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SOWING THE WIND.
Who educate American youth ? Teachers
of various grades inculcate certain branches
of study during a small portion of each day.
These often do their best, by dint of
ambitious cramming, force utterly indigested
and sometimes indigestible compilations of
fagts and data upon the memory. But, side
by side with these, a great and really educational
proocss is going on. It is managed,
in part, by an order of literature, so-called,
of which wo forbear to speak now in the only
terms in which we can speak of it, so false,
* so poverstricken and diluted thought as it is,
imimnl in the sense of wanting the true
principles of moral guidance. It is also
managed by a daily press, which, in its
absorbing passion for gossip, falsely called
news, utterly forgets the classic canon,
"Maxima debetvr jmeris," and describes with
revolting minuteness the incidents of crime
and the horrors of casualty. It is, furthermore,
developed by the household talk and
the culture of the street. What the former
is, must vary with the character of caoh
household; but one great law pervades nearly
all, tho sentiment of business activity and
worldly success on one side, and of emulous
display on the on the other.
We do not speak without book. We
. know what the ordinary strain of converaa.
is between men whom one may overhear
talking cn railway journeys and in the streets,
and we feel but too sadly certain that one
- i-? :?!><?<? Mtitliincr t. nincle
may listen iuog WIVUVUV ? 0
ennobling sentiment, or an idea which rises
above hard, practical, business facts. The
great pecuniary standard is the one to
whioh both boys and girls are habituated
to refor all subjects. What a thing will cost,
what it will produce, are the leading questions
for the yonng life to be trained in.
We do not deny that there is a great deal of
sound morality yet let in the land; but it is
the wasting though yet .unspent, legacy of
the past. It is wasting eapital which is not
being increased. AgainsP these influences
are, in brief, the power of the high-class
literature?neverer widely read-r-the teachings
of the pulpit and the Snnday-echool.
The power of high-elan literature is lessening,
because the demand for it does not increase
in proportion to the increase of readers,
-and, at its beet, it is strangely mixed
with doubtful elements. Very few of the
best ipriterii can afford to do their best,
iivsspeetiye of immediate popularity, because
wary fow en rise abort the sevitude in
upon tiwtftitwa] feelingorthe pews toward
the ministry. The constant effort is to make
preaching only a mercantile business, to estimate
the preacher according to his money?i
u unuin market: and this is by
TBIUC III kiln DVI ncvii ? j ^
all those bodies who have put worship oat
of tight, or who regard it merely from the
objective stand-point. There is very little
preaching.to tho mases who do not oome to
hear it. The temptation to every educated
minister is to utter his thoughts in that sort
of rhetorical short-hand, as one may say,
which is understood by those at his own level
of culture. It is easier and pleasanter to do
tltis, just as it is easier for a scientific man
talking lo men of science to use the familiar
technology which to the unlearned conveys
no ideas, bat which to his own coterie ssves
all need of explanation. To translate really
high and important thought into plain words
which all can take in, is a far harder matter
* than one may think, and it is inevitably attended
by the exposure of sophisms and the
showing up of fallacies, which men not sure
of their ground inevitably shrink from
Now, when it is remembered that accurate
theological thought is not the rale of a great
deal at seminary teaching, bat, instead, the
loosest eclecticism it will he seen why great
mav not be inconsistent with
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blatant nonsense or flimsy sentimentality.
Especially is this true where the preacher is
set to ntter, not facts of Christianity, bat
secondary impressions obtained from those
facts.
What, then, of the snnday school ? What
pat oat of the question the manifold abases
which hare erept into it the clap-trap, the
bribery, the surface work of which there is
so aaoh. We take the plain faet that, just
at this point where there is hope for it to do
something, the boy and the girl slip away
from its influence. They learn to be first
aahmed of, and then to ridieule, the principles
taoght there. These do not square
with the pleasures for which they long, and
the practical lessons of the home. They see
?and children are very quick to see?-that
their parents hare outgrown the laws laid1
down fbr them. Take habitual disregard
for the Lord's Day, the absence of all reverence,
in worship or for worship, the jack of
any inealcation of respect for those who
minister about holy things, and even of the
things themselves on the parents' side, and
the obild'a mind will soon go over to the
stronger part?.
The Church is struggling against this; and
* ' ? -- laitv awake to ita
JllSt ID prupui nou i*s ivo .?.j ?_?
weaning and needs, it is enabled to make
successful headway. Bat around it is a constant
influence to hold it back. A vast proportion
of Chorch people are those led toward
it by partial conviction, who appreciate
one feature or another of its system, but notI
the whole, and are therefore not filled with
its spirit. Indeed, the work ot the Church
needs to be done within, even more than
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Without. I4t it D6 a one inoruu^mjr
ind the aggreeeive external work will follow
Rat the motive for doing the work within
ahoald be very strong one, and we have
striven to pat it in shape by dwelling on the
fearful danger to be fonght against,?the
training u? ?f * sordid, unreflecting, selfwilled
ge nerailon.? Church man.
Why are clergymen like brakeinen ? Beoeoae
they do a great deal of coupling.
Startling Social Reform.
To the Editor of the N, Y. Daily Graphic.
It has been a subject of much interesting
comment here of late years to decide what
shall be done with'the surplus female population.
When a stranger enters one of our
large manufacturing cities ho is immediately
struck with the preponderance of the gentler
sex. They overflow our factories, fill our
streets, and hasten by the score to answer
any advertisement for an emploee. Once,
the energies of a Massachusetts girl were
Kant nn Monrinc a husband : now they are
given to getting a living. Once the young
men of the Old Bay State turned their attention
to agriculture and trade at home, but
nowadays they sell out their farms as soon
as the old folks are dead, and go West to
build railroads and concoct Credit Mobiliers.
They do not so much as take a wife with
them, but leave the maidens with whom
they went hand in hand to school, to live in
single loneliness and earn their own living.
Thus, year by year, the roll of unmarried
women increases, and the prospect for husbands
grows more gloomy. Girls that might
become radiant through motherhood, grow
selfish and soured in mind, and wither and
disappear like the leaves of November The
native population of Massachusetts lags far
behind the foreign, and statisticians grow
appalled. Bnt the fanlt is not with the
women, bnt is dne to circumstances and perhaps
prejudice. * .
I use the word prejudice, because I understand
there is a movement on foot among the
women of Lowell to petition the Legislature
?or, strictly speaking, to present their
grievances- -on the subject of matrimony.
For some days there have been rumors of
this matter flying aronnd the community,
and I have been at some pains to tracathem
out. Id doing so, I have been strnck with
the faot that men and women speak freely
now on topics that were tabooed ten years
ago. Even the most refined women will
talk interestedly and nnreservedly of marriage,
love, sooial evil, and all the questions which
portaia to the relations of tho sexes. There
seems to be a fermentation beneath the surface
which will break out before long in an
open movument towards larger liberty for
both man woman. This is only my surmise;
but that it may not appear to be merely a
piece of guess work, I send you a copy of
the document above montioncd. It is one of
the most remarkable papers of the period.
It oomes, too. at a strange time, when
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City is preparing to accept the high civiliza
tion of the East. Yet in this conection it
most not be forgotten that a work on polygamy
was published in Boston some years
ago, and was greeted with words of approval
by some of the most eminent men of tho
seaboard States, including Mr. George William
Curtis, of vour city. The seed then
sown Whs a small one, but it appears to have
taken root, and circumstances have developed
it into frnitago very qickly.
The following is a copy of the petition
prepared for submission to the State Legislature
:
Lowill, April?, 1873.
To the Honorable the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts:
The undersigned, citizens of the State, respectfully
set forth the grievances under
which they sofEar as womeq who arc not permitted
to vote, hold any and all offices, and
engage in the occupations opened to men,
and are otherwise restricted in the opportunity
of earning a living and herowith beg your
permission to suggest the remedy for these
evils, upon which they pray your honorable
body to act.
The which now governs society says, prac
tically, that women should he married,
should engage in work at thoir own homes,
and should look to their husbands for support.
On the other hand, the census shows
that it is impossible to cany out this unwritten
but recognised law, for the reason
that there is a large excess of women in the
commonwealth, and many of the men of law
ful age are idle, vicious,1 ^competent or other
wise unfit "to be the heads of the house
holds. Yet your petitioners hold that the
matter is not without remedy. Prejudice
and custom have decided in favor of restricting
the husband to a single wife, yet without
justice and authority, as we believe. In the
Book which lies at the foundation of all law
recognised in this country, there is no injunction
against a plurality of wives, while
there are many examples thorein recorded in
its favor. Men's wives appear to have increased
in number in proportion with their
flocks and riches. Such a rule even now
holds in the land from which tho Christian
nations received their religion.
Your petitioners have no desire to interfere
with the regulations of any existing houseKn?
timnlt in nrcscnt tlifiir claims to
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tho marriage state for your respectful consideration.
They deem it their privilege and
their duty to suggest the aboliton of the law
against the marriage of a man to more than
one wife, in cases where it is evident that the
man is able to suport the additional burden
laid npon his resources They are aware
that it may take years to remove prejudices,
and that thoee who take a second or third
nlaee in the household may ho looked upon
with disfavor; but confident that their proposed
action will ultimately do away with
much of ths social evil that aftlcts and dintrews
all communities, they are willing to
bo the firsf to engage in tho work of this reform
Society, which insists that women shall
be married and looked to her husband for
support, will,after mature reflection, countenance
this effort to carry out its laws practically
The orStor who chained his audience has
been sued for fulse imprisonment.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
THE CHOLERA.
Chattanogoa, July 9th, 1873.
Twenty seven coffins in one day! Does
that startle you, reader ? Yet this little city
is so scourged with that dread disease. Asiatic,
cholera, that the undertakers sent out twenty
seven coffins last Thursday. Friday, there
were fifteen deaths; Saturday, twelve; Sunday,
sixteen; Monday, fifteen; Tuesday,ten;
and several new cases to-day, up to this writting.
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This fearful death-rate has sent a chill
through every heart. Business is pretty
well suspended. Fully half the population
have left the city, and most of the remaining
half would if they could. Among the lamented''
dead is John C. (lalltspie, one of the
wealthiest and best-known citizens.
Men die in four, five and six hours after
being taken This is the main roasnu why
the disease is so dreaded. People havJ*U
horror of the King of Terrors at best, and
when he comes with such sudden tread ho iadoubly
terrible. There is no time to prpare
for death as regards the futuro state; no
time to arrange one's business, or hardly to.
bid one's family adieu. Death from cholera
is so sudden and so terrible that men often
forsake their dearest friends who are taken
with it, intent only on saving their owu
lives. ? j
At the Red FTouse here, last week, the;
colored dish-washer was taken at four o'clock, ;
and died shortly after dark. That night
about half the servants left in fright.
men wha have faced tempests ot nan ancn
bullet** upon a hundred hard-fought fieldsJj
will run like sheep when the Asiatic choleiw
appears.
Bad as the disease has been here, * it wan
even worse in Gallatin. There six per ocht.g
of tho population died in a month 1 Gal-f
latin is in Sumner county, thirty miles north!
of Nashville, on tho Louisville road. Tt is aj
place of some three thousand inhahitaatal
The surrounding country, ftnT fifty miles', in
high, rolling, well drained and healthy.- fttH
tho town, nor near it, there are no stagnant
pools nor sluggish streams. I should judg?
it to he fully as healthy a place, in- thai]
respect, as Yorkyille. L
But the cholera traveled from XnshvilletO J
Gallatin on the wings of the morning. Half]
the people fled, leaving less than fifteen hrttfoj
dred in town. Yet of these fifteen huMfeagfl
one hundred and two liave'died ! Aajfedftii
fearful death-rate in aepuBtry tawteJiyggn
Who will account for it ?
Among the country people nhout Gallatin
there is a panic. They come to town not at
all. When the towns-people go to the country
for supplies, bacon for instance, the eountrayman
bangs a piece on the gate-post and
retires while the purchaser take? it and
leaves the ntoney. But despite all precaution,
the scourge has spread into the country beyond
Gallatin and Nashville, and taken off
many, although raging wit h much less violence
than in the centres of population.
At Nashville the disease is slowly subsiding
thn dnilv death-rate varvinir from five 1
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to twelve. Tbc scattered citizens nrc rcf urn
ing, and every train goes in full. The danger in
that those who remained throuph it all, livinp'
on hard ham and dry benrd, will, with the
decline of the disease, po into vegetables with
such vim as to raise the death rate apain.
This is not the Nashville view. T know;
they are all in a high state of hoj.e the e ;
but stranger things have happened. Th
deaths in Nashville, in June, were about
five per cent of the population in the city.
This is a very unhealthy exhibit.
At Memphis the disease has about exhaust
cd itself. It was not half as had there as in
Nashville. Indeed, it will take A?ia itself !
toshojr anything equal to the death-rate in
Nashville in June With the population re-1
ducod to twelve thousand by flight, there J
were near 9cvcn hundred deaths!
A New Southern Trunk Lino.
Another extensivo railway enterprise en- 1
tered upon some time since under the name
of the Southern Railway Security Company,
is fast approaching completion, and it will
be thrown open for through travel from Xow
York to New Orleans about August 1. According
to the statements of the officers, the
company was chartered and organized f ir
thepurpse of uniting and protecting the interests
of lines belonging to it, and for the creation
of a Southern Trunk Line from New
York to tho principal points in the South.
Among the companies embraced in the com
binntion. arc the Richmond and l>anvilh\
the North Carolina, Atlanta and Richmond
Air Line, the Wilmington and Weldon. the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta, th<
Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta, the l-'a.-t
Tennessee. Virginia ami tiourpin, the Mem
phis and Charleston, the Richmond and IV
tcrsburp and Weldon, the North Knstrru.
and Cheiaw and I>arlinpU?n Through tlie.se
several companies, tin; eefmhiuntinn control
in the route from Wushinpt >n to Memphis,
the portion between Brist?-1 and Memphis,
composed of the Knat Tenn. -see. Virginia
and Georgia, and the Memphis and Charles
??i rnili-iin<lii. Two routes controlled by ii
diverge at Richmond, Vi?.: me. tfio Rich
lnond, Atlanta and New Orleans Air' Line,
composed tif the Richmond and I'ativille,
(including part of its North Carolina division.)
the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line.
Atlanta and West Point, Western, of Alabama,
Mobile and Montgomery, and the New
Orleans Mobile and Texas Railroads, is'the
shortest line from Richmond. Vn., to New
Orleans. La. The connection is now made
rin Augusta. The other, the (Jrent Atlnitic
Coast Line, is composed of the Richmond
and Petersburg, and Weldon. the Wilmington
and Weldon, the Wilmington. Columbia
and Augusta, the North Eastern railroad
ind connections. The Secretary stales that
no At'anta and Richmond Air Line, under
instruction, will be finished by August 1.
pd trains will run from New York to Atinta
in forty hours, and from New York to
iow Orleans in sixty hours. The Compay
intend to extend their lines westerly, so
s to connect with the system of railroads
ow in the?coursc of construction in Texas,
nd in the autumn to establish their general
0Bce in New York, and to open an emigrant
faireau to facilitate the transportation of
migrants to the South, and the do.velopcfcent
of the country through which the
poothern Trunk Line extends.
II - Auautta Chronicle and Sentinel.
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fcxjtouv^t, op tfie Confederate Dead
iXP TrTKIR Hg-SHIPMtNT TO RlCHMOXD.?
Lrrived, yesterday, by ah early train on the
fdrthcrn Central Railroad, in charge of Dr,
t tnfns B. Weaver, of Gettysburg, the remains
^ f about rifiO t'onfederate soldiers and officers
) 'om the battle-field of Gettysburg The
uad were sent ria Powhattan Steamboat
Iine to Richmond, where they will be relived
by the Ladies' Hollywood Memorial
ganciation, and interred in Hollywood Ccincrv
These remains (with tho cxceDtion
W a few to bo brought on next fall) comprise
JLe remnant of the Confederate dead at
Gettysburg?the entire number buried there
mving been about 3,400. Dr. Weaver has
$Tcn the work of disinterment his personal
JUention, and being familiar with the ground,
I positive Ju the belief that none have been
ft behind. Dr. Weaver's diligence and
ftcrgy in the work hre most hightj cornSanded
by the ladies of this city andlRich ood,
under whose direction lie acted. - It
Bsomewhat remarkable that the remains of
flRse bravo mon should find their lost restin gQiec
just ten years from the time they wera
Kled?the battle of (iettysburg having
Ken plaeCJrily 1, 2 and 3,1803.
^ Baltimore Gazette.
?The Chxerfiji. Pack?Next to the sunpht
of heaven is the sunlight of a cheerful
Ke. There is no mistaking it?the bright
Be, the mclOodctl bw?w, tlia/iunny smile,,
II tell of that which dwells within. Who J
not felt its electrifying influMco ? One j
EgpV ^ his face lifts us at oiic^kut of the
away irom tears ana re",aJ
ctcii iwK wiiuiiij uul Vucy Call
never enter and abide thore; the cheerful
face will put them to shame and flight.
It may be a very plain face, but there is
something in it \vc feel, yet cannot express;
and its cheery smile sends the blood dancing
through our veins for very joy; we turn toward
the sun, and its warm genial influence
refreshes and strengthens our fainting spirits.
Ah. thcro is a world of magic in the
plain, cheerful face! It charms us with a
spell of eternity, and wc would not exchange
it for all the soulless beauty that ever graced
the fairest form oti earth.
It may be a very little faco ; one that wc
nestle on our bosoms or sing to sleep in our
arms with a low, sweet song; but it is such a
bright, cheery face !#The scintillations of a
joyous spirit are flashing from ever/feature.
And what a power it has over the household !
--Vmn.a it,m- in tnnrlfirnoRS
Ulllumj; Cilt II UV.il l. u^vuin ... ,
love and sympathy. Shadows may darken
around ns. hut somehow this little lace cvci
shines between, and the shining is so bright
that the shadows cannot remain, and silently
they creep away into the dark corners where
the cheerful lace is pone.
It may be a very wrinkled face, but it is
all the dearer lor that and none the 1os?
bright. We linger nearer it ami gaze ten
derly upon it and say, "(iod bless tbe happy
face !" We must keep it with us as long n>
we can, for hoinc will lose much ol' its bright
11 ess when this sweet face is go ire.
And alter it is gone how the remembrance
of it purifies and softens our wayward nature
When care and sorrow would snap our heart
I strings asunder, this wrinkled face looks down
: upon us, and tbe painful tension grows light
cr, tho way less dreary, and the sorrow lcs.?
heavy.
flod bless the cheerful face ? Bless it. lie
has Mossed it already ; the stamp of heaven
is on every feature. What a dreary world
this would bo without this heaven-born light
and who hus it not should pray for it as Ins
daily bread.?P/irrnn/iM/ira/ JuitriHif.
A professor of Cornell I'nivcrsity recently
published a uituiher of hints as to "What t?
do in cases of accident " One of these wa.?
as follows: If you choke, pet down on al
fours and cough." One of pur neighbors?
Woodward?rend this, and determined t<
remember it. J>av before yesterday lie wai
eating bis dinner alone, and be choked upor
a niece of beef. Instantly he got down upoi
all fours and began to rough, dust thcr
, Woodward came in. and the imprcs
sion made upon her by Woodward's extra
< nlinary attitude and bis barking was tiini
be bad suddenly been attacked with liy?1 ro
pliohia. So she first seized the pitcher o
water, and -took it from the room. Then slu
-- '' *'"> ??!? !<? im stairs li?r I lie mat
> 111 "in: ?m i ..\ .. ..j
tiry-i. which w; thrown over Woodward
'while Mrs. Woodward and the fnniily sat 01
and held him down. The madder he go
tlio more alarmed \v? Mrs. Woodward; one
tl;c more he swore and learned at I lie mouth
the more she insisted oil the hired girl giv
ingan extra turn of the clothes line aroum
iii" leg and tying him to the stove. Whet
the il ictor came, lie pulled Woodward's am
from under the mattress and bled hint, am
put fiv-blisters mi hi* feet, and promised t(
nunc round in the evening and shave liii
head, in order to cup his scalp so as to rclicv
Ins brain. When the doctor called that night
Woodward had a prize-fight with him in th
1
parlor, and after sending the medical man
up to the bath-room to wash the blood fVom
his hose and cool his eye, "Woodward went
ont to hunt for the Cornell professor. There
will be pain and anguish in that institution
of learning when Woodward arrives. He
means war?to the knife.?Max Adeler.
What shall we do with our Daughters??Appropos
of Mrs. Livermore's late
lecture on tho above important question, the
Davenport Democrat thus sensibly makes answer
:
Bring thein up in the way they should go.
f Give them a good substantial common education.
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Teach thorn how to cook a 'good meal of
victuals. . - i
Touch them how to wash and iron clothes.
Teach them how to darn ?tocking9 and
few on buttons. V
Teach them how to makelbeir own dresses
Teach them how to make shirts.
Teach them how to make bread.
Teach them all the mysteries of the kitchen,
the dining room and parlor.
Teach them thato dollar is only one handred
cents.
Teach them that,the more one lives within
their income the more they will save.
Teach them further one lives beyond their
income the nearor they get to the poo house.
Teach them to wear calico dresses?aad
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(in U IIKC U t^UCKll.
Teach them that a round rosy romp is worth
fifty delicate consumptives.
Teach them to wear thick, shoes.
Teach to do marketing Tor the family.
Teach them to foot up store hills.
Teach them that God made tbcm in his own
image, and that no amount of tight laoing
will improve the mode.,
1 Teach them,every day, hard, practieal?comnion
sense. .. * ' -'
" Teach them self-reliance. ' ; >\ ''
Teach them that a good, greasy mechanic
without a cent Isjworth. a dozen oily-pated <
| loafers in broadcloth.
Teach them to bare nothing to do with in*
I temperate and diwojate young men.
Teachthini tncli^Joappletrees,go fiishing,
cifftivate a garden and driven road, team or
farm wagon.
Teach them# aocompHihnylrt ,
nxmey to do ffiftjfr ,
Veach tli em to regard the morals, not the
money of the beaux.
Teach them the essentials of life?troth,
honesty, uprightness?then at a suitabletime
let them marry.
Rely upon it, that upon your teaching doJ
pends in a great measure the weal or woe of
their after life.
A Cool Customer.?A man entered a
well-known restaurant the other day and
i nillmt fnr Ilia fiinnur His firdwrs WfifO of
the most elaborate character, and fairly stagi
gored the resources of even so noted a res
taurant keeper. He lingered long at the
i table, and finally wound up with a boitle of
l wine. Then lighting a ciagar he had ordored,
lie leisurely sauntered up to the counter,
and said to the prpprictor :
, "Very fine dinner, lnndlord ! Just charge
i it to me, I haven't got a cent."
"But I don't know you," said the proprie;
lor indignantly.
"Of course you don't! If you had you
i wouldn't have let mo had the1 dinner."
"Pay me for the dinner I say.
i "And I say I can't. Haven't got the
> blunt."
"I'll sec about that,/ said the proprietor,
' somewhat furious at the bill. Then he
i snatched u revolver from a drawor, and
leaped over the counter, collared the man,
exclaiming as he ]>ointed it at his head:
i "Now, sec if you'll get away with that dinner
' without paying for it, you scoundrel."
"What is that you hold in your hand?"
i said the gctter-away-with-free-dinners draw
ing back.
? "That sir, is a revolver, sir."
"O! that's a revolver, .is it! I don't care
a pin for a revolver. 1 thought it was a
i stomach pump."
I
Mariuace?Get married! Marry, lot
i | the risk he what it may; it gives dignity to
vour profession, inspires confidence and commands
respect. Withn wife the lawyer is
more trusty, the doctor more esteemed, tho
, mechanic throws the hammer with increas,
o<l power, and shoves the plane with a more
| dexterous hand; tho merchant gels a better
credit?in short, a man without a wife is no
, man at all! She nurses him while sick, she
. watches for him in health, Gentlemen, get
, a wile, a pretty one if you like them best?
, a good one when she is to be found?and a
, rich one if you can find her pretty and good.
Capacity.?A common councilman's wife
t paying her daughter a visit at school and in.
quiring what progress she had made in her
I' education, the teacher answered :
? "Pretty good, madam; Miss is very at ten.
live. H she wants anything it is capacity;
, for that deficiency you know, we must not
i blame tier.
t ' No, madam," replied tlic mother ''but I
1 blame you for not mentioning it before.
, Her father, thank heaven, can afford his
. daughter a capacity, and I beg she may have
1 otic immediately, cost what it may."
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i The conscientious I'ittsbug man promised
1 his wife, the other day, that ho wouldn't
J drink another drop so long as lie had a hair
* on his head. That very night he had his
e head .-haved smooth, and got tight with the
proud consciousness of having faithfully kept
e his promise.
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A leading article?a blind man's dog.
The-bone of contention?ibnjfcw bone. - Ijjkr
A man of low e x t motion?aoheap dentist..
A "revolutionary movement"?turning a ^
grindstone.
Spots on the sun?Freckles on your boy's ,
face.
A quilting party is now styled a "jriaii* . - ^
jubilee. ' W
"I believe in rotation'" as the woman qud *
when she applied for a divorce.
I ll shock yofr as tue farmer said vtitt .
fcisetmi* up in hllii , , i " .
Never keep your revolver in the sum
pocket as -your han kerchief. 'ft? 0
What is it that is higher when. the head .
ia off A pillow. * +
What goes most against a far nmrV grain**
His reaping machine. ^
(Ian a man be said.to leave off old Jiabita
when he gets a suit of new clothes.
When a man has no mind of his ova. his wife
generally gives him a pleoe of hen.
Why was Herodiaff daughter like the Fenians?
"Because she had a head sent her.
Life, according to the Ayabie ptCteih,:is :
composed of two parts; that which in peat, v
a dream; and that which is to. some, a wish. %
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A lady calls the little memoranda her,,' *
butcher sends in with the mnat' "pencilings
by the weigh."
Why is a fisherman the moet dishonest"
when moet sucesful ? Because it is (hen hn
hooks the moet fish.
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owe UUi) WW ? OJU^IO 1UW7, ? cue Mil"
enago of the song. Bauer a light costume.
Wind wasn't probaly East that daym
He that'haa energy enough to toot'ont a '
vice should go a little further^and jfkttt ?I ?>
virtue there.
Somebody gives* thia detention rf'toA a
where : "A place whet* no YtQlcilllip
ever been, and never will W ^ <^|JI|
You need not talk too much to get a reputation
for sense. One good remark is better
than twenty dull or common ones.
"Mr. Smith, is your customer Brown a
man to be trusted ?" "I know of no one ?
more so. He is to be trusted forever; be
never pays."
If an elephant can travel eight miles an
hour and earry his trunk, how fast could be
; go if he had a litle darkey to carry it for
. him ?
Nine-tenths of the champagne known as
Piper Heidsieck' is manufactured in this
country from the juice of the luscious dried
apple, impregnated with delicious acids.
Little Minnie, who hears much discussion
about religious radioals and the Radical
Club, wbeu asked by her aunt what part of
j the New Testament she wanted read to tier,
replied, "The story about the radical son."
Said n seven-footer to a diminutive specimen
of humanity, who approached him
threateningly, "If you were to strike me, and
I should ajcidcntly find it out, you would be
sorry."
Adversity exasperates fools, dejects cow
ards, draws out the faculties of the wise, 9
puts the modest to the necessity of trying
their skill, awes the opulent, and makes the
idle industrious. Much may be said in favor
of adversity, but the worst of it is, it has '
no friends.
A young man in Peoria sought to secure
his sweetheart by strategy; so he took her out
.for a boat rido and threatened to jump overboard
into the lake if Bhe wouldn't marry
him. It did not work. She offered to bet
him a dollar that he daren t aire id.
In the late editorial convention in North
Carolina, Capt. Win. Biggs give hia experience
as follows: He has been several years
conducting a newspaper, most of which had
been spent in raising the means of doing '
it.
A young follow who was recently committed
to jail in Portland, Maine, for assault,
sent a pathetic appeal to the judge, in which
he said: ' I have only been married two
months k I hanto had My Honey Moon yet,
this is the first time I ever was in jail or errested.
If yon will Consider my case k let
me of on a fine I will return to my Darling
Wife."
The stern decrees of justice were carried
out, nevertheless.
A mamma in the rural districts lately gave
her five-year old hopeful an outfit of fishing
tackle. Soon she heard a shout from Willie,
and ruuning out found ono of her best hens
fast winding up the liue in her crop, whither
the hook had already preceded it. Willie,
observing the troubled look of his mother.
quietly remarked: "Don't worry, mother,
I guest* she will stop when she gets to the
pole."
We reaJ ot' a young woman in Missouri
who when a certain good time comes will
probably be a member of Congress, Before
eloping with the darling of her heart, she
had an interview with her father's bureau
drawer, and voted herself an increase of back
pay to the extent of $1,000. She would have
nobly taken more, but there was no more to
i take.
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