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Pv VOLUME I. \ 11 Vhlc I Mssmmii'SI'. We have just linislu'd reading e\ . .overnor ('hamhorlHin's address 1 ??*fore tin* I'hi I?'>t:i Kappa Soeietv ni I --Vale Ivlucati-in at the South." It is a masterly disco irso, and most uiisoarino-lv exposes the meretricious nt>ss of t!i" Blair bill. eonecrnino' which tin.' orator says: ' I >!ial! not attempt to conceal tnv want of respect even for this scheme ami it* authors, for it is the product, almost alone, of puritans the most arr.int and shallowest demaj^ojriie who no-..- allli' ts our national councils." After pointinnf out the provisions of th<* hill, appropriating as a whole s?the sum of -H"!7,001),()()() to he -dis linrsed on die warrant of the Commissioner of I'M nation, eountersi?,,<-M' hv tli" Secretary of the Interior Mr. ('liainherlaiu savs: "This hill presents at once tlio1 orave a constitutional and practical <pie tio:i. "It marks a distinely new depart ure in our system or national idea o' popular education. It proposes !u>> to in ike the work of popular education, or common schools, a national work, a Federal function. By the proposed hill not only tire laio'' sumto he oi\ am out of the Nat it ma! Treasury to the States, hut of necessity.' the conditions and restrictions upon the i^'ift are to he enforced and indeed ol hv designated I nderal oHi.-ers. I iii- is and must he supervision t?i some evteut hv th<? Feder l oovern .......t ,.r . ,.i t 11.;.. foroicrn to ail ?. tr history and practice as ran lie cnneoiv<vl of. All former Lfifts i>v tin- nation to the States for schools have hern absolute, and neither iint-lird nor carried national super\ ision to anv decree. Hoi thr gravest objection is not tin* novcltv of tfi1' nieasnre. lint its demonstrable incompatibility with the (^institution. I need not remind yon that the must precious product in a {lolitiea' or civie sense, which Amorica '..as jriven to the world, th" most precious political <rift in nt\ mature judgement, ever devised by the wit of man is the ('(institution of the ( oiled States. Nor need I in si<t that the Inchest civic duty laid upon us, and each of us is obedience to that ('.institution, not merely obedience to positive laws made under its sanction, lint obediences to it in our wishes, in the laws in which we seek to Irame. N'-.tlcr does the fact that, like all other written documents, its expounders differ in its construe ti.?.i, le .sen our obligation to obey i'. The commands and precepts of even the Sermon on the Mount are different!)' in'e 'preted and applied !>y different minds." As \vo read we ask ourselves with vvoiider, can this be our ('hatnberlain or some new I hmiel coino to iudj/e i MiiMit? N overt lielosfj, sav wo in ail i inmost heartiness, all honor to such teaching and such sentintents. it mat rors not from whom (hoy < 01110. There is absolutely no other hope for the people of this oreat country than a self-rest rati 11 i 11 ur. conscientious. scrupulous <(liotlicnoo to our supreme Federa! law. The political virtue en rendered I>\* audi conduct lias in itself a saving ^rraco which lifts a free people far above brute force and liazhylous impulses. In diseussino the question of the constitutionality of the educational bill Mr. Chamberlain takes as a cardinal principle of our Federal system: That the ('onstitution has created a oovernnient of strictly delegated, defined and limited powers, and that no nower not so delegated, can be constitutionally exercised !?\ the jrovcrnnient of the I nited States, or by any branch t hereof." '(tie constitutionality of the bill is then discussed at some hmoth and with convincing force. Mr. ('hatnbcrlain concludes that if ('engross can assume the support of these common s>< liools, it can oiiiv do s(, :m its appropriate function and so conferred l?v the Constitution on the oovorninent of tlm I "nited States y in ( ontradistinction of the fjinotions | of the several Stales. And it is maintnii>*d tl^it if tli(t clause 'Mo lew ta.ves, to provide for the general welfare,'' leaves it to the simple disereti at of ('undress to sav what is the general welfare, and thereon to appropriate the moneys of the Kedora! Treasury for any purpose that it mioht deem for the general welfare, thi- would roach Congressional absolutism. At this point attention is called to the clause, which provides*. The. ('engross shall have power to make all laws which shall l?e necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foro^oinpf powers, and all other powers, vested hy this Constitution in the government of tho' muSSHt. " 3E tirtxhE I nitcil S atos or in nnv doiiarttnciit tliorrof." Mr. t'huiulmrlaiii failt'd ln?ro to strike tlx1 key iintn of tlio ivsii?? whilst ijuotino t!u> ali ivo, wliieh evidently ami eonehi -i volv forbids to I'onoress tli" i?? to make laws t'ot the e\erut ion of mow mi s not \ ostei i !>\ I l?o t on stitutioii in tln? o'ovi'rnn11m11 of In* i uiteti >iaies. .\n<i : sins jioMcr i<> provide for tin4 support of tin* niiiimoii si'Ikm>is is iiiii> vested in tin' I nit toil Stains, then it excludes tin' State power in tiie premises, whereas the lllair l?iil predicates t he support trrauted l>\ the Federal tro\ eminent on that >vliieli earli State should e-ran' "Is ?>wn heliall" Tor its own . cIk k ds. Hut ( liatiilierhiin also shows the pernicious effect which extraneous help has had on the school system of t (hinecticut. (piotiue- the statement of Secrettirv Mice of the (Connecticut Hoard of Kducution. in this hehalf who concludes the statement with the foliowint* strihinjjf sentence: "The puldie sciiools must draw their sustenance from the people who are directly or indirect iv l/enetitml |>\ them. We have only space to call att< nK ? lion to the following letters written to Mr. t 'hamlicrlain aniono main , all leadino- to the same eoneliisious. Mr. ?'Iiamlierlain says: "I h hi in 111\ hand, from a Yale graduate of my own eolleov camera tion. an eminent citizen of one of the old slave States, who writes thus: "'! inn deeply interested in the puldie school system, and hence opnosed fo national aid \ on camt<>! i ; * plaster the South wtili this system. It is it orowth. ami its certain and healthy orouth ran only !> secure i by com pel I i o ea It community to provide for its own schools. Tim Blair hill is simplx in an itluv form, the old hallucination, of 'forts an s and a mule,* which has caused more briers and sassafras bushes to trrow in Southern fields than all else." Then, ainono other loiters I font the South, we lind the following from South t 'an>1 ioa: "I' l'oni a colored planter and conntr\ inerehant in South ('arolimt, who was a slave and or shiver ol hi- owner's slaves before the war; cannot read, and can only write his nwii name, but owns &|(U)00 of real estate, and has a bunk account of oood size the year round. Mis h'ttcr is written at his dietatiou by his nfii'te clerk and bookkeeper; " Polities are at a stand-till here. Corn, cotton and sweet potatoes, with a little Northern l?aco >, is what we live on now. Politics did us no ?roo(t, and hero is this so.ncthino or other they call tho 1 >1 air bill, which our preachers and others say is eoino to cure all our sores. I never knew much about it until I cot your letter. It's cnoticli to know that it is^uim' to oiyc us darkeys' .something or , - O other. I don't want it. Wo darkies, don't want it. Schools are poor and short here so far. Init we're "jetting on. I I tossed 'inifin'rs' once ;ind worked line a 'nigger' myself. I know 'em. NO inure bossing for me nor . 'dping neither. Who said 'root,1 hog or die'? It's the (rod's truth, hut we have said also,'eat hog or die.'j If we can get corn and bacon, hog and J hominy, we can get schools. 1 stand just where 1 did when yon were here work hard, save tnv money and send the \oung ones to what schools we have. When we get more money, we'll have more schools.' "From a colored preacher in South Carolina a preacher in that State before the war. and once a slave: 'The South is my home and the home of my people. We must stay here, or most of us must. Chinos are getting better all the time. I'he > T*> white people are more contented, and crops are getting good generally. We move slowly but sure. We need more schools, and are getting more every year. Governor Thompson has done nobly in this. Mv people only know that the Blair bill is something the North is going to give them for schools. You know them well enough to see they want it, and will blame any of us who say 'No:* but I tell them, in spite of that, it is not good for them. \V? must help ours dves Vlt/ttlA'.' < ?v lflti*!" iliwi 1W? l.??l I beoin now, and keep on. Whites and blacks here are bound together. What hurts 0110 hurts both. Yon told us so years ajro. hbnnncipaiion Day, I WW, you said it in <'olumbia. and spoke Wliittier's word: 'The laws of chnn#cl< - justice hind Oppressed with oppressed, And el >s" as sin and suffering joined. We maivh to fate abreast,' k'So we jo> now, and we don't want this thinj/ done for us. Wo, must uII stand together, and takntho best eare we can of ourselves.' "hYotn a ("barleston, S. nierchant and factor, of line culture and much travel, especially at the North and West: TO "TOXTE WOHD . (/ONWAY, S *( 'hiirli'ston wants (lie Itlair hill, ami .so tioos the Stato, if von conni iio.-os. \lan\ <-f' iiiir la'M moil want il loo, inil noi Mil. ? iiivci'linr I 11?>!11i? son thinks lie wants ii. anil s?? does j I klWSOll of till' ,\ ' tlllll 1 'iH't'tl't', | ;uni ('ottrtenuv ( Mayor), who is a sjfen- . nine friend of schools, s< von know. . 1 could name :i o-ooil imtnv llioiv, but. j after all. in private almost every one j of these will say they are for it lie- , cause the idea of recouping for ohl . is ;> ?pulnr. 1 ant tlnail against j it. M. t litiller win riifht wiien he , said in the Senate two years aoo that | i? was a Mow at what is the best j lliiny- auione- us liere the s|>iril of , self- lie 11>. '* I'm I aein it too. because it is meddling , with, and will surely end in I'Vderal , en 'trul of. Slate affairs. There'* so uiueli of State's ri?dit- |<?ft in me af | ter our drubluu!/, anyhw, and I don t aj)olojri/e for ii either. Scotch the snake, I sa*, in the cradle, and pray | excuse my lame effort to he lassieal. , Ii I were talkino- to you I'd use army , words instead.' L] f T'rom a mechanic, a master build vo er o| t 'olumbia. S. t well known in ^ New York and New Jersey: " d was a Hourlton till IS77. I v:|> N an Winkle did ni sleep sounder hati I. but when we ?fol you down an I had (hitters ur own way, I *voke u11. i am for education for all. i pay m\ taxes, and would j>a\ move, e'ladly, fo.' edueali'>:t. riiompsin is our best (iovernor since the war of IS.'I.! He's off in this tiiin?r, thotijrh.: I tou t I remember the r'rec luian'Ibtreau ami the eallino- for troops11 from Washington? This is it over ue-ain, and iiobtino- short of it. I l V <1 : I / ? I ? i * r (toil I lliltllx OIUIIIOIU Wlllill! V< lie I'M' tlie thin?r (tlie lilair lull). Iiut I sup- ; 11<?m.? ('iiarlestou would; i?<11 ?'hurle ton is tin* under doe* in this State now. I'Ik' darks want it of course,! and lots <>l white uiooers, who want anything th"\ can <n ' f? : n ?111in<_? Let ns alone; let us lio-iii it out here. Neither lilaeks nor h ' w! d In the wall, lint hoth w :! ;"t cd a al< I and know how to <u I il alone. I'lia1 ! is my policy, ami it is the ,ud\ poi i ie\ in education, or in uuvtliino else. J i> ir t he Soul h." llojs uihI Mothers. Sometimes hoys think mothers are in the wa\; that thev would iia\e more libertt if it were not for their mothers. Mothers have sueli search ino eyes, eves that seem to look riolit into the heart, especially if there is' anythiiio- liidiuo* ther" that mothers' should know uhout; and this is trotlhlesoine. If the boys would onl\ understam. that it is love that makes the mother's eyes keen, her voice so anxious, her (pe-st'ons so sea re hino; |ove that knows all the tomptn j tions that may come to a hov, and the trouble if there i' tio wise eoiili-j <lant about! It is not the anxiety of a I'aul I'ry, but the lovino jjuardianship of a mother. \ wise man said, "(iod could not be /en where ,so lie made mother." (iod may seem fari off to us soaietinies but there is j , mother near, who will lead us back.! The wisest and best men have honored their mothers. I'ew men who have accomplished a special work in the world do not oive credit to their | mother for the help and inspiration! thut niaile their work possible. Inoivino this credit to their mother's they have In nored themselves for it proves that as boys they honored her instructions, were ouided by her ad vice and made a confidante <>f her in their hopes and desires. When the lute ('resident (.{arfiehl was inane1uraled. the first person he sainted was his mother, showing plainly tieplace she held in his hetirl. his life. The world honors and respects the man who honors and respects his mother. The neglect of a mother stamps a man or hoy as heartless, ungrateful, if not cruel. Tito truly ureal men liaye never forgotten those to whom they were most deeply indebted. Many letters have been written about mothers, but few tlint shows the sorrow that romes if the full measure of a mother's love has received no return until too iate to make it. The. poet (fray, in I7(V>, wrote the following letter to a friend: "It is lono since I heard you were ijniii' in haste into N orkshire on ae- 1 count of your mother illness, and the same letter inform me she was recovered. Otherwise I had then wrote to you only to l>.-u- you wouid take care of her, and inlorm you that j I had discovered a thine1 very litl!" , known, which is that in one's whole life one can never have any more than a sinyrle mother. "t on may think this obvious and (what you call) a trite 1 observation. Yon are a openn 1 ooslino' I v.as at the same awe (very ' near) as wise as von, and yet I never discovered this (with full evidence 1 si in I conviction, I moan) till it was 1 too late. It is thirteen years a?ro, | and it seoms hut sis yesterday, and 1 every day I live it sinks deeper into my hart.' Ifivery man thinks Cntesar's wife < ??njjrlit to be above suspicion, but lie i is hir less particular a> to what Orosar himself ou^ht to be. ? ^3ST3D WCE: . C.. TMIHSDA V. A I' Whiskey iiikI Tolmeo." i The .Maeon '/V'it//v11>h joins its 1 \uine la ami Alia* ta eontempoiarios j' n lim orv tliat the South :ho|?im)simI to he internal revenue system "almost' ; Miliilly." There is no evidenee of melt solidity outside of (ieoroih 1 However, and we doubt that it e\i.-js ' m 111 ( ire in, outside of two or tlirije newspaper nOioers. There are several l^ood r.iasojis r<.?r this doubt, of whieh we nerd Mention onlv it fi-\\ in tiio In'O 1 i dace lltcri' is no proof of the 41- ' iotred solidity, so far as we know, xeept liio testimony of a few I'm [eetion newspapers, whose wishes louht ess largely affect their view ?f the situation around them. In the seeond plaee, we do not helieve that the people of (ieor^ia would prefer to have the tax removed from tohaeeo, for instance, rather Ihan loan elothino, food, iron tnaniil?kLires, and a thousand other which all the people arc while no one is ironiBi) to us<> tohaeeo in any A" lien 1 en t hose w ho use tohaeei? W^ro ^S?Ttain:\ piefcr to pay a vo.he hot tax on the article of lux 'irvVth* than to pay compulsory tnxc&^Kcnunt less necessaries. 1 h side-Tmjyl?:u*<ro is raised to a vcr\ small ^Rtent in (ieoroia, and the people of that State have the ass i: anee of IYoteelloti newspaper* in \ iromia that it is the tohaeeo producer, and not the consume), who 1 pa\ s tin' tax. They understand too. as the i'liiladelphia AVeo/v/ says, that lite advocacy of the repeal of thi.-? la\ is not nut of solicitude for the poor man's welfare, or for the welfare of the people as a whole, hut, in order to maintain war taxes mi certain articles for the continued hcnelW of those who are enonoed in the manufacture of such articles. \ proof of this may he found in the fact that nearly every politician or newspaper lav irino the repeal of the tohaeeo lax is opposed t > a repeal tic duties on wool, hemp, llax. j ill*, iron ore, coal, lumber, sail uitii i>tIh r raw materials of produ (inn. I'Ih* more elTot lively to conceal llieir real purpose some of tiiese organs ami |>ulilieiai?s profess a willingness to remove the duty on 1 in I ?er or salt, or "lioos" hripties,"' or soii.e other article on the t rill" list. Hut their real aim is to defeat taritT refonn, first I?v ? repeal of tin* tobaeco lax. ami then bv a repeal of the whiskey tax. 11 is certainly sio-nihcant licit newspapers published in a State which has so little interest tin the rul'ivat on and manufacture of tobacco should devote themselves day after day and veiir after year, ton strenuous effort to secure the repeal ?f the tobaeeo tax, while tliCN up hold or are silent in regard to taxes which increase the cost of livino to every man, woman and child in that State, by about 10 per cent. The assertion that (Jeoripa is "solid" for the repeal of the tax on whiskey is still more remarkable. That State is held up as the model temperance State in tiie I nion, and ;i ver\ laroe majority of its aounties, we believe. ha\o imposed almost prohibitory restrictions upon the liquor trniliv. It is incouucivalile j that the people who support this temperance movement, should at it,,. i... -i i- e ..... ..[inn nun- IM- ciiuiMHfnu" n?r free whiskey; an<I yet free whiskey wid free tobacco is precisely what nu IVoted ion contemporaries dedare t<> he the lirst desiro of their hearts. The Atlanta ('oHntitution not lono ao;i wiih fn^iij?(!(l ina hitter' i^lit aoaiiist the iiiii|iiitous IVoteelive tariff, and now prides itself upon having contributed at that time to secure the repeal of the du(\ ( hi iiiiiiiine in the interest of the, |?eoj>le. The tnosl it ti/iau has since , hanoed sides, however, and is now | liohtino in he ha I f of the protected manufacturers. We would he ^dud to hear from it, or anv of our I'roleetion eontenttioraries in (omri/ia, a , inole eood reason why quinine I should he taxed aoain, in order toj have tobacco and whiskev :,'n scot free; and. if quinine should not ho taxed anew for this purpose, why iiiv other article of necessity should 'ontiniieil to he taxed for the purjiose. A I'I Pit iiml ('on fit-1'. Shoeless ('oil federates. An 'id soldier recently talked ton r-qiorter of the Atlanta ((ht.^ t'o/isfifn/imi, his suhject brino- < <-rtain shoe I'-ss ('onfederate soldiers: If yon had been around ju?t after [lie rout to Nashville you wouWJIuive thought there were I < ,< M )(* elephant* loose in the eountrv. The oround was eovered with snow, and, as yon iiiav iuiaj/ine, the air was eaoer ami nipping. The routed Confederates] i [nil out down the snow-eovered pikes making for Corinth and thence to Mobile, TK) miles distant. We were idothed in nothing but shirts and r> r>i*oof hog, t'oiuparuti vol v ' fow owning >!d hats, and only here and there a fortnate man with a pair of shoes. I'iie half-starved and half-frozen men wrapped their feet in old sacks and Ltlr [c -sro-cr:re ccx I'll. 7. IS87. my sort ol* rajfs tli?*v eouhl ovt until I ho t ranks tlioy uiado worn oroat round holes in tho snow liko tin* 11aoks < >1' oloithants. (ionoral Lowory (iod hloss Ins sonl triod to do soiuothiiio for us. No had snnio shoemakers, and at no'ht would niako tho sohiiors report it liis heado natters, whom tho shoo >hop would ho iocatod. (iroou hidos not an hour oil' tho cows* haoks were used lor shooniakino. \ soldier would plant Ins |o >t on tho hair\ sjd >f tho hido. and tho shoemaker would rut out a round niooo of skin, slit i. in various directions, ami with a coarse iwiiio oath r 111> tin' ends ami literal I v sew tin* font up in tin* raw hide with tin* hair inward. ' I * In shoes worn eood for ahout t ventv-four hours use, ami thou tlio\ warnM draw our loot ami wo would ha\o to throw thoin asido and oo IuiT-k to buoyine. \\ lion I uror to Mnl.il.* with a lot of tho follows wo took ouarters in a warehouse. I hoodoro llamilton was |dav:n.o * The \\ ifo" at tho Mobile theatre, and I soulllod around and oot a liokot. I wont to tho theatre bareheaded ami barefooted and in inv shirtsleeves. I thouohl it was the host show I ever saw. After the performance an old man carried me home with liitn and oave in. a loe* tailed coal, a luc and a pair oj sht\ \\ hen I not back to the warehouse the ho\.- tore I he tails of the coat, hut die was a double breasted fellow, and I stuck to her. I looked like a ja\- j hinI with his tail pul led out. -?*- -o I'scl'iiliu -s in Old Am1. Suppose, then, we aoree to call no man old till he is oast sixty-three. Let u- so; down the names of some of the illustrious people ol the world who have prolonged their days of usefulness after that a00. We sludl make a table of tlsein, ami bejrm it with those w 11.? have died at seventv that is to m\ . with those in whom the spl ine - "I lib have not stood still till they have at I 'ast .-.event \ wars o| old j|o": It will I e ioiiikI. howev cr, 10 im inr in.in i Miauslivi , ami every reader may lind pleasure in aiidiiiir to ii I mm his own stock of informal ion. . \<jt nt .'in'/,. ill ('olinnhns; Lord t'hntham; IV-! Irareh; < opernieus; Spallan/ani; lloerhaave; (iall. i I - I .innanis. i('harloinajjoie: Samuel Kichard s hi; Allan !imnsiv; .lolin I a >cke; Xeeker. o? ('harles l)ar\vin; Thorwalsden. il Handel; Krederi d\ tin* (treat; I )r. Jonner. i.? Ilavdn; Illiquid Stewart, i li ? I i< issuet. "i "i I liotnas Telford; Sir Joseph J lianks; Lord Heaeonsliehl. i8 < ia 1 ileo; ( '<>rneillo. 10 Win. I larvev ; Uohert Steven- j s<at; I lonry * 'avontlish. Ml I'lato; WoidswortIi; I? a I p h Waldo Kinorson; Kant; Thiers; \\ in. ( 'illlen. 81 liuH'on; Kdward Yonn?*; Sir IVI war* I ('oko; Lord Palmersion. H'i -Arnanld. sd Wellington; (Joel he; Victor II nefo. 81 Voltaire; Talleyrand; Sir Win. I lorsehel. 85 Catothe Wise; Newton; lionj. Kranklin; Jeretnv linnthain. 8t> Karl Russell; Kdtmind llallev; ( arli.-le. 87 John Wesley. 80 Michael Auoelo. i)(l Sopho.dea. 00- ?Titian. 100 Fontenello. Wo mav (litesti(Mi the utility of the lives of some of these people, hut'* most of them furnish <o>od examples of useful old nee. It- mav he said that tiiev were exceptional in living so loittr, but if what the best authorities say be true, the exceptionsoueht lobe the jieople who died VOUiijr, inkI not those who prolong their lives' and carry on their work till they are old. Few of us mav find our greatest vi?ror at seventy; or he able, like Thiers, to rule France at eighty; or have anv spirit for playing the author, like (ioelho and \ iotor llujjo, when over eighty; <?r for playiM" the musician, like llandel and iiaydn, when over seventy; but by oood manaeemont we mav do wonders. The wisest men and the best have been conspntuou for working to the end, not taking tio least advantage of the leisure t i which one iui</ht think they were entitled. Thc\ have found their joy in pursuing labors which thev believed useful either to themselves or toothers. John Locke henan a "Fourth Letter on Toiera tion ' only a few weeks b< f<?r? lie died, find tie' few pages in the oo.sthninvus volumes ending i>> uu unlinishod senfeuoo *om to luive exhaustlmI iiis remaining siiength.1' The lire id (iiiilileo's genius i/unied in the very end. lie was engaged in dictating t<: : wo of liin diseiides his latest theories on a iavorito subject when the slow fever seized him that brought him to the grave. Sir ls? 1 ward t.'okc spent the last six years of his life in revising and improving the works upon whieh his fame now rests. John Wesley, only a Near before he died, wrote: "1 iihi now no old man, decayed from head i i foot. * * * However, III'';.sod ho (Jod! I do not s'nok iiiv Inlio-s; i mil preach and writo >till " Ariianld, ono of tlmi oreatest French t heoloidatis and |>11iIiisophers, retained, miy* l)i>nn'li, "tlio vijr )|? of Ins jri'iims and tin' command of his |?cn to hi < last day, and at tin- atoi of eighty-two was still tin* erect Annuild." It wan lie who, . win*11 urocd in his old aye to rest In >tn iiis labors, exclaimed, "I'est! Shall we not have tin* whole of eternit\ )?> rest in?* ?/ourniif. Kossip VI??>111 l*rett> 4?irls. With tin* \er\ latest ihmis on fashion before im> and m\ pen suspended, m\ eyes foil upon an article whioh lies on in\ ilosk. ??ntit l???l "(???>sip Ahonl I'rettv liirls."' It ^ivos tin* iiioihis oporaiuli of inakine onosoif beautiful, and noes on to toll how a nnhl\ blonde of Washington fastens hor fat little hands to the headboard on retirinjr so as to roduoo ila* supply of hlood and produce the delicate complexion of an invalid friend. To allow the mouth to he open in sloop is simply outrageous, so, as to assure an avoidance, many a dainty miss woos Morpheus with hor lower jaw nndoloseU hound with a skatestrap. A narrow pillow placed vertically under the hack ami l? t ween the shoulders em oiiraeos a perfect stature, so the ooo.i old holster is consigned to the comfort of retired hollos ami hoaux. I tisrooardiiijr the fair, fresh skin, classical mold and every law of proportion and in Ocferoiiee to an arbitrary fashion, which ran not hut prove fatal to heautv and health, our wasp-wnistod helles claim the ueeessitx of slumlier cornets to retain their aeme of shapeliness. >'A mask of moist rye Hour or coat in<r of cold ereani is as regularly assumed as the nijdit ro';e, and 11 *> feiuinine head dtooped p Howard uiinu.s our I papers or leads i- < xeeptional. Hot i, Hit .'it li>_ ???* ? ft i * ?* t 1 ? ? f<ni tin*.. * ?t the toilet. IS I h?'\ lend to 11 raw till' li ood from hands ami face." K v<tv girl knows the value of I M'llIIt V an*! seek., to nmko herself as attractive as possible, and should strive to preserve till attractive ijualities; but artificial devices only can conceal the ravages of time and dissipation. Still, "without true regard to the laws of health, even the powder-box, rouge pallet am) pencil prove a shallow resource. Hie maid with a spirituelie cast of features and complexion clogs the pores of her fail skin with paint, while tliev igorous, plump, rosy bounty tortures her digestive apparatus with acids and chalks- Kadi persists in possessing attributes foreign to her conditio tion." To niv mind all fresh voting faces arc beautiful, and 'where neatness of person and order in dress is preserved with tile, natural graces given to the maiden there is no occasion for the "paint and powder" rage which prevails amoi g our daughters. They begin the use of cosinet ics so early in life that before thov are middle-aged the skin is ruined anil in tnaii\ cases so yellow that it takes a thick coaling oi powder to keep it from s|^>w~ iug through. Itnrtk'l;f)i A'</<///;. < Tv|M?grujdiic Veenrnc.v. Painstaking people who know next to nothing of printing lind special delight in searching out typographical errors in newspapers, periodicals, and hooks the detection of a blunder, in their own estimation, putting a premium on individual intelligence. Men who write well, but not legibly, never tiro of p: inting out mistakes of .printers and the oveisights of proofreaders. These self constituted censors of typography mav lind food for wholesome reflection in the fact that just about one hundred years ago a number of professors in the Kilin buroh 1 niversity undertook the publication of a book which should be a perfect specimen of typoirruphic acotimcv. I0ver\ precaution was taken to piewnt ciTors of the types. Si.\ experienced proof-readers were cmployed, who devoted hours to the reading of each pa ire. After their direful tns|< was completed, each paev was posted in the hall of the university with a notification that t'o<) would l?e paid to any person who should succeed in finding an e.r* fi?! 10 \ cry pa_jo reiuairie' I pel* si/e, heail <'d f?.r two weeks before he, nttrac turned to printing ollico. Tin dete jc. t , of the work felt conlidtof i that the ohjeul *0 diligently strivet for had been attained. (treat, was the discomfiture of the learned men, when, on the work beine issued, scleral errors were found, one oeciudno in the lirst line of the first pa^e. A curious application has recently Imade of electricity to condense dusts and fumes. II air tilled with smoke is charged with electricity, the smoke at once (lies it I lie sides of the containing vessel in a \vnv that appears almost magical. In (lie same way,elootrioity will cause ^itie die's, which are in suspension, and which are often very dillicult to' remove fmln the air; to condense, or coagulate so as t<? lie easily removable. a ** *- *" 'it < y M# ? NUMBER 37. 1 Mark Twniii on I 'M neat i??n. In ;i recent adoress, Mark Twnin said: It is so common than an education is within the jrrasp of every one, ami if he does not want to pay for it. why hern is the Stat" ready to |?'iy for i' for him. Ilut soin -times I want to iunuiro what an education is. I remember myself, and all you old fellows probably remember the same of yourself, that when I went to school I was told that an adjective is an adverb ail-1 it must be- jrovemed by third person singular, and all that sort of thino- (lauirhter) and when I ooi out of school 1 straightway foroot all about it, j More laughter. | In tny combined character of publisher and author I receive a oreat many manuscripts from people, who sav j <i i : i...it...'.. V I I - > vtiilll .1 v<III<ii<i < <| < 1111 < <11. ?ik:viivi it is ?r?>?x 1 literature or not. Pint is all a Ii ; what tin v want is a compliment. (I .auflditor.) Hut as to this mutter of education, the first thinethat strikes you is how inueh (rachitic has already heen <lono titnl how inneh is worthless crammintr. Yon have all seen a little hook railed "Knjrlish as She is Snoke.' Now, in in\ rapacity of publisher I recently rnceivi <1 a manuscript from a teacher which embodied a immher of ans\\< rs riven hy her pupils to questions j?r?> pounded. These answers, show till' the children had nothing Inn the sound to ir<> I?\ ; tin* sense ?vas perfectly empty. Here are sotntv ot their answers to words they were asked todeline: Ariferous pertain ilij_r to the orifice, (hnip'ht r.) anim nia the food of I lie irotls, (renewed linn liter,| equestrian one who asks questions, (roars of la e-iiteiq parasite a kind of umbrella, (shouts ot laughter;) ipecac H man who likes rood dinner, (renewed laughter.) \nd lien* is the definition of an ancient word honored liy a rrcat parly: Republican -a sinner mentioned in the IJilile. (Shouts of laughter and applause.) \itil here is an iutioeeiil deli verillice of a /.ooloiriral kind: ''There are a rood many donkrx > in the t heohin ieaI o'arden. (t ireat laughter.) Here i> a delinition which really isn't very !?ad in its way: I )< 'marorue -ji vessel containitir l>eer and other liquids. (I Volonj^ed lau;/liter.) 11 ere, too, is a sample of a hoy's composition on rirls, which, I must say, I rath ?r like; "(iirls are verv stitoknp and dignified in their milliner and hehayyo w. They think more of dress lii u anything and like to play with dawls and rars. Th"\ cry if thvv see a cow in a far distance and are al'raii1 of onus. They ^tn\ at home all the time and go to lunch cyery St:n day. 'They are dways sick. Tliex are itlw.'ivs fili.iiv ami maLrino- I'nn boys' hands in11i tIk;v Bay how dirt v. They <1111*1 pla\ marbles. I pity tli'Mii, poor tliinos. They make f?111 of boys and th<<n turn round and love them. I don belave they over killed >1 cat or anythinu*. I'hev look out. even luinuto and sav )h, tin t tin) moon lovely !" Tliir is one thinw I liavo not told fti.d that is tlu4v always now their lessons hcttevn boys.*' O (hits* Toes. Sometimes it is the most commonplace ouest'on which proves most puzzling. A class of young rIs, in takinir an examination in natural history, stopped in despair, with uplifted pens, at the ipiestion: "llow many legs has a llv?" One of them, however, was equal to the occasion, and slyly counted the members of one lly which had kindly alighted near her. \nother class was asked, during an examination, a question whiclt staggered every member of it: "I low many too has a cat?" In the emergency, die principal was applied to for a solution; and he also, with a good-natured smile, gave it up, when one of the teachers, determined not Ip be beaten by so siin p)o a question, hit on the idea or sending out a delegation of bo\s ' > scour the neighborhood for a cat. When this idea was announced the whole ehiHS wanted t?? join in the hunt. Several hovs went out, and soon returned siieees.sful. A return ino1 hoard oppointed. and the toes counted, and thus it was learned that mf it possesses eighteen toes, ten on tlm<jyu>t fe.ot and ei^lit on the hind 'SCi* \ , a, i/ijntlenian in eilv hall ted the rilfc, * i t II p i Ir>i-yau ktndlv allow ine to rmined vj f Viit paper foiva iik nieiii, SO (Mill- v T . .1 Hi- Newiaus to see J he weatita I Ins , i \, U>uden<V ^ si IU cap iVndiflfr him the pa e?-r " vijn fron\ Are you interns, ted in tin- \v<*h?. i,Jk" Tramp '-Yes, sir. I lave pviue pally on wind, and i want to find out what I'm to have for dinner to-day. . ?* The New Ycjjrk n^^esti->n thai.the hen he made the national fowl instead of the oaole is deserving of eon-.-ideralion. There is no lighter lik? tht rooster, which ts the son of the Si-mi, u it, | !ioe n.iiiiijtMi' " o.-.-j !" " - ?? i?i II* k iiMinnu * in t" ^ " ill y (11I'i wonderful. iMii4 lion, as the national emblem, would represent industry, firmness and eouwt^e, and would in* dieute that we have much to each In o\ ei. i '<>urn')'-Jon?'iidl. * y' vv.f v ' *' S K j