxed, to get
whaled by thick-headed schoolmaster,
to be made to stand up as the " Ounce
for the amusement of the whole school, to
have visitors to come to school and tell
you how miserably weak and stupid you
were when you were born, and to ask you
what would have become of you at that
interesting time in life if your parents had
not been so patient with and so kind to
you, to cat at the second table when COM
pany comes, to set out cabbage plants and
thin corn because you are little, and con-
sequently it wouldn't make your back ache.
so much, to be made to 60 to school when
you don't want to, get spelled down in
school, to lose your marbles, to have your
sled broken, to get hit in the eye with
frozen apples and soggy snow balls, to cut
your finger, lose your knife, to have hole
in the seat of your only pair of pants when
your pretty cousin from the city comes to-
see you, to be called coward ut school if
you don't fight, to be whaled at home if
you do fight at school, to be struck after
lite girl and dare not tell her, to have n
boy too big for you to lick tell you that
your sweetheart squints, to have your
that boy John Smith whom you hate par
ticularly, because he set up your nose tho
week before, to be made to 60 to bed when
you know you amt bit sleepy, to have
no fire crackers on the Fourth of July.
no skates on Christmas, to want a pieco
of bread and butter with honey and get
your ears pulled, to be kept from the circus
when it comes to town and when all other
boys 60, to get pounded for stealing roast
ing ears, get run by bull dogs for trying
to nip watermelons, to have the canker
rash, catechism, stone bruises, to be called
up to kiss all the old women that visit
your mother, to be scolded because you
like Maggie Love better than your own
dear sister, to be told Of what scorching
time little boys will have who tell lies. and
are not like George Washington. to catch
your big brother kissing the pretty school
ma'am on the ely. and wish you was big
SO you could kiss her, too, and-and---
why who'd be q boy again.
Year: 1870

Hoes WANT SuLpMUR.-Whether hogs
require sulphur as an essential to their
health, or whether it is sought by them as
a condiment, may not be known for cer-
tainty. But one thing is sure, they de.
YOUR it with greed whenever it is to be
found. 1t is for this purpose, probably,
that they eat large quantities of soft coal.
which contains a large amount of sulphur.
Perhaps this is the most economical meth
ed of supplying hogs with sulphur during
the winter, when they require good deal
of carbon, But in the summer, it is bet
ter to foed 1t to them in substances which
contain less carbon, on account of their
producing less heat. Mustard is one Of
the best things for this purpose, and on
that account some of it should be sown in
every pasture field into which hogs are
turned, If hogs are kept up or are in
small yards. it is well to supply them with
the wild mustard that grows in the field4
or highways, or to cultivate some of tho
better varieties for them, They will eat
its leaves, flowers, seeds aud stalks.
Year: 1870

able to return, provided our friends will
call upon us when they visit little Della
ware. will say, in conclusion, that a
more hospitable set of people never met,
and if you have the means to land you in
Virginia never fear the rest, as not one
farmer in ten but will keep stranger all
night if he is the. right kind of man, and
treat you far better than you would ex-
pect, considering the manner in which
they were treated during the four years of
war through which they have passed.


Hoping that you have not become fa-
tigued in reading this scrawl, I will close


Yours, very respectfully, TRAVELLER.


Dec. 18, 1869.
Year: 1870

Throwing THE SLIPPER In some parts
of the East it was an early custom to car
ry slipper before newly-married couple


as token of the BRIDES subsection to her
husband. At Jewish wedding at Rabat
the bridegroom struck the bride with his
shoe as a signal of his authority and su-
premacy. 1t has long been custom in
England and Scotland, and elsewhere, to
through an old shoe after the bride and
bridegroom upon leaving the church OR
parental home after their wedding. Some
times it is thrown when they start for the
church, and occasionally the shoe is takes,
from the left foot. The usual saying in
that it is thrown to be sign of the re.
nunoiation Of dominion of the authority
over the bride by her father or guardian,


One author, however, suggests that the
hurling of a shoe was first intended to be
a sham assault on the person carrying off


the woman, and is relic of the old custom


of opposition to the capture of a bride.
The practice, now, is token of good luck.
Year: 1870

Notwithstanding determined and wide
spread opposition to the temperance upon
the fashionable stage of the blue coat and
brass buttons of ancient days, the swells
who have adopted it announce their deter
mination to fight it out on that coat
They denounce the garment of the period
as loose sack. ungraceful, and fitting
having the appearance of "bag on a
broomstick." The button of the day is also
a thing that speedily becomes greasy and
shabby. The blue coat and gilt button,
it is claimed, presents style of dress that
realizes the idea of beauty and economy
combined.
Year: 1870

TIE CoMINa GIRL.-The coming Young
woman must make love to the coming
young man. She must whisper sweet
nothiugs to him by moonlight alone" !"
She must VOW that she woes him not for
his fortune or even his beauty but for his
own dear-self. She must be careful of his
wrappings, &c, for fear that the angelic
William Jones, or the divine Philander
Scroggins, may take cold. "Man," says
an exchange, sis by nature timid and
confding his heart yearns for love, and
protection ; and if woman would win and
wear him in her heart of hearts she must
lead him gently along the primrose path
of dalliance, and not permit the winds of
heaven to visit his cheek too roughly.
She must write poetry to him, she must
sing beneath his lattice:


How sweet at eve to see my beau


Come tripping down the stairs;


I'll catch him in the garden gate


And kiss him unwares.


His breath is like the caramel,


His eyes like chocolate cream,


And his kisses like the candy


One eats within dream.
Year: 1870

A country school teacher, who was a
tanner by trade, required his pupils to
write verse Of poetry every week. A
mong his pupils some were wits and 9th
ers very dull. One of the latter COM
menced his verse with


The children of Israel waRted bread,


And the Lord sent them mama;
Here he was stuck, but the boy at his
elbow finished it by writing


And our school wanted a fool,


And the devil sent us Tanner,
Year: 1870

Dean Swift hearing of a carpenter falling
through the scaffolding of house which
he was engaged in repairing, dayly re-
marked that he liked to see mechanic
go through his work promptly.
Year: 1870

II will consent to all you DESIRE" said
young female to her lover, "on condi-
tion that you will give me what you have
not, what you never can have, and yet
what you can give me-" What did
she ask for? A husband.
Year: 1870

The fashionable world is considerably
stirred by rumor that the present fash
ion Of overlooking dresses with trimmings
will soon give way to styles conspicuous
for simplicity, but SO elegant in fabric that
none but the richest can afford to go back
to the seventeenth century for their mo-
dels.
Year: 1870

QUAKER Toast. This from me and
mine, to thee and thine. l wish when
thou and thine come to see me and mine,
that me and mine will treat thee and thine
as kindly as thou and thine have treated
me and mine.
Year: 1870

gest trade in this county, was filed up
with Chinese workmen; at boot and shoe
making there were now $50 Chinese at
work in this city. There were the do.
mestic servants; they manufactured the
fireworks; and it would not be long before
the sewing machine would be in their
hands. There was no reason why they
should not set type for Is cents per 1000
ems, as they are now set for sixty cents,
and he did not know that some Of them
could not be found to edit papers as we'll as
some were edited now.


The speaker said that in the first place
the idea of the laboring classes at the
present time was probably exaggerated.
But yet hardly day passed that he did
not have some poor man or woman stand
ing before pleading for work; not beg
ging, but only seeking for an opportunity
to earn some bread. He thought that
Government peculiarly unfortunate that
could not provide labor and pay for it..
1t was the duty ofthe government to make
the most sweeping laws until every man
and every woman was provided with work,
and he said were he Caius Gracious and
this Rome, he would reform the laws even
up tc the point, if it were necessary, of
making every rich man divide and divide
his property again and again until labor
sufficient for all had been provided. Some
thing must be done. He said the rich
and the woll-off must help the poor. 1t
was easy for men rising from Widespread
tables to preach patience to starving wives
and children; but it was not so easy to
submit patiently to see the bread which
the little ones ought to have carried off
by a horde Of barbarians. The speaker
referred to the absurdity of telling penui-
less men to go into the country and farm !;
to the oue-sidcd operation Of the treaty
with China, which country held out no
inducements for us to 60 there, while ours
held out every inducemcnt for the Chinese
to come and live here-a treaty which
ought to be rejected forthwith. In refer.
ring to the remark of the Sacramento
Reporter that he intended to run for office,
he said he was sorry he had ever dcmeaned
himself to run for Office at all, and that
he never would again as long as he lived.
Year: 1870

Good singing is one of the very finest
social accomplishments. And good bal.
lad singer, Of either sex, is a most valua.
BILE addition to any circle. Ballad singing
is, however, not half so popular as it
used to be, as it ought to be. We run to
opera and operate airs, aud the simple,
beautiful melodies so charming are for the
time being forgotten. The very soul Of
music ab:des in ballads, and that soul is
immortal Annie Laurie" can never
die. The " Last Rose of Summer" will
not fade from our memory over. Ballads,
rightly sung, reach the heart, and thrill it
with strange sweetness.


What, then, is good ballad singing?
1t is, in fact, the highest type of vocal art
Its essentials are good voice, careful cul-
ture, delicate scnsibilities. Quick sympa.
thies are prominent characteristic Of the
good ballad singer. Without the capacity
to feel whatever lie expresses in melody,
the singer will fail miserably, although
gifted with the rarest of voices. To quote
from "Coltam's Advice to Young Sing
ers :"


'' He should be able to impress his
hearers, and rivet their attention, no mat
ter what his subject may be, if sad, then
must he use pathos and tender feeling; if
gay, he must himself be cheerful, joyous !;
and lively; if the strain be martial, he
must also be martial in look, word and ac-
ton, full of fire aud brilliancy. He must
be able to declaim in a clear and masterly
style too much attention cannot be paid
to this for if he merely sing in tune and
the words are not heard, he but does that
which an instrument is capable Of.


"The soul Of tie singer must rise with
every emergency aud if he be clever, he
will sway the minds of his hearers as the
wind plays with the leaves. At one mo-
ment his audience will bo reused to the
highest pitch Of enthusiasm, the next may
see them melted unto tears. But to
achieve this he must lose sight of himself,
aud for the time being become, as it were,
the individual whose feelings he endeavors
to portray; in short, he must feel and
speak from the heart; and unless he does
SO, his labors are thrown away.


"What wonderful effects are created by
merely paying attention to light and shade,
or piano and forte! One person with .
capital voice shall sing song without
paying attention to the above, and ere it
is finished, it becomes monotonous and
even painful to the ear. Another, with
not nearly so good an organ, will use it
with Judgment, one moment thrilling his
hearers with soft plaintive utterings. and
anou elcctrifying them with his stirring
denunciation. This, let it be remembered,
is tho secret Of our greatest singers there
must be life, soul and contrast. Having
fine voice aud using these aids, he may
attain the highest position as singer; but
without them he is moor indeed"