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Year: 1871

'1dleness, pure and unmixed, is one of
the greatest luxuries of human life. 1t
is also luxury peculiarly appropriate to
the holiday season. On the same princi-
pie, am very much in favor of lying in
bed late of a morning Theoretically 1
hold the latitudinarian principle; but
practically am tolerably early riser.
The more sleep you give the brain the
better in quality the brain becomes, and
The better is the energy and harmonious
play of the whole system. Sleep as much
as you can, and, in consequence, as late
as you can, but never lie in bed after you
awake, thinking" as you are sometimes
pleased to term it. 1t is all a mistake.
1t is the worst kind of debauch; as bad
as dram-taking; L do not believe that
there is any real quality of thought in
such morning reveries. Similarly of the
delights of idleness, the pleasures of the
Castle of Indolence, some qualifying Ian
guage must be used. L know of no
greater pleasure than to saunter about
for whole day with ones hands in ones
pockets, and with steady determination
TO think, wait, and do nothing at all. In
order to do this with proper effect, man
ought to be on tolerably good terms with
his own conscience; otherwise some
dark influences will begin to brew dis
quietin his mind. But this idleness is a
tirst-rate clarifying process. Without
any settled, studious efforts of the mind,
the subjects that had troubled you will
begin to take shape and form. All kinds
OF matters, which have been waiting for
quiet hour of deliberation, will grad
ually, and almost without conscious
effort, be satisfactorily disposed of.
Moreover, your idle day, to be perfectly
idle and happy, must not be haunted by
the corroding recollection that there is
something to be done. Such idle DAYS
are as rare as happy days, of which the
Caliph could only score up eleven; and
it may be that the happy day and the idle
day are synonymous. I know of no
greater luxury than to wake up in the
morning thinking it is seven, and find
ing that it is nine. always calculate on
feeling of intense vitality for that day,
and an extra amount of my very limited
power of doing and enduring.
Year: 1871

The woman who is Indifferent to her looks
is no true woman. God meant woman
to be attractive, to look well, to please,
and it is one of her duties to carry out
this intention OF her Maker. But that
dress is to do it all, and to snffce, is
more than can be brought to believe.
Just because do love to see girls look
well, as we'll as live to some purpose, /
would urge upon them such a course of
reading and study as will confer such
charms as no modiste can supply. Mp.
Willis wrote once very pretty para
graph on the power of education to beau
tify. That it absolutely chiseled the
features; that he had seen many clum-
sey nose and thick pair OF lips so mod
fled by thought and by awakened ac-
tive sentiments as to be uurecognizable.
And he put it ON that ground that We SO
often see people, homely and unattracive
in youth, bloom in middle life into a
softened Indinn simmer of good and
mellow tones.
Year: 1871

An old lady who lost her purse short
time since at New Haven, declared, on its
being restored to her, that she would
not attempt to interfere with the reward
which was stored up in heaven for the
finder by giving him money.
Year: 1871

At one Of the Saratoga hotels they
have a colored waiter who takes the hat,
cane or umbrella of guests, and invariably
returns it without making mistake.
His accuracy is making fortune for him.
Year: 1871

Mrs. Archibald of Naples, Me-, dreamed
a few nights ago that the lightning was
forging bolt for her barn, and she got
up and turned out all her stock to mako
the blow as light as possible. Next day the
barn was struck. but NO particular dam
age done. ,.t a..
Year: 1871

The passage of the Apportionment bill by the House on Thursday raises the number of Representatives from 241 to 2S3. The consequence is that few States lose members but many, especially at the West, gain largely. The abolition of slavery has increased Southern. represen- tation by allowing every negro to count as full citizen towards representation, in stead of the three-ffths for which he counted as slave; nevertheless the losses of the war were such at the South that that section gains but small percentage on it's former proportion of the whole representation. New England and the Middle States now lose about two per cent while the West gain about three and half per cent. lifc

 The following table shows the gains, losses and percentage of the various States and sections of the country 4aIs
Year: 1871

.'s The oyer-zealous administration Sena- tors who opposed in the beginning the raising of a Retrenchment Committee with powers equal to that of last year, have evidently become aware of their blunder and now make haste to welcome investiga- tion. A wise change of policy.
Year: 1871

Sleepless people-and there are
many in America-should court the
sun. The very worst sOpOriiic is
laudanum, and the very best. sun
shine. Therefore, it is very plain
that poor sleepers should pass as
few hours as possible in the shade.
Many women are martyrs, and yet
they do not know it. They shut the
sunshine out of their houses and
their hearts; they wear wells, they
carry parasOls, they do all possible
to keep of the subtlest and yet most
potent influence which is Intended
to give them strength and beauty
and cheertulness. Is il not time to
change this, and SO get color and ro-
ses in our pale checks, strength in
our weak backs and courage in our
weak souls? The women of Amer
lea are pale and delicate; they may
be blooming and strong and the sun
light will be potent influence in
this transformation.
Year: 1871


The world is too much with u; late and


soon,
Getting and spending. we lay waste our


powers;
Little we see in nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away. sordid


boon.
This sea that beares her bosom TO the moon:
The winds that will be bowling at all hours,
And are gathered now like sleeping how-


ers;
For this, for everything, we are out Of tune;
Itmoves US not-Great God I'd rather be
A pagan sucked in creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lee,
Have glimpses that would make me less for.


lorn;
Have sight OF Proteous rising from the Sea.
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed


horn. H
Year: 1871

In one of the Ohio towns citizen
had rendered himself obnoxious to
the rest of the community, so he
was placed in the hands of a vagi-
lance committee for treatment. The
chairman of the committee made
the following report; 1--WE took the
theft down to the river, made hole
in the ice and proceeded to duck
him, but he slipped through our
hands and hid under the ice. All
our efforts to entice him out failed,
and he has now retained his point of
advantage some hours"
Year: 1871

To the uninitiated it seems impos-
sible that men of all political shades
can dwell together in unity, that
they can meet together night after
night in the most exciting political
campaigns, and never disagree a.
bout their political faith or princi-
pies. If we could only get the out
side world to understand that as
Odd Fellows, we labor to make men
better citizens and better fathers
and to convince them that the Gre.
ator of the world placed US here for
q higher object than to fight and
squable over who shall fill our Off
ces. We say that if we could only
get those outside our Order, TO un-
derstand this, it would then not be
hard to convince them that politics
never enter into our Lodges.
Year: 1871

The Ridge in Sumner county is re-
ported on fire, which originated
some time Sunday morning. The
fire can be seen Distinctly from Gal
latin a distance of some five or six
miles. The trees themselves are
seen in flames and is is feared much
damage may result, as the fire con-
tinued to rage apparently unabated,
Notwithstanding the rain. The ex-
tent of the fire is large, but what
destruction of property there may
be is not known.- Union, LIST.
Year: 1871

Many people take no care of their
money till they have come nearly TO
the end of it, and thus do the same
with time. Their best days they
throw away-let them run like sand
through the fingers as long as they
think they still have a countless
number of them 10 spend; but when
they find their days lowing rapidly
away, so that at last they have very
few left, then they viii at once make
a very wise use Of them; but un-
luckily they have by that time no
notice how 10 do it.-Gotskelf.
Year: 1871

THE DAY or REsr.-NeVer was q
more blessed instution than Sum
day, the sacred day Of rest from la
bOr- For the .sORl's .hestth and the
bOdy's health of the human race, on
at least one day in seven there
should be an ever recurring inter-
mission of daily toll. Thus let 8
man attain to a period of three score
and ten, he has gained a holiday OF
ten years duration, even if his lot
has been labor for the remaining
three score years, Let childhood be
taught to use, and manhood dis
creetly use, this blessed breathing
time; as day on which to raise the
thoughts beyond the world, not less
than for purposes of innocent recre-
alton.
Year: 1871

y gentleman who has traversed
extensively every Southern State
east Of the Mississippi, informs us
that this is one of the worst years
for cotton he has ever known. In
some places il is so stunted one must
get down on his knees to pick it,
The crop along the Alabama river
and he has seen the country on both
sides-he pFonouuces miserably poor
and his general conclusion is that
even had there been no foods, no
worm nor devastating storms, this
season, the cotton would still fan
very far below the average yield
lie estimates the coming crop at
about two millions and quarter
bales. Our informant is neither
buyer, seller nor planter.-NetC or
leans PtedglSRe.
Year: 1871

If ] were called upon to point out the
most alarming sins in this city TODAY.
those which are most widespread m
their ravages, most deceitful in their in


iuences, and most soul-destroying in
their ultimate effects, / would not men.
tion drunkenness with all its fearful
havoc, nor gambling with its crazed vic
Tins, nor harlotry with its helish orgies,
but the toUe Of money, on tho part OF
men, and the loce Of dispLoy, on the part
OF women. While open vice sends its
thousands, these fashionable and favored
indulgences send their ten thousands to
perdliion. They scar the conscience,
encrust the soul with shell of worldi-
ness, debauch the affection from every
high and heavenly object, and make man
or woman a worshiper OF self And,
while doing all this, the poor victim is
allowed by public opinion to think him
self or herself Christian while the
drunkard, the gambler, aud the prosti-
tute is not deceived by such thought
for moment


The three glores of a woman-her
triple crown, which makes her power
more efficient than that of the Vetican.
aud constitutes her in her true and nor.
NAL life the minister of grace and health
to the race--are modesty, truth and
sympathy. All three Of these are tarn-
ished by the seli-decorator. For mod
esty, We have the brazen face with which
young misses even stare unblushingly al
all they meet for truth, we have the
perpetual lie OF fashionable society and
for sympathy, the headlong plunges after
selfish indulgence. do not speak as a
cynlc, as one who would morosely deny
the proper recreation and light enjoy
ments that our natures need as they do
air aud food, nor do l ignore the fact
that some noble spirits are faithfully re-
slsting this spreading evil, but with all
these allowances, l see the Christian
church violently invaded by this fatal
lniquity see Christian mothers insti-
flying it on every hand, the Christian
daughters dragged into the vortext by
the very hands that ought to have been
throwing around them for protection l
see the influence of this self decoration
by the force of example extended itself
over all classes and conditions of society,
like a subtitle poison, eating out the life
of Christianity and leaving the mere
name. And, seeing this, l can not, as a
minister Of Jesus Christ, keep silent
without becoming partaker of the sin.
1t is my duty to warn Christian women
of this foe to piety that they are more
or less nursing in their hearts and in
their families, and to urge them to that
simplicity of apparel which is alone COLI
sistent with Christian heart, and which
will ever help them TO be separated from
a vain and goddess world.-Dr. CrosJu.
Year: 1871

A humorous. young man was drivinga
horse which was IN the habit of stop.
pind at every house on the road side.
Passing country tavern, where there
were collected together some dozen
countrymen, the animal, as usual, ran
opposite the door and then stopped in
spite of the young man, who applied
the whip with all his might to drive the
horse on. The men on the porch COM
menced hearty laugh, and some in
quired if he would sell the horse eyes,
but cannot recommend him. said the
young man, 'as he once belonged to
butcher, and stops when ever he hears
any calves bleat." The crowd turned
to the bar in silence.
Year: 1871

MANURING FOR SRPlNG.-Ground that
is to be used Tor vegetables next spring
should be manured i'll the fall. Haul
out from the barn-yard all the manure
that can be spared for this purpose, and
spread it over the surface, and then plow
under, and leave the soil in light ridges
until spring. If the manure is fresh aud
warm, it will become sufficiently cool
and decomposed by spring, and its
juices thoroughly incorporated with the
soil. Where the surface of the land is
nearly level and there is no danger of
the manure washing away, 1t may be
spread upou the surface even after the
ground is frozen. For vegetables the
enriching materials should be thorough
ly decomposed and incorporated with
the soil and We do not know of bet.
ter way of doing this than in autumn,
ploughing once at this time, and then
again in the Spring. The heavy rains
will do more towards mixing the mate
rials than any manipulation with plough
or spade.
Year: 1871

A new flying machine is said to be in pre-
paration in New York city by man who
feels confident he can navigate the air in spite
of opposition currents. 1t is understood that
he has spent many Years and much money in
his experiments, and intends to show what he
can do early next spring. He expects 10 be
able to go at least mile on the first trial, and
to increase the distance to at least hundred
milas
Year: 1871

A young officer in the British house Of
Commons, wore a tremendous pair Of NOUS
taches, on which one of the members said
my dear fellow, now the war is over, why
don't you put your moustaches on the peace
establishment 7" "Had not you better put
your tongue on the civil list ?" was the
prompt and naughty retort.
Year: 1871

WILD PEACHES IN NEVADA. There


grows in this Territory = species Of wild
peach which is exceedingly hardy and will
live almost anywhere. 1t is found in abund.
ance in Carson Valley, Humboldt Valley and
on the hills around Reese River, perhaps
also everywhere. This tree grows to about
the hight of mans shoulder in the most
favored localities, but is frequently found
not over foot high. The leaf is small and
thick, more like that of the plum. In the
spring OF the year the plains are covered
with the beautiful pink blossom of this
shrub. The fruit has the perfect form of
the peach, is greenish with crimson tippe
OF small size, not over threc-quarten to one
inch in length, and is very bitter to the
taste. 1t is quite possible, however. that
cultivation may develop the good qualities
OF this uncivi)ized companion of the sage.
brush, and turn 1t into hardy fruit tree.
Year: 1871

Interesting Church Oeremony.-A re-
quirement of the law of Moses is, that on the
arrival of any Hebrew child at the age of
thirteen years, he is TO be confirmed By the
Rabbi and received amongst his people as one
OF them, with capacities to distinguish the
right from the wrong and fully accountable
for his own acts of omission or Commission
This Is done by the parents of the lad present
ing him before the congregation, in the Syna-
gogue, to the Rabbi, who receives him with
prayer addressed to the Most High God in his
behalf. He then addresses the candidate as 10
the nature and extent of his duties in his new
relation, and the latter replies in an address.


The peculiarly quaint and solemn music of
the Hebrews is heard the while, and the whole
ceremony concludes with a blessing on the
candidate, and benedction by the priest,
when social reunion takes place. This beau,
tiful ceremony took place at noon to-day in
the Eleventh street Synagogue, the officiating
Rabbi being Rev. DR.. Bethlehem, and the
candidate confirmed Philip, son of Henry
Stern, Esq, of this city. Last week SINH
lar ceremony took place on the occasion of the
confirmation of Henry Myers, son of Israel
Myers, of First and Broad street.
Year: 1871

Introducing a Gdms.-A young citizen
Of sporting proclivities was summoned before
Police Justice White this morning to answer
the charge of 'introducing the game of faro"
in the city of Richmond. Doubtless, il the
truth were known, that seductive way of get
ting rid of ones loose change, made Its ap-
pearancs simultaneously with the advent of
the English settlers at jamestown, under Capt
John Smith and if the remains of that ancient
town could be made to speak "they could
tale unfold" of many "club- house" and the
doings therein.


The charge against the individual alluded to
in this paragraph, was dismissed, there being
no law to punish the introducer of o game,
though there is one to punish the exhibitor
after the introduction has occurred. No wit
ness appeared to establish the latter fact, and
the acquittal was, therefore, logical result
Year: 1871

LOVE HIDES A MULTITUDE OF FAULTS'-
But it fails to paint the pale cheek to gladden. the
heart or conceal the disease that is lurking and
making rapid inroads upon yondev rapidly declining
female beauty Her wan features are bedewed with
tears. her pulse is feeble and her day-dreamz are
growing DIM as night with its heavy pail of gloom
settles upon her brow ! Can she not be restored :
Yes. Health, with all its entciRg charms and beau.
ties, will send thrill of joy through her feeble
frame, by the use of English Female Bitters, which
are advertised in another column Go thou and buy
them.
Year: 1871

0uu LlOuSu CdlOludLcS dIS plcuty
We've had at least score,
All of them "tip-top' preachers,


For so their letters ran
We're just as far as ever


From settling on the man
The first that came among us,
l. BY no means was the worst,
But then we didn't think of him
Because he was the first;
1t being quite the custom,


To sacrifice few,
Before the church in earnest


Determined what to do.
There was smart young fellow
With serious, earnest way,
WHO, but for one great blunder,
Had surely won the day;
Who left so good impression,


On Monday one or two
Went round among the people


To see if he would do.
The pious godly portion


Had not a fault to find.
His clear and searching preaching
They thought the very kind;
And all went smooth and pleasant,
Until they heard the views
Of some influential siuners


Who rent the highest pews.
On these his pungent dealing


Made but sorry hit:
The.coat of gospel teaching


Was quite too tight fit,
Oh course his fate was settled
Attend. We parsons all!
And preach to please the sinners
If you would get a call.
Next came spruce young dandy,
He wore his hair too long:
Another's coat was shabby,
And his voice not over strong
And one New Haven student


Was worse than all of those
We couldn't heed HI sermon


For thinking Of his nose!
Then wearying of candidates,


We looked the country through.
Mid doctors and professors,


To find one that would do
And after much discussion,
One who should bear the ark,
With tole able agreement,
We fixed on DIR. Parke.
Here, then, we thought it settled,
But were amazed to find,
Our flattering invitation


Respectfully declined,
We turned to Mr.. Hopkins


To help us in the lurch,
Who strangely thought that college
Had claims above our church.
Next we dispatched committees
By twos and threes to urge
The labors for a Sabbath


OF the Rev. Shallow Splurge,
He came-a marked sensation,
So wonderful his style,
Following the creaking of his boot;
AS he passed up the aisle.
His tones were SO affecting,


His gestures, SO divine,
A lady tainted in the hymn


Before the second line;
And on that day he gave US,


In accents clear and loud.
The greatest prayer ever addressed
To so enlightened crowd.
He preached a double sermon,
And gave us angel food,
On such a lovely topic


'.The joys of solitude"
All full of sweet descriptions


OF flowers aud peariy streams,
Ofwarbling birds and moonlitgroves
And golden sunset beams.
Of faith and true repentance,


lie nothing had to say;
He rounded all the corners,


And smoothed the rugged way,
Managed with great adroitness
To entertain and please,
And leave the sinners conscience
Completely at its ease,
Six hundred is the salary r
We gave in former days
We thought it very liberal,


And found it hard to raise;
But when we took the paper,


We had no need to urge,
To raise a cool two thousand,
For the Rev. Shallow Splurge.
In vain were all the Efforts
We had no chance at all
We found ten city churches II
Year: 1871

The surroundings of the farmers
home can be made more comfortable.
Instead of the little building situated
several rods from the house, which must
be visited in the storms and cold and
exposed to the public gaze, and which is
very often a nuisance, let a lean-tO be
made against the rear of the dwelling
or wOOd-hOuse, with an entrance under
cover, where tubs can be placed, and by
an addition of little earth or plaster or
muck every few days, nothing disagree
able will ever be experienced. The
compost heap or the manure pile will
receive the contents, and at least $40
annually of additional value will be re-
allied for each adult. Have a cistern;
gather the materials at odd times, and
if you have room in the cellar, and do
not want to afford time to dig a hole,
wall up one corner and let water in.
Put pump in the kitchen in the hand
lest place, and with lead pipe you may
draw the water to sink within step
from the stove.


Keep a stock of wood ahead. Any
wife has a just reason for divorce from
husband who is so mean and so shiftless
that he furnishes her stove wood from
day to day; and any farmer who does it