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Year: 1872

A boat lay on the summer sea,


The light waves round it leaping.
While laughing sunbeams, bright and free
Play'd Yer an infant sleeping.
And far away that bark in glee


Was o er the bright deep straying,
While all around the dimpling sea
With zephyrs soft was play ing.
And oh twas sweet, around that child
To see the ripples dancing;
And DER its brow, so soft and mild
The sunbeams brightly glancing
And Oh wished that naught might break
The angel-spell that bound it,
Or from its dreams the spirit wake
That play'd so soft around it.
But when far off upon the sky,
saw the tempest lower,
A mournful tear bedimm d mine eye,
For that unconscious flower
For Dr. still that bark, SO frail and light,
Was O er the billows sweeping;
And still within, as fair and bright,
That infant form lay sleeping.
turned away, for who could see
That child awake to sorrow,
The brightest smile so swift to fee
THAT earth from heaven may borrow"
For wei! knew the angry wave
Would soon in wrath surround it,
And make its wild and lonely grave
Mid ocean weeds that bound it.
All thus, methought, on life's frail tide
We make our youthful pillow
And gaily O. er its waters glide,
From billow on to billow.
But ah too soon the angry storm
Blots out each vision brightest,
And oft alas it wraps the form
In which the heart beats lightest,


j. T. HEADLEY
Year: 1872

There are one thousand and four hundred
and fifty hunchbacks in Paris, one thousand
one hundred persons with only one arm, one
thousand two hundred with only one leg, one
hundred and fifty legless, or moving along in
sort of bowl on wheels, four thousand eight
| hundred blind.
Year: 1872

The city Of Los Vegas, New Mexico, indul-
ges 10 bull fights of the most romantic charac-
vine, brandshes big cheese knife, until. as
the animal rushes at him, he makes a running
cut around the neck of the bull, then throws
away his knife and turns handspring as he is
again attacked grips the elevated tail in his
descent and with vigorous twitch brings off
the bull hide leaves the bull dead and leaves
the ring dressed in the fresh leather of the
beast.
Year: 1872

TO KEEP SWEET POTATOES. To keep sweet
potatoes through the winter, treat them as the
ladies' DO their dahlia bulbs, pack them in dry
sand which has been thoroughly heated, SO as
to drive out ell the moisture, and then set them
in dry place. Instances have been known
where they have been kept for two years, being
stored 10 warm, dry cellar, near the furnace
ton to keep well, the sweet potatoes need to
be kept warm and dry.
Year: 1872

The funeral Of Fanny Fern" took place in
New York on Saturday, and in accordance with
the wish of the deceased, was very private
After short service the remains were con-
veyed to Boston for interment.
Year: 1872

Children hunger perpetually
for new ideas. They will learn
with pleasure from the lips of
their parents what they deem
it drudgery to study in books;
and even if they had the mis-,
fortune to be deprived Of many
educational advantages, they
will grow up intelligent if they
enjoy in childhood the privi>
lege of listening daily to the
conversation of intelligent peo.
pie. We sometimes see par
ents who are the life Of every
company which they enter,
dull, silent and uninteresting
at home among their own chill
dren. If they have not mental
activity and mental stores sutii.
cient for both, let them first


use what they have for their
own household A silent house
is a dullplace for young people,
a place from which they will
escape if they can. ~ How much
useful information, on the 9th
er hand, is often given in pleas.
ant family conversation, % and
what unconscious but excellent
mental training in lively social
argument. Cultivate, TO the
utmost, all the graces Of home
conversation. ,,,t.
Year: 1872

The HORRORS OF THE CooLIE TRADE. which
is fully exposed in an article in another coiumn'
descriptive OF the terrible loss Of human lite and
the horrid sufferings of the Chinese who were
burned and destroyed on tha C0olis ship Don Juan.
a year ago, and which has just been allowed to be
made public is sickening, and appeals 30 forcibly
to humanity, that the great nations Of the earth
should take the matter in hand and either cause
this traffic to be carried more safely, OF stopped
altogether 1t is worse than the slave trade wnich
Congress declared piracy many y ca rs ago
Year: 1872

Never borrow if you can possi-
bly, help it.


Don't marry until you are able to
support q wife.


Keep yourself innocent If you
would be happy.


When You speak to person look
him in the face.


Make no haste to be rich if you
would prosper.


Ever live misfortune excepted)
within your income.


Save when you are young to spend
when you are old.


h'O OiNt s~lA.Pss-s-~--J Ss-,-- -~--
you may not withstand it.


Never run into debt unless you
see a way to get out again.


Small and steady gains give com
potency with tranquil mind.


Good company and good CONVEX
sation are the sinews of virtue.


Your character cannot be essen
TALLY injured except by your own
acts.


If any one speaks evil of you,
let your life be so that none will be-
lieve them.


When you retire to bed think
over what you have been doing
during the day.


Never be idle; if your hands
can't be employed usefully, attend
to the cultivation of your mind.


Read over the above maxims
carefully and thoughtfully at least
once every week.
Year: 1872

In the pocket-book of Hon. Ste
phen Allen, who was drowned on
board the Henry Clay, was found a
printed slip apparently cut from a
newspaper, of which the following
is a copy. 1t is worthy to be put
in every newspaper and of being
engraved on every young mans
heart:


Make few promises.


Always speak the truth.


Never speak i'll of any one.


Keep good company or none.


Live up to your engagements.


Never play at a game of chance.
Drink no kind of Intoxicating
liquors.


Good character is above all
things else.


Keep your own secrets If you
have any.
Year: 1872

LAUNCH.-To-morrow morning about eight
o'clock, the iron steamship ACAPULCO, will be
launched at the yard Of Harlan Hollingswerth
Company. This boat is one of the two that are
being built at this yard. for the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company They are the largest
boats ever built in this city, being about 300 feet
long, with other dimensions corresponding
Every arrangement has been made for making
the launch successful affair.
Year: 1872

With railways increasing their mi


leage at a rote of twenty per cent. per
annum, and their tonnage etwenty-three


per. cent. per annum, the young and


vigorous element which is now con-


ducting the most important business


interest of the age has scarce an idea
of the condition of affairs as they eX-


listed thirty years ago. These men no
doubt remember well the sensation
they experienced the first time they


heard the shrek of q locomotive, but
their sensations were in no wise of
such character as those which Fl led
the ears and hearts of older men who
had been watching the progress of
events with breathleSs interest in
their declining years, and who at last
were gratified to see a beginning of
the end promised them by long cher
ished hope.


One who is not familiar with the
condition of commerce, manufacture,
and transportation, as they existed
even a quarter of a century ago, in
this country, can form no idea of the
magnitude of the later developments.
The tedious climbing of mountains
in coaches, the slow movement of
canal boats, the small number of
steamboats, and sailing vessels on our
rivers and lakes as compared with the
present, and the one man then who
Travelled on business to the thousand
who now travel on business, are but
slight illustl atoms of the change, the
progress. the achievements and the
wealth which has resulted from the
application of American enterprise
and American genius.


Then the arrival and departure of
sixty stage coaches at Pittsburgh
would have been considered mighty
wonder. Now the arrival and depar-
ture of sixty passenger trains at Pitts
burph is no wonder at all. Then the
movement of one hundred passengers
per day between Buffalo and Chicago
made business brisk and the Great
West a thriving, promising country.
Now the movement OF one thousand
passengers per day, or even five thou
sand, does not effect the public pulse
any stronger. A ton of mail per day
on any mail route was considered
enormous. Twenty-Five tons per day
is now considered but tritie on many
routes.


And when we know that every
branch of commercial and industrial
business has increased in a ratio to
correspond with the swell of travel,
we get faint glimpse of the extent
of the progress of the affairs of the
country. Electric lips hold converse
between Boston and New Orleans,
and steam, engineering and powerful
machinery supply our entire popula-
ton in day with that which could
not before be supplied in twelve
months.


The young blood of to day is apt to
look upon its predecessors with feel
ing of contempt, as if more was not
done for want of energy and a just
of the greatness of the
future; but the time of those years |
long past was spent in paving the
way for the magnificent present-in |
giving birth to means, and brains,
and enterprise which should be used |
for the development of the future
And the end is not yet.--American
Manufacturer.
Year: 1872

Many repine and wonder at the
accumulation Of their misfortunes
and disappOintments, when their own
selfishness causes the greater share of
them, They expect the world to
yield to them Of its abundance, with
little effort on their part; and If
neighbOrs do not fly to their assist
ance every time their services could
be of use, no matter how great the in
convenience, they are directly set
down as no friends.


The fact is, people generally have
enough to do to keep thrift in their
own homes, and those who prosper
most expect to serve themselves and
do so cheerfully and energeiically.


If a farmer neglects his field, and it
fails to yield corn and wheat enough
to support his family, il does not fol-
low that another man is bound to give
him or sell below fair rate from his
well-filled granaries-


If p man abuses himself IN dissipa-
ton and finally sinks down sick, and
Frustrated in mind, body and pocket,
his friends are not bound to support
him. Generosity and kindness of
heart prompt those kindly services
which are often received as rights.


Every man and woman is response
BILE for themselves so far as they are
well and of sound mind, and when
each rOuses up resolved to help them
selves the world will be happier, for
then the burdens of life will be more
evenly distributed.-ELM ORLOU.
Year: 1872

A -perilous balloon ascension was
performed in Chicago, July 4th, from
the corner of Madison and Elizabeth
Streets. No basket was used, a
trapeze of the size commonly used by
circus performers being suspended
below.


When the balloon was filled, thirty
persons kept it to the earth with diff
Guilty. The aeronaut in position, and
the guys loosed, 1t shot into the air
with extraordinary rapiditv. The
athlete held by one leg as he left the
thousand feet, he performed a sum-
mersault, and lay horizontally across
the bar. AS the ascent continued, he
performed a variety of feats, ending,
when nearly the height Of mile had
been reached, by sliding, head down
ward, from the ring and catching his
toes upon the bar. After keeping
this position for a while, he carefully
drew himself upon the bar and so
continued through the remainder of
the voyage. The atmosphere was
almost too fresh for comfort upon the
face of the earth, but at the height Of
mile and a half, which was soon
reached, the cold became Intense.
Clouds were around him, and, oeca-
sionally a field of mist passed beneath
his feet. From below, only the gray
body of the balloon was visible. Those
who looked Intently could just espy
little speek below it-that was all.


Until the height of a mile was
gained, the fresh northern breeze was
sweeping the balloon rapidly toward
the east and Lake Michigan. The
danger was imminent, and he had
made no preparations. The balloon
was speedily carried over the lake,
which was reached near Sixteenth
street.


The las. weight was loosened, and
a large part Of the gas having escaped,
the balloon began TO descend rapidly,
and at last struck the tree tops two
miles from shore. Being encumbered
by the cord of the trapeZe, he disen-
tangled himself, cut it loose from the
balloon, and clung to the ring and
network. The wind carried the bal
loon rapidly in a southwest direction
to the shore, and he was rescued stiff,
almost dead with cold and badly
bruised.
Year: 1872

It is now said that the Colorado
desert was once the bed of the sea-
Careful instrumental observations
have lately been made which seem to
the fact beyond doubt, prov
ing that either through the gradual
exhaustion of the sources Of water
or through some more sudden
CONFUSION, the heat of the
once occupied by vast
expanse of water, has been drained, {,
within a comparatively short space Of
time, and changed to dry land.
Year: 1872

SNAIL CULTURE.-In the district OF
Champagne the cultivators have made
good some of their losses by the war
in the rearing of snails for the Paris
market, where they bring from two
to three francs per hundred, and
which are known by the name OF
Champagne oysters. During the
summer, after a heavy dew or rain,
the peasants catch the snails as they
crawl out, with house on back, for a
promenade; contractors buy up the
mollusk, inclose them in n kind of
park, fatten them on salads, thyme,
mint. parsley, etc. When large
enough not to pass through ring of
a certain size, they are fit for the
table-or are supposed to be.
Year: 1872

The "Fat Contributor" in nomina-
ting himself for the Presidency, says:


1 am the special friend Of the labor
ing man. No one likes to see a man
work better than l do. In fact, / had
rather see a man work than work my
self.


This is a noble sentiment, and one
that will prove popular.
Year: 1872

than ut the beginning Of TIE year fol
he is free from debt. There is no
crop that will MT pay these men the
little expense they incur in the course
Of the year.


We were laughed and hooted at,
when, six years ago we predicted
that only the small plantation sys-
tenn would ever succeed in this par
isll. We have seen no reason to
change our opinion, aud every year
confirms us more strongly in the
view then entertained. It is one OF
the inevitable facts which 81 few years
more will compel the division Ct The
lands in this parish and which will
iHaugurate 81 new and prosperous
era in her prosperity.
Year: 1872

The following we clip from the
Thibodeaux Sentinel US worthy o;
careful perasal and consideration by
our large landed proprietors. 1t will
bo seen that tile system Of small
farms we'll cultivated, is becoming
The most prohtable- and, OF course.
popular system Of agriculture in this
State


That the planting interest has been
an Improbable one the past year
does not admit of q doubt. Many
plantations have not realized but lit
tie if any more than their expenses.
The present price Of sugar will not
rcmuneratc large planters who have
to borrow money to pay laborers
and purchase materials, to which
must be added the onerous taxes
that are heaped upon the people by
the iniquitous government which is
running our State with railroad
speed into bankruptcy.


While this fact is apparent to every
cool, unprejuaiced observer, another
one is equally preceptible in the con-
tinuea prosperity OF the small plant
ers who make from ten to one hun
}red hoggsheads Of sugar per annum.
These 1nen own their own lands, 80
into the fields and follow the plow,
handle the hoe, and when laborers
are employed, they tell them to fol-
low and not to go. Thus they OBJ
tain days work for a days wages,
and do not have a constant supply
drones about them whose principal
object of study is not to see how
much they can do, but how much
they can avoid doing.


They have no overseers and book
keepers to pay they have no COM
mission merchant to pounce down
upon them as soon as crop is made
and put the proceeds in their capa-
cious pockets.


If tie season is bad and the yield
is poor, the small planter may lose
his years work, but he is no poorer
Year: 1872

TEACH THE WOMEN TO SAVE. There's
the secret A saving woman at the head
of the family is the very best savings bank
estabishment-one receiving deposits dai-
ly and hourly, with no costly machinery
to manage it. The idea of saving is n
pleasant one, and if the woman would i'm
bibe it at once. and would cultivate and
adhere to it, they would be laying the
foundation of q competent security in a
stormy time, and shelter in a rainy day.
The woman who sees to her own house
has large field to save in. The best
way 20 make her comprehend it, is to
keep an account of all current expenses.
Probably not one woman in ten has a
idea how much are the expenditures of
herself and family. Where from one to
two thousand dollars are expended annu-
ally, there is chance to save something
if the effort is made Let the housewife
take the idea and act upon it, and she
will save many dollars-perhaps hundreds
where before she thought it impossible.
This Is n duty, not a prompting Of avarice,
but moral obligation that rests upon the
woman rs well as the man.
Year: 1872

Geneva has so long been the watch fac
tory of the world that little need be said
on the subject. From four to five thou
sand men are constantly engaged in max
ing watches. Two or three thousand
more are employed in making musical
boxes. In the absence Of statistics i. is
supposed that one hundred and fifty thou
sand watches are now made in Geneva
every year. The work is separated into
many departments. The watch-makers,
so-called-those who make the works of
the watches-are the steadiest class. They
have no trades-union. The case-makers
are freer spirits, and have trades-union,
as do the jewelers., engravers, and enamel
ers. All of these latter command higher
wages than the watch-makers, and, hav-
ing more temptation, are more given to
beginning the week on Wednesday, after
leisurely spree. A matchmaker aver
ages about six francs, or nearly dollar
and quarter a day. Jewellers, engravers.
and enamelers can make little more than
that. Casemakers can earn three dollars
a day. But such are the habits of all
these four latter classes that they do not
average more than the six francs day Of
the watchwork maker. There are no
very large watch factories in Geneva; that
is. the workmen are rarely collected in
one building. The independence of the
whole class is indicated by the fact that
they generally work at home. Where a
quaint old house reaches out for light
through many windows high above the
dinginess of its narrow court, you may be
sure that the proud ruler of the little re-
public is there with his matchmaking or
engraving tools. He and his brethren
who make music-boNes and singing birds,
and the other industrious denizens of the
St. Gervais quarter, are the rulers OF this
little republic, because they are the back
bone of the radical party, and the radical
party is the backbone of the liberal or
independent party, which rules the city
and the canton. 1t is these people who,
under the lead of James Fazy, in 1916,
brought the aristocrats of the old upper
city TO terms. and made them pay for the
powder ard ball with which they did it.
They work and think, and rule one OF the
best and apparently one of the least
governed cities in the world. THarper's
Magazine for November.
Year: 1872

A STARTLING ANswER.-A story
is told. Of teacher who was talking
to her scholars regarding the order Of
the higher beings. 1t was a very
profitable subject and one in which
the children took an uncommon in
terest. She told them that the angels
came first in perfection, and when
she asked them who came next and
was readily answered by one boy,
"Man r. she felt encouraged oask-


What comes next to man p


And here little shaver, who was
evidently smarting under a defeat in
the preceding question. Immediately
distancad all competition by promptly
shouting.


"His undershirt, ma'am,''
Year: 1872

Jennie Woodward, a young girl who was
eomm to of the Good Shepherd by one OF
the Police Justices was brought up yesterday morning
In the Supreme Court Chambers, before Judge Barrett
on writ Of habeas corpus Her release was demanded
on the ground that the commitment dli not aIrl that
she was an abandoned person, but merely stated lh
she was person processing desire 10 reform OF
which she was convicted" Ihe Court decldlnB lnls 10
be crime, discharged her.


A singular case came up yesterday before
Judge Barrett motion to compel the acceptance OF


surety in the case MARITIME ag LOewenstein Loew-
eusen brother desired to become surety on an appeal
bond in this action but the plaintiff objected to him on
the ground that nine years ago he had been convicted
of a felony and was not therefore, qualified TO become
surety on the other side it was argued that his ofense
lad hren the receiving OF stolen goods, Tor Whlch ne d
been fined $50, and had suffered imprisonment Inc
Ind, stated that his opinion that tne statute was
Intended TO deprive convict of all eredDluty IN the
the defendant to produce authorities " prove his argu-
meuL
Year: 1872

A friend Of ours trod on a rusty nail
which penetrated his foot about one inch.
He used Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil
thoroughly snd cured it without trouble.
This Magic Oil is what every family needs
in the house.
Year: 1872

from lands end TO lands end, that all may
read, and reading, believe, that for the
countless millions who are on the road to
an unsimsly grave with bilious COMPLAINTS,
there i' but Que truly great and reliable
remedy, and that is
Year: 1872

How CAN IT BE OTHERWISE P-That small
manufacturers make baking powder to sell
at less price than the actual cost of ma
terials used in DE-. Pace's Cream Baking
Powder, unless by largely sdulterating'
Year: 1872

From the Due de st, Simon,l


This prelate was tall, thin man, we'll


made, pale, with large nose, eyes from


which FIRE and genius flowed like tor


rent, and physiognomy such that l


have never seen any that resembled it,


and which could not be forgotten, though


one should only have seen it once. 1t


had something of everything in it, and


the contraries were at war. 1t had


gravity and gallantry, seriousness and


gayety; smacked equally of the doctor,


the bishop and the grand seigneur; that


which was uppermost, as in the whole


person, was finesse, genius, the graces,


hecomingness, and, above all, nobleness.


It,required an effort to cease looking at
him. All the portraits of him are speak
ing ones, without, however, having
caught the justice of the harmony which
was so striking in the original, and the
delicacy of each character that this
visage combined in itself. His manners
answered to it in the same proportion,
with an easiness which communicated
itself to others, and the air and the good
taste which only come from the best
company and the great world, and which
sheds itself over all his conversations.
With that, gentle, natural, beautiful
eloquence-but q man who never
wished to have more wit than those TO
whom he was speaking, who placed him
self on everybody's level without letting
them see il, who put them at their ease
and seemed to enchant, so that people
could not quit him, nor defend them
selves from him, nor help seeking to
meet him again. 1t was this talent, so
rare, and which he had to the dast de-
gree, that kept all his friends so entirely
attached to him all his life, in spite Of
his fall, and that, in their dispersion,
brought them together to speak Of him,
TO hold to him more and more, like the
Jews to Jerusalem, aud to sigh after his
return, and to hope for It always, as that
unhappy people waits and sighs after
the Messiah. By this prophetic author
ity that he had acquired over his follow
ers, he had become accustomed to
dominion which, gentle as it was, did
not like resistance. Thus he would not
long have been suffered as a companion.
Il be had returned to the court and en-
tered in the council, which was always
his great object,